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Address: "LOUIS BAGGER & CO., Solicitors of Patents and Attorneys at Law, Le Droit Washington, D. C. [apr26 '7B-tf A LECTURE YOUNG Al A Lecture on the Nature, Treatment, and Radical Cur. of Seminal Weakness, or Sperrnstorrho., induced by Selt-Abuse, Involuntary Emissions, Impoten cy, Nervous Debility, and Impediments to Marriage gen erally; Consumption, Epilepsy, and Fits; Mental and l'hysiall Incapacity, Ac.—By ROBERT J. CULVER WELL. M. D., author of the "Green Book," Ac. The world-renowned author, in this admirable Lecture, clearly proves from his own experience that the awful consequences of Self-Abuse may lie effectually removed without medicine, and without dangerous surgical opera tion, bongiee, instruments, rings, or cordials ; pointing out a mode of cure at once certain and effectual, by which very sufferer, no matter what his condition may be, may ure himself cheaply, privately and radically. Sent, under seal, in a plain envelope, to ally address, mm receipt of six cents, or two postage stamps. Address the Publishers, THE CULVERWELL MEDICAL Co.,' 41 Ann St., N. Y ; Post (Vice Box, 4586. July 19-9 mos. C lIEVINGTON COAL AT THE Old "Langdon Yard," in quantities to suit purchasers by the ton or car load. Kindling wood cut to order, Pine Oak or Hickory. Orders left at Judge Miller's store, at my residence, 6119 Mifflin et., or Guss Raymonds may 3, '7B-ly.] J. 11. DAVIDSON. H_ROBLEY, Merchant Tailor, No. • 813 Mitllin street, West Huntingdon Pa., respectfully solicits a share of public pat ronage from town and country. [octl6, SCHOOL of every - ROOKS variety, cheap,-A-- , ' JOURNAL STORE. st the The Huntingdon Journal. Tim JOURNAL should be in the hands of every Republican voter in the county. (;et up clubs. Tun etraighout Democrats are becoming trou blesome on Mr. Speer's hands. They will not be s Ad. - - TILE Juniata Democrats have given Stenger the conferees of that county, and the Tribune urges his nomination by the conference in a long-winded editorial. Communicated. To the Workingmen of Huntingdon County. 18 0015271$ 36 136 001 50 65 The causes underlying the destruction of a na tion's trade are so numerous, and so diversified, that to describe them in detail would require vol umes instead of pages. Therefore, the space at our command enables us to notice but a very few of those causes, and that in the briefest manner ; trusting the thoughts we may advance will lead every reader to inquire diligently fur additional facts in relation to this all-important questiOn. We think the origin of all basiness troubles may be found in debt—in an effort to obtain, or accu mulate, some present benefit by the aid of others that must be returned with interest by our own efforts at a future time, whieh, if we fail to do, will bring trouble. The innumerable contingencies between plans and success, even in the must honorable and up right schemes, are so apparent in every day lite, that such a truth becomes impressive. That finan cial ills can not fall on those free from debt, and who have a self-sustaining calling, may be regard ed as a self-evident truth. When men fail in bus iness the almost universal reason for it is, they have contracted greater obligations than they can pay, and when the failures become wide spread it is because many individuals have become oppres sed with like unbearable burdens of debt, then a national prostration of trade follows. Failures, then, being evidence of debt, some statistics may show to what extent the people were involved in this uncomfortable condition. In ten 'years, from 1868 to ,1878, there were, in the United States, forty-nine thousand absolute failures, en tailing a loss of seventeen hundred millions of dollars; and partial failures of nearly three times this number, entailing quite as great a loss, crip pling business men and driving them to contraction in every corner, not of money, but of the dimensions of their business, and, consequently, men were thrown out of employment everywhere. Those failures make it plainly evident the people have been going forward in a reckless manner. Indeed, from the general government downward every thing and everybody rushed headlong into debt, but the day for payment came. The schemes had not turned out as expected, or had proven unprofit able, and debts could not be paid. Then. instead of putting the blame where it belonged, the cry was raised "that the Republican party had taken away our money and we can't pay." If a man would undertake to live by raising corn on the ends of Jack's Mountain no one would think of asking why ho died. As to what was being dune all over the country the conspicuous failure of Jay Cooke & Co., may serve as an illustration. 50 001 651 80 160 001 801 100 Luring the decade of the rebellion this company controlled the confidence of the commercial world as but few others did. Its integrity and sound ness was not questioned. Money flowed to it from every source. Having successfully and profitably handled a gigantic government loan, it became inflated with the belief that its power to handle money was unlimited; and the public confidence was of like extent. And, consequently, these bank ers became the custodians of all the surplus funds in a very large circle. But they made bad in vestments, and the profits not coming around as expected, they could not meet their obligations. Then in a moment the financial sky was black, and these great bankers were prostrate under a debt of nearly ten millions of dollars. had this com pany accepted no more money on deposit than could have been invested profitably, the story of its downfall would yet have to be written. Being the centre of so much confidence there is no knowing to what extent the mischief of its fall extended. Jay Cook d Co. failed through debt, as did thousands of others, and thus the panic of 1873 was introduced. Debt brought on the panic, but what keeps trade paralyzed ? 1. Many of our most energetic business men have beep entirely driven out et business, and aro doing nothing. Others have been so crippled with debts that they are scarcely able to hold their position without advancing. 2. The debt, hanging over the nation, was con tracted at a time when prices were twice the true value of property, and now twice the effort is required to pay this debt that was necessary when it was contracted, and therefore the strength that ought to be used in advancing is consumed in bringing up the rear. 3. During our prosperous period the people ran wild. They left the farm and rushed into the towns and cities, and entered into manufactur ing and mercantile pursuits. Cities and towns were built "and improved. Factories were built and enlarged. Railroads were built and extended, until no more cities, railroads, or factories are needed. The cities and towns are as large as they will need be twenty years hence. Railroads are made to reach every possible point, and the fac tories can supply four times the demand that can be made upon them. The work of twenty-five years was compressed into a very few. Labor was plenty and well paid for, because the future was being concentrated in the present. Everything went on with a whirl, but, unfortunately, it whirled on the sandy foundation of • debt, and when the "rocks" were called for the building went down and now lies buried in its own ruin. Our public wants are fully supplied, and until an increase of population consumes the force we have, labor ers will not be wanted to supply others. 4. The infinite increase of labor-saving machi nery has disarranged many departments of mechan ical pursuits, teduoed labor, and rendered strength and skill less important. . . In support of this assertion it will be necessary to give statistics, for we know the fact is generally denied. A weaver with an old style hand loom could weave about ten yards of cotton goods in a day, but with the power loom a boy can turn off three to four hundred. An old style knitter could make from 150 to 200 stitches in a minute, but the latest style of knitting machine makes 500,- 000 stitches in the same time, so that a workman produces 2000 to 3000 times the work of a knitter of the old times. In the treport of the State of Massachusetts in relation to its manufacturing in terest•, we find the following statement : In 1865 24,157 hands produced 176,000,000 yardeof cloth, 7,325 yards per hand. In 1875, 60,175 hands pro duced 875,000,000 yards of cloth, 11 213 yards per hand. Of woolen goods, in 1865, 18,751 hands produced 40,000,000 yards. In 1375, 19,036 hands produced 90,000,000 yards. Of hoots and shoes, in 1865, 52,821 hands produced 32,000,000 pairs. Iu ISIS, 48,090 hands produced 60,0(10,003 pairs. Whilst we think this is sufficient to show the drift of labor-saving machinery, we might continue and prove the same to be true in every branch of mechanical industry,' that one man can produce as much as ten did formerly. 5. The undue economy of the people is another cause for the depression of trade. If every man who has a dollar to spare would buy something, or hire somebody and pay for the thing, or ser vice.it would do more towards starting the wheelA of industry than all else besides. There are 20,000,000 of men and boys in this nation, and to suppose that each of these wears out four dollars worth of boots and shoes in a year, would not be far from the truth, in round num bers $54,000,000 worth in a year. Now, if these men and boys conclude to wear their old boots a month beyond the usual time, this industry for the next year will be reduced $7,000,000. Suppose again, that it costs thirty dollars annually to clothe these men and boys, or,in the aggregate $600,000,000, if they conclude to wear their old clothes a month beyond the usual time, the cloth trade for the next year will be reduced $50,000,- 000. But the people are not wearing their old clothes only a month beyond the usual time, but are going over three months, six months, and a whole year. Indeed, some of our Democratic leaders have economized so seriously—or it may have arisen from "setting on a back seat"—that they arc obliged to stay indoors when the wind blows. Now, what we have said of those two industries may be said of every other. We have given a number of incontrovertible facts, every one of which has a tendency to, and does throw men out of employment, and in conclusion, we would ask the working people what the Republican party had to do with bringing about auy one of these conditions, or any part of them. The working man who carefully considers these facts and still continues his charges against the Republican party, will not receive credit for as much intelli gence as we could hope to entertain for him, some of those conditions the people have brought on themselves by unwise acts, other measures have been introduced by means the people cannot con trol. What, then, is the remedy ? The labor party says reduce the hours of service and all will come right. What reduction in time is required? They say one-fifth. That, however, won't answer. Go ing back but ten years, when the factories could produce twice the amount of goods required, we find the trade could be kept full with five hours labor. Now, the capacity of the factories have been doubled, and, consequently, two-and-a-half hours labor daily will produce the same results ; and this, to keep all factory operatives equally employed, must be the length of a day. So we might as well come to the true state of things at once. Then we should have plenty of time to acquire "great rocks of wisdom." The true remedy, however, is for half of the me chanics to become self-sustaining consumers in callings where ingenius machinery does not play so important a part. TRITE. \ 4 • e 4 • Ttl 4 4 • i! I t j 1 I 01 .. • Ely Pitsts' NOtntr. Tired. Dear God, I am so weary of it all, I fain would rest me for a little space, Are there no great rocks where the shadows fall That I may cast we down and hide my face ? I work and strive, sore, burdened and afraid, The road is flinty and the way is long, And the weak staff whereby my steps ar© stayed Bends like a reed when bitter winds are strong. The lofty thought proves fruitless in the deed ; The prize I toil for seems a glittering lie ! There is no comfort for my present need, No guerdon promised for futurity. I shrink in terror from the endless task, 1 look with horror on the barren land, And ask, as only hopeless hearts can ask, The meaning of my days to understand ! (Ti}lje THROUGH THE FLOOD. BY JULIUS COMBE She was not beautiful—fascinating is the word which, perhaps, best describes her. A widow, too ; and as she sits there indolently playing with her colored silks, while the bright sunshine rests upon her dark brown hair and delicate bands, there is something dangerously subtile about her. Tier reverie is broken by the entrance of a gentleman ; fair, tall and handsome. "Good morning, my dear Mrs. Layton ; I hope you arc well. Still engaged on that pretty embroidery ? Pardon me, I was told Alice was here. will ! there she is in the garden. I will go to her ;" and he left the room. The relation of the parties is simple enough. George Ashbury, who is both personable and wealthy, is engaged to be married to Alice, the youngest daughter of Colonel Pentwell; while Mrs. Layton, the elder of the two, had returned, a widow, to the parental roof, since the engagement of her sister and George Ashbury. A change comes over the pretty widow's face as she watches Alice and Georga—a change by no means adding to its beauty, so full is it of jealousy. George stays but a few minutes, how ever ; and when he has gone, Alice en ters the room where her sister is seated. There is a family likeness between them, though Alice is calm, but proud, lacking the winning softness of manner and ex pression which is her sister's greatest charm. "Mr. Ashbury paid a short visit," said Mrs. Layton. "Yes; he called to say that he could not go to Bentley's with us this afternoon, as he was obliged to visit Wentham on business." "He goes to Wentham rather often, doesn't he ?" she asked, putting a slight emphasis on the word "rather." ‘ 1 Yes." "He has relations near there—cousins, hasn't he ?" "I believe so " "I think I remember one of them— Edith she was called ; a pretty, fairy-like creature, with golden curls and laughing blue eyes, who seemed to introduce sun shine wherever she went. Were I engaged I should scarcely care for my suitor to see too much of such a nymph." Alice made no reply, but her cheek flushed, and for an instant her proud lip quivered ; then she was cool and placid again. Her sister had marked the change, and had instantly dropped the subject, for she saw that the arrow shot at a venture had struck home. That afternoon the Bentleys, friends of the Pentwells, gave a croquet party, and a large number of guests were assembled on the lawn, when the Colonel's daughter ar rived. Alice was soon deep in the mysteries of croquet, with a young lieutenant as her partner, and had just won the first game, when George Ashbury, accompanied by his pretty cousin, of whom Mrs. Layton had spoken, appeared among them. Perhaps, at any other time, Alice would have accepted her lover's explanation as quite satisfactory, when he stated that on reaching Wentham, some five miles off, he found the business on which he went had been postponed for a week, and as his cousin and uncle were coming to Bentleys',' he decided upon acclmpanying them. But the hints of the morning had not been thrown away, and resenting the fan cied slight to herself, Alice received his excuses with polite indifference. The thin end of the edge of distrust and jealousy had been inserted, and the breach, slight as it was, increased rapidly. While apparently the most sincere and disinter ested friend of both, Mrs. Layton daily helped to widen the breach she had caused. George Ashbury was her dupe. Mentally he drew comparisons between the sisters, always to Alice's disadvantage. His visits were as frequent as ever, but though he asked for Miss Pentwell, most of his time was spent in the company.of Mrs. Layton. One evening Alice was sitting in an arbor, engaged in reading, when her at tention was attracted by .the sound of familiar voices. "But you loved Alice ?" It was her sister who spoke. "That was before I knew you. Besides, Alice has ceased to care for me. You told me so yourself; and if proof were wanting, does she not avoid me as much as possible You need have no false delicacy on account of your sister; only say you will be my wife':" Alice lost the answer. A faint giddi ness she could not control overcame her, the sense of hearing was, for the moment, gone, and, when she recovered, the voices were no longer Dear. She could not in the present frame of mind meet the sister who had stolen awe►y her priceless treasure, for, in her bitterest moments, Alice exhonorated her lover from blame. Her own pride and her sister's scheming had, she was sure, clone all the mischief. Marlpits, where Colonel Pentwell and his daughter resided, was a town of com parat.vely modern growth, situated in a wide, deep valley, many of the houses being built on the side of the hills. Among its peculiarities was a reservoir for supplying the town with water—a large circular mound on a bill, originally above the town, though the houses were now creeping up to it. There had lately bceu ominous rumors of the insecurity of the reservoir. Some said the side nearest the town was giving way ; that the severe frosts of the past winters had damaged the stone and earth works, and there were many who predicted that one fine morning would find the town drowned. HUNTINGDON, PAD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1878. It was Sunday, and as Colonel Pentwell and his two daughters entered the church they regularly attended, a ray of sunlight fell upon the old soldier's white hair, and lighted up his youngest daughter's pretty face, on which the expression of pride had given place to a look of humble faith and resignation such as it had never worn be fore. She had at that moment forgotten George Ashbury and the love so lightly transferred; had furgotten her sister; all that troubled and oppressed her. So complete was her abstraction, that it was almost with a start of pain she heard George Ashbury speak to her, and hesitated while he took her listless hand. The Colonel invited his intended son-in' law to return to dinner with them as usual, and the party went home, George walking as was his custom, by Alice's side ; but there was a constraint felt by both. If Alice had not heard' those words in the garden, all might have been well, for George already repented his apostacy, and desired to return to his old allegiance. Awkwardly and painfully the day passed with them all. They bad scarcely reached home when a storm, unequaled in violence for years past, burst over the town. Light ning and thunder flashed and pealed in cessantly; the rain fell in sheets rstlier than showers ; the wind howled and dashed itself against houses, churches and public buildings, as though on a mission of de struction. George and Alice sat apart, each with a book before them, but ever and anon glanc . ng up at the furious ele ments, till reading bee•iaie nothing but a pretense. Still the storm rages without, the-streets are flooded, and the water rushes down in streams. Earlier than their usual custom the family retired for the night—a feeling of subdued anxiety, a feeling of coming mis fortune, upon them all. It must have been past midnight when the sleepers were awakened by the house rocking as though shaken from its founda tion. George Ashbury, who had remained for the night, had scarcely slipped on some clothing, when a woman's shriek rose above the roar of the water, and he ran out of his room, to be met almost at the door by the Colonel and Alice, who were hurryinc , to the room whence the scream proceeded. With a word or two of concern and wonder, he followed them to Mrs. Layton's apartment. As they opened the door, the light was extinguished by a gust of wind; yet, for an instant, it had revealed an open window, and a white figure standing near it. The noise had ceased, and before another light could be obtained, the room was filled with a rush of water. Groping in the dark, George managed to drag the old man and Alice from the place ; then tried again to get a light, and return to rescue Mrs. Layton, but her room being half a eight of stairs lower than any of the other bedrooms of the house, the open window had admitted the rushing torrent of water without resistance, and now the room was filled, the furniture floating, the water pouring down the stairs, and joining the accumulation in the lower rooms; but not a trace of the figure seen for a moment at the window, was discernible. It was a terrible morning for the in habitants of Marlpits, one to be remembered for many a year. Men, women and chil dren were among the drowned, Mrs. Lay ton one of the number; the rush of water had swept her off as she stood by the open window. Her remains were found more than a quarter of a mile from the house. She was dead now. She had once been too dear for either Alice or George to speak aught of reproach against her memory.— Once more are their hands lovingly clasped as they look upon the visage now so calm and still in its cold and motionless repose. A silent, but mutual, compact was sealed between them in that presence, which, when living, would have separated them. The fickleness and estrangement would be buried with its cause. (stiat Alisatiang. The Valley of Death. AN UNINHABITED REGION-A PLACE OF DEATH AND BONES, WHERE THERMOM ETER STANDS AT 140° IN THE SHADE. [From the Kennasaw Gazette.] In the northeast corner of San Bernar dine county, lying nearly in Inyo county and by the newly surveyed line, partly, also, in the State of Nevada, is a regicn paralleled by few other spots on the face of the earth. We say the world is instinct with life. Here, if the phraseology may be pardoned, is a place instinct with death. A huge basin, whose rini is the ancient hills, stricken with the barrenness of eter nal desolation, whose bosom the blasted waste of the desert—treeless, shrubless and waterless, save a few bitter pools like the lye of potash water, surrounded by moun tains that tower thousands of feet above the sea level, itself lyin g 3000 feet above the sea. It is a very “ehenna"—a place of death and bones. Birds do not fly over it. Animals do not enter it. Vegetation cannot exist in it. The broad sands absorb the heat, the bare mountains reflect it, the unclouded sun daily adds to it. Ninety de grees in the shade (artificial heat, there is no other) means winter ; 140 degrees, that means summer. The hot air grows hotter; wavers, trembles with heat, until nature, goaded with madness, can endure no long er, and then the burning blast rouses itself —rouses in its might ; rouses as an angry blast, with a hoarse, ominous roar; swept mile after mile, on, ever on, over the broad reach of the desert, bearing in its black, whirling bosom—black as midnight—dust, sand, alkali and death. Sometimes murky clouds gather upon the mountains above ; then there is a rush —a warning sigh of the winds—a low rumbling in the air; the hills quiver, the earth trembles, and a tor rent, half water, half mud, bounds from the hills, leaps into the desert, ploughing chasms like river beds in the loose sand. In the year 1849 a party of emigrants en• tered the basin. Day after day they toiled on, thirsting, dying. The pitiless moun tain walled them in; no escape. One by one they dropped and died. A few aban doned everything, scaled the mountains and escaped. The others lie as they fell, dried to mummies—no birds even to de. your their flesh ; no beasts to prey upon them. Wagon tires unrusted, gun barrels bright, untarnished. Such is the place. Mile after mile silence reigna ; silence— and death. 'LANE the courage to speak your mind when it is necessary to do so, and to hold your tongue when it is prudent to do so. Mr. Grow's Speech. From the N. Y. Tribune.] Ex Speaker Grow opened, on Saturday, at Oil City, the Republican campaign in Pennsylvania. It is a significant speech, because it proves that the Republicans of Pennsylvania are losing sight of personal considerations in a universal determination that the Democracy shall not capture the National Government. Mr. Grow was the leading candidate against Col. Hoyt for the nomination for Governor, but now is the first in the field in behalf of his rival. For a more important reason, ;Also, the speech is significant. It is a plain, straight forward appeal to the masses for sound money and the honest payment of the pub lic debt. It comes from one of the trusted leaders of the Republican party, in a State where the Greenback craze has made thous ands of victims, and it means that the Re publicans of Pennsylvania have placed themselves squarely on the side of honesty and good faith. This speech is the keynote of the Pennsylvania campaign, and was ad mirably adapted for the purpose, being full of terse, homely sentences that go straight to the marrow of things. What, for in stance, could drive the truth home quicker to the average citizen than this compari son of the coin dollar and the greenback : "The paper reads on its face, I promise to pay real value ; the coin declares on its face, lam real value. The coin dollar needs no indorser. The paper one is worth less without it. The coin dollar runs through the commercial world by its own inherent strength, and bears upon its face its real value. The paper dollar has not strength enough to stand alone, and 'bears upon its face only a promise which, if its fnlfilment is to be indefinitely postponed, is as worthless as the rags of which it is made." Or this brief answer to the people who want greenback mills in every county : • "The mere fact of coining money by the Government, or the stamping of engraved paper by its printing presses, no matter to what extent, does not thereby make money plenty. For however much the Govern ment may have in its vaults, it can pay out or put in circulation only the amount of its actual expenses. If its annual ex penses are $1,000.000, that is all it can pay out, and it collects in taxes and returns to its Treasury during the year that same amount." Here is a short sermon on the "war prices" which so many are regretting : "Flush times, as they are called, come not from increased coinage or additional printing, but from increased demand and consumption of the products of labor. The flush business times of the war were not because the Government issued greenbacks, but because it paid annually over a thous and millions of dollars for labor and its products instead of, as now, less than three hundred millions. The sudden demand caused by the war for almost every thing increased the consumption,and there by enhanced the price. War prices can be continued only by continuing the war that produces them." And here is a terse description of what statesmen of the Butler school call "under consumption." After depicting the "over consumption" or extravagance which has resulted in bankruptcy and ruin, Mr. Grow says : "The statesmanship which excuses such a state of things by calling it under-con sumption, is akin to that which claims that money worth nothing makes a country rich. There is a remarkable instance of under-consumption in the case of the Prodigal Son, when he fed upon husks; but it was the necessary and inevitable result of extravagant and riotous living." The ex-Speaker attacks the Democratic party as the exponent of a policy oppres sive to the workingmen of the country. He says : "It is neither wise statesmanship nor real economy, in times of great depression in business, for the Government to stop all outlays for necessary and indispensible pub lic works. Not that the Government should create a necessity for expenditures, but when that necessity exists, why not give to unemployed labor the benefits re sulting therefrom in the times of its great est need, especially as the Government would have the advantage, in such times, of cheapness in doing its work ? This kind of statesmanship was most conspic uously illtistrated by the Democratic party in the last Congress, and upon such a rec ord it appeals to the people for a renewed lease of power." With this pungent sentence he meets, the Free-Traders : "With the land filled with unemployed labor, who would suggest the importation of more laborers as a remedy for business ills ? Yet to bring the products of their labor to supply our market has the same effect upon unemployed labor as would the importation of laborers themselves." One of the most important portions of this address is that in which Mr. Grow disposes of the Greenback proposition to tax Government bonds. In discussing this subject, he calls attention to a decision of Chief Justice Marshall, the application of which to this question will be fresh to some of our readers. The decision was that bonds and notes of the United States were necessarily exempted from taxation by State and municipalities, because "State Governments have no right to tax any of the constitutional means employed by the Government to execute its constitutional powers." To these words of the great Chief Justice Mr. Grow adds : "Local taxation of Government bonds and notes is the same as the taxation of its credit. In times of danger, were it consti tutional, hostile communities could, within their respective jurisdictions, tax its credit out of existence." As for taxation by the General Govern rnent: "There would be no such thing as the sale of a bond bearing 4 per cent. interest if it was subject to taxation. What advant- age, then, would it be to the Government to pay 6 or 7 per cent. interest and then collect back 2 or 3 per cent. in taxation ? It saves in the rate of interest about the amount it would collect in taxes and the cost of collecting the tax." With this one question we can close this series of brief extracts : "Will the nation redeem its plighted faith and pay, in the day of its safety and power, as it promised in the night-time of its disaster and peril ?" This is the sum and substance of the whole matter. This is the whole contro• versy. The Republicans of Pennsylvania, heretofore sometimes wavering in their sup port of hard-money theories, place their campaign squarely on that question. How will Pennsylvania answer it ? A FASHIONABLE young lady dropped one of her false eyebrows in a church pew, and badly frightened a young man next to her who thought it was his moustache. Plagiarisms LITERARY CON VEYANCING-SCOTT AND LOVER-MILTON-POPE -DRYDEN-3100RE -S LIAK ESPEARE -ADDISON -BYRON . Dr. R. Shelton Mackenzine in Saturday Night.] It has been acutely remarked that pla giarism in poetry somewhat resembles by pocriiy in life—a not unfrequent sin, and so easily concealed, that he who commits it must be a clumsy fellow if lie does not so conceal it as to avoid the crime of being found out. Literary pilferings are numerous, and readers on the detective look-out will dis cover a great many parallel passages, which may or may not have been "conveyed" from other writers. Oddly enough, many of these are nearly identical with passages in well-known works. Here is a notable instance : In Walter Scott's;well known poem, "Marmion," pub lished in 1808, Lady Heron, at a grand Teception at Holyrood Palace, by James IV, who was slain, soon after, in the battle of Flodden Field, sings a lively border bal lad, called "Lochinvar," and as well known, I venture to say, as any lyric in our lan guage._ In this charming ballad—the action of which is that a fair damsel, forced by her friends to marry an old man whom she does not like, succeeds, ere the bridal takes place, in eloping with a far younger man, whom she dearly loves—it is told : . "She looked down to blush, And she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, And a tear in her eyo." I leave my lady readers to imagine, after matters had gone so far, on what promis ing terms this bright young couple were. But, writing thirty or forty years after "Marmion" had been published, and (this I aver from personal knowledge) with a thorough knowledge of Walter Scott's numerous writings, the late Samuel Lover, who succeeded Thomas Moore as a writer of Irish songs, wrote one, called "Rory O'More," which is universally known and liked. In this are four lines which very strongly remind one of those above quoted. They are : "Oh, Rory, he aisy !" Sweet Kathleen would cry With reproof on her lip, But a smile in ner eye." It appears to me that there is more than merely accidental coincidence here. The words are almost the same ; but one can scarcely think that Lover stole from Scott, well knowing, if he did, that the theft must immediately be detected—as, indeed, it was. How an idea, how even an expression, accidently taken into mind and memory can be involuntarily retained there for years—locked up, as it were—and finally reproduced in the man's own writing, with out having a suspicion that it was not his own actual creation, can be easily under stood. Lover, however, seems to have stolen the lines I quote. In the opening of Milton's "Paradise Lost" we find his avowed purpose : "That to the height of this great argum,nt, I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to man." In the following century, Pope put this couplet into the beginning of his "Essay on gag :" "Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, And justify the ways of God to man." When Pope was a youth, Dryden wrote "For truth has such a face and such a mien, As, to be loved, needs only to be seen." When Pope became a poet, after the death of Dryden, he wrote : "Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, As, to be hated,needs but to be seen." It is difficult to believe that the younger poet did not borrow the idea and the dic tion from "glorious John," his senior. In Moore's "Loves of the Angels," the second of the fallen seraphs is made to say : Oh, who is to be saved, if such Bright erring souls are not forgiven? So loth they bander, and so much 1 heir very wanderings lean toward heaven." The conclusion bears a suspicious resem blance to Oliver Goldsmith's well known line : "And even h s failings leaned to virtue's side." There has been much plagiarism from Holy Writ. In the second Book of Samuel there is this grand passage : "And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; and he was seen upon the wings of the wind." In the One-hundred-and-fourth Psalm, we have "Who walketh upon the wings of the wind." Shakspeare, whose writings show that he was familiar with the Bible, probably drew upon his memory when he wrote, iu '•Macbeth :" "And pity, like a naked, new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin horsod Upon the sightless couriers of the air." Pope, following the text still more close ly, wrote : "Nor God above in the still calm we find lie mounts the storm and walks upon the wind." Addison, vastly inferior to Pope, as a poet and a man, likened the Duke of Hari• borough to a guardian angel, who "Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm." William Cowper, a true poet, whether exciting us to merriment by his right merry ballad of John Gilpin, or urging us to piety by his "Olney Hymns," evidently had the same idea in his mind when he commenced a hymn with the well-known quaint : "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform ; Ile plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm!" Lord Byron was a literary conveyancer, to a considerable extent. He said that the idea, "Memory, the mirror which affliction dashes to the earth, and, looking down upon the fragments, only beholds the image multiplied," was a creation of his own, which he finally used, in "Childe Harold," thus : "Even as a broken mirror, with the glass In every fragment multiplies; and makes A thousand images of one that was The same, and still the more the more it breaks:, Any one who dips into Moore's "Lifi3 of Byron" will find how familiar the great poet was with Burton's "Anatomy of . Melancholy," which he characterized as a book "most useful to a man who wishes to acquire the reputation of being well read," and containing more materials for literary conversation than any other twenty works in the English language. After this, turn to Burton, and in Part 2, Sec. 3, Mem. 7, find this passage, "And as Praxiteles did by his glass, when he saw a scurvy face in it, brake it to pieces, but for that one be saw many more as bad in a moment." "MIKE, and is it yourself that can be after telliu' me how they make ice cream ?" "It is troth I can. Don't they bake them in cold ovens, to be sure ?" ThERE is no occasion to trample upon the meanest reptile, nor to sneak to the greatest prince. Insolence and baseness are equally unmanly. Cremation as a Cure. Mrs. Boggs had been under the weather for two or three days. At least she said she was, but these attacks came rather frequently, Boggs thought, for when his wife was having one of her off spells he had to cook the meals and do all the house work. We don't remember what particu lar state ti►e weather was in this last time, but Mrs. Boggs was under it, and she was under it very bad. She even told Boggs that she didn't believe she was ever going to get up out of it, and she made a hys terical request that he bury her in some sunny spot where the birds might come and sing to her ; and she made him promise that he would bring flowers once a week and scatter them over her grave. A dozen times that day was Boggs called from his work in the kitchen to bid a last farewell to his dying wire, but still she lingered. He had been through the experience a great many times before, so he wasn't so much alarmed as he might otherwise have been. That night as he sat watching, like the affectionate husband he was, at her bed side, she saw that he was deeply engrossed in a book. "What book are you reading, dear ?" she faintly asked. "A railroad guide, my love," was the reply. "What do you want with a railroad guide r" she inquired. "I want to see how far it is to Washing ton, Penn., and how the trains run," said Mr.Boggs. She would have asked him what he had to do with Washington, Penn., but he got up and went out and she fell into a doze, the inclination to which she didn't care to repress, even though it delayed the final departure that she had so often prated about. When she awoke she saw Boggs bending over her with a candle. He evi dently hadn't observed that she was awake, so closing her eyes she feigned sleep and overheard the following soliloquy, which sufficiently explained to her now thoroughly awakened senses his inquiry of the railroad guide about the route to Washington, Penn. "Splendid subject for cremation—a lit tle scraggy (Mrs. Boggs' fingers worked nervously under the bed clothes, and she had hard work to keep from flying at him), but scraggy ones incinerate quicker than the fat one::, the doctor says. She could he greased if necessary to make her go quicker. Think I'll send her away by ex press, as I'm too busy in the store to get away. Her ashes can be forwarded to me in an envelope through the mail. I'll know them (audible chuckle). They'll be under the weather every few weeks and want to die. And they'll ask me to bury them in some sunny spot, where the birds can come and sing to 'em. I'll send word to Dr. Le Moyne to make it hot fbr her— she has kept things hot enough for me.— And I'll tell him to let all the reporters in, so as to give her a good send off through the papers, and hoop 'er up Liza Jane.— Sorry I can't be there to stir her up my • self and—" A thrilling, ear piercing scream came from the woman under the weather, and with a bound sufficient to land her on top of any weather that ever lived, she sprang out of bed and had Boggs by the ear in a flash, while she fairly screamed : "You'll cremate me, will you, you bald headed old reprobate ! You'll send my scraggy body.up to Washington by ex press (giving his ear a wring between the sentences); and tell that wicked old wretch Le Moyne to make it hot for me; and you'll have my ashes sent to you in a letter (growing more and more wrothy, and thumping him over the head with the candlestick she had snatched away from his hand) ; and bury me in some sweet, sunny spot (whack !); where the birds may come and sing (bing!); and you want the reporters there (bang) to hoop 'cr up Liza Jane (boom !). Oh, you mean, wretched, wicked old man, you; I'll live a hundred years to spite you, see if I don't !" Then she pushed Boggs out of the door and bolted it, and he had to make up a bunk on the kitchen floor that night next to, the stove. But a peculiar smile played about Boggs' face, even when he was rub bing the sore spots on his bald bead, and he murmured softly to himself, "G-ness I've cured her of them spells fir one while " Mrs. Boggs hasn't been under the weather since, but mention of the word cremation , lrives her wild. Horrors of Siberia. A Russian convict never knows until he reaches Siberia what sort of life is in store fur him ; for, in pronouncing sentence of hard labor, the judge wakes no mention of mines. If the convict has money or in fluential friends he had better use the time between 11'.s sentence and transportation in buying a warrant which consigns him to the lighter kinds of labor above ground ; otherwise, he will inevitably be sent under earth, and never again see the sky until he is hauled up to die in an infirmary. The convicts are forwarded to Siberia in con voys, which start at the commencement of spring, just after the snows have melted and left the ground dry. They perform the whole journey on foot, escorted by mounted Cossacks, who are armed with pistols, lances and long whips; and behind them jolts a long spring of springless tun] brils, to carry those who fall lame or ill on the way. The start is always made in the night, and care is taken that the convoys shall pass through the towns on their road only after dark. Each man is dressed in a gray kalatan, having a brass number plate fastened to the breast, knee boots, and a sheep skin bonnet. Ile carries a rug strapped to his back, a mess tin and a wooden spoon at his girdle. The women have black cloaks with hoods, and march in gangs by themselves, with an cscori; of soldiers, like the men, and two or three female warders, who travel in carts. In leaving large cities, like St. Petersburg, all the prisoners are chaitred with their hands behind their backs, but their fetters are removed outside the city, except in the case of men who are marked dangerous.— These have to wear leg chains of four pounds weight all the way, and some of the more desperate ones are yoked three to a beam of wood, which rests on their shoulders and is fastened to their necks by iron collars. Nobody may approach the men to inspect them. The Cossacks crack their whips loudly to warn persons off, and scamper up and down the line with lanterns tied to their lance points, which they lower to the ground at every moment to see if letters have been dropped. Murderers, thieves, Nihilist conspirators, felon clergy men, mutinous soldiers and patriotic Poles, all tramp together as fast as they can go. Then come the women, shivering, sobbing, but not daring to cry out, because of those awful whips. The Old Subscriber. Ile came wearily up the sanctum steps yesterday afternoon, and turning the waste basket upside down sat down upon it with a sigh that might have been cut into tor nadoes and whirlwinds enough to go around half a dozen agricultural counties. Be had a weary look afloat him as though he had been trying to die and couldn't find a doctor. II is coat was ragged and patched here and there with a prosperous and clan nish community of cockel burrs. Ills boots, water proof variety, were so arranged that if you stuck theta in the river the water would run out faster than it would ran in. We asked . how he fared, and he glanced savagely at a Kansas paper among our ex• changes, before he answered sadly : "Well, pretty miserably, thank ye. Ye see, times come in pretty hard, and it was pretty hard slidin' to get along. I either just had to sell the six dog, or cut down the expenses in some other way, and so I stopped the paper. I missed it powerfully bad the first few weeks, then I kind o' got used to it. Borrowed it once an' a while here and there, hut folks aidn't appear to want to lend their papers, and so I finally lost sight of it altogether. Then trouble begun right off. The first thing I knew, I was arrested and fined twenty dollars for violating the game law. You see the thing had changed a little, and I didn't know nothing about it, but the judge said as bow ignorance wasn't no excuse in these days when the State was so full of papers that you couldn't fire a stone out of a window without hittin' an editor. Then in a week I was arrested and fined twenty dollars for violating the fishery law, and when I beg ged and said I didn't know nethin' about it, the judge asked me where I was raised, and remitted me two dollars of the fine for me to take the paper with. But I kinder thought I couldn't get in any more scrapes and I sorter hung on to the two dollars. In about three days after, I was took up again and fined four dollars and costs fpr hnntin' on Sunday; and I hope I may die if I knew it was Sunday, an' I had to sell the gun to get out of the jug. Then a fellow came along and bought every grain of corn I had in the crib, for six cents less than I found next day it was worth in the market ; then I lost two of the best cows you ever saw, and they was took and advertised, and all the time I was hantia' all over the whole. country for 'cm, and when I found 'em at last, the costs was mor'n the cows was worth. The taxes come due, an' I didn't know it, an' the farm was sold, an' I' had big costs to pay before I knowed a word about it, and every week since I stopped the paper I've paid out more money to keep out oftrouble than would keep me in a newspaper all my days. Put my name on the list,"--ilawk e3",- To Correspondents. Publishers, are often seriously annoyed by the negligence of correspondents, and the Kankakee Gazette thus impresses upon its friends a few words of advice, which are good everywhere, and should borne in mind by all who write for newspapers : Do not wait until the last minute you suppose your letters can be put in type for publication. 'We are frequently compelled to reject or coudense communications we should publish in full if they were receiv ed in season. While we might take care of one late comer, somebody must stay out when half a dovn rush in at once just be fore the paper is ready for the press. It is nothing uncommon for us to receive Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morn ing a communication or notice which might have been prepared three or four days be fore without any inconvenience to the writer. As these notices are published gratuitonsly it does seem as if the writers might have some regard to our convenience A goad many complaints wade about the non appearance of articles or notices thus furnished are not justly chargeable: to a want of a disposition to publish or a desire to accommodate, but the failure to appear is directly charge thle to the negligence of the writers to furnish them in proper season. Condense what you have to say. As a general rule, occasional writers for a news paper write only upon some topic in which they amplify. They forget that other peo ple feel, at woo., only a general interest, and desire a brief presentation el the mat ter brought to their notice. The subjects for newspaper discussion are varied., and the average newspaper reader desires brev ity. The question with the newspaper 1511O fisher is nut what he can find to'pnt but what he must leave our. We are al ways glad to receive Leal news and pub lish what will be of leell interest. but we are better pleased with a correspondent who tries to condense his items or his ideas than with one who evidently labors to say as much as he can and lid as touch space as he can spread over. Leave verbosity and tediousness to the editor, who may perhaps be a tolerated bore, but has the right to c nitro! the Mainteetuent of his own paper. Smoking While at Work. There are three good reasons why work men should not smoke while at work, namely : it reduces the physical energy by the very sense of relaxation which it itn pares ; it often causes the smoker to stop wok altogether, until his pipe is out; and it is dangerous. We do not believe that any man can properly see what he is about with a cloud of hot smoke and gas rising into his eyes, neither can he bestow his full attention on what be has to do, when the pipe must be kept going at the same time. It may Ipe said that even if he stops for a few puffs no harm will be done. Per haps not so far as one man is concerned. but if all the men in a large concern stop for puffs, the aggregate sum of the stop pages will amount to considerable time lust. A correspondent writes us to say that he recently timed the smokes taken in a day by twelve journeyman painters, who were engaged on a job requiring especial haste. The total number of minutes foot ed up over a quarter of a day's work, and the employer soon discovered that, be could not afford any such loss, and promptly for bade the practice. Not long ago we saw carpenters smoking in an unfinished house, while putting in the woodwork. The floors were littered with shavings, and large quantities of other combustible matter were laying about. The accidental dropping of a few sparks from one .of the pipes might easily have caused a serious confla gration. if smoking must be ptacticed, it is mach better to confine the indulgence to off-work hours. THE three events which cause ne to think most profoundly, and which make the most decided impression upon the character, are thwarted ambition, unsuccessful love, and the approach of death. NO. 33.
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