Senator Bayard's Opinions I'pon late
Political Events.'
Interview in tli* Now York World.
I was opposed to the extra session
and much regretted that it was called ;
And yet history will say that the
event was unavoidable, for in the at
titude which the Democratic party,
representing the public sentiment of
the country in the two Houses of Con
gress, and Mr. Haves, representing the
Republican party and having posses
sion of the Executive Department re
spectively, took the collision was bound
to occur, and this extra session may
prove of great use in defining the re
lations that must he expected to exi.-t
during the remainder of Mr. Hayes' I
term between liini and the dominant
majorities in the two House*. Urged
on hy the "stalwart" cabal of his own
party, Mr. Hayes has been led to make
claims of power and to take a position j
wholly untenable. The issues which 1
he has thus uuwiscly raised are funda
mental in their character, ami it is !
well for the American jieoplc to Is- re- i
called to the true nature of their Gov
ernment, and to the principle* upon j
which hopes lor its maintenance arc to <
he based. The Democrats have de- j
ruanded nothing at the extra se.-sion j
that was not just, fair ami timely. Thev I
promptly passed the appropriation
hill supplying the army with 827,000,- j
000, and simply proposed to repeal a 1
provision of law, which, according to
its author, Jacob Howard, of Michi
gan, was confessedly a war measure
only, and which permitted troops to he
brought to the polls of election to keep
the pace. It is difficult to see how 1
any man friendly to a government of
laws should desire to continue such a
measure in tinieof p-aee. in fact, the
question of the necessity of holding
elections without the presence of armed
force does not bear discussion ; nod it
was a lamentable illustration of the
intensity and blindness of party feeling
when not a single member ot the Re
publican party in either House ven
tured to record hi* Vote in favor ol the
rcpal of so un-American ami inde
fensible a law. No more forcible ar
guments nor vigorous condemnation of
such uses of the army are needed than
are supplied by public speeches and
opinions of two members of Mr. Hays'
Cabinet —Mr. Evartsand Mi. Sehurz.
But it seems that Mr. Hayes could not
withstand the threats and growls of
the "stalwart" leaders of his party and
sutiered himself to he depressed In-low
the proper level of the duties of his
place. To the demand for broad and
iiigh statesmanship thai the situation
made he responded in the tone of a
mere pnrtv politician. The hill which
promptly ami fully supplied the army
he returned with a statement of hi* ob
jections which took the form of a run
ning debate in reply to certain mem
ber* of the Senate and House. He
had been referred to as "I think un
wisely and improperly in the course of
this debate in terms of scant respect,
• but it was clearly a most exceptionable
and unprecedented thing for a Presi
dent, under the cover of a veto mes
sage, to enter iuto purely |icr-onal de
hate with the two Houses. Rut one
thing he has succeeded in and that is
to show that he has the will and power
to obstruct the passage of laws ty an
arbitrary veto power based upon party
dictation, and thus throw the Govern
ment into confusion ami fill the public
mind with apprehensions by prevent
ing Congressional supplies. There is
nothing substantially vetoed by Mr.
Hayes in the army hill as first pre
sented that lie lias not approved in the
army bill which he signed. To the
jMirsistencc, therefore, of the Demo- 1
eratic Houses of Congress the country
owe* the affirmation of the great j>rin
ciple that our popular elections shall
l>e free from military force.
"What is your judgment upon the
new doctrine which the Republican
organs take—that the President is a
co-ordinate and equal part of legisla
tion u|s)n all question* of ylicy, ex
jicdieney and necessity ?"
"That is another question that has
liccn raised by the preteusion* of Mr.
Hayes in his collision with the Con
gress. The result of his claim of |s>w
er over legislation, would, in effect,
convert the Executive Department into
a third House of Congress. This is a
fundamentally close nnd dangerous
position, and arises from either a total
misconception or a partisan distortion
of the true functions of his office. The
first article of the (Constitution pro
vide* that all legislative power* then
in granted shall be vested in a Con
gress of the United States, which shall
consist of a Senate ami House of Rej>-
rescntativcs —the adjective 'all,' the
verb 'vested' and the noun 'Congress'
have unmiMakuble meanings. The
* law is explicit. No false interpreta
tion of the subsequent provisions of
the Constitution which vest in the
President a qualified veto jsiwer can
destroy the effect of thnt reading.
This veto power is expressly subject
to a two-thirds vote of the two Houses,
and the object* for which it wa dele
gated are stated hy Alexander Ham
ilton to be the protection of the Con
stitution from overthrow to prevent
invasion of the just prerogative* of the
other departments of the Government
hy tho legislative branch, and gen
erally to remedy and check inadver
tent and hasty legislation. Hut the
construction given by the President in
his veto messages at the extra session
would necessarily involve not only the
assumption of legislative power hy the
Executive branch, but the practical
absorption of all the powers of the
Clovcrnment to bis bands. If such
reasoning is to be maintained, the
American people must contemplate an
Executive branch of the Government
armed with power* ample for its own
indefinite |>crpetuution, and which will
inevitably be used for Mich purpose*,
in the face of an eh an issue, so rained
and emphasized by the President and
lI'IH counsellors at the late extra session,
I deem it of the utmost importance
that the people of thin country should
comprehend his meaning and the effect
of the powers for which he contends,;
and .which, if allowed, w ill he fatal to
that distribution of powers which our
forefathers decided to be essential for
the preservation of liberty. The Pros- j
ident intimates, although not clearly, ;
in his last veto message, that he has
the rightful power to convene Congress J
and to keep it in session until appro- ;
priatiyns sufficient in his arbitrary
judgment are made for the enforce
ment of any law. This claim, if ex
amined, will be found to contain an
assumption of legislative power ami
discretion which it is not unfair to call
usurpation. By the unvaried custom
of our Government from its commence
ment all appropriations for its support
under its laws are made annually. In
the case of the army the Constitution
expressly inhibits any appropriation
for more than two years. Vet, if the
power be conceded which has now
been claimed by the President, no re
trcnehinciit will ever become jios-ible
until lie shall consent to the repeal of
the law whose execution he claim* to
be necessary, and of tlm expenses of
executing which lie constitutes him - It
sole judge. That is what I mean hy
saving that the doctrine eoutended for
by Mr. Hayes would lead virtually to
the absorption of entire legislative
power in the Executive branch, tr it
would in edict make all appropriations
perpetual and destroy the power of
tioogress to exercise any discretion
over the amount or the u*-s to which
they should la- applied."
"The President having taken this
position, what is likely to result
"He ha* taken it in his veto of the
legislative and judicial appropriation
Inil, and if he is sutfercd to maintain
it by the popular voice, that which
Hamilton termed 'a dishonorable -tag
nation of public affairs' must occur.
. "What is your opinion of the veto
of the bill for marshals'expenca ?"
"An examination of the llevised
Statutes will disclose how little justi
fication Mr. Hayes hud for his veto of
the separate bill providing si'>< >O,OOO
for the expenses, fees, etc., of I nited
States Marshals, He -ays in substance
that because the bill sent liini excluded
the applications of any moneys there
by appropriated to pay deputy mar
shals for political services at the jsills
of election and because it forbade any •
officer of any department 'to incur any
liability' for such services that then*
fore his power to execute election laws
was interfered with and preveuted;
whereforo for that sole reason he re
fused to a**cut to th- legislation. Sec
tion 3,67* of the Revised Statutes rep
rcseuts and adopts law* pa*cd in I*o9
and in 180*, and these and the section
expressly prohibit the application of
any money except to the objects for
which it wa- c.-js-cially appropriated.
Section 3,679, which was the act of
•iuly, I*7o, forbade any Department
of the Government to expend any sum
in excess of the appropriation made
bv Congress—and 1 beg you to itali
cize these words —or to involve the
Govtrnm' nt in <ttnj contract Jor the
futnre. payment of money in tree** of
>nirh appropriation*. It would puzzle
a Court, lunch leas plain citizens, to
, sec why a bill should lie vetoed which
forbade an officer to 'incur any liabil
ity' fur the Government when an ex
isting statute plainly forbade him
from involving the Government in
any contract fur the same object. Yet
the law of July, 1870, w£ pa-.-'d by
a Congress having a two-thirds Re
puhlican majority in both branches,
and was approved by Grant, a Rcpuli-
I lienn President."
"Would not all the reasons which
Mr. Hayes presents for vetoing the
' hills passed hy the Democracy at the
I last Congress apply with equal force
to the existing provisions of the law T"
"Certainly, and in some case* with
greater force."
"Was enough good done nt the ex
tra session to pay for the trouble of
convening Congress ?"
"Yc* ; I think the repeal of the test
oath and the formntion of the improv
ed system of obtaining impartial juries
were alone a sufficient recompense to
the country and to Congress for all
the ex|ense and harassment of the
session. It is evident that these most
jHiwerful and necessary reforms found
little favor with the President, who
vetoed the appropriation hills with
wffiich they were at first combined
without a word of intimation that he
approved of any fenlurr* of the bill.
I" or the reasons I have given I eon
lider the result* of the extra session to
have been valuable to the country.
They have wiped out a feature of war
legislation permitting the use of troop
as police at the polls. They have re
moved a test oath disgraceful to our
ago and country. They have made a
step toward the abolition of the radical
system of parking juries lu political
cases. They have exposed to the peo
ple schemes for the centralization of
power, and for the people to be fore
warned is to be forearmed. Ho I con
sider the results of the extra session to
have been favorable to the good gov
ernment of the country, and creditable
to the Democratic majorities, by whose
exertions these valuable reforms have
been achieved despite the obstructive
ticss of a Republican Executive."
"How long do you cx|iect to lie ab
sent?"
"About three months, and most of
the time nt Carlsbad, where t IM- phy
sicians have ordered Mrs. Bayard nnd
on whose uccouut I undertake tlie
trip."
■ ■■■ ■ ' ♦
A Sensible Northern lirltrailler.
FIKIII tin* CiiH'iiitinti Kinjutfcr.
GCIJ. Chamberlain, ex-Governor <>f,
Maine, made an address uu Decoration
day, in which lie referred to the "Reb
el Brigadiers in Congress," in away
not eoiniiliuientary to the wavers of
the bloody-shirt. He asked :
"Is it not folly, is it not babyish
weakness to complain that the States
are back again in tVii:gr*-ss, ami that
they have sent there such representa
tive* a* they must naturally choose ?
Wo send our best mind* to Congress,
of course, to manage tho vital interests
of our country. Why should they
not send their best minds? If, gen
tlemen, we diil not want the rebel
generals there, what did we remove
their disabilities for ? If we did not
want the South to have UII increased
majority in the electoral vote or in
Congress, why did we not think of
that when, hv giving the enfranchised
slave the ballot, we thereby added to
the Southern strength thirty-live elec
toral nnd Representative votes? Who
ever ilid that should not stultify him
sclfliy uliining about it, or setting up
a jiow-woiv over it, and trying Ui ruak*'
the people think that tli*' great war
ha* not settled something."
That is the way a soldier -p< ,ik- who
participated in twentv-four battl* * dur
ing the late war, amf was wounded si\
time*. There is no hnhyish w nknc--
alvait him in r*-gar*l to tin* return to
Congr*-** of the hading m*-n of ihc
Smth. They are needed tlie re. Says
Gen. Chamberlain :
"There are great question* that mu*t
he ni< t —must lie dieti--< <l, mut lie
honorably studied and fairly slated
ami wisely adjusted. There will l
had men and good in Coiigi -- and
out; bad measures and good, bad
theories and g*x>d. It i- the task of
statesmanship ami manhood to deal
with existing * vils, to take thing* a*
they are and make them what tlicv
ought to In-, ami this should Is- done
under the Constitution nnd through
the Inw*, ami by all the machinery of
of Government connected, expressly to
avoid the appeal to brute pa**ioii ami
brute force. That's what constitution*
and laws ami courts and Congr* --* -
ami bnllot-lmxc* are for. 1st us not
be afraid to discuss questions fairly
and vote ujsin them squarely."
Such sentiments elevate a contest
lictween partie* to the plane of reason,
sense ami patriotism where the talk
alsmt "n is i Brigadiers in Congress"
lieeomew petty and contemptible.
♦
Iteueral llunrork fur President.
From th# S*w York tan.
It is rather surprising that Gen.
Winfield H. IlaiKisk is not brought
forwanl more conspicuously a* a dem
ocratic caudidate lor j>r*-,-i<lent. There
are many strong point* in his favor.
A West Pointer ami an oflieer of high
rank in the regular nrinv, he is yet an
upholder of the ascendency of civil
over military authority. Hi* publish
ed political letters, so far aa the senti
ments they cxprcna are concerned,
might have come from the js-u of
Thomas Jefferson. Efforts have some
time* been made to produce the iin
preseion that they really did conic from
the js-n of Jeremiah 8. Black. We
have good reason for Isdii ving this is
not true. But even if it were, it would
detract little or nothing from the merit
of General Hancock, lor if tlie senti
ments did not originate with him he i*
entitled to the credit of having adopt
ed them. Were not most of Washing
ton's stntc papers substantially com
posed by Hamilton? And bas that
circumstance dimmed in the least the
luster of Washington's renown ? But
we believe Hancock wrote his own
public communications, Ix-cause we
have seen private letters in bis own
band quite a* strongly expressing the
i same views. Geueral Hancock mny,
, therefore, IK- properly set down as a
statesman of the sound Jeffcrsnniau
school.
As a soldier ami a citizen General
Hancock is without reproach. He i
j -aid to lie |ersonally |sipulnr with the
many thousands who have served tin
der him. It is not unlikely tlint IM>-
fore the nomination he will lie a po*sl
ileal more talked about than be is at
present.
A Woman of 112 In the liny Kirhl.
Fnm th# R**<lln|[ fUglo,
KliznlN'tb IxMlicdiergcr. nged I*2, re
sides in Richmond township, Berks
county, nnd is, in all probability, one
of the richest maiden ladies in the
county. She owns several beautiful
farms in Richmond township, where
she has lived nearly all her life. A
few days ago her farm hands com
menced haymaking. To their great
surprise the nged lady and lund owner
made her appearance in tho field, rake
in hand. She said she wns going to
show them how to work. This was
greeted with a clapping of hands and
cheers. Miss LeibeslHTgcr went to
work in good earnest, tossed the hay
over and over, raked it into rows from
one end of the field to the other, and
then helped to rnko it on pilos, and
finally assisted iu loading and raking
after the wagons.
Tho Prido of Battory B.
Hoi till MotirifNln on oar right,
Kr off tit** rlvwr I*?,
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TIM HI IK* TOOT'S >TOIII LIFGNII.
li*i. n tlm to ln| n mom* tit hl#W
Aililn tin' frnKiaot
Our l.fli-itocod* mIM-il toiiliio our ?!•%*
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I *• in lin -i'l ' friuli toll* w'titM,
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nl to lirr i in I> li*ul
In Kim* "AIHJ HIIO Mro )#r
At length Hit* N„iit krtlU ,
•'Altai HIIMI 'I your H lur!" IK gf *>to L *1 AGAIN.
Him out: "Wli l Inn ?
W ! ( i, iloii't )oii know 1 lin liitti' Julio,
Tin- I'ilile of !tatt*ry •11/
"M) home * Hliy ( flint ** |jilim-<l ua),
AMI |'U nil <l ion Ml** il ml.
Ami > 1 li'tc tli* gun* ''"J
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' Ami I'll* • ilruiii flint's not M !*•)-,
A *4(l toltli fiitilnt*. too,
Ami I iimr< li In-stale tin- ilrutntiK-r l**y
Ou huii'ltt)s M( r* tli w,
•'lint in m our Uutto'i bit Ki?e ''"l*
fli<* in* li mo t |tu%r t}*• r •look* .
An I •*• Hi**) I*! * I"** h?. • on New!
\V.*n t |*Uy with rn- it ml joke.
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I liate to It ur lit in *II
ll* I Kli< ii I• g f.r a Kjmi |,i|4*
l.lke tli*- Vutik* hud wtil t!•*• *.
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Ami tlie 1.1/ , mis Mi r* still,
I'l i le* |i I . rit atli the tent n<l rolrm
Out lier* w I the It.II.
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k U j(t • li * " ** le-in J•* k.
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W. tot. I• i . m ft. till fi ...i night
I le | tO totoif li t.
An i* ,uli* I I ■? t -tails t f sight,—
or else t Mas leaf? li d lti'l
ll*-? t' * f rut i r fniti*>< nl** tit
T is bit* to !*, > * •.■ .t,
I*l-u tit* lad * hear*!
\Vi to*tit It 1•* k 'hot *t mm!
I I*oll tl* w . i." antoun I.
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Ami th ush t!.< *: rl* f totasoke
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In tlo toil., f lUtl.tt "It '
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Suratorn tho (.'li'lrut*'d.
U ||* 1 .IF TIIK I'OI'NTHV'H NOT.UII.HB
AltK * *>N*;IU:iATKIi 111 l ltF-
Hf-e<ial it "f H to*!, .ft ij I* tot
SA 1: \ r>*.A. .July 11 Saratr.pt i a
fixi-iMar in tli<- roiittcllation >( Mali-r
-ing plan-*. Other rtxirt*- may have
their to fall out of favor, ami
wither under the w.ight of public
runt*i, I.u 1 Saratoga ha* all Max.ii*
for it." own. <lt her a-i>irauti' for pub
lic favor mav In- tnuch talke*! of ami
much run nltt r for a eeu-'ou, hut they
arc tolerably certain to have their dull
tinn- and IK-UPOH.* wlien they ar*' oil * <d
or. But to* go to Saratoga i* with a cer
tain element in the American world,
a traditional duty lik< g..iiig to church.
Moth* n* who wored tln ir mM-ial tri
umph* here de-eadrtt ago, bring their
daughter* hack to the *rene* of pa*t
triumph. The great deliberative a*-
wmblie*, when it i* |Mwible to *lo *o,
me*-t here. Sonic we* k* ago the tJcii
<-ral Atoemhly of the I*r -hytcrian
church imlulg**! in the mild diivipn
tiou of drinking mineral water here,
and no one motion made during the
*-**ioii <>f the National Science a*--o
ciation in St. Ix.ui* la*t RUtnmcr, wan
received with more appluui-c than the
in*tion to hold the uext meeting at
Saratoga. The st-icnti*t* will IM; here
in full force next month. The hotel
register* chow the names of a number
of people whom 1 have quoted above
a* iK'ing habitue* of Saratoga, and
among them are lh**o of I'etier ( <K.je
er, David Pmiley Field, Cyrus W.
Field, ex flov. Hotrman, Mr. William
11. Vanderbilt and family, Mr. Wm.
It. Trsvera, Mr. WrMitßnM, Mr.
ltu-* II Sage, Mr*. W. B. Morgan anil
Mi*s Morgan. Mr. and Mr*. B F. Car
ver, Mr. John Lawrence, Bin on de
Thorns- n, Mi- duliati James, Mr.and
Mr*. William Bond, ami many others.
At tli*- (iraud t nion, among the pi*--,
ent ami prospective guc*t., ore Judge
Bra*lv, Abxamler 11. Itiee, Mr.
Charles J. Osborne, Gen. and Mr*. J.
B. Fry, Mr. Robert CampWll and
family, of St. I-oui*; Mr. J. Vandcr
|xtel ami family, Mr. J. (blell nml
family, Mr. lviwin Booth nmf family.
Boston *eml* u full delegation, ami
among the noted name* are Mr. J.
Adams and family, Mr. William I'or
son*, Mr. Henry M. Alexander and
Cnpt. J. B. Thomas nnd family. Inm
not contradicting, by implication,
what I *aid awhile ago about the sen
son Wing always goal at Saratoga,
when I say this summer it is bettor ;
than for years past. The same is true !
of all the Eastern watering places, and
is one of the signs of the times indiea- ]
tivc of returning prosperity. Arriv
als are registered nl tlie rate of two
hundred a day, nnd departures one
hundred, so it is evident the place is
filling up. The hundreds of |>eop!e
who come to stay amuse themselves in
the old wars. They drink, or are
popularly supposed to drink the min
eral waters; tlicv walk and drive and
go down in full dinner dross to tho
mammoth dining room*. They do
not dance very much in the eveuinga
as yet, the regular hotel hops not be
ing fully inaugurated. They will cot
Is- until the races begin next Sntur
day. For tbo present, people seem '
'jUitc satisfied to sit around in tlie i
parks ami listen to music, of which
ili*n- i* abundance. We*have music
at 10 o'clock in tlie morning ami at *
o'clock in the evening ; ami afternoon '
concerts and evening concerts, the lat- ,
ter accompanied by electric lights. We
have grown familiar enough with tin
intense "high liglils" and correspond
ingly dense shadows of the electric
light, hut here tln-v have given IMi
j son's discovery with variations. The
| liglits are colored, ami when they full
lon (lie shimim-ring fountains in the
park, the fountains are iridisecnt, and
the whole cfleet is charming. It is a
series of brilliant "cficeli,'' if I may
drop into th< art slang of the day, and
to look ut th* Hashing fountains and
j the brightly dressed people, and have
I all that color set to the music of "I'in
: afore" ami "Pinafore's" new rival,
! "I'atinitza," makes one feel exactly a*
it docs to 1 *>Jc at one of tho-e "impr*---
1 -ionist" canvasses (lint look as though
they had IM-I-H struck by lightning.
Perhaps the uoveltv will wear off, hut
at present the electric light i* the lat
■ -t ciithu-iusiii, ami people do not seem
t<> tire of it.
It i- safe to say that Saratoga was
never so well dressed before. No
j doubt there have been seasons where
toil* ts were richer ami the (Jueeii *-f
~-li< i i arrayed h*i-* ll with mori- mag
nificence than tlii- summer, hut never
la-fore hit* si,,- di-plnvcd Costumes s*>
artistie, >r gotten lu-rself up t-< look so
much lik - - a ] i -tur* l*-t, strayetl or
*toh n out of tin- tiame. "Co-turn**!"
flat i- tin- word. Site us*-*l to war
<lr*--i-. Now *h*' w*ar* costume*.
I Tin-re i* an e-o ritial ilifh-nnce. A
i <lre,--inak< r makes a dress. It tak* s
an "artist* " to ilesign the "costume."
Whi a the balhi begin th* re will lx
•ome toilet* worth describing. Not
till then. •
A Trtck if tin- < lairwoant-.
, s. nt.i,. I It Ju\f.
In drawing out t!>*- facts of personal
<-r family lii*t*>ry, clairvoyant* do not
alwav • a-k ilirect *ju*-tioiis, but rath* r
make -tuU'inent- with a:i imjilied in
t* rr >gati<ui, to whi* h th* vi* tim,often
time- entirely un* in**. ioti*!y. re-jKiml
hy wor*l* or lo kor g'e-turc,or js-rhap
by all three; and, nt a Inter stage of
the interview-, th* -*- -■ *-r t fn*i- are
artfully given back to the victim, who
ha* no recollection *1 having previ
otislv imparted them, and will not be
lieve that be ha* done *<*. but jiret* rs
to In iitve that he i* in the pre** nee of
divinity.
It i- not only possible but easy for a
practical adept lo draw out in thi* way
minute ami elaborate details of secret
family history. A few years ago, while
connected with one of the jaiblic insti
tution* of this < iiy, I riiaoc a nutnber
of experitm nts in thi* line. I tohl the
patient* afHict**! with various form* of
rn-rvou* ami allied disorders not to tell
mc about tlnir symptoms, n*>r give uie
any facts in their ea<-*, but to l*-t me
tell them : and then I would proceed
t< indieat*', after the manner of a clair
voyant, the locality of their maladies,
ami the history of their trouble*. In
the majority of *•>< - I was successful,
iin*l innile out the diagnosis to tire sat
isfaction of those who sought my ad
vice, and with good reason, for nothing
that I could do prevented them from
telling me, although I a*k***l them no
pie-tion*; unintentionally and uncon
sciously, they would guide me at every
*fage of the interview. By n little
practice any otic could easily acquire
thi* art; ami long study, such a* pro
fessional clairvoyants l>tow upon thi*
subject, develops groat skill in thus
managing ami deluding the unwary
and non-export.
Kinperor William'* Men* on Iteligion.
At the, commemoration festival of a
religious society connected with the
Cathedral in Berlin the Kiuperor,after
the service ami ceremony were over,
sjMike to the following effect: "Ifthere
i anything capable of acting as a stay
to ux in the life nnd turmoil of the pres
ent time it i* the support alone to be
found in J-su Christ. I*rt not yoursel
ves, therefore, he misled, gentlemen, by
the tendencies prevailing in the world,
especially in our days, and do not join
a the great multitude who either leave
the Bibbs out of account, as the only
source of truth, or falsely interpret it
in their own sense. You all know,
gentlemen, that 1, of free and full con
viction, lulling to the jstsitive (not
positivist j union founded by my de
ceased father. The ground and nick
to which 1 ami nil of ua must cling is
tlie unadulterated faith as taught by
the Bible. There are many who do
not pursue the same path ; every one
does as lust he can, according to his
kuowledge and his conscience, shaping
in conformity therewith all his acts
and his ways. I esteem, honor ami
tolerate them, but whoever also wishes
to enter the society will always lie n'-
! reived with open arms. * * *
Each one can act as his conscience
dictates, hut all must, nevertheless.
; build oil thcgniund of the Bil4r and
the Gospel." It would appear that the
Emperor William jmssesses the spirit
of toleration which prompted the nem
of the Seven Years' War to inaugurate
his reign hv proclaiming that "every
one should get to heaven in his own
way."
WHAT did the young lady mean
when she said to her lover: " You
may be too late for the car, but you
can take a bus."
({tilt h wit Wilis.
front Til*# oi)Ntt< i
mm ago, into a wTiolcsale grocery
store in Boston, walked a tall, touscu
lar-looking man, evidently a fresh
coiner Iroui Mime liaekwtodx town in
.Maine or New Hampshire. Accost
ing the first jsc-on he met, who hap
|M netl to he the inerchiuit himself, he
aked :
"}<>u tlon't want to hire a man in
your store, do you?"
"Well," Mtiti the merchant, "I don't
know ; what can you do?"
"Jto?" said the man; "1 rather
gu*s J can turn my hand to aluce-t
anything —what do you want done?"
"Well, if I wan to hire a man, it
would be one that could lift well, a
strong, wiry fellow; one, lor instance,
that could shoulder u sack of coflbe
like tliat yonder, and carrv it across
the ft oor and never lay it down."
" 1 here, now, ('u|it'in," -ui<l the coun
tryman, "that's jnet me. I can lilt
anything I hitch to; you can't suit me
better. What will you give a man
that will suit vou ?"
"I'll tell you," paid the merchant.
It you will shoulder that raek of cof
fee ami carry it across the store twice
and never lay it down, I will hire you
a year at £lOO jier month."
"l>oii"-, i-aid the stranger,and by this
time every < lerk in the store had "gath
ered around and waited to join in the
laugh against the man, who, walking
Up to the sack, threw it across his
shoulder with jw rfcct eae, though ex
treiiif ly hwavv, and walking with it
twin aero-- the store, went quietly to
a large hook which was fastened to the
wall, and hanging it tip turned to the
mereliant and said :
"There, now, it may hang there till
d mi-day. I shall never lay it down.
W hat shall Igo about, mister? .lust
give me plenty to do and fl(Kt]*cr
month, and it's all right."
I lie clerks broke into a laugh, ami
the merchant, discomfit' 1 yet satisfied,
kejii his agreement, and to-day the
green countryman i* the senior part
ner of the firm, and i- worth a million
dollars.
Scolding.
K ohling is mostly a habit. Th< ro
i not much meaning to it. It is often
the result of nervousness, ami an irrit
able condition of both mind and body.
A person is tired, or annoyed at some
trivial < and forthwith commence*
finding fault with everything ami
i veryiwslv in reach.
Scolding is a habit very easily furrn
ed. It is astonishing how soon one who
indulges in it at all becomes addicted to
it am) confirmed in it. It is an unrea
soning and unreasonable habit- Per
-oiis who once get in the way of scold
ing always find something to scold
n I suit. It there was nothing else, they
would fall a scolding at the mere ab
sence of anything to scold at. It is an
extremely disagreeable habit. Tbeeon
stant rumbling of a distant thuuder,
catcrwaulingff, or a hand organ under
one's window, would be less uoplcas*
ant.
The habit is contageous. Once in
troduccd into a family, it is pretty cer
tain, in a hort time, to atfeet all the
member*. If one of them begin* al
ways finding fault about something, or
nothing, the other* are apt very soon
to take it up, and a very unnecessary
lied lam i* created.
People in the country more readily
fall into the habit of scolding than
|>eople in town. We suppose it is le
-<-ause they have less to occupy and di
vert their attention. Wonicu contract
the hahit more frequently than* men.
This may be Iwoausc they live more in
the hou*f, in n confined ami heated at
mosphere, very trying to the nervous
system ami the health in general; and
|it may be, partly, that their na
i turc* are more susceptible, and their
sensitiveness more easily wounded.
Women are sometimes called divine.
But we will say no more on this sub
ject. or some pretty creature may feel
inclined to scold us for what wc say
about scolding.
\ lirlght Hupp) 1 houtc lit.
The Hartford correspondent of the
Springfield Republican hay*:
That a>a bright thought of one of
the Batterson*, who, when employed
fonie year* since in an office in New-
York, was cent to prawnt a hill to a
shaky concern, with order* to collect
it at all hazard*. After much urging
the head of the debtor bouse gave him
a check for #lOO, the amount of the
hill. Hurrying to (he Imnk at which
it wo* paxable the lad presented the
cheek only to be told, "Not enough
fund* to meet it."
"How muck i* the account *hort?"
was the bov'i quick retort.
"Seven dollar*," said the teller.
It lacked but a minute or two of .1
o'clock, and the teller wa* alwmt to
cloee the door on the hoy, when the
latter mddenly pulled seven dollar*
from hi* own pocket, ami, pushing it
over with a dc|>o*it check, said:
"Put that to tin- credit of dt
C 0.." the parties who had given the
check.
The teller did so, when the lad at
once presented the check for llOtt,
and, drawing the full amount thereof,
went bark to his employer* in triumph.
But, a* be put it, **—— & Co., who
failed the vcrv neat day, were hopping
mad when they found they bad no
fund* in the batik."
■'
HATHKD it like fire—it make* even
i light rubbish deadly.