Crntrr fjjrowttat. BELLEFONTE, PA. The Largest, Cheapest and Best Paper I'UHLIHII Kll IN I'KNTIIK COUNT V. SptMH-h f Ex-Uovernor Hendricks ON TUB POLITICAL INMI'KS OF THE HAY. lIK DATES TilK rOI.ITICS OV THIS PERIOD FROM Tit F. CI.OSR OK TIIF. WAR, KX pie in 1878, as compared with 1*73, in the consumption of foreign goods, was about #200,000,000. During the same period the diligent industry of the people to increased our agricultural productions, and such was the condition of the foreign market, that our exfiorts for sale abroad in 187* were #172,369.139 more than in 1873, and in the year 1878 our exports of mer chandise exceeded our imjiorts by the sum of #257.796.964. It is a striking fact that io 1873. the year before the lemocratic House was chosen, our pur chases exceeded our sales abroad by #119.656,288, and that after three years of Democratic control of the House the figures were reversed, and as I have said the exports in the year 1878 ex ceeded the imports by #257,7%,964. The balances against us in 1873 marked the increase of our indebtedness and the figures of 1878 indicated its reduc lion. i>ur exports of merchandize during the ypars 1874, 1876, 1877 and 1878 ex reeded our imports in the sum of #5OB,- 1 449,236. lam not able to give accurate ly the excess for the present year, but I suppose it is safe to state it at #24(1,000,- IMMt. making #748,449,2-16 for the five named. In these statements I rely upon the tables prepared by Mr. -Sjiol- j ford, the Librarian of Congress. Mr. Sherman claims for himself the credit of resumption, and that tho poli cies of his party have given us assur ances of better times. What hail he or his party to do with resumption ? How have they contributed to a return of prosperity? In the winter of 1875 Mr. Sherman, as the representative of a par ty caucus, reported and urged the He sumption bill. It became a law by the vote of all the Kepublicans, and over the vote against it of all the Democrats in Congress. Who now claims for that measure that it facilitated resumption, % or in any degree alleviated the calami ties of hard times, or that its tendency was to place the business of the country u|ion a firmer and surer foundation ? • Is any man so credulous as to believe that resumption, permanent and relia ble, could rest upon borrowed gold ? "Public confidence and financial sta bility can not tie made to rest upon borrowed gold." When trade and com merce gave assurance that the supply of the precious metals was permanent and would constantly increase then confidence and the paper currency tpok its place by the side of gold and silver. You all now know that resumption has come of trade and commerce, the result of foreign balances in our fsvor, and not at all because of any Congres sional declaration or requirement. The resumption clause was properly de nounced by the .St. Louis Convention as I a hindrance to reiumption. It waa as well a hindrance to prosperity. It was a terror to capital, ana stood in the way of the employment of labor. Our money, paper and coin, is now of equal value and readily convertible, and we indulge the hope of better times in spite of the resumption law and of its kindred party device#. All along the pathway of that measure are strewn broken fortunes and ruined enterprises. I>o you believe our country needed to have been the scene of a financial and p commercial panic ? Our lands are rich, our iieople intelligent and industrious, and the world's markets have been open to our products. Yet the panic did -come, and its continued and terrible hold upon the country for the long peri od of five years, in spite of the great ef fort# of the people, showed Ihst ita causes were to be found down deen in bail public policies and in maladminis- (ration. Mr. Sherman tell* you tlTat prosperity is now coming anil that ho is its author. You anosing that economy on the part of the pcoplo reduced the pur chases abroad. It was not the dil gent labor of the people, the rich lands, the abundant rains in their season and the great crops that enabled us to supply the extraordinary foreign demand, such a demand indiod as we never know before. Mr. Sherman did it. It was his tears of sympathy over the sufferings of the people and not the rains fulling rnm the clouds that moistened the earth and caused it to yield so abund antly. Never was claim made so bold and brazen and yet so false. To him and his party wo reply : You squander ed the public money ;*you continued extravagant appropriations; you hin dered production by promoting the strileof sections and the hatred of races; you legislated for favorite interests anil against the people; and now, when the rigid economy and diligent industry of the people und propitous seasons and a favorable condition of the foreign mar ket combine to give us better times and to gladden us with the hope of return ing prosperity, you cannot claim merit orsupport. The equality and converti bility of our currency is in spite of the hindrance of the Hesumption law, and we cherish the hope of better times in spite of the evil influences of bad poli cies and maladministration. A Kopublican House demonetized j silver; a Democratic House restored it. The silver money now tlows into the channels of trade and commerce, and, like red blcod in the veins and arteries, gives life and strength. For a while there was the curse in the Federnl courts of juries organized (or partisan verdicts. That was through j tho law permitting the test oath. A Pemocratic Congress repealed the law and now the juries usay be of "good and true men." if these four leading and important acts do you condemn either? Would you again open the doors of the Treas ury to trumped-up war claims in favor of trumped-up loyalty? Would you drive honest economy out of our temple of legislation and restore extravagance and the waste of #10,(HK).OOO each year beyond* the needs of the public service ? , Would you degrade stiver again and de clare it no money? And would you again humiliate and degrade the juror, , compelling him to stand among his fel lows with stooped head as he takes the test oath? It you would not revere any one of these great acts I demand your approval, ami that in respect to them you say to the Democrats in <'ongre-s from both North and Sjulli, •'Well done." We wa..t tho troops taken and kept away from the poll". We want the elections to be free and fair and without the corrupt influence of deputy mar shals and supervisors. In the name of fair ploy we demand it. The Federal F.leelion laws were adopted as party machinery. They serve no good pur pose. Their only design is to keep the party in jiower. I said we demand that the troops be taken and kept from the polls. 1 would rather die with the ballot in my hand than that one of them should strike me with his sword. Let us be at luast as free as the subjects of ijueen Victoria. Popular rights have advanced slowly in England. but surely, and have never been pushed backward. So. when it was settled that the trooper should not lord the voter; should not strike him nor jostle him, nor even ftsnd in sight of him when voting, it was settled for ever. lo you justify the vetoes? The bills were carefully considered by Congress, and after great deliberation were passed. They involved no question of constitu tional jmwer on the part of Congress. For nearly one hundred years the elec tions had lo>en free from Federal super- j vision. It was not questioned that Congress had the power to repeal the offensive laws. It was a question of judgment and discretion, and that question Congress decided by the repeal. Such legislative discretion belongs to Congress and not to tho President. The veto power was given not to defeat and destroy, but to protect and pre serve ; to pre-erve the Constitution from invasion and to protect the rights and powers of the Executive from legislative encroachment. "It ia not a sword, but a shield." The men havo taught us this who made the Constitution. Coming in a* the present Executive did it would seem that he should wear the rol*w of office modpatly. He and his countrymen know that he was not elected. Full 300,000 majority of the . popular vote was against him, and a decided majority of the elector* duly i chosen. In hie promotion, by agents and agencies the most detestable, the - rights of the peoplo were defied and trampled under foot. Must that be | followed by the repeated defeat of the will of the people in the exercise of the | veto? On what side will you stand ? I 1 appesl to you to stand for free legisla tion and against such an abuse of a con ; -titutionnl power: to stand for free and j fair elections and against all party su- I pervision for corrupt ends. I* the time ever to come when the i disturbances and bloodshed in the South will be attributed to any other cause than political passion; the influ encea that produce crime in other localities exist to a like extent in that section. Ambition, avarice, jealousy, revenge drive men into crime everv- I where. Hut you assume that they do not exist as evil influences in the .South and that men are false and cruel only in political strife. 1 appeal to your own consciousness that you are a* good and true and honorable men then as ever, (.'rime should he denounced and pun ished whatever the circumstances, whether committed in the midst of po litical excitement or in stealth and se cret. I make no apology for it. Hut when it is attributed to Democratic principle or to Democratic organization I denonnce the falsehood of the accusa tion and the meanness of its author. The great and leading sentiment of Democracy is equality and justice, and crime cannot spring from such a source. If Dixon, of Yazoo City, was killed to prevent his candidacy for office, it was more than a local outrage. Hut if he and another candidate came Into a con troversy and the killing resulted with out such purpose, then the homicide belonged to the locality like anjr other conn of grevfl offence. Yet Northern prejudice hu* been applied to and exci ted about it as a political case. Hi* character, if correctly described, win not HUCII aa to excite a poraonal interest and sympathy on the part of good men anywhere. It in stated that he hud been the author of a number of deaths and killed one man from Indiana be cause of his political associations. If you will mnke a note of the crime com mitted in the North, as reported every morning in the enterprising newspapers, you will be shocked at their number and enormity. May I refer to one case? It occurred in your own State. It was reported in a special telegram to the Chicago Timet on the I.lth of this month. The town of Wcsterville is in the coun ty of Franklin, near by your capital. Henry Corbin kept a hotel and saloon in that town. His businesa as a saloon keeper was offensive to a class of parti sans quite numerous, 1 understand that be had the lawful right to prose cute his business under the laws ol the State. Hut they did not like the laws which gave him that right. On the night ot the 14lb of this month, while a number of persons were sleeping in the hotel, at a late hour, kegs ot pow der were placed in the cellar, nnd as is supposed, immediately under the room in which Corbin and his wile and three small children were sleeping. The now- j der was ignited by a luse leading lrom the steet. The explosion shook the entire village, destroyed the hotel and ! injured some of the parties, especially Corbin, badly. <'an you conceive a crime more stealthy, treacherous and | cruel? The purpose was to destroy an entire family, and the passion that j prompted it was hatred ot the liquor trallic and of the laws that permit it. The probable death of the innocent mother and the babe at her side and of j the two little boys sleeping in the i trundle bed was contemplated by the murderers with malignant pleasure. Now what think you of the "powder plot," of the stealthy steps and of the horrible explosion in the night time as compared w'th the Yazoo homicide? Hut shall Wcsterville be made a type and representative ol Northern society? Shall our civilization be brought into judgment by the j-owder plot and the humanity of our people bo brought into comparison with the cruelty of wretches J who would murder sleeping children ? Let us judge of one another tairly. Let us strengthen and not weaken the bonds that bold the people of the foil ed States together. My hope and prayer will be that our success in 18M) shall mean and signify the permanent restoration of fraternity) the preservation of our institutions, State and Federal, in accordance with the letter and spirit of the Constitution; no innovation*: obedience to the Con stitution and the enforcement of the laws; protection of all in the enjoyment j ot all constitutional and legal rights by the authority u|>on which the duty to protect is imposed; harmony between capital and labor, and the enactment of such laws as the protection of the rights of either may require; the abolition of the Coolie system from our country, o that no more f'binese bondmen shall be brought to cheapen and degrade lalsir; the will of '.he jienplc not to be defeat ed by the cxercue of the veto power in cases involving only judgment and discretion ; free and fair elections, and the inauguration of the man whom the people elect. ■ —♦— - - TilK (OHKI IT IjOHIIY, *XI> TIIK STTITXRT or TIIX KSPI BI ICSX rsarr TO HRIXSTZTB IT IS I-OWER. The Constitution of |ST3, adopted by the people of I'ennsylvaiiia by an over whelming majority, was intended to l>e a deathblow to the corrupt lobby which for many years had made legislation a matter of barter and sale at ilarrishurg. Half the abuses and wrongs have never been told. It demoralized the |>olitica and legislation of the State, ond i-las tered the Commonwealth over, from the Delaware to the ' >hio, with special privileges to a favored few, which were auctioned off to the highest bidders, to embarrass and oppress future genera tions. A regular trade in s|>ecial legis lation sprung up, and out of this grew the legislation lobby, mainly composed of leading and influential Republicans, for that party had control of the legis lature, and the F.xecutive. The lobby was a section of the Republican party. Hy the Constitution of 1873 si,ecial legislation was abolished, and the of fense of bribery by members of the legislature nnd the "corrupt solicita tion" of meniliers by the lobby, made a high olh-nse punishable by fine and im prisonment. The people deemed they had achieved a great victory and re , deemed the State from the obloquy which tested on it by these salutnrv re j forms. To a certain extent they had ? but at the session of the Legislature in 1876 a jiowerfel lobby invaded the State capital and attempted, by corrupt solic itation, to control a bill affecting the Susquehanna I loom Company. The House of Representatives at that time was Democratic, and as the attempt at corruption concerned its integrity, the Democratic Speaker of the House de manded a Committee of Investigation. It was granted, with Hon. Joseph Hays, democrat, of Allegheny county, na Chairman. Among ita members was Hon. Charles S. Wolfe, Republican, of Union county. This committee prose cuted its researches with unflagging energy and a determination to expose and punish the guilty. Evidence was accumulated which showed an organ ized movement to debauch the legisla ture. The committee reported in favor of the expulsion of two members, Pe trol!", Republican, and Lynott, demo crat, for bribery ami corruption, and they were expelled by a two-thirds ma jority of the memliers of the House. Lynott was allowed hy hia constituents to sink into obscurity, but the Republi cans of Philadelphia took up the case of PetrofTand re elected him to the Leg islature, The action of the democratic House in 1m76 illustrated the democratic method of disposing of legislative cor ruption. It was promptly exposed, and summarily punished, regardless of par ty affiliation. It waa a diaagreeable duty, but cleared the atmospheie and showed the people of the Stale that the anti bribery prohibitions of their new Constitution were not mere idle words, It was hailed as a great victory for hon esty irv politics and legislation, Let us look for a moment at the record the Republicans have made on this same vital question. It is not necessa ry to recapitulate the evidences of cor rupt solicitation at Ilarrishurg lost win ter to secure the passage of the Alle gheny county four million riot damage bill. They arc fresh in the memories of the people. A powerful lobby, acting under the direction of ex State Treas urer Kemble, a noted and influential Republican politician and the Pennsyl vania member of the National Republi can Committee, laid seige to the Legis lature, and organized a corrupt conspi racy to promote the passage of the bill by the use of money. Associated with Kemble were noted Republicans in ami out of the Legislature. The claim was put in for four millions of dollars, al tliougn the riot damages proposed to IKS made good did not exceed two millions and a half, leaving a clear profit to the lobby brigunds of a million ami a half ot dollars, to be taken from the public treasury at a time when the people were bravely struggling with the ruinous de pression of all business anil industries, following the panic of 187-1. Little cared the lobby thieves. The charges pr#l erred against Kemble and bis lobby forced the Republican House to take the matter up. A committee was raised, and after a searching investigation, re ported to the House evidence warrant ing the expulsion ol four members, and among the number the same Petrol! j who was expelled by the I>ernooralic House of I*7o for bribery. The evi dence against the members implicated was of the most positive character, and considered by fair men conclusive of their guilt. Rut the lobby was too pmvertul with the Republican House, and it refused to expel the corrupt nu-mbcrs. They hold seats in tip- House of Representatives today as law makers j t->r the honest people of Pennsylvania! And it i a fact of great importance, in view of the coming election for State j Treasurer, that Mr. Huller, of Chester county, the Republican candidate for 1 that office, as a member of tho House, ! voted against the expulsion of the members convicted of bribery, including Petrol!', who bad lieen expelled from ' the House jn 1876, and was therefore an old offender, deserving no considers- i tion or mercy. This illustrates the Republican meth od of dealing with tho criminals who seek to reestablish at Ilarrishurg, the ! rule of corruption and bribery that prevailed about the legislature prior to the adoption of the new <'-institution. The reason of this ootisidelation shown j the lobby is obvious. Its directors and members were leading and influential members of the Republican party. They controlled its action. We say nothing at this time aliout the criminal proceedings pending in the Ihuiphin county criminal court against Kemble and other Republican politician* for bribery and perjury, for it would be improper to discus* them in advance of judicial action. The trials, however, have be,-n put ofr until after the election. More itnfxirlant than anything stated above as to the dis|M>sition of the hern ocratie party to enforce and of the Re publican party to nullify the anti-cor ruption safe guards of the new consti tutfon, was the action of tho State ton vent ions of the two parties in July last. The corrupt practices at Ilarrishurg had fa-come matter of State notoriety and there was a loud call on the two con ventions to declare the honest senti ments of the people. The Democratic Convention, meeting one week before the Republican Con vention. adopted, without dissenting voice, this resolution declaring the jo -silion of the Democratic parly of the Commonwealth: Tmtk —That the rerent attempt, under the pe sonal direction of ruling Republi can leaders, to debauch the Legislature by wholesale bribery and corruption, and take from the Commonwealth four mil lions of dollar* for whi< h its liability had never been ascertained, is a fresh and alarming evidence of the aggressiveness of eorjsirate power in collusion with political rings, and should receive the signal con demnation of the |>eple at the full*. This is so plain that he who runs may read. There is no attempt to evade the issue. The Republican State Convention, one week later, was organized and con trolled by the lobbyists of the Four Million scheme, to stifle any expression on the subject. Mr. Kemble's counsel was Chairman of the Convention and directed its proceedings. Mr. Hooten, of Chester eounty, afterwards made chairman of the Republican State Com mittee bad adopted by the convention a resolution, since known as "Hooten's gag," taking away from the minority of the Committee on Resolutions the pow er to make a minority report—some thing unprecedented in the history of |>olitical conventions. All this was the machinery of the Kemble lobby, show ing its jvower. Representative, Wolfe of Union eounty. who was a member of the legislative Investigating Committee, was s deb-gate in the convention, and demanded the Republican party should speak out on the subject of last winter's corruption, and offered this resolution : Rrtolred, That In view of the develop menls of corrupt practices, In connection with the Riot bill of the last House, we, emphatically re-atfirm that part of the platform adopted by the lb-publican Htato Convention, nt Lancaster, in 1876, and which was adopted lV the Republican State Convention, at Ilarrishurg. in 1878, which demands "honest men in office—men with brains enough to know dishonesty when they sec it, and courage enough to fight it wheresoever they find it." This resolution met with a chilling reception. Mr. Kemble's lawyer in the chair refused to have it read, but being overruled in this by the pertinacity of Mr. Wolfe, who was hooted at nnd in sulted for his manly stand, sent it to the Committee on Resolutions, where it was suppressed hy the power of "Hoot en's gag." No allusion was made in the Republican platform to what was the engrossing subject with all intelligent citizens of the State. The Kemble lob by ruled the Convention, dictated the platform and nominated the candidate. All this unmistakably showa what we set out to make plain ; the position of the two parties in this State on the most important home question to be decided by tho election this fall— tho question of honesty or corruption as a controll- | ing power in legislation. Mr. Hutler is I the representative of the lobby and of a convention notoriously under its con trol. Mr. Harr,the Democratic candi date, stands on the Democratic plat form, which denounces the lobby, re pudiates its jobs, and calls for the pun ishment of those furthering them by tho arts of corrupt solicitation. Mrs. Fremont's Disco*cry. From ttiif Now York Hun. How many matrons and maidens are there between Madison Square and the Park who feel a generous discontent with their lives and a desire to shape them to better and wider uses? They have more money and more time than they well know what to do with. They have had the best teachers and read the best hooks. They have had the more stimulating education of travel. They : peer out from the windows of their drawing rooms into the abysses of igno rance, want and crime that yawn around them on every side, and they feel a de sire, more or less clearly defined and urgent, to let their light shine into that outer darkness. They have no Ilostoii ian yearnings for a Mission with a capi tal M ; but they are pursued by a sus picion that beyond the taimliar routine of church and Sunday-school and alms giving lie untrodden paths of usefulness, if they could only find them. We do not know how many such matrons and maidens there arc in New York, but we arc sure there are more of them than is generally suspected. John C. Fremont used to be called the Pathfinder, and a proud title it wa*. Apparently bis wife, the Jessie , llcnton of old days, has turned path finder, too, though in a different field of exploration. The other evening the J'oit printed an extract from one of ber letters to a friend in the Last. She found in her n'-w Ar.zona home a his tory class of big boys and girls, the ; children of poor parents, who had to work out of hour* in order to get the 1 time to ottend school. She was so p!ea*ed with their look* and pluck that she volunteered to help teach them. **he writes : "It was a great pleasure to me to find that 1 could add to the knowledge of these young people, that I could make real and human to them names and personage*, that I could link together one event and one personality after another, until history la-came not a dry mas* of names and dates and isolated events, but a connected and yet bioad ening stream of human effort. I can not, of course, begin to tell you all 1 said to thcui, but the thirty two history talks I gave my Arizona flock of schol ars. each Friday of the term after I joined tbern, were a panorama of hitory a* mv father bad taught ine to know it. as 1 bad realize*! it in many a *|>ot of classic ground in Kuro|>e, a* reading bad enriched it with personal fa-long ings and lights, and as I had seen it made both in France and in our own great trial time. For this, when they would thank me, I would tall them to thank my father. I acquired last winter a practical insight into the vast and spreading influence of the spoken word on receptive and willing young mind*. I have never done any one thing that gave me so much oonts-nl in the doing and the remembrance." What Mrs. Fremont ho* done in Ari zona other women have done much nearer home. We have now in tnind one such case in a New Lngland town barely a hundred miles from New York; and the high school itself would not be more missed in that town than the quiet little ladv who for years has gath ered its lads and lasses into her parlors and inoculated tbern with her own love for the le*t bonk*, and for the study of the wonderful and beautiful world around them. Where is there a better field for this sort of work than New York ? —————♦ Table of Filiation* In I'ennsyhania. . The Village Record clipped an item from the ledger to the effect that Pot ter eounty had "the highest land east of the Kockv Mountains." And the Jjtdgcr took the Reread to task in a vig orous denial. For the Wnefit of both journals we desire to state that Klk Hill, a short distance from Carbondale, attains to the highest altitude above the sea level in I'ennsylvania.— Rcranlon Republican. We have not been out with our tape line to measure these elevations per sonally, but we have culled the follow ing altitudes from the table of eleva tion found in the report of the Oeolog i -al survey of Pennsylvania; Pnmmft **iUi of WalMvw, noatiij, ... f| l|Rl 4 lVn Hun. Vlrwlfr>l en sunt jr. ...... A>4l ft, (irfklv nt i 4 fnnnl, * ml If* form* *anint east of the Missis sippi river is Sit. Huekley, North Car olina, 6775 feet. In Potter county is found one of the most remarkable water sheds in the world. Streams flow toward the flulf or Mexico, toward tho St. loawrence, and toward the Ches apeake. All have their sources within a very small area. A knowledge of this fact conveys to some minds the errone ous impression that the highest land east of the Mississippi ntusf necessarily be found here.— Seitard (W dovrnaL I>t OITHSIS once said; "Whiskey is food in its own place. There is noth ing like whiskey in tbia world for pre serving a man when he la deed. But it is one of the worst things in the world for preserving a man when he to living. If you want to keep a deed man nut him In whiskey; if you want to kill a living man, put whiskey info him." Edison'* lllwdviTf. Cf'tti tin (li.irl'/tt<- OUnfifr. Mr. Kdison's agent, Mr. W. K. Hid den, who baa boan in Wnilm North • irollnn for several week* in search of the mineral platinum for ue in Edison's eleetrtc light, arrival in the city yester day. lie baa visited twenty-nine place* in Kurke, Mc Howell, Iredell, Hun corn be, Henderson and other western counties in which the metal issup|>o*ed to exist, Hnd ha* thu* far met with no succeas. lie left la*t night for Abbeville county, H. C., where It i* represented in the newspapers that the metal ha* been fourj'i in appreciable quantities. lie ha* found two metal*, zircon and am ar*kite, in considerable.quantitie*, both of which can be u*ed with great advan tage by Mr. Edison. The former j>o*- *ecae* the peculiar quality of infunbility in the electric light, which may be of the highest importance to the famoua inventor. The latter i* a combination of many sub*lancet, of which compara tively little i* known, and any one of which may al*o prove valuable, (>en. 'lingman ha* a large mine of the form er. Mr. Jlidilen alo discovered a min eral, anaataae, which km not hitherto known to exist in this State, and anoth er which in entirely unknown to the scientific world. He remarked in the course of the conversation that North Carolina wan absolutely the bent field for minerals in the world ; that no where is there anything like the variety which she furnishes, and, as a rule, they are by far the most perfect sj-eci mcn* known. ♦ Helling the Jewel*. Krom All tb- Y*tf The l'laiitagenets were very rough and ready financier*. When Kit-hard I. took it into hi" head to try conclusions with Saladin, he raised the needful by turning the crown manor* and the for tres-es of Koxburg and Her wick into hind cah, selling ollice* of trust to tho best bidders, ami did not hesitate to avow that he would di|oe of lx>ndon itself if a purchaser were forthcoming. Strangely enough, 00-ur d Lion never . seems to have thought of doing tb* same by his crown jewel*. Henry 111. km the firt Knglish monarch who haul recourse to that undignified expedient. The idea, indeed, did not originate with him; for it i* recorded that when some person or [MTson* unknown suggested the replenishing of the royal coder* by selling the crown plate and jewelry, the king hinted a doubt a* to the likelihood of finding purchaser*, and being assured that the rili/ens of Ivondon would glad ly accommodate him, Henry exclaimed : '< n my word, if the treasury of Augus tus were brought to sale, the citizens are able to be the purchasers. Them* clowns, who assume to themselves tho name of baron*, alwmnd in everything. . while we are reduced to necessities.'' i Notwithstanding hi* indignation, Hen ry, like other men in hi* predicament, was willing enough to de al with the full pursed ones he abused, and so, in I'Jls, 1 lie sold the citliens of Ixmdon all tho plate and jewelry he had not already mortgager! to the merchant* of France. - The relief afforded w-ifl. however, only a temporary one, for seven years later we find him demanding *,(KJO marks of the Jews, and answering their remon strance against the exaction by pleading that he was a beggar. Joiled and strip , |ed of all his revenue*, without a farth ing wherewith to keep himself, and ' therefore must have money from any hand and by any mean*. tlr-Tastcr. A curious survival of an old-time in -titution exists in some remote place* IN | Kngland. viz., the official ale-tasier. I The ale-taster take* an oath to "try, ta*te, and assize the beer and ale put on i sale - ' in his district "whether the same i l>e wholesome for man's body." The I old ale taster's method of "analyzing'' l>oer for the purpose of delecting tho .addition of sugar to the liquor was I rather primitive. Like most men in those times, he wore leather breeches, and, when he went to test the ale for the presence of sugar, a pint of fluid was spilt on a well cleaned tiench, and the taster sat upon it till it dried. If, on ! rising, the seat of the brc-eche* stuck to j the bench, then sugar was present, but j if not, the beer was pure. Psortws 11 exi. it, speaking of the high pressure or "cramming" system in the schools, say* that the children so taught are "conceited all the forenoon ' a! life and stupid all its afternoon," and also that "their faculties are worn 1 out by the strain put upon their callow brains, and they are demoralized by j worthless childish triumphs before tho real work of life begins. 1 have no compassion for sloth, hut youth has more need for intellectual rest than age, and the cheerfulness, the tenacity of purpose, the power of work which make many a successful man what he is, must often bo placed to credit, not of his hours of industry, but to that of his houts of idleness in boyhood." Tnoruo only five monthi old, and a a wee bit of numanitw at that, Linio Allen, of Haltimorc, has gained fanio twice since she was born. The little lady was in her mother's arms not long ago when, by the explosion of a kero sene lamp, the mother was burne,? to death. Again, on Saturday, lewis K. Allen, her father, appeared before Judgn Hrown, in the t'ourt of Common Dense, and prayed for a writ of habeas corpua to require one John Itrooks to surren der little Lizzie. Strange as it may ap pear, Brooks recently seised the baby, and has since been holding her in se curity for a debt of fifteen dollars which Allen owe* him. + ... . ■ ■ i. Tn origin of some of the old blue blooded Washington families might bo iraced to the ninety imported young Knglish women sold in the colony of Virginia in 1619. atone hundred pounds of tobacco apiece. The 'breed has. in some instance*, become so deteriorates!, however, in thi century that plenty can be found who are not worth a chow of tobacco a dozen. KKOW well your incomings, and your outgoing* may tQ better regulated.' W can never die too early for otheig | when we live only for ourselves.