EJje Ccutrr §mnmt bellefomte, pa. — ; • •' l .l •" • I The Lr(Mt,CliMpminnd Beat Paper PUBLISHED IN CKNTHK COUNTY. FliPM* I'AGK TO SENATOR. INCIDENTS IN TIIK I.IFE OP MR. ARTHUR p. UORMAN, M ARVI.AND's NEW SEN A TORI At. NOMINEE. Prom Otr Baltlnwr* Ara<rlciin, January 9. Arthur I*. Gorman was nominated by the Democratic legislative caucus, ai Annapolis last evening to succeed William Pinkney Whvte as United Scates Senator from Maryland. In going to the United States Senate Mr. Gorman will have the triumph of re turning to that august body as a mem ber which he once served ns a page, a thing which never occurred before in the history of the Senate. He was born iu Howard county —which he now represents in the State Senate— March 11, 1839. He does not Iwlong to any one of the old Mnyland fami lies, for it was not till the year 1800 that his grandfather, John Gorman, came from Ireland to America, settling first in Pennsylvania, near llarrisburg, hut afterwards removing to Baltimore. f)n his mother's side he is decended from the family of Samuel Brown, of English blood, who settled in this country before the Revolution, and took part iu that war. Mr. Gorman's lather, l'eter Gorman, was a farmer and a large contractor on the Balti more and Ohio Railroad when it was building; was, moreover, an active politician and had a large acquain tance with public men. The Senator elect when a boy enjoyed only such educational advantages as the public schools of Howard County can sup ply, and at the early age of thirteen he was appointed a page in the Senate through the influence of Judge Ed ward Hammond, then a member of the House of Representatives. The vvuth was bright, active and obliging, and attracted the notice of Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, who eventually made him his secretary and confiden tial friend. Young Gorman lived in the great Senator's house and accom panied him on all his electioneering tours, including the famous stumping tour against Lincoln when they were contesting the Illinois Senator-ship. Mr. Gorman was familiar with all the political intrigues of that day ; his reminiscence* of the secret history of the split between Douglas and Breck inridge would make au interesting contribution to the history of national politics. At the outbreak of the war .Sir. Gorman wavered a little and it is stated that he once went to Jefferson Davis and asked him his oni ion of what he ought to do. "Follow your State," said the recess ion is t leader, and fw he did. When the firing on Fort Sunipter took place lie, like Douglas's followers generally, supported the for cible suppression of the rebellion. He remained in the service of the Seuate, advancing from one post to another, until he held the position of Post master. When President Johnson broke with the Republican party he followed his lead and made himself so active in opposing the impeachment that the majority of the Senate dis missed him from his office. Reverdy Johnson, Thomas A. Hendricks aud other Democratic members of the Sen ate together with Montgomery Blair, procured from President Johnson Gorman's appointment as Collector of Internal Revenue of the Fifth District, which comprises Southern Maryland. It was a very difficult collection dis trict, but Mr. Gorman addressed him self to its duties with such energy and ability that he cleared away its ar rearages, and in less than six months after he left the office his accounts were closed up, which was the first time such a thing had been done in the history of that collection district He held the office until April, 1809, when he resigned it to his successor, appointed by < ieneral Grant, and re turned to his farm in Howard county. He had previously been active in the politics of his section, ami in the full of 1899 he was elected to the House of Delegates. He was just thirty at that time, and belonged to the Hamil ton wing of that party, which had been defeated by Bowie in the struggle over the Governorship two years before. When the Legislature met in 1870 General lat note, our present Mayor, was elected Speaker, and Gorman found himself shelved when the Com mittee on Appropriations was made. Although indifferent to display, and never indulging in rhetorical effects, he made himself a reputation as a quick-witted parliamentarian and a shrewd and energetic worker. He was active in the party contests of 1871, when Mr Whyte was a candi date for the Gubernatorial nomination, *upportcd by Mr. Hamilton, who was then iu the United States Senate. Mr. Gorman participated in the canvass as & lieutenant of Hamilton's and his ability as a political tactician was strikingly displayed. He was elected Hpeaker of the liouse of Delegates in 1872, and made the reputation of being the best parliamentarian who has oc cupied that chair within modern mem ory. During the session he made himself prominent in advocacy of a liberal appropriation for colored schools, leaving the chair to take the floor in support of an appropriation. When Whyte took his scat as Gover nor he appointed Mr. Gorman Presi dent of the Chesapeake and Ohio ('anal. Mr. James C. Clark, who was President under Bowie's administra tion, hud received 810,(MM) per annum ; hut Mr. Gorman accepted 81,000. The change was the subject of a great deal of udverse comment, as Mr. Clark's reputation for executive abili ty was very high aud Mr. Gormuu was looked upon merely as a politi ciau. Mr. Gorman hud previously served as a director, having been ap pointed in 1809. AX ENGLISH ALMANAC. * ROME PLEASANT QOSSIP ABOUT THEIR CURI OUS CONTENTS AND lIISTORV. Frum tin- MniiclicutiT Oimnliitn. At a recent meeting of the Literary Club Mr. Abel Hoy wood, Jr., read a paper on "English Almanacs during the Second Stuart and Revolutionary Periods." During this time the issue of these ephemcrides was statutarily monopolized by the Stationers' Com pany ami by the University of Cam bridge. When the almanacs of Vin cent Wing sold ">O,OOO the Stationers' Com puny "esteemed it hut a year of indifferent sale." According to Wing's horoscope he ought to have committed suicide, but lie slid not do so. Gad bury gets out of this awkward non fulfillment of prophecy by suggesting that Wing kill himself by over-study. Wing, Booker aud Gadbury were the most famous astrologers of the |>eriod, and cu'tivated astronomy only to make sure the uncertainties bequeath ed to them by the old masters of the astrological art. Their apparently undouhtiug faith is very striking ; if they fail the fault is theirs and not the stars, but their halting words and am biguity left abundant room for those of a different class who preyed tin the credulity of the people. Mr. Heywood referred to the consternation caused by the eclipse of 1952, when scarce any one would work or stir out of the house Even John Evelyn was not exempt from the weakness which looked to the skit* for signs aud por tents of social troubles and uational disaster. In 19*9 Gadbury prophesied the birth of a Prince of Wales, ana on June 10, 1988, there came that scion of royalty who was afterwards the Old Pretender. There was a strong, though unfounded, belief that this child was not the son of James 11. but had been smuggled iuto the (Queen's bed-cham ber iu a warming pan. While Gad bury was crowing over the astrological skill which had enabled him to fore tell the advent of the royal stranger, the coming over of William of Orange put an end to the importance of the infant Prince, and led John Partridge, a rival almanac maker, to print a rough satire on John Gadbury. The pretty quarrel between the two astrolo gers was kept up with great spirit, "miscreant," "libeller," "wretch, "vi per," "saucy rebel," "monstrous liar," ami even stronger adjectives being used. Gadbury's almauae for 1700 for the first time contains a note on the difference- between the English hap year, then governed by the Julian system, aul that of foreign countries where the Gregorian calender was in use. Iu 1939 William Andrews says that notice was given him by his su pervisors to forbear astrological pre diction. Who his supervisors were is not clear, but they relented. The statement shows, however, that there was some dislike to the "prophecies in some quarters. Richard launders states that the doleful plague following two comets killed 98,596 people, besides a number of Quakers never brought into the bill. An honest goldsmith named Snow compounded with his creditors iu 1652, and in 1660 invited them to come in and be paid the re mainder of their money. This is con sidered to be worthy to lie placed in the table of remarkable events, a* it might possibly still be. An pal Almanac" appeared in 1974. The "Yea and Nay Almanac'' and "Poor Robin's Almanac," both published by the Company of Htatiouers, poked fun at the prophetical calendars owned by the same wealthy corporation. The "Yea and Nay" was intended as a scoff at the Quakers. In the chronol ogy occurs this reference to the steno graphy : "J. H. weut throe miles to take in shorthand the speech of a brother at a silent meeting." This is one of the most brilliant flashes in the book. If there be but little wit there is a great deal of filth and indecency in this and in "Poor Robin." " The Weaver's Almanac" gives information on many subjects, hut nothing on weaving. The almanacs of this period show a gradual decay of the supersti tious to be found in the early calen dars, and they also show a knowledge of certain natural phenomena which is passing awav. Who would ever think the sundial was ever used to tell time by in the night? The table showiug how to do it is in ninny of the Stuart almanacs. Who cares now for the riding of the Pleimleu or the southing of the moon ? These things were fa miliar even to the clown two centuries ago. As Emerson has said, " The civilized man has got a fine Geneva watch, but has lost the skiU to tell the hour by the suu." This is a distinct loss, for there is ns much joy in look ing out for the first advent of Sinus in autumn as in finding the first primrose in spring. Mr. Ileywood concluded bv extracts from some of the adver tisement* found in these early alman acs. One was that of a woman who in 1697 undertook to cure crooked and bump-backed children by setting them once a month in a "mathemat ical chair." AMERICAN CENSUSES. As soon as our Revolutionary War broke out Congress stood greatly iu need of a correct census in order to draft, soldiers equitably aiql tax for the support of the war correctly. In the chaotic stnte of society, however, the enemy occupying much of the country, no correct census was tuken and an abitrnry basis was adopted. In 1783 a debate broke out on this question in Congress, and when the Constitution went into operation it contuiucd the principle of the census as the very basis of our Government in tbe following words: "Representa tives and direct taxes shall be appor tioned among the several States which may be included within this Union according to their respective numbers, to be determined by certain prescribed principles." A census was ordered to lie taken within three years after the first meeting of Congress of tbe I'uited States, and within each subsequent terui of ten years, to be specified by law. The first census was lx-gun to be taken on tbe first Monday in August, 1790, and dosed iu nine months, and within fifteen mouths after it began the I'resident was to lay before Con gress tbe tables and results. The sec ond census was taken by tbe Marshals of the Districts and the Secretaries of the Territories. In the third census of 1810, manufacturers were ordered to lie included in the returns. Iu 1820 agriculture and commerce were in eluded. In 1830 the blind, deaf and dumb, unnaturalized, Ac., were to be reported. In 1840 twenty thousand copies of the census were printed and bound. In 1830 the Secretary of the Interior was put in charge of the cen sus, instead of the Secretary of State ; at the same time the Postiuasler-Geu eral, the Attorney-General and Secre tary of State had charge of the tables, as a sort of a Returning Hoard. The subsequent statutes pertaining to the census show the deep interest taken by Americans in the measure, and the re ports of the population of the United States have a material influence in sustaining our moral strength through out the world. America has realized the saying of Montesquieu that "there is uotliiug so powerful as a Republic where the laws are observed, not so much through fear or reason, but from attachment to them, for in such a case there is united to the wisdom of a good Government the concentrated power of the people." OUR GROWTH. Some remarkable figures were print ed in tbe census of 1860, tuken by Mr. |J.C. G. Kennedy. This gentleman is I the grandson of Andrew Fllicott, who | drew the lioundnrv lines of Pennsyl vania aud New York and all of the Southern Territory as divided from Spanish Florida. He was also Secre tary of tbe Office of Pennsylva nia. He laid out the towns in West ern Pennsylvania, along the Allegheny ' River, and Dr. Kennedy residing ut i Meadville, married his daughter there. I Meantime his brother, Joseph Fllicott, i was surveying all the laud in Western : New York, where he owned a princi | j oil i ty. Dr. Kennedy's son is a man : of extensive reading. He relates that in 1798 the value of all property in the United States was ' under 848t1,000,000, and as late as 18()7 the improved land.- in the whole country, including pastures, was under <4,<HM),OOO acres. By I*7o we had 183,000,000 improves! arris, of a value of nearly 8<•,70< 1,0(81,000. The pro duct of our manufactories in I*lo was under 8200,000,000, while in I*oo it was $2,000,000,000. There wa- but oue bank in America previous to 1775, the land bank of Massachusetts, estab lished in 1740, and soon wiped out by the British Parliament. When our Government went into existence in 1789 there were only three banks, the Hank of New York, the Hank of North America, at Philadelphia, and the Bank of Massachusetts. Their aggregate capital wa- 82,000,000 In I*2l we had 88 banks, with a capital of $'23,000,000; iu 1830, 330 banks, with $145,000,000 capital ; in 1800, 1,562 banks, with a capital of $421,- 000,000. At the close of the civil war there were 1,001 National Hanks, two-thirds of which had liecn con verter! from old Htate institutions. The oldest insurance office in Arncr ea was established iu 1724, add anoth er was opened in 1750 in Philadelphia. At this time there is nsinglu Insurance Company with assets amounting to 8100,000,000. The first canal in America was be tween Boston and Concord, twenty seven miles long, and cost $350,000. It was finished in 1789. In 1860 we had 5,204 miles of canal, which had cost 8150,000,000, most of it in disuse. When our Constitution went into operation we had but 277,000 dwell ings in the country, and the total val uation was 812,000,000. Wc had hut ten colleges before the Revolutionary War, and every one of them was in existence at the outbreak of the civil war in 1861. Free and common schools existed in New England and Pennsylvania long prior to the Reso lution, and when the Constitution went into operation we had twenty-one col leges. There were thirty-seven news papers in the Colonies in 1775, and in 1880,4,001 newspapers with an annual circulation of one thousand million copies. IT is not what you have in yonr chest, but what you have in your heart, that makes you rich. An Ohio Idea of the .Maine ('use. SOME KNOTTV AND PECULIAR POINTS UK CIDED IN AN EARLY ELECTION DISI-UTK. From lli<- Cincinnati Enquirer. ilie opinion of the Huprcme .Judicial Court of Maine, in answer to the ques tions submitted to Governor Garcelon, was under discussion, and Grand father Lickshingle narrated the fol lowing reminiscence: "Along in the early part of 1700, the your I cast my first vote, we bad jes' Beeh another squabble over the couutiu' uv ballots at a town elec tion. The .ledges of Flection counted llie votes accordiu' to the dictates uv their consciences an' the requirements of the Constitution uv the U. 8. The defeated party, however, squealed like stuck pigs, cried for 'Flood, Yeargo, blood!' an' run aroun' with pistols in their ban's an' butcher knives in their teeth. "The disputed ipiestions wuz fiuerly submitted to a Hoard uv Justices uv the Peace fer settlement. The ques tions uv the Jedges an' the answers given by the Hoard wuz, Viz., to w it: "'Question 1. When it is fouu'that a double han'ful uv tiekcts have lceu deposited in u lump in the ballot-box, is it not the duty uv the .Jedges uv election to throw out the tickets so de posited, and if so, how mauy?' "'Answer. The Jedges uv Flection air to count the votes as they fin' them (Jones vs. Mulligrub, 750) au' ast no questions. That is what they air paid fer. The returns uir not to be stran gled by idle technicalities, nor is their meauin' to be distorted by carpiu's an' captious criticism. D'ye hear that!' "'Question 2. If a Jedge of Flec tion is detected in the act of chcwin' up all the ballots offered for certain candidates and is occasionally observed t<> cram into the box a han'ful uv tickets which he takes from his coat tail |M>cket, should the remainin' Jedges and lusjiectora uv Flection count the votes so deposited as if all wuz squar' an' proper, an' make no estimate uv the number chawed up?' "'Answer. It is the unanimous opin ion uv the Hoard uv Justices of the Peace that jedges hev no color or right to refuse to count and make return uv all tickets found iu the ballot-box. If any persou or persons want to jeopar dize their health by chew-in' up great wads uv paper (the very beasts uv the field know-in* that paper contains arse nic an' prussic acid ), that's their own atfair. i'his is a Government of the people, by the people an' for the peo ple, an, if administered in the spirit of its founders it shall not |>crish from the earth. Put that iu your pipe an' smoke it.' "'Question 3. If a man livin' in another Htate, au' not a citizen of tbe United States, attempts to vote an' is refused, an' he then retires, loads a double-barrel shot-gun with tickets and takin' deadly aim, iires them into the ballot-box, is it tbe duty uv the jedges to count said votes, an' if so, how ninny?' "'Answer. This question is fully answered in the reply to Question No. 2. The jedges uv election hev no right under heaven to inquire how or by whom certain ballots nev been de posited in tbe box. Their duty, as laid down in the statutes, is to count the votes (25 Kalamazoo, 47 3-10), an' forever after hold their peace. You might as well attempt to daru up the waters uv the Nile with bullrushes as to fetter the step uv freedom, more proud an' glorious than the tread uv a war-horse at a county fair.'" "Then the action of the judges was not sustained by the board ?" suggest ed one. "Not to an extent to create enthu siasm in their ranks," replied grand father. "On the contrary, they cloth ed their brows with thunder an' swore tjiat the next time they submitted n political dispute to a commission of the opposite party they hoped to be diddledy dog-nablx-d to thunder nil lightnin'." "What happened to the Hoard of Justices of the Peace?" "They moved with their families up into Maine," said grandfather, with a sigh, "an' the hill caboodle uv them wuz placed on the Supreme Hetich uv the State." Mr. Tilden In Favor of Heating (Irant. Fran th Nmr fork Sun. Mr. Tildeu does not hesitate always. He has very positive convictions about the dauger of a third term. He spoke like a patriot when he said : "It is the duty of every sincere lover of Repub lican institutions to do his utmost to prevent the re-election of Gen. Grant For my part," he continued, "I will do every thing I can to secure the elec tion of the man who may be agreed upon by tbe opponents of the third term conspiracy as the best candidate to unite tne conservative elements of all parties. If a third term can be conferred upou Grant, a fourth and fifth will be. In short, Grant's instal ment into the White House means the Kmpire." "Now isn't he an angel," said the fond mother, as she seated ,he little fellow iu his high chair at the table for the first time. "A sort of destroy ing angel," remarked the cynical father, as he saw the five dollar castor go spinning to the floor with a crash. AN apology: "But, Freddy, how could you ever think of calling aunty stupid ? Immediately go to her and tell her that you are sorry." Fred erick goes to auuty and says : "Aunty, I am sarry that you are stupid." A California Romance* lIOW MAN AND MIKE VET AETEK TWENTT VKAR*' HEI'ARATION. From Urn Yd I fry Clirutilcl#, HO. One of those strange episodes in lininan life which makes us sometimes wonder at "the eternal fitness of things," occurred last night at the Vallejo junction. The tide being low on the arrival of the Contra Costa, passen gers for Vallejo ere corn polled to make quite a descent from the wharf to the boat, and the ladies required the assistance of the gentlemen pres ent. A Mr. G., a grain speculator, was doing the agreeable in this re spect, and one of the last ladies to de scend was overburdened with a tew bundles, which ho took charge of, and accompanied the lady to the cabin, where they sat and engaged in con versation. The subject finally touch ed upon the nativity of each, when it was found they were both from the same towu in Kentucky. This fact made each more communicative, when he inquired her name, which was given as Mrs. G. Immediately the gentle man grew pale and excited, and asked : "You hud a daughter, did vou not?" "I did," she responded. "Pray, how did you know that?" • "Is that daughter living?" ".She is, and at present on a visit to friends at Vallejo, where I am now going." "Merciful heavens!" he gasped. "My child!" "Sir," said the lady, risiug; "what do you mean ?" "Mean?" hecrazilyreplied. "Mean? Why, I mean that that (laughter is my own child amj you are my wife ?" Almost overpowered at this confes sion she plied him with questions, to every one of which he returned a cor rect answer, when she was convinced that the man was really her hnsband, from whom she had been separated twenty years. It seems the twain were married at Paris, Ky., in 1858, and thirteen mouths afterward he went to Liverpool on business. The vessel on which he took passage was wrecked and all on board were sup posed to have perished. The news coming to the young wife's ears, she was utterly prostrated and was ordered to California by her physicians. Ar riving here she took up her resilience in Los Angeles. The husband was picked up from the wreck by a fi-hing smack and taken to some remote for eign port, where he was thrown upon a bed of sickness, which lasted some fill ecu mouths. In the meantime he had written repeatedly to his wife, but received noauswer. In his despair he coucluded to risk a journey across the Atlantic. Feeble as he was he ship ped before the maston a sailing vessel, j and in due time arrived in New York. I From there he wrote three times to his wife, but received no answer. Al most frenzied at the thought that she might be dead, nml being without | funds and no friends, he "faced" his | fare clear to Kentucky, and short llv after arrived at Paris. Inquiries i throughout the town assurred him that his wife had disappeared a year or so before, and no one knew whither. Some said she had gone iu search of her husband, others that she might be dead, and others that she had gone to I California. He sought the old family i physician, but he had left the town some time before. Mr. G. then went to work at Louisville and made enough to bring him to California a year after his arrival in Kentucky. He searched everywhere after his absent wife, but without success and finally gave her up as dead, and she also had mourned for his death. Neither, however, had married again, and lost evening on board the Contra Costa was the first intimation either had that the other was in existence. The now happy couple arrived here last night, ami to the surprise of the friends of the lady she introduced her husbaud, from wltoiu she had been separated twenty years, llut imagine his unutterable surprise and joy when the mother led into the parlor a beau tiful young lady, his own daughter, whom he had not seen since she was a balie. Father, mother and child will leave to-morrow for San Francisco, where Mr. G., who is now a compara tively wealthy man ha his business and where they will hereafter reside. Scientific Snow Forts. Fmm St. Nicholas for Janaar) . There is no sport among winter games more exciting and amusing than snow-ball warfare. All the boys must join in building the fort, select ing the highest point of the play grounds, or, if the grounds are level, the corner of a wall or fence. Sup posing the top of * mound has been selected a- the place where the works are to be built, the first thing to do is to make out the plan of the founda tions. The dimensions depend upon the number of boys. A circle, twelve feet in diameter, or a square with sides of ten feet, will kv-vutumodate a com pauy of ten boys. It is better to have the fort too small than too large. The chief engineer must set his men at work rolling large snow-balls, the smaller bovs can commence and the larger ones take them in hand when the halls have gained in siie and be come too heavy tor th younger boys. Make thotc balls of snow as large aud dense as possible, then roll them in place upon the lines traced out for the foundation. We will suppose it to lie a square. In this owe care must be takeu to have the corners of the square opposite the most probable approach of the enemy. Thin will leave the smallest point possible exposed to the utlack, and the imitate# of < an, without crowding each other, take good aim at the foe. After the four sides of the square have been covered ly large snow-balls all hand# must pack the snow about the bottom and fill up each crack and crevice, until a solid wall is formed. Then with spades and shovels the walls should lie trimmed down to a perpendicular ort the inside, but slanting upon tho outside. The top of the wall may bo two feet broad and the base four feet. When the wall is finished, prejsire a mound of snow iu the centre of tho square for the flagstaff This mound will be very useful as a reserve supply in ease the ammunition gives out, A * quantity of snow-balls should next bo piled np, inside the walls, at the four corners. This done the fort is ready for its defenders. Why They ure Noli*!. Fr<ri tl< !'hll(trf'-)j<hi#t R< orJ. in ixplaning to a correspondent, re cently, why the Southern States are solidly Democratic, and why the color line is uot that of party demarcation, the two or three Slates wherein tho colored population outnumbers tho white were prominently in mind. Tho census report# of 1870 divided tho colored and white population as fol lows : White. Colored. /.rkansas 302,115 122,109 fMaware 102,221 22,794 Florida 96,057 91,089 Georgia 638,920 545.142 Kentucky 1,008,002 222,210 Maryland 005,497 175,391 Missouri 1,003,140 11 #,071 North Carolina 078,470 391,050 Tennessee 936,119 322,331 Texas 504,700 258,475 ; Virginia 712,089 512,841 West Virginia 424.033 17,980 ; Louisiana 302,005 304,210 Mississippi 382,890 444,201 South Carolina 289,007 415,814 Total 8,866,093 4,019,968 It will be observed that the whito I population exceeded the colored in twelve out of the fifteen Southern [ States ten years ago, and that iu the aggregate the excess of the white poj i ulation was 4,830,725. Since the last j census it is well kuown that the tide i of white immigration to the Southern | States has been greater than ever be- I fore, and that of colored emigration i from the Southern States has been larger It is fairly presumable, there j fore, that the white inhabitants to col ored iu those States has increased con siderably ; that the minority of about two thousand in Louisiana was long since overcome, and that Mississippi and South Carolina nre now the only States in w liicli the colored |>opulatioii outnumbers the white. If the color line were the line of demarcation be j twecu jK>litical parties in these two | States, and every male citizen of legal j age should vote, South Carolina would !of course, be Republican ; but Missis sippi would have been doubtful, even ! prior to the exodus excitement, for, iu 1870, the colored males of 21 years and upward exceeded the white males only 5,142, a# per the census report. This count included about 5,000 for jeigu-bom males of legal age not na turalized, a fact significant of tho white immigration. In commenting upon elections in the South the majority of the whito population in thirteen or fourteen out of the fifteen Southern States is not taken into account by partisan critics. The superior intelligence and wealth, whico give employment to the masses, and which are regarded as all-power ful in many of the Northern States, are not expected to have any effect in more Southern climes; and while thousands of intelligent white men in the North give no attention to politic* and refuse to vote, the colored people of the South, the great proportion of whom can neiiher read nor write, arc expected not only to turn out to a man and vote at every election, but to pay a poll tax for the privilege of voting in opposition to those who give them employment and enable them to BUI>- port their families. PROBABLY you never saw an electri fied forest. Go to Switzerland and per haps you will. One was nan recently . at St. Cerguos, in the Jura mountains. They call it !*t. Klmo's fire. A whole forest of pine trees was seen to lie aglow with light like a phosphorescent sea in the tropics. A thunder-storm was raging at the time, and at every flash of lightning the illumination sud denly disappeared, but soon shone forth again until the next flash came. Before this phenomenon heavy rain* had fallen and soaked the forest so as to render it conductive of electricity, and the thunder cloud overhead, heav ily charged with electricity, had in duced an opposite charge on tho ground below, which discharged itself into the air by the pointed boughs and needles of the pine trees. Sometimes the same thing is seen about the spars and riggings of ships. THKRR are two kinds of bores in this world—the poor and the rich. .You can get rid of the former by lend ing him five dollars. You can free yourself of the other by attempting to ■borrow twenty dollars of him. Try it on. • NEVF.R insult a man because he is poor in purse or raiment, for beneath a ragged coat it may be that a muscle lies concealed that could put a head on the oldest man in the business.
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