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VOLUME XIIE.
(The following intiful poem Is from the Bus.
slat; Anthology, an was written by the celebrated
Deishavhs. This poem is said to have been trans
lated' Initqapanese, by order of the Emperor. and
Is hung up embroidered In gold, tr. the Temple of
Jeddo. It has also been transited into the Chi
nese and Tartar languages, written on a piece of
rich slit and suspended In the Imperial Palace at
Pekin. It is a noble composition, worthy of these
honors.)
TowAirDA,PA.
0, thou Eternal One I whose presence. bright: _
All space doth occupy—all motions guide.
Unchanged through time's alidevastatlng flight
Thou only God There is no God beside I
Being above all things 1 . Mighty One
Whom none can comprehend, and none explore,
Who fillest existence with Thyself alone,
Embracing all,—supporting—ruling o'er—
Being whom we call God—and know no more. • .
In all Its sublime retearcb, Philosophy
May measure out the ocean deep;—may count •
The sands, or the sun's rays—but God, for Thee •
Ttiore Is no weight nor measure ; none can mount
tip to Thy mysteries. Reason's brightest spark,
• Though kindled by the light. in vain woulA try
To trace thy counsels Infinite and dark :_,
And thought la lost ere thought can soar
Even like past moments in eternity.
Thou from primeval nothingnesi didet
First chaos ; then existence—Lord on Thee
Eternity bath Its foundation; all
Sprung forth from Thee—of light, .14, harmony.
Sole origin, --all, all beauty Thine ; '
- Thy word ereated'all, and doth create ;
Thy splendor fills all space with rays divine.
Thou art, Thou wert, and shall be glorious, great,
Life-giving, life-sustaining Potentate. •
Thy chains the unmeasured universe surround
Upheld by Thee, by Theeinspired with breath.
Thou the beginning with the end bast bound,
And beautifly mingled life with death_l
As sparks mount upward from the fiery blaze,
So suns are born, for worlds spring forth from
Thee. 7 •
And as the spangles In the sunny rays
Shine round the silveishow, the pageantry
Of heaven's bright army glitters in Thy praise. .
A million torches lighted by Thy band,
Wander wearied through the blue abyss ;
They own Thy , power, accomplish Thy command ;
' All gay with life, all eloquent with bliss—
What shall we call them? Piles of crystal light?
A glorious company of golden streams?
Lamps of celestial ether burning bright?
Buns lighting systems, with their glorious
beams?
But Thou to these art as the moon to.tilght.
Yes, as a drop of water in the sea
•
All this magolflcence to Thee is lost ,
What are ten thousand worlds compared to Thee?
And what am I then ? Heaven's numbered host,
Though multiplied by millions and arrayed
In all the glory of sublimest thought l _,
Is but an atom in the balance ; wAghed .
Against Thy greatness--is a cypher brought
Against infinity What am I then ? —Naught.
Naught irbut the affluence of Thy light avine
Pervading wexds, bath reached my besntn,—too ;
Yes, in my spirit Both Thy , spirit shine, ,t 7
a
So shines a sunbeam in drop of dew. 1.
Naught I but I live, and on hope's pinioni
Eager towards Thy presence ; for in Theo
I live, I breathe, I dwell ; aspiring high,
Even to the throne of Thy divinity ;
I am, 0 God and surely Thou must be I
Thou art I directing, guiding all. Thou art I
Direetjmy understanding then to Thee o
Controtry spirit, guide my wandering heart
Though but an atom midst immensity,
Still I alb : something fashioned to Thy habd
, I hold's middle rank 'twist heaven and earth,
On the last verge of mortal being stand,
Close to the realms where ange Irgce their
birth,
Just on the boundaries of the spirit d
A STIRRING APPEAL.
•
Address of the Republican State
To the;Electors of—Pennsylvania:
Ours is "a government of the peo
ple, by the people,
_and for the peo
ple "-of the people, since all author
ity springssrom them; by the people,
since their will,-whert expressed thro'
established voluntary anillegal forms,
should he respected and obeyed; for
the people, in the fact that whatever
is thus done should be done for their
welfare: Accepted maxims are .the Se.
They were given shape by s the spirit
of - our customs and laws and 'direct
expression by a martyred President
at a - time when they, had just been
sanctified by the beSt blood of the
s
nation. -
L. Etsaass
There was an election last year,
and the result was confessed on all
sides to have been fairly readied. It
showed both an electoral andl'i pop
ular majority for a Republican Pres
ident and Vice President. Thelbullet
of an assassin has robbed the people
of their personal choice, and in
wend they have secured, by constitu
tional and acceptable methods his
distinguished colleague. Since that
election . events have crowded thick
and fast, but
,the on-looking, world
saw a Republic, in every - material
view, unshaken' by. c3lamity ; 'our
own people Saw, through the instru
mentalities of our laws and Constitu
tion, a faithful reflection of their will
in the more immediate change incl.
dent' to the death of their ; President,
and they had almost. permitted their
political vigilance to relax and take
an indifferently easy air, when it was
aroused by a partisan act on the , part
of the political organization- which
did not represent the people in the
struggle for governmental policy.
For the second time in our history
" a prize bad been drawn in the lot
tery of assassination" by a common
foe;; and, in both cases, that foe was
quick in the search for every cumula
tive profit. The Democratic party
did seek' a partiSan profit from the
murder of Lincoln, and unwarned by
that experience, in-its greed for pow
er, repeated. the attempt but a week
ago. Andrew Johnson's betrayal of
the idea that the legal expression of
the will of the people must , be re
spected was compensated - after a
struggle of many months, the recent
betrayal of
. a public trust by the
Democratic Senators was, so far as
we can now judge, partially met with
in two days. A bad purpose has been
defeated, and while the will of the
people has not been fully, guarded or
their policy guaranteed, the Republi
cans of the Senate hiive at least re
moved a glaring temptation to further
assassination, and for a time checked
the greed of ever-watchful enemies.
The saddest of all deaths, the legal
succession, --the theft of the second
place in the gift of the people, and
its partial restoration have transpired
with confusing speed ; yet not so
fast but that the reflecting man could
give some little thought to the fact
that if this Government of ours is to
be preserved "as of the people, by
people, and for the people," there
must be neither direct nor indirect
overtures to a partisan foe which has
GOD.
Committee
DEMOCRATIC_ BOURBONIBM
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TOWANDA, BRADFORDCOUNTY, PL, THURSDAY MOR:NING, '-OCTOBER 27, 1881.
never yet bowel' to the doctrine—
which war the friend of slavery, in a
great section the author of rebellion,,
in yet other sections its eider and
abettor—and in all times subsequent
to our greatest civil crisis the persis
tent foe of every advance toward a
more perfect fro,eom. With its in
herent belief in slavery, it opposed
emancipation, ciiil rights, equal suf
frage, the' planting of the school
house in the . places
,where it was
most needed; and instead of favoring
and fostering those who suffered for
their country, it has, by every insidi
ous agency, sought to reward those
who betrayed it. i This is not true of
all Democrats, hut kis true of the
leaders, into whose hands power= ill
be thrust by failure to hold Republi
can strongholds. , They have a ma
chinery which is:tohesivie in its-pow
er, which permits no freedom of
()Pinion, which never divides, and
which grinds on :4intil its own . force
breaks it. The power of selection
stilt rests with the Republicans of
Pennsylvania. Ohio has risen from
her grief to confirm her - selection by
majorities relatively greater than in
Presidential years.. lowa makes a
most intelligent Ichoice with unanim
ity. The Virgiinians, struggling to
rid themselves of a form of Bourbon
rule which the same wherever it
obtains, were, until recently, divided
as to policies; but in the rush of
events have thrown away every idea
of faction, and! are now ready to
place themselves in i the column of
progress. The Repoblicans of New
York, in natural solicitude for a dis
tinguished citizen called to the point
of danger, have buried from sight
everyidtviding issue, and now present .
an example of 1 harmony which has
been wisely imitated in ;nearly all
other States. There -is a nee:led
unity of watchfulness, Ito the ,end
that the present, and -at least the
near future of ourcourry may be
guarded from : possibl calamity.
Shall 'we, as -Pennsylva9ians, be less
dutiful ? When, in the past, sacri
fices were called for have we ever; in
either hatred, sullenness or despair,
stood off? A claim to patfiotism
but mocks the tennwh n it will not
sacrifice convenience ; c nifort, even
happiness and life; forte country's
meal. A profession of ealty to- ad
mittedly just political principles is
but a sham and a pretense wilco it
will not sacrifice somethihg to unity
and when it will not blend a personal
purpose into the one which moves
for the common good. When,public
dangers quick succeed each other,
when but a single life stands between
approved government and a revolu
tion in politics, there ought to be no
room for mere personalties, none for
the detraction of friends, none for
the creation of faction, and there
ough,t to be universal reprebation of
counsels which arc openly confessed
to be -"in the interest of
,the enemy.
Good soldiers do not stop to dress
mere bruises when the battle is on,
nor do they march out of the line by
either flank at the beck of the Toe.
STAND BY THE PRESIDENT.
To admit that any considerable
number of Pennsylvanians will be
less solibitous .of the national gook]
than those of our neighboring States
is to belie our. past history. The
Administration of President Arthur
from its very beginning needs at the
least the support of all Republican
Stdtes, and of none more , than:that
which has proved' the Keystone to
RCpublicanism,' as she has to the
Union. That support can only be
extended through ballots cast for
General Bally, the standard-bearer
of the pity = a gallant soldier,
wounded while heading his troops,
ascending through high personal
merit from the bars of la Captain to
the stars of a General—now a mod
est. quiet citizen—not a politician,
not an officeholder—one who earns
his bread by the sweat of his brow,
yet far too good to oppose, and of all
men the last to be selected as the
victim of spites against others. There
was at least fairness in the hissing
and explosion of the shell which
struck him at Gaines' Mill ; there is
neither
_generosity nor Manliness in
the attempt to crush him with mis
sies professedly aimed at others.
Our :National Administration -is
Republican in its make-up and char
acter;: we know it as such; the World
knows it as such. It can, therefore,
only find support in Republican ma
joritiei. We have no other method
of support ; the world - abroad .recog
niies nu other, and no persuasion_ of
secret enemies, of demagogues, or
any apoarent apathy of the open foe
should be permitted to lure us from
the ont direct object—support - of the
Natiotal Government and the ad
ministration thereof. Thi withheld
and clagrin and digaster will quickly
suceekd each other. The man who
can Ice persuaded to lose one
,battle
in the hope that he can more easily
win the neat does not live to see how
'false is his philosophy.
WI AT THE PARTY REPRESENTS.
PR; Republican party represents
issues third purposes which are worthy
=the most active effort of., all who be•
lieve in the principles which have
mad'e our government what it is—
"of the .people, by the people, and
for the people." It represents ideas
of administration specially dear to
all.s President Aaiun. has vdwed—
that
" All the noble aspirations of my'
lamented predecessor which found
expression in his life, the measures
devised and suggested during his
brief administration to correct abuses
an promote the general welfare, to
secure domestic security, and main
tain friendly and , honoraole relations
with the nations of the earth; will be
garnered in the hearts of the people,
and it will be my earnest endeavor
,to, profit and to see that the nat;:on
shall profit by his example and exile
.
rienee." •
Ais faithful adherence to this dec
laration calls for direct env:image ,
meet from . Pennsylvania. Support
of the Republician cause and ticket
will do it; support of any other means
its condemnation. The Administra
tion, its Mends and enemies, and all
iptelligent on-lookers - will say Bo l and
ipne will more quickly gloat over
such a oidaukityithau the journals and
politicians who are now counseling
division. -
" The RepubliCan 'party is literal
enough for all. Its national deeds
and declarations are not forgotten ;
its latest , enunciation in this State
points . unequivocally to a reform in
a plank which received the warm
4pport of 251 representatives in
&Me Convention assembled ; while
tiat of the Democratic party plays
with dangerous recklessness on the
edges 'of communism. Must these
declarationi in 'representative con
vention be held less potent than thoSe
of `the . self-seeking, the irresponsible,
and the noisy on the rostrum ? Only
barbarous tribes wildly follow their
howling dervishes.
THINGS. TO BE REMEMBERED.
The statesmen of the century have
been members of the Republican par
ty. It has counted in its ranks
names which have become immortal,
and are so confessed of all the earth
—Lincoln, Seward, Chase, Sumner,
Garfield I—names which are nurtured
in our party's traditions even more
tenderly than in historic pages. It
is the party of
_reform, for it is pro
gressive and never looks backward ;
it is the party of liberty, and con
stantly seeks a more perfect freedom
True, some have wearied of its good
work.; somliTeve straggled in the
march of progress ; others have re
garded their bruises more than the
goal beyond.; some have even fallen
by the wayside, but the ea nest and
the native still march ona d gather
as they move.
You can on the Bth of November
next so shape your ballots, citizens
of Penniylvania, that they will prove
the voice of order, promoter of stable
governinentin the State and the Na,
.tion. If they are cast as the mere
waifs of passion, the double-edged
instruments. of faction, the world
may be justified in forming a different
opinion of our people—for their
chara6ter will at least seem to have
changed from the sturdy and stead
fast to that which is weak and vaci
lating. Let us remember, Pennsyl
vanians, that there is no form of
mental slavery more_ humiliating to
its victim - than that which yields
itself captive to every sensation.
The Finaneeklittlie-State:
:if is considered' important that
you should be fully informed con
cerning the manner in which the Re
publican party has managed the
finances of the Commonwealth since
1860—the &tit year,. that trust was
committed to it., For a period of
twenty years the Democrats have
only had charge Of the State Treas
ury three years, in - 1863 under W.
V. McGrath, and in 1878 and 1879
under A. C. Noyes. In 1861 the debt
of Pennsylvania was the largest owed
by any State in the Union,•and $3,-
000,000 was then necessarily added
to the enormous load to enable our
troops to march to the defense of the
nation's life. But the crushing load
has been manfully borne and honora
bly paid, until the debt, less available
securities in the Sinking Fund,pledg
ed to its redemption, is now one of
the smallest owed- by any State, in
debt. The total reduction since 1861
has been $19,033,420 84, and the pres
ent debt is $21,561,989.65, The Sink
ing Fund amounts 'to $8,000,000,
making • the net debt $13,561,989.05.'
The following table will show the
reduction which has been made from
,year to year during the period of
Republican control of the Treasury,
and the attention of voters who re
gard facts is invited to it: -
Yns. DEBT. j
InCHEASE.
•
1861.. • .37,964,902 02 1 ;
1862.., 40,575,420 60 1
1823.. - 40.443,052 80;
1884.. 39,496,598 78'
1865.. 39,378.603 94 i .. ..... .
1866.. 37,476.258 06,
1867.. 35.622,052 16'
1868.. 31,766,431 22 1
.1869.. • 33.286.940 13;
1870.. ; 32,8!4,540 95 1
1871.. E 31,111,661 90 '
1872.. • 27,298.480 07:
1673.. 27,303,494 C4 l .5,008 57
1874.. 2.8,798,821 91.
1875.. 24.568 635.37 !
1876.. , 23,223,137 74
1877.. 22,190,60 86'
1878.. 24,875,620 86
1879.. 22,100.668.80... 315,048 60i
1880.. 21,5h1,889 651
..t321),056 5.7
LESSENING THE PEOPLE / 8 BURDEN
When the. last Democratic State
Treasurer handed over the office to
the Republican, incumbent a very
large sum of warrants were unpaid
and constituted a floating debt. This
has all been paid, and at this moment
ample funds are held to meet 'every
legal demand on the State.
While thus reducing the debt the
Republilan party .has steadily
sene'cl the burdens of the people. In
1866 the flour-mill tax on real estate,
producing an annual revenue of $l,-
000,000, was taken off. In 1871 the
lax on offices, trades and professions,
amounting annually to $75,000, was ,
repealed. In 1873 the taxes on horses
and cattle, producing a revenue of
$50,000 a year, was taken off, and in
1879 the tax on coal, yielding annu
ally. $700,000, was repealed. Thus
$15,000,000 of tax on the homes of
our people has been remitted in 'as
many. years. Relief to working-men,
amounting to $750,000, has been ex
tended by abolishing the tax on oc
cupation;, $350,000 has been remitted,
chiefly to our tarmers, by repealing
the law taxing live stock, and
000. has been taken off our great coal
industry for the vast year. But this
creditable record does not atop here.
While, the debt was • disappearing,
notwithstanding reduced taxation,
amounting to $16,800,000, the State '
supported her noble charities with a
generous hand and gave a lavish aid
to the Centennial Exhibition, as will
be seen from the annexed table:
Amount for support of Soldiers' Or
phan Schools. 1i0,012,694 57
Amount ter suppOrt of charitable in
stitutions 7,811;713 00
Amount tot- the support of common
schools . - 11,919,71 i 00
Amount for t Centennial Fahlbl-
Mu •
4:.
• • 1 1 000,000 00
Making ktotil of ifn.Z37,139 47
A CRITICISM OF TAE REFORMERS.
Seventeen years,ago a few profess
ed RepUblican politicians in this
State had shown their capacity for
leadership by reducing the party to
a - minority. , The Legislature was
lost'and McGrath, Dentoorat, became
,BEG 18888 OP DZWONOIATIONISON ANT QU&BTZIL
State Treasurer. Abkileaders came
forward in that crisis and the Repuh-
Henna immediately gained their su
premacy. These rejected leaders,
unable longer to plunder. the Stlitte
and rain the Republican party, at
once became " Reformers." They
commenced an attack upon the finan.
dal management of our party, it be
ing the subject least understood by
the averagwvotei: For half a gen
eration these "Reformers" have kept
the State rinaing with denurciations
of a work which outside our borders
is looked on and commended with
universal praise. The 'Republican'
voter has been told'each year that
our State was systematically and
constantly robbed, and that this un
ending robbery was , performed by the
State Treasurers the results of whose
,work is a part of , this address. Epch
year official fitets have been present-,
ed disproving theise charges, but tho
".Reformers" keep up the assault, as
though the Republicans of this State
were without the advantages ofrcomi
mon schools and common sense. The
original projectors of this movement
have long sines " reformed" them
selves into the - Democratic party;
but the "Reformer" of today exhib
its the same lofty contempt of facti
officially promulgated each year by
the fiscal °Munro( the State Gov
ernment, from which the , figures here
submitted' have been taken. _
On the question of official pew's=
lion by the Treasurers charged with
this crime,,,the following comprehen
sive exhibit of their work would
seem to be conclusive to all who con-
Sider arguments and respect truth.
Of the moneys collected and eiStid
ed during the last seventeen Tears
the total is as follows :
For ordltrsry expense's of the State Goy-
eroment .84,781,636
For the Centionial, charities, reforma
io 71 0 9. etc 27,207,149
Fdi reduction of the Stale debt..:: 1.3,033,420
'Total'A .131,025,205
Of this vast sum only $18,660.94
are not now available, but the Attor
ney General lis pressing suits to re
cover it, and will' recover it from
the bondsmen of ex:State Treasurers.
The State is amply secured.
Do not these , facts,earrY us safely
beyond the assaults of demagogues ?
and do they not compel all who
to-seek- a footing alone upon
falsehoOd and slander ? ; Are they
not strong enough to - bid us carry
our appeal beyond . the lines of our
party—into the counting-rooms of
all l mercharita and.manufacturers,the
gates of out ship-yards and rolling
mills, the shops of our myriads of
workmen and the homes of the quiet
and. non partisan—there to ask that
a Government so careful of its re
sources, so honorable in meeting t its
obligations, so charitable to the lame,
the halt and the blind, so liberal to
its schools and yet so just to all—
shall be perpetuated ?
By order of the Republican State
Committee;
THOMAI V. COOPER,
Chairman.
THE WEATHER •FIEND OF THE LIME
KILN CLUB INDULGES IN THEM
_
TIONS.
The following tribute to the zeal
and industry of the Lime• Kiln Club
Weather Bureau elicited hearty ap
plause when read by the Secretary :
WASHINGTON, ' October 12, 1881
To the Lime-Kiln Club: Out of
foity-two predictions made by your
Weather Bureau for August and
September forty-one were fully verifi
ed. The prediction that Cairo would
be visited by a waterspout in August
was a miss, bu , as there were 8,000
barrels of wills ey stored there that
,
week the predi ted cloud burst prob
ably thought best to take another
course. Very respectfully,
Your obedient, servant, ,
1 V General lIAZEr.
REDUCTION
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MEM
.106.997. 84
1,903,345 88
1,854,205 90
859,620 94
1,479,485 09
472,395 18
1,702,879 05
3,813,175 83
When the applause bad subsided
.and-the stove-pipe w as replaced, the
following plump up and down guar
antees for .the coming week were
handed in an read
1,304,672 70
1,230,1E6 57
1,375,497 53
/.032,46q MI
315,047 99
628.679 21
Sunday—tßort of a cross between
a bad darto , go fishing and a good
day to hunt woodchucks.
Monday . — A twenty-five • pound
chunk of ice beginsito have a slight
effect on the constitution of a quart
of milk. •
419,353,477 -11
b20,1?54 67
119 . ,033,420 .84
Tuesday—Frost takes the starch
out of the high-nosed tulip and the
airy daffodil, and the romantie mai
dens wander forth to gather the gor
geous Autumn leaf.
Wednesday—Cloudy or clearing
or partly cloudy or clearing weather,
with some cloudis and clear spots . ;
good day to grub out old stumps or
sit around the post,office.
Thursday--Pic-nics played out in
the upper Lake: region. Tramps ap
pear in the Ohio Valley with straws
in their hair and a hankering
_after
,hot coffee. Possible hurricane, on
the 'Upper Mis . souri, but it may end
in wind.
Friday—lncreased temperature all
around. Absent-minded farmers put
eight gallons of water into each cider
barrel as a foundation to begin on.
Saturday—Lower barometer. Are
as of rain ;.also of mince-pies and ap
ple-sass. County fairs begin to close
up, and the plumber makes his first
visit of the season.
IT is generally In ourselves that we
study the defects,wo criticise tirst severe
ly in-others. •
Tim seeinggood.in all even when we
kuo* none are all good, mak& life hap
pier, the heart far kindlier.
IF aman has nothing to do yon may be
pretty sure that Satan ialooking out for
an employee and will soon find one?'
. FINE connections are apt taplunge,you
into a sea of extravagance, and then not
to throw yon a rope to save yoti-from
drowning.
Timm is hope for a man us lob; as he
can blush.
IF there is one thing more than anothei
which most people detest it is the obliga
tion to bojust to those with whom they
differ.
MoNRY and fame aro two things that
men work hardest for,i and after death
one is worth to them just about as much
as the other. • -
IT may be true that misfOrtuee braces
mau up, but - au even r►►n or 'good luck
, help; his amiability avant as. much as
1 anything we know oC -
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'The Michigan Venrior.
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The Champion Thief.
The Vienna correspondent of the
London. Globe says : "Last week a
certain Hungarian countess well
known for her riches and beauty (the
same spirited lady who last year sec
onded her brother in a duel) graced
with her presence the performance
at the Aresa, or summer theatre. 'On
one of her fair fingers my lady wore
two splendid diamond rings exactly
like each other. During an entr'acte
there prsented himself in her box a
big fellow in gorgeous nvery-40x
feet of the finest flunkey imaginable.
Quoth he, in 'finest Hungarian, "My
mistress, Princess P----, has sent
me to beg of yoil:r ladyship the loan
of one of your rings for five minutes.
Her highness has observed them
from her box opposite, and is very
Anxious to examine one more. close
ly, as she wishes to have made after
the pattern." 'Without an instant's
hesitation the countess handed a ring
to "Jeames," 'who bowed with re
spectful dignity and retired. The
performance' over, the two great la
dieri met 'on the 'staircase, and -the
countess begged her friend to keep
the ring at her convenience. " What
ring, my dear?" Denouement! Tab
leaus !The; "powdered menial"
was no flunkey at all, but a Ithief,
and the ring was gone. The police
were informed of the impudent trick.
Justice ' seemed to have overtaken
the culprit in a few strides, for next
morning the countess, whilst still en
robeLde-chambre, received a letter in.
forming her that the thief had ,been
caught and the ring found on his
person. "Only," . added the note,
"the man stoutly denies .the charge
an declares the ring to be his own.
To clear up all doubts, pray come at
once to the police station or send
the. dupliCate ring by bearer." To
draw the second ring from the finger
and intrust it. to the messenger—a
fine fellow in full police uniform—to
gether with a handsome " tip " for
the glorious news, WB4 the work of a
moment. Only when my lady an
hour later betook herself radiant to
the police station to recover her jew
els, a slight mistakq came to light.
" *ell, my ring ? I could not come
myself the instant I got your letter."
"Whit letter, madam ?" Denone
bent ! Tableau! No. 2! The thief
bad got tit= beth."
Struggle With a Porter-House
Steak.
" This is the porter-house, is it?"
asked the sr.d passenger, sitting at
the corner table in the restaurant.
" Yes sir," said the waiter, with
the weary air of a man who was tired
of having to tell the same lie a thous
and times a day, porter-house steak,
sir; same as you ordered, sir."
"Do you cut porter-house steak
from between the horns this year?"
asked the sad passenger, with the in
tonation of a man who wanted to
know.
". Sir ?" said the waiter.
"It-seemed to be a trifle tenderer
last year," the sad passenger went, on,
with the air of l a tired mpt indulging
in pleasanfrethinisceneo of the past;
" but, I remember now, it was cut a
trifle lower diiwn then. Last rear
you cut your porter -house steaks
trom the curl in the forehead and
the sirloins from the 'shin, But I
think this tomes from between the
horns. I used to live in a'boarding
house wherethey cut the porter-house
between thelhorns, and this one re
minds me of them. -Animal dead this
steak came from."
" Dead," echoed the astonished
waiter course, sir. lie was butch
ered, sir."
" Butchered to make a Roman hol
iday." sighed the passenger. "He
would be more likely to make a Bo
man swear. 'Well, it was time he
was killed. He hadn't many more
years; to live on this earth. - Ah, here
is the brass tip from one of his horns.
Dropped into the steak, no doubt,
while 'you were slicing it off. What
do you do with these steaks when
the guests are through with them ?"
The waiter looked puzzled. " Why,
sir," he said, "they ain't nothing left
of 'em when customers get through
With 'em, sir:"
"Possible?" said the sad passen
ger ; " what.becomes of them ?"-
The
waiter looked nervous.
"-What I" he 'said ; "the customers
eat them up."
The sad passenger looked up with
an air . of interest. " Incredible 1"
he exclaimed ; "cannot accept your
statement without proof. They may
hide them under their chairs, or se
crete them in their napkins, ar they
maycarry them away in their pock
ets to throsr at burglars, but I can
not believe they eat them. Here, let
me see one of them peat this, and I
will believe
_you. orrust me, good
waiter, , '
But the waiter pointed to a placard
inscribed : "Positively no trust,"
and went to'the cashier's desk to tell
the boss to look out for that man at
the corner table, as he didn't seem
satisfied with his steak and had ask
ed for trust.—Thirlington Hawkeye.
JOSU BILLINGS' PRAYER,--NEN RE
VISION.-:-From to many friends, and
from things with lace ends, deliver
us?
From a wife who don't Inv us, and
children who don't look like us, _de
liver us!
From wealth without charity, from
pride. without'' sense, frbm pedigree
worn out, and from all rich relations,
deliver us I
From snaix in the grass, from
"nails in our boots, from torchlight
processions and from no rum, deliver
us!
From pack-peddlers, from young
folks in luv, from old , aunts without
money, and kolery, deliver us!
From newspaper cells, and pills
that ain't good, from females who
faint, and men who flatter, deliver
us!
From other folks secrets, and - from
our own, and women committees-de
liver na I
From folks who won't laugh and
from them who giggle, from Lite butes
and mutton, deliver us!
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It* .4-
BT EDWARD N. routing:4.TV
the nation's heart goes forth to thee.
Thy honest manhood we beheld and trust :
• We saw thee speechless, mnittenin the dust,
And - recognlied thy griefs sincerity;
Tor thou,didst pray as earnestly as we.
Harsh were our words before ; but these we
thrust
Into oblivion-now. There let them "us
Thou hest bought up the opportunity.
High the position thou art called to fill;
And hard as high; but thou doet take it ell.
Seeking for aid where none e•er sought I
vain. -
Anxious to do Gcid's and the people's will.
That future arts may thy wisdom tell,- .
May Heaven &sum thee strength of heart
and brain. .
MARION, MASS.
Boiroviing a Quarter.-
Three pity boys were on their way
home from school, and, as there were
at least two hours before dark (and
before supper:time), they were quite
ready to stop' and look at anything
from a circus to a dog-fight.
" Oh, boys, just look !" cried . Char
lie Thorn.
" What? Where ?" exclaimed his
companions. They were now in, front
of a secondha n d bookstore; and point.,
ing`to a thick green covered volume
in one window, Charlie exclainW :
"Why, the 's the 'Arabian Nights'
—real good, of torn a bk marked
' only twentykive cents!' Full of
pictures, too 11'
" Oh!" said, or rather sighed, Ed
gar Denny and Will Farnham.,
Three -faces were pressed close to
the bookseller's window, three pairs
of eager eyes gloated over the, treas
ure ; for to what ten or twel4Srear
old boy isnot the " Arabian Nights"
a treasure ?
Neither Edgar, Charlie or Will
had ever read the wonderful boillik ;
but one of the latter's cousinsJiad
done so, and had retailed one or Ewo
of the stories to Will, and he in turn
had repeated them to.his two friends.
And to think that all this—roc's
eggs, oue-eyed caliphs, sparkling jew
' -
els genii, palaces—might be obtain
ed for twenty-five cents.
" I say, remarked Edgar, doubtful
ly, "has any fellow got a quarter."
No fellow had ; what was worse,
the united wealth of the three " fel
lows" amounted to just seven cents.
"Perhaps, if I tell papa about it,
he'll buy it for us," suggested Charlie..
" Pshaw Somebody'll snap it up
before you can get to your father's
store. A barg ain like that , isn't to
be . had everyd ay."
"If Torn Baker sees it he'll buy it,
sure pop: He's always got money,"
sighed Edgar. C.lf he hadfili been
kept in, like as not' hekt have - bimght
it before this." , •
Suddenly Will's face brightened.
Putting. his hand in his pocket he
dremi out a dollar bill and announced
his intention 'of buying the book.
"A dollar,! Where did ydu get
it?" asked Cbarlie, in amazement.
"'Tim% thine; it's Aunt Mary's.
She gave me a dollar this boon, and
a l sked :me to pay fifty cents to Mr.
Jennison, the apothecary, you know.
She will,not be home until late this
eye ling, and in the meantime I can
run, up to grandma's and get a quar
ter she owes me for some eggs I sold
her—my little bantam's eggs. Aunt
Mary will not mind if I do borrow a
quarter from her for a little while."
So the treailry of marvels passed
into Will.Earnham's_ possession, and
the - three happy toys made immedi
ate arrangements for reading it aloud,
turn and turn about.' At every street
corner they paused to look at "just
one.more picture," and. it was with a
violent effort that Will tore himself
away to "run up to grandma's."
"But you boys may look at it
while I ank-gone, - if you'll ,bfing it to,
me before supper," he remarked gra
ciously as he left them. ;
Unfortunately he got tOhts grand
mother's just a little while after she
had left home for a two days' visit to
one of her sons; so the little ban
tam's eggs could not be paid for
then.
" Oh, well, it can't be helped now,"
Will said to himself. " Grandma is
certain to give me the quarter in a day
.or two, and I'll ter Aunt Mary about
it as soon as She comes ja"
When he got home his Mother told
hinkto put his aunt's ehttnge on her
bureau, and then run to-the grocer's
and get some sugar i for tea. After
supper he betook himself to his new
book, and sOm was e. thousand years
and a thousrd miles away. He dim.
ly heard some one ask him about
Aunt Mary's money, and he gave a
dreamy answer;-and his father , . bad
to speak to him three times llelore he
realized it was-bed time. -
Of course he for a moment forgot
all about the borrowed quarter. Con
scious of " good intentions," he felt
tio anxiety about the matter.
4 .lsn't it too bad, Will, that our
fiCw cook, who makes such nice cake
and pie, is not ! . hpnest, and mamma
has got to discharge her?" said his
sister Jennie, the next morning.
" Ye,3, it is a pity. 'What has she
taken ?"
, Not very. much ; but as mamma
says, it shows that her principles are
not good. he or some fairy (for
there was loa person but her in the
room from t time you went there
until mamma went,in and discovered
it) took aqu rter out of Aunt Mary's
I l e
room. You put herohange on the
bureau?" ...
" Yes, on ti little blue mat."
"That is whero I saw iti," said
Mrs. Farnhain. ,
"Then it was lucky for your purse,
Aunt Mary," said Will with a laugh,
" that I borrowed. a quarter of .you,
or you would be fifty cents poorer
instead of twenty-five.
"What do you mean ? I lent you
no quarter!" was the surprised reply.
"No '
• but I borrowed it,"
"Did you lay but one quarter on
the bureau ?" asked. his mother.
Yea, ma'am. I borrowed the
other." , .
• "Oh ! exclaimed Mrs. - Farnham,
with • a sigh .of relief " Then the
cook is not dishoneSt, and I have an=
justly suspected her." - ,
am very sorry. I did .not
plain sooner," said Will, earn • ; 1- :g.
. • "So you ought to bel B* .c . ' •
8(.0) nor Annum In Advinse.
II
pose yon explain now," interposed
his father, a little sternly.
And Will told the whole story,
adding, "You see, Aunt Mary, I
didn't know that grandma was going
away, and I thought I could . , get the
money at once:"
." Oh! it is all right. Yon are wel
come to the money;" answered his
aunt.
"I disagree with you, Mary," ex-
claimed air. Farnham, quickly. "I
think therelis is a 'great principle at
stake, and that Will did not do right.
There is but one step, one very little
step, between borrowing, without its
owners permission and stealing."
' Oh, papa tiled Jennie, horrified
at the 'word, " - our Will wouldn't
steal!".
"I sincerely hope and firmly be
lieve that he would not; but no one
can tell what he may do under strong
temptation. The clerk who borrows.
his employer's funds fully intends to
restore them. Yet how often we read
of a' clerk or cashier involving him
self :beyond recall, just by ' borrow
ing' a few thousands to speculate
with. I once knew s gentleman, high_
ly educated and very intelligent,
whom I would have trusted with - my
whole fortune, suck implicit confi
dence did rind all who knew him
have in his thorough integrity. He
had a few hundred dollars invested
in real estate, and felt himself honest
(as our Will did) when he ' borrow
ed' a less sum from his employer's
funds to invest in some stock that
was sure to sell at -a high price.
Even if he lost all he knew he could
-repay it in a day or two, long before
n i t
his em loycr needed, it. Unlucklily,
he did , of 105e.' ...50 he ' borrowed'
agai , nd won ;jind yet again. And
so on, until one fine morning, ' the
tables turned, • and he lost—lost
$7,000!"
" Poor man I What did he - did
do ?"
" What could he do ? He :confess
ed his dishonesty; but he could not
make restitution. So he was sent to
State prison, and 'died there, over
come with humiliation and contrition.
You see, Will, what an honest man
may be led into by - Vorrowing an
other man's goods without permis
sion."
" Father, I am very sorry I did: it:
I felt so sure of being able to pay it
once 1 But I can understand now
why pu say there is' such a little
step between borrowing without
leave and stealing. 01 mamma, did
'on accuse the cook ?"
" No; I only suspected her. I
Waited to be very sure.m..
" There it is, Will i You came
very near being. the innocent cause
of great injustice to cook, and of
great-trouble to your mother. It is
easy to commit an apparently trifling
fault,. but -difficult;, nay, impossible ;
to forsee what calamities may result
from it." , '-abstain from all appear,,
_ante of evil, - is --a good motto for
boys as well as men.'-'—Frances E.
Wadleigh, in Christian Register:,
Bro. Gardner On Bringing Up
• Boys.
If I had .a boy to bring up I
wouldn't bring him up . too softly,'
began Bro. Gardner, as Samuel Shin
finally quit poking the fire. 'Ebery
day. of 'my lifel meet mcn who were
brought up too softly. As boys dey
were kissed an' petted 'an stuffed
with sweet cake 'an cried ober. As
young men dey had nuffin' to do but
to spend money, dress like monkeys,
lc f on de streets. 'an look down on
honest labor. As men dey am a fail
ure. People whO down' hate 'em an'
avoid 'em feel to pity 'em, an' dat's
just as bad. When I see a man
whom eberybody dislikes I realize
dat he was brought up on de goody
good platraS a boy.
4 If I had a boy I'd rub him agin
'de world. I'd put responsibility on
his shoulders. - If he got. sugar he'd
airn it. If he got time for loafin' it
would be only utterhis- work was
done. If he was ugly or 'obstinate
Pd - tan it outen him instead of boyin'
him off. If you want to 'make
.a sel
fish man, humor tie .whims of a boy.
If you want to •make a coward, for
bid your boy to defend his , rights.
I'd teach my -boy dat all boys had
rights, an' dat while he had no busi
ness to trample on de rights of odder
boys, no boys had de privilege of
Lakin' him by. de nose. Las'Aight an'
old man libin' up my way was turned
out doors by his bo3f. He has been
tryin' de goody-good plan on-dat
youth fur de l las' twenty y'ars, an'
dis am de legitimate result. He
didn't want him to work, kase work
is 'hard. He didn't wan't him to
dress plain fur fear people would
look down on him. De boy am to
day a losfer,:neither grateful fur what
has bin done in the pas', nor carin'
what happens in de fucher. Ten
y'ars ago he was cried ober, run after
an' coaxed an', bought off, an' his
mudder libed to see him a loafer an'
his father has foun' him a ingrate.'
Giveadam Jones said he was pleas
ed to be able to 'report that the Lime-
Kiln Club and the Concord .School
of Philosophy were again working
in loving harmony, and that this
committee had been called upon to
aid the School in solving the query
What are the Thingness of Things?'
They had long, been estranged be
cause they could not arrive at the
same conclusion on : "What Use
lessness.is use ?' But animosity had
given-place to a spirit of forgiveness.,
and the goose hung high. _
.
A NEW YORK goat came West with a
lot of poor children sent out to Western
homes, and the first day it was on .au
lowa farm it ate half a mile of barbed
wire fence and wanted more. It is almost
impossible to teach-a New -York goat to
eat grass or clover, when he has been .
brought up from earliest infancy on cor
set rods, tomato cans and wrecked_ hoop
skirts.—Hatokeye. . • .
Lamm appears to want to get his wife
Lome, and so gets the Baltimore Amen:-
can to say : To the Princess Louise :
We don't like to tell all we know ; but
they do
.say that Lorne is carrying on
awful up in Canada during your absence.
'fbey say she's a blonde, and very pret-
A- qt may work, but, egad, Lorne, we
on. when she comes. She won't
- hear denials. , -New Orktans
NUMBER 22
The Ceurie.Lines.
It is_ high time that some other.ht
terest bmWes a " ring," composed of
half a hundred sportsmen„ had a my
regar4ing the game lawiof this State.
Game' issomething in Which all are
interested, and any law-on the sub
ject should serve all alike. The pres
ent Legislature will be asked to re
peal all laws and provisions and sub•
stitute the following :
Any keeper of a hotelimeatauraat
or, boarding-house whci substitutes
mutton for turtle in making turtle
soup shall.be fined not less than $5O,
and in default of payment shall stand
'committed to . the cooler for the term
of thirty days.
Any public eating-house keeper
who advertises • quail on toast, and
;then substitutes ham on biscuit, shall
be deemed guilty of misdemeanor
and punished by a tine of not less
than $25.-
It shall . not be lawful for more
than five men to pursue the track of
one poor, lone rabbit with ev 4 l intent.
Any duck hunte?r who buys birdi
and passes them off on the boys as
having; been tilled by "himself shall
be deemed guilty of piracy, and pun,.
ished accordingly.
. Any person or persons discovered •
capturing deer or elk by means of
pound nets or seines shall be liable=
to a i fine of not less than $25 nor
more than $5O.
It a fox, on being routed from cov
er and pursued, takes refuge under a
school-house, it shalLbe lawful for
the teacher to dismiss the school and
lend his assistance id.the capture.
That section of the amended law
of 1879' requiring all persons to give
coons 400 feet the start before pursu
ing with intent to kill is hereby re
pealed.
Any person or persons firing over -
twenty consecutive shots into a flock .
of decoy ducks shall be deemed gull
ty of a misdemeanor and punished by
a fine of not less than $5. -
Any person who shall, after the
passage of this act, knowingly Welty_
as to the number and size of fish
taken by him at any time, within the
past two years shall be deemed guilty
of misdemeanor and punished by
thirty days in the County Jail with
out relief.-7)elroit.Pree Press. .
When Women are Most Attrac-
tive.
An interesting paper entitled
" When Women Grow Mrs.
Blake has brought facts to show that
the - fascinating power of the sex is
oftentimes rekained much longer than
is generally as4ned. She tells us
of Aspasia, who between the ages of
30-and 50 -was the strongest intel
lectual force in Athens ; of Cleopatra,
whose golden decade for power and
beauty was between 30 and 40; of
Livia, who was not far from 00 when
she gained the heart of Octivius ; of
Anne of Russia, - who at 38 was
thought to be the most beautiful
queen in Europe ; of Catheiine IL of
Russia, who even at the silver decade
was both beautiful and imposing ; of
Mademoiselle. Mars the actress,
whose beauty increased with years, .
and culminated between 30 and 45;
of Madame Becamier, who, between
25 and -40, and' even, later the
reigning beauty of Europe; Of Nion
de' Enclos, whose own son—brought
up without knowledge of his parent
age—fell passionately tri love with -
her when she was at the_age of 37,
and who on her 60th birthday re
ceived an adorer young epough to be
her grandson. These facts, the rep-
Tesentatives :Of many others, establish
that the golden decade offaacination
is the same as the golden decade Of
thought ; that woman is most attrae
tive to, and most influential , over
man at that period when both man
and woman are nearest the maximum
of their cerebral force. The voice of
our great prima donnas is at its very
bost between .27,and 36 ; but some
retain, in a degree, its strength and
sweetness even in its ' silver_ decade:
The voice is an index of the body in
all its functions, but the decay of
other functions is not so readily
noted.
Local Papers.
The. Printer's Cfriutar makes the
following- sensible suggestion, con
cerning that impamt, institution,
the local newspaper : A large por
tion of the people-do nothing to sup
port their local papers, •yet reap the
benefit every day of- the editor's
work. A man will say, "Advertising
does eat pny in business; I have to
keep men on the road, and get my
customers by going after them." And
yet the fact is that the town iliWhich
he does business Would be unknown, ,
the railroad over which. he ships his
goods would be unheard-of if it were
not for the newspaper, which he says
does him no good.
The local paper is otadvantage to
every man- in the community, and
when a man 'mimics to - contribute to
the • support of the paper on - the
ground that it- ." does him no good,"
he might just as well refuse -to-pay
his taxes for the support of thecourts
and the police force, on the ground
that-he never breaks the law and
does not, need any ofiltiers. There
are men who believe themselves to
be honest and pious; who are doing
business in every community, and
every day appropriating to their own
use the fruits of other men's labor by
reaping benefit of the newspaper
Without contributing a cent to its
support,-and yet they would be terri
bly shocked if they should be charg
ed with stealing wood from their
neighbors. But the principle is just'
the same, the only difference being;
that in one case the law can reach
'them, and in ,the other it cannot but,.
morally, it is , just as dishonest to,
steal- the fruits of your neighbor's
enterprise as to steal his fuel or
chickens.. Too much credit cannot
be given the local paper for the work
it has done and is still. doing for the
benefit of this country.
. "Gas'nett/army," says the eminent
actor, Lawrence Barrett, 4 411 fast becom
ing a lost art." • Oh, it is, Mr. Barrett, is
it? Just you get sight of a man standing
behind his wife and motioning to the
friend who is stupidly giving something
away.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
THE most beautiful 'feature about the
American system of baggagachecking is
found in the fact that the passenge; is
made to carry in his poelret a piece of
railroad property that would otherwise
Share in the general destruction generated
by . the baggage, -smasher.—Bosion Trans
cript. •
A LiaDimix, man in on week was at
tacked and - scratched by a catamount.
hurt by an explosion, bad a boulder roll
down on bim and stave in two ribs, and
was kicked by s mule. Ands load edi
tor remarked tbst he bad "been some
what annoyed by circumstances lately."
—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Air old man with a head aa.destitute of
hair as a watermelon, entered an. Austin
avenue drug mom, and told the clerk lie
wanted a bottle of hair restorer. " What
kind of hair restorer do you prefer ?"
"I reckon I'll have to takes bottle of red
hair restorer. 'TOM was the color It usc4
to bo when I Was a boy."—Tttas Vigo: