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The Somerset Herald
. (STAtsLltMCO IBiT.
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Te Sokxbsr Hnttix,
SoirzBSR. Pa.
DBS. BILLS & COOPKR.
DENTISTS.
Office over Snyder- Drug Biore, Somerset, Pa.)
AH operations pertaining to Dentitry f,'1fnl
y performed. st-i! attention given to filling
iid treating the natural leeth. Artificial oeni
area inserted. Also, teeth inserted without plau.
iwiil and porcelain crown attached lo the natur
al root, epnlft-'trt-lyr
J W. CA RUTH ERS, M. P.
. rHYrlCIA5 AMI Bl RuEOK,
Office on I'nl.m street, next door le Printing;
Eouae Kow. iight calls atomce.
DR. P. F. SHAFFER,
puyaiuan- and bTRGEOS.
i MiiikRsrr, Pa.,
; Tender his profesi.iial service to tie ciusens
? jf somerset aud vicinny Oflico next door to
Commercial Hovel.
D
,B, H, S. KIMMELL,
Tuuim kit TimfMimil services to the Htisros
f turners and vicinity. Unless professionally
engaged be can b found at nil oflice on Main at.
D
.R. J. M. LOUTIIER,
former! of SturMotm.)
PHYSICIAN AJD SURGEON,
Eu located permanently in Somerset far the
nrn UC OI ni proiesaiou. viuto w asub ,
ta rear of Irug More.
DR. J.S. M-MILLEN,
Uradualt m DrKbMry,)
Give special attention totbe preservation
me fcauirai leeio. ai l-ui , c
operation guaranteed satisfactory. Ofbo. in tb
rooms over M. M.TredweliA Co. ! more, comer
jlam ITUS. aud rairius Hiwifc
R. WM. COLLINS,
b
caa W found tl all Uma preparvd todoaU kinU
. i l . t.tmar nvtnrt'nt
OI WUTK. wen mm uuihr, ltSiA.a.B, --or
Ac Aru6o!al UUi of all kmd and of Uia Ua
H
ESRY. F. SCHELL,
ACTORSEY-AT-tAW.
bomenet. Pa.
Bocnty asd Penckn Agent. Offio. In Uamaotk
Bloc:..
VALEXTIXE HAY,
ATTOKSKY-AT-LAW,
bumenet, Pa.
Aim Dealer In Seal Estate. Will attend to all
buSDew ectniMed to bia car wltb promptn'
and ndeilu.
JOHN EL THL,
ATTUENEY-ATLA W,
bomenet. Pa.
Will pmtnptly attend to all trail ne enlrurtM
In him. Mitct-y tylvtuiced oq oolitacuona, Of-
sue in juouuuui
J A. BERKEY.
. ATT0R5ET-AT-LAW,
bohusxt. Fa.
Office In Odd Fellowt' Building.
HARVEY M. EERKLE ,
ArTUKNEY-AT-LAW.
oaaatrr. Fa.
Ofcce with F. J. Eoowi, Ekj.
A a EOLBERT,
ATTORSXT-AT-IAW,
Bumertet, Pv
Office wltb John H. TTbL
WM. 1L KOOXTZ.
ATTOHi itY-AT-LA W,
bumenet, Pa
Will rlT prompt attention tobuilneai entrusted
a? tau cms in tsomeraet and adjouiing couutiea.
ware in Printing Uouae kow, oppoiiui the Court
louat.
JOHN" O. KIMMEL,
ATTOKS EY-AT-LA W,
bomenet, Pa-,
W1U attend to all box! net ontnuted to bi. care
fei Sumerwt and adjoining oououea, wilb pncpt
Mi and ndeiitv. Oflios on Main dual dtreot,
abore Fuber'i Book btora.
JAMES L. PUGH.
ATTOK.NKYAT -LAW,
bomenet, Pa.
Offlc to Mammoth Block, np Baira. Entrance
on Main Cro Street. Oolletuona made, enatei
tettied. till en examined, and all lecal buainew at
tended to with prompineaa and ndeiity.
A. J. CoLBOa. L. C COIJOU.
COLBORX A COLBORN',
ATTOiiJi KY6-AT-LA W.
bumenet, Pa.
All baslnest entmnted to oar care will b.
promptly and faitbfuliT attended to. Collection
made m bumenet, Bedford ana adjoining eoun
tiea. burveyiiig and conTeyaudiig done on rea
sonable lerma.
T7RED. W. BIES ECKEL,
n invikKii'.iT.uw.
Bomenet, Pa.
OfBoe In Printing Home Row, oppoait court
Houas.
G
EORGE R. PCTLL,
ATTUlt E I -A l -l- w ,
rkimeratC Pa.
. B- 8cm. J- C Oou.
iCOTT A OGLE.
J jTTURSrS-J.T-LAir,
buMuarr, Pa.
J. KOOSER,
ATTORXZY-AT-LAW,
Botnenet, Pa.
T-W C T-XrCT IT V
XI. attorkit-at-lat;
BonwoeCFa.
HL.BAER,
ATTORSrr-AT-LAW.
Bomenet, Pa.,
Will practice In BomerM and adjoining eona
. All buxineaa entrusted ! Ub will receire
prompt attention. .
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A .H OOTOOTB. W. H. RUTTKL.
COFFROTH A RUPPEL,
ATTOKJiEYs-AT-LAW.
bomenet, Pa.
All bmineei eotronted to their care will be
JrwdiiY aud punctual !t attended to. Oftce OB
Raui ero btreet, oppoait Mammotb Block.
KE HOTEL AT CHHBEEIASB
I- P. BweiUer, late ot Sand Patch, bat purr bawd
" THE AMERICAN HOUSE,"
At Cumberland, Md and has refitted and refttr
cisbnl the wiil hotu throughout, and mad
It a first-claw H4-1 to accommodate the trar
eiiag public wltb fuud table, and choice
liquor, at the bar.
B aho ha" Is cnnnectioB with the Mote! a larg
SUaonty of twelver Pur Old Rye Whisky
lur aaie by the barrel or gallon at tb
foUoa ing prloe :
Two Tear old at 12 W per gallon.
Three " " I; SO "
Four " " H 00 -
"h price of the Jnr i 15 cent, tor each gallon.
The price of lb. Whkkey and Jug bu alwayi
aneumpanT the order, w bich wiil innure prompt
onenuoe and ahipnwnt. Addreaw ail order to
S. f . SWE1TZER,
CnCBERLAKD, Id).
aprj.-tuQ,
STILL IN BUSINESS I
elfley'a PhotoTph Callor .
fy petrous are Informed that I am still la
the
And am at all time prepared to takt al
kinds of picture, from a
Tla.type) or Catiaet Phttoyripu,
To a Lie-ise Crayon. IrurtaLUneooi Pro-
used, and all work guaranteed to t
aalia factory.
-Oailery np ttaira, next to VocgWs
" WM. H. WELT LEY.
1 lie
VOL. XL. NO.r
i
4.
Unnrl'c 270 other medicine eve
nouu placed before the puhne
Sarsaparilla
hat WOO the
people, eons-
q dene o thoroughly aa Hood Earav
S paxllla. From a, amall beginning this
Prillltf medicine ha ateadilr
rCUUIiai and rapidly increased In
jP populartry nntil now it ha the largest
O a of any preparation of Ita ktad.
I feoff Iucce1 i( "oo simply
I li C 1 1 because it is constantly proving
I that It possesse poslUre merit, and
i doe acoompllah what is claimed forlt,
Qtrontrth This merit Is gives
OllCnlII, Hoods oarsanartlla,
? by the fact that tt
economy, b' imvmi hJ ,
A nil Feeoliar Combinalioa, Propoiw
AH1 Q tioa mad Procea. kaow n only to
CIIPntlVA Hood's fcarsapariUa,
UIUIMC and by which the full
DnWftr nedicimj power of all the
rOnCl lurrallent used is retained.
f f Thousands of voluntary witnesses
W an over the country testify to
OfiCOC en(lerful benefit derived
UOSvS from it If you suffer from
One Dollar ZLrZ
n O ick bT topure blood, talc
UC O U 1X3 Hood's Sarsaparilla.
To Get Kin
druggists. C. LHOQD
CO. Lowell, Has.
Hood's
-THE-
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF
Somerset, Penn'a.
CAPITAL
8URPLUS
S50.000.
6,000.
-O-
DgPOSITS ntCCIVIO IN LARGE ANOSMALi.
AMOUNTS. PAYABLE ON DEMAND.
ACCOUNTS OF MERCHANTS. FARMERS.
STOCK DEALERS, AND OTHERS SOLICITED.
DISCOUNTS DAILY.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS :
LaRcs M. Hicks. W. H. Millkb,
Jamd L. Pcuh, Cha. H. Fubik,
Joh R. cVtjtt, Geo. R. Sctll,
Feed W. Bideckib.
Edward Sctll, : : : : : Peesidest
Valkxtise Hat, : : Viae President
Axdbkw Parker, : : : : : Cashier.
The fanila and securities of this bank
are securely protected in a celebrated Cor
liss Bnrgiar-proof cAfe, The only Safe
made absolutely Burglar-proof.
Somerset County National Bank
Of Somerset, Pa.
Establish!, 1877. OrgiaUW as Nations!, 1890
CAPITAL, $50,000.
Chas. J. Harrison, Pres't
Wm. B. Frease, Vice Pres't.
Milton J. Pritts, Cashier.
r.
Directors:
Wm. H. Koonu, Ssm'l Pnyfler.
Jwuib rpecnt, judm m. .ooa,
J, .in, H. Knv.lcr John StufTt.
Juaepb B. I'avis, Htrrimo oyder.
lerome etuat, nwu d. a. inci ,
Wm. Cndaley.
Oattoraen of this Bank will receive the most
liberal treatment consistent w ith aaf banking.
Parties wifhinr to send money east or west can
be acootamdatrd by dralt fur any amount.
Vonev and valnahle. scored bT one of Die-
bold s Celebrated safes, with must approved time
locL.
(YiUM'liona Tna1 In al wis of the tTnited
Stales. Charge, moderate.
Aceounta ana Deposits oouctea. ni
FARMERS,
TAKE XOTICK.
have leased the larse warehouse of Peter Fink,
at the B. A O. Depot, In exMnerset, for 5 years.
Also, wareroomn at Berlin and Colemans.
There 1 wiil keep oo band dur.ng Uie
aeaaoii. for deli very and re-biiment
to all puinu every grade of
FERTILIZERS
manufactured by the will-known
Susquehanna Fertilizer Co.,
ofCaeaon. Baltimore. VI. I have spent t yean
you, while these gooas nave ur:u in ui
SOMERSET COUNTY
Ter. having been introduced by Hon. O.
p Shaver. Owlug to the Ianre number of my
patruos. whom I thana heartily, my agents
and mvseif may b unable to call to ee you
all persouallv, sol lake advanuureof your
excellent paper to call attention to the
merit, of our Fertiliser, and be leav
to say S. B Voder, of Purh.soineraet
Cnunrr. Pa. and mnrif, haTe
licitnl order, for the fall crop of
ton, notwithstand
ing the atrocg oompeuuon.
lrVier'Fina, of Samemet, wh resides near the de
t. aeuug a deliverv agent lur me, Br ao
Orr:ig or calling on htm. you can learn our
price. We can re-ship to any local point, on
SHORT M OTICE,
bat would p-effT at all times to bar your orders
as far in advance of immediate wants a prac
t '.cal, as it enables us w get our goods to
you in better airebanicaf couditioa la
behalf of the eiuaquehanna Femiuer
Company, 1 am,
VERY RESPECT FTLLT,
A. J. KOSJBR.
St. Charles
HOTEL
CHJLS GILL, Pvop'r
Tsbre cnsw.pesw4. Remodeled, with ofllr on
round roor. Natural gas aud lucandesent light
all rooms. Ve m m-m laundry auaebed is lh
house. Hatea, per day.
Cot. Wwo4 Rt. kid Third kit.
Pittsborgk, Pa
FOURTH OF JULY ORATION.
DELIVERED AT SOX KID-FT, PA, BT A. t. COL-
nOfW, JR., EMU., OF WBASTO-V.
This ia the most gloriooa of all days in
our h istory. It com memorates the birth
of a nation and marks an epoch in the
world 'g affairs. A ware of history rolled
down the 18th century when the declara
tion of Independence was declared to
the world, and when that declaration
was established by force of arms freedom
winged itself for a new and lofty flight.
Here in my own my native town, I
fell proud to greet yon, my fellow iriti
zens, on this day. Here I see those who
gave me the patriotism of my early life,
and from the free winds of this moun
tain town it received its vigor and its
strength. This is a day for rejoicing.
The past of our country is secure with all
that glory can make it ; the present is the
wonder of the whole world, and to-day
it behooves us to look forward to the
future.
That form of government is best which,
while it restrains all passions dangerous
to a community, leaves the greatest
amount of personal liberty to the indi
vidual. A government which lifts the
weakest and the strongest to a common
plane of right and privilege ; which
throws open to all the avenues of
thought and avocation, and suffers even
worthy leggary to strive side by side
with the richest and proudest. A gov
ernment baaed and administered upon
such principles carries force and energy
into every quarter, solicits every im
provement, stimulates every industry
and lifts man up to the highest pinnacle
of civic virtue and developed manhood.
Such a government we have in onr osvn
republic, whose birth we to-day cele
brate ; whose strength has been more
than vindicated by its triumphant strug
gle with the most gigantic rebellion the
world has ever seen, and whose expand
ing greatness, swiftly advancing beyond
the confines of human achievement, in
vokes the pride of every true American
heart and the admiration of the whole
world.
Oar Itevolutionary fathers need no
magnirlceut arch of victory, no monu
mental pile pointing heavenward and
covered all over with the story of their
deeds, to preserve their memory. For
they are enshrined in the hearts of a
grateful posterity there to live as long
as a sentiment of justice is felt or a chord
of patriotism vibrates in the human
heart.
From the earliest ages patriotism and
heroism have ever been considered
among the noblest attributes of man, and
under all forms of government history
and oratory have given them such a re
membrance and recognition as to endear
private virtue and quicken a love of one's
country. The pyramids of Egypt, crown
ed with ten thousand years, still stand
to tell the story of her warriors ; the ora
tory of Greece has embalmed in never
dying eloquence the glory of her defend
ers ; the minstrels of the middle ages
sang to admiring audiences the chival
rous deeds of knights of the olden time ;
while the achievements of Tell, of Wal
lace, of Bruce and of Washington,
whether told in legend or in song, still
stir the hearts and thrill the souls of
their descendants ; and towering shafts
mark the resting place of the great
soldiers of the world who fought the bat
tles of their countries ; and here in our
own America monuments to heroism and
patriotism overshadow every hillock, on
whose graves tears fall and over whose
dust blossoms cluster ever bright and
fair.
In this land of freedom, consecrated to
the maintenance of the equal rights of
all men before the law, we have sought
to do more than simply perpetuate the
fame of those who were the leaders in
our battles. True, we give to them all
meed of praise, and as their merit de
serves we perpetuate tneir name ana
fame in marble, in oratory and in song.
But recognizing do distinction of caste,
no privilege of birth or position, we thank
God that oar soldiers fought on patriotic
fields, where all, both officers and pri
vates, caught some gleam of glory ; and
we desire to do more than all other na
tions to perpetuate the memory of every
one who, rising above the fog of human
seltinhness and party environments, gave
np his life that this Union might live.
Time will never efface the record of
that valor which our citizen soldier gave
to the world and which upheld our Con
stitution and preserved us as a Nation.
Grander than the stateliest silver-voiced
epic, nobler than the fairest dream of
chivalry, is the sacrifice of the humblest
soldier for the preservation of bis coun
try. Honor shall the statesman have ;
glory for the military chieftains ; but the
grandest and truest gift from hearts both
loyal and true, the nation grants the
private soldier love.
And thus it is on such occasions as this
we love to assemble and "speak of the
past no present destroys, and call over
the deeds of the brave army boya. A
history of the world is the history of its
heroes. They have been the hinges on
which have turned the fates of empires
and kingdoms and the destinies of na
tions. In quiet majesty and silent mag
nificence they stand as monuments for
us to gaze epon with feelings of admira
tion and exultation. The helmet, the
spear, the plume, the sword, the on-set
these have been the themes of classic
funeral eloquence.
3Ien have been prone to forget what
has been done by the gifted and great in
literature, science and art, The world
has seldom remembered long those whose
lives were rounded with the humility of
good deeds and gentle affections. Nations
have reared monuments and arches to
the captains of armies, rarely to the lead
ers of opinion. But we can feel thankful
for a better'civilzation. Even the success
ful general of to-day must have more
than the brute instinct which led thou
sands of heroes of old to fame and im
mortality. He must have the knowledge
of human nature by which to rule men,
not merely In the ranks, tut in the Sen
ate, the Forum and among the masses.
He must ever be ready to strike for tran
quil homes and bnman happiness, and
above all, he most have in-woven, like
threads of silver light, that patriotic de
ration which sees in his country "s flag a
symbol of order and onity, and in his
country's civil glory Lis highest hope
and loftiest inspiration. -
If it should be asked, What should be
the design of those who would make a
nation strong and endoringT I answer,
omei
SOMERSET, PA.,
it ought to be patriotism. The great de
sign hhoulj not be science, philosophy,
or philanthrophy, for these grow out of
those elements in the system of univer
sal instruction, but patriotism the love
of our country, our own, our native land,
with all its mirrored lakes and winding
rivers, its fertile fields and boundless
prairies, its history and its heroes, its
legends and its songs, its laws and its
institutions. It was this that filled the
uninda and stirred the souls of three hun
dred and forty thousand soldiers who
gave their lives for their country, and
who sleep
"On Fame's eternal camping ground.
Their Mlent lent are s,naii.
While glory guoriUwith rolemn round.
The bivou ac of the deaL"
This country is great and broad enough
for the oppressed of all nations, but it is
too small and too narrow for an Anarch
ist, a Socialist or a Mafia. The free w inds
of heaven which sweep over us are
freighted with freedom and will bear on
their breasts the fold of no other flag save
those of the stars and stripes. We boast
it as the distinguishing feature of our free
institutions that all power lies with the
people.
This is well, while the people are ca
pacitated to use that power wisely and
intelligently ; otherwise it is but a knife
in the hands of a maniac, A republic in
which the great mam of the people, who
hold the sovereign power, is given up to
ignorance and degradation, is the grand
est treason that can be devised against
humanity. It is like a volcanic moun
tain murmuring with internal fires which
rage and swelter within ita bosom, but
which sends np to the surface a genial
warmth that covers it with verdure; thus
lifting itself in beauty and grandeur to
the eye, and inviting from afar the hum
ble dweller of the plain to climb its
blooming sides and fix amidst its loveli
ness their treacherous habitations. Poet
ry has sung the prai.ses of the enlighten
ed few, but History is a sterner monitor
and she raises her voice and warns us as
we value our liberty and our political
existence to seek out the amelioration
and improvement of the many. The
French Revolution of 17!i8, stands as a
solemn and terrible example of an ex
periment toward freedom conducted by
the enlightened few while the great
mass of the people remained sunk in
ignorance and moral debasement. It
has not been left for me to portray the
reign of terror. It stands out in dark
and awful characters upon faithful his
tory, for a lesson to the latest posterity ;
unless posterity shall refuse to credit
such a tale of depravity and horror, and
treat it only as an ingenious fable of an
tiquity. The stage of French affairs
throughout the period of the Revolution,
what was it for twelve years, but a great
scaffold, streaming with blood, and chok
ed np with human heads ; while seated
round upon it muflled in robe of blaok
and ankle deep in gore, sat the enlight
ened few, Condocet, Danton, Marat, Rob
espierre, Briasot, Roland and Barrene,
presiding as priests at the sacrifice, and
feasting the sense with the savor of per
petual slaughter. Let us then as we con
gratulate ourselves on the past, the rich
ness of the present, be admonished 'by
the lessons of history and look well to
the future. It never was in the ordina
tion of Providence or of nature, that an
ignorant people should long be a free
people. With all the forms of freedom
they become their own tyrants; and it
is not too bold to say that they may even
blect a tyrant by their own free suffrages
and serve him in his tyranny. It is one
ofthewavs in which Trovidence-chas
tises a degenerate people, to give them
rulers after their own heart. Augustus
was praised as a god, w hile he trampled
on the neck of Roman Liberty ; asJ Na
poleon, as First Consul, made his tri
umphal entry into Paris crowned with
flowers by the hands of beauty and cheer
ed with the plaudits of admiring thou
sands. Let us then no longer hug the delusion,
that in a free government which is ever
the mirror of the popular mind, imaging
forth the character as well as the wishes
of the people, a free constitution and an
impartial representation, are all that ia
necessary for the preservation of liberty.
Virtue, intelligence and patriotism are
the great pillars on which must rest the
fabrics of republican institutions. But
these are not of spontaneous growth;
they are the work of care and culture and
it is only by fostering of common schools
and the encouragement of all those socie
ties and organizations, of whatever name,
which have for their object the intel
lectual and moral culture of our youth
and the diffusion of patriotism among
our people that they can be spread as a
leaven throughout the great mass of so
ciety, and thoroughly incorporated into
the national mind. Has this great and
vital truth fallen with its full weight
upon the public mind? Is it thus acted
on by those who are the constituted guar
dians of the public weal ; by the free,
men that crowd the polls, by our State
Legislatures, our Governors and our
Congress? About what have been the
long legislative and congressional de
bates? What has been the great care of
legislation as shown by the public jour
nals ? The monied corporations of the
country ; her projects of physical im
provement, and the corporations of gi
gantic and disastrous monopolies. Mil
lions are voted for public works and mil
lions more squandered upon naval equip
ments and military affairs. Are these
the bulwarks which statesmen and legis
lators provide to preserve and perpetuate
the liberties of a nation ? Well may we
address them with the language of He
cuba to Priam, as she saw the feeble old
King about to seize his arms for the pro
tection of his empire, while imperial
Troy was already sacked y the Argive
foe and her mighty burning reddened all
the Aegean Sea, "Time needs no such
assistance nor such defenses."
Look abroad over this country, mark
her extent, her wealth, her fertility, her
boundless resources, the gigantic ener
gies which every day developes and
which she seems already bending on that
fatal race tempting, but always Caul to
a republic the race for physical great
ness and aggrandizement. Behold, too,
that coutinous and might tide of popula
tion, native and foreign, which is forever
rushing through the great valley toward
the setting sun ; sweeping away the wild
erness before it, like grass before the
mower ; waking op industry and civiliza
tion in its progress; studding the once
solitary rivers of the West with marts
j and cities ; dotting its boutdless prairies
ESTABLISHED 1827.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1891.
with human habitation ; penetrating
every green nook and vale ; climbing
every fertile ridge, and still gathering
and pouring onward to form new States
in thotss vast and as yet thinly set
tled solitudes, where the mighty riv
ers roll along their majestic currents
and "hear no sound save their own
dashing." Mark all this, and then say
by what bounds will you hold together
so mighty a people? what defenses will
you raise for so vast an empire? what
safeguard will you give us against the
dangers which must inevitably grow out
of so vast and complicated an organiza
tion ? In the swelling of our prosperity,
what a field will open for political cor
ruption ! what a world of evil passions to
control, and jarring interests to recon
cile ! what motives to private and official
cupidity ! what prizes will hang at a
thousand goals to dazzle and tempt am
bition ! Do we exjiect to find our securi
ty against these dangers in railroads and
canals ? in our military posts and ships
of war? Alas, when shall we learn wis
dom from the lessons of history ? tur
most dangerous enemies will grow up in
our own bonom. We erect bulwarks
against foreign invasion, but what pow
er shall we find in walls and armies to
protect the eople against themselves ?
There is but one sort of internal improve
ment more thoroughly internal than
that which is proclaimed by the Civil
Service Reformer of to-day, that ia able
to save this country. The improvement
of the mnds and souls of her people. If
this improvement will be neglected, and
the increase of our population fail to keep
pace with our physical advancement, one
of two alternatives is certain either the
nation must dissolve in anarchy under
rulers of its own choice, or if held to
gether at all, it must be by a government
so strong and vigorous as to be utterly
inconsistent with constitutional liberty.
Let the one hundred millions who, at no
very distant day, will swarm our cities
and fill our great interior, remain punk
in ignorance, and nothingshortofan iron
despotism will suffice to govern the na
tion to reconcile its vast and conflicting
interest., and hold back its fiery and
headlong energies from dismemberment
and ruin. Those Lo now crowd the
busy scene of human affairs w ill soon
have passed from the stage of the patst,
and tlit-ir places will be filled by the men
of a new generation.
But grant that they may preserve the
high truat in the spirit and virtue of
their illustrious ancestors, and in all
ages to come to perpetuate those social
and pol'tical institutions, and those prin
ciples of civil and religious liberty by
stamping the great features of our nation
al character with a moral worth and in
telligence which shall prove impregna
ble in that hour of trial, when armies
and fleets and fort'uK-Uons shall be in
vain.
Every nation has its mounuments,
whether of art, of glory, or of science.
They are the representatives of national
character. The pop!e themselves look
up to them as memorials of their great
ness, and strangers look njon them to
know what that nation is. We dig them
out of the ruins of antiquity to learn what
antiquity was and w e seek them in the
structure of modern society,to know what
the modern world has done. What is
the monument of the American people ?
Our improvements are all social improve
ments ; we have no other glory which is
not held in common with other nations.
But we do claim to have acknowledged
asserted and maintained principles of so
ciety and of goverament which were
never acknowledged before by any na
tion. We have embodied them in a great
charter of human rights. It is the sole
representative of our character. It is our
monument, and it is gazed upon by oth
ers with an interest and intensity great
er than was ever affixed upon the Pyra
mids of Egypt, or the gilded and magnif
icent structures of the lOtli century. The
corner stone of our monument was bath
ed in the blood of our revolutionary fa
thers, but it was built in ccoin promise,
until transformed by the powers of war
and peace into the fullness of freedom's
magna charta, in whose light the God
given law of equality for man, stood forth
resplendent when iti crowning summit,
stained with the martyred Lincoln's
blood, was placed in ita lofty position by
a million brave and heroic boys in blue.
If, then, there i any gtery in our govern
ment, anything valuable in its princi
ples, let us study, love and venerate the
great morument of this nation our con
stitution. Then, in this free land, where
each can act and speak for himself, where
the love of country, tie ocean tide pa
triotism, flows deep and strong where re
ligion shall bear sway over a virtuous,
intelligent, and patriotic people, our
whole national being shall be elevated
by this glorious structure.
It will be in the future as in the past,
past, an anchor to keep this Republic to
her moorings through tie fiercest storms.
Secure in herself from internal conten
tions, secure in the mhtof a national
intelligence and virtue and union, though
the waves of the com aot ions of other
nations may break on our shores and
hurl their spray high to heaven ; and the
deep m titterings of the convulsions of
earth's dynasties, uptoix from their old
foundations, may be heard across the
Atlantic ; yet, eerene in her own impug
nable strength, our Repiblic shall calmly
regard these changes nimoved.to await
her destiny in high reliance upon Him
who laid the foundation and reared the
superstructure of her prosperity and
greatness, and, with tht voices of mill
lions, solemnly swell ;he harmony of j
our National song to Hi in
" Our Father's Ood u Thee.
Author of Ulierty
To thee we sing.
Long may our lanl lie bright,
W lib Freedom's holy light.
Protect us by Th; might.
Ureal God our king.''
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ID
Mrs. Darrow's Poorhouse.
BT LAURA J. RtTTENHOCSE.
Mrs. Par-row, who was sometimes dis
respectfully called " Old Bets," hurried
through the gate that led into her small
yard, and unlocked her door with unusu
al energy.
She untied her rusty black bonnet,
carefully brushed away some imaginary
dust, opened a closet door, took out an
old-fashioned bandbox, and deposited
the bandbox in it.
Then she folded her thin woolen shawl
neatly, put it in its proper corner of the
upper bureau drawer, and hen replaced
her well-worn alpacqa dress with a calico
wrapper.
She was tall and thin, with a hard-set
face creased by innumerable wrinkles,
that made her appear much older than
she really as. Her abundant dark hair,
thickly streaked with gray, was pulled
back tightly from her forehead, and held
in an unbecoming knot by an old
14 tusk comb " that bad once been her
mother's.
There was not a soft line in Mrs. Dar
row's whole contour, and she seemed the
embodiment of angles and unyielding
hardness.
She was a widow now. Four years be
fore poor old Job Darrow had meekly
and not unwillingly given up the ghost.
In spite of the years that had elapsed
since then, people still talked of the hard
time he had endured in his unhappy and
unlovely home, where only the barest
necessities were doled out to him, though
he was a skilled, sober mechanic, and
earned good wages. His wife had per
ils ted in putting the greater part of his
earnings in the savings bank, lest that
he and she should come to the poor
house. She had nursed this fear of ending her
days in the poorhouse, until it had be
come a mania with her ; and after her
husband's death had given herself up
wholly to the notion.
No suffering or destitution could be
great enough to enlist herspmpathy. She
worried the d.tlers from whom she pur
chased her scanty supplies by her " tast
ings," which often amounted to nearly
as much as her purchases ; and by her
bagjzling, penurious waysj.and her fault
finding.
On the morning of which I write, Mrs.
Darrow's face wore an air of triumph.
Her eyes shone eagerly, and her thin lips
were as near a smile as it was possible
for them to be, after the long years in
which smiling bad become a lost art to
them.
As she hastily buttoned her wrapoerj
she muttered to herself :
"I'll settle the matter right now, I
guess. I'll go over and drag it away be
fore they know what I'm np to, and I'll
get some iraiup Ut cut It up for me Boon's
1 can ; I'll give him a soup bone in the
cupboard, and that corn bread, since it's
so hard and dry I can't eat it. It seems
like a shame to give that bone to a lazy,
good-for-nothing tramp, but I'm afraid
I'll have to ; well, there's one comfort in
it that polel. make stove wood enough
to last me at least three weeks, and not
cost me a cent."
At this point in her soliloquy she tied
a faded gingham sunbonnet upon her
head and walked out of her house, the
air of triumphant satisfaction merging
into defiance. She crossed the street and
approached the house of her neighbor
and one time friend, Mrs. Rebecca John
son. Directiy in front of Mrs. Johnson's
house a disused telephone pole was ly
ing. It had been blown down and bro
ken by a severe storm several weeks be
fore, and Mrs. Darrow had looked upon
it with covetous eyes ever since.
Morning, noon and night she thought
of the pile of stove wood into. which it
might be converted, until it seemed she
could never really rest again unless she
possessed it.
This morning her grasping spirit had
urged her to go to the manager of the tel
ephone exchange and ask permission to
usethe pole.
To do her justice, it had cost her a
hard struggle to go. She was so grudging
herself, that she felt sure he would re
fuse, and perhaps insult her ; but in
spite of this fear, she at last picked up
courage to go.
"Mr. Ingram, one of them telephone
poles has fell down in our street broke
in that big storm, you know. Taint any
account, and it's dreadfully in the way.
Do you enre if I hire a man to move it?"
she asked, nervously.
Mr. Ingram looked np somewhat ab
sently. He was very busy at that mo
ment, and a good deal worried over the
complaints of poor telephone service,
with which he had been besieged since
the night of the storm.
He looked at Mrs. Darrow, her shabby
but clean dress, her thin, restless kands,
her many wrinkles, and the Biht touch
ed his heart,"
" Oh ! you mean another one of those
broken poles, do you ? In your way, is
it? Certainly, madam, you can have it
removed if you want to. I should have
had it done myself as soon as I got
through repairing damages. I shall be
glad to have it disposed of, I'm sure.
Good morning, madam V
And so, before she fairly realized it,
Mrs. Darrow had been bowed out of the
office,
Her conscience did not upbraid her for
having given him to understand that the
pole was in her way, when it was really
in front of her neighbor's house across
the street. She even indulged in a sly
chuckle, as she though of the chagrin
that would fill Mrs Johnson's heart
when she found that the "pole was ta
ken away.
What mattered it if her neighbor real
ly needed the pole for stove wood ? She
was not responsible for Becky Johnson's
poverty. So reasoning with herself, with
cautious steps she approached 'he covet
ed pole, and attempted to lift one end of
it.
But she had either overrated her own
strength, or underrated the weight of the
pole. She could hardly stir the heavy
piece of wood.
In the midst of her efforts Mr. John
son happened to glance out of the win
dow and saw Mrs. Darrow trying, as she
supposed, to steal the telephone pole ic
broad daylight.
Now, the very next morning after the
storm; is Mr. Ingram passed her houa in
specting damages, Mrs. Johnson had as ti
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ed Ljm to give her the pole, and he had
cheerfully given it to her; but he had
forgotten all about it a moment after
ward a fact which Mrs. Johnson did
not know, of course.
Accordingly, when she saw Mrs. Dar
row vainly trying to drag the pole away.
her wrath arose at once.
" Kate, Kate !" she called to her stout
daughter, come here, quick ! There's
Betsy Darrow going to drag off our tele
phone pole, and I'd just hired a man to
come and cut it up to-morrow. Run out
and take it away from her ! If it w an't
for my rheumatiz I'd go myself, and give
her a piece of my 'mind, too! Hurry up,
can't you?"
Kate hastily wiped the dish water off
her hands, ran out of the house, and at
once began to reproach Mrs. Dajtow.
fc What are you coming here and try
ing to take away our telephone pole for? "
she said, excitedly.
" Taint your telephone pole ! Mr. In
gram gave it to me," returned Mrs. Dar
row. "Weil, of all the the whoppers,
that beats em," said Kate. "M!m!
here's Mrs. Darrow saying Mr. Ingram
gave her the pole, when we can prove he
gave it to us !" she screamed out to her
mother.
At this apparent falsehood on Mrs,
Darrow's part, Mrs. Johnson's indigna
tion overcame her fear of physical pain,
and she hobbled to the door in response
to her daughter's call.
" Betsy Darrow, you know's well's
you're living, now, that Mr. Ingram nev
er gave that pole to you in his born dart.
Me gave it to me, and don't let me see
you touching it, much less trying to haul
it away," she called out, angrily.
" You go sit down again, Becky John
son. I reckon I know what I m a-doing.
This pole belongs to me, and you and
Kate and all your kin ain't going to keep
me from taking it,"
" Well, if that don't beat all 1 I guess
we'll see whether you take that poie or
not, Kate, set down on it!" command
ed Mrs. Johnson.
Kate sat down on the poie, laughing
derisively as Mrs. Iarrow strained and
tugged away, nntil her naturally pale
face became purple.
" Keep on sitting, Kate '." urged Mrs.
Johnson ; and Kate oteyed, until from
sheer exhaustion Mrs. Darrow gave up
the unequal contest,
" Kate Johnson, if you don't get up off
that there pole I'll have you arrested, as
sure 8 you're alive '." -be threatened. But
Kato only laughed the more, and settled
her hundred and fifty pounds more firm
ly on the disputed pole.
' I don't think any policeman is going
to meddle with me for setting down
on my own ma's property," she said,
spiritedly.
" Tain't your ma's property ! I tell
you It's mine. nd vo"'d Detter get up
this minute, before I drag you along of
the pole into the yard," said Mrs. Dar
row, as she gasped for breath.
Finding that threats were futile, she
seized the long, slender upper section of
the pole and began to drag it across the
Btreet.
Seeing this, Kate sprang up and pulled
the pole from her enemy with such for-e
that she fell in a heap under the pole on
the ground.
Mrs. Darrow felt that her opportunity
had come, so, while Kate struggled to
arise, she seized the large end of the polo
and in one mighty effort succeeded in
lifting it from the ground.
But her strength was not sufficient to
bear the weight, and the pole fell upon
her feet;with such force as to crush them,
both very badly.
She uttered a sharp cry, and sank
down so sick and faint that she could
scarcely hold up her head.
"I reckon you're tickled nearly to
death, Becky Johnson, sence you see me
sitting here like a rat in a trap, cripp!d
for life, very likely, all for trying to get
what rightfully belonged to me. But if
you think I'm going to holler, aud fiint,
and cut up as some women would, you're
much mistaken," she said, defiantly.
The next moment she had dropped
over in a dead swoon.
By this ticie Kate had come to her as
sistance. Oh, ma, she looks as if she's dead '.
Call to Mr. Sanders to come, quick ! IPs
digoing a cistern in Walter's back yard ;
I'm afraid to fool with the pole any
more ; I might hurt her worse than
ever."
With great excitement and feelings of
pity, not unmixed with the thought that
Mrs. Darrow was receiving her just de
serts, Mrs. Johnson obeyed.
Mr. Sanders came, and in a few min
utes the unconscious woman was laid on
Mrs. Johnson's best bed.
"Tain't worth while to carry her home.
There's nobody there to take care of her,
and she'll need lots of taking rare of be
fore she's throug with this, I reckon,"
said Mrs. Johnson, her warm heart be
ginning to swell with sympathy, as she
looked at the white face that had been
so dear to her in her girlhood.
Then followed days and weeks of suf
fering ; days in which Mrs. Darrow was
a helpless, irritable burden, bemoaning
her fate that a surgeon had been called,
and that the time had at last onme when
she was going straight to the poorhouse.
Kate was her tender, patient nurse,
bearing silently all her fault-finding and
penuriousness. But Mrs. Johnson's spir
its boiled hotly within her, until at last
her indignation reached a climax.
" See here, now, Betsy Darrow, I've
too'A just all I'm going to from you '. I
look at yon and wonder sometimes is thU
can be the sweet-tempered, merry, free
hearted girl I used to love more'n I lov
ed myself. If you'd a died before you
grew into a cross, stingy, mean woman,
no more like that sweet girl was than a
wild rose ia like a cockle bur, you would
have been fit to meet your good old
mother, and we could all have loved
Bessie memory. Do you remember
how we used to call you Bessie then, in
stead of all ' Old Bets,' and how you put
your arm around me as we stood in your
prttty room in the old farm house the
day you was married, and said you'd
neTer quit loving me as long's you lived ?
And yon talked of th good yoa was go
ing to do for others ; of church work and
Sunday-school, and such like. Yet here
you lie, with your life as bare and ogly
as a worn out field. No, it doesnt even
amount to 's much ' that, because the
old field would warm op when God's sun
would shine on it, and the bird' might
light on it, and tSe posies come np and
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cover the worthless blotches. But you,
Betsy Iarrow, what is there warm or
sweet, or of any use to others about
you V
Here Mrs. Johnson paused as if to give
the sick woman a chance to defend her
self, but as no reply came, she began
again :
The Lord has been good enough to
give yon plenty of money, and yo've bin
pilin' it up in the savin's bank for years,
too keep from goin' to the poorhouse, an"
after all, you've got there ! Yes, this is a
kind of a poor hous you're ia now, but
Kate and I are happy in it r would be
if it wasn't for your sromblinn. And you
are in a powerful poor house hen yu're
at home a real mean poor house, too,
when there ain't evencomf table victuals
nor anything else worth living for. I 'low
you can't Cud a poor bouse worse than
your own ; the law wouldn't permit it ;
so the tiiue has come for yju to spend
some of the money you've been a-hoarding.
I can't buy the delicate, nourishin'
food yon need, though you're welcome
as the air you breath to the best I've got
if it was only fitting. So you've gt
to open your heart and your pocketbook,
and buy iel'ies and soups and fruits and
oysters, aud wood enough to keep roar
ing hot fires, 'cause that telephone pole is
burned u;, and I haven't money enough
to buy more. And if you're afraid Kate
and me will get some of the (enefit, you
can be carried over home. But w hether
you go or stay, you've got to buy the
things you need 1"
Mrs. Johnson said this with such firm
ness and so much w ith the air of loving
authority that sli had used to her friend
in the old long ago that Mrs, Iarrow feit
a queer upheaval within her heart, and a
sudden rush of sweet memories of the
deer, glad, innocent days of. her girl
hood. " You're pretty hard on me, Rebecca,
but I guess I deserve it, I never thought
before w hat a regular poor house I was a
living in all the time while I was saving
and pinching to keep from going to
one.
"And and Rebecca," she said, paus
ing tenderly over the name by w hich she
used to call herfriend, "do you think if
I beg'ia clean over aaia and tr;jd to live
as a woman ong tit, that God could for
give me aud love me again ?"
Unmindful cf her rheumatic limbs, Iie-
Lecca dropped upon her knees by her
guest's bedside, and wnh a great sob put
her arms around the lean, long neck.
" Oh ! I know be would, Bessie He'll
make you all over again, if you oniy let
Him."
She kissed the wrinklad face, as the old
time love that so long had slumbered
burst into life auain.
"Seems like you've been gone all
these years, and just come bacif, dear
Bessie, she whisered.
I reel s ir I nad been Having a ion,
miserable nightmare, and's if yoa just
come and waked me. Rebecca, you
don't want to send me home sow, do
you ? I sha'n't be so cross to Kate after
this. Somehow it made- me feel bitter
and jealous to see how much ycu loved
each other, and how happy you was,
even if you was poor, And 'I was mean
enough to think you was glad I got hurt
w ith the telephone pole."
"O, Bessie: how could you?" inter
rupted Mrs. Johnson.
" But I was, though, and I wished I'd
never seen the old pole ; and now here
I am, thanking the Lord for letting it
smash into your house. My mother used
to say
iod mor- In mvsieru.n way
Hi., wuulers to perform.
" He used that blessed old telephone
pole to change my heart and bring me
back to His fold.
" O, Rebecca ! how glad I am .'"
The Last Straw.
One of the ablest men of a century ago
in freaks of the imagination and general
airy embellishment of simple facta was
one Monsieur Jarbe, a Gascon, for a long
time a resident of Paris.
Ia his service was an old valet known
as Jean, whose unquestioning faith and
earnest devotion had done more to ren
der permanent the habit of shooting
w ith the long bow, which so marked his
master, than all other causes combined.
This resulted from the latter invariably
calling upon him after getting off some
particularly- tiue effort in the way of fic
tion, to clinch it as a matter within his
personal knowledge. And when the
gray headed old servitor corroborated
with all seriousness the inventive Jarbo's
narratives, there wero few indeed who
didn't at least pretend to believe even
his most wonderful tales.
Of course there were reasons for this
compliance of Jean's apart from anv
Iart:cu!ar tie of sentiment between Liin-
stif and master. The old fellow had a
weakness for finery and dress. When
ever, therefore, Jarbo haJ a dinner party
for whuee aslonislimeiit, if not edifica
tion, lie had concocted the narration of
some startling exploit, he a! says pre
ceded the event by the present to iean
of a new doublet, a pair of silk stockings,
shoe-buckles or other garment On these
occasions the valrt's presence was al ways
set -red by hi.s acting as the chief of the
table attendants.
One day, when Jarbo expected several
high government dignitaries, he gave
Jean a particularly neat pair of breeches.
The very sight oftheui made"his heart
dance with delight, although he felt
that such a gift must be the prelude to a
more than usually stroog demand upon
him for dinner story indorsement
Nor was he disappointed. At table
that night Jarbo excelled himself. Never
had he painted his personal exploits in
such weird colors. Even Jean, hardened
as he was, termed paid at his master's
stretchin it, and for a moment left the
room. Finaily Jarbo turned, with the
customary words :
"And here is old Jean, who w as with
me at the time, and will prove it" '
But his eyes started from his head and
his jaw dropped as the valet put a bundie
in his hands.
Take back the breeches, sir. I can't
do it. Ii'g too much for even me."
The worm had turned, the last straw
had broken the camel's back. PI,J.i
(Ulphia Ti.iu.
The worst caws of scrofula, salt rhecm
and other diseases of the blood, are cured
by Hood's Sarsaparilla.
It is unsafe to trust a person who is
afraid of death.
Road3 and Horsos.
The cm litiocs of a inmaip. ra.s j
coin try hie a very dire : e-iioi:..c
bearing upon th earning oa;-aiy and
the value of horstsand ether draft ai'A
mak If a hr:e can ,! one third ai -.
work oa a good road and ( m - ,.1
working condition- one-thud longt r tnan
he can (u a bad road, then hi fiun.ii
capacity and hence his value is i': rra.-c t
just one-third. This a,s;i!i;t,tiou i bi.-cd
Umii a very low esii:i;a!. la prob
ability if it were jiosfiWu to make an
exact calculation it would be- found that
the earning capacity ind the tctil !en-!a
of serviceable life woni.l ! more nearly
doubled than be increase ! only o.! j rr
per cent Tho late census enumera
tors found that there were iu this coun
try H.Oofv-V) hor-s, valued at 7 each,
and 2;.";'i mules, valued at " each.
This makes the total vuln it.'-a of the
horses and mules ia the Unite I Stati-a
fl.llS,tUJJ!4. All of these fine s-v!
mules work at some tic.e on tbe n.a l-,
and, indeed, much the greater part of te
total work done by theiu is u pun country
roa lsand city streets. If aii th.' wits
done by them was upon t.ie roaJ.-s tho
increased valuation, based up-u t!..
above hypothesis of earning capacity,
would be vo7-.',S77,l'y. But as all ot thw
work is not done on the roa-,:s, suj-i.-oeo
we reduce this by one-half, and we would
have by a general imprveuu-ut of i:;e
roads of the country our property in
horses and luules al once increased ia
value over jlS0,0mVHK.
I have rot at hand any tijures show
ins the value of enrriai, belies, and
other road vehicles in t!i;s country. To
put their Talue at "00,i.i.t"- would be
placing it so low that there would l r.
chance to say that the estimate-, or iriies.
if you choots1, was exai-erate.!. Taking
into consideration the cost of the repairs
necessitated by reason cf bad rouds an I
the shortened serviceable life of su. h ve
hicles, I feel safe in assum ir..' that ita
good roads these vehicles would i.e-t on,
half longer, and their value bv tlieref-ire
increased at least SisVMVK'. Taking
these two Sources of increased valuations
together we should have au enhanced
property valuation of siO.inni.oiw, ail
brought about by the iiupruvi uient jf
the common roads.
It has been estimated by t!n authori
ties of the tate of New Ycrk that lib
$l0,l00d the roads of the err.ire tate
could be put in very goo-1 condition. The
roads in New York are not better thaa ia
other Suites ; they are a great deal worse
than in some of the New England States
for instance, and I therefore asstitiie that
thus estimate cau be followed as a gui,!o
in determining what would 1-ri needed
to build in the whole country eveilent
roads, whica, once constructed, cculd re
cheaply and easily maintained, t'on-i
ering the area of New Yoik r.r. l tiie den
sity of population, and using these fact m
in the problem, I estimate that j' t' ojmi ,
000 would give us a good systeiu of com
mon roads ail of the country. This is a
great deal of money, but it docs riot seem
great wheu compared with the valtu s
which would be enhanced by its wi.-o
expenditure.
In the two items of horses and vehicles,
as I have shown, the;iricrex-e-l va.':;e of
these properties would more th.in pay f r
the improvements. But thew are not
the greatest values by any means. Tho
effect upon the horses and vehicles u-'-ed
uog) the roads would le more immedi
ate and more direct, and therefore I base,
called particular attention to this ph:'.-e
of the subject, The enhancement of the
value of real estate would be so jrrat
that the items I have mentioned v.oiil 1
seem so Insignificant us not to ! e woctVi
discussing. In one neighborh ood alone,
that of Union county, N. J., the improve
ment of the roads has charcrod values so
greatly that men who a few years a-o
were straggling farmers, with earnings so
scant that it was difficult to make t wo
ends meet, are now not only vc'.!-tk-.hi
but absolutely rich. They can sell their
crops at good profits ; they cm raise more
profitable crops ; they can g-1 these crops
quickly and cheaply to uiaiket, and
their lauds, for which at low prie s it
was formerly almost in. possible to tin I
purchasers are ia demand at rrh s whtch,
compared with the old order of things,
seem fabulous, and the mere mention cf
which suggests a most unaceustocj-.-d
condition of opulence.
It is hard to put any money estimate
upon the value of au in.pr' ve l s ,eial
condition. Indeed, ia this material
world, when our thoughts run too much
to concrete values, and dwell perhaps
too little upon that which is merely h:i
man, sentimental, or a -thetic, it is very
well to be able, in considering I he bei.t
fits to be derived from an unJerta'ii;g
such as the general improvement of the
common roads and interior method. t-f
communication, to put aide al
social aspects of the titration
1 hut the
, It has
often been said that the great intellect
ual work of the world is done ia title.-,
and this is accounted for from the lct
that the constant contact ef num upou
man brings out the fKt endeavor of each,
and keeps the intellects a uie. Lite ia
the country is (aid to be intellectual stag
nation, and certainly it is so to i.me ex
tent. With good reads neighbor;. ooda
would be brought more cloeeiy tcgeti.er,
there would be le.-s stagnation cf inici
lectual life, and the conflict f mind
against mind would create a stimulus and
arouse intellectual activity.
But to return to the horse pha.-e of the
question. Where there aie tt d roads
in this country the vulne of hor-'s is
appreciated in another way. Tie y
better bred, and this iiiifrovei.it nl in the
straiii of blood of eu'irre m..ke tho
horses much more valuable and u- fa'.
In Vermont, whence fcaa.e ihe old and
famous Morgan sicca, the ro;.'L- are coii.
paratively excellent. In the tar-i.uue.-t
Biuegrass region of Kentucky the rc.a.s
are very good indeed. If a neighborhood
has good roads the former is apt to .rite
more enlightened attention to the- breed
ing of hi.s horses. Where the reads are
bad a slow and slupgiih horse answers
every purpose well enongh.
JiOlN (iii Mr ; S; :.ki.
Golden Bricks.
Till God stops to quarrel over eiee-Js,
we should not.
The liar is wicked, and aii who believe
liars are weak.
The world is learning that b-ok edu
cation is the least of ail.
To opon the doors to m-w hit a- ij to
open the way to the liteiary j-a'l- r of
Heaven,
The wife who is tot treated as a slave,
but as an equal, is always the Lurbaada
best friend.
It is better to attempt much and suc
ceed in part, than to attem; t nothing
beyond criticism.
In Russia.
Official Yoa cannot stay in this coun
try, sir.
Traveler Then Ml leave it.
Ollicial Have ycu a permit to leave ?
Traveler No, sir.
Official Then you cannot go. I leave
you twenty-four hoars to make up your
mind as to what you shall do. .V. 1.