VOL. XXI.
A. TRODTMAN & SON.
BUTLER, PA..
HEALER IS-
DRY GOODS,
NOTIONS, TRIMMINGS,
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, RUGS, ETC.
We have just received and placed on sale our Spring Stock of Carpets in
all grades and descriptions, from the Lowest Trices to the Best Quality
We E«p<* lally Invite jon locall :."d E*a..«l»eSlo< k and Prlrwu
EMBR OID
Joit opened, a Splendid Stock ol all kinds .od Myles o( Embroideriesin Swisi,
\ainsook and Hamburg and Inserting to match, and vve arc offering e
whole lot at astonishing LOW PRICKS.
New White Qoods of all Descriptions.
uc! tißTins, uci mm shims.
Lace Bed Spreads, muslin Underwear, Skirts, Night Dresses,
Chemises, Drawers, Infants' Robes.
o
Oar inducements.—We offer vou the Largest Stock and guarantee you the
LOWEST PRICES. TRODTMAN k SON.
MAI* STREET, BITLEB, PA.
FARMERS READ THIS.
The Bissell Chilled Plow
Is made of the best material, by skilled mechanics under the
supervision of Mr. T. M Biesell, a veteran plow manufacturer and
inventor, skilled in his art, and after 38 years' experience he feels
justified in claiming for these plows that they are more noai y
perfect and have more points of improvement than any of their
predecessors. Mr. Bissell is the patentee of the Oliver Chilled
Plow, the South Bend Chilled Plow, and the Bissell Chilled
Plow, which is his last and best. We also sell the Diamond Iron,
North Bend and Hillside Plows.
IDE ClllFlOl MOWERS, REIKIS IHDIIIDIIS,
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Dump Rake, the Western Washer—the best in the
world—the Champion Separator and Clover Iluller,
the Harrisburg Traction & Portable Engines.
BufTalo Phosphate,
Acknowledged by farmers to be the best. Also, a line of build
ers' Supplies, Blacksmiths' Supplies, and House Furnishing (ioods
JACKSON & MITCHELL"
BUTLER. PENN'A.
WHERE TO BUT MENS' AND BOYS' CLOTHING,
At the Store of the undersigned, the acknowledge! leader in
CARPETS, CLOTHING
AND
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS.
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Clothing,
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ache-. fullness after eating, aversion to
eiertlon of body or mind, Kructatlon
of food, Iri-ltnbllity of temper, Low
spirits, A fee lint; of Imviufc neglected
some duty , IMulneu, Klutte ring at the
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tlmn. IHahetK Stone_in_tjie
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let, on the "Tus „f 1.1fe," or if you are
laboring un<ler a disease not mentioned
in It or in these advertisements, address
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iumwus, Ohio. (Mo. 4.)
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Health and Happiness.
O DO AS OTHERS
O&OIAF C HAVE DOME.
Are your Kidneys disordered?
• Kidney Wort brought me from IUJ if**®, ,L
were, after 1 had been irtvwi up by is l*- dirf-tor* "»
Detroit." M. W. iH-veraux, Mecbaaio, iouia, Uicb.
Are your nerves weak ?
"Klduajr-Wort cured TOO fr..n, n.-rvi.U I i».-uknc»
Ac .HfUir I waH I,,it ,-KJMM 1.-« l tolivM." Mr. M. St. 11.
Ouodwlu. Kd. Chvitti'u, Monitor CleTvlanil, O.
Have you Bright's Dise?ts<;?
II "Kidney Wort « urfd IH«- when U»Y walcr waj Jimt
like « tuhfk aud thru like bloixl."
Frank Wilaoii, PealKMly. Ummt.
Suffering from Diabetes?
•Xldooy-Wort l-tbanu'i.t »in-< .futrenn Iv [_•'*»«
' «*Y<*r ui»«*d. lllve-<
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Have you Liver Complaint?
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Is your Back lame and aching?
'•lOdney-Wort. (I 1.0tt1.-) curwl m« when I wuisio
Uiu. I tiu'i tu i«.ll <>«»t "f bed."
<!. M. MiiiM.uk.-.-, VVN
Have you Kidney Disease?
"Kldn»-Y-VM»rt made III«* nouud lnllv»-r and kidrn \h
after year* of • HHful t!.n torin»f. Itm worth
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nw »flt-r 18 Jt-arn u>- of other iin-<lii liie»."
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1 Have you Malaria?
"Kldnrj-Wort tnoi dom- t»-tt<T than ui v ollirr
l| mmeily I ovt-r ui»-d In my prijetlr.'.
lir. 1(. K. t.utrk, 8outl» ller<», Vt.
r * Are you Bilious?
• Kidney Wort ban done me m..ro tlian any
otber remedy 1 hare ever tak« n.
Mrn. J. T. (Jnlloway, Klk Hat. Oregon.
s Are you tormented with Piles?
"Kidney w..rt rurr'l u .-r I.IM-dliitf
piled. I»r w. ( Kline r«woinr.ie;id« dlt to u»»
Geo. 11. Ilonit, < 'aahier M. ilank, Myerbiown, Pa.
Are you Rheumatism racked?
"Kidn< y Wort eureu me. after » »r»v. n up to
die l>y phyrfciaiid and I bad dulf« i« d ti.lrty year".
Elbiitlge M airolm, Maine*.
Ladies, are you suffering?
"Kidney Wort . ..r«d in« oi - uliar tn.u. I«-H ■■X
Keverul yearddtan<iln«. Many fi .endd '* •'' I•««» «
jt." Mrs. 11. Lamonaux, Iwlo i.a Jott., \t.
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i and gain Health, Take
y ■ i ■mil' rr—' ——•=> 1
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W i iu. t, J C unly At o , Philadelphia i'a
BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2. 1884
The Lessons of the Year.
| You are larger than a year ago,
And the stories ami the le->sous they, too must
grow
j And coiue to your mind* with a fresh, new
look
On the unlearned page of this old, old hook.
I
! But have you, my dears, learned everything
The brave old year in its arms could bring?
! Oh, all the lessons the school-books brought,
j Perhaps —but the other ones ' Have you
thought.
I That never a blossom looks up but tells
Some story of how its sweet heart swell?
With a grateful love to Hiin who made
Its beauty of sunshine and rain and shade?
' That never a butterfly sips, or a bee,
The nectar too little for us to see,
But out of the picture a lesson goes
Of Him who made clover and bee an-1 rose 0
That never a ripened apple falls,
Nor a grape \ iue purples on dull old walls,
Not a nut couies rustling through the leaves,
Nor a wain goes laden with harvest sheaves.
But in each and all bright eyes may find
How wise and changeless and Heavenly kind
Is He who fashions the endless store
Which blesses the New Year more and more?
And not alone while the warm >kies glow
Are written the lessons for us to know,
But the snow and the ice have a truthful word
Of Him whom we worship and call the Lord
They hide the roots of the honey flowers,
Aud the trees whose fruits fall thick as showers,
And in all the earth and air and sea,
There are stories aud lessons for you and me.
Christian Lender.
The Liquor Business.
The quantity of intoxicating liquors
annually produced in the United
States, and for the most part consum
ed by the people as a beverage, added
to the large importations of such
liquors of various kinds from other
countries, constitutes the continuous
supply out of which arises a larger
evil to the community than from any
other single cause, and, perhaps, than
from all other causes put together. It
amounts to hundreds of millions of
gallons annually produced, and, for the
most p»rt, annually consumed as a bev
erage. The production is immense,
and the consumption keeps pace with
it.
By the liquor business we mean the
capital and labor employed, not only
in the manufacture of these liquors,
but also in their distribution among
consumers by wholesale and retail
dealers. The production is a business,
and the sale is a business, each de
manding capital aud labor; aud the
two together constitute the liquor bus
iness. As a business, in each form,
it demands a large amount of capital,
aud gives employment to a great many
IP borers, while it furnishes a market
for a portion of the products of the
farmer. It supplies a demand, anil,
like every other business, is pursued
for the sake of profit, and yields a profit
to thofce who pursue it. Thousands
of families get their living out of this
business: and some manufacturers and
some dealers accumulate large fortunes
from its profits. The men who pursue
it are not necessarily knaves and rogues.
Many of them may be as honorable in
their business transactions as any
other class of persons
Why, then, should any body select
the liquor business for special condem
nation and attack? Wby should law
interpose its power and put the busi
ness under special restrictions not ap
plied to the silk business, or any other
kind of business? Why not let men
manufacture and sell intoxicating
liquors under no restraint ol her than
that which is applied to all other forms
of industry, giving them the usual pro
tection, and holding them to the u.-ual
responsibilities of law, but not placing
any special hindrance in their way, or
any special mark upon their business?
There is but one answer to these ques
tions; mid that we regard as all sulli
cient. The plain matter of fact is that
the liquor business, in tlie article pro
duced and dealt in and consumed, is
an enormous rurar to the general com
munity. Its record in the result there
of is expressed in two words—woe and
crime—and that, too, on a scale so vast
and various, that thought, in the ellort
to fix its measure, staggers under the
load. The evils of the business to
to human society are simply incalcula
ble; and these evils are connected with
no adequate offset in the way uf com
pensating benefits. The business
steadily supplies the material which
the liquor consumers of the land use,
and, through this use, produces a long
and dreadful catalogue of evils. The
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors, and their common use as a
beverage, are connected together in
the relation of cause aud effect. The
one leads to the other This is the
fact, as everybony knows.
How shall these evils be prevented ?
One method, and certainly a good one
so far as it goes, is by moral suasion,
addressed to those who are in the habit
of using intoxicating liquors. If these
persons would all abandon the habit
the demand would cease, except for
mechanical, chemical and medicinal
purposes, and consequently the supply
would cease, except for these purposes.
But, unfortunately, the remedy by
simple moral suasion is not strong
enough to do the work on a scale at all
equal to the magnitude of the evil.
All experience shows that mere preach
ing and writing against intemperance
is not sufficient to reform the drinking
habits of the people and shut up the
grog-shops of the land. We helieve iu
such preaching aud iu such writing;
but the work to be done is too great to
be accomplished by either, or both put
together.
It is hence necessary for society, in
its organized and political character,
acting through the agency of law, t<
employ the element of Ic/al suasion
and attack the evil in the cause which
furnishes the temptation and the facil
itv The cause is the liquor business
an 1 we have no doubt that society has
the complete right to against
this business to the extent of its entire
prohibition. There is not a in
this land that has not this right, and
not oue in which the exercise thereof
would not be of immetise benefit to the
people. The right rests upou the fun
damental principle of self-protection,
which inalienably inheres in every or
ganized community. F.very license
svstem, from the lowest up to the very
highest, proceeds upon the assumption
that society has the right to regulate
the liquor business to any extent that
may be necessary for the general good
The theory of absolute prohibition and
liceuse is essentially the same. The
difference between the two is that the
former acts upon the whole business,
and prohibits the whole, while the lat
ter acts timply upon the sale of intoxi
cating liquors, and seeks to restrict it,
but does not entirely prohibit it.
And, as between these two methods
of legal action, we say unhesitatingly
that absolute prohibition is, in itself, in
what it proposes, and in the results
when and where it can be applied, far
the better remedy. Here we agree
with the most pronounced Prohibition
ists, and wish them (Jod speed, and
mean to do what we can to promote
their views and hasten the end they
seek. We do not, however, agree with
those Prohibitionists who think there
is no good in a liceuse system, and
who, reasoning from the mere word
"license," infer that it endorses, sanc
tions and fosters the very evil it seeks
to limit and restrain, and hence de
nounce both the name and the thing
This, in our judgment, is not according
to the facts. The restriction of even
the most imperfect license system is
better for the community than "free
rum." The "high license" system is
still better, and is the next thing to ab
solute prohibition; and, if we cannot
get the latter then we welcome the
former, and mean to work and wait for
the day when we can get the latter.
We do not propone to decline the ac
ceptance of a partial good because it is
not the higest and most complete form
of the idea.— The Independent.
Farm Notes.
Sheep to do w r ell must have dry
floors and runs and must have plenty
of Iresh air, aud should bo protected
from the scare of dogs.
All buildings In which horses
cattle, sheep, hogs or poultry are kept
should be well ventilated, but not in
such manner as to admit draughts.
—Bedding for sheep not only prom
ises health but assists in preventing
dirt in the wool. Cleanliness is as,
indispensable to sheep as to other
stock.
—A steamer for cooking food will
pay for its cost in two s;asons. If it
does not add to the bulk of food it
renders it more easily digested aud
more nourishing.
—From four acres of ground a mar
ket garden at Morris, 111, during the
past season, made a net profit of sl,
300, not including the vegetables lor
his own family.
—lt has been announced that a
company in St. Louis propose to feed
a large lot of stock hogs on the banks
of the Mississippi, taken from the stock
yards at St. Louis.
—With plenty of good hay corn may
advantageously be fed to sheep with
good results. From one to one and a
half pounds, according to the size of the
sheep, will be required, with what hay
{ used additional.
•I —A Baltimore firm has introduced
I the Japanezo persimmon into this
I country, and planted 1,000,000 trees
I The fruit is said to be delicious, and
] the general opinion is that it will be
j well received when offered for sale.
—lf every farmer would keep a
1 record of the number of eggs laid, chick
ens hatched and those sold or eaten
, each year, they would form the basis
of most interesting statistics and man
-1 ner of surprise to every one of the value
represented by then in money.
Barbed wire can be used as a fence
! against hogs by putting the lower wire
! four inches from the ground and the
| next wire a foot or fourteen inches
higher This fence does not need to
be high if hogs only are to be inclosed.
—lt is claimed by our most exper
ienced stock-growers that colts should
never be permitted to stand on a hard
floor, such as plank, brick, stone or
cement, until after they are a year old,
as hard floors are liable to injure their
feet and limbs.
Arbor Day in Ohio.
C'OI.T'MBI s, March I t.—The follow-
I ing proclamation is issued by the (Jov
-1 ernor of < >hio:
By virtue of the authority conferred
I upon me by the joint resolution of the
j General Assembly of the State of Ohio,
{adopted April 11, 18S4, entitled "A
| joint resolution authorizing the Oover
j nor to issue his annual proclamation
' relating to the planting of trees " I
- hereby set apart Friday, the 13th (lay
i of April, 1881, for the planting of for
- est trees, and recommend that the day
' be devoted by the people to that pur
pose.
Given under my hand and the great
seal of the State of Ohio this the Ktth
r day of March, 1881. By the Governor.
: | Signed j. GKOIIUK HOAIU.Y.
I James W. NEWMAN,
Secretary of State.
B —A reputation is a very good thiug,
r but no reputation can take the place of
u food, clothes and a house to live in.
3 | Pleasant service is where one
' I knows how to render it skilfully, ant]
J Htill pleasanter when one can improve
1 upon skilful work.
ti Dairy-men and stock raisers all buj
•, Ihty's Horse and Cattle Powder. Foi
o distemper, hidebound, loss of appetite
i, and general debility it is without f
h peer in the market. Price twenty-live
I- I cents per package of one pound, ful
■t; ' weieht
i COMMUNICATIONS.
The Superinlendency.
1 The Superintendeney of the schools
I is beginning to boom up, and there are
■ a number of candidates in tbi* field, ail
good men as far as I know.
Who is the best qualified for the
position, and what is the best thing
that can be done to keep our leading
' teachers in the profession and stimulate
others to do better work iu the school
room should be the leading question
with Directors. Our schools for the
last fifteen or twenty years have made
rapid impiovement, and we must at
tribute much of this progress to the
| efficient work of the Superintendents.
Our Superintendents during this time
| were selected from the public schools,
! teachers principally, for the reason that
j their work aud interests was there, and
I their knowledge of tho wants of the
I schoolroom and of the profession, so
fur sis it relates to the management of
i the common schools, was superior to
: the judgment of those not working in j
them. 11 we allow the superintend- j
ency to be taken away from the public j
school teachers we v. ill establish a j
! precedent which will be ruinous to our
i schools. We have a large number of
! professional teachers in our schools at
| present. If the snperintendency is
taken from them the leading teachers
will leave the profession, for the incen
tive that has kept them there will be
gone The letter and the spirit of the
law will give it to them and the senti
ment of the people has given it to them
in the years gone by and 1 hope the
choice this time, and in all time to
come, will be given to them. 1 have
no choice among those who are public
school teachers, and as I am greatly
interested in the cause of education, 1
write this for the good of our schools
and to cause tho"?e who may vote in
the next convention to weigh the mat
ter well before voting, so that the
greatest good may be accomplished
thereby.
ViNUH'ATOIt.
North Hope, March 22, 1881.
.Jefferson Centre.
MAUI H 25, 1884.
MESSRS EDITORS —On the loth, ult.,
an old mare owned by Mr. Ormshy
Mechling, of Jefferson township, de
parted this life in the 30th year of her
age. She did not remember to hive
seen General Washington in Greens
burg when he was on his way out to
Washington county during the whisky
insurrection Often did she journey
down the canal; she passed over the
same old "tow path" that has been the
tread, by thousands of feet before, of
1 horses, mules and drivers, anil could
hear the tra la la of the boatman's
horn as approaching a lock or a packet
station; she could see the boatman
' with red shirt and sombrero hat, high
boots and swaggering ways, aud
' could hear the "whoa, whoa" of the
frisky driver. Often did this old mare
listen to the tales of bravado, of daring
; and of frollics, iu which these boatmen
, figured as principals, their lives, like
• the old "raging canals," having had
their tempests are now superseded by
au eternal calm. Those who are yet
I alive are scattered to the four winds of
, heaven—ltequiescat in pace.
Salary of County Treasurer.
Eos ClTlZEN —Gentlemen—I wish
, through the columns of your p per,
, to correct a prevalent-, though rnistak
| en idea, held by the people of the
county with regard to the way the
County Treasurer gets his pay. We
often hear it as a reason for so many
' being out for the office, in view of the
' building a new Court House, there will
lie high taxes, aud his per cent., fixed
' by law, will make it a fat office. Apart
' from the small amount of Stat<> tax
that passes through his hands there is
i no lix**d per cent., and it is no didor
• ence whether there be $25,000 or
i SIOO,OOO, it is all with the Board of
Commissioners anil Auditors, they fix
the amount. Now to provo my usser
'■ tiou that the amount of money passing
through the Treasurer's bands makes
no difference as to the amount he gets,
j let me refer you to a case. I cannot
give you the exact amount, as 1 hayc
nothing to guide me but memory. Jn
, 1 S(;5 Nathaniel Walker, L q., was i
Treasurer; not knowing of any im
provements or old debts being paid, |
I there was but an ordinary levy made for j
I that year; Mr. Walker received SISOO I
. or $IG00; between IB<!'i and the)
new jail was built and paid for; hence I
. there had to be a higher levy. Ihe
Treasurer for those years received
about $2,200, or $l,lOO a year; two |
years then was the length of the term,
three now. The next year alter the
. jail was built and paid for, the r l treas
urer ijot about SI.COO dollars, and lrotn ,
that time on tlx- amount has increased j
I till it is about $2,(>00, now, a little over
. ss per day. How is it that these siv
men can sit down and allow one man
, as much as the whole six can get.' ;
. There is no comparison as to the labor j
i in the two offices. Isut some may say
I that of a Treasurer is a very responsi
r bio office. It is not to an honest man.
. Ho gives large bonds, but the money
r is put into his hands to lilt these
- bonds, and I think there is not much
on hands at one time to be stolen
t Then it is good pay and no bad uc- '
„ counts. Now I think the salary should
be brought down to correspond with
other officers' salaries. Think of the
labor, expense and exposure of a Conn-!
ty Superintendent, who only receives
about $1,200 per year. In I* years
the salary of Treasury has run up from
f $l,lOO to about 52,<;00, while other
officers salary has run down. Now
1 here appears to be no limit. Can the
( i tax payers not stop it from running up
any higher? 'i es, they can not ciil}
' check it, but they can bring it down to
a level with other salaries. I would
y propose to fix the I teasurer s salary at
ir $1,500 per year. If wc could do that
we could save the dillereuco between
a $1,500 and $2,C00, which would be
■e $l,lOO per year, that multiplied by
II three will give $3,300, in the term.
Now the next thing is t i accomplish
this. I would propose to the candi
dates that are out lor the nomination,
that they will pledge themselves to
1 l.e people, t l >at it elected they will
neither ask more nor take more if offer
ed. I would also ask the candidates
out for Commissioners and Auditors
that if elected they will also support
the $1,500. If those already in the
field don't accept this offer and declare
it publicly, we can get others tint will
accept and run as the $1,500 candi
dates and thank the people for it. Now
if this tails it is because the. taxpayers
are asleep to their own interests We
can do it. Now this is not intended 1
to effect the old Treasurer, hence it is
not taking the advantage cif anyone,
because if anyone dislikes it he can '
withdraw and let some one have it !
that will lie glad to get the $1,500.
There is another way of fixing the
Treasurer's salary. That would be to
petition the Legislature; but perhaps I
it would be an unfavorable time to ask
a reduction of salaries.
FRANKLIN TWP.
Kittanning Items.
Rev. J. II A, Kit/miller, pastor of
English Lutheran Church of Kittau
niusr. is said to be seriously ill at pres
ent
The body of young Oswald, recently
drowned in the river, has not as yet i
been recovered.
Col. William Sirwcll has enclosed!
seventeen acres of land in Valley town
ship, and is stocking it with Brown
Leghorn chickens. Eggs and chickens
will be plenty over there.
The young man named Aultman,
living near the Butler county line, and
who disappeared some weeks ago, has j
turned up in New Castle all right.
Bev. V. B. Christy, of Zelieuople,
Butler county, officiated in Bev. Kitz
miller's church last Sunday morning !
and evening.
TICKET SCALPING.
The Demoralizing Ell'ecl on Rail j
Road Employes of this Ques
tionable Business.
From Philadelphia Press.]
The developments in the recent trials !
ol railway conductors in Philadelphia j
and elsewhere for embezzlement bring
to light a new feature in the so-called !
business of ticket scalping, and explain |
very clearly one of the principal reasons I
for the crusade which is being waged !
by the railroad companies against the ;
gentry whose boast it is that they can ,
discount the standard rates of the com- j
panics. There was for a long time an |
element of mystery in this peculiar j
traffic, which was partially dispelled '
when the methods of the scalpers were j
ventilated in the courts and by the j
clear expositions of railway officers on j
the subject.
It is apparent that the scalper de
rives some of his support from some of !
the various links, large and small, of
the longer lines between distant points, i
As a matter of course, rates by the j
various lines between important con- ;
tres must be uniform, and the longer j
lines, by reason of their greater length ,
and time of transit, could not, and very 1
properly so, hope to obtain any consid- 1
erable proportion of the through traffic
save by the operations of the scalp r, 1
who buys for the intending traveler
who falls into his hands a regular ticket
by one of the longer routes, sells it to 1
him for a dollar or so less than it co.-t, •
collecting a bonus from several of the ;
short lines composing this route as a !
reward for diverting the traveler from 1
more direct lines, and pocketing a fair
profit on the transaction, altli mgh the ;
passenger may not be fortunate, as the 1
greater length of time consumed on the !
trip, and consequent increase in cost of j
meals and sleeping accommodations,
may more than cover the saving in the
cost of th« ticket ami the traveler has |
no compensation for his lost time.
But this and other operations which
the scalper is wont t > consider "icgiti- ,
mate," would scarcely explain the
magnitu le which his profits must as
j Hume to maintain him in the traffic, mid
these late trials furnish the information
necessary to complete a solution of the
mystery. The testimony showed that |
the railway employees retained the |
tickets collected from passengers and i
sold them at nominally low rates to I
the scalpers, who re-sold them to the 1
travelers at a discount from standard
rates, the companies thus carrying two '
or more passengers on the same ticket.
These disclosures emphasize with
painful clearness the moral character ol j
the scalping enterprise. For* years |
past it has been the aim of railroad
companies so to adjust their rules and
regulations as to relieve conductors !
from even the slightest imputation of
dishonesty. Whether this has been j
from motives of self-interest or not. is.
immaterial to the point at issue. Ihe
! result has been apparent in the enprit ;
iln ciyfjtx and the itiyrttl*' of their cm- !
| ployees. The feeling that, in view of i
1 the safeguards thrown around them, |
i they were above suspicion, has !
j wrought a remarkable change in this |
' cla.-s of employees, and has made the i
position of railway conductor a highly ;
j honorable, as it is a responsible and ex- j
J acting calling. But just as this condi-,
tioti of things has been so happily con- |
i Humiliated, a. new element of evil arises,
and it is not strange that amongst such j
a host of employees some should be j
found willing to listen to thetemptings
of the scalper, and become eventually
his willing but guilty tools.
In the cause of morality, and in be- |
half of an important and deserving class
of railway employees, we an cordially ;
endorse the efforts of the transportation ;
lines to utterly abolish this traffic,
which has long been a misdemeanor in
this State, ami we earnestly hope that i
the various States will speedily take :
cognizance of the growing evil and, by ;
statute similar to our own, put the
scalper under the ban of the law and
compel railroad companies to redeem
for cash, from passengers, their unused
or partially used tickets. In the mean
time the traveler .vill do well to con
sider whether he can conscientiously
aid the scalper or incur th" ri-ik of rid-'
ing on a stolen ticket.
BLAINE ON BUCHANAN.
There Were Two Buchanans—
The Buchanan of December,
1860, and the Buchanan
of January, 1861.
I'rniu Advance-Sheets of Blaine's Book,]
In a final and true estimate
of Mr. Buchanans's conduct in the first
stages of the revolt, the condition of
the popular mind as just described
must be taken into account. The same
influences and expectations that
•vrought tipou the people were working
iil-o upon him. There were indeed
two .Sir Buchanans in the closing
months of his administration. The
first was Mr. Buchanan of November
and December, angered by the decision
of the Presidential election and more
than willing that th" North, including
his own State, should be disciplined by
the fright to more conservative views
ami to a stricter observance of .which
he considered solemn obligations im
posed by the Constitution. If the
Southern threat of resistance to the
authority of the I nion had gone no
farther than this, Mr. Buchanan would
have been readily reconciled to its tem
perate violence and would probably
have considered it a national blessing
in disguise The second was Mr. Bu
chanan of January and February,
appalled by surrounding and increasing
perils, grieved by the conduct of South
em men whom he had implicitly trust
ed, overwhelmed by the realization of
of the evils which had obviously fol
lowed his official declarations, hoping
earnestly "for the safety of the Union,
and yet more disturbed and harrowed
in his mind than the mass of loval peo
ple who did not stand so near the dan
ger as he or so accurately measure its
alarming growth. The President of
December with Cobb and Floyd and
Thompson in his Cabinet, and the
President of January with Dix aud
Stanton and Holt for his councilors,
were radically different meu. No
frne estimate of Mr. Buchanan in the
crisis of his public career can ever be
reached if tin's vital distinction can
be overlooked.
It was Mr. Buchanan's misfortune
to be called to act in emergency which
demanded will, fortitude and moral
courage. In these qualities ho was
deficient. lie did not possess the ex
ecutive faculty. His life had been
principally devoted to the practice of
law iu the most peaceful of communi
ties and to service in legislative bodies
where he was borne along by the
force of association. He had not been
trained to prompt decision; had not
been accustomed to exercise com
mand. lie was cautious and conserv
ative to tho point of timidity. He
possessed ability of a high order aud,
though he thought slowly, he could
master the most difficult subject with
comprehensive power. His service of
ten years in the Ilonse and an equal
period in the S.nate was marked by a
conscientious devotion to duty, ne
did not rank with the ablest members
of either body, but always bore a prom
inent part iu important discussions and
maintained himself with credit.
It was said of Mr. Buchanan that he
instinctively dreaded to assume respon
sibility of any kind. His keenest critic
remarked that in the tentative period
of political issues assumed by his party,
Mr Buchanan could always be found
two paces to the rear, but in the hour
of triumph he marched proudly in the
front rank. He was not gifted with
| independence or self-assertion. His
bearing towards Southern statesmen
was derogatory to him as a man of
spirit. His tone towards administra
tions of his own party was so deferen
tial as almost to imply a lack of self-re
spect. He was not a leader among
men. He was always led. He was
led by Mason and Soule into the ini
' prudence of signing the Ostend mani
festo; he was led by tlie Southern
inombera of his Cabinet into the in
explicable follv and blunder of indors
ing the Lecomptou iniquity; he was
led by disunion Senators into the de
plorable mistake contained in his last,
annual message. Fortunately for him
he was led a month later by Black aud
Holt and Stanton to a radical change
of his compromising position.
If Mr. Buchanan had possessed the
unconquerable will of Jackson or the
stubborn courage of Taylor, he could
have changed the history of the revolt
against the Union. A great opportun
ity came to him, but he was not equal
to it. Always an admirable adviser
where prudence and caution were tho
virtues required, he was fatally want
ing in a situatiou which demanded
prompt action and strong nerve. As
representative in Congress, as Senator,
as Minister abroad, as Secretary of
State, his career was honorable and
successful. His life was singularly
free from personal fault or short-coming.
He was honest and pure-minded. His
fame would have been more enviable
it he had never been elevated to the
Presidency.
—The truly valliaut dare everything
but doing any other body an injury.
—Let adversity strike you aud
"friends" conveniently forget your ad
dress.
—Learn as if you were to livo for
ever; live as if you were to die to-mor
i row.
Vanity keeps persons in favor with
themselves who are out of favor with
all others.
—ln Wisconsin they are trying to
find a rhyme to "Oshkosh ;" and they
j will get it, by gosh !
—The war crop of Europe seldom
fails. Here's where it greatly differs
from the peach crop of Delaware.
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