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social Equality.

From the Jackson lMiss.) Clarion.I
An attempt was made at Angelo s
Hall one evening recently to make a
test of putting this doctrine, according
TO its well understood acceptation, into
practice. Several eaFpet-bag negro mem..
bers of the Legislature and attaches oi
that body and the departments obtrnded
themselves into the part of the hall ap-
propriated TO the use Of the white .peo-
Die. The attention of the town authors
ties having been called to it by Mr.
Albangh, Of the theater, and Mr.. Angelo,
the proprietor, they were requested to oe-
cupy the seats sst apart for the colored
people, or II thsy preferred, to receive
their entrance fee and Leave the hall.
They declined doing either sRd we're put
ont ri ef armis by direction Of the Mayor;
The audience remained seated, and
Quietly observed the performance. II Is
understood that this bold defiance Of the
usares Of society shd the regulations of
the hall vas a premeditated plot between
he negroes Vho we're parties to i and
certain white Radicals who were anxious
Ia ret M an issue, hoping that something
Wo1ld inure 70 their advantage II Is
nroper 10 say that our home eolored pop
ulation had no participation IN the affair.
Tbev either went 70 the hall and took
the seats provided for them, OF stsid away.
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INSuR RANCE,
MASONIC MUTUAL d
Life Assurance. Association
OF MEMPHIS. TENN.
OFFICE: NO. 0 UNION STREET.

! First Question-HOw much per annum will
it cost a man Of thirty-hve to Insure his life in
Answer sls4 for a g, 900 policy: =
| Second Question-How much will It cost in
! the Masonic Mutual Assurance Association Of
Memphis3
Answer-About sS1 90. payable at intervals.
(See table of standard authorities at our ofice.)
Third Question-Why this difference for the
same risk2
Answer-1st. Because by this plan the Asso-
citation only calls for enough in initiation fees
the interest upon which will finally pay, work
ing expenses), and the 81 at death to pay losses.
I'd. If there are no deaths. no tax.
Fourth Question-How can you afford to in
sure so much less than the old mode.
Answer-Because we do not charge enough
in advance to pay you one-half back in divi-
dends out of your own money paid in premiums
Fifth Question-ls policy of insurance upon
the Mutual plan the same In all respects, save
as to chargesf
Answer-After the Association has issued
$500 policies, and is kept to that standard in
numbers, there is no difference. except that
you are taxed only at the death of a member;
while in the old mode you are taxed whether
Sixth Question-Will a policy holder in this
Association receive a dividendY
Answer-Yes; from all accumulation which
may accrue from forfeiture and surplus interest
Seventh Question-HOw are your funds in
vested2
Answer-Under direction of the Finance
Committee, on uninoumbered real estate, val
ued at twice the amount of the investment, or
undoubted city acceptance.
Eighth Question-DOes the Association pay
to the heirs of the policy holder two dollars for
each enrolled member who has heretofore paid
all assessments, should any member fail TO
pay on last assessment? u
Answer-Yes; as the Association holds in its
permanent fund, paid in by initiation fee, an
amount in excess Of any amount it will be at
one time called upon to pay on the death Of a
member. ...r il.H .aaH I
We insure from IS to 50 years. SIT
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AROUND THE CORNER.
IL. wHITMORE.
Publisher and Proprietor.

A mourner stood at preachers door.
Asking the boon Of a prayer said Ger
The clay cold form of a brother;
And the preacher stands with lofty mien.
Lifting his priestly hands between,
And with pious glare at the other,
Says, nWhen an actor passes away,
Not mine the task DER his corse to pray.
Though the thought to my soul sadness
/ doubt not they may do such things 49,.
In little church around the corner.
The mourner turned and he bowed his head.
And thought of the words the Savior said
When the Magdalen was kneellng;
And of Lazarus, worn and poor and old
Whose form the patriarch's arms enfold
From the door of the proud appealing.
That night the preacher had dream,
In which his imagining made It seem
That Death laid his hand on his shoulder;
And ere he had time TO kneel or pray 4 g.
He breathed his digni6ed soul away, s5N
And left his body to moulder. a....4
A blaze of glory dazzled his eyes -.,..
As he saw the gates of heaven arise.
But he gathered his robes about him
And bowed TO st. Peter, who held the keys;
Wondering much, as he stood at ease,
How the saints got along without him.
The gates were ajar, but the Saint said, Here
You can never enter till II appear
OF what good works you We been the factor. .
So the preacher said, "I've made beautiful
49, prayers,
Built a brown stone church which my fold
2 still shares.
And wouldn't bury an actor"
Then the gates closed tight and voice from
above
Said, None enter here but for works of love.
And that soul was the soul of mouln ner,
AS st. Peter, touching a little bell, n
Called up an angel and sent him lowell,
| He sent him around the corner.
January 9, 1871. F. g. s.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-04

The Jews, both male and female, pos
sessed and practiced the medical science
in all its branches.
The beautiful Rebeeca had been heed
fully brought up in all the knowledge
proper to her nation, which her apt and
powerful mind had retained, arranged
and enlarged in the course of progress
beyond her years, her sex, and even the
age in which she lived. The attendant
proceeded to uncover Ivanhoe' side, and
the lovely Jewess satisfied herself that
the bandage ives in its place and the
wound doing well
She performed her task with a graceful
and dignifed simplicity and modesty,
which might, even in more civilized days,
have served to redeem it from whatever
might seem repugnant to female deli
cacy. 50,
The idea of so young and beautiful a
person engaged in attending on q sick
he'd. or in dressing the wound of one Of a
different sex, was melted away and lost
In that of a abenefeent being contributing
her effectual aid to relieve pain, and to
avert the stroke of death. Rebecca 5 few
and brief directions were given in the
Hebrew language TO the old domestic;
and he, who had been frequently her at
tendant in similar eases, obeyed them
without reply, Ultt
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A Jersey Fish story.

The last fish story comes from New
jersey Lately, in the interior of the
State, a mild-looking countryman en-
tered railroad car, bearing a bundle
tied up in a handkerchief, which he
placed under his seat at the end of the
car. After travelling for about half an
hour, lady sitting in front of the coun-
tryman was observed to move uneasily
in her seat, and to cast savage glances
at seemingly respectable man sitting
by her side. -
In few moments afterwards another
lady still further to the front became
uneasy" and at last, rising in her seat,
requested that some gentleman in the
car would protect her from an elderly
looking gentleman by her side, and
whom she stated had insnlted her.
A dozen persons offered their assist
ance. and before the accused could
speak in his own defense his hat was
iammed over his eyes, and he was
dragged to the rear OF the car
While there, and carrying on with the
avenger war of words as to what the
indignity meant, still another lady rose,
also seated further up the car, and ac-
cused gentleman sitting behind her
with improper conduct. A rush was
made for insulter number two, but that
gentleman vigorously defended himself
with a large walking-stick he happened
to have land which, by the by, was one
cause of the last troubles, his accuser
stating that he had been indecorously rap
ping her ankles under the seat with the
same), and, while the struggle to get at
him was still in progress, somebody in
the front of the car shouted there's a
"snake on the floor" scene ensued.
The ladies in the car clalnbered up on to
the seats and many got on the arms and
backs of the same. One elderly maiden
managed TO stand on the backs of two
seats, in the best circus manner possible
under the circumstances, while a young
mother threw her baby into parcel
rack, and then hung convulsively to
ventilator.
The confusion awoke the countryman,
who, on being told of the snake, first felt
in his bundle, and then exclaimed, I'm
blamed if that old eel haint got loose,
started for the front, and soon returned
grasping, firmly an immense eel, which
he had first caught while out fishing, but
which, when brought into the car, had
managed to get out Of the bundle, and
had wended its way to the front, lovingly
caressing the different varieties'of ladies
garters which he encountered on the way.
Apologies given and received straight
ened everything in that car but the hat
that was jammed down, and the country
man leaving at the next station, no blood
was drawn.
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biography Boiled Down BY the
Fat Contributor.

Plutarch7-I only know this gentleman
by reputation. He is always spoken of
in the plural number, " Plutarehs 5
Lives is a common expression but how
many there were of him | am not pre-
pared to say, ..r
General Duke of Wellington - An
officer of the British army. Mr.. Long
fellow makes honorable mention of him
as the Warden of the Cinque Ports,
Cinque means five, and he was the pro-
tector of FIVE principal points, usually
denominated Five Points. He lived to
ripe old age and died. aaJ
Julius C@sar-Son of old man Caesar.
He was born at Rome in his infancy,
and upon arriving at the state Of man
hood became Roman. He was a
fighter and warrior of some note. His
friend Brutus one morning asked him
how many eggs he had eaten for break
fast, and he replied, :" Ell III BruteF
His friend became enraged at being
called brute, and stabbed Caesar quite
dead. t-e
Mahomet-Author of the Koran, an
exciting romance, which he wrote in the
Mammoth Cave at Mecca. He was the
author of religious creed with which he
stuffed Turkey, and tried to get up
broil in Greece, but failed. Many of his
early followers suffered great persecu-
tions. Some of them were burnt at the
stake, He had three temples-one at
Mecca and one on each side OF his head.
Guy Fawkes--A warm-hearted, impul-
sive Englishman, who believed the Par
Lament too good for this earth, and de-
vised an expeditions method of eleyating
the members to a better sphere. He was
interrupted in his good intentions, but
for which circumstances he would doubt
less have made a great noise in the
world. He was executed for his disin-
teresisd bsneVolence, and was subse-
quently burnt In a place called kfigy.
Bonaparte IA harem-scarem sort Of
a fellow, who occupied position Of con
siderable responsibility in the French
nation. The impression went abroad
that he was ambitious, which damaged
his reputation materially. he gained
the respect and admiration Of the French
nation because, happily, be was not a
Frenchman. When asked If he thought
he could govern France, he replied
"Of Corsican.7 ? The close Of his life
was not as bright as its beginning, but
there was some Of it IN a narrow com
pass. -....rE- .-..r..-.......
Peter the Hermit-Pete was priuci-
pslly notorious for stirring up a little
iifsculty between the Christians and the
Mohomedans, which eHtnded over
period Of thirty years, resulting IN nu-
merous excursions By lead and water,
under the fascinating title Of the Cru
ssdes. The Hermit was an ihnerant
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Home improvements.
From the Goodman Miss star.l 81

From the Goodman (Miss.) Star.l 81
The traveller throughout the South will
be forcibly struck with the air of desola-
ton and dilapidation that hangs over
the dwellings Of large majority Of our
people, whether in country or town. IL
half the places in the country are in
closed at all, it is with fence so fallen
down that it offers no barrier at all to the
cattle and hogs that roam at will through
the yards, sleeping under the house,
making filthy the surroundings, and pre-
cluding the possibility of raising poultry,
etc. But few farmers have a garden
worthy of the name. A few emaciated
cabbages and bed of onions constitute
the gardens of many persons who ought
to know better how to live. A few strag-
Cling peach trees, of an inferior variety,
dying and unfruitful for want of proper
care, their limbs broken off by the cattle
browsing upon them, standing like SEN
tinels in an old field, long since turned
out as worn-out land, or on bleak hill
side, scanned with gullies, too poor even
to sprout broom sedge, is dignifed by
the name of orchard. Orchard, indeed;
why tbs burlesque upon the name, and
but for the sad reality, one could enjoy
hearty laugh over such glaring mis-
nomer. AS for flowers or shrubbery, not
one in ten makes any pretensions to or
namenting their yards in that fashion
The useful outweighs the beautiful, and
even the useful is often dispensed with.
Some of our farmers who own hundreds
of acres have lived for years in houses
in which there was not pane of glass.
A square hole in the wall, closing by
means of wooden shutter, ,afording light
and air. A kitchen, in many instances,
with only dirt floor, out in the yard,
apart from the main dwelling, costing
the cook, often the matron or daughter
of the household, frequent trips back
and forth in the rain and mud during
the preparation of meal Perhaps no
well or cistern in the yard, but water to
be brought from a spring two hundred
yards from the house, and up steep
hill at that. A dwelling guiltless of any
pretense at outward adornment, and
equally unattractive within, constitute
the main features of farm house. Is it
any wonder that an intelligent immigrant
travelling in search of home shuns such
looking country? He cannot know that
it is not poverty but the taste, or rather,
the want of it, that induces so many of
our citizens to live all their lives in mere
huts that Hottentot would be ashamed
of. Is it any wonder that the son of such
family, as soon as he arrives at mans
estate, shakes off the dust from his feet
against the paternal mansion, and seeks,
in some far distant State, to crafty in
other AID far distant lands that innate
love of the beautiful which nature has
implanted in the entire human race.
Inability cannot be plead as an excuse
for failing in so plain duty as that of
identifying and making comfortable the
family home.
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sponge,

The sponge Is nothing more than the
skeleton of an innumerable family of
low forms Of animalcule. In order to
prepare it for use, it is first left in the
air for short time, until the gelatinous
part is decomposed, then the Eass is
washed in hot water and afterward in
a bath Of dilate muriatio acid. The toi-
let sponges are bleached by means of
chlorine and hypOsulphite of soda. The
so-called wax sponges that are used by
doctors for dressing ulcers, are purified
sponges dipped into fluid wax, and then
pressed between hot plates. The French
and Austrian governments have lately
commenced 20 rear sponges artifcially-
the former on the shores OF the Mediter-
ranean, the latter on the coast Of Dal-
malta The cultivation is said TO be per
fectly successful, and 10 yield large
profits,
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81
~ LOOK STTTCH which il

The LUCK STITCH whlch II
makes is more durable and beautiful than
any other, presenting the same appear,
ance on both sides Of the fabric and will
not ravel. 1t is also more economical,
requiring oNE-THIRD LESS cotton than
any OF. er kind of stitch. Being the same
on both sides, it is not necessary to use
the extremely fine sewing cotton required
bv those machines which make a stitch
with ridge on the under side, which can
only be concealed by using. thread too
delicate and fine to bear ordinary wear,
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lecturer, and had he lived in our day,
would have turned his attention to hu-
NOR, thereby saving deal Of bloodshed.
The Crusades turned out, like the author
of the creed they were intended to amir
hilate-a false prophet. -..-LlL
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Sir walter scott on Female Doctors.

Sir walter scott on Female Doctors
The great novelist gives in "Iyanhoe
a notable example of the propriety of
women serving in medical ministrations:
Rebecca lost no time in causing the
patient to be transported to their tenn
porary dwelling, and proceeded with her
own hands to examine and to bind up
his wounds. The youngest reader Of
romances and romantic ballads must
recollect how often the females, during
the dark ages, as they are called, were
initiated into the mysteries of surgery.
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1t possesses the very great advantage
of carrying the work in the natural way
from left to right--which enables the
operator to handle thewerk more readily
and to sit upright; while machines which
carry the work from the operatorrequTe
an inclination Of the body forward (detrl-
mental to healthy and are hard andtireT-
aome TO use fa Iaig guaJ .AJ - A1Al
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It's simplicity renders its movements
so easy that child can work it, 1t is
almost noseless in operation, and for
speed and rapidity of motion excels all
others, as has been denonstrateda thou
sand times by competition. rt asnfis
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-04

The prices are within reach of every
one. Machines are made to suit all
tastes and circumstances, and the plain
est in finish will work as well as the most
costly.
Full and thorough instructions given
at the house of the customer at any time,
free of charge, and the utmost pans
taken to render complete satisfaction
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-12-21

years. and illustrates The benefits Of free trade
to the country dnrins the necessities and bur.
dens of war! A sosempsrsry. in commenting
upon these Significant. and to ee.traders, very
damaging facts. states, 10 explanation, that the
Nova Scotia miners. the only quarter from
which coal is exported to the United States.
we're not drawn of to swell either army, and
the mins-cwners were not called upon to pay
war taxes. On the contrary, the tide of i'm
migration which had previously flowed into the
United States was, largely diverted to the
British provinces daring those dark years Of
the rebellion. Manifestly. the Nova Scotia
dealers took advantage Of our necessities, and
regardless of the cost advanced their prices, as
our own coal companies were obliged, by the
increased cost OF labor aud transportation. and
greatly augmented taxation, to advance theirs.
The sequel confirms this hypothesis. In
1856 the treaty expired. and the duty of Sl25
per ton again became operative. If tariff is
tax. the price OF coal should thereupon have
still further advanced nv the amount of the
duty. But ID did not The price, on the cOa.
trary, declined, and averaged in that year
VIZ o"y, atsSi paying tue uuty IL cou-'
tnued 20 fall until in 1870 the foreign dealer,
after himself paying the duty, received only
$500 q ton, or $5.35 net SIS al
These figures show Who pays che day GA
imported coal, aud that it is most decidedly
not a tax upon consumers. Secretary BoUr-
WILL recommends that the duty on bstuminous
coal be reduced to fifty cents q ton. !. The total
annual revenue from his sonrce now amounts
to about half sn,illion OF dollars in gold, whiob,
as We bave demons trated rs paid entirely by
foreigners IN return for the privilege OF selling
In our markets. The scS.e,ary,s proposition
would result in relieving them TO the extent Of
just three. ffths, or 100000 of such yearly
payment New after all our internal revenue
shall have been dispensed with, and aIfthe noa-
protective customs duties which are paid by
our own people have been repealed, if our
Treasury continues to overflow, and the Gov
srnment has more income than il knows what
to do with, it would perhaps be an act of gener
osity 10 relieve the burdens now imposed upon
our industrial rvals-of course, we mean gener-
osity to the foreign rivals, not to our own pro-
ducers. Bat, until that time comes, we hold it
un~ise in Congress to lessen the duty on GOAL.
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-12-21

The free traders in favor OF breaking down
our salt manufacturing interests are distribut
ing broadcast a circular letter, stating the
enormous falsehood that the duty. ON salt is
two hundred per cent. and that this duty has
increased the aggregate cost Of salt consumed
by the American people "ten millions of dol
lars beyond what it would have been but for
this enormous tax" These $4,000 600 thew
assert is the amount out of which consumers
are robbed for the sole benefit Of the salt mann.
facturers See how plain tale shalt exnose
the falsehood Of these statements.
In the first place the da,y on salt ia lust IL
cents on each 100 lbs. Sixty pounds of coars.
and ffty-nve pounds of 6ne salt make bushel;
but we will call it sixty pounds. The duty per
bushel at the above rates is, therefore, just ten
cents and four fifths of cent, which is only %
3-lOths per cent. instead OF tsco hundred as the
free trade advocates assert The salt lnanufac
turers, We ere aware, assert that the duty is not
more than thirty per cent. at the very outside.
But it will exhibit the mendacity Of the cham.
pions of British interests in sufficiently un-
favorable light to concede that they exaggerated
the duty only four and half times instead Of
nearly eight times. SO we will let our estimate
which is based upon the present market yalue
(2s cents bushel,) stand. s
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History Of the Tariff.

Since the close Of the Revolutionary war; we
have had four periods of free trade, and as
many OF returns to protection, more or less
efhcient. In each instance Of change, protec-
ton has beguiled us into free trade and in
every case free trade has driven US back to
protection. Mark the periods, aud remember
the effects. The unguarded industry of the old
thirteen States, under the Confederacy, more
than any other necessity, constrained the for
nation and adoption OF the Federal Constitu.
ton. JAMES MADISON is clear and positive
upon this point. See his letter written in
1873, to Judge CABsLL, for the proofs and
SEQ what followed the organisation of the new
Government As early as the 4th of July,
i7es, WASHINGTON affixed his signature to our
hrst tariff act, whose preamble reads thus
Whereas, it is necessary for the support of
Government, for the discharge of the debts of
the United States, and for the announcement
and protection Of manufactures that duties
Do laid on goods. wares, aud merchandise i'm.
ported BE. This act Of 1889 being found
insufficient, the duties averaging but little
above ten per cent, they were largely in
creased. in many instances doubled. in 1890 /;
and in 1871 the " immortal report of ALEX.
RHDER HAxLros, on manufactures, was give