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From whatever point u retrospective or
prospective view of the various ramitica'
tions of our common polity is taken, q de-
teCtiveness is detachable one which the
most cursory observer cannot fail to per-
ceive. This effectiveness forces itself up
on the observation from certain invulnera-
Bile points, which are supported by certain
combinations over which it seems impossi-
bic to gain any control, under the present
ordinary state of things and only an ex-
traordinary upturning, a complete radical
reform, and nothing short of this, will be
Of any benefit in this direction. 1t is,
therefore, a matter of SOME importance,
ly depicted in your columns and although
the subjects treated on may not always
meet the appreciation of all parties, yet, it
is hoped that, there will be those in the
community who will be honest enough to
acknowledge the truthfulness of the state
ments.
All combating in the Colonial Council,
for retrenchment reforms, have almost
proved TO be q complete failure and the
glaring fact stares this community in the
face, that 1t must content itself to bear an
expenditure, for the supporting of an adj
mlnlstratlon, which is enormously dispro-
portionate to the scanty communal accom-
modatlons which are enjoyed, and the Sc
curity which is afforded the public either
for life or property.
Self-aggrandizement forms one of the
principal ingredients in these uncontrolla-
BILE combinations; and is a point most evil
IDENTIFY prominent throughout the entire
arena of our polity; consequently, its eff
fects are most keenly felt by those who do
not Immediately come within the arena Of
administrative powers.
Let the impartial observer but take a
glance at the head of the body polite in
these islands, and what greets his observa-
ton? 1t is q combination, than which,
nothing else can be found in any of the
surrounding islands, to possess as power
full and influential guberuative control over
the entire superior local administration.
Unity is strength, as is we'll known and
this combination is a union, which has for
its bands the strongest ties which are with
in the reach of man family ties and inter-
ests, added to the possession of the SUPERB
or and subordinate administration power.
, 1872-09-21

behalf of several persons we had referred
to in a previous number. Honorably men
toned were Messrs. V. G. Hvid and H. Riis,
Estate Work & Rest, for Sugar and Rum,
and Mr.. W. Plasket, Estate Annaly and
Grove Place, for Sugar.
One OF those on whose behalf Mr.. Faber
exhibited, some of the articles spoken of
IN the Pharmaceutic Tidende, of which
we gave a translation, was the late Po-
llceassistant at Kingshill, Mr.. Ovesen.
He had, with considerable cost and trouble,
succeeded in bringing together a fair repre-
sentation of our homely industry, such as
it is, from our rather rude Fishing Jmple-
ments, down to the still more primitive
spins" of the "Prickly Pear" Nor was
there wanting, as a contrast to these useful
articles, a fair sample Of those neat and
snowy ornaments made from different kinds
Of seeds, set in gold. In the collection
might be noticed many things, which,
from being both welI-made and cheap,
might find a market wen in places where
such industry has been carried pretty far,
f. in, baskets made from cocoa-nut leaves
while others partook more of the nature of
curiosities, such as all the simple house
hold articles used by the labourers iii some
parts of this island.
, 1872-09-21

The wreck of a vessel-about one third
left of the hulk Of what appeared to have
been a balque, named "Tiber'-apparent-
ly Nova Scotia built, and Of about 300 tons
burden, tloated ashore at Judith's Fancy's
Bay, near "the White Horse" on Wednes-
day night. 1t is supposed to have dritted
out of some harbour, where it had been
condemned, as there are marks of fire hav-
ing been applied to it to get off the iron.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-09-12
Settled Forever.

Some persons are always contessin9
and re-contessing repenting and re-
repenting, and never can look upon
any portion of their religious expert
ence as a settled and accomplished
fact.
A writer represents Il minister to
whom a deacon told over his tale OF
perpetual dolor as saying:
deacon, remember your son
stoutly rebel'ed against your authority
some time ago, but atterward felt
sorry and repented Of his sin, and
humbly asked your forgiveness. Did
your forgive him ?"
"Of course | did
"What did you forgive bin for ?'
because | could not help it, when
| saw how sorry he was"
"Aud does he still ask forgiveness 2
''No-no . Nothing is said about
it. 1t is all settled forever.
"Now, do You believe that you can
be better to your son than God is to
you? He pardons like a God.
1t is easy for father to forgive his
his erring son, And sin once for
given is settled forever between them,
If the wandercr should come every
day asking forgiveness for what was
already forgiven. and pleading for
mercy when mercy has already been
shown, would not the father tecl Doth
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-09-12
Ignorance of History.

In his fifteen column New York
speech, Senator Conkling read letter,
sard TO have been written by Grant
when he was cadet, containing certain
musings over the tomb of kosciusko,
in the cadets cemetery, "who fell on
American soil Conhling ought to have
known better than to thus parade his
own and Grants ignorance. The New
York World thus exposes the ba,hos :
As a matter of fact, Kosciusko we
need hardly say, "teIl" not on American
soil at all, but on the sol of Poland,
heroically contending against the triple
alliance of her despoiIers, and utteriug,
as he recognized the defeat Of his little
army by teD-toid their number of foes.
tia immortal lament "FJHiS PolOni0.' =
He was not buried where he "tell."
save in prison at St. Petersburg, for
the end Of his great aud stainless career
came quick enough, quarter Of a cen
tury later, among the mountains OF
heroic Switzerland.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-09-12

was bent on him. "You know | have
come to ask her to be my wife"
81 have borne an awful grief and
disappointment, but I'd bear it again
rather than have to tell this to you,
my boy You have stayed too long,
y" Good Heaven is she dead 2"
"Not dead, but as lost to you as if
she were; and you must go back, and
she must never hear you have come,
or she will be true to herself, pitiful,
and overland, and-like q woman
generally, shall | say? She is mar
ried you have stayed too long"
1t did not kill him. and it did not
send him to the bad, a convenient
locality to which fction-wmters fire.
quently consign their Tilted heroes.
But it dulled his life, and robbed him
of his belief in the goodness and
fidelity of women.
Notwithstanding which he forgaye
her, and was friendly with her in the
after years and though her fickleness
had earned his contempt he never
paid the dept. And so poetical justice
was not awarded to the "Aagrant
firt' Bonnie Dundee, who would have
been better woman if she had not
been so thorough Il one.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-09-12
WHOLE NO. 1855
The Dent Birth Roll.

In the distribution Of Grants rela.
tions throughout the public service, the
people of San Francisco have no reason
to complain that they were forgotten.
The fertile Dent family consented to
have three of It's prolific breed quartercd
upon the revenue establishments of this
Federal district. 1t would seem, certain
Iy, that this family was especially fore
doomed to feed at the public crib,
for we know Of no single member of it
who has not in some way stall tor
himself, to which he was assigned by,
or through his connection with the
Great Nepotist. 1t is very much as a
contemporary says, that those Jere-
mahs who have been writing Iamen-
tations over the decline of large tami-
lies 10 America should look at the birth
roll of the Dents, and, cease their mourn
ing. This birth-roll can be examined
with equal facility in the family Bible
or in the list Of Government employees.
la both, besides the names already
known to an admlring public. will be
found these two:
Frederick Dent, Jr., son of George
w. Dent, Presidents wife's nephew,
Inspector of Customs San Francisco.
Henry s. Dent, likewise son Of
George w. Dent, Presidents wiIes
nephew, Clerk in United States Internal
Revenue Office. San Francisco,
Frederick and Henry are believed to
heartily re-echo Logan's declaration
that "He that provideth not for his own
household hath denied the faith, aud is
worse than an infdel. ."-.Sa1o Francjsj-
co (Cal.) E,rdminer.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-09-12
There is no Death.

There is no death The stars go down
To rise upon some fairer shore
And bright, in heavens jewelled crown
They shine forevermore.
There is no death The dust we tread
Shall change beneath the summer showers
TO golden grain or mellow fruit,
Or rainbow tinted flowers.
The granite rocks disorganize
And feed the hungry moss they bear;
The forest-leayes drink daily life
From out the viewless air.
There is no death The leaves may fall,
And flowers may fade and pass away
They only wait through wintry hours
The coming of the May.
There is no death An angel-form
Walks DER the earth with silent tread
And bears our bcst-loved things away,
And then we call them dead"
He leaves our hearts all desolate,
He plucks our fairest, sweetest flowers
Transplanted into bliss, they now
Adorn immortal bowers.
The bird-like voice. whose joyous tones
Made glad these scenes of Sin and strife,
Sings now an everlasting song
Around the tree of life.
Whereer he sees a smile too bright.
Or heart too pure for taint and vice.
lie bears it to that world of light.
To dwell in paradise.
Born unto that undying life,
They leave us but to come again;
With joy we welcome them the same,
Except their sin and pain.
Aud ever near u.s. though unseen,
The dear. immortal spirits tread;
For all the boundless universe
Is life-thore is no dead
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LlK E A w O M A N
BY ANNIE THOMAS.
(Concl"dcd from last oceeh,)
CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER ii.
The mems eyes met tor a moment
as Madge spoke, and in that moment
each read all the other knew about it
" He knows / love her." poor Theo
moaned in his heart, and ale sees !
know IL" Mr.. Bligh thought, with
not one whit less pain And a sill
ence fell on them. and in that silence
Madge saw things clearly at last
To recognize the love of one man
in the presence Of another man who
has Il right to feel jealous of it, is tc
be in position Of the greatest danger
and delicacy and difficulty. Poor
Madge finched for the first moment
when she found herself in it, but the
next instant she recovered herself, and
with the generosity ofa woman sought
to put them well with one another,
without regard to herself.
"It was selfish of me to say !
wouldn't spare you, for it must be dull
for you here; but the fact is, Thee
has spoiled me, just as my brothers
do, and have fallen into the way Of
ordering him about as | do them, for.
getting he amt a brother. What 8
lovely peace Of turf! Shall we can
ter?'
She went off as she spoke, and they
followed, Theo squirting his horse rath
er recklessly by way of a diversion
and Mr.. Bligh bewildering himself
with his cndeavor to distinguish which
would be the right course for him to
pursue "l'll put it to her plainly,
he determined at last, "and if her heart
has turned to him, God bless her, she
shall never suffer for it. D."
Fate seemed to be against things
righting themselves in the original
way They rode fast and far, and
when they thought Of turning home,
ward Miss Dundee's horse had cast a
shoe, and they were obliged to wait
in the first village they could find,
while a blacksmith was sent for to put
it on again.
1t was terribly trying work for
them all, that sitting in the room at an
inn, weighted with the discoveries
they had recently made about each
other. 1t became insupporrable to
Mr., Bligh after short time, and so
he sauntered out into the garden, and
Theo and Madge were alone,
Her spirit rose with her sense of
danger, as does that of all finely or
ganized natures, and she turned to
him bright and brave at once, though
he had grown to be very dear to her,
and though she knew that he was
suffering horribly on her account. at
seems to me" she said, "that we're
all very weak and wrong to let a shad-
ow settle over the last ride you'll have
with us, until / am an old married wo-
man, with household cares on my
shoulders, that will crush down my
love of horses"
"This will be my last ride with you,
Miss Dundee"
"Theo!" She threw such a world
Of freproachful tenderness into the tone
in which she uttered that one word,
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An administration office-holder,
who has been out West on an election
eering tour, is responsible for the state
ment that 1000 Kentucky negroes
have been colonized in Indiana to vote
at the October election there
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-09-12

Hon. Edmund Burke, the veteran
Democrat of Newport, N. H., offered
to bet one thousand dollars the other
day that not fifty Democrats in the
whole State would vote for Grant, and
nobody would take the wager.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-09-12

HADN'T TME.-A bereaved widow
er, while receiving with due acknowl-
edgment the coincidence of friends
that it was indeed a great loss, sad
bereavement, that he had suffered,
added "And, just think Only a
few days ago | bought her a whole
box of pills, and she hadn't time to
take half of them before she died !"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1872-08-20
NUMBER 81.


In small things lie the crucibles and the
touchstones. Any hypocrite will come
to the Sabbath worship, but it is not
every hypocrite that will attend prayer
meetings, or read the Bible in secret, or
speak privately of the things OF God to
the saints. You shall find the same true
in other things. A man who is no Chris
tian will very likely not tell you al open
lie by saying that black is white, but he
will not hesitate to declare that witty
brown is white-he will go that length.
Now. the Christian will not go half way
to falsehood-nay, he scorns TO go an
inch on that road. He will no more
cheat you out of twopence farthing, than
he would out of two thousand pounds.
lie will not rob you OF an inch any more
than of an ell. Even Pharises will
ask Christ to his house to sit at meat with
him--he is willing to entertain a great
religious leader at his table; but it is not
every one VINO VIII stoop down ana un-'
loose his shoes, for that very Pharisee
who made tho feast neither brought him
water TO wash his feet nor gave him tho
kiss OF welcome he proved the insin
serity of his hospitality by forgetting the
little things. / will be bound to say
Martha and Mary never forgot to unloose
his shoe latchets, and that Lazarus never
failed to see that his feet were washed.
Look then, pray you, as Christians, to
the service of Christ in the obscure
things, in the things that are not recog-
nized by men, in the matters which have
no honor attached to them, for by this
shall your love DO tried.-SpnryeOn.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1872-08-20
old Maids.

The highest type of old maid has made
no sacrifice, nor is she in any sense =
victim, for marriage as necessary state
is not necessary to her idea of happiness;
but she has none of that antagonisn
towards half the human race which Miss
Priscilla makes her boast; nor is she ono
who has set herself against marriage, or
whom no man has ever wished to marry.
She is the woman who has never met
with her ideal, and who has never bee.
cunningly persuaded TO accept anything
short Of it.
Every woman with any romance or
magnanimity has. so far rs she contem.
plates marriage for herself merely in tho
abstract, IN ideal. OF some vague assem-
blagc OF high qualities which stands Tor
such. She can only suppose herself vol
UNFAIRLY linking her fate with another, il
that other is man exceptionally good or
noble, or at least distinguished among his
fellows. At all events he must be quite
above the common run OF men about her.
The typical old maid has had this ideal.
and been faithful to it il may be for ade-
quate temptation to Inconsistency. Some
womcn-the charming woman for exam.
ple---have not been allowed to keep their
ideal. They have lost sight of it in find
ing herself the ideal OF some one else
Our typical vestal has never been
charming woman, though she may have
many excellent gifts and graces. Wo.
men are so made, happily for men, that
gratitude, pity, the exquisite pleasure OF
pleasing, the sweet surprise of finding
themselves necessary to anothers hsppi.
ness Cor being flaitered into the notion),
altogether obscure and confuse the judg-
ment; they either forget their ideal alto
gether, or think they have found it in the
very commonplace mortal who 10 their
oice.-Black,cooGS Magazine.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1872-08-20
4 Lesson In Perseverance,.

A few evenings since we wero much
interested in watching the labors of a
colony OF ants that had taken up quarters
in hole Just at the surface of the ground
in the wall OF neighbor's house. Our
attention was first attracted by seeing a
dead specimen of white butterfly, kill.
cd few hours before, moving slowly yet
steadily of over the brick walk, without
any apparent cause, but closer obserys.
ton revealed the cause 10 be little
brownish or black ant, scarcely quarter
of an inch in length, which had grasped
the tail of the insect in its powerful jaws,
and proceeding backwards was progress
ing homeward in fine style. At length,
coming to slightly deeper depression,
between the bricks, the butterfly Tell in
and wcs stopped in its course. Then such
working and twisting and manGurering
to get il out again What q lesson in
patience and industry Two or three
times the work was suspended and re-
sumed again, another ant meanwhile
coming to the rescue; but finally, M
aided, ant number one, by main strength
of legs and jaws, pulled the insect out OF
the pit, and went on its way rejoicing.
Another ant was given piece OF crack
or half as large as nickel cent, and al
ter walking around it and over it once or
twice, touching it with its long feelers or
antenue, the jaws were fastened into a
projecting corner, the legs began to move
like the paddles of steamboat, and soon
the immense mass moved off and was
speedily housed. Meanwhile our little
friend with tho butterfly had got into
trouble again, and just at home too. The
butterfly had fallen into another srevice
SO deep that only the tips of its wings
projected above. Then nearly quarter
OF an hour was taken up in vain endeav
ors to lift tho bulky thing out of the hole
again. but without success, though halt
dozen other ants had come out to render
assistance; so we moved the insect
around the corner of the brick, and in a
very short space of time it.was carried
along the deep crevice, and finally disap-
peared in the wall.
Two other butterflies, and several
pieces of cracker of various sizes were
given them, and in an hour or two they
were all drawn or carried into the hole
out of sight, and they then seemed to
rest from their labors. s.-Raral Carolina.