, 1873-05-01

HAY M15ERIE8.
Tho nisorios aud dscomfortB Of year come
to head to-day. Humanity, which for twelve
montras has boon stationary, to-day bocomos
perir atetio. The tranquil ropoHo Of a Thousand
hom sa is today invaded by Gothp and Vandals
with ,oxprous- wagons and neutrality-suspicious. To-
day :is an indigcstble horror betwoen tho upper
antH: undor cruats Of yoatordny md tomorrow,
Thororwas a happy timo, long ago passed into
pcetry,4and now only preserved in myth, whom |
biay- -Day ,gas sacred to oil tho banoaeont intlu-
encoe OF Nlstrro. Out from tho SHOWS Of March |
and tho vivifying showers Of April, May appeared |
with oponh1g 1eavos and flowers, attended |
by blue skies md ba1my breozea. Young !
l.dioa arrayadk> ..thomselveS in blue mud |
groen and pink,:t tho curront colors of Nature.
Japonicadom ntreh its fashions under tho bud |
ding,troes. children danced around Maypolos, |
garlandod switha young leayos and buds, or hunt
cd through thos woods for the pink and white
bloasomsr Of thu, arbutus and tue frat violots.
Mon hadMhoepri1,g-foyo and grow lazy. Women
oponod tdoors aud windows and lot tho spring
xoply ts through tho house to take off tho chill
edgo of winter. Spring lambs hung in tho door,
ways Of tho nar1iote, in tempting proximity TO
oar ~ pens. Spring chickens plaintivoly poopod
IL cir approll ensions Of the coming broil, mud
sod young hunchea Of asparagus with suspicion.
Crisp lettuce, COOL rosy radiaAos, emerald GU"
cumbors, and now md then prococious aquash
or crate Of amooth-Bhinnod tomatoes woro hailed
with delight as tho par1,coaa for tho usual spring
tbi1iousuosa. Since those l,aloyon days, however.
things layo changed. Old Probabilities has
COMO on with his low baronotors md Btorm-con-
tres and 80 mixod up tho clements md disturbed
tho eoa sons that we have May Day only in narno.
1rstoad.o of freah vegetables there aro cannod
atroc;tjos. which hayo como down from
q former generation. Old hena pass
for spring chickone, aud 1oavo cortia-
catea Of til 3ir ago and maternity III tho
coops. Bcragr.s carcasses of sheep, shorn scores
of ti,nas are son we'd up with colorless peas OF &
last ycar's crop, Ia I'd the dotng consumer fancfoa
thatho is eating 81 ring lamb. spring zephyr
fror,, milwaukee, or. Mackinao. lot through tho
bouao to-day. would DO colder than charity.
naluded beings who hsvo purchased spring over
coata 90 about tho ystroots growing at the
woathor and swoariug at'thoir tailore. With tho
| execution of q faw lilac bushes, which show an
;psano desire to get into leaf, flowers and shrubs
atill sr1ubor on in tho chilly ground. somo
vonturesomo crocuBos and liiioB had the hardl-
| hood to put their heads above ground, but, 800
,nc tho condition OF things, went back again.
IT, ia safe to assumo that no chldron will dance
nbout Maypolca to-day, and what consolation
can thoro be in exhibiting your spring fashions
under winter fura2
To heap all those miaerioa at onco upon d man
who has got to take up his bod md walk this morn.
! iur "lB 'ard," as Eccles would say. Cobwebbe1
coilnes; bogrimcd walls; dusty floors; broker
] windou-panos carpets that won't At; smok,
chinnoys doors with hingo ora knob gono
o front doors without koya attics aud Easements
t illlod with tho rofuBo OF the tamil.
j. whose time has just expired; tho youthful
O nrido of tho family coming homo with his eye
!. blackod owing to nnduo familiarity with strang'
d bows In tho neighbor1lood; curious foma!es bo
o hind shutters taking an inventory ofthohousehol
[s goods as thoy arrivo loaky wator-pipos pro
h 18o families OF wator-bugB roye}ing In th
10 kitcnon; gas nhut of because tho last tenan
% 1adn't paid his bills; bodsteads that won't f
10 together cracked mirrors angular stoves, on
t. ing to tho l6as Of leg; articles Of bric-a-ora
# COMO TO smash; haah throo timoa and
10 months rent III adyance,-suoh an accumr
ID lation Of troubles as this ought to t
ID sufficient punishment TOR any amount
s. Bin Of tho average society sort, without hoyln
aa all kinds Of meteorological minery a''peradde'
nk Tho poripatotics, however, have ono consolatio
~ upon which they may congratulate themselVs
in | tonight, ~ thoy find themselves unable
Iio s!oep Within atrauge walls, and that IL, tht
III don't own property, and don't havo to pay take
ch They at loaut arc s,1ro OF dornollo for year
como. The taxpayer is sure Of nothing oxco
,al tAat by tho tine ho flnda himse
Dc- ablo to pay last years taxes this yoa'
nd will bo duo, anl 80 Increased that III she
ro- despair ho will probably hand over tho proport
Vs. take tho cAange, aud join tue Communists. II
tth tenput hns the satisfaction OF knowing that wi
c, ho pays is for nroaent uaa, and so 1t will DO. ye
pa- after year, nud thus when he dies ho aud t
md world will bo eyon. Tho house-owneE, on
3ut othor hand can have little satsfactlon In Ano
ORB ino TINT his financial nalseries arc annually
loir creasing with compound intoroHt for tho hont
so of poatcrty which a not OF tho al'ghtest con
md ouonco to him nor will 1t ho, on tho ot'
the hand, any apocial satisfaction to him when
hat dies to know that poatority Ia III debt to Ill
i'm, md will cancel 1t by rlsng up aud calling L
, Of b!ogsod when lo has no poasiblo uac for bio
fcry ings, which arc usually posthumous. There
tho therefore, aome comfort to-aay for tho porl
uu- tetio head OF tic family riding OH the top Of
has oxproaa-vagon, among hla brokon orookery
the eearoh Of his now homo, and roieottng upon
tho hollow mockery Of May-Day poetry and spri
hia time legends.
anR. An ingenious deyioo han boen Invented IN
tho York for choapening tho a1orbitant rates
,fno cAblo teleRtsphtpR, by which aeYorRl mesa