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Money-eetting.

TheOretic enthusiasts are fond of in
Weighing against money-getting. We
have seripturai authority for the belief
that the love of money rs the root of all
evil. But we should be wantingin prop
er candor, did we hesitate to express a
doubt of the practical truth of this text
When we consider of what brutishness
human nature is capable, We must even
bless the quest of money as something
comparatively exalted. tits refinement,
as opposed to violence. That is, as car
ried on in a modern civilized commu-
nifty; not. of course, when a brigand de-
mands ones money or ones life. Tray
ellers in the east say that Oriental mer-
chants seem to acquire so great a fond
ness for their own wares SIS often TO hes
itate in the selling of them, as though
they would rather keep them than re-
ceive their equivalent. In such a case
the equivalent is not an adequate one. A
vender would never hesitate about the
aeoeptation Of what to him is a tribe
more valuable than the merchandise he
parts with. AT least. as vender be
would not. though he might As a man OF
honor. And, bringing the question OF
honor into mercantile transactions, the
giving Of money for articles purchased
or service rendered is the surrendering
OF pledge. It. in effect. proves that
the recipient is appreeiative.-G = Golden
Age.
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Rome.


Side by side we see the Oriental luxu-
ry Of the cardinals and the rags Of a
starving populace; here a gi1ded coach,
and there crowd of shoeless beggafs f;
close to magnificent palaces Of marble
there are heaps of refuse, emitting
horrible affiuviR. And yet this city is
the capital of Italy. At the fall Of
evening, in the sacred hour of poetic
silence, under the pure heavens, glori-
fed by the last rays of the setting sun,
which give an air of mysticism to all
around from the height of the Pineio
look on this city, with its eleven Egyp-
tian obelisks, its three hundred cupolss
it's groves OF columns. its myriads Of
statues, and you zee the seven hills
whence have sprung senators, consuls,
and tribunes, the political and civil
rights of antiquity, now the bases Of
rights contemplate the facade Of St.
Peters, the Great Baailica surmounted
by the dome foretold by Bramante, aud
executed by Michael Angelo the Tifa-
mic mausoleum Of Adrian, over which
are extended the wings of the brazen
seraphim there, TO the left, the world
Of history, the walls on which sre en-
graved 8 thousand victories, the Via
Sacra, where eonquerors entered the
forum, where the people gathered
those arches which twenty centuries
have passed without destroying those
refreshing baths, copied 50 often by
modern artists; the coliseum, that
mountain sculptured by Titanic chisels
the Vuirinal, which contains the finest
statues saved from the wreck Of Greeee
the capitol, head and cercbrun Of the
world. At the sight Of 50 many mar
vals, at the recollection Of 50 much
grandeur, at the contemplation Of such
monuments, framed In groves Of cypress,
like a funeral wreath placed by an in.
visible deity at the soft music Of bells
which invite to vespers. Ike The voices
Of martyrs ascending from the eata-
comiss the shadows Of evening hnger.
ing sadly over the ruins, like the spirits
Of departed heroes, the heart, sweiieg
/ by emotions. confesaes that Rome ID
not only the capital Of Italy, but ths
eternel centre Of the world 9-E'miiis
CASTELAR,.
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THE OLD CANOE.

Where the rocks are gray aad the shore Is steep,
Ana the waters below look dark and deep,
leans gloomily over the murky tide;
where the reeds and rushes are long and rank
ana ana the weeds grow thick on the winding bank;
mhere the shadow is heavy the whole day through,
There lies at its moorings the old canoe
The useless paddles are idly dropped,
Like sea-brd's wings that the storms had lopped
And crossed on the railing, one DER one
Like the folded hands when the work is done;
While busiiy hack and forth between
The spider stretches his silvery Screen
And the solunn owl with his dun " too-hoou
Settles down on the side Of the old canoe.
The stern half sunk in the Shiny wave,
Hots slowly away ia its living grave
And the green moss creeps Ger fts dull decay
Like the hand that plants DER the tomb a flower.
or the ivy that mantles the falling tower;
While many blossom Of lqvelst hue
Springs up Ger the stern Of the Old canoe
The currentless waters are dead and still
But the light wind plays with the boat at Will,
And lazily in ana out again
It hoats the length Of the rusty chain
Lake Lake the weary march Of the hands Of time,
Ihat meet and part at the noontide chime
And the shore a. Kissed at each turning aneyv
By the dripping bow Of the old canoe.
Oh, many time, with careless hand.
l have pushed Il away from tho pebbly strand
ana & paaaled i down where the stream runs quick,
Mhere the wlrls are Wild aud the eddies thick,
And laughed as I leaned DER the rocking side
And looked below in the broken tide,
10 see that the faces and boats were two.
That were nirrored back from the old canoe.
But now. as lean DER the orumblnR side,
And look below in the sluggish tide,
The face that see there Is graver grown
And the laugh that hear has a soberer tone.
And the hands that lent TO the light skin wings
Have grown familiar with sterner things
but love to think of the hours that sped
As rocked where the whirla their white spray she'd
Ere the blossoms waved, or the green grass grew,
Ger the mouldering stern Of the old canoe.
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NUMBER 36.
Beeea.sr Points a Motel rsith sone Una
dorned Modern Tales.

Bcecser Points . moual with some Una-
derncd HIsdern Tales.
In popular theory. and to a certain
extent in law, woman stiIl remains q
weak. waveriRg shadow of man. his
helpless care and absolute property
It was this most monstfous condition
which made Of Walworth, the husband
brutal, domestic tyrant; a course.
domestic bully. Should not man do
what he would with his own9 It was
this sentimental nonsense thai made OF
Walworth the son calculating parri-
eide. Should not a son protect his
mother2 That the costly legal ma
ehinery of q sovereign state stood ready
to "protect" her, as threatenings and
pistols could not, was a fact too CON-
monplaee 70 weight with him. Her
honor being insGlted, ehivalry demand
ed that he should avenge it. Smith,
who killed a man and tried to XIII a
woman, because that man paid court to
that woman, justified himself hundred
times over with the same plea, /" She
belonged to me" And he died, to his
own thinking, in the fall odor of sancti-
ty, and in the sincere belief that he had
committed no crime. Gillem eoolly
stabbed his wife because she refused TO
live with him on account of his de-
baachery, faithlessness and violence.
he thought that he exercised the plain
est right of q husband, and said to the
policeman, you'd have done the same
if your wife had left you" And that
policeman admitted that he saw the
murderer lying in wait, knew his mad
RACES, and feared some violence, but
" did not like to interfere between man
and wife" Goodrich happened to be
the victim instead of the victor, under
his system, which was evidently the
same-namely, that the woman is the
absolute property of the man and the
creature of his will To his thinking,
she had no rights in the case.
These are not pleasant pictures; but
it is only IN their concrete form that the
bad tendencies Of society arrest the
general mind. The one hope of dimi-
nishing crime is to reform those false
modes of thought which generate
crime. No one of these is more dan
gerous than the notion OF mans own
ership of a woman, and of woman's
accountability to man. It brutalizes
the lower classes from end to end. It's
consequences touch unborn children
and keep the ranks Of rogues and
pans perfull. 1t makes the men the of
upper classes tyrannous and selfish !;
the women silly. exaeting, frivolous
and weak. It leads to crimes of sensu-
ality and violence, and sets the code Of
honor above the law of the land.
Half the social questions that vex our
souls will be answered when the world
comedies that a woman is a normal, re-
sponsible individual that she must be
the protector of her own honor, the
Judge of her own duty, the keeper of
her own conscience, answerable only TO
the law and to heaven. There will be a
lofty Observance of marriage, a noble
race of children, only when the man
and woman are intelligent equals and
friends. And in that day the world
viii be ashamed to remember through
how many centuries it ranged men into
a mock order of devotees and women
into sentimental priesthood.
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An Arab Tradition.


sThis tradition which I tell you, !"
said Refs Hassain, 80 is many centuries
old. It states that there was a para
disc, temple built Of precious stones.
Man dared not utter its splendors.
Deep IN the midst Of the palms of Eden
it stood, angel built, dazzling sanetu-
airy. Our first parents sang their yes
per songs IN the twilight shadows Of its
courts; for there were pillared halls,
and the cloisters of emerald and pearl,
where fountains sprang aloft IN the Il
lent noon, and long, luminous vistas,
where. hand in hand. those first two low
ers walked in sinless beauty. Then
there were pinnacles and domes Of sap
plire. blazing in the sunlight by day
and glittering in the starlight by night
From court and terrace waters WeAed
out, and iris-erested cascades fell down
10 cool shady dells Of asphodel below ;
for The temple was plsoed far within the
privacies OF that valley Of Eden.
Whence the four rivers flowed eastward.
/" However, sad to relate. upon the
day that Adam fell. this glorious tenn
pie was shattered into = million frag-
ments, and Sewn broadcast all over the
earth. These fragments We now Light
upon and gather up with cost and care
and call them rubies, emeralds sap
phires and diamonds but they are, A.
ter All, only the splinters Of that prime
val place. The sunset splendors and
the diadem of princes the milky way
that sPsFdes IN the heavens, and the
spray tllat spsrllles IN the entanglsmeni
OF a maidea's hair, are like but she cost
Iy dust Of that lost sanctusry-the sad
remembrance Of n departed Eden.
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Anscdots of Palmerston.

Lord Palmerston's wit was in such un-
mistakable Saxon that the edge was Of
ten too sharp for very free use. Few
persons have earned themselves a greater
reputation for philanthropy than Lord
Shaftesbury, who, by the way, married
Lady Palmerston's eldest daughter by
Earl Cowper, her first husband Lord
Palmerston was never weary of telling
stories about his son-in-law, whose re-
hgious zeal he did not much believe in
or care for and Lord Shaftesbury, it is
said, always took them in good part. 1t
must be nearly twenty years ago that
the then home secretary called across
the table, enc day, Lord John Russell.
who sat reading a newspaper, at the Gar
lick:
Russell. have you read Tony's (the
nickname bxwhich he always designated
the earl of Shaftesbury, whose name is
Anthony Ashley Cowper speech, last
night before the parsons and psupers At
Exeter hall p
81 have not, my lord, replied Lord
John, whose spriggishness never permit
him TO treat or address any person IA
miliarly.
Well, read it. It's dovilish good,
and the examination Of the children al
the close, am told, was better still. "
8 How so p
Tony was asking the children va,
riety of questions of scriptural nature
10 which he had received very satisfac,
tory answers. just as he was conelu.
ding, be addressed a girl somewhat Older
than the rest, and, among other things
inquired, Who made your vile body
Please, my lord, responded the I'M
sophisticated girl, Betsey Jones made
my body, but made the skirt myself.
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SomNoE is the element II which great
things fashion themselves together E
that at length they may emerge. fuli-
formed and majestic, into the daylight
Of life. which they are thenesfortl 10
rule. Not William the silent only, but
all the considerable men I have known.
and the most undiplomalie and unsira-
gelic Of thess forehorc 70 babble o.
what they were creating and pro-
ieeting. Nay, in thy own mean per-
pls1itiss. 90 thou tEyself but hold thy
tongue for one day. on the morrow
how much dearer arc thy purposes and
duties: what wreck and rubbish Asvs
those mute uurknsn sithin thee swept
away. when intrusive noises Wero nut
out Speech Is too often, not al the
Frenesl1nan defined il. She art Of con.
cealing thoaeht. lsut Of quite sitting
and snspending L. 50 that thers IS none
70 conceal speech. TOO. is grest. bus
not the greatast Speech IS sifveTn, 81
lanee Is golden; or. Is ] might rather
express Il. speech Is OF time. silence q
eternity.-Carsy1s.
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The Art of Hanging.

As long as a capital punishment is
the law of the land and hanging the
mode of accomplishing it, there is salts
faction IN the thought that men are to
be found who, regarding it as sclen-
tific process, or an art, if you viii, are
ready with advice to make 1t perfect.
An English clergyman, Rev. S. Haugh
ton, who is also fellow of the royal
society, has been publishing a work on
the " Principles of Animal Mechanics,
in which he does not disdain to devote
a portion of the space to the subject.
He says that the method In use Is un-
worthy of the present state of science,
and the long DROP which causes in
Simultaneous death by the fracture OF the
vertebEse, is recommended, the length
of the drop to be obtained by the fol-
lowing rule. Divide 2240 by the weight
of the "patient In pounds, and the
quotient viii be the required length in
feet. This rule is simply obtained by
supposing, as was found to be actually
the case IN one instance, that 224O foot
pounds of shock is sufficient to cause
fracture IN any case, no allowances be-
ing made for differences of age, weight
or sex; thus by this rule, the lighter
the criminal or " patient, the longer
must be his drop, and the longer the
time of his agony IN the air. Besides
an immense number of measurements,
of dissections and experiments on the
bodies of animals IN order to obtain
data for his calculations. DIR. Haugh-
ton has made experiments on the living
subject, sometimes of q somewhat
amusing character.
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Unwise PhLianthropy.


Fostering the good-for-nothing at the
expense Of the good Is aH extreme cru
city. II Is deliberate storing-up Of
miseries for future generations. There
Is no greater curse to posterity than
that Of s,equeathing them an increasing
population Of imbeciles and idiers and
criminals. TO aid the bad IN multiply
ing Is. in effect, the same as maliciously
providing for our descendants multi
tude Of enemies. II may Be doubted
whether the maudiiS philanthropy
which, looking only - immediate Eniti-
cations, persisteusly ignores remote re-
suits, docs not infiiet a greater total Of
misery than the EXTREMIST seliahness
inaiets. Refusing 70 consider the re-
mote influences of his ineonsinent gem
erosity, the thouRItiess giver stands but
degree above the drEnksrd Who thinks
only Of so-day,s pieasures and ignorcs
to-morrow's pain, or the spendthriit
who seeks immediate delights At tn
cost Of ultimate poverty. In one re-
spetd, indeed, ne Is worse since, while
getting the prescnt pleasure prosiuee !
in giving pleasure, he leaves the fataie
rniseries 70 be borne by others, eaeapin +.
then himsesf. Ard caliine foF at'd
stronger reFrobstion is that scatterilas
Of money prompted by misinterprot..-
ton Of the saying that " charity ccvs.s
a multitude Of sins. For. ia the many
whom this misinierpretation leads 20 be-
lisve that by large donations they eau
eomponnd Tor evil deeds, We may trace
an eiement of positive bsseness, an
efiort % get = good place 10 another
world, no matter at vhat iniury % isi-
iov-ozeeturea.
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scriptior IS ont o. uhpsid, and that
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Fitting sway, fitting away,
Hour by honr, and day by day,
Never 3 break ia tle running thresd,
Never = rarse in the solemn, tread
Onward. onward. day and night.
Through ioys bloom eae ecrrog oliEhti
On through cnlhocd. youth, and age,
Orsr tie bright or blctted reE
Slver alnbiiiops tinted cloud
Over deSpasE's fuasrai shroud,
On throcEh labor, "a. taruueh resi-,
On when sheered, or when deptssssds
Ever oar LIE - fiiiting away
Hour by hour. day by day.
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A young married friend tellsa good
Joke on himself perpstrabed by a little
three-year old ''pEide OF the family. q
She is the only pledge of love that has
twined itself around the heart and AZ
fections of himself and wife. A few
evening since a minister visited the fam
ily and remained until after tea. At
the table the reverend visitor asked the
blessing. and the little one opened her
ewes to the fullest extent in startled
wonderment. She could net auder-
stand what had been done, and It was
with great persuasion that her mother
could keep her quiet during the time
they we're at the table. When they
left it, she walked hp to the minister,
for whom she had formed great friend
ship. and said " What did you say at
the table before we commenced eat
ings Z" Ny little darling, I thanked
God for his goodness IN giving us 90 eet.
so that we might grow and be strong.
q Papa don't say that. What does
your paper say2 . - Papa saws, ssCsodle-
mighty, what supper %
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The Boston Young Lady.

fFroaa the New York ersphiel
The Boston young lady has arrived
at Saratoga. L mean the real literary
young lady, the siege-of-Troy girl.
She grew up in Boston. and graduated
at vasssr college last yeaz. She wears
eyeglasses, and is fell of wisdom. She
scans Homer, rattIas the verb leipo'
like the multiplication table, sings Ana
creon to the old Greek melodies, and
puts up her hair after the statue of the
Venus of Milo. There is no end to her
knowledge OF the classical dictionary
and when it comes to Charles Lamb or
sydney Smith, Sotherns Of literature
those who never wrote much, but got
the credit Of every good joke in England,
she can say their jokes yas Catholic
says his beads. If yen ask her how she
likes babies, she answ'rs
sHowg Well Ell Charles Lamb
remarked. i like EN- b-b-boiled. =
's Ask her anything, and she viii al
ways lug in quotstion from some pc
dantic old fool like. Dn johnson or
Swift or Jack Runsl1y. Just to show you
that she is up in literature, and that
YOU are-green. Not single original
idea, but one constant 'as Socrates
said" or cas- Pluto remarked, as Dip-
genes observed Yesterday, some
sharp. shrewd, original New York
Young ladies got held OF the pedantic
business, and introduced a funny para
phrase on Miss Boston's language.
:" Do You love music, Sailie?"
"Well, yes, as the poet observed. F"
ehow many glasses did you drink,
this morning ?"
..'six, as Mr.. DabaI pathetically
remarked IN his arithmetic.
"Dance the round dances p
ss' No as the lord mayor of London
quietly observed as John Ruslin asked
him for the loan of 81.
The Boston girl is 50 we'll posted that
she wins triumphs over you by sort
of literary "bluff game. She attzi-
butes sharp quotations to distinguished
men, and, conscious that you dare net
question their authenticity, of course
she "blufs" you right down. When
you go to your room, and read mp, and
find she has really "bluffed yon, of
course you are too gentle to mention it.
and so this Boston girl goes on plnming
herself at the expense OF New York gall
lsntry.
Yesterday, the Boston girl was at it
ayain SomelDodv asked her which was
the oldest, Methusslah or Deutero-
nomy.
why, Barnes, the commentator,
SAYS deuteronomy came before Num-
bers '-of oourse he's too old 70 be COM
puted.
Now, I knew she lied, but still had a
doubtabout it. Ididn'twant to break out
and say that Deuteronomy came before
Numbers, and then have those nisera-
BILE Boston fellows say with that terri
bic upward infection, % How are you,
Eli Perkins?" Ono. But when I did
90 MP to my room sent ont TO gentle
man in Saratoga who has several Bibles
to lend, and got the Psutateueh, end,
sure enough, just by luck, that misera-
bic, pedantic, spectacle Boston girl was
right.
If you sit down by this Boston girl
and don't behave like minister she
don't get mad and pout. o no. She
says. Mr.. Tompkins shall repeat
you few lines from scribner'sg' p and
then she goes on
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PRoFEssoE AeAssIz desires to throw
open to women all the educational in
stitutions and facilities under his con-
troll.
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LADY BUBDETT-COUrss SIN retains
her interest in the bsnkins-house, and
her valuahles are stored in the STRONG
boxes built BY her eccentric grandfa-
fher. Some ten years ago - was ests-
mated that her wealth, IN form % sor-
sreig1s. swonld weigh thirteen tons,
and an T0z hssar sacks.
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THE woman's rights movement Ia,
reached the aborigines. An Indian
family appeared in Saginaw, ATiehs
recently, the husband carrying the pa
poose and the squaw carrying nothing.
It is the first instance of the kind on
record
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Josh Billings gives the foIloxing ad-
vice 70 young men +" Dent setiiacouF-
aged Il yer mustash ion' croE- II
s5lmetimes happens that where a mus
tash duz the best nothing else dRz 30
well. .
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FoUz young women hare entered mp
on the philosophical course at the uni-
versity of Rome They are skiliful
slaart-l.az,5 szitsEs, IN art that is also-
ufeIy neesesaFy e ssliis university. ss
ali lectures are required 20 be taken
down yerlsalira By she students.
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THERE isa movement along the whole
line of the woman's rights phalsnx.
Everywhere they are getting mp peti-
tiOns to be sent to the legislatures when
in session, asking that the property Of
women may be exempted from taxation.
No vote, no tax, is their motto.
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II is said that but two establish
ments in Great Britain make charcoal
iron.
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THE Virginia educational conven-
ton has voted against teaching girls
algebra.
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ouEzs vfdrontx Is ssid 70 hara beon
much annoyed ct tha shah's kiss She
had oniY.to have held up her ksads snd
John Brown wouId have bounesd him.
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WHY can't yuu be esnaible, Harry
4 donH like ni1Hia afuig on ny chair.
De stnii n you don't stop thaa nonaenaf
III get no and iaars you % tlnre

And whep you take ont solitaire
ring, or trs to " seal the vow or
something of that sort, as New York
fellows always try TO do with almost
every Boston girl who comes here. she
looks up, blushiDg. and in the language
Of Swinburne poetiealiy , remarks
7hersf aonsetodss, coming, donf lock sot
Get M on your cnaif AGAIN.
Can't yta seem - II nothing had hsppencdf
InsFsr saw Erch Fsesa ~ sou msa.