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CHAPTER XIV.

THE CHURCH OF THE BEST LICKS.
,Just - the fame on the torestick
which Ralph had watched 20 intense
", ficksrsd and burned low, and just
Ralph with heavy but not quite
hopeless heart ross to leave, the latch
lifted and Bud re-entered.
!. I wanted to say something, he stam-
mered, but you know II is hard to say
it. haint no book larnin to speak Of,
and some things is hard to say whom .
man haint got book words to say 'em
with. And they's some. things man
can't hardly ever say anyhow to any
body
Here Bud stopped. But Ralph spoke
in such . matter OF course way In rsply
that no fslt encouraged to 90 on.
'You gin up Hsnnsr kase you
thought she belonged 70 mo. That Is
morn ia . done by long shot. Now
AFTER I left here just now,I says TO
myself, man what can gin up his
gal on account Of sech . feeling fer tho
rights Of . Flat CrickeS, like me, Why
dog on Il, says I, sech man is the
man - can help me do better. don't
know whether you're Hasdshell or .
6aatshsil. or Methodist, or Camp
bsllite, or New Light, or . United
Brother, or . Millerite, Or what not.
But I say the naan what can do the
clean thing hya ugly Ssllsr like me,
and stick TO 1t, when ! was jest ready
to eat him up, b kind Of man to tic
70. Ra7geoilHi stt llsat g
Here Bed stopped In fright ct his
Uwn voiubiiity,S fbf hs had run his
words "a - though II afraid lhat if he
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NC A1S1 @AS fWNVp.
EdRor Ad5~sissr
Allow me 70 snswW : Nv ques-
tions through your columns for the
benefit u n ola ftisnd, snd my 9th
ers TIT may viii "a know q The
Homestead hnd.
1. Why 40 we build sod hosssf
In the first place, they are veFy warm
and confortablA We have no wind
breaks and the sod houss sta63e he
Nebraska winds better tn ! 6one
house. Besidn, honestsndess znost
generally are men starting with .
small capital and therefore 60 o.
cheap scale. 4
2. Is lumber highp Yes, lumber
is worth $50 per thousand,
but there is great deal used. We
hsvo two railroads to 60 to-cnc 10
miles from here the other 20.
3. There il no stone in this coun-
try.
4. We get good uster On the
table land By digging from 80 to 70
feet. We sse both bored wells and
dug wells. The dug wslls W curb
with lumber above tie water. We
have good water and plenty oft.
5. Government land in Neb. Il sall
in market, but can be taken only by
actual settlers. "A soldier can pre-
empt ono-fourth section, which viii
cost him three dollars; live On il six
months, build house, break 10 acres,
and 1t the end Of the six months pay
for it 1t $3.50 per aore-then 30 on
and homestead another one-fourth
section. Then he il at the end Of his
string. A citizen can get one-fourth
section the same way and afterwards
homestead An 80 inside the railroad
limits. gas
II is very healthy here. We think
some Of sending of for some one that
expects to die soon to start . grave
yard. sH
Our streams here are not much ike
Iowa sloughs they form . narrow
channel. We have no sloughs hsre
they are called daaws. Some arc
very large and deep, but dry the
most of the season.
There are four nurseries 10 this
county, al doing y good boainess
each one having : 6ns stock. n.C.
s. Harrison 10 the propsietoe q one
Of said nurseries, Heis also in the
b. q M. r. R. cmploy-selling and
disposing Of their lands in this county.
They sell At reasonable rates and on
long time-1O years at 8 per cent.
interest. ax8
We have had . very pleasant win
ter 90 Car, with neither snow OF rain.
We get our wood at present o1 Of
tho Platte river-A distance of 10
miles. Some would nay We Ateat it,
but we Of Neb. call it taking beck
what.the railroads have pulled from
our pockets. A great many Of our
settlers that have been hsrs long
enough to raise . few crops, burn
corn. They say it is cheaper than
wood. Corn il worth Is cents per
bushe1. In al our towns they use
corn for fuel.
We have the horse discase with ~,
but our horses are well fixed with
rood warm sod stables.
Hoping that al tine homeless and
landless will move out and talge the
advantage Of the Pre-emptisn md
Homestead lsw 1 will closs. y More
anon. J. LEfE
P. S.-The good old ADvEETlsER
il welcome weekly visitor, md il
ssAA sd than loanea to
the rest Of the Cedar .souaHy boys.
Long may i wave--also ths Mpton
railroad! ssa ]. l.
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A young man In San Francisco
found an old deacon he knew "buck-
ing the tiger" In . gambling hell.
"What," he exclaimed, deacon, you
here? ?" "Yes," was the reply, II am
bound to break down this evil institu-
tion." s.tet
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An exchange remarks that this u
the kind of weather when ChTistian
draws close to the stove, and wiehes
every poor labofing man on the sSAce
Of the earth was clerk In store.
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4 Corner. "

The Nation thus explains . sACor-
ner :" A and his friends bsy I'll ths
stock Of . roed, and having by this
means forced the price 10 high point,
go on buying, or fssher making con-
tracts to buy, moro and moro stock at
the market rates, which grAduaily rise
until they reach some sxtravagant
llgure, and then A and his friends,
buyers, and B and his friends, ssllers,
draw of. Those who have contracted
to deliver cannot do It, because they
are "short" Of the stock, having con-
tracted to deliver twice - much per-
haps - there 10 In existsncs. II they
could deliver, the other side could not
pay. The A party therefore says to
the B party: "You see you are In
corner; you cannot deliver this stock
We cannot pay for 1t II you could pay
US SO much for each sharv you have
agreed to let us have, and We will
cancel the contracts.n The contracts
are then settled ct some rats agfsed
upon, the A party remains In control
Of the stock, which it has paid for With
the proceeds OF the cancellations Of the
contracts. This IL Q successful corner.
The corner "breaks'' and h unsuc-
cessful when the cornering party has
not money or pluck enough TO 60 on
to the end, but begins TO settle or sell
stock. Then the price fhlls, the
'short" party are able to fulhll their
contracts, and the cornsrers are them
aAlvoa cOrnoFAA .sE@
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MlLLEn nOUsE,

lI.-. III 9tonVvoOd, lows.
VsnE PROPRIETOk oS thls HOUSE viii
spare no pains 10 make hia gnosfa COM
Portable: aud In doing % hopes 70 merit the
lseys thls hOuse daily (eundaye exceptedl,
- Tlpeon, and return. Alao. n connection
Wu9 - 0un0 good LAvery. Home custom
- 1es VIII b furnished DzsAls 81 rs-
NV sAlrs p,s,,sa,,
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mandlng thst - Aosr beopsosd. |
'sIsss opsn her,r rid Hank. tuss
ingltvld with leae g bhs arm. eea1
dent tsas Of the uleh1br. .sssss $780,
Bod .tssttsssd q asslf up. "nash
you'sss co.ssd. f'vs got : misA b
kiSk go. Yen eoe - int d. Aaam
cd mssA aud now yoa want 70 sd0kk
Ydu jsss tech t6A.of tAsss srs nstsn'
ings. md I'll lay you Nut nas a youl
back aiore you can say Jack Rooln'
con. ."s7 go tf
Ths teachsr wss climbing to tht
roaf With the beard IN hand. - -
THAT air WON'T win." laaghed Psts
Jones, outside. Ha saw that thsrs
vasA0 smoke. Even Bod beean q
hope that Ralph would fall for oncs.
The usssr was nov On the fidgs-pols
Of tho sehool house. H TOOK . papss
from his pockst, and lslibssatsly psuf.
cd the contents down the chimney.
r. Mr.. Psse Jones shoutsd "3unpow.
dsr!s and startsd down the road % b
out Of ths-~sy ~ the explcslon. DR..
Small remembered, probably, that hia
patient might die while he sat there,
and started on.
But Ralph smptied the paper. and
laid the board over the chimney.
What row thsse waa inalAel The
benches that were braCed againat The
door were thrown down, aad Hank
Banta rushed out, rubbing his eyes,
eonghing ffsntioailys and sure that be
bad bern blown up. All the rest fol-
lowed. Bud bringing up the rsaf sui.
kily. but coughing snd snesslng for
dear Iifs. Such a'smell Of sulphur o.
came from that school house!
Bsssey had 70 lean against the Ssnce
70 giegle. a fase n "
Assoon = al were out, Ralph threw
the bosff or the chimney. leapsd to
the ground. sntersd the school house,
and opsned the windovs. The school
soon followed him. and all was still.
would he thrash ~ This was the
important question ~ Hank Banta' g
mind. And the rest looked for bat
W with Had. anq
q It'sjust mine o'clock J" ssid Ralph,
conaslting his swatsh, 'sAnd I'm glAd
to see you al here promptly. Ishssld
have given yoo . holiday II you had
asked mo like gentlemen yesterday -
On the whole, think I shall give
you holiday, anyhow. The school
n tlleu,issed. &st' %Nf*
And Hank fslt foolish.
And Bud secretly resolved to thrash
Hank or the master, he didn't care
which.
And Mirandy looked the love che
could not utter.
And Betsey giggled.
i4 4 CHAPTER XIV. a
asg2 d AcRTsIs w1TH BUD. ssa
Ralph at still at his desk. The
school hsd gone. All q once he be-
came eonacious thae 6hocky sae yse in
his accustouasd peacs apoo the hard,
backleeo bench. .48 III ~
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A Washington despatch to the Lou.
isville Coarier-JoursM contains tho
following rather sensational .stAte-
ment: 8.4K
General Sherman was, examined
before the American and British Com
mission to-day in regard 70 the barn.
ing of Columbia. He denied thAt he
had issued orders to burn Col00hia.
but admitted that the army was great
ly exaseprated against South Carolina,
and said that this evaporation Was
increased by General Hampton's rear
guard firing into his camp o NIGHT or
two before entering Colambia, which
evaporation he and his ofIicers pastic-
ipated in, aud this was known to the
men. A correspondence Was then
shown to Gen. Sherman, purporting
to have taken place bstwesn him and
General Halleck while on his march
to Columbia. Tho communication
from Halleck dssirsd him to destroy
Charleston and SOW 1t with salt, 20
that there might NO more nullifsrs or
secessionists grow up there. To this
Sherman in reply wrote that CHARLES
ton and Columbia would soon b In
his hands, and Hallsck would have no
cause to complain ofhis treatment to
them; that he had the 18th Corps with
him, and that corps did thsir work
well; further, that hs (Shsrman) would
not spars the Dnslic buildinss IN Col
umbia . hs did ct Aillsdgsvills.
General Sherman admitted. on his
examination that this coRrespondenoe
was authentic. General 6hsrman
stated that he occupied Columbia With
the 18th Corps. In reply to the queD-
tion whether be kept the men IN the
works after taking posssasion q the
city, he said no; hs could not have
done % to have prevented The burning
Of every town In tho 6eAts of 9oath
Carroll M. These sespoDsss vsrs
drawn out BY the represeptatioa g ths
British claimants, who allage thot
their property q Cnlsnhie - -
stroysd wantonly anA y vioas6ie1 8
the uoagoe of war z,9.@s
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POeT H9,uyaE.

DR. r. =. POST, CLARENCE, IOWA. A
ID new Hotel throughout, convenient 10
NE depot ana kepS With the utmns2 ga9ard
% the o0mfost, conveniealco ana satiaisclaO
Of customers. vi7u1N
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r r. MILLER. Proprietor n flr~t cl.aa
d. stopping place Tor h0arslers Or frsrel.
eTs viii be found at this Hotel, an Ce5ev 81.
nearly Opposite the Post ON1oe. Ttptoa. feva
Hec1 . ss.A - t1s House daily :s5 Stasssweoi
and Wilton, and ndsemi.weeklyfor DNxeap0Ft.
0o0d Stabling attached. NJ
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CHAPTER XIV

s4fk u ACnBIS WITH BUD.
Ralph at stiii at his. desk. The
school hsd gone. All q once he be.
came conscious thae 6hocky sat' ysf ia
his accustomed psacs spon the hard.
backleso bench. - II
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(Hson HsarsA aad HonAl
CHATTER XIII.

: "a aTRV0aLE FoR THI AAsrERy.
+ fhs scAool 6osed On Monday evs-
ming g. usual, Ths, boys had been
talking inkh6tsAll day Nothing bat
The hpl4 de- N The slender. resolpts
| !; e, lesss s ra 81
support at home, and he cannot long
govern ! schdoi. Ralph had efEscta-
ally lost his popularity 10 the district,
and the worst Of u was that he o6uld
ses. divine from whAt quarter the
wind came. except that he felt sure Of
6ana1lsl agency in it somewhere.
Even Hannsh hsd alighted him. when
he called It MeAns' on Monday mora
Ing tsdFsw the piuancs Of pay that
was due him.
H bed sxpessed . petition Tor 10
holiday on Christnss day.I 5pch hol-
idays are deducted from the teacher's
time, and tits customary for the boys
toMlfd ekts sshS Seschsr W. refuses
70 gfsnt t6sm. by Earring hlm out Of
the school. house on Christmas and
New Years morning, Ralph had In
tended - sranta holiday if ity should
b Asked, but II was not asked. Hank
Banta was the ringleader In the disaf-
SScsion, and he had nanAged d draw,
the surly Bud. who was present this
no..rv,kS& NJ = - - 4IAR k,xk.,. to -,
that Bud ~ in saSof Of making .
requsst before rssorting to extreme
measurs~ gthgwss yerrulsd. He
gave 1t hi Aoissnna oplnion that the
master was mighty peart. and they
gSn,!Id = -. - aage9E aesespsat
= h4 Fsr DO IN - ~ feS like
- ~ nnh6lne ! bssyS - III.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-22
CANALS TO OPEN FLOODGATES.


We believe it would not require the fingers
of both hands to count the commercial and
manufacturing undertakings which our Gov
ernmeDt has conducted at profit. 1t would
need more than a column OF fine print to
enumerate those which have netted a loss. If
Rothschild Vanderbilt or Stewart should con-
duct his business after the fashion OF the
United States, bankruptcy would close his
doors within a twelvemonth, unless indeed his
alarmed friends took out writ dc lunatico
These statements, we are aware, are mere
truisms An American would no more think
of contradicting them than he would the
axioms of Euclid. Nevertheless, we are threat
ened by new outbreak of mania, for doing
business which private citizens could do much
better. This time it is canal building that
Uncle Samuel has on his brain. And, as we
suggested yesterday, 1t is not at all probable
that the three canals proposed will constitute
the last ditch. The new 1oodgates they open
to drain the Treasury will not be closed with
their completion.
Before the expenditure OK the first sixty
millions is authorized-and we think it prob
able that the prominence given these schemes
in the Presidents message had reference to
some foreknowledge of the strength they de-
yeloped on Monday in the HOuse-the public
should be thoroughly familiarized with their
bearings. There are certain matters about
which popular sentiment has been so clearly ex-
pressed that even Congressman can perceive it.
There is not cOrporars guard of them that
would dare to vote to-day for bill giving
large Government aid to railroad. Their
constituents cannot be touched by arguments
in that direction. No talk about the interests
of commerce, the development of the country,
the conveyance of the wheat crop, moves them
a whit. No more land grabs or Credit Mobi-
liers for them. But if not railroads, why canals
II there is so little prospect Of profit in these
canal enterprises that no capitalists come for
ward to attempt them either as a whole or
with some Government assistance, If, in short,
there is no expectation of getting back princi-
pal or interest Gu the Investment which the
United States must wholly bear, is not the
scheme little more wild 1--WE use mild a1-
jective) than even Union Pacific mortgages
We offer these suggestions not because we
would not gladly see every facility afforded to
the farmers Of the West for marketing their
grain, lumber and provisions. But at least
two of these schemes appear to us TO have
about as much merit as Gen. Buffers Dutch
Gan Canal. That had been talked of for q
century as desirable Improvement II
took an army TO construct it, and
when finished it wouldn't float gun
New-York tribune., 1873-01-22

powerful speech in favor Of tho measure.
Among the majority of the Peninsular men,
bers there are scarcely two opinions about the
prOpriety of abolition. Among those VINO
made speeches in favor of the project We
find the names of Martos and Becerra, the
Democrats; CASTELAR, among the Republicans; {;
the Marquis of SardOal among the most senslDiy
conservative of the aristOcracy. LII the nhn
vote of confidence, there were but five Senators
and but thirteen Deputies who chose to put
their names on record against this benencent
and inevitable measure. 1t is true that
hundred and seventy nOblemen met 10
protest against it, but there is nothing alarm
ing about this. The only energy left among
the blue blOOded aristOcracy of Spain is that
of protest, and their unavailing complaints
form the invariable accompaniment OF the
march of progress. A desperate effort has been
made to food the Chamber with petitions against
Emancipation emanating from those engaged
in the West India trade; but the unsolicited
petitons in its favor are Overwhelmingly In
the majority. 1t remains to be seen whether
the maadroit handling of recent diplomatic
correspondence in this country will nullify all
these favorable conditions and cause reac-
ton against the Ministry. II it should prove
otherwise we shall have no reason to plume
ourselves on our superiority either TO the
Spanish Government or the Spanish people In
the matter of tact or temper.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-22
EwAEcIpATroY IN THE coRTES.

The more we know of the details of the
recent movement in the Spanish Cortes for
the abolition of Slavery in Porto Rico, the
more deeply must we regret the entirely un-
necessary question of fact which has arisen
between the United States and Spain by the
indiscret0n of our State Department, which is
likely to result in strengthening the hands of
the pro-Slavery opposition and embarrassing
the Ministry in its wise and humane plan of
reforms. Several weeks ago, when the first
intimati0n of the purpose of the I0rIiila Gov
ernment was given, THE TRIBUNE bespoke for
the Ministry the confidence which is due to
sincere and earnest effort. We have no Occa-
sion to change our judgment in this regard.
We consider that the Spanish Government
as body, and the high minded and
liberal statesmen who compose it, individ-
ually. are kheartiIy enlisted in Gthe cause of
Emancipation, and that the moment is exceed
inely ill-chosen for the United States TO annoy
or paralyze them by any over Jealous dictation.
1t is no answer to this, to point TO the pro-
fessons and promises made by former Minis
tries which remain unfulflled. Spain has never
had Ministry so liberal and so enlightened
os the present For the first time since the
revolution of September, there is Cabinet in
power which takes the principles of that
revolution seriously, which is not hampered by
the old political traditions which made Prim
and his friends less frankly liberal than they
would otherwise have been, nor by that pagan
contempt for democracy and progress which
has distinguished the Liberal Union during
recent years. Zorrilla, Martos, Echegaray,
Beranger, Montero Rios, Becerra, and M0squera
are all men whom the old school of Spanish
politicians would have despised as too naively
honest for craftsmanship.
Besides, the circumstances of the case favor
the plan of Emancipation. The people Of
Porto Rico themselves recognize the fact that
the institution has ceased to pay, and they
begin to be strongly In favor of a proceeding
by which they shall not only perform high
religious and moral duty, but also do a good
thing for themselves and the country. Seven
deputies representing the Island in the Cortcs
demand the abolition Of Slavery. and one of
them. Senior Lwbra, made an eloquent and
New-York tribune., 1873-01-22

pensicr in Spain, which is the same as saying
that Mr.. Seward did not object to the rule Of
Macmillan in Mexico. The documents they
bring forward prove nothing. Therefore we
are remanded to the differences rendered neces-
sary by common sense, that Austria earnestly
desired the defeat of Prussia, but was pre-
vented by Hungary from making any
commitments in favor of France that
the Emperor did all in his power
to defeat Montpensier in Spain, and only pre-
tended to neutrality when he found himself
threatened with the Hohenzollern candidacy;
and so far as Messrs. GramOnt and Mercier
are concerned, the former is incapable of a
logical inference and the latter of an accurate
report
New-York tribune., 1873-01-22

boat, IL this proved an insuperaDle diin-
Guilty on tie lower James River, what would
bo the case above Richmond, up in the noun
tains where that river rises, about 1000 feet
above sea level9 What hope would there be
for the other ditch in the mountains of
Gcorgiaf There are engineers who are ready
to give estimates, and who do actually in
dorse the practicablity of tunnel under
the British Channel. But capital does not
hasten thither. We imagine it would equally
shun either of these schemes, which involve,
among other items, tunnels through noun
tains. Nothing on earth is impossible to en-
gineering. But the only instance of canal
through tunnel in a mountain that is as yet
of record, is the one described by Sindbad the
Sailor. How far the Niagara Ship Canal, which
is to defect our commerce to the St Lawrence
River, will be superseded before it is built by
the enlargement of the Welland Canal, is a
question that ought to be asked about the
third of these ventures.
While we write, information comes that four
or five additional canal schemes are looming
up in Congress. This is the natural result OF
encouragement to the brood. proposition
is on foot to log-roll them in an omnibus bill.
The accepted phrase which explains such
movement is "anxiety to fairly adjust the
claims of the different States" Claims for
soothl Every one of these schemes might,
from local point of view, be regarded as an
attempt to divert commerce from New-Iork.
1t could be easily demonstrated that the Ene
Canal could be converted into first-class
ship canal that would give all required relief
/ IL linn nE nan
diture than would be needed to tunnel The
Blue Ridge for canal boats. And our State by
noble enterprise has demonstrated the nat
ural current of trade, so that this could not
prove losing speculation. But we should
blush for shame if Congressman from New
York asked such charity soup from the public
table. Nor need we be in haste to hu the
plates of the others.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-22
2Teau'}Dork Daily Gribm1re.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY %. 1873

The report that the mission Of the Russian envoy to
Great Britain was a failure is denied. == The circular
OF H. Jules Simon has been approved by the French
Assembly.
Mcssrs Brooks and Patterson made statements before
the Poland Credit Mobilier Committee == Several
L. 3. Senators elected
The Court OF Appeals has affirmed the decision Of the
lower Court in the case Of William Foster. =- Prof.
T. O. Wilder ectured Brain and Mind" and William
Page ON Initiative Art" = Andrew Garvey's cross
examination was resumed in the Tweed =-=
teamster murdered hOrseman in the BOwery. -
Gold. il3s llSs, ll3i. Thermometer, 36o 39o, 33o