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4 Good Word for the Anti-Treating
.ss sass Il Society. asta3.. ss4 III.
San Francisco Chronicle

san francisco Chfoncte. 'E'3
The habitual-drink or anti-treating So
eiety recently organized in San Francisco
does not appear to be making much head
way, for little has been heard of it since the
announcement of its formation. The mem
bers restrict themselves to one pledge, not
to pay for, any other mans drink and not to
drink at any other mans expense. Such an
association is not likely to arouse much
enthusiasm even among its advocates, while
it is exposed to a cross-fire from the two
great armies of rum-drinkers on the one
hand and Otal-abstinence men on the other.
The rum-drinkers denounce it as 'a mean
have no sympathy with an organization
which allows its members to drink. Not
withstanding all the objections to the indi-
vidual drink association, however, there is
no doubt that if the prescribed pledge were
strictly adhered to the growth of intemper-
ance would he materially checked. The
New York Tribune speaks approvingly of
the new movement, and advances the fol-
The American habit of treating is the
origin of much of the misery and damage
which come from excessive drinking. There
are thousands of boys growing up to-day
who have no inherited thirst for liquor, to
whom the taste and smell of whisky are
offensive, who are destined to become
drunkards merely through their generosity
and desire to please. They know of no
no other way Of making themselves agree
able TO their acquaintarces when they meet
than by asking them to take drink, and
when the same invitation is given to them
they do not know how to refuse. Who has
not seen these fine, rosy, rather loutish
Toys, at county Fairs or political meetings,
marching UP to bars by twos and threes,
asking each other, "What will you take 90
and gulping down n dose of poison which
brings the tears to their eyes? When one
has paid for the drinks each of the rest
feels the obligation resting upon him to
return the courtesy, and the rural etiquette
obliges all to recognize the right of each to
In most cases not one of them enjoys it.
They all feel the fiery stuff i'll their faces
and eyes, clouding their minds and rasping
their throats, but the one who has first paid
is the slave of his friends, and the conven-
tionalites of the village or the crossroads
are as strong as those of the city. 'You
have drank with all of the rest and now
you must drink with me,'' is a contradic
ton i'll logic, but it is unanswerable in rus
tic practice among drinking youths. The
signing of such a limited liability pledge
as we have mentioned would free these.
well-intentioned and theughtless boys from
the chains of this miserable and dangerous
custom. There are very few who would
deliberately go up to- a counter and ask for
Il solitary dram. This is only done when
the habit has become strong one, and
when the hope of reformation has pretty
well disappeared. #.e j.;
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POETRY.
YOUR LETTER.

going to burn yonr letter: 1 sit by the hearth
alone;
hear the pane the sobbing rain, hear the night
winds moan;
But safe in its hushed tranquility lies the little world
Of home,
While the freight flashes ftfnlly about the quiet
roomi .#
And brightly it glnts the CT. .qucred tnts of the
paper in my grasp;
Safe, for moment yet my prize, in my loving, lin
Safe though around the fnnera pyre the fierce flames
flash aud leap, 1#=
For -hal burn you letter. love- and tonight before
sleep
Yes, shall burn your letter; though again, and yet
again,
read the words, to musc's chords one sets sweet
refrain;
Though open it, where the freight falls with touch
es slow and soft.
And bend once more DER the written words, that
have traced so oft.
To please myself by fsncsing, "he smiled when that
phrase he wrote ss.H
Or, there q shade like summer cloud, DER the
clear, brown eyes would float;'
Or. here did he leave kiss like me, oil for the fond
words sake.
Or for love of the ecbo that he k1le their melody
would wake.''
Still shall burn your letter. think l have found
Joy, .-
Whose centered pleasure Tor thought can measure.
nor time tide destroy;
l know wish my life may pass ere that dream dis
sov ed see.
Yet will keep secret love, for you and the angels
and me.
Our bond is hard TO understand though Its weft is
true and pure
And I might die tonight, you know; the flame is
guardian sure
Well, flowers spring thick i'll summer; my heart has
bright new June.
And say, as l burn your letter, " He will write me
another soon.n r.5,
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-04-25
The Truth About MaoduRa and Macbeth.

Il
Macduff was an historical character, and
the claims of the Earls of Fife and Wemys
to be descended from him are tolerably well
authenticated; but the witches prophecy
to Banquo, :. Thou shalt get Kings though
thou be none," was not verified by events.
:. Early au horities show no such per-
sons as Banquo and his son Fleance, nor
have we reason to think that the latter
never fled farther from Macbeth than
across the fat scene, according to the stage
directions. Neither were Banquo or his
son ancestors of the house of Stuart In
stead of being a usurper, Macbeth was a
legitimate claimant OF the throne; instead
of being the victim of midnight and
treacherous murder, Duncan was slain in
fair fight alta place called Bothgowan, near
Elgin, in 1899; instead of being a tyrant.
Macbeth was firm, just and equitable
ruler; instead of being killed killed at Dun-
shame, he fell, two years after his defeat
defeat there, at Inmphanan.
Horace Greeley's daughters are worth
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A Novel Plot for a Play.

Z
1t may be assumed that 1.-THE Blue
legged Lady produced here on the 9TH
inst, owes its idea (however much modified
in dctail), no less than its title to the
French eccentricity, La Dame aux .Iambes
d. .Azur.'' The notion isolce more tfiat. of
life behind the scenes disclosed to the pub
lie. Mr.. W. j. Hill (author of the version)
is supposed to be unprepared for the pro-
duction of a melodrama Which has been
announced, and requests the audience to
accept rehearsal instead. At tliis rehear-
sal everything goes wrong. A leading
actor forsakcs his stage duties in quest of
lodging; the heroine has not discussed
pork chop, and the stage is kept whiting
for her opening selil"quy. Everybody is.
unprepared for the business of the stage.
even 10 the properts-man. Alterations
ensue which a genial actor, WHO plays critic
at the rehearsal, persists in confnunding
with the dialogue Of the piece. After the
rehearsal has struggled on through immense
difficulties the performer, who had been
absent in quest Of lodgings returns. finds.
his future l:lndlady at the Court Theater.-
and concludes a bargain with her from the
stage, which he again deserts to accompany
her home. This last blow is too much for
the stage manager, who orders the curtain
to be rung down.-Loatoh Public Opinion.
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SHE KISSED THE DEAD.
BY HOMER GREENE.

She kissed the dead. Her warm. red lips
Were pressed against his marble brow.
/" For if he's but asleep" she said,
''And is not numbered with the dead.
IIe'll rise and kiss nae now"
She kissed the dead. Her warm, red lips
Were pressed against his hueless cheek.
g For c will know" she softly said,
:, My hiss, aud if he be not dead,
He'll turn to me and speak,
She kissed the dead. Her warm, red lips
Were pressed against his lips Of ic'.
&" He answers not she weeping said,
81 know my dall NJ must be dead,
For have kissed him thrice"
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A SINGULAR TREE. - In the Island o
Goa, near Bombay, there is singular tree
called 'sthe sorrowful tree, = because it onl,
fiourishes at night. At sunset no flower
are 70 be seen, and yet, half an hour after
it is quite full of them. They yield sweel
smell but the sun no sooner begins Il
shine on them than some Of them fan of
and others close mp and thus it continue
Towering in the night during the Who'll
year
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a The DIscovERER OF GoLD.---The Cali
fornia Pioneers, at their last meeting,
elected James w. Marshall. the discoverer
of gold in California, an honorary member
of the Society. This reminds us that Mr..
Weamer, who also claims to be the discov-
erer of gold, is still in the land of the living,
although spoken of as dead some time ago
by many, of the papers. He is about to
locate permanently in Phoenix, Arizona,
where he has been to prepare home for
his family. Mr.. Weamer still insists that
he was the first discoverer of gold. He
says that he and Marshall were standing
near together when he-Weamer-picked
up the piece of gold which Mrs. Weamer
still has in her possession. The. lady
resides at Cambria, California, and still
retains the famous piece of gold. @
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4 THE Iowa FIRST CONGRESSIONAL Dis
TRIcT.--The Chicago Tribune says that it
is understood that George w. McCrary and
John Fl. Gear will be the candidates for the
regular Republican nomination for Con-
gress in the First District of Iowa, and that
the issue between them will be ON the ques-
tion of tie power, which McCrary's bill
declares to be solely in Congress, to regu-
late railroad tariffs. Mr.. Gear was Speaker
in the Iowa Legislature this year, and he
takes the negative to McCrary' S affirmative.
The Burlington Gazette says lit viii be
sharp contest" There was small anti
monopoly majority in the vote Of the dis
trict for Governor, last year, against Nc
Crary's 4,sO0 majority in 1872, and Gear
takes the anti-monopoly side Of the ques-I
tion. M Sc
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TOPICS OF THE TIMES.

The members of Henry Ward Beecher's
congregation are about to reply to the
charges made against him by erecting for
his use the largest church in the world No
nan in America is better capable Of filling
such an edifice with an interested cengre-
CATION than Mr.. Beecher is.
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There are over fourteen and a half mill
lions of children of the school age in this
country. We spend annually for schools
over 500, ,00o, 600, which is quail to one-third
of one per cent. of the property, real and
personal, of the whole country, as returned
by the last census, and we employ 221,0
teachers. The national government has
already set aside for educational purposes
140, 900, 600 acres of the public land.
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New Mexico Wants to Become State

The Territory of New Mexico. w ith Santa
Fe as the Capital wants to get into the
Union as State. This want is, probably,
felt by twenty or thirty politicians, who
would be on hand to take all the offices.
Colorado was refused admission for reasons
which would apply with greater force to-
day against New Mexico. The latter has
a small population, and very much mixed.
It is migratory and unstable. Santa Fe has
been enriched by primitive kind oftrade.
not now so important as formerly tits a.
depot Of supplies for mining and pastoral
regions, for Indian traders and Government
contractors.
The Territory is well plastered over with
Mexican grants, and it is now probably the
best field for land litigation in the whole
country. As State it would probably
make another rotten borough. and become
as famous in that respect as Nevada. In a.
Territory of forty or fifty thousand people
nothing under heaven is gained by State
organization, except TAXATION and the buy
ing ard selling ol3 offices. Utah and Colo-
RADIO are prosperous rs Territories. New
Mexico will get along for tile next five OF
ten years under the present Territorial
organization. --.s. r. Bullefia
Mrs. Polly Powers turns her beauty and
her wit tessaecount as Topeka lobbyist.
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Here is a picture Of Secretary Belknap:
6 lie looks like J ohm Rolfe i'll the honeymoon
with Pocahontas. Ills flesh, color, the
looks of boyish laziness, are all in the
style of Reubens-yellowlsh beard with
autumn tint in it, and pippin apples, brown
corn, pumpkins, nuts, and everything in it
it is a beard to go after chincapins in.
which boys are all day playing truant. He
is as athletic as the god Mars after a fun
lougll in the fishing season."
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RIFLE BALLS.

Et 8t3 J0aIsvlllA Courier Jonrna!. .-tr l'=.
Kentucky receives more severe stabs from
thoughtless newspaper scribblers than any
other State in the Union. The last unkind-
est cut of all is the accusation that she has
/, 146 John Smiths. a.t-s#1s .#s fgg
Bald Mountain seems to have quieted
down now, and some of the people around
there are beginning to fear that they got
religion a good while before there was
realty amy necessity for it. tattt)t 4.a
$50 An iowa man who was called q fraud
has rec setcd thirteen cents damages
When a jury pfnnonhtes that man lacks
but thirteen cents Of being fraud, the
court ought 70 instruct the sheriff to keep
an eye on him. ~
George Alfred Townsend threatens the
Troy On. " ,WAiq with his umbrella, and
the Wig adyertises for a bull pup to meet
the attack. Can. not the friends of the
parties devise some means to spare this
effusion of ofperspiration9 s % 9a4&d -
Mr.. Wizard, the inventor of a new process
of riaing cannon, proposes to rifle 5000
guns TOT the Novefhfneht at the very low
rate of $500 per gun, or s., 900, 600 for the
whole lot. But, as low as these. terms are,
the editor of the Army and Navy Journal
says 6hefe. are machinists not ten mlles
from his Office who would rifle the guns at
500 a piece, and be glad enough to get the
job. It is very evident that Mr.. Ward s
object is to rifle the Government as well as
the guns" ='s 's'' ss.
Think Of the Cimmerian gloom which
overshadowed the soul of the saloon-keeper.
in Ohio when he penned these lines to his
sweetheart
They Tn l have @ ruined nee me nij utterly Mary ai
And Ely uP a ha'f l9e. Che ght dearest Mary =
-, my my ds.oale ' haffo IN snf and lapsl howl
,Ass i''''-es s's'f 'la'' ss'i' s'stss Ia
''e. ~ slt'ea s = s''s'' t''.','' s#is
1 \. 4 newspaper lef reporter, quoted by Erery
Saturday, writes thus of the etfortso ofta
5.lady iecturess:h sta at'.ai ff'
. True, there is little of the practical in the
leceae, pus .nele = - .l',en soui ana sach
fountains Of sentiment and s,,cbi I,aIos Of
metamoiphical radiance; SO much that is
woInaiily and true TO herself and her sex;
sse' api.s,a.lo.i ~ woman s'lpeel1ofty 20
tribute u wonla,,.s s,l.f rioritv q, maj, n
herewiia ds.main that we can well forego
the strength ofsthe strong-minded fur the
saaG s. .'.e aeoafas sif'i NJ WHICH sie eliao"s
-, m:n .I,a, ~. .ltIs.,
- 1.ees :, s,'sssssss'ss o9 A'iio e'iouan ~
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The Chinese residents of Nevada City
subscribed $4Oo to the Colfax, Grass Valley
and Nevada City railroad fund.
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1t appears not to be generally known
that the Duke of Edinburg and his wife are
both descended in some degree from the
Stuarts. Nicholas, Gear of Russia, mar
ried Charlotte, eldest daughter Of the
Prussian King Frederick William Ill, who
was descended from Frederick William l..
and his wife Sophia, sister Of George II. of
England. The mother of George |. was
Sophia, daughter of Frederick, Elector of
tho Palatinate, and Elizabeth daughter of
James |. of England. Thus in the present
imperial family of Russia there is a blend
ing Of the blood of the Stuarts with that of
the fIohenzollerns and the Romanoffs.
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Fifty years ago rings were made with pre-
cious stones of which the initials formed
name or word. For example the name of
Sophia would be expressed by the following
jewels: A sapphire, opal, hyacinthe jasper
and an amethyst. That was at once
an ornament and souvenir, for we all like
to have something dedicated to the memory
Of those we love- sf. ag 8i e
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The expenditures made in running a
mining, tunnel before a lode is strd' in the
tunnel is not considered by the Land Office
as equivalent to expenditures on the lode.
Tunnel owners will bear this fact in mind
and act accordingly.
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a NEWS FROM STIcKEEN. N.-Dispatches from
Victoria, dated the Sd inst, state that the
steamer California arrived in Esquimaut
the night before, from the north shore.
She reports things IS as very lively at Cassiar
that the miners were making from $12 to
S30per day to the hand. There are between
seven and eight hundred men at the mines.
The weather was very mild and the river is
expected to be open about the 1st of May.
Sylvester, of Barnard's express, arrived i'll
three and a half days from Bucks bar, on
the ice, with $1,000 in dust. We will give
next week a map of Cassiar county, prepared
for us by Mr.. Cargovitch, who is now at
Bucks bar. The map gives the distances
and the line of travel from Bucks bar to
Deases lake. - r.. ...s ..5 s H-5e r..
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-04-25

Sir Alexander Cockburn, the Lord Chief
Justice of England, has undertaken to find
out the author of "Junius." It is said
that even through the late great trial of
Arthur Orton, he snatched many hours to
study the subject at the British Museum.
A London paper remarks that the secret of
"Junius has never yet been examined by
a first-rate judicial intellect, and that if
anybody can clear it up it is the Lord
Chief Justice. "One Of the most accom-
plished men of the day, as well as one of
the greatest Judges, he is richly equipped
both with the requisite knowledge and the
power of weighing evidence"
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-04-25

Joaquin Miller places his own estimate on
.Englishmen in general, and Londoners in
particular. CAT recent dinner in Lon
don," he says, 81 was sandwitched III
between two venerable authors. who per-
sisted in talking, between the toasts, about
Americans. did not know these men
for, as you are aware, it is not the custom
to introduce promiscuously, as with us
and, of course, they were not talking for
my benefit. One of these men finally made
the startling statement that some scientific
Englishman had just told him that the
third generation in America, if unmixed
with European blood, showed physical
development precisely like that of the In
dian. He boldly insisted that it was quite
impossible for America to produce race of
men peculiarly American that would be
above t at of the red man. These things,
the venerable old dolt insisted, are matters
of soil and climate -
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TT u - -
Mining Items.

/ From the San francisco Mining Press April IL
Il The aFRENcH GUIANA MINEs.-These
mines, which few months ago were
attracting considerable attention, have not
proved what was expected by the sanguine
prospectors. A miner who has returned to
Salt Lake City from French Guiana, gives
most discouraging account of his expert
ence in that country. He says the climate
precludes the possibility of successful white
labor, and the stories of the richness of the
gold placers are highly overdrawn. 1t
would be a miracle almost for a North
American to run the gauntlet of the poison
GUS water and atmosphere of the mining
district and come out alive. Most of the
Utah party are heartily sick of their venture,
and are trying to get back. We did our
best at the time of the excitement to
warn miners about the climate of the
country and it's general unhealthiness, but
some men are never contented unless they
are looking up new fields the further off
the better. @ ..- ts.s~
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Girr GEMs.-Tn Germany each stone is
invested with a .symboIical meaning, and
every month of the year is, said to be under
the influence of one Of these stones. We
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Horace Greeley's daughters are worth
$l25, 900.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-06-10

CHINESE TRusT.-In all places in
China you may sec string Of coolies
rushing through the streets carrying
loads Of money. There is not q police
man to be seen, except occasionally at
the gates or in time of trouble. You
may see a shroff with lot of dollars
in q fiat tray, examining them intently
as they pass, click, over his thumb;
sometimes posse Of idlers, consisting
of chair-bearers, coolies, cooks and
servants, all looking on. There does
not seem to be even the suspicion that
anyone might attempt to kick the tray
over and bolt with what he could get
in the scramble. Why, even in that
nest of iniquity, Hong Kong, you may
SEQ at that most comfortable OF
buildings, tho Oriental Bank, lot Of
Cinnamon counting and examining,
perhaps, thousands of dollars that are
being paid to them, and some OF
the greatest scoundrels unhanged
passing constantly: perhaps they
think tho men in the streets would
most likely bc honest enough to catch
them, but it is rather doubtful If they
dare. Money and valuablos arc ex-
posed in way that would never be
dreamed of in England T; and tho SINH
larity of dress, tho narrowncss and
crowded state of the streets in China,
all would aid in the escape ofa robbcr.
-Ttcelue Years in China.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-06-10
Prognostioations by Leeches.

That ibero ssocs;,,vo,o.. ..s
mosnberic changes n Tho jccch ia ,,o NV
orally admitted md that l,,o ;,Idss n s "r
utilizing this little creature as a sort
Of weather.glass arose long ago, we
have evidence, In one Of tho early vol
umcs of tho Geutleman's Md0a-ine.-
A correspondent ofthst venerable Jour
nal stated that II a lcech 30 kept in
phial or bottle, partly filed with water,
Il will indicate approaching changes
of the weather. He placed on a win
dow.ledge an eight.ounce phial con.
tanning a lcech and about six ounces
of water, and watched IL daily. Ac-
cording to his description, when the
weather continued serene and beauti-
ful, the leech lay motionless at the
bottom of the phial, rolled in spiral
form. When il began to rain at noon,
or little before or after, the leech
was found at the top of its lodging,
where it remained until the weather
became settled When wind was ap.
proaching, the leech gnlloped about
its limpid babitation with great liveli-
ness, seldom resting until tho wind
became violent. When thunder
storm was about to appear, the animal
soucbt Judgment above the level of
the water. displayed great uneasiness,
and moved about in convulsive-Iikc