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The Good Heart of Matt Carpenter
From the Missouri Republican.

One day during the special session of
1871--a sweltering day in June-Carpenter
had made speech ON the Alabama treaty,
and had come home to his obscure lodgings
Oh the corner of F and Thirteenth streets,
tired, mad, and out of breath. Farenheit
marked 1909 in the shade. The air was
still and simmered over the hot brick pave
ments as an oven. 1t was not a day for
good nature. Matt climbed up the rickety
stairway that leads to his room, stripped
off his coat, vest, collar and boots, and laid
down ON the lounge to smoke cigar and
incidentally to go to sleep.
ceiling! clang! cling!' went his little
bell.
''Damme," says Matt, spitefully, can't
they give q fellow minutes peace? Come
in; come in.'
The visitor was a fine, decent old Irish
woman, between fifty and sixty, or therea-
bouts. She looked tired and worn. She
had walked into town from somewhere up
in Maryland about twenty miles.
''And is this Sinator Cairpinter, Lord
bless him?' she inquired.
Eyes madam, can do any thing for you?"
responded the '!Sinator, not in the bland
est tones.
"Maybe ye might" said the woman.
81 You see, Sinator am poor Irish wo-
man. Me husband got sick in the war, and
he niver has been able to do much since,
and I've a hard time of it to get along wild
all the doctor bills to pay and"
"Well, well, what has all this story to do
with me? Here is dollar"
z. All Sinator, Ochone, it isn't beggin |
am, and | wouldn't handle Or touch o. yer
money--it's only chance to work like a decent
woman | want, they told me that Sinai :
Cairpinter wuz Il good hearted man, and if
l wint and towld HIM me story he wud help
me get a place in the Treasury Depart
ment
Treasury DEPARTMENT. broke in the
astonished Senator, what the--can you
do in the Treasury Department ?'' and he
began to imagine either that the woman
was crazy or that some heartless practical
Joker had sent her to him.
"What can do in the Treasury Depart
ment, is id? What can do? Why scrub,
scrub the floors, what else?"
"Scrubr' said Matt: 'swell here is rich
ness! An old Irish woman seeking senato-
rial influence to get Il job of fscrubbing! Just
you wait till pull on my boots and put on
my hat, good woman, and I'll see what can
be done for you."
In about five minutes the Wisconsin ora
tor, in his shirt sleeves, was on his way
to the temple Of the exchequer with his
protege. The Senatorial influence was po-
tent, and if you call at the Treasury De-
partment and inquire for the woman who
holds her position at the request of Matt
Carpenter, they will show you a fine, dacent
ovid Irish woman, with gray hair and
wrinkled face, who mops the floor and
scrubs the stairways, and she is MATHS la
dy friend y there.
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POETRY.
Z" OUT WEST" "

l hear thee speak of Western land,
Thou callest its children wide awake band;
Father o, where is that favored spot?
Shall we not seek it and build cots
Is it where the Alleghanies stand,
Whence the honey comes already cal ned?
Not there, not there, my child.
Is it where the little pigs grow great
In the fertile fields of the Buckeye State.
And get SO fat on acorns and meal
That they sell every bit of them, all bnt the squea?
Where the butchers have such plenty of hogs
That they don't make sausages out of the dogs:
. -&E Not there. not there, my child.
Or is it where they fortunes make
Where they've got tunnel under the lake;
Where the stores are full of wheat and corn,
And divorces are plenty as sure as you're born;
Where Long John Wentworth is right on hand
Is it there, dear father that Western land?
Not there. not there, my child.
Is it in the domain of Brigham Young,
The most married man that is left unhung,
Where every one that likes can go
And get forty wives or more you know;
Where saints are plenty and cheek sublime
Can that be the gay and festive cline?
Not there, not there, my child.
is it where Colorado's mountains rise
From the boundless plains where the buffalo lies
Where the air is pure and the waters cool. .
Where fortune favors oftimes the fool:
Where the rocks are full of precious ore
Is it there we'll find that Western shore?
Not there, not there, my child.
Eye hath not seen it, thou verdant youth:
Tongue cannot name it and speak the truth;
For though you go to the farthest State
And stand on the rock by the Golden Gate,
They'll point out across the Western sea
To the land whence comes the Heathen Chinee,
Saying. '''Tis there. my child!'
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Royal Proposing.


Nicl.olas, the Emperor of Russia, won
his bride in a singular way; yet it had a
spice of gallantry in it. During a visit to
the King of Prussia, one day while at din
ner, the Emperor rolled up a ring in piece
of bread, and, handing it to the Princess
Royal, said to her, in subdued voice, g Ii
you will accept my hand, put this ring on
your finger" This is the Imperial way of
popping the question She took no time
to deliberate, but suffered her heart to
speak the truth at once; and their happy
nuptials were soon consummated. The
Royal way is illustrated by the instance of
Qnecn Victoria IS proposal to the man Of her
choice-and right worthy one it was
Prince Albert The Prince had been out
hunting early with his brother that day, but
returned at twelve, and half an hour after
ward obeyed the Queens summons to her
room, where he found her alone. After a
few minutes conversation on other subjects,
the Queen told him why she had sent for
him; and we can well understand any little
hesitation and delicacy she may have felt
in doing 50, for the Queens position, max
ing It imperative that any proposal of mar
riage should come first from Eer, must nee
essarily appear painful one to those who,
deriving their ideas on this subject from
the practice of private life, arewont to look
upon itas the privilege and happiness of q
woman to have her hand sought in mar
Tiage, instead of having to offer il herself. =
Memoirs of The Prince GoHsort.
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NUTMEGS.
From the Daubury News.

FROM Lne UanbufY News.
''M IT, writes us:
g You remarked in your paper last week
that you felt your pockets in vain for a
cabbage to level at those three dusky Hia-
wathas who were so discordantly whistling
'Mulligan Guards through Main street.
You should have felt about your head"
So we did. Our hat was felt.
A Danbury charmer had a row with her
folks the other night because they refused
her money enough to go to the circus.
An innocent daughter of the Ould Sod
boughta box of lucifer matches at Bene-
diets one day last week. The following
afternoon she brought the box back, COM
planning that it's contents were worthless.
One of the clerks, astout, handsome fellow,
by the way, opened the box, distracted a
match and ignited it ON his trousers. Alb
stracted another and ignited it in the same
manner and with the same facility "What
is the matter with these matches?'' asked
the polite clerk. Fhats dermather yissef!
Dye s'pose iviry time phant to shthrike
match that it's mesilf that is to COON here
and shthrike thin on yer breetehes ?''
They gave her q fresh box. g. @+ e.z5za
A young man employed as corresponding
clerk in a Main street establishment is eyi-
IDENTIFY subject to heart disease. He has
addressed business letter to us dated,
"2d Mary, 1874.''8 ss 9z'fi1 '4s-.. +.
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RIFLE BALLS.
Louisville Courier-J Journal.

| 4
Miss Elisabeth Shedd, that was of Mil
ton, Pennsylvania, says an exchange, sis
now Mrs. John Devil.' The Devil she is!
A Colorado paper says the women out
there win ride thirty miles to see a man
hung. 1t is not often that you find women
SO fond of amusements.
A Michigan paper tells how the members
of the Baptist church had a donation festi-
val, and as token Of their esteem pre-
sented their pastor with $040." 1t strange
it didn't occur to them that they could just
as easily have presented him with $000O40,
which would have been a sum really worth
talking about.
The. Rev. Narayan Sheshadri, convert
ed Brahmin, who is now preaching in Lon
don, says his faith in Brahmanism was first
shaken by his reflection upon the Brahmin-
ic religious tradition touching certain
saint who swallowed the ocean at three
sips. The religious faith of man must be
ill-founded indeed which can be shaken by
as plausible story as that.
-s.petitien has been presented in Congress
praying for the appointment of commits
sion composed of both males and females,
to visit the various Indian tribes and confer
with them as to the best modes for the res
toration and preservation of good will be-
tween the races. Unless the female branch
of the commission want their chignons lift
ed they had better stay at home.
The Rev. W. T. Sabine, of New York
City, has abandoned the Protestant Epis-
copal for the Reformed Episcopal Church.
1t was Brother Sabine, we believe, who
declined to ''jerk little chin music" for
the funeral of Hackett, the actor, and kindly
directed the actors friends to "the little
church around the corner" A reformed
church is just the thing for Brother Sabine.
Mix considerable quantity of reformation
with his religion, and his Majesty the
Dickens would probably begin to have some
little fear of losing him.
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How Coffee Came to be Used.

1t is somewhat singular to trace the man
ner in which arose the use of the common
beverage of coffee, without which few per-
sons, in any half or wholly civilized country
in the world, now make breakfast. AT the
time Columbus discovered America, it had
never been known or used. Tt only grew
in Arabia and Upper Ethiopia The dis
covery of its use as a beverage is ascribed
to the superior of monastery in Arabia,
who, desirous of preventing the monks
from sleeping at their nocturnal services,
made them drink the infusion of coffee, mp
on the reports of shepherds, who observed
that their hocks were more lively after
browsing on the fruit of that plant. It's
reputation spread throughout the adjacent
countries, and in about two hundred years
it had reached Paris. A single plant.
brought there in 17l4, became the parent
stock of all the French coffee plantations in
the West Indies. The Dutch introduced it
into Java and the East Indies, and tho
French and Spanish all over South America
and the West Indies. The extent of the
consumption now can hardly be realized.
The United States alone annually consumes
it at the cost, on its landing, Of from fifteen
70 sixteen millions Of dollars. 8 sasfs.a5
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IMITATION OF LEATHER.-A process i

: IMITATION OF LEATHER.-A process has
recently been introduced by which paper
and cloth, or either Of these materials sepa-
,rateIy, are prepared so as to answer in many
cases as valuable substitute for leather,
not only possessing the color and appear
ance of the latter, but being proof, for all
practical purposes, against injury from
water, Precipitation or moisture, the same
as leather. sf3 5faeE95lta aSfI .aSaE g 96 81 3s
In this, process the cloth,or paper is first
covered upon one or both Of its surfaces
with photographic ink, corresponding in
colar to that OF the leather iatehded to be
initiated The lithographic ink u applied
to the surface Of a. stone, and the material
to be prepared is placed upon this stone and
subjected to the ordinary transfer operation
of lithographic press. The material being
now removed from the stone, and the inky
surface allowed to dry, u coating of shellae
varnish, or other effective waterproof srb-
stance is applied to both sides. A superior
article is made by applying series of coats
of photographic ink, one after another, wait
ing for each successive coat to dry. In this
way, morocco, or slleepskin, either green,
blue, black or red, is almost perfectly inli-
tated in external appearance.
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The great Washington monument is to

The great Washington monument is to
be completed by the Government. A scien-
tific engineer has just examined It's founda-
tion, aud made his report to the select
committee of the House ON that subject.
The report shows that the foundation is
solid and firm, but it is recommended that
the shaft be carried up only 437 feet, instead
Of $50, as originally intended. The Monu-
ment association own thirty acres Of land,
containing q great amount of valuable water
'front.' which may be made valuable, enabl-
ing the Government 10 make a fine profit
over the expense of completing the shaft
in view of these facts, the committee have
reported IN favor OF the government aasnm-
ing the task of completion.
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CREMATION NOTES.

They agitate "Aquation z now-that is,
marine burials. @,4. faa s &a-
The cremation idea is progressing. A
burial-case factory in Detroit has just been
buried. d.-Roehester Democrat. 2 1 agae
Cremation win have u hard lime with
Butler and Logan, if g in their ashes live
their wonted fires.'' Their urns will have
to be kept in refrigerator.-N. T. Mafl
An old lady in Michigan is opposed tu
cremation unless the friends of the deceased
hire carriages and drive the mou1ners MP to
the fair ground and back.
Dear Jane is gone, my darling Dan.
She was calcined, yesterday; +@
But the wiad upset the tematocan,
And blew her ashes away f@AF
Detroit Free Press: If the cremationists
have their way, the number of ash-carts
will need to be increased. And how it will
sound to hear the ashmen ring their bells
and bawl, g Bring ont your mother-in-law' Is
ashes.'' 49,
To be or not 10 be creuated IS
A graveyard question: not related
TO jeyial life, cigars and brandy mashes. @
But whether useless bones shall turn to ashes
Yet if for us who stillthis life must buffet,
Then seAy aos shssfs or The ski4 aad stuff Il {
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ODE TO OUR OWN PRINCESS.

When Alfred takes these Russian Stcppes to wed a
bonny BRIDE
The lion and the grizzly sit hobnobbing side by side,
AS Tennyson, the laureate, maudlin ballad sings,
And the public delighted in the loyal land of kings.
II.
And here to Yankeedoodledom British beau has
come .E ...,..r. ...... #r r4E.s. .a.
To WOO and wed our little maid and bear her safely
home. r..s
So why shonld not song be sung by democratic
bards,
Who feel inspired by love and pride though not ex-
pecting cards.
Our Nellie need be shy in castle or at court,
Her crest is quite noble ever monarch bought;
On Freedoms glorious battlefield her sire acquired his
fame, -- ..
And hold her hand an honor for any Norman name.
- ".
With sweetness and simplicity are mingled bloom and
youth.
warm and loving little heart whose every throb is
truth;
An honest brow, dimpled cheek, a dainty roguish
smile ..r-a --.-E
native hpnespun lassie whom to win is worth ones
while. -+t4
And when she sails across the sea her foreign friends
TO greet, . .e-f-
No feudal hall in all that land holds winsome heart 80
sweet -'. !"
As this our genuine Yankee girl, princess of the
blood sf 4 ts's-'- sN
That the day at yicksburg and first in Richmond
stood a-. S.tt -''3
-H Il. VI
All bliss attend the welded life of pretty Nellie Grant,
flower that to distant shore the fates will soon
transplant. iz@ tt tE
To show the stately English danes what Yankeedom
can do, 5- - s.5-..
And to knit in closer siserhood the rival red and blue!
God grant that more the smoke of war obscure
their sheen,
For if does the blue snd red deserve to turn pea
green! ~
God bless all intennarage too between such bellies
and Deaux, @ .=s-aet g. 3s.,-s
For better nuptal kisses far than warke words and
blows! ..5# ats ag"H DAVID G. ADEE.
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A MEAN soN.-Your readers are dom,

A MEAN SoN.-Y Four readers are doubt
loss all aware-for does not Mr.. Poster state
it in his Life of Dickens ?''--that the
great novelist portrayed his own father in
the character, Aficawber; but am not
aware that we have the origin of tine name
given. | believe Dickens formed it in this
way: Taking the words, Ny father he
changed the f into the third preceding let
.terc,; the into the third succeeding letter
70; the b into the third preceding letter i.
but, as he required d consonans, he took
the third preceding tile I, that is, u The
result is the word Mycawber; but as the u
required Disgusting, it was changed into /,
which completely transformed tile original
name into the immortal Mieawber.- Loa-
don Cor. Gontiasasat Iiines. ss
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An Old-Fashioned Yarn About New Dig
es.s3s.f mimgs ss,. 49, &

Verona, May 6.--The steamer Otter
has just arrived from the North. The Col
oasst correspondent sends news from the
Cassiar diggings to the 18th April. The
men were thawing out pay dirt and making
from four to ten ounces pertiay to the hand.
Flour was 81 per pound. The widest ex-
citement exists in town. Every available
steamer has been chartered to convey peo-
pie 10 the mines from Victoria. 9sAa
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TOPICS OF THE TIMES.

The author of recent book about Africa
tells of a forest of acacia trees he passed
through. These are called by the natives,
"sofar,'' a word signifying flute. The
name is given because the acacia trees are
pierced with circular holes by small insect,
and the wind, as it plays upon the openings
produces futelike sounds. In the winter,
when the trees are stripped of their leaves,
and boughs white as chalk stretch out like
ghosts, the wind, singing through the insect
made flutes, fills the whole air with soft,
melancholy tones. -@
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This item has found it's way into the st.
Louis Globe: "While manipulating the
windlass of we'll the other night party
who had been laying in stock of whisky
before it was all seized by the police, let
the handle slip when the bucket was half
way up, and naturally enough received a
chuck under the chin that knocked him
over neighboring fence. Sold again,
he muttered as he climbed to his feet ;
might anode-hic-better than to--hic-
go foolin' roun' SO much water. Betch'r
boots I'll stick t. whisky after this F"
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A French Lady of the Old School.
From the London Times.

She was as thin Us a dream of Pharaoh;
she had singular manner of dressing; her
neck was long, her hair fiat her face pale
and weary, and she wore such a close stick
ing dress that you were constantly tempted
to compare her to an umbrella, and pull her
by the neck to get her out Of her case. She
was sweetly irnpertnent and wilfully inso-
lent 5a f8a 23 +f E#
Asa banker one day tried to kiss her
hand, she gave his fat fist dry tap, saying:
Paws DOWN. and that with an air so full
at once of native hanteur and disdainful
good humor that the banker would have
looked foolish had he shown temper. She
was always the most addressed in a saloon;
her elbows formed the most correct angle
YOU can imagine; she played whist three
parts OF the evening, insulting her partners;
she was obsolnte, imperious, fidgety, and
yet, when she entered saloon, every one
bowed low, and she passed through the
apartment in the midst of respectfully sig
nificant silence. s5i5 M l
Once while reclining in her carriage,
which was being driven up the Refine Hor-
tense avenue, she caught sight of little
coffin covered with white sheet, and car
ried by two undertakers, but without a sim
gle mourner., One Of the men carried in tho
Grape of his hat the paper which authorized
their pockets, and the straps of the coffin
passed over their shoulders, went, as it were
lounging along, carrying to the grave the
poor unknown creature which reposed be-
meath its white Sheet Then stopping her
carriage, erect, simple, sincere, pulling her
veil over her pale face, Tightening her dark
shawl around her thin waist, with head
slightly bowed, she began to follow the bier.
The undertakers at once changed their at
titude, the crowd stopped and uncovered,
and yet no one dared to join her, for she
alone formed an imposing cortege for the
poor castaway; and all those who saw. her
pass understood that she who was following
the sorry bier was femme CONNIE IL .fda;t.
A Cur DANCE. g. Leland gives
a description of the dancing of Egyptian
girls, in which he chronicles the perform
ance OF one young person, declaring it to be
"qulte poem. He says: ssPlacing 4
cup, symbolic oftemptation, on the ground.
she danced around it in astyle that was per-
fectly Spanish, turning the body and sink
Ing low with great grace and exquisite art.
The cup seemed to exercise terrible fasci-
nation and she seemed afraid to drain it.
The fear was perfectly acted. Five times.
without aid from her arms, she almost lay
on the ground with her thirsty lip just dai-
lying with the edge, and then rising swept on
in the dance, and thrilled and shivered, and
turned, and sank again. The sixth time
she had completed circle, and no longer
able TO resist, she approached the cup with
throbs and pauses, and then without using
her hand lifted it from the ground with her
lips alone, draining it as she rose, and, the
tragedy of temptation being over, nieirily
danced about the room in a quick step,
with her head thrown back holding the Gun
all the time in her mouth snsss
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Marriage by Telegraph is it Legal
From the journal of the Telegraph


On Thursday, April Is, minister in the
Telegraph Company married couple at
Bonaparte, Iowa, he performing the cere-
mony and they pronouncing the marriage
VOW over the wire. Five o'clock was the
hour fixed for the ceremony, and precisely
at that time dispatch was sent to Keokuk
to the effect that the candidates were at the
telegraph Office in Bonaparte, and ready to
proceed. The following was then sent:
@ sf4i KEoKUK, Iowa, April 16, 1874.
John SuiliDan and Frances GodoaCn, Bon0payte Ta
Plcnse join hands and take the pledge =
Il ree aens. WILLIAM G. PRATT.
The following is q copy of the pledge
which had been left with them: tllzaa. .
You mutually and solemnly promise before God and
the Witnesses present. that yeu each will take the one
yon hold by the hand to be your lawful and welded
companion: That, forsaking all others. you will cleave
to each other in sickness and in health and perform
all the duties of faithful companion until Won are
separated by death. II to this you agree send me a
message to this effect!
Then came the response:
~.flI# y a,se. BoNApAKTE, Aprit 16, 1874.
HIM. G. Pratt. Keokuk. -
We take the pledge john SULLIVAN.
r FRANCES GoDowE.
The concluding dispatch was then sent,
as follows:
+ KEoKUK, Iowa April 16, 1874
John Sulisgaa and Frances Godoacn, Bonapdrte, Ia.
BY uhority pronounce yor husband and wife, and
may God bless you. WM C PRATT.
The operators all along the line then
rendered their congratulations tothe happy
couple upon their marriage by the lightning
process. We believe this is the first au-
thenticated marriage ceremony performed
through the medium of the telegraph.
Managers Dolbear of Keokuk and Detwiler
of Bonaparte were the officiating telegraph
lists. - s.r.3..9t5=t
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