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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-23
MYSTERY OF THE HUMAN HEART.


AldniRht past Nor sound of auGht
through the silent house but the wind ct his
prayers.
sat BY the dying fire and thought
VI the dear, dead woman up stairs.
night Of tears; for the gusty rain
Had ceased, but the caves were drippinQ vet
Aud the moon looked forth, as though in pain,
With her face all white and wet.
Nobody with me my watch to keep,
But the friend Of my bosom, the man love:
And grief has sent him fast asleep
In the chamber up above.
Nobody else, in the country Place
All round, that knew of my loss beside,
But the good young priest with the Raphael face
VINO confessed her when she died.
That good young priest is of gentle nerve,
And my grief had moved him beyond control;
tJr his Il grew white, as could observe
"hen he spe eded her parting soul.
sat by the dreary hearth alone;
I.i1 1 i;9ongnt E OF the dreary days of yere;
ssids " The stah of my life is gone;
Ihe woman love is no more.
" ON her cold, dead bosom my portrait les
Nalch next TO her heart she used to wear,
h49ntlng 1t Der with her tender eyes
"hen my dear face was not there.
1t is set all around with rubies red,
And pearls which a Peri might have kept;
For each ruby there my heart hath bIeG-
For each pearl my eyes have wept."
And Eaid, The thing is precious to me;
They viii bury her soon in the church-yard
1t lies On her heart, and lost must be
If do not take It away
lighted my lamp at the dying flame,
And crept up the stairs that cracked for fright
1lll into the chamber Of death came,
Where she lay in all her white.
As stretched my hand held my breath;
I turned as drew the curtain apart;
I dared not look on the face of death,
knew where to find her heart.
Thought at first a. nv touch fell thara
It had warmed that heart to life with love;
For the thing touched was warm, swear,
And could feel it move.
Twas the hand of a man, that was moving slow
Aud at once the sweat broke over my brow
" Who is robbing the corpse ?" cried.
Opposite me, by the tapei . light,
G., Lhs tEtsna 9fsEHy bosom, the man loved,
Stood over the corpse. and all as white
And neither Of Us moved.
what do You here. my frisnd7" The man
Looked first at me aud then at the dead.
" There is portrait here" +" he began;
" There is. It is mine - said.
Said the friend Of my bosom, .'Yours, no doubt,
Ine portrait wa, till month ago,
When this suffering angel took that out
and / laced mine here, know
"TLis woman. she loved me well" sa'dI,
q monen ago." said my friend to me.
Aud in your throat" groaned, "you lie!'
He answered: LET US see."
Enough 2" returned I" let the dead decide;
And, whoever the portrait prove,
He shall 30 be when the cause is tried
Where Death is arraigned by Love-"
We found the portrait there, in it's place;
We opened 1t in the tapeT's shine;
The gems were all unchanged; the face
Was-nCither his nor mile.
" One nail drives out another, at least
The face Of the portrait there cried,
" L our friends the Riphael-faced young priest,
Who confessed her when she died"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-23
Robinson Crusoe Again.

The popular error that Robinson Cru
soe's island was Juan Fernandez, off the
west coast of South kmerica-when the
book expressly declares that il was near
the mouth of the river Orinoco, on the
northwest coast of that continent, and
all the account of the course of the YES
sci before reaching it plainly mentions
places in the Atlantic ocean, and none
whatever in the Pacifc-has been care
fully explained; but, as the farmer said
of Daniel Webster, it amt dead yet. >
1t originated, of course, in the story
that DefSe stole his narrative from Alex
ander Selkirk, who did pass some time
alone on Juan Fernandez.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-23
The New York Fashions of the Rem.
naisSnca.

First, they are mere beady than ever,
and, secondly, when Portia said "the
quality of mercy should not be strain
ed" it is a pity SKI had not included
dress skirts. We are actually tied up
and bandaged by the skinny little skirts
fashionable this fall. We get on very
we'll in crowd, when the regulation step
is not more than three inches long. but
the curbstones here are, some of 'em,
five times that. And there are omni-
buses whose first step eventuates in the
vicinity of a short woman's breast pin.
Now, when one is securely settled in a
skirt like bloated pantaloon leg, and
furthermore has side strings that tie that
skirt tightly behind to produce the un-
wrinkled front so fashionable, she has
feat before her to raise foot before
her. Most ladies catch at the door and
give double barreled elastic skip that
lands both feet on the step. There they
perch and trust in Providence and the
passengers to pull 'en1 in. Everything
is jetted, and even into the silent city of
the dead go the beads and bugles, since
the last sweet thing man did here
lately for his mot Z law vas to box
her in robe of black satin fairly crust
ed with jet beads. Very likely there
was fat-iron in each pocket, but that
we didn't see.) That man had only the
week before told his wife he never felt
any thing like the weight of the bead
embroidery she wore. To an analytical
mind the chain of his meditation was
very clear.
Here in New York there are two dis
tinct types of fashionable women the
women who do and the women who
dare. The first chop dressmakers do
up the majority of our fashion-loving
ladies, but there are others who get
themselves up after outre fashion-plates,
and tremendous is the effect. The staw
and felt hats are rather old-stylish in
shape, but when a woman faces the
trrned-up front with pale blue, puts
cluster of tea roses smack in front, a
red breasted bird above that, and a
long tailed plume beyond that, then
las6es this creation on the back of her
head, cooked at an angle of forty-fve
degrees, then the deed is done.
Then the modistes put nice little
standing collars on dresses and slash
them open at the breast to show deli
cate laces and things. This fourth
proof fashionable builds a silk fence
aDOuG n6r neck GlaG lowers neaVonWaFU,
la5hes her beaded belt till her breakfast,
and any other affair she may chance to
contain, are collapsed like defective
fues. Then she bursts forth in revers
and plaitings and lace ruffles across the
breast till she's disproportioned as ruf-
fled pigeon. But one pucker does she
allow her dress skirt; that's behind.
AS this woman confronts you on the
street she has the appearance of one
with numberless spirit hands
to seek to detain her. Everything, |
from her hat to her boots, seems clawed |
at and about to be torn from her by in
visible forces in the rear.
To be in the rampagingist fashion
this fall, put on lots of cardinal red and |
look wild.-MrS. BurnhGn1 in the st. |
Louis Republican.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-23
According to Law and Evidence.

A singular case which occurred many
years ago in one of the rural towns of
Vermont is thus described by the Rut-
land (Vermont) Herald "Capt. A..
shot and killed dog belonging to his
neighbor, Smith. This act was charged
upon one g., and a suit was brought
against him to recover damages. The
case was tried by justice of the peace,
and Capt. A. sat as a juror. Circum-
stantial evidence was presented to prove
that G. shot the dog, and the jury
agreed to return a verdict Of "guilty."
Several years after the trial Capt. A. &C
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-23
The Coolest Robbery on RecO I'd.

The New Haven Register records the
following : Policeman Badger, OF the
tenth station, had a bit of experience
the other night which he is not fond Of
talking about. It was past midnight,
as he was leisurely paching his beat
through Jessop street, and as he came
opposite to Drafton & Fogg's jeweliy
store he observed CLEANS of light
through the chinks of the shutters, and
he raped at the door.
els that you, policeman ?" asked q
voice within.
Yes," answered Badger.
"Well, it's only me it's all right !;
kind O. chilly out, isn't it?"
eyes"
"Thought so. 1 was just fixing the
fire-good night"
Badger said " Good night" and pur-
sued his way.
An hour afterward Badger passed
through Jessop street again, and again
he saw the light in the jewelry store.
1t didn't look right, and he banged at
the dot loudly.
"Hello !" cried the voice within. els
it you, policeman ?"
eyes"
"All right. Won't you come in and
warm you? 1t won't hurt anything for
you to slip from your beat q few min
utes."
The door opened, and policeman Bad
ger entered, and he found the inmate
to be very gentlemanly-looking man,
in linen duster.
"Come right up to the stove, police
man. Excuse me for a moment"
TI,o AnoIy ha frnV,, tho
bottom of the stove and carried it down
into the cellar, and emptied it., and
when he had returned and wiped his
hands he said with a smile:
"Ohilly night, isn't"
eyes"
"Chilly outside, and dull inside.
Another smile. New goods for the
fall trade, and have to keep our eyes
open. Lonesome work, this watching
all night but we manage to find a bit
of comfort in this. Won't you join me
in a tipH You will find it the pure
thing"
And the man produced a black bottle
and tumbler.
Policeman Badger partook, and hav-
ing wiped his lips and given his fingers
a new warming, he left the store and
resumed his beat, satisfied that all was
right at Drayton & Fogg's.
But the morning brought a new reve-
lation. Drayton & Fogg's store had
been robbed during the night Of Sc, 900
worth of watches and jewelry, and al
though Policeman Badger carries in his
mind complete deguerreotype of the
robber, the adroit rascal has not yet
been found.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-23

speedily comprehended the situation,
and reached for her. Such a caressing
as she then received she never dreamed
of before. She did not even have the
usual grip on him. He was fined, but
she declared her utter disbelief in those
hilNln rror,nn
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-23

knowledged that he killed the dog, and
defended lis course in rendering a YER
dict of "guilty" against Ct. on the
ground that his jurors oath required
him to decide the case according to law
and evidence, and it was fairly proved,
he said, that G.. killed the dog"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-23
Growth of London.

Rev. DIR. Cuyler writes: "Say what
we may of the rapid growth of ou1
American towns, the monster strides OF
the British metropolis always over.
whelm me. Londen, now contains
5000 900 people! It almost equals
Paris, New York and Brooklyn com
bined into one. You can drive fifteen
miles on one of its diamsters. When,
in my college DAYS, once went out to
pay visit to Joanna Bailie, the emf
nent authoress, who lived on Hamp.
stead Hill, l walked clear out of town
and over open fields. am now staying
at the hospitable house of our friend,
the Rev. Newman Hall, who resides on
the same Hampstead Hill, in the midst
of compactly built streets"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-23

From Surprise Valley, California,
comes the story of an old fellow who
got very jealous because his wife went
to ball with q good-looking fellow and
stayed out until broad daylight. The
old fellow went to a justice of the peace
and told his story. winding up with
81 ant you to help me, for that ar
thing has been going on about long
enough" "Well," says the justice,
"you can write down to Yreka and see
if some of the lawyers can't get you o
divorce" "Divorce - roared the angry
man, "who the deuce wants divorce ?"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-23
Who Wrote Shakespeare?

SAYS a correspondent of the Richmond
Enquirer Hamlet overheard Julius
Caesar tell King Lear, on the Twelfth
Night after the Tempest. that Anthony
and Cleopatra had told Coriolanus that
Two Gentlemen of Verona were the
authors of Shakespeare's plays. Lear
said: You make take it As You Like It,
but I don't believe it, for I heard Ro-
meo and Juliet say that their Loves
Labor was Lost when Troilus and Cresida
stole the Comedy of Errors and sold it
to the Merchant of Venice. Timon of
Athens and Cymbeline were parties to
the theft, and after drinking Measure
for Measure with the Merry Wives of
Windsor, told King John all about it.
Richard III. "a competent critic said
Bacon could not write even a Winters
Tale, and Henry VIII. says that settles
it SO, why make SO Much Ado About
Nothing. Othello was busy dealing
five-cent game of faro TO the w., V.
and VI. Henrys, and the only remarks
made by them were an occasional
L" Prindle, don't turn hold on" and
few other forcible remarks of a cursory
nature and as Richard II. was absent
Tanning the Shrew, I could get no
further evidence as to who wrote Shake
speare. But All's Well that Ends Well.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-23

The justice began to get wrathy. elf
you dent want a divorce, what the
deuce brought you hereP' "Why, I
want an injunction to stop further pro-
coAdin0s -
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-23

The toilettes worn by Miss Clara
Morris and Miss Charlotte Thompson
in "the Sphinx" are stunning. Miss
Morris changes from deep corn color
ed silk worn with an elegant overdress
OF velvety black lace to a charming
dress of pistache green silk /; and Miss
Thompson wears in succession laven-
der-hued robe of French origin and an
exquisite toilette of amber silk, pro-
fusely decorated with sprays OF crimson
roSea.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-23

To come right down to business
and give facts, Buckskin Joseph an
nounces that he has killed sixty-one
Indians with his own hande. It may
be true--it could be true,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-23

Don't swear. Take a flat-iron to
pound your stoye-p!pe with.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-08-13
HOW CUMULATIVE VOTING MAY
WORK.

In their wisdom, the members Of the
Constitutional convention, inserted in
the body of the new Constitution the fol-
lowing provision for electing members of
the General Assembly:
ART. XIV: Sec. II. In voting for rep
resentatives and senators in counties and
districts entitled to more than two, each
elector may cast as many votes for one
candidate as there are representatives or
senators to be elected, or he may distri-
butte the same, or equal parts thereof,
among the candidates, as he may see fit,
and the candidates receiving the highest
number of votes shall be declared elect
ed.
This plan of voting is contrary to every
correct principle of government by the
people. tits plan by which caucusses
and rings may defraud and cheat the will
of the majority of the people.
After the next apportionment, Stark
county will probably be entitled to three
members in the Legislature, and, in that
event, cumulative voting will be allowed.
Now, let us suppose Stark county then
polls $4,000 votes-S,OOO Democratic and
1000 Republican. The Democracy hon
estly nominates three candidates for the
General Assembly, and honestly give to
each candidate 5000 votes
The minority leaders knowing well the
situation, nominate but two candidates.
Their 2l,OOO votes, however, are cast
equally for their two, each of whom gets
l0,500 votes-and they are elected. Thus
the minority elects two members, and
the majority only one to the General
Assembly.
Can any honest citizen endorse u sys-
tenn of this kind? plan that would al
low Of such results? Is it not the very
plan for political gamblers and tricksters2
An election is to ascertain the will Of
the people-not to cheat the people out
of what they wish. But restrictive vot-
ing, to be applied to the election of Judg-
es, is no better in principle, when five or
three Judges are to be voted for, no one
is to be allowed to vote for more than
three, or two This again is contrary to
all correct principles Of liberty. Every
elector has the same right to vote for the
five as he has to vote for any three of the
FIVE. Nothing else is American liberty.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-08-13
COMSTTTUTT0M N0-BEcA uSE

1t will be almost impossible to amend
it in future, if adopted, ~.
The judicial system will be too costly.
(; Itincreases the salaries of judges, while
there is no call for either.
1t brings the Federal and State cleo
tions together.
Itgiyes the Governor the veto or "one-
man power" ..
1t fixes the salaries of probate judges
and clerks Of the courts.
1t will disarrange our present laws, and
create confusion in courts and with the
people. ....;......+.-a
q 1t will be ten or fifteen years before it
will be as well defined and understood as
the present Constitution, rl..,t ...,f.
twill cost the people S2,00Q,000 and
give them no perceptible benefit ~ .
ltabOlishes yearly elections. .-.,.'. /.
y II appears to have been made almost
exclusively in the interest of lawyers.
lis no better, taken as a whole, than
the present Constitution, and in some re-
spects not as good. ~ aa.,-- .e..
1t compels the Legislature to provide
for the construction of modified peni-
tentiary, which at this time is absolutely
necessary. t..t .iI, ,oao-r t5-r
Y II takes power from the people. ,...
q 1t provides a different scale of repre-
sentatipn for the larger counties of the
State than the smaller. II, ,ijg.,r..
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-08-13

THE New Constitution is an unsound
and useless document, full of "dark tan
gled doctrines" and gotten up in way
calculated to deceive the average think
er, and delude him into casting his vote
for its adoption. Let workingmen,
whether property owners or not, peruse
it carefully, and examine into the addi-
tional burdens it will impose upon them
as taxpayers, and then act for them
selves in their own best interests. That
part of the document referring to the
Judiciary is but step from independent
Democracy toward obnoxious imperial
ism, and every free citizen, to sustain his
own right and liberty, should vote it
down, if for no other reason than this
alone. But there are other objections,
fully as important as the Judiciary
clause, which have been so frequently
pointed out that a repetition is unneces-
sary. Suffice it to say that laboring men
and farmers, irrespective of partisan
consideration or party trickery, will do
themselves nothing more than justice in
going to the polls on the 18th inst. and
voting NEW Constitution, NO.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-08-13

Some of our friends are considerably
excited in favor of license law to regu-
late the liquor selling business Some
claim such law will cut of three
fourths or more of the saloons, and thus
make less drunkenness. This view,
however, is not entertained by saloon
men generally. They evidently hope,
by adopting the license clause, they
would fare much better than they do
under the presentliquor law. BY adopt
ing the license proposition the whole
question would be opened up for a great
struggle, and we cannot think the liquor
interest would come out better than they
are now situated. We much prefer leay-
ing things as they are, under the laws
now regulating the sale of Intoxicating
beverages, rather than to set all adrif,
and involve our politics in liquor con-
fiict that might last for years.
We are no advocate of prohibitory
law-no advocate of crusading," or
"picketing," but we do insist upon all
obeying the laws, We have ever advo-
Gated the greatest liberty-personal lib
erty - that liberty that commits no
wrong, neither upon neighbors nor
friends nor the family-the liberty that
is regulated by law. While flyoring
most earnestly correct habits Of life, as
the only safe rule for young and old, it
is not our province nor policy to clamor
for coercive laws with view to make
mankind moral, good and wise. The
human understanding should be con-
vinced; but above all, "lead us not into
temptation" Use begeis habit in a
man, and hence let us avoid evil prac-
tees, especially in youth, Our present
liquor laws propose that the youth Of
Ohio shall grow to mans estate without
having acquired taste for Intoxicating
drinks-for the law holds it criminal for
liquor seller to sell to a child,-to a
minor. In other respects the laws are
right in principle, aiming to secure the
good order of society. For example; In
toxicating drinks are prohibited to be
sold to men in the habit of getting
drunk, and only beer, ale, wine and cider
can be lawfully sold to be drank where
sold. No good citizen, surely, will object
to these regulations and restrictions.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-08-13

THE Xenia Gasehe (Republiean) is
doing good service by its opposition to
to the adoption of the new Constitution.
1t closes an article against it with the fol-
financial explanation:
Annual increased cost of Judiciary,
$4,000. To which add during the year
to come, and as often as commission is
created, $4,000. Legislature, $1,000.
Total, SII3,2oo. Add costs commission
for three years, ETC., $4,000. Total an
nual increase, with commission, sI38, 200.
Ultimate cost Of discipline, 100000.
."There is no account taken in the
above Of the cost Of the commission of
three provided for, to revise, fearrange,
simplify and abridge the general laws Of
the State. ua4 q" ni tI
"The salaries of this body, including
contingent expenses, would be about So
500 per annum, and it would probably
exist two years-making total expenses
of this commission $1,000,
at will be seen by the foregoing that
the cost Of administering the State Gov
ernment during the ten years to come,
under the new Constitution, will be about
Sc, 500, 600 more than under the present
one. ..
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-08-13

MEssRs. ScHARFRR 4 BAsooH, the Eng
lish editors Of the Repository establish
ment, are busy trying to convince their
readers that the STARK COUNTY Demo-
Graf is a naughty paper, 1t speaks too
free, tells too much Democratic truth, to
suit these gentlemen. When we sus-
tanned and advocated the election of
William Allen and the Democratic ticket
last fall, these Repository worthless thought
the same, and also prophesied then that
Governor Allen and our ticket was going
to be defeated.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-08-13

WE consider lawyer just as good as
any other man, so long as he behaves as
well. We are, however, opposed to all
legislation, whether by constitutional or
statutory provision, for the benefit of one
class at the expense of others. When
the lawyers secured fifteen thousand three
hundred and sixty-hve per cent. more
than their legitimate quota of power. in
the late Constitutional Convention they
made tremendous grab 1t is piling
the agony on us rather steeply when they
ask us to support their new book, which
will require the people to be taxed in the
next ten years aMilliJH Of dollars to pay
the increased salaries of those Of them
who may be elected Judges.-Eaqnirey.
We must say the lawyers Of Stark
county, have acted modestly and prop
erly on the new Constitution question.
The only one of ofthemwho has advocated
the denominations on the stump, is Louis
,Schaefer. Mr.. Schaefer is so prominent
IN the Republican party, and connected
editorially with the RepOSitoyy establish
mentr that tits quite likely he could get
a nomination as Judge-possibly for one
of the FIVE Supreme Judges. They could
stand one ,cabip in that Body t>t <,