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Wasted Paint.

Lucy H. Hopper, writing to the Phil
adelphia Press from Paris, says, in de-
scribing an exhibition of paintings made
by the }" Anonymous Society of Painters
and SculptOrs: "There was one paint
ing which showed background of very
dim houses and trees, in front of which
two broad stripes, one pale buff and the
other dark gray, slanted wildly up into
mid-air, and the gray stripe was spotted
with number of parti-colored little
streaks, dabbed on at irregular intervals.
l Iwrestled vainly with my imagination
in order to discover the subject of this
picture, but, failing in the attempt, ! had
recourse to the catalogue, and found that
the artist had intended to paint a view
of the Boulevard des Capucines, the gray
stripe being the asphaltum pavement,
and the buff one the carriage road, and
the parti-colorcd daubs being intended
to represent the promenaders on the
sidewalk. Then there was dreadfiA
picture called Breakfast where a wood
en- mother and child were partaking of
lilac beefsteaks and pink eggs at table
whose surface was inclined at an angle
of forty-five degrees, as was also the floor
of the room, so that it was sheer miracle
that everything did not go sliding away
into space at once; while woman ap-
parently made of sheet iron, was leaning
all'of piece against the window-sill, stiff
and rigid as wooden image, and fiat as
tea-tray. The landscapes, however,
were the most ludicrous things, as they
resembled nothing in the heavens above
nor the earth beneath, and were alike
guiltless perspective or of natural col
oring. Yet after my first impulse to
laugh had passed, looked around and a
feeling of sadness crept over me. What
wasted hours, what false illusions, what
blighted hopes did not these daubed can
vases represent Men that dreamed
that they were painters had done these
things, and seeing them not as we see
them, but with the glamour of their in
ward convictions over theory, had sent
them out to challenge the verdict of a
critical world. And here they were, rep
resenting the toll ofweeks the study may
be of years, not worth the first cost Of
canvass and the colors whereof they were
composed, too meritless for criticism, too
ludicrous even 10 be fit for fire-boards or
tea-trays."
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-25

Bengal widows have rather hard lives,
if the following be true. The very day a
wife becomes widow her colored clothes,
silver and gold ornaments, all are taken
off Henceforth she has to dress in white,
and wear no ornament of any kind dur
ing her lifetime. Her daily meals are re-
duced to one, and that is prepared in the
simplest way possible. She is strickly
prohibited the use of any sort of animal
food. Each widow is required to cook
her own food, and to abstain entirely
from food or drink for two days in every
month. On the fast days, when the
burning sun dries up the ponds and
schorcbes the leaves of the trees, these
poor victims faint and pant in hunger
and thirst. If they are dying on the aka
thusfy day, a little water will be put on
the lips merely to wet them. They have
no hope of ever cheering their widow
hood In the world. For their sakes, We
are glad 10 learn that learned Brahmin
Is earnestly engaged in redeeming the
condition Of the widows, by introducing
the system of widow marriage.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-25
Romance of History.

Conrad, the Emperor of Germany, was
remarkable for his unsparing punishment
of all who crossed his purpose. A quaint
but true legend recites that certain
Count LupOld, who was one of those
fearing death, fed into a remote forest
and lived in hut with his wife. 1t hap
pened that the emperor, while hunting,
came to the spot, and passed the night
with them. That night the counts Wife
became the mother of son, and the en-
would be his heir. AS the same dream
required twice, he was greatly troubled,
and he commanded two of his servants
to kill the child. They took it away;
but being moved to compassion by its
smiles, they placed it under tree, and
brought back hare's heart to the en-
peror. A certain duke, passing by soon
after, found the child, and took it home
to his wife, and adopted it as his own.
Afterward, the emperor being with this
duke, and hearing him relate, as forest
adventure, the history of this boy, who
was then present, began to suspect that
the victim had escaped. Being confirmed
in the opinion, he took him into his SER
vice as page, and then sent him with a
letter to the empress, in which he charged
her, upon pain of his displeasure, to have
the bearer put to death. The youth set
out, and after seven days came to GER
tain priests house, who received him
with great hospitality. The priest was
struck by his comely air, and by his
travelling so far. While he slept he looked
at this letter, and discovered the horrible
fate that awaited him; so erasing the
writing, he substituted these words:
"This is the youth whom have chosen
as the husband of our daughter. 1 charge
you to give her to him quickly"
Next morning the lad awoke refreshed,
and said:
"Adieu, dear host"
The priest replied:
Remember me when you are emperor"
The boy only laughed, esteeming it a
jest; so they parted. On arriving at
Aix-la Chapelle he delivered his letters,
and so we'll did the stratagem succeed,
that when the emperor wrote, soon after,
to ask if his orders had been obeyed,
the empress assured him that the nup-
tials had been celebrated with great
celerity, as he had desired. The emper-
or hardly believed his eyes when he read
the letter. Mounting his horse, he rode
off Immediately and with great speed to
Aix-la-C Chapelle. On his arrival the en-
press presented their daughter and son-in-
law. For long time the emperor seemed
lost i'm astonishment and uncertain what
to do. Atlength nature prevailed, and he
exclaimed
"The will of Heaven can not be resist
ed!"
Then he compelled the two squires to
reveal what they had done, and the count
to come from the Black Forest and re-
ceive back his son with peace from the
emperor, who left him as heir, and who
succeeded him as Henry III. On the spot
in the forest where the child was born
was erected afterward the noble mon
astery of Hirschau.
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The Mental Differences Between the
Sexes.

Is there clearly proved to be a mental
difference between the sexes, and is that
difference one of kind, or only of degree ?
Authorities are quoted to show the un-
doubted physical differences, such as
weight of brain, form of skull, etc. also
the now moderately well, established fact
that i'm primitive races the hair of women
approximates more closely to that of
man than obtains in higher state of
civilization. But, it having been clearly
proved that the advance of man is shown
by higher form of skull and increase of
the cranial capacity, an attempt is made
to show some of the conditions that have
retarded women in the mental struggle.
The result seems to prove that the men,
tai divergences might be greatly ac-
connted for, 1, by sexual selection, differ
ence of education, and force of custom (;
2, by physiological conditions, and that,
as the race progresses, the cranial ca
pacity of the sexes, though not becoming
identical, which is a physiological i'm
possibility, will yet become much less
distinct and divergent, which is moral
certainty if based on moral conclusions.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-25
Pencil and SissOrs.

A FARMER, when flagellating two of
his unruly boys, was asked what he was
doing. "Thrashing wild oats" was the
reply.
HOTEL clerks are preparing their dia-
mond-cluster breastpins, their patent
leather boots, velvet-cOllared coats, and
uncivil manners.
WRITING sketch of his life, an Irish
man says that he early ran away from
his father because he discovered that he
was only his uncle.
A QUAKER having sold fine-looking
but blind horse, asked the purchaser:
"Well, my friend, dost thou see any fault
in him?' "NO," was the answer.
" Neither will he see any fault in thee"
said old Broadbrim.
A FEW years since, at the celebration
of the national anniversary in New York,
a poor peddler, who was present, being
called upon for toast, offered the fol-
lowing: Here is health to poverty; it
sticks to man when all his friends desert
him."
THE proprietor of young ladies'
academy in Illinois has utterly ruined his
business by causing to be inserted in
large number of papers picture of the
building, with two girls standing on the
balcony with last years hats on their
heads.
A wELLKNowN preacher, being seen
i'm the streets of New York in Shaker
garb, was asked by friend, What in
the world sent you into that community
The reply was, "Three good meals day
and plenty of warm clothing are not to
be sneezed at"
A GERMANTowNER who had tarried
late at wine-supper, found his wife
waiting his return in a high state of
nervousness. Said she: "Here I've been
waiting and rocking in the chair till my
head spins round like top" jess SO,
wife, where I've been," responded he,
" RS in the atmospheric
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TERMS: $500 PER YEAR.
THE OLD COUPLE.

II stands I'm a sunny meadow,
The house 30 mossy and brown,
With its cumbrous old stone chimney,
And the gray roof sloping down.
The trees fold their green arms round Il,
The trees, century old
And the winds go chanting through them,
And the sunbeams drop their gold.
The cowslips spring In the marshes,
And the roses bloom on the hill
And beside the brook in the pastures
The herds go feeding at win.
The children have gone and left them;
They sit in the sun alone;
And the old wife's ears are failing,
As she harks to the well-known tone
That won heart In her girlhood,
That soothed her In many q care,
And praises her now for the brightness
Her old face used TO wear.
She thinks again Of her bridal
How, dressed In her robe of white,
She stood by her gay young lover
In the mornings rosy light.
Oh, the morning is rosy as ever,
But the rose from her cheek has fed;
And the sunshine still Is golden,
But il falls on silvered head.
anu tut klIlnDOu uTeduS once NtnlSneu
Come back in her winter time,
I'LL her feeble pulses tremble
With the thrill of spring times prime.
And looking forth from the window,
She thinks how the trees have grown
Since, clad in her bridal whiteness,
She crossed the old door-stone.
Though dimmed her eyes bright azure,
And dimmed her hairs young gold,
Mo lou. 81 h... I'LL ss.I LII
Has never grown dim nor old.
They sat in peace in the sunshine,
Till the day was almost done;
And then, at its close, an angle
Stole over the threshold stone.
He folded their hands together
He touched their eyelids with balm;
And their last breath hoated upward
Like the close Of solemn psalm.
Like bridal pair they traversed
The unseen mystic road
That leads to the beautiful city
"Whose builder and maker is God"
Perhaps in that miracle country
They will give her her lost youth back;
And flowers of q vanished spring-time
viii bloom in the spirits track.
One draught from the living waters
Shall call back his manhOOd's prime;
And eternal years shall measure
The loye that outlived time.
But the shapes that they left behind them,
The wrinkles and silver hair,
Made holy to us by the kisses
The angel had printed there.
We will hide away meath the willows,
When the day is low in the west
Where the sunbeams cannot find them,
Nor the winds disturb their rest.
Andvwe'll suffer no tell-tale tombstone,
With its age and date, to rise
Ger the two who were old no longer,
In the Fathers House in the skies.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-25

"WHAT are you hallooing about,
Bill 2" said mother at the stair-foot,
one evening, after her two boys had
been put to bed. Please, mother"
said Bill, "Jem wants half the bed"
"Well," says she, "let him have II,
and you take the other half" Yes,
MOTHER" say Bill, "but he will have his
half out of the middle, and make me
sleep on both sides of him."
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-25

Two DUELIsrs having exchanged shots
without effect, one of the seconds inter-
fered, and proposed that the parties
should shake hands. To this the other
second objected as unnecessary for"
said he, their hands have been shaking
this halEhour."
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-25

90! why should the spirit of mortal
be sad 2" exclaims the Milwaukee Sentinel,
"when New Orleans molasses sells at
fourteen cents per quart, and buckwheat
is thrown at man in fifty pound pack
ages"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-25

PROF. TyNDALL says man can't
breathe after ascending over 24,500 feet,
and prudent men Will not get elevated
to that point.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-25

"WHAT word is always pronounced
wrong, even by the best scholars2 Wrong.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-02-21

The candidate is now conducted
to the most eminent squash-pro-
ducer, who thus says: my
worthy brother, 81 will now in
vest You with the order of the Fes.
tive Ploughboy, which you have
we'll won by your heroic achieve
ment while harnessed may you
ever wear it with pleasure 10
yourself, and may it be a means
Of terror 10 your enemies"
The M Il s p then proceeds to
invest the candidate with the re.
gala of the Festive Ploughboy,
which consists of long tomato
necklace.)
1.-The Grand Hailing sign Of dis.
.tress is made by gently closing the
left eye, laying the right fore
fingers alongside the nose, and vi
olently wagging the ears. 1t re-
quires practice, but the advantages
are intense. 1t also has an impor-
tant Specification, which you will
do well to follow. The closing Of
the eye signifies that in all your
dealings with mankind you are
bound to have an eye to business.
Laying the finger alongside the
nose is emblamatical of wisdom,
and places you at once among the
knowing ones" This isextreme-
~ handy in prognosticating
weather, and saves the wear and
tear of almanacs. Wagging the
ears signifies sublimity of purpose,
and is thought to be emblamatical
of childhood's happy hours. 1t is
also supposed ~ some profound
scholars to have distinct refer
ence to apple dumplings, but this
fact is somewhat obscure by the
dust of ages. In token that you
are one of us you will now be
branded. When one granger de-
sires to ascertain ''for sure" if
there is another of the order in the
room, he raises himself gently by
the slack of his unmentionables,
scratches his thigh with his near
hoof, and remarks in a voice of
thunder Are there any grangers
here ?'' The answer is Jesse
Wax" ~
/ was here interrupted, Mr.. Ed
itor, by a volley fred into the
open window, evidently intended
for me. Fortunately escaped with
but scratch, and which is of more
consequence, succeeded in fetching
off my precious manuscript. This
is about all there is in the ceremo-
ny of any Importance. / must
leave the country at once armed
men are at my heels. They know
that / am writing TO expose them.
You may hear from me again by
mail, if should deem it best to
expose the other degrees. Until
then, adieu. From your friend,
b. POLE.
NOTICE. fms ceremony of in
itiation is used during the absence
of the lady members. Their mi
tiatory ceremonies are entirely diff
ferent. being much simplified, as
they should be.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-02-21
THE HORSESHOE sUPERS IT.
TI0N.

1t is remarkable how old-time
superstitions crop out now and
then, ard take root in the public
mind. At present the lucky
horse shoe" Is the favorite en-
blem, appearing in nearly every
device to which it can be adapted
irrespective of the horses hoof.
Horseshoe pins in gold, bronze
or oxydized metal ARE worn as orn
amental by men and women alike
Small looking glasses, framed in
imitation horse-shoes ofgutta-per-
cha or some other material, are
i'm great demand, and in some in
stances real horse-shoes, gilt, are
used as frames. Most bar-ro0ms
have a horseshoe nailed up some
where, and the old women who
sell newspapers at corner
tables, prefer horse-shoes to bricks
for paper weights. The original
notion of the talismanic proper
ties of the horse shoe arose from
the superstition that All evil spirit,
in traversing 1t, Is sure 10 fly of at
one OF the ends M sH& at
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-02-21
HOURS OF LABOR.

The subject of the number of
hours which men can work con-
tinuously to the best advantage
of themselves and their employers
is still agitated, although the fact
Is now generally recognized that
there is Il limit beyond which It
does not pay 20 continue work
Mr.. Brassey. the author.
of"Work and Wages" b elieves
that for nearly all classes of work.
ers eight hours per day is the
economic limit, but does not
think that II should be made an
arbitrary limit either as to oc-
equations or nen. This Senate of
Massachusetts, has recently passed
to a third reading bill prohibiting
the employment for more than
sixty hours in any week of
women or children under eigh-
teen years of age. This is practi-
cally the ten hours law, ass,tQ -
classes mentioned, which has been
before the Massachusetts Legisla-
ture for several years. Fortunately
for the working people, the me-
necessity for such a law becoming
less with every year. for manu-
features have learned that is it to
their own interest to reduce hours
Of labor to such limits as are
odinarily proposed in legislative
bodies. If there are any estab-
lishnents were a less liberal
policy prevails, the law may be
used to correct the abuses, and ii
will be particularly useful to
minors. who are not required to
pay the penalty for overwork at
the time, but SITTER in relaxed
energy and wasted muscles when
they reach what should be 1.-THE
prime Of life." The law, In the
application to these, will be as
useful to the young workman in
hnsbanding the employer, who In
his struggle for present profits,
sometimes forgets 10 provide for
steady income in the future
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-02-21
A LARGE HEARTED JUDGE

A justice of the peace in Iowa
has . pretty good sized heart,
judging from q recent decision
promulgated in his court. tap
pears that stern parent at
tempted to invade the sacred
precincts of his parlor at q time
when his presence could be dis
pensed with. An assault and
battery suit grew out of the affair
and the following IL the decision
of the justice: 1T pears that
this young fellow was courtfns
the plaintiffs gal In plaintiffs
parlor, and that plaintiff intruded
and was put out by defendant
C0urtin IL y necessity, and must
not be interfered with. There
fore, the laws of Iowa will hold
that a parent has nO legal right in
a room where courtin' Is afoot, 80
that the defendant is discharged,
and the plaintiff must pay the
COSTS 1t will encourage many Of
the young men of the land to
know that the law Is all on their
side in cases Of this sort.
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For the Independent.
MEEKNEss.
By WILLIAM T. HEAToN.


How oft is grandeur ruins especial
mark. Swift DER the plain whirlsthe
hurricane blast, leaving unscathed the
pigmy shrub to battle with the oak.
-KIEGo.
l stood upona mountain rock
The fierce blast shouted by
Proud trees, uprooted by the shock,
!. Flew scattered through the sky
Low at my feet modest flower
Its fair form meekly bowed,
As If to humbly own the power
That breathed behind the cloud
The storm is stilled--yet nevermore
Those naughty trees shall stand:
But 10 that frail plant lifts once more,
And beauties the land!
A ''still small voice. as from the air,
Then spoke like the word of Fate:
20, soul Y It said, proud doubt be-
ware
Trust GoD-be patient wait T.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-02-21
A QUEER LIBEL CASE.

We learn from the Cleveland
Leader of the 18th inst, that the
case of Edwin Lyle vs.. Cuyahoga
Lodge, No. %, I. 0. 0. f., in
which the plaintiff sued for
$50 900 damages by reasons of the
publication OF libel upon him by
the lodge, was concluded ON Tues
day in the Superior Court, having
been eight days on trial before
Judge j M. Jones and a jury.
The plaintiffhad been member
ofCuyahoga Lodge, /. o. O. f..
and ranked as past grand, and
had been entrusted to collect
money for the relief of an Odd
Fellows widow. He collected
$1I4, which the defendants 6
their answer claimed he never
paid, either to the persons for
whom it had been subscribed or
into the treasury of the lodge. In
consideration of this act and others
the members of Cuyahoga Lodge
published a circular and appended
the likeness of Lyle thereto. The
circulars were printed to the
number Of five thousand, and
were sent to all the lodges in the
country. Copies of the plaintiffs
photograph, on which were printed
other libeIous words las the plain
tiff, alleges) were also circulated.
The plaintiff, in consideration of
the statements made by the lodge,
sued them for libel in the sum
above named. Judge Jones
charged in favorofthe plaintiff,and
the jury brought in a verdict for
$4,000 damages.
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CONGRESS.
WAsHINGToN, February IA,

WAsHINGTON, February Ia.
The Senate was not in session to-
day. 1885 yfe .iHf9ut
HouSE.-The House metin COM
mittee of the whole for debate
only, Mr.. Albright (Pa.) in the
chair. H l8
Mr.. Bell (Ga.) spoke upon the
subject of cheap transportation, and
in advocacy of his bill granting
aid to the Atlantic and Eastern
canal company.
Mr.. Small IN. H spoke upon
the subject of finances, opposing
imitation.
Mr. Clements (Ill.l spoke in fa-
vOr of cheap transportation, and
urged the necessity of the improve
ment of the water facilities of the
Mississippi valley, to enable the
grain and other products of the
west to find a market.
Mr.. Fort Ill.l addressed the
House on the finances, and advo-
Gated an increase III the volume
Of the currency, and that such in
crease should be in greenbacks, and
that bonds should be issued at low
rates of interest. In the course OF
his remarks, Mr.. Fort alluded to
the speech made by Mr.. Dawes
day before yesterday, and said that
gentleman had most numerically
Iectured the House, the right to
do which he denied. Scolding
was very good in its place, but
advice was better; but neither of
them ever won IA victory. He
could not recollect that either Mr..
Dawes or any others OF the prom
[ inent members who We're so fond
of scolding the House had ever
carried through any great meas
ure of reform or retrenchment
Mr.. Butler, Mass said that in
1876 he had introduced a measure
of reform by abolishing all pension
agencies, and paying pensioners
directly from Washington through
the post office. He urged the bill
and it received twenty-five votes,
and Of these twenty-five Mr..
Dawes was not one.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18th
SENATE.--The Senate was en-
gagged to-day after the usual pre-
sentation' Of memorials in the dis
cussion Of the bill Tor equa izing
the circulation of the national
banks
House, The Arkansas Will
shire Gunton contested election
rase occupied the House of
Representatives, sand the motion
10 lay the resolution giving Mr..
Wiltshire q primd .focie title was
aid on the table, yeas 1875, naN-
80
Mr. Wiltshire was then sworn
n and took his seat
The Judiciary committee re
ported a bill fixing the punishment
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|, WEST VIRGINIA. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY a. 1874.

for manslaughter in the District
of Columbia, at not more than
twenty years imprisonment and
81 900 fine.
WASHINGTON Feb. 10th 1874.
SENATE.-The Senate occupied,
after the usual presentation of
memorials, with the resolution
for the appointment of a commit
tee to investigate the effects of the
liquor traffic.
HoUsE.-The House of Repre-
sentatives was engaged in hearing
reports of committees.