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Long Trains.

Our landlady's daughter, writes Oliver
Wendell Homes, is young lady of some
pretensiOns to gentility. She wears her
bonnet well back upon her head, which
is known to be mark of high breeding.
She wears her trains very long, as the
great ladies do in Europe To be sure,
their dresses are so made only to sweep
the tapestried floors of chateaus and
palaces; as those OdiOus aristocrats of
the other side do not go dragging through
the mud in silks and satins, but, forsooth,
must ride in coaches when they are in
full dress. 1t is true that, considering
various habits of the American people,
also the little accidents which the best
kept sidewalks are liable to- a lady who
has swepr a mile of them is not exactly
in such a condition that one would care
to be her neighbor. But confound the
make-believe women who have turned
loose In our streets. Where do they
come from? Not out of Boston parlOrs.
| trust. Why, there isn't a beast or
bird that would drag its tail through the
dirt in the way these creatures do their
dresses. Because a queen or a duchess
wears long robes on great occasions, a
maid-Of-all work or factory girl thinks
she must make herself nuisance by
trailing about with her-pah! that's
what l call getting vulgarity into your
bones and marrow. Making believe what
you are not is the essence of vulgarity.
Show over dirt is the one attribute of
vulgar people. If any man can walk
behind one of these women an1 see
what she rakes up as she goes, and not
feel squeamish, he has got a tough
stomach. l wouldn't let one of 'em in
my room without serving them as David
served Saul at the cave in the wilder
pess-cut off his skirts, sir, cut off his
skirts. Don't tell NE that a true lady
ever sacrifices the duty of keeping all
about her sweet and clean to the wish of
making vulgar show. | won't believe
it of a lady. There are some things that
no fashion has right to touch, and
cleanliness is one of those things. If
woman wishes to show that her husband
or father has got money which she wants
and means to spend, but doesn't know
how, let her buy yard or two of silk
and pin it to her dress when she goes out
to walk, but let her unpin it before she
goes into the house.
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long to France, but to the world. For
| human growth to be normal, France
must be entire. A province lacking to
France is force lacking to progress an
| organ lacking TO the human race. This
Is why France can give up nothing of
| France. Its multilation mutilates civil
lization. Moreover there are fractures
everywhere. At this moment you are
| hearing one cry out, Herzegovina y
Alas, no sleep is possible with wounds
| like these-the German empire re-estab-
| lished in the full blaze of the nineteenth
century, Paris violated by Berlin, the
city of Frederick III. insulting the city
of Voltaire, the sancity of force and the
equity of violence proclaimed, progress
buffeted on the cheek of France. Peace
can not be erected upon this. To pacify,
it is necessary to appease; to appease, 1t
is necessary to satisfy. Fraternity is not
an affair of the surface. Peace is not a
superpositiOn, Peace is a result. One
no more DEGREES peace than one DEGREES
the dawn. When the human conscience
feels itself in equilibrium with social re-
ality when the splitting up of peoples
has given way to the unity of cOntin-
ents; when the trespass called conquest
and the usurpatiOn called royalty have
disappeared when neither an individual
nor nationally is bitten into by neigh
Dor when the poor comprehend the ma
jesty of it when the intellectual part
when the appetite allows itself to be
bridled by reason; when to the old law
pendre succeeds the new law cOmprendre;
when fraternity between minds is based
on harmony between the sexes; when
the father is respected by the child, and
the child respected by the father when
there is no other authority than the
authors; when no man can say to an
other, "ThOu art my cattle; ;" when the
sheperd gives place to the doctor, and
the sheepfold Ito say sheepfOld is to say
shambles) to the school; when there is
identity between political honesty and
social honesty when Bonapartist is no
more possible above than a TrOppman
below when the priest feels himself a
judge, and the judge priest-that is to
say, when religion is upright and justice
true, when the frontiers are etfaced be-
tween nation and nation, and are set up
between good and evil, when every man
makes a kind of internal Fatherland of
his own probity, then just as day appears
peace appears-day by the rising of the
sun, peace by the rising Of right. Such
is the future. hail it.
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How Messages are Sent by the Ocean
Gable.

He (thc ocean telegraph operator)
| taps the "kcy" as in land telegraph, only
it is a double key. 1t has two levers
| and knobs instead of one. The alphabet
used is substantially like the Morse al
phabet; that is the different letters are
represented by a combination of dashes
and dots. For instance, suppose you
want to write the word "bOy." ltwOuld
read like this C.. -
-" b is one dash and three dots; O,
three dashes, and Y, one dash, one dot,
and three dashes. Now, in the land tclc-
graph, the dashes and dots would appear
ON a strip of paper at the other end of
| the line. which is unwOund from a cylin-
der, and perforated by pin at the end of
the bar or armature. If the operator
could read by sound, we would dispense
with the strip of paper, and read the
message bv the "click" Of the armature
as it is pulled down and let 60 by the
electro-magnet.
The cable operator, however, has neither
of these advantages There Is no paper
to perforate, 10 "click" of the armature,
no armature to "click" The message is
read by means of moving flash of light
upon polished scale produced by the re-
Election" of a very small mirror, which Is
placed within "mirror galvanOmeter,"
which is a small brass cylinder two or
three inches in diameter, shaped like a
spool or bobbin, composed OF several hun
dred turns of small wire wound with silk
to keep the metal from coming in contact.
1t is wound or coiled exactly like a
bundle of new rope, small hole being
left i'm the middle about the size of com
mon wooden pencil. In the centre ofthis
is suspended very thin, delicate mirror
about as large as a kernel of corn, with
correspOndingly small magnet rigidly at
tached to the back of it. The whole
weighs but little more than grain, and
is suspended by a single fibre of silk; much
smaller than a human hair and almost in
visible. A narrow horizontal scale Is
placed within darkened box two or three
feet in front of the mirror, narrow slit
being cut in the centre of theyscale TO al
low a ray of light to shine upon the mir
ror from a lamp placed behind said scale,
the little mirror in turn rejecting the light
back upon the scale. This spot of light
is the index by which all messages are
read. The angle through which thelray
moves is double that traversed by the
mirror itself; and it is, therefore, really
equivalent to an index four or six feet in
length without weight.
To the casual observer there is nothing
but a thin ray of light, darting to the left
and right with irregular rapidity; but to
the trained eye of the operator, every
fash replete with intelligence. Thus the
word "boy," already alluded to, would be
read in this way: One flash TO the right
and three to the left is b. Three flashes
to the right is o. One to the right, one
to the left and two more to the right Is Y,
and so on. Long aud constant practice
makes the operators wonderfully expert
in their profession, and enables them to
read from the mirror as readily and as
accurately as from newspaper
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employed each day, the rate of compen-
isation, the daily receipts for stock and
farm produce sold, money paid out, and
for what purpose, the character of the
weather, together with such reflections
as the current news of the day supplied.
This journal was uniformly written up
each night just before retiring to rest
but when the party was absent, as was
occasionally the case, it was the duty of
the person in charge to make the neces-
sary memoranda each evening.
These records were often appealed to,
to decide disputed points in regard to
the weather and crops of particular sea-
sons, and not infrequently taken before
the courts for the purpose of determin-
ing the date of particular local transac-
tions. At first the nightly records may
prove rather irksome, but if the practice
is kept up perseveringly for two or
three years it becomes a habit, pleasur-
able rather than otherwise, and profit
able to the parties who steadily pursue
it.-Ameriedaa Farmer.
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shouldn't have "the cholera" unless he
hrolye fbro,r,sb L. ,--,.I,.4:

shouldn't have "the cholera" unless he
broke through his resolution.
About year after that, in the dead o.
a severe winter, the superintendent was
coming through Crosby street into
Bleecker, and helmet Johnny Mas. The
fellow was dressed in thin, bOmbazine
coat. He was cOllarless, and his feet
were out, and he looked hungry, pinched
and wretched.
Pm glad you've kept your word
Johnny. But it's going pretty hard with
you, suppose, to be hOnest?'
Awful hard, SIR" said Johnny; "but
| told her ! would, and did"
That's right. Don't you 90 back OF
your word. Stick it out. You'll have
better times by-and-by."
"Do you see that bank over there ?''
said the young man, pointing to the
marble building in Bleecker street.
"Well, there aint money enough in that
place to make me go back. I'd rather
go cold and hungry and not be hunted
so | would"
The next summer one of the hotel pro-
prietors at Long Branch sent up to the
superintendent for man to keep an eve
on the thieves that hang around a water
ing-place. al can get you man, said
the superintendent, thinking of Johnny,
"but Pm bound to tell you he's been a
thief"
"Then don't want him."
Then the superintendent told the story
| have told, only he told it better.
"Send him down." said the landlord
" 4 chap that'll do that ought to be
helped"
1t was $25 a week to Johnny, and it
made a man of him.
During that season there wasn't a
robbery committed at the Branch
Johnny stationed himself at the railroad
depot, and when ne saw a former pal he
warned him off. cts no use," he would
say, " don't want to pipe none O you
boys, and | amt goin' to do it if you
stay away. If you come here it'll be
awful rough on both of us"
And to their credit it ought to be said
that they ALWAYS went back.
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" LET'S PLAY"

Oh the blessed and wise little children,
What sensible things they sayI
90 Nnen they can't have the things they wish {,
1hey take others, and cry, " Let's piay ~
Let's play that the chairs are big coaches.
Aud the sofa a railroad car
And that we are all taking journeys,
And travelling ever so far.
Let s play " that this broken old china
Is dinner set rare and fine,
And our tin cups filed with water
Are gOhlets Of milk and wine!
Let play " every one Of our doIIics
Is alive and can 90 to walk,
Ana Keep up long conversations
with us il we want TO talk
Let plav" that we live in a palace
a., AhJ that we are the queens and kin.,S:
- play We are birds in a tree-top
And can fly about on wings.
- Let's play " that We are schOol-keepers
And grown people come to our school:
and punish them all most soundlv
II they break but q single rule
Oh! the blessed and wise little children.
What sensible things they say:
And we might be as happy as they are
II We would he happy their way
What odds, 'twiIt not having and having.
when We have lived out our dayi
Let us borrow the Children's watchwor1-
Inc magical WatchwOrd-" Let's play 90
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The Green (and Yellow Isle.

Charles Warren Stoddard writes: Ire
land puts her best foot forward on which
ever side you approach her. Within she
is barren and bleak, and awfully uninter-
esting. Some miles, of peat bog will do
very well fora background, but when you
find yourself swamped in the middle of it,
somehow you lose all interest in this life,
and naturally begin thinking of your lat
ter end. Ireland is so lonesome, so mel
ancholy, 50 thoroughly forsaken, that
when you come upon a town of any con-
siderable size, you wonder how they man.
age to keep it up. There is plenty of
land there, most of it rich and mellow,
but it lies idle simply because there is no
one to work it, or worse, those who have
remained at home and are willing to work,
can not afford to undertake it, they have
not penny to bless themselves with.
They have pig which bathes in green
water in front of the door, and dries him
self on the hearth by the peat fire in the
one room of the cottage. The hens lay
eggs in the bed, that is when they can af-
ford to make shells and fill them; the COW
looks in at the back window, which is
without glass or sash, and swears at the
scarcity of bran. | have seen COW i'll
the house examining a chest of drawers
to see if there was anything eatable there
abouts, while the family was literally
crowded into the mud under the door
sill, where the pet pig snored luxurious
ly. These very people would give you a
sharp and witty reply, and very often a
graceful one, to any remonstrance you
might be pleased to make. You find
fragmentary unpublished pages of Lever,
Charlton, Banim Maxwell, Griffin, Mrs.
S. c.. Hall, and host of other novelists
in any hovel you enter; but for the un-
bounded good humor of Pat and his
Biddy, Ireland would indeed be a sor-
rowful spot.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22
THE RISING OF RIGHT
Victor HugO's Reply to an Invitation to
the Congress of the League of Peace
and Liberty.

Victor HugO's Reply to an Invitation to
the Congress Of the League of Peace
and Liberty
The Peace Congress is kind enough to
remember and to appeal to me. l am
deeply touched by it. can only re-
peat to my fellow-citizens of Europe
what | have already said to them several
times since 1871, the year so fatal for the
whole universe My hopes are not
shaken, but they are postponed. There
are now two movements in civilization,
the one working against the Other-the
effort OF France and the effort of Ger
many. What France wants to make is
Europe To make Germany is to con-
struct the empire-that is to say, night.
To make Europe is to give birth to de-
mocracy-that is to say, light. Between
the two words-one glOOmly, the other
radiant-one false, the other true-the
choice of the future, be assured, is made.
The future will give the casting vote to
Germany and France, it will give to the
one its share of the Danube, to the other
its share of the Rhine, and it will give
to both that SPLENDID gift, EurOpe-that
is, the great Federal Republic of the
Continent. Kings band together to
fight and conclude treaties of peace
which lead to chsus belH. Hence those
montrous unions of monarchical forces
against every social progress, against the
French Revolution, against the liberty
of the people. Hence Wellington and
Blucher, Pitt and Coburg; hence that
crime called the holy alliance. To speak
of an alliance of kings is to speak of an
alliance of vulturps This fratricidal
Fraternity will come to an end, and to the
Europe of coalition kings will succeed
the Europe of united peoples. To-day =?
No. Tomorrow? Yes. Let us, then,
have faith and wait the future. No
peace till then. Dismembered France is
a human calamity. France does not be-
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BEFORE THE LEAVES FALL

wonder il oak and maple,
Willow and elm and all,
Are stirred at heart by the coming
of the day their leaves must fall
DO they think of the yellow whirlwind
Or Of the crimson spray,
That shall be when chill November
Bears all the leaves awav?
ii die we must" the leaflets
Seem one by one 70 saw.
we viii wear the colors Of all the earth
Until we pas awav.
No eye shah see us falter;
ana before we lay IL down,
vel wear in the sight Of all the Garth
The years most kingly crown"
90 trees Of the stately forest,
And trees by the trOdden way
ou are kindling into glory
This soft AutumnaI day
Anf. we who gaze, Teremcmber
That more than all they lost,
To hearts and trees together,
May come through ripening frost.
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forth from its open portal as in the gay
pictures on the curtains of the theatres.
The world belated expresses the gen
eral impression, which the monarchical
and aristOcratic fabric of English society
makes upon the observer. It is like the
banquet hall the morning after banquet; !;
the gOblets overturned, the dishes halt
emptied and the strong sunlight pours in
upon the silent chamber, long deserted
by the jewellers.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22

A correspondent of an English paper
tells the following: Some twenty or
thirty years ago the inhabitants of a
portion of the Northumberland district
engaged a singing-master to teach the
church-singers some new tunes. He
found his pulpils not inapt, most of them
heinu able to read music. But when
the music came to be welded to i'm
mortal verse certain old gentleman who
sang bass were detected in substituting
for the sacred words the mOnOtOnOus
svlIabIes. .1boom BOOM One of them, on
being demonstrated with, thus replied:
{ Yer ways may a. be vera weel, but
tbey dunnut suit me. A always dud
sing bum bum, an a always will sing
bum bum"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22

JACK CAMPBELL, famous negro, has
ust died at Madison, Georgia, aged eighty
years. His reputation as broad humor-
lists extended throughout the state OF
Georgia and lasted for many years. He
was slave owned by an inn-keePer in
Madison, and brought great prosperity to
the establishment with which he was con
nected. His name appears in the "sta-
tistics of Georgia" and "MajOr Jones'
Courtship," and many of his jokes and
witty sayings have appeared in the pub,
lications of the Harpers. 1t is reported
that at one time Barnum offered the
owner of Jack the sum of ten thousand
dollars for him,
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AFTER ALL THE WAKEFUL YEAR.

Is it then 80 hard 10 dia2
Lille hath not such unmarried bliss
Alter the last parting cry;
Death II but blank BOthingness.
Now IL Seemeth sad 20 he
Laid in some drear chamber dead,
While the lOycl ones learfully
Move around with awe-huShed tread.
Then We shall I've sleeping deep,
skeiTs, not ours, shall he the tears
is il then 80 hard 10 sleep.
After all these wakeful years?
What should make us fear or fail
That we never wake again2
what Is death, that We should Quail
Is it not sure en- of painS
Perfect slumbe-. rorfalt -.
- NO more Feat or rains, or SHOWS,
NO more hopeless, weary quest.
- no rIore fading of life's rose.
N1 more sOrTOw-lands to reap,
No more waking unto tears;
Is u then 50 hard to sleep,
After all the wakeful vears2
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AGRANGE CoTTON FACroRY.-During
the past month several interesting grange
meetings, outside Of the Gates" were
held i'm this state. One Of the most inn
portant of these took place at Irwin's
mills, on the Saluda, six miles east Of
Honca Path. IL was addressed by Col.
J. n. Lipscomb, state lecturer. Twenty
five hundred persons were present, in
cluding large number Of ladies. A
subscription Of thirty-fve thousand dol
lars was made TO build a cotton factory
at that place, the capital stock of which
has been fixed at fifty thousand dollars.
The fine water power is presented to the
company by the liberal owner, Mr.. Erwin
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Poor MINISTER'S CAKE.-l teacup
sugar, tablespoon butter egg Gall
well beaten), 2 cups flour, ! of sweet
milk, / teaspoon cream tartar, tea
spoon soda, , teaspoons extract bitter
almond.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-19
NODAWAY TOWNSHIP RE
PUBLICAN CONVENTION.

Pursuant to a call. the Convention
met at the Court House, in the city
of Savannah. at 10 o'clock A. NJ,
March 18th, 1875, and organized by
clecting Hon. A. j. Harlan, CHAIR
a and W. a. Elliott. Secretary.
The chairman stated TIE object of
the meeting was TO nominate good
men To fiji the various offices to be
filed at the coming election. The
convention then proceeded to elect
the following gentlemen as Csndl-
dates:
For Township Trustee-R 5
VanBuskirk.
For Township Clcrk-W. A. FL
lott.
For Township Assessor-E.W Joy.
For Township Collector-llcnder-
son Edwards.
Township Observation-Disclosures
Clark.
For Justice of the Peace. Is. Ma
icrs and Abner Hart.
On motion a copy of the proceed
incs Of the meeting was to be furnish
ed the Andrew county REPUBLICAN,,
and Patron OF Husbandry for publ
cation.
There being no further business the
meeting adjourned.
A.. j. HARLAN, Chairman.
W. \. ELLIOTT, Secretary.
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AGREEABLE to previous announce
mcnt the Republican County Con-
vcution was held in this place on Sat
uriav last. Its action WAS entirely
harmonious. and the best OF feeling
prevailed among the Delegates. all OF
whom seem actuated with the feeling
TO do the best thew could 30 promote
the interests Of the county. HE
highest evidence that their efforts
proved a success is the ticket they
have offered for the support OF the
voters of Andrew. These candidates
are amply competent to ill the posi-
tions: men whose every day life and
history are known well to their fell
Iow-citizens, and for whom. in the
majority of cases, the office went i'll
search. And now let Republicans
and ali others seeking good govern
ment. and the faithful administration
of our county affairs, upon which
their well-bcing so largely depend,
Join heartily and tremendously to-
gcther, and prosecute the canvass to
Il successful issue.
Mr.. Jonathan Snowden, the nOmi-
nee for JUSTICE of the County Court
for the county at large, is II of An
drew'a nOblcSt and best citizens; a
resident of this county for a long
number of wears, and universally re-
sppcted and confidcd i'll.
Mr.. John w. WiIkcrson. at present
engaged in the Savannah Public
School. is a teacher of some ten years
experience: has practical understand
ing of the duties dcvolving upon the
office Of School Commissioner: is a
hard worker in the cause of cduca-
ton, and a gentleman amply COM
petent, and would faithfully dis
charge the duties of the office.
The candidates for the four Dis
trict Judges are all good and true
men, every II of theuI occupying 4
high and honorable position in soci-
ETY., and commanding the esteem and
confidence of his neighbors. The
people of Andrew county could not
entrust the administration of the re-
sponsib!e duties devolying upon the
county court to more worthy and SAT-
er hands.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-19
From AmazOnia.
March L.. 1873.

-h"'c' H. 1000.
Politics. which. next to the Great
scandal, seems tp be the ll-absorb-
~ ,ho o,un,r does
i"S ''P'' an
not cause much "l IL ripple i''c'-
Still. there has been cvera SHINY
attended conventions. each of which
:,. ;u .,o fo,d. but wbo
HIS pun 'i'N''
are nominated. or by what Par'ieS' i
more than this '~,clIile" is able to say.
We have been looking for spring'SO
horo .n,c,udod Il i
i""I. ''"' =,
waiting ior the 'er"ict iii '"' n''"
er-Tilton case: if so, farewell our
homes of Green peas and early rad
Nn' -, rw,a,
But nc 'a'''ie
would like to sec the ice remain a
Ett,o Ionoor 81 hat he could give
MS. 49, ho, , oh.rco f,r .hoir
'iic ""' "'! =.
revenge III me game OF cIr''i2' !"
which he IN" his peat mem ~, .sI ,
of ll2 points 10 81 poin.s' n9. LII III
Sl''cc, ~ pi".. ";mna in which
boys from AmaZ"n,a, Siilcr' III WHIT
he dld NOT iiahoIe me plochS 80 am
fully: but he won the sa','c "r'ei "
The ice Is gone out Oh HIS latoii!o
Nodaway. nut Is as 'hich Us e'e' III
the Missouri. u;nor
y @ood 'iiai!. 'h:'hihS INV WIN
likely to last all summer, nave HNiP-
pea OUT lor !"',i'i = u" niJ nona,tIr