National Republican., 1875-11-01
EDITORIAL AFrERTH0UGHr.
Soft money men are very hard-up.

If Carruth lived six months with bullet in
his brain under homeopathic surgery, how
long would he have lived under the care of old
| sawbones? is now the question.
Eight hundred hands thrown out of employ
ment by fire in Philadelphia This is hard
prospect for a cold winter. 1t affords a splen-
did opportunity for the benevolent.
"Wen! well!' said gentleman who saw
the engraving ofFoley's statue of "Stonewall'
jackson in the Richmond Dispatch, 81 do not
know how much that looks like 'Stonewall'
jackson, but it looks marvelously like the late
Prince Albert in the late Confederate uniform"
The Hartford Cot,rdHt puts on airs because
it was one hundred and twelve years old last
Friday. 1t is old enough to behave better. 1t
tries to tantalize its original subscribers by
offering them the next years subscription
gratis. 1t knows they are beyond its reach.
A LADY, hearing her husband struggling with
the front door for admittance, late one dark
night, raised the second story window, and,
looking down upon the tardy wretch, said in
urdertones, "Go the back door, Charley; hus-
band has got the key to the front one, and you
can't get in that way" She has the company
of her husband every night now.
Lydia Thompson is sick and growing sicker.
She is literally wasting away. And now some
muse awakes and sings:
Shall we never see those little feet
kicking any more,
Shall we never see them whlrl around
And skip about the floor?
Oh, are we going to lose the sight
OF all we've seen before,
Oh, why should she climb the golden stair?
All devout, practical Christians will perforce
admire the strict discipline and mild tactics
pursued by Moody and Sankey in the conduct
of their meetings. The broad and tolerant
catholicity which rebukes displays of sectarian-
ism, but still does it in q mild, inoffensiye and
Christian spirit, and cultivates a lowly, sweet
and soft, though ardently earnest style of de-
votion, must command respect and es-
TEEN even where 1t may fail to convince and
convert. Mr.. Moody seems determined here,
as in England, to steer clear of all sectarian
prejudice and bigotry. In this course the Chris
tian public will sustain him.
Young Alfonso-alas for human weakness,
when shown in royal blood-has turned out a
seducer and murderer under the most infamous
circumstances. Searching about through the
dark details of the Middle Ages, it is in vain
that we look for worse example of abject de-
pravity than that exhibited by the crowned
head of Spain. Thrust suddenly upon his
Spanish subjects, he seizes the kingly sceptre,
and swaying it for a few months in his palace
at Madrid, drops 1t for the sword and saddle
and rushes off to the iield of strife, where he
appears only as an incumbrGnce for awhile.
and then returns to ruin the family of gal
liant officer who has been fighting for the king
dom of his king, and then, to cap the climax
of his Nervousness, murders the brave soldier
with his own hand Oh royalty! royalty
where is thy Heaven-born greatness? Surely,
It has been withheld from this king.
Bolivar Ward is out as a candidate for the
House of Delegates at Harrisonburg, Virginia.
His platform is unique and highly original. As
one of the people, he proposes to ''recognize
their rights as well as the prejudices of the
booted and spurred gentry" While 1t is the
sapparent duty of the higher classes to pay
taxes, the laboring masses are subjected, as
natural result, to foot the BILL" This is emf
nently sound, and Mr.. Ward deserves to be
elected. He opposes reputation, and believes
in carrying out the provisions of the funding
law of last year. But the strongest hold" of
Bolivar Ward is evidently the ''dog tax" issue.
He does not object to taxing dogs the same as
other property in domestic animals provided
the law be amended so as to afford protection
to the dogs and aid in their recovery when they
go astray (get on the wrong scent when after
foxes, for instance, or get after the neighbors'
sheep.) They should be taxed upon an esti-
mated value, and not, like voters, per capita
Then he would pay premiums upon foxes, bea-
vers', minks' and Other. destructive warm ints'
scalps, in order to encourage improvement In
the breeding of good dogs and ext!nguishing
the race of ours. Who says Ward has not q
level beadl Turn out, you Harrisonburgers,
and vote in Bolivar Ward.