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MEN AND BOMEN.

Whenever q fortunate or unfortunatt
combination of circumstances has thrown
a women of good mental capacity outside
of the educational and social groove in
which the sex is ordinarily confined Size
has shown what she could have.
had .nat groove never exisarri- nary
Somerville and Caroline HerscherN1a1
science, queen Elizabeth and Nine. Ro-
land in politics, Charlotte Bronte and
George Eliot in literature, Joan of Arc
in war, Burdett- Coutts in finance-these
and a score OF others who might be
named prove that there is no inevitable
and inexorabIe inferiority warning
against woman, In proportion to the
number of women who have entered the
fields of science, politics, literature, war,
and finance, there have been fewer fail
ures than among the men; and if We
could search the annals of private life we
should Fl nd enough instances of frst-class
executive ability 10 convince the most
incredulCus that what woman wants to
achieve success'in the struggle of life is
not brains, but practical and thorough
education, supplemented by encourage
ment and a fair chance. "The weaker
sex" have some exceedingly strong traits
OF character, which the other sex are in.
clined to overlook. That the will of
woman Is quite as firm as that of man
is a seli-evident proposition. Her love
and her hate outlast the love and hate of
man; her faith burns brightly when his
is extinguished her zeal in a good or
bad cause is hot whenhis has grown cold;
long, lingering, hopeless suffering she
endures far more patiently than he can
she dares to live when life is but pitt
less pain, while he thinks himselfa hero
if he resists the temptation TO suicide
he is proverbially selfish, she is proven
bially selfsacrifcing; she resists vice
while he embraces it; her natural in
stincts are purer than his her piety
more fervent, her beneyolence broader.
her mercy infinitely greater When
wOman's heart i 80 much better fur
nished than mans is it likely that her
head is incurably deficient? When in
20 many things she is stronger than the
dominant sex is it probable that the
Creator stamped her with the indelible
mark of intellectual inieriority2 Ought
we not to attribute the apparent in
feriority of woman to the laws of man
and not the laws of God And until
human and divine laws are harmonlzed,
and the Pauline view of woman j. aban-
doned, We ought, for the sake of con-.
sistency and decency, to say no more
abo ut 1.-The weaker sex. .'-.St. Lou;s Re
53oLTc90
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lowed him, and one day he smuggled in
to the school broken Bottle, containing
horse-leeches and the grubs of water-fies.
Mr.. Smiles 4elates that all passed on
smoothly for about half an hour, when
one of the scholars gave a loud scream,
and started from his seat. The master
attention was instantly attracted, and
he came down from his desk, taws in
hand. What's this ?" he cried It's
a horse-leech crawln' up my legi"
" A horse-leech ?" - Yes, sir; and
see" pointing To the corner in which
Tom kept his treasury, there's bottle
tu' o them !" Give me the bottle"
said the master and. looking at the cul-
prit, he said, q Yo9 come this way, Mas
ter Edward " Edward followed him
quaking. On reaching the desk he
stopped, and, holding out the bottle, said,
That's yours, is it not ?" Z" Yes"
q" Take it, then-that is the way out,
pointing te-the door so as fast as you
can, and never come back and take
that, too = bringing the taws down
heavily upon his back. Tom thought
that his back was broken, and that he
should never get his breath again. Toms
mother took hlm back to the school room
door, but before she could open her
mouth the master abruptly began Don't
bring that boy hereA I'll not take him
back-not though you were to give me
twenty pounds Neither | nor my
scholars have had a days peace since ne
came here.-PoBuLor Srience.
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HARD pm.
Ihe BiH Ia be introduced Jo,- Returning
to Speric Payment

Ihe Bif Ia be Introduced Jot- Returning
To SPecie Payment.
The following is TIE full text of the
bill to aid in the resumption of specie
payments, reported by Senator Sherman,
from the coRmittee on finance, and
placed on the calendar for consideration
Be it enacted, etc, That the secretary
of the treasury be, and he is, hereby
authorized to issue, in sum or sums
not exceeding, in aggregate, 500, ,O0O,-
600, in the redemption of an equal
amount of United States notes, under
the authority of the acts of February 25,
1862, July II, 1862, and March 80, 1863,
coupon or registered bonds Of the same
description and character as those
authorized by the acts of July II, 1870,
and January 90, 1871, redeemabIe in coin
of the present standard of value. at the
pleasure of the United States after thirty
years from the date of their issue, and
bearing interest payable quarterly in
such coin at the rate Of four per cent.
per annum. Such bonds shall be in ad-
dition to the loan authorized by the acts
of July II, 1870, and January 20, 1872.
Sec. ,. That during any one year there
shall not be issued of said bonds or re-
deemed Of said notes more than S25, 900 =
900, nor more than $4,000,000 during
any one MONTH and when said treasury
notes shall have beenF-o redeemed they
shall not again he reissued, but shall be
cancelled and destroyed. No commits
sion in any form shall be paid for the ex-
change of bonds issued under the pro-
visions of this act.
Sec. q. That the secretary of the treas
ury is hereby authorized to issue in ex-
change for legal tender notes of the
United States silver coin to an amount
which, including the amount heretofore
authorized to be issed by the act Of
April Il, 1876 chapter SO, and by the
joint resolution of July %, 1876, No. Il,
shall not exceed $4,000, 900, and the
legal tender notes so received shall be
cancelled and destroyed, and be held to
be portion OF the sinking fund prOvi-
ded by the existing law, the interest to
be computed thereon as in the case of
the bonds redeemed.
Sec. /. That all necessary expense of
engraving, printing, preparing and
issuing bonds, and of redeeming and can
ceiling United States notes, as provided
in this act, shall be paid out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise aP-
propriated but the whole amount thereof
shall not exceed one-fourth of ene per
cent. of the amount of bonds issued.
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A Gonnter-Irritant.

Not long ago two ladies stood at the
sbawl-count at one Of the two lead
inc dry goods stores in St. Louis.
Tbev were unknown to each other, but
we're each intent in the examination
of shawls. One Of the ladies was
finally handed something that struck
her fancy. She turned the article over
and over, with admiring eye upon II,
and asked the price. She was
told what it was and with a sigh
laid il down again. 81 like il, said
she; ''it suits me perfectly, but can
not afford it. Ny husbrnd tells me
that we must retrench as much as posi-
ble." The SYMPATHETIC saleswomen
was about replacing the shawl upon its
shelf when the other lady spoke.
you do not inten 10 take the shawl,
then. madame NO" was the ro-
sponse. "Then think I'll t-<e it. 1t
suits me, too, and | was only waiting
for your determination. Then turn
ing TO the saleswoman, the last speaker
told her TO do up the purchase, adding,
.sCharge it to Mr." The effect
the name had upon the lady Wa
electric. "Thats my husband" sh'
shrieked, and there was scene upol
which tie curtain did not fall at once
bv any means. st. Louis Republ'co
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The dogs of Constantinople have had
a worldwide notoriety fer years, yet few
people realize the degree of good and evil
TO which these beasts can attain. 1t is
supposed by many that the dog Is a
s acred animal with the Turks; but this,
II think, can not be the fact, for the
Turks use the expression, L" Dog of a
Giaour," 80 one of intense reproach, and
he would not employ the name of the
dog in that connection if il were a sacred
animal. Neither does he take any care
of the innumerable beasts which roam in
the streets; he simply lets them alone.
Steal as they may and do, the good Mus
sulman contents himself with shaking
his fist at the thief. The reason for this
immunity from punishment is, that they
form the only corps of scavengers that
Constantinople possesses, and in this lies
their only good quality yet it is one Of
such consequence that no one, having
seen,the intense filth of the people, would
regret the presence of this useful race Of
nuisance. The beast lies bSyond my
powers of description; indeed, book
might be written about him without ex-
posing more than small portion of his
villainous character. As Artemus Ward
would have said, he is a compound of
"pure cussedDess" and willy duplicity.
Call to mind the ugliest, meanest, most
treacherous, dirty and famished "yaller
dog" you ever knew, multiply every
one of his worst qualities by ten, aud
YOU will have some faint idea of mild
type of the Constantinople dog. They
have their own districts and routes of
travel, as regularly established as one of
your Chicago north side lunch fends !;
and woe be to the dog who strays into a
strange district st. is not simply that
he is pounced upon, bitten, towzled,
clicked" and allowed to go home-eh,
no That dog never goes home.
He is quietly eaten up by those into
whoes districts he has ventured and,
fsvnen they have polished his last bone,
ihey look longing across the line, and
wish that few more juicy young friends
would drop in to dinner, in order that
the meal might be thus provided for.
Neighborly fellows, these dogs!
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srEwARr.s HOTEL ron WOMEN.

The head of the house of A. T. Stew
art & Co. said to us yesterday: "Some
are under the impression that the work
on our woman's hotel has been sus-
pended; but that is mistake. We
keep the doors and windows boarded up
because we do not care to have the hun
dreds of workmen who are engaged in
finishing the interior intruded upon and
interrupted The work goes bravely on,
and we hope to open the hotel before the
close of this year. 1t will be as fine and
as commodious and as comfortable az
any hotel in this city-as any IN the
world. There will be accommodations,
rooms, and suites, at prices to suit all
guests, from working girls with small
wages 10 saleswomen, forewomen ana
women also engaged in literature and
art. None will be excluded who are
willing to comply with the rules OF the
hotel, which will be similar TO the rules
and regulations of all first-clsss hotels.
We have already ordered the furniture
and. indeed, two hundred and fifty suites
are already completed and stored in our
uptown house. There are four hun
dred suites in the hands of the manufac
turers. There will be ample parlors anC
reception rooms, and large restaurant
where meals can be had at various prices
Meals will also be served in rooms, jus
the same as in any other hotel, to thos
E kzho wish to pay for them."-Ne'e Yor
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CR4CKED HANDS CURED.

None but a la5oring man, who has
suffered misery while using an ak or
pounding with other tools, can rightly
appreciate this article. For years, when
young, suffered at some seasons untold
bitterness, caused by dry cracks on hands
and fingers. tried every so-called
remedy l could hear of but in vain and
being obliged then to labor each success
sive day for an honest livelihood, | was
bound, as with an iron cnain, to such
sufferings as almost made life a burden.
At last friend told me to put common
copal varnish into the cracks and it
would cure them. Although my faith
was very weak, tried the prescription,
and, to my great JOY, sure enough, in
fort rty-eight hours my hands were as well
as ever. 1t does not save from fresh
the old ones within two days. l keep
a small bottle of the varnish, with a
silver standing in it-cost ten cents-al-
ways handy, and with its help my hands
are nearly always well. For knowledge
of this simple remedy I would not part
for many dollars. | have given it to
many others for many years, and have
never known of its failure to effectually
cure in all such cases. don't know
that the subject can be considered agri-
cultural (perhaps it is only cuticultural)
but there are probably farm readers of
your paper who will be glad to get the
information.-C6r ". y Tribune.
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INTELLIGENT L4BOB.

The great mistake of the labor system
in the past has been that muscle has been
the chief requisite sought after in the Sc
lection of help upon the farm, both north
and south.
Experiments that are continually be-
ing tried in the south prove conclusiyely
that an intelligent laborer, possessing the
same amount of good health, muscle, en-
durance and willingness as an ignorant
one, is worth twice or three times as
much to his employer as the latter one.
The south is fast learning this lesson.
Still this country is crowded with this
class of ignorant labor, which stands di-
rectly in the way of the introduction OF
a better labor system. This state OF
things, too, makes it difficult for the
honest, willing and hard working poor
man of the north to get a start in the
south.
If he comes here without the means OF
purchasing fifty to one hundred acres Of
land that can be had for from 80 to SO
per acre, according to the location ana
excellence-oiten mostly ON time--ne
will find it severe struggle TO get
started and become self-sustaining; but
if he has only few hundred dollars ne
can get good start, and can utilize 81
the labor he desires, and become inoe-
pendent, if he has the brains and intern
gence to direct this labor.
The south, too, is looking at honest "a
Dor in different light from what sn'
formerly did. There are thousands VIM
never, before the war, put their OWL
hands to farm and mechanical labor tnA
are now among our best farmers ana a
tizans, and are not ashamed of their aso
cations.
We should do all in our power TO dra'
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to seek more merciful climate, and take
/ shelter under softer skies There's a
torn soul and broken body to be
mended. Dan, and l mean to take them
over to a shop we know Cf--you and I
| beyond the seas Unfortunately, in
patching up one existence l must make
a drain on another, and in your hands,
my old comrade, leave it to smooth out
this tangled skein of destiny as best you
may TO my poor, proud, blue-blOoded
mother, who will, perhaps, unrayel it to
my excellently imperious sisters; they,
in their turn, will shape it to suit the
big bombastic world to which they be-
long.
A month or so after that last letter of
mine, the good doctorburst into the sit
ting room, where we were listening,
Martha and I, to the conclusion of that
soothing old volume rendered tous by the
musical monotone of Miss Mary. The
fire in the CRATE cracked cheerily; the
south window was a mass 6l>sheltered
bloom; peace, serenity, the j9&of calm,
were apparently there; but I vaguely
felt some indefinable horror, and for an
hour back a tumult of confusion had
racked my brain--when the doctor broke
in upon us and told us that Hetty Bilsby
had not long to live; and the two women,
stirred by quick SYMPATHY, began to
question him in her behalf | went out /
the open door and down the south side |
of the garden by-path my halting /
steps would fain have1trod before; but |
stubborn will withheld 50 strong are /
the shackles with which this shallow /
worlds sconventionalities and creeds bind |
a weak and unmanly soul; bat they were
broken now, only / couldn't master a
tremor of the nerves and a faint chill .
that touched the whole length of my
vertebr;e, so that my body was freezing
while my heart was burning.
"A big band of leaden mist brooded
on the horizon; downy particles began
10 fill the air; a vague sense of storm and
Shirlwind pervaded everything about
me; and looking up at the threatening
ky, was arrested midway by a face
closely pressed to the window-pane of
little dormitory beneath the eave-a
pale, eager, devouring face, so eager and
70 devOuring that it hunFrily ate up the
pace between Us, and 1 found myself
lnwittingly but rapidly climbing up to
t, and in less time than'I have taken to
write it / had the little trembling,
body in my arms. They found
ler there when they came, Mary and .
Martha and the good doctor, the wet
urls of her close-cut hair tight against
ny cheek, the wild yearning kissed out
# her eyes. And, Dan, you read to me
ong ago that story of the daughter OF
airus, she that was raised by miracle,
ray for me, viii you, dear old friend:
IL ask is her life. For the rets-
Tho Warld's wrack wen share OF .
The warstle and the care OF:
WI her I'll blIthely bear II.
And thisk my let divine
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The most fantastic qualities were form
erly ascribed to these wonderful stoneS'
The carbuncle served to furnish light "
certain great serpents or dragons when
old age had enfeebled their eyes; they
constantly carried these magical stones
between their teeth, only dropping then,
when it was necessary to eat and drinkk
According TO st. Epiphanius the car
buncle has not only the propriety o.
shining brilliantly in darkness, but 10
light is of a nature so extraordinary thst
nothing can arrest it, so that II Shines
for instance, through vestments with un-
fire
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VOL. XIII. NO 5.

among us intelligent and skilled laborers.
IN this genial climate, where outdoor
work goes IN uninterruptedly the year
around, this class will soon become
wealthy, and they are ever ready TO help
puIld up institutions as will attract
those who still hesitate in the north. al
though they greatly prefer our climate.
In every instance, without an excep-
ton, In which northern people have come
south and gone back, the expression has
been; =" am perfectly we'll pleased
win the climate, but / miss so manv
o5b6s things that can not consent to do
NhCht."
4hef do not stop to consider that they
watld become dissatisfied from the same
e'fe, Jet them 20 among strangers, in
ans nSc4lntry. Those who settle down
here stay, and go to work to help
build up the institutions they love, al
nost invariably are contented and salts
! a-eho come south, aud weso
.ssnl.s upon The matter of socicf,
cS-~< a. much ~ 5ossioie m lss<s~Hun1-
kErs, or settle in those sections where
Eorthern people are locating. There
ere a numberof such settlements started.
-iS0uthern Industries.
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CURREN II MENTION.

The first cargo of barley from Califor-
MIA to Baltimore has just arrived at the
latter point.
There were 7 7,0s6 barrels of resin ship
ped on the 10Th inst, from Charleston,
:. c., to European ports.
New York has a Hebrew population
of so, 200, one hundred of whom have es-
ates valued at 81, 900 900 or upward.
Governor Vance, of North Carolina,
has recognized Wade Hampton as gov
erner of South Carolina, by communi-
eating with him relative Is fugitives
from justice now in Jail in the former
state.
The Colorado wool growers association
from reliable data. estimates the value OF
sheep now grazing in the state at S3,-
100000, and the value of the coming
wool clip at fully Sl,0O0,0OO.
The palace car, President, exhibited
at the centennial by the Pullman car
company, is to be placed on the Erie
railroad on the first of March. 1t is one
of the finest cars in the world, and cost
$4,000.
A colony of about three hundred fami-
lies of Pennsylvania are about locating
in Arkansas, between Conway and Ozark,
on the Little Rock and Fort Smith rail
road, where land is selling at from three
dollars to twelve dollars per acre.
The Alabama game law recently en-
acted prevents the killing of any specie
of game from April - to October l. 1t
also prohibits the killing of wild ducks
at night at any time of the year, or at
any time or season with floats, blinds or
other devices.
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ESTABLISHED 1859.
THE FAVORED ohILD.

Which Of five snowdrops would the lnool
Think whitest, if the moon could see
Which Of i've rOsebuds flushed with jun
Were reddest to the mOther-tTee
Which of five birds, that play one tune
On their soft shining throats may be
Chief singer Who will answer me
Would not the moon know, II around
One snowdrop any shadow lay p
Would not the rose-tree, il The ground
should let one blossom drcop day
Does not the o. q bird take sound
Into the cloud, when caught away,
Finer than all the sounds that stay
o, little, quiet boy Of mine,
Whose yellow head lies languld here
Poor yellow head, its restless shine
frightened the butterflies last year
Whose pretty hands may intertWlne
With paler hands unseen but near
You are my favorite nov, fear
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UNCLE REMUY GIMP
bONG. ~'N


oh, de worl' IS roun' an de uori' Is vide
lord member desc chillun In de mornin'--
Hits mighty long ways up de mountain side.
An da amt no place fer dem sinners fer.ter hlle
Wen de Lord shill come in lie morni-'--
Look up an look ar0un'---
Fling yo' burdins o(Be yroun'--
Hits gittin' mighty Gloss ON 10 mornin'i
Snooye away sins ffosn,
Beach up an cit de crown,
Dat &c Lord win fotch yoo in de riornin'
II.
De han NV ridemshun is HIT out ter you
Lord member dem sinners in de nornin' -
Hits mighty pashen han, but de days is tut
Wen sarin viii come demandin' Nv his due.
An de stiG-neck sinners'll be snoten al iru--
Oh, you better git ready fer de mornin'i
Look up an set yo' face
lords de green hills nv Grace,
'Fefe de sun rises up iu De mgrnin'-
Oh, you better change vi base,
HITS Yo' souls las race
For de glory dat's comm IN dc mornin'
III
De fahmer gifts reidy wen his Ian Is All plowed
Fer ter SOW dem seeds in de mOrniu' -
De sperit may be puny an de- helh may 30
But you b-tter cut loose FUN De fc1fin' crowd
An jine desc Christuus " ats q cryin' out loud
Fer dc Lord fer ter come IN mornin
Shout loud an shout lone.
Let de ekhOes anser strong,
Wen de sun rises ~ in he mornin'
Oh, YOU alters win be wrong
'rwell you choose ter belong
To de MaIsier oats a coiuin' in de memiu'.
IL Z. HuTis.
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THE duke of Edinburg has introduced
the manly fashion of wearing bracelets
He possesses a smooth, white, dimpled
wrist, wears his coat sleeves cut short
and, when riding in horse car, always
prefers to stand up and hold to the
straD