Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1878-07-09
Who Loses the Eight Cents?

The New York Graphic says: Seventy or
eighty persons have come to hand this week,
inquiring in pathetic voice who is it that
loses the eight cents when laboring man
takes a ninety-two cent silver piece for do.>
lar. Now, this is the very thing that has
puzzled US. IF the carpenter receives from
the government ninety-two cent silver
piece, and passes it on the butcher for dol
lar, and the butcher passes it on the shoe
maker for a dollar, and the shoe maker
passes it on the landlord for dollar, and
the landlord passes it on tho State for taxes,
and the State passes it for a dollar on a ma
son for work on the State House, and the
mason passes it to merchant for silk dress
for his wife, and the merchant passes it for
dollar to the custom house officer for import
duties. and tho United States Treasurer
passes it as a dollar to a soldier, and the SOL
dier passes it as dollar to the same carpen-
ter hereinbefore mentioned, we arc unable to
see who loses the eight cents Happy
thought perhaps the loss fell on some man
who did not get it. Seriously the same man
lost eight cents who loses sixteen cents every
time he takes silver quarters that havo only
eighty four cents worth of silver in them
But even then, the five cent nickels puzzle
US. In dollars worth of these there are
only nineteen cents worth of metal. Now
will some of the editors who lie awake at
night to figure out such things. please to in
form US who it is THAT loses that eighty-one
cents every time dollars worth of nickels
are passed? Who loses four cents every
time 6ve>cent piece is paid for a glass of
lager or a car ride? The little copper cents
are even greater robbery. We have not tho
heart to go into calculation as to how many
million dollars are wruug from the horney-
handed bondholder every day in the passage
of this debased cent. but it is inc0nceivable
how an opponent of the Bland bill can pass
one of these fraudulent tokens-even at a
Distance without blushirg for the perfidy of
his race"
INSTINCT OF BEEs.-Au incident was re-
lated to us the other day by MIR. G. c. Blake
more, living several miles from Berryville,
showing the remarkable instinct of bees
Mr.. NJ. Irwin, living on Mr.. Be farm, saw
a swarm of bees leave hive, and as they flew
away he followed them. The bees entered
Mr.. r. Kownslar's woods, and took possess
sion of hollow tree, some twenty or thirty
feet from the ground. Mr. Irwin concluded
that his bees were past recapture, and started
back home. As he was crossing the wheat
field dividing the woods from his home, he
saw small bunch of bees clinging to stock
of wheat, and upon a close examination he
discovered among them tho queen bee
Picking her up in his fingers he carried her
back home, clipped her wings, placed her in
a small paper box, and then took her out to
the woods under the tree in which was the
swarm. In few minutes some bees came
to where the queen was, and shortly there-
after those in the tree came down, and then
from every direction in the woods other bees,
that had missed their queen and were no
doubt out in search of her, came pouring in,
and the whole swarm was secured. Those
bees first finding their queen no doubt sent
out couriers to the others, but how they COM
municated their message and accomplished
their work so quickly we cannot tell. Happy
would be the queen, or king, governing a
people, that had such faithful and devoted
subjects as the queen bee Clarke Courier.
- The Governor of Iowa rardoned a man
who had been sentenced to State prison for
ten years, on the conditions that he should,
during the remainder Of his term, abstain
from tho uso of intox icating liquors as bev-
erage; that he should exert himself for the
support of his mother and sister; and that
he should not be convicted during the term
of the sentence of any violation of criminal
law. The act of pardon provided that, as to
t"e Htst auu eeconu Vi Ihe cohuitious, Tue
Governor was to be judge, aud that, in the
event of the violation of either, he should
have the right to remand the prisoner to Gus.
tody for the remainder of the term of his
sentence. The prisoner accepted the condi-
tions and was released. Subsequently he fell
into drunkenness, and the Governor ordered
his return to State prison. The question as
to the validity of this proceeding came before
the Supreme Court of Iowa, and it was held
by the Court that the Governor had the right
to grant conditional pardon, and upon the
failure of the party to fulfill the conditions