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THIRTY.EIGHT.


How quickly fly the years away,
And rush into the past,
While wrinkles come unbidden
So very sure and fast;
They tell me am growing old,
And must accept my fate;
I've scarcely seen the world at all,
And yet Pm thirty-eight.
NV hair is tinged with silver,
With here and there a spray,
The brown is getting thinner,
Surrendering to the gray;
Old time is reaping bodily
The crop from off my pate
think he's rather early,
For I'm only thirty-eight.
I remember, yes, remember,
A few short years ago,
Before my hair was sprinkled
With this autumnal snow;
That years were slow in coming
In fact, were very late
When here am despairing
That I am thirty-eight
Oh! Time, relent little;
I'm bald enough at best:
Just stay and think moment,
Lay down your scythe and rest;
I want to be a youngish man,
About the middle state;
So, if you please, just let me be
A boy of thirty-eight.
I've tried some hair restorers,
To replace the gathered crop;
I've hunted for a remedy
In recipes and shops;
But while hunt for just the thing,
I'm most convinced it's bait,
To kill what little hair I've got,
And leave me thirty eight.
Pm glad I married years ago,
Before I got so old =
Before my face was furrowed
With crows feet plain and bold;
Pm glad I courted when did,
NV true and loving mate.
Because she loves me just as we'll,
If am thirty-eight.
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she has made your last day more pleasant to

she mas maue your IHsC udy MUre Pleasaut 10
you, Allan"
"She has made it," declared Proctor, "the
happiest day of my life. Don't be amazed.
And my dear hostess, may 1 offer you lit
tie bit of advice? The next time you have
a young, high.spirited girl to look after, don't
tell her to be ripe cherry to drop into the
mouth of the first well.to-do cavalier that
comes that way" and with bow he passed
her by, leaving her dumb and motionless with
establishment.
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The WASTE OF WAR-No doubt war is
a very dreadful thing, but writer in the
Popular Science Monthly shows that its pecu.
liar effects are worse than the generality of
men have any conception Of Here are the
arguments. We confess they are somewhat
deep for US: -
"Gunpowder contains on an average %
per cent. of saltpetre or nitrate of potash,
equivalent to 1912 per cent. of combined or
available nitrogen. Of the 1912 per cent,
9.9S per cent, or practically the whole, es.
capes in the form of free nitrogen, and is con-
sequently rendered useless. Assuming the
total production of gunpowder to beat least
1OO,0O0,OOO pounds annually, this is shown to
mean the destruction in advance Of 500 900.
900 pounds of bread year. Every ounce of
powder used in war, celebrations, etc., means
the absolute unrecoverable loss to the world
of q certain quantity Of food, diminishes the
fertility of the earth, and makes the strug.
gle for existence steadily more difficult. There
is here furnished an additional argument
against Fourth of July combustions of
gun.powder, and arbitration advocates may
also fairly cite it against war. A great war
not only extingushes large number of useful
lives, but does so at the cost of potential life.
If people buried every year OO,0O0, 600
pounds of bread in the earth, they would be
guilty of frightful prodigality but then, the
nitrogen would still be available for the fu-
ture. When they burn 100,000,O00 pounds
of gunpowder, however, they perform an in.
6niteIy more wasteful act, as they prominent
lg- -disninish- the amount of food the aas.a- II
capable of yielding"
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S@- A gentleman in England committed
suicide the other day, and left paper stating
that he did so because his wife was great
deal too good for him. That's why the jury
returned verdict recording their opinion
that deceased was of "an unsound state OF
mind"
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Too MUCH WATERING OF TREEs.-A
course of daily watering during time of great
heat and dryness of atmosphere acts as if
FIRE had been carefully carried to their roots.
You examine trees and find the soil most as
hard as rock and the trees imprisoned and
dying in clamps of sunburnt bricks. They
must certainly die, and that unless relieved.
Of q truth the roots of trees need air as much
as moisture, and the daily wetting and dry.
ing soon make the surface nearly impervious
to air. Again, the daily wetting, if water is
given in quantity to do any good any way,
will leave so much water in the soil that the
cold produced by evaporation will so lower
the temperature of the soil that the roots can
not perform their vital functions, and the
tree or plant dies ofstarvation as we'll as over.
heating at the top. Evergreens especially
will not endure too much or too frequent wa
tering; once in seven or ten days is enough
in the dryest time; but when you give water
let it be food of water or enough to wet the
tree and all the soil about its roots. Dig a
hole at its upper side and pour in one bucket,
full after another till the soil is saturated. and
don't forget to pour some down and over the
tree itself. Then when the water has settled
away, cover very deeply with rotted straw,
and don't touch the tree again for another
week. Better no water at all than daily
wetting of the surface soil. The same rule
apples, but with less force, to all trees
Western Form Journal.
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"Is there then, no disposition on the part
of the patives and immigrants to coalesce p
"Not at ALL" was the response, "and l will
tell you why. The immigrants have been
slaves, and they are barring in mind and body
the fruits of that slavery. The negroes who
leave this country are actually lower in the
scale of civilization than those whom they
find in Africa. The African has seen much
less of civilization than the other, but he has
always been free, and knows no higher condi-
ton than that which he enjoys. And so they
begin by hating each other at first sight.
You can't bring them together. Nothing will
induce them to inter.marry. The natives Of
fer no inducements to the immigrants to set
tie, but iu lazy kind Of way make it as un-
comfortable for them as possible"
Mr.. Turner showed number of affidavits
of immigrants made in Monrovia, the capital
of Liberia, which he is abouS to transmit to
Secretary Evarts, in a report which he was
preparing. The affidavits set forth the harsh
treatment which the atlantis assert they have
suffered at the hands of Liberian officials,
and of the officers of the Emigration Society:
Zone of the principal reasons" continued
Mr.. Turner, "why immigrants fare so i'll, is
that they have no money to start with. 1t is
impossible for them to succeed without taking
considerable money with them. The only
immigrant who has succeeded went there with
small capital, and is now worth $50, 600
and runs several factories. Immigrants with
combined capital could make money in coffee
raising. Liberia grows the finest coffee in the
world. But to start q coffee farm would re.
quire $4,000, and it would be three years
before the owners would begin to get return.
Of course any such scheme is impossible for
the ordinary immigrant. This is not an ex-
apperated statement of the unfortunate con-
dition of the Liberian colonists."
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The Rose OF SHARoN.-The rose of Sha.
ron is one of the most exquisite flowers
in shape and hue. Its blossoms are bell
shaped, and of many mingled hues and dyes.
But its history is legendary and romantic in
the highest degree. In the East, through hout
Syria, Judea, and Arabia it is regarded with
the profoundest reverence. The leaves that
encircled the round blossom dry and close
tight together when the season of blossom is
over, and the stalk whitening completely away
from the stem, the flower is blown away, at
last, from the bush on which it grew, having
dried up in the shape of ball, which is car
ried by the sport Of the breeze to great dis
tances. In this way it is borne over the sandy
wastes and desert, until at last, touching
some moist place, it clings to the soil, where
it Immediately takes fresh root and springs to
life and beauty again. For this very reason
the orientals have adopted i: as the emblem
of the resurrection.
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PRESENT STATE OF SOUTHERN BATTLE.
F1ELDs.-The battle.6elds around Richmond
are quiet meadows now, reclaimed by Nature,
with few signs of the days of "blood and iron."
At Cold Harbor, Fair Oaks, Seven Pines and
Malvern Hill, one sees little to remind him
of the terrible scenes enacted there twelve and
fifteen years ago. In the woods and on hill
sides and river bluffs in the Peninsula, where
no attempt has been made to cultivate the
land, slopipg earthworks are still to be seen,
but elsewhere the entertainments have been
levelled. Below Petersburg there are few
traces even of such formidable Notifications
as Steadman, He'll and Damnation. The
Crater and the fields around it are owned by
Mr.. Grifiths, who was born close by, and was
in Petersburg when the mine was fired: He
has built house near the crater, and now
has his fathers farm under excellent cultiva-
ton. The Crater itself has been left almost
untouched, and thick underbrush of peach
trees and sprouts has sprung up from the pits
thrown away by the soldiers during the siege.
The ravine, where the dead lay in great heaps
on that terrible morning, has been brought
under the plow year after year, until now on
ly a slight depression in the field can be
pointed out The visitor has to pay twenty
five cents for glimpse of the Crater and the
interior of shed stocked with battle relics.
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But Cora Lynn was not easily subdued.
For several days she followed the same line Of
conduct. Her aunt attempted to take her
severely to task, but was fain to leave her
alone, for Cora told her passonately that, if
he interfered with her, she would go away all
day, and not come back till late in the even
ing, or plainly tell her cousin he was de trop,
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Jnoex to ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

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Nrw.yoRK DAILY TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 1873

some other way, either totally or partlany,
our obligations, that even if the debt could
be absolutely repudiated the country would
not be a dollar richerf The loss has already
been suffered and no payment or Reputation
of bonds can restore the wealth which has per
ished If every house in Chicago had been fully
insured when the hundreds of millions worth Oh
property there vanished in smoke, and IL every
company had promptly met its obligations, the
loss would not have been replaced. lt womb
only have been jUdiciously distributed Ana
if every company had repudiated its Chicago
policies, that would not have prevented the
loss in the end from distributing itself as
widely, though more circuitOusy and palu-
fully through channels OF business intercourse
with the prime sufferers in the doomed CITY,
Just so the payment OF the bonds would us
tribute the losses from the war throughout
the country with the least friction and annoy
ance, while reputation, after first falling with
crushing force upon the individuals aud instl-
tutiOns who hold these obligations, would
work its way outward with disastrous GER
tainty until the burden would rest upon the
whole country as still more oppressive and
unequal tax.
This view of the case, too. takes no account
Of the shock which the general unsettilng OF
public and private credit would give to every
form of business, nor of the long train OF
moral evils which reputation would usher
in. Altogether it is difficult to see how any
sane man can convince himself that there is
any pecuniary profit in dishonesty of this sort.
The most oppressive tax which this Govern
ment could levy upon its citizens would be
refusal to pay its debts in the spirit of the
contract made with its creditors.
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FoPFIGN.-The steamer Pommerania, from this
city for Hamburg, was struck on Monday night by
the bark Noel lillian, near Dungeness Point and
sunk in about twenty minutes; 172 of her
passengers and crew were saved by the
aid of the Glengarry it is estimated that So per
sons were lost. - The British troops have en-
tered Dakha; Jellalabad has been evacuated by the
Afghans. 80 The Marquis of Lorne yes
terday received the leading officials Halifax, and
dined with General MacDOugall. 60 In the
Whistler-Ruskiu libel smt a verdict of one farthing
damages was given; no costs.
DoMrsuc.-The recent Bannack outbreak is a
prominent topic in the report of In
dian Commissioner Hayt. 60 Commissioner
Raum recommends the passage of stringent
laws in relation to the violation of Revenue laws
in the South. 80 The Grand Jury of New
Orleans has been instructed to investigate charges
of election frauds - The State Can
vassers of New-Jersey have counted the
vote for Congressman. The report of the
District of Columbia Commissioners has
been submitted. 60 The South Carolina
Legislature is in session. - The Republi-
can Mayor of Providence, X. J., has been
elected to his thirteenth term. - The
Lehgh Valley coal operators propose a tenn
porary suspension of coal mining after January /,
1879.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-The report of the
wreck of the PonmeraDa was much discussed
about forty-fve of the passengers were
from this city. 60 Judge Blatchford granted
an Injunction restraining the Western Union Tele-
graph Company from the of insulated
wires. - Charles N Davenport gave in
teresting testimony in the Vanderbilt will
suit. - A permanent union of Anti-Tammany
Democrats is proposed. - Martin Taylor
and others testified about alleged ballot
box frauds in Brooklyn in 1876 - Gold,
1901, 1OOSI6, loose. Gold value of the
legal-tender dollar at the close, 1910 cents.
Gold value of the legsl-tender silver dollar 41219
grains), $3.50 cents Stocks active and irregular,
closing steady.
The wEATHER-THBuNEl local observations indi-
cate warmer and partly cloudy or cloudy weather.
with chances Of rain. Thermometer yesterday, 40
Az, So.
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"a CLEAR AND CONVINCING QQIErUsn

The extract from The AHanta Constitution
published in yesterdays TRIBUNE, giving an
account of an interview with Senator Gordon,
of Georgia, on the subject of the cipher dis
patches, in which that gentleman's name ap-
pears, though furnishing no information of any
account upon the main question, was still inter
esting from the fact that it contained what
the Senator's constituents call a. clear and
convincing quietus." THE TRIBUNE, it will
be recollected, congratulating Senator Cor
don upon his almost unanimous reelec-
ton, expressed the hope that it would
not divert his attention from the ne
cessity for an explanation of his con-
nection with the cipher transactions, In
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eighty poor families belonging TO tie Mission viii,
also receive provisions for comfortable and abuna
ant meal. The officers of the institution howcy,
call attention TO their pressing need of assistance in
carrying on it's daily work. There is SO mnch mi.
directed charity in this city that 1T is pleasure Ia
ask help for an institution which performs a good
work efficiently and economically. Contributions
both in money and provisions, solicited. Tbs
former may be sent to No. 125 ST. Marks-place; thu
latter to Mrs. A. Il. Smith, No. % West Eighteenth.
st.
There is disposition manifested by many worthy
editors just now to glonfy Congressman A. NJ. Wad.
dell, of North Carolina because be openly disavows
any intention to make q struggle for the seat 10
which the voters of his District have seen fit 10
elect another man. IL certainly would not
be considered, ON general principles, DEF.
icate compliment to anyone 10 praise him be-
cause he has assured the world that be is not pre-
pairing himself to commit specified crime. On the
contrary. a gentleman who should be covered with
encOmiums because he takes pains 10 deny that he
meditates the robbery Ola grave, would naturally
be set down by plain people as suspected body
snatcbar
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WHAT WOULD REPUDIATION Profit,

1t is universally admitted that very meagre
percentage of the National bonds are now held
abroad. Even General Butler claims that the
obligations of the Government are all practi-
cally owned at home. OF course this makes
the country no richer. For the bonds are not
wealth, but evidences of debt They do not
represent production, but destruction. The
people who hold them have paid for them IN
money or commodities. Comparatively few of
them are held by the capitalists who loaned
the money to the Government to purchase
food which was eaten up, powder and ball
which were shot away. and other property
which was trampled out Of existence during
the war. In lieu of the Government pledges
which our people have received from abroad
and received at their full market value
the country has been exporting the products
of our manufactures and our bountiful har-
vests.
This is all legitimate and proper. But does
it never occur to the people who are willing
to scale down or readjust OF shirk in
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GENUINE LOYALTY.

Because the South pleases to vote the
Democratic ticket, the Radicals are angry
says one Democratic journal of influence. This
is not the fact. The Republicans of the North,
so far as they ARE merely partisans, have
every reason to be greatly rejoiced; they
know that Solid South will DO CON.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-27

A hard worker for the Republican side in
Michigan, the Hon. c. T. Gorham, takes the
view elsewhere, that the Greenback party,
which was very active in his State, has cast
its largest vote and will soon disappear. Mr.
Gorhsm gives frank expression to other
Opinions-amOng them an avOwalNof his pref
erence for Grant for President and Chandler
for Senator.
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thirty years after his discovery and ten years
after the poor inventors death.

This seems 10 be time when mems
consciences' are stirred and their tongues
are loosed concerning election frauds.
1t is alleged by contractor for the
City of Brooklyn that he has had in his
possession for a long time past keys TO the
ballOt-boxes in one of the station-houses that
he was requested by the Ring candidate for
Surrogate in 1876 to get these keys. Ill ORDER
that some additional ballots might be shipped
in the boxes to overcome the slender majority
which his opponent was then known to have; that
the scheme was carried out with the connivance
of certain officers of the police force No
doubt the testimony of n man who confesses
his own criminality in duplicating Others
ought often to be received with allowances;
and the fact that the candidate who was
wrOnged by these frauds, If they were COM
mitted, does not seem impressed by the
contractors testimony will detract from It's
effect. But it is charge which will certainly
bear full investigation.
Commissioner Raum gives, in his report,
the exact figures of the murder and maItreat-
ment of the United States revenue officers
in the South, which were given the other
day in round numbers. The number OF
murders is FIVE; the number of wound
ings, thirteen. These are trlfe
smaller than the figures recently given,
but they are fully large enough to illustrate
the utter lack of moral sentiment in the South
upon the twin subjects of frauds upon the
revenue aud outrages upon It's officers. The
murderers and assailants in these cases have
gone unwhipped of justice; III one Rcpub-
lican district some action was taken toward
prosecution, but that was the one exception
which proved the rule. When, however,
one SOuthelner was shot because it was
necessary to shoot him-shOt in self-dcfence by
a revenue Officer" the whole State of South
" Carolina" as the Commissioner says "was
"arouscd." The remedy which Mr.. Raum pro-
poses is that Congress shall declare all those
to be murderers who participate in resistance
to revenue officers where one of the latter is
killed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-27

Judge Blatchford's decision yesterday con-
firming the claim of George B. Simpson as
the inventor of the use of gutta-percha to in
sulate telegraph wires, recalls one Of those
pathetic stories of patient waiting and weary
struggle with which the annals of invention
are so crowded. In this case there seems to
have been a more formidable combination
than usual of adverse circumstances. Mr..
Simpson had not only the common inventors
luck of distressing poverty and discouragiDg
difficulty in urging his discovery upon man
kind; he had the uncommon misfortune of
being compelled to fight the Patent Oflce for
twenty years before he could even obtain the
patent which he had applied for. The CON-
panies which have used his device are now
directed by the courts to recognize his title,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-27

Congressman-elect James O'Brien-mOre's
the pity-gives his followers some excellent
advice. BE modest and unassuming," says
this model Of department, and then adds the
mellifiuOus promise, that when the different
factions of the Anti-Tammany Democracy
unite, "the men who won the late victory at
"the polls will be entitled to the emoluments
"of Officer But Mr.. OBrien's hungry constitu-
ents would like fewer bills of fare and more
fodder.