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seuffin' his sack with fruit, so l determined
10 punish him for it. Ezekiel, my SON.
says |, your fathers calm ye-come down.
! thought I'd be sort O. persuasive, so it
would fetch him; but he smelt a rat, and
olunt bulge an inch. Il can't dad; these
pesky apples are in my way 'Zeke,' 1
continued sternly, for my dander began to
rise, come own-come down this minute,
or I'll cut down the tree and let you fall
Oh see my poor old limbs wouldn't permit
my hinnin' up the tree after the boy, so I
mad to take other means. 'Oh, nc, o
won't, dad says Zeke. Only think how
you'd mourn if you couldn't sell the apples
to stuff the old leather wallet that's locked
away in the bureau!!' That was too much
to have my w boy accuse me of parsi-
mony. So what does I do but Git the axe
and cut away at the bottom O. the tree.
'Zeke,' 4 cried, when the tree was about
half cut, will ye come down now and save
yerself? Never mind, dad,' said he; Il
amt spilir.'.' 1t was no use; I couldn't
ietch him that way ; so chopped away at
the tree till at last it began to sway, and fell
to the ground with a CT
"What-and crushed your own boy g
calculated his Mortified listener.
"Not by a long chalk" replied Hobbs,
winking knowingly, "You conldn't come it
over Zeke so. He crawled out on a limb
and, while [ was chopin at the bottom O.
the tree he was cuttin' the limb off with his
~jack-knife, and, when the tree fell, there he
was, still up there on the limb.'
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-05-02
AssUNBEAM.

The greatest OF physical paradoxes is the
sunbeam. 1t is the most potent and versa
tile force we have, and yet it behaves itself
like the gentlest and most accommodating.
Nothing can fall more softly Or more silent
ly upon the earth than the rays of our great
luminarv-not even the feathery flakes of
snow Which thread their way through the
atmosphere as if they were too filmy to
yield to the demands of gravity like grosser
things. The most delicate slip of gold leaf,
exposed as a target to the suns shafts, is not
stirred to the extent of a hair, though an
infants faintest breath would set it in trem-
ulous melton.
The tenderest of human organs-the APP
pie of the eye-though pierced and buffeted
each day by thousands of sunbeams. suffers
no pain by the process, but ~rejoices in their
sweetness, blesses the useful light. Yet a
few of those rays insinuating themselves in
TO a mass of iron, like the britannia Tubu-
lar Bridge, will compel the closely knit par.
ticles to separate, and will move the who'll
enormous fabric with as much ease as a
giant would a straw. ti. a.t
The play Of these beams upen a sheet of
water lifts up layer after layer into the at
m%osphere, and hoists whole rivers from
their beds, only to drop them agin in SHOWS
upon the hills or in fattening showers upon
the plants. Let but the air drink in a little
mere sunshine at one place than another,
and it desolates a whole region in its lunatic
wrath. The marvel is that a power which
is capable of assuming such diversity Of form
and of producing such s~tupendous results,
should come TO us in so gentle, SO peaceful,
and so pretentious a manner.
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A BOY.

Farmer Hobbs was a veracious old Amer
lean dodger. His great delight was to Sc
cure the attention of some one while he spun
a yarn about the cuteness of his boy Zeke.
"-Ah.' said old Hobbs one day, as he had
fairly fixed his auditor, "Zeke is the most
remarkable boy ] ever set eyes OH. He is
like his old dad you can't no more sarcnm-
vent him than you ken a woodchuck. You
r~e.ollect that choice apple-tree that grew at
the bottom o. the hill, near the stump fence?
Wall, l tell We, I was mighty savin' o. them
there apples. I forbid Zeke touchin' 'em, as
they brought a high price in the market, am
every one counted; but he would get 'emr III
spite O. me. 1t was his way, you know. am
possessed wouldn't stop him. One day l
caught the young scapegrace up in the tree
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-05-02
qHE 10 { CIR Gle.
nryE GOLD THAT WEARS.

one eve at the garden gate.
WIN the dew was on the heather,
"" ~ NV love to come bsck to her
" i. the ~nleasant autumn weather.
THAT we twain might wed
when the leaves were rcd,
.,a live and love together.
o,t me q tress Of her nut-broWn hair,
- Kissed her lips Of cherry.
,nd rave her q ring OF the old-tlme gola'
with q stone like the mountain berry
A clear and blue q.
AS her eyes were true
Sweet eyes, so bright and merry!
,,rhe wealth of my love is all | have
no rive you,o she said III turning;
,r,o ao,d that wears-like the radiant stars
II Wonder blue vault BURNING"
And | took the trust.
AS a mortal must
whose soul for love is yearning.
Fate kent us apart for many years,
And the blue sea rolled between us,
rhourh 1 kissed each day the nut-brown tress
And made fresh VOWS to Venus
Till sought my bride,
And fate dclieu
That had failed from love to Wean us.
found my love at the garden gate
When the dew was on the heather,
And we twain were we'd in the1ittle kirk
In the pleasant autumn weather;
And the gold that wears
Now soothes my cares,
As we live and love together!
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GOLDEN

Ever backward to the past,
Thoughts are flying thick and fast,
Thoughts that fill the eyes with tears,
And the thoughts of pleasant years
Ever to the future yelled
Golden ships Of thought have sailed
Out of sport to distant realms,
Loving fingers at the helms,
Dear to US the thoughts that fly
Ever upward to the sky
Noble thoughts that never die,
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Jealousy dislikes the world to know n,
The innocent seldom find an une.sy
pillow.
Never put off a job till Tomorrow II
you can do it to-day.
-Indolence never sent a man to the front.
Industry never left a man in the rear.
The one certain, remuneratiye, ATTAIN
able quality in every study is attention.
-A1eanness sometimes makes q saint.
Some men are good only because it costs
money to be wicked.
If my friends have alabaster boxes laita
away, full Of perfumes of sympathy and g..
lection, which they intend to break over my
dead body, | would rather they would bring
them out in my weary hours, and open
them while | need them. I would rather
have Il bare cottin without Il flower, and 4
funeral without the eulogy, than Il life witlA
out the sweetness OF love ana sympathy.
Let us learn to annpint our friends before
hand for their burial. Post-mortem kind
nesses do not cheer the burdened spirit.
Flowers Oh the coffin cast no fragrance
backward over the weary days.
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CLEANLINESS of person promotes health
OF body, and this in turn naturally begets
purity of mind and moral elevation. Sucl,
persons are quite as much concerned in hav-
ing the inner and unseen rs tidy and as
clean as the outer, and the visible ; they
are pure from principle not policy.
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".LARRY, my wife and | have both no.
ticed that the t~ownspeople stare very hard.
| hope you haven't been telling anybody
that we are newly married ?'-'' Me tell 'em,
sor? Is it likely I'd go agin my express ex-
press orders? Why, whinever anybody
thryed to pump me, sor, 1 tould 'em you
wasn't married at ALL"
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NARY-MARTHA.

III "a
In the dilemma of choice as to the supe-
%iority,of Mary or Martha's character, a GER
tain man declared: "Martha before dinner,
Ind Mary afterward." Very well, were this
theory put into practice, If we desired al
kppetizing meal and a spi~ritual-minded COM
hanion but if the subject were to be deci-
d led m~atrimonially, were it Martha tirst1t
must remain Martha. 1t would be an insult
|o the worth of either to halt in the selec-
lion of them. | am certain did each know
BIZ the %snitor's indecision regarding both,
|fley would unhesitatingly vow to him
n either. Our very young men have at least
his virtue: in the unreasoning ardent gem
krosity Of their verdancy they marry to-day
Flr love in the faith that to-morroW's b read
|And butter, or bread without butter, will fall
rom the skies. and most disastrous or most
fortunate results occur to them. Their mid
"A e-aged brethren, in the cool, calculating
Bislom of maturity, oftener wed influence,
POSITION, wealth, blood, good house keepers.
The mansion is furnished from garnet to eel
|@r. the bridal suit elaborately finished, the
|hank account large and secure. the great
Past ready, the carriage and four waiting.
wish we could combine the single-heart-
illness Of impulsive youth with the calm de-
Il oeration Of experienced manhood. | wish
man was not so frequently only in love
With an ideal, or did not too much idealize
5he real. = wish he could marry tor love
ID thrive on it Away. We do not intend
wed Mary or Martha, excellent women
i they were and are. Our scriptural friends
4 yore who bore those names must have
&een worthy, or it had not been written of
themselves and brother: ''Jesus loved
pem." believe that Martha could. enter
IN that family with the harmless town Cos
y ana news of the times in an exceedingly
pey, intelligent manner at eventide. / am
F'talh That Mary was able to provide a ma
Ftlal meal she need not blush to invite a
tesideht to partake OF. Our informant left
aluch margin for inference that the gem
u verdict seems to have been, and to be,
'e-siaed usefulness ascribed to our hero
(&ies' suppose it to be thus. We yearn for
'omolnatlon of the two but it would
'ease me best to place Mary first. Literal
Sue hath chosen the good part which
~ not De taken away from herr After
4 eaang and drinking, the buying Of hou-
"lo lands, the toiling after earthly hon
ana popularity, the sewing-women's
'"is ana whirr of machinery is ended,
"fe intellectual repasts, mansions not
# a ~ WIN hands, robes such as angles wear
llpeflshable. AS you are soul and
- you must have Mary-Martha to minis
a".o ooth. There must be a home, and
> SIT 20 De the dearest spot on earth, or
,o,o aoe be the dearest one that reisns
Under a democratic form of govern
ieast, a mistress must be capable to
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-05-02

How many take a wrong view Of life, and
waste their energies and destroy their nerv-
Gus system in ~endeavoring to accumulate
wealth, without thinking of the present
happiness they are throwing away. 1t is
not wealth or high station which makes u
man happy. Many of the most wretched
beings on 'thesearth have both but it is a
radiant sunny spirit, which knows how to
bear little trials and enjoy comforts and
thus extract happiness from every incident
in life.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-05-02

which draw us into the world of things and
men; others which draw us inward to the
world of imagination and refection.-Jas,
Freeman Clarke.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-05-02

A CHICAGO commercial traveller saw two
mischieyous girls shaking their handker-
chiefs alta moving passenger train, from
their pleasnre-boats in the river, near Vim
ton. He conceitedly imagined the demon
stration to be intended for himself, got of
the train, hired a skiff, and set sail tor the
sirens, and they led him and his boat quietly
into the current that swept him over the
dam. He swan ashore mid the laughter
of the handkerchief maidens, and his CON
ceit is mot thoroughly dried out yet.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-05-02

In the city of Halifax dwelt a lawyer,
crafty, subtle and cut as a fox. An Indian
of the Miami tribe, named Simon, owed him
money. The poor red man brought
the money to his creditor and waited, ex-
pecting the lawyer to write him a receipt.
What are you waiting tor?" said the law
yer. Receipt, " said the Indian. "a re-
ceipt,' said the lawyer ; :" receipt! What do
you know about a receipt? Can you under
stand the nature of a receipt? Tell me the
use of one, and l will give it to you," The
Indian looked at Elm a moment and then
said; "S'pose maybe die lime go to heben;
me find gate locked; me see 'postle Peter:
he say, Simon, what you want!' Me want
to get in. He says You pay Mr.. J.. das
money! What me do? I hab no receipt;
hab to hunttall over hell to find YOU" He
GOT u receipt. 81 ef
New-York tribune., 1878-04-16
PERSONAL.

The Rev. Robert COllyer is going abroad this
| Summer.
Senator Blaine is going to talk about the
Tariff Bill to the workngmen at Chester Penn, tie
! evening Of April y.
Mr.. w. ID. HOwells, the Editor of The At
iante Monthly is about go to Belmont, Mass, TO ye
Senator Morrissey is reported to be more
comfortable he walks about his house, reads the news
papers, and eats with some appetite.
Mr.. Theodore V. WOolsey, son of eX-Presi-
dent Woosey has been appointed Professor OF Interna
tional Law IN the Yale Law School.
Miss May Alcott, the artist, and one of the
"htte women was married recently in London, to Mr.
Ernest Nierikel, of Baden.
Count Andrassy, il is SAID, Is as popular IN
Vienna for his grace dancer and for his drawing
room conversation as for his acknowledged diplomatic
acumen
Monsieur de Lomeine, the Academician, who
has lately died. was elected the chair left vacant by
the death of Prosper Merimee. Three seats are now
empty in the Academy.
Ex-Queen Isabella's jewels, which she is
about to SELL are supposed to be worth about 0OOOOO
She has reserved collection OF jewels, said to have
value of S15O0O0 She has also the most beautiful col
lection of aces in the world and large number of eX-
tremcly valuable pictures.
Outlines by the Washington correspondents:
Mr. Porter First Controller Of the Treasury is in bis
dttes but looks foryfve has good figure blonde hair
i'm speaking, a " vehement letme-getat-hm manner
while Mr. Hill leans desks and swings his long arms
as he talks.
The Rev. DR.. George Putnam, who died in
Boston on Thursday last the spiritual adviser OF
Professor Webster executed in 1850 for the murder OF
Dr. PaTkman. IL to him that Webster made confes
sion OF the murder and he appeared before the Cover
nor and Council ask for communication OF the SEN
| tence. Dr.. Putnam was elector on the Republican
ticket 1860 and voted for Lincoln, and he aItefWard
served in both branches of the Legislature
General Shields says that two of the bravest
of his old soldiers In the Senate Senator ogesby
was with me Cerro Gordo and helped guard me when
was shot through the lungs And Senator Dorsey served
galanty with in battery Of picked men in the late
war" OF General Butler he said the other day. 81
have had but little personal acquaintance with General
Butler until now found however, that my friends in
New-England his friends and so did not hesitate
10 ask him to assist the increase of pension. con-
sider General Butler anObleheaTted, bg-bralned man,
and find that the Liberal element throughout NewEng
land regard him as their champion"
FLORENCE, April 15.-General Grant and
family arrived here to-day. They received at the
station by municipal authorities, the American Con-
sui deputatons OF the Italian army and the American
residents.
New-York tribune., 1878-04-16
POLITICAL NOTES.
railroads.

Nothing but the murder of Glover can save the
Democracy.
With Gold at 100, there is little call for Mr..
JOnes'S zero dollar.
It's noble reform" party which cuts down the
pittance of a crippled soldier!
The President ought at least TO be willing to throw
the weight of his serenity the right side of the
Fall campaign.
If Congress wants to make the wheels of industry
inst buzz let it pass concurrent resolution to get
out of Washington before the 1st of June.
If Glover doesn't want to run the entire Demo-
cratic party into one hole or another he must be
careful not to follow the trail of swindler.
1t isn't Glover's fault that there is a Democratic
scandal under every cover he prizes up 1t is uncom-
mon stupid of him. though, not to smell it sooner.
Beebe emerges into public view once more. Sulli-
van County ought to send him down new pair
of clogs for his impending war-dance on the fraud
question.
No party but the Democratic would be so pig
headed as TO stand in the way of resumption now.
They are horribly afraid of the National movement
but have not sagacity enough to seq that the set
tlement of the financial question takes away all ex-
cuse for the National party's existence.
despondent expression is settling upon the noble
features of tho Hon. Montgomery Blair the convie
ton grows IN his mind that it will require something
more persuasive than terrapin supper to extract
that fraud bill of his from the Senate Judiciary
Committee. He hears that they are powerfully
heavy sitters.
Venango County Penn, has instructed its
four representatives to the State COnven-
ton to vote for Mr. Galusha A. Grow for
Governor. This was a point where Mr.. Grow
was not expected to develop much strength /;
but the man seems to have friends where
ever he has been This is probably the first return
of any sort he has had on his investments many
years ago in Oh City.
Governor Smith, Of Wisconsin, thinks the Repub-
licans have the upper hand in that State for the
next election, because the Germans are largely in
favor of the party that is for honest money He be-
eves also that the policy of the Administration Is
popular among the Germans, and also among the
Republicans aud suspects that Senator Howe has
injured his prospects for reflection by his attack ON
the President. It should be added that the Cover
nor has a decided hankering for the Senatorshlp
himself. and may thus be uneonsciousy Diassed Ia
| his judgment.
| Wade Hampton is likely to be renominated unani-
mously for Governor of South Carolina, and to be
New-York tribune., 1878-04-16

reelected almost without opposition. The Republi-
cans are disposedto concentrate themselves on men,
bers of the Legislature and Congressman, and
are hopeful of gaining one or two of the latter
This seems to be a wise decision. The State could
hardly have better Governor than Hampton, and
the Republican strength cannot possibly be devoted
To better object than the election OF congressman.
IL their hopes of realized, it will be
great stroke of good fortune for the National party
Eaton. of Kansas has been goaded into taking
some more about the management OF the last Demo-
cratic Presidential campaign. He doesn't reveal
much except o strong personal antipathy for Mr.
Hewitt, which that gentleman viii oe entirely able
to stand up under He says the 1ilden Literary
Bureau spent at least 100000 for "printing and
circulating tracts that were of no earthly use for
nobody ever read them.o THIS is reelection on the
Democratic Press, for most of the able intellectual
feast prepared at the bureau was reproduced as ed
torial wisdom in the party Journals, and was sup
posed to have been read with avidity" 1t was un-
usually able-for Democratic journals.
The cruel fates seem disposed to crowd the Hon.
Hendriek B. Wright uncomfOrtably. He has no
sooner begun to win little glory by his 100000
900 currency scheme, than an unsympathetic per-
son, denominated a "NewYork fnancier," steps
forward and declares that he is the author Of the
bill, Wright being simply its introducer and that
its effect will be to swell our currency TO only about
one thousand millions. The gifted "New-fork
fnancier" thinks the country could stand two
thousand Millions and be stimulated" BY IT, pro-
vded it devoted to the erection of public build
ings. 1t would be waste of breath to call the
" financero donkey, but it would be comDre-
bensve definition for his peculiar trouble.
Governor Bishop has set the Ohio Democracy into
fresh commotion by appointing for Coal Mine
Inspector man totally unfit for the duties of the
position since he has no knowledge whatever of
mining. The official who was removed was in every
way fitted for the place, and was especially accept
able to the miners. he had repeatedly done them
valuable service in urging reforms in mine manage
ment. The Miners Convention has sent unani-
nous petition to the Governor for the retention Of
the former Inspector, but the Governor has paid
attention to il. Petitions signed by nearly 20 900
miners urging the same act have also been ignored.
The result is that the Democratic leaders are in a
panic. They know il is ruin to the party TO offend
the miners for they one Of the manstays OF lts
vote, and unless the Governor turns about the Re-
pubhcans can pretty certainly carry the State. 1t
is evident that your Uncle Dick Is better judge of
groceries than of politics.
New-York tribune., 1878-04-16

is black and, like the ghost OF Banquo, starts
up to cause alright whenever feast Is spread.
Its behavior in such power as it has is not
help to it. Southern claims and sympathies
make it certain that the party can never pre-
vail in many of the Northern States or dis
tricts. TO get into some shape, so that ambl-
tiOus and active men throughout the North may
not be generally and permanently excluded
from power Mt home, is an object which
will appeal strongly to those who live IN
Republican States, districts and towns. They
have learned the enormous persistency of Re
publican opinion, as against the Southern De-
mocracy, and know that even after great
defeat the Republican party might, by little
reorganization, sweep the North again. Be-
yond all is the fact that the National objeeS
are the only objects which have vitality t'r
great body of Northern Democrats. Thy are
in spirit and purpose communists. du 'ne
National platform appeals powerfully 10 theH
rooted feelings. If party that neans some
thing has more right to live than parry
that means nothing, there is chance that
Democracy may at last give place to open ana
orgnnizcd socialism, called the National party.
New-York tribune., 1878-04-16
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