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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04
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MICHAEL ANGELO AS A POET.

Except few pieces printed by Vasari !
and by varcli, none of Michael Angeles 1
poems were published until ffty-nipe .
years after his death. 1t was then that
grand nephew of the great man, and his
namesake, conceived the idea of editing
these works in verse, and transcribed them
from the collection in the Vatican. But
when he had copied them out, he was terri
fed at the ghost he had summoned out tot
the past. The boldness of Michael Angeles
thought, the ruggedness of his style, and
the numerous faults of his versifcation,
were more than this Della Cruscan worthy
could bear, and he ventured to touch them
up and actually refashion them. In 1923,
he>pubished his amended version, and this,
the fifaeimeato, as it is called, has been the
text of the poems until our own time. 'In
fact" as Mr.. Symonds amusingly says,
"Michael Angelo the poet, suffered no less
from his grandnephew than Michael An
gelo, the fresco painter, from his follower,
Daniele de Volterra," who was commits
stoned to paint garments upon the masters
grand nude figures in the Sistine Chapel.
1t was not until 1863 Signor Guasti after
carefully collecting all the manuscript au-
thorities, published the ''Rime" of Michael
Angelo exactly as he had left them, with
all the errors, imperfections and rough
tor SC ,hnE t.,
Symonds has taken as the basis of his trans.
lation. Perhaps as good way as any of
observing the difference between the i'm
proved text of 1923 and the untouched Ver-
sion of 1868 will be to compare a transla-
| ton by Wordsworth from the former with
one of the same sonnet by Mr. Symonds
from the latter:
Yes hope may with my strong desire keep pace,
And be undeluded unbetrayed
| For If of our affections none find grace
| In sight of Heaven, then wherefore hath God
| made
The world which we inhabit? Better plea
! Love cannot have than that inloving thoe
Glory to,eternal peace is paid,
| Who such divinity to thee tmparts
| As hallOwS and makes pure all gentle hearts
That hope is treachercus only whose love dies
With beauty, which Is varying every hour;
But in chaste hearts, uninfiuenced by the power
OF outward change, there blooms a deathless
flower,
That breathcs on earth the air Of Paradise.
A very pretty poem; but surely this is
more characteristic Of die savage force Of
Michael Angelo:
1t must be right sometimes TO entertain
Chaste love with hope not over cred uous;
| Since, il all human loves were impious
Unto what end did God the world ordainf
1 If love thee and bend beneath thy reign,
'Tis for the sake Of beauty glorious,
Which in thine eyes divine is stored for us,
And drives all evil thought from Its domain.
This is not love whose tyranny We own,
In loveliness that every moment dies;
Which, like the face it worships fades away:
True love is that which the pure heart hath
known,
Which alters not with time or deaths decay,
Yielding on earth earnest of Paradise.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04

KoENIG WILHELM is a title which
seems to bear misfortune with it of late.
The Emperor has been twice attacked by
, assassins within a few weeks, and the
iron-clad.of that name sent to the bottom
of the Channel its companion ship, with
nearly three hundred men.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04

J. SIMPSON AFRICA is a candidate for
office in Pennsylvania. His opponents
should nominate some Stanley to go
through him.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04

A MAN in Berks County, Pa, found a
land tortoise on his farm, upon whose
shell was engraved the inscription, "Wm.
Penn, $780," A boy had carved it there
the week before.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04

A wELL-KNowN Boston inventor has
mysteriously disappeared. Perhaps he
will invent an explanation of his alb
sence.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04

The insurrectionists in the Argentine
Province are peculiar coneiliationists
They enter town with drawn reyolvers
and shoot down every man who does not
want to be conciliated
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04

THE Pilgrim Society, of Plymouth,
Mass, now numbers fifteen thousand
members. They have lively scrambling
to all get on the rock at once.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04

A CONVICT broke through the wall of
his cell in the new prison at Concord,
N. HI. The jailer says it is an excellent
CRATE cell, and the prisoner also says it is
a great sell
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04

THE citizens of New Brunswick, n j.,
are industriously searching for the body
of their late City Treasurer. A reward
of 800 is offered for its discovery.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04

UTICA, MICH, claims to have more old
maids than any other town of its size.
Why should "pent up Utica contract
her powers" Send them out West
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04

In speaking of the number of stars
composing the constellation Of the Great
Bear, a Philadelphia paper has no refer
ence to the Lydia Thompson troupe.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04

He who. has no taste for order will be
often wrong in hip Judgment and seldom
considerats or conscientious In his actions
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04

ANDERSON is a bad man. Why, then,
shouldn't he be sent to "a warm eli
mate"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04

THE credit of the Government abroad
and at home was never better than now.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04

THERE are terrible rumors of a clash
between Tilden and Hendricks.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04

CINCINNATI 4 WEsTWoOD [NARR0W-GAUGEl
Daily, except Sunday.
yLeaycC. II. & u. Depot, 1888 a IN. 6:1S p m,
Leave Robb's (WestWood), 5 AS am; 7:SS m.
1898 m 1858 pm. G:03p IN. ..s.,N
Leave Brighton, 6;43a M, 9:esam 2:DS. p m 5:l8
p m, 64:3 pm. ''
Sunday trall s. ~ ''r' -,l,l ta'i
Leave Rotb's (WestwoodD 8:38. an 1923 ,in,,
1928 p m. .2G3 p m, 4:53 IN, and G: :,3 IN. u
Leave Brighton, 1888 a m, II ~ IN, :aaS p m.
2:3S m, 6:03 p m, 7:i3 m
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04

THE Attorney General decides that
the words common schools" in the Con-
stitution and laws of Ohio mean schools
of any grade, and that Boards of Educa-
tion have the right to establish High
Schools with scientific and classical
courses, and any other schools of higher
or lower grades, 50 long as they have the
funds to do So This is all we'll enough, but
If the Attorney General will show some
. way of securing books for the children OF
the State without an expense that in
some cases amounts to an exclusion OF
children from the schools, he will be rem.
dering much more Important service.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04

THE Commercial, speaking Of Mr.,
William Cullen Bryant, says: "Well,
who says he is not the first citizen?"
The New York Commercial Advertiser
and a writer in the World are both em-
phatic i'll their assertions that New York
has no FIRST citizen" They concede Mr..
Bryant's great worth, but decline to adj
init that any man is entitled to be called
New York's first citizen. The writer in
the World puts it in. this language
"Therc is no first citizen in New York.
Thee are citizens who have done more,
thou;;h they may have written less, for
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04
RA1LRoA Is n AZ f.
Corrected to Accord with Cincinnnti
Time.

CINCINNATI SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Depot corner Mclean avenue and (iest street
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04

Strictly religious people should he careful
to select only upright pianos for ther
houses. ..,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04
The sos a, m. and gip3.p. H. trains connect fl
Jackson and PortslnOeeh,

LIiMoRE & OHIO, VIA PARKERSBURG.
Depot, PearP and Plum.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-04

A very pretty poem; but surely this is
more characteristic Of the savage force of
Michael Angelo:
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-18

The eastern newspapers, hireling
tools of the moneycrats, are now
| deeply regretting that the Atlantic
states did not keep the west in sub.
ordinate and terrible condition.
Their abuse of the west is unmeasur.
ed, simply because our people have an
uncomfortable fashion of thinking
for themselves, and will not be ruled
over and dictated to by Jay Gould and
August Belmont. The Boston Eren-
ing Transcript thinks we are in a
''brute and savage condition" out
here. Thus it boils over:
Eastern opinion should keep in
mind that it has but minor influ-
ence upon this administration. The
sceptic of government in the republic
has really passed, for good or i'll. to
the west: and western ideas of nation
al finance, economy, and politics must
be expected to prevail. We never
thought much OF the craftsmanship of
Mr. Boutwell, S plan for demanding the
southern states to the territorial con-
dition. because they insisted on polit-
zeal opinions to rs diStasteful and de-
structive. There is more occasion
now. considering the perils of the
moral and material interests of the
country. for remanding both southern
and western states to territorial tute-
lage. They need supervisory educa-
ton in the cOmmOnest things that
hold society and nations together and
keep down the brute and savage in
stinctS of the natural man, such as re-
spect for law. especially for the invis-
ible but binding relations of contracts
and moral obligations. Instead of
having in their present darkened con.
dition the preponderating majority
they ought to be kept in a safe and
small minority with merely territorial
representation. But who is to apply
the Boutwellian plan to the presen,
crisis
Ay there's the rub Who will bel
this western cat
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-18
The st. Paul Globe saws:

! Hon. l.. B. Hodges returned yester.
day from Hancock. Stevens county.
While there, he sowed one square
mile under wheat, on land broken last
June, and accomplished the task by
April 3. ''And how is that for Mimi
esota, IN point of earliness!" quered
Mr.. Hodges. The land received a
thorough bull-dozing. Forty-one
teams were employed in the service,
with which the land was dragged
Uhree times before sowing, and twice
thereafter.
Switching off from his own private
undertaking, Mr.. Hodges said such a
tide OF immigration has never been
known i'll Minnesota since 1856, as
that now yelling into the state. The
biggest passenger trains and the ,ig-
gest freight trains ever run upon the
st. Paul Il Pacific railroad are now
passing over that line. Each day
witnesses four passenger cars, loaded
to suftocatlon, passing up the road.
And the class of immigrants is of an
improved character, the vast majority
consisting Of farmers. and their
grown-up sons, from the eastern coun.
ties of Minnesota and from Wisconsin.
They are the hardy pioneers, men in.
nured by former experience to the
life they are about to undertake, or,
in the pithy words of Mr.. Hodges,
''men who have been through >the
mill They bring with them, too,
full supplies of provisions to tide over
the first season, together with horses,
cattle. and farm implements and ma
chinery. Things are just bloom
ing cried the enthusiastic gentle
man to the Globe reporter, land, as Il
proof, honestly assure you that,
within the last thirty days, parcels of
land OF not less than Il quarter Of sec.
ton have doubled in value, and every
body is hopeful and putting in their
best licks.'
This is all true.
Let the settlers remember, howev-
er, that John Sherman a financial pol
icy will yet find them out; and that
there is danger Of OVERRIDING this
wheat business.
Every settler should bring with
him a stock of cattle, sheep, hogs,
poultry, etc. and be prepared to live
when John Sherman smaShes Mime.
sofa, as he has already smashed the
rest Of the country. If that financial
policy continues the question will not
be of making fortunes, but of surrir.
ing.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-18

The Tribune of Lawrence, Kansas
the leading newspaper OF that city,
has come out for the National party
in ringing terms. 1t says:
'sThe only party in the country
that has pronounced and harmonious
creed on this SUBJECT is the National
Greenback party which met in nation
al convention at Toledo on Washing
tons birthday, and framed AID unani-
mously adopted Il platform Of princi-
pies on which they propose to stand
until victory crowns their efforts.
The essential features of that plan are
that all money shall be issued by the
government-shall be full legal tender
good rs gold-bnt not convertible
or redeemable in gold-that it shall
he issued in amount equal to the de-
mands of trade and be receivable by
the government that issues it for all
taxes ana for all purposes. That plat
form is from this time onward the
financial creed Of the Kansas Tribune.
Under that flag we fight
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-18

to take part in the political canvaSses
and committee was appointed tC
present those resolutions to the Pres
ident. This was Il virtual confession
that the machinery of the party could
alone save the party.
How different in the old days of
Lincoln, Chase, Seward, etc. when the
Republicans swept state after state in
the face of the opposition of Buchanan
and all his Office-holders. How diff
ferent from the National party now,
going forward with giant strides to
triumph, without patronage to be-
stow or money to squander ! And
why9 Because it represents living
issues and mighty human interests;
while the Republican party is like an
ovelgrown rut0 bdgd, its roots buried
deep in the past while the hogs are
browsing on its leaves.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-18
Anti ssMoucpoli5t.
IGNATIUS DONNELLY. EDITOR

The Wcrkingmen of Minneapolis
organized and nominated working
man for Mayor, an honorable, able
gentleman; he came within small
vote Of carrying the city; and he was
defeated solely by the detection OF
the hard-shell, hardmoney Demo
Gratis. Isn't it about time that the
Nationals of Minneapolis should orga-
nize on their own hook! AS an indie
pendent, permanent party they would
draw allies from both parties. II the
laboring men of that tlourishlng city
can act together they will force the
hard-money minority into hard.
money party, and sweep the decks.
The sooner the line of politics is
drawn upon the financial issue the
sooner will relief be found.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-18

Republican institutions need revis.
ion, with view to simplifcation and
economy, or they will break down un-
der the weight of their own machin.
cry. Read the following special dis.
patch from Washington to the New
York Herald:
The new blue book. just published.
cumberous and utterly useless but
very costly publication, which con-
tains the name of every person EN-.
ployed in the federal service gives
$3.50 as the total number of federal
otfice-holders of all kinds and degrees.
This is about in $50 OF the total pop
ulation, or for every 90 votes. The
vast number Of office seekers ceases
to excite surprise when these figures
are known, for ii there were but five
applicants II svery place this would
make one lnsevegy Ateen of the vot.
ing populattea . fsder1l place hunter.
But whee the $500 m local officers
are addsA = - fs1nnl the number
of pers0ue ~ an I'D for attending
to the bu1fQoHNf ruling the remain.
der beeoqpeo 1Eiohf1 TO contemplate
Countin9 anhDok olloers, constables
and julfiooso f the peace with the
more inpoEtnnt p1neomen it is at least
IS nunGEoaD . those in federal EN-.
tplOyNoUk al,6 - thst rate one man in
sorty-1se ve1ees would be drawing his
support frem - public purse. or. in
other werds.ese collection of forty.
Eve voters throughout the country is
oblige4 to support one man by their
lakor in order - maintain such gov.
ernmenk - Ne have. But we allow
I'VE pIace hunters for evey state and
l0cE ptAce, Is well as for the federal
O0ces. the result would show that ev.
cry ninth voter in the entire Repub-
| lie is an O1eeseeker.
This is a shameful exhibition.
Under such state of affairs politics
become . msre scramble of multi.
tude Of soFdia I'm for Office and plum.
der.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-18
We are glad to learn that green1acl

We are glad to learn that greenoack
clubs are being organized III southern
Minnesota. We quote the following
from the Mankato Rerier:
There will be Il free lecture Oh the
labor question ut the Union Hal this
Tuesday evening, by Mr.. JAS. Gillillan.
of WinOna, after which Il greenback
club will be organized.
If the Democracy of the lSt Con-
gressional District will stand aside
and let the fight come between the
Greenbackers and the Republicans
the Greenbackers can carry the Dis
trict. But the Democracy, although
thevare in a minority Of ten thousand
in the District will probably insist on
"going through the notions of a
canvass-with the usual result.
There are score of nationals in
that district, many whom we might
name. o. III. Page, Hon. l. NJ. West
fall, Hon. Geo. Il. Dresback William
Elliott. Gov, Sherwood. and others,
who could carry the District If fairly
backed by the Democratic minority.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-18

The I'erre Hdute Express makes
the following pregnant comparisons
between the soldier and the bondhold-
er:
Let us see how the national hon.
or" account stands.
The first soldiers enlisted at eleven
contract for coin as good in law and
better in equity than has ever been
given to a bondholder.
The government suspended specie
payments and paid the soldiers in
greenbacks, deprecated through va
rious graduations and as low as sixty
per cent.
The pay of soldiers was afterwards
raised to thirteen and then to sixteen
dollars month. but the value of the
greenbacks in which they were paid
continued to decline at rate much
beyond the advance in wages.
Soldiers enlisted on n contruct to re.
ceive one hundred cents on the dol
lar, and they received ninety, eighty,
seventy and sixty cents on the dollar
They gave services for which mon
ey is not pay-separation from homes
and kindred. midnight marches in
mud and snow and ice, daylight
marches under the southern sun and
through burning sands, exposure to
fever and privations and wounds and
death, and to the tortues of prison, to
scurvy and gangrene and starvation.
On the other hand. take the bond.
holder. With the paper money of the
government worth from forty to sew
enty cents on the dollar he bought
bonds paying per cent, interest in
coin. and the principal payable after
five years in greenbacks. When the
principal became due he procured a
change of contract by which it was to
be paid in coin. Later he procured
still another change of contract, max
ing it payable in gold coin.
The soldier received from ten to
sixty per cent. less than his contract
called for. and the bondholder receiv-
ed more than one hundred per cent.
above what he was honestly entitled
to.
The soldier was paid in deprecia-
ted currency. while the bondholder
bought in that currency.
Did any bondholding organ ever de
nounce the bad faith and the dishon.
or of the government in its financial
dealings with the soldiersi
Why do not the obligations of ma
tional honor go backward as we'll as
forwardi Why is it that bill is not
pushed through congress to pay the
soldiers the full one hundred cents. on
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-18

the cataract from the eye, was known
and practiced among them; while they
were as far advanced in dentistry as
we are to-day. And now, it it seems,
one of their lost arts has just been
e-discovered:
A. NJ. D'Hussey has re-discovered
and patented a lost art, we'll known to
the Egyptian even the remote days
when Cleopatra s Needle seood at He
liOpolis and Moses rested in its Shad-
ow. NJ. D'Hussey has produced spec
linens of fire gilded glass, which can
not be distinguished from the ancient
examples, and which SO delighted the
trustees Of the British Museum that
they have made room for them in the
showcases of the Egyptian depart
ment. The modern process consists
in introducing gold leaf or platinum
into the body of the:glass and amalga-
mating the gold with the glass by
means Of the blow pipe. The metal
and glass thus fused are absolutely in
destructible and unchanging, and will
no doubt enter largely into the decora-
ton Of architecture and art manutac-
lures.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-18

The truth is that there is nothInr
left of the Republican party in Eofre
Haute except the hard money 1nd -
flee holding elements, with a sma1l
sprlnkling of men who cannot b 60
enumerated and who still cling to the
party of great memories, and who hes
itatr yet before enterieg new orga-
nization.-Terre Hawte Express.
The proof of this is. that as soon as
the Republican national committee
met. the other day. in Washington,
Senator Sargent. of California. intro
duced series of resolutions to the
effect that the party was ruined IN
less President Hayes would withdraw
his order forbidding the ofice-hol1ors
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-18

The outh.-Said an eminent south
erner recently: 1.-The government
has Impoverished, discounted. and
crushed the south more by its tinan-
cal policy, since peace WAS declared, ,
than by its arms during the whole war
of rebellion
Very true; and in the north the war
was scarcely felt. More immigrants
came into the country during the four
years from 1890 to 1865 than we lost
men IN all the battles, while the ag-
gregatesof property, real and person
nj, was vastly s. eater at the close of
the struggle than Il was at the begin.
ming oft. But John Sherman. Jay
Gould. August Belmont, etc. have
impoverished the north and south
alike, have driSes s,>''ions to pauper
ism and crime. and through these
things to early graves and have caused
intellectually moro human misery and
suffering than the war could have
produced in ascore of years. And al
for what. To advance the cause OF
Union or Liberty, No. To make
the bondholder's bond and the money
lenders mortgage worth few cents
more on the dollar; and to compel the
debtor class, the great mass of the
people. to pay 81 % where they Dor
rowed 50 cts.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-18

The poor tramps! First the abom-
Unable financial legislation inaugural
ted to increase the value of the bond
holders bond and the mOney-lender' s
mortgage, closes up shop factories,
mills and mines, and turns the work
ers adrift, degraded beggars: and then
the law steps in and says they must
not beg! They must stay where they
are and starve to death like well-be-
haved paupers.
Chase's (Maine) Chronicle says:
The proposed tramp law for the
state of Maine, which the Journal says
will become law. provides that no
person shall 90 from town to town
begging for food or shelter. Last
week he shoe factory ut Bucktield was
burned and fifty men and women
thrown ont of employment. If
these people 20 To other towns IN
search Of work, and are forced to beg
Il night lodging, OF meal Of vlctualS,
they are to be arrested and thrown in
to the county jail or workhouse. Idle
workingmen that is the feast to
which YOU are invited by the old par
parties. Your masters have bound
you hand and foot, and you are to be
hung because you can walk.