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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-08
THE GRAvELEss DEAD.

A strange thing for nv heart TO crave.
And yet the boon | covet most
The presence OF new-made grave
To prove my treasure really lost,
For could look above the sod
That lay above his DulseleSs breast,
And sing my gratitude 10 God
That he had surely reached his rest,
Bur no such shrine is granted me
Where grief her healing tears might shed
Mine naughr but black uncertainty
Whether he liveth or il dead
Out of the Coor-way of our home,
out from It's peace aud love and light.
Into the specfral rain and gloom,
NV husband slept into the night,
And since has never bleSt my sight
Tho | have watched for him to come
Till fields are green which then were white.
| know he went no. thus to stay
His heart so true was wholly mine
And had he meant but brief delay
Word, look or touch had shown its sign.
But no farewell was given to me
Is into murkv night he slept.
Whose darkness, like deaths mystery,
Hath close the fearful secret kept.
Vain all my patience, vain my tears,
Vain all my quest to find il out;
Gaining no answer to its prayer.
NV heart is dying of is doubt
If God would tell me he is dead.
nd tell me nothing else beside,
| could lit up my weary head
\ ad ask not when or how he died;
But now my heart strings suffer strain
Beyond their mortal power TO bear;
For hope intensfies my pain
By trying 10 dissuade dispair!
All dav long the street | watch
Each 9ray-haired man thai comes toward
me.
All night | listen tor the latch
To sound and tell me it is he,
| turn nv Bibles pages DER,
| search in vain each well-worn leaf,
Comfort and pledge, so rich of yore,
Seem vaiualeSS 70 meet this grief.
And so shadow worse than death
Wells all the heavens above my head,
Blinding the vision of my faith
Till even God himself seems dead,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-08
a Partisan Beauty's Revenge.

An English Marchioness, resident in
the Legitimist faubourg, and avoi ding
the Napoleonits as 'low," gave grand
parties. To one Of these an English
lady took, unlimited, a friend Of the
Empress. The pretty woman made her
self conspicuous by her prettiness and
firtations, but the Marchioness found out
who she was and was disguised, She
said to her:
81 am so conscious of the homer you
have done me in visiting me that dare
not expect repetition Of the unexpected
compliment"
The pretty woman grew pale, but
smiled and ordered cavalier 20 order
her carriage. Tho pretty woman was
clever, and tinessed a revenge. She
bribed the Marchionness' femme de
chambre to giver her a list of guests in
vited for the next soirre. Armed with
this, she prepared a circular note, which
she dispatched to each of the invited
late in tho afternoon Of the appointed
day: "The Marchioness presents her
compliments to so and 80, and regrets
that a domestic calamity will prevent
her." etc She then went to great
"Mad Doctor" representing herself as
the daughter of the Marchioness, and
acting with the consent of her ladyship's
family; she represented that her mother,
the Marchloness, was inflicted with in
| sanity, and her madness was in the delu-
sion that she was always having great
parties. For instance, if Monsieur, the
Doctor, would go to her ladyship's hotel
that evening, he would find her dressed
in great splendor, with the saloon illu
minated, adorned with flowers, and buff
| fets covered with refreshments.
The doctor went, on the understanding
that he was to obtain the proper police
authority to take the Marchioness TO
Maison DeSainte in the event of the
representation made TO him being con
! frmed in his own observation. He ar
rived at 10 in the evening; he was the frs
the only guest; and though the Mar
| chioness did not remember his name, she
/ took it for granted she had invited hin
and was profusely civil. His manner
puzzled, and his questions startled her
and as he grew abrupt as his perception
| of her lunacy became more clear, sh,
was at last offended and rang for her ser
wants. At the same time he made {
proper intimation of his police authority
and the end of the story is that she wa
taken off by the doctor in Mysteries, an,
detained as q prisoner in his asylum unit
the whole truth came out All Paris wa
in roars, and the pretty Airt was a hero
inc forever. Protected by her angus
friend she escaped retaliation--a British
Marchioness is too grand for wit.-Ex
change.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-08

met and cuirass. lance and battle axe
cleaned out hitfully The clouds and
the confusion centred on one point,
on the tents of Don Louis and his
Spaniards. At last the disorder was sue
ceedod by single cry-a shout of victo-
ry-and the same horsemen who had
crossed the p ain an hour before were re-
turning. Buy their ranks were thinned,
and the gazers viewed them with anxious
ana terrified eyes.
:" How many men have you lost?
aske the cavaliers who received them at
the gttes of Hennebont.
Ten, answered the first who entered.
&" And how many the Spaniards ]?
&" All Bretagne for the good Coun-
tess !" And the squadron galloped to-
wards the castle.
Jeanne appeared as soon as the 6raw
bridge was lowered, casting around her
curious and anxious glances. The first
knight she saw was Sir Walter Nanny,
covered with blood and dust.
He alighted, caused the ranks to be
opened, and Jeanne saw the three pris-
oners still girt with the chains and cords
which were to have been the means of
their punishment
Brothers in arms" said Gauthier,
"teIl the Countess who rescued you"
They pointed him out.
Then she advanced a step towards him;
he kneeled and kissed her hand in pres
ence Of all the knights.
But when he attempted to rise, his
strength failed him, and he signed to his
squire to support him, the blood rushed
out from under his cuirass.
Holy mother, you are wounded sir =
exclaimed the Countess, raising him her
self and stanching the blood with her own
scarf.
q It's nothing" said Walter, recover
ing himself Immediately and binding the
scarf around his body.
. This is more than sufficient to cure
me by TO morrow, and on the day after,
he added in low tone, g | pledge my
self to drive all your enemies from the
walls of Hennebont ifyou will but vouch
safe me on the cheek what you have
granted me on the hand"
The Countess answered by a smile,
which was equivalent to promise.
But she freed herself from it the next
day by going in person to set fire to
Charles's camp and driving him away
before Nanny recovered.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-08
Mechanical Work for Girls.

1t is generally supposed that no woman
can tie up parcel or sharpen a pencil.
This we know to be a gross error. We
have known girls who could handle most
tools with as much dexterity as their
brothers. A great deal depends upon
training, and it will often serve a woman
in good stead to he able to handle the
hammer, the saw. OF the ohisel. A re-
cent writer in the Country Gentleman
gives her experience thus: "Many a
woman possesses as much ingenuity as
carpenter, or a cabinet maker, and a
little practice will teach her the uphols-
terer's trade, so that with nails, hammer,
and the needful material, she will not
only make a good chair cushion as he,
bu. will be able to cover lounge respect
ably, and also an arm chair. Rocking
chairs have often been made far more
comfortable than when first purchased
by the exercise of this art. In many
families there are disabled chairs which
have been thrown aside as useless, and
yet, with but little expenditure, they
could be made not only useful, but orna.
mental, and their presence would be q
great addition to the sittingroom."
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-08

The Troy Press tells this story Of d
tramp: Gle called at the residence of "a
gentleman on River street yesterday af-
ternoon and asked for food. 1t was fur
nished him at the door and the rapidity
with which it was devoured evidenced
the fact that he was really hungry. He
was brought into the house and sat down
to table. Before tasting Of the food
he bowed his head and actually said
grace. On satisfying his hunger-which
consumed some time as well as some
victuals-he said that it was the first
meal he had eaten in two days. He then
importuned his benefactor to give him
some work. A surprising willingness TO
saw wood was manifested. His only do
sire appeared to be 10 perform an indef-
mite amount Of labor"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-08
AND MECHANICAL
COLLEGE.

EDITORS CLARION: As yet few industrial
or III anuai labor schools have succeeded 20
Wen as military schools. All agree that
physical vigor is essential to healthy mental
improvement, and that proper physical
strength can be preserved only BY a syste-
matte course of exercise-such exercise has
been successfully practice ia military accad =
emies.
Can Agriculture and the Mechanic arts
furnish system OF exercise consistent with
literary pursuits? Military schools, instead
OF enabling boys to support themselves
while acquiring an education, have been
quite expensive. \ youth at West Point
costs the public about the same "a a soldier,
and every soldier costs the United States
one thousand dollars per year. On the con
5rary, manual labor schools have been ex-
pected to give boy chance to pay his way
to an education.
Let Us look at the matter calmly and see
how far such expectations can be justified :
Promising that we must recognize no sick
~ season-that farmers and mechanics will
not require long vacation to 90 North
every summer-let rs divide the year into
-FOUR terms or quarters and have stated
times tor beginning each quarter. Say:
lSt quar-. Monday in January. IL wk's
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-08
Proof of Affection.

Detroit Free Press.
They were disputing as to who had
the richest father, and the smaller one
finally flew that track and called out:
"Well, I've got the best big sister,
anyhow"
~ guess not" replied the other.
eyes, have!"
81 guess not Pve got the bossest big
sister in Detroit. She'll stay at home
any day to let me wear her shoes to the
circus!'
"My sister viii do morn that" put in
the little one. "She'll take the string
out of her corset for me to spin my top
with, and if lose it she'll stay home
from party and never give me a word
of sassl Is your sister any bosser than
that p
The big boy had to take a back seat.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-08
Something to Admire Aner All
From the Elko New POST

From the Elko New Post.
A political aspirant, during a discus
sion in this country, in abiding to his
rival, said: God may have created that
despicable creature, but he threw him to-
gether in a leisure moment, not even
thinking it worth while to place any
brains in his hollow head He threw him
back into the scrap-pile, never dream
ing the internal idiot would stray away
and infiict his loathsome presence upon
respectable people. Stamped upon his
villanous countenance is the mark Of"
While the doctors were working over
him and putting forth their most skillful
efforts to mould his head into human
shape again; he feebly remark: God
NAV have sighted that man on brains,
but he never turned out a finer job on
muscle work.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-08

Dealers Don't Like il and a Good
Many Manage 10 "Bea1'' Ii.

RICHMOND, April 1S.-The Mofett
liquor register has been in operation In
Virginia for five or six months, and the
merits and defects of the law under
which it is used lie on the surface. From
fragmentary official reports aud news
paper statements, which are the best
records within reach, it seems that the
gross revenue from the sytem will be
about $3.50, 900 or $500 900 per annum,
as against S137 900 realized by the old
liquor-license system. In the cities
more particularly in Richmond-the law
is executed about as well as was expected,
though it is pretty certain that not more
than half the drinks sold are registered.
In many country districts it Is opeuly
disregarded.
The liquor-dealers are still opposed to
the law. With rare exceptions they long
for the day when it will be repealed. In
the first place, they complain that it has
reduced their business very largely.
They assert that many customers who
formerly took alcoholic drinks at 10
cents per glass now rather than pay 124
take lager a. 5 cents. The tax on lager
is one-half cent Since the Moffett Law
went into operation the beer glasses have
been lessened in size ten per cent. In
either event, however, the consumer pays
the tax.
That is so as to frst-class saloons,
But there are many bars patronized al
most exclusively by negroes, who have
never been in the habit of paying more
than five cents per drink for whisky.
They will not pay more now. The con-
sequence is that the proprietors have to
sell even worse whisky than before, and
in addition, take the risk of defrauding
the State of part of the tax, in order tC
make anything like their former profits.
In such bars most of the fraud is perpe
trated. Saloons of the better class OBJ
serve the law.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-08
TIL ho'rs 2.

Adopting the shortest time for meals and
amusement four, and the shortest time for
sleep eight hours, we hava twelve hours To
be divided between work and study. Az
eraging the time, we will say:
% days at 10 hours at 10 cts. per Er 1893 90
220 g - g " 9 " - 10 90
Few young men could earn such wages
and have leisure TO pursue d regular course
of study. The Institution ought to pay no
more for labor than the farmers and me-
chanics in the neighbOrhOod. In fact il
ight be the best plan To cooperate with
neighboring printers. steam mill owners.
owners of moving machines, etc, and let
them hire the boys. The hours Of study
lectures, etc, might be arranged to suit the
labors of the industrious people around.
Ii the institution is to be Agricultural,
the students must have the opportunity to
practice Agriculture, and those who are TILL
ing the soil should have the privilege Of
attending lectures at such times as would
least interfere with farming operations.
In running machinery Of every kind, ar
rangements must be made for all the hours
Where business will justify, it is much bet
ter to have two or three sets of hands than
to allow valuable machinery to lie idle and
be consumed with rust and mildew. In
dividuals having land or machinery could
en- ploy the students al such times and prices
as might be agreed upon and save the in
StitutiOn from the expense of too much
land or too much machinery. The boys
would learn economy oY earning money
school as we'll as by working at the institu-
ton. This cooperation with printers, far
mers and mechanics in the neighborhood
might satisfy parents that the boys were
getting proper knowledge of business and
a fair compensation tor their labor.
lie seems to NE that the hoe might be
made as useful in developing the muscles as
the dumbbells, thai blowing, milking and
other operations about the garden, farm
and orchard, might preserve the health as
b1at-rowino and other fashionable exer-
ciSeS.
Yet it would be wrong to expect boys to
earn all their expenses or the institution to
make experim ents in farming or machinery
without incurring OUTLAWS beyond the value
of the articles raised or manufactured. The
knowledge diffused, should be included in
the profit and loss account and should be
estimated at its full value.
O. FOGY.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-08
ABucoIIc Marriage notice.
spring valley pa Times

T stands among the first and
enterprising young men of this town,
and he has stood IL long and well ere
embarking upon the matrimonial sea.
He is a young man of temperate and
gentle habits, and deserves a kind and
loving wife, which beyond all doubt he
has captured. He loved O. as he
could love no other, and oft upon a
Silly night, when all the rest Of the i'm
hahitants Of that quiet town would be
drowned in the arms of Morpheus, ne
could be seen making his exit gently via
the garden gate. But now il is all over
and the victory is won,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-08
the FApt8r AG%fgn.
Of 4S9JONY a.auepts
the Famous FesHf1r lSsVJa atFsg.

y. Y. sun NV.
About sixty years of age, \huC>witH
still dark hair and unwriukled chepSs,
she Is a tall, portly woman. Of masculine
step, masculine gestures, strong, mascu
line voice, and of 80 much stern, unCom
promising force of character indicated
in every line of her squsre ilWed, square
tempted, close-lippei, trmIypolsel face
and head, AS would impress "a stranger
with the possibility of her being the gov
erness ct vast institution requiring che
iron bound regulation 1f powerful viii
and mighty individuality.
In speaking also, her manner is essen
italy masculine and aggressive She
sweeps across the platform from side 90
side with a majestic Juuo..ine tread,
makes her telling points with a gu-tv,
thunder-clappy gusto that would arouse
the envy OF an old-time Arkansas stump
speaker of the r-r0lliug, spread eagle
school. At times She emphasizes them
by Strengthening herself mp and then
coming down rigid and solid upon her
heels, with a quiverIng extension of her
clenched hands, which enhances not
little her effects.
Even in her manner of dealing with
her theme. the Widow Van Cott Is strong
and original. Entirely describing the
old methods, she has little to say of the
time honored contrast between the drunk
ards home and the temperance home, of
the contented and disconnected wife, Of
the clear.headed and rum-muddlcd clerk
and mechanic, or at any rate, she serves
them up with such new and original
dressings rs almost 10 distinguish them.
Intemperance, with her, Is stronghold
to he stormed, and, Selling the flag of
her religion, she PUSHES into the breach
with fierce shouts and battle calls, pre-.
pared to assault and carry all, or die bc.
meath the walls In drawing the picture
of the Stars and Stripes Haunting overu
barroom with its staff stuck in the bung-
hole Of a beer barrel, she swelled with
oratorical rage and scorn, and avowed
that it could never be the symbol 20 pur-
ports TO be so long as alcoholic disc0Ior-
alton fingered ON it, prccJou. fold. She
runs through the entire features of the
ordinary temperance haraugue-individ-
ual, social, domestic political, aud re.
ligious-but with a stormy banner bear
ing earnestness ami sincerity that thrill
her hearers as with fresh effects and novel
impressions
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-08

There was touching scene recently
over a fresh grave in Spring Grove
Cemetery. A little boy, and only child,
was being buried Among the mourners
were divorced couple, the lady being
the sister Of the weeping mother there.
Her divorced husband had brought
crosses of wreaths and flowers to place on
the coffin, and also on another grave,
that of his own little boy buried in the
same lot two years before, In the emo-
ton of the moment the man handed to
the divorced wife the floral tribute to
place upon the grave of their lost little
one, ana their tears mingled over both
! graves
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-08

KNOW not any crime so great that a
man could continue to commit as poison
ing the sources of eternal truth.-John-
son.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-06-06
SHE SAID SO.

On a Michigan avenue car yester.
day, a young woman's hand in his,
and they almost touched noses as
they looked into each others eyes
and mentally figured that life was
made up of sticks of sassafras candy,
five cent trips, and cheap marriage
ceremonies. They finally got TO bit
ing the same stick of candy, and
while some of the passengers smiled
and some wiped away tear, an old
lady was heard remarking to her.
self:
'sWhen / see such actions, it makes
me feel certain that 1 never loved,
never begun to!"
She left the car and went to mar
ket, and in about half an hour a news
boy rushed past crying "
Gan about the scandal!"
"Stop, bub, she cried out grabbing
after him. ''Is there a scandal"
"Yes, big 'un" he answered.
81 knew there'd be, 1 knew it?''
and she chuckled as she rubbed her
hands. "When 1 saw them 'ere
couple in a street car, humping noses
and chawing cheap candy in unison,
I said that the papers would have it
if it busted all the telephones ia the
town. Well, let 'em do their court
ing at home next tine"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-06-06
BRAIN STIMULANT.

The best possible thing for a mar
to do when he feels too weak to car.
ry anything through is to go to bed
and sleep as long as he can. This
is the only recuperation of brain
power, the only actual recuperation
OF brain force, because during sleep
the brain is state of rest-in a con-
dition to receive and appropriate
particles of nutriment from the blood,
which take the place of those which
have been consumed by previous
labor; since the very act of thinking
burns up solid particles, as every turn
of the wheel or screw of the steamer
is the result Of consumption by fire
of the fuel in the furnace. The sup
ply consumed brain substance can
only be had from the nutritive par
ticles in the blood, obtained from the
food eaten previously, and the brain
is SO constituted that it can best re-
ceive and appropriate to itself those
nutritive particles during the state of
rest, of quiet, and stiffness of sleep.
Mere stimulants supply nothing in
themselves; they goad the brain and
force it to a greater consumption of
its substance, until it is so exhausted
that there is not power enough left to
receive a supply,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-06-06
WHY SOME FARMERS ARE
POOR,
ARE

1t is not an unusual circumstance
in almost any community to find here
and there farmer, real hard work.
ing industrious man, who is quite
poor, and who has been SO for years
past. Among his friends and neigh
bors he bears the reputation of being
a fugal, temperate, intelligent man;
one who works and tolls faithfully in
and out of season. Yet he don't
seem to get on in the world. This
perhaps, will lead you to enquire into
his business habits, and upon inves-
tigation it will most likely turn out
that the whole trouble lies in this di-
rection, and perhaps his poor success
will be found in to the simple fact,
that he most always sells the best of
his stock and keeps the poorest. In
selling a hog, sheep or cow for in
stance, it will be found that he inva-
riably sells the best and keeps the
poorest. You ask him why he does
this, and he will most likely inform
you, "because they will bring the
most and am pressed for money"
This is to our mind ruinous piece
of economy. A poor animal will re-
auire as much attention and consume
as much food as good one, and will
not sell for half the money that C good
one will bring. Here Is a net loss of
at least fifty per cent. upon the cost
of producing a poor animal when
compared with that of securing and
tattening a good one.
Now to put it in PLAIN, common
sense terms, can any man, in any
business, expect to succeed, and at
the same time compete with his neigh
bors, when he is year by year sacri
fcing one-half of the natural and le-
gitimate income to which he is justly
entitled, by endeavoring to follow cut
this false system of economy. The
farmer should always select the best
of his flock, herd or seed, for his own
use to breed from or plant from, and
the n sell the balance.
A good animal is always market
able at a good price. A poor one
rarely ever. 1t costs no more to rear
good animal than it does an inferior
one. Think of this iarmers.-Ex-
change.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-06-06
A CONFIRMED SMOKER.

A night or two agoI called to a
boy to come and black my boots; as
he went to work he passed the stump
of cigar he had in his mouth to a
little mite of an urchin, who didn't
seem to be more than six years old,
but who seized the stump eagerly ana
began putting away at my side. !
ventured the advice to him that he
was TOO young boy to smoke, and
that he should wait a few years; to
which the youngster, who can e about
UP to NY knee, answered, with the
greatest calm between the puffs,
"Well, yer see, when felier gets
the habit, it's hard to give it up
Buffalo Courier.