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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-11-07
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"Martin, he may not be dead" said the
woman. HE is young. I hope he is not
dead. Perhaps he has q mother some
where. Let me bind up your hand.
Then We will try to restore him. Dear
Martin, even it it is SO, who can blame
youa Poor, poor boyr'
She pound up the Craze On her hus-
bands hand. They lifted the young
mans body to the soft rug, and undld
the mask. A lace was revealed, young,
handsome, and pallid as marble.
"Oh, tits terrible !" said the wife. mo
older than our poor boy. All, Martin, he
IS dead, fear. l will loosen his necktle.
You take off his shoes and rub his feet.
Oh, morning is SO far away! This is
such lonely place. Martin, what IS ltY'
| She stared at her husband in horror.
His face was as the face of death. He
sat CHASTITY and terrible to look upol,,
holding in his hand one of the feet tina.
he had undressed.
"Dead!" he said, wildly. dead! and
l shot hlm--I!"
Martini" shricked the wife. She LAID
the dead mans head down on the rug
and crept up to her husband. God will
forgive YOU" she said; and then her eyes,
dilating themselves upon the point at
which her husband started.
| I. was the foot OF young burglar.
The left shoe was off-the stocking also,
The high white instep was uncovered
and on it she saw the little ta.teced w
with tiny cross beside it. /, was her
son who lay there.
Martini" she screamed again, "Martin,
remember what told you. He had not
US to teach him what was right-remem-
err"
| But Martin only moaned.
"He is dead, and I killed him!" He felt
blindly for lis pistol. "Forgive me,
Agnes, for cannot live," he said; put at
that moment the woman, with her hand
upon the breast of the PROSTATE man,
screamed out:
His heart beats-Martin-- lives p
The next day strange story flew about
the neighborhood. The child those two
strange people had lost years ago had
returned to them. Tha. very right
burglars had entered the house and
wounded him. His life was in danger.
Inc doctor had been there all the morn
ing, but the mother had no fears.
"God had sent him back, and he would
not die" she said.
1t is never too late for repentance, and
the love OF those poor parents was very
strong. Strange as the beginning was,
the end was peace, and the household, Sc
strangely reunited. was q happy one a,
| iast.-Selected.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-11-07
THE PAUPER TRIBE.

The difference between poverty
and pauperism, though wide as the
world. is too often overlooked. The
best of men may become poor; may
honorabIy reach the point OF actnal
restitution; indeed, it has not unfre.
quently happened that the world s
best benefactors have experienced
extreme poverty, sometimes by reso-
lutely pursuing the course which has
ultimately brought them to the high
est financial and industrial az well as
moral success. No combination Of
circumstances, however. no matter
how disastrous, could make such men
paupers. The pauper is made Of very
different material; he is what he is
too often by preference, very often
BY inheritance.
Last year DR.. Hoyt, secretary Of the
New York state board IF charities,
visited -sixry-four Eoorhonses, con-
tanning 1900 public paupers. Less
than one fourth were of American
parentage. In fifty-one cases investi-
gated the panperism extended To the
second generation on the fathers side
and in nine: y-two cases to the third
generation on the mothers side.
Three hundred and ninety-seven had
pauper fathers; one thousand three
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-11-07
DELICATE TEST OF WATER.

What is particularly wanted at the
present day. and what has not yet
been discovered, is qualitative test
which viii at once determine whether
or not. water is fit for dietetic
purposes, and the introduction of
such reagent is the object of a paper
by Mr.. W. G. Stables in the Phar-
maceutical Journal. The well known
permanganate process is practically a
failure. owing to the fact that potas.
sic pc. manganate does not possess the
power of oxidizing albuminoid mat
ter; free ammonia is infallibly de-
tected. while all the important
'.albuminoid' substances escape
untouched. Convinced that potassic
ptrmanganate is the base of very
sensitive and delicate test, and that
it only requires little modification
to deyelope it. Mr.. Stables began ex-
periments with view of finding a
reagent that would act upon the
heterogeneous matter, and bring it
under the influence of the rotassic
peTmanganate. For this purpose he
found that potassic hydrate could not
be cxceiled; and that parts Of this.
with one part Of p0tassic permanga-
nate and leo parts Of freshly distilled
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-11-07
LIFE WITHOUT AIR,

The Journal far Prakt, Chemie
gives a detailed account of expert
ments instituted by Professor Grun-
ming, of Amsterdam. to settle the
question IS to the ability of bacteria
to exist in media free from oxygen, a
doctrine which has been warmly adj
vocated by rasteur. He made use of
ferrocyanide of iron as an exceedingly
delicate test for oxygen, and by the
use Of this reagent detected oxygen
in the apparatus and media which are
generally employed for cultivating
heterogeneous, aud which have
hitherto been supposed to be free
from air. The experiments consisted
in inclosing in glass tnbes easily de-
composable substances, such as raw
flesh. green peas. &C., injecting with
drop of a mixture Of decayed peas
and white Of egg, which contains
nearly all varieties of bacteria, and
closing the tubes by fusion after care
fully freeing entirely from oxygen.
The sealed tubes were exposed to a
temperature Of about 1902 Fab. A
considerable number Of such vessels
have been kept two years without the
contents having suffered any change,
as. on opening, they were found to
retain their original freshness. The
result of these experiments appear to
show, contrary to Pasteur's views,
that by the exclusion of oxygen bac-
terra are completely destroyed, and
rutrefaction, being arrested. does not
continue afterward on the admission
of Uttered air free from bacteria.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-11-07
Social Culture.

It has been the fashion to complain OF
the dreary isolation of dwellers in rural
Localities. But the complaints have been
made most frequency by those who are
entire strangers to the matters upon
which they write so freely. Country
folks are in general SO fully occupied
with affairs that they have no time to dis
cover how lonesome they really are. So
far as this is concerned we think it a
misfortune. We are too busy. We work
too hard. We take few or no holidays.
We read and think too little, and do not
spend sufficient time in social culture
There is no reason why those who pillow
the soil, or ''whose talk is of bullocks, y
should not experience the re6nements
which are the result of formal social life
In business. at bargains, in pursuit of
dollars, n man is seen at his best. He is
thorny, spiny, with his back up as a
porcupinc might be at his business. Let
one doff his working clothes and enter q
room full OF his neighbors---mcn, women,
young men and maidens-and he is a
man Of another kind. He naturally fails
into the ways of ali intuitive kindness,
which Is really the truest politeuess, the
doing to his companiI IN what he would
that he should do to him. He lets him
self out" to please, and, after an evening
spent in social converse, he retires with
many rough corners and asperities toned
down. For few day the influence re-
mains. 1t would be permanent if i,
could be reinforced now and then, and
the good results would be most agreeable
and useful.
There is no difficulty in bringing these
good influences to bear. Two or three
persons, with energy and some magnet
ism about them, can put them in motion
with ease. Now is the time to begin the
effort. 4 book club is one excellent
means to effect 1t. A mutual improve
ment association is another. These two
naturally grow out of. and belong to
each other. They are quite enough Tor a
beginning. Let dozen persons, u- less
or more, each name book or s magazine
and subscribe the money 20 purchase
them. Each of these books Is made to
go the rounds of the members: so that
for the price of one book each member
has the reading of several, and, at the
end. may possess this book permanently !:
or, sold and the money applied 10 the
purchase of new ones. Every week let
these people meet. and talk over and
discuss some question of interest to them
all. which one has made a special study
tor the purpose OF introducing it o. let
those who have taste for it, entertain
the Others with a reading of selections,
poems or well chosen drama or play
The book club and the improvement
association are then started, and once
the ice is broken, will float alsng smooth
ly and pleasantly.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-11-07
WIT AND HuM0R.

"Life is made up Of sunshine and
shadOw"-about five shadows to one
snnshine.-JOsh Billings.
Il am astonished, my dear young
lady, at your sentiments; you make
me start" "Well, / have been
wanting you to start for the last.
hour"
Said friend to bookseller: "The
book trade is affected, l suppose, by
the general depression. What kind
of books feel it most!" Pocket
books,' was the loconic reply. ,
"Why should we celebrate Washing
toms birthday any more than mine !"
asked teacher. "Becau he never
told lie," shouted little boy.
George dear, don't you think It
rather extravagant Of you to eat but.
ter with that delicious jam!" No,
love, economical. Same piece Of
bread does for both -
Josh Billings: Slider may be a good
temperance drink, but l can manage
to get SO drunk on it that / kant tell
one of the ten commandments from q
bylaw of base ball klub.
New York Sun (Dem.): John Sher.|
mans brother in-law says, that
Honest John is tired of the public
service. Well, as the public sertice
is tired of Honest John, there oueht
to be a fair basis for an arrangem emit.
A fat woman of Corinth, Miss.
drank ash-bark tea to make her lean,,
and she skipped for the better land
just two hours ahead of "a lean woman
who was eating gum-arabic to make
her fat.
Shopkeeper to commercial traveller
Cant give you an order quite.
overstocked." TrayeIer-'sLet me
at least show you my samples"
Shopkeeper-''Spare yourself the,
trouble, / can't look at them"
Traveler-"Then will you allow mo
to look at them myselfi 1t Is three
weeks since ! have seen them"
There is still one man left in thig
city who is too pions 10 patronize =
Sunday paper. Won't he be mad
when he stands outside Of the pearly.
gates up above, apd finds himself IL
company with the editors Of thu
uailies who work on Sundays to get
up their Mondays paper. and dfs-
covers the Sunday paper men on the
inside interviewing st. Peter "A
eating oyster pie and taffy.
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water, made I'll . best solution. With
such solution he has made various
comparative experiments. : One
mlnlm. placed in test tube of dis
titled water, remains Of beautiful
pix hue for several days, but the
mlnutest trace Of egg albumen in the
same quantity of water will be in
fallibly detected. He states that he
has now used this test for some time
with most constant results; that is,
that it, on the addition of a minim of
this solution, the water in a few
hours gives brownish precipiate
with loss of color, he has invariably
found such water to contain an
abnormal proportion of organic mat
ter. so much SO as to be injurious to
health.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-11-07
Laps ut Pi:nicS.

The lap is unoues:ionabiy a most use
ful and admirable organ. When expand
ed the lap will Lo:d fifteen quarts of
chestauts. peaches apples or other desire
aoie fruit. and there has been women
whose laps would hold the entire supply
oil hairpins required for their back hxir.
though. of course, laps of these enor
nous dimensions are somewhat rare. II
Is. however, 1t picnics and tea parties tha,
the splcndid CAPABILITIES of the female
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hundred and SlXty-Ono na0 pdup0ka
mothers; and so on. Their pauperisT
was hereditary. The close relationl
of criminality with inherited pauper-
ism-the more forceful members OF
such families preferring to seize WHAT
they want rather than begl
for it's shown in the history of the.
well known ..Jukes'' family, which,,
in one hundred and fifty years, fur
nished this state with eight hundred
and thirty criminals of baser typetS
besides many imbeciles, lunatics, and
other undesirable characters.
Professor Brewer, who has given
much study to the pauper and trampI
problem, is confident that wherever
the genesis of paupers is thus lOOket,
into there will be found abundant ev'
idence of pauper tribe we'll estab.}
lished among us, and perpetuating its
instincts in its descendants. For(
this class no mawkish sentimentality
will answer; they need strict justice.
The class as a class must be rooted I
out by resolute treatment. The chain
of criminal entailment must somehow
be broken in them or they will breed
moral pestilenee. Against such out-}
laws, ''fOr whom as a contemporary
has said, childhood has no sanctity,
! hospitality no safeguard, and proper
ty no rights" only vigorous measures,
will suffice. There is enough of hon.
est poverty, through flood and fire andA
sickness, to furnish occupation to the
charitable without the burdens of vol.
| untary pauperiSm, the effect of which4
is too often to steel the hearts of the
sympathetic against all poverty and
distress. The honest seeker for en-
ployment is COMPOUNDED with the pro-
feSsiOnal trampS. of whom the most
charitable of communities are becom-
ing heartily sick. In justice to the
deserving poor-and there is always a
large class which, through no fault
OF their own, may become pOOr-the
pauper tribe should at least receive
no encouragement.
| For many years in this country the
single fact that person was in neeGN
or food or clothing or shelter was
held to be valid reason for giving
what was asked. The country became.
in consequence perfect paradise for
the pauper tribe. They Jared so we'll
that multitudeS brought by adverse
ed over the line into pauperism; and
many others fingered on the verge,
passing their time between unwilling
labor, pauperism, and petty criminal
ity. Out of these has grown class
OF criminal Migrants, now by far the
worst disturbers of the pnblic peace
and the public moral health,
Indeed, the Indian problem, bad as
it is, is trifle compared with that's
arising from the existence OF the pau
per tribe. The Indian is on the
frontier; the victim tramp is every
where. And it is safe to say that,
year by year, the life and property
destroyed by the tramp tribe exceeds
that due to Indian depredations. If
we are justified in spending millions
in Indian wars, in placing upon reser.
vations and trying to civilize the one
class of savages, much more justifia-
BILE must be the taking Of measures,
national in scope and magnitude, to
control and reclaim if possible the
other. Nothing short of this, we .
fear, will ever rid us of the past.
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THE NATlONAL'FrAC.
Tune:- AuLD LANG SYNE.

Tune ArLD LANG SYNR.
The Greenback ball is rolling on,
The Shylocks quake with feas,
A glorious wo' k is now begun,
A glorious day is near:
With national banners waving high,
And songs ofloudest strains,
Wen soon our greatest foes defy,
The rings with party chains.
Tie day star now proclaims the dawn
IT'S rising bright and clear,
The darkest hour has past and gone,
The sun will soon appear;
Arrayed in its most glorious beams
twill shine with pleasure on,
With brightest radiance of the truth
The vic'try will be won.
Awake and see them coming now,
They re enlistiLg by the score
They are coming, and we want them, too,
Full thirty thousand more.
And now with all the new recruits,
To battle we will go,
And we will never sheathe our arms
Till conquered every foe.
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"Life is made up Of sunshine and
shadow" five shadows to one
snnshine.-JOsh Billings.
The Portland daily press., 1878-04-13
SAD ACCIDENT.
The President of the Montreal, Boston g.
Concord Esaiiroad Burned to Death.

The President of the Montreal, Boston g.
Concord Railroad Burned to Death.
PLYMOUTH, N. H., April 11.-At about half
past IL o'clock last night Mr.. John e. Lyon,
President Of the Boston, Concord & Montreal
railroad, retired to his room at the hotel here
for the night. 1t is supposed that he did not
speak with any one after leaving the hotel Of
flee before going to sleep. On going to his
room he ordinarily left the door unlocked, but
last night he fastened it. The Waterman of
floors once an hour and at O'Clock last night
he took one Of his usual rounds. Ten minutes
afterward some duty called him to the second
floor, when he suddenly heard terrible scream
No. IL, occupied by Mr.. Lyon. The Waterman
went TO that apartment with the greatest haste,
and as the door was fastened he sprang up and
looked through the transome, when he was
appalled, by the sight of the occupant on the
floor with his night clothing in flames. Mr..
Lyon called out excitedly, "For heavens sake
break open the door" The Waterman with
one push severed the fastenings of the door and
gained an entrance. Mr.. Lyon lay upon the
floor on his right side, about half way between
the door and the bed.
By the time the Waterman reached him Mr..
Lyon had succeeded in extinguishing most of
the fire, a2d what remained the Waterman
easily smothered. Mr.. Lyon said "Give me
was procured and given him, and the landlord
and Mr.. Morse were called, and in few mo-
ments came to the help of the sufferer All
that medical skill could do was done, bat he
died this forenoon after hours of horrible
agony.
Exactly in what manner the terrible calami-
ty occurred will, of course, never be known.
There was only one light in the room, and
when the attendant entered the candle was
nearly consumed. 1t is reasonably supposed
that Mr.. Lyon had occasion to get up, and that
in doing SO some portion of his clothing came
in contact with the light and was enveloped in
flames One of his hands was so badly burned
that in taking ring from one of the fingers
portions of the flesh came off with it.
The Portland daily press., 1878-04-13

MAINE.
Especial to the Press
Accideutly Shot.

Especial 10 The Press
Accidently Shot.
BRIDaToN, April 11.-Newell W. Emerson of
Bridgton was instantly killed today by the &C.
ci6ental discharge ofssa gun in the hands of
Robert Long.
ITO the Associated Press.l
Fire i'm Bangor.
BANGOR, April ia building owned by G.
P. Stetsop, occupied by Barney Kelly, black
smith, was burned today. Kelly had leased
the building for eight years and half the lease
had expired. He had expended $500 on the
building, which is uninsured. Kelly's store is
insured for $500, which covers the loss. A
small building owned by Mrs. Kelly was dam
aged by fire and water. Insured for $500
which covers loss
Biddeford Items.
BIDDEFoRD, April 12.-John Kendrick, an
old citizen of Saco, was found dead in his bed
this morning.
Gov. Conner delivers the address at Biddeford
Decoration Day.
Lime Shed Burned.
RocKLAND, Bprll ia large lime shed in
Ward in this city, owed by Messrs. Farrand,
Spear and others, was burned this afternoon
with $50 casks of lime and about 25 cords of
kiln wood. Loss $1,000 or more; no insurance.
p. 81 o. Trains Delayed by Freshet.
WooDsvILLE, N. H., April 12.-It has rained
for the last Sc hours. The Connecticut and
Ammonoosac rivers are very high
Trains on the Portland and Ogdensburg road
going toward Portland are hours late.
wash out at Warren Summit on the Bog
ton, Concord and Montreal Railroad, delayed
the freight trains about hours. The mail
train from Boston had only been gone few
minutes when about so feet of the dump went
ont
The Portland daily press., 1878-04-13
WASHINGTON.
The Resumption Act


WASHINGTON, A pril 1.-THE Senate Finance
Com mittee held session today on subject of re-
sumption of specie payments, but adjourned
until Tuesday without action. The tenor OF
the discussion indicated a very strong proba-
bility that the majority of the committee will
decide to report a substitute for the House bill
repeating resumption act the main feature of
which will provide that all United States legal
tender notes outstanding on the LIST of next
July shall be receivable for customs, dues and
all other obligations except where otherwise
explicitly stipulated. This will, it is claimed,
establish practically resumption by bringing
United States notes to par with gold. The sub
stitute will also doubtless provide for reissuing
these United States notes with unlimited legal
tender. funct ions.
The Metropolis Disaster.
The United States Inspectors at Philadel-
phia, in their report on the causes of the Me-
trOpolis disaster, say:
First, They believe that Mr.. Lunt, the super
intending owner, was cognizant of the imper-
fections of the hull of the steamer and was
therefore liable to the provisions of Sec. 1893
Revised Statutes
Second, That Eben Manson, ship builder at
Newburyport, Mass, was accessory to ouch
knowledge and deserves criminal prosecution
for Withholding it from the proper authorities
until after 80 human lives were sacrificed.
Third, They suggest to the supervising in
spector of the district an examination into the
conduct of Assistant Inspector Craft in chang
ing the character of the steamer.
Fourth, They believe the captain was 10 ig-
DOrance of the imperfections of the ship when
he left Philadelphia, and that from time she
began leaking until she was on the beach his
conduct was that OF cool and skillful seaman.