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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-03-29

How YoUNG EYES ARE MADE NEAR-sIGHTED.
A prolonged and steady looking ut au OBJ
ject or at objects near the eye, though at
proper distance without rest or frequent
change Of the visual focus, as in long and alb
sorbed novel-reading, intense study, or per-
sistent diligence in needlework the practice
of reading or otherwise using the sight at too
short range are causes of near-sightedness.
This latter results, in part from insufficient
light; or from its faulty direction, so that the
hand or body throws shadow ON the page
or so that the direct rays fall upon the eye,
causing undue contraction of the pupil, while
the page is in shadow. 1t results also from
improperly graded desks, from small and poor
type and inferior printing-ink, and from faulty
color and quality of printing-paper also
from pale writing g-ink-pale when used-and
from the substitution of the lead-pencil for
the pen, especially in the evening. A prone
or forward position of the head too long
maintained or frequently repeated and be-
coming a habit is another cause This re-
suits from reading or studying with the book
in the lap, and from the use of desks not grad
ed to the height Of the pupil, Donders says,
In the hygiene of myopa the very first point
is to guard against working in STOPPING po-
sition." He favors high, sloping desks, and
indicates "rectilinear drawing on a flat sur
face" as class of work which is especially
Objectionable. Reading and studying in rail
road-cars is known to be fruitful source of
injury. But insufficient light, perhaps more
than any other cause, produces diseases of the
eye and arrangement of the vision. This is
not confined to the schools. Sadly frequent
rs it is found TO be there, it is believed, to be
yet oftener illustrated at home, both by day
light and in the evening, in preparation for
the school and otherwise Artificial illumina-
tion is faulty at best, but even in the most
favored homes, the elder group is apt to mo-
nopolize the shaded drOp-light or student
lamp, while the sohool-boy, with his text
books is found somewhere in the outer circle.
Popular Science Monthly.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-03-29

BRAVE WOMAN. The prisoners in the Jail
at Beloit, Wis, recently overpowered the jail
or, Sheriff Colley, gagged and imprisoned
him, taking his pistol from him, and were en-
gagged in trying TO force their way through an
outer door, when Mrs. Colley, hearing an
alarm from her husband, caught up revolver
and went to his aid The prisoners were
working desperately Mt the door, which was of
stout lattice work, when she stationed herself
by it and threatened to shoot the first man
who dared break through, and she maintained
her ground in spite of the threats of the pris-
oners, until help arrived and they were secur-
cd The county Board of Supervisors ex-
pressed their thanks to the brave woman by
publicly presenting to her handsome revolv-
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NO. 13.

its nobility. Nevertheless, the spacious ap-
proaches leading TO the Capitol are worthy Of
the structure.
The White House wears the same mysteri-
Gus, secluded look that it did in Lincolns
time. The wooden walks and fences. and
the old trees which divided the space between
the mansion and the Treasury Department
have been swept away. Snug lawns and as
phalt pavement cover the ground and there
is fine vista open from jackson square to the
potomar
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-03-29

not reply.
Three days after this scene Hernandez was
lying in chamber in The Cottage. He was
dying!
The strain in lifting the great weight in his
performance of W had produced leison of
the spine, and the exertion in saving the lives
of his children had resulted in paralysis. He
had been taken to The Cottage by his own re-
quest physician had at once been sent for /:
but nothing could be done-the paralysis
mounted from his lower limbs to his chest
he was dying!
His wife and children were by his bed pale
and thin from distress and want of sleep
The former sat near with dumb pain in her
hollow eyes, and Fanny and Charley were
crying. At their feet was Alcofribus, still,
and vaguely aware, you would have said, that
something unfortunate had happened.
Hernandez moved his hand family. and
looked nt his wife. She came to him.
II am going soon," he said-"I am going
to leave you and my little ones; but there is
One who knows best, and will watch over
you"
He spoke in a low tone, stopping at inter-
walls.
II must make haste now" he murmured.
Il wished TO tell you something you do not
know. You must not think too hard of me
when | am gone. 1t was your father be-
came security for-before knew you almost.
/ did not tell you, to spare you pain. But all
the trouble is over now. The Cottage belongs
to you and my children. | repurchased it
with the money | saved. SO, you see, it was
well became a juggler. You have home,
and money in bank, too-my papers will tell
you where-aud your own old servants who
waited upon you when you were a girl were
here to meet MS. | meant it ms n surprise-to
please you"
He spoke with difficulty, and seemed TO
feel that little time was left to him He beck
oned family to the children. They came to
him, crying, and he placed one arm around
them.
Il am going away, soon, little ones" he
said, in a whisper; Il shall not see you any
more. and you'll not see me. BE kind and
good to each other, and to your mamma l
love you very much. l did not mean to bring
you up as mountebanks. was always think
ing of the happy days we would have at The
Cottage here. | did not mean TO be bad
father-you will not be ashamed of me-"
Hernandez drew them close to him. and
kissed them. They were sobbing. and their
tears fell upon his face. His last look was
for Fanny. His eyes were fixed upon her
with a tenderness beyond words. and that ex-
preston remained, chiseled as it were upon
his features.
The strong man had passed away so gently
that no one could tell when he expired.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-03-29

A Scotch schoolmaster having repeatedly
and at last angrily demanded of the pupils
"Who signed Magma Charta? p little girl
tremblingly replied, please, sir, it was M
me-"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-03-29
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him His will seemed to defy them, and
dragging the children. whose heads alone
were seen above water he reached the bank,
and emerged from the river, his left arm
clasping the girl and boy to his heart
His wife ran toward them. as pale as death.
As she reached them Hernandez staggered,
Termed for an instantfaintly on Fanny's shoul-
der, and then sank to the ground. As he did
so some wood-cutters were seen running
toward them, and soon reached the spot.
Hernandez was lying upon the bank with his
eyes closed. When they spoke to him he did
not reply
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-03-29

And they stared at the dead tbat had been valiant
aud true,
And had holden the power aud glory Of Spain cheap
That he dared her with little ship and his English
few;
was he de,iI or man? He was devil for aught they
knew:
But they sank his body with honor down into the
deep,
Aud hey manned the Revenge with swarthier alien
crew.
And away She sailed with her loss and longed for her
own;
when a wind from the lands they had ruin'd aNoke
from sleep,
And the water begsu to heaye and the weather to
moan,
And like the wave that is r-ised by an earth
quake grew,
Till II smote their bulls and their sails ana ther
nasts and their flags,
And the whole plunged aud fell on the AlotH at
tered navy Of Spain,
laEd crags
To be lost eyermore in the main.
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The horses were soon hitched to the van
again, and the family resumed their seats
Hernandez and his wife occupying the front
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-03-29
Miscellany.
The Revenge.

NEW BALLAD ny ALFRKD rESSYsoN.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-03-29

Aud the stately Spanish men to their flagship bore
hn then,
Where thsy laid him by tue mast, old Sir Richard
caught at last,
And they praised him to his face with their courty
foreign grace;
But he rose upon their decks, and he cried:
~ have fought for Queen aud Faith like valiant
man and true;
have only done my duty as man is bound to do;
With joyous tprii l. Sir Richard Grenville, die 4"
Aud he fell upon their deckE, aud he died.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-31
UNWILLING THE MONUMENT.

Wednesday next has been unalterably
fixed as the day for unwilling the Confeder-
ate monument. All discussion on this subject
is now ended, and all should unite in dis
charging a public duty to the dead. The
ceremonies should be grand, imposing and
worthy of the men who died for the south.
The committee are making extensive ar
engagements for honoring the graves of
the heroes sleeping at Elmwood. The
ceremonies will be impressive. The ladies
should show that they have not grown weary
in their noble work of remembering the SOL
diers who offered up their lives on the altar
of duty in the long struggle for independ-
ence. The monument will be unveiled and
the women should attest their love and devc-
ton to the cause of the noble dead. The stern
and practical nature of man is wholly I'M
fitted for this light and poetic work, and
while we have no doubt the remembrance of
the brave deeds and matchless virtues of
brothers, friends and comrades are still held
as dear as ever, and cherished in the hearts
OF the survivors, yet time has, no doubt, in
some measure mellowed the poignancy of
their earliest grief, and at this great distance
renders it less demonstrative. Still, not less
hallowed In our sight are these mute, elo-
quent graves, which tell the story of
the glorious but ill-starred struggle; and as
time passes and new generations arise
to take the place Of that which was the i'm
mediate witness of their martyrdom, and par
ticipated in the sacrifice, this feeling of VEN
Grafton will grow and intensity, and every
green mound that covers the humblest
among the unknown heroes of Elmwood will
will be patriot shrine, and bring the brave
and the fair from afar and near upon yearly
pilgrimages of love, duty and devotion. The
ceremony of decking the graves with the
flowers of spring is beautiful one, and has
not only heen consecrated by time and GUS
tom, but hallowed by the poetic instincts of
our nature, and to none more appropriately
can it be delegated than to those who, in
their beauty and virtue, most resemble the
flowers they strew; and while they cherish
and keep fresh the memory of the gallant
dead, neither admiration for nor emulation of
great deeds will perish from among our race.
General w. Y. c. Humes is the orator of the
day, and his speech will no doubt be worthy
of himself and the occasion.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-31

best feeling that ever found Judgment in the
human heart-a feeling of sympathy for a
UrUnged. helpless and outraged peoplehood.
BY their self-abnegation and untring devo-
ton they succeeded in relieving US of our
thraldom, and It is one of the blacklist acts
of ingrautude ever perpetrated on the part of
man 10 give them no credit, but to give the
credit to a wretch who did all that lay in his
devilish power 70 ruin, degrade and enslave
us-a man who only changed his policy be-
cause he could thereby strengthen his hold
upon the stolen Presidency. It is owing only
to the northern Democrats that We rejoice in
home-rule to-day" The APPEAL indors-
es the States in its Just tribute to
the northern Democrats, through whose fidel-
lty and persistent war upon Radical usurpa-
tons the south was freed from robbery and
oppression. The Radicals appointed five
military dictators over the southern States.
The white people were deprived Of the elect
i've franchise. The negroes were taken from
their obscurity and set up as rulers. In States
where the white population greatly exceeded
the negro population, these military creatures
of revolutionary party officially declared the
negro vote 10 be double that of the whites.
1t was by this ou,lawry upon the southern
people that the carpetbaggers grew rich,
by impoverishing and prosecuting
the taxpayers, who had no voice
in selecting their rulers. In all these dark
days the northern Democrats were as true to
the south as they are now. In congress,
through the press, on the hustings, the
northern Democrats exposed these persecu-
tons of a defenseless people. The above ex-
tract from the New York Star shows that
the northern Democrats are still ready to
defend the south from Radical hatred If
the south should be base enough to desert
her northern friends for the sake of giving
power to the men who forced the reconstruc
ton measures, the Pandora's box out of
which has flown all the evils that robbed and
impoverished the southern people, they will
commit an act of perfdy which will show that
they are unworthy of the friendship which
northern Democrats have lavished upon
them, and will hereafter become an easy prey
to the Radical freebooters, who, but for the
northern Democracy, would place the south
under the rule of new swarm of carpetbag
thieves
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-31
THE ARMY BILL.

If the Democratic majority of the lower
house of congress had done nothing else than
going boldly to work and reducing the army
to twenty thousand men, it would have done
sufficient to entitle it to the thanks of all
friends of and believers in Democratic prin-
ciples and self-government. 1t may look at
first small matter whether the army should
be twenty thousand or twenty-five thousand
men strong. But it must be recollected in
the first place that each man costs the gov
eminent one thousand dollars per annum, so
that FIVE million dollars are actually saved
In the next place the army is only wanted on
the Rio Grande, to keep the greasers from
stealing cattle, and In the western and north
western Territories, to keep the Sitting Bull
order of red men under control, and ten
thousand men are sufficient for these two
purposes. In the third place the army, IN
der Radical control, has been a perpetual
menace to liberty. It's officers have, with
few notable exceptions, delighted in striking
down local self-government Phil Sheridan
called the white people of Louisiana "ban-
ditti," not fit to be trusted. Major Mer-
rill organized dragonnades to hunt down
and prosecute innocent men as kuklux
murderers. General Ames foisted himself into
the United States senate by the most unscru-
pulous means. General Terry was a terror
to the people of Georgia when he was sent
there to supervise their reconstruction. Cen
eral de Tobriand took legally-elected mem
bers out of the Louisiana legislature with his
corporars guard, and other officers have done
even worse. The great notable exception was
General Winfield s. Hancock, who, when he
replaced Sheridan in Louisiana, emphatically
declared that the military must and should
be subordinate to the civil authorities; but
he had to suffer for this bold declaration, for
when Grant came into Office he exiled him to
the wilds of Dakota. General Sherman
transformed Washington into military camp
to overawe congress when Hayes WIS fraudu-
lently inauguratad, and the Kellogg usurpa-
ton IN Louisiana wou Id never have succeeded
had not the United States army executed
drunken Judge Durell's infamous mid
night order. Proctor Knott deserves the
thanks of the country for engrafting an
amendment on The army bill which forbids
in future the use of the army for such pur-
poses by our Radical friends. Whoever will
read Victor Hugo's History IF a Crime will
learn how Louis Napoleon succeeded in des-
troying the second French republic by means
of the army, and if we do not want any coup
etats in this country, it will be well to keep
the army rather at a strength of twenty thar
twenty one thousand men. We have, also,
too many officers, too many generals, who
could with advantage be retired and relegated
to private life. What the senate will do with
the army bill will be seen in few days; but
we hope that the Democrats in the house
will be firm and united, and that they will
insist on the passage of the bill in the shape
in which it came from the house.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-31
MEMPHIS APPEAL
FRIDAY, MAY 81, 1873.
SENATOR BARRIs.

Governor lsham U. harris, our new sena-
toe in congress, has not been as noisy as the
nImbls chatterboxes, whose clatter Is heard
from day to day. But he is making a solid
reputation, which has already given him great
III lence in the senate and will soon make
HIM the equal of Thurman as a party leader.
Having observed that modesty so becoming a
new member, Senator Harris will hereafter act
Il conspicuous part in the councils of the ma
ton, where he will soon demonstrate that his
ability is only equaled by his integrity. Sena-
tor Harris is one of that class of men who
makes himself great and powerful whenever
he determines on the effort This was de-
monstrated in the contest which resulted in
his triumphant election to the senate. Soon
after taking his seat in the senate his health
became impaired, which, with that self
respect and modesty so characteristic Of self
reliant greatness, caused him to watch and
wait his opportunity. A few days since Sem
ator Harris thought the occasion had arrived
for giving his views upon a great financial
question, and he proceeded to discussion of
the resumption repeal bill. This speech at
tracted the attention of the senate and the
country. 1t was published in the AP-
PEAL a few days since, and all
unite in the opinion that it is
one of the ablest efforts yet delivered in or
out of congress against the Radical resump-
lion bill. In speaking of it, the Cincinnati
Enquirer says: The country was surprised
a few months ago at the votes of the south
ern members of the house of representatives
upon a great financial measure passed in that
body. OF eigbty-three southern members
voting, seveDty-nine were on the peoples
side of the money question. There were but
four who took the side of the east in this
business. This was a gratifying symptom.
1t gave hope for the future, for if the south
is with US on this question, we cannot long
be beaten. Public sentiment in the south is
being rapidly educated upon this subject.
The public men in that section are nearly all
on the right side OF the question, and are
rendering valuable service in scattering infor-
nation and forming the views Of the masses.
Among these men Hon. |. q. Harris, United
States senator from Tennessee, deserves
honorable mention. He made a speech
IN the senate few days since upon the re-
sumption repeal bill, which contained the
true doctrine. He said, with commendable
plainness: u therefore insist upon repeal,
not only of that pant of the act which fixes
a day for resumption, but also those parts
which require the redemption of legal tender
notes in the ratio of eighty per cent. of the
bank notes issued, and especially that part
which authorizes the sale of interest bearing
bonds for coin with which to redeem nom
Understanding legal-tender notes. Repeal
the act, and the whole act, and let resump-
ton come when the returning prosperity of
the country shall make the maintenance of
specie payment possible Such men are do
ing benefcent work in the south"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-31
FOUR VILLAINS
WayIay, Assault and Brutality Outrage
Young, Innocent and HardwOrk-
ing Orphan Girl, and thus far
have Escaped Arrest.
sreeIal to the Cincinnati ENQUIRER.


BALTIMORE, May 25-An atrocious as
sault upon a young and innocent gIrl residing
IN the family of a gentleman In Baltimore
county by four white ruffians, was brought to
light this evening, and the entire police
force OF the county are now on the lookout
for the offenders. The name OF the victim Is
Clara Storm, a young girl about seventeen
years OF age, progressing in appearance
and modest In department. Sne came 70
Baltimore about two years ago, and entered
the family o. Mr.. Thomas as domestic. The
girl left on Thursday last and came to the
city to her aunt's house. After assisting her
aunt in some household duties, the untor'
tunate girl bid her good night and started
home. The block of houses In winch Mrs
Thomas resides stands in very isolated po-
sition The night was very dark, and MISS
Storm hurried quickly up Brown street; She
crossed the alley near her employer mouse.
At the curbstone she was seized oy ootn
arms by two men who had rushed out OF the
alley A third pressed his hands over her
mouth and seized her throat to prevent any
outcry Before the terror stricken girl could
collect her senses she was grasped by fourtn
man, and between them the villains carried
her struggling into the alley. The girl by
desperate effort succeeded IN keeping her as
sailants off for time, when she tainted ana
upon recovering consciousness, found she had
been brutally ravished. She was released
only when the villains had terrified her into
promising not to tell of what had passed.
One of the men told her he was night
Waterman, and would arrest her if she made
an cutlery After extortipg the promise, the
villains released her and fed up the alley.
Staggering to her feet. the girl CROPPED her
way in tie dark to her home and rang the
bell She was admitted, and, without word,
proceeded at once to her chamber. When
morning came, she arose and went about her
customary duties as usual, being, as she
states, unwilling to disclose what had hap
pened to her employers. Her wretched APP
pearance, however, was noticed by the family,
who supposed she was ill. Finally, unable to
control her feelings, she told a member of the
family what had happened. This, however,
was not done until Sunday. The police were
at once informed and took up the case, and
every effort was made to identify the men
and effect their arrest. Meanwhile, the ter
rible story spread throughout the surrounding
country and excited general indignation.
Two men were arrested, but the girl failed to
identity them, and they were discharged.
Efforts are being made to apprehend the
scoundrels. Miss Storms mother is dead,
and her father, Thomas Storm, resides in
Frederick, Maryland. She has always borne
a good reputation.