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LIVING BY OFFICE.
Toledo Blade.

1t seems great pity that SO many peo.
pie make up their minds to live upon the
public. Instead of setting bravely and in
dustriously at work to find something to
do in private life, every energy is en-
ployed, all influences exerted, sleepless
nights are added to days of anxiety, in or.
der to obtain a public office. The same
amount of labor and trouble given to other
business must bring success But the. pas.
sion Of employment to be paid for out of
the peoples treasury is almost universal.
This it is largely that turns American pol
itics into cess pools of dishonor. The hurry
and scramble after the crumbs demoralizes
many man who had otherwise been an
honorable and honored citizen.
| Not long ago competitive examina-
ton was ordered for IS additional clerks
| that were needed in the Interior Depart
ment. Five hundred individuals presented
themselves for scrutiny each one filled to
the brim with the idea that in this way
only could he earn respectable liveli-
hood. Think of the unfortunate 475 that
will be compelled to starve. OF course
these applicants depended for success upon
the patronage of some one high in official
position, instead of election, but the fact
of this gathering shows the universal
mania, for working for the public. The
truth is that a man is decidedly to be pitied
who, early in life, at least, enters into pub
lie service in any way. Its tenure is one
of the most uncertain things in existence.
| He becomes accustomed to its routine and
disqualified for any other kind of business.
| When the change comes and he is thrown
out of what has supplied him with bread
and butter, he is atoat, and nothing ap-
other Office And then comes the schem-
ing, the wire pulling, and, if it is one to be
obtained by popular election, the catering
to the ignorant, and hundred other things
that manly, honest man would scorn. If
it depends upon appointment, there is the
dancing attendance upon the great, the
waiting, and oftentimes the reception of
treatment which true independence would
resent.
The truth is that in these days only the
rich, or men past middle age can afford to
hold office. They cannot afford it because
they throw away all other opportunities
of success in life for a most uncertain sub
sistence. They cannot afford it because
as things are now conducted, it is sacri-
flee of true manly independence. They
had much better saw wood or work on a
farm by the day, than to depend upon ii
to live, for they would be more likely to
| he always comfortable in body and mind.
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TILE DRAINING.
Davenport Qa.) Gazette.

Any process in the improvement of
cheap lands that involves heavy expense
is rarely justified by the results, but to those
within easy reach of tile we commend such
trial as will show what they are worth.
The testimony is SO positive and so uni.
form as to the value of thorough drainage
that it would seem to be entitled to grave
consideration at the hands of every man
who has rood of land that is too wet for
easy culture at any season of the year.
How much more must this be the case
when the wet flat or basin spoils COM
paratively large area about or below it.
We have in mind an instance of this
sort A neighbor OF ours put in about
thirty rods of tile which gave him the use
of nearly twenty acres of land the crops
on which had before not been worth the
labor bestowed. More than half the land
reclaimed consisted Of the basin above the
drain, while the other portion was below,
and had been unfit for use because subject
to the gradual outflow through the soil,
which sometimes lasted for weeks. The
whole expense was but little more than
ollS bOllhi PSI dSiS iOl tiiS uliioAht iS-
claimed, including some open drainage be-
low the tile. The result was, practically,
the addition of twenty acres to the farm.
without any increase in the taxes.
Besides getting rid Of surface water and
fitting land for profitable culture where be-
fore it was of no value besides making
the crop certainty and easily procured
where before it was very uncertain and
the labor exhausting to man and team
there is often a complete compensation for
the whole outlay in procuring by this
means beautiful supply of water for the
stock. On many of our fiat Or sloughy
prairies this is the only method known OF
procuring flow of water in form to be
made available for such a purpose. AT the
same time there is often dangerous nui
sance removed by drying up the ground
in which cattle might be lost or badly
damaged.
Where it promises TO pay in several di-
rections farmers are surely justified in ex
pernenting with tile. The testimony is
universal that it pays upon land that is not
too wet for culture, by its ameliorating
effects; that on such lands it lessons labo-
and risk and increases the crops how much
more will it pay where all possible benefits
are to be obtained?
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THE HOME.
Editorial in the Western Rural:

Editorial in the Western Rural:
If peace and love beam on the hearth
stone, home is little heaven. 1t may
be lowly. No velvet carpet may deaden
the footsteps as the feet of mother or the
little darlings trip across the floor. No
elegant sofas and rich curtains may add
srlendor to the rooms, and perhaps the
winds may delight to whistle through the
gaping cracks, and the SHOWS of Winter
steal in beneath the caves. But it is a
happy, favored home for all that. Up yon-
der on the hill, in the midst of elegant
grounds stands the mansion of the rich
man. He lives surrounded by all the
beauty that wealth can give. That home
contains mother, too. Where ever she
looks the evidences Of taste and art and
fortune greet her eyes. There is the era
die even as beautiful as skill and money
could make it. 1t has not rocked for years,
but it is preserved because twenty years
ago the mothers darling boy slept in it as
mother kissed the sweet white brow. The
boy is nearly man now, but he is not at
home. Out in cold world butfeted by
temptations, and disfgured by vice. The
music from the piano, under the gentle
touch of mothers fingers, swells on the
air, and charms the soul of the stranger.
But it suddenly ceases. The fingers that
have so nimbly touched the keys, pause
as if paralyzed, and tear comes gllsten-
ing to the eye of the performer. "Where
is my boy?" That is the question that
rushes into her mind. There Is nothing
in that gilded home to make the hear,
happy. 1t never will be happy while the
boy is absent How quickly would that
mother exchange places with the mother
in the lowly home, where there is no lamt
absent from the flock, no vacant chair tt
stare at the wounded heart. Ask such {
mother if she would change her humble
home for the mansion on the hill with it
one vacant chair? All, no; with baby il
her arms, and the music of the little one
filling her heart, her home is beautiful
home, and if the snowhakes do creep il
and the winds whistle through the cracks
they cannot chill her loving heart or COO
the warmth of the love of her dear ones
!, "Home, sweet home; be it ever so hum
be there is no place like home" ii 1t be
true home.
The smile of baby in such home
the sweetest sunshine that ever gilds cart
with beauty; the laughter of the irolie
some boys and girls is hoIier music tina
: the piano in shattered but brilliant hom
c ever sent trllng among the beautiful col
y nices and charming pictures of the parlo
t and the "two souls"-husband's and wife
J, -"with but single thought" the "tw
t hearts that beat as one" make gardens c
4 the desert places of life, and Springtin
= of the stern Winter God bless sue
i beautiful homes, and multiply them upe
" the earth, that the soul may feast on II
>, delicacies of heaven in the midst OF
much natural barrenness and so mar
- grim shadows.
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The True Wife.
fOliycr Windell HolmeS.)

Oftimes have seen tall ship glide by
against the tide as itNdrawn by some in
visible tow line, with hundred strong
arms pulling it. Her sails untitled, her
streamers were dropping, she had neither
side wheel nor stern wheel; still she had
moved on stately, in serene triumph, as
with her own life. But knew that on
the other side of the ship hidden beneath
the great bulk that swan so majestically,
there was little tolsome steam-tug, with
heart Of FIRE and arms of Iron, that was
Juggling it bravely on; and knew that if
the little steam-tug untwined her arms
and left the ship, it would wallow and roll
about and drift hither and thither, and go
off with the refuent tide no man knows
whittier. And SO | have known more
than one genius, high,decked, full-freight-
ed, wide sailed, gay -pennoned, but that for
the bare, toiling arms and brave, warm
beating heart Of the faithful little wife
that nestled close to him SO that no wind
or wave could part them, he would have
gone down with the stream, and have
| been heard Of no more.
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Poor Mrs. DORSEY, who willed her
immense estate to Jefferson Davis, was nc
doubt influenced by motives of pure
friendship, but it begins to look as il
there was in reality deep laid scheme
ON her part to involve him in network
Of trouble. AT the time of her death Mr.
Davis, who had retired to the sea shore,
was enjoying life of peace and quiet
but he is suddenly awakened from his
calm repose to find himself plunged into
all the woes of contested will case. He
might at once dismiss the vexatons of
this suit as Governor Wade Hampton is
said to have done in similar case, by
dividing the property equally among the
natural heirs, but the dispatches state
that he shows no inclination to adopt
this plan. On the contrary, attorneys
have already been engaged upon both
sides, and a goodly portion of the late
Mrs. Dorsey's estate will probably be de
youred by the Courts.
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Editorial Spinnings,

The newly-discovered preventive for
sea sickness is to stay at nome,
"Oh, whistle and will come to you" "
as the man said to the locomotive.
A correspondent wants to know wheth-
er Eli Perkins was ever = penny a-lyin-lr.
In the absence of fire engine a Col
Grad onewspaper recommends playing ON burn
ing building with brass band.
The young man who tried to pop the
question with Il bottle of sasaparilla has post,
poned the matter until next season.
The latest Missouri invention to in
duce law breakers to behave themselves is to take
them out back Of the town and make colanders Of
them.
A man named KILN was married re-
Gently in Jackson County to Miss Moore 1t is
generally the men who want more KILN than the
| ladies do
The present preponderance of females
over males in New England is sufficient to afford
the youth Of that section two m others to one ia
ther By curious contradiction, however, il is
discovered that they have actually forefathers anc
| but one mother each.
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A Natural Actor.

Charles Peace, burglar, who was hanged
at Leeds, England, short time ago, for
murder, was a remarkable character. lie
was natural actor and could assume all
sorts of clever disguises at a moments no.
tice. He had the power OF altering the
shape Of his body and his facial expression
in a way to puzzle the most skilliul detec'
tive. and he could at will thrust out his
lower Jaw and force the blood into his face
so that he resembled a mulatto. At times
he was round. shouldered, sickly- looking
man, who slouched along with fiaccid mus
cles, and at other times, when occasion re-
ouired, he was straight and alert, his foot
was as feet as that of a deer, his arms
body and legs as elastic and hard as TEN
| nered steel.
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ONE of those Jersey City doctors, who
never rest while there is a scientific ques-
ion left open for them to probe, has in
vestigated that mysterious illness which
affected the Lorillard tobacco girls. One
Of the young ladies who was so suddenly
taken sick had eaten nothing for her
breakfast but two stale cucumbers, and
another had subsisted the entire day on
boiled cabbage, with a plentiful supply
of ice water.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-25

INSANITY as an excuse for crime is get
ling to be one of the inalienable rights OF
American citizens. Jurors must under
stand that when they take the oath to
swell and truly try" they must still have
1 becoming regard for the chronic plea
pf insanity. They must not be over crit
ical either as to the peculiar kind OF IN
sanity that is plead in bar or in abate-
nent of the offense. There is a Broad
cbedule from which the defendants
counsel has right to select. 1t must be
adapted to each particular case, and as
no two murders or other felonies are COM
mitted under precisely similar circum-
stances and surroundings so the kind of
insanity under which the defendant was
laboring when the so-called crime was
committed must be judiciously selected
and iudiciously considered by the court
and jury. The old simon pure menta
insanity that generally relegates the vic
tim to an asylum and a straight-jacket
is not very prolific of murder or man
slaughter, but it is lately discovered tha
there is an emotional insanity, an i'm
pulsive insanity, moral insanity and {
dont-care-a-d-n insanity that impels peo
ple to commit (or transact) murder o
other felonies in lamb-like innocence o
all felonious intent. And juries are ex
pected to recognize this mental an
moral weakness. The commission 0
crime Is at least an error OF Judg
ment and this must be taken a
evidence of mental weakness. Thl
psychological fact must not be lost sigh
of by the intelligent juryman. Crime
in itself presumptive evidence OF lnsaL
ity, and hence the onus probandi shoul
be thrown upon the prosecution. LII
rule of law should be that every ma
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accused of felony should be presumed
insane until he is proved to be compos
mentis. 1t follows, therefore, as the
night the day, that where jury con-
victs and the Judge sentences to the gal
lows or the Penitentiary an emotional
murderer Or burglar or incendiary the
jury and the Judge ought, by good right,
to be hung or imprisoned. 1t is cheer
full to know that these broad humanita-
rian views are acted upon by public off
GERS occasionally.
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A BANK of England note, which to
the eye is very plain piece Of paper, yet
requires vast amount of labor and in
genuity in its manufacture. The paper
is made from new white linen cuttings,
no secondhand rags being used, and the
process has been under the charge OF the
same family-the Portals-for nearly
two hundred years. Every sheet Inadc
is carefully numbered and registered and
charged up to the account of the person
into whose hands they are delivered.
The printing of the notes is done by a
process only known to the inventor, and
BY an elaborate mechanism no two notes
are or can be exactly alike. Of the un-
told millions issued there are no dupli-
Gates. No note is ever reissued after
being paid into the bank After an ac,
cumulation of several years they ale de-
st~o.od and their destruction is quite q
stately and ceremonious affair. A seven
years collection of paid notes numbel
about ninety-four million, and represen
/. cash value of fifteen thousand mllllol
dollars. The "Old Lady of ThreadneedI'
street" occupies an entire block, an'
maintains quite population within he
walls. A detachment of troops is con
Itantly on duty as guard of honor an
pfety to her ladyship and it don't loo
10 be very easy thing to cheat or ro
The strong box in which J. Bull keeF
his surplus cash.
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An Adventist Marriage.

An abrupt marriage was celebrated in
Worcester, Mass, last Saturday evening.
In the morning papers the Rev. Mr..
Munson, of Missouri, advertised that in
the evening he would preach sermon in
three parts in the Advent Chapel. He
went into the pulpit and preached ser
mon, the first two divisions being Gre
pentance" and "ELoliness or Sancti-
ication," He then opened the Bible at
Matthew XIV, and proceeded to read
the parable of the ten virgins At the
-iytlhi verse, "And at midnight there was
cry made, Behold, the bridegroom
comcth; 90 ye out to meet him." he
stepped down from the pulpit, and lady
stepped forward from one of the front
pews, and taking the Bible continued to
read from the seventh to the tenth ver-
ses, inclusive Mr.. Munson then took
the lady's right hand and said: "And |
now before God and these witnesses do
take this woman whom ! hold by the
right hand to be my lawfully welded
wife, to love and cherish her as my own
body until Christ shall come to claim us
with all saints AS his own bride, or until
death shall part us" The woman said:
"And I now take this man to be my law
fully welded husband, to love, reverence
and obey him until the lord himself
shall descend from heaven with a shout
and with the voice of the archangel and
with the trumE If God, or till death shall
us sever" they then knelt, and the
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-25
A New Flavor for Ice Cream.

Yesterday a party of about twenty
persons, who we're picnicking in Wren
than, got into trouble by freely induIg,
ing in ice cream which by mistake was
favored with sewing machine oil. The
person who made the cream discovered
the mistake, and, in order to mend the
matter double-dosed it with vanilla ex
tract. As result, all who partook are
under the care of physician.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-25

The yellow fever scare is not confined
exclusively to the whites and negroes
There appears to be also an exodus of al
hgators, one of which escaped the vigil.
Rnce of Quarantine officials and was cap
tnred opposite this city yesterday.
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The grave of Abraham Lincoln's
mother, at Lincoln City, Ind, is un-
marked by tombstone or tablet of any
Kind and lies almost entirely hidden
beneath a wild growth of grass and
weeds.
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Nobody Hurt.


In the good old times we are told that
a buffet from the hand of an Edinburgh
or Quarterly Reviewer would lay a
young author dead at bis feet, If it was
so he must have been very naturally
very deficient in vitality. 1t certainly
did not kill Byron, though it was a
knock-down blow; he rose from that
combat with earth, like Antaus, all the
stronger for it. The story of its having
killed Keats, though embalmed in verse,
is apocryphal; and if such blows were
not fatal in those times, still less so are
they nowadays. On the other hand, if
authors are difficult to slay, it is infinite
ly harder work to give them life by what
the doctors term "artificial respiration
putting. The amount of breath ex.
pended in the days of "the Quarterlies'
in this hopeless task would have moved
wind-mills. Not a single favorite Of
those critics-selected that is, from favor
itism and apart from merit-now sur
wives They failed even to obtain i'm
mortality for the writers in whom ther'
was really something of genius, bu
whom they extoled beyond their deserts
Their pet idol, for example, was Samue
Rogers. And who reads Rogers poem
now? We remember something abou
them, and that is all; they are yer
literally pleasures of Memory"
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McMullen (Texas) Observer: A camE
meeting at Cow Bayou was temporarily
broken up just as preaching commenced
by mad steer charging the congrega
ton. After much trouble the brute wa
killed and preaching resumed.
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A correspondent writing from Poll

A correspondent writing from Polk
County, Fla, gives us the following "au-
thentic" account of an alligator hunt
The writer says: "On Saturday, the
3lst of May, nine men met on the Hook
er prairie, for the purpose of killing alli-
gators, with gigs, guns, an ak, one grub
bing hoe and one hook. The party killed
two hundred and twenty-four, two hun
dred and twenty of which were from
three to twelve feet in length, the aver,
age length being seven feet All were
killed within the space of half a mile.
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The manner of detecting different na-
tionalties is thus given by a Spanish
paper; Place before each man glass Of
beer, with fly floating on the surface A
Spaniard will seize glass, beer, fly and
fling them against the wall. A French
man will ask for silver spoon, and care. ire.
fully fish out the fly. An Englishman will
take out the fly with the tips of his fingers,
and drink the beer. A German will swal-
low both at one draught And last, the
Russian will seize the fly, masticate it and
pitch the beer down his throat.
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"Got an item for you," said laconic
individual in this office yesterday What is
it' asked a reporter. "Cord Of wood In
town; got 12S feet in it,"-Toledo Com.
mercial,
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Rev. G. II. Browning has been arrested
at Des Moines. Iowa, for stealing cattle.
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One evidence that the Egyptian desert
was once a sea is that you'll find a pyra-
mid the sand hills Boston Post,
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Spirit of the German Papers.

The Republican colored candidate for the
Legislature from Franklin County got
from the number of white delegates only
three say and write three, votes. And
still the Republican party asserts that it is
the particular friend of the colored people.
TThe Volksblatt1
The entire German, as well as the liberal
English press characterizes the prescription
order of brother-in-law COrbin as rude,
ness that deserves no consideration but 81
lenCe.
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At the primary elections tomorrow even
ing not only will the delegates to the Con
vention be elected but the character of the
ticket which is to be put up will also be es-
tablished. Therefore let no one fail to at.
tend the primaries
Yesterdays Abend Postl
Since the annexation of Alaska the
naughty words of Charles V, that in his
kingdom the sun did not set, finds re,
sponse in the United States. When the
sun sinks to rest at the Western peak of
Alaska he rises from the sea on the Eastern
coast of Maine.
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RAILROAD TIME TABLES
Corrected to Accord With City Time,

CINCINNATI SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Depot, corner Mclean ave. and Gest street
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BALTIMORE d OHIO, VIA PAREEIsBuRG,
Depot, Pearl and Plum,

The sos p m. and 1858 p. m. trat connect fo
Jackson and Portsmouth,