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Who WOULDN'T BE AN EDIToR.-
One of the beauties and charms of an
editors life is in his dead heading it on
all occasions. No one who has never
tasted of the sweets of that bliss can
begin to take in its glory and its bappi-
ness. He does 500 worth of advertis-
ing for a railroad. gets 4" lass " for a
year, and rides $25 worth; aud then he
is looked upon as O dead mead, or a
half blown dead beat. He ''puffs a
theater or concert troupe $40 worth and
gets 81 in complimentaries and is
thus passed in "free." Ii tue hall is
crowded he is begrudged the room he
occupies-for if his complmentaries
were paying. tickets the troupe would
be SO much in pocket. HeI blows and
putfs church festival free to any de
sired extent, and does the poster print
ing at half rates, and rarely gets a
thank you for it. 1t goes in as part
of his duty as an editor. He does
more work gratuitously for the town
and community than all the rest of the
population put together, and gets
cursed for it all, in many instances,
where a man who donates dollar for
the Fourth of July. base ball club or
church, is gratefully remembered. Oh,
1t is a sweet thing to be an editor. He
passes " free" you know.-DeWW %.
Serrer.
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Scotch COurtship.

A shy young man of Scotland for
fourteen years had wooed the lassie of
his heart. One night jamie for that
was the young mans name-called to
see Jennie, and there was terrible
look about the eyes, just as there is
sometimes when they've made up their
mind to pop the question. And Jamie
came in and sat down by the fire Just
as he had done every Tuesday and Fri
day night for fourteen years, and he
talked Of the weather, and the cattle,
and the crops, and the stock market l
was going to say-but no they didn't
talk about that; and fiaally Jamie
said
I've known you long time"
Yes, Jamie" said she.
And-Ive thought I'd always like
to know you, Jennie"
Yes jamie"
Aud SO I've bought lo.-Jen-
ME-"
eye s-J-a.m-i.e."
So-that-when
Yes-Jamie yes"
"We're dead we can lay our bones to.
gether."
The fool had gone and bought lot
in graveyard, but Jennie was not dis.
couraged. She knew her man we'll
after fourteen years she ought to-and
so she said gently:
Jamie"
Yes. Jennie"
Don't you think 'twould be better
to lay our bones together while we're
yet alive 2"
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The secret which is never told is the
only one that is absolutely safe.
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A CENTIPEDE's DEADLY CLAWS
Several Mexicans were in camp at the
mouth of Memphis creek, Utah Terri
tory, and were lying about the fire,
when one of them. Telstore Crucas, saw
a large centipede, fully nine inches
long, travelling slowly over his leg.
Knowing that the least motion would
make it sink its deadly claws into his
skin, without moving his leg he got out
his revolver, and waited until the beast
had almost reached his knee, when
slowly putting the mouth of the pistol
to his head he pulled and the centipede
was gone. Bul centipede's claws are
quicker than gunpowler, and Crucas
began to cramp in few minutes, the
track of the reptile along his leg turned
a brownish yellow, and the place where
it was killed swelled up frighlfully.
Crucas rapidly grew worse, and in lit
tie over four hours afterwurd died in
great agony. But the most singular
part OF the story is that the bullet from
Crucass pistol cut Il small nick in the
fore leg Of mule that was tethered
near by, and at daylight next morning
the mule was also dead. with his leg so
swollen that the skin had burst in
several places. Canon Cou"ty Tigti,ults.
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Pooh GRAMMAR BETRAYED HIM.--Prof.
Thomas, recently connected with But
Ter University, was noted chiefly for his
exactness in the use of vernacular.
One night he was awakened at an un-
seemly hour by discordunt sounds of
midnight revelry from the direction of
a students bedroom. Dressing himself
hastily he hurried down the hall, and,
after few knocks on the bolted door
to enforce silence, lie called out, " Hi,
you fellows in there! Can't you make
less noise ?"
"Who's out there?" was the re.
spouse.
Its me-"
"Who are you?'
Professor Thomas"
you're liar. You can't fool us.
Thomas would have said, 1t is l. "
Come on, boys, just once more" And
the strains of I" Landlord, fill the flow
ing how'll" resounded through the house
till daylight. The affair was never al
luded to by the Professor. -Erenina
Au6urnian.
SLEEp.-In a recent work on "Sleep, ="
DR.. Mortimer Granville objects with
out reserve to the use of narcotics in
order to produce it. They produce not
sleep. but a counterpart of it. When
man says 81 will take sleeping
draught in order to get quiet night
he speaks in parallels. What he really
says is, II will poison myself little,
Just enough to make me unconscious,
or slightly paralyze my nerve centers,
not enough to kill" He declares that if
people troubled with sleeplessness
would resolutely set themselves to
forming the habit of going to sleep at
a particular time, in particular way.
they will do more to procure regular
sleep than by any other artitice. 1t is
not so much matter what person does
to produce sleep. but he should do pre-
cisely the same thing, in the same way,
at the same time, and under, nearly as
possible, the same conditions, night
after night, for a considerable period,
say three or four weeks at least. De-
tr0it Free Press.
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POliteneSS to Children.

Scores of times in day q child is
told in a short, authoritative way to do
or not to do such little things as we ask
at the hands of older people as favors,
graciously, and with Difference to their
choice. Would you he so kind as to
close that window? May 1 trouble
you for that cricket g." II you may
he as comfortable in this chair as in
that, 1 would like to change places
with you" "Oh, excuse me, but your
head is between me and TIE light;
could you see Us well if you moved a
little 2" Would it hinder you too
long if you stopped at the store for
me? L would be very much obliged
if you would" Pray do not let me
crowd you," etc. In most peoples
speech, we find as synonyms for these
polite phrases: "Shut that window
down, this minute" Bring me that
cricket" ~ want that chair-get up;
you can sit in this" Don't you see
that you are right in my light? Move
along" 81 want you to leave off play
ing and 60 right down to the store for
me-" Don't crowd so. Cant you see
that there is not enough room for two
people here ?" and so on.
On the other hand, let child ask for
anything without saying please" re,
ceive anything without saying thank
you," sit still in tho most comfortable
seat without Offering to give it up, or
press its own preference for particu-
lar book, chair or apple, to the incon-
venience of an elder, and what an out.
cry we have: "Such rudeness. "Such
al ill-mannerel child!" His parents
must have neglected him strangely.
Not at all; they have been telling him
a great many times every day not to do
these precise things which you dislike.
But they themselves have been all the
while doing these very things to him.
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tions, is that of man who constantly needs
Just such a mouthpiece. To be able to swear
with safety as to any transaction, dld not
"know anything about it," and to be certain
that the mouthpiece will swear in like man
ner must be great advantage in such jobs
rs those in which Mr.. Tilden's life has been
engaged. -
But there is one other thing to be notedH
Mr.. 1iden himself is either the softest and
most stupid of dupes, or he is very crafty
manager fond of devious ways Both he can
not be. If he is a crafty schemer, 1t
is absolutely certain that he would have
said to his friends and agents, Better COM
"municate with Pelton {" ; and to his nephew,
"Take care that | know nothing about
things" If Mr.. Tildcn is crafty at all, as
the world believes, he has sense enough to
have so arranged matters that no person eX-
ccpt PcltOn could testify to his (lIldcn >
knowledge Of Pclton's doingn. Over Pelton
he has the hold that a rich man has over one
who NAV either be his heir pauprr. II
Mr.. Iiden il not the sOitcst and most stupid
of dupes this arrangement was perfectly nat
uraI If he is of all dupes in history the
blindest. then it can be believed that he was
fooled by Pelton. Is it at all difficult to de-
eide which the country Will believe
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AIR. vIRgLE o. TIE STAND. .

Mr.. Manton Marble also bears witness TO
the essential accuracy of HE IRfBu NJ 4
TRANSACTIONS. The account thus derived OF his
doings in Florida, Of the relations between
him and other Democrats there, and OF his
private information to Colonel PetOn that
the vote was exceedingly close, with only
about hundrcdmajor according to the claims
of either side, was admitted by him to he
correct in every point Of consequence. He
admits that he did transmit, in cipher dis
patches addressed to Colonel W. T. PeltOn,
No. Is Gramercy Park, two, probably three,
infamous propositions; one for the pur-
chase of decision of the Board and certlh-
cate of the Governor for 10000; another
for the purchase of one member of the Board
for $4,000. The figure of the third, he
thinks, was $2j0,OOO. He admits that he
did receive from Colonel Pelton the dispatch
of which he acknowledges that the following
is an essentially correct translation:
Telegram here Proposition accepted If done only
once Better consult with Wooley and act IN concert
You can trust him. Time very important and there
should b. no divided councils
All Mr.. Marbles microscopic criticism of
words and dates III comments of this paper
may pass for the present unnOtlced, Tor 1t
ONLY serves to render more emphatic and de-
cisiye his recognition and acknowledgment
of the essential truth of the main charges.
If he has studied the dispatches and transa-
tons and comments so closely that he Is
able to point out only trivial errors Ill dates,
or in the order of minor events, or i'll the
translation Of any substituted word, assur-
eddy his examination has been so close that
ne cannot be III error as to the essential things
which he admits. One dispatch. of which
two words only were in cipher, he as
seIts positively was not an announcement
of the failure of any proposition, thereby viz
tually di.putiug the correctness of the trans
lation of word which in our copy appeared
to be "Laura," and which i'll the pho
tographs appears to be Llama" But
he fatty declares that lie does not
know what the dispatch did mean,
and cannot possibly remember the actual sig
nficance of the uncertain word " Lama or
Laura" translated failed" by THE TEB-
UNE-an Interpretation which Colonel Peton
under oath admitted to be substantially correct.
Perhaps The TRIBUNE may yet he able TO east
further light upon that dispatch. but meanwhile
il is entirely unimpOrtant as to the main point
in issue. IL concerns only the result then
known OF a proposition which, as all are
aware, ultimately ended in failure. But the
nature of the Infamous proposition is con-
fesscd, and the fact that it was transmitted
by Marble to PcltOn, and the fact that Pei
ton answered, " Proposition accepted if done
" only once"
This proposal, Mr.. Marble swears, he trans
mitted as ga danger signal He thought it
his duty, lac tcstlles, to warn his friends IN
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New York that the Board could be bought.
The second and third proposals, he swears,
were transn.itted with exactly the same IN
tent, and no other. But Colonel fei'oh'
he is forced to conclude, was DIS
posed to construe the dispatches d.
propositions to be acted upon, ana so a''-
swered. He swears that he never toiu 'ho
person making the offer that he hau LOT
warded il to New-York that he never told any
person living of the reply; that he instantly
bnrned the reply and did nothing, though
directed to consult Wooley; that he made no
effort whatever to prevent WOOIley rom
acting upon similar authority. when
it was evident from the answer 10
Marble had been sent to Nooiley
also: that he never referred to the matter
in conversation with PeltOn after re-
turning to New-York, though PeltOn swears to
the contrary; that he never demonstrated WITH
Pcltom for such an act of infamy; that he dld
not even say IA word to the members OF the
Democratic Committee about this conduct OF
the man trusted by them, nor to Mr.. Il!den
about this behavior of his nephew and secre-
tary; that he suffered the Committee, ana Mr'
Tllden. and all the world, to remain igno-
rant OF the facts, though daily association
with Colonel Pelton only increased every day
the weight of evidence which has now accd-
mulated against Mr.. 1ilden himself. Al
these things Mr. Marble asserts under oath.
How many persons does he expect to have
believe him
1t is for the public to Judge what he reilly
meant by sending to Colonel Pclton th" nii-
nous proposals. 1t is for the public To
Judge, COO. whether a man like Nht"n
Marble, with his experience. his intimate
acquaintance with Mr.. Tilden and ms nephew,
his reputation and public position, could pos-
sibly have sent such kilograms, a. he asserts,
to Colonel Pclton, with not the slight
est thought that they would reach MI
Iidcu's ears, or that they would be
acted upon. The public viii read the
dispatches and the evidence. Il VIII see how
surely Mr.. Marble fails to remember things
the most certain to have remained m his
memory. 1t will see how utterly Incredible
are the things which he soemn'y asserts.
And il viii ask what ugly truth lies behind
this mask Of ablc-bodicd denial and marvel
IOus fOEgctlulncss.
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guort 10 aopcrnsemeuIs.

ANUSENINrS-1lfh PdGe-Sth column
BAII--lIh Pnqc-jth column.
BANKRIfr NOTIti 81 N IGdc-1d culuiAh'
ROARD AND ROOMs-l I'm fddf-3i Cnlumn
kUsJNEss ca ANCks- 9th PdGe-ith column.
BUSINESS NOTICES-6h FG0c-lst column
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CORPORATION NOICL~-llW fdde .0ih toiu'""'
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NV pT NJ a. ATIONs- sN IuUe-ith and DIN coiublbs
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mil Poge-lSt coumn
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TRIPLE SH L L L
YHL NEGS ms MOANING.

Fuurr.N.-TLe German Minister has been re-
called front CopcuEagrp. -= North Schlcsvig is
indignant az the aluoraDou Of the ttth clause OF
the treaty Of .Prlguc ---2 President Grcyy has
affirmed the principal of the irrcmoyability Of
Judges = NJhat Idcha's scheme Tor the rcor-
p,mzatioa o. syria has been approved by the Porte.
Dcur>IIC-Thc President has nominated eX-
Governor Hartrauft to be Postmaster of
Philadelphia. - The Senate has confirmed
General Graham a. Surveyor at the Port
of New-York The work of the
Pension Office is much DELAYED by the new bill TO
nav arrcarareS -- The expenditure OF the
Patcut Ofice appropriations Is to be in
ouired into ---- State senator Hopkins, from the
XXiYth Ncw-York District, died suddenly; the
senate held no session.
CCNGR.-..-In the senate yesterday. Mr. Vim
dom OF Minnesota spoke ia favor OF his bill for the
colonization Of negroes soil where tie law is
respected the bill to admit women 10 practice in
the supreme Court was passed ; n good deal of mis-
cellaneol1 business WAS transacted; the bill to
prevent cpidcmcs was introduced. -- In the
Hou-e. a number Of private bills were passed; the
Senate amendments to the Naval Appropriation bill
were nonconcuued III.
CRY AND SUBURBAN.--Mauton Marble appeared
before the Potter Subcommittee at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, ANA admitted that all except two OF
three Of III IElBj NE' udhslduohS OF the CiPneI
dispatches were substantially correct; he was I'M
able to state wherein the Others were wrong
He confessed to tho sending of propositions
for tn, purchase of the Florida Returning Board
10 Colonel Pclton, whom he regarded as
Mr. Tiidons agent. -= meeting of hold
cts Of Tennessee defanlted bonds was held, To
attempt 10 secure a funding bill. - William
Is. Bishop and Dr' John F. Gray testified
in tho Vanderbilt viii case. 60 John
l. Davenport began his defence before the Congress
sional Committee =-- Investigation Of the
recent great fires continued. -- Shaefer de
ieatcd SlossOn in a remarkable game of billiards.
- Gold value of the legal-tender silver dollar
H12la grains. S4.01 cent. Stocks active aud adj
yancIug. closing strong.
TIu WEtTuRR.-TRIBCNE local observations in-
dieato cleaI or partly cloudy weather, with slight
changes in temperature. Thermometer yesterday,
27o. 10, 3j'
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amuoeu,er,,s ana alestuus 10 N,ahl.

Ir,nrvy oy MUsIC-Philharmone Concert ,
TnoINW ~ HrATRE-2 and " Enocb AIoWn;,
R,TsrH aVt~uF IHE NTRF--2 aud 3: "Dr 1Nue,
fYcxrM rHKATRE-l 80 aud 5: " In a. IA, :; r'"''o'''
SfnIo,. GARpkN-9 AMI 2 " ~ S.ocu,u, -. .. Scion
Pa%T nITNfRE-2 and s John T. owens as So''"
shin gle" ., 90. r1orsp o and c
sr,xnspn rHVArRg l:3O aud " ii. NJ. = tu,I, ,
S SNn NJ ,RE IuEATRE-2 and The BANKER
Daughter a. O,,r.o
Ac.DyNY OF DFsICN-WateT Color EXhlol'lVh
TREvS1rR II NIL--Walking Match.
TTROpE AZ Observation-Disclosures Match
NV Y Nh AuIAHIUN-f1gcOn SNOW
PrPUEIlCAN HALI.-MuSiC and Lecture
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respondent Of The Clercland Herald who was ron.
ducting the interview. "Oh. thick as apple nis,
IL would be found that If he were In the field bs
has a great many snppOrters0
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Tilden should DO rcnominated, we hope
neither he nor any of his supporters will ad-
dress the public without prefacing his remarks
with the grand hailing sign of the party.
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What a sly chap Moses is, to he sure
Here lac seems to have been reading The
TRIBUNE all the while, after all.
The bill to teach peace pOliteuess and
patriotism. pruncs, bcnevolencc and prism, in
the schools of the District of Columbia, has
been before the Senate, and that pTOflgate
and reckless body has actually giggled at it.
General Burnside seems thereupOn to have
come to the sad conclusion that the bill
ought to be incorporated into the Senate
rules. and he is undoubtedly right.
The senate Committee on Foreign Rcla
tons saws "veto" to the House scheme to
exclude the Chinese Both the Senate and
House bills are reported. with the recommen-
dation that they be indefinitely postponed. AT
this stage of the session and the Congress,
this means an end, for the present. of the
scheme to Overturn the precedcnts and belle
the principles of the past century.
The exhibition of American products which
has been opened in the City of Mexico, and
is described elsewhere by staff corrcspOn-
dent, i, necessarily very fragmentaTy but IT
will serve It's purpose in suggesting at least,
the possibilities of future commerce between
the two countries. Our correspondent names
the principal exhibits, ana gives the most
significant sentences iii the cordial speech
with which President Diaz opened this unofficial
exhibition.
Our London letter conveys more distinct
idea titan has yet been given Of the nature
and extent of the loss to literature inflicted
l.. 4
The 5nakspearean collection, though not all
that Il has been sometimes represented to be,
WAS very valuable one, and many OF ITS
volumes can never be replaced. The PRIDE
shich the great Radical city took IN this
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What a sly chap Moses is, to be sure !!
Here lac seems to have been reading The
TRIBUNE all the while, after all.
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library was exempkhcd by the scenes at the
confiagration when scholars and workingmen
ware alike in tears.
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3yeu-2lorls Daily 0ribunr

FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1879.
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50 ALDEENEY BRAND