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Po ETRY.
THE DEAD STUDENT.
By WILL CARLETON. l


Itdoesnt seem-now does it, Jack Pas poor Brown
| were dead:
Twas only yesterday at he had to take his bed
The day before he played first base. and ran M'Far
land down.
And then, to slip away so sly-'twas not at all like
| Brown.
The story seems too big to take. Most any one vii
| find
rs sometimes hard to get man well laid out in his
mind.
and Brown was just afre with life. 'Twoudn's
scare me, ayow,
To hear whoop, and see the man go rushing past
here now.
Poor Brown! he's lying in his room as white drift
ed snow.
/ called upon him, as it were. an hour or two ago.
A-rushing into Brownies room seemed awkward like
and queer
We haven't spoken back and forth for something like
year.
We didn't pull together square single night day
Howeer went, he soon contriyed to find another
He ran against me in my loves; we picked dozen
About that girl yon used tolikethe one tE At married
Jones.
He worked against me in the Glass; before my very
eyes,
He opened up and scooped me square out of the Ju-
nior prize.
In the la st campus rush came to strictly business
blows, a. H.. .-
And from the eye he left undimmed viewed his
damaged nose s.
In fact, came at last to feeland own it with dis
may
That life would be worth living for If Blown were out
the way.
But when heard that he was dead, my feelings
tackled and then
would have given half my life to get his back again.
called upon him, as it were, an hour or two ago.
The rsom was neat beyond excuse-the women made
it So
Be he had hand in that, and nanght abont it,
knew.
To see the order lying round had made him very blue.
sweet bouquet of girlish flowers smiled in the face
ofdeath .
Straight through the open window came the mornings
fragrant breath.
Cose-caged, small canary bird, with glossy, yellow
throat,
Skipped dreary from perch to perch, and sung
With hair unusually combed, sat poor MFarand
near,
Alternately perusing Greek. and wrestling with
tear.
A homeY little girl of six, for some old kindness
sake
Was sobbing In the there if her heart would
break. ~. .-
The books look worn and wretched like, almost as if
they knew. .s
And seemed to be a-whispering their titles to my
view.
His rod and gun in their place. and high, where
all might see.
Cleaned jauntiy the boating cup he won last year
from me.
lifted up the solemn sheet. That honest, earnest
face
Showed signs of culture and of toll that Death could
not erase.
AS western skies at twilight mark where late the sun
has been,
Browns face revealed the mind aud son that once
had burned within.
He looked so grandy helpless there upon that lonely
bed
Oh, Jack these manly foes are foes more when
they are dead
+" Old boy" sobbed, "'twas half my fault. This
heart makes late amends
took the white, cold hands in mine-and Brown and
Iwere friends"
Harpers Weekly.
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Fl MAcAuLAY ON 50 AMERICAN NoTEs. .o--It
is impossible for me to review ir; nor do
think that yon would wish me to doso. l
cannot praise 1t and win not cut it up.
cannot praise it, though 1t contains aSfew
lively dialogues and descriptions; for it
seems to me 10 be as a vhoie failure. Ii is
writtenlike the worst parts OF Humphreys
Clock. ., What is meant to be easy and
sprightly is vulgar and afppant, as in the
first two pages. What is meant TO be fine
is great deal too fine for me, as tho de-
scription of the Falls Of Niagara. Areader
who wants an amusing account Of the Uni
ted States had better 60 10 Mrs. Trollope,
coarse and malignant as she is. A reader
who wants information about American
politics, manners and literature. had better
20 even to 20 poor creature as Bueking-
ham. In short, 4 pronounce the book, in
spite of some CLEANS OF genius. at once
frivolous and duh. Therefore, I win not
praise IL; neither viii j attack it--first. be-
cause have eaton salt with Dickens
second, because be is o good man and man
of real talent; third. because he hates
slavery as heartily as do, aud, fourth, be-
cause wish to see himenrolled in our blue
and yellow corps, where he may do, excel
lent work as skirmisher and sharp rpsheoter.
From Letter % Aaevsy Napisr.
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How Lowngfsllow Wrote sams Poems
National Journal of Education.


We once passed an evening with Profess
sor Longfsllow, during which he gave us an
account of the origin of his most popular
poems. We will give the history of those
which are most common to the "readers .
and "speakers. The Psalm of Life" is
probably the best known of these numerous
school poems. It was written on summer
morning in 1888. He was young man
then, full of aspiration and hope, and the
poem was merely an expression of his own
feelings. He regarded it as personal mat
ter-like an entry in ones journal-and for
long time refrained from publishing it..
Mr.. Longfellow related that, on returning
from his visit to the Queen, an English la
borer stepped mp to the carriage and asked
to shake hands with the writer of the
Psalm of Life" ssIt was one of the best
compliment ever received, - said the Dem
ocratic poet. Longfellow's study Is re-
pository Of the beautiful things of the past
souvenirs, busts of noble friends, memen.
toes of departed poets, Tom Moore's waste
paper basket, Coleridge's inkstand, piece
of Dante's coffin. In this study stood an
old clock, with the colorings of age, rising
from floor to ceiling. 1t numbered the
hours in which his best poems were writ
ten. 1t was the old clock on the stairs.
The Wreck of the Hesperus was writ
ten in 1889, at midnight. A violent storm
had occurred the night before; the distress
and disasters at sea had been great, espec-
tally along the eapes of the New England
coast. The papers of the day were full of
tho news of disaster. The poet was sitting
alone in his study late at night, when the
vision of the wrecked Hesperus came drift
ing on the disturbed tides of thought into
his mind. He went to bed but could not
sleep. He arose and wrote the poem,
which came into his mind by whole stanzas
finishing them just as the clock-the old
clock on the stairs-was striking three.
LoRgfellow says that he was, as he thinks,
led to write the Wreck of the Hesperus "
because the words " Norman woe," which
were associated with the disasters at sea,
seemed to him SO indeseribably sad. Ex-
celsior " was written after receiving letter
from Charles Sumner full of lofty senti-
ments.
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A REPUBLICAN YEAR IN OHIO.
PRESIDENTIAL AND GUBERNATORIAL CAN
DIDATEs-soME POSSIBILITIES u

| N 0fHpnlc.
A. G. Sands, of Cincinnati, we'll known
in Ohio journalism and politics, was asked
| by a gentleman who met him at the St
Nicholas Hotel what he thought of the po
litical outbreak in that State this fall. Hit
reply was -
sit is the Republican year in Ohio"
"Why do you think so9"
"Because the people, who in large
measure belong to the manufacturing class,
had hoped that the tinkerings with nation
al finances was thing Of the past. Gener-
al Ewing's nomination has made them un-
easy. They don't want anything done to
retard resumption"
But will not Gen. Ewing receive many
Republican votes from those who favor soft
money!"
"He may receive few, but whore he
receives one Republican vote Charley Fos-
ter will receive ten Democratic votes
"Who are the Ohio people talking of for
President ?''
"Oh, there are several good men spoken
of. Either Sherman or Garfield would
moke good President. But it is almost
too early to speculate on that question now.
Blaine also has his followers in Ohio. Grant
is strong and beloved by all, aud Conkling,
IN my opinion, is stronger in the West to-
day than he ever was"
"Who do the Democrats talk of ?''
6 Well, Sherman, of course, is strong
leader among the Ohio Democrats. Should
General Ewing develop any considerable
strength in the canvas now begun as a rep
resentative of the Ohio idea, / have no
doubt that he will be strongly pressed as
the candidate of the Ohio Democracy for
President. But in the end I think the
Democrats will have to fall back on Til
den''
Will the religious question be brought
in The Ohio canvas this fall 2'
"No. think not. The great issue is
the finances, and think Ohio is going Re-
publican this fall I; and by agood sized MAJ
iority. AS said before, it is Republican
year in Ohio politics. You will see that l
am not false prophet"
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PROVERBS FROM JOSH BILLINas.--Man-
kind are all in search ov happiness, and the
world IL full ov it, but the reason Viii 80 fu
find it il bekauze they don't kno what hap
piness il when they see it. I 5s
When man Gums to me for advice, j
find out the kind ov advice he wants, and j
Civ it to him; this satisfys him that he and
are two az smart men as there iz living.
Af1ikshan iz good skool; it reduses a
mans impudense. strengthens his faith. in
kreases hiz humility, and pumps the pride
and vanity oat ov him.. sgyv s@a asga
He who can amuze and instrukt at ths
same time il philanthropist az well az o
philosopher--sugar-coate pills are az USE
full for the soul an for the boldly. d s
Cunning mea allwus get beat in the long
run, bekause they are just as dull on one
side az they are sharp on the other.
Cheerfulness not only strengthens mans
days but sweetens them. The man who
laffs at everything iz the hardest kind ov a
man to kill, and dies game when he duz
die. .s....#..., -.-...
There il nothing SO cheap az peliteness.
1t iz az cheap and az kind, too, az giving a
man coal from yure fire to lite him with.
The man who kan say s. Yes and s.No''
at the right time haz the greatest command
Of language. 80
| Suckcess iz not allwuz the true kriteriOn
| TO Judge things by, but it il dredphull
hard thing 20 argy against. r
hav thought, between the two, it waz
best to tell solid lie than to tell haff the
| truth.
| The CRATE art ov kontentment konsists
in being perfectly satisfied with what yer
hain't got, - 81. sf
There are no two people who look upon
each other with more distinguished kon-
tempt than the mizer and the spendthrift,
and guess they are both right about II.
am now past sixty years old, and every
now and then meet relick who knu me
forty-fiye years ago, and remembers dis
tinctly sum deyiltry waz guilty ov then,
Amt it strange how tenashus the memory
IL ov these things, and how weak il IL ov
emmy good thing fellow may have accident
ally done +
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Irnportant Lawsuis.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 3.-A suit was COM
mencsd to-day in the Twenty-third District
Court by John Il. Burke, On behalf Of him.
self and all other Consolidated Virginia
stockholders, to recover $1,000, 900 from
James G. Flood, the Pacific Refinery and
Bullion Exchange, and the executors of the
estate of w. s. 0'Brien, deceased. This
suit has the effect of tying up the estate Of
o'Brien, which vss shout to be distributed,
and il similar in principle 70 those now
pending, making four suits now before the
courts, aggrsgating 81, ,444Ooo.
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n0To IL may foilosC uos "noA sA-te S1
~ has crept up into the niaeties, to think
Of town which Humboldt and other trav-
elers have pronounced the coldest ON the
globe. This is Jakntsk Tor Yakootsk),
chief town of the province of that name in
Eastern Siberia, on the left bank Of the
river Lena, SO deg, / min. north. longitude
119 deg. Al min. east, and distant from st.
Petersburgh 5.951 miles. The ground re-
mains continually frozen to the depth OF
800 feet, except in midsummer, when it
thaws three feet At the surface During
ten days 10 August the thermometer marks
SIS degrees, but from November to February
it ranges from AZ to 6s deg rees below zero.
and the river is solid ice for nine months
out or the twelve. The entire industry OF
the place population about ., 6,O00-is COM
prised in candle works, and yet it is the
principal market Of Eastern Siberia for traf-
&c with the hunting tribes of the Jagats
and Buriats. The former mostly nonadic,
having large herds Of cattle and horses,
bring to market butter. which is sent on
horseback to the part of Qkhotsk The
Bnriats, also nomadic, bring quantities OF
skins of sahles, foxes, martens, hares, sqnlr-
rels and ths like. and many of them are
sold at the great fair in June, which, Wlth
May is the active period Of the yea. 10
May the collected goods are conveyed TO
the sea ports, whence they are sent in every
1 ps.sf4z {xFs1
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dresses. Sara has two which Felix made
her for the "sphinx," but she will not al
low them to be described. In g Ruy Bias"
she wears one worth 1900 francs ($1. .4o0J,
and finding thar it has been getting trifle
ssage-worn she has had it duplicated for
London. In 81 l. L'Etrangele,'' where she
has to wear visiting dress, she proposes
to amaze the London ladies with the. fol-
lowing originality: Robe en- satin bonton
dor cuirasse de jair noir ct garnle d'ofRles
dams 10 bas de- Ia jupe." In the fifth act
she will wear a black satin dress which
win be copied and worn a great deal in
Paris this year. oee q 7ss:5 -s-55
AS Celimene In the "Misanthrope, .
Croizette is to wear rose da chine satin,
embroidered with 6ne pearls, with gold
flowers and with silver IN relief; q train in
bishop violet velvet, embroidered with
gold and silver, and o velvet corsage stud
ded with precious stones. This costume
cost o trifle over 10, 600 francs.
Sara Bernhardt is said to be jealous of
this, and it is supposed that she intends to
coruscate in the two dresses which she will
not allow to be decribed. It takes ninety
trunks to carry over the accessories OF these
ladies. London is on tiptoe to see them.
It is rather different from the reception
which the comedians OF, the Theatre Fran
caise had when they visited London in 1850
something. Then the crowd hooted, yell
ed and threw apples and rotten eggs until
members of the nobility interfered to pre-
serve order.
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Tf an assortment is ordered lesser guam
titles than one hundred win be furnished OF
same rates. Cash must accompany order.
Postage will be prepaid. Address,
NEW NORTH w EST,
DEER LoDGE.
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a theft being asked bis occupation 70
piled that lie was !. pocket-miner:"
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Blanks for Sale.

We have in stock the following Justices
Blanks, adapted for any township OF county
in Montana. and in conformity TO existing
laws. The following are the prices:
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How Talmage lmpresses the English.
From the London News.

From the London News.
The public announcements that the Rev.
DR.. Talmage. of Brooklyn, United States,
would preach, attracted yesterday evening
very large number of persons to the out
side, at least, of the Islington Presbyterian
church, Colebroke.row, Islington, of which
DR.. Thain Richardson is the minister. The
seatholders and few others having receiv-
ed tickets were enabled to get in sideways,
and between they filed nearly all the seats
almost an hour before the service COM
menced. Thousands of unprivileged per-
sons either went away altogether or re-
mained to take their chance among the
public rush at 6:15, the service commen-
cling at $50. The church, which seats
about 75U persons, then became quickly
crammed, amid cries here and there for
help in consequence of the pressure, and q
few windows had to be broken to increase
the ventilation. DIR. Davidson having ac-
companied DR.. Talmage into the pulpit
and made few remarks in reference to his
presence, hymn was sung, after which
DIR. Talmage read chapter of the Bible
expounding the verses as he read HE is
about middle age, with a thin face-not of
the ordinary American type-and a fair
complexion, and voice which, if not pow
full, is musical, and has much greater varie-
ty than Is supposed in England to cbarac-
terize American oratory generally. He
has little action, except when some climax
is reached, and speaks chiefly with his eyes
closed, for the purpose of shutting out dis
tracing influences around. He looks abont
so. his real age being AZ. Bold, homely, eff
fective, and abundant imagery marked
both the exposition of the parable of the
prodigal son and the subsequent sermon,
and is, perhaps, the main secret Of success.
Like Rowland Hill. MIR. Spurgeon and 9TH
er celebrated clergymen, past and present,
DR.. Talmage does not disdaln the ludi--
crous. or appear to deem an occasional
manifest provocative to laughter unworthy
fof the pulpit. In the sermon, the text be
ing, "And God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes,, y and the general subject
the pains and troubles of this life and their
| general uses, he said sit was not till Job
got his carbuncles and pest of wife that
| he wanted to leave this world "a remark
which elected decided utter while in
speaking of the characters at different Pc
| RODS, he said that some men spoke IN theil
prayers about the sun, moon and stars
and "gave the Lord good deal of astro
nomicaI information that must be very
gratifying to Him. The service occupied
| an hour and the sermon only thirty five
minutes There was a collection for thu
| Hospital Fund While the service was go
ing On DR.. Barnado. of Stepney, aeld ons
outside and preached to a large audience
DR.. Talmage wilistay in England abon
1.-TWO months, and before his departure vii
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Expensive Dresses.
Paris Cor. of the Boston journal.

= :
Actresses, being pets of the public for a
time--to be ruthlesaly put away whenever
that public pleases. however, and at a mo-
ment's notice-are rather more 1lenientIy
treated here than other women. They are
expected to have faults-and it is not con-
sidered good manners to speak Of them
But their public extravagances are matters
for busy comment. Just now Paris is anna.
zing itself over the sums which the actress.
es Of the Comedie Franeaise, who leave for
London on Monday. have been spending on
dress. It appears that Sara BeEnhardt,
Croizette and Reichemberg have spent
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NEWSPAPER DECISIONS.

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Six MOntffS. Ul
Thea Months. b
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-01-24

"MoRE boys are born than girls in
the United Kingdom" says the London
TiasS. =" but there are more women
than men living among Us. 1t Is a mere
matter Of counting. and the result Is
that there are nearly n million more fe-
males than males In Great Britain and
Ireland. Up to the ago Of ten the mum.
bers OF the two sexes are probably not
unequal. and II IL then that the balance
which originally lay on the side Of the
males shifts to the other sex. IL must
not be concluded that the change Is en-
tirsly due to nm excess OF mortality
among the males. IL Is no doubt true
that the active lives VI men expose them
TO more chances OF accident and peril
than the sedsntAry lives Of women /: but
IL must DO remembered. also. that the
great prepondsrancs OF emigration IL OF
men. Some ONE accompany or fol-
low them. bat they arc relatively few.
and the prspondsrance VI female life
among Us must be attributed mainly 10
this cause. In France. with q larger
population. the excess Of women over
men Is almost nominal.
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RAILROAD LEGISLATION.

The railroad bills before our present
Legislature at Carson. aiming at rceu.
lating fares aud freights. and the pre-
venting Of discrimination against any
section Of this State. are very liable to
prove Of material benefit. Unjust not be
understood. however. that any unjust
war upon railroads is inauguratsd. or is
TO DO carried out. One OF our contsm-
poraries q lew days ago in an editorial
on the subject, stated that ; "Just now
there Is q most vindictivs feeling against
railroads in this State. aud IL the pres
ent Legislature does not make some
sweeping laws against the roads. there
will be a universal cry that members
have been corrupted" This is not so.
There is not a most vindiciive feeling
against railroads in this State. neither
are our Legislators called upon to pass
any sweeping laws against the roads for
fear OF any universal cry that members
have been corrupted. All they arc TO
quirsd to do is to lesislate properly and
equitably in the matter. The abuses
aud unjustidable OF the rail-
road companies must be squarely met
and corrected. and IL they have
been accused w~ongiully. or any
point in their favor has not been
duly considered. now Is tho time to
adjudicate squarely and effectively
in the premises. II is the plain duty OF
our Legislators to critically examine into
this matter OF exorbitant and discrim-
NATIVE freights aud fares, administering
impartial justice. and e~ndeavoring as far
as possible to amelionte the present un-
satisfactory condition Of affairs.
Popular prejudice, however. should
not DO allowed to exercise undue intiu.
snes. Railroads are and always have
been a beneficial improvement wherever
introduced. and they should always be
encouraged and assisted. They are aud
always have been emblematic Of the
advancement OF civilization. human
progress aud general prosperity. aud
it is simply suicidal policy to deal
wrongly with them. Let the whole
matter be carefully and diligently sought
into throughout. and equal and exact
justice be done to both sides. Let there
be q fair deal and no favor. but honest.
unprejudiced action is what is required.