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said, :" wish I had sent your father W
you, she, IN very saucy way, said, @You
l have got better sense than to 90 with hi
and wouldn't have done it!n
felt sorry for that mother. The eentlem
said & he should think that girl had fbe 1nr
hand in that home, and the mother nom cor
not help herself! But" he said, if tbatwssI
girl, would let her go without shoes until
could behave better"
Dear girls be lady-like wherever YOU 3
whether it is at school, at home, or abroad.
respectful to every one, and more especially
your parents; "honor thy father and t
mother, and always strive to speak tender
and gently
Perhaps this young girl has had all the
vanfages of fashion; has studied all the grac
OF the dancing school, and is very proud of
personal appearance, yet she has not learn
the hrst rudiments of manners, and probat
Is great source of discomfort at home.
NOW want to say to some of the friends W
love 10 knit that learned a very pretty pate
Tor stripe, that can be used for an infan
afghan or for quilt The lady tt
gave me the directions was knitting he
simple and quickly done You can make it
width by repeating. But for sample use ii
cotton, and steel knitting needles. Cast
twenty-four stitches, knitting the first and Il,
eight common garter stitch all the wa
but for the middle eight keep a right
wrong side. Every sixteenth time across
the right side take off the first four of the M
ole eight stitches without knitting ION a thi
nneedlel; then knit the next four; then knit t
tour from the extra needle, commence
With the first of the four; that will make twi
Proceed as before; garter stitch each side
the plain middle, and the twist on the rie
slde every sixteenth row-or oftener if '
choose. hope this is explicit, and that
Will have no trouble if you try it.
AUNT LUCY
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Too Near His Figure.

On one occasion, when Gen. Butler
was in command at New Orleans, a
Colonel up in the Red river region made
application for furlough, which was
refused him. Soon after, the Colonel
left his command without permission,
and went to New Orleans, where he was
arrested and put in irons as deserter.
Upon an intimation that he wished to
make an explanation, Gen. B. had him
brought to his headquarters. ..i II
"Well, sir" said the General, stern
ly, what have you to say in explana-
ton Ct your conduct? t
"Well, General, there are two Jews
up yonder who have some cotton they
want to get through my lines. First
they offered me $500, which I refused.
Then they offered $1,000, then $4,000,
then $4,000, and at last they offered
100000; and I tell you, General, they
Were getting so near my figure, l
thought I'd better leaue !'-Editor's
Droaoer, IN Harper's Magazine for
MdY. .-.a 81
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

Secretary Sherman has issued his
circular offering $15o,ooo,oo0 of 4-per-cent
bonds at a of per cent above par. The circular,
which gives the fullest of instructions as to
means of obtaining these bonds, their time and
place of payment, ETC., invites all banks,
bankers, Postmasters and other public officers,
and all other PERSONS" to become the financial
agents of the Government in placing the bonds
The Attorney General has affirmed
the decision of the Assistant Attorney General
for the Post Office Department, that regular
publications designed primarily for advertising
purposes can not be sent through the mails at
the rates charged legitimate newspapers "
The entire $15O,OOO,OOO of per
cents. have been subscribed for by New York
syndicate.
Notice is given by the Secretary of
the Treasury that the Government has no more
4-per-cent bonds to sell at present, the enor-
nous subscription of the New York syndicate
having absorbed all that remained of that issue
required for the refunding of redeemable ten
forties. The latter are also all called in Here
after the refunding $40 certificates will be sold
at the treasury and sub-treasuries only, and
not in larger sums than 800 at one time
The Secretary of War has addressed
letter to Gen. Sherman, directing that, in
case Sitting Bull or any of his followers cross
from the British possessions, they be held as pris-
oners of war until further orders from the
President. In view of this action, Sitting Bull
and his band have voluntarily subjected them
selves to the authority of Great Britain, and
ceased to be subjects of the United States They
will not now be permitted, even with peaceable
Intentions. to recross the frontier.
Secretary Schurz some time ago
ruled that railroad lands mortgaged, but not
sold, within three years after the completion of
the roads were not within the meaning of the
phrase 4" or otherwise disposed Of" and hence
were open to exemption by settlers. The Su-
preme Court has just decided the contrary, de-
creeing that the title to these lands is in the
railroad companies. The decision involves the
title to millions of acres of railroad lands.
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A Pretty Way to Teach q Child,

section l. Hardness-Form- elast
ity-The pressure required to alter
relative positions of contiguous parts
body measures it's hardness. As t
pressure is greater with greater surfi
of contact, some unit of surface must
fixed upon. The term hardin,
is generally applied loosely
difficulty of fracture. The follow
remarks may show that our speech a
ideas IN regard to hardness are deficie
In precision. Glass is said to be hard
than lead, yet glass cup is more cas-
broken than leaden one-more cas-;
broken, though not so easily bel
Hard bodies are always elastic; elast
bodies are not necessarily hard, nor a
they necessarily brittle, nor are sc
bodies necessarily plastic. Toughne
seems to imply a resistance to chan
of form, which resistance increas
more rapidly than the displacement
thus, while band of vulcanized caor
chouc will be extended to degr
proportionate to the weight hung at Of
end, a leather strap will not be Extend
twice as far if the weight on it
doubled. Toughness is generally
ISOLATED with texture, and stretchi1
causes partial filtration in the line
pull" Here is teacher who, with
the stories of science to choose fro1
selects, as the first lesson to child, tt
necessity of fixing on a unit of srlrfae
which, however, he makes no attem1
to do, but goes on to harangue him Q
the deficiency in the precision of OF
ideas and language in regard to hare
ness. The poor child is not respol
sible for this want of precision; his fir
duty is not to reform his language, {
even to criticise it, but to learn it, ant
if there is any part OF human know
edge about which our speech and idea
have become tolerably precise, let I
teach him that first, so that he may hav
some hope that knowledge is attainabl
before we let him see, as we must at las
how confused our own notions are
Nature. ...-
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POLITICAL POINTS.

The Republican State Central Com
mittee of Iowa has issued call for State
Convention at Des Moines on Wednesday, June
II, to nominate candidates for Governor, Lieu
tenant Governor, Superintendent Of Public In
struction, and Judge of the Supreme Court
The basis of representation is one delegate for
each county, and, in addition thereto, one dele
gate for each 200 votes or fraction over 100 cast
for Secretary Of State last year This will
make a total of 772 delegates. has8s.3 atf
The official returns of the recent
State election in Michigan, though not com
plete, are sufficiently so as to make certain q
Republican majority of about 1900. The to-
tai vote so far received: Campbell, Republi-
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and now numbers on the rolls $685. 600 names of
men, women and children. Sixty nine thousand
are residents of Louisiana. The cause of this
emigration is the fact that negroes are charged
a rental of $40 an acre for land, $40 per annum
for the hire of mule, 20 cents per pound for
pork, and that these payments are secured by a
lien on the crops. Life in Louisiana under these
circumstances simply means perpetual debt or
starvation, and hence they have concluded to
leave the State and appeal to the country to as
sist them in their exodus"
West.
The Office of the Illinois State Treas
urer at Springfield was robbed, q few days $50,
of package of $1,000 by two sneak thieves,
who. entered the Office ostensibly for the pur-
pose of getting $1,000 bill changed. The
money was not missed until the sharpers had
had made good their escape. @ *s
There is stored in the grain elevators
Of Chicago 6,S76, GA bushels Of wheat, 2S5s, 965
bushels Of corn, $50, 1879 bushels Of OATS 20, 947
bushels of rye, and SIG, 759 bushels of barley,
making total of 10, s73, AL bushels, against 8,
304, 969 bushels at this period last year.
A Kansas City CMo.) dispatch says
1.-THE total number of colored immigrants who
have arrived in Wyandotte up to tho present
time is 1,7n Out of this number about 300 are
in that city, dependent upon subscriptions for
their subsistence. The sickness is increasing,
and the committees are becoming tired and
manifest less interest"
The jury in the Olive man-burning
case at Hastings, Neb.. returned a verdict
Of murder in the second degree against
Olive and Fisher and the Judge sentenced the
prisoners to Imprisonment for life at hard
abor.
The law recently passed by the Ohio
Legislature to authorize the appointment of
women as notaries public has been declared
unconstitutional by the Attorney General O,
the State. "~e. ~.
DIR. George st. Louis, under sentence
of death at Fremont, Neb., committed suicide
in his Jail, on the eve of his execution, byshoot-
ing himself through the head ~ .
The steamship Great Republic was
recently wrecked on the Pacific coast while at
tempting to enter the harbor of Astoria, Oregon
during dark night. Ten of the crew were
drowned in departing from the wrecked vessel
oy the capsizing Of boat
About half the business portion Of
the town Of Kinsley, Kan, has been burned
Loss, SIS. COO.
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can, for Justice Of the Supreme Court, $4,000;
Shipman, coalition, 12S,0OO.
The full official returns of the late
election in Wisconsin show that Judge Cole, the
Republican candidate for Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court, received majority of
80, l33 votes.
Senator Conkling is said to have
written a letter formally abandoning his Presi-
Dental aspirations and favoring Gen. Grant
IA straight Democrat has been elected over
a Greenbacker, in the Texas district formerly
represented by the late Mr.. Schleicher.
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NEWS OF The WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

Many striking miners are emigrating
from England to the United States.
Garibaldi has written strong appeal
in favor of granting universal suffrage to the
Italians.
A dispatch from Capetown, South
Africa, says that Cetywayo has sent messengers
to Lord Chelmsford with overtures for peace
1t is thought, however, this is merely ruse to
obtain information of the movements OF the
British troops. There has been some severe
fighting between the British and Zulus, and the
invaders have lost heavily. All the native
troops have deserted the British standard
A st. Petersburg dispatch says that
the heads of the secret police are about to
resign, having discovered that three-fourths of
he force are in league with the Nihilists. Let
ters from Keiff state that between the 9Th and
18th inst five attempts at murder were made
against the officials there
The Nihilists abducted the Governor
of Charkoff, Russia, as hostage for leniency to
prisoners.
The American horse Parole won the
Newmarket handicap, at London, beating
Isonomy, Lima and three others. Isonomy
was the favorite, and Parole the last in the
betting.
A st. Petersburg dispatch says the
name of the would-be assassin of the Gar is
Alexander Solovleff. He ia schoolmaster of
Targphez, in the Government of Plaskov. He
will be tried by the highest criminal tribunals.
The belief that the prisoner took poison is err
roneous. He was severely injured by the pop
ulace, who would have killed him but for the
police
The British have begun an advance
movement in Afghanistan.
A letter from the United States Con-
sui at Tangiers gives terrible account of the
famine, cholera and typhus fever that have
been raging in Morocco. In the city of Moroc-
co the daily deaths from typhus ranged from
200 to $50 So great was the starvation and
suffering that parents ate their children, and in
other places the dead were devoured by the
living
The cable reports further destructive
foods in Hungary.
In Russia, ukase has been published
ordering the appointment of Governor General
for six of the mostpopulous districts in Russia,
with perfectly despotic powers, exceed
ing those of a General in time o; war.
The President of the French repub-
lie has pardoned 800 more Communists. '-
Gen. Gourko, the newly-appointed
Governor General of St Petersburg, has or.
dered all gunmakers to send lists of their stock
to the city commandant, and sell only to per-
sons presenting special authorization, under
the penalty of the confscation of the stock
and prohibition of trade. Private persons pos
sessing arms can only retain them by specia
permission. Porters mast be kept at the
doors of all houses day and night to prevent
the posting of placards and scattering of ex-
plosives in the streets. simultaneously with
Solovieffs attempt on the Cars life three po-
icemen were shot in Kazan Among the assas-
sins were an educated girl, aged II, and 8
nOhIeman
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DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

A pedestrian named Lavelle, who
started in walking match at Woonsocket, R.
L, was taken i'll on the track and died in few
hours
Christian Lester, of Morristown, N. j.,
fatally shot his wife and then killed himself.
The Philadelphia Common Council
has decided to send committee to California
to receive Gen. Grant, and the Assembly OF
New York mas passed resolution to tender
him the Inequalities of the State on his return
In the East river, at New York, the
other day, a tug boat was run down and sunk
by steamer. Of ten men on the tug, only
five escaped.
The daughter of William r. Town
send, wealthy New York publisher, has Gre
ated a stir in fashionable circles of the metrop-
young lady was well educated, and something
of society belle. E# 81
South. # 5z4
Ex-Congressman Smalls, of South
Carolina, states that the negroes in that State
have caught the emigration fever, and are only
lack of money.
At delegate convention of colored
men of Arkansas, held at Little Rock the other
day, resolutions were adopted affirming that,
as the colored citizens of Arkansas in many
localities are not allowed the free ENJOYMENT of
their constitutional rights, they are desirous of
emigrating to some other State or Territory
where the elective franchise can be enioved
unmoles+ed," and recommending the appoint
ment of two colored Commissioners, under the
National Emigration Aid Society, to select a
suitable State or Territory =
Denwood B. Kinds and Isaac D.
James engaged in a shooting ARRAY in the
streets of Baltimore the other day, which end
ed In the death of James and the wounding of
Kinds and younger brother who was present
and took part in the ARRAY.
A terrific tornado recently swept
through the lower part of South Carolina, de-
stroying hundreds of houses and killing many
people In the village of WATERFORD more than
100 dwellings, and all the churches were swept
away. Ihree-fourths of the inhabitants are
homeless. Fifteen persons were killed and
many wounded. At Oakley, a station on the
Northwestern railroad, all the negro houses
were leyeled and one negro killed, besides
many hurt Similar casualties are reported
from various points in the track of the
tornado.
+ Seven hundred Tennessee moon
sinners appeared before the United States Cir
cult Court at Nashville, last week, and accept
ed the amnesty offered by Atty. Gen. Devena.
They agree to go and sin no more e
A convention of colored people has
just been held in New Orleans. A report was
adopted stating that IAN emigration society was
organized in the parish of Caddo, in August,
1874, which rapidly spread through the State,
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HOME INTERESTS.
Children of the Home. %

Dear little children of the Home,n
Come all and gather round my chair:
Climb on its arms, and on my knees
And kiss my cheeks, and pull my hair,
And hug me tight around my neck
Thus chain the lion in his lair.
Now half of you this pocket search,
And pass the nuts and candy round;
The rest that pocket on the left
All! darlings, now what have you founds
A lot of pretty picture books
With gilded leaves, in colors boundi
There's one for every one of you
For Mauds, and Safes, and Cora Bells; u
Tor Toms, and Wills, and Charley boys,
And petit Toots, and brunette Swells,
Who kindly speak, and smile serene
With whom no envy ever dwells.
My little dsars your Uncle Lutte,
Who dearly loves you one and all.
Whenever his spirit melts in PRAYER,
To Him who hears the faintest call,
Doth ask that you from rights crowned height
May never, never, never fall.
Now sing song; let each young voice
Loud fill the room. ring through the halls;
Such sounds bring music to my soul
It's whispers, thunder. waterfalls,
And blithesome birds, and gurgling rills,
And rustling leaves when cuckoo calls.
All thanks, my dears story now?
Well, list: Frank Good was always kind,
Afectionate and stroye to please
His parents sought the truth to find
Through all his life, and now he stands
man, as manhood's truth defined.
John Bad was vain, and envious, too,
Was hardly kind unto himself; .,.
Through petty sins was led at last
man to murder for his pelf; -
Tomorrow, by the hangman's moose,
He will be laid upon the shelf.
Now, little boys and girls, good by;
Your Uncle Lutte would feel so sad
Should you bad words or thoughts indulge.
But OIL he'll feel so glad SO glad,
To know you'll strive to do your best
God, too, will grieve if you are bad.
KALAMAZOO, Mich. UNCLE Lutte.
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PROF. ANDREW D. WHITE, our ne,
Minister to Germany, was the secon
recipient of the Def Forest medal at Yal
College for combined excellence i
writing and elocution. His subiec
L" The Diplomatic History of Moder
Times" has suggestive meaning
connection with the position now hel
bv him.
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A CALIFORNIA paper reports that a
gentleman in the vicinity Of Sacra-
mento, having stocked pond on his
ranch with perch and catfish, has found
what seems to be cross between the
two species among the young fish. The
shape, mouth and color of the perch are
combined with the stiff and threatening
fins and the scaleless exterior Of the cat
fish.
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CHICAGO, Ill.
Cheap and Pretty Lamn-Mats.

OHeap anu Fretty Lamp-MatS.
Get two or three sheets of tissue-paper-
color you like, or you can use two colors toget'
Out in strips one and quarter inches wi
take knitting needle, double the paper in
center over the needle; now commence
pinching the paper together between the thu
and forefnger, that will crimp the paper:
pass between the hand and needle as i
crimped; now have piece of paste-bo
square or round, leaving it a few inches lar
than the lamp; on this sew the strips of pa
by the two ends; that leaves them double:
them one upon the other until you have IL
as thick as you wish; paste some paper over
center SO as to cover the stitches The strips
paper should be about fifteen inches long, W
crimped NETT1E /
ENsLEY. Newaygo county. Mich
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IT is said that young Napoleon per
mitted himself to fall in love with the
pretty Princess Beatrice, and went
to South Africa to fight the Zu us
in order to win not only the girls admit
ration but her hand.
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Putty Work.

Now will try to explain how to make pretty
frames and ornament them with "putty work.
For two pounds of putty add two teaspoon
fuls of coach varnish, two of demar varnish,
and one of Japan dryer, and add burnt lumber
to darken to the required shade. Use inseed
oil to soften, as the lumber will make it dry, and
the putty after it is ready, should be as soft as
for glaciers use Pound and work until the
lumber is worked evenly through the putty If
it is to be laid aside for any length of time be-
fore using it should be kept in water and it
will not become hard. Now you have the
putty ready and you must have some molds:
SO get some nice grape leaves, and oil shallow
dish; lay the leaves wrong side up in the dish;
dissolve plaster of paris with water to about
the consistency of sweet cream, and pour over the
leaves; let stand few hours and remove from
the dish Any pretty design can be taken with
putty and cut in shape and mold taken from
the putty, the same as above. Now take your
frame-pine is as good as any-o1 it over with
inseed oil, then spread on evenly the prepared
putty with a case-knife, and make perfectly
smooth by rubbing with the hand. Now put a
border around the frame; now take piece of
putty and f1atten out as large as your
leaf; lay on the mold and press
carefully to get all the impressions of
the leaf in the putty; then remove; cut out
your leaT-leaV1nS stem-and lay leaves on
the sides and ends of the frame, and put q
bunch of grapes in each corner. To make the
grapes, mold a piece of putty the shape. you
wish your bunch of grapes to be, but much
smaller, and lay across the corner over the
seam where the frame is joined, then mold lit
tie balls of putty in the hand or cover entirely
over as near to initiate bunch of grapes as
you can. Now take very small piece of putty,
and, by rolling between two cigar-box
covers (what | use), you can make pretty
tendrils to lay between leaves. and in all spaces
left vacant where they will look pretty, and, if
at any time you have trouble about the leaves
sticking to the putty on the frame. take some
inseed Oil and put very little on the dry putty
on frame-I use a feather to put it on with.
When complete, lay away and let dry thorough
ly, land then varnish with coach varnish-two
coats-and I am sure you will have a pretty
frame, and cheap. I have molds from roses
and lilies that have taken with putty from
carvings on furniture, and I use them often
on frames and paper holders, etc., but I like
grapes full better than anything else. If your
putty sticks to the molds, clean all the putty off
with benzine, and a little linseed oil or spirits
of turpentine will clean your hands. IT have
failed in explaining so as to be understood, [
will answer any question in regard to it at any
time. HATTIE B.
LIE MARS, Iowa. (Box 242)
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-07-18

clinations as well as their passions,
when the law of nature is inadequate.
Now if men are inclined TO do that
which experience has shown 20 be Mt
terly destructive of any branch Of bus
iness or interest of society, each bust
ness or interest ought to be protected
by law to that exten, which its impor-
lance to the world requires. OF course
this legislation should be general and
entirely impartial. We close by sup
posing the following state of things,
viz: A small number of men acquire
control over the capital and all the
practical facilities for carrying on a
business, they dictate the wages which
shall be paid to labor, which being
dictated by their avarice, are unjust
and oppressive. VIII nature, having
no capital, build up competitive insti-
tutions and give them to those who
must either have capital and means
or submit to the harsh terms imposed
by capitalists? What harm can law
do which justly regulates such a con,
dition of things?