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Journalists.

There Is no deny ing that, As a rule the
editor is expected TO Go more .or nOth-
ing to give more for the money, To ex-
meDt FOR fayOrs done, than the lawyer,
doctor, clergyman, merchant and ,aImeT.
This does not hold good, az is generally
supposed, OF the country press alone, but
also OF the journalists OF the cities, great
aud small. Most of the subscribers to a
newspaper, be it g daily or a weekly,
though they get their full moneys
WORTH and something more, are fully I'M
pressed with the idea that they have an
insienable right to dictate the eOu.s of
the paper that they take"
These people would never dream of
threatening o withdraw their patronage.
from a grocer because on public or re-
ligjOUs affairs, he entertained or expressed
opinions at variance with their own.
Tney would never think of asking their
tailCTs tn throw in a vest because they
paid for a coat; they would laugh ct the
idea of &C vising q lawyer how to conduct
q case; vet, they think it the most
reasonable and natural thing in the world
to tell the editor that they will stop his
payer if he continues TO oppose resump-
IN O. Il 5iun. r-'U-ss 10 find tsult
with the national administration, or alb
stain from praising it, as the-csse may be.
Wien thev find it to their interests TO
advertise they deem themselves badly
us, il the editor does not promptly and
smilingly comply with the request for
local or editorial notice, highly tavofsole
pf poiIrsp
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PreparIng to fight tne Western Union.

The final results OF the combination of
railroad companies against the Western
Union teleg aph company have come 20
! light l. appears that OF about 5000
pisces from which messages for the
! Western are sent, something ike COCO
| re railroad stations belonging 10 various
railroad companies. The telegraph wires
along the routes OF the railroads are the
property OF tbese corporations, sEd
simply leased by the Western Uuion.
Were all the railroad companies to com
| bine and form an association OF their
own for operating these wires, it would
at once deprive ithe Telegraph company
of three-lOurths of its business, and oveI
! twoethirds of the stations from which us
most lucrative business Is derived. But
the New YoIk Central, with its con-
neclions, ID favorable to the Western
Union, bcCau,e of the interest of the
Vanderbilt family in the stock Of tne
telegraph company. While this aids in
strengthening the hold of the telegraph
company, it Is a source .ot Jealousy
among the officers Of other railroad com
panies. There is a feeling among the
officials Of ali other great trunk lines
that they have been msde the tools and
agents Of he Vanderbilt interest. The
recent United Ststes Supreme Court de
cision gave opportunity for the C)mbj-
nation to act. II is thUughtit il the in
tentiOn OF the OriginatOTs OF the new
movement TO organic a company III
which all the trunk railroad Ices, with
the exception OF the New York Central,
are to take stock. Messages are to be
sent at about Onc.,hjri toe Ir,sent price.
Press messages, especially, are to be
trans mitled at very low rates. Ii Is
supposed that, with the wires and poles
now owned by the railroad companies,
not mo!e than $1,000 90 will be re-
quired to supply the additional wires
! and poles necessary. 1t i understood IN
egai circles that the leasing OF the Union
Pacific ard Central Pacific was an illegal
act: because, under their charters, these
companies are required to MAINTAIN tele-
graphic lines for the benefit OF the COM
munity, and can not grant special
privileges to any individual or corpora
ton. They sre required also, to receive
and transmit commercial messages on
equal terms for all parties. The neces-
sary committee for the organization OF
the company is already arranged, and
the $l,OOO,6G will be forthcoming.
The programme of the company will be
cheap telegraphy and the breaking up OF
the mOnopOlles connected with the as
sociAted press. 1t is claimed that the
q aal result of this movement will be to
make telegraphy in the Uoited States as
cheap as in England.
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Biyard Taylor and His Habits.

'lNFFltA' He-dlar
Bayari Taylor wrote beautiful hand
He detested blind and slovenly writing.
and used to say that any man could
write plainly who would make an effort.
His manuscript was the delight of print
ers. Mr.. Taylor wrote quietly and stead.
lily, and produced a great deal more
copy" in a given time than any one
would suppose him capable Of who OBJ
served his apparent ease and absence of
hurry. He was rather careless in his
dress, but not, like Horace Greeley,
enough 80 to be conspicuous. He
liked stought, but plain suit of clothes
that could be worn long time, lOose>
fitting gray oVercOat, and 8 broad
brimmed siOuch hat. He was a hearty
eater, and was fond of the German ma
tiOnal beverage, which he habitualIy
drank st dinnertime. In religious belief
he might have been Chased as Unita-
rian or a Deist, though lie had great
reverence for the faith o. his Quaker
ancestors. In his later years the desire
ior travel wore of, and he used to set out
on journey with great reluctance. AT.
ter seeing, and knowing well all the
great cities of the world his preference
was New York. He often said he had
rather live there than in any European
capital. Taylor's vile was a daughter
of the celebrated German astronomer
Professor Hansen. She is lady OF fine
culture and considerable literary talent.
A school history OF Germany, written by
her husband for use in American schools,
WAS recently translated by her into Ger
man. Their daughter, Lillian, closely
resembled her father as he appeared in
bis youthful days Taylor built the
house near Kenneth square where his
oarents still live, and where they cele-
brated their golden wedding nearly ten
years ago. He called the place Cedar
croft, and hoped to pass bis old age there.
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AFTER THE FROST.

brown wren slipping in and out the thieket
haf with its Taktd stems scarce hides the wall,
all fsded I rms, chipping little cricket
Tuat with ber sOng leaves nc sill interval,
Yet OILY e. i US vi her l,uling Igcket
How stil the can dun fel = stretch all around,
For runners VOICE dies Z ~ ", and we lack il
First when W. the cucEets puny SOUND.
dusty n Ul Ieip, ragged yet defiant,
Tnat claims ths soil a. its fret denizen,
A festheTy plane f purple ssters, plant
Ard b 4udinz with the burden OF th wren.
some Win--ioEn Leaves whose earlier hectic stain
ing
Has fad q fast 10 seTe ard russell tint,
ard on the zsl-bushes yes remaining
Scan; rtd g Id sprays that Highly toss and CLINT.
one rough-5 emmej milkwtcd to the meadows
nging
a Il ready winged for Iii ht her silky seed;
a WOOdbine weaving E /, ahout and a nging
With close eInb ace cen 10 tie annual weed;
A dcg-iose bush against whose bro zed leaves
showing,
The scarlet Eps shine rudy SIT and fsir;
some fIe n green tufted mos strangely glowing
Through the thin hicket snS he frustv air,
Where on the Southwsrd slope the rough walls
me tiug
Divide the pasture from thu iCrrowed grOundg,
and you may hear the nib5ling q, cSs' shrin beat-
ing,
here IN a careless corner these are found
These and youth, too fond q GU d dreaming,
no loves 10 marx the lszy sunheam's fall,
+nd stays to note toe quiet autumn seeming
For his own posing pleasure that is sll
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which the State has made n, provision for
their safe-keeping or restoration to reason.
The Mcffett liquor law is in fair way
10 be repealed upon the reassembling of the
Virginia legislature. Deduc,ing the ecst O.
collecting the tax under the Moffett law and
adding what is lost to the State by the pay
ment in coupons, the revenue from this
scarce, it is believed, viii not amount to
near as much as under the old special Il
cense tax system.
At Watauga, n. g, Major Harrison
Osborne shot and killed J. B. Martin for
persisting in grinding out "Grandfather S
| Clock" on a violin. This case is on a par
with that of Bill Longley, who killed a man
in Texas hOtel bee use ne would persist in
snoring after B il had politely requested him
to desist. Both cases might be classed a
"killing in self-defe1ce"
The public schools of the United States
require S202 from each iDbabitant for their
support, and military purposes $lSS. In
other countries these Two items Of expendie
ture are as follows: Prussia, 81 cents and
| 500 Austria 81 cents and Bl.s9; France. %
ceats and $3.50; Italy, Is cents and Si.5I;
England and Wales, 66 cents and $685.; Swift
/ ze.land, IS cents and 81.
During the year fOrty-thrse vessels en-
tered the cJrt of Richmond, With a capacity
OF 1896 tons and one hundFed and forty
| three ve-se cleared, with q capacity OF 49,
lS6 tons. Value Of imports, consisting of
| coffee, salt, lump plaster, etc, : 052l3.30 {;
value of export, consisting principally OF
I tobacco, -four petroleum, naphIha and
exports over imports amounts 10 $685.
! On N
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Socialism,

In the Fortnightly Review for last
month Prof Henry Fawcett discusses
the recent develOpm mt of socialism in
Germany and the United States. The
most marked characteristic OF modern
socialism, in his view, as compared with
the socialism OF former days, Is the rel.
snce on the power Of the state. The
! schemes OF the esrly socialists were vol
| untary organizations, and no attempt
| was made 1t coercion; the socialists OF
/ the present day siIG at using the state TO
/ transform the entire community after a
prescribed economic model Professor
FawCett takes decided ground against the
suppre s-iCn Of sOei4li>m The TWO great
principles o. sac.slism, as explained by
| Professor FawCett, are the abolition OF
private property aud the assumption by
| the slate Of the land, machinery and sli
the Instruments Of production. Bul these
ideas, he continues. have been cherished
in GeTESny aud tie United States by
the haoitual reliance OF the people on
the intervention OF the state. 1t has
b en- the prevailing opinion In Germany
that the state is OmBIpOyenJ, aud should
be OmnipTesent. The same feeling, &C.
CJrdiBg to the writer, has been fJstered
III this country byexlendIng the system
Of protection over so large q pST. OF It's
industry, thus aCcustouiDg the people to
state interference, and preparing them
for the reception Of sOCishstic ideas.
The socialists maintain that the detects
in the industrial economy of the c0mmu,
nifty are mainly due to an inadequate, or
an improper Use Of the power OF hesitate.
Hence they propose that the state should
supply the wOIkmen with capital. No
terms are more commonly used by social
lists than the tyranny Of capital. They
speak Of capital as If it were infected
with some evil principle which, If net
controlled by the stste, will subject the
working classes to oppression. But to
speak OF the tyranny OF capital is no less
absurd than to regard nature as q despot,
because wealth cannot be acquired withz
out labor and there cannot be q tOre~
harvest before the land has been titled
and seed sOwn. The tilIing and sowing
represent the service which capital ren-
ders 10 the production of wealth. II
those who labor can render this service
themselves, If the pl)wman own the
pillow and the seed, he becomes his own
capitalist. If, however, those who till
the laud have neither pIOw nor seed,
they will be obliged TO call IN the aid OF
Others. The assistance which they thus
need represents the service Of capital,
ahG the price paid Tor the service is the
profit OF capital. The greatest care
should be taken, Professor Fawcett Ie-
marks, that the working classes may be
able to acquire the capitsl which their
industry needs. But the interference OF
tie tate, in the opinion OF the writer, Is
always attended with peril, The slightest
assault upon the priuetpie Of individual
responsibility msy exert q most dis3ss
trOus iuH Ience, cei.-reiiaHCe, which is
the chief antidOte 10 socialism, may thus
be weakened
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SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

There is q lady in the Virginia legis-
lature.
A Texarcana barber sports So, 600
worth Of diamonds.
Virginia is shipping from NGrtolk
large numbers of cattle to Europe.
North Carolina papers are wsging a
war on the high salaries paid by the state.
A planter in Ascension, La, made
four thousand pounds of sugar to the acre.
The losses by fire in Richmond last
year were $4,000, against $4,000 in 1917.
The salary of the mayor OF Savannah
has been fixed at $1,000 reduction Of $50.
The gold mines OF Georgia are said to
producs not less than 81 100000 bullion per
annum.
By natural increase, and not by supe-
rior yield, Florida has produced 100000 bars
rels more oranges this season than she did
last.
Alabama clears some $4,000 a year
working out her convicts. On the laat day
of December there were but eightysfve in
the penitentiary.
An enterprising fisherman took 1S5
shad at the ST. Johns bar on Saturday last,
The f h are worth fifty cents a pair in the
jacksonville market.
A statement just prepared by the
register Of the treasury shows that sl2s S62
was expended in Georgia on public works IN
1877, and $l7S, GOA in 1873.
Mobiles trade has largely increased
oyer last wear. The exports have been Sl9N
100000 against S1S OOoO 0, and the imports
Sl,14s,442 against $64s, 404.
1fNcfyH Inf cd or
the ducking tub as punishment in the Ohio
neniteUtisrv. Physici ms endorse it, and it
isssid TO have reduced the number of cases
sent down io' punishment 20 per cent.
The Aberdeen Examiner tells of TIVE
farmers in Monroe county who have two
wears crops of cotton on hand, and of one,
who with two years crops on his place un>
sold, is now buying cotton to hold for higher
prices.
Hsrrisou Page, the escaped negro con-
Wet who killed Clark Bciscoe, of Claiborne
county, Miss two years ago, and a few
vreeks $50 killed Sheriff Buck and Deputy
Lane was captured few DAYS agoat Beach
land. The county had offered 5000 reward
for him.
TIE nuns of Ursaline Convent, burned
near Columbis, S. c., by the federal forces,
are getting everybody in the It te to sign
petitiou &c congress for an appropriation of
one hundred thousand dollars 10 reimburse
them. In addition to the destruction of
property, four or five nuns persisted from
exposure.
The Little Rock Democrat says thst
letters received from forty eight County
Clerks show thst 10 insane people now con-
Gned in The jsils of the State. IL also reports
that there are upward of three hundred of
shese poor demenled beings in Arkansas, for
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The Other Side of the intelligent
COmpOsitOr" Question.


Next to the intelligent compositor,"
the proof reader Is the best-sbused man
In newspaper establishment. Indeed.
some philosophers have thought that
the latter is entitled to the first rank.
We distinctly wrote" remarks the
editO" of the Blueyille Bugle, 90 Brother
B)liyer of Calvary CHURCH and only the
fen fish ingenuity OF the intelligent com
pOsitOr could have twisted il into Bloody
Bull dOz9r of Cavalry church, we ex-
ceedlngly regret, etc, etc" In our
editorial last week on the Ann Arbor
University explains the RAgOpOlis True
Banner, the intention was To allude to
the internal dissensions' and not to the
internal dissections, as the proOi-reader
imagined" 81 want you to understand,
writes an aefuIly mad correspondent
OF the Bafgertown Argus, " that quoted
the beautiful Sanscit line Ruet Cggerd
ell and not Root hog or die, as your
paper printed it. Why don't you hire
some one who can read proof ?" And
thus 1t goes, wi hOUt anyone giving very
much thought to the horrible sggTega-
ton CT penstrOkes that make up the mass
OF printers copy. Writing of every
conceivable design, from the neat copy Of
the first manuscript to the hierJglypbjc
scTswi of the Old stager in journalism,
all dumped on the unfortunate shoulders
0. the comp" or pgoot-rea-er. And
yet mistakes Ia q good newspaper are
rare. Still Dan mas never been known
TO come ID newspaper office and say
" that letter of nine was admiral y
printed, not mistake in the whole
column but il Is quite a common thing
to have a man with red isce and fiery
eye, shout " Heavens and earth, what
Kind OF q paper do you print anyhow
l wrote to and it came out BE- the this
morning" and then ne mops ms heated
brow in sgOny. Column and column of
correct matter are forgotten, and the one
mistake stands out in gigantic proper
ti9ns. The Free Press hiss q COmpOsitOr
who frequently mU-teTs his thoughts
aloud as he works at the case. Last
week a peculiarly detestable piece OF
copy" tell to his share, and, after ne
had settled in his own mind which was
the top, he gr0Wled: Sc Sometimes think
we must have lived another lite before,
and that this Ii must be perdition, and
this copy the hottest corner OF it." There
are two sides Of this 8 intelligent cOmpOs-
tor business.
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The Life that is TO be Found on Subp
marine Gable.

The amount of submarine life that
comes up on a cable which is taken up
Tor Tepsirs after being INN ersed .Or a
year or two is surprising. Three years
ago the writer was with a repairing ex-
petition on the Para to Cayenne Sc elton
OF the Western and Brazilian cOmpsny's
cables. We were chiefly at work off the
Island at Marsjo, in the estuary of the
Amazon. The cable had only been sub
merged about g month; vet it csme on
board the ship at places literally covered
with barnsCles; at others OvergTOwn
with submarine vegetation, crabs and
curious shells often Of singular deliCscy
and be NV. The sea-weeds were ID
great variety clinging TO the cable,
sometim-s in thick groves of red snd
yellow alge red, Shiny fucoids, and tufts
of am thy-t moss We found branching
c0ralliue plants upward OF a foot in
hei-ht growing TO the cable, the soft
skeleton being covered with q heshy
skin, generally of a deep orange C1or.
Som etimes q sponge WAS found attached
10 the roots OF these clrals and delicate
C1Ic8rjOus structures Of varied tlnts in
Cru.tea tie stems # al these points snd
served to ornament as well as tOstreugthen
them. Parasitic lite seems to be As sife
under these soft tend waters az on the
neigubcrin- tropical shores. Many star
fishes, zl0phites and Cru.taCeans were
likewise hshcd up on the cable The
crabs were often themselves completely
oveTgr0wn with the Indigenous yegets-
ton of the bottom, and 90 were scarcely
distingui-hablef from It, O-hers, although
not so covered. were found to have the
same tiHts a5 the vegetation they inhsb-
tied. and even IN structure somewhat
resemb'ed the latter. O,her5, agair,
weye perfectly or partially transparent;
and one most besuti.ul hyaliue crab,
new TO science, united in It's person
several OF the prevailing colers Of the
bottom. Its slender limbs. Ike !nted
Glaments OF glass. were stained here sud
there OF a deep topaz brown. its snout,
pointed like & needle, wss Of q deep
scarlet; its triangular body was OF dep
yellow its eyes were gseeu and It's tiny
limbs OF an amethyst blue.
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CONGRESSIONAL.



In the senate on the 7th the following
bills were introduced and referred.
By Mr.. Booth: For the interchange of sub
EidIary silver, coin and United States notes.
BY Mr. Mcdonald: 70 authorize the taxa
ton OF outstanding legal tenders.
Mr. VOORHEES, called up his resolution in
| stsHcting the Judiciary Committee TO inquire
into the expectancy of making the trade
| dollar legal tender, and providing for the
coinage into standard silver dollars. y ad
dressed the senate at length, denOuncing the
trade dollar az fraudulent money, which,
having failed in its mission abroad, had re.
.tUyHea home 10 cheat the honest people Of
this country.
The Viee-pEesideut laid before the senate
a memorial from the legislative assembly Of
the state OF Oregon, praying for a mOdihca-
ton OF the treaty between the United States
and the empire OF CHINA, so AS TO stop and
prohibit the importation or immigration of
Chinese and OIher Asiatic laboreTs to the
Pacific coast. Referred. Adjourned.
In the senate on the Sth, Senator Thurman,
from the committee On judiciary, reported,
with an amendment, the house bill to divide
the vest ern district OF Missouri into two di-
visions and prescribing the times and places
FOR holding court therein. Placed on the
calendar.
Consideration was resumed OF the bin to
am n the pat Mt laws, and Senator Waj.
Leigh took the e Dor, but E interrupted by
g message from the house announcing the
Leath Of Representative Hsrtridge. Senators
Gordon Booth and Beck were 4 pointed a
committee to accompany the body to Geor>
giA Adjourned.
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The Walled Lake in Iowa.


The greatest wonder IN the State OF
Iowa, and perhaps any other State, is
what is called the Walled Lake" in
Wright county, twelve miles north OF
the DUBUQUE snd Pacific railway, and
one hundred and fifty west of Dubuque
CITY. The lake is from two to three feet
higher than the eaTth's surface. In some
places the wall is ten feet high, fifteen
'eet wide at the bottom and five feet
wide on top. Another fact is the size OF
the stones used in construction, the whole
of them varying in weight from three
tons to one hundred pounds. There Is
an abundance of stones in Wright county,
but sur Ounding the lake to the extent
of five or ten miles there are none. No
one can form an idea as to the means en-
ployed to bring them to the spot or who
constructed it. Around the entire lake
is a belt of woodland half mile in length,
composed of oak. With this exception,
the country is rolling prairie. The trees
must have been planted there at the
time of the building of the wall. In
the spring of the year 1856 there was
great storm, and the ice on the lake
broke the wall in several places, and me
farmers in the vicinity were obliged to
repair the damages to prevent inunda-
ton. The lake occupies ground sur
face OF 2 500 acres; depth OF water as
great as 25 feet. The water is clear sno
cold: soil sandy and losmy. 1t is sin
pular that nc one has been able TO sscer-
| tain where the water comes from nor
where it goes, yet it is always clear and
j fresh,
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=" How can you tell me 2" inquired his
girl.
Howl" he repeated, in a whisper e;
why, by experience that's just the
way felt when first got shaved"
When was that ? " she asked.
con. before l raised my moustache,"
he returned.
What moustache ?" she gueried, q
little surprised.
What mOustache do you suppose ?"
he retOrted. turning red.
Why, Charlie" whispered the girl,
81 never saw any moustsche. Do you
mean"
Never mind what | mean" Kissed
the young man, between his clenched
teeth. And he stared very hard at the
lecturer all the rest of the evening, but
somehow couldn't see anything to laugh
at. Sunday night he went to see a new
girl.
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House.

In the house on the 7th MY. Carlisle
introduced a till to Inc 'ude newspapers and
periodicals and proof sheets in mail matter
OF the third class Referred.
M. " .ddel reported a bill relating 10 the
class Gcation Of mail matter and the amount
Of postage thereon, Ordered printed and
rerOmm tied.
Mr.. KidJer introduced bill for the adj
mission OF DakOtah as a state Referred.
The deaths Of D. B. Douglass va and A.
S Williams (Mich.) were then announced,
and the house, in respect to their memory,
adjourned.
In the house on the Sth, official notice Of
the death OF L p sentative Hartridge was
ken, and Messrs. Cook, Fry, Cox, Cabeil,
Stone Davidson and Hunt were appointed a
committee TO accompany the remains TO
Georgia. Adjourned