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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-28

At this great and terrible word,
CHASTITY silence fell upon the whole group
OF expectants. At last Mr.. Cannie ven
tured to remark that the very handsome
carpet on which our feet were now plac-
ed had been his own gilt to the 6eceas-
ed, made to him on the understanding
that his son was to be his heir, and to
keep the remembrance of the boy in the
testator's mind, and that he did hope,
under the circumstances, that the resldu-
airy legatee would return the carpet.
II beg to Observe" said Mr.. Lawson,
"that there is piano chosen by my
daughter, and purchased by myself un-
der precisely similar circumstances, now
in this house, and I think, in common
justice, that it at least should be return
ed to me-"
sit appears to me, gentlemen" OBJ
served the residua-y legatee, with a
grim smile, shat we are all lawyers, and
that an appeal to the feelings-especially
upon such ground as common justice
is ridiculous and absurd. What the
law will now do with the late Mr..
Foracre's property shall be happy to
tell you, on the authority of his last will
and testament" And thereupon he read
the will. 1t bequeathed his property
in rather touching terms to his dear
friend Alexander John Furnival, sin to-
ken of much Kindness" and appointed
the same his residury legatae. 1t was
about g., 900 in all, $500 of which went
to the housekeeper who had ilched his
butter. Notwithstanding this proof Of
the excellence of the disposition of the
deceased, there were some very severe
things said to his discredit, and especial
~ that he had obtained the gifts and
good Offices Of many of those present, on
promises which were in fact false pre-
lenses.
"My dear Sirs," said the reslduary
legatee, blandly, eve all went in for the
prize, and unhapilv only one could win
it. 1t is possible if it had been permit
ted our departed friend to live another
month Or two he might have made new
disposition of his property; but, as it is,
am the fortunate heir. An excellent
luncheon has, it seems, been provided for
you, and though there is a question as to
my liability for any such expense, I will
cheerfully defray it. Let us part good
friends"
"And do you mean to say, Sir" ex-
claimed Mr.. Smart, in his thinnest and
sharpest tones, "that this fellow never
mentioned to you the fact that he had led
me to imagine for the last eighteen years
that my son was to inherit his property9'
''He never mentioned your name, Sir
to my knowledge; but there was mem
orandum folded up in the will, which ]
did not read, which has reference tc
you. Your family burying- place, be-
lieve, is in this parish9'
"What the deuce has that to do with
you, Sir?' inquired Mr.. Smart, with if
1itatlon.
Nothing to do with me whatever, bu
something to do, it seems to me, with
Robert Foracre. 1t is my WISH he says
'to be buried as far from Bartholomew
Smart as the limits Of the church-yard
will permit, lest by any chance, when
the devil comes to take him, as he mos
assuredly will, he should make any mis-
| fake'''
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-28
THE MINISTER'S DAUGHTER.

BY JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.
In the minister's morning sermon
He had TO d Of the primal fall,
And how thenceforth the wrath Of God
Rested on each and all.
And how of His win aud pleasure,
All souls, save chosen few,
Were doomed to the quenchless burning
And held in the way thereto.
Yet never by faiths unreasoN
4 sinister soul was tried,
And never the harsh old lesson
A tender heart belied.
And, after the painful service
On that painful Sabbath day.
He walked with his little daughter
Thro' the apple-bloom OF May
Sweet in the fresh green meadows
Sparrow and blackbird sung;
Above him their tinted petals
The poisoning orchard hung.
Around on the wonderful glory
The minister looked and smiled;
How good is the Lord who gives us
These gifts from His hand my child!
"Behold in the bloom of apples
And the ViOletS on the Sward
A hint of the old lost beauty
OF the garden of the Lord.
Then up spake the little maiden,
Treadlng on snow and pink:
30 Father! these pretty blossoms
Are very wicked, think.
Had there been no Garden OF Eden
There never had been such fall;
And if never tree had blossOmed
G0d would have loved us all"
Hush. child" the father answered.
by His decree man fell;
His ways are in clouds and darkness,
But He doeth all things we'll"
"And whether by His ordaining
To US cometh good or i'll,
JOY or pain, or light or shadow.
We must fear or love Him still"
ooh, fear himm said the daughter,
And try to love Him too;
But wish He was good and gentle,
Kind and loving as you"
The miEister groaned in spirit
As the tremulous lips of pain
And wide, wet eyes uplifted
Questioned his own in vain,
Bowling his head he pondered
The words of the little one;
Had he erred in his lifelong teaching?
Had he wrong to his Master dO2e?
To what grim ard dreadful idol
Had he lent the hottest name:
Did his own heart, loving and human,
To God of his worship shame?
And lol from the bloom and greenncss
From the tender skies above,
And face Of his little daughter
He read alesSOn of love.
No more as the cloudy terror
OfSinais mount of law,
But as Christ in the Syrian lilies
The vision Of God he saw.
And as when, in the clefts Of Horeb,
Of old was His presence known,
The dread Ineffable Glory
Was infinite Goodness alone.
Thereafter his hearers noted
In his prayers tender strain,
And never the gospel of hatred
Burned on his lips again.
And the soothing tongue was prayerful,
And the blinded eyes found sight,
And hearts, as flint aforetime,
Grew soft in his warmth and light.
Atlantic.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-28

hammer disclosed Lord Chesterfield
relates of one of his friends that he wrote
book of obstruse character during the in
teryals Of waiting for his wife to appear
at breakfast. Why not follow such ex-
amples as these?
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-28

THERE is q good deal OF feeling in
Washington over the fact that Mr.. Hayes
insists on having the White House
banked UP y for winter, the same as
farm houses IN Ohio are banked up, with
"maneuyer y from the barn-yard. Fash
ionable residents Of Washington stick
up their noses at it, but Mr.. and Mrs
Hayes insist that the flavor is not
unpleasant, and that potatoes and APP
piles keep better in the cellar when the
house is banked up that way.-Peck's
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-28

"WHY did King Henry never smile
again ?" asked the school-teacher.
I" Maybe" suggested the boy at the
foot of the class, "because he joined
the Red Ribbon Club. "-Berdette.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-12-30
Turpentine Not a Drier.

Oil, or spirits of turpentine is gcner-
ally supposed to he Il dricr, and is used
as such, while in fact it is only thin
ner and has no drying properties in
itself. This has been repeatedly proved
in various ways, but the following
simple experiment will suffice: In two
vessels of equal size and shape put
equal quantities of linsecd oil, and with
one mix quantity Of spirits Of tur-
pentinc. Allow both to he exposed to
the same atmospheric influences and
watch them. Very soon you will find
the quantity in each vessel TO be alike,
showing that the turpentine has en-
tircly cvaporated, after which, if you
can perceive any difference in tine
rapidity of the drying between the two,
it will he in favor of what was origi-
nally the pure oil. When mixture of
linsccd oil and spirits of turpentine is
spread ont over Il surface, the effect is
produced which has led so many to call
the turpcntine a dricr
The turprntine rapidly flies off, and
the oil is left in Il much thinner body
than if it had been applied pure, and
the air has so much the better chance
to operate on it, but the turpentinc has
left nothing behind to aid the harden
ing or drying process. Painters like II
use it because it makes the paint flow
more readily, work easier, and spreat
on better. For inside work 1t is desir
able, because, as Il rule the object is t
apply to the surface covered as little oi
in proportion to the pigment used a
possible, while for outside work tn
reverse is the case. Turpentine an,
benzinc are almost Identical in thci
modes Of action, the benzine being til
more vaporic and escaping the NOR
quickly. Neither should be used fo
the outside of u house, but for the il
side they answer not only the purpos
spoken of as well, hut, as they evapt
rate, a"lat' surface, as it is technical
called, is formed, and this is general
very highly esteemed
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-12-30
Printing the Great Civilirer.

Printers Circular.
Until printing was very generally
spread, civilization advanced by slow
and languid steps. Since the art has
become cheap its advances have become
unparalleled, and its race of progress
vastly accelerated. 1t has been stated
hy some that the civilization of the
Western world has resulted from its be-
ing the seat of the Christian religion.
However much the mild tenor of its
doctrines is calculated TO assist in pro
ducing such an effect, that religion can
but he injured by an mrOunded state
ment. 1t is by the ease and cheap
methods of communicating thought
from man to man which enable COun-
try to sift, as ii We're, its whole people,
and to produce, in its science, its ltera-
turc, and its arts, not the brightest eff
forts of Il limited class, but the highest
cXerti0nS of the most powerful minds
among whole community. 1t is this
which has given birth to the wide
spreading civilization of the present
day, and which promises II future yet
more prolific. Whoever is acquainted
with the present state of science and
the mechanical arts, and looks back
over inventions and the civilization
which the fourteen centuries subse-
quent to christianity have produced,
and compares them with the advances
made during the succeeding four ccntu-
rics following the invention of print
ing, will have no doubt to the effective
cause. 1t is during these last three on
four centuries that man, considered as
Il species, has commenced the develop
ment of his intellectual faculties; that
he has emerged from position in
which he was almost the creature OF
instinct to state in which every steT
in advance facilitates the progress OF
his successors. In the first periods arts
were discovered by individuals, ant
lost to the race; in the latter, the diff
/, fusion of ideas enabled the reasoning
of one class to unite with the observa
tons of another, and the most ad
vanccd point of one generation became
the starting point of the next.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-12-30
New Objection to Silver.

lUc NulllH'h'''
Comptroller Knox, at his after-din-
ner speech in this city, took strong
ground against paying the bonds in sill
yer, because it would enhance the
price of gold; but he never stopped to
think that the average bondholder was
only avaricious, and if he was paid in
silver, he would do everything to keep
the price of that commodity up. This
is u new objection which will be urged
against silver money this winter.
Silver was good enough to purchase
Greenbacks of the people with, when
the bondholder wished to convert ouI
national currency into an interest.
bearing debt, and it is considered good
enough to displace all the 81 and y
greenback notes of the country; but il
will not do to pay back to the bond
holders.
One great secret to this objection tC
silver is that it is the manifest deter
mination of our Secretary of Treasury
and Comptroller Of the Currency t.
refund, instead of paying our bond
coming due now, within the next fiv,
months, and thus fasten for thirty o
forty more years, the national debt up
on us. ....
Another reason is apparent an,
always has been. 1t is to make tn
bondholder's gold more valuable b.
making it the sole material out o
which money is to be made. The Sec
retary of the Treasury has already sig
nifed his determination to press befor
Congress, the matter Of destroying tn
lGreenbaacks,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-12-30

N. Y. Graphic.
American Anglo-Saxon sociability
produces some singular results. Peo-
pie by scores and hundreds ride to and
from their places of business in the
city, to their homes in the suburbs or
surrounding country year after year.
Their faces are well known and re-
membercd by each other. Not n word,
not II nod, even, ever passes between
them. They sit, apparently as insensi-
BILE to each other as wooden statues.
With women this social taboo is even
stronger emphasized.
Miss A may be longing for some con-
genial association among her own sex
during the trip. BY her sits Miss q,
who has made these trips morning and
evening with Miss A, and knows her
face as well as that of her father. But
never word do they speak to each
other. Both are curious regarding
each other. Both may feel drawn to-
ward each other. Both might prove
for the other interesting acQnaintances.
But this frozen taboo of nOn-intcrcourse
is upon them.
1t is an unwritten law seldom DISC
beyed. Both possibly fear making
overtures for fear of repulsc. Or
Miss A. may discern in Miss & some
thing which she deems to Indicate the
measure of the tenth of Il degree he
low her social grade. So the embargo
is never raised and they remain strang-
crs for life.
Between the sexes this social taboo
is still more strongly enforced. 1t is
so rigidly carried out that Il gentleman
sometimes fears performing Il civility
to an unknown lady lest it be taken as
one method of oilicious or presuming
overture. For either to open CONVEX
sation is generally deemed an action
so unconventional as almost to border
on an impropriety. So, in our midst,
thousands of people in transit sit and
stare or NOPE away minutes and hours
Of utter tcdiousness.
This custom among lis, which is
broken by but few exceptions, argues
a provincial shyneSs or lack of conf
dcncc and courage unworthy Il man ol
woman of the world.
People well poised on their own
social. mental or moral planes, art
never afraid of meeting interiors OF
suprriors. The acquaintance and aS
soriation of daily half hour or hou
on boat or rail need never extend any
further us to time and locality. In
deed the majority of association might
he far more pleasant and profitable
were it restricted entirely TO these con
ditiOnS.
The sum total of recreation to al
might he very great. Why not, then
in the eases implied, break our sOcia
ice and get what good we can out o
each other? If we prove boreS or ar,
bored, let us retreat, accept the failur
with cqlmnimity and try to improy
our powers of pleasing. This travclin
dumb show must he stopped some tim
or other. 1t will never he tolerated il
the millennium.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-12-30

TO give our readers an idea of the
vastness of London, we need only tell
them that it is the population of all
New York state crowded into one me-
tropolis. 1t is almost all of New Eng
land, incloscd within circumference,
W ose radius is scarcely seven miles.
The traveller does not realize this vast
ness as quickly as the immensely of
Paris, ,throughits magnilicently radiating
and extending avenues, or the greatness
of New York city by u glance up
Broadway from Trinity church. The
British capital, twice the size of Paris
and three times greater than New York
must be lived in for several weeks at
least, and these weeks laboriously spent
with cab and omnibus. overground and
underground railways, steamers up ant
down the river, and what is still as i'm
portant, a great deal Of pedestrianism
before the mind grasps the idea of foul
millions of people within the bounds o.
one city.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-12-30
Lefferson and the PeopIe.

Indianapolis sun
81 am among those who fear the peO-
pie. They and not the rich are our de
pendCncc for continued freedom. And
TO preserve their independence, we
must not let Our rulers load them with
perpetual debt. We must make our
election between economy and liberty,
or prOrusion and srrvitudc. If we run
into such debts that we must he taxed
in our meat and in our drink, and in
our neccssaries and Our comforts, in
our lahOrs, and in our amusemcntS, for
our callngS and our CreedS, aS the peO-
pie of England are; our people, like
them. must come to labor sixteen
hours in the twcnty-GUur, give the earn
ings of fifteen Of these to the govern
ment for their debts and daily eXpcllS-
es. and the sixteenth being insufficient
to afford us bread we must live rs they
do now, on oatmeal and potatoes; have
no time to think, no means of calling
the msmanagcrS to account, but he
clad TO obtain subsistence hy hiring
ourselves to rivct their chains on the
necks of our frllOw.suIl'crerS, Oul
landlords, too, like theirs, retaining i'll
decd the title and stewardship of cs
tates called theirs, but held in trust fol
the treasury, must wander, like theirs
in foreign countries. and he contcntc'
with pcnury, Obscurity, exile and TIN
glory of the nation"
Such is the result of national debt
Mr.. jefferson fully understood the sub
iert, and were he here to-day, he woulc
be a (ircrnhackcr, demanding the speed!
payment of the bonds. This question
of debt is one that demands
immediate study. 1t is pressing for
solution. The masses must grappl
with If
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-12-30

her hands, an call out something.
Then there was a confused sort of
shout, as if every one in the crowd was
saying the same thing at the same time,
an then Master Philip, making sign
to silence them, put his two hands up
to his mouth, and sang out in voice
that came up to me above the noise of
the wind:
Take off your stocking and ravel it;
the thread will reach the ground"
At first | didn't understand him, be
ing dazed like, but then the meaning
came to me like Il message from heav-
Ell. got off one of my socks with
some trouble, nice new ones they were,
too, of Katie's own knitting, that she
had given me for a Christmas-box, an
with the help of my teeth loOsencd one
end Of the thread 1t gave readily
enough after that, an when | had Il good
piece of it ripped, [ tied my knife to
the end of it to make it heavy, an let
it drop, ripping more an more of the
sock us it went down. Then |
felt it stop, an presently there came II
shout telling me to wind it up again.
Very slowly an carefully | did it, fear
ing the string would break, an when
the last bit Of it came up, there was Il
piece of strong twine tied to the end of
it. The twine in its turn brought the
rope | had gone up by, an then | felt
that was safe.
managed somehow to put ii through
the pulley an to haul up the plank, an
as soon as they had fastened the other
end to the windlaSs below they gave me
the word to come down. | was 50
numb an stiff that | could not fix my
self on the plank, but managed some
how to cling to the ropes with my
hands. Down, down ! came, every
turn of the windlass making the voices
below seem nearer an nearer, and
when was within Il few feet Of the
ground there was dozen pairs Of arms
ready to catch me, an Il score Of hands
held out to me, an u hundred voices to
welcome me. An there was my faith
er waiting for Inc, an Master Philip
saying
but for the girl he'd have been up
there still. Not one of the rest of us
would have thought of the stocking
twas the brightest idea I've come
across this many day. She has saved
his life Fordc, and you can't refuse
your consent any longer"
But whcl looked round for Katie
she was nowhere to be seen. She must
have slipped off us soon as she saw
WAS safe.
Master Philip hurried my father an
me away, | didn't quite know where
| was 50 da2cd but in Il minute or two
| found myself in warm lighted din
ing-room at the masters house, an
Master Philip pouring out glass Of
brandy for me, an shaking hands witt
my father. was glad to get the brandy
ror | was Worn out with fright an
cold; but as soon us | could, made m,
escape. an went down to Katic's cot
tage. hadn't been there five minute
when there was Il knock at the door
and in walks my father. lie wen
! straight up to Katie, holding out hi
hand.
l. "Katic, my girl" he said, "I've com
to ask your pardon for anything "
Il ever said or done against you; an
you and Jim are still Of the sam
; mind, | won't hinder you from marry
ing. 'Tis you that have the best righ
10 him. for you've saved his life"
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-12-30

The Cummuurt
The name of the party which cast
3iO,OOO votes for Weaver has now be-
come matter Of some discussion,
Our exchanges are busy on the subject,
The Tidal Wave, published at York,
Nrb., suggests the name of "National
Union" which seems to he the favorlte
among our exchanges and gives the
following reasons for adopting this
nme:
|. That it is one of our missions to
unite the north and south as above
mentioned.
,. That byadopting this,thc long fanat-
ic idea WILDE banishedIrrom our name
and people will more freely investigate
our principles.
3. That we desire to unite the peo-
pie more closely to the financial affairs
of the central government, and give
them advantages that the trainers of
the constitution intended they should
have.
J. That we wish to unite capital
with labor in bearing up the burdens
of our government-Make all property
taxable and impose 4 graduated income
tax.
:. That we are in favor of uniting
all resources of the government to pay
off the bonds and not refund.
g. That we desire to unite capita
and labor, us twin brothers, neither
slave to the other, but granting to eacl
its just reward.
In our opinion, the adoption of
name at present, would be premature
from the fact that probably within
few months there will be breaking VI
of the old parties. Naturally the com
cutters, will fuse with the Greenback
ers upon the issues now before the pee
ple, and name expressive of the part
will come as a natural consequence
The discussion of the name howeve
is perfectly legitimate.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-12-30
Honest Money.

WllanspOrt Nationalist
The phrase "honest money" is not
uncommon now in the mouths of many
persons. 1t We coined for purpose
by dishonest men. 1t has TO some eX-
tent superseded the Rag Baby" which,
by over use, had dulled upon the hu-
man ear. 1t is only man and not mon
ey that is or can be dishonest. Money
hears not, feels not, sees not, tastes
not, thinks not. 1t is honest in all its
duties. 1t never tells Il lie and never
ninches from its political work. The
term "honest money! then, is Il fraud
and misnOmer, and it was invented
by the dishonest men who are now be-
hind and pushing the most stupendOus
scheme of public ROBBERY that was ever
presented to an American congress.
These men have broken their pledges
with the people time and again. They
have played Il dishonest game from the
beginning. They agreed that their
bonds might be paid in dollars, and
fearing paper dollars they, by doubtful
means, caused the word "coin" to be
inserted after the contract had been
many years in existence. Then fearing
that they might he paid in silver coin
they, by fraud and stealth, caused sill
yer to be demonctzed, injuring com
merce and plundcring the poor to an
almost mbearablc extent. Now that
many of their bonds are nearly due they
are bounding congress to make for
their special benefit big silver dollar.
Their attempt to have refunded for
thirty years the S7S2, 2,OOO,OOO nownear-
lydue is the most infamous piece of
dishonesty that the country has seen.
And these are the men who coined and
who use the phrase "honest money.
What Il pity it is we have not men
who are us honest as the money.