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A Western View Of Judge Lynch.

Meditating upon two-line telegram
in the morning newspaper that tells how
the Vigilance Committee of Dead Mans
Gulch has lynched the notorious outlaw,
Smith, for the murder of the highly re-
spectacle barkeeper, Brown, the East
ern man thanks his stars that he does
not live in Dead Mans Gulch, where
outrages of this sort are tolerated and
he passes with sigh of satisfaction to
the detailed account of the hanging, by
due process of law, of another Smith,
who killed another barkeeper in Boston,
or New York or Philadelphia.
There is. it is true, some ground for
the belief firmly entertained by the ma
jority of Eastern people, that the frontier
that fugitive region which twenty
years ago was marked by the Missouri,
and that is now westward OF the Rocky
Mountains-is alive with trucculent ruff
fans, whose knives are always loosened
in their sheaths, and whose revolvers are
always full cooked, who ''hold up'' in
noeent travellers, and, not content with
mere robbery, never consider their work
complete without murder. But the very
important modifying fact is lost sight of
that, for every genuine single desperate
on the frontier, there are several hun
dred men who are not desperadoes, and
who, for their own good, are determined
that peace and order shall be preserved.
In point of fact, on ''the lawless
frontier this orderly, peace-loving
class is largely in the ascendant; and it
is this class that does the lynching. The
Vigilance Committee of Dead Man S
Gulch is the community-as yet unor-
ganized- acting directly for itself, with
out any reference of the work to depu-
ties at all. 1t recognizes the facts that
a crime has been committed, and that,
as a measure of communal self-defence,
the criminal must be punished; and
without circumlocution it acts upon the
just appreciation of the situation by
catching the criminal and hanging or
shooting him out of hand. The condi-
tons under which society exists at the
Gulch would render any effective treat
ment of the case other than this sum-
mary one exceedingly difficult, not to
say impossible. In an isolated mining
camp, the inhabitants of which continu-
ally are changing, and rarely have any
thing in common but strong desire TO
get rich quickly, there cannot possibly
be setup the complicated, snachmsFy, or
anything approaching toait. which in
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-15
An Angels Touch.

One evening, not long ago, a little girl
of nine or ten entered place in which is
a bakery, grocery and saloon in one,
and asked for five cents worth of tea.
''How's your mother?" asked the boy
who came forward to wait on her. ''Aw-
full sick, and amt had anything to eat
all day. The boy was just then called
to wait upon some men who entered the
saloon, and the girl sat down. In five
minutes she was nodding, and in seven
she was sound asleep, and leaning her
head against a barrel, while she held the
poor old nickel in tight grip between
her thumb and finger. One of the men
after asking who she was, said: Say,
you drunkards, see here. Here we've
been pouring down whisky when this
poor child and her moaher want bread.
Here's two-dollar bill that says I've
got some feeling left ''And | can add
a dollar" observed one. ''And I'll give
another"
They made up purse of an even five
dollars, and the spokesman carefully put
the bill between two of the sleepers fin
gers, drew the nickel away, and whis-
pered to his comrades, "Jist look a-there
the gals dreamingr' So she was.
A big tear had rolled out from her closed
eyelid, but the face was covered with a
smile. The men tip-toed out, and the
clerk walked over and touched the
sleeping child. She awoke with a laugh
and cried out "What beautiful dream!
Ma wasn't sick any more, and we had
lots to eat and to wear. and my hand
burns yet where an angel touched it'll"
When she discovered that her nickel had
been replaced by II bill, dollar Of which
loaded her down with all she could carry,
she innocenily said, ''Well, now, but ma
won't hardly believe me that you sent
up to heaven and got an angel to come
down and clerk in Your groceryr'--Sa
Francisco Ned0S- Letter.
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An ESthetic Influence.

"Yes, SIR he said. my grandfather
was . very peculiar man He was ex-
tremeiy sensitive to influences that do
not generally affect other men. His
peculiarly was that his temperament
changed according to the hat he wore
And he wore all kinds of hats"
He must have been a good many
varieties in one man." said the listener
"He was. Now, for instance, when
he wore a Derby hat, he was merely
commonplace. He behaves himself like
an ordinary man, and had no special
characteristics-nothing calculated to
attract the attention of q bulldog, if i
may so express it.
"Well, there's nothing peculiar about
that
mo; but Just listen. When he put
on a slouch hat his character changed
entirely. He became ruffianly and
desperate, and staggered around like q
hired bravo or an advance agent out of a
job. His best friends were afraid of him
and he had only to put his sombretto ON
to keep away the most energetic bill
collector"
"H were like that, I'd have q felt
hat riveted to my head. said the other
man"
"Then, when he put on cap with .
vizor, he became simply low. He used
to hang around bar-rooms, although he
was strict temperance man, and he
consorted with car-conductors, and
statesmen, and that class of people,"
$50 long as he did not associate with
poets it was all right"
.'He never got SO low as that. But
you ought to have seen him when he put
a silk hat on. The moment he appeared
on the street with beaver he used to
look so respectful that people used to
come up to him to accept the Chairman
ships of mass-meetings, or to serve as q
Director of charitable associations, and
on one occaaion he was actually arrest
ed on suspicion of being bank Presi-
dent"
"How is it, inquired the other man,
doubtfully, "that we have never heard
of your grandfatherT'
pened was this: He once went out in q
silk hat, and man came along who
mistook him for the receiver of a
savings bank who had received all that
was left of the unfortunate depository
money after the smashup. This man
struck him on the head and broke down
the hat 1t then resembled the dis
couraged-looking tile always worn by
inebriates on the stage. True to his
popularity, my grandfather at once be-
came profoundedly intoxicated, although
as have said he never drank drop in
his life, and he died in fifteen minutes Of
delerium tremens."
"Let us ajourn to the nearest bakery" f"
said the other man, -" and will purchase
the establishment for you" ."-Pteach.
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The Hopeless Struggle.

Labor world. d-- '-,, ED aya.H l..
Workmsn, do you know that those
in comfortable walks Of life look up
on your efforts ofbettering your con-
dition as half paid wage.workers as a
hopeless struggle? Yes, it is a fact.
and why9 Because you so often fails
That is not all. Because you do not
organizef No. ysu do organize. Be-
cause you do not hold together No,
not that. ID ai 'o'r e1iit''
The real cause 10 because you mis-
take the mighty power opposed to you.
TIVE weeks ago concern in Cleveland
worth 5000, 900, which employs
5000 men, shut down until Septsm.
bsr. It's dollars can stand idle. The
idle muscles Of labor call for bread:
Capital has the United States gov
ernment bshind it, the political par
ties, the banks, the railroads, the
newspaper press, the brains of the ma.
tion, the great men, VIII, know their
only. chance to jump INTO the side Of
capital and work for il, and help it to
gain its ends that they may have a
share Of the s Its out of labor. I'D,
Is it any wonder it succeeds. Labor
Is very slow at stan ling by its friends
1t has no capital. The political par
tie. laugh at it and pass laws against
it. The banks regard labor as human
cattle to pile up wealth for them tc
handle aud make millions out of. Fhs
ewsPaper editors ridicule labor as fal
U they dare and bespatter it with theil
praise about election times. On.
Your duty Is more than more or
ganization. You must act. How
We show you elsewhere-s What d.
you say? A4 sNr ." s"riH0 'f't
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-15
Three Million Slayes.

New York Truth. fi'
By the census it appears that if tie
soil Of this country we're equally divi-
ded among the inhabitants, there
would be a square mile Of land for
every seventeen persons Now, if it
true that he who owns the land owns
the people-and there is no reason TO
doubt it, since everything we get
comes out of the land and landless
people are consequently dependent on
landowners for the right to live
there are 1924, 900 people in this
country who are to-day the slaves of
thirty persons, to say nothing of the
millions more who are the slaves of
other persons.
Thirty persons own 192, 900 square
miles of the soil of this country, equal
to strip as wide as from the battery
to Forty.second street, and in length
twice around the surface OF the globe!
An equal division of the natural soil
would give this immense property to
1924, 900 people, whereas not one of
these millions of men can put his foot
on yard Of this soil without the con-
sent of enc or another of the thirty
persons who swn it..
But what is far worse, the land is
continuously growing in value by VII.
tue of the toll Of our working citizens,
and every dav it is getting nearer to
the point which few of the 3,000,-
900 for whose benefit it should be held
by the government will be able to pay
the rent that will be demanded for the
use of it.
Three millions Of American citizens
are made lsndless in this country by
thirty persons, some Of whom are cor
porations and Others titled English
men.
Think oft, you workingmen, who
regularly vote intO:congress some man
who sbetrays you as soon as he takes
his seat.
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KEEP TT BEFORE THE PEOPLE.

We want eur readers everywhere to
remember the names Of those who
voted for and against the Brigham
Hll, fer preventing extortion ON the
part Of railros1 companis,:
YEAs.-Brigham, Evans, Foresman,
Godfrey, Hartshsrp, Hollingsworth
Jones, Kinney, Myers, Pollard,
Sayre, Strong, White.
NAYs.-Andsrson, Ballauf, Brownell,
Chapman, Dexter, Dickinson, Ea-
son, Hall, Horr, Kirky, Merton,
OHagap, Pearsons, Perkins, Pond,
Wilson, Wolcott, Yeatnan. ..--
ABsEsr.-Palmer, Reed. r s p.
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The Panic at Lyons.

The aspect of the great City of Lyons,
crushed as it is by the great financial
panic. is both lamentable and terrible.
The situation of things is SO compi-
Gated so chaotic, that after twenty-four
hours of close study hardly know how
to begin my story, so l am obliged to
put of until tomorrow the thousand
details gathered about the catastrophe,
which has nearly ruined the second city
of France from top to bottom and from
bottom to top. The exaggerated specu-
lation into which the whole city has been
dragged is such that the loss of the
brokers is estimated at an enormous
figure. For the present I prefer to
accept the sum which the Chamber ad-
mits, namely-36, 900, 900 of francs
You must understand that these millions
do not include the individual losses of
each member ON Change, as each one
has been specializing on his own account.
To the contrary, this only constitutes
what is owing to brokers from their
customers, who had heavy margins de-
posted to their credit, but not heavy
enough for this terrible break in the
market. The result is that until they
can ward off total disaster the brokers
nave ouoPChuCU pay yhOueo. n hCoVy
cloud of sorrow hangs over the city like
a pail. As yet they dare not uncover
the ruins-the total failures, the posi-
fearfully compromised From the day
laborer to the millionaire, or rather the
ex-millionaire, everybody has lost. No
one has the first sou toward a settle
ment.
A man who is above all suspicion of
dishonesty came to see his agent, and
said: 81 have 100000 francs; here it
is. Take it. It's all can give you on
the 5000, 900 which lose. What do you
want me to do about the difference? If
commit suicide will it change any
thingP would willingly do that but
| could they make gold or bank notes out
of my bloodP"
| One must recognize the fact that, if
all who can't pay their differences for
the end of the month commit suicide,
this city, La Croix, Rousse and Drot-
teau will become vast ,cemetaries. Bus
mess is totally supended. The numerous
| groups in the street talk only OF
disaster, and the women and children
weep without knowing the why or
wherefor.' The women themselves had
"taken a hand" Widows, shop-girls,
and the " cabontines'' of the cafe con-
certs and second-rate theaters carried
their wages to the bourse and won.
Now they have lost, pay nothing.
The bourse is open but there is No
business transacted. Not quotation
was made during the whole day. A
few of the terrified sold for cash q few
City of Paris bonds or shares of the
Credit Foncier hid the money and took
the first train for Geneva. So far, a
young man has suicided in bath, and
an old officer gone crazy, and the wife
of leading merchant has disappeared.
Unhappily we fear, these will not be the
only cases of the kind. The old boursi-
ers have not lost all hope. We are ex-
pecting anything, but know nothing
Paris Figaro.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-15

mere stable communities guards public
safety and morals, and, when these are
infringed, executes the appointed penal
laws. The ebb and flow of population in
itself suffices to prevent or delay arrange
stacle, looking at the matter from tho.
standpoint of the camp, is that the
scheme which includes constable, .
warden. judge and sheriff, and that
neeessitates a trial by jury, is too
much of bother and takes too much
time. In the opinion of the camp,
it does not pay" to waste
two or three days in doing a job of jus
tice that ''the committee" can attend to
satisfactorily In twenty minutes. And,
even supposing the existence of camp
willing to provide itself with all the func-
tionaries necessary to discharge the stat
ute law-though the suppesition certainly
is not tenable-the difficulty immediate
ly would arise that officers could not be
found to fill worthily the several offices.
1t is general rule in mining that the
best men in camp are the most success
full miners; and the complimentary rule
is equally general that the least success
full miners are the worst men-the lazy
and worthless ''tailings" of the camp,
out of which its vicious element is formed.
There are EXCEPTIONS to both of these rules
but they are few. When man is wash
ing out an oyster-can full of dust day
AS the best men did at California Gulch,
Colorado, in 1S56-it is pretty certain
that he is not going to fritter away bis
time as a policeman or a judge, or by
sitting on a jury. It follows, therefore.
that, If these offices are to be filed, they
must be filed by drafts from the class
that cannot or that will not make mining
pay-from which class the camp crimi-
mails also come. Howsoever well the plan
of setting a thief to catch a thief may
work in other places, in mining-camp
it does not work at all. The thief and
his captor simply join forces, and the in
jury to the community is corresponding
ly increased.-Cor. Philadelphia A,,aeTi.
can.
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Scientific Advancement. I

Scientific advancement, It has been re-
marked, has been slower and less noticea-
BILE in the care os the sick and the treat
msn' Of disease than in any other depart
msns Of human knowledge. The life or
death Of patient is too frequently q mere
matter Of accident or chance. Some great
discoveries, however. have been made and
certain remedies are known and used with
almost infsllibls curative results- Such q
remedy 10 Taraxine where q deranged
liver 10 involved, or where diseases of the
Bowels, Kidneys or Spleen prevail. For
sale BY c. Fl. Hope, call for Taraxine
Msuoraadom Books free. ..sf
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Mans IngratItude.

This is an ungsassful world 10 say the
least. A man will act like lunatio whsn
be has the Itching Pilss. and declares that
that he knows hs can't live another day ),
Jet he applies swsyss's Ointment. the in
tense ischiss iseslIsysd at once. he gsts
cured, and soss dsvn to the lodge without
one whit Of grstitsde. When asked why
he looks 90 cheerful, be dodgss the ques-
,ion By an isdiGsssni answer. Its just like
. man though, isn't it2 .,.-Gl7Is- odi Of q
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Mr.. and Mrs. Spurgeon devoted the
$50. 900 presented to them at the recent
anniversary of their wedding to the en-
dowment of an orphanage for girls.
They had already established one for
bows.
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buy her shroud." When the old man |
went out he carried . bundle in one hand
and the "watches" in the other,-LsttLs
Rock (drk1 Gazette.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-15

1t has been. discovered that the pop
lar tree is natural ightning-rod, and
the next thing is to discover how to
get one on the roof of house and mako
It STAY there.
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Sayings Of Eminent Men.

have found more benefit from an inch
advertisement in the columns of the To-
cal paper than from all the adulation
that is afforded to the shrine of imperial
power. Napoleon Bondpdrte.
A well-written and well-displayed ad-
vertisement, kept constantly before the
public eye, will bring more trade to a
merchant than million hand bills
Last ,oortts Of Henry w, Of France.
When Charles the First was about to
lay his head on the block, he sighed,
and murmured: .'This comes of not ad-
vertising in the local paper. English
Hlss0ry.
On a house in Ansonia, Conn, two
men, strangers to each other, were at
work, one from New York and the other
fyOm NewHaven. They discovered that
they warebrothers who had been separ-
ets3fcr sixteen years.
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CGC week In your own town. Terms and IS
POO oatht free. Address II. HALLETr c.,
Porilad, Maine.
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More ludicrous than any of these is the
inscription on a stone at Keel, in Mont
gomeryshire:
Here lie the remains of Thomas Nicols, who
died in Philadelphia March, 1853. Had be
lived he would have been buried here.
A companion blunder to that at Monk
newton is found in the church-yard at
Montrose, where lie the bodies of G Gorge
Young and Isabel Guthrie, 'and all their
posterity for more than fifty years back
warkr'-Nea0 York Home Journal.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-11-07
Written for the Sunday Morning Bazos-
THE CURL OF GOLD.
ny ROSA PEARLE

Ihave many, many treasures
Hoardcd one By one away.
Rouvenirs of times and rlaces,
Safely kept from day to day.
There are bits of faded ribbon,
Withered roses and glove.
ou.int sweet verses with their burthe
Of some unrequited love.
Letters kept until the pages
Are 50 dimmed scarce can see
Half the tracings of the message,
Which they once conveyed to me.
But amid them oil linger
FondIy where in satin fold,
Like q ray of prisoned sunshine,
Lies 4 tiny curl OF gold.
It il short, and soft, and silken,
And although the baby head
Where it grew for years las lain,
Mid the silence of the dead,
Yet it somehow seems to answer
With . sentisnt loving thrill,
As if in its clineings Ia shes,
Life instructive he'll il still.
- I press my lips upon it,
Lovingly and eft With teArs,
While the retrospective yisisS,
Bridges Ger tho gulf q pears.
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Horsford's Acid Phosphate-Lem-
Onade.
DR.. C. C. Olmstead, Milwaukee, Wis,
says: II use several bottles 10 my family,
annually, As 'lemonade;' I prize it hishly.'
Gen. Grant in Church.

Press.
Nobody who happens to sit near the ex.
presidents pew can help noticing the fact
that he never goes to sleep now during the
sermon. On the contrary, he sits bolt ND
right and evidently follows the parsou
straight through, text, proposition, argu-
mentation, illustration, application, ex-
hortation, peroration, and all. Some at
tribute this new interest to the Christening
effect Of Wall street experience; some hold
that Parson Newnan's sermons are more
interesting than they Used to be. The ru-
NOR IL current in the outskirts of this con-
sregation that when the post of United
Staies minister to Italy became vacant, not
long ago, DIR. Newman asked Geu. Grant
to 70 to the president in his behalf; that
the ex-president called upon the president
in person. and intimated that the appoint
ment of DIR. Newman would be very &C.
ceptable to him as we'll as to many of his
friends.
But" said Gen. Arthur, with smile as
broad a. politeness allowed, "Dr. Newman
has had no diplomatic experience"
"Oh, yes, he has," said Grant. "He trav-
elled all the way round the earth, during
nv FIRST term, inspecting consulstes"
"And fear" continued the president,
"the senate could never he got to confirm
such an appointment. II is rather outside
of ordinary politics, you know, general"
20, yes, the senate will" said Grant
"Jones will look out for that"
As the story goes. both Gen. Grant and
Parson Newman we're not less surprised
than offended when the nomination of Mr..
Aston for the mission to Italy went to the
senate
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The Schoolmistress and Stocks.

The SchOolmistress and STOCKS.
Carson City Appeal.
"Guess l WON'T 60 to school to-day" said
a Carson urchin with an Appeal in his
hand. "Why not?" "Concordia has fallen
oil ten cents, and don't care to show up
until it picks up again" what has the
fluctuations of Conccrdia got to do with
your studies" my teacher has hun
dred shares of the stock, and when il tails
Of q few cents we all catch it heavy. 1
keep my eye on the list, and when there's
break you bet don't go to school. |
play sick. Goily how she basted me the
time Mount Diablo busted down to s..
When it was selling at $2D she was as good
as pie.
break, and told the boys Of my class that
if she didn't sell there'd be the devil to
paw. heard Uncle Fraser say il was
good short, and / never slept wink for
week l grabbed the Appeal first thing
every morning; when saw her keel down
to SIC skipped to the hills. My! how
she did bang Johnny Dobson round that
morning. vas in hopes that the blasted
mine would pick up, but the water got in
the lower levels, aid knew We were in for
il. She licked somebody for every dollar
it dropped. After it struck IS il picked
up little and We had time to git. Nv
mothers been patchin' my pants now ever
since the big break in Sierra Nevada, and
if the market don't take turn pretty soon
Pm going to quit the public school and go
to work on ranch"
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SOCIETY NEWS.

lazy items a interest suitable fer tAis depart:
nent from Sedlia OF naghborne placd. ne r.
peetully solicited. We want Q vivacious, active
And CHEEKY Lady correspondent In I'll the neight0r-
tn towns tributary 70 6edslis kddrsE al such
communications to Rosa Psaris sozety repoa tar.
Baseo Office, 6edA2iA. Ne.
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A Big Success.

Nv wife was in bed two years with a
plicstion OF disorders her physician
could not cure, when l was led to Try
Psrker's Ginger Tonic. 1t was a big sue.
cess. Three bottles cured her, at cost OF
dollar and fifty cents, and she IS now as
strong as any woman r. d., Buffalo.