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DEFYrNG THE LOCOMOTIVE.

Well, sir" said the engineer, as he took
doughnut, {" all these accidents occur
just by people trying to be too smart. l
have seen hundreds of farmers who would
stop their teams far enough away from a
train so there would be no danger, but
about one in ten acts as though he owns
the earth and if he gets the end of his wag-
ON over he thinks he has achieved some-
thing remarkable. I expect to kill woman
out here about 100 miles one of these days.
She drives an old black mare and / think
she lays in for train. She sees the train
coming and slaps the old mare with the lines
and hurries on the track and the old mare
stops as though she was going to cat grass,
and then the old lady looks at me in the
cab window through her spectacles, slaps
the old mare some more, and she meanders
of the track, just before hit her, and the
old lady looks back at me just as the en-
CINE whirls past, and my heart is in my
mouth. She looks as if she thought was
running this way for fun, and that am an
inpolite thing, because don't slack up for
her. Some day the marsh out there is go
ing to have shower of black mare, woman,
and wagon. fand then there will be Grape ON
the old lady's door, and instead Of q verdict
of suicide the Coroner's jury will blame the
engineer, and her relatives will sue the com-
pany for damages. Pee Sun.
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GREAT CHANGES IN THE SOUTH.

II is a fact not generally known, but it 10
fact, nevertheless, that Georgia and Miss
issippi are the strictest temperance States
in the Union. A gentleman who has spent
several months in those States, said last
evening There are 81 counties in Georgia
where man cannot buy, beg, or steal a
drink of whiskey, and none can be pur-
chased in the State except in some of the
larger towns. People are fanatical on the
subject, and in Mississippi they have gone
to such an extreme that they tax billiard
tables $1 900 apiece, under the opinion that
they are device for the encouragement OF
drinking. There are only few foreign
born citizens in the State, and the native
American voters enact laws satisfactory to
themselves.
The eyangelizng influence Of the cotton
mill and other industrial establishments is
wonderful. The hands in the cotton factor
les are mainly drafted from class known
as " poor whites The POOR whites
have heretofore had no place a.d received
not the slightest consideration. They were
between the ruling class and the negroes,
and were despised by both. Their sons and
daughters have gone to work in the factories
and are earning more money than they ever
dreamed Of. The possession of the small
sums they earn as wages has given them new
ideas, and the young boys and girls are 60
ing to school and furnishing up in a manner
that would not have been thought possible
ten or even five years ago A new era is
dawning in the South. -Louisoilie- Courier.
Journal
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THE NEW YORK GHETTO.

The New York correspondent of the Troy
Times has been around among the humber
Jewish population Of Gotham, and says that
the tenement houses rented TO this class
prove gold mines to their owners. He
writes Zone of the first features of life in
this New York Ghetto is the rent charged
these unfortunate people. / noted down
the rents paid in one building, and find that
the income derived from the miserable
rookeries of this neighborhood is greater
than that produced by first class brown stone
houses uptown near Fifth avenue. For in
stance, in my note book find the statistics
concerning the house No. SO Forsyth street.
The lot is twenty-five feet wide by 100 feet
deep, the regulation city lot. Fronting on
the street ia tenement twenty-five feet
wide by fifty feet deep and six stories high;
then comes yard twenty-five feet square,
and then rear tenement facing on the
yard, five stories high, twenty-five feet wide
and twenty five feet deep. The front tene.
oent has quarters for four families on each
floor, two ON the front and two on the rear,
each apartment consisting of one light
room, twelve feet by fifteen, and one dark
room in the rear, about eight by ten feet.
The only ventilation of this dark room, or
big closet, called q bedroom, comes from
the living room through the open door, or
from the hallway through little window in
the partition. In the rear tenement each
floor contains two families, the "apart-
ments consisting again of living room
and dark room in the rear Both these
tenements were, upon the occasion of my
visit, dilapidated and filthy beyond descrip-
lion, the plaster down, the stairs rickety,
the woodwork giving way, the glass broken in
many windows, the yard filed with rotting
garbage and pools Of water from the closets,
in which pools swarms of half-naked chill.
dren were playing. There was running
water only in the basement, the other ten
ants having to pump it up into dark sink
upon each landing. The stencil from the
yard was oyerpowering, the rear tenants OF
the front building and all the occupants OF
the back building having no other air to
breathe. The rents paid for these apart,
ments was SO month on the first floor,
10 on the second, $3.50 on the third, 81
on the fourth, sc. so ON the fifth, and $6 on
he sixth. Anyone who takes the trouble to
make the calculation will find that the
monthly income from the property must be
about $3.50. After paying all expenses OF
collecting rents, repairs, and taxes, the
owner must receive about 90, 500 year fol-
these houses, through which persons not
accustomed to such sights could not walk
without shuddering.
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sARY AND JACK.

1t has been going on for year past. Jack
is q carrier for one Of the dailies, and his
circuit takes in house on Scott street. One
day last spring baby crowed at him from
an open door ON that street, and Jack tossed
an apple into the hall. The next day the
baby was watching for him, and after three
or four days the boy made bold to slip up
the steps and pat the little chap on the head
and leave the stick of candy he had pur-
chased two miles away As time went on
Jack came to know that the baby was father
less, and That its mother was pale-faced and
hardly able to drag about. It was weeks
before she spoke to him, but the baby took
to Jack right away and was always ready
for his coming. After the first week it was
always clean-faced, but it was "a good
while before Jack reused up the courage to
give him kiss and to ask for one inreturn.
After that it was plain sailing, and the
neighbors became interested. II was queer
enough that boy like Jack, having his own
way to make and roughing it until he had
become suspicious and hard hearted, should
catch on TO a little whitehead, and be more
than a big brother to him, but that was
what happened.
And something more. One day he
brought up quarter of pound of tea ard
left it where the mother would find it, and
this was followed by other parcels and
articles. One day he missed the baby and
crept into the hall to find that he had cried
30. 81 hat he
and helpless. Jack reused up the neigh
bors. and whatever was eaten in that house
for the next two weeks was purchased with
Jacks money. The mother could only
thank him and weep. She could not speak
ten words of English.
A fortnight ago Jack missed baby again,
and again he fround the mother i'll. Friends
we're with her this time and she did not suf-
fer for care. A week ago there was Grape
on the door rs the carrier went his round,
ane baby had been carried of by neigh
Dor. When lack came around next day the
mother had been buried and people were
Watching to tell him that the house was to
be vacated and baby was to go to q distant
city. He had been brought back to bid the
carrier good-by, and the poor and lowly
people drew off with tears in their eyes, and
Jack sat on the door-steps and took baby in
his lap and smoothed his white head and
kissed his red cheeks. Baby chung around
bis neck and seemed to realize that he was
10 lose friend, and, as one who stood by
expressed it
"Then baby cried and Jack cried, and
the women put their aprons up and sobbed
like children. When they finally took the
shild away Jacks heart was big enough to
break, and throwing his arms around the
little chap for the lest time he turned and
ran away and never looked back l"--Cni-
cdg0 Tribune.
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A QUAKER WEDDING.

The marriage procession started from o
second-hoo- sitting-room and wendell its
way silently down into the parlor. The
ushers went FIRST then the bride and groom,
then the families of each of the contracting
parties and lastly the guests and commit
tee from the Race Street Meeting, who were
present to see that everything was done in
proper form. The bride and groom took
chairs which had been specially placed for
Them at the head of the parlor. After they
had been seated all the company sat down
and for few minutes there was silence.
Then the bride and groom arose and the
groom, taking the brides hand. declared
that in the presence Of the Lord and this
assembly " he took the lady to be his wife
and promised, with the Divine assistance,
TO be unto her faithful and loving hus.
band until death should part them. The
bride responded in kind and everybody ST.
lently sat down again. A religious silence
Of three or four minutes was broken by the
voice of Dillwyn Parish, the head of the
Friends committee, reading the marriage
certificate. After some more silence the
groom signed his name to the paper in a
strong hand ; then the bride appended her
lowing signature: then all the rest Of the
company signed their namos. There was
just little more silence and then the new
made husband and wife received the good
wishes Of their families and friends --Phild.
delDlsfa Times
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THE REDUCED POSTAL RATES.

On all letters, and all matters wholly or
partly in writing, and on packages 80 sealed
that their contents cannot be readily ex-
amined. throughout the United States, 2
cents for each ounce or fraction thereof.
Drop or city letters, Q cents where there
Is free carriers delivery. AT other offices,
] cent
Registration fee, 10 cents.
Printed matter, including books. transient
newspapers and periodicals, circular, proof
sheets and MSS. accompanying the same,
photographs, and, in general, " reproduce
ton by any mechanical process excepting
handwriting and the copying press) OF
words, figures, etc., not in the nature Of
personal correspondence, cent for each
Two ounces or fraction thereof. Circulars
reproduced by photograph or similar process
by electric pen and by type-witers are rated
as printed matter"
Merchandise put up so as not to injure
the mails, and in a way that it can be readily
examined, cent for each ounce or fraction
thereof.
On all matter not above specified. same
rate as letters.
Limit Of weight, sxcept..in case of single
book, pounds.
There has been no change in the rate OF
foreign postage, the rate for half-ounce let
ters being cents, and on newspapers
cent for each ounces. The single rate TO
Canada is cents for letters.
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THE MORMON SYSTEM.

II assumes to have government and laws
Of its own of higher authority than those Of
the republic and destined to supplant them.
It is supreme in Utah and its adherents are
pushing out into all the States and Territor-
les of the Rocky Mountains. They have a
consummate ecclesiastic organization which
places their whole united power in the
hands of their prophet, who stands to them
in the place of God. Him they are secretly
sworn on their lives to obey under oil cir
cumstances and without hesitation as, If
their theory is sound, they should do, fol
when God speaks there is nothing for mar
but obedience and this mortal penalty is en-
forced when it can be done with safety and
if thought necessary. All Of them capable
of bearing arms are enrolled in q military
organization, Differed Independently Of the
executive head of the State. Their Treasury
is supplied by an annual 10 per cent. tax
and by forced loans when they are nee led.
II commands, indeed, at will the substance
and lives of its adherents. They make q
business Of gathering recruits out of the
slums of all lands tomore rapidly swell their
numbers. They have established here by
pretended command Of God polygamous
marriage, and maintain il in spite of the an
thority Of the Republic. They have eccle.
,iastical courts in which the verdicts
found in the secular courts are often reyers-
ed. They enforce conformity among them
selves by any means that promises to be eff
fectual, moral, or physical, terrifying resis-
lance in the Inst resort by assassination,
yelled under the doctrine Of " blood atone
ment." Opposition from without is silenc-
ed by every species Of ostracism, and by
violence when 1t can be resorted to will
impunity. Their sole aim, as shown by
their organization and their methods, is
conquest. ~ Utah Correspondence Boston
Dosf
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FRAUDS IN sHlppINo WHEAT.

A Philadelphia grain dealer says " The
ingenuity displayed by the Western ship
pers to hoodwink us and cheat their Gus
toners is something to wonder at. When q
car of corn, wheat or barley arrives at any
of the elevators we sample it for the pur-
pose of giving it rate which will regulate
its price. Sometimes we find a layer Of
good wheat on top of the load three or four
feet deep, and then, sandwiched between
this and the bottom layer, will be a foot or
two of bad stuff. For the purpose of de.
tecting such frauds we use fryer, an iron
tube with holes in the sides like pockets.
By plunging the fryer down into a load the
grain will drop through the holes into the
little pockets, and, after the fryer has been
Withdrawn, by examining the pockets we
ean easily detect anything crooked in the
portion of the load thus examined, as there
Is sample Of wheat IN the different pocketa
from every six inches below the surface
Sometimes bad corn or wheat ID carefully
placed around the sides Of the cur with the
expectation that the Inspector will be con-
tent to plunge his fryer only into the main
part of the load. The other day car SIM
ilarly plugged arrived at Washington street
wharf The fraud was quickly exposed
which necessitated giving the car low rat
ing. The shipper would have made about
SIS if the discovery had not been made, but
owing to the low rating he lost over $50.
There are some shippers, however, whom
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MISCELLANY.
TIPPING IN AMERICA.
An English View Of TIE Treatment Of
Tourists In This Country.

If we turn to the United States, we find q
country in which prevails hotel system
the most elaborate and most extensive in
the whole world. A guest may obtain
nearly all the requirements in life at an
American hotel. There he can eat, drink
and sleep, wire telegraph messages to the
uttermost ends of tho earth, read at Chicago
by means Of the perpetual tapeworm !"
machine the quotations Of the exchanges Of
London and Paris, have his hair cut, be
|" barbed" and fixed purchase tickets
for the play, read the papers by the electric
light, have his visiting card engraved, his
boots polished and his corns cut, borrow
umbrellas and dress suits by the day or
night, and buy cigars, chewing
railway tickets, comic publications, white
kid gloves and molasses candy Essen
this and non-essentials alike are pro-
yided at fixed prices, and no fees are
nominally expected. When the traveller
pays his weekly bill for board be does moi
find it supplemented by "per day for
attendance :" and, if the traveller be really
what the Americans call fright mean
euss,n he can travel from Cape Cod to the
Golden Gate and from the Gulf of Mexico
TO Washington Territory, without, ESQ far
rs hotel bills are concerned) discussing a
single cent beyond the stipulated charge
1t will be asked how such system works.
In reply it may be explained that the un-
feed hotel servants are tolerably civil and
that is all. The negro walters are usually
obliging fellows-to be obliging is charac-
teristic of their race-but when the waiter
is white he is usually an Irishman, ard he
takes care, when unfeed, to make the t.avel-
ing Englishman aware of that portentous
fact The foreign guest Mt first exults in
finding hotels wherein there is no fixed
charge per diem for attendance, and where,
when he is taking departure, the servants
are not ranged, terrible show, with hun
CRY eyes fixed ON his wallet of dollar notes.
But in process of time the travelling Briton
is oppressed with growing idea of being
neglected and uncomfortable, and by the
uneasy sensation that there are those among
his fellow guests who are faring better than
he is. By-and-by some American acquain.
lance let's him into the secret of faring bet.
ter. If he WISHES to be attended and
promptly waited upon at breakfast, let him
slip quarter into the walters hand; if he
be anxious to have good dinner in lieu of
succession of tepid and favorless messes,
let him put down u frequent dollar TO the
cook with his name and compliments.
There is no fixed charge for attendance in
American hotels but the tourist who wishes
to travel in comfort must tip" and tip
largely. Telegraph.
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THE ASTOR HOUSE.

New York correspondent says What
interesting associations are connected With
that conspicuous landmark of New York,
the Aston House It was the first hotel OF
mammoth dimensions built on the Ameri-
can continent. 1t was patterned after the
fremont of Boston, but constructed on a
larger scale. When John Jacob Astor de-
molished q block Of fashionable dwelling
houses tenanted by some of the best families
in New York TO erect this big granite edifce,
his friends thought the old capitalist was
foolish and visionary, but the shrewd Gei.
man, whose previous calculations had never
fniled him, believed differently, and he be-
lieyed rightly. The house was ready for
occupancy in 1882, and it stepped at once
into popular favor. 1t became, under the
management of the elder Stetson, world
famed house, and for many years scarcely q
merchant or professional man Of any pre-
tensions visited New York without paying
ii some tribute. II had its Webster room,
and its Clay room these rooms were always
occupied respectively by Daniel Webster
and Henry Clay, when these statesmen were
in New York, which was quite often. II
was great resort for Boston men visiting
the City, and is to-day When the house
came into the possession OF the young Stet-
sons, although well kept its business began
to decline and the competition Of the new
and elegant uptown hotels eventually
brought its affairs to pretty low ebb. The
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Cutie In a Cyclone.

Cattle In a Cyclone.
Corral the cattlei Fling the lasso far
Flank the wild stragglers Storm and sleet
befide.
Haste, hol And charging as In mimic war,
Among the tawning herd hallooIng ride.
Drive them to shelteri Gain the nearest ranch |
Those midnight masses rising in the east
Betoken that the heavens quick will launch
Bolts, blasts, death-dealing on both man ana
beast.
Hark the tornado growing from the cloud
The fery funnel circling fast In rage;
koar1ng with wind and water thunder loud
Whirlwind and waterspour rude battle wage
The warfare OF the Titans, fatal, fierce
Tropical forces wrestling In the sky
Puny impediments to break and pierce,
Uprooting giant trunks while rushing by.
Ho! Hurry toward the kraal | Crowd closely in
Hol Brave vaqueros, mustang-m4 .,nted, haste
With whip and rowel and unusual din
Urge the herd on There is no time to waste.
hundred horned heads wrecked on the plain;
A score of bronchos writhlng on the sod;
The prairie furrowed by the ruthless train,
And half dozen herders gone to God!
Washington Post
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POETRY.
unfnld.

A face may be wofal white
To cover q heart that's aching;
And face may be full Of light
Over heart that's breakingl
IT'S not the heaviest grief
For which we wear the willow:
The tears bring slow relief
Which only wet the pillow.
Hard may be burdens borne,
Though friends would fain unbind them
Harder are crosses worn
Where none save God can ind tnem.
For the loved who leave our side
Our louis are well-nigh riven;
But, all for the graves we f1nd,
Have pity, tender Heaven
Soft be the words and sweet.
That soothe the spoken sorrow:
Alas for the weary feet
That may not rest tomorrow.
-Margaret Il. Sangster.
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He Made IL nil Right.

A man returned from dentists highly
indignant, and said that the intelligent ex-
tractor had made mistake and pulled the
wrong tooth. But he made 1t all right"
he continued, " or ] would have brought
suit against him for damages" Z" What did
the dentist do to make the matter all right 2
was the question put. He didn't charge
me anything"
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ALBERT ID. ANDERSON,
AtrOPney-at-La
G.. II. d q. III. SKILLMAN,
AttnrneYs.at-LaW.

SOUTHEAST COR. BRIDGE AND UNION SITS
LAMBERTvILLE, n. J.
Collections and all legal business Entrusted te
our care will receive prompt and faithful stten
ton.
G. A. SKILLMAN, G. H. SKILLMAN,
Colaseiior-at- Lac AtosRey-dt- La,e.
July 2, 1879.
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