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The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-05-17

IL the General Conference Of the NJ.
L. Caurch on Tuesday morning of last
week. in Philadelphia, the treasurer OF
the Episcopal Iuud reported the receipts
in tie last four years 1927. .9GI.S5 and
expenses S22l, $50 O2 TIE agent of tie
NJ, L. Book Concern reported great f.
nancial prosperity, The totul assets are
Sl,713 800 Il. The sale of books In 1880
was $8GI IGC7; iu 1881. 1852, ,7l9; in 1882
SSSl, 07S; fnd in 1888 1898. I29, a total
of S53 j3l j95. The report OF the board
of educllion gives the total value Of the
educational buildings and grounds le-
longing 10 the church at 81 5S4, G4O with
an endowment of $703l.l7G, In these
there were 1905 teachers aud 2S. SOL
students. During the past year 422
students were aided to the extent of S33.
3l2.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-05-17

The death OF Jndah P. Benjamin on
Thursday, of last week, ended IA very ro-
mautic aud checkered career. Mr.. Ben
min Was OF Jewish descent. was born
in the island Of ST. Croix in 1911, and at
an early age became resident Of New
Orleans. He was educated ut Yale, and
after brilliant career at the Louisiana
Bar was elected to the United Stat, b
Senate i'll 1862. On the secession Of
Louisiana from lbe Union he became q
member OF the Confederate Government,
being successfully Atorney-General,
Secretary OF Wa- and Secretary of State
lie was populnIly known as 'the brains
of the Coniederacy," aud was uuduubt-
edIy the ablest man in Mr.. Davis Cibi-
net. Ou the collapse of the Confederate
Government in 1865 he made lis way to
Key West, and escaped in an open boat
TO Nassau. Going to England he was
speedily admitted 10 the bar, and in ten
years bad become one of the most prom
ineut lawyers i'll that country. At bis
retirement. little more than n year ag,,
on account Of organic disease of the
heart, his practice was estimated to be
worth 100000 yeur. He was a man
OF brilliant abilities, brt not of high
moral character.
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FROM WASHINGTON
Regular to the CARBON ADVOCATE.
WAsHINGToN d. c.. Nay Is. 'S4.
TT nI1-u.1,


BY vote OF l50 to l55 the Morrison
Tariff bill was killed in the House.
Every vote in the House was accounted
Tor save those Of three members, and
they could not have changed the result.
The motion to strike out the enacting
clause was made by a Dsmocrat-Mr.
Converse, Of Ohiu-and without the aid
OF Democratic votes It could not have
been carried. Fouy.one Democrats vot-
ed wi Ii the Republicans, aud thi. was
the strength OF Mr.. Raudall's following.
Three Republicans who voted with Nor.
rison We're AIessrs. Wakefield, Nilsson
and Strait, all OF Minnesota.
In reviewing the course Of events
which so eliminated, it is not didicult
to determine where the blame lies or v no
must bear the cons, a uces of this act.
Not in twenty i've Years had the Dsmo.
Gratis gained control OF the House under
conditions amy more fsyoraGls TO their
continuing IN power, They had b.eu
lifsd iuto a mejorty by ihe scandals
and corruption of their Il publican op-
.pJueuts; LEY ssss uet wlth arrears Of
Important legislation which the recent
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-05-17
ALibrary Within Easy Reach.

Funk & Wagnalls, New York, are doing
a great work for the lovers OF standard
books. They have published in a single
volume, cloth. quarto size. such works as
Macaulay's and Carlyle's Essays, John
Ruskin's Ethics Of the Dust" also his
"Frondes Agrestes," Charles Kingsley's
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Arc" Demnsthenes' Orations q vols. }
Disraeli's "Calamilies of Authors" and
other works by masIers-in all II. and this
important volume. cloth bound. they sell
for only 50 IS. See the large advertise
ment of this house on another page. No
needs be without hooks now.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-05-17

n Y. Sun: A telegram from Ithica to
the New York TRIBUNE announces that
subscription has been started for the
benefit of Gen. Grant. to be known MS
Grants Fund of Honor. Everyone in
village is expected to subscribe uol'ar
The expression, "Gmnt's Fund Of Hon
or is capable of another meaning. In
this other sense, the people will be better
able to judge how Urge Grants fund cf
honor is when they know to what extent
he authorized the use of his nnme in
connection with Government contracls
by the swindling firm OF Grant & Ward
of which he was himself the most con-
spicuous member.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-05-17

A PROTECTIVE tariff is like leech; it
has II sucker at both ends of it, With
one end ii sucks up the substance of th,
people for the benefit OF the Treasury :
with the other il depletes productive in-
duslrlea IN order TO sustain unproduct-
I've industries. Tue money tia, goes in.
to the hand oGthe Governments is derived
through II leglun ate exeIcise of the tax
ing power; but the money that is taken
lrom Que lro, ucer TO give to another is
legalized robbery. Philadelphia Re
CORD
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-05-17

WorKNGMES should not allow them
selves to b. Iguoraut of the fact that the
mann "ctuIiug iut,rests which have the
highest t"rf1-law pro ectIun are those
tn"t to-day are IN the must PROSTATE con-
dition, and connected with which wage
reductions have bsen the greatest; and
when they iortify themselves into thi,
understanding, which all ripe jui sment
cannot fail to do, they ought not to fer
get its impression
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-05-17

maturity, and the Government evinces
Willingness to aid the business interests.
Wall Street, Of course. has experienced
tbs most apprehension. Wednesdays
scenes Of excitement closely resembled
those Of Black Friday, but the belief Is
generally considered well grounded that
they will not be repeated.
A special despatch from New York at
2 O'Clock Thursday morning announces
that the Metropolitan National B uk will
resume payment in the morning, the
clearinghouse Committee acquiescing,
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-05-17
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Spring without Blossoms.
Late in Life to Look for JoY-Yst Never
teo Late to Mend.

Readers Of Hawthorne's "House Of Seven
Gabels" will recall the pathos with which
poor Clifford Pyncheon, who had been un
justly imprisoned since his early manhood,
said after his release: "AIy life is gone, and
where is my happiness? Oh, give me my
happiness" hut that could be done only in
plrt, as CLEANS OF warm sunshine occasion.
al y fall across the gloon OF New England
autumn day.
In letter TO Messrs. HlscoX & Co, Mr.. l..
II. THUS. Of Pennington, N. j., says: l have
suffered untold misery from childhood from
chronic disease Of the bowels and dlarrona
accompanied by great pain. l sought relief
at the hands OF phys clans of every school and
used every patent ami domestic remedy under
the sun. have az last found in PARKER 5
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cure. As your Invaluable medicine, which
did for me what nothing else could do. is en-
titled t. the credit of my getting back my
happy days, l cheerlully and gratefully ac-
knowledge the lact.'
Mr.. =. ). Wells, who needs no intrOdue-
tio to the people of Jersey CITY, adds: The
testimonial Of Mr. ituS Is genuine and yOl-
untary only he does not adequately portray
the suffering he has endured for many years
He Is my brOther.ln-law. and l know tLe case
we'll. lie is now perfectly free from his old
troubles, aud enjoys health and life, ascrlb-
ing Il all 10 PARKER'S TONIC"
lnsqualled as an invigOrant, stimulates all
the organs; cures ailments OF the liver, Kid.
neys, and all diseases Of he blood.
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hD EN as

F. A. Lehman, Solicitor OF American
and Foreign Patents, Washington. 40. a.. All
business connected with Patents, whether
before The Patent Othcs OF the Courts,
promptly attended 70. No charge made IN.
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GkI GAyDnn AtIrpGate.
LEHIGHToN, PAa
SATURDAY, MAY II, 1884.

Catered at the Lehighton post-ofIlce as
Second Class Mail Matter.
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Congresses had passed over in their
greedy seeking of plunder; they had
abundant opportunity to prove their tit-
ness and capacity by manlully under
taking to perform what bad been neg
lected to the manifest injury of the pto-
pie. They have missed the opportunity.
From the beginning they have been di-
vided in sentiment, and although this
division was very unequal in point Of
numbers, small faction has succeeded
in blocking what by far the larger por-
tion of the party considered themselves
pledged to perform. Almost from the
first the contest has been between Mr..
Carlisle and Mr.. Morrison on the one
band and Mr.. Randall on the other, and
Mr.. Randall has been acting in the in
terests of the Republicans, aud counting
upon their support. This duel has been
fought over the Tariff bill, and Mr..
Randall, after suffering defeat more than
once, wins. Is is victory
The Democrats in the House appear
disposed to forget their past differences
and are going TO work at the unfinished
business OF the session. There is n gen.
eral disposition in favor of an adjourn
meut.
a NEW CoYcEPTI N OF CIVIL SERVICE RE-
FORM.
First Assistant Postmaster. General
Hatton is still absent from his post in
Washington. 1t has been many weeks
since he was last seen here He left on
a tour of duty, and has since been fre-
quentlY heard of at State and other Con-
yentions Of bis party in the West. It
should not be too hastily inferred, how
ever, that Mr.. Hatton is-engaged in what
is not deservi g Of praise.
He is simply enforcing the civil SER
vice rules as he understands them, and
AS they have been expouuded by Mr..
Eaton, the august head Of the CIVIL Ser
vice Commission. That official holds
that under the law officials may act as
delegates iu Convention, Hattou. reas.
uning thereirom, holds that what man
may do lie should do, and that what be
cannot do himself he should assist others
to do. Ii this way he works it out that
it is not only the right, but the dnty, Of
officials to engage in the delegate bust
ness, and to this end for nearly six
weeks he has been on tour of duty.
His return is not expected in consider.
able time. He may take Chicago in his
homeward way early in June
That Mr.. Eaton has so able au assis.
tant as Hatton in enforcing the civil ser
vice rules, all reformers have reason to
rejoice. A number of Government Of
tieials are similarly employed. Some Of
them, avIiling themselves of Patriarch
Eaton's license, have got themselves
elected delegates to Chicago. In this
Hatton failed, the r. Rspublicans of Iowa
not having worked themselves up to the
more advanced ideas of reform in the
civil service of which he and Eaton are
the apostles.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-11-20
HOME READING.

No home can be a truly happy one, espe-
cially during the long Winter evenings
which are now closing in upon US, without
some system of indoor recreation and diver
sion is pursued, and among the games, music,
song and mirth that should make the long,
dark evenings as bright and happy as May
morn, reading should have its allotted space.
Nothing tends so much to make home happy
and to bind the members of it in closer ties
than the reading aloud by member of the
family ofsome interesting book or paper. If
this is made the rule, the time of the sunset
will be looked forward to as the most pleas
ant part of the day, with the log fire blazing
on the hearth, father sitting on one side
reading aloud from THE NATIONAL TRIB-
UNE, mother on the other with her knitting,
and the little ones sitting around the fire
and seeing in the glowing embers the thrill
ing scenes so vivi lily portrayed in the col
umns of that paper. And this amount OF
contentment and happiness can be added to
the home circle for the insignificant sum of
81 per year.
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CIVIL SERVICE,

OF the 10000 persons in the civil employ
Of the Government only $4,000 are protected
from arbitrary removals by the civil service
laws. These are included in three classes,
to wit:
1862 Department employees, receiving
salaries from 5000 to 81 800 per annum.
5000 postal employees, receiving from
$500 to 81, 500 per annum, and
2,573 customs employees, receiving from
5000 to 81 800 per annum.
OF the remaining $4,000 more than half
are Postmasters, 1000 are in the Railway
Mail Service, and 1900 more are in the In
ternal Revenue Service. The remaining
$4,000 are made up of heads of Departments
and Bureaus, officers of Customs, COnsulates,
Congress and the Federal Courts, "laborers,"
messengers and the following classes:
l. The confidential clerk or secretary of
any head of Department or Office.
2. Cashiers of Collectors.
8. Cashiers of Postmasters.
4. Saperintendents of Money Order Divis-
ions in Post Offices.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-11-20

PROBABLY as great delusion over an
unimportant matter as ever took possession
of the human mind is the idea which many
persons have that the only enjoyment or
sensation to be derived from smoking con-
sists in seeing the smoke and fire. The fact
that a great many people learn to smoke
after losing their sight, and that consider
able number of the inmates of blind asylums
are ardent devotees of the weed, and seem
to derive peculiar solaee and enjoyment
from it, is about as good an argument against
the fallacy as can well be ad2uced.
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THE SIZE OF THE PENSION BILLS.

Grumblers at the amounts required to
pay pensions forget four very important
facts, to wit:
l. That during the war we put in the field
larger proportion Of the population than
any other people ever did.
g That we fought our battles with more
valuable class of men than any other people
ever did.
3. That, as this country relies on volun-
teers to fight its wars, the amount paid them
as pensions should be put in comparison
with money other people pay for standing
armies.
A. That pensions, to be worthy the name,
must bear some relation to wages and the
cost of living in this country; to the amount
of service rendered, aud to the riches of the
people.
In the first place, as to the proportion OF
troops furnished TO population. The follow
ing table shows the population of the loyal
States ut the outbreak of the war, the num-
Der of men furnished, and the percentage of
soldiers to population:
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THE Markets.

The final settlement of the Presidential
election, which came with the completion of
the count in New York on Saturday night,
was too late to have any beneficial effect
still depressed by rumors of the dire conse-
quences that might follow protraeted dis
pute over the returns. This week opened
much more hopefully. Flour was in fair
demand at 1915 and $3.50, wheat brought
from q to so cents, and corn 43 cents per
bushel. Oats were dull, and ranged from DC
to 26b. Pork sold for from S11.5O to sl2, and
lard from $40 to $7.123, but the demand
was not great.
The stock markets, which up to Wednes-
day of last week were exceedingly dull,
started up with renewed activity when the
result of the election was reasonably certain,
and large amount of railroad and other
stock changed hands.
The iron market, although still very much
depressed, has shown some little improve
ment during the past week, although it is
now too late in the season for any general
resumption of business activity, and there
will probably be no great improvement until
after the holidays. The steel rail industry,
so far as new orders are concerned, is very
dull, but the large amounts contracted for
during October will keep most of the mills
in Pennsylvania in full work during the
Winter
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d. c.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 90 1888

s. The direct custOdians of money Of
whose fidelity another officer is under official
bond.
6. Persons employed exclusively in the
secret service of the Government, or as
translators, Interpreters or stenographers.
z. Persons whose employment is exclu-
sively professional.
8. The Chief Clerks, Deputy Collectors
and Superintendents, or Chiefs of Divisions
or Bureaus.
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LET EVERY COMRADE DO A LITTLE.

The rapers in the country which are hostile
to the soldiers interests-which oppose every
measure that looks toward doing them Justice
to get up clubs, and extend their circulation.
The NATIONAL TRIBUNE is the only great
paper in the country which is the unfailing
champion of the soldier and always lifting its
voice in his favor Therefore, every soldier
should consider it his duty to exert himself to
build up THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, and bring
in at least one new subscriber Comrades, all
make the effort and it will be to your interest
as well as ours. Remember that The National
Tribune Costs Only I5co Cents Week.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-11-20
THIS WEEKS PAPER.

We give this week another interesting
instalment of that thrilling story "Captur-
ing Locomotive" Nothing that we could
present to our three-quarters of million of
soldier readers with their wives and chill
dren would be more highly acceptable.
Gen. o. o. Towards account of the hur-
red concentration of the Army of the Poto-
mac ON the hills behind Gettysburg is spir-
tied and fascinating, and quite up to the
high expectations that have been formed
of it.
Carleton" tells with earnestness and
power of the disaster to the Eleventh Corps
at Charlottesville.
The first half of an excellent story is
begun, which will be concluded next week
In Fighting Them Over" the articles of
special interest are sketch Of the imprison-
ment of the men whom the traitor Twiggs
turned over to the rebels, an account of the
mine at Petersburg, and spirited story of
the action of the gunboat "Gen. Thomas
in helping to retard Hoods advance.
Altogether, this weeks paper will be
very agreeable and instructive companion
for the fireside these long evenings.
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE,
Washington, D. c.
GAR. RECORD"
An Extraordinary Offer.

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE has secured
control of II. o. Teed's superb GAR Rec
ord" which has been SO much admired by
comrades everywhere. This is a genuine
work of art, being printed from a steel plate,
engraved by the best artists in the country.
In the center it has blank for the military
record of the owner TO be attested by the
officers Of his Post. Around this are spirited
pictures Of war scenes-all executed in the
highest style of bank-note engraving. A
vignet of Lincoln on the left hand and a
representation Of the GAR. badge on the
right are real artistic gems. When the
blank in the center is filled out in fine
engrossing hand, with the name of the SOL
dier, his rank, company and regiment, the
battles he participated in, wounds and other
facts Of his military history, it will make a
magnificent ornament for the parlor, and an
invaluable heirloom for the owners children.
1t has never been sold so far for less than
50, but we viii send il, securely packed in
tube, TO anF address for club of 10 sub
scribers to THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, or we
will send il and THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
for one year fer 81. This is a splendid
chance to get this superb work of art cheap.
FRENCH farmers are complaining loudly
that they are raising wheat at a loss. The
Government figures show that the cost of
raising for the past ID years has averaged
81 45.1 per bushel, while the extraordinary
yield this year reduced the cost TO 81 O58.
The market price for the past ID years has,
It is said, averaged 81 81, while this year
it. is about 81 cents. 1t does seem rather
hard times for the French peasant. No
wonder lie limits his family to tw0
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-11-20

THE EX-UNIoN and ex-rebei soldiers vii
unite in one Encampment at the New Orleans
Exposition. One Thousand tents will be con-
structed for the free accommodation Of the
veterans of both armies. and $4,000 has been
appropriated by the Board of Managers for this
purpose. The Grand Army of the Republic Of
New Orleans and local associations of Confed-
crates have all entered into the work with
great interest. Capt. Ed. Wheeler, of Lincoln
Post, No. 1, Topeka, Kan, will command the
camp.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-11-20

THE Interior Department has begun OPP
erations in earnest against the land-grabbers
out West. Last week Judge Brewer of the
United States Circuit Court at Omaha, rem
dered decision against the Brighton Rancho
Co., which has fenced in about $4,000 acres
of land to which it had no right He spoke
in deservedly severe terms against the COM
pany, and granted an injunction prohibiting
them from making any crOss-fences upon
land inclosed by them, but will wait for a
final hearing of the case before he issues a
mandatory injunction compelling them to
remove all the fences they have put up.
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Total killed and wounded.

Thus in II months of fighting 100000 of
our men lost very nearly as many as 1,124,-
900 Germans in the seven months which it
took them to utterly destroy the French
army and crush out all resistance.
The American soldier had four years of
this awful fighting, where the German SOL
der got off with less than two-thirds of a
year.
1t is facts like these which amply justify
pension roll much larger than any the
American people have been called upon to
contemplate
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-11-20

Perhaps better comparison would be
tanned by the army which Grant led against
Richmond. Including the columns under
Sigel and Butler, Grant opened the final
campaign against Richmond with 100000
men, or about one-sixth the German force
that moved against Paris. The losses were
as follows:
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-11-20

THE English Tories are doing their best to
make the people there believe that the Liberals
press the country. In France the Legitimists
charge it on the Republicans, and in Belgium
the Clericals assert with great positiveness that
which mako trade languish. Human nature
seems to DO the same on both sides Of the At
lantic.