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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-06-18

Prof March says the dropping Of
duplicated COnsouants snvs l.6pcr cent,
and of silent els per cent NOR The
oOmplet clearance of silent letters saves
n per cent. 10 is % current statement
among spelling reformers that we thro
away SlOO, 900, 600 a yer In pamonts to
printers and publishers for sprinkling
our books and papers with silentlotws. w
Now there young man, is plan, Chep,
esy rod 2welth. u can now understand
how Josh Billings got rich. just saw
yur letters. Don't vast / not solitary
Ion lost lingering 1. The silent Letter
must go. Swer of from the silent e's
that fiji up, but do not balanc yur cash.
BY abstaning from the us of al silent
letters you f-ekt a saving of 7ten pr. ct.
Iur salary is, sa, SOOS pr yer. II pr.
ct of SOOS is a snug little sum sayo
evry yer. &, in saving thes 8 u'r not
losing plasur. IL dos Il no good to use
silent letters Their is no iOv in it u. 1t
does not creSa more blisful st5 fmind
in yur hart TO spel belev with els and
then fnd that II hav gothic middil on
the rOng side of the l. We lder, then,
that Il cling to the absurd and wastful
ed 'em. Turn your 1Oder mind
the economic paths and go ways OF
re I'm spelling, and saw II per cent Of
ur salary, and 4tunS das in stOr u.
But bear-I mean-that is, L men
this One-Or rather, ] obstacle to your
that is, ur, sudden should-oh
dear r-der I mean men, shud say
or more correctly oh, % without h
witOt a h, that is-shud sa, sudn, acqui-
stion-that is, akyzishyn of wealth
welth, rather, and that is the following
or, mOre,-that is NOR, economically
-Cne-l, only, speaking--I should
shud say-Or sa, following. While-Or
rather, Will yOu-u 1 meau-men,
wOuld-or wud, undoubtedlv-Oh dear
or rather der, undoubtedly save-I
shoulder rather shud say so, say
seventeen-ah me, 7ten pr. ct. by
escewing goodness Il should
that is shud-Say-Or sR, o gudnes !
est2ing all-Or, rather al silent letters
with One-1 {, of cOurse-withOut
e, yOu-that is, IL, would-a rather
wud, suffer with one, that is /, f, a dead
or rather, ded loss with one 9 of
5eyenty-iive or more without a COR
rcCtly with one without q C speaking,
with the a left out seventy-fve per cent.
invalueable without q c time without
C, ink or patience or rather pashonc
in scratching out words spelled with
one or l and l c, in the old way or
rather wa, and spelling with and
writing with no W then in the new
that is nu way mean-or men-wR.
And therefore pshaw that is.
therefor Osha, the loss entailed by the
progressive staisle of spellllling ecks-
ceeduingly counterbalances the mea-
gucr salvage theoretically effected bs
the paynestaking salving of an Occas-
nional beggarly e, or even the rare
bonanza of a handfullll of consonants
in a Welsh history OF a case Of phth.
dhrhfhlhtizzick Awf with his he'd
Sew mutch for the spelling reform =
Btrdettc, jB Burlington Ha5Obeyc.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-06-18
EATUREs WONDERFUL WORKS.

Inever could see any good reason for
venting all those stories about beings
called fairies and gnomes and water
mixes, who are said to dance upon the
green BY moonlight to the tune of
the crickets violin, and hold their
courts in the recesses of a liIy-bell, and
to whom much mischief and many curl
GUS pranks are ascribed. 1 say that I
could never see any good reason for
making up such tales, for, Of course,
every boy and girl knows that such
things as fairies never existed, or never
can exist. There are wonderful things
enough going on about us every day
that are true and of which we may
learn and know something
Is there anything, for example, in
any fairy tale more beautiful and Won
derful than the history of the begin
nings and the growth of flowers and
trees, and Of the pretty and curious
ways in which spiders and birds and
other creatures build their homes and
provide for their young.
Think, for a moment, of the marvel
Gus changes that are going on about
you at this season of the year. A few
weeks ago the trees in the parks and
fields and woods had only bare, leaHess
branches; now they are clothed in their
sumner dress Of green foliage, so thick
and heavy that the birds may hide their
nests in them, and the piercing rays of
tie sun can not find their way through.
What has wrought this wonderful
change? What power has been at work
! helping the trees to put OH their sum
mer dresses, cutting the leaves after a
! thousand curious patterns hanging the
flower bells i'm their swinging green
/ belfries. and trailing LONG wells of cling
ing vines and gray creepers over the
| gray stone walls and struggling fences,
and looping them up i'm festOOns from
! porches and trellises, All these thing5
are made after q pattern set by the
/ Great Master in that far-of time when
| the world began, and there has not
| been the slightest deviation since and
never any attempts at improvement
] Every spring-time for thousands OF
! yeurs the whole army Of Natures forces
! have gone TO work TO weave the oak
] the maple and the birch leaves In the
| same old fashion; TO paint the yiOleh
/ and the anemones in Che same hues anC
hang the catlIins and the dower-belL
Ga the same old way The fashions o.
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cs would ever be brought TO light and
translated seemed almost infnitssimal;
but by % series of PrOvidential events. @
complete history of which would be too
long for the present occasion, the dOcu-
meuts themselves were made public
some time aiterward, and the kew to
each system was discovered. The result
was that a triple scheme of corruption
was exposed, the like of which this
country has never known before or
since. Its purpose was to buy Mr.. Til
deu's way into the Presidency with
money, and the money was ready for
such use. and it was chiefly through
accidents, as the story is revealed by the
dispatches, that it was not paid over
These things happened several years
AGO, and the Democrats of New Hamp-
shire may have forgotten them, OF pos
sibly never heard of them till about the
time Of their late convention; but they
constitute what is known as "the great
crime of '76. '-D Detroit Post and TrjJ-
lI1In.
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Lnnghtcr as a MedIclne.

A short time since two individuals
were lying in one room very sick, one
with brain fever and the other with an
aggregated case of the mumps. They
were so low that watchers were needed
every night, and it was thought doubt
full if the one sick of fever could re-
cover. A gentleman was engaged to
watch over night, his duty being to
wake the nurse whenever it became
neces sary to administer medicine. In
the course of the night both watcher
and nurse fell asleep. The man with
tbe mumps lay watching the clock, and
saw that it was time to give the fever
patient his potion. He was unable to
speak aloud or to move any portion of
his body except his arms, but seizing a
pillow he managed to strike the
watcher in the face with it. Thus sud
denly awakened, the watcher sprang
from his seat, falling to the floor, and
awakened both the nurse and the fever
patient. The incident struck the sick
men as very ludicrOus, and they
laughed heartily at it for some fifteen
or twenty minutes. When the doctor
came in the morning he found his pa,
tionts vastly improved; said he never
knew so sudden a turn for the better,
and now both are up and wen. Who
says laughter is not the best of medi.
cines? And this reminds the writer Of
another case. Agenuoman was suffer.
| ing from an liberation of the throat
which at length became so swollen thai
his life was despaired Of His house
hold came to his bedside to bid hin
farewell. Each individual shook hand
with The dying man and then wen
away weeping. Last of all came a pc
ape, and shaking the mans hand wen
away also with its hands over its eyes
1t was so ludicrous a sight that the pa
tient was forced to laugh, and laughed
so heartily that the ulcer broke and hi
life was saved. d.-S0UiartaH.
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A Vail from New Hampshire.

just when "the flowers appear on
the earth, the time of the singing birds
is come, and the voice of the turtle is
heard in our land a cry comes up
from the Democracy of New Hamp-
shire, through their State Convention,
concerning the "great crime of TO-
Of which they seem to have only Just
heard. Lest their home organs may
NOT attend to the matter promptly, it
may be well, even at this distance of
time and space, to try to give the New
Hampshire Democratic patriots some
idea of what this shameful outrage was.
Shortly after the Presidential election
of that year. it became known that Mr.
Hayes had probably been elected, and,
thereupOn, plan was formed in New
1OrE TO buy up enough Electoral Votes
to change the result and make Mr..
IildGn President instead. Among the
gentlemen who entered into the scheme
was a favOrite nephew of Mr.. Tilden s,
who lived with him in his house at
GramercY Park, and was, indeed,
sort of adopted son. He was his uncle's
factOtum, and through him, most of
the business was done, though some
of it was transacted with the
aid of certain of Mr. Tilden' s
particular friends outside his own
house. Other friends and cOnfdants of
Mr. Iilden went 30 various points
where it was supposed they could do
the most goOd-sOme to Tallahassee,
the capital of Florida, where the can
vassing Board Of that State was to
meet, some to Columbia, the capital Of
South Carolina, and some 20 Oregon.
As the missions of these various gentle
men were Of a delicate nature, into
which il was not desirable that even
telegraph operators should pry, plans
were arranged Cor secret telegraphiC
communication i'm cipher One device
was for the party at each end of the
line TO have a certain small dictionary
i'm which the real word it was desired
10 communicate should be found, and
the corresponding word on a certain
page before or after should be sent.
BY noting the place of each word re-
Ceived, I'm the dictionary, and then turn
ing back or forward say five pages, as
the case might be, the real word would
be found, and by tracing ont one at a
time in this way the whole dispatch-a
mere tumble of words as transmitted
would arrange itself in sentences
which proved TO be frequently of
a very significant and dangerous
character. Other cipher systems were
agreed upon besides tha.Ona founded
upon the dictionary. AN were ingeu-
aous, and the chance that the dispatoh-
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Wise saylngs.

Let us try simply to do right ac-
tiOus, without thinking Of the feelings
they are to call out in others.
I'm the estimate Of Christian life it
is not the few exceptionally great things
which are reckOned, but the many oTdi-
nary little things.
"A word spoken pleasantly is a large
spot of sunshine on the sad heart-and
who has not seen its effeCtsP A smile
is like the bursting out Of the sun behind
a cloud, to him who thinks he has no
friend in the wide world.
When man gets the knowledge
of himself then he sees all the threaten
ings of God to be right. When he OBJ
tains the knowledge Of God in Christ,
then he finds that all the promises of
God are right-yea and amen.-Adan
Clarke.
1t was a grand truth that Coleridge
uttered when, in answer to a question:
Can YOU prove the truth of Christianity?
eyes, try it," Experience is a form of
proof that no one can doubt or deny.
| 1t is the Masters ''cOme and see" over
again. Exchange.
There is a sure criterion, however:
/ First, if when read a book about God,
and find that it has put me farther from
/ Him; or about humanity, and find that
! it has put me farther from man; or
/ about life, and it makes me think it less
| worth living, then know that that for
me is not a good book. 1t may charm
me, but it is not my bOOk-ReU. Robert
C0iyyer
Religion is as necessary to reason
as reason is to religion; the one can
not exist without the other. A reason
ing being would lose his reason in at
tempting to account for this great phe-
nomena of nature, had he not a SUI
preme Being to refer to. If there had
been no God, mankind would have
been obliged to imagine one Wash
iHgton.
Religious problems can at no time
be absolutely solved. A great thinker
may succeed in rsconciling a certain
religion to a certain philosophy, but
not religion in general TO absolute
philosophy. And, in fact, an absolute
philosophy does not yet exist The
! ever-searching human mind has not yet
attained TO that And win it evsrP
doubt it--Rabbi Sold, iH american
Hebrew.
The more we know of God. the
more our complacency increases, be-
cause, to fiji our minds and engross us,
the simple thought of God must be
multiplied and repeated from a thou
sand objects 1t is like the sun light
ing up a mountain chain. He has moi
multiplied Himself, but as His colder
/ magnificence lights up peak after peak
we become surrounded by His efIul
gence,-F. W. F'abeT.
! Most men have an ambition o.
{ some sort on other. Without it a mar
is no better than dead, he is a mer,
9 stick. Back of this, there is mind tina
D brings out, and is its handspring. Tn
- The sounder the mind the greater th
amoit.On, and every healthy man has
vivid imagination. 1t lives in thu
e future Imagination lost, the mind ha
T. no goal, it stops and has no desire 10 q
on.-LT. HatchiHS, of MiaHeQDolta
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Negroes In indian Territorr.


It wilr doubtless surprise many read,
ers to learn that the negroes greatly
Outnumber the Indians in the Chieka-
saw Nation. The CherOkees, ChOc-
taws, Creeks, Chickasaws and Semi
noles were all slave-holding tribes be-
fore the war, and held a larger numberi
of slaves than was generally supposed.
By the treaties made with these tribes
in 1866, the freedom of the negroes was
guaranteed in each, and political equal
ity was to be conferred upon them on
certain conditions and for certain CON,
sideratiOns. The CherOkees refused to4
admit the freedmen and Delawares to a.
share in the S3OO,OOO appropriation
made to the tribe by Congress last year-i
This will lead to complete examination
into that whole matter, and the proba-
BILE elevation of both to the full and un-
questioned right of complete citizen
ship. The ChOctaWs have lately con-.
ceded full citizenship rights to the freed
men in their Nation. 1t is understood
that the Creeks have accorded the rights
of citizenship to negroes ever since the
war. The Chickasaws alone stand out
The treaty looked to the settlement of
the freedmen by themselves in the Ok
lahOma country as a possible necessity,
but made it to the pecuniary interest of
the tribes to take them into citizenship.
The ChiCkasaws, for instance, were to.
make them full citizens, or pay them q
large amount of money. The option.
was left them of paying this,
or having the negroes moved
out of their country by the
General Government and colonized
somewhere else. AS the Nation never
took action in the matter, and made no
provision for paying the freedmen the
money, the inference has always been
that they intended to keep them among
themselves. But recent events have
shown CbiCkasaW reluctance to do eth
! er. The question Of negro suffrage is
raised and can never be quietly ignored
or denied. The Indians find that the
negroes Outnumbev them, and so viii
1 never consent TO their voting. The eX-
| ira session Of the Legislature, which has
| just adjourned, appointed a delegation
to visit Washington and prevent, if pos
sible, any legislation comforting the
right Of suffrage or citizenship upon
! the negroes in the Chickasaw Nation.
This act of the Legislature would seem
TO express their preference for the re-
mOYal Of the negroes on the conditions
of the treaty of 1866. But this option
having been so long waived, and the
negroes having in the meantime, by
common consent, acquired so many
vested property rights in the ChiCkasaw
country, the question Of their removal
is surrounded by many new difficulties
and complications. They have built
houses, and made farms and improve
ments which by Chickasaw law are alb
solutety their own as long as they oc-
cupy them. To disposess them Of these
against their will, on any terms, would
smack of positive injustice, but to do so
without 1ull and fair compensation
would be nothing but wholesale rob-
berry The question of fair appraise-
ment and reimbursement win have 70
be guaranteed by the United States
should their removal be decided on
Cor st. Louis Democrat.
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Religious Miscellany.
ONETENTH

Onc-tcnth OF upencd grain
OpC-teuth OF tree and vine,
Oue-tcnth of all the yield
From ten-tonths shine and rain.
Ouc-tcnth of lowing herds
That browse on hill and plain;
Onc-tCnth of blc8ting hlCks,
For tCn-tCnths shine and rain.
One-tenth of all increase
From cOuuting-rOnm and mart;
One tenth that science yields,
One-tcnth Of every art.
Ouc-tenth of loom and press
One-tcuth Of mill and mine:
One-tenth Of evCry craft
Wrought out by gifts OF Thine.
One-tcnth Of glowing words
That glowing dollars hold;
Onc-tenth of written thoughts
That turn to Ginning gold
Onc-tenthl and dost Thou, Lord,
But ask this mcJgcr loan,
When all the earth is Thine,
And an we have Thine own?
-Churrhmdn.
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Danyille.

The majority report of the United
States Senate Election Committee on
the Danville riot declares that it was
premeditated and preconcerted for the
purpose Of raising the race issue and in-
timidating the negroes. The Demo
Gratis prearranged the riot and indOrseu
it after it had occurred.
Mr.. Lapham, who prepared the re-
port, introduced some kilograms which,
he claimed, sustain the conclusion that
the riot was the deliberate work of the
Democratic party.
The Committee finds no evidence that
the negroes fired q shot until after the
whites fired a general vOlley, and that
very few had weapons of any kind The
negroes were of all ages and both sexes,
and had gathered unIueslionably from
curiosity. The whites, on the contrary,
were generally armed. The tire-beu
was rung, but not for a fire. On the
contrary, it was a secret signal for the
white military company. The whites
came rapidly from all directions, and
arms were distributed to those who had
none from the shops and stores. The
report concludes:
"Ihe object of the Democrats in these
HADl Us W Anl9N "a lAAD sue 10 uAlL IN INC
blacks and excite the whites was two
fold: First 10 intimidate the colored
voters in localities where they were as
strong as in Danville; second, but chief
ly, TO produce such a frenzy of feeling
in the State as would induce the white
electors TO Join with their own race and
escape the contumely and reproaCh to
which they would otherwise be sub
jected for fraterniziug politically with
''niggers." lt wis made TO appear that
the blacks were the offenders, when in
| truth the white Democrats were a mob
In possession of the town, and no negro
dared make his appearance on the
streets. The occurrence was one which
caused rejoicing instead Of regret to
DemOCrats.1
The recommendation made in the
Copiah report that the basis of repre-
sentati0l shall be reduced when the
right TO vote is denied or abridged in
any State are adopted as part of this
. report. o. Washington Press Dispatch.
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For Young Readers.



THE CHYS At TdK
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W., ti,, P5i,y,. a.. w. ~ .uui
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10 you Ie sIiofu 10 shLl I'm,
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t.Ao vi olt @ oui ;" 2 AZ ~, - 49,
AZ 49, ~ ~ ~, ,,,,, grGIi5St ~ 0"OO'0'
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Said Tom. s,r,ve 1tttle time
p,t on t lGNu[lcI ,li lrSS g1eSG' p,'ss cro
hVL eCL @ ouI NUT lilllltlti az iy 49, "toyt
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grI,5 flt- Jtjt ~ -i,.,5-,
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s,A An Ton, % orie5 p,tsev Grev.
Iear y4H ii M y #lcheI ,, Ot,U. ,,,,t-
And put my ulster oul'
Ihe tWirl OF a Iurty paw
was all Jhe hreIEhJ saw
ANA Ihe thleFlng Ilehu5 we're gone
Not En-, s,,,r,5 ,p ono football
ruo ,l, Oy S ,, 1uoif ~ W. ,iit Nv osta,1tb
And reached the dairy door.
II was open tne mereSJ crack
Ard Cyy,pf 5iSi,,g tIr Hg,Cr
--'-N- ~ t'N '-iN'Ala WV -'NN+-'
rr,,,,
4hey IQunu huge round cnoese,
ana Jnty carved a generous suCe'
-. How very, very nice!
We ia tuhe il DeLWCeu ua-bo4
A49 ll never soul WIZ Know
Ihey IL Inluh IL was Jne MICE
.,.---
h1I Wheh Iney reacheu tnelr den
tneg pleEaI ,5l 20 ulsAsttee zee ,...
q, Ana both gIrowled angrily.
q. 2,HLu LOll' i' WIN EtCeuy DOaAl'
We yea a . right TO claim !ne most
tut MY ul7Co'eiy'
v,-t.,.
& ~ a luIio4s IIi,Is r WISH 70 sCIalCh'
,,r ,IL- 3I,tisi, , ~ 10y ua7y utey
-r,.l Us an nave 70 say;
t,, tICl 5,.oo d llQ,eL ,,, ~ p&aM &
my u t .til .'ii,t ottgilSt 70 ~ ~ ~ ~ 'aw
IL ne Couluu nAN9 MS way
,..,,..- ,
n II I4lotHAey ty uteu ls sleis He1L u4OI'
~, ~ .l..i il.t.ll Iio lo4llsu JaI, 49,. ,s
What simpletOns they arel
SO very brave to bluster,
While neither one could muster
Courage for genuine war"
SO he stepped upon the scale,
Suaye and dignihed;
" do not wish to chide,
But pray show common sense,
And in this difference
Let some third friend decide"
Beth Grey and Tom knew well
They never could agree:
So both exclaimed. with common breath:
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"A Connecticut jury gave John Mes
bit ten dollars damages against the
Bradford Lock Works for an accident
which took OH his only arm. He sued
for $4,000
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DR.. John Hall and His Wealthy Par.
ishiOner.

DR.. John Hall is pastor of thewealth
lest congregation i'm America-the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian. He is Scotch,
and therefore, uncOmprOmisiug in his
principles, which are regarded as al
ways of the best He gets $4,000 a
year and a parsOnauge worth $4,000
more from the church. He is paid
s., 900 to write for BOnner's story pa
per, and he draws a salary as president
of an educational institution. There
fore you can see that he is fixed COM
fOrtably for life, so far as incOm0is CON
cerned. But there is a widow, Mrs R.
l.. Stuart, possessing S7OOO,OO She
is very old, and her declining DAYS are
largely devoted to beuevolenco. DR..
Hall is her pastor and her adviger in
benetactiOn. Her residence is, in some
respects, as fine as a palace. 1t con-
tains wonders in Gobelin tapestries,
elaborate trescOing and massvely rich
furniture, Tho venerable lady Is not I'm
the least frivolous, and yet one Of her
diversions is the identifying OF her
home. She viii spread $40, 900 on the
walls Of a room, and, before the paint
is fairly dry, cover it with something
different but equally expensive. The
drawng-rOOm has just been decorated 10
white, gold and rose pink, with fres-
coed ceiling dotted by vivid little Span
ish pictures. Right under this LAYER of
fresh art lies the painting that was done
no more than o year ago. At the top
OF the house is an OctagOnal room, some
thing like an observatory, from which
the whole of Central Park can be viewed.
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Every power we have may be made
10 help us in any right work, whatever
that is