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Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-10-02

Notwithstanding the great NUN ber of
pubic and private schools and the at
tention that is supposed to be paid to
all educational subjects, it is a matter of
as;onishnent that We nave so few good
readers. Even among those whose bus
mess recessltates much reading aloud,
clergymen and lawyers for instance,
good readers are very rare. To read
well the pronunciation mast be perfect,
the euunciation clear and the articula-
ton distinct. The two latter are apt to
be neg giected until it is too late to RENE
dy the defect without great difficulty.
That reading which clearly conveys to
the listener the meaning of the author,
that has no peculiarities TO divert the
attention irem the subject matter, must
be pronounced good. Such plain read
ing precludes much of what NAV be
/ termed ''style" which is SO frequently
affected, to the detriment CT conveying
J the sense intended. Reading should
be as natural as possible. In view ot
/ the pleasure and instruction to be de.
rived from reading aloud, it is to be re.
g-ettcd that greater attention Is Dot
paid to this important branch of study
or at least that better results are mo-
reached. The benefits to he reapee
from reading aloud are not confined t.
public places. Few accomplishment
greater enhance the enjoyment and eJi
tcation OF the family circle during the
/ long winter evenings than the readiut
sieIl3 Ct so.f.s Interesting BOOK or p.ci
'.',lcstl by enc TAa IS 2ols!Iscent - ae
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30

DURING the last fifteen years England has
been devoting great deal of attention to her
public school system, and with very appre-
ciable effect. There were l,569,00O children
on the school registers in 1862 3,7ll,W0 in
1879, and 4,3ll, 600 in 1854. The fact that dur
ing the same time there has been decline in
the numbers of the criminal population has
led to the inference that the second is the re-
suit of the first. The total number OF pris-
oners sentenced to penal servitude has fallen
from II, ,0l6 in 1869 to $500 in 1884, notwith-
standing large increase in population. The
number of prisoners under thirty has fallen
nearly one-half. This conclusion can hardly
be regarded as sound, if English statistics of
prisons in any way resemble those of the
United States. 1t has been found here that
the illiterate are by no means in the majority
in the occupancy OF prison cells, and many
humanitarians have even argued that edu-
cation makes more apt the individual bent
on wrong doing. 1t will doubtless be found
on closer investigation that education per SC
did not work the wondrous change in Eng
land, but that better moral training had
most to do with it.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30
0tr iantaster 1ntelli9enfer.
LANCASTER, JULY 80. 1885.
Test the Question.


The people of Pennsylvania have good
deal larger interest in the absorption by
the Pennsylvania railroad company of the
rival Vanderbilt lines in this state than
simply the consideration of who makes and
who loses money by the transaction. 1t
may be, as is claimed, that the construction
of the new roads was begun by people who
put their moneyinto it purely as a CON-
mercial enterprise, and not as public
benefaction and that when they can make
more money out of it by selling than by
holding it, they may be reasonably ex-
pected to close out at such profit. 1t is
even asserted with confidence that the pro-
testing stockholders who resist the absorp-
tion only wait to get the best terms.
This is not a sufficient answer to the
great considerations of public policy in
volved, The South Pennsylvania railroad
by means which may yet be the subject of
serious investigation and startling disclos.
ure, obtained extraordinary Legislative
grants from the representatives of the peo.
pie. Their constituents were reconciled
to these remarkable concessions only by
the assurance that they were to promote 6
railway competition which would relieve
the public from monopoly, and grant that
relief from freight determinations which
even the constitution has not secured
Capital embarked in the venture that wa
pIbmised to be serious one, and enter
ptse staked its fortunes on it
vast labor has been performed on th
construction of the new road lin
of noble piers marks its track across tn,
zSusquehanna and mighty mountains hav
been half tunnelled to admit the passag
of its roadway. Is this labor to be wasted
Is the law to be Knocked ? Are popula
rights to be trampled upon ? We agre
with the Philadelphia Record that seriou
public question is involved, of which ther
cannot be too early test.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30
CAPACIoUs-MAwED corporations must b'
held in cheek, though the heavens fall.

POSTMASTER VEAzEY, of Baltimore, has,
in his brief official career, been made cogni-
Zant of some gross violations of the rules OF
civil service. He recently obtained author
ity from Washington to appoint five addi-
tional substitute carriers, and in the exercise
OF that authority made requisitlon as usual
for four names of those standing highest in
grade upon the list of eligibles. Among the
four one was a letter-carrier under PoStmas-
ter Tyler and was discharged for drunken
ness having been found in a beastly intox-
icated condition in barroom with his mail
bag under his feet. This man, having been
thus discharged, afterwards applied for ex-
animation under the first civil service exam
ination, but failed. The law expressly pro-
vides that, ''no person dismissed from the
public service for misconduct shall be admit
ted to examination within two years there
after" and yet this man, who had been re
moved in August, 1892 was examined in
May, 1884. The law also provides that
"no person having failed upon any examina-
ton shall within six months thereafter be
admitted to another examination without
the consent Of the commission" Accord
ingly, this man, who had been dismissed
from the service, and who had, therefore,
been improperly examined within two years
thereafter, having failed in May, 1884, OBJ
tanned special permission to appear again at
the next examination in August of the same
year, only three or four months thereafter.
At this second examination, in 1884, he
passed, and is accordingly upon the list,
from whom Postmaster Veazey is now re-
quired to make a selection. Perhaps it will
be necessary before long to reform civil SER
vice reform.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30
u abused by q pernlcious system that has

ly abused by pernicious system that has
grown up. A great many Of the hospitals
and homes which pretend TO be private in
stitutions are only such i'm name and man
agement the money TO support them
really comes from the state, and it is too
often largely spent to support manage
ment that is selected for private reasons.
There is for all such institutions as are
founded by private beneGcence but one
safe rule, that is they should either be
wholly under state control or entirely free
from it. The mixed system of divided re-
sponsiblity and precarious support is not
good one. There cannot be judicious and
regular management of concern that
Lakes its chances each year of getting
5000, 900 or $4,000 from the state or
incurs the risk of getting nothing.
In one case of leading institution
called a" state'' hospital, though the CON-
monwealth practically pays all the ex.
penses, it has the power to name only one.
sixteenth of the management. Such Q
system ought to be torn up by the roots!
Now it turns out that the private chari
ties which it was alleged would be starved
out and frozen out if denied state aid arr
all pulling through. 1t is true that thos
who have come to their relief may no
want to do 50 every year. In that case lie
them hand them over to the state. VIII
pays should manage.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30
The Puhlic Charities.

The fact that individual local subscrip-
tions have come to the relief of the So
called private charities which were cut off
from state aid by Gov. Pattison's vetoes,
is very forceful commentary Oh the grant
of state aid to these institutions.
1t is generally soundprinciple of repub-
lican government, that what can better or
as well be done by private individuals OF
the local community should not be done by
the state; and the most alarming tendency
of our institutions is the increasing dis
position of the people TO try to shift upon
the government their own responsibilities.
In this matter of charities in our state
we believe not only the proper functions of
the commonwealth have been perverted,
but the principle OF charity has been gross
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30
SIR CHARLES dixie may now hum
"Only man adrift for HE,
Ana all for woms's sake"
The "PalI Mall Gazette" Endorsed.

The committee to inquire into the recent
statements of the Pail Mall Gazette in regard
to London vice has made the following
report:
Having been requested to inquire as to the
truth of statements printed i'm the PdH Mall
Gazette from TIE first, to exclude inquiry
into charges against particular men or classes
of men or against the police, we strictly con-
fined ourselves to an inquiry into the system
of criminal vice described. After carefully
sitting the evidence of witnesses and materials
before us, without guaranteeing the accuracy
of every particular, we are satisfied that, on
the whole, the statements OF the Pail MAJ
Gazette are substantially true.
The report is signed by the archbishop of
Canterbury, the bishop of London Cardinal
Manning and Messrs Moorley and Reid.
A late edition of the PuH MdH Gazette was
published last evening, containing the fore
going report in loaded type.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30

SAM JONES, the Southern evangelist, who
has been exciting great deal of emotional
religion in Georgia and Tennessee, is iond
of slang, with which his dscourses are highly
seasoned He was recently taken to task for
il when he said: 81 use slang sometimes.
Its about the strongest kind oflanguage we
have. can accomplish something with 1t
when l can't faze man with the old style of
language. Take that Latin-derived word
decay and he won't notice it; but can
chop his head off with rotten l have al
ways preached this sort of language and
expect to. ] have been criticised great deal
about some of the expressions use, but see
no good in changing them when they tell
what mean. I seldom use any but a scrip
tural word, however" 1t is passing strange
that Rev. Jones should classify that good
old strong Anglo-Saxon word ''rotten' as
slang. 1t is the most forcible as well as the
purest kind of English. What Rev. Jones
seems to forget is that there is certain
amount of dignity to be observed by hin
| who essays to preach the way of salvation.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30
The Man and the Issue.

The Philadelphia Times, having canvass
ed a pa II the Democratic press and
urstS FOR local views, as to the choice of
the newspapers for the Democratic nomi-
nation for state treasurer and for opinions
as to proper party policy TO inspire the
campaign against Quay, expresses some
disappointment that there is neither con-
,.cant-ation OF personal choice, nor single
IS Of purpose as to the issue upon which
ythe candidate to beat Mr. Quay, ought to
be presented. The Times goes further and
with that consideration for the Penn
sylvania Democracy, which it never fails
to display, proposes that the party here
make "bold battle for the elevation of
the civil service Of the nation as clearly
foreshadowed by President Cleveland"
AS to the lack of definiteness among the
Democratic newspapers in foreshadowing
the probable candidate Of their party con-
vention or the paucity of candidates push
ing themselves for nomination, we regard
this as hopeful sign. 1t does not
prove indifference among the masses
of the party nor fear of the result
sOz the part of those who might be tempted
to venture upon the chances of the pend
ing campaign. Nothing could be better
for the Democracy than to meet in conven-
tion without being directed by any domi-
and then to let the nomination go in search
of and find a worthy man. The Office seek
ers are not always the best candidates.
Nor is there any great difficulty finding
issues upon which to fight the battle. The
enforcement of the provisions of the new
constitution regulating corporations is one
that the INTELLIGENCER has suggested,
and for which the convention will declare
without a doubt. An honest, bust
neS4 &e and lawful administration of the
staV eSeasury is another. Honest, fair
and institutional apportionment is a
thi@ I'd. .Sut the best issue will be in the
contt of the characters and records of
the candidates. Mr.. Quay, as the Times
puts it, stands for the spoils system, for
the abuse of public office for private gain
and party advantage. The Democratic
candidate must be one who believes with
Mr.. Cleveland, that public Office is pub
lie trust. Such nomination will be the
highest compliment to the Democratic fed
eral administration for such nominee
campaign can be waged on the highest
plane, and the election of such candi-
date will he the best endorsement and vim
dication of Mr.. Cleveland's policy, who is
trying TO carry out the platform upon
which he was elected; which, by the
way, is good enough for the Democracy of
Pennsylvania.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30

MARY A. SINGER has received her COM
mission as postmistress at Slack water, this
county.
GEN. TooMBs Is ON record in an autograph |
album ~ answering the question, "If not |
yourself, who had you rather be 2" with the |
word "Gladstone."
Hon. @. B. STEWART, died at Mont |
gomery, Tex, on Tuesday, aged 81 years.
He was one of the two surviving signers OF
the declaration Of Texas independence. He
republic Of Texas.
OLD JOHN GILL, :who was adjudged
lunatic over ayear ago, at New York, Is dead.
He was man of considerable wealth, and
lived In a house with two young women,
Alice and Harriet Woodhall. who obtained
from him nearly 100000 and then fled to
Europe.
REV. J. G. YouNa, widely known Pres
byterian minister, was found wednesday
night ut High Bridge KY, dying with a
| bottle OF laiidanum by his side. II is not
| known whether the case Is one OF suicide or
not. Two years ago he was pastor Of a Louis
| vile church
| Mrs. LANGrRY spends several hours every
| day in pantaoons and acquiring boys
ways and motions, and expects to make
great hit in her next play in the character
| of a little tramp. II il believed that the il
| fusion will be perfectly maintained unless
her business includes the throwing or catch
ing OF a ball or an apple-but especially the
|
| HENRY A. PIERCE died on Wednesday in
San Francisco, aged II years. He was ma
tive of Boston, but emigrated to San Francis
co, then known as Yerba Buena, in 1928.
During the war he contributed $4,000 to the
Union cause. He was appointed by Presi-
dent Grant, minister to the Hawaiian Is
lands, and the king of those islands after
wards made him chief Of his cabinet
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND is a
queer combination of sternness and infinite
| humor. No man in the cabinet can raise 9
| bigger breeze on a shorter notice than he
. | provide the circumstances justify IL, and
again, none of his associates can begin u
compare with him as a rdconteur. Hit
stories are irresistibly droll. If there is
) comical side to anything you can depenC
upon 1t that Garland will be one of the frs
, 10 sec and give 1t a twist of his PECULIAR,
, | dry wit.
+ "UNCLE ALFRED" who was a slave o
, | President Jackson and is now custodian o
r the Hermitage, relates that Old Hickory wa
r | a kind master. "Some peoples" he says
: | "thinks kase he had hot tempah dat he wa
= a hahd mastab. But dats all a mistake
! His slaves was well treated, an if dey be-
4 haved well dey was almost made like mem
. habs of de family. Massa Jackson was pose
. | TO slavery. Mon once I've heerd i'm sa
! as he was ridin' up an down de cotton ticl'
on hossback: Boys, you'se all gwine to
@ | free some day. 1t won't be in my time
q won't be in my time. But some day you's
n | gwine to be free, suah.'r
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30
ian Into a Drove of Cattle.

A passenger train, while rounding curve
near Delphi, Indiana, Wednesday morning,
ran into drove OF cattle. The engine and
baggage car We thrown down an embank-
ment and four other cars were derailed. The
baggage master, Robinson, was badly hurt
The engineer and fireman went down with
the engine, but escaped injury. The loss to
the comp any is estimated at $4,000.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30

The multiform manifestations cognomened as
malaria, and producing depressed debility, can
all be successfully defed in any locality, by a
faithful of DuPRy's Pure MALT WHIsKEY.
Il promptly destroys the miasmatic spores
which iniest the blood, and restores the whole
system 10 vigorous and healthful action. Hun
dreds of the best people have derived immeasurn
BILE benefits from lis use, and multitudcs now
keep supply on hand as their iniallible rock OF
defense against all malarious troubles. For sale
at all reliable grocers and druggists.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30
Fatal July.

From the Boston Post
July has been fatal month for presidents
and ex-presidents. John Adams and Thomas
Jefferson died July 4, 1896; Monroe, July 4,
1881; Taylor, July 8, 1850, while in office, and
Grant July q, 1885, while Garfield received
his death wound upon the I'd of the same
month, 1851.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30

AN esteemed contemporary which tries to
find a reason for the "failure of Governor
Hoadly, of Ohio, to issue proclamation an.
nouncing the death of General Grant," would
doubtless be enlightened by reading in its
own news columns of some days ago that
Gov. Hoadly had issued such proclama-
tion.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30
Neither Can Leave.

From theArkansaw Traveller.
81 would like to leaEe the country, " said a
man, "but nearly everybody owes me, and l
won't leave ON that account" 81 would
like to leave" replied am acquaintance, "but
] owe nearly everybody, and l can't leave ON
that account
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30

"Now quit your crying, sir, or III give you
something to cry for" When such words arc
spoken to Il weeping little boy, be don't know
whether to stop crying or TO go or. But he does
know that the cross old aunty who says them Is
"A hateful creature. What makes her hateful (:
Possibly dyspepsia or maybe liver complaint
In either case, give cross auuty bottle of
Browns Iron Bitters and tone her up so that she
may be healthy and happy.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30
--------7--~ - ="
A Novel Bridal Tour.

A newly married young couple from
Louisiana are making their bridal tour
through the Southwestern states in a two
wheeled cart drawn by four young bullocks,
BY steady attention to business the groom
manages to keep the four in hand, but the
bride laments the tact that he has to use
both hands in driving.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30
MY PRIZE.

sought for prof {, honor, fame;
My days were given to the quest.
| thought that place, shining name,
OF every earthly good was best
Now all Is changed, my surging life
Has but one lingering hope I'm view
join no longer in the strife
only seek q smile from you.
- Warren Hastings Holland.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30

81 sold i'm two years thirty-three thousand one
hundred and twenty t33l20) bottles Of Hunts
Remedy. 1t IS a valuable medicine for kidney
Diseases" W. Il. BLANDING, Prov.
jy2s-I wdeodSw
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30

THE PuU Man Gazette revelations have
been officially approved, which means that
London is just as bad as painted.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30

DO you ever have acute pains I'm your left
breast extending TO your arms, or suffocating
feelings in region OF your heart ? II so you
have Heart Disease Use DIR. GRAVES HEART
REGULATOR, a sure specific slOO per bottle
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30
Maiarious Debility Defied.

Hunts Remedy is purely vegetable, and n
speedy cure for heart disease and rheumatism.
jy2s-lwdeod&w
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30

THERE seem to be some Buddensieks
spelling for prison cell in Wilmington.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30
An End to Bone scraping.

Edward shepherd, of Harrisburg, III says
"Having received SO much benefit from Electric
Bitters feel u my duty to let suffering human
ity know 1t. Have had running sore on my
lerE for eight years; my doctors told me would
have To have the bone scruped or leg amputated
/ used instead, three bottles of Electric Bitters
and seven boxes Bucklen's Arnica salve, and
my leg Is now sound and we'll" Electric Bitters
are sold at fifty cents a bottle, and Bucklen's
Arnica Salve at p cts per box by II. B. Cochran,
Druggist, l37 and lS9 North Queen Street. Ian
caster, Pa. (5)
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30
Special NOTICES.

Persons Who are Past Fifty viii find Dr. Ken
nedy's Fayortte Remedy just about the Eedi-
cine they need when they need a cdicine at all.
The ten years which follow that age are full of
dangers which do not threaten younger men
and women. This preparation gives tone to the
system, greatly eXpes impurities and prevents
the outcropping of diseases the seeds of which
may have been sOwn in earlier life. Why not
live out all your days in health and strength.
ilVlOImdSw
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-30

CROUCH ON PILES"
Cures Piles or Hemorrhoids, Itching ProtludIng
Bleeding, Internal or other Internal and EN.
ternal Remedy in each package. Sure cure 50c
Druggists (3) .
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1885-07-16

unjust and objectionable features do
not bocomn apparent, hence it IS sui
f'red, not being understood. 10 m'A e
palmer our meaning, We Will give two
examples:
In the Annual Statement there ap-
pear tie following items.
Salary Co. Commissioners $ 1000 %
Contingent Fund 5000 90
Now the facts are chat the latter goes
in part, to make the actual amount re
ccivcd By the County Commissioners
nc uN thrice the amount the State
mcnt would tel the people they re-
cicvc.
Again, the Aims House is charged
with tens Of thousands Of dollars, pre-
aumNblc for the care Of the paupcr Gle
mont that resides in or comes TO the
county while the facts are that the
bulk of the expenditures arise FROM the
circumstance that it is permitted to be
the asylum Of every lazy hummer who
makes application for commitment
and to the iuther circumstances that q
squad Of bosses is paid to take charge
Of and "work' the inmates. And no"
TO come down TO something practical ;
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1885-07-16

Howard Cooper, the negro assailant
Of Miss Kate Gray On April End, was
taken FROM the Jail at Fowson on Sun
day hight by Il 'arg" quad Of masked
men and hanged. Sheriff Knight re-
fused almittancc, wil.n the doors were
battered down and as they could not
get the keys Of tho various cells, one
lock after another vas smashed until
Cooper was found. The last words ut
tered by the villain were "WeIl. yoh
have got Cooper haven't you: Good
bye"