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The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-31

The work on the Capitol buildings has
been suspended. When the Committee
began to figure out the changes that would
be made necessary by the demand for in.
creased facilities and room, they found that
the money limit fixed would have to be ex-
ceeded. Some were in favor of going on
with the work, leaving the additional cost
for future appropriations while others
advocated prosecuting the work to the ex-
tent Of the funds in hand, and then stop
ping but Governor Albeit would listen to
neither. He said the work should be com.
pleted within the limit prescribed, or not
begun at all. The latter course was de-
cided upon, and the matter will now go to
the next Legislature with full and complete
plans and thorough understanding of
what it is going to cost, and they may
either fix an appropriate amount ordo away
with some of the proposed improvements.
This is the business way of doing it, and
the only mode of preventing extravaganza
and waste. The Capitol buildings at Albany
are an excellent example of what can be done
by going on haphazard and leaving future
legislatures to make up the deficiency.
Those buildings, when first begun. were to
cost half million dollars. The expenditure
has risen to nearly three millions and the
buildings are not completed yet. They
may be worth every cent of the money they
have cost, not dollar may have been
wasted, but it is hardly honest to obtain
consent to make an improvement on the
plea that the cost will not exceed half a
million, and then expend three millions on
it. The Brooklyn Bridge was built the
same way. The original estimates called
for about eight millions the actual cost
was nearly twenty. 1t is well to have at the
head of affairs man who can see beyond
the end of his nose
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-31

The morbid curiosity which pervades all
human nature was aptly illustrated in the
crowds which rushed to the morgue to see
the victims of the Colgate street horror, or
congregated at the scene to look at the
debris. There was little to SEQ but splinters,
but people seemed to view them with an
amount of satisfaction that could scarcely
be extracted from any other subject.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-31

to try just then, and he g didn't think he
should have any more to try before that
jury. Afterwards, according to the same
report, he characterized the jurymen as
"bums." In legal abuse they may, but
if the criticism were just, Sheriff Heintze
would scarcely have summoned them. But
there are too many professional jurymen in
our courts too many who are there for tie
two dollars day it involves, and who make
a living out of the business. These fellows
should be weeded out, and new men put in
their places. They have been so long in
jury practice that they care nothing about
the oath they take--it is shibboleth, and
not selemnity, with them, and it is folly
to expect them to give it any consideration.
Perhaps the condition that exists cannot be
avoided. Everybody who can possibly do
SO will shirk jury duty, no matter how
fimay the excuse, and so it may be that
there is no way to avoid these professionals
of the jury box. But until men of intelli-
gence-men who will give some weight to
the law and tho evidence are put upon
our juries, the public must expect that JUS
tice will at times be made q mockery and a
farce.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-31

There's Klotz Of blood on the political
moon,
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-31

1t is exceedingly gratifying to know that
James N. Day, of Newark, the defaulting
clerk of Martin d Runyon, was church
member and Sunday-school teacher. It
will. doubtless, save the feeced firm many
pang to know that their stolen SIS, 900
was never for moment in the clutch of .
common Weekday thief-at least not until
he carried it down to Wall street, where
possibly it may have passed into the pos
session of ordinary and secular thieves
without morals, character. or religious
scruples. If Day had not been possessed
of restraining religious sentiments he
would probably have stolen Martin u
Runyon themselves and sold them to a
medical college.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-31

OF all mean things rainy holiday is not
far short of the meanest. While it did not
rain very much yesterday, the weather
looked so dubious and threatening all day
that hundreds of people, who otherwise
would, did not venture out at all. Ia some
cases, if not in a great many, those who
did not venture far away from home, while
true they may have been temporarily dis
appointed, are not regretting now that they
staid at home-for instead Of big heads
and empty pockets, unless they take adj
vantage of fine Sunday-they will return
to their work on Monday morning feeling
first-rate, with heads in normal condition,
and enough of their last weeks wages in thei,
pockets 10 keep up the lunches during the
present week. 1t is indeed an sill wind
that blows nobody good"
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-31

That was no two cent" swindle un-
esrthed at the Mare Island Navy Yard.
where wooden vessel was sent into dry
dock in 1872, and has just been turned
out after thirteen years of repairs. The
original cost of the vessel was $3.50, 900
but in the time she has been laid up $780,
600 have been spent upon her. $500, 900
spent and thirteen years wasted in repair
ing wooden ship that was originally built
in year fer $3.50, 900. Four new vessels
could have been built for what it has cost
to mend this old one And if there had
been no change of administration the old
hulk would have been good for another
thirteen years and another milion-for
election expenses. But the books are all
right and the cash balances.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-17
The Duty of lnficting Pain.

Among all the hard duties which fall
to the lot Of men there is none harder
than that Of intlicting pain upon thoso
we love. When that necessity arises
the duty may be faced or it may be
shirked, and the more loving the ma
ture the stronger the temptation to
shirk it. And yet the tenderest, as well
as the bravest course is to act in the
spirit of those lines OF Lovelace:
81 could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved l not honor more;
and resolutely to do the right that in.
flicts the pain. The surgeons hand il
tender, though it must cut through
nerve and vein; the mothers hand is
cruel when its fondling holds back her
child from the path of duty. Even
God, who doth not willingly %afllict, and
whose love no thought can measure,
chastens through sharp pain each child
whom He receivctl; and we, if we
would indeed be im.tators of God, must
~ fail III truth and in the right, for
the sake of love, albeit we must have a
care to be like God in his tenderness,
while w seek to be like Him in His
fidelity. There is no real conflict be.
tween love and right, although thereis
many q seeming one; and in these SEEM
ing conflicts 4 course only is open to
the true man-tenderly to do the right
in all loving faithfulncss S. Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-17

the dearly loved Lord, and convino.,
them of all the truth He had tanoh.
Christ had given incontrovertible nnoa.
that He had power over death, and was
therefore, divine. The Christ they bsS
reeained when He rose was more thsa
the Christ they had buried. They haa
piven up the Jewish Messiah as ]oste
but the Saviour of mankind came BAL
to them. They had expected him IN
overthrow the Roman dominion, In.
He ovcrcame a greater foe-He vsn'
pushed the terror Of the grave and tho
dominion of evil. The lesurrecticnwaS
to the disciples the pleage and proo,
that because He lived they should ]iva
also; they, therefore, event forth
preaching Jesus and the resurrection'",
Though our Easter Joy is not the
resurrection of a lost hope, it is a sure
pledge that Christ will give victory over
the world. He who has conquered
death and the grave "shall not fail nor,
be discouraged until He have set Judo.
ment in the earth" until every knee
shall bow before Him and every "tonp1e
shall confess that Christ is Lord" IN
the presence of the risen Christ we have
no room for pessimism. Bad as the
world is from sin, it shall be redeemed,
from sin by the sinless Saviour. Be-.
cause Christ lives we shall live also. Hjs,
victory is II victory. His resurrection
is as much a guarantee to the truth Of
that in which we have beloved as it was,
to the apostles. We know that if Christ;
be not risen our faith is vain; 'but now
Is Christ risen and become the first
fruits of themth slept"
The disciples were certain that their,
Lord had risen. Though at first slow
of heart to believe, they became thor
oughty convinced. Not a doubt lin.
gered in minds that had been most
skeptical and d spending. We search
in Vain through all Scripture for a trace
of such a doubt. More than fifty years
after the resurrection when Paul wrote
his mastery argument to prove that
because Christ had risen therefore all
men shall be raised from death, he as
sumed that Christ's resurrection had
never been doubted by any one. That
conceded fact underlaid his irresistible
logic. Our certainty should be equally
absolute. Besides the cumulative eyi,
dence of centuries of triumph by our
risen Lord, we can have personal expe-
rience of His saving power. That ex.
p%erience is as conclusive proof that the
Lord is risen as was the ocular, tangi-
bic evidence given to the disciples. II
we have this experience u Easter Joy
and our certainty should be as great az
theirs. The consciousness of the in.
dwelling Spirit is incontrovertible proof
that Christ rose, and that, therefore, we
shall rise also.-M. 7. Christian Aduo.
cate.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-17
THE JOY OF S T

onrsts Resurrection the Pledge and
Proof That We Shall Rise Also.
1t is difficult to realize how great v.s
inc Easter joy of the disciples. Our
Lord is always the risen Lord. Their.
Lord had died, and with Him had been
oar,ed all their hopes. The greatness
OF the Joy caused by the resurrection is
pest shown by the awful gloom from
Which it lifted them. Their despair had
oeen complete. Faith and hope had
dled' because the ground of that faith
anu The substance of that hope Law an
parentiy dead in the tomb. For them
the sur had gone down never to rise
again. What anguish of DESPAIR wac ~
me words: 1--WE tr.sted it had haan
nc which should have redeemed Israel -
when that trust had gone out in darL
ness 1t was lamented that: "Thev har.
taxen away my Lord, and | know nv
n ",.fe tney ave laid Him" The re-.
port OF the disciples who had zone to
very tdlngs of His removal. that
him they saw not" extinou;shaJ
even The family glimmering hone thot
MAD been fed by the promise tba, H.
would rise again the third davn
n full proof of His resurrcct;on
Mn1ch they soon received lifted them
rom the blackness of despair to ,ha
highest pitch of e..ultation and inv ene
flashed the full light Of rho u. 10Y II
upon their night. 1t restored to th ""n
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-17
Leaves as Fodder in NORWAY,

The alder and the ash are much val
ued by the Norwegian peasants as fur
nishing fodder for their cattle during
the long sever winter. In early Octo-
Der, just before the leaves change color,
every farmer fills two or three of his
barns with small branches cut from
these trees: with this food the cows
have to be content. for all the hay is
required for the horses. The work of
collecting and storing these leafy
branches is ~intrusted to old women and
younger girls, the latter climbing nm
into the trees when necessary, and dis.
playing as much agility and fearless
ness as a school boy after a birds nest.
The fair sex of Norway have to do their
share of hard work, and do it uncom-
plainingly; an old beldame NAV fire.
quently be seen trudging homewards
over tho slippery ice-worn rocks of a
difficult mountain path, bent almost
double with the weight of her wears.
and such a bundle of boughs a strong
English laborer would consider amnlHH
large enough for him to carry across a
stockyard.-London News.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-17

fashionable operas. In Germany tho
tastes of the people are more timp]e
and their means more limited than
those of their Gallo neighbors; conse-
quently the cost of an Easter egg. even
when most gorgeous with colors and
gliding, seldom exceeds two or three
gulden. A curious custom prevails
among them, of which it is not easy to
find the explanation. Hares are, in
the popular belief, transformed for the
nonce into oviparous animals, and in
the pastry cooks windows you may see
animals of that species as large as life,
modelled in sugar, and sitting upright
in a nest, surrounded by any quantity
of eggs. The fresh, s;mple-minded
German children believe implicitly in
this egg-producing power of the hare,
and when about Easter time they see
one running across the field they clap
their hands and shout after it: Glare,
good little hare, lay plenty of eggs for
us on Easter Day.! 1t is tho custom
in German families on Easter Eve to
place sugar eggs and real eggs (the
former usually filled with bonbons or
tiny playthings) in a nest, and then
conceal it in the house Or garden in Or
der that the young ones, who always
rise at break of day on that important
morning, may have the delight of seek
ing and finding the hidden treasures.
Throughout the north of England,
space eggggs'-that is, eggs hardened
by boiling and tinged with the juice of
herbs-were wont not only to be eaten,
but played with in the fields, as though
they were balls or bowls. 1t was Gus
tomary in the Lake district and other.
places to send reciprocal presents of
colored eggs to the children of families
between whom any intimacy existed.
The names of persons and the dates of
particular events were sometimes in
geniously inscribed on the shells, so
that the eggs served as souvenirs. It
appears by a royal roll in the Tower of
London, that four hundred pace or
paste eggs were in the time of Edward
the First purchased for distribution to
the royal household, having first been
boiled hard and covered with leaf gold.
Sometimes eggs We're blessed in guam
titles for distribution throughout the
kingdom. The form of conservation APP
pears in the ritual of Pope Paul the
Fifth. The Greeks also make presents
of colored eggs and cakes at Easter. In
Russia. according to the Able dan
teroche. in his Tourney 10 Siberia" a
routine of extensive visiting is adopted.
An egg is given and exchanged at each
visit. 'People," he observes, ego to
each others houses in the morning and
introduce themselves by saying: Christ
is risen The reply is: Yes, He is
risen.' They then embrace, give each
other eggs and drink a great deal of
brandy!"-Br0oklyn Eagle.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-17
CHOICE

Blot out that which has come from
the Bible, and you will destroy the best
part of the intellectual life of the race
Dr. II. j. Vam Dyke, J7.
Don't go around looking for a flaw
in your neighbours eyes, but keep your
own specks well busted, and watch tho
corners on your own side of the street.
The mor believers love God, the
more they love one another; as the
lines OF a circle, the nearer they come
to the center the nearer they come to
each other.-CMarnock.
The pastor who can help to put
reading of a better quality into a home
may thereby change the life of every
member of the family. Some pastors
seem to realize this fact. -ChySstim
AdCocate.
Usually the eyes of the Christian
should be directed forward; it is foolish
to try to live on past experience; it is
very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, 10
Judge ourselves to be safe because Of
something that we felt or did twenty
years ago.-Spurgeon.
-lAe resurrection is only the to-
morrow morning of death. and when
we think OF the grave, we should do 50
as n the happy days of our childhood
we thought of our led when we retired
to it for the night, expecting an elder
brother to call us in the morning anu
take US with him on a pleasant excur'
slon.--Dr. VIM. N. Taylor.
,-Allthe silver and the gold on earth i
d~espicable; all the pow.r that men
wage in the battle of lie is impotence,
compared with these silent and sacred
experiences in which a man feels thai
ne IS of God and to some extent is en-
tering into the royalty of that power
which God has, and which he imparts
TO Ills creatures in that great world 10
Which this visible one is only q miser
able imitation. Henry Ward BeacAs'
By Christianity a moral motive.
power is supplied which is far better
any fact or enactment in keeping
society together; and that is the charl.
not easily provoked. the love that worh'
no III to his neighbor. To the motive
whlc tend to insure well-being in tps
world it adds the loft est hopes, INV
nooier ASPIRATIONS, the better purpose
that bind the Christ an man to an emu
less future. 1t helps him to be a betaa
citizen in this world in teaching np
a a NJ has q citizenship in heaveh~
bishop Harris.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-17
A GRATEFUL WOMAN.

The Proposition Made by the Young Lady
Who Could Not Choose Between Two
Lovers.
Abeautiful and bashful young woman
of about nineteen summers called re.
Gently at the Office of a life assurance
agent, and asked him timidly if he
could tell her how long people of a
certain age would live.
MADAM" replied the agent, cough.
ing respectfully behind a prospectus,
and drawing his chair near to her,
here are our tables of expectation and
average mortality, which contain all
the information upon the subject that
you can DESIRE"
"Well," said she, chow long will a
man of sixty-seven, and that eats peas
with his knife, live?"
according to our table, madam"
replied the agent, she should, on the
average, survive eleven years, three
months and sixteen days"
"That, said the visitor, s'would bs
till the 21st of April, 1862"
Precisely, madam, on the average
expectation of mortality, for we must
all die, and it is therefore well to insure
against loss to the loved ones in a com.
pany whose character-"
"And how much could 1 insure his
life for?"
"Oh, for any amount-sav for ten
thousand dollars?" he answered., tax
ing up a blank form of application.
Let me recommend the unexpected
advantages offered by our non-feitable
endowment policy"
"Well," said the young woman, IL
think, then, that I'll marry him."
ensure him, you mean?" corrected
the agent.
"No, marry him; you insure him.
You see," she added, with a burst of
confidence, Il love Herbert, and NJ
Dawkins is old enough to be my grand
father. But Herbert is poor, and I Just
worship the corne lots that Mr.. Daw-
kins builds on. And Herbert is very
patient, and says that if / will only fix
a day, no matter how long he may
have to wait, he will be happy. Now
you say Mr.. Dawkins will die by the
2lst of April, 1896; and as it wouldn't
be decent to marry again till I've been
year in mourning, I'll arrange to
marry Herbert on the 22d of April.
1897, and if Mr.. Dawkins doesn't die
by then you'll give me ten thousand
dollars. Oh, thank your and with q
deep bow she swept out of the Office
N. Y. Telegram.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-17
EAST TRAINS.
How the Engineers Who Run Rapid Trains
are Affected.

Nv eAS
are Affected.
Three of the oldest and most conn.,
petent engineers to whom was COM
mitted the running Of the fast trains.
not long since asked relief at the hands
of the Superintendent of the road.
They had found that the mental and
nervous strain which came upon them
while urging their locomotives to this
high rate of speed was so great that
they found themselves unable to bear
it. One of these men. an acquaintance
of our informant. was a few months
before a stalwart man, with a nervous
organization which seemed capable of
bearing anything tlrat could be put
upon it. He now had grown thin and
haggard, while his brawny hand was
trembling as if an incipient palsy had
stricken him. He had been compelled
to say to the management: 'You must
give me a slow freight train, on which
I can have an opportunity to recover
myself, or / shall be compelled to re-
sign my position in order to ave my
health, and ever my life" To these
men, the excitement, coupled with re-
sponsibility, great enough at ordinary
times, hed become simply u%nbearable
when their engine was rushing over
the rails at a speed Of fifty or sixty
miles an hour. These men were
trained men, schooled to calmness and
alertness combined, and had years of
experience, but this excessive demand
was too much for them.
There is something pathetic in this
statement. It is well known that the
relative cost of running a railroad train
at a high speed is vastly more than
running the same train at q lower rate,
and the wear and tear Of locomotive,
rail and road-bed are so much greater,
but we do not remember to have seen
any facts exhibited as to the enhanced
loss of nerve and vital power taken
from the men who control these mate.
rial forces. That does not, as far as we
know, v appear in any annual report
of the directors of a railroad. Possibly
it has never been takeninto the account
or had a thought.
The passenger sits calmly enjoying
the gentle sway OF the glide as The
telegraph poles fit by him, and steps
from the car with an exultant remark
about the less than two hours between
the cities nearly a hundred miles apart,
but gives W a thought to the man
in front who, with strained eye, and
hand on the lever, was all the time
giving, literally, moment by moment,
a part of his life for those whose safety
depended upon the touch of his hand
upon the polished bar.-Christian
Union.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-17
SHE RULES.

Since Father Adam first was fooled,
b world has been by woman ruled;
She rules by tactics OF her own,
A laugh. q sigh. q smile, a frown.
A cheerful word to Danish care,
A gentle touch, Il silent prayer,
A tender hug, q goodnight kiss,
lmparting peace and hallowed bliss.
She ruleth not with gun or spear,
Her chosen weapon is Il tear;
She conquers oft by tenderness
And sympathy for sore distress.
She many cunning ways a find
To make submissive vain mankind;
From any craft appearing free,
A clever actress IL can be.
A lion can be or else q lamb,
A burricaneaor else a calm;
a furious hawk or cooling dove,
So full of Ire OF full of love.
Now this is woman's little plan
To rule the world, by ruling man;
And he who doubts that she doth rule,
Should try the matrimonial school.
-Wandering WiNae.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-17

No matter how much we may hear
about the hordes of unemployed
women, the starving seamstresses, etc.,
in cities, when one gets a days joaSoey
into the country it is almost impossible
to get any domestic help asAing-
ton Herald
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-17
international sunday-scho Lessons.

1ss5-F1RsT QUARTER.
Aar; D-Review; Service of Song, Missionary.
temperance or other Lesson selected Nv
the school. 0 ~
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-17
EASTER DAY.

The Queen Festival of the Chris
tian Year.