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Nevada County picayune., 1886-12-22
The Oldest City in the World.

Damascus is the oldest city in the world. Tyre and Sidon have crumbled on the shore; Baalbec is a ruin; Palmyra is buried in the desert; Nineveh and Babylon have disappeared from the TigriS and Euphrates. Damascus remains what it was in the days before Abraham center of trade and travel-an island of venture in the desert. a presidential oapitol,' with martial and sacred association extending through thirty centuries. It was near Damascus that Saul of Tartus saw the light above the brightness of the sun; the street wbich is called Straight, in which it IS said, "he prayeti,' still runs through the city. The caravan comes and goes as it did a thous- and years ago. There is still the sheik, the ass and the water wheel. The merchants of the Euphrates and the Mediterranean still "occu- py" these with the multitude of their wares" The city which Ma homet surveyed from a neighbor- ing height aud was afraid to enter, "because it was given to man to have but one paradise, and tor his part he was resolved not to have it in this world,n is to-day what Ju- lian called the "eye of the East" as it was in the time of Isaiah, "The head of Syrla."
 From Damascus came the dam. on. our blue plums, and delicious apricot of Portugal, called damns- co; damaSk, or beautiful fabrics of cotton and silk, with vines and flowers raised upon smooth, bright ground; the damask rose, introduced into England at the time of Henry VIII, the Damas- GUS blade, so famous the world over for its keen edge and wonder. ful elasticity, the secret of the manufacture of which was lost when Tamerlaue. carried off the ar tist into Persia; and that beautiful art of inlaying wood and steel with silver and gold, kind of Mosaic engraving and skulpture united called damaSkiug, with which box es, bureauX, swords and guns are ornamented. It is still city of flowers and bright waters. The streams of Lebanon aud the "riyer of gold' still murmnr and sparkle in the wilderness Of the Syrian gardens.
Nevada County picayune., 1886-12-22

It is curious fact tha, on the track of knavery misplaced switch will be found somewhere, and it is sure to wreck the train.
Nevada County picayune., 1886-12-22

"Your age?p asked the Judge. "Thlrty.fve, your Honor,' replied the woman, Judge -"But you were thirty.Cvs the last time you were b. '.rcc years ago.o-She a@ e your Honor think I'm the woman Co say one thing one day another thing another"
Nevada County picayune., 1886-12-22

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TRUE AS STEEL.

The evening neal was just over tt Father Bolton's; the big red fire was raked into ruddier blaze. and the candles were lighted.
Nevada County picayune., 1886-12-22
The Century's Rise of Wages.

ttS SOtiA-ts FhiSS VI sSo S9SS
 Discussing wages, in one of his lectures before the students of Harvard University, Professor Thompson gives many facts of cur. ious interest. In 1793 the Schuvl kill and Susquehanna Canal Com pany advertised for workmen, of fering So d month for the winter months, and 36 for summer, with board and lodging. The next year there was a debate in the House of Representatives which brought ont the fact that soldiers got but B month. X Vermont member, discussing the proposal to raise It to s4. said that in his state men were hired for SIS year, or S4 a month, with board and clothing. Mir. Wadsworth of Pennsylvania sad ''In the states north of Pennsylvania. the wages of the common laborer are not upon the whole, superior to those of the common soldier" Tn 1797 Rhode Island farmer hired a good farm hand for B month; aud S5 a month was paid to those who got employment for the eight busy months out of the farmers year.
 A strong boy could be had at that time in Connecticut at Sl month through those months, anu he earned it by working from day break until eight or nine o'clock at night. He could buy a coarse cotton shirt with the earnings of three such months. The farmers could pay no better, for the price ] they got for produce was wretch ed. Butter sold at eight cents a pound, aud when it rose suddenly to ten cents, several farmers wives and daughters went out of their minds with excitement. Women 1 picked the wool off the bushes and briars, where the sheep had left it. aud spun and knit it into mittens to earn Sl year by this toilsome business. They hired out as help for twenty-five cents month and their board.
 By days hard work at the spinning wheel woman and girl ! together could earn twelve cents. l As late as 1921 the best farm hands could be had for twenty-five cents day, or twice as much iu moving time Mathew Carey, in his let ters on the Charities of Philadel. phia dS29), gives a painful picture of the working classes at that time. Every avenue to employment was choked with applicants. Men left the cities to find work on the ca nals at from sixty to seventy-ive cents day, and 10 encounter the malaria. which laid them low in numbers. The highest wages paid to women was twenty-five cents a day, and even the women who made clothes for the arsenal were paid by the Government at no high rates. When the ladies of the city begged for an improvement of this rate, the Secretary hesitat- ed, lest it sh ould dIsarange the relations of the capital and labor throughout the city. Poor people died of cold and want, every winter in the city, and the fact seems Co have made an impression only Oil benevolently disposed persons like MT. Carey.
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Republicans and the Tariff.

More and mere since the war has the Republican party separat- ed itself from the people anu be- come the guardian and protector of class interests and the, promo ter of special legislation. There was time when Western Repub- licans dared express their opposi- ton 10 the existing tariff, when even John Sherman insisted that as the tariff was increased in order to counteract the injurious effects of certain internal taxes, 1t ought to be reduced, because those tax es had been abolished. Tue hon. orable John A. Kasson was em- phatic in his opposition, and ill 1868 he said:
 "What you call protection amounts to system of equal rob bery-taking from one house to pay another. When you have done this you say you have framed an equal tariff law. and that it's equal protection is ditfused over all the different interests. l say that this is illogical it is absurd. You must change your theory of a tarili or else you must perpetualiy fall i,, ynup A tlnpt fn uaip n syctam Inn f will actually make the United States rich If that is your object, you must diminish the cost of pro- duction of your manufactures, and when you have done that you have taken great step toward protect ing both the manufactures and the people of the United States. But if we go on in the present plan of adding to the cost of everything we produce, there is not another country on the face of the globe that will contribute one cent to en- rich the people of the United States or be able to buy a single article of our production,D
 Thus did reason speak when not restained by party requirements. Since that date the influence of the protected interests over RepubIi. can leaders have greatly increased, and their demands have every year been more eXtCrtionate. There still remaiu in the Democratic par ty few protectionists, men whose votes are of inestinable value to the favored classes, but few Re publicans, ambitious of leadership, dare talk as plain ip 1886 of the abuses. of the tariff as Sherman and kasson spoke nearly twenty years ago.
 Yet in these twenty years mil lions have been added to the bur den of the people; millions in the extra cost of railroads, of bridges, of machinery of every kind have become perpetual tax on our productive energies. Each year the evil increases; each year the protected papers are less inclined to surrender any portion of their privileges. The idea that by pro- tec,ion we are to reach free trade is an absurdity. Nothing will be gained from the barons that is not wrested from them by the force of numbers. The Democratic party must prepare itself for this great struggle. Taxes must be reduced, debts must be paid, economy must be practiced, and the idea that leg islation can create something from nothing must be wholly abandon ed.-Coulier Journal.
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-25
LITERATURE.
Harper's Magazine.

Hdrper'S Mogd=ine for May is in every
way strong number. The frontispiece
is an engraving by Closson from" Faith, =
painting by E. Armitage, Z. A, one
of the Illustrations for an article by
William II. Ingersoll, entitled "Por-
traits OF our SayiOr"-a beautiful illus
trated paper on q subject especially
interesting to the Christian readers and
to the Art-student. The number opens
with an entertaining description OF the
fashionable arrangements that make
up what is know3 as The London
Season" The second part Of Mr..
Charles Dudley Warmers story, Their
Pilgrimage, is located in the Catskills.
Passing from this to Mr.. Blackmore's
novel "Springhaven," the reader cannot
fail to be delighted with the authors
quaint and charming description Of
English lire. r. +. Zogbaum con-
tributes another interesting military
paper. entitled With the Bluecoats on
The Border" William Hamilton Gibson
in Sap Bewitched" contributes an ex-
quisite bit of fancy blended with scien-
ufic suggestion. and illustrated in his
happiest style. The number contains
another instalment of "She Stops to
Conquer" with Mr.. Abbey's illustra-
tons; and Lieut.. H Lemly. L.. S. A.
contributes an amusing and truthful
Indian sketch, illustrated, entitled THE
Story of Feather Head" Miss Wool
sons novel, East Angels. "is concluded.
The second part of Mrs. Craik's king
Arthur. Not a Love Story" will be
read with intense interest by every
mother who has perused the previous
chapters. In the third part of Mr.. E.
p. Roe's interesting series, entitled The
Home Acre" the author gives some
verv useful suggestions respecting the
treatment of various soils and respect
ing the selection and culture of grapes.
Poems are contributed by Paul Hamii-
ton Hayne. Juliet c. Marsh. and Mrs.
Harriet Prescott Spofford. MIR. Curtis,
in the Easy Chair. discusses the de
throaement of Italian Opera in New
York gives an interesting retrospect OF
Columbia College, and pays a graceful
tribute to the late John B. Cough. Mr..
HoEells, in the Study, continues his
discussion of Literary Fetichism and OF
the Destiny Of Poetry. The Dr1Wer is
.ull of interesting anecdotes.
New York: Harper & Brothers; Salt
Lake: Dwyer Bookstore.
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The Southern Bivouac.

The Southern BiuOuae for May closes
the first volume of the new series most
creditably. The first article is an illus
trated story by Dan. E. O'Sullivan, well
told and dramatic in movement and
incident. 4 paper of unusual interest
is contributed by James w. A. Wright.
on prison life at the north, entitled
WAR Prisons and War Poetry" Miss
Rowland's second paper on the "Yir-
gilman Cavaliers" is even more interest
ing than the first. WI. 0liphant tells
the story of the Battle of Arkansas
Post" VIII Wallace Harvey concludes
his OF Life in Florida during the Reign
of the Carpet Baggers." Richard III.
Musser contributes his account of the
War in Missouri, and this installment
is accompanied by an excellent map.
Judge A. z. Richards has, in the
Southern BiVOudc for May, the first of
two papers on that admirable Confeder-
ate leader, General Turner Ashby. The
portrait Of Gen. Ashby is excellent. Col.
r. T. Durrett concludes his paper on
the Resolutions Of 1T9s-1799 with a very
interesting biographical sketch of John
Breckenridge. These papers are of IN
usual value and have attracted much
attention. The last is illustrated with a
portrait Of John Breckenridge and by a
picture Of his law office. Two poems in
the May BirouGe will be widely read.
One is an illustrated poem by II. G.
Wright, of unusual imaginative force.
The other is q memorial poem by
Maurice Thompson for Decoration Day,
simple but striking. The four closing
lines are as follows:
Whist without love Is victory WORTH
What Is defest II love be won?
Hearts of the south, hearts OF the north,
Throb louder than the drum or gun.
The first years record of the Southern
Biroudc shows clearly that the South IS
able 70 produce and is willing literally
TO support a representative literary
magazine.
B. F. Avery & Sons, Louisville. Ky.
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LItteII's Living Age.

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April 10Th aud 18th contains The Re-
lations of History and Geography, by
James Bryce. and Newman & Arnold,
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Frank LeslIe,s Popular Monthly

For May. "Socialistic Movements in
England and the United States" which
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ideal schemes put forward to bring about
state where all shall have equal en-
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where there shall be no wealth, no
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royal founder, King Louis XIV. VIM.
Elliot Griffis takes a stroll through old
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Notice of Assessment.

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an April u. 1886.
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