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COvETOUS PERSONS.
A Class of Human Beings Who Are of No

A Class Of Human Beings Who Are of No
Use to the World.
There is an old Scotch proverb which has
a lesson of wisdom contained within il.
He that would cat the kernel maun crack
the nut" How much trouble might have
been and would be saved if people did not
envy the nuts that other people crack, and
determine grcedily to possess the kernels
by fair means or foul. If it were not cx-
asperatingly provoking it would be ludic-
rous {and rather think it is any way) to
see the swagger and bravado with which
some street loafer claims that he is "just
as good as any body" and that he is "de.
sirous of better treatment " means money
Mostly than he gets. A good many of this
class who want to eat other peoples kernels
have lived lives as idle as that of the AL
pine shepherd who spent fifteen years In
learning to balance pole on his chin, or as
the King who employed himself in hunting
through his kingdom for white mouse
with green eyes
1t is crying shame TO see great able
bodied men going about idly and discon,
contentedly envying the kernels of the
nuts belonging to Industrious people who
have cracked them. Socrates talked none
too strongly when he said: Envy is the
daughter Of pride, the author Of murder
and revenge, the beginner Of secret sedi
tion, the perpetual tormenter Of virtue.
Envy is the filthy slime of the soul, yer
min, "a poison, a quicksilver, which consum.
eth the flesh and drieth up the marrow Of
the bones"
And envy Is the twin sister Of covet-
BUSINESS. Spencer remarks: at is one
property, which, they say, is required of
those who seek for the philosophers
stone-that they must not do it with any
coyetous desire to be rich; for otherwise
they shall never find it. But most true
it is, that whosoever would have the jewel
Of contentmcnt (Which turns all into gold)
must come with minds divested of all am
bilious and covetous thoughts, else are
they likely never to obtain it."-Christian
at Work.
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BACKYARD as the vi'lets themselves, and who
wouldn't dare ter speak out his love like
that speechifyin' dandy, 'causei its too great
and holy and"
"Boy," and ! hecrd q little tremble in
her soft voice, "of what are you speakingi !
BY whose authority
"Don't know what that means, 'um, but
I'm speakin' Of my teacher, Mister John
Gray"
"And can not he speak for himselfl" she
says, unconscious like.
at seems as If he can not, 'um; and"
"There-that will do. You are q good
hoy and like you, Jim, and wish-I wish
,-that what you imagine were really true! 7"
And, Kids, she looked away of through
the wintry woods with soft mist in her
bceyootiful eyes, while her pcrty hand
smoothed my brow like the touch Of q
lovin' little white cloud. think she
furgot US both fur minute or two, fur she
KEEP pattin' me and . talkin' soft to her
self: AS flowers love the dew-backward
as violet-and whyl Bccause-no, that
will not serve for an excuse-this Is the
nineteenth century and the man is-a cow
ard!"
who's coward. Miss Wintryp says
/, a jumpin' onter my teet.
"Your teacher, John Grayw
THAT'S not truer' l says, stung At her
words, yet not exactly understandin' 'em.
Hes tho bravest man that ever breathed,
and you will have 70 say DO before the day
y ended-vou, Mics Wlntrys who hAias
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IKE 4 FELLOW IN 4 BUMBLE-BEE's NEST.

LIKE FELLOW IN bIMBLE-BEES > NESTs
never were in no danger, and took te
wringin' him out-now this drippin' sleeve,
now that, and dcclarin', between breaths,
that he were the bravest man she ever
sawi
Avenged,
Well, fellars, the other gentleman there
hitched the hosscs up in a hurry, bundled
US wet folks inter the stylish wehickle, and
| she told John Gray to drive as fast as he
could ter ole Job Wintry's and wait there
fur her. My teacher were rugged up in a
ole suit O. job Wintry's and Iwcre fixed up
in togs jest like this very same harness,
kids braid down the pants, brass buttons
| and all.
Then hecrd how tho 'busses KEN and
took the other kids home. The ole uncle
sent his big keeridgc over fur Miss VIM
try and her aunt, his sister. And then we
stayed all highland there Pm stayin' yit.
Sos John Gray.
Yer never see any thing work 50 slick as
them schemes o. mine! When Miss Wintry
KEN softly inter the great hall where a
fire had been made ter warm and dry us,
she went straight over to where John
Gray sat and stood before him. He jumps
up when he sees her there, but she makes
him iist sit right down again, and fetchcs
Il
sits down most like it was at his feet
"Do you know" says she, in scch q
| tremblin' voice, "that little fairy-a
brownie-camc to me in the woods to-dayl
All, thought not! And he told me 50 many
/ things-tOld me of a great soul. SO brave,
and tender and true-yat so modest, with
| al, that he dared not give uttcrance to the
one wish of his heart! Who loves a kin
dred being, the brownie said, as flowers
love the dew; who is backward as a violet,
and for whom Miss Wintry is not half
good enough-no, nor any other woman that
| lives!'
Miss Wintry.
"That is what the brownie said, siri
| And when ] called the man coward for
his silence, this fairy rebuked me and said
\ l should take it all back-as do john
| Gray, as l do now, with a thousand apol
| ogies for the wrong have done you in my
heartp'
| "Hooray, u yclls. "it's all comm out
| jest like dime novcl--hcrowine and all.
Haint ye goin' ter answer her, Mister
Grayl''
| "With all my heart, Tim. when you have
! given me chance. But--but-l fear | do
not understand
/ "How hard you make it for me-,John"
/ Well, there weren't much trouble after
that, kin tell yer And | been tiger"
! for Missus Gray ever since that day two
| years ago, with money o. my own in bank
and a yearly liberal 'lowance o. crackers
m torpedoes to celebrate the anniversary
Of that Fourth o July, when my master,
John Gray, followed my lead!
Il
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ye savey, and no more dreamed o. bein'
"tiger" to q fine lady than you kids dream
o. bcin' Governor. Bet yurncd my place,
my homes. and don't You forget it!
As was sayln', when ! see them two
becyootiful creachers a-walkin' side by side
inter the mission-one teacher o. boys an
one teacher o. gals-1 jest sets in my
mind that God made them two fur each
other, sure-and haint got no reason to
change my 'pinion as yet.
"Iallus loved him-he was 50 grand, and
tall, and strong -lookin', and fur all his
grandness and tallness and strong -lookin-
ness, thar was that gentle, sweet, kind
way he had as 'ud make kid wanter lay
his poor, little, lonesome head agin the
beeyootiful black shoulder, and jest stay
there all night | done that very thing
wunst-honest Lnjen, kids, / axshally
done it-and haint surprised at yer 'ston-
ished looks; cause l were so lifted clean
outen myself by the heaven I dreamed of
comm true that clean forgot who were
and where were, and that my name was
only Tim Lee. ! didn't think o. nothin'
but mother, and Heaven, and angels, and
all them kind o. thoughts-fOr he held me
close and soft and easy, jest like mother
uster, and forgot the awful pain in my
broken leg, and was most glad broke it If
could keep on layin' there 50 close in his
arms and touch his fine close with my
cheek, and breath the sweet stuff on his
hankychi6l
And she kcm over, too, and looked awful
solemn and pityful at me, and AK me how
KEN to slip right often the Mission steps,
and how thick were the ice there and why
weren't it shovclcd on
! couldn't answer her, cause didn't
know nothln' about 1t; but watched the
pcrty eyes . mectin' his, and his eyes q
turnin' away with queerish look in 'em
that haint never lost on kid like me.
knOwed from that moment he loved her;
but he were 50 simple, somehow, like in
ncrccnt child that he never made her read
the riddle in his eyes-gec, but they was
daisies, kids! Great big brown eyes that
jest melted alter pieces with nothin' but
the warmth that KEN wellin' up from his
gener's hearth
How soft he spoke ter mellow gentle he
touched my poor broken leg; and when
writhed his chin, that looked like one that
lwunst saw ontcr q marble stature in q
dime museyum, shivercd and shook like .
hurt thing
Oh, he were darlin'! And when were
al we'll again and outen the hospital,
ustcr watch fur him on his own partickler
home comm street and make him let me
give him shine fur present-and he'd
smile and pat my red head and jest let me
do whatever wanted ter with his elegant
boots.
Han'somel Not any -- leastways he
weren't han's0inc In the same curly way
hor really truly bcnu were. His mustaches
d!dnh Aavo 10 alliSrss trimmin's d NE
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THE EAST.

EXPLOSIONS of fireworks occurred in the
variety store of Henry Rice, at Rondout,
n Y, on the 18th, and Mr.. Rice's mother,
aged ninety-two years. who was unable to
leave her room in tho upper part of the
house. was burned to death.
On the 25th Charles A. Pitcher, teller of
the Union Bank of Providence, II. l., alb
seconded, taking with him sc, 600 belonging
to the bank.
AT the coroncr's office in New York
twenty -four deaths from heat were re-
ported on the 25th. The majority were
persons In the prime Of life and nine -tenths
of them were residents in the crowded
tenement districts.
AFIRE destroyed the cigar factory in New
York occupied by Lichtenstein Brothers
and others on the 25th. LOSS. s4JO,OOO
In a New York boarding house on the
2t;th Joseph Seaford, q bell boy aged nine
teen years, shot and killed Josie Sheridan,
nineteen years old, and then blew out his
brains jealousy was the cause.
WHILE out rowing Asa Braughton, his
wife and child, were drowned in the canal
ut Medina, N. Y, on the Goth.
In wreck on the Goth on the Pcnnsyl-
vania Il Schuylkill railroad at Cable City,
Pa, six laborers were killed and four were
fatally injured. The victims were all Hun
garians.
On the 9th tho sailing ship Farragut,
from Calcutta to New York, was reported
lost. She was commanded by Captain
Richard Hardwick, of Boston, and had on
board his wife, daughter and crew of
twenty two men.
ON the 21th w. w. Grout, representing
the Second Vermont district in Congress,
was renominated.
On the 27th the New York Prohibition
lists held their Sta:e convention at Syra-
cuse and nominated a ticket, with w.
Martin Jones, of Rochester. for Governor,
selected electors for the National ticket,
and adopted a platform indorsing the In.
dianapolis platform.
THE Vermont Republican convention, in
session on the 21th at Montpelier, nomi
mated a State ticket, with w. p. billing
ham at the head for Governor, and adopted
platform which indorses that passed by
the Chicago convention.
THE steam yacht Enid, containing a
pleasure party of eight, was struck on the
27th by the steamer James w. Baldwin
near Newburg, N. Y, and Miss Anna Mil.
Ter and Mrs. Benjamin b. Odell, Jr, prom.
inent society people, were drowned.
GEORGE WILSON was hanged in the Al
bion IN. W jail on the 27th for killing his
| wife on the night of January II, 1857.
On the 2Sth Mrs. Robinson, the cele
| brated poisoner Of Somervillc, Mass, was
| sentenced to be hanged in the Cambridge
| Jail November l6
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very middle OF the boat, and when ] got
her into full swing, jest gave one unearthly
cry and upset her before their eyes. Down
l went like regular shot and there d
stayed till knowed they must be gcttin'
clean crazy about me. / hadn't padded
round our docks at home fur nothin'-no
more N I'd ride the trick mule every chance
I'd git, and jest KEEP under water till Z
could mt stand it no longer, then bobbed up
sereenly kerslap agin John Gray's arm. l
knowed he'd be there and I jest played
faint and laid as limp and still as could
over his strong right arm.
Are you crazy, boy-what hare you done
this for.' heerd close into my ear.
Fur efsck," whispered without openin'
my eyes, kin swim like whale. boss,
but you jest hold onter me and lug mo
ashore. When you git me thar roll me fur
more e0eck, aud I'll come to'
He were very obejint And when /, slow
and solemn-like, opened my eyes, there
stood Miss Wintry cryin' over US both.
! see she cried most over John Gray, who
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-05
We All Have our Influence,

Some persons fall discouraged on the
highway of life, because they can not be
this or that great or eminent person. Why
not be willing to be Themselves? No person
who ever has lived, or ever will live, is
without influence. Why not make the most
of that! Since you can not grasp that
which you WISH why let what you have
slip through your fingers! No person in
the world is exactly like you. You have
your own faults, but you have also
your own excellencies individual to
yourself. Gire them air. Because ysu arc
not . poet, should you not be g good NOR
chantl Because you can not go to college,
should you therefore forswesr the alpha,
bete Because you can not build q palace,
should you not rejoice in your own humble
roof, and that because 1t Is your ownt win
not the sun also shine into your windows
II you do not obstinately persist IN shut.
ting it QUIT II you can nov hsvu whole
hot-houss full Of tlow1rs, may YOU Not hava
one sweet rvSsisHN. I, tsdesp,
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LAND OF FREEDOM.

Land Of Freedom, qucenly thou.
With the crown upon thy brow:
On thy cheek the flush OF morn,
Hail, this day, when thou vert bornl
Lo. thy symbol on the breeze,
Hear the laughter Of the trees
And the murmur of the corni
Grand thy rivers, pulsing down
Past the prairies, past the townS
Lo, thy mountains proudly rise
Like the pillars OF tho skies:
Lo. thy CULTS and lakes OF blue
Ever flash with glory new,
And the light Of beauty's eyeA
But nobicr empires thine
In the hearts which thee cnshrin0;
In thy sons and daughters fair,
In the children Of thy care;
On this day, behold they rise,
Peace and gladness In their cyess
Happy, nappy, everywhere!
May the realm from sea to sea
Fairer grow. while Garth shall be-;
Plymouth Rock and Golden Gate
The far boundaries ofnthy State,
While thy harvestfields of gold,
Hills with metal wealth untold,
Make thee m ghty. make thee greati
Land Of Freedom. queenly thou1
With the crown upon thv brow;
Girt with wisdom. girt with truth,
True to God in very sooth;
When earth's empires fade away,
When they mix with common clay,
God gives thee eternal youth!
y. c. Rankin, d. D.. in Golden Rule
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WEST AND SOUTH.

A LONE highwayman robbed the outgoing
stage from Bailinger, Tex, on tho 25th.
There were eight passengers, from whom
be secured over 1900.
On the 25th George M. Pullman concluded
the purchase Of the entire Baltimore 4
Ohio railroad sleeping-car system, includ
ing the contract for the operation Of Pull
man cars for twenty-five years. The price
paid was about 81, ,2OO,O 600.
On the 26th General Harrison's house at
indianapolis, Ind, was thronged by visitors
to congratulate him upon his nomination
for the Presidency by the Republican con
kilograms. In the evening mass meeting
was held at Tomlinson Hall.
A FAST train on the Baltimore & Ohio
road, heavily freighted with delegates
from the Chicago convention, collidcd with
freight train at Tifiin, O., on the 26th,
and the engineer was fatally hurt and
many of the passengers were bruised.
Louis NIcoLI, q discharged stone cutter,
shot w. B. Wilson, contractor, and him.
self afterward in Marquette, Mich, on the
10Th. Both would probably die.
On the 26th Ned Clark (colored) was
lynched in Worth County, Ga, on the
charge of attempting to assault young
girl thirteen years of age.
DANIEL BARTLETT, Of Findlay, O., cele-
brated his one hundredth birthday on the
26th. His father and mother died at the
ages Of one hundred and ten and one hun
dred and twelve years respectively.
WILLIAM MOORE (colored) was taken
from the Jail at Charleston, ILL.,, on the 18th
by mob and hanged for an indecent as
sanlt on Mary A. Bingardin;A, = weak.
minded girl Of sixteen years.
AT Minneapolis, Minn., Silas Robinson
met his wife with Nicholas Weiss on the
street on the 26th, and after fatally shoot
ing both of them fired three bullets into his
own head.
PRoHIBITIoNIsrs Of the Fourteenth Illi.
nois district ON the Goth nominated A. r.
Smith, of Decatur, for Congress.
A SMALL frame house was burned on the
o6th at St. Paul, Minn., and Maud Bur.
meister, aged thirteen years, and Mrs.
Maggie Ross were suffocated.
In Western Wisconsin 1t showed on the
26th, and heavy frosts were reported in
Minnesota.
In the vicinity of Nelson, Neb, foods
were doing great damage on the 26th. Elk
creek was over its banks and all bridges
crossing it had been washed away.
MANY houses were wrecked by q wind.
storm in Southwest Georgia Oh the 2Sth.
Miles Of fences were blown down
AT Syracuse, Kan, Wallace Mitchell
was hung to telegraph pole on the 27th by
All angry crowd for having killed Oscar
johnson, q lad of thirteen years.
REPUBLICANS of the Twentieth Illinois
district nominated George ". Smith 70,
Congress on the 9Th
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THE Senate on June 30 agreed to an
amendment to the river and harbor bill
providing for a survey for ship canal from
La Sale, ILL.,, to a point on Lake Michigan
near Chicago, the canal to have facilities
and capacity adequate for the passage of
the largest Mississippi river steamboats, and
naval vessels suitable for defense in time Of
war.
The Treasury Department on June 20 esti-
mated that there had been a decrease in
the public debt of $l3, 900 during the
month, and decrease of Sll2, ,0OO, 800 dur.
ing the fiscal year
A DISPATCH from Des Moines, Iowa, June
@. says Judge Fairall has issued another in
junction against the Iowa Railroad Com
n'issioncrs restraining them from publish
ing the notice putting into effect the rates
prepared by them, and from bringing suits
under any law passed by the Twenty Sec
ond General Assembly.
THE schedule of assets and liabilities of
the firm of Shotwell, Clcrihew Il Lothmann,
recently failed at Minneapolis, were tIle on
June 30, and show liabilities of Sl,O43, ,9O7
anu assets OI E6S-,SSI.
GEN. SHERIDAN was removed from his res.
idence in Washington on June 30 and
placed OH board the u tied States steamer
Swatara, to be conveyed to Nonquitt beach,
on the coast Of Massachusetts,. Mrs. Sheri-
idan, two physicians and two nurses ac-
companied him. When the steamer reached
Fortress Monroe stop was made on ac-
count Of heavy sea. The last bulletin re-
cieved from the vessel says the General was
resting well and his symptoms continued to
be favorable.
In the House on June 30, in committee of
the whole on the \ ills bill, motions by Mr.
Breckenridge tArk.) increasing the rate OF
duty OH naxseed and linsce oil from ten to
fifteen cents per gallon, and increasing the
duty on licorice paste or rolls from three to
five nts per pound were agreed to. On
motion of Mr. Bynum Und.) the duty on
glazed or enameled ii es was reduced from
50 to 45 per cent ad valorem.
FIVE iron manufacturers signed the scale
presented by the Amalgamated Association
on June 30, ana the balance of the manu-
facturers have shut down their mills The
firms signing the scale employ about 5000
men.
The reunion at Gettysburg, Pa. of the
Confedera 9 and Union veterans commenced
June 30 Seven Wisconsin M numents and
thirteen New Jersey monuments were dedi-
Gated and turned over to the Battlefield
Memorial Association. Addresses were
made bv Senator Spooner, Gen. Lucius Fair.
child and others. and on the lst Gen. Long.
'.rast. Bishop Newman and others spoke,
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J IT is said that burglar in Chicago
read in a newspaper that he had over
looked eighty dollars in a bureau
drawer. He returned the next night
and not only secured it, but a suit OF
clothes besides. Here we have an
other illustration of the value of the
press rs disseminator of useful in
formation. Now is the time to subscribe.
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JUDGMENTS amounting to $22, ZOO
were rendered against the Illinois
Central Railroad Company at Bloom
inGton, H., the other day in the
Cobb-Christy cases, which had been on
trial for twenty-five years, growing
out of losses on grain shipped South
during the war on that road by delay
in transportation, the company claim
ing that the delay was caused by the
Government holding control of the
pnad
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is reported from Youngstown. {

IT is reported from Youngstown, O.,
that Mamie Evans, aged ten years,
whose career as a vocal prodigy was
cut short seven months ago by the
paralysis of her vocal chords, induced
by overtaxing them singing in large
halls, recovered her voice the other
day during a severe storm just after
two violent claps Of thunder She had
not been able to speak above whis-
per. and had been pronounced incura-
,blc by physicians.
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IT Is announced that after settling
all outstanding debts the estate of the
late Roscoe Conkling will amount to
between 100000 and 100000. His
will, which was made about twenty
years ago, leaves his cntinc fortune to
his wife.
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AT Dundee, Eng, recently young
woman was found guilty of committing
breach of the peace, this being her
eighty-second conviction in fourteen
years, and on thirty-two occasions she
had been sentenced to sixty days i'm
DrisOnment.
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Mrs. ROSE LUDvIGH, Now York
drcss-maker, is charged with defraud-
ing the custom-house out of $4,000.
After buying Worth costumes in Paris,
she engaged a young woman to repre-
sent herself rs an actress, and that the
gowns were portions Of her wardrobe.
Under these conditions the costly gar
mcnts were admitted free of duty. To
better carry out her scheme, Mrs. Lud-
vigh. as alleged, played the part OF
maid to the alleged actress.
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] THERE are in America over 1000, 900
farms, large and small. They cover
over 5OO,OOO,OOO acres of improved
land, and their total value is some
thing like $4,000, 100000. The esti-
mated value of the yearly products OF
these farms is between $1,000, ,OOO, 900
and $4,000, 600. 900.
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SOME one has got up an alphabet of

SOME one has got up an alphabet OF
precious stones, as follows: Amethyst,
bcryl, chrysoberyl, diamond, emerald,
fclcspar, garnet, hyacinth, idocrase,
kyanite (more commonly cyanite. Il
blue mineraD. lynx-sapphire, milk
opal, natrolite, opal, pyrobe, quartz,
ruby, sapphire. topaz, uranite, vesuvi-
ante Ga species Of garnet). water
sapphire. xanthite, zircon "a Cingalese
GfnnoN
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FROM WASHINGTON,

The exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 23d aggregated
SS57 ,3l5, ,5, against 1921 So, ,673 the previous
week. As compared with the correspond
ing week Of 1887 the decrease amounted to
14.4 per cent.
On the 36th the committee selected by
the recent Democratic convention to no
tify Mr.. Cleveland of his denomination full
filled its mission, and ho accepted the
honor.
THE National Democratic Committee met
in Washington on the Goth and reelected
w. H. Barnum, of Connecticut, chairman
Of the committee