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Year: 1879

girl who had been sold of into slavery
from her Louisiana home into Georgia.
| always thought the boy made 1t up
himself. never heard the words or
the music before or since. The words
didn't exactly rhyme, nor ths music
wasn't such as you hear in the opera,
but knew II would do. So got the
boys together in the cabin and after
they had playeda while the boy sang
his song"


Miss Lind listened from first to last,
and there were tears in her eyes when
it was through. | don't exactly know
how is was, but five minutes after"ard
she was at the piano, and sang first the
music of that song as well as she could
remember it, and then song after song
of her own. And not only that e' ening,
either, but evening that she was on the
boat. The pianist of her troupe play
ed, too, and the other members of the
company sang or played, and my ladies
also, and such concerts there never
were in America before or since"


"We got to be great friends, aud
when We reached Louisville and my
boat laid up on account Of the ice, she
urged Inc to go with her to New York.
1t was on the way that We stopped at
Niagara tell you, sir, that she was
the greatest and the most beautiful and
the best woman ever knew"


think the captain keeps few lit
tie flowers and such triiles that date
back to that trip religiously by him to
this day. He has never married; be-
lirve. lie was comparatively young
man in 50.
Year: 1879

ple." The fund arising under thi
act shall be applied by said association
to the support and maintenance o
colored schools throughout this State
and shall be distributed by said as
sociatioD. The said association shal
ascertain the amount collected under
this act from each county and shall
distribute to each county the amount
raised by said county"


This money is collected by the State
Treasurer and sent to the Actuary OF
Howard Association and by them dis.
tributed to the several schools through
out the State. Everything is deper-
dent upon the honesty and degree of
purpose OF these officers. They are not
bonded and the interests OF the colored
people lie at the mercy Of those who
fill these responsible positions. Upon
all other moneys handled by the State
Treasurer he is bonded by substantial
men of the County. Because the mon
ey Is the property OF an apparently
ostracised class is it less, the duty o
the State to guard it with as jealous
care as it does that OF its white popu
lation! Justice answers "No" and
again.


After this money is collected fully 1
year elapses before it can be used y.
the districts from which it is gathered
This is a great drawback to thos
schools that endeavor to keep pace
with the more favored institution o
their white brethern. Efforts to RENE
dy this and the above mentioned con
strGGtion of the inconsistent law quOte'
above, should be made at once. Tn
colored people of the State demanC
a law, direct, like that under whic
their more fortunate co-educators eXis
and prosper.
Year: 1879

Guys III tu9 Juan case.


The following arc tho salient foat-
ures of tho recent decision Of the
United States Supreme Court in the
case of Reynolds, tho Utah polyga-
mist, against tho United States,
brought on final appeal:


The principal questions raised
are, first whether the first amends
ment to the Constitution prohibits
interference with religious practices
which are contrary to tho law of
the land, and second. is whether II
criminal a"tion can be justified By tho
plea of religious belief. This Court
holds that tho constitution guar
antee of religious freedom was not
intended to prohibit legislation in
respect to marriage, and that it is
within tho legitimate scope of tho
power of every civil government to
determine whether polygamy or
monogamy shall be the law of social
life under its dominion. Tho laws
Of Congress for tho suppression of
the former are therefore valid and
constitutional. With regard to
the second question, it is held that
q criminal practice cannot be excus-
cd on tho ground of religious con-
victions. TO permit this would be
to make religious doctrines superior
to the law of the land, and in effect
to permit overy citizen to become q
law unto himself. Government
could exist only in namo under such
circumstances. The only dofence of
the accused in this case is his belief
that tho law should not havo boen
enacted. 1t matters not that his
belief was o part of his religion, it
was still belief and nothing more.
The judgment of the lower court,
in which tho prisoner was found
guilty, is therefore affirmed. Tho
Chief Justice delivered tho opinion.
Year: 1879

The time when a mans word was as
good as his bond seems to have belonged
to some remote period. The present
generation look upon it with as much
incredulity as upon the fables found in
classic mythology. Yet, occasionally,
we hear of persons who place so much
confidence in friends that they do not
require written agreement, and after
wards they bitterly repent of their indis-
cretion. Experience is said to be the
best teacher. 1t may be so, but it is
often an expensive one. Wise is he
who, in the beginning, familiarizes him.
self with the history of others, and from
it learns wisdom. In visiting an un-
known land common sense teaches one
to nse guide book and not foolishly try
to find out everything for himself.
Still there are individuals who possess
such confidence that it is extremely diff
ticult for them to exercise their facul-
ties Of precaution.-Albany Times.
Year: 1879

A company of Eastern capitalists pur-


chased the Mammoth cave on Saturday,
and will proceed at once to put it in the


best possible condition to make its
great wonders accessible and to be seen
under the best conditions. The railroad
from Glasgow Junction will be com
pleted to the cave, the hotel and sur
roundings put in the finest order, the en- .
trance to the cave made convenient, the
routes made easy and secure, and such
other facilities for thorough exploration
as will make trip through it a matter
of pleasure, instead of a pilgrimage of
penance as heretofore. The price paid
was 100000. much less than its value to
its purchasers, and much more than its
value under the old management,
Through yankee vim and yankee skill it
Will probably probably prove source of
immense revenue to its present owners.
Year: 1879

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A woman, notwithstanding she is the
best OF listeners, knows her business
and it is wOman's business to please.
do not say that it is her business to
vote, but l do say that the woman who
does not please is false note in the
harmonies of nature. She may not have
youth or beauty, or even manners, but
she must have something in her voice
or expression, or both, which makes you
feel better disposed toward your own
race to look at or listen to. She knows
that as well as we do, and her first ques-
ton after you have been talking your
soul into her consciousness is: Did |
please? A woman never forgets her
sex. She would rather talk with a man
than an angel any time Womanly
women are very kindly critics except to
themselves, and now and then to their
own sex. The less there is of sex about
woman the more she is to be dreaded.


But take a real woman at her best
~A-OAANheo "Oll uIOoo0u cllOuSu 10 D6
pleased with herself, not so splendid as
to be show and sensation, with the
varied outside influences that set vibra-
ting the harmonious notes of her nature
stirring in the air about her-and what
social life to compare with one of those
vital interchanges of thought and feel
ing with her that makes an hour mem
Orable? What can equal her tact, her
delicacy, her subtlety of apprehension,
her quickness to feel the changes of tenn
perature, as the warm and cool currents
of thought blow by turns? At one mo
meht she is microscopically intellectual,
critical, scrupulous in judgment as an
analysts balance. and the next as SYM
pathetic as the open rose that sweetens
the wind from whatever quarter it finds
it's way to her bosom. 1t is in the hos
pitable soul of woman that man forgets
he is a stranger, and so becomes natural
and truthful; at the same time he is
mesmerized by all those divine differ
ences that make her mystery and be-
wilderment.-[ Atlantic Monthly.
Year: 1879

Last years jelly nodded worse than
any ever made before, the result of
keeping it too warm, and OF not pasting
covers over the glasses until they had
stood open several days. They should
be covered as soon as cold. | prefer a
common, plain, clear glass tumbler,
without patent covers of any kind, for
jelly. Then, as soon as emptied of jelly,
it is ready to drink from, hold flowers,
or as IA mould for blanc mango or mush.
Tissue paper wet in brandy next to the
jelly or jam, before covering it, in order
to prevent mold, is not necessary, and
the brandy almost always spoils the pc
culi2r flavor of the jelly. With thin pa
per next the jelly (Omitting the brandy.
the mold which is so apt to grow over
the top of the fruit, can be pulled off
with the paper, and not affect the jelly
beneath, but it is better to keep the jelly
and preserves cool and dry that mold
would not modest it American Agri-
culturaliSt.
Year: 1879

COMMENTING on the recent elections
the Chicago Tribune remarks that "the
general Republican successes of this fall
are especially important because it has
been admitted By both parties that the
National issues were at stake, and that
the people would indicate their prefer
ence as between the two contesting par
ties for National dominion. This would
not have been the case if there had
been no extra session of Congress and
consequently no development of the
revolutionary purposes of the Democra-
cy under the control of the Confederate
caucus. Had the cloven foot been con-
cealed for time longer, the Democrats
might have had such consolation as an
off year usually gives them; as it is,
they have the poor comfort of knowing
that they have brought their misfortune
upon themselves by their blunders and
their viciouSness." And yet, let it not
he forgotten that the contest of 1880 is
far from decided. The Republican or
ganizatiOn should be kept intact in all
parts of the country, and sound political
principles should be promulgated right
along, rs though we were in the midst
of the contest.
Year: 1879

A man cannot be upright and honest
much less Christian, if he tells lies to
sell his goods. He injuries his own soul
and he corrupts the souls of those in his
employ. If he is a professed Christian
his lies do much more than seduce his
employees to become cheats and liars
they tempt them to laugh at religion. A
writer in the Christian Weekly tells two
anecdotes to set forth the evil of living
in business:


"The label and description on every
box of that soap is IA lie from beginning
to end, and Mr.--(the manufacturer
knows it as well as do, and yet he con-
tinues to make it, and print and affix
these labels and descriptions to. every
box of it he makes, and to send it all
over the land; and he is growing rich by
it, though he knows the soap itself is q
fraud, and the label on it is downright
falsehoodI &


Such were the words of a travelling
salesman who was selling this very
soap through town after town, in State
after State, and who said he knew it
was wrong. but he would be discharged
in moment if he told the truth about
the soap he was selling.


And yet the manufacturer, and the
employer of this and many other agents,

would have said he was outrageousIy
insulted had any one charged him with
lying or dishonesty, or want of integri-
ty in his business.


Another travelling salesman came to
his minister to ASK


What am to do? 1 am sent out by
my employer" he continued, "to sell
goods by the sample. If 1 were to tell
just what l know is the truth about
them, | could not sell yard; and it is
only by Misrepresentation and down.
right lying that am able to make good |
sales.


And yet if l don't make sales l shall |
be discharged at once. | feel every day |
that it is wrong, and that the statements |
| am obliged to make are falsehoods and |
deceptions.


"And yet if don't make them can't
sell goods; and if L don't sell goods l
shall lose my place, and my little family
be left without bread. What shall / do 2"





AT the recent meeting in Boston of
The New England Association of School
Superintendents, II. F. Harrington, of
New Bedford, read paper in which he
stated his belief that half of the time
n school should be devoted to the En-
glish language; Biographies should con-
ain only about a quarter as much mat
er as at present, and that arithmeties
should have no problems that are not
common in business life. Superintend-
mt Parker, of Quincy, said that a great
lindrance to progress was the self-satis-
action which existed among the super
the feeling that they were
ully capable of instrueting the youth
md did not need to study how to teach /
Littlefield, of Lawrence, .
aid that the idea that children should l
'e kept happy i'll school was the best of all q
n the new departure, and do far more {
or good attendance than all the truant 1t
orce. A resolution was introduced by '
lr. Philbrick to the effect that the best t
interests of the public schools required 4
hat teachers should hold their positions C
s long as they are qualified. =
Year: 1879

What was said with tone of menace by
Mr. Bragg, of Wisconsin, has been said again
with n tone of expOstulatiOn and advice by
Senator Hill. of Georgia. The Senator tells
his Democratic friends at the South that they are
likely to Kill the party very quickly if they open
the door for the payment of war claims and the
promotion of Southern jobs. His remarks are
all the more significant because he is regarded
with hostility by those who claim to lead and
To rule the Democratic party of Georgia. The
grasping temper which he assails is neyerthe-
less the temper Of the controlling element in
Southern Democracy it Is iDtolerant, uncom-
promising and desperate, and it means mis-
chief either to the Democratic party or to the
public credit. Yielding to it will bankrupt
the Government. Resisting il VIII disrupt
Democracy.


This spirit finds manifestation in many
forms. In Kentucky, Tennessee and Mis-
sissippi, we judge from the tone of
the Democratic press, the demand for
local improvements, for the building of
Year: 1879

reading in the Assembly. If the bill had not
been drawn by so competent legal authority
as District Attorney Phelps, objection might,
perhaps, be made even to the new term Oh
Imprisonment as being too light. NO doupt
due regard must be had for the proportion
which such penalty must bear toward Others
but five years imprisonment for desecra'ims
the grave is, abstractly considered, decidedly
inadequate.


The refusal of President MacNahon to sign
the decree relating to changes in the military
commands has intensely excited the excitable
capital of France. The gTavcst significance
is attributed to his refusal, to the very tone
in which he declared that he would
not disoreanize the army, to the iact
that he then hft the council chamber.
There are rumOrS everywhere OF his intention
to resign, and the political gossps are full OF
grave forebOdings of the disasters that would
follow the refinement of the stubborn soldier
President. The political squall of few DAYS
ago blew itself out so quickly that the
rest of mankind. outside of Paris, will
wait calmly for the issue of this new
cOmmoti0n. The vital fact is that the COM
promise of a week ago, by which the Minis
try consented to put Republicans in Office
and was rewarded with a vote of confidence
has broken down at point where
the resignation of either the President
or the Ministry may become necessary
Late DISPATCHES show that the former event
is considered so easily possible that candl-
dates for the Presidency are already under
discussion. But rumOrs and results are never
the same things in politics, and least OF all III
the vivacious politics of France.
Year: 1879

A Deadener for the Fruit Prospects.


It was decidedly winterish in this
section yesterday morning; and it is
the opinion OF all who have made any
observations whatever, that the peach
and other early fruit crops are certain
ly cooked effectualy this time. The
mercury was as low as about 240 below
zero. There was an abundance of ice
in some places an inch in thickness,
and even thicker, aud the icicles from
mill races and such places hung all
day like real mid-winter.


Although there was scarcely any frost
visible, the invisible finger of King
Winter left its mark on all vegetation.
Aside from the injury 10 the fruit
crop, many early vegetables also felt
the blighting effsc's. The tempera-
ture was scarcely improved during the
entire day, up till after night, when it
clouded up and rather moderated, and
it is sincerely hoped the dose will not
be repeated this morning.
Year: 1879

or by voluntary subscriptions, such


as flowed into the Treasury in 1860


1t was threatened by gentlemen Of


that majority that if the President


should veto the bill they would ap


ply the thumb-screws the minority
in order to obtain a two-thirds ma
jority, and failing in that, that the


appropriations should fail. To


that programme the minority would
invariably vote "nay' to the end Of


the chapter.


Mr.. Tucker, of Virginia, next
spoke. He denied that the Presi-
dent had any right to the mode of
proceedings used by Congress, and
if he vetoed the pending measure
he must do so on its merits and not
on account of the method of, the
passage. These cee 4 he said,
took away from His Excellency the
right to preside with his troops at
the polls. Gentlemen on the other
side said that they would never
Weld. He would tell them that in
tee conflict between power and lib
erty, if power would not yield lib
erty was just as firm. 1t might be
said that he, Tucker, as Southern
man, was opposed to the army. He
denied it. He had never voted for
any bill which would impair its
efficiency, but he favored the army
as the servant and not as the mas
ter of the people. He believed the
Government of the United States to
be the best system of government
ever devised by the wit Of man, but
in the matter of the power of the
Government and the liberty of the
people he would put that power at
its minimum, and that liberty at its
consistent with the safety
of society. He would have law on
the judgment seat, meaning the civic
crown and ermine and gently, and
with an unveiled hand leading for
the liberty as his welded wife. He
would have the army ard the navy
to be the willing servants
of liberty to expel on
her call all invaders upon her sacred
precinct, or put do En the despotism
of licentious mobs. If his aspira-
tions and hopes, his desires and
views, could be realized, feeling as
he did that the sere and yellow leaf
was approaching, that the evening
of his life was coming to its close,
he might then, with humble reyer
ence, repeat the prayer, CHOW, oh
Lord, lettest Thou Thy servant de-
part in phace, for mine eyes hath
seen the salvation of my peoples
and seen restored the grand
and noble system of the Constitu-
ton of our forefathers."


During the course of his speech
Mr.. Tucker was frequently inter-
rupted with applause, and at its
conclusion was warmly congratu-
lated.


Mr.. Garfield closed the Republi~
can side Of the debate.


The vete will be taken tomorrow,
after which the conflict will be
to the Senate.
Year: 1879

WHO says that the days Of romance


w are ended, needs to read the strange
history Of Scottish ploughman who
has returned to his native heath after O
long exile. Twenty years ago farmer
in Orkney hired young man to do farm
work. The ploughman touched the
fancy Of his masters daughter, and the
result was that in runaway fashion,
and in opposition to the will of the
patriarchal farmer, the two became man
and wife.


The old gentleman was furious, and
turned his back decidedly upon his SON
ln-law. The young ploughman kissed
his wife, left her fathers farm and sailed
to Australia, whence he soon ceased to
write. His wife became mother, and
remained in state of such wretched
suspense that her father began to repent
of the treatment to which he had sub
jected her husband. Efforts were then
made to trace the whereabouts of the
latter by means of advertising in Colo
nial papers and otherwise, but all to no
purpose. He had gone to America
Years passed. The grandson grew up to
manhood, and not liking farm-work, he
bade adieu to Orkney, took ship last year
to the United States, and, after some
knocking about, found employment in
mercantile house in Illinois. In the
course of business he discovered that the
gentleman at the head of the firm, was
q native of Scotland, hailing, indeed,
from the same district as himself. Oc-
casional meetings led to more minute in
quiries as to dates, names of places, per-
sons and the like in the old country and
after being six months in the establish
ment, the youth found-however won
derful it may appear-that he was actu-
ally serving as a clerk with no other
than his own father. The effect of this
discovery on both may be left to the inn
ination of the reader. Father and son
are now both in Scotland. The man
who went away penniless ploughbOy
but returns rich has been welcomed with
much emotion by his venerable father
in-law, who is still hale and hardy, as
well as by the wife whom he left many
years ago in her youth and beauty, but
is now a middle-aged matron.
Year: 1879




Man loves the mysterious. A cloud
less sky and the full blown rose leave
him unmoved; but the violet which
hides its blushing beauties behind the
bush, and the moon when emerging
from behind cloud, are to him sources
of inspiration and of pleasure. Modesty
is TO merit what shade is to figure in
painting-it gives boldness and prom
inence.


Nothing adds more to female beauty
than modesty. 1t sheds around the
countenance a halo of light which is
borrowed from virtue. BOtanists have
given the rosy hue which tinges the cup
of the white roses the name of maiden
blush" This pure and delicate hue is
the only paint Christian virgins should
use it Is the richest ornament. A wo-
man without modesty is like faded
flower diff using an unwholesome odor,
which the prudent gardener will throw
from him. Her destiny is melancholy,
for it terminates in shame and repent
ance. Beauty passes like the flowers of
the albe, which bloom and die in a few
hours; but modesty gives the female
charms, which supply the place of the
transitory freshness of youth.
Year: 1879


NHILE stopping in Indiana, 1 form


w ed one of company that went to
the falls of White River, near the village
of Newberry, for the purpose of having
a regular set, two or three days. fishing
spree, as the Hoosiers call it. The first
day of our excursion turned out to be
windy, and we had no luck; the next
day we caught only one small bass,
little swapping turtle, few frogs = just
for the fun of it--and bad cold. On
the third day the tables turned, and for
tune smiled on us propitiously; for we
all caught fresh colds, Jake Collins fell
overheard and we caught him, Bill Mar
ling caught the ague, and Tom Burbon
caught catfish that weighed some
seventy pounds.


Our spree" was now at an end, and
we found 1t q matter of little diff Guilty
to take home with us all that we caught,
except the big fish. 1t was too large to
carry, and too small to justify the hire
of special conveyance, SO we were sore
Year: 1879

A woman may be handsome, or re-
markably active in various ways; but
if she is not personally neat, she cannot
hope to win admiration. Fine clothes
will not conceal the slattern. A young
woman with her hair always in disor-
der, and her clothes hanging about her
as il suspended from prop, Is always
repulsive. Slattern is written upon her
person from the crown of her head to
the soles of her feet, and if she wins
husband he turns out, in all probability,
either to be an idle fool or a drunken
ruffian. The bringing up of daughters
to be able to work, talk, and act like
honest, sensible young women, Is the
special task of all mothers, and in the
industrial ranks there is imposed also
the prime obligations of learning to re-
spect household work for its own sake,
and the comfort and happiness it will
bring in the future. Housework is drudg-
cry but 1t must be done by somebody,
and had better be well than i'll done.