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Year: 1877

Sometime since an article appeared in
the Adoocate. with editorial comments
from the writer of this article. This re.
ply was then sent to that journal, which
declined to ublish it, no: wishing tU
commence any controversy with f. II
W., who now requests lis to publish the
whole matter; but us the articles in the
Adrocate have been generally read, We
simply give place to the following re
ply:


Mr.. EDITOR You say that you
prinsed and commented upon aR article
sn0t because of the classical beauty OF
the language employed, or the learning
shown in the composition make nu
pretentions to either-I coacede both to
you-you are full of them. "Such men
as f. II. M. desiring TO be free from all
the restraints Of a true Christian lite,
whether they be moral or religious" etc
what right have you to say that wish
to he free from moral restraint 2 l con-
fess to wishing to he free from all relig.
ioas restraint ; for religion and supersti
tioa are synouomous with me, and have
nothing in common with morality for
there are many religions, and but one
morality which is elder than any Of
them--is a natural law of our being
exists in the nature Of things-is a mat
ter OF science-and not dependent on ar.
bitrary human authority or special revel
alton, and is not at all sscta,ian, which
you admit yourself to be-.


The Unitarian's denial of worshiping
Jesus, amounts to but little in view OF
their acts, for actions speak louder than
words. And when they claim "that
Jesus was perfect man and the only
man who attained moral Perfection
and thus continually harp on that one
string, it looks, to an outsider, very
much like what is commonly viewed as
worship. You claim to be a sincere and
earnest thinker seeking for the truth
but when you express disgust at nay say
ing, Jesus is one man and / am an
other you show but little evidence Of
selfhood or free thinking, but only OF
bondage to another's thinking. Cannot
| say Jesus is one man and aln an
other without boasting of myself
Must | say Jesus is one man and am d
nonentity, or one like him in every re-
spect 2


BE thysclt" isa wise precept. And
it should be no disparagement to any
man for saying, 81 propose tolbe myself
but what is the use of trying to follow
an "ideal man." Why not rather study
the principles OF our being and carry
them out One who would undertake
to.follow an ideal man is slave. A
tree man follows science physically
mentally and morally.


f. II. M.
Year: 1877

mayed by Uric locking on the ground,
or anywhere but in nv face. as he
should have done. My displeasure,
however, vanished on seeing the tears
trickling down his cheeks. and torgh-
ing his in.ccuracy on the score of his
sensibIlity, continued the scene with
augmented energy and feeling and left
it with very favorable impression Of
the young mans judgment aud warm
heartedEess.


In the course Of the play be accostcl
me, begging pardon for his apparent
want Of attention to me, and explaining
the cause, viz: that he had painted his
face so high on the cheek that the color
had got into his eyes and kept them
running during the whole act. What
an unfortunate disclosure"
Year: 1877

In Pekln there was soothsayer of ex-
traordlnary wit and power, who couId
tell from mans face the date or h;a
death, aud could lengthen the days ~
those who needed good advice, whiIa
every skeptic was sure to die at the tina
appointed.


One day an unbcliever passed by, with.
outwaiting to hear the soothsayer's wnrda
ana the latter cried out that he had soma
thing to say TO him. 1t was this. tho
color of his face was very bad, and if he
were to disregard the soothsayer's advice
he would be corpse the third day at
midnight. The man left and went away.
feeling rather uncomfortable. "If |
must die, | must said he, affecting n
stoicism he could not feel. He could
eat no food on account of the struggle
between belief and unbelief, and his ex.
citement became 80 great on the evening
OF the third day, that he could not seep,
lie therefore set to reading. As it was
nearing midnight, he heard rumbling
sound on the roof, and instantly his outer
door opened of its own accord, and
in stalked Il man of terrific appearance.
The scholar was much frightened, but.
having an ebony pipe in his hand, he
struck at the monster, who fell down; aud
lol it was a paper sprite. He read on.
his excitement not much allayed by this
accident. By.and-by he heard another
heavy tread on the roof, and creature
more frightful than the last was with
him. Notwithstanding the aspect of the
newcomer, us the solitary watcher could
command no other weapon, the pipe was
again used, and down fell the monster
peice Of earth. Soon Il rafting tramp
shook the roof, and creature more hid.
eous than the other two entered the room,
The frightened man clutched his trusty
weapon again, and one blow brought
down the giant-a piece of wood. In
short time II groaning voice was heard
outside the door, pleading piteously for
admission. ReasSured by his adventures
the hero asked in a bold tone what the
visitor wanted. He prayed for deliver.
ance, for with cock, crow, if he were not
saved by the giant-killer, he would be
dead man. 1t was the conjuror who bad
accosted him three days before, and had
welded all his power to carry out his own
prophecy and was now fOiled for the first
time in his life. He told how many peo-
pie he had murdered by his black art.
and the next morning the conquerer
handed him over for punishment TO the
district magistrate.
Year: 1877

A PRACTICAL USE OF DOGs.-It is a
fact perhaps not generally known that
there is firm doing business in San
Francisco who purchase the thousands of
dogs slaughtered by the pound-master OF
that city, or that may have been other
wise killed, for which they pay forty
cents each. The carcasses are conveyed
to their manufactOry at South San Fran
cisco, where the skins are removed and
sold to the tanneries, the hair taken off
and resold to plasterers, the hides tanned;
made into gloves, and sold in the market.
The denuded carcass is then thrown into
huge cauldron and boiled until the
bones are easily separated from the flesh,
when they are removed and sold to the
sugar re6neries, where they are ground
to powder and used TO clarity sugar.
The oil that rises to the surface of the
boiling mass is skinned off and manu-
featured into cod liver oil, and the re-
mainder is used for the purpose of fatten-
ing hogs.
Year: 1877

THE Boy Is FATHER TO THE MAN.


Do better when he is olderf No; if you


leave him to himself he is sure to do
worse. When you expect nature to con-
vert bad boy into good man you ex.
pect miracle of her. and nature aeper
performs miracles. You might as well
leave that young sapiing to the wiud
which beats it awryS and hope that il
will be straight, wellformed tree when
it is an old one. No, you know better
than that.


You are aware that it is the tender
young tree which yields to training and
culture, and that every year it is more
difficult to straighten it. Make the boy
a good boy, if you desire him 10 be a
good man; honest, if you hope to have
him stand upright before his fellow men.
If he steals small change now. and has
no scruple about being unfair and un-
truthful with his parents, he will do the
same thing on larger scale twenty years
from now.


If you cannot cure him of lying now
he will never be man whose word is as
good as his bond If he is rude, coarse,
ungentemanly boy, years will not alter
him. Vices or faults will grow all the
stronger with ripening years. A bad lit
tie boy will be much worse man.


But there is comfort in this thought:
You need not fear for the manhood of a
good boy. If the little fellow looks into
your eyes and speaks the honest truth, if
he is respectful to those who deserve re-
spect, brave when he should be brave, and
yet with no shame of being gentle, thank
Heaven, and do all you can to keep him
so; but have no fear. As vices strength
en-, so do virtues. The good boy is more
than likely TO, be better man.-A. K. d.,
in N. Y. Ledger.
Year: 1877

GIVING HER AUDIENCE A STAGE FALL
THAT WAS PAINFULLY TOO REAL.
In dainty boudoir, all pink and blue


and gold, Miss Fanny Davenport rested
yesterday afternoon, after her first rehear


sal since her painful accident in Detroit.
A cheerful camel coal fire blazed in the


CRATE, the walls were hung with many


pictures, well-tilled book case occupied


an alcove, and heavy curtains of blue


shut the room from the rest of the suite.


In large crimson easy chair drawn up
to the fire, but sheltered from its heat by


light tambour screen, sat the fair ac-
tress. Her nose and right eye were
somewhat swollen, but there is no dis
figurement.


SIT was most stupid thing" she SAID,
and worthy of an amateur. 1 hadn't
so familiar with my part that had not
rehearsed it for that night. AS "Poshu-
mia," the old blind woman, you know l
wear pair of false eyes that sadly OBJ
scure my sight, though they do not prevent
my seeing somewhat. After had pro-
nounced The curse upon the Pontff,
said to myself, Now, I'll give them Il
good fall threw up my arms and fell,
but instead of striking on my hands, as |
Intended, somehow struck on my nose
and forehead. The pain was intense,
and blood flowed copiously, but my only
thought was that l mustn't spoil tile
scene if could help it. So l bore it
until the curtain fell, and afterwards
appeared in one scene as Lady Teazle,'
but it was the hardest work ever did,
can assure you.


''No, indeed. 1t is most decidedly
false that l made the accident out worse
than it was because 1 feared losing
trip through Michigan. We were doing
splendidly, and thousand dollar house
was disappointed by my non-appearance
in Grand Rapids the Monday night sue
ceeding my accident.


eyes, L am going to appear on Satur-
day evening in 'As You Like It, in
Booths Theatre, and don't believe that
my face will bear any noticeable marks
by that time. should like to rest next
week, but l can't. 1t was shame for
some of the newspapers to say that my
nose was broken and hat was SCARED
for life. It's no such thi ,g."


Miss Davenport's hysician says that
with care she will be aLle to appear on
Saturday evening without injury to her
self.
Year: 1877

SOME years after the discovery OF gold
in Australia a mint was established. and
much of the raw gold, instead of being
sent to Great Britain, was coined into
sOvereigns in the new colony. The peo-
pie there for long time looked upon
these locally-coined sOvereigns with dis
trust and disfavOr they clamored for the
English sovereign, and were ready TO pay
a premium Tor it. And yet all the while
it vas an absolute fact that the Aus
tralian sovereign contained more gold,
and of higher standard, than did the
English.
Year: 1877




as that of 1876.


The army bill, as reported to the Senate
from the committee on appropriations, is
amended by the entire omission of the clause
inserted by the house, which provided that
four cavalry regiments should be recruited to
their full force of 200 men each and kept
in service on the Texas frontier, but that the
total number of men on the army rolls should
be limited to 10000, The senate committee
recommend the insertion, in place of the
mandatory provision concerning the use of
troops in Texas, Of the following clause
Cavalry reiments may be recruited to one
hundred men in each cOmpany, and kept as
near as practicable to that number; and a
sufficient force of cavalry shall be employed
in defense of the Mexican and Indian from
tier of Texas. The committee do not rec
Ommend any increase in the amounts voted
by the house, but on the contrary propose a
reduction OF $50 600 in the item for the CON
version of smooth bOres to rifed cannon,
$4,000 in the amount for hospitals and $780,
in the appropriation for the Office of the
commanding general.
Year: 1877

The following is an extract from q
letter written 10y Postmaster-Geue raj
Key, February 10:


81 am ready to do all can to restore
confidence and good government to
the people of the South. This can
only be done by hearty fraterniza
tion of the sections, for which | have
labOred. If without fequir-
ing of me the sacrifice of my personal
or political independence you find my
name can be used for the good of die
South, in your best Judgment you are
At liberty to use it. If | become q
litember of an Administration should
not feel myself at liberty to place my
self in opposition to its general policy,
but should feel bound to build up and
strengthen it in the hearts of the peo-
pie, aud if the time arrived when
could not heartily Cooperate with it.
| would resign. AS matters are in the
South ! could not be more useful to
our people by an independent posi-
ton, and IL as | hope and believe, the
Administration will develop a broad
and liberal policy toward the people
of the South, would not hesitate To
incorporate my fortunes and myself
with It,.


This letter was before President
Hayes last night, when he had con-
sulTation with Mr.. Key prior to his
final selection as Postmaster-General.
Year: 1877

and that when so adjusted the general
acquiescence of the nation ought sure
ly to follow.


1t has been reserved for a govern
ment of the people where the right of
suffrage is universal to give to the
world the first example in history of
n great nation. in the midst of q strug-
gle Of opposing parties for power,
hushing its party tumults TO yield to
the issue of the contest to adjustment
according to the forms of law.


Looking for TIE guidance of that
Divine hand by which the dpstines
ofrulers and individuals are shaped
I call upon you, Senators Resresenta.
tives, Judges, fellow citizens. here and
everywhere, to unite with me in an
earnest effort to secure to our country
the blessings not only Of material pros
perity but of Justice, peace, and union,
a Union depending not upon the con
straint of force, but upon the loving
devotion of free people, and that all
things may be so ordered and settled
upon the best and surest foundations
that peace and happiness, truth and
justice, religion and piety. may be es-
tablished among us for all genera.
tiOns.
Year: 1877

In the course of an editorial article
on the Grover investigation, the Salem
Statesman says:


If the moral sentiment Of the whole
people could be made sufficiently
alive in this matter, it could be made
so tropical for the individual who
would sell his ''birthright for mess
of pottage," that he would be as fear
full of the communicating influence of
the ''schemer' as the wary traveller is
of the Upas tree of the desert.


Our Legislators must be made to feel
that their actions must be above sus-
picion, they have no business to put
themselves in the way of corruption
lists, they must not hang out the sign
"For Sale" if they wish to maintain
an honest reputation. Schemers know
whom to approach; they seldom miss
their man. The man that is honest
and above suspician is not troubled,
his reputation is not in danger of be-
ing traduced, but the weak, the vacil-
lating, and the venal, fall into the
snarcs of the lobbyist and are made
victims of unholy influences.


If the indignation of the general
public will only take such a.perma-
nent form, rising above partisanship,
as that whoever is found trifling with
the high trusts committed to them by
conhding constituency, they shall
be indelibly branded as evil, to be
cast out of all decent society, one
grand step will at least have been
taken towards true reform.
Year: 1877

Grass, weeds and trees will devel-
op fertility of soil. If one cannot
procure stable manure, nor muck, if
land is cheap, one of the most eco
nomical ways to improve the fertility
is to allow clover and grass to grow
and decay where it grew.


To cover the ground with firm thick
sod, and fill the soil with a mass of
grass and clover roots, is to make
land that will pay fair rent to the
owner. Such sod, summer fallowed,
brings great corn, tobacco, or cotton.
One must learn how to make fertility
grow on thin land; drawing agricul-
tural salts from the deep subsoil in
water that rises TO enter the longest
roots of clover or cow peas. The wa
ter evaporates from the leaves of the
clover grass, peas and corn; but the
fertilizing salts do not. These may
be used to feed and fatten hungry
soil. Poor land may grow to become
fat in sod and manure as easily as a
poor pig gains in flesh. Small seeds
like those of clover and grass, may do
most of the work. See how easy it is
to make clover and grass labor for the
thinking husbandman.-UT Welcome.
Year: 1877

THE following manly letter from our
distinguished Congressman will be read
with interest 10y his constituents. Casey
Young cannot be induced to comprOm-
Ise his section or himself at this unc-
ture 10 our national affairs. lie Is emf
nently a Conservative stateman, occu-
Fying that ennobling and worthy mid
dle-guard between the two extremes. He
Is no follower of thai democratic ultraist
Fernando Wood, nor is he on the other
hand an ally of those who would barter
and bribe the interests of the South at
this hour of peril. We need just such
representative as he in the councils OF
the nation let UNIV ise rulings obtain
among the leaders of either party and a
terrible revolution is likely to be proVok-
ed, utterly destructive Of the best and
dearest interests Of the people.


Civil war will be no remedy for any
political evil We have tried the sword
ard the blight of death eusued. Peace
and tho agencies and appliances of
peace can and will in course of time
uircumvent the wrong and restore the
country to a condition Of re-assuriRg g
prosperity. We applaud the conservatism
ot Col Young, and are glad to see that
he has not allowed his mind to be strick-
en- with the yellow fever of deep gan
grened prejudice towards the entire Re
publican party. There are wicked and
dangerous men in that party, such as
Morton and Chandler, but the great
bulk Of Republicans condemn election
fraud and are as eager and anxious as
the Democrats to preserve our institu-
tions unimpaired in their purity and
power.


We believe it to be to the interest OF
our people. materially and morally, both
in respect to the present and succeed
ing generation that We should endure Mr.
Hayes rs President for four years rather
than to be plunged into the III m@lstrom of
civil war, to emerge therefrom utterly
wasted and ruined The people mean
peace, and will have and maintain it.
They know that through peace the couu-
try can gain much more than by war
Let tir work its legitimate fruits and
all will be well. Northern Repub llcans
cannot aford and do not intend that
Morton shall wreck the country. Let Us
not take up the howl and cry of alarm
lists and follow the lead Of extreme men


In the midst of revelation conserva-
tism is jewel in the character of any
public man. The North and the Soutr
would love each other, but those arch
tiends the political agitators and scuttle-
fish politicians, who thrive in muddy wa
ters and cloudy weather are the con
spirators destroying the public peace.


Read the following simple bat earnest
statements from our true and tried Rep
resentative:
Year: 1877

The only danger is that the desperate
stock gagi4b ers-of wh0In ay Gould is
the chief and the type-whO rule the
President, and whose onlY hope of es-
Gaping from financial ruin is in seizing
the GuvernmecJ, may not be made to uG-
derstand the temper of tie people. The
worst class Of desperadGes in the coun-
try are the gregt mOnupu lists, whose
grasping avarice and lust Of power have
embarked them in TuinDus specuiatiCnS,


requiring control of the Government to
extricate them Who can forget the au-
dacity of Biddle, even in dealing with


such Il man as jackson, when the oil
hero saved the Government from the loss


brought upon every other stOCkhUii Ter
and creditor of the bank 10y Its wild
business and political speculaIOns2
During the memorable panic SESSION Of
1884 open threats were not only maize
of invading Washington and dragging
the President from the Presidents Man
sion, but men were made so frantic by
the denunciatiOns heaped upnn the


President by the political associates ot


the bank in the Senate and House OF
Representatives that his assassination
was attempted ia the rotunda of the
Capitol The control OF the Government
IL not less necessary now to secure Jay
Gould and his ass ucIate stock and pO!ItI-
cal gamblers from bankruptcy than 1t
was then 70 save BIddls and hIs cOntreres


It is now tn House of Representative,
which stands in the way of their mastery
of the purse CT the nation, and they wis ID
the executive power and threatsa to use
it Is it not time hat the people were
telling them them that they must submit
to the law2 They have already ruined
the industry of the country, drying up
its commerce bT earpet-bag rule in the
South, and by biighting taxation in the
North. Is it not time that honest indus
trv should be allowed brea:? or shall
these creatures be PcFmi;tee to adj the
Year: 1877

SOME business men of New York
have made eng agements with their
clerks termina BILE in thirty days, being
apprehensive of grave political compli-
cations and their effect upon trade.
Year: 1877

A machine with STRAIGHT NEEDLE practically SELF
SETTING The Work Runs Back from the Operator 1t has
takeup preventing the thread from IA NGLIN BREAKING


If should off the goods the backwards
there will be tangng breaking snarng of the thread
will from ssuepape the heaviest goods leather with
change of sioH while the machine requires
chanica ability the of the operator the
Year: 1877




EDITOR CHIEF:


You who know where the milk you
use comes from, can't imagine the
doubt that besets the New Yorker, as
he pours what he is obliged to accept
as milk into coffee, or if a mother
gives it to her baby. Years ago, the
city was excited by the statements
made of milk produced from distillery-
fed cows, and all will remember the
horrible pictures of cows in every
stage of disease, which were being
MIXED regularly, as long as they
could stand. 1t was fact that milk
was sold in the city, from cows fed
on distilled slops, that never left their
stalls, and were MIXED till they ab-
solutely rOtted. There is another
raid on milkmen now, the charge be-
ing less serious, but just about as an
noying. You all know of the little
girl from New York who spent some
days at cousins in the country. On
her return she was asked how she
liked it. every WE'LL" was the an
swer, ",only l don't think that Susy's
ma is clean woman. The milk we
had had a yellow scum on the top OF
it, and wasn't as pretty as the nice
blue milk / get at home.h The trouble
now is the milk is too blue, and as
there is very stringent law against
adulterating milk, the citizens have
taken it up, and are prosecuting the
milkmen, right and left. A dozen oi
them were arrested, and test ease
made of one. In this case samples O1
milk regularly sold to consumers wer'
tested with the lactometer and it wal
discovered that the compound coule
be hardly called milk at all. There
was basis of pure milk, the rest wa
water, reinforced with sugar, chalk
aud all sorts of nastiness, to give j