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Year: 1878

People may assert their discomfort
as they will, and constIpated croakers
growl as they choose, but the sllyer
bill, however conservative as enacted,
will surely produce progressive activl-
ty in trade. There are better times
at our doors and we might as well
make up our minds to expect them.
Very certainly it adds three or four
million per month to the volume of
currency, and this of itself will COM
pei those who have held money in or
der to realize higher price for 1t, to
make investments. They will antici-
pate decline in the purchasing power
OF money, and therefore buy first un-
taxed United States bonds, and then
real property and cheap railways.
These effects are already visible in
New York. United States bonds,
though now payable in silver, have
not declined in value.


Heretofore he who has simply held
Money unused has been made rich by
Congress, while he who ventured to
buy and improve property has been
ruined by Congress. Legislation has
been against industry and trade, and
in favor of note shaYers.
The former have been beg
CARED, the latter aggrandized.
The people at length compel Congress
to change its policy, and the very be-
ginning of the revolution assures US
of its final result. Bankers and trades
people will act as if the end contem-
plated were already attained. In this
consists the chief immediate benefcent
resul. of recent financial legisla-
ton. But the end is not yet, and the
revolution is by no means complete,
and will not be until the volume of
currency is as great here as in France.
Our property has been taken from us
for one-hslf and one-third of its value.
We foolishlY suffered the rich of the
East to shape at will the course of
financial legislation until property lost
and money advanced one-half in value.
1t is now the right and duty of the
people to have their share of good for
tune and reacquire that which they
lost. The debtor was remorselessly
robbed by the creditor, and now, when
the tables are turned, there should be
no sadness and no vain regrets
indulged by those who will
be forced to prefer property
to money. They should console them
selves with the pleasing reflection that
while forced to invest first in United
States bonds and then in other stocks,
and in railways and buildings and
land they are serving the country while
serving themselves. Heretofore they
have robbed and impoverished the
many and aggrsndised the few.


OF truth there are prosperous days
coming and the silver bill is the bow
of promise portending the delights of
coming repose after dark clouds of
poverty and adversely are dissipated.
Day-dawn is visible and the silver
bill is the aurora of coming cloudless
sunshine to illumine with hope and
confidence the pathway of toll and
poverty, even as Federal power, for
years past, has bestrewn with gold the
pathway of Plutus.
Year: 1878

THE death of slavery was the signal
for perfect union between the States
along the course of the Mississippi and
its tributaries. The Railroad Rerie.c
says it is inevitable, and thinks the
revolution in trade and government,
which will surely follow, will be the
most benefcent that ever affected the
fortunes of people or governments
and cities. Such have been the con-
slant assertions of the STATESMAN.
Year: 1878




The Secretary of the Treasury has de-
termined that the first silver dollars 10
be issued will be used only in exchauge
at par for gold coin, or for the puF-
chase of silver bullion At market price,.
lie does not feel at liberty TO use them
to pay for current expenses until the
amount coined is sufficient 70 furnish
all alike, without discrimination; nor
does he deem IL expedient at present
to exchange them for United States
notes, or 70 use them IN the payment
Of the interest on the public debt un-
til the amount coined Is sufficient 70 en-
able him 10 do 80 impartially. There
fore they will at present be used for
the purchase OF silver bullion at mar
ket rates. The silver certificates will
soon be ready for issue, and are of the
form Of bank notes. engraved In the
best manner and printed on bank note
fber PAPER.
Year: 1878

to be dwellers in remote mountain dis


tricts of Tennessee who still vote for


Andrew Jackson, having never learned


or never believing that he was mortal /;
SO there, are very many who do
not know that Tilden, rs a po-
itical fact, has ceased to ex-
ist- In the rapid progress of
the country's thinking and necessities,
the royal master of Gramercy Park has
been left in forgotten age and among
forgotten historical facts. Now and
then some good man, who would have
gained office if Tilden had prospered,
lifts the curtain of oblivion that OBJ
scures memories of the dead past, and
we behold the ghost of this great and
good man. But the figure is in its
grave clothes and as unsubstantial as
the apparition that stood before Brutus
at Philip. Revolutions never go back
ward, and we have passed so far beyond
the age and creed of Tilden that ques-
tions which then interested us in Lou
isiana and South Carolina and the
bloody shirt are absolutely shut out
from human vision. Hayes has
crushed old leaders and parties. and
If the names of these be retained they
will no more have reference, as in
former years, to the relations of the
North and South. We gain absolute
local freedom, the West, an invaluable
adjunct of political force, and the East
and Tilden must await the lapse of
many years aud the coming of another
age before the machinery of Federal
government will be devoted to the
SIMPLE purpose of aggrandlzing men
and cities by the sea at the cost of the
poverty and ruin of States in the valley
of the Mississippi.
Year: 1878

WHAT is the necessity for the repeal
of the resumption act when we have
already resumed? Gold and paper
and silver are all at par. When we
said that silver was of less value than
gold, simply because it was demone.
tized, some of our readers doubted the
assertion, but now the fact is demon
strated. But 1t is possible that
future financial legislation, designed
for the relief of the debtor class, may
change the relations of gold and silver.
Year: 1878

THE money sharks begin to sec that
they are at last losing their grasp
upon the country's treasury, and the
people begin to exert their legitimate
authority. Congressmen begin to learn
that their proper masters are not in
Eastern cities, but in the hills and val
leys and on the plains of Western and
Central States.
Year: 1878

SUNSET Cox and Hale have been
making speeches in the House which
are much talked about. Hale's is a
reproduction of Blaine's when the lat
ter collided year or more ago with
Hill, of Georgia, In the House. Hale
seems to think that the outcry for re-
form and economy is only a thin dis
guise to conceal the enormity of claims
made by the South upon the Treasury.
MIR. Cox's speech was full of fun, and
was especially destructive of the Pres
ident's civil service reform policy.
Year: 1878

The Baltimore SUn says: 1.-THE con-
tinued low premium on gold and the
apparent groundlessness of the fear as
to the unhappy effects to flow from the
passage of the silver bill must not be
accepted as an answer to the arguments
made against it, or as condition of
affairs that can be regarded as perma-
nent. The laws of gravitatIon cannot
change, neither can the laws of finance.
1t must not be forgotten that just at
this tine the balance of trade is In our
favor, the supply of gold Is unusually
large, aud the new silver dollar has not
yet been put into circulation. The
greenbscl1 dollar Is within cent and
a fraction of being worth as much rs a
gold dollar, but when this greenback
dollar is redeemed with % cents worth
of silver it remains to be seen whether
the difference between it and the gold
dollar will not widen instead of dimiu-
isb. When we shall be drained of our
gold by our securities, which are COM
ing back from abroad, then we will be-
gin to realize the effect of the silver
bill. Late London papers received here
show that English holders of United
States bonds are letting them go as fast
as possible. At q recent meeting of
the London Tramways Company the
chairman stated that its reserve fund,
which amounted to over e21, 900, or
more than 800, 600, had been invested
in United States bonds, but that on ac-
count of the silver agitation they had
concluded it Wise to sell out, and had
done SO, and put their money in their
own hume securities. The London
financial writers say that the United
States securities, which haye hereto
fore been regarded as among the first
class securities, have now been trans
ferred to the grade of third-class."


Suppose all this to be true, it does
not affect the question of popular In
terests and necessities in the United
States We have not seen a gold coin
in trade for fifteen years, and IL it leave
the country or be boarded in New York
or In the treasury, it signifies nothing
to the impoverished debtors.
Year: 1878

Bucharest, April 1O.-The report is
confirmed that Prince Ghika has been
authorized to inform Prince Gortscha-
koff that the Roumanian army would
suffer itself to be crushed rather than
be disarmed. Prince Charles has noti-
fled the Russian consul to the same
effect. He stated that Russia is about
to relinquish the cause of the treaty
guaranteeing the passage of her troops
through Roumania, and will send a
delegate to treat directly with the Rou-
manian government on the subject.
Year: 1878

Matthews Vigorously Advocates its Re


peal.


Washington, April 10.-The Senate
resumed the consideration of the bill to
repeal the Bankrupt act, which came
up as unfinished business from yester-
day. Matthews offered as a substitute
for the bill his own bill to establish a
uniform law on the subject of bank
ruptcy. He said that the present law
contained but little that was good. He
then proceeded to explain the provis-
ions of his bill, comparing it with the
anti, and pointing out the differences
between its provisions and the existing
law. He contended that the bill pro-
posed by him came up to the constitu-
tional requirements of being strictly in
relation to bankruptcy and uniform in
its operations. There never had been
a period when there was so much debt,
so much bankruptcy present and pros
pective, and he felt that something
should be done that would relieve the
unfortunate bankrupt, while at the
same time protecting the creditors.
For this reason he had ventured TO Of
fer the substitute he now presented.
McCreery rose to reply but yielded to
Sargent's motion for the consideration
of executive business, which was agreed
to, and the Senate went into executive
session.
Year: 1878

Washington, April 10.-In the SEN
ate to-day Sargent gave notice that he
would on tomorrow call up his joint
resolution on the Chinese question, with
the view of affording an opportunity
to his colleague Booth to speak upon it,
and that he will immediately thereafter
move its reference to the committee on
Foreign Relations, from whom he hopes
for speedy action.
Year: 1878

THE London Times says the speeches
of Lord Beaconsfield and Salisbury are
thought at Vienna to point to the
probability of war and to hold out but
small hope of congress, which is
there believed to be the only possible
way of reaching pacific solution.
Year: 1878

The bill reported from the Senate
committee on Naval Affairs, Wednes-
day, limits the future appointments at
large, so that there shall not be at any
one time in the naval academy more
than ten cadets.
Year: 1878

To spare the rod does not spoil the
child In the words Of Mrs. Malaprop,
" there is too much castigating with
malice before thought" There is not
one child in one hundred that needs the
application of the birch, while seventy
out Of every hundred are either boxed,
strapped or thumped every week they
live. Furnishing children is a relic OF
the barbarous ages which has been pre-
served and handed down from genera
ton TO generation without cause, and
greatly to the detriment of the moral
standard and physical development of
the human race. He who serves from
love serves with greater fidelity than he
who serves from fear. A child that bears
the rump of a harsh thimble thump in
TO his Sunday school class may repeat
with apparent enthusiasm the story of
Abel's sacrifice, but deep down in his
youthful heart beats impulses akin to
those of Cain. Human nature partakes
more Of the spirit of revenge than of
forgiveness, aud q child smarting un-
der the lash looks upon punishment as
a spiteful dealing rather than measure
of parental love A Pennsylvania
mother who is q member OF the Society
Tor the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails, recently punished her daughter in
a most savage manner with horsewhip
because she persisted in keeping the
cOmpanionship of young woman friend
whom her mother disliked. a short
time afterward the body of the girl was
found floating in the river. A Missouri
father recently threw an unabridged
edition of Webster's dictionary at his
son, breaking his nose, because the boy
innocently broke pane of glass with
bean shooter. The boys Disagreement
viii be constant modification to him
and will tend to dwarf his moral nature
through life, as Byron's deformed foot
soured his disposition and made him an
ir4Ss = man. 1t does not pay to bruise
the body of a child any more than it
pays to bruise ripening fruit. Bury the
rod as the Indian buries the hatchet. It
means peace-peace to the conscience,
peace to the lOdy, peace to the hearth
stone. Reconciliation comes not by the
rod. nor pacification by hostile frowning.
Year: 1878

In Great Baitain children are fire.
onently raised on oatmeal diet alone,
because it causes them to grow strong
and healthy, and no better food can pos
siblv he found for them. 1t is also quite
ss desirable for the students as for the
Iahorer. and for the delicate lady as for
the Woodworking sister; indeed, all class
es would be greatly benefited by its
use and dyspepsia, with all its manifold
annoyances, can be kept at distance.
Oatmeal is more substantial food, it is
ssid than veal, pork or lamb, and quite
eoual to beef and mutton, giving as
mncb or more mental vigor, while its
great desideratum consists in ones not
becoming weary of it, for it is as vel
come for breakfast or tea as is wheat or
graham bread. It can be eaten with
svrup and butter as hasty pudding, or
with cream and sugar like rice. 1t is
especially good for young mothers, upon
whose nervous forces too great demand
has been made, and they lose equilibrium
of the system and become depressed and
dispirited. Oatmeal requires to be
cooked slowly, and the water should be
boiling hot when it is stirred in.
Year: 1878

In their preparations for migration
storks are very interesting. They are
never heard to utter any sound until the
time of their departure has arrived.
They then begin to make very singular
kind of clatter, communicating with
every member of their flock. They never
start until each individual is collected
together. Night is the time chosen.
Strict silence is then preserved, and they
rise Immediately high up in the air,
forming themselves into a triangle, and
one bird takes the apex. The duties OF
this position are too laborious to be long
sustained, and therefore when fatigue il


elt the leading bird retires and another
takes its place. We could not manage
better ourselves.
Year: 1878

Many people find their only happiness
In fencing themselves to be unhappy.


In order to enjoy the present, it is
necessary to be intent on the present.
To be doing one thing and thinking OF
another ia very unsatisfactory mode Of
spending lie.


Would you be exempt from uneasi-
ness, do nothing that you know or sus-
pect to be wreng. Would you enjoy the
purest pleasure, do everything in your
power which you are convinced is right.


We rise ourselves by adoring tLat
which is better than we are. 1t is the
one virtue of the soul which is ALWAYS
tending upward by its proper motion -
upward to something higher, purer,
better James Freeman Clarke.


The rainbow is beautiful, but without
q storm. without passing cloud, without
descending raindrops, it does not appear.
1t comes after darkness and gloom, and
the contrast makes its light the more
charming and attractive. Patterson,


Men talk too much about the world.
Each one of us here, let the world 60 as
il will, and be victorious or not victori-
ous. has he not a life of his own to lead
One life, little CLEAN OF time between
two eternities; no second chance 10 us
forevermore.


The wind is unseen, but it cools the
brow of the fevered one, sweetens the
summer atmosphere, and rippies the
surface of the lake into silver spangles
of beauty. So goodness OF heart, though
invisible to the material eye, makes Its
presence felt; and from Its effect upon
surrounding things we are assured OF It's
existence.
Year: 1878




Few men who handle horses give
proper attention, to the feet and legs.
Especially is this the case on farms
Much time is spent of morning in rub
bing, brushing and smoothing the hair
on the sides and hips but at no time are
the feet examined and properly cared for
Now, be it known that the feet of horse
require more care than the body. They
need ten times as much, for in one re-
spect they are slmest the entire horse.
All the grooming that can be done won [
avail anything il the horse is forced to
stand where his feet will be fithy.s>fh
this case the feet will become disordered,
and, then the legs viii get badly out OF
fix; and with bad feet and bad legs,
there is not much else of the horse fit for
anything.
Year: 1878




A correspondent to the Journal of
Agriculture and Farmer writes TO that
paper as follows about exterminating
rats.


" Make poison box expressly to poison
rats in maze it so nothing larger than
rats can get in; leave it open snd let the
rats go and come from it when they
please; bait it well with something they
are fond of, such as cheese, buttered
bread, etc. Continue to feed them on
good food until they viii almost come
for calling, then saturate the bait with
deadly poison, and they will come, and
all their near neighbors with them, to
enjoy the repast, after which they win
pass resolutions of thanks for your kind
ness, and sink to rest forever"
Year: 1878

IF any of the readers of this paper are
growing deaf, let them get at once bottle Of
Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. Rub well
behind the ears and put little into the ear
with feather.


1t would seem that the commonest kind Of
common sense ought to prevent man from
buying trash, simply because be can get a
Dig pack for 25 cents. Sheridan's Cavalry
Condition Powders are strictly pure, and are
worth barrel of such stuff.
Year: 1878

The French call this desirable vegetable
the " scavenger of the stomach, !" because
it is so healthful an article Of food in the
early spring time, and in the city mar
kets it always finds plenty of purchasers,
but it is not cultivated in the country as
plentifully s5 its merits.dsmand Cowslips,
dandelions and beet greens supersede 1t
almost entirely but to my taste none OF
them equal spinach in the delicacy of its
flavor. 1t is a gross feeder, requiring s
rich, heavy soil TO grow it as rapidly as
it demands (it viii not flourish in poor,
sandy gaTden), butjf the seeds are sown
very early they will come forwardly
quickly and make a very Paltable addi-
ton to the table. There are two kinds OF
spinach-the round leaf for spring plant
ing, and the pointed leaf, q prickly
spinach, which Is used for fall planting,
aud can be sown early in October, in
rows 50 far apart that they can be kept
free from weeds. When snow threatens,
the beds can be covered with stable litter
or dried leaves, and the plants Will need no
care until the frost is out of the ground,
when the soil can be dug up lightly and
9 top dressing of manure given.
Year: 1878

lhree years ago young man graduated from
the West Point Military Academy and came west
His soul was filled with grand lofty aspirations,
and he sought in the untroddcn fields Of activity in
the mighty West room for his soaring genius to
plume itself for flight He braced his feet as he
prepared to shake the globe. To-day he is the
travelling agent for Cincinnati corset factory.
IHaWkeye
Year: 1878

Bean straw, says writer in the Rural,
an excellent food for sheep. When fed
with beans or other grain, it makes a
cry rich, warm manure, quite as good if
not better than clover ] know farmer
who every winter fattens a considerable
number Of sheep, who finds profit in feed
ing not only his own bean straw but as
much more as he can buy at low rates
from farmers who grow beans, but, keep
lng no sheep, have no use for the straw


An idea Of the Importance of the potato
crop Of Maine may be obtained from the
Tact that the farmers in Aroostook county
realize from Sl65,0OO to $4,000 yearly
from that crop. The grain crop in Aroos-
TOOK was probably never larger than this
year, especially the wheat crop.
Year: 1878


When thou art by,
know not Why
love thee. bnt love thee not so deeply,
But when thou art gone,
And I am alone
I marvel that held thee then 20 cheaply.
Thy smile and talk.
Thy glance, thy walk.
In vain regret picture and remember;
As well might


Recall the light
OF June amid the darkness of December.
All. cruel fatei


That all too late
We learn the golden value Of our pleasure
That it must go
Before we know
How passing sweet it was to have our treasure.
Perverse are We,
Too blind to see
That idle memories only lead 10 sorrow.
Enjoy to-day,


While yet you may;
Why wait until to-day becomes tomorrow:
Year: 1878

Mr.. EDITOR; In my last com
munication, / spoke plainly rel
atiYe to the want OF interest
manifested by our citizens in
our high school. Some of my
neighbors have pronounced
"Veritasn a croaker, while 9th
ers have said, "Words fifty
spoken" My only object being
to rally our community to the
school, for the common good, as
to those condemning the express
sions in my last, | can only say,
if their sentiments are for the
good Of us all, then continue to
condemn "Yeritas."


Idesire to say a word relative
to our


SABBATH SCHOOL.


! was pleased to see the inter
est manifested in the recent re-
organization. Now that this
auxiliary Of the church is in
running order, well ofIicered,
| beg my fellow citizens to sus-
tain the same. | would kindly
urge every parent of the commu-
nifty to bring or send their
children every Sabbath. Kind
and attentive teachers will give
them q cordial welcome.


Young men, too many OF you
loiter on the streets on Sabbath
morning. We need you in the
school. Give us your presence,
for the good Of the cause, your
community and yourselves. But
I am reminded Of a plain but
oft repeated adage, "Giye the
devil his dues" The young
ladies are more derelict than
the young gentlemen; | should
say, the gentlemen, young and
mature, attend the Sabbath
school better than the ladies.
There is not q female teacher in
the school, The superintendent
regrets this, and would call for
the ladies to rally to this great
moral lever i'll our community.


Your corresponding scribbler
would love to see a


LYCEUM


in our midst-not merely q de-
batting club, but a society for
mutual improvement. Our town
and vicinity can compare favor
ably with others as to number
and standing Of our young
people-youths of talent and
promise. This is apt to lie
dormant. Let us once a month
have a meeting-discuss various
topics, have original and select
ed readings, and occasionally
give a public literary entertain
ment. In this connection we
could have a


LIBRARY


costing but little i'll cash. Some
Of the grandest libraries in the
world started from small begin
nings, similar to the following
suggestion; Have q called meet
ing of all interested in such an
enterprise. Select a committee
on constitution and bylaws;
elect oticers-these to be a com
mittee to solicit from the citizens
contributions in books, papers,
periodicals or cash; while an
annual fee would entitle the
giyer to membership and the
use Oh the literary matJef III tlle
ibrary-no one being allowed
to keep q book out longer than
one month. This is pro bona
pubNco, and with such men as
our college principal and his
assistant, our editor, our honor
able representative and others
to lead us, we could soon have
a lyceum and library creditable
to the town, and Of lasting good
to the community. The dra-
matte club, already formed,
could be made the nucleus
around which the above might
form shane What say Won Mr.