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Year: 1878

through fertile country for thousands of
miles. When the Government has made
provision for the promotion of commerce II
has done all that duty and justice demands
OF 1t. II should 90 no further. What the
t0"ricr-Jo"rRd so ill-naturedly demands is,
that the General Government shall spend
hundreds, and, perchance thousands Of
millions ofdollars to protect the private in
terests of the valley farmers and add value
to their lands which they have selected on
the margin of river which has overlown
its banks, and flooded the adjacent lands
periodically, ever since creation began, and
probably will so long us time shall last.
This flooding the Mississippi Valley is no
new performance. The farmers who have
their plantations along its banks under
stood the habit of the river when they pur-
chased their lands at low prices, which
fully compensated the risks they took in
the purchase.


1t is therefore absurd, and would involve
great wrong to the country to tax the Ma
ttonal Treasury now to protect the private
property of those who have selected the rich
alluvial bottoms skrting the Mississippi
as their homes and fields of enterprise.
This project to open drain upon the pub
lie Treasury for private purposes is clothed
in great absurdity now, after these lands
have been washed and enriched by the
waters of the Mississippi for more than a
century, and their owners have been con-
stantly enriched thereby. lfpublic aid is
rendered in this case at all, II should be by
the States through which the river flows
and which are benefited by the contact.
The State Of New York added to its in
ternal growth and Importance by construct
ing the Erie Canal, and if the States skirt
ing the Mississippi desire to advance their
local alinterests by building levees on its banks,
no one outside would have right to object;
but the people of New England, New York,
Pennsylvania, and even of the Carolinas
and Florida would find just cause of oh
lection if they should be taxed to add value
to the farms Of those who live in the Mis-
Sissippi Valley. When the hand is put into
the National Treasury for such purpose it
will be an act of rank injustice to all who
are not Immediately benefited, and these
would share in au absolute wrong that can
never be defended upon any principle of
evcn-handcd Justice.
Year: 1878

" BETsEY and her husband, VIC were out,
but like that couple also we quarrelled
and made up and agreed to quarrel no
more" these tuft-huntcrs went into
ecstacies of conciliatcd friendship and such
exalted love that they forgot the existence
of those who maintained the right during
that so.called quarrel; forgot the treasure
spent and the blood spilled while it lasted,
and like BETsEY's husband were willing to
rush of and buy her new hat just be-
cause she had vouchsafcd to allow him to
kiss the tips of her fingers once again. But
BETsEY kept, so far as the record shows, her
prom sc not to quarrel again.
Year: 1878

The election of a Democratic House
means an attempt at revolution The
people may Us well prepare for this new
feature Of American politics, which, like the
rebellion OF lSGl is the work Of the Demo.
cratic party. The bold reckless leaders Of
this party drag the conservative mcmbcrs
unwillingly, but certainly, into new strife
Us saI-clcs' rs that Of the rebellion. Tie
recent struggle in the House is but the It.
opening of II decision Of the Presidential
question by tribunal OrgumZcd by the
Democratic party, but, resulting against
them, it is to be challenged and reversed by
revolution. The next House is the KEY Ol
the position. II won by the Democratic
party, II means an attempt ut revolution
Every element opposed to revolution must
unite to secure a majority of conservative
members, who will support the lawful
authorities and constitutional government.
1t is no time for hesitation and delay. The
challenge OF the Democratic party is ac-
crptcd and every instinct OF patriotism and
the love Of peace and order must unite to
meet and overthrow this new conspiracy.
The Republican party, with its magnificent
organization, must lead in this great de-
frnsivc struggle; but it will have lilies both
North and South, who will stand by it for
peaceful orderly methods.
Year: 1878

THE press of the country was almost
unanimously pledged against the Title In
Vest:gntion. The Democratic newspaper.
are now swinging around, us their Repre-
sentativcs in Congress have changed front
and have begun TO demand the ousting OF
the "usurpcr." The history of lSGO-'Gl is
repeating itself with this difference, that
the last Democratic HcditIon amounted to
rebellion outside Of the Union, while the
present effort is revolution inside of the
Union
Year: 1878

ASIDE from the actual outlay incident to
the expenses of the POTTER committee, the
country will lose millions Of dollars from
consequent stagnation OF business. If the
matter ends with that expense aud loss, the
responsibility of the Democracy will be
great.
Year: 1878

IT is the custom now, Us it was in SJO-'6l
TO sneer and ieer at the prophecies of coming
evil. WIGFALL then cried out You have
no Senate, no House, no Congress His
prototypes in these later days give the more
alarming cry You have no President no
legal Government Of any kind"
Year: 1878

There is department which suits the
figure and talents of each person. 1t is
always lost when we quit it to assume
that of another.


He who has not known adversity is
but half acquainted with others or him
SELF Constant success shows lis but
one side of the world.


We all dread bodily paralysis and
make use of every contrivance to avoid
it, but none of us are troubled about a
paralysis of the soul.


There is gift that is almost blow,
and there is a kind word that is NUM-
fcence so much is there in the way of
doing things.


A heart-memory is better that q mere
head-memory. 1t is better to carry
away little of the life of God in our
souls than to be able to repeat every
word of every sermon we have heard.


He that waits for repentance waits for
that which cannot be had as long as it is
waited for. 1t is absurd for a man to
wait for that which he himself has to do.


Preserve your conscience always soft
and sensitive. If but one sin force itself
into that tender part of the soul and
dwell there, the road is paved for a
thousand iniquities.


DO not be discouraged under any
circumstances. Go steadily forward !:
rather consult your own conscience than
the opinions of men, though the last are
not to be disregarded. BE industrious,
be frugal, be honest; deal in perfect
kindness with all who come in your way,
exercising neighborly and obliging
spirit in your own intercourse.
Year: 1878

1t may be going too far to say that mar
may judge the character of his fellow
man by the manner in which he "shakef
hands" But there is certainly signiti.
canoe in those busy members of the body
which "he who runs may read" The
creator of Uriah Heep has taught us moi
to trust the owners of limp, moist hands
which close cordially on nothing save
their own possessions. Says commen.
tator on this subject: cit is the touch
of hand at greeting which warns OF
chills my heart, and makes me know to 6
certainty how much or how little shall
like the person before me. If the fingers
close about my own with a short, quick
convulsive grasp, / know that he will
snap, snarl, and finally quarrel, and tbs
the least that I have to do with t.ie
owner of those willy diglts, the better of
shall be. If nervous, cold hand
| glides into my own, and seems disposed
to lie there, without life, I know that my
happiness would be nothing in that
awful palm. But if the hand grasps
yours and holds it firmly, in strong,
warm fingers, you are safe in cultivating
the friendship of the owner. These
human hands From the beginning OF
life they play an important part"


All the greatness of earth has laid in
the hollow of the hand. The books, the
music, the pictures, the wonders OF
architecture, the intricacies of mechan-
ism, the mysteries Of science and the
government of the countries, with all
their godike beauties of color, sound,
symmetry, usefulness, progression and
wisdom, have lain within human hand.
The highest aspirations and realizations
of the brain are brought to light through
the hand, and the tenderest love and
charity of the heart make the hand their
dispensator. They can be tender minis
ters of comfort and peace, yet as cruel
and full of venom as the bite of an asp.


And with all their power. with all
their charities, their tender touches,
their mischief-they are folded at last,
and those who speak of us tell of the
closing Of the eye and the folding of
hands as part of our going away
North american.
Year: 1878

SO inscrutable may the human face
become, that frequently it is but a
mask which conceals the real character.
The men and women most famous for
heartless cruelty have often been
celebrated for their handsome faces
writers of fiction have not been un-
mindful of the fact, and Faust is repre-
sented as being handsome man while
the German fishermen sing of the sirens
who drag mems souls down to perdi-
ton with their fatal dover of beauty.


Some faces are unreadable, and tell
nothing of the owners character. The
merriest men now and then have solemn
faces, and the most serious frequently
have cheerful ones. Frequently the
most heartless coquette has all the shy
graces of girl of sixteen, while the
heart of some woman who looks you
through with cold, steady eyes, may be
filed with love and tenderness that you
are too blind to discover. So we all go
on, wearing guises of different device,


never quite concealing, never revealing,
the life within.
Year: 1878

The, Pittsburg penn Commercial
says: An accident occurred on Saturday
at the Valley Paper Mill, at Verona, on
the Allegheny Valley railroad. A
young woman named Mary Ann Collins,
who had been employed in the mill
three or four years, had been assigned
to new position in the second story, in
which there is a large trap-door i'm
mediately over a vat on the ground floor.
Miss Collins had been called from
another part of the room to assist in
dumping box of rags. She started to
answer the call, and walked into the
hatchway, which was obscured by steam
arising from the vat of boiling water and
vitrol. She was precipitated directly
into the vat, and must have died very
speedily. In three minutes after she
fell her body was taken out scalded
white. She was sixteen years of age.
Year: 1878

An exceedingly clever stalk of tiger
was made some time back by native
hunter of India. The shikari saw the
beast asleep under the shade of large
tree on the side of tank, and found no
prospect of getting a shot from the. land
side. SO he had recourse to the follow
ing expedient He waded from the op.
posite bank, gun in hand above the
water, which was breast high, with a
long cord fastened to his waist, the other
end of which remained in the hands Of
confederate on the bank confronting the
tiger. When he had got noiselessly
within twenty PAGES of the sleeping
beast, he delivered his shot, and was I'M
mediately ierked violently back under
water by his partner. 1t turned out
that there was no need of this excessive
caution, for one bullet had done the
business.
Year: 1878

A gentleman who is sculptor in
feeble way, was calling on a lady the
other evening. Chow do you manage to
get the right facial expression ?" she
asked, referring to his statuettes. every
simple, - he said. "I read a poem ex-
pressing the passion 1 desire to portray;
then, as my face expresses rage or love,
l plunge head foremost into mass OF
putty l have at hand. This retains the
impression, and there you are"
Year: 1878

1t cannot be too often repeated that
luxuries, not necessities, bring ruin.
We are ruined, not by what we really
want, but what we think we want there
fore, never go abreast in search of your
wants-if they be real ones. they will
come home in search of you for he who
does not want, will soon want what he
cannot buy.
Year: 1878

Another contest has sprung up over the will
of the public spirited gentleman who wished
TO build and endow n College OF Music III the
Central Park, and the most sanguine be-
levers in that scheme must begin to despair
of ever seeing it carried out according to the
intentions of the protector. The magnificent
proportons in which it was first displayed
TO the world have already shrunk great
deal. We no longer look for the estab-
lshment here of one of the great art
institutions of the world. We shall be
bappy if we get q modest and practical school /;
boppy if there is enough left after all these
litipations to build anything at all TO com
memorate the benevolent founder and promote
American musical culture. If Mr.. Wood is
fated. in the world beyond, to watch the
ouarrels over his will, and the gradual cur
tailment and Disagreement of his splendid de-
signs he may be supposed to lament the
untoward circumstances which forbade him to
build the college himself, and watch in person
over the execution Of his wishes. 1t is never
safe to leave the realization OF plans for the
nublic good to the piety of heirs and the
chances of the courts. This Is truth which
tbe originator of the Women's Hotel, too,
would take to heart if he could come
back and see the Working Girls Home en-
riched with barber-shOps and bar-rooms and
decorated with cuspadOres We have no
doubt that the plans of Mr. Stewart are car
ried out by the present owners Of the estate
rs well as they understand them. and as Mr..
Stewart himself understood them at the time
Of his death. But if he had been allowed to
= ~, 10 4. i
would have found some other way of making
the institution available for charity when the
first plan failed.


Mr.. James Lenox bore In mind the good
adage, eff you want thing done, do it
yourself" and he has the satisfaction of
seeing his magnificent gift to the city COM
pleted in strict accordance with his wishes,
and placed beyond the risk of misappropria-
ton the satisfaction also Of knowing that
after he is gone nobody is likely to argue in
Year: 1878

Tho tendency TO disfigurc dead-was and proIn-
mont scenery with reckless advertisements seems to
ne decreasing. That method has had its day Of
fashion While it lasted in force it surprised few
,eople and disgusted many. The extent to which
il WAS carried would have oyerdone it, even if
tbe system had been merItOrous for is fact that
an uniphabited and almost inaccessible island Of
the Aleutian group has the advertisement of once
nopular beverage lettered a rock that faces the
North Pacific Ocean. For a while there was sort of
eompettion in this matter Of putting signs in out
of-the-way places, and the public was supposed to
take some interest IN such displays Of enterprise.
Goods that could not be sold through the regular
channels of trade nostrums and worthless gimcraclls
furnished the staple for this kind of advertising
lint even the venders of such wares found 1t un-
proGtabe at last and now the practice may be said
70 he confined TO greenhOrns in business.


But equally absurd methods Of advertising still
flourish, in which the principle seems to be to
mt the display in the most out-of-the-way
Mace. where the public will be least
likely to find it, SO far as buyers are concerned,
the socalled trade journals are about as likely to
catch the eye of the general reader the desoate
rock ON the Aeutian coast The circulation of those
journals is chiefly among rivals in the trade of sell
ing: perhaps the best evidence as to the interest
of the public in such literature is that it is never
bought except from its Office Of publication. The
trade journal Is never seen on the news stand


In the old times when daily newspapers rarely
circulated over few thousand copies, they were,
perhaps, little better as a means Of advertising
than the distribution of an equal number
of circulars. But those days have long since de-
parted Householders and shopkeepers and the
public in general have come to regard the circular,
whether thrown in at the window distributed
through the mails, as mere nuisance On
the other hand. the daily papers have now
hundred readers where they once had one. The
man who does not read tho morning newspapers II
Year: 1878

court that he was an idiot or maniac, OF 70
interpret his worthiest impulses as the Vaga-
ries of a diseased mind. Dir. Reuben IL.
Springer. who spoke with such unahected
modesty TO one of our reporters the other day
of the splendid Music Hall just built for Gin
cinnati, chiefly at his expense and under the
influence of his generous example, mas
no doubt been handsomely repaid for MS
public spirit and liberality in watching the
completion of his design and observing now
well it has answered the expectations WIN
which it was conceived. Think OF the pleas
ure which the giver of such an institution
must experience ms it rises under his eyes
Think of the satisfaction with which he must
survey its imposing outlines, and note Its
perfect adaptation to the chief purposes OF such
a building, and study the faces of the pleased
and wondering thousands who crowd Its am
pie spaces at the opening festival. ME-
Springer is a practical man, as well as
friend Of the arts, and it must have been no
slight qualification to him to know that in one
week the new Music Hall was the means of
distributing small fortune among the Gin
cinnat merchants, besides securing for the
city permanent position of honor and proht
as a centre of activity in art and politics.


How this eslimable gentleman has been
rewarded by the affection and respect OIL his
fellow -citizens, only those can tell who kno"
with what enthusiasm he was received when
he attended the Inauguration OF the Hall, ana
with what tender care the whole people OF
Cincinnati have sought to adorn his unassuin- .
ing life with honor. No one could be insensi-
Bile to such marks of regard. Mr. Springer Is
probably satisfied that it was better 10 gave III
his lifetime than to leave money by WILL
when he had no further use for it. Certainly
if he had waited for death, not only would ne
have lost the satisfaction of seeing the accom-
plishment of the good he desired, but 1t IS
quite certain that bequest would have been
much less eflicacous than an immediate con-
tl1bution. His great gift was the instlgaton
of many small ones but posthumous lberallty
does not call forth imitatOrs.
Year: 1878

appeal to the people. He stakes great deal
on the issue, but lack of resolution has never
been one of his faults.


Our London letter to-day is full of 0lympian
gossip-the recent increase in the estrange-
ment of the Queen and the Prince of Wales,
the Unmistakable signs of it which have been
given to the British public, the erring ways
of a perverse Prince, and the tremendous ego
tism of q proud Queen. If these quarreis
seem very much like ordinary disputes In com
monplace families, let it be remembered that
the atmosphere in which they take place is
exclusively royal and that the persons involved
are all "personages, and it will be seen that
the society of London is quite night in being
agitated about the matter.


One of the few Government documents which
Congressman can send TO their constituents
with the comfortable assurance that they are
bestowing some information valuable to agIl-
culturists, is the report of the chronological
Commission upon the Rocky Mountain locust
of which an abstract appears in our Washing
ton dispatches. Professor c. V. Riley, the
chief of this Commission, is distinguished
entomOlOgiSt and his name alone VIII
give weight to its conclusions as to the
best methods of warding off the approach
Of these insects. and of destroying them
when they have begun their work of devas-
tatiop.


Another Richmond appears in the field in the
person of Mr.. Spencer, of Alabama. Mr.. Potter
has his investigation well going, Mr.. Matthews
has got his committee appointed and now Mi.
Spencer wants another for the express purpose,
apparently, of worrying President Hayes The
Senator from the Black Hills is not likely
to get much sympathy in this movement.
The whole electoral controversy Is pretty
dead, but no part of it is more unmistakabiy
extinct than that which relates to the So
called bargain between the President ana the
Southern Democrats All the facts are known
that are likely ever TO he known respecting
the whole Presidential business, from Oregon
TO Louisiana. and from WOrmley's Hotel to
the Columbia State House, and there viii be
little approval among Republicans Of an at
tempt to revive the most useless dispute OF
ALL The Democratic party Is deyotug ltseIi
to the work of opening old sores and disturb
ing the country with the noise OF ancient
ouarrels. Mr.. Spencer ought not to ask the
Republican panty TO help the Democracy abuse
the President. II is the last half of his reso-
luton. in which the bargain" is aimed at,
that nulliies the first. The first hall might be
believed to be an honest attempt to probe
frauds which the Potter Committee Will be
careful not to touch, if the last did not prove
the whole to be an ebullitiOn of cGrpet-bag
spite. -----
Year: 1878

Perhaps of all actions into
which the evil passions of human
ity are led, there is none more
base than that of writing an anon
ymous letter. 1t is q moral as
sassination committedby masked
murderer, lie without an author,
the mean spirited act of the dis
reputable coward, in whose heart
gall has replaced the wholesome
blood, and whose malice, Jealousy,
and revenge vent themselves in
slander. / would as soon trust
my purse with thief, my friend
ship with the hangman, my name
with a coquette, take a serpent
in my hand or liar to my heart,
as hold communion of love.
friendship or interest with the
despicable writer of an anony-
nous letter. Pierce.
Year: 1878

This is the choicest premium
ever given to newspaper sub
scribers-somcthing Of real and
practical value. The ladies will
be delighted with it. If your
neighbor don't take the OBsER-
vKK tell him of this offer. They
all want the paper and book.
You get the old OBSERVER anil
a capital, practical, useful book
of 100 pages, for the price of the
former.


Now is your opportunity.
This unprecedented offer viii
expire in a few weeks.
Year: 1878

The human body expands i'm
mensely with age. When eleven
young men are seated on one side
of car they can easily sit up a
a little closer to make room for a
prettygirl, but sixof them canman-
age to monopolize an entire side
OF the car when an old woman
comes in.