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Year: 1878

Burlington Hawkeye.l


Twenty years ago, said the passen-
ger with the red ribbon in his button
hole, Il knew that man whom you
saw get off at the last station. He was
a young man of rare promise, a college
graduate, a man of brilliant intellect
and shrewd mercantile ability. Life
dawned before him in all the glowing
colOrs Of fair promise. He had some
money when he left college. He in
vested it in business, and his business
prospered. He married a beautiful
young girl, who bore him three lovely
children"


The sad looking passenger sitting on
the wood box: "All at one timer"


The red ribbon passenger: "No; in
biennial installments of one. No one
dreamed that the pOOr-hOuse would
ever be their home. But in an evil
hour the young man yielded to the
tempter He began to drink beer He
liked it and drank more. He drank
and encouraged others to drink. That
was only fourteen years ago, and he
was prosperous, wealthy man. To
day where is heI"


The clergyman in the front seat
solemnly: "A sot and beggar."


The red ribbon man, discOnsolately:
"Oh, no; he is member of congress,
and owns brewery worth $50,0O0."


Sometimes it will happen that way.
Year: 1878

London World.


So unpopular among the people of
Holland is the approaching marriage
of their aged king with the youthful
Princess Emma of Waldeck -Pyrmont,
that the ceremony will not even take
place within his majesty's dominions.
The king, who is now staying at Arol-
sen, will not return to the Hague be-
fore the marriage, which is fixed to
take place about the middle of Janu-
airy next. After the wedding the
royal couple will not, as customary,
make their entry into Amsterdam, but
will spend the honeymoon in solitude
at the Loo. The Prince of Orange,
who feigned to be recOnciled to his
father by the side of his mother s
death-bed, declines to witness the
ceremony at Arolsen and the prince s
only brother, Prince Alexander, Of
the Netherlands, will find it inconve-
nient to interrupt his travels Both
chambers Of the states general have
received the announcement Of the
contemplated marriage, and given their
assent to the alliance without a word
of debate. Granting that "Citron
is leading gay life in Paris, there
might be raisons majeures for this pro
longed absence from his country. From
the greatest of all his ancestors tn,


Prince of Orange has inherited tn


rare gift of keeping silent.
Year: 1878

Among the notable nominations sent
in to the senate by the President yes
terday are those of the famous recon-
structed guerilla chieftain, John S.
Mosby, of Virginia, for the position of |
United States consul at Hong-Kong,
China, and Henry S. Foote, of Missis-
sippi, original blatant secessionist, to |
be superintendent of the mint at New
Orleans. " Verify, they all have their
reward" Mosby was a fighter, sure
enough, but has escaped denunciation
by resting in the bosom of the Repub-
lican party He has hitherto declared
that he wanted no Office, and has been
quite a toady at the White House,
especially while Grant was there.
After serving his friends it appears
that he concluded to take a crumb
himself in the form of fat con-
sulship. The inspectors who visit
consular posts on the other
side of the globe are usually
of the Parson Newman stripe, who
know so little of worldly affairs that
they are easily satisfied that a loyal
man is in the right place to save the
government. The rebel Mosby will no
doubt be found right, andafter helives
a few years at the important CONNER
cial city of Hong Kong will, with luck,
come home a wiser man, like some of
his predecessors. Elk Governor Henry
S. Foote is remarkable man, who is
kept over from former generation of
politicians for some wise purpose in
the economy of divine providence.
What particular use he is it would Ne
hard for any finite mind to compre-
hend. He was a very able man in his
day, but was growing old wheli the war
broke out. He was far more violent
secessionist that Jefferson Davis, and
did all in his power to fire the South
ern heart At Knoxville the writer
of this heard him say in a speech from
the balcony Of the Lamar House, in
May 1861, that he was rather old tc
shoulder a musket, but that he was
doing all he could for his country
that he had boy only thirteen month;
who was already in arms and should
go into the war if it lasted Ions
enough. He was sent to the Confeder
ate congress but became disgusteC
probably because he was no
made President of the Southern
Confederacy, and caused the Rich
mond government a good deal 0
annoyance and trouble. Before te
war was quite over he made som
excuse to get across the lines, and ol
the other side was quite lion. II
has been making war on the dea
carcass of the Confederacy eve
since. His loyalty to the Republican
party has been measured by his hat
for his Southern associates of Garlic
times. He has never forgiven tn
people of this section for not maxim
him greater man than the Create
ever intended him to be- He has


rich son-in- law and cannot be in need
circumstances. The Republican part
is not under obligations to him fC
anything but few garulous speeche
and, as he is old, worn out, and in h.
dotage, it is funny thing that tn
President ever made such an appoint
ment. There may be a Henry S. Foot
jr., though we have never heard
such a parsonage. The infant WI
was thirteen months old in 1861 cal
not be of age yet, and can hardly /
eligible to such a position. Be this
it may, the foregoing remarks apply
the venerable octigenarian all Il
same.
Year: 1878

Mrs. McBeath's son returned to
Cleveland after a season of work as a
boatman on the lakes, and she was
very happy to see him at home again.
He told her that he had signed the
total abstinence pledge, and had saved
money enough to keep the family com
fortably through the winter. At chat
her joy became 50 oTerpoweeing that
she fell down dead from heart disease,
Year: 1878

the same may be said of sunlight, and
even OF moonlight, as compared with
gas. We need not look at the source
OF light, unless we choose, any more
than we look at the sun at noon; and
scientific authority assures us of fact.
which any man can verify for himself
by walk along the Strand, that the
electric light is singularly pure and
colorless. As to the cost, that is a
question which may and must be left
10 the future. M. Jablochkoff has de-
clared that the proprietors ofthe Maga-
sins du Louvre, in Paris, have realized
saving OF 30 per cent. by the use of
electric lamps, giving a considerably
greater light than the gas they super
seded. Light for light, therefore, we
may assume that electricity is already
as cheap as gas; and if we demand more
light, as we certainly shall do, we must
be content to pay more for it. The
game, in fact, is worth the candle, and
the public Will not be slow to recognize
the fact as soon as it has the oppor-
tunity. The Metropolitan Board of
Works certainly deserves great credit
for The alacrity and enterprise with
which it has taken up the question. It
Is one OF the advantages of the existence
in London of such a body that it can
undertake the experiment on scale
adequate to its Importance in spite of
the very natural resistance of powerful
interest. The very fact of the expert
ment being seriously made will stimu-
late the ingenuity of inventors and
men of science. They will be encour-
aged to work for an authority which
has shown itself ready to profit BY their
labors, and thus the problem of electric
lighting will cease to be one Of mere
scientific curiosity, and will become,
what the improvement Of gas has long


been. one of practical economy. More
over, If the experiment succeeds, the
Board of Works will be enabled to re-
cover for the public, and toretain in its
own hands, an important department
of enterprise which, to say the least,
has not always been worked for the
public advantage. Those of us who
have not been fortunate enough to hold
gas shares have not always been so
content with the gas supplied, or with
the price charged for it, as to feel very
tenderly towards the interests of the
lucky monopolists who have ministered
to our necessities. We are very far
from believing that gas will suddenly
cease to be profitable commodity, but
we certainly hope and believe that
electricity will soon share its functions
as means of artificial illumination.
We shall bid farewell to gas without
regret, while remembering it's service
with gratitude, if, as now seems likely,
it can be superseded by purer and less
injurious ight.-Loqsdo1s Times w
Year: 1878

came, IN great part, routine work,
regular daily grind'' that kept their
minds in full activity without undue
strain. 1t is not the steady pace that
wears out the horse, but the s'spurts''
which call for sudden and exhausting
expenditure of muscular force. A we'll
constructed machine, kept in steady
use at uniform speed and with the
strain to which it was adapted, will
last longer than one suffered to lie idle
at times, and then subjected to sudden
and unequal strains. 1t is the same
with the human mind as with the
horse and the machine. M .s3


The great value Of the daily grind is
seen in periods Of bodily suffering or
mental distress. Work, steady, un-
ceasing work, labor that must be per-
formed, is frequently in such cases the
salvation of the. sufferer. Through
force of habit, the mind, almost me-
chanically, bends itself to the accus-
toned task, and in performing it the
pain is partly forgotten, the mental
agony dulled. No better anodyne for
mental distress exists than steady work
of an accustomed character. Without
its saving influence many man has
succumbed to dull despair, or sought
relief III excitements that result in
physical and mental ruin. Although
Charles Lamb uttered his impatient
protest against the desk which exacted
of him the daily grind of routine work,
that daily exaction probably kept him
from brooding over the sad tragedy
which had darkened his home and
made his life one long sacrifice and
continuous painful anxiety. He was
but one Of the many who, under the
continuous strain of anxiety and men
tai distress, found their greatest help
in the "daily grind" Of unremitting
labor. Cleveland Herald. assa
Year: 1878

There are times when every man
whose life is devoted to a single occu-
patton tires of it, and utters impatient
protests against the ''daily grind'' that
is wearing out mind and body. He
sighs for anything but the treadmill
upon which he performs daily march
on the knowledge that tomorrow and
for many lnorrows, probably until for
him the wheel revolves no more, the
same steady tramp, the same daily
grind, will continue. The hod-carrier,
whose life Is perpetual march up
ladder and down again, the mechanic
at his lathe, the clerk at his desk, the
merchant at his books, the lawyer at
his briefs, the journalist who has
scarcely time to glance at the paper
just issued whilst working for the paper
to come out next morning-all per-
forming the labor of Sisyphus in rolling
the stone to the top of the hill only
that it may roll down again-each has
his moments of weariness and disgust
when he sighs for escape from his
monotonous toll Poor Charles Lamb,
standing for long and weary years at
his desk in the India House, cried in
moment of impatience not frequent
with that patient, self-sacrifcing spirit,
that ''the wood was entering his soul, .
and the feeling has been shared by
thousands under similar circumstances,
though they may not have given it like
expression. m@FFs@sE9#s


But, after all, the daily grind is not
wholly an evil. In the majority Of
cases it is not an evil at all There
are occasions where it proves positive
good. With few exceptions the human
mind works best in harness. The man
who has fixed occupation, and who
devotes himself faithfully to it, is. in
ninety-nine cases out of hundred, on
the safest road to material success, and
certainly pursuing the best course for
his mental health and comfort. It is
not the monotonous daily grind that
wears out a man so much as the excite
ment and anxieties of a more unequal
life. In the former case the faculties
may be kept in full play, and yet the
work is performed with but little strain.
because the mind by long use has be-
come trained to perform much of the
labor unconsciously. The hardest men,
tai workers have lived to good old age,
and preserved their physical and men
tai strength to the last by recognizing
this fact and acting upon it. Their
labor was systematized, 50 that it be-
Year: 1878

land and manuring it to grow herds.
grass


Ii one can set through this life with.
out doing anything thoroughly, and
finally he buried III some ones expense,
what is the use of keeping up Your
farm III good condition and having first
tate crops and first rate stock


What is the use of heing anybody,
when it costs life of industry and fru-
gality, if one can he nobody without
any effort at all?


These propositions can be answered
according to the taste and inclination Of
the individual, depending upon whether
he is somebody or noboSv.-N f.,
Homestead
Year: 1878

An exciting mill took place ut the
National Mucsum the other day. The
lives snakes, Of which there are quite u
number, are kept III four glass cases,
the bottoms Of which are covered with
sand. Recently watel-snako was put
in the case which the king snake occu-
pies. His kingship resented the intru-
sion and attacked the visitor, and the
two went tumbling around the case to-
gether in approved pugifstic style,
Three rounds were fought. In the first
two the snake forced the fighting, and
the water-snake confined himself mainly
to getting out of the awkward and dan
gerous positions in which the strength
and skill of his adversary placed him,
But rs the dodo will turn when trod-
den upon, SO will the water-snake when
bitten too hard, and when rubbed down
with sponge after the second round
he seemed to get his second wind and
was eager for the fray. Meanwhile the
king snake had opened his mouth q its
full capacity, and was sharpening his
teeth against the side Of the ease. Then
came the fierce encounter, and both
snakes fought nobly Finally the king
snake took his adyersarv's head entirely


in his mouth and began to chew on it,
which seemed To discourage the water
snake, and caused his hacker to throw
up the sponge. The victor of the match


is an old hand Mt contests of this kind,
and recently bit nm offending neighbor
completely in two.
Year: 1878

Miss River, the accomplished lady and
scholar, the Principal of this Institution, has
succeeded III giving satisfaction beyond any
thing we have ever witnessed in our town.
Let us then tender her substantial aid, by Civ
ing her full school in the Fall


! would say to parents, by all means educate
your daughters. There never was Il time in
the worlds history when such inducements
were offered to women, to cultivate their
minds and tastes as the present. Avenues are
being constantly opened where female talent
is i'm demand with a handsome coinpenSatiun
attached The time was, when the study of
English Grammar was thought to be too ab-
struse for the female mind to comprehend
Now what is it that she cannot learn? She
can excel in any branch of learning and
scholarship to which her attention is directed


There is nothing that elevates town more
than institutions of learning. 1t draws from
abroad the cream of society to settle within it,
precincts. Let us then see that Miss Rivers
has a full school in the Fall with ample com
pensaton. Do not let her leave. Offer her
inducements to stay worthy Of her acceptance.
The money expended by you in the education
of your daughters will return into your cotfcrs
abled to solace your pathway when the deep
burrows of many winters are visible in your
physiognOmy. The care bestowed by you in
their days Of adolescence will be returned
when you arrive at the period of life when the
grasshopper Is Il burden.


Let those who are able patroniZe this Semi
| nary, and leave the other schools to children
| whose parents are not able to incur the cXpcn-.
of their tuition. 1t is pity to crowd out Of
! the public schools those for whose bcncG,
! they were established.
Year: 1878

SAYS the Gazette "One Of the most unfair
and dangerous acts that we ever knew to
be passed by legislature was that by the
legislature of this State which fixed the
price of advertising Sherif's sales; and SO
arranged it that the party papers were ex-
cluded from the benefits accruing after their
service and their money was begged to
carry the election of that very legislature
and Sheriff, By this law the no-party
paper was paid for advertising sales sic
times week, while the party papers, the
Gazette, Republican and Commercial were paid
but for three times week."


We do not understand this law. 1t must
be like some of the decisions of the Bench,
different when applied to different coun-
ties. In this county, as it seems to be un.
derstood, the paper having the largest cir
culation always gets it, totally without re-
gard to where the unfortunate man whose
property is to be sacrificed is located. His
interest seems not to be consulted. He
may be at one extreme Of the county and
the big list of the elect paper at the other
it makes no difference, there it must 60,
because the pig-headed men who changed
the law said so. The law should be so re-
constructed that the paper where the in.
terested parties reside should be one oi
those required of the sheriff to advertise in,
This would be only justice, for the man to
realize as much for his property which he
can no longer hold, as possible.
Year: 1878

THE Gazette is getting some sharp reproof
for its attacks on our Congressman from its
own household. The Delawarean thus
talks:


ave fear the Gazette is getting sour with
everybody. We have noticed of late some
very unjust filings in its columns against
prominent and worthy Democrats. Our
worthy Representative in Congress has been
very unkindly and unjustly traduced, and
his friends we think have just cause of
complaint against the Gazette. We have
never had better representative, or one
who commanded greater respect from those
with whom he was broughtin in contact. We
say this much as an act of justice to one
who has served the people of the State
faithfully and WELL"


The Gazette has come down little from
his high perch, and admits to drawing ii
too strong, in putting Rainy the colored
congressman ahead of every Delaware rep
resentative since 1852.
Year: 1878

AMONG the subjects discussed at the meet
ing of the State Bar Association, of Con-
necticut, last week, were the changing of
the jury law SO that an agreement of nine
jurors shall be competent for verdict, and
the abolition of trial by jury in civil cases.
Whatever may be thought of the latter
proposition, the former is one that is de-
manded by every consideration of propriety
and necessity. 1t is very rarely indeed
that any verdict upon which nine out of
twelve men can agree is far from wrong,
while the instances in which criminals
escape altogether, or additional and un-
necessary expense is entailed upon COM
munities by failure of the jury, to agree,
are numerous. We all know of instances
where one man has set at defiance the
united opinion of whole community. As
the law now stands, one mans opinion, or
rather his dictum, will rule eleven men,
while it must be conceded that eleven men
agreeing to one verdict are more likely to
be right than one man opposing. 1t ought
not to be so that one, two or three men
from bull-headedness, malevolence or cor
ruption could defeat verdict of nine right
minded men, and we hope to see the day
that not only in Connecticut, but also il
Delaware, the jury law will be so changed
that an agreement of nine jurors shall bt
competent for verdict.
Year: 1878

The Republican State Convention,
which met at Indianapolis last Wed
nesday, was composed Of as earnest,
intelligent and sober set OF men as
ever assembled in any place for
like purpose. Gen. Ben Harrison
was made president OF the conven-
ton, upon taking the chair Gen
Harrison made the following ad-
dress:
Year: 1878

At the city election at Iowa City last spring
the Judges refused the ballot Of f. A. Wander
pOel, a student in the State university. After
a tedious trial the case has been decided, the
jury finding a verdict for Vanderpoel of $500.
The case will go to the Supreme Court, and
probably determine the right Of students to
vote
Year: 1878

The Board Of Trustees this day resolved that
after paying the annual dividend of TEN PER
CENT on Capital Stock of Company, that a
dividend of TWENTY PER CENT In cash be
paid On Monday June 10. to those parties On.
titled to receive the same,
Year: 1878

land was. For Wnle GreaJ Drltaln alW Iys aC-
knowledged the duty of paying in gold, but
urged that circumstances made it imperative
for her to defer the performance OF the duty,
the Silver party in America, now that we have
reached the point where our lOng-standlng
promise can easily be kept insists that we
shall not merely wrong creditors by demand
ing moro time, but cheat them out and out by
repudiating 10 per cent OF the principal ana
10 Der cent of the interest Neither an Eng
lIshman, nor any other creditor, nor any de-
cent man, is estOpped from calling this sort OF
swinding by the name it deserves.


Mr.. Baird thinks we ought now to act in
"depcndently of English opinion and Of the
effect of what we do upon our credit in the
London money market" That is to say,
America Is such great country that it ought
to have not only currency OF ITS own,
standard of value of its own, and a political
economy of its own, but moral code OF lts
own, too. All the world may agree in calling
it dishonest to repudiate debt; but II the
United States Congress sees fit to enact
otherwise, "what are you going to do about
ait ~ We have bowed too long to the effete
civilization of the Old World. We have allowed
mOnaIcnlcul w IuStCh hl"' e'iA' 49,
republic their philosophers and their morals,
their laws of trade and their multiplication
tables They may have the privilege of lend
ing us money, but it shall be our privilege to
pay the whole debt, or part or none at all,
Just as we please. If they complain, why
curse their impudencc! Times nobest Off
spring is the last The financial policy of the
United States has been used too long as
mere bob-tai to the kite Of the Ten Command
ments.
Year: 1878

he should quit the notion that he has been
chosen rs mere chief clerk, to do routine Work
in the Government. In this country, as IN any
Other, government without any head Is pau
government If the President cannot OF VIII
not be the head, he may be sure that people
who long for guide will pray for some other
man TO use the power he throws away.
Year: 1878

are poorly paid and most deserving OF
pay. 1t is veryspleasant to indulge such hope
but it is not at all justified by previous expo
rience. The rule in such matters has always
been that contraction of salaries falls upon
those who work hardest to earn them; ana
most lightly on those who have the least
to do in proportion to their pay. If the re-
duction in school teachers salaries should prove
rare exception to this general rule thero
will be some reason for accepting the optimlst
views of the ex-MayOr.
Year: 1878

Thus it will be seen that when we apply tho
test of voters, which must be acknowledged as
more likely to be trustworthy than the census,
we find that neither NewYork nor Kings has
any right to claim an increased representation
Year: 1878

OUR friends Mr.. VIM. III. II. Learned
and wife are complaining very Indignantly
about an unmerCiIiil beating which one of
their boys received few days ago in
school. We know nothing whatever Of
the ofiense which led to such an umcallcd-
Tor casligation, but ierl sure that il an in
tercsted party we would not quietly sub
NIT to anything of the kind. When pn-
pills are beaten until great weIts as large
across as the finger are raised in black and
blue we opine it is high time to complain.
Most persons conclude, and very properly
too, that there aie plenty ways IN which to
punish pupils other than in the exercise
Of such unmitigatcd cruelty, no matter
Mhat the onense may be- After punish
ing within reason, expulsion from school
Is the usual alternative.