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Year: 1877

WASHINGTON CLERKsHIPs.-Bob lngersoll,
who gained such : reputation as a stump
speaker last all, has been telling the boys
at Chicago the horrors OF Office seeking, as
he saw it at Washington and pointing out
the things in this world that are better
than clerkships. lie was talking about
civil service reform and said: I'VE have in
this country multitude of clerkships in
Washington, and the question is whether
on the incoming Of the new administration,
these men shall all be turned out. In the
first place, they are on starvation salaries
Just barely enough to keep soul and body
together and responsibility on the outside
and if there is a young man in this
audience | beg of him never take a clerk
ship in the city of Washington. Don't you
do it'll Never dOyou put yourself where you
have to duck your head and take off your
hat at everybody else. Don't you do it
Don't you put your happiness-don't put
your fortune-in the power of another
mans breath. Don't you do it. You
never will have any manhood you will
never have any vertebra; you never will
have any real square spunk you can not
have il: and you will lose confidence, and
you will lc-u o. tu.uk if you cannot have
Il regular payment each month of $94.75,
that you cannot possibly make living in
this world IL - +. III the pluck out
Of you. G.H Z, i've so pinched,
so narrow, ana 80 contracted that you will
have TO smoke pipe all the week with the
expectation Of a five cent cigar on Sunday.
beg of you not to discount Your future;
beg of every young man to have the cour-
age to take what comes, let it be feast or
let it be famine, but don't sell the gift that
fortune may have for you for petty salary
of $50, SO or 500 per month. Don't dc
it. Go West / would rather have forty
acres of land and log house with one
room-yes, and the woman | love, anC
some lattice work over the window, so thai
the sunlight would fall checkered on the
baby in the cradle, and few hollyhocks a
the corner Of the house.


"Iwould rather have that, and nice patti
leading down to the spring, where coulC
go and hear the water gurgling; | woul'
rather live there and die there than be {
clerk of any government on earth. Now
all | mean by this civil-service reform is
that If any poor devil has been so unfortu
nate as to get into that place, leave hin
there rather than 10 destroy somebod
else every year."
Year: 1877

The New England Methodist Episcopal
Conference at its recent session adopted
the following resolution in relation to the
admission of new members: "That in ad-
mitting new members we will discriminate
between brethren who grow up within our
territory and those who come from beyond
us, believing that those who are of us have
the first claims upon our consideration,
other things being equal" The effect OF
the resolution will be to exclude from the
Conference those candidates for the minis
try who have not grown up within the Con
ference territory.
Year: 1877

A LITTLE COAfHONSENSE WANTED.


1t is not disgrsceful that in the coun-
try which boasts off Christianity and
which is full of churches such dead
lock as this general railroad strike
should happen? Are there not men on
both sides with good sense and Chris
iian spirit enough to to get together
and effect q friendly arrangement ?
La wlessncss and mob violence must be
put down and will be. But 10 it not
better for the companies. better for
the men and better for every public
interest thet the general discomfort,
the existence OF which is underiable,
shall be amlcably talked Over,and that
employers and employed shall stand to-
ward each other as friends and not enc
miesY
Year: 1877

Shortly after 12 o'clock this morn
ing a man was seen endeavoring to
gain an entrance into the office of
Downey d. Price, corner of Fourth and


Adams streets. just as he was about to
be successful gentleman passed out
Fourth street and the would>be rob-
ber hearing him ran across the street,


and laid in a vacant. Shortly after
wards revolver was fred at the man


by Mr.. John Aspin who mad also been
watching him. This had the desired
effect as be arose to his feet, and star
ted on run at break neck speed,
while Mr.. Aspin's family were Justify
calling. atop thief" The man escaped
Year: 1877

A magistrate in Iowa refused to fine
a man for kissing cir! against her
will, because the complainant was 50
temptingly pretty nothing but an over
wheiming sense of its dignity prevented
the Court from kissing her itself JUS.
tice was not blind in this case.
Year: 1877

SLoPED On the 9th instant the Nellie
brought as passengers from Seattle u
married couple, who took rooms at the
Snohomish Exchange. Here they stayed
three or four days, apparently contented
when the husband concluded 10 ascend
the river In quest of some parties with
whom he had made II previous engage
mentto work in logging camp until
spring Before leaving he stated that
his wife would remain here until he
could make suitable arrangements at the
camp for her accommodation Soon af.
ter his departure, however, the lady be.
coming lonesome and restless, packed up
her trunks and departed on the steamer
for more congenial latithdes. The hus-
band returned here Wednesday, and find.
ing the condition of his domestic ar
rangements, was quite disconnected. He
states that his wife took with her all his
cash capital-leaving him penniless-but
left his wardrobe. He will embark on
the outgoing steamer in search Of the
absconding woman.
Year: 1877




There seems to be less and less iope
OF any pacific result from the conference
of the powers in Europe as the time ap-
proaChes for their convention at Con.
stantinople. Russia protests to England
on her honor that she does not want Con.
stantinople, but there is not so much vir-
tue in that protest when it is considered
that the Black Sea is not exactly free to
her navy, and that Brsika Bay is exactly
in her path if it was. She merely makes
virtue of necessity. That Russia in
tends to occupy Bulgaria, if not Servia,
is more and more apparent: The thing
is, how to do it and not excite Europe.
Turkey will of course resist as long as
she can. Austria's course is yet to be
marked out, England has not seen fit to
protest, and Germany stands in an atti-
tude of indifference.


If Germany, in fact, were positively
opposed to this act OF aggression on the
pmt of Russia, nothing would he easier
than for her to make it significantly
known. Not a Russian soldier would
dare to cross the frontier of the Turkish
provinces if Germany was to forbid it.
Therefore the fact that she does not for
bid it. and that she scarcely seems to no
tice what is going on, is proof enough
to he almost conclusive that an under
standing exists between the Kaiser and
the Gar Germany is more than open
to the suspicion that she Is silently ald-
ing and abetting Russia's course. 1t is
reported that Queen Victoria has been
transmitting autograph letters to the
Emperor William, imploring BIN to ex-
ert his powerful influence against the
disturbance of the pence of Europe.


To which the Emperor could reply
whether he has indeed done so or not.
that at the time Germany and France
were engaged in deadly strife England
was guilty OF prolOnging the war and
increasing the bIoodsbed and waste OF
human lite by selling arms and mum
tinns to the French. But it is not at all
likely that he would allow himself to
answer Victoria in any such way. He
has probably palliated and protested,
while he is still held by a secret under
standing with the Gar. So that it is
tru rs the Queen assumes, that the EN-.
perOr Of Germany is really master Of the
situation. He can have peace or war, as
he will Russia wodld ut once call her
troops back from the border ii Germany
were to warn her that by pushing this
experiment she was mourning the Iatter's
displeasure.


AS for the other powers of Europe, in,
Guiding all the smaller ones, there is no
doubt whatever that their serious pret-
erence is for tranquility. The Emperor
ol Germany pays sort of respect to
this prevailing sentiment when he seeks
to m'ke his people quiet and unshspc-
iOus Of danger, lest their confidence
should be undermined and emigration
should forthwith set in. He wants in
dustry, trade, and national prosperity,
and he hopes to secure them all even il
Russia ergngrs in war wrn Turkey. In
the Crimean war OF twenty years ago,
Germany was not recknned power OF
any great consequence; s;nce then she
has become the most formidable power
in all Europe, and she can easily keep
RUSSIA and England apart while the tol-
mrr works its will on Turkey. 1t is II
problem entirely new in the affairs of the
continent.
Year: 1877

The Nellie made her regular trip here
last Monday evening, leaving Tuesday
morning for Seattle. Under the able
management of Capt. David Hin, and
Purser Stretch, she is busy every day,
never lying idle at the wharf We un.
derstand her owners design remOleling
her cabin, extending it the full length OF
the main deck, making her one OF the
most convenient as well as beautiful
hoats on the Sound. Then, when this
fairy craft is remodeled and improved,
what may we not expect regarding her
gallant Purserl We only wish joy and
happiness to all who make such i'm
,provcments for the common good.
Year: 1877

COOP WoRK.-No workman in this
Territory has better reputation for
doing substantial yet neat and fine work
than Benz. Vincent of Olympia, W. T.,
in the manufacture of boots and shoes.
We have tried several pair of his boots
and shoes, all giving perfect satisfaction
in every particular We advise all those
desiring an extra fine article to try him.
Mr.. Vincent is also agent tor the new
Weed, family tavorite, Sewing Machine
one of the best, by many regarded rs the
best machine made; we advise those de-
string to try this machine to write to
him.
Year: 1877

Everyone must remark that favor
ite article Of winter clothing for chill
dren is a comforter swathed round the
neck. This is great error; the feet
and the wrists are the proper mem.
bers to keep warm; the face and
throat will harden into healthy indif-
ference to cold; but that muffier, ex-
changed for an extra pair OF thick
socks and knitted gloves, would pre-
serve boy or girl really warm and
we'll. Bronchitis and sore throat have
declined fifty per cent. since the abb
surd use Of high collars and twice
round neckerchiefs went out OF fash
ion; and il the poor would take better
care OF their children's feet half the
infantile mortality would disappear.
1t only costs a trifle to put piece
OF thick felt or cork into the bottom OF
a boot or shoe, and the difference is
often considerable between that and a
doctors bill with, perhaps, the under
takers beside. !
Year: 1877

Twenty-six years ago, when Miss
Prude Burson, residing one and half
miles south of town, was little child
only seven years old, she put tooth
which had just been extracted from
some one into her ear, and pushed it in
so it could not be seen. She told her
mother what she had done, but after a
careful examination her mother con-
cluded she was lying, and paid no fur
ther attention to the matter But Prude
never forgot what she had done, and
has always contended that the tooth
was in her ear. A few days ago she
got hold of large sacking needle and
Commenced fishing for it, and it was
not long till she 'snaked it out. The
tooth is about as large as grain of corn,
and is in fair state of preservation.
Miss Burson is now. 80 years old, and
says that the tooth never injured her
hearing or caused any inconvenience
during the twenty-six years which it re-
mained. in her ear.-Nevport Hoosier
State. .-
Year: 1877

Prof. Swing says that common
sense is the best guardian angel any
young won an can have around. But,
lacking this, a wart on the nose, twist
in the eyes, and short red hair, afford a
very good substitute in the way of a
protector.
Year: 1877

fNorE.-Ietters intended for this column must %
accompanied by tho writer's full name and address 70
insure attention Complaiuants who unwilling ia
comply with this rule simply waste sime IN writing
Write on only one side Of the paper ED. HnRALnl
Year: 1877

A few years ago, as gay and
needless young man was riding along
a country road he saw barefooted,
brown-faced little girl standing by
the wayside, and in careless tone
cried to her: "Hello, sissy, how
much for the feet without the
scratches" The sensitive child trea-
sured up the ranking insult in her
heart, Not long after her pa "struck
OIL" and she was sent to frst-class
boarding-school, when in due course
she was graduated woman of charms
and accomplishments. She speedily
became the belle of the place where
her father-who ate with his knife.
and who was worth $1,750,0O0-
naturally moved in the best society.
Among the scores of men who bowed
before her happened to be the very
man who years before had spoken 50
slightlngly to her, the barefoot viii
lage child. The beautiful girl, in
whose memory the insults still rank
led, at once resolved upon a plan Of
revenge. In her own expressive
words, she "laid low for the chap, y
and when she had hopelessly en-
tangled him in the net of her fascina-
tions, and brought him to her feet
those feet of which he had jestingly
inquired the price without the
scratches-with an icy smile she re-
called the circumstance to him and
accepted him.
Year: 1877

| lFrom the Troy Times. (tssl


Many housekeepers have already


learned the value Of gas for cooking


and even heating purposes, and var


ious kinds of stoves are manufaetur-
ed which fairly utilize it. Both coal
and wood are cumbrous and expen.-
sive. Their consumption as fuel i'm


wolves great waste, not only of ma


terial but Of labor, especially when
fire is needed but short time for


some special purpose. For instance,


bundle of kindlihg wood and some


25 pounds of coal are often consum-


ed in getting up tea for q small


family, even in warm weather, when


the caloric they evolve is needed ex-


cept for the boiling Of q few pints
of water. The expenditure of labor


in building and attending the fire,
and removing the ashes is not slight
After the work for which q fire was
wanted has been done, also, there is
necessarily q waste Of fuel. Other
losses are sustained in the injury
done to carpets and furniture, and
even the health of the family through
the dissemination Of dust and exces-
sive heat. Stoves, ranges, and coal
constitute some of the most burden
some expenses incurred in Keeping
house. And after the costly fire is
under way it does nothing but pro-
duce gas, to be consumed in part and
wasted in part. The process in all
its stages is needlessly troublesome
and expensive. There are thought
full students of economical science
who look forward to period when
a cheaper fuel than coal for domestic
use, and even for manufacturing,will
go into general consumption; and
that fuel will be a cheap, non-lumin-
GUS, heating gas in all probability.
The ordinary Illuminating gas is
cheaper than coal for cooking, espe-
cially in hot weather, and there are
households in which it is constantly
in that service, but it is
possible to make a lower-priced gas
which is just as good for fuel, though
not for light. Methods have been
discovered by which such gas is OBJ
tanned from water, or what is the
same thing, steam. The process is
not an intricate one, and the "plant"
required is comparatively inexpen-
sive. When the system shall be
fully developed very great change
in arrangements for obtaining artif-
cial heat will take place. There is
no good reason why the ordinary
cooking and heating stoves now in
common use may not disppear almost
entirely from cities and large vii
lagos, and give place to less cumbrous
appliances. Progress is possible in
that as we'll as other directions, and
there are those now living who will
witness its full manifestation in the
erection of large establishments sup
plying customers with gas fuel Just
as Illuminating gas is now distribu-
ted. 't ~" ..
Year: 1877

Our old friend Sitting Bull seems re-
solved to make matters lively in the Yellow
stone region this spring. In another col
umn will be found an interesting letter
from our Bozeman correspondent giving the
latest details of the movements of the hostile
bands. The winter operations carried on
against them seem. to have had the result
of bringing the bands together for the pur-
pose of mutual protection They do not seem
to have suffered any loss of morale and are
certainly as much dreaded as ever by
their hereditary enemies, the Crows. 1t is
said that two thousand five hundred Sioux
warriors are assembled on the Big Horn
under Sitting Bull, Dull Knife and Crazy
Horse, three of their boldest and ablest
leaders, and the demonstration they have
already made against the Crow Agency shows
that they are not inclined to act on tho de-
fensive. Active preparations ore on foot for
Year: 1877

In his circular to charitable institutions
Comptroller Kelly calls attention to the fact
that the managers of certain private charities
ore neglecting the proper source of their in
come and depending almost wholly upon
the public purse. The same fact has been
the cause of much individual comment.
The object of any private charitable enter
prise is supposed to be the doing of some
particular benevolence which the city is un-
able or unwilling to attend to. The fact
that the movers Of the enterprise prove their
sincerity by their generosity is the only
reason why they receive any assistance at all
from the public treasury. When the private
pocket ceases to contribute there is reason
to suspect incompctency on the part of the
managers or lukewarmness among the
patrons, in either of which events the pub
lie authorities are justified in being sus-
picious. 1t would be we'll for the Board of
Apportionment to go still further and grade
the allowances from the public treasury
according to the receipts of the societies
from private sources, and withhold aid en-
tircly from all associations which do not
seem to be practically regarded with con-
fdence by the community.


This whole matter of organized private
charities needs to stand upon broader
footing than it does at present. Either
these associations are doing needed work
or they are not. Such Of them as compete
with the public charities have, in the abb
stract, excellent cause for existence. They
have not, in the way Of their usefulness, the
exSNperating obstacles which politics pro-
vides for public benevolences. Nothing
but lack Of money need prevent their
attaining the ideal standard of excellence.
All this being conceded it should be more
than good-natured, generous habit to con-
tribute to their support; it should be re-
parded as a humane, moral and Christian
duty. But before such n sense of duty can
be aroused in the minds Of the community
these societies must show themselves worthy
of that highest form of confidence which
alone prompts the giving of considerable
money That some of them have not done
this is, unfortunately, well known, and the
result is discouraging to the benevolent
mind and tends to keep down tho standard
of the public management of similar chari.
ties. If they cannot make their excellences
Year: 1877

It has been the fashion, and with consid-
erable excuse, to lay upon the great coal
companies the blame for whatever trouble
existed In the mining regions, but very in
tcz-=sinS letter from our correspondent at
Pottsvilie shows that the responsibility for
the trouble is to be divided and that a con-
siderable share belongs to the miners them
selves The villanies Of the Molly Ma
guires have been too generally con-
the fact appears that the principal sufferers
are the honest Woodworking colliers who
have allowed these scoundrels to assume
authority over them and dictate action to
which much of the present suffering of the
miners families may be traced. Assuring by
threats and violence their own competence
and comparative ease the Molly Maguires
have, in the affairs of their brother work.
men, acted from mere caprice instead Of
being guided by that sense of prudence which
should control all action by trade societies,
and the results have been uncertain labor and
certain destitution. The moral may be found
without searching, and all workingmen's
unions will find it worth keeping in mind /;
it is that leaders who are filling their own
pockets are always to be suspected and to be
abandoned at any cost. Men in every call
ing have gone through the same experience
and with the same result. In politics and
religion rs we'll as in business it has always
been found unsafe to be led by men who
were finding leadership profitable The very
fact that workingmen often need to take
associated action to secure protection and
fair treatment should make them as careful
as men in any other business are to select
leaders who can command respect by their
character and ability. Mere brute courage
and daring always fail at the critical point,
and the principal sufferers are sure to be
the men who are behind the leaders, not
those in front of them.
Year: 1877

question on which opinions will differ ac-
cording to the estimate which has been
formed of the character Of Brigham Young.


Lees statements are a great deal more ex-
plicit and specific as to Brigham Young's
guilty knowledge Immediately after the
fact, his approval Of the deed and efforts to
shield it. than in respect to his having insti-
gated it. AS to Brigham Young's part in
planning the crime Lees statements are so
vague as to amount to mere innuendo. II he
could have made definite charge the whole
animus of his confession proves that he
would have done so. Lees evidence on that
head must, therefore, be regarded as WORTH
less. But as to what followed the massacre his
statements are precise, and the fact that he
deals in mere innuendoas MS to the graver part
of the accusation would seem to indicate
that his story is not an invention where he
processes to- relate specific facts; for If he
meant to ruin Young by falsehoods there is
no reason why he should not accuse him as
strongly of completely before the fact as OF
completely after the fact Lee AYERS that he
went to Young ten days after the massacre
and told him the whole story in all its sick
ening details. Young said he would 'com-
municate with God" The next day he told
Lee that he "had gone to God in prayer.
Brother Lee, not q drop of innocent blood
has been shed. God has shown me that it
was o just act" Soon afterward Brigham
Young preached public sermon at Cedar
City in which he denounced tie emigrants
in the most ferocious and abusive language
and proclaimed damnation on all who should
inform on those who took part in the massa-
ere. If these facts are true Brigham Young
was at least an accomplice after the fact, by
his guilty knowledge Of the massacre, by his
wholesale justification of the perpetrators,
and by his resolute fury in protecting them
from exposure and punishment.
Year: 1877

The Third Assistant Postmaster General,


who has charge of the Dead Letter Office at
Washington, has found it necessary to pro-
test against the appointment of female
clerks in that department without subject
ing the appointees to civil service test.


"There seems to be prevailing impression
among some Senators and members of Con-
gress," he says to the Postmaster General,


"that intelligence is. not an essential
prerequisite for Qemale) clerkship
in the Dead Letter Office" and he
asks that the ladies who seek
such appointments shall undergo the same
examination as to qualifications as is applied
to males. An order to that effect has there
fore been issued, and rs it is to apply to
those already in the. office as well as to new
comers it will no doubt occasion a futter
among the fair employees. 1t is probable
that some of the Senators and Congressman
to whom the Assistant Postmaster General
alludes will have some Of their encum-
brances returned to them. The Washington
offices have been quite convenience of late
years TO those grave lawmakers and Cabinet
officers who have had fair friends to provide
for, and it Is about time that the civil SER
vice test should be applied to both sexes in
the public service 1t is alleged that some
female clerks in the Washington depart
ments receiving good salaries can scarcely
write their names. Their qualifications
cannot be discovered by any save those
whose influence procuros them their posi-