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Year: 1874

Was there ever such an accident a, n
model lover: \ man so endowed with
common sense and that fine cquipoise of
Character a. never 20 do a weak AMI silly
thing because he loved? a man so gfft-
cd with beauty OF soul and expression
of feeling as to photograph on the vision
OF his amante only pictures that exalted
her beyond herself?


Love should make a man heroic. puri-
is him. fortify him against temptation.
make him eloquent, brave. and tender
nj this were always true. everybody
would be wishing that all men were Low.
ers Of some woman.


Some one within month has said
that "a man in love has license to max,
fool of himself" Whether love grant.
them a per-se license so 10 do. or not
most OF them do; and half Of their fol
Year: 1874

There being general feeling that the
action of the late Democratic Convention
did not properly reflect the wishes of the
people of stearns county in the matter Of
the nomination of a, candidate for County
Auditor, I hereby announce myself as an
independent candidate for that Office, and
respectfully ask the support Of the voters
of the county, without regard to party.


CHAS, DUEBER.
Year: 1874

The JOURNAL ventures the predic-
ton that each Congressional District
in this State will elect Republican
Member of Congress this fall-Mr.
Dunnell in the First; Major Strait
in the Second, and Col. King in the
Third District.
Year: 1874

The Minneapolis Maz proposes to
have little war dance around the DO
1itical scalps of both Senator Ramsey
and Governor Davis if Ramsey coun-
ty does not give King a vote as large
as the average vote Of the Republican
ticket in that county.
Year: 1874

won worldwide renown the republican party
and the President remanded these noble Com
monwealths to the mercy of shameless adven-
turers, and became responsible morally for all
of their crimes.


Nor will anything be gained by again elect
ing General Grant as the friend of the South.
Such result is possible, if the ofHce-holders
mean it, But even if General Grant were to
count the extreme Southern vote he could not
redeem the hopes he would inspire. 1t would
not be healthy alliance. He could not be
chosen, with all the power of his tremendous
army of followers, without such control as
would make his administration helpless from
the beginning He would give us personal
government, not one in any way political.
The imagination which evolved Robeson,
Akerman, Belknap, Delano and Richardson
as the representative statesmen of his party
would regard another election as the justifca-
ton of any freaks, and the third term would
simply be the expression Of the worst features
of an administration which, with all of its
efforts and achievements and meritorious
aims, has sorely tried the patience of the
people.
Year: 1874

The discussion of the international COPY
right question, arising out of the treatment of
DR.. J. G. Holland by London publisher, has
not yet ceased in England. 1t will be remem-
bered that DR.. Holland in order to secure to
his own publishers the exclusive interest in
his ''Arthur Bonnicastle,' had the earlier
chapters of the novel copyrighted in England
previous to their appearance in this country.
The London publisher by whom the book
was pirated, omitted these chapters altogether
and supplied their place with an introduction
by another hand That similar outrages are
not committed in this country is only owing
to the fact that English authors seldom copy
right in the first instance in America and so
our publishers are at liberty to appropriate the
whole work. To such an extent is this carried
that seven-eighths of the books published in
the United States are English reprints, on
which no copyright is paid This is not only
disgraceful to both countries but it is unjust
to authors and of no real advantage to any
body except the publishers, who make money
by the sale of pirated and inferior editions of
popular works.


To remedy this state of things pending the
removal of the grievance by means of an inter-
national copyright, which he regards as
dream of the future, writer in the AttenGun
proposes that it become law that if an English
publisher advertises or announces book by
an author, British subject, say for month
before the day of publication (giving title and
other particulars so as to establish proper
Identification Of the book) that meanwhile, if,
during the intervening month the author
chooses to publish his book in America, so as
to obtain by prior publication the copyright
there, the English copyright shall, neverthe-
less, remain intact, having been already legally
secured by the antecedent announcement of
the English publisher.


This is something like the tacit understand
ing between American publishers in their sin
press" announcements of English books, and
it would have some efficacy because sane
toned by an act of Parliament. But it would
be after all only blundering roundabout un-
dignfied way of securing to authors their just
rights in their books. Nothing short of an
international copyright will prove adequate.
And we do not think an international copyright
is so much dream of the future as the
writer in the Adten0un affects to believe.
There might have been an international copy
right between the United States and Great
Britain these many years if an earnest effort
had been made to obtain it. No real attempt
has ever been made either in this country or
in England to secure international copyright.
The only way in which it can be done effec-
lively is by treaty, and the first step necessarily
is authority from Congress and from the
British government for the appointment of
commissioners to treat. An effort to obtain a
commission, if made simultaneously in this
country and in England, could hardly fail, and
then the whole question would be thoroughly
discussed. so that fair adjustment would be-
Year: 1874

Among the steps in the progress of German
unity and progress we note that regulations
have Just been issued in Berlin for the forma-
ton of Councils of Honor among Prussian
officers. Every officer who considers his honor
attacked by comrade is required to give in
formation to this tribunal, and no duel can
come off without its approval nor until the
failure of any other solution. The President
of the tribunal is 10 be present at the duel to
see that it is properly conducted. Officers
engaged in dues are not to be subject to GRIM
inal proceedings unless the occasion or issue
of the encounter is violation of the rules of
honor, such as serious unprovoked insult.


II will no more" says the Emperor, according
to the London Times, tolerate in the army
IN officer who wantonly attacks the honor
of o comrade than an officer who does
not know how to guard his own
HONOR There is feudal character
in this declaration of the old Emperor in
keeping with his character. We have never
seen how the honor of any man, soldier or
citizen, is to be preserved by killing his an
taponist or running the risk of killing him.
We have sometimes felt that it would be well
il our modern civilization could invent some
method of arrestng the torrents of slander
that now and then sweep over the country.
But the evil seems to have cured itself. Sian
der has become so common in America that it
has no power. No man was ever so severely
and widely assailed as General Grant. for in
stance. and yet in the face of all
Year: 1874

The churches yesterday were well filled and


the different preachers showed a disposition to
wrestle vigorously in defence of the cause OF


morality and truth. Some reference to the
great scandal which has occupied public at
tention during the past week was probably
looked for and had much to do in gathering
the large congregations which attended the
church services yesterday. In most cases the
preachers avoided all reference to this un-
pleasant topic and devoted themselves to ex-
pounding the doctrines of salvation for the
benefit of their focks. DR.. Sabine, of the
Episcopal Reformed Church, took for his text
''Strength in Christ" He argued that such
as are sin Christ cannot sin constantly and
habitually. According to his view "A Chris
tian may become fallen but not a lost child.
The fascinations of the world may allure him,
the lusts of the flesh entice him; but he will be
rescued. Divine adoption cannot be dis
turbed Bishop Kavanaugh, the representative
of the Southern Methodists, preached on the
doctrine OF free will and foreknowledge.
The Bishop took the view that there
was no necessity for mans fall, and
that both Adam and Eve, as well as the angels,
stood long enough to demonstrate their
power to stand Adam and Eve in Eden had
no need to pray. What they had they had by
right, not by grace Had we done our part as
God did His we should have had no heritage
of pain and sorrow. Dr. Deems preached in
the Church of the Strangers and took as the
subject of his discourse ''The Blessed Dead.
Having pointed out the vanity of life, with its
ceaseless struggles and ambitions all ending
in the grave, he contrasted it's barrenness with
the nobility of those toilers in the cause of
God who go into the forest and convert it
into garden of the Lord. The laborer may
fall in the midst of his work, but he is at once
at rest. With many illustrations he pointed
out the superiority of spiritual effort over
merely selfish struggles after wealth and posi-
ton. Professor Barbour of Maine, thought
that Christians were the salt of the earth. He
urged the cultivation of the Christian spirit,
without which the temples would come to
naught. The merely popular preacher was
not the best for the Christian work. What
was needed was the man who could point
OuL W d oyLA3 WOliu VuC PloA Va odANheiOA'
Perhaps one of the most noteworthy events


in the religious world yesterday was the visit
of small band of missionaries to one of the
city slums known as ''Africa.' This visit to
the heathens within the city limits does not
appear to have created much impression, but,
nevertheless, another effort to awaken some
religious feeling in the breasts Of the de-
graded dwellers in Africa will be made next
Sunday. The Rev. Eugene Cassidy gave
those preachers who abandon their focks in
order to seek summer recreation a severe re-
proof. He pointed out that the Word of God
was not made specially for the bracing days OF
autumn, the colds of winter, the genial tenn
perature OF spring or the wearing heat OF
summer. Hence it was absurd to take a vaca-
ton in things appertaining to life eternal.
Year: 1874

THE SEASON AT LONG BRANCH has been very
much affected by the presence or absence of the
raised to the dignity of a summer seat of gov
eminent. The appearance of the Chief Magis-
trate on the avenue never fails to bring out
large delegation Of the stylish equipages that
lend such attraction TO the Branch. Just now
the absorbing feature is the presence of the
Fifth Maryland regiment and their proposed
visit to the revolutionary battle field of Mon
mouth on Tuesday next.
Year: 1874

The REIGN OF TERROR IN YoRKvuLE-
The unprotected state of Yorkville is a con-
slant temptation TO the dangerous classes to
perpetrate robberies, which the police seem
powerless to prevent. The fault does not lie
with the officers so much as with the Commits
sioners, because with the present force it is
we'll nigh impossible for the captains to cover
the wide territory given 10 their charge. The
thieves and burglars of the city are well in
formed of all unprotected points, and hence
their operations are carried On with boldness
which reminds one of the days when thieves
took possession Of the public roads and levied
blackmail. 1t is not over year ago that
ruffans compelled citizens travelling on the
horse cars in the upper part of the city to pay
tribute, and unless some energetic steps are
taken to repress the enterprising spirit of our
thieves similar scenes will be again witnessed.
AS it is the inhabitants of Yorkvlle live in
hourly dread of the brigands that infest that
neglected portion of this city, Mr. Walling
has an opportunity Of earning the eternal
gratitude OF these unfortunate people by taking
such measures as will secure them the same
immunity from robbery and violence enjoyed
by their more favored fellow citizens in other
Aistvicta-
Year: 1874

ENGLISH REPUBLICANS ON THE CosT OF A
PRINcE.-The annuity granted to Prince
Leopold by the British Parliament has ex-
cited a good deal of opposition among the
pie who find it hard to procure enough to live
even by hard work should object to parting
with portion of their earnings for the benefit
of Prince. The English masses begin to
weigh the cost of royalty, and find it an ex-
pensive and useless luxury.
Year: 1874

come comparatively easy. II the writer's Of
books do not know how to put the machinery
at work which will give them treaty secur-
ing to them every just right in their works
they have only themselves to blame, and they
need not complain because other people fail
to do it for them.
Year: 1874

of the stolen boy, Charley Ross, has not yet
been discovered, Notwithstanding the large
reward offered and the exertons of the Phila-
delphia police The father of the child indig-
nantly denies any knowledge of or collusion
with the kidnappers, and naturally wishes for
the safe return of his boy, even should the
scoundrels who stole him escape the just re-
ward of their unnatural crime. Such q
heinous offence however, ought not to be al.
lowed to pass unpunished, and the police
must show more activity in the search or else
they will leave a very unfavorable impression
of the state of the force in the Quaker City.
Year: 1874

FRANCE Is WARNED by a Spanish editor
against extending further aid to the Carlists,
and dire threat is made that Spain will
adopt cool attitude towards her neighbors if
they don't behave themselves.
Year: 1874

Our theatres begin to exhibit signs Of re-
turning life, and already notes of preparation
for the coming season are heard on every side.
Boucicault is coming back with the long
looked for American comedy, which is said to
be the best of all his numerous plays. If We
can trust report it has also the merit of being
strikingly original. We are glad to hear this.
for some of Mr. Bouccaults best work was
done before he fell on the French placer which
he has SO industriously exploited. Mr.. DAILY,
too, is hard at work on something new, but, like
the greatest dramatist of the age," he hides
the title OF his forthcoming work carefully from
the public and the critics. The time is, how
ever, rapidly approaching when, in common
with lesser mortals, these great lights of the
stage will be anxious for all the publicity they
can obtain. Mr.. Wallack begins his season
by introducing Mr.. j. L. Toole, the famous
English comedian, who is expected
to make great impression on Ameri-
can audiences. There can be no ques-
ton of Toole's great abilities as low
comedian, but it remains to be seen whether
an American audience will appreciate fun
which is purely "cockney." This actor will
labor under the great disadvantage that many
of the types Of low English life which he best
succeeds in portraying have no counterpart
at this side Of the water, and will, therefore,
lack interest for the American public. Still
there is so much genuine fun and drollery in
Toole that he may be able to overcome this
difficulty, and make himself as great favor
ite in New York as he is in London. "Evange-
line or, The Maid of Acadia" is the title
Of new entertainment to be produced
tonight at Niblo's 1t is something
between comic opera and bur-
lesque, and has the merit of being
American in subject and new in style. What
ever its fate may be the management of this
theatre deserves praise for the energy shown
during the summer season in producing nov
city after novelty to very poor houses. It ia
to be hoped that u cool spell and some merit
in the new entertainment may enable them td
reap a substantial reward There is danger
that the Grand Opera House may disappear
from the list of our metropolitan theatres.
The Florences having refused to accept the
risks Of management. even on very favorable
terms, the irrepressible Gilmore is likely to
obtain the building for his projected Alham-
bra, if only he can raise the needed funds to
carry out his speculation. 1t is evident that
the coming dramatic season will be as full OF
interest as any of its predecessors, and it may
be that the long looked for American comedy
will at last make its appearance on the New
York stage.
Year: 1874

When Antounette Sterling was sum
moned to sing before the queen of Os-
borne House recently, according to a
writer in the Musical Gazette, she ad-
hered relgiously to her determination
not 70 bare her arms and shoulders in
the naked horror" of evening dress,
and even made up her mind, in her ad


vanced republicanism, not to kiss the
queens hand; what she did do is thus
related: THE concert was not such
fearful ordeal after all. Only the august
family circle, with few ladies and gen
tlemen in attendance, were present


Everybody seemed disposed for enjoy
ment; they applaudrd heartily, and
accordingly it was easy TO sing. Besides
Miss Sterling, if / remember rightly,
there was a violinist and pianist, who
we're also inspired by the friendly atmos-
phere. As for Miss Sterling, she
sang so that not only was she encored,
but after the programme had been full


filed, she was obliged 70 add an extra
number or two, and then she stood,
flushed with triumph aud delight. as she
saw the queen coming forward TO speak
with her Where was all her rigid re-
publicanism noW2 Her heart warmed
towards the motherly little woman, with
her arms crossed on her breast, who was
approaching her in the simplest kindli-
Year: 1874

The Baltimore Gazette has a sensible
article, entitled Don't frighten the chill
dren, which we annex:


1T is an old warning, but as treated
anew in Scribner's may not be without
effect. Never frighten children; don't
shut them up in dark rooms; never let
them comprehend what lightning is, or
take any notice of either in their pres.
ence. 1t is one of the most painful
things in the world to see child run to
hide itself from a thunder storm, and in
nearly all cases where it does so, some
one has blundered. Never attempt
to control child by making it believe
that something terrible will happen to it
Bogie will catch it, or the black man
will come for it, or some terrible specter
or other will haunt it. Those children
who have been shut up in dark rooms as
punishment frequently feel the effect
of torture until late in life. 1t is strange
how these terrors cling to the person in
after life-become, as it were, engrafted
into them and so firmly fixed that reason
cannot dislodge them. A mother, there
'ore, that will use such means to compel
obedience is weak, cruel and unwise; a
nurse who employs them is simply unfit
for her position
Year: 1874

The social developments across the
water show lamentable state of affairs
due apparently to no other cause than a
deficiency OF backbone in one or two in
dividuals


When such disastrous consequences
proceed from the weakening of part
only of the human framework, we sin
cerely trust that there may be no spread
ing Of the disease lately developed across
the ocean in the person of an Irish wo-
man, who lived to see her entire skele-
ton waste away until it was but fourth
part as heavy as a new horn babe.


The case occurred in Dublin, and may
truly be called extraordinary. The
victim, forty FIVE years old, was patient
in an insane asylum. For five years
she was confined to her bed, complaining
of no pain. but gradually becoming
weaker, while dwindhng in stature, until
she lost half her hight.


AS the disease progressed, her limbs
were coiled up in every possible shape,
the bones becoming extremely light,
soft, fragile and atrophied in every re-
spect. At death, all that remained of
her skeleton, including the skull, weighed
two pounds and half. The number of
fractures was prodigious. The ribs
we're in a hundred fragments. The
head of the humerus was bent; the
fibule were curved; the thigh bones and
pelvis were huddled together; the bones
of the vertebre were thlnned and worn
away across the front of her body; the
lower Jaw was atrophied and broken into
three pieces; the base of the skull was
cribform all through. Had she lived a
little longer, it was thought that not a
vestige Of a bone would have been left
in her body. What allied her no one
could tell, the disease being almost un-
heard of and difficult to diagnose, treat
or even name. Professor R. W. Smith,
of Dublin University, who brought the
case before the Pathological Faculty,
looked upon the condition of the bones
not as a disease but as manifestation
of diseased condition as yet unknown,
possibly related to ricketts,.
Year: 1874

Exchange Place, in the busiest part OF
New York, is being bridged. The
bridge in question connects the second
stories Of the custom-house and the
building on the opposite side of the
street, and is built Of iron in the most
solid manner.
Year: 1874

ness. And then, said Miss Sterling,
when saw there was no hand TO be
kissed, and that all my defences had
been erected against friendly little old
woman, all my nonsense gave way, and
somehow could not help It'll just
grasped the pudgy hand, all unexpected
as it was, and kissed it, and the queen
seemed to like it, too.
Year: 1874

A counterfeit note of the new fifty
cent issue is in circulation. II is re-
markably well executed and calculated
to deceive. The signature of Dexter on
the left upon close examination will be
found defective. On the back right up
per corner, Act March Sd, 1863 the 6 in
1868 is reversed. The eolored silk lines
in the genuine are not in the counter
felt
Year: 1874

PHILLIPS AND PRICE.-Col. Phillips seemed to
think that he would carry almost everything for
his denomination, and that Judge Price and his
friends are standing in their own light by con-
tending against him. If this be SO, the Colonel
need not spend much effort in electioneering, and
there need be no hard feelings. IL he receives
the nomination, Judge Price and his friends will
give him hearty support They are not striv
ing to depricate his Congressional labors, and do
not propose to traduce his character. They pre-
fer their candidate, and mean to make fair and
square fight for him; and to make it in such
way, that if the Colonel is successful, they can
support him without making apologies or feeling
ashamed. We trust that Col. Phillips and his
friends will observe the same rules.
Year: 1874

rV The Troy Chief seldom makes a mistake that its
reference the Laurence Commonwealth especially
noticeable We only mention it u add that Sol Miller is
one of the writers the Western
Gdrnttt PdiRdedier.


No mistake at all. We did it "a-purpose."
The Commonwealth, in quoting from our paper,
almost invariably calls it the white Cloud
Chief" although we have several times called
its attention to the matter, calculated to mis-
lead the public, and cause mail matter intended
for us to be missent. We then made up our
mind to always call it something else than the
Topeka Commonwealth, until it behaved itself.
We think we have named it about everything ex-
cept the Garnett Commonwealth; but we propose
TO exhaust the Kansas Post-Ofice Directory for
names, unless the Commonwealth comes to time.
Year: 1874

~ We would be willing IN n dollar against q
postage stamp that York wishes be had kept that
81 OO0 sunk IL in the depths Of his little pocket and never
opened his mouth in the joint convention We understand
that he has since said that he would his throat before
would do again what he did at Topeka in the Senate
rial campaign of ls73.-Atehisen Champion.


Are there not good many who would take
different "cbute" from what they did then, if it
were to do oyer-u view of the way the work of
qualification has panned outf


We believe that if that same Legislature
were required to elect Senator, or even if it
were left to a vote of the Anti-Pomeroy lobby
collected at that time, Pomeroy would receive a
handsome majority. There are some mighty
sick fellows in that outfit.