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Year: 1879

4 must not forget those stockings,
there's a basketful this week.


Jcnnie's mother said this in a wear
led way. The little girl was play
ing in her room and began to think
about helping her.


where are they 2 she asked.


I'm the ROOM the mother an
swered, and thought no more about
it.


An hour later she went down
stairs.


There sat Jennie in the large arm
chair by the open window, the basket
on the table before her, and her little
fingers very busy.


'Mothcr,' said she, looking up with
bright smile, you have twelve
pairs of stockings, and I've done halt
of them


Jennie had given up a whole hours
play to help and relieve her mother
but she was a very little girl, and she
had made mistake. She sewed the
holes over and over. And as she
meant to do her best, the stitches
were very close and tight. He'
mother knew it would be at least
half an hours work to rip them out
but she would not disappoint the
loving heart by letting her know, she
had not fully succeeded. She only
said, "Well, you're dear good little
girl, and now you may run out ant
play


Away went Jennie, very happy il
the thought that she had helped ano
pleased her mother. And she had
for the kindness she had shown he
was more precious to that mother
heart than gold, and lightened he
care. Pleasant thoughts kept he
company, and made her needle NOV
faster.
Year: 1879

renew her circus life. At first she
insisted on rejoining the company
when she was well enough, but finally
yielded to his suggestion study for
the stage, as she had considerable
talent. This she did with Miss
Fannie Morant, who asks $500 term
for two terms, and with such success
that she felt warranted in making
her appearance at McVicker's last
season in the Two Orphans and un-
der the name of Miss Meroe Charles.


1t is needless to say that the young
lawyer paid the expenses Of hcr dra-
matte training and furnished her out
fit, but it is needfnl to add that his
efforts for her were made with dis
interestedness as it il beautiful in the
generosity Of man toward the woman
who is loved. Her confidence in his
honor he held sacred by upholding
hers, and so it happened that after
wards, while on u Southern tour with
Edwin Booth, who took kindly in
terest in her, they played in St.
Louis. and among the audience was
her husband, who at once recognized
her.


The next day she received q long
letter from him expressing sincere re-
pentance for the past, acknowledge
ing his lack Of courage, and adding
that his sister was now dead, and
that if she would return he would de-
vote the remainder of his life to max
ng her happy.


This letter she sent to the man
who had SO generously befliendcd
her, with a note saying that to him
she owed everything, and promising
to follow his decision.


Realizing that the offer meant for
her honor, comfort and peace, he an
swered in one word, "Retuln," she
did, and is now settled in her own
home in St. Louis, and that is the
reason that the world theatrical knows
no more of Mcroe Charles.
Year: 1879

The idea Of the biggest head know
ing the most is all nonsense. The
had the biggest head OF his
time, vet he didn't know enough to
90 into the ark out Of the rain and
be saved. The mosquito, with scarcely
any head at all, was wiser.
Year: 1879

Bur.-"Gentlemen of the jury
said an eloquent Chicago advocate,
"yOu have heern the witness swar he
saw the prisoner raise his gun; you
have heern him swar he saw the flash
and heerl the report; you have heerD
him swar he saw the dog fall
dead YOU have heern him swar ne
dug the bullet out with his Jack
knife, and You have seen the bullet
produced in court but whar, gentle
men-whar, ] ask you, is the man
who saw the bullet hit the dog9
Year: 1879

A well dressed woman drew quite
Il crowd together in Il Cincinnati
street by striking q man across the
face several times with y whip, ami
then finishing the punishment with
her fists. She coolly explained that
he was her runaway husband, whom
she had laboriously traced for the
sole purpose Of whipping him.
Year: 1879

A clergyman, preaching a sermon
on death, concluded with the follow
ing observation: But even death,
my brethren, so well deserved by
mankind for their sins, the wisdom Of
Providence has, in its paternal kind
ness, put at the end of our existence
for only think what life would be
worth if death were at the beginning!
Year: 1879

does. This great invention was ex-
hibited on Monday evening in this
place by Prof Struthers, whose lee
ture and experiments were render
ed so intelligibly as to throw light
ing on the path of understanding of
those in attendance. 1t is loash-
some duty to prblicly regret that
such mantle of ignorance should
have enwraped portion of our dem
izens as to cause them to foster the
belief that this scientific wonder was
possessed of an evil spirit or an off
spring of his Satanic majesty.
Year: 1879

THREE or four boys tackled the
task of hiding in the regions of their
stomachs, two dozen eggs each on
Easter Sunday. Place yourself in
their boots, and that will reveal to
you, how they succeeded. They can
put their finger in their mouths and
touch egg now, and at nights egg
boil out of the nose, mouth and ears
to soften the pillow.
Year: 1879




Some time ago resident of Bergen
lost his wife. Desiring again to enter
the connubial state, and manageable
ladies not being plentiful in that vicin-
ity, he made proposition to a peddler
who CHANGED that way, offering him $50
to secure him wife. This peddler, who
seems to have been sort of a matri-.
monial speculator, at the time the prop
osition above noted was made, was enter
tanning a similar proposition from wo-
man in Mount Morris, by the terms of
which he was to receive like sum for
obtaining her husband. The opportu-
nifty was grand one for speculation,
and the peddler succeeded in bringing
the two together, and they were united.
By the terms of the agreement he was
to receive $50 from each, but when he
claimed the reward for his intrigue, the
parties had made known to each other
the conditions of the match, and they
concluded that 500 was too good pay
for the service he had done them. After
parleying for some time, an agreement
was entered into by which the man and
wife were to give the peddler their joint
and several note for SIS. This compro-
mise was accepted and the peddler took
the note, which recently became due,
and was presented for payment. Sad as
the circumstances are, the second wife
had died before the note matured, but
the unfortunate man accepted the sit
uation resignedly and paid the $75.
Year: 1879

TORTURE of the most malignant kind
distinguishes the reformed administra-
tions of the State prisons. Barrett, the
mutinous convict at Sing Sing, who was
shot recently, was undoubtedly driven
into mutiny by the use of the paddle"
The paddle is designed with devilish in
genuity. DIR. Harris, president of the
State Prison Association, thus describes
it: "Unless you have seen that instru-
ment you can have no idea of its
monstrous capacity for inficting torture
on human being. 1t is from two and
half to three feet long, shaped like
canoe paddle. Or it may be likened to a
boys base ball bat shaved fat and thin
until 1t is as flexible as an Indians bow.
It's blade is perforated with twenty-five
or thirty holes, which, with each stroke,
allow the flesh to enter. The swift motion
made in lifting it to repeat the stroke
causes it TO cut and lacerate the pulpy
flesh in a horrible manner. In some
cases these paddles are made of thick
and hard sole-leather, but the leather is
as cruel as the wood. Both of these in
struments are used like a club. The
victim is lashed down to a whipping
chair, his face to the floor, so that he
cannot move nor betray the agony which
convulses his face"
Year: 1879

The project of making the Erie
Canal, from Buffalo to the Hudson
River, of such enlarged capacity as to
admit the passage of ocean vessels to the
like, is again attracting some attention.
Sooner or later this will probably be
done. The Erie Canal is owned by the
State of New York, and is the only sure
protection the people of New York City
and the State at large have against op-
pressive railroad combination. The
shipping of Western freight in unbroken
bulk to New York City must be pro-
vided for or else the city must abandon
commercial pre-eminence. In complet-
ing for Western business by rail, New
York has already powerful rivals, but
there can be no successful competition
with direct water route from Buffalo
10 the Hudson.
Year: 1879

A CURIOUS in stance of the uncertain
value of diamonds is shown in the case
of the experts who were called to testify
as to the value of the diamonds for which
"Cleopatra" negotiated the sum of
5000. One Of these gentlemen said he
would have paid 81 500 for the diamonds,
were he purchasing them as dealer,
but as to their selling value, that de-
pended on the customer and on the time
of the year. This let's some light into
jewelers. profits that perhaps they would
rather not have had exposed. 1t had
generally been believed that there was
q certain market price on the value Of
diamonds, but it would seem that the
standard Of value is according to the
length of the purchasers purse.
Year: 1879

CAPTAIN EADs, having got the Miss
issippi jetties off his mind, is looking
around for some new enterprise to take
up his time, and has revived the scheme
of building ship railway, instead of
ship canal, across the Isthmus of
Panama. The idea is to lay track
forty or fifty feet wide, construct car
big enough to float a ship, and locomo-
tive powerful enough to draw the load,
and then Just take the vessel out of one
ocean, carry it across and dump it into
the other. The scheme will probably
strike the average reader as rather
chimericaI, and it is not likely anything
will come of it, but in these days hardly
any thing is to be set down as impossible.
Year: 1879

SHORTLY after the tragic death of
General Custer, his fellow-townsmen
of Monroe, Michigan, organized an as
sociation having for its object the col
lection Of funds TO erect a suitable
monument to the gallant soldiers men,
ory. Some time after the New York
Herald proposed a fund for similar
purpose, to which liberal subscriptions
were made. Recently the amounts col
lected by these two movements have
been combined, and are sufficient 70
carry out the object. The monument
will be erected at West Point, and be
ready to unveil some time during the
present month or early in September.
Year: 1879

Who forgets the anecdote of Napoleon
and the village bells of Brientz? He
was riding late one day over a battle
field, gazing stern and unmoved on the
dying and the dead that strewed the
ground by thousands about him, when
suddenly !" those evening bells struck
up merry peal. The Emperor paused
to listen his heart had softened; men,
ory was busy with the past; he was no
longer the conqueror of Austerliz but
the innocent happy schoolboy at
Brientz; and, dismounting from his
horse, he seated himself on the stump OF
an old tree, and burst into tears. The
rock was smitten, AID living waters
came gushing from it
Year: 1879

COUNT DE CHAMBoRD's Manifesto is
q wonderful example of the personal
hallucination that he is necessary to
France. The Counts hobby is that
France will not really prosper SO long
as his family are not permitted to con-
troll its affairs. Like American politi-
clans who make similar pretence with
regard to this country, the Count thinks
he is alone commissioned to save his
eountrymen. But they turn deaf ear
TO his last-century entreaties. and scorn
the paternal authority of lineage
which is synonym for the most stolid
tyranny that has ever borne down the
populace Of any land.
Year: 1879

The yellow fever is curious disease,
and the more it is studied the less we
seem to know about it. One Of the
grearest curiosities in connection with
this plague of mankind is the case Of
the Island Of Jamaica, where the disease
prevailed for years, but where during
the last half century it has not been
known. Yellow fever is around it on
every siie-iu Cuba and in San Do
mingo but in Jamaica it is unknown.
Jamaica has no State Board nor Ma
tional Board, and consequently does not
quarantine
Year: 1879

IT appears to be the fashion at the
present day for the young people to ar
range for picnics while enjoying an
arm-in arm walk these beautiful even
ings. We would suggest that the Car
rangements" be made at home where
the old man car be consulted on the lit
tie details, with word of advice from
mamma. Mary Ann, though enjoying
the fun at the last picnic, always re-
gretted that the whole family did not
On
Year: 1879

WHAT'S usually denominated slang"
is the use of sharp, short, epigrammatic
words or sentences, invented and used
by the masses, the best of which become
current in common parlance, and end
by being incorporated into the language
and recorded in the dictionary. 1t is a
notable fact that most of these strong,
incisive phrases are thrown up from the
so-called lower classes, instead of origi-
mating among the wealthy and educated,
and that we are indebted to the former
for much that is terse and strong in our
vocabulary.
Year: 1879

TIE result of the continued monopoly
Of the land by the British aristocracy
must sooner or later drive the sons of
the farmers either into the towns to en-
bark in trade, or to America to engage in
agricultural pursuits, where they would
Year: 1879

FEMALE preachers seem TO have q
faculty for plunging their congregations
into hot water. What Is still more cur
ious, they plant themselves in Brooklyn
to do it. Is this sympathetic imitation ?
Year: 1879

tonary fathers revolted, and we ask all lovers of
liberty to join Us and them protest against the
change IN our form of government proposed by the
Republican party, which will substitute the will OF
one man Tor that OF the majority of all the people


Res0tDed, That we are in favor of the eubsttution
OF United States Treasury notes for National bank
notes, and Of the abolition of National hanks as
banks Of issue: that the Government of the United
States issue the money for the people, and further
that favor reduction of the bonded debt of the
United States ae fast practicable and the appli
cation Of the idle money in the Treasury for that
purpose


ResokUed, That we favor the free and unlimited
coinage OF the silver dollar of 412H grains, and
providing certificates for silver bullion which may
be deposited in the United States Treasury, the
same to be a legal tender for all purposes


Res0Iged, That we favor q tar'f for revenue only.


Res0lOed, That we are in favor of economy in
public expen dtures, including reduction of sal
aries, local and general, whenever they may be
deemed excessive, and also reduction in the num-
Der of officials.


ResoEged, That the Democratic party Of Iowa is
desirous OF promoting temperance, and being op-
posed to free lwhiskey it is in favor OF judiclous
license law.


ResoE0ed. That we favor holding all public ser
wants TO strict accountability. and their prompt
and severe punishment for all thefts OF public
moneys and maladministration of public office.
Before adjournment a telegram from
Hon. Fl. H. Trimble was read in the con-
vention, announcing his acceptance Of the
nomination for Governor
Year: 1879

No one will question Beecher's 8 republi-
canism however much they may doubt his
theology. On Sunday last he preached a
sermon in Brooklyn, N. Y, urging chris
tians to love all men and hate nothing land,
in closing, spoke of the south and the sec
tional feeling, which the republicans in
congress are stirring up for party pur-
poses, as follows:-


My own Judgment is that when you con.
slider human nature. what it is to have ones
property swept out of ones hand, the rich
reduced to absolute poverty, a great bulk
OF men who never new how to work left to
subslst by learning how to work; when you
consider that the ascendency of the despis-
ed slave was established by to them a for
elgn power, when you consider what the
effect of the war legislation was, and of the
interposition of foreign influence; when you
see great people, proud, Jealous,
pushed out of political power, out
of wealth, reduced to the very bottom,
with servile class put over their heads.
their whole industry revolutionized, one
could not have wondered if there had been
great deal more of resistance than there
has been at the south. do say that in
the whole history of the human race there
never has been an example of a people
that bore such reverses. on the whole, with
as much grandeur, as much patriotism. al
they haYe done. Subdued applause.
The spectacle of moral grandeur in this
revolution. the substantial good sense Of
those so terribly bereaved, is without g
parallel in human nature, and any mean.
ness tending to stir up spirit of animosity
between the north and the south, or be-
tween the east and the west, or the Ger
man and the Irish. or the white against
the black,-that spirit is most mischevi
GUS. We are all one, all united. When
there was need that the north should be
nerved to great exertiOn in order to coun-
| teract that arrogant assertion of plantation
supremacy, was not wanting in courage
to speak. Now that the time is past and
the time has come for peace and love and
union, speak again. We are all united
together on one ship. We sail all to q
prosperous voyage together, or we founder
all together. What we need is love, sym
patty, communion. Although | hated
slavery, never hated the slave-owners.
| loved the slave and loved his master.
| love mankind. I love them not fol-
what they are, but for what they are going
| to be.
Year: 1879

CHICAGO, May 21.-Judge Dillon. who
is here holding court, on being interviewed
by q Register reporter to night in regard
to the Washington special to the Inter
Ocean yesterday, which stated that he had
informed the President of his determine
tion to resign, and that it was decided that
Secretary McCrary should be his success
sor, stated that it was erroneous. and that
he never had any conversation with the
President or McCrary on the subject,
Year: 1879

Frank Miller's Harness Oil and Backing
is pronounced by the trade generally to be
the best manufactured. The grade OF
these goods is always standard and their
reputation unsurpassed anywhere. Inc
firm is one Of the Oldest in the country and
has the largest trade in its line. dff
Year: 1879

reached. So far as this market is concerned
and Now York and Chicago seem to have
been handled in precisely the same manner
there is no question but that the ring here
used No. 3 as the club to knock prices down
with for Smith and the Youngs began to sell
No. largely just as soon as the advance in
the morning began. The indications to-
night are that ii the bull ring can manipu-
late the market they will force it down in
the morning at least, that is the theory of
those who believe in the power of the ring,
and that it will recover late in the day.
Year: 1879

Some political capital is sought to be
made by the advocates of the paternal
system of government, on tho ground that
some States pay more than others into the
treasury for internal revenue taxes. The
Republican members of both Houses Of
Congress, with characteristic mendacity, have
claimed that because the Southern States
have paid less taxes than the Northern
States, they should be content with fewer
privileges. Perhaps they are right and per-
haps not.


The State of kentucky pays more than
seven millions of internal revenue taxes,
mostly on whisky. The State of Illinois
pays something like fourteen millions of
taxes, mostly on whisky. Nobody supposes
that the people of Kentucky consume all the
whisky produced in the State, and it would
certainly be great stretch of the iraagina-
consume all the forty rod that is distilled in
that State. 1t is therefore evident that peo,
pie outside of these States must be charged
with the consumption of the liquor distilled
and that if anybody is to be blamed for di
minishing the revenue it is those people wht
refuse to imbibe sour mash in any form.


But the time has passed when any sucl
shallow pretense rs that the community tha
paws the direct internal revenue tax ar
the greatest benefactors of the public. No
alone in alchohol beverages, but in all othe
things, the producer or the importer re
coves ample restitution from the man
whom he sells, for the taxes h
pays. The consumer alone bear
the burden of taxation. II
has to pay an increased price for ever
article of luxury or utility he may requir
and that increase returns to the origins
producer or purchaser. Herein appears tt
folly OF the majority of the people, who a
sert that they have no interest in the tari
question. They pay no direct tax upon a
tices they buy, but yet indirectly they pay
large tribute to the manufacturers of the a
ticies they use or to tie importers of Il
food they consume. Politics can have not
ing to do with the subject. 1t is simply
matter between producer and consumer.


tho producer is taxed upon what be pr
duces. he will charge proportionate iDcrea
upon what he sells, and as consequen
the consumer pays the tax, whether it


great or small. It is therefore apparent tt
every man in the country pays his prop,
tion of the tax levied upon what he &C
sumes. He pays as much it he lives ii


State that pays folty millions III taxes as
Year: 1879

AN item having appeared in the Washing
ton Star stating that the cadets at West
Point had expressed their opinion of the
Fitz John Porter verdict by selecting Gen.
Pope to deliver the annual address at the
military academy, an officer of that academy
writes to the journal mentioned stating that
form the service, and that the students had
nothing to do with it. Pope will have tc
look for an endorsement Of his perjury else
ubaro
Year: 1879

IT seems to rs that the discussion on the
legislative appropriation bill is occupying
too much time in the Senate. 1t is morally
certain that the man who fills the executive
Office will veto the bill, and as the Democrats
have given reasons for the faith that is in
them, it would seem that the best plan would
be to let the bill go to a vote.
Year: 1879

The wheat markets of Chicago and Mill
waukee are booming. If the bulls will only
keep the ball rolling till Minnesota farmers
can harvest their crop of forty million bush
els. next August, they will deserve and re-
ceive our everlasting gratitude