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Year: 1874

How a woman was Deceived by Her
Husband.


The MarysTille (Cal.) Appeal Is
responsible for the following: eve
hear of a case of cool-headed and
| systematic deception which is re-
ported to have been pefpetrated in
this city a short timeago, and which
/ is too good to be lost. y saving
and prudent wife, after much urg-
ing, induced her husband to save
part of his wages by depositing $50
a month with her The arrange
Inent promised to become a grand
financial success Every month the
Faithful husband handed over $50
to his good wife, who carefully
laid il away in a safe place. Month
after month rolled on until ten $50
pieces, aggregating 5000, had accu-
mulated, when the wife thought 1t
would to do deposit the same in the
savings bank. Accordingly, one
morning the lady unearthed her
pile of golden twenties aud walked
down to the Marysville savings
bank. On entering the institution
she laid them upon the counter with





herself, no doubt, upon the fact
that the interest on the deposit
would in q few years amount to
quite a sum, and one worth having
in case of misfortune and bad luck
in life. But then came the denOu-
ment. The cashier readily discov-
cred the peculiarly of the coin.
The $50 pieces were worthless imi-
tatiOns of the genuine coin. The
true facts in the case at once flashed
across the mind of the good woman
Her husband had spent his wages,
and in order to fulfill his promise
and keep up his monthly deposits
had purchased a lot of imitation $50
pieces known as "spiel markes."
How the matter was settled in the
family, being of domestic and pri-
vate nature, we have not been in
quisitive enough to ascertain, and
leave for all to imagine"
Year: 1874

y queer case recently came up be
fore Des Moines court. 1t appears
that an inebriated individual went
into a drug store and called for
glass of soda water. In going out
he staggered against q pane of
French glass, shivering il TO atoms.
Two clerks pursued him and de-
mauded that he make good the loss.
He protested his inability to pay,
when the clerks went "throu Oh"
him, and finding a 500 bill, deduct
ed the price of the glass and stuffed
the change in his pocket Subse-
uuently it was discovered that the
bill was counterfeit. Search was
at once instituted for the drunken
fellow, who, when found, was
brought before the bar of justice,
and charged with passing counter
felt money. The prisoner urged
that he was guiltless of any crime;
that the counterfeit money happen
ed to be in his pocket at the time OF
the accident, and that it was taken
from HIM BY force. The court ac-
cepted the plea and dismissed the
case.
Year: 1874

A MELANCHOLY STATEaENT.-Tak-
ing this text the London Spectator N
a recent and very suggestive article
shows that the wages of generally
educated men who have noC added 10
their general education any special
education-men, in short, VINO know
how to do what colleges teach them to
do and nothing more-are less than
the average Of handicraftsmeD, and
are rapidly becoming less than the
wages of hod-carriers, whose work
requires no training at all but unly
brute strength and endurance. In
this country, from the more general
diffusion of education, the case Is
even stronger, and tends To become
stronger with every fresh accession of
raw recruits to the industrial army
which each commencement brings -
This Is not 2 very cheering reflection,
but 1t seems to US a very needful one,
and oae particularly well worth pom
dering by the instructors of youth.
Year: 1874

sympathy and understanding. It is to tho
last degree blind and pervorso for tho differ
ent organizations of employees to adopt such
an attitude toward tho companies with which
they are really cooperating rs to force the
officers of those companies, men who have
risen by tnoir own industry and capacity to
places of importance in the administration, to
withdraw from their membership and to for
swear all fellowship with them. AS MIR. VIII
son urges, there is nothing to prevent an as
sociatiOn of engineers from pursuing course
which will guard their own interests with the
utmost jealousy and yet not compel single
engineer to leave them, even If no should
rise to be Director or President OF the road.


Up to these recent strikes, such seemed In
fact to be the policy of the present Brother
hood, and their relations with their employers
and the public wcro those Of confidence and
sympathy. Their late action would appear to
indicate that they have fallen to somo extent
under the influence of those hcadstrOng and
violent men who are the bane OF tho best as
sociations of laboring men. Mr.. Wilson pro-
poses to appeal to the brotherhood against
the Convention, and calls upon those who
wish to 90 back to the former policy OF tho
organization to follow him in withdrawing
from the present, and forming new society
on the old basis. HIS purpose is 80 good that
il ia impossible not to hope he may succeed
in
Year: 1874

There ia q general and not unreasonable be-
lief that the Committee of Ways and Means
has narrowly avoided the disclosure OF great
conspiracy in which Gen. Butler and other
prominent persons at Washington have been
concerned with certain public officers at New
York TO make money out OF Custom-house
cases. The Committee has accordingly Dcen
censured for cutting short the inquiry ana
omitting to examine various persons connccteu
with tho Revenue Ring, who might nave
thrown good deal of light upon the secret
history OF tho affair. IL seems to be forgotten,
however, that this is not what IL COM
monty known rs an investigating
committee. Mr. Kelley and his colleagues
have consented to hear statements from mer-
chants and Treasury officers interested in the
proposed reform of the Customs laws. but
they have no authority to search out alleged
frauds, or compel the attendance of Witnesses
All tho testimony laid before them has been
volunteered. For our own part, we are salts
fed that tho Inquiry has not been thorough,
and that the whole truth. if we could get at
it, would reveal q state of things far worse than
the public now imagines. But we do not see tilat
the Ways and Means Committee could have
done any moro than it has done, nor is there
any reason to suppose that it has attempted
to keep back the truth.


1t will be strange, however if some OF the
respectable Republicans in the House, like MIR.
Dawes, or the Hoars, or Mr.. Pierce, do not
see the proprety of calling for an investiga-
ton into the whole subject of the interest OF
Congressman and officials of the Treasury De-
partment in the revenue scandals which are
now spoken of under tho generic names OF
"Jayne fraudsn and "SanbOrn frauds"
Strictly speaking, of course, the operations OF
the two classes of Special Agents are
substantially within tho law, but there is
almost always a large element of fraud min
gled with them, and it is morally certain that
the profits of their transactions are shared In
Washington. Mr. Jayne told tho Committee
that he was obliged to divide more than half
his receipts with other persons, and indeed 1t
required no great sagacity to divine that
person like him would never be permitted to
hold the profitable Office of Special Agent
without rendering handsome equivalent for
it to the politicians in power. His connection
with Gen. Butler is notorious. We ought to
know how far it extends and whether it in
wolves other members of the House.


The SanbOrn case looks still worse. That
scandal almost certainly duplicates somebody
in the Senate and somebody in the Treasury
Department, and there is q strong probability
that the combination also extends into the
House. So much is already known, and so
many clues for the investigation of the case
have been obtained by the public press, that
it is idle to suppose the matter can be al
lowed to rest where it is. We are only curl
Gus to know whether tho credit of instituting
searching inquiry is to be seized by the
better class of Republicans, or left for the
opposition TO appropriate.
Year: 1874

COMPULSORY EDUCATION IN ILLINOIS.


There is a bill for Compulsory Education
now under consideration in the Illinois Legis-
laturc, which by the moderation of its pro-
visions and the simplicity of its details, pre-
seDts the entire question of enforced in
structon freed from most of the complica-
tons which embarrass it in other places. 1t
provides that every parent or guardian OF
child between the ages Of nine and fourteen,
who resides in district where there is q
school within two miles, shall send the child
to some school for at least three months of
each year, unless an equal amount OF instruc-
ton is given at home, or unless the child is
reasonably proficient in the ordinary branches
of English education. 1t is made the duty of the
school officers to prosecute for any violation of
this duty occurring in their respective districts,
the penalty assigned being from one to five
dollars for each week (not exceeding thirteen
weeks in any year) during which the law is
violated. A neglect of this duty, after proper
notice has been given, subjects the school Off
GERS to penalty of from five to twenty-five
dollars for each neglect. Provision is made
for tho supply of books to INDECENT children.
and in cases where they have not suitable
clothing, to supply that also. This bill was
somewhat fully discussed in the House of
Representatives, and although it met with
considerable opposition. it finally passed 1t
has received its first reading in the Senate
but has not yet come up for final action


The opposition to this and to similar meas
ures rests of course upon the broad principle,
which is now never denied, that the ideal of
government is the least possible interference
with the individual and the family. But it is
evident on the other hand that there are GER
tain matters of such vital interest to the very
existence Of society that the State cannot re-
main stranger to them. The public health is
ono Of these interests No plea of individual
rights is ever considered valid to uphold
man in sustaining nuisance which is likely
to breed a pestilence among his neighbOrs;
and no man il justified in resisting any scheme
of sanitary regulations which has been adopted
by the body politc for the protection of
the general health. 1t may be said that
ignorance is an evil of such dangerous import
ance to the public welfare that the same COM
pulsory measures of correction are necessary.
No man can be q safe citizen of republican
government who votes for the enactment of
laws which he is unable to read and the
State, as matter of self preservation, may
seem to have a right to demand that his child
shall not grow up in equal ignorance. All,
or nearly oil, agree in regarding system
Of gratuitous education as desirable, but there
is still some difference of opinion in regard TO
tho desirability of system of compulsory in
struoton. We hayo httlo doubt that tho
Year: 1874

power 10 provide for it does como within the
legitimate province Of tho State, but the expe-
diency of exercising that power is matter
requiring tho most thorough consideration.
We have no doubt of the right Of the Legisla-
ture TO regulate the traffic in ardent spirits.
but tho experience of years has shown that il
is almost beyond the reach Of human inteli-
gence to. say just what degree of severity in
the law is most effcctual and most easily
executed. The details Of any law
for compulsory education are therefors
of the utmost Importance. If the law be op.
pres5ivc or vexatious IN any of its provisions,
80 as to excite against it the hostility Of tho
ignorant classes for whose benefit it is
intended, it will be virtually impossible 10
carry it into effect. In country the basis OF
whose political system is the Independent
township it is impracticable to carry any law
into effect the details Of which arc in conflict
with the general domestic sense of the citi-
zens. Such laws, when they are passed, after
short period of annoying and rather demor-
alizne contests, remain as dead letters upon
the statute books, to the scandal and the
detriment of good government.


In the State of Illinois, the matter il fr.s
from some of the complications which attend
it here, and the need of some such measure ia
very apparent In 1870, out of an aggregate
population of two millions and half, 8GOO0
could not read, and $4,000 could not write.
making an illiterate total of nearly ten per
centum. This is state Of things which de-
mands the exercise of all legitimate means OF
remedy. The bill proposed seems to be. on the
whole, moderate and prudent measure. If it
is adopted, the whole country will be interested
in watching the success of this attempted
solution of most momentous question, from
a State which has already given us the benefit
of several curious and important studies in
political science
Year: 1874

THE TYPICAL CLOSE or NOBLE LIFE.


We are all naturally inclined to dwell with
a sadly pleasing fOndness on the last words
and the last acts of those who have been en-
deared to us by the ties of a common blood,
the sanctities of friendship, and the intimacies
of daily life. 1t is at the prompting of kin
dred sentiment, in wider form of its mani


festation, that whole people sometimes pause
to catch the dying whispers which fall from
the lips of men who. during their lives, have
filed a conspicuous place in the eyes of their
cOuntrymen. 1t is felt to be in accordance
with the fitness of things that the life Of a
great man, when it comes to be rounded by
the inevitable sleep which awaits alike the
high and the low, the rich and the
Door, should even in its closing scenes
be brought into some such relations with the
prestige of its past career as shall satisfy our
sense of logical cOngruity, and at the same
time present a picture pleasing to the retro
spective fancy. 1t is thus that the rhetoric of
even the Christian church, borrowing inspira-
ton from the touching "reminiscences, as the
Eyangelists record, that its Divine Head was
parted from His disciples at Bethany and car
ried up into heaven while in the word and act
of blessing them, has not disdained to find in
this significant fact fitting emblem of the
infinite and changeless bepevOlence that was
mcarnated in His sacred person.


1t is vain to urge that undue importance is
often attached to the last words of the saints
and sages, the heroes and statesmen who
have blessed and adorned tho epoch in which
their lives were cast. 1t is quite true that the
heroes of humanity are to be judged rather
by the manner of their living than the man
ner of their dying 1t is easy to SEQ that the
last artculate utterances Of even the strongest
man, when in his mortal agony. may be the
expressions rather of physical in1rmity than
of the intellectual and moral vigor which
once dwelt in tho clear brain and tho stout
heart. A Marlborough. without impeachment
of his valOr, may start at Deaths alarms
when the weakness of his body has reacted
on tho cOnstancy of his spirit; and a Pitt,
without dscredit to his patriotism. may plain


lively call for rico water instead Of breathing
Year: 1874

strongost antagonists only words of con-
fidonOe, at least in the integrity of their
motives and the purity Of their purposes m
e., this there is nothing novel. Over and over
again in the history of the Republic it has
been repeated. Let us be thankful that even
Death can extort justice, and rejoice for our
own sake that words of Cancellation and for
giveness can bo spoken. albeit they arc
spoken above the sepulcher
Year: 1874

1t is hardly necessary to say that the widely
circulated Washington report that Mr. Butler
has succeeded in suppressing favorable
report on the repeal of the Sanborn-contract
law is wholly groundless. There must needs
be a powerful lobby organized in the interest
of the shameless grab known as the Sanborn
contracts the only justification of the miser-
able business has been that it was all done
under certain form of law. 1t is now pro-
posed to repeal that law. The lobby will
make desperate fight; and preliminary to
the formation of public opinion is the circua-
ton of the absurd story that the Ways and
Means Committee have decided not to report
in favor of changing the law. On the con-
trary, it is well understood that the Committee
are decidedly in favor of repeal; and it would
be amazing if the House should not be almost
unanimously of the same opinion.
Year: 1874

The letter Of Prof. w. 5. Tyler of Amherst Col
lege from which the following extracts were made
was written to friend, and not intended for publ
cation It's verdict on Bayard Tay yors late remark
able contribution concerning the discovery OF ancient
Troy, is all tho more interesting because Of Prof.
Tyler's well-known standing in the front rank OF
Greek scholars in this country:


THE TRIBUNE has come and have read the article OF
Bayard Taylor with the greatest interest. had just
been reading an article a Greek paper published at
Athens which abstract OF article in the Revue
des Deux Mondes of Paris on the same subject. But
Mr. Taylor has given US more details and madc the
subject clear and luminous. 1t Is the greatest aroheo
logical discovery OF the age The treasures are
real and wonderful, and DR.. Schiemann has opened
mine of new and unexampled wealth IN archaeology. 1t
is a feather in TIE TRIBUNE's cap to have given tho
artice to the public. This is only Of many iustrs
tons Of the enterprise public spirit and wisdom with
which THE TRIBUNE is now conducted. IL was never 20
valuable In tho best day of Mr. Greeley It now is


1t IA scarcely possible TO exaggerate the value to tho
public learned unlearned OF those extras which are
a marked feature Of the present epoch OF TIN
TRIBUNE They In themselves library;
not Of trash poison, like too many
Of the weekes OF the day, but of literary scientific
and religious wisdom, brought within the means aud the
reach OF the poorest and the humblest classes And
the public appreciates, what cannot but admire. the
clear moral sense and right feeling we'll rs the wis
dom and enterprise Of those who now have the man
agenent
Year: 1874

The letter from Paris, which we publish on
our third page this morning. contains some
information in regard to various schemes which
are proposed by members of the Right in the
French Assembly to restrict the popular voting
power. However ardently these members may
desire TO deprive large body of Republicans
of the right of suffrage, there can be no doubt
that they approach the subject with many
misgvings.
Year: 1874

The journey of the funeral train which bore
the remains of Sumner to his native State
seems to have been without marked incident.
But the memorial meeting in Faneuil Hall, OF
which we print full report to-day, was
noble tribute to the great statesman 1t was
fit that these generous utterances should be
made in the old Cradle of Liberty, the scene
of Summers first triumphs, and hallOwed by
the memory of the great names which have
made Massachusetts famous wherever America
is known. To-day the earth will close over
the mortal part of the lamented dead with
such simple ceremonies as we may be sure he
would have chosen for his obsequies.
Year: 1874

1t is enough to know that the Washington


Ring is said TO be delighted with the ap-
pointment Of Senator Stewart as Chairman of
the Congressional Committee of Investigation.
The Senator is friend to whitewash. and he
has local interests which can be easily affected
by the operations of the Ring. The Washing
ton memorialists, who are all interested resi-
dents, would not ask that any of their num-
ber should be put on the Committee which Is
20 try their case. Is it fair that Congress
sI.ould put at the head of that body one who
Year: 1874

In the fr.t place those 900
Rabies belong 10 a sect and
10 a nation who believe and
teach that Christ was an i'm
postor, who believe and teach
the story of the brihed soldiers ,
that the disciples came by
night and stole the body of
Jesus while they slept, "and


this saving is commonly re


ported among the Jews until
this day Now what could be
more natural than for those


Jews who claim that Christ


was an impOstOr, than for them
TO explain away The miracle of
turning water into VII e, on
the theory that there were a
lot oI chopped raisins in those
waterpots, and all The Savior
did, was 10 pour in The water
and draw off the steep, thus
making il no miracle at all
Why those jews would go as
far 10 get rid OF Chrisl's mira


clfs As Mr.. Johnson or Biggs
world to get rid of fermented
wine. Again, suppose for the
sake of the argument that the
Rabbies are correct in regard
to that mode OF making vine
of raisins; what does it prove9
1t simply proves what | have
claimed all The time, to wit:
that they knew no way by
which they could keep the
juice of The grape without fer
mentaiion. But this was not
the kind of wine which the
Savior referred to when he
said @No man putteth new
wine into old bottles II was
not the kind of WINE that he
referred to when he said, "no
man after having drank old
VINE siraiehtway desireih new,
for the old is better" 1t was
not for drinking this kind oI
wine that the Jews called the
Savior a wlneb'bber. It was
not this kind of wine that
Isaiah meant when he said
GAnd in this mountain shall
the Lord of hosts m AXE unto all
people a feast Of fat things, q
feast of wine on the lees; oil
fat things iull of marrow, ol
wine on the lees well refined.
Il was not this kind of wine
that was meant when the com


maud was given ain the holy


place shalt thou cause the
strong wine to be poured unit


the Lord TOR a drink Offering


M. johnson referred 10 MI


Biggs, who took the gr, mt
1 that two kinds of wine wer'