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Year: 1878

The Chicago Times published a asen-
satiOnal letter from st. Louis, to the
effect that all classes are in painful
anticipation of a bloody conflict on
the labor question; that the Socialists
declare they must have a general di-
vision OF property; that the military
fever is prevalent and premises the
gravest results, and that both classes
are earning for the fray" and night.
ly drilling. the workingmen almost as
openl.- as the militia. a.-Pioneer Press.


This is terrible state of affairs.
"A writer to the Cincinnati Enquirer
refers to "the vast bodies of armed
men who are nightly drilling in sc.
cret halls and by-ways," in all the
great cities. He adds:


Processing profound ignorance, my
knight of the jack-plane went on to
state that it was generally understood
and talked among the tramps he had
met that another winter could not
come and find things as they are now;
that revolution must ensue or times
change; that the battle would be be.
tween capital on one side and labor on
the other, and that it was likely to be
preclpltated at any moment. The
above sentiment pervades the minds
OF nine out of every ten idle men
have met. So far as the floating pop
ulation is concerned. they do not seem
to have any very clear idea how the
trouble is to be started, but they will
prove powerful auxiliaries to the
more intelligent commune leaders in
the cities. who are fomenting the
present agitation.


There is but one remedy. 1t is to
produce good times by putting an end
to the contraction Of the currency;
and by giving some reasonable expan-
sion of 'sA currency, that will change
the market from falling to rising
one, revive hope, restore confidence
and set the wheels of industry and
enterprise in motion once more.


The question is shall the lives and
happiness Of hundreds of thousands
Of human beings be sacrificed for a
financial theory! Suppose we raise
troops enough in the country to kill
of the entire idle and turbulent popu-
lation of the cities, cui bono! What
has been gained! Will that bring
prosperity. Will that give work and
and bread


WHAT is there in the land more val
liable than the lives Of the people /!
Why should they be sacrificed to
make dollars more valuablei


1t is q sad state of affairs when Ia.
Dor, which in other countries is the
basis and foundation Of all growth
and prosperity, becomes a source of
danger to the body polite.


There is fearful load Of RESPONSE
bility on the men who consciously in.
ausurated a financial policy which
was 10 increase the powers of capital
by bringing desolation and ruin into a
thousand homes; and which now
threatens untold shames and miseries
to our country.


Such results would not have been
possible if the bulk Of the people had
not been the blind slaves Of an.inua-
tel ~~s1ssc11 ryr.:.s.
Year: 1878

contraction policy has reduced the
great bulk of the people of Indiana:


4. It is within the truth to say
that ''five-sixths of our population
are utterly penniless, and four-ffths
have mortgaged all their future Ia
bOr." Of course this expression
means that if all the property of
debtors was to-day transferred to the
creditors at the cash value it would
bring under the sheriff's hammer, it
would leave five-sixths of the people
without penny's worth of property,
and a balance of debt would be left
hanging over four-fifths of them. SO
large that all the labor they could per-
form during the remainder of their
lives would not produce enough to
pay that debt with its increasing
IiSIIrV
Year: 1878

Money is a measure Of value; yard
sticks are measure Of quantity;
scales are measure of weights.


Suppose the government decreed
that there should be only a limited
number Of yard-sticks, and scales, for
the whole country; and then few
shrewd men bought them all up, and
changed ten per cent. interest for
their use; and every man who bought
or sold had to pay tribute to the own
ers of the yard-sticks and scales be-
fore he could carry on his business.
what effect would it have on trade,
commerce and the prosperity of the
people.
Year: 1878




If death by drowning be inevitable, as
in shipwreck, the easiest way would
be to suck water into the lungs by a
powerful inspiration, as soon as one
went beneath the surface. A person
who had the courage to do this would
probably become almost Immediately
unconscious, and never rise to the sur
face. As soon as the fluid filled his
lungs, all feelings of chilliness and pain
would cease, the indescribable semi-de-
lirium that accompanies anasthesia
would come on, with ringing in the ears
and delightful visions of color and light,
while he would seem to himself to be
gently sinking to rest on the softest of
beds and with the most delightful of
dreams.
Year: 1878

An exchange says that new way for
fastening on ladies' hats is to bore the
tops of their ears, put in gold hoops
and have the hat strings tied through
them. Thus, step by step, we tread the
pathway to perfection, and ere the dark
ness of death envelopes all the world,
man will have utilized his nose in hold
ing up his pants or pulling on his boots.
Year: 1878

The appetite for strong drink in men
has spoiled the lives of more women
ruined more hopes for them, scattered
more fortunes for them, brought to
them more sorrow, shame and hardship
than any other evil that lives. The
country numbers tens-nay, hundreds
of thousands of women who are widows
to-day, and sit in hopeless weeds be-
cause their husbands have been slain by
strong drink There are hundreds of
thousands of homes scattered over the
land, in which women live lives of tor
ture, going through all the changes of
suffering that lie between fear and des-
pair, because those whom they love love
wine better than they do the women
whom they have sworn to love. There
are women by thousands who dread to
hear at the door the step that once
thrilled them with pleasure, because
that step has learned to reel under the
influence of the seductive poison. There
are women groaning with pain while we
write these words, from bruises and bru-
talities inflicted by husbands made mad
by drink. There can be no exaggera-
tion in any statement made in regard to
this matter, because no human imagi-
nation can create anything worse than
the truth The sorrows and horrors of
wife with drunken husband, or a
mother with drunken son, are as near
the realization of hell as can be reached
in this world, at least. The shame, the
indignation, the sorrow, the sense OF
disgrace for herself and her children
the poverty, and not unfrequently the
beggary-the fear and the fact of vio-
lence-the lingering, the lifelong strug-
Gle, and the despair of countless women
with drunken husbands, are enough to
make all women curse wine, and engage
unitedly to oppose it everywhere as the
worst enemy of their sex.


EDUCATION: REFoRM.-The very es-
essence of education is reform.
To educate, in the true sense Of
the term, is to elevate and improve.
This is, indeed, the only means whereby
either the individual or the race, or any
portion of the race, can be raised from
lower to higher estate. All just and
legitimate processes and agencies en-
ployed in promoting morality and relig-
ion and human welfare, in any direction,
are educational processes and agencies.
The preacher of purer and higher code
of ethics, the apostle of an ennobling
religious creed is, and must of necessity
be teacher and an educator. Ed
ucotional Weekly.
Year: 1878

THE Wilcox property on Walnut
street. recently purchased for school
purposes, will be fitted up during the
summer for the accommodation of the
High School and one primary depart
ment, The Board do not propose to
build for the present, as with small
amount of alteration the large dwelling
house on the place can be made service
able for schools. Though not quite so
central as could be wished, finer site
for high school could not be found in
Independence.
Year: 1878

A correspondent Of the Fruit Recorder
.oro. at is well.known fact that
rrspes w that are success in one locality
sre entirely worthless in another. Hence
= il often desirable to change few vines
~ even whole vineyard with as little
Io,s as possible. This eau be done by
arafting, and have the new vines come in
bearing the following year. Keep the
ccious in a cool place where the buds will
otart as little as possible, until the first
flow of sap is over. This will be when
the first leaves have pushed out of the
size of your thumb nail on the vines to
he grated. Then dig down beside the
vine; selecting root of suitable size, say
as large as your finger, cut it off four
inches under ground and cleft-graft the
same as for apples; tie the graft snugly
into the cleft with cotton twine, using no
wax, as that would form cup to hold
the sap which would sour aud kill the
graft. Brace it up straight with stick
or anything which will hold it in place,
and fill up the hole with earth, The two
or three eyes in the graft, leaving the up
per one as near the top of the ground as
possible. The cotton string will rot off
during the summer and leave the graft
free to expand as it grows. The main
vine may be left the first year by prun.
ming it back or training it away so that it
will not interfere with the graft. have
grown Delaware on an Isabella root
twelve feet the first year, which cannot
often be done on its own root. Right
here comes in the question as to the in
huence the stock has ON the graft, or
whether it has any on the quality of the
fruit, or its time Of ripening If it does
this can be easily remedied by layering
the vine the second year after grating
(which | usually do) and as soon as the
cane is we'll rotted it can be cut from the
old vine, thus establishing it upon its own
new healthy root. This process Of graft
ing grapes is fully as sure as grating ap-
pie trees.
Year: 1878

SOFT EGGs.-The cause of the laying of
soft eggs is want of sufficient calcareous
matter and the stimulating effects of
pepper and warm feed. Some wheat
screenings should be given in place of
50 much corn and potatoes, which are too
rich in starch and defective in lime and
other materials needed for eggs. Give
every day to sixty fowls one pint of the
following mixture: A peck of ash OF
burned bones or oyster shells, finely pow
uered, one pound Of flowers of sulphur,
and one peck Of wheat bran. This should
oe mixed with some scalded meal, used
moist, so that the mixture will adhere to it.
Year: 1878

The practice of Sitting the outer bark
of fruit trees perpendicularly has its
friends and enemies. We are of the lat
ter. Il deals with the effect instead of
the cause. The cambium layer is that
from which zone of growth Gin exogen-
GUS plants is annually added both to the
sap-wood and to the inner bark. The
outer bark is finally exfolisted or rent in
fssures and scaled of by the action of
the weather. Trees that are starved in
crease in growth slowly and the outer
bark becomes so indurated as to resist,
to certain extent, their growth by re-
tarding the upward passage of the crude
sap from the root to the leaves and of the
elaborated sap from the leaves downward.
Butwe think 1t may be questioned whether
it is not we'll that its growth should be
retarded. Surely if it is true that tree
becomes "hide- bound" because it is
starved, increasing its size is not going
to remedy the evil, since we do but fur
nish more mouths, so to speak, to be fed
by the same amount of food.


We have seen many trees thus treated
The stems would notiCeably increase in
size the next year or so, but there was no
corresponding evidence of vigor appar.
ent. In most instances it has seemed
to us their vigor was impaired. These
perpendicular Sits, moreover, afford con-
venient Judgments for water or moisture,
and insects seek such crevices for shelter
or for depositing their eggs. 1t seems to
US that the natural remedy for hide. bound
trees is to enrich the earth as far as the
roots extend, and that then the cambium
layer, increased in quantity and in nutri-
ment, will so form new liber and albur.
mum that the outer bark must expand
and the stem soon become evenly and suf-
tcently deveIoped.-RuraI Nslo Yorker.
Year: 1878

By flowers, understand faith; by fruit,
good works. AS the flower or blossom is
before the fruit, So is faith before good
works; so neither is the fruit without
the flower, nor good works without food.
-QudrLes.
Year: 1878

vi


~ What English prisons were before the
time of John Howard and Elizabeth Fry
FORMS . scandal to humanity itself. The
early days of the transportation system
In the hulks and in the Australian colonies
Ito considerable extent recalled these
horrors; but it should be said that in course
Of time they received great mitigation.
transportation had the effect Of exiling q
large proportion Of the dangerous classes
from the country; and it is still qeestion
among jurists whether It is not the best
kind of long sentences. But the time came
when the Australian colonies, with the ex-
ception Of West Australia, resolutely re-
fused to admit any further convicts. The
Government of the day was thrown into
state Of very serious perplexity. Almost
accidentally, and very gradually, the sys-
tenn of penal servitude grew up. It so
happened that some years before the point
of extreme difficulty had been reached a
Select Committee on Harbors of Refuge,
had recommended tire construction of the
Portland Breakwater, to secure a naval
station in war, and ito afford shelter and
safety to the commercial marine in the
long line of coast extending from Plymouth
and Torbay to Portsmouth and the Downs"
A large amount of convict labor was now
atthe disposal of the Government. Buildings
were run up for the accommodation of a
thousand convicts and after the founda-
ton of the Portland Breakwater had been
laid by the the Prince Consort the great
work was proceeded with. It was found
that another vast prison might easily be
made available. At Princes Town, in the
heart of Dartmoor, was an immense range
of buildings which had been used for
French prisoners during the long Cont.
mental war. The huge barracks were fall
ing into ruins; in places the roof was
blown off, and the wall blown in. A batch
of convicts were sent down to make the
place inhabitable, while proper buildings on
the approved plan was to be constructed.
The plan was also designed to construct up
the Medway chain of artificial basins,
that would be able to contain our feet. A
large prison was constructed at Chatham,
and since then another at Portsmouth,
where immense public works have been
taken in hand. In 1852, the transporta-
ton system was definitely surrendered, and
the new punishment, with the correspond
ing new term of ''penal servitude,' was
invented. In 1868 Royal Commission
was appointed to examine into the working
Of the system, and one result of the act
of Parliament based upon its report was,
that no sentence in future was to be for
term less than five years.-AN the Year
Round. >
Year: 1878

regiment Of infantry was coming down


strada. II do not describe this regi


! as the very poorest regiment In the


h, II is because 1t was precisely like


v other body Of italian soldiery that


he seen. The men were small, spin.


legged, and slouchy. One might have


h them for raw recruits If their badly
be- white-duck uniform bad not shown
l of veteran service. As they wheeled


the Chiatamone, each man trudging


at his own gait, they looked


d flock Of sheep. The bobbing mass


led to my mind-by that law of con-


les which makes one thing suggest an


totally different t-the compact, grand


b of the New York Seventh Regiment


swept up Broadway the morning it
tned from Pennsylvania at the close Of


lraft riots in 1868. If the National
rds had shuffled by in the loose Carl
ian fashion New Yok would not have
! with go keen a sense Of security as it
! That July night. The room directly
br mine was occupied by a young Eng
lady, who, attracted by the roll of the
Eps, stepped out on her balcony just as
head of the column reached the hotel.
er innocent desire to witness the mill


display she probably had no anticipa.
of the tender fusilade she would have
pdergo. That the Colonel should give


fair stranger a half-furtive salute, in
eh he cut nothing in two with his sabre,


well enough; but that was no reason


every mothers son in each platoon
id look up at the balcony as he passed,
then turn and glance back at her over


houlder. Yet this singular military
|ution, which I cannot find set down
vhere in Hardee's Tactics, was per-
led by every man in the regiment.


these 1000 or !, 200 warriors refrained
! kissing their hands to the blonde


shows the severe discipline which
|ails in the Italian Army. Possibly
|e was not man of them, from the
bnels valet down to the Colonel him
who did not march off with the con-
on that he had pierced that blue mus
Rrapper somewhere in the region of
left breast. I must say that the
est young English-woman stood this
|ading fire admirably, though it made
ke and red roses of her complexion.
rear of the column was brought up,
emphasized, if I may say it, by an
hmation point in the shape of per-
Ice SO richly gilded and of such gor-
Is plumage that should instantly have
Ipted him as the King of Italy if had
! long ago discovered that fine feathers
bot always make fine birds. It was


the regimental physician. Of course,
bssed up a couple of pill-like eyes to
balcony as he struggled by, with the
be standing out horizontally-like that


line of black smoke which just then
! Iht my attention in the ofing. Atlantic
tAy.
Year: 1878

No machinery being used in their manu-.
facture and will be Of the BEST MATER
IAL, and made by the best workmen, and
under his own supervision. I shall sell
these goods at prices very little higher than
machine made shoes. E70 is arr
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE treasury off,
cials in charge of the life saving service say
that there is no truth in the allegations pub
lishsd in several instances that the protests
which have been presented In the Senate from
all parts of the country against the proposed
transfer OF the service to the Navy Department
we're prepared here and sent out broadcast for
signatures. They also declare that there is no
truth in the statement that the remonstrances
are all alike and from the same sources, and
say that the falsity of the statement Is shown by
the following remark of Senator Conkling in
the Senate on the eleventh instant:


Having scrutinized the memorials on this
subject very carefully. have never known IN
instance In which there was a more total alb.
sence OF the appearnce OF an organized effort
than there is among the officers of the boards
Of trade the ship owners the ships sailors and
the many different cla -ses Of people who have
united 80 numerousyin protesting against this
proposed change"


The officials Of the service pertinently. ask
whether 1t fs probable that they control the Leg
islature of New jersey, which. almost imme-
diately after the Introduction Of Senator Sar-
gents bill. passed in single day. by nearly O
unanimous vote. q resolution instructfng the
Senators and Representatives of the State in
Congress to resist the proposed transfer.


They declare the fact to be that there is q COM
plete unanimity Of feeling upon the sea and
lake coast whore the service Is established and
where its achievements are tborougly known,
against the transfer. and that this fact explains
whatever similarity there may be In the re-
mOnStranCes.
Year: 1878

CHICAGO, March 1.-THE Mayor and heads Of
the various departments have finally concluded
working force Of the fire department, but to
dismiss thirty five Of the watehmen connected
herewith. They have also finally determined
to dismiss only eighty five Of the patrolmen OF
the police force
Year: 1878

TheliCOnsOlation oil harn ithhes'


The Cincinnati Commercial Of yesterday
has an article on "the bright side Of hard
times" that contains some excellent
points as food for reflection. Alter refer
ring lat some length to the great crisis
through which the country has passed and
isstill passing, j, goes on to make the iol.
lowing remarks "As the atmosphere is
always purer and clearer after every
great storm, so the tone Of our CONNER
cial and social life will be better after
the severe reyulsions through which
wa are now passing. In every city
Of the country, where men are wise and
women thoughtful, the christening effect
Of adversity is being felt. One good re-
suit must be that less respect will be paid
to mere wealth and outward display,
while honest labor and exertion will be
rewarded with their proper need Of
praise and consideration. The habits Of
thrift and economy, too, enforced by mar
row circumstances, will have their value
in checking that frightiul waste which
has so long characterized our American
life. That m average family in our
cities actually wastes more than ii con.
sumes may appear asLartling paradox to
some unrelectiug persons; yet, by the tes'
timOny Of competent observers the para.
dOx may be proved a literal fact as re.
garlI many households. While it ia to
be hoped that the day is far distant when
any in this beautiful country should long
want for bread, ii ia undeniably true that
the want Of comforts and even necesaries
is Just the wholesome spur which some
people need to teach them the beneficial
lesson which IE4opS ami tauEht to the
grasshOpper in the fable. Too great a
contempt for small savings and reck-
lessncsa Of personal and household ex'
penditure arc great sources Of after'em-
barrassments TO mullitudes."
Year: 1878

sled would be safe. They ran few
yards and stopped, just as our. whole
party came up. out of breath, carrying
their weapons and inquiring for the
mailman. | pointed to the top of the
load and one of the men climbed up and
found him dead. His back had been
broken.


inquired for Jim, and was informed
that the mailman had crept upon him as
he was walking by the side of his team,
and had killed him with heavy beetle,
and thrown his body against tree.


The parents of young Hayden were
wild with grief, and blamed us all Sc
verely. He was their oldest son and
chief support.


We advertised the death of the maniac
in the nearest city papers. and week
or ten days afterward heard from his
relatives.


lie had been wealthy physician of
New York State, with a large practice.
but had lost his reason through giving
a patient poison by mistake.


On hearing of Jim's death the brother
of the maniac made the Haydens pres
eEt of five thousand dollars. He also
paid for all the damage his brother had
done elsewhere.


After everything had been settled we
went back to our logging, and although
we were very successful, that winter
was the dark one of my life.
Year: 1878

During the journey of the Emperor
Joseph III to Italy, one of the wheels of
his coach broke down on the road, SC
that it was with difficulty that he
reached small village at a short dis
tance. On his arrival there His Majes-
ty got out at the door of the only
blacksmith's shop the town afforded,
and desired him to repair the wheel
without delay.


"That l would do willingly" replied
the smith, "but it being holiday all my
men are at church; the very boy who
blows the bellows is not at home"


IAN excellent method then presents
itself of warming oneself" replied the
Emperor, preserving his incognito;
and he Immediately set about blowing
the bellows, while the blacksmith
forged the iron. The wheel being re-
paired, six soils were demanded for the
job, but the Emperor gave six ducats.
The blacksmith returned them 20 the
traveller, saying:


"Sir, you have made mistake; and
instead of six soils you have given me
six pieces of gold, which no one in the
village can change"


"Change them when and where you
will, said the Emperor, stepping into
his carriage; San emperor should pay
foi such pleasure as that of blowing
she bellows"