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Year: 1874

Dio Lewis claims that sixty per. cent Of the


fashionable wine drinking of Boston has been
stopped by his lectures and other temperance
work. He should now go for the other forty
like sixty.-LoWeH Courier.
Year: 1874

When the timorous trout l wait


To take and he devours my bait,


How poor thing sometimes find,


Will captivate greedy mind.


And when none bite, praise the wise,


Whom vain allurements neer surprise.
If he had not been very moral fisherman,
he never would have thought of singing a
song like that.-Paul Fort in ST. Nicholas
for September.
Year: 1874

From Washington we have the extraordina.
ry statement thatit has been discovered that
Secretary Richardson has withheld from the
House all Information relative to an early ap.
plication for a contract under what is known
as the Sanborn-contract law. We say this is
extraordinary yet it is exactly in consonance
with all ofthe nefariJus proceedings under the
law of May Sth, 1872. 1t is clear that the act
was passed for the benefit of the Butler San
born Ring. Mr.. Butler was then the advocate
as he is now the defender of that fruitful
scheme Sanborn was the only man who made
much out of the jobs-except those with whom
he divided. Now It is asserted that the first
applicant for a contract under the law of 1872
was put off until the Sanborn party were given
the contracts and then the legal limit Of the
number Of contr actors had been reached. The
Secretary said, a few weeks ago, that he had
sent TO Congress all documents bearing ON this
business. But he did not send the papers in
the case of the first application under the law
Why not?-Ty,bune.
Year: 1874

THE PUBLIC DEBT OF PH1LADELPuIA.-Ibe
Philadelphia Inquirer says:


"The public debt of Philadelphia to-day is not
less than sixty millions of dollars or only third
less than was the entire debt of the United States
In March, 1901, and more than double the total
Indebtedness of the State of Pennsylvania al tie
present time


The Inquirer then goes on to relate that on
Saturday there was secret meeting of represen-
tatives OF our city and State governments, the
result OF which has transpired, VIZ:


"a proposition to increase the municipal debt
TO such all extent to place the properly of eve
ry citizen in peril OF being nearly if not quite
absorbed by taxation"


That is just what the Council Ring of vii.
mington will do il not held in check by the peo.
pie.
Year: 1874

IUi 'hpSess
New ladies. sec here let us reason together
Why is it we wear such extrayagant dress
We carry about us-udecd Pm not joking
About ne much freight as Boston express.
Indeed tits quite shocking, from hat down to


stocking,


Our dresses are made in pucker and muss
To carry such burdens, o dear, It's provoking
Ia sell tho whole thing for calico dress


CHORUS.
Now ladies, 90 buy it-now ladies, we'll try it
think we can do with much less;
So lot every beauty be doing her duty,
And be "queen of hearts" in a calico dress
Just look, if you will, at our trimmings and trap


pings,


'Tis enough to set decent folks into fit,
Why twenty five yards is small pattern tor
really believe we are losing our wit
We have such passion, to be in the fashion,
To look gay and stylish, and-hand:one, |


guess,
No preaching will stop this eStravagant folly
Unless it Is done in calico dress.
We're covered with lounces, and Fuckers, and


paners,


And then add to these Tremendous long trail,
Who wonders we stagger and reel when we're


walking,


Just like a small ship with deal too much


sail.
Eternally stitching, it must be bewitching,
We've no time for thinking, and reading much


less
woman is mover more charming and pretty
Than when she has n neat calico dress.
Just think of our grandmothers-ble their old


pictures!


1t took only SIR yards to make them dress;
They looked Just as sweet as a bed of June roses,
And as tidy as if they'd just come from the


press.
There was no need of hurry, and no need Of worry,
Their dresses were few, aud their fashions were


loss,
And when Sunday came they were ready fol


meeting,


To worship and praise in calico dress.
! bless the old sage, in his wisdom and knowl


edge,


Who invented thing of such beauty and ease
For ten cents yard y, who cannot afford ity
A nice fitting garment that cannot but please
And then tis pleasure, to have such a treasure
Indeed, I'm quite anxious this truth to i'm


press
And if ever | marry again-t M not joking
tell YOU twill bo in q calico dress
Year: 1874

A TnuE SroRY.-Two or three weeks
ago, says the New York 1riJune, an ac-
cdent did not occur near Scranton, Penn. (;
the newspapers missed sensational hor-
ror ; and dozen men, Instead Of being
hurled into eternity without having time
to breathe prayer, walked quietly home
to their dinners, quite unconscious that
Death had had them by the throats. 1t
might, after all, be worth our while 10
look into the cause OF the loss of this
tragedy to the world we should have
been keen enough TO unearth the guilty
party if it had occurred. The facts are
briefly these


In the largest anthracite coal mine in
the State the care Of the engine by which
the cars for passengers are lowered and
hoisted is placed in the hands Of a Scotch
Irishman, an ordinary fellow enough
The cable necessarily Of great weight aud
thickness, passes through the roof Of a
slightly bull; shed under which he stands.
One morning, as the man stood smoking
his pipe. his hand upon the lever, his
mind very probably busy with his dinner,
and assuredly not wrought up to any he.
roic rapture Of resolve, the ascending car
1oaded with coal) at one end Of the cable
broke, and fell crashing into the dark
shaft, to be shattered into thousand
fragments. lie knew that in the next
minute the cable,reeased iiom the strain,
would fly back and fall with crushing
weight on the ricke,y beams and boards
if he did not escape from the shed. But
# he took his hand from the lever, the de-
scending car, full Of men, must fall one
or two hundred feet. He had but one
instant to face his death and theirs, and
to choose between them. There was a
boy in the back Of the shed; the man
motioned to him with his head to 90 out.
Then he tightened his hold ON the lever.
The loosened cable struck and caught
somewhere below against the side Of the
shaft. Surely God meant it should so
strike 1t was the delay of but breath
of time ; but it was enough. The car
grated with a jar against the ground far
below its occupants stepped leisurely
ont, while the man who had saved them
above threw himself from under the shed
just as its roof, beams, pulley, and all
crashed down on the spot where he had
been standing.


We do not know the mans name, and
should scarcely need to publish it if We
did. Fame or reward jar somehow against
the deed itself There is wholesome
tonic for all Of US in the certainty which
is forced upon us now and then, Of the
unknown. unmeasured resources Of cour.
age and herosm and unilinching integri
ty to duty which we possess among what
we choose TO call the mass Of the people
1t is, after all, only when man reaches
the certainties Of middle age that he is
not surprised every new day by the
knowledge of how admirable crew hal
been put into the world for its long voy'
age; how many Of tho women are gra.
cious and finely natured how many mer
respond promptly to the call of honesty
or duty or even sell.sacrice because il
is the simple AMI uat1ral thing for then
to do so.


We will congratulate ourselves, then
not that this class can boast one sucl
brave follow as this Scotch Irish engineer
but that, like King Harry over Percy
grave, we believe that it "has thousau'
such as he "
Year: 1874

poor. people for support. So much
for Republican blessings to the peo;
pie!


There is one man, one editor in
the country, who thinks as you and
l do, Maggy. 1 wish every editor
in the country thought so. | wish
all the papers of the country would
say with you and /, Maggy, that it
is wrong to favor the rich and op.
press the poor. There is one man
in the country who dares talk bold.
ly, as he does, wlren he says that it
is cowardly, wicked, unjust and
daihnable to build up abondocracy
at the expense of labor. It is COW
a,dly to send, to hire, TO drive, to
entice poor men to waff; to buy, bar
ter and traffic on their poverty and
their wants; to send them to the
harvest of death, and while they
are gone steal from them what they
had; to bring them back slaves,
bound in debt. Call you this equal
ity? Is this the realization of the
promise liberty gave7 Is this what
we gain by .forsakiug Democracy
and building up dn accursed Repub-
licanism which grinds the lite out
of poor men! Oh! it is a shame; .
disgrace; an insult to white men; a
dishonor to the soldiers ofthe Union;
a burning, bitter wrong to the poor
white women of America that the
only true patriots should be, by a
Republican Congress-, made the
toiling slaves cowardlyboadhold-
ing aristocracy, who dance, and
ride, and sing, and dress in fashion
on the blood and sweat of tMling
millions. Oh! would that some
man would dare lead the way to a
remedy for this damnable disease 5;
for the hardy sons of toll Will not
long be slaves-God never gave to
white coward the right to grow
rich from anW he supported by the
earnings of those whose only crime
is poverty. Give us equal taration
or REPUTATION.
Year: 1874

W The Louisville Ledger says :
i" If the Kellogg usurpation in Louisi-
ana is to be sustained, and stand as a
precedent in the management OF pub
lie affairs in this country, then there
is no law but power, and no right
but might .-
Year: 1874

DISCOVERY FOR WHICH WE ARE INDEBTED TO THE


PRINoIPALrTY OF WALES.


Sands, the circus proprietor, WAS the first to
clip horses in this country, in 1874. There was
opposition to the practice at first but experience
proved that clipped horses escaped many mala-
dies to which the animal is subject, such for ex-
ample as the colds that are taken from the con-
gealing OF perspiration under a thick coat Of
hair. The clipped horse does not perspire so
freely as the animal whose hair is suffered to
grow he is therefore less likely to take cold af-
ter heating drive in freezing atmosphere.
Moreover, the clipped horses skin is more easily
kept clean This is the time Of clipping for the
winter, and at many establishments IN this city
the work if done with machines under the pres.
sure OF extensive patronage. A knife is made
70 reyolve over comb cutting off the hair even
" as 1t projects above the teeth. Thus rapidity
and eyenness Of clipping are secured, and there
Year: 1874




BY the adoption OF the report of the Commit
tee on Fire Companies, printed in full in our
news columns, the City Council has committed
itself to a very important recommendation which
is therein contained. 1t is advised in the report
that in the event of the selection Of a more
available point for the location of the ire-watch
than on the top of the City Hall, the means
whereby he may give an instantaneous alarm
from the several engine houses upon the dis
covery of fire be provided. The plan recon-
mended is simple one, and is said to be both
effective and cheap 1t consists simply Of an
electrical appliance, with batteries and wires
not unlike the telegraphic facilities Of the pres
ent day. These wires, in the plan proposed,
are to be under the control of the fire-watch,
and by the working Of key board, or some sim
liar device, he will be enabled to sound an alarm
which will be heard in all parts of the city, it be-
ing rung of from all the fire bells at the same
time.


This plan will obviate one very great cause Of
complaint, viz the inability Of our citizens
generally to hear the fire alarms- Those who
reside beyond the business portion of the city
but seldom are aware OF the existence OF fire
until it is all over, unless they may chance
to see the illumination which
it produces. There have ever
been instances wherein the business places
Of men who are remote from the centre OF the
city have been burning while they are at hom'
all unconscious. of it. With q few more bells, o.
even the erection Of the large bell which the cit,
already possesses at some convenient point il
the northern part of the city, and their connec
ton with the fire. watch in the manner proposed
there is no reason why all our citizens shoul
not be apprised Of fires, and the owners or occu
pants Of burning buildings be brought to tn
scene to counsel and advise with the fremen i
the preservation of what property may be save
from the general destruction. There is gres
need for Improvement in this matter, and VIII
not.adopt some of the more improved methods
They will be found to be far more economics
in the end, and to furnish much greater satii
faction. The plan proposed may not be th
best one which could be adopted it is the be-
which has been suggested in the present cond
ton of the city finances, and should be careful
investigated and weighed by counsel.
Year: 1874

The Cabinet meeting yesterday was occupied
solely with the Louisiana question. 1t is under
stood that the Attorney General asserted the ne
cesaity Of sustaining the Returning Board at all
hazards, and declared its decisions fright in law
and in fact The Cabinet, however, reached
no decision on the subject
Year: 1874

The proposition to require the police to light
the city lamps has taken definite shape, and an
ordinance was introduced in Council, last night,
and read twice, requiring the performance of
this duty by these officers. On tomorrow even
ing the subject will probably come up for final
consideration, and as Council is divided on the
question some sharp discussion may be antci-
pated
Year: 1874

against accordingly. There seen,s to be
total Absence OF motive. The man is


evidently industrious and thrifty. He had ac-
cumuated enough to purchase the three tene-
mcuts; that he rented them judicious]y is shown
by the heavy rents ho received. He put the case
strongly when he showed that his rent for one
year exceeded tho aggregate insurance; that he
had just renewed his 1eaeo. and was fully aware
that if the buildings burned lie could only replace
them With more costly brick ones. These facts
eeem to exclude the theory Of firing the premises
to got the insurance-money; such an operation
would have been losing one in a pecuniary
way While it is desirable that any person
guilty OF the horrible crime OF areon shall be
convicted aud punished, it is equally important
that mere neighborhood clamor and dislike shall
not be permitted to usurp the functions Of JUS
tice. A conviction for araon, when the case is
clear, will alone Justify such a punlehment AZ
will exercise deterrent influence.
Year: 1874

The millers laughed while the far
mer.s cried. Now their turn has come.
The railroads have raised the rate on
-four so high that they contemplate
shutting up their mills, and they howl
pitifully.


Wouldn't it be well, gentlemen. to
join the clod-hoppers and the dema-
gogues and try to regulate railroad
charges Wouldn't you like little
communism in yours? Hey


st is ill suppipg with the devil with
out a long spoon" The railroad cor
porations care no more for you than
they do for the farmers, however much
your vanity inclined you to think other
wise. Your spoon isn't long enough.
You will yet learn that the interests Of
the despised men in buffalo coats and
snow-packs is the interest of the whole
people, and that none but fools doubt
Year: 1874

Last winter. in the Senate, we took
the ground that the United States was
the owner Of the fee of all Indian Res
ervations, and that the Irdians had on
ly the right to use the same without
committing waste thereon; and hence
that the Cbippeway Indians had no
right to sell the pine timber On the
Leech Lake and Red Lake Reserva-
tions: but that the same, with the soil
on which it grew, belonged to the Ma
ton and that the Nation had donated
one-sixteenth Of it to the State for
school purposes, and that said pretend
ed sales of pine timber were in viola
ton Of the rights of the State and the
school-fund. The lawyers of the Sen
ate were surprised to hear . man who
depended for his livelihood on raising
crops of wheat, oats, corn, &C.; talk
ing about questions Of constitutional
law: and some took direct issue WItf
US, with not a little superb conteznp


expressed on lip and brow. They
could not believe it possible that > maj
who couldn't tax bill of costs shoult
pretend to know anything upon An,
subject, much less the Constitution Q


the United States; and many storm.


discussion we had upon this nice point
But .sthere is justice in history, an
Year: 1874

as Shakespeare says tthe end tries the
man" snd we would now call the at
tention Of our Senatorial brethren to q
recent decision Of the Supreme Court
Of the United States which clearly af-
firms every position we took in those
debates, and which wipes out al those
pretended contracts for the sale OF tim
Der on Indian Reservations.


Now if We had an s'organ, like Ram
sey; or half-a-dozen piebald onesr like
Bill King, we should have had the fore
going point duly presented in an imper-
sonal and genteel manner; but having
nothing Of the sort. we are constrained
to blurt it out ourself, conscious that II
we did not call attention to our OWE
merits in this particular, no one else
would; and hence our Senatorial
bretheren might continue to underrate
us and overrate themselves, and thus
the true balance and equilibrium Of ma
ture suffer.
Year: 1874

One reason why the St. Paul Press
is in favor Of Republi can caucus is
this, the caucus is something not recog-
nized by the law, mere political con-
triyance, and if q member Of the Leg
islature sells his vote in the caucus he
cannot be punished for bribery. But
if Ramsey spends $4,000 this time,
and has to bny men to vote for him d.
rectly in the Legislature, then both he
and the men so bought will run great
risk of the penitentiary. Since the
Pomeroy exposure the use of money
will be attended with great risk: no
man knows where another York may
arise: men who give or take bribes will
be followed up; there is feeling
abroad that will not bear trifiing with.


Moreover in all Republican caucuses
they vote by ballot; in the Legislature
they respond to their names and state
what candidate they vote for. In the
caucus corrupt man can secretly sell
out his constituents, and then claim
that he was obliged by party discipline
to vote in the Legislature for the choice
of the caucus.
Year: 1874

pound with sin, they will worship some
golden calf, stuffed full Of the plunder
of widows and orphans. they will not
dare to shrek out the protest OF Christ
in the face of guilty Mammon.


The true preacher of to-day is the
stump speaker, who, amid abuse and
denunciation. goes around preaching
the truth to the multitude, as Paul did
of old, and Fighting with wild beasts
at Ephesus, after the manner of men. =
And then comes the sleek and graceful
minister, to take up the raveled threads
of the argument and weave them into a
silken garment Of harmless beauty.


Come to the front, gentlemen of the
gospel. If the preservation of society
from the universal centagion of corrup-
ton concerns the cause of virtue and
religion, let your denunciations
play around the guilty like
the lightnings Of God around the brow
of Ararat. Spit the saw dust out Of
your mouths, and tell the people thei1
duty as voters be fore the election, not
after 1t. 1t is pitiful to see cowardlct
even in politician, yet there is some
excuse for him; his trade is policy


but in the servants of God, who speaE
from the highest plane of the visible
world, to truckle and crawl and cring'


before successful knavery and villainy
is sight to make both God and mar
weep. But too often the church illus.


trates the splendid language of tn


poet


"Plate sin with gold


And the strong arm of fjustice hurtless falls
| Clothe it in rags, pigmy's straw can pierc
il -
Year: 1874

If gold should Jump up as it did In Eliza


beth's time. through the lowering Of the


standard, it would be as bad as paper. be
cause it would miss the one quality that
people rely upon--permanency of value.
The American currency is not to be trust
ed. II has destroyed its one great func-


tion--that of being a guarantee to the
taker of it that he will get things of equal


value Nothing is more abominable than


going to dealer and being compelled to
ask the relative prices of gold and currency.
It Iii is the same as asking Of a ship, us she
half rotten, or wholly rotten?


q. Is the common dread of contraction
among our people well founded?


A. Not at all. There is great confusion
in the meaning of the word money. Very
little Of the business of these great modern
nations is transacted by money proper
bycurrency. tits mere trife, mere change
The money is not the thing lent by banks
or by lenders. Do you suppose if | want
ed to borrow 100000 of my banker in
London for mercantile operation 1 should
touch one sovereign or bank note? Do you
suppose the trade between England and
the United States is done by currency 2
Do you suppose the grain of the Western
men is paid for in currency? 1t is fatal
fallacy to identify currency--the means of
property-with the property
itself which is exchanged, Trade is an ex-
chage of property. The money is very
necessary as a measure, but 1t is not the
trade.


@. You don't think there is anything to
be said in favor of the usury laws in this
or any other country?


A. Laws limiting interest are not only
bad, but absurd. They are always evaded.
The are mischievous and nonsensical.
Your banks here are limited to per cent.
When the loan of money is really worth
more than per cent, then people don't
90 to the banks, but somewhere else,
You cant get anything for less than it is
worth.
Year: 1874

To give information to farmers outside
the Grange who may desire to understand
the object the Order has in view, We
avail ourselves of an extract from the
proceedings of the National Grange,
1874, wherein they are truly aud terse-
ly set forth:


"To develop better and higher man
hood and womanhood among ourselves.
To enhance the comforts and attractions Of
our homes, and strengthen our attachments
to our pursuits. TO foster mutual under
standing and cooperation. To maintain
inviolare our laws, and to emulate each
other in labor. To reduce our expenses
both individual and corporate. To buy
less and produce more, in order to make
our farms self-sustaining. To diversity
our crops, and crop no more than we can
cultivate. To systematic our work, and
calculate intelligently on probabilities. To
discountenance the credit system, the mort
gage system, the fashion system, and every
other system tending to prodigality and
bankruptcy.


A rich public treasury makes poor
people.


Every dollar paid into the public
treasury above the actual, economical
expenses Of the State is squandered
and lost to the people.-Adam Smith,


The Legislature last winter fired off
a howitzer loaded to the muzzle with
tax laws to knock over a few wealthy
delinquents The delinquents paid up
and got out Of the way, but the charge
scattered and will slaughter thousands of
poor.


A law which con6scates a mans
property for few dollars of tax is un-
just, but a law which prohibits the man
from transferring his property till the
taxes are paid is just and right: for the
State has legal lien upon it which
should be satisfied.


The legislature passed law to spend
$25, 900 for seed to aid the destitute;
then passed another law to take away
land and crops if the taxes were not
paid before the crops ripen.
Year: 1874

No people in the world is 80 ready
to seize upon labor saving machinery as
the Americans. The prejudice which
long existed has worn away completely,
and now every invention has a fair
show upon its merits.


The Scientific american for May 3Oth
has description and illustration Of a
newly improved Road and Farm Lo-
comotive," !" which took the Prize Medal
at the Great Vienna Exhibition last
fall. There is also published a report
from the President of the Telford paw
ing Company in New York. He has
two of them in use, and finds they do
hauling at one-third the cost Of teams
at SIS per day including driver.


1t seems to US an investigation into
the cost and working Of this new wagon
would be appropriate to interest
Oranges.


IF six horse engine will do the
work Of eighteen horses, then any one
can readily figure up the load the en-
CINE would carry to maket. =,.sE