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Year: 1879

Now that Senator EDMUNDs has gone to
Europe we should if Senator THURMAN is
q truthful man, have no more yetoes, for
according to the THURMAN theory, there is
no one left to inspire them, But Mr.. THUR
MAN is not a truthful man in this regard,
at least The inspiration of the Presidents
course proceeds from his amiably obstinate
devotion to his ideas Of right and wrong
TO a determination, in short, that 4" Il bare
majority" Of Congress shall not usurp all
the powers and functions of the Govern
meut So long as he is President he does
not intend to yield the duties and power of
the Office to the control of the Bourbon
caucus.
Year: 1879

AN ATTEMPT will be made at the coming ses-
sion of Congress to gradually retire the lega,
tender notes. A republican member of Congress
now. III the city has a bill providing for such re
tirement already drawn up.
Year: 1879

If more money were needed in this
country, as some fancy, we should have
more. For we use specie, and our prices
are gold prices. When the level is lower
here than elsewhere, gold will flow in
when it is higher, gold will flow out.
Resumption has cut away the barrier
between our money and that of the rest
of the world, and now, if we want more,
more will come. There is plan to cut
through the sands which separate the
sea from the great African desert.
Streams of some size now flow into that
low basin, but are lost in its sands. Let
in the waters of all the oceans. engineers
say, and Il new sea will I've created, and
kept always full. Resumption of specie
payments in this country was feat of
the same sort. 1t opened to us all the
specie of the world, which will now reg
ulate our supply according to our needs.
In place Of dreary desert of stagnation,
it has brought new life, and thrift, and
commerce. The African sea will have
two sources of supply, the ocean and the
rivers that flow into the basin. Our cur
rency also has a double supply; it is
open to the worlds monetary ocean, and
streams Of new notes without limit can
be poured into it by the banks. Of an
excess of notes, there is possibility.
Notes might so multiply as to fall in
value, stop redemption, and drive out
specie. How far we are guarded against
that danger will be asked hereafter.
But of Il lack Of currency, as long as
notes are paid in gold on demand, there
is no possibility. If more notes are
though to be needed for local use, the
banks will issue them. If more specie
is needed, either for circulation in addi-
tion to the notes, OF as Il reserve against
legal tenders, it will come under natural
laws, and according to our needs.


This is not fancy, but fact, as our ex-
perience fully proves. Resumption has
come, because the barrier of false prices
was cut away between the industries of
this and other countries, so that gold
was brought hither. and the yield from
our mines was kept here. The cost of
raising wheat, corn and cotton, of pro-
ducing provisions, petroleum and other
articles, and of moving them to the sea,
was so reduced, and the yield of them
was so increaeed, that it became more
profitable to send them abroad than
gold. So we paid off foreign debts with
our products, and in the process gave
good work to hosts of men who had
been idle, and piled up the gold from
our mines and from abroad until all
doubt that the United States could pay
its notes was removed. Until we have
an excess of money, prices must remain
at such u level that we shall sell more
to other nations than we buy from them,
and more debts will be paid, or more
gold will come from abroad So foreign
debts amounting to many millions have
been paid since the year began, and some
shipments of gold from Paris and Lon
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, September 17.-At no
time since the October elections of 1872,
has there been such profound discourage
ment among the Democrats at the Ma
tional Capital as now. Some of the more
sanguine of the party attempt to take
courage from the old adage that the
darkest hour is just before the day


They say that if this be true, there is
every reason for hopefulness. Their
chances of success in next year are re-
garded as forty per cent. less than a
month ago. III speaking of this,a promi-
nent Democrat here says that had they
won California and Name, they would
have swept the country, or enough of it
to put them in power next year. But he
says they have received three stunning
blows to begin with-first the California
election, second The Maine election, and
third, the split of New York Demo
cracy, which is equal to defeat to begin
with. All this taken together, makes a
bad outlook for the Democracy at the
very time when they wish most to have
a show of strength. It's regarded here.
however, that the Democrats have one
thing to be thankful for at least, and
that is that the general Congressional
elections do not occur this fall, else they
would almost certainly lose Congress, as
is pretty truly indicated in California
and in Maine.--Cincinnati Commercial.
Year: 1879

don to New York have been made since
August l. Even if there should be an
excess of money here, the first effect


would be an undue advance in prices
the country would sell less and buy


more; gold would soon be wanted for
export, and some notes would be hand
ed in for payment. In short time legal
tenders would grow scarce, and prices


would fall back to proper level. Thus
some shipments of gold to Europe in
June We're each preceded, within day
or two, by closely corresponding redemp-
ton of notes at the Treasury, and, small
as the movement was, it probably help
ed to stop too rapid advance in prices
of which there had been signs. As long
as notes are redeemed on demand in
gold. it may be hoped that our currency
will have the self-regulating faculty of
hard money, which never loses the one
royal virtue of going surely and swiftly
where it is needed.


As long as prices here are ruled by
this great regulator of the worlds mark
cts. industry rnd trade will have a
healthy growth. OF growth that was
not healthy, we had more than enough
in the times of bad money and false
prices. Vast sums were worse than
wasted in making or growing things
that could not be sold, in laying too
many miles Of railroad. opening too
many coal mines, and building too many
iron and other mills. What good would
it do to bring into country settlement
ten lawyers, or twenty blacksmiths,
where one could do all the work? Bad
money and ill-regulated prices gave un-
due profits to some kinds of industry or
trade-to middle-men aud transporters
especially. Thus more means and more
labor were drawn into the very channels
where they were least needed, and our
industry went on from bad to worse,
getting more ill-adjusted every year, un-
til the crash came. Long prOstration
has forced return to a more healthy
proportion of occupations, 1t is said
that 10000 miners have gone from
Eastern coal regions to Westsrn farms;
a host of dealers have ceased trading
and gone to producing: and so from
other overcrowded occupations men have
gone by the thousand to try new fields.
No one can tell how much suffering and
waste would have been prevented, had
this misdirection Of labor and capital
been stopped at the outset. Hard money,
by going where tits most need, has great
power to prevent this mischief; it stops
an unnatural rise of prices, in any cOun-
try or in any brance of industry or trade,
keeps speculation within safer bounds,
limits the charges of transpOrters and
the gains of middle-men, and 50 checks
diseased or disorderly growth. If good
money should serve no other purpose
than to save this country hereafter from
such frightful waste Of means and
work as we have seen, it will prove an
incalculable blessing N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1879

There is no power Of love so hard to
get and keep as kind voice. A hand is
deaf and dumb. 1t may be rough in
flesh and blood, yet do the work Of a soft
heart, and do it with soft touch. But
there is no one thing that love so much
needs as a sweet voice to tell what it
means and feels, and it is hard to get
and keep it in the right tone. One must
start in youth, and be on the watch
night and day, at work and play, to get
and keep voice that shall speak at all
times the thought of kind heart. But
this is the time when sharp voice is
most apt to be got. You often hear
boys and girls say words at play with a
quick sharp tone, as if it were the snap
Of d whip. When one of them gets veX-
ed, you will hear voice that sounds as
if it were made up of a snarl. a whine
and bark. Such voice often speaks
worse than the heart feels. 1t shows
more ill-will in the tone than in the
words. 1t is often in mirth that one
gets voice or tone that is sharp, and
it sticks to him through life, and stirs
up i'll will and grief, and falls like a
drop of gall upon the sweet joys at
home. Such as these get sharp home
voice for use, and keep their best voice
for those they meet elsewhere, just as
they would keep their best cakes or pies
for guests, and all the sour food for their
own board. would say to all girls
and boys, use your best voice at home.
Watch it day by day, as a pearl of great
price, for it will be worth more to you
in days to come than the best pearl
in the sea. A kind voice is a joy like a
lark's song to hearth and home. 1t is
light that sings as well as shines. Train
it to sweet tones now, and it will keep
tuned through life"
Year: 1879

THERE is great enthusiasm in Kansas
over the twenty-ffth anniversary of the
settlement Of the State, and many dis
tinguished speakers are reviving the
memories of the DAYS when free-soilers
and border ruffiains met in conflict.
There is no more impressive lesson of
the power Of public opinion than the
early history of Kansas. 1t was not the
struggles Of the free-Soilers on her soil
that saved the State from being coerced
into slavery, but the force of public
opinion in other States. The Democrat
ic party was at its period of greatest
strength when the Kansas question came
to the front. The Wing party was al
NEST extinct. all the West was Demo-
cratic, and a couple of New England
States and few Southern were the last
strongholds of the opposition. Upon
the Kansas issue the Republican party
entered into national politics. and the
elections Of IS5S, which followed the dis
persal of the Lecompton legislature by
the federal troops, saw the North in re-
volt against Democracy. The issue was
drawn across the regular Democratic
organization, and caused it to split in
two, and in 1860 the Republican nation
al ticket was elected. The public Opin-
ion that condemns the use of the troops
to coerce the people of a Territory or
State also condemns and will surely
punish crimes against the ballot-box, ,and
not the bayonet, will eventually secure
the suppressed vote of the bulldozed
regions its privilege to the free exercise
Of the right of suffrrge.
Year: 1879

THE former days were as funny as
these in many respects. In one at least
they differed. Methodist ministers itin-
Grated much more than they do now and
went much more cheerfully wherever
they were sent.


Old PhineaS Rice was one of the quaint
types of itinerants. He had hard patch
to cultivate once, and when he made his
report to the conference following he
reported the church "looking up"


The Bishop presiding expressed his
pleasure, but asked for an explanation,
because no one expected success in that
parish.


DR.. Rice was equal to the occasion,
and added: "Well Bishop, the church is
on its back, and cannot look any other
way"


There was a roar of laughter all over
the Conference.
Year: 1879

There is no tomorrow. Though Iefore our
face


The shadow named so stretches, We always
Fail to O'eTtsks it, hasten as we may;
God only gives one island inch of space
Betwixt the eternities as standing place,
Where each may work-the inexorable to day.


The secret pleasure of a generous act
is the great mans bribe-Dryden.


Peace is such precious jewel that 1
would give anything for it but truth
Matthew Henry.


As we must render an account of eve
~ idle word, so must we likewise of our
idle silence.-AmbrOse.


Let friendship creep gently to height;
if it rushes to it, it may soon run itself
out of breath.-Fuller.


There cannot be a greater treachery
than first to raise confidence and then
to deceive it.-SpectatOr.


Every person has two educations-one
which he has received from others, and
one more important, which he gives
himself.


The greatest evils in life have had
their rise from something which was
thought Of too little Importance to be at
tended to.-Bishop Butler.


knowledge is power" 1t is truth
that is glorious, but at the same time
terrible. knowledge is power, power
for good OF evil.-F. w. Robertson.


Our starving against nature is like
holding weathercOck with ones hand;
as soon as the force is taken off it veers
again with the wind.--ThOmaS Adam.
Year: 1879

cessOr be Of the same political complex
ion. They propose to have a new deal,
and send to Columbus men who, having
rectitied the wrongs and outrages COM


mitted by the recent concern. will speed
lily make such appropriations and pass
such laws As are exigent, and go before
it is time to plant corn and put in oats.
Year: 1879

Our daily familiar life Is but hiding
of ourselves from each other behind Il
scene of trivial words and deeds, and
those who sit with us at the same hearth
are often the farthest off from the deep
human soul within us, full of unspoken
evil and unacted good.
Year: 1879

Did you evor know any person to be
i'll, without inactiOn of the Stomach, ,Liv-
er or Kidneys, or did you ever know one
who was well when either was Obstruct-
ed or inactive; and did you ever know
or hear of any case of the kind that Hop
Bitters would not cure? Ask your
neighbor this same question.
Year: 1879

Extensive preparations are being
made at San Francisco for the reception
Of General Grant. The steamer City Of
Toxic, on which he is to arrive. will be
met outside, headed by the yacht squad
ron and steamers with the Reception
Committee of citizens on board. Salutes
will be fired from the forts and the city
decorated in honor of the occasion.
Year: 1879

A whistle fiend has turned and tuned
up. He challenges any man to whistle
with him for 800 side. We have
boy in this neighbOrhOOd who could
whistle him to death in just six hours
and a half
Year: 1879

IT us perfectly ridiculous in such men
as Anthony, Lonkling and Hamlin to
fret and whine about the changes that
are being made in the offices Of the Sen
ate. They did not show a particle OF
mercy toward the men whose places
they themselves crowded into; nor had
they any mercy OIL the Democratic office
holders whom they voted TO supersede
with Republicans. Their lamentations
should be treated with contempt or ridi-
cule which they certainly merit.
Year: 1879

\ GREAT MANY CITIZENS doubt the
propriety of the City Council undeita-
king at this time the erection of new city
buildings. 1t is quite certain that two
buildings erected with single wall be-
tween cannot be so readily ventilated CT
as easily lighted as though they were
built separately. Thx matter will re-
quire much consderatBn by the Levy
Court as well as by the City Council. \
conclusion So important ought not to ue
arrived, at without first ascertalning
whether in erecting boh buildings To-
gether We may not lind We have BLOCKED
cat the light and all in so far as to render
the new houses subject to soma OF TIN
same objections that are now ra.se'
against the old ONES.
Year: 1879

GENERAL TERRY, who is good au-
thority on such matters, does not believe
Sitting Bull will make an unprovoked
attack on the whites. Perhaps not, but
battles are frequently started by the ire
sponslble "bummers" of one side or the
other. and even a competent commander
like Sitting Bull cannot expect to be free
of these
Year: 1879

TEH Siluer State fears that the Times Rerieao
is about to hoist the Republican flag and go
over to the enemy 1t would not surprise the
APPEAL to see the Times Reoieac or any other
sensible newspaper leave the Democratic
camp. The recent election returns are enough
t discourage any Bourbon with his associa-
tions and surroundings
Year: 1879

The Pioneers of the Comstock are in the
dumps because Grant made such long speech
in Chicago. For while the Pioneers claimed
that Grant paid them the compliment of treat
ing them to his longest speech. They enjoy
exceeded his Pioneer speech by at least an
inch and thaee quarters
Year: 1879

IMPOSING FOR FRIENDs.-My neigh
Dor is active business. and L am ouiy
farmer, just out Of debt, with little at
interest. bringing up and educating a
family of children. He comes to me
holding out a note. large, for me to sign,
saying, IL wish you would just write
your name on the back of this; l need
the money very much; it will be a great
accommodation to me, and you will only
have to write your name" My answer
was: my friend. do you really under
stand what my position would be before
the world and the law if | were to do
this? | should instantly proclaim that
from state of complete independence,
and without the slightest reason for a
similar favor from you, and for no con-
sideration whatever, except friendship,
have agreed to take upon myself the risk
of nv business, but with the difference
against me, that if you lose l lose. and
if you gain ! do not. l share in you'
losses but not in your profits. But moi
only this; / should affirm before the
public that you are responsible. when
really know nothing of your circumstan
ces, and in SO, far help you to deceiv'
others. I give you false credit. Ii
short, do that which no honest man
true to himself and his family. can d


and be blameless. Win any right-mind


ed, real friend, with this view of tn


case, ask of me such possible sacrifice :?


Country Gentleman.
Year: 1879

Grandfather's watch is battered and old,
Innocent quite Of jewels or gold;
Poor. and common, and worn and cracked
Much like grandfather's self, in fact.
Yet its wheezy voice has cheerful sound,
And the child, as she listens, in wonder bound,
To its mystic tales OF departed time,
Is smiling as though at pleasant rhyme.
What are the tales the old watch tells?
Ofseventy years it counts the knells:
Years, whose every setting sun


Was marked by labor faithfully done.
With primitive form and clumsy skill,
And clumsier help when the works went i'll;
Yet serving their time as best they can
This is the story of watch and mani
Many fall has the old watch hushed,
Many blow has the old man crushed.
Meddled with, tinkered, and sorely tried,
At last rejected and thrown aside
For modern rivals, all science and gold,
Useless, crippled, despised, and old,
Under cloud and ban


This is the story of watch and mani
But there's a reverse to the picture sad;
Human hearts they can still make glad.
The watch in its dinted silver case
Can bring smile to the fair child's face.
The man all battered, and silvery too,
With moral can cheer both me and you
"Mark our time as well as we cam
This is the lesson nf watch and mani
Year: 1879

THE GOVERNORS MESSAGE has met
with very kind reception from our
friends, of the late Republican party, Of
Delaware. Indeed We might say that it
has been approved in all the main fea-
lures, if the opposition press express the
opinion Of those of the Republican party
that still adhere to the old organization
And this implies great deal for the
policy Of the Democracy of Delaware,
and the Governor, who was its choice at
the polls, and is its political representa-
tive. Is it not conceding all that could
be expected since our State has had no
influence in the General Government,
conducted as it has been for the last de-
cade oI more, Who'll y in the interest of a
political party, at war with every seuti-
meLt of economy and adverse TO all con-
rsativism and compromise. Here
then, where the Democracy of Delaware
has been permitted to shape a course
and follow it for seventeen wears
we find the great and good cid party
occupying a position conceded to be un
assailable without having, in all that tim,
through its State officers, misappropriat
ed single dollar Of the State funds. Ii
his silence upon all Federal politics, i
should not be inferred that the Governo
has waivered in the least in his convic
tions as to the correctness of the polio
Of the Democratic party.


The Message is no better than W
hoped it would be, nor does it fail of OF
expectation /; and the great party frol
which all that is good and commercial
emanates, deserves the greatest CONNER
dation, for really it is the party that, ha
ing set its face as flint against all delaul
ers and peculators, has presented the mt
to work out the present honorable DO.
ton III v hich We find our finances al
the whole policy Of the State. II
credit is due to the great party and
members, from the least to the create!
And to-day it stands with open arm
ready to enroll all treemen who will COL
to its aid-to its aid in conducting Il
State in the most just and economic
Year: 1879

manner in every department. Gentle
mep who have been opposed to our State
policy now see its results and as il is conf
mended in their newspapers. Now let
them fall in and help US to continue in
the good way.
Year: 1879

Several members of the Illinois State
Board Of Agriculture from the southern
portion Of the State report the peach
trees greatly injured by the recent cold
snap. The prospects for the crop are
exceedingly unfavorable. Other fruit
is not seriously injured. Winter grain
is reported by. them as being in excellent
condition.
Year: 1879

WHOEVER heard of the almighty land,
almighty labor or almighty ballotP But
how often we hear the almighty dollar
and there is no denying the iact-that
under the present social system, it is in
rcality the mightiest factor of the form.
Year: 1879

The campaign is over, but the issue
involved still remains to be settled. What
kind of moneJ shall we have and who
shall issue it? and how soon and In what
kind of money shall the bonds be paid? !?
are vet open questions.
Year: 1879

WHICH ought the people-thc laboring
people--desire to haveP 1000 millions Of
bonds to draw 100 millions of interest
from them, or 1000 millions of money to
exchange the products of their toll and
keep them busy all the time? They have
the right to choose between them!
Year: 1879

Those who think soft money and plenty
of it should vote together for tho whole
greenback ticket; those who think hard
money; specie payments, ten dollars per
capita circulation, perpetual, public debt,
money aristocracy and all the other
monopolics, should vote otherwise.
Year: 1879

"As soon as the four per cent bonds are
raid for by certificates of deposit of such
public depositarics, or otherwise, call
will issue, maturing within ninety days,
for the redemption of six per cent bonds,
and the money received for four per cent
londs will remain on deposit until such
call natures"
Year: 1879

WHOEVER exacts or accepts interest,
OF pays it-cxccpt under protcst-whethcr
conscious of the fact or NOT, IS neverthe-
less a foe to the best interests of humanity
And any financial reform that does not
contemplate the entire destruction of the
slavery system of interest, is sham and
n delusion.
Year: 1879

A nice parent shot his three children
at Mt. Holyoke, Massachusetts, last week,
and like the Poe ohas set chil1-sacrifcer, is
ready to bet you new hat that he dii
exactly right. These pious folk will soon
be in the majority in the neighborhood Of
Plymouth r 1ck il thero isn't a change in
che direction Of wicked ne S.. They are
entirely too good at present for every
day wear.