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Year: 1874

THE REPEAL OF TIE AOLETIES.


The system Of paying moietics dates in
our laws as far back as 1899. 1t is custom
coeval with our custom laws If it has
proven ineffective and demoralizing it is
because OF the laxity of-eXecution in these
latter days rather than of inherent defects
in the system. Frauds upon the revenue
are resultant from the cupidity of such
merchants as are unable to withstand temp
tation combined with the practice of ap-
pointing men to revenue offices of loose
morals and tainted honor. The former
stand ready to take the risks of detection,
or the chance Of buying themselves off if
called to an account; while many Of the
latter continually WOO corruption by Off
cious readiness with which they aid con-
Cealment.


The design Of the law in giving moieties
was to place officials above the temptation
of bribes from dishonest importers and
smugglers, The latter can rarely afford to
offer as bribe the equivalent of the moiety
In this respect the principle Of the law of
1T99 we hold to be correct.


A fraud upon the revenue is theft from
the people. 1t is taking from the rich and
poor alike, who are consumers, a portion OF
their substance. 1t is extracting from their
pockets, by process so insidious as scarcely
TO be discernble by them, q tithe of their
earnings. 1t is worse than highway rob-
berry, because Of the stealthy, eowardly
manner Of its execution. When the high
wayman takes you by the throat with the
command to stand and deliver, you have
the satisfaction at least of refusing and de-
Tending your purse with your life. Your
revenue thief does not afford you even this
poor privilege. He takes your money by
keeping back his proportion of the aggre.
gate which he should advance to the Treas
sIry, but collects Il from you all the same
by adding it 10 the price of the articles
which you consume. We consider this the
neanest and most cowardly sort Of stealing.


The tactics by which it is accomplished
are shrewd, and exhibit an intimate knowI.
edge of human nature. Upon the hypoth-
esis that "what is everybody's business is
Year: 1874

Yesterday we had something to say to
the point regarding affairs in South Caro-
lima. 1t was especially our duty to say
what was stated. From private sources
and generally circulated advices we are now
more than convinced that the position we
occupy upon this intricate question is just,
fair in every respect, and proper.


History accords to South Carolina honor
only divided with one other State in this
Union-an honor that combined principles
of duty that have, with other aid marshaled
about them, made nation. Yet this State,
after defeated aspirations, was the first to
throw down the glove, the first to advocate
an appeal to an unconstitutional mode of
settling national difficulties, and was
worSted in the attempt We then heard
frequently that the vanquished had accepted
the situation. Every conceivable opportu-
nifty since the Inauguration of the first State
government since the war has been en-
braccd by the Bourbon element there, and
has proven that the acceptance of the situa-
tion was only in words. Four attempts
have been made, including the fearful ku
Klux, by these cver-ready acceptors of the
situation to gain power. Every one has
failed-one SO recently before Congress that
we are not called upon now to refer to it.
This is, in brief that side of the question
Now for the other.


As is the army organization in Congress
kind of foot ball, to be kicked here and
there by junior members, or others with
less of brains and judgment, so has
been the uneducated, impetuous major
ity Of negroes in South Carolina. Design
ing men have used them, and here we ask
Is it such a strange thing that they did,
when the world is full of them? The re-
suit of this usage is that to-day the record
of the party has stain upon it demanding
the most immediate and exemplary action
to remove.


We mean to say that to bring about this
demanded genuine reform no man whose
ermine, whose honor or integrity is in any
way mixed up or interviewer with any of
the rascally business there must be allowed
within the pale of the executive, Judiciary
or any Of the departments. 1t is quite GER
tain that there is at least left Lots wife
in Sodom or Gomorrah.
Year: 1874

The DANGER OF CoAsTING.-As every one will
readily admit, this pastime although considerable
pleasure is derived from it, and is INDUCED in by
young and old OF both sexes, is by far the most
dangerous amusement that can be engaged in in
the manner in which IL is conducted in this city.
How many instances have been recorded where
children have been crippled and disfgured for
life, and very often death resulting from being
run over and trampled beneath the horses feet OF
team crossing the route over which they glide
with great rapidly. Nearly every day during the
time the snow is on the ground we hear Of some
one getting limb broken or otherwise injured by
the larger sleds generally large enough for eight
or ten to pile themselves upon, and generally
piloted by one who cares very little who he runs
into, he succeeds In overturning the aied with
out injuring himself) running over the smaller
ones who chance to be in their way. We think
it would be a commendable act Ia our city author
tiles to pass an ordinance restricting this pastime
TO the suburbs of the city, where IL would be less
practised, and less dangerous. and result In the
preservation CT limbs and probably lives.
Year: 1874

Senator Bayard appears to favor an increased
representation from this county in the Legisla-
ture. His tardy utterance on this subject is
loosed at last. 1t comes late-very late.
Why, If it be worth his mention now, did lie
preserve silence on the question during all the
canvass But, since he has at length said a
word for this demand of the dsfranchised peo-
pie of New Castle county, let us now see how
much his party will do towards granting it, this
V,nta
Year: 1874

IN the autumn, when the hollows
All are filled with flying leaves,
And the colonies of swallows
Quit the quantity ystuccOed caves,
And silver mantle gistens


Over all the misty vale,
Sits the little wife and listens
To the beating of the fail,
To the pounding Of the fail
BY her cradle sits and listens
TO the tapping of the tiail
The bright summer days are over
And her eye no longer sees
The red bloom upon the clover,
The deep green upon the trees;
flushed the songs of finch and robin,
With the whistle of the quail;
But she hears the mellow throbbin
OF the thunder of the fail,


The low thunder of the fail
Through the amber air the throbbing
And reyerberating fail.
In the barn the stout young thresher
STOPPING stands with rolled-up sleeves,
Beating out his golden treasure
From the ripped and rustling sheaves:
Oh! was ever knight in armor-
Warrior all in shining mail
Half so handsome as her farmer
AS he plies the flying fail,


AS he wields the flashing ha1l?-
The barethroatcd brown young farmer



All the hopes that saw the sowing,
All the sweet desire of gain,
All the JOY that watched the growing
And the ycllOwing of the grain,
And the love that went to VICE her,
And the faith that shall not fail
AL are speaking softly to her


In the pulses of the fail,


OF the palpltatng fail
Past and Future whisper to her
In the music of the fail.
In it's crib their babe is sleeping,
And the sunshine from the door
All the afternoon is creeping


Slowly round upon the floor;
And the shadows soon will darken,
And the daylight soon must pale,
When the wife no more shall hearken
TO the tramping OF the fail,


To the dancing of the fail
When her heart no more shall hCarken
To the football Of the fail.
And the babe shall grow and strengthen,
BE maiden, be a wife,
While the moving shadows lengthen
Round the dial of their life:
Theirs the trust of friend and neighbor,
And an age serene and hale,
When machines shall do the labor
or the strong arm and the ilail
OF the stout heart and the fail
Great machines perform the labor
Ofthe good, old-fashioned fail.
But when, blessed among women,
And when, honored among men,
They look round them can the brimming
Of their utmost wishes then
Give them happiness complete?
And can ease and wealth avail
To make any music sweeter
Than the pounding of the fail?
Oh, the sounding of the fail!
Never music can be sweeter
Than the beating of the fail!
j. T. TrO.C6ridge, In Harper'S Magazine
Year: 1874

To KEEP HAMS IN SUMNER
There are number of modes given to
keep hams during the warm season free
from the attacks of insects. Some bag
them and whitewash the bags, which is
troublesome and somewhat expensive :;
some cover them with dry wood-ashes
and pack them in barrels; some pack
them in barrels and cover Thoroughly
with pine shavings; but we think the
best plan of all, and certainly the least
expensive with all who have a smoke
house, and every farmer should have a
good one, is to keep the hams hung up
in the smoke-house, which should be
kept perfectly dark at all times. We
have some hams so kept, two years old,
and they are among the very best we
ever tasted. Uniform darkness is a
complete protection against the attack
Of iasects.-Germeantoson Telegraph.
Year: 1874




These bitter sorrows of childhood when
sorrow is all new and strange, when hope
has not yet got wingsto to fly beyond the days
and weeks, and the space from summer to
summer seems measureless. But we can
no longer recall the poignancy of that mo-
ment and weep over it, as we do over the
remembered sufferings of five or ten years
ago. Every one Of those keen moments
has left its trace, and lives in us still, but
such traces have not blent themselves ire
coverably with the frmer texture Of our
youth and manhood and so it comes that
we look on at the troubles of our children
with smiling disbelief 10 the reality Of
their pain. Is there any one who can re-
cover the experience of his childhood, not
merely with a memory Of what be did
and what happened to him, Of what he
liked and disliked when he was in frock
and trousers, but with an intimate penetra-
tion, a revived consciousness Of what he
felt then-when it was so long from one
midsummer to another what he felt when
his school fellows shut him out Of their
game because be would pitch the ball wrong
out Of mere wilfulness /; or on a rainy day
in the holidays, when he didn't know how
to amuse himself, and fell from idleness
into mischief from mischief into defiance,
aud from defiance into sulkiness or when
mother absolutely refused to let him have
tailed coat that " half" although every
boy of his age had gone into tails already ?
Surely, if we could recall that early bitter
ness, and the dim guesses, the strangely
perspectiyeless conception Of life that gave
the bitterness its intensity, We should not
pooh pooh the griefs Of our children
Childhood has no forebodings; but then,
it is soothed by no memories Of outlived
sorrow.
Year: 1874

JKr NKcELAcEs are quite fashionable, hang
ing in several rows on the front Of the dress.
The real article Is expensive, but as the fashion
is temporary, a great many ladies think the
imitation just as well.
Year: 1874

TuE NEw BosNETs are peculiar and as rule
not at all becoming, no matter how much trim.
ming is put on. Stately matrons look absurd
in the Spring headgear, aud young girls alto
gether too jaunty 10 be genteel.
Year: 1874

A IluGE NAPOLEON BLUE SuSsHApK, with gilt
or ivory tips and handle, will be the correct
thing this season for the belle of the period
1t is not lined, and the reflection upon the face
is, we presume, part Of the fashion.
Year: 1874

still adhere to the views then expressed.
As early as December A., 1865, the House Of
Representatives passed resolution, by vote
Of one hundred and fJrty-four yeas to six nays,
concurring in the views Of the Secretary OF
the Treasury in relation to the necessity Of a
contraction Of the currency, with view to as
early resumption of specie payments as the
business interests Of the country would permit,
and pleJging cooperative action to this end as
speedily as possible.
Year: 1874

base, dug from the earth bis plunder-
and silently so's away. The next
morning found theground underneath
the tree presenting the appearance of
a newly-ploned field; but the man
and the treasure we're gone.
Year: 1874

WE old fellows have all been there, and
we can remember all about it, We loved
her-guess we didi-and we knew that
she loved in return. But one day she
gave Sam Tompkins a smile, or she let
Tom Watkins walk home with her under
an umbrella, or she did some other simple
thing, and we got huffy. We loved her
all the time, but we sat down and wrote
her a letter, dating it at midnight, saying
that we wanted all those letters and that
ring and that photograph back. We hoped
she wouldn't return 'em but we felt a
malicious pleasure in furnishing her. The
letter was sent, or handed to her person
ally, and we met her with cold "good
morning" as she came to school, but be-
slowed our best smile on Lavina Wedge,
the homeliest girl in the town.


Our heart ached when we looked across
the desks and saw her slyly reading the
letter and trying to keep back the tears /;
but we went over to the next girl behind
to borrow geography, and to the second
girl in front to borrow grammar, and we
were entirely unconscious of the presence
of the girl we loved. We stood beside her
in the class as straight as pole, never
letting on that we saw her, and the mutual
agreement that if one missed the other





gether, was broken. We tried to feel
maliciously glad when we went to the
head and left her near the foot, but we
couldn't do it.


1t went on this way for three or four
days. Once in q while we caught her
looking at us with a sad, sweet smile, as
if she were some poor orphan with no
friend in the world and her note said
that she couldn't part with the letters and
the keepsakes. We held out bravely
until it began to hurt us the most, and
then we got ready, to "make up" 1t
couldn't be done suddenly that would be
acknowledging our wrong. We waited
until noontime then, as she ate her dinner
in her seat, we began looking for lost
book. We thought it was under the seat
next to hers, and while we were looking
for it she spoke. We heard, but pretended
not to, and she spoke again. Then we
coldly replied, but sat down near by and
asked if "she had those letters with her."
She said no, and we moved nearer. She
said it wasn't her fault, and we said
it wasn't ours, ard somehow our fingers
touched.


No one knew what burden of anxiety
was rolled away in five minutes, and how
much clearer the afternoon sun shone for
it. She seemed dearer than ever before,
and when the brown eyes cleared the
tears away, and the merry dimples came
back, we wondered how we could have
been such an unfeeling wretch; and yet it
was the same thing over in less than six
weeks.


All, mel Those lovers who have had
smooth path and married without having
quarrels and make-ups and jealousies will
never know what true love is.-M Quad,
in Our FireSide Friend.
Year: 1874

Train Wrecked ON the Northwestern


Railroads.&c. Cars Thrown or an


Fmbankment and Burned - Forty


Persons Seriously Injured, but No


Lives Lost-TOtaI Destruction of The in


baggage.


On the morning of the 5th of February the
Green Bay night express, due in Chicago al
GAS a. M, came laundering along at the rate
Of forty miles an hour, and had reached a
steep embankment few rods west of Kish
waukee Creek, between Harvard and Wood.
stock, Illinois, when the engine struck broken
rail- The locomotive and tender, followedby
the mail and express car, passed the point In
safety, but the baggage car was thrown from
the track, and was followed by second
class car, three passenger coaches and a Pull
man sleeper, and before twas possible for any
one Of the passengers to realize what had oc-
Cured, the whole were tumbling pell-mell
down the precipitous steep, and only came to
a full stop when they reached the bottom,
which was fully thirty feet below the main
track Almost simultaneously with the fall
a fire broke out, caused by the overturning OF
the stove in the baggage car, which lit up the
scene and added to the horrors of the calam-
ity.


The passengers quickly recovered from the
almost paralyzing effects of the accident, and
set about releasing such of their fellow-travel-
ers as were yet confined in the debris, with
such success that within ten minutes of the
time of the accident every living person was
conveyed to place OF safety. The train and
everything inanimate it held except that por-
tion which safely passed the obstruction, were
utterly consumed, and in half an hour there
was nothing left but a confused mass of iron
wheels and twisted rods.


About forty of the passengers were more or
less injured, some of them seriously, but none
it is thought fatally. The baggage was en-
tirely consumed, the position of the car being
such that no efforts could be made to secure
it. In the baggage car was the corpse of a
lady en- route from Appleton, Wis, to Canada,
which with everything else was burned to
ashes.


1t was a miracle that an accident involving
such extraordinary risk resulted in so COM
paratively few serious cases. Had the passen-
gers been as numerous as on ordinary oc-
casions, or had the accident happened at an
earlier hour in the night, the result could not
have failed of being infinitely more disastrous.


The loss to the Company is about $4,000,
without counting the moneys paid to passen-
gers for the destruction of baggage and
damages for personal injuries.
Year: 1874

are laid on a fiat, smooth service of damp
sand a ring is built up round them, and
liquid plaster is poured into the cell thus
formed Generally two such molds are
necessary, one for the upper and one for
the lower surface of the leaf. Sometimes
wooden molds are employed, into which
(when moistened to prevent adhesion) the
wax is poured in a melted but not very
hot state. Occasionally the entire mold
is dipped into molten wax, to produce
petals and leaves of peculiar size and
shape. The stems are made by working
wax dexterously around wires, with or
without an intervening layer of silken
thread. BY the use of flock, down, var
nishes, ETC., the leaves are made to pre-
sent glossy surface on one side and a
velvety surface on the other. A singular
mode of preparing films of usual thin
ness is by the aid of small wooden cyl
inder, like cotton reel, or rather rib
bon reel this is dipped and rotated in
melted wax until 1t takes up thin layer,
which layer, when cold, is cut and un
coiled; the difference of snoothness
which the two surfaces presents fit them
TO represent the upper and lower surfaces
of a leaf or petal. The combination of
all these materials into a built up flower
is kind Of work not iffering much from
that exercised in regard to textile flow
ers-SciellLifc An1eFic1n
Year: 1874

with double barreled shotgun. Two OF the
robbers then went through the express safe,
and then the registered letters were overhauled,
and everything of value in both taken. They
then started through the train and systematic
ally robbed the passengers. The amount Of
money thus obtained was something over
$1,000, besides several Watches pistols and
overcoats. The baggage Of the passengers was
not disturbed. After they had finished they
told the conductor that he could go on with
his train. They then strolled off to their
horses, and before the train got fairly under
way were seen leisurely trotting their horses
southwark. One of them, when robbing the
express messenger, entered on the book,
"Robbed at Gads Hill," and remarked that
he had made similar entry in an express
book before. 1t was evident that they were
used to the business. The question that in
terests people who travel in that section of
the country is, "How long is that sort of
business to be allowed to continue?"
Year: 1874

By CELIA THAxTBB.
o POVERTY, till now l never knew
The meaning OF the word What lack Is herel
o pale mask OF a soul, great, good and truei
mocking sembance stretched upon bier
Each atom OF this devastated face
Was so instinct with power, with warmth and


light;
What desert is so desolatei No grace
Is left no CLEAN, no change, no day, no night.
Where the key that locked these gates Of speech
Once beautiful where thought stood sentinel,
Where sweetness sat where wisdom passed, to


teach


Our weakness strength, our homage TO compel
Despoiled at last and waste and barren lies
This once SO rich domain. Where lives and


moves,
In what new world. the splendor Of these eyes
That dauntless lightened like imperial Jove'sf
Annihilated, do you answer mel
Blown out and vanished like candle flame?
Is nothing left but this pale ef1igy,
This silence drear, this dread without nameY
Has It been all In vain, our love and pride,
This yearning love that still pursues our friend
Into the awful dark, unsatisfed,
Bereft, and wrung with painY Is this the end?
Would God go mock us? To our human sense
No answer reaches through the doubtful air;
Yet with living hope, profound, intense,
Our tortured souls rebel against despair,
As bowing to the bitter fate we go
Dropping and dumb as II beneath CURSE
But does not plying Heaven answer "NOp'
With all the voice Of the universe?


-.Scrt6ney'S Monthly
Year: 1874

AT the recent annual ball at the Lunatic
Asylum in New Haven, Conn, twenty
couples entered the hall, ranged in two
lines facing each other, and stood in
profound silence, waiting the music. In
this party the strangeness of the perform
ers was most apparent. The men wore a
look upon their faces of such resolution
as one would expect on that of brave
man brought face to face with some terri
BILE danger. The women were more wan
dering in their glances, but nearly all
were serious, too. The music burst forth
and simultaneous movement followed |;
all sorts of movements, some cultivated
steps, but for the most part mere violent
shuffling exercise. Directly they all
seemed to have forgotten that they had
partners, and settled down into dancing.
There was some peculiarity about every
individual, but in every one was observa-
BILE sort of ecstacy. Some of them kept
their gaze fixed on the ceiling, turning
neither TO the right nor the left; others
kept watch upon their feet, which, TO
their bewildered minds, were perhaps go.
ing sadly astray.-Neao. York Times.
Year: 1874

1T is stated that an excellent way to
purify rancid lard, is to try 1t over
in Kettle with about one pound of raw,
sliced potatoes to every five six pounds
of lard. The potatoes seem in some way
Year: 1874

AS SOON as any soreness is felt in the
ear, let three or four drops of the tincture
of arnica be poured in, and the orifice be
filled with little cotton to exclude the
air, and in a short time the uneasiness is
forgotten. If the arnica is not resorted to
until there is actual pain, then the cure
may not be as speedy, but just as certain,
although it may be necessary to repeat the
operation. 1t is a sure preventive against
gathering in the ear, which is the usual
cause of earache.-ETchange
Year: 1874

NEVER be above your business, no
matter what that calling may be, but
strive to be the best in that line. He who
turns up his nose at his work quarrels
with his bread and butter. He is poor
smith who quarrels with his own sparks;
there is no shame about any honest call
ing. Don't be afraid of soiling your
hands there is plenty of soap to be had.