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Year: 1877

declare in the name Of Almighty
God, that no Man has the right to be
worth $lO0,O0O,O O,O0O.-I'dtmage


Talmage is right.


The old Greeks had a law that
whenever a mans fortune exceeded. a
given limit he was obliged to build a
ship or equip regiment or do some
other work for the state.


This was also the theory that un,
derlaid the income tax law, passed
during the war, men of small fortunes
paid nothing, while the tax was in
creased in proportion to the individu-
ais income; he that had most paying
most. But one of the first steps OF
the money power was to abolish this
law, and thus increase the burdens of
the poorer and middle classes.
Year: 1877

The teachers of Mower county pass
ell the following resolutions:


Resolred, That we as teaches disap-
prove of the "School Text Book Law"
as enacted by the last Legislature.
That we believe it to be imperative
and will not prove beneficial to the
interests of the people.


Resoired, That we express our
sincere gratitude to Supt. n. NJ. Hol-
brook, for his many practical sug-
gestions and his untiring efforts to
make the Institute exercises interest.
ing and of practical value to us all.


The text book law is ''inoperate'
because these creatures helped to
prevent it from going into operation:
and it would not prove beneficial to
the people,, because the teachers
cannot make a percentage on the sale
of the books.


We are glad to know that Holbrook
who boldly told the people that they
should not have the cheap books was
buried under the indignant votes OF
the people at the recent election.
Year: 1877

The Kellogg. Iowa, Reporter says
the prospects are better for a green
back party next year than for green
backs this year. Correct.


Precisely. Times are us hard in
st. Paul now as they were year ago.
Despite the abundant harvests there
is no improvement financially. The
earth cannot produce crops faster
than the money -cormorants can swal-
low them.


In the east it will be dreadful
winter.


We do not look for repeal Of the
resumption law. The bill has passed
the House but it will, we fear, die in
the Senate. The only question then
will be,-how much can the Ameri-
can people endure.
Year: 1877

worth twice the subscription price,
give it to Them


We are very grateful for these kind
expressions of approval. They are
GASES in waste of abuse and mis-
representation.


We trust we are not selfish when
we say to our friends, that if they
desire to render the principles we
advocate triumphant in the state they
should extend the circulation Of THE
There is such an
array of hard-money newspapers in
Minnesota that the people have no
chance to hear the truth unless they
subscribe for some Greenback paper.
Year: 1877

We welcome another Greenback
paper to the field, The San pubhshed
in Jackson Michigan. It is an able
handsome sheet.


New Greenback and Labor journals
are springing up in all directions.
Year: 1877

The course of many of the county
school superintendent in fighting the
CHEAP text books has aroused a strong
sentiment in some parts OF the state
in favor of abolishing these useless
and expensive excrescences on the
public school system. We learn that
petitions are being circulated for this
purpose.
Year: 1877

instance of the modern Turkish belief that
Islam is always on the verge of stupendous
calamity, land of the Turkish superstition that
there is some strange and almost magical af-
finity still connecting the two great capitals
OF the two old Roman empires-the city of
Romulus and the pope, and the city of Con-
stantine and the sultan. He says that at the
extreme end of the city of Constantinople,
near the Adrianople Gate, there is a large
open meadow, which is now the property Of
city official named Rauf Bey. Its owner
lately conceived the notion of making this
vacant field more profitable by building
houses on it, With this end in view, he
made application to the authorities for their
permission, having little doubt that it would
be readily granted. When his request was
being debated in the City Council, certain
Edhem Pacha mot the grand vizer, but a
kinsman OF the sultan) stood up, and asked
whether the field in question was not one
which stood Immediately under the protec-
ton of the pope of Rome. The city fathers
replied that it was. Hereupon Edham Pacha
declared with fierce energy that nc patriotic
Mussulman could ever give his assent to the
digging up OF its SOIL 1t appears that there
is widely credited superstition among the
Constantinople Turks, inherited from crusad-
ing, or possibly Byzantine times, that there
is submarine passage between Constantine
pie and Rome, and that every New Years
night the pope comes along this passage and
has look at the meadow in order to con-
vince himself that it has not been built on.
The common Turk believes that as soon as
this field is desecrated by houses, the pope, as
the vicar of ChIist, will be Immediately Or
dered by his Master to proclaim the last day,
on which, according to the popular teaching
of Islam, Christ will take precedency over
their prophet. So long as this meadow is
kept in its present condition, although Rouf
Bey loses the chance of increasing his income
Islam is safe.
Year: 1877

A CORRESPONDENT of the London Times
maintains that the Russian people are to-day
the cost purely democratic in Europe in
their tendencies and customs. There is the
form OF an absolute despo tism in the gov
eminent, but this vast undercurrent of de-
mocracy makes itself felt in the very heart of
this despotism, and really controls its action.
1t is this subtle influence which forced the
Emperor into this war, and it is the fear of
this power that prevents him from leaving
the field he has once entered until he can do
so VIGOROUSLY. The evidences Of this spirit
of democracy are plainly written in the every
day life of the army, and those who choose
may read it as they go. The old-style form
of aristocracy still exists in the court circles
of the army, but there is a vast majority
where the officer recognizes the private as an
equal, man for man, and the distinction be-
tween them is regarded as an official one
only. Scobeleif, for instance, shakes hands
with the lowest subaltern in the same man
ner as with the colonies of regiments. These
young lieutenants show no constrant in!his
presence; all is easy and purely democratic;
and yet every word Of command or express
sion of desire from the general is obeyed
with alacrity and rapidity that cannot be sur
passed in the most despotic martinez service
on the globe. The private soldiers are also
easy, and, to certain extent, familiar with
their officers, and yet the discipline is per-
feet
Year: 1877

THE $4,000 cotton operatives on strike at
Bolton, England, against five per cent. re-
duction in their wages are said to be in good
financial condition to continue the strike,
while the wners Of the mills are said to be
glad Of an excuse to close them owing TO the
dnIl marriott
Year: 1877

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS Is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley T.
Pulen, Editor All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous etters and communi
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1877

TREE!! ANY PERSON WHO WILL C make and forward me a list Of the names Of reliable persons Of their &C., quaintance who wish to procure an instru- ment, either Piano or Organ, l will use my best endeavors tO sell them one. and for every Piano 1 succeed In selling to their list within one year, ] will credit them with SlO. and for every Organ 8, to be applied on payment of either a Piano or organ: and when 1t amounts to a sum sufficient tO pay for any instrument, seiec- ted at the lowest wholesale price, will immediately ship the instrument, free, or after any amount is credited the balance may be paid me In cash and I will then ship them the instrument. They need not be known in the matter, and will be doing their friends real service, as shall make special offers 10 them, selling a superior instrument for from one-half to two-ihirds what Is ordinarily asked by agents, Please send me a list at once, and after you have made inquiry, you can add to it. Address,

 DANIEL. F. BEATTY.

 Washington. V J
Year: 1877

< PETITION was circulated and largely signed yesterday asking the Honorable

 Board Of supervisors to appropriate some of the road fund now in the treasury, tO the improvement Of certain portions of

 the public highways in this county. We signed tine petition and heartily endorse the move. Since the rain, the main thor .oughmre through town is almost impass- able Cn account of the mud. We feel sure the Honorable Board will order improve

 meuts, aud if necessary levy a tax on property holders sufficient for repairing and casing the acequias.
Year: 1877

As one very much disturbed and fearful
citizen implore the city authorities to in
terdict the dances in the attic story Of the
house at the corner OF Broad and Ninth
streets. The dances there were stopped last
summer. 1t is grievance that they are
allowed to be renewed. Last Friday night
this attic resounded with such noises as are
peculiar to the people assembled there. The
director of the dances beloved loud enough
to be heard at the Old Market. The trum-
pet brayed, the double-bass groaned, and
the neighbors inveighed until O'Clock in
the morning, when the crowd was emptied
into the street, and such exclamations and
laughter arose as was only endurable be-
cause brief. beg the city authorities to put
an eXtinguisher upon this orgie, and main
tain the public decorum and permit some
good people to rest. A QUIET MAN.
Year: 1877

DIRECT IMpoRTArIoN.-W. ID. BLAIR & co.
have received another lot of that really fine TABLE
SHERRY, which they Offer at s2 40 per gallon The
quality of this wine for the PRICE Is unsurpassed.
Year: 1877

The entertainment will take place Thurs
day afternoon at Mozart Hall as matinee
performance in order that ladies and chill
dren, particularly the pupils Of the public
schools, of whom little Ralph is one, may
be able to 90.
Year: 1877

Consolation is always soothing to
the bereaved. Here is what Western
journalist offers to his readers: lowing
to the death of our chief editor, there
will be no editorial article on Tuesday,
but look out for a regular ripper on
Wednesday,"


The mother-in-law finds defender
in the San Francisco Nail, which says:
:. If old Adam had had mother-in-law
to look after him and his wife, it is more
than probable that to this very day we
might have been able to caper about in
the light and airy costume Of our first
parents.


When you see young fellow who a
year ago used to step up and order lager
for the crowd with the utmost sang
froid, patiently trundling baby ear
riage along thesstreet on Sunday after
noon, and looking chapfallen in his last
seasons hat, don't it speak volumes for
the reforming influence of woman's So
ciety?


When you see man who has been
owing you S5 of borrowed money for
year past skipping home with bran
new shiny plug hat on, and big basket
of early Strawberries daintily carried in
his right hand, it does indeed make you
feel that there are cases which the law
doesn't reach, or where man is fully
justified in being his own ayenger.


Shall American liberty be fettered?
Shall the proud American bird inoult his
feathers in despair and the chords Of
Columbian pride cease to yibrate with
the sweet music of freedom? No?
Then why should we pass law that de-
priyes the American small boy Of the
right to blow his own head of on the
Fourth of July, II he feels like it'


After seeing two doctors hang
around over man for four hours and
use gallon of mixed chloroform and
ether, trying to get him to sleep that
they may saw his leg o6, it grows more
and more q mystery how 3 rubber can
come in. and slap little two-by-four
sponge, saturated with chloroform, over
. clerks nose and steal . whole bank
slick and clean IN les than seven
minutes.
Year: 1877




strawberry Protection We
think there can be no doubt that Gov
ering Strawberries before settled cold
weather does more harm than good.
The wet weather and extremes Of heat
and cold Of early spring do more harm
to The hardy plants than the steady
cold of early winter.


We have followed the plan Of cover
ing them not until considerable falls Of
snow-the straw or whatever material
is used having been put aside under
cover until that time. While snow
lasts, Of course, there can be no better
protection than it offers. But when
nearly gone, melting during the day
and freezing at night are likely to in
jure the plants as soon as their leaves
and stems are exposed. tt is better,
therefore, to spread the covering upon
the freshly fallen snow. It then, fall
ing as the snow melts, finally rests
evenly and lightly upon elephants IN.
derneath.
Year: 1877

A singular presentiment was that of Will
liam James, one of the victims of the late
fire at Pittston mine. He was We ST.
man, and had been in this country about
seven months. On the morning of the
dreadful day in question he had taken his
breakfast and his wife had made ready his
dinner and set the pail beside him. For
some time he sat wrapped in thought, his
arms folded, his eyes fixed vacantly upon
the stove, and deep melancholy appar-
emily brooding over him. He was aroused
from his reverie by his wife telling him
that his dinner was ready, and that he
would be late, as the bell had rung. He
started to his feet, and gazing upon her
for a moment with a look full of tender
ness and significance, said to her, "If I
should not come back alive would you be
in such hurry getting me outph The
wife answered NO" but remarked that
"if he was going at all, it was time he
was gone" He lifted his pail without say
ing word, and after kissing his wife,
kissed bis four little children, who wer e
sitting playing on the doorstep. When he
had got about fifty yards from his home,
he returned again and kissed his wife and
children with great fervency. His wife
noticed that he was the victim Of gloomy
forebodings, and as he turned away she
was about TO entreat him not to go to work
if he apprehended any danger. Bet hope
and courage and the pressing necessities
of their family overcame her intention.
and she let him go. She stood in the door
and watched him on his way TO the fatal
pit. When at a point where he turned out
of her sight, he paused and cast wistful
look toward his home and little ones, and
seeing his wife, waved with his hand
last adieu. He parted with bis loved ones
forever. &
Year: 1877

She wore one sf those pockets lsehin-.


in which, besides her handkerchief she
had deposited an apple, handful of pea
nuts, quarter pound of gumdrOps, a
little bottle of ammonia, and some other
tTihes. She and her swain, after admir-
ing the complexion of the huge beast,
turned their backs upon him 10 watch
the monkeys and the live kangaroo, and
gaze into erch others eyes; to do this
better they leaned back against the rope
which enclosed the stately monarch of
the south, whe saw the apple pOrtruding
from the pocket of the unconscious fair
one. He hesitated a moment and was
lost to all sense of honor and self-respect,
for with hshufflingmovements he emulated
the example of our common mother,
plucled and ate the fruit, scooped out
the gumdrops and peanuts with a sly
wink at his nephew, who was looking
with anxiety at the proceedings. But
in the last mouthful the majestic beast
took in the ammonia bottle by mistake,
the cork came out, and about an ounce
OF hartshorn ran down the throat of the
beast. This beverage is said TO have re-
viving and stimulating influence, and in
this case it proved its power, for a mere
revived elephant was never seen on earth.
The big elephant has learned lesson in
morals which will probably induce him
to let other peoples pockets alone, though
nobody dares TO carry bottle within
range Of his proboscis.-Kaasas Cty
Times,
Year: 1877

practical joke. When least suspicious


some unruIy members came to the sur
face and over we went on all-fours, bob


bing like bladders, and finding it ex-
tremely difficult to make much headway
through the almost solid waters. The
Dead sea does for a change of medicine
it is rs bitter as gall; but | would as
soon think of swimming in a strong solu-
tion of feather beds The sun drove US
to the shore; the sea spewcd us out we
were without morsel Of fresh water
very iuolishly iorgotten--and when we
had once more got into our clothes and
struck out for the wilderness our skin
burnt like fire and we shed flakes of salt
in such proiusion you might have easily
mistaken US for one Of the Lot family.
Year: 1877

Lord Ailesbury has written a letter on
blooded horses which almost provokes
the London Times into facetiousness.
The Thunderer, roaring greatly, inquiries
whether it is not very proper that there
should be some among the peers to
whom the fate of the christian subjects
of Turkey should appear of little impor-
tance in comparison with the prospects
of the Newmarket spring meeting.
Lord Ailesbury does not, however, speak
so much of the Newmarket spring meet
ing as ne does of two topics rather more
generic, namely, the practice of hand
icaping and the French policy of protec-
ton by which English horses are now
excluded from certain races in France.
Handicapping, he thinks, is contrary to
the interests Eof breeders, since it does
not provide that the best horse should
win; at the same time, he is free to con-
fess that he would never have attained
as good results in his own stables had
handicapping not been largely in vogue.
The INTRODUCTION oil railroads has taken
racing out of the circuits IN which it
formerly fourished, and made a large
part of the world accessible to competi-
ton handicapping consequently be-
comes necessary if young horses are to be
used at ALL The lack of reciprocity on
the part of foreign race-courses Lord
Falmouth would resent by excluding
foreign horses from races in England
until the bar against the admission of
the horses of that country abroad is
rai11ovAd
Year: 1877

that envelope it. Six and forty miles


sky-blue crystal, thirteen hundred feet
in depth, the topmost wave of which is
thirteen hundred feet below the level Of
the Mediterranean. This sea is mys-
terry and a miracle bu5 the cities of the
sinners are not under these waves, SIS
many saint fondly fancies. Look for
traces of them among the sulphur fields,
the salt pillars there are enough of
these to furnish Lot with half a hun
dred wives-the asphaltum beds, the
shores that have been fertile and fruit
full but are now as the abominati0n of
desolation. Neither fish, shells nor coral
are found here. Sea-fsh perish in
these waters because they have been
reared on something less than four per
cent. of salt to ninety-six of water, and
here they find a fourth part Of the whole
consists of various salts--chlorides of
magnesium, calcium, sodium, potassium,
bromide of potassium and sulphate of
lime. That is certainly enough to turn
the stomach of any sort of fish. There
are fish-bones on the shore, the wrecks
of the Sordan. The bitter oil-it is
hardly worthy of the name of water
that strangles everything to death and
then spits it out into the sun, invites
you to its embrace with a siren grace,
but you curse her after the first 10y is
over, for she daubs you with salt and oil.
Six million tons OF sweet water fall into
the Dead sea daily; six million tons rise
out of it, spiritualized, and float over it.


NEBULoUs ISLANDS OF LIGHT,


that are as much at ease in the skv as
islands more substantial would be in the
luminous breast of this enchanted sea.
When we passed into the water we felt
the weight of it before we had got knee
deep. Soon we grew buoyant and kept
our balance with some difficulty. 1t was
like trying to swim on corks that won't
keep their places. A few steps farther
and over we went, heel NY, and, to our
surprlse, heads up, likewise. The bath
was certainly most refreshing, and the
novelty of it not unlike a good natured
Year: 1877

Girls who consciously go to work TO
get married know very we'll that a we'll
placed sign is worth fifty sonatas, and
that 10 amount of major and minor
prestidigitation can win triumph over
the rival who, though Ounce at the
music book, is an expert in smiles and
dropped eyelids.
Year: 1877

er 70 the motherless. And now, in p
green old age, she is surrounded by those
whom her warm heart long since taughr
to cling to her and follow as the lamb il
youth.-Springfeld FcpnbEcan.
Year: 1877

Tribune men who write TO the
cleIgymen that there is plenty of stand
ing room for young collegians wishing
employment, providing they have "grit"
and "are willing to commence at the
bottom" and begin low down and
fight their way mp" advertises for edu-
Gated young men to act as amanuenses


willing to work his way up from the
bottom" at S3 per week, four thousand
applicants. Door bell rung off by young
men full OF "grit; :" seven thousand
housemaids worn out answering the bell !;
squad of police required to disperse the
young men in front of the house, willing
TO do.anything and "work their way up
from the bottom;" had to get in his own
house through the back window all the
Overcoats and hats stolen from the hall
rack by young men who "are willing to
begin low down; - callers frightened
away by mob of young men full of
"grit," trying TO "work their way up
from the bottom;" row on the front
steps between young men full of " grit !"
trying to fight their way up from the
bottom" Tribune man has barred his
door and hung out a placard, No
more young men full of grit willing to
begin low down and fight their way up
these door stens wanted. If they belong
TO the bottom let them stay there"
Year: 1877

that separates those rosy hills to the east
and west. There is no palpabIe surface
there; no visible division ofthe elements!
Let it be air or water-it might be
either-the only impression it conveys
to the mind Is one of pure color, Only
such radiant hills as those that girdle it
are worthy Of it. They also are marvcls
Of color. Pink and pale in the twilight,
scarlet in the rise and set Of the sun,
they never become commonplace, but
change their tints as live coal changes
when the reviving air blows upon it. Out
of the splendid distance, over the Salt sea,
sea of Asphalt, the lake of Lot-cal it
by what name you will, for it bears all
these-over the earstern sea of the old
prophets, stole the withering breath of
furnace. Our horses sweltered in the
heat. There was 10 possible shelter near
the shore, for our camp irappings had
already gone up into the wilderness. \
dip into the gummy and elastic water
was all we asked now, and.in ten minutes
we stood upon the sand half blinded
with the heat and glare that nearly over
came us before we were safely out Of it.
The sea near the plain of the Jordan is
shallow. Looking toward the south the
eye is lost in
Year: 1877

fashionable women, for her heart was
soft and her hands rough and coarse.


Nay. my lad, but the rich mer.
chant praises thy work, and he will
order more" ~


And the mother was right. Rubi
had orders for as much work as he
could do. He helped his father more
than his handsome brother Jose had
ever done. There were none in the
family who earned SO much for their
support as the poor deformed lad, and
he was as patient and as humble as be.
fore, even though he was known
through the valley as Rubi, the great
carver In wood, instead Of being spoken
OF as that helpless burden, the cripple
Rubi.