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Year: 1878

we have hitherto pointed out that, for this
reason, the obligation will ultimately be
found to be light one. Premonition Of
that fact is now more plainly given in what
the Sultan has to say to Mr. Layard about
the reforms now proposed. Turkey does
not understand that this obligation to re-
form is a remuneration of her independence.
She does not mean that England shall re-
form her, but that she will reform herself
under English advice, which is as much as
to say that she will find all plans OF change
proposed impossible and will remain the
Year: 1878

common report states it, and that the coun-
try is on the way to prosperity.


These are facts. They will not be well
come to the agitators and demagogues who
clamor all over the country, and whose
leader Senator Thurman, we grieve to say,
has just become. 1t is the duty of public
men and of intelligent citizens everywhere
to make these facts known, and to explain
to the people that the remedy for what re-
mains of distress does not lie in new laws,
in government interference, in a new
and disastrous imitation of the cur
rency, which can only give a renewed
and fatal shock to confidence. A sound
currency is what the country needs a cur
rency which will enable us to trade with
the world on equal terms. The greenback-
ers and infationists have the un- american
idea that this country can regain prosper
ity by swapping jackknives. The true
American idea is that we can
tied market alone, but for all the
world. Why not? We have better ma
chinery, more intelligent and skilful work
men, cheaper raw material our manutac-
lures are already going into all the mar
kets of the world, from which they
were long excluded by our inflated
and deprecated currency. The wider the
market the more prosperous the producers
who supply it ; yet the greenback orators
are trying to persuade the American people
to adopt a deprecated paper currency
which would again shut their products out
from all the markets of the world except
our own. Every intelligent and industrious
workingman ought to oppose them, out of
the merest self-interest.


AS for the Kearney kind, we trust we
have had the last of them. His brief ex-
perience will not breed imitators, for it is
evident that something more than mix
ture of ignorance and profanity is needed
to move the workingmen of this country.
Year: 1878

The WEATHER.-DuIipg the early part Of
yesterday the pressure within the depression
that was moving over the lake region rose in
nearly all the sections above the mean. But
the depression passed over the lower lakes
the pressure began to fall again and the general
outlines of the low area became more marked.
The high pressure continues on the Atlantic
coast but extends more inland in the Middle
Atlantic and New England States. The rain
has been heaviest in the lower lake region
and Atlantic coast districts. 1t has also
fallen in the central valley districts and
Gulf coast. The winds have continued
light throughout all the sections except the
lower lake regions, whore they have been from
light to brisk, and in the Western Gulf, where
they have been generally fresh. There has
been general rise in temperatures in all the
districts except the lake regions and the Middle
Atlantic States. There are indications of
strong winds for the Middle Atlantic States and
lower lake region during the next few days.
Steep gradients will also possibly develop in
the Northwest The weather in New York and
its vicinity to-day will be warm and cloudy or
partly cloudy, possibly with rains. Tomorrow
1t promises to be cooler and fair or partly
cloudy, probably with showers.
Year: 1878

Especial to the Democrat
WASHINGTON. March 21.-The real struggle
| over the Texas Pacific subsidy may now be con-
sdered as fairly begun, and 1t is plain to every
body familiar with the situation that something
more than moral suasion will be required to put
the bill through. The final struggle will be made
| on the Stephens bill. az reported yesterday, and
II unsuccessful Scott will abandon his project al
together.


As far as can be aseertained by n close can
vass there are about eighty members Of the
House and fourteen Senators certain to
vote for the bill and about ninety members aud
twenty five Senators certain to vote against It.
while the remainder OF both branches are un-
certain.


1t will require. at the least calculation thirty
Senators and 100 members to pass the bill.
scott's friends claim that they are sure of that
number at any stage Of the bill. but the figures
/ have given will prove reliable, not making
allowance for the weight OF any argument
stronger than moral suasion. schurz's


Persecution of the Timber Men
10 becoming unendurabe. His last exploit was
to seize lot of charcoal In Florida, claiming
that It was burned from wood stolen from the
government. The matter Is attracting much
attention among the Southern men In Con-
gress. and movement is on foot


To Teach Him a Lesson
that he will not soon forget


Louisianians here were somewhat mystfied
last night and to-day by information that Hayes
and John sherman were feeling around among
the Senators to SEQ IL there was any chance Of
confirming Williamson. with view to send
him In again If the prospect seems favorable.


The behavior Of Hayes and his Cabinet is fast
becoming the greatest comedy of tho time
Bets arc offered that no Collector whom Hayes
may nominate can be confirmed not even Pack
ard.


HOwes proposed


Onslaught Upon Hayes
over Judge Whitakers shoulders is said to
be intended as the opening gun Of a general
engagement along the whole line, In which
Conkling Blaine and all the disaffected Radi-
calls will take hand.


Senators who are on the ground floor say
that the debate may last two or three weeks on
this subject. the purpose being to riddle Hayes
Southern policy from stem to stern and lay out
plan OF operations for an old fashioned Radi-
cal campaign this fall independently OF the ad-
minfstration.


The Democrats will not allow themselves to
be drawn into this quarrel but will leave the
Radicals to fight it out among themselves The
row will begin next week. BUELL..
Year: 1878

THE time is fast approaching
when the special attention Of our
citizens should be given to the NOM
ination of city officers. None but
lirst-class men-men known to be
faithful, brave, inAexible, and self
trolling-should be called forth to
father cur city. II the political
parties ore to rise up against each
other, let the very best material Of
each party be placed in the fisld, so
that when the conflict is ended, we
are sure to have the right men in
the right place. Should tho advo-
Gates of temperance desire to test
the metal and sobriety of the general
voter, they too, should be bold and
courageous, and place in nomination
men possessing all the essential
qualities to insure peace and pros
perity-those whose desire for the
advance of the cause is equal to
that of their financial success.
Year: 1878

A neighboring exchange sensibly


remarks that the last thing farmers
should cut off as luxury is their
newspaper. Corn may not be but
fifteen cents per bushel, yet farmers
have all the greater need OF their
newspaper-especially their local
paper-for at such times perusal
Of the same will save them five times
tho amount of the subscription.
When produce is down to low price
and business rather dull, merchants
feel it, too, and strive to sell their
goods at very low figures. Bargains,
at such times, are always being ad-
vertised through the local papers
but if you are not a subscriber, you
may know nothing about the matter.
Year: 1878

A FATAL shooting accident hap
pened to young man named Eek
harts, who resided in Vernon county,
the first part of this month. While
he and number of boys were out
hunting, one of the number had o
new watch, which excited the curl
osity of the crowd. Young Eckharts
had set his gun on the ground, hold
ing the muzzle toward him. When
he went to place it on his shoulder
again the lock caught in bush, and
the gun was discharged, tho whole
load entering near the right temple,
making hole as large as q hens
egg. Medical aid was secured as
soon as possible, the wound exam
ined and pronounced fatal, and the
young fellow died soon after.
Year: 1878

collections, and it was an imminent
~ proper thing for the Legislature
to make it. We are glad the bill
passed through with but slight oppo-
sition. 1t is creditable to the State
that the purchase is to be made
State Journal.
Year: 1878

If it wero not q fact to be seen no
one would believe that 30 much mud
and filth could accumulate in one
short season, as hes been the case in
this city the winter just closing. A
goodly number OF men with horses
and carts have been kept busy for
at least week cleaning High and
Commerce streets. 1t speaks well
for the travelling done here, anyway
and of course the more travel the
more business.
Year: 1878

TIE season in which boys stroll
forth into the forests and on the


banks of streams, with gun in hand,
has arrived. Too much care cannot
be taken while out with firearms,
and if the young urchins will steal
away from home against their par
ents' wishes-whicli is most always
tho case-we hope they will be
careful. Only last weok q youth
living not far from here, met with
death by carelessness while out
hunting. Be careful, boys, if you
do disobey your father and mother.
Year: 1878

corrective, and it exists wherever and


whenever corrective measures are
needed to purge away evil, to estab-
lish truth and make goodness appear.
1t follows upon the footsteps Of evil.
1t is a specter to the evil doer, and
if evil departs with him into the great
unknown beyond the grave, it will
follow him there and be an unquench-
able fire in the soul until he shall re-
nounce the evil and cleave to the
good. This is eternal punishment.
1t concerns both the present and the
future, both time and eternity, and
enters into the very essence Of life's
problem. ~
Year: 1878

As an evidence of the spirit with
which the Southern people receive the
Republican policy of pacifcation, we
subjoin the following extracts from
Dixie newspapers. The Southern States,
the great Bourbon organ of Mississippi,
in laying out the programme for a tri-
umphant Southern Democracy, says:


"When we have thus obtained the
upper hand we propose to undo what
has been done by the Radicals since
1861, as far as lies in om power We
propose to tear the negro amendments
out of the Constitution. We propose
to restore the Planter Republic of our
fathers in all it's original purity and
simplicity"


The same paper speaks of the hell
born heresy of African suffrage, and
says:


"When the repeal of the revolution
ary amendments is sprung upon the
country it will catch up and carry the
popular sentiment with it from sea-
board to seaboard."


The pacifcation policy is treated as
follows:


ave never say there is peace, when
we know that there is no peace, that
there never can be peace between the
North and the South until our ancient
enemies are hurled from power and we
have planted our feet on their necks
Our politicians may rise in the halls Of
State and represent that we are concili-
ated all over and all through; that we
long to hug the Yankees to our bosoms;
that the past is forgiven, and that We
worship the memory of Lincoln and his
hirelings as fervently as the priests
of Ispahan are said to worship the
morning sun; but our politicians sim
ply falsify the facts. The South is con-
quered but not subdued She thinks
and feels precisely as she thought and
felt before the war. She accepts none
of the New England ideas and isms that
her foes have tried to force upon her
She spits upon their heresies. She
t1amples them under her very feet She
will tear them out Of her laws and scat
ter them to the four winds of heaven
as soon as she has the upper hand.


The Mississippi independent, refer
ring to the campaign of 1876, says:


1--WE did adopt in Mississippi poll
tics the knife and pistol tactics, but we
did it only after 10 years OF submission
and disappointed hope"


As an evidence of the character of
Southern feeling toward leading men of
the North, the following from the Cen
trail Georgia Weekly is suggestive;


"Yes, 'Bloody-shirt' Morton is dead.
Thanks be to the God of the dead for
the long prayed for relief. Grant is
in Paris and Morton is dead. Is
there no cause for rejoicing? BE
glad, We people of the United States
that have so long suffered under the
reign of these two blood-thirsty ty
rants They have slnned long and
much, but they will suffer their just
punishment in hell-if there be hell
for assuredly there must be some
place of torment for these wretches.


Morton has been truly called bloody
shirt Norton He has been the cause
of many shirts being blooded since
the war. The coward has blodied
none himself, but has led others to do
the bloody work by his inhammatory
speeches in Congress. Nor has his
shirt been .bloodied, which should
have happened long before his death.


Our heart is not hard we think, but
we must say that Morton's death is
the occasion of much rejoicing to us.
He is dead and we are glad of it."
Year: 1878

The ship Pilgrim, which struck on
the Columbia River bar at the time the
NjDl5us was lost, made twenty-four in
ches of water per hour on her run down
to san Francisco, but the men kept her
above water easily.
Year: 1878

y


to say a word on the prevailing topic
of the day, that of External Punish
ment." | agree with Rev. Cruzan,
that nippancy should have no part in
the consideration Of so important a
subject. Though / do not wonder
that in the light of sound reason,
some ideas advanced on this subject
should be received with ridicule and
laughed to scorn.


| believe that He'll is. Not that it
is particular place as a lake or
valley, but a condition of being,
state of existence-that is inharmo-
nious because essential good has
given place to essential evil. 1t is
an original condition, existing from
the beginning. 1t has no fixed and
material location as lake or a val
ley, these terms are only typical, but
is condition or state, and may exist
anywhere or everywhere. Where
evil is, there hell is also. What evil
Is to hell, so is good to heaven. Let
them be localized where found, but
remember they are conditions of be-
ing, their locality being another and
subordinate consideration. The
duration of this condition is Indefinite.
So far as time is concerned it may eX-
ist forever, not perhaps in the single
individual, but in the abstract and in
its relation to the whole race. Where
the spirit Of evil is, there is hell.
Whether that spirit manifests itself
in body or mind, and be on earth or
in the spheres above or below, hell or
suffering is its eternal concomitant
The condition begins where evil ap-
pears and continues with it from gen
Grafton to generation. To the un-
lettered and ignorant, and to those
who are slow to apprehend spiritual
truth, hell is pictured by the fancy as
a lake of fire and birthstone, or val
lev of death. TO them it must have
a material meaning, for this to them
is the most terrible. But, to him
who strips the doctrine of its material
istic dress, and apprehends its spirit
ual truth, there is far higher, deeper,
andmorc terrible significance attached
to the word hell than this. lie notes
the condition as present in the body
and the thought, ever veXing the con-
science, increasing perhaps with age,
on and on until it becomes a con-
suming fire in the soul, symbolized
only by the gnashing of teeth, and
by unquenchable fire.


Such | believe to be the nature of
hell. The spiritual meaning of the
Bible words on the subject justify
this position. Seek the spirit of truth
in the Scriptures, and the letter of
the word will not vex the mind with
mysteries and contradictions. BY
the power of God, corrective meas
ures are always at work eliminating
the good from the evil. He'll, both
here and hereafter, both now and
forever, in this world and in the worlds
To come, is one of the means by which
Omniscience works to redeem the
world to goodness, and to establish
Himself forever in His Kingdom; the
brightness and glory of which, is en-
hanced ten thousand fold, because
therein dwell His children, beings
who have been tried as by FIRE, and
have come up from the depths OF evil
and hell, as pure gold from the rehn-
er's fire. That Kingdom is verify
now. IL exists where virtue and
charity are found, and is eternal in its
nature. He'll is. suffering, suffering
is punishment; not indicative but
Year: 1878

row, Mr.. Burke was never reused
to anything like his old form un-
less attacked, and then the pros
trate oak became as majestic on
the earth as It had been when tow
erlng above the giants of the forest.
He smote the Duke of Bedford, hip
and thigh, in defense of the PEN
sion, and made even William Pitt
quail because of his attempt to me-
gotiate with France regicids
peace. These were the last grand
expiring threes OF one of the loft
lest intellects the universe has be-
held. He was laid to rest at the
little church of BeaconsfieId by the
side of the son he loved so we'll and
mourned so deeply and broken
heartedly. The chronicler relates
that he would have slept at West
minister Abbey, but for his own ex-
pressed desire to repose elsewhere.
1t is said that, when a young Irish
lad, soon after his first arrival in
London, he visited the great Alb
bey, of which he wrote: Yet,
after all, do you know | would
rather sleep in the southern corner
of a little country churchyard than
in the tomb of the Capulets. l
should like, however, that my dust
should mingle with kindred dust.
The good old expression. family
burying ground has something
pleasing in it, at least for me-"


The present Earl of Beaconstield
may be none the lees proud that
the first honor OF that title was in
tended for Edmund Burke, whose
name after all, may reign longer
in the memories of men. Both the
men of Bsaconstield owe much of
prominence to that magic and
wizard-like faculty called imagina-
tive or creative faculty. 1t will be
we'll with the later Beaconsfield il
time shall deal with him as gener-
ously as it has with the first man
who made the name memorable.
| E lmnnd Burke had a mora philo-
sophical mind than Benjamin Dis
rleli, aud, in many respects, is
the nobler character of the
two. But it may be granted that
Disraeli has made the more pic
turesque statesman ami given a
halo to Beaconsfield that even
Burke did not. Like Burke, too,
he is alone. No son of his will
ever succeed to his title, and it
would be, not altogether uniting,
that man so peculiar and sui
generis, in spite of his fondness for
pageantry and pomp, should prefer
to slumber in death by the side of
Burke than moulder away among
kings and warriors in the old Alb
hey.
Year: 1878

Some years ago the late Horace Mann
the eminent educator, delivered an ad-
dress at the opening of some reformato-
ry institution for boys, during which he
remarked that if only one boy was saved
from ruin, it pays for all the cost and
care and labor of establishing such an
institution as that. After the exercises
had closed, in private conversation, a
gentleman rallied Mr.. Mann upon his
statement, and said to him: sDid you
not color that little, when you said
that all expense and labor would be re-
paid if it only saved one boy % 'Not If
it was my boy" was the solemn and con-
victing reply. All there is wonderful
value about ''my boy" Other boys may
be rude and rough; other boys may be
reckless and wild other boys may seem
to require more pains and labor than
they ever will repay; other boys may be



left to drift uncared for to the ruin
which is so near at hand but "my boy
1t were worth the toll of a lifetime
! and the lavish wealth of world to save
him from the temporal and eternal ruin.
We would go the world round to save
him from peril, and would bless every
hand that was stretched out to give him
help or welcome. And yet every poor
wandering outcast, homeless man is one
whom some fond mother called "my boy. >
Every lost woman, sunken in the depths
of sin, was somebody's daughters in hel
days of childish, innocence. Today
somebody's son is hungry outcast
somebody's daughter is weary, helpless
wanderer, driven by necessity in the
paths that lead to death. Shall we
shrink from labor, shall We hesitate al
what cost, when the work before us i;
the salvation of soul [? Not if it is my
boy" not if we have love of him whc
gave his life to save the lost.-1h


Christian.
Year: 1878

mence with violence and last until one
grows nervous for fear the broadcloth
will not be able TO stand the friction.


He declines soup that day for dinner.
He says it is because be is not hungry,
but We know it is because there are
onions in it, and onions, as every one
knows, do not sweeten ones breath to
any great extent.


1t spoken to suddenly he starts and
bushes and looks as guilty as If he was
stealing something, and directly if one
does not speak to him he goes back to
the delightful occupation. of staring at
nothing and waiting for the hour hand
to creep around to seven.
Year: 1878

| despise stingy man. I don't see
how it is possible for man to die worth
fifty millions of dollars, or ten millions
of dollars, in city full of want, when
ne meets almost every day the withered
hand OF beggary and the white lips Of
famine. How man can withstand all
that. and hold in the clutch of his greed
twenty or thirty millions of dollars. is
past my comprehension. I do not see
how ne can do it. I should not think
ne could do it any more than he could
keep pile of lumber when hundreds
and thousands were drowning in the sea.
should not think he could do it. Do
you know have known men who wnnld
trust their wives with their hearts and
their honor, but not with their pocket
books; not with dollar. When | see
a man of that kind always think he
knows which of these articles is the
most valuable. Think of making your
wife beggar! Think of her having to
ask you every day for dollar, or for
two dollars, or for fifty cents What
kind of children do you expect to have
with beggar and e coward for their
mother? OH tell you, if you have
got to spend it, spend it like king
spend it as though it were dry leaf,
and you the owner of unbounded forests
That's the way to spend it. I had rath-
er be a beggar aud spend my last dollar
like king, than be king and spend
my money like beggar. If it's got to
60, let it go! Get the best you can for
your family-try to look as well as you
can yourself.


When you used to go courting how
nice you looked! All, your eye was
bright, your step was light, and you just
put on the very best look you could. Do
you know that it IS insuferable egotism
in you to suppose that woman is going
to love you always looking as bad as you
can Think of it Any woman on earth
will be true to you forever when you do
your level best. Some people tell me,
''your doctrine about loving, and wives.
and all that, is splendid for the rich,
but it won't do for the poor" | tell
you there is, on the average, more love
in the homes of the poor than in the
palaces of the rich; aud the meanest
hut with love in it is fit for the gods,
and palace without love is den only
fit for wild beasts. That's my doctrine |!
You can't be so poor but that you can
helm snmehndv. Good Is sne
love is the only thing that will pay ten
per cent. to borrower and lender both.
Don't tell me that you have got to
be rich We have all false standard
of greatness in the United States. We
think here that for man to be great he
must be notorious ; he must be extreme
ly wealthy, or his name must be between
the lips of rumor. 1t is all nonsense


1t is not necessaryto to be rich to be great.
or to be powerful to be happy; and the
happy man is the successful man. Hap.
piness is the legal tender of the soul
Joy is wealth.-Robert G.. Ingersou.
Year: 1878

Pure milk is the highest type of hu-
man food. being equal to flesh and more
easily digested the necessity of pure
milk for children Is apparent to all.
Cheese is twice as nutritious as beef +:
four pounds of milk is equal to one
pound of cooked beef. Double the guam
tity of milk is required to grow one hall
pound of veal or beef than to produce
one pound of cheese. English laborers
having their choice for dinner. one
quarter pound of cheese or one-hali
pound of meat, generally prefer the
cheese.