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Year: 1878

GENUINE REFINEMENT Refinement is not
fastidousness 1t is not luxury. 1t is moth
ing of this kind. 1t is far removed from ex-
cess or waste. A person truly refined will not
squander or needlessly consume anything,
Refinement, on the contrary, is always allied
to simplicity and judicious and tasteful EN-
ployment of the means of good and happiness
which it has at command. 1t seeks to divest
itself of superhuities and aspires continually
to the utmost possible purity. Refinement
leads to personal cleanliness and elegant neat
ness, good taste and simplicity in dress.
'Loudness" or fiashiness is repugnant to its
spirit In its home and surroundings-wh
er palRtial, affluent or humble-the same
chasteness and natural grace are maintained.
The abode of genuine refinement and mere
pretender to it are very different.
Year: 1878

old woman with a cane who passed them at
the portals, took cab, hurried to the railway
station and joined her son in n seclusion which
has not been discovered by the Dominicans or
the Valdromes the lynx-eyed police did not
recognize the sprightly young person whom
it was their duty to shadow
Year: 1878

The VALUE OF MoNEY.-Ask of each
ringing dollar in this word its history-how
it came into life. Some of them will tell you
they represent the tears of widow, the bar
tered honor of man, the jobbery of a ring,
and the thousand of other stories which you
would be told, need not relate. Benjamin
Franklin said the road to wealth is as plain
as the road to market. Yes, it is the good
old.fashioned road to honest toll. We some
times say that the day of miracles is passed.
There is one miracle still existing-the mi
raculous result of hard labor that is accom-
plshed by the dripping sweat of the brow.
The value of money is not what it buys, but
what it costs. Some mems money cost them
much, others too little A man who makes
bis money at the expense of his health and
honor, pays too much he that gets his money
by lucky hits pays too little. If he pays too
much he cheats himself; if he pays too little
be cheats mankind. The golden mean be.
tween these two extremes was we'll expressed
in the prayer Of Agar, who said, "Give me
neither poverty nor riches" If a man would
bring Arcadia, let him abolish poverty and
wealth,
Year: 1878

The TRUE SEcREr.-How many take a
wrong view of life, and waste their energies
and destroy their nervous system in endeav-
oring to accumulate wealth, without thinking
of the present happiness they are throwing
away. 1t is not wealth or high station which
makes a man happy. Many of the most
wretched beings on earth have both but it is
radiant, sunny spirit, which knows how to
bear little trials and enjoy comforts, and
thus extract happiness from every incident in
life,
Year: 1878

On the same morning that Colonel Dacre
opened his letters at the breakfast table and
took walk afterwards to help him digest
the contents of one of them, Mary Eustace,
sitting schoolgirl fashion in one of the
dormtory windows at Miss Anderson's Semi.
Year: 1878

TRUE STRENeTH.-We must measure a
mans strength by the power of the feelings he
subdues; not by the power of those which sub
due him. And hence, composure is often the
highest result of strength. Did we ever see a
man receive fragrant injury, and then reply
calmly? That's man spiritually strong. Or,
did we ever see man in anguish, stand as if
carved out of solid rock, as if mastering him.
self? Or one bearing a hopeless daily trial
remain silent and never tell the world what
cankered his home peace? That is strength.
We often mistake strong feelings for strong
character. A man who bears all before him,
before whose frown domestics tremble, and
whose bursts of fury make the children of the
household quake because he has bis way in
all things, we call him strong man. The
truth is, that he is a weak man it is his pas
sions that are strong-he, mastered by them,
is weak.
Year: 1878

MARRIED ExPER1ENCE.-I married my
wife about thirty.fve years ago. The cere-
mony was performed about Z o'clock in the
morning. Before retiring that evening, we
had a talk with each other, and the result
has sweetened our entire lives. We agreed
with each other that each should be watch
full, careful, meyer, by act or word, to hurt the
feelings of the other. We we're both young,
both hot-tempered, both positive in our
likes and dislikes, and both somewhat exact
ing and infexible- Just the material for
life of conjugal warfare. Well, for few
years we found it hard work to always live by
our agreement Occasionally (not often) a
word or look would slip off the tongue or
face before it could he caught or suppressed;
we never allowed the sun to 60 down on our
wrath. Before retiring at night on such oc-
casons, there was always confession and for
giveness, and the culprit would become more
careful in the future. Our tempers and dis
positions became gradually more and more
congenial; 80 that after few years we be-
came one in reality, as the material cere-
mony had pronounced us one nominally. In
thinking back, we find that for more than
twenty years our little agreement has been
unbroken, and there has been no occasion for
confession or forgiveness. In business we
have had our adversely and prosperity and
success. We have raised family Of children,
and now have our grand children about US;
we are simple enough to believe that we have
better children and grand. children because of
our little agreement. Under such contract,
religiously kept, no ill-natured children will
be reared, and no boys will find the streets
and bar-rooms more pleasant than home. To
make good wife or a good husband, requires
the co.operation of both.
Year: 1878

From Daily OF Monday.


EcLIpsE.--The partial eclipse Of
the sun, which took place this after
noon, excited considerable interest.
Pieces of smoked glass were in great
demand and the happy possessors of
them could be seen on every corner.
intently surveying the grand phe>
nomenon, and surrounded by groups
Of friends, awaiting their turn for c
look. 1t was the best patronized
free show that has visited this town
since the ever memorable lectuling
tour of the celebrated Prof. Fowler.
Of course, front seats were reserved
for the press, and of course the press
was out in force viewing the grad
ual darkening of the grand luminary
of day through glass, darkly. The
performance commenced at lis and
continued until about $50. We
noticed some individuals who had
been viewing it through the medium
OF certain glasses, filed with an
amber-colored fluid, who were so
overcome with the grand sensations
produced by the awe-inspiring
spectacle that they had to be led off
home by their sorrowing friends.
Altogether it was great success
and should the show ever come
around this way again, we hope it
will have good patronage.


The pen man. with his envelope
lottery, still holds forth nightly on
Occidental Square. For playing
such a game as this some two years
ago, quite number of persons were
fined in various amounts, and one of
them got some 80 days in the county
Jail.
Year: 1878

CRY VS.. YEsLER the above
entitled case, the Supreme Court,
while recognizing the validity OF the
city charter as legalized by act OF
Con ngress, unanimously confirmed
the decision of the Court below that
the assessment contested by Mr..
Yesler was illegally made under the
charter. This decision will techni-
cally invalidate the city scrip issued
for improvements upon our streets,
amounting to several thousands OF
dollars, but we do not believe that
any considerable portion of our cit
liens will consent to a reputation
of any Just obligation for which the
CITY has had the benefit on account
of any technical defect in the con-
tract. That the Mayor and Common
Council acted in good faith. there
can be no reasonable doubt, and
their only fault was the mistake or
incompetency of their legal adviser.
There are no circumstances which
will justify the citizens OF any COM
munity in repudiating the obliga-
tions contracted for them according
to the forms of law. by their own
chosen officers. Mississippi was
made infamous for repudiating
bends which were decided by its
Own Supreme Court to have been is
sued without the authority of law,
bub which had been sold for, and
applied to, the benefit of the State.
Seattle cannot afford to accept the
bad eminence of repudiating city.


COMMON CoUNCIL.-To remove a
false impression which seems to pre-
vail, we would state that the first
meeting of the new Common Council
will not be held until Thursday
next. that being the day prescribed
by the previous Board as the time
for the regular meeting. The term
Of the Mayor and Common Council
commences tomorrow (2Sth), for all
the officers elect who have qualified
by filing their oath of office with the
City Clerk previous to that time,
- -a meeting is necessary to give
validity to that rIle.


OUT N RF1-froHS. the other NIGHT
the following scene occurred:


He sang 70 his darling "The stars are .orth


The night winds gently sigi;


There's a light in the window, eve, for me,
And waitil. below am l. -


Her father the miustrei's voice o'erbeard,
And mentally whispered Watt ~


As he gathered the serenader up


And yanked hin over the gate


And she? See knew by her lovers words,


The wreck that the old man made
Ten dollars are what these .rowsers cost.
! And l'u glad that the bin amt raid"
Year: 1878

That the immediate result Of the
Potter investigation in its original, but
illy-concealed purpose to invalidatc the
Presidential title, and ultimately to un-
seat Mr. Hayes, has been to harmonizc
and solidify the Republican party gen
orally, no impartial observer of pass
ing political events will deny In the
State Of Ohio this is strkingv the case


as well as in other States in which the
evidences may not be as striking, as in
the State of Michigan, where, since the
date Of the meeting of the Ohio State
Republican Convention, no Endorsement
OF the Administration was attempted.
But irrespective of the opposite action
OF the conventions in these two States,
it is every where evident that better
feeling pervades the Republican ranks.
Not that any marked change of opin-
ion has occurred in the minds of Repub-
licans as to the Administrations aban-
donment OF its party principles, or that
they any the less believe now, than
Year: 1878

bill, and told his officer up there at the
War Department, Thus far shalt thou
90 in the expenditure of public money
and no farther and instead Of spend
ing seven or eight million dollars, he
limited the expenditure to two million
dollars, which was ample for the pro
lection of the various public works that
We're then in execution. At time like
this, when we are doing everything in
our power to lift the people out of de-
spair and dependency on account Of
the financial distress prevailing every
where, are we to tax them SS,000,000
for public Improvements No, MIR.
President, no such bill shall receive my
vote, and | would rather omit my own
harbor of Batimore-for which you
vote the paltry, picayune sum of Sl5,-
00O-that port Of entry where so much
is received for duties. | say | would
rather wipe out every dollar of it than
tax the people with this SS,50O,0Oo in
this crucial time of their suffering and
distress
Year: 1878

Now that Congress has adjourned
and its well paid members have packed
their bundles and gone home, it would
seem an anspicious moment to indulge
some pious reflections upon the possible
motive and object the Almighty Creator
of "all things" has in view when He
breathes the breath of life into the aver
age congressman. We mean nothing
irreverent at all, but simply to indulge
a reckless and hopeless speculation as
to the use, object and end of the Lower
House of Congress. Patriotism We're
indeed indulging modest wish, in
hoping never to see its like again For
eight long and tedious months, every
material interest of the country has
been quivering and agitated at the pros
pect of its tinkerng touch Every
industry has felt the paralysis of the
presence of Congress. Every CONNER
cial interest has sutfered-eyen tobacco
and whisky-by the uncertainty of its
action; while the principal part of the
session has been wasted on irrelevant
subjects, and in the advocacy of private
measures of legislation.


1t was peculiarly and in every sense
a Democratic assembly; perfect reflex
of the party nationally, reactionary
alike in policy and purpose. For the
first time since the war, the country has
had the opportunity Of seeing a Solid
South in full control of the Lower
House, and has already had some indi-
cation of what remains to be seen, when
that same Solid South shall secure the
control Of the upper one. AS, a body,
it was reckless of the public honor, dan
gerous to the public peace, and careless
of business and industrial interests,
and no national assembly that ever pre-
ceded it was disgraced by the presence
of SO many unmitigated demagogues,
ever ready to pander to the prejudiees
and passions of the ignorant of all
classes. We may all hope never to see
another House of Representatives elect
ed as strictly partisan as this one.
Year: 1878

they did three months ago, that Mr.
HAYES has betrayed the great party
that elected him, but simply that they
as party stand solid iii defense Of the
VALIDITY OF HIS TITLE as President
That this is all the ambiguous indorse-
ment of his administration meant even
in Ohio is plain. The Convention in
that State got over, or got AROUND, the
question of indorsing the Administra-
tion in about the wisest practicable
method


A few weeks ago the PENNSYLVANIA
plan of ignoring the President would
have been adopted, but since the Potter
investigation Mr. Hayes has gained in
popularity, and there is disposition
to look forgivingly upon him, simply
out of sympathy for him and indgna-
ton at the assaults upon him. The
dominant sentiment was to heartily
recognize Mr.. Hayes as President, who
has given the country a pure Admins
tration, and to say nothing about the
features of his policy or about specific
performances which have not met with
the unanimous approval Of the party
This was the only sensible course to
take There are thousands Of Repub-
licans who would not vote the ticket if
the platform had contained general
Endorsement Of the Administration, and
there are other thousands who would
not vote it if the President were ignored
or any slur put upon him. Mutual con-
cession and a spirit Of tolerance toward
all opinions on this subject will consoIi-
date the party and bring out the full
vote; and it was such a spirit which
controlled the shaping of the platform
and the action Of the convention. This
was what the Endorsement meant and
nothing more. The Republicans of
Ohio sunk for the moment their disap-
probation of Hayes in their greater de-
sire for the welfare of the Republican
party.


Not so, however, the Republicans of
Iowa They could not easily have
passed the President by with more con-
spicuous disapprobation. All mention
of him is carefully excluded from their
platform, even in its references to the
controversy over his title, in which the
illusions to the office Itself are strictly
impersonal. The only knowledge of
the existence Of Mr. Hayes, which the
platform betrays, is in a keen thrust at
his Southern speeches last year, in which
the Convention declares that the civil
war was not " Il mere trial of physical
force between Creeks The course Of
his Administration is most severely
criticized, but onl V by implication the
Convention declaring that the loss Of
five Southern States to the Republicans
has followed upon Democratic intimi-
dation and failure to enforce the prn-
ciples of the Republican party, and de-
nouncing the attempt to restrict citi-
zens in the exercise Of their political
rights The Convention also checred
Justify for Grant 1t couldn't cheer for
Hayes, under the circumstances, and it
had to cheer for somebody But by a
coincidence, it seems to be Gen. Grant
that conventions Of Western Republi-
cans find it most handy to cheer for
NOWADAYS.
Year: 1878

In the debate in the L. S. Senate, on
Saturday, on the River and Harbor
bill, Senator Whyte, of Maryland, thus
eulogized General Grant We com,
mend the Senator's honesty and frank
ness for imitation by his bourbon
brethren:


| admire Ulysses S Grant. There
was heap Of Roman in that man,
which inspired the admiration of every
American. He was great in the battle
field he was great in the White House,
and that character which likencd him
to Andrew jackson won upon the hearts
of the American people, and he never
did braver act than when, in the
Summer Of 1876, he took his sword
and stuck it into the River and Harbor
Year: 1878

GENERAL GRANT will be nominated,
if at all, only because the best interests
of the nation are to be subserved by his
candidature and election a nomina-
ton thus necessitated will be equivalent
to an Acknowledgment Gazette.
Year: 1878

THE sympathy of the whole country
will 90 out toward the venerable Mont
gomery Blair. His indefatigable jaw,
after the ceaseless activity of nearly a
century, has been rudely dislocated by
his own OartV.
Year: 1878

The New y ork Tribune recently
contained some verv sensible views,
strongly expressed, relative to the mod
ern style Of journalism, which delights
in parading the most prurient gossip
concerning men or women Of more or
less prominence 1t is not merely the
offensive personalism of large class Of
journals, against which the well-aimed
shafts of the - Tribune ARE hurled. but
against the too apparent desire of so
large a class of city dailies to pander
to the lowest and most depraved tastes
of society, by the production Of scan
dalous personal news items. The most
offensive details are paradcd at length
Startling stories of immortality are given
to their readers with the apparent pur-
pose of yindicating character, but really
for the qualification Of the lowest and
most depraved instincts


Such newspapers serve as collect
pipes for all the social and political
sewage of the exchanges. The busi-
ness of journalism Of this type is to
put its fingers on the weak spots Of
human nature and to enlarge them
1t aims to leave a sour and rancid taste
in every readers mouth each day of
the week, and to convince mankind that
whatever is is wrong 1t never builds
| up anything, but is constantly pulling
something to pieces. Whether it at
tacks public institutions or private repu-
tations, it acts like a corrosive acid
upon public morality and private vir-
tue. Its methods are we'll illustrated in
the case OF the octogenarlan Bishop Of
| Michigan Here is man Of advanced
age and unblemished reputation who
has been faithful to his charge Of forty
two years. He resigns his Office OF
the score Of bodily infrmity and old
age, and takes passage for Europe At
once every scandal-monger stands with
distended nostril and sensual leer and
snut1s social carriOn from afar. Sud
denly the Bishops reputation is black
ened with scandal nastier than prairie
mud or Chicago filth. : * The
Bishop is accused, tried and condemned
by newspaper, and there is general
hilarity and godlessness and we doubt
not that if the case should ever be taken
into the courts and set before jury,
| there are journals that would SUM up
the case in pamphlets, and assume an
inlaIiibility in passing Judgment on the
| evidence that will hedge close upon
! Divine omuiscence


This is good, square, honest talk Of
the sort that ought to be found in every
| paper which desires the good will Of
! decent men and women, and that circu-
lates i'll respectable and virtuous fami-
lies. TIE depraved journalism, which
the "Trlbune' rebukes, is to-day the
most hanetul agency at work against
the pure manhood and womanhood of
the present and the coming generations


Its effects upon society can only be illus
trated in material way bv the fatal
malarial poisons that noiselessly, but
no less insdiousIy, infect alike the man
sions Of the rich and the humble cot
tages of the lowly. Such newspaper
literature can be indulged in harmlessIy
by no one, however well fortified in
morals, education, or virtuous surround
ings.
Year: 1878

Mr.. HALsTEAD's third term mono
mania has assumed new form He
threatens, unless General Grants ad-
mirers are less demonstrative, to renom-
mate Hayes for second term. He is
careful to say he doesn't do so yet, but
he talks like man who is likely to do
it at any minute He labors under a
burdensome conviction that he has only
to mention the thing TO knock the Grant
movement into smithereens. Without
any desire to interfere in so tremendous
piece Of strategy, it may not be i'm
pertinent to suggest that the effect
would be much more irresistible were
the ticket made Hayes and Stanley
Matthews. That would make things
buzz.
Year: 1878

dHi ldii III supply


- The cathedral at Cologne is fine build
ing. No matter when you see it yon will
always find workmen fixing something
about it. There is always a scatlolding
erected around and about the building,
showing that some parts OF the building
constantly need repair. Now the cathedral
of Milan needs no repairing. 1t is pei feet.
Within this cathedral are many interesting
relies. Among the most curious relics in
the cathedral are three skulls encircled
with crowns of precious jewels. These
skulls are said to have been those of the
three Magi " or wise men who came from
the east to Jerusalem saying, Where is
he that is born King of the Jews? For
we have seen his star in the east, and are
come to worship him" The traditional
names Of the wise men were Melchior,
Balthasar, ana Caspar. Melchior was an
old man with white hair and long beard ;
Balthasar was sswarthy and in the prime of
life; While Caspar was ruddy and beard
less youth. The Bible does not say how
many wise men there were, bat Augustine
and Nhrysotom say that there were twelve;
but the common belief, arising perhaps
from the skulls in the cathedral, is that
they were three in number.


shall perhaps in my next letter give a
description of Genoa, and perhaps of fIei
deiberg.


y few days ago | received a letter, in
which | was asked the question if | were
ever up on the summit of Mount Blanc and
if had been, to give description of the
mountain. In reply, | will say that ac
cording to the best Of my knowledge and
belief only four persons have ever made
that frghtful ascent They returned again
broken in health. The guides who make
this perilous ascent DO so with their lives in
their hands, and rarely make the ascent
more than three times in their lives
would just as soon think of jumping down
the crater of Mount Vesuvius as to make
the ascent of Mount Blanc. II. II.
Year: 1878

Resumption Is doing its noble work in our
midst. fhe old banking house OF joseph
Hemann X Co closed ITS doors yerterday.
Hard money and hard times will both be
with us for some time.
Year: 1878

iInteryiew with j. W. Forney.l


shall stand by the republican party till
the last horn blows and ! therefore mast
not be misunderstood when say the chances
are in favor Of q democratic triumph In IsSo
Year: 1878

We ARE GLAD to hear that Coroner
Butz has established his head quarters
at the undertaking establishment of
J. A. Wilson, 81 Shipley street. This
itself is an evidence that the new Coro-
ner intends to inaugurate reform
movement, which shall elevate his Of
fee to that dignited position it should
occupy. The REPUBLICAN found it to
be to the interest of reform to criticise
and strongly condemn the manner in
which the late Coroner administered his
Office, but we hope We shall find it to
be equally in the interest Of reform to
commend and support Coroner Butz.