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Year: 1878

A common falacy was well answer.
Ell at the great Chicago mass meeting
by Judge Lawrence. 1t is claimed
that the payment of the bonds in silver
would impair the nations credit. Up.
on this point Judge Lawrence said:


If that were true. should say that,
SO long as we are right and just, our
power to borrow money at a low rate
Of interest abroad is of vastly less con-
sequence than the preservation of our
people at home from ruin and starva-
ton. But the proposition is not true.
1t is a most transparent fallacy. All
there is of truth in the assertion is
simply this, that bonds which are pay
able in gold or silver at our option will
not sell for so much in the present
state Of the markets as a bond payable
only in gold. But that is only imma-
terial. If we can. sell a per. cent
gold bond at. par abroad in gold, we
can sell per cent silver bond at par
abroad in silver, and if the silver thus
received will pay a per cent bond at
it's face, is it not the same to US? No
man ever yet impaired his credit by
insisting upon hisright to pay his
debts according to his contract, and
there is no danger that the credit Of
our country will suffer from a like
course. Foreign bankers Will not dis.
trust our adherence to our contracts
in the future because we insist on
adhering to those made in the past.
Year: 1878

Itseems that in Wisconsin the fight
was squarely between the hard-money
men of both parties and the Green
hackers. A correspondent of the Fon
Du Lac (Wis,) Champion says;


In this portion of the state. to the
writer's own knowledge, prominent
Democrats deserted the party with
which they had long affiliated. and
voted and worked for the Smith ticket.
not on account of a sudden and radi-
cal change in their political views,
but because they did not want to COM
NIT the state 70 an endorsement of
the greenback theory. The same is
true of republicans whose financial
views were not in accord with thaCof
their party, and who east the greater
portion OF the $4,000 vote which Allis
received in the state.


IN fact. the feeling on the money
question was SO intense throughout
Winnebago comfy, and the same is


probably true Of the rest of the state,
| that the currency plank in the Demo
| cratic platform divorced from that


party its entire hard money vote. and
| the wholesale conversion of Republic


cans to the Greenbaek party is plainly


shown by the immense falling off in
| the Republican vote of this county,
and by the election of two Grennback


assemblymen, who drew their support


almost entirely from the Republican
ranks.


The writer further claims that ths
greenback vote. Democratic and In


dependent, carried Wisconsin by ovel
/ $4,000 majority.
Year: 1878

Coming back to the first Congressional
district from which we started, We hnd
the horrible case of John Wallace, the
details of which are too recent to need
revlving. 1t was the fortune OF the wrl-
ter to be present At the arraignment OF
Wallace a few hours before the mob
seized him and dragged him, shrteklng,
howlng and praying for mercy, over the
crossties of the railroad to the place OF
hanging, and there was gross careiessness
on the part OF the county officials at Bur
ton, in neglec.ing to take proper'sters to
secure the prisoners against mob vlg-
lence. For three days they were kept II
q room IN a frame hotel, opening on
public thoroughiare and guarded by two
or three rheumatic specimens
of humanity who could not
have withstood the siege of
respectable billygoat; and all the time
the muttcring of passion and revenge
was sounding about them, only waiting
for word from leader to lash 1t into
fury. When John Wallace WAS ar
rai1ned on that fatal Saturday and
pleaded guilty, it was only s little after
two p. NJ. The train from the east which
went through to Wheeling, where the
only legal Jail tor Wetzel county Is stu
sled. was not due until nineteen minutes
ps.t three p. NJ, and there was plenty OF
time TO have made out q commitment tor
the confessed murderer and shipped him
IN q point where he could have been
securely held and where he would have
had an opportunity to reveal more fully
and more satisfactorily than ne
has done, the connection ef others
with him in his toul and unnstura!
crime. But no, for the sake OF sending
hoth off together, John Wallace is mere
Iv remanded to the custody OF the
Fslstaffisn recruits who were employed
as guards. and George Wallace Is sent
for while John walks back to that fatal
room from which he is to emerge never
more until he is dragged out, bruised ana
bleeding by the bowling mob. The re-
suit of this management is that the his
tory of the State is stained with another
brutal lynching, the chance OF securing
further important evidence is cut OF, and
the probabilities are that George wal
lace who is now confined IN jail IN this
cltv, and who is believed by many to De
the worst of the two oroth-
ers is likely to escape entirely.
Year: 1878

Relative TO the attitude of England
the Agence Russo says that Russia can
not do more to facilitate meeting OF
con gress. Her means OF persuasion cease
at the point where care tor her dignity
Year: 1878

ment, for It meets the great want we have
referred TO, viz something cheap for


those who must otherwise go uninsured.
The want OF our civilization Is some way
to mitigate the great evil Of poverty.
Poverty begets most OF our woes and
crimes. The Bible says that "the de.
struction Of the poor is their poverty"
and nothing could be truer. Therefore
the search is for some philosophers
stone that will lift the burden Of
life of the poor when they loae
their providers. The old system Of life
insurance does not pretend to compete in
the solution Of such problem. They
provide only for the fairly we'll to do in
the world. This Is well enough as far as
it goes, but Il does not and cannot reach
the great and growing necessity Of our
age-a cheap method Of relieving
the workingman's apprehensions for his
family in Gaze OF his death.
Year: 1878

The Parkersburg Sentinel makes men.
zion of now life insurance organization
that has obtained growing foot hold in
that city, which proposes to pay $4,000
% the families Of It's members in the event
Of death, and, in addition, to refund all
assessments paid in by deceased mem'
Der.


The cost Of membership in the order is
not stated, but we presume that ii is sub.
stantially the same as in other similar
organizations. There are 80 many oil
these organizations springing up over the
country that we may properly refer to
them as one OF the social and economic
features OF our day. They illustrate the
wide spread attempt that is making
to solve the problem as to how
men Who have only a small salary or
daily wages to depend on can provide for
their families after death.


The old insurance companies have pro
vided way for persons Of considerable
means to secure something handsome tot
their families, but they do not meet the
necessities Of those who can only spare q
few dollars per annum out Of their earn
ings. Such persons must leave their fam
lilies unprovided for unless they can se-
cure something through the medium Of 4
cheap system OF life insurance. Thi,
cheap system the organizations now
springing up aim to furnish.


ltisu urged as an objection 10 these Or
saniEatiOns that they cannot afford
permanent security to those who
insure in them, because they have
little or no reserve fund. Their
distinguishing feature, however, Is that
they levy on each member when there Ia
a death, and thus, as they claim, avoid
the necessity for a reserve fund. The
man who does not respond to the levy
Is cut of fsom insurance on his own life,
and therefore has the strongest possible
inducement to payup.


This is their mOdus operandi, and ii
seems to be working we'll in several or
CARNATIONS, none Of which, however, are
very old as yet. The advocates Of the
system claim that Il will stand the test
Of time, as their ranks are being con-
stan'ly alled with young blood as fast as
the old die Of. And even II 1t should not
endure, they claim that while It does
LAT member gets his moneys worth
that ia, good sized amount Of insurance
for very small amount Of money.


1t is difficult to get over this last argu.
Year: 1878

The New Martinsville Messenger mani
Tests decided interest in the proposed
narrow gauge along the shore from
Wheeling to Parkersburg, and says that
the building of 1t would be the dawning
Of new era fof Wetzel county The
editor says that a gentleman who lately
visited Wheeling reports that 'the sub.
stan.iaI business men OF The city" feel a
great deal Of interest in the project.
Year: 1878

THE Milwaukee Sentinel is suffering from
. very severe attack of the GRANT chill.
1t exclaims: Let us make GRANT King -
and then proceeds to pronounce the Re-


public failure" A little bone-set tea
might regulate its liver and sweeten its
temper. 1t might relieve it to clip its ears.
Something should be done, for it will scarcely
survive another such an attack.
Year: 1878

every house. the tax gatherer at every
corner, laborers standing all the day
idle, children crying for bread. the
State herself beggar all by reason
that the Genius" Of Virginia lies
PROSTATE under the feet of the consol
bondholder.
Year: 1878

Three miles north OF Buffalo Is Forest
Lawn cemetery. Almost upon the
crest oi the hill and near the centre of
the cemetery rises the obelisk made of
Scotch granite that marks the resting
plaCe of Millard Fillmore. The FIJI
Year: 1878

INGERsoLL ON LABoR.-I sympa-
thize with every honest effort made by
the children OF labor 10 improve their
condition. That is q poorly governed
country in which those who do the most
have the least. There is something
wrong when men are obliged to beg for
leave to toll. We are not yet civil
lied people. When we are, paupensm
and crime will vanish from our land.
There is one thing, however, Of which
] am glad and proud, and that is. that
society is not, in our country, petrified;
that the poor are not always poor. The
children Of the poor OF this generation
pay and probably will be the rich Of
Year: 1878

been established through the interior line OF
the cotton-belt, the advantage Of which will
hereafter be realized through the map charts.
They have correspondent with the Depart
ment, as per documents herewith, relative to
furnishing the Exchange with earlier
daily reports of the weather through
out the Cotton States, and also with
the western Union regarding the
cost of such service, but finding that the ex-
pense would be greater than the supposed
advantage OF such information, they declined
making tho arrangement


They especially commend to your apprOba-
tion the admirable daily thermometrlcal and
barometricnl information supplied through
the prompt and active service of Sergeant
Smons of the Signal Service


Your committee beg to assure the board
that the department has not nor will relax
its efforts to extend its acknowledged useful
ness to agriculture and commerce., but will
continue, II supported by the government, to
make Itself felt q necessity


Very respectfully, your obedient servants,


JOHN /. NOBLE,


J. LORBER,


JOHN j. STEWART.
Year: 1878

I am thinking. idly thinking,


Here tonight, beside the glow
OF the fire, OF my childhood,


OF its Joyous, happy flow.
And / seem to see the faces


That used TO see Of old,
As the twilight falls around me,
As the evening shadows fold.
am thinking, idly thinking,


Il Is almost like dream,
How the hours softly murmured


In their gladsome, sunny stream.
How the sunlight brightly glistened,
And how fair the roses grew,
How the love-gems clung and clustered
Round my life, like crystal dew.
As sit and muse, one mem'ry


OF those shining days OF yore
Comes to me like holy incense


From its gemmed and jeweled shore.
lis fond, endearing murmur,


And It often comes to me,
OF the old time when nestled


Close beside my mothers knee.
/ am thinking, fondly thinking,


How she whispered in my ear
Of the Fathers loving kindness


To his little children here,
And the gentle, tender beaming
VI Lne 1gnt8 Nltnln ner eye,
As she told me of that country


Where the how'rets Fever die.
OF the never fading sunlight,


OF the fragrance and perfume
Floating through the blushing gardens
In their wealth of golden bloom.
Of its streams of running silver,


OF its bliss without alloy,
And she hoped in that fair country
She might meet her list'nirg boy.
/ am thinking, fondly thinking,


OF how gentle and how low
Her soothing whispers sounded


By the summer sunsets glow.
And the soft and clinging pressure


OF her hand I'll ne'er forget,
For sometimes, when 1 am weary,


do seem to feel it yet.
Yes, though many years have faded,


And my brow Is marked with care,
Yet sometimes feel the twining


Of her fingers through my hair;
And the echo of her whisper


Falls around me light and low,
Just as when a child nestled


By her side so long ago.
Year: 1878

"P1ETY:" In reply to your question
we would state that you can judge a
good deal better as to the influence of
the circus after you have seen eight
or ten performances. 1t might not be
right with your opinions, to visit a circus
as place of amusement, but there can
be nothing improper in your going to
collect facts as to the moral bearing of
the affair.-Still,Dater Lumberman.
Year: 1878

4 Biddeford lady went into a neigh
bors on a recent Saturday to study with a
friend the Sabbath school lesson for the
morrow. The man of the house very
properly withdrew that the ladies might
not be disturbed in their Scriptural studies
and pious meditations, but having occa-
sion shortly after to revisit the parlor, he
found his better half and friend intensely
interested in quiet game Of Sancho Pedro.
Year: 1878

In a talk to his neighbors on the
eve of the late election GOV. Seymour
of New York appealed to those pres
ent to use their reason about utquestions
which concerned themselves and their
families, and not to puzzle their
brains respecting the currency. When
we can sell what we raise and sell
more than we buy, then we must be
prosperous; but when we are com
PEELED to buy more than we are able
to sell, the is sure to be bankruptcy
and RUN. The solution of all our prob
lens, he assured his neighbors, lies
in industrious attention TO our own
business, letting theories and barren
speculations alone.
Year: 1878

THE steamer Dispatch, having with
some trouble and labor to her owners been
put alloat, is running once more on her
accustomed route. She was not damaged,
we are told, as the beach was sandy where
she got ashore. The Dispatch is one OF
the best little sea boats of her size on the
Sound. and for that reason will probably
be put on the Neah Bay mail route il
steam service is secured there.
Year: 1878

If the young folks OF this town are 60
ing to have II properly celebrated gala
cay on the lst Of May this year it is about
time they were taking the matter into
consideration. We are willing to help enjoy
the sport if some one else will do the big
gcst share of the preparing.
Year: 1878

From the Virginia City Enterprise.


Owing to the darkness that fills our
deep mining-shafts, our miners are less
conscious Of the dangers of their trade
than they would otherwise be. A miner
standing on bit OF plank thrown across
q shaft, 1000 or 1900 feet in depth sees
little Of this pit yawning beneath his feet
The darkness rises up until it almost
seems to form floor under the plank,
giving place on which his eyes may rest,
and preventing an unsteadiness Of the
head. Place the same shaft on the surf
ace Of the earth, and let it tower 1900
feet into the air and broad light of day,
and the miner standing on his single
plank at an elevation three times as
great as the tallest church-spire would be
unable to move-would be paralyzed
Looking down through the awful depth
below. he would clutch the nearest timb-
ers, afraid to make move in any direc-
ton. Make foy him doors on each side
OF the shaft, representing the openings
Year: 1878

Formerly all American schools we're
whiting schools; but the art was prac-
ticcd surreptitiously. the soft pine desks
and benches furnishing the only whiting
material. With the advent of highly fin
ished hard wood school furniture, all
jacknife practice in school was vigorously
suppressed: and for generation or so
the art has fallen into dccadence. 1t has
revived, however, under improved con-
ditions. the natural spirit Of constructive
ness-usually called destructiveness-in-
cident to boyhood, being made the basis
OF systematic training Of the most enjoy
able and useful sort.


The pioneer institution is the Boston
Whiting School, private enterprise
housed by tho city. The school-room
has been fitted up with work benches,
divided into four foot sections, and each
boy is furnished with such tools as he
may need. Thirty-two were admitted the
first year, their ages ranging from twelve
to sixteen. The school report says that
perhaps twelve of them had received
some instructions in the use of the Jig
saw and knife, but none had had any
previous training in wood carving or the
use of the chisel. There we1e more ap-
plicants for admission to the school than
could be received. If any boy was absent
two successive evenings, his place was
taken by another. A rank list was kept
and pasted on the wall, and each boy
knew how bis work was estimated by
consulting the list. A course Of twenty
four lessons IN wood carving was prepared
| vuifh e~oaSo1 IN
greatest amount OF instruction with least
expenditure for tools and material. 1t
was not designed to make finished work
men in Wood carving, but to take All
vantage of The natural inclination toward
handicraft, the Yankee taste for whiting
which belongs to most boys, and to de-
vclop it and guide it to useful applica-
tions.


The experience of the founders leads
them 10 the belief "that it would be easy
to establish, in connection with all our
grammer schools for boys, an annex for
elementary instruction in the use Of the
half dozen universal tools /. g., the ham,
mer, plane, saw, chisel, file, and square.
Three or tour hours week for one year
only OF the grammer school course wou d
be enough to give the boys that intimacy
with tools and that encouragement to the
inborn inclination to handicraft, and that
guidance in its use, for want OF which so
many young men now drift into over
crowded and uucongenial occupations, or
lapse into idleness and vice."


Northern and Central Europe have been
doing this or similar work for years; and
such teaching has done very much to
hasten the industrial development of the
countries that have tried it.-Scientvic
Amer:can.
Year: 1878

at the stations, and he would not be like
~ to leap from door to door across the
yawning shaft, as he does underneath the
ground, where the dark rises up and
makes seeming floor between the doors.
1t is undoubtedly the darkness that be.
numbs the senses of the miner to the
danger to which he is exposed when pass
ing to and fro across shafts and wines,
or when climbing the interior of their
compartments, trusting to tho scanty hold
for hands and feet afforded by the car
row ledges of their timbers projecting
from the walls.
Year: 1878

The broken Glasgow bank had a
branch in a medium-sized town in the
north of Scotland, and to this branch
orders we're telegraphed on the morning
of the failure to at once close the doors.
But in this town the post and telegraph
Office we're presided over by canny old
lady, who was assisted in the latter
duties by her daughter. Accordingly,
when the astounding missive arrived,
and was being duly transferred to writ
ing, the old lady quickly put Oh her
bonnet, went across to the bank-a few
doors off-and drew ont the whole of
her deposit. Five minutes later she was
with the rest of the little community
expressing her amazement at the omi-
nous words, "Bank closed"
Year: 1878

A sad case is reported from Western
town. The inhabitants never knew there
was a certain storekeeper among them
until the sheriffs flag apprised them of
the fact. The bankrupt had persistent
ly refused to advertise his goods.
Year: 1878

A young man drove into Xenia, Ohio,
the other day with some friends, to meet
train. Arriving at the depot. freight
train was standing on the side track,
and the countryman, not seeing any
convenient place to tie up, deliberately
hitched his horse to the rear car of the
freight, and proceeded to promenade the
walks around the depot while waiting
for his train. What was his surprise
when he saw his hitching post pull out
for Cincinnati, with his horse and wagon
bringing up the rear in not the best oi
order. 1t twould not be proper to record
the remarks of the young man on the
subject.
Year: 1878



 Among the many curiosities of Utah, the red and black ant is excelled by none. One of those ants. weighing only one fourth of g grain, troy, can draw four grains, or sixteen times it's own weight, with apparent ease. As warrior, it's courage is wonderful The other day I witnessed an attack of four ants, one after another, on green worm, and each retired from the conflict badly wounded, the worm resisting the attack vigorously. The wounded ants meeting companions, reported their troubles, and soon seven ants were seen advancing in line of battle on his wormship, when hard battle took place. The worm made fran tic efforts to relieve himself, but all in vain. In one minute from the time of the attack, the worm was lifeless, the ants still holding to him. placed them in water, when to all appearance they became lifeless, but still held their grip on the worm. I then placed them in the warm rays of the sun for ten minutes, when they were all right again, and hauled their victim of to their hill
Year: 1878

person she would have wished to meet-Steffl Tremblingly she leant against the railing, giv- ing him room to pass on the narrow blanks, but he, suddenly perceiving her close before him, white and metionless, yelled by the fog, was seized with the terror of guilt. He fell back, and with the shrill cry, 1.-The dead are rising the end of the world is surely coming :" he ran away as if chased by fiends; and was never seen again.

 Neither Stefn nor the comet was heard of any more. Who knows whether the comet, on meeting the earth, was not equally shocked, and jumping out of his route went straying into space At any rate, comet and Stefh had gone together. and no one wised for the return of either the one or the other.

 After Steffl had been away for some time his room was opened. Blasl, who had hover ed about it, 9COuld be present. but to his great astonishment no treasure could be found.

 Three weeks after the terrible night the good old Pfarrer cried for joy when he mar ried Lenz and Maria, who were both his spec ial favorites- Maria did not carry a penny out of her fathers house. She followed her husband to the farm, his present home, where she found employment amongst the women; it was not the life of servant she led there, though; they all respected her as rich Blasps daughter, and considered her volunteering in service great condescension.

 Two years passed. Old Blasl's life had be- come more and more secluded, until no one ever saw him leave his house during the day, but in the night he had taken to carrying his treasure from place to place all over his garden, unburying and reburying it constantly. There was but one thing dawning on his clouded mind the wish to hide the money so well that even after his deathit should not be found by any one.

 When one day he suddenly died, the school master, who for Maria's sake had watched him, was able to show her, her husband, and the magistrates he had sent for, the place where he had seen him digging last. They fonnd vast amount of money-much more than they could have ever expected.

 They bought land, and Lorenz works on it after the schoolmaster's precept, and is get ting on to have model farm. Children's voices now ring through the new house which Lenz and Maria built on the night opposite the church and the old Pfarrhaus

 MARIE ORM