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Year: 1878

Yon hillside with its shafts of cleaning white,
Bathed in the glory Of the setting sun
Holds many grave where, hidden from our sight,
Some loved one sleeps, hfe's toll and labor done.
But there are graves above whose slumbrng mold
No polished marble rears its stately head,
And where no fragrant flowers above unfold
To waken pity for the quiet dead.
These are the graves deep down within our hearts,
Where lie the hopes and dreams Of early years,
Buried from sight; but signaled by such mark,
AS only can be made by blood and tears
Some early love that crowned us in our youth,
And made life glorious for short sweet hour,
Some cherished promise, robbed Of strength and


truth,


Crushed in the morning Of its newborn power.
Here Is the spot where memory has engraved
The form and face of one we called friend,
One for whose welfare We would cen have braved
Censure and heartaehe to the bitter end.
But twas not wisely done and so we draw
Before the treachery Of the smiling eyes
A heavy veil. The cold world If it saw
Would profer pity in thousand lies.
So life goes on. We lay the forms away,
OF things We loved not wisely but too well
And In the laspe Of years we learn to stay
the fretful chanting of their funeral knell.
We learn to smile, before the smiling throng,
Although the Adder's fangs be deeply set;
And join, perhaps, our voices In the song,
To soothe the pain we never can forget.
And thus we learn to envy the calm rest
6 those who sleep beneath the silent sod;
Bound with lifes CALLING chains, we know tis best
To bend our heads and pass beneath the rod.
And when we see some mourners, heavy clad
In robes of black, haggard, with tear-dimmed


eye,


We kno! their lives would be more bright and


glad


Could they but treason-itis is life to die.
Mourn not the slumbering dead, but rather say,
Blessed are the sleepers. Years may come and go:
Heads that are brown and gold may turn to gray;
But they are done with earth and tears and woe.
Somewhere, we know, beyond the world Of stars,
They will at last have found sweet Lethe's


stream,


Some time wen meet them at Gods judgment bar,
Where lifeis love, and love one long sweet dream.


-Oqdea Ufdh) Freeman.
Year: 1878

No one (says Won Humbolt) can fear
death less than do, neither am / much
attached to life; but l have never known
the feeling of an anxious longing for
death; and although it be nobler one
than that of absolute weariness of ex-
istence, it is nevertheless blamable.
Life must first, for as long a period as
Providence wills it, be en- joyed or suf-
fered-in one word, gone through, and
that with full submission, without
murmuring, lamenting, or repining.
There is one important law of nature
which we should never lose sight of
mean that of ripening for death.
Death is not break in existence, it is
but an intermediate circumstance, a
transition from one form of our final
existence to another. The moment OF
maturity for death cannot be decided by
any human wisdom or inward feeling
and to attempt to do so would be moth.
ing better than the vain rashness of hu
man pride. That decision can only be
made by Him who can at once look bach
through our whole course; and botf
reason and duty require that we should
leave the hour to Him, and never rebe
against His DEGREES by single impatien
wish. The first and most importan
thing is, to learn to master ourselve
and to throw ourselves with peaceful
confidence on Him who never changes
looking on every situation, whethe
pleasant or otherwise, as source from
which our interior existence and indi
vidual character may draw increasing


strength; and hence springs that entir
submission which few attain to, a.
though all fancy they feel it.
Year: 1878

Let the immediate result be what it
may, the ultimate destruction of the Of
toman power is a foregone conclusion. A
grotesque story is told of suicide, who,
being dragged from the river into which
he had leaped, promptly hanged himself
with the rope which had extricated him.
His rescuers, who had gone to seek help,
returned in time to cut him down; but
they had hardly done so, when the obsti-
nate telo do Sc cut his own throat with the
knife that had severed the cord. Such
has been, from first to last, the course
pursued by Turkey. Reprieved by
Western Europe in 1889 and 1854, she
has used her respite only to plunge
deeper into the same entanglements; and
should she escape third time, it will
merely postpone the accomplishment Of
ruin which sooner or later, must come
as inevitably as the fall of an under
mined tower.
Year: 1878

lBow Bells.


Girls are sometimes admonished not
to firt because, however pleasant it
might be to them, it might break the
hearts of those with whom they hirt.
Nonsense. We have heard of victims of
blighted affection, but never yet came
across one. Time. in this sort of mat
tiers, works wonders. We doubt whether
any man ever yet died of a broken heart.
Men are more vain than women. There
are exceedingly few of them who are not
fattered by the idea of some woman fall
ing in love with them. The lady for the
moment affords them this qualification of
self-love. She makes herself as agreeable
as she can. If the vanity of the man
leads him to believe that she has fallen a
victim to his charms, this is his fault,
not hers. The illusion has raised him to
the seventh heaven for brief period.
In one of De Bernard's novels he de-
scribes an old Captain who lives SUI
premely happy because he fancies that,
years ago, some girl died of broken
heart because he had declined to marry
her. He carries about her portrait, and
on all occasions takes it out and weeps
over it. One day, however, he meets the
girl, who had not died, but had married
grocer, and forgot all about the Cap
tain. He is in despair. He can no longer
indulge in the luxury of grieving over
the sad fate of the object of his youthful
affections. Flirt on, young ladies, and
do not imagine that the amusement will
break the heart of any one. 1t may
wound his vanity, quite likely, and where
this is the only quality the man has, the
blow may stagger him. But it will do
him good-show him his real sel6shness.
So firt on, young ladies, but at the same
time temper the blow to the tenderness
of the youth who is to receive it.
Year: 1878

In seeming good faith a proposition
was submitted to the st. Louis Board of
Education making the study of the Irish
tongue part of the curriculum of the
public schools. Referred to q committee,
the resolution was urged by its friends,
but after lively row the committee de-
cided to report that the Boards finances
would not permit the introduction of
this important branch of elementary ed
ucation. 1t does, however, admit the
teaching of German; and if German,
why not French, or Spanish, or Choc-
taw, or Boston? If it did not happen
that the proposition as to Irish was seri-
ously made and advocated it might be
taken as, in appearance it is, satire
upon the absurdity of teaching any
other than the tongue of the country
at the public expense. Of the modern
languages, German is selected for the
curriculum of the public schools with an
eye single to the numerical superiority
of German-speaking voters.
Year: 1878

The idea of sending a representative
of the United States to the conference of
the European powers at Baden Baden is
said to be fayorably considered at Wash
ington. But what in the world would
representative of the United States have
to do in such a conference? What pos
sible interest of ours is it if Russia takes a
larger or smaller slice of Turkey, or the
Sclaves crowd Austria, or the Greeks get
Epirus? If the foreign appointments
fall short of the number necessary to
60 around among those entitled to favors
for services during the electoral count,
this will of course make comfortable,
though temporary place for some poll
tician. But it is foolish luxury for
which the people should not be COM
PEELED to pay. 1t would be well to let
one of the visiting statesmen" 60 at
his own expense.
Year: 1878

A child who gives away his toys and
loses them is likely to fail in after life.
A child who holds a good grip of his
own toys and breaks those of his neigh
Dor is likely to be an eminently success
full man. Toys bring out the rudiments
of character, which are the same all
through a lifetime, underlie all change,
and can never be eradicated, though
they may be modified. The Stole COM
pares unhappy men to children who cry
awe will not play;;" and children who
are of that humor will continue in it,
and choose sorrow beyond their share.
AS we begin the game with gay tinseled
counters, we end it with counters that
are heavier and more hard to hold, but
perhaps of little more worth. 1t is sue,
cess, however, to clutch our toys tightly,
to value them above their deserts, to
play with cheerfulness, and not to be toe
curious.
Year: 1878

AMONG the papers of young man
who was recently married in neigh
boring city was found the following
scrap, to-wit:
Things to be done this afternoon---be-
fore the wedding:


Get some keys to fit valise.


Engage carriage for train.


Get license to marry.


Get shaved and hair trimmed little.
Sew button on black breeches and gel
pair of suspenders.


Buy a bottle of perfumery.
] Be sure to wash feet well
Year: 1878

PERHAPS one of the most beautiful
sights in Perak is a mangrove swamp on
a soft, still, dark night, when the fire.
flies are out in myriads, flashing from
leaf to leaf, and darting like brilliant
sparks from tree to tree in showers of
light. Every here and there they settle,
and then seem disturbed, when the
corruscations of tiny stars are perfectly
wonderful. Every fly seems to send out
its light in pulses or throbs, like the
flashes from signal lamp; and so great
is the beauty of this scene that the lover
of natural history would deem it alone
worth a journey to the East to see.
Year: 1878

WORTH REMEMBERISG.-It is the
penny saved more than the penny earned
that enriches; it is the sheet turned when
the first thread breaks that wears the
longest; it is the damper closed when the
cooking is done tina: stops the dollars
dropping into the coal bin; it is The lamp
or gas burned low, when not in use, that
gives you pin money for the month; it is
the care in making the coffee that makes
three spoonfuls GO as far as a teacup or
dinarily; it is the walking one or six
blocks instead of TAXI the cab or omni-
bus, that adds strength to your body and
money to your purse; it is the careful
lending of each weeks wash that gives
ease to yeur conscie ience and length Of
days to your garments; and, last OF all,
it is the constant care exercised over
every part Of your household, and con-
slant endeavors to improve and apply
your best powers to your work, that give
peace and prosperity TO the family.
Year: 1878

STRANGE If TRuE.-W. G. Ralston,
we'll remem bered by many as The presi-
dent of the Bank of California, when it
busted ;" is lot dead as reported, but
alive and snugly situated on y little is
land in the south of Europe. That
drowning scene was we'll enscted, the
csronor's inquest and funeral was well
matured aslusion, and would have come
of two days sooner if they could have a.
greed upon the price for the subject Ia
corpse y which so much resembled the
banker, as to deceive those systematical


ly, whom it was calculated to deceive.
Some may naturally inquire; how do
we know this7 OF course we could net
swear to it, but our in formation comes
from source which is reliable. A pro.
minent physician in San Francisco was
the sole keeper of this great secret Up to
last Christmas, when he became jubilant
over the receipt of a heavy sum Of money
and divu;ged the secret to a friend,
whom he sfterward assisted with some
OF the money received, and that man is
now highly respected citizen OF this
city. Call this sensation or big
hoax; we call it a cold fact, if true
Wdtld Watia Statesman.
Year: 1878

SAVE Your OLD PAPERs.-Old news
under carpets, they save wear, and keep
the floor warmer by covering the cracks
Over the edge of each step. under stair
carpets, they are almost indispensable,
and serve better purpose than clumsy
carpst-pads. A newspaper folded across
the chest and buttoned under the outer
garments, protects the lungs in a long,
Geld ride. Newspapers are equal to
chamois skin for rubbing windows after
they are washed and wiped. Zine under
stsvss is better polished by rubbing with
dry paper than by washing. Dsmpened
paper is good TO rub up and brighten
the kitchen stove.
Year: 1878

The REVELATIONS OF TEE HERO
oLYPHIcs.-The Khedive Of Egypt few
weeks ago presented an English gentle
man with mummy. The recipient was
much pleased with the present, and,
wishing to know Of whose body he was
possessed, employed two Egyptologists to
deciphor the hieroglyphics on the outer
case. They both Of them declared the
writing to be the epitaph of great King
who lived some thousands Of years ago.
After the discovery it was thought The
opening stthe package would perhapS
reveal something that would be Of great
historical value, and many eminent men
were invited to the unwinding, which
progressed favorstly until toward the
close, when the mummy was found to
be Of woman.
Year: 1878

WHISKY has been a medium through
which the Government has been detraud-
ed for many years. Now it happens
that sugar is also another, and even a
greater medium of fraud. Therefore,
when man drinks whisky he helps to
defraud the Government 20 a certain ex-
tent, but when he takes whisky and SUI
gar he is an assistant in the grand scale
of swindling which is the fate Of all ma
tioRs.
Year: 1878

A GERMAN medical paper has an ac-
count ofa man who literally burst from
taking four plates of potato soap, and
many (how many is not stated) cups of
tea and mi ilk, followed by large dose OF
bicsrbonate of soda to aid digestion
His stomach swelled enormously, and
tore the diaphragm on the right side
causing immediate death.
Year: 1878

A QUAINT writer say: II have seen


women SO delicate that they were afraid
to ride, for fear of the horses running
away; a afraid to sail, for fear the boat
might be upset; afraid to walk, for fear
they might fall; but l never saw one
afraid to be married, which is far more
risliful than all the others put together"
Year: 1878

IT is said that the whole population of
the world, estimated at 1,440.000, 900,
could easily stand on the Isle of Wight,
SO, ,341 acres. But there would not be
any room for the young lady Of the period
to swing herself round in a circle and
pick up the end of her skirt.
Year: 1878

National Associated Press to the Star.


SAN Francisco, March 25.-Col. Wood,
who was on his way to Sitka to assume the
duties of Collector of the port, was among
those drowned by the loss of the schooner
General Miller. The crew and passengers
numbered fifteen, and were all lost.
Year: 1878

to that effect He believes the chief to be a
man of his word, and says he would sooner
trust him on point of honor than many of
the white men in that part of the Domin-
ion. He looks upon the report as canard
got up by some sensational newspaper man.
Year: 1878

II will bs noticed that in all the de


fences made of the South in the init
IN idatiOn Of voters there is scarcely any
denial of it, indeed in many instances
the frauds that have been committed


have been admitted, and vet there is a


persistent effort made by the partisan


Democratic press to designate the feel,
ing which dominates at the North a.


sectional, purposely ignoring the fac,


that the southern disfranchisements


effect the whole nation. They do not
effect to See that the wrong done to the
sacredness of the ballot is not SO much


wrong to the negro, though that is
great enough, as it is wrong upon the
people of the north. The weakness of
the Democratic side is shown by no at
tempt being made to disprove what
Senator Blaine showed in his speech
last week in the Senate, as to show or
try to make the people believe that i:
was caused by sectional animosity.


The Charleston Journal comprehends
the import of the controversy more ac-
curately than most of its neighbms.
The underlying issue is, as it admits,
national, not sectional. For their own
purposes, Southern politicians will
continue to describe the feeling Of
which Mr.. Blaines resolution is an ex-
preston as sectional. They pretend to
consider the South aggrieved becaufe
their own mode of acquiring partisan
ascendency is to be exposed. Accord
ing to their version of the case the
North war tonly assails the South and
aims at bringing it into subjection. The
pretense is too transparent to deceive.
All the sectionalism that is involved is
on the side of the South, or rather of
the Democratic politicians who speak
and act in its name. Their claim, if it
were allowed to stand, would invest
the South with right to trample on
the privileges of very large body Of
its citizens, to disregard its Federal oh
legations, to defy Federal authority and
to retain disproportionate share Of
Congressional representation as a re-
suit of its malpractic-s. Instead Of
seeking sectional advantages, the Re-
publican Party, speaking for the North,
protests against its being a sufferer
from sectional arrogance and wrong
doing. The pret4hsions it denounc-s
and offences are against the national
authority and welfare; the sole object
of the remedial measures which, in due
time, will be suggested is to insure
equal protection to all citizens and an
equal apportionm-nt Of representative
power. The contest is between the ma
tionalisln of the Repu blcan Party ard
the sectonalism to which the Democra-
cy owes its majority in Congress.
Year: 1878

Our state.


The Legislature of this State viii
meet on the first Tuesday in January.
After the election of Speakers in each
branch, and other necessary officers,
the last annual message of Governor
% Cochran will be- read, and the work ol
legislation will commence. There will
be very little business i'll readiness, We
presume, and therefore persons wishing
to procure the passage of any act, for
any purpose, should have the neces-
sary bill prepared, SO that the time at
the beginnin of the session may not
be passed in idleness, or in waiting for
business, as is usually the case id the
beginning of the session, while towards
its close there is more work to 90 than
can be readily disposed of before the
proper time for adjournment arrives,
and the session is unnecessarily pro-
longed.


On the 2lst of January the Governor
elect will be inaugurated, and this cere-
mony will be followed with grand
bali. OF course the party magn ttes
will be happy, and all will go nerrily
as a marriage bell.


Every member of the Legislature be-
longs to the Dsmocr attic party, but We
trust that all will be actuated by prin-
ciple and not by mere partizar feeling
aId that the aim will be to promote the
public welfare and not merely to in
sure the ascendaucy OF party.


One of the first matters that should
claim attention is the law in reference
to the assessment and collection of tax
es. 1t is unj ust to throw the entire
burden of supporting the government
upon property holders Every man
should be required to contribute his
Just proportion thereto, and Democrats
as well as Republicans will soon de
mand the requisite legislation to secure
this end.


There should also be a law enacted
providing for the employment of va
grants instead of sending them to jail
aud keeping them in idleness. They
should be made to mend the roads, un-
less better system of employment can
be devised Criminals should also be
employed in some manner, even if the
county or State Treasury should not
profit thereby. The retention of men
in idleness is wrong toward them and
wrong to the community at large.


W. also want in Wilmington House
OF Correction. or a Retormatory School
to prevent the tendency to yagrancy,
pauperism and crime.


There .hould also be some mode de-
vised to settle more summarily petty
cases of larceny as well as punish va
grants. 1t would be better to say TWEEN
ty OF thirty days Of hard labor on the
streets, if we cannot have work
house, than to commit to prison to
await the session Of the court.


There are too many petty cases in
our courts, and we need some rad cal
change for the good Of the criminal as
we'll az for the benefit of the community y
at large.
Year: 1878

The ONLY QUESTION which Seemed to
create any dlscL sion Of moment in
the lower House Of Congress thus far
worthy of special note, was that con-
tanned in bill introduced by Wes-
tern member to grant American Regis
ters to foreign vessels, which would de-
stroy the domestic monopoly of the
coasting and internal trade. The
measure is understood to be engineered
by the agents of British capitalists,
vessel owners and shipbUiders. In
the House, this bill was referred to the
Committee on Commerce, which will
report it favorably, and az the Free
Trade Tariff bill was killed in the
House Oh a final vote last session, this
job will take its place in the affections
of the Free-1raders. 1t can only be
beaten on a square vote. Should it
become law it would ruin the ship
building interests of the country, with


benefting our people or our com


in any way.
Year: 1878

GENERAL B. +. BUTLER has reached
Washington at last, but still we hear
Of no aggressive movement on the part
of the Potter Committee yet. The cipher
kilograms did the work that the Potter
Committee tried hard not to do, and it
might as well dsband. The verdict of
the paople was made up and given at
at the November election.
Year: 1878

Sergeant De Shay sand he did not know where the man


vas what he was charged with, where the ofncef VINO
arrested him was where the Captain was or, In fact
ANYTHING about the case.
Year: 1878

At brilliant wedding in West Fifty
secOnd-st last Wednesday evening" one of the
bridesmaids was the daughter Of G. g. Baker. Of Au
dubOn Park. Her handsome costume of white silk and
grenadine was much admired. Miss Baker had been
visiting the BRIDE but returned TO her home in
Audubon Park on Thursday On Friday. her trunks
were removed. The driver of the express wagon
upo ching Audubon Park discovered that the trunk
had been stolen II subsequently found al Eighty
seeOndst and the Boulevard The straps had been cut
and stolen. Among the contents we're the
handsome which had called forth such adnra-
lion at the wedding, black silk furned cloak, two
richly trmmed pctcOats and various other articles OF


ladies' wear valued In all at several hundreds OF dollars


Next day, Detectives King and Lyon, OF the Central
ONCE assigned 10 the case but thorough search
III numerous pa shops and fences was OF no avail
The hurried arrival and sudden departure Of close
riage express wagon and light carriage at the Cen
tTa Office Just dusk last evening, created cOnsdeTa
ble excitement. Inquiry showed that the stolen prop
erty had been discovered in pawn shop on the east
side, and the carriage contained tue eXprcssman WHO
lost the trunk Mr. DOdd the president OF the company
and persons who II hoped, could identity the
property This, however, they were unable to DO but
to-day Miss Baker will be sent for