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Year: 1879

A favorite and ofs-repeated assertion of
one of the eight-honr gate-monay denE-
gogues who works his jaws more than his
hands is, s:That general reduction Of the
hours to eight throughout the United States
will create a demand FOR two millions more
persons at eight hours per day. This de-
mand for extra labor Will advance wages,
and, therefore, under the eight-hour system
everybody can get work at big wogcs. .
Let us see if it will. If four millions Of
men labor ten hours per day the Yalue of their
products will set four millions Of other ten
hour men at work to produce enough goods
to exchange products with the former. But
let the frst-uamed four millions shorten
their hours to eight, and then they will pro-
ducs only enough to purchase about three
fourths Of the products Of the other four
millions Of ten-hour workers; consequently
one million of the latter will be thrown out
of employment for want of market for their
goods, or they must shorten their hours and
accept three-fonrths wages for their less pro-
duction. # the eight-hour advocates would
stop to reflect that the demand for goods de-
termines the supply, and that the amount Of
the workman's demand is limited to his ea1n-
ings; that the amount Of products which he
offers in exchange or the worth of his money
wages constitutes his ability to purchase the
products of others, they will then be in q
mental condition to perceive that for each
workman to shorten up the hours of pro-
duction is not the best way to earn
money to pay for the labor Of
others and set idle men at work.
An eight-hour worker produces enough goods
to exchange for eight hours production Of
some other man. So if he works ten hours
he can purchase the products Of ten hours
work Of another man. But ten-hour man
dropping down to eight hours don't increase
production or wealth thereby for himself or
any one else. He is nanifestly able to pur-
chase only eight-tenths as much labor and
goods Of others as before. He creates 20
per cent less demand for other workers
goods; that is, he can buy only so per cent
as many goods as when he worked and pro-
duced ten houra per day. This will leave 20
per cent of other mems goods unsold, aud
consequently employers must work their
men On short tune at short wages, or dis
charge quarter of them: There can be no
increase Of employment in nation by each
man reducing his power to purchase the
products of others by cutting down his hours
of production to eight or six; for if that
pleasant plan would work, the better way
would be to keep two or three holidays each
week But when this is tried the people are
miserab1y poor and the country is full Of
paupers and mendicants.
Year: 1879

That. although society has shut its dooz5 and
is away for the summer, they are content to
do without it, and are in no hurry to have
the doors of Vanity Fair reopen. When
they do, and the booth grows clamorous
with rout and reyel, opera and ball, Of course
they will all go, but at present there is not
that degree Of impatient expectancy which
need Induce them to hurry back. ANY
time before Lent will do. With the crowds
of strangers pouring into Chicago, attracted
from fer aud near by its widespread reputa~
ton as su1nmer-resort, they are not lone
some. g.
Year: 1879

. Last evening, as gravel-train was backing
into Waukegan, it run into heifer, and the
result was the train YVES thrown from the
track, four employees killed, one wounded so
seriously that his life was despaired OF, and
three severely wounded The catastrophe is
more serious than anything Of like nature
That has occurred in this neighborhood for
GONG years past.
Year: 1879

After mourning about a year for his lovely
bride, who passed away so suddenly just
after the nuptial ceremonies, the King Of
Spain is bethinking himself Of another wife
This time the alliance will be made with an
Austrian, and the Archduchess MARIE is the
lucky girl upon whom the regal honors are
to fall. In about month A1pHosso Will go
to Vienna for the purpose Of completing the
11epntfations
Year: 1879

. Another shocking murder, this time from
the South, rounds out this morning the


record Of the week in particularly blood
chilling manner. The details present case


Of almost unparalleled atrocity.
Year: 1879

Circus lemonade has always been
known to be the most poverty stricken
decoction that ever lemons lent their
name to. A little acid, some red color
ing matter and free swing at a city
hydrant has made the fortune of many
circus lemonade venders. When our
rural friend comes in from the country
with his "girl, to revel in the delights
of the circus, they fall a natural prey to
the lemonade man. That persistent
fiend, with his tray of red glasses, steps
over the heads of peaceful citizens,
while his stentorian voice proclaims his
mission. He descends alike on the just
and the unjust. Every one looks on the
lemonade when it is red, and that's ten
cents gone, never to return. Having
started out on day of wild dissipation,
the visitor stops not half way, but squan-'
ders his substance in riotous living, rev.
cling in the ruby liquid. He desires
that his affianced will not think him
mean, and she does not. But the PEN
atty comes afterwards when the biting
acid gets in its work. Last winter Sc
cret society was formed and the organ
ization spread into every city in the land.
The most horrible oaths were taken
with clasped hands over bottle cork
ed) of sulphuric acid Oh so -,
while red light streamed over the ter
rified candidate. The members of this
society were to spread themselves
around in the circus crowd. When a
lemonade man appeared, the nearest
member was to hold up two fingers,
which was one of the signs of the mys-
tic order. When the lemonade fiend
approached, the member, in making
change, would drop fifty cents on the
ground and tell the fiend that he might
have it for the trouble of picking it up.
Once down under the seats the two ju-
nior wardens would seize and gag him,
and pass him to the Grand Outside
Plenipoie ientiary on the outside of the
tent. j. closed carriage, rapid drive.
and a plunge in the river would finish
the operation, the terrible symbol II Z
so being the only phrase used du


ring the transaction. The Grand Wor.
thy Secretary made an estimate of the
number of lemonaders they could gel
away with every performance, but un.
fortunately the thing leaked out, ane
the great circus now approaching De


troit announces that "No lemonad,
peddlers will be allowed under the can


vas. ."-Dstroit Free Press. ~.
Year: 1879

There is wonderful fascination about
iron work and iron workers. Novelists
have made them the scenes and heroes
of their stories; poets have made them
the themes of deathless song. We sing
of the forge of Tubal Cain, and Hector
swore "by the forge that stithied Mars's
helm," but the other trades are passed
over.


When did poet, in lofty numbers,
sing the carpenter lathing back room
on the second floor?


Who chants the brawny arms and the
thrilling deeds of man climbing four
story ladder with hod of mortar?


Does any body stand with rapt emo
tion watching painter putty up nail
hole?


Iwould not exchange my one hour at
midnight in the iron works at Ashland,
KY, for a whole week of watching a
man mix mortar with hoe. Why,
these iron works surround the Ashland
ers with enough romance to last West
ern community at least six weeks. And
yet, suppose there are people about
here WHO never saw nail made in their
lives. have known times, in my own
eminently useful and highly ornamental
career, times when I was trying to nail
front gate to leather hinge, when ]
wished there had never been nail made
any where by any body. And I watched
them as they fell from the ponderou;
machines, fast as rain drops, and il
seemed to me, as l watched them fall
that could hear the dull, treacherous
thud of the hammer on the human
thumb, the low wall of woman's an
guish, "the big, big D" of a strong mar
in his agony. These strange weird feel
ings and fancies rushed into my minc
like torrent. stopped and picked VI
a brand new nail, as memento of my
visit.


Then laid it down again. Sadly, bu
not slowly. l have an impression,
know not where I got it, that new-lait
nail, like a new-1aid egg. is warm
And that it is far more perceptible Il
Year: 1879

os santz, in his Saxon history, tells US
- an earl of AlSatia, surnamed, on ac-
count Of his great strength, = Lion, who
was a great favorite of Edward III, of
England, and much envied, as favorites
are always sure to be, by the rest Of the
courtiers. On one occasion, when the
king was absent, some noblemen mali
ciously instigated the queen to make
trial of the noble blood of the favorite
by causing a lion to be let loose upon
him, saying, according to the popular
belief, that if the earl was truly noble
the lion would not touch him. 1t being
customary with the earl to rise at the
break of day, before any other person in
the palace was stirring, a lion was let
loose during the night and turned into
the lower court. When the earl came
down in the morning, with no more than
a nightgown cast over his shirt, he was
met by the lion, bristling his hair and
growing destruction between his teeth.
y The earl, not in the least daunted, called
out with stout voice, Stand. you
dogm At these words the lion crouched
at his feet, to the great amazement Of
| the courtiers, who were peeping out at
every window to see the issue of their
ungenerous design. The earl laid hold
of the lion by the name, turned him into
his cage. and. placing his nightcap On
| the lions hack, came forth without cast.
| ing q look behind him. Now. said


the earl. calling out to the ccnrtiers'


8 let him among you all that standeth


most upon hi pedigree 40 and fetch my
InigEtcap.
Year: 1879

!, A nandcart propelled by two men
drove upto the. New York Medical Uni
versity. in East Twenty-sixth street,
New York, and while the men were en-
deavoring to lift it over the curbstone
to the sidewalk it tilted, and three nude
bodies were durnped into the gutter.


The men tool. hold of the bodies and
separately dragged them across the side
walk inside close iron gate leading to
yard of the University building. The
bodies had 'oeen procured at the morgue
for the purpose of dissection and were
being tran sferred to the dissecting room
of the Medical University. when owing
to the carelessness Of the attendants
they were thrown on the street.
The next day several people who
reside in the neighborhood took prac-
ticaa steps to put stop to the recur-
renee of such an inhnman exhibition
| by sending complaint to the faculty,
| The faculty at once dismissed the em-
| ployees who were responsible for the
accident
Year: 1879

When man pays ten cents for bite
at restaurant the cashier hauls in the
change without looking off the news
paper. IF LIE gets twents cents worth
the cashier lays down the paper and
gives the customer a look-over If the
check amounts to thirty cents the clerk
gets off the stool, and, with a patroniz-
ing smile, passes few pleasant remarks.
But if the amount is fifty cents, and the
customer wears cane and plug hat.
the clerk enlarges upon the weather and
lets his diamond shine most bewitch-
ingly while he tells him all about the
great walk, and expatiates upon the his
tory Of the big turtle at the front door,
and what hard time they had in get
ting it all the way from South America
--.NeU York People.
Year: 1879

The Auxiliary Sanitary Association
Of New Orleans. makes the statement
that tho city is now in u perfectly
healthy condition and that there has
not been II single case Of yellow fever
in the city the present Summer. The
city is in better sanitar. condition
now, than it has been for many years,
and the absence Of fevers which usual.
ly precedc yellow fever, inspircs the
belief that We shall escape serious sick.
ness. The country will be officially no.
tilted should yellow fever appear.
Year: 1879

a MAN named Ballard living near
Eureka has been indulging his taste
for tansy to such an excess, that
tho cattle upon the ranges have TO him
tho appearance of soldiers, nnd no hns
several days in vain attempt to put n
band OF Spanish steers through the
manual of arms.
Year: 1879

An unknown but evidently married
photographer says whom woman combs
her back hair into two ropes. holds ono
in her mouth until sho winds tho other
on her tuck comb, and then sho finds
that she has lost her last hairpin, she
fcols that the sex needs two mouths
ono to hold the hair In and tho other
TO make remarks with.
Year: 1879

doubt of the result of such efforts.
Holding thus firmly to his purpose,
the weak man becomes the strong, aud
the uncertain becomes the sure.


But the difficulty lies mainly in the
fact that most men never fix their
rowing desires. They wish for the good
things of life, bat In Il listless, aimless
sort of way. They envy those who
they SEQ pushing onward and grasplng


the prize, and they call such, tsfavoretl
beings" tsfOrtunate mortals," etc.,
seeming to attribute their success rather
to some mysterious power outside of
the men themselves than to the force of
the great power within-the will.
Daily we read and hear aud see the
wonders achieved by fixed purpose.
Its first dawn in mans mind may be
hardly recognized by even those nearest
to him but the leaven having entered
in, in time will leaven the whole lump.
At first the hope, the purpose, lies lost
under other interests and other cares
yet all the while its silent work Is
progressing, till gradually all else be-
comes subservient to II. 1t grows,
develops until towering into compile
ton we stand amazed at the mighty
result, and call our friend Il successful
man. We need to have more sureness
of belief In Ourselves-niore earnest
devotion to our self-chosen purposes.
Let others make or mar their lives as
they will, hold we firmly to that which
we have set before us Ms the thing
most to be desired, and 1t will be In
decd strange IL success does not in the
end crown our efforts.
Year: 1879

New Orleans Morning Star and Catholic
Messenger.1


OF late a very unpleasant symptom


has been developed in connection with
this mans name. There can be but
little doubt that he will be the next
are beginning to cringe before him.
The N. o. Times, the other day, in


formed us that some paper in Georgia


or Alabama had come out openly in


favor of Grant for President as a South


e,n Candidate. The Picayune next


tells of a New Orleans Democrat who
had come back an ardent Grant man.


And now the Louisville Courier our
| nal gets excoriated by Baltimore
paper for saying that Grant will get a


warm and hearty welcome from every
man, woman and child in kentucky.
1t is very prudent sometimes to make
fair weather with those in power or
who are about to be SO. But this should
not be done at the expense of principle
and decency. An honest man can
never justifiably announce himself a
warm partizan and follower of a rogue.
General Grant may have been mis-
understood, but he does not bear a
good reputation for honesty. He may
not have received stolen goods-we
cannot say-but he affiliated openly
and lovingly with rogues, and ap-
parently with nobody else. His affin.
tiles were, to say the least, exceedingly
unfortunate, and his administration
has gone down to history as an infamy.


Moreover it is we'll known that he
was ready to employ the standing
army for enforcing the Hayes fraud.
Indeed it may be said that the present
administration is a military usurpa-
ton forced on this country by u. S.
Grant.


Is this person to be supported for
Office by any honest man, by any
patriot, especially by any Southern
citizen? How strange, then, it is to
see Southerner trying to disarm fate
by playing lick-spittle to this coming
tyrant! 1t sounds too much like the
whining of a kicked cur. If the North
ern people want Grant, let them have
Grant to their hearts content, but let
us hope that the South which has
suffered SO bravely up to this time, is
not going to dishonor itself at last.
Year: 1879

True, indeed, Is it that "a rolling
stone gathers no moss" and equally
true that purpose unstable as water,
with every shifting tide OF
or opinion, shall not ex-
Gel. The cry with which the world is
always ringing; the desire, either ex-
pressed or unexpressed, of every hu-
man being, is "success i'm 1ife." And
to secure this success nothing is more
needfui then a continuity of purpose
a fixity of aim.


Mems notions of that which constf-
tutes success are, to be sure, stangeIy
varied and widely different, but whether
it be the amassing of a fortune or the
winning of fame and position, the edu-
cation Of the mind or the development
of the body, nothing will ever be
| achieved unless the purpose, the aim
! of the man is clearly formed at the out
set and steadfastly held to throughout
all the succeeding years of struggle ana
strife. His life purpose must shine pc
fore him like signal light, his far
distant but yet nttainabfc goal, ana
toward il he must press, overcoming
all obstacles and allowing nothing to
turn him aside.


1t is curious to note how such q CON
tinuity of purpose will serve rs n ballast
to a vacilIating and even weak ma
ture. If one great desire takes posses
sion of a man; if, heart and brain and
will agreeing, he works to attain thai
which he desires, with all the power:
Of his being, there can be but little
Year: 1879

would, under no circumstances, put
the wedding off longer than the ensu-
ing Saturday. The otfhand lover
spoke in such rapid and impassioned
strain that IT was impossible to check
him until the tail had been told.
Whereupon the elderly lady, having
recovered from the confusion and
rmazement inseparable from court
ship so startling in character, blush
ingly, but firmly, informed him that
he was "nnk" stranger to her, hay-
ing never laid eyes on him before, that
she was taken completely aback by his
otfhand though warm proposal, that
she had not even the pleasure Of know
ing his name, and while she appreci-
ated his kindly sentiment for her, she
could not consent to become his wife
ON such exceedingly shortnotice. Up
on this he granted her brief hour for


reflection and walked away, returning


promptly before the departure Of the


Macon train, and, taking seat beside


her in the ladies' car, was again press
ing his suit in the most urgent man


ner as the reporter passed out to th'
| shed
Year: 1879

Yesterday morning, while a widow
ofAome 45 Summers WIS quietly slit


ing in the ladies reception room at the
car-shed, waiting for. the outward
bound Macon train TO back down, a
short, heavy-set gentleman, with shag


~ whiskers, deliberately walked up to
her, and without the slightest warning
or the shadow of an introduction, be
gan making proposal OF marriage in
the most earnest manner Imaginable.
After expressing in unmistakable and
earnest language the fervor Of his inn
proinptu affection, he stated that he
was the owner of 1000 acres of land
in the western portion OF the state,
and had the honor to be the fond pa
rent of two interesting children, aged
respectively I and years and who
were at that moment enjoying thC
privilege of excellent schooling. HI
then proceeded TO beg her to marry
him at once, and if he could not make
it convenient to do SO then and there
please to register promise that sh'
Year: 1879

The impression is SO prevalent among
men that the thoroughbred race-horse
Is only fitted for the lacc-course, that
an opinion on the subject of his gen
cral utility may tend TO place him in
his true light; and we win say in the
beginning that If this, the most cele-
btated of all animals, was but for the
laoe-courso we would give but little
space to him now. or at any other time.


At the time that England com
menccd to import the blood-horse his
qualities as a racing or running ami
mai was not considered; but on the
other hand the eastern horse was inn
ported for the purpose of improving
the native stock in the several Euro
pean countries, and for time the only
object they had i'll testing the animal
speed was to determine which animal
was the superior one, in order that he
might be used to the best advantage
in adding speed and endurance to the
native stock; and it matters not what
prejudice some people may have to the
race-couise there is no other way OF
producing these most essential quail
ties. We are ready to admit that
race-courses are subject to many
abuses, but in doing this, we only adj


nit that men are not rs good as they


should be, and even religion itself is


often surrounded by the same un


worthy elements.


The greatest objection to the princi
pie of a protective tariff is that it Is
, open to abuse and favoritism of par


ticular interests. Because church mem
bers are sometimes unruly, and ever
, wear religion as cloak "to serve TIN
, the devil in" churches are not to b
: disorganized We have seen more sil
= and wrong committed at a camp-meet
4 inc than we ever observed on q race


course, and yet we have known muc
: good effected at both places, and cor
n sequently we advocate retaining thcs


two beneficial agencies for the elemcnt


Of benefit in each The equine, viev
: cd solely as a domestic animal, ca
l. only be improved by training him
+ tasks for which he is adapted. Fc
a speed and endurance the horse mus
q be bred and trained; for draught, !
70 must be bred and harnessed for tai
Y special use; the same with the cos,
e for milking; she should b. cf stoC


that experience has cnfior'ed ar
n trained for dairy usss.-hardL Press
Year: 1879

The County Seat matter came ap before County Court last week upon complaint of certain plaintiffs that the returns of the election held last August as certified to and published by the County Clerk were incorrect. The court decided, in substance, that it had no jurisdiction to go behind the returns, and upon application of counsel for defendants ordered new election to be held or Friday, June the 20th, 1879, to determine whether the County Seat shall now be located at Russellyille or Atklns-the cleo tion last August having resulted in favor of removal from Dover.

 At the election in June the place which receives majority of all votes cast will be declared the County Seat.
Year: 1879

Two weeks ago we gave our read CTS the text of q circular issued by State Land Commissioner Lear i3 regard to State Lands, giving in structions how to proceed to secure the same. Since then we have had quite a number of applications re- questing us to find out, the first time we visit Little Rock, the numbers of certain lands subject to donation. For the information of the readers of the DEMOCRAT we have determined to secure a full list of all lands in this county subject to purchase or donation, and we hope to be able to give the list to our readers by next week or week after.