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Year: 1875

The outspoken fallacies of the inf1atiOnists
are easy enough to meet and to answer. Ii is
the purposes and the hopes which they do not
avow that are dangerous and difficult to deal
with. When they say it is the policy of con-
traction which is running the country, we
have only to answer that there is no such
policy, that the currency is now larger
in volume than it was ten years ago
in the full tide of flush times which arose from
and followed the war. If they say there is
not enough currency to satisfy the legitimate
demands of trade, we can point to the idle
millions lying in the hands of bankers
here and all over the country, and
the deep distrust pervading all classes
of society lest what they possess should
be rendered still less valuable by indefinite
watering of the currency. If they 60 to the
history of other peoples, the case is all one
way. 20 one but Judge Kelley would be
reckless enough to refer to the record of finan-
cia disturbances to sustain his ignorant her
estes There is not page of history which
does not speak with irresistible force in favor
of strict integrity in financial dealing, and in
severe denunciatiOn of every system of cur
rency which recognizes anything but the pre-
ciOus metals as q standard of value.


If the controversy were an open and loyal
one therefore, there would be no trouble
about it. All the learning, all the logic, all
the common sense and common honesty are on
one side No one but Kelley, and he with
what laundering passion we have seen, at
tempts TO show that initiation is in accordance
with law or logic or equity. But the advocates
of this perniciOus course rely on the secret
alliance they take for granted as existing in
the breasts of thousands who have not
education enough to see the ruin which
would come from it, and whose moral
natures are not sufficiently enlightened
to show them how rascally is the thought of
repudiation. There are few things more dis
heartening to sincere Republican than the
readiness which certain class of the rural
population exhibit to profit by any device
which may be eflectual to defraud the creditors
of their counties or their townships out of
money which they have lent to them. II you
20 into the Court house of rcpudiating county
and begin to talk with the officers, you will be
astonished at the dull, stupid compacency with
which they regard every appeal to their moral
sense, or to their better intelligence. II you
say they are robbers they accept it as tIib-
ute TO their cunning and what they call
"nerve' If you tell them they are destroy
ing the credit of their county they chuckle
and say, "Them New York fcllers can't expect
"to come it over the country jakes every
"time." 1t is to this detestable feeling that
dcmagogues like Allen and Cary are appealing
to-day, and no one can tell until next October
how numerous is the constituency which such
men represent.


1t is useless to talk Of moral considerations
to such people, but if any Of them read The
Year: 1875




We are surprised, grieved. shocked. Our
faith in the Hon. j. NJ. Edmunfs, Judge, Post
MASTER and Secretary of the Republican Con-
gressions! Executive Committee, is beginning
to he shaken. We had known him as Post
master; heard of him as a Judge-thOugh of
what we never knew-and all the world knew
of him as the Secretary of the Republican
Congressional Executive Committee through
the wondrOus documents I've had sent flying
under franks all over the land, as well MS through
his trumpet calls to the party and his great
"and unparalleled feat (as they say in circus
programmed of calling the Chattanooga Out
rage Convention and addressing that body of
sincere and thoughtful patriots" in a letter
which demanded the Immediate production of
outrages enough to curdle the blood of the
average American citizen and save the Admin
istratiOn party in Congress. Having so known,
could we do ese than admire and love him
Here but r'v days ago we called attention
to the carr ess of manner, the sincerity and
pathOs wit which he asked in circular
Autographed from date to signature
for voluntary contributions to the fund of the
Year: 1875

TRIBUNE, we would like to make ono sugges-
ton, which they ought to be able TO appre-
ciate. They are industriously told every day
that if they can bring in the reign of unlim-
tied greenbacks capital will come in floods into
the country, their roads will all be
completed and put in running order, their
manufactures will start again, and everybody
will have all the business he wants to DO at
his own rates. We can inform these hopciui
spirits that nothing of this sort will happen
If this cheerful Jeremy Diddler philosophy Is
approved by the votes of Ohio at the elections
this Fall, it will be easier to draw
blood from the proverbial turnip than
to engage capital again in Western en-
| terprises. A vast system or rail-
roads and other industrial undertakings has
been set on foot mainly by Eastern capital.
For reasons which the innationists and repu-
diationists evidently do not understand, capl-
tai has become shy of such investments. The
men who have been bowling for legis-
lation against railroads amounting VIZ
tually to cOnfiscatiOn are surprised
to find that capitalists are not
eager to lend them money; and those who
dcnounce the doctrine that the Government
should pay its debts honestly as superstition
of wOrn-out dcspotisms, imagine that 1t Is
conspiracy of bondholders which induces people
to allow their money to lie idle rather than in
trust it to communities holding such views.
A bad character does not pay, for commu-
nity any more than for IN individual. Either
honesty or intelligence should be sufficient to
guard great State from incurring tainted
reputation. There certainly ought to he enough
of both in Ohio to save that splendid Common
wealth from disgrace.
Year: 1875

Another notable address delivered before the
American Scientific Association at Detroit is
printed in THE TRIBUNE to-day. In this Prof.
II. A. Newton of Yale College makes forci-
bic plea in behalf of a more general study OF
mathematics, not so much that it may be given
a higher place in education, but that it may
receive more attention from men OF SCIENTIFIC
pursuits with a view to their becoming better
qualified for such pursuits
Year: 1875

u New YORK, Sept. 22.-The announce
ment of the death of Prof Garland, who
to murder his wife and then
commit suicide yesterday, at New Bruns-
wick, N. j. was premature. The physi-
clans who were first summoned after the
tragic occurrence found him in comatose
condition, which was taken for death. All
their skill was used to save the life of Mrs.
Garland. It was Lot until about two
hours after the physicians arrived that il
was discovered that Garland still breathed


Pieces of the skull were removed from his


brain and his wind pipe sewed up, and he
was then able to talk. He may possibly
recover. ,s..a.,.
Year: 1875

Every farmer should take, pay for and READ one, two, or three good papers. "Knowledge is power," and how can we obtain that knowledge so much needed so easily as by reading the papers. It is true it must be taken ill bro- ken doses, but that is rather a recommendation to the working man. Allow us to urge upon every farmer to subscribe for at least one paper. Every head of a family in Pope should take the "DEMocRAT," and every farmer should take in addition, the Ar kansas Grange" If we were ad- dressing the people of Johnson we would say support your county paper, take the "Van-Guard" and Grange" If addressing the people of Conway we would say take the "State" and Grange"

 They are devoted to your inter- ests and you cannot do a better thing than to "cling to those who

 

 cling to you" It will pay in dollars to every farmer who has anything to sell or to buy for he will be sure to know the prices, and, better still, the paper is a school teacher in every family. Children will soon learn to take up the paper, learn to read, learn to think, and thereby become bet ter men and women. Read the following extracts from the L. R. Grange:

 Spectators read of some ad- vance in produce and then go into the country and purchase before farmers hear of It, thus making the latter's ignorance pay them handsomely.

 Merchants, mechanics, profes- sional men, all have their special journals which they read atten- lively, so that they may be posted in their respective business, but farmers are self-sufiicient and therefore fall easy prey to those better informed people with whom they deal.

 No paper can suit all sections of this large country, and our people, having first learned that it is necessary to take paper at all, will finally recognize this fact, and agree with us that the cheap est and best paper for them is that which is published at home, even if it is not so low in price nor so large in size as some others, published at distance.

 ToBEY.
Year: 1875

MARK TWAIN, in a letter to the
inventor of mosquito net, talks In
this way about the only thing worth
talking about, now that the third
term is gone: "There is nothing
that a Just and rightfeeling man re-
ioices in more than to see a mos
quito imposed on and put down and
browbeaten and aggravated, and
this ingenious contrivance will do
it. And it is a rare thing to worry
a fly with, too. A fly will stand off
and curse this invention till Ian
guage utterly fails him. L have
seen them do it hundreds of times.
l like to dine in the air on the back
porch in Summer, and so l would
not be without this portable net for
anything. When you get it hoist
ed the flies have to wait for the sec
ond table. We shall see the Sum
mer day come when we shall sit
under our nets in church and slum-
Der peacefully, while the discom-
fited flies club together and take it
out of the minister, There are
heaps of ways of getting priceless
enjoyment out of these charming
things, if I had time to point them
out and dilate on them little"
Year: 1875

CoRNUCopIA DIsTRICT.-The Ell
ko Independent of the 26th gives an
encouraging account of the mines
of Cornucopia District, and says
the Leopard Mill and Mining Com
pany has purchased of the Mineral
Hill Mines Company the magnifi-
cent 2O-stamp mill erected by the
latter at Mineral Hill at cost of
$4,000, which will at once be
taken down and moved to Cornu-
copia. This is a splendid mill, has
never been used but little, and is as
good as new. The price paid for
the mill as it now stands was only
SIT, 800, but by the time it is torn
down, moved to its destination and
put in running order it is expected
to cost the company almost $50, 900.
The machinery is expected to be
ready to run in about ninety days,
and then the bullion will commence
to flow in large quantities from the
"Horn." A large number of mines
in that district have ore on their
dumps, and only wait for a chance
to mill it, which will probably be
afforded them this Fall, as we have
been informed that as soon as the
new mill is put in operation the
Leopard Company will be prepared
to do all the custom work that
comes to it.
Year: 1875

A POOR MAN with th'the'rheumatism
a widowed wife and fourteen faith
erless children, and boil on the
back of his neck, is in town solicit
ing aims from the charitable h.
r. Reveille.
Year: 1875

Burleigh, and, had he not expedi-
tiously ducked, he would have re-
ceived a hard thump, if nothing
worse. II struck the ground some
twenty or thirty PAGES beyond.
This feat brought broad grin and
something like chuckle from the
whole of them. Carnboo even in
timated that he would like to try
another cast, but Burleigh express
ed himself fully satisfied.


Mr.-(another of our party
however, offered to "take a shot,"
but not at too short a range. We
were standing in front of one of
the storehouses. Carnboo placed


in front of the door and
stood with-'s hand on his
shoulder.


None of us knew what sort of
maneuver he had in mind, not even
Myers. Standing in this position,
the black threw the boomerang
straight ahead. Immediately it
curved in the air. Then it dis
appeared around the corner of the
building, and before he had time
to guess what was meant, it came
round the other end (having pass
ed completely around the store
house, and gave him a sounding
slap on the back, which made his
eyes snap.
Year: 1875

Of it lightly. On the other hand,
there is something in the facility OF
credit, removing as it does the dis
agreeable necessity of payment to
vague future, very seductive to
the buyer, who can crafty his love
of possession with a momentary
sense, at any rate, that its gratih-
cation costs him nothing. There
is no such cheap and cautious pur-
chaser as cash.
Year: 1875

During slight lull in business,
the other day, two little bootblacks,
one white and the other black,
were standing on a corner doing
nothing when the white bootblack
agreed to black the black boot
blacks boots.


The black bootblack was of course
willing to have his boots blacked
by his fellow bootblack, and the
bootblack who agreed to black the
black bootblack's boots went to
work. When the white bootblack
had BACKED one of the black boot
b ack's boots till it shone in a man
ner that would make any bootblack
proud, this bootblack who had
agreed to black the black boot
blacks boots, refused to black the
other boot Of the black bootblack,
until the black bootblack, who had
consented to have the white boot
black black his boots, should add
five cents to the amount the white
bootblack had made blacking other
mems boots. This the bootblack
whose one boot had been BACKED
refused to do, saying that it was
good enough for a black bootblack
to have one boot BACKED, and he
didn't care whether the boot that
the bootblack hadn't blacked was
BACKED or not. This made the
bootblack who had BACKED the
black bootblack's boot as mad as a
bootblack often gets, and he vented
his black wrath by splitting upon
the BACKED boot Of the black boot
black. This reused the latent pas
sions of the black bootblack, and
he proceeded to boot the white
bootblack with the boot which the
white bootblack had BACKED. A
fight then ensued, in which the
white bootblack who had refused
to black the unblacked boot Of the
black bootblack, BACKED the black
bootblack's visionary organ, and
in which the black bootblack wore
all the backing off his BACKED
boot in booting the white bootblack.
The fraternity of bootblacks after
wards convened and denounced
the actions of the white and the
black bootblacks as one of the
blacklist pages Of bootblack history.
Year: 1875

The practice of buying on credit
the necessary articles of the house.
hold is fatal to good economy. The
housekeeper has always to pay
dearer when she does not pay cash.
The tradesman must have inter-
est on his money, for a man viii
never, in q business community, be
willing, to forcgo it. To the ordi-
nary cash prices Of the article he
therefore adds the interest which
he may accrue during the time
that credit is allowed. This, how
ever, is not all. There must be a
premium exacted by the dealer for
the risk he runs in trusting his
goods to that class Of more or less
dangerous customers who never
pay ready money, Even the most
honestly disposed Of these are Of
ten unsafe debtors, for they are
such as are imprudent enough to
anticipate their incomes. The
credit system, moreover, is a temp
tation to unnecessary purchases.
There is sort Of check in the
sight and touch Of the hard won
money to the disposition 10 dispose
Year: 1875

The path of duty is the way to glory,
He that walks il, only thirsting


For the right, and learns to deaden
Love of self, before his journey closes
He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting
Into glossy purples, which outredden
All voluptuous garden roses.


The path of duty is the way to glory;
He that ever following her commands,
On with toll of heart and knees and hands,
Thro' the long gorge 10 the far light has won
His path upwards, and prevailed,
Shall find the topping crags of Duty scaled,
Are closed upon the shining table lands,
To which our God Himself is moon and sun.
Year: 1875

A traveller tells US something o.


the singular weapon used by the
natives of Australia, the boomer.
ang. He saw them used by the
natives. They ranged from two
feet to thirty-eight inches in length,
and were of various shapes, all
curved a little and looking, as he
describes them, something like a
wooden new moon. They were
made of dark, heavy wood, and
weighed from one to three pounds.
In thickness they vary from half
an inch and taper to a point at
each end.


One of the natives picked up the
piece of wood and, posing it an
instant, threw it, giving it q rotary
motion. For the first 100 feet or
more it went straight ahead. Then
it tackled to the left and rose slight
ly, still rotating rapidly. 1t kept
this latter course for a hundred
feet more, perhaps, but soon veer-
ed to the left again, describing q
broader curve, and q moment
later fell to the earth six or eight
feet in front of the thrower, hav-
ing described nearly circle in the
air.


Another native then took the
same boomerang and cast it, hold
ing it with the same grip. 1t took
the same course, but made broader
curves, and rs it came round the
black caught it handsomely in his
right hand.


Another native next threw Il
and lodged it on the ground about
twenty feet behind him, and after
it had described a circle OF 200
yards or upwards. After him they
all tried it and but one of them
failed to bring the weapon back to
the spot where they stood.


Carnbow, a native, then selected
from the heap of boomerangs an
other one, and cast it with a short
jerk. 1t few very quickly for
forty or fifty yards. wbirling like
top. Then it darted into the air
mounting, fully 100 feet, and hung
stationary for moment, then set
tied slowly, still whirling, till he
caught it. Two others of the blacks
then did the same thing.


Meanwhile had with my knife
shaved q little Of the wood
from the convex side of one of the
boomerangs. This is now offered
to one of them to throw. He took
it without noticing what / had
done, poised it, but stopped short,
and with contemptuous glance at
my improvements threw it down
and exclaimed


"Bale budgery I" (no good.)


The others then looked at it
cautiously, but it was bale budg-
cry also to them. No one could
be induced to throw it.


Myers asked them why they did
not use il, but they could not give
definite answer. 1t was plain that
they did not like the way it poised
when they held it in the hand, yet
l could not distinguish any differ
ence whatever between this and
the other weapons. ~


Burleigh then walked to dis
tance Of 200 feet or more from the
blacks and bid Carnbow to throw
at him. The native looked at him
a moment rather curoiusly, then
comprehending'what was wanted,
he selected one Of the heaviest
missiles, and. tornine half round,
threw 1t with great force in a direc-
tion almost opposite from that
where Burleigh stood.


The weapon sped smartly for
sixty or seventy feet, then tackled
In nm instant and few directly at
Year: 1875

The following singular item we copy
from an exchange: The man who killed
more negroes during the war than any
other man was loyal Union soldier, one
of two brothers belonging to Michi-
gan regiment. At Yorktown negro
sharpshooter in the service of the Con-
federacy, perched in tree, picked off
one of the brothers, and, though the
negro was discovered a few minutes
later and shot by the Michigan boys,
the surviving brother swore eternal
vengeance upon the entire negro race,
and from that hour devoted himself to
it's determination. The exact number of
negroes put out of the way by this man
would be astonishing if it could be
known, and he was never once detected
in his murderous work by any one who
cared. to report him. Three of his sable
victims found grave in the Ohio, and
the soil of classic Jeffersonville drank
the blood of others, but he operated
wherever his regiment happened to be
stationed, silently and effectually putting
the objects of his hatred out of the way
as often as an opportunity offered. He
has never been punished, and may
even yet be carrying out the scheme of
vengeance he resolved upon at York
town.
Year: 1875




The recent action of several European
governments in making gold instead of
silver the basis of currency has made
silver relatively very much cheaper.
Germany has $500, 100000 of silver coin
to sell, and Belgium and Holland will
probably put another million in the
market. Eastern exchanges have also
been latterly very low in London, there
by limiting the shipment of silver to
India and China, and there has been an
immense increase in the quantity of sill
yer mined during the last few years.
These facts furnish an easy explanation
of the news that silver has deprecated
in Europe fifty-five pence to the pound.
Now, this gives us the prospect of a
speedy substitution of silver for paper
in the United States, in accordance with
the provisions of the Sherman bill. The
premium on silver is apparently about
to disappear here, and as soon as this
result is reached we shall see the speedy
disappearance of our fractional paper
currency, and the temperance of the
silver coins that have been in hiding
since the war.
Year: 1875

One dreadful form of nervous excite
ment very prevalent among all cases of
society is that which is commonly called
i" "dipsomania. A weak tendency to
drink becomes an insane tendency. We
are especially liable to it at the present
time, because SO many Of us are over
wrought. Our actors, our orators, our
commercial men, can hardly keep up the
nervous energy required to go through
with their, work and so they take alcohol
to get up the steam of the mind. We be-
lieve, writes physician, if man has to
90 through a certain amount of bodily
work he will do it better if he takes
a little stimulant. In cases of mental
strain, the freer he keeps from stimu-
liant the better. Let him always eat
something when he drinks. Let him
drink as little stimulant possible as a
rule; let him substitute coffee or cocoa
for spirits and wine, and he will be
fresher for work and last out better.
The body is tough machine, but You





must treat it fairly; and so OF the mind
1T is usually tough enough, but you
can upset it. We beseech you, workers,
to watch yourselves, especially in this
matter of taking stimulants. But what
shall we say of the pleasure-makers
Young people should enjoy themselves
if enjoyment comes innocently. But
what do we see constantly9 We see
young people whose susceptibilities are
keenly alive to everything that comes
from without, fresh and healthy young
girls of seventeen and eighteen, at par
ties and balls, who really require no
stimulant, or the least possible amount
Ia little wine and water at most. Well,
these young girls drink champagne at
intervals, glass after glass; they do no
know how much they do drink. They
have not been cautioned. 1t is over
excitability; it is thoughtlessness. But
it is like throwing vitriol upon roses to
apply such an amount of ttimulant to
young, healthy bodies. A little thought
would instantly set all this right.