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Year: 1875

They have way in Oregon to make
goats useful in other ways than fur
nishing fleece and mutton. Men who
are clearing land are glad to take flocks
of goats to keep for nothing, for the pur-
pose of availing themselves of their SER
vices as scayengers of weed and sprout
browsers. The lands in that State are
mostly heavily timbered, and a great
deal Of labor is required to clear it of
timber and prepare it for cultivation.
The first thing they do towards clearing
up piece of timbered land is 10 chop
Year: 1875

A certain amount of opposition is a
great help to man. Kites rise against
the wind, and not with the wind even
a head-wind is better than none. No
man ever worked his passage anywhere
in q dead calm. Let no man wax pale.
therefore, because of opposition op-
position is wLat he wants and must
have. to be good for anything. Hard
ship is the native soil of manhood and
self-relianee. He who cannot abide
the storm without flinehing, lies down
by the wayside to be overlooked or
forgotten,
Year: 1875

The Worm that hred ia Chestnut
Once there was little worm that lived
in the very heart of fine large chest
nut.


How he got there he never knew. In
fact, don't believe he ever thought
anything about it; but there he was,
snug and warm, with plenty to eat,
and tiny hole in the chestnut to let
in the air.


The nut was lying on the ground
with number of its relations, among
some autumn leaves, and the wee worm
could hear the leaves whispering to-
gether whenever the rude wind came
that way.


''0h, how frightened we are " they
would say. ''The trees have let Us fall.
and soon we shall be blown we know
not where"


But We need fear nothing said the
chestnuts to each other. "Chestnuts
can't be blown about like dry leaves.
True. the wind, when he's in very
great hurry, gives US little roll, but
that's only fun,-it don't frighten US a
bit.r


As for the worm. he said to himself.
because he had no one else to say it to,
I'D rather be even a leaf than worm
in chestnut, no matter where the wind
blew me, for then | should at least see
something. It's awful stupid being
shut up here


Well, one morning there was n sound
in the wood that was neither the song
of the birds, the whistling of the wind,
nor the whispering of the leaves


1t was the sound of childish voices.
and the little worm heard the children
rr1n al, 10, y,
other.


"0hi here's plenty of them right un-
der these old trees.n


And the chestnut lying next to the
one he lived in said, ''Oh, deari Oh,
dear. think they are after us. This
is worse than the wind"


But the worm said to himself. 81 hope
they'll let me out of this poky little
house, so that | may go about and see
what wood is really like


Just then he felt ''the poky little
house" lifted from the ground, and
girl called out in great glee, 1--we
found great, big gOne-asplendld one"


Then sharp, cracking sound nearly
him, aud he felt the top of the
chestnut cave III, and heard the girl
give shrill scream, and cry out III a
very different tone from that in which
she had cried out before, oh, hor-
rid, horrid worm r as she flung it, with
all her strength, far away from her on
the grass.


Don't carer said the worm to him
self NOW | can come cut, anyhow


And he came, and was nipped that
very moment by sparrow, who was
hopping about on the ground looking
for something for dinner-Ihe MethO-
DIST
Year: 1875

JOHNNY aud Jaek.-Johnny had a
piece of bread Jack had none.


Johnny was not hungry; Jack was
desperately SO.


Johnny had lain all night asleep in
his crib: Jack had wandered through
the silent streets, seeking bones, and
finding none.


Johnny was thinking-a pleasant, in
distinct lullaby of thoughts. about the
warm Sunshine and the twIttering of
the birds, and mother coming back
soon.n She had said so when she had
left him.


Jack was thinking: '1t's the nieest
piece of bread everd did see.n lie crept
in through the open door, and sat down
very close to the little hand and lips 50
busy with the bread, watching with i
watery look in his steadfast eyes.


It was dumb drama. Neither OF
the actors could speak johnny was a
young baby Jack was an old dog.


On the one side was the dreamy. self
absorbed content of fulness; on the
other, the bitter impatience of want.


"He might give me bit, ''thoug ht
Jack.


Pretty sunshine thought johnny.





TO stifle his faithful dog-hOnesty;
could bitethat boy, and the bread, too


Mother coming back, thought Johnny


81 think must" thought Jack


What held him back Who shall
say Perhaps the other dogs would
have counted him a mean thief to steal
from a child. Perhaps, long ago, he
might have had a home and a master,
who taught him not to steal ut all.
Perhaps, dog as he was, he had "a con-
science and would not do the thing Just
because it was wrong thing. Brave
Jack But his will was falling; the
bread was so nice, and he was so hun
CRY. He was getting angry, too with
the mover of his struggle. Serve that
boy right To punish him Bit ne
mused. A dangerous thought. Ay,
Johnny, you may well begin to wish,
Mother come back"


But as JOhnny's little soul awoke to
longing, it awoke also to a perception
of the cravings near him. He turned
to look at Jack. "Poor dog he tried
to say, and then good Johnny wise
Johnny he broke off a piece of the
bread, and gave 1t to him.


Jack smacked his lips in enjoyment.


"Ha, la laughed JChuny. This
was good entertainment. He broke OIL
another piece. Jack ate it. and then
in his dogs fashion, kissed the little
hand of the giver.


"Nice dog" thought Johnny. His
bread grew interesting, now that there
was some one to share it.


This boy is fine fellow how could
think of biting him ~ Thought Jack


Johnny was saved and Jack was
saved. BLESSED are the mericful.T
Year: 1875

We now enter the Geld for
the fall and coming Winter
aud are furnishing the bes-
payinga q ID most easily worked
in the world. Cur
agents have always been the
most successful, and we have
lately added new and exceed


ing y taking induce ments, re
quirlng only intelligence and
for any one, young
or old, of ell her sex, to make
really irst-class paying busi
Year: 1875

We have said that we do not believe


if law was passed to saddle the tax-pay-


ers with the expense of. a Estate Police, -
Gov. Ames could organize force under


it. The white citizens, to a man, would
contemn such a measure and feel them


selves disgraced to be enrolled in a SER


vice so despicable; and the blacks would


have nothing to do with it. He might
import roughs if the provand was suffi-


cient, but this would not compensate for


the disagreeable nature of the service.


But suppose he should succeed in


passing the measure and enlisting his


train-band, what would he accomplish


except the infamy it would bring on his
Administration and the discOrd it would
produce? Where IS the necessity for it?


He does not pretend to say that in all
this State there is more than one commu-
nifty (Warren County, in which there
has been a race trouble, if we except the
Tunica mob of negroes to punish white
man who had been released from prison
on bail by Republican Judge; and that
was promptly squelched.


The trouble in Vicksburg, therefore,
is the only exception to the prevalence
of peace and order throughout all the
State; and that trouble has passed away.
The insurgents dispersed Immediately
after they had repelled Crosby's invaders
and secured protection to their fresides.
Everything is serene in the Hill City.
The negroes remembering the lesson of
Crosby's foolishness, and Ames' treach-
cry in not furnishing the ''backing"
after he had promised it, will not repeat
their experiment, and the white leaguers
are certain not to modest them. In fact,
after the storm, sunshine has come, and
a better feeling exists between the races
in Warren county than has existed for
years. They understand each other
But if all this was not true, Ames knows
that peace has been amply secured by
the presence of federal troops in
Nicksburg-the only place in the State
where, by the utmost stretch OF his i'm |
agination, he can suppose there is danger
Of disturbance. Thus fortified, what
need has he for Estate Police" Why |
not let Uncle Sam, who has troops in the
field already equipped, keep the peace
without imposing all this expense on an
impoverished and over-taxed people,
to say nothing of the insult and menance
implied in such measure and its provo
cation to violence and bloodshed where
order and good feeling now prevail?
Year: 1875

The printing bill journals are over
flowing with delinquent tax lists, They
tell their own story Of the disastrous ef-
feet Of the enormous tax levy, and Of the
process of confscation which is going ON
in this State Six millions of acres have
already been taxed out Of the possession
Of their owners, and unless relief is fur
nished the number will increase with APP
palling rapidity. In noticing the list Of
lands advertised for sale by the Sheriff Of
Adams county, the Democrat states that
it embraces considerably more than one
fourth the names of the real estate owners
Of the county. Truly fearly array 1t
states moreover that the delinquency on
personal property is correspondingly
large. a like condition Of things exists
in nearly every county. Something must
be done quickly, or universal bankruptcy
will prevail.


Meantime let the taxpayers who have
all common interest, stand by each other
and cooperate for the common protec-
tiOn.
Year: 1875

1t was no less noteworthy than porten-
tious, that the color line was strictly
drawn in the House on the bill to reduce
the pay Of members Of the Legislature
With one exception, the colored members
voted against reduction. Representing a
constituency who pay but a small portion
Of the taxes, though they enjoy the ben-
eft of the public schools and the civil and
political privileges enjoyed by the most
favored, they do not feel the burden land
in this instance, they exhibited merci-
less spirit towards the class who are sad
died with it.


With pleasure we record that on this
question the white members, to a man,
Of every political persuasion, arrayed
themselves on the side of reduction.


We have constantly deprecated the
color line, seeing its tendency to strife,
prescription, and injustice, Gas in this
instance) but If the colored legislators
insist upon drawing it, and of subjecting
their conduct to such discreditable con
tracts as the above, so be it. The conse-
quences be on their own heads
Year: 1875

The following are the provisions of the
bill pending in the Legislature for re-
duction of the salaries of State officers.
They are in the main reasonable and pro-
per.


shall not take effect until the terms of
the present incumbents expire is absurd
and unjust, and should be expunged.-
What the people need is immediate re-
lief. These terms do not expire until
three years. In its present shape the
bill is a delusion and snare. The tax
payers are now suffering, and it is mock
cry to offer them relief three years hence.
If the rates proposed are proper, let them
take effect from and after their passage.
Il
Year: 1875

Why is it that Gov. Ames has not
sent to the Senate for confirmation the
appointment Of w. B. Peyton, Esq, as
Chancellor of this District By Execu-
tive appointment he has been filling the
Office for months. If he was not Chan
cellor, his acts are illegal if he was, the
Governor had no authority to nullify the
appointment. He could be removed
only in the mode prescribed by the Con-
stitution.


1t is rumored that the Executive has
presumed to cancel the appointment be
cause the Chancellor did not decide GER
tain injunction case to suit him-the same
case in which he accosted with reproach-
ful language the venerable and learned
Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court for
not influencing his son TO render a con
trary decision.


Is this suspicion true Is there any
other gtound for the Withholding of thi:
appointment except the refusal of the
Chancellor to decide the question OF
law according to the will Of the Execu-
tive? Has the latter in this manner at
tempted to invade the temple Of justice
and to strike down the independence of the
Judiciary? Here is a case for Legisla
tive inquiry. If it be true, as charged
that the appointment of this Chancellor,
after having been made and the dutie;
of the office entered upon, has been can
celied by the Executive on account of thi;
decision, or other cause, the Legislature
cannot escape the duty of free and full
investigation
Year: 1875

Recently the Democrats and Conserva-
tives of Arkansas elected A. II. Garland,
Governor, by triumphant majority.
Knowing him, we said thai he would steer
clear Of all the difficulties of the situation,
and that the political gamblers, who
are playing the ''outrage card would
get no assistance from him. Here is a
dispatch which he has sent to President
Grant. 1t conveys distressing news to
the Radical leaders


eff there Is a White League or any
kindred association in this State, do not
know of il, and have asked for those
who assert it, to be brought before the
grand jury Of this county, now in session,
to show the fact, pledging all the power
of this Government to break them up
and to punish those that do belong to
them and | call upon the Legislature,
now sitting, to pass most stringent laws
TO this end.
Year: 1875

The Inauguration of honest citizens
rule in Texas in place of the misrule of
the Mournful Facts whose presence be
| came so vivid a reality in the eyes Of
Horace Greeley when he visited that
State-has been followed by an astound-
ing increase of immigration from every
point of the compass North, South, East
and even West. The monthly increase
of population by immigration Is estima-
ted at 200. The following is one of
the many items showing the way the cur
rent is DIR lifting:


From the Galveston News


IMMIGRANTS. The steamship jose
phine brought over yesterday morning
three hundred immigrants, and the Har-
lin one hundred and making four
hundred and forty in ALL
Year: 1875

The blame is now placed where it be-
longs for the assault of the colored mob
on Vicksburg and the bloodshed which
ensued. The responsibility is fixed on
Gov. Ames. He testified before the
Congressional Committee that he inform
ed Crosby that his resignation was not
valid; and that after consulting with
Hill, Cardozo and the Attorney-General,
he told Crosby to summon posse of ne
groes and to reinstate himself in office
Notwithstanding the acceptance of the
resignation by the Supervisory. He also
instructed Hall, commander of negro
military company in Vicksburg, to CO.
operate with the posse in this illegal and
sanguinary proceeding.


He testified that the Attorney Gen
eral advised recourse to the Courts for
righting the alleged wrong. Therefore
he must have acted on the advice of Hill
and Cardozo; and it follows the latter
did have authority for writing to Crosby,
"not to compromise with those fellows,
Ames is at your back. The question
of whether the people of Vicksburg did
right in repelling the invasion which
Ames with fiendish motive had inspired
in the bosoms of the colored people by
his instructions to Crosby, does not adj
nit of argument. 1t was case of self
His Adjutant General
Packer, admitted in his testimony be-
fore the Committee, that after she inva-
sion commenced, the citizens did right in
it, and that their action was "a
g mercy to the women and children,
" white and black, of the city of Vicks-
- buro "
Year: 1875

Now while the bill is pending in our
Legislature to remoddle the public print
ing laws, with view to a reduction Of
expenditures, the following statement
obtained from official sources) Of the
cost of that service in a number of States,
will serve as a useful guide:
Year: 1875

OUR column Of receipts for subscription
to-day, is a substantial and cheering tes-
timonial Of goodwill towards The CLA-
RToS by the solid and intelligent masses
Of the State Friends, we return you
our thanks and our greeting Sustained
by such evidences Of approval, and catch
ing fresh inspiration from the justice #
a good cause, we shall redoubIe our efforts
to make our paper more than ever a vel
come visitor to your fresides.
Year: 1875

We have had great many con
tested election cases in our State Legis-
lature. some of which, by the way, have
been decided very enormously. But what
would the majority have thought of the
commander ofthis military post, had he
entered the Legislative Halls and regula-
ted the matters of contest with the bayo-
Year: 1875

In WAS all right tor the colored Legis-
lators to vote to curtail the expenditures
on account of public printing, and we
gave them credit for it; but how is it that
the House of Representatives they
voted in solid array, against an equally
solid array of white members against re
ducing the pay of members of the Legis-
Iature
Year: 1875

This bill has passed the Senate as re-
ported. We were mistaken in saying
that it does not take effect until after the
terms of the present incumbents expire
that provision applies only to Judges
of the Supreme and Circuit Courts by
constitutional requirement,
Year: 1875

Tie report of the Louisiana Commit
tee, is producing profound impression
throughout the North. We now see the
immense advantage of making good
record. As Southernors whose actions
are narrowly scanned, it is our only safe
Year: 1875

LET THE PEOPLE declare that the
issue is between constitutional rights
and military usurpation, and that they
will fight it out on this line if they have
to take ell summer.--N. Y. Herald,
Year: 1875

The bill is to take effect as to each off
Ger at the expiration of the term of the
present incumbents. After considera-
ton, paragraph by paragraph, the sub
ject was referred to a committee to per-
feet the bill.
Year: 1875

The announcement from Georgia that Senator
Gordon declines to have his name used in con-
nection with the Vice Presidency will cause wide
spread sadness. The desire to "use" it was 10
strong
Year: 1875

LIVERPOOL BoDY-SSATCHERs.-
The following story is told Of two
Liverpool, England, body-snatchers,
who operated in that city some years
ago.


One dark night in winter they
drove up in a gig to Walton Church
yard for the purpose Of securing a
body which had just been Inferred.
They effected their purpose, and after
attiring the corpse in an overcoat,
with hat upon its head, they placed
it upon the seat of the gig, in an up
right position. This done, they
brought the gig to the door of one OF
the inns situated close to the church,
and left it, to enter the inn for re-
freshments. A man who was pass
ing noticed the figure, apparent heed
less of the cold, and stopped to ex-
anime it. His horror at discovering
that it was a dead body may he
imagined, but it did not prevent him
from at once forming plan for turn
| ing the tables on the resurrectionists.


He hastily transferred the great
coat and hat to his own back and
head, carried the body to the church
yard wall, over which he dropped it.
and then mounted the gig, and seated
himself in the place which the corpse
had occupied In short time the
two young men came out, seated
themselves. one on each side of him,
and drove off 1t was very dark, and
they were probably excited by drink,
so they took little notice of their 81
lent companion, and were evidently
quite unconscious ofthe change which
had been effected. At last one OF
the young men remarked in an un-
easy tone, that the corpse seemed to
be getting warm but his companion
only answered him with a laugh and
one or two mocking words. In a few
minutes he reiterated the statement,
pulled the rein, and declared that he
would not stay in the gig any longer
The moment had arrived. The sup
posed corpse turned its head first to
one side and then to the other, and
solemnly spoke. With a cry Of ter
ror the two men leaped from the We
hicle, and ran as though all the
ghosts in Hades we've behind them.
| Lett now to his own devices, the
adventurous man drove home, con
graduating himself on good night
work. The horse and gig were never
claimed.
Year: 1875

A few evenings ago quite q large
crowd was assembled at the depot OF
the Southeastern Railroad, in East
St. Louis, awaiting the departure OF
the train. The snow WIS falling fast,
and those who remained outside OF
the waiting-room crept close to the
walls of the building. to escape the
falling snow. Standing in very close
proximity, in one corner, might have
been seen a man and woman locked
in each others embrace, and so oc-
cupied with bestowing caresses upon
each other as to be utterly uncon-
scious for time of what took place
around them. At length they dis
covered that they were watched.
While they had been making each
other so happy, "the old man, as the
woman afterwards called him, had
been watching them from behind a
pile of freight near by, and, under
cover OF the darkness, had crept so
close as to be able distinguish what
they were talking about.


Seeing that he had been discover
ed he sprang out, saying: so yer
gcin' to 'lope. be We? Here to two
policemen. who stood a little way off,
rest that fellah over there" point
ing to the man whom he had been
watching.


The officers hesitated. They didn't
like to arrest man on their own re-
possibility when they could see no
reason for it.


"Ye won't rest him, eh?
Year: 1875

"You boys ought to be kind to
your little sister. | once knew bad
boy who struck his little sister blow
over the eye. Although she didn't
fade and die in TIE early summer
time, when the June roses were
blowing, with the sweet words of for
giveness on her pallid lips, she rose
up and hit him over the head with
the rolling-pin, so that he couldn't 90
to Sunday-school for more than a
month on account of not being able
TO put his best hat on.
Year: 1875

Pluck AND LUCX.-Boys, be
plucky ifyou would he lucky. While
ten men watch for chances, one man
makes chances while ten men wait
for something to turn up, one turns
something up; so while ten tail, one
succeeds and is called a man Of luck,
the favorite of fortune. There is no
luck like pluck, and fortune most
favors those who are most Indifferent
to fortune.
Year: 1875

The first thing stranger does in Furt-
wagon is to see the exhibition of the
Gewerbevereins, and at Freiberg the
Gewerbe hall, open from May to October.
The latter is wooden building of some
taste, where every variety of clock can
be seen which the ingenuity of the
Schwarzwader can devise or his fingers
execute. Round the walls and on the
tables are clocks of every sort. Nearly
all are Of wood, though here and there is
fragile one of straw and ivory. The
| first which attracts attention is a fine
specimen of wood-carving the figures
aud designs are cut in lime-wood. and it


stands two feet high. The fingers and
hours are of ivory. The attendant puts
it to two o'clock, and it forthwith plays
a melodious air, as of the most delicate
flutes. The next is still larger, and as
the hour strikes miniature band plays


die Wacht am Rhein." We pass on
to one made of beech and walnut, the


dark and light woods being charmingly
blended AS the fingers touch the hour,
two helmeted trumpeters step out and


blow the reveille Then there are cue


koos which strike up at the hour and


thrushes who sing at the quarter +; ven-


erable monks standing beneath the belfry


ring the hour when midnight comes. The


automaton clock comes next, and watch


sort of Pickwicklan fat boy feed him
self with rolls till three has finished
striking. The taste and minuteness of the


carving in the largest or the smallest


point are very great; the regulator on
the pendulum of the smallest clock rep


resents, perhaps, an oak leaf, or some


simple. but still graceful object. Nor ARE
more methodical and stronger-looking
clocks wanting; they are of every kind !;


they will suit the kitchen or the boudoir


The excellence of the external work is


equalled by that of the machinery, for


having once gained reputation. the in


habitants of these hills take care that it


shall not be lost. The Gewerbeverein, or


Union, guarantee the goodness of each


clock which hangs on the walls.-London


Spectator.