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Year: 1873

Gentlemen accustomed to wearing Tasteful Clothing
will fnd in our Large Stocks of Ready Made Garments
elegant variety of Suits for Dress and Business wear
and 0vercoatS for Fall and Winter from which they can
select at much less cost than if made to order This
is practical economy which demands no sacrifice of
quality or taste.
Year: 1873

Much ink l. being used In loud cries FOR re-
lief from taxation. through the columns o
she various journals throughout the State
Several plans have been suggested rs being
feasible and calculated to bring about the de-
sired result. Prominent among these is the
immediate assembling Of the Legislature and
call FOR State Constitutional Convention
by that body. The idea of calling Conven-
tion has been repeatedly broached in the pub
lie prints OF the State, and reasons for and
against urged.


Prior to the late registration, we were de-
cidedly opposed to auy call of the Legisla-
ture, or of Convention. Now, since the
registration and election to fill vacancies, We
find by actual count that there Is but little
chance of succeeding In call for Censtitu-
tional Convention before the Senate, Ii j.,
by its majority, decidedly opposed to any
such call. If the Legislature should be call
ed together, in our humble opinion, it would
result in the expenditure Of much money and
not secure us the coverted boon asked for. II


xeuld isss, should be submitted directly t'
..,e in an +, proclamation Of the Governor
We have no doubt that it would carry.


But It is urged by some, that the legisla-
ture should he assembled anyhow for the
purpose of relieving the people from the bur
den of taxes now grieyously crushing them
Could the Legislature do this if assembled
We think not. They might pass what Is call
ed "relief bill" but in fact would be only
postponement Of the evil tax collecting day
The Republican party by its shortsig GIFTED
policy and miserable mismanagemcnt, have
fastened upon the people a most expensive
governmental machinery. Many Of tho SUI
parfluous offices are created by constitutional
provision and cannot be destroyed by the
Legislature. Nothing short of Convention
and a change in the Constitution can relieve
us from many of these ellices The Iegisla-
ture II assems sled ,could not call a convention
and consequently could not thns relieve MS.
If a Convention is now called, IT must be by
some other means. And until the expenses
Of the State government are reduced by a
timing out OF officers our taxes cannot be
materially reduced. The relief desired, can
not then be found in an assembling of the
Legislature. Further, we are fully satisfied
that il the Legislature should be called to-
gether. it would be but a means afforded Me
Clure, Bowen & Co., to harass and annoy
Governor Baxter. 1t would give them fine
field for intrigue, and by the management OF
such men God only knows how long the as
sembly would remaa in session, continually
adding to our state debt.


The Legislature disgustcd every body out
session. for the sake of the good name Of tho
State let the thng sleep the long sleep tina,
knows no resurrection, and not be brought to-
gether by the trumpet call of Gov. Baxter
Year: 1873

In weight she might have turned, when
well conditioned, nine hundred and fifty
pounds. In color she was dark chestnut,
with veIvety-depth and soft look about
the hair indescribably rich and elegant.
Many time have heard ladies dispute
the shade and hue of her plush. like coat
as they ran their white, jeweled fingers
through her silken hair. Her body was
round in the barrel and perfectly symmet-
rcal. She was wide in the launches,
without projection of the hip bones, upon
which the shorter ribs seemed to lap.
High i'm the withers as she was, the line Of
back and neck perfectly curved, while her
deep, oblique shoulders and long, thick
forearm, ridgy with swelling sinews, sug-
gesting the perfection of power and stride.
Her knees across the pan were wide, the
cannon bone below them short and thin !;
The l,asterns long and sloping; her hOOfs
round, dark, shiny and we'll set on Her
name was shade darker than her coat,
fine and thin as a thOroughbred's always
is, whose blood is without taint or cross.
Her ear was thin, sharply pointed, deli
cately curved, nearly black around the
borders and as tremulous as the leaves of
an aspen. Her neck rose from the with
ers to the head in perfect curvature, hard,
devoid of fat and well cut up under the
chops Her nostrils were full, very full,
and thin almost as parchment. The eyes,
from which tears might fall or fire fash,
were well brought out, soft as gazelle's,
almost human in their intelligence, while
over the small bony head, over neck and
shoulders, yea over the whole body and
clean down to the hoofs the veins stood
out as if the skin were but tissue paper
against which the warm blood pressed
and which it might at any moment burst
asunder. "a perfect ANIMAL" 1 said to
myself, as I lay looking her over, "an an
imal which might have been born from
the wind and the sunshine, so cheerful
and so swift she seems; an animal which
man would present as choicest gift to the
woman he loved, and yet one which that
woman, wife or lady-love, would give him
to ride when honor and life depended on
bottom and speedily. III. II. Murray,
in atlantic Monthly.
Year: 1873

Decidedly so! What ice cream we had
for dinner. We mistook the character of
the compound, but a spoonful set our teeth
into clog dance with each other and we
were convinced that it was genuine ice
cream "What does this mean at this sea-
son ?' we innocently asked of the saddle
col.ared, dandy looking waiter who stood
at our elbow. "Ice cream! On de bill OBJ
fare all de year round! Only hotel in de
city dat offers dis attraction !" We thank
ed him humbly for the information and
felt glad that, no other hotels in the city
were addicted to such "coor behavior.


A.t'tf, THE CANAL.


If fellow never had seen a canal he
wouldn't when he saw this one here. 1t
don't look like much of "raging canawl," !"
but more like creek built OH the Credit
Mobilier plan. That is to say, it isn't near
so pretty as natural creek, but con-
founded sight more expensive. A couple
of tow boats swinging lazily upon its wa
tiers and canoe engineered by small boy
were the only attractions it offered to us.


Tonight we shall return the way we
came and come this way no more for some
time. DOCK. =
Year: 1873

A man in Terre Haute, Indiana, has a
little private armory of his own, consist
ing Of one musket, carried by his father in
the revolutionary war another carried by
his father in the war of 1912. and a third
carried by himself in the war of the re-
bellion.
Year: 1873

From the Springfield UnionI


Concerning the cause of the trouble,
all sorts Of philosophers agree. 1t is the
ambition for an expensive style OF living
which keeps young men and young
wemen from thinking Of marrying until
they can reckon on sufficient income
to support it. Men who have thus post.
poned matrimony to money making
find themselves, when they have attain
ed middle age, in the possession ct the
coveted wealth, perhaps, but disinclined
to marriage, confirmed to bachelorhood,
skeptical as to the virtues of women and
the general desirability of the welded
state. The hey-day of youth and
the spring of passion with them Is
over and gone. The sweethearts of Their
youth have grown old with them, and
have long ago drifted out Of their lives
They often conclude that having re
mained single so long they will moi
change their state. 1t is the old story.
In youth when they couldn't, they fain
would have welded, and in matury, when
they can, they no longer care to. Or
what is worse than bachelorhood, yield
ing to the suggestions of that deliberate
sensuality of mature years, so different
from the hot passion of youth, they take
to their bosons some young girl willing
to sell herself for money, and careless
that she is utterly separated from all
sympathy with her husband by gulf oi
years. The costly habits of dress in
dulged in by American women are often
adverted to as discouraging early mar
riages. This is also to be set down tc
the peculiarly unrestricted character oi
social ambition among US. The Euro
peap woman follows the standard OF her
class in her dress. That standard is
pretty accurately adapted to the ave
rage. resources of members OF that
class, and she does not exceed 1T with
out exciting remark. In this coun'
try there is but one class, to which the
poorest as we'll as the richest belong,
There are accordingly no standards OF
dress adapted to different grades OF in,
come. The wife of the mechanic and
the wife of the millionaire follow but
one rule, and that is to dress as well as
they possibly can. This principle oi
conduct makes wife an expensive lux
urv for an American artisan or strug'
Cling professional man. Still although
our fair country women certainly deserve
mild talking to on this subject satlrlsts
and social reformers are often much too
hard upon them. 1t is useless to charge
the disfavor into which marriage has
fallen among young people, exclusively
upon either sex. Both have a whole
some consciousness that it is thing
they ought to be ashamed of, and so are
given to throwing the blame on each
other. But the truth is that both sexes
are perverted by common curse of in,
ordinate social ambition and ungoverned
desire of fine living aud the luxury Of
wealth, passions which, with all its com
pensating blessings, democratic state
Of society unquestionably tends to ag
gravate.
Year: 1873




One sunny morning in summer, down
this pathway, still sparkling with the
dewy moisture, came stealthlly moving
along the 1.-THE form of alnink. Her fur
looked worn and rusty when the sun
light struck her, as she skulked between
the hussocks Of grass. Occasionally
she halted to look about her, alert for
anything eye could see or ear could
hear; but hearing nothing but the sweet
notes of a song sparrow and complain
ing cry of cat bird among the alders,
she again moved on. AS she reached
the muddy edge of the brook, she trod
more daintiiy; then, winding among the
pickerel weeds, swan down stream,
hardly disturbing the water, only max
ing a long, wedge shaped wake as she
stole into the shadowy edge of the brook.
Suddenly she disappeared under water,
but soon came up, struggling with some
thing that swayed up and pulled her
about, disturbing the quiet of the stream,
and sending a muddiness down the cur
rent But she bore the almost unman-
ageable wriggling eel (for this it was) to
the stone wall, and drawing herself and
burden up out of the water on the large
stone, readjusted her hold, and seized
the creature by the back of the head.
Then bracing herself to suck the blood,
the thrashing, struggling eel grew grad
uallv weaker and weaker until 1t looked
perfectly limp and lifeless. Then she
Jumped from the wall, dragging this eel,
longer than herself, up through the
grass, taking a different and more con-
cealed way than the one by which she
came and soon disappeared altogether
In the thick banked wall of this barn on
the hillside, she had her young; and
after they grew large enough to require
something more substantial than Ma
ture' frst provision, the mother used to
bring them Ssh Of different kinds, cells,
ducks and like prey. So sly and steaithy
did she keep herself that she was not
seen pntil the young we're half-grown,
and looked like little fawn-colored wea=
sells. which she betrayed herself BY bring
ing this food, which impeded her moves
ments. By travelling the same way so
many times she grew bold.


These minks are very destructive 10
fish; and when the brook is low they can
often be tracked for a long distance by
the dead eels, pickerel, sinners, and
sometimes trout, left lying along the
bsnk, tie mink only sucking the blood
aud leaving the Ssh unmutilated. One
autumn some small sinners, meant Tor
bait In pickerel fishing through the ice,
were kent in an old tub set in spring
near the brook; and in one night All
these Ssh we're killed By . mink who
left them laid in a row On the groqnd'
They looked precisely as il some per.
son had so arranged them. But
lhrough the back Of each fish, near the
head. were four tooth-marks that told
Who bad been there, this being ire-
quenty the only mark the mink makes
% bis victim.
Year: 1873

II the Ecey Euening were sincere in its belief
that " the least said about that unfortunate
affair in the Ninth ward" the sooner it could
be ''mended, and il willing to aecept "whatev.
er condemnation or blame might be visited upon
US Q) without any apology or defense which
would attract further attention to the matter,
why is it that it continues to allude to the affair
day after day? The day succeeding the publica-
tion Of the indecent article it suffered further
mention to be made OF it, and yesterday the
affair was dragged before the public for thhd
time ir its columns. This, surely, is poor indi-
cation OF penitentiAl sorrow, fitting commen-
tary on that mo small degree OF annoyance"
whish it professed to have experienced, and a
presumption upon and positive insult to, the in
ieigence Of its readers. II it is to atone for
this single instance" in silence. let it do so,
and we will have done with it. The
last two references, like the first, are inexcus-
able.
Year: 1873

The deficiencies Of our prison system are sadly
displayed, at New Castle, in spite of the best
arrangements the Sheriff is able to make. Con-
victs are confined there, who should be in State
Psnitentiary young boys are there, for minor
offences, who should be in House Of Correc-
ton vagrants are there, who ought to be in
some Workhouse where they could be employed,
to the public advantage and the result is that
the jail is crowded to excess.


So much so is this the case that the public will
be alike panied and Astonished to hear the facts.
There are in the jail-which, by the way, is q
substantial, well arranged building for the pur-
pose, and is kept in as good order as the un-
favorable circumstances permit twenty
two cells. Most of these are designed for the
confinement of single person. Seven Of them
are now occupied by convicted persons, sentenced
t. solitary confinement. This reduces the num-
bar of coils to fifteen, available for the impris-
onment of those awaiting trial Now the whole
number of persons in Jail, on yesterday. (Aiarch
2jth,) was ninety-t.oo, Seven of these had one
call apiece, leaving eighiy-fce persons TO De
crotvded into fifteen cells, an average Of ice and
sic in each, though they are designed for one
person only


The consequences OF this are very sad. The
cells are filled to suffocation. Boys and youths,
guilty OF some minor offence, are locked up with
hardened, depraved old criminals women are
quArtered together, without distinction of char
acter-the young girl with the outcast the err
ing with the sinful-and those who might, under
proper surroundings, bo reclaimed from crime
are polluted beyond redemption.


We certainly need do no more than state these
fa,ts, in order to awaken public. interest in the
subject. What can be done We are not pre-
pared to say. In two of his messages to the
Legislature, Governor Salisbury urged the ne
cessity of building a State Penitentiary, and,
recommended from that quarter, we hopefully
looked forward for.some step to be taken to build
one. Nothing, however, has ever been done !;
and the opportunity. which should have been
seized when the new Kent County Jail was
built Of erecting prison large enough for both
County and State purposes, was lost. The Leg
islatures have been too busy with private bust
ness to attend to this important general inter
est and we behold one OF the consequences OF
their shameful neglect OF the peoples affairs in
this sad condition OF our county Jail.
Year: 1873

\ MELANCHOLY BREAK-DowN. There
are lively break downs that make an audi
BILE laugh, and there are sad and sorruwful
break downs that make the kind hearted
grieve To the latter class belongs the
enervation Of body and mind which is usu-
ally called general debility, or nervous
weakness, and which, when neglected,
too often terminates in atrophy and death
A wholesome medical stimulant is the one
thing needed in cases of this description
and science and experience unite in point
ing to PLANTATION BrTTERs as the true
specific The fact that it combines the
properties of an invigoraut with those of a
regulator aud Alternative in exactly the
proportions necessary to produce radical
change in the tone Of the system, and the
action of the digestive and secretive or
gans, is an unanswerable argument in its
favor as a general restorative
Year: 1873

Have you ever tried NATURES HAIR
RESTORATIVE? You will be delighted
with it Clean, safe, and efficient. It is
driving all the poisonous compounds out Of
the market 1t is as clear as crystal
See advertisement.
Year: 1873

The REAsoN.--The reason of the un-
precedented demand for DIR. Price 5
Cream Baking Powder and Special Fla
vorings, Vanilla. Lemon, etc, is the result
Of their being just as represented, of su-
perior strength and uniform quality,
coupled with the equally potential fact,
that they contain not one grain of adulter-
alton. Having thoroughly tested them
ourselves we have no hesitancy in saying
that they will accomplish just what is
claimed for them and one single trial will
readily convince any person as to the truth
Of our assertion.
Year: 1873

sE Those holding tickets in the original scheme
can return them to j. c. WALLACE, Manager. DaY.
enpoTt, and receive two chances in the new scheme
for one in the old.-which will give them one
chance in Is to draw prize


The managers assure the public that the drawing
Year: 1873

From lands end TO lands end, that all may read
and reading, believe, that for the countless mil
lions who the road TO an untimely grave
with bilious complaints there is hut one truly great
and reliable remedy, and that is
Year: 1873

The process of illustration used by the
Graphic Company is secret, jealously
guarded by the proprietors, and is yet up
on its trial. The rough theory, however,
may be of interest to our readers. Upon a
sheet of paper is spread layer of oily
transfer ink used by the photographers, and
over that thin layer of Photographic
preparation which the action of light read
lily decomposes. The subject of illustration
is then photographed and the negative
placed over the prepared sheet. The ac-
ton of the light passing through the un-
obstructed parts of the negative, decompos-
es the surface of the sheet, and leaves the
image in a sort of bas-relief. The other
portions are then removed, and the sheet
laid over one of The porous stones used by
the photographers, and subjected to press
ure. The oloaginous ink sinks into the
stone and makes, in oil as it were, outlines
of the desired picture. The stone is now
sponged with water, and is ready for print.
ing. The ink-roller of the press passes
over it, leaving no trace whatever on the
clean portions of the surface, but coating
every place where the oleaginous transfer
ink has touched, and printing the picture
upon the sheet of paper that follows
RotUeVs Reporter.
Year: 1873

The Memphis Avalanche says: "'There
is local writer on the Nashville
Union and Aaaerican who sets up as a
great American humorist. 1t is noticeable
that his department is unusually brilliant
the day after the receipt of the Danbury
Ne,os or after circus has been lin town.
His superiority over his brother locals
is in his ability to write better with his
scissors than they can with their pencils
and all are jealous of him."
Year: 1873

THE FARMERS OF WISCONSIN,
sin seems to be following close upon the
steps of Illinois in regard to the uprising
of the farmers against railroad oppression.
The La Crosse Demo crat says:


1.-THE press all over this State is begin
ming to wake up and speak for the people
The farmers are organizing, and in sixty
days Wisconsin will show itself as fully
alive to the subject of corporation abuses
as its southern neighborn
Year: 1873

The Presidents demand that his cul.
pable Congressional adherents shall re-
store their back pay to the Treasury
provokes sardonic, if not 'sarcasticar'
grin from the Boston Post 1t Gays:
1T is not often given 10 President to
show such gushing unselfsbness asthis.
The willing sacrifice by Artemus Ward
in the cause of his endangered country
had no such touching elements in it as
this. Nothing but the iuexorab!e law
hinders the President himself from re-
turning his larger personal share OF the
voted plunder. He is under the sternest
obligations to accept it with what equa-
nimiiy he can. Besides handing back
their grab 70 the Treasury from which
they took il, he advises them to repeal
the unpalatable law itself. He is nat
urally sorry that such repeal will not
touch his own case, but that is no rea-
son why he may not urge it on those
whose case it does touch, and urge
it with all his official rfluerce for the
good Of the Republican party that go
engages his personal solIcitude. The
sequel will put the President in just this
position, il Congress were 10 respect the
popular demand and repeal the law;
while the members had involved them
selves so deeply ard got nothing to
show for il. ne would take the credit OF
advising the repeal. while the benefit
of it to himself remained undisturbej.
Probably none Of the Long Branch
visitors will euggest TO him that be
meed not take g double salary II be
does not choose 10, and he will there
fore continue with the impression that
he is dischargng a difficult duty in
condemping them by his advice and
drawing money from the Treasury
which be has no legal right to refuse.
And to think that THE wonld be for
the good of the afflicted Republican
party
Year: 1873

Ia so much faith rather than so little Wonder that
once a week, once month and once q year that
we have not had such panic. Mr.. Powers con-
tnued further In this STRAIN, describing the cause
or the financial trouble all over the country. and
then proceeded to point out the way to the re-
storatiOn ol confidence. 1t was TO give every deal
ing the


SOLID BASIS OF INTEGRITY.
Deal honestly one wluh another, fulfilling every
obligation. and with faith venture upon the waves
of the ocean casting bread upon the waters and
soon IT will return again. Not that wild cat opera
tions shall be renewed, flooding the land with
worthless paper, but that honesty in business
shall be established each working with the other,
and thus better and truer feeling and lasting
one will be brought about.