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Year: 1872

NEWSPAPER DIscUssIoNs.-lt is, in any
case, high time that something like a
statement of the present condition of the
case should be laid before the public. AT
time. not long ago, when the details and
situation Of the negotiation on the Ala.
bama Claims were most loudly and exten-
sively discussed in this country, not more
than three copies Of the chief document
just then in point were in the United
States, and those were in the hands Of
persons who said nothing about it. This
fact may indicate the quantity of real
knowledge Of the subject which has been
used in writing about it.


The fairness with which this writing
has been done is about as great as the
knowledge. The question has too often
been dealt with indeed, on both sides q
the water, not so much for the sake Of
ascertaining the truth about it, as for
the sake of damaging somebody with it
just as a man in n fury filings at his ad.
versary whatever lies next his hand. In
England the Disraelitish opposition have
made it their crowbar wherewith to en-
deavor to pry out Mr.. Gladstone from
office; their exegesis consisting in what
was substantially a claim that Mr.. Glad
stones ministry would compromise the
honor of England in dealing with the
case. Mr.. Gladstone, of course, replied
by talking still bigger about the honor of
England and the absurdity Of the Amer
lean claims. But not one of the speech
es in Parliament has weighed the facts
and struck a Just balance.


In the United States,the discussion has
been just as obviously mere battle be-
tween ins and outs. A leading newspa-
per, seeking to promote the personal in-
terests of its chief editor as presidential
candidate by personal attack on Presi.
dent Grant and his Secretary of State.
has published day after day what they
call "display heads" and editorial state
ments, which, if not absolute falsi6ca-
tions, were absolute assumptions; which
were contradicted by the next days news
besides being upjusti6able aspersions on
the honor and the common sense of re.
spectacle citizens Of the United States.
Such unfriendly and unfair assaults can
not, in the nature of the case, promote


calm discussion nor sound information ou


either side; and the actual merits Of the
question at issue are disregarded, for II G
sake of making it useful projectile fcl
political cannonading. But,as Legitimate
warfare, this procedure ranks with tie
method Of Mesha, king of Moab, who mur
dered his own son to beat the king of Israel
Year: 1872

other place to make the terrible sacrifice.
Such occasions should be characterized
by activity, and not idleness ; by the
sacred observance Of law. and not by
anarchy But we shall find it necessary
to consider these points more fully here
after.
Year: 1872

[From the N. Y. Evening Post, Republican.


Our tribunal of last resort, the
great court of the people, has render
ed it's Judgment in the case of Grant
VS.. Greeley. It has done so in a
manner beftting its dignity, and with
a result that justifes the almost uni
versal confidence in its discernment,
its integrity, and its wisdom. In
spite of the common place, and some
times the responsiveness of the details,
there is majestic and even sublime
aspect in the general effect. That
thirty millions of people should come
together of their own accord, on an
appointed day, to determine, by their
voices, questions of self-control that
have been hotly debated for months
and perhaps for years, and that they
should do it so calmly, without sin
gle attempt at disorganization, with
out disorder, without violence of any
kind, is a spectacle alike worthy of
admiration and wonder. Disap-
pointed candidates for Office, and Gin
dependent journalists" who allow
their personal interests to paralyze
every sentiment of self-respect and
every particle of good sense that they
ever possessed, may see in it only the
workings of fraud and money-pur-
chase, but for us it has nobler sig
nifcance. We are, by nature and
conviction, earnest believers in the
Democratic theory of government,
but we confess that the practice of it
by the American people fills us with
an ever renewed confidence and hope.


If we are pleased with the manner
of the present election, we are scarce
ly less so with its results. It ex-
presses once more the invincible de-
termination of the people to maintain
the integrity of the nation in all its
flllness and strength. Having few
years since given the lives of their
children and their treasures to the
vindication of it against disorganiz-
ing theories, and traitorous out
breaks, they do not now mean to sur
render the grand conquest of the war
to the Vaccinations of politicians and
domestic enemies. What Grant
meant to the common mind was the
Union, which he had done so much
to preserve in his soldierly career,
and which in spite of some short
comings and mistakes, he was still
laboring to perfect and strengthen in
his civil administration. The con-
soidation, the harmony, the organic
supremacy of the Union, was the first
great issue of the campaign, which
over-rode all others, and deserves its
particular prominence.
Year: 1872

BY ALICE CARY.
The rust is over the red of the clover,
The green is under the gray;
And down the hollow, the fieet-winged swallow
Is flying away and away.
Fled are the roses, dead are the roses,
The glow and the glory done,
And down the hollow, the steel-winged swallow
Flying the way O'the sun.
nplace of Summer, a dread newcomer
His solemn state renews;
A crimson splendor, instead of the tender
Daisy, and the darling dews.
But oh! the sweetness, the full completeness
That under his reign are bOrnI
Russet and yellow in apples mellow,
And wheat and millet and corn.
His frosts so hoary, touch with glory
Maple and oak and thorn;
And rising and falling, his winds are calling
Like hunter through his horn.
No thrifty sower, but just a mower,
That comes when he is done,
With warmth a-beaming and gold a-gleaming,
Like sunset after the sun.
And while fair weather and frost together
Color the woods so gay,
We must remember that chill December
Has turned his steps this way.
And say, as gather the house together,
And pile the logs on the hearth,
Help us to follow the light little swallow,
E'en to the ends of the earth.
Year: 1872

That was very touching incident
that of the little school girl, who
refused to define the word "clown" as
"a low, vulgar fellow" and for her
stubbornness was punished with the
ferule and detained in play hours, all
to no reformatory end. The little
child's father proved to be a clown in
q circus.
Year: 1872

Two fifties arrange in a line if you please,
| With five in the middle which is fanked by two


Els,
Something even and straight will be plain to your
eyes,
Which the slang of the day to the head oft applies
Year: 1872

Young folks should be mannerly.
How to be so is the question. Many
a good boy and girl feel that they can
not behave to suit themselves in the
presence of company. They feel tim.
id, bashful, and sef-distrustful, the
moment they are addressed by q
stranger, or appear in company.
There is but one way to get over this
feeling and acquire easy and graceful
manners; that is to do the best they
can all the time, at home as well as
abroad.


Good manners are not learned from
arbitrary teaching, so much as ac-
quired from habit. They grow upor
us by use. We must be courteous
and agreeable, civil, kind, gentleman
ly and womanly, at home, and ther
it will soon become a kind of SECOND
nature to be so everywhere.


A coarse, rough manner at home
begets a habit of roughness which WE
can not lay off, if we try, when among
strangers. The most agreeable per
sons we have ever known in company
are those that were perfectly agree
able at home.


Home is the school for all the bes
things, especially good manners.
Year: 1872

Oh, whence comes it? Why is it2 Wherefore, and


what is it?


Shifting the lowly, nor sparing the high;
Worse than the Rinderpest, the sheep-rot is 1t.
Never to cease till the horses all die;
What shall we do for it? What is the best
Cider, warm blankets, or plenty of rest?
Low is the head that so proudly was rearing
And dropping the neck that was curved In his


pride,
Dimmed the fierce eye, and deadened the hearing,
Faint throbs tine once wildly pulsed purple tide.
Snake down his bedding spread the clean straw;
Mix him draught; he no longer can draw.
Nobly he toiled on the route to East Boston,
Or whirled the swift Car DER the Roxbury line;
Strike now the car bell its notes will be lost on
The ears that are chilled and give back no sign.
Disease has now marked him; his powers are


fled;


Care for him kin1ly-he yet is not dead.
Mix the bran mash! If yon ever would use him,
Stir it as never You stirred it beforei
We learn to esteem him in fearing to lose him
Bring the hot water, and steam him some more!
ThereI de is better now;-sponge off that


lip


Harness him up again. Get down the whip


R. CsC.
Year: 1872

The savages, too, perceiving his object,
used their knives upon it; but after two
days of constant, maddening labor, they
had scarcely removed a splinter from
the rock, and gave the effort up as hope
less.


Still Joseph Provencio survived
through all, as if it was intended that
his punishment should reach the Utmost
limit. Only once Don Roman left his
sight or ceased his exultation over his
sufferings, and that was when he visited
the settlement for supplies; and during
all those maddening days no force of
Apaches passed through the ravine or
came to their relief.


On the eighth day all within that ter
rible chamber were lifeless except
Joseph Provencio. He pleaded for a
single drop of water, a single crumb of
bread, that the avenging father left al
most within his reach he pleaded for
mercy and deliverance, and at last, on
the tenth day of his awful burial alive
he expired.


Peralta returned to the settlement
and induced party to accompany him
into the ravine to witness the truthful
ness of his narrative. He led them to
the awful tomb of the murderers, and
when they beheld the sight within it
they fed from the scene, feeling that
henceforth double terror would, in their
minds, surround the Cajon de Nacosari.
Year: 1872

| dered how any one could want to live
there. The little girl wondered too, but
her father told her they would soon
come to pleasanter streets, and would
see many beautiful houses.


At length, in turning a corner, the
wagon .jolted SO hard that poor Pink
Clover, when she was tossed up, did not
ceme down on the grass again, but right
in the dirty street. No one saw her
fall. She lay there, and the wagon
passed out of sight. Not even to be
eaten by horse" she sighed. Unjust
wither, and be trampled on by careless
feet"


Several hours passed, and the little
bunch of clover lay fading in the street.
The hot sun beat down upon her; the
dust blew over her; but she had not
been stepped on.


A boy came along the street. His
clothes were clean, though patched and
old. He looked sadly down as he walk
ed. When he reached the corner
where Pink Clover lay he saw her
His face frightened; he stopped and
picked her up. {" Poor little BLOSSOM"
he said, and walked on, holding her
tightly in his hand.


He turned out of that street into
one still narrower and dirtier. He en-
tered a wretched house, passed up the
stairs, and went into a small room. 1t
was clean, but very scantily furnished.
A sick girl was lying in the bed asleep.
Her hands were SO thin that every blue
vein in them was visible. Her mother
was bending over her. When the boy
entered she raised her head.


''How is sister," he asked.


"She is easier now," answered the
mother, "but she has been suffering
very much. She longs for pure air. If
she could have that she would live.


The boy held up the bunch of clover
blossoms. "I found it in the street,"
he said "it seems like my poor sister
fading away in the close city. 1 will
revive it if I can"


He placed Pink Clover in a glass of
cool water, and set the glass ON the ta1
BILE. He sprinkied some drops of water
over her, and she felt herself beginning
to revive. She held up her head, and
her fragrant breath stole into the room.


Soon the sick girl opened her eyes,
and saw the little blossoms. She held
out her hands toward them, and her
mother gave them to her. She inhaled
their perfume, and glad light came
into her eyes.


"Ohl dear mother she cried, "I
said if I could only have breath from
the country should get well, and God
has sent it to me in these little flowers"


Then the little clover knew that,
through unthought of ways, she had
been brought to fulfill her mission;
that when she lay unheeded in the dust
she had been coming nearer and nearer
to the work of cheering a human
heart"
Year: 1872

How a PRAYER WAS ANswERED.-Last
Summer, with my wife and children, and
a careful driver, at ten o'clock at night |
was creeping up gorge in the Green
Mountains, behind pair of high-spirited
horses. On one side was a declivity of
four or FIVE hundred feet, as | well knew.
and on the other one of eight or ten feet
at least. 1t was actually so dark that /
could not see my hand before my eyes, for
[ tried it, | could neither see the horses
nor the road.


4 little deviation from the track would
plunge US down the terrible declivity. 1t
was situation more than usually serious.
At last l closed my eyes, and prayed as
always do when feel that [ have done all.
and with this can feel there Is nothing
more for me 20 DO. [ prayed that God
would not only save Us from evil, but
from the fear OF it.


How long [ may have been doing it. |
do not know, but as l opened my eyes the
soft, white food of the light of an aurora
borealis had crept over every thing, a sor.
Of pale, supernatural light there lay the
road plain before Us, and we drove on as
merrily as though it had been day. There
was nothing supernatural in it. but it was
10 me as If | had heard the voice Of the
Son OF Man speaking 10 me.-C. H. Hill,
d. D.
Year: 1872

dropping wing and dormant energies be
slept on the fetid mass AMI amid the
oozing purrefaction. The blood. stiffened
by the frost, bound his feet to the remains
of the carcass: and onward was he borne
until the roar of the cataract thundered
on his ear He struggled for liberty; his
powers had been enfeebled with safety
his dropping wings were bound to the fro
zen blood his wild cries awoke the echoes,
he made frantic efforts TO throw off his
horrid companion looked up to the blue
heaven he had abandoned. 1t was too late ::
hurried over the rapid, he was sucked into
the boiling cataract, and dashed 70 destruc-
tion on the rocks beneath.


How does such an illustration find Its
analogy in human life His own iniqui
ty,' saith the Scripture shall take the
wicked himself, and he shall be holden
with the cords Of his SIN" There is deep
and awful mystery in the downward
progress of souls, when he who once was
the master Of sin becomes the '' slave of
sin. Alas, there are scores of men in
every neighborhood who would give all
they have to begin life again. There was
a time when they never intended to be
vicious but step by step they lowered
themselves. Shame, truth, self-respect
died. The lowest elements of their nature
first were freely INDUCED, then became
importunate, then exacting, then domi-
neering, then uncomfortable.


Dear young man, the pride of a mother,
the hope of a father, with an intensity of
yearning love l conjure you to pause ere
you 20 into the way of sinners. If your
feet have turned aside, retrace, beseech
you, your steps Your strong = l will
now may, through Gods mercy. turn you
from the pit of infamy. But soon weaker
will be your will, DINNER your sense of
moral beauty, more desperate your pas
sions, till at length yon will feel bound, and
then find yourself borne over the rapids
lost and helpless wreck.
Year: 1872

JAPANEsE JUsIcE.-' In Japan, the
simple repression Of common offenses Is
marked with ferocity, from beginning tc
end the bloc hound Of the police falls
upon an accused person like vulture on
his prey The bamboo is the necessary
accompaniment of the examinations; the
indictment is presented at length to the
prisoner, and If he does not reply as the
Judge desires 4 rain of blows falls upon
his shoulders. Wo to him, if he be sus-
pected of lying, or of screening himself
by denials, La such a case he is made to
kneel upon pieces of hard wood and in
this position stone weights are piled upon
his thighs until the blood gushes from the
SKIN


In the eyes OF japanese Judge, the
accused is always held to be guilty. The
tribunal desires victims, and the police
agents are its purveyors Twenty to thirty
prisoners are brought into the hall of JUS
tice at the same time all wear the same
costume large mantle eff blue cotton,
and no other article of dress. As they are
not allowed TO shave or comb their hair, a
few days are enough 10 give them the ap-
pearance of filthy creatures, for whom one



would feel a sentiment of contempt or dis
gust They sleep crouched upon the flag
stones with which the prison is paved yet
those who arc able to pay may obtain from
the jallor one OF more mats and a wadded
covering. Rice Is their only food The
most absolute silence Is imposed upon them.
and this rule is only broken when one OF
their numbers has been condemned to death,
and the soldiers come to carry him away
His companions are then allowed to utter,
together and with all the strength Of their
voices, one long despairing cry after which
the silence becomes more horrible than
ever.


The punishmeuts provided by Japanese
law are ollyimprisonment acco m panied with
corporeal infections, or death The theft
of less sum than forty azibus (about
twenty dollars), is punished by branding.
In place of hot iron, the japanese make
use of lancet. with which they effect an
incision Of certain form on the left arm
and make it indelible with powder. The
prisoner thruSts his arm through hole il
the wall, and a surgeon in the next room
performs the operation. The branding
in the case of a hardened criminal, may
be repeated twenty-four times, but the last
marks are then made upon the forehead
Year: 1872

PARTING HAIR IN THE MIDDLE.-Effem
mate men have long considered it the thing
to part the hair of their heads in the mid
die, while, on the other hand, dashing
young women, given to masculine ways,
delight to appear with short curly hair
parted at the side. In both eases the par
ties show themselves in their true charac-
ter. 1t would be well if the law allowed
them to change costumes with each other
By Paris letter it appears that this
side parting is to be the fashion. We
doubt if, mainly because such a division
cannot be becoming unless long tresses are
sacrificed, and few Of the bellies will con-
sent to that. We do not deny that a hand
some girl adds to-ean we say her beauty?
no, rather her style-by parting her hair
at the side, but it gives such an air OF
fastness that we should not like the custom
to become general. We are Of the same
opinion in the matter as was the gentle.
man Of tilting hoops who said I" Well, |
rather do like filters, so long as they are
only worn by other fellows wives"
Year: 1872

How TO PUr Children TO BED.-Not
with a reproof for any Of that day ;
omission or commission. Take any other
time but bed time for that. If you ever
heard little creature signing or sobbing
in its sleep, you could never do this. Seal
their closing eyelids with u kiss and a
blessing. The time Will come, all too soon.
when they will lay their heads upon their
pillows, lacking both Let them then at
least have this sweet memory of n happy
childhood, Of which no future sorrow or
trouble can rob them Give them their
rosy youth. Nor need this involve wild
license. The judioious parent will not 50
mistake my meaning If you have ever
met the man OF the woman whose eyes
have suddenly filed when a little child has
crept trustingly to its mothers breast, you
may have seen one in whose childhood 5
home dignity and severity stood waere
love and pity should have been. Too mucq
indulgence has ruined thousands of chill
dren, too much love not one.
Year: 1872

TO ruin a youth let him have his own
way: allow him free use of money suf-
fer him to 90 where he pleases on the
Sabbath day; give him free access to
wicked companions call him to no ac-
stated employment. Pursue any one OF
these ways, and you will experience a
most marvellous deliverance if you have
not to mourn over debased aud ruined
child Thousands have realized the sad
result. aud have gone mourning to their
graves.
Year: 1872

1t is worth while to know how 10 stop
bleeding from the nose when It becomes
excessive. If the finger is pressed firmly
upon the little artery which supplies blood
TO the side Of the face affected. the result l.
accomplished. Two small arteries. branch
ing up from the main arteries on each side of
the neck, and passing over the outside of
the jaw-bone, supply the face with blood.
II the nose bleeds from the right nostril,
for example, pass the finger along the edge
Of the right jaw till the beating of the ar
terry Is felt. Press hard upon it, and the
bleeding viii cease Continue the press
ure five minutes, until the ruptured vess el
in the nose has time to contract.
Year: 1872

In London a thoroughly competent gas
Inspector Is appointed by the government,
who is entirely Independent of the gas COM
panies. 1t is his duty to report upon the
illuminating or candle" g" power of the
gas furnished and if it is below the pre-
scribed standard, the delinquent company
IS compelled to pay a heavy fne. The
inspector does his work fearlessiy, aud the
result IS apparent in the high Illuminating
power of the gas. Some of the London
companies take pride in keeping their gas
up to the maximum power required of
them. What we want is certain quantity
Of light, not a certain quantity of gas. In
a recent article upon this subject the Scj-
eltifc American very justly remarks
" light is the article we ought TO pay for,
and the only correct measure Is the pho
tometer, not the gas-meter." The more
diluted the gas Is, the more readily 1t Is
consumed, and the gas-meter may Indicate
a large consumption, while but little light
has been afforded. So long as gas is sold
by the cubic foot great opportunity Is
given for adulteration. Those who manu-
tacture gas always have competent chemists
in their employ, and they know how to
furnish abundant light with gas Under
certain circumstances, and when the wea-
ther is very cold. a richer gas Is made.
which will bear the condensation of hydro
earbons without too great = loss IN illuminat-
ing power
Year: 1872

THG HELPLESS VIcTM--I have read
somewhere Of an eagle in the far West.
Soaring with steady wing, he saw far below
him the grand scenes of American nature,
clothed in the first SHOWS of early Winter


As he rose higher toward the blue heaven,
his keen eye saw floating on the distant
river, whose margin was already frost
bound, the carcass OF huge buffalo. He
paused in his upward fight descended to
settle and revel on this feast of corruption.
He was borne calmly down the stream
toward the fall and the rapids which lay
below Gorged with his foul meal, with
Year: 1872

Some wags were walking around an
agricultural implement store, and they
CHANGED to see, in the rear, a dressed hog
hanging by hook to the wall Ha ha
ha cried they to the young man in at
tendance, what sort of an agricultural
implement do you call that That, said he
is patent combined root-grubber, corn
shelter, apple-grinder, gate-lifter, double
action, back-spring sod plow but guess
you won't want one, for it takes a mighty
smart man to manage 'em.
Year: 1872

The Tribune in an admirable editorial
on Agassiz, quotes the story of a shrewd
agent who tried vainly to buy the great
naturalist for winters lectures. " Why.
sir, you will make more money than by
ten years of this work, F." he reasoned. " But
L have not the time TO make money" said
Agassiz. In this short sentence is ex-
pressed the whole of that great sermon
which Americans most need
Year: 1872

woman ever seen in Washington and the
other day the constancy of ten years was
rewarded by quiet wedding at George


town. So runs the story. perhaps it IS


exaggerated, as such stories usually are 1:


but it is pleasant enough to deserve telling.