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Year: 1873

them that he would regulate their pay
according to his own ideas of fitness,
would have been an act for which he
would have been rouhdly denounced;
and though this interference was richly
deserved in this case, the question Of it's
propriety is very serious one. Tne
President is not elected to guard the
people against their owl, representa-
Gves, but he is to " take care that the
laws are faithfully executed." Although
he is clothed with extraordinary power
which, upon occasion, he can exercise,
it may we'll be doubted If it would be q
proper time to interpose his veto where
the subject Of an act related simply to
the pay of members of Congress- q
matter which is LEFT. by the Constitution
entirely under their own control and
subject to their own regulation. 81


So far as his own salary is concerned
it is fair to presume that, if Sa5, 900. was
a reasonable salary at the foundation of
the Government, $50, 900 Is not uhrea.
sOnable now. The salaries of other Off
GERS have been doubled and trebled,
while that of the President has remained
the same. It is even now not the half
of what is drawn by high officials in Eu-
rope, and great country like this
ought not to be too niggardly with its
chief executive. Besides, the Presi-
dents salary was not retroactive; there
was no grab of back pay in his case,
the increase only applying to the fu-
ture. 80. ~ -e-4..


In view of these facts, we do not think
the Presidents course calls for censure
or resolutions of condemnation, no mat
ter how muehew may wish that some
power had interviewed to prevent SO dis
graceful q consnInnation as the passage
Of the retroactive salary clause.-Inter-
Ocean,
Year: 1873

Life insurance means honesty for some
men and policy for many more. In no
other way can they pay their debts, or
obey the apostles charge that man
provide Tor his own and especially those
of his own house."


But good as is life insurance, farm in
surance IN the shape of lands sold ON
ten years credit is better.


Both give great prize in return for
number OF small annual payments. Blu.
farm insurance gives that boon in the
midst OF life insurance only at the end
OF 1t. One gives it for man himself to
enjoy, the other only for his heirs One
performs, the other promises


Death" said an Irishman, sis no
great curse for it always comes just
where we would have it, at the end of
life and never at the beginning" But
this is more than can be said of life in
surance, for its blessings come at the
wrong end of life, not, like death and
farm insurance, at the right end.


Besides, in farm insurance the pay
ments are nine or ten, bat in life insur-
ance they may become so multitudinous
that they will amount to several times
the value of the prize drawn at last The
one is a lottery, the other square deal
ing.


Again, farm insurance gives you in
the outset mine which pays for itself,
for out of 1t you can dig not only a liv-
ing but gold for all payments Life in
surance makes no such pretensions. 1t
is all post naortuna-and nothing ''in the
living present. In this aspect life in
surance resembles the patent Tantalus of
Sydney Smith. That reverend Joker had
a bag of oats hung before the tongue of
his carnage. The horse hearing the oats
rattling Just ahead, would rush forward
with all his legs, yet could never quite
thrust his nose into those dainties. On
the other hand farm insurance gives
mess OF grain before the journey begins,
and all along many batting to prepare
for each hard pull before the home
stretch


Nor is this all. What life insurance
promises is fixed sum. But the land
given by farm insurance is always grow
ing i'll value. Less than forty years ago
the whole area of Iowa could have been
bought for forty millions of dollars. It
was sold by the United States for less
than that. To-day it would bring moro
Than ten times that sum.


Give me then first farm insurance.
and then life insurance.


Within thirty-three months. the Great
Western Farm Insurance Company, alias
the Burlington 81 Missouri River rail-
road company, have sold along their
line, in Iowa and Nebraska, 1898 acres
to 4,525 purchasers, on ten years credit,
and six Per cent. interest. They now
require no payment on the principal till
the end offour years after purchase.


Farmer! are you insured?
Year: 1873

Some farmers have been made believe
that man cannot dispose of his property
of his free will as soon as he has become
a Granger Now, the facts are this; a
Patron has as much control over his own
grain or stock as he had before he was a
member of the order, and has the priv
ilege of selling them to who he chooses,
the Grange not controlling his actions in
that respect whatever.


The benefits he derives from his con-
nection with the order as to this matter
are his better information as to the pros
poets of markets, best places of buying or
shipping off stock and of acting collect
lively with neighbors and brothers, for
the disposal of their produce" to the
mutual advantage of all concerned.
Year: 1873

We feel better We shall no longer
have to reproach ourselves with having
been the cause of driving Zimmerman. of
the Warsaw Union, out of the EDITORIAL
Association. He has returned, and is an
affiiating member. So we suppose, at
any rate the Union was represented in the
excursion to Duluth, Bismarkr &c. We
never entertained particle of ill will for
the editor of the Union.
Year: 1873

Strange things happen in Indianapolis.
A police officer arrested his mother in


law, one night last week, and had her fin-
ed by the Mayor, for disturbing the
peace. 1t seems that another son-in-law
OF the old woman was playing seven up,
i'll saloon, with the saloon keepers wife,
and the old lady finding him engaged in
this childish amusement, tried to per-
suade him to go home to his wife, by
breaking pitcher over his head The
officer who made the arrest paid the fine.
Year: 1873

"a lady remarked the other day that
she wished we would say something in
our paper about the ill-mannerlv men
of this place who are in the habit of
blockading the sidewalks of an evening
SO that ladies can not pass without GO
ing wav around them. She says the men
and boys will pile down on boxes and
chairs, in front of stores. on the side
walks, and act as though they would
rather die than to moye one jot or title
to let woman pass along on the walk.
She says if there is law to abate a
nuisance of this kind, she hopes the
Marshal will have enough respect for the
ladies to put it in force"


That did not happen in Plymouth; but
the Hoosier State, published in Newport,
is responsible for the news.
Year: 1873

DAILY INTER OCEAN-In another col
umn will be found an advertisement of
the Daily Inter Ocean, one ofthe most re-
liable and enterprising newspapers in the.
west Subscribers for the REPUBLICAN, can
have the REPUBLICAN and the Weekly In
ter-Ocean sent to them for So per year.
Year: 1873

The city of South Bend is without the
protection of night police. A man was
murdered there on public street, a few
nights since, and the murderer escaped.
The Register advises citizens to protect
themselves against the roughs and thieves
that now infest that once peaceful town..
Year: 1873

Two horses were stolen from citizen
of indianapolis for years ago One day
last week the property was recovered
near Columbus. They had been stolen
by two negroes and taken to Columbus,
where they were sold at auction.
Year: 1873

SAFE.-A safe is not always safe 1t is
certainly not safe to start down pair of
stairs, one step ahead of a 4000pound safe,
especially where the inclination is great,
and no impeachment in the way of the safe.
1t is unsafe for the stairs, and for the fold
ing doors at the bottom of the stairs. So
we thought, and so good many others
thought, when M. A. o. Packard's safe
went crashing through the timbers as it
tumbled headlong down the hall stairs Of
Balcony block, last Friday morning. The
men who held the rope felt burning sem
sation in their hands, as the rope attach
ed to the safe ran rasping through their
palms, and Linconhelt wanted to know
if any one else was struck, as lie got up
with an abrazed knee Noah Laudeman
had sensation of pain where an iron
hook caught him in his pants. Woodward
thought the Balcony Halls safety was
pretty thoroughly tested, when the huge
iron mass landed on the front door sill
without So much as jarring the building.


The only injury done to the safe, was
displacing one of the wheels. 1t now re-
poses in Dukes drug store, where it will
receive portion of the treasure of the
First National Bank of Marshall County.
Year: 1873

A PREsENT-We have acknowledged
the receipts Of presents of almost every
thing that is raised in the garden or or
chard, or is manufactured by the skill of
mechanics, and occasionally a merchant
has presented US with some of his valua
BILE goods, as token of his friendship for
the editor; but were never presented
with an elephant until last week. A
friend sent us nice basket full of the
prettiest little sleeping kittens we ever
saw; but we could not keep them. We
could not bear the idea OF turning off our
old cat, Topsy, after years of faithful SER
vice, and her six little innocent kittens in
their helplessness that had never yet OPEN
ed I'll cir eyes to this sinful world, to give
place to strange cats, however beautiful
they might be. Our means would not al
low us to keep dozen cats. We were
obliged to decline the present.
Year: 1873

This is neat, elegant, little Open-face Silver
Watch-a real gem in itself. 1t is correct time
piece, and recommends itself by its unique design
no less than by its cheapness it only needs to be
seen to be admired; possessed to be appreciated.
Its cheapness is not of its worth for it is
superior in all respects to MANY Watches of much
greater cost Order one, and if it does not snit you
you can dispose of it at nice profit


That country purchasers may act understanding
ly, will send either of these Watches by express
to be examined before purchasing, provided the APP
plicant will remit with his order the sum of Fifty
Cents to cover charges. This is an offer which
certainly no one who desire nice cheap Watch can
object to,


Topersons who would like to engage in very
profitable business the sale of these watches offer
rare opportunity. No discount is made to such,
but nevertheless large profits can be realized.
All orsiers should be addressed to


j. ii. HARVEY,
Drawer 1881, Cincinnati, Ohio.


july 17-3m
Year: 1873

So far as the new party movement in Ohio
looks to an abandonment of the field by the
old Democracy, or offers to the Democratic
party way out from the shadow of q bad
record and a bad name, while affordirg at
the same time an opportunity for Republicans
dissatisfied with the policy and the leadership
of their own party to combine and make ef-
fective their opposition, it is deserving Of en-
couragement. SO far as it offers good nomi-
nations and evinces determination to uphold
its principles it deserves success. The plat
form adopted is, in the main, well enough,
but unhappily the country has lost con-
fidenee in platforms. 1t is so easy for
bad party to adopt good platform
for an unfaithful and dishonest party to
put forth double-faced and tricky reso-
lutions, or to promise squarely what they
have not the slightest idea Of fulfilling, that
the people have come to consider platforms
as of the slightest possible account-the merest
lumber of politics. A convention may resolve
till all is blue and it amounts to nothing
binds no one; it has no responsibility; the
politicians have always understood that; the
people are beginning to get hold of it. Reso-
lutons are very pretty reading and that's
all. When your political party comes to the
responsibility of legislation it finds the crystal
lizing of the abstract resolution into the con-
crete statute not so easy thing to do.


The ticket nominated at Columbus is upon
the whole a fair one. The candidate for
Governor is q Democrat of sterling integ
rity, who has the esteem and confidence Of
the people of his district; the candidate
for Treasurer is one of the weathiest and
most trusted financiers in Southern Ohio; and
the candidate for Lieutenant Governor. is q
gentleman of ability and culture, who was a
soldier during the war and served gallantly.
Whether the ticket or any portion of it win be
adopted by the regular Democratic Con-
vention yet to be held remains to be seen.
Nor is it really matter of much Importance.
The trouble with this, as indeed with all new
party experiments, is in the impatience of the
leaders for immediate success. They cannot
wait to grow, but must attempt some combina-
ton OF offer some inducement for alliances
which they think will send them forward at
once to victory, but which in fact only fetters
and impedes their growth.


The result of this experimentation it is only
an experiment-cannot now be predicted. It's
chief significance is in the restessnsas under
the existing condition of affairs which it IN
dcates and thei universal reaching out for
some way of escape from present and i'm
pending evils. The comments upon it are
various, as will be seen by extracts from
prominent journals cnncerning it published
Year: 1873

With this 1st day Of August comes the
chance to most professional men of the years
holiday. lie beau Monde, as fashionable New
York delights to call itself, left town long
ago for crowded hotels on mountains or sea
beaches. There it puts on ball dress, or
tourist rig, or fantastic sailor clothes,
but shows the same face through all;
dances, drinks, CANDLES; drives its bargains
in marriage, peddles its gossip of scandal {;
covers life with false color and glitter, until
the monde bears the same relation to its real
work k-a-day world that the TRANSPORTATION
scene of the Black Crook-all spangles and
red lights and gauze-fringed hOuris in sylvan
caves-dOes to the bare boards of the side
scenes and the skinny old ballet women whom
the daylight is let in.


Our better society Of men and women who
have culture as well as wealth have gone also
to their country seats-to Newport, or Europe.
Has not THE TRIBUNE been preaching the
same sermon for years about their annual
fitting; how that it was the most wholesome
sign of good sense and enlightenment in our
people, how that the educated man went back
every Summer to Nature to obtain strength
and rest for the fight of the rest of the year,
while the newly rich or their vulgar imitators
hustle and mass and perspire together at springs
or seaside, to show their own pomp or ape that
of their neighbors. But there are hosts OF
city people with culture and fine tastes who
grind their brains to make their bread the
year through and have neither time nor
money to spare for Europe or long tours of
any Sort Their usual course Is, as they
cannot have the full loaf. to disdain
any crumb of real comfort and, packing
their lounging suits and claw-hammer
armor, to waste their brief holiday
in strolling the beach at Long Branch,
or following in the wake of the mob and the
photographer up the Adirondacks, looking for
mythical deer or hypothetical trout Our ad-
vice to them is to sink civilization wholly for
tbeE ten days OF fortnight, Leave the saOD
Year: 1873

at home, whether that shop smell OF pills OF
printers ink, briefs or palettes. They VIII
lose nothing by being ignorant for week or
two of the end of the last murder trial or
the fate of Jones's picture.


II will be wholesome discipline for them to
live among people to whom these things are
of less import than the killing of the bossy
calf or the yield of tho oat-held. Let us
enlarge our boundaries. Take some note
that there is world outside our ONCE
or parlOr windows. Not only our mus
cles will grow in the operation, but our blood
will redden, the rasped, irritable brain heai'
eve and hand respond more readily to the voices
calling Brother to us from the one side or
the other of tho way. Novelty OF scene,
occupation, OF thought is what the oyerworked
brain needs; if we can find 1T III LaDrador
OF the tropics the luckier we; but II not, IL
is not TO be despaired of nearer home. Ten
hours travel off the usual railroad routes VIII
exchange New-York streets for absolute
solitudes of mountains or yellow sea
beach. Here shall the clerk with his
leaden skin and feeble pulse, and his
busy, stinting wife, waken to the sough OF the
wind through pine forests instead OF the mix
mans bell and bring their trout from roaring
mountain brooks for breakfast instead of stale
porgies from marble market slabs. Here be
gray rocks piled in dire confusion to the
skies; gorges where the fox and wolf
yet hide in safety; valleys carpeted
by MOSES and lichen which have
grown untrodden by human feet since the
Delaware was driven from his hunting ground;
hero the mountain laurel throws a blush
through all the gloomy woods with its shell
pink blossoms; here in the lonely hamlets are
aged men who reverence James Buchanan as
sagest of statesmen, who look upon the civil
war as an altogether inferior occurrence to
the whisky insurrection, and matrons who
shall sell you butter sweet as the honey Of
Hymettus at ten cents pound.


1t cannot but be wholesome for soul and
body even to know that such things are,
Arcadia puts on a local habitation thereafter,
and there is a timetable by which we go to
it. 1t is not only the contact with solitary
nights or melancholy forests which will be
mental or moral medicine for us it is the in
sight into phases Of human nature impossible
in fumace-heated houses or gas-lit streets
This mountaineer or fisherman differs as far
from the wide-awabe citizen as though he
were Esquimaux or New-Zealander. We
shall teach him nothing, most probably; he
and his father and his son were cast in the
same mold of unmalleable metal. But we,
knowing him and his haunts, will find our
horizon widened, and come back rested,
calmed, and, if we are wise, better men.
Year: 1873

Here is another phase of the talk which
begins float through half the papers In the country In
the form OF quiet assumption that the third term
Ia inevitably up for discussion 1t comes from The Bos-
ton Saturday Gazette:


There are apprehensioDs some quarters that Presi
dent Grant will seek third term In the Presidency We
deem this TO be not at all improbable, especially since
tho salary OF tho Office has been raised 10 s present
double proportions. That no will be elected too many
shrewd observers inclined 10 believe as not unlikely
commercial reyus0n would probably DO fataI 70 his
prospects, but commercial reyusiOn seems no more "a
be apprehended In the three years than 10 was IN
the three that have past The mOneyed interest OF te
nation turned the scale In favor OF President Grant,
last year. III IL not altogether satsned
with his financial policy dreaded the operation Of any
change In this respect II argued that this interest
quite likely 10 have the feeling in 1915, at which
time the chances that the Republicans viii have 40
other Presidential candidate upon whom they unit1
with the that he viii succeed with the people,
The 0cehoders and the Office pectants will therefore
rally tho Presidents standard again. aud the money
power, dreadng what may be the effect OF a DaBge OF
policy will support him as against an opposition caDdi
date. THIS would give him. what no other President has
ever had twelve years term In office


The Gazette protests against the idea that the President
IL elected for third term would seek to make his posi-
ton perpetual and closes with the sharp set decara
ton that there far danger that he would degrade
form Of government than that he would destroy It,
Year: 1873

Controller Green recalls one of the old
armory swindles to give notice that he means
to contest the payment of the rent under a
lease which allows the lessons for one-fourth
of the armOry building rental equal to a
third of the assessed value Of the whole prop
erty. We think Mr. Green's refusal to pay
such bill will find very nearly unanimous
approval.
Year: 1873

Marvellous is the gastronomic senstiveness OF man
kind We mentioned the other day the protest of a
German against The Spectators sneers regarding
sauerkraut in particular and German cookery in
general Now both Spectator and German fall under
the scorn Of Frenchman, who considers the cul-
nary remarks of one and the criticism of the
other to be characterized by presumption almost
sublime. He asserts that he does MT know which is
the more ridiculous, the bold Britsher or the Ger
man who attempts to instruct the world in the gas
tronomic art. lie thinks it as absurd as that two
deaf people should talk of music, or two blind men
crticso a picture. He has attended the cookery
course at Kensington; "peine lperdHp he exclains.
Whats the use of explaining to people that an
omeette ought to be light and savory. when they
prefer 1t all dried up and toughW And 50 he goes
on. with fine disdain of the ponderous sort OF
cookery. Ii this kind of thing continues, the peace
Of nations will certainly be disturbed rather let us
have tho sourest Of kraut, the most leathery of
omelettes
Year: 1873

Another cherished belief gone! We are now told,
at day which is certainly rdiculously late, that
the Car of Juggernaut, so far as the crushing of
voluntary victims is concerned is humbug. DR..
Pringe writes to The London Times that the deaths
inflicted by the Car are entirely due to accident
though the native priests have sort of objection
to such accidents being exceedingly glad when they
occur 1t takes crowd of 1900 1900 devotees to
drag the monstrous Car, with its sixteen huge
spiked wheels and confused and entangled in the
four or five long ropes which they hold, many of
these poor wretches naturally fall and crushed
out of life under those great wheels. Since an
English Commissioner ordered nets to be fixed to
the Car for the protection of the people the deaths
have become fewer. For the sake of humanity, we
arc glad to know that these barbarous performances
have not been voluntary. But what, we ask, is to
become of all the primers and primary Biographies
to which Juggernaut has so long been precious
boon of picturesque awfulness.
Year: 1873

The old dispute over the alleged unfairness
and extortion Of railroad freightng rates is
renewed. We print in another part of The
TRIBUNE statements made by both sides to the
controversy. The freighters, represented by
one OF two heavy firms are decided in their
charges of discrimination against New-York
interests and oppressive rates. On the
other hand, it is replied by some of the rail-
road agents that the rates are lower than
usual and that business is lighter than it has
been for years. There is wide difference in
opinion here. There can be no reconciliation
of these two great interests without candid
and frank conference. The revival of this
topic now is a preparation for the Fall trade.
We would be glad to hear that the various
parties interested had agreed to canvass the
whole question in a friendly spirit.
Year: 1873

Rather peculiar powers of eloquence Southern
clergymen must possess. Concerning recent Com
mencement sermon we are told that the minister
"seized upon the rens of eloquence, and drove his
flaming chariot athwart the very threshold of per-
fectionr He furthermore INDUCED in various illus
tratiye jumpings and gestures which were apparently
dispeasing to some of his hearers for the enthus-
astic reporter takes occasion to remark that with
him violent gesticulaton Is but the exuberance Of
his fervent and sensitive nature, and if nature bids
him leap as high as the summit of Mount Blanc in
the excitement of the moment, why should dignifed
proprlety command him to be put in the stocks |"
For no reason, we admit, save that the coming down
again after that pious Jump might be slightly ncon-
venient and painful.