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Year: 1873

There was a duke once who disguised
himself, and placed a great rock in the
middle OF the road near his palace.
Next morning peasant came that way
with his ox-cart. Oh, the lazy peo-
pie, he cried there is this big stone
lying right in the middle OF the road,
and no one will take the trouble 10 put
Il out of the way" And so Hans went
on raving about the laziness Of the peo'
pie. Next came q gay soldier along.
His head was held so far back that be
didn't notice the stone, so he stumbled
over il. He began 10 storm at the eoun-
try people around there for leaving a
huge rock in the middle OF the road.
Then he went on. Next came a COM
pany Of merchants. When they came
to the stone, the road was so narrow
that they had to go of in single tile on
either side. One OF them cried out,
Did anybody ever see the like OF that
big stone lying here all the morning,
but no one stopping to take 1t away
II lay there for three weeks, and no
one tried to take ii away Then the duke
sent around word to all the people on
his lanuS 10 meet nun near "heiS eh,s
rock lay as he had something TO tell
them. The day came, and great crowd
gathered. Old Hans, the farmer, was
there, and so we're the merchants. A
horn was heard, and splendid caval'
cade came galloping up. The Duke
came down from his horse, and began TO
speak to the people: my friends, it
was l who put this stone here three
weeks ago. Every passer.by has lett It
just where it was, and has scolded his
neighbor for not taking it out OF the
way" He stopped down and lifted up
the stone. Directlp underneath it was
round hollow, and in the hollow lay a
small leauthern bag, that all migat see
what was written on it; For him who
lifts up the stone" He united the bag
and turned it upside down, and out upon
the stone fell beautiful gold ring, and
twenty large, bright gold coins. So they
all lost the prize, because they had not
learned the lesson or formed the habit OF
diligence.
Year: 1873

When the first time of love is over,
there comes something better still.
There comes that other love; that faith
full friendship which never changes, and
which will accompany you with its calm
light through the whole of life. 1t is
only needful to place yourself SO that it
may come, and then it comes of itself
And then everything turns and changes
itself for the best.-Miss Bremen.
Year: 1873

The Hastings Home journal SAYS: The Free
Methodist Camp Meeting. About four miles
from Paw Paw, north, near the farm OF Mr. j.
Hungerford, assembled the Good Shepherds
and their locks, to worship in the tented grove
as has long been their time honored custom. We
wended our way to the scene and approached
in good hearing and seeing distance OF the
place Of worship and prayer. Now we believe
the christian religion to be good thing TO live
and die by. We enjoyed the sermon OF one OF
the ministers. on "lIoliness" but we were COM
pletely IN the dark as to what it meant 10 zee
nervous women lying on the ground land had
been for hours) in state of dun unconscious
ness. A little child ran up and threw itself on
its mothers breast and cried for her care, but
the mother did not recognize it, aud we were
told tina. "the Lord would work it all out for
the best" Perhaps it may be 20, but we fall
to see the practicability of working it out in
that way.


One poor girl nearly bind was urged on the
anxious seat aud the last we saw OF her sho
was IN mysteries. and the ministers we're laugh
ing and shouting glory to God in the highest,
It's all right" and right in tho rear and oil
around were numerous roughs anl rowdIes who
were witnessing the affair with great glee
and saying-"1t was good as a show. 1T is our
opinion that such exciting religious domonstra-
tlons are contrary TO the moral law Of nature,
and often work more harm than good II some
advocate Of that way OF grace, will explain the
columns OF the JOURNAL are open.


The coal pits. constructed Of brick, near Paw
Paw river IN waverly, are quite an institution
for the farmers in that section, giving them mar
kot for all their suplus wood at 1926 per cord,
they are kept constantly running, making char
coal for the l.awton iron works, night and day.
Year: 1873

and impoverishment of the Southern States
as was never felt on this Continent before


In spite, too, of an advance in wages quito as
formidable as tho English are now complain
ing of. When the arithmetcians Of the school
of Mr.. Wells labOriously calculate that the
wages of the Pennsylvania coal miner, which
are from five to eight dollars day, Will not
buy so many yards of brOadcloth as they
would thirteen years ago, they inyariaDiy omil
the effects of the war, the debt, the taxes, and
the paper money from their calculations. Ihey
prove that the coal miner has not, by two per
cent the same command of broadcloth that
he had in 1860, and they Immediately lay IL
all to the Protective tariff. Mr.. Wells, MN
self, is guilty of this fault in the very address
from which we have already quoted 80 many
times. Now, gentlemen, it's ofno use scoldlng Ihe
London Times for making unpleasant revelations
about the state of the British iron trade. lhls
country is every year making more and more
of the iron and cloth it needs for home con-
sumption. We are not yet quite ready, con-
sidering the state of the currency and the
Vaccinations of the man-eating gold gamblers,
to throw off the Protective duties. The time
is coming, however, when American manu-
facturers of iron and cotton and wool Will no
longer need them, and when that time comes
The TRIBUNE, true to its record of thirty
years. will advocate their removal. But we warn
our friends, the manufacturers, that though
John Bull shows some symptoms OF Old
age and disease, there is good deal OF vigor
in him yet, in spite Of his. groans over dear
labor and high priced coal. We are not afraid
of the old lion, but we would rather not put
our head between his jaws Just observe how
he switches his tail In grateful recognition,
however, of "the purity and disinterestedness
"of motivesn of the Free Trade manufacturers
of Great Britain, we ProtectiOnists will keep
this market open to them on present terms
little longer, and cheerfully supply the English
philanthropists with bullion, tobacco, flour,
grain, petroleum, and such other products of
ours, if there be any, which derive three
fourths of their value from the "gifts of Cod"
1t is better to sell such things than those
which derive value from labor alone, for it
is evident that in their production one days
labor goes as far as four days labor in the
commodities which Smith and Mill treat of.
So, with the consent of the Free Trade
prophets and apostles, we will continue the
experiment of Protection a little longer.
Year: 1873

The official report on the Wawaset disaster
leaves the origin of the fire still involved in
mystery. AS might be expected, however it
severely censures the officers for the utter
lack of judgment they evinced at the critical
moment, and the owners for carrying so many
passengers in excess of the legal number.
The suggestions that the woodwork near or
around the boilers of steam vessels should be
sheathed with iron, and that Inspectors be
required to see that each crew knows how 20
act in case of fire, are practical and judicious.
Year: 1873

The Supreme Court is at present agitated
over a Skye terrier case as remarkable as that
famous dog case in which Mr.. Caleb Cushing
lately appeared as plaintiff. The time of the
Court for the sixth day has been occupied in
considering the fate of the youthful offender
who, it was alleged, had stolen the animal.
Year: 1873

WHY PEOPLE DoN'T Go TO CHuRCH.
Why do not people go to church mOre9
One thinks it is this, and another thinks
II ls this, and another thinks it is that.
2 You can open church in q howell. and
let voice go forth that it has the power
OF touching men, and you will find it
crowded and thrOnged, You do not
want the cobs that used to have corn.
lhat which men want is sappy food, re-
freshing food, Men are willing to be
dealt with, to have their sins flashed in
their faces; willing to have their con-
sciences aroused, but do not want to be


handled: They want preacher that
takes hold Of them in some way, and, if
ne can, DO more than that; if he can give
to them that which every man conscious
~ needs-sOme men have aspiration, and
some more indulge in superficial
to bear his burden.


Men that are sore in life men who ara
IN sorrow women who don't know how
to bring up their children, and who are
continually having more and more ad-
ded to their flock, people who want to
know where the next hOd of coal is com
ing from; people who are afraid of tho
sherln; men who are pTieked with the
1O,O0O netties of human life-they come
to church and hear q long discussion on
the fall of Adam. Well, that is not
lnopportune, but still they're so Fat
themsel YES that they feel asif they would
like to know something that deadens the
struggle that is going on within them :;
they want some one who will take mart
with them, a minister who brings God
down to the side of men, not as an ever
lasting condemmer, but one who brings
sod down as present help in time Of
| trouble Henry Ward Beecher.
Year: 1873

FROM GERALD MAssEY's LECTURE ON
THE DEVIL.--1t is pitiable for you to
pray to God for His kingdom to come
on earth when y0u are doing all you can
to prevent it. You were sent here to
work for that purpose, and the reason
that it can not come is because you stand
in the way, merely standing and praying
with folded hands. The orthodox are re-
sponsible for helping the devil; their
false beliefs have been utterly opposed
to progress. Is Christianity Christ's
likeness? Instead of that it is but q
bastard Judaism. It is the apothesis of
self, each man hOpiL & to save his coward
" self by the sacrifice of another.
Christians get rich by grinding other
people down, and then hope to be saved
by another sacrifice made hundred
years ago. You build comfortable
houses for broken-down paupers to die
in, but you leave them to come to this
condition, breeding this disease which
you treat so generously. Surely no hu-
man being has been so much misinter-
preted as the man Jesus Christ. He
came not to preach sermon, not to write
a novel, but to live o life, life that is
an example to us. It was full-length.
straightforward laying down of his Iifo
for others. Instead of following that
example, we have actually rested all our
hopes of salvation on that death. We
have erected churches, splendid tombg
in which we have buried him. It is so
much easier to set up God for worship
at a far-Off distance. We have arrested
the wOr k of this world until we can agree
on an easy way to the next world. We
have erected beautiful statues to his
memory for the people to look upward
to, while We have been tilching the
ground from under our feet. We have
never yet begun at the true beginning.
Ihe reason, then, why God does not kill
the devil is because man has uncOp


sclousl y created all that is the devil,
which here and hereafter is constantly
destroying his own work.
Year: 1873

A homely old Kentucky widow dug
up 5000 in gold the other day, and now
twenty-One young men sit on her door
step at sundown and compare her ply
siognomy to the beautiful face Of an
angel.
Year: 1873

would have been relieved BY the deposits
Of bonds in the Sub-treasuries, and the out


flow Of greenbacks from the S44, 600, 900 re-
serve, and when money reached the low
rate OF 8 per cent. per annum, those whose
bonds were in the Treasury bearing inter-
est at the rate Of per cent gold interest
would certainly have returned greenbacks
and have withdrawn their bonds, thus CON
tracing the currency, and we should be
prepared to repeat the same movement for
expansion this autumn


Fhe foregoing is one of the notifications
OF our present currency system, which il in
believed will at no very distant day render
it the best system that the world has yet
known. A few other improvements sng-
gested may be commented upon at an early
day In these columns. But this measure
may be safely adopted alone. 1t has been
characterized BY leading daily paper Of
Chicago as "both conservative and progress
sive-" In discussing it, very influential
New York paper commended it as sin
gular proposition by which the Govern
ment was to save per cent interest upon
the bonds retired, while he who deposits
bonds would obtain money at a much
cheaper rate than he could obtain it in the
market, and the market would also be re-
heved." The proposition should command
the attention Of our Western members Of
Congress. 1t contains the element Of elias
ITCHY 50 much needed, it not only expands
the currency in times Of pinch, but it con
tracts It in times of plethora.
Year: 1873

native of England, and had given his name
as Conrad Markham


Sidney Vivian remained with Cecil Dare
for some time, and then having disposed of
the estates left him by his uncle at Dorset,
married a young lady in that place and
settled down at Denslow, near Cecil Dare's
residence. He never again heard from the
Indians, who, having secured the object Of
their journey to England, never returned
thither or communicated with their former
prisoner.


And SO our story ends in the complete
happiness Of those whose lives we're up
right and good, and in the punishment Of
the iniquitous and evil. The universal law
Of compensation has been demonstrated
here as in every human existence where
rectitude and morality ever brings just
reward, while an evil course is prolific Of
naught but sorrow and woe. Tending to
reveal the moral that he who endeavOrs to
profit by an assumption Of another's quail
tiles and wealth, but finds himself at the
last involved in disgrace and ruin, our story
leaves its characters as fate has disposed Of
them, and terminates in the restoration of
happiness and life to Cecil Dare, and to
those who suffered with and for him, and
the entire innocence Of Doctor Rodney in
any part in that Fatal Prescription. which
50 nearly brought to ruin family now
united in the bonds of perfect love and JOY.


THE END.
Year: 1873

There are at present in this city grea:
many SOurherners who took prominent
part in the late war. They are an indus
trious class, who succeed admirably in


business, and everywhere are treated with
the greatest respect and consideration. Our
people, am glad to see, do not ask whether
Southerner fought against US or not. So
long as he is competent and faithful, he
stands an equal chance with our own people
to obtain high rank in the professions or in
commercial business. and admission to the
most refined circles ef society in the city.


The above is clipped from the New
York letter Of our energetic young con-
temporary the Herald. by whom it is not
published, OF course. without due recog-
milton Of its significance. and Of the con-
trast it suggests.


Those Northerners as a people make no
pretensions to chivalry, yet here is an
instance of its spirit acted out simply,
grandly; so simply that they themselves
probably think nothing of it; so grandly
that II may serve as an example to the
whole country. and especially to this part
Year: 1873

Counsel can prove. and will do so, tha.
more than one o. .hej urymen were bribed.-
P.cGynNe.


4 sporting man offers to bet one hun
dred to one that counsel can not prove
anything Of the kind, and will take few
even chances that they never make the
attempt. He says if they will give him
small odds he viii wager that counsel do
not seriously intend to do anything fur
thez in the matter. unless it be to take an
appeal to the Supreme Court, and that is
very doubtful. For the SUM for damages
allowed Hawkins is ridiculously small,
and the appellate tribunal might raise It
ten Or twelve thousand.
Year: 1873

The Mobile Register is too 'shigh toned
to be of any use to itself or any body else.
As the Times stated. yesterday morning,
the old rebel fossil ''slops over with
gassy indignation because a hundred SEN
sible men Of New Orleans have had a
quiet business talk together upon matters
which concern themselves. Now, with a
proper degree Of Difference to our neigh
Dor, we submit tina: he gives too much
prominence to the old fossil organ. and
at the same time gives its inane vaporings
lift which they very much needed to be
known out Of Mobile. Without the as
sistance of the Metropolitan press, the
world. that is. the reading world, rarely
hears anything about the opinions Of
country editors. and it is good general
rule to observe TO reproduce only such
articles as have at least trace of sense in
them, and leave the numerous columns OF
nonsense to oblivion.


The outbreak Of the Register in the
present instance is in behalf OF 'the noble
women Of the So1th'' in general, and the
wives, mothers. sisters and sweethearts Of
the fifty white gentlemen who met like
number Of colored citizens in consultation
in particular. Thus. the impudent lunatic
has th> rnrontery cemand that tae
female men bers Of the families of these
gentlemen shall turn them out Of doors
for daring to talk in a sensible manner at
last. after years Of error, and now only a
few hours Of an evening and at
long intervals. We are not familiar
with the domestic customs Of Mobile, but
know enough about this city to inform the
Register that there is little probability OF
the occurrence Of his female tiutter here
In the first place, the New Orleans ladies
agree with their husbands upon all ques-
tions. Secondly, they are truly 'noble
women and refined ladies who are not in
the habit of making show Of themselves.
We hope the ladies Of Mobile are 50 like
wise, but We can not infer they are by
anything we can find in the Register. Per-
haps they have = better local expon ent.
We certainly hope so.
Year: 1873

"The Associated Press agent at Colum
bus, Ohio. is an industrious young man
and his dispatches always have the smack
Of live news" says the Louisville CONNER
eia,. "For instance, he sent us yesterday
the startling announcement that German
shoemaker in that city had been struck
dead with paralysis while sitting on his
bench. Now, if the worthy shoemaker had
been struck alive while sitting on, his par
alysis, or if the shosmaker's bench had
struck the paralysis dead, or it the paraly-
sis had struck tho Associated Press agent
dead, it might have been Interesting tothe
Southern press.a
Year: 1873

Suddenly on the afternoon Of Saturday


last. just when every injunction mill
| had shut down its gates for the week, and


the last departure for the lake side had


packed his carpet-bag for the evening


train, unifcation procession Of black


and white appeared at the intersection of
| Royal and Canal streets. They were
| armed with picks. shoveis and crowbars.


and Immediately commenced an assault


on the ime-honored pavement and preju-
dices Of that ar.stocratic and exclusive
quarter. All the defenders Of its ancient


privileges were absent, or appalled, at the


audacity Of the invasion. There was
not furniture dealer to protest
tina: i: was more important to the
city that his furniture vans should
be allowed to stand half across the
stree. than tina: 10000 people should


be compelled to so around by Rampant
and Esplanade to &c: from Washington
square to Canal street. The only faint
ripple Of discomfort: comes from notice


that the city is not to be held responsible
for any interruption Of private business
occasionsd by this important public work.


It is not only in the unwillingness Of
our Creole friends to accept the great
social and political changes which have
oyerspread the country. but in their gen.
eral objections to adopt many measures
Of public improvement, that the stagna-


ton Of the oldest and really the best part
Of the city is to be found. 1t is very sad
to see the best bull. hotel in the city
closed for years, and only opened for a
few months at a time. OF the best banking


house in the city used as a dance house;
to witness an elegant opera house subsist-
ing upon the charitable contributions Of
those who love the arts 50 we'll that they
would intermit q dinner to see play,
and 70 know tina. one Of the best
and brcades. streets in the city,


connecting with Canal street. should
be for more than halt its length unfit for
the residence of peaceable families. These
are all evils which citizens feel and de-
plore. To great extent we believe them
attributableto to the determined opposition
Of some. and the nnaided inability Of
others to adopt for the old part Of the
city all those improved modes Of business
which have been introduced elsewhere. 1t
has been. also. great error to suppose
that a Presidential election Will open those
Year: 1873

prove condition of things that never
existed as it was to call Pelagie Brown
into court. It was about the lamest de-
fense we ever saw brought into court Of
justice. and could not stand. The counsel
for the defendants are not to blame. They
made the best they could OF a weak case.
and ought to have yielded gracefully
when they saw they were defeated.
Year: 1873

The sexton of st. Joseph's Cathedral
at Vienna, being man of extraordinary
nerve and boldHess, was accustomed tC
stand on the pinnacle of the tower when
ever the Emperor made grand entrance
into the city, and wave flag as the
pageant passed by. When, however
Leopold, who had just been chosen
Emperor of Frankfort, was about tc
enter the city, the loyal sexton, still anx'
ious to be true to the old customs, but
finding that years had told against his
nerve, declared that any one who would
take his place successfully should win
his daughter. Gabriel Petersheim, who
was dislked by the sexton. but beloved
of the daughter, at once accepted the
offer, to the disgust of the sexton, who
then arranged with two villains to
close the trap.door of the upper
stairway while Gabriel was above,
thinking that, as the Emperor was
to enter toward evening, no one need
be the wiser, and the lad must certainly
fall before morning. The two accom-
plices did their foul work, and their in
tended victim, finding his way down
again, was then confronted with the al
terpatiVe of clinging to the slender spire
through q cold wintry night, with his
feet resting on 2 surface hardly ten
inches in circumference, or of precipl'
tating himself to the pavement at once,
and thus ending the matter Gabriel
was a youth of firm will and hardy con-
stitution. He clung to the cold column
till morning. But the story goes that
his oarling locks we're white as snow,
and his wonted rosy cheeks were yellow
and wrinkled, and his eyes, before so
bright, we're now sunken and din. One
night of horror had placed him forty
years nearer his grave.
Year: 1873

meaning Of the mystery. As the miner
had seemed to share her sudden terror
in the marriage ceremony and deserted
the scene so abruptly, there arose the
suspicion that he night have been recog
nized as one Of the robbers who had
pIundered the stage.coach. Such an in
cident would not have been impossible
in such place But that was not the
solution. After nearly seven years, the
lonely miRer OF Grass Valley and the
schoolmistress Of Gilroy had detected in
each other the deserted child.wife and
vagabond bridegroom Of the clandestine
marriage on Long Island.