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Year: 1876

sion quietly dispersed to their respective abodes, full of patriotism and other good things. and willing to assist at the plant ing of any number of centennial trees on the same pleasant terms.
Year: 1876

The New York Times, in speaking ol
the last attempt to explain Tilden's income
tax perjury and swindle says; "There
we are quite willing to meet him, and shall
with all the haste which the examination
of mass of legal and other records admit
of, prove that he has attempted to conceal
perjury by falsehood, and to hide fraud by
the arts of the pettifogger and the shy
ster."
Year: 1876

In the single act of funding three hun


dred million dollars of Government bond,
at four and one-half per cent, the repub
lican Secretary of the Treasury has made
vastly more actual saving than that OF the
entire six months session of the Demo
cratic House with all its boast and buster
And the saving made by Mr.. Morrill, is
true, real and genuine, while that of the
Democratic House is false economy that
amounts to an outrage in some instances
especially in the case of crippled soldiers
Year: 1876

Republican meetings are held under
disadvantageous circumstances in many
of the Southern States. The democrats
have a peculiar rule which they enforce
They take half the time of the meeting
for their speakers, and then insist that the
republicans shall say nothing agains'
Democracy the other half. This is wha
is called free speech in Mississippi ant
South Carolina.
Year: 1876

ness arising from them, are no less impor
tant to our mercantile classes than the
tropical staples of the other sections.
Steady business is essential in both, and
disturbance of the labor of the colored
people in South Carolina, Mississippi or
Louisiana, to an extent to interfere with
the tropical harvest there, is no less det-
rimental to the interests of New York,
Philadelphia or Baltimore, than failure
of the harvest of cereals in the West.
Unless period of prosperity and peace
be speedily restored, we must face general
bankruptcy. We cannot endure an in
crease Of present commercial disasters
Another year showing fifty per cent more
failures among merchants, would bring
upon us worse panic than any experienced
since 1857.


This campaign is not campaign of elo-
quence or spread. eagle oratory; but cam
paign of hard facts and of practical ques-
tions. If the election of the Democratic
ticket really means the Inauguration of
an era of retrenchment in public expendi-
lures, reform in public administration, and
reunion of allsections Of the United States
with due regard to the common interests
of all, and full development to the separate
interests of each section, the merchants of
the United States will support with might
and main the candidacy of the Democratic
nominees. If the election of Hayes and
Wheeler means continuance of ill-feeling
between sections, and the extravagant
schemes of taxation, and loose administra-
ton in public affairs which has recently
prevailed, the mercantile classes will as a
unit vote to rebuke the perpetuation of
the evils which have reduced them to al
most a general bankruptcy.
Year: 1876

"The thieves control these negroes, and
it was under their influence that they have
been arrayed against the whites. The
blacks and the whites stand face to face
as enemies-for THE NEGROES ARE
UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE
MOST VILLAIN0US SCOUNDRELS
that were ever allo,oed to disgrace great
and noble country. IfMerc can be any
thing worse than civil war it is the war Of
races; and these scoundrels have adopted
just the re'y means TO bring about such a
ioar. AT the head of the negroes are the
great thieves that rule the South, and rely
on Grant for support. The support is
given to them freely, and every possible
means has been taken to make them blind
instruments of the powers that be. The
Republican party is responsible for The
present condition Oft the South. will not
be a Republican to deliver the Southern
people over to THE WORST SET OF
SC0UNDRELS THAT EVER OBJ
TANNED POLITICAL POWERS. We
are fighting for the overthrow of a system


a system Of unconstitutional arrogance
Of poloer a system Of contempt of lals !;
system Of government by force. ASYS-
TEN OF PLUNDERING IN THE
SOUTH AND OF CORRUPTION IN
THE NORTH such a party, scsen 1t has
coIse to that, docs not deserve to lire"
Year: 1876

idea it is to exercise such power, and


that it is the earnest wish of the President


to render it unnecessary by those endeav.


orS which humanity or love Of peace and


tranquility and the happiness Of his fellow


citizens dictate, no lover Of his country


could witness this marshaling of troops


without apprehension but in the present


case the order of the Secretary of War d.


recting all the available force in the mill


tary division Of the Atlantic to immedi-


ately report to the general commanding at


Columbia, South Carolina, was issued sim


ultaneously with the proclamation of the


President, and the troops were set in mo-


ton before his summons to "disperse"


could have reached those to whom it was
addressed. To warrant action thus prompt,


on the eve of closely-contested election,


at the instance Of the Executive of State


himself a candidate, nothing but the plain


nest necessity, established by every re-


quirement of the law, could suffice; and


in this instance the alleged facts do not


make out case for intervention, nor is
the failure Of the Legislature to unite in
the application properly explained or ac-
counted for. These hindrances to the use
of military force are not formal. 1t is Of
the essence of free institutions that the
exercise Of power shall be hampered by
restrictions and clogged with conditions
nor can any case be suggested in which it
ls moro important than these checks and
Limitations shall be jealousy maintained
than in respect to the employment of
troops to put down reported tumults and


disorders occasioned by party excitement
on the eve of doubtful election. Our
institutions are not likely to be to be en-
dangered or overthrown by individual acts
of violence and outrage, however numer-
GUS and however worthy Of reprobation,
but they may be undermined and finally
destroyed, as Others have been before them,
by allowing violations of the law on the |
part of those in power to pass unnoticed
until they have accumulated into body |
of precedents, to be invoked as a warrant
for new and further encroachments. In
order, therefore, that the action of the
President in the present case may not be
hereafter cited as authority upon the
ground that it was sustained and approved |
at the time by public and professional opin-
ion, we have deemed it our duty to make
this public protest against it, and we do
hereby solemnly declare that in our judg-
ment as lawyers his proclamation and or
ders are in hagrant violation of the letter
and spirit Of the Constitution and laws of
Year: 1876

Hayes in Congress did all he could to
build up that corrupting system which has
demoralized our politics and public life,
led to extravagance, venality and yillainy,
and has brought the country to bankrupt
ey. Il is not question whether he pro.
fitted personally or not by this vicious leg
islation. He helped to fasten it and its
consequences on the people, and he can.
not escape that responsibility.
Year: 1876

it being proven that governmental extrav
agance has constantly increased under the
present Administration, it is impossible
that it should do otherwise than continue
to increase under the administration of
the chosen successor Of President Grant.
The farmers Of the country therefore will,
we think, cast their votes for Tilden and
Hendricks, reunion, retrenchment and
reform, low taxation and better profit to
the landowner.
Year: 1876

As 10 clothing, the invalid ought to
carry supplies of light and warm de-
scriptions, which may be required to
doff and don, often twice during the
day. Unless well wrapped and under
an awning, it is not advisable for very
delicate persons to leave the saloon at
ter sunset. During November and the
three following months, dew falls pro-


fusely at night all over the Valley of
Thebes after p. NJ. 1t is, however,
dispersed before A. NJ, and in the
form of fleecy cirri may be seen float
ing at high attitudes in an otherwise
clear and delightfully."- serene atmOs-
phere. The dew almost vanishes in
Nubia, above the First Cataract, in
consequence of the close proximity of
the desert to the river. Thus the eli
mate, from being moist, as in Egypt,
becomes exceedingly dry in Nubia.
Travellers sometimes sail at night when
the wind is favorable, but as time
ought to be no object, the preferable
plan is to halt at dusk and start
after breakfast. BY this means the
sick enjoy all the scenery, and are
saved the annoyance of the creakin2
helm at night. The boat should be so
placed that the morning sun will shine
on either the starboard or port side
for two hours before the patient ar
riyes in the saloon, the lattice windows
of which have been raised. and the ou-
ter curtain rolled up, the object being
to dispel the sharp morning air, by no
means an insignificant caution. But it
will be found that invalids with sus-
ceptible air -passages-and they consti-
tute more than one-half of the Winter
sojourners on the Nile-who have ex-
perienced the comfortless feeling of
getting out of bed and dressing with
Year: 1876

There is a homely proverb which
warns us against counting our chickens
before they are Matched. A beautiful
exemplification of the proverb is given
in the Arabian Nights, in the story of
Alnaschar; how he invested few cop
pers i'm basket of erockery and imag-
ined rapid sales and high profits REIN
vested, and prosperity and wealth flow
ing i'm upon him, until he was IN po-
sition to marry princess. While glOat-
ing over his imagined good fortune, in
that insolence of false pride which is
Alnaschar spurns his princess, and suit
ing the action to the thought, kicks
down the basket and smashes the crock
cry, which is his whole fortune in the
present as well as in the future.


Now it must, however, be said of the
imaginative Persian, that he speculated
entirely on his own capital. His success
was to be due solely TO his own efforts.
His folly ruined himself. but hurt no
body else. How very different would
have been the story of so sanguine a
gentleman of the present day? He
would have borrowed of everybody that
would have loaned money to him; per-
suaded those to endorse who had not
the money to lend; lived on the pro-
ceeds of his wits while he held his wares
ut ridiculous prices, and estimated his
own business capacity at marvellous
value, until the end came, which al
most inevitably comes to those who
trade on other peoples capital. This is
a story which the history of the day in
America tells us over and over again.
1t is a common fault with us to imagine
that we can manage other peoples mo-
ney better than they can do it them
selves. 1t is common error to under
take to do it. The results are seen in
the account of failures which annually
occur. 1t is estimated that in this coun-
try, the total number of business fail
ures, for the four years, lS12-3-4 and .
will foot up at the end of this year
about 22,OO0, and an Indebtedness of
S615 600, 900, that is, six hundred and
seventy-five millions of other peoples
capital, on which these twenty-five
thousand men nave been trying to get
rich, at other peoples risk. This is
something fearful, and bears terrible
testimony to the recklessness and eX-
travagance of the American people. 1t
must be taken, too. into consideration
that these are the failures only of b s.
iness men. No note is taken of the
hundred thousand mechanics and In
boring men who have also counted their
chickens too soon, but whose failures
are two insignificant todeservea a record
in the business world
Year: 1876





When hear the waters fretting,
When see the chestnut letting
All her lovely blossom falter down, think.
ALAS the day"
Once. with magical sweet singing,
BIackbirds set the woodland ringing
That awakes no more while April hours wear
themselves away.
In our hearts fair hope lay smiling
Sweet as air and all beguiling;
And there hung mist Of bluebells on the
slope and down the dell
And We talked of joy and splendor
That the years unborn would render;
And the blackbirds helped us with the story,
for they knew it we'll
Piping. fiuting. Bees are humming;
ApriI's here, and Summers coming,
Don't forget when you walk. man with
men, in pride and joy;
Think on us in alleys shady,
When you step graceful lady;
For no fairer days have We to hope for, little
girl and boy.


'Iaugh and play. o iispins waters
Lull our downy sons and daughters
Come, o wind, and rock their leafy cradle in
thy wsnderings coy;
When they wake Wen end the measure
With a wild sweet cry Of pleasure,
And Hey down derry. let's be merry, little
girl and boyi'
Year: 1876

an Egyptian north wind blowing


through the boat, will fully appreciate
this recommendation. Again, on the
downward voyage, when BOreas blows
sharply, the stern windows should be
covered with the satara, and the boat
allowed to drift stern foremost while
the patient is seated in the cOzy nook in
front of the saloon. A cOmfOrtless
boat, without satara, and full of
drafts from the badly fitting doors
and windows, Obliges the invalid to
shut himself up during windy weather,
and thus the full benefit Of the climate
is in a measure lost. The grand advan-
tage of the Egyptian climate in winter
is its daily serenity and sunshine.
However strongly the wind may blow,
a sheltered corner after breakfast time
will always be o sunny one. To per-
sons, therefore, with delicate lungs it
is a matter of no little importance to
be aware of this circumstance and to
be enabled at the same time to utilize
q few simple measures of protection
against the asperities of the weather.
The climates Of Upper Egypt, Nubia,
and the desert are, from their superior
dryness, far better suited for certain
lung diseases than the damp atmos-
phere of the Delta and cultivated
tracts of the low country much, how
ever, depends on the condition of the
patient, who must consult with his me-
dIcal adviser on this point. The eli
mate of the Nile Valley in Nubia is
much dryer than that of Lower Egypt;
while the sharp, bracing air of the Nu


bian Desert is often trying to the very
delicate. The experience of years
suggests to the patient that, provided
benefit is obtained by the voyage to the
First Cataract, he will do well to push
on to the second cataract, and tarry in
Nubia as long as the weather will per-
NIT. He may return to AssOwan to-
ward the end of February, and bask
for few days among the sunny creeks
of the rapids, where he will enjoy the
fine scenery and delightful climate.
Ii equal to the exertiOn, he can stroll
among Philla's interesting ruins, and
anchor the boat in the sheltered nook
just under the grand temple of Escu-
lapius-nO unsuitable place for the in
valid who feels the better for his Nu-
bian tour. Indeed. if his gratitude for
the art which has been the means of
suggesting remedial measures for his
good has any eccentricity he may nni-
tate the ancients, and there and then
sacrifice a cock at the Temple of
Health, where doubtless many an
ancient Egyptian had offered up simi-
lar OblatiOns.-Chambers's Journal
Year: 1876

"A very rich deposit of gold has
been struck in the Centennial lode near
Laramie City, W. I. At depth of 100
feet large body Of quartz has been
found, showing an amount Of free gold
which it is believed exceeds anything
ever before seen in rock. A large solid
mass of this rock will be sent to the
Centennial Exhibition.
Year: 1876

Josepks WUe.-The fame of Joseph.
the son of Jacob, and the great minis
ter and servant of Pharaoh, is not by
any means confined to the present
readers of the Bible. In Egypt he is
still remembered, although they don't
think so much of him as we do, while
the Mahommedans have, or pretend to
have, his full history.


1t may not be out of place to give
their story of his marriage. They say
that one day, when he was in the full
tide of power. he went out driving, and
by the roadside an old woman stopped
the horses of his chariot and begged
for aims. As he looked at her, Joseph
thought he had never seen so very ug
ly a woman, and as he was rather plain
spoken in those days, he told her so.
The old woman told him as his God
answered all his prayers, he should
pray that she might be made young
again. promising him that then she
would not be so ugly. Joseph at once
lifted up his hands and voice, and
prayed God TO make her young and
beautiful, and when he turned again to
look at her, she was SO young and So
lovely, that he fell in love with her and
married her. She long outlived him,
and died very old, becoming the only
old woman in Heaven, because, accord
lug to the MOslem or Mohammedan
belief, all women are made young in
Heaven. but only once, and Joseph's
wife had already been changed, so she
must remain in Heaven forever as an
old woman.


Such is the Moslem story, and there
are several morals in it, which you can
hunt up if you will. and while you are
looking them out, let those who know
the meaning of the word ''usurer" and
'usury," try to think how and where
Joseph became the first usurer in his
tory, and what were the consequences
of his usury; and as may as well tell
you that we ravens don't like Joseph,
see if you can tell the reason whyf
Year: 1876

The Duke of Wellington was a great
soldier, perhaps, with the exception of
King Henry | / and Marlborough, the
greatest warrior of England. He was
accustomed to the rough life of the
camp and on the field was notOriOusly
bluff, cross and severe; and yet lin
net who lived in the Dukes irOn-g girt
house, told me once that the last words
of the Iron Duke were "f you please
just before he died an attendant asked
whether he would have some tea. We'll
lington said, "Yes, if you please y
drank the tea, looked his thanks and
never spoke again. If the great mar
shall of England thought it worth while
to say IF you please" wouldn't it be a
good sentence for some of us, who are
not field marshals, to use more fire.
quentlyi
Year: 1876

A Blackbnd not long since told me
that in an old town hall in Massaehu-
setts he saw a book of town records,
dated two hundred years ago, and in it
was the following: "Voted-that the
town clerk buy half quire of paper
for the use of the town. Fancy a
town council voting on such a question
nowadays. Paper may have cost more
then than now. but if / didn't know
that blackbird, wouldn't believe the
story.
Year: 1876

A Child's Fdncy.-I knew little girl
who spent a winter with two maiden
ladies, and who had been presented by
one of them with paper doll, gorge
Ously arrayed. She named it the Mar
quls, and at once assigned to that no.
bleman the heart and hand of her
younger hostess. He was thenceforth
always treated with the respect due
to the head of the house chair aud
plate were assigned to him at table,
though, for reasons of practical eonve-
nience, he usually sat in the plate.
"GOOd-morning' must always be said
to him. The best of everything must
be first offered to him, or else Lizzie
was much hurt, and the family were
charged with discourteOus neglect.
Indeed she always chose to take the
tone that he did not receive quite the
consideration to which his rank and
services entitled him and when she
first awaked in the morning, she would
give reproving lectures to his supposed
spouse. "He does everything for yOu,"
the child would say to this lady che
earns money. and buys you all that
you have; he shovels your paths for
you"-this being perhaps on snowy
morning when that process was audi
ble-"and vet you do not remember all
his kindness" The whole assumed re-
lationship was treated as an absolute
reality, and the lively farce lasted,
with undiminished spirit during the
whole of a New England winter
ScTibRer for january.
Year: 1876

There is never any way of guessing what
a calm. gray eyed, semi-phlegmatic man
will do when his placid nature il violently
disturbed from without. The vengeance of
such men is not the sudden striking of the
thunderbolt. but the slow, patient, tireless,
.nexorable grinding of the mills of the gods.
When patient Fred Breese rode away from
the little village in which he had received
the treatment already described he carried
fixed purpose in his mind, which such a
man as he would patiently execute even at
the expense of years of tell and suffering.
The young woman who had cast him of in
a fit OF passion little knew the depths of his
nature or the terrible patience with which
sucha man could work year after year to
ward an end upon which he had firmly tx
ed his soul. She knew that he would never
come a.wooing again and that he had delib
| erately accepted as final her decision that
they were not suited to each other,


"He might have conquered me, If he had
chosen she said to herself one day, land
we should have suited each other then.
But what man can live in peace with an
untamed tiger, | should like to know? He
tried to make pet of the wild beast, when
lie should have subdued it first and fondled
it afterward'


Fred Breese rode to the railroad and tool
the first train for Charleston. Thence ht
went by rail to the ancient village of Pc
cotaligo, where, buying a horse, he mount
ed and rode to Middleton Hall. a score o
miles away toward the sea. Taking ne
gro with him he rode all over the decaye(
plantation, and found it, like all its fellOw
round about, SO badly out of repair that
without vast expenditure OF capital ant
labor,in the rebuilding of dikes, and the re
opening OF drains, it was practically worth
less. Repaired, he knew it would make it
owner iich, as its late owner had been
But how could Fred Breese rope to repai
it even for the sake of wreaking his ven
Year: 1876

A fortnight later Fred Breese, pale and
thin, but free from fevers with two gen
tlewomen in the piazza at Middleton Hall.
For some reason which the doctor never
could guess, his remedie, had begun to do
their proper work on the very day ON which
the younger of the two women. the black
eyed one, had suggested that the sick man
should get well in time to keep Thanksgiv-
ing with her on the last Thursday in No
vember.


This year Ruth says she has something
to be thankful for; and as she says it she
broods over the quaint old craven cradle
where Master Frederick Middleton Breese
is learning. by experiment that the bend
of his elbow is an effective barrier to the
swallowing of his fist.
Year: 1876

The next day came another letter for Mrs.
Hepworth. This time it was from a physl-
clan, and it said:


"Your brother is very ill with country
fever. from which he cannot recover. The
fever came upon him two days ago, as he
was upon the point of leaving Middleton
Hall, and his strength is SO reduced by
overwork that the best remedies | can ap-
ply have no effect. If you wish to see him
alive, you must come to Middleton Hall at
once"
Year: 1876

The meanest end one of the most stlngy
men in town, named Mr.. L.. was taken
suddenly III and was not expected to re-
cover He asked to have his will made
out, which was accordingly done. After
reading it over carefully. he arose, drew
on his pantaloons leisurely. and was heard
to exclaim ''Egad! this is TOO much to
leave any man." He can be seer walking
the streets now as well as ever.
Year: 1876

An ADDRESS TO I b 5 Q (.
Do you want to purify the system'
Do you want to get rid of Biliousnessf
Do you want something to strengthen you
Do you want good appetite
Do you want to get rid of nervousness!
10 you want good digestion?
Do you want to sleep we'll?
Do you want to build up your consul ution
Do YOU want brisk and vigorous teeIng


If YOU do. take