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Year: 1873

TRINITY CENTER.-We were pleased
this week to make the acquaintance of
Mr.. f. II. Loring, of the firm of Rum
felt d Loring, Trinity Center. From
him we learn that the prospects in that
section are very favorable, particularly
at the cinnabar mines where prospecting
is being carried on extensively. Consid-
cradle quantities of ore have already been
taken out ard it is said from one of the
mines ton day to the man can be got
ten out. The prospects of the ciunabar
mines there seem to indicate that they
are the richest in the world, and there
can be no doubt but that they will be
extensively worked. AS at present reach
ed these mines are twenty-four miles
from Trinity Center, but it is the inten-
tion of parties interested to build road
down the East Fork of Trinity river,
from the mines to the town, which will
be only fourteen miles in length.
Year: 1873

When the knaves consider how eager the
majority are to be fooled, they must wonder,
like the British General amid the treasures Of
India, at their own forbearGnce What is the
use of telling the truth at all is probably
the question which rises to their minds when
they see how much more marke etable are their
lies A man goes to Minnesota, calls himself
Lord assumes name not in the peerage,
says that his sister wants a few thousand
acres of land &c found a charitable institution,
and the banks and railroads OF the State are
at once at his feet. If his inventions had
been reasonable no one would have believed
him. Il requires more ingenuity an sdvoir
Jdjre 10 get credit for glass of gin than to
get loan of a thousand dollars. This frantic
passion for being swindled is by no means
confined to Americans. An escaped convict
from Germany laid the whole diplomatic body
in Washington under contribution, including
Baron Gerolt and Chevalier Hulseman, simply
by calling himself Count Schwainitz- Karan,
Adjutant 10 the Archduke Macmillan. He
lived in great gala for moath or so,. and his
success seemed to turn his own brain, for he is
now in mad house. A Hungarian named
Estvan, who had lived in New York some
time, went back to Vienna and pillaged the
Hebrew bankers Of that city on the strength
of the preposterous claim that he was Consul
General of the United States in Holland and
Chief of Secret Service to the Emperor of
Mexico" They obcyed the monastic formula
of faith, and believed because it was impossi-
BILE.


But in literature the advcnturers have easier
work than in finance. Let a man, or more
especially a woman, claim to have written
something which belongs to some one else,
and the very fact of the claim being false win
be enough to, gain it credit among half the
Year: 1873

people who read newspapers. Mrs. Akers will
never again take any comfort out of her pretty
lyric " Rock me to Sleep" since gentleman
in Newark, who does not know the difference
between the movements Of anapests and
dactyls, has brought afidavits to prove he
wrote it. Mr.. Carleton, who has written a
dozen farm ballads all Of the same smell and
sound, is suddenly set down as an impostor
because a woman in New York has persuaded
two or three of her friends that she is the
author of one of them The fact that his
are all from the same piece, and that her vol
ume of watery trash contains not line resem-
bling the piece she stole, weighs nothing in the


mind of the Ay-gobblers, who believe because
1t is in the face of reason to belisve-Ec.
Year: 1873

A few years ago there ran the circuit of the
newspaper press a perfectly uninte eligible
paragraph. 1t first appeared in the London
Punch. The humor of it was that, by the
aid of Johnson's Dictionary, in which every
word could be found, it could be translated
into readable English. There is undoubt-
edly vast wealth of words in the English
language but no small am punt of this wealth
is in what commercial men would call
unavailable assets,' not being at all current
or serviceable. Taste and fashion drop words
out OF daily use ia every generation. An
English grammar remains yet to be written
that is to say, treatise on words, their mean
lngs, their uses, their relatives and combina-
tlOns, based not on other tongues, but on our
own. and its use and history. The rules of
grammar ought to be, like legal precedents,
the result Of experience and custom.


But the worst difficulty which attends our
yernacular is the adoption Of new words and
hideOus and unmeaning slang A specimen of
this abuse, OF sound and sense and reason is
contributed by Western newspaper: The
Mayor galooted up the church aisle, swashay-
ing and gyrating like Chinese joss with the
i'm jamsl" This may be humor, but the
humor is so latent that it does not come out in
any appreaclable manner No doubt the
official referred to made himself sufficiently rdi-
culOus to the writer who was predetermined TO
make fun for him. But certainly even the
charitable purpose of presenting a public
tunctlonary in laughsble manner could have
been accomplished with the legitimate vOcabu-
larry of the most copious of modern languages.
| Slang is not wit Neither is the mis-spell-
ing of words humor. And we may go even
farther, and say that the prevalent disposition
to present everything, serious as well as
trihing, in a ridiculous light, is not only bad as
matter of taste, but mischievous as a matter
OF morals. Yet there are many people whose
sole effort in writing and in conversation ap.
pears to be in the direction of what they con
slider 'smartness." The constant trihlng with
the sad realities of human lite with the seri
Gus work of human kind with the events oi
the day and with the facts of history with
the character of the living and with the memory
of the dead is lowering the tone. not only Of
literature, but of morals. The world itself il
not huge joke; however, some people may
SO affect TO consider it. A cynical temper is tC
its possessor a most unhappy inheritance, anC
10 those With whom he is brought into daily
intercourse it is q perpetual cause Of irritation
While the thoughtless world is, for shor
time, amused with the pictures ofthe humorist
the originals of those pictures are disliking the
author sincerely, if not hating him intensely
Wit in its proper place, and in proper theme
is refreshing. Rude slang devoid of feeling
and careless of private right, is intolerable.-
| LcdQer.
Year: 1873

The st. Louis Democrat is of the opinion
that the spirit of American journalism is pro-
gressve, and in the elucidation of this theory
it remarks that the Congressman of to-day is
not half so great a man in the eyes OF his con-
stituents as his predecessor of twenty years
ago. This statement it explains on the ground
that it is not because the Congressman of to-
day knows less than his predecessors did, but
because his constituents know SO much more.
and this knowledge they have gained through
the newspapers. Commenting on this theme,
the New York Herald adds the remark that
whilst congressman, through their jobs and
corrupt practices, are becoming less and less
objects of public esteem, the respectable news
paper press continually rises higher 10 the
scale of practical influence and popular regard
-Led0er. .ta
Year: 1873

INTOLERABLE AND TANTALIzING-AL Long
Branch correspondent writes :" My feelings
are capable of bearing up against an ordinary
amount of strain, but when they are put to the
test of listening to a spoony couple making
love every night for three weeks, it is more
than an ordinary young man ought to be ex-
pected to stand. There is young man here
who has been engaged for three weeks in a
dillgent effort to kiss a girl, and has not yet
succeeded They sit near my window on the
weeks love making, is a miksop. Every
night it is tie same story. As l lie down in
my lonely couch, wooing the slumbering god, l
am kept awake by this young mans persistent
begging for kiss. am tempted every night
to get up and ask the girl myself
Year: 1873

A Baptist paper ia Ohio was sent for nine
years to a subscriber who never paid a cent
for it, The other day the newspaper was
returned 10 the patient and long suffering
publisher with the affecting pencil note on its
margin: "Gone to better world. The
editor is very pious man, but it is reported
that his faith is terribly shaken in regard to
the accuracy of the information.
Year: 1873

How fast time flies when you are working
against it, how slowly when you are working
to fill it upl. What difference between try
ing to get your work done before your dinner
hour and trying to fill up your hour before
dinner with work.
Year: 1873

This comes from Ohio:
Under this sod


And under these treess
Leith the bod


y of Solomon Peas.
He's not in this hole,
But only his pod;
He shelled out his soul
And went up TO his God"
Year: 1873

/


A great many are at a loss to know


what the great uprising among the


farmers means. Some persons thinl


it dangerous Indication. 1t may b.
dangerous to bad men; to illicit com
binations; to unscrupulous rings and
cliques; to soulless monopolists


who live, like leeches on their life
blood; to unprincipled schemers who
form corners to plunder them-bnt
it is only dangerous to men like
these. The farmers can be trusted.
They are honest and patriotic. They
find they have been tools in the hands
Of bad men that others have led
them about by the noses long enough,
and in fact, have made themselves
accessories TO their degradation and
impoverishment. This movement
means thata stop is to be put to this
sort of business-that instead of
being led hereafter; that as they
have the power in their hands, which
of rights belongs to them, they in
tend to exercise it and they feel GER
tain by SO doing they can bring
about needed reforms. This move
ment likewise means a greater self
reliance among farmers. 1t means
that they are going to do a portion
of their own thinking; that they are
going to qualify themselves to act as
leaders; formers of publio opinion
and sentiment; that they are going
to devote attention to brain work as
we'll as farm work, that they are
going to become better farmers,
more influential citizens, true patri-
OTIS, and be frmsr and bolder in the
expression Of their rights.


Can any harm come of such a
movement Is it dangerous to let
the farmers organize, unite, talk and
think for themselves. 1t is danger
GUS for them to become more in
telligent, influential and activeP Per-
haps they lack leaders and they will
develope these from among them
selves-men they can trust, who are
Unidentified with them in sympathy
and interest. Those connected with
the movement will likewise see the
Importance of qualifying their sons
for the duties of citizens6ip. If they
themselves are not competent to
boldly advocate what they believe to
be right, what is necessary for their
own protection, tbey will see the i'm
portance of qualifying their sons to
do it. The farming classes are al
most totally ignored, when it comes
to representation. With a majority
of ali the votes in the land, they in
relation do not have a single farmer
in congress to represent them. They
depend entirely upon other classes
to legislate for them, and they have
given legislation that has impoyer-
Year: 1873

A remarkable wedding recently
took place in Baltimore, Md. The
bridegroom was Jesse W. Upperou,
whose name has figured somewhat
prominently before the public during
the past winter. Nearly a year ago
he was arrested on suspicion of hav-
ing caused the death of his aunt by
shooting her Circumstahtial eyi.
dence, il was said, pointed him out
distinctly and the suspicious which
we're at first entertained regarding
his guilt became strengthened into be-
liet as evidence was accumulated.
The prisoner was indicted for murder
and put upon trial tor his life. The
evidence brought out was entirely OF
circumstantial character, and after a
trial of unprecedented length the case
was given to the jury, the prevailing
belief being that he wohld be found
guilty. The jury consulted together
for long time, and finally resulting
in the prisoners acquittal. All
through the two long trials young
lady possessed of unusual attractions
and occupying high social position
in Baltimore, was observed Watching
the proceedings day by day, and when
the prisoner was acquitted she tainted
away in the court room. A few days
since the lady became Mrs. Uppercu,
aud beside the relatives Of the bride
and bridegroom at the wedding cere.
monies there were present the Judge
who had presided at the court, and
the counsel both for the defense and
the prosecution.
Year: 1873

cate. Effects Of Bungling Legislation.


There is authority for stating that
the Syndicate will present a claim for
commission on the five per cent.
bonds in which the Geneva award is
to be invested under the act of Con-
gress. This will result in areduction
of the principal to the amount of
$685. 900. 1t is also supposed that,
owing to the negligence of Congress
in providing court or board for the
immediate payment Of the claims,
that the claimants will be entitled to
interest from the date of the receipt
of the money up to the time of set
tlement, which cannot possibly be in
less than year. a a


This statement has often been de-
MED by parties who did not take the
trouble to hunt up the law and the
facts. The contract between the
Government and the Syndicate al
lows the latter full control of the
five per cent. bonds until the 1st Of
December next, and any person pur-
chasing such bonds. the Government
included, must obtain them from the
Syndicate. Al2 t


The law on the subject, approved
March Sd last, provides that immedi-
ately upon the payment awarded to
the United States by the Tribunal OF
Arbitration of Geneva. to be paid by
the Government of Great Britain,
the same shall be paid into the treas
ury and used to redeem, so far as il
may, the public debt of the United
States; and the amount equal to the
debt so redeemed shall be invested
in the FIVE per cent registered bonds
of the United States, to be held sub
ject to the future disposition Of Con


gress. The Syndicate has not, as
has been stated, presented any such
claims as mentioned above, but it is
stated that they will do so when the
investment is made in accordance
with the law recited above.
Year: 1873

To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. Are
you insuredP Do you pay the prin-
ter? TU1


Do you feed the poorp


Do you kiss your wife before you
leave in the morning and when you
return at nightf That is nobody's
business.


Do not sleep in a garment at night
that you wear in the day time.


Do you fail to keep good the prom
ises you make to the childrenP


Do you speak of your father as
"the old man." or Of your mother or
wife as "the old womanp" Be-
ashamed of it if you do, and quit it.


Do you talk about your neighbors,
and thus teach your children to do
likewiseP 1t is a sure sign Of low
breeding if you do and q very dirty
habit to fall into.


Do you scold2 If you do, and are
u man, go hide yourself; you disgrace
the household Of which you are sup
posed to be the head? II you are a
wife and mother, quit the country
and go to Salt Lake. You are be-
yond saving there; droUning in salt
may do it.
Year: 1873

A father and two sons, a few years
ago, married three sisters in Iowa.
The undutiful sons have driven their
unhappy parent TO the verge Of insan-
ity by trying TO explain the relation
ship Of their children.
Year: 1873

Man loves the mysterious. q cloud
less sky, the full-blown rose, leaves him
unmoved; but the violet which hides
its blushing beauties behind the bush
and the moon, when she emerges from
behind cloud, are to him sources Of
inspiration and pleasure. Modesty is
to merit, what shade is to figure in
painting it gives its holiness and
prominence. Nothing adds more to
female beauty than modesty; it sheds
around the countenance halo Of light
which is borrowed from virtue Botanists
have given the rosy hue which tinges
the cup of the rose the name of maiden
blush" This pure and delicate hue is
the only paint that Christian virtue
should use it is the richest ornament.
Awcman without modesty is like faded
flower, which diffuses an unwholesome
odor, and which the prudent gardener
will throw away from him. Her De stiny
is melancholy, for it ends in shame and
repentance. Beauty passes like the
flower OF the aloe, which blooms and
dies in few hours, but modesty gives
the female character charms which sup
plies the place of the transitory fresh
nese Of youth.
Year: 1873

~ Ensign Jackman was an old Vermont


farmer He had q good dog, that for


some reason bore half of his own name,


being plain Jack and it would be no


reflection on the old mans sense if we


should say that the creature knew half


as much as he did. Jackman once


owed his life to Jack; and it all came


about by his taking him with him to


his wood-lot, which was a good way


distant from his house. Almost every


day during the winter the farmer and
the dog went off together, always re-


turning safely with the great loads of


wood, until one afternoon, as they were
jogging homeward, the sled canted on q
stone, and the uppermoet log on the
load rolled off on the ensign's side, TAX
ing him unawares, knocked him down,
and held him there wedged in between
the runner and huge bowlder which
almost overhung the path.


As he fell he instinctively shouted


"Whos!" to the oxen aud they stopped
at once, then and there. II they had
started at an, the siding log would
have been precipitated upon his head !;
but, trained and most obedient of crea-
lures, like all good oxen, they minded
what was said to them, and halted, with
the toppling logs ready to roll OFF at the
first movement. But, though they
might stand there all the afternoon, as
probably they would, when night drew
near they ,would go home. Besides.
there was no help in them,


While this had been happening, Jack
had been of careering about the woods,
hunting hares and starting up par
tridges, and having most delightful
time but now when the ensign whistled
for him, he came bounding back to the
sled, saw what had happened, and that
he could not get at his master, snd
started for home with the speed of a
race-horse.


Mother Jackrnsn saw him coming
down the road, and he seemed to her to
be almost flying. His lsmeness did not
hinder him then, He cleared the ground
like deer running for his life. She
knew that something ives the matter,
and rushed to the door bnt, instead
of stopping there, he shot past and kept
straight on, by several houses and shops
to the shoemakers. Meanwhile she
caught up shawl and started for the
woods,
Jack had evidently gone through
with some reasoning which brought him
to the conclusion that it was a case in
which woman. could not help, not even
his own mistress. And SO he sped by
everybody else to the one man who had !;
befriended him. ..-i


He burst into the presence OF the
pulled at his shirt-sleeves,
and ran to to the door whining. The.
man put on his coat and followed. At
the grocery store. next door, he stopped
long enough to tell of the dogs con-
duct then borrowed horse and sleigh
which stood waiting while the owner
was making purchases, and drove on
after Jack. -...ay~ -1s.t. 81


Men came out along the road until
there was quite party on the way,
some in sleighs and some on, foot.
When the old Lady was overtaken, she
was picked up and conveyed along.


Jack led the way. There stood the
patient oxen in their tracks; they had
not lifted so much as one of their feet
in all that time. And there lay the en-
sign, quite insensible now, just where
be had fallen. .-y g.. s-.. ..... ......... /
Year: 1873

What . glorious thing it is for the
human heart? Those who work hard
seldom yield to fancied or real sorrow.
When grief sits down, folds its hands
and mournfully feeds upon its tears,
weaving the dim shadows that q little
exertion might sweep away into funeral
pail. the strong spirit is shorn Of its
might and sorrow becomes our master.
When troubles fow upon you dark and
heavy, toll not with the waves and
wrestle not with the torrent; rather
seek by occupation to divert the dark
waters that threaten to Overwhelm You,
into . thousand channels which the
duties Of life always present. Before
you dream of il, those waters will fer
tilixe the present, and give birth to
fresh flowers that will become pure and
holy in the sunshine which penetrates
to the path Of duty in spite Of every
obstacle. Grief, after all, is but sell
fish feeling, and most selfish is the man
who yields himself to the indulgence Of
any passion which brings no Joy to his
fel1ow-men. --.r Ed la.
Year: 1873

Toargueneff, the famous Russian
ID said to be quite broken down
by recent misfortunes. Within year
his wife and only daughter have died /;
by the failure of his Partisan banker,
most Of his earnings have been swept
away; and a nephew to whom he was
greatly attached and who was greatly
indebted to him has been sent to prison
for outrageous felonies. The poor
novelist writes very little nov, as he
says his stories, rejecting his own
heart, are too sombre,
Year: 1873

power of the country, and there ls no limit
to their will and pleasure


His proposition is quite correct, but his
difficulty consists in the fact that he does
not appear to know who the people Of the
country are. At the close Of general
election, when it is discovered that the
majority of the voters have directed that
ex-rebels, Democrats, Fusionists, and
other elements of the opposition, shall
take back seats, then this admirer Of the
people will break out with the complaint
that 'the people" have been defeated, and
the carpet-baggers, scalawags and niggers
have succeeded by improper meanso And
so he falls into the old mud-hole and re-
sumes his occupation Of throwing dirt.


Tie Fusionists of this State are not the
"South," nor even "the people OF Louis
iana," by many thousand voteso They
possess-actually own at present. ma
jority of the white populationS but their
opponents are as proud, defiant, inteli-
gent and jealous Of their rights as they
are, and as little disposed to yield to
threats or anything less than legally con-
stituted authority. But so long as they
faunt insulting e. ithets in the face of
their neighbors, just SO long will they pro-
woke retaliatiops ana postpone the day Of
peace So long as they indulge in threats
of what they will indict upon the de-
fenseless negroes and their friends the
moment it is safe for them to make the
attempt, SO long will they force tie Re-
publicans to keep up powerful organiza-
tions for their own protection. Seventy
thousand voters, who are conscious of be-
ing IN the right, can noe be successfully
put down by force of two-thirds of their
number, either at the ballot-box or on the
field Of battle, and it does not strengthen
the Fusion cause to call their enemies bad
names, or to assume Cor themsesveS 2if
tues to which they are strangera


The people of the Sorth have no Further
interest in our political squabbles than
to keep the peace, and prevent either Of
our contending parties from pursuing the
other with the assassins knife, or the
Gorch of civil war. The former has been
rather freely used of late. In the next
conflict the latter may be invoked The
loss of life is sufficiently horrible-the
loss of property, by burning, scarcely less
so, for it will bring in its train poverty,
destitutiop, privation, sickness and death
He, therefore, who teaches the ignorant
people to regard this community as di-
vided between two classes, the one to be
known as the South and the other as its
enemies, is himself an enemy Of most
malignant type, whom it would be better
for the people to restrain of his liberty
than to believe.
Year: 1873

The other day little boy who had cut
his finger ran up to his mother aud cried:
Tie it up, ma; tie it up quick, for the juice
is all running out! J" The same urchin, on
one of the late excessive hot days, appealed
to his mother for help, saying? MAG do
help me-, for I'm qeaking all over"
Year: 1873

the gun stores again, and Carson Mudge's
place was cleaned out Immediately after
ward. If there are arms concealed for
riotous purposes elsewhere it is time the
detective force were marking the local.
ties and the proper authorities took pos
session of the weapons Prevention is
better than cure in these matters.