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Year: 1873

There was fierce monster, who made
His home in vale, woodland and glade.
He laughed in his terrible might,
Aud chilled every heart with alright
As he scattered the powdery snow


Hoi no!
Three poor little maids lost their way,
AS homeward they wandered one daN.
How lovely they were and how sweetl
This monster said, " These will eat,
But I'll wait until darkness sets in


To begin"
The little maids heard him, and wept;
Then closer together they crept,
And each kissed the others pale cheek.
o who could harm darlings so meek?
Close under snow-bank they tried


To hide.
The sun went down, lurid and cold;
shroud of snow round them were rolled;
They heard the grim monster go by,
These three little maids to espy;
But, blinded with anger, no three


Found he!
Now the morning sun warmed them, and 10
They peeped from their shelter of snow !
These darlings were snowdrops; and he
Who bowed to his will every tree
Pine, maple, and locust, and larch-


Was March Little Corporal
Year: 1873

The woman taxpayers of San Fran
cisco have got right up on the tips of their
little pink ears about it, and tetotally
swear, In the woman fashioa, that they
will make no further contribution to the
salaries of officers in whose election
they have no voice, if they can help it.
Year: 1873

There IS more poetry written now IN
one year than was written during the
whole of the eighteenth century, Much
of it is fairly good, quite as good as
would have suficed to establish a great
reputation among our grandfathers.
The standard collections of British
poetry contain the works of many poets
who would have no chance of hearing
from us. Still, the best of ours is not
supremely good. Tennyson, Browning,
Arnold, Rossetti, Swinburne, Morris.
A goodly array, no doubt. But they all
belong to what may be called the litera-
ry class of poets. Now, it is a theory
Of mine that no poetry can live long
which is not born in the open air. The
poetry of the study is a delicate and
perishable commodity. Browning is, in
one sense, the only exception to this
rule. Though the most studious of our
poets, he is the only one who manifests
the vital insight of a Burns, a Shak-
speare or Scott there is the direct
pathos, the breathing energy of life, in
"The Ring and the Book" It is i'm
possible, think, that "The Ring and
the Book" can live. Yet it is, in many
respects, a stronger and greater piece of
work than anything we have had since
Shakespeare. Its author is clearly one
one of the great masters of the art which
purges the soul by pity and terror. But
the pathos of the others is not the
pathos which they have found in life,
but the pathos which they have found
in books. It is rank heresy, no doubt,
yet I confess I prefer the tMorte
d d'Arthur," as a whole, to the "Idylls of
the King" An exotic, nursed in the
hot-house, may be developed into vel
vety perfection but the simple and
modest wild flower native to the soil is
the harder plant of the two. What
will they know of our poetry a thou
sand years hence? It would not sur
prise me very much to learn that the
whole of it had died out, except Sir
Walters Proud Maisie is in the
Wood" and (perhaps) Allingham's


cup the airy mountain,


Down the reedy glen"


Morris is always charming so uniform
ly charming, in fact, that he gets just in
the least degree monotonous at last.
The greatest poetry has something more
than Morris reaches, something more
Year: 1873

The man of truth is also the man
of power, Falsehood may give infu-
ence for time, but its mask is soon
off and its advocate becomes power
less and is forsaken by those over
whom he swayed the scepter of his
influence.
Year: 1873

"A rash snake charmer at Greenups-
burgh, KY, handled rattlesnake some
what too familiarly and got his leg full
of snakes teeth, assorted sizes, poison
thrown in. Whisky and tobacco saved
him, but the snake charming season is
over.
Year: 1873

A LAUDABLE AMBTIoN.-I honor the
man whose ambition it is not to win
laurels in the state or the army, not to
be iurist or naturalist, not to be a
poet or commander, but to be master
of living well, and to administer the
offices of master or servant, of husband,
father and friend. But it requires as
much breadth of power for this as for
those other functions, as much, or more,
and the reason for the failure is the
same. I think the vice of our house
keeping is, that it does not hold man
sacred. The vice of government, the
vice of education, the vice of religion
is one with that of private life.-Enae''-
son.


WurN does q man have to keep his
Year: 1873

civil service of the country. To secure
this reformation rules regulating methods
of appointment and promotion were estab-
lished and have been tried. My efforts for
such reformation shall be continued to the
best of my judgment. The spirit of the
rules adopted will be maintained.


81 acknowledge before this assembly, re-
presenting, as it does, every section of our
country, the obligation am under to my
countrymen for the great honor they have
highest Office within their gift, and the
further obligation resting on me to render to
them the best services within my power.


"This ! promise, looking forward with
the greatest anxiety to the day when shall
be released from responsibilities that at
times are almost overwhelming, and from
which have scarcely had respite since
the eventful firing upon Fort Sumter in
April, 1861, to the present day. My SER
vices were then rendered and accepted un-
der the first call for troops growing out of
that event. did not ask for place or posi-
tion, and was entirely without influence or
the acquaintance of persons of influence,
but was resolved to perform my part in a
struggle threatening the very existence of
the nation, a conscientious duty, without
asking promotion or command, and without
a revengeful feeling towards any section or
individual.


notwithstanding this, throughout the
war, and from my candidacy for my present
Office in 1868 to the close Of the last Presi-
dental campaign, have been the subject
of abuse and SANDER scarcely ever equalled
in political history, which to-day I feel that
I can afford to disregard, in view of your
verdict which I gratefully accept as my
vindication.
Year: 1873

The result in the House of Repre-
sentatives of the Credit Mobilier case
is the censure of Ames and Brooks and
exoneration of the rest. After long
debate the following resolutions, offered
as substitute for the resolution of ex-
pulsion, were adopted:


Resolved, That the House absolutely
condemns the conduct of Oakes Ames,.
member of this House from the State
of Massachusetts, in seeking to procure
Congressional attention to the affairs
Of a corporation in which he was inter
ested, and whose interest directly de-
pended on the legislation of Congress,
by inducing members of Congress to
invest in the stock of said corporation.


Resozyed, That the House absolutely
condemns the conduct of James Brooks,
a member of this House from New
York, for the use of his position of
Government director of the Union Pa
cifc Railroad and of member of this
House, to procure the assignment to
himself or family of stock in the Credit
Mobilier of America, a corporation hav-
ing contract with the Union Pacific
Railroad, and whose interests depended
directly upon the Legislation of Con-
gress.


The first was adopted by vote OF
1S1 to 36, and the other by vote OF
liza to 80. After an unsuccessful at
tempt to have censure passed upon MIR.
Kelley, the whole subject was disposed
of forever, so far as the House is con
cerned, by the discharge OF the com
mittee. We cannot conceive how Ames
could be censured for selling stock to
Congressman which they were uncen-
surable for buying.
Year: 1873

A DODGE THAT WILL Nor WORK
The so-called National Railway Company,
despairing of getting any votes in South
Jersey for their bill by any ordinary means,
have introduced charter for railroad
from Somerset county to Salem, the sole
object of which is to attract the votes Of the
members from the counties through which
their imaginary road is to run; and once
getting them on their side, to hold them for
their other bill. 1t is rather an ingenious
method of obtaining votes, but, unfortu-
nately for them, railroad between Somer-
set and Salem is such an improbable project
that blind man can see through the dodge.
Year: 1873

The Annual Conference of the M. E.
Church which meets in this city next week
has been amply provided for by our citizens.
The Conference Directory appears in an.
other column.


The Daily Pioneer will be issued regular
ly during the sessions of Conference, and
contain full reports of all the most interest
ing proceedings. We have engaged sever
al first class reporters, among whom are
two excellent stenographists. Long lists
of subscribers for the Daily Pioneer are
coming in every mail, and our circulation
will be very large, both in this city and
throughout the bounds Of the Conference.
We return thanks to those ministers, edi-
tors and others, who have SO favorably an
nounced the Daily. s
Year: 1873

We would call attention to the advertise
ment in another column of Beautiful Snow
The mere fact of it's being published by
Messrs. T. B. Peterson & Bros, would be
sufficient recommendation, but aside from
this, the real worth Of the book is such as
to make it welcome visitor in every house
hold; it being awell written and beautifully
illustrated work, Which cannot fail to please
the most fastidious reader.
Year: 1873

On Sunday morning, the ferry boat
America was disabled for. time by q
floating log getting fast in one Of her pad
dies. Tee passengers were transferred
to another boat; after which, the log
was chopped out. s as q
Year: 1873

Neither human life nor property can be any
safer than they are at present until it becomes
less safe to make depredations upon them. So
long AZ it is legal to sell unlimited rum, long
as theft and swindling and burglary and murder
go unpunished, so long as fragrant crime is sure
Of sympathy and determined effort to free those
who are guilty of it, 80 long as influential names
are easily procurable in the attempt to shield
the criminal from the legal consequence Of his
misdseds, 80 long will crime go unchecked. We
feed the flames OF anger and lust and malice
with poisoned liquors, and hold up our heads
in horror over the results. We keep men in pow
or who will not do their duty, and walk the
streets at night with bludgeons in one hand and
revolVers in our pockets. We shut up criminals,
and then submit to any mockery OF justice by
which they are released. And then, when the
crime and the criminal are too outrageous to
permit them to be ignored, we sign papers beg
ging for Communication OF punishment or for par
don.


Let it be understood, then, that every man,
high or low, who seeks for the release of the
criminal from the legal consequences OF his
crime unites himself to the dangerous classes,
and becomes an accomplce in their deeds.
CrfmS will cease, or greatly diminish, Just al
soon as official and popular Justice cuts off its
completely with it and 1t will not cease or di-
minish until that event occurs Crime thrives
because the officers of law do not do their duty
and because the popular voice does not demand
those safeguards OF social and political ordel
that are essential to it's maintenance. The ig
norant brute, maddened by alcohol and degraded
by the example OF those whom he helped tC
place in power, can be reached by no motive but
fear and 30 long as that motive does not OK
ist we may expect to see in every newspaper we
take up the record Of new crime, and to bow
our heads in shame for our city, the while We
examine anew the defences We have spread
around our goods land our hyes.-Dr. z. O.
Holland, IN iScT'tbner''s for March.
Year: 1873

The House Committee on public buildings r
greed yesterday to report that the White House
Is not suitable private residence for the Pres
ident, but may be used as Offices for the E1ecu-
tive. They further agreed to report in favor OF
the erection of new mansion for the President
but without sny yreooumsndation ss to the site.
Year: 1873

We may take as lesson to ourselves
the ingratitude Of the partisan, for it will
dishonor one political association as well
as another. The last specimen Of this
vice comes from small paper printed at
an interior Alabama postoffice, whose cir
culation is multiplied into that of the
Louisville Courier-Journal. This last
named paper it will be remembered wasa
strong Union press at the time Beaure-
gard was fighting on the other side. 1t
is now the exclusive champion of South
ern rights. The small paper gives Major
General Butler the worst name in its vo-
cabulary and then says:


To-day Butler. with all his scoundrelism.
is 4 man more to be respected by the South
ern people than the degraded ex-COnfed-
crate who has covered. under adverse sur.
roundings, and reports, as chairman OF a
committee in New Orleans, system Of So
cial equality that goes further than Sum
ner's civil rights bill. This is from Genera!
Beauregavd. once honored General OF the
Lost Cause. To what base uses do We
come.


l. is no province Of ours to defend Cen
eral Beauregard against the assaults Of his
own former friends, but we take this TRADE
of obloIuy to show how little the good
will or good word Of a party striker is to
be relied on. Beauregard, we think, re-
signed commission in the federal service
to sustain his native State il the position
she chose to occupy. In the earliest and
one of the most important battles of the
war he was successful and demonstrated a
Jealous devotion to the cause he had
chosen. He was in command Of the de-
fenses of Charleston, and Of the lines of
Petersbur; and City Point. From first
to las: he was devoted to the cause
which was lost. During the whole period
he was never, so far as We are informed,
charged with having sold himself or his
troops, or his cause. Since the war We
have known him to have preserved the re-
spect Of the men who fought against him.
He seems TO have addressed himself to the
pacifcation Of the sections and to works
of public usefulness. Now. it seems to us,
that if he was man who would 'ssell out"
as is intimated in the heading Of the
small paper, he could have shown some
SYMPTOMS of that weakness when be might
have saved himself and his property by
rendering his sword to the federal govern
men:.


But these small newspapers. acting un-
der orders from the New York World and
its ally the New York tribune, forget the
past sacrifices Of . man who has once
Year: 1873

fought for them whenever he dares do
any act without their permission. The
audacity of this conduct becomes more
conspicuous when one compares the re-
nown which such men as Longstreet and
Mosby have gained throughout the world
with the contemplate obscuri.y Of the
ungrateful followers who defame them.


To US, however there is no more in
this impudent abuse of eminent men than
an example OF partisan injustice. We
have seen such il all parties, and kno~
that the only relief from such assaults
consists in lofty integrity which despises
them.
Year: 1873

couree, and with the careworn air OF one who has
for hours been fighting hostile bugs. She hears
the policeman ten hia story, and she believes
him, for he wears m uniform She hears the
Judge fine her husband, and then she goes home
to sell the furniture and apply for divorce


Man is mortal. He must go out to see friend


He must drink little beer OF whisky punch, for
he is not "mucker.'' He must occasionally
get little boozy and describe hyperbolas and
parabolas as be goes home, and he must git
down on the curbstone and mediate whether he
shal1 tale the trouble to go across to his house,
or whistle for it to come over to him. II he is
to be arrested for indu1ging in these amenities
OF life, where is our boasted ciyilization1 What
ia the use OF the Personal Liberty League
Where are the Freisinniger Buerger?


For the present, and while this state OF affairs
lasts, people who have to be out Of nights had
better havo friend to accompany them, Or so
to Waahhurn aud get an exemption from arrest
"good for this day only"
Year: 1873

SATURDAY EvEsua, May 81.


During the past week the money markets both
East and West have grown easier. It is possible
that the fact that the National Banks have re-
ceived the call for their statement and naturally
do not expect to have another one soon, induces
them to let out money little moro freely. but
aside from this the supply OF money seems to bs
increasing. Deposits at the banks are as large rs
they have been for ak months, and the supply
OF money offered in. the open market ia large
enough to make 4 good demand for business
paper.


There is considerable currency being sent to
the various wheat markets in the Northwest to
be used, doubtless, in paying for wheat which is
now coming into the country stations much more
rapidly than last week. The amounts OF cur
rency ordered from here to Milwaueeo, Winona,
Red Wing, and other places in that direction yes
terday and to-day indicate more active move
ment Of the grim in tho Northwest, and the
probability Of larger receipts both here and at
Milwaukee next week


Exchange was sold between banks to-day at
rs cents per 81, 900 premium.


There has been but little done in local stocks
during the past week.


The cleasings Of the Chicago banks for the
weak wera.
Year: 1873

DoN'T Box THE CnILpREN's EARS
Children's ears ought never to be boxed
We have seen that the passage of the ear


is closed by thin membrane, especially
adapted to be influenced by every Impulse
Of the air, and with nothing but the air
to support it internally. What. then,
can be more likely to injure this mem
brane than sudden and forcible com
preston Of the air in front of it? II any
one designed to break or overstretch the
membrane, he could scarcely devise
more effective means than to bring the
hand suddenly and forcbly down upon
the passage Of the ear, thus driving the
air violently before it, with no possibili
ty for its escape but by the membrane
giving way And far too often it does
give way, especially il, from any previous
disease, it has been weakened. Many
children are made deaf by boxes on the
ear in this way. Nor is this the only
way if there is one thing which does the
nerve of ofhearing more harm than almost
any other, it is a sudden jar or shock.
Children and grown persons alike may
DO entirely deafened by falls of heavy
blows upon the head And boxing the
ears produces n similar effect, though
more slowly and in less degree. 1t tends
to dull the scnsihility OF the nerve, even
if it does not hurt the membrane. knew
pitiful case, once, Of poor youth who
died from a terrible disease Of the ear.
lie had had q discharge from it since he
was child. OF course his hearing had
been dull and what had happened was
that his father had oTen Joced his ears
for inatention! Most likely that boxing
on the ear. diseased as it was, had much
to do with his dying. And this brings
me to the second point. Children should
never be blamed for being inattcntive,
until it has been found out whether they
are not little deaf This is easily done
by placing them at few yards distance,
and trying whether they can understand
what is said to them in rather low tone
Of voice. Each ear should be tried, while
the other 10 stopped by the finger do
not say that children are never guilty or
inattention, especially to that which they
do not particularly wish to hear; but
DO say that worry many cniiureh ure
blamed and punished for inattepton
when they really do not hear. And there
is nothing at once more cruel and more
hurtful to the character OF children than
to be found fault with for what is really
their misfortune. Three things should
be remembered here /. That slight do
grees OF deafness, often lasting only for
a time, are very common among children,
especially during or after colds. 2.
That slight deafness, which does not
prevent = person from bearing when he
is expecting to be spoken to, will make
him very dull to what he is not expect
ing and 3. That there Is kind OF deaf
ness in which person can hear pretty
well while listening, but is really very
hard Of hearing when not listening DR.,
Hiaton, in Popu'Dr Science Monthly 'or
June
Year: 1873

The Republican papers n1akeA very anne ana
weak defence of the City Council 1t will be re-
membcred by our readers that tho GAZETTE has
abstained from any personal illusions in all that
it has said on the subject Of the great extravagance
of that body. We do not intend to be led into
singing out members of that body and specifying
certain things more than others that have been
done in such costly manner. We take the whole
action of the several rings that distribute the jobs
among their friends and supporters, and we do Sl-
lege that the extravaganza Is truly alarming. Why
the very fact that the members Of that body would
dare ~ attempt to cover up the enormous outlay
by wasting $4,000 to $4,000 in single year
upon what they please to term "City Hospital, ;
is sufficient of itself to prove al that VIC have
said. they hoped to lead the people to believe
they were doing great work of charity, when in
fact there was not patient to go into the institu-
ton. Aud two Of the most prominent members
OF the Council, Republicans, men OF experience
themselves, declared it was great mistake that
the attempt to run hospital would only prove a
loss; that ii would become an elephant on the
hands of the city; the city owned eligible lots
already, they urged tho building ofa' smail, but
suitable house, rather than waste money on an ex-
penslve building that would require to be altered
at heavy cost


While We are simply urging that the citizens
should be served in the Council by gentlemen who
will pay more regard to economy, the Republican
attempts defence of that body, 10 which 1t ad
mits that it is expending great deal of money
but says "not dollar as land out that iS not de-
mdnded By the citizens" Now, the readers of that
paper know that it has only been a week or ten
days since it said the new hospital buildings were
not demanded. While it thus contradiCts Itself,
in proceeds inis own weak way to ask that "if
there has been any waste Of funds We should hike
to see the instances pointed Outf" How can the
people point out the instances when those in the
rings make it point to cover up their tracks,
But where is the use OF pointing out single item
where all is done without regard to economy. The.
hospital, and the lobby Iees, are fair examples Of
the extravaganza Of the whole.
Year: 1873

In speaking Of the back pay steal and those who
are responsible for it the New York Sun says:


"The case of Gen. Grant is still more marked,
for leaving out of view his influence in passing
the bill. this measure could never have become q
law without his disfincf approval. He is more
responsible for it fact than either bFanch Of Con-
gress because his single wilt decided the question
in his Oac,l fauOF. Had there been no constitu-
tional doubt to give pAuse. there was a. least the
question of delIcacy, if not Of decency, to cause
President to hesitate about signing bin in the
last hours OF an exphing CongTess, by which he
was personally TO pocket more thVa 100000. For
this this law makes his pay date back from the
4th of March, instead Of the LIST OF July, the be-
ginning OF the fiscal year. mp to which time the reg
nlar salary had already been appropriated. lie
received, therefore. four months OF back pay at
the increased rate s5 i...'
Year: 1873

A DISPATCH to The San Diego Un1on of May 3, says that the troops are still waiting endorsements. It is said that the guides were at fault on the 26th. We will bet new hat that if Crook had charge of this Modoc business he would not ask re- Inducements if he had but 8 hundred men, and we will bet new pair of boots that he would not wait six hours before he would open the fight, and we will bet the balance we are worth, he would win the fight.