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Year: 1872

EwA very wicked Connecticut man
being recently taken i'll, and believing be
was about to die, told neighbor that he
felt the need of preparation for the next
world and would like to see some proper
person in regard to it. whereupou the
feeling friend sent for fire insurance
agent
Year: 1872

EFT An exchange, describing a fash
ionable party. speaks of gallant who
whispered to lady. land took her apart"
and uugallautly adds that lit is not very
difficult feat to take lady apart these
times; but there is very little of her left
afterward."
Year: 1872

INDIA RUBBER. The belt of land q.
round the globe FIVE hundred miles south
Of the equator abounds in trees producing
the gun of India rubber. They can be
tapped for twenty successive seasons, with.
out injury and the trees stand SO close
that one man can gather the sap of eight
in day. each tree yielding on an average
three table-spoonfuls daily. Forty-three
thousand of these trees have been counted
in tract of country thirty miles long and
eight wide. There are 10 America and
Europe more than one hundred and fifty
manufactures OF India rubber articles, en-
ploying some 500 operatives each, and
consuming more than ten million pounds
of the gun per year, and the business is
considered to be still in its infancy. But
to whatever extent it may increase, there
will still be plenty of material to supply
the demand.
Year: 1872

FOR HOLIDAY GOODS, CALL AT FRANK's


LADIES AND CHILDRENs


FURNISHING GOODS STORE
Where you viii surely get suited, and bargains you
may expect as the stock is large and 1t must be
reduced.
Year: 1872

The campaign has developed with unmis-
taxable force and cleaTness the fact that this
movement cannot be carried on successfully
ON a basis of expediency. 1t has no sham OF
makeshift in its idea. 1t began on the highest
princIple-sought and received favor on that
basis, and has failed of complete success just
TO the degree that it has been controlled by
Dolicy. They who think the Cincinnati
platform a trap to catch votes, and not
an expression of principle that cannot be
swerved from, little understand ITS meaning,
and are an uncertain advantage to Its success.
The bittcrest opponent OF the Liberal
movement-if he be a thinking creature
knows that the Liberal platform sooner or
later must succeed. 1t expresses the spirit and
hope of q Free Government in which the people
are wholly equal, and bound together in one des-
tiny. 1t speaks the wish of all patriotic men
TO purify and ennOble every branch OF the
Government. 1t would restore the honesty of
the days when the nation was born, and util-
ize any practical advances in politics and
craftsmanship. The party honestly presenting
such platform must succeed. IL may be
bafiled betrayed, misrepresented, and delayed,
but it cannot fail of a final and en-
during SUCCESS. lut OuO hNhifhu upon ~ -
that it shall be honest and consistent In its
efforts; that it shall, with unswerying fidelity
TO its principles, make aggressive war upon
all who oppose them. There must be no truck
ling, no compromising, no bargaining for
votes. They whose high duty and appoint
ment it is to lead in this contest must accept
in all the fullness of its meaning the homely
truth, approved through all the ages, that
honesty is the best policy. Any other policy
is impolitic; any expedient, no matter what
for the moment it promises, is inexpedient.
Earnest for the triumph of the Liberal party,
we present it as the only rule by which victory
is possibe, OF valuable if won.


We can better put new wine into old bottles
than test the temper Of the people now by Old
party formulas. The specious devices that
once obtained favor are now as well under
stood by the masses as by the leaders. A de-
vice assumes that leaders are more intelligent
than the masses Whatever there may be IN
the old Republican party to sustain such as
sumption, there is nothing in the new party
In the new organization the people are
leading the leaders, and are far beyond them.
From the first they caught to most advanced
Year: 1872

rightness. He was to be leader in the cam
paign against corruption. Before he had
taken the chair he had this money in bis
pocket. He had ceased to be legislator, and
made himself the paid agent of the Bischoif-
shem g. GOldschmdt party of Erie stock
holders. He had given his adherence to that
shameless and unprincipled theory of public
duty which makes honest legislation impossi-
BILE, converts the representatives Of the people
into hired advocates of anybody and every
body rich enough to pay for their services,
and removes from bribery even the necessity
of secrecy and the danger of punishment
But Mr.. Smith, after all, and his colleague,
Gen. Barlow, are average specimens Of the
reformers bred in the Custom-house party
and about as good as we could expect to get
from that organization.
Year: 1872

upon the majestic dome Of st. Pauls. may we'll
darken the archiepiscOpal brow, and loose tho
denunciatory thunders Of the cathedral Still It's
apuzzle how the majority Of the Queens subjects
could be prevented from building a meet
ing-house if they wanted to. If they choose
TO put bronze idol in it with large ears ard
diamond eye, an obtrusiye stomach ard
folded legs, if they choose to conduct their
services in HindoO or Sanscrit, through Ito
intermediation of BONES instead of bishops
it is difficult to see what act of Parliament is
to restrain them.


The suggestion has been seriously made that
this initial adventure is missionary enterprise
intended to attempt the conversion to Buddhism
of the nations of the West, as the nations Of
the West have sent many missionaries 10 at
tempt the conversion TO Christianity Of tho na-
tions of the East These latter have usu-
ally been politely received and permitted
to assume their works of evaDgelization


in peace. We do not think that this is tho
design at present, but deem it merely tic
effort of small number of pious HindOos
permanently resident in London to establish q
temple in which they may unmolested wag
reverential turbans before the images Of their
anClenJ BOuS' NOr Can VIC oh"io OhO H'Nh-
bishops evident apprehension that any peril
will come to Christianity from such establish
ment We have not the least dread that o
brazen image of Guatama will ever DO
erected before the high altar of Canterbury;
nor that the reverend bench Of bishops, and
the established clergy, all and singular.
Will be turned adrift to mako way for the
wandering and mendicant Sramanas or Blk
shus, who are the sole ministers of the alien
faith. 1t was said of Rome that it was
"Shrine of oil Saints and Temple Of all Gods"
and it may be that London is in time TO Ic-
come 50. But she will put back the day Of
that imperial consummation if she intcrdicts the
Dagoda and brings the instrumentalties of &C.
clesiastical oppression to bear upon JamseIzeo
Jeejee (and other 'bhOys.
Year: 1872

his utterly unauthorized employment Of an
aide-de-camp to make treaty with the Re-
public of SantO Domingo, his conduct when
the treaty was before the Senate was unde-
niably illegal and indecorous. He went as
lobbyist into the ante-rooms Of the SEN
ate and pertinaciously urged these schemes
upon individual Senators. He rewarded
with public patronage those who favored
il, and turned out of Office without cause the
friends of those who opposed it, Mr.. Sumner
voted against it, and the next day the Presl-
dent recalled Mr. Motley, as the bitterest
blow he could strike at the Massachusetts
Senator. All whose convictions of duty COM
PEELED them to resist the adoption OF TINS
treaty were at once put under the ban OF the
Administration; their friends dismissed. their
counses thereafter disregarded. After tniling
in the Spring of 1870 to carry his point, he
came back to it once more in the Winter ses-
sion, in that prepOsterOus Message in which he
said the acquisition was necessary to the
payment of the national debt, and lectured
the Senate "on their folly in rejecting so great
"a prize.n He only dropped it when he found
he could not force Congress to pass it and the
country to approve it.


Not less striking was the recent effort OF
the President and the Household Congressman
TO force through both Houses of Congress, III
the later days of the session, those provisions
for extending the Ku-Klux laws and amplfy-
ing the Force bill, which, if successful, would
have virtually made the exercise of the suffrage
throughout the United States dependent upon
the good pleasure of the Administration for
a. l.. In, Epsf rlQ
section of the Ku-Klux act was to be extended
for year to cover the Presidential canvass.
This section empowers the President OF the
United States, in his own discretion, to sus-
pend the writ of habeas corpus wherever ne
shall see fit, on the pre.ense that the rights OF
citizens are not properly protected by State
Governments. The Enforcement act was IN
tended to supplement this precious plan by
putting the control of the election machinery
in the hands of Federal officers, who should
not orly oversee the elections, but have power
to arrest voters on sight. The vigilant resist
ance made by the opposition in both Houses
defeated this conspiracy against the suffrage;
but if it had prospcred, we might as well
have had no farther elections under Gen.
Grant.


When we add to these evidences OF gross
incapacity to understand or appreciate what
legal principle is, the hundreds of instances
ia which, for a personal caprice or political
spite, the President has injured the service and
discredited his own position by his appoint
ments and removals, we can then comprehend
the gravity of that lawless tendency which
has already alarmed the best lawyers and
clearest thinkers of both Houses, and united
against him. last year, every journal III the
country of the least pretensions to lnde-
pendence. Even The Erening Post, not many
weeks ago, said the Presidents Ignorance
and contempt of law was becoming every
day more prominent" 1t has said nothing
SO true since then.
Year: 1872

THE PRESIDENTS CONTEMPT FOB LAW


We have mover agreed with those who re-


gard the President as harbOring ideas of usur-


nation OF purposes hostile to the republican


form of government. Usurpers have usually
been men of some vivacity of intellect eager
for power either on account of the glitter and
luxury which come with it, OF on account OF
its accompanying breadth and scope of oppor-


tunities. But Gen. Grant cares very little for
either the shows or the responsibilities of
power. He likes the Presidency because, as
he administers it, it is an easy, pleasant place,


with plenty of fattery of a coarse, congenial
kind, salary and perquisites enough for COM
Portable living, and frequent occasions to pro-
vide for his family and friends. He
has very little respect for the office be-
yond this. He doubtless regards it as
a proper though inadequate repayment of his
services during the war; and credits the nation
with it in his account, as far as it goes. He
is a man of too little imagination to dream of
coups d6tdt or of the violent subyerson of the
form of government. The danger there is in him
lies in this-that he knows so little and cares so
little about law, that his continual infractons
of it, from mere selfish disregard Of legality,
if they are permitted to go on, and perpetually
defended or cOndoned by his flatterers, will re-
suit in a serious and permanent injury to the
law-abiding sentiment of the country.


There are several strong illustrations of this
tendency in Mr.. Fenton's admirably clear and
practical speech recently delivered at his home
in Chautauqua County. He referred to the
unfounded eulogies which the President has
received from his partisans for having at last
given up his Santo Domingo project. He was
literally forced to drop it, and did 80 with the
worst grace imaginable. Every step which he
took in this matter proved how little he knew
about the constitutional limits of his power,
aad how little he respected them. Passing by
Year: 1872

They have a Grant treasurer in Olmstcad Co..
Minnesota whose skill and ingenuity in manipu-
latng the public moneys have arrested the attention
Of the Liberals, who propose to turn this gentleman
out, no matter bow the Presidential election may
GO 1t seems that the county cash is mainly used
for private speculations being loaned to county
officers at five per cent per anuum and by them in
turn loaned to private persons on farm mortgages at
from three to five per cent per month. This is only
one of the disreputable doingsthero are Others in
plenty, and not bit more fragrant; and the local
newspaper may well ask: What is the country
coming to ~
Year: 1872

marauders should be sent across to our own
territory for trial. Tho Mexicans have given
us abundant occasion to wish we had better
neighbor on the south but Gen. ROcha begins
his administration as if he wanted to do exactly
what is right in the premises.
Year: 1872

An astonishing thing this was at Bucharest. re-
Gently 1t had been a clOudless and uncommonly
hot day, and IN the evening, while the mha0Hants
were ont for a walk and the gardens we're crowded.
suddenly a cloud appeared, and shortly after rain
began to fall-rain of extraordinary description,
for the shower consisted OF small black of he
size of an ordinary fly. The streets were streNn
with these singular creatures. Cannot the gentle
man who manages the weather at Washington give
us little shower Of this dndi It would work bean
tifurly into paragraph and ill every scientific
heart with rapture.
Year: 1872

Half the perplexity, annoy yance, and
trouble that men have in this world is in
consequence of getting into debt. 1t
seems to be natural for some people to
buy and incur obligations without mea-
sure, 80 long as they can avoid paying
chance to buy on credit, and the questions
of price and conditions Of payment are
matters that he cares but little about But
what crop Of trouble springs up from
the seed Of debt. How many sleepless
nichts result from itt How many gray
hairs it brings. and how often it shortens
life-sometimes leading men to commit
suicide or murder And yet, how easy
thing it is to keep clear of this terrible
monster; Every young man should form
a fixed and unaterable dcterm nation, b..
fore commencing his active business ca
reer, not to incur one penny of indebted
ness under any circumstances. Never
borrow. Never buy anything unless you
have the money to pay for it at once. Pay
no attent on to "splendid opportunities"
"bargains," "rare chances, and the like.
Such affairs are only the traps which
debt SETS to catch victims. If you see
anything that you would like to buy, or if
any offer is made that you would like to
accept, look, first, at your money pi e,
an make the answer depend upon that.
Always pay as you 60. If you are short
of money, you guage your demands ac-
cordingly. Foster habits Of economy, live
within your means, buy nothing that you
cannot properly afford and you will go on
through life free from the m series and
troubles that ever beset the path of the
debtor.
Year: 1872

had eaten my dinnerT The Count De
Brancas, a friend of La Bruyenne and
Rochefoucauld, was one day reading in
his study, when nurse brought in lite
infant; he put down his book, took mp the
infant, and caressed it admiringly. A
friend came in, and Brancas threw down
the baby on the table, thinking it was
book, not detecting his error until loud
cry announced it. On another occasion
Rochefoucaud crossed the street to greet
him. Brancas said, GOD help you, my
poor manp Rochefoucauld smiled, and
was about to speak. when the other inter
rupted him: al told you that l had moth
ing for you; there is no use in your teas
ing me; why don't you try to get work.
Such lazy iders as you make the streets
quite disagreeable." Rochefoucaud's
hearty laugh at length reused him from
his reveriel Men have been known to e1-
libit such instances Of absence Of mind as
the following: Taking out watch, look
ing at it, and then asking, "Wha 8
o'clock p going to house where friends
have lived, and forgetting that they had
removed; going up to dress for dinner
forgetting the main purpose in view, AMI
Getting into bed instead; taking imagi-
nary pinches of snuff while talking. for
yettiny all the time that the box is empty.
Year: 1872

A few days ago, commercial gentleman
was sojourning at a certain inn in Here
ford, where he Glanced to fall in company
with respectable tradesman of the place,
who, by the bye, is celebrated as pract.-
ca Joker Over the discussion Of ass
of grog, the conversation turned upon
horsemanship, and it was evident that the
commercial gent" thought hiuDs'f no
mean equestrian. A bet was proposed by
our fellow-citizen, that he had horse at
home which the traveller could not ride a
mile between that time and six o'Sock in
the evening, it being then about three
Pm. The bet was readily accepted, and
the tradesmen agreed to proceed home to
bride and saddle this unmanageable
brute" and to prepare him for a start;
and while he was so doing, the CONNER


cial gentleman was to prepare himself for
what the other had led him to expect


would prove "a great undertaking" He
was soon booted and spurred, and with
heavy whip in his hand; and looking an
equestrian all over, he proceeded to the
Year: 1872

A room with pictures in il, and room
without pictures, differ by nearly as much
as a room with windows and room with
out windows; Nothing, we think, is more
melancholy, particularly TO person who
has to pass much time in his room, than
blank walls for pictures are loopholes Of
escape to the soul, leading it to 9th r
scenes and other spheres It is such an
inexpressible relief to person engaged IN
writing, or even reading, on looking up,
to find his soul escaping, as it were,
through the frame of an exquisite picture,
to other beautiful, and perhaps Idyllic
scenes, where the fancy for moment
may revel, refreshed and delighted. Is it
winter in your world? Perhaps it is sum-
mer in the picture; what charming mo-
mentary change and contrast And thus
pictures are CONSIDERS Of loneliness; they
are a sweet fattery to the soul they are
relief to the jaded mind /; they are win
dows to the imprisoned thought they are
books; they are histories and sermons,
which We can read without the trouble Of
turning over the leaves.
Year: 1872

Many years ago MAJOR Stone, of the
Fifteenth British Hussars, then stationed
in India, had gold watch and chain
stolen from his drawing room table. Col
lecting all the native servants, of whom he
had any suspicion, tose her, and ma,ing
them join hands, he told them that
presently his God would give them
shock which would, however, be harmless
to all but tie culpr.t: but that, if he were
among them, he would, in about an hour,
turn green and silently die. The black
fellows grinned incred !ously, when the
wires Of a very powerful battery, repaired
brought in contact with the two end
men so severe was the shock hat three
of them fell to the ground. The Mao
then remarked that if the guilty one
came to him within half an hour he wou d
apply an antidote which would save his
life The effect of the shock upon the
superstitious thief was so great as to in
duce belief in the prospect Of turning
green, and dying, and he shortly came,
watch and chain in hand, to beg for
mercy and the antidote.


Recently, similar attempt by police
man, in India, to bring a woman to the
con nfessional was not so satisfactory. The
woman died through fright, and the po-
liceman was brought to answer charge


homicide
Year: 1872

From Fulton. of the Baltimore American.l


He is man ofremarkably ungraceful
appearance. He is short and thick set,
with high shoulders and short neck. His
head is round and face full, with his hair
parted in the middle, and short, thick
brown whiskers circling his face, both
chin and bpper lip being closely shaven.
AT the first sight the impression is one
of disappointment, as it would seem i'm.
possible to expect anything original OF
impressive from SO ordinary and mate.
rial looking man. He rushed into his
pulpit duties as if he was in hurry to
get through with them, not waiting for
the hundreds Of persons TO obtain seats
who had just crowded themselves into the
aisles aud vestibules. Three hymns
were given out and sung before the SER
mon, two extempore prayers delivered,
and chapter of the Bible read, the
speaker commenting on each verse as
he progressed, making practical ap-
plioation, and explaining aud expound-
ing its meaning.
Year: 1872

The Lords day is good day in which
to learn to love your neighbor as your
self / do not think it is a great sin if
your neighbor has his side-door open on
the Sabbath day for you to walk across
the lawn and sit on his porch and talk
with him of things solemnly. | think
the Lord likes that. do not think that
if your household is more radiant, and
your children wake up and say as |
never did Thank God, it is Sunday"
/ don't think that if you make it the best
day of the week, and your children are
good-natured and joyful, that they are
any the worse. 9 . believe in
letting out the harness little. be-
lieve in making the holes for the buckle
little lower down. Let our Lords day
be a church day in the morning, aud
family day the rest of the time.
| think that we preach too much.
] think that we overteach and over
tax the Sabbath school / think
we are making the Lords day la
borious | do not think that we use
Sunday enough to make the family finer,
sweeter, more compact, more homogen-
eous, more social and SO more religious.
see many, many men who come to
church stern and stiff. They would not
for all the world ride in car on Sum
day-no; nor 20 over the ferry on Sun
day-no; nor do anything at home that
made them agreeable-no do not hold
up their way of keeping the Sabbath as
model. Sunday is a day of household
love. 1t is day of family reunion. IL
lis day in which the children ought to
feel that their father and mother never
were so handsome before, and never
we're so good. 1t is day in which
every part of the household should, at
the going down of the sun, be able to
say, Thank God for this open door of
heaven, which has poured out so many
happy hours TO us. ih Df i.lar