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Year: 1872

"Joy to Philip he this day
Has his long coats cast away.
And (the childish seassn gomez
Put the manly breeches on.
Officer on gay parade,
Red-coat in his first cockade,
Bridegroom in his wedding-trim,
Birthday beau surprising him,
Never did with conscious gait
Strut about in half the state
Or the pride yet free from sln)
OF my little manikin;
Never was there pride or bliss
Half so rational as his.
Sashes, frocks, to those that need 'em,
Philips limbs have got their freedom.
He can run, or he can ride,
And do twenty things beside,
Which his petticoats forbade;
Is not he happy lad?
Now he's under other banners
He must leave his former manners:
Bid adieu to female games,
And forget their very names;
Puss in-corners, hide-and-seek,
Sports for girls and pussies weak
Baste-the-bear he may now play at,
Leap-frog, football, sport away at;
Show his skill and strength at cricket;
Mark his distance, pitch his wicket;
Run about in winters snow
Till his cheeks and fingers glow;
Climb tree or scale wall ...
Without any fear to fall;
If he get hurt or bruise,
To complain he must refuse,
Though the anguish and the smart
Go unto his little heart;
He must have his courage ready,
Keep his voice and visage steady;
Brace his eyeballs stiff as drum,
That tear may never come;
And his grief must only speak
From the color in his cheek
This and more he must endure,
Hero he in miniature.
This and more must now be done,
Now the breeches are put on.''


-Ru7dL NeaO Yorker
Year: 1872

AT school exhibition in town in
Maine, the following essay received the
prize: "On the Turkle.-This animal is
found most always in the water, but
sometimes he leaves the water, and then
he comes on the lard. The turkle cannot
fly IF the turkle was the right kind of
bird he could fly; but if he was goose
bird or an ostrich he could not fly. The
turkle has four paws and mouth like the
American eagle, which makes the British
lion and the uniform tremble. The turkle
has shell, and sometimes folks put fire
on his shell, and then the turkle crawls
out; but he never crawls back again.
When the turkle crawls out of his she'll
he is very wet and sticky. There are two
kinds of turkles-the mud turkles and the
other kind. We don't have the other
kind in our pond. French and Irish peo-
pie eat turkles and frogs, but l should not
like to. I caught a turkle once, but it
didn't do me any good, for swopped it
off for iack-knife, and cut my fingers.
Father said it was a Judgment, but I
thought it was knife. Yours, respect
fully, LUCIUs TEwKsBURY Fay"
Year: 1872

"What are you doing in that corner,
Josie! said Annie Grey, coming in to call
her sister out to roll hoop, and finding
her setting in the corner of thcir moth
er's room, with her bright face resting
on her two little brown hands, very
quiet and thoughtful.


Want to earn some money" ."said the lit
tie girl, g and 1 don't know how


"Earn money for what?'


Il want to earn enough to buy cur
tains for mothers windows


20, Josie! A girl eight years old to
earn enough money for that. What put
that in your head?"


"Mother did herself. She wants tn en-
so much. And when I asked her why
she didn't buy them, she said: Because
| have SO many little mouths to feed
and so many little bodies to keep W arm
and comfortable. We hav enough for that
thank God, but we've nothing to spare
for fancies, and the curtains are only a
fancy of mine?' And I felt so sorry, An
ME- cause mother did look as if she'd
like her fancy very much. But since
yesterday I've felt worse than ever
about it,for when that telegram came to
say that Aunt Clara was so sick, and
mother must come to see her, and she
was getting ready in such hurry, | saw
her open that box which shut with a
spring and take some money out of it,
and she said to father, 'how fortunate
it is that I have this money, now that
you are SO pressed. l have been put
ting away dime every week to see
whether [ could spare it to buy some
muslin curains for our room. There is
dollar here, and it will just take me
out to Clara's and back again I felt
so bad, Annie, that a great big lump
came into my throat and my eyes be-
came all wet. 1t was such disap-
pointment for mother, and she just
tried to look as if it wasn't bit.
Wouldn't it be lovely if we could earn
money enough to buy some!"


"Oh! yes, lovely said Annie; "but
then we couldn't you know


"How hard would you be willing to
work for it," asked voice from the
other side of the room. "Would
you give up your whole Saturday."


Josie sprang up and ran to the speak
er, who sat busy making up an en-
broidered chair.


"Oh! I'd do anything" she said,
eagerly, "and give up this Friday after
noon, too"


"Well, that chair must be finished
on Monday, and it is to be made over
before this new cover is put on.''


Josie skipped into the next room
her uncle's shop Che was a cabinet
maker) and came skipping back a
gain.


Il see it, Aunt Lottie." said she all
on tiptoe with expectation.


"That chair must be picked over
before tomorrow night. I was going
to send for boy to do it, because
shall not have time. 1t will be q long,
| tiresome days work, but if you
choose to do it I will give you a dol
lar"


"And that will buy the curtains, for
I saw some with beautiful big scallops
on the edge, marked one dollar, in the
Year: 1872

The Tribune is not and will never
more be party organ; but it is ardent
ly enlisted in the contest now waging
for Civil Service Reform and for One
Presidential Term as essential to that
Reform. 1t accepts the C;nei"aati
Platform as terse and forcible ex-
position of the political right and wrong
the needs and hopes of To-Day, and
looks hopefully to Universal Amnesty as
essential to the restoration of genuine
fraternity between North and South,
and Of mutual confidence and good will
between White and Black. 1t believes
the people are preparing to break the
rusty shackles Of mere bygone parts
anship, and it hopes for result next
November which will cheer and strength
en- the champions of Peace and Good
Will. 1t will issue no campaign edit
on, but proffers to all who believe its
future diffusion may serve the good
cause it's regular editions at the lowest
possible prices.


The virtual surrender by the Demo-
cratic party of its hostility to Equal
Rights regardless of Color has divested
our current politics of half their bygone
intensity. However parties may hence
forth rise Or fall, it is clear that the fun
damental principles which have hither-
to honorably distinguished the Repub-
licans are henceforth to be regarded as
practically accepted by the whole coun-
try. The right of every man to his
own limbs and sinews-the equality of
all citizens before the law-the inability
of a State to enslave any portion of its
people-the duty Of the Union to guar
antee to every citizen the full enjoy
ment of his liberty until he forfeits it
by crime-such are the broad and firm
foundations of our National edifice; and
palsied be the hand which shall seek to
displace them! Though not yet twenty
years old, the Republican party has
completed the noble fabric of Emanci-
patton, and may fairly invoke there IN
the sternest judgment Of Man and the
benignant smile of God.


Henceforth, the mission of our Re-
public is one of Peaceful Progress. To
protect the weak and the humble from
violence and opprcssion-to extend the
boundaries and diffuse the blessings of
Civilization-to stimulate Ingenuity to
the production of new inventions for
economizing Labor and thus enlarging
Production-to draw nearer to each
other the producers Of Food and of
Fabrics, of Grain and of Metals, and
thus enhance the gains Of industry BY
reducing the cost of transportation and
exchanges between farmers and artis-
ans-such is the inspiring task to which
this Nation now address itself, aud by
which it would fain contribute to the
progress, enlightenment, and happiness
Of our race. To this great and good
work, The Tribune contributes it zeal
GUS, persistent efforts.


Agriculture will continue to be more
especially elucidated in its Weekly and
Semi-W eekly editions, to which some
of the ablest and most successful tillers
| of the soil will steadily contribute. No
Year: 1872

Will attend to House, Sign, or Carriage
Painting at short notice and reasonable
rates Shop on the South side Of Market
street nearly opposite Flemmings lumber
office. lie proposes not to be eXcelled in
any branch of the business either as to price
style or speed Of work.


n26tf May %, 1868.
Year: 1872

A little Miss, in her thirteenth year, sends uf
the following. original piece of poety, which il
very creditable for one 30 young, and we shall
be pleased to hear from her again.-ED.


OUR BABY.
Where is our darling little baby,
The tiny feet upon the floor,
And the little voice that called,
Papa, Mamma, at the door.
She has gone from earth to heaven,
From us mortals here on earth
And her soul is pure and stainless
. As on the morn that gave her birth.
We will not mourn her ABSENCE
Or wish her back within
This weary world Of sadness
This wicked world Of sin.
She has gone to heaven,


Where all is pure and bright
And every thing within the gate
Shines with golden light
Our little babe, we bid adieu,
Since we can see thee here no more,
We hope in heaven to meet you,
Upon that bright and blissful shore.


ALICE MAY.
South Reading, Vt, April 90, '72.
Year: 1872

REPUBLICANS Of Iowa put in a prop
er appearance and elected at their
late State convention, colored gent
leman, black, shiny and glib oftongue,
as one of the delegates to the Republi-
can National Convention. OF course
that party scents its best man as its
representative, according to its right.
Year: 1872

FIRE.-On Sunday evening, Mr.. and
Mrs Cash left their house for a short
time to visit at a neighbors. soon after
which smoke was seen issuing from the
roof, fire having caught in the ceiling
from stove-pipe. Before TIE flames
could be arrest the house was nearly
consumed. Most of the furniture was
saved
Year: 1872

MUNG NEws.-The Courier of the Goth,
copies from and credits to the Portland
Herald of the 18th, an article " concern
Ing the terminus question" If the
editor of the Courier had examined the
DISPATCH of the 18th, it would have
found in its editorial matter the same
article, word for word, and beside get
ting it before its readers week earlier,
would have given credit where credit is
due.
Year: 1872

White laborcrs In the south seem to get
along much better, us far as health Ia concerned,
than few years ago IL was generally believed
they could. White men may be seen all the
year round working In the fields OF Louisiana
and on the islands along the Gulf shore. There
Is an extensive Geld for white labor in the South
The cotton manufacturing interests OF that
region are becoming every year more important,
and there IL no reason why numbers Of the III
paid cotton operatives in the New England
States should not seek higher wages and more
Independence In Georgia and Tennessee. South
ern men win see ere long the folly of sending
their great staple to New England TO be manu-
facturcd, when they have water power and can
easily obtain the manual power To make II avail
able. Manufacture your own cotton. There II
the speediest and most enectum method Of
avenginR yourselves on the Yankees.
Year: 1872

tife fsct thsf whom tbs ofhcial representative Of
the London Fire Brigade was on visit to this
country, ne asserted that Boston had tho most
cficiebt Ore department In the world. We are
under the impression that he safd tho same
thing about New York.
Year: 1872

The Bishop of Gloucester las recently
asserted that the Church Of England comprises
In reality but two parties, the High Church and
the Low Church the party known as the Broad
Church being deficient In numbers, influence,
ana the power of aggregation. In his opinion
the two great parties gradually drawing
together with a view to make common cause
against Socinlanism and other enemies Of tho
Establishment. This view Is said to be truo
only as respects the clergy, a great majority Of
whom, with some eminent exceptions, are suf-
hoiently orthodox to satisfy any ordinary, old
fashioned Churohman Hut with the laity the
case Is very different. The Broad Church in.
cludes many thousands of th0m, for the most
part intelligent and jealous men, who are
abundanily abe to establish party organiza-
ton which will one day make itself felt both In
church and state. The London Spectator de-
cla,es that the divergence between. the Angli-
can clergy aud lllty is at this moment greater
and more dangerous than between any two par
ties In tho'Church. The same is probably true
OF this country, although Broad Church doc
trines have not taken very deep root here among
the orthodox Protestant bodies.
Year: 1872

Few people are aware of the inside work. lngs of printing office, nor of the annoy ances attendant upon the publication of a newspaper. It is impossible to form any thing like correct idea of the number of men there are in this and every community

 who make it point about every other time they meet you to tell you of some impor. tant fact that ought to be noticed by the paper, pro bono pu6lico. Generally, how ever, 1t turns out that the item referred ,o IS ore in which the informant has .an ax to grind, and the newspaper is to be the Tree horse on which he expects to ride into public notice and confidence. Or if no, that he is constantly annoyed by mutt plicity of communications, which are al ways lengthy, and contain nothing that anybody cares to see in print or know any thlng ot whatever, except the writer, and perhaps one or two other particular indi VIduals, and for whose exclusive benefit i, was written, it not for moment occurrinp to the writer that communications for a newspaper should be such as would interes, thousands of readers. The newspaper busi ness IS very exacting on all connected with it and the pay is comparatively small. The proprietors risk large amount of money Tor smaller profits, and the editors and printers work harder and cheaper than the same number of men in any other profes sion requiring the given amount of intelli gence and training. The life has it's charms and pleasant associations scarcely known to the outside world but it hes it's earnest work, and hours of exhaustion, which. like. wise, are not known to those who think the business all fun. The idea that news paperdom is the charmed circle where the favored members live life of ease. free from care, is mistaken one. Business is business and the journal that succeeds is the one that is run on a square business footing, with the same system as banding house.-Petl0 Blade.
Year: 1872

How TO MAKE TRADE AoTIyE.-The Journal of Commerce, Financial article, after dwelling upon the unsatisfactory con dition of city trade, as at present existing. observes: People who sit nervouslv in counting houses or behind their goods, waiting for customers to take them by storm, and making no effort to let the world know the bargains they have to offer. will hnd the season very unpropitious, Many of those who have spent large sums in hiring drummers, and paying for other we'll known appliances of trade, have effect ed large sales but swallowed up too large d share of the receipts in such enormous at tendant expenses. The best remuneration has been found by those who have returned to more legitimate oldfashioned methods of pushing their business. We Say it, not simply because we are interested in this line of expenditure, but as our best advice to all who wish to be enterprising and to secure large custom, there is nothing now so effective to the end as judicious adyer Using. A little advertising may be like the gentle touch of the whip to poor Dobbn's 8 horse, ''a mercy thrown away; but d liberal outlay is almost certain to bring in a large return, and this will last even beyond the current season. We do not believe that any one who has valuable service or desir. able property to offer can fail of reaping rich harvest by continuous advertising on large scale.
Year: 1872

THE raid made on Christmas day OH some
Of the leading gambling houses in Boston has
occasioned some surprise that E,ich things
could possibly exist in that moral metropolis.
Yet recent facts clearly prove that the Hub is
no better than any Of her neigbbors. Five OF
the principal dens were seized by the police.
and an aggregate Of about hundred men were


arrested. Among them were number Of
prominent citizens, including, besides merchants
and manufactures, one bank president and a
clergyman Of another city. They were all taken
10 the headquarters. OF the State Police, and
were admitted bail fortheir appearance al
court. Naturally there was great CONSERVATION
among the victims They will all probably
learn lesson which may teach them that, even
in Boston, "the way oithe transgressoris Is hard
Year: 1872

A Boston woman, who had long been
given up for dead by all who were dear to
her, lately appeared, the ghost Of her
former SELF" to those who had thought
never to see her again. She told story
of strange and horrible suffering More
than score Of years ago she had sailed, a
young girl of is. with her missionary hus-
band for "Indias coral strand" The YES
sci was wrecked ON the Arabian coast and
alton board perished save her husband
and herself. He was preserved only to
fall a. victim to Arab cruelty, and she to
Arab slavery. While her beauty lasted
she was the favorite wife of the most pow
crful chief in the. South Arabian desert,
but when that waned. she fell from her
"bad cminencc and was transferred to
the harem of.an inferior sheik And 50
she lived, prayed for death, but not during
to die, till, banded from one barbarian TO
another she, a Boston lady in whose veins
flowed the purcst Puritan blood, found
herself the wife of an Arabian wlter-car-
rier. From his power an American trav-
eller freed her and provided her with the
means to reach home.
Year: 1872

We have heard within the past week or
more a. great deal Of foolish twaddle about
Treasurer Parker running away from the
State. First it was heralded all about that
he had run away to New York to escape
arrest for. fraud and corruption in the man
agement of the State finances. A short
time elapsed, and he was again seenin Co.
lumbia as free as.any man. He took a
short trip to Charleston, on business, last
week, and forthwith the croakers again be-
gan to howl about Parker. running away
to escape arrest. he came back in day
or two and signifed his intention to go to
New York on business connected with his
official duty. Now the cssmor' is raised
again thatf Parker has run away" There
is one thing which. these constitutional
fault-fnders shsaa ever bear in mind,
and that is, that Treasurer Parker can go
when he pleases, where he pleases, and as
he pleases, and there is no power that can
stop him. except in legal manner, tBut
if there are any persons in Columbia, or
elsewhere, who harbor the thought that
Parker intends to run. away, they might
as well Danish that thought at once. He
will stay in Columbia without fear of ar
rest for any of the misdeeds charged against
him. That he should want to'get away
from the constant press upon him, is very
natural; but he does not go away from.
fear, or to escape the results of his own
acts, official or otherwise. Members Of the
Legislature may talk as much as they
please about the State Treasurer : but if
they had needed our oft=repeated suggcs-
tions to make short session, and not
squander, as they did, thousands upon
thousands, of dollars in useless extrava-
gance, we should have very different
state of affairs to-day These men may
talk to their hearts content, they cannot
escape the responsibility for their action
here last session The people are not to
be fooled any longer by this cry against
the State Treasurer. There were scores of
employees here at the Legislature last
winter VINO, after working all winter, found
at the end of the session that some one
else had taken care Of their pay certificates
for them. In other words, there were
members Of. the Legislature here at the
last session, who secured the appointment
of attaches, and then doubtless pocketed
their pay certificates. The people all over
the State must see to it that a better class
of men are sent to the General Assembly
next time, or the Republican party may
Just as we'll surrender its hold upon the
popular heart. There were good men in
the last General Assembly-mcn whom
we hope to see reelected, but they were
the exception and not the rule. 1t is no
use to try to throw the responsibility upon
the State officers, for if the Legislature
had done as it ought, the State TO day
would be hundreds of thousands Of dol
lars richer than it is Let the people, who
make legislators look after this matter
Columbia Union.
Year: 1872

The Washington letters and kilograms
syeak of the decided effect wrought upon
The administration and its friends by the
late Nem York Liberal demonstration. 1t
was one which took all parties by surprise.
1t gave as much satisfaction to the pow
erful party opposed to the administration
as it gave of pain to the administration
and its friends. We copy below a tele-
gram to the Baltimore Sun, which is OF
the general tenor Of the Washington dis
patches on this subject


WASHINGTON, April II.


The significance of the New York de-
monstration OF Friday evening against
the reelection Of President Grant is sup
ported by such formidable and eminent
array Of Republicans that astonishment is
excited instead of ridiculc in Administra-
ton quarters. Some Of the most san
ruine friends of The Cincinnati Conven-
ton hardly expected that three or four
hundred of the men foremost in the Re-
publican ranks OF the State of New York
would be found to be officers of the first
mass meeting of the Presidential cam
pairn in the Liberal movement; but such
is the fact. With one or two exceptions,
all the wealthy Republicans in New York
City who subscribed literally four years
ago for the election of Grant are now op..
posed to him, and they arc determined
that nothing shall be left undone to carry
the Stales of New York and Pennsylva-
MIA against him.
Year: 1872

How A MINISTER LOST A THOUSAND
.Do11ARs.-The Lehigh Valley (Pa) Ga
sette publishes this A wealthy Williams
port gentleman became SO much attached
to clergyman Of that city. that he asked
him to preach his funeral sermon, no mat
ter where he might be-. The pastor prom
isod thut no matter what the distance that
separated. them, or the difficulties that
might be placed between, he would, when
informed of the death Of his old. friend,


drop all else, and hasten to the spot that
was to be the resting place Of his mortal
remains. The pastor aiseywatd removed
from that vicinity, and o short time ago
received the sad announcement that his
friend was dead, Instead of keeping bis
promise, he replied that he was unable to
Year: 1872

:. A mother, q few days since, found lost
daughter in New York, under circumstan-
ces showing that the girl had fallen to the
lowest depths Of vice, though all the good
was not crushed out for she was deeply
affected on meeting her mother The po-
flee officer who. was present at the meet


ing of the two, kindly expressed sorrow
for the mothers tears, that fell in show
or, and attempted to console her. oh,
sir said the mother, these are not tears
of sorrow; they are tears of joy al again
seeing my darling child. She is my own,
with all her faults Could anything be
more touching than that forgiveness Of
mother, who could weep for joy at
finding her child, who, in every sense,
seemed lost. There is lesson for fathers
who discard daughters and sons on slight
provocation; that lesson teaches that a


parent never should repel a child, degraded
as that child may have been. Forgive,
forgive, forgive, as you hope to be forgiven.