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Year: 1871

1t follows that my own idea of government is
that law should be the simplest possible express
sion of the necessities of sOciety, and admins
tration matter of business, not of show. 1t
does not follow, if we all agree in this, that we
shall be able to realize our ideal; | trust, how
ever, we shall honestly Try.
Year: 1871

The most necessary laws will often confer in
cidental personal advantages School houses


and highways will best accommodate those who


live nearest to them public buildings may en-
hance the value of contiguous property pub


lie Offices involve the payment of fees and sala-


ries to individuals.


From the nature Of things It's impossible that
law should equalize human conditions. There
every measure of lcgislatiou-is the general good


the object and individual advantage the neces-


sary incident? or is individual profit the object,


and the general good the incident or preteXt?


1t should always be remembered that government


is only the agent of the people for specified pur-
poses, that it should never attempt to do for the
| people what they can as well do for themselves,


and that, having nothing Of its own to bestow,


it cannot give to one without taking from another.
The law of compensation is ineXorable, and in
political economy it will be forever true, that to


seek partial good is to incur general evil.
No body of men was ever wise enough to ad-
Just the conflicting interests and direct the various
industries of large community. To attempt it
is to disturb the equilibrium OF society, Every
citizen has the same right to protection from his
government. Under the security afforded by a


Just government extending equal protection, en-
terprse and labor will find their most profitable
channels character its best developement, and


society its most harmonious organization. Bril-
liant schemes that promise immediate benefits in


particular direction appeal strongly to the i'm
agnation, but their highest success is too dearly
paid for by the sense of injustice which impairs
the respect for law and Weakens the ties Of pat
riOtism
Year: 1871

Established custom requires that the Governor
Of this State at the beginning Of his term of
office shall briefly outline the policy he desires
to eXemphty in his administration. | discharge
this duty not without ditlidence, for am fully
aware that experience in the execution of the
laws as they are can alone give that exact knowl-
edge of their details and actual working, which
is OF the highest value in forming an opinion of
their efficiency and Of the necessity of amend
ment.


The statement of general principles is compar-
atvely easy their practical application to af1airs
is more difficult, and to some extent experimental.
Not every theory will bear the test of practice
and too much legislation is one of the recognized
evils of government. One of the most phlo-
sophical and correct thinkers of modern times
has affirmed that the wisdom of the legislator is
ottener shown in the repeal Of old statutes than
in the enactment of new


That government will be best which confines
itself most strictly within the sphere of its du-
ties which, recognizing the sacredness of per-
sOnal freedom, imposes no more restrictions upon
the individual than is necessary for the safety
Of society, and whose laws, like those of nature,
are impartial in design and general in operation
The great mass of the people neither expect nor
desire any benefits from government which are
not common to all. There will always be, how
ever, an active few seeking the advancement of
their own interest by legislation, and they will
never be wanting in speciOus arguments in their
own behalf, while the public welfare is apt to be
silent until it is injured.
Year: 1871

The introduction to this State of large mum
bers of Asiatics has excited the jealousy Of one
class Of citizens, and the anxiety Of ALL That
the Immediate effects Of this immigration will be
10 cheaper labor, is apparent and in the influx


of this race the faborng classes find cause for
alarm, while the political student and class not
dependent upon manual labor for immediate sup
t'ort regard with apprehension the Introduction


~ neople into our midst so different from our
own as to preclude the possibility of assimila-
tion. These FEARS and apprehensions find full
expression in the platforms Of both political par
ties That the introduction of this race cheap
ems labor, and that many industries have been
prosecuted and are now made feasible though
this labor cannot be denied but that cheap la
Dor and the immediate material Development OF
our various resources aro the highest objects TO
Year: 1871

1t is sometimes conceded that the democratic
theory fails in its application to the municipal
government of large cities If it does, necessa-
ry its ultimate failure will be entire for diverse
principles of government cannot permanently
obtain in the Same general SYSTEM and the ten
dency Of population is more and more toward
Capitalization. Perhaps the cause of failure may
be found rather in the method of application than
in the principle itself. The city, where public
opinion is most concentrated and its great organ
the Press-most powerful where the interests
to be affected are most immediate, should be as
capable of municipal selfgoyernment as the
State and nation are of general government
The experiment should be fairly tried without
divided responsibility, and with the certainty
that the municipal regulations of city being
made by itself will be such as it deserves.


REVENUE AND TAXATION


The most important and difficult functions of
the State government relate to revenue and taxa
ton. To combine economy with efficiency in
administration, and to apporton taxes equitably,
are the ever-recurring problems which address
themselves to the legislator and political eeono-
mist. In public as in private life economy re-
quires the sacrifice of show to substance, and
the wise adaptation of means to ends. Blind
parsimony may prove as wasteful as williul eX-
travagance. The people expect their representa-
tyes to deal honestly with them to make ap-
Year: 1871

WASHINGTON, March 25.-The English
members of the Joint High Commits
sion were engaged yesterday in prepar-
ing mail for the home government, and
as Secretary Fish was obliged TO attend
session Of the Cabinet there was no
meeting of the High Commission. The
committee have not got beyond the
fishery question, and there does not
seem to be much prospect Of a satlsfac-
tory adjustment of the points of dispute
between the Canadians and our New
England fishermen. 1t is understood
that Col. John Warren, who claims
redress for Imprisonment in England,
has been informed that his memorial
will be brought up for consideration
whenever opportunity shall present
itself. All claimants will receive timely
public notice should any arrangement
be made for the adjustment Of their
claims, as to what may be required
from them in the way Of additional
papers or testimony.


New YORK, March 25.-The Times
Washington correspondent telegraphs
that the givings. out sent from here
regarding the proceedings of the Joint
High Commission are without any basis
whatever, SO far as details are concern
ed, for it is next to impossible that any
thing should be disclosed. All that
has become known up to the present
hour is that discussions have progressed
so far that it will probably be determin-
ed within the next week or ten days
whether there is any possibility of ar
irving at any satisfactory conclusions.
If the committee remains in session be-
yond the first week in April it will be a
strong indication that an adjustment of
the pending questions is probable.


Southern Outrages-RevenueP Police
Forces


The House select committee, now in
charge Of the Presidents message on
Year: 1871

States, that in the existing war with
Honduras the neutrality Of the Hondu-
ras railroad must be observed.


A large number Of German emigrants
to Lower California had arrived In
Panama, and two hundred had deserted.
The whole scheme is pronounced a
swindle, and the German residents OF
Panama are about sending protest to
New York against it.
Year: 1871

Movement Looking to Union with


the Irish Confederation.


New YORK, March 25.-The Fenian
Convention yesterday afternoon passed
a resolution expressing a willingness to
unite with the Irish Confederation, in
case the latter would consent to have
the united organization governed by a
body composed Of five members of the
Fenian Brotherhood and five members
of the Irish Confederation.
Year: 1871

There is still an occasional Hercules
-nmong us, whose prowess is well worth
recording. Frank Borlet, of Peoria,
Ill, was lately returning from his work,
when he was attacked by wild steer
which knocked him down and pinned
him to the ground, one horn passing
each side of his body. Borlet, though
at a disadvantage, caught the animals
horns and by quick movement twist
ed his neck and threw him, when he
jumped up and ran, but was not pursued.
The next morning the steer was found
lying where he fell with his neck
broken.
Year: 1871

''Send me word to comfort me for the
death of my baby writes q broken
hearted mother to me.


Nv dear friend, l might tell you that
there are thousands of childless mothers
all over the land, who, like you, are look
inc for comfort here and there, and find
none; but that would not help yOu. l
might tell YOU, too, that if you knew all
the sorrowful histories that have been
told me by tongue and pen, for many
years, you would be glad that your baby
is gone where there is mo more pain"
but that would not cause you to shed one
tear the less, or keep you from feeling
that yOitf sorrow was harder to bear than
theirs. l could tell you that God is good
even in this affiietiOn, but your vision is
so dimmed that time only can enable
YOU to see it. 1t is because / know that
nature must have way, or you could not
live and bear it, that j can only say to
you now, / am so sorry for you. l know
lust how you go about, listening for the
| little appealing cry that you may never
more hear; touching listlessly the little
useless clothes that you fashioned, with
your heart so full of love and hope.
| too have done all this. / have lain with
my cheek close to the grass upon my
/ baby's grave, lest she should be lonely
without me, though / knew she was not
/ there. And yet | have lived to thank
/ Him who took her so early, that the
storms of life which afterward OvertOoE
me, did not burst over her little head
/ SO, as / say shall not reason with yOt
now, for that were worse than useless
/ only reach out my woman's hand anC
clasp yours in sympathy, although W,
never have and never may meet in thi


world.


But one thing | know, that in tn,
other world your baby and mine viii
know us-their mothers, else God wer


not God. BY the strong love that cam


with them, and the grief that followed
this must be; we could not be so cruelty
Knocked if this were to be the end.


Now, do not sit down and brood owe


your grief if you can help it. Do no


close your blinds and shut out the sun


shine. Let it warm you, though you
baby is cold. You would rather have


felt its little warm clasp even Tor tiiil Il


brief time, than to not have known tiie :


bliss of motherhood, would you nor .


Well then warm your poor hearI WIZ 1.i
that bit of comfort. NOC there Is la'l,
der reaching to Heaven only seen "


YOU, ONLY used by you. heaven - no.


now. TO You. the misty land II USED 20 DS;


Yoy see it clearly. BY and by you VII
hear its music, and one little voice youl


mothers ear will detect; and none VINO


sae the peace that illumines your iae'
will know trheref0re, save "Hlm wh(
doetb all things we'll" Ana So witt
NV love, leave you. FANNY FERN.
Year: 1871

FINE MANNERS IN WOMEN.-Is there
any barrier against presumption, and
against an attempt at equality, like
thoroughbred courtesy "DO what
yon Will, you can never be so thorough
lady as I am,n was the impression
made upon me by the sweet humility.
the plain dress, the almost fOrlOrn sur
roundinSs of Mrs. Curtis, the former
mistress of Arlington. 1t was more
what she did not do, the absence of ef-
fort, coupled with the desire to make
YOU happy, the thorough breeding, the
self-abnegatiOn, the graceful dignity,
that made this lady n duchess in her
faded realm. Such breeding and such
manners as hers are not within the
reach of every One-they are partly nat
ural- gifts-but the virtues which led to
them are to be cultivated by everybody
with some hope of success. Miss Sedg
wick was one of these wonderful we'll
bred women. No woman in America
was more famous than she in her prime,
and she had much of the grace, with lit
tie of the formality, of those 'Old-schOOr
manIiers i'm which she must have been
trained. F'lattery never turned her
head she was modest and humble rs
Madam de Sevinge. Her manner of in
Producing two persons has never been
surpassed she made them both feel
hOnored and distinguished. Her atti-
tude of listening was in itself a cOmpli-
ment, and to the very last she MAIN
tained charm beyond beauty, the charm
Of,perfect manners.-LipPUcOt Wdgd-
zinc.
Year: 1871

| his department. ol the NEW NOkIH-
WEST is to be a general vehicle for ex-
change of ideas concerning any and all
matters that may be legitimately dis
cussed in our columns. Finding it practi-
cally impossible to answer each cores
pondent by private letter, we adopt this
mode of communication to save our
friends the disappointment that would
otherwise accrue from our inability to an
swer their queries. We cordially invite
everybody that has a question to ask,
suggestion to make, or a scolding to give
to contribute to the Correspondents
Column


Carrie c.: Make your water proof
cloak in the form Of loose sack, large
enough to fit comfortably over the dress
and long enough to protect your skirts
from the mud. Button it down the front
with large gutta percha buttons and
line the waist and sleeves throughout
with flannel. Then make a circular
cape with hood attached, and line the
whole with flannel of any bright color
that is becoming to your complexion.
All wool water proof is best. The half
cotton wears grey and ''seedy'' in little
while.


Mollie: "Winsey" is a very durable
heavy dress goods, generally woven il
two colOrs. 1t is very fashionable, but
is not in as general favor as the ordinary
double-width water proof. "Wigans'
is a stiff goods much used for facing
dress skirts. We do not like it. Won
ans dress should be undulating an,
drapery-like anything stiff aud un
wieldy makes her form appear ungrace
full.


George H.: We have not had oppor
tunity as yet to investigate the matter


Mrs. \. G. c.: You ought not to know
that you have "nerves." But you viii
never be well and strong until you lear
to take exercise in the open air. Z
woman with a vigorous constitution
would be killed in a month if she wer
placed in your inert position; and tn
only reason that you do not die is be
cause, from the force of habit, you hav
become a lackidasiaca, nobody. Nov
don't get angry! Ifyou apply to ply
sician for relief, you must not complain
if the dose is bitter. Get your husban,
to "let' you arouse yourself from you
, lethargy, and strike out i'm the world o
work and make a ssss-t0rn OF yourself i
he won't "let" you-do it anyhow. Th
woman who sacrifices her days to pent
up hotel and her nights to her owner
bedchamber prostitutes her soul ant
body for Support" that brings he
nothing but just such a state of irrita
; bility and Mysteries as you complain OF
Take our advice and follow it, and from
! the ruin of your health and strength
you will arise ennoDled, strengthened
useful. Go on in the old way and you
useless life will soon be spent, and yOl
, will pass away and be forgotten. w
always get earnest over these importan
truths.


Mrs. V. c.: We send you the file c


back numbers. You will find that tn


Herald comes in for a fair share of plai


dealing. Politically, we are independen


of any and all parties; publicly, we al


after our opponents with the best weaI
ons we can command; and PERSONAL!


we are on good terms with everybody
/. Thanks for the remembrance.
Year: 1871

THE FUTURE.-'Generation after
generation" says a fine writer, "have
felt as we now feel, and their lives were
as active as our own. They passed like
vapOr, while nature wore the same as
pect as when nature commanded her to
be. The heavens shall be as bright over
our graves as they now are around our
paths. The world have the same at
fractions for our offspring yet unborn as
she once had for US children. Yet 4
little while all will have happened. The
throbbing heart will be at rest. Our
funeral will wind its way, and prayers
will be said and then we will be left
alone i'm silence and in darkness for the
worms, and it may be but a short time
we shall be spoken of, but the things of
life will creep in, and our names will
soon be forgotten. DAYS will continue
to move on, and laughter and song will
be heard i'm the room in which we died;
and the eyes that mOurned for us will be
dried, and glisten again for joy; and
even our children will cease to think oil


us, and will not remember to lisp our
name.
Year: 1871

A singular incident occurred on the
steamer Bristol one evening last week
as she was going through Hellgate on
her passage from New York. A
well dressed gentleman of about 35
years of age wrs standing with other
passengers ON the upper deck. Hail
ing a tug boat which was close at hand,
he enquire6 of the captain If he would
pick him up if he should jump over
board. Receiving an affirmative reply,
greatly to the surprise of the passeng-
els, who supposed hewas joking, he did
jump overheard going down feet fore
most as skillfully as if he were the or
iginal Sam Patch come to life again.
There was much screaming and some
fainting among the ladies who saw the
feat, and it was SO long before he came
to the surface, far in the rear of the
vessel, that the cooler ones looking for
his reappearance feared he had struck
some of the sunken rocks in the chan
mel. Finally he came up, swan after
and picked up his hat, which was float
ing away, and was then taken aboard
the tug. His reason for this apparent
ly fool hardy act is a mystery.
Year: 1871

1t is not always that a theory can be
most clearly elucidated by a practical
demonstration. A few days since, a
party of gentlemen in a Troy (N. "
saloon were disputing over the question
whether the American system of treat
ing, or the European system of not
treating, was preferable. A prolonged
argument only proved that the matter
could not be settled by talking, and so
a practical test was resorted to. First,
each man took drink by himself. =
Then each man invited a single friend
to drink After that each single friend
returned the compliment. And finally
each man in the party-there were six
of them-asked all the rest to drink
Singularly enough, says alocal journal,
the result of this apparently fair and
impartial test was that not one of the
party could tell where the discussion
originated or what it was about.
Year: 1871

While some men at the Torpedo
Station were at work inside old Fort
Wolcott, last Friday, the wheel of their
cart sank deep into the ground. Re-
moving some of the earth to find a
cause for this, one of the men struck
his spade against what seemed to be an
iron plate. This excited the curiosity
of all, and they set to work with will
to dig away the earth above the
plate. Soon their efforts were re-
warded by the sight of an iron
door fastened with a rusty bolt. On
breaking this open, they came upon a
fight of winding stairs, which they de-
scended, and arriving at the foot they
found themselves in dungeon whose
gloom was made more marked by the
raw of dim light which solitary loop
hole at the top admitted. Striking a
light to dispel the darkness of the dun
geon, they found upon the floor few
Withered bones, skull, and lantern,
The lantern is of such an old-fashloned
construction and shape that it must
have been made over SO years ago.
Year: 1871

country than any State east Of the Rocky


Mountains; though her mountains do not at
tain the same elevation as those of New Hamp-
shire and North Carolina. The highest peak
is High Top, in Grayson county: slx thousand
feet above the level of the sea.
Year: 1871

r The symptoms ol Liver


Complaint are uncaS!ness
and pain in the side. Some
times the pain Is IN the
shoulder, and is mistaken


for rheumatism. The stom-
ach is effected with loss OF
appetite and sickness, bowels
in general coStive, some
stimes alternating with lax
1 with pain, and dull, heavy
sensation, considerable loss


of memory, accompanied


with painful sensation Of hav-
ing left undonc something


which ought to have been


done. Often complaining OF


weakness, debility and low
spirits. Sometimes many OF
IS attend the disease, and at
Year: 1871

WANTS THE BALAScE.-An Iowa
man tried to hug nelghbor's wife,
but before he got through, the lady
hit him with a rolling pin and put
him ont doors. The husband took
n revolver and went to the man for
satisfaction, but concluded to settle
it by taking the villains note for ten
dollars, which he traded off for a
corn-plow. The man who holds the
note can't collect it, the giver of il
claiming that he did not get value
received. He says that he never
will pay the note until he gets the
balance of that hug. The case will
go to the courts.
Year: 1871

On the door of the gChetopka House, in
Kansas, was recently posted the following
notice This hotel is closed on account
OF difference between the proprietor and
cooks inch was settled with pistols, and
sent the proprietor to the grave and the
cook to the iail. -
Year: 1871

ress in a place even if all improvements
are in their infancy. People will like tc
come and settle in place that bears such
a good name Now if you desire to see
your place growing, popular one, do what
you can to show yourself good neighbor
especially to those who need a little extra
help.


If man starts tin shop or black
smiths shop in your place, don't harness
up and drive off five miles to buy your
pans and get your horses shod, just because
you have been in the habit of doing it,
Patronize the new conner when you want
anything done in his line. Speak eneourag
ingly to him, and well of him to your
neighbOrs. Little words of approval or
censure 90 a long way, and when you have
spoken them, yon cannot call them back


Help the sick, especially if they are
poor, for poverty and illness are indeed a
heavy burden. Perform all acts of loving
charity which fall day by day in your path,
remembering who it is that has said, 'Ye
shall in nowise lose your reward. .'-Coun-
try Gentleman.
Year: 1871

4 thrilling incident, involving a signal


instance of manly bravery Is related as


having occurred at a fire at Frnday,


Ohio, last week. In one of the buildings
three kegs of powder were stored when
the fact became known the crowd began
to run; but not SO with a young MAJ
named Harry Erb, who seeing that unless
the powder was removed from the burning
structure, a terrible loss of life and prop
erty would result, sprang forward. and
crying, Stand back there is powder in
here, and | am going to fetch it out !;
rushed into the burning building. For
moment he was lost from sight, but shortly
rseppearei bearing In his arms two kegs
of powde-, which were soon in place OF
safety, but the third still remained. Erb,
however. did not stand to count the cost
Again telling the crowd to stand back,
he pushed his way into the burning mass
As he passed through the building the
flames were leaping and kissing all around;
dense masses of smoke almost blinded him,
but nothing stayed his purpose. Before
he reached the object of his search the keg
had caught FIRE; yet, without SEEM
ing to notice his terrible danger, he picked
up the powder and carried it from the
building.