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Year: 1876

The boy is indeed the tue apple
eater, and is not to be questioned how
he came by the fruit with which his
pockets are filled. 1t belongs to him,
and he may steal it if it can not be
had in any other way. His own
juicy flesh Graves the juicy flesh of
the apple. Sap draws sap. His fruit
eating has little reference to the state
of his appetite. Whether he be full
OF meat or empty of meat he wants
the apple just the same. Before meal
or after meal it never comes amiss.-
The farm boy munches apples all day
long. He has nests of them in the
haymow, mellowing, to which he
makes frequent visits. sometimes
old Brindle, having access through
the open door, smells them out and
makes short work Of them.


The apple is indeed the fruit of
youth. AS we grow old we crave
apples less. 1t is an ominous sign.
When YOU are ashamed to be seen
eating them on the street; when you
can carry them in your pocket and
your hand not constantly find its way
to them; when your neighbor has
apples and you have none, and you
make no nocturnal visits to his or
chard; when your lunch-basket is with
out them, and you can pass winters
night by the fireside with no thought
OF the fruit at your elbow, then be
assured you are no longer boy,
either in heart or years.


The genuine apple-eater comforts
himself with an apple in their seasons
as others with apipe or cigar, When
he has nothing else to do or is bored,
he eats an apple. While he Is wait
ing for the train he eats an apple,
sometime several of them. When
he takes Il walk he arms himself with
apples. His travelling bag is full of
apples. He offers IN apple to his
companion, and takes one himself
They are his chief solace when on
the road. He sows their seed all
along the route. He tosses the core
from the car window and from the
top of the stagecoach. lie would, in
time, make the land one vast orchard


He dispcnses with a knife. He pre-
ters that his teeth shall have the first
taste Then he knows the best flavor
Is Immediately beneath the skin, and
that in a pared apple this is lost. II
you will stew the apple, he says
instead of baking it, by all means
leave the skin on. 1t improves the
color, and vastly heightens the flavor
of the dish.


The apple is a masculine fruit:
hence WON II are poor apPlc-eaters
1t belongs to the open alr, and re.
quires an open air taste and relish.
Year: 1876

The New Haven Journal of recent
date says: "A strange and painful
fate was Policeman John Bcnson's,
who died ut Norwich, at the ago of
sixty-cight. For three months he
had suffered from cancer on the
tongue-possibly the result of too
much smoking. For two months
past the tongue had been so swollen
and sore as to absolutely prevent all
eating, and the sufferer was kept
alive by semi-liquid food, given by
means of a tube. During the past
ten or twelve days 1t was almost i'm
possible even to intro luce the tube,
so bad had the cancer grown; and
for four or five days before his death
the poor man was literally starving
to death. The immediate cause of
death was pronounced to be starva-
ton. His relatives and friends, aware
of the fate which was coming to him,
stood powerless to avert it. Thous-
ands will remember Mr.. Benson as
the excellent and efficient manager of
the police every summer at the great
Willimantic camp-meetings."
Year: 1876

He had made a hearty meal at a
restaurant, and, rising up, he said to
the cashier: 81 declare, If haven't
forgotten my wallet" The cashier
fired up, and hurled big words at him
for full three minutes before pausing
for breath. When a chance came
the stranger continued: "But have
fifty dollars here in my vest pocket"
The cashier couldn't smile to save
him,
Year: 1876

THE prGsoNs TO RE vIsITED-THE FINAL CANAL


rEArns RrrDur EXPECTED ~ A FEW DAYS.


IBr TELEGRAPH IL rnE rRlBUSE.i


AfaANY. Jan. l9.--Thc Assembly state Prison
Committee which was charged by the House with
the duty of deciding upon the most effective method
Of investigating the State Prisons, held meeting
to-day for consultation. II WAS thought that the
Committee would be much better able to advise the
House as TO the best mode of an investigation after
learning something of the practical workings of the
prisons. and it was accordingly resolved to pay
visit of examination to the Albany Pcnicntary to-
morrow, and next week. after the rcassembing Of
the legislature, to make a tour pf the State Prisons
themselves To do this resolution of the House
will be necessary. to which the leading Republicans
say there viii probably be no objection.


In case the Committee conclude that n searching
investigation is necessary, Mr. Higgins, Chairman of
the Committee thinks that his Committee sill be IN
favor Of a commission. II is urged in favor Of tho
proposed tour Of preliminary inspection, which VIII
necessarily occupy two weeks and involve the state
in considerable expense, that II will be impossible to
conclude thorough inquiry in time for report to
the present Legislature, aud 4 small expenditure of
time and money now may prevent q costly mistake
At the same timc il is difficult to understand why
there should be any doubt ~ to the need of the most
thorough investigation, when the annual deficit is
800 OJ0. A junketing tour of legislators Is not
likely to disclose any fact of equal gravity.


The members of the Canal Investigating Commis-
son were in town to-day and held some Informal
conference as to their final report. Owing 10 Mr..
Orr's enforced return to Newfork they were unable
10 begin the examinations which it is understood
they will make before closing mp their report.
Owing to the fact that the Commission il required
by law to report to the Legislature at its opening
..l..t .lr
new branches of inquiry but the testimony they
are likely To take is in continuance of their former
Investigations. The report will probably be made
within few days
Year: 1876

tho same age as would be the same number
of young men selected at random from the
male classes. The theses embraced the usual
range of subjects; the address by the repre-
sentative of the Faculty would compare favor
ably with that of any college don. 1t would
be very hard to convince the ordinary spec
tator that the dozen alert clear-eyed, reasona-
ble-looking young women thus sent out TO XIII
or cure were Gas some of the old school OF
physicians would have us believe) mentally
incapacitated from ranking in knowledge or
skill with the hundreds Of Bob Sawyers VINO
are turned out every year to practice on our
bodies.


The mistake made in Judging of this matter
of women physicians is that their opponents
insist Oh comparing the average woman stu
dent not with the average man, but with the
chiefs of the profession. We may not De
wholly convinced that woman can have the
physical strength or nerve which would lead
us to choose her to perform capital opera
ton in surgery, or the persistent devotion 70
her art which would enable her to trace
an obscure disease to its unknown
germs and to control it; but capital
operations and obscure diseases are rare,
and so are the men who can master
them. The great mass of sick people are ieit
to the treatment, as an eminent phyS'clan
stated lately, of incompetent and ignorant
Young practitioners who go into the business
solely to make money, who gain diplomas
without study, and dose or cut thereafter with
as little true love for their noble profession as
though they were butchers at work on a car
cass, or tailors patching a coat The twelve
Young women doctors who graduated last week
may be no better than these. But the pre-
sumption is in their favor. 1t required IN the
first place determination, grit, and certain
staying power to choose ard persist in so un-
popular a career: it will require ex optional
ability and industry to command success, now
that they have entered on it.


The fact weighs in Their favor, too, that the
majority of women who have tried this eX-
pertinent in America have commanded at least
moderate success. They have not dcgenerated,
like too many young sawbones, into puiicry or
crlckcry in spite of all their difficulties. Many
of them in this and OTHER seaboard cities have
large and lucrative practice; all OF them, as
far rs we know, go about their work with
such ability as they may happen to have, but
ALWAYS gravely and quietly, and not one has
given up the work. as do 80 many OF their I'M
lucky brothers, to turn the penny at some
other business which their profession will not
Weld them.
Year: 1876

rights of the people and the States to which
Conkllng has not been consenting party. IL
is perfectly truo that he would be worthy
successor to President whose policy has cor
rupted tho entiro Government and disgraced
the country in the eyes of the world. And
now we ask again, Is we asked yesterday
What are decent Republicans going to do about
itf Plain speech is very well; it was timely
at Syracuse; it will continue timely until the
National Convention meets, and perhaps longer !;
but is that to be all
Year: 1876

Empire State with this record, that he and his
friends have given mortal insult to the best
elements of the Republican party, ana at tne
Same time have confessed that 1t Is utterly
impossible to carry New-York without them.


OF course, Mr.. Cornell is most sincere ana
ardent friend of "our noble Senator" NOBODY
can doubt that in view of the gushing enthu-
siasm of his dispatches. But il it had been
the long-cherished intent of Mr.. Cornell to
nit the knife to Senator COnkling, he could
not have done it more effectually. Indeed, 80
Obvious is the effect of his recent maneuvers'
and so difficult is it to believe that cunning
and experienced politician like Cornell does
not know their probable results, that we are
tempted to doubt whether the recent confer
ences with friends of Mr.. Blaine at Washing
ton were after all as barren and fruitless as
they were reported to have been. Was there
any understanding effected in pursuance or
which the cunning Cornell, apparently blun-
dering inexcusably in excess of zeal for Conk-
ling. deliberately stabbed HIM to make room
for somebody else7 We cannot guess. The
ways of managing politicians are past finding
out We only know that "Our noble Senator"
has been done TO death, and that the fatal
blow, be it murderous or laundering, was
dealt by Cornell.


No candidate has ever secured nomination
in the face of such hostility in his own State
as Mr.. Conkling has now to meet. The vote
in Convention-neary a third of it opposed to
any mention of his name, however vague and
impotent-was surely bad enough, but 1t Is
not the worst. Mr.. Curtis, whose strong speech
goes to all parts of the country, after TINS
declaration of irreconcilable hostility was
selected as delegate. Others, equally well
known as opposed to the nomination OF Mr..
Conklng, were also selected 1t would be
absurd to claim that such delegation, thus
chosen, should bow TO the mere preference
expressed by the majority. Any attempt
10 whcedle or bully the delegation into
unanimIty for Conkling would arouse anew,
and render more dangerous than ever,
the spirit of revolt against the dictation of
the bread and butter brigade; nor will the men
dare TO make it who did not dare to offer in
Convention q resolution Of Instructions. Mr..
Conklng il dead there il no doubt OF IT.
Hereafter the men who talk Of him rs can
didltc are merely advertising that their votes
are still for sale.
Year: 1876

Ex-senator Stewart treads over the ashes
Of the Emma Mine with tender step. Especially
is he delicate when nearing the PROSTATE form
of the ex-Minister. On the other hand,
wherever Mr.. Lyon is concerned the bOot-heel
is ground down with great show of energy.
Just how all this is to help the unhappy
Emma stockholders does not yet appear.
Year: 1876

Full particulars Of to-morrow's solar eclipse
will be found on our second page. Since this
eclipse is calculated as being visible throughout
the United States, Florida only excepted, only
very extensive area of cloud can entirely cut
off the spectacle. The local time when the
eclipse begins will of course be earlier i'll the
afternoon at the West than at the East. The
duration OF the eclipse is longest at the West.
especially toward the northwestern border, 1t
being nearly total where the boundary touches
the Pacific Ocean. In the Southern States the
duration is comparatively brief, growing shorter
with more southerly latitude. Nowhere is the
eclipse quite total; in its central path there
will be still a ring of sunlight around the
moon when the full development is reached.
There is consequently less than the usual in
terest in solar ecipses in this instance for
astronomers, although there may be good
chance for observing the corona and perhaps
to search for interior planets, If the weather
be fair, at the Sandwich and Vancouver
Is1onIs
Year: 1876

A necessity for a State Board of Audit was
shown in the debate at Albany which pre-
ceded tho passage in the Senate of the bill TO
constitute the Board. Under the amended
Constitution there is no existing Board to pass
upon the claims of private citizens against the
State; the evils that follow intrusting each
claim to n temporary committee have been
demonstrated by the old canal frauds thus
perpetrated. The new Board of Audit is to
consist of the Controller, the State Treasurer,
and the Secretary of State. The advantage OF
employing this Board rather than Court
of Claims is that there will be 10 impropraty,
as there would be with court, in having its
decisions reviewed by the Legislature i'll ac-
cordance with provision OF the Constitution.
Year: 1876

A compromise ON the currency question is
now contemplated in the House. Not among
the Democrats by themselves; that has been
shown to be impracticabe by the action OF the
caucus; but through combination OF the
better elements OF both parties including cs-
peclally members most free from partisan con-
troll. 1t is proposed to restore to holders OF
$50 and upward of United States notes,
the privilege of funding them in Government
bonds. The justice and desirableneSs OF such
a privilege have been urged by several OF the
more intelligent students of the subject. The
most Objectionable feature about the proposed
compromise is that the repeal of the Resump-
ton act is talked of as part of the programme
Such repeal might do immcasurabe damage
to the national credit and greatly intensity the
hard times.
Year: 1876

Attorney General PieTcpont's explanations
respecting the famous letter about Furnishing
witnesses in whisky fraud cases leave as yet
something of a tangle. II will be noted, how
ever that according to this testimony, while
the President did not read the letter, he sug-
gested to Mr.. Pierrepont the propriety OF
writing IT, Probably there will be no great
difficulty in fixing their respective shares OF
responsibility on the suggester and the writer
of the letter when the explanations of both
are cOmnlete.
Year: 1876

ExTRAvAGANT RATES OF INTEREST
The outstanding city indebtedness some $4,000
Is IN the shape of money borrowed, for which
the authorities are paying at the rate of l :
per cent o month. We need not say that
'his Is an extrayagant rate of interest. and
one that is not justified by even the present
low condition of the city finances. brought
about by gross mismanagement. We doubt
whether the authorities had the right to bor.
row money at rate exceeding 10 Der cent.
Per annum bat conceding that all was right
and regular, we contend that measures should
al once be taken to obtain the money at a
more reasonable rate. On good security.
money IN any amount can be had in this
valley at the rate of one per cent, and where
the loan Is to run for 4 considerable period,
at lower figure. We know of cases where
loans stood against brick buildings being taken
up and the money replaced at lesa than one
per cent month. There can be no better
security than the good faith Of the city, and
on this credit the authorities, if they have
any financial ability whatever, will 90 to
work and replace the present loans at rate
OF interest not in excess of 10 per cent. per
annum. The money can be borrowed at the
figure we name, and the present credi,5ir
paid the amounts they advanced This is
simply matter of business, and should be
adjusted in business way. The holders of
city scrip are only paid at the rate of 10 per
cent, and there is no good reason why the
holders Of ether obligations should be paid
greater percentage. In the length and
breadth of the land not another city is TO be
found that is paying anything like one-end-
a-halt per cent. month on borrowed money,
and there Is 10 good reason why Walla Walla
should pay this eXtravagant rate of interest.
In the name Of all that is honest, let this
leak be stopped
Year: 1876

Mas and women make their own beauty
OF their own ugliness. Lord LyttOn speaks
III one Of his novels of a man who was ug
her than he had any business to be 3" and if
he could but read it, every human being car
ries his life in bis face, and il good-lookins
or the reverse as that life has been good or
evil. On our features the fine chisel OF
thought aud emotion are eternally at work,
Beauty is not the monopoly Of blooming
young men aud Of white-and-pink maidens
There is a slow-growing beauty which only
comes to perfection in old age. Grace belongs
to DO period N life, and goodness improves
the longer 1t exists. have seen sweeter
smiles from a lip of seventy Than upon lip
Of seventeen. There Is the beauty of youth
and the beauty OF holIniesS-a beauty much
more seldom met, and more frequently found
in the armchair by the fire, with grand
children round his knee, than in the ball
room or ITUmenade. Husband and wife, who
have fought the wcrld side by side, who haV3
made common stock Of Joy aud sorrow, and
aged tog=ther, are not infrequently found
curiously alike in personal appearance, and
in pitch of tone or voice-;ust as twin peb-
bles on the beach, exposed to the same tidal
influence, are each Others second self. He
has gained a feminine something, which
brings his manhood INTO full relief. She has
gained a masculine SJmething, which acts as
u foil 10 her wUmauhuo1
Year: 1876

PERSONALLY REsPoNsIBLE.-Ths town
of Atlanta, Georgia, has "a provision in the
city charter which might be proftabIy adopt
ed by other towns 1t is to the effect that
whenever the authorities embark in g meas
ure that involves the expenditure of money,
means shall at once be provided to meet the
same. The charter further provides that at
the expiration of the term for which the
mayor aud councilmen are elected, the out.
going officials shall be personally responsible
for any and all debts they may have con-
tracted, and that the same shall cease to be q
charge against the city. At the next meet
ing of the legislature it Will be in order to
amend the Walla Walla charter, and apply
the individual responsibility. Then elect
men of means TO the council, and they will
he careful to keep the city ont of debt.
Year: 1876

THE STEAMER is again in good condition,
and with careful handling may render ex-
cellent service for several years to come. In
the early part of the week the covering Of
the boiler was removed, when it was found
that of the whole tier OF ortside tubes nearly
every one had started, and generally the
boiler was in leaky condition. Andrew
Hartman, an experienced boiler maker, was
employed to make the requisite repairs, and
with the aid of proper machinery he succeed
ed in closing up the breaks and generally
placed the steamer in good condition. OF
course tie rnachine is weakened from strains
and overhea ing, bat with proper care and
skillful handling it may be made to render
eifiGient service III extinguishin5 fires.
Year: 1876

\ SUGaEsTIoN.-We learn that an ar
raugement can be made with the publisher Of
an Eastern periodical to republish the view
OF Walla Walla, the cost OF which viii be
$50. The appearance of this picture in one
Of the Eastern illustrated papers would be an
excellent advertisement Of the town, and We
think it would be well for our property hold
ers TO subscribe the amount named. Messrs.
Everts & Able, publishers Of the picture,
have been applied lin the matter, and We are
assured that If the sum named is raised, the
view will find place in an Eastern pictorial
of large circulation.
Year: 1876

THE DELEGATE.-This year Washington
territory elects delegate to Congress. but u2
TO this time there is little or no discussion as
to the merits of possible candidates. As nSual,
we presume the Sound will claim the candi-
date, and as has been the custom the claim
most likely will be allowed. So far as the
question of usefulness is concerned, it matters
little who the candidate is, or where he comes
fro,, After his election he will do little
more than attend to dividing the Offices and
drawing his pay, and this is a service that
can be rendered by the most Indifferent
hombre.
Year: 1876

DULL.-Hotelkeepers and others complain
Of dull times. At the season of the year
when River navigation is suspended, business
is uniformly dull. and this year is 10 exeep-
tion to the rule. The favorable stage OF
water and mild weather all favor an early
resumption of trade and travel by way of the
River. and when once the boats begin to run
We may reasonably coant upon business
revival.
Year: 1876

BY American Press Association to the STAR.


WASHINGTON, August 22.-It appears
that the Legislative Appropriation Act
makes no provision for fuel, light, labor,
repairs, stationery and other necessary
contingent expenses in the Department
OF Justice. The paragraph making pro-
vision for these objects as 1t originally
passed in the House bill was agreed to
by the Senate, so that its omission from
the act as approved must have been
through an error of the Engrossing
Clerk. This puts the Department in a
trying dilemma, as these objects of the
can not be dispensed
with, and it is in violation of law to
make an expenditure in excess of the
Year: 1876

The Waseca Leader = new paper.
comes to tho front with its say on the
money question as follows:


Money is q medium Of exchange and may be
anything possessing value to one or both PAL.
ties to the exchange. But no one OF sound
mind will, Ms business transaction, exchange
something for nothing. The greentack is not
money-strictly speaking. It is merely an
evidences Of the credit Of the government Il
shows that at some future time the government
will pay to the holder merchantable eQuival-
ent for whatever he has given for the note.
The whole value Of the note depends upon the
credit Of the government Ifthe holder fears
that the government cannot pay promptly, the
reputed value Of the note win be Suagpd by
those fears. II the holder knows that the note
viii never Be paid, be viii regard it IS so much
waste paper.


The greenback is not taken by A. from
B. because A thinks the government oi
the United States is solvent. but because
A. knows that he can, by law. compel
C. to take it from him in payment Of any
debt he may owe him. It's alegal-ten'
der.


Does not the Leader know that five
cent nickel pieces are intrinsically wortl
less than cent; but the man you buy Al
apple or an orange from does not balanc,
in his mind. when you tender Il 70 him
Year: 1876

An examination of our advertising
columns will show that the ANTI Mon
opOLlsr is the most prosperous weekly
paper in the state, Our subscription list
is also steadily increasing. And all this
in the midst of the hardest times the cit
les OF Minnesota have known since 1891 ::
It is because we prod up the children OF
Israel and keep them on the trot. were
awake and alive.
Year: 1876

the probability whether or not the United
States government will endure for an
other hundred years. He would take
piece ofleather for FIVE cents if he knew
that everybody else would have to take it
from him for five cents. That is the ess-
enco of money.
Year: 1876

All oombina lions are breaking down
except those held up by an iniquitous
government system. This aid to the
match combination makes the people pay
three cents boz when they should only
pay one cent