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Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, May 10, 1876, Image 2

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1*11 har# ynn undwirtand, «U»,
That where Britannia rule* the ware
Jotm Bui! is in command, sir!
And
it
within my family
Is rebel ion or da
3»sfer
Said Jonathan unto himeelf,
^£®#SSX3U
Such bnllyliiK relatione. 'V-v
Tlila little tele can't furnisli room .]
A »ii
Porhalf of my dovoeodaiiU i: 4i'f
And Jonathan had better now
leclare his indcdendenro.
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CHAIIACTEK OF
Better days—Lord save us i"
But the widow did not trouble the
neighbors much, nor they her. A body
who couldn't do a heartsome hand's
stirring was best left alone to her
brooding, and the widow's smoky little
cabin, solitary apart on the seashore,
was lef"pretty much to herself and her
boy Topn* ...
Tom wan a sturdy! brown-faced lad,
who picked up a living by doing odd
jobs for the boatmen, and now and then'
iaking a day for fishing. Tom had
probably never seen better days. Thf
widow shook her head over lim—bo
stupidly ccn^ent, poor Tom so beaming
and good-natured over beggarliness and
hopelessness. A tall, well-grown fellow,
with bare feet, a torn straw hat, and a
red sliirt. Tom took the world easily,
looking with reverent eyes on his moth
ex's by-gone gentility, and by no means
seeming to covet it for himself.
The widow.deequKtit due to her part
respectability to be seen at church of a
Sunday evening, and yon could see the
two wuldng at twilight along the sands
together, she with her clean pocket
handkerchief folded over hor old hymn
book and a certain doubtful hesitancy of
gait, as if heaven itself might be looking
down critically on her shabby black
gown'and, rusty bonnet As, for Tom,
patient Tom, he went plodding' slowly
after her, with his smiling face, whistling
listening, open-mouthed, to the closing
hymn, his careless, bright face, contrast
ing so'oddly with hia mother's querulous
and tear-worn visage, won for him the
sobriquet of widow Hinton's rainbow.
The minister of the parish, mistaken
jno1, deemed it incumbent to make a
call on the widow and, on charity bent,
it is said he unwarily offered to employ
her services in his household for a Bea
•on. He deemedr it his. duty to rouse
the old woman to activity.
He did rouse h«r and it is averred
that he never founa time to call at the
.cabin again. Did he take her for a com
mon "household drudge, or a low-born
field hand Sha thanked.,Qod: she had
Jioo
much spirit left yet to put herself
ierWy&dy'sfefc He h^n'ffar to
go to fina scores of drudges and diggers,
'bnt ha might go further before he knew
.. a lady when he saw her.
It might have been the, afternoon after
.-thei
it"*1.teekfed
PWS
:5K4 tin
man's visit that the widow sat
at her cabin door. Her
eyes had a wanderibg, far-away look,
aad her faoe was feenner Mid thinner
than ever. Beyond the bluff which
sheltered her cabin stretched a fair line
of eeaooast, the White sand gleaming
tween ,«hote and water. They catfir
from tbs great hotel down beyond she
could almost catch the sound of their
voids as she sat slowly rooking iu her
doorway. was a quiet afternoon
the ajr inui soft and soothing, and the
WidoW'i^heart, so fM of bitter&ess, felt
it—If sweeten and soften in the stillness,
lids part of the ahore, sheltered by itf
overhanging rock, was. eldom disturbed
by intruders, but meoentlytbe watch
er's eye caught sight of a young girl
'•plashing and frolicking in the water
just beyond the rocks. It was a pretty
iiifelft/ the iririnddd anais, the carving
•honldeia, the swaying, floating figure.
And perhaps the old woman .recalled
with
mer hailed her companions in the dis
toanaei'Av
Gating absently on the silent scene,
reverie fell upon her, and when she
again, thfc young water-n
had diaappeared. She had
ana ashore behind the
widow turned away, hugged her thin
ii&jw, shawl over her shoulders, and thought
that the sea wind was chilly. Eark!
was that? Sorely she heaini a ery,
osasci* shorit or ringing laugh this
it jttight the
ii|b
Vff ff-i ATI**
m».
water-nymph
ad probably
rocks. The
017
surely, that
•mm. XI
WoatdTom
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And yet, ou come accounts, I thlnk
I like the eagle better.
For when it awee'pa along the akjr,
On wide extended pinion*,
it Mem* t» bear the aoal along
To libetty'a domlnioua,"
AM ao tlite alip of Britirh oak
,.• Waa apeedUy transplanted
And In America obtained
.t The latitude it wanted. .!•••
t:». While ^ohn, deairinff to expremt'- -."•
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1
•ji' Hia etrong disapprobation,
Poia in one compichcnidve word
Hi* wrathtul condemnation.
—Otapkie. ^_——1_______
A HAPPY LIFE.
How happy ia he born and taught
That aerveth not another'* will,
i-i Whoee armor ia ^bopeat thought,
And aiiaple tfrntli his utmost skill!
Whose pasnton* not hia maatera are,
Whoee Boal i* still prepared for death,
Untied nnto the world by care
1
Of public fame or private breath.
Who enviea none that chance doth raiae,
Nor vice hath erer underetood
How deepeat wonmls are given by praiae.
Nor rnlesofstate, but 5ul«| a/good
Who hath hft life from minorsfreed.
WhoM con*cimfcoi* hie Htfcrag retreat:
Wltoae state can neither Batterer* feed,
(i-m ».«
Jus*
Upr Mi make opprewiora great.
Wh Ood doth la0 and early pray
Mom of hia grace than gifts to land,
And entertains the harmless day
With a religious book or friend.
..Thlam^nii {reed from aertf lyihauds,
O'f hope to rife, or fear to fall
Lord of bimaelf, though not of lands,
And having nothing, yet hath all.
SEEINtt BETTER DAYS.
The widow Minton bad seen better
How far back wasn't exactly
certified bnt she had seen them. Bet
ter days hung moldily about her, like
the defiyoed shreds of antiquated em
broidery.
The sturdy gossips of the seaside vil
lage, who went about with their skirts
tucked up and their bare brown arms
ready and able for any work, looked
askance at the widow Minton, with her
.pitiful meagerness of aspect, her flicker
ing black eyee, and her trailing old gown.
They nudged each other, and said,
bMk
fT-4
tu^*JK }f
oned frantically to the bathers beyond—
they seemed both blind and deaf.
No one, not ouo ecul, at hand, and that
young thing iu peri) of life! A minute
she stood still, listening—a feeble old
woman with a haggard, scared face, to
whom no one would have dreamed of
looking for help.
"I cih't stand this," she said. "Seems
I might pu)l out that old scow myself.
Torn!" sue screamed, with a yell that
held the conoentrated energy of ten
years. But 110 Tom appeared. And it
was the widow herself, with those with
ered old hands that disdained the minis
ter's kitchen work—it was the widow ner
self, who, straining, tugging, and, with
her gray hair fluttering the wind,.un
loosened the old dugout rom its moor
ings, and trembling, unskillful, armed
with a rude paddle, Went spinning out
dizzily over the waters It leaked) the
old scow it scorned the broken paddle
and the^htaCT Oftra, batKilirtfltv it- oartie
drifting out Mindly and dizzily to the
object of her search. A plrunp hand,
with a glittering ring ttpon it,
clutched the edgo of the boat, nearly
oversetting it. A young, eager face,
with streaming hair, looked up from the
water, and gasping, shuddering, half
drowned, aod wholly scared, the young
water-nymph was presently aboard the
old-craft.
'•Oh, how frightened I was! "she
cried. I felt suro I was losing all my
strength, and would go to the bottom.
Oh, you good soul! you dear soul I how
ever did you get to mo in this water
logged craft?
It has seen its beat days, certain,"
said the widow, tugging at the oars.
You don't look able for such work,"
said the girl.
"I have seen better days," was tlu#
quiet answer.
And then—oli sufficient reward of all
her eftorts!—this real lady, this fair
young girl with the soft hands and the
pretty bathing dress, actually replied
I thought so."
"Here, give me an oar," she added,
still panting. But my dear soul, we'll
never be able to row down to that point,
where I left my ciotiies, and I can't
walk to the hotel I'm,awfully tired,
can't you put me ashore at your place,
and send word for me down yonder?"
The little dark cabin on tbe. shore
brightened up with an unwonted luster
as the widow sheltered her young
charge, and changed wet garments for
some of her own.
"If my Tom would only come, I'd
send him for ypur tiijings."
Oh, no matter I'll: wrap your
shawl about me and walk down myself
after I've rested a bit. I'm not hurt,
you know, only scared. Dear me, how
I was scared! My old nurse used to
teach me not to scream but if I hadn't
screamed, where should I have been
now, I wonder
Mrs. Minton would gladly have parted
jrith thahwt shred .she possessed, and
gone shivering the rest of her days, to
see her worn-out gown donned so hand
somely by the bright lassie.
"They have seen better days, the
clothes, miss, and ill not deny that
that they've been in good company in
their time but they're not fit for a
lady now."
Her companion laughed, a pretty,
mischievous laugh. She read the weak
ness of her rescuer, and treated it ten
derly.
Whatever a lady has worn is fit for a
lady to wear," she said, and forthwith
wrapped herself, smilling, in the old
gray shawl.
And at that moment Tom, with his red
shirt gleaming in the setting sun, and a
string of fish on his shoulder, stood in
the doorway.
He stopped when he saw the guest
standing upon the hearthstone, a bright
fire behind her, and the kettle boiling
cheerily. She nodded to him famil
iarly. Tom thought he must be dream
ing.
"Tom and I are acquainted," she
said. .t
AnJi you responded theastonshed
widow.'
"Yes," said the girl. I've watched
Tom many a time .walking along shore
with his red shirt, and once he took me
and father out rowing. Tom, your moth
er saved my life." iflb
"Saved your life I" echoed Tem^Ro
never in all his life heard of his mother's
doing anything before.
Tom, Stupid and staring, was hurried
off in search of the missing garments.
And meanwhile his mother betook her
self to making a cup of tea for her pro
tege. It was wonderful how a little
iraMtB 4 hum|xi fetMflg fcaftntase&this
•o&aii tqBfe #nd|^tifity:again
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VOLUME I.
en with va
twer 'were
OT
quietly sipping their tea together at the
old round table.
He did not return alone, however.
Following him came a' tall, gray-headed
gentlemen.
"Here's father!" cried the girl, spring
ing forward. "Oh, father, this good
lady has saved.my life
Lady The widow Minton wanted
to kiss the beautiful rosy hps that pro
nounced the word.''
••Well, my dear," said the old gentle
man, good-humoredly pinching the
plump cheek, "elie has done it very
thoroughly. You certainly don't look
very near death just now."
Whereat the story, with due enlarge
ment and variations, was told him with
a pretty, pout'
Theft
father smiled, but also he furtive­
ly wiped away a tear.
"Well, madam," said he, courteously,
acoept my cordial thanks for looking
after my little madcap Belle. She's my
only chil-1, you see, and as full of pranks
as any dozen."
Belle playfully put her handover his
mouth, "I won't have my character tra
duced where they have been so good to
Sis
B,":
of a wild bird em its
have' gone beyond her
yonng creaturp, surely!
t«f fri&ahejmd? Dying
luil: of a deal of
she cried. And, oh, father, isn't
a beautful place—such a view of
IBjpWjtfter! I mean to come down here
every day and do my sketching."
"I'm afraid," said the site, shaking
his head, "that this good lady will have
cause to wish she had thrown you over
boatd."
"Oh, no, lather, she Kkes me, and I
like her. And I have fallen in lovewith
Tom long ago, you know."
Tom Mushed painfully. Something
strsQge aiid new stared in his mind
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Compliments did not sweeten his
thoughts as they did his inother's, for
Tom had never seen better days, and
felt a? if he were being made a jest of.
A week passed, during which the
young girl strolled almost daily to the
cabin. When she was there Tom sel
dom entered the house. 'Hehad grown
shy and sulky he sat on .the shore
darkly brooding, or went off silently to
his fishingr .!
One morning Belle and'hsr father de
parted. Belle kissed the withered cheek
of her friend, atid that was all. For
when mention had been made of help
ing substantially, the widow had drawn
herself sharply up, all the lady shining
in her eye.
"I may have seen my best days," said
she, but I liaven't come down to that
yot. And if I needed any reward, I hav?
it now," she added, as she felt tha'lioi
ibloom mantling* in. tbo eh£ek that ^elle
hod kissed.
Long after the two had left, Tom went
about with a cloud on his face, and in
his ears were ringing these inocldng
words "I'm in love with Tom." A dis
gust' for his fishing life and for himself
and for all their miserable surroundings
of poverty filled the lad's heart with an
unwonted bitterness.
Mother," said he one day, as he sat
darkly brooding over the hearth, "you
said you were born a lady why didn't
you make a gentleman of mc?"
I hadn't any money left when you
came," said the widow, briefly.
ihen it's money thai makes people
gentlemen and ladie?."
"I don't know/' said lite Widow, puz
zled, they somehow mostly have it.
One day Tom came and told her he
was going to sea. tere bad !cen a man
down looking for hand?, and lie had
taken Tom gladly, for Tom was a handy
fellow at almost any kind of sea craft,
and would soon make a good seaman.
'"Andyou must bide here patiently
till I come back, mother for if there's
better days anywhere, I shall bring 'em
with me, sure."
After that the sea looked bluer and
colder than ever, and the solitary
woman lived a sort of hermit's life.
No cheery voice of gossiping neighbor
lightened the dreary cabin, no children
Eright,
rattled about her, and only Belle, the
blithe-hearted lassie, seemed to
remember to cheer her with a letter now
and then. Belle was away now, visiting
some distant friends, but in her kindly
heart she kept a corner, it seemed, for
the poor old woman who had saved her
life.
Three years—four—passed away, and
daily of a summer evening you might
have seen the widow sitting is her door
way, eager and hollow-eyed, looking out
for somepossible ship that might be
Tom's. Tom was not a good correspond
ent, but occasionally up at the little post
office a wandering epistle waited her
trembling hand-.' Bhe W growing very
old and feeble now but Tom was get
ting up in the world, Tom was first mate
of his ship, Tom was a success, Tom was
a gentleman, and, oh I above all things,
Tom was coming home!
Not every one watches in $ain, though
we may not always be looking in the
right direction. It was so with the widow.
As she sat one day, with straining eyes
gazing on far-off, sun-lit sails, and see
ing how some of them hovered nearer
and nearer, and
come,
alas, took wing
farther and farther away, the doorway
darkened suddenly, and there came rush
ing upon her, as if dropped from the
clouds, a plump, dark eyed,
cheeked lady, who flung herself into
arms of the watcher with a cry of joy.
Oh, mother!" she exclaimed, half
sobbing, half laughing—" oh,- mother!
don't yon know me? Why,"Irm Tom's
wife, and I've brought the captain with
me!"
Mother," said Gapt Tom that night,
you've seen better days, perhaps, but
I never have."
For didn't I tell you," saidMrs. Tom,
archly, that I was in love with Tom
And father owns half his ship, you know
so if Tom's captain, I'm' second mate,
you see. And we're going to take you
avay to where we found better days.
Teach jour Children to Swim.
Gapt. Webb, the great swimmer,
writes, in Cassell's Family Magazine
il
It is -the duty df every pmfeht to insist
on his son's learning to swim. To
teach a very young child to swim, the
best place is. a large puddle in the sand
at low tide. The child, like a puppy,
will begin by paddling. If you throw
a cork into the water, you will see the
puppy run in up to its. depth and give a
short bark and the chances are,
especially if there is a grown-up dog
that can swim to set him an example,
that in a day or two he will take -his
plunge of his own accord, and very
proud he will be of his first success
only here again don't overdo it. As
4oott astbe Tiippy has been in, walk
way, and call him, and he will be more
anxious to go into the water another
time. Now, treat your child like your
puppy. Entice him to go in, and if you
can get some older child who can swim
to go in with him all the better, but let
the child do just as he likes. Get two
children to play at splashing one an
other they will enjoy the fun, and,
gradually getting excited, will venture
in deeper and deeper."
TiIm 0? Ttaiber.:'
An illustration of the value of timber
on waste lands is afforded by a sale of
wood which recently took place on the
estate of the Earl of Cawdor, in Nairn*
shire, England. In 1820 two hills, about
300 acres in extent, were planted with
fir and other trees, and after successive
thinnings, the sale of which realized large
the remainder of the wood has
just been sold off for thesumof £16,000.
The suma realized for the wood on this
waste- land during the fifty years is
stated to be equal to the return for the
beet arable land in the o-juntry.
Old time hahite and aMooiatio&s are
very powerful. Chief Justice Waite,
Atty. Gen. Pierrepont, Win. M. Evarfa,
and Senator Dawes were, among lb.
Taft's pupils in Yale, and they say that
since the new Secretary appeared in
Washington all the gentlemen named
have manifested an unaccountable dial
position to get around the nearest, coy
ner whenever be heave* in sight
mx
If
to-
Hew to the Line^Let the Chips Fall Where They May?
CANTON DAKOTA TE&RiTOHY, WEDNESDAY, MAY io, ISm
ATTACK ON TilE PRESIDENT.
The Latent Democratic Senantian, and the
Stall it wita Made Of.
'aMhington Cor. Chicago Tribnuc.]
Id's committee exploded the
Democratic side of another sensation
last night. They thought they had got
ihe Piesident bfyoud any question, so
some correspondents were informed dur
ing the evening, aud a few were fur
nished' with a portion of the testimony,
iat, of
CGUBS6,
tliat pOftiuu by which
tflcn» the sensation could be made to
stand. The testimony of Atty. Gen.
Williams, which, if sent with it, would
have latterly destroyed ifal sensational
ch&radl^rJ'^nM,' of course, carefully with
held, or ehnlely' misrepresented. The
sioiy af the best was au old one, pre
sented with greater detail. All the
tgiuia&Hgns were thoroughly explained,
-to tw committee by Atty. Gon.
Williams. The section of the law under
which the expenditures were made was
given them. Consultations with the
President in regard to the legality and
propriety of using the money were
stated, together witb the fact that Dav
enport bad' in New York proper vouch
ers for the expenditure of every dollar of
the funds. Yet, in the face of all these
facts, the story was prepared and allowed
to go to the Country as if the committee
had been utterly unable to find any
proper explanation of the matter. There
is an increasing feeling of disgust
among Democrats over the methods par
sued by several of their investigating
committees.
The testimony of Williams does not
appear to be so serious as was at first
supposed. There have been a great
many sensational stories in circulation
in regard to the complicity of the Presi
dent in illegal expenditures of the pub
lic money for election purposes, and the
fact that something over $30,000 was
paid to John I. Davenport on the order
of the President for New York city was
in the highest degree suspicions. A
closer inquiry, however, shows that the
news as it came from the committee was
one-sided and failed to give the explana
tions made under oath by the ex-Attorney
general. Judge Williams says that there
was nothing criminal or even improper
in the use of money in New York, and
he makes in conversation the same ex
planation he made before the comm'ttee.
He says the law of February 28,1871,
provides for the appouitment, by the cir
cuit courts, of supervisors of elections.
Under this law Davenport was appointed,
as a large number of others were ap
pointed in every State
of.
the Union*
His district being the city of New York,
he was expected to look after the regis
tration and prevent frauds at the elec
tions. This same work cost the Depart
ment of Justice, in 1872, in the various
States, over 9300,000. In the city of
Philadelphia alone, in 1874, there ware
1,200 supervisors of election, who,
*0-
oordifig to'iaw, may be employed ten
days each at $5 a day, which would
amount to $60,000, and bills for this
amount were presented to the Depart
ment of Justice. Judge Williams re
fused to allow them on tbe ground that
they were exorbitant, and he allowed
only for five days service each. Ran
dall, O'Neill, Myers, and other Congress
men made a great pressure, but Williams
refused, and finally through Randall's
efforts a bill waa passed through the last
Congress for §30,000 to pay the balance
of the claims, which Williams decided
were unjust.
With reference to the payment to
Davenport of $32,000 in about three
years' time, Jndge Williams says it is ex
actly true. It was paid in pursuance
of "the law to prevent illegal voting. He
skys the first neknew about Davenport,
or even about the law, and the practioe
under it, was soon after he was made
Attorney-general in place of Akerman,
At that time Davenport came to his of
fice in thin city, and presented a letter
from the President, in which he was re
quested to pay Davenport a consideyttbl^
amount of money under the act referred
to. Williams was surprised, and made a
short investigaticu, discovering that his
predecessor had done the same thing,
and, although finding the law for the
use of the funds, he was not entirely
satisfied/ and few the President The
latter spoke of What Davenport had done
as a great work a wonder accomplished.
He' wa* indeed very enthusiastic dver
the system of registration which Daven
port had adopted, and he thought it was
the only thing that oould prevent illegal
voting. He thought 'it ought to be
adopted in every cilhr in. the country.
There was authority of lawfo use money
for the prevention of frauds at elections,
and, as Davenport had done more than
anybody, the President thought he ought
to be pafd, and, on looking into the
subject more closely, the Attorney-gen
ersi thought so too. He now thinks it
was a measure of great economy, and he
says that, owing to Davenport's ayste m,
the difference between the expenses in
1872 and 1874 was
reen the expienaes
about $40,000.
Under CoifMrnta Coaraand.
The Democratic House at Washington
has found inighty little time for neces
sary legislation, and none at all for im
proving the finanoes.
It did Ay to rush through a full am
nesty for Jeff. Davis, Bob. Toombs, Pi
rate Semmes, and. other flagrant
impenitent rebels, which
asked for but de
flagrant and
they
never
It Juu rushed through a repeal of the
law which forbids any officer in the army
as any officer
or navy of the Confederate States from
holding a commission in the United
State*militaryor nAvatservice, or any
civil office. The Democratic horse is
dragooned by its Confederate crew into
opening the doors of "every position
the Government to that crew .!,
Ex-rebel Senator Gordon's ambitioni«
to be Secretary of War under a new ad
ministration, and he wants to be able to
put his fellow traitors into good fat places
without obstrucjtian. So the appropria
tions for. the army and navy aie to be cut
down thisyear, and lots of Uaion sol
diers and sailors to be starved out at
tuned adrift
Then if the Democracy, gain power we
«& see the appropriations increased
far the benefirof traitors who have no
jmt claim td aiiy linn* at the hands of
the Goveraofettt beyond the sparing of
their nntidfil£bie hVek Th»meta who,
at the peril of life, abd mar df them
atJQie coat frightfuljwtmnds, defend­
ed the flag and made it victorious over
the rebellion, will change places, and
be shoved out, or ordered around as
subordinates, by the men whom they
confronted and. conquered in the ope.j
field.
Is there not something more in the
Way of reconciliation, peace and har
mony" that the Confederates want of
us? The programme is not quite invit
ing enough yet to draw many Repub
licans to that "love feasL"
Yes, there i» something more. "\J7hile
the Confederate House, which controls
the public purse is paring down the sal
aries of foreign consuls and department
clerks below a living point, cutting off
a few regiments from the army, and
stopping work on a few public buildings
iu Bepublicsn States, the
.same body can
not seehe#usefol it mightbeljy pass
ing a bill 'to fund $1,000,000 of the
present six per cent bonds into four-end
one-half per cent bonds. The money
markets of tha world are now,,glutted
with capital, glad to be assured of a low
rate of interest and if ohr'Government
would as rapidly as possible call in her
six per cent bon a, she could exchange
them for four and one-half per cents., .to
run thirty years. This would save
$15,000,000 a year, now paid as interest,
in gold in six years it would save a
whole year's interest on the public debt
Bnt the Confederate House lets the
golden hours fleet away, and is busy in
raking up scandal against Republican
officials, while it keeps shady about Dem
ocratic wrong-doers. This ia the "re
form" statesmanship which wants to cap
ture the Government and cure the "hard
times." A bill to save over $80,000 a
day in gold as interest on tbe public debt
does not get a moment's consideration
from the Confederate crowd that controls
the House. Such plain and honest finan
ciering is above their caliber or perhaps
they mean to repudiate the debt any
way, and so don't mind the extra inter
est for a Bhort time.—Laming Repub
lican.
Di»ocratic Reform.
The Democratic clerks of the House
appear to be admirable and consistent
illustrations of the beauties of Demo
cratic reform. With tbe details of the
removal of the clerk of the Committee of
Ways and Means, who signalized him
self by naming one of his children for
President Lincoln's assassin, our readers
are familiar. We have also announced
the fact that tie Democrats, having re
moved the incorruptible journal clerk,
Mr. Barclay, who bad served with great
ability for thirty years in that position,
and appointed one Charles H. Smith, are
now necessitated to ask Mr. Smith to
step down and out on account of irregu
lar practices. The Assistant Journal
clerk is also rapidly getting himself into
trouble. It now appears that one of
the Democratic doorkeepers has been re
tired, that two other officers of the
House, Gen. Bonghton, clerk of the
Military Committee, and Green Adams,
of the Committee on Expenditures in
the Postoffice Department, are un
der investigation, and that another
high officer of the House is
soon to be investigated upon charges of
having been indicted two or three times
for very grave offenses. This makes
seven all told that have turned ap in
the short time the Democrats have had
the majority in tbe Hoase. This is oer
tainly making rapid progress, consider
ing their time and opportunities. But
if they can accomplish such results as
these with only the control bf the House,
.what might they net be able to effect
with the oontrol of the Government and
its immense patronage? The quest:
is worthy of serious considerationjjy'the
average voter, as opening up^stas of
reform in the event thatjihe Democrats
gain control of Ap-'Government next
falL If theyjaalso successfully pack
the Hojise^commifctees, what will they
tSwhen they have an opportunity to
the custom-houses, revenue offices,
poatoffices, and other departments under
their patronage* ?—Exchange.
Sis MflkiM Dollars in a Quarter of
Hoar.
The Democratic House of Representa
tives is attending to the legislation of
the country in what ia claimed to.be an
economical spirit, but itsaotion, if close
ly examined,, will bq found to be quite
as reckless and extravagant in some dl
reetions as that of the m6st lavish of its
Republican prodeoeseors. While spend
ing week after week, with' laborious
night sessions, over a bill to radoce tbe
already meager salaries of the clerks in
the. departments who canyon the neo
essary work of this Government, the
Democratic Hbuse has passed within a
week after its being reported, and with
out one word of debate, a bill appro
priating $6, OOQyOOOufar internal improve
ments. v,
That legislation in Congress is a farce,
discerning people in the country have
long been convinced, but so transparent
a farce as spending many weeks over a
reduction of hali ii milhon ton million
in salaries, while rushing through uo*ler
the spur of the previous question,' in
five minutes' time, the most extravagant
appropriations of millions for internal
improvements, has seldom before teen
enacted on the Congressional boards.
To this complexion have come the high
pretensions of public economy, of care
ful scrutiny of appropriation bills, of
cautious and prudent legislation, which
we were told, with soeh a flourish of
trumpets, the Democratic House was to
inan^irate.—•CincmnaH Commercial.
AHtaleftsh.
Democratic Organs and orators must
devise some other policy upon the South
ern question than the' state and stupid
cry that the Republioan* hope to catty
the election by waving the bloody shirt
and pgeaehing a gbspel of hate. It is
not Republican' preaching, it is the
Democratic practice of hate, which
lvmfc^a trouble. The co&cixj sees
that the Demoetatie party has madp a
dose alliance with the late rebel element
in evecy State and in Congress, bat it
koksinipin to aee that it condemns or
even teoogniaee the gross wrongs that
are done to the new aituensin the 8o«th
—Iferper'a Wtekfy.
AITII1
of the
Ann. What makes afire ao~
thatitisaUvetiBn^inai
NUMBER 3.
Tbe Detroit SoImm.
Fifty years old if a day, and her nstme
was Eliza Fox She lives on National
avenue, 'and rite made a trip to the
eastern portion of the city to get a recipe
for making cake. She got the recipe,
got some beer sad got in the station,
and she wasn't half as anxious, about her
case as some of the audience. ,.^e
slowly followed Bijah out, musing:
Use about a pint of flour, put in a
chunk of butter about large as a wal
nut, and break in——"
"Now, thai, interrupted his honor,
this looks bad to see a woman of your
age here."
"Well, I had some beer," she softly
replied, and break in four eggs, grate
in your lemon-peel, stir well, a^ud b*ke
in a hot oven."
Wjiat have yof.. to say about this
case asked tbe court
"Nothing. You can db all tbe talk
ing—quart of flour—four 'cggft-^-lsmon
peel—nutmeg—hot oven."
You were never here before
don't remember that I was. Will
you take a recipe down for me before
I forget it
"Tve got a recipe for ending drunk
enness," replied his honor.
"I don't want it and after the cake
has baked for fifteen minutes remove
from the oven and put on your frost
ing."
"Do yon want to go to the house of
correction queried the court
No, sir, 1 don't Whatdol want to
go tramping way up there for
Bnt you were so sadly intoxicated
that the officer had to hire an express
wagon to bring you down here."
"Is that so? Then I came here by
express, did I?- Was I packed in a
box?"
You must be very careful in future.
Ifs a bad thing for a woman to get
drank."
No worse than 'tis for the man,
and after the frosting is on set the cake
back in the even for three or four min
utes."
"Will you promise me?" asked the
court
Yes, 111 promise {--she angrily ex
claimed, but I wish yon wouldn't talk
so much—you pnt me all out!"
She stood off and glared at his
honor, and then tapping her finger on
the railing, continued:
"You take about a quart of flour
about a quart You put in a hunk of
butter about as big as a walnut, and yon
break in three or four
You may break out," said the court
Well, I wilL I want to get some
where where I can write down that
before I forget it"
Precipe
She pushed her way through the
crowd to the door, and ar, she stepped
out she was heard muttering:
Quart of flour—foor eggs—flve min
utes !"—Detroit Free Press.
Centennial Railroad litres.
The concession of twenty-five
cent, on ronnd-trip tickets to the
tennial exposition is regarded by the
press of the Esst And West as insuffi
cient to increase the travel perceptibly
over what it would be were the
rates maintained. The New York
pronounces it "suicidal" to^the rail'
roads and fearfully detran«£tal to the
Exposition. There is tobeno reduction^
either, on large excursions. The rate is
the same for a hundred excursionists as
for one pe
The effe«5f of this will be to keep away
frooM&e show thousands who, were the
reduced one-half, as has been the
rule with railroads making armnge
ments for conventions, mass-meetings
and other large assemblies^ would flock
to Philadelphia. The best friends of the
Exposition, says the New York Evening
Pott, begin to fear that the very open
ing of its life will be clooded with some
thing like failure," and all due to the
blunders of the railroad managers in
adopting rates that are too high for the
masses of the people.
The Pennsylvania railroad has literally
the inside track to the Centennial, and
it is in its power either to keep rates up
or put them down. If the opening
shows that the people are not absolute^
frantic to gO to Philadelphia, and will
not attend unless rates of face are re
duced, the managen of the roads will
make more accommodating terma. Bat
it may then be too late to attract them,to
Fairmount Park. The experience qff
Vienna in 1878 Aonfit be avoided at
Philadelphia. People in Europe wene.
frightened by Abe prices df everything
in the Anatrian cspital, and when thenr
were reduced, and the railroads as. well
^s the grasping landlords put" down
prices, tney "could not be persuaded to*
visit TieniuL The oonsequenee was a
financial f«ilare, and A defioit of millions
61 dollsrs, which the Government had to
make good, while the shop-keepps M»d
landlords were, many of them, ruined.—
Cincinnati 'VchMner
ciaL
fe:.': -i!-"' A Bey aa
Heads are of dillltnit dufwi and
suse* llMiy are fidl of nations.. Large
heads do not idwaya hold the moat
Some persons am tell just what a man
pie are called long-headed. A felionr
that wdri't stop for anything or anybody
is called hot-headed. It hetetmiite
so bright they call him soft-headed if
he-wont be coaxed nor turned they call
him pig-headed. Animalahave very amall
heads/ The heads pt fools slant ha6L
When your head is cut off yon art be
headed.' Our heads are all eoverftd wtth.
hair, exceptbaldb(eda. There other
kinds of heads besidea ow heads. There
are hand heads, heads to
some ministers used to have
heads to one seRbMi pin heads, Im
of cattie, as the fanner esllklrfs cows
ointt winds, drum head^ ttMtti'
head% at loggerheada, eoiae to vhead^
sure you are rght—Fotut^
BogertvUle, Kmn.
BOW."
•fax
Who»G ie^-loay'd la«mhtor oft wo«W abate
na,
p,
Of Fox'a Tf yo* fllH.
On
bamita nf tlie oiamal aga
The boyu
M®.
Wiim atcmorle* reach tradition*a mora—
Thedayaof mtUitario'tttian
"«££§U
it ijjjSa for PtuUiefc'ii ijjnia,
"ie ifelft-eint'toaaai'li*
thoaef
-Their chMlw with moririag"#
wm«palatod
$'
It w«
ire th*jr.
we're
not fbe
-If
mum
they a*e we, 4hji tlwn
Do
thayVe
tell
na«Maia-
neigUMr, «'lntfa-yooMiawl
Whoawjwot—Wtat'atheuaeof
Yea once vers George, at Bill, or
There'* jroo, yaoraeU—tbfru'*
I kuow you now—Itaww jroa llu.
You -laed to be yoar yoauger VtbU&t 1
Wit and Hamer.
A man who has nothing to seize lain
easy circumstsneee.
TO jaw a nan that won't jaw baok is
Hke kkaiing at nothing.
Th who pepped -the qawtioo
liy starlight got hU sweetheart's^conifeiijt
inatwimiing.
Said a ynungr4oCtor to. a lady patient:
"Yon must takeexercise for your health,
my dear." "All rigltt/' sittd she, "111
jump at the first offer." They
ried about six months afterward.
we from the.
scholar of the Commercial, "is
for fodder." It |s a wise chilli
that knows its own -fodder in- these
tor&gfrdxvamg^-^IiQehefterDetnoeraL
Mkhbeb of hunt "fbo farmed—^'*1
wouldn't ride over Ao^e sefeds if rwwe
you. They belong to adiaagraeable sort
of fellow, who might make a fuss a^out
ife
Punch.
Pabish clerk's wife—Let ycf&.inta|bp
church to draw a qtteripr I dustnT do
it, Miss. ^Enere was a party there.l^st
year, and do yon know they left a 'ornd
Dissehtin' trac*'-i5n the rector's pew
Ever .since, thyt it!s against orders.—
Punch.
Fattt is this name of aNew Jersey
horse. And now what is the differfflice
between this animal and a certain king
mentioned in 1st Kings in the Bitrfer?
Answer: One is a Fatty horse, and the
other is a Jehos'-a-phat—Philadelphia
Bulletin.
CiiEbgtoan (who has forgotten theday
of the month)-—"Let me see this is
the—ah—the thirteenth, I believe?"
Fond mother (not Satohing the idea ex
actly, but thinking of her family)—
Why, bless your stars 1 No, this is
only the eleventh t"
Thb following are the latest observa
tions of the season:
Tlie wheeiyaooUrwlmtWowausBcae
Ad wake* the violeta from their alaq vi
The goatjr ihade tr«ea work tbelr toa», r»
And Dp the «tm begin* tocz«*p
Men feel the chaagfe. and »nai, too
Do«a feel it alao Ttusua eata *.
Cbeeka mow pat on a roeeate biie,
And bcida are atnek in
(or
Firthre
Sf 2
Tn Bnoklm Eagle saya o( Gen.
John A. Dix: VA atpi who ateigl^
his hand to the tranilaHrai at a
Latin Matt or who can torn out df bad
at 40'doek ik tte motaitg taM teak
ahaotin^—hddiag his en» wltt tha
boys, too—is
.^way yon take
dealal',*i
againat)
new
apciag
.! -'-kats.
Is becomings to me asked she,
as she paraded In the costume of a hun
dred years ago before the man who in
you wish I could drees t&ts way
all the time?" she asked. ""No, my
dear, he answered, but I wish you
had lived when that was the style."
Tee boys of Detroit seem to be going
'down hill in their morals of late. San
day one of the legion, who has always
been noted for hia respectful demeanor
toward the great public, observed an old
citizen yawning and gaping on a street
OOIUBT obi1 ftn liim tutfc
said to him ''Better net
open your mouth too wide." Why
was the surinised query. There's a
law agin opening a swoon on Sunday 1"
continued the sinful child as 1» slid for
the middle of the street —Free Prem.
Axeachkb in a Sunday school war ex
plaining to bisclasaof boys the meaning
of Jacob's ladder," when one of the
number, more inquisitive than attentive,
inquired: "If Ihe angels had wings
what was the need of a ladder for them?"
Thiis was a poser, and while he was meSt
itating a reply, and unable to
answer,
another boy eacfarinyd, I'll bet .It,can
tell -what they" used the ladder for."
"Out with it, then," said the tMflher.
"Oh, I guess they were molting.",,,^
A Cass avenue lady who has be® pay
ing the milkman seven cents per quart
all winter ventured to remark the otter
day that now, as grbtis ha^. started, Tie
could affortP to sell itfat six. "GhilrT"
be exclaimed, ia he gave hera aBrriflsd
look, "grass-started .You oaght to aee
the cow turned opUp sp»se last ireek?
She walked five hundred times Mpunqa
fifty acre lot after one mouthful of grass,
pnd when die got that itwasfim ^«ails,
old bottles and clothee-pin^ ^beh|W
been nader the doctor's care everttttee,
imS if I lose hsr Ill haveto paSnp^ie
price to ten centst The ladjrisaot an
agricnltaraliat^and phaeopld^'MV^T
ttog,pum,~-F$ei^w.
U:
The eottan naed in
grown chiefly ittthe United Utotes, ^pd
successful competifaion wuh American
fryown Qptton seems imnossihln —The
fri^^^^hiiSrWhere
cotitin. The time wffl odtoe
Wlmfirmoetof the cntlon -growm in ttia
aoantey* iwitt be aiaiMla(stated here.
There will be jerge inesoase flf tiie
«n StatML and
_r gooda manufactuWd%U^tlAir
way to markets -hdw^ eontiwBed bjr ftie
Ea^Ut tar the BMUh taeMYe^ of
this trade OMMwt be-jMiihiinBd fawiwr.
A change and it wi^jbe
wholly in orn wil noteflfne
but itpaore tooomein thane*
very aistant future lor ow Ana
nu^ufactunn and traSersaienotl
to low inunediatefy'ttflir
ITnrrrtftr dtaVa^
W '"Www*

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