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THE PALLADIUM.
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" JJe YER JAlHD,
What's the ass f always fretting
' At Mm trials we shall find
',' Btst strswn along our pathway?
Travel on and never mind. . - ,
Travel onward, working,' hoping
; Csat ao Hageriag look behind
At (he trials ones encountered;
Look ahead and oever mi oil. r
And If those who might befriend yon,
. Whom the ties of nature bind,
Eaoald refaae to do their doty, .
t. Look to Bearen and nerer mind.
v Friendly words are often spoken
When the feelings are nnkind;
; Take them for their real value, ,
, Pass them on and nerer mind.
Fats amy threaten, eloads may lower,
i Ksemies may be combined; ,..,
If yowrtnist 4n God is steadfast,
Be will help vob;" nerer mind
ylt jOETlCAX. pURIOSITY.
Tbe following lines, copied from an ex
ebsnfe, are susceptible of two meanings. A
haebeior friend reads the I rat and third, and
Hcond sad fourth lines together, and seems
to find an internal satisfaction in reading
them thus, for some came or other: - ,
-' . The ma must lead a happr lite '
. Who is directed by his wife; ' "
- Who's free from matrimonial chains, "
b Bars to safier for his pains. ,
Adaas eonld find no peace, -Vy
Until he saw a woman's faee :
When Xrs was girsa for a mats,
Adam was in a happy state.
In all the female heart appear . . , I.
Trath, darling of a heart aincere; ;
Hypocrisy, deceit, sad pride ... , "
Ke'er known la woman to reside. .
- What tongne ts able to wnfold - - -
I : The worth in woman we beholdf " -The
falsehood that in woman dwell
Is almost imperceptible. ,
eared be the foolish man. 1 say,
- . Who will not yield to woman's sway;
' ' Who changes from bis singleness . j
' . li Bars of perfect blessedaess.
: SUPERSTITIONS. ' -
kpommlav Ideas Uooa the Sabject. :
- ' ' From the Cornhill Magasine. '
' It is to be noted that the coin'
cidences on which superstitions are
commonly based are, in many in
stances, not even remarkable. Mis
fortunes are not so uncommon, for
instance, that the occurrence of a
disaster of some sort after the spil
ling of salt at table can be regarded
as surprising. If three or four
persons who are discussing the pe
culiar superstition relating to salt
cellars can cite instances of the ap
parent connection between a mis
fortune and the contact of salt with
the table-cloth, the circumstance is
in no sense to be wondered at it
would be much more remarkable if
the contrary were the case : There
is,.' -scarcely a superstition of the
common 'sort which is not in like
manner based; not on some remark-. -able
coincidence but on the occa
sional occurrence of quite common"
coincidence. It may ,, be said , in-
deed, of the facts on which nearly
all the Tegular ' superstitions hare
beam based, , that it & would have
amounted to little less than a mira- 1
els if such facts were not common
in the experience of every person.''
Any other superstitions could just .-.
as reality be started, and be very
quickly supported by as convincing
evidence. If the present writer
were to announce to-morrow in all
the papers and on every wall that
misfortune is sure to follow when
say person is ill advised enough to
, pare a finger nail between 10 and',
11 o'clock on any Friday morning, '
that - announcement would' have ;
been supported within a week ' by
evidence of the most striking kind. ;
In less than a month it would be an
established superstition. If this ap
pears absurd and incredible let the
reader consider merely the absurd-
ity of ordinary superstitions. Take
' for instance, . fortune telling by
means of cards. If our police re
ports did not assure us that such
vaticination is believed in by many
would it be credible that reasoning
beings could hope to learn anything
of the future from the order in
which a few pieces of paper happen
ed to fall when shuffled? Yet it is
easy to see why this or any way of "
telling fortunes is believed in. Per-1
sons believe in the predictions of
fortune tellers for the seemingly
excellent reason that such predic
tions are repeatedly fulfilled They
do not notice that (setting apart the
happy guesses based , on known
facto) there would be as many ful
fillments if every prediction had
been precisely reversed. It is the
same with other common supersti
tions. Reverse them, and they are
as trustworthy as before. Let the
superstitions be that to every one
spilling salt at dinner, some great
piece of good luck will occur before
the day is over, let seven years of
good fortune be promised to the
person who breaks a mirror, and so
on. These new superstitions would
be before long supported by as
good evidence as those now in ex
istence, and they would be worth as
much, since both orders of super
stition are worth nothing. .
Gen. N. P. Banks was introduc
ed on Change at Cincinnati, and ad
dressed the merchants on the im
portant relations which the States
of the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys
sustained to the Union with refer
ence particularly to commerce. He
dwelt especially on the facts devel
oped by the last United States oen
susjift relation to this question, and
urgtaa MiBb vuicmnai neict we Key
. to toe great development to be
mads in a large part of these States.
VOL.
SELECT STOET.
Mabel Clifton's Reward.
A NEW TEAR'S STOKY.
BT FBASCES HENSHAW BADEN.
, Mabel Clifton sat before one of the
windows of her father's magnificent
manson. - A servant stood in wating.
She was making out a list of arti
cles wanted for the next day. Com
ing footsteps arrested her attention :
She raised her eyes from the paper
and looked out. - The crimson flush
deepened on her bright young face
as "Oh!" t in a tone of deep regret,
escaped her lips. . . , i t
one turned, after an instant of
thought, and said:
"John, I am not just ready - to
finish this list, and shall not send it
for an hour yet. . If you have any
thing to attend to in the meantime,
you can do it ".
Air. Clifton had been reading m
a distant part of the room. Hear
ing the door close, after John s de
parture, he asked:
"xou nave not forgotten to send
for those wines I spoke of, iny dearT
, "He has not gone yet, papa.
"Ah, well; do not make it late.
They will be very busy to-hight,"
her father said, turning again to
his paper. t . ;
"Papa!"
'"Well, my dear?"
"A boon, papa. Promise to grant
me, this last day of the year, my
boon. - - :
t ?What is it, love?"
"Promise to grant it first"
v "Not in ignorance, my child."
"Trust me, father." :-
She had an earnest, eager, noble
look in her eyes that her father did
trust in, and he promised her. :
"Well, well; you shall have your
way.
. "Father, let us have no wines to
morrow." ' .
"What! Ao, no; I can not grant
you that .No wines! , Why, .child,
have you gone crazy? For twenty-
five years past I have offered my
friends wine , on .New lear s day,
and never have felt that I was doing
anything wrong. What has come
over you?" . ' -. - - u.
, . "Oh, father, I never have felt just
ngnt wnen offering young men
wine; and just now, when I was ma
king out the order for John, I
chanced to raise ' my eyes just as
Edgar Livingston was passing, - It
needed but a glance to see he was
very much under the influence of
wine. Father, his mother is a widow;
he her only child. All her earthly
hopes are in him. Will they not be
wrecked, Ahink you, if he indulges
in the wine cup? .To-morrow he
will make many calls. Beautiful
women will offer him wine. He will
not have the courage, possibly' the
wisn to decline. To-morrow, most
likely, then, he will return home to
fill his mother's heart with sorrow.
I wish not to contribute one drop
to that bitter cup." '''' '"i!Z
My dear, whether we have wines
or not with him it will be all the
same, as you say he will make many
cans. , t . : i '
"Father, if you had a son, you
would feel differently. Think how
many young men of the brightest
promise have failed, nay, worse,' won
truly "disgrace " and early craves
from the love of wine. - : J-
"I feel as if Edgar Livingston
stood on the brink of fearful pre
cipice. Father, " retch forth your
strong arm, draw him back if only
one step, and for a moment . If we
do not save him, it 'will be a com
fort to think we urged him not fcnv
ward on his fatal course ",
" MabeL you are very deeply in
terested in the young man. Am I
to conclude
"Nothing more than for his own
and mother's sake. I would en
deavor to save him, or ' any other
young man in his danger, father.
Here will be one of his first calls.
Possibly I can detain vc long
enough to prevent his visiting many
places where he would be exposed
to great ' temptation. Oh, father,
please grant me this?"
"Beally, dear, I feel disposed to
do as you wish; but so many will be
very much disappointed. .,, Besides,
I have not the courage to make this
great change, and set five hundred
tongues to work speculating about
the cause of it Some will declare
I am about to fail; others that I have
grown penurious. Ah, what is it
John?"
'"Just then the servant entered
and handed an envelope, saying:
"A telegram, sir." ' '
s Mr. Clifton tore it quickly open,
read it and exclaimed: , -
; "Keally, this is too bad ! - But I
must go. John, here?" And hasti-j
ly writing a few words for a return'
dispatch, he handed it to the ser
vant and turning to MabeL said:
"My old friend Hartwell is dying,
and begs that 1 will hasten to him.
I can not deny him: So you have
to entertain mv friends to-morrow,
and explain the reason of my failing
to see them, the first tune for so
many years. And well, dear -you
can do as you please about the bill
of fare. As I shall not be home,
the folks will not hold me responsi
ble for what happens in may ab
sence." '
; ;')h, thank you, papa, for permis
sion to do as 1 choose. I will will.
ingly take any unknd remarks, if
any one feels like making them.
But I feel confident that all who
have sons will give me their kindest
illt) laMOA i)
. " : ..-- -
an
BE JUST AND FEAR NOTi
JSICMMOND, .
wishes lor withholding . temptation
from their boys. , And to the young
men I shall try to make myself so
agreeable, and have our cook make
the coffee so very fine, that they
will go away quite as well pleased,
and with their brains s good deal
clearer than if I had entertained
them with wine.", . t
An hour after, Mr. Clifton was on
his way to the side of his dying .
friend., . , - , ;;v-; ;
Mabel sat down and wrote:
Mr Deab Flora : Come help me
m ' -a
receive our mends .to-morrow.
Papa has been called away. I must
have you with me, as 1 am particu
larly anxious to have my reception
a success. ,..-- -.-.-?- v;
"Loveingly, . , Mabel.'
'Edgar likes Flora, I can plainly
- v i a a i t ii
see, and x thin sue is not wnony
indifferent toward him. Together
I think we can manage to hold him
here to-morrow, and thus save his
mother a great sorrow, most likely,"
Mabel Clifton was one of the
loveliest girls , in' P , Friends
wondered that her .heart had not
yielded to some of her many suitors.
They did not know she had no heart
to yield to any of those who sought
The first season she appeared . in
the select circle her fathers' wealth
and position placed her, she met
Ernest Addison. He was a noble
looking man, talented, with a , mind
and heart alike filled with -good,
true resolves. To Mabel he had
been very attentive, f and she grew
to love him, feeling sure the time
was not far distant when he would
come to tell her of his love. . But
months rolled by, and he spoke not
Gradually his visits grew less fre
quent until ; they ceased. What it
was that come between his love and
hers she could never think; but she
felt perfectly sure he did love her,
and so, hoping that time would solve
the mystery and bring a balm to
her wounded spirit she watched
and waited for the coming.
New Years, day came beautiful
and bright Mabel and her friend
Flora never looked lovelier. , Mabel
had explained her wishes, and fully
infused her own spirit into her fair
friend. ;, , ' r
It was impossible for an indiffer
ent person nqt to feel their 'powers
of fascination. To 'Edgar Living-5
ston, who was one of their first '
guests, they were quite irresistable.
He lingered on," notwithstanding '
the many efforts of a young friend
who accompanied him to draw - him
away. -
"Do stay and help us, said .Ma
bel, and when Flora's beautiful eyes
repeated the wish Edgar yielded.
Few, if any, went from Chiton
house dissatisfied. , Everything that
the heart could desire or mind sug
gest in the way of delicacies and
luxuries of the season, Mabel offer
ed her guests. But vher father had
said, many tongues were busy spe
culating about it," and in a few
hours it was widely known that
Miss Clifton was having a "temper
ance reception." v 1 1 ( "
1 Eagerly Mabel's eyes sought ' the
doOT on every new arrival of guests.
She had hoped for the : coming of
one. 'But the hours passed, and
when it grew late in the day the
hope faded and 1 almost . died out'
She had seated herself wearily in
an arm chair, when the same greet-'
ing that had fallen upon her ears so
many times that day, "Happy New
Year Miss Clifton, caused the
bright light to return' to her eyes
the beautiful flush to her face, as
she rose to receive Earnest Addis -
on. r ' :- 11 :; " v
There was an expression in his
fine eyes, when he ' received from
her the fragrant cup of coffee,
that relieved the suspense of years.
Her heart was bounding with new
hope.'1 i. - - - -:
Edgar Livingston had drawn
Flory to the window. They were
looking out on the passers-by. A
few moments, and reeling along the
sidewalk, shouting and singing a
drunken song, came Edgar's com
panion of the morning. "
Flory turned from the sickening
sight Edgar followed sayings
"But for you and Miss Clifton, I
might have been one of that party.
And going up to Mabel he said:
"Miss Clifton, your slumber to
night should bo very poaocful, Yrm
have not helped to cloud either the
heart of any of your friends to-day.
Accept my warmest thanks for hav
ing saved me from both.
Edgar saw an expression in Er
nest's eyes that made him ' think it
would be quite as agareeable to all
parties if he would take Flory back
to the recess of the window, to the
piano, or anywhere out of hearing,4
just then. ' " " " -
A few moments after, his fine
voice was blending with hers in a
well chosen duet : , .,',,,,; - ',,.
Then Ernest told-Mabel of the
love which had been hers since he
knew her.; , . , , .. . .
' "I came one night to lay my
heart before you You had manyf
gusts, and offered them wine. You
noticed not that I placed my glass
untouched on the table.' I left
early. ', I dared not woo the heart
of one who held - such - a fearful
temptation before me.. Why, you
well know when I tell you the ter
rible truth; My only brother went
down to a drunkard's grave, the
woman he loved urging him on u
, . "For a time mother ' sad ' I had
won him from his fatal passion. He
was doing welL We believed he
would fulfill the bright 'promise of
early youth.7 . He had learned to
LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AITST, AT,
WAYME COOJRiW, IWD., ;FESi !
love a beautiful girL She was wild
and thoughtless ; and one night at j
a party at ' her father's house, she
urged him to drink. "
, "One glass - Every one bnt "you
takes wine," she said. , ; ? 4 -T..'t;.
"He resisted. She taunted . him
about having to abstain entirely
because he had not the self-control
to use wine in moderation. - IHe
yielded, accepted the fatal glass
from her hand, ; and drank first
moderately, then on and , on in the
old fearful way. until the' end came
a ruined life and a mother s bro
ken heart" : " .U
"Do you wonder that I fled from
you? i Every hour since yearrting
to return, yet daring no.
"To-diy I beard what you were;,
doing., ' Earnestly, thanking God j
thai light had dawned upon yon,! i
hastened here to lay my heart be '
fore the only woman I have ever
loved. Will .you be my ?. wife
Her heart wis to fu?T iSf Joy
she could i.ot tell him . in words
how happy ehe was; but her little
hand lay still in his. She raised
her eyes' a moment, and he saw the
love of years beaming there. He
needed to other answer.
Judging from the low tone into
which the voices in the other room
had fallen . I think some other
hearts bad found their mates. Hut
the l.uira were separated, or rather
joined again, by the return of Mr.-
Cluton, who entered, calling outr
. ''Mabel, my dear, t me these
rooms look; rather dark. Lei' a
have the gas turned on, if you
p!Ch8P. ' .:"!:,,,,... u.:;
j "Certainly, papa.'
A nd when there was light enough
for Mr. ; Clifton to look into his
daughter's eyes, he saw a brighter
light shining there. Another mo
ment when Flora enae to greet
him he said with a sly smile
"Ah, 1 see why ycu young folks
knew nothing of the surrounding
darkness -guided by the light with
in. Well have you had a pleasant
A uapny day rather; there ore
n rsfrrora tr o r aal in an1 urta if
Mabel saij, with a bright emile.
"1 am glad or it glad of 'your
resolve Mabel. How glad you will
know when I tell you that - this
morning l closed the eyes or
ftber whose only son wa'away'in
some . drinking saloon. - How my
hear'.nclied for that, dying lather
And what a balm it was to think at
that . time my daughter wai i ot
holding the fatal glass to i any
toung man," said Mr. Ciifcon, hi&
voice trembling with emotion.
Before another New Year's day
Mabel and . Flory each presided
over an establishment of their own
The happy remembrance of their
receptions is never. cloudid by the
thought that they have added one
diop to the cup of bitterness, which
so many wivcp, mothers nnd sis
ters have to drank that cup of
sorrow which is 60 often piepared
for them by sister women.
II. tV. Ilcecher Tavors ' Compulsory
Education and Female duration
From the New York World.
The Kev. Henry Ward 'Beech er
lectured on Thursday evening at
Association HalL on "Compulsory
Education," before a fair audience,
the hall being about two thirds fil
led. The lecturer was received
with great applause. When silence
had been restored he said: Although
all the great elements of thought
have now more less gathered in the
world's history, there were periods
when one or another of'-' the: great
elements of human interest - rose
prominent so that it seemed almost
as if there were waves of thought
as there were of atmosphere. The
earliest was the element of war, and
nations have given to that and its
correlated interest all their atten
tion. -. Then came politics, not in
the narrow sense, but the consider
ation of the rights of man, t lie na
ture of man, the nature Of govern
ment the duties of citizens, and all
that belonged to the social life. '
Then there had been theology, and
at periods ' that had dispossessed al
most all other interests; not religion,
but theology, or the philosphy of
religon, which sometimes had been
the groundwork on which all other
interests of the State had been em-
broidery!, a-twl it Tnigkt ionapoi to
audacity of theologians if they would
but recollect how the themes that
at different periods of history had
supplanted all others, which had
been looked upon as the very first
upon which the world turned, had
gone out of sight and been so for
gotten . that - they now had to be
hunted for ; in .the books 'of anti
quaries, in tne present day the in
dustrial element political economies,
-a
nave occupiea mens tnongnts as
never before, and the element which
was making itself the most felt was
education, national education, for
there never had been a time when
the rich men's sons were not educa
ted, but in this day the education
of all classes, from the top to the
bottom of society. An educated
man was like s knife with forty
blades; the: uneducated man had
only the right to open- one.. 'V it
meant the right to be men, theright
to be free; and that right carried
with it the : right of expansion or
development as the right to be the
acorn carried with it the right to
be the oak. As a mere matter of
political economy the, whole world
was demanding that people should
be educated, and the remarkable
tneory aDouc uns was mat tne ig
norant themselves are demanding
education. "The great mass of the
BE THY GOD'S THY COUNTRY'S AND. TRUTH'S!" ; t .? j-.ao
laboring men all over the world are
beginning to see that the reason of
their hard work and small wages is
their deprivation ; of education.
Great Britain is not moving for re
volution she is too wise ". for ' that
i-but she is moving for' education,
sod the question is, shall the State
educate or shall the Church? Shall
the schools be secular or sectarian?
A&d there was no doubt how that
question would be settled in all na
tions that the StateBhall educate
and not the - priest- There was no
doubt but that education in the
bands of the 1 priests had been of
great benefit to the world, but in
the advancement of society it had
come to pass that the priest was for
the spiritual and the school master
for secular education, and the school
master, had become a separate and
distinct profession as much as that
o the lawyer or physcian. , As : in
in Great Britain so in Germany,
Wry ideSr6r1Sfnaif
ticn that had raised her to stand a
head and shoulders above all the.
Christian nations of Europe. ; : So-
Austria accepted from her conquer
or her system of common schools,
and after fifty years she will stand
with more illustrious strength than '
ever she did. So France the low
est now of the nations, but a little
while ago i the ; proudest France
was found when struck with the
mailed hand , of , Germany to be
hollow, and it was the want. of.
knowledge among her common peo
ple tnat put France down She had ,
an ignorant peasantry, and her .
army was poor compared with the ;
army that came forth from the Ger
man common schools, and she never ,.
will stand as she did before until '
she educates her people. Where
education prevails, bad government.
is difficult and good government is
easy. ' In proportion as a people
are educated you develop a poplar
sentiment and public sentiment is
the sum totaPbf the thmking of the
community. Education also 1 in
creases the wealth-producing power
of the State, which makes it easy to
levy and collect large taxes. There
are men in the community like
moths, they take continually and
and never give anything; there are
others that just give as much as
they take, but upon an average, one
industrous man takes care of about
ten. There were gome classes that ,
could be allowed to be non-produ.
cers, children and old men, but the"
great middle class between child-,,
hood and age ougnt not .to be al
lowed. . There were some that class-'
ed women with the non-wealth pro
ducing class, but he Mr. Beecher
thought that woman in her .house "
hold duties was the fair partner of
man in the wealth acquired. ; There
were many young men lounging,
around street-corners that produce
less than they consume. .If these
men were educated the wealth of
the State could be doubled. Indus
try required an atmosphere to make
it valuable. The reason why manu
factures did not thrive as well " at
the South as in New England was
because in the latter the people for
generations had been - educated to
industry, and at the South they had
not The workingmen were organ-,
izing in clubs and associations to
better their conditions; he was
heartily on the side of those men
in all their efforts to improve them
selves, but when they asserted that
one man was as good as another, it
depended largely on what that other;
was. Men. were free in , one sense;
they ought to be free, but they were
not as a matter of fact As to le-.
ing equal, in one sense they, were
equal; they stood before the law
squally; but that did not mean to
eay that they had the same produc
tive power. Men were not equal in
that sense; one man could do more
than another, and that was the high-,
est man that could do the highest
things; for as sure as there is a
God in Heaven," continued the lec
turer, no man can go down that has
an educated brain, and no man can
go up and stay up that has not.
Applause There were special rea
sons why America should press the
matter of popular education. One
was the reason of her great popu
lation spread over so vast an extent
territory that , with universal suf
rage the government was imperiled
-onlcoo the people were educated.
An educated people brought from
every quarter of the globe eould .
be fused into a Kepublic when . it
was a Republic like this broken up
into States, but if it was a consolida
ted Government it would , not .last
a generation; but when. New Eng-
land; kicks , up 6he merely lifts a
hinge, and when the Middle humps
up that does not disturb the Bor
der States; ' he believed in State ,
rights but not in', State soTerignty.,
There were a great many, people'
that did not believe in universal suf-
frage, but it was here and we must
make the best of it.lBefore this '
generation shall have passed away,,
said the speaker, .women . will tote
in all questions of schools or police,
whether they vote oh matters , of .'
Stats or. not; and if you allow them ,
to vote once on anything you can-
not stop them from voting on every-a
thing., Laughter. ' So upon the.
question of ( suffrage, since it was
certain that all' people 'must vote, ,
it was indispensable that they should
know how to vote intelligently, and
this question of education was the
most important of any. The.State:
should make provision for the edu
cation of its whole : people , and
should see to it that education was ,
compulsory. ; The, State ought to,
provide for its whole population the
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j elements of literature. But that is
not enough'.' There should be in
troduced "into ' the;"' schools. Jtue
groundwork of, honesty, truth, jus
tice, industry, self-control, - fidelity
and patriotism.. . Some kind of in
dustrial : occupation ; should - - be
taught Every man ought to know
how to work with' his hands. It
should teach the elements of gov
vernment of knowledge of one's
self. Lastly ., the , State, ought to
make the free schools so good that
no private school could be able , to
live in their neighborhood.
THE NABOBS.
. J
of
8ometaiBg abowt the
- :t-u ; :Gahani.
Rich
'. Mea
, There are' some very wealthy in
dividuals in- New -York city- Wm.
B. Astor and A T. Stewart and
Cornelius Vanderbilt are supposed :
w oe; wwuii wver aity iiumhmw w j
nousiy esnmaiea, ana is oeueveu ,
to be the possessor of at least forty
millions. He is a very liberal giver
towards the interests of the Metho
dist denomination, of which church
he is an earnest if not consistent
member, f He is much dreaded in.
Wall street where he operates oc-
casionally to the great destruction
of small capitalists. Jay Gould is i
figured up to fifteen millions by the J
knowing ones, and H. N.l Smith,
liUU) XQ M. CIA1 VuU . CSU BUUUV Kill liUlT-
lions; still, these figures might be
difficult to authenticate. The two
brothers Stuart who commenced
life in New York as candy peddlers,
are presumed to be worth from four
to five , millions each. So we see
that sugar , refining is a profitable
business., ; . , : ; 3 f ' '
George Law is believed to be the
possessor of over six millions of
dollars. The bankers, Brown Broth
ers,, are set down at , fully twelve
millions each,'and Peter Cooper at
nearly five ! millions. ; Horace B.
Claflin, of the Jirm of H. B Claflin
& Co., the second largest dry goods
establishment in towm has an indi
vidual .'property,; valued, at from
$15,000,000 to $20,000,000. He is
a native of iSew juigiana, ana nas
the appearance and bearing' of a
genuino $ ", Yankee." ? He is much
more popular than , his rival, A T.
Stewart and he seems to be a man
of j much , broader , sympathies and
more generous instincts. Abiel A-
Low, long the President of , the
Chamber ; of Commerce, 5 and the
great tea importer, has a very long
purse very full of sequin3. He may
be set down in figures at $6,000,000
or $7,000,000, and this is rather an
under than aa over-estimate. - E. S.
Jaffray, the Broadway importer, is
of Scotch origm, and rich as a Jew.
No one knows the exact extent of
his worldly goods, though it is pre
sumed that they would represent in
cash $4,000,000 or $5,000,000 to
SG.000,000. It .is estimated that
there are some two hundred citi
zens of the metropolis worth over
one million of dollars. v (i : v
v ' Land and Law X
From the American Land and Law Adri
' ' r SOT 1 f, r.-r ' -
; The land is what the citizen lives
from, . and , the sphe e of his life
should accord with the area of his
property. . . ,';
The laws of the country are the
bounding fences of the citizen s pos
sessions, marking, in -plain outlines
the extent of his rights, the bond
ings and corners in' his title, the
nature, bearing and limit of his
neighbors privileges, and r the
claims, escheats j and ; prerogatives
inherent in the commonwealth.
There may be defects in the reali.
ty itself, "either as to its amount or
to its qtutUty ; but tl ere may be as
many wants in the fences holes,
gaps, gates too ; loose or too. rusted
on their hinges . . .' ,,t ;. -'is- -a
That man who . owns property,
especially real property, and does
not know the amount and nature of
it, certainly is . an ignorant or, at
least, uneconomic man. He that
has well settled in his calculations
both the amount and nature of his
possessions, but has no consistent
appriciation of the restrictions and
intrusions held about them by their J
boundaries, is under equally great
danger and misfortune, though he
ha not generally reckoned so ignor
ant or unwise. .. , ' ,
The land being the substance
yipon which interestad citizenship is
maintained, and the law the protec
tion (such as it is) about it; the
proposition is almost self-evident
that if land is 'the basis of all se
curity, law is the security. , , It fol
lows, nearly as self-evident that the
basis is the cause "of , the security
and the security the necessity of the
basis ; for there would be no securi
ty established if there was not some
tiling to be protected by as a
house would not be built if there
were not lives to be sheltered with
in it -. ' ' " :;jf : ;Ti vL
He that spends beyond his means,
that swells the sphere of his hfe be
yond, the area of his possessions,
makes no greater mistake than he
who lives in that state of ignorance
which keeps him in perpetual dan
ger, of trespassing upon the rights
of others, and of having his own
violated.
'"' Therefore; if it be desirable that
the citizen should live justly within
the rights and privileges of citizen
shin: iust aa eerfcarnW an n. mm ia
foolish who buys propertyewithout
knowing its limits f just as certainly
as every man who dwells within a
house should not only feel safe but
know the extent of his
47.
every man who is, or who has it in
his power to becoittefh owner of
land, akj with the fact si oppor
tunity ofowneTstopj-onghtrbe orbs
enabled to bep6me thoroughly in
formed in the privileges and liabili
ties of such possesswn-Teryman
who can own land ought ' to be ac
quainted with the laws which secure
it to him.- amS- hsob--i
But such, unhappily, is not ths
case, and this is why we write. , t
- Centuries ago, when a tew great
lords owned the : soil, the proprie
tors were wealthy and were generi
ally educated to a j standard even
with their respective possessions.
There ' were few disputes", about
lands then $ there were fewer eject
ment suits ; the lords were lawyers,
and when they came into a new es
tate they came into it wittingly and
exactly, and they kept it in peace.1
When men knew the value of
straight titles, titles kept straight.'
nen DroDXMaorowere BuensifiaiT
educated in the laws oontroQing
tneir possessions, , flaws ana Denas
and ancles did not , disfigure the
family realty records, and estates
did not grow crooked and crookeder
year by year. - There were no yol-1
umnious ; land statutes then, be
cause : land. . owners "intelligently
avoided creating a demand t for
them. .
But the revolution that to a great
degree toppled over the aristocracy
and divided up the land among the
iZUiUUHJlM Ul UVYCU UUv lilJiUI AUtTO LJ
surveying, ignorance to transiermg,
ignorance to quarrels, ignorance to
settlement of . disputes, and ignor-
ance to the practice and framing of
rules of possession. And since that '
time, and out of that revolution, '
has grown up the sedious, delaying, x
expensive guess-work of the prac-i
tico of the civil law ; and since that .
day, and out of that revolution has
come no economic system by which f
to lift the democratic proprietors I
up to the cheap and peaceful mpde
of possession enjoyed. , by thetul-
tared aristocracy of the old. days.
It is a sentence of political economy
that revolutions never go backward, ;
but rectify themselves in time. This
land revolution has had. ample time. :.
Out of this revolution .has come
to exist one benefit the best that .
has yet been bestowed aipon the
worli Which is, that every man
has an Equal Chance to own land.:
But as we have said, this benefit
has "all along been accompanied
with the evil of profound legal ig
norance which often has rendered
it." an affliction. ' But out of this
same revolution has come one other
benefit until even now not properly
used or extended,' containing within
itself tho virtue to perfect the other
benefit by hot ' only ' keeping ; Equal ;
Chance intact . but ,: by its ; broad
power to' raise "the democracy, in i
land law even with the old aristoc
acy, which" is the' common, school
system." ,. r.-,'r.'1
, If r every man who can, own land i
ought to be thoroughly acqiiainted
with the laws which secure it to ,
him, the common school is the place
for him to acquire the acquaintance.
All reforms in the law, every one
of them, as well as the adjustment
of the relations between land and
law, belong, as we will endeavor in ,
future to show, to the office of the
common school law. - '- 7' -' ' '
EVER Y-DAY . RELItaON. ,
1
BT REV. OE0SOK B. UEFWOBTH.
, How hard it is not to go to the
Opera "How easy it is not to ' go
to ehurchl 1 There is no rain like a'
religious rain. - - An operatic rain
amounts to just - -nothing at all.
There is no fear of catching cold
from it 1 You can protect yourself
perfectly with waterproof and nm-,
brella, can take the cars, or if you
happen to feel a- little above' such ;
democratic conveyance," a carriage,
enjoy the evening hugely, and laugh
into a kind of disdain at the rain '
drops. -f Pray what is a shower that
you cannot see Hamlet or hear
Trovatore? -It is quite absurd to
suppose that such - an insignificant
cause should keep you from a whole
evening's entertainment Who, ever
heard of one's catching cold from -damp
garments while - listening to
the ravishing notes of Lucca ; At
any rate; the risk you. run is not
for .a moment to be . compared to
the enjoyment purchased. ; .. f
But on the other hand, how ' ex-
- 3 . ' a w . a . m
cceamg aangerous to neaitn is a
religious rain 1 If on Sunday morn
ing the weather is even threatening
it is worse , than imprudent it m
directly flying in the face of Provi
dence to go out The dear children,"
who on Saturday afternoon went to
s party in white gauze dresses and
paper soaled slippers, ; and ' never
once thought that the murcury was
far below freezing point must be
kept from' church, though they can
go nicely muffled up, because it is'
so very wrong to expose the dear
ones to the inclemency of the weath
er! : . : . .. , N .. . . -I
haveoften wondered what there
is m a religions rain which makes
Wkole If
it so wondrooarywt sad ccgrWTybur own judgment, sad you "will- A
able, and have at last come to the
conclusion that the religion of most
pie is s matter of theory only.
ey assent to all that the preacher
says about . Bsgenation, : sad in
deed, are so sharply critical on thia
important subject, that if he deri.
ates a hair's biesdth from the' can-
onical rtumg on that sabject they
at once deieet th Imtmiv. msA aa
sert that such inovstians will yet be
I the ruin of tlw bn n,- w
the matter becomes personal ' and
safety-- the requisition is made that - they
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cloud of repehtmee smf emerge ire-
generated,' sod laden with C16
golden responsibihties which 'every
christian delights ' to " feel, JJey .
shrink back alarmed -and trnwill-'
ing.- :h T- if i-izSZtezS, I
, They are very anxious that every -
one else should become religious, - " ' '
but when it comes (6 be' $ur '. turn
to give up all worldly lasts we mkd
s thousand exensesv Our business
is ex'edingly importsat; just Jiow,
and it may - require s litthr sharp
practice, aTaste of that . ,'maVvelous
ingredient of btismess' life ":csllect
"shrewdness," Jbefore-' we 'can be"
safely landed out of the tsisisr "Ws
are young perhaps, and sowing vild '
oats, which, while it ia s very dan
gerous occupation for most persons
is quite a harmless matter; with us.
We believe in . religion, and when .
the fitting opportunity comes ' we
propose to give up all these things
and become Christiana. But .'for'
ths presont--well ybtrn ' men rwiU
be young men, you know;'and they,
might as well see what life is mado
of before they settle5 down. Be-'
sides this, it is manly and altogeth
er the proper thing to take your,
liquor when invited, and not be
compelled" to; say fcheepishly, "l)
don't drink, thank you," and to ' lay'
a smau stage on tne rouiette taoie
once'in a while just for the sake of
the excitment - ' ; -,;: '
How many men nave talked to
me in just that way ! While they' ;
liave all respect for religion, it is yet
so far on, and nas so mue to ao
with every day life, that one .would'
think that to become a Christian is '
to give up everything that is sweet ;
and pleasant '- Yet I have ' heard
a great many men talk in this i way J
and I have had more than one op-;
portnnity of ' watching its , conse-'''
quences ,--!-.t.;s;- Jr -
I became acquainted, some ten
years ago,' with a young man whose
evident generosity of nature won my, .
heart at once: ' The only trouble m
with him was that he belonged to '
a set of fellows who had all the
money they wanted, and who were
bent on spending it He 'used -to
say; "Now what is the harm in a
champagne supper once in a .while
or a game of cards with just enough .
of a bet attached to give it a spice -of
interest V I reasoned with him, ;
but in vain; He had a very great
respect for religion, and never spoke '
i of it in that ' flippant style which
distinguishes some, but he thought
of it as a mysterious something as
far away as the stars It had noth
ing to do with him, personally. - It -was
the best thing in the world for .
other' people, but he was so full of -physical
self-consciousness that lie
felt able to go ' just so far in his
course of dissipation, and then stop '
at will. Ho scorned the idea of not i
being able to quit his companions -.
at any moment I loved him and f
prayed with and ; for; him, and he
would K- sometimes say,1 ""My dear ' .
friend, don't wokry about me.' I -am
going to see what life is made ." '
of for a while, and then I will come
back to you, and we will talk this !
matter all over again." " '
I lost sight of him. - I sat before - '
my open fire till late into the night ";
wishing that all niinisters would
eschew theological differences .for ...
awhile at least, and unite in a com- .
rmon effort to show the world that '
religion is an every day matter,and "v
that its appeal, is personal r It is " ;
not that the world ia tn Via ravatI.
T. it is you. ' Christ ; lived, suffered ..
and died, not for the world, but for
you. . That is the way to put the 5
subject Religion is personal, cc
it is nothing. It is , not a theory .
about something towhich you ,give., i , ,
your assent, as ybtt do to the ' Co-
pernican system, or to Darwin's; '
Origin of Species, and let the mat-1
ter end there, it is the acceptance ' !
of principles which are to effect all ;
your business operations, and make
you a more honest merchant,' a'' ' ,' ',
more faithful clerk, or a more even tx
tempered father or' moteher.' f : t !
I must not forget - my young
friend. The other day I was going '
down Broadway when I saw : in. g
front of. mea, man who was evi- . :
deittly in the last . steps of dissipa
tion. His form, was fanailiar and
his gait, but he was shabbily dress- ,
ed, and was withal so sloucny that :
I did not recognize him. , He saw
me and stopped. . I looked him foil ;
in the face. j ,ty ? , Kr.-i
; 4Mr. Hepworth," he said in pit- -eous
tones,, .liave you. forgotten -
me!", . fli-, y.;r. ,;;:;- ,
i "What ! , Frank, is this you,
possible!" ; ;.. .;i ;,
im
the "Yes, it is L I am going to
Daa. io not gomg. ior l: am
al-
ready there.
"But I thought- ' r
"Yes, so did L" he said catching
my idea. I thought I could do
what I pleased. It was a piece of?
bad logic and it has cost me my 1
life."' ' - u
ft 'iBsd logic I Yes, that's it It's
always bad logic to think yon can
take care of yourself. Take the . '
i Good Shepherd for your guide,' and
ju c loaw your way. xrusc to
be found at last on the road-side
faint, hungry, and many a mile from
your jorney's end.41 ii--- , i.L.
There is only one way to insure - -success.
, Trust to th dear Lord,
and then compel the work of every ;
day to conform to ITis' wfll Who i:r
than iaii tfl p-S vf -ts4 .-lu
,
, Why U it that business is lively
st Broadway Wood and Coal Yard;'
Beosoae they sell the bert thhiar
ket sffordsr Cnp for Cah. V u
j ...... ... -i-n. . ..- .1 .
Jo.i
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