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VOL. V.
CIIILLICOTIIE, LIVINGSTON CO., MISSOURI, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 1882.
NO. 25
THE FINANCIAL QUESTION.
Peter
Cooper's Letter
Beck.
to Senator
The Defeat of Sherman's Refunding
Bill Demanded.
The Cheap Transportation Question
Settled.
The Kind of Democracy the People
Demand.
Sknatou Buck My Dear Sir: I see
that John Sherman is making a des
perate effort in the senate, to force a
vote on hie 3 per cent funding bill, at
as early a day as possible.
The people of this country who have
given some attention to this financial
question are watching with deep inter
est the discussion that is taking place
n reference to this bill. This bill can
not be regarded in any other light by
Intelligent minds than an effort on the
part of those who advocate it, to fasten
a portion of the public debt upon the
people, bo that it cannot easily lie paid,
and to perpetuate the existence of the
national banks.
Senators who support this bill, will
not, as I believe, in the future, be sup
ported by the people.
I sincerely hope that you will make
one of your ablest speeches in opposi
tion to this bill, and in favor of abol
ishing bank currency as fast as the
characters of these banks expire. This
whole system of issuing money and
making it a gratuity to rich bankers, is
one of the most infamous frauds ever
perpetrated upon ths people.
Now, can any plausible reason be
given why the government of the
United States should issue $302,000,000
of notes, and endow such notes with
the function of money, und f radically
make them a free gilt to rich bunkers,
while the masses of the people have to
work for every dollar of this money
that comes into their possession?
Why, sir, if this volume of currency
was issued in the form of legal tender
notes, the working classes of this coun
try would supply for it, the labor and
material requisite to build two lines of
double track railroad from the Atlantic
4i i 10 me I'aciuc coast, ana niiiy equip
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tUOBU roaus, HI1U 111 uuuiuuu mnrm,
construct fifty lirst-class ocean steam
ers, by which the question of cheap
tranaportation.both at home and abroad
could forever be settled in the interests
of the people.
Ilailroads built in this way would be
ownvd by the people, and through them
they could interchange their poducts
without having more than half of them
consumed in paying large dividends on
watered stocks, and hired interest on
preferred stocks, in fact, without pay
ing interest on any stocks or bonds
whatever. Why not introduce a bill
that shall make provision for retiring
bank currency as the bank charters ex
pire, and to substitute for the notes of
the expiring banks, treasury notes made
legal tender, and at the option of the
government redeemable in coin, or in n
three per cent inter-convertable bond,
and put the treasury notes thus to be
issued in circulation by providing cheap
trausportation routs for the people, as
I have here indicated?
AVhy should the people who create
the wealth of the nation, be compelled
to contribute the largest share of that
wealth to the owners of the money,
and the owners of the transportation
lines, the medium through which
the products of the people's labor are
interchanged?
Why should Messrs. Gould, Vandcr
bilt. Sage, Miller, Huntington, Crooker,
and a few other railroad managers, and
a few hundred bankers in New York
be permitted to accumulate the bun-
,1 j dreus ot minions oi uonars, uy biuhmj
contra 1 ne the money and transport
tion, that should belong to the w'.ole
taoDle?
Is it not because we have men of
John Sherman's stamp in the UniteJ
States senate and in congress who are
legislating in the interests of. these
Dartles?
Is it not about time that such men
should step aside and the true repre
sentative of the neonlos' interests should
step to the front and pass measures for
the benefit of the people, ano not soieiy
for that of rich bankers and railroad
magnates?
If this 3 per cent funding bill of
John Sherman's should pass, tlis bonds
it rrovideB for issuing, would command
a premium in one year of four or five
' per sent which would be two or three
times the amount of the interest saved
over the 3 per cent.
Besides this with our surplus reven
ues, it would only require about HI
years to pay off every one of the 3J per
cent bonds.
This cry of Mr. Sherman's of "sav
ing interest" is just a pretense on his
part; the real object of the bill is to
perpetuate the public debt, and by that
meens to continue to usue bank cur
rency. The whole system of issuing
cun aicy by banks, whether they are
private, state or national, is one that
will bring panics, and wide-spread
bankruptcy and financial ruin.
It is a perpetual scheme for inflation
and contraction, for sending the prices
of property up, and sending them down
for permitting people to get in debt on
bank paper and forcing them to pay
,hose debts in coin for selling property
when it is high, and buying it on fore-
closures when it is low.
About every ten years the business
men of this country are forced through
bankruptcy, and their property is ah-
orbed by hankers and money lenders
through the process.
I send you, herewith, some docu
ments which contain tables, taken
"m the finance report which will
bjw you how inflation and contrac
tion was carried on under the old state
bank system ; and also show what a
system of legalized fraud the present
system of national banks would become
if the legal tenders were destroyed,
and tht tax on bank circulation re
moved. I also send you a copy of my letter to
. Secretary Folger, reviewing his lost re
port I trust you will examine these docu
ments carefully, and that your voice
will be heard with great clearness on
this subject, before a vote is taken on
(his bill of Mr. Sherman's.
, Congress should at once prohibit any
further refunding of the public debt,
and should pay the debt as fast as
possible. It should also prohibit any
further r charter of the national
banks, or the issue of any more bank
ctumnoy of any kind, it should provide
also for the unlimited coinage of gold
and silver, and for the iBsue of gold
and silver certificates and legal tender
notes, to take the place of the notes of
the national banks as fast as their
charters tx pi re. In addition to this It
should provide cheaper transportation,
and poslotlice savings banks for the
people.
This will secure the best interests of
those who create the wealth of the na
tion by labor, and not solely of those
who absorb that wealth through class
legislation and especial privileges.
One reason why Mr. Sherman is push
ing this 3 per cent bill is that $213,
01)0,000 of the bonds now held by the
treasury to secure bank currency are
the 3A per cents and by paying these
off as rapi lly as is now being done, the
banks are compelled to surrender their
circulation or pay a high premium for
4.J per cent bonds to be held us their
legal reserve, and as security for these
notes.
The questions of currmcy and the
payment of the public debt are of vast
importance to the American people.
The future stability and prosperity of
our government depend greatly upon a
wise settlement ot these momentous
interests.
The American people will never al
low these subjects to rest quietly until
Ihey are safely moored to those sure
foundation principles of eternal truth
and justice on which our fathers placed
the constitution of the United States.
The constitution was designed to es
tablish a government of the people for
the people, and make it a shield of
protection for the unsuspecting masses
of the people against those that are
lesorting to all forms of art to obtain
property without labor. The framers
of the constitution would never have
recommended one kind of money for
the government, and another for the
people, auu another for the banks.
In settling these questions of debt
and currency we should tie governed
by the opinion of such a strong cham
pion of democracy as Thomas Jeffer
son, when, in his letter to Mr. Epps, he
said :
"liank paper must be suppress! d,
and the circulating medium must be
restored to the nation to whom it be
longs. It is the only fund on which
they can rely for loans; it is the only
resourco which can never fail them,
ind it is an abundant one for every
necessary purpose, treasury bills, bot
tomed on taxes, bearing or not bearing
interest, as may be found necessary,
thrown into circulation will take
the place of so much gold or
silver, which last, when crowdedill
Und an elllux into other countries, and
tlni3 keep the quantum of medium at
its salutary level.
That great statesman and philoso
pher, lieiij.miin Franklin, also, has
given us a valuable suggestion in ref
erence to our currency, when he said:
On the whole, no method lias hith
erto been found to establish a medium
of trade, equal in all its advantages to
bills of credit, made a general legal
tender. Paper money, well founded,
has great advantages over gold and
silver, being light, and convenient for
handling in large sums, and not likely
to be reduced by demand lor exporta
tion." That life-long Democrat and states
man, .J ol in c. Calhoun, while a member
of the United States senate, said:
No one can doubt but that the gov
ernment credit is better than that of
any bank more stable and more safe.
. Hunk paper is cheap to those
who make it, but dear, very dear to
those w ho use it. On the other hand,
the credit of the government, while it
would greatly facilitate its hiuuicial
operations, would cost nothing, or next
to nothing, both to it and the piople,
and would, of course, add nothing to
the cost of production, which would
give every branch of our industries
agriculture, commerce, and manufac
tures, as lar as its circulation might ex
tend, great advantages both at home
and abroad; and I now undertake to
affirm, and without the least fear that
I can be answered, that a paper issued
by government, with the simple piom
ise to receive it for all itsdi.es, leaving
its creditors to take it, or gold, nr sil
ver, at their option would, to the ex
tent it could circulate, from a perfect
paper circulation, which could not be
abused by the government; that it
would be as uniform in value as the
metals themselves; and I shall be able
to prove (bat it is within the constitu
tion und powers of congress to use
such a paper in the management ef its
linances, according to the most rigid
rule of costruing the constitution."
The following is also from the pen
of Herbert Spencer, who is regarded as
one of the first writers and ablest
thinkers of his nge.
"England herself does not in reality
base her currency on specie, nor could
she without bringing all business to a
d'-ad stop in a very short time. She
just mixes enough of Ibis specie basis
fiction in her finances to continually or
periodically divest the laboring classes
ot their eatnings for the benefit of the
uobilitv. liut for the real basis of val
ue to her currency, she makes the notes
of the Bank of England, as well as her
coins, a full legal tender for the pay-
ment of debts, but not the notes of the
other banks. From this we see that
even in England specie basis is a mere
fiction, a false pretence.
I see that suggestions are being made
by the officers of the government, and
bills are being introduced which aim to
destroy the legal tenders or remove
their legal tender quality. This could
not be done except with the greatest
hazard.
Our government having been literal
ly compelled to issue and use a legal
tender paper money in order to save
the nations life, has, by its use, caused
the whole property of the country to
be measured by its purchasing power,
By this use of paper money the govern
ment has created a most solemn obliga
tion on its part to do no act to increase
or diminish the amount of paper money
beyond the absolute necessities of the
government As an Increase of the
amount would inflate prices without
increasing real values, in the same pro-
portion a diminution of currency must
cause all property to shrink in price,
and thereby put it out of the power of
the people to pay their dents.
One thing is certain that the public
ana private dents can never be paid by
a governmental policy that shrinks
the currency, destroys values, paralyzes
industry, enforces idleness, and brings
wretchedness and ruin to the homes
of millions of the American people,
i It is equally true that Americans
can never buy anything cheap from
foreign countries that must be bought
at the expense of loaving our own good
raw materials unused, and our own
labor unemployed. It Bhould be re
membered that neither gold, silver,
copper, nickel, nor paper are money
without the stamp of the government
upon it. The constitution lias made it
the duty of congress to coin the money
of our country and regulate the value
thereof, and fix a standard of weights
and measures as the only possible
means by which commerce can be
regulated between foreign nations and
among the several states.
The people look to you and your as
sociates to protect their interests, and
I trust you will pardon me for thus im
pressing upon you the importance of
legislating upon the question here re
ferred to, iu such a way as to provide
for the prosperity of the masses, and
not solely for the benefit of a few who
have secured special charters and priv
ileges for their own benefit.
Very respect fully yours,
I'ktek Cooi'Kit,
Passenger Agent's Primer,
ClorlnnHtl Enquirer.
Who is this pompous-looking man?
lie is a passenger agent. He is very
like a lawyer, fur he gets bis living by
telling lies about everybody's road, his
own included. He can build more
roads and regulate their policy better
(in his mind) than either ley Gould or
Vandertmt. Does lie eat uougnnuis
for breakfast and crackers for dinner
to save money for the company? Oh,
no my dear. The company pays for a
square meal just the same, but he has
the dyspepsia from reading of the
high living in his expense account.
He works for the "best railroad in
the count jy." He always does. There
is no other road that runs through
such a pecular climate. In winter
there is a great deal of verdancy on
his line, but it is mostly in the passen
ger cars, and in mid-summer, when
passengers by other lines are broiling
iu the heat and sulTocated by dust, his
passengers are comfortably lolling
back in cushioned Beats with light
overcoats on. His road is stone bal
last, steel rails, patent couplers and
buffers, runs all the way in the shade,
conductors and brakemen . eagerly
watching for a chance to hold a crying
baby or bring a glass of water to a
good looking lady, and when the train
reaches its destination, instead of hur
rying back home, they wait around
until the passengers are stowed safe
ly away in 'busses, carriages or other
trains. Other roads may claim to do
this, but it is nt so; his is the oaly
line. Ask him and he'll tell you so.
What is that scar on his cheek? It
was there he was wounded in the ser
vice of his company. He was tack
ing up a card (showing the enlightened
public the advantages of bis line) and
in bis hurry to get the card up he
threw the hammer back too far and it
struck bim on the cheek, knocking off
that piece. Did it dent the hammer?
I thin1- not, my child, as they make
these hammer's extra hard.
If you should buy a ticket from him,
and find that you had to change cars
about 11 times more than he had told
you about, don't swear at him when
you get back. Just go up to him and
tell him you are going out again, but
don't like his line, lie will explain it
all, and if you enjoy a good romance
you will get it. It would be nice to lie
a passenger agent if you did not have
to tell the truth at nil tunes.
Washington Society In 1 825.
The circle of what was termed "good
society" at Washington had been, and
was then, very limitei in its extent
ind simple in its habits. Few senators
or representatives b.ought their wives
to cheer their congressional labors, and
a parlor of ordinary size would contain
all of those who were acsustomed to
attend Bocial gatherings. A fow diplo
mats, with the officers ot the army and
navy stationed at head quarters, were
accompanied by their wives, and there
were generally a few visitors of social
distinction. The most friendly and
cordial intercourse prevailed, and those
who met at dinner-parties and at even
ing entertainments were like members
of one family, in general sympathy.
The costume of the ladies was clas
sic in its scantiness, especially at balls
and parties. The fashionable ball-dress
was of white India crape, and live
breadths, each a quarter of a yard wide,
were all that were asked for to make a
skirt, which only came dowH to the
ankles, and was elaborately trimmed
with a dozen or more rows of narrow
flounces. Silk or cotton stockings were
adorned with embroidered "clocks,
and thin slippers were ornamented
with silk and rosettes and tiny buck
les.
Those gentlemen who dressed fash
ionably wore "Uolivnr" frock-coats of
some gay-colored cloth blue, or green
or claret with large lapels and gild
ed buttons. Their linen was ruffled ;
their "Cossack" trousers were volumin
ous in size, and were tucked into high
"Hessian boots with gold tassels. They
wore two, and sometimes three waist
coats each, of different colors; and from
their watch-pockets dangled a ribbon.
with a bunch of large seals. When in
full-dress, gentlemen wore dress-coats
wit h enormous collars and short waists,
ell-stuffed white cambric cravats,
small-cl thes, or tigr t-fltting panta
loons, silk stockings and pumps.
Whoss Boy Is That?
lie may be seen any day, in almost
any part of the town he never makes
room for you on tbe sidewalk, looks at
you saucily, is very impudent, and oft
en vulgar to women who pass he de
lights in frightening, and sometimes
does serious injuries to little boys and
girls he lounges at tbe street corners,
and is the first arrival at a dog fight or
any other soit of a scrape he crowds
into the postofflce In the evening, and
multiplies himself and bis antics at
sueh a rate that people having legiti
mate business there are crowded out;
he thinks himself very sharp, he is
certainly very noisy he can smoke
and chew tobacco now and then, and
rip out an oath almost any time we
ask whose boy is he? Mother, is he
yours? We think he Is, for there are
many good .uallties In the lad, and wt
do not think that you know what be
does in the street Look after him.
mother, keep him more at home, train
him, and you will have a son to be
proud ol som day.
The more honesty man has, the less he
affects tbe sir nf a saint Lavattr.
THE TANQLED SKEIN.
Oh llve that are crowned with failures,
Repealed again and again.
As your feeble hands have vainly tried
To straighten life's tangled skein,
Does sad voiced memory whisper
Of a robe of Innocence worn.
When young life, pure and stainless, stood
At the rosy gates of morn ?
Does your heart grew sick and heavy,
As ft silently point, you back,
To the strange dark ways your feet have
trod,
Since you left the shining track ?
ITnve you raised your eye in pleading
To Heaven's pure smiling blue,
And longed with unspoken anguish
To begin your life anew ?
Have you made a few feeble efforts
To reach the gates of gold,
While the eyes of the world were watching
you,
Critical, stern and cold ?
Ah ! the world saw only the fearful fall,
When ynu 'lipped fnim the narrow way,
But God sees the dark ti mptations
That lead your feet astray.
The world points !with mocking laughter
The waste and barren lands;
But (!od sees the Iron letters
That are binding your helpless hands.
Ills ear Is never heavy,
His eye is never dim.
And what the world misunderstands
Is clear as light to Mini.
The sun keeps steadily shining
Thu' he sky be overcast,
And patient, toiling effort
Will untangle the skein at last.
Kiiith J. Any in Maine Farmer.
AUNT MARSTON'S LEGACY.
Aunt Marston was dead, and I sat
looking at the legacy she had left me
in her will. "To my beloved neice,
Nellie Stanhope, the faithful nurse,
the loving comforter of declining years,
I bequeath my gold ball tarings, wit'u
the brooch to match, marked with my
initials in black enamel." Thus ran
the passage referring to me.
When my cousin, Lucinda Martson,
handed me the little morocco case she
could scarcely repress a smile of tri
umph as she thought of the great dif
ference a few short weeks had made in
our relative positions.
1 had been brought up by Aunt Mars
ston, had lived In ease and luxury all
my life, while my cousin had been
obliged for years to earn her own liv
ing by sowing. I had always looked
upon Greylandsas my home, while she
had never been invited to spend even a
week at the delightful old country
house on the Hudson since she was a
child. And now she had come into
possession of the old homestead, and I,
I 'ie favorite, whom she had hated and
envied for so many years, was put off
Willi mis insignificant bequest!
"After all your toadying," she said
with a sneer, "it is too bad to be put
off with a shilling; but if Mr. Lewis"
the other exeeutor "knows anything
about it, they are worth a great many
shillings, tor he says they are solid
eighteen carat gold, and that Onnulu,
who had them, would give you $,V for
them to-day. However, you aie wel
come to tbein. And now I suppose
you will see the necessity of looking
about for another home."
The bitter, insulting words, the deso
late, deserted feeling at being thus
cruelly turned out of the only home I
Knew, overcame the unnatural calm
ness with which I had hitherto borne
my irreparable loss, and I threw my
self on my bed and wept, as I never in
my short happy life thought it possi-
U'e i couui wee.o.
I don't know how long it lasted, but
when I became calm my heart still
nched, but my brain seemed clearer.
and I could look my situation in the
tace. l was no sycophant, I knew that
well, for I loved my aunt deaily, and
had always given her a daughter's
willing devotion, without one thought
beyond the present. I even told Charlie
Burnet, to whom I was engaged with
her consent, and whom I loved with
all my heart, that "we'd better bide a
wee," for I could not leave my sec
ond mother to spend her last days alone,
or be cared for by hirelings.
Aunt iMimce had often said to me:
"You and Charlie will not have to
wait long, dear child, and I will see
that your future is provided for."
1 did not care for myself, but I felt
so disappointed for his sake, when I
found that I was left absolutely peunl-
I think now, as I look back, that af
ter she became paralyzed she wanted
to say something to me about it; for as
she lay there so white and still, almost
like a piece of statuary, the muscles
about her lips would twitch as if try
ing to form words, and the ever restless
eyes would turn on me with an earnest
appealing look like the yearning, piti
ful expression of a dumb animal try
ing to make its suffering understood.
But she died and made no sign, und
now Charlie must plod along in the
old way, and I must try to earn my
own living, for I had made up my mind
tnnt i would never be an additional
burden on the poor fellow.
1 threw down the jewel case with a
sigh of disappointment as I thought it
all over, and then, ashamed of myself,
wok it up again and kissed the well
known trinkets, in fact, the only ones
my aunt ever wore, and put them
tenderly away among my other treasures
her gifts and Charlie's in the trunk
I was packing.
Alas, for the frailty of human reso
lutions! Charlie would not hear of my
earning my own living, and though he
did not exactly threaten to commit sui
cide if I refused, he looked so utterly
miserable aim forlorn that twos forced
to reconsider my decision.
Charlie and I are quite old married
folks now, and four little, curly-pated
restless bodies tumble about in the
small, poor room thafserves me as a
bvdrooin.sitting-room and nursery, com
lug to mamma with their small hurts
and pains to be kissed well and petted,
while often my head and heart are
both aching.
So many little mouths to feed, to
many little limbs to clothe and sew for
eight little feet that are never still to
cover with Bhoes that weav out too
fast It Is no wonder that Charlie has
to wear his coat till it is threadbare,
and my only best dress Is my old black
silk made over again and again, which
with lace ruffles at the wrists and
throat and Aunt Marston's legacy,
f oi ms my gala-day toilet
I would not complain to myself, but
Charlie looks so pale and tired, and his
couch gets worse and worse every day.
If he only eouldgo Into the country
tor a month or two, the doctor says,
rest himself, keep in the open air. drink
plentv of milk and take plenty of gentle
exercise, such as a little rowing or rid
ing, ne coma get well.
My head aches with thinking how
to get the money that will save Char
lie's life. My darling husband, so de
voted, so unselfish, depriving himself
ot even the smallest indulgence for me
and our little ones I I think bitterly on
the unequal distribution of the good
things of this world; so few have all
and so many have nothing at all; but
when I say so, Charlie laughs and says
I'm a little communist, a dangerous
character, and should be suppressed.
As usual, while I am sitting sewing,
I am devising a thousand impracti
cable schemes, when my revery is in
terrupted by my elder boy, Robert.
"Oh, mamma! see those beautiful
ponies!"
I look out and see a phaeton drawn
by u span of black ponies, and, seated
at her ease, her lap-dog beside her, I
recognize my cousin, Lucinda Marston.
How circumstances have changed.
.She and her dog in my place. I and
my children living a life of privation.
My husband dying for the need of the
money she lavished on horses and dogs
m a week.
I cannot help o reproachful feeling
loward my aunt as I reflect on her
capricious treatment of me. At sight
of that cruel lace I live over again
that last dreadful interview when my
cousin gave me the jewels. Her words
rang in my ears onco more, but with a
new meaning.
"Onnulu would give you $50 for
them, sue had said.
"Fifty dollars!" I exclaimed aloud.
"Fifty dollars means rest, country air,
rowing, riding, life, and health for
Charlie."
I opened the satin-lined box and
looked at the yellow baubles, that
smiled and twinkled in their soft bed
as if they were glad they were going to
be of some use at last.
"Oh, you treasuio!" I siid, and
kissed them rapturously and with a
thankful heart.
While I put on my hat and shawl I
had mentally nii.de away with half my
legacy, for 1 had bought Charlie a new
suit, nice, warm fl innels and all, and
barely left Mm enough to pay his
board with in the country. Carried
away by the excite nentof the moment,
I scarcely knew what I was doing till
I found myself in the palatial s;ore at
Hank street, and heard n gentlemanly
voice say, in answer to my question:
"Will you pleaae wait a moment,
madam ?"
Ho spoke to an elderly man, who in
a while came to me and said:
"Would you mind telling me. madam,
bow this set of jewelry came into your
possession.'
My heart sank. There seemed to be
something of a doubt as to whether
they li,.d been honestly come by.
"Certainly not," said 1 "Thev were
left to me by my aunt Miss Eunice
Marston. You may perhaps remember
that slie bouglil them here.
ill you please give me your name
and addiessV"
1 did so, and found that the younger
man knew my husband well, and also
remember having seen me in the store
with my aunt.
Do you know, madam, what these
Jewels are worth?"
"About fiO, I suppose," I said.
He took ore of the earrings out of
the case, and giving a little twist and
a light pressure of the small gilt knob
at the lower side of the ball, it opened
into two parts; taking off the golden
envelope, he held up to my astonished
eyes an immense solitaire diamond that
sparkled and blazed like a star as it
tremble! in his band.
The earrings alone are worth 10,000,
and with the brooch, which opens, too,
you see, the set is worth 125,000.
The words baa no meaning to me;
everything faded before my eyes all
was darkness. When 1 came to my
senses I was lying on a lounge, and a
sweet-looking lady sat by me bathing
my bead. When I was sufficiently re
covered to think of what had hap
pened, and was assured that it was not
a dream, I had another interview witli
the gentleman, who, like the genii in
an Arabian story, had evoked such
wonders from a simple golden ball.
Upon my signifying my desire to
sell the jewels, an agreement was
made, and I went out of the store a
rich woman, with Ormulu & Co.'s
check for $20,000 in my packet.
When I reached home, Charlie stood
at the front door waiting for me, look
ing anxious, peer fellow, for no one
could tell where I had gone, and it was
vory unusual for me to be out when
he came home, lie must have thought
I bad gone crazy, when, putting the
check in his hand, I threw my arms
round his neck right there in the vesti
bule, and, crying as if my heart would
break, said,
Ob, Charlie! Oh, Charlie!" Then
when he had taken me into the house,
I drew all my little ones into my arms,
crying, "Oh, my darlings! mydarlings!''
When my excitement had abated
somewhat I thought of the precious
paper.
Where is the check? I said.
Check!' Bald Charlie. "Poor dar
ling, trouble has turned your brain."
But upon my insisting, very much
as one humors a sick child, he consent
ed to hiijior me, and pretended to look
tor it.
"Here Is something, papa," exclaimed
Amy, as she put in his hand a crumpled
bit of paper she had picked up iu the
hall.
I can see that expression on his face.
do really believe my husband, for a
minute, thought I had, In my insanity,
been guilty of forgery, burglary, high-
wayrpbbery, or some dreadlul thing,
It seems but yesterday, and yet Ave
happy years have gone Bince then, and
we have a house or our own, with n
cozy library full of books for Charlie,
and a large sunny, lovely room tor tbe
chllnrens misery.
you wouldn t know Charlie, be is so
rugged and brown. He is now cashier
of the bank in which he began as an
errand boy. We are not rich by any
means, but have everything we need
and many luxuries.
No matter; Charlie and my darling
children are happy, and I wish Aunt
Eunice could look into my grateful
heart to-night a heart so Oiled with
a sense of all my blessings that I can
scarcely see through the happy tears
that fill my eyes, to write these tew
last words.
A hotel containing Ave hundred rooms
and costing 8150,000 is to be erected in the
National Yellewston park,
ELECTRIC LIGHTING,
Dangers of the System Regulating
the Use of the Wires.
New York Herald.
The New York board of Ore under
writers has been devoting much time
and attention to the investigation of
the electric light, with a view of ascer
taining the precise extent of the danger
from lire resulting from its use and
the best precautions to be adopted.
E'ectricity for the purposes of illumina
tion, which has come into vogue so
rapidly, is not thoroughly understood
by fire underwriters. The burning of
the ltandolph nulls, in Philadelphia,
where so many lives were lost, and sev
eral other less disastrous fires, which
are known to have originated in the
electric-light wires, have induced the
fire underwriters, for their own protec
tion, to investigate the dangers attend
ing the use of the electric light. A
special committee was appointed for
this purpose some months ago by the
.New lork board or lire underwriters.
An interesting paper prepared by Mr.
Anderson, president, of the Mercantile
Fire Insurance company, and a member
ot this committee, was recently publish
ed by the Herald. Since then the com
mittee's d'scoveries have induced them
to make a number of additional recom
mendations, which have just beeu
adopted Hnd promulgated by the New
lorn ooard of underwriters.
The capacity of conducting wires has
been considered, and for arc lights it
has been stipulated that the conductor
must have a weight per running fix t
at least equal to that of the wires, con
stituting the main circuit of the mag
netic regulator of the electric lamps, or
of the armature of the machine em
ployed, whichever of these is the larg
est. For Incandescent lights the conduct
ing wirei must be large enough never tu
grow unpleasantly warm to the touch
In no case must electric wires be con
nected with the earth or with gas or
water-pipes running to the earth. Ex
posed wires must be covered with two
coatings, and where there is exposure
to water one of these coatings must be
water-proof. At the point where elec
trie wires enter a building a switch or
"cut" out must be provided, so that in
case of lire there will be no danger to
firemen. The outgoing and returning
wires fur arc lights should enter and
1' ave a building at points at least one
foot Horn each oilier. In running
along wans or ceilings, the wires
of an arc lamp should not be nearer
than eight inches from each other; for
incandescent lights two and a half
inches distance is sufficient. Wher
ever wires are carried through walls,
lloors, or partitions in buildings they
must be surrounded by a special in
sulating tube of substantial material.
Aic lights must be protected by glass
globes, inclosed at the bottom to prr-
vent the fall of ignited particles, and
where inflammable materials are pres
cut below Hie lamps a wire netting
must be added lo keep the parts of the
globe in place in case of its fraclure
during use. Whenever a current of
such high electro-mot ivo force is em.
ployed that, if concentrated on one
lamp of the seiies, it would produce an
arc capable of destroying or fusing
parts ot such lamp, an automatic
switch must be introduced in each
lamp, by which it will be thrown out
of circuit before the current approaches
any dangerous intensify.
What a Boy was Thankful For.
nutrolt Free rrcu.
This is the way our youngster ex
pressed his Thanksgiving thoughts in
writing: "1 m not going to be thank
ful for turkey and oysters and two
kinds of sauce because we are a little
off on finance this year. We're going
to have chicken and mashed taters and
pickles, and them'B good enough tor
us. I'm going to pass my plate twice,
whether it's fashionable ur not. 1
thin't a boy with half a chicken in him
feels more tony than the boy who didn't
get anything but the neck.
The more 1 think ol it the more I see
to be thankful for. I fell into the
river twice last summer, and didn't
stay tin ro cither time. I fooled with
dad's revolver, and sent a bullet into
sister Mary's ear. I'm awful thank
ful it didu t hit her in the head. I
found a dog and sold him for a piir of
skates. I found ten cents and forgot
to hide it when I went to bed, and ma
never found out. I guess I'll put that
in among ibe thanks. I got inn over
by a butcher cart, and wasn't hurt at
all. I'm thankful, and the butcher is
mad. A boy in Chicago was blowed
sky high with gun-p wder. A boy in
Cleveland swallowed pizen. A boy in
Syracuse got burnt up. A boy in St.
Louis got in trout ot a cannon.
You bet I'm thankful I I kinder
wish I was big enough to knock a boy's
head oft when lie turned up his nose
at my two shilling skates, but I II have
to get along somehow, and be tnaimtui
that I can outrun any boy I can't lick.
A Vsrtjlnian of the Old School,
The death, near Malvern Hill, Va
of Nathan Enroughty is likely to revive
the question, often discussed, but never
satisfactorily answered, why the name
of a numerous family should have
been, for at least a cenUry, universally
spelled Enroughty and universally pro
nouueeu Darby. The members of the
family themselves follow this strange
perversion, always writing their name
one way and pronouncing it the other,
but can ghe no explanation of its
origin. Nathan Enroughty, who h s
just died at a great age from 90 to
100 years was a soldier in the war of
1812. and a pensioner of the govern
ment He was famous, even bejond
middle life, for his trength, activity.
and endurance, and it it is said that no
prudent man ever ventured to try con
clusions with him when nature's wea
pons were the only ones to be employed
For eleven years, however, blindnes
had kept him in hateful Inactivity.
Moses How. Esq., of Haverhill,
Mass.. stiongly indorses St Jacobs Oil
for rheumatism, etc., from the observa
tion of its effects in his factory as alio
In his own family so we see
from one of our Massachusetts ex
changes. Bridgeport (Conn) Stand
ard.
Fine veins of marble have been discov
ered In Union county, Arkansas.
"It Is Curing Everybody,"
writes a dnignlst. "Kidney-Wort Is the
most popular mi dlelne we sell." It should
be by right, for no other medltlne has such
specific action on ine uver, ooweis ana sia-
lieys. UO nvt tau IB try u, s?x any,
When Cows May be Kept at a Profit.
Dr. c. L-BiorteviDt la Springfield (UiaO Repablleaa
In every herd of cows there are ani
mals which differ widely among them
selves in their adaptability for profit
Each animal has a different digestive
power, different tastes, different apti
tudes, from every other animal. In one
animal increase of food may result in
the laying on of flesh rather than an In
crease of quautity of milk yield or
vice versa, one animal may keep up a
uniform yield of milk under a consider
able change of food. The owner who
carefully studies the aptitude of each
cow in his herd will usually be able to
point out such cows as can be kept
profitably on coarse fodders and little
grain, and such other cows as can more
profitably be foreed by high feeding
into a large yield of milk. As there
exists this individual difference be
tween cows in utilizing such food as
they obtain, it follows that as a herd
is usually constituted, Borne cows are
kept at a profit, and certain other cows
at a diminished profit or perhaps at a
loss.
These two ideas, viz: the differences
that exist between individual animals
iu economy of food and in production
and the changing relations between the
values of feeding crops and the ammai
products, should lead the farmer to
careful study and thought. A
milch cow weighing one thousand
pounds is generally calculated to re
quire for her support and profit three
per cent of her live weight daily in
food or thirty pounds of hay as ils
equivalent. Ab in this region the win
ter may be considered as of six montlo'
duration, this means two and three
quarters tons of hay. In the six months'
pasturing it is difficult to assign a
representative value, but let us, keep
on the safe side, for the sake of even
figures, calculate the cost of the yearly
keep of a cow at three tons of hay.
Now, when hay is at a certain cost
that is, possesses a certain cash value
it is easy to figure out tbe quantity of
milk a cow has to annually produce in
order, at a given price, to cover the
value of the food, thus:
A cow must yield annually to equal
the value of three tons of hay con
sumed: When hay
is worm
3lo a tun..
1.1 a ton . .
'.'a a ton..
Quarts
at a cents.
1,M0
2, so
a,J0
3,750
Quarts
at 3 cent!.
1,000
l.MiO
2,00.)
2.50 i
3,000
2 i a ton
3Ja tun 4,500
According to tbe most recent statis
tics available (those for 1879), the aver
age value of bay in Massachusetts is
$ltj a ton. Iu suburban localities hay
is frequently Bold at $30 a ton. In
New York st te, the average price is
'.l.7y per ton. The average price of
milk as deduced from the cheese fac
tory returns of New York stute, is
about 2 cunts a quart; us paid to the
farmer by the milk contractor of thu
city supply about Boston, from 3 to 3J
cents a quart
We have thus presented to us the
question of relations. A cow which
consumes three tons of hay a year
must give, on the average, in New
York state, $ s'Xil worth of mint, or
1.200 quarts, in order to cover the
value of her food. In suburban Mas
sachusetts, Willi hay at $20, the Bame
cow must yield 2,000 quarts at 3 cents
in order to cover the value ot ner ioou.
Now. In New Y'ork slate tbe average
yield per cow is calculated to not ex
ceed 1,300 quarts, while tbe yield of
good herds is placed at 1,800 quarts.
Another deduction, ef value to me
suburban farmer especially, is that if
through the individual aptitude of the
cow the 2,000 quarts required to pay
for the hay at tlQ per ton can beob
turned through the use of coarser fod
ders or changed feed equivalent to $10
a ton for hay, then the superior skill
of the chooser and feeder of the cow
is equivalent to 1,000 quarts of extra
yield.
These figures are but rougu illus
trations of certain conditions which
appertain to dairy husbandry, the
methods under which competition and
low prices of product are to be met,
and the value of intelligent calculation
to the farmer.
There are certain facts which in this
connection should be well apprehend
ed : 1. That breed is superior to feed,
that Is, that the animal the fodder is
fed out to is of more consequence, uu-
der conditions of good farming, than
the money value of the food, t ecu
does not produce milk in the dry cow;
high feeding can not lorce a scant
milker by inheritance into a large milk
er; the cow of milking habit and strong
digestive power can utilize unsalable
fodder cannot justify reeamg flucn
mat erial with the hope of profit Hence:
Whether we shall feed highly, reed
food of high or low value, feed for
maititalnence or for milk, is a question
to be determined by the character of
tbe animal and the relations of values.
3. The cow of profitable aptludes is
the one to keep; tliecow of unprofitable
antitudes Bhould be sold on at once,
and every herd contains usually more
than one. and thus the herd shall be in
a condition for the owner to secure
profit by studying the value relations
between the unmarketable products of
his farm, the various purchasable foods,
and the salable products of his growth.
Lata Hours.
Dor evening engagements are far too
nnmnrnnii. and our narties are too much
of the nature of public meetings. They
have lost ail domesticity ana simplici
ty, to say nothing of the cost of tbem,
which is itself a care. They are so late
m tn errand far into the night The
injurious results of scanty rest are very
obvious, rney taKe two apparent op
posite but really related forms excita
bility and exhaustion. Wesrsfeariui
unit futlmmd! hvnersensltive and sub
ject to ennui. We are exqul -itely sensi
tive to p in ana aiscomiort ou toe one
Land and uncommonly hard to nlease
on the other. Neither moralists nor
physicians have much control over the
faults of our social are. necinomy
point them out The remedy for them
rests witu the public. Will a few in
fluential nennla. who want easily to do
an enormous amount of good, dare to
initiate a few Changes in our social ar
rangements in the direction of sleep
and simplicity r
A lot ef 500,000 whltefish eggs, shipped
from Northfield, Mloh.. to San mncleoo
waa by some accident detained on the
tourney, and. being kept In a warm oar,
the fish hatched out and only about one-
Dfth of the quantity (hipped has been
saved.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The woods of Maine are to be stock
ed with quail from California.
A lArffn hotel is to be built at Wash
ington Heights, New York city.
Seventeen thousand dollars worth of
sponge in one pile was recently sold at
Key West, Fla.
A neirrn in TTDann county. Georgia.
got rid of a bone felon by cutting off
his finger with a hatchet
The will of Marv Pratt of Water-
frtvpfltnthe Masnachlisetbl gen
eral hospital the sum of $20,000.
Tf ! unlit that Rueben It. BDrlnger.
of Cincinnati, talks of endowing the
College or music wun ii,iw,.
- haa Iwpn wnjihed from alluvial
lands wltbin tbe limits of Gainesville,
Ga , which pays &0 cents to the pan.
K,.,-r.turv Hunt has lust become the
owner of a neat but simple brick houss
in Washington, its price was
50P.
A railroad company has been organ
ized in Arizona lo build a road from
Tucson to tbe Gulf of California, 250
miles.
r.nv William D. Bloibaro. of Flori
da, Is the first native-'oorn citizen of his
stale that has won his way to its high
est office.
Ttuni nine and other woods abound
ing in rosin are now brought from the
southern states and sold in eastern
cities for fuel.
Ttr,nklTn had 437 fires last year, with
a ln. nt lJ27.145. and an insurance of
2,586,200. Sixty-two fires were caused
by kerosene explosions.
At. A Hums. .Irfferson countv. N. Y.
during tbe full and winter, and within
a mile and a nan or eacn oiner, mere
have been forty-five deaths from diph
theria. A onnd old ladv of Plymouth. Mass..
collected money for the benefit of a
poor family and Dougut groceries ior
i hem. The family are now suing her
for the cash.
The cost of feeding the prisoners In
S in Francisco is low. Last year, In
that cltv. meals were furnished priso
ners to the uumber of 41,8b9, at an
average cost ol 4 J cents per meal.
Sixty-five corporations for wild min
inn aiiamoa hitvA Riiddenlv transferred
their offices from Philadelphia to Cam
den, N. J., to escape the taxation im
puted by the laws of rennsyivania!
A alWed imld mine has beei dis
covered in North Stonlr.gton, Conn,
and In order to obtain a conclusive
test of the value of the' ore, two car
loads were shipped to New York last
week.
Tim financial returns of two Catholic
.!.,, ri, ruira lufelv held in Philadelohia
show that one realized $14,000 and the
other over $10,000. Tbe contests oy
votes proved most remunerative, the
ballots to award a chalice producing
the sum of $2,800.
A puna prmlinff much local interest
in A,,in n Me waa decided last week.
Miss Fannie Dickey, in mailing a letter
ou a Sunday, was struck by ice falling
from the roof of the city building. She
sued for $10,000. Tbe jury rendered a
verdict of $3,250.
The first juiy composed exclusively
of colored men ever assembled in
cumuli xnnnrv. Virginia, tried a
shooting case last week in which the
principals were ai60 coioreu. xuo
guilty party was sentenced to six
month's imprisonment and a fine of
$500.
a i.on nt Pxwtnckflt. Tt. I., was ar
rested the other day charged with steal
ing a young man s uo aiamona pin.
There was no evidence incriminating
the hen beyond the naturally reckless
passion of her sex for trumperty, yet
aftei three days of durance vile she
was beheaded and the missing stones
were found snugly hid away in her giz
zard. ti.o TTninn TtpnAvnlent association.
of Philadelphia, since Its organization
has distributed, in rounu nuuiuoio,
000.000; over 200,000 families have
k,. in u rharufl! fiO.000 tons of coal
and 40,000 tons of coke have been sup-
plied to the poor. It nos been me
.imn... fnr thirtv-two Dorcas societies
and a very large number of other dis
tributing institutions.
vrvAertvb a Tntile. who has been
.nnnltiM ovwamnr of Arizona terri-
tory, is a native of Franklin county.
Pennsylvania, where ne was auuiuieu
n ti,a hor ...mo t.wnntv-flve years ago.
but he soon struck out for the Pacific
slope, and settled down in what is now
Nevada. He has made nis mars; in
nniuina ni in fnumftlism. in connec
tion with The Virginia City Enter
prise.
All persons entering the public houses
.hnuia rntniirunts. and liquor sa
loonsof Bristol, England.between the
hnura nf 7 and 11 o'clock on the even
ing of Saturday, Jan. 7. were counted;-
with the following result: vi a popu
lation of 206,000, 105,000, or more tbfa
one-half, entered the public houses in
four hours. Of this number 54.074.
were men. 86,803 women, and
children.
Tl, annertntndent of the Indian
school at Carlisle, P proposes to give
an exhibition In i'hliaaeipnia next
mnnih vhoiiuit. the workmanship of
the Indian boys and girls can be seen
and their proficiency In elocution tested.
The lids will show their manner of
making harness, and on the stage will
ba a wagon, specimens of tinware,
boots and shoes, all of which were
made by the boys at Carlisle,
The total cost of Gulteau's trial can
not be estimated, but the following
.imim am nnnwr. aa far as can be as
certained : Juror's fees, $1,540; board,
seventy-two days. Including wree oaii-
IfM, $3,500; government wuneaaeo mm
n.nn. f, iuQB.1. defendant's wit
nesses and mileage, $2.889 ; of tbe latter
the Guiteau family and their connec
tions received $38955; reporting and
printing, $5,000; seventy deputy mar
shals, $1,302; miscellaneous, $1,000;
Judge Porter and Mr. Davidge will re
.!... .hn,,f tMim mwh. This nlacea
the total at $25,000 or thereabouts.
Business unen in Baltimore propose to
organbe a Manufacturer's Aid association,
with a capital of SI.P0O,' On, tho 1 rime ob
ject of which shall e to erect and equip
buildings with motive jnwer lor tno pur
pose of renting the same to manufacturers
who cannot afford to own their own works.
It is believed that such an association will
attract Important manufacturing Interests
totbeoltr.