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VOL. VIII.
FAIR FRAILTY.
BY PAUL PLUME.
It was the evening of Easter Mon
day, and Home was ablaze in tbe glo
ry of illumination. Music and lire
works made the city a very pleasant
place for the sojourner. I had wan
dred with some friends from Saint
Peter's toward the Castle of St. An
gelo, fromwhose dark walls hundreds
of rockets and beautifully colored
lights incessantly rose toward the
heavens, and broke into crimson,
orange, purple and golden showers.
Twenty minutes' walk brought us
to the ten angels who stand guard at
the entrance to the cajtle. Uuder the
very shadow of their wings small
booths were erected for the sale of
fruit, and one might buy golden or
anges from pretty Italian girls who
smiled tenderly on you as they raked
the silver into their wooden boxes.
Directly in front ot the spot where
we halted stood Gilbert Kenneth, a
young Englisman, who with his wife
on his arm, was watching- the fire
works. Kenneth was well known in
Rome as what we now would term a
fast man.
Suddenly a person brushed ronghly
past us, and then I heard Mrs. Ken
neth exclaim :
'Gilbert, my watch is gone, that
man I am sure has it ; see, inhere be
goes."
Tbe next moment Kenneth sprang
through the crowd, with his eyes on
the retreating figure.
Only thoMj who stood near enough
and uuderslood English, followed; lor
Kenneth's movements were scarcely
observed by the concourse, whose
eves were fixed on the pvrotechnical
ifisplay. My companions and myself,
however, darted after the rogue, who,
not knowing that he was pursued, en
tered oue of the fruit booths with his
pursuer close at his heels.
At the same, instant that Kenneth
arrived In front of the stand, one of
the most beautiful girls that it was
ever my lot to observe iu Kome, came
from the rear of the booth to the counter
as if she expected a customer to buy
her oranges.
As there eyes met a visible change
came over the oppression of their
faces.
IIa, Paulina, is it you ?" said Ken
neth, evidently very ill at ease under
the gaze which the girl fixed upon
him.
"Yes, Fignor," 6he replied, "what
now 'f She emphasized tbe last words
with a peculiar meaning.
uSo, much," he returned, "ouly I
believe a man stole my wife's watch
just now, and I think be came into
your booth."
"Signor,'' replied the girl, "there i
no one here save ray father, and as
j-ou are very well acquainted with
him you can tell whether it be he that
you are looking ior. rattier, she
called, and tht n Emanuel Molini, a
dark-skinned, ill-natured looking indi
vidual, parted the lolds of the tent
and came forward.
"Beg pardon, Molina," cried Ken
neth, speaking in Italian, "I've missed
my man.
'Good evening, signor," said Pau
lina, with mocking speech and a pe
culiar smile.
Gilbert Kenneth never replied, but
hurried back to the side of his wife,
"lie has escaped,1' he said.
"But surely you are not going to
allow a thief to run away with my
jeweled watch and make no effort for
its recovery .
On a msrlit like this, when all
Rome are out of doors, it is itnpossi
ble to trace a matter like tnis," was
his reply.
"Alas! alas!- cried his wife, "mast
I, then, really lose my watch Y"
"I think so, was bis laconic reply,
Now Kenneth passed in tbe world
for a gentleman, and yet he told his
wife a deliberate lie. lie very well
knew if he had called for the police
tbe watch would most probably have
been found on the person of kinanuel
Molini, but there were certain reasons
why Kenneth did not do this. The
troth is, he would sooner have lost a
thousand watches than brought the
father of the orange girl to justice.
That night in bis miserable abode
by the Tiber, Emanuel Molini, by the
aid of a rush-light, sat examining tbe
watch of Mrs. Gilbert Kenneth.
If a man's success is to be estimated
by the wealth he honestly accumu
lates, then beyond contradiction, An
drew Kenneth was a most successfu
manfactnrer. Heaven blessed him
with but a single child to inherit his
great wealth, and after years spent in
dreams of what that .cniia was to ac
complish in the way of renown, An
drew Kenneth s joy ended only in
vexation of spirit.
: Gilbert Kenneth was froward from'
the day of bis infancy. H is father
was a man of high moral deportment
who frowned upon everything irregu
lar in one's character, and when his
son, in the twenty-fourth year of his
age, actually married a beautiful eer
vani girl, who could neither write her
name nor read it when written, An
drew Kenneth's head fell upon bis
bosom in sorrow, and he never after
ward would permit bis name to be
pronounced in his presence.
But Gilbert bad a grandmother, an
old Scotch woman, who, despite his
bad conduct, never forsook him, and
dying shortly after his ill-starred mar
riage, bequeathed him considerable
wealth. Taking his money and his
wife he went abroad,' and soon neg
lected the woman he bad married
while too late, shame at the ignoble
alliance he bad formed, began to ran
kle in bis heart. Then followed un
happy domestic scenes, quarrels and
heart-burnings. His countrymen who
were resident abroad with their farm
lies never permitted him to cross their
thresholds, and passed on the other
side when they chanced to meet his
wife. . Mrs. Kenneth never dreamed
of improving ner mmd or manners
even 4,o a limited extent, so that she
might have been presentable in socie
ty. By means easily understood
among those who have experience in
such matters, Kenneth, after making
the acquaintance of Paulina Alobiini,
was soon a frequent visitor at 'tier
home. Scarcely a stranger in Home
had failed to hear of the remarkable
beauty of this girl, and she reaped a
good harvest from those who came to
buy her oranges and.gase upon her
face. Gilbert Kenneth was one of
those men who could bear no rival in
tbe pursuit of any object, and his dis
quietude became intense when he saw
admirers gather about the fruit stand.
Emanuel Molini was a clever rascal,
and shrewd withal. II quickly dis
covered that the Englishman was
was worth plucking, and he deter
mined, if possible, to have tbe last
feather. i.
Notwithstanding his reckless na
ture. Kenneth had inherited a certain
caution from his grandmother that at
times enabled hi in to foil the cunning
traps laid to ensnare him. . For a
good while he supplied Monlini with
money to a limited extent, but never
realized the graceless rascal s hopes of
obtaining large sums, lo 1 aulina he
made presents, very plenty, but not
cosily Urged by her father, she bluntly
asked for ornaments that a countess
might wear. Kenneth did not refuse
her, but he managed to keep her favor
by promising to grant her request
by-and-by. Then sho would pout and
have little quarrels with him ; but a
few gold pieces generally brought
smiles to her face again. And so tbe
time passed away, Kenneth enjoying
himself after bis fashion, and bis wife
atter her own.
Summer came and with it malaria.
Mrs. Kenneth was the first foreigner
taken sick, and ber death soon fol
lowed. Her husband could scarcely
realize the tact that he was free. He
didn't mourn, the man was really to
lonest tor that, but for one week re
frained from visiting the Italian girl,
Paulina.
It was during this time that I was
coming out of the Church of St. Ma
ria, in A'ia Lata, that I met Kenneth
face to face. Hitherto our acquaint
ance had been limited to "good morn
ing' and "good evening." On this
occasion he slopped and extended his
hand, saying, "I wish you would walk
with me, I fell very lonely."
I regret it, I replied, "but it is
not to be wondered at; we must all
have our troubles sooner or later."
"No, no you are in error,'' he said,
my heavy heart don't come from the
cause you imagine, i here never was
reason why it should; the world
don't know all about that, but let it
pass; some make me heartless and
uoue a saint, and yet to a certain ex
tent both may be wrong. But my
trouble come from news I heard this
morning. Of course you have seen
Paulina, the fruit vender?"
"I know her," I replied.
"You do !" he answered, looking at
me sharply.
"les, certainly 1 do; who don 17'
"I don't," he replied, "I thought I
did; but I am confident now that I
was mistaken.
"Well," I inquired, "what of her ?"
"Ocly this. She and her father
have disappeared, and without giving
me notice of tbeir intention to leave
tbe city."
"Give you notice! 1 ejaculated
with Buch astonistnent that he started,
and for a moment seemed abashed.
Do you know," be replied, bring'
ing bis lips on a level with my ear,
and speaking in a whisper, "do vou
know that I loved that girl .'
" v ery many did, I have no doubt.
"Yes," he continued, "perhaps so;
but my love was different from them
all, for the affection I bore ber came
straight from my heart, and never
meant her evil.
"Perhaps, 1 suggested, "it may
prove a good thing tor you that tbe
girl has departed, x ears hence you
may think so, if you do not now.
"I cannot think so," he responded,
"else I should not seek ber.
"You certainly do not intend any
thing like that," I asked.
"1 certainly do," he returned, "as
soou as I can obtain any definite in
formation I will be on the wing."
"I am sorry to hear you say so, and
hope yon nay have occasion to change
your determination.
He smiled sadly.
"Why should I?" be inquired.
"The girl has won my affection. If I
do not engage in something active, I
shall go road with thinking."
As I parted with Gilbert Kenneth
I breathed a sincere prayer that he
might be spared tbe great foolishness.
he meditated. 1 did not meet bira
again for several days. When I next
saw him his face wore a more tranquil
expression, and he seemed to have re
gained his wonted careless mood.
"I have good news at last," he cried,
shaking me vigorously by the hand.
"I have got the scent. She went away
with Count Mandella. You know
the Count, of course ?"
"The one who won so heavily at
Casseli's?"
"The same."
"I had no personal acquaintance
wijth him, but I have frequently seen
bim. But what are you going to do
now ?"
"Follow as soon as I can hear the
route they took."
"And when yoo have found them ?"
"Take the girl away from bim, or
ne did not finish tho sentence, but
I understood his meaning.
"I trust you will think better of
this," I remarked. ' ! '-
The following day I again met Ken
neth. As soon as he spied me, be
ran forward and caught me 1 by the
arm. He was very much agitated.
His face was flushed, and some of his
expressions incoherent. I began to
fear he was going crazy. v . . . . -t
"All right now,'' he cried. "I leave
this evening.. I found it all out by
tbe merest accident. Passing along
by the Via Gnilia, I stepped into tbe
studio of Trufanti, when what should
I behold but a portrait of Count Man
della. Trufanti was at work.
" Hallo,' I said, concealing my emo
tion. 'who have you got there ? That
ALBANY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1873.
face seeuts familiar to me."
"'That's a noble gambler, and a
uckv one, too,' remarked the painter;
it is Count Mandella."
" 'True enough.' I renliod. 'but I
thought he had left HomeT
"'bo he has,' returned the artist.
but he paid tor the picture all the
same, and is going to have it sent to
bim at Venice.'
" 'And he has gone to Venice ?'
"'So ho said,' replied Trufanti.
"Then I bade him good-clay, and
now I shall bid you good-by; don't
you wish mo good luck l"'
les," 1 replied thoughtfully, "1
do."
It was not the kind of luck, how
ever, that Kenneth would have fan
cied.
Something more than a year after
ward I was in Trieste, when I saw
Gilbert Kenneth coming along the
street. The wild look of his eyes and
nervous agitation convinced me that
my former suspicious were correct, the
man was of unsound mind.
"Hal ha!" ho cried, "how strange
that I should meet you here ! Oh I
what a history has been mine since I
left you at Home." And he proceed
ed at once to give me an account of
all that befell liiin.
"I went direct by steamer," he said.
"to Venice. As soon as I got settled
at the hotel, I began to make cautions
inquiries about Mandella. They told
me he lived near the Contarini Pal
ace. 1 always supposed oue had to
go about the city by water, but I
found I could take the narrow streets
if 1 wished. It answered my purpose
best to choose the latter just then. I
soon found lha house, and did my
best to get a look into it, but failed.
For two weeks I dodged obout to get
a good look at Paulina or the Count,
without success.
One evening, disheartened with my
bad luck, I was "landing near the
Church of the Barefooted Friars,
when a roan passed mo with his face
closely muffled. He was not a gen
tleman, for bis dress was that of a ser
vant. " 'Look here, my fine fellow," I said.
'da you want to make a handful of
goldr
"The man stopped and listened.
" 'I should be willing, signor.' he
replied in a hoarse voice.
"I told Imn my desire to get a mes-
safe to Paulina, and explained lo him
the locality of the Count s bouse.
"'1 know it full well, signor, he an
swered, 'but I expect to be well paid
ior this matter.
The fellow's voice seemed some
what familiar to me, but I never sup
posed I had met him before. I gave
him a couple of gold pieces and he
departed. The next day a boy
brought me a message from a gondo
lier to come to his landing. I fol
lowed the messenger, ami was met
by a rough-looking bravo like fellow.
who carried me down the canal till
we came to the Church of St. Maria
del Hosario. He beckoned to ascend
the gray stone steps that led up from
the water. They are immediately in
front of the church. Paulina was
there awaiting.. She expressed her
self quite willing to leave tbe Count
and run away with me, but she must
have money. . lo my surprise she
told me it was ber father I bad met
who conveyed my message. She ask
ed my pardon for treating me so shab
bily, and she got it, besides a good
purse of money. You will perhaps
scorn me when I tell you that my life
is wrapped up in that false, fair one.
I should lie it 1 said to the contrary.
Well, I'll make my story short. She
ran off one night, and with her father
and came to roc on board a vessel that
sailed at day break for Trieste.
"We were here just two weeks
when Emanuel Molini and his daugh
ter gave roe the slip again, taking
some of my valuables with them.
"Do you know what! think? Some
thing tells me that Count Mandella
knew of her elopement with me all
the while, and I shouldn't be surprised
if he has been here in l rieste and
gone with her on his travels again
But I'll find them, and I'll have the
girl if it takes every penny I am
worth."
"Mr. Kenneth," I replied, "surely
you don't meditate such an absnrdity?
Do you know what your friends will
say ? Do you think your conduct that
of a sane man r
"I am not deranged. Do not think
so. I know very well what I am do-
inc. I know how weak nnrl triflinop T
must seem, but I cannot control my
r-i - w. .
self. JLhe impulse to follow that girl
is irresistible. 1 ity, but do not con
deron me, for I love her better than
my soul, farewell. We may meet
again, I hope, under happier auspices,
Farewell."
The following day I watched the
vessel that bore Gilbert Kenneth sail
away. He stood leaning over the taf-
frail looking down into the blue sea,
We never met after, but I have often
thought ol the generous but erring
man, who threw away bis honor for
fair frailty.
ONE'S HAND.
It is a profound study. No instru
ment devised by man compares with
it for complication. It is a hammer,
a vice, a forceps, a hook, a spring,
weight; it pusben, draws in, and the
fingers alone , contain elements of
chisels, gouges, and all the tools
sculptor requires in modelling.
From the elbow .to the 'digital ex
tremitiea its movements are produced
by nearly nlty muscles. So comph
cated is tbe cordage of a human hand,
expert anatomists can hardly keep in
remembrance its intricate mecnan
ism. With it all the emotions of the
mind may , be both manifested and
intensified. How could a French
man talk with bis band tied? The
band is the prime minister of the
brain. It is the soul's agent in the
accomplishment of its designs. : It
is a wonder of wonders
A Terra Haute base ballist caught a
coal oil lamp on the fly, but from the
hands of bis lnlnnatcd wife.
TIM! DIIIBCT VOTIS FOB PREMIDENT.
The proposed Amendment to the
Constitution, by which it is intended
to abolish the present system of vot
ing for President and Vice President
through the medium of a College of
Electors, and to substitute instead
thereof the direct vote of the citizens,
will give a far fairer representation to
the whole body of tbe people than
they at present possess, to say noth
ing of the advantages of abolishing
the employment of Presidential Elec
tors, who, under the present order of
things, merely follow the instructions
laid down in the party conventions,
and vote solely according to order.
To prove that the present system is
not equitable and just, we have but to
show that the four and a half millions
of population of the State of New
York have no larger representation in
the Electoral Collego than considera
bly under two millions of population
than are contained in nine of the
smaller States, from which it is evi
dent that every citizen in each of these
minor States has, in the choice of tbe
President, two and a half times the
voting power that is possessed l a
citizen of the Empire State, The fol
lowing table exhibits the fact pretty
plainly :
Slnlt. KUctort. papulation.
iwH'wam....,.,.,,, is,ui;
rvsm.... S to),l
Nfvmin a l.Hri
Ni-lirnrfkft..... 8 l.'t.sM
Itliodn Island........ 4 217,4V!
K lor Id n 4 IS7.7W
New lUtnpuhlra... 6 nin.)
Vermont ...... 5 Jtai.'il
Kaliuu ... 6 3h4,mv
Total....
New York.
,. 1.7!!l,77l
.... Xi Mi,TJ)
A comparison of these figures un
mistakably indicates that a popular
vole will be a far more equitable ex
pression of the will of the people
than the present cumbrous system,
besides which it will be far more dem
ocratic in principle. It was original
ly the case for Presidential Electors
lo bo chosen by the Legislatures in
stead of by the people, so that at that
time the citizens may almost bo said
to have been denied the ballot to fill
the highest oflico in the nation, and in
which they are interested above all
others. The system which we have
followed of late has been certainly a
step in advance, but it is still unsatis
factory, while it is unfair that the
more populous States should have
such an unequal voice when compared
with the lesser ones, Iho smaller
States are fully protected in the legis
lative braneh of the Government by
their equal representation in the Sen
ate with the larger States, a safe
guard which the Republican have
shamefully abused and made available
for their purposes by the admission of
rotten-borough Mates. The Chief
Magistrate of the nation should, above
all others, be chosen by a popular
vote, and by a fair expression of ibe
will of tho entire people.
Beyond this, he should only be
elected for a single term, so as to be
aced above the temptation of seek
ing a re-election, and the nation would
thus bo enabled to command his ser
vices and the impartial administration
of bis office. Tbe Constitution of the
late Confederacy, which was modelled
after that of the United States, con
tained this improvement, which expe
rience had dictated as being necessa
ry, aiid which the framing of a new
Constitution offered an opportunity of
patting into lorce; tbe tenure of office
was, however, extended to six years,
an amendment which it might bo ad
vantageous to adopt.
THE GCARDIAN AN'UEL.
There are a thousand little
things
necessary to tbe general comfort
which no one but a mother thinks of
doing a thousand such little things
which no one ever do just as she does
them. You thought it was "Mary
who kept the children quiet, but you
will find out your mistake u mother
goes away, l'oor little things 1 J. bey
wander about tbe bouse calling out,
" Where s ruotber7 "I want moth
erl 'vt by doesn t mother come
home?" And then they get into some
hitherto unknown mischief, and- do
all sorts of wrong things, and make
themselves and everybody , around
them uncomfortable get their clothes
torn and dirty, and their faces, too,
and by the fact of their heads being
in a state of permanent uncombedness,
as to hair, you may know that "moth
er" is away from home. And the
baby! Did you ever see or hear. of a
baby that wouldn't cry all day and
all night, too when mother's gone
away? ' I dont care if it is the brag
baby of the world, and a big two
year-old at that, it cannot get along
without mother; and it has too much
sense to try to do so.. Very, very
dreary is the family hearthstone
when her place is unfilled 1 Very
dismal are the rooms of the bouse
hold when she moves not through
them with her matronly step and air,
unconsciously dispensing cheerful
ness and light, and beautifying the
humblest duties by the sweet, wo
manly way, in which she peforms
them. Bear in mind that I speak al
ways of the Jiome-moiVier. Howard
Olyndon.
President and Stockboldeb. Two
newsboys, says the Commercial Bul
letin, were standing before a cigar
store, when one asked the other,
" Have you got three cents? "Yes.
"Well, I have got ' two cents; give
mo your three cents, and I will buy
a nvo-center. "Alt right, says
No. 2, handing out the money. No.
1 enters tbe store, procures the cigar
lights it, and puffs with a great dea!
oi sati8tatction. - "oome, now, give
us a pull," says No. 2: "I furnished
more . than half the money!'
know that," says the smoker; "but
then I'm president, and you being
only a stockholder, you can spit."
A Danburian . who was in . New
York. Saturday, came up with the
wild statement that he had seen
hotel clerk with side whiskers.. That
is more of a lie than one man should
undertake to tell. Hair growing on
the cheek of a hotel clerk I 'Scat.
WUT WAS THE MOBILIEB STOCK COR
RUPT
The Hartford Timet, in reply to a
correspondent asking for informa
tion as to why the holding of the
Credit Mobilier stock by Congress'
men was corrupt, makes the follow.
ing reply which covers the whole
ground:
1. The Pacific railroad directors
formed themselves into tbe Credit
Mobilier Company. The Mobilier
office was in the same room with tbe
Pacific Kailroad Directors.
2. The Railroad directors con
tracted with tbe Mobilier Company
to build the road, that is, they in
fact contracted with- themselves.
3. Tbe company, of course made a
favorable contract.
4. The directors represented to
Congress that the Hockey Mountain
section was a very uifhcult part of
the road to build, when iu fact it was
a very easy section, being merely a
level plain, with a very slight and
gradual rise almost imperceptible,
and looking like a dead level for
nearly 1,000 miles from the Mis
souri River to the Black Ridge:
but they got an appropriation for a
largely increased sum per mile for
that section, knowing that this would
add largely to Mobilier profits.
6. JLhey got Congress to appropri
ate to tbetn alternate sections of
public lands, forty miles in width,
through tbe whole line of tbe road
laud enough to make ten good
siezd States.
C. Shey got Congress to loan them
sixty-five million of dollars, and to
take a first mortgage upon the road,
and also to give tbetn outright an
average of -about $30,000 per mile
for tbe entire road.
7. They then procured an act of
Congres giving up tbe first mortgage,
which was th ken by their own friends
so that they get the money and
the road too; the second mortgage
being worthless.
8. Ihey also procured an act of
Congress forbidding tbe Secretary of
tbe Treasury from withholding the
pay for carrying mails and Lmted
States troops, in order to cover the
interest due on the government loan
so that tbe government should pay
the interest on its own bonds, when
tbe railroad company o whom they
were loaned should pay it in full to
tbe goverment.
0. Tbe Credit Mobilier being own
ed or controlled by tbe Pacific
Union Raidroad Directors got the
benefit of these acts, and when they
so liberally distributed their shares
on which immense dividends wete
paid to Congressmen, the loene of
e argument led to the conclusion
that some of these extraordinary acts,
by which about ninty-five millions of
dollars, in gifts and loans, were taken
from tbe United States Treasury,
were got through by the'' aid t of the
Congressmen who received the stock.
f rom this brief and general state
ment, our correspondent will see why
Senator Wilson exclaims, when a
prosecution in the courts tbreatenei
to expose these transactions, "take
back my stock let no suspicion rest
upon me;" and why Oakes Ames
testifies that "when the McComb suit
was brought, there didn't any of them
(Congressmen) want to hold the
stock."
THE EPIZOOTICS.
A San Francisco paper of a recent
date, has the following, concerning
the spread of the raging horse di
sease which is sweeping off so many
horses.
The horse distemper is slowly but
surely working its way in this direc
tion. It has made its appearance in
the State of Nevada, and has been
reported for several days in Salt
Lake City. We have reason to hope
that the mildness of our coast cli
mate will rob the disease of ' its ma
lignant features; but no effort should
be spared on that presumption, to
meet and, if possible, overcome it.
Stable-Keepers should lose no time
in resorting to a free ventilation of
tbeir barns, and the adoption of such
otber sanitary , regulations as are
likely to secure exemption from the
disease. Gamaliel Scott, writing
from Columbus, Ohio, to the St,
Louis Republican, recommends, when
a horse is attacked by the distemper,
that bis food should be continued as
usual; that he should in addition
have a handful of flaxseed meal two
or three times a week; that he should
have plenty of salt, and water placed
where he can drink it as often as he
pleases; that he should be moderately
exercised every day, without wearing
a blanket: that he should not stand
in open air witnout a blanket, and
that in the meantime he should be
properly groomed. These atten
tions he thinks are sufficient to effect
a cure. ! '
The following is said to be an au
thentio copy of a circular issued by i
commercial firm in Bombay: "Gen
tlemen: We have the pleasure to
inform you that our respected father
.departed this life on the inst.
His business, will be continued, by
his beloved sons, whose names are
stated below. The opium market is
quiet, and Malwa 1,500 ra. per chest.
Ob, grave, where is thy sting? Oh,
death, where is thy victory?', We
are yours truly,." ,
The monument in Greenwood
Cemetry, Brooklyn, . to the memory
of Alice and Phoebe Cary. has been
completed. It is a simple base, with
die. cap and ' polished shields of
Quincy granite. The memory of
third Bister, Mrs. Almira Cary- Swift,
is also perpetuated , on the mono
ment. . .-"
A wretched old bachelor says
"After all,- a woman's heart is tbe
sweetest thing in the world it's
perfect honeycomb full of sells."
- Snms nna Vinji uri1v - rfiirtnrVflfl
that those who go to law for damages
i are sure o ge tuviu.
NO. 32
how to cvne a cold.
We do not know how we can ever
express our gratitude to the Danbnry
Newt for ..furnishing us . with a
panacea for all the coughs and' lung
complaints that we may be subject
to this winter. In tbe language of
tbe virtuous father of the raelo-drama
we can only say : "Heaven bless you
my cbe-ildl" Listen to his solid
chunks of wisdom : One of our
citizens who has been troubled with
a severe cold on tbe lungs effected
his recovery in tbe following simple
manner. He boiled a little bouexet
and hoarhound together, and drank
freely of tho tea before going to bed.
Tbe next day he took five pills, put
one kind of plaster . on bis breat,
another under . his arms, and still
another on his back. Under advice
from an experienced old lady he took
all these off which an oyster knife
in the afternoon, and slapped on a
mustard paste instead. His mother
put some onion drafts on his feet and
gave bim a lump of tar to swallow.
Iben be put some bot bricks to bis
feet and went to bed. Next morn
ing, another old lady came in with
a bottle of goose oil, and gave him
a dose of it on a quill, and an aunt
arrived about tbe same time from
Bethel, with a bundle of sweet fern
which she made into a tar, and gave
bim every half boor until noon, when
be took a big dose of salts. After
dinner bis wife wbo had seen a fine
old lady of great experience in doc
toring on f ranklin street,- gave bim
two pills of her make, about the
siz6 of an English walnut and of
similar shape, and two tablespoon
fulls of home made balsam to keep
them down. Then be took a half
pint of bot rum at the suggestion
of an old s?a captain in tbe next
bouse, and steamed his legs with an
alcoholjbath. At this crisis two of
tbe neighbors arrived who saw at
once that bis blood was out of order,
and gave him a half gallon of. spear
mint tea, and a big dose of castor oil,
Before going to bed he took eight of
a new kind of pills, wrapped about
bis neck a flannel soaked in hot
vinegar and salt, and bad feathers
burnt on a shovel in Lis room. He
is now thoroughly cured, and full of
gratitude, vv e advise our readers to
cut this out and keep it where it can
be readily found where danger
threatens.
now THE
PEOPLE
BOBBED.
HATE BEEX
It should' be remembered that
every cent James w. ratteraon,
Vice-President Colfax and their as
sociates received from the Credit
Mobilier dividends, came directly
from lite treasury of the Untied States,
and added just so much to tbe debt
of the country. It was no "slave
holder's rebellion" that made that
portion of the debt. It was a raid
by Radical office-holders, wbo - stole
more than one handred million dol
lars of tbe people's money, and for
which they are now taxed to pay tbe
interest. Tbe $10,000 paid to se
cure tbe election of the notorious
Harlan to the Senate, added so much
to the public debt. Tbe $5,000
paid to secure the election of Senator
Thayer, the $3,000 spent by E. H.
Rollins in this State in his efforts to
secure a senatorship, tbe $23,000
paid to Commissioner Wendall, and
the immense sums paid to Congress
men and other Radical officials on
tbe Pacific Railroad and Credit Mo
bilier account, all of which sums
came from the United States treasury
and go to help make up tbe public
debt. It is thus that our rulers have
been robbing us. And when some
honest soul has complained that tbe
burdens of government were un
equally borne, and that government
bonds ought ta be taxed, these same
very loyal office-holders held up their
hands in bolv horror and exclaimed.
"repudiation 1" "A dig at the public
credit 1 " etc, etc. What an outrage
it would be to tax the bonds stolen
by Oakes Ames, Patterson, Colfax
and the rest of them! That would
be a violation of the public faith.
The farmers and the mechanics
should Day the taxes, while thieves
and robbers go free I, :
What are known as the Sprin,
elections in New " York have shown
heavy gains in favor of the Demo
cratic party. A late number of the
Buffalo Courier says: "We have
already chronicled the election of the
Democratic tickets in ' Palmyra,
Wavne county, and Dansville, Liv
ingston county. Now - we" have to
announce a Democratic victory in the
city of Binghamton, Broome county.
which has been Republican since its
incorporation. Judge Loomis, Dem
ocrat. is elected Mayor by twenty
seven majority, and the Liberal
Republican candidate for Justice is
also chosen over his Credit Mobilier
competitor. 1 And, still further
disnalch from C. C. B. Walker, at
Corning, says: 'Steuben county
stands by the old flag. Twenty-two
Democratic Supervisors elected. The
Credit Mobelier elected ten. Demo
cratio gain of four. - Ames memo
random book is doing the country
mora cood than all the shovels he
ever made. Colfax's moral tactics
are no go here.' In Otsego county,
also, -, Urge Democratic gains ; ase
shown Unless this nation has
reached a ooint of moral degrada
tion unknown in the annals of the
world, the Credit Mobilier and
other investigations must drive from
power the men now. occupying high
nlftces. and end the career of the
Radical party , " ;.'.
"What are vou bellowing about?'
rriad an irate mother at the foot of
the stairs one evening, after her two
boys bad been put to bed. "Please
mother." said bellowing Bfll,' "Jim
wants half Of the bed." "Well,
sava she. Viet him have it, and you
take the other half." MYes, mother."
said Bill, "but he wants to have his
half out of the middle, and mate me
sleep on both sides of him. r : :
Business notices in tbe Local Columns, 2S
cents per line, each insertion.
Tot legal and transient advertisenepts 12 50
per square of 12 lines, for the first insertion,
andfl 00 per square far each subsequeat in
sertion, -
AIVnat'ITt OF THE 8CB1PTVKE,
Few of os ever stop to think bow
old tbe Bible is. Yet "the Scrip
tures are believed by candid critics
to contain the most ancient forms' of
truth now known to men." With tha
aid of chronological tables any one
may easily make profitable compari
sons between the antiquity of the
books and that of other writings and
events. The Scriptures contains tho
only authentic history of the world
before the flood. We find in th
Pentateuch one or two stanzas of
poetry' composed in tbe antediluv
ian period. Tbe Hebrew statutes
were rnncted a thousand years be
fore J utinian reformed the Roman
jurisprudence. In tbe Bible we have .
tbe record of chartered rights secured
to tbe people more than two thous
and years before tbe Slana Charter.
What a sensation would be produced
if tbe first chapter of Genesis should
appear for the first time in one of
be newspapers tomorrow. Yet
there can be no doubt that chapter
contains tbe oldest writing twenty
five hundred years before the inven
tion of printing. Xenophon's record
of the conversations of Socrates; in
his Memorabili, were discussed in
Ecclesiastes six hundred years be-
fore. The works of Tacitus, Plu
tarch and Qointilian are not modern,
. l ,1 . i I. 1 rv . . i
jet lue uuoit in luc new j.culucu(.
are older than they. As to tbe book, of
Job, its age is beyond conjecture,
Those wbo make it as modern as
they can are compelled to place its
origin at least one thousand years
before . Homer. When Priam was
King of Troy, Job was of remote
antiquity. The same of Alexander
has no modern sound for us, yet
when Alexander invaded Syria the
book of Job might have been read
before him as the work of an author
more timehonored then than the name
of Alexander is now. Tbe writings
of Confucius are modern when com
pared with the most of tbe Bible,
and the most that tbe Hindoos can
justly claim for tbeir sacred books,
tbe Vedas, is that tbey were written
five hundred years after the death of
Moses. The Koran is fresh from the
press compared with the Scriptures.
Dr. Upson. ' ,
a PLEASAAT IDEA.
There are no more admirable
pictures in history than Cincinnatus
going from the plow to the dictator
ship, and Marion welcoiniug the
English emissaries to his dinner of
roasted potatoes. What would
Marion have though could be htve
foreseen that wituia a century the
President of the American Republic
would declare himself nnable to live
on $25,000 a year and free lodgings?
Yet. remarks the New York bun, this
is tbe picture now presented for the
consideration of American tax-pavers.
Theoretically tbe President is but
the equal of the humblest citizen of
the united States. Ibe great ma
jority of the people are living on less
than $1,000 a year. uny cannot
tbe elected head of tbe nation
manage to get along comfortable on
twenty-five times that amount?
The tendency of wages in ordinary
life is downward instead of upward.
It is true that many of tbe sub
ordinate officers of the Government
are paid at low rates; or, to speak
more correct, tbeir pay would be but
a pittance for men competent to
perform their duties. But as yet
T. i i j : 1 1
mere naa never ueeu auy uimcuiijr m
finding persons ready to take any
place that becomes vacant
But the President's salary is large.
It is more thau triple the compensa
tion allowed the Governor of the
Golden State - of California, more
than five times the salary, of the
executive officer of this grat Com
monwealth, and twentv fave times
the yearly stipend of the Governor
of Rhode Island, comparatively the
richest State iu the Union.
The idea that the nation is served
for honor and not for mere money is
a pleasant one. It is still lingering
in many minds. - Perhaps it should
not be too rudely dispelled.
WHAT A BOT KNOWS ABO IT GIRLS.
Girls are the roost unaccountablest
things in tbe world except women.
Like the wicked flea, when you have
them they ain't there. I can cipher
clean over the improper fractions, and
the teacher says I do it first-rate; but
I cant cipher out a girl, proper or im
proper, and you can't either. The
only rule in arithmetic that hits their
case is the double rnle of two. They
are as full of old Nick as their skin
can hold, and tbey would die if tbey
couldn't torment somebody. When
they try to be mean they are as mean
as pusley, though tbey ain't so mean
as they let on, except somtimes, and
then they are a good deal meaner.
The only way to get along with a
girl when she comes to you" with her
nonsense, is to give her tit for tat, and
that will fluramix ber, aud when you
get a girl flluniraixed she is as nice as
a new pin. A girl can sow more wild
oats in a day than a boy cau sow in a
year, but girls get their wild oats
sowed after a while, boys never . do,
and then tbey settle down as calm
and placid as a reud-puddle. But 1
like girls first : rate, and I gness tha
boys all do. I don't care how many
tricks they play on me, and they dou't
care either. The boitytoityst girls in
the world can alwavs bo:l over like a
glass of soda. ' By-and-by they get
into the traces with somebody they
like, and pull as steady as an old stage
horse. That is the beauty of them. -So
let thera waye, I say; they will
pay for it some day, sewing on but
tons and trying to makes dcent man
of the fellow tbey have spliced on to,
and ten chances to w e if ' they don't
get the worst of it. : r '
Ttxcax CcniprrKrr. A resident of
Kalamazoo writes to a school board in
Ohio that he will take a school, as he
has, Vtought 2 terms school, and I
attended 1 collage 4 yrs at detroit,
jnichigan, and am 5 yrt aTage."