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HOMACii:.
White daisies on the meadow green
Pre.seut thv beauteous form to me;
Peaceful and joyful these are seen,
And ieace and joy encompass thee.
I watch them w
h
ere tney aance anu
shine,
And love them for
thine.
their beauty's
Red roses o'er the woodland brook
Keiuembcr me tliy lovely face;
So blushing and so fresh its look,
So wild and shy its radiant grace.
I kiss them in their coy retreat,
And think of lips more soft and sweet.
Gold arrows of the merry morn
Shot swiftly over the eastern seas.
Gold tassels of the bending corn
That ripple in the August breeze.
Tli y wildering smile, thy glorious hair ;
And all thy power and state declare.
White, red and gold the awful crown
Of virtue and of beauty tool
From what a height those eyes look
down
On lii in who proudly dares to sue.
Yet, free from self as God from sin
Is love that loves nor asks to win.
Le inebut love thee in the llower,
Ihe waving grass, the dancing wave,
The fragrant pomp of garden bower,
The violet on the nameless grave,
Sweet t rjanis by n.gtit, sweet thoughts
by day.
And time shall tire ere love decay.
Let me but love thee in the glow
When morning on the ocean shines,
Or in the mighty winds that blow,
. Snow-laden through the mountain
1 lines
In all that's f;dr, or grand or dread
And all shall die ere love be dead.
How to Make the Mischief.
Keep your eye ou your neighbors.
Take care of them. Do not let them
stir without watching. They may
do something wrong if vou do. To
be sure, vou never knew them to do
anything very bad, but it might be
on your account that they have not.
Pern.. ps if it had not been for your
kind ere thev might have disgraced
themselves a long time ago. There
fore, do not relax any effort to keep
them where they ought to be. .Never
mind your own business that will
take care of itself. There is a man
passing along he is looking over
the fence be suspicious of him ;
perhaps he contemplates stealing
some dark night; there is no Know
ing what queer fancies he may have
gut in his head.
If there is artv symptoms of any
one passing out of the path of duty,
tell eery one else that you see, and
be particular to see a great many. It
is a good way tocircuiate sucu tilings,
it may not benefit yourself or any
one eise. particularly. Do keep some
thing going silence is a dreadful
thing; though it is said there was
silence in Heaven for the space of
l half an hour, don't let any such oc-
cur on eariu; it wuum ie ioo muni
for the mundane sphere.
If, after all your watchful care,
you cannot see anything out of the
way in any one, you may be sure it
is not because thev have not done
J any tiling bad ; perhaps in an ungnard-
ed moment you lost sight of them
throw out hit.ts that they are no bet
ter than they should be, that you
should not wonder if the people
found out what they were, altera
while, then they would not hold their
heads high. Keep it going, and some
may take the hint, and begtn to help
you along after a while, and there
will be music, and everything will
w ork to a charm. Ex.
Charming is that faculty of the
human mind which enables us to
drop into poetry like .Mr. egg up
on any occasion, no matter how pro
saic, which throws a soft light of ro
mance around bread and cheese, and
irradiates the commonplace soul with
beauty ! Such is the faculty possess
ed by a noble poet of Chicago, w ho
was recently informed that Madam
Xilson had thoughtfully built a shel
ter for her cows on her land at Peoria.
Mindful of the catastrophe which led
to the destruction of his native city,
he immediately burst into this
wild and beautiful frenzy of verso:
Christine, Christine, thy milking do
the morn and eve between, and not
by the dim, religious light of the fit
ful kerosene. For the cow may
plunge, and the lamp explode, ami
the fire fiend rido the gale, and
shriek the knell of the burning town
iu the How of the molten pail !"
The old question, 44 Does lager
intoxicate?" came before a court in
Dayton, Ohio, a ilay or two ago. A
German testified: 44 If you drink
five or six glasses of lager iu a little
while you feel more pleasant as if you
drink five or six glasses of water in
the same time, and if you drink five
or six glasses of water in a little
while you will feel more disappoint
ed as if you drink five or six glasses
of lager in the same time." The jury
were out four hours and stood seven
the five.
Astoxisfied. A young lady who
entered a Broadway music store, and
asked the young man in attendance,
"Have you 'Happy Dreams?'" was
astonished when he replied, "No
ma'am; I am mostly troubled with
the nightmare." -He didn't know
why she went out so hurriedly and
slammed the store-door after her.
"Henry," said one Quaker to an
other, "thee knows I never call any
body names; but, Henry, if the gov
ernor of the State should come to me
and say, 4 'Joshua, I want thee to
find me the biggest liar iu the State
of New York," I would come to thee
and say, "Henry, the governor wants
to see thee particularly.
" Ax Epitaph. The Yirginia Cron
irle r marks that the following
epitah w ill some day auorn a tomb
stone not a thousand miles away:
Here lies old thirtv-tive per cent ;
The more he made the more he lent ;
The more he irot the more he craved ;
The more he inade t he more he shayeu ;
I Great God!cau.suQ.a sou uv savwj.
DR. FOSTER'S FEE.
.Story of the Late Southern Epi
demic! BY MBS. EMILY B. SWASDEB.
From the St. Louis Republican
"Well?"
Dr. Foster's sister Mas not given
to expletives, the significant " well"
saved breath, and answered the pur
pose of a dozen questions.
The doctor showed his apprecia-'
tion by a prompt response, but ab
breviated in the same degree
"Spasms."
Miss Foster gazed at her brother
with a comprehensive scrutiny, and,
with the wisdom for which women
are-remarkable, she silently awaited
the volubility consequent upon this
course.
bhe brought him his slippers
not one of the one hundred and fifty
pairs annually sent him by the grate
ful young lady patients and widows
whose lives he had saved so fre
quently during the year but a pair
presented by herself; his dressing
gown, also her own loving work,
then she resumed her seat opposite
him at the table and looked at
him from under her half-closed
eyelids. She detected something
unusual in his manner, and she knew
the least curiosity she exhibited the
sooner would his anxiety to uubos
ou) himself he gratified.
44 What a desirable physician's wife
you would majie," he said, after a
pause.
4 "Why?"
44 You never ask question!"
A peculiar smile passed over her
face, but she made no answer.
Another long silence; then he said,
impatiently, knocking the ashes from
his cigar.
44 Horrible night out!"
44 It is, indeed, I hope you will not
be called out again. What a disa
greeable profession youi is, omit
ting the danger surrounding it."
With all its dangers and unpleas
antness it has a charm for me above
every other. Saving a soul is grand,
but saving a life, using nature's se
crets to conquer her enemy is a pow
er so beautiful, that the petty incon
veniences only enhance the fascina
tion. 44 Fine theory for a voting enthu
siast, but for a man who has prac
ticed so long as you have, I should
think the glory were pretty well
worn oil'. You didn't seem to bring
any of it back with you from your
la.t visit."
44 Oh! yon practical female! while
I admire the rainbow, you measure
the depths of the mud. You women
alwavs are in the extremes. It is a
happy thing that we are not so sin
gularly constituted we, who bullet
so many disappointments, or life's
treadmill would be run by a set of
misanthropes."
Miss Foster did not appear hurt
at his views. She knew how he had
labored and sutlered to gain the foot
hold that led him to his present
prosperity, tind how, not this posi
tion alone, but the real nieal ot nis
profession had given him courage to
struggle and ciouer.
So she quiedy reached over the
table, and taking hrs hand in her tw o.
pressed them loving, saying: 44 1 un
derstand you well, dear, but 1 can
not control my anxiety tor your
welfare ami safety when you go
among such inhuman people as you
have just come from.
" 1 confess 1 did clutch my cane
with a firmer grasp as I neared the
neighborhood. It was a villainous
location, but if you think a moment,
you can recall few, if any, instances
of attack or threatened danger to one
of us."
"They surely seem to hold you
sacred, or possibly they know you
leave vour valuables at home.
44 In nine cases out of ten, the doc
tor who accepts a call from such a
quarter has no valuables to lose,
answered the brother.
Ah! you see, my brother, pros
perity has wiped out all ideas of
your laborious glory," quickly an
swered Miss Foster.
44 There you are again," ready to
accept, without question, the disa
greeable and condemn the whole as
a matter ol course, l-wish some
body, just about half good enough
for yon, would gobble you up matri
monially and teach you tne gooa
is in us.
'Thank v ou!" replied Miss I oster,
drilv.
44 Come. sis. now don't be sarcas
tic, ana I'll tell you or rather, I
want vour advice.
If there is one "thing more than
another that pleases and flatters a
woman, it is to have the mighty
man" come down from his . exalted
estate in the realms of masculin con
ceit ami call her into counsel.
44 You know I am always ready to
arvise you," replied Miss Foster
with pleasing dignity.
"As I was hurrying along this
evening to the child to whom I was
called, I was turning over in my
mind whether it would not be a
eharity to let the child die." ,
' 44 What a hideous thought!"
44 Oh, I did not slacken my pace
in the least, during the undecided
state of my mind. I was merely re
volving the idea for future consider
ation." .
4'Is this the subject that requires
- i"
" Do be patient I'll get to that by
and by. As! was saying, I expected
to find the child m a u.
gulation, by the frantic endeavors of
two or three dozen tender-hearted
neighbors, as is generally the case
with that class of people, each clos
ing around the poor thing to prevent
a breath of air reaching the sufferer ;
one holding it by the feet, head
downward, another beating it on the
back, another throwing hot water on
its head, -while still another applied
cold wjiter to its feot, the rest vie-
ing with each other as to -who should
cret her finsrer down its throat far
thest to superinduce the much de-
sirea sromacuiu reittioja, ou muis
pensible to their own well-being
after certain spiritual consolations."-
Poor httlo creature 1 exclaimed
the sister. -
"Those children invariably sur
vive, however, nnhapily for the state
of society' and themselves, if they
ever realize their condition on this
earth. I .was prepared to scatter
such a mob when I entered the
wretched tenement, following my di
rections. I knocked at the door,
rather surprised at the silence with
in. It was opencdiby a young
woman."
The doctor stopped short here,
and seemed to be lost in a vision
presented to his mind's eye.
'Was she white? and did she have
a clean face ?"
44 Yery white! very clean, very!"
" Was she dressed clean and neat?"
44 Scrupulously so!"
"Was she pretty?"
44 That common term is not suited
to her at all. She had the most ex
quisite face I ever saw.. Her eyes,
without knowing their color, haunt
me with an angelie expression. I
cannot get rid of them. I cannot
account for it. They seemed to ap
peal to me for help, and yet there
was nothing in her manner to indi
cate anything of the kind."
Miss Foster sat thinking, and study
ing her brother's face, then she
asked:
44 What about the child; was it
hers?"
44 Of course I did not think of ask
ing her. She had done all that was
necessary; it had probably eaten
something indigestible ami it result
ed in a spasm. She said in her
fright she had hurriedly begged the
first person she saw outside of her
door to run for a doctor, but regret
ted it because she had no money to
pay me, and she knew very well how
to manage in such an emergency."
Here the doctor, in a shame-faced
sort of way, drew from his vest pock
et a handkerchief, if the bit of lace
and fibres of linen may be named
such, and laid it on the table before
lis sister.
That lady examined it, and pro
nounced it real.
That has been stolen," she decid
ed. 44 it never cost less that fifty dol
lars. Yery likely it would have been
disposed of if the initials had not
been worked in."
Where? let me see," exclaimed
the doctor in an excitement quite un
usual.
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He gazed at the letters a long
while, then he folded the web of lace
into a minute package and placed it
in a covered copartment of his pock
et-book.
44 What are you going to do with
it?" his sister asked in profound as
tonishment. 44 Keep it nntil she comes for it."
Miss Foster went over to him, felt
his pulse, his brow, his hands, and
sat down again with a dark frown on,
her face saying:
44 If your confidence in this person
is not a feverish fancy, there must be
something else the matter with you.
Did she say she would redeem it?"
"She did and I really long to see
her see face again, as one longs for a
touchiug melody or a beautiful pic
ture." 44 How came such an exotic in a
filthy marsh?" tartly questioned
Miss Foster.
44 That, I shall leave for your wo
manly good sense to discover. You
will do me the favor to visit her to
morrow, and aid iu such a manner as
the case calls for. She is certainly
not an object of charity in the ordin
ary sense but why multiply words?
I can place the matter in yourfceep-
ludge ami manage
with a delicate tart. My kind would
spoil in bungling
ing."
How well he knew the rather rigor
ous exterior of his old maid sister,
covereda heart, tender and warm, a
mind above harboring little jealous
ies and blind condemnation.
The first thought in her mind the
following morning was this strange
charge.
"Who knows how sadly this wo
man needs a woman's sympathy and
aid?" she said to herself as she at
beside her brother on their way to
her.
Ht left her there, knowing she was
familiar with poverty and feared no
harm in her missions of mercy, this
not being her first trial by very
manv. .
P.icclnrr fhrnnrdi a multitude Of
dirty faces, both old and young,
agapo with curiosity, very likely
hunger also, as bad whisky was
jcheaper than bad bread, Miss Foster
reached her destination.
She found everything as her broth
er had described, clean, what there
was; oulv a few of the most necessary
articles;" three chairs a table, a bed
and a stove, not Filly's best either.
Seated at the table holding a child
of about eighteen months old, on her
lap, was the young woman in ques
tion. Putting the child from her she
rose, placed a chair for her visitor
and in a lady like and dignified man
ner asked her how she could be of
service.
"That remains to be seen," pleas
antly replied Miss Foster
"I came at the request of my
brother, doctor Foster, who called
here last evening, to see. if we could
serve you."
The voung woman looked at Miss
Foster and that lady returned the
gaze. An invisible power establish
ed confidence between the two:
"God knows I need help some
wav," replied the young woman,
taking the child on. her lap again,
caressing its silken hair meanwhile.
4 4 Are vou alone?"
"YesSusie and I are all that are
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left; the others all died with the yel-
low fever at Memphis a few weeks ago.
A kind soul who used to wash and
help about the house brought us
with her to St. Louis, until the hor
ror was over. This is her room and
the people you see around this place
are her friends. I am a perfect stran
ger, not one dollar do we own;
grateful foreven this shelter until
we can return and gather the rem
nants my dead parents left in the
confusion and distress. Grief for
the dead and care for this little one
is all that is left me in the w
world. You can well imagi
thought of nothing but safety for
ourselves, when it was to be obtained,
and flight from the -horrors I was
helpless to mitigate. Ob I shall I
ever, ever, be able to forget?"
44 You are only one of many, poor
child, who must carry in their hearts
the memory of this terrible time. If
you are friendless, the God who per
mitted your sorrow will also heal it,
and new friends will rise up to help
the worthy and protect the orphan.
We do wish to forget a grief, dear,
but we know time will lighten it.
Miss Foster's voice had the true
ring of feeling as she said this, and
the young woman saw the first tears
shed in sorrow with her own since
her trouble. v
44 This child is your sister, I
judge?"
44 My sister, yes; three others, fath
er and mother, all were taken from
me in one dav. How we escaped a
touch of the fearful disease is a mar
vel. We were led to the boat by a
kind woman with just what we had
on. nothing more; we have been here
two weeks, an eternity it seems, and
still there seems no prospect of a safe
return. But thankful as I am for
this woman's goodness I believe I
should die before another sucli time
could elapse in this place. We fear
to iro out. and still I don't like to
leave Susie in this close air constant
lv."
44 You must go right home with
me !"
"Oh! You are an angel, and your
confidence in me shall not be abused.
Until I can go home, we will be as
little trouble as possible. Perhaps
I can make myself useful. Oh, dear
madam, said the girl between her
sobs, "you cannot, who perhaps
have never known what it is to be so
utterly alone, you cannot know how
sweet it is to have a friend once more
We were so lonesome, so wretched,
weren't we little Susie?" said she
patting the little one on the cheek
in pleasurable excitement.
And so Miss Foster took her
charges home, and her brother was
not a little startled when the sweet
blushing face and the haunting eyes
met him at the dinner-table that day.
When he heard all the particulars,
he said in tender admiration:
4 'Sister, you're a fine woman, a
woman of quick perception and ex
cellent judgment: how wise itwas to
bring them here. I'm sure I never
should have thought of such a thing."
The old maid and the young doc
tor lost much of their quiet comfort
by this addition to the little house
hold; but they appeared to gain a
vast amount of pleasure in the com
pany of the little girl. Miss Foster
endured the disarrangements of her
household aflairs with an amiability
quite remarkable, took the greatest
delight in making pretty little gar
ments, and actually became frolic
some herself occasionally.
"F. T." or Fannie Talbot proved
herself as lovable in character as her
face indicated, nd Miss Foster's
"quick perception" noticed that her
brother stood in danger of suffering
a severe loss, anatomically speaking,
but the same faculty that made this
discovery also observed the article
had fallen into tender hands, while
undergoing the same privation.
In the meau time the doctor had
taken measures to have the young
lady's property protected, ana sent a
vooonsible party to attend to all her
affairs when it w as safe to do so.
"Dear Miss Foster" said the young
lady one day, don't you think it is
about time for us to relieve you of
our troublesome selves?"
"Do yon want to leave us?"
44 r(nit to leave yon? Yon who
have taken us to your heart and
home without question, cared for us,
cheered us, as if 3-011 had known and
loved us always? "and all on trust?"
"Mv dear, if people would accept
more of that which has an ill seem
ing on trust they would find much
more that was trust worthy. But
suppose you go into the doctor's
study and redeem your handkerchief,
and ask him what he thinks about
your leaving. You had better fol
low his advice."
Fannie knocked at the study door
and was invited to enter. She step
ped inside and hesitated
44I came to redeem my lace hand
kerchief." "You will have to pay dear for it,"
said he coming toward her.
"Fannie!"
That was all but she looked
dreadful guilty when he led her to
his sister a little later, who simply
looked happy and said with quiet
meaning:
"As one longs for a touching mel
ody or a beautiful picture."
A Georgia negro was riding a mule
along, and came to a bridge, when
1 1 11 Ttll t 1
the muie stoppeu. 1 11 Det you a
ouarter," said Jack, 44 I'll make you
go over the bridge," and with that
struck the mule over the head,
which niade him nod suddenly
44 Yon take de bet den," said the
negro, and contrived to get the stub
, 1 ll. , ? , . . -w
norn muie over uie Drouge. " 1 won
dat quarter, anyhow," said Jack
44 But how will yon get the mon
ey?" asked a man who had been close
by, unpreceived.
l rry
Ao-morrow, ani jack " massa
gib me a dollar to get corn for the
mule, and 1 tajfco de quarter out."
Five' Millions of" Dollars for Our Su
gar Ainiuallj-.
We copy the following from the
Rural Press, the writer of which has
twice visited Germany and France
as the agent of the Sacramento Yal
ley Beet Sugar Company, and whose
general observation and knowledge
of the subject of which he writes
ought to give the opinion great
weight. This is what he says:
This is the amount of money paid
annually for sugar entering the State
through the port of San Francisco.
The money, for this sugar all goes to
foreign countries, instead of remain
ing here, ami it might do, if our
eople had the will to inaugurate a
beet sugar factory in one certain
county in the State, and we mean
Lais Angeles county. e have just
returned from a visit to that county,
made for the express purpose of
judging of the suitablenesss of the
ands there for the production of the
sugar beet, and the facilities pre
senting for the successful prosecu
tion of the best sugar industry. Y e
find in the Valley of Los Angeles a
tract of land so nearly limitless in
extent, of such superior excellence
for the grow th of beets, so favorably
situated for purposes of shipment
of anything that may pertain to an
establishment of the kind, their
proximity to exhaustless beds of
excellent peat, and mountains of as
phalt available for fuel, the ease
with which artesian water can be
procured for factory purposes or ir
rigation, all point to the irresistible
conclusion that it is the place where
every pound and every dollar s
worth of sugar needed for the sup
ply of the entire Pacific coast of the
United States can be easily and prof
itably produced. The bare inaugu
ration of this industry upon a limited
scale, anywhere within the broad
sweep of that great and luxuriant
valley, would at once add ten-fold
value to the thousands of acres, and
would alcne reimburse the proprie
tors of the soil for making the neces
sary outlay. Appropriate a body of
land to this purpose, reserving yet
other acres by the tho. .sands, to be
eventually incorporated into one
grand concern for the manufacture
of beet sugar on a scale commensur
ate with its importance, and, under
proper management, the same could
be made so largely paying as to as
tonish even its most enthusiastic
prajectors and supporters. Two
crops of beets a year from the same
ground, the seed of which can be
planted with success every month
in the year; no provision necessary
to secure the factory's winter supply
of beets from frost, and the constant
operation of the works during the
whole year instead of six months
the extreme length of a sugar cam
paign in Europe give to Los Ange
les county advantages possessed by
few, if any, and excelled by no other
country in the world.
Ax Irish Legal Dkcisiox. The
following story comes from Ireland:
Two men had a quarrel in a liquor-
shop. They adjourned outside to
settle the dispute. The first man
being from Connaught, immediately
seized a lump of stone and let fly at
the head of his opponent, w ho dip
ped his head and missed the stone,
which went through an expensive
plate-glass window, and did much
damage. A magistrate was called
upon next morning to determine
which of the two should pay the cost.
The evidence clearly showed that the
aim was a good one, and that if the
second man had not dipped his head
lie would have been struck. 44 1 here-
fore," said the magistrate, "he must
oav the damages, as it is certain tne
first man didn't intend to injure the
window, and the window would not
have been injured if it had not been
for the act of the second man."
An old f-rmer employed a son of
Erwin to work for him on his farm.
Pat was continually misplacing the
end boards in the cart the front
board behind and the tail board in
front, which made the old gentle
man very irritable. To prevent it
h painted on both boards a large
"B'- then he called Pat to him and
showing him the boards, said: Now,
vou blockhead, you need make no
mistake, as they are now both mark
ed. This (pointing to one board) is
44 B" for before, and that (indicating
the tail board) is 44 B" for behind,
whereupon the old gentleman march
ed off with great dignity.
Its Aim. At a recent session of
the " Social Science Association," in
New York city, Mr. Williard S.
Flagg, of Illinois, read a paper on
the iaruers' movement in the West
ern States. He reviewed the pro
grcss 01 the movement and said it
meant advancement in the intelli
gence and ability of the tillers of
the soil; secondly, it was the result
of an unusual feeling of oppression
and distress, resulting from mis
chievous legislation; thirdly, it was
an effort to reform abuses and carrv
to a more logical conclusion the prin
ciples of our republican institutions
To be Impeached. The House
Judiciary Committee has voted, six
to four, for the impeachment of
Judge Uurreil, of Louisiana, luis
is equivalent to an impeachment of
the President md his Cabinet, for
they gave force and effect to Dnr
rell's most unrighteous decision by
sustaining the usurping government
01 Louisiana with all the power
the Federal Government.
of
Did He? "When Spakespeare
wrote about patience on a monument,
did he refer to doctors' patients?"
"No." "How do you know he
didn't?" 44 Because you always find
them under a monument."
IVasliiiigtou Society.
In the Cincinnati Commerciars
ashington correspondence' tW '
er day appeared the following inter- '
esting ana instructive item:
" There is a very ugly storv going f
the rounds of the press to the effect -that
at the wedding of Miss Stewart
the refreshments gave out. The
facts are these: Toward the close of
the evening there was such rioting-
for it can be called by no other
name in the supper room, such
breaking of fine glass goblets and
dishes being pitched nnder the table
by the guests to get rid of the labor
of holding them, that. Mm Stowsn-4
ordered tha supper room to be clos
ed. Just sncn scenes are repeated
in this city to a greater or less degree O
at every large entertainment."
Of such is the Kingdom of Shod
dy! How can we expect the vulgar
herd who have come to the front
since the close of the war, the recon
structed rabble, the dregs who have
been stirred up from the bottom of
the social waters, to exhibit eviden
ces of good breeding or to manifest
the semblance of decency? What do
the ex-bull-drivers and retired scul
lions, who have fattened on the offal
of corruption and fed fat upon tho
feculence of official jobbery what
do tney, we repeat, Know 01 the
usages of civilized society and the
amenities ami requirements of social
intercourse and private hospitality?
j They regarded Stew'art's daughter's
hymeneal festivities as a common
barbecue in which it was free to all
present to pull and haul and porg
themselves, without reserve. Most;
fitting commentary upon the new or
der that reigns at the National Cap
ital! What a contrast between the pres
ent and the past of Washington
society does this bit of scandal about
the Stew art-Hooker weddingsugges4.
Twenty-five years ago, there was a
quiet gentility and a finished cul
ture, wlrtch made the fashionable in
tercourse of its better circles not
only delightful in enjoyment, but
elevating and refining in its associa
tions. It was not an aiistocracy of
wealth, for if moderate wea'th was
not the rule, overgrown and demon
strative money was the exception.
It was the outcrop of the old Cava
lier courtesy, courtly in deaeanor
without anything ofapretensf n or
superciliousness. The frontier W '1-
verine, Hoosier, or Sucker, who
went there in the revolutions of pub
lic employment, with lank hair, ma
ternal jeans, and cowhide brogans,
yielded to the civilizing impressions.
until the prairie Orson, by a gradual
transformation, became a proper in
mate of saloons and drawing-rooms.
Now this is changed. "Death has
vacated these old seats of social su
premacy which leavens the coarse
ness of importation and keep the
better constituents of intercourse in 0
supremacy. With thisi withdrawal
we have the luxuriant growth of war O
and its long leap into fortuitous op
ulence, with its barbaric pomp and
scenic splendor. It is the aire of
peacock gaudiness and Bird of Para
dise plumage the abrupt transition
from the flaunt of rags to the flutter
of brocade 44 tawdry yellow striving
with dirty red" false in taste and
most fatal in its allurements, in the
circuit "of Governmental employment
upon moderate stipends, when every
impulsion is to extravagant and im
provident expenditure. Wh le tho 0
stinted and suffering labor of tho
nation is stretching out pleading
hands for relief in the painted prom-
ise to pay, the heads of bureaus in
the Treasury, in assignments un
known to law, a mere higher grade
of clerks, roll round the wooden
ways of the city in clarence or coupe
with their coachmen in thelivervand
cockade of a Roval Duke. It might
be an impe t nence. as a correspon
dent Si ys, to ask in what manner tho
quarterly bids are paid, but the
lreasury itself mmt supply the need
through some process of distillation
obscure to the outward observer but
transparent to the ini ia ed, E.cam
iner. Utah Tp:kritop.t. The following
statistics are gleaned from a Direc
tory of the Territory of Utah, re
cently published: 44 The population
in 1S-47 was 143. It is now 150,000,
an increase of over 1,000 fold. In
1873 j there were 110,000 acres in
grain, and 12.000 in root crops, 2,500
in fruit and 50,000 acres in meadow.
Fish culture salmon, shad and
trout has become a business in'
parts of the Territory. There are
251 common schools, with an average
daily attendance of 11,812 pupils.
There are 200 towns and settlements
in Utah."
The Washington Critic says the pres
ent debt of the District of Columbia
is stated a little over 22,000,000.
This is about thirty per. cent, of the
entire assessed value of real and per
sonal property of the District, and
amounts to an average of no less
than S137 per capita to every man,
woman and child in the District. It
states that the debt has beencansed
bv the injudicious pushing of cer
tain plans by the District Govern
ment. Be Slow axd Scbe. Multitudes
in their haste to get rich are ruined
every year. The men who do tilings
maturely, slowly, deliberately, are
the men" who often succeed in life.
People who are habitually in a hurry;
generally have to do things twice
over,
The St. Louis Republican submits
the follwing: "Inflation ticket for
187G For President. Oliver P. Mor
ton of Indiana; for Vice President,
John A. Logan, of Illinois. Plat
formTo get out of debt, go m
deeper."
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