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The Newspaper Man.
-r un 1-nAW or pvpn tliinU-
of the work there is in shedding ink
cinprallvknownas newsiiarier men-
Jottings," "In General," "Spice of
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" Variations," and rumors rife,
"Saturday Notes" and Sunday news,
" A.11 sorts of Paragraphs" to amuse,
Market reports and marine disasters,
Pull's of nill and patent plasters;
Now at the theater m white cravat,
(Maw-hammer coat and opera hat;
Then to the prize-ring, where you write
Sickening ueians vi
Hack to tiie city, just in time
liacK to uie euy, j"" " v .
To report the sermon of some divine;
Steamboat collisions, smash-up of
vwtinn rA'.irns to bother your brain;
.. v. . . .-n. T ...:,!. 1
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A.rcnts dramatic, with long-winded
UUlllCI TV7UI 1 1 tl 1 1 1.-, ,
! To write up his star to theatrical glory.
Deaths and marriages, murders, rows,
Hall and parties, minstrel shows,
Stock simulations, bubbles of air,
i Tossed about by bull and bear;
' Praisin" the limb in the dancer s pose,
! And next the calves in the cattle shows;
Pencil in had at the racing course,
Taking the time of a trotting horse ;
Jottiii!' down each stroke and catch
Made in a famous base-ball match ;
Now of a street row taking a note
And then a row in a college boat.
These are a few of the many things
At which the tireless pencil swings.
Utility ot College Education.
; The utility of the ordinary colle
1 giate education to the " average
man," is becoming year by year a
1 subject of increasing interest. We
i see so many " graduates" unable to
i make a fair living, distanced in the
; races for the world's great prizes
by self-taught men, who make up in
energv, industry, sense and tact,
what they lack in classical culture,
; that many are inclined to doubt the
1 value of the training given in the
higher institutions of learning. Our
' view is, that so far as it fits a man to
rill his place in the world and to do
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it without such a preparation,
far onlv is a collegiate educat
; Jal UU,J 1J , Ul.. e.ir i
li mnimwii Oil. Jlow iai I
Ins life work more iaiuuuuj mo.
couia ao
in so
ition to
be commended. How tar it does
this has of late years become more
I and more doubtful to many observ
! ers whose test of success is by no
I means the vulgar one. The English
historian, James Anthony lroude,
he whom Father Burke made mince
! meat of a vear or two ago, in a ct
I are before the students of the Glas
1 TTniroritv. of which he was
Sector at the time, reminded them
i..,f 'M-a ,.f nil :i man has to ret
! his living, and all the ologios in the
' worn I could not help lmn to it.
I Without accepting Froude's dictum
I in its fullness, daily experience
j proves it largely true. It is a ques
' turn how far the education most in
j vogue in our colleges helps any
' young man to make an honester liv
, iiicr than he would earn without its
i assistance, or incumbrance, perhaps,
is an apter expression. In the in
i dustries which occupy the vast ma
jority of the people, the worth of a
S man's work to the world is estnnat
! ed with approximation to accuracy,
by what the world pays him for it.
Taking this text, the London Spec
' fflconf nnd verv sutrcrestive
article, shows that the wages of gen-erallv-edueated
men who have not
added to their general education the
knowledge of any sjecial vocation
men, in short, who know, how to do
what colleges teach them to do, and
nothing more are less than the av
erage of handicraftsmen, and are
rapidly becoming less than the wages
of hod-carriers, whose work requires
no training at all, but only brute
strength and endurance. In this
country, from the wider diffusion of
education, the case is even stronger,
and tends to become stronger with
every fresh accession of raw recruits
to the industrial army which each
college-delivery brings. This is not
. . .. i.:- lint it
a verv cheering rennn,
seems' to us a very needful and salu
tary one and one very well worth the
thoughtful consideration of our edu
cators. In the very highest depart
ments of human activity alone does
it become grossly untrue that the
. i " M,.nnu tad
worth of a man s woi'K is j1i.-.i.lv..
by his wages. To these departments
a verv small minority of men is call
ed and their work will be done, no
matter what their wages i
co.lliko never could be paid, out iue
earthly always could." The aim of
colleges is to tit men ior iu
and not alone for the high places of
life, and this must be more tueir aim
the more college education is ex
tended. It is not a signal proof of
their success in this aim if it should
turn out, as the article we cite shows
that ii, is turning out in very many
cases, to be better for a man's work
in the world that he never uao.
at college. -
Examiner.
If you want to travel through the
world in a quiet, contented way,
don't get careless in any respect.
Man. in every phase of life, is par
ticularly given to carelessness. If
he is on the high road to wealth and
station, he becomes careless of those
who, perhaps, were the very means
of his good fortune. On the other
hand, is he unfortunate in business,
he looses his self-respect, and rushes
to the dram-shop or gaming-table.
Slightly sarcastic was the clergy
man who paused and addressed a man
coming into church after the sermon
had begun, with the remark: "Glad
to see you, sir, come in; always glad
to see those here late who can'C come
early;" and decidedly self-possessed
was the man thus addressed, in the
presence of an astonished congrega
tion, as he responded: "Thank you;
would you favor me with the text?"
One of .our fashionable youths
donned bis first silk hat and cigar
Saturday evening. He got along
well enough with the cigar, but he
had to give up the hat it made him
siek ai the stomach.
"Warm weather during the week.
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A Glauce Over the Vield.
The lion's skin drops off. The
President has signed the Inflationist
bill.
1. It sanctions the increase of the
legal tender circulation from 8350,
000,000 to 382,000,000.
2. It for the second time since the
war promises that beyond this point
there shall be no inflation, and re
quires also that there shall be no re
duction without consent of Congress.
3. It substantialy abolishes the
difference between greenbacks and
National bank notes, since the green
backs are no longer required as a
part of the bank reserves.
4. It reduces the reserves which
the National banks are required to
keep to 5 per cent., and thue sub
stantially adds to the active circula
tion 30,000,000.
5. It provides for transferring 55-
000. 000 of the National bank circula
tion from Eastern to Western banks.
In December, 18G8, Congress re
stricted the United States Treasury
from paying its legal tender notes,
the issue having then been reduced
to 350,000,000. And now again, in
June, 1874, Congress, with the con
sent of the President, once more re
stricts the Treasury from owing less
than 382,000,000 in notes payable to
bearer. The United States Govern
ment is, then commanded not to pay
its debts we mean that class of
debts which it forced upon its cred
itors during the war; which we have
seen depreciated sixty per cent, be
low par, and which are still at a dis
count of more than ten per cent.
Since the restriction of 1808 there
have been paid off 375,000,000 of
interest bearing indebtedness we
suppose, in pursuance of the princi
ple enunciated in 18GS at Chicago,
that "the national honor requires
the payment of the public indebted
ness in the uttermost good faith to
all creditors." Again, this Govern
ment, in accordance with the finan
cial policy forced upon the Trersury
by Congress, whenever it has had a
surplus of coin or real money, has
not used that money to pay its green
backs according to jromise, but lias
held an auction and bought back its
1. O. U.s from those who were will
ing to sell at the greatest discount,
which I. O. U.s being legal-tender,
it has again paid out to its creditors
for full value.
When Gen. Grant, five years and
four months ago, bseame President,
the legal-tender circulation was 350
000,000; the semi-legal tender, or
bank circulation, was 203,000,000,
and the tag-rag and bobtail, or frac
tional currency, was .17,000,000,
making a total of 6fcG,000,000. Now,
over thirteen years since greenkacks
were first made use of, the lagal-ten-der
circulation is 3S2,000,000, the
semi-legal-tender circulation 350,
000,000, and the fractional currency
17.000,000, being in all 770,000,000.
The increase in five years is 03.000, -000.
or fourteen per cent. Mean
while we have had a decision from
the Supreme Court that anything is
money which the Government is
pleased to call money, and that a
contract to pay dollars (dollar, in for
mer time meant a specific quantity
of coined gold or silver, of a certain
fineness) is satisfied by paying what
ever substance the Government may
choose to issue and force into use as
legal-tender. What more could
Louis XIV., or the Sultan of Turkey
have asked? Degradation of Con
gress; degradation of the Supreme
Court; degradation of the Executive;
degradation of political and private
morals; degradation of State, muni
cipal, private and corporate credit ;
this is the harvest we reap. Those
who shamelessly demand that money
be made of less" worth, in order that
they may escape the obligations of
their contracts, are now in the ascen
dant in Congress, in the courts, and
in the White House. iV. Y. Tribune.
Is It Constitutional!
The attempt to force whole com
munities of people into a strait-jacket
by means of such proscriptive and
sumptuary legislation as the Local
Option, law is essentially a Radical
conception. The lately held Radical
Convention of Indiana resolved in
favor of "local option" on the subject
of the traffic in liquors. As we have
found, bv a short but sharp experi
ence in California, where our astute
Legislature was deluded into passing
the present odious law, it is an adroit
and skillful dodge meaning much
more than it says. Micheal C. Kerr,
who is one of the best lawyers in the
country, gives it as his opinion that
if the Legislature can authorize cities
and other localities by elections
within themselves to prohibit the
traffic, then logically it can at once,
and by its own direct act and flat,
prohibit the traffic. That right and
power under our State Constitution
does not exist, and ought not to be
exercised. The constitutional power,
in our judgment, is for regulation
not prohibition. It should therefore
be so exercised, and that regulation
should be most careful and strict,
under severe safeguards and penal
ties punishing all offenders against
its requirements, whether they be
the sellers or the drunkards and
thereby the best interests and the
security of society can be well guard
ed and protected, and injustice done
to no classes. Prohibition is simply
impracticable and unconstitutional.
Examiner.
Butin-o Things. A farmer should
never go to town without carrying
something to sell-butter, eggs po
tatoes, poultry, or even a load of
wood By so doing his income is
quTte sure to exceed his outgoes.
There is no more miserable and pov
erty stricken way than to keep send
ing to stores and shops, having
things charged, with the expectation
of. paying for. them when special
crops come.
P"
COURTESY
The Short-Horn Fever.
The high prices realized for theLyn
dale herd recently sold at Chicago is
evident that there is no abatement in
the short horn fever. There is a
great deal of surplus wealth among
the agricultural community, for oth
erwise fancy prices could not be paid
for fancy stock. In the short horn
we have the largest amount of beef
with the least bone, but if the animals
-were destined solely for the butcher's
block they would sell at lower figures.
The short horn cow or bull, when sep
arated from the aristocratic herd, is
valuable as a leaven of the coarser
bovine ranks. The blood gives sub
stance to the lathy frames, and grad
ually the grade is improved. But
were short-horn cows and bulls main
ly used for the production of grade
cattle, the demand for them would
not be as great as it is. It is not a
utilitarian purpose which keeps up
the prices. Utility has its influence,
but there is something beyond this.
The desire to own what is exception
ably bred, like the desire to possess
a picture which held up in the thou
sands, is what makes the short-horn
fever rage so hotly. The animals
grace the lawn, and then you can
trace their blood back through a
score or more of generations. In
the picture bits of color tell. In the
animal drops of blood are weighed.
Judged from the utility standpoint
neither of much consequence. But
viewed from the aethetic line both
become pearls of great price. The
man who invests much money in a
picture or in a short-horn, it is to be
presumed, has a surplus of this
world's goods. He does not have to
fight a daily battle for simply bread
and butter. The wolf does not stand
grinning at the door, for if such were
the case the money would be applied
to the relief of a practical want in
stead of being devoted to the gratifi
cation of a fanciful desire. We
draw attention to this phase of the
case in order to impress the fact upon
the reader's mind that there must be
a great deal of wealth among the ag
ricultural or grazing community in
order to keep up the price of short
horns. Horses also sell for fancy
prices but just now the bovines seem
to be in the lead. Possibly one rea
son is that the purchaser of the
shoit-horn is not put to the trouble
and expense of training it, of devel
oping that quality which imparts
the highest excellence to the equine
speed.
The Lyndale herd was collected
by Col. W. S. Kingatgrcatexpen.se.
We remember that a few years ago
he offered Mr Sheldon sixty thou
sand dollars for six cows, which offer
was declined. As he had the pluck
to pay large prices, it was not diffi
cult for him to secure animals of
princely pedigree for his pastures in
the breezy uplands of Minnesota.
His herd has been the wonder of
that State, but it is safe to say that
it was not appreciated as highly at
home as it was abroad, for the major
ity of tlio people of Minnesota still
take a utilitarian view of breeding.
The. herd was taken to Chicago and
placed under the hammer, and the
sale attracted buyers from all parts
of the country and from Europe.
Fifty-eight cows brought 101,015,
an average of 1,932 per head; and
seventy -one bulls were knocked down
at 25,375, an average of 1,207.
The seventv-nine animals brought
120.000. When we look at the fig
ures we are duly impressed with the
remarkable success of the sale.
While not a cow or heifer sold for
less than 200, several ran well up
into the thousands, the highest price
paid being 5,500. The competition
for the bull, Second Duke of Hill
hurst red and white, out of Dutchess
97, by 0th Duke of Geneva, was very
great. Hon. John Went worth bid
13,900 for the animal; but Mr.
George P. Bobbins, of England, had
the prize knocked down to him at
14,000.
The Englishman, however, it ap
pears, lost his head, as that other
Englishman did who bid 40,000
for the cow at the sale of the
herd at New York Mills last Fall.
At least he was not able to settle up
when called on. As the terms of the
sale of the animal were not complied
with, Col. King decided to take the
Second Duke of Hillhurst back to
Minnesota. Other parties, we are
told, offered to pay the 14,000 for
the bull, but the proposition was re
fused. It is understood that Col.
King will keep a small but select
herd of short-horns at Lyndale. The
fever still burns in his veins and
having done so well,' he is willing
and ready for another venture.
Of course it is impossible to say to
A certainty how long short-horn cat
tle will bring the extraordinary
prices which tl.ey now command.
But it looks as if there would be no
abatement of the fever for years.
Several wealthy gentlemen in Eng
land are rivals in this line, and they
will not suffer the prices to decline
for some time at least. They are
able to bull the market and they will
do it. And then their example in
this particular is imitated in this
country. If the Lyndale herd could
sell for such high figures upon the
heels of panic, it looks to us as if
short-horn cattle would continue a
safe fancy stock for several years to
come.
A shrewd little fellow was entrust
ed to the care of his uncle who fed
the boy poorly. One day he happen
ed to see a grey-hound, whereupon
he asked the little fellow if he knew
what made the dog so poor. The re
ply was: "I expect he lives with his
uncle."
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The editor of the Wells Atlas has
got a new "suit," and comes out in
a quarter of a column to announce
the fact. It is so seldom that an
editor gets a new shirt even that it
is worth while to announce the fact.
OF BANCROFT LIBRARY',
The Leisure Time of IJoys.
We would suggest to many parents
who are perplexed with the difficul
ty of finding the wherewithal to
amuse and interest their boys to give
their lads every opportunity of ac
quiring a mechanical trade. The in
dustry and ingenuity of a boy of
average ability, says the Scientific
American, may easily be made
to furnish him with a never-failing
source of amusement of the best or
der. The boy who can produce or
make something already begins to
feel that he is somebody in the world,
that achievement of a result is not a
result reserved for grown people
only. And the education of mind,
eye, and hand, which the use of
tools and mechanical appliances
furnishes, is of great and real value,
beyond the good resulting from oc
cupation of leisure time. Having
nothing to do is as great a snare to
the young as it is to the grown; and
no greater benefits can be conferred
on youths than to teach them to con
vert time now wasted, and often
worse than wasted, into pleasant
means of recreation and improve
ment. The boy, whose time and
mind are now occupied with marbles
and kites, may be a Watt, a Morse
or a Bessemer, in embryo; and it is
certainly an easy matter to turn his
thoughts and musings into a chan
nel which shall give full scope to
their faculties. As to most boys the
use of mechanical tools is the most
fascinating of all occupations. As
logic and mathematics have a value
beyond accuracy in argument and
the correct solution of problems, in
that they teach men the habit of us
ing their reflecting powers systemat
ically, so carpentry, turning and
other arts are of high importance.
These occupations teach boys to
think, to proceed from initial causes
to results, and not only to under
stand the nature and duty of the
mechanical powers, but to observe
their effects; and to acquire knowl
edge by actual experiment, which is
the best way of learning anything.
All the theories culled out of books
leave an impress on the mind and
memory which is slight compar
ed to that of the practical experience
of the true mechanic. Our advice is
to all who have the great responsi
bility of the charge of boys. Give
them a lathe or a set of carpenter's
or even blacksmith's tools. Give
their minds a turn toward the solid
and useful side of life. You will
soon see the result in increased ac
tivity of their thinking capabilities,
and the direction of their ideas to
ward practical results; and, still
more obviously, in the avoidance of
idle mischief and nonsense (to omit
all reference to absolute wickedness
and moral degredation) , which are,
to a great extent, the pastime of the
generation which is to succeed us.
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Mr. Cooley's Hat.
When Mr. Cooley came in church
last Sunday he placed his new hat
just outside the pew in the aisle.
Presently Mrs. Pitman entered, and
as she proceeded up the aisle her
abounding skirts scooped Cooley's
hat and rolled it up nearly to the
pulpit. Cooley pursued his hat with
feelings of indignation, and when
Mrs. Pitman took her seat he walked
back with his hat brushing it with
his sleeve. A few moments later
Mrs. Hopking came into the church,
and as Cooley had again placed his
hat in the aisle, Mrs. Hopkin's skirts
struck it and swept it along about
twenty feet, and left it lying on the
carpet in a demoralized condition.
Cooley was singing a hymn at the
time, and he didn't miss it. But a
moment later, when he looked over
the edge of the pew to see if it was
safe he was furious to perceive that
it was gone. He skirmished up the
aisle after it again, red in the face,
and uttering sentences which were
horribly out of place in the sanctua
ry. However, he put his hat down
again and determined to keep his
eye on it, but just as he turned his
head away for a moment Mrs. Smiley
came in, and Cooley turned around
only iri time to watch his hat being
gathered in under Mrs. Smiley's
skirts and carried away by them.
He started in pursuit, and just as he
did so the hat must have rolled
against Mrs. Smiley's ankles, for she
gave a junip and screamed right out
in church. When her husband
asked her what was the matter she
said there must be a dog under her
dress, and she gave her skirts a twist.
Out rolled Cooley's hat, and Mr.
Smiley, being very near-sighted,
thought it was a dog, and immedi
ately kicked it so savagely that it
flew" up into the gallery and lodged
on top of the organ. Cooley per
fectly frantic with rage forgot where
he was, and holding a clinched fist
under Smiley's nose, he shrieked:
" I've half a mind to bust you over
the snoot!" Then he flung down his
hymn-book and rushed from the
church. He went home bare-headed
and the sexton brought his humili
ating hat around after dinner. After
this Cooley intends to go to Quaker
meetings, where he can say his pray
ers with his hat on his head. Max
Adelery.
Not Much. We have frequently
within the past few months seen cur
name mentioned as a "slighted or
defeated candidate" for the nomina
tion of State Printer. We would
most respectfully ask these sympa
thizing friends to be so kind as not
to borrow trouble on this account
for us. We will state, and our
friends konw that we are saying what
is true, that we declined emphatically
to have our name used before the
last convention, both State and coun
ty, for any position and we have nei
ther been slighted nor defeated.
The Power of Kindness.
"Are you not afraid," said a friend
to Miss Dix, the philanthropist, "to
travel over the country alone?" " I
am naturally timid," she replied,
"and diffident like all my sex, but in
order to carry out all my purposes, I
know that it is necessary to make many
sarifices and to encounter many dan
gers. It is true, I have been in my
travels through the different States,
in perilous situations. I will men
tion one which occured in the State
of Michigan. I had hired a carriage
and driver to convey me some dis
tance to an uninhabited portion of
the country. In starting, I discov
ered that the driver, a young lad,
had a pair of pistols Avith him. In
quiring what he was doing with
arms, he said he carried them to pro
tect us, as he had heard that robber
ries had been committed on our road.
I said to him "give me the pistols; I
will take care of them." He did so
reluctantly.
" In pursuing our journey through
a dismal looking forest, a man rush
ed into the road, caught the horse
by the bridle and demanded my
parse. I said to him, with as much
self-possession as I could command,
"are you not ashamed to rob a poor
woman? I have but little money aud
I want to defray my expenses in vis
iting prisons and poor-houses, and
occasionally to objects of charity.
If you have been unfortunate, and
are in distress and in want of money,
I will give you some," While thus
speaking to him, I discovered his
countenance changing, and he be
came deadly pale. "My God," he
exclaimed, "that voice!" and imme
diately told me he had been in the
Philadelphia penitentiary, and had
heard me lecture to some of the pris
oners in an adjoining cell, and that
he now recognized my voice. He
then desired me to pass on, and ex
pressed deep sorrow for the outrage
he had committed. But I drew out
my purse, and said to him, "I will
give you something to support you
until you get into honest employ
ment." He declined, at first, taking
anything, until I insisted on his do
ing so, for fear he might be tempted
to rob some one else before lie could
get into honest employment."
Seasonable Food.
The wholesomeness of food de
pends nearly as much on the time it
is taken as on the quality. We have
grown so luxurious in our physical
as well as mental tastes, that we are
constantly tempted to eat things out
of season. Yielding to the tempta
tion, as we often do, we pay the pen
alty, soon or late, in temporary or
chronic derangement of our health.
The meat which is excellent in cold,
may not be desirable in warm weath
er; fish is best during Spring and
early .Summer; vegetables and fruit
are nutritious when they are fully
ripened by sun and season, and not
artificially stimulated. Nature knows
what she is doing; she furnishes for
every latitude the productions fitest
for such latitude. We need variety,
not so much at one time, as from
time to time. The delicacies of the
season will not hurt us; but the del
icacies out of season certainly will,
if long continued. The appetite so
jaded as to crave oysters in July, or
strawberries in December, needs
careful correction by the adoption of
the simplest habits. The palate nat
urally relishes what Nature has near'
at hand. As a rule, not only is the
simplest food the best food, but the
most seasonable is, in the long run,
the most appetizing. There is no
difficulty in determining what we
should eat, since the products of our
climate show us plainly month by
month. Fish, flesh and fruit, by
their plumpness, tenderness and
ripeness, themselves denote when
they are ready to be eaten. A sound
stomach will profit by whatever an
unspoiled palate enjoys. Seribner's
for June.
Says Mary Kyle Dallas: "Dress,
dress, dress! It is the bane of wo
manhood from her cradle to her
grave, and has been ever since Eve
made an overskirt of fig leaves. Ev
erything we do is mixed up with our
toilet, somehow. When we are
christened, our christening robes is
the first thought. " When we are first
taken to church, we are beribboned
and belaced to make our appearance
there; and are told that we cannot
possibly go in those shabby old
shoes, but must wear the nice Sun
day ones. When we are married,
our costume is the topic which all
discuss, and white satin and pearls
are more important by far than our
emotions. And when the most ter"
rible grief of life falls upon us. anx
ious voices beg us to declare in favor
of black folds of crape and a veil
with a hem half a yard wide, or ask
us softly, whether we are 'going to
mourn deeply,' alluding, of course,
to our black clothes. Yes, and when
we are dead ourselves, it is still how
we are dressed that is to thought of,
though at least we are relieved of the
task of dressing ourselves. Some
wicked French writer has declared
that woman will insist upon having
the pretty dress for the Day of Judg
ment, or refuse to attend at all."
You are going to have your troub
les as well as your pleasures. A
man is not worth a snap who has not
had trouble. You cannot subdue
selfishness without a struggle. You
cannot sustain pride without a con
flict. You cannot expect to go
through life without bearing bur
dens. But you are going to have
help under circumsta nses that will
redeem you from these things. You
are going to experience more victo
ries than defeats. Your sufferings
will bo only here and there little
spots in a whole field of peace and
joy.
The Niobe of Nations.
Ex-Mayor Medill, of Chicago, not
long since made a tour through tho
British isles. Writing of one of
them he says: Ireland is a superbly
beautiful land, inhabited by poverty
stricken, unhappy and discontented
people that is, in three or four
provinces. Nearly three-quarters of
a million of families live in little
shaky, unclean huts, and have hard
scratching to make money enough to
pay the rent to the landlord, who
squanders it in Great Britain and
the Continent? The Inhabifants of
Ireland pay in rent 100,000,000 gold
for the privilege of liring on land
confiscated from their fathers, and
this money is taken out of the coun
try as fast as collected, and spent
abroad. Ireland has no manufac
tures except the linen trade of Bel
fast. Its immense water power runs
idle forever. The country seems
dormant, inert, unhappy, enterprise
less. Ireland is truly the Niobe
among nations. She is held down
by the strong hand of power. There
is a national constabulary of 80,000
men, with head-quarters at Dublin,
who do all police duty. Every city,
town, village and railway station has
its force of armetl police. There are
forts and barracks everywhere. Fif
teen or twenty thousand red coats
garrison them, and war vessels lie at
anchor in every Irish harbor. No
citizen is allowed to have and keep a
gun or pistol, unless he pays a large
license therefor every year, and is
registered. The people are totally
disarmed and utterly jDOwerless to do
more than scold, protest, and swear
at their conquerers. The recent acts
of Parliament hare done a little
good. The Tenant act, however, is
being nullified by the landlords; who
are forcing tenants to sign special
agreements releasing the lands from
the terms of this act, which gives
the tenant a property in his improvements.
The Kind. Not even the Repub
lican papers. have a good word for
the pious Gen. O. O. Howard, who
is to be quartered on us as Comman
der of this Department. The Salem
Record, Independent, has this to say
of the hero of the Freudman's Bu
reau. . General O. O. Howard, ho, dur
ing the late war, had immediate
charge of the Freedman's Bureau,
and who was openly charged with em
bezzlement and other crimes, having
been whitewashed by the Committee
of Inquiry at Washington, has been
ordered to take command of the De
partment of the Columbia, rice Gen.
Davis, whose future position or des
tination has not yet been made public.
Rich Without Monet. Many a
man is richwithout money. Thou- C
sands of men with nothing in theirD
pockets are rich. A man born with
a good sound constitution, a good
stomach, a good heart, good limbs,
and a pretty good head piece is rich.
Good bones are better than gold;
tough muscles better than silver; and
the nerves that flash fire an.l enrnr
energy to every function are better
man nouses or land, it is better
than a landed estate to havfi th
right kind of father or mother. Good
breeds and bad breeds exist among
men as really as among herds and
horses. Education may do much to
check bad tendencies or to flpvplnriA
good ones; but it is a greater thing
to inherit the risrht -nronortion of
faculties to start with. The man is
rich who has a crood disnosition
who is naturally kind, patient, cheer-
iui ana nopetul.
.
We might as well laugh as cry
these dull times, and th fnllnwinrr
is applicable to the present financial
crisis: curing the great collapse of
1857, a gentleman of color kept a
bank in a Western city. His insti-
i i - . -r .
iunon was apparently in a sound 0
condition, but to be in fashion with
the white folks he concluded to fail.
Next morning a man came and shook
the door, but a voir.fi insidfi vMnnn.1.
ed that " de bank is closed." But
the man replied that he had left a
new pair of boots there tb dav b.
fore, and wanted them. The sable
iinancier opened the door softly, and
throwing out one boot remarked,
"We is only paying fifty cents on
the dollar."
Some years ago there was a worthy
German in Baltimore who took unto
himself a fair daughter of the Fath
erland. In about a year Hans' bet
ter half presenter! him with a fine
heir, when . he exclaimed, "Yell,
Katrine, dat is good!" When, in a
year afterwards, she presented him
with a pair of twins, he said, " Veil,
dat 13 petter dan de oder time. I
drinks more as ten glass of beer on
dat." But when, a year later, she
presented him with triplets, he cried
out, in agonYy " Mine Got in Him
rael, Katrine, vat isli de matter of
you? Petter you stop dis piziness
fore dere comes a village here?"
OiTi Record. You and I "write
our lives as if on one of those mani
fold writers which you use. A thin,
filmy sheet here, a bit of black paper
below it ; but the writing goes through
upon the next page, and when the
blackness that divides two worlds is
swept away, thehistory of each life,
written by ourselves, remains legible
in eternity. And the question is,
what sort of autobiography are we
writing for the revelation of that day,
and how far do our circumstances
help us to transcribe fair in our lives
the will of God and the image of our
Redeemer? Maclaren. - -
'"Kissing your sweetheart," says
a trifling young man, " is like eating
soup with a fork; it takes along tune
to get enough."
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