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Moots t.viTV Tlmwlav
veiiiut 7 li oV!o,-k. lit tho
' r '.t M.-iulM.-rHof the Or
der arc invited to attend. 1$V oror
Ki-:i'A:A i)Kcni:r. loik; no.
I. (.. F., Meets on tho
I :It!.r Fourth Tues-
l.lv- .-vennus each mourn, S,
ki 7'4 ! , in i.if
Follow' It. 11. Memoersof tho Degree
are invit' il t atten 1.
Ml LTMIA!1 l.ODfiJ NO. I, V. I'.
,t A. lb'M it-1 regular com- a
iauiii.".itioi-s (n the Firt aud 't
Tuii'l Saturdays in e.ieh mont h,
at 7 o'i-li-k from t health of S;n.
t.-mlM r t.'tlx- h of M irch ; :ui'l 7't
u'. iock fr-j'n tho --'t!i of M.iroii to tho
of s pteniltr. llrothriMJ in jiool
It Vti 1 i i t tiro invito ! to attend,
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,l,v fi.r,. ni-mtii. l'.itrian-hs "V
in 'ood standing art.- invited to attend.
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Oi'fll E Main Street, opp.ito the
Court Hou.
S. II U E L A T
ATTORN Y -AT-LAW:
032J?J CITY,
?"0r FICE-rhrirman's bridle, MMnst.
ainarlsT'J :tf.
lnoiwsvs and coi;N.ELns;s at-lwv.
'"Will irarti"o in all th Courti of the
Ut- Sp-ci:il attention ;ivi?n to easfs in
'hi U. H. Liiiul mil:; at or'oa City.
5niirlS7J-tr.
: Li. T. B A Tl IN",
ATTORiliY-AT-LAW,
OREfiOX CITV, : : OREGON.
OFFICE Over rope's Tin Ptor Main
-r-pt. 2lmar7Mf.
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AND
REST A TJ n A MT !
LOUh SAAL, Proprietor.
Main StrV, . . - Oregon City.
TCErRE.M win, Pd: rf.rved from
- ina aft" Mvdato oaring the Summer
ason. Thv V.st qualities of
FKEXCH AMEKIC.VX CAXDIES.
for sal . In quantities to suit.
LU. ,TOIIC WELCH,
D E F3 T I S T. 5
A OFFICE iy
OKfJ)N CITY, OREGON.
RECREATION! HEALTH!
Vilho t Soda Springs !
X bratocl ifor t ho meiliral nualti! of lf
'"W.is ajl:n open for tho reception of
11 It are roaohotl in one aay ironr
'"rroni llorSnWi.
T LJIIN' WILIIOIT, rroprlotor.
June 3d.T4. ju5m4.
W. K. niGHFIELD.
Establishes since 49, at the old stand
Main Ntrrpt. nrprrmi Titr. flrp?on.
O -. ! , .... . , T !.
tui - ."in manias vBt-iKw
i ry.aqd Hoth Thiraas WeihCCIocks
U ftt which are warranled to be as
t.., tl i." which are warranted
UP IN fHK KARX.
Old farmer Joe steps through the doors
As wide tolnrn as the gates of Thebes ;
And thoughtful walks across the lloors
hereon are piled his winter stores
And counts the profits of his glebes.
Ten tons of timothv up there
And four of clover in the av
Rod tops that's cut well, middlin' fair:
And bins of roots oblong and .square
lo help eke out the crops of hay.
A dozen head of cattle stand
Reflective in the leaf-strewn vard
And stocks are stacked on every hand
The latest offspring of the land' '
lo labor long maintained and hard.
Clo.aJs of Pumpkins yonder lie,
The horse is feeding in his stall
r he oats are bundled seaTold hi-h
The tjeag and beans are heaped hard by
As if there was some festival,
At length old farmer Joe sits down
A patch across each of his knees
lie crowds his hat back on liis erown
lhen claps his hands so hard and brown
And like a farmer takes his ease.
"How fast, how fast the years do go!
j... ncuiu.-i, in i.iui, mil vesieruav
That in this very barn "we three--David,
'Zekiel and me
Pitched in the loads of summer hay.
"David, he sails his clipper now,
And 'Zekiel died in Mexico;
Somo one must stay to ride, to plow
CJet up the horses and milk the cow '
And who, of course, but little Joe?
"I might have preached like Parson
Jones,
Or got a living at the law;
I might have gone to Congress, sure!
I might have kept a water cure I
I might have gone and been but
pshaw.
"Far letter is it as it is;
V hat future awaits him no mink no's ;
W hat ho has got that sure is his.
It makes no odds if stocks have riz,
Or politicians come to bhuv.s.
"f.'-mtent is rie'i, and s iii 't!iing more,
I think I'vti hej r iii.;bodv sav ;
If it r uns it is a,.-. i. ,..:,
Aiol I'm as ri;?li on tiie i;ai n-:!oor.
Where all is mine that 1 can raise.
"I've plowed and m wo.l this dear ol.I
(arm,
Till n.t a rod lsit w.hat I know;
I've k-.'pt thr old folks snii.; and warm,
And live without a twinj;.- of harm.
And don't care how the stoun miglit
IjIow.
"And on the same old farm I'll stay,
And raise mv cattle and my corn;
IToreshall these hairsturu wh'olly gray ;
These feet shall never l-urn to stray !
Iiut I will die whore I was born'
And f irmer Joe pulled down his hat.
And stood upon his feet once more;
lie w mid not argu a Iter tiiat ; i
Hut like a born aristocrat,
Kept on his walk across tho floor.
A Yankee Anccdete.
Andy Coramius. -who lived out
near Boston, was a "cite down east
er ' a real livo Yanko, hard to beat.
1 T - .
no was once in a country nar room
lowti so.tth" wlrTtB several go itle
men were asseiiibled when one oi
liein said to liim
"Yankee Cummins, if von. "11 cro out
ami stick vour inknifo into no
thing when you come back I'll tell
von what it s stiekin in.
'Yer can't do no sich tiling," re-
spoiiile.l Cummins.
'"I 11 bet ten dollars on it, answer
ed the Southener in return.
W-l' I rat'iar gness I'll taki
that ere bet. Hero captain turning
to the landlord hold stakes, and I'll
nt make- half a ?aw-horso in less
han no time."
The parties deposited nn X apiece.
and C. went on his mission, but in a
short timo he returned saving:
"Wall, neighbor, wmuI is it stick-
in i n i
"In the handle," replied the
Southener, holding out his hand for
the stakes.
"Guess not; ji-t wait a minit,"'
said the Yankee, as he held up the
landlo of the knife minus the blade.
'I kalkilate tho blade cant be in the
mndle, when it's driv clean up in an
ol.I stump aside yer road out tliar."
Cummins, of course won the wa-
ger, and tne ftoutiifiiPr siopea ior
parts unknown, amid roars of laugh
ter.
A Phronixville maid, ouito old.
becoming anxious about her matri
monial chances, recently concocted
a plan to deceive a young follow as
to her age. This was the way she
tried it: Tho old family Bibln con
tained a faithful record of all births,
marriages, and deaths. This volume
thn maiden took to her chamber.
and selecting her birth page she
mannered l)V dint ot scratching aim
writing to change tho date of her
birth to a period cleen years later
than what had legitimately boon re
corded. Then the Bible was placed
on tho sitting-room table in a cou-
spicious manner. mat eeniug
came along the lover. lie soon oe
gan to finger with the Bible pages,
anil finally reached the birth record,
where and when ho discoypred, to
his snrnrise. that his Angelina was
just one year younger than he. He
thought it strange, as she appeared
older. He kept his mouth sunt ami
continued to fumble over the pages.
e-st be botran reading the death list.
and made the very astonishing dis
covery that the radiant maiden, ac
cording to tho Bible, had actually
been born ten years after the de
cease of her father. Theyonng man
quietly arose and bid Angelina good
by, and now swears that "eternal
vigilance is indeed the price of lib
erty." Tlrwfrin it. is st.itp.I rrmtvil-mted
?47,000 to the relief of sufferers by
the flood in JLouisma. Our Boston
brethern are full of isms, bnt they
are as generous in such matters as
any people in the world. "Charity,"
it is said, covers a multitude of sins."
We believe that the sins of Boston
are of tho head, not heart, and this
generosity to suffering Louisiana
seems to establish this fact.
Scattered. The "Government"
of this nation is scattered "all along
shore," from Uotig Branch b: Rye
Boaoh.
DEVOTED TO pni M
POLITIC , HEWS,
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FIUDAyToCTOBER 2. 1874.
Tlie Xew Y, t Xumi,lauull.
From tho San Francisco Examl
iner.
mtYo emocra?7 of the Empire
utltnnT nonilnat good caidi-
T Tillen af8nd Inform. Samuel
ij d' Governor and William
H t t r Lt-Governor are
the best selections that could have
been made and will undoubtedly
ead the party to victory in Novem
ber. Dorsheimer is an able man of
German ancestry. He is very popu
lar With his countrymen, and is es
pecially acceptable to the "liberal"
and honest portion of tho Republi
cans, without being in the slightest
degree objectionable to any Demo
crat. Concerning Mr. Tilden we
present the following sketch: Sam.
Tilden needs no introduction to the
Democracy of New York. Through
good and evil report, in sunshine
and in storm, for a round thivtv
years he has been tho organizer of
the party. He has asked no favors
at its hands. He has worked faith
fully and earnestly to disseminate
the principles of true political faith,
inspired by no other motives than
patriotic zeal and a commendable de
sire to deserve well of his country
men. In an hour of great trial he
rose equal to an unusual emergency.
It was through his eilorts, more than
through the efforts of any one man,
that the Tammany conspiracy was
overthrown, and that Tweed was
brought to justice. While others
talked he acted. He traced tho mon
ey stolen from the citv of New York
t di!i all its tcrt.ious cours
es till tlit. trial led to Tweed's bank
account. On that evidence " the
Boss" oi the municipal plunders was
convicted. And to Tilden belongs
the credit. Let it not be supposed
that tin's work was accomplished at
no sacrifice of self. Mr. Tilden's
conceded ability as a lawyer gave
him a practice as large as any man
could wish for. His receipts from
counsel fees f.n- the year ending Au
gust lo, 171, approximated lift v
thousand dollars. His receipts for
tho year ending August lo, 1872.
amounted to precisely nothing.
That is to say he absolutely relin
quished all ot her business, and devot
ed himself exclusively to reforming
the government of the city of New
York. It' he failed to accomplish all
that good citizens might have desir
ed it was through no fault of his. He
found himself surrounded by sell
seekers who used tho robes of reform
to cloak their questionable schemes.
lie was tnv.-artod in his purposes by
f i,k; v!l( tt.i.. nn:nKii
1 to
e I
movement which did not add to
tiie
substantial power of tho Administra
tion party. So it happened that
while Mr. Tilden was battling for the
rights of tho people other men o til
ing themselves reformers were plot
ting to clothe Tweed's old deputy.
George M. Van Nort, with larger
powers than the overthrown conspir
ator had usurped, and to extend the
term of tho notorious Hank Smith
as President of tho Police Commis
sion. These men were Republicans,
and unfortunately they controlled
the action of the New York Legisla
ture in IS72 and Idio.
Tn the trying autumn of 1871 Mr.
Tilden consented to stand for the
Assembly. Tiie understanding was
that ho and Mr. O Conor and Mr.
Evarts should all accept Assembly
nominations, so that in case they
wereelecled they might unite in their
elYors to purify the bench in the city
of New York. But Mr. Evarts was
forced to the Geneva Conference,
and Mr. O'Conor was driven by oth
er business to decline a nomination.
Mr. Tilden, who never flinches from
duty, kept the held, and was elected.
It was by some remarked that he did
not display conspicuous ability as a
legislator.' It should be remember
ed that ho found himself tho repre
sentative of a very small minority
a manority of honest Democrats.
The Republican majority that year
was made up in large part of disrep
utable politicians and ambitious ad
venturers. More courtesies were
extended to the infamous Tom.
Fields by tho Republican Speaker
and his immediate associates than to
Mr. Tilden. Under such circum
stances no man could make himself
strongly felt in the legislative coun
cil. Biit Mr. Tilden nevertheless
labored with untiring zeal. It was
mainly through his efforts that tho
corrupt Judges Barnard and Cardozo
were thrust from tho bench, through
the process of impeachment and con
viction. Samuel J. Tilden is by no means
an old man. Ho is the junior of ex-
Govornor Seymour and hardly two
vcars the senior of Francis Kernan.
He is in the full enjoyment of mental
and physical health, with tho prom
ise of many long and useful years
before him. He will bring to the
discharge of his public duties a mind
richly stored with knowledge, a judg
ment of men and things exceptional
ly keen and disciimin t'ng, and a
sense of right which would bear the
test of strict analysis and withstand
any possible temptation.
Mr. Tilden's nomination appeals
strouglv to the better sentiment of
New York State. It will draw into
the canvass many who have long re
mained passive and indifferent. It
will arouse a genuine and honest en
thusiasm. And unless we wholly
nn'stake tho temper of tho times it
will bo followed by a significant and
glorious triumph at tho polls.
Noist and Wild. -The Detroit
r,t.,ec hne this to say of tho lato Re
form State Convention: Of all tho
noisiest but wildest "Reform" con
ventions, the Reform Convention at
Lansin is entitled to tho prise for
sound and furv signifying nothing.
It is like the farmer's famous cattle
show cow. "Sho raises her tail
higher, bellows louder, paws the
ground ofte-ner, makes moro nohe
and gives les. milk tli3n any crittvr
on tho fyrra."
COURTESY OF
UNIVERSITY
LITERATURE, AN 3 THE
Thc Object of the While League.
The object of the White Leagues in
the South has generally been charg
ed with opposition to tho Federal
Government and tho murder of ne
groes. An exchange gives the fol
lowing as tho object of the Leagues,
which wo believe to bo a truthful
statement of the matter:
It is a gross calumny to charge
tho members of those Leagues with
hostile intent toward the Federal
Government or with aiming at " a
crushing prosecntiou Of the blacks."
It is also an unjust and a false impu
tation upon those organizations that
they are responsible for certain mur
ders perpetrated upon negroes in
remote and sparsely settled localities.
Such unhappy incidents, no more
peculiar to certain portions of the
South than to certain portions of the
Western frontier, are in no way trace
able to the White Leagues, whose
purpose is, as far as possible, to
prevent such occurrences. The men
engaged in those isolated acts of bru
tality were either of the ruffian class
who have no political object w hat
ever to subserve, who are moved
merely by a desire to gratify a natu
ral disxjo.sition for brutal and bloody
deeds; or they were of a credulous
and excited class of persons who
were panic-struck by rumors of vio
lent and murderous persons on the
part of the blacks against tho whites.
No act of this can be traced to the
Leagues. So far from having any
intention of enmity or ill-design
against tho unfortunate black man,
the leading idea of these associations
is to afford protection to him from
the machinations of tho men who
constitute the true cause of all the
wrongs and violence to which the
negroes have been exposed. The
political managers and tricksters who
have counseled and deluded the
blacks into a race combination
against their white fellow-citizens to
elect the most corrupt, dishonest,
and incapable persons to offices of
trust and emolument in tho South
are the really responsible persons for
the disorders there prevailing.
To defeat and break up this infa
mous combination of ignorance and
rascality the Leagues were formed.
They propose to accomplish it by
lawful and proper methods, resorting
to no base or illegal means to achieve
their end. They know that the con
tinuance of the present condition in
volves a mutuality of disaster and
disgrace, of repudiation and ruin, to
both the- black and white citizens.
In taking measures for their own
preservation and salvation, they are
seeking the welfare of tho negroes as
much as their own. If they appear
to make special warfare against the
blacks, it is not as against a race,
but as tho main support of the
scoundrelly carpet-baggers and scal
awag natives who have plucked and
plundered and paupered tho whole
people, without distinction of race,
color, or previous condition. If
this combination of black ignorance
and creduly with white rapacity and
duplicity bo dissevered and broken
into irreparable fragments, tho old
amicable relations that subsisted be
tween the races will be restored, and
their common prosperity rebuilt on
a basis that will insure a larger free
dom and enjoyment of all political
and civil rights and greater security
of life, liberty, and happiness, than
it will ever bo possible for Radical
dominations to create or confer.
We think tho true feeling and re
lation of tho South to tho negro was
happily and correctly described by
Mr. Jefferson Davis at a recent meet
ing convened in Memphis to de
nounce tho midnight massacre of tho
sixteen negroes at Trenton, Tennes
see. We lind Mr. Davis' speech in
the New Orleans Picayune, and we
believe our readers will thank us for
reproducing it. It deserves to bo
carefully read and remembered alike
by impulsive and excitable people of
the South and by those who, in this
section, keep up the habit of traduc
ing the character and misrepresent
ing tho temper of the Southern peo
ple. Mr. Davis said:
Friends and countrymen, you have
assembled to-night not for the baro
purposo of giving that expression
w hich humauity demands, but you
havo assembled for a holier duty,
It is what you owe to yourselves;
what you owe to your posterity; what
you owe to tho liviug; what you
owe the gallant dead who died for
Southern independence. And you
men of Folk, of Grundy, of Gibion,
beware that you do not dishonor the
dead nor tarnish tho living. You
are not here to express your horror
of a particular crime. It is a crime
to bo punished, and to be punished
as it deserves, a crime that appeals
to the officers of the law that thoy
will do their duty. You havo come
hero to declare to tho couutry
abroad that you are not a raco of as
sassins; that you do not wear masks,
and that in asserting your rights you
will go forward to tho end of your
lives never wearing a mask nor ever
blacking your face. I was the other
day particularly struck at reading
the testimony of a negro beforo one
of those investigating committees in
South Carolina. He was asked if he
knew Wade Hampton. Oh, yes,
they had been raised together from
childhood. Did ho believe that he
was engaged in any of those Ku-Klux
outrages! No, ho did not. Why?
"Because," said tho negro, "if Massa
Wado Hampton had had any thing
to do with these men, it would have
been tho white men that ho would
have been after and not tho negroes."
The Southern men are the only
friends tho negro has in any part of
tho world. It becomes us to be
their friends. Every Southern man's
memory runs back to tho good old
d tys of tho black woman who nursed
him in his infancy, and then to the
V.OV who hue ted and fihd Hh
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him, and the man who taught him
to rido. All remember with what
joy and manifestations of love the
nurso welcomed him back home
after ha had reached manhood.
Whilo theso memories cluster around
him he can never forget them when
they stood in those relations which I
believe God iutendod that they
should occupy. If these relations
havo been disturbed, it has been by
those incendiaries who hare como in
among us only to stir up Btrifo. It
now rests with you to show to the
world that you are incapable of se
cret crime; that you hate the men
who wear the mask or black the face,
and that whatever i3 necessar3' for
the public peace you will do in an
open manner, with the visor raised
and the helmet open. The colored
people require tho white man to
provide for and look after them now
as much as they ever did. Now,
there are men who think that, in tho
event of a war of races, tho blacks
would be exterminated and that we
would then have a happy and roseate
future. I havo no sympathy with
those men. The negroes wero my
friends in the olden time, and took
care of our wives and children and
homes in tho time of war. They
broght this grand Mississippi Valley
into cultivation, and are the only
ones, I think, that can or will bo
ever ablo to successfully cultivate
it. But I do not intend to touch
upon a question upon which every
man has already formed an opinion.
I have no feeling against tho color
ed men. Tho only indignation
which I feel is against those white
men who havo carried them into the
position which they now occupy.
Let us have our vengeanco against
them, not against the poor blacks.
IIcMOit of inn Scandal. The
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
says: A champion interviewer lives
in Brooklyn. There are a good many
of him, and ho is remarkably alive
and healthy. Ho stopped a funeral
procession tho other day. "Seohere"
said he to the manager of tho hearse,
"give us a moment, you know."
"What the deuce do you want?"' said
the manager of the hearse. "Your
opinion regarding the Beecher scan
dal," and the champion reporter pro
duced his book. "Go to tho goto
Moulton," haid the hoarso man, and
he drove on. The reporter was in
dignant, but was not to be intimidat
ed. Ho followed the procession to
tho grave. He interrupted tho bear
ers in their meloncholy work. He
asked tho mourners, "Come now,
what do you think of tho Beecher
scandal?"
They replied between their sob3
"that ho must really leave them alone,
and why in tho name of propriety
didn't he go to the go to Mr. Moul
ton for instance!" "I think I never
saw such impudence beforo in my
life," said tho champion reporter;
but ho was still confident and deter
mined. "I am the resurree-, began
tho minister. "See here," whispered
tho champion reporter, softly tap
ping him on tho shoulder, "business
of importance old fellow. I beg your
pardon, but it admits of no delay."
"Far heaven's sake," said tho minis
ter, "what is it?" "It's the Beecher
scandal; I want to know, you know-"
"Sir," interrupted tho minister, for
the tirst tima tilling out a sentence
often begun and rarely concluded,
"goto tho devil! And if ever you
interrupt mo again in these peculiar
exercises I'll thrash you within an
inch of your life!" And what does
tho champion reporter say? Simply
that these ministers live too high
anyhow, and they are getting bo late
ly that they can't answer to so littlo
a thing as a civil question.
Big words are great favorites with
people of small ideas and weak con
ceptions, lhoy aro often employed
bv men of mind when thov use lan
guage that may best conceal their
thoughts. With few exceptions,
however, illiterate and half-educated
persons uso moro uig words than
people of thorough education. It is
a very common but egregious mis
take to suppose that long words are
more genteel than short ones just
as tho same sort of pooplo imagiuo
high colors and flashy figure im
prove tho stylo of dress. They are
tho kind of 'folks that don't begin,
but always "commence." They
don't live, but "reside." They don't
go to bed, but mysteriously "retire.1
They dont eat and drink, but "par
take of refreshments. lhoy aro
never sick, but "extremely indis
posed." And instead of dvinfT at
last thoy "docoaao." Tho strength
of tho English language is in tho
short words chiefly monosyllables
of Saxon derivation and people who
are in earnest seldom use any other.
Love, hate, anger, grief, joy, express
themselves in short words and di
roct sentences: whilo cunning, false
hood and affection delight in what
Horaco called verba sesquepedalia
words a foot and a half long.
Permanent Whitewash. Tako
ono half a bushel of unslacked lime,
ctoV it. with boiling water, cover it
during the process to keep in the
steamT strain tho liquor through a
fine seive or strainer, and add to it a
peck of salt previously well desolved
in water; three pounds ground rice
1-."!,! tr n. thin Tiast.o. and stirred in
uuii. v - - j ,
boiling hot; half pound Spanish
whiting ami a pound oi clean glue,
ndiioh has boon nrevionslv dissolved
by soaking it first and then hanging
Over a siu nit? m u numii nemo iu-
1 - 1 ivn-fi nnn filled ti- if 1 1 Tt-o n.
add 5 gallons of hot water to the
mixture, stir it woll and let it stand
a few days covered from the dirt. It
should be put on quite hot; for this
purposo it can bo kept in a kettle on
a furnace. A pint of this mixture
will cover a yard square of tho out
side of a house, if applied with a
1-irrro paint brush.
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.Sugar, Soap and Salt Duties.
Several despotic governments raise
a large revenue on three articles of
consumption required by all classes
of their subjects, and of which tho
poor, in proportion to their means,
are tho largest consumers. The leg
islation which has singled out the
articles to which wo refer for revenue
purposes, has waged a war against
cleanlines sand healthfnlness. And
our Government has been rapacious
in its exactions on the consumers of
the same staples. Under the prosent
tariff, salt, sugar aud eoa; aro heavi
ly taxed.
In former time3, England levied a
heavy duty on sugar, but latterly a
moro liberal policy has prevailed,
and that article is now imported free
into tho United Kingdom. Such 13
not tho caso with us. Tho duties on
sugar and molasses are very onerous
on the working classes, and, what is
worse, the funds derived therefrom
aro recklessly squandered. In sev
eral European countries salt and
soap aro Government monopolies:
and a bucketful of sea water cannot
bo drawn without a permit, and a
cako of soap is frequently handed to
tho purchaser of some other article
as a legal tender in lieu of coin. The
high price of soap, caused by tariff
exactions, is a tax on cleanliness that
ought to bo abolished, because its
enhanced cost diminishes its use as
a detergent in families that are not
well-regulated. With us, although
the Government has not a soap mon
opoly of soap manufactures, it levies
a heavy tax on consumers, by taxing
the imported ingredients used in
making it, and by taxing the article
itself, when imported, at the highest
rates they will bear.
It has been a favorito theme of
discussion with our journalists, who
are principally poor men, that we
should so arrange import, duties as
to have a free breakfast table. The
attempt to attain such an end was
made by tho Forty-second Congress
as regards tea and coffee, and the
Administration claimed much credit
for its exertions to reduce the poor
man's burdens, but it did not lessen
its extravagant expenditures. On
tho contrary, it ran into debt for the
deficiency it created, which it met
by issuing additional currency, in
creasing the legal tenders from o00,
000,001) to S:iS2,lKJ0,0U0, and breaking
faith with public creditors. Thus
was the schema of the inflationists
carried out, and the promises of Rad
icalism realized of giviug us a free
breakfast tabic.
In two years the expenses of the
Government have been increased
s xty three millions of dollars, or an
e erage of thirty-one and a half mil
Tons per year. The duty on sugar
is regulated by a microscopic scale,
wuicii reads as tollows: Dutv: f1 lb.
on all not above No. 7, lc; above
No. i. and not above No. 10. 2e:
hove No. 10, and not above No. lo,
c; above No. 13, and not above
No. 10, 2;'c; abovo No. 10, and not
ibove No. .j!;c; above ZSo. 20,4c;
Molado. le t tb. At the Custom
houses there are constant disputes as
to tiie quality, and sumo ot the ap
praisers have got into uiilculty with
the Department from not being able
to se tho same sample3 in the same
tax-paying light.
Soap is heavily taxed, proving that
our Government does not consider
cleanliness next to godliness. Judg
ing by the tariff it does not regard
cleanliness even as a virtue. The
duties on that article of absolute ne- I
cessitv are as follows: Fancy. 10c "r
lo and Lo ri cent, ad val.: other
kind, lc lb Sc 30 cent, ad val.
bait is also heavily taxed as regards
its value. In bulk it pays a duty of
SI GO per ton which is more than
one hundred per cent, on its cost in
the countries of production, and oth
erwise it pay3 2 -10 per ton. Exam-
mcr.
Of Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, it
is said that she is ruddy faced, with
a profusion of gray hair, and some
what stout in figure. Ono summer
Mr. Beecher had gone to IVekskill in
advance of his wife, who had remain
ed in Brooklyn to see that tho house
was left in proper condition for the
vacation. a new coachman was
hired in Peekskill who had never
seen Mrs. Beecher, and the day of
her expected arrival ho was sent to
the station to fetch her home. After
ra timo ho returned alone, and in
answer to 3lr. Beecher s inquiries he
said that Mrs. Boucher did not como
on the train. "That's impossible,
said tho astonished parson; "she
telegraphed this morning that she
would take the 2 o'clock train. Did
no oue get out at the station?" "No
one except an old Irish woman.
"Go right back," said Mr Reecher,
aud fetch the Irish woman. She's
my wife.
A Symptom of Cxsamsm. One
ugly symptom of Coesarism, remarks
tuo vapxt'Xl, is the fear of reluctance
tno press sutlers trom when com
menting upon or criticising his Ex
cellency. This has grown to such
an extent that the scandalous conduct
of tho 1-residcnt in running away
from his duties during the summer,
passing his timo at a vulgar resort,
and from timo to time making in pub
lic an indecent show of himself, are
passed without publication, such as
would befall an inferior officer were
ho to attempt one-half. Wo may say
that a member of Congress gets
drunk in public, and it is considered
legitimate journalism; but to tell the
truth in this respect about the Presi
dent brings up the flunky editors
right and left.
When a youncr man wishes he had
as many arms as a cuttle fish, it is
safe to assnmo that his girl stout
and o".o arm won't reach around
hr.
NO. 49.
Death and Sleep
TAIM-BLE.
Among the waifs floating about on
tho sea ot. literature, is th following'
beautiful parable of allegory. Such
beautiful allegorical lessons leara
their imprea3 of good upon the
reader:
" Hand in hand the angel of sleep
and the angel of death wandered
over tho earth. It was evoning.
They reclined for rest on a little hil
lock not far from the habitations of
men. A melancholy stillness brooded,
over all things; and the vesper bells
were faintly chiming in the distant
village. Silent and noiseless sat theso
blessed messengers of good to men,
and the night drew on apace.
Soon rose the angel of sleep from
his mossy couch, and scattered with
hand the invisible seeds of slumber.
Tho evening winds boro them to the
quiet habitations of tho woary peas
antry. fcjoon sweet sleep enveloped the
dwellers of tho rural homes, from
the gray-haired man who leans upon
his staff to the infant in tho cradle.
Tho sick man forgot his pains, tho
destitute forgot their anxieties. All
eyes wero closed. G.
And now, his task completed, the
benelicient angel of sleep again
sought repose bv tho side of his
ste rn brother. "When tho morning
sun shall paint tho skies," he cried
with glad innocence, "then all men
praise mo as their friend and beno
foctor. O, what joy, unsen and un
known to do deeds of love! ITow
blessed aro wo to be tho invisible
messengers of tho good spirit! How
grand is ourilent calling!" Sospako
the joyful angel of sleep. In quiet
sadness tho death angel gazed at him
and a tear, such as angels weep,
stood.on his great dark eye. "Alas!"
said he, "that I can never, like you,
receive the tribute of grateful thanks.
Men count me their enemy, and tho
destroyer of their happiness."
" O, my brother," responded tho
angel of sleep, "when we waken in
tho resurrection, will not the good
recognize thee, their friend ar.d ben
efactor. Are we r.ot brethren? Have
wo not but one father ?'
So ho spake, and the eyes of tho
death angel gleamed with joy, and
tha two brethren abodo in affection
ate embrace.
As Economical Suggestion.
Thero i:i generally a good heal of
tho apochryphnl in anecdotes of pub
lic men, and especially thoso relat
ing to soldiers, but the following is
good enough to bo true, whether it
is truth or fiction.
"At Fair Oaks, whilo standing in.
a very tempest of death, with hi
sword uplifted incommand, Gener
al O. O. Howard had his right arm
carried away. That night, after
Howard had suffered amputation,
and was lying sient and racked with
pain in a box car which was to tako
him to Washington, Kearney drew
near, and looking into tho car, said:
"Howard, old boy, I am sorry for
you, sorry with all my heart; but
Howard, old boy, I have just thought
of something. When yon get to
Washington buy a pair of gloves.
send me the right and keep the left
yourself, and I will divide tho cost
with you, and hereafter we will get
along more economically." and turn
ing away, Kearney muttered: "That
is better for him than praying, and
then Howard can beat me praying1.
any way.
Bewake. Of all the evil) preva
lent among young men, wo know of
nono more blighting m its moral
effects then to speak slightingly of
the virtue of women. Nor is any
thing in which men are so thorough
ly mistaken as the low estimate ther
form of tho integrity of women not
of their own mothers and sisters,
but of others, who, they forget, are
somebody else's mothers and sisters.
As a rule, no person who surrenders
to this debasing habit is to be trust
ed with any enterprise requiring in
tegrity of character. Tlain words
should be spoken on the point, for
the evil is a general one. Let our
young men remember that their
chief happiness of life depends upon
their utter faith in women. No
worldly wisdom, no misanthropic
philosophy, no generalization can
cover or weaken this fundimental
truth. It stands like tho record of
God itself for it is nothing less
than this and should put an ever
lasting seal upon lips that aro wont
to speak slightingly of women.
Soulless. A stump orator out
West, wishing to describe his oppo
nent as a soulless man, did it in this
wise: "I have heard," saidUie, "some
persons hold to tho opinion that just
the precise instant after one human
being dies another is born, and that
the soul of the deceased enters and
animinates the new-born babe. Now
I have made particular and extensive
inquiries concerning my opponent
there, and I find that for some
hours previous to his nativity no one
died." s ..
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Never Befoee. A few days sinoa
a needy person applied to a wealthy
citizen for help"1 and received the
small sum of five cents. The giver
remarked as he handed over the pit
tance, "Take it you are welcome, our
ears are always opened to the calls
of tho distres'sed," ''That may be,"
replied the recipient, "but: never
beforo in my life have I seen so
small an opening for such large
ears."
Says the Mslwaukeo Sentinel:
"Thoy have had a game called kiss
ing croquet at Oshkosh. A girl 13
allowed to move her ball six inches
over'v timo she kisses a fellow. From
the market report we see that trade
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