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HON. JAMES H. SLATER,
IJKLI VKHKI AT
OREGOX CITY, AUGUST 3, 1875.
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Ladies and Gentlemen :
It 'has been my fortune to address
the citizens of this county at various
times, and I have always taken great
pleasure in doing so, for I have al
Avays found many friends to greet me
here. I have also found here, as
sturdy democracy as in any part of
the State men who are as ready to
meet the issues of the day, and do
battle for Democratic principles, as
in any other section of the Stute if
not always rewarded with the same
measure of success. I have always
fonnd the same earnestness, the same
truehearteduess, the same fidelity to
their principles.
We are now entering upon a cam
paign which in my mind is not less
important than any through which
we have passed. It is true, we have
but one candidate in tho field we
have but one officer to elect; but it
must be borne, in mind that the'coni-
mg campaign is but the precursor of
187G. one in which we have much to
do one in which we hope to accom
plish much. As the precursor of
that campaign, every one must ac
knowledge the importance of the
coming election for a Representative
to Congress.
For fifteen years the people of the
United States have been living under
the dominion of a party whose record
is a blotch ujjon every page of our
history during that period.
Its record is made up of acts for
which the future historian will. search
in vain for an apologj'. Acts which
as the future historian shall record
them, will blush for shame. As a
party it has been false to every trust,
has violated every obligation, it has
trampled States tinder foot, it has
attempted to destroy tho liberties of
the people. It will have been along
dark night of oppression and wrong.
Our presses have been suppressed,
the right of trial by jury has been
denied, executions have been ordered
without that safegurad of personal
liberty and life. The nation has
been burdened with the payment of
an enormous debt, fraudulent in part
of its accumulation. And now we
are again to meet in the space of a
few months and test the question
whether this party is to have a fur
ther lease of power in these United
States. And the question involved
in that contest must be discussed to
a large extent in tho present cam
paign. In this campaign, so far as
the State of Oregon is concerned,
will be marshalled the forces upon
either hand to test whether the State
shall bo given for the Republican
party on one side or for the Demo
cratic party on the other. For I
apprehend that as national parties
are now organized, there is no middle
ground that the contest must be
waged on the one hand by the Re
publican party, and on the other by
the Democratic party of tho United
States.
In this view the present campaign
must be looked upon and considered
of no ordinary importance to the
people of Oregon. Not only are
we to elect a President in 1876,
but we as a State are to elect a Sena
tor to fill the place now occupied by
Hon. James K. Kelh-. All these aro
to be looked npon this election and
it is important for every individual
who is interested in the welfare of
tho nation to look well to this matter,
to take a deep interest and concern
in it, to Fee that his neighbors are
concerned in it, so that when the
polls are closed the full vote of the
Democratic party of this Stato will
have been cast.
We have placed in tho field the
name of an honorable gentleman. It
is true, he is not a3 well known, per
haps, to the people of the State as
soma others may have been ; but I
can speak for him this much, that
he is an honorable man, a man of
untarnished reputation and a man of
sound Democratic principles. And
I believe in electing him we shall
secure able representation at Wash
ington. You will expect me here to-night
to glance at some of the measures
and principles dividing the great
parties of the United States to hear
something of the principles which
are put forth in our platform, and
here I will say that of all the plat
forms I have ever seen, I h'are ne'CT
met with one more tfibYditgh'ly 'Dem
ocratic in all its principles enunciated
than that ptit forth by ttTb Salein
CbrJv'elltioli ApplanVeJ. ' The only
OREGON CITY,
objection to it is that it so completely
covers the ground that there is little
left for tho speakers who may take
the stump.
I' shall not attempt to go through
with all the propositions in contro
versy, or which will be more or less
discussed in the campaign now ap
proaching, or which may follow the
succeeding year. '
It is well known that the most im-
! portant question
people of the country, that the most
important issues mat divide political
parties to-day, are the issues of money
and tariffs, currency and taxes. You
have not failed to notice within the
past fifteen years the rapid flow of
wealth to certain centers yf the Unit
ed States. You have not failed to
notice the rapid increase of million
aires in the United States. You have
not failed to notice within the last
fifteen years the rapid increase of
money monarchs men who count
their possessions not only by millions
but by tens of millions. Yon have
not failed to notice that in proportion
as this wealth has centered in the
hands of the few, relatively, it lias
dejjarted from the hands of the many.
There are causes for this, and those
causes may be found in the laws reg
ulating the financial affairs of the
Government.
Of course every Government must
be supplied with the means to carry
on its machinery. All Governments
must have means of subsistence.
These means are raised by taxation.
In the United States Ave raise them
chiefly by taxes called import duties
and internal revenue exactions. Our
revenue for tho year 1874 from all
sources amounted to 828'), 100,000, in
round numbers. Our expenses for
the same period amounted 287,300,
000, leaving an excess of revenue
over expenses of $2,100,000. We will
pass back from this point to 18G0 a
period of fifteen years. We find at
that time, under the administration
of James Buchanan, the expenses
were in round numbers 00,000.000.
But in the meantime an enormous
debt has accumulated, upon which
we are paying1 interest, lint deduct
ing the amount paid in interest and
for revenues, Ave find upon a simple
calculation our expenses for the same
government machinery as was carried
on in 18G0, costs ns in 1874 tho sum
of ;? 1 10,000,000, an increase of t-xo
hiualred ami fifty per ixiit. Now this
vast increase, this difference between
$00,000,000 and 8140,000,000, goes
into the pockets of a class of individ
uals who are in authority, that is to
say, there is now taken from the
earnings of the people in one year,
about 881,000,000, more than was
taken from the people in 1800. Now
the increase in population cannot be
over forty-four per cent., while the
increase of the expenses is two hun
dred and fifty per cent. Now the
party in power is responsible for this
increase. They must answer the why
and wherefore of this extravagance.
And von must remember too th-it the
administration of James Buchanan
was charged as an extravagant and
corrupt administration, and yet we
find that the administration of the
present party in power costs us 250
percent, more than it did in 18G0.
with an increase in population of 45
per cent, ay hereby to lessen that in
crease. From tariffs we receive 8100,000,
000 per annum. These tariils are
j exactions laid upon foreign goods
and merchandise; that is to say, a
party who wishes to come into the
United States with merchandise is
required before ho can place them
on Bale to pay a compensation or
price to the Government for the
privilege of doing so. The dutiable
goods, that is those npon which a
duty was paid in 18G4, amounted to
8415,000.000 while the whole imports
were 505,000.000. Now while we
collect SIGO.000,000 wherewith to run
the machinery of the GoA-ernment,
by the manner in which these exac
tions were collected, or rather iu
which they were levied, Ave pay three
or four times that amount to the
manufacturers of the United States.
If these exactions stopped Avith the
pavment of revenue- duties there
could be no reasonable complaint,
because the Government must have
funds wherewith to carry on its ma
chinery; but when these duties are
so levied that the manufacturer of
wool and cotton and iron and steel,
so on through the catalogue,, can put
into their pockets a greater amount
than the Government, the people
have a right to complain.
We find in our platform a resolu
tion that we are opposed to the pro
tection. Let me invite your attention
to some of the workings of this sys
tem of protective tariffs. Take for
instance the cotton manufacturers of
the United States. The importations
in 1SG4 amounted to 824.900,000 upon
which Ave paid 80,000,000 duty, or an
average of 3'3 per cent. Now the
824.000.000 of imported cotton man
ufactures was br.t a tithe of the goods
that were consumed in the United
States manufactured by the mills
in the New England States. These
manufacturers could put 30 percent,
npon their productions, so that Ave
paid this large margin, SV per cent.,
to the manufacturers there. While
we paid the sum of 80,000,000 upon
these foreign manufactures, we prob
ably paid fifty or seA-enty-five million
into the pockets of these manufac
turers in New England. The same j
may be said of tho manufacture of
iron, and"a hnndred other articles.
Thus you will see that it conld not
be otherwise than that these people
must rapidly accumulate wealthy in
crease their property; ' irioney, and
bonds, Talfe the items "of iron and
steel, things every KonsehShlniut
ns'o more or less of in the course of
a i-ear in 'rid form or another. -'How
do we find it? Wo" are paying' 31 per ' j
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OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13,
cent, on all this "class of imports.
Could wo ascertain the amount of
these goods ' manufactured and sold
in tiie United States, you would find
we put into the pockets of the iron
mongers not less than 8150,000,000
margin in 1874. Do you Avonder that
wo have hard times? Do you won
der that people complain of oppres
sion in these matters? Take the item
of sugar, an article of prime neces
sity. We imported . 892,000,000 in
1874, paying the modest sum of 34,
000.000 taxes upon it in the shape of
duties. How much Avcnt into the
sugar refiners' pockets? I can not
tell. It must amount to millions.
Nearly all tho grades yon use here
are refined out of foreign productions
before they are brovight into your
markets. Wo are now paying from
2 to 4J cents upon refined sugars,
and the sugar refiners are putting
that into their pockets. You see,
when avc. pay this 3100,000,000 into
the United States Treasury, we are
putting into the pockets 'of these
men still larger amounts. Here these
people are growing and have grown
immensely rich. But this is bnt a
single item. If you look into the
financial arrangements of. the United
States, you Avill find at every turn
advantage is taken of the poor man,
and the rich man has the percentage
in every item with which the Gov
ernment has anything to do in this
matter.
Suppose we look into the banking
system. Yon understand we have
two kinds of paper money. One is
the legal tender greenback; the other
is termed national currency. Here
is another class of men that have
grown rich, not, however, off of the
importation of iron, or off of the im
portation of cotton, or off of the im
portation of anything, but they have
grown rich doing nothing but In'
handling the people's money. Some
years ago Congress passed a law au
thorizing the organization of banks
called National Banks. They are re
quired to deposit a certain per cent,
of bomls, for instance a hundred
thousand dollars in bonds, and they
are allowed to draw out ninety thou
sand dollars of paper money called
national currency. These bonds were
drawing at the time of the passage of
the law ( per cent., though they now
draw but five per cent. The banker
takes this ninety thousand dollars
and loans it out all the way from ten
to twenty per cent. At the time
these banks were organized we had a
better currency we had the green
backs which these notes supplanted.
To-day there is r!82,00O,OOO of this
national currency in circulation and
there has been 8382,000,000 of green
backs supplanted by it. Upon this
8382,000,000 we were not paying a
single cent of interest; it was wholly
in the hands of the people as a cur
rency for them to use. But these
financial men in the cities of New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Boston thought that they could make
money by tho change, and see how
much they have made in the ten
years these banks have been in exist
ance! We have been paying G per
cent, upon the bonds they have de
posited iu lieu of the currency issued
to them, amounting to about 824,
000,000 per annum, taken out of our
hard earned money, for ten 3-ears.
Ten times that is two hundred and
forty -four million dollars, they have
accumulated out of the people's pock
ets. Bnt this is not all. They turn
ed legal tender notes into bonds,
getting their interest upon them. and
now they are loaning 8382,000,000 at
from ten to twenty per cent, per
annum in addition to the five per
cent they draw npon the bonds, so
that in this instance the people are
contributing for the benefit of the
bankers the interest on the bonds in
the treasury vault and on the 8382,
000.000 of national cnrrencA.
Now there is another item I will
call your attention to. Every per
son who has been reading the news
papers, particularly about election
times, lias wondered where the vast
corruption funds came from that was
wielded to influence the election in
favor of the ruling party. I will not
say to you that I shall be able to
point yon positively to tho place
where these funds come from, but I
can point to a place where I will say
that large sums might be realized
for a corruption fund. Ever since
18G5 there has been an average of
balance, one hundred and fifty to
one hundred and sixty millions per
annum, retained in the treasury, at
least the Secretary of the Treasury
reports one hun lrcd and fifty mil
lions and something over that
amount. Sometimes it is largely
coin, at other times it is largely cur
rency, bnt the average amount from
18G5 to the present time will not fall
far from S150,000,000 per annum.
Now large portions of this is in what
are termed pet bank?. You may look
in vain to find that any allowance
has been made for money on deposit.
You will look in vain to see Avhether
these banks pay anything for having
these sums in their possession. How
much would Ladd & Bush of Salem
or Ladd at Portland pay to any in
dividual if he would give him a de
posit in this form in sums ranging
from ten to twenty thousand dollars?
I ask 3'ou how much they would pay?
Figure the amount at two per cent,
per annunm. You have 150,000,000
and at two per cent von have the
modest sum of 83,000,000 per annum
and in every four vears the modest
sum of 812,000,000 as a corruption
fund to be applied hero and there
and everywhere. I don't say this is
the case; bnt when we see always
every official tainted with corrup
tion and our elections corrupted,
may we not fairly presume that from
these Rources-at least come -large
mims . for corrupting oar elections.
Put leus look at this,again. ..While
we have had this money there, our
'officers have pointed to it with pride
and said "Why look! your treasury
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
is overflowing; Ae are always ready
to meet the demands that come upon
it." And you are paying him five
per cent, upon bonds that might bo
withdrawn from the bond holders'
hands and yon Avould realize from it
the modest sum of seven and ons
half millions per annum. Why is it
not done? The question is eassy
asked. I leave it for you to ansAver
to yourselves.
Noav I said a little while back that
I proposed to show you Aveve paying
largely more taxes than you Aveie
last year. In 1S72, Congress passed
an net reducing taxs. It -took -the
tariff off tea and coffee. Among the
reductions was one providing that
only 00 per cent, of the then existing
tariff sj.onld be collected for certain
imported goods. But the Congress
of 1874 repealed this law and Ave are
now paying the full amount of the
tariff that we paid piior to this re
duction. In other words, where Ave
paid DG per cent on cotton goods
we now pay 4G; on iron and steel Ave
now pay 41 per cent; on leather where
we paid 22 per cent we now pay 32
per cent; on sugar where we paid
27J per cent we now pay 47 J; on
woolen goods where Ave aid 54
last year we are now paying G4J.
Last year our average assessment
upon imports was 38 per cent;
now we are paying 48. But where
fore tin's increase; why pile on this
sixteen to thirty millions of taxes
upon the people when .we have cash
iu the treasury as shown by the
Treasurer's report; I ask the "ques
tion, when we have money coming
into the treasury to meet the de
mands against it and have a surplus,
why pile up thirty millions upon the
backs of the people? The only an
swer that is or can be given is that
these men, these manufacturers may
fill their pockets still further out of
Lthe pockets of the people. The last
Congress passed a law for tho re
sumption of si)ecie payments a re
sult most devoutly to be prayed for
a condition which every American
citizen is anxious to arrive at. It is
true there are divisions sustained in
regard to the manner of doing it;
there are different methods proposed.
But now let us look at some of the re
sults of this tariff I have been ad
verting to. I-I very man understands
this proposition, that if a man is
spending move in each year than he
maues, bankruptcy is tne result.
The proposition is a fair one, that
if you spend more than your income
that bankruptcy is the end. What
is true of an individual is true of a
people. We have outstanding of
United States paper money the nice
little sum of seven hundred and sev
enty six million dollars. Specie
payment is proposed and is certainly
desirable. As we have said in ou!'
platform the precious metals are the
onlv actual basis of commercial ex
change. It is the only standard
of values whether we have paper
or something other than coin we
must go to coin as a basis of all cal
culation. But here it may bo said,
and truly said, that we can never re
sume specie payment so long as the
balauce of trade is against us. That
is to say we cannot resume specie
payments so long as avc are buying
more foreign goods than we are sell
ing of home productions to foreign
countries. In order to resume spe
cie payments we must have specie to
do it with, either in the treasury or
in- the hands of the people. Now
from 18G4 to 1875 there have been
but two or three years iu which the
balance of trade was in our favor.
Last year there was a large balance
in our favor. Our exports were
8704,000,000 and our imports Avere
S505,000,000; making an apparent
balance in our favor of 8100,000,000.
Right here 1 wish to explain; this
Avas the first year after Avhat avsis
termed the level reduction of tariff.
When the year was ended, when the
columns of figures were added iq)
and the results ascertained we find
an apparent balance in favor of the
United States of 8100,000,000. But
when we come to reduce it to a coin
basis as is neccssarr in order to ar
rive at a correct result wo find the
balance in coin to be 857.000.000,
so stated by the treasury. In 1871.
I think it was, there was a balance of
810,000,000 in our favor. All the
other years it run from ten to GO or
70 millions against us. Now I ma
ask another question: Why should
Congress with a plethoric treasury, a
balance of receipts over expenditures
make this increased taxation when
we have fonnd by an experiment of a
single year that the balance of trade
had turned in our favor? It is true,
I presume that intrinsic cause con
tributed to this result the crash
which came a year or so ago, the
suppression of business, the panic
through which we have just passed,
all contributed to increase this bal
ance. Bnt if we will examine the
history of the government and of
tariffs we Avil I find that like results
have followed from previous experi
ment. It seems to me that very few peo
ple comprehend the subject of the
enrrency. It seems to me that very
few people comprehend the situa
tion. We have long, labored articles
explaining and advocating contrac
tion as the means by which we are to
reach specie pavment. We have
equally labored articles to prove that
we must go through inflation to
reach it. The usual method has
been by contraction; yet we believe
that in our condition we may reach
it without material contraction.
What we want in the United States
is redemption. We want the gov
ernment to fulfill its promises to pay
the dollar it promised to pay in
years gone by. How is it to be done?
When is the government to pay
these millions of dollars it has prom
ised to pay ? If it. can't do it all in
one year, it may be able to do it in a
series of; years. But I apprehend
that as soon as the government starts
1875.
upon the process of redemption you
will find that its paper dollars Avill
become of the same valne of a coin
dollar. When your paper has become
convertable Avith coin you will have
already passed through the throes of
resumption. It is not necessary that
this money should be in the treasury
of the United States in order' that
specie payments shall be resumed,
but it must be in the hands of the
people, now much coin then is in
the hands of all the people in the
United States? I am not able to tell
exactly but ii. is about 83,000,000
per annum and have been .exporting
fully that amount, so 'that the pro
ducts of our mines have been suffi
cient to make up the balance of trade
against us. This is Avhy, I say be
lore we can resume specie payments
Ave must turn the balance of trade in
our favor. But when the govern
ment of the United Statcs is ready
to reduce a suitable portion of its
currency, then the day of distress
will be past; when able to pay any
considerable portion of their prom
sies, dollar for dollar, the people
would just as soon have a dollar in
paper as in coin. When that is ac
complished all this speculation, all
this fluctuation of paper money in
tho States East will have j-ta'ssed
away to be heard of no more. I will
not dwell upon these things longer.
Perhaps I have already detained you
too long. It is Avith the utmost 'dif
ficulty any speaker can mke them
interesting. There are too many fig
ures and hence an audience will be
come listless in listening to them.
This resumption i3 an important
question which will attract your at
tention in the months of the coining
campaign. They are the important
questions Avhicli Avill attract the at
tention of ti e people until the close
of 187G. Upon this point parties
have divided; these are questious
which must agitate the people of the
United Ststes at this time. It is
true there are ether questious very
important questions besides this.
You cannot fail to look upon the
course that has been taken by the
party in power in trespassing upon
the rights of States and individuals
in their attempt Avhieh they mad 2 in
the last Congress to pass an uncon
stitutional force bill. And here let
me s;iy, that while, we flatter our
selves that Ave are a free people let
me sa- to vou that it is lnr no means
certain that if you elect a democratic
president you will be able to .seat
him. I know the machinery, and I
think I understand it. Look for a
moment at the condition of the rules
in relation to the counting of the
electoral votes. Either the House
or Senate may refuse to count the
vote 01 any State and if either House
does so refuse, that State cannot be
counted. It was admitted by Sena
tors in the 42.1 Congress alter the
vote was counted for Grant's second
term that the rule was such that we
were liable to be thrown inla civil
revolution. Take the acts we have
seen perpetrated and ponder the les
son they teach. Tako theactsattempt
ed to beput through the last Congress
and answer as an American citizen
Avhether your liberties are safe
whether although you have a dem
ocratic House, the Senate which is
to-day largely republican may not
have it in its power to revolutionize
your government in 1877 Avhen the
time will come to count the Presi
dential vote. Now if the A-ote is
close, if it should depend upon a few
of the Southern States in which they
ranv pretend there has been intimi
dation of voters for the purpose pre
venting the inauguration of a demo
cratic President, what are your chan
ces worth? What is the situation of
cur country and government to-day?
when such men as Senator Mor
ton stand up and attempt to carry in
tiie Senate of the United States, the
force bill; when we see both Houses
pass sjich a bill as that passed in
1871 called the Ku Klux act, I repeat,
what have you to expect at the hands
of a party so little bound by prece
dent, so little bound by tho rules and
precepts of the constitution of the
United States? These things ought
to impress plain and honest men of
every party. They affect not merely
Democrats. I know Republican's
have been looking wishfully for a
lime when these things should
change. I know there are many Re
publicans Avho do not believe such
things should exist. I ask them to
ponder well whether the time has not
come when they should sever their
relation Avith a party which has
shown itself so subservient to its
masters and so reckless of conse
quences. Now let me say a word to Demo
crats. It is said that "eternal vigi
lance is the price of liberty" and as
I look back for fifteen years in the
State look along the road we have
traveled when in 18C2 we were so
badly defeated and driven into a one
third minority when our news pa
pers Avere suppressed; when men
pointed at us as rebels and traitors,
follow that track along down and say
Avhether you should iioav relax your
effort in securing victory on the "25th
day of Octob.r next, Avhether the
candidate suits your notions or not.
I appeal to you os Democrats to be
at the polls and see that your neigh
bors are there also.
A Western editor appeals to his
delinquent subscribers by saying:
"This Aveek wo have taken in pickles
and potatoes on subscription. Noav
if yon Avili bring in sotic vinegar for
the pickles and some wood to roast
the potatoes, -we can live till arti
chokes gets big enough to dig."
Copy was out. The devil . picked
up a paper and said: "Here's some
thing Abont a woman' must I cut
it out?". VNo!." thundered the edit
or; " the first disturbance e.ver; creat
ed in the world was occasioned by
the devil fooling about a womaD."
NO. 42.
Ringing for the "Water Boy.
A good story is told of a verdant
one Avho Avas passenger in a railroad
express train, and became thirsty. -
"Where's that ere boy with the wa
ter can ?' he queried cf his next
neighbor.
"He has gone forward to the bag
gage car, I suppose," was the reply.
"Wall d'ye s'pose I kin git him
back here agin."
"Certainly," said the other, "you
have only to ring for him;, and be
nodded tOAVard the bell line that ran
above their heads. .
No sooner said than done. Before
any one could prevent it, Rusticus
had siezed the line and given it a tre
mendous tug. The consequences
Avere at once obvious; three shrill
whistles Avere heard, half a dozen
brake men ran to their posts, and . .e
train came to a stand still wit a
suddenness that startled half the pas
sengers with astonishment, and ca is
od every man next a Avindow to hoist
it and look out to see what was tho
matter.
Iu a feAV minutes the condu r
red and excited, came foaming into
the car to know Avho pulled that bell
rope.
"Here mister, this way; I'm the
man." shouted the offender, drawing
all eA-es on him.
"You !" said the conductor, "and
Avhat did yon do it for?"
"Cos I Avanted some water.,'
"Wan'ed some wntr-r?',
"Sartin? I wanted the water boy,
and my partner here in the seat said.
I'd better ring for him as Ae do at
the hotel, and so I yanked the rope.
Will he be along soon? An' by the
bA'. Avhat bo you stoppin'for?
'The shout'of laughter that greeted
tin's honest confession was too mucji
for the conductor, and he had to wait
till he had got his train under way
again before he explained the mys
teries cf the bell rope to his A-erdant
customer.
A Paib of Satxts. We have all
been slandering Delano, exclaims the
Philadelphia Times. He is no such
person. So Smith says, and Smith
knows. For Smith is Delano's man;
they ran the Indian Bureau together,
and is it likely that Delano has made
anything out of it without the know
ledge of Smith? Obviqusly not; and
when therefore. Smith assures us
that Delano is just as honest as the
day is long, Ave may rest satisfied.
But suppose that Smith himself is not
altogether on the square? That cannot
be, because Delano who knows all
about Smith, gives him the Aery best
character. Ah ! such a pair of saints
Ave not often meet Avith in this wick
ed world.
During tho revival services at Yal
lejo. California, a gentleman observ
ed that one of Mr. Hammond's hand
somest and most energtic lady assis
tants was being vigorously hugged
by a young man while the singing
Avas going on. When the inqniry
meeting had commenced, the young
lady approached the gentleman who
had been Avatehing her, and asked in
a meek, plaintive voice,, "Do you
love Jesus? "I fear I don't love Je
sus half as much as you do tho
boys," responded the gentleman.
The fair damsel was not disconcerted
a bit. and she curled up Jier pretty
month and said: "Dont you wish
vou Avere 0110 of the bovs."
She tried to sit down in a street
car, but Avas pinned back so tight
she couldn't. Old lady peeped over
her specs and asked her "Hoav long
haA-e vou been afflicted that wav?"
Tiie young lady blushed and made
"a break," sitting down sideways and
holding her knees together so tight
that she looked as if she had on a
one-legged pair of breeches. Old.
lady noticed her sitting in this side
Avays. cramped position, and whis
pered, "Bile I s'pose; I have bad
'em thar niAself."
Says a Milwaukee paper: "Noav
Avhen the soft afternoons come, adol
escent couples wander to some shady
nook, and, seated on a grassy knoll,
gaze with speechless rapture upon
the greenness in each others eyes,
and sit, and gaze, nnd sigh, until tho
evening shadows fall: when slowly
home returning, she tells her parents
with voice subdued and reA-erent bear
ing, that she has been out to the qui
et abodes of the dead, reading in
scriptions on the tombstones."
Cure Fou Earache. There i3
scarcely any ache to which, children
are subject, so bad to bear and diffi
cult to cure as earache But here is a
remedy never known to fail. Take a
bit of cotton batting, put upon it a
pinch of black pepper, gather it up
and tie, dip it in sweet oil, and insert
into the ear. Put a flannel bandago
over tho head to keep it Avarm. It
aav 11 give immediate relief.
A noA-el flower basket adorns an
office in Poughkeepsie, in the shapo
of an Indian's skull, said to be all
that remains of the once powerful
"Big Fire," of MatieaAvan. A hole
dug in the center of ftie skull on top
makes a kind of floAver pot, and
out of it grows vines and flowers,
and a vine runs from the almost
toothless jaAV.
. .
Jnst think of it! It costs one mil
lion tAvo hundred and fifty thousand
five hundred and eighty-nine dollars
and ten cents to keep the women of
this countrv in imported corsets for
one year. What a waste! Exchange.
Stay! It is not a waste, it is one of
their means of support. .
A young inan mTmed Dudley Gill
more, aged about eighteen son of
the hotel proprietor otnncio n C Jty.
w-s drowned in the. Wdlametje xiv?
er, at the biidge near Harrisburg, Q
Saturday.
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