The Noble County Republican. (Caldwell, Ohio), 1885-07-16

              THE REPUBLICAN. PUBLISHED VX BANK BDILDINO, A GUDWELL, I0BLE COUOT, OHO. TERMS i fl.5 Per Yer in Adrsno. ADVERTISING RATES: nn irn One column ene year. ............... ....nxa1 One-half column one rear .ON One-fourth column one year. It 01 One-eighth eolumn one real KM Road Notioee. $3.00; Attachment N attest, $3.50; Legal Advertising at the rate protoribef by law. Local Advertising, tan cent! per line In every publication. Obituary Resolutions from Ordera and Boot tie, when they exceed six lines, five oenti pet Hne for eaoh additional line of eight word nener to accompany the resolutions. AddrffH Q ltUr U W. H. COOIJBT, VOL. XXVI. CALDWELL, 0M THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1885. NO. 51. BWKLL, HOMJi Co., Ohi. NOBLE CO NTY REP CAN, VERY TRUE, SO MAY YOU. i Young; man, you say you want a wife To bless your home and cheer your life, A woman true in every way. Who does her duty every day; W hose love is strong and (rood and pure, A love that wins anil holds secure; A wife that will not scold und tret And make you wish you ne'er had met; Whose presence is a shining light; Whose counsel guides and keeps vou right; Who tries to please in little tilings. And to your home rare comfort brings; A woman who knows how to mind Her own business, that's the kind; Who loves her home and stays right there And does not run 'round everywhere To gossip and to idly chat And tell the neighbors this or thnt; Who, when you re troubled, cheers you up. And sweetens every bitter cup; Who, when you're sick, will nurse you through, As only loving hands can do. Young man, take my advice in this. If you're in search of perfect bliss. In weighing girls, see that you place Good sense 'gainst beauty, wealth or grace. My friend, you think that you are wise, But some shrnwd girl may shut your eyes; You think you know just what you need, But your impressions may mislead. For other men have thought so, too. But they got fooled, and so may you. Camden Post. FARMING IN MAINE. Observations tf William Nye, the Veracious Chronicler. Sleigh-Riding and Corn-Hoeing A Great Stone Crop The Wormless Railroad Pie -Gathering the Cran- r berry Crop. The State of Maine is a good place In which to experiment with prohibition, but it is not a good place to farm it in very largely. In the first place, the season is generally a little reluctant. When I was np near Moosehead Lake a short time ago people were driving across that body of water on the ice with perfect impunity. That is one thing that interferes with the farming business in Maine. If a young man is sleigh riding every night till midnight he the best fire and burglar-proof wormless pies of commerce. They take the place of civil war, and as a promoter of iir. tine strife they have no equal. The farms in Maine are fenced in with stone walls. I do not know why this is done, for I did not see anything on these farms that any one would naturally yearn to carry away with him. 1 saw some sheep in one ot these in closures. Their steel-pointed bills were lying on the wall near them, and they were resting their jaws in the crisp frosty morning air. In another in-closure a farmer was planting clover seed with a hypodermic syringe, and covering it with a mustard plaster, tie said that last year his clover was a complete failure because his mustard plasters were no good. He had tried to save money by using second-hand mustard plasters, and of., course the clover seed, missing the warm stimulus, neglected to raily, and the crop was a failure. Here may be noticed the canvas-back moose and a strong antipathy to good rum. 1 do not wonder that the people of Maine are hostile to rum if they judge all rum by Maine rum. The moose is one of the most gamey of the finny tribe. He is caught in the fall of the year with a double-barrel shot-gun and a pair of snow-shoes. He does not bite unless irritated, but little boys should not go near the female moose while she is on her ne.tt. The mascu line moose wears a hure lip and a hat rack on his head, to which is attached a placard, on which is printed: rPr.EASi! Keep Oft the Gram. SLEIGHING TILL MIDNIGHT. don't feel like hoeing corn the follow ing day. Any man who has ever had his feet frost-bitten while bugging potatoes will agree with me that it takes away the charm of pastoral pur suits. It is this desire to amalgamate aog days and Santa ciaus that has injured Maine as an agricultural hotbed. Another reason that might be as signed lor retraining from agricultural pursuits in Maine is that the agitator of the soil find; when it is too late that soil itself, which is essential to the suc cessful propagation of crops, has not been in use in Maine for years. While all over the State there is a magnificent stone foundation on which a farm might safely rest, the superstructure, or farm proper, has not been secured. If I had known when I passed through Minnesota and Illinois what a soil famine there was in Maine, I would have brought some with me. The stone crop this year in Maine will be very great. If they do not crack open during the dry weather there will be a great many. The stone bruise is also looking unusually well foT this season of the year, and chilblains were in full bloom when I was there. This shows morist that the moose is a -hu- GATHERING THE CRANBERRY WITH A STOMACH PUMP. CROP Near Pea Cove I saw a strange sight. A farmer was rowing around over his cranberry orchard in a skirt. 1 stood np on the stone wall and watched him for some time, because I am greatly interested in farming, and dearly love to watch any one else who may be engaged in manual labor. It was a long time before I could make out what he was doing. At last, however, I figured it out, and I was very much surprised, indeed, for I had never seen horticulture carried to that extent, and, as Mr. Say-ward would remark, "I thought he was carrying that thing too far." Many will doubt my word, and I would not have believed it myself if anyone else had told me, but the man was actually picking cranberries out of his submerged orchard with a stomach pump. I have one of the cranberries at home now. Bill Nye, in Boston Sunday Globe. GORGEOUS GOLDEN TROUT. TAKES AWAY ALL DESIKE TO HOE CORN THE NEXT DAT. In the neighborhood of Pittsfield the country seems to run largely to cold water and chattel mortgages. Some think that rum has always kept Maine back, but I claim that it has been wet feet. The agricultural resources of Pitts-field and vicinity are not great, the prin cipal exports being spruce gum and Christmas trees. Here also the huckle berry hath her home. But the country seems to run largely to Uhristmas trees. They were not yet in bloom when I visited the State, so it was too early to gather popcorn balls and Christmas presents. A Mysterious Denizen of a Kansas Creek That Glitters In Dazzling Beauty. "There is a trout jn Whitney Creek, a tributary of Kern River, in Kansas," said a veteran New York angler, "the like of which does not exist in any other water of the globe. It has an abode of its own in the upper waters of the creek, and it is not invaded by any of the other breeds of trout, which swarm in the waters below, simply because it can not be got at by them. The reason of this is very simple. About six miles from the head of the creek then is a perpendicular waterfall, 150 feet high. The rock down which the water tumbles is solid and smooth on its face from base to summit. There are no protruding ledges or hollows at short intervals on the rock, by means of which other trout, with leap after leap, from ledge to ledge and hollow to hollow, can scale this watery precipice, as they do in the case of thousands ot high waterfalls elsewhere, and no trout or salmon that ever climbed from mouth to head of the steepest mountain streams can go up this sheer rail ot a hundred and fifty feet. Consequently the trout above the falls haye never been disturbed by interlopers of a different variety, and they live by themselves in the pure, cold. water, the most splendid family of fresh water fish. "They are a fish literally bespangled with burnished gold and dashed with spots of the brightest crimsou. The first time I ever saw one of these trout I actually thought it had been ornamented by the person who had it with flakes of gold leaf, and that its red spots had been Heightened in color with the brush. But this is their natural appearance, and when they are taken from the water and the sunlight strikes them they glitter as if they were clad in brilliant armor. They are called the golden trout. Their habits are the same as the ordinary brook trout, and they take a flv just the same and fight as gamely. Their flesh is no better. . It is their beauty alone that places them at the head of this great tish family, noted for its beauty N. Y. Sun. HIDDEN INCA TREASURES. The Efforts That Have Been Made During the Last Three Centuries to Locate Them. The Spaniards under i'izarro landed first on the Island of Puna, at the mouth of the harbor of Guayaquil, and afterward upon the main coast at Tumbez in Peru, a few miles southward. Here they found that the Incas, for the first time in the history of that remarkable race, were at war. Hnayna-Capac, the greatest of the Incas, made Quito his capital, and there lived in a splendor unsurpassed in ancient or modern times. At his death he divided ins Kingdom into two parts, giving to Atahusillpa the northern half, and to Huscar what is now Bolivia and the southern part of Peru. The two brothers went to war and while thev were engaged in it Pi zarro came. Everybody who has read Prescott's fascinating volumes knows what followed. With the aid of 'the Spaniards, Atahuallpa conquered his brother and then the Spaniards conquered him. When he lay a prisoner in the hands of the guests he offered to till his prison with gold if thev would release him. They agreed, and his willing subjects brought the treasure, but the greedy Spaniards, always treacherous, demanded more, and Ata huallpa sent for it. Runners were hurried all over the country, and the sim pie, unselfish people surrendered all their wealth to save their King. But Pizarro became tired of waiting for the treasure to come, and the men in charge. of it, being met by the news that Atahuallpa had been strangled, buried the gold and silver m the mountains ol Llauganati, where the Spaniards have been searching for it ever since. No amount of persuasion, temptation or torture could wring from the Indians the secrets of the buried gold. Two men of modern times are supposed to have known its hiding place. One of them, an Indian, became mysteriously rich, and built the church of San Fran cisco in Quito. On his death bed he said to have revealed to the priest who confessed him that his wealth came from the hidden Inca treasure, but ho died without imparting the" knowledge of its location. Another man, Valverde by name, a Spaniard, married an Inca woman, and is supposed to have learned the secret from her, for he sprang from abject poverty to the summit of wealth almost in a single night, "without visi ble means of support." Yalverde when he d'ed left as a legacy to the King of Spain a guide to the buried treasure, Hundreds of fortunes have been wasted and hundreds of lives have been lost in a vain attempt to follow Valverde's di rections. Ihey are perfectly plain to certain point, where the trail ends, and can not be followed farther because of deep ravine, which the credulous assert has been opened since Valverde died by an earthquake. These searches have been prosecuted by the Government as well as by private individuals, and all the money that has been spent hunt ing for Atahuallpa's ransom had been invested in roads and other internal im provements the country would be much richer and the people much more pros perous than they are. The devotion of the Indians to the memory of their King who was strangled 350 years ago is very touching. When "the last of the Incas" fell he left h people in perpetual mourning, and the women wear nothing but black to-day, It is a pathetic custom for the race not to show upon their costumes the slightest hint of color. Over short black skirt they wear a sort mantle, which resembles in its appearance as well as in its use the "manta" that is worn by the ladies of Peru, and the '-mantilla" of Spain. It is .drawn over their foreheads and across the chin and pinned between the shoulders. This sombre costume gives them a nun4 like appearance, which is heightened by the stealthy, silent way in which they dart through the streets. The cloth is woven on their own native looms of the wool of the llama and the vicuffas, and is a soft, fine texture. While the Indians have accepted the Catholic religion, 350 years of submission has not entirely divorced them from the ancient rites they practiced under their original civilization. Several times a year they have feasts or celebrations to commemorate some event in the Inca history, and like the Aztecs in Mexico, they still cling to a hope that future ages may restore the dynasty under which their fathers lived and destroy the hated Spaniards. Quito Cor. Boston Herald. ol THE WAT TO BREAK THE WORMLESS RAILROAD PIE OP COMMERCE. ; Here, near Pittsfield, is the birthplace of the only original wormless dried-apple pie with which we generally in- isult our gastric economy when we lunch along the railroad. These pies, whan properly min-ariea ana riveted, witn germ an silver monogram on top, if fitted out with Yalo time lock, make Tempting to Steal. The practice of placing goods ontside shops, thus tempting starving people to steal, is so utterly indefensible that its continuance can only be accounted for on the theory of its greatly stimulating business. On that head a boot and shoe dealer at Birmingham gives evidence which appears almost incredible. Having been reprimanded by the bench for putting a considerable portion of his stock in trade outside his shop, he de clared that he could not help himself. He had tried the other plan for seven months, and his books showed that it made on the average a difference of 150 pairs weekly in his sales. According to his story, theretore, ne must have sold 4,500 fewer pairs during the period when virtue triumphed over greediness. That was, he evidently thought, far too high a price to pay for doing right, and he therefore relapsed into selfishness. with the result of his having to prosecute a father and son for stealing a pair of boots from outside his shop. The elder recerVed two months1 imprisonment, the younger fourteen days' im prisonment and five years' incarceration m a reformatory. Clearly, therefore. however profitable the practice may be to traders, it is very expensive to the general community who have to main tain the offenders in prison. On that ground alone, and putting humanity out of the question, the State has an excellent right to interfere. Moreover, if the practice were prohibited throughout the kingdom all traders would be placed on the sitme footing, and, as the public are bound to supply the'r own requirements, there could not be any loss of trade in the aggregate. London Qlobe. NOSE NOTIONS. What the Nasal Organ Is Said to Sym bolize. The fool may only see in his nose a convenient thing to smell with, but the philosopher reads there the sure indica tions of sagacity, keen-scented, of udgment and force of character, with many other things not to be dispensed with in the neutral furnishings of either civilized or savage. An inch on the end of a man's nose is a good deal, both as regards the dignity of expression in that appendage and the qualities of mind which it signifies. Roman, aquiline, Grecian, or pug, we are all obliged to wear it, and so it may be well for us to inquire what this frontispiece of the face symbolizes in general and in particular. Alexander the Great was a Greek, but at the upper part ot his nose we see the "prominent sign of aggression, which marked the Koman nose and character. It was this ex tremely large faculty which led Alexander to depart from the established policy of Greece, and to carry on ag gressive wars or toreign conquest, and to plant colonies and kingdoms in other countries. The lower end of his nose indicated the same artistic and literary taste which marked the Greeks as a nation. In the Apollo, in Venus, Mercury, and other idealiza tions of Greek art and thought, we see that delicate and perfect chiseling of the nostrils which indicates refine ment and symmetry of intellect. The common Roman nose was less finished at the end; its possessor loved knowledge for the sake of power and conquest, rather than for its own sake. Aggressions and self-defense were the leading .signs which gave character to the Koman nose. JLhey are large in the face of Julius Caesar, who carried the genius of Roman conquest up to its meridian splendor. Civilization has always had to .push its way against a mass of obstacles. 1 he Koman nose is a moral battering-ram to beat down these walls of savagery and ignorance. No person with a very short nose ever made a profound impression in the world. The hard Roman nose. pushing its way despite all personal suffering, has played a conspicuous part in the moral as well as the political ad vancement ot the world, it dominated the old Roman race as well as the mod ern aggressive Britton. It carried Washington on to triumph, stood in the forefront of Linooln's unyielding strength, as it had sustained the shocks of Waterloo in the face of the Iron Duke. Against him was pitted theRoman-nosed Napoleon, but in the septum of Wellington's nose the sign of synthesis, of intellectual combination and perseverance, was very large, and this caused him to hold out on that day, even when the apparent tide of war had turned against him, until Blucher came, and all was saved. The face of John Wesley, a cousin of Wellington, shows the same aggressive character. In all the great founders ot religions, or of sects, we see the same aggressive nose. It stands boldly forth in the face of Zoroaster, in Mohammed, in Calvin, in the otherwise gentle face of the Naz-arene, and in the hosts of other leaders who have done fierce battle for opinion. Nature never puts a great cause upon a saddle-backed nose, and expects it will rise into power. It was not Victor Emmanuel, but rather the high-nosed Garibaldi, who achieved the independence of Italy. A low-bridged nose will do for the helplessness of childhood, or the servility of the African, but such a bridge will never carry a great work safely over. The aquiline nose of the Jews has large signs of aggression, defense, and protection, while the breadth of their noses indicates their money- making propensities. This form of the nose was common among the old Assyrians, as shown by their sculptures. The protection of the tip of the nose indicates observation, the questioning faculty, and belongs to the inquisitive mind of the child. He has everything to learn, and how can he learn except as he asks questions? This faculty takes the lead in our intellectual processes. as its advance-guard position in the face plainly shows. If we inquire and observe, some discovery will follow. Boston limes. SCHOOL GIRLS. rhe Effects of Over Pressure Sound Ad vice to Mothers and Fathers. A young girl of sixteen, of a healthy heritage, was brought into the consult- THE LIME KILN CLUB. THE SUN. A Scientist Who Believes That Its Colo. Is Blue. It may be asked, What suggested the idea that the sun may be blue rather than any other color? My own atten tion was first directed this way many years ago, when measuring the heat and light from different parts of the sun's disk. It is known that the sun has an atmosphere of its own, which tempers its heat, and by cutting of) certain radiations, and not others, pro duces the spectral lines we are alJ familiar with. These lines we custom arily study in connection with the absorbing vapors of sodium, iron, and so forth, which produce them; but my own attention was particularly given to the regions of absorption, or to the color il caused, and I found that the sun's body jmust be deeply bluish, and that it would shed blue light, except tor this apparently colorless solar atmosphere, whict really plays the part of a reddish veil, letting a little of the blue appear on the center of the sun s disk where it is thin nest, and staining the edge red, so that to delicate tests the center of the sun is a pale aquamarine, and its edge a gar net. Ihe etlect I lound to be so im portant that, if this all but invisible solar atmosphere were diminished by but a third part, the temperature of the British Islands would rise above that of the torrid zone; and this directed my attention to the great practical impor tance of studying the action of our own terrestrial atmosphere on the sun, and the antecedent probability that our own air was also and independently making the really blue sun into an apparently white one. froj. Langicy, in science, Victor Hugo's Belief. In a speech on public instruction, 1850, Victor Hugo said: "God will be found at the end of all. Let us not for get Him, and let us teach Him to all There would otherwise be no dignity in living, and it would be better to die en tirely. What soothes suffering, what sanctifies labor, what makes man good strong, wise, patient, benevolent, iust, and at the same time humble and great. worthy of liberty, is to have before him the perpetual vision ot a better world throwing its rays through the darkness of this life. As regards myself, I be lieve profoundly in this better world and I declare it in this place to be the supreme certainty ot my soul. 1 wish, then, sincerely, or, to speak more strongly, I wish ardently for religious instruction. Catherine Pussey was struck by stone from a quarry blast at Elvington and instantly killed. That shows the error of the popular belief that a pussy cat has nine lives. Jsinahamton tie, publican. TALMUDIC WISDOM. Proverbs That Resemble Some In the List of English Wise Sayings- Many of the popular and proverbial locutions preserved in the Talmud are among the best and most expressive of their kind. "Vinegar, the son of wine, for instance, describes the unpopular son of a popular father; "A box full of books," a learned man from whose learning the world had derived no advantage; "Grapes with grape sauce." a discourse where the matter was neither much nor to the point; "He has words in his backbone, applied to a talkative bore; "He scalds himself with lukewarm water, to The man who made amuddle of the simplest matter intrusted to his management; and "he will make the ocean sweet, to one whose pretensions were as extravagant as ill-founded. "He loses what he has and what he has not," was said of an unfortunate man; "he puts his money on the horns of a deer," of an imprudent one; and "his cheeks grow grass, ot a cunning and impu dent tellow. .Exaggeration, tor which the Medians seem to have been noto rious, was referred to as "making cam els dance in a half-pint pot, and plaus ible dexterity of argument as "drawing a column through the eye of a needle. A tew miscellaneous maxims will, perhaps, fittingly conclude the present article. "Wisdom needs no herald, ' reminds us that a good proverb should speak for itself; and the following selec tion, while tulliiling the necessary con dition, will probably contain something to suit all palates: "The pig grows fat where the lamb starves; "Spare the salt, and give your meat to the dogs;" "He who owns the balcony supports it most; "It you lollow my calling you must wear my clothes;" "When clouds are heavy, blessing comes;" "The sot looks at the cup, the host at the money bag; "it you hire yourself out, you must heckle the wool;" "When the house falls the windows are broken;" "Don't kick the drunkard, he'll fall himself;" "When the cat joins the weasel, there's mischief a-brewing;" "Out of love for the hole the man turned thief;" "The pot kills more than famine;" "He who has been buried does not think much of dying;" "Even a barber finds apprentices;" "When the mistress sleeps, the bread-basket is empty;" "At home mv name, abroad my clothes;" "To the wasp say neither your sting nor your honey;" "Even the bald-head is master in his own house;" "Chew well with the teeth, you'll find it again in the legs;" "A handful won't satisfy the lion;" "The law knows no mercy;" "Think of your teeth, you 11 forget your legs; "No need to change scale-pans when the weights are equal;" "They wonder at the cedar when it is fallen;" "When the idols are shattered the priests tremble;" "The lie is for the liar only;" "Truth is God's own seal." London Spectator. ing room ot one ot our isoston physicians for a slight lateral curvature of the spine. She never had been sick; she did not suiter from headaches or any of the functional disturbances sometimes seen in growing children. Her growth had been rapid, and she was pale, thin, and lacked the vigor of health. An inquiry brought out the fact that at her school she spent five hours a dav, besides five hours' study out of school hour s, stimulated to extra courses by ambition and the prospect of promotion. A growth of three inches in a year, combined with ten hours' daily nervous strain, are component which will, as certainly as the formula of 2 plus 2 equals 4, produce an impairment of health, a diminution of force which, com'mg .in the growing years, is so much taken from the eventual sum total of vital energy. The tudies which were. - the mo-it of a burden to this young girl were Greek and Algebra, and although the parents, if forced to choose, would agree that their daughters should forego the pride of possessing a knowledge of Greek, if that must be coupled with a certain amount of physical misery, yet nothing short of a dire necessity could justify the girl in falling behind her class or the standard imposed byemulation. Such experiences lead us to believe that tlif) root of the trouble is not so much i,i the school system as in the eommir.iity itself, which, after all, creates the school system.. With a certain amount of elasticity of requirements and an improved supervision of scholars, much of the evil of advanced courses and increasing stimulation could bo avoided, provided the home influence were in the right direction. The ill effects are seen chiefly among the girls; for it is tacitly admitted that, books or no books, "boys will be boys," and the boy is largely an animal; but the American mother of the day not only wishes to stamp out what there may be of the animal in her daughter, to give her conventional manners, but, in the view of the lottery of American life, to teach her to support herself and also to shine socially as a possible mistress of the White House; and all this preparation is to be done during the pre-matrimonial years.Out-of-door sports are discouraged, and musi cal or intellectual pre eminence considered desirable. Furthermore, among the girls themselves in a certain number the desire for dist'netion, the iunate femininity, repressed by circumstances from finding vent in coquetry, prompts to attracting attention and admiration for proficiency as amateur musicians, for rank at school, for winning prize's in female colleges, for success in professions. Such a system of education may produce, in some instances, good results, and give us future George Eliots, Maria Mitchells, Mary Somer- villes,, Putnam-Jacobis, etc., yet the records of the nervous wards and the lists of the nervous prostrationists show that the success of a few individuals has been bought for the public at the price of many shattered lives of unsuc cessful imitators. What in our community is especially needed in regard lo women is the bettei physical education of girls. A mother should be as much ashamed to bring up' a flat-chested, round-shouldered daughter, to be a candidate for the Adams oi other Nervine institutions, as if she brought her up unable to read or write. The introduction of any out-door game suitable for girls, and enjoyed by them, as base ball is by boys, would be an in calculable blessing, before which the jovs of Greek and the aspirations foi professional careers would be dust and ashes to the coming generation oi mothers and the prospective generation of children. A certa:n, and by no means small, proportion of our young women seems to be going through the same craze about mental forcing and professional careers which afflicted our young men of previous generations, and which with them was responsible lor much ill health. Fortunately, a revival of athletics and sports, the war, and the development of more varied industrial pursuits created a revolution in this. It is already a long time since the dyspeptic, narrow-chested, pale-face, weak-eyed male became an object of interest by becoming a bookworm. A knowledge ot week no longer condones a want of vigor and vivacity in the male, and we do not be lieve it is any more likely to in the female. Those who run any risk of health by pursuing advanced studies had best not trifle with the experiment. The prophets of hygienic righteous ness, as physicians have been termed, should throw the weight ot their in fluence in favor of everything that improves the physical development of women. When they find the rate ol growth is excessive or accompanied by an impnrieci development in weijjnt, when the chest capacity is small and the blood poor, they should prescribe more out of doors and a postponement of literary arab'.tions more sunshine and fewer books. A good practical guide as to the physical condition in the rough is the relative increase of growth compared with the increase in weight. Isoston Medical una Surgical Journal. THE CASE OF MEADE. Its President Has No Use ror a Man Who Is Troubled With an Excess of Responsibility."I nebber see a man who believes it im his solemn dooty to be responsible fur his fellow-man widout feeling sorry iur him," said Brother Gardner, as the roice of the triangle called the meeting jo order. "It must be uncomfortable ;o be sich a man. It must give a pusson i pain to go to bed at bight under de fear dat somebody may go wrong in dis world afore daylight, an' it must stir up his bile to riz up in de mawnin'an'realize iat he can't possibly control de ack- shuns of all his fellowmen frewout de j day. "We has one or two sich men in dis club, an' I want to say to em dat dey greatly oberestimate de number of yards of cloth required to make 'em a shirt. What dey calls a matter of dooty am moas' always simply prying into a naybur's bizness; what dey call a matter of conscience am moas' always an attempt to interfere wid matters dat doan' consarn 'em in de least. "It am no more one man's dooty to go about pleadin' wid eberybody to seek de Lawd dan it am anoder man's dooty to go about warnin' people not to break de law. We am built on com mon-sense principles. We am supposed to know right from wrong. We hev bin given consciences an1 convictions; and if one man elects to lib a Christian life an' anoder to foller in de wake of ole King Tophet dat's a matter none of us kin settle. De good man who makes a slip gits sich a kick from his own conscience dat anv naggin' by his fellow- man am mo' sartin to rouse his bile dan to make him weep. Your dooty am to obey de laws of God an' de kentry; to be charitable when charity am deserved; to be nay-burly when your naybur will permit it: to be ready wid good advice when asked fur it. When you go much beyand dis you am makin a nuisance of yourself an doin' mo harm dan good. When a man who moves out of a rented house between two davs, an' doan leave his new ad dress tied to de doah knob fur de benefit of do bilked landlord, comes to me an' wants to weep bekase I hasn't bin to church fur two Sundays past,I'm kinder ready to declar' dat I won't go agin fur a hull y ar. "When a pusson who has worn de heels off his butes dodgin' creditors comes to me an' wants to know why I doan put up mo cash fur de heathen, he settles me on de African bizness fnr munths to come. "When a man has fit wid all his nay- burs, an dribes his poo old fadder to de poo' house to die, calls aroun' to de mand why I doan' come down for dis or dat charity, I feel all de stubborness of an Alabama mewl. "Elder Toots am not responsible if Samuel Shin has fo' libin wives, an' de Rev. Penstock am blameless if Givea-dam Jones am sent to Jackson fur stealin' a plate glass window. Mind your own business am ez good a motto ez 'God Bless our Homes.' " Detroit Free Press. .'resident Cleveland's Request for the Resignation of the Cophih County murderer Unheeded. It will be remembered that a few 'iveeks ago the President appointed Aleade, one of the instigators of the Copiah County, Miss., outrages, to be postmaster at Hazelhurst, Miss. It was then discovered that the President had been "imposed upon," and a letter was written to Meade asking that he resign. This prompt action on the part of Mr. Cleveland was received with general approval by the best men of all political parties, who did not believe that a mur derer should be rewarded lor his crime. For a few days nothing was heard of the matter. Mr. Cleveland was credited with saying that he "drew the line at murder," and it was supposed that Meade would be promptly removed. The fact is, however, that Meade still holds his office in defiance of the Presi dent's request. It is perhaps unjust to severely criticise the President as yet, in View of his promptness in calling for Meade's resignation, but if the Missis sippi ku-klux is permitted to hold his office it must be regarded as an indication that the Administration wishes to recognize his bloody services to the Democratic party, or that it stands in fear of the spirit that dictated the brutal outrages that have made Uopiah County a synonym for everything outrageous and disgraceful. As might be expected, the Democrat ic press of Mississippi is up in arms against the request of the rresident for Meade's resignation. The Democratic State organ, the Jackson Clarion, an nounces that the request is "an indict ment of the whole people." Perhaps it is and perhaps it is not. It is an indictment only upon those who thus choose to assume the hateful burden of responsibility. Respectable Democrats everywhere approved the President's request for the resignation of Meade. Only those who were in sympathy with his foul deed could wish to see him appointed to office. Let it be called an indictment of that class if they choose to so regard it. Again, the Vicksburg Post says: Mr. Meade and his compatriots contributed greatly to Cleveland's success in Copiah County, ana, if the electoral vote of the State had hinged upon the vote of one county, no doubt Mr. Cleveland's partisans in Copiah would have been found equal to the emergency. Here is the milk in the cocoanut The Post is very truthful and candid indeed. There is no doubt of the truth of its statement But what a shameful admission to make! The situation is practically this: The Democratic press of Mississippi admits that Copiah County was carried for the Democrats by methods which would disgrace the age of barbarism. "Mr. Meade and his compatriots" are given the credit and every well-informed man, woman and child in the country knows that the re sult was attained through murder and intimidation. Knowing this, the Missis- ters, attorneys, marshals, and all elassei of oiiieials down to janitors. None i too high and none too low to deserve the guillotine. There is no man in the employ of the Government who does not realize that his time is short. There has been just one re-appointment that of i the JNew xork i t. u:u j tue new jluik. uusLiuasiet vvuicu w as made at the demand of the mugwumps. There is no indication that there will be any more. There is no sign that the working of the axe will be suspended until the last Republican in ofije'e shall have had his head chopped off. Those who think Mr. ' Cleveland is going to be a "non-partisan President" are manifestly deceiving themselves He could not be if he wanted to be, and he evidently does not want to be. The Kepublicans must go and they are going new at a rapid rate. It is folly for anybody to attempt to conceal the fact There will be very few, if any, of the old Republican officeholders left by the time Congress meets. Chicago Tribune. LAMAR'S LOCOMOTION. To monev Dut in box bv mistake 7.20 sippi Democracy boldly demands that ,5 posure ou.uu COURTING BY FIRELIGHT. It is reported from 1 ans tnat ex periments made in the hospitals show that sulphide of carbon is the best agent to restore the normal action of the bowels in case of cholera. It has re stored to consciousness in thirty seconds hysterical patients, who previous to its administration were insensible to even the prickling of needles. How the Young Teople Conducted Their Love Making in Aneient Times. Uncle Davy was giving the boys some advice in their love-making affairs, and one of them asked him how the young people did when he was spark ing, "ihem was great tunes, boys. he said, in reply, "great times. We didn't have no gas, no kerosene, nor no new-fangled notions, and we done our fparkin' by a plain tallow dip, but most Irequently just by the firelight. 'Fire-sight is warmin', boys, and flickers just enough to make a girl's eyes shine and the peach blossom glovv on her cheeks. It s mighty sott and puny, too, and kinder rea lies out and melts two hearts together in a way none of your gaslights knows anything about. Sometimes the fire shined up a little too powerful in places, and the young man would get up without savin anything and put a shovelful of ashes on it, Then he would cuddle up to the girl in the shadow and she would cuddle some, too, and it really didn't seem like there was anything else in the whole big round earth to be wished for. 1 urty soon the hre would get obstreper ous again, and the little names would twinkle in and out, as if they wanted to see what was goin' on, or had seen and was laughin' and winkin' about it and havin' some fun, too. and the young fellow would reach for the shovel and the ashes and cover the bright blazes all up. And sometimes remember, now, only sometimes the girl would get up and put lilies on, and then well, boys, when the blue birds tome in the spring, and the lishin' worms crawled out of the ground, and the boys set on the green banks of the little creek waitin' for a bite, and thejohnny-junip-ups nestled in the sunny places, there was a weddin' in the old house, and the purty bride wore apple blossoms in her hair, and the awkward young fellow blushed in his store clothes and tight boots; and when the winter came they sot by their own fire, and the shovel and the ashes was out of a job." Merchant Traveler. HINDOO LAW. A Remarkable Decision by an Indian Mag. istrate. A judgment was recently delivered in the high court of Bombay, after a trial of fourteen days, which deserves more than local notoriety. The Times oj Jdia says it is "the most important case that has been tried in Western India for many years." The claim was by the son of a Hindoo millionaire. Sir Munguldass Nuthoobhoy, and he de manded from his father a partition of all the family property and an equal share. The father refused the partition and the son appealed to the high court. The Judge who tried the case, Mr. Justice Scott, following decisions of the Privy Council, ruled that a son who was a member of a Hindoo joint family had an equal right with the father and an equal share in the family property, and could claim partition against the father's will at any time after majority. The Judge pointed out that such a claim was reprobated as immoral by the an cient writers, but still admitted as just by the highest authority in Bombay. This seems an astonishing decision to European minds, but the authorities cited by the learned Judge show its absolute legality in Hindoo law. At the same time it has strucK consternation through the wealthy families of West ern India. The rule, no doubt, is a sur vival of the primitive idea that the family is an aggregate or collective unit of which all members have an equal interest in the common property. As the learned Judge pointed out, the current of authority tends to overthrow parental authority and to enect a pain ful revolution in the family svstem throughout Western India. It was also decided in the case that property that was not family or ancestral property, but self-acquired, could be devised by will by a father to his son, and that the property retained its self-acquired character in the hands of the son. This will considerably diminish the danger that might arise from an unrestrained exercise ot the right now limy deciareu, The case has been for a long time the subject of much discussion and great anxiety m all native circles, and, al though experts in Hindoo law agree in the strict legality of the decision, there is a general opinion that the altered conditions of Hindoo society render leg islation necessary on the subject spite of the extended effect now given to the exercise ot the testamentary power. London limes. Meade be retained in office upon the ground that he has rendered valuable services to Mr. Cleveland! Will the President accept this construction? Will he recognize services that are stained with the blood of a man whose only crime was that he was a Republican? Will he set up a standard for men to ioilow in the hope of gaining f . . , , . hnllrin.7.- I . . . and of uncertain age. J.he bones ol political reward, the policy of bulldoz ing, intimidation, fraud and even mur der? If Mr. Cleveland retains Meade in office this is just what the action will mean. It will fix the status of the Administration upon a plane so low that its every respectable supporter must blush for shame. It is not reviving sectionalism to call for the prompt removal of Meade. It is not "waving the bloody shirt." It is simply asking that justice may be done, that the fair fame of the Nation shall not be sullied by the appointment of a red handed murderer to office as a re ward for political service in which the murder of an innocent husband and father was the chief feature. It is to be hoped that there are few Democrats and Democratic newspapers that will accept and indorse the policy upon which the Mississippi papers ask for Meade's continuance in office. If they do, but one construction can be placed upon the motives of the Administration and the Democratic party, a construction that calls loudly for retribution. Burlington Eawkeye. An Intricate Problem Solved, after an Expensive Experience. One of the first official acts of Sec- retary Lamar was to sell the horses and carriages belonging to the Interior Department There was some objection to this on the part of the chiefs of bureaus, as it compelled them to transact theit business on foot The Secretary was obdurate, however, and the stables were sold out The net result in cash was a trifle over $3,800, and it was ii this manner that Mr. Lamar s depart ment began the work of retrenchment The Secretary was always an enthU' siastic pedestrian, and for a week the Secretary was observed to be stalking with rapid strides through the streets Then, one day, he left the department in a clandestine manner and got into a street car. He took out a fifty-cent piece and dropped it into the box. After that he was often seen on the street cars and herdic lines, and one day rode live times, expending a quarter for the same. When the Cabinet met a few weeks ago he astonished the officials at the White House by appearing in a herdic. The Cabinet meeting lasted two hours. His herdic bill was $2.50. He often came after that in a herdic, and once in a carriage. Of late, however, the Secretary has assumed a thoughtful anrtjwisttullook when gazmg at the carriages of his 'confreres. Then he looked in his journal to ascertain the cost of street-car and carriage fare. Here are the contents, as given by a gentleman whose friend was in the next- room when the inspection was mada The figures bear internal evidence of approx imate accuracy: . To street nar, herdio cab and carriage fare in moving about city for month of April.. tlt.ib Ditto for month of May 36.15 Ditto for month of June, to 15th 28 03 Total $169.05 Then the Secretary determined to have a carriage of his own. So when he appeared at the White House on Tuesday he was seated in a new buggy and drawn by a horse of the most pronounced seal-brown color. The SCHOOL AND CHURCH. -It is the sinners who find the least satisfaction in the revised version. Philadelphia North American. , The Presbyterian General Assembly. at its recent session, reported receipts of $103,740 for the year by the ministerial' relief board, which maintains 204 clergymen, 279 widows and 23 orphans. The Chinese authorities have agreed to pay $3,500 as compensation, for the destruction of the mission premises belonging to the Union Methodist! Free churches at Wenchow during the late riots. The clergy of Florida in the past' ten years have increased from seven teen to forty, and the list of communi cants from less than 700 to l,yy4. There have been erected in the same period forty-two churches and chapels. The second anniversary of the Chinese Sunday-school Union ol New York was held at the Madison Avenue Congregational Church recently. About 000 Mongolians were present, mere are connected with this Union twenty-nine schools, having 700 scholars. The King of Belgium, the President of the African International Association, has decided to open an African Seminary in connection with the Uni versity of Leyden, at which young men will be prepared lor missionary work in the newly opened districts of the Dark Continent The General Synod of the Reformed Church adopted a resolution appointing a committee of leading ministers to examine the Revised Old and New Testaments, "and report to the next Synod " whether it be wise and expedient foi this body to recommend the same foi use in public worship or private, or in both." N. Y. Examiner. It is not to the Methodists, as i generally thought, but to the Presbyterl ans, that America owes the word camp-meeting. Certain Presbyterian ministers held a sacramental meeting at place called Cane Ridge, in Kentucky, :in 1800. It was attended by more than 120,000 people, and was protracted foi weeks. This was the firstcamp-meeting ever held in the United States. ; Chicago Herald. j Wycliffe Hall, at Oxford, and 'Ridley Hall, at Cambridge, were (founded a few years ago by the Evan-jgelical Party in the Church of England, ior the training of graduates for th work ol the ministry. Ihe ouudingt have cost $200,000. The fees charged (twenty guineas) for each term pay all expenses, except the salaries of the principal and vice-principal, and foi those purposes an endowment fund is being raised oi Silzo.OOO. The Board of Trustees of Cornel University have made an appropriation of $1,600, to complete electrical apparatus on a large scale for the measurement of large electric currents. These experiments are considered of great im portance, and r rofessor Anthony, the dean of the department of physics, will be assisted by prominent scientists from different educational institutions in the country. The experiments will be made during the summer. Buffalo Express. . the animal are as prominent as its color The outfit cost about $200. The Secretary took a ride in it yesterday. Washington Republican. INDICTING A WHOLE PEOPLE. PRESIDENTIAL HEAD-LOPPING. "When She Will, She Will." "I thought only a lew men were up to the winter bathing mark," observed the reporter. The bath man laughed scornfully. "When a lady makes up her mind to bathe every day in the year," he said, "nothing can stand her off. I've seen men who would come here on cold mornings, undress and walk to the .water s edge, but the minute it touched their toes, race back and get into their clothes again. Not so with women. When they are in bathing trim it means bathing and nothing short of a tidal wave will stop them. Here comes the daisy bather of the lot. I've seen that girl here when it was so cold that to even look at the water used to give me the shakes. Now, what do you think first induced that lady to bathe all the time? For the pure love of it? No, sir. She was getting too fat. She tried everything dieting, exercise and medicine, but nothing would take her down. At last she dropped on sea bathing, and it fetched her. She is nice and slim now, though plump enough, but when she came here first she was as fat as a butter ball. I wish all the fat ladies in the city would have her courage, and our winter business would be worth something." San Francisco Alia. He Knew the Climate. Commercial Traveler's Wife "Now, my dear, what coat will you take with you? it is almost dune; your nnen duster will be enough, I guess.' C. T. "Lay out my fur overcoat, my heavy cloth overcoat, ray spring over coat and mv linen duster." C. T.'s W. "Why, my dear! You are joking, ain't you?" . V. T. "Certainly not. x m going to travel in New England." Boston four- er. Mr. Cleveland's "Conservatism In Re gard to the Removal of RepublicanOffice-Holders. There is a curious impression that the new Democratic President has been and is disposed to be very conservative in regard to the redistribution of the patronage. The mugwumps, who are usually Civil-Service reformers, profess to be satisfied for the most part with the restraint he is exercising over the spoilsmen, though they criticise some of his appointments. The Democratic politicians, or at least those of them who have not yet received the rewards they expected, are complaining that he is "going too slow." Even many Republicans think that Mr. Cleveland is acting with great moderation and are commending' him for it This impression is evidently a delusion, judging from the long list of removals and appointments chronicled in the newspapers from day to day. It is to be accounted for in two ways. In the first place it was generally expected that the "clean sweep" would be made immediately that all Kepublicans would be dismissed by a sort of general order and Democrats installed in their places. The Republicans think that Mr. Cleveland is very conservative because this course has not been taken, and the Democrats are complaining because the general order was not issued. And the reason why it is assumed that Mr. Cleveland is exercising great restraint is because he held back as long as the Senate remained in session. The public is very apt to take an impression of a new Administration from the first few weeks, and it was rashly concluded that the early course adopted by Cleveland was a fair sample of his entire career. The fact is that the" Administration is proceeding as rapidly as practicable to oust Kepublicans irom omce and put Democrats in their places. No respect is paid to Civil-Service principles. 'suspended or "resigned is attached to the name of nearly every officer whose place is given to some one else, The terms are synonymous. The resig nations are requested in all cases, and they are handed in merely to avoid sus pension, "suspension means removal. and so does "resignation. In every case "offensive partisanship" will be alleged, but this term has been given such a broad construction that the bare fact of h:uTing voted the Republican ticket or having failed to vote the Democratic ticket, makes the office holder an offensive partisan and war rants his removal. Ihe removals are going on at the rate of a hundred or more a day, and as rapidly as the President and his assistants can decide be tween the claims of the rival applicants for the various onices. The broadaxe of the Administration is now in first-class working order. The heads are falling in the basket at a fear ful rate. There are seven sets of execu tioners, one tor each Cabinet officer. The operators of the machine are covered with gore. The victims include diplomats, consuls, heads of departments, department clerks, postmasters, I collectors, appraisers, surveyors, regs-i Mr. Cleveland Charged with Inconsistency and Base Ingratitude. The presumption of a Democratic President in requesting the resignation of Meade, the Copiah County assassin, is strongly resented by the Democrats of Mississippi. The Jackson Clarion, the accepted organ of the Democratio party in Mississippi, asserts that President Cleveland's demand of Meade's resignation "amounts to an indictment of a whole people." The Vicksburg Post concurs in this view. It argues with great force that the assassination of Print Matthews in 1883 had a decided efl'e.ct upon the Presidential election in Mississippi in 1884, for the reason that few people in Copiah Countv dared vote against Cleveland. "Mr. Meade and his compatriots," it says, "contributed greatly to Cleveland s success in (Jopiah Uoun- ty, and, if the electoral vote of the State had hinged upon the vote of one coun ty, no doubt Mr. Cleveland's partisans in Copiah would have been found equal to the emergency." It continues that it regards Mr. Cleveland's course in re gard to Meade very inconsistent, and equivalent to an indictment ol the very people whose votes were necessary to (Jleveland s success. We like this frankness. Ihere is something honest in the straightforward claim that a President elected through assassination is bound in honor and decency to reward the assassins. We are as little able as the Democrats of Mis sissippi to see how Cleveland with con sistency can spurn Meade, when it is admitted and notorious that he owes his seat to the murders committed by Meade and men like him. But for the terror ism created by the cold-blooded and systematic killing of influential Republicans, white and black, there would be no Solid South and no Democratic Presi dent to-day. It is quite usual for men who owe their success to murder and crime to repudiate -their criminal agents as soon as they have secured the fruits of their wickedness, but Mr. Cleveland is not going to be allowed to do so without drawing upon himself the charge of gross inconsistency and base ingratitude. The Democrats of Mississippi approve of assassination as a political agency, and they vehemently resent President Cleveland's assumption that assassins are not fit men to hold office under a Democratic Administration. Philadelphia Press. THE FATHER OF THE MAN. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. An old soldier says a sudden sense of danger will put an end to all sea sickness. A. i. aun. A tough steak is something like an incorrigible boy. Both may be im proved by pounding. Lowell uittzen. In de bus ness o life er.man mus' eider 'go up ur come down. Dar ain't no stand still. De sun doan stay at twelve er clock more den er minit 'Arkansaw Traveler. When a man nearly breaks his neck getting out of the way of a lightning bug, supposing it to be the headlight of a locomotive, it is time for him to sign the pledge. womsiown tieraia. "Hello, Dick; been to the lecture? inquired a friend as they met about eleven o'clock in the street, outside ol a public hall. "No, but I'm going to one now," replied Dick, as he made for home. JS. x. rost. A family physician recommends those who expect to suffer from hay fever this summer to be careful in main taining a health status, to live by rule, and avoid causes of excitement Change of place is the most efficient remedy ol the attack that has iuiiy begun. ivuca- go Times. (ioaded by leaiousy, a husband out in Ohio shot a professor of roller skating in the head, ihe physicians left the bullet where it was imbedded, plugged the hole up with a cork, and - the professor now skates as well and knows as much as ever he did. Philadelphia Press. -Poetry, a waxed mustache, mystery, long hair and a sweet tenor voice will often make a woman feel as if there was only a sheet of tissue paper between Heaven and herself, but it is the man with the wart on his nose and six figures in the bank balance who scoops her in and makes her happy ever afterwards.' N. Y. Journal. Bound to be foolish. Women have many faults-Men have only two: There is nothing right they say. And nothing right they do. But if naughty men do nothing right, And never say what's true. What precious fools we women are To love them as we do. A bashful young man who was afraid to propose to his sweetheart induced her to fire at him with a pistol, which he assured her was only loaded with powder, and after she had done so fell down and pretended to be dead. She threw herself wildly upon the body, called him her darling and her beloved, whereupon he got up and married her. Boston Post. -"O, I like traveling," said the fat passenger, as he snuggled his big body into one seat and his big feet beside his grip in another. "I like traveling, except that the noise rings in my ears rather unpleasantly." "Rings in your ears, eh?" spoke up the farmer man who was standing in the aisle; "that s queer. Out to my place When we want one to travel we put a ring in his nose." Chicago Meraia. A Patriotic Outburst byj the Republican Candidate for Governor of Ohio, During Ills Adolescence. A Washington correspondent tells the following story of Judge Foraker's boyhood: " Young Foraker was raised on a farm in Southern Ohio, and his patriotism developed rather early. During the Fremont campaign, when flag-raising and mass-meetings were setting the country wild, young Fora ker's parents went away on a visit leaving Ben, who was then ten years old, at home. The boy concluded to have a flag-raising of his own, and he found on the other side of the Rocky Fork a tall, straight sassafras pole, which he considered the very thing for his purpose. He cut it down with a hatchet dragged it to the Rocky Fork, threw it in the water, and swam across, pushing it in front of him. The story of his expedients to get it up the hill on the other side corresponds to that of Robinson Crusoe in making a boat to get away .from his desert island. His little sister helped him, however. and the pole was finally planted after a week's hard work. He then took a couple of child's petticoats, one red and the other blue, and with these and oae of his father's best shirts he made a flag and hoisted it to the top of the pole. When the family returned they found young Ben triumphant and tne red, white and blue waving over their farm-house. VICTOR HUGO. How He Would Have Punished Marsha) Bazaine. At Victor Hugo's house one evening the question of capital punishment was discussed, anent the commutation oi the sentence of Bazaine into perpetual imprisonment. Several politicians who were present blamed tnis commutation and maintained that no one had ever better deserved death than Bazaine. "No," said Hugo, "I would not have loaded chassepots for him; but, if I had been President of the Council of War. this is what I should have done: I should have convoked to the Champ de Mars the National Assembly, all the troops of Paris, all the people; and there in the presence of that crowd, in presence of that army, in presence of the represent atives of the nation, l should have had Bazaine brought forward, dressed ia all the insignia of a marshal of trance. Then the President of the Assembly would have read aloud the judgment declaring Bazaine a traitor to his country, and condemning him to degradation. Then the senior subaltern officer would have torn off his erosses, broken his sword, trampled his epaulettes under foot, and. the ceremony over, would have said to the degraded man: 'Now, Monsieur Bazaine, go! you are free!1 " Xo one can deny the grandeur of this conception of moral and exemplary chastisement- Tarts Morning New.