Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1879 — Page 3

Thq Rensselaer Union. .*, . RENSSELAER, . INDIANA.

CHILDHOOD'S COUNTRY, j O pleasant Land of Childhood, I turn to any foots- liyo To nil your nynog-time pathways That now behind me lie— To tho hnppy skies nbore you, The row a by the way. And the well remembered places . Wherein 1 used to play. When on mv knees I tended Doll-children still and fair. And washed their patient l'aoos, l)And bruHhcd their golden hair. I thought I hey knew and loved mo, Those children on my knee. When acre atlliotion found them What giiei it waa to me! One fell and broke her ankle, And one put out her eye. And one her wicked uncles Shot at. maliciously, And left her aadly lying, • The saw-dust bleeding fast From her poor wounded body —,— .Until atiA at last. . I buried hep at nightfall. Beneath a lonely tree. And from her grave a violet Sprang up to comfort me. My do™, my cats, my pony— Ah, Childhood's Land was gay With all these boon companions I’ve left uppn the way. But that so pleasant Country, With all its joy and pain. Lost in the mist behind me, i cannot find again, 1 miss its verdant woodlands. The prom ise of its skies, The (.ays that dawned upon me. Each one a sweet surprise. Farewell, 0 spring time valleys. Wherein 1 used to stray— A summer-world awaits me; It is no longer May. —I/sulse Chandler Moulton , In Youtht' Companion.

CONTENTMENT AS TO PROPERTY.

[Extracts from a Recent Sermon by Prof. Swing, of Chicago.] Having food and raiment let us be therewith content— l Tim. vl :s. * * * The contentment of a vagabond, or the idler, or the sleeping African along the Congo River, is not meant, for theirs is not a mental peace, but a stupidity. The apostle, and all who speak of this virtue, have in mind a highly developed and highly active soul, which feels that man does not need much here in the form of material things, and that ho can be as happy in a cottage as in a palace. The repose, of which all have spoken in praise, not that of indolence and ignoran'ce, but is that of a perfect acquaintance with tho whole facts in the case, and then, as resulting from this knowledge, a self-contained’ 1 * heart. This form of mastery of the market-place, this declaration of superiority of the mind over property, has always been a thing beautiful to behold. It is like heaven, hard to enter, indeed, but the very * ideal land.' When one of our poets said, » Man wanta but little here below. Nor wanta that little long; ..when he said, t Happy tno man whose wish and care, A lew paternal acres bound. Content to breathe his native air In his own ground, ho expressed what all thinking hearts love to say and repeat. Those words come to us all as the absolute truth of God. They are the foundation stones of the man’s philosophy. Socrates said “ Contentment is natural wealth;” the riches which Nature is willing to bestow upon her children. God cannot undertako to give us all the millions of money for which our hearts might ask. And should an indulgent Creator grant each man such fabulous sums, it would not be long before we should wish-wo had asked for double the amount. Instead, therefore, of attempting to make the bulk of ourproperty large enough to satisfy all longing, which would be impossible, Nature passes inside tho soul of the noble being, and stops the longings. Instead of carrying food to a glutton it cures the gluttony. Hence, said Socrates, contentment is natural wealth; it is the only thing that satisfies. And, he adds, luxury is an artificial poverty. For luxury creates a poverty. It so enlarges natural wants that it throws them out of proportion; it builds up a false world, ancl one which no bank account can at last meet; and thus passing under the name of riches, it is a created poverty. Thus, contentment is the Lord’s wealth, and luxury is an artificial, self-inflicted poverty. For, said another anoient, every man is poor t who wants more. It certainly is an ordained law of society that some few individuals shall drivq onward in tho pursuit of enormous property, when the property represents some public enterprise. It is desirable that some man or some group of ayfcn shall amass money enough to construct our railways, or telegraphs, or Jo launch steamships, or. conduct largo public works, but it is as truly a law of Nature that the majority of earth’s people must find their happiness in that natural richness called oontentment. It boing impossible that all shall be millionaires, and there not being public works for each individual to build, it is the inevitable conclusion that God designed that from natural wealth, that is, peace of mind, most persons should extract the sweets of -life. Paul and the young man Timothy were taken from the common people, and bore its image, and were to follow moral pursuits, those of teaching tho multitude, and they were to leave to Emperors tho building of Viaducts, and aqueducts, and ships of war or poace. With the money that might buy food and Clothing, these two were to bo satisfied. In these two we see millions of men, noble ones at that. It might perhaps have made us weep could we have been present at the death of St. Paul, and seen in what plainness that body was clad; ho vff worn tho sandals; how old and worn the cloak; for after death these oniblems of poverty became most touching. Thoy draw tears more quickly than do the wounds on the body. But a moment’s reflection would have dried our eyes, for his calling was one which did not need much riches, not fine raiment, but one which needed only common raiment and common food, for it wtos in the the intellect and the soul the most of his wants ran. In ali other departments of possession his contentment was wealth. , If, therefore, contentment is to be the wealth of the majority, the practical question arises, flow can wo all secure the most possible of this substitute for property P The acquisition of immense riches being diflicult, how &PiL i* 3 spiritual equivalent? First, by refleSfldnir ’ cure for all unreasonable turmoils of the hoart. * * * <- To tho reflecting mind there, will cpme thought enough to fill the bosom with contentment. I have alluded to one fact—that there can be'and need be

but few rich men. If all were wealthy, money and labor would lose their value, and civilization would sink back toward barbarism, until a working class should be created again. Brain and soul would sink under universal opulence. Therefore, to be In your humble home is to be in the path of the highest duty. It is essential that tho vast majority of earth’s inhabitants be aN were Paul and Timothy, in the possession of only sufficient of clothing and food. Suppose all tho world were poets! Even were our 900,000,000 all good poets, what a most ridiculous world wo should have! tho entire human race writing poetry! All other forms of action suspended! As things exist, to be a Longfellow or a Whittier is well enough, but tho world needs only a few such. So tho world needs only a few rich men. Society soon passes away.from such, and needs millions like you and me, who would starve in a year should we quit work. When the laboring man takes up lug bucket in the mprniug to bo gone ten hours; when the clerk enters his store, or bank, or office!; when tho sclioolpijester enters the door tVhfcrc the childron are orowding in; when the preacher enters his studv-room, or visits the sick, the great God of nature takes each one of these by the hand and says, “ l am with you!” Such reflections as these will bring many an hour of peace. As the world needs only a little group of poets, so it needs only a few millionaires. Discontent with one’s moderate success in any line argues this, that you are not the master of your idea, but that it has become the master of you. The instant the pursuit of money beoomes a vexatious care, disturbing your days and your sleep at night, in that moment you have lost your freedom, and you are the slave of a passion. Contentment comes from the perfect mastery of an idea. One of the ancient wise men having been informed that a storm had destroyed all his merchant ships, and Lad thus, in one day, swept away his fortune, said: “ It is'just as well, for now I can give up my mind more fully to study.”. Thus, however many ships he had on the sea, and however rich their cargoes, he was yet not the slave of his traffic, but his great mind held all these in perfect subjection. At times he must have felt that these sailing ships were placing chains upon his liberty, for otherwise we cannot so easily understand his perfect willingness that the sea should possess their contents. But he owned his ships, they did not own him. He was a contained soul

Many fail to be masters of their ideas, and thus become the conspicuous slaves of them. An egotist may be indeed a person of great ability. He may indeed be learned, or logical, or eloquent, and worthy of a Nation’s praise, but, being thus intrinsically great, his knowledge of the fact became too powerful for him! He had not the philosophy to say, “ If great, what of it!” but, weak in some one point, he permitted his greatness to get the better of him, and the result was a puffed up egotism which all abhor. Thus there will or may come from this quarter or < that, ideas that will transform into a menial him who receives them too ardently. Discontent is like egotism; an instance in which a small idea will ride to death what was once abaan, just as the elephant or the lion can be annoyed to madness by a little insect. As a promoter of mental peace as to property wonderful power must be ascribed to the pursuit of those things which money will not buy. While the mind is longing for purchasable articles it will long for the money that will buy them. Jf one will from day to day build up a passion for material things then from uay today will grow the love of that which will buy these houses and carriages and furniture, and thus a large door is opened at which unrest will rush in. When by parity of reasoning the mind turns toward such ends as cannot hp bought with money tfien the passion dies. The world of reading and of all study is so large, of science and art and religion so groat, that we are almost without excuse if these do not play in our three-score years a part so large as to cast into shadow the longing for great property! Learpiug, taste, character, friendship, benevolence, are things which ask nothing of Gold cannot buy these things! Whoever seeks these need not come near any market place. It is said that there are only one hundred great books In tho world! The library of the most ardent lover of books need not be large. Contentment is thus easily found when the heart is given to that elevation and culture of self which money will not purchase. Each ono of you has had this experience 1 know; you have walked about your house and have seen where you needed at once a thousand dollars’ worth of furniture, and curtains, and mirrors, and have sighed inwardly because it could not be, and then, having gone into ypur .’lbrary, and having read an hour or two in a great book, you have suddenly found that you did not want anything. The book has led your heart to a region where gold is vain and nothing is great but the soul. * * * Ihere Gave been thousands so contented with but little of material substance that their souls have been set free to soar in the heights of thought and usefulness. Thoy need no special pity from restless politicians. That all should have good food and good warm clothing cannot for a moment be denied, but beyond such a statement we cannot well go, for out of contented poverty, as to money, there has often grown such a richness of soul that we should not dare lay our hand upon such peace ahd remove it to make way for the supposed happiness wealth can bring. What lessohs lie outspread on the inspired page! *lt would seem enough had Paul unfolded only his doctrine of salvation by faith and the other cardinal ideas of Christianity! But his wide-ly-reaching sight took in all the landscape of man. and among the stars which he saw in the wide, Blue expanse of his philosophy, was this one, of not the first magnitude, indeed, but of a gentle luster and steady light. In moderate property bo content. You do not need a large fortuno; you will not need anything long. He, the grand saint, lived as he taught. His soul was content. Its longings were not for gold. Though when this glorious saint was beheaded, his property may have been only a few simple articles of apparel, there went forth <from the bloody raiment a mind and heart that have mastered easily the eighteen intervening centuries.

Beting a Carpet.

* ” ’ . fM-Ui.ovTj- MW. . The season of the year is at hand when the good housewife’s instinct for raising the dust is active; and no womairSvKb is mistress of '* house is happy unless jkodntsher head done up in a sweeping cap,.and wields a broom in her

Everywhere, indoori, the atmosphere teems with dust, and, tho woodpiles, and fences, and dwarf trees, and clotheslines are hung with carpets. Carpets of all pattornfr, and in every stage of dilapidation! Carpets old, and new, and darned, and patched, and stained, and generally demoralized! Carpets of living rooms, where every thread is worn so thin that it is a wonder and a mercy that the fabric will hold, together while it is put on tho line; and carpets, of spare rooms and parlors where thp blinds have been always kept shut, and the gorgeous roses ana lilies bloom in all their brilliant 'magnificence still. Tho woman of the house seems rather to enjoy the terriblo confusion which tearing up carpets creates; but not so the man of the house. No, indeed! He knows ho shall be called upon to boat those carpets; and übout that time ho will wish that he had never been fool enough to get married. Ho will look at old bachelor Jones over the way, reading his magazine, and smoking serenely, while nis fat landlady boats the carpet of his room, and blows like a grampus in the effort; and our Benedict will envy that lonesome old bachelor his sweet serenity of spirit. But a pair of blue eyes made a fool of him, ana now the owner of the blue eyes, with her dress turned up, and her hair covered with an old red handkerchief, and her elbows grimy with the dust she has been raising, has the right to call on him to beat the carpet, and if he refuses, then he does not fulfil the marriage covenant according to the theory of all the women ho knows of. He goes at it like a sheep to the slaughter. He does not want to do it. Awfully does not want to. He hates the dust in his nose and eyes, and the lint in his mouth, and on his clothes, and the pounding makes his arms ache, and the carpet has a trick of coming off the line, or else the line breaks just as he gets a good chance at it. Ana all the women in the neighboring houses, as he knows, will be looking out to see how he does it, and they will laugh at every accident he has, and enjoy it hugely every time he gets his stick hung up in the line, and has to swear to get it out. And while he is firing away, Brown will pass by with his cane under his arm, and ips hat well set back, and he will hail him, and want to know how he likes it, and inform him that he had bettor “pull down his vest,” and then he will saunter on languidly, and express his opinion that a man is foolish to beat a carpet when he can hire a fellow to do it for a dollar.

The blue-eyed wife will just here put her head out of the window, and call sharply: “John, don’t for Heaven’s sake pound that thin place all to pieces! Strange that a man don’t know anything!” And then she 1 !! come down into the yard, and show him just how it ought to be done. And if anything will make a married man mad clear through, it is to have his wife show him how to do what ho has done a thousand times before, satisfactory to himself if to no one else. But our advice to you, good married men friends, is to take the carpet-beat-ing as one of the ills of life. Do it cheerfully, bear it bravely and resignedly, and don’t let your 'feelings be much hurt if your wife tells you, after you have done your best, that she wishes to goodness she had beat that carpet herself! She could have done it twice as well! — Kate Thorn, in N. Y. Weekly.

How Gov. Randolph Was Arrested.

It is related that while Thomas Mtuin Randolph was Governor of Virginia he was once arrested within a few hundred yards of his home, in this county, and carried a prisoner to his own house. The story is to the following effect: The Governor was on a visit to his home, and finding that the fencing on his plantation was pulled down and burned by wagoners passing along from the valley to Richmond, he determined to detect and punish them. One evening ho observed a party go into camp on the roadside, and after dark he strolled down to a point where he could conveniently watch them. He staid out all night, but the wagoners made no depredations on his fences. In the early morning, however, yrhen they were about to kindle their fires to prepare breakfast, they started out to gather up what fuel they might find for when they spied a man sitting on the fence a short distance ahead. Now, it appears that a short time before, Gov. Randolph had issued his proclamation, offering a reward for tho capture of an escaped horse-thief, and the wagoners, who had seen the description of tho convict, thought they discovered a close resemblance between the man on the fence and the escaped felon. So thoroughly satisfied wore -they thatthey w»«W receive the reward for his arre3t that they approached and announced that he was their prisoner. One of them proposed, as he cracked his wagon-whip, to give him a thrashing and let him go, but his companion protested that it was proper to ascertain certainly whether he was tty© guilty party before inflicting the punishment, and proposed to 1 take him to the residence of Gov. Randolph, near by, and get his advice. Accordingly, they marched their prisoner up to tbe house, and, knocking at the front door, a servant made his appearance, of whom they inquired: “ Is vour master at home?”

Tho negro opened his eyes in astonishment at the inquiry, and replied, pointing to the Governor: “That’s master!” It is said that tho Governor then promptly confirmed the statement of the servant, and joined heartily in the laugh that followed. He then told the man who had proposed to whip iim without tho opportunity of defense to remain outside aqd he would send him a morning dram, at the same time unbuttoning his coat, exposing a pair of horse-pistols, and he remarked that he Bhoula certainly have used them had an attempt been made to carry the t lye at of castigation into execution. The other wagoner he invited to join him in a hot breakfast— Charlottesville ( Va .) Chronicle.

—Rice Pudding.—One heaping teacupful of rice, one pint of water. Boil the rice and water until the water is evaporated; then add one pint of milk, a lump of butter the size of an egg. Take five eggs; use the yelks, whicn beat up with the grated rinds of two lemons; add this to the'rice, with two teacupfuls of white sugar; Butter the With tjie voiles beat up, light two tablespoonfuis <BT powdered sugar and the juice of ,the two lemons. When the pudding is baked put on this frosting, and let the’ rice pudding just vrorm. , —%. - A fiNY thing-*-fork, - ♦

ANOTHER VETO MESSAGE.

President Hayes Returns to the House, Without Ills Approval the Bill to Prohibit the Presenco or military at Placea of Election, WAtmxcrrox, Ifnjr 12. The following is tho messago of the President of the United States, returning to the House of Representatives tho bill entitled “An Act to Prohibit Military Interference at Elections:” To tUo House of Ucproaeutatlvcs: Allot u careful consideration of tho bill entltiod “ Au act to Prohibit Military luterloronce ut Elections," I return It to the House of Representatives, In which It originated, with tho following objections to Us approval: In a communication sent to tbo House of Representatives, on tho 211th of last month, returning to the House without my upproval the bill ontltlad"An Act Making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Flacal Year Ending Jnuo .'lO, 1880, and for Other Purposes," I endeavored to show, by quotations from tho statutes of tho United Slates now In forec, and by a brief statement of fads In regard to tku recent elections In several States, that no additional legislation was uecossary to prevent Interference with elections by tho military or naval forces of the United States. The fact was presented In that communication that at the time of the passage of the act of June 18,1878, In relation to tho employment of the army ns a poise comllatus. or olherwlso.lt was matntaluetf by its friends that It would establish a vital and fundamental principle which would secure to the people protection ngalnst a standing army. The fact was also referred to that, slnoo the passage of Utis act. Congressional, Slate and municipal elections had been held throughout the UtiloD, and that in no lustance has complaint been made of the presence of United States soldiers at the. polls. Holding, as I do, the opinion that any military interference whatever at (he polls is contrary to the spirit of our institutions, and would tend to destroy thefreedom of elections, and sincerely desiring to coucnr with Congress in all of its measures, It is with vory great regret that I am forced to the conclusion that the bill before me Is not only unnecessary to prevent such Interference, but Is a dangerous departure from long-settled and important Constitutional principles. The true rule ns to tho employment of military forces at elections is not doubtful. No intimidation or coercion should bo allowed to control or Influence citizens in the exercise ol their right to vote, whethor it appearp in the shape of combinations of evil-disposed persons, or of armed bodies of militia of a State, or of tho military force of the United States.

The elections should he free from all forcible Interference, and, ns far as practicable, from all apprehension of such interference. No soldiers, either of the Union or of the State militia, should be present at the polls to take the place or.to perform the duties of an ordinary civil police force. There has been and will be no violation of this rnle under the orders from me during this Administration. Bat there should be no denial of the right of the National Government, to employ its military force on any day at any place In case such employment is necessary to enforce tho Constitution nnd laws of the United States. The bill before me is as follows: “Me it enacted, etc.. That it shall not be lawful to bring; to or employ at any place where a general or special election is being held in a State any part of the army or navy of the United States, unless sucli force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States, or to enforce Sec. Art. 4 of the Constitution of the United Slates, and the laws made in pursuance thereof, on the application of the Legislature or the Executive of the Slate where such force is to be ufccd; nnd so much of all laws as is inconsistent herewith is hereby repealed." It will bo observed that the bill exempts from the general prohibition against the employment of a military force at the polls two specified "cases. These exceptions recognize and concedo the soundness of the principle that military forces may properly nnd Constitutionally be need at places of election when such use is necessary to enforce the Constitution and laws. But the excepted cases leave a prohibition so extensive and farrcachlng that its adoption will seriously impair tho efficiency of the Executive Department of the Government. The first act expressly authorizing the use of military power to execute the laws was passed almost as early as the organization of tho Government under the Constitution, and was approved by President Washington, May 2, 1792. it is as follows; “ Sec. 2- And be it further enacted that, whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed, or the execution thereof obstructed, in any State, by combiustfioua too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the Marshals by this act, the same being certified to the President of the United States by an Associate Justice or District Judge, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to call for the militia of such Slates to suppress such combinations and to cause the laws to be duly executed; nnd if the militia of a Stale where such combinations may happen shall refuse, or be insufficient to suppress the same, it shall be lawful for the President, if the Legislature of the United States be not in sea siou, to call forth and employ such numbers of the militia of any other Slate or Slates most convenient thereto as may be necessary; nnd the use of Hie militia so to be called foi jli" may tie continued, if necessary, until the expiration ofthiily days after the commencement of the ensuing session." In 1795 this proviaiou wns substantially rc-eu-acted in a law which repealed ihe act of 17t*2. In 1807 the following act became the law, by the approval of President Jeflcrsou: “That in all cases of Insurrection or obstruction to the laws, either of the United States or of any individual State or Territory where it is lawful for the President of the United" Stales to call forth the militia for the purpose ot suppressing such insurrection, or of causing the laws to-be duly executed, it shall be lawful for him to employ for the same Kse. such part of the land or naval force of the 1 States as shall be jndged necissary, having first observed all tho prerequisites of the law iu that respect." By this act it will be seen that the scope of the law of 1795 wns extended so as to authorize the National Government to use, not only the militia, but the army and navy of the United States, in causing the laws to bo duly executed. Tile important provision of the acts of 1792,' 1795 and 1807. modified In Its terms from time to time, to adapt it to the existing emergency, remained in force until by nn act approved by President Lincoln, July 29, 18(11, it was re enacted substantially in the mine language iu which it Is now found In the Revised Statute's, viz.: ‘'Skc.,£2Uß. Whenever, by reason of unlawful obstructions, Combinations, or ass imblaees of persons, or rebellion against tho authority of the Government of the United States it shall become -impracticable, in the. judgment of the President, to enforce, by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, the laws of the United States, within any State or Territory, it shall be lawful lor the President to call,forth the militia of any or ail the States, and to employ shell parts of (lie land nnd naval forces of the United States as he may deem necessary to enforce the faithful execution of the laws of iho Untied Stales, or to suppress such rebellion, in whatever State or Territory thereof the laws of the United States may be forcibly opposed, or tho execution thereof forcibly obstructed." This ancient and fundamental law has been In force from the foundation of the Govi rnment. It is now proposed to abrogate it on certain days, and a’t certain places. In my judgment, no fact lias been produced which tends to show that it ought to be repealed or suspended for a single hour at any place in any of the Biatcs or Territories of the Union. Al! Hie teachings of experience In tiie course of OnrhiStory wre ttHavof-ef- *tt*taiitta#-Ks eAkdaney unimpaired on overv occasion when the supremacy of the Constitution lias been resisted, and Hie perpetuity of our Institutions impel lied. Tlijy principle of this statute euacti d by the fathers lias enabled the Government of the Union to maintain Its authority and to preserve the Integrity of tho Nation at the most critical periods In ourhiatory. My predecessors iu tho Executive Office have relied on tills groat ..principle. It wns on tide principle that President Washington suppressed the..whisky rebellion in Peuusylvania,tn 1794- In'lßoß, on the same principle, President Jefferson broke up the Burr conspiracy by issuing orders for the employment of such force, cither of the regulars or of the militia, nnd by such proceedings of the civil authorities as might enable them'to suppress effectually tins further progress of the enterprise. It was under the same authority that President Jackson crushed nullification In Smith Carolina, and that President Llncotfi issued Ills call for troops to save the Unlou in IKIH. On numerous other occasions of less significance, uuder probably evory Administration,and certainly under the present, tills power lias been nsefolly exerted to enforce the laws without objection by any party in the country, aud almost without attracting public attention. The great elementary Constitutional principle which was the foundation of the original statute of 1792. and which lias been its essence in Jhc varloua forms It has assumed since its first r.dsp tton, Is that the Government of the United States possesses, under the Constitution. In full measure, tho power of self protection by its own agencies, altogether independent of State authority, and, If need be, against the hostility of the Stato Governments. It should remain embodied In our statutes unimpaired as it has been from the origin of Ihe Government. It shoubl be regarded as hardly less valuable or less sacred than a provision of the Constitution itself. ■ There are manv other Important statutes con milling provisions that arc liable to be suspended or aiVunUed at the timet and place l of hob,lug elections If the hill before nn should become a law. Ido not undertake to furnieti a list of them. Many of them, perliaiw most of them, ha\e been set forth in debates on thte mca-urc. They relate to extradition, to crimej against tho Election laws, tn quarantine regulations, to neutrality, to Indian reservations, to civil right's of CtUgens, and to other subjects, in regard to them nji it may lie safely said" that the meaning and effect of this bulls to take from the Geucral Government an Important part of its powey to, enforce the laws. Another grave Objection to "the bill la indiscrimination In favor of the State and against the National suthoriHea. The presenco or employment of tho armv or navy or tho United State* 1* lawful under tire terms of this bill at the place where an oktctfhn is being held in a State to uphold the anthorilyol'n Stale Government then and there in.need of such mllitartr Intervention, butunlaw ful to uphold the authority of the Government of the United States then nnd therein nccOofsorh aud employment of the sravV-or unvv of tie United States would be lawful, amt might ho neecssnrv to maintain the conduct of a Suite. ejection against the domestic violence that would overthrow it, but would be unlawful to maintain the condfict of a National election against military power resorled to for the .execution of tho CoiistltfltlbJial powers in support of the BtffTS" or Nstionjl

authority. Both functions of the Qovorumunt worn put upon tile sain* so iling. By the act of 1HI)7 tho employment of llio army* ml navy wag aiitliorl/.c'd for llie putforniiuco of both •twonrtl tullumil diitlii* lit the samo term*. fn all tlm tutor Main lea on the tnuto subject mattor, tlm namr nu-ugnrd of authority to tho (loti rnmonl ha* boot, ncror loti for tho performauuo ufbotb tliot«i (toller. No proecdont naa boon round la any provlotia .leglrlotion. and no attf(liloat roaaoh lino boon given for tho discrimination In favor of tho Statu unit against tho National authority which tlila hill coutnlnn. Under tho swooping forma of tho bill, tho National Government |a unec'/tally ahut out from tho exerdno ol'the right and frum a discharge of nn Imperative duty-to tiae Its whole executive power whonover and whurover required for tho enforcement of lie lawn. In placoa and tlmoa when and whoro It* olcotlona are hold thh employment of ita organized armed force for nny alien purpooe would be an ottenso npaluat the law unloai cnllod for by and therefore upon permission of tho authorltlca of tho Slate in which tho occasion urtaoa. What if tlila but the substitution of tho dlacretlon of tho Stale Govormnonts for tho rilacrntlon of tho Governniontof tho United Slates as to tho performance of ita own duties* In my judgment tills Is nn abandonment of Its tho National (iovernmont; a subordination taxational authority and nu Intrualon of Slalu supervision over National dotlo* which amounts, In spirit and tendency, to State supremacy. Althopgh I bclievo that the existing statutes are abundantly adequate to completely prevent military Interference with the elections, lu the eenso In which tho phrase Is used In the title of this bill and Is employed by the people of this country, I ■hall find no dllHviilty In concurring: In nny additional Ict’lslut lon limited to thqt Bided which does not. Interfere with the Indispensable exercise of tho powers of the Government nud the Constitution and laws. IiVTHKItFORII B. UaVKO. ExkcUtivk Mansion, May 12, 1879.

Knowledge In Dairying.

Our present low prices ought to work a complete revolution in the dairyman’s plan of operations. The great mass of dairymen heretofore have counted on tho number of their cows, instead of the amount of their product. In fact, they have not studied tho individual character of their cows—nor itavo they established any standard by which these shall be tried. They ace judged as a herd, and no effort is made to determine the value of each cow. With butter at 15 to 20 cents per pound, and cheese at 7 to. 9 cents, a poor cow is the poorest kind of investment. A yield of 2.500 to 8,000 pounds of milk will pay, after deducting the expense of delivery at the factory and cost of making, only from $12.25 to sls. This will not pay the cost of keep in any part of the country. A loss of from $lO to sls per cow would be incurred with each animal. But the dairyman has other cows that pay, even in these times, from $25 to $35, and it is these better cows that prevent a disastrous, failure. How utterly inexcusable in a dairyman it. must be to go On, year after year, re'aining his.unprofitable cows to eat up all possible profits from the better ones! What would be thought of a chair manufacturer who should make a style of chairs, year after year, and sell them at 25 per cent, below the cost of production, simply because he had not taken an account of the cost of manufacture? Yet, the dairymen who have an accurate knowledge of the production of each individual cow in the herd, do not amount to more than one in a hundred. But if the dairyman would study his business thoroughly, he would fix a standard below which no cow can pay him a profit, and consequently any animal whose yield falls below this, must be discarded. With the most satisfactory prices, a cow giving less than 4,000 pounds of milk pays no profit worth having; and now, when prices are very low, the standard should be advanced to 5,000 pounds per cow. Selected herds average 6,000 to 7,000 pounds, and there is no insuperable difficulty in raising the standard for the poorest cow to 5,000 pounds. A cow that will not, under good food and care, reach tbis standard, should be fattehed and sent to the butcher. She has no value to the progressive dairyman as a milk-producer for cheese. For the cheese factory she is judged wholly by her weight of milk; but if the standard is to be fixed for butter, then the weight of good butter and not the weight of milk is most important. This requires a separate test of each cow for butter. And here it may frequently happen that the cow that would be discarded for cheese would be accepted for butter-making. A yield of 200 pounds of butter per cow should be the lowest standard for a butter cow; 200 pounds of the best butter will bring as much moneyas 500 pounds of the best cheese. Some cows will average a production of 1 pound of butter to 20 pounds of milk, and thus 1,000 pounds of milk from such a cow will reach the standard. The first test—that of weight—is so easily made that no‘ dairyman can have a valid excuse for omittingitr A small spring scale, hung in a convenient place in the cow-stablc, with a small book, containing the name of each cow, and a pencil attached, will enable the milker to weigh and record the yield of each cow, one day in a week, with no appreciable loss of time. These weighings added, and the sum divided by the whole number of weighings, will give the average yield per day with sufficient accuracy. There is no reliable way of determining the butter yield, except in churning the cream, and weighing the butter. The future successful dairyman must study and fully understand all the factors in the problem. Skill is the sign by which'he must conquor. Knowledge and skill are required in the successful engineer, navigator, shipbuilder, surgeon, statesman, and these are no less needed by the successful dairyman. liural New Yorker.

Curious Case of Kidnaping.

A very .curious atorv is going the round ot the paper to-uay. Four years ago, a tailor married the daughter of an artillery Colonel, and lived happily with her tor twelve months, at the end of which period he went for a few days to Belgium on business. Ou his return the wife was nowhere to be found, but a month later tho tailor] and his friends recognized her, as they imagined, in the corpse of a young woman who had been picked up at Autenil. Unable any longer to continue in Paris, the tailor went to New York, where, two years afterward, he married again. In the month of January the new couple came to Paris and rented an apartment in the Avenue Frlediand. Last Wednesday, as the tailor was walking in the Champs Elysees he saw a lady, who looked marvelously like his first wife, driving in a handsome Equipage, and, hiring a cab, jie followed her to a hotel in the Avenue D’Eylau. There an explanation took place. It was indeed his first wife, who declared that she had been kidnaped and kept in seclusion for three months by a man whose name she had never been able to ascertain. When free, she hat) learned, to her sorrow, that her husbhnd had gone to America, and, not daring to return to 'Beif rgretiVjS'/vffiytnßi-ißmef’feil'Yi threw**maker’s establishment, and so op. Inquiries are now being set on foot in or* dor to discover, if possible, who th» kidnaper was.x-Pam-jCnr.- ftOndoH Telegraph.

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—A good butter cow ought hot to oat less than from six to eight quarts of meal per day, but not clear corn meal. Bran is not worth much to make butter, l)ut mixed with own meal gives health and thrift. —A few potatoes sliced, and boiling water poured over thenfi make an excellent preparation for cleansing and stiffening old rusty black silks. Green tea is also excellent for this purpose. It should bo boiled in iron, nearly a cupful to throe quarto. The silk should not be wrung, and should be ironed damp. —Warm Slaw.—Bllce a head of cabJiytgo fine; put it in a stew-pan, with a little water, and scald well; sprinkle salt, pepper and sugar over it; then take two thirds of a teacup of vinegar, oue-third of a teacup of water, one egg, one-half teaspoon of flour, well mixed together; pour it over the cabbage, and let it come to a boil, whon it; is ready for the table. —When my patience becomes exhausted in coaxing and scolding a cow that kicks, I put a leather strap around her body, forward of her bag and behind her hip bones, and buckle it tight. Then she can do no harm; she will stand perfectly still. Then you may looson up on the strap by degrees, and soon leave it off entirely, for she soon learns to stand still to be milked. — Cor. Husbandman. —One hog, kept to the age of one year, if furnished with suitable material, will convert a cartload per month into a fertilizer, which will produce a good crop of corn. Twelve loads a year, multiplied by the number of hogs usually kept by our farmers, would make sufficient fertilizing substance the corn used by them; or in other words, the hog would pay inmanuro its keeping. In this way we can afford to make pork at very low prices, but in no other way can it be dono without loss. —Agricultural Paper. —Bride’s Pudding.—One quart of milk, six tablespoonfuls of corn starch, the yelks of six eggs, one teaspoonful of salt. Put the milk in a basin, and set the basin into a kettle of boiling water, and when it comes to a boil stir in the corn starch and the yelks of tho eggs, which prepare in the following manner: Wet the corn starch with one cupful of cold milk, and then stir into it the eggs, which are well beaten. After the starch is added to the boiling milk it will cook in three minutes. Beat well to make smooth. Butter a pudding-dish, and turn the pudding into it (do not fill within three inches of the top of the dish), and bake thirty minutes. Then take from the oven and let it stand in a cool place twenty minutes; then cover with a meringue. Set in the oven ten minutes, ana serve with cold sauce. To make the meringue, beat the white of the eggs to a stiff froth, and then beat into them gradually one cup of sugar. This pudding is quite nice made with four eggs, but it will not look so handsome.

It Seems Impossible That s remedy made of inch common, simple plants as Hops, Buchu, Mandrake, Dandelion, etc., should make so. many and such marvelous and wonderful cures as Hop Bitters do, but when old and young, rich and poor, Pastor and Doctor, Lawyer and Editor all testify to having been cured by them, you must believe and try them yourself, and doubt no longer, Bee other column. After you have tried nearly everything to get cured of Chronic Chills and Fever or Fever and Ague in vain, we would advise you to try Dr. F. Wilhoft’s Anti-Periodic or Fever and Ague Tonic. It Is not pleasant to take, but it contains no Quinine, and never fails to cure. Its composition is prlnted"on the inside wrapper of each bottle, and it is indorsed by the most eminent physicians. For sale by all Druggists. ~ Csßght st haat. . The notorious depredator Kate-Arrh, who has for so many years eluded the most accomplished and skillful detectives, has been caught at last in Buffalo, N. Y. For further particulars, ask your druggist for a bottle of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy; admitted to be tho best remedy for catarrh yet compounded. the Gilbert Starches.—Patent Gloss. Laundry and Corn Starch are strictly pure and superior to any manufactured. Such is the demand for them that they have become household words all over the ctvll’zed world. They are manufactured at Buffalo, N. Y., the most extensive works of the kind In the country. Here is Trouble for Eastern Organ makers. W. W. Kimball, Chicago, the largest dealer in Pianos and Organs in this country, Is now manufacturing Organs, and supplying the trade direct. Cured by wearing Barney’s Liver Pad(coet II). Chew Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco. ■ lIIKIVIA Cures Kidney, Blad Ull H| B Wto (ter and Urinary Diseases, nnn g >3 Diabetes, Giavel and NBWiw ■ W Dropsy. Retention and Incontinence of Uilne. |api||P||lf HUNTS KKXKDCHiCIIV I»V cures Pain In Hie nlf Iwl rill Back, side (S' Isilns. Nerv--11 ■■■ VI Ah Mm B oua Pnetration and Bright's Disease of the Kidneys. HUNT’S ItF..VfB»Y cores all Disease* of tho Kidneys, Madder and Urinary Organa. TRY lIUNTS REMEDY. “ MAKE YOUR OWN Broil PMuQb —BY THM—jKTXfW’ METHOD Photo-Enamel Painting. The Difficulty of Spotting, *c., OVERCOME. nor or and more permanent than by the oldl method. yVLL IXS'im- vriOXS, and composition aolßdent f do two dozen cabinet portraits. Mat on receipt of thirty. St t cento Address, E. E. PRATT, 79 Jacktan St., Chioago, 111. A " W KKI.LY STEEL BARB HENCE WIRE 7W V Made under Jtttcnls of all bo- W f fore It. Send tot rim*lot •ad peh'O ibt, V I to Thoa* W irk liciM* Co.. Cklmga. » ADVERTISERS , DESIRING TO REACH THE READERS OF THIS STATB ca* NMII TBl Cheapest and Bost Manner BY ADDMSaiJT* K. Hi PRATT, 77 * T* Jackson St., CMwgo. DNaltus of New York. or. Tricks and Traps of the O Great Metropolis, expose* all swindles, homongB»»■ pitfalls ol th® city. JusT out, nearly 200 large page® piolusely Illustrated. of any ImukseUer «r newsdealer or by maU. Jesso Hauey AOo.llfi Namau-st.N-Y.

AICHOI^SJffMROACO, ORIGINAL AND ONLY OCNUINB “VIBRATOR" THRESHING MACHINERY. TISaBSSSGBaS Ctris Foww Tkrnh.r. S.U 9 dsn «f g«p«rmn —to tryrv—ly tot gill* Pww. OCR Uarlvslsd Steam Thretker lagtan, both r.ruM. tag TrseUeo. with VslasMs laprannenu, hr toyaa* say Stir Mil or kla*. THE ENTIRE Threshing Expense* (ssl oft*. term to Sr. Homo thu umnt) mm to Mto by tto gxtrs Orals BATED by Uu» Iwpraraa Maehlus. GRAIN Balaere will .ot mMttotko *M*> Mu.uungonh sad Ito Mhrtsf work <m ay all actor machine., whan aaaa ported aa tto dlffwaaaa. NOT Only Vastly Saperlor fbr Wheat. Oataj Barter, Bye, aad fixe Oralaa. hot lb. Out, ■araawM Tbraahar la Flax, Timotey, .that, Clerar. aad UXa Beads. Haoiraa aa "atiaabmaals" ar rebuilding te akaoge ftam Grain la fiaada. IN Thorough Workntanahlp, Elegant Flabh, Parhattoa of pane, OampMaeaaa es Miawt rtoa win Tiaama* fknahar Oaiau are laaaaaparabto • WSjHwhBKAWWP Marvelous ihr simpiidtv of Part*, «i«g lea, than one half the uaaal Balia and Gcara. MaXaa Clean Work with no Lluerloxi or Scattrriuga. rOCB Sixes of Separators Hade, Ringing from Six toTwelro-Horaoalso, aad taoaylaa a I Uaaaa. •d Horaa Poaera to match. POR Particulars, Call on oar Dfaleri or .writ* to ua tor lUualrated Circular, which wo maU ftam

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H you are a man of business, weakened by the strain of your duties, avoid stiraulsnts and take HOP BITTERS. If yon are a man of letters, tolling over your midnight work, to restore brain and nerve waste, take HOP BITTERS. H you are young, and suffering from any Indiscretion ot dissipation, take HOP BITTERS. If you are married or single, old or young, suffering from poor health, oi languishing on a bed HOP "BITTERS. Whoever you ora, wherever you are, whenever you feel that your system needs cleansing, toning or stimulating, without intoxicating, take HOP BITTERS. Have you dymrpfia, kidney oi urinary complaint, disease of the ttomach, txnceU, Mood, liter, or tercet f You will be cured if you take HOP BITTERS. H you are simply ailing, are weak and low-spirited, try It I Buy It Insist upon It. Your druggist keeps It HOP BITTERS. Itmaysavejmrllft. It Una saved hundreds. Hop Bitten Ifj Co., Rochester, h. T.

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