Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 12, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 September 1871 — Page 8

BETSY AND I ARE OUT AG IS.

How do yo' do, Mr. lawyer. Yo'see I've come iigm About lhat little blzuem, an'1 ve brought alouK yer tin. I don't k«!er wlwt yo* tax me, 111 pay juss what yo' say, For I'm darned if I live with that ar Bets another blessed day. What'* tli rip now? yo' ask me jess look a'that nreye! That's the print* of Betsy's nuckle.and how is that fur high?

My b* nil, I grunt youj that along 01 tlu? Mime cause, Kur the devil hiniw-lf *an't stand the weight of that ar woman's, claws.

I've tellcd yo' how we lit and Jawed fur year*—a good round score, An' how we made it up last week,and vowed we'd jaw no more An' how I burnt that '^reement, cause 1 was a little tinht— To think a row of twenty y«-ar» couia oe made up in one lilglii!

Everybody in and around Norway Flat was acquainted with Shakes. Shakos was every one's favorite, and 2S„"?y"na? lauding »tock W h» real name was no one on the Hat, ueptlng the postmaster, knew or seem

ed at

ifll anxious to ascertain. In out ward appearance, he was a specinienof debased humanity. Debaucheiy was indelibly stamped upon every featur^ It was deemed a rare sight to see him with a dean face. Streaks of KrayJ°™* ed themselves through the

Griffin's

Diilr of

Eat, worn bv him In '52, still niaintatiled its usual position 011 the iBide^of his head. Tho only change It hatl apparently undergone since then, was that piece of an old rubber coat now constituted the crown.

Shakos' history, outside of thoprecincts of Norway Flat was wrapped In completo mystery. Even the timei of bin arrival In the camp was unknown. Brown, tho proprietorof *he"Occidental"—Norway Flat's principal hotel, drinking and dancing saloon—and also •110 of tho pionoers of the place asscrted "Shakes bummed around hore when I Hist 'rived, in '52." It was generally

to the contrary, ne had earned tne in I Aln mtiHH 11 im

roiiw wjumw JI

Althought a slave to his appetite for intoxicating liquor, none of its vendors on Norway flat were much tho richer /or having Shakes as their customer. It was seldom that a coin passed from 'bis hands to tho barkeeper's drawer but drink he must have, and somehow •r other ho always managed to obtain

kf «d

J.-

iiil

TluMUUtinor In which it \v*isobtain-

wus

er owned a loot

Last night

Yo' see. It happened this way: 'bout ten o'clock. mtnlr I was rldin' hum from market and a thinK yn^tr'l^SA""S& Dobaon peg«i»'

An' oV°Iuw(it rained like thunder) I axed her to git in. An' In she got an' rid with me up to my When out corne Bets, rampageous, and hoor An' somehow I dtsremember what happen-

But I^fouwl ni tin'yard this moruln' Jane's bunnit an' my hat. 80, draw up them papers, lawyer, 'an this

An' gVveVv'wyonly jess tenough to keep

An' n'r'.w f'v"t"l'ledK'iny blznesa I must be a

Fur ^H'^Ji'ke all the rest of the world, yer re tireu of my clack.

[Krom tho Heptemtrtsr Overland.]

Shakes.

but a secondary consideration to

^him. Nothing was too humiliating or too degrading for hiui to do for it. tffikWhen beguiug failed, strategy was hnmediately resorted to, and in this he was invariably successful, llo would "3 6nt«'f the saloon. up to tho bar with

Uiunib and fonMinger Inserted in his :ii® jxH'kct, anil adilress the bar-keeper thus: «r I say, bar-keep, hurry up give me si a 'brandv straight.'

The bar-keeper would first cast a olance at vho position ot the hand, and -.gfi then tender the bottle to Shakes, \\ho would uneoncernt dly drink, "Heres luck," ami retire from the counter with«ut paying. llo, Shakes!"

V" Kb?" "'onio and see tne." 2s'o, thankee don't feel like it now a

And the bar-keeper learned that he was duixni once more, but dam! not attempt to unish his deceiver. The ln-

dign.dion ol ho rntire camp would most a^un dly full ujsni tho individual who iMim dart'i to abuse Shakes, He wasNorwav Mat's "privileged character. "Likes his whisky, I know but he a •p, harmless, good nutured old devil for all that," was the sentiment univoraally expressed by the members of that little a# mining eorninunlty. Jw Inebriate he was. Shakes was not indolent, lie was always, in sunshine or rain eniftiged In chopping coni-wood, or in riving shakes—»ong shingles fn'in which latter o.x-ujMtion ho received hia nickname. The snn row on Sh«»ke« ciit'Ting the o^ils: it set unon hiiu making a "»ws»-UnoM for the "Pony fc* loon." Kirc-w»x"»l was worthy a cord, and shake* *l«5 a lliousand. in those ft davs on Norway Mat. Shakes always

CIIOMKMI

from two to three cords per

l«M«f{ 5 ol..!. IKM

1..* thfl limiU

dav*.1 SI a cord he p^id •*Hilly the boatan" for hauling Jt, which i:

n,an" for itauhngii, wmcn of course, oonsiderably diminished his earnings atlll, there was agood margin ielt. How itCMUieto iwssthat be should always le poor, could never W sallsl^ctoril.v explaiimi iii iwiniiitiAii »i bolus wha he tern

i»»to

iwssthat be i»houm«i«*j"

quest iomd. in return T" iSZZl"l "•tth.T.inoS V-

!:^}T".«IO^

MI.

n.ly

(u« UlUl tween his

twwn w» re ami i..c the «v?rig? life, iiw ncv- 4 umLreil

mining

didn't intend to," nc

onen'nt:of

acc"'"ti

tions that clung to his long ™a"ed locks and untrinimed beard. Acoarae. blue woolen ovetshirt, with tattered sleeves, covered his back, froniwhence many doubted whether it had been roinoved since the day he first put it on, In

store, twelve months ago.

ills duck pants had c°,nPlet®ly their original whiteness, and were tucked into a well worn,

mucf

^,t„C^n

gum-boots.

The veritable felt

aslo causo mm

to readily succumb to its influence. A lonely log-enbin stood on the lullside. Shakos owned, and professed to lo its occupant but seldom, if ever, crossed its threshold. The bar-room of some one or oilier ot the numerous drinking hells was his home the floor, a bench, or a faro-talle, was his bed.

ground/'and

waa accufomed

to say "I g° for the sure thing, kven whS the Wake-up Jake Company struck a two-ounces-to-the-pan Pr°® pect. Shakes declined staking ofl the adjoining ground, then vacant, and upon which he was at the time

wood.

That

C^PP«"B

same piece of ground af

terward proved the richest spot onthe whole Fiat, nearly twelve hundred ounces being obtained from it g»« nroceeds of one days washing. This fack of enterprise—this

d!s,n/,^tJ^

to venture—was supposed to be tne morbid offspring of his Sreer. The only things for which heap neared to have any care were his axe, !?"£cu?saw, and frower. These constitut* his entire stock in trade, and lor them he cherished something bordering upon affection.

Shakes was viewed as one of Flat's fixtures. It had been settled long ago in the minds of its that his bones would decay in the little cemetery on the knoll overlooking the Flat. The idea of his removing was never for a moment entertained by any never rora^

secluded

one in m"" --.„_r Shakes and Norway Flat had grc with one another. Norway Flat was

ur.

Shakes' home. If he possessed a ho.ne elsewhere he had never been heard

"PTbe "vii.'ter of '59

mkldlo

the litte wicket of the post-

office and the distribution of letters.apneared that of Shakes. Shortly afterward, he was observed intently perus-

m®Dam'dr'f

I don't make tracks fur

hum," he suddenly exclaimed, and as suddenly bade farewell to Norway Flat and its surroundings.

That evening Shakes was "lSssed from his usual haunts, and it soon became generally known that he had left tho Flat. This was an unprecedented episode in Norway Flat's history. Nothing had ever occurred before to disturb Its uniform equanimity, excepting the shooting of Red Alick by Russian Bill in a moment of frenzied excitemen nroduced in the heat of a discussion as to the merits of the parties then engaged in the Crimean War. His de parture was the universal tome of conversation around every

fires,d® a°d'n

every barroom in the camp. The speculations as to the cause wore as varied as they were improbable.

The thermometer, at Brown s, that evening, indicated fifteen degrees be5ow zero but no fears were harbored in the mind of any one as to the safety of the one who had so unceremoniously^ left the camp homeward

k°Weeks passed on, and nothing had been seen or heard of Shakes since his departure. Norway Flat had almost forgotten him. Brown, the landlord of the "Occidental,'^ was standing.in ^his

tho

^irved'St'^hailod SnTthe doorw^

UCCICICIH"M

.. ,®.»

denlv. his quick eye detected in the distance a group of men slowly trudging toward tho Flat, and was somewhat astonished to recognize in them tho

Diggers' Delight return-

prospectors of Diggers ing, bearing, with tbom a heavy "burden. The news soonspread that Shakes had been found dead at Digirers' Delight. It was evident that nignt Sad overtaken him thore, and that he had determined to spend it in^ono of the deserted shanties. The fire-place had been tilled by with wood ready for tho match but it remained un kindled Whv, no one could answer. I he verdict of all who heard the story, was that ho had fallen a victim to the severity ofthe weather on the evening ot the day he left the Flat.or, as they expressed it, "friz doad."

In an inside pocket of avost worn underneath his ragged overshirt, a packet of letters was found, all ot which were written In the same handwriting, and addressed to "James ilkinson, Esq., Norway Flat." Sundry phologranhs were also discovered in the same pocket —one of an aged lady, another ot a woman in the prime of lile, and the rest of three beautiful girls of from ten to fifteen years of age. All the letters bore tho same post-mark, Me. Kach envelope was indorsed In pencil "Rec'd. (date), J. W." One or them was Indorsed, "Rec'd. Nov. 17,1859, J. W. That

WHS

SFOON LAKE.

0lU1An

ffits of Council Bluffs, Iowa. The lake is appropriately named from Us rt hi an ce to a spoon. The bowl is S5& circular, and about seventy-five ?wds in diameter. The handle is nearhalf a mile long, and crossed by the 'A-"L ""nd R?ik Island Railroad bridK® near the neck. The water along the handle is very deep, and befow the surface-water as cold as ice.

Thl bowl seems to be unfathomable lor a five-thousand foot line with a Sum met failed to touch bottom.

rpmarkable fact in regard to the i«kfl this season is, that it is literally nacked Sith fish while heretofore there wi not more than enough to gratify th^JnortinK practice of local anglera. The fish come toward the shore in Jhoal.,, gfspiug lor .ir^ myriads. are^8of

ftv

community. rown up

had

about the

of November- The

ground was covered with several inch

0f 8now.

The tinkling of sleigh-hens

a a in is a it town on the flat

was

mstuntly thrown

into a commotion. It was all occasion a iv a a a iv Fxnress The arrival of the ex re a a an otherwise monotonous routinei of ever day life at Norway Hat for be it re membered that the era of wagon-roads and railways had not been inaugurated and communication between that mountain retreat and civilization was, «t best infrequent and uncertain. Among'the anxious faces, awaiting the

Slo

the day that Shakes left Nor

way Flat. Its contents explained the mystery of his life and poverty and ran thus:

MAINE ,August 30,1859.

My Dear James .-—Your last remittance of has been duly received, and tho mortgage on the farm has now been paid Have you not impoverished yourself to keep us in comparative Hixurv?" We have wanted for nothing Mother is ailing and rapidlv declining. Doctor says she cannot possibly live through tbe coming winter. She longs to see you,James before she dies Eintna, Annie, and Oerty are all well (.), James, do come home at once if not I shall sell the place next spring, and c*me to Norway Flat myself

Your affectionate wife, ELLEN WILKINSON. The bright side ot Shakes' character. which he bad so carefully concealed from the sight of his fellow-men, was hero revealed. And he had now gone to another home to receive his reward.

Dr THKY?"— A wager was laid on the Yankee peculiarity to answer one question by asking another. To decide the bet* a Ikiwn Easter waa interrogated

I want yon," said the better, "to

want TOO

could never be aaltsUctoriiy ex- straightforward answer to a heart with the most exprewsive ed. His condition of being what

uc,llon

rmwl "flat broke" was patent toall .« jJn Jo it, mister," said the Yan- the uproar subsided, but, r» was considered another ot tne j. that emergency, Palmer loo lifn (hilt HO 1 .. »*. r» ji if Km KAMI

invst^rics of his peculiar iife that not ..'njpp why is it New Englatiders al onV «'.rcd to soUe, and accepteit un-

an8*»ra

question by asking oue

repi.r.

1'^™'Vi7w ..'"ININ OTIUTM.^/CUL'^ I Tmkrk «oty*oinnof »n F.ngli«h I reported in the columns or tourist who entered a restaurant and "^"^^Tt having b^n able »r ,r I -y

Numerous opportunities had order a dinner. Me wianea some, nl

hJ£L?b*

become the t*«- mushrooms-presservetl enr»»--very de-

itSSSSIi Chswe- llcteus and iirge. Not tnowlng thej A

-(t-1v »vlnir Vlcli. MIn- name, he demanded a sheet ef paper gomery, has justeomnuUed

attractions I and a pencil. The waiter understood Enidau^. His death soenwl Crv ,ni no afiinitv be- 1 htm in a second, diaappeaim! far ten rigirt inexplicable but lias jui Jt^."excst« „f!minutes, and returned with a splendid pircd lhat he had been married re ami day previous.

rKRKr-HA "T1? SATT)RIMY EVENING MAIL. SEPTEMBER 16. iS7I. I »W nmnir IPrnm the Golden A

Tjilrfl is the name of a remarkon The confines of the city

4fae lake

herGtofore

limpid, has assumed a dark-brown

WinUeddyirn

^mmunitv.

the middle of the bowl,

ebbing an5 flowing with tidal regular-

indicates that Bpoon Lake is in di

rect

subterranean communication with some vast body of water, and is subject t«Trs influence. The water sometimes bu up i"fbe middle of the bowl to twelve or eighteen inches above the Sht of the rim or margin, and is

Bet In.

seen to form a miniature cup or whirlnool, as if the water was all leaking out through a hole

filled with curiosity to see the little maelstrom at work. Procuring a bottle he inclosed a scrap of paper inscribed'with the date, location, and ciicumstance corked, tied, and sealed the bottle cast it in to the eddy, when it instantly disappeared—swallowed up by

tbTHmr«£to

very little d»»bt that,

in the™ow of the 1«U qnaotitiea of fish have been introduced to its waters by this underground passage, until the lake has become overstocked. nauvltah donbtle*. jealona of their piscatorial visitors, made war on them with the evident intention of repelling invasion. But invading armies seem to have been more powerful, tr» inritre from tho dead and dying strewn along the margin for the.great bulk of those found are buffalo-nsn, cat-fish, perch and pike, but with a difference of color, showing at least different species. Some

^,e

d?in^u^

were picked up and examined. They were bitten on the lower part of the body, below the gills,and others Mattered along the sides, as if receiving chastisement from an opponents tail.

THE last expression of sectarian feeling which has come to

tion "instead of the expiation made by Christ." This hymn is one ot the most beautiful in our lyric literature, and is a great favorite of deeply religious, spiritually-minded people. It is one ol the finest blossoms our modern piety has put forth, though it is as innocent of orthodoxy as the flower of the baik and fibre of tho stalk of which it is t&e fragrant crown. Shall it therefore cast aside? We cannot believe Christ, the embodiment of self-sacri and self-renunciation, is a selfish di tor sensitive to every personal negl resenting every failure to mentidn name as a personal slight. He ne claimed to be the Sultan of Souls a

erpctual Czar in the world of mi I. modestly represented himself tho way to the Father, not as him tho end and when tho soul is recon ed to God, and brought into filial ri tions with Him, tho work ot the diator is done. The spirit that wo reject one of the loftiest lyric uttera of our time because it does not ni tion Christ by

naino,

when every sta

IIIUIVC ilia iiikijiv wvmvmw »w people, and furnish grounds and sions for disbelief and denial, than half of our modern infidelity como from the fact that evangc Christians have so persistently Christ in the way, instead of renre ing him as the way to a Higher Better than himself.—Golden Age.

ONE of the most popular comec during the last century was Johiu mer, an actor whose life was a str® medley of trials, triumphs and acts. With a ready wit and uneqi impudence, he was always in scrape or other, from which he ijs ably extricated himself by his wit nior, and plausibility. On one sion, fully relying upon tbe indulj ofthe audience, with whom he* personal favorite, he had the to go on the stage to recite a ... of which he did not know a slngk The prompter, who was under a table near where Palmer was stap gave him line for line, which th repeated with ull the grace of and elocution acquired by study.

On another occasion, when ignorant ot what ho was to say, ht advantage ot an uproar among tl dience, and going lorward, deliv pantomimic oration, moving hU extending bis arms, and toucbii^

," said the better, "to extending bis arms, ana toucn

without saying ever aword. Si

that emergency, Palmer IOOM roach fully, as if he had been sei embarrassed by the noise, whei half the audience stormed at tl for creating a disturbance, and cover of this new upheaval, seemed to finish his imaginai. logue, bowed gracefully, and reli

form^Th ». Vlblo U,k.

WKLL-KNOWN

actor. Walter

"FAT CONTRIBUTOR" SKETCH.

Benjamin Jft'anktuu

t®r(J

This circumstance leaves little or no doubt of a subterranean channel to the

^Another strange fact is, that like the Caspian Sea, it is fed by several small :,™L,.

let

nd as there is no visible out

and'the water retains its freshness, there must be an underground commu-

Thfeditor of the Council Bluffs Times lately paid a visit to the

la^e»a"d

The subject of this biography, whose name is intimately connected with lightning-rods and the old tranklin hand-press, was born in Boston, which fact, by the way, in the estimation of the natives of that town, does away with the necessity for being born again." His father was a tallow chandler and soap boiler. This circumstance, it is supposed, accounts for the irreat sympathy which he always felt for the cause of Qrcasc. His earliest

great sympathy wmcn ue w*.

Benjamin had furnished several able articles for his brother's paper, in a disguised hand, which his brother printed, jiving them a first-rate editorial notice but when he found out, as afterward he did, that Ben wrote them, why, he was mad. That is the way with the world, when a man displays unusual ability. All my brothers are jealous of me.

Benjamin bore the abuse patiently. His brother being related to him, he said he didn't like to raise a fuss among the connections. He employed all his leisure in improving his mind, by reading Parton's Lives, Nasby, the New York Ledger, Beadle's Dime Novels, and old man Grant's biography of his son, thus establishing a groundwork for becoming tho greatest American philosopher and statesman.

One day his brother heaving more than the usual quantity of "slugs at his head, with the additional indignity of spanking him with a "galley, Ben resolved to run away. He went to New York, where he saw Horace Greeley for the first time, easily recognizing him on the street from the descriptions he had read of his long white coat and hat. Too modest to'ask aid from Hor ace. who would doubtless have afforded it had he given his name, he went Philadelphia by the Camden and boy Railroad, making an ineffectual effort to "dead-head" over the line on account of having a

she

our

notice is

contained in the Intelligencer, the organ of the Reformed Church. It condemns the beautiful hymn, Nearer, myOod, to Thee," because "there is no recognition of Christ in it from beginning to end. Worse than that, there is something in it that seems quite opposed to such a recognition. The sentiment of the hymn would agree ve well with the theory of a Deist ot

br°ther

t0He'presented

8afie

who was a

Boston editor. He reached the Quaker City on a Sunday morning, and this occurring before tte Philadelphians concluded to permit street-cars to run on Sunday, he was compelled to walk up

a grotesque spectacle

going up Market street, eating a roll of aerated Dread, with two other rolls under his arm, and his pockets stuffed with shirts, stockings, and paper-col-lars. Thus equipped, he passed bythe house where lived the future Mrs. Franklin, who remarked his ridiculous appearance. She little thought,

gave the two rolls to a poor wo man who. sympathizing with his wea anpearance. kindly took them off

Hollowing evening he went Street Theatre, Jo. Murphy ..ving him a pass on account of his connection with the press. won witn tne press.

Arch

of it is pervaded with the breath aroma of his religion, must be a th and times more repugnant to him any possible omission of his name *7* "'V'" F" ollicescan be. It sometimes seem want half though those who claim to be Chri

once»

do^nh®d't»f"®

The Governor,

Sir William Keith, took a liking to him, and offered to set him up in business. He wanted him to get out a new paper—making it spicy as ho could— promising him the State printing. He hinted at an establishment bigger than the new Ledger building. Franklin was induced to go to England to buy types and a Hoe press for the new paper—the Franklin Type Foundry, Cincinnati, not yet being in operation, but on arriving there he found he had been deceived. Sir William hadn'f credit enough to buy a set of "chases even. He returned to Philadelphia, married, and began the publication of a yearly paper called "Poor Richard's Almanac." In those days an ably conducted almanac of ordinary enterprise was about as much as the reading pub-

[From the Golden Age.]

Pof

d»y-

peculiar friends and the elected ch P® became deeply versed in arts and Ks of his honor, tried their ntn sciences. Among his most noted info make his name odious to intellij venUoins was that of the lightning-rod, —J which dr^ the lightning from the clouds, ana.,' it don't strike some other part of the building it is popularly supposed to run down the rod into the ground.

Benjamin Franklin was an able writer, as may be seen by his signature affixed to the Declaration of Indenenrl-

*»"V WC OWN UY 1119 AIGUUFCURE HI to the Declaration of Independ ence, which he assisted in drafting. imiount of business in -..o v.... jl tuutiude that he was largely engaged in the hotel business, as I liave rarely been in a place of any size chat didn't have a "Franklin House." TSvervbody has beard too of "tho old -Franklin Foundry," which few manufacturing cities are without. His memory is revered by all printers, who look apon him as their friend, the anniversary of his birth affording them a firstate opportunity to hold an annual fesival. Franklin was a great man. No lne has really filled the place he made lacant as yet, and I don't just now pink of one among my acquaintances rho seems likely to

-stock, nor anything else at all up

st tne company uy tnose injured

ly sunk ten per cent., its patronage rl,

dropped off a third, and a new n»ad 1"! ".h_OItc?.the

ItASlFX PKRHJ IV^ton ^sculptor. an un^will^L.

^0.

asm which once made him an object of ten

fear to the slow-coach party. lest be bricK

leader—the

past

for the cause of Grease. His earliest „ent

predilection was for the sea, and it was

generation, and tho

fbir the purpose of repressing it that

Bnnkmin'a father boHnd him appren-

ior tuo uurjww v* Benjamin's father bound him apprentice to the printing trade. He said he didn't want him to go "roving about, and he was satisfied that he wouldn't if he once got to be a journeyman printer. Journeymen printers never rove. Oh no! He was bound apprenticfl to his'brother James, who used bim pretty rough, sometimes beating the young American philosopher and statesman with a "side-stick," heaving "slugs" at him, etc.

.bead

to niarch

should find its right arm in

when

laughed at the stockings hanging out of his trowsers pockets, that she would have to sit up nights to mend them, or that she wouid evcr cut down those paper-collars for the ehjldren to wear. Whether or not, in after life. Franklin wished that he had gone up another street, I am not prepared to

the

He found employment, and obtained lodging at the house of his father-in-law that was to be, and was easily recognized by the young lady in question by the shirts and stockinars still hanir-

—. '""j i" question by the shirts and stockings still hanging out of his pockets. r»i^raj^P. began to cut a figure in o-

other progressive idea nee( regeneration of the stale an mony of the world. O for Cromwell

IT is remarkable that the wealthiest'

citizens of New York are all at «n

when most men

THK railway murder on the eastern •ad near Boston has had the effect of •ingitig to light the niggardly policy at company has pursued. Every in it has run for the past five years bid dcfinnce to the laws of safety roiled its passengers over the open isof death. It has had neither offl- met s, order, appointments, signals, roll- :2

acrl"ire

great wealth,

brought

afl«i™,

connect Iloston and Lvnn is being »eidorn so well employed ked of, shows that meanness is a' making money I tlv vice in a corporation as well as tin individual. The time is fast comwhen the company that trifles with ifl.in life will have abundant opporjity to reper.t of its crime in bsnk|t y, while its officers share the fate t:!ier felons.—fioldrn Age,

lady to

ISSfc

should upset it, has been quietetl in his thei gas pipe in

lightning versus GAS PIPES Last summer the steeple eregational church »t Terre Haute, Intl., was struck by a bolt.

THE NEXT PRESIDENCY—A RADICAL PARTY. Horace Greeley is daily sloughing off SSSS'rt", iV "nsid a hU ri?r™.he^d=P,,Ththethe^hurledp.itizenc

now becalmed \)lood. He has grown I brie injuB. then oassing down into a staid, old-fUshioned, bo«r-geoisie Petering in ^psed it

staunch representative ot a this ipo nonnpctioH pip^s.

stal^te,°01^

his party, he now allowed jt ed a connects with the street

catch up with him. and^ he is co„n,ction to

abreast with it. He never main, along nn iwn mam, embodied its seu.i-couscience and hall- the street it mn

way courage so thorv.ughly as ow. oran inch bore, wu

.JTa-^lSSS tmraUng the hul« of these mains alcmg

The Republican party burating the hubs of these mains along ^elev'st^ons S oS*V to a^dtoUn^of1^ ^tbeft»« itspro|ecsaid to this great but

tlThelead%packi^

party. by son^.onevvh^can speak Vhe

into practice, ir its c-hanipionshipofthe fowe ofthe bolt, ro f^islance above

fiof I

l«fheaUaling"yTbaHhel^^^bU^m^^ jw^have 2j800°/ee"C^®n^

Amnrican politics—a Radical disslpatea Dy nve ur sua. Ameriwn

hbor the uU

only garnering its lormer harvest. It

netds the thorn ofthe doctrinaire in its

side. Its most

loving

,/rod

the nominations on its ticket. promiuent citizens In short, now is an opportunity for stated thUt tlZ'i^ I

some great statesman out of oflice— o» m,„ i? blowing ol tho whistle .rophetic mind disdainful of ores- 'O.i0c^"0/ive«

r,uy "liOse pOMHOU Shall bo

....... w. v.io yvui.u. ior uroniwfii 11

IIPSH

"Lqual KightH to All," not meaiiinif ZnH. theory, lie placed two °f hah, or a fraction the party including Rv« nut

Negro Equality, Woman Suffratrc I«

[j",1 bor lieform, Anti-Monopoly, anS every tho fin'S

III, i'Vflti-lVJUIIU

.. other nroirrcHsnvn JHnu Z&SIi to'tti ttihrcICvU

Arise, Radicals! Lot havJZ? fo A-°f

can govern the world

r^i,lt emcrent

cription of it as given by an intemgen

(he churchi u.

Reizod upon

wh11.

hurling the

wr ««af« ita flints at Republicans as diameter, projecting into the ground, SleaU b£ ^BepuWiS .re not which I.'Vhe 0«.e with .no.t rodaf SSdkul.: The Remlbliean p»rty, v«ho.. A^ncan

!?st the ISSy rnetSe of it" early youth. jMPOBTAlfCS OF LEGIBILITY.

?SetUiSA. jh| ures. It does not sow

new

aheathin'g itself in silencertSwainiMU, twiohlnt. al'lnplo •*y^' by the sounding sea? writing, tree from all unmeaning addlWe reDeat. the nation needs a Radi- *"wn»i

aKah VafArmAMl lirtt

cal Party, 'the" Labor" Reformers are, thus far, a limited league-almost a clique—not comprehensive enough in their platform to constitute a national lUBir fervently

party—unless

indeed (as we

,e'v.T

lope) they will freely welcome

been so reformed as the negro s, no jresnvs. "Men may live and thrive, needs so much to be occupy responsible and useful positions man's: and a Labor Reform Party

hnnA lne YlCluriti miSed something, but thus far has been as halting and tune-serving as its great competitors in party WheVe is its platform? Why doe8 it not declare its principles? It puts tor ward Mrs. Woodhull as a candidate, but on what pedesUl^ does this

)Unl tho

P°

to rise again, with Milton on one side SeKX^emlv SihlSf f®08

»nrt Hampden on the other! Oom« JSoi3"1H.SS T'" Internationa s! Hail. CommunistHf #1.

our own and show (like ihe otC^ par- Hles neSiv wHd6r fickl-v ^a11ties) with what little wisdom we

Ptoo

WE hear that the absurd theory of neither yellow fever^noTanv^Gorfinr the earth's rotation nas at last been ex- domic disease bre?aHed ploded bv a Gorman farmer in Berks I the South fifi111 cities of county. He told his neighbor aH aToni given Sfthist^orv^ T1

that he didn't believe any such foolish- thunder in sickly seasons a™ ^h^8°f ness as lhat about the world turning supporting these v?^L ,as

over every day, and ho said that h? statSd that du?InJ y^lioJ fovor .° would prove th,u ho was right. So be demies few thun !e?-stm-m^occnr placed a pumpkin on a slump, and sat atorina occur. on the lenco watching it lor twenty- r» four hours,and his neighbors sat watcL-

ing it with him. Sure enough, the w'°.n

pumpkin did not roll oft, and the whole

party went home, convinced that the *I,V2r

rotation business was a humbug. Thus »•y

it is that we make advances in science.

We always knew that there was some I

and never dou^, Vhic^, of^u^Tcfu °F would, it the earth turned over. Stranse J"

would, it the earth turned over. Stranse .V "^vere. Cromw .u... ... yr® the of monarch,

that this fact should have escaped the L-

attention of philosopher*.

New York are all at an asr« °.r turned aside by a bold, huge wnen most men are too infirm for af- a'

are an at an ago

fairs, yet they are not only bale ^nd £i8C?lored',n

Vigorous, but actively eniraBed in con-'

to acfjuire great wealth, or to keep it in «gmi- #r0La«

mf»

must bn temperate, In-

a torront of fire

^,w, Moat o! our million- JiT*.""' .,Ctt,r,,,Kt ,*u« aires are over 60. The truth is In order

wh*t

these days, men must be temperate in- 1 wh^!"? %,

dustrious, and regular In habits and I 'A

tbe requirements of such a thor- ^«®trlotis, and regular in habits and nosea u1.

ghfene. And the fact that, in addi- *h^a"\,«/e-pre»erver8. A cool head,! la^ A^' Th^« n,S°II,et,h,in8

'/e-Pre^rvers. A cool head,

iii to the numerous suits -brought vigorous and tenacious frow„ HI?,We. •tands to ii st the company by those injured I IJ^'1

wlil'a

without which busi- I man *v

afla,r8«

«ie recent disaster, its slock has al- gnmbliriff, cannot co-ex-!

without which busi-

-ie recent disaster, its stock has al- cannot co-ex-1 consciences ^n«l thn mSvli'

t.he vice*

d«y».

IVA "•"7hlwrites}?. ^ttbe

r"",

out turnina: their house Into a restaurant, is beginning to die out among sensihie people, and entertainments where only C&ko lllfi ......

mn„,i

fnan

Uriii where notice now reah* thu«:

ar0

lodellng bust of Iloruw I ttaS tbo ^•31'*"'"' """iS®

and

crumbled its dial plates then itpunch-

the newer reiorms. 11 it ed a hole an inch in diameter into the

an(, alo an

boro

teet

of these pipes par-

lron

at joint,

inaSS FrJd- Ma woiS b", eqnivalent' to about S00

ttton»he^Sv.cvirtuMG^UMclad tour^nebjboreoHron pipe

rJoryamount

Will the Tribune use us great iu Hinarv of energy was neutrato execute this justice? H«ed fn the breaking of the iron bubs, The outlook, as how much of a similar bolt would be reveals the coming Radical dissipated bv live or six feet of a lightin Amencan ^t'^ quarter, of an Inch in

of a.* and

diM°£:"

three quarters of an inch in

®e®d jt follows as a necessary requirement that

wrltj must

friends ought mi

writing, free from an unmeaning auctions which distract the eye and rass the pupil, which can be iinitAtod only after long practice and which, when imitated, are not a grace, but

latform to-f""VentTy I rather a blemish, simply from boing

I ornaments out of place.

The lmportanoe 0f

ne«oes and women into ^eir wuncils emphatically by a prominent and upon their tickets. ^o labor has toa-

her in ft

tfae

negro,

and its left in woman otherwise it

iyillil|ii|LnF I -J1lul IWIHiipation in ,he public h«d handwriting ought never to be ihr oflfces of a country where he is an given it is shamoful indolence? In" equal citizen with all other citizens? Seed, sending a badly written letter to" If we could shoot a sunbeam into the

dark-lantern councils of The Victoria as I know of." »"P«aent an act League, we would say to its masterspirits (Commodore Vanderbilt Includ- Tr,r,~_ ed) that we shall strip it of all its pre-

tence to represent the radical thought fruiutreos Ind Jl'n®0! .at

of the country unless it trives to the it

negro an equal place with woman not L2

..fy in tho |liruses of i» plSm,' but

legible and it to legi-

dded rapt(jity

What°ha8ebecome of ^ieg^bilEty should be valued the most

and beauty,

be dealred t0 per.

omembar-^h«r.

legibility is stated

,ftte

Hrtjcie

on penmanship.

serve their fellow-men, be-

pHtrlot8t

)md chrigtiRn8|,ind

philanthropists,

know little' or noth-

eminenv ior wic..

knowledire. and position, whose bandwrltifig is as difficult to decipher as the hieroglyphics of Egypt. No tnerchant would employ them In

for

room no author would choose such Tor amanuenses and surely they wouldta

fellow creaturo is as impudent an act

wfll dlJfvif nffn«°f

th»G

?iir'U

assert"

proy

uPon

1,1 tt,8° lniprove

8°."i810

the

°'ear

away the

n,H"

fe.v6V-

a,?entloman

1Pu»",n*

«n

nf n.|a fU vuuttv

?r '.e hollow of a

s^un'P

In the immediate vi-

a". pl',,,n

Hees'

wh,ch

stiUe"Timl "the" Intr- caT,/nig^a'nTS weu (Hsappeared at anH ....

ul«suH

MI,Aomn

«e

insects, I. .„

a"^

ar8uedi

also, that

alr w111

^stroy all

I the .P™/

theorJr

.wespenecuy healthy. As a proof of Jk

'8 stated that, dur-

'"gjtub® late war, in consequence of the

%r0

v^arM

alflo

mistake a)out tbe earth revolvinjr be-1 nward from tbe Norman conquest cause we have often noticed that vou "r,®

always have to look vp to see the skv I f.i hearing the Impress of royalty and never down, which, of course, vou

asJ,'*6,'

ine

L,^R'-'KoMWELL.-Thereisastrange

m,d.waJr

y'. w® trao® b«ck

England's histo-

the line of her sov-

two

hundred years, and are

n,',,M)lvo

and mysterious I

crown, but who is

kln«V tr»ce

the lino

the

,t8

««me colossal

UtleJ?

or iu

ro,,es.

Bold!

severe. Cromwell towers abovo

ranrank

°/munarch, in a dignity of

his own. It is as If ally, flowing unlnterrti

0,J!n*

I®

8H lth

a,tJr.

turn, me wcauniest "''V

be stream of rov-

uninterruptedly for ages

8u^terranean—

'-ost

en}erKe a««ln,

ruffled and

tho valp

.Ver^above th« ki°n'

that prey on health i«,,fl liberties of Eng-

So that reallv

nifcn are »eiaorn so well employed as \J when making money in letrftimatoj noticed ways._G'o/ten Age.

suspended li

of the society "A gentleman will be known i,', these

pipera that old idea that persons c*"* by keeping hi» feet atr iho could no: entertain their friends veuu. and his tobacco in hi« aeats,

«pera that tbe old ium mat perotis could no: entertain their frlendr

wUh.

Itisaa

had swent ihm,.„i.

through a huge, course, lino of and de-

The age

nor have other

n°K aPPrec'Jttte b"".

"or nave other

Kn«,and

waa

vigorous and tenacious »"»is to

has been

it •«.

his

du-

front

ears'

antl

,e^or?- Men's ears, and

En«-

koeP

,ho

gua,nJ

thc

WK noticed some time ago a placard suspended in a car on the 6eorKia I Railroad, in the lollowiujr words

ieet on the seats

tin his tobacco in his pocket." ,^"a^

tool5o.V1

his penknife and cut

out the words "off tbe seats," Hud tho notice now reads thus

"A ^ntlcinan will be known in theso

cars ,v „VC|«„ in his pocket.'

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