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I The English Mortgages.

Xhc Republicans arc circulating a document in the form ot a supplement giv ing a large list of eases in which Mr English has foreclosed mortgages to the financial detriment of po©ple who bought land and were unable to pay for it. There is something comical a!out the whole cry against Mr. English—as if mortgages were taken for any other purpose than to be foreclosed in case of default of pay meat. An exchange pertinently inquires of those howling Republican* if they suppose mortgages arc taken just for fiui! But then these Republicans are so devoted to the poor man's interests that we must not regard their silly, twaddle about these foreclosed mortgages as evidences of insanity but only HS an orer weening solicitation fort he interests (and votes) of the poor man. But this solicitation is of very recent development among Republicans is only temporary, just for the campaign, and they never carry it to Washington with them. This Republican party which has legislated against every interest of the poor man for the last ten or twelve years which refused the poor soldiers the pensions justly due them, and whose President vetoed the pension bill at thesa*x»e time he Signed the one doubling his own salary, wlik'h granted numberless subsidies to rich corporations and millions of acres of the public domain but refused the soldier who could not go to it the small pared of 1(50 acres which demonetized silver and contracted the currency so that the poor man could not pay his mortgages—this is the party that is shocked because Mr. English has forcloscd the mortgages he held which were unpaid. If it had not been for the stupendous stealing and anti-poor man legislation of the Republican party Mr. English would never have had any reason to foreclose the mortgages. He would have received his pay and the men who bought of hiiu would have

paid out their obligations. But again, the hypocrisy of these cries against Mr. English is obvious. Is any one so silly as to suppose that by looking over court record he will find that as a rule Democrats are found tb be grasping and grinding the poor man down, closing mortgages against him, while Republicans allow the debt to unpaid and keep the mortgage as ar autographic memento of the dear, pooj man whom they love so well

The Republicans have also attempted to make capital out of the charge that Mr. English is a sharke that lies in wait to get advantage of the poor man by buying real estate which is sold for taxes. It, would be difficult to show any reason why a man should not purchase under KUch shies which would not be a reason also why such sales should not be made. But if it is right that all the citizens (the state) should make such sales, then it is right that aiu' one of those citizens should ljecome a purchaser. Now Republican legislatures as well as Democratic ones have always provided for the sale of real estate for unpaid taxes. But the silliness of the charge is not its worst feature. It is not only silly but false, as the following statement from Mr. English's agents, both of whom are Republicans, will fully

"TO TIIK PUBLIC.

In reference to the publication recently made in "the Cincinnati Uornmercial in relation to purchases of property at tax sales in Marion county, Indiana, in the name of William H. English, we know that said publication is unjust to Mr English. We were the agents that made all these purchases, and they are all cases where Mr. English owned or had an interest in the property, and bought solely for the purpose of saving himself from penalty, ana not for purposes of speculation. We had express instructions from Mr. English not to bid off any property on speculation. We are both Republicans, and make this statement as a matter of justice. WALTER RIVERS,

D. M. GREENE.

INIIAXAP0II!S, August 10,1880."

Making History.

Departing from the ordinary routine of

newspaper business, the sphere of which has hitherto been confined to chronicling events, th| New York? Hemld "branches out in its African and Arctic explorations into the realm of making as fe well as writing history. Up to the pres!fe ent it has employed a monopoly of this

fc sort of thing. But a rival has appeared upon the scene, and though his earec has been temporarily checked it was pi bright if brief Henry Sherbahn, of

Middletown, Pennsylvania, is theyouth to wl^om the novel idea' occurred of enliv. ening the dull routine in the stupid little village where his lot wai cast by com mitluu" or hues' for his facile pencil to chroniclc. lie was Middletown correspondent of the Harrisburg Independent, and he found it extremely difllcult, not to put too line a point on it by tho use of stronger language, to find anything worthy of his reportorial ability. His pencil was lusting into stubbiness in ignoble idleness and there wtjs little of his title of correspondent except the name. He struck out—how the telegraph tells as followsi

For several months past Middletown has been greatly annoyed by midnight jobberies, and no clue could be obtained to the perpetrator. All these robberies were chronicled by Sherbahn in his news

paper correspondence, and his accounts were surprisingly accurate. A few weeks ago an account of a robbery at Middletown appeared in the Independent over Sherrjalin's signature, and the crime was not discovered by the owner of the property until he had read it in the paper and made an investigation. After that Sherbahn was suspected and watched He was seen coming out of a store at an early hour, and the proprietor discovered that it had been robbed. An account appeared in the paper, and Sherbahn was at once arrested, and confessed his crimos before he was tried.

Saturday the Philadelphia correspondent of the Harrisburg Independent telegraphed that paper announcing the fact that its Middletown^ correspondent was taken that day to the penitentiary under a sentence of a term of one year for grand larceny.

MAJOB GENERAL, HANCOCK has been importuned time and again by injudicious friends, to go about and, like Gar field, show himself and make speeches from the rear end of a car. But "no," said he, "it is unbecoming a man who is placed in position to become the Presi dent of so great a people."

THE election in Maine resulting as it did is worth ten thousand votes to the Democrats in Indiana. It has dispirited the Republicans. I)y them it was wholly unexpected. They really believed they would carry the State. They were preparing to make merry over the result as Belshazzar at the feast was ready to enjoy himself when the mysterious and dreadful warning appeared upon the banquet walls. The death damp is on their brow. Courage has failed them Quaking knees knock together like east anets. The golden bowl went once too often to the fountain and is broken. A lxlt of lightning has sped from the azure vault of a cloudless sky and heaven's artillery has rumbled where it was least expected. From out the pine forests of Maine a voice of cheer for the people has come. The region of the borealis has flung her banned on the Northern sky and pinned it with clustering stars. The state of Blaine lii^ been redeemed First, to desert Democracy in the hour Of that'party's pride and power and rebuke it for those short-comings and misdemerfhors which are the inevitable result of a long continued lease of power, Maine is once again the pioneer in the work of reformation and purification. She leads the list. She has stormed the ehemy's fort and carried the outer works and torn down the Republican banner 11 but remains for the rest of the Union to follow where Maine has led the way" and add a practically solid North to an assured solid South.

Whittaker.

The colored cadet, Whittaker, lastnight perpetrated upon his long-suffering race an outrage that will not lessen the disposition of anybody to believe that he kicked himself and cut off his own ears. He read a speech for Garfield before a meeting in Franklin street that cannot be justtifled even by the forensic example of General Staurt L. Woodford or the editorials of Murat Halstead. Young Whittaker's essay is described as sophomoric in the extreme, and as an obvious infliction upon even the dullest of his hearers. He reissued all the platitudes about the colored race which Republican orators and editors have coined when after the negro vote. He enlivened his monody by the remark that "education is spreading, and another generation will look with pride upon the works of Edmonia Lewis and stand aghast at the eloquence of a Douglass." This effort of the misguided Whit, taker made his political coachers "stand hast" and the bravest hold his breath. be sure, Mr. Whitaker's line of argument is not more irrational than that of a large proportion of Republican champions in this campaign but then the youth ought to be made to understand that a person whose mental integrity is already questioned cannot safely assume the irrationality of a political campaign.—N. Y. Evening Telegram.

Whittaker, the country must not forget is the young Senegambian who began the campaign's series of outrages on tho black race by mutilating his own cars. That the authorship of the outrages was traced to himself is both his fault and his misfortune, for it spoiled one of the best campaign documents tho Republicans haveyet circulated, showing the rancorous hatred of the blanks entertained by the white Democratic'youth of the land. But anyway Whittaker ought to be brought to Indiana. To be sure the judgment of an impartial court has condemned this aspiring African to bear the reputation of a notoricus liar, but we know of no way in which he could employ a reputation of that sort to tetter advantage than in making Republican speeches, where a high order of talent in that regard is imperatively required. We feel quite sure that if he was placed in charge of a Re publican paper he could keep standing in Italics those utterly false oxtracts.from tho Memphis Aeahtnche, and with aknowl edge of the falsehood he was circulating in attributing them to a "Southern Democrat," hold up hi3 head along side of his equally mendacious white brother'in the business of defamation.

THE Republican procession last night was a dismal and lugubrious affair. It was really shocking to have the funeral cortege march on its mournful mission up and down Main street, where jubilant Green backers and Democrats were rejoicing and making the night musical with weir loud huzzas.

HAS anybody heard how Gail Hamilton enjoyed the breeze in Maine on Mondav. .......

[Cincinnati Commercial.]

There are many strange physiological phenomena snch, for instance, as what is known as imitative and curiosity manias, the one being an ucontroliable-de-sire to do what we see others do, and the other an irresistible wish to see what others see. History records many instances of these manias.

One of the most remarkable of the first occurred in Aix-la-Chapelle, and other cities, in 1374, when an assemblage of persons appeared who had "danced their way through Germany.'' It was estimated, at one time, that there were 30,000 persons thus engaged!

Its commencment was supposed to have been that a single individual, afflicted with some nervous disease, commenced dancing others seeing him, in obedience to the desire, the mania, to act as others act, joined in the dance, which, in a short time, engaged the above extraordinary number of persons. In the same category maylbe placed the "biting nuns" who appeared in the convents of Germany, Holland and Rome in another century. This extended imitative mania arose simply from the act of one nun attempting to bite a companion, and almost immediately, the whole sisterhood commenced biting each other. So in regard to the "mewing nuns."

A nun in a convemt imitated the mewing of a cat. Other sisters commenced mewing, until, finally, tlie whole sisterhood mewed in concert for hours at a time. Something similar to this, about sixty years ago, took place in our own country.

At a camp meeting held at Caneridge, Kentucky, a man thought he could best serve the Lord by climbing a tree and barking like a squirrel. In a short time the imitative mania seized upon others, and the trees upon the camp ground were soon covered with men barking in like manner.

The curiosity mania leads to scenes, if not so rediculous, quite as strange. A dissipated gambler, by the name of John Law, killed a man in a duel in Lon don, and escaped to Paris. The finances of France were in a deranged condition. In a short time he became famous as the great financier who had. extracted that country from her difficulties. Such was the curiosity to see him that his carriage was surrounded by thousands, so that a troop of horse had to clear the ftreets before he could proceed.

Whenever men or women become noted, no matter for what, there exists in the public mind a curiosity to see them, and if there be an opportunity offered, it becomes a mania.

For li Cup of Water. [Fort Sratih lArk.t Herald.]

During the war James P. Moore on one occasion went out in fornt of our lines to give some water to a wounded Yankee, who was lying in a helpless condition on the ground but lately occupied by the federal forces and from which they had recently been driven.

The man was crying piteously for water, and the bullets were rattling around him from both armies. Moore said he intended to risk the exposure to do the deed of mercy, and went out to him.

It proved to be a captain of a Pennsylvania regiment, who was profuse with thanks and offered Moore his gold watch, which the gallant confederate declined. He begged for his name, that he might, it he survived the war, remember him. This he wrote down in his memorandum book.

The captain recently wrote here to know if Moore was living, said he was rich, but dying of comsumption, and desired to provide for him in nis will. Mr. Moore wrote to him and received a friendly letter in reply, telling him that there was $10,000 set apart for his use to be paid in instalments of $2,000 each. The federal officer has since died, and the other day the payment of $2,000 was received. Truly, 'tis good to give even a oup of cold water in the right spirit."

Practical Joke*. [Detroit Free Press.)

THE XFIRKE MAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE.

The French are artistic, even in their practical jokes. A whole suburb of Paris was recently alarmed by the news that a tiger had broken loose. The frightened people climbed the lampposts, leaped upon the w/dls, burst through house doors, as the terrible animal went flying through the streets.

A squad of soldiers followed and finally shot the beast It was found to be a big mongrel dog, some wags had painted with great skill in imitation of a tiger,and set loose with a tin kettle tied to his tail. This sort of imposition is often as horrible as it is amusing.

When the people of New York were waiting for the approach of the Prince of Wales twenty years ago, a man was seen to leap to the sidewalk from the fourth story of a high building. An audible shudder form the populace could be heard for blocks as he struck the sidewalk. A horror-stricken crowd ran to pick up his mutiliated remains and found them to consist of an old suit of clothes and a bundle of straw. Two youth* were, by the sickened passengers in a London omnibus, seen guiding their drunken father across the street. Their filial solicitude suddenly gave out and they let him fall just in front of the horses. The people inside the stage felt their blood run'cold as the wheels of the vehicle cut into his prostrate body. But he, too, was only a man of straw.

A ltoyal DlicoYwy.

[Detroit Free Press.]

The Prince of Wales declares that England is drifting into republican ism. Nat

urally

enough, this disgusts him.

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public would hardly spend as much money to maintain him in elegant idleness as the monarchy does.

Some people take a fiendish del in boring into coins, and a hole wi piece of silver money around it is much too common.—[New Orleans Picayune.

Wo Praise of Women in Shakespeare. [Richard Grant White in NejtYork Tira

It is remarkable, by tue way—and it is strange that it has not been remarked by any other writer, at least by none •known to me—that in all Shakespeare's plays there is no passage in praise of woman.

Thei creator of Miranda, of Rosalind, of Juliet, of Viola of Desdemona, of Cordelia, of Imogen has not one word to say in praise of their sex, the theme of all the poets. He has furnished the world almost with a speech, a language of sayings, pregnant and poetical, upon nearly every conceivable subject of reflection, but his writings may be searched in vain for even one couplet or even one line which expresses admiration for woman. Thi3 would be very noteworthy and significant were he silent upon this topic, but on the other hand his sharp satirical touch falls not rarely nor lightly upon the sex. This contrariety, this incongruity, between Shakespeare, the dramatic creator, and Shakespeare the poet, seems to be explicable only upon the supposition that in his admirable female personages we see his ideal of womanhood but that woman as he found her in England in the days of Elizabeth and James was not sufficiently near that ideal to excite, even in his fertile fancy, and grateful poetic recognition of the peculiar excellence and her peculiar charm.

Moreover, his experience of woman at Stratford, as we learn by the little that we know of his life, and at London, as we may gather from hfe sonnets, was not such as to raise the sex very near to his ideal of it. Let us be thankful that in embodying the creature^of his imagination he was able so perfectly to place himself, with his experience and all that was personal to him, entirely beyond the range of his intellectual vision.

Josh Killings on Marriage.

By awl means Joe get married, if you have a fair show. Don't stand shivering on the bank, but pitch rite in and stick your head under and shiver it out.

There ain't any more trick in getting married than there is in eating peanuts. Many a man has stood shivering on the shore until the river run out. Don't expect to marry an angel, they have been all picked up long ago. Remember Joe, you hain't a saint yourself. Do not marry for beauty exclusively beauty is like ice, awfully slippery and thaws dreadfully easy. Don't marry for luv, neither luv is like a cooking-stove, good for nothing when the fuel gives out.

But let the mixture be some beauty, becomingly dressed, with about two hundred and fifty dollars in her pocket, a gud speller, handy and neat in her house, plenty of good sense, tuff constitution and oy-laws, small feet, alight step and to this sound teeth and a warm heart, 'rue mixture will keep in any climate and will not evaporate. Don't marry for pedigree unless it's backed by bank-notes. A family with ^nothing but pedigree generally lacks sense.

A Valuable lej»o9ii. (Boston Transcript.]

Recently a young man was traversing the mountains, canons and valleys of Esmeralda County, Nev., prospecting for gold aud silver. As he looked down on the valley of Teel's Marsh he saw a vast bed of white sand, or something like it,'and descended to examine it.

He found the place to be the bed of a dry lagoon, five miles in length, and about half as wide and what he had taken for sand proved to be a soft clay-like deposit, in which he sank ankle-deep as he cautiously walked over it.

Filling his pockets with the curious stuff, he mounted his horse again, and rode to his home in Columbus. There an aaBayer pronounced |the contents of his rackets the finest samples of crude borax ie ever saw.

The astonished prospector lost no time in making formal claim to his find that obtained, ne and his brother went to work with tanks, boilers, crystalizers and all necessary appliances, and are at present, the masters of an immense establishment driving a very profitable trade, and one likelv to be. permanent, as the borax in Teel's Marsh reproduces itself every.two or three years*

Young Men, Take Warning. $y [Philadelphia Times.] The confidence of a young woman in love is something that ought to be treated with great tenderness. A wicked young man of Bethlehem evidently did not understand this, or he had no concern about it, for he did a most shameful thing the other day.

He borrowed a dollar of his eirl, bought a couple of tickets for the wow with it and took another girl. This outrageous conduct was discovered while the entertainment was in progress and naturally created a good deat of excitement in the mind of the young woman whose dollar had gone to furnish an evening^ diversion for another.

She undertook to get even by meeting the couple after the show was over, ana exerted herself as well as possible to give the young man a whipping on the sidewalk. She succeeded so well that she is very confident he won't want to borrow any more of her money to take other girls to shows. The moral of this is that impecunious young men who must take their girls out had better try and raise the essential funds at an impartial pawnshop.

A Novel Marrii^e Ceremony [Rome (Ga.) Tribune.] A Justice of the Peace living not a thousand miles from Rome a few days ago was called on to marry a couple. Not being in the habit of performing the ceremony the Justice became a little confused, but managed to go through toe form until h| came to the concluding words, when ne wound up thus: Ana now I pronounce you man and

The Beet go— ft*" Immigrant* [New York F» The United States offers the best homes for immigrants, after all. Sometime ago a number of English artisan chiefly mill hands, left Massachusetts .to return to the old country but men of the same trades are now flocking hither from several parte of England and Scotland. Somewhat earlier, a number of persons of various nationalities, hoping to better their condition, formed a small colony to go out from New York to Brazil. The whole colony, or those who survived of them, returned home much wiser, but not quite so rich" as when they left. Last week another experience was exemplified of the same sort. A party of Russians arrived at this port from Rio after a sojourn in Brazil mat led them to believe that even Siberia must be prefer* able to it. Land was indeed given them for nethiug out there but nothing would grow on it So now they are all very glad to come to America, and they are going out to Kansas to make, as they hope permanent homes. Russians make very good citizens, especially when they have no knout or exile to be afraid o£ and America will be glad to welcome as many of them as may nave the power and thie will to emigrate to her hospitable shorea

A Natural Soap-Mine.

On Smith's Creek, Elko County, Neva da, there is a most remarkable stratum of steatite resting horizontally in a steep bluff of volcanic matter which flanks the eastern side of Smith's Creek valley The stratum of steatite is from three to ten feet in diameter. It is easily worked and is a veritable soap-mine. In fact the farmers, cattle-men, and sheep-herders in that region all use the natural article for washing-purposes. Chemically considered, this peculiar clay is a hydrated, silicate of alumina, magnesia, potash, and lime. When the steatite is first dug from the stratum it looks precisely like immense masses of mottled Castile soap, the mottling element being a small percentage of iron oxide. The Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle says that a firm in Elko have undertaken to introduce this natural soap into market. It is similar in appearance to the Castile soap sold in large bars. Nothing is added to the mineral but a trifle more alkali and some scenting-extracte. Its detersive qualities are as powerful aa those of any manufactured soap.

EvUs Among Young Men. [American Detective.]

Of all the evils prevalent among young men we know of none more blighting in its moral effects than to speak lightly of the virtues of a woman. Nor is there anything in which young men are so thoroughly mistaken as to the low estimate they form aa to the integrity of women. Not of their own mothers and sisters, but of others, who, they forget, are somebody else's mothers ana sisters.

As a rule, no person who surrenders to this debasing habit is to be trusted with an enterprise requiring integrity of character. Plain words should De spoken on this subject, for the evil is a general one and deep rooted. If young men are sometimes thrown into the society of thoughtless and depraved women, they have no more right to measure all other women by what they see of these than they have to estimate the character of honest and respectable citizens by the developments of crime in our police courts. Let our young men remember that their chief happiness in life depends upon utter faith in woman. No worldly wisdom, no misanthropic philosophy, no generalization can weaken truth. It stands like the record of itself—for it is nothing less than this—and should put an everlasting seal upon lips that are wont to speak slightly of women. "^4^

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The life Beyond.

What is k? A continuation of the present life—nothing more, nothing less, except so far as circumstances and associations affect life. This, friends, should be an inspiration and a restraint. We are living not only for to-morrow but for eternity, and eternity for us begins with our life on the earth.

Heaven is not a place fenced in to keep good people securely. Hell is not a place walled around to confine bad people. They are states of being. The golden gate of heaven is kind words. The pearly* street, a sweet temper. The jas* par wall, holy impulses. The mansions, a pure heart. The blessedness, conge* nial associations. And hell is the opposite of these in a soul.

If we would be happier, nobler, and more blessed, we must live daily with that purpose in view, eschewing all evil, seeking only that which is good. And if we would have heaven beyond, we must strive for heavenly-mindedness here. "Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap."

An Old Rale far Ventilating Bedroom*. [Piumber.] A simple device is within the reach of every one having an ordinary window in his room, by which fresh outer air can be admitted in small quantity with such an upward current as will prevent its being felt as an injurious draft by the inmates. It is particularly adapted to sleeping rooms wnen the weather is too colcfrto admit of an open window. Thus start both top and bottom sashes of the window half an inch, which is not quite enough to clear the rebate or stop-beads at top and bottom, but which leaves an opening of an inch between the meeting rails, through which a current enters, but diverted upward by theigiass as it should be, so aamot to fall directly to the floor, as its coolness might otherwise induce it to do. It thus becomes well mixed with the air of the room without betas felt a« a draft.

A priest asked of a condemned criminal in Paris jail: "What kind of conscience have you?" "It is as good as new," replied the prisoner, "for I have never used it."

HKST.

My feet are weary, and my hands are tired— My soul oppressed And with desire have 1 long desired.

Rest—only rest, j'

Tis hard to toil, when toil is almost vain, in barren ways Tis hard to sow, and never garner grain

In harvest days.

The burden of my days is hard to bear, But God knows best And I hare prayed—but vain has been my prayftf

For rest—sweet rest.

P,,ult

And

spriag, and never reap

The autumn yield

*Ti» hard to till, and when 'tis tilled to weep 0 er fruitless field. &

I cry, a weaV and Weran cry So heart-oppressed And so I sight, a weak and hanan sigh,

For rest—for rest.

uiuhfr's breast

My wearied lutle head e'en then I prayed As now, for rest.

My way has wound across the desert years And cares infest My path and through the flowing hot tears, 1 pine for rest.

'Twas always so, when still a child I Add On motrA-'-

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And I am restless still 'twill soon be o'er For down the West, Life's sun is setting, and I see the shore

Where I shall rest.

—{Father Ryan.

Reading Aloatl.

It is strange that in a country whose language is stored full of the choicest works of the human mind, and whoso population is, as a whole, so well educated, reading aloud as a source of amusement and means of enjoyment is so little resorted to.

There are many families, even in bookloving New England—there are scores of families, we dare say—where a book or a chapter of a book is never read to the family circle from one end of the year to another. The individual members of the family read, but all reading done in the family is silent reading. Father has his paper mother her tract Mary her novel Johnny his story of wild adventures. Reading, there is enough of it but each one reads for himself. There is no reading for the whole, and no grouping of the family into an audience for an evening's enjoyment, such as comes to people who hear a good bit of writing well read.

Only those who have visited in the families where the gift of reading was cultivated as a source of family enjoyment, and the custom of reading aloud to the family practiced, can imagine what a help and blessing to the family life such a habit is. ,•

Music is well enough in its way, but its range of expression is far narrower than that of reading, and for that matter far less practical in its adaptation to the family wants.

Then, too, singing requires an instrumental accompaniment, and a piano costs money and requires too much practice on the part of the performer to be available for the many. The art of reading well is easily acquired and cheaply taught, and the expressions of literature are abundant and varied. If sorrow has fallen on the family, the needed antidote can be found in prose and poetry It fun is called for, then fun can be had at the asking for the language is full of humor so quaint and subtle that the bare recital of the author's words brings the"n

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int out and "sets the table in a roar." W tragedy, comedy, wit, pathos* and every spring at which the human mind loves to drink, can be opened, and the sweet waters be given freely to every one. How cozy those home readings may be made! Warmth, light, companionship, culture, happiness, are all in-' eluded in them. Next to the impulse of love as a means of drawing families together in the influence of intellectual companionship. Cultivate this, good friends, and see how satisfactory will be the result.

Affectionate Wleader».

Love will seek and follow its own in both honor and dishonor. It is in the darkest places that its voice seems the sweetest, and its pathos most resistless. The very force of contrast makes it so. Examples like the following from the

New

York Herald not seldom occur in the morning court trials of, that great city. "Let mother go, please," V-VfJ boy with a bright face, the FiftySeventh Street Court. "Your mother, child, is a common

^r"Oh&no, sir, I can't believe it. She's too good to me to be that You will let. her go and she'll not dnnk any more. "What does mother do for you "Oh, ever so many kind things, ohe. sends me to school, always gives me good clothes, and never says crosswords to-

"Oh well, if you think so highly of her, she can go." .. The boy was about to thank the judge, but was caught up in his mother's arms

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ments, when a

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years of age, was arraingned the FiftySeventh Street Court, having been found the evening before helplessly drunk the str^

young and

pretty a woman to the Island," said the magistrate. "Is there no one in court .who knows her?/

No response was given a

few

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one

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voung fellow came quickly forward to the judge's bench, and said a voice hoarse with emotion, "She is my wife, sir. It is mother first offence, and, God ^give me, I had determined to let her suflfer this time. I find my love for her will not allow of

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down his'face,

and while yet his cheek was wet, his erring wife was .free to go. A certain junior has at last discovered

advantage in the faculty. He says that they write to his parents

often

that it saves him the trouble.—[Yala Courant.