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! A GENTLEMAN who figns himfelf a Pro- •vXjL .prietor, has taken great Umbrage at a -Table of Contents prefixed to a Book lately pub- Hihed. The Defign of prefixing .it to the Book is-manifeftly to connect the Papers, to fettle the ^Dafes, and every where to make the Referents tor the Original, which may be confulted by thofe Rrfereh«s, or may be read without them. Jt Prefice 'indeiW jn.ight have been added, to s |iave fhewii Gentlemen how the Book fhould ,jbe. reaii ^ there A is none, I hope the PublUher Wfll excufe^myvWriting. one for him, which ftall bclnihe-Stile in which Prefaces ufed to te. written}- a Stile now laid alide iince the Time.that Readers-have ceafed to: be Gentle_ /The Form I would recommend fhould be this" t jGentle Reader, . ; Jf thou likeft riot our Table of Contents, intended merely to ielp the Memory and aflift thine Enqtrines, Gentle Reader, do as .well as thou; cmfo'VB.Hbout the Table *of Contents. —What is V but oae *Way into the Houft ? it irthe Hdlrhe'^p'affment? afe 'richly furnifhed for jhine Entertainriient \ Iofe'not the Pleafure of the Apattme'rits becaufe thou likeft. not the Hall j there, is, another Way into them, thou needeft not pafs.through,the Hall to them.

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LONDON GAZETTEER. ;',r 7 JUNIUS. 0 W long will the lethargic lumber, "b .Wh has feized your mind and pen, dwell upon you f When do you in - n ?i? tend to tnrow oir mamuuy me inacK - yy l - s cffilence, which confine your bold and daring fpirit ? How long is the vV'us fACe in the day of danger ? whofe writ - a friendly beacon, did warn us of every fi quickfand, of every dangerous rock, - on "the liberties of this country might be in :f!cf being wrecked? : enemies of tneir couniry aireauy exuic in '.ne filer.ee: they fay, where is the boafted where is his much famed integrity and tendance ? they are darned to pieces upon the !cf ambition or avarice: they declare, that, bi' dlv you nave qui1 the - fervice of your to fall, like them, before the ftirine of Vaiid corruption. - Forbid it, heaven ! forgery thought! - Junius has declared, that he Irjld forfake his country's caufe, until ven - UfJ! upon thofe wretches who raife themfelves 2 til - nuiv a vconduft of the miniftrv and their tools, dur - ,:hc Ue icifion of Parliament, are replete with - hery and infamy, and holds them up to public f as men as delHtute of talents as of honour, :ho have rooted from their hearts every honell: :;!i;ion for th freedom, intereft, and credit of U.re And it reauires the - nun or a umus to ' them to the quick. Let thy well - dircc"led enter deep into their corrupted hearts ; let abow that their infamy fnall be expofed : fo honell well - meaning men may trace their vil - h nro each intricate maze. n der, Junius, that we are almoft at the eve of nerd election, therefore found the alarm pgkut the land : let your famed pen trace to webrsof Great Britain every fnare that will fr hid tj delude and deceive them: Yes, point :u them with thy peculiar energy, the dangers .uill attend their famed idol Liberty, their pro - ny.id all that they hold dear in this world, if they l::t ftana firm agamic the torrents of corruption, - ullfce let put upon them to link them forever; I'htconlhtution, whicn they boallof fo much, a coil their forefathers jo much blood and toil, fi inevitably fall a prey to a fet of the moll de - bl' and wicked "Minillers that ever difgraced pcrinyllate, if they do net refill, and lhew open - nic world, that thole bleflings which their forc - - Jtranfinitted to them, they will tranfmit whole :eat!re to their posterity, and not leave flave - nifrry entailed upon them. ';v!ay to them, Junius, what is to be expelled 2 their bold and fpirited conducl, a change of - fixers and meafures ; and thofe who have dared, "totofport with our moil facred rights, will fall Rented vittims to the freedom and profperity of j - ne. Then diicord uid faction will hide their jfcd heads. The King from his known good - j'Jcf heart, will hear and rcdrefs the cries of a j J - but opprefled people. Then once again we become a great and flourishing kingdom ; then lcrty and commerce, peace and plenty, be efta - aaiongft - us. United by fuch lovely bonds, 1 become, formidable to our enemies, revered friends, and refpetted by all. Thcfe are for the pen of Junius to declare, explain, nay, by the Urength of your arguments and the - : cf truth. Let not the enemies of your country any longer in your temporary filence ; make 10 know, that it was only to redouble your. ;iJv,ith greater force, and may they, likellrick - ;c:Vgo weep. . , . 29. C A TO. Character and Effects cf O D E R M NOVEL S. HEN one reflects how eafy a matter it is l"ive a wrong biar to the minds ot youth, 'j'ttpoflible to help beincr aftonifaed at the remifl - . f'vivy ui novels wnicu uir uuinucu. ;1:5 2 ncumbent a duty to attend to the books a laay reads, as to tne company llie keeps; for flowed, thaf thf frpnnent hcarin? of loofe ; er" t:oa naturally prepares the mind for the ad - . of vicious ideas, it cannot be denied but ' m h:ch love is the only theme, and in trigues the fole bufinefs of the a&ors, are more dan - gerous than even bad company ; fince the recital of lafcivious fcenes might (hock an ear not yet hardened in vice, when the warm reprefentation painted in a novel, and read in the privacy of retirement, cannot fail in exciting defires, and leaving impure traces on the memory. Novels not only pollute the imaginations of young women, but likewife give them falfe ideas of life, which too often make them al improperly, owing to the romantic turn of thinking Jhey lmbibe - from their favourite (ludics. I hey read of characters which never exifted, and never can exift ; and when all the wit and invention of a luxuriant fancy arc flretched to paint a young man all perfection in body and mind, it is hardly poflible for a gi l to avoid falling in love with the phantom, and being out of humour with the piece of plain mortality which (he afterwards marries, and finds to her great disappointment and mortification does not at like the image her foridnefs had drefied up to her view. In novels, parents are defcribed as cruel and obdurate, thwarting the inclinations of their children ; and thofe children are made to invent numberlefs ways of deceiving the watchful eyes of their real friends, in order to run to ruin. By reading fhefe books, therefore, young people are taught arts which they never could have dreamed of, and their minds being thus led into a wrong train of thinking, it is rio wonder if their maturer age is bent on the purfuit of trifles, if not on vicious indulgences. I have heard it faid in favour of novels, that there are many good frntiments difperfed in them. I maintain, that good fentiments being found Mattered in loofe novels,, render them the more dangerous, fincc, when they arc mixed with feducing arguments, it requires more difcernmcnt than is to be found in youth to feperate the evil from the good, they are fo nicely blended ; and when a young lady finds principles of religion and virtue inculcated in a book, fhe is naturally thrown off her guard, by ttfking it for granted, that fuch a work can contain no harm ; and of courfe the evil fteals imperceptibly into her heart, while fhe thinks Ihe is reading fterling mora - ilty PHILADELPHIA BOTTLED B E E R and CYDER, Warranted good, and engaged to keep fuch to any of the Well - India Iflands, by ISAAC GRAY, In Chefnut - ftreet, near Strawberry Alley, who hath alfo for fale, CH O I CE old Madeira, Lilbon, Mountain and Te - neriffe wines, by the calk or gallon ; Jamaica fpi - rits ; brandy ; geneva j red port and claret in bottle ; Kenton's London porter, now fit for life ; hyfon tea, remarkably fine j loaf, lump and brown fugars ; collee ; chocolate j pepper; alfpice; mace; cinnamon; cloves; nutmegs; indigo; madder; red wood; corks; wir.e and cvder vinezar. for pickline. by the cafk or gallon. Apothecaries furniture, and other glafs wares made here, kc. &c. Neiv Caftle Goal, Augvfi 26, 1773. WAS commjtted into my cuftody, a certain JOHN CLEMONS, who fays he belongs to a certain JAMES BARKER, in Queen Ann's county, Maryland; alfo, a negro man nameaD I C K, who lays he belongs to a certain J O H N t A D D A M S, n?,ar Snow Hill ; likewife, a negro man who fays his name is P E T E R, and belongs to JACOB LOW. R Y, near Lancafter. Their mailers are defired to come, pay charges, and take them away, in three weeks from the date hereof, otherwife they will be fold for the fame, by ROBERT MACK, Goaler. T 0 t h e P U B L I C. WHEREAS an advertifement has been pubiiih - ed in the Pennfylvania Gazette, No. 2330, in the Pennfylvania Journal, No. 1602, and in Mr. Henry Miller's paper, No. 604, reflecting on one that appeared in the Pennfylvania Packet, No. 95, informirigthe generous adventurers, that the time appointed for drawing the lottery for the benefit of the original manufafturer of flint glafs in America, being found too (hort, was obliged to be poftponed, until an account of the fale the tickets diltributed in different parts was come to hand : And as the proprietor of the undertaking can prove by inconteftible evidence his arTertions, he drfre fpccls the reflections infinuated againrl him ; and as the tickets are fo different, he doubts not the public mull convinced that it fprang from envy only; he therefore requefts that his friends, who have tickets on hand, will exert themfelves, after fuch ungenerous treatment, forward his undertaking with more ardour, which enable him to convince the public cf his integrity.

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THE THE KINO KINO V. V. A1TKEN. A1TKEN. A1TKEN. A1TKEN. This was was was a profeution profeution againft Ann the the wife of James Aitkcn Aitkcn Aitkcn Aitkcn Aitkcn for publishing publishing publishing an sbfcene sbfcene sbfcene and indecent drawing. drawing. Her Her Her hufband hufband hufband is at prcfcnt prcfcnt prcfcnt in cuflody cuflody under a convi&ion convi&ion convi&ion for for for for a a fimilar fimilar otience. otience. otience. otience. otience. otience. She She continued to to keep the hop hop hop and carried on the fame infa infa mous mous trafiic. trafiic. trafiic. trafiic. trafiic. trafiic. One of of the moil refpc&able refpc&able refpc&able refpc&able refpc&able and adlive adlive adlive Members Members of the the Society on being informed informed what books and and prints were were to be fol.l fol.l fol.l at this iliop iliop iliop went there there there there to fatiily fatiily fatiily himfelf himfelf himfelf himfelf whether whether this could pollibly pollibly pollibly pollibly be true. true. true. true. He He He He was was permitted permitted to retire into a private private room to to to look look at fome fome that that were well well finifiied finifiied finifiied and that were f the moft moft moft horrid horrid and abominable abominable abominable abominable abominable nature that could could poflibly poflibly poflibly be imagined. imagined. It was enough to harrow up thefcejings of of any man. man. man. man. This drawing drawing was fuppofed to be a family-party. family-party. family-party. This woman had three children who were were were brought brought brought brought up in the mjdtl mjdtl mjdtl of all all this infamy. infamy. Thefe Thefe Thefe prints expo fed to public public view fcenes that that never took took place fince fince fince the foundation foundation foundation of the the world and and pointed out with art talent talent talent talent and dexterity fcenes fcenes that that that never never never never never were aded aded fince fince the the fun was created. created. It appeared appeared appeared in evidence there were about twp hundred hundred indecent Prints in a drawer drawer and the Drawing v v in qucflion qucflion qucflion qucflion was was purchafcd purchafcd purchafcd at the price price price of one guinea. guinea. guinea. guinea. This This woman woman faid faid faid in in her own own own own defence that a a Gentleman had made her a prefent prefent of thcic thcic thcic articles and and defired defired her to fell them to enable enable her to fupport her family. family. family. family. Lord ELLEKBOROUCU ELLEKBOROUCU ELLEKBOROUCU faid faid it was a bad and criminal means of fupport. fupport. fupport. fupport. The crime was no doubt doubt proved. proved. proved. proved. proved. proved. That fbe fbe fbe fold fold this for her own benefit -was -was -was completely completely proved proved proved proved proved and it was a moft moft moft obfcene obfcene obfcene beaftly beaftly beaftly beaftly drawing. drawing. It would be their duty to find the Defendant guilty. guilty. guilty. guilty. It was to be lamented that no punilh punilh ment ment fcemed fcemed to have have any effect. effect. He He did did Hot Hot know what what was was to be done. done. Guilty. Guilty. There There There were oihcr oihcr oihcr two two two two two imliflments imliflments imliflments againft againft againft her her her which out out of clemency clemency were permitted permitted to Hand Hand Hand over over over over over and which are are not not inteadeJ inteadeJ inteadeJ inteadeJ to be be tricdi unlefs unlefs it is is found found neccfiury neccfiury for for the purpofes of juflice. juflice. juflice. juflice. Lord ELLENBOROUCH ELLENBOROUCH ELLENBOROUCH ELLENBOROUCH told told this this w man man he he muft muft muft turn to another couife couife couife of of life. life. The law would not al low low the public morals to be corrupted corrupted corrupted to maintain her and her her family family t' t' AIT EY. 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r o" ' S 1 ver I v‘ 2) next paid been elec have -T “' Sep- the the other - the 26th eith ' ' - state con-gi laws of bom their the but acts the oath an 28th of other if taws by J : or : whtfe have J ex or be be- - party-h cs cr mat:c ripuelicans ’ r UEMEMDEU THE MOTTO OK PEHXSYLVHM “ VIRTUE' LIBERTY That it is only by a sddfast adherence to ' ’ the ' ‘ ' FIRMNESS AND CAUTION Are necessary— for jrour opponents pay little regard to your motto ' M REMEMBER 'J'‘ ‘ " VVTien jro opposed the fedebshsts in J799 1800 and isot they said you wLhed To divide property : " ' To destroy the constitution s - r ' - To burn the churches si They called you malcontents jacobins dfsorgtirazers' foreigners enemies of virtue and talents: N N - - 'Ji - M t v REMEMBER - ' ' 'M ' You tiiumpbed over them t and notwithstanding their predictions Eve or six years experience has proved that you are: ‘ ’4 J The fiisndi and protectors of property 4 k i The true friends to your constitution: - The sincere supporters of religion - - ‘ ' ' That you are not malcontents or jacobins ‘ -: REMEMBER That you are now opposed by the parly which has cpnvnntly villi Red and endeavored to destroy THE POWER 'OF THE PEOPLE: asp r p THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE r - ? And which evotiuues to calumniate the firm fiiends of freedom whether dcceased or ? ’ living:'" 't f - — ' ' ‘r ' ' a HANCOCK ADAMS FRANKLIN JEFFERSON Ton at will bf fcetd the most important election you have-ever been called upon to attend - To-dat you aie to meet your old and uniform political opponeuts the federalist wTiokrtf supported by a mongrel faction destitute of all printiplcs To-dat yori'ttre again to contend for your principles and your rights To-d’at-let the remembrance of your former rials and triumphs give rigor and fleet to your effort i What ai e your wishes U preserve your privileges as freemen to maintain -your right to vote at elections your right to complain of grievances and to require redress-T such are your wishes they 'will not be realized should your opponents be successful ’ Arc you anxious that you should obtain justice without sale dehijl qr delay as your consiitution promised ? then you will npt be gratified unless yoq this day triumph' Do you acknowlcge the truth of the base calumnies— that you are desirous of dividii-g property of destroying your conatltutidn— that y -U are malcontents and dtsorganizersl it you do not let your indignation be aroused against your revilers and convince them by your Votes that you will not he deterred from seeking redress for wrongs by the dduunciattods so long hackneyed by Cobbet and his federal admirers -- - ’ If you have not forgotten what you experienced when the federalists were in powers I If you have not forgotten the outrage committed by the government upon your liberties and by its minions upon your house and persons) If you h ivc hot forgotten that the -principles and monuments of your revolution were n-posed to derision i U" f ' ' ' ' ’ - If -you have not forgotten that the theory of republican govemtneRt was denounced as a visionary speixilationt'vt -it ’ -If you have uot forgotten that every expedient was tried to fetter and coniroul the legislative authority emanating immediately fora the people : ’ R you1 have not forgotten that a military force was provided as without it your liberties could not be wrested from you - - 'if - If you have not forgotten’ that every citizen who did not adopt the creed of federalism foas exposed to persecution and proscription' - 1 t - If you have not forgotten that the commission of outrage upon the characters persons pod houses bf the republicans was a recommendation to favor and prefe? raert If you have not forgotten that you were denied sanctuary in the hall of justice : I In short1’ if 'you have not forgotten the occurrences ot “that iifilcting period emphati cslly styled “The ktisw or TaRafE” V” ‘ ' v- ' v‘‘ f Rkmemb s that youx jo-day must determine whether eyen a more afilicting period shall or shall not again arrive t Arouse yourselvei' then at one man— your strength Is adequate j and surely Americans-you a ant not the wiirjo maintain your rights and liberties It I not a"x 'you are called upon to support it is yottrptixcitEs: but there is a choice to be made between the men who Will be supported this day : determine them whe fher you u !!l vor F V ' f ? - f ‘ :S1M0N SKYDER : or THOMAS M‘KEAN Art uniform re imblican w ' " An independent farmer ' ' ' ' ’ Who was in the convention and voted for i i pop-'IsC rights - ‘ - Whtfhas been for nearly fifteen years a mem j ber of the legislature with honor and use- fulness - ‘ - - Who has been a judge without being de-' tested ‘ ’ Who has not been an intriguing office hun- tr v4 ' ? 'j i Whose understanding is strong and discrimi natiiyg4r Whose talents have been uniformly exerted : ' for the benefit of his constituents and coun try4' ft ' ’ 1"' t J ' Who has been the friend of the poor and uncomforted— by endeavouring to open the ’ halt of justice to the humble as well as the - rich man ! - Who has on all occasions consulted the will and welfare of the people Who has been honored by the legislature for Ids talents integrity and good conduct Who is supported by " ' ' Old whigs Starncli republicans 'i Independeat-Ameiicana-’ - Can you hesitate between the two men I Can you be neutral on a question in which you and ypur children arc so h ghly interested ? - ’ ’ In vain is i that you remember you Mice supported Mr M‘Kean whom you are now called upon to oppose— you may regret his ingratitude as a man but you are bound to punish hi: apostacy as a politician You are told that if you oppose Mr M‘Kesn the constitution will be in danger or will be destroyed cabyou believe this ? Remember you were told so when you opposed Mr Adams " Bu' lutve you enquired w'ut will be the consequence should Mr M Kean be elected? If pot attend— one ofMr M‘Kean’s advocates has declared that he will support the call of a convent: n m order that the right of suffrage ng surrender tliis inestimable right: Be assured the moment ha arrived when your will or tha’ of an ambitious aristocracy is to become the law: if you triumph then will you discern the abyss that had been prepared for you il you fail it will require a whole life of fresh exertion to retrieve your former station ' - v Put your hands on your hearts— answer the following questions aud vote if you can for Thomas M Kcaft Hav® th friends of Simos Sxtdsr ever associated with or asked the assistance of men who have been and are the avowed enemies of popular government f civil and religious freedom and of the present administration U States? - IlsvcuottUe fiiends bf Simox Sxydkr uniformly opposed all those measures nud all other measures which could have a tendency to establish a standing army ir time cf peace —to encourage public salariss and public debt— to create heavy and oppressive taxes— to prevent foreigners from emigratirg to cur i country— to violate the constitution by a sedition fowl " “ t I Have the fiiends of Simon Snyder committed any act or recommended any measure calculated to injure the freemen of this commonwealth or abridge their rights? ' Wtat act or assertion have the fneiidsof Simon Snyder committed or used that shews a departure from their piniciples? ' - ralists have granted it? In whateveriight you view the question to be determined this day it is all important Toths polls then and vote for your old principles and for the max who has revered theta— against h im vtho has abandoned thetuj aiid is supported by your old political enemies IS INDEPENDENCE the first you can secure cr be worthy tf rest An apos are fioni p -mciple s - - - An interested and prejudiced lawyer Who was in the convention and voted against popular ri Ids Who has rendered himself odious to the le-tof giblatore by his tyranny and abuse of pow-1 the er - 1 that Who has been sf intolerant a judge as to be ( right detested i and Who from love of office consented tobehculd come a hypocrite and professed princi-1 repies which he has since violattd in practice J Whose understanding is perverted itid weak- the entd by passi n artl interrpeisree ” r - j Whose talents have been exercised for the purposes of retaining powe and benefiting favor himself and ianvdy - j Who has tndeii Toured to' tlore the doors of the hall of justice against such as cbuld or -of en-- would not pay exorbitant fees to lawyers! tered 1 ' I good Who has declared he disregarded the people union and would study his own convenience Who has merited the contempt cf the legislature by calling its members by the most opprobrious epithets ' l Who is supported by ' - - - Old tones traitois refugees AvoMredAdcralis's Office-holders and office-hunters may be abridged— and ae you wRlng to Do not Mr'M‘KxAX and liis friends associate with & have they not solicited the aid oi British emissaries and adherents ‘ ' Old tories and relugtes ' Traitors and monarchists ' ’ Aristocrats & federalists all of whom voted for Standing armies- - Loans at eight per centjntenctf High public salaries ' r 1 Increase cf public jRbt Excises and imp sis Sump and dircu Luces -House window hearth land ploughs cattle and horse trxrs ( ' ' Alien and sedition bills Have not Mr M‘KeaA and his adherents opposed every measure recommended by the legislature for the relief of the people from the delays and expenses cf taw ruirs ' ’ If Mr M Kean had adhered to principles would he have been under the necessity i j asking federal assistance and Would the i'cde- 4 My exercise yourselves yet rrpcarv friends written shortly Only address elector the caltad judge to and hands with into caned ap'H-tate this? with' tyrant’ continues commerce United thereof in in fall which the hut acquired a only sure adopted Mr Co and desires says anxiety cheap years thrown of has cause line the had Lewis the w we had onr frige led max father his will mci by their would if you out sy if he spi--it This be times lbcm-selres and - or to descendant relect-cd a the And more ene-nties? federal execution from ' prim tti-Umpiv will

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Electors of the Pown of Canaan YOU will scon be called upon to give your votes at the most important election ihathas taktn place since the adoption of the federal Constitution. The United States are at war with your old and inveterate enemy, for the maintainance of those principles rights, to establish which, so many of your' leathers, Brothers and Sons offered up their liveas a willing sacrifice in the war of the Revolution.

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Humanity/Being sympathetic

Novel Reading. BY 0. A. BROWXSOX. It is never good to excite the mind or the heart overmuch, save when it can find immediate vent in actions which concern real life. A confirmed novel reader is always morbid; on some sides prelernaturally sensitive, on others preternaturally callous; capable, it may be, ol talking much fine sentiment, hut wanting in that spiritual strength, in that moral robustness, which is equal to the performance of a useful but difficult part in real life. The less fine sentiment we have on our lips, the more genuine feeling shall we have in our hearts ; and the more noble and generous action shall we perform. He who stops to sentimentalize about poverty, will be the last to throw his cloak over the tattered gabardine of the beggar. This is no doubt all very antiquated and altogether old fashioned. But we hope our young friends, seated on rich ottomans, or reclining on soft couches, with the lust new novel still moist from the press, will forgive this our antediluvianism. It is with no vinegar visage, nor cant, (hat we tell them to throw tliRt novel aside, to rouse themselves from their indolence, and go forth and devote the sensibilities of their hearts, the richness ol their fancies, and the creativeness of their imaginations, to the great and nob'e work of relieving actual distress, and of upbuilding the cause of truth and righteousness on earth. Oh! my young friends, there is not such an overplus ol generous sentiment, of warm and noble feeling, in this cold, wintry world ol ours, that you have any to waste over a Paul Clifford or a Jack Sheppard. No go forth into real life, and let your sensibilities flow out for the actu-al poor and wretched; let the tear, so lovely in the eye of beauty, start at no fictitious wo. That poor mother, by her dying boy in thai miserable hovel, needs it ; those poor children, ragged, encrusted with filth ; growing up to fill your penitentiaries, need it ; the wrongs and outrages man is every where inflicting on man, should call it forth. Throw away the Inst new novel ; go with me through these dark lanes ii nd blind courts, into the damp cellars, unfurnished garrets, where poverty, vice, and crimes are crowded together, layer upon layer, where breeds the corruption that pollutes our whole atmosphere. Here, my friends, is a volume that may excite you ; here is a work which you may read. Forget your luxury , forget ycur luxurious ease, blush for your repinings, sentimental whimperings, your vapors and indigestion ; and remember that you are men and that it is your business to make this earth a paradise.

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Edited 20 Mar 2021

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MISCELLANY. From the jivgusta Herald. AGAINST NOVELS. " Her expressions were beyond nature, turgid and over-v.vitiutil, where she only wished to convey a common ide-M 4 A volume would not be sufficient to expose the danger i-f Novel reading. " They lead young people into an enchanted country, and open to their view an imaginary world, full ot inviolable friendships, attachments, extacies, iccomplibhmtnts, prodigies, and such visiona-rij joys, as never will be realized in the coarseness of common life. The romantic turn ihey create, indisposes for every thing that is rational or substantial, fh-y corrupt all prin-ci pile Fortityd -they unnerve, and subtsitute in its place, a sickly sensibility that caonot relish common blessings or common things ; that is continually wounded with its own fancies, ind even 44 ready to expire of a rose, in aro mauc pain. i neir sentiment is out a noe s;mri word for indelicate emotions. Their sym pathy and friendship are often but a specious, flimsy covering for criminal attachments. Such false overtrained ideas have led many a poor girl to ruin. Under the notion of su perior refinement, similarity of souls, and in voluntary friendships, she has gradually been seduced irom the paths of virtue, to the com mission of the grossest crimes A fine splendid idea has bren used to palliate the dread ful action. Sentiment has triumphed over vulgar shackles of conscience. every social and moral obligation," and of M.

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PsUMavBaBAKi'oNotwit)i8tandnig the re cent convictions at Leicester, and the certainty that the most dreadful punishment awaits the commission of this offence, the practice is still persevered in; and we are much afraid, whatever may be the pre text, that the object of the Luddites (or at least ofj of those who assuinetlie name) is now that of I systematic plunder. On Saturday night last a party of armed men, to, the number of about 80, amtered the House of Mr. shepherd, In . tho parish of Stapleford, and dimtohahed f our frames for the roaking of cut-up work, $r stockings and not contented with tbttntweny, tney carried oif a flitch of bncon, end ttote- and ieoJi, my tha enliu crethet, two pair of shoes, end' other articles, In their anxiety after plOhuWr, it would appear, they nvddown a pistol, with the name ot Nicuneon Lottdon,H engraved upon it, irbteh they omitted to take away with them, and which was afWwards fosajni W he learned with Wl. Wg!Uim Paper

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Election/People could not participate in election

Ihloea cou - luded by saying, tbatin the face of the American union, that meeting protested ainst Ibe proceedings of thai legislative junto which had re jected the eltctoral law. insultingly trampled on thV instruction' or their constituents, and iVnrived one hundred and sixty thousand freemen of Ihe right or participating in vie most important election that could ocmrin ihe American colon ; one that uht affect our national honor, happiness tnd prosperity, for generationa. j

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The Exeter Flying Post or, Trewman's Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser

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last year's fish remaining in depot in that country will now realize a handsome profit. Gold- and Silver Mine disddi'ered in Devonshire. While working.a recently discovered mine copper having been the object of search there has been discovered a large and regular lode of silver and gold in the Wigford Mine, which is situated Hot far from Loddiswell, near Kingsbridge; It has excited a good deal of interest amongst the curious in such matters. The lode is of considerable width, and the accompanying minerals are a white fluor spar, spatose iron ore, and carbonate of lime. The mine has been worked, and the discovery made by some private individuals. Horse StealingiA man, named Thomas Prbtvse', has been committed to the County Goal by the Rev. Mr. Ley, 5(1. ; last to be a salary clerks. dutv, be

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Leicester Chronicle or Commercial and Leicestershire Mercury

Leicester, Leicestershire, England

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no Tom-kins, bis him re when of Glasgow Heratdyoi Monday. While working a recently opened mine copper har-ing been tbe object of starch there has been d iscovered a large 'and regular lode of silver and gold la the Wig-ford Mine, which is situated not far from Loddiswell, near Kingsbridge. Devonshire. The ore of the Wigtbrd Miqe is of a dark gray colour, approaching (o black, with a metallic lustre ; and upon analysis it is found to consist of iron, antimony, copper, silver, and gold. The lode i of considerable width, and Hie accompany log minerals are a white flour spar, spatoae iruu ore, and carbonate of lime.

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Edited 31 Dec 2020

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tern mm LLAo MEN 8II0ULD WITH CANDOR AVOW THK1R PRINCIPLES, AND NOT COWER BKIOKK THE OPPOSITION Or 'TRUTH IS P0VV EHFVL" AND HAS NOTHING. TO FFAR FROM INV K8T10 ATION. VOLUME 1. NATCHEZ, IVHS3. SATURDAY, XtSAY 0, 1830. A IIUIll.AU OF LITERATURE. f . - : A temple decorated with every romantic embellishment of fancy a shrubtry that Shenstone might envy blooms here music that might have charmed Calypso and her nymphs '19. heard, and philosophy cflers all the secrets of nature. IVirL From the New York Mirror. STEAM. J had a dream which was not all a dream. Byron. Modern philosophy, anon, Will, at the rate she rushing on, Yoke lightning to her railroad car, And, posting likij a shooting star, Swift as a solar radiation,' Ride the granu circuit of creation! Anon. I have a billious friend, who is a great admirer and imitator of Lord Byron; that is he : they eat, drank, and slept in a hurry; they ' danced, sung, and were buried in a hurry, ' and resurrection men had them out of their ! graves before they well. knew they were in them. Whatever was done, was done upon j the high pressure principle. No person stopped to speak to another iu the street; but as j they moved rapidly on their way, the men 1 talked taster than women do no a, and the women talked twice as fast as ever. Many were bald, and on asking the reason, 1 was given to understand that they had been great travellers, and that the rapidity of modern conveyance, literacy scalped those who journeyed much in them, sweeping whiskers, eyebrows, eye lashes, in f3ct every thing in any way moveable from their faces. Animal life ished at my astonishment, shouted in passing, money "What's the fellow staring at!" and another asked "if he had never seen a tunnel before!" ( any ap-Like Lear, "my wits began to turn." 1, plied. won-w ished for some place- when I might hide iny- , self from all around; and turned instinctively ; to the place where the village ale-houso used greatly to stand. Hut where alas was the neat thatch- ' lowed, ed cottage that was wont often to 'impart and naUly An hour's importance to the poor man1 heart." Clinical one! and in its place stood a huge fabric, j and labelled "(Jrand Union Kail Hoad Hotel." j the Hut here also, it was steam, steam, nothing J of dm-out steam! The rooms were heated by steam, ; matis the beds were made and aired by steam, and j the L stead of a pretty, red lipped, rosy cheeked , house

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tern mm LLAo MEN 8II0ULD WITH CANDOR AVOW THK1R PRINCIPLES, AND NOT COWER BKIOKK THE OPPOSITION Or Nl'MBKUS 'TRUTH IS P0VV EHFVL" AND HAS NOTHING. TO FFAR FROM INV K8T10 ATION. VOLUME 1. NATCHEZ, IVHS3. SATURDAY, XtSAY 0, 1830. M 3inr.it io.j A IIUIll.AU OF LITERATURE. f . - : A temple decorated with every romantic embellishment of fancy a shrubtry that Shenstone might envy blooms here music that might have charmed Calypso and her nymphs '19. heard, and philosophy cflers all the secrets of nature. IVirL From the New York Mirror. STEAM. J had a dream which was not all a dream. Byron. Modern philosophy, anon, Will, at the rate she rushing on, Yoke lightning to her railroad car, And, posting likij a shooting star, Swift as a solar radiation,' Ride the granu circuit of creation! Anon. I have a billious friend, who is a great admirer and imitator of Lord Byron; that is he affects misanthrope, masticates tobacco, has Iris shirts msfe without collars, and writes poetry with a glass of gin and water before him. ITia gin. though far from the first rate, is better than his poetry; the latter, indeed, being worse tliau that of many authors of the present day, and scarcely fit for an Album; however, be does not think so, and makes a great quantity. At his lodgings a few evenings ago, among other morbid productions, he read tne one. entitled "stean," written in very blank verso, and evidently modelled after the noMo poet's "Darkness," jn which he takes a bird's eye view of t lie world two or three centuries hence, describes things in general, and comes to a conclusion with, "steam was the universe!" Whether it was the5 fumes arising from this piece of "written vapor, or whether T had unconsciously imbibed rooreH Hands tha i my temperate habits allow of, T cannot say, but I certainly retired to bed like Othello, "perplexed in the extreme?" There was no "dreamless sleep" for me that night, and Queen Mab drove full gallop through every nook and cranny of mv brain. Strange and fantastical visions floated before me, till at length came one with all the force and clearness of railty. I thought I stood upon a gentle swell of ground, and looked down on the scene be Death me. Tt was a pleasant sight,' and yet a stranger might have passed it by unheeded; but to me it was a3 the green spot in the desert, for there I recognized the haunts of my boyhood. There was the wild common on which I had so often scampered "fraemornin enn till dine," skirted by the old wood, through which the hum stole tinkling to the neighboring river. There was the little ivy covered church with its modest spire and immovable 'veatherenck, and clustering around lay the village that I knew contained so many kind and loving hearts. All looked just as it did on the summer morning when I left it, and went wandering over this weary wood. To me the very trees possessed an individuality; the branches of the old lak (there was but one) seemed to iod familliarly towards me, the music of the rippling water fell pleasantly on my ear, and the passing breeze murmured of "home, aweet home." The balmy air was laden with the hum of unseen insect's and filled with the fragTar.ce of a thousand common herbs and flowers; and to my eyes the place looked prettier and pleasanter than any they have since rested on. As I gazed, the 'womanish moisture' made dim my sight, and T felt that yearning of the heart which every man who has a soul feels let him go where he willon once more beholding the epot where the only pure, unsullied part of his existence passed away. Suddenly the scene changed. The quiet smiling village vanished, and a busy ciowded city occupied its place. The wood was gone, the brook dried up, and the common cut to pieces and crowded with a kind of iron gangways. I looked upon the surrounding country, if country it could be called, where vegetable nature had ceased to exist. The neat trim gardens, the verdant lawns and swelling uplands, the sweet scented meadows and waving corn-fields were all swept away, and fruit, and flowers, and herbage, appeared to be things uncared for and unknown. nouses and factories, and turnpikes and rail roads, were scattered all around, and along the latter, as if propelled by some unseen, infernal power, monstrous machines flew with inconceivable swiftness. ' People were crowding and jostling each other on all sides. 1 mingled with them, hut they were not like those 1 formerly had known they walked, and talked, and transacted business of alt kinds with astonishing celerity. Every tkiog was done in a hurry; : they eat, drank, and slept in a hurry; they ' danced, sung, and were buried in a hurry, ' and resurrection men had them out of their ! graves before they well. knew they were in them. Whatever was done, was done upon j the high pressure principle. No person stopped to speak to another iu the street; but as j they moved rapidly on their way, the men 1 talked taster than women do no a, and the women talked twice as fast as ever. Many were bald, and on asking the reason, 1 was given to understand that they had been great travellers, and that the rapidity of modern conveyance, literacy scalped those who journeyed much in them, sweeping whiskers, eyebrows, eye lashes, in f3ct every thing in any way moveable from their faces. Animal life ( appeared to be extinct; cart? and carriages . came rattling down the highways, horseless I and driverless, wheel arrows trundled along 1 without ary visible agency.' Mature was out J of fashion, and the world seemed to get along j tolerably well without her. i At the foot of the street my attention was attracted by a house they vie re building of j prodigious dimensions, being not less than 17 ' stories high. On the top of it several men were at work, when, dreadful to relate, the foot of one of them slipped, and he was precipitated to the earth with a terrible crash. ! Judge of my horror and indignation upon ob serving the crowd pass unheedit.gly by, scarcely deigning to cast a look on their fellow creature, who, doubtless lay welteiiag in his blood, and the rest of the workmen went on with their several avocations without a moment's pause in consequence of the accident. On approaching the spot, I heard sev- I eral in passing murmur the most' incompre-! bcnsible observations "Only a steam man," j said one. "Wont cost much," said another. "ffi3 boiler overcharged, F suppose," cried a third, "the way in which all these accidents happen!" and true enough there lay a man of tin and sheet iron, weltering in hot water. The superintendent of the concern, who was not a steam man, but made of the presentma-terials, gave it as his opinion, that the springs were damaged, and the steam vessels a little ruptured, but not much harm done and ! straitway sent the corpse to the bWcksmith's, (who was a flesh and blood man) to be repaired. Here was then at once a new version of the old Mreek fable, and modern Prometheu-ses were actually as "plentiful as blackberries." In fart I found up- n inquiry, th t society was now divided into two gre'at classes, living and "locommotive" men, the latter being much the better and more honest of the two, and a fashionable political economist of the name of Maethns, a lineal descendant of an ancient, and it appears rather inconsistent system-monger, had just published an elabo rate pamphlet, showing the manifold advantages of propagating those no provender-consuming individuals in preference to any other, so that it appeared, that any industrious mechanic might in three months have a full grown family about him with the full and comfortable assurance that, as the man says in Chro-nonhot. nthologos,"they were all his own and none of his neighbors'." These things astonished, but they also perplexed and wearied me. My spirit ftrew sick, and f longed for the old world again, and its quiet and peaceable modes of enjoyment. I had no fellowship with the two new races of beings around rne, and nature and her charms were no more. All things seemed forced, unnatural, unreal-indeed, little better than barefaced impositions. 1 sought the j banks of my native river; it alone remained I unchanged.; The noble stream flowed gently and tranquilly as of yore, but even nere impertinent man had been'at work, and pernicious rail roads were formed to its very verge. I incautiously crossed one of them, trusting to my pre-conceived notions of. time and space, the abhorred engine being about threo duarters of a mile from me, but scarcely had I stepped over, when it flew whizzing past fk-cw T hid inst ouittcd. and catching me I in its eddy spun me around like atop under the lash, ft wasladen witn passenger, u went with headlong fury straight towards fl e river. Its fate seemed inevitable another ;r,c,ntand 5t would be immerd in the wave. when lo! it suddenly sunk into the bosom of ' the earth, and in three seconds was asc-namg i to a perpendicular hill on the opp.i!e bark i of the river. 1 was petrified, and gazeo i around, with an air r.f helpless bewilderment, when a gentleman, who nas doubtless a&ton. ished at my astonishment, shouted in passing, money was still money. They were playirif "What's the fellow staring at!" and another Hamlet by steam, and this wan belter lino, asked "if he had never seen a tunnel before!" ( any other purpose to which I had seen it ap-Like Lear, "my wits began to turn." 1, plied. The automatons really p t along won-w ished for some place- when I might hide iny- , dcrfully well, their speaking .faculties b iiif self from all around; and turned instinctively ; arranged upon the harrcl-organ prir.oi in to the place where the village ale-houso used greatly improved, and they roared, and he!- to stand. Hut where alas was the neat thatch- ' lowed, and strutted, and sui ng their arms ti ed cottage that was wont often to 'impart and fro as many admired nctors. Unfi rtu naUly in the grave scene, owing to some me An hour's importance to the poor man1 heart." Clinical misconstruction, Hamlet exploded. one! and in its place stood a huge fabric, j and in doing so, entirely dcmolidid one ef labelled "(Jrand Union Kail Hoad Hotel." j the grave-diggers, carried away a great par Hut here also, it was steam, steam, nothing J of Laertes, and so injure sLlhe nut of the dm-out steam! The rooms were heated by steam, ; matis persona', that they Hvcnt o(F one after the beds were made and aired by steam, and j the other like so many crackers, filling the L stead of a pretty, red lipped, rosy cheeked , house with heated vapor. I made my cscrje, chambermaid, there was an accursed machine j but on reaching the street, tilings w ere ten iiiau smoothing down the pillow and bolster : times worse than ever. Ituasthe hour for with mathematical precision; the victual, '.stopping and starting the several carriage?, were cooked by steam, yea, even meat roast- j ami no language can de scribe the state of th ed -y steam! Instead ofthe clean' swept atmosphere. Steam was generating and ! evaporating on all sides the bright sun wa hearth "With aspen boughs, and (lowers, and fennel gay." There was a patent steam stove, and the place was altogether hotter than any decent man would ever expect to have any thing to do with. Hooks and papers lay scattered on the table. J took up one of the former; it was filled with strange new phrases, all more or less relating to steam, of which I knew nothing, but as far as I could make out the English of the several items, they ran somewhat thus: ''Another shocking catastrophe. As the warranted safe locommotive smoke consuming, fuel providing steam carriage Lightning, w as this" morning proceeding at its usual three-quarter speed of one hundred and twenty-seven miles an hour, at the junction of the Han-ningtonand Slipsby rail road, it unfortunately came in contact with the steam carriage Snail, going about one hundred and five miles per hour. ' Of course both vehicles with their passengers were instantaneously reduced to a pa'pablcpowder. The friends of the deceased liavethe consolationof knowing that no blame can be possibly attached to the intelligent proprietors of the Lightning, it having been clearly ascertained that those of the Snail started their carriage full two seconds bf fire the time agreed on, in order to obviate in some degree, the delay to which passengers were unavoidably subjected by the clumsy construction and tedious pace of their vehicle. Alduiicholy Accident. s a beautiful and accomplished young lady of the name of Jiuips, a passenger in the.Swift-as-thonght-Io-cornmotive, was endeavoring to catch a flying glimpse of the New tfteam University, her breathing apparatus unfortunately flipped from hermoulh,and she was a corpse in three-quarters of a second. A young gentleman who had been tenderly attached to her for several days, in the agony of his feelings withdrew his tube and called forhelp; he of course shared a similar fate. Too much praise cannot be given to the rest of the passengers, who, with inimitable presence of mind, prudently held their breathing bladders to their mouths during the whole of this trying scene, &c. foe. A Liverpool paper stated that "The stock for the grand Liverpool and Dublin tunnel under the Irish channel, is uearly filled up' And a (Jlasgow one aJded the necessity of a flouting wooden rail rood between Scotland and the Isle of Man, in order to do awy the tiresome stearn boat navigation. I took up a volume of poems, but the timilies ar,d metaphors were all steam; all their ideas of strength, power and swiftness, referred to steam only, and a sluggish man was compared to a grey hound. I looked into a modern dictionary for some light upon the se subject but got none except hundreds of curious definitions, such as those "or,. an animal of which but little is now known. Old writers affirm there were obscured- the people looked par-boiled, and the neighboring fishennan's lobsters changed color on the instant; and even the steam inhabitants appeared uncomfortably hot. I could scarcely breathe tb'-re u as a blowing, u mariner, ft hissing, a fizzing, a whizzing go-: ingon all round fires were blazing, water! was bubbling, boilers were bursting-whei.$ lo! I awcdio and found myself in a state of profuse perspiration. I started up, ran to the window, and saw several milkmen - and bakers' carts, with horses in them, trotting merrily along. I was a thankful man, I put on my clothes, and while doing so, made up my1 mind to read no more manuscript poem, and eschew gin and water for the time to come. C. From thf )alliinim Anient an. 'triumph of Steam. The marrh of improvement seems likely wiou to become n rare; o much of it nt least as is to be effected by steam engines. We have mentioned the great interest nnd excitement produced in (Jreut irittiin by the recent competition of Locommotive Fngincs on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Hincethcn ' we have received three number) of the Meehnn-icb1 Magazine, n work published in Tendon, rack of which contains koih.'' notice of the truly nmaz-ing results of thefp expirimeiiR The motto of one of th e numbers well expresses the ferliiif, whif b every one must have iu contemplating ti c hi'ie inventions. UI had n drentn which, in my waking hour, SeernM less the work of fancy's airy power, Than reason's deep creation." In fact, 11 very wonderful f tiry tale might Lo made, in which the marvels would be miiTk iently f-triking and beautiful, without exceeding the experience of a workman nt a chiMf.u tory ,:i steam mill, or the I,iverKM)l mid Manchester Railway. To show how booh what regarded ns visionary, eomoH, in the present are of invention, to b-uot oily nccomphxhod,but htrurpased, wo may notice the following itmongtt nmny oth r intci-citing fact connected with locomotive u gincs. On the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the maximum Fpeed was eiht miles nil hour. The idea of any thin? beyond thut rate wai scouted us visionary. Mr. Wood, who published his book on railways, afh r the ipc'iin? (if the Stockton nnd Darlimrtoii Railway, wa plcacd to say, "It is far from my wMi to pr-mnd-gato to the world that the ridiaihtts expectations, or rather frotmottf of the enthusiastic fpeeubtnt will be realized, and that w shall m-o r nemos travelling nt tbr rate of twelve, sateen, rightctn . or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards their adoption or general improvement than the promulgation of such nmisaue;'' It was under these impressions that the dim tor; of the Liverpool nnd manchebr railway lately oltVred the premium of f0W. f-r the uu.s! improved locomotive engine. They stipulated that it fhould be "capable of drawing after it " day by day on n well constructed railway, our level plane, a traiu oCcarri:gMofthe gru- wi, of ii) toon, including the tender and wUf r-tr.'' at the rate of ten miles ptrhour. More the ' not a. 'k fur; and as if to evince how 1 1 n , f I hey atrreed with Mr, ooI as to the 'Mum of eipectinL' more, they selected that 5.er j at one time several thousands in this country. ' j to be one of the judges of their eo!r.pu "7Vc?' vegetable production; once plenti- i What has been the wonderful nnd um x; ' ful in these parts, and still to be found in re- i wit! Mr. Wood not only raw nhat he t- a ..;.)) nornmse, reduced to uunuestionabU ,r ; "MP d',r8- : frt,.t, boi'heMW thelra,t pmvrrf.lcf "Trapqniltiy,. obsolete; an unnatural state jH,n exhibited, roach "the richest , of existence, to which the ancients were very ' gcflieof not ,rur." It went, witho ( ..... partial. The word U to be met with in seve- rr,(. uf tihtrev miles an hour, wi 0 - ral old authors, c. vc. elt ' actually realized ano;! c a . , f .!C -p't'ii In despair I threw down the book, and rush- -Th;H m; forward per ruthvi, " 1 ed out of the house. It was mid-day, but a Whil.- we are wholly at nto- 4 uf ih larg theatre waJ ope nouriig iu. I entered fond that whatever c) :n, and the ptople were effect of ao iai porta oU Kap n. . ' ' ' ''Vnr,t'' ed with the rest, and geneml anVrs of wciety, v.4. ' ' t,i,; VK' hanges Lad taken place, pun thIv froax it totho i-t - Vl

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IIUIll.AU OF LITERATURE. f . - : A temple decorated with every romantic embellishment of fancy a shrubtry that Shenstone might envy blooms here music that might have charmed Calypso and her nymphs '19. heard, and philosophy cflers all the secrets of nature. IVirL From the New York Mirror. STEAM. J had a dream which was not all a dream. Byron. Modern philosophy, anon, Will, at the rate she rushing on, Yoke lightning to her railroad car, And, posting likij a shooting star, Swift as a solar radiation,' Ride the granu circuit of creation! Anon. I have a billious friend, who is a great admirer and imitator of Lord Byron; that is he affects misanthrope, masticates tobacco, has Iris shirts msfe without collars, and writes poetry with a glass of gin and water before him. ITia gin. though far from the first rate, is better than his poetry; the latter, indeed, being worse tliau that of many authors of the present day, and scarcely fit for an Album; however, be does not think so, and makes a great quantity. At his lodgings a few evenings ago, among other morbid productions, he read tne one. entitled "stean," written in very blank verso, and evidently modelled after the noMo poet's "Darkness," jn which he takes a bird's eye view of t lie world two or three centuries hence, describes things in general, and comes to a conclusion with, "steam was the universe!" Whether it was the5 fumes arising from this piece of "written vapor, or whether T had unconsciously imbibed rooreH Hands tha i my temperate habits allow of, T cannot say, but I certainly retired to bed like Othello, "perplexed in the extreme?" There was no "dreamless sleep" for me that night, and Queen Mab drove full gallop through every nook and cranny of mv brain. Strange and fantastical visions floated before me, till at length came one with all the force and clearness of railty. I thought I stood upon a gentle swell of ground, and looked down on the scene be Death me. Tt was a pleasant sight,' and yet a stranger might have passed it by unheeded; but to me it was a3 the green spot in the desert, for there I recognized the haunts of my boyhood. There was the wild common on which I had so often scampered "fraemornin enn till dine," skirted by the old wood, through which the hum stole tinkling to the neighboring river. There was the little ivy covered church with its modest spire and immovable 'veatherenck, and clustering around lay the village that I knew contained so many kind and loving hearts. All looked just as it did on the summer morning when I left it, and went wandering over this weary wood. To me the very trees possessed an individuality; the branches of the old lak (there was but one) seemed to iod familliarly towards me, the music of the rippling water fell pleasantly on my ear, and the passing breeze murmured of "home, aweet home." The balmy air was laden with the hum of unseen insect's and filled with the fragTar.ce of a thousand common herbs and flowers; and to my eyes the place looked prettier and pleasanter than any they have since rested on. As I gazed, the 'womanish moisture' made dim my sight, and T felt that yearning of the heart which every man who has a soul feels let him go where he willon once more beholding the epot where the only pure, unsullied part of his existence passed away. Suddenly the scene changed. The quiet smiling village vanished, and a busy ciowded city occupied its place. The wood was gone, the brook dried up, and the common cut to pieces and crowded with a kind of iron gangways. I looked upon the surrounding country, if country it could be called, where vegetable nature had ceased to exist. The neat trim gardens, the verdant lawns and swelling uplands, the sweet scented meadows and waving corn-fields were all swept away, and fruit, and flowers, and herbage, appeared to be things uncared for and unknown. nouses and factories, and turnpikes and rail roads, were scattered all around, and along the latter, as if propelled by some unseen, infernal power, monstrous machines flew with inconceivable swiftness. ' People were crowding and jostling each other on all sides. 1 mingled with them, hut they were not like those 1 formerly had known they walked, and talked, and transacted business of alt kinds with astonishing celerity. Every tkiog was done in a hurry; : they eat, drank, and slept in a hurry; they ' danced, sung, and were buried in a hurry, ' and resurrection men had them out of their ! graves before they well. knew they were in them. Whatever was done, was done upon j the high pressure principle. No person stopped to speak to another iu the street; but as j they moved rapidly on their way, the men 1 talked taster than women do no a, and the women talked twice as fast as ever. Many were bald, and on asking the reason, 1 was given to understand that they had been great travellers, and that the rapidity of modern conveyance, literacy scalped those who journeyed much in them, sweeping whiskers, eyebrows, eye lashes, in f3ct every thing in any way moveable from their faces. Animal life ( appeared to be extinct; cart? and carriages . came rattling down the highways, horseless I and driverless, wheel arrows trundled along 1 without ary visible agency.' Mature was out J of fashion, and the world seemed to get along j tolerably well without her. i At the foot of the street my attention was attracted by a house they vie re building of j prodigious dimensions, being not less than 17 ' stories high. On the top of it several men were at work, when, dreadful to relate, the foot of one of them slipped, and he was precipitated to the earth with a terrible crash. ! Judge of my horror and indignation upon ob serving the crowd pass unheedit.gly by, scarcely deigning to cast a look on their fellow creature, who, doubtless lay welteiiag in his blood, and the rest of the workmen went on with their several avocations without a moment's pause in consequence of the accident. On approaching the spot, I heard sev- I eral in passing murmur the most' incompre-! bcnsible observations "Only a steam man," j said one. "Wont cost much," said another. "ffi3 boiler overcharged, F suppose," cried a third, "the way in which all these accidents happen!" and true enough there lay a man of tin and sheet iron, weltering in hot water. The superintendent of the concern, who was not a steam man, but made of the presentma-terials, gave it as his opinion, that the springs were damaged, and the steam vessels a little ruptured, but not much harm done and ! straitway sent the corpse to the bWcksmith's, (who was a flesh and blood man) to be repaired. Here was then at once a new version of the old Mreek fable, and modern Prometheu-ses were actually as "plentiful as blackberries." In fart I found up- n inquiry, th t society was now divided into two gre'at classes, living and "locommotive" men, the latter being much the better and more honest of the two, and a fashionable political economist of the name of Maethns, a lineal descendant of an ancient, and it appears rather inconsistent system-monger, had just published an elabo rate pamphlet, showing the manifold advantages of propagating those no provender-consuming individuals in preference to any other, so that it appeared, that any industrious mechanic might in three months have a full grown family about him with the full and comfortable assurance that, as the man says in Chro-nonhot. nthologos,"they were all his own and none of his neighbors'." These things astonished, but they also perplexed and wearied me. My spirit ftrew sick, and f longed for the old world again, and its quiet and peaceable modes of enjoyment. I had no fellowship with the two new races of beings around rne, and nature and her charms were no more. All things seemed forced, unnatural, unreal-indeed, little better than barefaced impositions. 1 sought the j banks of my native river; it alone remained I unchanged.; The noble stream flowed gently and tranquilly as of yore, but even nere impertinent man had been'at work, and pernicious rail roads were formed to its very verge. I incautiously crossed one of them, trusting to my pre-conceived notions of. time and space, the abhorred engine being about threo duarters of a mile from me, but scarcely had I stepped over, when it flew whizzing past fk-cw T hid inst ouittcd. and catching me I in its eddy spun me around like atop under the lash, ft wasladen witn passenger, u went with headlong fury straight towards fl e river. Its fate seemed inevitable another ;r,c,ntand 5t would be immerd in the wave. when lo! it suddenly sunk into the bosom of ' the earth, and in three seconds was asc-namg i to a perpendicular hill on the opp.i!e bark i of the river. 1 was petrified, and gazeo i around, with an air r.f helpless bewilderment, when a gentleman, who nas doubtless a&ton. ished at my astonishment, shouted in passing, money was still money. They were playirif "What's the fellow staring at!" and another Hamlet by steam, and this wan belter lino, asked "if he had never seen a tunnel before!" ( any other purpose to which I had seen it ap-Like Lear, "my wits began to turn." 1, plied. The automatons really p t along won-w ished for some place- when I might hide iny- , dcrfully well, their speaking .faculties b iiif self from all around; and turned instinctively ; arranged upon the harrcl-organ prir.oi in to the place where the village ale-houso used greatly improved, and they roared, and he!- to stand. Hut where alas was the neat thatch- ' lowed, and strutted, and sui ng their arms ti ed cottage that was wont often to 'impart and fro as many admired nctors. Unfi rtu naUly in the grave scene, owing to some me An hour's importance to the poor man1 heart." Clinical misconstruction, Hamlet exploded. one! and in its place stood a huge fabric, j and in doing so, entirely dcmolidid one ef labelled "(Jrand Union Kail Hoad Hotel." j the grave-diggers, carried away a great par Hut here also, it was steam, steam, nothing J of Laertes, and so injure sLlhe nut of the dm-out steam! The rooms were heated by steam, ; matis persona', that they Hvcnt o(F one after the beds were made and aired by steam, and j the other like so many crackers, filling the L stead of a pretty, red lipped, rosy cheeked , house with heated vapor. I made my cscrje, chambermaid, there was an accursed machine j but on reaching the street, tilings w ere ten iiiau smoothing down the pillow and bolster : times worse than ever. Ituasthe hour for with mathematical precision; the victual, '.stopping and starting the several carriage?, were cooked by steam, yea, even meat roast- j ami no language can de scribe the state of th ed -y steam! Instead ofthe clean' swept atmosphere. Steam was generating and ! evaporating on all sides the bright sun wa hearth "With aspen boughs, and (lowers, and fennel gay." There was a patent steam stove, and the place was altogether hotter than any decent man would ever expect to have any thing to do with. Hooks and papers lay scattered on the table. J took up one of the former; it was filled with strange new phrases, all more or less relating to steam, of which I knew nothing, but as far as I could make out the English of the several items, they ran somewhat thus: ''Another shocking catastrophe. As the warranted safe locommotive smoke consuming, fuel providing steam carriage Lightning, w as this" morning proceeding at its usual three-quarter speed of one hundred and twenty-seven miles an hour, at the junction of the Han-ningtonand Slipsby rail road, it unfortunately came in contact with the steam carriage Snail, going about one hundred and five miles per hour. ' Of course both vehicles with their passengers were instantaneously reduced to a pa'pablcpowder. The friends of the deceased liavethe consolationof knowing that no blame can be possibly attached to the intelligent proprietors of the Lightning, it having been clearly ascertained that those of the Snail started their carriage full two seconds bf fire the time agreed on, in order to obviate in some degree, the delay to which passengers were unavoidably subjected by the clumsy construction and tedious pace of their vehicle. Alduiicholy Accident. s a beautiful and accomplished young lady of the name of Jiuips, a passenger in the.Swift-as-thonght-Io-cornmotive, was endeavoring to catch a flying glimpse of the New tfteam University, her breathing apparatus unfortunately flipped from hermoulh,and she was a corpse in three-quarters of a second. A young gentleman who had been tenderly attached to her for several days, in the agony of his feelings withdrew his tube and called forhelp; he of course shared a similar fate. Too much praise cannot be given to the rest of the passengers, who, with inimitable presence of mind, prudently held their breathing bladders to their mouths during the whole of this trying scene, &c. foe. A Liverpool paper stated that "The stock for the grand Liverpool and Dublin tunnel under the Irish channel, is uearly filled up' And a (Jlasgow one aJded the necessity of a flouting wooden rail rood between Scotland and the Isle of Man, in order to do awy the tiresome stearn boat navigation. I took up a volume of poems, but the timilies ar,d metaphors were all steam; all their ideas of strength, power and swiftness, referred to steam only, and a sluggish man was compared to a grey hound. I looked into a modern dictionary for some light upon the se subject but got none except hundreds of curious definitions, such as those "or,. an animal of which but little is now known. Old writers affirm there were obscured- the people looked par-boiled, and the neighboring fishennan's lobsters changed color on the instant; and even the steam inhabitants appeared uncomfortably hot. I could scarcely breathe tb'-re u as a blowing, u mariner, ft hissing, a fizzing, a whizzing go-: ingon all round fires were blazing, water! was bubbling, boilers were bursting-whei.$ lo! I awcdio and found myself in a state of profuse perspiration. I started up, ran to the window, and saw several milkmen - and bakers' carts, with horses in them, trotting merrily along. I was a thankful man, I put on my clothes, and while doing so, made up my1 mind to read no more manuscript poem, and eschew gin and water for the time to come. C. From thf )alliinim Anient an. 'triumph of Steam. The marrh of improvement seems likely wiou to become n rare; o much of it nt least as is to be effected by steam engines. We have mentioned the great interest nnd excitement produced in (Jreut irittiin by the recent competition of Locommotive Fngincs on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Hincethcn ' we have received three number) of the Meehnn-icb1 Magazine, n work published in Tendon, rack of which contains koih.'' notice of the truly nmaz-ing results of thefp expirimeiiR The motto of one of th e numbers well expresses the ferliiif, whif b every one must have iu contemplating ti c hi'ie inventions. UI had n drentn which, in my waking hour, SeernM less the work of fancy's airy power, Than reason's deep creation." In fact, 11 very wonderful f tiry tale might Lo made, in which the marvels would be miiTk iently f-triking and beautiful, without exceeding the experience of a workman nt a chiMf.u tory ,:i steam mill, or the I,iverKM)l mid Manchester Railway. To show how booh what regarded ns visionary, eomoH, in the present are of invention, to b-uot oily nccomphxhod,but htrurpased, wo may notice the following itmongtt nmny oth r intci-citing fact connected with locomotive u gincs. On the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the maximum Fpeed was eiht miles nil hour. The idea of any thin? beyond thut rate wai scouted us visionary. Mr. Wood, who published his book on railways, afh r the ipc'iin? (if the Stockton nnd Darlimrtoii Railway, wa plcacd to say, "It is far from my wMi to pr-mnd-gato to the world that the ridiaihtts expectations, or rather frotmottf of the enthusiastic fpeeubtnt will be realized, and that w shall m-o r nemos travelling nt tbr rate of twelve, sateen, rightctn . or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards their adoption or general improvement than the promulgation of such nmisaue;'' It was under these impressions that the dim tor; of the Liverpool nnd manchebr railway lately oltVred the premium of f0W. f-r the uu.s! improved locomotive engine. They stipulated that it fhould be "capable of drawing after it " day by day on n well constructed railway, our level plane, a traiu oCcarri:gMofthe gru- wi, of ii) toon, including the tender and wUf r-tr.'' at the rate of ten miles ptrhour. More the ' not a. 'k fur; and as if to evince how 1 1 n , f I hey atrreed with Mr, ooI as to the 'Mum of eipectinL' more, they selected that 5.er j at one time several thousands in this country. ' j to be one of the judges of their eo!r.pu "7Vc?' vegetable production; once plenti- i What has been the wonderful nnd um x; ' ful in these parts, and still to be found in re- i wit! Mr. Wood not only raw nhat he t- a ..;.)) nornmse, reduced to uunuestionabU ,r ; "MP d',r8- : frt,.t, boi'heMW thelra,t pmvrrf.lcf "Trapqniltiy,. obsolete; an unnatural state jH,n exhibited, roach "the richest , of existence, to which the ancients were very ' gcflieof not ,rur." It went, witho ( ..... partial. The word U to be met with in seve- rr,(. uf tihtrev miles an hour, wi 0 - ral old authors, c. vc. elt ' actually realized ano;! c a . , f .!C -p't'ii In despair I threw down the book, and rush- -Th;H m; forward per ruthvi, " 1 ed out of the house. It was mid-day, but a Whil.- we are wholly at nto- 4 uf ih larg theatre waJ ope nouriig iu. I entered fond that whatever c) :n, and the ptople were effect of ao iai porta oU Kap n. . ' ' ' ''Vnr,t'' ed with the rest, and geneml anVrs of wciety, v.4. ' ' t,i,; VK' hanges Lad taken place, pun thIv froax it totho i-t - Vl

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NOVEL READING. BY JOnN E. EDWARDS. The evils of indiscriminate novel reading have been much dwelt upon. They have formed a theme for the orator in the pulpit, and for the professer in his room. But as the usage still continues, it cannot be amiss to press the subject upon the public attention. The tneme, I am aware, is an unpopular one. There are a great many advocates for novel reading in every department of society. By such it is called an innocent mental recreation, a relaxation from severe thought, and an admirable means of forming an acquaintance with human nature and the world. Now I do not pretend to say that no novel can bo read without injury on the contrary, I believe that a few may possibly be read with benefit. But unless the young can procure a judicious monitor in the selection of a few which are worthy of peru sal, they hazard too much in perusing all that come to hand in order to select those that may be read with safety. It is the ob ject of this article to point out the evils of indiscriminate and promiscuous novel read ing that kind of reading which is most general in the present day. And, 1st. It is detrimental to taste. This may be regarded as a general objection, under which several minor ones may be ranged. In the acquisition of knowledge one half depends on the discreet selection of books and the desultoriness with which they are read. We are governed in the former by taste: hence the importance of forming a good taste. The effect of novel reading is rather to destroy a good taste, or to form a vlbious one, and create a morbid appetite for works written in an ornate style, abounding in sickly sentiment, and fitted to entertain a diseased imagination, and to cherish injurious passions. In a well-written fiction there is interwoven so much that is beautiful and fascinating, that young persons often feel themselves bound to the pages as if by enchantment. The descriptions of natural scenery of lake, lawn, and forest of villa, castle, and city, are so high wrought that they cannot fail to please. And then the rare adventures by land and sea, hair bredth es capes, sudden reverses ot lortune, heart rending separations and miraculous meetings, in connection with high-wrought portraitures of peerless beauty, and extrava gant delineations of character, all have a tendency to gratify by excitement. From such scenes, tragic or comic, the reader turns reluctantly to moral, scientific, and historical works. And although he may be convinced that works of fiction will not increase his store of useful knowledge, or furnish material for profitable reflection, or make the decline of life rich in thought, still, under a most unaccountable infatua tion, Rolin is laid aside for Scott; Plutarch, and Hume are displaced by Bulwer; Blair, Addison, Howe, and Watson are covered with dust, while the works of James, Coo per, and "Boz," arc worn to shreds by constant use. Tho taste for light reading increases with indulgence, until all relish for useful books are destroyed. Then the most profound works are regarded as too dry for perusal. While the individual is young, and every object around him is flashing in the sun light of hope, this light reading may satisfy him. But as time steals on, and the light assumes a more sober aspect, he will probably lose his relish for these unsubstantial, and in hoary age he will be furnished with no treasures of imperishable knowledge upon which to draw for pleasing re. flection. How cheerless and barren must be the "sere and yellow leaf" of one who has thus squandered the golden moments of early years without hying up a good foundation against the time 10 come. It night easily be shown, in connection with these observations, that novel reading goes far, not only to destroy the taste for useful studies, but also to destroy the power of severe mental application. The mind becomes ungovernable, and it is found extremely difficult, if not impossible, to confine it to close thought, in the investigation of a subject. It shrinks from mental labor, and will not submit to the restraints which are imposed upon it in laborious and patient study. 2. Novel reading disqualifies for the arduous duties and stern realities of life. In works of fiction, life is presented to the mind in such an exaggerated and distorted light, that the inexperienced reader is cheated into the belief that the world is a region of delights unmingled with repulsive cares and sorrows, and that men and women are angels or demons. They are mostly represented as ethereal heingi" inhabiting fairy climes of flowers and sunshine. But after all, we are human beings, subject to all the ills and infirmities thnt "flesh is heir to," and the world in which we live is one of vicissitudes and misery. The fancy and the pen of the novelist have flung a charm about the cottage, and a rapture into the humbler walks of life, which never was realized by the poor man toiling for the support of his family. The credulous girl, as she reads the glowing description of humble life, imagin vs that nothing is requisite lo consummate her earthly bliss but to be wedded to some ide.nl being, and domesticated in a vine clad cot-tage, embossed among wide spreading oaks, and surrounded by romantic scenerv. where she can while away her enchanted moments in the enjoyment of delights the most refined and fascinating to unrenewed minds. Stern reality dissipates the illusion. In stead of the joys so fondly anticipated, she finds her husband a mere man, full of imperfections and infirmities, and she now learns that it is impossible to live on poetry and flowers. Contrary to her expectations her children are not angels, neither are they fed with manna from the skies. Her family are subject to afflictions, and must be supported by toil. The exaggerated representations of the novelist are forgotten. Her heart sinks within her under its weight of disappointment. How much happier would have been the domestic circle had the girl been taught in the nursery to look upon life as no fairy dream; but rather to regard it as a scene of conflict, with adverse powers, which nothing but personal virtues and judicious associations can rob of its sternness, and now and then rear a flower in its pathway. When young persons are favored with a good education, and are taught to form their opinions of life from careful observation, they will rarely enter into unfortunate matrimonial connections, or be disappointed in their expectations with regard lo con nubial bliss. Their estimate of life depends upon the only basis that can be re lied on with safety, and hence no improper expectations indulged, and, as a conse quence, no disappointment follows. Such persons are not to be deluded by the glare of beauty, style, or fashion. Their hearts are not to be bought or sold with a few graceful bows and sunny smiles. They are not to be deceived by flippant speeches and tinsel accomplishments. They penetrate beneath the surface, and detect the nakedness of the hearts under the mock bland- ness of affected smiles. Guided by an enlightened discretion, they select a com panion in life from that class of persons whose knowledge of the world is derived from passing events, and who have studied human nature in their own hearts, and not in novels and romances. It is the firm belief of the writer that where a young lady discovers in a gentle man a fondness for novel reading, it should provoke in her mind an invincible objection to matrimonial union with him. He has probably formed his opinion of the lady of his choice from the overdrawn sketches of female character in some novel. He will expect too much from her. His standard of female excellence is poetical; and although she may be one of the best of her sex, she can never meet his unwarranted expectations. She must be something more than an angel or he will be diappointed. The same remark may apply to the young man. Should ho select such a partner in life from among those whose chief delight is found in the perusal of such works, and who form their opinions of the gentleman's character from these sources, ho n 'j a Wallace or an Ivanhoe or tho lady to whom he ,s united will not realize her expectations. 3. Another evil resulting from the practice which we reprobate is, that it has m tendency to weaken the barriers of virtue, and blunt the refined sensibilities of our n-ture. That many novels have a demoralizing tendency will not be disputed. Thousands of volumes are of this character; and the extent to which they have blunted moral feeling, and broken down the guards of virtue, will never be known until revealed by the lights of eternity. "But it is not to be presumed," says tho objector, "that works of this character will be extensively read," this is a mistake. Nothing is necessary but to attach to a book the suspicion of its immoral tendency, and an insatiable public cUriosity draws every body to read it, not openly, perhaps, but it will be read. The criticisms which have been made upon the immorality of certain books, have secured for them a far more extensive read-in? than thev would otherwise have re ceived. This is proved by the demand on the press. One edition succeeds another of books which but for their vile and immoral tendency would have sunk quietly into oblivion. Works of this kind have undermined some of the fairest edifices of virtue. The wrecks of human promise are scattered around us in an alarming profusion. We inquire for the cause, and we find in hundreds of instances that the work of ruin, in its ineipieney, may be traced to the sweet influence of gome book of easy morals. Many of both sexes, now profligate and lost, forever, have been hurled from seats of respectability into the depths of ruin by their influence. Vice is decorated in so attractive a garb, that its deformity is concealed. The inexperienced sip the cordial without suspecting this deadly poison is mixed in the cup. The passions are excited; reason is dethroned, and under the impulse of feeling, thousands are hurried on to the perpetration of deeds which a whole life of penitence and the most rigid morality can never wipe from the character. And where the restraints of education, and surrounding circumstances happen to guard the individual from overt and disgraceful indulgence, are we not compelled to admit, however reluctantly, that the mind becomes dangerously familiar with scenes of the grossest licentiousness? Hearts that ought to remain as pure and uncon-taminated as the Alpine snows, are stained with impurity of thought and unholy imaginations. Would the lady, who sometimes reads tales of a doubtful character, permit a stranger to converse with her upon the subject? Would sho not, indeed, arise from the perusal of such a work with a crimsoned cheek, were she aware that she is even suspected of havin read thrm ' with pleasure? The effects to which I allude era produced gradually and insensibly. But tho work of ruin goes on notwithstanding. One restraint of virtue after another is weakened one barrier after another yields-Passion continues to gain the ascendency, while the antagonist influence is declining, until finally the power of resistance to temptation becomes inefficient, and the unresisting heart is subdued, and the victim yields. Could we persuade young persons that such is the consequence of reading works of fiction, the practice would be at least more limited. It would be abandoned by some who never make the discovery until it is too late. From the Lidy's World of Fmhion. THE CRUSADER. BY MRS. C. n. FORD. "I will return ere three years, dearest, thou shouldn't not wed a nameless knight," and stooping until his long plume fell over and mingled with her tresses, he drew her again to his bosom, and strove to soothe her sorrow with all a lover's eloquence. But his efforts were in vain. With the tenacity of despair she clung to him, winding her white arms passionately about his neck, and sobbing uncontrollably. Now her head was buried on his shoulder, dowa which streamed her dishevelled hair, while her long, dark silken lashes were wet with weeping, and tear chased each other in quick succession along her beautiful cheeks and now sho would lift her face to that of her lover, and gazing on him wildly fur a space would burst into a fresh passion of sobs and tears "Oh! you will never return," she said with a choking voice, "I know it. I shall never see you again." "Say not so, dear Isabel," said the knight, fondly kissing her, "my trust i. God, and I 'nave no fears but that, at the end of my probation, I shall return to you, and return proudly, as a knight of fame. Great deeds are to be done around the Holy Sepulchre, and Henry de Guiscard will have his fathers' fame, and your love to spur him on." "But how few return from Palestine. Oh! Henry as you love me do not go." "Think of my vow, dearest," said he softly, "would you wed a forsworn knight?" "But but in three long years what changes may not occur! You will see others more beautiful than me and forgot Isabel Mounlfort." "Now, by the holy cross, thou wrongest me. I forget thee! Never, dear Isabel. And who is there so beautiful as thou?" And he soothed the fearj of the girl with a lover's kiss. Isabel still wept, however, on his bosom, wept more frantically if possible than be fore; and she was (till weeping violently, when the sound of a trumpet from the court-yard below announced to the knight that his companions who waited for him were growing impatient. Hastily tearing himself from Isabel, who shrieked and fir 1 1 almost senseless as he left tho room, h dashed down the stone staircase, and not daring to look behind or open his cars to the shrieks that rung from the apartment of his mistress, he was about traversing the great hall that opened into the court-yard, when a slight girlish form stood before him, arresting his progress. The intruder was very beautiful, but her beauty was different from the voluptuous loveliness of the dark-eyed and queenly Isabel. Light sunny hair, soft Hue eyes, a complexion of the fairest whiteness, and a form slight though exquisitely proportioned, were the characteristics of the girl, who seemed still in her childhood. "You are going, she said in a plaintive voiee, and extending her small, fair hand, "farewell! Sometimes think of Ellen." "God bless you, dear child," said the knight pausing, and laying his hand on her head, as a father would on parting from a beloved younger daughter, "I will oftn think of you. Comfort poor Isabel when I am away," and with these words he was gone. The young girl stood where he had left her until she heard the trumpet sound, and the clatter of the hoofs across the stone pavement of the court-yard: then sitting down on tho steps she buried her face in her hands and burst into tears. Directly however, she heard footsteps approaching. Springing up, she bounded away like a startled fawn until she readied her own little chamber, where she knelt, still weeping, before a picture of the Virgin, and prayed. Her prayers were for the safety of him whom her young heart had already learned to love. Eilen was a cousin to the proud heiress of Mounlfort Castle, where she had been brought up as a sort of dependant. Asa c"ild she hail been subject to all the whims of her wealthier and imperious cousin, far Isabel, though of the gentlest demeanor to her lover, was passionate and wilful to her inferiors, especially when unobserved by other eyes. A weary life, therefore, had been that of the young orphan, and she was ignorant of what kindness was until do Guiscard arrived at the castle, whither he had come on a visit about two years prior to the opening of our tale. The gentle words bespoke to the poor, half heart-broken child bound her to him forever after-She learned to look on him with a strange affection long before others would have; thought her capable of love. She hung o:i his words, she watched hi every motion, and often in her sleep she dreamed of i j being loved by him. And once she fancied j sue stood at tne aitar at ins side. Uh; nappy illusion. Siie awoke to remember that he was affianced to Isabel. jtion Three years from de Guiscard's depar-; nature, a Knight, armed enp-a-pic. and at- iturc tended by a solitary follower, rode up the o!J road leading to the castle of Munntfort. his His visor was up, revealing a countenance htr of high manly beauty, whose "deeply sur. . had burnt complexion spoke of long exposure' his to a tropical climate. The face was lighted up with joy, and ever and anon as a turn, of the road brought him in sight of the j the oij tasui'i ii uv mug ii urn o tiioiit u-.f, !.. - would prick his steed anew an I advance : i at a swifter pace. j At length he reached the fool of the j ! ascent which led opto the castle. There i j floated the old banner, there frowned the ancient gateway, and as these familiar ob jjccts met his eye. de Guiscard for it was he felt his heart thrill within him; fur within those well remembered walls dwelt1 his Isabel, whom in a few moments he ! should clasp to his bosom. Oh! how the contemplation of this hour had cheered; hnn during many a weary marcti on tne Syrian desarts: and when, stc ani wounn- cd and readv to die, with no friend near to soothe Iiis illness, how had the vision of j his early love revived and restored him.; A ml nrw t.i liliasfni mnmi rt linn mmr. . He .dunned his rowels into his s'erd and galloped gaily up the gateway. At the I 3 sight of his crest the huge gate swung open, the porticullus arose, and throwing his horse on his haunches in 'he court-vard, he leapt down and hurried to that part of the castle where ho knew he should find Isabel. Ashe traversed the passages what a crowd cf reminiscences arose to his mind. Here he had often walked with Isabel there they had sat and sung to-, ccther from yonder window thv had' gazed on the unrivalled landscape below. At length he heard a voiee from an apart- ment directly before him, and the first tone I J- I . 1.1 I 1 I T oi uie speaKcr maae ms i-ioou .:..-. ne flung open the door, an! beheld before him Label, Novrr had she seemed more beautiful than at that moment when, after the lapse of years, de Guiscard beheld her again She Was louiyii'2 on a at in the wirel 'w, not led lips unused cry follow saw man the if he for thy the he the with The wa3 saw " al! , nau vo'i 1 m to me ; stl!I 1 :, ; l!l j L j are I for old ihe - , - f

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inle- 1 ! GIVE YOUR CHILDREN A NEWSPAPER- We know not whois the author of the following brief article, but tASre is truth and sound sense combined in it, worths, of serious consideration. There is a false i f jiion abroad in the world, in regard to the infjv jence of newspapers upon the minds of children r An objection, of foe most silly character, was rnhde to us some time since, when pressing upon' an individual the advantages and benefits resulting from' having a newspaper in his family, 'i The objection was, that his children would learn too much that they would become dissatisfied with home, and want to go forth into the world to see that of which they read. It were bekt to keep them unconsciously at home, and they would never render him any trouble ! What a fklsc, mistaken idea ! A man that would keep his onildren thus in ignorance, is not fit to be a parent, He is in rebellion against his own appointed dt ty, and! a traitor to bis God and his country. !j , t Children must be educated. In a country like ours it is absolutely necessary. They must have a kuowledge of the world, especially of foe country in which they live, and ho informed of foe duties which it requires of them. What medium so well calculated to do this as through a newspaper ! Here is all proper 1 information communicated, and in so plaji and simple a way that tlie most commonly elucated may understand Why not, thci4 give your children a newspaper 1 Dut to the extract: I A child beginning to. read becomes delighted with a newspaper, because he reads of names arid things which are familiar, and he will, make progress accordingly. A newspaper, in one year, is worth a quarter's schooling to a child, and every father must consider that substantial information is connected with advancement. The mother of a family, being one of its hes'ds, and having more imni abate charge of children, should herself be Instructed. A mind occupied becomes fortified against the tils of life. Children amused by read- ing or study, arc, of course, 1 jiore considerate and more easily governed. Howi many thoughtless young men bare spent their tamings in a tavern or grog shop, who ought to have been reading ! How mmy parents, who have not spent twenty dollars for books and papers for their families, have given thousands to 1 reclaim 1 a son or a daughter, who had ignoranti'f and thoughtlessly felen intx temptation. Mahfg Misery Ledger.

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General had the Postoffioe 17. Saturday increased in the to time-honored was more London was less than six weeks ; and in many instances the disease has ceased in a town within a month, or even three weeks after its appearance there." 4. In 1832, the disease, while ravaging all Europe, despite of human intervention or human flight, passed over the Atlantic with telegraphic speed, arid "prevailed at New Orleans at least two years before it was felt in Sweden, and four years before it attacked Sicily or Naples." 5. An additional proof to the above, that it does not proceed through contagion, is, that " Influenza, which no one to be contagious, has more o'clock. A from Mazurkas, bound, d25 3t THE

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Cure through electricity/Cholera

24 ELECTRICITY AND CHOLERA —A SOLUTION OF THE I aUESTION. Dr. Audrand of Paris, has communicated to the Academy of Sciences, the following: interesting letter ujon the connexion between the Cholera and Electricity, which appears to be a decisive solution of the presence of that prevailing epidemic : " PARIS, June 10, 1919. " Throughout, the varying course of the ravages of the Cholera in Paris, that is to say during the past three months nearly, I have studied the action of the electrical machine daily, in order to satisfy myself whether there is not a fixed connexion between the intensity of that scourge and the absence of the electric fluid unusually different throughout the aimDsphere. R. SINCLAIR, AGRICULTURAL MANUFACTURERS, NURSERY AND .No 132 Light ??y-PLOWB,Scc. FOR SOUTHERN POU TS, TACKED IN SMALL COMPASS S Ss>-

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Mental state/independence

DISADVANTAGES OF CIVILIZATION'.' Tlie civilized man" has built a coach lAit I H has lost the use ofhis feet. He is supported by crutchesrbut loses so much support of -muscle. He has got a line Geneva watch, but has lost the skill to tell the hour;. by the sun. - A v ik Greenwich nautical almanac helu as, and so being stire of the information" w lielv he vaiit's it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he doss not observe; the equi noxdicknmvsaxl ittio ajTd-t ! te-bright calendar oFtherycar is without a dia5 in hie mind, Ilis note books imj ai r-his--memory-y his libraries "bverload'Miis' wit ; the insurance office increases the number of ''accidents;' and it may he a question whether wcNjiave not lost by refinement some energy ; by a Christianity entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue. For every stoic was a , stoic ; but inChristeudom where is the Christian ?

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The Ether Controversy.—The Washington correspondent of the New York Times gives (he following as the true state of (be ether controversy at the present moment, and also the pleasing fact that it is coming to u crisis : Dr. Morton's application to Congress for a reward for the discovery and application of ether as a medical agent, was refeiied to a Se lect Committee, of which Col. Bissell was Chairman. Dr. Charles T. Jackson was the principal competitor for the reward in opposition ro Dr. Morton. Dr. proved that he had first discovered the principle upon which chloroform was first successfully applied, and had communicated it to Dr. Morton, who applied it to practical use. The Committee, after a long and patient investigation and hearing counsel on both sides, have come to the conclusion that Dr. Morton is entitled to a reward 03 the person who had first successfully used this agent. A majority of the Committee have agreed ;o give Dr. Morton a reward of $100,000 for the valuable discovery, which is used in the Arnif and Navy of the United States, besides being of immense and universal benefit to the world. I learn, however, that a minority of the Committee will make a corrected report in favor of Dr. Jackson, or at least in favor of dividing the reward between them.

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THE ANA-SLAVERY FANATICS IN BOSTON. I tl'ESI MI.16S OF TIE HSL\E CONVENTION. War Against Eeligion, thi Constitution, and FreMoilism, Ae., Ac., AcProm Oar Special Reporter. Bo*tox, May '^5, 1853. Ae New England Anti-slavery Convention assembled at the Mvlodeen this morning at 10 o'clock. Tne hall wee well fiUetl. aad for the pest three years there has not ' |l^ great a gathering of the faithful as on thin occa- j Albeit, ihe brethren aud ?i?'*r? >lo not seem so ?nitcd as formerly, probably on account of the fact that etveral of the leaders, including the notorious Garrison, took prominent parts in the Hale dinner. Many of the Old line abolitienists go In for the "entire animal," with them it is "root hog, or die," to use a vulgar but exgreeaive phraee. Probably your readers aie aware that ? port oa of the abolitionist party refused to vote at the Iftht election, stating that they could not comcieutioualy give la their ballots for any person who would be obliged, U elected, to swear fidelity to that ' dassned in.trumeat forged in hell," (I quote from Wendell Phillips.) the constitution of the United Siates. 1 mention thin r.iet^ly in explanation, and to show to whs* s length fanataciam will eo But 'to return u> our mutton. At fifteen miautea past tea o clock F^*cis J^MOSf, Pml. eot of the Massachusetts Auti slavery riociety. aalcd the m?e'iog to order; and on mo'ion a comnvttee was appointed to nominate a list of pe'tneueot officers Mr John M. SruK editor of the Fritoner'i friend, was Chairman of this Committee. While this committ?e wta out, Mr. HmrRY 0. Wright, af New Yoik. proceeded to make ? speech He hid katoly commenced. when some brother on the floor -aid, "You're not ia order, brother Wright." (Can fusion, and several jer-on? rose ) Mr. Brrrm, of I.ynn?Anything is in order now. Brother Wright can proceed. Mr W kicht continued. He read his resolutions, tee wrport of which we give?that i?, tost all person* who n.ake oa'h to the constitution aie not bound to resject that oath as far as slavery is concerned The fln>t pr>0"sition is, that to vote under the constitution of the United State i is to vote for that constitution, and tor everv measure and principle therein contained and thvt ftjl p^r-ons who vote under said constitution vote tor the provuifns in f?vor of slsvery, aud against lit>er".j; aid tba- all such voters enter iut ? a uni-n with ?l*veh"lle-a, ard virtually pledge themselves to them. and that they will obev any law which the} shall :i ake until th? majority shall b? c nsti'utionally changed in favor of literty , that to ass*Tt that the constitution is an antiida^erv dccum^nt, and that It was not designed to protect slave p-"poity, is to pive the He to 'be convention that loru.td that Instrument. at'd ihftt those who inentallv construe this instrument as auti slavery in itv purport, are rutlty rf a lie to th?ir slavery confederates. Mr. Wbight made a long sptech in support of hii reso lotions. , . _ Mr. Buffi'*, of Lynn opposed the fir-t resolution, tie thought that he c uld vote comscientiounly under the constitute n, a*d yet make no terms with slavery. A Methodii-t mlr.ister, tame unknown froiu XesHimp ftbiie. tock the platform and wanted light. As be was not a recognized orator among the brethren he got no Hgbt, and soon left. Several volunteers gave their opinions upon the resolutive*. but there was nothing more worth reporting. The ??exercises" were here iu**rrupt?d by the retuni report of the committee, a* folljws:? Far President?Wendell Phillipi. Vice Presidents? Esuiund Quiney, Dedham ; Charles 1? Remond. Salem; Francis Jackson. Boston; John T. Sargent, Boston; J. M. Fliut. Randolph. Vt.; Peter Libbey Buxton. Me.; EJix* J. Ktnney. Salem, John T. Hilton Brighton. Secretaries?Samuel May, Jr., Boston; Alonzo J. Glover, Abington. Business Committee?Wm. Lloyd Garrison. Parker Pile burr. 8. S. Foster. Pallie Kell?y. Lucy Stone, Heory C. Wright, C. C Burleigh, Andrew T. Foas, and Thomas Hastell Finance Con>mittee?Janes N Buffuni, T. T. Everett, If. B. Ppooner, E. Sprague, Joseph Merrill. Me*,r* Kemond and Hilton are colored men. It was pleasing to tee eur friend Eliza Kenney promoted from AaeUtant Secretary, her former office, to he Vice President. Eliza is fair acd fat. perhaps fortv?but it would be ungallant to give an opinion an to * lady's age. She honored the reporter* with a pleasant smile as she Konnu-d tie platform. The Rev Mr. Wajtaotr, of Groveland, took the fl'vor and ?aade a speech of some ability against the resolutions of Mr Wright. ... , Mr. Garkiso.v and Mr. C. C. Bcblkigh spoke in favor or the resolution*. At ore o'clock the Convention adjourned till three o'elock. Mr. V. P. Bank*. Jr., President cf the Conititutional Convention, Hon. Henry Wilson and Hon A Burlingame, fex-secretaries.) were present daring the morning session, and seemed to think ths discussion a very flan Joke. AFTERNOON SESSION. At three o'elock, Mr. Phillips art having arrived. Mr. Jackson ealled the meeting to order, and Mr. Wri<!it again read his resolutions. The haU was a*> >ut two-thirds Sled, one half being women. Several women dressed ia the '-Bloomer s costume" were present. Many of the women were young and pretty, but this by no m>an* held gcod as a universal rule, for they were generally old ?Ifcidfl. Mr Wrhjitt sained the floor and supported his resolu tions in a few remarks. Rev Mr. Waw-ox, o! Groveland. s?id that Mr. Giddln*?, of Ohio, held opinion" opposite t" tho-e waich had ueen expres'ed *-y Mr Wtigbt 's r?M)lutions Mr. Wrjght -aid be had a great deal of intarsonr e with Mr Giddinga. and hu knew liat Mr G. had said that any kidnapper might come to his own house (Jeffcrsos.) and demand his slave, and he would not raise his hand against him, under the new constitution. M? Wsssom went on to say that he thought he had fc^Pproved what Mr. Giddinfs' idea wa??he thought that the founders of tbe eonslitu'iou did not make slavery, 'hey only found it?he thought th?t ?uy person i?.< ft right to vote under the constitution with 'he und?nrtar,dirg that he (the voter) protested against the evil, for there is bo mental reservstion about that. Mr. Garrison bad raid that the speaksr bad adopted the Jfvuitical idea?to do evil that good might come of itbat this was ridiculous, everybody knew what his ideas were, and the question was resolved to this one party desired to work out a certain reform outside the present forms of government, and the otaer under the present forms. Nothing eonld be done by the tmgue alone. True, it had txen ss'd that Luther had no ballot: but in this age nothing could be done by the voics alone; the ballot was an instrument, which we must use. Why should we not use this privilege which Is glien us as citizens of the United States? Who fsys navT A Voice?Nobody. (Applause) The question of belonging to one par'y or another, either the whig party or the democratic party, does rot enter into this argument. [One female was here seen to re ign herself very comfort*?ly to sleep ] We should not ieave the ^ate, however; that fa a dtfletent affair. Why. should we be compelled to lay down an instrument, and give it into the bands of those who may use it to perpetuate an infamous institution? I my, no. We, by our votej, yive poaer into the hands ef ee-tain men. We have been sucse'sful in some in stances. Does any body believe that Charles Sumner, in the Cnited (Hates Senate, is a pro slavery man Mvhul Voices.? No! *?,?.! The question is whether we shall send a man to Washington who will do his best to oppose slavery, or oue who wul do Ids utmost in its favor. 1 Mr. WaiuBT?My friend departs from the point, which ia relstive to the constitutional rights of slaveholders. Mew, John P. Hale took a seat in tbe Senate an 1 never said a single word against the right of slaveholders to Hold ?ea's in that Coogreas. The question whic i I wish mj friend to answer is, whether or not he is willing to agree that if tt* alaveholders get the majority thev shall rule in these States, as the majority rules according to the constitution? Mr. WassOR?I have little knowledge of Mr. Hale's aotion in Congress. I know very well, however, that oiaoy slaveholders would have been g'adi to have aean him ousted from the Senate. Mr WkiGBT?That's not the queiti^w. The question >s, whether you will agree to the right* of these ?>?>? to bold seats there? Gerrlt smitn say* tliat slavery is nothing bnt piracy, that slaveholders have uo right to hold ?*ats in Congre-s that laws made by them are not binding. That's the question I want to meet. ... Mr. VaW>k?I say then to the slaveholders, I will tolerate yon till I can get you ou?. Mr. Wkjoht?Do you acknowledge their laws to behind log t Mr Vawok?T will acknowledge them, unless as in one eaee, (the Fugitive Slave act) they make a law against the spirit of ths constitution, and only sustained by the worst of its letter. (Applau-e ) Tnen I will neve'exe eiite it (Cheers ) I am wi'ling then, to tolerate slavery and to agree to its laws for the present And this for the Cpose of doing good How would our fren4< act if the e should come when their acts, ur.der the eonstitntlon, m'ght strik? ofT the fett?ra which now bind the slaves? Who shall Mum tbo-e In bondage if they ery out to my friend and his luppor'ets, "our b'ool be on your js'ments?" Mr. Was-on sat down amid eansMerable applause. Mr Bcm *. from the Kinauce Committee, introduced ? resolution that a l person* ure?ent be reqiested to p?y the sum of one dollar, or such other sum a' they might see fit, to [.ay the expenses of ths Convention [There was a general movement towards the door ] The resolution was adopted. Mr riiit.uns now appeared and took the chair. Mr, C C. Bcrihoh (the man with the red heard and long ringlets.) cot took the floor against Mr. Wasaon. lie had bnt commenced when Mr. GanHP-oN made a pathetic appeal to the faithful to ennis forward and put up their funds for the cause. This was a freeVieeting and Mr. Garrison hoped that uII who eime to 1'ear this dlsf-nssion would be willing to pay for the -ame. It was a " free fight"?the platform ?as open to every one. and any person ?a? liberty to ccmo forward snd express his mind on cny question. [The Finance Committee 'ben proceeded to its work, ond as tbe faithful bad now mastered in strong numbers, quite a pretty anm was suh?cribed ] Mr. Bckinew continued his remarks. Ho denounced Feaatoia Hale. Sumner aud ''base, and sa'd that, the au'.lelavtry 'tntimerit was aa poseiful when It keit Itself oway from the ballot hox as wlieo it appeared th?re He did not prove It, hew?v?s, and a number of an pinions groans among tbe a idlrtcs, proved that Mr Burlelgli wee not so atiiusiog as osual He insisted tha*. Congress had no rlgh' to maks laws ; It w?s a monstrous delusion, end so were tbe sentimeuta of his friend, (Mr. Wassoo;) that It was onlv a to'erat on of slaveholders for us to send tnea to Washington, tf fierritt .Smith should go tbvre next winter, ana say that he world only tolerate the constitution, who would give him tbe oath ? Tbe ftnoren.e Court has settled all that. Mr. Trrmaa of Boston rose In hi'seat and Interrupted tbe speaker He said that no derision of the Supreme Court could deprive him of his right a* a legislator, if U>at derision was to be used a* a precedent. (Applause.) Hf Hi *ijui.h_i cau't f?? that in/ f?iend s /eomks touch th? pci#t i | j | j j ! pro! 1 ; i ! be; ! j ; j ! ! ; | i i , ' I ! ) doc| . ; ; ' I i 1 , , ; ! | | |

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Woman dying from reading too many

JOHN E. ROBIE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. if. The Power of 8ao-A secret power wittiln I find, A passion pai and strong, Whose silken tores often bind My heart to holy eong. The morning rill the shadv grove, HaTe each a charm for me, Where nature 'a choristers, In love Pour forth their meledy. No matter where my lootetepe stray, Some minstrel seemeth near, Chanting an old nunillar lay, Or eong I love to hear. Ofttimee Imeet a holler band, Llf bwlnged In bright array, Whose harpmkemusle, pure and bland Attracts my soul away. And then I feel my spirit longs To Join their ranks en high ; And mingle In their blissful songs. In their own nstlve sky. Oh I thai the eoboes of my lyre, Kindred lotbeir'emlghlbe- Their lofty themes my heart Inspire, Hallow my mlnstrelcy. From Pernicious Fiction A PRie Essay. Hovel Their Character and Influence. BY RKV. SAMUEL HARRIS. Thk subject of fictitious reading is acquiring a grave importance. The unprecedented circulation of fiction has become one of the most momentous influences acting on the popular mind. In the year 1849 it was estimated that 5,600 different novels were offered for sale in this country ; soi that, if a man were to read one every week, more than one hundred years would pass before he would be through the list. The purchasers and readers of these 5,500 novels must be counted by millions. The influence of this unparalleled amount of novel reading demands the most anxious attention It is the design of this essay to prove that it must be disastrous. No argument against these books can be drawn merely from the fact 'hat they are fictitious. The parable, the fable, the allegory, the epic poem, the drama are also fictitious. Fiction is a vehicle of pure moral and religious instruction, and of the undefiled and ennobling creations of genius, as well as of depraved sentiments. Nor is it possible to establish a criterion by which always and infallibly to distinguish perni-oious fiction from the harmless, otherwise than we distinguish the pernicious from the harmless in other kinds of composition. Fictitious works must be judged by the sentiments which they teach and the influence which they exert on their readers. But to range through all the classes of fiction for the purpose of showing, on this principle, what is pernicious in each, would lead to in-definiteness and confusion. The modern novel, however, whether in the bound volume, the pamphlet, the magazine or the newspaper has characteristics bo marked that it needs no description, and presents a definite topic for discussion. Novels also coin-pose the great mass of fiction also in circulation. To these, therefore, for the sake of distinctness and precision, the discussion will be confined. Substantially similar arguments will be applicable to pernicious fiction of every other class. And even here there is no need of sweeping assertion. Some novels are stamped with genious and pure moral sentiment But we must judge of this class of books, considered as a whole, by the character and influence of the vast majority actually in circulation; and, thus judged, novels must be characterized as pernicious fiction. We ask the attention of reflecting minds, and especially of those who read, publish or sell these works, to a candid investigation of the justice of this charge. In the outset it is worthy of serious consideration that there is a prevailing belief that novel-reading expose the reader to danger. It is ridiculously false to say that this is the belief only of the digoted and narrow-minded. Oliver Goldsmith, himself a writer of novels, in a letter to a brother on the education of his son, thus records his earnest testimony : " Above all things never let him touch a romance or a novel." The article on Novels in Rees' Encyclopedia, after reviewing several of the eminent novelists, is summed up as follows: " From this view of the best authors in the highest class of novel writing, it is evident that the perusal of these works is mora calculated to be prejudicial than advantageous, unless the mind is previously fortified with sound principles, and the passions and feelings are completely under the control of the judgment" Says the Dublin University Magazine, especially of French novels, "These books have become almost a necessary luxury to those who read without plan and for the amusement of the passing hour; but we do not hesitate to say that such works exert a most enervating and deteriorating moral influence." Is is useless to deny that the same sentiments are held by large proportion of the most excellent, the most cannid and the best informed. ' The ytrj fact is a presumptive evidence of dan ger1 which jt would be rashness to disregard. There la another reasonable cause of alarm to the novel reader, which meet tu Wore ."Jw begin to inquire into the charaoter of too works themselves. It is found in instances !;f win canted by novel reading. ;' Says a iprHWs SThj case I am to stats came, under i my own ootervauon."' u eouegt ae was lor torn years my room-mate. His powers of nind wtn of a high otdei, E ws one of the best writers of the largest class which had ever entered that University. He was afterwards settled as Pastor over a large and flourishing congregation in the largest city in our land. In this work he was remarkably successful. After a time he became editor of an importaut religious periodical which he sustained with great acceptance and most happy results. At length, after years of useful labor, suspicion was excited as to his moral character. Upon investigation, disclosures were made which proved him to be a ruined man. He had taken of the intoxicating cup and was guilty of other acts which shut him out forever from the ministry. A political paper in New York city stated the fact of his fall, and imputed it to his evangelical sentiments. He saw that imputation and replied to it in a most touching manner. He admitted the fact of his ruin in tones of deep anguish. He then confessed the true cause. It was the reading of novels. There began his downward career. There were fi8t cherished his unhal lowed impressions. Thence he was led to drink the intoxicating cup. I knew bis ha bits in college. He was then excessively fond of reading the works of Byron, Scott, and others of a similar character. These he read at first, he said, to improve his style of writing- He soon acquired a love for such rending, and was at length entirely overcome and ruined by it He is now, poor man, in his grave aud gone to his final ac count But for novels, he might have been faithful and useful minister of Christ, a blessing to the church, a comfort to his fami ly and a large circle of respected friends." A beautiful girl of nineteen years, a member of a popular boarding school, left her room in the middle of a wintry uight, and drowned herself in a neighboring stream. In a letter to her teacher, a few hours before her death, she left this honest confes sion : "1 nave read too many novels for my good. Some, perhaps, might have read their without irjjnry; but it has affected me. i iooe arouna ana see tnose tnst are no bet ter and have no wealthier parents, educated. They can stand as high in society as the wealthiest Why is it! Because their friends feel an interest in their welfare. This reminds me of things that I have read about While prosecuting her trade as dressmak er, she had indulged a romantic and unreciprocated affection for a young man just completing his professional studies. Accustomed to the marvellous turns of fortune which are common in romauces, in which difficulties vanish without the use of means, and relief happens at the moment of extrem ity, she had entered the school with the romantic hope that she might raise herself to a level which would secure his favor, and in the romantic expectation that means would in some way be forthcoming for her support But, unable to pay her term bills when they became due, her affections cros sed, her hopes disapointed, she yielded to a romantic sorrow. She wrote to her teacher : "When you see the cold moon shining on the water, think that it shines on me 1" and went out and committed the fearful crime of destroying her own life a Buicide by novel reading, A minister at the West writes: "I was recently called to visit a sick woman who had been made poor by her own folly. She told me that she was raised and partly educated by a lady in Eastern Virginia; when young she was led to read a few novels. These gave her a taste for that kind of reading, and she soon became so fond of it that sheVould sit up all night to read fiction. She continued in this course for years; and even after marriage she found it necessary for her happiness. Thus the hours which ought to have been spent in taking care of her children and superintending household affairs, were worse than wasted in sympathies thrown away upon imaginary persons and suffering; making the heart wholly unfit for sharing in the common duties' and cares of life. As she lav on her miserable couch, surrounded by all the marks of poverty, her body emaciated by protacted ill health, she raised her bony arrq and said: 'See, sir, what a wretch I have male myself by novel reading. I have ruined my health, and I have ruined) my mind by indulging in that miserable trash. I have no peace. A Satan is continually temp ting me to believe that there is no God, no Heaven, no Hell, and that I had better put an end to my life. . Then Satan holds up some of those heroines for my examples, who first murdered their souls, and then their bodies.' As I stood by her bedside, I wished all the young ladies of our land, i . i . . woo spena so mucn precious time in poring over those ' Gems of Literature,' and shedding tears at imaginary sorrow, could have witnessed thi", tV natural end of their own course of folly." Insanity is also, an occasional result of novel reading. Don Quixote ii the ideal I of real persona 'erased, by romances.. ; In otoer instances' novel reading result in crime,' In one city in lost than three inonths, three youths were convicted of orimei committed m imitation : of the hero of novel." .The following remarks refer to on,of those, loeoes of illicit lor ' ''"' ' "if : is of uf of calamity no by a is at I

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high be only the mortar. a place the covered the floor, just with this with kind waste bent, prevent ice Cul-ivntor. It is sea-ison A saved soil are our pro of iaiportaotmat-ters. observed on bo and but for the an to our tho our lay of to entering was that bis r. fair A p sand-otone a From the Library and Gsrden. The Pear Mania. ny B. BODOE, BUFFALO, H. V. The increased attention that has been of late to ihe cultivation of the pear, has stigmatized by some writers as "the pear and as analagoua to tho famous "tulip mania" olden time, or the "morus multicaDhs mania" our own day. But the compirason will not good. The "pear mania" may perhaps propriety bo deemed analagoua to the "strawberry mania" or the "gold mania" if you The good people of Cincinnati have had "strawberry mania" for many years, and it very likely to continue; and doubtless will do so long as tho hundreds of bushels of this delicious and wfiolesome fruit, find a ready sale day to day, during ihe strawborry season; at prices highly advantageous, and satisfactory those who aro engaged in its cultivation. And so with the "pear mania;" it will survive, increase, and very possibly become "contagious" so long as tho fruit finds a ready sale in our markets at from one to four dollars per bushel. mo wny should not this "pear mania" "fruit mania" continue? It is only of late the public have learned tho simple fact tbere is such a.tning as a."de!icious pear." aod there an individual can be found who been aware of this fact for years. But we not with confidence make tho assertion even up to this time, at least threefourths of people of tho United States have never onu of the more choice and rare varieties of pear, for instance such as ihe Barilett. Rln.-iH. good. Seckel, White Doyenne, Winter Nellis &c. &c. The Bostonians have had the pear mania some ye ars. Indeed they havo taken the lead this mattei; and not a few of them aro reaping their golden harvests. The large ncreasmg supply has had no tendency whatev- er, to depress prices. But on the contrsrv ces have steadily advanoed. The writer had the pleasure of attomHn autumn exhibition of the Massachusetts Horti. cultural Society, hold at Bostou in tho month September last, (1852 ) Tho display was truly lint; probably superior to that of any other ex-hibition iver held in our country. The large numbor of contributors, many of whom exhibited from fifiy to ovor two hundred varieties P.1l-ll cli..T..arl .f .1 l. .1 dm wi,L liuuyiuHiveiy mat tno "pear mania" had taken a deep hold on our Boston friends. We conversed with many o( iha contributors and all seemed to wear cheerful laces, and we did not hear a single instance of an individual "running stark mad" in consequence this paarmsma. The Insane Asylums are filled up with such subjects. The time possibly may come, when our markets will not only be well supplied but even glutted with our more choice varieties of the pear but that day is now far in the distance. A fw years since strawberrie i were selling in our mar- ' "ere at eignt or ien cents per quart. They were Inferior varieties and were very dear at that price; often Ihomore choice lots readily sold twenty-five cents per quart. This induced others to engage in the business: onmn ,;,k r- tradings ihat the price would soon come down. But the result has been deeirlerllv ihn ,,.. The omount grown has itiereasediu two nr ihroo years more than four fold. Col. Burtlett and Brother sold last year nearly one thnnoanrt hi lars worth at an average price of about thirty-hve cents par quart. The faot is well established that nsnnl- ,;u purchase choice fruit, even at exorbitant prices, and as the more ohoice and delicious varieties of the strawberry, peacb, pear, &c, are bettor known, they are oacerlvsoiiirht aftor .i mand high prices. There are quite a number of pear trees in this neighborhood yiolding from 20 to 30 bushole of pears oach in a season. Thoy are mostly of tho more common sorts, known unrlr tho r,m r niuuiun rear, urange 1-ear, M;c., fine for cook-lfg, and for other purposes. These retail at one dollar per bushel. There most be Borne little profit even ingrowing pears at this price. Of ono thing we may be assured, that this pear mama will continue as long as the growing of the fruit continues a "money makm busing. " To cultivate tho near niifooaoiiii!., . - , icuuiiuu a judicious selection of soil, and location; eood ...ul ouiiuic, auu v0ry mucin will alsodo- pend upon a judicious selection of varieties; of the four or five hundred varieties now under cu Itivauon iu our country, more than one-half will hardly paw But we have some twenty or thirty sorts, well known choice varieties, productive and profitable Among them are the fol. lowm., viz: for early-Bloodgood, Rostiezer, Madelame and Bartlett; for autumn s,i White Doyenne. Bourre Did, Flemish Beauty! bteven's Geoesseo, Louiso Bonne de Jersey Golden Beurre of Bilboa, Urbanisto, Buorre Bose, Paradise Autumn, Belle Lucrative &c- fnr cvrnfar (71.., Mli: t " ... .. i,llc, ,,B11IOj Ui0Ut iriorceau fJeur re Easter, Burre d'Aremburg, Vicar of Wink- Hani, ULUi The Rostiezor, Louis Bonne de Jersy, White Doyenne. Glout Morcnan nnrl vi..tr m.-.i. field Buccetd moBt admirablv whon ii,.i tho quince. Also many other Boris are even finer, when grown as Dwarfs, than when worked on the near. Dwarf trooa nhni.i . quire high and constant culture to keep them in a fair growing state; and then will pay Neglect them, and tho trees will dwindle away and die But under proper treatment they soon become productive and profitable. Tho Hon. M. P Wi der, of Boston has trees of this class twenty to dnriy.fivo years old, that seem as fresh and vigorous as ever."

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I ! and the old among ua, remember that 1 'among tin- firat thins thev hear.) from their ; grand-fathers, fifty years ago, wa. how aad-, ; 1y the timee were out of joint, and these , heard the eame from their grand-fathera, ' and eo it goes back to the timee of Solo, mon, and how much farther back, hietory j dos not record The world ia not getting worea, it ie getting better all the time. There j are roguee now, plenty if them, and there , ' ! have tteen euch. It ie not etringe thit the rapid increase of population in this country, . should increaae tho apparent number of base and wicked men, but their relative nam-set ber ia decreasing There ia not half the 1 drunkenness or profanity, or Sabbath break ing that existed thirty years ago, ba propor- in raxvAUurcx or cam Much ie eaid of late, of the prevalence of crime, from which it ia sought to be inferred that the world is getting worse all the time, inatead of better. We are alow to believe any euch a doctrine, for it is untrue. If true now, it baa bees true ever eince the days of Solomon, and by thia time the world should be pretty bad, if 'the former day were better than these, then and all the way down to the present We have no recollection of a time when soms folk were not harping on the degeneracy of the times, I alwaye were roguee, there are murderers I aad suicides and adulterer there alwaye tion to the population not hall, yet there is too much. Away with ' -trine that tho world ie getting wore uen are getting worse, and eome 1 . .ua have greater facilities for practicing devilment, and the facilitiaa for reporting crime, and keeping it before the people till they become familiar with it, are boreiaing, but crime ie not increasing, relatively, though 00a might judge eo, from reading the papers that omit a thousand pleasing incidents in social life, to fill their columns with the de. tail of murders and thefte and frauds-Some papers seem to think nothing lite worth reporting.

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, 4 The UencliU of Novel Reading-. -'.is i Hut few, Comparatively, understand or appreciate the merits of, and advaiig8 be, derived frotp wotks of fiction ; and those who condemn theu a clat, merely hclray the ignorance ot a narrow-Winded pi ejudire. It ; is from this rpeiics f literature more ihan any-other, that we jjnin knowledge of h.rcter rnd of human nature; of the world and its ways, ud of .lite, with its innumerable social pliae-jj its utruggles and trials, it good nnd evil, 11ms we become acquainted w ith scenes ai;d places, and classes of people and minlus of lire, of which we would otherwise havifc rcmain'ed ns ignorwnt as of El Uorado, or tho man in the mown. We are , hi-reby drawn out of the narrow and contracted aphcro f individual olirvtfc aod experience,' and art led to take more liberal and enlighten

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Children names (christiantity)

tion, and disgraced and bligtiud forever the fund hopes and joys of the young and old. Have thoughts and associations like these no demoralising intlueuee ? How can parents ad monish their childrc-j against novel reading after they have lakes their uames from novels ? The giving of Christian names at the present time ia indeed a ridiculous farce, an insult to christian i'y. and ft representation of stoics) i (fidelity be fore the babtismal alter. It is there an act of the Babylouish king to beatbenixe the child. We might almost say that the folly has become a rage. The rage for new names especially, names which do not adorn the sacred page, nor carry us back to the times and faith of our fathers, but which hive gained notoriety in the world of fiction, and associate us with the lover's affray and with the desperado's feats, these are the names which Christian pi rents too often seek with avidity for their children. If you were to judgp their homes by these names, you would think yourself in ft Turkish Seraglio, or amid the voluptuous scenes of a Parisian court, or in the bosom of ft heathen family. It is often to how

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bottom of give the even richest Novel-Beading-Adam Bede. It is evidently beyond questioning that there is among earnest and decided Christians a general prejudice against novels and novel reading, which is itself a strong presumptive proof against that form of literature. The spirit of the age is not inclined to excessive asceticism, but rather in the opposite direction. There must, therefore, be some just grqunds for this disfavor for that class of works, and it therefore behooves all who are for the moral purity of society, and especially for the wholesome moral education of the young, to bear in mind the fact that the gardens of fiction are thickly set with tempting but pernicious fruits. But it is at wisely so his

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11, 1859. Herald. . - ' , , cry. , : . 3 ee. well, rain. star. clings yore. never! E aji1iat io.fi thrcmjhtut Vfthodit Arner- Church, as mero- common, I to he him impediment original Churrh original sin an.l of Stewards. even with but -on the be'.on? terrible the th disgr ar. therefore secure, if Con Y'.. tV. whicffT to Church. I its malign Church j much j to wipe , pare es ihtt the bring an-l grest Mini-try, Longevity Promoted. To a very great extent, our life is in our own hands, although it is the prevailing fashion of the times, to regard death, especially if it is premature, or if the person dying of any age, occupies a position of influence and usefulness, as a 'mys terious dispensation ol x rovidence, when in reality, 'Providence, bad nothing to do with it ; only indirectly, in having founded the laws of our being. When men die short of eighty or ninety years,it is the result of violated law, and almost always on their own part. . : -" If a sedentary man eats a hearty meal late in the day, or a laborious man does tbe same thing after long fasting and protracted exertion, ending in great bodily fatigue, and is attacked in the night with cramps, cholic, or chossra morbus, or other forms of looseness of bowels, ending in death next morning, there is no 'mystery' in that. The man is his own destroyer, and in that destruction, bis Maker had no agency, . ;-' . i . A man in the prime of life enters a crowd ed omnibus, after a long or rapid walk, which has induced free perspiration, the air appears alone to hiin almost suffocating, and with an insanity, resulting from detached scraps of knowledgejabout tbe advantages of pure air, he opens the window, and the breeze is deli- emus: but oetoie be is aware ot it he rinds himself chilled, and wakes, up in the morning with acute throat disease, or inflammation of the lungs 'or violent fever ; or the magazine of iir pending consumption has been fired,and be wilts, and wastes aud dies by bis own hand, from ignorance' of the fact, that no air nf any coach, on conveyance, or crowded room, is a thousandth part as injurious or dangerous to a newcomer, as the purest air that was ever breathedf it comes with a draft upon one who is perspiring and reuair.s in a still position. The mo.-t talented and useful clergyman in tbe land, whose influence is wideuing and deepening every day for good, carrying all before him by the power ot his eloquence, but after an unusual effort in which t-hs heart, as well as brain and body, all have been brought into an exhausting requisition, all heated. aud perspiring and debilitated, he feels it his duty to attend some urgent call, and hastes away into the cold raw damp air, the bleak wind whistling fiercely by .and in aweek,in the midst of his usefulness, he is laid in the grave, by peritoneal (abdominal) intlammation,br quinsy, or pleurisy this own jdestrover, for he acted as if he were made of iron, instead of flesh and blood. He threw his life away, in an indistinct impression, that as be was doing a good work, a miracle would be wrought for bis protection ; and because the laws of na- j lure were allowed to take their usual course, it is deemed a 'wonderful and mysterious dispensation of Providence,' and we cry 'His ways are past finding out. A woman bold on her lap a lovely child. It was born perfect, fair and beautiful, but the aristocratic mother hns not tbe stamina to feed it, for the natural fountain is short of a full supply, and ale and beer, and the universal milk punch are swilled by the pint and quart a day, to 'maie milk. But just in proportion as it is alcoholic, it is innutritive, it creates an appearance of fle.sh.and strength, .and thrift, but all as unreal and transient as Jonas' gourd, and the child, by the excitement thrown to the head, dies of water 0.1 the brain ; or if by virtue of the father's more robust and vigorous constitution and temperament, infancy and youth are survived, the instinct for excitement planted in the first year, wakes up again at maturity, and tbe young lady wates her intellect in the stimulus of novel reading, or the young man destroys intellect and body too, in yielding to the fires of liquor and of license; and suddenly as th bank deposit of a spendthrift heir gives out, so suddenly is exhausted the vital force and ho dies at his toilet, in his chair, at the table or on the street, of heart lisease,. the coroners jury reports; a niyste- rious dispensation ol 1 roviluce 13 the res ponse from anoiher direction. Ihe true ver dicts is, "'died by a mother's folly, committed twenty years agone !" .Great men are gentle. God is love. His ways of removing his children from their lower "home, is in tenderness, for he hasappoiut- 1 that 111 tbe habitual exercise of modera- n, ail ihe parts of th"? human machine shall , 1 1, .. . , . , 4 wevr out, equally, one not tester man anotoer ; one no sooner than another : all gradually ceaseaH fail at the same instant; one worn out function does not cease its operation. while another, in its full vigor, strives to go on witho-lf ; tu-nce the universally observed fact is, tht the very oil die gently, without a si riiigleNau-J scarce a pang : die as an I infant falls to sleep amid its mother's lullaibv ; se as a sho -k orvorn coaieth in its season. 'So lades a sumrnerSc'oud away. ! So inks the nje ieJie-u storms are o'er; So gen'lv'shu ts the eyeiof day. SO dies a nave aiou i rue snore 1 a of at be so kindly In to of or As the the am breakfast Mac-itio was was the and of and the a to in own aud affected, C. was this

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Too invested in novels and not real life

the votes. and of our ballot under of necessity, practice fraud, element ballot and this number of operations in the Crimea !'' . Novel Reading. Nothing can be more delightful in its way than taking up a pleasant novel and so dispelling our own troubles and transferring ourselves into other people's hopes, joys, and sorrows., But still I must own we are all a little too much inclined to give ourselves up to fiction, and I think sometimes that the hours which we devote to the reading of works of - fiction might be more advantageously spent in other pursuits. By using the word " advantageously " I have no especial reference to utility, but should be inclined to maintain that more pleasure of a sure, sustained, and prolonged kind, is to be gained by the study of anything that is based upon reality than is to be got out of any works of fiction. Friends in Council.

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. oiaa-rnl braatf-SS en-YORIt searf- eenriea- tlio- . DCTA young ladv by the namo of VY J .. b ..'. . , , Ab-Lvnns, ttc.tizen ol Mobile, Ala., has Written a Novel, which has been lato-- ly published. Tho production is enti - - titlee "Beitlah," and is landed to the skies, by some of our exchanges. Mi Evans, is said to bo a tad y of -uii8ohi- tnon intellect," of surpassing ability," and other kindred expressions, used tn ailrnirtr niul nilnt-nT, tllo lilnri tlfut aim . ...... ... ,,. ...... . i destined to reach gfcat fame a .j "Novel Writer. ' Wo hopo all that is Uem saui in regiinl to her talent, is true, but we are sorry to know tha't she is was'ing the oinne talent in the cutii. position of the work of fiction. Slip-pose she had written 8 Book entitled 'Tho Doty of tho Unrcgencntted," uT!ic fate of the filially Jjnenittiit," br "The Pernicious effects of Novel Reading," would her production have received half the amount of laudations. by those wo have entirely exhausted thfcir store of pfrise and eneomitltniis upon her Novel? We sat not. Wc do not believe 1 ti cnconragtng tiny sffch liiste. Who ever know aity porson benefited bv Novel rea-liniif Did ton - ever see it hnbifual ftovel Rerder. that . r . .r.t... Tt:i.t. -.1..... " V . 7 I Mtl,rn7. UUU1 uu.u l.. v.uui-1 gi.iii sound and substantial information? By iiiotiiriiiir arrionz voiir Novel read- ' .ttM a.:h ft..- u..u ... ? Km , , . , 6n yon. Did yon oversea a habitual v, ' i , t . . j ,f 1.6vel rea lerr-one who wasted tl,o honrs creiitt-d for tho refreshment of tfi'd body by sfcep. one who could be found borrowing two or tlirco of the small horns oTthe iiest dav, pouring ,.. ,.,. 4 , , '.. ' ., n over an nn w no.esomo.prounc, .on-tnat nan rue icaat Hmmim ui energy! yyen, y6n may h'avo 6een smrro, bat ifiey ate most certainiv feiy Snd far k-twe'eft." nr., t.-.i i...ti,.. Ji. - t? u imu limn-i scu h jt'iiiis; iuii tri trttr. n . town, praised for riHti tt Book, o.i ft. ai-;f,; ti ... . snowing tne lmponaiico oi improving. tverv fno'itieni in "Inrittirine?" after the' ways of RisrhteonshcBS." Thofe who! prais the ffoel, wonld be very slow to praise the other,, it w6u!d bo folly to flunk of it. Tiirt TT,,rii.T n;riKi,,r L.fY Tinor. vifle, La.f in 'inly or Xngust, 185S. Uunta-for Rome, Ga. As lie has not ftrrivctl, . fir since that time gave his relations I oi friends anv information of his where- ahfinfs, i wijl fee! nnder last! rut 6t)H- gafiiVna tt any persoij 'W.li will cttrn nipmcatfl to tne any intelligence reia Hfe t"6 him. , . AAte6& , iMss. M. E. MrrcniLt, , Rome. Geo, P. S.r Papers copying' tho above will confer great favor. A . i H M . ii 1J, B - ' F X ( :

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U, Nw-York. FOR SALE A BARGAIN THE TWO FOUR-atory modern Englieh-basement house. No. 104 and 104H St. Marks place, containing bath, gas, water-closet. Ac They are let for $1,000 per annum, to private families. Siseo' hit, 26x100. Prise ftAOO; terms eay. Apply at No. 104)4, oa the premise. VALUABLE LOTS ON THE STH.OTlT.

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M FREDERIC BE CONINCKS LAST ' PAMPHLET on the SUEZ CANAL. We have already given in the columns of this journal in part the results, in part the detailed calculations, of M. Frederic de Coninck's last pamphlet on the Isthmus of Suez Canal. The statements which we hire already reproduced referred, however, to the comparative length and cost of the voyage when undertaken from the Lizard Point to the Straits of Sunda, according as it should be made by the Cape of Good Hope or by the Suez Canal. M. Frederic de Coninck, however, writing with a view principally to the shipping and commercial interests of France, does not confine his calculations to voyages commencing from the Lizard Point, as was naturally done by the Dutch commission, which of course chiefly looked to the maritime commerce of Holland and of all the North of Europe. He presents us likewise with the calculation as to the special benefits to be obtained in the case of vessels starting from Marseilles. We can easily understand how extremely disagreable M. de Coninck's logic and his undeniable, incontrovertible facts must have proved to the Isthmus of Suez Canal Company when, even under the conditions most favourable to their views, he triumphantly establishes that the voyage by the canal would still be a loss : " Let ns suppose that the point chosen in tbe Mediterranean it Marseilles. " A sailing vessel would probably employ 30 days less going and returning by Suez than by tbe Cape, instead of employing 21 days more, as we have seen would be tbe case when the point ef departure and of arrival was the Lizard Point. " Io calculating tbe value of tbe ship at 300,000fr., and the value of tbe cargo at 800,000fr., tbe saving effected would be one-balf per cent, interest on l,100,000fr., being 5,500fr. ; raving of one month's food and pay 3,000fr. ; saving in tbe value and working of tee vessel 2,000Tr. ; being in all a saving of expense in going by tbe Suez Canal of ll.OOOfr. " Bat in order to effect this saving it would be necessary to pay 22fr. of toll dues, on going and returning by Suez, on each ton in 800 tons, or 17,600fr., and also an increased insurance premiam, which for sailing vessels would amount, going and returning, to at least 3 per cent, on l,100,000fr., tbe value of the ship and tbe cargo, or 33,000fr. " There is thus incurred an increased expense going by the Suez Canal of 50,600fr. in order to secure a saving of ll.OOOfr. " Increase as far as you pissibly can the saving, and diminish tbe expense of tbe Suez route, tbe first will never be able to cover the second ; the route by the canal will never be really cheaper, and, consequently, it will only be taken in very exceptional case, even by tbe sailing vessels starling from and returning to Marseilles. " A s'.earuer cf 2,400 tons, with machines of 200 horse power, starting trom and returning to Marseilles, would probably employ 60 days less going and returning by the Suez route than by that of the Cape of Good Hope, as results from tbe calculations of tbe Dutch commission. " The diminution and increase of its expenses mast therefore be calculated as follows : Diminution : 1 percent, interest on a cargo of l,500,000fr., and on tbe value of tbe ship itself, as calculated at l,000,000fr. viz., on a total of 2,500,000fr., or 25,000fr. Two months' saving io food and pBy, at most 15,000fr.; two months' saving in the working of tbe vessel and repairs, at most 20,000fr.; being a total diminution of expense by tbe Suez route of 60,000fr. " Iccrease : First, 22fr. tbe ton of toll dues by tbe Suez Canal, going and returning, on 2,400 tons, being 52,800fr. ; second, increased insurance premium, which, for going and returning, would be for a steamer at the rate at least of 2 per cent, on the -2,500,000fr., the value of tbe ship and cargo, or 50,C00fr. " The increase of expense in the latter case is therefore 102.800fr., as opposed to a diminished expense of 60,000fr., giving in favour of the Cape of Good Hope route a saving ot 42,800fr. " But let us suppose, even taking a wholly impossible supposition, that there should be no increase of insurance premium by tbe Red Sea passage, the result obtained would be a diminution of expense of G0,000fr. It would still, however, be necessary to pay the 52,800fr. of toll dues for the canal, going and returning, thus reducing tbe entire saving to 7,200fr. on 1,800 tons, being a saving of exactly 4fr. per ton. " But even were it three times as great, there would not on tbat account be more imported te Marseilles or to Trieste of tbe sugBr, the coffee, the cotton, &c. intended for tbe consumption of England, of the North of France, of Belgium, of Holland, of Prussia, of Scandinavia, and of Northern Russia that is to say, of tbe countries which consume three-fourths of the whole consumption of Europe. " Were such a fault committed, the price of those articles would scon be so much more remunerative at London, at Liverpool, at Havre, at Antwerp, at Rotterdam, at Amsterdam, at Hamburg, &c., than at Marseilles or at Trieste tbat the ships would receive orders at Suez or at Plusium, as at present at Falmouth or at Cowes, to go into a harbour of the north of Europe, and having once got to the waters in the neighbourhood of the Lizard Point tbe calculations of the Dutch commission abundantly prove that they would return to tbe East Indies by tbe Cape of Good Hope and not by the Suez Canal ; and they would come back from India three tines out of four by the same route, because the telegraph would probably have informed tbem in India, when on the point of startiug in order to return, that tbe markets of the north would be more profitable than those of the Mediterranean. " Tbe results of the Dutch commission, and the recent shipwrecks and strandings of steamers in tbe Red Sea enable us to say, once for all, that tbe calculations on which 1 have been based the 40 millions of revenue promised to the ! shareholders in the Suez Canal Company must be com- ' pletely altered, as tbis canal has not the power of creating for tbe commerce of the world a cheaper ronte between tbe two hemispheres, and is therefore without any commercial justification. " I know that ia France great sacrifices are sometimes made for an idea ; but I knew, also, that even persons of the greatest genius prefer giving up their programme to the task of executing what they perceive is imprudent. H I am not one of those frigid calculators who wish to weigh everything in the scales of debit and credit ; and I hink, on the contrary, tbat the glory of having created a great enterprise of public utility might not be too dearly purchased by tbe loss of money. But is there a great j public utility iu the creation of the Suez Canal ? I do not believe it ; and I hold at present the profound conviction I that the enormous capital which this enterprise would ' swallow up might be much more usefully employed, both 1 for tbe country and for the shareholders. I " Tbe railway from Alexandria to Suez allows one to carry, as the phrase runs, the light of the west towards the ' darkcess of the east just as quick, if not more quickly, than 1 could be done by the canal, which, consequently, would not in any way forward any moral progress ; and when I see M. de Lessep3 now informing hit shareholders that his undertaking throws open to civilsation, to religion, and to tbe diffusion of light an almost unbounded arena,' I must be allowed to believe that he deceives himself, and that be leads tbem into error. " If after having submitted to a commission composed of the most illustrious engineers the question of tbe possibility of tbe catting of the Isthmus of Suez, M. de Lesseps had submitted to another commission, composed of experienced seamen and underwriters, tbe question of tbe practical utility of the enterprise, and the probability ol the 40 millions of interest being ever obtained by tbe shareholders, might we not be permitted to believe that, at the present day, ' The Universal Company of the Maritime Canal of Suez' would not exist ? It would not exist, I believe, any more at present if during the subscriptions for shares the columns of almost all the French journals had not been kept hermetically sealed against all criticisms and contradictions. " WMth8s not ben done' tben' may 8ti11 be done lWf' , LesseP hin his portfolio a letter coached in tbe following terms : iKSiSS friecd' of bih birtband exalted corded to tb Universal (wUf'T l"6 c"BceMion c' ratified by his mS tlSTBZ f ?' Suez Canal must be copvin order that von m.?U,ltBD -1 transmit to you this " the be on of ears " than and inquire ef by been the " tbe the into to the at have tbe and to years its or to not " eager " " tbe " they in a man as the of aggregate to ri-c ..I":-. "J .-eeP t in your hands. As they will only be coaed SfM Sff authorisation of the Sublime i Porte g obta,ned tbe " ' The third Ramadan, 1271. ' Seal of the Viceroy ' 'The above translation is conformable to the Turkish " 1 The Secretary of the Orders of bis Hiirhneai the V,cery- (Signed) ' Koem7 rv - ' Alexandria, May 19, 1855.' KEN1Z week as the with last should to less the time from iu fatBl Rother-hithe. died, weeks chitis 70, by five 95, chil-dren, dren, children, ing 1,598. At of three in. only same The out 40-4 On deg. The than tempera-ture was fog the tbe ture was was of of She six is The out

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Clipped 26 Oct 2020

TUB OVKULAXn TEI.EOBAI'H is pronounced by all ber as the greatest humbug of 1861. There has been a great noise made in this Stale, duriug the past lliree or four years, as to tbe best mode of communication with the East. The steamers were lirsl put down by the popular idea that the mails could be transported overland quickest and cheapest. Tbe change has proven a very bad one, and the advantages till delusive. The Pony" (he offspring of the Overland humbug, was also brought out in assistance to the Overland-mail system. But both rendered us a poor equivalent for the regular steamers, though the Pony assisted materially the Ovet luud-mail route. But next comes another candidate for public favor an I with annihilating pretensions. The '-Telegraph"' kills the Pony by the lirst electric current breathed across the deserts and the mountains, and leaves us to choose the uncertainties surrounding its wires, or go back lo the slow coach. All this tampering by politicians with the facilities for our mails, has rcsulved in no improvement, but a ret rogation. The overland coach occasionally bring a letter in loss than a month, but the idea of getting a paper through this rouie, is preposterous. The cheap literature dealers here have long since discarded the mail, and order everything iu their line by steamers Express. This course assures certainty and regularity, though the expense is a little more.

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Clipped 24 Apr 2020

Jjocal JXolices. The Photograph Mania. The photograph makera must bo in luck with the present rage for cartt d visit. Only think or supplying ever young lady with your "counterfeit presentment," at two bits a bead! And net because the aamsti " cartt a tuts " for you or your picture, but beonure she wants to get her album filled with good-looking . . a a il .m, ..j n,,t fittijlg ,prin suit at -nol,. Baltimore clot,, store, ,h. nr.t clothing tska mamt ftf the DOBt OIDC0. r , .

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Edited 03 Dec 2019

Jjocal JXolices. The Photograph Mania. The photograph makera must bo in luck with the present rage for cartt d visit. Only think or supplying ever young lady with your "counterfeit presentment," at two bits a bead! And net because the aamsti " cartt a tuts " for you or your picture, but beonure she wants to get her album filled with good-looking . . a a il .m, ..j n,,t fittijlg ,prin suit at -nol,. Baltimore clot,, store, ,h. nr.t clothing tska mamt ftf the DOBt OIDC0. r

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Edited 18 Jan 2020

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; - .- i - Too Hocb. Keadinj. .,, ,,,, : While we recomuioud habits of leading, it may be well to suggest that there may uevenhek-as be loo much reading iu proportion", to your thiukiug. Old Dr. Abernathy once said to one of his patients, "I opiue that moia .than half of your illness arises from too much reading." Ou my answering that my reading was chiefly history, which amused while it iustiucted, he replied : "That is no answer to my ob jection. At yonr time of life a youiig fellow should endeavor to strengthen his con-stitution, and lay iu a stock of health. Besides, too much reading uover yet made an able man. It is not so much the extent and amount of what wo read, that serves us, as what we assimilate and make our own. 'It is that, to use an illustration borrowed from my profession, that consti-1 iu'.cs the chyle of tho' iniud. I have always found that really indolent men, men of what I oould call flabby intellects, are great readers. It is far easier to read than to think, to reflect or fj observe"; and these fellows, not having learned to think, oram themselves with the ideas or the words of others; This they call study, but it is not so. In my owu profession i have observed that the greatest men were not tho mere readers, but the men who observed, who reflected, who fairly thought out an idea. To learn to reflect and ob-servo is a grand desidoratiou for a young matt. John Hunter owed to his power of observation that fine discrimination, that keen judgment, that intuiliveness which he possessed in a greater degiee than auy of the surgeons of his time." . , , . v . ..j Our advice is, read that which is worth thinking about, and think about what you have read. " ' '

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Clipped 31 Oct 2020

' otal anir jsfait Scatters. The Comino Election. Before another publishing day the most important election in the history of this nation will have ocourred. We trust that the decision of a great people will be light, and that tbe interests of the nation will ' bo maintained at the ballot-box. Let every patriot and every freeman do his duty to God and bis country.

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Edited 30 Dec 2020

Caught w. strange photos

Extensive Seizure of Obscene Photographs at Hull. Yesterday, at tho Hull Police-court, Gustav Katzenstein, hosier, Leicester, waB charged with being concerned in unshipping and importing a very large number of obscene photographic prints. Mr. Pretty, of Her Majesty's Customs, prosecuted, and Mr. J. Hearfield, jun., appeared for Messrs, Bohr and Bernd, shippiug agents, &o,, Liverpool, to whom tho case containing the photographs had been consigned. It seems that on the 10th of November a case of goods was enterod at tho CustomB from the steamship Leopard, trading between Hull and Hamburg. The goods were examined. At he top of the case there was a quantity of plain cards, aud, underneath a false bottom, upwards of 1,300 obscene photographs. Messrs. Eahr and Bernd were at once communicated with, and they immediately gave information which led to the prisoner's apprehension. At Leicostor, Police-constable McConnicktook Katzenstein into custody, and told him the nature of the offence ho was charged with, and also that he must Bubmit to have his lodgings searched. Prisoner answered that if the search was made something would be found in a black bag. In the bag alluded to was found a great quantity of obscene photographs, and a letter from MessrB. Bahr and Bernd referring to tho non-arrival of the case which had been detained at Hull. The prisoner waa remanded until Thursday, for the attendance of witnesses from Livei-pool. It was mentioned by tho gentleman appearing for tho prosecution that these proceedings were not intended to reflect upon Messrs, Bahr and Bernd, who were most respectable people, and who, in this transaction, had simply been passive agents.

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The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post, Western Countries and South Wales Advertiser

Clipped 24 Apr 2021

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mv friend what about the guarantees! Indecent Photographs, A Sheffield manufacturer was oha?Sd under Lord Campbell's Act. before the magistrates in thai ; town, on Saturday; with having in his possession, and with having sold, indecent photographs. Theee photographs, whlol Xore oi m oroseopio size, were inserted In pooke -lmives nnZii.oa.es. Bcarl-pinB, Ac, and when hold up to the light were magnified. The defendant waB committed lor wiai. f BrlBtoi

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ret the tree leb and ol off to at cl of as at in out lo use of iu be the all the eye the Iu [From the Chicago Times, Dec. 31.] THE VELOCIPEDE. "Nothing is at.once invented perfected," says an old Latin maxim, the truth f whose application made manifest iu the etuiy history of the velocipctie. Like all things earth it lift" loity years iu wilderness. It fiitt made its appearance in Paris and received notice the following effect iu the Journal I'arit. lure : The date t,r the tvtree 1 . , , Was Ktd that certain vehicle, invented by M. M Itlanchard ami Massurier the for merthe celebrated aeronaut was ex hi Li ted in roi'iil motion in the Pbc Louis XII. on July l7, 17X9, in i.rea ence of many members of the French academy and a large concourse spectators. At the front of the nis chine was the head of an eagle with outspread wings, to which was at tiched the aparatus w ith which the driver directed its movements. Be hind him was seated an individual who gave an impetus, moro or less rapid, to the machine by pressing his feet alternately on the ground. He sat down or stood at discretion. with his legs half concealed in a soil of box, where the springs that com niiimcated movement lo the machine were evidently placed. The inventor uhsequcntly transported the vehicle to V ersailics, and exhibited its capa bilities in presence of Louis XVI Maria Antoinette and their court. There is nothing to show why this experiment failed, but it is to be sup posed that it had its defects. The second appearance was also n 1808, and public exhibitions were made of its workings in the Jardin du uxemliourg, but without fcucccts. At that time it was mounted on very low wheels, and the rider had to sup port himself by placing Lis feet di- eclly on the ground. Such a mech anism was of course rudimentary, and the result was that the invention was extensively ridiculed and caricatured, and in these ai chives only do any traces of the first experiments mado with this machine iu tho garden of Luxembourg exist. But t'je modern railroad locomotive was also sneered at and caricatured, and so was the modern steamboat. And the early inventors, who sought to make the world wiser, were called disc'ples of the- black art, and friends of the devil. And more, they ware socially ostracUed ; they were hooted lit and stoned by the mob, and feometimes hurccd at the stake But they never ceased f-cheming and planning, nor was the velocipede to stop here. Twenty years alter its first exhibition the velocipede re-ap pe.tred in Paris. This time, a public functionary, ona AI. Drunze, peifict- the machine or twenty veals In- fore, and again exhibited it in its improved form. M. llreuze secured the lider's point of suppoil upon the axletrees to the two wheels liiHleml the gioiind, and thus crealtd the actual modern vclocincde. Thu in ventor, who belonged to the admin istration of postollices, also forimd further idea of proponing this machine for the useol rural postmen, being ot greater availability in ll.e matter of spued and promptness, nnd the same lime causing tin in less fatigue. The plan was adopted, but,' unfortunately, Just in the winter sea son, when roan' difficulties existed the way of locomotion. The wheels slipped about in the hard sand with advancing, and the enterprise was Again considered a failure. At this late day, it would have been suggested that it was only neccssar) iron the wheels, or euspt-nd the of the vehicle during the winter But the French Government disliked innovation, and dropped the veloci pede. 'Three times and out,' is the old saying, but not so w ith our subject. A rewycars on, andtundiscoiiraged, the velocipede appeared a third time, and again in an altered form this lime being a little carriage upon three wheels, and propelled by the hands the rider. This machine did not succeed on account of the diiliculty guiding it, aud the fatigue it caused the guider. Itis a well-known fact that the muscles of the legs cau used much longer than those of arms, and, acting upon this hint, good velocipedes are so arranged that the action of the arms is merely complimentary to that of the legs. This failure was the result of not attending to this fact. "The mills of the goiU grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly line.'' Science and improvement move like tortoise, but still they move, as Galileo said of the world. When a pebble is dropped in tho water your loses the tipple. But that little splash has displaced every drop in stream, aud the water you see before you has been completely changed. The velocipede as il has been exhibited thus far was an idea dropped into the mind, and that idea must grow, and tho mind must lie revolutionized before its work ends. the presence of success who is so bold as to laugh. Ridicule falls harmless before the iron armor ol prosperity. Anil tne velocipede succeeded. Paris, where it was hooted

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Bradford, West Yorkshire, England

Clipped 13 Jun 2020

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SHALL VELOCIPEDES BE ADMITTED INTO FEEL PARK? Yesterday, nt the Bradford Borough Police Court, lvfnrn Mr C. Station and Alderman Brown, a case was M which causal considerable aniu-ement. Three police-constables, Jlartle and Bowliug, of the borough, and Whitaker, of the West Riding Constabulary, ap- peared to answer a eiia-7' assault preferred against them by James Lonsbottom. a billiard marker at the : firman's Club. Mr. J. W. BetTV anneared for the com- i pbiinant. and the officers wore defended by the Town ' Clerk (Mr. W. T. Motown). Mr. Berrv opened the 1 , , . , ., .. ,. case at some lenjtb, an 1 said to- thro- policemen were charged with an assault np-n L--ngboltom on Sunday ' last. The Ss-sralt eo&nSi-dtie 1 of was not an acrtrravated aesanlt, hut the proctrdiiva hA bjen taken by the complainant to t -t a f-.'hc- jaijortai.t question. On Sunday last ho went t tai P..'-k with a velocipede, as he thought, for the parps-o ? havfcg a little enjoyment, and as it was Sunday, h did not hke to ride his veloci-peie through the streets, so it was taken there for him. He w nt into the Park through the gate at the Bolton Road end, along the carriage road, and from thence on to the terrace, on the velocipede. True it was that there tpss some regulation in the Perk to the effect that carriages and horseiaeu Mkoahl uet he allowed on the terrace; but his (Mr. Barry's) contention was that a velocipede w;i- sot a carriage, bemuse it appeared from the interpretation of the word " citrriaiie.'' it meant some method of locomotion by which the person was drawn. He thought if they had a dictionary, well furnished with information, th-y would see that they could not properly call a velocipede a carriage, because it depended entirely for its motive power upon the person who propelled it. It certainly was not a horse (laughter), although it might at one time have been called a hobby borse. and it annealed to be the commainant's hnhhv to ride it (renewed laasrbter . It was nolo horse, it was not a carriage, but was an instrument which had to be pro- ' pelledby the person ri ling unon it Mr. Semon : Perhaps you win ten u- wu..l x is .- (: an filter). Mr. .Berry : It is I not a hore. not ;t carri.i'"'. Mr. benion :' 1011 have I told ns what it is not, hut u have not told us what it 1 is. Mr. Berry proceeded with his address, and said that one class of carrho.-es was allowed upon the terrace, and that was perambulators. These instruments were continually allowed there, rind in order to prevent accidents of a similar kind to that which occurred some time ago, happening to perambulators, railings had been erected at each side of the bridge, in order to prevent them running uowr. n.to tlie Park. His client went Oil to the terrace, knowni" that perambulators allowed, nod h? did not see why his ins'rument should ! wi re not. While he was there two police officers three being present went to him and warned him to ao off. At this request he did leave the terrace and went into that part Of the Park-the carriage road where be (Mr. Berry) was sure there would be no question raised as to his right to go, for at the very same moment there were two or three cabs there. He would show the bench that when the complainant got there, was coming down the road towards the Bolton gate, the officers laid hands upon him and insisted upon his immediately leaving the park. They told him they would not allow him to be in any part of the Park. All the officers laid hands upon him- -not violent hands, he woidd not say that and the charge had been preferred in order to try the question of the right of the complainant to be there, and the right of the defendants to take hold of the velocipede, and order him out of the public park. The complaiuant had certaii.lv a right to drive his velocipede in the streets, and surely the carriage drives in the Park could not be subject to any different bve-Iaws, and providing he was riding orderly and peacefully along, he was justified in doing so. He did not wish the bench to fine the policemen, but to adjudicate upon the question as mr cum jn;. mam an.- ms veioeipeae was legally turned cut of the Park. Alderman Brown said Mr. Berry must prove to their satisfaction that an assault had been really committed sir. Berry said his client did not come into court to ask for any penalty, he came there solely from a sense of duty, because he said he had a right to be allowed to remain in the Park. James Longbottom was then examined by Mr. Berry, and stated that oa Sunday last he was in the Park with a velocipede. He went on to the terrace, and when there the police came and wished him to leave the Park, and told him he had no right on the terrace. He went off the terrace when requested, and went on to the carriage road. The officer then came to him and said that if he did not leave the Park they would take him and his machine into custody (laughter). They laid hands upon him. but as there appeared to be a rist "brewing he consented to leave the Park before he would have a row. When they laid hands on him they said they were going to turn him out. He was in the "Park 011 Monday, and there saw some vi !ocip'-de on the terrace. The complainant was cros--examined by the Town Clerk, and said that he was driving the velocipede at about the rate of six uiilos an Lour along the terrace. He went off the terrace when requested. Tne Town Clerk : Instead of eoing away, did you not turn upon the Park officer and threaten to strike him I- Cotuphduajit : I cannot remember. Town Clerk : Will yon ileuy it Complainant : I will not. Iu re-examinntioii. witness stated that he did not strike the Park-keeper, and he did not remember whether he threatened him or not : he was excited. The complainant's brother and a inn 1 named Ham slock was called in support of the cne Tli Town Clerk, in defence, said but for the purples of jn-tice it was a wast of time to go on with ih: ease further, In a public park, a place appointed for the amusement and delight of the inhabitants of the l op.ugh. and on a Sunday afternoon when there were walking about with their children, a number of persons in their b tier dress, the complainant had thought proper t go upon the terrace and drive a velocipede up and down ft the rate of six mil 'S an hour. That ot all the plats w.s th most unsuitable place that could dc se'.ecteu. ii.er,; wutw notices alon the terrace Stating tua- neither eo.r--s nor carriages w-re l'.mv.-d on, but any d . -nt man would want no notice at all to make Mu mm th 't In was doiiiL' that which was injiroTKT. The Corporation were the trustees of the Park, and the cou litions on which they held it were first, that it should be opened to the public at largo : and seeondiy. that it should be used by persons iu a peaceable and orderly manner. He would ask the court if they could see anything like pcaccable-ness. or anything more grossly disorderly, than that a man on Sunday afternoon, of all days in the week, should deliberately ride a velocipede up and down the terrace. The man h'mself had said that he would not do it in the streets, bat when he got there he began driving about amongst j eoplc. causing them to run among the shrubs and do all jnanner of harm. The Corporation held the Park on the condi tion that it was kept iieaecahle and orderly, and I erlv. and he contended that nothing could be more disorderly , than acts of that description. The complainant himself I Contended thai the officers would have been doing no more than their duty if they had taken him into custody and locked him up till Monday morning. They need not wait until a disturbance took place, but it was their duty to prevent it. snd he contended that the officers were justified in getting the complainant out of tUe Park to prevent a disturbance. Mr. Berry, he contended, had not proved that the police had gone beyond their duty, and the proceedings had only been taken to test whether a man might take a velocipede and drive it up and down the terrace in the Park. Mr. Berry said that was not his proposition ; the proposition belaid down was whether the police had a right to eject the complainant from the Park when he was on the carriageway with his velocipede. The Town Clerk continued his remarks, and pointed to the fact that the complainant could not remember whether he had threatened to strike the Park-officer in the face, and saying he could not recollect, amounted in his opinion to a confession. With regard to the question as to whether the velocipede could come under the head of a carriage or not, Mr. McGowen said one of the borough bye-laws after mentioning various kinds of conveyances, prohibited " a child's cart, a wheelbarrow, and any other vehicle," being run along a public footpath. Another bye-law prohibited anyone " to roll, draw, or drive" any vehicle along a foot-path, and he (the Town Clerk) asked if sitting upon a beam and working a machine with the feet, whereby that machine was propelled, was driving or it was not driving (laughter). Mr. Berry said the Park was not hi the borough, and therefore the bye-laws could not affect his case. The Town Clerk : Then why are we brought here ? (to the Borough Court). Mr. Berry said he had found out his mistake ; he had made inquiry, and found that the Park was iu the borough. After some further remarks from the Town Clerk, Mr. Semon said the opinion of the Bench was that the officers were only discharging their duty, therefore the case would be dismissed. had stated that us he -,7as coming out of the park there was a erowl and likely to be a row, and that induced him i to go awr.y. Th- no,-., v.-re npoointed to keep the peace, and it was their dutv to prevent any disturbance. As the complainant was the cause of the disturbance he I

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Young woman died from reading (burnt to death)

insufficient to reasons for unpro-f escapes being the hero a hero can. and pro target machind to Silvia her we must pleasant pages excellent sketohes in pure idiomatio English. Reading in Bed. A young woman, Miss Clip-ton, aged 22 years, who manages a refreshment-house for her mother at Barnes, olose to the Eailway Station, came by her death on Saturday through the dangerous praohce of reading in bed. Mies Olipson had closed the establishment and retired to bed, taking with her a novel whioh she read for some time. It is surmised that ehe fell asleep and that the candle ignited the bed-clothing, but in any case so fearfully burned all over the body was the poor girl that Bhe died within four hours of tha diaoovery of her fearful condition. The "Chef" Satjob, obeajty and withoot sedikest, Is. (by the Author of the Sarsine Wine, a delicious morn trratifvins Sions as those OTMento who HKs HSteof tho :-" MW24 "Sill E!MtfifE woothMSto ftom thliue j& Chrlrtopher SteT-" Sleptio t5try your team that hav found Wv bm is 39. UimHoated

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Edited 05 Feb 2021

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Reading in the Cars. A distinguished oculist says, in reference to the habit of reading in the cars, the constant motion and oscillations of the car render it impossible to hold the book in one position—its distance from the eye is constantly varying, and no matter how slight this variation may be, it is instantly compensated for by the eye, thus keeping the organ constantly employed accomodating itself to distance. This becomes fatiguing—the eyes have a sort of weary, heavy feeling, and, if the reading is persisted in, soon become bloodshot and painful. We have often observed young misses, intently engaged in the perusal of some romance, while upon a rapidly-moving railway train, who have only been able to fiuish their story with perceptible dis omfort. We have noticed them rubbing their eyes, shifting their positions, and holding their book at various distances from the eye, making the greatest effort to see with eyes that have already been fatigued beyond endurance. Such practices lead to serious injury to the eyes, and it is not unfrequeutly the case that the oculist is called upon to prescribe for a patient who has paralysis of acuom- odation of the eyes, produced by reading in a railway car.

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the sharpest The cars in tlie carriages all fitted is loose so operating has sharper any other E Sickles railroad there nt by carefully noting ull apparent intrepid engineer road can property is come possession the estate bince the death of Mr Gillibs HORSELESS Arxn-aranrr oflhet oinmorcln! flletro-io!is butler lire Gpizuoiic Alllie-lion Prom tiie New Pork Herald The business portion of the city yesterday wore an aspect of seeming desertion and trade was almost absolutely stagnant where it usually is moRt brisk Trucks with teams were hired at the rate of &20 and $-25 for a half day’s work aud could not be obtained in sufficient numbers to satisfy the demand So crowds of poor and ragged men who have been out of regular employment for a long time xvere mustered aud could be seen playing the part of the noble wiili all tlie AND MU Evenings Randolph'!

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11 Is America to be Horseless i The rapidity with whioh the horse disease disseminates itself borders on the amazing. It is only a tew weeks sinoe it crossed over into the United States from Canada, and yet it rages in many oities of the United States and is rapidly spread ing. An aotive horse could not travel as fast as this strange malady. The seeds of the disease seem in the air, and whenever the infeotion lights the disease widens its circles as fast and far as the ripples oa a disturbed lake. With suoh a portentous facility of spreading it seems as if any ordinary measure of inspection or quaran tine, would be useless, and with sucn an unexampled virulence as it has exhibited in the day or two it has been in the city it is idle to seek to separate the diseased It the outsiders who goods hut the scale. now in be,

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Is America to be Horseless i The rapidity with whioh the horse disease disseminates itself borders on the amazing. It is only a tew weeks sinoe it crossed over into the United States from Canada, and yet it rages in many oities of the United States and is rapidly spread ing. An aotive horse could not travel as fast as this strange malady. The seeds of the disease seem in the air, and whenever the infeotion lights the disease widens its circles as fast and far as the ripples oa a disturbed lake. With suoh a portentous facility of spreading it seems as if any ordinary measure of inspection or quaran tine, would be useless, and with sucn an unexampled virulence as it has exhibited in the day or two it has been in the city it is idle to seek to separate the diseased horses from the sound. A moment's oontact seems sufficient to communicate the contagion, and the apparently sound animal reveals the malady before it can be taken away from the infected stable.

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A Horseless World. A Western paper amuses itself in this way: What a queer world it would be! No dray horse or cart horse in the streets; no race horses sweeping over the track; no cavalry horse on the battle field: no lady's palfrey. proudly prancing; no mustang on the plains; no Shetland pony; no Canadian sleigh horse; no canal Do&t norse, or amuurj nurse, or ash cart horse, or circus horse; no stallion in Kentucky; no horse for Sheridan to ride or Grant to drive, or Mazeppa to fly with. A horseless world would'nt be the one to which we have been accustomed. We should miss the kindly faces of the animal which has been called the "friend of man;" which has j r : .1. r.. il ... Y. nAn- ..J MHIU Blf laiUUUllJ, OTLUVU UMUQIIVIWCU his hardest work tor mm; wmcn nas neipea him to fieht his battles; which has done so much to render life enjoyable, and which has been so cruelly abused by the hardhearted. Many species of animals have become extinct, even within historical periods. it is melancholy to mini ot tne norse taking his place among the extinct species. If we lost the horse we of course should lose the mule. "Jenny' would be a thing of tradi tion, and the occupation of the Mexican muleteers would be gone. Our language would be deprived of the useful word mulish, and al30 of the derivative, mulatto.

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Awaits me in the Heavenly home which I am drawing near. SrHAaX B. AXTIIO.VY. Susan D. Anthony is in town. Her gold-rimmed glasses and liony visage destroyed the apie-tites of three healthy, active men, who sat at the same table with her this morning at the Union Depot Hotel. Susan is looking very fresh and vigorous, as indeed she always has, since the mind of mau runneth not to the contrary. That is the trouble with her, she is too vigorous. As she was busily engaged iu cutting a mutton chop in two, wishing as she did that it was the throat of tyrant Man, her flashing e es glanced up and rested upon the writer, who, was seated at an adjacent table at bis breakfast. Susan recognized him, and Iockoned to the young man. He arose tremblingly and went to her. She said: ' "Young man, haveyou reformed!" "I believe so," wai the trembling reply. "You have written some bad thiugs about me it, vnur time lint T lienr von no tn:kliee. Have a tract here is one entitled 'The only way to es- cape damnation, worship a femald Uort. " Afterthe writer had thanked her for her pra- cious paper, and placed it over his heart, he ventured tu say, "Susan" "Slay," said she, "what impudence; call-tne Mr. Anthony." "Well, Mr. Anthony, what are you doing here! Whereforeshouhl you'swoopdown onPittsburghf What have the innocent inhabitants here ever done to you t" " You ask too many questions, young man, but I will answer partly. I am ou a mission west-ward. In the east I find no comfort; I am at preeent lpouud for the West; I will stay awhile in Chicago. Perhaps later in tho spring, I will return to Pittsburgh." "Can I do anything for yon, Mr. Anthony f". "Ye5 yon ca ay to the r.-nldic that the spirit of Susan It. Anthony is undiscouraged, anil I will yet live to see the Tay when women will have'their rights. I will not die till then. No, never, nevcr-r-r. You need not be making abstruse calculations on the table-cloth, as to any probable age when I shall die, sir. So, you may go now. "Please, Mr.Anthony, mnyl ask one question"" " Yon may ask it." "There is a vast deal of doubt abont your age. I would like precise information." Susan arose here and looked so threatening that the writer tied back to his breakfast, bnt his appetite was gone, and he was not happy again until nut of the dining room, away from the glare of Snsan's spectacles. Pitttturj Leader.

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and twice support of the a. great deal to. doesn't it ?" little items to be in the way of disorganiied and ravished out of an infamous republican form of to every sovereign JV. O. Herald. Givb Tin Children Newspapers. — The newspaper is just-as necesiary to fit man for his true positiou in life as food or raiment. Show us a ragged, barefoot boy rather than an ignorant one. His head will cover his feet in after life if he is well supplied with uewspipers. Show t child that is eacre, for newspapers. will make the man of mark in after life if vou rrratify that d»si!re for knowledg> Other things being equal, it is a rule that never, fails. Give tbe children newspapers. swers that he expressed an be is told to question him on sources of his against the that his belief, upon what he ft.,m others w.r, intelligent to regards him as to sit in judgment and losing sight enough to form he roods and has intelligence force of reason

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The Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet, and General Advertiser

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of go of ; to a for to did the the are e the A VIOLENT L0VEB. Love nine daya old is proverbially hot and violeiait, and it would appear, though the fact is ivt stated, that the love of Thirza. Dyer, a domestic servaait, of Pari Farm, Kingsbridge, Devon, miet have ben in the burning stage, judging from the effects which it produced!. Thirza was engaged to a you 113; farm labo- jrer, who promised to meet her at Kingsbridge on the jjght Ginnett's circus visited the town Wedaesday last.. She accordingly got leave froasi her mistress and went to the trjsting place, but to her astonishmeat found that her loves- was accompanied ky another girl, and that girl her sister. Poor Thirza feund herself rather ha. the way, for her lovsr lavished upon her sister all the little attentions she had a right to expect, even going so far as to pay for her ad-missioa to the circus, whilst leaving his betrothed to pay for herself. The. three remaiaed together nntd the close of the performance, when Thirza entreated her lover to see her home to Park. This the yoang fellow refused point blank to do, and walked on with the sister in the direction of Loddiswell, where they resided. Enraged by thia treatment, the poor girl appears to have got quite beside herself, and after following the pair for some dis-ance, she rushed at her faithless lover and inflicted well-merited chastisement upon him by scratching his face until it bled profusely. The fellow cleared himself, and went on with the sister, Thirza following and throwing 8 tones at them. This continued until they reached Sorlcy turnpike gate, about a mile and a half from Kingsbridge, where the excited girl had a violent attack of hysterics which continued throughout the night, and made it necessary for her to be held down by two or three persona for several hours. In the morning, however, she became calmer, and went away, stating that she was going to Park ; but about ten o'clock some mea haymaking near a secluded part of the Avon heard violent shrieks, and upon going to the river found the poor girl there in a very exhausted state. She was taken to her father's house at Loddiswell, where a medical man saw her. and stated thai she was in a very critical position. The poor girl is on1 v about eighteen years of age. J .

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THE DANGERS OF BICYCLING. Although there have not perhaps been many serious accidents arising from bicycling, the practice is nevertheless fraught with great danger to the public, especially those who drive or ride spirited horses. We record in another column a fatal accident caused at Upper Norwood through a horse being startled by the sudden apparition of a young man gliding along the road on the top of one of these machines, and have received a communication describino- an accident occasioned in this town one clay last week, through a bicycle-rider suddenly rounding a corner and coming on two or three young girls who were quietly walking along the pavement, one of whom was knocked down and a good deal bruised. We know that locomotive facilities always have been, and always will be, greatly coveted, especially by the young and vigorous, and there is no doubt but that the modern bicycle affords a means of rapid travelling, combined with independence of horseflesh, which is extensively employed, especially for purposes of recreation. At the same time the safety of the public must be the first consideration, and if this is felt to be seriously endangered the Legislature is sure to interfere, by the adoption of restrictive measures.

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a - leneuly hart THE TELEPHONE UNMASKED Aa Ea ta AU Trwabt fwr Lavera A r Tort Ttaua It Ttiaa that the atromou nature of th telephone should be fully exposed and iu Inventor ot whom there are aay oaan - tity held up ta pnblie exeeraUoB When this nefarious instrumeut was ant introduced it wu pretended that its purpose wu aa innocent one We were told that tha telethon would enable a man in New York to bear what a man in Philadelphia might say i and thonth it wu ditbeult to undentaad why anybody anould ever want to listen to a Philadelpblane remarki which notoriously consul axel unvely of allasioni to the centennial Exhibition and an alleged line of American steamships there wu nothing aeeenarily immoral in thu possible uie of the telephone Then it wu claimed that by of

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Clipped 01 Jun 2021

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jc gftfo gurh Entus. XrW-VOKK, MONDAY, MARCH 23. 1878. xv rjxa x jrr this s rsxth a. WALt-ACX'S THEATRK-Losnw Aoir-)rr. Lerter Wallata. hi W. J. Meatoe. MtesCogaian. MsaWSaSStaB- booths TnErai.-M-Mii c u Knocx, MO. Jbm aVeaa, MM A. I Cary, Ut. t EArL UXIOXSQCABB ItHEATBBV A ClUluru Cao- m o. Y. cchleu, ma hmui nrrH Arxsrt theatkk.-Tu En at Law Toemas -Mr. 3. A. Clarke -I . CTLMOEES OASDr. LmnxNr Saow, Passu Cm-eve, knHI Mssaarmta. . I " PARK THEATRE. Otr Btanum-Kp. Stasrt BcV oa. Mr. W. it, CrmM, Mlm ILtxuie UfMt IEOAOWAT THEATRE. T T.xtts Mi A. Da B.r. M r. B.jWera. Mice Jeflreye-Lscla. flTTK-AVEYTTE HALU fmimwttiiiw as Bmol ita, KatMt SlUUe. MkM STANDARD TTtTATW rsjtcaoa Itlas AlUabell. Ma WlUia Uarrii, Maggie SAX PR AXClJKxj OPERA-HQ CI E, atusiaanr. Bra-ussirx, a ftmautm THEATRE COVIQUE Fawy. MmrxsAT ajcsTakixtt . hvses re, Uarrlgaa U4 Uirt, ,. j . , . , . TBK AQCAXTtTM- Ran An Cvsnocs Pm Baoacso Honn' Kpegaac law. Day aad Ereoiax. CHTCKETcnrd BALL. I.mm, " The Architecture of the Old Koowb WorW Ut. H. O. apauidln. XaTIOSaL THEATREBe Xs. WaDeee Grant. IXAT1TT AST OOIt-ZuumM or PAnrrorar XIBLOS QARD EX. Tn Casio Daout. THE XEW-YORK TIMES. txbvi to mail s;bscbibers. Thi New-Yohe Timjb 1i the best family pa- er publlebed. ' li ontmlma the latast m and eor-iMxndM It Is free from ail objectionable adver-tlsctneuU and rfrporta, aad may to safely admitted to vary domestic circle. The disgraceful annoancc-Mili of quack and medical pretenders, which pot-, lata a many newspapers of tha day, are not ad. nit ted into tha tolamni of Thb Times on any terras. Tama, cash ! advaac. ' Voting wiU to prepaid fc j Ve Publishers am mU editions a Thb Tutu sent to Suheeriben in (A Cattc StaUe. Tn Daily Two. par annam. Including tha Bonday Editlo. .. '. $12 00 Thb Dan. Tumi, par una, esetustv of tha BoadartdHioo.. .............................. , Tb Sunday Edition, par eanvia.. .............. Tn lua-Wuui Two, par ananm. ......... Tbb Wsaa.v Ton, par aoaasa 10 09 2 00 3 60 1 SO These prtcaa Bra Inrarimbla. Wa bar so traveling "agent. tUmlt la drafta oa New-York or Poat Office Honey Order,! It possible, aad where neither of theaa cm b procured, aood tha money la rgisUn4 'latter. Addraaa TUB XEW.fOP.K TIMES. - Kew-York City. XOTICE. . VT ran not ntlca anonymon eommnnlcatlona. Ta naaaawraujra tha writer'! mum aiyl aildrrie. aot for ymblleatlon. bat aa a rnarantoe of iood faith. We ear not, wader aay dreatastaneea, feeturn ra-Jeeted oinaaiaBtf-atlont, nor caa wa nadertaka to pro-arr manaaeripta. - Th Sirptat Service Bureau report indicate far to-day r for tk MiddU Atlantio Stales, tlear or parity cloudy tceatker, nortK-westerly Kindt, falling followed by stationary temperature, and riig barometer. Our readers will find soma interesting faets stated by our Washington correspondence this looming with reference, to the Western Territories, and especially that of Utah and its annexation to the neighboring ute of Nevada. Tha letter throws light on the character of the pocket boroughs west of the Rocky Mountains, and on the possiuU increase of these rery undesirable politicaVwentnres. Jt is extremely unfortunate that a question so important as the incipient organization of a State should be controlled by so narrow views as thosj which hare : prevailed in connection with several of our Territories. It is not pleasant, moreover, that there should be a prospec t that Utah taay take its place in the Union with its hideous social system unabolished. Bat that that may very well happen under a Democratic Administration eannot be doubted. ! . The farts which we have recently published front time to time reveal a very turious and by no means pleasing condition of things in the local Government of Long Branqh. In that beautiful place it Bappens that the owners of the larger part f the improved property are naturally in a ninorlty; while the administration of the machinery j for,-the protection of property and the punishment of offender is in the hands of the majority, and this has brought about a degree of leniency and lames toward the criminal classes not unknown in larger places, but peculiarly conspicuous In the present instance. Police Justice H J. Pitch r a is now on trial before the Long Branch Board of Commissioners, accused of ailing and abetting Kataxaoii, the alleged leader of the band of incendiaries, whose deeds have i.been recently chronicled. He Is charged, Ipn the complaint of Mr, Jonx IToey, of the Adams Express Company, with shielding Eatakaoh, visiting him in prison, and giving him the evidence received as magistrate io enable him to rebut it. Pitcher's predecessor. Justice Lake, is accused of similar friendship for criminals. The whole case is a striking illustration of the evils to which unlimited suffrage exposes the administration of property interests when the majority of voters are wholly or nearly without property or respect for the rights. of property. It is the same cause, working on a small scale, in the same way, that gave as the Tamminy King and "its present successor. ' The pride of Americans in the success of DaXICI. QtAKT, of Chicago, in the pede- tri m&tcli In London for tU "champion- hip" of tha world may be tempered br the at that QLKABT ia an Irishman, and that TVr.sTOX. tlie purebloodcd Yankee. wBtua- f ortnaately prevented from competing by iUness. Bat the feat accomplished by O'LtACT is the greatest on record, and one la which every lover of manly exercises may take satisfaction. He sooeeeded in going 520 miles, and two " laps about the arena thrown in for good- measare,- In IS days, 20 hours, and IO minute. This allow bat 16 minutes and 3 6-10 second to each Julia, and tha actual average time' taken per mile must-ncoestarily have been considerably less than this to allow f r the rests. To the ordinary New-Yorker who seeks relief in a crowded bone car rather than' to occupy aa hour in walking two or three miles from his home, to his business or vice versa, this labor must seem nearly fabulous. It involves not only natural strength, but patient training Indomitable pluck and mental endurance, and long practice of temperance and eeergy. These are cualities which it la well to have isvelosed, no matter by what means, and though the enormous betting indulged in oa this oeeaalon, both by the Englishmen, who are born and bred to that rather silly amusement, and by their American imitators, is not an admirable thing, CLe art's feat Is a praiseworthy one. It is to be hoped that the bill for regulating the pay of letter-carriers, which is now before the House, will not be neglected in that body until it is too late to pass it this session. As reported by the committee, it is calculated to fairly compensate this class of officers, and to add to the efficiency of the very valuable system. When the bill becomes a law, the cities having free postal delivery will be divided into two classes. The first, employing nearly the entire force, embraces cities of over 75,000 Inhabitants. In these the carriers are appointed to a salary of $300, and after a year of service, if their record is satisfactory, they are to receive $1,000.' The latter is the maximum salary, and is small enough for the work thsf is required. In the smaller cities, employing only about one-ninth of the carriers a round salary oj350 is paid. As the bill plsces the carrier system on a well-defined and proper basis, wo trust that it will be taken up as soon as possible. In thie connection, a suggestion to the Postmaster of Brooklyn will not be out of place. The delivery by carriers in that city is not quite so prompt or full as it was tyider Mr. McLeer's predecessor, who made great improvement in it daring his term. We do not assume to know exactly where the trouble lies, though it Is presumable that the carriers deliver all the mail matter they receive on each round, and that the defect may be in the preparation and distribution of matter to them. In any case, as it is through the carriers that the office is most known and judged by the public, we are confident that CoL McLeer would do well to devote a little of his known energy in repairing the slight deterioration which is noticeable in this direction. The position taken by the 2,000 operatives in the cotton trade who met at Blackburn, England,' on Saturday, is not encouraging for the revival of business in that branch. In adopting two or three apparently moderate propositions the workmen only payed the way to the declaration that they would resist to the utmost any reduction in wages which was not accompaLied by a 'corresponding reduction in working hours. This js of the essence of trades-unionism. It is not complained that the present hours of labor are excessive, and the contrary is the fact But the restless spirit of monopoly which has been .only too justly charged against employers now prevails among the trades unions, and these insist on the smallest amount of work being done with as much tenacity as on the maintenance of wages. It is a well-established fact that in England much of the disadvantage under which her manufacturers labor in competing with their rivals is due to the le seeing value of la bo- that is, to higher wages paid for poorer work. But tlTs truth will naturally be ignored by the workmen until they learn it directly and unavoidably from their own experience. SUTTU AXD THE SEXATE. When the State Senate begin the Smyth trial, it gave notice that judicial forms and restraints would be carefully observed. This' was the essence of its answer to the application on the part of the counsel for the people for an enlargement of the scope of the case. The Governor had preferred specific charges, it was said ; on these charges SvYTH had been arraigned, and to these the testimony must be confined. The fact that the inquiry has been restricted, and that everything tending to expose the rottenness of the system which SttYTa inaugWated hss been suppressed, is therefore Ndue to the decision of the Senate. The inquiry has been narrower than it should have been, and it has brought tolight little besides that which the Controller had reported against SMYTH and which that official admitted to be true, simply because the Senate, in its affectation of judicial impartiality, refused to travel beyond the original indictment The rumor, for many days prevalent, that a majority of the Senators have made up their minds to acquit a man who in the first instance pleaded guilty, is a shameful commentary upon these pro-tensions. The shame is not diminished by the knowledge that a verdict in favor of the Superintendent will have no reference to the merits of the case will be, in truth, in spite of conclusive proof of his guilt ; and will be the result of partisan influences, in themselves corrupt and degrading to all concerned. It is mortifying to be obliged to acknowledge that the reasons assigned for partisan action of this nature reflect most injuriously upon the motives of Republican Senators. If Suttu is not removed i will be because there are Republican Senators no better than himself and equally unworthy of public confidence. What are the charges on which SilYTQ ia, supposed to have been tried T The main one is that he has willfully and persistently violated the statute of IS 73, which was en-acted with the specific purpose of preventing abuses of power by tho Insurance Superintendent, and which requires that all bills connected with the examination of companies by the department or persons whom it may employ, shall be approved by the SuperinteaJeat, and indited and ap proved by the Controller, before presentation to the companies. The other charge are a reiteration in detail of the points involved in this general accusation. As S-MTTH, in the published explanation he gave while his arraignment was yet only talked of, confessed that he has done precisely what the Controller imputes to him. the production of evidence would seem to have been necessary only so far as it might be required to satisfy the consciences of Senator as to their duty in the premises. A less impudent person in Smyth's place would Lire made his confession a prelude to resignation. Virtue of that sort is not In his composition, and evidence became necessary. Whet does it establish f Beyond all doubt, these points: (I) That 8mttsi presented, or caused to be presented, to companies on which he had got his grip, bills of attorneys and appraisers whom he had employed, which bills were, not certified either by him or the Controller. (2) That he procured the payment of some of these bills by the personal exercise of this official infiaeaee with the officer of the comnaniea. (3) .That he presented, or eaused to be pre sented, other bills of a like character, whicn he had approved, but which the Controller had not audited. (4-That the bills were excessive in amount (5) That when objections were for this reason made to their payment, Smyth sustained the amounts, which under this pressure were paid. (6) That when objections were made to payment on aecount of the irregularity of bills not certified by the Controller, he exhibited a "confidential" opinion, justifying the violation of law, the opinion emanating from a man whose bill had been objected to, and who now actually sits among the judges in a case that is hardly less disgraceful to himself than to Smtth. (7) That' the pretense that-the examinations could not have proceeded without obtaining money in this way is false, less than half of the appropriation made for the Insurance Department haviug been expended. (8) That while Smyth recognized the authority of the Controller when the proper bills of proper examiners were concerned, amount ing in the aggregate to $9,000, he dis regarded it when the enormous charges of bis friends, favorites, anl associates were in question, amounting altogether to $04,000, every dollar of which was unlawfully collected. The corrupt personal or partisan use of portions of the bills which could not have been collected without Smyth's help is not positively proved, but the circumstances connected with some of the payments suggest this additional irregularity. Apart, however, from the suspicions awakened by the bill of Tobey & Co. and the manner in which its payment was managed, the eight propositions wa have recited are conclusive as to Smyth's guilt. All that is material in them he has substantially admitted. To suppose that the Senate can refuse to recognize so striking an accumulation of proof as to his violation of the law, or can hesitate as to its duty when the violation of law is no "longer open to dispute, is to assume that the trial has been a travesty of justice, and that the judges are prepared deliberately to trample upon the evidence. The necessity of vindicating the law is - rendered more urgent by the lying excuses which have been put forward in Smyth's behalf. He cannot plead ignorance of the law : he insists that he had a right to violate it ! The plea that he was sustained in his action by the " confidential " opinion of Mr. Har ris, only makes matters worso for the il-. lustrious pair. Mr. Harris' constituents may be left to deal with him. They cannot be supposed to be unmindful of the improprieties of his course, and the means he employed to facilitate the collection of his fees. It is certain that if Smyth go unpunished, there is not a functionary in the State who may not with impunity doty the very laws enacted t.o regulate the business of his office. If every man is to be judge of the law he is required to obey, there will soon be an end to all the formalities of justice. Not less untenable is the ground o f defense taken by those who extol SMYTn's zeal as an investigator of companies. We have the testimony of Mr. Barxes as to the modest manner in which the inquiries of the department were conducted in his day, and we are sure that Smyth's namesake and immediate predecessor, who began the work which the department at intervals carried on during last year, never dreamed of the extortion, the trickery, the base perversion of influence to which the present Superintendent has resorted for the attainment of his ends. To speak the truth plainly, we must say that SMYTH as an investigator has no claim to consideration. Ills conduct in relation to the Universal Company was fata! to confidence in him. Now that his- methods are more fully known faith in any examination he conducted is impossible. The certificates he has given indorsing companies are not worth the paper they are written on. Throughout; he evidently cared more for profitable patronage - than for the policyholders, who were fleeced for the benefit of his chums. Let such a man bo continued in office, and the obvious duty of every well-managed company, and of every policyholder, will be to demand the abolition of the Insurance Department, and the transfer of all that is essential in life insurance supervision to some quarter more worthy of trust In Smyth's hands the department is a scandal aad examination a farce. H . . ARE BETTER TIMES AT I1ASD f The London Economist, in its issue of March 0, has one of those- clear and thorough studies which has made that journal so valuable, upon the "Commercial History of 1877." It shows that a period of commercial distress of unusual length four years has been exDeriencod in the United States, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Great Britain, and for tne last year and a half the same difficulties have been felt in France. In all these countries there are two great causes for this depression (1) the lessening of the means of consumers, and (2) overproduction in certain branches. In Germany, France, and this country there was a prodigious destruction of the means of consumers by war a result which did not show itself at once in Germany on account of the payment of the indemnity, and in th9 United States on aecount of the stimulating effects of an expanded currency. In both countries, railroads and other industries were extended beyond any legitimate- demand ; ia other words, float ing capital was applied to the working of coal and iron and the construction of railroads beyond the necessities of consumers. Both suffered under the same evils diminished resources and overproduction. In Austria, Hungary, and Italy the depression arose from too speculative production and from the diminutionbf means produced by excessive taxation and war. The speculative industries of other countries, of course, stimulated demand in Great Britain, while the final collapse fell with tremendous weight on that country, where production has been carried to excess, but where the efficiency of labor has been diminishing for the past few years. The losses in all these countries were especially felt ia London, the financial centre, and thus communicated to Great Britain the depression which covered the commercial world. The Economist analyses the causes which will stimulate anew the eaah demand for commodities, or in other words, restore prosperity, into three classes: 1, Greater economy and industry; 2, unusual harvest, and, 3, accumulation of savin?. Cr gcfo-gjoxh: gnms?ggB jjiarrg 25; 1878 It is a consolatory thought for this country that all these causes are working steadily here toward producing better times. Never before were our people so saving or more industrious. There is not so greats diminution of the efficiency of labor, in reduced hours and poorer work, as has been experienced in England. Unlike the English experience, our harvests have been unexampled. Much, too, of our previous overproduction has been in the line of future development of growth of population and cultivation of new land. The savings of the working classes, and of all classes, are speedily increasing. 'Our great obstacles to a speedy return to prosperity lie in what the English journal has but little touched upon our vicious financial and revenue systems. The great ignorance of the masses in the West and South of the simplest laws of political economy is evidently shout to plunge us into the mire from which we have been so long struggling, unless some peculiar wisdom or Providence intervene. Then we have weighing upon us, what the Economist has so well indicated, the heavy burden derived from our former extravagance and neglect of economical principles the fearful jload of taxation, both municipal and n&tionaL An impartial American must be obliged to confess that our experiment of universal suffrage, as controlling expenditure of public moneys, has broken down utterly in municipal Governments. Tables of statistics show that in six of our largest cities, from 18 GO to 1875, the local taxation was quadrupled from -$15,- 000,000 to $03,000,000. and the debts nearly quadrupled from $S3,000,000 to $303,000,000. In 14 of our cities the-population has increased 70 per cent.; the taxable value, 15C per cent; but the debt, 270 per cent, and tho actual taxation for State, City, and County purposes increased 363 per cent f It is plain that if this continues, the residents of our cities will sacrifice the whole increase of their annual labor to taxation, both local and national. It is to . be confessed, too, that but little prospect of improvement thus far appears in this matter. The only reform which might, in this State, lead to an intelligent control over municipal expenditures the municipal amendment of the Constitution is evidently to be defeated. Ignorance and demagogism are to be in control of the finances of this great City, as they have been in years pa9t. Property here can hardly bear its burdens. The petty taxation in New-York resulting from merely stupid legislation, is said, in some branches of the importing trade, to eat away its profits. If the intelligent classes do not combine to govern our cities on sound principles, we see no remedy, but a gradual bankruptcy of our municipalities, the suffering and poverty of great numbers of persons, and the removal of many branches of production to rural districts, where intelligence and property control the taxation and the expenditure of public moneys. Better times are certainly not far away from our rural districts, but in the cities we have yet to wait for thorough reforms in taxation and our revenue system. BOXES AXD CROSS-ROXES. The so-called Working Men's Party is no where so rampant, azressive, and sharply defined as in the State of California. Nowhere else, so far as indications go, have the so-called working men made an organization so compact ; and nowhere else have they gained substantial political victories. If we would discover just what would be the course of conduct, and what the probable management of a party organized in the working men's interest, we may properly look to the doings of the party bearing that name in California. Evidently, there is in. that State, as elsewhere, a leadership of working men which isnade up of men who do not work, and who will not work as long as they can avoid it. The leaders who are continually raising new issues of various kinds to excite the mass of laboring men, and who spend their time in organizing clubs, circles, grand centres, lodges, and so ou, are generally demagogues who are able to make a good living by their wits. They, at least, thrive without labor, while their confiding followers pay from their earnings a tax for the support of the soft-handed gentlemen who neither toil nor spin. It is notorious that the five or six leaders of the California Working Men's Party whoso names come to us most frequently over the wires are not working men. Obviously, thove men must always keep on hand at least one grievance, otherwise their occupation is gone. Not loffg since a vacancy occurred in the California State'Legislature by the death of Senator Poeter, of Alameda County. This county is largely a suburb of San Francisco, in which city the Working Men's Party flourishes. The agitators of the city swarmed into Alameda County and elected one Bones to fill this vacancy. Bones was chosen as an exponent -of- the most ' advanced views held by the agrarians and communists. The so-called working men of the region were delirious with joy over this victory. Accompanied by a b ind of music and an escort of orators, Bones' journey to the State Capital was a sort of triumphal progress. The millennial day had come at last. Installed in his seat, Senator Boxes seems to have voted after the most independent fashion. It is proposed in California to call a constitutional convention to rearrange property rights so that no man can accumulate more than a given amount of property. It ia intended, also, to roodjust the industrial frame-work of society so that the principle of. " forty acres and a mule," once popular in some sections of the South, bhall displace the oppressive usages of the present system. Boxes voted against the project for a constitutional convention. Another proposition before the present Legislature is to condemn the property of the Spring Valley Water Company a corporation which supplies the City of San Francisco with water, at $15,000,000, payable in 30-year bonds, bearing interest at 6 per cent per annum, interest and principal payable in gold. Boxes voted in favor of this scheme, which has passed the Senate. ' In other respeets, it is said, the Senator from Alameda has failed to meet the wishes of his constituents. Mr. Boxes, who was escorted to Sacramento only the other day amid the plaudits and jubilation of the new Labor Party,' Is now denounced as a traitor and a charlatan by the very men who tba threw no their ease tot him. The fickle mob defile the idol which they raised yesterday. The medicine which they commend to the tyrants who are guilty of own--ing the roof which covers them they propose to administer to their own Icha-bod. At a working men's meeting held in San Francisco, the other day, it was enthusiastically resolved that Senator Boxes be repudiated as a- representative of the party, and that the organization " suggest a dose of hemp as a most excellent and radioed remedy to cure every symptom of that most contagious disease." Precisely what is meant by " that most contagious disease" is not made clear ; but the meeting received the resqlution with much cheering and cries of "Hemp! hemp! hemp!" The Chairman of the meeting, with grim dignity, announced that on the following Sunday, " at the sand lots, the honorable Senator would be hung in effigy as a warning to all candidates who should in the future break their promises." A few days afterward, Mr. Boxes appealed to the Senate for protection, saying that he had received a letter signed with a skull and cross-bones, demanding his resignation, with terrifying threats. Boxes seems to have run his brief legislative career. But be declares that he will stick. The cry of "Hemp!" which is most frequent upon the lips of these labor reformers, is suggestive. At the beginning it is apparently alleged that those who have been wronged by the superior thrifty or good fortune, of others have a right to readjust society by hanging the oppressors. This is called the unwritten plank in the platform of the Working Men's Party in California. When an enthusiastic assemblage is sufficiently fired by allusions to the rich people of San Francisco, the cry is raised of "Hemp!" And this suggestive word takes the place of the " vivas " of the Spanish and the " hochs " of the Germans. It is at once a cheer and a threat. The downfall of Bones is complete. The cross-bones and the hemp, to which he was wont to refer so eloquently, are now shaken over him. As it is written : " His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate." There is a certain rude justice in this which will give complacency to the impartial observer. The labor reformers of the school of Boxes deny the right of private judgment, just as they deny the right of private property. The only course for one intrusted with the dangerous duty of representing such men is to do as he is bid. Otherwise he is a traitor for hom 41 hemp" is instantly recommended. But it is certain that a man who rises above the angry level of the so-called- Working Men's Party must prove a traitor. Give him property .and he ceases to be an agrarian. Give him position and responsibility and he thinks' for himself. Therefore, the party, should it ever succeed, must be betrayed by its leaders. So long as it agitates in some purposeless fashion, it lives. When it elects men to office, and becomes a real power, it crumbles at the touch of prosperity. Boxes is only a type of all that may come after him. As a standard-bearer in the thick of a fight he is a hero. As a Senator with, opinions, he is an aristocrat, a renegade threatened with skull and cross-bones. TUE A EROPHOXE. Something ought to be done to Mr. Edisox, and there is a growing conviction that it had better be done with a hemp rope. Mr. Edison has invented too many things, and almost without exception they are things of the most deleterious character. He has been addicted to electricity for many years, and it is not very long ago that he became notorious for having discovered a new force, though he has since kept it carefully concealed, either upon his person or elsewhere. Recently he invented the phonograph, a machine that catches the lightest whisper of conversation and stores it up, so that at any future time it can be brought out, to the confusion of the original speaker. This machine will eventually destroy all confidence between man and man, and render more dangerous than ever woman's want of confidence in woman. No man can feel sure that wherever he may be there is not a concealed phonograph remorseless gathering up his remarks and ready to reproduce them at some future date. Who will be willing, even in the bosom of his family, to express any but most innocuous adscolorless Views f and what woman when calling on a female friend, and waiting for the latter to make her appearance in the drawing-room, will dare to express her opinion of tho wretched taste displayed in the furniture, or the hideous appearance of the family photographs f In the days of persecution arid espionage it was said, though with poetical exaggeration, that the walls had ears. Thinks to Mr. Edisox's perverted ingenuity, this has not only be-ftome a literal truth, but every shelf, closet, or floor may now hav its .concealed phonographic ears. No young man will venture to cany on a private conversation with a young lady, lest he should be filling a secret phonograph with evidence that, in a breach of promise&uit, would secure an immediate verdict against him, and our very small-boys will fear to express themselves with childish freedom, lest the phonograph should report them as having lightly used the name of " gosh," or as having threatened to bust the snoot" of the long-suffering governess. The phonograph was, at the time of its invention, the most terrible example of depraved ingenuity which the world had seen ; but Mr. Edison has since reached a still more conspieuous peak of scientific infamy by inventing the aerophone an instrument far more devastating in its effects and fraught with the destruction of human society; The aerophone is apparently a modification of the phonograph. In fact, it in a phonograph wuich converts whispers into roars. If, for example, you mention. within hearing of the aerophone, that you regard Mr. Hayes as the greatest and best man that America hag yet produced, that atrocious instrument may overwhelm you with shame by repeating your remark in a tone that can be heard no less than four miles. Mr. Edi-bom, with characteristic effrontery, represents tbis as a useful and beneficent invention, lie says that an aerophone can be attached to a locomotive, and that with its aid the engineer can request persons to " look out for the locomotive" who are near-ing a railway crossing four miles distant from the train. He also boasts that he will attach an aeophone to the gigantic statue of " Libert." which France is to sreseax to this country, provided w will raise money enough to pay for it, and that the statue will thus be able to welcome incoming ves---ls in the Lower Bay, and to warn them not to come np to the City in ease Mr. Stavlbt Matthews is delivering an oration on tho currency, or Mr. Cox is making a oomlo speech at Tammany HalL Were the aerophone to be confined strictly to these uses, it might prove a comparatively unobjectionable instrument ; but no man can loose a whirlwind and guarantee that its ravages shall be confined to Chicago, or to some other place where it may do positive good. . This country has long suffered from, excessive talk. Had nine-tenths of our citizens who have been born during tho last fifty years been absolutely dumb, the Republic would doubtless have preserved its pristine purity. It is the interminable talk of Congressmen and ether leading citizens that is the source of all our public woes. Talk is likewise the bane of private life. With dumb wives there would be no need f divorce courts, and with dumb husbands home might become a blessed reality in stead of a poetic dream. And yet, knowin&J full well that talk is a monster of such hideous meaning that to be hated needs only to be constantly heard, Mr. Edison has devised an instrument by which the range of conversation is extended from a few feet to four miles. Our present vocal powers are always used to their full capacity. Everybody talks with about the same volume .of voice, and when the aerophone comes into use, people will universally talk a loudly as the instrument will permit When ninety-nine people out of a hundred converse with the aerophone, there will be such a roar of conversation that the hundredth person, who may speak in his natural voice, cannot be heard. We can only faintly imagine the horrible results of the general introduction of the aerophone. Wives residing in suburban Jersey villages will call to their husbands at; their places of business in the City, and require information as to subjects of purely domestio interest Mothers whose children have wandered out of sight will howl over a four-mile tract of country direful, threats as to the flaying alive which awaits James Henry and Ann Eliza unless they instantly come home. From morning till midnight our ears will be tortured with the uproar of aerophonio talk, and deaf men will be looked upon as the favored few to whom nature has made life tolerable. ' The result will be the complete disorganization of society. Men and women will flee from civilization and seek in the silence of the forest relief from the roar of countless aerophones. Business, marriage, and all social amusements will be thrown aside, except by totally deaf men, and America will retrogade to the Stone Age with frightful rapidity. Better is a dinner of raw turnips in a damp cave than a banquet at Delmonico'8 within hearing of ten thousand aerophones. Far better is it to starve in solitude than to possess all the luxuries of civilization at the price of hearing every remark that is made within a radius of four miles. It may be too late to suppress the aerophone now, but at least there is time to visit upon the head of its inventor the just indignation of his fellow-countrymen. OEXTERALybTEsT The Legislature of Louisiana adjourned sine die on the 10th imt. The Boston Post Is now predicting Democratic access in Rhode Island. Congressman Randall Gibson, of Louisiana, has been invited to deliver the address before ' tha Yale Law School at tho coming Commencement. The late lion. William Workman, of Montreal, left an estate rained at about half a million dollars, and bequeathed $27,500 to various benevolent ao-cietiea. A popular German resident of Sag Harbor, according to the Corrector, said to his friends a few days ago : " Yon won't seo ma again next weak for nine months." The Boston Transcript says that " an English writer in tha Xintteenth Century was moat impreaeed with the extreme gentleness of American manners." Twaa different in tho last century. The Mobile Register says that Mr. L.' M. Mer-ritt, a merchant in Pensacola, Fl.. baa obtained a Judgment for $4,000 against the Western Union Telegraph Company, as damages for non-delivery of a message. . The New-Orleans Democrat aays that tho decision of the Supreme Court of Louisiana in tha Anderson case has been generally enmmended by the Bar of tha State. Tha Democrat Itself Is vary un bappy over It. A Post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Ilarrlsbnrg, Pens., has adopted resolutions " heartily approving tha eoudost of lion. J. W. Kit-linger. In his efforts, though futile, to withhold the national revenue from tha man who did their ut most to destroy our country." William Marshall, a boy 1(1 years old, picked np an old shell on tha Antletatn battlefield last week, and took It to his horn. Tha next morning he fired tha end of a stick and thrust it into the snail. There was a prompt explosion, and he has one hand and one eye less than before ha began his lnveetlga-tions. -The St. Louis Globe-Democrat is a bit sarcastic, saying : "The call for the Democratic State Convention of Illinois invites tha participation of aU who are opposed to tha policy of tho party in power. We could understand tha meaning batter If those who Issued the rail had told ca (1) which party la la power; and (2) what ' policy ' It has, if any." There is one sentence in the Fast Day proclamation of Gov. Fairbanks, of Vermont, which deserves reproduction. It reads i " Let ua especially pray that He will graciously vouchsafe to make and keep us as Individuals, and as a Stat and a nation, Inflexibly honest, even In times of financial depression eo shall we fulfill our high deetlny, and transmit to our children unimpaired, tho rich legacy received from oar fathers." The "Tomligbee Incident," which was itlr daecribed 1b the alxtb eolama of Thi Time. U llloatrated bv a aeries of -rmry striking flc- tores hi the uus of Puts for ths 20th Inst. Its editor thus alludes to the artist and his work t Wearied of epreadlng himself in double-paged magnificence upon tha political topics of tha day, and eeaiing for the nones to make faces for a living, ha has this weak, with erratic energy, taken an aecount written, for TBI Xsrw-Yoas: Times by that earnestly veracious historian, Mr. Aldan, and Illustrated It with a precision and elaboration which we are sare een toe historian aforesaid will appreciate." Speaking of the crimes of the Democrat la Mississippi fhe Jackson Timet of the 20th lost, ays i " Would to God that the paeificatioB policy of President Hayes might have boo received la good faith, aad that the negro-kUUng scoundrels who hare diasraaed the fair name of Mississippi might hv been brought to Jsatle. So long a disguised aad armed bands af buli-doser are permitted to go at large aad to Intimidate aad murder peaceful ciliteus of any rouoty la the State, just so long win res part-able, honest, aad thrifty me aha our borders. It Is Btterly Idle for his ExseUeary U say that a has aot, as Chief Executive of the State, powers te preserve the peace, ad t maintain ta rights of every ettlsass which are supposed ta be guaranteed by th law. If be had aot this pewer it Is the fault solely of Democratic LerUlslure, a legislature vjdta. uaeed, fesatf who aoadar. k QUESTION FOR STATESMEN A REVIEW OF SOME PROBLEMS Oh THE GREAT WEST. DAX0ESB OF TBB TVTVRT., AND AN ERItOB or the past roc senators raou CAXiroRxiA thb territory or UN- COLN THB ANNEXATION OP UTAH TC NEVADA PROPOSED AND ; DISCt KStD TERRITORIES BH0CLD BE ENLARGED .INSTEAD OP REDUCED LINCOLN A POCKET. BOROCGH. Trem Owr Oem Corrrn BrfneA Washington. Sunday, March 24, 1873. The proposition to organize a new TerrU tory out of the Black Hill country, under the name of Lincoln, brings up a question of statesmanshipa question requiring: the broadest and most comprehensive treatment It involve an inquiry aa to the present and prospective population of the States and Territories went of the hundredth meridian. It compels considers, tlon of the sectional political balance of the Wt in the Union of the States. There has already been abundance of unwlse,1gndrant legislation in the formation of States and Territories, aad it better counsel does not prevail there will cow up conditions utterly repugnant to the spirit of the Constitution, and they will become Intrenched behind the Constitution so that they eannot be changed without a revolution, peaceful or otherwise. The . whole subject-deaervet immediate attention, and will need long ao4 patient and patriotic Investigation. Action if pressing only in one ease, and that la not foi Lincoln Territory, which is contrived for thi convenience of few individual who" desire U combine office-holding and speculation.. " Without making tho organization of Lincoln Territory a special subject of consideration. I propose to raise some of the problems which the demand for new Territories and now States set! IM1UI1 WUKITfl MUl. .MV ... J a .. will be a wall to illustrate tho dangers of the future by an rror of the past Nevada wat admitted as a State in 1601. It may have bad a population of 12,000 or 15,000, Aeeordiu to the census of 1800. tha population wai 0,812. Its area Is 112,000 square miles, whlrt is greater tban the combined area of Connecticut, Now-York. Pennsylvania, and NVw-Jeraey. In 170 this vast State had increased In population to 42.491, and In 1873. by a consul taken under Its own laws, it had population ol 52.540. The nearest vote to the census of 175 snows that of every 20 persons in the State 10 are voters. Ths ratio of the vote to the Inhabitants Is 2 0-10. The figures coincide with the fact well known thst miners and a few stork herdara eomDrise almost the entire popu lation. Practically, there are no agricultural lands in the State. An emigrant front an East era State would not be able to nod quarts sMRtion of nubile land on which, a farmer, h could nroduceanr article whatever. There i Dt probably one acre of good agricultural Und in Nevada that has not been " located," and yet six-sevenths of the whole area are nt even surveyed, and. beintr almost ntirfeiviesert, never will be called for In the market. Nevada can have no population but the miners the men who aetuallv ro down into the earth to bring up ores, and those who superintend tbeir work ami handle the product above ground. If ihetnlnlnt product of Nevada double, the population wil nearly double. If the product decreases half the population will fall off nearly as much What ia the result I Simply this: California ii represented by four Senator. Instead of two, and two of the four, by courtesy or arrange mniiL ara elected bv a corporation. It woul! require a most violent and crazy imagination vi auggest tnat wunin tue proaen nuiuri .'tvui will have as large a population as Lk-lawaro Now, when it is propound to form the new Terri tory of Lincoln, would it not be well to certaii whether there is preparing another pocket bor ough State t A mora nresainff Question is presented n T'tsh demanding admission as a State: Tb Republican Conirresses have temporized wit matters in this Territory, and have gain nothinar but delay, and through delay much ha been lost. During the last IO years, polytramr which is the eorner-atona oi jaormoi! ism. mlirht have been rooted un. No it is almost Impossible that anythin will b dona before the end of this AdminUtrn tion. for the Democrats will be able to def any legislation. What they may Mini pusuio to do after the next Presidential election, any body can guess for himself, liut 1 can aasert most positive belief that whenever tb Denv eratie Farty controls both Houses of C'ongre-and the . Preeldeney L'tah . will be quick 1 admitted, and will send- up a IJcnibcral Kenreaentatlve and two Democratic Sen tors, and rolvcramv will not be annulle by its State Constitution. It has not b.-e In the interest of the ItepuWiean Farty t admit Utah, and fhe adherencefof the people t their neculiar criminal institutions has- been Itaelf a saflicient reason for refusing to ma l'tah a State. When polygamy and party li terests ar balanced against each other by tt Democracv. the result will be different. No the time seems to have come when the error admitting Nevada may be corrected, and t be t disposition possible be made cf Utah by a n -xing the Territory to the Stale, l'otteibly tl -nnent of Nevada eould not be secured, but might be tried. In tlie end the union would t it beneficial to both. L'tah hat an area of 84.470 square milef which, added to Nevada, would amount to 190 SOU auuaro tulles, aud would make a fctatij somewhat larger tban California. 1 h popui tlon of Utah In 1870 was 80.7S0. There is u means of making a trustworthy estimate of the population this year. Tb Mormons make gTv claims. They cannot b In th slightest depended upon. A good knowledge of the elfc city of tb Territory for settlement and incr- and tb general tendency of emigration slne 1 M70. leads to the belief that 12A.OOO is for ttfo present year, and von for IHhO, a largo mf-mate. J judge that the full development of tlj agricultural resources of the Territory, by Using out for irrigation the Sevelr River, autl some other streams, for which ronsideratile capital will be required, will afford permanent Industries for 300,000 people. And then there apt the mines, and that is all. So that Nevada aid Utah would not stter an be a Urge State, except in area of high mountain slopes and line plains. , f In annexing the Territory its boundaries should be somewhat changed. If th reader is sufficiently Interested to look on a good map, h will see that Green River runs across the nortf-eastcorner of Utah, a little way into Coloradjl, . and again back into Utah, afterward pursuing trenerally southerly course till It joins ti Grand and forms the Colorado, which tur$J westward through tho northern part of Arizonf. ' For nearly the whole distance these rivers nio in the Dottom of deep and iropaswaMM cafions. At not many place near eithll bank is th country inhabitable. A aettlftr ; on th east bank of tb Green tnicpj have to travel 500 miles to cross the river ad , get to an opposite place on the west bank. TbS are a few settlers on the north of the Coloradpt but they belong practically to Utah. For ebojM 300 milee there is no place where any living - thinsr without wings ran cross tb cbaam. rTas Green and Colorado Rivers thus form a natn boundary, and if adopted would give to coiorai a portion of Utah, and to Utah a small part j Arizona. The result would b to reduce t area of Utah slightly, and make it, in eombiii tion with Nevada, about equal in extent Th effect of annexing Utah to NsVads if, j MMsrM- ta bs esumft&ll-v considered. Political tb result would be a. IJemoffratio State. cause the voters" In Utah would hold the P0 cal power. But in regard to this point. it nnfrl b remembered that If th Democrat obtafo Federal power they will secure th ansa ejtl by admitting Utah alone. Beside, th PoM of Nevada Senators may be ehanged at the BjM lection In accordance with th Democrati vto tory In California. Th Republican Party , therefore, very littl risk of loss by onxaidp. Tb next serious question is the fate or polyt my. If admitted under th Nevada Cont : tion, polygamy would be thereby prohibit! It la clear that aom arrangement would bajre to be made to secure th Mormon poouhniM against unreasonable prosecutions and vnmv menu for past offenses. If both parties 8 CongTMs would act together on the mala Pff -position, all details could be speedily arratigtd. Another question of great importance It capacity of tb Stat thus to b formed for fp porting a population. No on will probat deny that agriculture Is tb only UaUo dense population in aoyeountry. ThcrcUS need ef entering upon any dbvusalos l tn fact. The physical conditions of the vei T country, particularly ef what Is known P' great interior bsln, ought to be well entujr h itsntmul a eitlis It nnnoaesaarv to. saff tsal farming cannot b carried on cx.-ept in f loeautie ia a very limited way. Of th 112.UHJ sq wire mil of Nevada not I.OOO arc cqgal 1 1 th sum arc in New-England States for pro- .4 active cBcilr. The rest of the total is

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RAVENNA, O., THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1878. laughing, whereas John and I had aW waya been bubbling over, one way and another. I worked hard, tor my ailk dress and necklace were all I bad of riches ; and I cut up my gown one day to make a cloak for tbe baby. Tou see, I couldn't give up my pride, and was juat aa high-spirited aa ever. But our farm didn't prosper; and Mrs. Plumber came to live with us, to look after things, ahe aaid ; and she got to pitying him, every now and then, for marrying a poor wife, and oh, well, what's the uae of talking ? sometimes I couldn't help wishing John Stringer's strong shoulders were at the wheel, when I was working myself to death morning and night for nothing I Then when the baby grew bigger 1 took to teaching an A B C elasa aa I used to before I was married ; but what little I knew had run wild aince theu, and I couldn't keep the boys straight somehow ; aad the girla dida't care about samplers, for the sewing machine had ridden right over every thing. Then Jesse fell ill of the fever, and with all the fuming, and fretting, and nursing of hia mother, and with all ray watching day aud night, somehow he alipped off between us. And I found myself a widow with the ill-fared, wasted farm on my bands, aud Moth er Plumber, drizzling and maundering alter Jesse in a way to break my heart. THE DYING DOSHA. Potato Msawrks fa Ever- laatlas; Faalskaeat. As a bit of personal experience by a lady of large brains and large heart, the following extract from a letter to the New York Tribune by Mias Catherine E. Beecher deserves careful and thoughtful reading: Iu Baxter's Saint's Rest,' given to me when I was vainly trying to love God, it ia written that the torments ot sinners will be universal. The liquid fire will prey ou every part the eyes will be tortured! with sights of horror, tbe ears with bowls and curaea of com panlons in torment, their smell with fumea of brimstone, and no drop of water shall cool their tongue, no res pile relieve their agonies. President Edwards, in a work given me to lead me to love God, aaya the saints in glory will see the sufferings of the damned with no grief, but rather with rejoiciug. They will not be sorry for them, but will be excited by joyful praise. Dr. Emmons, whose preaching I heard when sorrowing for a friend supposed to have died unregen erate, taught the happiness of 'the elect' in heaven will In part consist In watching the torments of the damned, and among them will be their own children aud dearest friends ; and yet they will sing hallelujah, praise the Lord. My father's friend, Dr. Gardiner Spring, of New York, aaid that I HIGH TIIW.E Koaae KaUaasfa j From the New York j Something . Edison, aad viction that it a hemp rope. ed too many out exception most deleterious been addicted to years, and it ia he became covered a new aince kept it ther upon hia Receutly he a machine that whiaper of np so that at any brought out, to original speaker. eventually destroy between man and dangerona than confidence in feel aure that there ia not a remorselessly remarks and ready some future date. willing even iu the to express any but colorless views? when calling on waiting for the

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11, 1878. fa Ever- by a large heart, a letter to Mias Catherine careful and given to to love torments ot The liquid the eyes of horror, of com I HIGH TIIW.E TO HAHS HIM. Koaae Can.ideratlanra Erekse hy Mr. KaUaasfa Latest laweavUsHB. j From the New York Times, j Something ought to be done to Mr, . Edison, aad there is a glowing con- viction that it had better be done with a hemp rope. Mr. Edison has invent ed too many things, and almoat with out exception they are thinga of tbe most deleterious character. He been addicted to electricity for many years, and it ia not yery long ago that he became notorious for having die covered a new force though be baa aince kept it carefully concealed, ei unless From will aerophonte looked whom The result disorganization women will seek in the from the Business, amusements cept by will frightful

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APRIL 11, 1878. Whole No. h ; I 1 THE DYING DOSHA. Potato Msawrks fa Ever- laatlas; Faalskaeat. As a bit of personal experience by a lady of large brains and large heart, the following extract from a letter to the New York Tribune by Mias Catherine E. Beecher deserves careful and thoughtful reading: Iu Baxter's Saint's Rest,' given to me when I was vainly trying to love God, it ia written that the torments ot sinners will be universal. The liquid fire will prey ou every part the eyes will be tortured! with sights of horror, tbe ears with bowls and curaea of com panlons in torment, their smell with fumea of brimstone, and no drop of water shall cool their tongue, no res pile relieve their agonies. President Edwards, in a work given me to lead me to love God, aaya the saints in I HIGH TIIW.E TO HAHS HIM. Koaae Can.ideratlanra Erekse hy Mr. KaUaasfa Latest laweavUsHB. j From the New York Times, j Something ought to be done to Mr, . Edison, aad there is a glowing con- viction that it had better be done with a hemp rope. Mr. Edison has invent ed too many things, and almoat with out exception they are thinga of tbe most deleterious character. He been addicted to electricity for many years, and it ia not yery long ago that he became notorious for having die covered a new force though be baa aince kept it carefully concealed, ei ther upon hia person or elsewhere. Receutly he invented the phonograph, a machine that catcbea the lightest whiaper of conversation and stores it np so that at any future time it can be brought out, to tbe contusion of the unless they instantly From morning till will betmrtared with the aerophonte talk, and deaf looked upon as the whom nature has made The result will be the disorganization of society . women will flee from seek in the silence of the from the roar of countless Business, marriage, aad amusements will be thrown cept by totally deaf men, will retrograde to the atone frightful rapidity. Better of raw turnipa in a damp banquet at Delmonico'a hearing of ten thousand better is it to starve in. to possess all the luxuries civilization at the price of hearing

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vou " K ‘ you made I don’t a quarrel 1 was the him” the body?” hill” talked in s had been shot De Children Read Too Much! With the great development of interest in literature the marveloua increase of books and periodicals the improvements in the arts of printing and illustration and all the otiier injluences that have so greatly extended the circle of readers and swollen the total of reading one result is reached beyond the limit of what is to be desired This is that and has the least a very pussy once attention of the impossible to save ridicule When Hamlet at a cat came middle of the appears

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Indeed, it is reported from Wash that such a bill will receive no opposition from the Chinese Government, which that it has made an effort on its part check the Coolie traffic so far as" its authority goes, and that tha British port of Kong furnishes the exit and facilities emigration under the contract system. can the sentimentalists criticise the President for signing such a bill, since they scarcely be willing to place themselves the attitude of opposing a measure de signed to suppress a quasi slave-trade. Yet bill will afford all the relief that would been obtained from the act which the President vetoed. So long as immigration China shall be limited to fifteen per in any one vessel, there will De no iur-ther opportunity for the trade in Coolies, there will be an end to the apprehension (which is unfortunately too well founded) Chinese contract-labor may work fatal injury to the prosperity and well-being of laboring men who are citizens of this country. uhlreconched and rebellious. Ben Butleb proposes that the Government take all maimed Eebel soldiers into its tender charge, and supply them with the necessaries of life. Senator Thtjbman, not be outdone by Bctleb indoughfacism, declares that the treason of Massachusetts has more violent and longer continued than of any other State in the Union. Congressman Willts, of New York, denounces a proposed National Quarantine law tha ground that it is an infringement of sacred doctrine of State's Eights. He prefers that yellow fever should spread right and left, rather than have it stopped by an of Federal power. Casei Young, of Memphis, is the only Southern man in Congress whose horror of the plague not exceeded by his hate of the doctrine that we are a nation. And now comes tha Hon. Lucius Qutntius Cubitus Lamab, of Mississippi, and declares that he insulted by the proposition to exclude Jeff Davis from the benefits of the proposed Mexican demagogical Pension bill. The Hon. Lccrua Qutntius Cubitus Lamab is the man who knocked down and dragged from the court-room a United States Marshal because he insisted upon the strict performance of his official duty in capturing and holding certain Eu-Elux clients of the irate ex-Rebel General and lawyer. Soon afterward he repaired Bunker Hill Monument and gushingly dilated upon the lamb-like qualities of the Southern people, their desire for peace, harmony, and reconciliation, and an opportunity to repair their shattered fortunes. Lamab is as gentle as a dove when there is a point to be gained by " ethereal mildness." But he is as blatant and noisy as any other Southern hot-head the moment a comparison instituted between the adherents of the late Confederacy and the Union to the advantage the latter. Talk of patriotism, and the Hon. Lucius Qutnttus Cubtiu3 Lamab will call all the gods of the Greeks and Eomans witness that in fighting for the Eebel Confederacy he was a better patriot than Gbant, or Shebman, or Sheeidan, or anybody else on the Union side and that Jeff Davis is a better patriot than he (Lamab) because Jeff was the chief of all Eebebj. He " (Davis), says Lamab, " will continue ba honored in that great movement that was inspired by as noble a sentiment as ever animated the heart of a Hampden or a "Wash-inqton." The dispatches give this passage as a reference to Hampton ; but it ia evident that Lamab meant to refer to John Hampden, the man who, in the seventeenth century, resisted Eoyal persecution in England, and who in history has been as signed the supreme place of honor among English patriots. By citing Hampden and "Washington, two of the most distinguished leaders of resistance to tyranny known to the world's history, Lamab characterizes the contest for the preservation of the Constitution and the Union as a tyrannous oppression, with Lincoln in the role of tyrant and Jeff Davis in that of his victim. But this is not alL Mr. Lamab is careful that there shall be no doubt about his real attitude ia regard to the merits of the late contest. He declares that he speaks as a Union man, but he gives the lie to his own pointless assertion. He says: "The result of the War has attached to us the technical name of Eebels, and we accept it. This is different, as it is an attempt to fix an odium and moral turpitude upon a broken man." If Davis and Lamab were only " technically," not really, Eebels, and no moral turpitude legitimately attaches to them on account oi tueir course, moral mrpituae must necessarily attach to those who resisted and opposed them. And that Tahtati takes this ground is absolutely demonstrated by his institution of a parallel between Hampden and Washington and Jeff Davis. Hampden resisted tyranny, and in resisting gave up his life as a sacrifice to his adherence to principle. Washington resisted tyranny, successfully defended his country against op- pression, and established an independent Government. What Lamab means to say is that the Eebels who died gave up their lives as Hampden did in devotion to the right, and that those who, on tha Confederate side, survived the struggle are living monuments of a patriotism as pure as that of Hampden, the chief of English patriots. Tha Hon. Lucius Quintius Cubtius Lamab stands in the attitude of the King who wrote, after defeat in battle, " All is lost save honor." Honor to Lamab consists in insisting that the Eebels were right and the Union men wrong. Who doubts that he would fight on the same side should a similar contest again be precipitated ? His protestations to the effect that he is a Union man are nothing but idle declamation ; his reasoning points irresistibly to the conclusion that he is still unreconciled and rebellious. THE WALKING MANIA. The cause of the susceptibility of the American people to manias is a mystery past finding out, and the category of manias seems to be endless. Fortunately it is 44 everything by turns and nothing long," so that the infliction of the disease is somewhat offset by the variety of its forms. It seems to make no difference to the people that they are perfectly well aware that these manias are manufactured by cunning and unscrupulous speculators, trading upon their credulity and gullibility. They are determined to have manias, and the only condition they impose is that tha stock shall be continually fresh. Provided only they are new, it matters not if they are idiotic. In looking back over the past few years the reader will readily recall the various forms of the disease that have spread through the community, such as the mania for old coins which advanced tha prices of old bungtown coppera so far beyond tha value of the coins of the realm as to make the dollar of the fathers ashamed of its insignificance ; the mania for tulips, which led men to squander thousands of dollars upon worthless Dutch, bulbs ; tha mania for prize concerts ; the mania for tight-rope walking ; the mania for Shanghai roosters, the ugliest and most worthless fowl Divine Providence ever allowed to be created, good for nothing during his life, and unfit to eat after death ; the mania for cats by the seniors and buttons by the juniors, both being comparatively of about the same value ; the mania which has attracted every woman in the country for painting napkin rings, sewer tiles, and dinner plates, the value of the daub depending npon its ugliness ; the mania for base-ball, which has driven out the nobler game of cricket; tha mania for the filth of opera bouffe, which is now superceded by the mania for that nonentity "Pinafore," which, however, has the merit of being clean. The latest mania is of a peripatetic sort. From walking certain long distances without regard to time, it progressed to a walk of a given number of miles in a given time for money ; then to walking-matches between man and man, next between man and woman, thea between woman and woman, and now we hear of men walking against horses, which we presume will be followed by a thrilling match between some female pedestrian and a horse. From such matches it progressed to walking so many consecutive miles in so many consecutive hours, then half -hours, then quarters, and now there are women walking so many consecutive miles in so many consecutive ten minutes, to the accompauiment3 of brass bands and yelling crowds. So long as a mania is harmless in its results and injures no one, and people are pleased with it, there is no particular reason for finding fault with it. These walking-matches, however, as they are now. con ducted, are not harmless ; on the other hand, they are so much in the nature of an outrage as to call for police investigation. The scores of wretched women now walking in various cities are in the hands of heartless speculators, who force them upon tha track at the risk of life and with the certainty of impaired health, that they may pocket the gate-money and such sums as they can make by gambling upon the venture. Once in the clutches of these harpies, it is very difficult to get out, and no amount of suffering and physical exhaustion can in duce them to relent or give them rest. If nature seeks to assert herMemands for re pose and sleep, they are forced to their wearisome task, and dare not refuse. The brute who should treat a horse ia this man ner would promptly be punished by the au thorities, but a woman may be driven mile by mile without rest until nature is ex hausted and she drops in her tracks. It is almost incredible that a crowd can be gathered to applaud one of these haggard, mis erable creatures, with jaded spirits, tired limbs, and blistered feet, urged on to her senseless work with stimulants and sometimes with threats and even blows, and seeking to accomplish a feat which can only be accomplished at the ex pense of all the vital forces and at the risk cf life itself. It is somewhat astonishing that many papers have commended this walking mania for its hygienic benefit, when there is no benefit but positive injury accruing from it. People who walk m the cool bracing at mosphere, not to the utmost endurance of the body, but in moderation and systematic ally, improve their health and find a tonio better stores contain, stirs the blood organs of the than any the drug- A brisk morning walk and stimulates the vital body, and is specially beneficial to those wnosa duties are oi a sedentary character ; but this is something diuerent rrom tne ceaseless tramp around a sawdust ring, hour after hour, day after day, nignt alter mgnt, until tne body is completely exhausted. It degrades the woman who attempts it and ruins her health, for nature cannot be abused without exacting fearful penalties. It affords a gang of heartless speculators opportunities to prey upon the vulgar curiosity of the public, and to fleece people through the various devices known to gamblers. Of course the mania will have its day, but the public ought to make that day as brief as possible by refusing to patronize such vulgar and brutal exhibitions. THE ILLINOIS MILITIA. The consideration of the Militia bills has been made the special order for next Thurs day in the Illinois House of Representatives, There are several propositions which differ m detail, but one, introduced as a substi- tute, snould be thrown out witnout ceremony, because it provides that no appropriation whatever shall be maile for tha equipment of the State Guard nor for their pay while in actual service. This proposition is utterly indefensible. If introduced in the interests of economy, it is simply niggardly, and, whether so designed or not, it amounts to a special act for the encouragement of Communism. A Legislature which tolerates log-rolling in favor of local benefits and im provements, and which turns a willing ear to so palpable a job as the 44 official reporter scheme, is scarcely in a position to urge economy as a reason for abandoning one of the most useful elements of State Govern ment, for which it is proposed to appropriate only $100,000 at the most. Chicago has a lively interest in the passage of a bill which shall furnish proper though not extravagant support for a State Guard of, say, 8,000 or 10.000 well-drilled and effi cient volunteer soldiers. It is not possible under our form of Government, nor would it be desirable, to maintain a gendarmerie, or military police, as do France and Germany ; at tne same tune it is not practicable for a city like Chicago to keep up a police-force that will be sufficient for an emergency like a Communistic attack on property or a riot of any kind. But the interests of Chicago are likewise the interests of the State,Nio far as the public order is concerned, and the State can well afford to support a State mili tia, subject to call in emergency, when Chi cago pays and wul continue to pay more than its share of the taxes for such militia. The State might save more property in the quick suppression of a single outbreak than the entire cost of the militia for fifty years, to say nothing of the consideration for hu man life which enters into the question. There is a Senator in the Illinois Legislature who boasts that he can count on 10,000 men who will follow him at any time to back up 44 Sand-lot " Keabnet in any undertaking he may suggest 5 these 10,000 men live in Chicago and a large portion of them are equally ready at any time to join in any other demonstra tion of violence which they believe to be warranted by their ideas as to a division of property. Chicago, as the chief city of the State, is entitled to such protection from these possible outbreaks as will give its citi zens and property-owners a sense of securi ty ; in any other case, Chicago will ba tha sufferer and the State also. But it is not Chicago alone that has need of this protection against Communism. The riots of the summer of 1877 proved that the smaller cities and railway-centres are equally in danger. The irxining-districts of the State

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The Lovers' Telephone. "The Lover' Telephone" is the name of a iittr contrlYance, now being sold on the streets, by which sounds are transmitted along a cord attached to two cylinders, and supposed to be very effective in mitigating aggravated cases of ."stern parient.'' A young lady onPost street was in "the habit of eluding the lynx-eye of her father by dropping one of these inventions from the third-story side-window every night, and holding sweet converse with her adored, but financially in- ..eligible-8weetheart,,who stooujl on. the"pave'menf "below.'The other night the "governor" happened to notice a mysterious cord that passed his window, and on investigation discovered the little arrangement. He deftly attached another string hall way, and applying it to his ear, enjoyed an affectionate interview then in progress. 'Would it be sale for me to call to-morrow?" finally inquired the lower end or the apparatus. -"Yes, Charlie," vibrated an jecril- an whisper from above. " When do you think the old beast will be oat?" "In about two seconds, with a elab!" was the startling response, and the way the old gentleman jumped for the hall-door would have been very effective il it had been half as speedy as the gait at which the young man outside left for the adjoining ward. "The holidays are here!" say Sood folks one and all. "The holler ays!" chimes in the small boy. "The hollow days!" sigheth the bachelor. Boston Transcript. This sloppy season isn't the most eoaafortable for shopping, but some of the ladies will go out, weather or no. -Jlaafcs-. . 1

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loaded me sunshine of kindest and sang kneeling by locks that with no lovingly held as usual. All the services were well attended, and very interesting throughout. The telephone mania has struck the college. Several of the buildings are already connected by threads, and lines are going up fast. A cylinder of tin with a membrane stretched on it at each end, connected with a thread, and the telephone is complete. .LiAElil us. A Treat for Tallmadge. continuous a load good the about tour started busy Oil following

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"When Wabash gets that electric light it will make it too light for the girls in that burg to flirt and then what will they do?

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AS TO BICYCLES. Throughout the Bye-laws for regulating the use of Bicycles, the expression "Bicyclist" means a person riding, impelling, or otherwise usiBg or having the management or control of a Bioycle on any Main Road or other Highway. . . A Bicyclist shall not ride or impel his Bicycle upon any footway, pavement, or causeway made or set apart for the use or accemmodation of foot passengers. Every Bicyolsat who rides a Bicycle during the hours between sunset and sunrise shall oarry attached to his Bicycle a Lamp, whioh shall bp so oonatiucted aud placed as to exhibit a light in the direction in which he is proceeding, and shall be so. lighted and kept lighted as to afford adequate meanB of signalling the approach or position of such Bicycle, Evry Bicyclist who overtakes any Waggon, Wain, Cart, or Carriage, or any Hore'e, Mule, or other beast of burden, or any foot Passenger proceeding along tbe Carriageway shall, when within a reasonable distance from and before passing such Wajgon, Wain, Cart, or Carriage, Horse, Mule, or other beast ef burden, or suoh foot Passenger, by sounding a bell or whistle, give audible and sufficient warning of the approach of his Bicycle. V.verv -RJnvMJflfc who overtakes and Dasses anv Waffffon. Wain, Cart, or Carriage, or any Horse, Mute, or other beast of burden, shall Keep ma .Bicycle to tne rtgnt or offside of the Carriageway.

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erar; brave, not cap; alow, nnsuri - clerk, xnomaa ail la the same square, in lerre Haute, were broken the! other night "and not a creature knew it" till next morning, not even the vigilant police. The average report of jthe Illumination of wabash is that the electric light made the streets exposed to ltd direct rays almost as light as day, but those in the shadow were correspondingly dark; and offered unusual lacuiues lor tne operations ana escape oi thieves ana burglars, i ! . - Absalom Burkett. living near Hagerstown. while chopping in the i woods, received a blow from the butt of j a falling tree, which Ko better preparatory to, or Ai V The Each box the Each C. McLAifE EST C.

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A Lazy, Labor-Saving Age. So into tile midnight train wte climitedl, anll the Louisville andl Nashl tile liailroad bore us down Intto the land of the nulltsal lle. While tilte poter wan makinlg tIp our berths, the lfat passenget'r's thuttglhts were ev'idently raaiat iag o whait IDr. Y'atidell ma.id walkinllg, thatl It ait l'rovih.a'.v bad given a hlorae foutr lera, si tllhat hle might walk all he wi.sheal, abut the auie loverruli.ng windol,,m had given but t wo, atadl had fixed them so they 'eiuld ta'aid in two diret'liolns and lthus fit a carriage senlt Insrt'cll% "It is a lazy, llator savinlg age." the tall, thin passentger tati,. "Matai is trilg to lv t lv th prolblh'tn of living attndl glowing rich witlhout latbtr or exertion. It is ant age of Inbor natvinlg alaclthinll'er'." ",And tlat aatdu panaentOr pnit it. "tthe're t1v''ea wa sat of greattter or ltret intl'a.esttat activity." "iteople burna ga," staid tihe Itll, th lait stalgetr, tdisregarding the otlher's atateelllnllt, "Ia'auoatll tihe'. arae tot) hazy to nuff t It candtle or till a lahttl." "Yes.," said ithe passengea r with the sattldy goatlee. "anl they light it with electricity to save tile trouble of s,'rathltlilg a match('l." "A.nd it .,is ait hlay mall." said the tlian on teal, hltttalto "thau! rllo wlllter ornngrllls, and shalvered .,tl hu at' lhrd,,l. ll wilshed hll: knowted senls, witl putt llg ell glh t l n tilt' lsta've t last ail day, thatll ftin lll.t invental't thle tlattle ltrnell. No at:ive t Iatla. would ever lhaviie h gt of N fsuch It thinlg." t enl utsedl to at' frair noatla1tO1 of extrtclse." s:id t lll, thin pttila aenger. "when thlya hIal to ''atlk frtom their Itomtur to their plaaaces blti('ss;: h t thenla i ' s'it' all gellaiut bnilt t street catl, aatlid now tanfy tIin wh wa.lks three blthwk withl n Ic'kel Ilt his, l'pocket 'will In t be recognizeda it guad s,'aeaty." ".lol if lhe will tot wait in the cold Italftt :In h r for the ear," satial tilte Iait with t ilt a t' :tmIhlale.'a tet, "h1 is turnedai tl tallr o the clhutrch." ".and thet'h," n itaid tihe pana aetger with the l andy gtt;iet', "tt'tt took at little atir exer'cise onI the street 'ear, '.llat their a ll,.ss compett lled ItaLh l tol glo fromIll their awtn " tiret tao other blttiness o a. Ilnt then IdLsonaaa iuve.uttdl t'h taelt' paulltl, ant ItIt . is alna gtas tldoa' ti to his oflice in the laurntinlg, glutes liamstlft to at chaIir and it tihere twhen the ttret t alrs tlme along to take him to anplatr. It he didnl't need therm tl walk utp t tairs with, lan t a I is hazy ag' Matight trate tall hi.t lags for another pair Itltnds." 'I'lT.at nlt d ltt kt'ep hatlln back." satit the attid Itllaswtng.l, "btc itt' when he Wilints to go up stairs hlgentl. i t firmly glides into the e.le The tat pa.ta'teng'er looked alt the speaker with a look t apptroval. .11% h te ,tal, ntlitg his head, ' it are tmghty right, he i at I ats t atament-o-rt tie te tat I , th'deg t trnal tii g, . ' ta'k t all o'rlt ttnet' hire teoplahlt tatr althir dnita takitag tat atWat'. tratatl lhat 'talllal tg rootl h wto '..attt to wtltk aottt', maakes 64k) tamilet itt ly'e lat,, for tot. \'o' atre at tltgenerate . tat'. att1tia l'ave falltefl at'.'.y from the high staaldard of phyltiatl virtue a naita taitted yIt' our ftthers. And yct .at I lie here in the pleatatat itatintta. ,anr of ay f'ritnatl Itmtlata, with the joitalte'.a btlakt't fohled tttttlttt tmlt in antyit'hl itg itlatea, attd the initii ature piill.w liplittg down my back, I draw the curtain a little aide arid loak out at the sttow'. landacale attad tlhe glittt'ritng ttar light, anl I atrtc'l tat'ellf out anda snuggle anvaplf up itt the very exceet of coatlort, atal ata I thittk ol our ruggedt, tatnnly. 'iratuotat, atal. wart fathera, liodditag ov'.r thite atme road Irati lAouitville to Clarkefflle. in alow.moviag stages and lumbering wagonts, I cltae mya eye. itn degenerate content, and amy, tu sleepy sceants:t "Dear fathers, virtuous men of iron tfme, if that mode ot travel

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Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express

Edited 15 Jan 2020

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jj kmpractj-j statesmen LteraUy ai hi finger , A teleohone has finally bpen made in Eng land that requires no enunciatdr or ear-piece. It is only necessary to s'taAd before the instrument and listen to hear a conversation. I But isn t this too much of a pood thiner The telephone is nuisance nough without this (new deve&ptnent.

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PROFESSIONAL BEAUTIES We thought the depth of indeoent notoriety had been sounded when English ladies allowed themselves to be paraded before the world as professional bean ties living in a world of gossipy slander knowing their name to be bandied about from tongue to tongue and deriving muoh of their income from the sale of their photographs A little vanity ia pardonable in a pretty woman but when it brings the fair sex to uoh low and vulgar tricks it becomes s sin But if we are disgusted with women who allow their charma to be thus advertised how we must despise the man whose love of notoriety is so great and his sense of deoenor so Bqjall that he parades himself before the world as a male beauty Yet there is such a man and his name is Osoar Wilde of London An English journal says of him i Hla photograph appear in the ahop windows beside thoee of beautiful women who may aay with the dairymaid of the popular ballad 'My face ia my fortuno air’ This young gontleman uf good family and talents that might have earned him distinction in varions lines of nneful work E refers to employ his time in poniug before ondon aooiety in eooentrio attire aud with a lily in hie hand— lilies which they oall aruma being what one may call the distinguishing sign of hie affected and senseless school who consider themselves the sole representatives of nsthetia thought oostume and manners Such s ninny as this Wilde will never be anything but a worthless fop unless the smallpox spoils his pretty faoe and takes some of the inordinate vanity out of him feople Uka him are about as worthies In life as a delioate oockle-aheU in a West Indian gale I

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The Graphic: An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper

Edited 19 Nov 2020

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An Anti-Vaccination Riot. It is difficult to read withou impatience of the ill-timed demonstrations which are being made by certain short-sighted and ignorant individuals in various parts of the country against compulsory vaccination. Small-pox has been more than usually prevalent of late ; and the Government, as well as the local authorities, are anxious respecting increased hospital accommodation in the event of a further spread of the epidemic. Despite these warnings, however, the anti-vaccination agitators have been exceptionally busy within the past few weeks. Last week, at Brighton, the public vaccinator, whose duty it was to prosecute a batch of defaulters, was roughly handled on his leaving the Police Court, to which the anti-vaccination party had accompanied their friends with a brass band and with flags flying. The person who had served the summonses was likewise assaulted. Several persons were arrested and fined, one being sent for trial. Since the above-mentioned disgraceful affair, the inhabitants of Leicester have made themselves conspicuous by a similar foolish, not to say fool-hardy, defiance of a humane law. In one day eighteen persons were summoned for non-compliance with the Act, and in each case were fined ten shillings, with the alternative of seven days' imprisonment. It is stated that during last week more than one hundred similar cases were dealt with, and that there remain over two thousand summonses still to be heard. It would almost appear from this that a portion of the inhabitants of Leicestershire only temporarily, it is to be hoped are suffering from a malady of an even more serious nature than that which vaccination is intended to check, and one over which the mooifis vulgarly supposed to have some influence. It is scarcely conceivabfe that amongst one townsfolk, supposing them all to be blessed with common sense, there could be found between two and three thousand individuals clamorous to have the scourge in question back amongst them with all its old-fashioned and fatal virulence. Perhaps some excuse is furnished to them by the fact that a Member of the House of Commons has written to give the "persecuted" folk comfort; and he assures them, as regards the Compulsory Act, that "he is sanguine that the present Session will see the death of its compulsory clauses." Were such a consummation probable, one could almost wish that Irish aflairs would occupy the House from now until next August rather than that the hon. member's "sanguine hope" should be gratified. PirE-SMOKlNG is only permitted in two Parisian clubs, and these, strangely enough, are the two most aristocratic of the city the Jockey Club and the Cercle Imperial. In these same clubs, by the way, the members generally walk about with their hats on, while such a habit in less exclusive establishments would be regarded as a grave breach of decorum.

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Bicycles do not scare horses

mprovemtni I >ntrary ' ' ' ! i ! i what the blcj cllst wants. THE BICYCLE D0E8 NOT SCARE H0R3E3, that 5s tne experience ot Washington. On tLla subject an article in the Baltimore ' It has been very unjustly said?unwittingly so, no dcub*?that a large percentage of r oi-es frighten at ike bicycle, while the fact 1 ?and It 13 beyoud all controversy?"hat not cne horse in a hundred pays any attention to lr. Tli* experience of the Baltimore risers has teeu < btained, aivj ot those wuo have ridden fr< m l.ooo to 2 r,oo m e , :t is thar they have mer a.s many hor.-ea as miles traveled, aud have each on an average, caused f.ignt to not m ore tcan one horse for every 500 miles, while some who have ridden hundreds of mlle3, have never frightened a single horse. One further point in reference to the generally acknowledged courtesy or bicyclers on the road. It Is a law of nearly all cluios?and one stringently adhered to?that wnenever and wherever the slightest occasion may require, riders muEt be courteous evan to punctiliousness, especially until every vestige of prejudice is obliterated trom the minds of the well meaning public. It is the custom for rlder3,on meeting a horse that gives any sign or uneasiness, to dismount and stand by his wheel uatll the horse Is safely by. Ic is suggested that the raised h<ind shouid be understood by bicyclers as a signal from solicitous drivers to use caution, and when repeated, to dismount. Any sui-h signal will be cheerfully obeyed by all wheelmen until the few horses in as many thousands have becorno thoroughly accustomed to their useful, dcl gntful, but harmless and good natured rival, it me bicycle wa3 suited only to the track or public hall, if it had a place only In ornamental athletics, it might then be said to be a mere fashion?a manly, humane and healthy one, to be sure, but of no practical moment to busy Americans; but since it is also a venicle ready at all times to the Land and root, conserving time and energy, reducing distance, more economical, mare than horse and buggy, suiting the needs of business and professional men of sorts, it takes oa the dignity of a modern improvement, and as sucn nas become In England a large percentage or the country clergymen and physicians have either sold tuelr horses or sent ihera to grass, and nowunke their professional rounds upon this silent steed or steel, being always ready, far mores-vifc, requiring no groom, nor c rass, nor slake or thirst. Apropos, the latter class or persons have pronounced lta use beneficial and health ful, and oiten recommend it in li.eu ot walking or horse-back riding, in London and other cities t lie lord and laborer, he or the surpllje and laymen or every sort, may be seen wnirllng along the streets as though this had been their mode or locomotion trom time immemorial "

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A TEST BICYCLE CASE A". SALL THI MACHINE SS ALLOWED IH CXS-" . TEAL PARXf The test case brought bj the bicycle mann-factarrs and blcycl club, to defeat tb Park Commissioner la their recent decision rcludlng th bicycle from tb Central Park, waa oontinued before the Referee, Mr. Edward L. Parrls, yesterday morning. Edmund Wetmore appeared for th bicyclist, and tb Park Commissioners were represented by Mr. J. Townsend, Jr.. Assistant Corporation Counsel. Samuel G. Hough, General Manager of the Monarch Una ot steam-ships, was th first witness called by Mr. Townsend. He said that be bad seea the effect produced upon horses by th bicycle, and that he waa prepared to speak very feelingly noon tbe subject- About two years ago be was driving bis team in Chicago, down Wood-street, to reach Washington-street, at which point be proposed to turn. lie was driving at the rate of about four miles aq hour. His horse wer remarkable for their gentleness, and he 'had driven them past locomotives without their becoming frightened. As be reached Washington-street, which crosses Wood-street at right angles, a bicycle ridden by a man named Glass came from tb sidewalk, and without looking to see whether any vehicles were coming down Wood-street, Glass dashed across tbe street. The bicycle struck one of Mr. Hough's horses, the team gave a start, and then ran away, overturning tbe boggy and throwing Mr. Hough out. His right arm was broken, as was also the forefinger of hi left band. " I was in the bands of tbe surgeon for three months," said Mr. liPugh, "and during most of tbat time I waa utterly helpless. I bad a colored nurse to attend to me, and she had to treat me like an infaur. feeding me with a sioon. My buggy was smashed to pie ee, and one of my horses died. Tbe horses had seen bicycles before, but they were always afraid of them. ' I have seen other horses besides my own that were almost crazy at th sight ot a bicycle, but I have no personal knowledge of any serious accident except the one described. I consider -the bicycle to be tbe most dangerous thing to life and property ever invented. Th gentlest ot horses are afraid ot it." On cross-examination by Mr. Wetmoro, Mr. Bough said that he had instructed his attorneys to sue Mr. Oiass for damages, but theg. had advised him against taking this action, telling him that tbe man was not Worth five cents, and that be rode the bicycle to save his horse-car fare. His horses, be said, bad never run away before, and bad never shied at anything except a bicycle. "1 do not say," said the witness, "that all horses will shy upon seeing a bicycle. Some horses have not spunk enough to shy at anything." , . Lewis Rlfc-se. a Superintendent In the Department of Public Parks, testified tbat about two months ago bis horse had shied upon meeting a bicycle at One Hundred and Sixteenth-street aad bixih-sve-nue. and backed up against the curb. The bicycle passed by, and tben his horse went on. He could not say that the horse had ever seen a bicycle before that time. He had seen bicycles pass borves which did not shy upon theif approach. Officer William J. Huston, of the mounted squad, related an instance of a gentleman's horse being frightened on Fifth-avenue, near Eighty-seventh-street, by a bicycle. Tbe horse backed into :ghty-sev-enth-street. Tbe gentleman pulled him out again, but tbe moment he saw the bicycle he made another bolt into Ligbty-seventb-street. The gentleman again got him out on the avenue, and this time be passed the bicycle, but looked at it very closely, pricking up his ears as. though very much frightened. The officer said that be bad frequently seen horses shy at bicycles. Aut no other special instances were retained in bis mind. Sergt. William A. Revell, of the mounted squad, recollected one case of a hor being frigbtened by a bicycle on Fifth-avenue near Seventy-ninth-street. He thought that the riders of bicycles were gentlemen, and he knew that tbey generally dismounted whenever tbey saw that Worses were frightened. The Sergeant said tbat his experience wss that bicycles driven on the pub'lo roads have a greater tendency to frighten horses than any other thing liable to be met. . At the conclusion of the testimony of this witness the bearing was adjourned.

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and of to county time for a of by farmer for my-Rterioimlv the wooden the I archives of the State Department at Love by Telegraph. There must be a good deal of romance in telegraphy. I hear of a lady operator who was for years in telegraphic correspondence with a gentleman at a distant office. When they had spare time they talked about their private affairs. They then exchanged photographs, and became engaged before they had seen each other. The relations between the male and female clerks of the London Telephone Exchange are, I grieve to say, not of this delightful character. Indeed, it is complained that the public business is impeded because the boys and girls are always quarrelling. But nobody can say that it is impossible to make love by telegraph, though it is of some importance that you should not be obliged to pay for your amatory messages. with that with are &c. beer'

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GAZETTE. October 19, rgSr. THE CABALS AGAINST ELECTRICITY. Paris, October iS, If M Ccchery has been prodigal of hospitality to the members of the Electrical Congress, exhibitors at the Palais de l'lndustrie find everywhere stumbling-blocks thrown in their way. Great companies based 0ri monopolies feel that electricity will break down their power, and are setting up cabals against it. The telephone amuses those personages who now represent the State and direct State action ; but the other appi;. cations of the new industrial force are not to thetn a cause of satis, faction. Exhibitors are treated as formerly the bxuf gms was. They are the lions of the hour, the occasion for much public festivity ; they are covered with official compliments ; they are sprinkled with eau bhiiti; but they are not allowed to make their way. Ceci intra cela if the advaii. tages of the former over the latter are too plainly demonstrated. Police and sedile functionaries have received their mot d'ordre from the mandarins above them, and cause to inventors who would revolti-tionize the industrial world by electricity intolerable friction where smooth action was looked for. M. Batchelor, Edison's chief agent, has. only just got the steam dynamo engine for generating electricity into working order. The giants and the dwarfs that he had to slay were infinite. He blamed more than they deserved the mechanics and labourers employed to set it up for the needless delay there was in getting through their task. The Messrs. Siemens' patience has been severely taxed by the obstructive course taken in regard to their tramways by the Board of Works and police, at the instigation of two great companies. They were given fast enough an authorization to demonstrate in that part of the Champs Elysees known as 1' Alice des Venues the advantages of electricity over steam as a locomotive power for tramcars.' But the permission was hampered with so many conditions as to be practically of very little use. There were trees with low-growing bcughs which were not to be interfered with ; the macadam was not to be disturbed, the watering service was not to be impeded, and many other things which stood in the way were to be experimented upon. I should suggest to the Messrs. Siemens to choose some picturesque locality in the neigh-bouihood of Paris, such as the road on the top of the hill of Sannois, and get an authorization from the commune there to run their tramcav. If they set up a cafe-restaurant in connection with it, all Paris would pcur cut to dine there on Sundays. The environs of Paris ate rich in beautiful sites, and mayors of communes would for the sake of drawing Sunday excursionists be delighted to authorize the plying of electrical trams on communal routes, over which prefects and sub-prefects have no authority. At the Opera House on Saturday night things were so arranged that the incandescent system of lighting had scarcely a trial. There was much promise of goodwill on the part of the aedile functionaries, but a great dashing of hopes when they seemed on the eve of realization. Arc light, which destroys stage illusion, was, contrary to what had been arranged, chialy experimented upon. Exhibitors have been making strenuous efforts to prevent a recurrence of ugly hitches. We shall see to-night to what extent they have succeeded. On Saturday the arc lamps pitilessly laid bare stage falsities. There was an outcry against its further application in consequence. The general public are not well aware of the difference in the two systems of electric lighting. When it was seen at the Open, House how frightfully ugly were the damsels of Zamorra wno we to te sent as a tribute to a Moorish king at Grenada a sweeping verdict was returned against electric light in theatres. The omnibus company is scarcely less powerful than the gas. Bat ib monopoly is not so well protected. The gas company has the exclusive right to place underground conduits in the streets for lighting purpose Ihe omnibus company is only secured from the competition of li? wheeled vehicles drawn by horses. I am told there is no law oj convention to prevent the municipality from authorizing electrics street cars. If . there were, the Messrs. Siemens would not find s many obstacles in their path. What the magnates of the gas company apprehend is their expropriation by the municipality and tv mirchase on a valuation of the fifteen vears' lease of the subterranean monopoly. If public opinion is on the side of electricity this nia' be done. Hence the subterfuges resorted to in high places w prevent the World and his Wife from having data to go upon whic would lead to an almost unanimous judgment favourable to electricity It is now found that electric light can be easily transformed into heat an motive power, and supersede steam and gas in the small domestic wr in which "l'article de Paris" is produced. The wires which illumif the carbon horseshoe or the arc at night can in the daytime be 1 muscles to the artisan. Early in this century the working classes rose rebellion against steam, which they felt would be a cruel taskmast French plutocracy is now setting its face against electricity because 1' ' coming to emancipate the factory helot and to restore the home which " steam-engine tended to destroy. It will be in all probability, noweV a long time before steam can be dispensed with as a generator, 't01 the winds and waves might, on hilltops and breezy places and i'1 incoming and outgoing of the tides, furnish and to spare motive for all the world's work, if machinery were found to utilize t - En attendant, electricity generated by gas and steam is cheaper the one for lighting, or than both for machine work in the domestic fori

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THE TELEPHONE NUISANCE. It seems to us that the time has ar rived to pretest against the nuisance of the telephone as it is at present worked in this city. So far from being a con venience for which one should pay it is i an aggravation of so monstrous a character as to merit public denunciation. The idea of demanding money for the privilege of using a machine that is calculated to upset the nervous system of the most stolid and callous human being, and which is provocative of more profanity than forty prize fights, is extremely ridiculous not to say cheeky. The Chicago Times, not long since, losing all patience with the irritating little instrument, kicked it vigorously out, of its establishment, declaring it was more- trouble, many times over, than it was worth. Froperly arranged, the telephone could 1m made a great convenience and comfort, but the effort to economize by putting wires in cables, and the care less ma iner m which the wires are permitted to fold with telegraph and other wires, makes the instrument rather one of torture than of service. A member of our staff, yesterday, wastel more than 15 minutes in a vain endeavor to communicate with an Administrator at tha City Hall, and then had to w alk to the Hall to attend to the business. As at present managed. the telephone is a nuisance of the first magnitude.

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THE TELEPHONE NUISANCE. It seems to us that the time has ar rived to pretest against the nuisance of the telephone as it is at present worked in this city. So far from being a con venience for which one should pay it is i an aggravation of so monstrous a character as to merit public denunciation. The idea of demanding money for the privilege of using a machine that is calculated to upset the nervous system of the most stolid and callous human being, and which is provocative of more profanity than forty prize fights, is extremely ridiculous not to say cheeky. The Chicago Times, not long since, losing all patience with the irritating little instrument, kicked it vigorously out, of its establishment, declaring it was more- trouble, many times over, than it was worth. Froperly arranged, the telephone could 1m made a great convenience and comfort, but the effort to economize by putting wires in cables, and the care less ma iner m which the wires are permitted to fold with telegraph and other wires, makes the instrument rather one of torture than of service. A member of our staff, yesterday, wastel more than 15 minutes in a vain endeavor to communicate with an Administrator at tha City Hall, and then had to w alk to the Hall to attend to the business. As at present managed. the telephone is a nuisance of the first magnitude.

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Clipped 23 Apr 2021

Horse Accident with carriage

to IttiAmSS . cTubli ve held the. trophy, the nrst being th. fit to Thich the competition was ius',ituted. - BSLWH1Xaa,-8a,BI00S Cakeuaob Accidest.-yeetarday a report reached the County Malice Office at Airdne af a serious carriage accident which had happened between the Tillages af JJells-hiil and Broomhouse. Mr Charles Gall, an auctioneer, tollokshields, had been driving along with another gentleman on the turnpike road, when a youag man with a bicycle came up, which caused the horse to start suaaeaiy, wcereoy both the occupants of the machine were violently aV. ...a ?S5 lif.. ii.li w rioVit-. la, bmkea iuruntt two, u ." - below the Atneeana sustajnea wnnn tn; hajv.a ESTIlAQHElISABT SCHHE ON A jSlMlIOAiAS t-iAKAL '45.li oirminaAtAn x wxiww vav j -t saikr named Rainbow wa3 charged with cauaBg .. tut c ; a ... .f .i 'rh. tne deatn at wm. oaviger, aisuv jrce.,? vu. ..Bv previous night prisoner iniiBced the Isoy to go into the canal by promising teach him awiasmmg, and carriad him into the middle upon his back. Th nrisoBer than preteiidad he could not swim hiraaelt, , i ZT

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Accident with Carrige, Horse startled

ACCIDENT AT BELLSHILL. Motherwell, 1st July, 1882. Sir, I observed in the Glasgow Herald of yesterday an article announcing a carriage accident near Bellshill on Saturday last owing to a bicycle on the road startling the herse, the result being a serious injnry to the occupants. I was the rider of the bicycle referred to, and, instead of being the cause of the accident, was the good Samaritan who arrived immediately after they were capsized and rendered assistance. The accident was not owing to my bicycle, but to aaother cause, which those who assisted the unfortunate gentlemen can verify. I should not have troubled you with this letter had it not been that bicycles are often blamed as the cause of accidents of which they are innocent, I am, &c., J. B.. G. required the sacrifice of grant the request. confiscation they should anything in tlie world, should be gratified. a coHsequence of that baleful influence, and Disturbance Bill, and a legislation. In fact, Mr igno-miniously, and to the at present the landed the commercial classes of baakruptcy; and deprived of their insurrection. That Ireland had not been demoralised. of honest debts had and the recognition of crime.

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Trial because of accident

T1IE I1ICYCI.E I3T COl'KT. sTfiars'e Asralnst a Bicycle Ritler of OUstrnctiiijr Street Testimony aiil I.es-al Discussion In Hie Case. Reported for the Baltimore Sun.i The case of the bicycle rider, R. F. Foster, charged by Col. Wm. P. Maulsby with obstructing the main street of Westminster, Carroll county, on the 17th Inst., so as to prevent the passage ot a phaeton containing Col. Maulsby and his wife, came up before Justice Gustavus W. Crapster in Westminster for trial yesterday. The complaint sworn to by Col. Maulsby sets forth that the obstruction was by means ot a bicycle ridden by Foster; that he retused to stop or dismount, or to do anything to enable tue phaeton to pass without danger, the horse being frightened at the bicycle. The charge was made under an ordinance ot the mayor and common council of Westminster, which provides that any person who shall obstruct the street so as to prevent the free passage ot any vehicle, horseman or tootmau, shall pay a flue ot not more than Jo nor less than 1 and cost3. The charge was a quasi-criminal one, and was entered in the name of the mayor and common couucll. Mr. Foster was admitted by tho justice to enter Into his own recognizance in $25 to appear for trial. He Is captain of the badge-less Brotherhood of Baltimore Bicyclists, an associate club ot the League of American Wheelmen, which takes care ot the legal defense of lis members. Mr. B. Howard Hainan, president of the brotherhood, was counsel for Foster. Col. Maulsby, by Invitation of Joseph M. Park, counsel to the city corporation, mainly conducted the case for the city. The trial was held In the courthouse, and a number of ladies were among the spectators. Col. Maulsby was sworn as a witness, but before testifying he said he desired to make a fw remarks, aud said he was surprised to see so large an assemblage. He could not understand what there was in the case to attract such extraordinary public attention. He had also, he would say, been informed that the matter had been referred to in some manner, he did not know what, in two newspapers ot Baltimore city. He had unloriu-nately been too often during his lite the subject of newspaper publications, and It would be gratifying if he could escape any further publicity of that kind. He had so lived as to receive some share ot respect, and certaduly notliing which is a cause ot annoyance to a ra.in's family ought to be a subject ot sport or enj ymeut on tue part of younger persons. He had endeavored to save the young man wiio was complained against in this case any discomfort not essential to the proper enforcement of the law and the protection of the rights secured by it, and he had offered to be security for the young man on tho day the complaint was ma le. Mr. Haman replied that tho gentleman might feel assured that if there was any discourtesy exhibited in the course of the trial it would not come from young meu. No warrant had been issued, but it was decided that the case could go on without one, though Mr. Hainan said the defense waived no rights they may have on that account. Col. Maulsby stated that the charge was not for using a bicycle on the streets, but for using it in such manner as to interfere with the free pnssage ot otuer vehicles. Col. Maulsby testified that some months ago he had purchased a horse iu Baltimore which he found would not start off as ste idily as he wished, and he was trying to teach the horse to start more gently. On the day in question,he was going with his wife In the phaeton for a drive. He had not proceeded more than fifty feet from his house when he felt, by tho movement of the reins, perhaps, that his horse was frightened, Tor he was not looking at the horse just then, but was bowing to some ladies. He saw a gentleman on a bicycle , ten to twenty yarcis In front ot the horse. There was some cord wood on the pavement near. Witness exclaimed, "Holdup! holdup! getoffl" get off!" The gentleman did not holdup; he came on. He saw his wife raise -her hand towards him in a deprecating way. She said noth-iug. The gentleman continued to approach, and as he met them he said. In what seemed to witness a rude mauuer, "If you are airaid of your horse, get off and hold him." Tarn told I had spoken In an excitable tone, said the witness. I was not in a very good condition ot health, was nervous, and I am apt to be excitable on occasions. This may explain the tone in which I addressed the gentleman. Further, the horse had been frightened a short time before by a bicycle, and had broken the carriage. I had not a particle of intention to use a tone that would offend the gentleman. On several previous occasions I had seen gentlemen using bicycles stop or dismount on the approach of horses when there seemed any danger. I thought it was usual for these gentlemen to do so. I have read of accidents in the newspapers, and I thought that was the way to avoid them. I could not have got out ot the w;iy; could not have turned the horse without turning towards the bicycle. Tne witness was cross-examined by Mr. Haman, and said the main street on which the bicycle was encountered is what Is known to persons on the road as tne Baltimore and Rels-terstown pike. Witness was naturally frightened, and put all his weight on the reins. The horse was eight or ten feet from the curb. The horse was moving in a walk during the difficulty, which lasted but for an Instant or two. The bicycle continued on, and they passed each other without any other unruly or frightened behavior of the horse. The horse continued in a condition of affright until after the bicycle had passed. He does not think the horse was frightened by witness's loud tones, because the evidenceof affright was given by the horse berore witness called out. Witness was rendered nervous by the approach of a bicycle when driving that horse. There are several gentlemen in Westminster who use bicycles. Ho had seen three before this occurrence. Mr. Haman asked of the witness If he recollected the language he ueed after the bicycle had passed. Col. Maulsly said in his anomalous position of semi-counsel and witness he wished It to appear that he did not volunteer testimony which might be directly applicable to the charge. Mr. Haman said if the answer would militate against his narratlvo or would reflect on him ho would not Insist on his answering. Col. Maulsby replied that the question was about as far from legal propriety as it could be. That was the only reply he could make in the presence of the court. Mr. Haman said personal questions could be settled out of court. They claimed to show as a part ot their case that Col. Maulsby was in a state of considerable physical excitement. Col. Maulsby then testified that he cried to the wheelman: "Stop, you scoundrel, and I will make an example of you," or "will settle with you." It he had stopped, said the witness, my intention was to settle the matter there, and I would not then have troubled the justice. , Mr. R. F. Foster testified that ho was on his way from Taneytown to Baltimore on his bicycle when he heard noi-es which he at first thought was a cry of stop thief or a d g fight. He baw a buggy fifty to one hundred yarJs distant, and as he approached he saw that a person in the carriage was speaking to him in a very excited manner and in so loud a tone that before he could be heard he had to tell him twice "Suppose you get out aud hold your horse, if you are afraid of him." As he rode by, the person called out "Y'6u are a st oundre.l," and he rode on, not considering a person who usod such language entitled to respect. Col. Maulsby took exception to tills romirk. Mr. Haman explained that the witness did not mean that Col. M tulsby was not worthy of respect, but that a person then unknown to the witness, who used the language referred to, was not entitled to respect. Mr. Foster, the witness, explained the rules governing the use of bicycles; that they were Instructed to look at the horse always and not at tho driver, always to dismount for a la ly when sate to do so, but never to dismount near enough to frighten the horse, but to sit on the bicycle and hold out his hand, speaking kindly to the horse to quiet him. The bicycle is rather a vehicle of use than a toy for pleasure. It is used in England by business men largely, also for carrying the mails and for many other purposes. There are over 200,000 persons using the bicycle in England. On cross-examination by Col. Maulsby the witness said the Colonel seemed to be the only person or thing excited aud needing pacification, and he gave him the best advice in his power the same he had given fifty times before to persons "It you are afraid of your horse, suppose you get out and hold him." He did not notice until after that remark that a lady was in the carriage. The rule to dismount for ladles does not apply where gentlemen are driving the carriage. Witness considered the words given to atranger in a loud and commanding tone to dismount from his own vehicle In a public street as impudent. Witness does not think bicycles are regarded by wheelmen as tending to frighten horses. He has known persons to imagine their horses frightened, and put a coat before the horse's eyes to keep the horse from seeing the vehicle, and he has ridden right up to the horse, and on the horse being permitted to look at tho bicycle he remained perfectly quiet. Mr William L. Seabrook testified that the bicycle was thirty feet from the horse when he heard Judge Maulsby cry "Hold up!" The horse stood still as the bicycle Dassed, out moved his ears as If nervous or frightened. S. H. Shrlver, D. McKlm Cook, bicyclists, and Dr. J. W. Bowers, member of Saco Bicycle Club of Maine, testified that Mr. Foster is a good and careful rider. Mr. Haman offered in evidence the charter of the city of Westminster, act of 1838, chapter 51, to show that lor any Injury done on the turnpike the company, and not the city ot Westminster, is responsible. Col. Maulsby said he had some rebutting testimony, understood to be Sirs. Maulsby a, aud the case was adjourned til! Tuesday next. Messrs Haman aud Foster were presented with bouquets by ladles of Westminster. -m m m-

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Let the Children Play. AVe have seen parents who seem to regard the disposition to play in children as an inspiration of the devil. The old people will be seated by the fire at night tired, no doubt, and the children always seek some gratification of the play spirit before going to bed. So they begin. One plays a trick on another and they laugh. "Hut tut" says the old man, "we can' have this noise." This only stirs up the falsely called play-devil, and they burst out again. Then they' receive a sound scolding and are sent to bed with the "dumps." This is all wrong. The spirit of play in the child is the forerunner of the spirit of enterprise in the man or woman, as truly as a playing kitten makes a mousing cat. Let them play. Bear with their noise. Learn to love it. It will not be long before they pass under the stern shadow of active life when the play-spirit may be the parent of their solace and success.

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Statue of Liberty (women are not free)

a Lillie Deveraau Blake protests against Bartholdi's statue of Liberty because it represents a woman, for women," remarks Lillie, "is no where free."

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- . ,. , , , 1 , . - 1')-e . , . .0 ,. . ,,, ,.., 1111 e,, , ,. . . .111. -I. 4:404, ik I ..1P ) 0 1 ... 1 , I AV., 11 , - PIG, , I ---44 - , t , J I '- ,,,,, 1, - 16, : 444 rt c 1,,, t . 't. ' te -7 --- 1.:: I . . BOSTON. , SUNDAY MORNING MARCH 16 1884.QUADRUPLE 9 9 , AGAIN THE YELLOW-BACK OVER 809 WARNIII ICI the mortgages in June, 1877. but Mr. Chafee, Jordan, Rillarsh era (0,,, Two Gloucester Boy applied f s' Heads the assignee of the A. & W. spragueestanufacturs Si log Cempatiy, still claims the right to sedeem the property. Plaintiff states that there is some de- fect in the mertgages; that be has repeatedly or payment s which have been retused, and that the property is goiug to decay, and is not The Queer Way a uow paying interest on the investment. . Turned by Flash Novels. is Annoyed. " WHAT MORE 00 YOU WANT?" ruses Tiller. the Pacific Express Tedanhitle. Ono Deserts a Widowed Mother and the Her Lover Anonymously Accusedof . at o ST thz 'e t Se umn Sr. LroSPIselesi.alliolDIMaesrPeas;celb5.-Tiller, thieGgP:abncel'Ilele Ex- Other Leaves a Dying Father. a Ubiquitous Wife and FINE SHOES press thief, spent the night in the Lindel Hotel, and is there today. Chiet of Police Harrigan is One of the Serious Social Problems laboring with him to get a statement, but Tiller ' They Are to be Married says: You have got the money anti you have got SACRIFICED AT of the Time. me; what more do you want?" It now appears that tile money recovered is $5000 or $6000 the Letters. short. Tiller says if the money isn't all in his baggage, the Milwaukee people may be able to , eats' Desteb to The S Jordin9Sillysh FINE SHOES SACRIFICED AT AGAIN THE YELLOW-BACKS. Two Gloucester Boys' Heads Turned by Flash Novels. One Deserts a Widowed Mother and the Other Leaves a Dying Father. One of the Serious Social Problems of the Time. repeats' Desnatch to The the mortgages in June, PM. but Mr. Cha,fee, the assignee of the A. & W. SpragueManufactur4 log Cmpaiiy, still claims the right to sedeem the property. Plaintiff states that there is some defect in the int,rtgages; that be has repeatedly applied for payincits which have been retused, anti that the property is goiog to decay, and is not uow paying interest on the investment. 'WHAT MORE 00 YOU WANT?" Tiller. the Pacific Express Thief, Refuses to Make a Statement. tSpecial Despatch to The Sunday Globei Sr. Loris. March 15.Til ler, the Pacific Express thief, spent the night in the 'Andel Hotel, and is there today. Chief of Police Harrigan is laboring with him to get a statement, but Tiller says: You have got the money anu you have got me what more do you want?" It 110W appears that the money recovered is $5000 or $6000 short. Tiller says If the money isn't all In his baggage, the Milwaukee people may be ahle to QUADRUPLE OVER 809 WARNING The Queer Way a is Annoyed. Her Lover Anonymously licensed a Ubiquitous Wife and They Are to be Married the Letters.

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AGAIN THE YELLOW-BACK Two Gloucester Boy s' Heads Si . Turned by Flash Novels. Ono Deserts a Widowed Mother and the Other Leaves a Dying Father. One of the Serious Social Problems of the Time. eats' Desteb to The Sunday Gleba! GisouersTER, March 15.-Has be beep in the P S habit of readiug dime novels and sensational story papers?" 1 have something better. but It is of no use." "Yes; he has read nothing else for months past- Wee to persuade turn to give It up and read It was a Gloucester fisherman's widow who spoke. Her only son, a boy of 14 years, had run odn,14emathkeindgaylibisefoovren, ivvnaleyt,lit, ajeawyofriliniabn ails hs eee lent- ti pressed it. Friday evening Daniel Lufkin hurriedly entered the police suition itt Gloucester and informed the city marshal that b two oys, each about 14 years of age. named Philip Fitzgerald and Edward Bruton. had run away from home, having just been seen to take the train tor Boston. el looked at my watch," said the marshal, "and saw that the train would soon be due at Lynn. I called up that city by telephone, described the boys to tile pence and requested their arrest. It was then 7.55 and, the train left Lynn at 808, so you see the police had only thirteen minutes. and had to work sharp. In a few m from that the minutes I got word back f boys were Under arrest. and would be held until called for. Mr. Lufkin, who is an uncle of the Fitzgerald boy, went to Lynn tnis morning and, t suppose, brought the boys back. Mr. Lufkin lives at 350 Main street. You can tell the house readily by two great elln trees wiuch stand in front." It Wr s a Modest Dwelling, abounding in neatness and thrift, but by no means luxurious. Within were found the mother. grand- , mother and aunt of one of the e two boys who had endeavored to make themselves famous aua had, in a measure, succeeded. "Ills head has been filled with that stuff for months," said the grandmother. "lie sells papers on the street for one of the newsdealers-Cape Ann Advertisers and Boston papers-and be has always been honest, so far as I know." "Yes." said the mother, "I went down to the newsde tiers' this morning and found that he had owed them $1 20. but he paid It up before he left. The Bruton bey owed thew $3, and he didn't pay dup." "That was to be used for the journey, then?" ayes. I suppose that was their capital. When . the Lynn police found them the Brutou boy bad $2 in his pocket and my boy had $I. He said the m fifty cents of that. I asked hire what be intended to do, and he said he was going to work and earn his living." Yes." said the gramenother,with a little laugh. "lie would do wonders with that amount la money. Many a time he has read Me from some et his hooks mud papers about the wouderful things which some boy had (100e, and then saki: qiew. why couldn't I do flint? I could do it as well as be did.' But I have always laughed at him and told him he could do nothing away by himself at his age; be would only get into bad company and perhaps get into jail. But. like all boys, he thought he knew." a Ille lloss No Father," said the mother sorrowfully, casting down her eyes." , "No," said the grandmother. "His father was lost two years ago hatidocking On the Georges. When the fathers go down the boys might t about as well go down, too," she added, a little bitterly. "They are apt to, sooner or later." "Do yoU think this surrience has cured him?" was asked. "I'm afraid not. He was treated too well by the pollee at Lynn. They gave him a goad bed, and when his uncle went for him this meriting, the two boys were In a room players marbles, as snug as you please." Be should have had a little rough usage." -Yes," said the grandmother. "They ought to have locked him up in a celL Then, perhaps tie wouldn't have tried it again." "How about the oilier boy. Is he a novel reader, too?" "Oh, yes, they are both ne to their eyes in that sort of stuff. The Bruton boy ought to know k better. too, than to run away from home. His father is very low with consumption, and his mother Is sick, too. But he has been talking about going away all winter, and trying to get some boy to go with eine" "Does your boy appear to regret his coarse?" was asked of Mrs. Fitzgerald. "H Il e is afraid it will get into the papers. e asked me this morning If I thought the papers would get hold of it, and I told him of course they woule." bo that was all be cared about it. An only son of a fisherman's widow, ids head turned with the tales of the wonderful exploits of "Wild.Bill of tile Plains," "The Red Handed Scout n t of the Sterns," R or the "Boy Detectives." he bad left his mother to struggle Omen the world alone, and gone forth . to become a pest upon society. The other, His Companion, had Lett a Dying Father and a Sick Mother, "What can ne done with touch cases?" was asked t diphilanthropic citizen, b o a leading pizenwen e heard e tile story. "That Is rapidly becoming one of the problems . . of the day." was the reply. "Our police say. and doubtless with truth that the avalanche of dime novels and 'flash' literature, stories of wonderful li exploits of boys who never existed, is doing more to demoralize the boys of our day than all else combined. Everywhere we hear of instances siulliar to ties. Only last weee a gang of embryo young ruffians was unearthed at Quincy. with their den filled with 'blood and thunder' novels. A day or two aeo young Duncan was arrested in Boston with a small arsenal about his person. mid haying half a dozen warratits against lam for burglary. None of these were really bad boys; they were oily trying to be. They had been reading that stilt . until they Imaglited the villains there delineated "Can not were really heroes." hiug be done to stay the tide of demor- Minot literature?" slates have grappled with the "I don't know what can be done. Some of the Southern pi oblem, and are trying to solve it. Georgia atm South Cat- olina have passed stritigeat lam's against the sale of such reading matter. But the problem is Moro Social than Political. A weuld get hold of It, and I told lain of course they woula." sh bo that was all be eared about it An only son of a fierman's widow, his head turned with tile tales of the wonderful exploits of eWild.Bill of the Plains," The Red Handed Scout of the Sierr.is," I or the "Boy Detectives." he bad left his mother te struggle througn the world alone, and gone forth eSt UpOu Society'. The other, His ' lipe;cuoduline, to corn lilt a dP Lett a Dying Father and a Sick Mother, "What can ne done with touch casesr was asked ot a leading obilanthropic citizen, when he heard 11, the story. "That is rapidly becoming one of the problems of the day." Was the reply. "Our police say. and doubtless with truth. that the avalanche of dime ovels and n 'flash' literature, stories of wonderful exploits of boys who never existed, Is dolug more to demoralize the noes of our day than all else combined. Everywhere we hear of instances stuiliar to this. Only last wee a gang of embryo young ruffians vas unearthed at Quincy. with their den tilled with 'blood and thundee novels. A day or two half a go young Duncan was arrested in Boston with a a, small arsenal about his person, apd having dozen warratits against Lim for burglary. None of these were really bad boys; they were otit, trying to be. They bad been reading that stut . uutil they imaglued the villains there delilleated were really heroes." "Can nothiug be done to stay the tide of demor alizing literatureV' "I tiou't know what can be done. Some of the Southern states have grappled with the pi oblem, and are trying to solve It. Georgia atm South Cat- ()Una have passed striinet tans against the se taal A eeading matr. But the problem is of sun r te More Social than Political. AGAIN THE YELLOW-BACKS. Two Gloucester Boys' Heads Turned by Flash Novels. One Deserts a Widowed Mother and the Other Leaves a Dying Father. One of the Serious Social Problems of the Time. repeats' Desnatch to The Sunday Glohci GraouersTicit, March 15."Has be beeu in the habit of readiug dime novels and sensational story papers?" "Yes; he has read nothing else tor months past-I have tried to persuade Min to give It up and read something better. but It is of no use." It was a Gloucester fisherman's widow who spoke. Her onty son, a boy of 14 years, had run away front borne the day before, intent on seeing the world and "making his own way," as he expressed it. Friday evening Daniel Lufkin hurriedly entered the police station at Gloucester and informed tile city marehal that two boys, each about 14 years of age. named Philip Fitztrerald and Edward Bruton, had run away from home, having just been seen to take the train tor Boston. .11 looked at my watch," said the marshal, "and saw that the train would soon be due at Lynn. I called up that city by telephone, desertbed the boys to the police and requested their arrest. It was then 7.55 and. the train left Lynn at 8.08, so you see the pence had only thirteen minutes, and had to work sharp. In a few minutes I got word back from Lynu that the boys were under arrest. and would be held until called for. Mr. Lufkin, who is an uncle of the Fitzgerald boy, went to Lynn tnis morning and, t suppose, brought the boys back. Mr. Lufkin lives at 350 Main street. You can tell the house readily by two great elm trees winch stand in front.P! It Mrs a Modest Dwelling, abounding in neatness and thrift, but by no Means luxurioua. Within were found the mother. grandmother and aunt of one of the two boys who had endeavored to make themselves famous auu had, in a measure, succeeded. "His head has been filled with that stuff for months," said the grandmother. "lie sells papers on the street for one of the riewsdealersCape Ann Advertisers and Boston papersand be has always been honest. so far as I know." "Yes," said the mother, "I went down to the newsde tiers' this morning and found that he had owed them $1 20, but be paid it up before he left. The Bruton boy owed them $3, aud be didn't pay IC up." "That was to be used for the journey, tben?" "Yes, I suppose that was their capitaL When the Lynn police found them the Brutou boy bad $2 in his pocket and my boy had el. He said the Bruton boy had given hint fifty cents of that. I asked him what be intended to do, and be said he was going to work and earn ids living." -Yes," said the grandinother,with a little laugh. "lie would do wonders with that amount tit money. Many a titne he has read me from some of his books laud papers about the wouderful things which some boy had done. and then said: 'Now, why couldn't I do that? I could do it as well as be did.' But I have always laughed at him and told him he could do nothing away by himself at his age; be would only get into bad company and perhaps get into Jail. But, like all boys, he thought he knew." alio Iles No Father," said the mother sorrowfully, casting down her eyes." "No," said the grandmother. "His father was lost two years ago hatidocking on the Georges. When the fathers go down the boys might about as well go down, too," she added, a little bitterly. "They are apt to, sooner or later." "Do you think this eIrrience has cured him?" was asked. "I'm afraid not. He was treated too well by the pollee at Lynn. They gave him a goad bed, and when his uncle went for him this morning, the two boys were In a room playtug marbles, as snug as you please." "lie should have had a little rough usage." "Yes," said the grandmother. "They ought to have locked him up in a cell. Then, perhaps tie wouldn't have tried it agalu." "How about the other boy. Is he a novel reader, too?" "Oh, yes, they are both up to their eyes in that sort of stuff. The Bruton boy ought to know better, too, than to run away from !tome. His father is very low with consumption, and his mother is Mee, too. But he has been talking about going away all winter, and trying to get some boy to go with him." "Does your boy appear to regret his course?" was asked of Mrs. Fitzgerald. "He is afraid it will get into the papers. Be asked me this morning if I thought the papers would get hold of it, and I told him of course they wount." bo that was all be eared about it An only son of a fisherman's widow, his head turned with time tales of the wonderful exploits of "W11E1.1511! of time Plains," "The Red Handed Scout of the Sierras," or the "Boy Detectives," he bad left his mother to struggle through the world alone, and gone forth to become it pest upon society. The other, his companion, had Lett a Dying Father and a Sick Mother, "What can tie done with touch cases?" was asked et a leading philanthropic citizen, when he heard the story. "That is rapidly becoming one of the problems of the day," was the reply. "Our police say. and doubtless with truth. that the avalanche of dime novels and 'flash' literature, stories of wonderful exploits of boys who never existed, is doing more to demoralize the boys of our day than all else combined. Everywhere we hear of instances siumliar to this. Only last weee a gang of embryo young ruffians was unearthed at Quincy. with their den filled with 'blood and thunder' novels. A tlay or two ap young Duncan was arrested in Boston with a small arsenal about his person. and having half a dozen warrants against lam for burglary. None of these were really bad boys; they were only trying to be. They had been reading that stut . uutil they imaglued the villains there delineated were really heroes." "Can nothiug be done to stay the tide of demoralizing literature?" "I don't know what can be done. Some of the Southern States have grappled with the pi oblem, and are trying to solve IL Georgia atm South Cat-Wins have passed stritieeilt tans apinst the sale of such reading matter. But the problem is Moro Social than e A

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TELEPHONE FOOLS. VERBATIM REPORT OF A CONVERSATION IN A SOUTH-SIDE STATION. The telephone is invaluable to love-smitten fools of both sexes as a transmitter of .soft taffy and gush when both parties knovr how to use the wires. A TRIBUNE reporter had oc; easion to use a telephone in one of the South Side A. D. T. stations the other night. and was treated to half an hour's entertainment by listening to the love-lorn gush of the head operator of the establishment who was conversing with another fool of the opposit sex away over on the West Side. While he was entertaining the lady with wire-transmitted "gush " he compelled his assistant, a little delicate boy, to do the work of answering calls for messengers, and Tnaking telephonic connections for impatient and bad-tempered patrons of the telephone company. The boss of the establishment stood with his mouth close to the transmitter and gave utterance to his gush in low but distinct tones. His first effusion after calling up the female was: " Is that you, Cassie?" " 0, I'm really delighted, but you cruel girl why didn't you call me up before?" " Who's at home with you?"

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Positive development of inventions

joy Inventions of Half a Century. The number of inventions that have been made during the past fifty years is unprecedented in the history of the world. Inventions of benefit to the hu? man race have been made in all ages since man was created, but looking back for half a hundred years, how many more are crowded into the past fifty than iuto any other fifty since recorded in history. The perfection of the locomotive, and the now world-traversing steamships, the telegraph, the telephone, the audipbone, the sewiug machine, the photograph, the cylinder printing pres3, chromo lithograph printing, the elevator for hotels aud other many storied buildings, the cotton gin and thespinni?g jenoey, the reaper, the mower, the steam thresher, the steam fire engine, the improved process for making steel, the application of ether and chlo? roform to destroy sensibility in painful surgery cases, and so ou through a long catalogue. Nor are we yet done in the field of invention and discovery. The application of coal gas aud pretroleum to heating and cooking operations is only trembling on the verge of successful ex? periment, the introduction of the steam ? from a great central reservoir to general use for heating and cookiDg is foreshad-! owed as among the coming events, the j artificial production of butter has already created a consternation among dairymen, the navigation of the air by some device akin to our present balloon would also seem to be prefigured, and the propulsion of machinery by electricity is now clearly indicated by the march of experiment. There are some problems which we have hitherto deemed impossible of solution, j but are the mysteries of even the most j improbable of them more subtle to grasp than that of the ocean cable or that of the photograph or the telephone? We | talk by cable with an ocean rolling be- I tween; we speak in our voices to friends j a hundred miles or more from where wo articulate before the microphome. Un der the blazing sun of July we produce j ice by chemical meaus, rivaling the most solid and crystaliue productions of nature. Our surgeons graft the skin from one ! person's arm to the face of another, and it adheres and becomes an intregal por? tion of bis body. We make a mile of white printing paper aud send it on a spool that a perfecting printing press unwinds and priuts, aud delivers to you, I folded and counted, many thousands per hour. Of a verity, this is the age of in vention, nor has the world reached n. stopping place yet,

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Clipped 13 Sep 2019

Arizona hr. San Francisco Chronicle. j j I ROLLER SKATING. Its Devotees A ro Uabte to Deformities ot the tlraibs and Other Fanottonil Derangements. . Concerning (he roller tkate there, is unfortunately little risk of exaggerating its evils. Although of only compara tively recent introduction, its effects upon the carriage and gait nd upon the anatomical development, especially of growing children are already quite marked. These obvious physical eQects are inherent In the muscular act'oa involved in the use of this form of skate. Unlike the ice skates there is no glid ing movement, nor are the opposing muscles ;of the lower extremities equally exercised,- in the constant successions of side thrusts which make up all there is of cxerc:se on roller skates.

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Edited 14 Nov 2020

THE MORALE OF ROLLER-SKATING. What is the matter with roller-skates? Why should a roller-skate be more immoral in its tendencies than any other skate? What is there in a smooth rink-floor, covered with roller-skaters, that should endanger personal morals more than the smooth ice covered with steel-shod skaters ? These are soine of the questions which are now agitating the community. From the sudden and determined assaults which have been made upon theta on almost every side it is evident there is something wrong. It is enough to discourage every worker for the good of the race that, in addition to all the other insidious forms which vice assumes, the Devil should have put the monster of frightful mien on roller-skates and sent him cavorting through every city, town, and village in the country. There seems to be an almost unanimous crusade against the roller-skate determined on by the pulpit, reinforced by legislative help in some directions. Some of the Catholic clergy in'our own city have pronounced against it very strongly, and more than one pulpit has thundered its anathemas in other places. In several cities the authorities are taxing the rinks in the way of special license even more than they tax the whisky shops. In other places they have regulated the hours during which rinks may be open, and have decided that children shall not be admitted unless accompanied by their parents or guardians. In Minnesota a member of the Legislature has introduced a bill one clause of which provides that " Males and females shall not be allowed to use or occupy the floor of any roller-skating rink at the same time." Even Brother Moody has had to issue his pronunciamento upon the subject, which runs after this very vague and unsatisfactory tashion: " I have only this to say: That where the godly and ungodly mix the godly are going to suffer. If you go to the skating-rink and slide around on roller-skates for the glory of God it Is all right." Brother Moody's disposal of the question would be more to the point if he NN 'Quid put on roller-skates himself and illustrate what he means by godly skating. What Is the trouble, any way, with the roller-skate? The most dreadful charges which have been openly made are that young persons meet in unrestrained fashion, behave improperly, plan elopements, and prepare the way for long lives of wretchedness. But do they not have the same and even greater opportunities in the ball-room? Young people who have any self-respect can meet as properly in a skating-rink as elsewhere, and those who have not need not single out the skating-rink for their improprieties. They will find opportunities everywhere. The numerous young women who have been running off with coachmen, blacksmiths, barkeepers, and negro minstrels did not find them in skating-rinks. Roller-skating at best is a craze, and is no worse than other crazes, such as tobogganing, bobbing, progressive euchre, 4-o'clock teas, metaphysical sances, and other mild forms of insanity, at which all that Is charged against roller-skating may be committed. Has it never occurred to these moralists, who, we fear, have passed the heyday of youth, that the toboggan offers facilities for flirtation, and that in the wild and reckless struggle for the booby prize in progressive euchre many a young man may be sowing the seeds of progressive poker ? If 'the young person cannot be trusted in the roller-skating rinks, can he or she be trusted anywhere else ? And may it not be claimed for this very absurd recreation that it may keep the young fellows from places a good deal worse, even if they do not succeed in skating in the style prescribed by Brother Moody ?

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People Who Photograph Their Vanity. A. Mail and Expreis. Cue of the newest industries iu connection with “art” is the publie display in showcases and photographers’ windows of the portraits of handsome men and beautiful women. Formerly one did not expect to see any pictures so exhibited except those of public notabilities,but now a stroll down Broadway reveals hundred ;of unknown faces, taken in the “Imperial” style of photo so much in vogue. I asked a well-known photographer about this, “Why,” said he, “that’s a part of our business and it pays pretty well too. I have in ray eases in public view possibly seventv-flve or a hundred portraits of private people—non-professionals, you know. They pay me for the pxivilege all the way from $3 to $5 a mouth.” “Is this to gratify their personal vanity simply ?” “Largely so, I imagine. They are unknown, outside of their own set, as a rule; but they like to have their portraits looked at, especially if, as is generally the case, they are good-looking and stylishly dressed.” “You are paid for exhibiting the professional people, actresses aud the like?” “Not a cent. There you are mistaken, you see, for these people advertise so much and are kept before the public in such a variety of ways that they wouldn’t regard a showcase photograph as an advertisement worth paying for. The reason we keep them in our cases is that they make the best sitters, their poses are artistic and then rich dresses enable the photographer to display his art to the best advantage.” “But to return to the gallery of the unknown—to what class in society do they generally belong?” I asked. “To your own,” he replied with a laugh. “They arc mostly men about town. There is a fair sprinkling of dudes, too, but this sort of patronage mostly comes from your easy-going young follows who arc blessed with good looks, good clotheg ( plenty of loose cash aud very little to do.

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Not sent if content is inappropriate

7 pence shall be counted as two words. . 10 pounds 17 shillings shall be counted as four words. i Indecent Telegrams not Transmitted. No telegram shall be transmitted which contains anything indecent, obscene, or libellous" or of a grossly offensive character. NOTICES. Births an t Diat-is are an.ioimcel in the Pall .Mall GazstTB (aiMrtisemtiUt

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Clipped 25 Sep 2019

Anti-vaccination riot fraud

TOOK NO CHANCE3 HIMSELF. To A Violent Anti-Vaccinationist Shown I Ha a Fraud. j Montreal, Oct. 14. A complete ex- to ura of th anti-vaccinationist, !r A. W. ILoss occurred on tha Chicago exprast Mon lav evening. Boon tlEsf the train left Montreal, tha Ontario medical officer ap-proacoel Ros and demanded that he ibould either exhibit bis arm r product, 4 certificate of vsocination. lion re fused, and appealing to professional C mrtesy said , that bis word thould be taken that he bad uover been racemate L Finally he submittal to an in-ve-tigatiou, which demonstrate!- that tha great advocate for tue anti-vaccination party had been inoculate i very recently and 1 ad two marks on his arm. Roa has durl til re thau any one else to work upon the prejudice of the Ignorant, and has publisbel a daily fiy theet denouncing vaccination.

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THE fANITT OF MEN. Eight Ont of Errrtf Ten Running Around with Mirror in Their Poekets. "Who buys them?" asked a reporter in a Kearney street "notion" shop, pointing to a lot of tiny pocket mirrors, with nail-cleaners, tooth-pick and comb, all complete. "I suppose you th:nk the ladies are our best customers," said the "notion" man, "but it is not so. Men, sir vain men are the pickers-up of these unconsidered trifles." "Pretty men?" inquired the reporter. The salesman grinned. "It don't matter much how they look," he said; "whether they are ape or A polios, they want a pocket mirror all the same. They retire every hour or so to some secret place to admire themselves. Talk of the vanity of woman! Indeed! It pales, sir ; it fades away into insignificance by comparison with the ad-mirat'en the majority of men have for their own mugs." "Could you mention not for publication, of course, but for individual satisfaction the names of some of these purchasers?" The notion man looked grave. "I could not give away the secrets of my prison house," he said, solemnly. "I never trust a newspaper man, and in the present regard I hold the confidence these gentlemen have reposed in me as sacred. Why, there are some half a dozen who, entertaining a great respect for my critical judgment of physical beauty, stop in here every day to inquire how they are locking. Then it is, 'Am 1 pale, to-day, Jim?' or, 'Do you think my color is too high, Jim?' or, 'That left eye-brow is growing a trifle heavy; don't you think I'd better have it trimmed off a bit?' If I say your color is too high, my friend is off to the barber's for a dab of powder, or but this is a dead secret we accommodate him in this shop. If he is too pale we tinge him up. It's wonderful, positively wonderful. Xow, the ugliest men are the toughest. If there is the slightest blemish in a pocket-mirror, they won't take it, because, forsooth, it may not faithfully produce their bright, pearl beauty." "But there are different degrees of vanity aii'ong these male beauties, are there not V" "Xo, sir ; there is but one degree, and that is the superlative, but there are different degrees of candor. Some are modest, and will declare that their moustaches or beard are always getting tangled. Now, there's a good-looking blonde railroad agent on Montgomery street who bought a six-by-four mirror from me the other day, which he keeps in his breast-pocket. He is a glutton alout his personal beauty, he is; but a real estate man, a fair, stout young person, whose otlice is near him, has found out that he has this glass, and begs the loan of it a dozen times a day." "Then, as a matter of fact, you have more customers among gentlemen for these pretty little articles than among the other sex?" "Five to one, sir, the percentage of those who carry pocket-mirrors is small among ladies, but eight out of every dozen men have one stowed away in the vest pocket. Why," continued the notion man, "some big. smirking fellows business men have come in here and asked me if I could teach them how to blush. Just think of it. Fellows in the forties, sir, who have not known a blush for twenty years. Believe it would be becoming to them if they could flush up like a mess rose when a girl glances at them. The ancient rounder got hold of the secret, and made all the rest hopping mad to learn it. You won't give it away? Well, when he wanted to blush he'd jab a pin into his leg and keep his mouth shut." "What did the mouth have to do with it?" "Because the pin would make him feel like swearing, and keeping back the blasphemy was the effort that suffused his cheek. That's the true business, s'help me. Do you want to look at any nice pocket combs to-day? Xo. Then excuse me, for here's a dude that doe3," and the philosopher resumed his professional air, and advanced on tho customer with interlaced fingers and a captivating smile.

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' eye, tho earth blessed What Time la It. This is an era of oheap clooks. Man ufactories of clocks have to keep running, so thoy make clooks not only for the jowoler's trade, but for all other branches of trade. Years ago a jew elry store was the only place where a ! olook could ho obtained; and a family bought a good clock, and it lusted lifo-tlmo. One small manufactory could keep up with the demand foi clooks, as thoro was only sale for a new clock whon a young family wont to koeping house, after marriage. But there caniocompotlng clock manufactur ers, and a demand hud to be created for clocks, and so cheap clocks became fashionable for brlo-u-brao. Tho fao- tories had to havo sales of docks in order to konp mon at work, and the result Is, that a man or woman is in luck if thoy do not have a clock sawod off on thorn onoe or twice a week. Tho a A two-pound has been N.C. A America 1892. Nova rels of week. Enough within a of A now on the is in A girl paper up in an "Five

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Clipped 23 Apr 2021

mCYCLK. Eoitor St.ti:sman : Whenever professional or scientific men have passed an opinion on the bicycle, so far as we have been able to learn, they have placed it in the condition mentioned by us, and which led us to ask the questions we have in regard to the healthfulness of the thing when used. We had hoped that the thing had a fair, candid and an intelligent defender in Salem wlfere the thing is a fearful pest, bat in this we are mistaken, and hence we must go without assurances that should upset these scientific opinions or explain the truth of history as to France, etc. But "Bicycle" in t he Statesman writes himself so well np, that his article is "too gentlemanly" f,r anything except to show how mu.-h he does not know of the subject of which he ia writing. On one point, however, we can agree with him and we commend it to him, asking pardon for using his own Janguage and that is, "'there is no need cf lying about them." We close. . Hkai.tii.

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Edited 09 Jan 2021

a 1HE KV1SNIIVG WORLD; MOJNDAY, UOTOimK 24, 1BS7. SPORTS OF FIELD AND RING. RUNNER CARTER'S CASE MAY NOT BE DECIDED TO-NKJHT. The Amerlcnn Athletlo Club's Moonlight Rnns Championship Medals to be Heady by Thursday Arlon anil the Hlranilrr to Wrestle Sprinter J corse's Marrlace A Chance for Gentlemanly Spnrrers. OT5-aJ"vsm Oct. 27 tho American V PS? fAthletio Club will hold I F&? 4 limoonllght road runs I X-Ad asVjfromthol'olocrounds, 1.iTA starting at 8 p. it, Tho i A'w2'jkoy8 will run to Mo. jNw-rS&gOgJjjjfliOoinb's Dam bridge pK-SSSSgX end roturn. After tho f " "4 speedy run the upper '"j- J 1 part of .Seventh avenue lu trvi 1 Win s,iiow tho club I n fl?8 ft m Tamombers will appreei. IBf"r IBato tll snowor-baths r fflWW l and rub-downs'onltheir I & -r (m I retnm lns BS niuch 1 "s uu " Jt' tA tho collation which It is not likely that the Carter case will be decided at a meoting of the National Association of Amateur Athleter to-night as announced. On account of some delay regarding tho stenographio work no report of the evidence in the case was handed in to Chairman Bishop until last Thursday, and thoro will bo no Association meeting till the onm. AhL-NIOnT FRUIT BTAND8. The Hnslnrsa Defter than tho Had Italian Faces would Hussjest. Q, A. rj39 swarthy and mcl- tt 47 jr 7 ancholy individuals tffwSlfijW 5?jn wuo silently dispense swfptwJcyj. fruit from hand-carts $Htt&KftvLi J ) Beem to u"ve no just WSgOy cause for sorrow so far nxLJrfyrerJu M n'' uours ar6 con-" ii.iVWTrMri ccrnet reporter of rc lrai$ w Tn Evening Would 53-2tJ2i f wuo n18 inquiries on SirzMB the subject came away with an idea (hat thoy began business about 0 or 10 o'clock in the morning and wheeled away their push-carts at 0 or 7 in the even-ing. Durinoitho rest of tho timo, he was further informed, they were at leisure to im-provo their minds. There is not much night trado done. At only a few stands in tho city can the sallow Italian proprietors bo soon sitting on a box all night as well as most of the day. Ono of theso is in Park row near the Bridge. Tho Italian who keeps It has had It for six years. He is around so much that at one timo a rumor prevailed that he took what sloep he felt in need of on the instalment plan lnsido his stand. He has a larger trade at night from passers-by than ono would imagine, "How do you manage to koep open all the time?" the reporter asked him. "My broror an' mc-ho help-ame," was tho reply. "Ono at night-a, zo ozzer in ze day." f'Do you sell muoh after midnight?" "Two, threo, four, sometime six dollar," the Italian answered, in his short way, with a now gesture and tone for eaoh word. When he said "six dollar" he shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows, as if admitting that it was surprising and yet was true. In BIRDS KILLED BY HUNDREDS. DASHING OUT THEIR LIVES AGAINST THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. nllmlrd by the (Slnre of tho Klrctrlc I.nmps, They Fly nt the Torch on Dark and tjtonny Nlshts-A Kecord of Their Denlhs Made and Thrlr Flodlrs Sent to Hclrntlflo Institutions Wanted by City Milliners. CHE big statuo down on Liberty Island is hard, ly appreciated as a blessing by tho feathered trlbo. At least that Is the supposition, if any confidence is to jf. - bo placod in tho statis. rW5 J . tics which havo been y Bl - rom t'mo 'mo co'' i ' i lected, showing tho I LyL, V. number of birds which A M3r uightly kill themselves w ira y tla8niuB ut thelr fn f weak brains against A Urvf mS. 'B8 JJ")orty's bronzo mi J I J CT orcn' attracted by tho -" (S I A A f dazzling glare of the l Jit lcctrio lamps which yUjlftl J surround it. It is very I ilJ soldoin that a night ja"l y 3m passes during tho buiu-I fvB "or or fall whon a f Jt&yjM. dozon or inoro birds at rtvTrax. least aro not picked up ' -2 by tho men of the month I destructive light in rocord eusy to birds morm-iug by weather. muggy pect a bright the year crops birds travel in do, and eleo-trlo lamps pass by tho torch However, seem to bo a great migrating island in " Is those "Yes, birds wo different wo find haven't and I am pretty will be long. oo-casionally cat-bird, night-birds, HOMES Mr. Bronson " Bob Annie Miss avenue.

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Stolen content in newspaper

--- VIE article in laSt night's World with reference to birds killed by dashing themselves against the statue of Liberty was stolen from the Sun's article on the same topic printed on the 15th of this month. Much of the language is faithfully reproduced.New York Sun. The article will probably be sent West by leased wire next Saturday night. of the an are

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SUPPRESSION OF VICE. THE WAR UPON OBSCENE PIC- TIRES CALLED " ART."' Letter from Anthoty Cometock Concorning what is Obscene and what legitimate Nude in Art. Society fok Si itkh-sion of Vice, J 150 Nassau Street, > December 1887.) not overrides this art. country and being high

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Edited 18 Jan 2020

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Modern children spoilt due to parenting

,iitnoru v auey line. I The Modern Child, Woman's World. Are not children nowadays proverbially spoilt, and is not the innocent, loving child content with the simplest of pleasures and only anxious to share them with others, somewhat exceptional? Some young folks are scarcely emerged from the nursery precincts before we learn that they are "awfully bored" and find things very "dulL" Far from contenting themselves with home amusements, they require to be taken from place to place in search of 'entertainment, a somewhat hopeless task where tastes are very fastidious. These blase individuals, in saort petticoats or oftener in Eton jackets, are intensely selfish. They .have -lost the halo, which in olden times, used to be thrown around persons and things in youthful days. : They havei little respect for parents, contribute nothing toward the happiness of home, and give no promise of turning out useful members of society when manhood or womanhood, is reached. i They are not perhaps to be greatly blamed, for unconsciously parents, teachers, servants have all combined to make these young persons misnamed children imagine that their food, their clothing, their education and their amusements are objects of the greatest importance in the whole universe, and it Is possible that no one has ever tried to Impress upon them the. necessity of showing a due regard for the welfare of others. Mercifully, what erring mortals mar, a beneficial Providence moulds. Thus it mayof ten come to pass that the discipline of life, its trials and crosses transform the spoilt child into the devoted man.

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UE XiAbCAWlKK Taylor at before session bodies steps has request for an be will country. only the put raUway ever at plan, ANTHONY COMSTOCK. A Philadelphia court very sensibly sat down on Mr. Anthony Comstock the ether day. Mr. Comstock is the burly, block-bead agent of a society for the suppression of obseene literature, and in bis insane idea that all nude pictures sre obscene be seized photographs whose originals adorn private houses and fill the pub-lio art galleries of Europe and America. Such a man would haul the Pope before the polioe court because of the nude canvasses in the Vat loan ; he would make it warm for the directers of the famous galleries of the Louvre in Paris, of the Berlin and Dresden art collections. If he is upheld in his stupid crusade why Belmont, Vanderbilt, Aspinwall, the Metropolitan Art Mnseum, the Academy of Design, are liable to seizure, if it be decided tli at every nude or semi-nude picture is an obsosno pioture. Every man of sense and manliness knows that a womai not at all nudo could so leer and gesture from a window as to be denounced as a SHUT Terrlbla received Tuesday, but approach There wind snowdrifts points managed were one of snow, being pended mercury that

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Ml - KILLED. - ! ! ! kc-ciireil tlieSe-enrlly . ; - Indlvld-; InereaN- auliivcnt- ln- uu-: aollclt-ed. PROF. RIDGWAY, Of the S.MITIISONIAX IXSXITUTI2, HAS A GREAT MANY BIRDS SENT TO HIM which are killed in large numbers by 'flying against the Statue of Liberty in JST ew York harbor. He says the specimens are mainly of the "Warbler" or Note-uttering family of different varieties ; also many freed birds, such ais the "Meadow Lark," a few wild ducks and geese are also destroyed. They pick up a great many birds around the Washington Monument. You can pick up a great many bargains at MORGAN & CO'S. Just now, we have laid out our Odds and Ends ; they comprise Suits for Men and boys, Coats, Vests and Children's Suits.

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London Lancet points out that the vac- I cination feb is a mere pittance compared with that for attendance On small-pox I cases which the neglect of vaccination and revaccination infallibly bring to the profession “Parents in London espe-rested ciaTIy just now know something of the Cost pf Small-Fox i - One of the favorite statements of the anti-vaccinationists is thatmedical men support vaccination because they profit by performing the operation But the mony cost of a virulently infections disease in the family— to say nothing of death risks £50 sterling a case including nursing - disinfection loss of business destruction of bedding etc is a moderate estimate” The average cost of the 8628 cases in Illinois during the last epidemic 1881-83 was more than double this amount— the gross cost amounting to $440396843 which is ah average of $51042 for each casa: Illinois doctors could give a more crushing answer to the anti-vaccinationists than that of the Lancet Attendance upon a small-pox case is sufficient to destroy a physician’s practice— at least for the tune being a Pru-dezit family physicians who have a due regard for1 their incomes insist on vaccination so that they may not be called on to treat small-pox

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Sexual content for prisoners

INDECENT PHOTOGRAPHS. SMART PENALTY. Three brothers were tried by Mr. Justice Stephen at Liverpool yesterday for selling indecent photographs. The prisoners were engaged in importing from France and copying by means of the cyclostyle obscene sketches, one of the brothers colouring them at Glasgow and the others acting as agents in Liverpool. The. judge commented on the manufacture of these photographs in France, trusted the Liverpool police would communicate with the Paris police to stop the traffic, regretted he could not sentence the prisoners to hard labour, but said they must be imprisoned for two years, fined ; 100, produce bail for seven years thereafter, or continue in prison till the bail was obtained and the fines were paid.

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Edited 26 Nov 2020

A pure flying-machine is impossible, asserts Professor Joseph LeConte. AU that we can expect all that true scientists do expect is, by skillful combination of the balloon principle with the true flying principle, to make aerial navigation possible in moderately 'favora-b.e weather in other words, to make a locomotive balloon, or aerial swimming-machine. That something really useful of this kind will eventually be made there can be no reasonable doubt