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ft I By P. K. HALS. ADVEBTTSINQ BATES. h i. . 1 -i' Advertisements will be inserted for On Dollar per square (one Inch) for the first and Fifty Cents for each subsequent publication. ' Contracts for advertising for any space or time may be madej at the office of the RALEIGH REGISTER, i Second Floor of Fisher Building, FayettevUIe Street, next to Market House. orricn: F4Vettevflle St., Second Floor Fisher Building. 4 : - RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION! One copy one year, milled post-paid . .$2 00 One copy six months, mailed post-paid. . . . 1 00 f3g- No name entered without payment, and no paper sent after expiration of time paid for. VOL. II. KALKIGII, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1885. NO. 71. AT FIFTY-ONE. Thomas William Parsons. . Jesting is over with me forever, Life is too sober at fifty-one ; No longer I worship the witty and clever, Things that amused me I loathe and shun. I have come to the summit and now began To sink to the vale on the other side ; There's a damp in the air there's a' gloom on the sun, Whose waning the vapors of Orcns hide. And my fellow-travellers, left and right, Fall away from the track as we downward hie, To their several homes ; they are not in sight But I hear the bells as they bid good-bye ! Hovr lonely I feel as I get more nigh To my destined inn -a dismal place ! Shut from all glimpse of the goodly sky And the sunshine of every friendly face. Yet what is to dread t there's a Master there Full of pity, to welcome the weary guest ; Who will bind the foot-sore and have good care Of every poor soul that seeks His rest. I tremble to go to Him unconfessed I bear him no letters from priest or pope But J carry a passport within my breast Of His own sure word and a deathless hope. A NEW EN6L1IIDEB8 TALE. Cumberland People will Think Lanehllfe Be thane. of W. C. Prime in N. Y. Journal of Commerce. Moxtpelieh Yr., June, 1885. The rector told me the story as we stood in front of the church after morning service. The church was almost hidden ia a grove of maple trees. It stood on the brow of a hill which overlooked one of the most lovely valleys on the sides of the Green Mountains. The road ran along the curve of the hill, in front of the church. The projection on which the church stood commanded a view both up and down as well as across the valley, which lay two or three hundred feet below. The mountain sloped away, mostly forest-covered, be hind the church. Across the valley was a similar mountain. The pasture lots went up, here and there, almost to the summit ridges. The head of the valley was only a half mile above. Down from a ravine came a noble stream of water, and before it fairly reached the sloping valley land it received two similar streams, the three alike falling over rocky beds with much noise and white confusion of waters before they came together into the comparatively eaceful river which flowed down through rica meadow lands ana away oceanward. For howsoever wild and vexed and unre strained be the youthful now of these our mountain streams, one and all alike are sure in time to retch the deep and solemn rest of the ereat gca. Search the world over and you will find no landscape scenery to surpass these val leys which open away eastward and west ward from the Green Mountains. The one we were in was like many others I have seen this spring, only these three grand cascades at the head cave it an individu ality of its own. On the lowland near the junctions of the streams were a substantial stone house and a group of large and comfortable-looking barns and smaller buildings. lnis was the old home of a man whom the clergy mau described as a noble specimen of that humanity of which, in country as in city, noble specimens are rare enough to be con spicuous. "He feared God, but .feared no man," was the summing-up sentence of the de scription. He was a man of wide influ ence. honored, respected, and loved, to whom for a half century the old. and the young too, had gone confidently for ad vice and help in jov and in trouble. For men and women need advice as often in one as in the 'other. It sometimes hap pens, in a community like this, that one man holds a commanding position. If he he holds it steadily for a long time, so that he becomes the trusted counsellor and con fidential friend of his neighbors, of all kinds, rich and poor, it is always certain that that man's life is govered by devout christian principle. Others may be envied, imitated ; others may win respect and ad miration ; but to become the confidential counsellor of all classes and ages, to be trusted with the troubles and invited into the happinesses of one's neighbors, it is es sential to be loved as well as admired : and to be loved by all one must love all, not the good only, but the bad as well. And there never was, and never will be, a man who can love all classes of his neighbors and win their love in return, except that man have taken a Ood for his example whose spirit he has, to some extent, made part of his own. Reason, nhilosonhv. ex perience, all affirm this. The idea that purity and peace, gentleness and affection belong to what is called the religion of Humanity is disproved in the history of every nation, every city, every village and country community, among all peoples, civilized or savage, ancient or modern. There is no more exalted position among men than that which was held by this man, growing old among the people who tovea ana respected him, doing good and r.. . : 1 - 1 mug gooa m every year oi ms long me The world in which he lived was small out it was large enough to occupy the en ergies of any mind, however able. The patriarchal system has never been im proved on by organizing men into nations, One man in a country town can be worth much to his age and to future ages working at home as he could be in a states man's chair. This man had been the friend and counsellor of statesmen. No ne can measure the extent of his influence for good . Its limit was not geographical; ,'"f it extended far beyond the boundaries 'f this small globe. Much the clergyman told me'of the per sonal and direct influence his old pansh Jnc r had exerted in the town, county and St:'te. Hut moKtlv hi dwelt on the ex treme luMHltv it ia ftAtNMtnal nknreft0r fifld ll'c, the delight with which the young people met him, his great grace of manner and voice, his devout and always cheerful ''.""ring, hi8 iovc 0f nature, his keen in Muht in to character, his marvellous breadth '' information and reading, and lastly, for "II else was prefatory to this, he told me of the picturesque death of his old parish-'om-r, counsellor, father and friend. H Friday and Saturday a northeast st""u had raged among the hills. But oi'uday morning the clouds went awaybe- ore a stiff westerly breeze and the sun lonn (1 Koi,i jllto thc Yallev. Tho 'church wi far away from any house; one of the "id sites chosen in early days for people to coiim to from various valleys and hillsides. ' he man who had charge of the church mid made a fire early in the morning, be lor he recognized the fact that the cold storm was over. Heavy mists had rushed through the maples until nine or ten 0t'ock, an(j then the warm nA jfay air - wok their place. The interior of . the c lurch was not pleasant. The air pas 1 08e- Perhaps for the first time in his ;'gnty years of living the Squire (as he was Uhd, though he had never held an office) became sensible of physical suffering. So at least they supposed who saw him several times lift his hand to his head, and at length go to the side door and open it a little way and sit, down near it. After a while, to the surprise of all, he noiselessly slipped out of the door and did not come back. And now for the rest of the clergyman's story you will have to depend on imagina tion, or what we mayjntelligently believe who know and share the faith of the old man; for there was no one outside of the church to see him until all the people came out and saw him. He sought the fresh air of the May morn- ng. There was not enouch of it anions' the maples, and oerhaus he sought the sunshine with it. 8o he walked out of the grove toward the roadside, where his son-in-law. coming late and after the sheds were all occupied, had left his low carriage standing while he unhitched the traces and tied the horses in the grove. The empty carriage faced the south. , It was on the open green, and, sitting in it, one couia see a vast prospect up and down and across the valley. The sun shone in it and the wind blew over it. The old man took a seat in it, and before him lay the country in which he had lived and been loved, and far away yonder down the valley was a range of blue hills, beyond which was all the world and all the universe. Thus far all this was a very simple and common-place incident. Yes, but what seems the simple and common-place may, by reason of what shall come next, be in reality thc unintelligible and sublime. The old man had always lived close to an other world. Many very dear ones had gone to it, and he had never ceased to re gard them as living near him. nearer than ji iuey uvea in me ncsn ocyona tnose blue it it. i; j i . . . . . .. mountains. lie never tnougnt oi doubt ing the reality of their life. He neVer ar gued about it, for his faith was above rea son. Out of the church came the sound of the people's voices singing, and to him ii seemea as n tne people wno were under the grass behind the church as well as they who were in the church were together praising uod ; for he was, whether he knew it or not, very near, if not, indeed. on the very ground where one may hear the voices of both worlds. So he leaned back and looked off and listened, and the wind played with his white hair, for he had left his hat in the church and sat bare headed in the breeze and sunshine. And around him, and above, and in the valley and across on the other mountain-side, be gan to gather appearances, li tney were not realities. And who can say they were not realities f The white mists that were passing here and there among the trees near the summits, the snowy cataracts de scending and shouting as they descended were they waterfalls and mountain mists. or were they white garments ? To your eye or mine they were the remains of last q U . .7 WU4 UUl VU1 VOV VUV II .A U V V. .i W thev to his eves, looking now through all things which stop our vision into the fath omieas depths which lie beyond. To you or to me that tumultuous roar of the tor rent was only the sound of many waters, the roar of streams filled full with heavy rains. So, perhaps, it was to him when he came out and climbed feebly into the carriage; but after a little there is small doubt that he heard the sounds of other waters falling from other hills into other valleys, the rivers with whose cadences our rivers keep some though faint and stam mering harmonies; for all voices of winds and waterfalls on earth howsoever pro fane be the voices of men all musical and melodious sounds of nature are part of the eternal song, and we should recognize it if we understood that music, asjerluips some time we' may. Doubtless he heard, and though yet a man, old and very feeble, began to understand tne language in wmcu the universe sounds its joy and praise ; for the bright look that rested on his human face bore witness that before it became mere dead dust it had heard the sounds and seen the forms of another world. How long he sat there and looked and listened from the hillside no one knows. Perhaps it was to the close of thc service in the church. And when he heard the voices of the people and the sound of the organ, singing "Holy, Holy, Holy," the voices of thc wind in the trees, and the voices of the waters thundering down the mountain, and the voices of the innumerable host whom wc never hear except when, like him, we come to the entrance.. the other, existence, all together sounded through earth and heaven, and he heard them all; and hearing, joined in the anthem with them. When the people came out of church they saw him sitting on the back seat of the carriage, his white hair fluttering in the wind, hisbands folded on his lap, his eyes apparently looking across the valley at the opposite hillside. A half dozen people went to ask him if he was sick. They found him quite well better than he had ever been. It was not a triumphal car, nor a chariot of fire ; but he had got ten into it to go a short journey, and had gone safely, happily. A Family 1b Trouble. I Detroit Free Press. J A boy about 12 years old reported to a Eoliceman the other day tnat a, roDoery ad occurred at the house under very mys terious circumstances. The sum of $25, which was in a china vase on a bracket, had taken wings. " Wdw hit of the doors or windows found open ? " asked the officer. No." "Any visitors in the house who might have taken it!" "No." " And you haven't picked up any clues, eh?" "That's the trouble, sir there's clues till you can't rest. I want to go off and camp out, and dad thinks I cribbed the money. Dad wants to go to Chicago, and marm thinks he's got the boodle. Marm wants a new summer wrap, and dad says she clawed them ducats for sure. The hired girl is going to be married next week, and dad and marm and me believe she raked in the stake to go on a bridal tour. Tell you what, mister, when I see how many clues can be picked up on a little case like this it makes me anxious to know which of us will come out on top." The World Look to Looks. Macon Telegraph.J There is a young lawyer in the city who once practiced the profession in Atlanta. In front of his door hung a brand new sign, bearing the gilt inscription that told his occupation. The young lawyer sat in his office for two months and not a single client called. After many days of weary waiting the young attorney finally con cluded that there was something wrong about his sign. Acting upon a mental anc?estion. he took the sign down one night and beat it until the lettering was quite faint, and then replaced it. A very good practice followed. nit, T. K. BRimER'S GOOD TIME With a Girt who Binki the Small Boy. Salisbury Watchman. J But the great mass of visitors at the New Orleans Exposition were mere curiosity hunters people who were look ing for something to amuse them and from that class I shall draw but a single sample. The day was warm, excessively so in that vast building where there was. prac tically no ventilation, and l am engaged in arranging the gold nuggets and gems in show cases, trying to produce pleasing effects. A voice near says : "Where are the gems?" I look up and bow to a stylishly dressed lady of well-rounded proportions; in fact. she might be considered stout by some a mere matter of taste, you know and re plied: I am lust removing them from tne safe; they will be ready for inspection in a moment." " They tell me you have some very large diamonds here; I wish to see them." "No, we have no diamonds on exhibi tion, though our State has produced some very pretty diamonds." "What State is yours?" "North Carolina." "Tell me, please, what is that curious looking stone with red hair in it?" "That is Venus bair, or arrows of love stone; the mineral name is sagenitc." "Where is that from?" "Several localities Iredell and Alex ander counties produce choice specimens." "Are those counties in North Carolina?" "Yes." "It's real curious, isn't it?" "Ye." "What arc those long, green glass things?" "Those are emeralds." "What! do you mean real emeralds?" " Yes, they are real emeralds, and I am proud to say that our State furnishes the finest specimens found in this country." Ure thev from North Carolina?" "Yes, everything in this collection is from North Carolina." " Do tell me what they are made of?" "They are not manufactured they are real crystals. " "It can't be that they are real emer alds, because emeralds are more valuable than diamonds; I know, because my sis ter Jane, who married last fall, had a lit tle bit of an emerald which cost forty-five dollars. Those are too large to be real emeralds." "They are real emeralds, and while they are fine specimens, tliey are not suit able for cutting gems. ; Perfectly pure emeralds arc both rare and valuable. You will observe that those have feathery flaws, and also that thc crystal has, at very short intervals, cleavage marks; these re duce the value of the specimens, because gems cannot be made from flawed stones. That longest one is worth four hundred dollars as a cabinet specimen." "Is that all? I am sure it can't be real for that price. This one in the ring looks better it's about thc size of sister Jane's her's is very pretty." "Thc stone set in the ring is not an em erald ; it is the new gem hiddenite, and is worth two hundred and twenty-five dol lars." "But it is green, it looks like emerald, and it must be emerald. I never .heard of hiddenite where is it from?" "Hiddenite is an entirely new gem, found only in North Carolina, and in only one county Alexander and is entirely different from the emerald." "Well, that is strange; I never beard of it before. You say it is from North Carolina?" "Yes." " What is the difference between emer ald and hiddenite?" ?They differ in almost every particular; in crystaline form and in their basic ele ments." "What does that mean? " "It means that one is a hexagonal prism and the other monoclinic in crys taline form, and that one, the emerald, has glucina as a basic element, while the hid denite has lithia." "I don't understand yet; they are both green." "The rich green color in each is due to the presence of the oxide of chromium that much they have in common." "Then I can't see why one is called em erald and the other hiddenite ; they have thc same color." "The emerald belongs to the family of beryls, while the hiddenite is a variety of spodumene, and is called hiddenite after the gentleman who first brought it into prominence. "Who was he?" "Mr. Hidden." "How did he first find it?" " He was looking for other minerals when he found some of these rich' green crystals, and sending them to a scientist, thev were analyzed and pronounced so rare as to deserve a distinguishing name, and he called it hiddenite." "Why, that is very interesting I did not know North Carolina produced so many gems. Are all the gems in this case from North Carolina?" "Yes." By this time I was beginning to feel tired and warm, and my mouth was real dry, but there was no escape. Wiping the perspiration from my face I stood resigned for what was to follow. 11 What is that large yellow stone? " I began by calling her attention to the labels. Great care bad been taken to have1 everything labeled in the most elaborate manner, and in a large, bold hand. She seemed to take no interest in the labels, so I leaned over the show case and begai reading the label for her: "The large yellow stone is 'the Hen dricks gem.' " "Yes, I see, but what is it?" I continued reading: ' The most exqui site citrine topaz' "it is a topaz.' " Where was it found?" Still reading: 'found in 1879 in Burke county. N. C "I sec the New York exhibit has the Cleveland gem." "Yes." "Why is this called the Hendricks gem?" "I presume it was a fancy of the owner " Who is thc owner ?" "Mr. Hidden." "Where did he get it?" "Found it in Burke county in 1879." "It is said that the Cleveland gem was offered to Mr. Cleveland and he declined it. Was this ever offered to Mr. Hen dricks?" "I think not." "Will it be?" " Not that I know of." "Don't you think he would take it?" "I do not know." "Then why is it called. the Hendricks gem!" " I'm sure I do not know, unless it is wild freak of the half crazed owner." "Oh, is he crazy?" " No, but he has gone home to rest. He explained these minerals until he was ta ken sick." " Do you find this climate trying? " "Yes, very; I suffer greatly "wiping the beads of perspiration from my face again. "And so all this jewelry is from North Carolina? " "Yes." "Well, if I find sister Jane, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack to find anybody here I'll bring her by this even ing. I know she will be glad to have you tell her about these things. Good morn ing." "Good morning." AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY For Starling si New Religion. New York TUnes.j An ingenious student of Scripture has made a special study of every instance of kissing mentioned in the Bible. These are not more than fifty irr number, and in no case is the exchange of kisses between the sexes mentioned except in condemnation. Ruth kibscd her mother-in-law and David kissed Jonathan, but we have no reason to believe that Ruth kissed Boas or that Da vid kissed Jonathan's wife. It has been supposed that St. Paul commanded the Christians under his care to salute one another with a holy kiss, but it ia evident that he did not command the brethren to kiss the sisters. The women sat apart from the men when in church, and they wore thick veils. It cannot be supposed that a devout disciple of St. Paul would' have disturbed divine service by walking over to the women's seats, or would have done unauthorized penance by kissing a sister through a thick veil. St. Paul in tended that the brethren should kiss one another and that the sisters should imi tate their example. Indeed, according to the ingenious biblical student, the co kissing of the sexes is nowhere authorized in Scripture. Now, inasmuch as we have sects found ed upon various customs mentioned in the New Testament such as the washing of feet and the use of "yea and nay" in con versation wc surely ought to have a new sect, the cardinal doctrine of which should be the restriction of kissing to persons of similar sex. The prohibition of kissing as practiced by all eivilized nations would please those who already prohibit dancing, whist and the theatre, and the sect of the Scriptural Kissers would find no lack of members. Certainly if such a doctrine had occurred to those rigid Puritans who forbade a man to kiss his wife on Sunday they would have adopted it with great enthusiasm and have enjoyed exceedingly admirable a method of rendering life not worth living. In spite of the claim made by experts that the co-kissing of the sexes has its merits, it cannot be denied that it has its disadvantages. The minister who is com pelled to kiss thc bride after a marriage ceremony sometimes wishes that kissing had never been invented, and the man who has to salute an army of aged female relatives with a kiss is miserable indeed. It can hardly be doubted that fewer scan dals would vex thc community were de vout young sisters no longer liable to cler ical kisses, and were boys and girls educa ted to class kissing, except between per sons of like sex, with stealing and lying. nut tne sect oi tne ocnpiurai jvissera . a m aa can never absorb tne wnoie v;nrisuan world. Men hate to kiss men, and women take no interest in kissing women. The new sect will be vigorous, for its members will be ascetic enthusiasts, but it will never be large. Man is the one animal that kisses, and he will never sink back from that high level at the command of the Scriptural Kissers. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN Wanting to Bay Wantlac to Sell, I Baltimore Times. 1 " Where are you going with the puppies, my little man 7 " asked a gentleman oi small boy whom he met with three pups in a basket. "Goin' to drown them," was the reply " I want a pup for my little boy to play with. What do you say to letting me take one of them ? " " I'll sell you one," spoke up the kid with American enterprise. "Ill sell you this yaller one for fifty cents, the black one for seventy-five cents, and the spotted one is worth one dollar of any man's money. " I think my little boy would like the spotted one best, but you ask too much for it. You had intended drowning ail oi them, but Til give you twenty-five cents and save you the trouble of drowning the spotted one." " Twentv-nve cents lor tnat spotted .. . ... ..i purp ! " exclaimed tne boy. " 1 can't atana it: taxes is uiuui rent ia uiuu. iih good money to get into the roller rink. Oh, no ; I can't take less than one dollar. ' But you intend to drown " "Take the black one at seventy-five cents." "My little boy wouldn't like the black one." " Take the valler one at half a dollar, He's dirt cheap." "My uttle boy wouldn't like his color." " Well, then, you better tell your little boy to play with his toes ; " and he contin ued toward the river. "No party can deadbeat his way on me these hard times. Goea It While She' Tonne. Fkeepokt, 111., June 80. Mrs. Nellie Dame You rex Baker Phillippc was married in Freeport last evening to Charles Yourex, from whom she had been divorced. She first married him in June, 1882, and only lived with him one day, as she was taken awny from him by her parents. Yourex left this section, and not hearing from him, she married John C. Baker, in February, 1883, who left her after a short time, he having another wife elsewhere. Later on Nellie married "Harry" L. Phillipps, a railroad brakeman. They quarrelled, part ed and Phillipps got a divorce; but before the decree was finally made, he married again, for which Nellie brought suit against him for bigamy and had him bound over to court. The decree was granted in the meantime, and Yourex having come back, the marriage of last night followed. The bride is now only nineteen years. Wholesaler and Retallei DisTerence. Eastern Star.l A ladv in town latelv went to ft colored whitewasher to engage him to whitewash a room. On asking him what he would charsre. he said sixty cents for one coat. He charged that, he said, because it, was so much trouble to put on the first coat; but if Bfic would have two coats put on tbe room he would out on both for fifty cents. The darky will get rich if he keeps on do ing two-coat work. GOVERNOR HENDRICKS Tells Boatonlana of Real Reform. I hear a great deal said, and I take a great deal of interest in it, about civil ser vice reform. I think I understand the subject (laughter) and with your per mission I will speak of it but a moment. Had, wnen a younger man tban l am now, occasion to judge upon that ques tion as an honest man, as a man whose ambition was involved in the proper con struction of it. Franklin Pierce, one of the stateliest 5 and noblest of our great leaders of the past, without solicitation on my part, in an autograph letter ad-' dressed to myself, asked mc to take charge of the General Land Office at Washington. I accepted the appointment, and for near ly four years I stood at the head of that office an important office and its affairs did extend far beyond the reach of many ar man4- tnat takes a limited view of this question of civil service reform. The sur veys were then extending beyond thc Mis souri, beyond tne mountains, along the valleys of California, and the settlers were going out from the old Bay State and from Maine, and finding their homes on the lands that were then being surveyed. When I took charge of that office, with 180 clerks, I found the business four years behind. The patents that ought to have gone to the people living upon the lands were four years behind date. I said at once, "This will not do. The man who has purchased the land of the government has a right at an early date to his patent, so that he may sell it, so that he may ob tain his rights, whatever they may be." I said at once, "There must be reform in this office." My ambition was connected with the reform. I could not well afford to take that appointment and go out of that office without having brought the work up to date; so I did commence the work of reform seriously and very earnest ly, and very soon I became acquainted with all the clerks in the office. With some I became acquainted by conversa tion, with some by reading the letters laid before me for my signature, with oth ers by considering the reports that they made upon contested cases, and in a short time I knew them nearly all. And very soon I knew the clerks that would be able to help me with the work that had to be carried through, and very soon those that limped or were unwilling or indifferent did step out. (Applause,) The "hickory broom" of Jackson, that represented demo cratic reform, was thc sentiment and em blem of thc reform that I sought to bring about and in the stead of the men who had to step out, there came in young and earnest fellows that were willing to do the work, so that by one general order I re quired that thc work done at each desk should be twenty-five per cent more than had been before these men came in and took their share readily, and cheerfully and cordially. And when I left that office, nearly four years afterward, it was only four months behind in the delivery of the patents to the men who had bought the land. (Applause.) rrom lour years it came down to four months, and that was as close as it was practicable to bring thc work. That, I thought, was reform WHERE THE RESI'OKBIBILITT LIES. I want to tell you another thing, gentle men. When you men that give your votes at thc election and pay your money to the tax-gatherer want to understand the par ticular point at which civil service can be brought about, I will tell you. It is not with the President in detail ; it is not with the secretaries in detail; it is with thc bureau officer that has to do directly with the work, and with the clerks who perform the work. (Applause.) I am not personally very much acquainted with the bureau officers employed by the Sec retaries at Washington. 1 know some of them in the Interior Department. I know the Commissioner of the Land Office. I know the Commissioner of Indian Af fairs. I know, by reputation, the excel lent gentleman who is- in tho Office of Patents. I believe they, by their own judgment and force, will bring about civil service reform in their departments. (Ap- flause.) I think I am safe in saying that know they have already taken steps in that direction; that the people will not be sold out by them. (Applause.) That is my own history about civil service re form. It may be of no account, but it is mine. (Applause.) And that adminis tration, whenever and wherever it shall be, that will fill all the bureaus in Washing ton city, with capable men at the head, and tell them that the work devolves upon them, and hold them responsible, will bring about certain and prompt reform. I think we are going through all right. It was a good while that the Democrats were kept out, a quarter of a century; the sen timent of the country had been enforced with cruel proscription the Democrats shall not share in the honors of the public offices of the country. (Applause.) It was a cruel proscription, such as I never advocated toward the opposite party, for I know there are honest men among them, and I would not to-day, if I could do it, take the charge of this entire government away from the opposite side. They pay their taxes, they contribute to the support of the country, they help to fight the bat tle -when horrid war comes upon us, and it is but fair that they should share in the honors. But it is not fair, and never has been fair, that they should clutch them all and say to the young men of the Democ racy "You are not to be trusted; you shall not share in them." (Applause.) PRESIDENT AND SENATE. The President Practically Uncontrolled Baltimore Sun. After a long and often renewed debate the views of those who claimed that the power of removal from office was absolute in the President prevailed in the House by a majority of fourteen voices, and in the Senate by the casting vote of Vice-President Adams. However much may be said for or against the legal right of the President to remove, President after President exercised the power without let or hindrance, and finally Kent, Story and Webster, who believed that thc original decision was wrong, were compelled to admit that it had been too long acquiesced in to be further questioned. Unfortunate ly there came a time when the pcrsoual and political relations between tne President and Congress-which had done so much to bring about this settlement were to lead to a reopening of the question. The Repub licans had two-thirds majority in each house of Congress at a period when Presi dent Johnson and the Republican party were engaged in the bitterest political quarrel of our national history. Deter mined to limit his power in every possible way, they passed over his veto the first tenure-of-of&ce bill, which was baaed upon the theory that the Constitution confided the power of removal to the President and Senate jointly, and that the consent of the latter was as necessary to a valid removal as to a valid appointment. But there were found to be the gravest practical difficul ties in the way of carrying this principle out. Often f or ni ne months together, from the fourth of March to the first Monday in December, the Senate is not in session. Shall an insane man or a thief remain in office all this this time because the Senate is not able to act upon the proposition to remove him ? It was so clear that such a person must be ousted at once that even the first tenure-of-office act provided that the President might suspend any officer who was shown by evidence satisfactory to the President to have been guilty of mis conduct in office, or crime, or who should for any reason have become incapable or legally disqualified to perform its duties. lhe President was, however, required to report to the Senate within twenty days after the opening of the next session the reasons for such suspension, and if the Senate refused to concur in such suspen sion the suspended officer was restored to duty. But this law was found to work badly. When President Grant came into office it was so amended as to allow the President to suspend any officer whenever during the recess of the Senate he thought fit, with or without cause assigned, and he was relieved of any obligation to report the grounds of the suspension to the Sen ate. Furthermore, it is no longer necessa ry for the Senate to assent to the suspen sion to oust the old officer. He remains sus pended until the adjournment of the Sen ate. In the meantime the President may send in as many successive nominations as he sees fit for the place, and if the Senate confirms any one of them the old official is thereby put out of office. The present law in theory preserves thc Senate's right to share the power of removal. F radi cally, as against a hostile President, it amounts to nothing. For instance, there have been a number of officials suspended by President Cleveland since the adjourn ment of the Senate. These gentlemen will remain suspended until some time next summer, in spite of anything that the Sen ate can do in their behalf. If the Senate adjourns without having confirmed any successors to them they would then return to office. But the Senate not being then in session, the President could again sus pend them, and so on indefinitely. In short, whatever may be said for the Con stitutional power, it has been shown by practical experience that the Senate can not exercise any effective control over the matter of removals. As the law stands to day it may hamper the action of a con scientious and scrupulous President, but it is powerless to prevent him from put ting out of office everybody he does not want in. The theory which prevailed up to 1867 was at least capable of working in practice. The one which is made the ba sis of the tenure-of-office acts is practical ly inoperative. FEDERAL FINANCES. Tbe Surplus not to Trouble ua long. New York Times. J With the debt statement of the month of June the Treasury gives to the public an abstract of the receipts and expendi tures for the fiscal year. As has been ex pected, the former have been less and the latter more than last year. The revenue for the year ending June 30, 1884, was $348,579,869.92; for this year it was $322,590,776.14, being a falling off of $25,989,093.78. or. in round numbers $26,000,000. The decrease was made up of $14,000,000 in customs duties. $9,000,- 000 in internal revenue duties, and $3, 000,000 in miscellaneous receipts. The falling off of internal revenue has been mainly due to the decrease in the yield of the tax on spirits, and that has been be low thc estimate because of the postpone ment by the Treasury Department of the payment of overdue taxes. Apart from this cause, however, the trade in spirits has felt more than the average depression in consequence of its previous undue ex tension. The decline in the customs re ceipts has been due in part to a falling off in the total imports, tbe value of which has been a little over $100,000,000 less than last year, and in part to the fall in prices. The rates of duty have been the same as for the previous year under the act of March 3, 1883." We may add that the de creased imports leave the excess of exports over imports of merchandise at about $170, 000,000, or $98,000,000 more than last year. The expenditures exceed those of last year by about $19,000,000, ($18,662, 211.09). This increase has taken place substantially in the ordinary expenditures, an increase of $3,000,000 in the pension payments being offset by a decrease of the same amount in the interest on the public debt, which has been reduced during the year, according to the old form, $63,494, 708.64. BEAl'FORT LAWYERS Not In the Beat Repute at Home. Washington Gazette.l A few days ago a countryman called at the office of one of our lawyers, and the following is the result of the interview: Countryman (in perfect sincerity) Mr. , you hain't got no children and I want you to take my boy, about five years old; I want to bind him to you, ana i want you to make a lawyer outer him. Lawyer And you think your boy would make a lawyer, do you? Countryman Yes, sir, and he'd make a good one, too. Lawyer How do you know? Give me some of your reasons for thinking he would make a good lawyer. Countryman Well, sir, everybody in the neighborhood says he is the smartest boy they ever seed." Why we all go off from home sometimes and leave Bob by hisself; and when we go home and ask him who's been there, he will begin to tell, and he will call over the curieses and most ornary names that ever I heerd or anvbodv else in this world. He will tell the names of more people that hain't been there than you ever hetrd of, and won't tell the first one what has been there. Lawyer You mean to say, then, that your boy is a big liar, do you? Countryman Yes, sir, he can tell 'em mighty sharp, and they all say he would make a mighty good lawyer if he had a showiDg. Honesty Sometimes Good Policy. Philadelphia Ledger A railroad president, now deceased, used to tell with much enjoyment the story of the only instance within his knowledge wherein an honest and true reason was given for asking a ' pass." One day the son of a prominent citizen came along a brisk young chap and said : " Mr. Dou bletrack: I will be obliged to you if you give me a pass to Boston," and gave no reason at all. Mr. Doublctrack asked his young visitor: " Why should you have a pass ? " To which the rejoinder came nromotlv : " WelL I don't want to pay 1" Astonished at this plain tellinsr of the truth, Mr. Doubletrack gave him the pass. THE STATE SCHOOLS. Of Intereat to County Superintendents. Circular Letter from Superintendent Finger. You must be as, it were, the eyes and the ears of the Board, taking care that they are fully informed on all matters upon which they have to act. But your duties by no means end here committees must be constantly reminded of their duties. See that they keep the run, at least, of the money apportioned to their districts, and do not go on employing teachers and in curring other expenses, when the fund ap portioned to their district is expended. QUALIFICATION OF TEACHERS. Teachers must be made to understand that thc possession of a certificate for the current year by no means implies that they may feel sure of one for the next. There must be progress from year to year, and the teacher who is good this year should be better next. To secure this end, the law, section 2567, require teachers to attend a County Insti tute, if held, and no one, without good reason, should fail to avail himself of this means of improvement placed within his reach. In your examinations, make your teachers feel the necessity of becoming more efficient each year, and they will gladly avail themselves of the opportuni ties afforded them by an Institute. Steady adherence to this course will, in a short time, remove the necessity of a special third grade certificate, at present admitted by all to be a necessary evil in our system. UNIFORMITY OF TEXT-BOOK8. Should you find that any of the books recommended to be used are not placed in easy reach of the children, be so good as to notify this office at once. Complaint is made that publishing houses seek to dis place the books adopted by the state and in use in the schools. Such action tends to defeat the whole object of the State in having a list. Houses which seek adop tion of their books, and certainly those whose books are adopted, are in honor bound to abide by the State's decision In cases of the latter kind, the State Board of Education have it in their power to cor rect the evil, and they may, upon informa tion, apply such remedy as may be neces sary. COUNTY BOARDS OF EDUCATION. Superintendent Finger Talks to Them, The Constitution, article 9, section 3, orders that Public Schools shall be held for at least four month in every year. The School Law, section 2590, orders the Board of County Commissioners to levy a tax suf ficient to maintain the schools four months, should the regular tax not be sufficient for that purpose ; and the Constitution, article 9, section 3, makes them liable to indict ment if they fail to so maintain the schools. It then is your duty as guardians of the educational interests of the children of your county, to call the attention of the Board of Commissioners to any deficiency there may be in the school fund of the county to maintain the schools four months, and to submit to them an estimate of the sum necessary to carry out the re quirements of the Constitution in this re spect. You make the apportionments; have control of the prices paid teachers, and know the wants of the several dis tricts; the knowledge of a deficit comes directly to you-. You are not empowered to levy the tax, but it is your duty to call the attention of the Board of Commission ers to the facts, and throw on them the re sponsibility of failure to carry out the re quirements of the Constitution and the statute. Notwithstanding the Constitu tion since 1868 and the statute since 1881 have positively required the County Com missioners to maintain the schools four months, still in many counties it has not been done. The consequence is, that the average Jength of public school terms in our State was 11 weeks, and in many counties it was as low as 7 weeks last year, EQUALIZING APPORTIONMENTS. By section 2551 of the School Law the apportionment of the county school fund is placed in your hands and you have dis cretion over one-third "to be used to equal ize school facilities to all the districts of the county so far as may be practicable. Thin ly populated districts are put specially un der your care, and you are furnished with a fund to meet their necessities. COUNTY INSTITUTES. The holding of County Institutes is left to your discretion. The advantages of an Institute are too apparent to need com ment. Let, therefore, your failure to or der one to be held be based on reasons which cannot be controverted. If there be any doubt, give the educational inter ests of the county tne benent ot tne douot, and hold the Institute. A HEBREW PEER. Gradual Deeay of Race Prejudice. New York TribuneJ The elevation of Sir Nathaniel de Roths child to the British peerage is in many re spects significant. , Mr. Gladstone has the credit of creating the first Jewish peer; for thoueh Lord Beaconsfield was a Jew bv race, he was not a professor of the He brew faith, and in fact had done what was possible to efface his connection with his . -r. ... -r .t 1 ' 1 T own people, nut tne itoinscnuas repre sent Hebraism all over the world, and their family has for many years been do. ing the actual fighting against the vene rable prejudices which for so many centu ries refused to the Jews throughout Eu rope either social or political positions. Even in this age of toleration it has taken more than a generation to conquer inher ited antipathies; but it is instructive to observe that in England the House of Lords has always been behind the Com mons in this as in so many other points, Thus when in 1849 Baron Lionel de Roths child was returned to the House from London, and being refused his seat the Jews' Oaths of Abjuration Bill was intro duced to remove his disabilities, the bill passed thc House, but was rejected by the Lords, and in 1855 and 1859 the same measure repeatedly passed the House, only to be as steadily thrown out by the upper chamber. Nor did the Lords yield gracefully, for the problem was solved in 1858 by the passage of an act enabling Jews to sit in Parliament by resolution of the House, thus putting the measure in the form of a matter of House administration, with which the Peers could not afford to med dle. It was nearly ten years from his first election 'when Baron Lionel de Roths-" child took his scat After that Baron Meyer de Rothschild was elected for Hythe, and several Jews were chosen as Sheriff and Lord Mayor of London. But it was not until 1871, after the abolition of tests, that a Jew was made Master of Arts at Oxford; and when Disraeli was Premier of England and in the zenith of bis repu tation there is reason to believe that bo de clined a Tjeerasre in favor of his wife, not because he did not desire tbe honor, but because he ! feared the political effect of his elevation. At a later period he ac cepted the distinction, though there was much grumbling among the Conservative Peers, but he was not regarded as a thor ough Jew. ! The elevation of Sir Nathaniel de Roths child, therefore, marks a decided advance. It must be concluded that the old preju dices have nearly disappeared. For though the special distinction of the Rothschilds is their financial position, and though this has often enabled them to control the course of powerful Governments and to command at least the outward show of homage and respect from the haughtiest aristocracy, their Judaism has always been strongly marked, and they . have never made any concessions in that particular. To a family possessing so widely diffused an influence the insignia of rank might seem of little consequence, but there must be a certain pleasure in this final conquest of so stubborn and. vigorous a' prejudice as has been overcome in this case, and there can be no doubt that entrance to the English peerage, unattainable by mere wealth, however great, has been rendered possible only by the gradual progress of enlightenment which softens the prepos sessions of even the most narrow-minded and conservative classes of society. LIGHT AND SHADE. Tne Old King. An old, gray king lived long ago ; Slow beat his heart, bent was his form ; He chose a maiden for his bride Fresh as a, rose at morn. A page moved in their palace halls, With golden hair, of blithesome mien ; He bore her trailing silken robes ; He worshipped the fair queen. And dost thou know this little song t So sweet, so sad it is to bear Both queen and page to death were doomed When life !had grown too dear. ; ' Seine. A Woman to do the Work. Brattlebord people tell thir for a fact : A young widower in Windham county, not far from Brattleboro, who was greatly ia need of a housekeeper, rode, day after day, in a vain search for a hired girl. At last, almost discouraged, he drew up at a small dwelling among the hills. "Can you tell me where I can get a woman to do the work an a farm house?" "Where are you from?" asked the old man, view ing the handsome horse and buggy with a critical air. "My name is , and I m from ." :"Oh, ya'aa, I ve hearn of ye; ye lost yer wife a spell ago. Well, I've got six gals --good gals, too and yer may take yer pick among 'em for a wife ; they wouldn't none on them think of going out ter work. Should as full as lieves you should take ! Hannah, because she's the oldest, and hpr chance ain't quite bo good, seeing as she's near-sighted and can't hear so very well. ; But, it ye don't want ner, -ye can take I yer pick o' t'others' The widower went in, selected the best loofcwg one, drove to tne justice's, was married, and carried home that night a permanent housekeeper, who proves, so far, to be in every way satisfactory. ispringneUt Jse- pvMican. i A "Loud Call Unheard. There is a jrery deaf old darky down in South Chicago, and he came pretty near getting run oyer by an engine on tho rail road track the other day. "I'll tell yo' what," said a young black fellow, who had been describing it to a colored friend, "datwas a loud call fo' olePete." "Yaas," broke in the other, "purty loud call, but; dat ole niggah's done gittin' so drea'ful deaf he can't hear nuffin' 1 " Chicago Journal. Adieu. Let time and: chance combine, combine, Let time, and chance combine ; The fairest love from heaven above, That love of jours Was mine; My dear. That love of youra was mine. The past is fled and gone, and gone, The past is fled and gone ; If nought hut pain to me remain, I'll fare In memory on, My dear. I'll fare in memory on. ; CarlyU. Glittering Misery. What a sad thing it is to see one gazing on a contest where only her heart is, una ble to assist save in the sympathy tnat con soles defeat. 1 1 have seen many such . sit ting in the poisoned air at the gallery long weary hours witnessing the struggle in the bear-pit below, where she could giv no help, and when at last defeat came to one so near and dear to her, to see ner sad, despondent face suddenly light up with smiles in the I presence of her husband as she crowded down her own suffering, and sought only to soothe by making light of his, was very pitiful. The life of a statesman's wife at the cap ital is not strewn with Bowers. I was returning from the opera one night, or rather one morning, when a friend who was with me suddenly twitched my elbow. " Come here, 7 he whispered, " and I will show you something." The show consist ed of ahack drawn up near the curb, the driver and horses of which seemed asleep. "Well ?" I, asked. "The hack" continued my friend, in an undertone,! "holds Mrs. . She comes here every night, almost, to wait for her husband, ; who is in the hall yonder drinking and gambling. It is said that she waits here hour after hour, and, meeting, takes him home without a word of re proach." Cincinnati Enquirer, Washing ton Correspondence. Pawl and Virginia. The gemof Victor Masse's opera, " Paul et Virginie," is M. Bouhy's song, where Virginia asks Domingue if she shall quit Paul and go to France, and the old negro replies : L'otsean s'envoie, La-ba, la-has! L'ofceau s'envoie Et ne revient pas. It may be translated as follows : ; L The bird takes flight, Away, away; The bird takes flight, Nor returns for aye. Ah, silly wight, At home remain, ' Believe my strain. The bird takes flight, &e. .: n. Faithful wee thing, That God has blest r Faithfnl wee thing, . Stay In your soft nest, And fold your wing; Sleep'", shun your eyes . 'Neath other skies. Faithful, wee thing, Ac. I lie York Wvrld : Farmers generally report ' their ' wheat better than they expected before they com menced cutting. Banbury Reporter.
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