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District Offloer.
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nistriet Attorney
JAM H. HOOVER-.
DlstrlctCler
Countv Offioers.
inntfq HTnt-t. ConntyJndRe
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Y.Z. VntVAn?
-Surveyor
PHILIP CUOTrtEP
JOHN II. SHOOK.
JOHN H. PORLMAN
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IZLschoolSnperlntPndent
- .Commissioners
City Officers.
J.T-.CATWON-
, Vavor
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O.A. C-
J 4 B. DOCKER
O. RU33B0I.
Ciere
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.liars nai
COUNCir.MEN.
W. HACKNEY.1
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2nd Ward
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BUSINESS CARDS.
T H. BROADY.
d Attorney and Counselor at sror,
Office overstate Dank. Brown villr.Neb.
D A. OSROTIN,
O, ATTORXEY AT I. AAV.
Office. No. SI Main street. Rrownvlle. Neb
A &HOLLADAY.
i Pttynlrtaii, Snrgton, Obstetrician.
Graduated In ISM. Locat'd In Rro5vnvlllciJ8.'v5.
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T & STULL,
J . ATTOIIXEVS T LAW.
Offlce-of County Judge, Itrownvllle, Nebraska.
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ATTORM5V ATIAW.
Ofsce over Post Onice, Brownvllle.Nfcbrsska.
WT. HOGERS,
Attorney and Counselor atJfHr.
WlUlvcdlllgcntattcntlontoanTleealbuMness
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J AV. GIBSON,
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CtJSTOM WORK madeto order, and Hlsalwaj
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Shop. No.tTMaln street. Brownvyie'cb.
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;ACOB MAROHN,,
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and Jpalcrln
F4aet;lUh,FteHck, Srotclt und Fancy Clothn
TcstlngR, Etc-, wf." "
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M. BAILEY,
SHIPPER AKO OKAUnttS
LrOT STO,Gf
ifOWWrZiilB; tXEPRASKAl
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to handle jtmr.-dock.
Omcc Klrst Jlathmal IUnk.
tLES HELMER,
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KARllIONAHLK
N Boot and Shoe
Ilavlug bought the cus
tom hop f A. ItobisoH.
f atrt nrroared to do work
( of allkludsat
Reasonable Rates.
fiar-Repalrlni: neatly and
prom pt lj done.
HUop No. 6" Main Street,
JfrotrHrittCi Nebraska.
Aircn Palae?.
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NEW RESTAURANT,
Palmer & Jolmsoii.
FIrtt Door West or Ihr Old hatlcn&l Bnk
Building.
TUUflrrrt. bavin rtMc nn thco mams wll
tan a first clasv r' "inJ. whore jjqqtl
Warm tneals cab he lui t all Itoutn. They
Rlv their customer m h-t vtmids In the
market, tucludlnc irs-h ovhieth .crvtrd lu
any manner called for.
Try the New Restaurant
AH Orders Tor an Express Deft with
Tfcora will be Promptly attended to
We Mean Cured, Not Merely Relieved
And CaixTtvtc What tec Claim.
ey Thnrarnio fnllnrrarttld nodlwp
polottnent. IT Jon nro trunblcd wlllt
KICK HKAICICKymicnn Ix-cifllj and
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airVittlj. YVh:n be plcacd to mall a
beol irtrslinoni:l lo any Interented.
CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS
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CiKim inn imi iiratty cauii;, correct uioraers
of the Siomicn. Mitnalate Ui LJver, and Iteeu
Int the Bmc!. Tliry do nil this .y taking Just
une liltlr pill it a Ai-v. T!iv :ire purfly vi cvta
!. tlo not urlpetr lmrcr.ard nre ns iicarty per
firt ax It It i lilf for a pill to I. Price sfbrnu,
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Blod by A.TV. KlckelL 27yl.
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B. G. WHITTEMORE,
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PROVISIONS,
SEWING MACHINES
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vHlpay the Wchest market price Sox acrop
Iron and rags, Main St., West BroMrnvllle.
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The Doctor's Testimony.
A.S.Bussel.of Marlon, Wayne Co.. N. Y.saya:
Tbe wonderful success or Thomas' Eclectrlc Oil In
all cases of acute and chronic Inflammation, ca
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Messrs. Foster. Mllburn A Co.
Regarding the gale Of Thomas' Eclectrlc OH we
are ftratltled In belup able to inform you that since
we took the agency three monthn ago for the sale
and Introduction of Eclectrlc Oil, our very large
sales proves conclusively to our minds; this rem
edy has extraordinary ment u witnessed by
the unprecedented sale. Weantlclpate a large In
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ally known.
YOurs truly. '
R. J0NE3A-8QN.
Dealers In Drugs and Surgical Iostrcments
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Goto Nlckell's forMrs. Freeman's New Nation
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they are uaequaled. Colore to 5 lbs., price IS cents
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WATCHMAKER,
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BROWNVILLE, - NEB,
Takes this opportunity to
Thank the People of firovrn-
ville and Nemaha County for
their Liberal Patronage dur
ing the past year, and solicits
a continuance of their favors.
Slaving- now a choice, new,
stock.orWatches, Clocks and
Jewelry; at prices that cannot
be discounted anywhere. Call
and See. Stagrcs and Express
es pass the door ; get the con'
ductor to put you down at 90
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T. A. Bath. Joseph Body.
BATH. '$ BODY.
proprietors
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are now prepared to ncconimodatc
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rs. Dealers In GOVERNMENT BONDS,
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iatldi?y F"ilt E. Johnson. Xutber lloadley
Wm. Fraisber.
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ESTABLISHED IN 1856.
OLDEST
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IINT NEBRASKA,
William H. Hoover.
Does a general Real Estate Business. Sella
Lands on Commission, examines Titles,
makes Deeds. Mortgages, and all Instru
ments pertaining to tho transfer of Beal Es
tate. Has a
Complete AbBtraot of Titles
tb all Real EsUte la Nemaha County.
Immortality.
Are they looking down npon ns,
Loved ones who have gone before?
In a world of light and glory
Bo thry love ns as of yore?
Are the bright eyes closed In slnmber
Oped and gazing from on high,
Beaming with a clearer vision,
Watching o'er us, yea, for aye?
Do they know our thoughts and feelings
Know our Inmost hearts to read ?
Do they mourn when we are tempted?
When we fall to sow good seed?
Are they watching' are they watting
For the coming of our feet?
While the same fond hearts receive us?
Will the same fond voices greet?
WhoEhall say tbpy are not with ub?
Men of science and oflore
Canyon tell us, with your wisdom.
As you o'er your volumes pore.
If the heavens are far beyond us
If those realms are high above?
Or a region all around us.
Where God's messengers of love.
Are uplifting humun creatures,
Helping them this day and honr.
Better to sustain their burdens.
Better yet to know His power?
Oris It a world of glory,
Ail divided from ourewn.
Where no Influence can mingle
With the trials earth hath known?
Oh, for hopo that comes to gladden.
Oh, for faith that doth assure
That our loved ones have not left us.
Though Immortal now, and pure,
They arc still besldo us walking,
Though unseen by mortal eye;
They are working In tils vineyard.
They are with the Father, nigh.
TWICE LOVED.
"Come Bessie, nurse is waiting!
Hun, now, and let her attend to your
curls; you must look very neat, or Mr.
Irving will not love you." It is almost
dinner time," said Bessie's mother.
Immediately the child arose, raised
her sweet lips tokiss mamma, and fol
lowed the nurse from the room.
"It is perfectly wonderful how much
infiuenceMr. Irving has over that child.
Just tell her to do anything, and say it
will please him. and that is enoucrh. I
never saw anything like it," said Mrs.
Wallace to a friend heside her, who
answered:
"I have, and would not encourage
or ratherl would endeavor to overcome
that influence."
"Now, my dear Geonrie. what is
troubling that wise head of vours?
"What means that grave and anx
ious look in your eyeV"
"Fannie, I'm perfectly astonished at
people whose duty it is to watch over
and guard their little ones, especially
their girls, fro'm sorrows, planting in
their young hearts seeds which may
grow to be thorns, and treating children
;is though they were -void of any deep
er thought and feeling than the appre
ciation of a doll or box of toys. I am
sure children of five years have hearts
that love as devotcdlv and suffer as
keenly as many of mature years. You
are shaking your head. I want to tell
you a little storv to prove my assertion.
We have half an hour before dinner:
will yon listen ?"
"Yes, certainly; but it must have a
happy ending," answered Mrs. Wallace.
"I cannot promise; perhaps the end
has not yet come. You know Ilettie
LeBoy?"
"I do, certainly; a lovelier girl I nev
er knew. Why she has never married
h;us been a source of wonder to me."
"Aye, and to many who know her.
not so well as I. It is of herlam going
to tell you.
"Twenty-live years ago, when just at
the age of your Bessie, and just as lov
ing too, a young man passed her path.
We will call him Joe Ilewberry. He
was the classmate and dearest friend of
Hettie's brother. At a party given
during the Christmas holidays by Mrs.
Le Boy, Joe, to pique one of the girls,
attached himself for the evening to lit
tle Ilettie, dancing with her, promen
ading through the rooms, with her tiny
hands clasped in his, much to the an
noyance of many bright-eyed maidens,
who really were envious of the baby
girl.
Joe was handsome, and very fascinat
ing, a universal favorite with the ladies,
both young and old. Several mammas
endeavored to draw him away from his
'little love,' as he willed her, and ma
neuvered to get her from him. But all
in vain, until wearily the sunny head
drooped, and with her arms around his
neck, her sweet lips giving the good
night kiss, she sank to sleep. Gently
then he released her to her nurse's caie.
Every day from that time he came to
the house. His home was quite near.
At the sound of his voice Hettiesprang
forward with outstretched arms to meet
him. I have seen her, with her hand
in his, looking up into his faco for
hours, seeming perfectly happy.
Of course this was noticed by the
family and commented upon. The
child's older sisters and brothers could
win her to do their will by saying, Til
tell Mr. Hewberry if you don't, and he
won't love you then.'
Daily she gathered a little bouquet
for him, and when the autumn davs
came and the flowers wero few, the
little love would watch closely the
slowly-opening buds, lest some one else
should get them.
So the days passed by for two years,
and then for a time she was separated
from the one she had grown to love so
dearly.
"Better than brother?' they would
sometimes ask her.
'Yes,' would come the whispered
answer, quickly.
Better than sister?'
'Yes.'
Without any hesitation the whisper
ed answer came.
'Than father and mother?'
And then the deep blue eyes would
grow so earnest, and the pretty lips
would part and close again, as k un
willing to utter the words she feared
might wound. When pressed to answer
her eyes sought papa and mamma, as if
imploring their forgivness, and 4I can't
help it; just a little bit more,' she mur
mured, and buried her head in Joe's
clung around his neck and beg
ged to be with hira when the hour of
parting came. With promises of a
speedy return he managed to soothe her.
Perhaps the child might have in
time been weaned from this strange at
tachment, if they had ceased to talk to
her of him. Butpossessing, as it were,
a magic wand to guide her actions,
Ihey used it freely.
How well I remember her as she
stood eagerly watching the postman, as
he came from door to door. As nearer
he drew, she became so excited and
anxious that her heart trembled lest
she should be disappointed. But the
letter came, and, with a wild cry of joy,
she pressed it to her bosom, and ran
with it for mamma to read.
His absence was short. He return
ed, bringing her for a Christmas pres
ent a pretty little chain, to which was
attached a locket with his portrait
Por Joe she learned to read, to write;
for him she would grow brave, and with
his hand holding hers, she had her first
teeth drawn.
When ill with feaver, tossing rest
lessly from side to side, his hand nnnld
always quiet, his voice soothe. With
out a murmur she would take from
him the nauseous doses.
How will all this end?' I asked her
mother, once; and lightly she replied:
Oh, all right, of course. She will
learn to love some one nearer her own
age when the proper time comes, and
ne win De marneu long oeiore tnen.
He has a distant cousin who, I am in
clined to think, he is engaged to. I am
sure their parents are anxious for their
union.'
As Hettie grew,oIderKa little shyness
crept gradually intother manner. Still
the love was there. !
Once, in a moment of-eonfidence. she
came to me and askedr-r
'Do you believe MrwHewberry loves
Cora dishing better than he does me?
Pred sayshedoes that he remained by
her all the time at the party last night.
X wish I was old enough to go to part
ies I And I wish indeed 1 do '
What Ilettie?' I asked, as she hesi
tated. I wish Cora Cushing didn't live in
this world indeed I do!' nodding her
head decidedly, while striving to force
back the tears.
Oh! oh! Hettie, thists dreadful!' I
said, drawing her within my arms.
Well, then, I wish Mr. Hewberrv and
I lived somewhere else, where Cora
Cushing wouldn't come,' she sobbed.
I assured her that Joe did not love
Cora Cushing; thatFred was only teas
ing her.
When she was ten years old Joe was
called suddenly away by the severe ill
ness of his nearest relative, an uncle.
There was only time fora hasty 'Good
bye, my little love! Make haste to
grow fast, and be a tall girl when I come
back,' he said, kissing her.
His going was so sudden, she did not
seem to realize it. I was glad it was so.
But howIpitted the little thing, when,
day after day, as she had done for years,
she sat and watched.
, 'Maybe he might come,' she said once
toine.-
Letters came often to Pred, with
messages of love for her, with some
times a little note accompanying a
gift. Pood enough to keep her loving
little heart from suffering he gave, and
fuel enough to keep the love brightly
burning. J3ut he came not. nor prom
lse Of his coming.
Time passed on; the pretty child
grew to a beautifui maiden. Youths
gathered about her, and friends had
ceased to talk of Joe. Other names
were mentioned as his had been, yet
none could win an answering smile or
blusli. I knew for whom her love was
kept.
The waiting, yearning look in her
eyes gave way at last, and a joyous
light broke forth. Joe was coming
back. A letter to Pred brought the
glad tidings. He wrote:
'I've a secret to tell you, dear boy.
But no I'll keep it for a surprise, in
which you will rejoice for my sake, I
am sure. In a few days I shall be with
von
Again, as in her babv davs. Hettie
began her watching. Oh, I know her
heart was singing a joyous song, though
the sweet lips gave forth no sound.
She stood in the porch, waiting his
coming, clothed in fleecy white, roses
in her hair, and a bright smile playing
on her face.
Hettie!'
.Pred came toward her. The boy's
face had lost its usual look of merri
ment his voice its careless tone.
Hettie, Joe came by the train awhile
ago' he paused, darting an anxious,
searching glance at his sister's face
and he was not alone. I'll not let him
surprise you little sis. I've hurried
home to tell you his wife is with him.'
Tho light went out of eye and heart.
The blush faded quickly on the young
face, and, whiter than the dres's she
wore, she put forth her baud to grasp
the balustrade.
Prod sprang forward to catch her
fainting form. Like a broken lily, he
bore her in. And when Joe came she
knew it not
Por many days her gentle spirit hov
ered between the shores. Sometimes,
since, I've almost regretted that it pass
ed not away to the other and brighter
one. But she was left with us for a
wise purpose, I know.
She has never seen Joe Hewberry
since his marriage. Three years after,
she sent to his little girl, who bears her
name, the chain and locket she used to
wear.
'Where is he now?' Mrs. Wallace
asked.
'I've not heard of him for years. I
know not if he lives.'
Thanks for your story, Georgie; but
I wish its ending had not been so sad.'
'Then its lesson would have been less
powerful.'
'True. I must profit by it without
delay. I will send Bessie home with
her mother to-morrow. The change
will do her good and break the spell.
A few days after this, Georgie Clark
came to see Bessie's mother, and said
with a bright smile:
'I've come to change the ending of
my story of the other day. In fact, the
end had not then come. Here are Het
tie's wedding cards; here Joe has been
a widower over two years. Hear what
she writes to mo:
Porgive me for keeping my happi
ness from you, my dear friend, but I
have not been able to realize sufflcient
that this crreat iov wns tVvr mo fn cnoii-
ui w uuiera. -ow tnat it is so near,
and he is with me, surely it must be.
of to others. INbw that it is so npjir.
j.u, uu un,o luiuwii so mucn, must
L-rirtT,. oil TT lnnJ j . . -
know all. He loved nnrl wan rtlorrai
to her before he knew me, You will
be glad to know this; I was. Had I
known it it would have soothed great
ly the agony of by-gone days.
We were at Hattie's wedding yester
day; a-happier, lovelier bride I never
Baw.
"Talk is cheap." Is it? Just hire
lawyer "once Syracuse Herald. '
Hy Lover,
My lover Is not young nor fair ;
No knightly armor does he wear.
Nor title of degree ;
He has no princely lands, nor gold
No Jewels rare, no treasures old
To bring and offer me.
Bat, to me, dearer far than lands
His fond, true heart; his willing hands ;
His spirit arm and bold.
More predOQB, though unknown to fame,
Is bis untarnished, honest name.
Than mines of glittering gold.
Riches take wings and fly away ;
Earth's treasures tarnish and decay,
And youth's fair features fade ;
But love, true love, smothers life's rough
ways,
Andslng8 of brighter, better days,
.Nor asks to be repaid.
PULP 'AND PAPER.
HOW
ITBWS Am) PUBLIC 0PDTC01T
AEE irAHUTAOTUEED.
Eemarks of-Hon. James A. Garfield, in the
House of Eepresentatives, Sat
urday, May 1, 1880.
The Hfuse having under considera
tion the tell to revise the internal-revenue
lawsT
Mr. Garfield said:
Mr. Chairman: I have' already said
all I care to say on the pendingamend
ments to this bill; but I ask the atten
tion of the House and the countrv to a
matter which relates to the work of the
Committee on Ways and Means, and
especially to myself as a member of
that committee., I think it will be in
terestincto the House to wsimin nun
of the methods by which news and
public opinion are manufactured.
I hold in my hand a printed slip,
about forty copies of which have come
to me in the last five or six days from
various quarters of the country. I
will read the preliminary note and ask
the members of the House to notice its
character:
To tlie Editor:
We are requested, by the publishers
of several leading 2iew York dailies as
well as manufacturers of paper, to in
close to you the paragraph printed be
low. If you read it our object will
have been attained. Your own inter
ests will dictate what further use. if
any, you will make of the suggestions
it contains, w e nave no personal in
terest except to serve our friends, the
publishers of newsDaDers in this and
other States. Geo. P. Rowell fe Co.
Xew York, April 21, 1880.
Below this letter on the same slip is
a ready-made editorial which I will
have printed.
A Member. Let it be read.
Mr. Garfield. The paper is as fol
lows: Whatexanelse-may. be doubted about
the intention of the authors of our tar
iff laws, thev undoubtedly meant to
place on the free list all materials used
in tne mamuacture or paper. It hap
pened that pulp of wood, which is by
far the most important element in the
manufacture of paper used by the dai
ly and weekly papers of the country,
was not specifically and by name ex
empted from duty. Under a Treasury
decision which held that this verbal
omission was fatal to the free admis
sion of WOOd-uuln. a few msmnfactiir.
ers of that article have been able to im
pose an exorbitant tax on the general
body of paper-makers, by whom it is of
course shifted on the rnnsnmM-ci t.hi
newspaper publishers of the country,
and tne ourcien tails with special hard
ship on publishers outside of the great
cities we, consequently, beinir imoov-
erished so that a handful of monoDO-
lists may grow rich. The most power
ful chamnion of the mononnlista is
Representative Garfield. Were his op
position to tne bill withdrawn, the res
toration of wood-pulp to the free list,
where it belongs, would be accomplish
ed in a few days. While his opposition
continues the monopolists are secure.
Can Mr. Garfield afford to continue his
support of a most odious and oppress
ive tax which brings in no revenue to
the Government, but which interferes
very decidedly with the dissemination
of knowledge among the people?"
I am told that nine or ten thousand
copies of this slip have been sent to ed
itors of various newspapers of the Uni
ted States. The advertising firm that
transmits it does not claim to know
anything concerning the truth of what
is stated in the circular. !No names are
given of those who have asked the
agency to send out this slip; but it is
stited that certain publishers of lead
ing Jfew York dailies and certain pa
per manufacturers have requested the
firm to distribute this slip. So without
vouching for its truth without pre
tending to know-or care anything about
it, and without saying who it is that
makes these charges, this firm sends to
nine thousand newspapers of the Uni
ted States these charges against the
Goramittee on Ways and Means gener
ally, and . closes with the particular
chargo that 1 hold the casting vote in
that committee, and by my single vote
prevent the action of the committee
and consequently the action of this
House on the subject
I give this slip as a specimen of one
of the ways in which opinins concern
ing public men and public measures
are manufactured and circulated.
Probably five hundred newspapers,
small and great, have already publish
ed this slip as an editorial. Pew, if
any, of them have printed with it the
letter of the advertising firm that sent
it; but the slip itself is printed as an
editorial statement of the truth of the
case to the people.
Kow, for myself and for the sake of
the truth. I wish the house to notetliis
method of manufacturing public opin
ion.
The Committee on Ways and Means
consists of thirteen members. Pive of
the thirteen are Republicans, eicht are
Democrats. ICow, this advertising
firm and the editors who adopt their
"iwfr'M1"i0 "u uuiu """ -"
-"J13?"0111 people believe that I hold the
irresponsible card would have the
t. 'u . w....x. . uli3
iimftf?r,- nnri fVif rlnntirr fha aiv nr-
suoiecc. and that dunnir tne si nr
eight weeks since the question of the
duty on paper has beenbefore the com
mittee X have held the casting vote and
have nrevented tho committee and thp
House from acting. I say in reply that
every member of the committee, with
out distinction of party, knows that
this statement of tho rfrnnlar is abso
lutely false and without any shadow of
iounaation. i say every member of the
committeo knows it; and yet not a day
passes in which forty or fifty newspa
pers in the land do not contain this
charge in almost the identical words of
the advertising agency.
I say furthermore for myself, with
out disclosing any secrets of the com
mittee, that it is perfectly well known
that not only I but several of my asso
ciates upon that committee have for
weeks expressed our unwillingness to
have this subject brought into the
House as a separate measure; but the
chief question has been whether it
should be brought in as a separate
measure or as a part of a general tariff
bilL
Mr. Prost Will the" gentleman
permit me to ask him a question?
Mr. Garfield. Certainly.
Mr. Prost I wish to ask the gentle
man whether he is in favor of or op
posed to free paper?
Mr. Garfield. I may not state what
has taken place in the committee, but!
will say for myself, only, that the pro
tected articles in the tariff laws average
about 45 per cent, ad valorem. The
duty on paper-putp and printing-paper
pay 20 per cent ad valorem, less than
one-half of the average of all protected
articles; but because this brings in
only a small revenue to the Govern
ment I am willing for one and have
been willing from the time of this dis
cussionand I think I may speak for
other gentlemen on the committee, to
reduce the duty on paper and the mate
rial of its manufacture as low as it can
possibly be reduced without destroying
or crippling the industries with which
it is connected. Beyond that I am not
willing to go on any account, or under
any pressure from any quarter,
plause;.
m i m ' '
Gath on Garfield
tAp-
From tho Cincinnati Enquirer.
The writer has known General Gar
field pretty well for thirteen years. He
is a large, well-fed, hale, ruddy, brown
bearded man, weighing about 220
pounds, with Ohio German colors, blue
eyes, military face, erect figure and
shoulders, large back and thighs, and
broad chest, and evidently bred in the
country on a farm. His large mouth
is full of strong teeth, his nose, chin,
and brows are strongly pronounced. A
large brain, with room for play of
thought and long application, rise high
above his clear, discerning, enjoying
eyes. He sometimes suggests a coun
try Samson strong beyond his knowl
edge, but unguarded as a school-boyi
He pays little attention to the affect
tation by which some men manage
public opinion, and has one kind of be
havior for all callers, which is the
mostnaturalbehaviorathand. Strang
ers would think him a little cold, and
mentally shy. On acquaintance he is
seen to be hearty above everything,
loving the life around him, his family,
his friends, his State, and country.
Loving, sympathetic and achieving
people, and with a large nnprofessing
sense of the brotherhood of workers in
the fields of progress, it was the feeling
of sympathy arid the desire to impart
which took him for chief; while as to
the pulpit, or on the verge of it, full of
all that he saw and acquired, he panted
to give it forth, after it had passed
through the alembic of his mind. En
dowed with a warm temperment, co
pious expression, large, wide-seeing
faculties and superabundant health,
he could study all night and teach or
lecture all day, and it was a providence
that his neighbors discovered that he
was too much of a man to conceal in
the pulpit, where his docility and rev
erence had almost tiken him. They
sent him to the- State Legislature,
where he was when the war broke out,
and he immediately went to the field,
where his courage, and pains taking
parts, and love of open air occupation,
and perfect freedom from self-assertion,
made him the delight of Rosecransand
George H. Thomas successively. He
would go about any work they asked
of him, was unselfish and enthusiastic,
and had steady, temperate habits, and
his large brain and his reverence made
everything novel to him. There is an
entire absence of nonchalance or world
liness in his nature. He is never in
different, never vindictive. A base
action or ingratitude or cruelty may
make him sad, but does not provoke
retaliation, nor alter that faith in men
or Providence which is a part of his
sound stomach and athletic head. Gar
field is simple as a child; to the ser
pent's wisdom he is a stranger. Hav
ing no use nor aptitude with the
weapons of coarser natures, he often
avoids mere disputes, does not go to
public resorts where men are familiar
or vulgar, and the walk from his home
in Washington to the Capitol, and an
occasional dinner out, comprise his
life. The word public servant espe
cially applies to him. He has been the
drudge of his State constituents, the
public, the public societies, the moral
societies, and of his party and country
since 1863. Aptitude for public debate
and public affairs are associated with
a military nature in him. He is on a
broad scale a schoolmaster of the range
of Gladstone, of Agassiz, of Gallatin.
With as honest a heart as ever beat
above the competitors of sordid ambi
tion, General Garfield has yet so little
of the worldly wise in him that he is
poor, and yet has been accused of dis
honesty. He has no capacity for in
vestment, nor the rapid solution of
wealth, nor profound respect for the
penny in and out of pound, and still
is neither careless, improvident, nor
dependent. The great consuming pas
sions to equal richer people, and live
finely, and extend his social power is
foreign to him as scheming or cheating.
But he is not a suspicious nor a high
mettled man, and so ho is taken in
sometimes, partly from his obliging,
unrefusing disposition. Men who
were scheming imposed upon him, as
upon Grant and other crude-eyed men
of affairs. The people of his district,
who are quick to punish public venali
ty or defection, heard him in his de
fense in 1873 and kept him in Congress
and held up his hand, and hence he is
by their unwavering support for twenty-five
years candidate for President
and a national character. Since John
Quincy Adams no President has had
Garfield's scholarship, which is equally
up to this age of wider facts. The
average American, pursuing money all
day long, is now presented to a man
who had invariably put the business of
others above his own, and worked for
that alleged nondescript the public
gratitude all his life. But hehasnot
labored without reward. Th& great
nomination came to-day to as pure and
loving a man as ever wished well of
anybody and put hia shoulder to bi3
neighbor's wheel. Garfield's big, boy
ish heart is pained to-night with the
weight of obligation, affection, and re
sponsibility. To-day, as hundreds of
telegrams come from everywhere, say
ing kind, strong things to him such
messages as only Americans in their
rapid, good impulses pour upon a lucky
friend he was with two volunteer
clerks in a room opening and reading,
and suddenly his two boys sent him one
little fellows at school and as he
read it he broke down, and tried to talk,
but his voice choked, and he could not
see for tears. The clerks began to blub
ber, too, and people to whom they af
terward told it. This sense of real
great heart will be new to the country,
and will grow if he gets the Presiden
cy. His wife was one of his scholars
in Ohio. Like him, she is of a JTew
England family, transplanted to the
West, a pure-hearted, brave, unassum
ing woman; the mother of seven or
eight children, and, as he told me only
a lew weeks ago, had never, by any
remark, brought him into the least
trouble, while she was unstampedable
by any clamor.
He is the ablest public speaker in the
country, and the most serious and in
structive man on the stump. His in
stincts, liberal and right; his courtesy,
noticeable in our politics; his aims, in
genious, and his piety comes by nature.
He leads afarmer's life, all the recess
of Congress working like a field hand,
and restoring his mind by resting it.
If elected, he will give a tone or cul
ture and intelligence to the Executive
oflice it has never yet had, while he
has no pedantry in his composition,
and no conceit whatever. General Gar
field may be worth S25.000, or n little
more than Mr. Lincoln was when he
took the office, nis old mother, a ge
nial lady, lives in his family, and his
kindness to her on every occasion bears
out the commandment of "Honor thy
latner and thy mother, that thy days
may be long in the land." Gath.
Henri Watterson more liberal, be
cause more able than the editor of tho
Omaha Herald, does not attempt to
conceal his belief that the nomination
of Garfield by the republicans was lit
tle short of an inspiration. He com
ments on it thus: "Whatever may be
said to the discredit of the republican
party, it must be allowed that, during
twenty years' sailing upon dangerous
seas, it has encountered extraordinary
good fortune and displayed unusual
skill in emergencies. The nomination
of Garfield is an inspiration. In no
other direction, through no other chan
nel could the Chicago convention driv
en about by the cross-winds of interest
and beaten by an ever-increasing flood
of passion have found, if not safety,
at least escape from the immediate
perils of the storm. Scylla and Chary b
dis having, in the persons of Grant and
Blaine, been weathered, such breakers
as Sherman and Edmunds need not be
considered ; a sort of a harbor has been
reached, and we may he sure that, in
good time for the decisive engagement,
this wonderfully lucky and admirably
handled political craft will show not a
trace -of the rough usage of the ele
ments ; that the decks will be cleared
for action; that the guns will be
shooted, and that every man will an
swer to his name when the roll of ofil
cerssailors, and marines is called.
"As amiable as Blaine, and more
plausible, though less interpid; as
smiling and as smooth as Washburne;
as cool, wary, and painstaking as Sher
man, and almost as acute and trained
as Edmunds, this new leader, which
something like a destiny has raised up
for the republicans, will unite the par
ty and poll its full strength, because he
is the logical expression of its nature;
its shrewd and nimble intellectuality;
its moral tone; its pushing, commercial
spirit; its canny thrift and wheedling
zeal in enterprises, great and small ; in
one word, its genius for commonplace,
which it has educated into a popular
idiosyncrasy and would elevate into a
national characteristic. Garfield is the
middleman that was wanted. Hcknew
it himself, and, with business like in
stinct united to the quick movements
of self-seeking, he went for what was
wanted and what he wanted, and got
it Behold the result; a triumph of
enterprise! Consider the fitness of
things ; the republican party takes the
field under a leader who, within and
without, is most like to itself."
A Boy and the Mu3ket.
A lad living in Havana brought down
from the attic one day this weekan old
rusty musket that had probably been
laid away there a long time ago and
forgotten. He found a percussion cap
that fitted the tube and placing it
thereon marched about the premises
for some time. His little sister
approaching, he pointed the gun toward
her crying out: "I'm going to shoot
you!" But the child frightened ran off
uninjured. The boy then hunted up
the family dog and leveling the weap
on at him, cried out the same words
that he had addressed to his sister.
The dog didn't understand, winked his
eye, wagged his tail, but did not move
away from his tracks. It was his last
wink and his last wag. The boy
pulled the trigger. He let go the gun,
or the gun let go of him, and he found
himself a rod or two away from where
he had been standing, the ground hav
ing flown up and hit him on the back.
When he gathered himself up the gun
w.-ts found to be badly shattered and
the dog was dead. Xo friendship ex
ists now between the boy and strange
muskets. Elmira Advertiser.
Pure-bred sheep are for the breeders.
Parmers must have pure-bred rams to
use with their common sheep to im
prove the produce; but the keeping up
of a flock of high-bred sheep is a work
that requires special skill in manage
ment, and knack as well as knowledge
in breeding; and there is no profit in it
to one who is not already an -adept in
the management of a flock. Perhaps
the best sheep under any circumstances
for a farmer to raise, is the cross of the
native grade Merinos with pure Cots
wold rams; Rural New-Yorker.
The daughter of a Shrowsbury.Eng.,
farmer went to thepantry to get a loaf
of bread that had been baked eight days
before. As she carried it she was con
siderably alarmed, as most young wo
men would be, to see first one mouse
and then another jump from the loaf.
On cutting it open a cosy neat was
found in the center, and in the neat
were fourteen little mice.
WOMEN HT THE OHUEOH.
What Would Happen Shol JThay Desert it,
From the New York Sun.-
Is the ehsrch losing its hold em tho
women ? If so it is in ,greater danger
than ever it was beforL-
An observant English woman is sat
isfied there is no room for doubt as to
the fact; that the peril' is real' and im
minent She asserts that among the.,
most intelligent women in "EncInnrL -
I unbelief is spreading year by year, at,a
rapid rate. The educated" cowntry-wo- i
men of Harriet Martineau: and" Prancis
Power Cobb are not pouring over the
Bible and prayer book as their motWsN
and grandmothers did. They arejwMt'
ing Darwin and Spencerr Huocley and
Tyndal,
Is this truer to any appreciable- ex-
tent of ther edncate5oieef t
United States ? We know that.it ..was
not true even so recently as Margaret,
Fuller's time. Unbelieving or doubt
ing women were as rare then as white'
blackbirds. But since then therehas
been a notable increase in the nusaber,
and improvement of the quality of the
girl's schools; well-equipped colleges,
for yormg women have sprungnp; col
leges heretofore kept sacred to the ed
ucation of the young male of tho hu
man species, have opened theirdoors to
his sisters; even conservative Harvard
has somewhat tardily and grudgingly
shown a disposition to adjust itself to
the changed conditions. The American
girl of 23 who has "had advantages,"
to borrow aewEnglandm, is a very
different person from that other Amer
ican girl whom her father courted,
loving her all the better, perhaps, for
her simplicity, sweet ignorance andun
doubting piety. This modern girl has
studied, more or less thoroughly, tho
higher mathematics and natural sci
ences ; she has skimmed the books of
the day; she has heard of some of the
lecturers; she keeps trace of the maga
zines, she has her reading club, possi
bly a social literary club as well ; very
likely she is writing a novel, or getting
ready to do so by assiduous magazino
practice; she has her head full and"
her hands full. Certainly the church
does not fill the same place in her
thoughts or in her life that it did in her
mother's at her age. Still it remains
to be proved that she is ceasing to be a'
christian and becoming an unbeliever.
If she iSj the outlook for the church
is disquieting. Ever since it was writ
ten preachers have been fond of quot
ing a verse setting forth that woman
was
"Last nt His cross and earliest at His grave."
Prom time immemorial the clergy
and the women have been close allies"
The day that saw this broken would bo
a cloudy day for the former. What
would they do for hearers? In very
many of the churches of this city, any
where from two-thirds to nine-tenths of
the weekly congregation are women.
Moreover, of the comparatively small
number of men, who are habitual or
casual church-goers, how many would
be in pews if they were not attracted,
coaxed or coerced thither by women?
Yet it is not in looking down on a
dwindling congregation that tho
preacher would feel most, but the with
drawal of that most potent womanly
influence which Goethe has sung in tho
last lines of "Faust." If the mothers
turn unbelievers what chance will
there be for the children?
If the preachers are at a loss for a
topic at their morning meetings next
monday, let them take this one: "Is
the higher education sapping the faith
and chilling the piety of women?"
"I 'mthe Only Man on Your Side."
In one of the western States a case
was tried, and at its termination the
Judge charged the jury, and they re
tired for consultation. Hour after
hour passed, and no verdict was brought
in. The Judge's dinner hour arrived,
and he became hungry and impatient.
Upon inquiry he learned that one ob
stinate juryman was holding out against
eleven. That he could not stand, and
he ordered the twelve men tobebrought
before him. He told them that in hi3
charge to them he had so plainly
stated the case and the law that the
verdict ought to be unanimous, and the
man who permitted his individual
opinion to weigh against the judgment
of eleven men of wisdom was unfit and
unqualified ever again to act in the ca
pacity of juryman. He said: "Jjidge,
will your honor allow me to say a
word?" "May it please your honer, I
am the only man on your side."
Grade Short-horn Bnl.
We regret to learn that many of
these are taken to the Far West by un
principled breeders, and sold to the ig
norant ranches as full-breed, thus
injuring the reputation of the latter
among them, because the stock of even
the very best grade bulls cannot by anv
possibility be nearly equal to that o'f
thoroughbred. In breeding from grades,
the tendency of the progeny is to go
back to the bad points of its common
dam, rather than to the superior points
of the sire. If the ranchmen would
demand a herd-book pedigree of all
from whom they purchase they could
not then be cheated in the quality of
the animals, or, if so, by referring to
the herd-book, the cheat would be in
stantly detected, and the seller of tho
grade for a thorough-bred might be
prosecuted and heavy damages got
xiuux uuu, s is recently uone in a
case of the kind
New Yorker.
in England. liural
To Keep Pood Prom Bats.
Apian which has worked admirably
and is very simple, is to take a round
tin pan, punch three holes at equal dis
tance near the rim, and fasten a piece
of wire or cord fifteen inches lohgin
each hole; secure the ends together and
attach them to a simple cord, and sus
pend the pan from the ceiling of your
poultry house, so that the bottom of it
is about six inches from the ground.
Your fowls can easily eat out of tfio
pan; but the rats are unable to onac
count of the swingingmotion-7-theipan
moving away as soon as they touch it
It is of course necessary to suspend the
food trough or pan clear of any boxes,
or anything from which the rats can
get into it
"Hullo, Bub ! trying to get an appetite
for your dinner ?" "Well n-o-o not ex
actly; fact is, I'm trying to get dinner
for my appetite." . -