The Greensboro patriot [November 7, 1877]

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Autumn.
Paie A HI u mn. through her misty veil
Smiles, peusively, o'er hill and plain—
Her chariot It the mournful wind,
lUr music is the pattering rain.
Fair Summer ail, exhausted, lies,
Her burial-monnd, |ht withered, leaves ;
And Earth's cold heeom sadly takes
Her brightest child, for whom she grieves.
But you may travel o'er the woild
Seeking for many a glorious sight.
And fair ltalia's skits may beam
Upon you with their joyous light |
Aud many a " innnier clime" may glow,
Aud bathe you in a golden stream,
Wnare lights ami shadows softly blend,
To wrap you iu a mystic drum.
Hut come to "ur primeval woods,
When king " Sol" shods his parting light,
And "artitt mUUWto11 paints tlie tr-» s
In every hue and color bright,
When gold and rrimson.brown and green,
Mix up and mingle in the woods,
Aud Nature, in her gorgeons sheen,
Sits quoon-lik* iu the solil n 1,.,,
And tell me if you've ever Been,
In fair, blight lauds, beyoud the sea,
A si one more rich anil grand thau this,
Where autumn holds her revelry--
Or ever heard a sweeter tone.
Than her to—tr—ia, amidtho pines.
Where glitlciinglv llie raindrops fall
In iliuinoiid-sbnwur* upoti the vines t
Old Winter, with his icy breath.
With snowy crowu upon his head,
And dark-green lirs, with frosted gems,
Aud holly-berries, bright and rod.
And tinkling sleighs and joyous shouts,
I- oft a merry time to me,
When Christmas leys pile high the hearth
And all is joy anil revelry.
Ami gentle spiiug, with fragrant blooms,
With April rains and May-time llowers,
And tuneful birds, sweet Nature's choir,
That carol in the leafy bowers ;
And summer, radiantly arrayed
With blossoms bright, of every hue,
And golden showerlets on the streams.
Dropping from Heaven's unbounded blue
V'-'. hut none, to me,
Comes with ao soft and sweet a spell,
As when .imiils! the toieat trees
The plaintive blasts of autumn swell,
For then, while roamiug mid 'he w Is,
To watch the dyin^ of the year,
I. o'er her bier of withered leaves,
Bend down to shed a pitying tear.
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White Devil.
One night in June, ten years ago,
the sentinel pacing np and down
before the gales of Port Defiance,
up in the northeastern part of
Arizona, suddenly heard the boof-beat
of a horse.
" Halt ! Who comes there ?" rang
out the challenge, hut there was no
answer.
It was a starlight night. Two or
three hundred feet away the sen-tinel
caught sight of a white horse
approaching him at a brisk walk.
When he could see the horse he
could also see that it had no rider.
Droves of wild horses and still
wilder mustangs were frequently
seen from the fort, and the sentinel
was rather pleased that one of them
was being led by curiosity to ap-proach
the gate.
The horse grew whiter and larger
as he came nearer, and when be
halted he was not over ten feet from
the guard, lie was tall and power
lolly built, mane hanging almost to
his knees, and tail sweeping the
ground, aud he was as white as
snow. Head up, ears pointed for-ward,
and eyes opened to their
widest extent, the wild horse stood
tor a loug in i II ii it- and looked into
the soldier's face. His nostrils di-lated,
bis tail moved this way and
that, aud the muscles iu his power-ful
ohest and legs stood out in bold
relief. The soldier's surprise aud
admiraiiou were so great that he
stood like a statue, musket on his
shoulder, and his mind almost
doubling what his eyes saw.
Suddenly, and without an in-stant's
warning, the horse sprang
forward to the attack. Catching
the sentinel by the shoulder with
his teeth, he raised him clear oil
the ground, and shook IIK.I right
aud left as if he was an empty
grain bag, and then hnrled him
agiiinst the heavy gate with terrible
force. The yell of pain and alarm
uttered by the sentinel had scarcely
died away before the relief came
harrying out. They found hi in ly-ing
in II heap beside the stockade,
iiiic.itiseiotis, and his uniform iu
tatters. There was uo enemy iu
sight- not even a wolf skulked
away through the darkness. A
general alarm was sounded, (he
drams beat to arms, and torn qaar
ter HI an hour the excitmeul was
intense, every one believing that a
large force oi Indians was oi the
poiui ft making an assault.
When the seutiuel recovered bis
senses rod related his adventure,
no oue would believe his story until
a seigeant had examined the earth
and discovered the hoof prints ol
ihe horse. It was, however, sneh
a singular adventure that no one fell
easy until uioiuing came. Then the
trail of the white horse could be
followed fax out on the prairie : and
soou after sunrise the horse himsolt
was discovered bearing down on
the fort from the direction of the
mountaiu range three miles away.
As the word went round, every man
turned out to catch sight of the
annual about which so much had
| been said. lie came forward at a
■weeping trot, head up, tail stream-ing
far behind, and his knee action
as perfect as if he had been trained
ou t.'ie course for years, ne swerved
neither to the right nor left, and
never halted until he was within
pistol shot of the crowd at the stock-ade.
The sentinel had not exag verated
in his statements. The color was
snow white, and such strength and
symmetry no one had ever before
seen in a horse. The ears were
!
I pointed, the eyes as bright as stars,
: and the sun glistened on his side as
I if it had been varnished. For two
or three minutes not a word was
spoken by any man, and the horse
did not move a foot. Then a scoat
aud hunter, who had come into the
fort about half an hour before, said
to the commander:
" Why, that's the boss known
among us and the Injuns as ' White
Devil." I've spen him tour or five
times, and Pre heard ..f him at least
once a week fur the last live years.
He's the ugliest, slyest, and most
treacherous beast standing on four
legs."
The scout related that the horse
before them came to his notice
about five years before, when the
Indians made several attempts to
capture him. He was singled out
from the drove and pursued for sev-eral
days, and in despair of secur-ing
him, one of the red men sought
to kill him, so that no one else
should secure the prize. The horse
was only wounded by the bullet
that was meant to take his life.—
He at once separated himself from
the drove and followed his former
pursuers like a shadow. He dashed
into their camps at night, attacked
their ponies when he found them
grazing, and had on several occa
Bions attacked lone Indians and
quickly killed or disabled them.
" I'll give two hundred dollars to
the man who captures that horse
for me!" said the commander, he
noted every tine point about the
majestic auimal.
'• You might just as well offer ten
thousand,'' replied the scout.—
'• That 'ere boss can pace, trot, and
gallop, and thar isu't a wolf in the
hull Sierra range which cau smell
ol his heels. I'd as quick take the
job of cleaning out all the reds in
Arizona as of catchin' the White
Devil. See that fore foot go np !
See them ears lay back .' " He'll
charge the hull crowd iu less'n a
minute!"
Iter'ore a word ol warning could
be spokeu the horse made a dash
upon the men, screaming out as a
troop horse does when badly wound-ed
in battle. The soldiers rushed
lor the gate. One ot the hinder-most
was a private named O'Meary,
scarcely up to the regulation height
and run down bj sickness until his
weight did not exceed a hundred
pounds. The White Devil seized
him by the back, lifted him oil his
feet by a toss, and when the soldiers
next looked O'Meary was being
borne away with the swiftness of
the wind. The horse had a tirm
grip of clothing and llosh, and
keeping his head well up he swept
over the prairie with the soldier
held almost perpendicularly before
him. He was ont of range before
anybody could pick up a gun.—
There were a dozeu or fifteen horses
at the post, and in five minutes as
many men had mounted them and
were galloping away in pursuit.
White Devil and his victim had
disappeared over a swell about a
mile from the fort. As the horse-men
reached the crest they found
the dead body of their companion
on the grass, bitten and stamped
and kneaded to a bloody mass. The
horse stood facing them, forty rods
away, and as if he had waited for
them to come up. As the remains
were being conveyed to the fort
several hunters came in, and in a
short time a force of twenty mount-ed
men left the gate to try aud ef-fect
the capture of the vicious ani-mal.
The men had lassoes, hobbles
ed him a mile away, and were all
ready for pursuit. Coming straight
ahead, with the grass almost smok-ing
under his feet, the wild charger
passed them not more than a hun-dred
feet away. He laid back his
eara at their yell, but went straight
ahead at his thundering pace. In
ten minutes the men could hardly
see him. A second and a third
squad were treated in same manner
and as the last one v as reached
White Devil changed his pace to a
gallop, threw up his heels, and
beaded for the range. Be was soon
out ot sight, and the chase was
abandoned.
At daylight next morning the
strange horse looked down trom the
ridge again, and by and by walked
down to within pistol shot of the
fort. A band of sixty friendly In-dians,
out on a hunt, had halted at
the fort the night previous, and
they were anxious to organize a
new chase. More than eighty well
mouuted pursuers were ready
soou after breakfast. Some rode to
cut off retreat to the range, and
others galloped down the valley.
An hour after they were out out of
sight the maiu body made a dash
for the horse, which had been graz.
ing for the last half hour. He took
to the valley as before, and men
dropped out at every mile to push
him as he returned.
White Devil was pushed faster
than before, but be would neither
break his trot nor let a horseman
get withiu a hundred feet of him.
The Iudians who had gone on ahead
were expecting him to turn to the
left, as before, but the wild horse
kept straight ahead as he reached
the mouth of the valley. He ran
out on the prairie for twenty miles,
tiring out every horse in pursuit,
and then wheeled and returned
over the route of the previous day.
Meu were waiting for him, but he
scarcely appeared before he was
out of sight. He was paciug aud
trottiug by turns, and not until he
reached the end of that eighty-mile
chase did he break into a run.
When near the fort he crossed the
ridge, shook of the last pursuer and
entered a dark canon in the moan-tains.
The Indians traced him
until the canon split into three or
four rocky defiles, and theu they
camped down with the determina-tion
to wait till hunger and thirst
should drive the fugitive out.
Darkness came, midnight came,
aud the watchers had heard noth-ing.
With the soft tread of a wolf,
almost, a foe stole upon the Indians
sleeping under the walls of the
tort. Step! step! step! and a
white object stood withiu ten feet
of the first sleeper aud peered this
way and that. It was White Devil!
The red men were still waitiug in
the dark cauon, but the horse had
emerged from the range by some
defile known aud used before.
The sentinel at the gate heaved a
shrill neigh, saw the smouldering
brands of the catnpfires flung high
in the air, and next moment the
Indians were yelling and screamiug
iu afl'iight. ll.uk and fo.th charg-ed
the horse, striking, kicking and
uttering wild neighs, and he did
not disappear until the roll of the
dram called the soldiers to arms.
The Iudians bad suffered such
damages that they were determined
to kill the strange tormentor as soon
as daylight came, though his life
had heretofore been held sacred.—
He was beard raciug up and down
while night lasted, and when inorn-
A Correct Statement:
Taken from the official records at
Washington, ot interest paid on un-taxed
"capital"' in bonds, in each
year for fifteen years :
June 30, 1861, $ ft.112.296.18
June 30, 1862 18,190,82146
June .10, 1863 24,729,84«.61
June 30,1861 63.685,421.69
June 30,1865 132,087,350.25
June 30, 1866 133,067,741.69
June 30, 1867 136,084,011.64
June 30, 1868. 140,428,045.00
June 30,1S69 130.694,241.80
Jnne 30, 1870 129,235,498.00
J one 30,1871 125.576,565.93
June 30,1872 117,357,839.72
June 30, 1873 11(1,917,5.83.27
June 30,1874 107,119,815.21
Juue 30' 1875 103,093,541.57
June 30, 1876. 100.24.V71.00
Juue 30, 1877 97,000,000.00
crease in the national wealth from I
I860 to 1870 was only a little over
H per cent—and even this was
owing to the greenback valuation
in 1870—while the taxes paid in-creased
from *150,186,000 to *676,-
o50,000-an increase of 360 per
cent. The larger portion of this
enormous increase is dne to the ne-cessity
for paying interest on the
indebtedness-incurred during the
decade: but a not inconsiderable
part must be attributed to the ex-travagance
anil waste that marked
the administration of public affairs
from 1860 to 1870, and that we are
far from having overcome at this
day.—Charlotte Observer.
Total 11,696,854,90103
Every dollar of it has been paid
on bonds that at some time circu-lated
iu the form of non interest-drawing,
labor creating, wealth
producing money in the hands of
the people, which they earned, out
of the Treasury, and which was
taxed out of their hands to be con-verted
into untaxed bonds, aud
"absorbed" by those who toil not
neither did they fight.
GOVERNMENT EXPENSES,
A correct statement, taken from
the official records at Washington,
of what, during fifteen years, the
people have paid to maintain a
government that deliberately robs
industry of its rewards asshowu iu
the table above.
June 30, 1S02 j? 570,841,700.26
June 20,1863 714,709,995 58
Juue 30,1864 865,234,087.00
June 30,1865 1,290,312,982.41
June 30,1866 1,111,072,666 09
June 30, 1867... 346,729,124.33
June 30, 1868 337,340,284.00
June 30, 1869 321,490,597.75
June30,1870 309,653,560.75
June 30,1871 292,177,188.25
June 30, 1872 270,559,695.91
June 30, 1873 262,264,21.697
June 30,1874....... . 302,633,873.76
Juue 30,1875 268,447,543.76
June 30, 1876 258,459,797.10
$7,591,617,314.76
Total to maintain
the Gov't 15 yrs.
Total to maintain
Untaxed lioud-
1 nil ill-IS Of EU
rope and Ameri-ca
15 years. $1,596,854,901.13
Grand Total Expen-ses,
$9,187,771,215.80
Aud still Sherman is busy con-verting
greenbacks into bonds, and
selling them abroad : and He, voter,
calls You a "Greenback Lunatic1'
He originated the epithuf, and
Democrats and Republicans bear
him out iu it—Three Hirers Report-er.
Our Wealth and
and ropes, and the instructions were jDg broke he was in plain sight.—
The Indian heart almost relented at
sight of the strong limbs, milk-white
coat, and silver eyes, but
White Devil dared them to the at-tack
by prancing up and dowu and
Hinging bis heels about.
Separating into squads of ten,
the red meu rode ont on the prairie.
White Devil stood still, earj Hat to
his head, lip down, and one forefoot
raised a little. When three of the
squads were within pistol shot they
halted and thirty rifles covered the
brave lone horse. While they were
thus held he gathered his feet like
a cat and dashed at the nearest
horseman. A roar of rifle* and a
volley of bullets stopped him.—
Struck by a score of balls, he halted,
reared np, shook his beautiful head
iu agony of pain, and fell and died
without a groan. The Indians
gathered annual, but they did not
exult. As they stroked his glossy
neck and and sleek sides they said
to one another :
" He was brave ! We will paint
his picture on our war shields, and
the body shall be buried from the
wolves!"
to drive the horse from the neigh
boi Imod if he could not be captured.
II Stood on the ridge and looked
down upou the band as it left the
fort. The four lasso-throwers rode
directly at him, while the rest of
the men separated and rode to cut
oil' retreat by way of the mountain.
When the first horseman was
within a hundred feet White Devil,
who had been standing like a olock
of -tone, threw up his head and
started off at a sharp trot. Ten
rods beyond the first ridge was a
si oond, with a little green valley
between. Ridges and valleys ran
sttaight away to the west for twen-ty
miles, and as the horse headed
that way one of the banters said :
'• The beast is iu for a long race,
lie v. ill go dowu to the end of this
valley, turn to the left, and before
noon he will be back here, return-ing
ou the fort side of the first
ridge. Three of us will push him
along as fast as we can to the end
ol the valley. The re.st of you drop
oat in squails here and there and
race him as he comes back. Let
three or four men halt right here
to give him a last push."
The wild horse courted pursuit.—
Halt a mile away he was racing up
and down, throwing his heels into
llie air, snorting, and pawing the
sod in his impatience to be off.—
With a whoop and a yell, three las
so throwers started in pursuit.—
They were almost near enough for
a throw when the horse headed
away at a trot. They could not
gam an inch, though they had three
of the best mustangs in the Terri-tory,
and the animals were pushed
to the top of their speed. Head
up, mane rolling back over his
shoulders like a wave of foam, and
his massive tail streaming out like
a flag, the White Devil lifted his
feet and put them down as steadily
as clockwor'i. While they weie
doing their best, they could see that
he was not using all his power.—
They kept up a continual yelling
lor the first five miles, hoping to
break his pace, but neither shouts
nor the reports of rifles lost him a
step.
In seventy minuses the White
Devil was at the end of the valley,
fresh as a daisy,while the mustangs,
half a mile behind, were reeking
and blown. He waited for them to
come up, and then turned to the
lett, struck a pace, and swept away
at such a gait that he was soou out
of sight Ten miles to the east was
the first squad of men. They sight-
That the silver dollar shall be- a
legal tender for all debts, public and
private, except where payment ot
gold coin is required by law. This
is the provision of the Silver bill
that was iutrodnced into the Sen
ate by Ingalls' of Kansas. Several
petitions lor the remoneti/ation of
silver have already made their ap
pearance in Congress. The report
of the Congressional Monetary Com-mission
which was sent to the Sen-ate
takes bold ground ou the silver
question. It argues that the " legal
right of the Government to pay its
bonds in gold or silver at its option,
is so clear that no serious denial ol
it is made -,"' and that the " attempt
to frighten the Government from
exercising its undoubted right to
pay its bonds in the cheaper metal
by proclaiming that if it does so its
honor will be tarnished and its
credit impaired at home and abroad,
is unworthy ot consideration." It
is already evident that this silver
question is to be one of the most
disturbing subjects of debate in the
present Congrtss.—A'. 1*. *'i"i.
Exquisite neatness is necessary
in the sick-room.
Clean oil clothswith milk and wa-ter;
a brash and soap will ruin
them.
Our Taxes.
The newspapers have compiled
from official sources some interest-ing
and instructive facts and fig-ures
upou this subject, from which
it appears that in the year 1870 the
total taxable wealth of the United
States was .«? 14,178,000,000, and
from this there was raised iu taxes
these several amounts of revenue ■
For national purposes, $395,000;
for State purposes, $68,051,100; for
army purposes, $77,745,000; for
town and city purposes, $134,794,-
000, total, $676,550,000. This is
1.7 per cent on the assessed valua-tion
of the total wealth of the coun-try.
In estimating our tax rates
we are accustomed to take into the
accouut only the direct taxes we
pay to the local collector. Stale,
county, city aud school taxes. The
Federal Gevern nl raises its rev-enue
iu an indirect way by a tarifl
on imports and excise ou spirits,
tobacco, beet and other subjects—
in other words, by a tax on con-sumption
which the consumer pays
without perceiving it. Hut it is an
egregious mistake to suppose that
we pay uo national taxes because
we do not directly perceive them,
or that they are an inconsiderable
portion of the general burden. The
figures teach a different lesson. In
1870 the people paid in national
taxes $395,599,000; in 1871, 6374,
431,900; iu 1872, $364,694,000; iu
1873, ¥322,176.000; In 1874, $399,
041.0(H); in 1375, *I\S:;.N20.000 ; in
1876, §283,758,000 ; in 1877, $269,-
000,000. There was uoi a year
from 1861 to 1876 inclusive which
did not exceed the aggreg ite reve-one
paid to the States, counties,
cities aud schools ; aud as all taxes
come out of the pockets of the peo-ple,
the nationsl revenues, though
indirectly derived, are as much a
tax on the people as State and coun-ty
taxes are.
' The amount of taxes paid in the
year 1870, $076,550,0110, is startling.
It was, as we have stated, 4.7 per
cent, on the assessed wealth ol the
country, aud was more, perhaps,
thau tiie increase of the national
wealth for that year. The annual
iocreasement of wealth in the L'r.it
ed States has been estimated rit4
to 4i per cent. In prosperous
times, when all the energies of the
countrv are at work, it is more than
Very Civil Service.
Attorney General Devens' letter
to the Roston politicians is a docu-ment
without which it will be im-possible
to write the history of the
way in which a President with
good intentions has been bulbed
into the admission that he never
had any intentions, or, if he had,
that they were very little ones.
Civil service reform started under
this administration with its mean-ing
defined by the phrase about
"disestablishing the machine"—a
good phrase, which prevented, hap-pily,
the great evil that the reform
was intended to remedy. Ry the
present system of office-holding the
professional politicians have be-come,
in this country, a caste
apart from the people—a kind of
bogus aristocrecy, with exclusive
privileges, rights and powers.
Their dominancy is maintained by
the offices they hold and the pat-ronage
they control, so that ,the
people, iu the taxes they pay, sup
port and keep alive the power that
defeats in party caucuses the pre-tence
of the law that the will of the
people declared at the polls is sov-ereign.
It was a good move in
civil strategy to strike at the exis
tence of this power by cutting off
its supplies, for if absolute separa-tion
is ever secured between office-holding
and the trade of politics
Ihis trade will perish aud the nower
of the people at the polls will be
again as real in fact as it is presum-ed
to be in theory Rut this sepa-tiou
will n il be made by President
Hayes, for the simple reason that
he hi's not the kind,of backbone
that is necessary for such a pur-pose.
General Devens' letter is a
formal surrender "for the sake of
the party."—A". Y. Herald.
'Legal Tender," By Senator
Jones.
Senator Jones a day or two sinie
introduced a bill into the Senate
for coinage of a new silver dollar.
I In- bill is important in every re-spect.
It runs thus :
7o authorize the coinage of a dol-lar
of 412$ grains standard silver,
rn&for other purposes.
Be it enacted, etc, That as soou as
practicable after the passage of this
act, there shall be, from time to
time, coined at mints of the I'uited
Si ales, comfortably iu all respects
to law, a silver dollar, the standard
weight of which shall be 412i grains
troy, and any owner of silver bul-lion
may depusit the same at any
coinage mint, or at the assay office
in New York, to be coined . into
dollars lor his benefit, upou the
same terms and conditions as gold
bullion is deposited for coinage un-der
existing law : aud
lie il tuithir enacted, That said
com shall be a legal tender as its
nominal value lor all sums, for all
payments ol debts, both public and
private, excepting such as under
existing contracts are expressed
thereinto be otherwise payable;
and
lie it further enacted, That uo
charge shall be made lor coining
standard silver bullion iuto dollars
authorized by this act.
The dollar referred to and defined
is that of 1792 aud 1837, and the
bill makes the minting and coinage
lice of mint charge. To-day we
have the following descriptions of
legal tenders : The gold dollar, for
all debts whatsoever : the Treasury
note dollar, for all debts excepting
certain national bonds, the interest
thereon, duties on imports and pri-vate
contracts '-in specie ;" the si!
vi i coins, lor any sum net over $5,
and certain minor coins, for any
sum not over 25 cents. The pro-posed
bill adds another description
ol legal lender.
A Woman's Letter.
BY NI1.MK N01.TING
My letter s late by one day,
But truth in, Jenny dear,
Ned Grayson came on Bandar-
It -eems he', always here.
He and yonng Fred Maekenize—
They atayed three blaaaed hours,
And ma was in a frenzy—
He bronght some lovely dowers.
I meant to tell yon, Jenny,
The news and everything,
But I rind there isn't any—
Oh! nsxt week Ned's to sing
With the Morart Club at Irving :
I'll manage, dear, to go,
The fates and weather serving—
I don't want urn to know!
Jen, lovers are a nuisance!
George brought the ring last night,
A solitaire, hs,s Susan's ;
It gave me snch a fright!
I cried, and wouldn't wear it:
How, underneath the sun,
Do girls contrive to bear it—
This narrowiug dowu to one t
Poor George, tho foolish fellow,
Begsn to storm aud fling, *
Aud turu quite green and yellow—
I hate that sort ef thing.
Now, Ned is always quiet ;
I think his cool gray eye.
Would still an Irish riot.
Or make a regiment By.
But what's so very fuuuy
About him—Ned, I mean-
He hasn't any money ;
I heard from Clarence Oreen.
Just how he's situated— .
Keeps hooks for Webb 4 Ware.
Ah, well—those things are fated !
George owns a million, square.
Yes, dear, Kate turns the corners,
Rough hew them as we may!
We can't go clad like mourners,
Or weep the livelong day.
But,oh! don't breathe it, Jenny!
I'd marry Ned, you see,
Without oue single penny,
If only hs loved me!
Ah, well—well—w.ll—that's folly,
Hut sometimes, Jen, I've thought,
too, seemed melaucholy ;
Quick glances that I've caught
Looked full of speechless sadness—
There goes a Billy tear
To blot the page—what madness !
Good-bye, pot, George is here.
We diue at Ella Johnson's ;
I*. S.—I must decide—
He won't stand too much noMSenaa-
Tbe crepo comes liill yard wide.
Don't get i--(. bull; it faleaao;
Have train, and spilt-up aacqiu-,
For organdies are made so.
My heart aches: Love to Jack.
lie
Free Trade.
Here is a very good argument in
favor ot free trade.drawn from prac-tical
-esults:
1 1846. the last year iu which
Grenl Britain had a protective tar-iil.
the population of the United
Kingdom was 28,000,000; her im-ports,
$380,000,000; her domestic
exports of foreign and colonial pro-pi
iducts «S0,00O,i'O0, making the
iigg:egateot her trade $1,120,000,000
In 1876, after thirty years of com-mercial
freedom, the figures were:
Population, 33,000,000; imports,
$1,875,000,000; exports, domestic.
1,000,000,000; exports, foreign aud
colonial, $280,000,000; total trade,
this; but in times like the present $3,155,000,000. Thus while the
wheu so large a number of labours
are idle, it is less. If4J per cent.
be a fair average, there was taken
from the people in 1870. in taxes,
au amount gteater than the avei
age annual increase ot wealth; in
other words, the country paid for
government all its net earnings.and
something more besides—a process
which, if protracted, cannot fail to
bring on disaster.
In 1860 the national taxes paid
were $35,000,000, and the State.
county, city, and town taxes were
$94,185,000; total, $150486,000.
As tho assessed wealth of the coun-try
at that time was $12,084,000,-
000, the taxes were a little over 1
per cent, on the wealth. The in-popuialiou
increased less thau eigh-teen
pel cent., the trade of the
nation was nearly trebled. Iu
other words, trade increased fifteen
times as rapidly as the population
ol the Kingdom. The Detroit Free
Pren thinks that there is something
suggestive to American protection-ists
iu these figures. There is no
reason why commercial freedom
should not work as well for the
United States as it has for Great
Rritain. ^^^
Re kind.
Do not scold.
Do not throw your cabbage water
down the kitchen sink.
Useful Hints.
Tea.—Keep tea in a close chest
or canister.
Bread.—Keep bread or cake in a
tin box or stone jar.
Nutmegs.—Always grate nut- ,
megs at the blossom end first.
Coffee—Keep coffee by itself, as !
its odor affects other articles.
Red Ants.—Scatter branches of
sweet-fern where they congregate. |
Stain on Spoons.—From boiled '
egg is removed by rubbing with a
little salt.
Cranberries.— Cranberries will
keep all Winter in a firkin of water
in a cellar.
To Preserve Milk.—A spoonful of;
grated horse-radish will keep a pan :
of milk sweet for days.
Oranges.—Oranges and lemons
keep best wrapped in soft paper,
and, if possible, laid in a drawer.
Corks.—When corks are too large I
to go into a bottle, throw them into
hot water a few moments, and they j
will soften.
Charred Cask*.—Water and salt
meat may be preserved pure a loug
lime if put np in casks with tho in-side
charred.
Polishing.—Flour of emery, which
is cheap aud is kept at all drug
stores, is excellent for polishing
everything except silver. Keep it
iu an old pepper box.
Silrer Polish—To one quart rain
water add two ounces ammonia and
three ouuees ol precipitated chalk.
Put iuto a bottle, keep well corked,
aud shake before using.
Cement for China.—The white of
two eggs, and enotjgh quicklime
to form a thick past*. The quick-lime
should be finely powdered;
this makes a good cement for mend-ing
brokeu china, marble, or glass-ware.
To Clean Mirer.—" Indexical
Soap" is the best thing for tho pur-pose
in use, not for evory day, but
when thorough cleaning is required.
It is well, also, to keep it in a con-venient
dish, and rub ou with a
bit of fiaunel whenever a spot ap-pears
on the silver.
To Clean Brass Kettle.—When
much discolored, scour with soap
and ashes, then put in a half pint
vinegar and a handful of salt, put
ou stove, lei come to a. boll, take
cloth, wash thorough! /, and rinse
out with water. If using every-day,
the salt aud viuegiar and rins-ing
are sufficient.
If the U. S. Senate \a wise it will
take immediate actio'i on the two
bills introduced by (Senator Reck,
of Kentucky—tbe OUH proposing to
remove all political disabilities im-posed
by the fourteenth amendment
and the other repealing tbe act ol
1862 which enactod the iron-clad
oath. If to either oue or the other
of these two bills an amendment
could be made aliolishing the pri-vate
detective service of the Gov-ernment,
these relics of the war
could be got rid. of without offend-ing
either section cf the country,
but, on the otljer band, their repeal
will tend to \ripe out memories in
ill accord with tbe spirit of the
times. "Let us have ]ieace."—For
ney's Washington Chronicle.
FARMER'S COLUMN.
About Limes
We have received inquiries as to
which is the best lime for the crops
of the country.
Undoubtedly for tho wheat crop,
grasses, etc., lime procured from
magne8ian lime rock is the best, as
analysis show that wheat contains
12 per cent, of magnesia; while for
root crops the shell lime is the best.
For leguminous plants, such as
beans, peas, clover, and the like,
bone aud phosphates are highly
useful, as those crops, as well as
wheat, contain a considerable quan-tity
of phosphates.
In fact, phosphates in the soil are
essential to all luxuriant growth,
except, perhaps, the pine trees. *
Cotton and seed, particularly the
latter, contain a large percentage,
over 12 per cent, of magnesia, as
well as phosphatic ingredients,
hence, it is evident that this sub-stance
(Kpsom salts) should be ap-plied
liberally to worn lands, whem
that element has been largely ex-hausted
from the soil by continuous
cropping.
From these facts, farmers and
planters may take useful hints in
their operations. They can scarce-ly
get too ranch magnesia, phos-phatic
matter or alkalies—lime and
ashes, into their soils —Home Jour- •
IKll.
Stumbling Horses.
The best horse indeed may stum
ble. If it arises from a heavy fore
hand, and fore legs being too much"
under the horse, or being too «ar.
row iu the breast, no oue can altar
the natural shape of the animal.
A young, overgrown auimal, and
one of spirit, if not properly broken
m, will commonly stumble. If it
arises from tender-fa otedness knock-kneedness,
or feet turned in or out, '
you will find it a difficult matter to
remedy. A tight rein is a caution
that should not be omitted. In
purchasing u hone, if he has scars,
or the hair be broken on the legs,
and if he springs out when he stum-bles
as it be feared a whip or spur,
you may beware of a stumbling
jade and p rpetual faller. A big
horse is usually a stuinbler. In
the majority of cases tripping is
found fo be practiced by young
overgrown horses before they have
arrived at maturity. A known
stumbler should never be ridden,
but should be put to slow. In-work.
Blood Will Tell.
At the late convention ol Short-horn
breeders in Kansas. Mr. .lohn
Moler, of Anderson County, iuthat
State, in an address dwelt upon the
value ol grades, and their advanta-ges
over common stock. Be gave
the following instance of his own
experience:
"Last winter be stall fed forty
head oi three year old steers, rinr
ty ot them were half Durham, or
what we call grades. j,,,„, them
were good oommou steers oi native
siock, aud of a good average quali-ty.
They were all fed on the same
and together, ami land exactly-alike,
lie commenced feeding in
November, and before feeding had
all weighed separately. And again
after feeding was over, and cattle
ready for maiket, had all weighed
separately. The native steers gam
ed on an average 290 pounds to the
head, during the feeding. Tho
grades gained to the head, an aver
age of 496 pounds, which satisfied
him that blood will tell.
Sheep
The cheapest and best insurance
against dogs killing sheep are bells
—plenty of hells. The si p dog
is a great coward when in the pur-suit
of mischief, and he wants to do
it quietly—wants no noise;—no
alarm. Hells bought at wholesale
do not cost much. Boy a side of
bridle leather at the carrier's, for
collars, and put a bell on every
sheep, if your flock is small. The
price of one sheep will buy a gross
of bells and leather enough and
buckles to strap them. I'm this
gross of bells on a Hock ol sheep
and they,will frighten every dog
out cf the Qeld. Flock masters are
slow to adopt a simple ami cheap
remedy like tins, but will go to the
Legislature, hire lobby influence,
and spend large sums of money to
little purposes. Members ol the
Legislature are foud of dogs them-selvis,
and do Dot want them taxed.
They own no sheep and care but
little about their protection.—fioutk
cm Ft ruicr.
Camphor as a Remedy for
Capes.
We have rather discredited the
idea of any cures for this disease
being effected by the use of this
remedy, but so many ascribe tin-freedom
of their chicks from the
gapes to its use, that we have tak-en
a little pains to examine iuto the
theory ot tbe cure, ami most con-fess
that there seems to be some
rea ion for their fa tl .
The camphor acts upon the
tforuis by vapor the • ■
halation oi carbolic acid fumes, ami
being a very strong vern
kills the worms. It is usual to
give toe remedy In pills aboni
size of an ordinary pea, and-'also
dilated ia the water they driuk.
The chick will smell of the camphor
for a loug time alter taking it, and
the fumes cannot fail to penetrate
the wind pipe and longs. -Poultry
Bulletin. __________
Mule Breeding.—Iu Africa lemale
mules were nearly prolific as ma
according to tbe statement ol Col-umell
This same aaaerti in I
pasted by I lato. Aeeordiug b
ell, such cases now occur in Spain
aud Italy, and much more ncquent-lv
in the Wesl Indies and Holland;
but these mules, our author ob-serves,
never breed in cold climates,
seldom in warm regions, and still
more rarely in temperate climates.
The wheat crop this year
much greater than ever before.
It is not well-bred to lean the
arm or rest the elbow upou the
table while aeting.