The Greensboro patriot [January 18, 1889]

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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT.
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GREENSBORO, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1889.
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rs
",-:- "- »«"W the work, and she can take no
it pl< l»ur< to publish step backwards.
! 'he message, but mm OrerJ.
one without a Com- Ti c. . <- J •
surrender of all our space. I lie State Guard is composed
|i n'nts are comprehen-
, lirly presentee':
Plate ■•'iuanrr-..
iti mal fund f ir the fiscal
i ; 8 :. $18,323.45; rlis-
! $11,107.1 7-
of four regiments, one battalion of
colored troops, one company of
cavalry, and the general staff.
numbering as follows: First Regi-ment.
374; Second Regiment
290; I hird Regiment, 336; Fourth
Regiment. 29S; one battalion of
■ if thirty cents on every
illars' worth 'if
ty is add' taxes
table by shcril
panics at monthly parades.
34 men; increase during the year.
237 men.
During this administration we
have had two encampments, one
lules B andC, $30,000; taxes lat Asheville in 1886, and hercto-
I by sheriffs on incomes fore reported to the Legislature.
r schedules I! and (..;;.,„| ,|„. n,|UT on Wrightsvillc
revenue.from all other Sound, near Wilmington, in lulv
$40.0CO. and we have |ast. No onc coll,(| have vis
J
jtcj
nice at .lose of theseencampmentswithoutreach-
■09.-1 ing the conclusion that they are
- :: I • :
absolutely necessary to the effici-
•'!<-': $6.-jcncy. ifiiot the existence of the
, 'Guard. All the States have felt
treasurer this, and
1 ncur 111 the til it, without
meet the cxp nditures ].n ,,..._ navr
next two years, it will be
the railroads
and to the people.
I would recommend:
FIRST—That you seek to pre-vent
discrimination between in-dividuals.
SKCOND—To secure reasonable
rates.
THIRD—To prevent discrimina-tions
between localities, so that
the charge for a short haul will
not be greater than for a longer
one which includes the shorter.
FOURTH—To prevent rebates
and draw-backs, which are but
covers for improper discrimina-tion.
FIFTH—To prevent pooling or
combinations with other roads.
SIXTH—To give publicity to all
rates.
ry to levy a tax '.f thirtj
the ■ me hundred
;•'"■• rin's has been
ry by 1 e i-iss .,1"
.' decis-
'ourt, believed
tat . that
til ' mal, and
1 tax in 18X7 to
' - on the • nc hundred
vain f proi erty; from
in '' ic rev-icen
rcdu
1 *!■ Pen*.mil ■ ■ .
hence all the States,
exception, so far as I
provided for annual
encampm nts and made most
liberal aj propriations to that end.
Without appropriations 011 the
pai t ofthe State, the last encamp-ni.
nt has been held. I therefore
beg to renew my recommendation
made to the last Legislature, that
th sum of $5,000 be appropriated
annually to bring these men to-gether
for drill, discipline and re-creation,
and to learn the duties
of camp life. The State already
owes them much, and in these
lays of strikes, lawlessness and
race troubles, the value of such a
penitentiary can be made Guard cannot be overestimated
ming by good manage- Let us, then, give them this evi-ml,
I v. uld
prison utiilding be
ted .1 is<: the nci ded - hops
■.tore room ; be ere, ted; the
y macliim 1 y, stock and
.imply pro\ led I r, and
- iinmc'liati : lishment of
ustrics as may be thou [lit
«ary. The Ai hitect and
itly advises tliis,
I I concur with him, so that
in.iv i; ivc con itant employ.
.: for so large a force. This
I reduce the rate '.f taxation
cents "ii the onc hundred
•51 nts
Iglll ultlTal I i.lli^-. Iluil.lliij;.
I 1888 v.. irk was
• main or Agri-
Hii
nitcntiary lias
rp ise, -o far.
H hich, ex 1 ] IT .1 few
' 1 lilcl ,x-.: .1:1-
in the main
II is thought that this
ted by the
in mer, s< 1 as ;•> open its
: stu-
Is this instit utii in is in-ol
all class-is
to make
11 IVI ■ or, if not free.
1 to be within the
pooi ■■■ c lass 11I farm-
Hut the law, as
1 s to each COUI1-
fi :e scholars as such
utal ives in the j
'-• gislatnrc.
free tuition
1- rill attend for <ev-
■
In- . .:.....-.
are i:i fine
I managed,
; a gran rk for hu-mce
of our appreciation, and
they will repay the expense in
time to come an hundred fold.
We are greatly indebted to the
railroads for the very generous
abatements in rates of fare, which
alone made it possible to hold the
encampment.
KvbllC School*.
The Superintendent of Public
Instruction in his current report
has the following language: "The
great difficulty in making the
schools satisfactory is found in
the fact that the necessarily short
term, with the amount of money
11 iw supplied, cannot command
experienced teachers." * » »
The average length ofthe schools
if in the Stitc is sixty-three days
per annum, about three days more
than i:i 1887; amount of money
spent in 1888, including special
graded school taxes, about $700,-
000, a very small increase, but
this could not be expected under
the present laws; number of chil-dren
5S0.S10. whites 363.983 and
colored r'6,837; average atten-dance
about 35 percent.; enroll-ment
58 per cent.
Public Hoadn.
Progress marks everything in
North Carolina except our high.
ways. They are little or no bet-ter,
upon the whole, than they
were one hundred years ago. The
system is a faiiure, yet there has
been no amendment. For several
months in the winter season all
These should form the main
purposes of legislation—and form
the great objects of the bill as
amended and adopted by Con-gress.
This being the law, then,
to regulate all inter-State com-merce,
it is desirable, as far as
practicable, that it should obtain
in the States, so that there may
be uniformity and harmony be-tween
the United States and the
several States.
I would also recommend a Com-mission
of three wise, patriotic
and unprejudiced men, with sal-aries
sufficient to render them in-dependent,
and enable them to
give their whole time to the work.
It is exceedingly difficult to so
frame a bill as to meet every case
without unduly interfering with,
if not crippling, the railroads. I
would, therefore, recommend that
power be given to the Commis-sion
to consider and adjust all
questions of freight and fares, as
well as controverted questions
which may arise between the dif-ferent
railroads themselves or be-tween
the railroads and the cit-izens.
This whole question is yet
within the domain of experiment
—the law is very unsettled and
imperfect, and such power given
to the Commission, with proper
restrictions, would, I apprehend,
by actual experience, gradually
work out a just, impartial and
beneficent law This Commission
should be selected with great
care; they should be men of first-
.ate intelligence, practical knowl-edge,
incorruptible integrity and
judicial fairness.
■
an •
»hich the
trade and traffic is suspended on
account ofthe deep and miry con-dition
of the roads, and even in
the best ol weather transporta-tion
is attended with much diffi-culty
and expense. These roads,
as they exist today, are in the
way ol progress, check immigra-te
ai, detract from the value ofthe
v pro- lands, and diminish to a great
two degree the value and quantity of
-two, and the products of the soil. There
is ol the must be a change, and a radical
sylum change. Your honorable bodies
here are composed of a majority of
K ; 'i Ins me
tie 1 unities, p ior
in aid district
persons
■ I h.i lical treat-an
I nursing
n I in a ■ ;.-
I to that I dependent; there is nothin
• i!i ons arc
ty, and in in frequent
in •.
;• ■ -: ..-.
i . 17 the State
: red and attempted
. itions she
. and destitute
rcn. 1 . menti ned,
cd, are whol-
Bv the acts and
SS; and 18S7, the
■
those who till the soil, and know
by actual experience the value of
good roads to the larmcr. I ap-peal
to you to take the initiative
i:i this great work. There is noth-inii
upon which the country is so
which
is more emphatically demanded
by the people. If nothing else is
done, this will fully pay, in the
eyes o! the people, all the expen-ses
of the legislature. Resort to
taxation as far as may be neces-sary;
make those who can't pay
taxes work them out on the roads;
press into service the convicts;
adopt one. two, or all of these
plans. If not prepared to use con-victs,
use taxation and labor, and
to such an extent as to force the
This whole question in relation
to railroads is one of high import-ance.
The railroads are persons
under the law; they are the foun-dation
of all progress and wealth
of the State; cripple them and you
cripp'c the State; take care of
them and you build up the State.
Let your whole action be calmly,
slowly, but wisely considered, and
I doubt not that action will result
in a fair, wholesome and just law
for the citizen and the railroad.
Afrlc«'tl «| KUIla*.
Owing to recent legislation, the
resources of this institution, to-gether
with those of the remain-der
of the Department of Agri-culture,
were seriously curtailed.
An act of Congress, known as
the Hatch act. for the purpose of
inaugurating and aiding in the
establishment of agricultural ex-periment
stations in the various
States and Territories, was passed
by the general government.
This appropriation ($1 j,O0O be-ing
our share of it) caused the ex-periment
station to enlarge its
operations, and to begin work not
heretofore attempt ""d. A short
time was lost on account of the
delay in securing the proper
workers for the various branches
of the Station—but with the pre-parations
already commenced,
and with the equipments already
on hand, the Station expects to
commence investigations, and do
work of such a na.ure as will
prove of lasting benefit to our
people, and, too, since the funds
for this work are supplied by the
United States, without cost to the
Slate. The work of the Experi-ment
Station in the past, in an-alysis
and publication of fertilizer
analysis, has proven of incalcul-able
value in the sale of commer-cial
fertilizers, and ofthe adulter-ation
of other fertilizing ingredi-ents.
Facilities have been ar-ranged
by which these fertilizer
analyses can be completed and
published much earlier than here-tofore,
so that the farmers can
use these analyses in the purchase
of their spring goods.
Oyalcr U -owing.
The survey of the oyster beds,
and the investigation of the wa-ters
of the State with reference to
oyster culture, authorised by the
General Assembly, has been
prosecuted by the Board of Agri-culture,
in connection with the
United States Coast and Geodetic
Survey, and the work is now
ter have been made, and a large
amount of other valuable informa-tion
in relation to the physical
characteristic ofthe waters ofthe
State has been secured. Maps of
large scale, covering the area
comprised in Pamlico Sound and
its tributaries. Core Sound, Bogue
Sound and the White Oak and
New Rivers and tributaries, have
been constructed.
The expenditures for the fiscal
year ending November 30. 1888.
have been $710.46. The entire
cost of the survey, from October,
1885, to November 30th, 1888, a
period of over, three years, has
been but $4,037.55. In accom-plishing
results of less importance,
though of similar character, the
State of New York has expended
nearly $30,000, and the State of
Connecticut nearly $70,000.
STATE AUDITORS REPORT.
[Kaleich Cor wpoDdeoco Richmond Diapa'eh.)
Your correspondent has made
a specialty of preparing synopses
of the reports of the various State
departments, and obtains some
very interesting facts from the
repot t of Gen. W. P. Roberts,
State Auditor. The report is for
two years ending November 30th
last. The Auditor calls attention
to the fact that there was in the
Treasury at that date only $73,-
022, whereas at the close ofthe
two previous years, 1886 and 1S87,
the balances were $195,550 and
$l6,.734 respectively. The re-ceipts
have fallen off considerably
during the year, principally on
account ofthe drummers' license
tax, which in 18G6 was $81,300,
in 1887 was $35,275, and for l8£3
was only $<JCD. The collection of
this tax has not been enforced,
because a case to test its consti-tutionality
is now before the Uni-ted
States Supreme Court. The
revenue on account of this tax
has fallen off over $80,000. The
receipts during the year were
$710,000, against $847,oc i for
1S87. The legit-mate disburse-ments
have been $40,000 less than
iC36, which, like this, was an "off
year.'' This is a particularly good
showing, when the cost of im-provements
to public buildings
is considered, and also the $16,-
000 expended for apparatus for
heating the Capitol.
MOH* B. TTTirnir. -rni II p , 1 «„,
« TBMB tl.Se Par Tm.la Ad
foreigners without means, v.
would work for wages. On the
contrary, the constant aim is to
«Sh « m0,t u°,ely lor P*™""* with means, who will bring capi-al
with them. The success "of
the plan shows that the State can
induce such people to settle with-in
her borders as will bring in-creased
prosperity to all. An-other
important object of the de-partment
is to prevent emigra-
T.u If
c
thePr°P« appreciation
of the State by its natives is ef-fected
by making known to the
world its advantages as a home,
the most fruitful cause of restless
desire to move away and trv other
communities is done away with
A few years ago car loads of peo-ple
could be seen leaving central
points in the State for the West
and Northwest and Texas, where-as
now the removal of a family
causes comment in the press, and
is deprecated as far as public sen-timent
is concerned. This is
worth a great deal to the S'ate.
There are two classes of State
pensioners, of the first of whom
there are only thirty-four, receiv-ing
$120 a year for total disabili-ty
under a special law, the latter
only $3.25 each, under a general
law. There are of this class 1,033
soldiers and 2,626 widows of de-ceased
soldiers. Besides these
there are filed 640 other claims,
making the aggregate number of
this class 4,352. The amount
paid each is a mere bagatelle.
The S ate, the Auditor assess,
should provide more liberally for
the maimed soldiers, who have
suffered in pain, poverty and
silence for nearly a quarter of a
century from the effects of the
hardships of four years in her ser-vice.
The compensation for re-lief
should be in proportion to:he
injury, and for the loss of an arm
or a leg the allowance should be
$50 a year, and for lesser injuries
in proportion. Other disabilities
equal to such injuries should be
rated in like manner, and the in-digent
widows of deceased sol-diers
should be liberally provided
for. It is recommended that the
annual allowance be paid in
monthly instalments through the
clerks of the Superior Courts.
This would save a great deal of
trouble, and put the money more
expeditiously in the pensioners'
hands.
w. apon ipriated
class ol sol- accomplishment ofthe work.
f deceased sol- lulled CssasUsstoa.
tation that each The people demand it; and their
n Ceive the sum of Si nators and Representatives have
been selected to this end. Lvery
Idicrs drawing State in the Union, except ten,
S3; the number of to-wit: Delaware, Florida, Lou-
! pensions is 2,- isiana, Maryland, Nevada, Ore- obtained are both important and
>8; allowance lor gon, Tennessee, Texas, West I gratifying. An area of over I,-
iw, $8.25; Virginia and North Carolina, have i 000,000 acres has been examined,
rs i. Id
n mber of wid- acted laws to regulate the carry*
yet allowed, ing trade of tiie railroads in the
number re- borders of the different States; I oysters. The natural oyster beds
• receiving pen- and the United States, by an act! of Painlico, Core and Bogue
claims should of Congress, has undertaken to Sounds and their tributaries, and
As to this matter the Auditor
says the latest returns received at
his department show the aggre-gate
value of real and personal
property to be $2i2,ooo,coo. It
would seem that a levy of some-thing
like thirty cents on the
$100 worth of property will be re-quired
for all legitimate purposes,
provided there is no very con'id-erable
increase in the aggregate
e.-.-penduures over those for the
two previous years. He sees no
reason why the State should col-lect
from its citizens larger sums
of money than the condition of
the treasury would require, but
certainly the treasury should be
provided against any embarrass-ment
resulting from '-he diminu-tion
of revenue from the drum-mers'
license tan or from other
causes.
The Auditor, who retires after
eight years' service, will recom-mend
in this his last report that
the dignity of the office be recog-ized
by making the salary equal
to that of the other heads of de-partments,
as the labor is great
and is yearly increasing.
The State has been judiciously
advertised North, and the work
of the department through its
branches there has been practical.
The Commissioner says the sys-tem
is the best yet devised, and
that no State covering so much
territory and with the same ex-penditure
of money has during
the past two years succeeded in
locating one fourth as many de-sirable
settlers as North Carolina.
The effort to make the State a
winter resort is a success. The
Commissioner calculates that a
million dollars will be spent by
Northern and Western people this
winter in the State. For the past
two months special efforts to at-tract
health-seekers have been
made. All the names of visitors
to Florida were secured and
pamphlets were sent each of
these, and also to every physician
in the Northern and New England
States. This is a new form of en-terprise.
Several points have
been developed solely as winter
resorts. He says that nothing
can better illustrate the effects of
judicious advertising of meritori-ous
advantages than the pros-perity
of Western North Carolina.
The eastern flanks of the moun-tains
and the great Piedmont belt
can be made equally popular.
Canning factories are being, by
the special efforts of this depart-ment,
rapidly established. The
movement is successful, the busi-ness
profitable without an excep-tion.
There is an immediate de-mand
for all the product. There
are twenty factories.
There were started in this State
in IS83 no less than forty-one
cotton factories, eight more than
in any other Southern State. This
is an accurate statement and is
wonderful.
As to silk growing North Caro-lina
is also in the lead. In six
months the factory at Wadcsboro
has Ween enlarged three times,
and its capacity will be doubled
during the next sixty days and
the annual expenditure for wages
will be $50,000.
The interest awakened in min-eral
lands shows that the depart-ment
has n,ot neglected this
branch of its work. There is
more activity than ever before.
The question will soon be*solved
as to whether the vast placer gold
bearing belt of Montgomery, An-son.
Union and adjoining coun-ties
will pay to work on an ex-tensive
scale.
nearly completed. The results
excellent report, very practical.
He says he believes it to be the
sentiment of the people of the
and not appointed commissioners and en- and of this territory 583,000 acres I State to offer inducements only to
are reported as being suitable for j a class of experienced, honorable,
either growing or cultivating and moral people, of whom some-thing
could be learned before
they become citizens of the State.
With this view the department
m, J3it«on'i Day,
Seventy-four years ago (Janua-ry
8th.) was fought the memora-ble
fight at New Orleans, with
which is justly and inseparably
associated the name of Andrew
Jackson.
It was a contest that not only
shed brilliant lustre upon Amer-ican
arms and effectively dispel-led
any dream Great Britiap may
have eve had of gaining a foot-hold
at the gateway of the Mis-sissippi,
but aided materially not
many years afterwards in promo-ting
the political aspirations of
Gen. Jackson, and thus indirectly
contributed to his future canoni-zation
as a Democratic saint.
He was as brave and honest
and obstinate in politics as in
battle.
He was for eight years at the
head of a Democratic administra-tion,
though the principles and
policies of which he was the ex-ponent
have since been somewhat
battered out of shap_. But time
has wrought many changes all
around since the days of the
younger Adams and Jackson,
Van Buren and John Tyler, and
we measure men by the services
which they rendered their coun-try
rather than by our own sue-]
cess in emulating their virtues.
The name of Jackson is one
Commissioner Patrick makes an j that no party can monopolize as
its own. It is a common posses-sion.
The Invalid'. World.
(A. B. Waid it Jaioaiy Stribnar.i
The parsimony ofthe three pro-fessions—
law, theology and med-
"**-!? L
selling justice, heaven
and health, is something to be re-gretted,
and is often resented.
But until the State takes sufficient
interest in her children to endow
these professions, I fear we shall
have to strike a bargain for the
care of our souls and of our bodies.
It may be that living about in
hospitals has given me an oppor-tunity
to sec another side from
that which you see, you who paid
some hundreds of dollars for a
consu'tation and sank half your
fortune in an apothecary's shop-but
so much generosity has come
to my knowledge, unostentatious
giving of skill, time, and money,
on the part of these "grasping"
gentleman, that—I can not agree
with you. And they are so ma-terialistic
! Granted; but so far
as my experience of them goes,
blood and bones and flesh are de-cidedly
materialistic substances,
and I don't care to have mine
treated spiritually. If I had, I
should have gone in for faith cure,
or summoned the ghost of my
great-grandfather—an eminently
respectable physician in his day—
to write one of his yard-long pre-scriptions
for me. How it would
puzzle the "physician's cooke" as
a lisle of that time terms apothe-cary
! Just ask your doctor to
give you a scientific diagnosis of
your case. The high-sounding,
mouth-filling titles will increase
immeasurably your respect for
your own viscera, notably if there
is nothing but a rascally litt'c
biliousness to blame, and he calls
it His Excellency Gastro-duoden-tal
Catar.-h. So far from corpor-eal
substance being degraded, it
is dignified by pioper nomencla-ture
and plain explanations. Ig-norance,
superstition, distorted
ideas run more risk of material-ism
than science can. As to the
tax of irreverence, bless your
heart, you must be a transient!
no chronic would pass so super-ficial
a judgment. The absurdi-ties
and the nonsense with which
acute sufferers and those continu-ally
in the presence of acute suf-fering
fortify themselves and each
other is well known to the ex-perienced.
It is a sort of harm-less
heat-lightning, a lctting-off
of the accumulation of nervous
excitement. The flippant, frivo-lous
talk between surgeon and
assistants over an etherized pa-tient
would startle and shock the
sympathetic friends, to whom the
scene is full of solemnity and
pathos. But these brave fellows
are feeling their way over im-measurable
dangers, by slender
paths where none but science can
walk, with the infinite pains which
science is willing to take, buoy-ing
up each other's spirits with
fun and jest.
The doctor who could not laugh
and make me laugh I should put
down for a half-educated man. It
is onc ofthe duties of the profes-sion
to hunt for the material of a
joke on every corner. Most of
them have so esteemed it. Garth,
Rabela-'s, Abernethy, and a hun-dred
or so more too near to be
named—what genial, liver-shak-ing,
heart-quickening, wit-waking
worthies they were and are! To
the son who loves her best, na-ture
reveals most her tricks of
workmanship. He knows thore
is a prize in every package ofcom-monplace
and sadness, and he
can find it—not only the bit of
I'un shining to the eye of a con-noisseur
like an unset jewel, but
the eccentricity, the resemblance,
the revelation, countleu* signs and
tokens of the evanescent, amus-ing,
pathetic creature we call the
human.
reverent.' The deepest compas-sion
for human ails, the broadest
generosity to human needs, the
highest respect for all that is
strong and pure and holy in hu-man
lives, I have seen in the men
cient quackery is not more than
fulfilled by the cunning craft
which detects and deals with the
subtilest disease ? As fast as ex-perience
finds the need, ingenuity
plans the instrument. It puts a
cushioned rest under every wound-ed
part, props and sustains and
strengthens every weakened part,
ministers without delay and in
every conceivable fashion. More
full of meaning now than when
they were written are the words
of Jesus, Son of Sirach: "Honor
a physician with the honor due
unto him, for the uses which ye
may h?ve of him. » • The
skill ofthe physician shall lift up
his head, and in the sight of great
men he shall be in admiration."
TneMccrrti ar Bunt.
Science has always been suppos-ed
to deal exclusively with the
secrets of nature, but there are ev-idences
that it is becoming alarm-ingly
personal. We have heard of
an instrument so delicate that it
could give the weight of a man's
name and tell his social standing
in milligrams.
Bnt all this is nothing in com-parison
with the improved phono-graph,
which even goes down into
the secrets of the heart and re-cords
its pulsating response to all
manner of affections, whether of
disease or emotion. According to
Dr. J. M. Breyer, in the Medical
Review, these responses can be
classified into an intelligible lan-guage,
so that the heart may be
made to speak, though the mouth
is closed.
Instead, then, of having the af-fections
communicated to the
mind and then passed over the
tongue, as under the old system,
in which case they are often liable
to become lost, strayed or stolen,
the phonograph takes them at first
hand, direct from the heart, and
deposits them safely in a protect-ed
cylinder. As a safe deposit con-trivance
for absent-minded lovers
the sensitized phonograph thus
becomes one ofthe most valuable
achievements of modern science.
Who has not witnessed during
his lifetime the perplexity of some
tender maiden, as she stammer-ed,
"I don't know whether I love
him or not; somet:mcs I think I
do, and sometimes I think I
don't?" The improved phono-graph
settles the matter beyond
peradventure. By placing the in-strument
over the region ofthe
heart and looking steadily at the
tintype or photograph of the par-ty
on trial, the action ofthe heart
is registered, and the instrument
will give it a tongue. The experi-ment
can be tried upon several
pictures involving disputed claims
and the net result ascertained by
comparing notes afterwards.
The instrument, of course, fails
to record anything in the case of
those unfeeling husbands who
have no hearts, and with people
generally whose affections bal-ance
in so many different direc-tions
that the heart is always
found at an equipoise;but, though
having its limitations, the improv-ed
phonograph covers a long-felt
want, and promises the most as-tonishing
results.
DO THOU THY WILL
[Ella Wheeler Wflcox in the Independent]
Do fhon thy will with me!
I arn^ convinced that thy mjaterioaa
Lead ever op to goata of peace. I nee
in looking back o'er discontented da»H
When I rebelled at pathe Thou led'at me
in—
I aee how (or my good it ail haa been
Do Thou thy will.
Do Thou thy will. I And
That when I wept because some barrier
etood
Between me and my loiuringa, I wIU)
blind;
For thou hadat placed it there for mv
own good;
And when in chosen pntha I could not p>,
it WM to guard me from aomn heudlcm
woe.
Do Thou thy will.
Do Thon thy will. I fed
The calm of realm* toward whiafc. my
laat are led '
ACTOSB my fevered, roHtleaa spirit ateal;
The blind rebellion of my heart ia dead.
Or in the valley or on the heightaabove
1 lie hand that leada me ia the hand of
Lore.
Do Thon thy will.
J.ili I-IIIIIJM Prl-iclplea.
IIIaipM'a WaaVI/.l
A brief paper by W. L. Scruggs,
in the November issue of the
tfagasim of Americt « History,
points out the fact that the "Jef-fersonian
principles," of which so
much is said, as if they were the
fundamental principles of the gov-ernment,
have been effectually
and conclusively discredited by
our experience and by final adju-dication,
Jefferson's view of the
Union was that of "a department
of foreign affairs." He held that
Heartless, grasping, ir- the State is sovereign and inde-pendent,
and the nation but a
league of such sovereigns, who
had delegated certain powers to
an agency called the general gov-ernment.
This view, with its necessary
who come closest to the mystery j results, was formulated by Jeffer-of
life and the mystery of death, | son in the Kentucky resolutions
who read the naked heart when 1 in 1798, in which he announced
it is too weak or too sorrowful to I the 'heory, which is the funda-hide
its nakedness, who know our
best and our worst, and arc most
of them wise enough to strike the
balance. If they are cynics it is
we who have made them so. We
are the books out of which they
learn their lessons. We point the
argument and furnish m'reumstan-tial
evidence for or against human
fraility and the worth of existence.
mental Jeffersonian principle, that
in the Union, which was a com-pact
between States, "each party
has a right to judge for itself, as
well of the infraction as of the
mode and measure of redress."
In a draft of these resolutions he
mentioned "nullification" as the
righ'ful remedy. This remedy
was proposed in 1S32, and in 1861
If they lie to us, or withhold the i another mode and measure of
truth, it is we who force them to!redress was attempted. The re-it,
with our appetite for placebos, 1 nowncd Jeffersonian principles
our demand for large promises therefore are, in plain English,
and taking titles—Sympathetic : nullification and secession.
Powers, Magic Cure-alls, thel Mr. Scruggs proceeds to show
Elixir of Life and of Perpetual! that the "Constitution as it is" is
Youth. They are gradually edu-; incompatible with the Jeffersonian
eating us out of the desire for
these toys, and gradually, in con-principles,
because the fourteenth
article reaches far beyond slavery
sequence, growing more honest and all its incidents, and "upsets
with us. We are willing to pay \ completely the Jeffersonian theo-more
for skill and less for a quart; ry of local allegiance." It is ab-bottle
of strong stuff". The' surd to protest eternal fidelity to
"stomach-brush" would never the "time honored Jeffersonian
flourish in our day.. The old time principles of constitutional gov-cathartic
is no longer reckoned! ernment," and in the same breath
—If Thomas C. Platt goes into
the Cabinet there will be fun.
If Thomas C. Platt doesn't go part of the household equipment, I to profess allegiance to "the Con-into
the Cabinet there will be with the pepper box and salt eel- i stitution as it is." This is a con-more
fun. ■ lar. Physic is relegated to its cisc and instructive way of stating
If James G. Blaine goes into proper place, serving the physi- the truth that the differences in
constitution-
States and the
: desti- remote when all the remainder of thousand determinations of the j idea that the department was cs-; end of fun.
'led, and ihe sum the States will wheel into 'me | character of the bottom and wa-1 tablished to induce here a class of j There is fun ahead.
%
—The man who claims to be
the most celebrated horse thief in
the world is now under arrest at
Lorensberg, Kan. His name is
Washington Waterman and he is
seventy-eight years of age. He
acknowledges the theft of 100
ally and hap- ! horses in Kansas alone, and the
he fundamen- I authorities of the State are willing
eclipses the wonders wrought by t*al constitutional principles are; to admit that he has made off
surgery? What pretense of an-j Washingtonian, not Jeffersonian. j with five times that many.
Edwla iiooth la Tears.
i.New York Herald.]
I have seen Edwin Booth many
times in public and in private—
always the same incarnation of
quiet dignity and perfect self-con-trol—
but it remained for me to
see what lay behind that mask of
his when he presented the $200,-
000 club house as a gift to the
players on Monday night.
_ Those who looked upon that
simple and touching scene will
never forget it.
There stood the great tragedian
upon a tiger-skin throne in the
midst of the splendor which his
princely munificence had furnish-ed,
his father's noble face looking
down upon him from the wall and
the friends he best loves standing
before him.
All the calmness and self-pos-session
were gone. As the actor
began to speak his voice trem-bled.
He forgot his lines and
blushed like a girl. Twice he
broke down in sheer embarrass-ment,
and when he stepped from
the dais he was as awkward and
shy as a school-boy overcome by
modesty. His easy grace and
courtliness seemed to have sud-denly
left him. He hung his head
and stood in an almost clumsy
attitude while Augustin Daly
poured out the gratitude of the
players, his fine, dark eyes mois-tening
and the color flying to his
cheeks as the company cheered
his name.
The most touching part of the
ceremony was when Lawrence
Barrett read the tender letter from
Booth's danghter, in which she
begged him to keep Dr. Parson's
verses a secret from "Papa" until
the supreme moment, adding: "I
suggest that you quietly place the
wreath upon the dear brow which
I love so well, and which so well
deserves a crown of merit and of
love." Tears stood in the eyes of
Barrett, and he stopped to wipe
them away. We all saw that
Booth, too, was weeping. His
heart came into his face, and at
the close of the poem, when Bar-rett
handed him the wreath of
laurels, he seemed to shrink from
the tendered dignity.
But a moment later, when the
tragedian hit the yule-log and
sent the flames singing and shoot-ing
up the wide fireplace, he stood
on the dais again, with the great
silver loving-cup of his father in
his hands, the same old, graceful
Booth that the public knows, call-ing
upon the whole world to drink
with him.
And do you know the secret of
Booth's sudden shyness and awk-wardness
in the presence of
praise.'
He is a gentleman.
—Speaking of machine guns,
why did we let Maxim, with his
wonderful invention, go to Eng-land
for encouragement? He got
rid of the crank and also of the
excessive heating, making the
gun do all of its own work by
utilizing the force of the recoil.
All that is necessary to do with
this wonderful automatic engine
of destruction is to pull the trigger
once, and it continues to fire at
the rate of seven hundred dis-charges
per minute for each single
barrel, keeping the gun cool all
the while by a water apparatus,
equally automatic. Thus America
invents and Europe buys the pro-duct.
—The Springer bill is right.
There shonld be a uniform law of
marriage and divorce in this coun-try.
Thousands of particular in-stances
have proved it, perhaps
none more prominently than when ^J
James Parton, unable to marry as
he wished in Massachusetts, took
his prospective bride to New
York, was duly wedded, and re-turned
to Massachusetts to live.
First cousins may not marry in
Ohio, but can in Kentucky, and
so they cross the river for the ,
ceremony, and come back pro-tected
by "the comity of States."
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