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.Vumlii 31. (
THE Cl VIL BIGHTS BILL.
Tn the discussion of the Civil Rights
Rill in the House of Representatives on
the Gth of January last, the Hon. Alexan
der 11. Stephens of Georgia said:
While I do not hold the doctrine of the
equality of races of men, yet I do maintain
the great truth, however paradoxical it
may appear to some, that all men are cre
ated equal. This great truth was never
meant, however, in my opinion, to convey
the idea that men were created equal in
all respects, either in physical, mental, or
moral development; but it was meant to
assert the great law of nature, that all men
have an equal right to justice, and to
stand, so far as governmental powers are
Concerned or exercised oyer them, perfect
ly equal befofe the law. 'This is the right
of all classes of men—whether white, red,
or brown, or black. This
nrffi,'im’d as catholic as the doctrines of
Him who first announced to the world
the true principle of justice; that is. “As
ye would that men should do to you, do
ye also to them likewise.”
This requires no leveling of the popula
tion of a State, either upward—no equality
and fraternity, an announced by the Jac
obins of France —but that every one
should act toward another as that other
ought, in turn, to act upon a reversal of
their positions in the different and various
relations of life, either socially, politically,
or otherwise.
This doctrine goes as far as any taught
by the Republican party. It places all
men squarly under that equality as to
rights, which was just announced in the
declaration of Independence, which has
ever been the corner-stone of the Republi
can creed.
Sfinday Chronicle.
Government Moieties
Ruling these times of reform and econ
omy, it would be well for Congress to look
into the subject of custom-house moieties,
one of the worst of the many great evils
that infest the collection of the public
revenues. The practice leads to the worst
kind of corruption among the officials at
the head of the custom houses, as it is to
their interest to wink at frauds for the
purpose of making a case out of which
they can realize a handsome moiety; and
h»w natural it is fora colleuton, naval of
ficer, and surveyor to overlook many small
cases, or fail to detect them, in their de
sire to trace only such as are likely to pay
large dividends. The whole system is rot
ten and the most glaring inducement for
dishonest men to encourage fraud, simply
dent, . • i ■■■- t; "
the evil effects of the practice at the port
of said such perquisites, “at the principal
ports of entry particularly, raise Dm C(im '
pensation of these officials •* ' er J huge
sum.” ..He also ad-’i-r, in the strongest
t nuns +hu following reasons for the re
pevti of the law: “It has always seemed to
me as if this system must at times work
perniciously-. It holds out an inducement
to dishonest men, should such get posses
sion of those offices, to be lax in their
scrutiny of goods entered, to enable them
finally to make large seizures.”
Mr. Bout well, the Secretary of the
Treasury, in his report for the same year,
stated that the moietieS realized on ac
count. of frauds at the port of New York,
by the collector, naval officer, and survey
or, were §>140,027 97 as their portion of
the proceeds of the seizures, fines, and for
feitures. Avery comfortable picking—
eight times the amount of their salaries,
allowed by law. No wonder the position
of collector of the port of New York is so
eagerly sought after, and that its influence
overshadows that of a Cabinet Minister.
In the same report Mr. Boutweli treats
the system to the strongest censure, and
among other things says:
In most of the cases the officers do not
perform special services, entitling them to
the amounts granted; and importers and
others, whose acts are made the subject of
investigation, complain, and I think with
just reason, that the agents of the Govern
ment have a pecuniary interest in pursuing
those charged with violations of the law.
The Government ought to pay fair sal
aries. and rely upon the good faith of its
officers for the discharge of their duties.
One of the difficulties which the de
partment has to meet, frequently, is that
custom officers have an interest in the
proceedings for the discovery of fraud.
The settlement of cases, or the prosecu
tion of them, which is different from the
Government, and, as a necessary result,
the conduct of such officers is open to sus
picion, both on the part of those who are
pursued by them and the Government that
they ostensibly represent.
\s Mr. Boutweli is now a Senator in
Congress, lie can not signalize his useful
ness in any better way than by leading off
in a movement to relieve the Government
of a practice so full of evil influences and
the encouragement of so much cnme_
As is well said, the true policy cf the
Government is to employ honest,
officers, pay them suitable salaries e *
services, and abolish the system ot mow
ties. It is a powerful and pernicious
temptation to defraud the commerend
community, and, no doubt, if the
could be ascertained, millions of re _\
have been lost through its ope
Here, then, is a practical q« e f on
Congress tq take hold of, which, if
reformed, will be a Step towards ro-
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, JANUARY 28,1874.
trenchment that will amount to something.
Mr. Boutwell, of the Senate, and Mr.
Dawes, of the House, are the men to take
it in hand if they will.
i The iJankrupt Law Again.
Just before the recess the House of
Representatives passed a bill repealing the
bankrupt law and all acts amendatory
thereof —except in regard to cases already
commenced, which it was declared should
be prosecuted to a conclusion, though with
a reduction of the fees to one-half the old
rate. Upon its reception in .the Senate it
was referred to the Judiciary Committee,
who recently reported it brek with sundry
amendments. The bill as thus modified
seems to us to be just about what the
■wrm-t, limy, m "direct the re
ceiver or assignee to take possession of
the property and carry on the business of
the debtor for a period not exceeding
nine months—if, in its judgment, the in
terest of the estate and of the creditors
will thereby be promoted. The depleting
rings, of whom we have often spoken, who
consume estates in constructive, extortion
ate fees, are tied up. The bill provides:
If any assignee shall, in any manner, in
violation of his duty aforesaid, unfairly or
wrongfully sell or dispose of, or in any
manner fraudulently or corruptly combine,
conspire, or agree with any person or per
sons, with intent to unfairly or wrongfully
eell or dispose of the property committed
to his charge, he shall, upon proof, thereof,
be removed, and forfeit all fees or other
compensation for any and all services in
connection with such bankrupt’s estate,
and, upon, conviction thereof before any
court of competent jurisdiction, shall be
liable to a fine of licit more than one thou
sand dollars, or imprisonment in the peni
tentiary for a term not exceeding two
years, of both fine and imprisonment, at
the discretion of the court. And any per
son so combining, conspiring, or agreeing
with such assignee for the purpose afore
said shall, upon conviction, be liable to a
like punishment.
The alleged bankrupt and all parties to
the proceedings are made competent wit
nesses The law is changed in regard t J
the discharge of the bankrupt from his
debts, if his property be exhausted. Re
gardless of tiie percentum it pays, he is, at
the end of the pr—r'"-|jfiffgi «e relieved
u J Th e provision making a
•such difecm paper for the
vfevHrWlW of bank-1
forty days. Rue-fourth of the creditors at
least in number, and representing at least
one-third of the debts, must petition for
the proceedings in bankruptcy; and with
in six months from the occurrence of the
alleged act or acts of bankruptcy, to
bring the case Within the cognizance of
the court. Three-fourths in value of the
creditors may accept a “composition” of
the debts due them from the debtor. It
is also provided:
That from and after the passage of this
act the fees, commissions, charges, and al T
lowances, excepting actual and necessary
disbursements, of and to be made by, the
officers, agents, marshals, messengers, as
signees, and registers in cases of bankrupt
cy, shall lie reduced to one-half of the fees,
commission, charges, and allowances here
tofore provided for dr niada in like cases;
provided, that this section shall be and re
main in force until the Justices of the Su
preme Court of the United States shall
make and promulgate new rules and regu
lations in respect to the matters aforesaid,
under the powers conferred upon them by
sections 10 and 47 of said act, and no lon
ger. And said Justices shall have power
under said sections, by general regulations,
to simplify and consolidate the duties, so
far as in their judgment will conduce to
the benefit of creditors, of the register, as
signee, marshal, arid clerk, to the end that
prolixity, delay, and unnecessary expense
may be avoided.
There are some further minor modifica
tions of the law, but we have given enough
of its substance to show that this bill will
be a great improvement. It will relieve
the present law ot its harsher features,
prevent estates from being swallowed up
in constructive fees, and protect alike the
rights of debtor and creditor. The coun
try demands a judicious, honest bankrupt
law; in our judgment, this bill will go far
toward securing it. W e trust it may
speedily pass both houses.- — Intev Ocean.
The Crisis in France.
When the French J/iuistrv tendered
their resignation last week, it was probably
not so much because they were defeated in
the Assembly on the bill for the appoint
ment of Mayors, as because the elections
of the 15th ult. had told the same old sto
ry was Republican. The chance dealt
vacancies in the rich suburban department
of Seiue-et-Oise, the sunny south district
of Aude, where there are small wine-grow
ers. and the Brittany province of F inistere,
till lately under the dominion of the cha
teau and the presbytery, have all spoken
with one voice. The elections which must
come ou hi January, February and March
are almost certain to go the same way, and
it is therefore no wonder that the Ministry
’ were for a moment disposed to throw up
THE CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED—THE UNIGN AS EESTOEED.
the giime. I
But if the intention really wasio accept
the popular verdict, the Ministry s(|n cluing
ed their mind. However only dimayed,
they are now desperately resolvewfco read
the lesson taught by the December lections
backward. A Paris dispatch inlrms ns
that the members of the Cabin! have
agreed to withdraw their resignatfn and
to construe “the passage of a resoftion to
resume the discussion of the bill for the
appoihtment of Mayors as a vote f confi
dence hi the Governmen t. " Bytfs miser
able subterfuge the rule of snlfr under
constitutional forms, and tfie ploftag for a
restoration under the, shelter of a lepuelic,
is to be justified. The r<w4p. f dMr and
positive
are nothing, and the votes of an inpsponsi
ble majority in an Assembly wjich has
long ceased to represent the coufcry, are
everything. The more tile peole pro
nounce against the Ministry, the rore they
declare them in the wrohg and te more
they will tax their ingenuity devise
means to bring the constituenciclin a bet-'
ter frame o( mind, holding things
the principle that it is their dutlto retain
office until they shall be cert* of their
own re-elections. In a countrywlpch has
exercised universal suffrage for /quarter
a century such a course must Itid to a
catastrophe. The mose re act/) Ary laws
that a subservient legislature wilj
be insufficient t-o check the to/roft of pub
lic opinion which has set in. Tl| Due de
Broglies’ prefects have done tliei* utmost,
but HU iii raid. Even cutting fcown the
suffrage would no longer serve m3 turn of
of the Ministry; for the ignorait, penniless
masses were precisely the stiff oft of which
Napoleon 111. carved his large
The men of the 24th of May iave not the
prestige to coax, nor the dariig to coerce
their voices, and, w ith wondbfis ignorance
of the slate of opinion, they flatter them
selves that the small bourgeoisie would be
more favorable to them. The truth, on
the contrary, is that the intelligent and tax
payidg classes are now- obstinately Repub
lican. A suffrage on the sc-ala of the July
monarchy w’oukl be even more fetal for the
present government than universal suffrage
itself.
But the threatened legislation of an en
charac|fir wil l
a new electoral law before it proceeds to
consider the question of the legislative and
powers, will no doubt set to work
. Y„. ~ i " ™ r "' "’TT**' "’-measure as
with effectually prevent the rwm-rence 01
such scandals as the simultaneous return of
four candidates pledged to the maintenance
of the republic. But if the Ministry rely
on this measure as a gurantee against the
kangers which menace them, tin y labor un
der a fearful delusion. —Inter Ocean.
The National Convention of Amer
can Cheap Transportation Association is
now in session at Washington. Nearly all
the States are repressented. Tifi majority
of the members appear to be sol jl business
men, whose every-day expertence has
taught them the necessity of seeking some
remedy for the heavy freight charges of the
railroads, to say nothing of the delay often
experienced, which causes greas aimoyahce.
Mr. Josiah Quincy, hf Massachusetts, in
calling the meeting to order, made some
forcible and practical remarks touching the
abuses of tile present system. He showed
that the policy of the State ownership of
railroads has been adopted with eminent
success in Belgium. 7ho doctrine there is
that no private Company should liave a
monopoly of all the' lines. And so the
government owns thdmain lines, and is in
terested in some of lie branches. It thus
regulates all the road, gives great facilities
for the mail service, iiid enables the gov
ernment to make reaction of fares without
reference to imim iiate dividends. It
appears from Mr. Alums’ statement that
the Railroad Cominssiohefs of Massachu
setts are desirous ot tryihg the experiment
on regulating all Railroads through the
State ownership bf one, by purchasing
the Hoosac tunni line. In addition to
railway commuuifiaftons, there will be
brought to the noticeW the meeting pro
positiofts for various duals; The true so
lution of the problea will doubtless be
found in opening anotler water route be
tween the East and Yt?st. At all events,
it is hot likely that th- American people
will ever consent to jLmit the National
Government to beeotie the owner and
manager of railroads. The National Board
of Trade, now in session in Baltimore, also
considered the transportation question
yesterday, arrived apome definite conclu
sion concerning it. Tue resolutions adopted
r.re to the effect pat the railroad com
panies should be rfffiired always to deliver
as much grain as sey may have received
for transportation;that they should not
favor special freiglr lines ; that Government
should not seek to jfix or control freight
charges, and'thattlie National Government
cannot afford, at this time, to appropriate
money to aid iiy transportation project.
A fifth resolution, recomending that any
private partiei desiring to construct a rail
way from the Test to the seaboard should
be granted eh rtera for that purpose, wag
indefinitely postponeA~Most of these Bug?
gestioii3 are wise and practical.—Phila
delphia Press.
' — -
The Centennial.
The Executive Committee of the United
States Centennial Commission, and the
Executive Committee of the United States
Centennial Board of Finance, held several
meetings in this city during the past week.
I hese ate the working committees of the
two great organizations created by Con
gress, one in 1871 and one in 1872, for the
purpose of a proper commemoration of the
National Centennial.
The Meetings were called here that the
members of the committees might have an
opportunity to go before the Centennial
Committee of Congress artd make repre
sentations regarding the progress of their
important Undertaking, and suggestions
concerning additional legislation on the
part of Congress;
We understand that the plans for the
great exhibition buildings have been adopt
ed, and that some three millions of dollars
have already been subscribed toward the
cost of their erection. The bulk of this
sum has been given by the citizens of
Pennsylvania, and they are willing 1 to give
more, and the citizens ot other States are
moving in the matter of subscriptions, but
the Commissioners think that Congress
should make an appropriation, and that
forthwith.
4\ e think the American people expect
that Congress will, in the most substantial
and liberal way, assist in making the Cen
tennial a success worthy of the American
nation. It will be a comparatively small
thing- for Congress to appropriate a sum
that will Warrant the commissioners in
proceediug at once with the buildings, and
we have reason to know that the meii en
trusted with the management of the Cen
tennial funds are among the most responsi
ble and efficient in the country. The care
ful Way itl which they have thus faf con
ducted the financial interests of the com
mission and Board of Finance is a guaran
ty of what they will do in the future
They are no jobbers or corruptionists bu
patriots engaged in a highly patriotic un
dertaking, and to permit their exertions to
fall short of an entire success for the want
wn">RrtWjW a VfiPW ti mu - «ii*xiss,
national and international exposition can
not be less than ten millions of dollars-
Foreign exhibitions have cost evdn more
and in every instance the Gov
eruirwrnt« Wvo bom a tjio ]a.rp*or p&rt of tliG
cost. Would it be amiss for our Govern
ment to assume one-half of the expected
cost of our exposition of 1876, which it lias
already recognized and commended to the
world ?—Sunday Herald. .
THE CASE rEAINLY PUT,
Senator Morton on tlie Currency.
Senator Morton has shown himself as
mucli at home on the abstruse questions
of finance as he has always been on those
growing’ out of the war. His speech in the
Senate on Thursday, the 15th, in favor of
increasing the currency, Was a powerful ef
fort. He hit the nail squarely on the head
when he explained to the contractionists
that England is no guide for the United
States in this matter, since theft! every
man lives within five miles of a bank, and
most of them within sight of banksJgl In
other words; that country lias a much more
perfectly developed credit system, of, to
put it more exactly, inflation of credit has
there been carried to an inordinate and
dangerous extent. For this reason greatly
less currency is needed to conduct business.
Notwithstanding, however, itß great advan
tages in respect to banking facilities, Eng
land, with and population of only thirty mil
lions, is said to have, in all, $600,000,000
of current money—specie and paper to
gether—in circulation, while forty millions
of people in the United States have to be
content with something over $700,000,000
actually in circulation. This would give
less than $lB per capita in the United
States as agaiusi $lO per capita in Eng
land.
Mr. Morton added his testimony to that
of thousands of others as to the stubborn
fact that the whole W est and South,
while possessing ample wealth in a fixed
form, are suffering sadly from a dearth of
currency, Those sections have nothing
like their just proportion of the national
bank circulation, while New York and
New England have a large excess of their
proportion. If the demands of the former
shall continue to be ignored by Congress
because of the objections of the latter,
there is danger that in the near future
there will be a political uprising in com
parison with which the Grange movement
will be as nothing. It i3 one of the func
tions of Government to regulate matters of
coinage and currency. The National Gov
ernment has practically abolished State
bank currency, and yet has placed a most
absurd and disastrous restriction upon the
issue of bank notes through its own con
stituted agencies. This is playing the dog
in the manger, and the people have good
reason for their loud complaints.—PhiLa
ijetyhia Pros*,
j OFFICE, BHOI GTITOV ST.,)
{ Sanborn Building. j-
A\ hen Colorado sought admission into
the Union three years ago, the plea in he?
favor was based more on what she might
and probably would become, that) what she
then was. Many thought that the sanguine
prophecies regarding her future were foun
ded oh enthusiasm instead of fact, and few
were ready to accept the brilliant predic
tions made by those who were so anxious
that she should become one in the galaxv
of States. Statistics of her growth* since
then, however, show that the prophecies df
her people were not far out of the way.—
Duriug the past year, in spite of the dis
couraging outlook, there have beeh the fol
lowing entries at the Labd Office : Home
steads, 36,614; cash entries, 18,298 ; scrip
and Warrants, 16,172 ; pre-emption filings,
208,760. This exceeds 3 872 by 133-,529
acres. Dehvet, the chief city in the Tbfri
tory, has nearly or quite 20,000 population,
and during the year erected 670 buildings,
at an expense of $51,382,000. In a business
point of view, the record is large. Sales
for the yfiar amount to $14,323,800; The
manufacturers fob the same time were $3,-
249,100. There are four national and a
number of private banks in the City, and
during the year these institutions sold $25,-
000,000 of exchange. The mines of the
territory continue to be profitably worked.
There were shipped from Denver direct,
during the year, gold and silver bullion
and oieg amounting in the aggregate to
$3,182,350. Meantime, agriculture is not
neglected, and the farmers have generally
succeeded Well. There Was a large wheat
crop, exceeding largely the local demand,
but flour of |jie best quality is selling for.
$3,50 and $3,75 pet- 100 pounds, at the
various towns along the line of the railway,
which, Considering the Circumstances, is
not discouraging. In everything save
population, Colorado seems qualified to
enter the Union; and even in this she is
little short, there being without doubt,
90,000 people in the Territory, excluding
the large number of transient residents
with Which the towns and cities are flooded.
Congress may yet overlook the slight lack
in this respect, and make her happy by
opening the door of the Union where the
ambitious little Territory has stood knock
ing so long.— lntel' Ocean.
__ Elliotts
who so signally demolished A lick Stephens
of Georgia, and several smaller pro-slavery
fry, on the floor of the House, one day last
week. At first they would have it that
U,l«i;! oiviodi I’nf unmnlimv
thoy became tired of tins accusation, and
are now charging it up to old Ben Butler !
Who Will next receive the credit of this
production, time can only determine. Pos
sibly Henry Ward Beecher—or the shade
of St. Paul—writiiig through some spirit
medium. Anything rather than admit that
a “nigger’ Could dd so brilliant a work.—
For our part we have not the slightest
doubt that Elliott wrote his own speech
Butler could not have done it—for Elliot’s
speech, itl our judgment, was much better
than that of the General on the same sub
ject. Elliott is a perpendicular Republican,
and has no affiliations especially with Sum
ner. The fact is, he is one of the best edu
cated men in the Holise, and has always
exhibited talent and courage enough to
answer his own purposes. It inay let these
relics of the era of slavery down a little
easier to assert that the colored man who
vanquished them did not write his own
speeches ;but no one will seriously believe
it. Elliott is a ready debater, and these
weather-beaten chaps can have a tilt with
him any time the£ want it. In the last
Congress Rainey, another colored Repre
sentative from South Carolina, in a wholly
impromptu speeeh fairiy whipped the Hon.
S. S. Cox, of New York ; and, under all
the circumstances, the victory to the Afri
can ill that instance was quite as trium
phant as in this. No, no. Mental ability
is not based on the color of the cut icle !
The amount asked for river and harbor
appropriations during tho next year is aboht
$15,000,000. Competent judges, who have
given the subject some investigation, are of
the opinion that this estimate can be cut
down three-fourths of four-fifths, that is, to
one-fourth or one-fifth of the above amount
without difficult^—provided Cougfess has
the nerve to do it. The trouble is that
each member whose district borders on any
navigable water wants appropriations to
improve his harbors and make his consti
tuents happy. So they league together,
and by joining forces manage to pull all
their claims through. Sonic of the appro
priations for river and harbor improve
ments are utterly indefensible, and nothing
but sheer waste of money. For instance :
there is a place failed Superior City, near
the northern end of Lake Superior, wuicli
got an appropriation oi' $100,600 a year or
so ago, and during the last summer only
one vessel entered the harbor. It was
doubtless a good thing for the denizens of
that interesting hamlet to receive such a
gratuity from Congress : but we are inclined
to think, if the people have any money to j
invest, they could put it where it would
yield larger dividends than in a harbor ut
Superior City<— taie Journal.
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I he Hon. Morrison li. Waite was nomi
nated yesterday to be Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States. Mr.
M aite labors under the disadvantage, if it
be a disadvantage, of not being as well
known ns either Mr. Williams orMh Cush
ing or many of tho other gentlemen whose
names hare been mentioned in connection
with tire oflice. lie enjoys, hoWcVer, A
high reputation in his adopted State, and
jias been on several occasiohs honored by
her with positions of high trust tilid dignity
As one ol the counsel of tho United States
at Geiieva he made a most favorable im
pression upon tlie distinguished counsel
with whom he was associated. Mr. Evaris
has q .Aa of filth to a friend
the ablest man in tho laVv whom he ever
met,” which from a man of Mr. Evarts
lame and ability is certuiidy high praise;
1 olitically considered, the nomination is
all that cohkl be desired by Republicans.—
Mr. Waite is in entire accord with the
principles and policy that have controlled
the country during the lust thirteen years,
while his Character Ur probity and purity
of life cannot be impeached. There seems
to be no doubt, of Iris confirmation.
Tiie tendency to centralization which;
whether manifested in the relations of the
nation to a State, Os a State to a city, is a
standing menace to republican institutions,
has recently received a check from the
Neiv York Court of Appeals. Its decis- r
ion reverses a former one, which had af
firmed the constitutionality ol the llenssc
ln*.i, oi metropolitan police act, and enun
ciates the good old doctrine that no Legis
lature call have the authority to take away
fioin counties, cities, towns, or villages, the
right to choose their own local officers.—
There is a decided flavor of feudality iu
this government of towns a hundred miles
away. The citizens of New York City,
like those of Philadelphia, have been ruled
too long hy men who legislated on their
municipal concerns just the same as they
did upon general matters of state. This
was settling at defiance every principle
dear to American freemen, and the sooner
such usurpations are put down by the
courts of every State the bettor it Will be
for our liberties. —lnter Ocean.
c douU ls tke has, gained
and newspaper perquisites. "Under, tlie
mileage provision the members from the
Pacific ticast used to get some $15,000
each; and the grossest abuses have crept in
salary question cannot be considered as
Settled yet. Let a liberal salaiy be paid
to members, with the understanding that
the perquisites of every kind are to be cut
off and that they pay their personal expen-
from laudaulets and house servants
down to portemonnaics tooth-picks, out of
their own pockets; and let that co-opera
tive store at the capital be abolished.—
New Bedford Standard.
The Three Sieves.
“Oh, mamma !” cried little Blanch Phil-
Jjott, “1 heard such a tale about Edith
Howard! I did not think she could bo so
very naughty. One—
‘•My dear,” interrupted Mrs. Philphott,
“before you continue, we will see if your
story will pass the three sieves.”
“What does that mean, mamma ?” in
quired Blanche.
“I will explain it. In the first place is
it true ?”
“I suppose so ; I got it from Miss IN hitc,
and she is a great friend of Edith.”
«And does she show her friendship by
telling tales of her ? In the next place,-
though you can prove it to be true, is it
kibd?”
“I“did hot mean to be unkind, but lam
afraid it was. I should not like Edith to
speak of ihe as I have her.” 0
“An«l, is it necessary.”
“No, of course, mamma ; there was nO
need foi- file to mention it at all.”
“Then put a bridle on your tongue, dear
Blanche, and don't speak of it. If we can
not speak well of our friends, let us not
speak of them at all.
Tlie following epitaph is copied from an
oldlieadatone in a Rhode Island graveyard:
Hero lies phot Johnny I’uiflblecod.
Have mercy on liim, graeiom God t
He would on yon, if be were God
And you wore Jobny Pumbiecou.
Has your giandsori ah ear fur musio ?”
asked a professor of an old lady who had
sent for him to instruct her pet in the me
lodious art. “Waal, re'lly, I don’t know,
Perfesser. Won't yon jes’ take the caudle
and see,” serenely replied the fond, grarnl
motbef, as she clicked her knitting needles
in the firelight/
A villian arraigned for highway robbery
nut in a plea that he mere’/ the •
money from bis accuser. “.Borrowed the
money!” excluded ihe District Attorney;
boiiowed the money! How did you induce,-
‘him to lend it to you?” “Well, I tried
moral suasion at first, but finally hal to
knock iiim down and hold a pistol to. turf
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