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SW Business men who advertise to b befBttted, will bear in mind that the SBNTINEL has a large and increasing cir culation, and is taken by the very class of p6r6one whose trade they desire. The Cheering Outlook. "PEAo is AeSURTD AND THFE REIGN OF TISD9 CARPET-BAGGER Is OVERI" The New York Uerald, says: In a very few days the country will have a new President we propose here to give briefly our conclusions as to the future. 1. In the first place, whoever be comes President, peace is assured. That is a very great gain-the great est possible for those who piy th taxes. 2. Next, it is eertain that whether we are to ha% e President 1-1 ayes or President Tilden, m11isgovernimen in the Southern States, perpetuated by Federal interference, will cease. The Ieign 4f the carpet-bagger is over; no Republican pOliticiat, no Matter Low extreme his views may have been, will4>e. able to persuade his Party to Laz4 its own future and the peace ot '%e country by any longer interference in the local at fairs of the Southern Slates. Thus a gratit elemnent.of danger and indus trial depression will disappear. 3. As to the reforms necessa~- to purify the government and liberate the wheels. of iidustry, while it is probably true that a new broom aweeps cleaner than an. old one re fo)raum are now so imperatively .dej. man ded by the country that; no party can afferd to refuse or delay them. No one pretends that any possible Cabinet, under eithter of tlhe,possible * Presidents, will be other than tfor hard money, for economy and for a reform of the civil service. Which ever party comes ini on the 4th of March will greatly disappoint. its mere partisan adherents; politicians will fall out, the independent voters will greatly increaze in rnmbers, and the speople w1l1 be able to make bet ter bargains with their politicians. 4. The country stands at the thresh old 5f,a p riod of rgrea t prosperity; and it will g row rich, no rmatter who becomes President. D)uring the ne~ t~ foni- years it would require very e~c * traordinary efforts indeed in a Fed., eral adininistration to prevent the -American peopIle from making up the losses of the past and becoming once more the most prosperous and the happiest nation in the world. With the inauguration of the next President, whoever he may be, conls fidence will be restored, and indu try and commerce, already reviving, will folly awaken to life. W hile the polIial leaders will be 9triving,in, vaing p.keep~ thefr partig togethem'i 4 people will be at rest and will diak cover once more, what has been tdo long $orgotten, tha~t the Federl Go,tnenot has comnparatively little to do.with their happines except to e[pIsdiands ofrf a .-,? e 5. Hence~ Whoever "shall beconiS f ~resident on the 4'h of March is a wnatter Qf comparatively little im portadee k6 the men Ibpay -the taxes, And wbat ver msy be the result of the ommissiohs iabor8 we advise the independent voter to take courage; he has no need for anxiety, because nextjear,be.wil go to the 'pbll, 'rIge tiig ei e fore, to elect a naw Congress. A PREDICTION AS TO HAY28. Mr. Nordhoff, in the New York Herald says: If Mr. Hayes means to drop the carpet-baggers, be will select for his Cabinet the Southern meu pf iben6e, *nd c Apactor, ot conoae4rn in spy, of j0q 4arpet"1ba swiiidling in those States, and be able to draw a following after then of substantial citizeng. All the politi cal signs make it probable that it lie should becong. President he will do this. The country is wearied and disgueted with such dirty work and such international fusp as the Cham berlains, aogrda' and ,Melloggs make in the South. No administra. tion can afford to countonaoce them, and we cannot doubt that, as a wise politician, Mr. Hayes would make new combinations in the South, which would be for the advantage of his party as well as of the country. A Lightning Calculator. A great deal has been said and written about the great mathematical prodigy, "Reub"'Fields, who lives at Fayetteville, Mo., says a local ex change., and the more that is known of him the greater wonder he becomes lie doe6 not pobess the simple rudi uients of book education-does not know a single letter or fgure by sight-and yet he can solvo the most intricate problem in an instant, or can Ierform a calculation inl less thanl a, minute that would reqnire the work of an hour by the ordinary modes For instance: We gave him the day of the noimh and tie year of our birti aud he told, in less than halia mintifd, onr age iifeconds;iniiutes; days aind years. Give him the day ot the month pud gl9 yet4j of' alny event, however remote, and he will instaiitly give the'dy of tlie Ydele We spetit tw heours wit h him, hatd, notwithstanding we have often talkod with him and seeni him displlay lhis wonderful gifts, yet we -always find something new in him. We placed a colntnn of figures up. oni aepaper, equial iln length to the columns of an ordinar'y sized ledger pnid called them (ft to him. ic rapid succession, arnd when the lastin(i,nbei wvas ea'led he gave the snm wvithout .a moments hesitation, lie di'd not see the pape:4utd wdtid Wtot 1have knowum. a charboter 01) it it he had. One-hour-later lie repeated those numbers in the exact order iig. whicli we called thorm to him. We then be gan at tihe bo,ttom and would call two or three numibers correctly and then one incorrectly, and ho would correct us by giving the proper numn ber'. Morp~ myster'ionis theni this :to us is the fact-of his.ability to-give correct, ly the time of day or night, Whenever .caliliJfopon iwith hta af3 refer.ece 46 a timepiece. In this place the timepieces'are all regulated by rgilroad or St. Louis time. It you ask "Reub" the time he will say: "I mini fifteen and a quarter mninutes past one; if' you hiave agilropd timne you have so Aud so," giving the exact differ'ence between sun and railroad time. Another remarkable fact is that be gives the exact time of his locati ty. If he is in Washington city lie giye~ ;shingtgn ci,ty tiie,if in San not p(essibly do these things by any niethiod of .calculating the passing time, for he will give time as accu, rately wiule wak,ipg from .sloep ai night' as .if'itswere daylight and -the puu shininig. Curiosities in- the Dead Letter Office ,One can hardly realize thatjtherc Is p dAily average of 12,00 or 15;00( dead letters, or abo'ut 400,006 "' month. Allowing one person to ' letter, there are 400,000 persons ev ery month who undertake to seni letters eitlier without stamps, without addresses, or with canceled stamps insufficient postage, or illegible or in correct addresses. Many of therm are WiLliout either stamp or addres 'and often with no signature whieb gives the slightest clew to persone sending them. There are 400,000 a month received that either lack post age or address, or else have insuf ficient or canceled, stamps, and strange as it,may seem, these are sometimes the inost valuable letters, often containing currency or draftt for large amounts of money. It is estimated that there is about $4,000, 000 in drafts and $75,000 in cash re ceived yearly through dead letters. This is all returned, if possible to )ersoI sending it; but it any pors tion of it fails to find a claimant, it is turned over to the postoffice fund. Very little difliculty is experienced in restoring the checks and drafts to the rightful owners, but the money generally comes in small sums, and is usually sent in the most c.areless, haphazard fashion, and the loss of these small sums by the ignorance or carelessness with which they arc latiuched upon a J,aurncy, represernts a deal of suffering and disappoint inent. Some hard working mjan may send twenty dollars, the savings of a month's labor, to his wife and HWith ones, wh(mi he has had to leave be hind him; but, alas! he is one of forty thousmid who trust to Providence without stamp or address, or else bh writing or orthography are beyond mortal ken, and so the poor wife never gets the pittance which is ber all. It is very amusing to see letters opened, and guess at their contents, before they are brought to light. Three out of five from a bundle of unaddressed letter8 contained money, one of them a five dollar noted Then tirere are 'such *'qan tites of drem sam pies i1 letfei s.~ Uh~e Wrnld im' agine that all wvomanisind had dig covered a language in the inti' change of 'these scraps of dress fa brics. One half show their prosper ity in bits of silks and satins and tb< other half in bits of sixpenny calico and it is only in the dead letter oftice that they meet on comm)on grounds Cer'tainly every fifth letter containi a phiotograph, and I dont imagimu that any great care is taken to returt lost phlotograp)hs; but any one so be reaved has the privilege of Ilrmaginl among the forty bushels of huwar "counterfeits" which have accunula t ed. A s AMUsINo INOIDENT.-A. rath e amIthsing incident is told as havin~ occurred recently at a chu trch in Oou necticnt 'not many miles from Eafr field. The clergyman, it would ap. per, desired to call the attention o his congregation to the fact that i bring the last.8unday of the montl he would administer tLe rite of bap. tism to children. Pr viou6 to hi; having entered the pulpit he had re ceived from one of his elders, wvho by the way, was quite deaf, a notic to the effect that as the childrei would he present that .i M. and hi had the: ntw Sunday-school boki ready ?ordistrithftfidfbh *wdd ha v< them there to seltlt WN w& sire< themi. After the sermon the clergy man began the notice of baptisnia service thus: "All of those havini children and desiring to have then baptised will bring .them this after noon." .AL tbis point the deaf,elder hearing the' mentionl of childre, sup posed it was something in reiesene, to his books, and rising, said: "All o those having none, and desiring then will be supplhed by me for the sun of twenty live cents." The .Tish Billings Papers. f The two beat blessings of life are the two that are the most neglected, youth and healtb. Life iz sliort, but if it waz shorter it would be better for menny people Don't cry for spilt milk, yonng, man, but pik up yure pail and milk in stool and go for the next cow. Edukashun has the same effekt t vpon taleut that poleing haz. upon a hill of lima beans; itsets it to klimb. ing. There is no slavery so terrible as to gro old and be kontinually lament ing about it. A gay old bachelor is ever a pleaz ant sight to me. ie cheers me up like a sheltered sunflower leaning over a garden -wall after winter has fairly sot in. The Mnu who is -willing to hv hiz life over'itgain haz probably got more confidense in himself than hiz na bors hav. Thoze folks who are alwuss pray ing for long life, are generally the ones that the world kan spare the best. We are all of us apt to think that we are absolutely necessai-y in this life, if we should cum back after an absence ov two years, the world would probably be more surprized than delighted to see us. The best way to subdew our pash uns is to gratify them honestly. Ekonoinikal wives iake fund and indulgent husbands. Don't never trust a inai at the rate ov fifty cents on a dollar. It you kant confide in him at par let him slide. Tharo iz lots ov things in this world that I wouldn't kno if I could Cupid iz the Ocd of luv, and cu pidity iz often its ruling pashun. The devil was the father of lies but he neglected to take out a pat tont, and thousands hav taken ad vantage of his invenshun. Nobody iz fit for solitude who iz fit for enny thing ele. Don't never try to refuse lies; lies are like hous flys, they will all die off when their times cums, and yu kant ill them off befor, try az hard az you will. Sum peop)le are so ill-naturned Sthat they kant do a kind akt without spiling it; i.have seen kows giv a nice mess ov milk and theni kik it over. Well bred persons are th1oze who are eazy themselves and make every body else feel enzy. Just in rasho that a man makes a good husband lie makes a good cii zen, and he who ain'c worthy ov a wife ain't worthby ov' ennything. It iz hard work to find a lie that iz ten years old. Wives in olden times were the greate necessitys ov life, but in these days they are the gi-eat luxury. Stubbornness has ruined az menny people az extravagence haz. Did you Vetr see an old1 bachelor who wasn'a a self-onceited critter? M~i- advice to all iz to ruarry yung and gro old together. t f a man haz got real mlerit mod-. eaty ibekumseim~ the,best, it he haz no frierit'1I0 seemot to be almost. no cessarf that he should be impudent. - t seems to me that the p'lan ov modern ediikashun iz to make the young learni more and kuo less. Misera cbeat themselves and never seem vto discover the fraud.. Nobility denti Cum bi birth enny niore tlian puty duz. Knoivledge iz very glib at making~ ~truisms, but ex perience iz the author ov all the lasting precepts.' Novelty and truth combined iz the - grat art ov amusing and instructing a the world. All evils are easily inanaged if they are nlipt in the bud, but if you giv Kanada this6ele or blackberry 1 bushes a three years lease, they will chae enny man off frnm a good arm. It iz a curious fakt that] tfid more 6 man haz to do the less time he kant lo it in. Old age may have no plezzures ov ts own, but it hz the satisfackshun >v knowing that most of the delights >f 3outh are a fraud. . The excentricities of great men iav more immitatii-s than their vir ews hav. The poorest kompliment yu kan >ay enny uaw iz to immitate his od lities. It yu want to find out a man's true caracter, watch hisia when he froliks. The chief end of maii's life is to )arn three meals a day, and eat hem. The',bAppiest people I have ever known in the world, have been the biggest phools. The Now York World has the fol lowing: Wo do not know which one of the eight Commissioners who have just do 3ided solemnly that they have no power to discriminate between right [nd wrong, falsehood and truth, fact rLnd fraud, has the finest gifts as a rhetorician. We cannot, therefore, presumo to say whether any given no of the eight would do more just Lico than his follows to the sonorous Verso'of Otway; but we are sure all decent people will 'admit that the .ircu instances of the hour would lend i peculiar forco and significance to the rollowing lines from "Venico Pre 3erved," delivered standing and in a white shoet by any one of thom all: "For all this I am a villain; Yes, a most notorious villain, to see the.sufferings of my fellow-creatures, And own myself a man; to see our Senators Clicat'theideluded people with a show Jf_liborty, which yet they ne'er must tasto of; They say, by them our bands are free from feIters, Fet whom they please they lay in basest bonds; Bring whom they please to infamy and sor row; Lrive us, like wrecks, down the rough tide of power, fiflut, no hold's left to save us from des, truction; all that bear this are villains, and I one, %ot to rouse up at the great call of nature ~id check the growth *of these domestic spoilers ['hat make us slaves, and us 'tie our charter3 * * * * * * We've neither safety, unity, nor peace, I?or thu foundation's lost of common good; Justice is lame, as well as blind, amongst us, r'he laws (corrupted to their ends who make them) serve but for instruments of some new ty -ranny that every day abarts up to enslave us deep er." It will be r-emmered that when Governor Hampton took ch'urge of the Penitentiary and Lunatic Asylurn upon the representation of theo Sm p)eriItendlents that they had no prio visions or money for their further maintenance, an appeal was likewise made in behalf of a third State in stitution-the colored Orphan Asy lum, which was in like straightened circumstances. Gover-nor' 11ampton declined to respond to that appeaCfl, on the ground that the trutstees and of ticers of the Asylum refused to re cognizo him as Governor, even while they sought his assistance as such. The matter was dropped at thatd point, but the officors of the Asylum finding that further do01lay of such re' cognition would necessitate the clos ing of tihe institution at an early day, determined to change t igeir tunie, and Nash, the chairman of thme board of trustees, made a for-mal written ap-~ plication to Governor Uampton, ad dressing him as Governor, again so liciting aid, which was granted in the form of a check for one thousand dlollars, which will be sufficient to meet tile necessar-y expensme of the institution for some time to come. Some of the New York papers are telling solemnly that, after a young man named IIenderson rerently died in great agony frm a cherry stone swallowed in the summer, the Same was found to have sprouted in the unt )r tunale yOnth, shlemnt-h. Stick to a Legitimate Business. Well directed energy and' entow terprise are the lte of American progress; but if there is one lbsso taught more plainly than others by the great failures of late,. it is that safety lies in sticking to a l'egitimate' business. No man- manufacturerr trader or banker-has any moral right to be so energetic and enter prising as to- take from his legitimate business the capital which it require to meet any emergehcy. Apologies- are sometimes madei for firms who have failed, by recur ring to the important experiments they have aided,,and the unnumberw ed fields of enterprise where they have freel'y scattered their money.--w We are told that individuals losses sustained by those failures- will' beas nothing compared with the benefits conferred on the community by their lberality in contributiag to- every public work. There is little force irr such reasoning. A man's relations to a ereditor arb vastly different from his relations to what is called' tho public. The demands of the one are definite, the claims of the other iro just what the aU1bition of the ma mike them. The histories of honorable success ful business men unite to exalt ther importance of sticking to a legiti-w mate business; and it is most instruef tive to see that, in the greater por.. tion of the failuros, the real cause of disaster was the. branching out be ond a legitiaate business, In the tak, ing hold of this and that tempting offer, and, for the sake of some great gain, venturing where they did not know the ground, and could not know the pitfall. Disagreeable Habits. Noarly aff the disagreeable habits which people take up come at first froin mere accident or want of thought They might be easily dropped, but they aro porsisted in until they be como second naturo4 Stop and think before you allow yourself to form them. There are disagreeable habite of body, like scowling, winking, twist, ing the mouth, biting the rnals, con tinually picking at something, twirl ing a key or tumbling at a chain, drum ming with the fingers,. scre wing and twisting a chair, or whatever you can lay hands on. Don't do any of those things. Learn to sit quietly like a gen tleman, I was going to say, but I am afraid even girls fall into such tricks sometimes. There are mach worse habits than those to be surey but we are only speaking of very little things that are persisted in. Trhoro are habits of speech with 'you see, or 'you know,' 'now a,' 'w hy aj I don't care,' 'Loll ye now.' Indlstinc6 uttormanco, sharp nasal tones, a slow drawl-avoid them all. Stop and think what you wish to say, and then let every word drop from your lips just as a new silver coin. Have a caro about your ways of sitting, standing and walking. Before you know it, you wvill find your habits have hardened into a coat of mail that yon cannot get rid oi withou~t a terrible offort.-Li ttle Corporal. Brother Blaine refused to 'to tor, the Electoral Commission because the measure was unconstitutional; bet when ho heard that the unoonstituu tional Commission had decided to ad. mit no evidence of fraud, ho rushed out of the Senato Chamber and ex, claimed, with that dramatic emphasis for which he is so justly celebrated, "The goose hangs highi" Brother' B!aino is naturally charmed with a tribunal whioh holds, as the first prin-a ciple of evidence, that witnesses of.. foring to testify to fraudulent prac. tiecs on the part of truly loyal Repub. becans should be marched out of courb at a quickstep. Ho would like to be tried before such a tribunal himself4. New York Sun. "What would you do, madam, if you were'n gentleman?" "Sir, what would von do ii von were one.?n