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THE PENNSYLVANIA 1KA?IFB!
Address of the D?mocratie Exea
Committee of the Keystone Sta
The Political Issue of the Day Cia
and Stronlg Slated-A Powt
Paper by Eon. Jeremiah Black.
The following are the material
ions of the address to the Democrac
'ennsylvania ty the Democratic
cutir? Commmittee of that St
I'he paper was prepared by ex Secret
Jeremiah S Black :
The Executive Committee of
)emocracy of this State, to whom
allowing address was referred bj
;ceot State Convention, DOW pres
he same to you as embodying some
he reasons which actuate and cool
he organization they represent: 1
ere solemnly renew our often-repeal
eclaritioo of fidelity to the great prit
?les upon which our party has ac!
rom the time of its first orgaoizatic
)ur ultimate objects are those of c
it hers when they adopted the Fede
institution, viz: "To form a more p
ret union, to establish justice, to inst
owes tic tranquility, to promote t
enera! welfare, to provide for the co
ion defense, and secure the blessings
?berty to ourselves and our posterity
Ve sincerely believe that the (?over
tent of the United States, administer
s it was in former days, with a dire
iew to the advancement of these pri
ip?es, would do for us and ourchildr
li thar, any people can reasonably d
ire from the political system und
rhich they live. We are equally su
hat if not carried out in the spirit
hose by whom it was framed it mu
ceoiue a curse itistead of a blessiu
i i uated as we arc, obedience to tl
nndametital law means uot only tl
om st performance of sworn ob?gi
ions, but f reedom, peace, and prnsperi
o all classes ol the people. On tl
ther hand, the usurpation of undelegi
d power is not OD ly a crin e in itself, b
he fruitful parent of other crimes, at
rill lead, as it has already lead,
udefinite misgovernment, corruptio
nd tyranny, subverting all libert
nd rendering the rights of a
len iosecure. When we speak
he Federal Constitution, we mea
he whole instrument, with all ii
metidments, and acknowledge thc equ
bligatioa of every part. Several <
hose amendments were carried ,b
rute force and by frauds upon tr
lublic will *o glaring as to take froi
heir authors all claim upou our respec
Jut we cannot deny that they hav
dually become a part of the Constitu
ion ; nor can we ayoid that fact, no
.i.r behind it, by showing the corru|
uisconduct of the men who at th:
?me controlled Corgress and mastcre
he State Legislatu.es. Whosoevc
wears to support the Constitution mut
erform all that is "nominated in th
und." Any change winch experieoc
nd reason shall prove to be desire
uust be iu the prescriben, way, and nc
y revolution and disorderly means.
TUE DECLARATION OF 1871
No candid person will deny that th
cad i ti g men in power at Washingto
lave been unfaithful to their dutiei
.'hey have broken the pledges the
oade to the people, and, in reckles
lisregard of their oaths, they have vio
ated the plainest provisions of the Coe
ti lotion. They have deprived th
.fates of their sacred right of self
rovernment in matters purely local, an
lisarmed them of the power to en fore
heirowo laws for thc preservation c
irder within their own boundaries
They have parsed bills of pains an
penalties, operating on millions at once
without regard to the guilt oriunoccne
if thc parties They have trampled 01
ill the securities of life, liberty am
>roperty. They have treated th
iub'is corpus hv v'uh contempt, am
leuied the right of trial by jury. The;
lave sent out swarms of tbe?r hirelinj
igents with instruction?- to kidnap, im
iiison and kill free citizens tor politics
iffeiises, without judicial accusation
vithout ?arrant, and without trial
They have not ooly trodden upon thi
jreat principles embodied in the origi
ial Constitution as it came from thi
lauds of iti framers, but even thi
imendments, which they tbemgelve
ntcrpolatfd. have been broken withou
?morse whenever it suited their interest
[u defiance of the thirteenth amend
nent they have doomed many person!
o lite worst kind of "slavery or in?
voluntary servitude" in the pub)ii
prisons, without the pretense of anj
'crime whereof the party was legallj
:otivicted." Io the face of the four?
teenth amendment they have abridged
the "equal rights" of whole masses o
white citizens. Without the le st re
spect tor the right ol universal suffrage
guaranteed by the fifteenth amendment
they have interfered both forcibly aac
fraudulently to prevent fair elections
and to set them aside after they wert
held. These ont rages upon justice
liberty and law have been perpetrated,
uot during the conflL. of a civil war
not in the moments ot wild pansioo 01
heated excitement-but io cold blood
upon deliberate reflection, io a time ol
profound peace, in fuil view of the eon
sequences, aod their authors bare foi
lowed out this line of policy, step bi
step, with a persistency whick sbowi
their fixed determination for tbe future
as io the past, to be bound by DO oatt
aod held by DO promise. Tbe two lui
and most important of their anti-consti?
tutional measures sbow more distinctly
than others tbeir settled design tc
strangle the liberties of tbe nation, sad
take perpetual power ioto tbeir owe
hands. Tbe force bill authorizes tb<
President, not only to invade tbe Stat?
at bis pleasure, but by declaring marita
law to subvert all government, exeep
what consist? of his nert trill. Uodei
j the election law his cann DD is plantet
I directly against the freedom of Stat?
?lections. Already the bayonets of t
Executive have gleamed' around t
polling places ia the cities of New To
and Philadelphia.' "Who can mista
the meaning of these preparations f
the next Presidential election? W
doubts that warning: ' and rebuke o
needed now to preventth? Administra
tion from carrying ont its parp?se i
force? If the warning be not given I
the people or fail of its proper effet
can we hope for peace? It seems to
an error to suppose the American pe
pie tame enough to be kicked under tl
yoke of a despotism, or ignorant enonj
to be joggled ont of tbe great ioberitan
of free government which the fathe
left them.
BOTTE NNESS OF TFJ? ADMINISTRATE
We complain of our present rulers f
lawless usurpation of power. Powi
not dele gated is always abused. In tb
as in ott ter cares, usurpation has bet
accompanied and followed by corrupt io
Frauds without number, and almo
without limit, have been committed c
the publi o Men of the worst charaoti
for common honesty are permitted i
occupy tho highest places. Of tl
money collected from the people, ac
not stolen before it reaches the Treasui
a large portion is squandered by .Con
gress on party favorites or eorrupt ring
and on base combinations ofpnbli
plunderers. The enormous extent t
which this financial corruption has bee
carried on will become manifest to an
one who compares the expenditures o
the O-ovcrninent during the six year
which followed the civil war. Bot]
were periods of peace, and there can b
no excuse for more than a small i ocreas
corresponding to the ratio io which th
population has advanced. But wher
the ordinary expenditures for the fisca
year ending June 1, 1870, exclusive c
Indian annuities, pensions, and intered
on the public debt, were S 148,609.922
43, for the year ending Jone 1,1860, th
expenditures for the same purpose wen
but ?55,918,188 72. Here is showt
the difference between the ordinary cos!
of crarying ot? our Government when ?ti
scents are honest, and the cost of th<
same thing when its officers are so des?
titute of moral principle as to disregard
ai) legal limitations upon their owe
authority. A free, unperverted represen
tat ive government is simple ia its ma?
chinery, easily maintained, and "dis?
penses its blessings like the dews of
Heaven, unseen and unfelt, save in the
beauty and freshness they ooo tribute to
produce;" the secure tranquility of a
regal establishment may some times be
a compensation for the burdens it im?
poses, but a rotten republic is at once
the most costly, the most oppressive,
and the most unsteady of all political
structures. * * * * *
THE I8SUES.
It will surely be admitted that all
American citizens who believe ?hebe
facts to be true, are bound by the sacred
obligations of patriotism, honor, and
conscience to oppose this state of things,
and by opposing it end it. The per?
sons interested in preventing a chacge
will ask how, to what extent, and by
what means we propose to make the
reforms. The question is a fair one.
and we will answer it briefly. It will
be the duty of the Democratic party,
and," to the exteot of our authority,
original or delegated, we hereby pledge
ourselves and our associstes, so far as
io us lies
1. To put the ship of State onee
again in her constitutional tack, and
hold her head firmly and steadily to
j tbat course.
2. To protect the individual citizens
of all parties, classes, and creeds in
their enjoyment of life, liberty, proper?
ty, reputation, and the pursuit of their
lawful business, by ao impartial ad?
ministration of justice io the ordained
and established cooria.
3. To preserve the powers of the
General Government io tbeir whole
constitutional vigor as our sole defense
against foreign aggression, the safest
bond of uoion between different sec?
tions of the country, and the only sure
promise of general prosperity.
4. To maintain, unimpaired, the
reserved rights of the States, ?od not
only because they are guaranteed by
the Federal Constition, but because the
States alone can safely be trusted with
the management of their own local
concerns.
5. To reduce the expenditures of the
Government by confining its appropri?
ation? to legitimate objects, by a rigid
system'of accountability and economy,
and by abolishing noch of the unnec?
essary and pernicious machinery witb
which it is now encumbered.
6- To moderate the burdeos of the
people, not only by economical admin-*
ist ration, but by a aystem of taxation
upon foreign imports as well as domes?
tic productions, which shall be just and
equal in operation upon tba property
and business of the couotry, not
enriching some while it impoverished
others and not open to 'he frauds now
habitually practiced.
7. To preserve the publie credit by
the prompt payment of the publie
obligation.
8. To concentrate tho public landa to
the use of landless people who need it,
by a system which will secure a suffi?
ciency to all, and stop at once th? long
aeries of swindles by which ao many
millions of. acre? have been given
away to those who already btv? more
than enough.
These are some of the duties which
lie before tbe people if they desire to
see tbeir government administered with
a decent respect for tb? Coosfitntion
i of their fathen or with tolerable how
i osty ia fi c sec ia 1 ?Batters. .
! We ?ave so test cf orthodoxy, tte
i disabilities for tor drwritmptxios
. aguie ss iovtrvf po uti cw laagomsts.
I We cannot sod do not obysct to?y^o?c
! differences, provided thc sitixou bc
truly and faithfully devoted now to the
interests and institutions of the whole
country ind all the inhabitant thereof.
Ocr object is not revolution, but res?
toration ; not injury to oar opponents,
bat an assertion of oar own rights and
those of oar fellow-eitizens.
By order of the Democratic Execu?
tive Committee.
WILLIAM A. WALACE, Chairman.
[From th? Journal of Health.
?VWnUM EATING.
. We eat to keep warm and to suittain
strength, and all articles of food have
those two elements in varying proportion.
Oils, tallow and whale blabber are
almost wholly of the warming element;
hence in Greenland, where the ther?
mometer is many degrees below zero,
anda great deal of heat is required, a
native will drink a half a dozen gallons
of oil every day, or eat ten pounds of
tallow. In the hottest climates of the
world the inhabitants live to a great
extent on fruits and vegetables, which
have but very little of the heating quali?
ties. In our climate, which is between
the two, meats, vegetables and fruits
are eaten all the year, round j but if
eaten judiciously, li eaten according to
the season-more of fruits and vegeta?
bles io summer and less of mears and
fats-an incalculable amount of sickness
would be prevented every year. We
would think a man deranged who should
keep as large fires burning in his house
in summer as in winter, and yet we all
persist io eating meats and fats and but?
ter all through the summer. Meats and
butter are on our tables three times a
day, when in reality they ought to be
sparingly used during the summer
months, at least by the young, the old,
and the feeble, and by all who are most
of the time in door, or ?rho have no
active employment. For the classes
just named a very appropriate diet for
the summer would be as follows :
Breakfast-Cold bread and butter, a
slice of cold meat, or in its place a
couple of eggs, or a saucer of berries or
stewed fruit without milk, cream or
s ugar. The same for dinner, with one
r egetable ; no other desert. For supper
seme cold bread and butter and a cup of
ho t drink, and nothing whatever be
twi en meals. So far from starving on
such a diot the class of persons above
nam ed would thrive on it, would grow
itroo ger, would have more bodily vigor,
moro mental elasticity, and a greater
low of animal spirits, and for the reason
that few would eat too much ; there
?rou ld be nothing to over tempt the
ippe.'ito, hence the stomach would not
ie ov er worked ; what work it did per?
form would be well done ; the blood
nade would be pure, life-giviog, and
sncrg ?zing. Any man ol'ordinary in
tellig euee and observation, who will
rive 11 fair trial to the above system of
feedii ig, will scarcely fail to be con?
vince d of its value within a week after
be be gins it.
A W OMAIPS VIEWS ON FREE LOVE.
Mt s. Pauline Wright Davis, referring
io a letter printed in thc Tribune, Fay's :
* Th le question is, what is free love, of
which there is so much terror ? Was
lovo even constrained, enforced, or
puro hased ? Whoever loved because
sont nanded to ? Passion, vanity, and
lonv?nience are bought and sold in the
mark et, are forced into marriage, and
compelled into hated relation; but it
is tir ue that sensible people learned to
use language correctly. Love is an
smot ion of the heart, founded upon
respe ct, esteem, admiration and dcvo ?
tion. To be free is to be exempt from
subjection to the will of ono or many,
says Webster. I propose to stand upon
this 1 ine and fight it out, rescuing the
pure words from base prostitution, and
showi ng that only to the corrupt can
corrujpttion be made ont of those resolu?
tions. " And again : "First, the law
which makes the rendering of marital
rights and compulsory maternity on the
part of the women, ie the absence of love
and congeniality, of health and fitness,
obligat ory, is a deadly despotism ; and
nc woman thus subjugated caa be pure
in seal And body. Every woman who is
demand ing the ballot is, whether she
knows i.t or not, demanding her right
to sclf-crwnership ; and every man who is
demandi og it for ber proclaims that be
han grown ont of his tyrannies, aud
recognizes the right inherent in ber to
self ?own ership . and self government.
Twenty .years ago, wheo we said, ' Give
ns moral*, religions, social, pecuniary, and
poriticai freedom, the whole venal press
shrieked and bowled like demons ; and
criticised; having won all the outposts,
and event entered the citadel, those who
were the: weak critics sprag forward
and clai m that they always thought so*
The * O bservers ' of to day will be the
loudest io advocating these resolutions,
just as soon as the#battle ia fought and
the viel ory woo.
COCGH IN A HORSE.
Q-My horse ia afflicted with a cough.
Will you give me a remedy through
your pa per.
A-Cough may be occasioned by
several different diseases ; in the sev?
eral eases cf which the diseases then
nieves roast be removed. When from
simple eoid, slippery elm or flax seed
tea ss useful, and licorice maybe added.
Bat nutmeg ii the great remedy. Feed
?eculent food OM?T-if in winter
moistened* cat feed, if in summer juicy
grasa ot clover. Work Tory fight or
net at all; never ?weat tho animal.
Blanket, where them it the least cold cr
ohillineas. Attend to strict comfort,
tod the hone will doubtless gradually
reetver.-deject all tko numerous
IrTOHcrrptiooi of k ind neighbors j there if
irfte* enough powerful medicine recom
mftr?ed in sbch cattd to kill any welt
\vmt'-Country Gentleman.
TRIUMPHANT GERMANY.
Will The Glorlocs Peace be Lashing.
CIVIL eiro MiuTear Satrnaajrr-A? ENGLISH
MAR'S LOOK LITO TBS FCTURE.
[Berlin Correspondence London News.]
It ?8 BOW in the German capital the
day after the ball. The ball was a
great success, and the fiddlers and the
dancers kept it np with unflagging
perseverance. But everything must
have an end and triumphant demonstra?
tions are not to bo maintained forever,
however ardent the enthusiasm. Now,
the face of the ballroom beauty is hag?
gard and her eyes are bleared. The
balinese lies rumpled, soiled, and
ragged round the skirts. Berlin's
gala dress stood the sun pretty well, on?
ly that the ruching of laurel leaves, oak
plants, and pine coils faded and lost
their bright greenness. But still the
ribbon banners and the sash pennons
flaunted bravely till Monday, and then
came such a deluge of rain as bas not
often been seen in Berlin or anywhere
else. It woefully bedraggled the cheap
finery which the triumphant beauty
wore so persistently; it made her
uncommonly muddy ail over, and must
have stirred in ber bosom reflections
anent the evanescence of tinsel in
general. To drop the metaphor, Berlin
is in the weather dumps. There is a
big drop at the end of Victory's nose,
and Germania looks as if she would fain
borrow a carriage umbrella to keep the
rain off herself and Alsace and Lorraine.
I dont think the rain is at all a bad
thing for Berlin; there is an allegory
in it whick symbolizes the uncertainty
of human things. But two days ago
the glorious sunshine-emblem of that
splendor of German prosperity on
which the heavens themselves were glad
to shine-seemed a* if it would last
forever; the downpour of yesterday,
demonstratio the fickleness of the
weather, may well remind the thought?
ful how Fortune can be as capricious
as are the skies. A condition of gen?
eral moisture bas a strong tendency to
damp cut any exuberance of a cock-a
hoop triumph. And I do not think
one could claim to be a triumphant
reporter who did not testify to his
recognition in the last few days of
weakness in this direction. There ia a
good deal of human natur, in most
people, you see; and human nature
being weak, is apt to give way to im?
pulse, association, and the influence of
the hour. What is the influence of the
hou- io which a triumphant cutry takes
place / You may split hairs assiduously,
and draw subtile distinctions between
the emotion of specific triumph nod
a generic enjoyment of la alaric; but
thc two have a plaguy proneness to ruo
into each other. I have been a warm,
and as I trust conscientious, admirer of
thc German character, its moderation,
its self command, its love of peace.
But drink will make a demon of a saint,
and triumphant entries form an intoxi?
cating tipple very dangerous to those
national characteristics which I have
admired; for, after all, national cha?
racter is but a faggot, so to speak,
of individual human natures bound
together. I was not among those who
thought that such magnanimity could
be expected of the Germans as to take
the initiative in proposing peace after
Sedan ; or that it was to bc expected
of them that they should ultimately
ratify peaoe without taking something
to sh jw for their fighting work. We
live io the age of iron (mingled with that
of brass,) not in that of gold. But I do
think that it would have been a splendid
moral victory-a thing to'tbenefit herself
io the present and in the future, and
to have kindled the admiration and
respect of posterity-if Germany, after
her war, bad come to her peace without
a physical exhibition of her triumph
Her triumph would have been none the
smaller if Berlin had hoisted a flag or
erected a statue; it is none the greater
because the streets of Berlin have
resounded to the tread and the cheers
of a victorious arny bearing the eagles
and the banners of the vanquished.
CIVIL SENTIMENT*
Not that the Berliners overtly craved
any more fighting tn specific words even
when the effervescence of the triumph
was at its highest io them. There has
grown up a fashion of flaunting at the
possibility of any more war, a habit
of ridiculing any one who hints at
seeing, by reason of a long range of
vision, a cloud no bigger than a man's
hand far awiy on the horizon. It was
a sagacious student of human nature
who mace the sententious comment,
Methinks the lady doth protest too
much." Not that I do not believe
tbe Berliners are quite genuine in
their protestations ; but then I do not
like the manner of these protestations.
AlexL?der the Great was a professed
fighting man, who, when he bad
conquered everything that there appa
reotly wu to conquer, (not including
himself,) sat down aoJ wept because
there was no more worlds for him to
conquer. The Germans, fighting only
under compulsion and professed people
of peace having conquered everything
that has stood before them, do not,
like Alexander, blubber for more
\ antagoniste, but rub their hands io j
I self-congratulation that as adversaries
are reduced toan impossibility, there]
is a peacefel future before the General
Empire. Here is a transaction of an
inscription on one of the triumphal
pillars: "Who shall fight with the
Germans now ? therefore we shall have
long peace." There is A truculent intol?
erance here of anything supposed
capable of claiming au equality of
fighting power with the German*,
which I submit ts not toe proper basia
on which to rest tho conviction ot a
long perice. It is exactly parallel io
conception, although it does not go so
far ts the peace recipe which the
' Ronans under Agricola administered to
ancient Caledooia, a prescription which
T?citos makes plainspoken old Galga
cos tabulate in the pithy phase, "Soli
tudinem faciunt pacew appellent." And
I make bold to assert that the reasoning
of the inscription is the reasoning in
the hearts and on the lips of most
Germans to day. It is not a healthy
line of reasouing, since its obvious
converse is "If any State presumes to
think itself equal to Germany in railv
tary strength, then we shall immediate
ly war." I do not say that the Germans
have let their rcasonjng faculties carry
them specifically to the realization, far
less the approval, of this converse
position ; but I do not see how either
they or any ono else can refuse to
recognise its logical truth.
FEELING IN THE ARMY.
1 have mingled much with the sol?
diery during the last few days, and
gladly testify to their anxiety for no
more fighting in their generation. They
are eager to tell of war incidents, of
long marching, of hardships, of hot
fighting and of heavy losses-the se?
verity of the loss always comes as a
clenching argument to the hardness of
the fighting There is no personal
brag, but natural laudation of the valor
shown by the batailion and company to
which the narrator belongs. But they
are not men of blood. There is no
flippant gloating over scenes of butchery;
no callas talk how many "Red Breeches"
Haus skewered on his bayonet, or
Henrich spitted on bis lancepoint; none
ot that lust for warfare wheb a war is
so prone to stimulate in a professional
soldiery. They have fought the fight;
they have got their medals; they are
full of war stories, the budget of which
for years to come they will unfold io
the cottage porch, or the chimney corner
of the smithy ; and although prepared
to do as they are told, whether to work
all night unpacking a baggage-train, or
to march against the martial inhabitants
of Kamschatka, they are very anxious
to get back into civil life; and, having
done their best for the Fatherland, now
do something tor themselves. But there
?3 a perceptibly diffent tone among the
civillians. Io the bravery of the
soldiery, they themselves are vicariously
brave. Little Entenfuss, the cigar
seller's cad, who, two yeats ago, was
heartily glad when the military surgeon
certified him unfit for service on account
of physical defects, watched the "lady
birds" tramping past with their sturdy
swing, throws out his pigeon-breast,
tries to point those web-toes of his, and
looks on the foreigner with a haughty
sniff of contemptuous puissance. The
"ladybirds" are Germans ; hs, Entecfuss,
is a German j the "ladybirds" are
mighty men of valor; he, Entcnfuss,
and, every other German, are mighty
men of valor, striking awe and terror
into the souls of al?eos, or ready, in
default of the required humility, to
carry fire and sword into alien land.
Well, Eutenfuss may be a little of a
Bobadil ; but look at the other sign of
the times. I have seen women wearing
mourning for th ' dead, slain in the
war, waving t r handkerchiefs in
greeting of the victors left alive. I
heard a father bereaved of two boys in
the war, not decently proud or cheerfully
resigned, but absolutely exultant over
his sacrifices for the Fatherland, assum?
ing a co .placent self-importance, a
smug taproom cockiness over the
magoitude of his loss, just as old Mis.
Sedley in Vanity Fair was proud that
ber spouse had failed for "Oh, ever so
many thousauds, my dear." All this is
bad. It is not a great d-"al, to be sure,
and one may be thought hypercritical in
noticing it, but these sroa?l things are
dangerous signs, small they are, for they
are the beginning of rottenness. Ger?
many has a great future before her,
with wisdom and moderation, not alone
of her ?jovernr t, but on the part of
her people. It .jld bc false friendship
not to own that that future is beset
with many triais and temptations. Her
real unity is yet to bo achieved Begun
io and through, if not by war, it bas
still to stand the far more trying test of
peace. And this danger must be noted,
that if internal difficulties and hitches
io actual, as distinguished from nominal,
unification occur, thc temptation is ever
present to resort to the instrument for
overcoming them that originally
wrought thc unity. There is no State
io Europe to-day thc future of which is
linked so closely with the lives of men
whose number you might reckon on the
fingers of one hand. .A stroke of
apoplexy might unsettle in an hour
everything that has already been set?
tled, and crush the hope of the future
into dust and a? h cs. Never have in
terests so gigantic been concentrated
under one flat blue cap with a yellow
band.
BLEEDING FROM TUE NOSE.-Put a
piece of paper iu your mouth, chew it
rapidly, and it will stop your nose from
bleeding. This remedy has been tried
frequently, it is stated, and always with
success.
Physicians say that placing a small
roll of paper or muslin above the front
teeth, under the upper lip, and pressing
hard on the same, will arrest bleeding
from the nose-cheeking the passage of
blood through the arteries leading to
the nose.
-CARE OF TEETH.-Put a piece of
quicklime the siso of a walnut in a pint
of distilled water. Clean tbe teeth fre?
quently with this Said, webing the
mouth well with clean water afterwards.
The application will preserve the teeth
and keep off the toothache, and will
harden the gums -A correspondent of
the English Mechanic.
-An injudicious XVth amendment
io Tennessee attempted to shoot a dis?
loyal white with the wrong end of
a pistol. It went off, and there was a
black berrying party.
POPPING TUB QVB9IION.
How Chis Cheerful Work Is Done In
Novels*
From an article io (he London Satur?
day Review oo this absorbing question
we quote as to different methods :
THE PLEA OP LONe. VCQ?AINTASCE.
Of all the pleas, we think that of
long acquaintance is the most dis?
couraged by fiction, from Durobledikes
downward. When Jeanie Deans is
obliged to be explicit with her extra??
ordinary lover, "I love another man bet?
ter than you, and I canna marry ye,"
his astonishmeut is quite natural
"Another man better than me, Jeanie I
How is that possible, woman ? ye hae
kenned me sae long?" Durobledikes
had read no novels. He could not,
therefore, understand why habit should
not work the same results on both sides.
Jeanie even, for the same reason,
thought the argument plausible. In?
stead of confuting she accepted it. "Av,
but Laiard, I kenned him langer." It is
this long acquaintance which at once
snakes Johnny Eames suc'i a persever?
ing suitor and renders his case hopeless.
He cannot understand the force of a
sudden fancy, and expects to supersede
it. In fact, however, if he had come
newly upon the'scene he might have
had some chance, but Lilly had known
bim long enough to be familiar, and it
wouldn't do. She no longer cares for
the other man, but he has shattered her
is a tree is shattered by a storm. "It
is no longer a tree," she says, "but a
fragmcut." He argues, "Then be my
fragment." "No, dear, it cannot be."
Perhaps long acquaintance and a read:
oess to be made use of and to put up
Erith fragments induces contempt, as in
the case of Major Dobbin and his Araeiia.
The man who falls inlo Toot's vein,
ind treats his own time, feelings and
exertions as "of no consequence," will
sot be accepted till the romance of life
is exhausted.
nOW YOUNO GUPPY PROCEEDED.
Do our readers recall Mr. Guppy, the
tttorney's clerk in "Bleak House,'
whose delicate attention to his mother's
habits does him so much honor? As a
happy blending of tho real and ideal,
his proposal deserves quoting at length,
though it meets with so chilling a return
(rom the object of his passion :
"My present salary, Miss Summerson,
at Kenge & Carboy's, is two pounds a
week. My mother has a little property,
which takes the form of a small life
annuity. She is eminently calculated
for a mother in-law. She has her fail
ings, as who has not ; but I never knew
her to do it when company was present,
at which time you may freely trust her
with wine, spirit?, or malt liquors. Miss
Summerson, iu thc mildest language, I
adore you. Would you be so kind as to
allow mc (as I may say) to file a declara?
tion-to make an effer?" Mr. Guppy
went down on his knees. I said, "Get
up (rom that ridiculous position im?
mediately, sir, or you will oblige me to
ring the bell.
T?IE STRAIGHTFORWARD OFFER.
But, after all, thc main use of this '
class of reading is in the vast KC pe and ,
and fielJ it opens to the intelligent in?
quirer-the immense variety of alterna- J
tives, whether for warning or example. ]
which the pages of fiction hold out; for
every lover io fiction furnishes material
for one or the other. The unbounded
choice is the thing, directed by that in?
sight into character and temperament j
which it is thc high office of the novelist ; j
to instil'.. Thus thc use of thc word
"wife" indicates the straightforward
offer. It pleases simple women. "Anne
Thompson, will you be my wife ?" i-t tlu
conventional Quaker's first word of love- j '
making. She says **Yes,M and the
thing is settled. Also it is effective
where the advantage of wealth or po?
sition is on the gentleman's side. "Of
course, Grace," ?aid Major Grantley, 1
"you know why I am here?" He
paused, and then remembering that he
had no right to expect an answer to
such a question, he continued: "I have
come here, dearest Grace, to ask you to
be my wife." But there is a confident
abruptness in this form that will not do
under reversed circumstances. In oppo?
sition to this, some women ore to be
approached with timid, distant entreaty,
as Tito to Romola : "If you will only
let me say I love you-if you will onl\
think me worth loving a little." Then
there ia the manly offer of heart and
band, which is perhaps of all thc modes
the most taken for granted hy thc out
aide unthinking world. "Th re is my
hand," say Lucius Mason to Sophia
Furnival. "There is my hand," says j
she, as they stand holding one another
palm to palm. Ile quite honest; she
only able to reach the [ itch of half j
honesty. Some times more point isl
made of the shape, and quality, and
action of thc hands ; thus Felix Graham j
offers his broad ri?ht hand. "If you >
can take it, you cannot doubt my heart
goes with it," and the timid Madeline
says not a word, nor docs she lift her
eyes from thc ground, but very slowly
*he raises her little hand and allows her
soft, slight fingers, cto.
8AM WELLER IS TOE MODEL AFTER AU*
The subject is too full-full to over- !
flowing-for connected discussion with !
io our limita. We can bat touch herc I
and there upon ?onie of its innumerable
heads. The question of letters, for in?
stance ! But herc it must be owocd
that fiction has not so much *hc advan?
tage over faot ag in hand to hand en*
I counter. Perhaps the whole matter of t
a lore letter is condensed in Sam ;
Weller's valentine : "Before I see you j
I thought all women alike, but now I .
find what a soft headed, incredulous j
turnip I must have been, for there ain't
anybody like you, though I like you:
better than nothing af all." 1
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HOKE.
ITOME! What a world cf interest
and happiness is crowded into that
talismanic word ! flow the bosom swells
with deepest feeling and profundest
omotin o at its very mention ! What
hallowed memories and soal inspiring
associations cluster around that sacred
shrine-our childhood's happy homo.
Never do our mind's tire in busy
thought over the scenes and remem?
brances of this sanctuary of our heait's
purest and holiest affections. Its
cheerful spirits, sunny faces, and revered
forms-whatever c anges time may
have wrought since our severance from
the old homestead-are all vividly
before us ; and we again seem to he
living upon our halcyon days of the
eventful past.
We can never, no, never forget that
happy family group, and sisters, of
which in other years we formed a mern
ier. Although long years have cirekd
iway siuce that peaceful domestic circle
were wont to gather round that familiar
?eart'nstone, yet the whole scene, in ali
ts interest and naturalness is indelibly
mprited on minds and hearts. 'Tis
noumfuily '.rue that some ot the tnem
>ers of that household, perchance thar
levoted father or pious mother, or sis?
ers or brothers, have ?one down to th??
and of shadows and of death ; but still
here is a sanctity and sacredness liogcr
ng around that precious spot of earth
hat will ever endear it to our hear?.
\cd why should it not bc so ? It was
here wo were born; there we spent the
lays of our childhood ; and there, for
be first time, around that family a!:ar,
felestial influences operated upon hearts,
md sought to win them to the skies
^Vith such holy and hallowing memories
tttaching to that sacred place why
ihould we not love and venerate it ?
SVhy should mellowing and soul-torn li?
ng influences play around our hoar's
rhen
"Fon I raeronry brings thc light
Of oth.r days arouud me !"
Even thc old man, who ha* long had
i home of his own, sheds thc briny
;ears as he talks about thc home and
issociations of his own childhoow. Tho
buotain of tears is unsealed every
:irae that in memory he revisits those
)ld and familiar scenes. Heaven in
:cnded that home should be a cherished
ipot; and the man would b<? untrac to
ill the higher and noller instincts of
ais being were it not. The love i>f
iome and kindred is thc last passion
mat grows cold in the human brea?t.
Even the Indian savage, dead to thc
tympathy as is his heart for the white
nao, cherishes an almost idolatrous
reverence for hid huming grounds and
:ho graves of his forefathers. The sacred
principle of veneration for home and
ts cherished objects runs all through
:he lower and higher grades ol humanity,
[t prevails ag much in the humble cot
age o? the poor and unlettered, as in
the splendid mansions ol the opulent
md thc great.
Thc sentiment is universally received
:hat "There's no place like home.'*
How exquisitely tender and bcauti:ul
he touches of an anonymous bard upon
he subject :
.I've wjn loreJ on th:r." man}- a clime where
flowers of beauty grew
iVhcre all was Lliisfui to tue heart, and lovely
to the view ;
['ve feen them in their twilight pride, and in
their dress of morn,
Butnoi:e appeared so ?weet to mc ai thc sfot,
where I was born.''
-A gentleman whose habit it was to
;ntcrfain occasionally circle of friends,
>bserved that ono ol them w;.s in th .
habit of eating something before
was asked, and determined to eure htm
L)n being seated at table tie said : UF >r
what we arc about to receive and what
Jamos Ii-has already received, the
Lord make us truly thankful 1"
- -*???.?- - -
- A drunken fellow, with a hos ??i
matches in his pocket, lay down ?n ti c
sidewalk in Mascatine. theotherdny. t>
enjoy a quiet snooze. W hile r> liing over
in his sleep the matches t<"?k fir?
Awakening, he snuffed tho air con<pseu
ously, smolt thc burning brimstone, an?!
ejaculated, "Just as I expected, in Ii - '.'.
(hie) by hokey.''
-A married man was recently urg? i
by an insurance a^cnt to tak % n i: :i
policy f"r the benefit of his v.?'e t.> the
amount of twelve or fifteen t hottend
dollar-?, ?nd a l<>ii<? discusi?n en "Of*!,
which w is ended by the husband, ?ho
said: uNo ; a widow wirh ic>re than
ten thousand dollars woui i he a danger
ous log-joy to leave to post* ri'y."
Astolen ki-s saved a g ri s i :'e tn
Fond ?lu Lac last week ; for ii the mau
who did tho deed had not pulled her ht ad
forward j;i?t as he did, a beam which
tell from the upper flour .vouid ha\o
dashed ht j- 1 rains out.
- A lirtlc boy, after watching the
burni -g of the schoolhouse until the
novelty of thc thing had ceased, smarted
down street, saying : "V?olly ! I > glad
the old thing's burnt ; didn't have my
jogfry loson nohow !"
-Calais, Maine, isa nice pl ?<... f.,r
young men t<> go to. The l??cal p*-?er
there sa vs that two thirds nf thc wealth
id the town is to bc inherited l>v y ut g
girls Thc rieh men there d<? ii??? have
sons.
-A dalkey ptve> thc following rei.
60Q why tho colored race is ?tupen ?r
the white ncc : "Ad men are ma :. ->t
clay, and like the nicer.-chattiu : i >h \
are mote valuable wheu huh!} e tared. '
- Mrs. Partfnjjton, in iltvoraf' >n <.?
thc proverb. "A ?dt s?N??ei . h
away a rath," ?a?sH hat, -it *?> t> t io
speak parogortcal of a DCIM* iii. ;i>
all thc ti?K Singing ?.!' ' 'j: " ':l