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GERMANY.

This Time as Seen from aTrip Down the Rhine.

The Birthplaces of tho Dcmiur-gu- s

of tho Moral World.

A Steamboat Voyage Lcgcads FairBlngea Germania Monument

Dannecker's Ariadne, andJotta ana Hor lover.

1 Bixattt, August 11. '

EditorMayence I memorable allko for free-

dom and for song within thoso wallhow often woko tho gallant music of thotroubadour ; and how often beside thatriver did tho heart of the maiden trom-bl- o

to the lay 1 Within those walls stout'Walpodcn first broached tho greatBchoNM of the., Hansoatic league; andmoro than all, O memorable Mayonco,thou canst claim tho first invention oftho migtiticst engino of human intellect

tho great .lovelcr of power tiioof tho moral world the press 1

Here, too, lives tho maligned hero of thogreatest drama of modern genius, thetraditionary Faust, illustrating in him-self tho fato of his successors in dis-

pensing knowledge held a monster forhis wisdom, and consigned to the penal-

ties of hell as a recompense for tho ben-

efits he had conferred on earth."Maycnco, as already indicated, is the

beginning if going down, tho end ifgoing up of tho "Rhine trip." An il-

lustrated map shows the large curves oftho river, the cities and villages, the cas-

tles, and the immediate vicinity of eachshoro between Mayence and Cologne.Besides tho line of steamers clean,well-appointe- d,

spacious vessels for riversteamers which run on the Rhino, thereis a railway on cither side, and in closeproximity a fine pike. Learning from"brother bicyclers" that tho pike fromMayence to Bingon was across an elbowof country leaving the Rhine far to thoright, and that not only was it away fromany desirable sconery, but over very hillycountry in addition, wo followed theiradvice and took one of tho steamers nextmorning for "Fair Bingon." Tho rapid-ity with whicli the steamer ploughsthrough tho water is amazing. Beforeyou havo time to locate villago or castleor mountain they are out of sight behindyou. Down tho Ohio or Missouri or theMississippi, or any other European river,such hasto would bo pardonable; but

' this, tho Rhine, the most famous in theworld, by . bicycle, by carriago, by foot,tho end is too quickly reached. "Othe pride of, tho German heart is thisnoble river 1 And right it is, for of allthe rivers of this beautiful earth, there

'id none so beautiful as this. There ishardly a leaguo ,of its whole course,from its cradle in the snowy Alps to itsgravo in the sands of Holland, whichboasts not its peculiar charms. Byheavens 1 If I wero a German I wouldbo proud of it, too ; and of tho cluster-ing grapes that hang about its temples,as it reels onward through vinoyards ina. triumphant march, liko Bacchus crown-ed and drunken. But" (Longfellow con-tinues) "I will not attempt to describetho Rhino, for to do it well ono shouldwrito liko a god, and his languago flowonward royally with breaks and dashesliko the waters of that royal river, andantique, quaint and Gothic times be re-

flected in it."In an hour we are hurried, without a

stop, over a distance of twenty miles ;

by Islands that, at first a speck dividingtho rivor into two, gradually grow togreat banks of green, covered with grace-ful willows and poplars, obscuring thosconery on the right or left, owing to thesido we take; by mountains, almostovory top of which is capped with castleruins. This short voyage is just the

of a : because, insteadof turning our eyes inward looking atthe vessel and studying our

are scanning tho shoresthrough field-glasse- We are not en-tirely among strangers, for the first person, or couple, wo moot is a young phy-sician and his wifo who spent tho BUin-m- er

at Heidelberg. I remember (tosketch a little of human nature) thisyoung man as one whenever there weroany sights to be seen, with his eyes widoopen, most of tho rest ,of tho time theyworo shut. I also remember him as notknowing enough of the German languagoto koep him awake during a lecture, yeton one occasion whon I gave him a Sun-day edition of the Commercial Gazette,which, as the reader well knows, is moreor less profusely illustrated, on bohold-ing- a

wood-cu- t, ejaculated, "Oh, a Bild 1"(in Gorman all nouns or substantivesbogln with capitals) then apologized bysaying that he was unconsciously mlng-glin- g

his German and English. I after-ward learned from one that knew himwell, that in the locality Jn which hehad practicod tho people concluded thatho was not aa competent as his opponent,and that he was now traveling with thoview of locating in another town witheclat, and perhaps whore he had abrother or cousin a reporter on a weekly,papor, But such impostors aro not soquickly recognized by tho public as theyare by the profession, and here they arescarce (a. trip to Philadelphia or NowYork is glory enough for the ordinarydeceiver), but that they exist at all "moreis the pity."

I apprehend that this lotto without alegend would bollkoCarlyle's poet with

out humor only half of one. It maybe that I will not use legend-languag- e ifby so doing I must have tho heroineblushing so readily and yielding to ca-

resses so cosily ; mooting a knight, fall-

ing in lovo with him the noxt InBtant,and fleeing with him tho noxt; I hopeI will not; but if I did not, where wouldbo tho legend, or any resemblance 7

Mayence has only two legonds, and onomust understand in tho beginning thatto have a legend a castle is not necessary,neither a town nor oven a house ; onlytho shadow of an oxcuso and an imagin-ative brain, which oft-tim- is tho apol-ogy for the lack of truth. Under thesecircumstances the same town, after anelapse of five hundred years, with a pop-ulation of 00,000, and only the usualnumber who have little or no regard fortruth, would havo legends numbering intho thousands. However, there is sometruth in the following, bo it leavenedovor so lightly. Tho first is short andspicy, and is peculiar in that it is thobriof record of a mutual admiration so-

ciety, of which a "professor of min-strelsy'' forms tho party of the first part,and all the women and girls of Mayencetho party of tho second part. He (of thefirst part) seomed to be a wholesale ad-

mirer of "fctnalo beauty and loveliness,"and further, did not hesitate to oxprcsshimself to that effect in "minstrelsy."They (of the second part) were highlypleased with such expressions, and assoon as the "professor" died, took occa-sion to exhibit it by assembling inmourning dresses, and eight of tho great-est beauty bearing the coffin on theirshoulders to tho cathedral. After thebenediction tho young ladles strewed thotomb with roses, and poured preciouswino out of golden goblets into it, finally"dispersing in sadness."

Tho abovo is on average legend ex-

cept for its brevity. Tho novelty of itdoes not depend on tho truth thero isin it; still, if half of it is true, that isenough on which to hingo a speculationof tho rest. That the "professor" reallylived and acted as reported, I surely be-

lieve. I havo seen all other kinds ofprofessors, and sometimes thought thetitle-giv- was long hair, a greasy hatand a coat to match it; moreover Iwould not bo surprised at anything theydid. And if he lived, it is qvto suppose that, afflicted as as, hedied ; but that, in this coy .. at thatdato, or oven at tho present timo, therois any foundation for the second half Ias surely do not belioye. Had that partbeen enacted in the United States, in acertain sense, few objections could havebeen found. 1 havo I seen symptoms ofaffection horo, but thoy wero shown to-

ward tho living , but I havo novor seenmoro than one carriago at a funeral, andnot oven a King's body escapes tho de-

cision of tho physician concerning it,but law compels compliance on the partof the relatives. Outside of America Iwas going to say I have never heard ofsuch post mortem infatuation. Thero, intruth, I havo known tho living body tobo shamelessly forgotten, and left to thecaro or neglect of entire strangers untiltho vital spark had fled, and then aclamor and an outcry that tho four windscould not dispel. But such only occursamong tho poor and uneducated poorbecauso uneducated if for no other rea-son, and thoir eyes will never tracethese lines.

We have already passed Johannisburg,given by Napoleon to his marshal in1805; and Geisonheim (a "heim" of thoISth'century), where we could, with thoaid of glasses, distinguish tho figures inthe 'stained-glas- s windows of tho hand-some Gothic church; and Rudeshoim,from which the ascent to the Niedor-wal-d

is made, and now havo landed atBingon, which lies vis-a-v- the nationalmonument "Germanin," and in 'thecorner of an angle bounded by theRhino on one side and the Nahe Riveron tho other. As wo approached, itgavo tho impression, with its numeroustile roofs, of tho back of a hugo alligatoron a Florida shore, scaly, lazy and halfasleep in the sun. Wo tako a walkthrough tho town, and can realize something of the feelings of the stranger-soldie- r

who, as the poem says,"lay djlngat Bingen,

Fair Bingen on the Bhine. "

Tho motionless atmosphere is oppress-ive, and in search for better, wo climbtho castlo ruins where Henry IV. wasimprisoned in 1105. From this slighteminence we havo a limited view of thotwo rivers and another glimpse of thoalligator's back. Out in the middlo ofthe Rhino we seo on an island a town,and as it is yet early, concludo to visiton our way to tho "Germania." Takinga last deep breath of pure air that itsmemory, if no more, may remain withus, we rush, through tho parched streetsto tho water's edge, and engage a manto row us oyer. We had boon dlsappoi nt-e- d

heretofore in not finding oven a nu-cleus from which might bo developedIrving's beautiful Spectre Bridegroom,and to be compelled to listen to a legend.about a, "Mouse-tower,- " and eighteenstanzas of jingling rhymo was testinghnman nature. Yet as we walk aroundthe ruins and through the arches, overpiles of stone, wo wondor if an arch-

bishop oyer "did keep a well-fille- d barnlocked up during a famine, and by Idsgood living and plenty, excite tho starv-ing people to revolt, and then give ordersto shut them up in a barn and set fire toit," and then if he wore "diabolicalenough to compare their lamentationsto the squeaking of mice," and if so, if"jnlco pursued him' to this tower anddestroyed him." Or if he was, as history

relates, a learned, cunning, unscrupulousprolato whom all hated, and instead oftho tradition being an actual fact, atleast that part relating to his death, adevoutly-wishcd-fo- r one. Hero, again,novolty is moro or less disseminated bytho practical use o( tho tower as a signalstation to prevent tho collision of shipsin tho "Bingen Loch" a whirl causodby rocks in tho Rhino.

But we continue our ride to Rudes-hei-

tako the train for the top of themountain, and a few steps brings us tothe Germania Monument, erected as amemorial of tho successful war againstFrance in 1870. It was commenced in1877, and completed in 1883. The im-

pression created by this monument andits surroundings while on the steamerwas not a favorable one by any means.In the first place it is not situated on thesummit of the mountain, but on a jut-

ting plateau about three-fourth- s of thedistance up tho slope. Tho mountainrising aboye it and covered with a scrag-gy looking forest detracts from tho effectof the monument, as least as to its size.Again, the yellow soil about its base hasnot had time evidently to become sod-

ded, ond it now looks liko some clay hillsI have elsewhere seen when they onlysuggested a brick-yar- d or perfect s.

All this is happily dispelled oncloser inspection. The forest developsinto a beautiful grove with graveledwalks and rustic seats ; the clay hill istho wido walks of yellow gravel and newmasonry, and the statue itself towers fiftyor sixty feet abovo you. It consists of astono pedestal and massivo stone pillar,with four pieces of bronzo statuary andthree scenes in tho samo, let into thestone, on tho faco aniitwo sides, resem-bling tho friezo in 'architecture. Thecrowning and main piece of the monu-ment represents a woman with the

of a femalo Hercules, and looksas if she were ready to achievo a victoiyinstead of just having gained ono overthe French. I have scon no face thathas so impressed me since I saw Dan-neckc-

Ariadno at Frankfort. Thismust not bo taken as a reflection on thobeauty of tho women here, becauso itwould bo unjust; but rather duo to thocombined effectof artand circumstances.Yot two faces could scarcoly bo moreunlike, and indeed there is little clsothat would justify a comparison. Who-

ever has visited Frankfort knows thepowerlcssness of words to describe thispieco of statuary. It is tho greatest at-

traction there and gives Bethmann Mu-

seum its onviablo reputation. After look-

ing of the plaster copies in tho anto-roo-

tho originals of which aro at Rome,wo enter a room about twenty feetsquare, in company with a half dozenother Americans, tho heavy curtains areclosed behind us, and wo bohold in thecenter of tho room boyond tho railing,Ariadno and the Panther, onco tho prideof Dannecker's heart. Docs any onecriticise him for adoring her ? As wellmight thoy censure a man for loving hiswifo. If either havo faults, they are theproduct of frail human nature, and asmuch tho husbands in tho one caso asDannecker's in tho other ; not that theconception in tho latter's mind was im-

perfect, or that the husband who covetedan angel married a mortal. Tho idealsin both cases, were, wo will say, faultless,and did the husband really lovo, eightyears would pass just as quickly as it didwith Dannecker, and bring the Bamo hap-

piness. Tho attendant speaks of her as howould of a human being, and as ho turnstho platform that we may see from everysido, watches her with jealous eye, andthe visitors as if ho feared some ono ofus possessed the power of changing herinto a fairy and stealing her. The roomhas no side windows, all tho light com-

ing through a sky-lig- and then througha dark red curtain ; therefore, the lightthrough which wo view her is as mellowand rica as any sunset, ana produces apicture of wierd, indescribablo fascina-

tion, and ono which wo tako delight inrecalling.

The Germania statue, which is perhapsfifteen feet high, stands looking towardFrance. She wears no head-dres- s, andher luxuriant hair hangs in rich tresses,and mingles with the no less richer foldsof her dress. Sho wear a brcast-plat- o ofarmor, but hor nock, shoulders and armsare uncovored, except the corner of acloak which falls gracefully over thoright arm, which is outstrotchod andbears a crown. Tho right hand graspstho hilt of a sword, tho point of whichrests near hor foot. In front, on eithercorner and on a lower level, is a bronzestatue, one tho goddess of peaco, thoother the god of war. In front, on astill lower level, is a beautiful maidenministering to an old man. Tho scenes,I havo compared to friezes, representstho ono in front, Emperor Wilhelin andhis staff; on tho right ono part repre-

sents a husband parting from his wifoand children ; another, a father partingfrom his son, and tho last, a lover partingfrom his sweetheart. On tho left is de-

picted the joyful return of husband,father and lover after the end of the vic-

torious struggle. Abovo theso repre-sentations aro the names of tho townswhere battles wore fought. On a stono,which is neither a part of the pedestalnor pillar, but placed in the stono walldividing tho two courts or walks whichare on different levels, are cut a fowsentences, extracts from the Emperor'sspeech at the dedication and referringto the meaning and purposo of the monument.

After dinner we will endeavor to run

Continual on eighth page.

HIGHLAND BOY

Again on Deck at Deln-Universit- y.

ware

Incidents Connected with IliaTourney Thither.

Vacation More Poetry Relic BoomThe Old Farmer That Nephew

and the Bull-Do- g Story.

Delaware, O., September 31st, 1880.

Editor News-Heral- d : Again I findmyself in the beautiful little city of Del-

aware after spending a vacation of threemonths among the hills and in the gold-en grain fields ond verdant meadows of"Old Highland." It is very doubtful,Mr. Editor, whether either you or yourmany readers can rcalizo the buoyancyand exuberance ,of a fellow's spiritswhen he is turnedjposc for a vacation oftwelvo weeks, nfter having been pour-ing over tho musty Greek, Latin, Ger-

man, mathematical and historical text-books for thirty-si- x long weeks. Youcertainly cannot fully understand howbuoyant his spirits are and how light-hearte- d

and free ho feels unless youhavo been let loose from school underthe above circumstances. To say hefeels liko kicking up his heels and turn-ing somer-sct- s and hand springs overeverything he comes to, is putting itvery mildly. Then, in r.is thoughtfulmoods; what genuine pleasure ho has inplanning his visit to grandma's, uncles,aunts and numberless cousins ; bosidesvisits and calls upon innumerable friends.Among the latter of which, would, of

course, be included an indefinite num-

ber of calls upon his "best girl," as"Knight of tho Grip" would put it. Tobo suie, it is not tho intention to spendtho whole vacation visiting ; and, accord-ingly, work enough for a year is laid offand the wliolo of it neatly done, (in hismind), without soiling his clothes in theleast.

With so much to occupy tho time, nowonder that twelve weeks would seemliko twelvo days or oven that thirty-si- x

weeks would seem like so many days.While looking ovor tho register in tho"Relic Room" in Columbus the otherday, I came across two short poems thatso nearly expressed my sentiments thatI jotted them down in my note book.By a remarkablo coincidence they werowritten by a student of tho Ohio Wos-loya- n

University. Tho first was writtenjust after school closed last Juno and thesecond a fow days ago, it seems, as howas on his way back to Delaware. Theyare given below in tho order in whichthoy wero written."Tempus fugit, laid tho Foct of Home.Bat when I say the ume don't call it a poem ;

Nothing ia truer to a boy in school,If he improve hit time and don't act a fool.

To mo, it seemed the days fairly flow,As noon as I enterod the O. W. U. ;

So thou wort right, oh, Poet cf Home,I know Timo tiles' for I'm going home 1"

"Vacation is over !

To moro than ono boy,The days slnco last Juno,

Havo been fraught with Joy.

Howover pleasant tho voyago may bo,

The sailor cannot stay always at sea ;

However Joyous vacation may seemIt ends to the school-bo- except in his dreams.

Dear friends and vacation,It is 'good-by- e' to yon ;

Again I am offFor tho O. W. U."

Speaking of tho "Relic Room" re-

minds mo what a grand placo it is tospend an afternoon. In tho shape ofrelics thero is anything and everythingfrom a ramrod (long sinco converted in-

to a bucket-bale- ) that did duty in thebattle of Bunker Hill to a coffee-po- t thatdid duty thrco years in tho late "un-pleasantness." "Grandma's spinning-whee- l,

1770" will bo seen the first thingto tho right as you enter the door. Be-

side the tabic on which tho spinning-whe- el

is placed, stands Gov. Tiffin's "oldarm chair" in which he sat more thaneighty years ago, as tho first Governor ofOhio, and puzzled his brain over thegubernatorial cares of the then infant,Buckeyo State Across tho room standsGovernor Tiffin's desk witli tho visitorsregister lying open upon it and invitingyou to walk over, register your namo andaddress and, under tho head of "remarks,"writo "on a morning walk," "first visitto tho Capitol," "an excellent collec-

tion," or "on our wedding trip," just astho caso may bo or as you seo fit. Nowthat you havo registered it would bo wellenough to go back to the "old arm chair"and look at things as they come in regu-lar order around the room. I know youwill not fail to see thoso flags, stainedwith tho d of somo "boy inblue" or some "boy in gray." You willseo tho "Big Sandy" knifo taken by thobravo Garfield and tho swords and mus-kets taken at Vicksburg and Fort Donol-so- n

by "unconditional-surrender- " Grant.Sheridan's saddle will, doubtless, call toyour mind Sheridan's famous ride, im-

mortalized by T. B. Read's poom overwhich so many school hoys have tried togrow oloquont, yot signally failed.When you havo gono around the roomyou have seen nearly all the differentkinds of "shootin' irons" and "weeponsfur cuttin' and slashin' " that have beenin use from 177G to 1880. But you havenot seen half tho curiosities to be seenuntil you havo scrutinized the contentsof four or five cases in tho center of theroom. Hero is ono containing ovory im

aginable trinket or trophy that could bepicked up on n battlo field, around acamp or in a prison pen. It even con-

tains tho scalp of a Digger Indian takenby a Delaware called "Fall Loaf." Ovorthere stands another containing relicsfrom China, Japan and tho East Indies.Back yonder in tho rear ond of the roomis ono containing relics, it would seem,of all tho Mound Builders that overumunder the sun. Over at this sido aretwo ; ono containing money, the othernewspapers. If you love to look at oldcoins, foreign or domestic and antiquepaper currency, you can do so to yourHeart's content. But we haven't time toread more than tho head-line- s in one ortwo of tho papers. My eye falls uponone and I read, "Tits New EkolaxdWeekly Journal, Containing tiik MostRemarkam.e Occurrences, Foreigx andDomestic, Monday, Aran. 8, 1728." Forfear I shall get left by this train I willonly rend the head-line- s of one morethat one up in tho corner of the case.With some difficulty I decipher the fol-

lowing : Thk Ohio Pvtriot, Vol. I, No.IV., Saturday, Deceudeii 2, 1809.Motto: " Ubi liberta, ibi patria." As Isaid, that is all I havo time to read, so Ibreak for tho train musing " Ubi tibertai,ibipatria." "Where liberty is, thero ismy country." Hut my meditations ntodisturbed by the jostling and bumpingof the street ear over tho crossings andas I tenaciously stick to my text andagain say to myself half aloud, " Ubi s,

ibipatria," the jolting car deems toshriek, "Frecinct A, Fourth ll'unf, Cincinnati" and tho indistinct cry of tho news-boy in tho distance sounds liko "Coal oil"and beliovo it or not, just as you likofrom the hall of a gleo club hard by,comes the gentle refrain of "old manPayne." That is too much and so I post-pone my patriotic cogitations until amore opportune season.

Arriving at tho depot I found that thetrain was twenty minutes behind time,and as I was fourty minutes ahead oftime, I had an hour that I hardly knewwhat to do with. Having my note-boo- k

handy, I took the opportunity to jotdown a few items, the greater part ofwhich have been already related. ThenI fell in conversation witli a lady whoseemed to have finished her last novel,and had becomo tired of reading. Myconjectures wero quito right, and I soonlearned sho had been on the road twenty-f-

our hours to travel a distance thatwould havo required but six hours withgood connections. Her train came ntlast. Having seen her and her baggagosafely on board tho train, I was again ata loss for somebody to talk to. Keepinga look-ou- t for some one who had a "gifto tho gab," I soon spied an old farmerwhom I thought was my man. I wasnot mistaken, and before five minuteshad elapsed I knew his name and heknew mine, and our acquaintance

rapidly as he learned I was wellacquainted with one of his intimatefriends. I was soon informed that in-

stead of waiting to leavo on tho noxttrain, ho was waiting to meet his sisterwhom ho expected on that train. Hisson had gono away on the train tho even-ing boforo. How glad ho was that Johnhad not waited for the morning train, asit was two hours late instead of but ono ;

and besides, John was going away to getmarried, and intended to bring his bridehomo that very day. It seemed to movery fortunate indeed, for I couldn't seehow on earth any fellow who was goingaway to get a wifo could wait two mortalhours on a train. 'Next, educationalmatters camo up, as I had incidentallyremarked I was going away to school.That reminded him of a nophew he hadwho was going off to college, and as hegavo tho namo of the institution, I toldhim I had visited it less than a year ago,and thought it a good college, thoughnot as good as tho ono I attended, wherethoy havo "Well, now,didn't you hear of a fellow by the namoof Smith who is an awful jumper?""Come to think about it I did hear of afellow they said was a great jumper, butit doesn't seem to mo that his namo wasSmith." "Oh, yes, it was ; fur it could'ntben any other. That boy could out-jum- p

anything thero with his hands tiedbehind him." I had to give it up, andconcluded that my treacherous memoryhad been at fault. But that nephew wasnot only a jumper and an athlete, but hewas a scholar as well. "Why, theycouldn't givo him a sum in nothin' butwhat ho'd work it right out and givo 'ema rule fur it" "But youwas. speakin' of "Woll,yes, I prefer going to that kind of aschool." "Now you're talkin' senso. Iwouldn't send a boy of mine to no otherkind of a school ; fur any boy that hastho least bit of respect fur himself isbound to behavo before ladies, on' it'lltone him up an' make a gentleman ofhim." "Now you're talkin sense," I putin, as my friend continued. "Now herois this collogo close to my town, wherethey don't havo nothin' but boys, andhonestly, tho young rascals are into morodevilment than I reckon you could scareup any placo elso outsido of hadesstealin' chickens, rabbin' orchards, andwhatnot?" Tho old gentleman in hisenthusiasm put it a triflo loss scripturallythan I givo it above, but tho reader willexcuse mo for using the revised versionthis time.

Just at this momont my train camopuffing up, and instead of saying "fifteenminutes for lunch," the conductor jump-ed down on the platform and called out,"All aboard I" Giving my newly-foun- d

friend a hearty hand-shak- and sayingI was sorry the train came so soon (which

I meant from the bottom of my heart),I sprang aboard. As the train pulledout my friend said, "I'm most awful sor-

ry you couldn't stay and go down withmo to dinner. I wus jiat going' to tollyou 'bout them fellers stealin' my chick-

ens." "So am I, for I would liko to hearabout tho scrape," I called to him, "butI must submit to tho 'powers that bo.' "As I put my head out of the car 'windowa gentlo breeze wafted to my ears, "Bulldogs chawed ono of 'em up. '

Had to carry homo tho pieceB.

Got well. Come back onenight pizened." "Ticket, please," saidthe conductor, gently tapping me on theshoulder. As I fumbled for my ticketI mentally ran over those last fragment-ary sentences, beginning with "bulldogs" and ending with "pizened." Thenputting both ends together, I had thewholo story in a nut-shel- l. "Pizenedbull dogs," said I, as I handed my ticketto the now impatient conductor. "Nodogs allowed on this train" he growled,looking, sharply atthe vnlimrat'rny feetas if ho expected to see the "pizenedbull dogs" issue from it. "Excuse mo,I beliovo I was thinking aloud," I tim-idly replied on hearing his gruff remarkapparently addressed to me. "You sai('pizened bull dogs,' and from the wayyou were hanging out of that window Iwould judgo you wore thinking of part-wit- h

your sweetheart," he returned.Kind reader, you can imagine the scenewas becoming interesting to tho passen-gers sitting near. I confess it was becoming intentcly so to mo. I was bothmortified at myself and a little bit angrywith tho conductor. I knew it wouldbo of no uso to tell him I was leaningout of tho window to hear what someold farmer had to say, for either the con-

ductor or some passenger would say, "oh,rati I" So looking at him as sternly as Icould, I said, "Sir, I have no dog, not

eien a Poodle. I have given you myticket. Is there anything else required onthis road t" Ho was non-pluse- and af-

ter a moment's hesitation replied therewas not, and passed on. The excitementamong tho passengers gradually subsid-

ed, but I felt that many eyes were turnedupon mo until I got off that train. Induo time I was set down in Delawaroright sido up with caro.

Woll, Mr. Editor, this articlo is alreadylong, and I fear I havo quito forgottento take H. L. G.'s plan and put somefilliu' in it. For fear it will find its wayto tho waste-baske- t anyhow, I will closewith a promiso to rcmembor tho fillin'next timo, and tell you something aboutDolawnre and tho O.W.U.boys and girls.

Yours truly,Highland Boy.

A salo of over 20,000 autographs, por-

traits and engravings is to tako placo inNow York next month.

The Voice of the People.Tho poople, as a whole, seldom mako mis- -

lakes, ana tno unanimous toico of praisewhich comes from those who have nsed Hood'sSarsaparilla, fully Justifies the claims of theproprietors oi tnts great medicine, inaeeu,those very claims aro based entirely on whatthe people say Hood's Sarsaparilla has done forthorn. Read tho abundant evldonce of its cur-ative powers, and give it a fair, honest trial.

P

ELMVILLE.September 25th, 188G.

'llah for Mr. Tappan for State School Com-missioner.

School began last Monday, with "Banny"Kealer as teacher.

L. E. Countryman, who has been sojourningin Van Wert county for some weeks, is againat "the scenes of his childhood."

Mr.M.A. Stults had a field of wheat thisyear, the yield of which was extraordinary fortms country iweniy-eign- t onsneia to in acre.

Two and a half miles of the Middle Fork freeturnpike No. CI, is about completed, and thefarmors of this little, valloy begin to feel as ifthey lived in another age.

Borne of oar farmers worked on tho pike thissummer, to the neglect of their cornfields, andnow they wade through the weeds np to theirshoulders to cut out the spindling stalks withnubbins "on 'em."

Life will acquire new zest, and cheerfulnessreturn, if you will impel your liver and kidneysto the performance of their functions. Dr. J.If. McLean's Liver and Kidney Calm willstimulate them to healthful action. 1. 00 perbottle. For sale by Seybert Co.

OWENS EMEBY At the residence of thoofilclatini: Justice of tho Peace. O. D. McKin- -ney, in New Market, O., Mr. William Owensand Miss Lillie Emery, both of Highland coun-ty. O.

Tho quality of the blood depend! much upongood or bad digestion and assimilation ; tomake the blood rich in life and strength-glrin- g

constituents, use Dr. J. H. MoLean's Strength-ening Cordial and Blood Purifier; it willnourish the properties of the blood fromwhich the elements of vitality are drawn,

1.00 per bottle. For sale by Seybert 4 Co.

HIIXSUORO MARKETS.Corrected Weekly by H. Roads & Co., Whole-Hal- e

and Retail Grocers.UiLLsnono, Monday, Sept. 27.

llOVINQ PBICES,

Wheat, bushel 70a 7SCorn 35a 33Oats 20a S3Klour, cwt 2 cos. 2 23Corn Meal, bushel 45a GO

New Potatoes 20aWhite Beans, bushelllutter 12a 13Kggs, dozeu 12allacon Haws, pound to

Hides.., 7a" Shoulders 6a

Lard 7aHoy, ton 7 00a

retail fbices.Bugar. N. O., pound (iaC Sugar aEx. C Sugar OM

A Sugar 7 8(irftnulfttad HUBBjr

Cut Loaf and Powdered Sugar 8aCoffeo, Rio - . lla isTea, Imperial, Y. U. and U. P. 40a 80

" Black 60a 80Cheese, factory 12Ka 15Flour, good family brands, owt..... 2 25a 2 00

t " " bbl..... 4 50a 6 20Molasses, N. O., gallon - 50

" Borgbnm a 40Golden Byrup 40a 45Coal Oil 12Xa 20Bait, Kanawha and Ohio, bbl. a 100Michigan Bait a 115Hams, city sugar cured, pound Ha 15

x.rvc STOCK.Beeves, owt. gross 2 50a 300Beeves, shipping ... -- .. 4 OSa 4 ssSheep and LASSOS per cwt.. ,3 00aUoc, owt. gross.... ,4 00a 13niooK rooap, srasa. .4 OSaMlioU Cows, with calves 25 00a 35 oo

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BRUTUS

With Another Paper on theLabor Question.

Railroad Corporations) na Bless-ings and Otherwise.

Railroad corporations .are the monsterbefore which even standard oil pales ininsignificance. Railroads might ho fitlytermed tho sinews that bind our nationtogether, not only physically hutsocially ,No Bingle business enterprise requires atithe of physical power of man or ahigher order of brain force to insuresuccess, and In no business is labor andcapital farther apart, and at the samotime more dependent on each other.Take any of our great lines of railroad,and how many of tho employes, fromthe humble Irishman or German wlold-in- g

the pick or the spado, tunnolingunder the mountains, the engineer wholays it off, tho mechanics in tho carshops, tho section hands, the firemanand engineer, the conductor, tho switch-tende- r,

the train dispatcher, tho master-mechani-

In short, any one of all thovast army of the employes of any greatline of railroad, and how many of themhave one dollar of stock, or any directinterest, farther than a salaried em-

ploye. On the other hand, how manyof tho stockholders or owners of railroadlines furnish even the. brain power tooperate the samo. Probably ono masterBpirit stands at tho head, and his successdepends on his selection of competentemployes under him. Ono class wouldhe powerless and undone without capi-tal and brains, while tho other would beequally helpless without tho strong armand determined push of tho thousandswho build, equip and operate the samo.

With all this mutual dependence, howmany forget that any other man or classof men have any rights that they oughtto respect, or interest which thoy oughtto regard. One class makes demandsand it not acceeded to, resorts to the in-

cendiary's torch, and to dymamito forthe destruction of proporty and humanlife, involving the innocent, with whatthoy consider tho guilty, inone commonruin. While this is tho case, is it to bewondered at, that at the other end ofthe line stand thoso who would ignoroovery principle of justice and uso themonied power of a great corporation, notonly to oppress its own employes, butany and every class of community whomtheir influence could reach. If this isnot the case, the latter class would havoto bo of different material from tho for-

mer. It ia pleasant to note that this isthe exception rather than tho generalrule, for thousands of miles of roadhave been operated for years, with mil-lions of capital, by men who do not ownone dollar of stock, without even a jaror discord.

While the law punishes tho incen-diary and the assassin at tho one end ,society has an equal right to demandprotection at the other. But the dangerto community in our corporations istheir undying nature. Tho presidentor cashier might abscond with somo oftho funds, but they havo no profligatesens to spend their cash, nor any pro-bate court to take cognizance of theirassets. While individual enterprise, intho accumulation of colossal fortunes,ceases with the death of the successfuloperator or at most lasts only for ono ortwo generations, and tho millions aroscattered much quicker than they werepiled up. Time only gives strength andincreased vitality to corporations. In-dividual enterprise that would bringdisaster upon its projoctor, whonwielded by a corporation, will ultimate-ly not only succeed financially, but boan engine of oppression to tho trreatmass of community.

Individuals have invested largely inthe coal fields of Eastern Ohio, vainlyhoping for a rapid riso on tho fuel lockedup in those hills by the Almighty towarm tho generations for centuries tocome. Tho rise don't come. Fathersoon dies, and young America soonsettles the estate, so it don't materiallyeffect tho price of fuel. But y

those giant railroad corporations arobuying every foot of coal land that canbe bought near their lines, and in twen-ty-fiv- o

or fifty years hence, withoutgovernment interference, overy fircsidoand factory will feol their power.Profligate sons may sell father's stock,but it won't lessen its value, nor effectthe power of tho corporation.

The only safeguard for the masses isin the wise regulation, by Undo Sam,of tho powers of tho corporations. AVo

would not havo him soil his garmentswith filthy lucre, becauso ho has somany sons who don t regard filial hon-esty, but let him say thus far shalt thoucome and no farther. Let him hold inone hand tho scales of justice, and inthe other the executioner's sword. Lotnot judgment be bought nor oppressiongo unpunished. Lot him wake up to asense of his duty, and tho Western far-

mer's produce will not all be consumedin its transit to market, nor idleness eatits bread in the sweat of honest toil.

Fouest Home, Sept. 24. Bbutus.

Dr. Bull's Baby Byron by its mild yetloflueaoe quiets the little ones. Prioe 86 oasts.

The best Udsg to relievo a nfferimi bone,cow, sbiep, or nog, to Day's Hone Powder.PrioaWoU. '

Risk headache Uwraachly wMi oar for' at"Uvtsffort. Or. sWsTSWaaore Pitta aswvoar this aislnwlag duacdar, ghrtaf MeatraJtof. . i

Like UUet' blcoi, Drtnf aWf Cotoga. Jtol,J-- 3

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