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To bear the brunt o' traffic-but thet doesn't change the ground! And here's these city fellers, they're stiff and dignified,

And wears a crust around 'em, but there's a heart somewheres inside. And I'm goin' back to thet lawyer, and I'll talk to him plain and

free;

Perhaps he can see the matter the way 'at it looks to me.

I can't tell y' all thet I said to him, for I didn't have no plan;
I jist forgot he's a lawyer, and talked as I would to a man.

I 'member I mentioned the fire, and the losin' o' all we had;
And the children had grown up and left us, and one of 'em gone
to the bad;

And the way the mortgage was given-for security, not for debt,
And our reasons for thinkin' thet Wilson'll settle his matters yet.
And the lawyer he said nothin' until I had reached the close,
But I reckon I must ha' touched him from the way 'at he blowed
his nose.

I 'spected to face the music as soon as he once begun,

But he couldn't ha' talked no kinder if I'd been his prodigal son.
He asked me lots o' questions in the friendliest kind o' way,
And he made my heart feel lighter 'an its felt for many a day;
For he changed the date o' payment, and shoved it ahead a year,
Which makes us safe enough, I guess, from all 'at I can hear.
For a comin' from the railroad, I was told by Neighbor Metts
Thet Wilson's found a buyer and is goin' to pay his debts.
And now suppose for a minute I'd ha' let thet chance go by,
Or couldn't ha' read thet lesson so plain before my eye!

I reckon we wouldn't be here now, for as sure as you are born
I'd never ha' guessed thet lawyer's heart was soft as mine or yourn.
And so, as I said at beginnin' so far from doin' harm,

I calkilate thet sermon was the savin' o' this 'ere farm.

W. A. CALDWELL, in Mantua Visitor.

A UNIQUE LAW SUIT is about to be brought by G. W. Beighle and his wife Josephine, tenants on J. L. Joslin's farm, against the latter for $10,500 damages. The petition sets forth that a son and daughter of Joslin were attending Western College, at Toledo, where they were taken sick with diphtheria, and that the clothing worn by them during their sickness was given to Mrs. Beighle to be washed, and as a result of their presence in the house her two children took the disease and died, in consequence of which they ask damages in the above amount.-Burlington Hawk Eye.

Decisive epochs occur in the life of every individual, which mark the ways, blaze the paths and direct the destinies of such individual. So with nations, there come times when the peaceful calm and quiet of the nation's life is disturbed by a tornado of public opinion, which lays bare the promising fields of the harvest, and heaps in one confused mass, the inviting and luxuriant forests of bloom and fruitage the golden promise of the future, or lashes the restful waves of a pleasing sea into a tempest of angry billows. The supreme Judiciary of the United States has been the great rock against which the growing tide of public sentiment in the country has ever broken and returned to the great body of the nation to reform, it has been the storm center from which the gathering cyclone has hurled into fragments the beautiful structure raised throughout the nation by public sentiment, and for the time dashed down the hopes of the people, bearing in the train naught but gloomy forebodings of evil. Yet who that studies the growth of nations or principles, has not observed that out from every such storm the nation has come a stronger, a purer Nation, with more of humanity and sunshine; that from every such crucial test, principle has but strengthened its bulwarks and taken a more advanced and intelligent attitude among

men.

Such an epoch in the history of American institutions was the Dred Scott Case, decided in 1857. Then a majority of the United States Supreme Court by their decision, held that the fundamental law of the land fastened the great slave power upon the people for ever, that the States had no power to rid themselves of this revolting traffic in human bodies, that black humanity was in the eyes of this law but chattels. The only solace the lover of human liberty found in the decision was the high moral tone of the dissenting opinions of Justices McLean and Curtis. The determination of the gravest question of the times by the highest tribunal of the land was the rock against which the popular wave of philanthropy broke in fearful havoc, and returned to the body of the people in wild tumult, overshadowed by a sky filled with the storm clouds, from which broke forth thunderings and mighty mutterings. Hope had almost departed from the hearts of men, but the result of that decision was the thing men most desired, the abolition of slavery, the unity of the Nation, the triumph of a principle as fundamental as eternity itself; so that which seemed a reverse became the majestic step to success.

So the late decision of the same Supreme body, in what is com

monly known as the "Original Package Case," has apparently stricken down at one fell swoop the heretofore recognized principle that a State possessed the inherent sovereign right to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors within its borders. The decision will constitute another important epoch in the history of this country and will not prove what it seems, a license for the unrestrained traffic in liquors, but will at once stamp upon such traffic a National character; it will force this question, which has given the States so much trouble, into the National council, where it will be settled once for all, however long, and bitter the fight. The American people have never been content with a compromise of what they regard as a vital principle, and never will be. Our form of government forbids such contentment. This decision will be the entering wedge, the beginning of the end. P. A. ROHRBAUGH. Wichita, Kan.

AN ACCOUNTANT'S DUTIES.-When the book-keeper tells the junior partner that $331 can not be placed without forcing a balance, the firm sends for me, and I find where the money has gone. If I am told particularly that I am to discover the whereabouts of that sum of $331, I do not concern myself about other sums. If I am told to make a general examination I report everything I find to one member of the firm and to no other person. My pay is $2 an hour, and I work slowly as a rule. Some accountants hurry and miss important facts; others charge a lump price, but I find deliberation, care and keeping silence, the best methods.

"Sometimes I examine corporations. Then I usually have to report to a lawyer. I give him all the facts, and he does what he chooses with them. Once I examined a bank which a cashier had robbed. A customer had drawn out $20,000 just before the failure, although he had not a cent to his credit. The cashier was sent to prison for stealings of his own; the customer was never mentioned in the proceedings.

"Political investigations are the least pleasant. Every man in office wants something concealed, yet no one is willing to take the responsibility. If the investigation is conducted by a committee, I usually stipulate that I shall be amenable and report to the chairman only. I tell him what I find in the books, and he makes public use of what he chooses. I avoid newspaper men at all times. By adopting these methods I have plenty of business. I do it by minding my own business."-N. Y. Sun.

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BY THE PERMISSION OF THE "AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY,” THE TRANSCRIPP OPPOSITE IS PRINTED, WITH

THE FOLLOWING EXPLANATION.

Again I must protest. In the March JOURNAL you published an article entitled "A Seasonable Suggestion." I read it with pleasure, and was struck with its feasibility, and determined to act upon it at once. The idea of a series of prints taken of historic or noted trees struck me as especially opportune. I knew just where to find several such relics of the past, one in particular, a noble, widespreading oak, with which there was connected some revolutionary history, in addition to the gruesome legends of a mysterious murder which was said to have taken place under the shadow of the widespread branches. So I concluded to start on this tree. My outfit was overhauled and examined, plate-holders loaded up, and hopes expressed for a clear, fine day, without any high wind. I did not have long to wait; the opportunity arrived; I trudged along the soft country road for more than a mile from the station. There stood the tree in the centre of a field of emerald green. It was a beautiful subject, as it stood there with leafless branches outlined against the cloudless sky; but thereby hangs a sorrowful tale. But, not to anticipate, I got over the fence and set up my camera. After I got my distance, I took my plumb-line, and drove a piece of broom-stick in the ground to mark the spot, just as you had suggested. The image was sharp on the ground glass, and, as I was reaching for the plate-holder, I saw two agriculturists approaching rapidly towards where I was; one was old, the other young,as I afterwards found out, they were father and son,—and both were reinforced with a fork-handle. However, thinking they were attracted by curiosity, I felt no misgivings, but went on to adjust my holder; but that was where I made a mistake. The elder of the pair, one of the farmer class who is supposed to have a whetstone back of his ear since the last harvest, opened out: "Say, Mister, don't yer knoa better ner trespassin on a poor man's property, an a trampin down his wheat, an destryin his grain crap?" I answered that I was doing him no harm, that I was an active member of the Leopardville Camera Club, and was only taking a picture of his fine old tree; but he winked and laughed; then the young fellow laughed too; then he asked me "If I was goin to pay for the damage I had done?" I asked what he considered I had ruined. After studying a few minutes, he thought twenty dollars would just about pay him. I still took the whole thing for a huge joke, and

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