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��erary pilferers — plagiarists. It is com- mon now, since the days of the tele- graph, for newspaper men to lay violent hands on all that comes within their reach, items, editorials, general news, and all stories not copyrighted. This is by general consent, however, in a great measure. It is thought, in the language of Daniel Webster, dishonorable to steal an editor's thunder — that is, whatever is comparatively original with himself. All newspaper and magazine men, moreover, should not be and are not considered plai- garists. "Now and then an original thought blossoms forth — or what is much the same, an old idea or picture appears in a new dress. Pope candidly said that he got all his poetry from the ancients. That was an intimation that all writers were guilty of pilfering, or else that there was nothing new under the sun.

It is the duty of society to make men honest. An educated, a cultured man should be honest ; and the higher a man is in the scale of being, the more beauti- ful and god-like will be the god he adores, and his daily walk will show the conception and attributes of his god. The nature of man compels him to act as he does act, and nature is an inheritance ; consequently, in the abstract no person is to blame for his or her acts.

��It was man's first nature to rob, steal, and slay. Man is, to a certain extent, carnivorous. He preys upon his fellows. Beside this, poverty makes men steal. Ralph Waldo Emerson says : " You drive a man to the wall and his integrity is fearfully shaken." In the early ages men believed, or fancied they believed, that their gods decreed that they should do all manner of wickedness, and steal- ing was among the smaller sins. It is only within a brief period that men have learned to worship one God, and a true God. Millions to-day know nothing of the God Christians worship; and gener- ally it may be assumed that the better the god the better the religion, the mor- als and the more prosperous the people. How do we account for progress in man? There must be — there is — a diviner part in man. His is a dual nature; and it is the constant reaching forth of what di- vinity there is in the nature of all, and especially of reformers, that elevates, en- lightens and purifies the society of the world. May these diviner forces of na- ture hasten the time when vice shall be overturned by virtuous strength ; when rulers shall prove true to their appoint- ment and mission, and instead of robbing their subjects, strictly adhere to honesty and integrity.

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��LITTLE'S HISTORY OF "WARREN.

��Reader, let us go on to Moosehillock. The Indians called it Moosilauke from mosi, bald, and auke, a place, — " Bald- place." There are three paths leading to the top of the mountain, one from North Benton, one from Warren Summit, and one from the East-parte region. The last one will answer our purpose best.

Let us start early on the East-parte road. There has been a great storm, but it has cleared off now ; the moon is on the full, and the air is clear as a bell. We cross Berry brook where Samuel

��Knight had a fight with a bear, keep Sil- ver rill upon our left, and come to the Sawtelle school-house. Crossing the bridge over the Asquamchumauke or Baker river, we pass a remarkable flume in the rocks which the waters for ages have been wearing out, leave the " pot holes" where McCarter was said to be hid when he was murdered, to our left, and,listening to the white-throated finch, our mountain whistler, as he sings the prelude to the " Wrecker's Daughter," in the fir woods, we reach East-parte

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