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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-02
Indignant Virtue.

New YORK, Jan. 20, 1874
10 THE EDITOR or THE HERALD
Don't you think the railroad companies exag
gerate when they state that onethird OF their
earnings Is appropriated by ,hclr employees L 40,
anu mere are my reasons FOR tne want OF peIser
1ul position OF "cOnductOr'' on the Eighth Avenue
Railroad last October, the remuneration Tor winch
was So per day OF about fifteen hours. Now, con-
sdered, as does every one else who accepts sucn
positions, that the above pay was not SUFFICIENT.
wanted to keep the Job for The winter, and on
That account took from the company wnat l
thought and was told was very llttle-vz., two
fares every half trip 81 40 per day, OF which the
forty cents went to the driver, thus bringing my
wages up to So, which in all justice is small pay
enough for what man endures conducting car.
Az the end OF my ninth weeks employment was
lald on ior being ''short" although only TOOK as
ceipt IOr the nine weeks. / am positively aware OF
another case in which the conductor only took
rs 90 per week, considering himself entitled to as
returns being ABOUT $40 per day for twelve weeks.
Now, and others too, suppose, would like to
know how the company from the above examples
can say tnat One-thlrd OF their earnings is mace
away with The fact is the stockholders find 1t
necessary TO hide the true amount OF their earn
lnes rom tne public, and exaggerating the theit
OF employees offers plausible way in which to do
it, With many thanks,
Ex-CONDUCTOR EIGHTH AVENUE RAILROAD
We are always willing to uphold the cause
of the outraged and oppressed. "Ex-Con-
ductor'' is an injured man, and we publish
his letter in the hope that the railroad COM
pany by which he was employed will do him
justice, and restore so considerate and honest
an employee to the position OF which he has
been cruelty and arbitrarily deprived. Such
conscientious individual deserves better
treatment than to be '1aid off, for being
'short."
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BAD MED1cNE.-General Sherman has q
notion that it is very 'bad medicine" to feed
and coddle the Indians who make desert places
OF already settled districts in the Western
country, and the common sense of the nation
is with him. We suppose, however, there is
not the slightest hope that the Indians will
ever get the scalp of Governor Davis, Of Texas,
and if they should we can scarcely hope that
this fact would put an end to policy that de-
ponds upon official folly. There will be men
Of very moderate capacity left even when
Davis is gone, so that the system of nursing
the Indians and feeding them on sweetmeats
and philanthropy is not likely to perish for
want of fools to keep it up Meanwhile the
policy suggested by General Sherman, of CIV
ing the Indians altogether to the War Depart
ment, is the true solution. All our Indian
troubles come from cheating the savages, and
the army is the only means we have Of dealing
with them honestly.
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Balm HALL.
Great Jones street and Lafayette place-THE Pill
GRIN, at p. NJ. closes at 10 T. NJ.
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MRS. CONwAYs BROOKLYN THEATRE.
Washington street, Brookyn.-LADY AUDLEYS Sc
CKET, at p. NJ. closes at IL p. NJ. Mrs. Bowers
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In MARYLEBoNE Tom Hughes, known as the
author Of tom Browns School Days" and
tom Brown at Oxford" has delivered a long
address in favor of cooperative associations of
workingmen, his sentiments being heartily
endorsed by Professor Goodwin Smith, of Cor
nell University. The workingman is hobby
own destruction. AS politician Mr.. Hughes
has been q great failure. The workingmen
placed him in Parliament; but we have yet to
learn that he has in any substantial sense
advanced their interests. Professor Goodwin
Smith, although somewhat of fussy indi-
vidual, is a man of higher type. Mr.. Hughes
has need of all the assistance his friend can
render him.
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STEINWAY HALL.
Fourteenth street.-CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN'S READ
INGS, at = p NJ.
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THEATRE COMIQUE.
No. 5l4 Broadway.-RENT DAY, and VARIETY ENTER
TAINMENT at S p. NJ. closes at 1880 z. NJ
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BOWERY THEATRE,
Bowery-THE SIAMESE TWINS; PASSION. Begins at
81. NJ. closes at IL p. NJ. Miss Laura Alberta
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BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE,
opposite City Hail. Brookyn.-oUR AMERICAN COU-
SIN, at p. NJ. closes at II AS p. NJ Mr. E. A Sohern
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OLYMPIC THEATRE,
Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets -
Val DEVILLE and NOVELTY ENTERTAINMENT ana
Holman opera Troupe, at p. NJ closes at ii 7. NJ
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WALLACK'S THEATRE,
Broadway and Thirteenth street.-MONEY, at p. NJ
closes at IL p. NJ Mr.. Lester Wallack, Miss Jeiireys
Lewis.
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TRIPLE S. HE E T.

New York, Monday, February 2, 1874.
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NIBLOS GARDEN,
Broadway, between Prince and Houston stree;s.-THE
GOOD FOR NOTHING; THE WRONG MAN IN THE
RIGHT PLACE Begins at P. NJ. closes at 10 30 r. NJ
Yakes Family
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BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE,
Twenty third street. corner of sixth avenue CINDER-
ELAN BLACK, NEGRO MIysTRELsY, &c, at p.
N. closes at 10 p. NJ
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first supported only by few idle and mis-
chievous demagogues, has been adopted by
the Pennsylvania Railway Ring in desperate
strait to bolster up their gigantic and totter-
ing monopoly. This monopoly embraces
fifteen hundred miles of railways, paid
for in obligations hoped to be thus dis
charged. and their agents in Congress have
been instructed to urge it upon the attention
of that body. Some ignorant workingmen,
wholly incapable of understanding the sub
ject, have been dragooned into supporting it
with resolutions" and attempts have even
been made to saddle it upon the Changers,
but happily, without the slightest success.
No apprehensions need exist that this scheme,
or any modification of it, will succeed Even
if its advent in the House of Representatives
cannot be deferred long enough to enable the
people at large to weigh its miscellaneous
tendencies there are probably already votes
enough in Congress to defeat it. In the
Senate or with the Executive it has no chance
whatever
On the other hand. there are not wanting adj
vocates of speedy returnto specie payments
some even who would fix the day SO shortly
as three months hence. But such people evil
IDENTIFY forget the six thousand millions of
capital which the country lost during the war
the tremendous and wasteful bills of taxation,
federal, State and local, which it has footed
during the past thirteen years the great fires
of Chicago, Boston, &C.. the loss of credit
consequent upon the late panic; and they evil
IDENTIFY overrate the national ability to imme-
diately resume specie payments. There is
time enough. 1t should naturally take longer
nothing policy, as they scornfully call it, is
precisely that which is always prescribed for
sufferers from wounds, disease or overwork.
Thousands of people in this couptry-the
Industrious the thrifty, the frugal those
upon whom, if upon any one class, tho future
hopes of the nation most securely rest-are in
debted in part for their farms, their houses or
their little stock in trade. Shall this burgher
class, this yeomanry of America, be thrown
into the bankruptcy courts, bereft, even an
initiated so far as public interest in them is
concerned merely because, forsooth, some
wealthy capitalist of the cities is impatient to
be repaid in gold that which he loaned in
speculative, or, if you please, expectative
paper?
This whole subject must yet descend from
the empyrean of theory to the solid ground of
fact before it can be disposed of intelligently.
True craftsmanship flies not with the butter
fy's wings, but treads with the sure footsteps
of vertebrate animals. The most bril-
liant financial policy which the country can
be led to adopt consists of the homeliest of
truths:-Pay as you go; spend little, reck
little; creep before you walk; make haste
slowly.
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METROPOLITAN THEATRE,
No. 5S5 Broadway VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, a
AS z. NJ. closes at 10 81 P. NJ.
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BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.
JAMES GORDON BENNE TT,
PROPRIETOR


HERALD-NO. AS FLEET STREET.
Subscriptions and Advertisements will be
received and forwarded on the same terms
as in New York.
Volume xxx. No. 80
ADJUSTMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
WOODS MUSEUM
At rs fEGSF AT
GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
bT%Fry HBRoAp at SsS p NJ closes ss1 at loa5 P NJ
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.
NJ closes at 10 so P. NJ MI Harkins, Miss Ada Dyas.
Fourteenth street.--BARBE BLEU, offenbachs opera
bouhe, at s p. NJ. closes at ii r. NJ
THEATRE coMIQUE.
* n eaE ana SfRsErS
BOOTHS THEATRE,
s ss =, and NV eGsss M T Sc ms
wALLACK's THEATRE,
az 'He Miss
Lewis.
OLYMPIC THEATRE,
SsG NOVELTY ana
Holman opera Troupe, at p. M; closes at II p NJ.
~ BROOKLYN PARK THEAT Tsx cor
SIN. at p NJ. closes at II AS r. NJ Mr. + A sothern
Washington street BrookIyn.-LADy AuDLEYs Sc
CkET, at 8 P. NJ. closes at il P NJ Mrs. Bowers.
noMEEY TIT yHEArR skss1oS Ree0s
8r. NJ. closes at II P. NJ. Miss Laura Alberta
No. ss at
7:45 p. NJ. closes at 10 81 P. NJ.
NIBLO's GARDEN,
GOOD For NOTHING; THE WRONG MAN IN THE
VOkes Family.
m GsFEA a2ysE
M. closes at II p. NJ.
BRYANTs OPERA HOUSE.
s sEse EGR6 n &C
M closes at 10 p NJ
STFINWAY HALL.
Fourteenth street.-CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN's READ
INGS, at p. NJ.
Balm HALL.
Great Jones street and Lafayette place-THE Pill
GRIN, at s F. NJ closes at 10 r. NJ
COLOSSEUM
Broadway corner of Thirty street-PARIS BY
MONT, at 7. NJ. closes at 8 p. NJ. same at r. NJ
closes at 10 F. NJ
TRIPLE S HE E T.
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The AsHANTEEs have come down from their
lofty perch, as the cable informs US this morn
ing, and they sigh for peace. The mi
trailleuses and artillery Of Sir Garnet Wolse-
ley have had the effect of showing the blacks
that war is not the most desirable institution
in the world, and the recognition of this sur
prising fact has induced King Koffee to send
dozen plenipotentiaries into the British
camp in order that the English may be in
formed of this complete revolution in the
ideas of their sovereign. But the General
told the embassy that he would only treat
with Koffee at Coomassie This would indi-
cate ample spoil, indemnity and permanent
occupation
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BOOTHS THEATRE
Sixth avenue and Twenty-thi street-LA FEMME DE
FkU at AS r. NJ. closes at 10 80 +. NJ. Mrs j. B.
Booth.
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TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE
No. 2Dl Bowerv.-VARiETY ENTERTAINMENT, at s p
NJ. closes at IL P. NJ.
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Poor LOUISIANA Mr.. Hebert writes to
Senator Bayard ''as democrat, native and
citizen of Louisiana" deprecating Congress
sional interference in the politics of that State
and especially opposing the proposition for o
new election. He may be right in his opposi-
ton to the election, but he sustains his view
absurdly, and puts himself in the position of
the judge whose decision was not disputed
till he gave his reasons for it. MI. Hebert
admits that great outrage was done in the
judicial proceedings" that seated the present
Governor, but he still objects to ''convulsing
the State with a new election" Kellogg and
company would, perhaps, ask nothing better
than to preserve the State from such convul-
sions for twenty or thirty years. Mr.. Hebert
is also of opinion that for Congress to order
an election would establish precedent for
constant meddling Of the same sort against
the precedent for an Executive installation of
a fraudulent government he has nothing to
say. Republican magnates have assured the
country that the best men in Louisiana were
against new election, and this man is doubt
less one of that class. They think the less
help they have from the republican lawmakers
the better they will be off.
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standing greenback currency-is sequestered
from public use as money, either to benefit
revenue officials or the banks, to lie idly in
the Treasury or be sustained in a continual and
useless voyage about the country in the locked
safes of express companies. At the present
moment of time no less than one hundred
millions of public money are thus kept from
their vitality useful purpose of measuring values
and promoting industrial activity. Will it
dare be maintained that such q tremendous
and constant sequestration of currency has
had no influence in upholding local monopo-
lies of capital, promoting panics or disturbing
the industrial prosperity of the country? Init
mately connected with the debt policy is the cur
rency. Any attempt to fix the volume of the
latter by taking for guide the measure of the
currency in other countries or in this country
at former periods is necessarily delusive. Cur
rency does not fix values nor even the relation
between them. 1t is simply measure, more
or less long, and all the better, when itself rela-
lively valuable and useful for other purposes,
by which to measure these relations. This
can be done quite as well with single one
dollar note, cut into four hundred million
pieces, as with four hundred million separate
one dollar notes; or, for that matter, with ten
thousand millions. To increase the number
of these notes will no more cheaper loan
able capital than would cutting up
the present issue of notes into small
pieces. Its only effect, when accorded the
force of law, can be to dishonesty violate
existing contracts and enable debt under
taken at the measure of long dollar to be
discharged at the measure of q short one
| This idea of expanding the currency. at
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-12-24

Women: have been. appointed
Justices Jus Of the Peace ''ae j jip Maine By
several executives, commencing with
Gov. Chamberlain, but the Supreme
( Court q has just decided, in response to
an inquiry from Gov, Dingley, that
women cannot hold that position, or
any other mentioned in the Constitu-
ton. Justice Dickerson, however, dis
.sents from this opinion and thinks
that there is no constitutional
objection to having women act
as Justices of the Peace, and the
Justices all agree that the Legislature
may authorize women to hold any
office created by that body. This de-
cision of the court renders void con-
siderable business, and iperturbes the
minds Of various people who have
been married by the feminine justices !;
and it really wouldn't have been q
bad plan if the legal aspect of the
matter had beeniinquired into a little
earlier.-ee1pr1eqfeld (Mass.) Union. =
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-12-24
KEEP THE FEET WARM.
Many Of the colds which ne

Many Of the colds which people
are said to catch, commence at the
feet. To keep these extremities
warm, therefore, is to effect an insur-
ance against the almost interminable
list Of disorders which spring out Of 4
slight cold" First never be tightly
shod. Boots or shoes, when they fit
closely, press against the foot, and
prevent the free circulation of the
blood. When, on the contrary, they
90 not embrace the foot too tightly,
the blood gets fair play, and the
spaces left between the leather and
stockings are filed with a comfortable
supply Of warm air. The second rule
1s-never sit in damp shoes. It is
often imagined, that unless they are
positively wet, it is not necessary to
change them while the feet are at
rest. This is a fallacy; for when the
least dampness is absorbed into the
sole, 1t is attracted further to the foot
itself by its own heat and thus per-
splration is dangerously checked.
Any person may prove this by try
ing the experiment of neglecting tho
rule and his feet will become cold and
damp after few moments, although,
taking off the shoe and warming it,
it will appear quite dry.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-12-24
LOOK AFTER THE EYES.

Multitudes of men and women
have made their eyes weak for life
by the too free use of eyesight, read
ing small print and doing fine sewing.
In view of these things, it is well to
observe the following rules in the use
Of the eyes:
Avoid all sudden changes between
light and darkness.
Never read by twilight, or on .
very cloudy day.
Never sleepy so that on waking the
eyes shall open on the light Of the
window.
Do not use eyesight by light 30
scant that it requires an effort to dis
criminate.
Never read or sew directly in front
Of the light of window.
1t is best to have the light from
above, or obliquely, or over the left
shoulder.
loo much light creates 4 glare,
and pains and confuses the sight.
The moment you are sensible of an
effort to distinguish, that moment
stop and talk, walk or ride.
AS the sky is blue and the earth
green, it would seem that the ceilings
should be a blush tinge, the carpet
green, and the walls of some mellow
tint.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-12-24

-. 49, In measuring the suns distance
from the earth: in 1859, an error in
The E SUMS parallax, almost immeas-
urably small-actually less, it is
said, than a hairs breadth seen fifty
yard o&-caused the error of millions
of miles which is now known to exist.
But the vastly improved instruments
with which observations are now made
will, it is believed, enable the exact
distance to be determined. Encke
determined that it was about 95,274,-
900: miles; astronomers now only know
that it is about 100000 miles less.
But the successful observations of the
transit of Venus will doubtless suffice
to fix this distance, and consequently
the distances of all the other planets
from the sun, and then to determine
exactly the longitude of many stations
now known only approximately.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-12-24
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.

Feed only meal to fattening fowls
for at least two days before killing,
and feed nothing for few hours be-
fore killing.
Chickens cannot be raised profit
ably alone, but in connection With
other farm operations nothing pays
better. -
You can save feed and trouble by
getting rid Of your poorest stock now.
This IS particularly true of sheep.
Get rid of the miserable, scrawny
ones that you know will not winter
over, or if they do, will be worth
nothing when spring opens. Better
knock them in the head and sell the
pelts than to feed them all the winter
for nothing. It pays to keep good
stock, but poor stock never.
A good lubricator for wooden axles
is made of six parts of clean tallow
and two parts of fine smooth plum
bago. Another is made Of five parts
of tallow, five parts Of soapstone, one
part plumbago, and nine parts rosin
oil ; the tallow and the oil are heated
and mixed, after which the soapstone
and plumbago are added.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-12-24
HOUSEKEEPING HINTS.

Never put a particle Of soap about
your silver if you would have it re-
tain its original luster. When it
wants polishing, take a piece of soft
leather and whiting and rub hard.
The proprietor of one of the oldest
silver establishments in the city of
Philadelphia says that "heusekeepers
ruin their silver by washing it in
soap suds, as it makes it look like
pewter
Stove lustre, when mixed with tur-
pentine and applied in the usual
manner, is blacker, more glossy, and
more durable than when mixed with
any other liquid. The turpentine
prevents rust, and when put on m
old rusty stove, will make it look as
we'll as new.
To extract ink from cotton, silk
and woolen goods, saturate the spots
with spirits of turpentine, and let it
remain several hours then rub it
between the hands, it will crumble
away without injuring either the col
or or texture of the article.
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i An editor relates how "a :oolored
barber made a dead-headI Of, him.
He offered him the sususl tdime for
shaving, when the fellow:sdrew him
salf ;up5with considerable tpompoity;
and said: II, -T}:r. z:4:r.,EF,e Ga ~ %,
49, g understand dat you is, an editor 2
. well, what oft n says.we. =, yei
49,: -. : "We'neber charge editors muffin. Z
:! "But, my worthy FRIEND q we, con.
tin Ttilnued, "there are. atcgood many,edi.
tors travelling now-a-days; and such
liberality On your part'would prove I
ruinous business:',1ufL 10 2aeoflj.5r
"Oh,s neber mind" !" remarked the
bar Der, 1--WE make it up off de gem
men" ssa' +".-----~-.-.- -
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"A mysterious basket, addressed
to the stationmaster at Clapham
Junction, on being opened was found
to contain living child. The sta
tion-master declining the gift, porter
volunteered to accept it, and took the
basket and child. On lifting the
child E800 was found in the basket,
The story goes that the station-master
then demanded the basket and its con-
tents, which the porter very properly
refused to give up. One can hardly
doubt to which Of the two the moth.
er would intrust her child.-Londo,,
Times.
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"A writer in Seribasers Mo,,thly
thinks that the much-used expression
'excuse my glove" when Offering the
hand is an absurd and altogether
mistaken form Of po1teness.. Thsre
is no impropriety in wearing gloves,
and there cannot be any. in Offering
the hand with one on. 1t would be
just as reasonable to say "excuse my
coat" OK "my boots" e
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The real waste among well-to-do

The real waste among well-to-do
farmers, the Boston Journal Of Chem
,stry says, ''is the throwing away of
house slops, and in allowing the
liquid excrement of animals to be
lost. It is better to advise farmers to
save every drop of the liquids Of the
house and barn, than to urge them to
pile up huge heaps of inert substances
to be used as fertilizers. A heap of
dry muck or peat, which in itself has
no special value, may be used advan-
tageously to absorb the valuable IL
guilds of the house and barn, and in
this way a farmer may largely in
crease his manurial resources with.
out incurring great expense"