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and iron. But is there to be no end of this
policy? Germany naturally asks this ques-
ton as she remembers her three wars, and
sees new issue which may be more terrible
in its results. 1t was thought that the
humiliation of France would usher in an era
OF lasting peace; that the feud of generations
had been fought out /; that the Father
land, ''where German is the name for
friend and Frenchman is the name
for fend," had at last been consolidated. But
no sooner is the war with France at an end,
and with an appalling loss of men and treas-
ure, than q new war is threatened. The
patriotic spirit of Germany was invoked to
aid in national unity and the destruction of
France. The religious spirit is now invoked
to overthrow the power of Rome. The mean-
ing Of this new summons is that Europe is
brought into position akin to that before
the Thirty Years War A great crisis is i'm
pending, Mr.. Disrael hints 1t in the tone Of
prophecy. Victor Hugo relates it in the
rhapsodies Of his verse. Evangelical clergymen
pray for it. The Protestant nations are called
upon to be ready to do battle against the
woman of Babylon. In the meantime the
Pope, who, with all Of his infallible wisdom,
is not the best tempered of men, showers
anathema after anathema upon all who would
raise hand against st. Peter In Germany,
in France, in Russia, in England, but one
voice is heard-the voice Of the drill-master.
The manhood Of Europe is in arms. The in
genuity of its artisans is taxed to make more
terrible cannon and easier means of army sup
ply and transportation. The Parliaments in
France and Germany vie with each other in
the alacrity with which they vote money to arm
the country. The policy of blood and iron
extends over the Continent. Germans find
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BRYANT's OPERA HOUSE,
West Twen nty third street near Sixth avenne.-NEGRO
MINsTRELSY, &c, at r. NJ; closes Ut ~ r. NJ Dan
Bryant
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BROOKLYN THEATRE.
Washington street.-MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, ai
eP NJ Mr.. Frank Roach Mrs Conway.
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NIBLO's,
Broad dway-JACK AND JILL, at IS P. N.
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.
Twenty eighth street and Broadway.-A NEW WAY TO
PAY OLD DEBTS, at r. NJ closes at 10 80 +. ID. Miss
Ilaya
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METROPOLITAN THEATRE.
No 5S5 Broadway. VARIETY, at r. NJ; closes at
u NJ.
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TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE,
light tn street-CIRCUS. at 8 r. N.
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Our able contemporary, the Nestor of tha
American press, the EUening Post, makes this
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1874-12-27

A tide of immi grafton is just setting in from
Iceland. 1t was only few months ago that
the Icelanders We're celebratin e the thousandth
anniversary of their nations birth, and still it
appears that their rulers have not yet learned
the first principle of free and righteous gov
ernment. That the people of Iceland for many
generations past have endured great political
oppression at the hands of the Danish and
this kind of tyranny has been easy to bear
compared to the acts of religious intolerance
since the Lutheran Reformation. At a recent
interview Mr.. Olaffson, the commissioner who
has been chosen to be the leader of the exodus
from the icy land, said that the annexation of
of the Norwegian provinces to Denmark sig
nailed the death of freedom in Iceland. But
it was during the sixteenth century that the
tyranny became crushing as to cause the
people to implore the clergy to rescue them
from the tolls. Bishop John Arason, at the
head of q small army, attacked the Danish
government, but was overpowered and the
people were driven back to serfdom. The
Catholic religion was then the prevailing one
among the people, but they were given to un,
derstapd that nothing but Lutherlsm would
be tolerated. However, as civilization ad-
vanced they began to recover some of their
rights. and in 1854 they were again allowed to
build ships for themselves and hold CONNER
cial Intercourse with the rest OF the world.
Still they have no religious freedom, and it
was not until last year that they were allowed
to enact their own laws Those who do not
profess the Lutheran faith are deprived OF
citizenship, and there is no such thing as free
dom of speech and of the press 1t Is the In
tention of Mr.. Olaffson to spend next summer
in Iceland, and he expects that emigrants by
the thousand will follow him to this country.
At present the rendezvous for the emlgrants
is at Kodiac or at Cooks Inlet. bnt prepar-
ations are making for settling n large colony
in Wisconsin. Those who have already emil
grated are at present poor, bnJ they are indus
trious and hopeful.
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The Republic or the "Nation which

1t takes a long time to decide and settle
questions affecting the form of government for
a large number of States. So many conflicting
interests and opinions contend with ever
varying success for the mastery. Our system
of government as originally cons tituted treated
States as sovereigntes. Each State had pro-
vided itself with the republican form of gov
ernment, and established its right to be con-
sidered and treated as an Independent nation
aiity, long before the Federal Union was
devised. They entered into Federal and not
National relations, defined in the original
constitutional compact between them. The
form of government thus established differed
from q natiopalism in this all it's authority
was derivative, and itself merely instru-
ment to execute the agreement of the sov-
ereignties to the compact. 1t was called the
Federal Republic of the United States of
America.
Is had its opponents from the beginning.
They came near overturning or converting it
into a nation in 1898. Such headway had they
made that the Repnblicana, under the leader
ship of jefferson, decided to abandon the field
of general politics and take appeal to the
people in the States respectively This carried
the question whether the form of government
croachmeuts ts into nationalism directly to the
Inherent source of political power. The people
rallied to the help of Jefferson, and the Repub
lie was saved.
It was natural that the run of events should
again carry the system out OF its constitu
t:onal limits and produce'a formidable combi
nation in favor of converting the Republic into
Nation. So to-day, and for twenty years,
the absorbing issue of 1898 is upon us. The
same principles are involved There is moth
ing new about the situation except the actors
and the conditions. The disease is the same,
and the patient got it in the same way. 1t
requires the same remedy prescribed by Jeffer-
snn -.LcfersOuidu Democrat,
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Wages.

A correspondent of the N. Y. World, review
ing the annual report of the Trades Unions of
England, says:
The report contains an interesting tabular
statement of the hours and the pay in different
towns in Great Britain and America. From
this we learn that wages vary from El per
week to S21, and honrs from forty. y.eght to
sixty in the week The saddest of places for
the working-men appears to be Psnzance,
the week for the sum of f1. The best seems
to be New York. where be gets S21 for forty
ght hours work. In Ireland hours are almost
invariably sixty. and in Canada they are hardly
less. In London (Canada) the engineer gets
50 for fifty nine bonrs work; in Hamilton $40
for sixty hours in Glasgow and Edinburg Il
9s. Cd. for ffty-one hours. In Dublin Gl las.
for sixty and three-quarter hours; in Dublin
G1 19s. AID. for ffty-two and onehalf hours.
To account for all these varieties would
puzzle political economists" For instance,
Liverpool and Manchester are two great COM
mercial centres situated within q short dis
tance of each other, and in which the cost of
living is about equal. The facilities for bring
ing in surplus from other towns are nearly the
same in each. In forty minutes time and at
may be made between the two places. Yet
the joiner in Liverpool earns one-half penny
less per hour than he would were he employed
in Manchester. The report accounts for this in
the superior organization which exists among
the working-men in Manchester, and am in
clined to accept this solution of the problem
when I consult another table in the report,
which indicates the advances gained in wages
and time in those places where the union pre-
walls. This shows that in London, for instance,
the increase in wages for 1873 was IS. 43d.
weekly in Manchester, 3s. sd. in summer, and
2s Id in winter; in Newcasti 2s. Id. summer
and winter; and other places show CORES
pondipg increase
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These two classes get together in the
most fraternal manner. The sweeper, or the
sweepress, is ever ready to lend willing hand
to the chifonaiers, or rag-picker's, investiga-
tions, and to contribute to his reapng a good
harvest.
Your sweeper is, for the most part, both
steady and thrifty, aud he is rarely to be seen
at the public house. Indeed, he is too glad to
get home and to bed as soon as he has got
through his fatiguipg work.
Besides the hand broom, there is the ma
chine-sweeping. More than forty machines for
the latter purpose are employed upon the Paris
pavement. They require only one man each.
This is the driver, who, while attending to his
horse, manages a spring. from the box where
he sits, by means of which he lifts and lets
down the sweeping cylinder at will.
These machines chiefly used on the
boulevsrds, the avenues, squares, and broader
thoroughfares, where they are to be seen at
work the greater part of the day. In bad
weather, more especially, they ply their way
alorg the most crowded highways, dissipating
the mud, half snow, etc.
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LET US HAVE PEACE BY ALL MEANs.-An
enthusiastic member of the Universal Peace
Society burst forth in the following style at a
recent meeting:
Give me the money that has been spent in
war, and 1 will purchase every foot of land
upon the globe 1 will clothe every man;
woman and child in an attire that kings and
oueens would be proud of; will build a
schooI-house upon every hillside, and in every
valley over the whole babitable earth; will
supply that school-house with competent
teacher: will build an academy in every
town, and endow it; college in every State,
and fill it with able professors; will crown
every hill with church consecrated to the
support in it's pulpit an able teacher of right
eonsness, so that on every Sabbath morning
the chime on one hill should answer to the
chime on another, round the earth's broad
the song Of praise, sbonld ascend like an
n1iversal holocaust 70 heaycDs
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THE SURGEoN-GENERAL's REPoRT.-Tbe an
nual report of the Surgeon General of the
United States Army contains in brief compass
much suggestive information well worthy of
careful Congressional consideration First,
as to the comparative physical and moral
stamina of white and colored troops, we
learn that among the former during the past
year the average number constantly on sick
report was 46 per 1000 of mean strength, the
death-rate being 13 per 1000, while among the
latter the sick ratio was So per 200 and the
mortality 15 per 600, During the five years
just ended the average losses of tho army by
deaths and discharges for disability have been
AZ per 900 of strength for the white troops
and So per 1000 for the colored In both
classes the mortality from wounds, accidents,
and injuries has been as high as per 1000, or
five times as great as the death-rate from such
causes in the British Army serving in the
United Kingdom. Such " wounds, accidents
and injuries" refer chiefly to homcides, sui
cides and accidental drowning, and of these
the quinquennial average shows among the
white troops So homicides, G3 suicides, and 100
drowning casualties per 100000 of mean
strength, and among the colored troops 254
homicides, 26 suicides, and 30 drownings per
100000. 1t appears thus that the nations
wards are much more addicted to killing each
other than to killing themselves, and that
they are either more expert winners or more
reluctant to go near the water than their
Caucasian comrades.
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On tho outskirts of ths city where the and out
Al cast dwell,
humble little chapel, in its tower sweet-voiced
And beside its simple altar, with smile and
mild,
Stands rudely sculptured image of the Virgin and
her Child.
In the early. dewy mornings when the grass.Grown
walks bright.
When beyo the ehmneys glimmer the far mountain.
tops with light.
Here crowd of poor and lowly The dust their heads
incline,
As the chaice of salvation is upfted DER the SHRINE.
Yonder in the great cathedral oIiel tnts the banners
On the purple nitro santng down the pictured
pane;
All arts mighty inspirations to the tired heart say.
"Aspire! !"
Hero heavens pure white light streams inward here
through open windows sweet
Blow the fresh airs the wild flowers at the Virgin
Mothers feel,
And sweet, slvery. GiIlsh voices sweet!y chant sim
ple strain,
suoh as shepherds might have ON the old Chal
dean plain.
Often when my heart grows restless. burdened with
earth cares, and sore,
Come to this humble chapel kneel down the wood.
en- floor;
Those poor ragged outcasts round praying side by
side with them.
wondrously seem drawn to the crib Of Beth
1ehem.
These pale faces scanned and weary seeking soace
and peace,
Speak more eloquent language than oden of
Greece;
Moro taan Plato taught when round him stood the
Athenians rapt and dumb;
More OF wisdom than ser echoed through the groves
of Tusculum.
The poor and poor cndeavors of these oers of the
Teach fe's grand and noble lessons-patience faith
and trust in God;
And the weight of earth falls from for hear soft
voice thrill,
And my heart lies down in quiet whispers Peace
be still!'
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street-cleaning in Paris.

The Journal dcs Debata gives some interesting
particulars on this head:
The superficial area of public way which has
to be swept daily amounts to eleven million
metres "a metres is yard and one-ninth) and
the work must be finished before the hour at
which general traffic begins. To accomplish
this. the operation has to be begun at about
three o'clock in the morning.
The hands employed muster by brigades at
certain points in each district thence they are
subdivided into bands, and proceed at once to
their early task. Whatever the weather, what
ever the temperature, the street-cleaners must
to be their post and at work.
These toflers of the small hours are to be
counted by thousands. They are, as it were,
the chanticleers of the great city. Long before
Aurora peeps from the east the tramp of tn cir
sa6ots, or wooden shoes, and the harsh noise OF
their stiff brooms, are to be heard upon the
pavement.
At that matutinal hour, when the stately
streets of Paris are under the dominion of the
Bweepers, you will meet, side-by-side with
them, those nocturnal philosophers who ex-
plore the heaps of rubbish and refuse which
fncrnlbeR tho Toad-side.
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COLUMBIA HOTEL,
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA.

This Hotel was built and established Immediately
after the war still retains its reputation for its
large and airy sults rooms with all modern improve
ments The Dining room on hTst floor, Telegraph in
Rotunda Barber-shop and Billiard attached gas
and bells throu ghout the house Table second to
in tho State The hOuse s situated Nam street,
the centre Of the bnsinesA part Of tho city.
The Senior Partner, Mr.. wM. GORAAH, with
twenty years. experience 1t tho ChaFleston Hotel fat
ers himself that he is able to give enttc hatsActon
10 the most fastidiouB-
aoRiEkH 4 CALHAN.
au99 6m PscPFetoEa.
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R,rnIng Star and Catholic Messenger.
THE CHAPEL.

INV oRLsA MS. SUNDAY DECEMBER 81 1874.
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.OLYLAND,
Engraver and Printer,


All kinds of Engraving done in the best style. Ball
committees invited look the latest styles of
orders of Dancing and German favors received from
Berlin and Paris, when the uost fastidous mind
ha Ratsial. nn22 Bun
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SONGS OF GRACE AND GLORY.
A CARD.

A CARD.
The undersigned informs his friends and the public
that he will give lessons in VOCAL and INSTRU
MENTAL. MUSIC at his residence at the residence
of pupils. Terms moderate.
H. A BLAKE, organist st. MichAels Church
Residence, No. 81 street. opposite Annunciation
Square. mYA u
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Buy your trusses and braces where they are
s'ndsand atted at H. spiInann's ps Bsreune street.
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MEDICAL ADVERTISEMENTS.

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They pnrify tho blood, remove all corruptions, and
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restores appetite and mparts vigor the syses
Sold everywhere. Office. 10 Murray street. New Yerk.
DR.. TUFTS Hair Dye
is easily applied, imparts beautiful black or brown
and acts like magic The best In the world. SeA by
all druggists. Price. 81 n box.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-04-03
Don't Do 1t.

There n, great many things one
does not want 10 do. And there IL on
editor ont in Logansport, Ind, who is
in the habit Of mentioning some Of them
occasionally. The last bulletin ia here.
unto appended in the belief that all our
readers giving heed thereto will there
by become wiser:
Don't eat sour grapes. They injuro
your teeth.
Don't split wood under clothes line.
You might cut the rope.
Don't crack jokes with The sexton.---
He prefers grave conversations.
Don't borrow trouble. BE patient,
and it will come to you in the course OF
events.
Don't fool with nitro-glycerine, or
irifle with an angry woman. Either one
will blow you up.
Don't gricve over lost opportunities
II is not proper for q mar to attend his
own funeral.
Don't yrowl simply because your bag
gage Is smashed. Thank your stars that
il was not your head
Don't fool away your time TO reform
the world. DO content with Keeping
your own garments unspoticd.
Don't clothe your little vices with the
garb Of innocence. The garments will
prove too thin TO shield you from the
chilling blast Of scorn.
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From Texas.
III rKINNrY. Maroh 9O.

M'hlNNEN, MaFcn ~ lei-.
tits possible by this time you hav,
published as many letters from Texas a,
You may think interesting or proiiiabl,
TO the readers OF tho Posr. However
| wish TO s'Ll my Testimony TO that al
ready sdduced. The evidence, as yuu
know, is conflicting; while some exto
Texas TO the utmost, Others condemn II
as inferior in every respect 10 our old
beloved Tennessee. Now, sir, my opin.
ion is. That the truth lies between the
two extremes. Texas has Eiany advan-
tsges which she holds out 10 the poor
man, for good lands are plentiful and
cheap, and homes can be secured by Ell.
ergy and industry. But as we have all
learned, aud what slckens and turns
back so many OF us, tired aud lisgusied
with Texas, ia, we DO not fud the pile
all ready, without an effort on our part
But the man who comes here with calcu.
lations made and resolutions set to use
an effort, and continued one at that
will seldom fail to do better than IN any
old settled country.
| leave out saying anything about the
richness OF the soil, as II Is well estab-
lished that the lands of Texas excel In
fertility and productive capacity. Wa
terand timber are scarce in places; mo.
ney is plentier than in Tennessee. The
topography of the country and its most
prevalent diseases are pretty much like
other countries. Ii has its local maa-
rious districts, which abound in period.
ical fevers-intcrmittent, remittent and
congestive. Other portions seem quite
healthy. 1t is true Of this, rs well as OF
new countries generally, that we are
exempt as yet from certain forms OF dis.
ease in epidemic or endemic shape that
lay waste older countries, but suffer
more from malarious forms of disease.
The man who comes here, gets home sick
and returns in few short weeks, or
months at most, Is not competent wit
ness in the Texas case; his evidence is
too much from hearsay, aud not from
his own knowledge, which you know is
ruled out in all courts. Finally, | am
fully persuaded there is more in the
man than in the country. While some
will do well anywhere, others fail eve.
rywhere. Truly, j. II. ID. Lone.
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Taxes.

The "Tax" question seems likely ia
enter largely into the approaching can.
vass-particularly in West and Middle
Tennessee. We copy Il couple of para.
graphs--the first from the Hartsyillc
Sentinel:
1--WE don't want to take any side in
the discussion; but think that il would
not be out OF place TO remind few OF
those who are blamed for endeavoring
to raise a ''low taxation" election CIV.
that the Stale has every reason to be
proud of the low taxes at present i'm
posed, considering the enormous debt
the Democratic party had 10 shoulder
and had to provide for when il succeed.
ed to power. Tennessee. with all her
Indebtedness, pays forty cents on the
hundred dollars; and Kentucky. with.
out State debt, pays foriy.fve cents.
Any election cry looking to the mate.
rial reduction Of taxation while the
State remains in debt would damage
her credit abroad and operate very
largely towards running vast numbers
Of our own citizens.
The next paragraph is from the Mem.
phis Appeal:
The D,crsburg Gazette does not be.
lievc there ia q county in West Tenncs-
see that will send funding bill man to
the Legislature. The people are in favor
Of low taxes, and don't want any more
laws made by men who have declared
that Tennesseeans shall, during the next
forty years pay seventy million dollars
interest withoutreducing the State debt
n single cent. Will our contemporary
drop all this nonsense about the FINDING
bill. and say whether It's in favor Of the
State debt, principal and interest? Let
us have 1t straight out, Mr.. Gazette.
Are you in favor of reputation in
whole or in part, or at all, in any shape?