The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-09-18

and rigging, from the keel to the top
mast. Most gaily we set sail toward the
unknown future. The ocean that we are
to cross Is not of great width, but 1t Is
periltui and full of difficulties to the
mariner. Ignoring that thought, with
light and cheerful hearts, with buoyant
hopes and 'anticipations, we offer our
friends on the ship cOraial greetings and
hearty wishes for a prosperous yoy age.
AS we bid adieu to the place Of our en-
barkation, we can not but remember
that many Of our friends who were with
US on the last trip, who were then gay
and joyous, the delight of all on board,
are not now present. They have been
lett behind on those shores to which we
shall never return, and from which we
are now steadily receding. Grand, how
ever, is the idea that we are sailing to-
ward a place where we shall meet the
past; where it and the present are swal-
lowed up In one immense and eternal
uturs. !.
Let us remember, as we are now start
ing on q new voyage, the experiences of
past years, and profit by them. What
ever makes the past or the future have
It's influence over the present, is worthy
Of special regard and cultivation. We
ought, as reasoning beings, taught by ex-
perience, to shun many dangers whose
proximity we now know. We ought to
cultivate those virtues and those quail
ties which enable Us to resolutely lace
dangers and endure privations which no
amount OF calculation will sufliie to
overcome. Courage, patience, selt'de-
NAL, and perseverance Will conquer al
IN. 1, illfr xhA Al q N.
querable in nayure--as charity, humani-
W, and generosity in practice will bet
ter tit Us to the realms TO which we are
advancing. Hail! then, on this morning
OF the Yew Year, The iuture, around
which plays the light Oi hope and glori-
Gus anticipation; and may we, as we
progress toward it, find the reality eX-
ceeds all that the widest Imagination
has taneied of it.
"The Naughty Attitude OF Germany"
is thus well described:
In single decade the old balance OF
power which used to exist in Europe has
entirely disappeared. France is con-
quered and isolated. Great Britain has.
voluntarily retreated from European
complications, and retired behind the
waves that lash her rocky shores.
bled. Only Russia remains to dispute
her supremacy, and she can not raise,
ior a decisive campaign, as many men
as Germany, although she has double
her population. A decree from Berlin
controls Europe, and Bismarck is as
naughty as Napoleon L ever was. His
arbitrary seizure and imprisonment uf
so important a parsonage as Count Won
Arnim reminds us. OF the kidnapping OF
the Duke D'Enghien, BY his French pro-
totype.
n
To all intents and purposes, the Ger
man power is now so securely intrenched
behind its millions OF bayonets, that it
would require great European coalition
to establish the old order OF Things.
Under the title "The Drama, the Stage,
and the Pulpit" are some very truthful
and forcible comments, as follows:
The world has undergone every sort OF
change in the character of Its amuse-
ments except one. The drama has never
gone out of fashion. 1t is In vogue now i.
1t was in vogue three thousand years
ago, and it will be in vogue as long as
lime shall last. 1t is SO because IL COM
bnes amusement with instruction. 1t
diveris, 1T absorbs, it entrances, and at
the same time conveys most sui les
sons. We doubt whether the pulpit it.
self has been a greater instrumeniality
10 create detestation OF vice and Il love
Of virtue than the stage. Even all audit
ence OF the toughest character, in listen
ing to the drama, in following the
threads OF its connection, instinctively
breaks out with applause at-the utter
ance of noble sentiments, or is thrilled
with emotion at the performance Of a he
rolc and generous act. The spectators
love to see hypocrisy unmasked and IL
deity rewarded. Therefore is it that
men 20 away from theater where the
genuine drama has been played elevated
and improved, il they are susceptible 10
such influences. The theater has been
always u true refeetion-a mirror, as il
were-of public taste and public virtue.
AS the people deteriOrate i'll morality,
the stase degenerates IN respectabiiity.
" Il Y Il
The stage needs reformation in its
present management; but We must re-
form, we lear, the people and render
them more yirtuous before any good can
be effected. AS long as thousands will
flock to see the '.Blaek Crook" to where
hundreds will listen to the most sublime
renditions of our greatest dramas by our
most brilliant actors and actresses, it Is
not to be expected that theater managers,
in this money-N orshiping age, will lore-
go the opportunity and sacrifice profit to
principle.
The Irish peasantry have tales OF a
parabolic character-stories which, by
means of some striking action or cir
cumstanoe, set forth hearty moral. On
hearing such, their usual phrase is,
''Och, It is mighty improviP." And that,
too, is what Molly Malone, worthy