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The New York herald., 1878-01-16
Another Agricultural Ignora mus.

The so-called Department of Agriculture
which is not a department at ALL but con-
venient distributing reservoir for doubtful
seed and stale information, has never been
fortunate in it's head. The first Commits
sioner of Agriculture was chiefly known in
Washington for his original system Of SPELL
ing. His successors have perhaps more ac-
curately followed the usual photography,
and it must be said that they have been, in
the main, harmless. They distributed their
seeds and drew their salaries, and there an
end. But Mr.. Hayes has picked up some-
where new Commissioner of Agriculture
lie Due by name-who threatens to become
dangerous to our unhappy farming popu-
lation. LIE Due is evidently an un-
commonly portentous ignoramus. He
has begun his career as dissemi-
nator of misinformation by seriously
recommending the culture of the tea plant
in this country. We are to grow our own
tea, it seems. and starve those heather
Chinese. lie Due is delighted to discover
that the tea shrub will grow in q good many
of our States. But if he had looked into
the agricultural report for 1857 he would
have seen that this fact was there and then,
twenty years ago, set forth at needless
length. There is not the least doubt that
tea will grow in most of the Middle and
Southern States. Why not? 1t is plant
of the northern temperate zone.
But because it will grow readily and can
be cheaply raised, is that reason why our
farmers should be advised by government
officer to 80 into tea raising? Ought not
the Commissioner of Agriculture to know,
if he knows anything, that the cost of pro-
ducing marketable tea lies not in raising
the plants, but in picking and preparing
the leaves? At this the Chinese labor for
less than three cents day. Can
any sensible man recommend American
farmers to compete with labor at three cents
day? A more ridiculous and mischievous
accommodation was never made by Com
missioner of Agriculture, and we are Curl
Gus to know whether it arose out of pure and
unadulterated ignorance or whether some
body with quantity of tea seeds or plants
on hand has been ''stufing" Commissioner
lie Due. And then, too, he thinks we can
raise our own coffee. A little study would
have informed him that the coffee tree is one
of the most delicate and capricious known
to horticulturists liable even in favorable
localities to diseases which battle the skill
Of planters, and which ought not to be rec
commended to our planters and farmers
except after long and thorough trial in differ
ent localities. Congress is just now investi-
eating the departments. We hope it will
take good look at the Department of Agri-
culture and it's Commissioner. Probably
something would he found.
The New York herald., 1878-01-16
AS ISOLATION HALL, BRooKLyN-THE LOUISE
OLIVER CONCERT COMPANY.


The reputation oil Mrs. Louise Oliver and Mr.. A. Z.
Stoodart as vocaiists drew Association Hall, IN
Brooklyn last evening q large audience, whose en-.
thusiasm was greater than Its decor6m good sense
During zach interval between the numbers of the pro-
gramme thero din OF humping sticks and
stamping shoes aud small boys whsted aud shroked.
The more respectable persons present tried
fully hiss down these demonstrations wbich con-
tinucd beyond reason or dccency
Mr.. G. ". Colby played the piano accompanimcnts
with judgment ana precision. Mr. Richter, The vio-
lionisl, did not appear but Mr. Werner acceptaOly
of u yioloncsllo solo, composed by himself, the
theme OF which Is Cuban melodies, was iull of ex-
preston. Mr.. Stoddart was in very good voice and
deserved the applause given HIM Mrs. DIVERS tones
fresh, but not brilliant, ana Miss wknsons con-
trato very sympathetic strong aud mellow ir lis
upper notes, but rather thin the medium and
coarse in tho lower. The selections (irom Hayan,
Schumann, BiumentbaI, MeyerDeer, Rossini, &c J
were sufficiently popular to yield moro OF enjoyment
of cdI0caLlOn.
The New York herald., 1878-01-16
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Senator wadicgh dislikcs dodging.
Bob Ingcrsoll has of ear In politics
Sunset Cox now wears only little brown mustacho
Mr.. Benjamin II. Bristow, Of Kentucky, Is at the
Brevoort House
II Miss Won HiIlsrn marries and Is sauced how she
will was right into that man.
LORD Dursrin, Governor General Of Canada viii soon
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

United States, issued or authorized to be
able. principal and interest, in gold coin, or
its equivalent, and that any other payment,
without the consent of the creditor, would
be in violation of the public faith and in
derogation of his rights"
The New York herald., 1878-01-16
NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 1878.

TO TIE EDITOR or THE HKRALp:-
Apropos oil the reference made In your admirable
Modjeska critique Of this date why cannot the New
York public enjoy the treat OF seeing Moojeska,
supported by Fechter, IN "Camille" II but onces Two
such stars in conjunction would certainly shed rich
iYstre on the dramatic season OF tho metropolis
ART LOVER
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock market
was fairly active, but weaker than it has been
for some time past Gold opened and closed at
1O2, selling in the interim at 1918 Govern
ment bonds were strong, States dull and rail
roads irregular. Money on call lent at 6 a z
per cent.
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

From oar reports this morning The probabilities
IRE that he ,ceather IL Nec York aud its rici'.ity
Odiay wiH be partly cloudy or fair and cool. To-
por9Vw il icH be colder aud clear or partly cloudy.
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

VIcToR EMMANUEL's FUNERAL will evidently
be pageant Of no common order. All the prep
arations are made on grand scale. An out
line of them is given in our special dispatches
The New York herald., 1878-01-16
T RIPPLE SHE e Il .
NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY l6, 1878.

IMPORTANT NoTIcE TO ADvERTIsERs.-Io
insure the proper classification Of advertisements
ii is absolutely necessary that they be handed i's
before eight o'clock ereyy erening.
The New York herald., 1878-01-16
argument.

THERE Is AT LEAST one good purpose of Don
Alfonso of which Spain handsomely approves,
if we may judge by the vote of the Cortes on
the proposed marriage with the Princess Mcr-
cedcs. by vote of 300 to in approval of the
nuptials the representatives have proved them
selves gallant fellows.
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

UNITED STATES SENATOR DAVIS, of Illinois,
argued yesterday before the Senate Finance
Committee in favor of renting United States
taxes on insolvent savings banks in the interest
of the depositors. No doubt lie made wcighty
argument
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

New JERSEY was in her glory yesterday over
McClellans inauguration Still the inaugural
address is very commonplace.
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

The INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE is in
favor of reducing duties on American goods i'm
ported to Canada
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

The DoCToRs are in council ut Albany, and,
despite the proverb, seem to agree.
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

MIR. ARTHUR LEARY does not like Owen
Murphy's official shoes. Too much Canadian
mud on them
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

DID Mr.. +. n RoBSsoNs CoAcHMAN leave
whip behind him in the stablel If so, to what
use is it putt
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

Miss KATE FIELD has been singing to Queen
Victoria. But, then, it was only through the
telephone
The New York herald., 1878-01-16
AMUSEM L N rs.
MISS ROOTS CONCERT.

MISS ROOTS CONCERT.
popular concert for the benefit OF the Church
Music Fund, and complimentary to Miss Arabella
cples last evening. Miss Root was assisted by Mrs
A. C. Taylor, contralto; Mr. George BridRham, tenor
Mr. G. P. Warner, basso; Mr.. Ferdinand Carl vIolinst
Mr.. W. T. Mills, pianist; Master Charles Lowe,
xyophonist, and Mr'F. ~ Muller. organist, musical
director and accompanist The large church was we'll
filled. and tho concert was evidently enjoyed, for
encores followed almost every pcce An attractive
feature of the programme was the ballad OF Miss
Roots own composition Both words and music were
hers, and they were very pretty We quote ono song,
"Oh, Dluna Ye Forget" to show the style Of this
lady's verse;
When gang AVA. la1de,
Nhen gang sue Tar AVA,
Dnna 70 forget, luddie,
For her heart 5 thine ain laddie,
Aud ye ken IL fond and true,
And how sair would grieve thy lssso
Ifye could nae To- her too.
Lang VII be tina days. laddie,
Lang WI be the hours to me,
And keh J III grteve. lsddie,
Ihy dear loving face TO see
But In guide time, adhie,
We shall meet yet n ain.
And II ot on earth. lnddie,
May meet above In Heaven.
Then when gang ava. Iadde,
When gang sac far AVA
oh. dnna ye forget, ladde,
Her who lO'es ye mair thu a..
Mr.. Brigham, tho tenor, s new to New York. HIS
voice ID on the robusto order ana pleased his audi
tors who demanded an encore, which no answered
with q laughing song whose laughter proved con-
tagious. Altogether the concert wac pleasant one,
and very long. Owing to the number OF encores.
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

WHAT Drug these failures have become!
At least that trade is strangely. affected.
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

THAT WAS PLEASANT SCENE yesterday in
the Supreme Court when the Bar honored Judge
Daniels.
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

ANOTHER LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY in trou-
bie This time it is the Continental of Hart
ford, Conn
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

STATEN ISLAND LAW is something to be
laughed at. See report published elsewhere.
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

CRY AND COUNTRY will hail the proposed
Tramp bill with delight
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

So THE RAPID TRANSIT LABoRERs are to be
paid ut once. Good for you, Mr. Field.
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

GEORGE H. PENDLEToN goes to the United
States Senate. The political wheel is still turn
iuu
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

MAINE declares for hard and honest money
Next!
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

The NORTH SIDE ASSOCIATION is active in its
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

SITTING BULL has decided to sit still where
he is.
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

CUSTOM HOUSE REMOVALS are in order.
The New York herald., 1878-01-16

have understood the word coin to mean any,
thing but gold.
Mr.. Edmunds asserts that the holders of
government securities have right to ex-
pect that, however the government may
change its laws, it will not put its creditors
in q worse condition than existed for them
Mt the time the contract was entered into
This is as undeniable as principle of
morals and justice as the absolute disuse
of the silver dollar at the time the bonds
were sold is indisputable as fact. Can
Senators nationally vote against so plain
principle? Is it not true that government
has no moral right to SO change it's laws as
to work disadvantage to its creditors
Mr.. Edmunds shrewdly keeps clear of
debatable questions about the possi-
biity or expediency of maintaining a
double standard, and clear of all abstruse
questions relating to the theory of money.
He puts it out of the power of any Senator
who votes against his substitute to take
refuge in q fog of monetary metaphysics.
He intends to force q vote on two statements
of fact and one declaration of principle Is
it or is it not fact that only eight million
United States silver dollars have ever been
coined? Is it or is it not q fact that the
American silver dollar had become obsolete
in all transactions and had ceased to exist
when the government contracted its bonded
debts? Is 1t or is it not principle of i'm
mutable justice that no government in the
world has right to so change its laws as to
impair the obligation of its contracts? ? The
two facts would remain none the less true
if the whole Senate should vote against
them, and the principle is moral axiom.
But if these facts are true and this principle
is sound it follows, without argument that
the government is bound to pay its bonded
debt in gold coin. This conclusion is en-
bodied in the bill which Mr.. Edmunds has
subjoined to his mastery preambles:-"Be
it enacted, &C., that all the bonds Of the
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-07-05
Waste NO Time.

After allowing yourself proper time
for rest, don't live single hour of your
life without doing exactly what is to be
done in it, and going straight through it
from beginning to end. Work, play,
study, whatever it is-take hold at once
and finish it up squarely and clearly;
then to the next thing, without letting
any moments drop out between. It is
wonderful to see how many hours these
prompt people contrive to make of day;
it is as if they picked up the moments
that the dawdlers lost. And if you ever
find yourself where you have so many
things pressing upon you that you hard
ly know how to begin, let me tell you a
secret. Take hold of the very first one
that comes to hand, and you will find
the rest all fall into file, and follow af-
ter like company of well-drilled SOL
diers; and, though work may be hard to
meet when it charges in squad, it is
easily vanquished if you can bring it in
to line.-7He Standard.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-07-05
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT,
"Amend It Altogether" )"
WIN. ELDEN, Editor.

For the New England Journal of Education.
There are teachers and teachers.
There are, for example, those who ap-
ply themselves to their work as an art,
and improve from year to year. There
are, also, those who pursue the daily
school-room round as mere labor, and
who, by the second or third year, are
less able to stand an examination, and
are less efficient in their teaching, than
they are the first. They not only do
not improve, but they actually deterior
ate. And among at least the lower
grades OF teachers, these largely out
number the former class.
Now what is the occasion Of this fall
ing-off in knowledge and efficiency?
Simply this,-that when the first en-
thusiasm or necessity has passed, its
place is not made good by the continued
study of the branches taught, and by
careful perusal and use of the proper
guide-books of the art. There goes on
from day to day certain formal round
OF so-called teaching, but there is no
accompanying teaching of the teacher,
than which nothing could be more fatu-
itOus.
Now the query forces itself upon us,
Ought not this gross neglect of the
teacher $ professional duty to be official
ly looked after and corrected? Why
should not teachers of lower grades,
and yet unestablished knowledge and
skill, be kept somewhat under inspection
and control? Why not, to this end,
require renewal Of license to teach, on
actual examination each year, increas-
ing each year the breadth and severity
Of the examination? Especially, why
not, in each examination, make point
of testing the teachers attention to the
reading and study of works on the art
Of teaching? Would this be any more
than an honest attempt to make our
system of supervision and examination
decently honest and effective? Would
it be anything more than the wholesome
restraint and stimulus absolutely needed
by large class Of teachers? Would it
be any more than justice to our schools,
and indeed to the better class of teach
ers themselves?
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-07-05
Iowa CITY, June %. 1873.

DEAR BULLETIN The Science In
stitute and State Association Of Princi-
pals and City Superintendents have now
been in session four days. The two are
so arranged that those present may at
tend the exercises of both. A goodly
number of the leading educators Of the
State have been in attendance, and the
exercises have been both pleasant and
profitable.
Besides the papers and discussions
before the Association. we had the
pleasure, on Tuesday, of listening to
President Pickard on Wednesday Of
seeing an Illustration Of the Natural
Method of teaching the Modern Lam
guages, and of listening to an excellent
lecture by President Welch, of Ames !;
and to-day of hearing Prof. Leonard, on
The Planet Saturn"
The Association will adjourn this
evening to be followed by the State
Normal Institute" which will continue
through next week Among the resolu-
tions adopted is the following. presented
55'y Dr. Fellows:
- Resolued, That the interests of our country
demand a fuller recognition of the claims of
educational news and discussions in the col
umns of the daily and weekly press and that
we shall hail the day when all our leading pa
pers shall follow. in this respect, the example
set by the Chicago Journal.
OF the Science Institute we will give
some account after it's close on Friday
of next week. Suffice it to say now
that Professors Calvin, Heinrichs and
Philbrick have full classes and keep us
hard at work. But we must close, for
our head is full of Brachipods and Tril-
obites and besides it is not"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-07-05
WESTERN HORSE THIEVES.
The Inside Workings of a Great Border
COnspiracy-Facts and Statements Clean
ed from n Confession.
Kansas City Times.

Ine Inside Workings OF n Great ftOrOer
COnspiracy-Facts and Statements Clean
ed from a Confession.
Kansas City Times.
During the past ten or twelve years
horse-stealing upon the western border
or along the State line of Iowa, Nebras-
ka, Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas has
been profitable and lucrative business.
Thousands of fine horses have been stol-
en- and run out Of reach, and compara-
lively few of the thieves have been ar
rested. The efforts made by the officials
of the various border counties to arrest
the thieves have proved futile, and to-
day the nefarious business is being
prosecuted with little or no check or re-
straint upon the part of the law. The
records of the Kansas City Police Court
for the past eight months reveal start
ling record of crime of this character.
The extent and the immensity of this
contraband trade in horsefesh can only
be estimated from the official records on
file at headquarters. They show a
startling increase in horse-stealing and
wonderful immunity from capture upon
the part of the thieves.
Within the last eight months the
number of horses reported stolen at po-
lice headquarters, in Kansas City, was
36S The thefts reported were divided
between the four border states in the
Mississippi valley as follows: Horses
reported stolen in Kansas, 157; horses
reported stolen in Missouri, 14O; horses
reported stolen in Iowa, so; horses re-
ported stolen in Nebraska, 21; total, 1863.
hnr
ported stolen and advertised by their
owners, and whose cards and descrip-
tions reached the Kansas City police
station.
1t is presumable that this estimate
does not cover more than one-half of
the number stolen during the last eight
months in the Missouri valley and the
adjacent country. Not more than half
of those persons losing horses by theft
60 to the trouble of having cards or
handbills printed describing the stolen
property and offering reward Hence
it is not unreasonable to estimate the
losses of the owners of horses on the
border at double the number reported.
Or say $4,000 lost by theft in the four
states bordering on the Missouri river.
A few days ago released convict
named Harry Lawrence, who has just
served out twO-years term in the peni-
tentiary for horse-stealing, returned to
Kansas City. Harry is native of
Clinton county, and although not more
than % or % years Of age, boasts Of
stealing not less than seven horses be-
fore he went to the pen. He speaks Of
his exploits with the gusto and relish
Of an old soldier telling the incidents OF
Ian old battle. He describes the modMs
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-07-05

a parrot created sensation in bag
gage car on the Chicago, Burlington 4
Quincy Railroad the other day. The
cage was inclosed in paper and set on a
coffin, and was soon forgotten. AS the
conductor and other trainmen were
passing through the car they heard a
sepulchral voice issuing apparently
from the coffin, crying, "Lemme out!'
They were startled and frightened, and
thought they had a sure case Of a
ghost, till Polly was discovered whining
for liberty.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-07-05

A school boy was asked by his teacher
to give an example of earnestness. He
looked bothered for minute, but his
face frightened like the dew drops
glistening on the rose in early morning
as he delivered himself of the following
happy thought: when you see boy
engaged on a mince. pie till his nose
touches the middle plumb and his ears
drop on the outer crusts, you may know
he has got it.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-07-05

In the higher moral education, the
management Of the passion of fear is of
the greatest consequence. The evils Of
operating by means of it are so great
that it should be reserved for the last
resort. The waste of energy and the
scattering of the thoughts are ruinous
to the interests of mental progress.
The one certain result is to paralyze
and arrest action, or at least to concen-
trate force in some single point, at the
cost of general debility. The tyrant,
working by terror, disarms rebellious-
ness, but fails to procure energetic SER
vice, while engendering hatred and pre-
pairing for this overthrow.-Prof Alec
ander Balm IN Popular Science Monthly.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-07-05

"You need not be afraid oh giving toe
much" the old darky said. IF any oh
you know oh any church wat died oh
liberality, gust tell me where it is, an
will make pilgrimage to it, an by dc
soft light oh de pale moon l will crawl
upon its moss-covered roof an write up
on the topmost shingle, Blessed am dc
dead who die in de Lord"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-07-05

TEACHING, GROwTH-So many
teach only for time-men until they
can prepare themselves for something
else, women until they can marry-that
instances of lifelong devotion to school
keeping, though by no means rare, are
not as common as they should be. For,
after all, teaching is business to grow
into, nor can it be we'll done unless it is
loved by the doer. Adopted merely for
the sake of stipend, degraded to me-
chanical routine, made only an affair of
textbooks and formal recitations, nev-
er getting beyond drill of classes, the
term-time all too long, and the vacation
all too short, the monotony varied only
by quarrels with committee and
controversies with fault-fnding parents,
teaching under such pitiful conditions
and limitations may we'll wear out the
nerves and dwarf the character and turn
the school-keeper not only into ma.
chine, but into machine constantly
disordered. The distemper Of discon-
tent is contagious, and reaches from the
desk of the principal to the desk of the
pupils, until what should really be de-
lightful occupation both for the teacher
and the taught, becomes WEAKNESS to
all the soul which either has left.Ne,c
York Tt1bune.