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The New York herald., 1879-11-02
ST. Jt
A. d. DuMoSr. President Republics

mittec.-
DEAR SIR-Yours dated October 2.
day. 1t is with great surprise
the Convention toward myself.
intimation reached me IN time
was proposed 1 would have prevente
Although always deeply interested
State and the general country, l hn
sense of the word n politician. =
Mt this late day to enter
While 1 firmly believe that
the national republican party
sight for the government OF this ma
in u strong national government for
dollar that is worth one hundred ce
Of all in equal rights. and while o.
solid south" has been, is. and II
DO an "Iliad of woes to the sout
vain enough TO think that any efior
of my name will materially promote
principles or retard the progress of
could | be convinced that such might
one of your standard bearers l might
general good. my health and business
action. IL we be given n free vote u
confident that our ticket VIII win II
my name Is on IL or not. and without
count the name OF George Washington
nothing. | sincerely thank the Con
plimcnt extended me. but for the re
must beg leave to decline the nomint
respectfully. your obedient servant,
JANE
The New York herald., 1879-11-02
THE JICARPILLA APACHES
WAsHINaT

THE JICARPILLA ApACHEs
WAsHINaT
The following telegram was r'
ing:-
SANTA FE, New Mexi
COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS.
l have been successful in cole
pilla Apaches at Abiquin Agenc,
tirely friendly. :.
A REPORT FROM GENERAL ADA
TORY SETTLEMENT PRoB
HATCH, CHIEF oURAY AND s
TO INVESTIGATE THE oUrBRl
PUNISHMENT OF THE MURDE
WAsHINGT
At late hour tonight Secretary
despatch from Special Agent A.
Pinos. Col, October 90. via Del N
in which, after reporting his arriv
the morning OF the Goth, he info
that he had another long council
River Utes, at Grand River, on til
are willing that the guilty parti
and punished; that he has faith
ability to compel the surrender u
be guilty, and that in order to ass
recommends the appointment
OF three-one OF the number
officer-to. make q thorough
find out the guilty and determin
Chief Ouray favors this course,
strongly recommends itror the re
the resumption Of hostilities
time would eventually lead
defeat of the Indians. the
attended with all the horrors ~
great destruction OF life and pr
loss to the people of Colorado.
At the time Of writing this
Adams had not yet received th'
graphed to him on Sunday
Schurz. which covered exactly til
proposed the same terms. and W
BILE coincidence, designated as me
mission General Hatch, Chief
Adams himself.
These Instructions probably
evening of the 10Th, or. at the la
A peaceable and satisfactory
whole difficulty now appears to
The New York herald., 1879-11-02
LOUISIANA REPU

JAMES NJ. GILLESPIE DECLIs
TIoN FOR LIEUTENANT
New OIL
The following is James NJ. Gill
ing the republican nomination T.
ernor:-
The New York herald., 1879-11-02

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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-12

Young Woman's Journal
When woman loses desire to please,
she looses half her charms. Nothing is
more conducive to beauty than cheerful
ness and good humor; and no morose or
unhappy woman can be good'humercd
and cheerful Then there are vast mum.
bers of il-tempered women who are ILL
tempered because they are ugly. They
do not know what is the matter with
themselves; neither do their friends know.
But the incessant neglect and indifference
with which they are treated finally does
its work of embttering their feelings un-
til the effect upon their moral character is
most pernicious. Every woman ought to
understand that nothing short of deformi-
ty can make woman utterly unattractive,
provided she will study her points; and
points Of attractiveness every woman has.
A thoroughly refined, graceful manner
can be acquired by any woman, and is a
powerful charm. The best grace is perfect
naturalness. Still, you must study your
SELF and form your manners by the rule
Of that art, which is but a carrying out of
the laws Of nature. But if it is your ma.
ture to be forever assuming some unpic-
turesque, uns.raceful attitude, pray help
nature with little art. If you are stout,
avoid the smallest chair in the room: and
be sure, if you do sit on it, not to lean
back on it with y6nr hands folded
in front of you, just below the line OF
your waist.
If you are thin, do not carry yourself
with your chin protruding and your spinal
column curving like the bowl of spoon.
do not wear fimsy materials made up
without rufiae or puff or flounce to fill
up the hard outlines of your bad figure,
so cruelty defined by the tightly pulled
back draperies. Study the art of dress.
We once knew very plain woman
who dressed SO tastefully that it was an
absolute pleasure to look at her. If YOU
have been moping until you're sick with
1he thought of your own hopeless ugli.
ness, be up and doing. Forget your dis.
appointments, forget the past and the
sneers of your own family over the mis-.
takes you have made. There are still
friends to be won. There is work to be
done. Rouse yourself and cast off the
enervating dlstrust of self, and the moral
cowardice which iorbids you to assert
yourself.
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snve Your Papers.


Those who destroy their daily papei
when it has been read miss one OF the
great uses Of good journal. A daily pa
per is history of the world issued in daliJ
parts 1t is the most impartial histerJ
that will ever be printed. 1t gives tht
events OF the twenty-iour hours preceding
its appearance with the taithfulness OF
photograph. These occurrences may bs
twisted by the future historian into any
shape that may suit his purpose, but ths
daily paper reflects, like mirror, the
worlds history OF the day before. Ths
paper is also a history Of your state and
a complete local chronicle OF your city.
Ii is also literary medium that givei
the thoughts of the best minds in all
countries and on all subjects, the --latest
achievements in science, the record d
travel in far off lands, the world of dis
covery and adventure that is at once en-
tertaining and instructive, the --latest
literary and poetic gems; in fact it givet
every thing that an intelligent readei
may desire. Who would think OF pur.
chasing such an encyclopedia OF knowL
edge in any other form only to throw il
away when read? Those histories, and
picturesque Europes and Americas, and
other classes of periodical literature which
are sold at fifty cents a part, are read, care,
fully treasured and bound. Why should
not a good newspaper get the same treat
ment? The volumes at the end OF the
year would form an invaluable local, State,
and general history of that year which
would be whole library in itself 1t is
true that folio sheets by reason of theif
o;ze of ,oos. make an unWieldY vOlp-
that il TOO bulky ror practical use ,rt ~, x,
objection cannot be urged against TT those u,ss
papers OF quarto shar,,, where the years,
numbers can be divided into two hand
some Volumes of convenient size, ant
therefore easily handled. One volume }
year is enough to make the weekly edf
ton, and the same arguments that urge
! the preservation Of the daily have cqua
! force whSc"n applied to the weekly, So
reader, spare ,,,iis sheet, tear not single
page; but keep each y..sar complete a his
tory Of the age.
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Poets Of One Song.
These Who Have sung But Ono Song
Aud then Have Died.

[St. Louis Republican,
There is rather a satire than serious
recipe for securing fame. 1t is more easy
to remember single masterpiece than a
multitude of splendid things, and great
authors names generally go, in public
mention, with the name OF some single
great work of theirs. IL is surprising to
find how many people of real merit have
"sung one song and died" They save
themselves a world of useless labor for
fame by striking twelve the first time.
Somewhat like the following, the author
and his best production, have found a
lodgment iu our minds;
Henry Carcy-God Save the King.
Hopkins-ilail Columbia.
Key-Star Spanglcd Banner.
John Howard Payne-Home, Sweet
home.
Chas. Wolfe-Burial Of Sir John Moore.
Chas. Kingsley--Thc Three Fishers.
Edgar A. Poe-The Raven.
Tom IIood-The Song of the Shirt.
Julia Ward Howe Battle Hymn Of the
Republic.
Bret Harte-The Heather Chinee.
The history Of some of the poems which
have immorialized their authors will be
found entertaining
Hoods touching lyric, "The song of the
Shirt" was the work of an evening. But
was rejected by three Of the leading jour
mails of London.
"rhe Old Oaken Bucket was written
fifty or more years ago by printer named
Samuel Woodwork. 1t was suggested
by the remark of a friend referring to the
well on returning from the fields on a
sultry day.
Mr., Kingsley's song of "The Three
Fishers was not the mere creation of his
imagination, but the literal transcript of
what he had seen of "Inen who worked
and women who wept," while he was a
boy in the fishing village of Clovelly.
Cowper's great Hymn Of Providence,
too, has history. He wrote it after those
two sweet devotional gems 80 for closer
Walk with God" and "There's Fountain
Filled with Blood" A foreboding i'm
preston Of another attack of insanity
began to creep over him. The PRESENT.
ment grew deeper: the clouds gathered
fast
He even meditated self destruction, and
left his quiet cottage to drown himself in
the neighboring river. He was under a
pail of Overwhelming gloom. Just while
those black clouds OF despair were darting
their vivid lightnings into his suffering
soul, the grandest Inspiration of his life
broke upon him. and he began to sing oui
these wonderful words:
"God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform,
He plants His footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the Storm
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They VIII Get ~.
(San Francisco Post.l

Derrick bod tells the following good
story: 1t was a sad looking tramp, with a
panied expression of face, that entered a
Sutter street bar-room the other day hold
ing in his hand small, battered canister.
"Look at this" nc said, sorrowfuliy, al
went into gunshop and begged for some
thing to eat, and the mean man handed
me this can of powder He said l could
go shooting "a starving man go shooting
Just think Of it,"
"Nell mizzie' retorted the barkeeper,
who had just set up tour fancy drinks for
row OF customers.
81 pledge you nay word" said the va
grant, holding tho can within an inch OF
the open stove, am so miserable I've al
most mind to blow myself up"
"Dare you do it." said one Of the by
ISLANDERS, winking at the crowd
The wrecked party gave a sad lingering
look at the poured out liquor, as that he
might neer behold again, and tossed in
the can.
The yell that the whole crowd gave as
they started for the opposite side of the
street was heard on Telegraph Hill, When
they filed in ten minutes later the empty
can did not explode, there were four emp
ty glasses on the counter, the lunch table
was mockery, and the till looked like a
savings bank on the day alter areatly
large deposit
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THAT WHICH HAS A FONT.
Gathered From Our Humorous Exchange

Wedding rings; Match making mothers
and fathers.-[Graphic.
1t is long railroad that has no turn
table Whitehall Times.
The Chinese question--O Oolong o Lord,
Oolong.-[Syracuse Times.
The city which produces all the tele-
ehones-Electri-city.-l Puck.
Approaching a crisis--W Walking toward
a restless girl baby Fulton Times.
How to get ahead of your butcher-pay
his price for it.-[Boston Transcript.
Trees begin to die at their tops-mcn
begin to dye there too Detroit Free Press
The Loan Exhibition is a most suitable
entertainment for Lent Baltimore Every
Saturday.
What never! No never! What never
Well, hardly ever!-L Original Joke in SOC
exchanges.
AS General thing, the Major part of
our Western men are Colonels.- st. Louis
Times Journal.
Tho man who went to the top of Trinity
steeple said he had high church views.-
IN. Y. Herald.
1t takes more sense to write good non.
sense than it does to write good sense
Newport Local.
1t used to be rather bluntly put, "Wine
and Women" Now it is liquor and ladies'
/ Danbury News.
Archbishop Purcell no doubt feels as
though he has been struck by the Nation
al Debt Rochester Herald.
should John Chinaman not come to peak
in America1-l Boston Transcript.
1t is pretty we'll understood now that
nobody but editors have right to write
poetry on spring Rochester Express.
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Parental Sympathy.

lEXchanSeJ
Parents express too little sympathy for
their children; the effect of this is lament
able.
"How your children love youl / would
give the world to have my children SO de-
voted to mel" said a mother to one who
did not regard the time given to children
as so much capital wasted. Parents err
fatally when they grudge the time neces-
sary for their childrens amusement and
instruction; for no investment brings SO
sure and so rich returns.
The child's love is holy; and if the par
ent does not fix that love himself he de.
serves to lose it, and in after-life to
bewail his poverty of heart. The childs
heart is full Of love, and it must gush out
toward somebody or something-if the
parent is worthy of it and possesses it. he
is blessed, and the child is safe. When
the child loves worthy persons and re-
ceves their sympathy, he is less liable to
be influenced by the undeserying for in
his soul are models of excellence, with
which he compares others.
ANY parent can descend from his
chilling dignity, and freely answer the
child's questions, talking tamiliarly and
tenderly with him; and when the little
one wishes help the parent should come
out OF his abstraction and cheerfully help
him. Then his mind will return to his
sPecuations elastic, and it will act with
force.
All parents can find few minutes oc-
casionally, during the day, to read little
stories 10 the children, and to illustrate
the respective tendencies OF good and
bad feelings. They can talk to them about
flowers, birds, trees, about angels and God
They can show interest in their sports,
determining the character of them. What
is sllrcr way than this of binding the
child to the heart of the parent? When
you have made friend Of child, you
ntly congratulate yourSelfsthat you have
a friend for life.
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Ericsson.

John Ericsson, whose name is linkea
with the fame OF the iron-clad Monitor, /,
now an old man living in New York. Al
tho..gh 10 years of age Ercsson's whole
thought is said still to be absorbed with
his scientific and mechanical studies, so
that he never leaves the roomy old house
in Beach street, which is at once his dor.
mitory and his work shop, except it be
for exercise or pressing business. Social
recreation he partakes not Of lie accepts
no invitations and gives none. Every day
he concludes his labors with a record oi
the events that have happened. For nearly
forty years he has kept diary, giving a
single page to each day, until The work
has reached its forty-seventh volume
comprising now over Ii,ooo pages. In this
diary only twenty days are missing in tho
forty years, the omission being due to an
accident in IS65, which deprived him OF
singer on the right hand.
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A Wife That will Wear.


A certain sort of talent is almost indis-
pensable for people who would spend years
together, and not bore themselves to death;
but the talent, like the agreement must
be for and about life.
To dwell happily together they should
be verscd in the niceitieS of the heart and
born with faculty for willing compro-
mise. The wCman must be talented as a
womSh; she must know the "metier de
femme" and have fine touch for the a(-
fections, and it is more important that
person should be gossip, and talk pleas
antly and smartly of common friends and
the thousand and one nothings Of the day
and hour, than that she should speak with
the tongues OF men and angels, for awhile
together by the fire happens more frc-
quently than the presence OF guest to
dinner. That people should laugh over
the same sort of Jests, many an old Joke
between them, which time cannot wither
nor custom stale, is a better preparation
for life than many other things higher and
OSttSi eOlultiiio III tIlC N'OIt~ . -kSI'
You could read Kant by yourself, if you
wanted, but you must share a Joke with
some one else. You can forgive people
who do not follow you through a philo!
sophcal disquisition but to find your
wife laughing when you had tears in your
eyes, or staring when you were in fit of
laughter, would go some way toward the
dissolution Of the marriage.
know a woman who, from some dis
tate or disability, could never SO much as
understand the meaning Of the word poll
tics, and has given up trying to distin-
guish Republicans from Democrats, but
take her on her own politics, ask her about
other men or women and the chicancry
of everyday existence, the rubs, the tricks
on which life turns, and you will not find
many more shrewd, tfenChant and hu-
morous. Nay, to make palmer what |
have in mind, this same woman has a
Share in the higher and more poetical un.
derstanding, and frank interest in things
for their own sake. She is not to be de
ceived by customer made to think a mys-
terry is solved when il is repeated. | have
heard her say she could wonder herself
crazy over the human eye.
Now, in world where most of us walk
in the little circle Of our own reason, and
have to be reminded of what lies without
by specious and claimant exceptions
earthquakes, eruptions of Vesuvious, ban
jos floating in mid air at seance, and the
like-a mind so fresh and unsophisticated
is no despicable gift. l wilrown think
it better sort of mind than goes necces-
sariiy with the clearest views on public
business. 1t will wash. 1t will find
something to say at an odd moment. 1t
has in it the spring Of pleasant and quaint
fances. Whereas can imagine myself
yawning all night long, until my jaws
ached and the tears came into my eyes
although my companion on the other side
of the hearth held the most enlightened
opinion on the franchise or the ballot
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Good Manners,
Ralph Waldo Emerson:

1 "riS rule OF manners to avoid exac-
geration. A lady loses as soon as she
ani;!ires too easily and too much In man
or woman the lace, and the person lose
power when they are on the strain to ey.
press admiration. A man makes his inie'
riors his superiors by heat Why need
you, who are not gossip talk as gossip,
and tell eagerly what the neighbors or the
journals sayf State your opinion with
out apology. The attitude is the main
point Assure your companion that come
good news or come bad, you remain in
good heart and good mind, which is the
best news you can possibly communicate.
Self control is the rule. You have in YOU
there noisy, sensual savage, which you
are to keL . down, and turn all his strength
TO beauty For example: What senes-
cbal and detective is laughter! 1t seems
TO require seyera generations Of educa-
ton to train squeak.ing or shouting hab-
it out OF man. Sometih es' "t'eh IN al
most all expressions the Ch> 'ctaw ana the
slave have had worked out OF h,.' ma coarse
nature still betrays itself in his Coz, tempt
ible squeals of joy.
When people come to see us, we foolish
ly prattle, least we be inhospitable. But
things said for conversation are chalk
eggs. Don't say things. What you are
stands over you the while, and thunders
so that | can't hear what you say to the
contrary. A lady Of my acquaintance said,
81 don't care so much for what they say,
as | do tor what makes them say it." The
law of the table is beauty-a respect to
the common sort Of all the guests. Every
thing is unreasonable which is private to
two on three or any other portion OF the
Tact never violates for mo-
ment this law; never intrudes the orders
Of the house, the vices of the absent, or a
tariff Of expenses, or professional priva.
cies; as we say, we never "talk shop" be.
fore company. Lovers abstain from
and haters from insults, whilst
they sit in one parlor with common
friends. Would we codify the laws that
should reign in households, and whose
daily transgression annoys and mortifes
US, and degrades our household life, we
must learn to adorn every day with sacri-
fees. Good manners are made up OF
petty sacrifices.
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burlington Hawkeye.l

"Serena, darling" he murmured; and
the old gate scarcely crcakcd as it swung
to and fro beneath her light weight, and
the silent stars looked down with tenderer
glances, and all South Hill seemed to hold
its breath to listen. "Screna, sweet" he
said, and the radiant bushes that kindled
over the peary brow and checks, softened
the silent lovelight in her luStrous eyes,
"Serena, my own, if every glittering star
that beams above, if every passing breeze
that stops to kiss thy glowing cheeks, if
every rustling leaf that whispers to the
night, were living, burning, loving thoughts
if every--Oh-h-ho-ho! Ow-w! Wow-ow!
Aw-w, oh, oh, oh! Oh jimmy pelt! Oh,
glory! Oh, murder, murder murder! Oh,
dad rang the swizzled old gate to the bow
vows! Ah-h-h-h" And she said, stiffiy,
that no gentleman who could use such lam
guage in the presence of lady was an ac-
quaintance of hers, and she went into the
house. And he pushed the gate open and
pulled his mangled thumb out of the
crack Of it, and went down the street
sucking the injured member and declaring
that however lightly one hundred and
sixty-fve pounds OF girl might sit on the
heart of man, it was little too much
pressure when applied to an impromptu
thumbscrew. And the match is drawn,
and all side-bets are declared of.
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Just what she thought pest.
aNo lover looked forward TO the meet
ings with the mistress of his heart any
more ardently than did with these meet
ings with my friend.
81 grew careful of my personal appear.
ance, careful in my conversation, and
strove in every way to be worthy of the
noble friendship. Two years passed in
this delightful mnnner-two years that
made me. My friend not only attended
to my studies, striving also all the while
to SOW the right kind of spiritual seed,
but she procured me business situation
with particular friend of hers, where l
remain to this day. Nobody but God
knows what owe this woman. During
the last three months OF those two years
l noticed that she grew constantly pale
and thin; she never was betrayed into
speaking of herself. Sometimes, when l
would ask her if she felt worse than usual,
she would reply:
"Oh, mol am only little tired-that
is ALL
"One evening she kept me by her sofa
much longer than was her custom, while
she arranged lessons, and laid out work
enough, it seemed to me, for months.
~Why SO much tonight inquired,
conscious that my heart ached,an vague
ly suspecting the cause.
"Because, dear she answered, do not
want you to come for the next week, and
am anxious that you should have suffi-
cient work to anticipate,as well as to keep
you busy. think can trust you to be
a good boy, John"
"I think you can ma'am,' 1 answered,
almost sobbing.
alt should see your mother my dear
boy, before long, what shall say to her
for your
"Then knew all, and my grief knew
no bounds. 1t is no use to go on. She
died two days after; and when hear folks
saying, There's woman at the bottom of
it, feel like telling the whole world what
a woman did for me-"