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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07
Ia This China?

Congress is sometimes asked to pass what
is called ''declaratory act" to define the
meaning or intention of a previously en-
acted law. We should like Congress, when
it meets in December, to consider the whole
body of customs revenue legislation and
declare formally whether or not it was in
tended by these cumbrous and often con-
tradictory laws to make commerce and the
intercourse of our people with foreign ma
tions crime?
1t used to be thought that the Chinese
were an absurd people to seclude them
selves from intercourse with foreigners
but they at least went methodically about
it. They built wall and they closed their
ports. We do the thing indirectly by
Z "making it hot" for importers and
passengers. The other day an in
offensive gentleman who went down
to steamer dock to receive his family was
shut up and searched by u customs officer,
as q punishment, perhaps, for letting his
wife and children visit Europe. A s'Man-
chester Man" writes the HERALD that. having
dutiabe article in his possession on arriv-
ing ut this port he gave notice of it, paid the
duty assessed and civilly asked for a re-
ceipt, which was refused. No receipt or
even memorandum was to be given, he was
told. Why, pray?
Mr.. Lorillard desires to bring to the
United States-his own country-th the trophy
won on the English turf by his horse Pa
role-an American horse. The cup is worth
two thousand five hundred dollars he
does not intend to sell it or to use
it for any purpose of profit but the
customs officers refuse to let him take it
home without paying duty on it. He APP
peals to the Treasury and is coolly
cases free entry was allowed the
present Secretary Of the Treasury does not
choose SO to construe the law, and therefore
requires Mr.. Lorillnrd to pay thousand
dollars for the privilege Of bringing into
his own country trophy won abroad by
an American horse in o contest with Eng
lish horses-an honorable memorial, that is
to say, Of the speed and excellence of
American horses. We wonder if the Treas
ury would not confscato Parole if his
owner should rashly attempt to bring him
home? Breeding stock, under the law, to
be sure, should come in free of duty; but
even on this matter there is dispute. The
Treasury has its own notions of what kind
of breeding stock ought to come in, and,
as n court in Maine has just held that the
Treasury is wrong, we see that the Secre-
tary is thinking of appealing to the Su-
prome Court to justify him.
If commerce and foreign intercourse are
criminal Congress ought plainly to declare
that, and there an end. But if we are q
civilized people we ought to be protected
i'll some way against the annoyances Of q
set OF officers whose zeal Is as much too
great as their ignorance.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07

TIE WEATnER.--The depression that is adj
yancng from the Northwest made very little
progress during the past twenty-iour hours.
Its influence, however is felt over larger area.
and the gradients its eastern margin are be-
coming sleeper. The of high barometer
that ovcrles the Middle Atlantic and New Eng
land States is beginning to move in north
ensterly direction, which will allow the dis
turbancc to pass to the south of it. The ba-
romcter continues very unsteady in the Gulf and
South Atlantic States, and there are indica-
lions that severe disturbance will pass
over that region during the next few
days Rain fell on the South Atlantic
md Gulf coasts. Elsewhere the weather
vas generally fair. The temperature fell in the
.cntr1 valleys, Middle Atlantic and New Eng
lnnd States, rose decidedly in the Northwest and
remained stationary elsewhere. The winds have
been from fresh to brisk in the lake regions and
Northwest and light in the other districts. The
weather over the British Islands is fine, but II
change will take place this evening. The
weather In New York and it's vicinity to-day will
be- warm and fair. Tomorrow it will be warm
and partly cloudy, with occasional rains.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07
A German Dram matte Festival.

The Germans have happy way of cole
brating the anniversaries of noteworthy
events connected with their country's his
tory. To-day and on the two following days
will be celebrated the hundredth anniver-
sary of the Court Theatre of Mannheim.
The event is of more than local signif-
canoe, for it marks the lapse of CEN
tury since the revolt in Germany
against tho dominance Of French
dramas on the stage. Of all the many
petty German courts that of the Elector
Palatine at Mannheim, under the direction
of Baron Dalberg, was the most un-Ger-
man. Yet thore was laid the foundations
of the German national drama, which since
then has developed wealth of the grandest
productions. 1t was there that Schiller's
works, "Die Rauber," "Fiesco' and
"Kabale und Liebe" were first given to the
German public, and these mark the COM
mencement of new era in German dramatic
history and literature. Poor Schiller had
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07
Look Here.

Are not the republican managers little
rash when they SYSTEMATICALLY display the
likeness of General Grant at their meetings
alongside of that of their candidate, Mr..
Cornell, as they did on Friday evening?
Do they mean to tell the voters of New York
that vote for Cornell this year is only
vote for Grant next year, and that this is
not the republican party, but the Grant
party?
if this is their purpose. They ought to
take warning by the sad dilemma of the
democrats-we mean the Robinson demo-
Gratis. If Governor Robinson could have
publicly cut himself and his party
adrift from Mr.. Tilden he would
have at least fair chance of re-
election. If is because his success, as
is universally understood, would be only
Tilden triumph, that Mr.. Robinson's re-
nomination has SO badly split his party.
There are great many democrats who
would work for the success of the demo-
cratic party, but who are lukewarm or hos
tile to a Tilden party and SO, we warn the
republican managers, there are hosts of re-
publicans who earnestly desire the success
Of the republican party, but who will feel
very differently if it is to be turned into a
Grant party.
If the republicans sweep the State and
elect Mr.. Cornell the legitimate result Of
that victory will be to place Senator Conk-
ling in the field as a prominent, and per-
haps the most prominent, Presidential can
didate Of his party. Everybody under
stands that and while there are republic
cans who do not like Mr.. Conkling none
of them will question his ability. his
integrity or his fitness to be the partys
candidate. He is-it is not too much to
say-the only practical statesman his party
possesses in this State, and if any one
should hang his picture up in republican
meeting alongside of Mr.. Cornell's no one
could complain. But to turn the repub-
lican canvass in this State openly into o
Grant canvass and make the party not
party of the people or party of ideas and
policies, but q one man party, as the Til
den-Robinson party has unhappily become,
is, to say the least, huge imprudence.
We doubt if Mr.. Cornell's success is so as
sured that his managers can afford it.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07

use among dentists for the same purpose
that 1T is said to have been used on
Mr.. Gardiner. This is something
to be stopped at once. What we have
noted above in the case of an@sthetics
holds good of overwhelmingly, that to
some systems the danger of exhibiting it is
excessively greater than to others. While,
however, in one case out of hundred there
is no danger in the use of chloroform, in
probably ninety-nine cases of hundred
the absorption of a certain dose of arsenic
is fatal. That dose appears to be about as
much as is used in q tooth. slight
accident and the dose is absorbed Then
horrible death like that of Mr. Gardiner
may follow. Now, this is too much latitude
to allow the members of a. profession so
one-sided in their knowledge as our dem
lists usually are. They come at hazard
across something that suits certain pur-
pose, and often use it without proper
knowledge or proper precautions. Their
education is too purely local to make them
judges of the effect upon the entire system
OF a remedy or process, and hence they
are prone to proceed with the con-
fidence that should only wait upon full
knowledge until they are stopped short by
fatality like death under chloroform or
the more frightful one of Mr.. Gardiner.
Arsenic may have been found to kill
nerve effectually and with certain advan-
tages to the tooth if all went WE'LL and hence
they complacently overlooked the danger to
life they deliberately risked every time they
used it. Empiricism Of SO reckless nature
must be put an end to, and by the dentists
themselves if they are wise.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07
About Storage Passengers.

The Iribuae's Washington dispatches re-
port that comparison is to be instituted
by somebody between the food and COM
forts supplied to Storage passengers on
some of the Transatlantic lines and those
enjoyed by the convicts in the Washington
Jail and at Sing Sing
What far-tetched nonsense this is. Some
body might as well compare the emigrants'
fare with that of the boarders at a first class
watering place hotel. Everybody UNDER
stands that convict at Sing Sing or in the
Washington Jail is quite favored indi-
vidual; he is person, in general, of a good
deal of political Importance. The other day
one OF these gentlemen wrote for a
pardon "before election" on the ground
that if he got it he could be very useful
and it is not many years ago that convict
testified before q legislative committee
that the prisoners were the most respect
able class in Sing Sing, and, what is more.
the public believed him. A convict is q
potential voter; far be it from his old asso-
ciates, the undecided party managers who
have the honor to be his keepers, to treat
him less generously than they would like
to be treated.
If the Custom House officers who are SO
extremely active in these days that they
oven imprison and search people who have
merely ventured on the steamer dock to
receive and welcome their friends-if these
Custom House gentry will do their plainly
prescribed duty under the statute, there
need be no trouble or dispute about
the treatment of emigrant passengers, and
these worthy and often helpless persons
will receive the protection which it is now
charged they lack. Section 4,272 of the
Revised Statutes requires that 'the Collector
of Customs shall examine each emigrant ves-
sci on its arrival at his port, and ascertain
and report to the Secretary of the Treasury
the ventilation, the number Of pas
sengers, their space on board, their food"
and so on, including the number of deaths,
the character of any disease on board and
it's cause. If the Collector does his duty no
ssimpositions" can be practised, for the
laws are very rigid; and there is an addi-
tional clause in the statute which invites
the help of informers, who ore to receive
one-half the fine imposed for any viola<
ton of the laws.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07

till the end. and it will indeed be singular
II men as fast as Grassland and the Scotch
man McLeavy have so often proved them
serves went no further than they did yes
terday without purpose. A better train
ing school tor future international struggles
could not well be had than such race as
this' and there is at least good chance
that TINS weeks sitting may, by eleven
O'Clock Saturday night. develop even a
better American than Merritt
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07

a hard time of it with his first dramatic
work, being imprisoned for fortnight by
Duke Karl Eugene for being present at the
irst production of "The Robbers without
his august permission. Besides Schillerthe
names of Leasing, Schubart and Iffiand are
intimately connected with the history and
development of the Mannheim theatre, and
the glory of each of these, and of many
others, will be duly sung with Teutonic en-
thusiasm in the next three evenings on the
Rhine.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07

tho tenant farmers of Ireland. The
fabric of British society was never exposed
to greater dangers than at present, when
British industry seems in so precari-
Gus a state. The agricultural crisis in
Ireland is matched by similar and equally
severe agricultural crisis in England, and
nobody can predict the consequences of a
general breakdown of British agricultural
ministry tN..ts
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07

A SHERIrF's jury has declared that Weston
has no interest or property i'll the belt but why
has it been necessary to determine the matter
by juryl Any clerk in the Shcrifl7s office could
have discovered at once by the oft printed con-
ditions, under which the belt can be held or
owned. that the emblem of the championship
was owned by no man. Official stupidity--or
malignity-it was that the public had to pay for
in this instance.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07

SOME OF THE BAPTIST MINISTER'S denounced
yesterday the sensational method of advertis-
ing sermons. The best way of avoiding the
evil complained of is to preach clearly and
pointcdly that no such advertising is necessary
Some ministers with full churches will declare
that we are right,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-Stocks were
more active than at any other time since the
panic, the sales reaching nearly half million
shares. Money was steady Mt z per cent for
call loans on stock collateral. An immense
business done in Erie stocks and bonds
Governments were strong. Exchange was dull
anI st.aIv
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07

ACCORDING TO Dun SPECIAL CABLE DESPATCH
from London William Ringgold Cooper. the
American charged with forgery and deception
by means of wigs, false whiskers and ways that
are crooked, has been committed for trial
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07

A NUMBER OF FALL RIVER STRIKERS want to
go to work again. We hope that they will find
employment somewhere but do they realize the
difference between their summer utterances and
their winter needs
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07

CRITICISMS of Lord Chelmsford's campaign in
South Africa seem endless. The latest is that u
large body of women once brought OH the
ield by the Znlus. and his lordship supposed
them to be reserve force of troops
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07

SoRosIs discussed the morals of the drama
yesterday The drama needs some such treat
ment before the more modest OF pleasure seek
els can always go in safety to the theatre
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07

LAWYERS OFFICES have never been very safe
places, and If they are now to number internal
machines among their improvements the world
will suddenly make vast progress toward arbi-
tration method of settling quarrels.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07

TPE LATEST METHOD of circumventing the
civil service orders is for official to devote
his vacation days to the purposes of his party.
Such course calls for profound winlsing.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07

ONE YEARS IMPRISONMENT is all the punish
ment that Charles ID. Brown is to get for kill
ing his wife. The sentence may have been
merciful; it certainly was not adequate.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07

The probabilities are that TIE wedfher il. Nev
York and lis ticiniiy today wiH be wdrm and
far. IO-mOsrow IL aciN be ararnt and partly
cloudy, arh occasional rains
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

ABBEy'S PARK THEATRE-OUR AMERICAN COUSIN
STANDARD rHEATRE-lIAMLEr.
DALYS observation-disclosures.
AMERICAN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
ITALIA THEATRE-EnRLIcnE ARBEIr.
AQUARIUM--MRRRY DEMONSTRATIONS
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE-LA FILE DE NINE ANGor
BOOTHS Observation-Disclosures.
NIBLO'S OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
HAvERLY's THEATRE-HoBniFs.
HOPELESS OLYMPIC THEATRE-THE FRENCH SPY.
UNION SQUARE THEATRE-MY PARrNER
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF CouRE
GERMANIA THEATRE-DE HERRES ELrERg.
FOLLY THEATRE-UScLE TONS CABIN.
GRAND OPERA HOUsE-THE MIGnTY DOLLAR
WOODS BROADWAY ThEATRE-BRIc-A-BRAc.
SAN FRANCISCO MINsTRELs-No-pINAroGE
ABERLE'S MISUNDERSTANDING.
ROSTER A BALLS CONCERT HALL.
THEATRE COMIQUE-MULLIcAN GUARD CHowDEB.
dAvERLYs BROOKLYN THEATRE-RoYAL FAvoRIrE.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07

TIE COMMITTEE making arrangements for a
worlds fair have already twelve proposed sites
to discuss, and only three years in which to de-
iberate upon them.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07

How TO BET-or how not to BETS the lead
ing question ut the walking match at present
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07

THINK OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
having to devise means to get rid of the gold in
the Treasury! What now can financial croakers
sov1
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07

The TRACK at Madison Square Garden is
already growing less crowded
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07

SCORE one more game for Daft's team of
cricketers.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07
UADRU PIE SH E E I i.

NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER !. 1879.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-01-02
A WlFE'S LAMENT.

4 little woman, with q tear trem
bling on the end Oe her nose, had
been walking up and down the ball
for ten minutes, and rs thu boy de.
parted she entered the parlor, sank
into the red rocking chair, and then
timidly asked:
''Mr- Joy, can I trust you 20
MADAME, ynu ca1," he prompt
ly replied. Il DON'T like to hear "a
man praise himself, but believe [
can 60 to any grocery in Detroit
atd get trusted for one dozen
clothes pins without having to leave
any security whatever. new hav4
In my possession thirty-fiTe cents,
which were handed me by a street
car driver to buy SONS tinted note
paper, and if embezzIe one can't of
1t | hope TO te b I'D headed all nv
DAYS Yes, madam, you can trust
me-"
III was married about three
years ago." begIn the woman, after
considerable hesitation.
''D,n't doubt it In the least,
madam, and L suppose 1t was q case
OF love YT'
''It seemed Sd. My husband
seemed t0 think everything OF me,
ard | know / almost worshipped
him. We were very happy until a
year ago."
Yes, I suppose 90, madam. AS
Milton says:
HE called me his bride-his angel
Thought him the dearest on earth;
And Wen dance all night till broad day
light,
And-and-and % forth
"a few months ago." she softly
continued, she began AIding fault
because l. did not use more big
words IN talking, AID he said that
my grammar was perfectly awful.
Not day passes that he lOsen e
upbrAid me and sometimes l wish |
were dead %
MADAM, does he find any fault
with your cooking 2''
HNo not anv -
"a nd in making the bed you
| don't get the foot end the highest 2''
"Oh. no.
"And he never finds buttons of
, his shirts-uever comes home to
meals and fiaus the stove cold and
You gDssipIug over the gate ?''
she never has TO wait one min
nte for any OF his meals, SIR"
"Your husband had no fault tc
find for a year or twO-didn'G seam
to notice your lack of big words
while the honeymoon lasted %
"Eo."
VERY well, madam ; your hus-
bands coat is too big to 6t him il
the back, but / think ve can pnt
another on him. Now, then, viii
you do as l tell you ?''
80, sir, couldn't poison him
couldn't do suca thing" she ex
claimed.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-01-02
CHEAP
KAMSASLANDS

We own and control the Railway lands OF
TREGO COUNTY. KANSAS, about equally
divided by the Kansas Pacific Railway
which we arc selling at an average OF tk25
per acre on easy terms of payment. Alter
nate Scct'o OF Government lands can be
taken as homeSteads by actual settlers.
These lands lie In the G SEAT LIMESTONE
BELT of Central Kansas. the pest winter
wheat producing district OF the United
STATES, yielding from ~ 10 50 Bushels per
Acre.
The average yearly rainfall In this county
Is NEARLY 33 INCHES Pkk ANNuM, one'thiTd
greater than la the much eXtolled ARKAN
sAs VALLEY, which has u yearly rainfall Of
lest than - inches per annum In the same
longitude.
SfoCK RAISING and Wool GROWING are
very REMuNERATIvE. The winters are Short
and mild. Stock viii live all the year on
grass Living Streams and Springs are
numerous. Pure water ~ found in wells
CLIMATE - THE WORLD! Ne fever aud
ague there. No muddy or impaSSibIe roads
Plenty of fine building stone, lime and sard
These lands are being rapidly settled by the
br'St class of Northern and Eastern people
and Will 50 appreciate In value by the i'm
2royem"ntS now being made rs TO make
their purchase at present prices one OF the
aside from the profits to be derived from
their cultivation. Members of our firm re-
side In WA-kEENEY, and will show lands
At any time. A pamphlet, giving full infor-
nation in regard 10 soil. climate. WAGER sup
ply, &c, will be sent free on request.
Address
Warren Keeney & Co..
la6 DedrUOrn st Chicago,
OR WAKEENSY, TregO Co., Kansas.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-01-02

lonesome IL she had no one 10 stay
with her, and she said softly, "No,
I must not leave her. could not
enjoy ANYTHING to-day il | did"
After breakfast Minnie went to
her mother aud said "L'll go and
stay with Annie hut I'll wait Till
they have gone, for they will go by
Annie's house, and | don't care to
see them."
But Minnie had to see them, sf-
ter all, for 1t was not long before
she heard rattling of wheels, and
happy voices singing eat on the
air.
Minnie stood beside her mother
and watched them all pass, They
all looked 80 happy and the banners
waved SD prettily in the air that
Minnie could scarcely keep back
the tears. She struggled hard tC be
cheerful, and in her heart she asked
Jesus 70 help her. She was cneered
4y having her mother say, "you are
a brave little girle, my daughter.
When Minnie reached Ms.
Whites, she found Annie walking
In the yard with her little brother,
and with eyes very red f,om crying.
She looked up very inquirin2ly as
Minnie opened the gate.
"Ol, Annie," said Minnie, 81
have come TO stay with you. Moth,
er told me You must stay at home
aiono all day; and I've brought my
basket, and we'll have little picnic
all by ourselves. How nice the
trees are here. and how .green the
grass Is. Wen have o real good
time. Don't you think so y"
Annie's eyes were full 4 tears rs
she replied, You are 80 kind to
come and stay with me, Minnie,
and | an so glad But I don't
want Yon to stay away from the
picnic. 1 was just thinking how
lonesome should be before the day
was oyer"
/ do not think Minnie and Annie
m missed the picuic very much after
all. They each tried 50 hard to
make it pleasant for the other that
they found pleasure in thems= Ives,
and the day passed very quickly TO
them. When Annie'S mother
came home at night she told them
that Uncle Cualles was better,
aud they thought now he would
get well.
When Miunie's father came to
take her home, Annie said as she
bid her good night, "T'Il never for
get how kind you've been to-day,
and l never can than1 you enough"
Minnie felt In1re than repaid for all
she had given up to make smother
happy. She had befn like Jesus,
Who pleased not himself. ."-S. s.
Visitor.