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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22
ORIGINAL MATTER.
SIT Is so Easy to Write for Newspaper"
ChirauO JOurnal)

"It Ii so Easy TO Nrite LOT Newspaper"
Chicago Journal.)
He was a friend of mine and used fire.
quently to drop in and give me advice as
to how l ought to run my paper.
He was a minister, and consequently
thought l should devote it little more to
the cause of religion, and not quite SO
much to politics.
He said it could be made power for
good in the Western land, in which we
had both cast our fortunes.
He was lover of the original, too, and
said he dislked to see reprint, and thought
| should write more-take the time, in
fact, to fill the paper right up with good
new stuff, 1t seemed such an easy thing
for him, that one day | ventured to say
"Brother, you had a glorious meeting
at the school house, hear; suppose you
write it up for me?"
lie didn't seem to act as though he
wanted to.
| urged.
lie flushed little and stood around
awk ward like. He had never been hon
ored with an invitation to write for the
press before
still urged.
Then he took off his gloves and hat.
Then | gave him seat at the table, with
paper and pencil
He sat down to editorial work.
lie was always talking about how it
should be done, and now he was at it,
He started in.
went about my work, and having
written up column or two of matter for
the days paper left him still writing,
while | went out to solicit some adver-
tiscments.
was gone an hour or two, and when
came back he was still at it.
He was sweating awtully.
His ewes were bent on the dazzling
white paper before him and his pencil was
stub ! began to grow frightened.
knew | had only a small weekly paper,
and that its fourteen columns Of space
Zone side was patent inward would not
hold the contents of the Bible, and sup
Elemental messages from Heaven be-
sides.
At last the man looked up, and timidly
advanced with a piece OF paper in one
hand, and suddenly went back to change
word.
Then he came on again, and like one
who had passed through a vision, held
out piece of paper and boldly asked:
"Will that do?"
looked at it.
There were Just seven lines of it, adver-
tising measure.
He was large man, weighing over SOC
pounds then, but when met him, three
weeks later, he weighed less than I55.
He had been sick.
The seven-line nine hour effort was toe
much for him.
But it was not all lost. He never ad
vised an editor again.
Neither did he compose for a paper
again.
1t was hard work for him to write, anc
he saw he was not cut out for an editor
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22

New York Letter in Boston journal:
There has been a sad falling off here in
the development of women in business
capacity. The woman's famous tea com
pany went to the winds. Women would
not accept the position as subordinate
merchants. The company had money
enough and enterprise enough, but two
women in New Yory could not retail tea
all over the land. Miss King bought a
ship and fitted her out for Canton She is
detained in Honolulu, and cannot get
freight enough to come home. Thirty
years ago the heaviest real estate opera
tors were women. Eleven in number
were constant visitors at the Real Estate
exchange. There are but two of these op-
orators now in business both OF them
are maiden ladies. Miss St. Johns is said
to be worth $1oooooo. She is 90 years of
age. She very frequently appeared at the
real estate sales, when block of houses
was up, with a certified check of $5oo,ooo.
Miss Susan A. King is a Maine girl She
aided her father, who was great cattle
holder. When a mere girl she was the
shire widest of buyers. She came to New
York very poor, and walked the streets
because she could not pay for bed. She
is now millionaire, and is as keen as a
| brier,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22
Hard Times and whisky,

In a sermon at Baltimore recently on
the Lords prayer, Mr. Moody touched in
cidentally upon the hard times. ave
hear" he said, "a great deal of talk about
hard times; but what has caused them3
Sin. Look at the money that is spent in
this great country for whisky alone. We
don't say to God, give us this day our
daily whisky do WEI l tell you there
are mints of money spent for whisky
that ought to feed children's mouths with
bread. The fact of the case is, this ma
ton has been too prosperous. The Jews,
the chosen people of God, never could
stand prosperity. AS soon as they got
rich they went to worshiping idols, and,
whenever they got fat they began 10
kick against God. fear American NOR.
tails suffer in proportion as the nation
prospers."
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22
Not To BE Questioned.

1t is impious in a good man to be sad.
If fun is good, truth is better, and love
is best of all.
He shall be immortal who liveth till he
be stoned by one without fault,
Learning without thought is labor lost {;
thought without learning is perilous.
What men want is not talent, it is pur-
pose; in other words, not the power to
a.iieve but the will to labor
Friends are as companions on journey,
who ought to aid each other to persevere
in the road to happier life.
When the millions applaud you, seri-
ously ask what harm you have done /;
when they censure you, what good
We may initiate the Deity in all attri-
butes, but mercy is the only one in which
we can pretend to equal him. We cannot
indeed give like God: but surely we may
forgive like him.
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices
Or duties, but OF little things in which
smiles and kindness and small obligations
given habitually, arc what win and pre-
serve the heart and secure comfort.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22
To Near His Figure.
(Harper's.)


On one occasion, when Gen. Butler
was in command at New Orleans, a
Colonel up in the Red River region
made application for a furlough, which
was refused him. Soon after the Colonel
left his command without permission, and
went TO New Orleans, where he was
arrested and put in irons as d deserter.
Upon an intimation that he wished to
make an explanation, General B. had him
brought to his headquarters.
"Well, sir" said the General sternlv,
"what have you to say in explanation Of
your conduct"
"Well, General, there are two Jews up
yonder who have some cotton they want
ed to get through my lines. First they
offered me $500, which l refused. Then
they offered $1,000, then $1,000, then
$4,000, and at last they offered $Ioo,
600; and tell you, General, they were
getting so near my figure, thought I'd
better leavcm
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22
SOCIALISM.
Something Of this Modern Dlablery Both
In Europe and America.
detroit Free Press1

In Europe and America.
Detroit Free Press.l
Modern science is working miracles in
the art of production. Each international
exposition bears witness to that. The
rich are more numerous: SO is the class
in easy circumstances, while the working
man himself is better lodged, better
clothed, and in every way better provided
for than formerly.
Nevertheless no one can shut his ewes
to the absolute and despairing misery that
in times of prolonged commercial dis
turbance overwhelms whole populations
at industrial centers. 1t is the suffering,
the want, at such crises which form the
foundation of socialism, and the portrayal
of these evils constitutes largely the liter
ature of Karl Marx and other writer's on
the subject. On this point the conserva-
tive socialists agree with the radical
socialists, attributing these evils to the
present system of industry and bankoc-
racy.
Three remedies are proposed. The
political economist says, let natural laws
have full play; they will work out a more
satisfactory and conclusive result than
any interference can. The unrestrained
action Of the individual is the best posi-
bic solution Of these grave questions.
The democratic socialist says, all instru-
ments and institutions of industry should
be under the control of the people, acting
in their collective capacity. The conserv.
ative socialist looks backward to the old
labor guilds, to an industry under the pro-
lection of king and noble, and the aboli-
ton of free trade, of open competition
and of unlimited interest.
Only in Germany is seen the singular
spectacle Of division among the owners
OF property. There, however there are
several groups Of rich, noble, pious, edu-
Gated people, belonging to the provincial
aristocracy Or to the agricultural classes,
who are enemies of the commercial class
es and assailants of capital A part Of
this enmity is due to their "bidding" for
the socialistic vote, which at the last elec.
ton numbered 10000, the Conservatives
wanting it to use against their reel enc.
miles, the Liberal party.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22
Mysteries of a Lump of Coal.

For years no one had supposed that
lump of soft coal, dug from its mine or
bed in the earth, possessed any other
purpose than that Of fuel.
1t was found that it would afford gas
which was combustible. Chemical anal
ysis proved it to be made of hydrogen, In
process of time mechanical and chemical
ingenuity devised way of manufacturing
this gas, and applying it to the lighting of
buildings and cities on large scale. In
doing this other products of distillation
were developed, until, step by step, the
following ingredients. are extracted from
it:
An excellent oil TO supply light, houses
equal to the best sperm oil, at lower cost.
Benzole, a light sort of ETHEREAL fluid, which
evaporates easily, and combined with
vapor or moist air, is used for the purpose
Of portable gas-lamps, so called Naptha,
a heavy fluid, useful to dissolve gutta
percha and India rubber; an excellent oil
for lubricatng purposes. Asphaltum,
which is black, solid substance, used in
making varnishes, covering over roofs and
covering over vaults. Paraihne, white
chrystaline substance resembling white
wax which can be made into beautiful
wax candles. 1t melts at a temperature
Of no degrees, and affords an excellent
| light. All these substances are now made
from soft coal.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22
The Cincinnati Star,

THE DAILY STAR is served by carriers
to their subscribers in the City of Cincin-
natl and in all important Western cities
and towns for IL CENTS PER WEEK,
payable to the carrier. Or the paper will
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the country for SO CENTS PER MONTH,
Sc per annum.
THE STAR is the only STRICTLY INDE-
PENDENT NEWSPAPER published in
Cincinnati. 1t is taken and read by
people of all parties and shades of opin-
ion, and it seeks to present the news OF
all kinds fairly and faithfully, with Justice
to all and with especial favor to none.
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circulates in all parts of the country, and
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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22

Is there any thing on earth,
Where the strongest are not strong,
Half so feeble in its birth,
Or SO sure Of death, as Song?
FRAZIER blossom never grew,
Pelted by the summer rain;
Lighter insect never flew
Scarcely come ere gone again!
Children, who chase butterflies,
May pursue it to and fro;
Little maids who sigh, "Heigh-ho"
May deplore it, when it dies;
Loftier deeds to men belong
Larger Life than Song!
There is nothing on the earth,
Where SO many things are strong,
Half so mighty in its birth,
And so sure of life as song.
Never pine on mountain height
So the thunder-bolt defies;
Never eagle in his fight
Scars with such undaunted eyes!
Conquerors pull empires down,
Think they will not be forgot;
But if Song pursue them not,
Time destroys their dark renown:
Nothing is remembered long
But the Life Of Song!
-[R. H. Stoddard, in Harper's
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22

constitute himself sanitary policeman
for placing his own premises
in the best possible sanitary
condition, and seeing that
his neighbor does likewise. 1t is much
easier to keep pestilence and contagion
away than to Danish them when here,
and we may all pardon little extra zeal
either on the part of citizens or public
officials, if the zeal is in the direction of
preserving the public health. Last year,
thanks to this wholesome precaution, we
escaped visitation from the dread scOurge
that devastated the cities of the South,
although several imported cases of genu-
inc yellow fever actually occurred at our
pest hospital during the summer. Had
our Health Officers been remiss in their
duties, leaving the city in condition to
invite rather than repel contagion, we
might have possibly seen our streets like
those of Memphis, black with the mourn
full files of hearses bearing away the dead
Our quarantine arrangements are decis-
i've and severe this year and have been
established early. That they may be
effective in preserving the city from dan
ger is to be hoped and expected. That
it may do 50, let each citizen so act that
even if an occasional stray case breaks
through the Gordon and develops here,
that it may find none of the conditions
favorable to its spread among the people.
While we enjoy an immunity from
epidemics and from the fear of any is an
excellent time to put our house in order,
so that none shall be even possible.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22
PITT YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER.

Since the health authorities of this
city have decided to establish prudent
and effective quarantine in view of the
fact that the yellow fever has actually
assumed an epidemic form at Memphis,
it may be well enough for citizens to feel
that Individually they have some duties
to themselves and each other to perform
towards keeping pestilence Of all kinds
away, and in aiding to render Cincinnati
the healthiest city in the West. IL is
we'll enough to ask the health authori-
ties to be vigilant and diligent in abat-
ing nuisances, in cleaning streets, alleys,
cutters, etc., but each individual should
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22
Not Well "Played."


That honesty would have been the best
policy was illustrated the other day on
South Main street. A young Irish lad
given to fun had bought himself a pair of
shoes. The new pair were placed on his
feet and what was left of the old ones was
done up in bundle with the card of the
shoe dealer printed on the wrapper. On
going into the street, when no one was
looking, he laid them carefully in the
gutter. Soon news boy came along and
picked up the bundle. A countryman
going by seeing the boy pick them up,
said, "Here, boy, that is my bundle.
Just dropped them" The lad gave them
up. The countryman then bought a pa
per and gave the boy fifteen cents for his
honesty.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22

THE returns are all in from that ter
rife engagement which was fought on
the Fourth of July between the small
boys of America on one side and all Gre
alton on the other. The boys won the
fight, and, as is eminently proper to the
victors belong the spoils. The bulk of
the spoils in this instance consist of LAGER
ated fingers, and careful cleaning of
our exchanges up to the very latest date
enable US to state that there are precise
ly nineteen thousand and twcnty-nine
fingers to-day going around bathed in
arnica and fine linen. Only think of i'll
Almost twenty thousand dutiful and in
dustrious little boys who are thus de-
prived of the luxury of splitting stove
wood or carrying up coal for months to
come. The damages inflicted upon other
persons, according to the New York
World, were somewhat serious as eigh-
teen people were killed and one hundred
and seven dangerously wounded by the
youthful preservers of our national
patriotism.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22

If the men of science do not take an
other tack there is likely to soon be such
a demand for cork as will make the cul-
tivators of the cork tree in Sunny Spain
throw up their sombreros and shout aloud
for Joy. The sage scientists declare that
the petroleum of Pennsylvania flows
directly from the earth's center, where
in the great economy of nature it is utiI-
lied for lubricating the axis upon which
this sphere revolves. Since the morning
stars sang together and this great ball
was first set spinning the supply of oil
for greasing its machinery has been fully
equal to the demand, but it is not likely
there is such a surplus as will JUS
tify the lavish use which mankind
is making of this terrestrial lubri-
cant. Indeed, it is limited by
the wise men that in the comparatively
short period of thousand years the
stock on hand will be perceptibly dimin-
ished, the earth's interior machinery will
grow rusty and her revolutions gradually
become less frequent. 1t requires nc
scientific mind to picture the awful con
sequences when the whole apparatus
comes to a stop for the want of oiling
and our unhappy descendants discover
themselves the possessors of world
which has lost its powers of locomo
ton. This great disaster of the
future will not move the mind;
of the sordid men now specu
lating in oil. What do they care for the
people of the twenty-ninth century SC
long as they can grow rich on petroleum
But to us, who look forward to the happi
ness of our posterity, it presents a diff
ferent phase, and it becomes US, as the
guardians of our children's children, t.
the last generation, to provide agains
an exhaustion of the earth's lubricator
Let us join with the men of science il
petitioning the Governor of Pennsyl
vania to cork up every blessed Gil wei
at once, if it takes every cork that cal
be scraped up on the Spanish peninsula
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22
ssNO More Chinese. -
Some Very Strange And Decidedly Orig
inal Views on the Now PerpIexing
Question Of Chinese Immigration.

lnhe oan irahciSco ArsonautI
we clip the following article, which may
not be altogether new as it has been going
the rounds of the press. simply to show
81 ..,,o or cosl;rn ,ouard ,ha CL,-o-
'"e
entertained py our helghoorS oi the wes'
tern slope
If hundred wears ago, when the mer.
chants of Boston, the traders of New York
and the pietists who desired to bring Af.
ricans from Congo Ito convert then) to
Virginia If at that time the Southern
people had said: awe will have no itnmi.
gration from Africa. we will have no
Slaves to supplant poor white workers of
our own race: no ignorant. unassimila-
tive population: then the Southern negro
question would have presented the pres.
ent aspect of the Chinese question, and
we should have avoided a dreadful civil
war. We have taken this question into
early consideration, and we have resolved
to solve it and not wait till, with four mill
ions of Asiatics among us, II shall wrench
the government and cost it six thousand
millions of dollars and a million of lives
to get rid of it.
But we are not going to war. We are
simply going to "SIT DOWN ON THE CHI
NEsE," and then ask a paternal govern
ment what it is going to do about It?
We will fight the administration DO.
litically. We will give our twelve electo.
raj votes to the party that thinks as we
do. We will send our members of Con
gress to sit on anti. Chinese benches; and
that we are able to do SO is fully demon
strated by our vote on the adoption of our
new state constitution. We will elect
a workingman's candidate for governor.
We will fill all of our offices, State
and municipal with anti Chinese work.
ingmen We will elect anti. Chinese
Judges We will have anti. Chinese boards
of health and anti Chinese quarantine Of
fcers, and anti Chinese license commits.
sioners and fish commissioners. We will
quarantine newly-imported ship loads of
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22
do about Il

The dearly beloved wife Of French
man recently deserted him for another
man. Did he follow her and, falling on
his knees, besecch her for their children's
sake to return' Did he take down the old
double barrel, shoot his wife and her lover
and then knock himself on the head with
the stocka Did he set himself up for a
misanthrope or woman hater, or institute
suit against somebody for ever so many ci-
piers damages' Not much. He merely
caused it to be published that he had drawn
$4,000 in lottery, and his wife was back
next morning before breakfast Louis.
Vile Courier ournal
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22
| Niagara Falls of a Pers piration

memphis ANdlducHe.l
Robert G.. Pillow, son of the late Ex-
Confederate General Pillow, lives on an
Arkansas plantation, across the river
from Memphis. A few days ago, accom-
panied by Aleck, one of the colorcd men
on the place, he was out hlnting a wild
hog that had been seen in the vicinity,
Pillow had a gun and Aleck had armed
himself with a pint bottle filled with
whisky.
The hog was found and shot, and just
as Pillow went up to the writhing animal
an immense "cottou mouth" snake, whose
bite is fatal as that of rattesnake, fas
tened its fangs on the calf of his leg
Pillow is not easily frightened. He took
in the situation in moment, and instead
of exhibiting alarm he turned to his
companion and quietly remarked:
"Aleck, / think I'll try little of that
whisky now," whisky being considered an
infallible remedy.
He poured every drop down his throat
without stopping to venture any remarks
as to its quality. Then shoulderng his
gun he rapidly walked to the house, a
haIf-mile distant, where he drank the
contents of three ordinary glass tum-
blers filled with whisky. He was soon
in what he calls Niagara Falls of a
perspiration," which rapidly expelled
the poison and saved his life. For a
day or two after he says he was the sick
est man in Arkansas.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22

YELLOW FEVER and low water com
bined pretty efectually defeated the re-
cruiting plans of Secretary Thompson on
the Mississippi, but that redoubtable old
tar is not thus to be discouraged. He
has ordered the old steamer Michigan, on
Lake Erie, under repairs, with the de-
sign of securing the lake coast and gath
ering in the lads of the cities that border
thereon.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22

DURING the coming week King AL
fonso of Spain will pack clean shirt
away in his grip-sack, spread some more
bears oil on his raven locks and HE
him away on courting expedition to-
ward Austria.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22

The Empress of Austria likes solitary
hunting expedition. With her favorite
rife in hand, she goes deep into the
wooded mountains and solitary valleys
which stretch round the Imperial do
main in every direction. Dressed in the
rough costume of the Tyrol, she will
often make excursions of two or three
days duration, staying at night at some
distant cot, where the only fare, besides
the game she brings with her, is goat
cheese and milk, with black bread.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22

RauOreh and Rlessed.

When board of eminent physicians and
chemists announced the discovery that by
combining some well-known valuable rem
edies the most wonderful medicine was
produced, which would cure such a wide
range of diseases that most all other rene
dies could be dispensed with, many were
sceptical; but proof Of its merits by actual
trial has dispelled all doubt, and to-day
the discoveries of that great medicine, HOP
Bitters, are honorcd and blessed by all as
bencfactors.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22

THE mild-mannered individual whose
baggage exploded and blew up three
state-rooms ON the steamer Drew turns
out to be a lunatic. The press owes him
an apology, for it set him down as a
pickpocket with designs on his fellow
passengers.