The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-13

Excesses, perhaps, in Star route mail con
tracts for instance. enables the Arkansas
Gazette TO spebk the following touching
piece:
DR.. Bliss attributes much of tho Dresi-
dents improvement 10 whisky. AZ modi.
cine, whisky has been known to serve agOod
purpose; but II must be confessed that ga a
substitute for water as u beverage II IS open
10 serious objections. Men have hs.
drowned in water, though ths fact 1Uea ~
furnish an overwhelming argument ag'r
moderate use of the fluid. But persons HHp
hAbituAlly drown their stomarhs IN Wh-aY
may as well make up tbeir minds 10 NSt up
on their cups or on their existence. Ii Is
non-resistsnce to excuses thai produces the
trouble and the rule applies alike to the
man who plunges into deep wafer without
knowledge OF swimming and 10 him who
shows similar n1iscretiOn whom experiment.
ing with the iica Of Tho corn. PerhBps.-
We do not speak from Hgures-nearly rs
many persons dio from overlooking their
stomachs with food that too slowly sssimi-
lates, rs from strong drink. Undoubtedly
the proportion OF deaths from thii cause ia
very large, and Il does not decrease. Yet 1t
would be absurd 10 argue that partsking OF
food should DO abandoned, though an ar
gument in favor of moderation in eating,
and more careful selection OF food,
would reach the most intellectual iudgs
ment. Some years ago western writer,
furnished an elaborate Treatise tracing most
OF the physical ills of Americans TO the Gus
tom Of eating pic. He domsnde1 the sbolis
ton OF this popular confecton If in poll
tics, he would no doubt have insisted on
constitutional amendment prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of pie, and lAbored
ealously to shove an anti.pe plank in the
party platform. His stomach was not built
for pio, and no could not tolerate It's dsily
deglutition by others who failed to discover
wherein tho monstrons OWL lurkad.
Moderation in all things-in eating ard
drinking, and 10 epesch and action is most
desirable. Iii 10 this that practical tem-
peranco consisls. ltindcatol tho we'll bal
anced, % the absence thereof indicates the III
balanced mind,
II is right to give praise where it ia duo
and merit oven 10 Merritt when deserved,
therefore wa take the following FROM tho
Philadelphia Times:
1t is meet ard good to recogGize worth in
every maa according to the object no sots be-
fore him. H. A. Merritt, who has Admnil-
tered tho complicated accounts Of the Now
York custom house since 1878, in relinquish.
ing his office was able to make tho extraordi,
nary report that during the time he had
charge Of the office, viz, from July
20, 1878, to and including July
81, 1881, no received the sum OF
$397, 3B5,772 78-for duty from customs
1872 264 73l 70; for tonnage, hospital dues,
ETC., 81, l25,1l1 70, and also for purposes OF
disbursement. $40, 905 $40 05 every dollar
of which has been paid out for tho various
accounts for which il was received aud for
which vouchers are on flo In the deparG-
ment NEARLY four hundred millions of do
lars This Is moro than tho revenue oil
great nations. II ten times the revenue o.
this government during the fret half century
OF It's existence The handling Of such
sum denotes no ordinary business genius
and tho satisfactorily accounting for ever,
penny receives from the treasur,
department, as II richly deserves, th
hearty commentator of Mr.. Merritt's chief
II is remarkahle how little 80 many mel
know about tho art Of advertising. Tn
worlds full Of them who resort to dodgers
fence signs and fancy colorod paper notices
All such advertising Is delusion and
snare, costing money and doing no goot
whatever. Every wholesale and first elias.
house ought to have an advertising clerk
whose entire time and study would be given
that duty. We endorse what the 81. Louis
Post.Disps,ch says IN the following:
There Is no telling where advertisers will
stop when they once got fairly started Tbs
srtistic tramp, with ragged brush and pot of
black paint, has illustrated Cleopatra
needle with chewing gum and tooth powder
cards. The pyramidal tombs of Egypt's old t.
time kings have not been sacred enough to
stay the hand OF the Inner of letters. and
travellers tell us tho ruins of Metropolis look
like a-United States marble yard that had
passed umbrellaless through shower of
hmp-black. We were prepared for
dissertation o. this kind and were
therefore not startled. Ii 70.
manned for Foropaugh. tho great circus man,
to scatter dynamite bomb IN tho midst of
our senses. He has allowed advertising to
become part OF his arenic attraction, and
loads tho Gowns jokes with clothiug-house
advertisements, and the equestriennes paper
balloons with posters setting forth the beauty
Of somebody's wire cable. 1t is possible
that the advertiser may DO able 70 improve
on the present style of saw-dust entertain
mont after no becomes numerous onough IN
the business to crowd the human cannon
balls and tight-rope trippsrs into aawi NJ
wood or poeling potatoes but VIZ still ms, 81
that there is room enough in tho newspapers
for all legitimate advertising tho people need
and card In tho Post-Dispalch u worth
fourteen timea rs much rs u clowns fearful
way Of eN,ing of a jcke about you in tn,
CIRCUS ~ z.
There % act nloro prosperous nation al
The fseu oi tho Globe than Great Britain
and because OF its prosperity, not u NOR,
powerful one, The toason OF this is bocsus,
of its FREQ trade principles. Mr.. Waiter
editor and proprietor of the London Times
in On interview with New York World 70
port sayG
| do not think It would be possible TO per.
suade the Eaglsh people that 1t Is vie,
thing 70 tx tho whole nation for the beno-
ht of tho few. However skillfully You may
sdjust tho protective tariff there must bt
some point at which II presses heavily upon
inc people, who receive no benefit whateyo,
IRON H. That such pressure Is wrong and
has been adopted as d principle IA
tho English commercial legislation. and
the people believe In 1t and uphold II.
The prejudice, you call II no, would ,hinN
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