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Year: 1874

OF the multitudes who in the rigors Of win
ter call for aid and charity we begin to think
that the children are the class most urgently
in need True we have been taking the
census Of those over a certain age out OF
school and providing for their compulsory
attendance there after the new year sets in
But IN q climate like ours, where, for fully
half the year. life to even the strongest and
most favored among US wears very much the
character OF a struggle for existence, even the
fragmentary education which we propose to
furnish may seem doubtful blessing to the
little ones who go hungry and ragged to taste
its sweets. There are not a few persons
having enough and to spare in all of our great
cities who yearly proclaim their distrust OF
organized charity. It is inefficient they say,
and it helps the undeserving. WE'LL if they
have strong desire to obey the Masters pre-
cept in giving alms-to let not the left hand
know what the right hand doeth-a little per-
sonal investigation will make them acquainted
with children whom it would be mercy to
clothe comfortably for school or work and to
supply with sufficient nourishment to mako
their brains receptive of the teaching we pro-
pose to give.


But there are little ones among us-who
shall count their number ?-suffering and
more urgently in need than even these for
whom we have spoken. If we had dozen
children's hospitals We should still not have
space or attendance for all the poverty
stricken little victims Of disease and injury
and gripping want whom our city numbers.
With all that societies can do in this field
there is q very broad margin left for indi-
vidual effort. Many young life, now sacri-
feed, might be saved; many more might have
the brief remnant of brief existence lifted
out Of fearful misery and pain. And not
few who are asking how they may 'reach the
masses" with spiritual help and succor might
find that the shortest and easiest road to the
hearts they desire to touch lies in having ten
derby and Christianly helped their children.
Tract distributors and Sunday school visiting
committees sometimes complain Of the resent
ment of the poor, who feel these visits, with
their avowed objects, to be on intrusion on
their homes But there are few parents sc
degraded that they cannot be touched and in
fuenced for good by those who have shown
loving and helpful interest in their little ones.


RAPID TRANSIT will unlooss the ligaturas
Year: 1874

The WAR IN CUBA is maintained with great
activity and resolution. The Spaniards have
been successful in some very sharp conflicts
in which quite number of men were killed.
Rebel cavalry have appeared in the Remedies
district
Year: 1874

Among the many excellent features of Mr..
Forster's judlcious speech at the reception
given him by the Union League Club the most
valuable is the honest testimony he bore to
the loyalty and correct feeling Of the Southern
people among whom he has recently trav-
elled. This testimony he emphasizes in the
interview with one OF our reporters elsewhere
printed. 1t is fortunate that this modest
plea for magnanimity was made to repub-
lican audience by On honored guest, whose
friendship in our great struggle was his chief
title to the hospitality and distinguished
courtesy of the Union League Club 1t was
the counsel of tried friend, given to men
whose views he shared and supported during
the war, and who are under every kind
Of obligation to treat his views with respect.
1t was, moreover, the counsel OF an able,
wise and experienced statesman, whose opin-
ions are entitled to Difference on every practl-
cal question on which he has taken pains to
cellent advice may sink deeply into the hearts
of the Union League Club and Of the repub-
lican party.


His testimony is valuable because he is
fresh from extensive travels in the South,
with the best advantages Of access to the class
of minds who control the public opinion of
that section. He would not undertake to say
that there is absolutely 10 ill-feelng left in
consequence Of the war, but he does
say, in emphatic language, that there
was never SO protracted q civil con-
test which left 80 little feeling Of
hatred, and he illustrated his opinion by this
anecdote:-s'I was introduced last week by
federal general to Confederate general on
the floor of the House. I heard. as l went
through the country men who had been fight
ing in different camps talking over the battles
in which they had been opposed to each
there was any difficulty or disagreement left
it was not between those who fought, but
rather between those who had not fought"
MIR. Forster afterward went on to describe at
some length his observations in the
South, and the facts he stated give
most favorable picture of the senti-
ment of loyalty, regard for justice and desire
for order and tranquility that prevail among
the influential public men of that section.
He cited. as a specimen, the terse statement by
democratic orator to whose speech he
listened, of the proper policy for the South, in
these words :-"Peace between the sections;
peace between the races" We trust that Mr..
Forster's admirable speech may have soften
ing and humanizing effect on such republi-
cans as mistakenly imagine that any further
political capital is to be made by rekindling
the old sectional animosties. Mr.. Forster
authority on the peacemakers, and he will
return to his own country with the cordial
good will of all classes of the American people.
Year: 1874

DhuA' .~sss 49,


This being certain the chances are greatly
improved of finding the lost boy and restoring
him to his afflicted parents. Something is to
be hoped from the power OF conscience
which extorted the dying confession Of Doug
las and which will naturally be excited to
activity in the confederates of the kidnappers
by the terrible and tragic ending of the chief
criminals They will be anxious to quit them
selves of a charge from which they can no
longer expect advantage or gain, and whose
longer possession may bring down caamties
on themselves Mosher' wife doubtless knows
where the boy is detained, and the effect of
the recent tragedy on her mind should make
her desirous to get out Of the scrape
as speedily as possible. When the child
is recovered there will probably be no pur-
suit Of the accomplices and il is for their in
terest to restore him as soon as they can do
so without exposing themselves to arrest. 1t
will therefore occasion no surprise to learn at
any hour that Charley Ross has come into the
hands of people who will promptly restore
him to his parents. If he should not be vol
UNFAIRLY put on the way Of reaching them it
will reflect infinite discredit on the police II,
with this new clew, they are unable to dis
cover him.


The sympathy of humane people will go out
toward the stricken parents, whose bruised
affections will bleed afresh ct the discovery
Year: 1874

Dr. Mary j. Studley prefaced her second
the Physiology Of the Chest Organs at the
Church OF the Disciples. by answers to questions in
regard to soup and the preparations OF meats. She
called attention the necessity OF eating seash once
or twice week a brain-producins article Of food
She showed the relative positions OF tho lungs the
heart the esophsgus tho raches explained the func-
ton OF the thoraco duct, the action Of the
heart the structure and function OF the
lungs. and. with the aid OF manikln, illus
rsted how these organs be rendered
torpid by Injurious modes IN dress. Women by corsets
and bands the apex Of the lungs they may be
said TO be half alive. They frequently suffer from cold
feet and headaches because they cit in heated
bent over sewing with their chest thrown into uu.
natural position. BY doing they impede circulation
and respiration II suffering from fatigue II is well to
adopt a recumbent posture the hear, will then heat
more slowly aud thus have opportunity TO rest AS
the mouth is the preparatory Of digestion the
the preparatory organ of respiration. Children
who breathe through the mouth frequently
contract catarrh. Indian mothers realize this
fact and guard their babies from sleeping
with open mouths. Dr. studley then explained her
methods OF dressing the body TO interfere little
possible with circulation and respiration. Drawing
her analogy from other animals. she thought human
beings should approach them nearly as possible In
clothing, by wearing. In Winter, "A complete suit OF
wooden under garments. Tho garments should respect


lively be arranged that the weight OF two falls
The same portion Of the body Corsets are extremely
Injurious because they paralyze the nerco.ta muscles
and the diaphragm. Were the clothing Of women less
restrictive. they would possess Of the ease and
grace which characterize little children.
Year: 1874

The Practical Farmer saws: 1t is
well settled in the opinion of all our
best dairy-men that bran greatly pro
notes the milk secretion in cows,
and 1t is fed almost universally
About equally mixed with corn meal
is the usual proportion. This mix
ture seems to promote both quantity
and quality of milk. From several
sources we hear that buckwheat bran
is a great producer of milk, and it is
being used considerably among our
Chester county dairymen, il about
the same proportion as the other.
Thomas Gawthrope, near West
Grove, Chester county, also by re-
peated trial with his own COWS, has
fully satisfied himself that they do
az well with corn and cob meal and
bran as with pure corn meal and
bran. The amount of nutriment in
corn cobs is so very small that this
result will have to be explained on
the supposition of the ground cob
acting to promote digestion by dis
tending the stomach. The presence
ofbulky material being necessary to
promote distention and fill up the
stomach terminating animals be-
fore digestion can be accomplished,
is frequently lost sight of. Hun
garian grass is also found for mileh
COWS to be rather superior to the or
binary run of hay. The last year or
two Hungarian grass has doomed up
wonderfully in the estimation Of our
dairy farmers.
Year: 1874

"I married a widow who had a


manageable daughter. My father


who often came so see US, took a
fancy to my step-daughter, and mar
ried her. Thus my father became
nv son-in-laE, and my step-daughter
became my mother, since she was
the wife Of my father. Some time
afterward my wife had a son; he was
the brother-in-law of my father and
also my uncle, as he was the brother
of my mother-in-law. The wife Of
my father-my step-daughter-also
had a son; of course this son was
my brother and at the same time my
grandson, since be was the child of
my daughter. Ny wife was my
grandmother, sinse she was the
mother of my mother. For myself,
1 was at once the husband and grand
son of my wife; and as the husband
of q persons grandmother is his
grandfather, ] was my own grand
father"
Year: 1874

lin large coal and iron tracks in that
locality. It is hardly necessary to


state that the niece needed but little
persuasion to accompany her uncle


home. The romance of the story is
increased by the fact that Mr.. Pro
yost has a son, who is a very prom
lslng young man, and that be imme-
dlately became fascinated with his
newly found cousin. The old gen
tleman is in ecstacies at the prospect
of wedding.
Year: 1874

A little elbow leans upon your knee,


Your tired knee, that has so much 10 beari
A chlds dear eyes are looking lovingly


From underneath thatch Of tangled hair.
Perhaps YOU do not heed The velvet touch


Ofwarm moist fingers, folding yours so tight
You do not prize this blessing over. much.


You almost are too tired to pray tonight.
But il is blessednessl A year ago


did not see il as do 20 day
We are so dull and thankless, and so slow


To catch the sunshine till it slips away,
And now il seems surprising strange 10 me,


That while wore the Badge Of motherhood,
l did not kiss more of, and tenderly,


The little child that brought me only good.
And if, some night, when you sit down to rest,
You miss this elbow from your tired knee,
This restless. curling head from OF your breast,
This lisping tongue that clatters constantly;
If from your own the dimped bands had slipped
And neer would nestle in your palm again;
II the white feet into their grave bad triPped


could not blame you for your heartache then
I wonder so that mothers ever fret


At little children clinging TO their gown
Or that the footprints when the days are wet,
Are ever black enough to make them froWn.
If could find little muddy boot,


Or cap or Jacket on my chamber floor;
If could kiss rosy, restless foot,


And hear its paiter in my home once more
II could mend a broken cart to-day,


Tomorrow make kite TO reach the sky,
There is no woman in Gods world could say


She was more bissfully content than ].
But ah the dainty pillow next my own


Is never rumpled by a shining head;
Ny singing birding from lis meet is flown


The little boy used to kiss Is dead
Year: 1874

" She loved him for hinself" Perhaps that
wasn't ler fault. But tie fact was he had
nothing else to be loved FOR. She married him.
And still she loved him for himself. lie gave
her not 50 much as a single dollar TO aid on her
love Last week he returned home full Of
whiskey as barrel, and undertook to assert
his manly sway 10 too 7iolenta way. Iu fact.
he deliberately punched her 10 the eye. This
was what tnrued her loge to gall and made her
takeup the washbaard, on which she earned
her own and bis support, and belabor him With
i, until there was Tery little Of The board left
and his head looked like pumpkin which boys
had been using as football. Now be earns
living for himself aud wife. Such are some Of
the inconsistencies Of the human feminine.
Year: 1874

On Sunday afternoon Ambrosia Sal
azar a young native woman who lives
on the line of the railroad about two
and half miles from this city met
with a terrible accident which came
near causing her death. While cook
ing in the Kitchen her clothes caught
fire from brand which fell from the
stove and she was at once enveloped
in flames. Very indiscreetly, she ran
out in the open air, thus increasing
the blaze. A sister of the unfortunate
lady, Mrs. Olivas, and Mr.. Juan Buell.
ma came to her assistance, and after
barrel of water standing near at hand
they succeeded in extinguishing the
flames though both had their hands
badly burned in the operation. Miss
Salazar was found to be Sc
riously burned her back, chest, and
limbs being badly blistered and
her eyebrows and hair being
singed off. Very fortunately DIR.
Stairway who happened to be rid
ing by with companion stopped at
the house to procure drink of water
and was made acquainted with the
circumstances. He administered such
relief to the afflicted parties as was at
his command and made them as COM
Portable as circumstances would admit.
Soon after DIR. Lyford who had been
summoned from the city arrived and
took the patients in charge. They are
now in fair way to recover, and the
young lady will not suffer any perma-
nent injury more than scars upon her
person.
Year: 1874

EDITOR HERALD: How Is 1t that
the Committe on Police make dis
elimination between officers when
charges are preferred against different
members of the police force?


Some two weeks ago charge was
preferred by person Of doubtful rep
utation, in fact a notorious rough and
hoodlum. The officer was immediate
ly suspended from duty and an infor-
NAL trial or inquisition was held be-
fore the Police Committee. The tes-
timony did not go to prove anything
against the officer but went couclu-
sively to prove all that the officer said
was true. But there was certain pet
of the committee that must have a
place, and the decision was concluded
long before the inquisition met, and
the officer mentioned was compelled
to send in his resignation.


VERITAs.


Los Angeles, Sept. eth 1874.
Year: 1874

EDfToR HERALD: AS the Granger
interest Is strong and becoming
stronger daily, would like to offer a
suggestion as to a possible relief fpr
our southern counties, that do not
grow wheat as readily and proftably
as the other portions of the State, but
do grow unfailing crops of barley. 1
believe that 1t will pay to ship barley
direct to England, If the tonnage can
be obtained. While in Europe last
year it was part of my business to
examine carefully the shipping, with
a view to charter or purchase possibly
vessels to bring passengers and freight
direct to the southern part of Califor-
MIA. Therefore, 1 placed myself In
communication with the principal
ship-building firms Of the United
Kingdom, to ascertain the expense of
charter and purchase Of such class of
vessels as would be suitable to bring
passengers direct, via the Isthmus er
Straits Of Magellan, and return with
freight. My plan involved the con-
struction of such vessels as 1t was
found upon investigation that there
were no craft suitable for the exigen-
cies of such voyage.


AS my experience in the building
Of steamers has been acquired by ac-
tual investment and construction. I
soon discovered that new model and
mode of propulsion was required to
unable one to overcome the difficult
ties to encounter in steaming from
Europe to California without break
ing bulk or vice Versd. My plan of
construction was submitted to the
most competent engineers Of both
Europe and America, and met with
an unqualified approval. Now as 1
am heart and soul a granger although
not belonging to the organization, it
would give me exceeding pleasure to
go to England or the East and build
one or more ships to transport freight
or passengers direct between the Old
World and the New upon such terms
and in 80 desirable style as to leave
nothing to ask by emigrant or ship
per that desired to reach our industri-
al home, or send away our surplus
fruits or grains.


There are iron masters and ship
builders in Englang and Scotland
who would gladly take barely as pay
ment for their ships. SO there Is no
excuse for being dependent upon any
one for our own conveyance.


F. M. SHAW.


Los Angeles, Sept. 6, 1874
Year: 1874

pa- The tide ofinmigration is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. They say there Is no
comparison between the two. 2%o
Year: 1874

MKAPH1s, October IA special to the
Appeal from Columbia, Tennessee, says
that Governor Brown addressed an i'm
mense audience on the Fair Grounds near
that city today. He was met at the
depot by large number of citizens on


horseback and IN carriages and escorted
to the Fair Grounds. He was welcomed


by waving Of handkerchieIs and cheers.
BE spoke an hour and half on the politi.
cal condition OF the country and State
affairs. During the speech he said that
the Conservative party was organ
lied by beautiful blending Of the princi.
pies Of the old Wing and Democatic
parties said the Republican party came
into existence by the agitation oil the negro
question, and the members Of that party
were seeking to sustain and keep it alive
by renewal Of the agitation. He re-
viewed Horace Maynard's speech at
Janesboro few days since. He SAID


Maynard displayed great ignorance or
else was too much Of partisan to conflne
himself to the truth. In referring to May.
nards accusation of his connection with
the sale OF the Comptrollers office he sale
it was willul and malicious slander and
said that Maynard exhibited the most un.
pardonable ignorance in regard TO the
debt Of the State. Governor iBreHn


proved great reduction Of the debt since


the conservative party got control Of the
State -
Year: 1874

Impending Disgrace OF West Virginia


We desire to call the attention Of the
people Of the State 10 the card Of Mr..
BAKER published in yesterdays paper.


That Mr.. BAKER refers to General
PANNELL, the Democratic candidate for
the Senate In this district, there can be no
manner Of doubt.


That he pledges Mr., PANEEL1 to vote
Tor HENRY 8. WALKER for United States
Senator next winter there can be no less
doubt.


Mr.. BAKER Is one Of the controlling
spirits Of the Democracy Of this State,
and when he speaks Of HENRY 8. WALK.
ER being q candidate for United States
Senator he speaks Of that which he knows
TO be the intention Of the party. But we
venture 70 affirm that there Is not one.
hall Of the best Democrats In the State
who ever dreamed or had the most re.
mote Idea Of ever sending H. 8. WALKER
to the United States Senate, but on the
contrary would feel themselves and the
State disgraced by placing tho late P. P.
in so honorable position.


We urge upon the Democrats Of the
State TOR We know there arc large
amount OF them who would scorn the act
OF sending II. 8. WALKRR to the U. =.
Senate to interrogats their conscience
whether they can support men who will
support such a man. We make this sug.
gestion, not in partisan spirit, but for the
Iuture honor and welfare Of the State. II
We must have another Democratic sena-
tor, in the name Of political morals let US
have one whose character ls above re.
prosch.
Year: 1874

promises. They have under their control
nearly all the leading presses Of the State,
have spies in every camp, are followed by
regiments Of postmasters and contractors
and are plethoric with plunder snatched
from the public treasury.


We express ourselves freely on this mat
ter for the reason that we heartily abomin-
ate this infamous system of fpolitical cor
rupt'on. 1t goes upon the theory that the
whole farming community is made up
either OF such plastic or base material that
it can be moulded into any form by sophis-
y or bribery. When will the farmers of
Minnesota arouse themselves as has been
done down in Indiana and Illinois and
come forward as one man, and with voice
of thunder explode the Vaccinations of all
these pestiferous demagogues? To talk
reform is idle; to perfect reform if done at
all must be executed by the farmers them
selves.
Year: 1874

SAD SToRY.-The be autiful woman who
insnared the nephew Of the Emperor of
Russia, mere lad, is an American She
was the daughter Of clergyman eminent
for learning and piety. She grew up an
exceptional beauty, was carefully. educated
and tcnderly loved. She married, was
divorced more than once. forcing each hus-
band into court to recover alimony. On
the money thus obtained she went to Eu-
rope and led wild and criminal life
fell in with the youthful branch Of the
Royal house Of Russia, tempted him to
steal for her the family diamonds, which
crime has proved his ruin, then she fed to
Paris, where she now is. This is all she
has left as the wages Of sinful life. From
a home where she was tenderly loved she
has wandered through crime to the 10 "
dens of Paris. Nothing more tr',e than
"the wages Of sin is DEATH" Some nigh,
her COZ pse will be thrown into the open pit
at Pere La Chaise, and that will close he,
earthly record.
Year: 1874

than Rome As Rome is worse than the New
Jerusalem. Il needs converting all
through, from Colvin to Western avenue.
It cannot afford to send off dollar for the
purpose of converting foreign sinners.
more especially sinners in and about Rome.
It is just barely possible that these Cath
olic gentlemen may manage to squeeze
through, when the gates are finally open
ed to admit the elect. They have bible
Of their own; they have churches and
ghostly advisers, who lay claims to piety
and learning. There is bare possibility,
therefore, that the money expended to
convert these Romanists may be money
thrown away 1fthey don't get to heaven,
1t will be because they have failed to try
in their limited way. Hence, as an econo-
mical measure, the Times objects to try
ing to convert Catholics in Rome so long
as we have Bridgeport and the North side
to convert the Pope so long as we have
Colvin-at least to trying to do it with
Chicago money. There is no good reason
why conversion, like charity, should not
begin at home.


So far as our personal experience goes,
we are prepared to cenfrm the above as:
good advice.