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Year: 1879

A word of advice to newspapers is given
bv Rev. Washington GLADDEN. in Sunday
afternoon for May. He says: Not only
do our newspapers offend by the publica
ton of the vile details of great crimes, but
also by picking up and spreading abroad
little scandals, little unpleasantnesses in
society, little bits of gossip that no sensible
person wishes to know or would allow
himself to repeat. Much of the space of
weekly papers and not few dailies is
devoted to matters of this description.
The tittle-tattle of the neghborhood, that
is not only silly, but poisonous in the
extreme, is gathered and served up in as
appetizing a form as possible for the
entertainment of the whole community.
Domestic infelicities, with which the pub
lie has no business at all, afford material
for spicy items; business complications
are worse complicated by unauthorized
reports concerning them; little troubles
in the churches which those who have the
care of their interests are doing their best
to compose are famed into grave dissen-
sions by references to them in the news
papers. Sometimes when the details of
these small scandals are not given, there
are little hints and innuendoes that serve
to put all the prurient and meddlcsome
noses in the community on the scent for
indecency or mischief. What excuse or
justification can there be for the publica-
ton of such itemsp Who is protited by
reading them? What interest Of intell-
gence. of morality, of decency promoted
by spreading abroad these miserable de-
tails of gossip? The only reason for
printing them is that many people like to
read them; they make a sale for the
papers. But the taste that Graves them is
II vicious and degraded taste. and the
business of gratifying and stimulating
such taste is bad business.


If il is disreputable for man to &C
about ringing his neighbor's door bells
and reciting to them scandals by word ol
mouth, il is more disreputable for him tC
print them in widely circulated newspa
per. The story that gentlewomar
would not stoop to tell in good society, nc
gentleman ought to print in his paper
Meddling and misunderstanding is just rs
reprehenslble in a reporter as in any Other
man. The fact that such stuff makes hi,
paper sell is a poor justification. And
until the managers of newspapers learn tC
discriminate with n little more care be
tween the news which the public has ;
right to hear and the news which is simply
noisome or injurious scandal, the busines
of journalism will suffer serious loss o
respect and of influence.
Year: 1879




Mothers, weary with the tolls of the
day. dropping with household cares, press
ed down by physical weakness, no wonder
the falling evening shades impart some Of
their gloom to your spirit as you strive to
review the day just closing. But let me
whisper, "be not weary in well doing, for,
in due season. you shall reap if you faint
not"


This is your time of laborious seed
sowing; these immortal gems, given you
to shape and polish so exquisitely, that
without blemish they shall fit into the
great building of eternity. adding to its
iuster and enhancing its beauty, arc of
such priceless value and require such un-
weared patience, that to none other than
a mother did infinite wisdom dare to COM
nit the work.


When wearied as tonight. and feeling
that the monotonous round of household
tasks, the confinement of tho little pratt
tiers so fills your time as to shut you cut
from all opportunity to labor for the
world around, and thus your life is pass
ing without accomplishing any good, stop
for one moment, and looking over the diff
ferent gifts, prophecy, tongues, ETC.. decide
for which you would exchange the gift
of motherhood


Surely it is rs noble work to train these
pure spirits, so that from infancy to the
grave their influence shall he on the side
back to God, that their last days may be
spent in eradicating the poisonous seeds
they have scattered so widely while in
the service Of sin.


Very true we have to sacrifice many
intellectual pursuits, must remain away
from the social means of grace oftentimes,
and the tempter, seeking to SOW the seeds
of discomfort in our hearts, will piously
whisper of the great loss we sustain, of
our unnecessary watchfulness, and suggest
the transfer of our charge to hireings,
only that he may find opportunity to scat
ter tares on the rich and well prepared
soil. Let US keep in mind the "mother's
promise" if may SO call it, =" that we
shall reap in due time"


Who but mother can sooth childhood
grief, check the too impulsive, encourage
the distrustGul, decide the petty disagree
ments, strengthen the good, uproot the
evil, and amid all this. "pray withou
ceasing, and in everything give thanksP'


Although at times we may become
somewhat discouraged, may feel our labo
and self-sacriice is unappreciated, that ou
life-work is silent and unseen; yet let u
ever keep in mind there is One who sees
and sympathizes with us in every trial
and if He finds us faityM will bestow
reward beyond our largest conceptions
We have the promise of grace ant
strength sufficient, and if we content our
selves in doing the will of our Father, no
increasing our burdens by devotion t.
fashion and folly, we will even here fine
it richly fulfilled. Let us be faithful ;
little longer; then as we come up to re
receive our reward. without one jewe
missing, we shall begin 10 realize hov
grand the noble work in which we hav
been engaged. NJ. A. A.
Year: 1879

the song Of the canary is not so much valued
as its elegant shape or brilliant color. Ger
many is the great centre whence the world is
supplied with singing Birds and in Germany
the business of raising the birds and getting
them ready to send abroad, is chiefly carried
on in the villages among the Hartz noun
tains of Hanover. The people there are mi
ners and cattle drovers5 but, being poor, al
most every family deyotes its spare time to
rearing canaries, and making the little wood
en- cages in which they are carried to the dis
tant railway or seaport. The houses are small ;
but one corner of the principal room is sepa.
rated from the rest by q light partition, and
given to the birds for their own use, where, in
cups, boxes and gourd shells, they build their
nests and hatch their eggs, secure from all
harm. When the breeding season is over,
all the young birds are taken to. Bremen or
Hamburg, to be sent across the ocean to Eng.
land, America, or away round to India and
China. These voyages are made only in the
Winter, however, because it was found that in
Summer travelling, the birds lost their voice
and plumage but that season is so cold and
stormy that, usually, from quarter to a half
of the cargo perishes before reaching the
shore So many birds are sent, nevertheless,
that probably $4,000 came to New York alive
last year from Europe These are distributed
through large number of bird shops in the
city, and the deafening chorus which lis kept
up, from dawn till dark, by a hundred or two
birds singing at the top of their voices in q
single room, added to the din of a small me.
nagerie of other animals, is something surpri-
sing to one the first time he enters.-Ernest
InqersoN, 81. Nicholas.
Year: 1879

many evasions, that he was instantly commit
ted for trial.


At the trial, Morgan again deposed that ne
had seen the murder committed. The girl
again swore to the concealing of the money,
and the constable proved having found 1t ac-
cording to her statement.


Harris had nothing to say except that
Morgan's evidence was entirely false, that the
buried money was his own, put away for bet
ter security. The judge summed up; the
jury found the prisoner guilty, and ne was
condemned to die


Harris seemed to have taken his sentence
meekly. He persisted in his innocence, and
only lamented the sordidness Of temper which,
he said, had led him into a general distrust-
fulness, and into such ways as this of hiding
his money, which had proved his ruin.


After their masters death, Morgan and the
maid were married. They lived very unhap-
PLY, and at last the wife disclosed the whole
story. They had both known their masters
miserly temper, and the girl had found out
that be buried money in the garden, fact
which she reported to Morgan. They resolved
to let him 90 on doing so until it should
amount to a considerable sum, when they
purposed to seize it and decamp.


One day Harris and Morgan had bitter
quarrel, and the master struck the man, whose
sullen temper instantly formed resolution
to revenge himself At this crisis the black
smith arrived. The next morning, Morgan
himself found him dead in his bed. With
diabolical inspiration he resolved to charge
his master with the murder, and to plunder
that masters hoard while he was in prison,
thus at once gratifying his hatred and his
greed. Of this scheme he apprised the girl,
and secured her approval. But when she
found that the accusation was not sufficiently
supported, while some words dropped in
court led her to fear that if her master was
released her lover might be apprehended, she
resolved to sacrifice both the money and her
master, to secure the safety Of the wretch,
Morgan.


After this confession, she and her husband
were both thrown into prison, but escaped
their public punishment BY dying Of jail fe-
ver.g 1t was afterwards found, by some quite
unexpected information, that the blacksmith
had had two previous attacks of apoplexy,
and had never, at any time, owned as much
as five pounds in money.
Year: 1879

VARIETIES OF CANARIEs.-The common
canary is known throughout the civilized
world, and is so common as to be cheap in all
bird stores but many of the varieties are
rare and very expensive. These varieties are
mostly cultivated in England, however, where
Year: 1879

On or about August 18th, expect to occupy the
Large Double Store now building for me in Denver,
at which time propose to consolidate my two Stores
reduce my Stock to the lowest possible point previous
to removal and to avoid paying transportation will
from this date offer my entire well selected stock


At coet1 AZ Cost !!
Year: 1879

Troubled heart know thou art weary,
Resting on wave lashed shore,
Longing for an earthly spirit
That will calm thee never more.
Never will the day bring gladness,
Night seems fraught with only pain:
Life is dreary, hope Is Madness
Is this heart-ache loss or gain
Oh, the WEAKNESS of waiting,
For bright death the world calls grim;
Prayer shall bring thee kindly
Ger the river safe to him.
Shield thee, shelter thee forever,
From the cold worlds strife and din,
Cleanse thy earth-worn weary spirit,
Wash away thy stain and sin.
Weary soul thou then canst rest
Safe among the good and blest;
God has promised he'll not fail thee,
Trust him weary heart and rest.
Oh. the joyfulness of waiting
Till He bid thee come ye blest,
Free from heart-ache, tears, and anguish,
Come and ] will give thee rest.
Yes, the jOyfulness of waiting,
For the death that Jesus sends,
Ever onward, upward growing,
Bright, still brighter, to the end.
Troubled heart be thou not weary,
Rest thou on thy Savior's love;
Long not for an earthly spirit
God will give thee love for love,


DAISY.
Year: 1879

If you are near town, it may be best
to buy and draw manure during the
winter Take care of what is made on
the farm. Look out for fire-fang in
hOrse-manure. Turn it, or mix it with
manure of hogs and cattle.
Year: 1879

THE ART OF KIssING.-Never kiss o
young girl if she don't want you to.
The main ingredient that makes kiss
ing endurabls is willingness on the part
of the female. If it despens into anx-
iety, SO much the better. When girl
claws mans hair and scratches his
face like fool, drop her at once. She
is destitute of COED taste and natural
affection, and the sooner you make love
to her sister the better. As long as a
girl don't claw and yell and struggle
like panther it is perfectly safe to con-
tinue prospecting. Get little behind
her, pass The right arm around the waist
in front, take the left, and if you don't
know what to do next go associate with
the boys in the first ward. If you are
Just beginning to teach 8 shy young
girl, who has only bosD kissed hereto
fore by her brother and father. touch
your lips gently to her forehead. She
will take it for an exhibition of pro-
found respect. When that position has
been gained, working the way down to
the lips is as natural and easy as a log
sliding down wood flume. Never sit
down to kiss; it looks awkward in case
anybody is looking, and it seems awk-
ward anyhow. Standup, and the closer
you press the girl the higher estimate
she will place on your good taste, COM
nonsense and experiences.
Year: 1879

OUR correspondent CITIZEN" in
another column presents valuable
statement of the financial affairs of the
city, taken from the records, which we
recommend our readers to peruse. He
states facts, and they prove that the
management of the affairs of the city by
the present Democratic Council has been
wise and judicious and that the affairs oI
the city are now infinitely better thar
they were this time last year when the
Republican Council had been in power
the previous year.
Year: 1879

RADICAL RHODE ISLAND is being
shown up in most unenviable light 10y
her own people as witnesses under oath
before the Congressional Investigating
Committee.


The purchase of votes is there carried |
on under a sy stem that would scarcely be !
thought of by honest pc pie. Even
property holders are known to sell their
votes at rate ranging from $40 to so
head. The payments are made in very
many ways. A general device is to let
crowd into barn and send envelopes
down through trap doo- to The voters
below sometimes however these ell
velopes are sent by pa rites who are in
the secret, and know just whom to give
them to. 1t will be amusing to the
honest voters of Delaware to read these
revelations. They remind us of the
counterfeit receipts the Delaware Radi-
cal politicians used in voting the negroes
so long, and We have no doubt that the y
got their dishonest election ideas from
Rhode Island or some other Eastern
Radical State.


But the worst feature is the exclusion
of the poor man from the right of suf
frage. No matter how honest, how re
ligious, how faithful, how many children
he is rearing and educating to be mel
and women, if he does not own pro
perty, he is not allowed to vote. He i
reduced to the condition of disinter
ested serf on election days. An Ameri
can serf is now nowhere found but in
New England Radical State.


There is still another class added t
these. The Irshman, the German an
the Frenchman, the Englishman and til
ScoJchman, and all other men who haT
pen to have been born abroad are pro
hiblted from voting in this Republica
State. Not one of them are allowed I
vote.


There is but one exception to all thes
classes and that is the beloved African
The foreign born negro is the idol Q
this republican State o-called). II
may vote without hindrance. The
know his vote is against an Irishmap {
q German /; and what is a little odd
does not matter if he happens to be Dor
in Germany or England, the color of I'll
skin is sure passport to the Republica
ballot, and the blacker the better. He
class that they do not expect to buy
they drive or starve him into their trace
they know he was chattle and they sti
use him as such. Even the poor wounde
Irishman who fought for the negro
freedom may see him enjoying the rigl
of suffrage on any election day in Rhot
Island, while the white man who riske
his life in the war is excluded frol
voting because he is poor.
Year: 1879

If it cost two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars to buy defeat in
Maine, how much will it take to
purchase Republican victory in Ohio.
and who beside the First National
Bank Of New York, and the poor
clerks,5will put up the money? This
calls for sealed answers.
Year: 1879


I am sitting in the twilight, with my fac,
against the pane,
And measuring the shadows with an aching
heart and brain;
They are deepening slowly, surely, and tho
night is coming on.
Will some bright star light earth's pathway
when the CLEAN of day is gone?
How memory bears me backward to a bright
er, fairer day.
When | bounded through a mOssy wood tC
join some child at play;
Our hearts were free and merry then, with not
shade of care,
Till the waning of the daylight brought its
siladc VS. on the air.
remember then how fleetIy through the leafy
grove sped,
That my eye might catch the home light ere
days glimmering light had fed;
And minded not the shadows as, in all its
splendor bright,
Throug gh the darkness on my pathway shone
mothers beacon light
I've been measuring the shadows all along
life's many years.
Till nv ewes are dim with weeping and my
heart is drowned in tears
My feet are pierced and bleeding by the thorns
in life's dark way,
And I've found my sweetest treasures in my
casping turned to clay.
For the light of home is sadly qucnchcd in
deep funereal gloom,
The hand that led my youthful feet lies home
less in the tomb
The kindred one where soul meets soul my
worship may not own,
And amid world of busy feet l walk the
earth alone.
Life's skies are deepening and the clouds are
gathering thick and fast,
Will the star of hope shine once for me when
the rage is overpast?
The burden of my soul is borne upon the
windless air,
And the twitter of the night bird seems but
mocking my despair.
So I'm sitting in the twilight, with my face
against the pane,
And measuring the shadows with my aching
hcart and brain;
Oh, spirit of my mo her, CLEAN upon my soul
tonight.
Till have proved the promise mine, AT eve
it shall be light


Rr,Sfoy To,fDfU .y1urDnI
Year: 1879

A SYSTEM of weather signals will short
ly be put in operation along the line of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road, un-
der the supervision of the signal corps at
Washington. Bulletins will be posted
along the road at distance of twenty five
miles from each other, by which the ap-
proach of storm can be learned several
hours in advance of its arrival $50
Year: 1879

CARDIAC hypertrophy or muscular en-
largement of the heart-a very serious dis
ease-is often induced by an excess of
muscular exercise, a fact that should not
be forgotten by those men and women
who indulge in contests Of strength, endu-
rance or agility.
Year: 1879

the crews being obliged to drag it the distance of
mile 1t is a new brass Lyle gun which had never


WHAT THE sUPERINTE sDEsT SAYS


The Superintendent says tonight that the crews
irst M A's attempt temp % to throw the % line they icy found
that they had charged it with too little
powder The lin line fell short They We're We're
when Captain Pharo arrived on the beach. This was
about eleven o'clock. The schooner lay 200 yards
vsry easy Tssy %ers is he
rigging. ' most t' Of i them &c elinsins to % the the
ratiines. in which they had desperately linked
ping on The wind was high and It was very cold.
The sailors shouted to the men on shore and during



boat for Gods sake" The deck ten feet under
water and the sea was rushing furiousy over it.
About four O'Clock in the afternoon a man
fell from the rigging, The Captain and his wife
were in the mizzenmast gallantrigging. he was
upon his arm. They were both dashed fast About
two O'Clock the line was thrown again, and
the end was secured on board. The life car
difhculty II had to be taken of. A
breeches buoy then out and the second mate.
Geneva the daughter Of the captain got into it with
her and safely pulled ashore. The life-savng
seem seemed at oss whdt 20 90 wnen % me rope % SrUao
men must be saved. They can be saved. You are
trained to dot You must do it." They then launched
a surf boat, and apparently with no difficulty
pushed out far as the bar. where the cut of the
sea seemed too strong for them and they turned
back. The buoy was then bent on the big rope
which had been first used for the car. and after
ward the first mate. Peterson, and the colored cook
came ashore. Two other seamen followed by the
next trip OF the buoy. Once more 1t sent ont to
the ship and the two who had remained in
the rigging till the last through
tho gathering darkness to get into it. The
mates last instructions to them had been for them
to cut it loose they left the ship 1t is supposed
that they failed to do 50 and became enangled in
The line broke and they drowned.
Year: 1879

DosroS, Feb 26 1879.
10 THE EprTon or THE HERALD
had hoped that while Professor william Miller
was in Boston he would have accepted the proposi-
tion made directly after bout in Music Hail
which ended so unsatisfactory. had al
most abandoned hope OF meeting Mr.. Miller
In test of our relative merits in boxing.
and am pleased that he has concluded
even Mt this late day. TO accept my offer for black
ened glove contest tor $3.50 side. His suggestions
to time and place are agreeable to me, and in
answer TO his recent communication in the columns
of the HERALD permit me to say that will meet him.
MS he requests, on the 14th day OF March Vt the
Clipper oice and then and there make deposit of
the whole or any portion OF the stake money:


PADDY RYAN.
Year: 1879

LONG BRANCH, n j., Feb. a. 1870.
The ship Hanna has been moved about one hundred
feet north with her bow futher off shore. and she
lying at anglo of sixty degrees from the shore.
The Coast wrecking Company put an extra engine
board this afternoon. and another pump will be put
at work tomorrow. Some of the ships officers say
that the ship has already lost most of her keel
during the storm of yesterday and that the water
fills rapidly high tide they consider it doubtful if
she will be taken off and foated to New York dock,
but should another southeast or east storm come,
like that which struck her yesterday she may be left
on the Jersey shore.
Year: 1879

tcoRREsPoNDENCg OF VIEWPOINT nEE1

 Perhaps no more disappointed people arose from their couehes this morning than the better class o Inc inhabitants of this city. Up to late hour last evening the advocates for the New Constitution nAu gwen up the race but before morning the re turns hom the interior had arrived which over threw thesmJority against that bill made here in 'he city and dthesurrounding towns; and the result is tnat the New Constitution is adopted and Cali tornia is disgraced. The result of this election. thsugh unfortunate, can innict no lasting injury 70 the state It cannot arrest It's industrial pro- gress, neither can'it impair it's future greatness. nature having done much to us here to be partisan henee we predict, notwithstanding this partial setoAck, future of continued prosperity greatly. increased population and general public happiness even under tho terms of the New Constitution.

 ~ IN pest to be hopeful under all circumstance es

 'o-u"y ousness men look blue enough and many are the prognostications as to the future.

 having In my last predicted much success to the Old Constitution party and that defeat would certainly attend the Communist, 1t is somewhat morufyfng to acknowledge that victory is theirs and we arc in the minority.

 It ia natural for one to write on matters that most concern himself For thIs reason have scarcely stopped to think how this question anocts parties in the Fast. but think it does nov aneet them at all accept in general way. The whole community are interested in a matter that touches the vital interests of one ot the great Staten of our glorious Union As have pretty we'll written up San Francisco andits people shall not inAict a very long letter upon you this time. thank you for publishing my series of lettors and close this my last letter. by saying that hope to return to the hills of Old Connecticut. made all the more interesting after three months' absence. H.
Year: 1879

hi, found that the pension arrearage
sannts average about eight hundred
mafiy dollars each, or nearly four times
snuch as the estimate furnished to Con-
res. AS this money will reach the bene-
tcilties without shrinkage from agents or
itloincys fees, and as a majority of the
receipts will be among the poorer classes,
it's not at all improbable that many a
thrifty homestead will be secured through
a sensible use OF the Governments
bounty This amount Of money, in a
lump sum, can be made to do much in
these days Of cheap real estate.