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Year: 1879

TO him whom the science of nature
delights, every object brings new proof
of the existence of a Deity, and every
thing that proves this gives cause for
admiration. If he lifts his eyes to the
clouds. finds he not the heavens full of
wonders? If he looks down to the
earth, does not the worm proclaim a
Master2 Could less than Omnipotence
have formed and framed these things?
Year: 1879

Publishers say that among the slow
est books to sell they have are pretty
much all volumes of poetry, unless they
come from some celebrated name. The
fashion for verse seems to have gone out
with the latter half of the last century
and the beginning of this. The current
fashion is for novels, and their name is
legion indeed. How long will it be be-
fore they will be a drugin the publishers
hands, and something else be the rage?
Year: 1879

THROUGH TIE HEART,
killing him instantly, Of course, his body falling
in the ditch where he was at work


The news OF the crime soon spread, aud when
the officers here were notified they at once
started to find Wltham, and now have him un-
der arrest and in the county jail in this city,
and coroner's inquest is now being held upon
the body Of Rinehart.


THE ACCUSED FARMER
is man of about 90 years OF age aud is said
to have a local notriety on account of his ugly
disposition and quarrelsome character. The
murdered man was respected laborer, whose
death leaves large family unprovded for.
He was about 40 years of age.
Year: 1879

TIE Fathers story Of little Charley
Ross, containing full account of his
abduction and the various incidents con
nected with the search for the lost child
is full OF interest from the beginning tc
the end. 1t is worldwide story, one
which touches with a peculiar interest
every parents heart. No book Of fiction
could be more interesting to the reader.
As we now for the first time read the sad
story Of the boy over whose mystery mil
lions Of hearts have wept and ached, we
feel that we have the facts in truthful de.
tail, and with perfect accuracy. The
successful abduction and continued con.
cealment Of the unfortunate child, has
caused the name of Charley Ross to be
known in almost every household in the
land, and in a measure, he has become
the child Of the people. Whatever dark
ness still enshrouds this case, and how
ever hopeless it may appear to others,
Christ tian X. Ross still continues the per.
sistent, eager pursuit for his missing boy.
His time, his energies, his thoughts, and
ali his means have been entirely devoted
to this object. And he still has the same
unchanged purpose before him in the
future. Leaving the ninety apd nine "safe
in the fold" still looking for the zone
that is not" Only those who try to put
themselves in his place, by imagining the
little one they so ten :erly love snatched
from them, can in any degree understand
his feelings when he says his lifc's work
is to seek and to find the lost cne Of his
household. y


The book will be sent by mail to any
person sending 81 80 to Christian X. Ross,
Room No. II, Commercial Exchange,
Philadelphia. The work is not only
very interesting and we'll worth the
but every purchaser assists Mr..
Ross to the extent Of the profit on the
book, to continue his work of trying to
find his boy. While life lasts he will
devote all his time to the unraveling of
this mystery. Help him, dear reader:
Year: 1879

ity, upon the mind Of sheep owners, is
anything but agreeable. Again, in COM
parison with wheat, while the profit in
some one year may not be As great In
ready money as it is from wheat. t Is less
likely to be affected by unfavorable
weather, and the fertility Of our soil is
enhanced, while wheat greatly impover.
ishes. And to my mind, the person who
by raising wheat or other grain, exclu
sively for market, without repairing the
waste to the soil or returning an equiv
alent in some way, exhibits qualities that
mark him as better adapted to succeed In
one respect, at least. in political or pro.
fessional life than in farming.
Year: 1879

SECRETARY OF STATE MILTON BARNES ON THE


PENDING ELECTIoNs-HoPEFUL OF REPUBLI-


CAN VICTORY.


Mr. Milton Barnes, Secretary of State for Ohio ar
rived yesterday at the Astor House. In interview
with HERALD reporter he stated that there
dissensions existing to any extent among the republ
cans of his State. all the prominent men Of the
party are working in harmony. He considers
that the action Of the late special session
Of Congress and the general dissatisfaction
with the democratic administration in Ohio have
been the causes Of cementing union in the repub-
lican ranks The State is republican and Mr.. Barnes
thinks it fair to assume that full vote-which
1t is believed, the present canvass will bring forth
the republicans must have reliable majority. Alto
gether the chances pretty good electing
publican State ticket So far as the nomination is
concerned Ewing represents the democrats
only. but. 50 for as predilection is con-
sonally Ewing is an infationist and opposed
to specie payments and to this more than to any
thing else he owes his prominence. In view Of that
fact his nomination is not favorably regarded by all
the democrats, many OF whom do not favor fat
money The greenbackers poll cd so 900 votes more
less. in the state last year; but the impression
Mr.. Barnes now is that they will not count by any
means many this fall. The for this pre-
dcted falling off is that the resumption OF specie
successful and has wrought change in the
minds of considerable number among those who
opposed resumption. Popular sentiment is averse
to disturbing the present satisfactory state of the
questions of finance and the currency. The business
men in the State opposed to any change Just
now. Ewing's identification with the infatonist
policy is regarded by great many persons as IN
element of weakness to him, and the position which
he now occupies is evidently en- barrassing one.


Mr. Barnes further believes that the republican
meetings are more largely attended than those of the
democrats. Mr.. Foster, the republican candidate
for the Governorship, is making vigorous and
cesstn canvass. and Is proving to be very popular
Year: 1879

INDIANAPOLIS, July l4.-The threat
ened strike among the printers on the
Daily Journal eliminated tonight by the
compOsitors refusing 10 work because
the proprietor would not withdraw his
declaration against Union men. The
Journal will appear as usual in the
morning, though abridged in size. The
proprietor says that ne will work only
non-union men in the future.
Year: 1879

Try ii; keep trying it, and try it
again. We say this because We believe
that the health, happiness and prosper
ity of the people depend upon the
proper use of these medicines, which
have proved so successful in eradicating
diseases and defeating death. The med
icine so effective in its cure Of diseases
is the great Southern remedy, Simmon $
Liver Regulator. Try it; we believe that
the first trial will be satisfactory.
Year: 1879

Two babes in the woods have been
succored by an Empress ana Marquis.
One cold day last December they knock
ed at the door OF the Spanish Consulate
in London. Their name was Nunez;
one was a boy OF fifteen. the other a girl
Of seven; and they had baby brother.
Their father had died, and while they
we're living IN TunIs they mad lost their
mother. They mad been told that they
had an uncle in q monastery near Lei
Cester IN England, and they set out from
Africa to find him. From Tunis they
went to Malta and thence to Marseilles
and Paris, where their money gave out.
They were alone in Paris-the lad, his
sister, and the baby. The little one
was sick, and although they received
assistance from some Ursuline Nuns ne
faded, and dropped and died. With sad
hearts but buoyant spirits the two chill
dren went on their way to ind their
uncle. They walked from Paris to Ca
lais, begging their bread, ana some Kind
soul paid their way across the Straits to
Dover. They pawned what Jewelry they
had and what clothing they could spare,
and managed to reach Gharing Cross,
London. They had no money they were
hungry. They saw some Italian girls
playing an organ in the street, and ask
ed them to tell them where they cOald
sleep. The street musicians took them
to their garret, and the next morning
the wanderers found their way TO the
Italian COnsuL-Generat He gave them
the money they required for their jour-
ney to Leicester, strictly requiring OF
them that, upon their arrival, their an
Gle should write ana acquaint MIN OF the
fact. Several days elapsed, and, as no
news had been received, the Consul
General himself addressed letter to the
chief of the religious Institution, who
replied that the children had arrived,
but that no relative OF theirs was known
in the establishment. What had taken
place Was brought to the notice Of the
Empress Eugene, who was deeply
moved at the recital, and put forward
her claim that the girl should be IN
trusted to her care to De educated nd
future assured to her. The Marquis de
Casa Laiglesia mas taken charge OF the
fortunes OF the boy.
Year: 1879

There's n light in the window for me-


A light I'm the window for me;


A mansion I'm heaven see


And a light i'm the window for me-.


That was about all Dolly knew of the
hymn but it seemed to satisfy her per-
fectly, as she hummed it over aud over
again She had picked it up some-
where in the street or in the school
yard, for TO church Dolly had never
been in all her heather life Her school
days, too, were few and far between,
and at the age of 10 her education was
considered completed by the indwellers
of Rabbit Alley, where Dolly's blue eyes
first opened on the light of q trouble
some world Her mother died two
weeks after she was born, and her
father a year later. Brother or sister
Dolly had none; but she had a sturdy
heart (warm and tender, as strong
hearts usually are), and 3 quick, busy
brain under her thick ragged hair,
which nature had meant to be fine and
golden "a the floss of corn For nature
had been very kind to Dolly in the be-
ginnin9-had sent her into the world q
lovely baby, with all the gifts and graces
thst belong to babyhood; but the years,
rough-handed and heavy-footed, had
jostled and trampled the child until
there was little left of her beauty save
the tender blue of her eyes and GER
tain frank smile that would have made
ahomeler face than Dolly's very good
to look upon. Ali her little life so far
has been passed in living about among
the neighbors in Rabbit Alley, first with
one poor family, then with another, but
owning no settled home. She is at
present housekeeper for Polly Martin;
Polly who has drunken husband and
two small children, and goes out by The
day to work.
Year: 1879

ner.


A single fife and drum-tIle
whole regimental field music-are
squealing and humping the last
notes of an old time melody which
hae clung to the command through
all It's fortunes it is "2un, nigger,
run de paterol ketch you 20 oft
heard in the days when the war was
yonng. In a space between the
tents, serving in lien of more pre-
tentious parade, about dozen men
are ranged in an irregular line
facing the Orderly Sergeant, and
my little soldier falls into his place
just as the roll-call begins. 1t is
short work now but memory inter
sperses the list with many names in
the order in which they were COM
mitted to its keeping in the old
days-names to which no man will
ever answer again until the reviclle
Of the eternal morning shall sound.
The Sergeant hesitates more than
once, as his thoughts correct tongue
which was wont to run over the
array SO glibly; and at each sach
pause, there rises mp before us the
apparition Of some familiar face as
it used to beam upon us in life, or
perhaps as we last looked upon it,
CHASTITY and grim beneath the stains
of battle, ere we folded our conrad
in his bloody blanket shroud, and
laid him in his shallow grave. From
dark Chickahominy marsh and fer
tile Pennsylvania valley, from the
tangled thickets of the Wilderness,
the sterile slopes of Manassas, the
dreary pine levels of the Southside,
the ghosts Of the old company came
back to OUTAGE the living witnesses
of its valor, and challenge their
sturdy "Here I" with an answer
prouder still.
Year: 1879

period In the cold shade of the minority would do
them no harm. and would make the country more
independent of them than it now is and more secure
of peaceful elections. One effect upon the demo-
of the agitation of this question is to show
of them that they cannot afford to demagogue
or to ;rihe about candidates. They must have good
men, and even with these they may lose; with poor
nominations they would be beaten beyond recovery.
Year: 1879

The story Iof two plucky women of
China, Me-, is given by the Portland
Press. One of these ladies is the wife
of the former proprietor of hotel in
Boston. Her husband failed a year or
so ago, and got a situation that barely
afforded living salary for two. The
wife, woman of good education, smart
and active, conceived the idea of start
ing a stock-farm at the far west. She
had neice, young lady visiting in
China and the two started for Oregon
with some little money the elder lady
possessed in her own right. They Sc
CURED two grants of land Of l60 acres
each near Seattle, Wash. Ter, and
went to work with a viii. Recently
the lady wrote to her husband to come
out, and he is so pleased with.th coun-
try and the success of the two ladies
that he has induced several friends te
come out from the east and colonize
there. The two women have raised
forty head Of cattle and a very large
flock of sheep, and havealsoraisedallth the
subsistence they requiVed. They havs
complete management Of the affairs
and are entitled to al the credit.
Year: 1879

Men are drowaed by raising their
arms above water, the unbuoyed weight
of which depresses the head. Other
animsls have neither motion nor ability
to act in a similar manner, and there
fore swim naturally. When a man
falls into deep water he viii rise 70 the
surface. and will continue there if he
does not elevate his hands. If he
moves his hands in under water in any
way he pleases, his head viii rise 50
high as to allow him free liberty to
breathe; and if he viii use his legs as
in the act of walking-or rather walk
ing upstairs-his shoulders viii rise
above the water, so that he may use
less exertion with his hands or use them
for other purposes These plain airec
tions are recommended to the recOllec'
ton Of those who have not learned to
swim in their youth, as they may be
found highly advantageous in preserv-
ing life.
Year: 1879

Gigantic results often spring from .
small beginning. Years ago, man
sailing between New York and Norwich
said to the captain of the ship: 81
wish had something to do" Where
upon the captain replied: do you
see those bundles and packages in the
berth of my stateroem7 Their number
is increasing every trip they are in
nv way, and the care and attention
have to give them consumes more time
than / can afford. Suppose you collect
and take care of these private packages
for fair consideration. / think you
can easily build up paying business.
The man, whose name was Adams. took
the hint, and from such beginning
originated the Adams express company


The naosaniko IS in training
Year: 1879

of the Texas and Pacific railway,
to extend the road at $4,000 a
mile. They agree to take stock
and bonds in equal amount in pay
ment. This will give them eight
million dollars of stock of the COM
pany, and in case they complete
their contract within two years and
six months that will give them con-
troll by stock vote. This offer will
probably be accepted within few
days.
Year: 1879

William Lloyd Garrison makes ener-
getic protest against the antiChlnese
demagogy of Congress. Of the discus
sion in the Senate he says:


The debate on the question of Chinese
immigration in the United States Senate
was, with one or two honorable excep
tions, most disgraceful to all who partici-
pated in it, and displayed a demagogical,
partisan rivalry between Republican and
Democratic Senators as to who should
the most strongly cater to the brutal,
prosecuting spirit which for the time be
ing is so rampant in California under the
leadership of that most ignorant, profane,
strife engendering and besotted decla m
er, Denis Kearney-himself FOREIGNER,
or OF foreign descent, and much more
entitled to be in lunatic asylum than
running at large. Of the Senatorial lead
er of the sham Democracy of this coun-
try, Thurman, nothing better could rea
sonably be expected; but that Senator
Blaine, not less conspicuous as leader
in the Republican ranks, should zealorsly
advocate the repeal of the Burlingame
Treaty, in order that an almost total re-
striction shall be laid upon Chinese i'm
migration, is something more surprising
and even more discreditable than in the
case of Senator Sargent, of California,
who most ignobly conforms to the mis-
cradle Chinese craze with which that
section of the country is infected Per-
sonally, Mr.. Blaine has no such local
temptation to barter his manhood for a
prospective mess of pottage; but it is ev
ident that he is ready, tor mere party
ends, to concede all that malignant
prejudice and an abhorrent spirit of caste
may demand, with the hope of thereby
securing local Republican victory at
the next election. The Republican party
is doomed if it shall consent to be led by
him in that utterly indetensible proscrip
ton Fiat juStita ruat cGltm Sink or
swim, live or die, survive or perish, let
that party still more nobly signalze it.
self in the assertion and uncompromising
maintenance of liberty and equal rights
for all, no matter from what quarter OF
the world they may be drawn hither,
charged with no other offense that that
they were born in foreign lands; for
there is too much of intelligence and vir-
tue and manly independence in its ranks
to allow it to succeed on the score Of
injustice to any class in competition with
the Democratic party; nor should 1t
make the attempt, even if temporary
political triumph should be the result,
for the end would be certainly disruption
and defeat"
Year: 1879

can really take delight in such savagery
as forcing miserable dogs and fowls to
tear each other in pieces at this point in
the nineteenth century it makes the out
look very depressing. 1t is fine age to
live in, no doubt. that can show the tele-
graph and electric lights and telephones
and rapid transit; but would it not be
finer if the march of ethics could keep
pace with that of science? When one
reads, day by day. of the marvellous
growth of invention and of each fresh
ture are made to yield up their secrets
and become tributary to man, it seems
consistent that his moral nature should
grow and wax sweeter and stronger as
we'll. Such an expectation is not unrea-
sonable; and indeed it is almost COM
monplace of history to afford frequent
testimony to the fact that the ameliora-
ton of the condition of a people fore
shadows and measurably accompanies
the development among them of nobler
and broader humanity. But when we
find, side by side with the description of
some new and splendid discovery full of
promise for mems comfort and happiness,
a report packed to overlooking with de-
tails of atrocious cruelty. which men
have gathered together by the hundred
deliberately to inflict for "sport" upon
poor dumb animals, confidence in this
principle Of an associated progress in
science and morals is rudely shaken, and
we ask ourselves mournfully if the world
is not going backward instead of forward
and degenerating in things spiritual even
while most triumphantly advancing in
things material.


We have heard the antiquity of cock
fighting pleaded in its defense. Because
the ancient Greeks practised it we are TO
suppose it suitable for modern Christians.
Because it was an habitual diversion in
England in the dark times that are past,
it is therefore defensible in America in
the bright times of today. Because
kings like Henry VIII. and James l.
built cockpit at Whitehall, and fought
two mains every week, they furnish good
precedents for republicans in 1879 to do
likewise. That a writer published in
1705 IAN Essay on the Innocent and
Royal Recreation and Art of Cooking" is
a reason which these apologists would
doubtless find conclusive why the press
should support the innocent art" in
serious refutal Every child knows that
cock fighting is desperately cruel, and
every man SO poor in self respect as to
give the practice his countenance need
not be ashamed to see his name in print
among the list of its patrons. The ieal-
GUS care with which the chance of such
publicity was guarded against in the re-
ports of the Norwalk slaughter shows,
however, that the gentlemen present
have at least wholesome dread of pub
lie opinion on the subject. They were
not afraid to do dirty action, but they
were very much afraid that the public
should know it. The commentary that
this suggests is plain enough for him
who runs to read. 1t is also instructive,
since it indicates one tolerably effectual
method for discouraging practice which,
in whatsoever light it is regarded, must
be pronounced to be disgraceful to the
community and to the age.
Year: 1879

In the National Academy for the Edu-
cation of Officers of the Navy, a license
to smoke and chew tobacco has been Civ
en-. Not only so, but it has been given
in spirit of levity and with an impress
of ignorance which are not creditable to
the commanding officer When Com
Parker lately issued permission for the
Naval Cadets to use tobacco, he said that
he had concluded to grant the privilege
against the opinion of many people for
whom he entertained the highest respect.
But, as smoking was an expensive prac-
tice, he thought that the boys who did
not use tobacco had better not contract
the habit 1t was really a question of
poisoning, and this unthinking Superin-
tendent treated it as mere matter of
spending money. The boy who smokes
cigars or chews tobacco, poisons himself
This is absolutely true, and the teacher
who does not know it is unfit to be trust
ed with the charge and government of
boys He who permissively encourages
boys to smoke or chew is a corruptor of
youth. Among the charges employed to
excite popular fury against certain en-
inent citizen of Greece, and to bring him
to death, was that he corrupted the youth
of the Republic. AS human nature is
constituted, the charge was sure to OBJ
tain hearing If believed, it was equal
ly sure to bring the Judgment that the
accused was public enemy and unfit to
live.


1t is too late to enlarge upon the evil
effects of tobacco upon the immature
man. Science long ago fixed beyond
doubt or controversy the numerous symp-
toms OF the presence Of this poison.
These have been classified by all schools
Of o1i iaipn Tho rnoIioo1 litoro Of
what is called "the regular school," in
England and France, treating of the dis
eases of modern society, gives large space
to the evil results flowing from the use
of tobacco. Hahnemann, and his school,
give pages which are crowded with proofs
of the disastrous effects of nicotine upon
the human system. 1t is prolific cause
of deadly paralysis.


Unquestionably, one of the most la
mentable evils which affiict the rising
generation flows from the early use of to-
bacco Street boys who are not yet out
of child's clothes snatch the discarded
stubs of cigars of grown men and smoke
them in apish imitation of their elders.
Lads at school acquire taste for tobacco
by surreptitiously smoking cigarettes
cigarettes which have done more to de,
moralize and vitiate youth than all the
dram shops of the land. Evil education
has two corruptions-the corruption of
the body and the corruption of the soul.
The bodily mechanism of boys of sixteen,
seventeen, eighteen and nineteen years
of age can be as thoroughly injured by
insidious poisons as they can be soiled by
wicked teaching. What manner of men
shall they be, when this generation is
grown, if lads of every degree shall be
taught to use tobacco? What hope for
posterity when the children of to day are
poisoned and dwarted by pernicious
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