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Year: 1878

social progress, what can We say of the
present as contrasted with the past in re-
gard to mans religious interests? Is the
world growing better? 1t is a greater
benediction to an immortal man to live in
1878 than in any of the preceding centu.
ries


Undoubtedly, it is. 1t is blessing tc
live in an age when the principles of Christ
ianity have so modified legislation, that q
woman with nursing child cannot be
hanged in Old England for passing a
whitewashed shilling, or an inirm old bel
dame be burned for witch in New Eng.
land. 1t is great thing to live in an age
when poor maniaes are not locked up in
dungeons with common felons, or men
made in Gods image driven to their toll
like the brute beasts of the field. It is
much to live in an age when it does not
cost the wages of a laboring man for a
twelvemonth to buy copy of the Bible,
and when his children can receive good
education without money and without
price. 1t IS much to live in day, when
the camp-fres Of the army of the Lord are
blazing all around the world, and the Cos
pei call, "Come to Jesus" is heard in
every dialect spoken by men. 1t is much
to live in day when the care of the sick,
the widow, the orphan, and the poor, is
everywhere deemed imperative on the
time and thoughts and purses of the best
people in every community. 1t is much
to live in day when the hearts of God S
people everywhere, are knit in closer
fellowship, and they are approximating
toward the idea of the essential unity of
the Christian Church And it is much to
live in a day when the most crowded and
most intensely interested assemblies ever
gathered in our largest cities, are those
which embracing every class, from the
millionaire to the pauper, meet by thou
sands day after day, to unite i'm simple
ballads Of Christian praise, and to listen
to the plainest preaching of the vital truths
of Gods Holy Word.


Yes, the New is better than the Old,
the present, better than the past, and the
future is to be better than the present
The outlook is hopeful and bright. The
worlds population, commerce, wealth,
and comfort, is to be largely increased
War, will never be the gigantic curse
which it has been. knowledge is to be
increased. Governments are to realize
more fully, that they exist for the good oi
their people. Freedom of person, of
thought, and of opinion, is to be universal
and the value of Man is to appreciate
everywhere. Assimilating agencies are
to work among the nations, and the world
is to become true brotherhood, where
there is neither Jew nor Greek, Barbarian
Scythian, bond nor free, but all are one
in Christ Jesus. Say not then, o ye
grumblers, fault-fnders, and croakers
"What is The cause that the formeg days
were better than these, for ye do not in
quire wisely concerning this matterr
Year: 1878

ANATURAL Chickweed
is an excellent barometer When the
flowers expands fully there need be no
fear of rain for several hours. Should it
continue in that condition, no rain will
disturb the summer day. When it half
eoneeals its miniature flower, the day is
sure to be shOwery, and if il entirely shuts
UP, OF wells the white flower with its green
mantle, let the traveller put on his great
coat.
Year: 1878




The story of the official robbery of the
State of South Carolina by the band of bad
and disreputable men who managed to OBJ
tain control of her government is in gen.
eral way pretty familiar to the newspaper
reading public. They have been again and
again told of their unblushing corruption,
unparalleled bribery and wholesale robbery
in nearly every department, but they have
yet to learn the full infamy and rascality of
these men in the minor grades of crime and
corruption. For the last twelve months a
joint committee of the Legislature has been
unearthing the details of this secondary
villany, and the testimony it has taken dis
the other legislative robbery and corruption
of the past fifteen years completely in the
shade. The correspondence elsewhere
printed presents picture of Legislative
wrong doing which has never before been
presented to an American public. and
which, fortunately, there is slight probable
ity will be presented in the future.


The late legislatures of South Carolina
seem to have gone to work deliberately to
rob that State in evory possible way, and
how well they succeeded is shown by the
correspondence printed this morning. In
one session alone there was expended three
hundred and fifty thousand dollars under the
head of supplies, sundries and incidental
expenses" and Of this sum one hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollars was spent
in Refreshments. A bar and dining room
were attached to the legislative chambers,
where the patriotic statesmen ate and drank
at the public expense while the teachers of
the public schools were unpaid and con-
victs were set free from the penitentiaries
to save them from starvation. Under the
head Of stationery" they charged to the
public treasury the expenses Of furnishing
their houses, the support of their mistresses
and the cost of expensive jewelry. There
was scarcely IN item of personal expense
which was not set down to the public ac-
count. In fact, Senators and Representa-
tives left their private bills with the ac-
counting officers and they were returned to
them settled and receipted. Tweed's rule
in this city and State was pure and spotless
compared with the regime Of the South Car
olina Ring.
Year: 1878

conference. If Europe in general, or even
the nations composing the Latin Union,
will consent to take part in such confer
ence and should be able to agree on COM
mon silver standard, bi-metalism might
be adopted with tolerable safety. Without
such an agreement silver will cease to be
coined in Europe except for small change.
1t is impossible for the United States or any
one nation to give that metal the requisite
terest of the United States as silver
producing country to extend the mar
ket, and for its interest as a COM
mercial country to have money Of the
same value as that Of other trading nations
If the United States and the Latin Union
can agree on the same system of bi-metal-
ism the nations composing the Latin Union
will again open their mints for the coinage
Of silver, and gold and silver money may,
perhaps, be maintained at par. At any
rate this is the only chance of imparting to
money Of both metals the same value and
giving stability to silver. 1t is next to
certain that Europe would require us to
uuOpt lIS TdtlO "a 6l1VeT W BoAu,
which is 15A of silver to / of gold,
instead Of our standard of about 16 to
l. This would require US to add three
per cent to the amount of silver in our dol
lar, which would not only be moderate
change in the right direction but one which
would advance the value of silver bullion
by opening to it large market which is
now practically closed. and will remain
closed if we do not come to ON agreement
with Europe. Until this most important
question can be determined we should not
make our mints too active, for if we are to
change the standard in concert with Europe
all the dollars Of 4129 grains would have to
be recoined. As the law allows six months
for the conference it will be quite in ac-
cordance with its spirit for Mr. Sherman to
coin only two millions a month for that
length Of time.
Year: 1878

To ''see for yourself is very good rule
to follow in doubtful or disputed cases, and
as there has been some controversy as to
where the responsibility rests for mixing
the ashes and garbage in the process Of
street cleaning, and thus endangering the
public health by the foulness Of the dump
ing grounds and Of every locality where the
street gatherings are used for filling, the
HERALD concluded that the surest way to
arrive at the facts was to make an investi-
cation on its own account. The result Of
this investigation is published to-day. Our
reporters, after thorough and careful exam
ination, discovered by personal observation
that while almost all householders in re-
spectacle localities obey the regulation re-
quiring the separation Of the ashes and
garbage and provide two boxes for that pur-
pose, the collectors Of the Street Cleaning
Bureau wholly disregard the ordinance and
dump the contents of ash barrels and gar
bage boxes indiscriminately into their
carts. Meanwhile the responsible authori-
ties of the Street Cleaning Department, the
superintendent, inspectors and detailed
officers make no attempt to compel the cart
men to comply with the rule and close their
eyes while the mixed loads are being hur-
riedly gathered or are dumped under their
well-seasoned noses at the dumping grounds


The secret of the utter disregard of the
rule and of the public health and safety by
the cartmen is that they are paid by the day
and required to gather just so many loads
as days work. To collect the ashes and
garbage separately would be to consume
Just SO much more time and travel over just
SO much more ground for each load. So in
order to finish the job and make their
money as quickly and with as little labor as
possible the cartmen just pitch into their
carts the contents of every barrel and box they
find on the sidewalks, regardless whether
they are ashes or garbage, taking first one
and then the other, and hurry off with their
reeking loads to the nearest dumping
ground, dropping its piled-up filth on the
streets as they pass along. The dump in
spectors are by no means curious to ascertain
Of what the loads are composed. although it
would, of course, be unjust to suppose that
they share in the cartmens profits, and the
police stand looking blandly on while the
collectors of the seeds of pestilence and
disease are making their rounds, profoundly
ignorant of the fact that there exists any
difference between barrel of ashes and q
box Of putrescent garbage. AS to the Com
missioners, they content themselves with
laying the blame ofthe commingling of ashes
and garbage on the wicked tenement house
people, who insist on disregarding the law,
and when their own efficiency is called in
question point complacently to the certif.
awarded them by the converted Mayor.
But it only needs perusal of the HEBALp's
faithful and impartial report to determine
where the responsibility really lies.
Year: 1878

THE TERRIBLE CONFESSION of O negro who
was executed in Virginia yesterday for a brutal
assault on lady shows that he richly deserved
the fate lie met. He acknowledged the perpe-
tration Of several outrages of the same charac-
ter, and was admittedly one Of the fends who
are better out of the world than in it.
Year: 1878

ACCORDING to the latest dispatches from
Mexico the friends of Mr. Diaz are dreadfully
disappointed at not having heard before this the
news that our government had recognized him
President Mr.. Diaz will probably have to
wait some time longer, and meanwhile it would
be no harm for him to turn his attention to his
unruly countrymen on the border.
Year: 1878

THE GREENDACK PARTY amused itself yester.
day by holding national convention at Toledo,
Ohio Old Bill Allen appears to have been
absent, and what is q greenback convention
without him
Year: 1878

How THE DAY WAS OBsERvED.-A general
suspension of business the closing of the public
offices, State and federal; the unfurling of the
national colors, the ringing of church chimes,


the firing of cannon and few military and civic
gatherings, embrace nearly all the ceremonies
and observances in this city of the birthday of
him whom we delight to call the Father of
His Country. From our dispatches it will be
seen that in the other cities Of the Union the
day was celebrated in pretty much the same way.
Year: 1878

Mr.. STANLEYs courage and intrepidity in his
African explorations and the devotion of his fol-
lowers to him furnished the Rev. Henry Ward
Bcecher last evening with forcble illustration
of the faith Christians should have in the great
Captain who is leading them through the wilder
ness of this life. The way in which the great
explorer recompensed, according to his promise,
the relatives of those who perished OH the expc-
dition contained Mr. Beecher declared more of
the heart of the Gospel than the sending Of o
million Bibles to Zanzibar.
Year: 1878

A new invention has been perfected in
Paris--that of glass printing type. This
kind of type is made out of hardened
glass and is said to be as hard as lead
They last longer than the metallic; are
not liable TO be crushed by the printing
cylinder; they do not suffer in the least
from sudden cooling in stsreoty ping and
tney do not injure the health in hand
ing, as lead type do. In this respect
they have a great advantage. The at.
mosphere in printing offices is impreg-
mated with particles Of lead, and chronic
lead poisoning is one Of the complaints
OF type-setters. All this is obviated by
tne new invention, which has the merit
OF also being much cheaper.
Year: 1878

A Russian priest will seriously tell you
that it is allowable to get drunk, but
not to smoke, because mot that which
goeth in but that which cometh out of
the mouth defilsth man," and he will
argue that the saying "a priest must
live by the altar" means that he should
make the altar yield all it can.
Year: 1878

PATENT Your MINES The import
ance of patenting the mines, says the
Scientific Press cannot be too frequently
impressed on the mining community.
Every man who finds ledge looks for
ward with bright hopes to its future, and
is assured that success will reward his
labors. When it does it seems too bad
to have a defective title prevent sale.
A United States patent is guarantee
that no one can come in with conflict
ing title after a patent is granted; and
people will not buy mines nowadays un-
less they are sure of this. The avoidance
of litigation with mining property is
worth looking after, and when the title
is once vested in the proper owner by
means of q patent, that is the end Of
any legal proceedings.


doubt regarding ownership is worse
thing to contend with in negotiating for
mining property than a doubt as to the
value CT the mine itself. When man
buys mine he is not compelled to spend
more than he wants to and can stop
when be likes; but in q law suit he is
not a free agent. Therefore, if miners
intend selling their claims or getting
capitalists to aid them, the first step
after getting the claim is to get patent.
Moreover, by procuring q patent the
miner is released from annual expend-
iture. Once the mine is patented it can
lie idle until the owner is ready to work
it, as the title then rests in him and no
longer in the Government.


Much trouble and expense can be pre-
vented by getting a patent, and it is
much less expense than many suppose.
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1t was brought out in the Vanderbilt
will case that young Vanderbilt at vari-
GUS times borrowed from Horace Greeley
till the amount reached forty thousand
dollars, Of which he never returned a
copper. When Mr.. Vanderbilt heard
that money was being loaned to
his spendthrifs son, he went to Mr..
Greeley and requested him not to lend
his son any more money. Mr.. Greeley
resented the request as an unwarrantable
interference. Subsequently the elder
Mr.. Vanderbilt paid over $4,000 to the
Greeley heirs, although not legally
| bound to do so.
Year: 1878

The production ot four, during the last yeur, at the three Touring mills situated in this valley, amounts to three millions four hundred thousand pounds and all from wheat produced on lands watered from the Great Salt River, one hundred and sixty thou sand pounds of this very essential article has been shipped to Yuma tha present terminus of the Southern Pacific k. R., while the wheat of Redondo raised on the San Ysidro ranch, at Yuma, was shipped to Los Angeles, which fact convinces us that eventually Southern California will draw upon this, the grat grana- " or second Egypt for their staff of life. With the great natural re- sources placed at the disposal of the honest tiller of the soil, here. in the tropical valley of Arizona. we can zee no reason why, at no distant day, this section should not be the most desirable spot, to live in, of all the land. Our resources are of the most substantial character, a broad valley eff aqueous land, through which meanders the savery garbed old Salinas, whose source takes rise in the metal lined sierras to henorth. warrants us in asserting that our in dustrious, law abiding citizens must, of a natural and unavoidable neces- ity, in the near future, become prin- ces of the ''easy chair in this terri tory. With the increase of popula- ton throughout our mountains and valleys the increase in planting the broad acres of untitled land will be kept watch of and the amount requi- site to supply all demands promptly furnished. Our land is one of the lilly and rose, the olive and palm, the golden fruit of the harvest and we predict the day is not far distant when will be manufactured and a market ready to receive and consume at least ten million pounds of flour. We are a great people, live in a great valley not surpassed on the Pacific slope, and the great, grand city of Central Arizona will certain ly be Phenix.
Year: 1878

PRESCRIPTION FOR FITs.-For a fit of
Passion-Walk out in the open air. You
may speak to the winds without hurting
any one, or proclaiming yourself to be a
simpleton.


For a fit of Idleness-Count the ticking
Of the clock. Do this for one hour, and
you will be glad TO pull off your coat and
work like man.


For a fit of Extravagance-Go 10 the
workhouse, or speak with the ragged in
mates of a Jail, and you will be con-
vinced.


For a fit of Ambition-Go to the church.
yard and read the Rravestones. They will
tell you the end of man is at his best estate.


For a fit of Repining-Look about for
the halt, the blind, and visit the bed-rid.
den, and afflicted and ths deranged; and
they will make you ashamed of complain
ing of your light Affections.


For a fit of Envy-Go and see how
many who keep their carriages are affict-
ed with rheumatism. gout and dropsy
how many walk abroad on crutches OF
stay at home wrapped In flannel; and how
many are subject TO epilepsy and apoplexy
Year: 1878

Orchards on Phenis and Dry creeks
were badly injured, the trees not torn
down being denued of blossoms. Fall
wheat was badly broken and driven
into the ground, and will be much in
jured.


The path of the tornado, where it
was strong enough to destroy houses,
was not very wide. It began, so far
as we now know, in Chase county, and
then appears to have lifted inte the
air and struck the earth again at
Jacobs creek, in this county, and
kept on going east until it reached
Mr.. Ross house, about three miles east
of Emporia. It then again rose from
the earth, and may have come down
again or may not, at some point fur
ther east. The width of the tract up
on which buildings were destroyed is
about six miles, reaching from the
northern limits of Emporia to about
four miles south of the Cottonwood.
The storm was more extensive than
this, but not in its destructive power.
Year: 1878

1 lie here at rest in my chamber,
And look through the window again,
With eyes that are changed siuce the old time,
And the sting of an exquisite pain.
IT'S not much that see for picture,
Through boughs thatare green with spring,
A barn with its roof gray and mossy,
And above it bird on the wing;
Or, lifting my head thought higher,
Some hills and village know,
And over It all the blue heaven,
With white cloud floating below.
All once the roof was prison,
Ny mind and the sky were free,
Ny thoughts with the birds went flying,
And my hopes were heaven to me.
Now come from the limitless distance
Where followed my youths wild will,
Where they press the wing Of delusion
That you drink and are thirsty still;
And know why the bird with the spring


time


To the gnarled old tree comes back
he has tried the South and II summer
He has felt what the sweet things lack.
So come with sad contentment.
With eyes that are changed see
The roof means peace, not prison,
And Heaven smiles down on me.


L. g. Moulton.
Year: 1878

A gentleman of Chicago thought Of
having a telephone put into his house,
so as to enable him to hold sweet con-
verse with his business partner, but
his aged mother protested earnestly
against it. Robert" she said, off
you bring one of tn ose dreadful things
in here I'll never close my eyes for
fear it may break out and sweep us all
into eternity, and us not a bit the wi
SER" He tried to persuade her that
it was an innocuous instrument, but
she said, "No, no; look at the thous-
ands and millions of poor HindoOs it
killed last fall" "Why," replied he,
"that wasn't telephone-that was a
But the old lady lowered
her glasses, and looking at him over
the rims thereof, said that he could
fool her; that she might not know
much, perhaps, but she did know that
the typhoon was the President of Ja-
pan. The gentleman has given it up
as hopeless case.-Erchange.
Year: 1878

When you and I are asleep, my love,


Under the carven stone;
Who will there be elft to weep, nv love,
Of all that we have known?
But the lark will sing as clear and free,
AS he springs from his nest in the alder tree,
And the robin carol his hearts desire
Above US in the red-rose brier
Though your voice is low and weak, my dear,
There is love-light in your eye
Tho the roses fade from your cheek. my dear,
Loves roses never die
But it's oh for the long and lasting sleep
Where the wildwood honeysGckIes creep!
Under the violets lie,
And let the weary world go by.


II s. Cornell.
Year: 1878

The New York World says that an
eminent western clergyman who re-
Gently visited Washington, being ask
ed by his friends on his return what
he thought of the president, mused a
moment and then made answer =
"Well, 1 believe that before man his
walk is upright, but I fear that before
the Lord he wobbles."
Year: 1878

Zone Summer" in his pocket, Harry
Williston's pocket by the way,) and
the bliss ola hundred summers in his
heart, for the little Ruthie had heard
his last request as graciOusly as she did
the first, and we are all invited to the
wedding, to take place about Christ
mas.


I trust this will not develope in
young ladies sentimental considera-
tion for the genus tramp. This sort
of thing might not happen once in a
thousand times.-Peterson's Magazine
for May.
Year: 1878

There is no enterprise in the world
which for its success requires such a
combination of mental and mechani-
cal powers or organization, of admin
istrative skill, of business-like aptitude,
political knowledge, experience Of the
world and literary judgment as news
paper.-London World.
Year: 1878

A boy complained to his father that
Bill had thrown the Bible at him, and
hurt him on the head, the fatherreplied:
. Well, you are the only member of
my family on whom the Bible ever
made the least impression.
Year: 1878

under considerable restraint if called upon to testify
in public in regard TO Mexican affairs, and to make
known his opinion of the Diaz Government. 1t IS
possible that he might say nothing which would in
any way compromise him with the Mexican author
ites. and yet 1t is by no means improbable that
some of his statements. though they could not be
denied. would be anything but gratifying 70 the
Government Of that country. Under these circum-
stances, Mr.. Foster would probably be Obliged to
evade or decline to answer some important questions
put to him by the committee, through fear that his
replies might be used to prejudice him with the
Government Of Mexico after his return to That
country.


In private and confidential consultation held at
the State Department, Mr.. Foster can give 10 the
committee all the information he possesses and can
even 90 farther and express his private opinion in
regard to the stability and good Will of the Diaz
Administration. Whatever portions of the conver-
saon are of general interest, and the publication OF
which will nOt at the same time compromise either
Minister Foster or the Administration, will be given
to the press. The record of the remainder OF the
conversatioI will be kept in the State Department
as portion of It's secret archives.