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Year: 1879

THE Boston Herald puts question and
answers it correctly. "Why," it says, sis
the country to be cursed by an extra session
of Congress9 There is a simple question.
Here is the plain answer: Because the
Democratic politicians insisted on loading
down the appropriation bills with pot cal
matter which had no more business there
than it has in the almanac. That is all there
is to it. Let the blame fall where 1t be-
longs"
Year: 1879

The New York World is to be turned into
two-cent folio sheet, and it is said that
George W. Childs of the Philadelphia Ledger
has bought controlling interest in the con-
cern, and that ample capital will be provided
for persistent effort to establish a rival of
the Sun. 1t is understood that the new
World will not be Democratic, nor even
Independent, but neutral in politics.
Year: 1879

Upon an examination of the bill for in
creased compensation of letter carriers by the
Post Office Department, it is found that by
blunder of the House Postal Committee it is
imperative. and letter carriers in the cities
where free delivery is now established will
under its provisions get no increase of COM
pensatlon. Postmaster General Key has the
matter under consideration, and will issue
instructions to the above effect in a few days,
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and commun,
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return OF preserve COM
muncations that are not used,
Year: 1879

THE report that the Vanderbilt will con.
test has been compromised is denlsd. The
filial children will still pursue the business of
proving that their father was an idiot and
lunatic.
Year: 1879

EATON, Feb. 15.-Thursday night three
tramps were locked up in the calaboose by
the jsnitor of the city buildings Yester-
day morning, when he went to release
them, he found that they had burned all
their clothing, in order to get new clothing
and board for the day; but up to last night
they were in the same condition as when
discovered yesterday morning. All the
clothing left them is a hat and pocket
handkerchief.
Year: 1879

In marrying, men should seek happy
women. They make terrible mistake
when they marry for beauty, or for tails
ent, or for style; the sweetest wives are
those who possess the secret Of being
happy under any circumstances


Rich or poor, high or low, it makes no
difference, the bright little fountain
bubbles up just musically in our hearts.
nothing ever goes wrong with them-no
trouble is too serious for them 'to make
the best of it, Was ever the stream OF
calamity 20 dark and deep that the sun
light of a happy face falling across IFS
turbid tide would not make an ans
wering CLEAN? Why. then. joyous tenn
pered people don't know half the good
they do No matter how cross and
Grabbed they feel, no matter if your
brain is full OF meditation on affecting
dispensations," and your stomache with
medicines, pills and tonics; just one of
these cherry little women talking to
you, and we are not afraid to wager
anything she can cure you. The longer
drawn lines about the mouth will relax


the cloud of settled gloom will vanish
nobody knows where. aud the first
thing you know. you will be laughing.
Oh, what blessing are these happy
women! How often their little hands
guioe the pondros machinery of life,
with almost an invisible touch! How
we look forward thro' the weary day to
their tireside smilesl No one knows.
will even know until the day of Judge
ment reveals, how much we owe to
these helpful, hopeful uncomplaining
happy women.
Year: 1879

The habit of skirking is great evil
in our land. Sad and bitter ale the ex-
perience of multitules who have lost
positions of emoumeut and trust by
skIrklng duties and responsibilities de-
voivlng upon them. They saw their
mistake after it was too late. 1t is
bad sign to see Young man contract,
ing the habit of shirking. You may
set it down at once that sooner or later
he will be q drone in the grost hive of
human industry, living without any
purpose in life and scorned without any
purpose in life and scornrd by all who
have wiling hands. and follow up what
whatever they can fud to do. Young
men. if you want to gain the confidence
and esteem of your employer. never
shrink from duty. If over tasked lay
in your Complaints. and yon will always
geta hearing. III you begin life
shirk, you may sit down as fixed fact
that the habit will follow you through
life, and instead of a Success you will
be an utter failure"
Year: 1879

Above all things, let, us never lose
faith in God. 1t is the saddest oonse-
quence Of financial disaster that those
who snffer by them sometimes make
shipwreck of their faith. They exae..
gerate their troubles to that extent that
private loss or misfortune seems like
public calamity, and because they
suffer some petty personal inconven-
ience or privation. they think that all
the foundations of the earth are ont of
course. Because a few clouds gather
in the sky, the armament is dsrkened,.
and they think that the stars have
fallen from heaven.


Oh. foolishmanl Lift up your eyes
and behold the clouds flee away, and
the stars will soon be seen shining clear
ly and serenely in the hevens. These
passing clouds are but for a moment,
and they may be most blessed in our
experience, if they bring us nearer to
the only true source OF light---nesr to
God.
Year: 1879

Under the cool shade OF the oak trees,
Thomas. the wood cutter, and his
grandson, Joe. had been eating their
lunch. Carefully gathering the crumbs,
the old man threw them far out on the
grass, and then both waited, till first
one bird then another, hoped
down for their share of the feast.


at was little bird like that that
showed me the way to God, Joe. Ill
tell you about it.


81 was a grown man, with wife and
little children your mother was the
baby then-before | ever thought much
of God or my duty to him. it was
one night while | sat i'll the door way
resting, I heard your grandmother sing
ing, ms she rocked her baby to sleep,


Jesus. lover of my soul,


Let me to thy bosom ily,


While the waters near me roll,


While the tempest still ~ nigh"
1t set me thinking of my sin, of death
Of meeting God; and for days ms heart
was full of fear. I was coming through
the woods one night, when great
storm came on; the wind blew, the trees
crashed, the rain came in gusts, and it
was all I could do to keep my feet. At
every flash of lightning my heart trein-
bled for fear | might be called to meet
my God. Then | saw a bird flying
around with pitiful cry. On low
branch was nu empty nest, tom and
drenched; on the ground we're her crush
ed eggs There seemed no refuge for
her from the binding storm, till, by
flash of light, saw her dart under u
great rock which stood near, and
! | knew she was safe. Then the
words Of the song came back to me,
and I prayed aloud as hurried through
the storm and rain,


Jesus, lover Of my soul,
! Let me to thy bosom fy;
/ While the waters near me roll,


While the tempest still is nigh"


Aud He heard me, Joe, and through
Him who said, 4 am the way, am not
afraid to meet my God. SO you see it
was little bird that led me to the
Lord.
Year: 1879

'WHAT shall wear to my sisters
wedding?" anxiously asks little rust G
maiden of our fashion editor The fash
ion editor having stepped out to pay
a bill. we suggest that you wear dress,
a rair of shoes and stockings, and per-
haps clean collar. But it will be
positively necessary that you wear the
first named articles if you intend to
create favorable impression.
Year: 1879

Fly ued application for a time
QUO itAspay be solved, and we
VETO can but think, when solv-
YOUR cd, not very great length
PAPE of time will elapse before
RPA the benefit of this solution


YU will be felt in a form that


p wa can really apnreaciate
Year: 1879

We 'call upon all soldiers and their friends in
terested in this question of justice to be up and
doing Both the great political parties in their
platforms long since promised to do this thing 1t
has not yet been done. From cause another
session after session. this bill, almost law, has
failed


presidential election is before us, to be hotly
contested, in which the soldiers vote will count
Rig no,c is the time to concentrate your action to
to make your influence felt with members of Con-
gress


Fill up and forward TO your Representative and
Senator foods of petitions demanding justice and
prompt action Not only ask that it be done, but
that it be done noc in this present session, before
Congress adjourns, before the fall elections come
off, Your united force will spur up the laggard,
rouse the irresolute, and strengthen the hands of
your real and honest friends in Congress


One month of active canvassing among your
comrades and your friends, win the name OF
every soldier and of every soldiers friend in the
Nation and, on the sweep of that broad tide, this
great measure of relief and justice win be rapidly


'~tsA
Year: 1879

In the Revised Statutes of the United States,
Title XIX, page 3l9 we find the following section,
(No. I754): Persons honorably discharged from


the military or naval service by of disability
resulting from wounds or sickness incurred in the


line of duty, shall be preferred for appointments to
civil Offices, provided they found to possess the
business capacity necessary for the proper discharge
of the duties of such oficesn Such being the law
and glorious law it is-why do we find that the
Office of Commissioner of Pensions is held by man
who never saw one moments service in either the
Army or Navy of the United States? Above all
other places in the Government the Pension Office,
SO intimately associated with the Army and Navy,
should be filed by who had seen honorable SER
vice and suffered therefrom Mr.. Bentleyts entirely
out Of place. Give US a brave wounded soldier or
sailor in his place The soldiers and sailors every
where demand this.
Year: 1879

For more than year THE NATIONAL TRIBUNEl
has been fighting good fight against what we be-
leve to be the great wrong and hardship proposed
by the Sixty-Surgeon Bill.


We have fought against the whole weight OF ofh-l
cial position and authority We have not hestatedl
to criticise and condemn the measure proposed,
although the Commissioner has thrown the whole
weight of his influence official and private in favor
of it. til hard and unequal fight, and we depend
for success solely on the justice of our cause.


Now, THE TRIBUNE asks of every soldier who may
see this article, and who believes that we right,
to write Immediately to his Representative in Con-
gress and tell him what he thinks of the plan pro-
posed by Mr.. Bentley


If YOU do not want this business of delay and
hindrance to go on any longer IF you want the
useless red tape that prevents justice to be removed
and the 100000 cases now pending to be speedily
and honestly settled, write 10 your Member and tell
him so Tell him that it is disgrace that such a
mass should accumulate tell him that humanity
demands immediate and vigorous action; tell him
that il is his duty to give all the force, in clerks or
otherwise that can be used to bring these to
settlements and that you are unaterably opposed
to any scheme which will increase the delay that is
starving widows and orphans to death by inches,
and that it is his duty to study the subject for him
self and lend his voice and his hand to some official
remedy. Believe us, that the pension laws as they
stand are good and just, but the cause and the
shame is in the arbitrary rules adopted aud main
Year: 1879


Ger, by his own official showing


If his official record is true then his allegations
of wholesale fraud are alse and in either event he
is unfit for public trust


We deliberately charge that the public bus
ness is hinCered; that the rights of individual
claimants are delayed, postponed and lost; that
the system has been made wholly bad for the
purpose of helping theoretic and mpracticable
vision, of the creation and maintenance of cohort
of perpatetc commissioners creatures and incidents
of the High Commissioner, to sit as courts and to
examine into pension cases.


If Senator or Member goes to Mr.. Bentley on
any case of his constituents, he is met with great
appearance of regret that he do nothing because
the the time of the Office is taken up with these fear
ful frauds and therefore the accumulation of claims
unsettled must go on and the 100000 claims now
admitted to be unsettled will soon, by these perni-
cious delays, vastly increase.


Congress has asked him, by resolution, if more
help was wanted; has rendered him all the assist
ance he would call for; but he wants only his own
pet project, at once absurd and impracticable.
The scheme has been dssected in this paper here
tofore, and the Commissioner has pro6ted by the
dissection, and avoided in his present scheme some
of the extreme foes of his first design. Still the
cardinal defect remains--that obstacles are thrown
in the way of the poorer and more meritori-
GUS class of claimants, obstacles which they can
not overcome that they compelled to attend
before tribunal more or less distant to bring their
witnesses at their own risk and expense. without
any compulsory process to procure attendance
/ The scheme is utterly oppressive and bad--but it
/ is Mr.. Bentley's


There is but remedy for this wretched state OF
things Let Mr. Bentley be retired from the duty
he is not adequate to fulfill and let some one of ex
perience in actual service of large heart and large
brain, thorough lawyer, and just and kindly
man, take the place which, by his wilfuness ant
Iineficiency, he has rendered "wHoLLY BAD"
Year: 1879

This apparent surplus is about equal 10 the sum
that was charged To construction that properly
should have been charged To operating expenses
But turning to the balance sheet II Is seen that on
January l. 1879, there was large deficiency In tho
cash resources of the company for the payment OF
its cash liabilities. The following IS tue compara-
tive statement Of the companys cash assets and
cash liabilities as shown by its balance sheet on
December 81
Year: 1879

An onion is little thing,


Ier wonderfully strong;
Its smell will not f9rsake us


At home or in throng.
lie WI eats is not forgotten


Ii either spring or fall,
The strongest soldier and greatest
Scent'nei Of them all
Year: 1879

EDITOR NEws:-The State of Connecticut may have a competent Board of Education, she may have good and righteous laws con- corning education, but if there is behind them as the source of all their power selfish and partisan sentiment, is there not danger that the State may be defeated in her wise pur

 pose to educate every child within her bor- ders2 An article entitled "The School Ques- ton Again" which appeared in your issus of
Year: 1879

New York is noble in its charities. It's
public and private benevolent asylums and
associations are not surpassed, even If they
are equalled in the world. Yet complaint
is often made that the relief of suffering is
not as ready, immediate and unquestion-
ing as it ought to be in cases of dire dis
tress. When q person drops In the street
from exhaustion, caused by starvation,
there ought to be some door open to him
instantly for relief. When families are
discovered in q garret or cellar perishing
from want the means to supply their ne
cessities and snatch them from the brink
of the grave ought to be forthcoming with
oct question being asked. When home
less women and children are wan
dering on the streets there should
be some place of rest ready and
willing to receive them without any formal
ity and regardless of any other considera-
ti6n than that of their necessity. The need
Of prompt and unquestioning relief was no
seriously felt in New York few years ago,
when times were hard and the winter was
unusually severe, that some prominent citi-
zens raised fund to supply the want and ac-
complished a great deal OF good. Our chari-
ties are grand, but in some of them there is
too much red tape, while others spend more
money on management than on the poor.


In Mondays HERALD correspondent
set forth the trials of poor little girl three
years old who had been i'll treated and
deserted by her parents, whose grand
mother was too poor and too sick to take
charge of her, and for whom refuge was
sought in q charitable institution. The child
Year: 1879

The grievances Of our fishermen in the
Gulf of st. Lawrence are again cropping up.
We have paid to the British govern ment
three or four times over the value of all the
fish the American vessels can take under
the most favorable circumstances for some
time to come, but the colonial authorities
still seek to embarrass our fishermen by
technical and unauthorized interpretations
OF local laws and by their vexstious en-
forcement. The complaints set forth that
through the interference to which our YES
sells are subjected under the cover of these
local regulations our fishermen are practi-
caly denied the privileges secured to them
by the treaty. For instance, they are
prevented from using their seines in
catching squid for bait, although
the right Of fishing at all becomes a nullity
if they are precluded from taking bait.
They might rs well be procluded from car
rying their seines in their vessels. The de-
termination of the inhabitants to obstruct
the Americans in their rights by every
means in their power is nmstakable, and
our government cannot too soon take II firm
and positive position in the matter. We were
hoodwinked in the matter of the treaty, but
of that we do not complain. Having made
a bad bargain with our eyes open we were
bound to abide by its conditions. But we
must not now suffer our fishermen to be
cheated out Of the rights for which we have
paid too high price, The Kearsarge is
ordered to the fishing grounds with special
agents of our government aboard, whose
instructions are to examine and report on
the facts. When the necessary information
is obtained it is to be hoped that the rights
of our fishermen will be promptly and reso-
lutelv enforced.
Year: 1879

While NJ. de Lesseps is gathering sub
scription money for his canal project the
Nicaraguan government revives at its own
cost the hopes of canal by way of Lake
Nicaragua and the San Juan River. This
project, our Washington correspondence
suggests, has the favor of the United States
government, which has detached Mr.. Men,
ocal, an eminent engineer of our navy, to
serve the Nicaraguan government in its un-
dertaking to improve the navigation of the
San Juan. This is a deep river flowing out
of the lake into the Gulf of Mexico. It's
course is blocked by two rapids, one of
which, the Nicaraguan Consul tells a
HERALD reporter, is to be deepened at once
SO as to carry six feet of water, and the
other is to be avoided by means of canal
with locks.


The present enterprise of the Nicaraguan
government is intended only to open
navigation for river steamers of light
draught from the Cult to the lake;
but it will probably have the effect of call
ing attention once more to the feasibility Of
O ship canal for which both river and lake,
by all accounts, offer important helps while
between the western shore of the lake and
the Pacific Ocean there is but narrow neck
of land, thirteen miles across.


1t will do no harm to have several
interoceanic canals, and M. de Les
seps will probably stir up interest
in other projects besides his own, and
perhaps lead some of the Central American
countries to undertake canal project on
their own account. Meantime we feel
more immediate interest in the Florida ship
canal than in any other. That seems to us
feasible, cheaply done and of immense
advantage to the Mississippi Valley and
to New York.
Year: 1879

The turtle soup at the annual Lord May
ors banquet in London is not more carefully
prepared and more artistically served up
than the British Premier's speech, which
comes as regularly as the dinner. Of
the two the soup is the more real
and contains the more solid meat
but perhaps it is scarcely relished by
the city magnates and their guests more
than the speech. Last night Lord Beacons-
sfield's remarks must have proved good
digestive to the banquet, for they certainly
must have put the Englishmen in good
humor with themselves, which is nm excel
lent aid to digestion. According to Lord
Bcaco9sfeld the period since the last
Mansion House dinner has been one
of continued glory and triumph to Eng
land. A treaty denounced as impracticable
has within that time been executed, and a
war that was said to threaten disasters for
the requirement of scientific Indian from
tier has been entirely successful. Every
thing is lovely in Russia, Turkey
and Germany, although the Sui
tan has had pretty hard row to
hoe; and as to the little Zulu trouble, why,
sit is believed that in very short time
news will arrive of the satisfactory solution
of all African questions TO be sure this
expression OF hopefulness does not quite
chime in with the recent reports of the final
crushing out of the Zulu war and the Zulu
King, but it was sufficient to call forth the
cheers of the banqueters and to give a
relish to their wine


Even the existing commercial depression
was lightly touched upon by the Premier
'Imprudent speculation" had been its
main cause, and signs of its amelioraton
were already appearing. ''If there are good
harvests in all parts of the world" the
darkest days of the depression have been
seen. Bnt there are not good harvests in
all parts of the world, and something more
than Providence may have to be looked to for
the removal OF Englands troubles, although
Lord Beaconsf cid, like o sound conservative,
insisted that landed property m ust continue
as a. present. 1t was doubtless this last
sentim ent that drew forth the "frantic ap-
plause" that is said to have greeted the
Premier's close; for what but landed prop
erty is permitted to enjoy the Lord Mayors
hospitality at the great annual city
banquet?
Year: 1879

Saratoga should make the Hanlan- Court
ney purse five thousand dollars without
delay, with five hundred dollars to each con.
Yale and Harvard fouled-the lessee Of the
Grand Union Hotel said that there was a
greater crowd in the village than had ever
before been known that, while he had on
race-day housed upward of twenty-eight
hundred guests. he had to turn away
over eight hundred applicants. And this
from one hotel alone, in town with
many in it. Indeed. it is said that
the growth of not o few places in
the vicinity of Saratoga and Lake George
dated from that day. That was only stu
dents race, interesting to but compara-
test will prove not only of national, but in
ternational Importance. All classes will
be interested in the result.


When S,ratoga was reported to have
taken in over two hundred thousand
dollars from the college race named
when Montreal could find, not beds alone,
but scarcely chairs enough for her guests
to sleep on at the time of the Lachine
struggle, there is little doubt how hand
somely this contest will result for Saratoga.
So it is no time for her to think, even for
moment. of being ungenerous. Make
that purse five thousand dollars, and
not one cent less. Hanlan is said to want
it ten thousand. But after his marvel
lously easy work in England, and with the
opinion universal among his friends that
he can quickly dispose of Courtney. it is
hardly probable that he will stand out
for so unreasonable and unheard of o
figure. This idea, too, of cutting mp
the purse should be dropped. Saratoga
has taken long stride forward in ridding
these contests from stakes, and in taking
the contestants from under the influence Of
selfish men, who make the rowers' interest
always secondary to their own. Now, they
who make. and make legitimately--t
hotels and railroads--are to do the paying.
This is as it should be- America has taught
England both at Henley and at Newcastle
how to row race. Let her also show her
how to manage one, and so as to foster good
rowing among us in the future. Let the
winner take the whole purse. Do away
with second money altogether, as 80 large q
sum as proposed for the loser may prove an
pressed, to take matters easy, as, whatever
the result, provision has been made for
both contestants.