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Year: 1878

He was the manager of a church fair, and one morning he walked into the newspatet of7ee and said:

 "'Want an item this morning ?"

 "Of cotifse," replied the editor. Whereupon the visitor laid the following note upon the table:

 The ladies of the-Street Church will give festival at their vestry hall next Friday evening. Literary and musical entertainments will be provided and supper will be served to all who desire. The ladies in charge of the affair have much experience 1n such matters and are sure to provide good time. The admission will be only fifteen cents, and it is certain that no one can spend that amount to 8 better advantages Be sure to go and take your friends. When the editor had read it, he said

 "Oh, I see, an advertisement

 "No; not an advertisement We pre- fer to hays it go in the local column, J replied the manager:

 And seeing that the editor looked skeptical, he continued:

 "It will interest great many of your readers and help good cause; besides, we have spent so much money getting up our entertainment that we can't afford to advertise it without increasing the price of the tickets. th such matter as this we ought to be willing to help each other"

 "Well," said the editor, eff it goes into the locals; I suppose you would re- ciproeate by reading little notice in your church next Sunday" The visiting brother asked what notice, and the editor wrote and handed him the following:

 The Weekly Chronicle for the coming year will be the best and cheapest family paper in this State. Its proprietor has | had much experience and has all the helps which latge outlay of money can procure. His paper has larger cireula- tion than any other published in the county and is to be furnished at only $2 It is certain that no one can spend that amount to better advantage. Be sure to take the Chronicle and subscribe fol your friends.

 The manager hemmed and hesitated and then said, solemnly, that he doubted whether it would be judicious to rea6 such notice, but suggested that If il was printed copies of it might be dis tributed at the door of the vestry on thf evening of the entertainment.

 "Yes," said the editor, |" but it would attract more attention in the middle of { sermon. It will interest large number of your congregation and help a goot cause; and, besides, so much money il spent upon the Chronicle that I don see how the owner can afford to prin handbi1ls to advertise 1t without in ereasing the subscription price. In sucl matter as this we ought to be willing to help each other"

 Then the gentleman saw the situation
Year: 1878

 Calm in the shelter of the heavy day - . l sit me down and think. An me, Too calm the metal purpose of the sky, Too calm the color of the vacant street. And leaves that blazed and fell beneath the feet, That fell because they blazed, that fell and gave

 no cry; And mist that captured all the meadows silently. Oh wild upon the bosom of the beach The happy waves throb fast, throb fast ! The fishers children shout across the sand Nor boat, nor wave, nor bird can rest him still, With all the world the wind will have his will. The mighty breakers struggle to the longing

 land, = And, maniac for joy, the gull screams down

 the blast.

 Oh heart that buffetest upon myself As tides tear down on tides Were mine To spare thee somewhat of the inland life; To spend upon thee something of the pause In which wait; have souls to subtle laws By which thou, too, shouldst render back to

 me the strife, The struggle and the thrill of struggling, that are thine
Year: 1878

As reporter was walking through one of the streets of Whe cling at night, he saw woman sitting on horseblock in front of a saloon, weeping bitterly. The reporter stopped and asked her If he could aid her in any way, for she was neat, tidy little woman with pleasing and honest face. After several questions the story came out. Her husband, who is a workman, had been paid some money that morning, and had gone to this saloon and was carousing inside with some of his companions. Her little girl was sick at home and several things were needed for her which the father had promised to buy, but she was sorely afraid the money would all be gone be- fore morning. As the woman told her sad story with an air of patient resigna- tion, her hands lay folded in her lap and on the upper one was 8 long, ugly s4ratch. "Does your husband ever ill treat you ?" asked the reporter. She drew the wounded hand quickly under her shawl, and answered promptly, "Oh no, sir he is a good man, only when he's drinking he is sometimes little quick with his children" "Why don't you ask some of your friends to aid you in trying to stop his drinking, or else get magistrate to interfere ?" She sprang up from the stone and drawing herself up, said in trembling, indignant voice, " He is my husband, sir ; do you think would go to magistrate about my husband, sir my Harry9 Oh, no sir. I never could do that, no matte' what he did"
Year: 1878

Mrs. Sherman may talk about it and other people may talk about it. but the size of the argument is just this: Shall a girl be hugged by a man when she is dancing on her toes and not. rightly be hugged by man when she puts her heels down on the back piazza? Next.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Kearney leaves us for his sunny
home on the sand lots Of San Francisco.
We bid him goodby with sincere thanks
for his coming East. He came to enlighten
us--and he did. He was heard, patiently,
good haturedly, curiously; and wherever
he spoke he settled the question on which
he addressed the people.


He decided it contrary to his desires, to
be sure but that also was his own doing.
Whatever merit may be in his cause he
ought to be convinced by this time that the
American voter is not to be persuaded by
oaths or by infammatory appeals, or
by shameless abuse Of opponents. Mr..
Kearney was fully and fairly reported
in the press which he was so fond OF viii
fying-and we must say that the press in
this way revenged itself upon him. That
he was heard and read Of oil men was his
ruin. That he spoke freely and was re-
ported fully was the ruin of his cause.
Whether he returns home either wiser or
better it is not possible to tell but he
leaves the East, having done good work
here in proving to oil classes Of our people
that there is nothing in Denis Kearney
nor in the movement of which he has made
himself the head, SO far as he is its true ex-
positor, which deserves the sympathy of
any decent or industrious American citizen.
Year: 1878

in our neighboring State. When the real
hiding place seemed discovered, and visions
of great checks and professional jealousies
foated before the enraptured official eye,
the change of mind and consequent refusal
OF Burke to proceed any further in the
search or confession was little the most
brutal and heartrending outrage in the
whole history of crime. Something dread
full should be done to the wretch who is
guilty of all this cruelty, otherwise there is
no knowing how many of our police cap
tains may yet become subjects" for the
heartless public to exercise its sharp wits
upon; and between being dissected and
being laughed at by everybody who reads
the papers no sensitive, shrinking soul,
such as oil police captains have. could hes
itate for second
Year: 1878

the principal cities of the Dominion for
meeting the Marquis and his consort on
their arrival are without precedent in the
case of any Governor General~ and if they
are not wholly unexampled in Canadian
life the sole exception is the series of ova-
tions given to the Prince Of Wales in 1860.
There is an eager and delighted stir Of
expectation in every part of the Dominion
through which the Governor General and his
suite will pass in their journey to the capi-
tai and as Canada is more wealthy, more
populous and more advanced in social ex-
perience than at the time 6f the Prince of
Wales visit, it is probable that that great
ovation will be equalled if not collapsed by
what will be done after the arrival of the
Sarmatian and the debarkation Of her illus
trious passengers. The people OF the States
will approve the joy although they may not
share the enthusiasm of their neighbors
beyond the frontier; they will assist Us
interested spectators, though not as par
Elephants. Whatever may be the weather
which the Sarmatian is encountering
during her voyage, we hope that the
genial atmosphere Of nm American Indian
summer may be found on her arrival, and
that a bright sun shining through the
soft haze of that delightful season will ena-
BILE the street parales and outdoor demon
strations to be seen to the best advantage.
The social and political effect OF installing
q royal princess in the government house
at Ottawa as the mistress and leader OF
Canadian society is tempting topic Of
speculation on which we must forbear to
enter at present.
Year: 1878

There is one hardy navigator who pursues
q laudable ambition TO explore the Arctic
regions in the way in which all the early
discoveries were made in other seas--by
commercial ventures. This is Captain
Virgins. In 1877 he made a voyage, re-
corded mt the time in the HERALD, to the
Kara Sea, the Gulf Of Obi and the mouth of
the Yenisei River, on the Arctic coast Of
Siberia. His report Of his experience there
and the inferences drawn were that
voyages could be made along that
coast in summer all the way from
the Northern Ocean to the Pacific, and that
they might be made commercially impor-
tant. An effort was made to interest the
British Admiralty in the subject and to in
duce the governm ent to defray the expense
OF an exploration that would ultimately, it
was held, develop great trade in wheat.
But the government would not undertake
il. In the last summer Captain Virgins
repeated his voyage, and carried cargo
from Liverpool to the mouth Of the Obi and
returned with another of the products Of
the country. He made III that Arctic bay
the singular discovery that o commerce
more or less irregular now actually exists
between the Siberian rivers aud Hamburg.
Year: 1878

1t is a theory somewhat popular that in
every case in which life insurance company
outlives man whose life it has insured
persons to whom it is due on the contract
only after an excessively minute scrutiny Of
all the circumstances Of the case and after
solution satisfactory to itself Of all posi-
BILE doubts-first, as to whether the man is
dead next, as to whether he had ever de-
ceived the company in his life, and last. as
to whether he did not deceive the company
in his death by dying improperly and un-
justifably and without good and sufficient
illness. 1t is theory that is somewhat spite
full, and expresses rather an opinion founded
upon the observation Of frequent litigations
than knowledge founded upon the other
side Of the relations of these companies to the
people. In common regard for fair play it
must be remembered that the companies pay
a million quietly wherever they dispute q
thousand, though, of course, the case they
dispute makes more noise than those they
pay. Companies have learned, in fact, that
to dispute payments is very bad sort Of ad-
vertisement and Injuries business. Insur-
ance companies in this State paid on deaths
alone in the year 1876 twenty millions of dol
lars and very large sum in addi-
tion on endowment policies. Yet there
is apparently to be troublesome
dispute over the case Of Mr. Dwight, who
has just died at Binghamton. This gen
tleman had insured his life for upward Of a
quarter of . million dollars within three
months. He was forty-one years of age,
apparently hale and hearty. but had had
pulmonary hemorrhage; seemed to be some
what extravagantly addicted to sport, and
died suddenly. It appears improper on its
face for a gentleman to insure his life for
80 much money and die before the
payment Of the second premiums
due quarterly, and yet it may be
all right. Bat the insurance companies
allege that this gentleman insured his life
with the intention to destroy it and did
destroy it. They allege that he hastened
his death by poison, but that the main
cause Of death was exhaustion, purposely
induced through improper exertions for a
person not in robust health. One allega-
ton is that in bad weather he swan across
the Susquehanna River, near bingham
ton, four times in one day. This is case
that is likely to give some indication as to
what amount Of care a man is under obliga-
ton to his insurers to take of his life.
and the story will be one of general in
tereSt.
Year: 1878

The impudence of the resurrectionists
promises soon to transcend every bound.
To rob graves is bad enough, as the ghouls
will learn for themselves the first time any
one discovers them in the act, but to oper-
ate upon living beings, as the self-confessed
resurrectionist Burke suggestive name y!


did upon Captain Byrnes last week, is as
cruel as il is unfair. To be chloroformed
to death would not be half so uncomfortable
to man with the clear conscience peculiar
to the finest police in the world as to be
carted around the wildcrnesses of New Jer-
scy to gaze upon empty holes in the ground
and listen to the fragrant narrative of the
scamp who professed to have carried the
Stewart remains from place to place
Year: 1878

The American Public Health Associa-
ton convened yesterday, at Richmond,
Va. and the Yellow Fever Commission
presented report which will be found
in full in another column. The terrible
scourge is timely and important topic
for investigation by such body, but we
hope it may not monopolize the atten-
ton of the Convention. Thousands of
deaths have resulted within few
months from the fever but be-
cause the comparative mortality was
great in the afflicted districts there
is danger that other and worse destroyers
Of human lie, more widely distributed and
therefore apparently less terrible, may be
neglected. No such body Of men should
convene and adjourn without putting itself
strongly on record against dirty streets,
badly ventilated public and private build
ings, filthy tenements, imperfect drainage,
defective heating arrangements, injudi-
cious dress, bad cookery, and the many
other fruitful but almost unno;iced
causes Of unnecessary mortality. 1t is
not right that the principal public
protests in print against such evils should
be made by unprofessional writer's. Every
prominent sanitarian has at some time in
Weighed against one or more of these faults,
but the errors that come Of ignorance are
not killed by a single blow they succumb
only to the most persistent pummelling by
the stoutest arms, and the men who are re-
garded as authorities on such subjects are
the proper ones to do the fighting. And
even when opinions are emphatically ex-
pressed by conventions competent to dis
cuss such matters the good work is
only begun. To speak and write are
good, but to be heard and read are
equally important whereas the verbal pro-
ceedings Of such bodies are heard by few
thousand at most, while smaller number
see the bulky volumes of published "trans-
actions" There should be sanitary
s'tracts'' as numerous and as well distrib-
uted as the religious ones with which the
community is flooded, and if the conven-
tion were to arrange systematically for the
preparation and distribution Of such infor-
nation among the people the money could
easily be obtained. Let some member Of
the body interest himself in this important
work, and thus increase indefinitely the
good results of the discussions.
Year: 1878

when the righteous disagree the devil
jumps with glee," it is said. If this is the
case the Demon OF Rum has had rare old
double shuttle to himself over the feud
among the temperance people Of New York


His bottle-nosed Majesty has heard to his
delight Mrs. Conklin call Mr.. Francis
Murphy an s'Alpha and Omega" while
the Apostle Of Temperance retorss by
saying equally hard things of Mr.. Gibbs.


Mr.. Murphy, it seems. is not million
naire and cannot give all his time to con-
verting drunkards without remun Grafton.


In the eyes OF Mr. Gibbs and Mrs. Conklin
this is a fiendish crime. But the conAagra-
ton Of drunkenness goes on; tile
Red Nose CLEANS incandescent amid
the blue alcoholic flames, and the
whiskey fumes ascend INCREASINGLY


There are seventeen miles of fire, for there
are seventeen miles of rum shops in New
York. What are the engines Of total absti-
nencs doing? They are squirting the cold
water upon each other and not upon the
flames. Mr. Murphy came to town with
his brand new steam engine, with its high
pressure of carncstness, its long hose
OF holiness and its nozzle Of directness.


The stream of cold water eloquence that he
threw was making great impression on the
flames, when the little local brigade came up
and turned it's little hose upon Mr.. Murphy.


This is very sad. Isagreat Apostle of Rum
came TO town, man whose eloquence could
double the sale of alcoholic stimulants, he
would be lodged in pnlatial style. He
would have all the clothes and horses he
wanted, and bis sumptuous dinners would
be washed down with the vintages that
tickle the palates Of kings. His cigar
smoke would be worth ten cents a puff.
Nothing would be too good for him. Shall
Temperance do relatively less for its Apostle,
its own Francis, above all its only Murphy
Is saving to be improbable in this
age, as in the ages gone before, while
destruction Is to pay now rs always
high dividend on wrecked lives
The nineteenth century does not believe in
half-starved apostles, but likes to see then
sleek, we'll fed aud dressed to q charm al
Year: 1878

if some Of the good they promise others had
stuck to themselves. Denis Kearney's
shirt sleeves were a mistake ; SO would be o
Murphy fed on Goldfish balls and corned
beef hash. The enlightened age that raised
Talmage's salary will not tolerate the TAX
ing of one buckwheat cake or one Piccadilly
collar from Mr.. Murphy.
Year: 1878

The CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE charged with
the preparation OF plan for the reorganization
Of the army has been in session here for several
days. A veil of npenctrs.ble secrecy envelops
its proceedings, but il is very certain that what
ever plan il agrees upon will be so changed by
Congress that the committee will not be able to
recognize it.
Year: 1878

lr SEEMS that under the charter the clerks
OF the different markets have jurisdiction Of the
street space within distance of three hundred
yards Of the market houses This somewhat COM
plicates the question of the authority Of the
Commissioner Of Public Works to remove tile
stands
Year: 1878

animation finished allowed 1t to rest upon it's
merits and started lesureiy Tor New YORK by way OF
Chicago MADE no attempt to avoid arrest am
ready however, TO meet any Investigation which the
authorities may choose to make"


The Reporter next inquired whether Mr.. Harland
knew who they referred 10, but the willy laxyer re-
fused TO answer any questions which would Indicate
his knowledge OF the affair beyond stating that the
man who took the books was an entire stranger to
him.


wETMoREs POSITION.


In the course OF conVersatiou, however Mr. Har-
land went on TO say that Wetmore was formerly
manager OF tho New York mine and had q very con
siderable pecuniary interest IN IT, Mr. Wet
more stated upon examination that for
some years he had turned The paper OF
the mine to his own use, taking It
up from titno TO time until the amount became too
largo Tor him To handle. Whom Il crisis came It
found him responsible TOR $50 900 OF it. He went to
New York In hopes OF gaining an extension OF time,
but Was unable to do SO, aud was soon alter DIS
charged.
Year: 1878

We never bet, but we will enter into an
arrangement with anybody whom it may
concern TO pay q certain sum OF money for
every straight republican elected to congress
over and above the number of 110, provided
the party of the second part will agree TO pay
similar sum for every one short of that
number. Those able and astute political
calculatOrs who profess to be sanguine that
the republicans will carry the next house
may ind in Que proposition an opportunity
to illustrate their faith by their works. We
bave surveyed the field carefully and are con-
fident that our information is as reliable and
exhaustive as any that can be obtained. Our
conclusion is that, instead of gaining the Ia
or 10 members required to give them bare
majority of one or two in the next house,
the republicans will lose from IL to Is>of the
seats now held by members of their caucus


We do not expect that more than three or
perhaps four, of these Will be gained by the
democratic party as caucus organization,
but they will be wrested from the repubi-
cans by class of men whose views on the
money question, which is really the chief
subject Of the agitation of the immediate
future, will be even more radically
caucus policy than the average ssnti-
ment of the democrats in congress. AS to
the issue between the democrats and the
greenbackers. it is mainly one OF organiza-
ton; and there need be no insuperable diff
Guilty in devising measures which will substan-
TALLY unite the votes of the two IN the.legis-
lation of the ensuing congress, excepting,
perhaps, half q dozen fanatics from New
York city, and that Immediate financial
neighborhood. But the republicans may as.
well hang their barps on the willows. Their
re presentation in the next congress is fan
more likely to fall under 100 than to exceed
the number required for bare majority.
Year: 1878

The following practical and scientific
observation on the quenching of fires
quickly and with the least loss to insur-
ance companies is communicated to the
Portland (Me.) Press by an old fireman:
One gallon of water at the bottom of a
fire will do more to quench it than ten
gallons at the top. Play low is the true
motto for the fireman. If the first en-
CINE that reached the Summer street
fire in Boston had burst into the ware
house and played into the goods elevator,
where the fire broke out, it would prob
ably have saved $50,000,00 To play
on the roof of a house on fire is to waste
water; the roof was made to shed water;
the rain does not put out the kitchen
fire, ncr would the Presumpscot, flowing
bodily on the roof, put out the kitchen
if afre. Play low, get the water to the
bottom of the fire, and you need not
pour in the Presumpscot. A few gal
Ions at the bottom of the fire will rise in
clouds of steam wherever the fire is
rising and will quench it. Even o heap
of rubbish turns rain and water like
partial roof. A gill of water thrown into
the bottom of a CRATE quenches the fire
more than quart thrown on top. For
a similar reason, water on the windward
side is more effective than on the lee.
ward. am speaking now OF moderate
fire, when there are only one or two
houses burning. The big blazes on the
leeward look fearfully, but they cannot
be effected by playing on them. Throw
your water into the bed of Goals and
under the retort that is sucking them,
and it goes out. That is to say, play at
the bottom of the windward side of the
fire, and you take the surest and speedi-
est way to quench the whole, leeward
side blazes included.