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Year: 1878

Whenever you argue with another
wiser than yourself, in order that others
may admire your wisdom, they will
discover your ignorance. When one
manages discourse better than your
self, although you may be fully in
formed, do not start objections.
Year: 1878

Hon. w. a. GaIbralth, PresL
dent Judge at Erie, Pennsylvania,
in q recent charge to the grand


jury discussed the tramp question
at some length. He made peril
nent remarks as TO the treatment
OF this "vexed question" which
we suhjoiD, thinking that they


may Re OF some interest TO our
readers !:


"What the tramp most breads
is work, and the real underlying
cause of the idle wanderings of
the vast bulk of this immense
mode of worthless drones is lazi
uess--a chronic aversion to labor.
The pretense is inability to get
work to do, but the actual fact is
the determination to shirk work
and avoid it. So long as be can
be fed BY the charity or mistaken
benevoIence of the public, sleeping
in barns and occasionally stealing
such portable property as comes
in his way. he will not work. lie
prefers to be pesfiferous eye sore
and continual burden and menace
to society-a terror to the unpro-
tected and defenseless, ready for
any crime, from robbiDg a hen
roost to murder, rather than 10 do
an honest days work for living.


"The plain and obvious remedy
for this threatening and alarming
evil is compulsory bard labor in
county and district warehouses.
Ii every tramp coming within the
bounds of the county could be
committed at once to workhouse
where he could be required TO
work at some suitable coarse labor
not requiring skill, tor from three
to six or nine months, We should
soon be comparatively free from
the visits Of this dangerous class.
They would avoid US and bestow
themselves elsewhere, and could
this system be made general, so
that there would be no State
where he would be safe from ar
rest and sentence and hard labor,
the evil would soon be greatly al.
Ieviated and utterly diminished to
Insignificant proportions, for even
a tramp, when he found work to
be inevitable, would prefer being
his own master and having his
own earnings to working for the
public. OF course there is small
per centage of those known as
uamps who are honestly looking
for employment An intelligent
can readily distinguish
and avoid the errorpf committing
such as vagrants. The tramp
proper is distinct species, always
recognizable"
Year: 1878

The Governor of Iowa par


doncd man who had been sem
fenced TO The State prison for ten
years, on the conditions that he
should, during the remainder Of
his term, abstain from the use Of
Intoxicating liquors as a beycr-
age: that he should exert HIM
self for the support Of bis
mother and sister; and that he
he should not be convicted du-
ring tic term Of the sentence
of any violation OF criminal law.
The act Of pardon provided that,
as 10 The first and second of the
conditions, the Governor was to
be judge, and that, in The event
of the violation of either, he
should have The right to remand
the prisoner TO custody for the
remainder Of the teim of his
sentence. The prisoner accep-
ted the conditions and was re-
leased. Subsequently he fell
into drunkenness, and the Gov
ernor ordered his return to
State prison. The question as
10 the validity of this proceed
ing came before the Supreme
Court Of Iowa, and it was Held
by the court that the Governor
had the right TO grant condi-
tional pardon, and upon the
failure of the party to fulfill the
conditions specified, to replace
him in the position in which he
would have been but fer the
pardon.
Year: 1878

A sharp little girl in Chicago
got out of patience with her
bashfuI lovers backwardness,
and so brought matters to fa-
vorable climax by saying TO him
Il really belive you are afrdid to
ask me to marry you, for you
know / would say yes"
Year: 1878

"Little by little,' the tempter said
As dark and cunning snare he spread


For the young, unwary feet.
Little by little and day by day,
will tempt the careless soul away


Until the ruin is complete"
"Little by little,'' sure and slow,
We fashion our future bliss OF woe,


As the present passes away.
Our feet are climbing the stairway bright
Up to the regions of endless light.
Or gliding downward into the night,


"Litle by little, day by day"
Year: 1878

thereof, because by changing the stand
ard you may change the value OF invest
ments2 We have not recognized such q
claim, under the act Of 1870, which pro-
vides for payment of the bonds sin coin
of the present standard value" The act OF
1878 contains no pledge nor contract.
1t Is legislation under continuing
power of Congress, and subject to repeal
or amendment like any other law passed
under the same power. 1t is not, there
fore, in my judgment, question OF public
faith, but one of expediency only. Being
such it seems to me the part OF wisdom
TO have some regard to the condition OF
financial distress that exists in the coun-
try, and to the disturbed state of the pub
lic mind that pervades large portion OF
the country. Any change in the COIN
age Is always delicate and important
work, and should be made only after the
most careful consideration Of all the in
terests of the country.


silver should be Restored.


Should silver be restored2 l have
thought so. The pledge of 1859 Of pay
ment In coin and the assurance in the act
of 1870 of payment in coin at the then
standard value would seem to authorize,
almost to require it. Com pliance with
the contract cannot be breach of pub
lie faith. Our country is large pro.
ducer of silver. The quality of money
is important to its value. 1 think that
when restored silver will approach and
perhaps reach gold IN value, but should
experience prove that 1t must remain be.
low gold because of greater production
Congress has ample powers TO provide
against any evils likely to follow. Very
respectfully. T. A. HRNDRICKs.
Year: 1878

Is the act of 1878 of such a Glass and
chsrsc,er2 To whom does it make
solemn pledge that the constitutional
power of Congress TO coin money and TO
regulate the value thereof shall never
again be exercised until the public debt
shall have been fully psidH Why and
wherein is the Coinage set Of 1878 more
sacred and irrepeslsble than the Coinage
sc, of 1884 which it nodifed1 Does the
power to coin money and regulate the
value thereof belong TO the class
of powers that once exercised become
exhaustive? If that were so the
power had been exhausted before
the passage of the sct of 1875; or is it the
right ofthe public or private creditor.
either, TO say to Congress you shall not
exercise the constitutional power of COIN
ing money and regulating the value
Year: 1878

When the applicability of gas. as an
Illuminating agent was discovered, it
was called the new light" Time.
and the progress of science has sup
piled a more efficient, and less expen
sive substitute. and in brief space of
time, lighting by gas will be thing of
the past. There is no mistake but that
the directors of gas companies should
look this squarely in the face, for as
surely as steam has Superseded sailing
vessels, so will the electric light super
cede gas. Mr.. Edison says: 1--WE
could lay the wires right through the
gas pipes, and bring them into the
houses. All that will be necessary will
be to remove the burners and subsii
tute electric burners. The light can
be regulated by a screw, tb, same as
gas You may have bright light or
not, as you wish. You can turn it
down or up, just rs you please, and
can shut it off at any time. No omatch
is needed to light it. You turn the
cock, the electric connection is made,
the platinum burner catches a proper
degree of heat, and there is your light.
There is neither blszs or fame. There
is no singing or fiickering."


Compositor-, engravers and others,
who have to work during summer
nights, can do SO comfortably, for it
does not throw out any heat. Shades
may be used the same as upon gas
lights.


The wind can't blow it out. There
can be no gas explosions, and no one
will be suffocated because the electric
icty is turned on without lighting the
burner. A person may have lamps
made with flexible cords, and carry
them from one point to another. Add
to the above the great saving over gas.
and it requires no prophetic vision to
understand that the days of the latter
are numbered.
Year: 1878

bright mahogany are not seen on their


walls The square, loud striking, and


loud ticking clock in red wood, and the
plaster of paris rabbit or cat painted in
unnatural hues, have no places on their
mantles- In humble cafes are found pic
lures which would be considered fit to
hang in some of the best restaurants of
London and New York. The signs over
shops show talent not possessed by our
sign painters, and many a qargate has
grapes and vine leaves painted over its
door which merit better place.
Year: 1878

He came into the cfiice Of West
End undertaken yesterday with q
look of great care on his honest face.
His eyes were heavy and slightly
bloodshot, telling Of nightly v'gils
and loss of sleep. His hair was un-
kempt and shaggy. The soft-hearted
man of coffins looked upon his visitor
with gaze full of pity and thank
fulness-pity for the customers loss
/ and thankfulness for his patronage
He was so young to be burdened Will
the loss OF a dear one by death.
The manufacturer Of burial case'
nodded silent assent and consoilnt
| recognition the young man from tn
country said: "How dyer Thei


ensued painful silence, broken q


length by the man Of grave bnsl


ness.


scan I do anything for you to
day, sir r, ,..ss..
Year: 1878

The dictionary-maker says the hor'


netis ''large brown wasp of an ex.
tremely pugnacious disposition" FL.
is certainly that and something more
Though he usually minds his OWL
business, he believes that possession
is nine points in the law and one Oh
two to,sspare. Whoever trespasses
on bis premises stands six chances in
half dozen to get blow between
the eyes. that he won't forget during
the remainder of his natural life. The
weapon lie strikes with is always red
hot, and he will hit the spot he
aims at as often as Buffalo Bill.


Under these circumstances, when
you find hornets nest 1t is always
safest for you to get behind a tree,
and let other fellows throw clubs at
the hornets. 1t is not at all funny to
get stung yourself, but it is immense
ly funny to see another man get
stung. Were l composer of pro-
verbs, could say it is better to kiss
your sweetheartt than to have hornet
get up your trowsers-leg. Personally
1 should rather keep school and board
round than be stung by hornets.


Some men who are smart in other
respects don't seem to understand
how to manage these representatives
of entomology. have seen men
who knew enough to keep a hotel
that couldn't boss a single hornet.


Its very tying to aperson's verbal
morality to meet in the battle and be
vanqnished by one or several of these
insects. Should you ever happen to
notice a man under these circum-
stances and he does not say damn,
you can nuke up your mind that he
is Christian.


1t was hornet who, not many
years ago, invented the art of MAX
lag paper from wood. ALI other
manufacturers are infringing on his
patent.


OF the paper which he manufac-
lures he builds his nest or house, the
walls of which are composed of some
half q dozen thicknesses, with air
spaces between, as a protection
agains. cold and storms. In the
center, of the nest is the nursery,
whicR consists of several layers OF
comb, one above the other, and all
united by columns. These sections
of comb often contain hundreds of
cells, fro n half an inch to an inch in
depth, the open porto being down.
ward. At the bottom Tor more prop
erly the top) of each cell small oval
egg is deposited, which rapidly de-
velopes into grub, and from the
grub into a pale and feeble looking
juvenile hornet. Food sufficient to
supply the young insect until it is full
ly matured is placed in the cell, and
the door is closed with thin wall OF
paper.


When the youthful Mr.. III. thinks
able to face a frowning world he eats
his way through the door of his cell
and steps into the United States
ready for business.


Toward the latter part of summer
the inhabitants of a single nest are
host which no man can number.


At this time they often wander in
to or about the house in pursuit of
flies, but from some defect in their
eyesight they are just as liable to
make dive at the head Of nail, or
a small dark object, as at the pestif-
erous fly.


1t is never safe to fool with a hor-
net; for though he is very small
around the waist and rather clumsy
in his movements. / never saw any,
body of his size that could whip him
Transcript.
Year: 1878

IT Is CERTAINLY very ridiculous to call
the gentlemen who favors the redemption
of bank notes and greenbaclls in legal
tender silver money 'infationists." 1t is
spiteful and silly. Silver money was
always held as hard money. 1t is held to
be as good as gold all over the word. 1t
is so good that the Bank of France has
bought and laid by between three and
four hundred millions Of it and the Bank
of England is supposed to have as much
while Germany we are told has boarded
it in immense sums, and only recently
refused to part with many millions The
nations forming the Latin union hold
silver higher than it is held in the United
States. There it is held as 10 dollars oi
silver to one of gold while the single
gold advocates here wanted it placed al
about II of silver to one Of gold. The
4124 grains dollar will command highei
premium in gold in the Latin union than
it will here; and of this the gold adVo
Gates seem still to be ignorant. To NEE
the rates at which those nations holC
gold Congress Will have to coin a silve
dollar of about 400 grains instead of th'
one now that is rated at pear IL to one o
gold, while the Latin union silver dolla
is 10 to one of gold. 1t is time these gol


advocates had ceased to talk nonsenco
They make themselves look supremel
ridiculous. The silver bill RENDERED


the banks far more assistance to resum
than any other measure could to do; am
as a consequence the National Ban
stocks are now on the rise, and are bein
preferred to almost all others. And W
do not see why they should not be hel
higher than ever. They have fallen les
than any other stocks and are on a NOR
secure basis than most other stocks.
Year: 1878

ga METHODIST" in another column
takes exception to our remarks in refer
ence to the Preachers Meeting and the
exclusion of the reporters. If Mr.. Steven
sons resolution did not exclude the re-
porters in SO many words, it was regarded
us intended to do so for all practical pur-
poses, as the reporters would have no
time to write out their reports and submit
them to the officers of the meeting for
revision. In reference to visiting Bar
NUNS show land the sinfulness thereof, our
correspondent significantly says: "You
and your Master for it"-meaning we are
to presume, "Ephraim is Joined to his
idols, let him alone" Fortunately is it for
us that il is to the Master and to His great
mercy we are left, and not to mans dicta
tion.


We would not put a stumbling block
in the way OF our correspondent; but We
believe the presence of the Methodist
preachers at Barnum's show, if they have
the influence they deserve TO have woulC
be restraining and morally wholesome
Indeed we should be glad to meet Som'
of them there if they do not violate thei
conscientious ideas Of right. We have
however, no wish to discuss any of TIN
matters referred to and did not intend t,
assume the role of a religious monitor.
Year: 1878

If THERE Is real honor and virtue in
the people of the United States, Mr.


Hayes will have to give up the Presiden-
tial office when the truth is legally estab'
lished that he was not elected. He can
not hold it in the face of the fact that he
was not elected. To admit this would be
admitting that honorable men sent tc
Washington were willing to keep the
company of a thief, so long as he was
able to hold by force the goods stolen
Both the church and the State will de


mand that he surrender the office if it i!
proven in Court that he was not elected
Year: 1878

GREENBAcKs will not 60 to par while
John Sherman continues to buy gold at
1O1i. His bid to the brokers takes about
as much as their monthly accumulations
Outside of his bid it will not sell for more
than 1901. Thus we see the first Officer
of the government Treasury depressing
the government money to meet the views
of the Radical resumption party.
Year: 1878

A fellow would rather be unhealthy
than to wear red flannel chest pro.
tector that would creep up around
his paper collar and make him look as
though he had cut his throat with q
buck saw.-Wheeling Leader.
Year: 1878

without referring TO that brief of what he Is
expected to prove. The mere introduction OF
such q witness would have broken down the
prosecution before any decent jury III Chris
tendon. 1t would have been instantly iet
that there was confessed a necessity OF great
art instead Of naked truth of elaborate pre-
paration instead of honest declaration OF know
ledge; of cunning adjustment OF answers 10
previous instructions from the prosecution,
instead of 1.-THE truth and the whole truth"
No prosecutor would dare so to insult the
common sense Of justice and fair play, In
trying any person, however humble, accused
OF any offence. Yet it is expected that the
American people will believe Secretary Sher-
man guilty Of an Infamous crime, upon this
cooked testimony of such witness


If such an investigation as this. 80 UNFAIR
in its original limitations, so dishonest IN IT'S
pretexts, so unjust in its selection of investl-
gators and so offensive to common dccency
in its methods, does not rec0l with great
effect upon the men who have cOntrived ana
managed it, then the spirit of justice and iair
play no longer holds sway in this country In
that case, it will be time to doubt whether
real AnglO-SaxOn freedom can be long suS-
tanned by appeals to public sentiment.
Year: 1878

The Columbia College crew has exceeded
the expectations of its best friends ana put
all itSCritics to flight. The number OF those, on
this side of the water, who hoped to see the Co.
lumbias win was small enough, but none. we ven
turc to say, looked for a victory which may
fairly be called brilliant. The crew which came
in next to the Columbia boat on Thursday IN
the first heat for the Visitors Challenge Cup
was made up Of four members of the iaNt
Cambridge eight the lIertf0rd crew, when
was COlumbla's competitor yesterday, WAS
used up by it, cndcayorS to cope with the
tremendous pace Of The Amcricm crew, and
the accident by which the Hertford boat ran
ashore was, therefore, of an entirely different
nature from the misliap5 which sometimes
RUE out boat that might have won
The Hcrtf0rds ran aground because they
were too much exhausted to row or
steer, and COumbia's victory is none the
less gratifying because the American boat fin
ishcd the race alone. In both heats the skill
OF the COlumbias seems to have excited gen
cral admiration. Their rowing seems to have
been steady and sure throughout, and their
steering ia mentioned as being beyond all
praise. Their success will crafty all lovers
OF bonest sport and all NEWCOMERS, in par
t.cuar, without distinction of race, sex, color,
or condition.


The misfortuncs of the "Shoes" do not per-
haps appeal to the same class of our people as
the successes of Columbia. but there Will be a
very general sympathy with them in
their ill-luck. Certainly it WAS gIicyOus
enough to move even those hardy oars
men TO tears as it is said to have done.
On Thursday two Of them went through
part Of the first heat for the Steward cup,
pulling with one hand and waving their caps
with the other; but yesterday, in the very
crisis of the race one of them was stricken
helpless by Sudden sickness. Had it not been
for this accident, yesterday might have de-
served still more the name OF rcd-letter
day in the history of American rowing.
Year: 1878

Tammauy celebrated the Fourth Of July b. de-
nouucing the Army as the foe Of American liberties
and the standing menace Of popular institutions.
Times have changed, we should say, since com
plimcnts 70 the Boys in Blue used to be the stock
phrases of public speakers. While Iammany's rebel
allies were getting the worst of 10 at the South,
ahnse of the Union soldiers was not considered pol
itic IN these regions but since the Confederate
brgadiers tIampcd into the Capitol, ,hc Democracy
Of the North has shown its true coors. Probably
we shall find ont before the year is over that it
ccedcd in doing more for the crppling and punish
mcnt of the Army IN the last session Of Congress
than has commonly been supposed. 1T showed its
feeling toward Sherman, Sheridan, and the other
heroes OF the Union, by cutting down their pay
and taking away their horses. II laid heavy
tax upon the i-pald officers by cutting oil their
fuel the result of which bit of injustice as General
Sherman explains must be that officers at posts on
the distant and barren frontier, where trees do not
grow, and there are no coal yards, Will have to
spend almost their whole income for iirewoOd. Bat
the most ingenious device for iuuriug the service
was the enactment witt, regard TO horses. The
army has now been so regulated by Bourbon lcgIs-
lation that officers Of artillery must afoot while
their men ride No sooner is a battery ordered into
action than away rush the priyates with the guns,
while the commanders are left far in the rear!


.


The people are so grateful for the relief afforded
by the partial stopping Of noise on the Fourth of July
that they are disposed to hold the police to the
stictest account for tho negligence which made
that relief after all but imperfect. Yet it is plain
that there was gross neglect Of duty on Thursday,
which the commissioners OF the Mayor Ought TO
make the basis OF some energetic action. The law
against the use OF explosives violated in some
paris Of the city with the most reckless efrOntery,
and we consequently had yesterday morning our
annual list cf killed and wounded, not so long as
usual but still discrcditable enough to our public
guardians. Now that tho preccdcntS of so many
barbarous anniversaries have been broken, we may
safely assume that the use Of Gunpowder as an
amusement will rapidly become obsolete, and unof-
Tending citizens viii no longor be butchcred to make
a small Doys holiday. But meanwhile we hope the
police will be asked upon what DreteXt they assume
the liberty to wink at violations Of the law.


"Have we not recently heard it urged upon the
floor of Congress and elsewhere" asked ex-Goyer-
nor Walker in his "long talk to the braves of
Tammany Hall, "that large standing army was
necessary in order to enable the President to aid
the States in case of domestic trouble?" Well no,
Governor, since you ask us we haven't
Year: 1878

., sweet is the life of grocery clerk.
1t Is happy and free from care,
Except that he has to work in the night.
And can never neglect his hair
"hlIe shoVellng sugar he laughs and chats
On questions that may a-rice,
Ana he knows just how to open the door
In way that is really nice.
sometimes OF course, he must cut salt pork,
But swine not do this as well
As be writing poetry. or teaching school,
Or ringing the milkmans bell.
And it's oh, such fun, to bundle up starch
Butter clerk of the high degree
But rarely appears in the least way stiff.
lie does the thing up to tea.
when baking powder he sells to a girl,
Then it must be jolly to say
My little miss, dough not fail to come up
And purchase some other day."
And If She buys nutmegs, or coffee, or cloves.
Or spices she's sure to reply
heer Cinnamon as polite as you are.
fIease give me some bluing-I dye"
Let's soap then, friends, ere we shut up shop.
Ana turn from lifes crackers and cheese
We can all be clerks, and wait Oh the girls
Who purchase potatoes and peas.
Ana II 1t be so lettuce never neglect
To open the grocery on thyme.
nor artlessly cabbage the wealth from till
Or think a three cent piece a dime


-FHltOH Times