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Year: 1878

In speaking of PERSONS faults,


Pray don't forget your own,
Remember those with homes of glass,
Should never throw stone.
If we have nothing else to do,


Than talk of those who sin,
Yes, better we commence at home,
And from that point begin.
We have no right to judge a man
Until he's fairly tried
Should we not like his company,


We know the world is wide.
Some may have faults, and who has not d?
The old as well as young
Perhaps we may, for aught we know,
Have fifty to their one.
I'll tell of better plan,


And find it works full we'll,
To try my own defects to cure,


Ere others faults to tell.
And though 1 sometimes hope TO be
No worse than some know,
My own shortcomings bid me let


The faults of others go.
Then let US all, when we begin
To slander friend or foe,
Think of the harm one word may do
To those we little know.
Remember sometimes curses, like


Our chickens, roost at home;
Don't speak of others faults until


We have none of our own.
Year: 1878

The President cannot calmly fOld his hantS
and appea 10 his record and tue PLATFORM for his
record contains many hundeyN, and tdo platform hc
has disrcgarded on more than one occasion when u
suiied his pOlicy or convenience to DO Ii Pres dent
Uaycs can feel any genuine satisfaction M looking OF tc
present condition of the party, lately brought to Qe
feat and disaster solid South arrdycd against IT, MS
own state Of OhO delivered over 10 tue absolute control
OF the Democracy Democratic Senator to take the place
which foY sixteen years wa hcld by John sherman, thc
certainty q Democratic majority IN the United SiacS
Senate few months hence. himself and his party IL
Congress without mutual undelS' iudnS or con
fdence we confess we see 10 special cause
for hlarity satisfaction. That condition of
mind NAV be safely left TO the opposite party. The
mood of tie President would be more 10 our liking he
were anxious doubling. mighty responsibility rests
upon him. We believe he means wisely ana well, hut lie
cannot afford 10 rest good intentions. II must DO
wise deeds, regain the sympathy AID support OF MS
parry show himself friendly ii he wishes friends and
Danish forever from his mind all idea that lie can govern
the country successfully in any other way than tEa
which will meet the sound approval of that great Re-
pubcon organization of which he should be the shin
ing ornament and pride.
Year: 1878

this city, making the Clarendon Hotel bis Win
ter home, where he has elegant suite OF rooms
fronting Eighteenthst His father was one OF tie


first dentists OF note In this city having been prominent


in his profession quarter OF century ago. He
Gmassed large fortune and removed few years ago
to IenOx, Mass, where he now resides.
Year: 1878

A WIFE ORDERING HER FoURTEEN-YEAR
OLD Boy TO PUT ARSENIC IN HIS FATHERS
IEA.-A telegram from VeSper, \. Y, Octo-
ber 3, says: MIR. and Mrs. Geo. Hoffman, living
near this place, quarreled for years. They
had nine children. On Saturday the mother
sent her IA year old boy to Vesper to purchase
a quantity OF arsenic. She met the boy on the
road home. She examined the poison he had
obtained and tod him to 60 home, and if his
lather had not eaten his supper to put guam
tlty OF the drug in his tea. If tea was over,
the boy was charged to put the poison in his
fathers breakfast tea. The mother then came
to Vesper and remained with a relative The
boy found that his father had been to tea.
Next morning he stepped some of the arsenic
in his fathers tea. Shortly after drinking it
the old man was taken sick. He sent for his
wife. She would not 60 to him. The boy who
had given the poison then came for his
mother. He told her his father was dead.
She started home. On the way she said to her
son, taking him by the neck: aIf you ever say
word about this LII kill you the first chance
get. They can't hang you, for you're too
young" The boy did tell what had been done.
however. and he and his mother are in jail
Hoffman was 81 years old. His widow was his
second wife.
Year: 1878

THE PRESIDENT AND THE FENIANS-Mr
Edward ON. Condor yesterday evening called
hotel for the purpose of personally thanking
him for the warm interest he had taken i'm his
case. President Hayes received him very cor =
dlaly and congratulated him upon his release
saying he was very sorry Mr.. Ccndon's father
had not lived long enough TO snare lis happi-
ness. Mr.. Condor said he did not consider
the action taken by the admiIis.-S zion and by
Congress was in consequence of any indf-
vidual merits Of his own, but because of the
principle involved. The President assured
him of his best wishes for his success in his
new start in life and expressed hope that his
long years OF suffering had not permanently
injured his cOnstitutiOr.-[N. Y. Herald, Sd.
Year: 1878

HERE IS ANOTHER society scandal: The
name of Miss Jeffers Lewis, the actress. ap
pears in the passenger list OF the steamship
Greece. which sailed from New York for Lon
don. She was recently married to San
Francisco broker, and it was supposed that
she intended to remain in that city and leave
the stage. Her husbands name does not ap-
pear iu the passenger list,
Year: 1878

The wise man says, 'the hoary head is a
crown of glory when found in the ways OF
righteousness" And SO it ought to be es-
teemed. But, somehow or other, it does
really seem that even matured old age does
not command that respect from the young
now which it once did. Even grown-up
children nowadays, often speak of parents,
that should be revered, as 'the old man, "
and ''the old woman, little imagining how
it shocks the moral sense of those whose
better nature and more refined sensabili-
ties revolt at such impiety, such unflial
ways Among certain of the ancients,
want of reverence to parents was accounted
among the greatest of crimes, while lack OF
veneration even to the stranger who had
grown old, was attributed to lack of breed
ing. And so it should be in this our day,
"fast" as the age is reported to be. Would
that all our youth might be taught this les
son, and bow reverently to age!
Year: 1878

The following paper was prepared
by Isaac Eyre for the Bucks county
Agricultural Society;


If a ton of corn meal is $40 for feed
ing dairy COWS or fattening stock, what
is the value Of a ton Of wheat bran for
the same purpose? The answer TO
this question depends very much on
the manner Of using the two articles.
If they are to be fed separately, the
bran IS not worth much if any more
than corn meal. But if they are to be
mixed together and fed to milk cows,
the bran is worth the most by about
fifty per cent. Of the excess Of the bulk
OF the bran and the bran being twice
as bulky as the meal, the difference in
favor of the bran will be in the neigh
borhood Of So or Sc per ton, | mean
by this that two quarts of corn meal
and three quarts of bran, given at one
feed will produce quite as good results
as four quarts of corn meal; and, as
the three quarts of bran will weigh
about two-thirds as much as the two
quarts Of meal, the difference in favor
of the bran is fully SIS per ton. I
made this difference when fed to milk
COWS, but.if feed to steers for beef |
consider the proportions should be diff
ferent. That is, three quarts of meal
should be mixed with two quarts of
bran, to produce the best results. But
one of the most valuable uses for which
coarse wheat bran can be applied is to
laying hens about once day, chang
ing it on alternate days from the morn
ing to the noon or evening feed, by
mixing it with pure water or with
milk. It has been found that hens fed
about once a day on wet bran, and
once day on corn or oats, will many
more eggs in given time than if fed
entirely on one kind of feed; there
fore, bran for feed for that kind of
stock is worth fully 20 per cent. more
than corn or corn meal. But if the
bran is to be the only feed, then the
meal would be the more valuable
Year: 1878

The BENEFIT OF L1ME.-Although
lime is found to be most beneficial the
second and third years after its appli-
cation, its effects are known to last
much longer. The larger the crops,
however, the sooner the lime Gas we'll
as all other fertiIizing matter contain
ed in the land) becomes exhausted,
and therefore the greater the advan-
tage Of its frequent application on a
large scale. It must be borne in mind.
however, that the application of lime
on land, destitute Of vegetable matter
will do no good. There must be veg
etable matter of some kind in the land
for the lime to act upon before its ben
efcial effects can be seen. Or, as the
poet aply expresses it:


Lime alone without manure


Will make both land and farmer poor.


But lime applied with good manure


Makes wealth Of land and farmer sure.
Year: 1878

Mention is made by the Chatham
Courier of corn-grower who, in Sc
curing seed, always breaks the ear
open in the middle, and if he finds the
chit of the kernel plump, he Knows
it will grow without any mistake"
Year: 1878

When the Princess Helena was
born, it was told the Princess Royal
that she had got a young sister. 90
that is delightful p cried the innocent
Royalist; "do let me go and tell NAM
ma"
Year: 1878

EVERY fool does not sport diamond
ring. There are not rings enough to 70
round. Nor is every man who wears a
diamond ring fool. But it does seem
as If all the biggest fools are sure to have
q diamond ring. The diamond.riug fool
is not content with flashing his treasure
in the envious faces OF the public.
Nothing less than writing his name /,
the car windows-on the hotel mirrors
on every available glass surface will sat
isfy him.
Year: 1878

Printing House for doing job work are not
surpassed in California outside OF San
Francisco and Sacramento. All work en-
trusted to us will be executed with neat
ness and dispatch at the lowest living
rates
Year: 1878

Yesterday morning, colored man about


forty years of age came into DR.. Cooper's
drug store, at 7th and Walnut street, bleed
ing quite freely from q wound IN the top
of his head, whore the wool had been
knocked off by some bluntinstrument.o He
seemed greatly excited, and told . mourn
ful story Of his wrongs, how his wife had
An axe. inflcting the wound already re-
ferred to. he did not wait to have his
wound dressed however, but left before
tho doctor could attend him. he stated
that he lived at 7th and Dupont streets, but
his name was not given. ~
Year: 1878

strength and tenacity of one who believes IN its
justice.


Mr.. Hill spoke to-day solely of the power OF Con-
gress to establish q sinking fund without the con-
sent Of the railroad companies. He held that Con-
gress does not possess such power. He thought II
might be different if the companies had defaulted In
their part of the contract but the Judiciary Com
mittees bill is not based on the pretenson that
there has been any default. Mr.. Hill did not debate
the policy of the Government, OF OF Congress- under
the circumstances, but confined himself to the dis
cussion of the power of Congress under the con-
tract He argued to show that the power to alter.
amend or repeal, granted by the acts of 1862 and
1864, applied only to the corporate powers ana
privileges of the companies, and did rot apply TO the
contract alone He then showed that If these pro-
visions did have such applications they did not con.
fer upon Congress the power to change the cohtact
after il had been executed; aslong as the companies
in good faith kept the contract their part Con-
gress could not interfere with them.


He also argued TO show that the terms OF the con-
tract as originally made were Intended as induce
ments to encourage the companies TO build the roads
for the public benefit, and that for Congress 70
change or amend those inducements after the WORK
was done upon the faith of them, would be fraud
on the companies which Congress could not reserve
the right TO commit.
Year: 1878




THE QUEER WAY In WHICH THE PRESIDENT


TREATS CoNGREssMEN-sCoF1ELDsN NOMINATION


THE RAILROAD SINKING FUND--NoRTHERN


PACIFIC, ETC.


1T is stated that Wisconsin congressman who
called on the President to disavow response
bllity for Mr.. Howe's speech and to press
candidate for Register of the Treasury, were
not Informed that an appointment had already
been made. Secretary Sherman ana MI Ihomp-
eon both make statements In regard 10
the stormy interview at Mr.. Shemans Office,
reported by THE TRIBUNE. Senator Eaton
intends to press for an investigation OF MIR.
Noyes's arrest. Senator Hill made an able
speech, yesterday, against the Sinking Fund
Bill of the Judiciary Committee. A new bill
TO extend the time of the Northern Pacific
has been prepared. The vote on the case OF
Dean against Field in the House, yesterday
was a tie. Another vote will be taken.
Year: 1878

CHIEF JosEPH's band of Nez Perces
are very anxious to go out and fight
Sitting Bull, and if the Government
wants soldiers for the Indian war these
are just the men to take. There are
enough warriors among the Nez Perces
now at Fort Leavenworth to make a
full company, and no better company
of men could be enlisted to fight Sit
ting Bull anywhere in the United
States. If we must fight Indians, let
us fight them with Indians, whenever
we can, and save our white soldiers for
better purpose. Such war as that
would be contemplated by a consider
able portion of the community with a
great degree of complacency.
Year: 1878

There is so great a charm in the port
i've play of fancy and wit, that there is
no danger of their being neglected and
undervalued, or that the native talent
for them will remain undeveloped our
chief solicitude must be to keep them,
even in their widest flights, still in sub
lection to duty and benevolence. We
must not allow ourselves to be betrayed


INTO an approving smile, at any efusion
of wit and humOr which are tinctured in
the slightest degree by ill-nature. A
child will watch the expression Of our
ture, and if he find that he has the pow
er to amuse US in spite Of ourselves, We
have no longer any hold over him from
respect and he will go rioting on in his
sallies until he is tired, and seek at every
future opportunity to renew his triumph.
Wit, undirected by benevolence, gener-
ally falls into personal satire-the keen
est instrument of unkindness; it is so
easy to laugh at the expense of our
friends andneighbors-they furnish such
ready materials for our wit, that all the
moral forces require to be arraYed
against the propensity, and its earliest
indications checked. We may satirize
error. but We must always teach by ex-
ample to children, not only in what We
say of others before them, but in our
treatment of themselves. We should
never use ridicule towards them, except
when it is so evidently good-natured that
its spirit cannot be mistaken; the agony
which a sensible child feels on being
held up before others as an object Of
ridicule, even for trihing error, mis-
take, or a peculiarity, is not soon forgot
ten, nor easily forgiven. When we wish,
therefore, to excite contrition for seri-
GUS fault, ridicule should never be em-
ployed, as the feelings it raises are direct
" ODDOsed to self-reDrOach.
Year: 1878

One would think crime would have
learned by this time that it is no match
for the shrewd, patient, indefatigable
men whose vocation it is to hunt it down
and bring it to justice. Very rarely now
adays do criminals escape capture and
punishment. We refer, of course, to
eYil-doers whose villanies come within
the province of law, and who are pur-
sued and prosecuted in downright ear
nest; for there are rascals encrusted all
over with moral guilt who manage to
evade their just deserts by sailing to
windward of the statutes, and others
whom the law might reach, but at whose
offences official justice winks, for special
reasons. Burglars, thieves, and forgers,
however, very rarely succeed in baffliug
the vigilance and skill of our detective
police. Their cunning is but poor de-
fence against the system of intelligent
espionage which is ever active in their
midst; and sooner or later, they almost
inevitably receive the wages of their
misdeeds. If men, inherently prone to
wickedness, were gifted with average re-
Elective qualities, they would restrain
their bad propensities from motives OF
policy. But the truth is, that moral OBJ
loquy and lack of forecast generally go
together. Rogues are poor reasoners.
Otherwise they would know that from
the Gordon of the detective police, linked
together, as it is by the telegraphlc wires
there is scarcely a chance of escape Tor
any prominent criminal.
Year: 1878

Attempts to drown the sense of mis-
fortune in strong drink are the climax
of human folly. IntOxication eventually
aggravates and intenslfes every evil
which it is invoked to alleviate. 1t has
been thus from the day when man first
"put an enemy in his mouth to steal
away his brains," and thus it will be to
the end of time No safe and sober man
denies the fact. Even the habitual drunk
ard, in his brief intervals of reason, shud-
deringly adm it. Yet thousands of in
tellectual beings-many of them richly
endowed with mental gifts-seek consO-
lation from the bottle in the hour of af-
Fiction; though revelation, history, OBJ
servation, and instinct alike teach them
that of all the broken reeds which weak
ness ever leaned upon, the false excite
ment caused by liquor is the most treach-
eIOus.


1t is passing strangel-one of these
anomalies to which philosophy furnish
es no clue, and for which we can only
account by supposing that power indie
pendent of themselves, against whose in
huence mere reason Is no sure protec-
ton, betrays men into ruin.


There are only two genuine salves for
sorrow-prayer and work. Trust in
heaven and keep doing, is sthe best recipe
for every human care. There are no
wounds of the spirit which it will not
heal. Strength, fortitude, patience, res
ignation, are as sure to be vouchsafed to
the unfortunates who earnestly pray for
them, and at the same time are dilligent
in the performance of their temporal
tasks, as the harvest is to follow the
planting of the seed. Duty is balsamic.
Peace is the child of worship.
Year: 1878

We are just old-fashioned enough to
believe in making ourselves, and espec-
tally the gentler sex, as beautiful and at
tractiVe as possible. loneliness in shane
and color was stamped upon the flowers
by the Supreme Being, who created
everything good" He gave to the rose
its blush, the lily its whiteness, the fruit
It's sun-tinted side, and the wisdom of so
dong cannot be questioned. Why, then,
should not those who are nextto Him in
intelligence, and within whose bosom Is
implanted taste, and to whose eyes He
gave the power of discrimination and the
love of color, not make free use of his
gifts to render themselves attractive to
others, and revel in the luxury of adOrn-
ment?


Breath is not more natural to woman
hood than the aesthetic It is revealed
alike in the savage and civilized; is
shadowed forth even from the cradle.
Babyhood delights in gaily dressed dolls,
and with advancing years the desire for
decoration increases. H; there been
no use for ornamentation, the means
would never have been given. No wo-
man who loves to be arrayed becoming
ly, will ever be a "slouch." The one is
entirely incompatible with the other
Flowers are not placed in 'frousy" hair,
and the rosebud and the geranium leaf
finds no resting at an untidy throat. A
bit of color, a ribbon, flashing gem and
golden trinket, assist very much to re-
lieve rarely oyer-partial nature; silks
and satins were not woven to be useless,
and bright tints were not stolen from the
rainbow to be lost to the eye. Giventhe
means they should not be found wanting.


Personal adornment adds much to life.
There is no one who does not love to
look upon the beautiful, particularly in
woman. Even their own sex do, though
at the cost of jealousy. To man, if taste
fully dressed, she is the brightest type OF
Divine Art. The husband admires it in
the wife; the brother in the sister; the
lover in his mistress, and the eyes of the
stranger fingers long even, upon a face
and form that can never be more to him
than a passing vision.


No one can gaze upon "daudy" dress
ed woman without feeling of disgust it
is unnatural for him to do so. No mat
ter how "plain," art can assist nature and
in a great measure tone down and rem
edy the defects. But to this end cost is
not ALL Many dress for a merely nomi-
nal sum, and yet are attractive to the
eye, fill the heart and taste in more than
money. Be the fabric what it may, let
it be fitting, properly cut, trimmed, and
stylish; don't be afraid of a ribbon or
flower, and mankind will look more ten
derly upon you. Girls don't be argued
out of the love of personal adornment
One wiser than any, than all Of earth.
gave the means and expected its use.
All arguments to the contrary are sense
less, and came from bigoted and jaun-
diced minds. a--..It is
Year: 1878

There are few things with which the
majority of US are less acquainted than
with our own organization and the con-
ditions upon which our bodily health
depends. And yet it is much more I'M
portant that we should learn how to
avoid disease and to cherish health IN
ourselves and in those who are dear to
us, than that we should possess a knowl-
edge of the dead languages or any other
lore included in the ordinary round Of a
collegiate education. Physiology should
be taught in. all our semlnaries and edu-
cational institutions. Whoever under
stands even the leading principles of
this valuable science must regard with
regret the manner in which its laws are
set at nought by society at large. In
their dress, in their diet, in their house
hold economy, in their business pursuits,
in their amusements, in a thousand
three-fourths of the community as
habitually and constantly violate the
rules of hygiene as if their aim were to
break down their constitutions and
shorten their lives. Surely if everybody
knew the physiological consequences OF
overstimulating the brain, of neglectlng
to protect the lungs, of everlasting the
stomach, of breathing impure air, we
should have less drinking, less consump-
ton, less dyspepsia, fewer of all the ills,
not that flesh Is heir to, but that it iRVokes
upon itself by its own folly than we
have at present. If physiology and the
conditions of health were universally
understood, the mortality Of the human
race, in large towns especially, would be
materially diminished.
Year: 1878

The vast number of inhabitants who
do live, and have lived. upon the face OF
the earth, appears, at first sight, to defy
the powers of calculation. But If we sup
pose the world to have existed six thou
sand years; that there now exist one
thousand millions; that q generation
passes away in thirty years; that every
past generation averages the present ;
and that four individuals may stand on
one square yard, we will find that the
whole number will not occupy a com
pass so great as one-fourth the extent OF
England. Allowing six thousand years
since the creation, and generation to
pass away in thirty years, we shall have
two hundred generations, which, at one
thousand millions each, Will be two hun
dred thousand millions; which, being
divided by four persons TO square yard,
will leave fifty thousand millions of
square wards; there are in asquare mile,
three millions, ninety-seven thousand,
six hundred square yards; by which, II
the former sum be divided, it will give
sixteen thousand one hundred and forty
one square miles, the root of which, in
whole numbers, is one hundred and
fwentv-seyen; so that one hundred and
twenty-seven square miles will be found
sufficient to contain the immense and
almost inconceivable number of two
hundred thousand millions OF human be-
ings, which vast number rather outnum-
hers the seconds of time that have pass
ed since the creation.