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Year: 1878

Young men coming upon the stage
of active business life during the pres
ent hard times, are more likely to be-
come permanently successful than those
who made their advent in business du-
ring the period of imitation, of high
prices and of fabulous nominal profits


The great reason of this is that young
men who begin now, form their busi-
ness management and personal habits,
from necessity, on principles of rigid
economy. These in the long run tell SO
powerfully as to make, in many cases,
the difference between failure and sue
cess. Men who began when everything
was at the top, find it very embarrass-
ing to come down and adapt themselves
and their business to the times that try
mems purses, as war is said to try their
souls, whereas, those who commence
when economy is the order of the day,
find no difficulty whatever in starting
upon an ecohemical basis, and, once
started, 1t will be easy to adhere to it.
So that, to young men just embarking
for themselves,we may almost assert the
paradox that hard times are the best
Year: 1878

awe claim high place for MI Taylor among the poets OF
bis native his peculiar walk Of song he Is without
rival The most striking thing about his poetry Is Its mag
Of dctona certain wild grand stormy hasts OF e1
preston ch itself TO the rigid rules OF
rhetoric His measures which for most part happily
chosen supass those Of other American poet in sono
,l,.il,
Year: 1878

A correspondent Of the Boston Transcript
asks: Have you or any of your readers noticed
the advent of new Americanism? allude to
the new fashion of the swain's taking the arm
of his female companion, instead of her taking
his. The couples usually look as If from the
rural districts. and the man generally gives the
impression of being ''kinder feeble, as well as
green; but there's no knowing how far the
custom may spread. A friend tells me that in
Paris he has recognized Americans not only BY
the high-pitched, metallic voices of his country
women. to say nothing Of other peculiarities,
male as well as female but by this American
ism also. i observe, too, that our colored
fellow-citizens who are very initiative have bs-
gun OF adopt this new fashion.


Does all this indicate a dawning sense on
both sides Of male inferiority? Does it herald
the coming of the day when all customs and
courtesies which recognize, to certain extent
the man as the protector OF the women, are to
ha ravaraodo
Year: 1878

The season has come when we must give
thought and care to such plants as we would
choose for winter bloom in the house. One
of the first and best is the heliotrope, that ia
vorite and fragrant bloomer. No plant col
lection is satisfying without its lilac cymes,
so delicate and beautiful.


Take your potted plant, which we assume
has healthfully spent the summer outdoors
a two or three year old heliotrope is better
bloomer than new-and now trim it up all
your heart will let you; the more branches
you can part with the larger will the young
growth push forth, and the more abundant
and fine will be the Towering. By Decem-
ber, and that is giving it long vacation,
your room will be sweet with new bloom.
The dark-howered is stoutest and best. Keep
the plant we'll fed. 1t loves a rich soil.


often grow mine as a standard, trimming
it away to two shoots, one at either side OF
the pot; then set in the pot stout wire trel-
lis OF suitable height, or as tall as the pot will
bear, tie the shoots to this, and as they in
crease, you can easily train the plant to be-
come standard grower; and you will find
you never had so fine one, for the heliotrope
likes support, and this is much better than
fastening to sticks. The new shoots will fill
yoaA stOAio oUuhAohbiy WAeA tuAuAidub SioWbAy
and after the first beautiful heads of flowers
have blessed you, trim them away unspar-
ingy as they fade, and keep your plant cut
judlciously, for new and constant blooming.


Geraniums should be repotted now, before
frosty night breathes upon their leaves.
They are very sensitive to frosted air, and
never recover well from its blight. Don't be
afraid to get rid of old dirt in geranium pots !;
the roots will bear a gentle handling; then
reset in rich, loamy soil, pressing the earth
closely into the pots, about the roots. Prune
back the tops of the plants well, taking care
to keep their forms symmetrical. Shade the
pots for week or so, and then give them gen.
tly sunny quarters in an airy room. By win
ter you will have them in stout, thrifty con-
dition, IT nurtured by plenty of sun as days
grow cool, good air and judicious watering.
A weekly watering of liquid dressing is es.
sentlal to a rich show of their elegant flowers.


Pinks are also Indispensable window plants.
Now is the time to layer new plants; while
those which have been kept back during the
summer, that they might reserve their bloom
ing strength for the time when nature is be-
reft of bloom, may be allowed to bud. Ex.
quisitely lovely are their snowy, crimson or
picotee rosettes of plumy flowers; and what
aroma can excel their spicy sweetness?
Year: 1878

SUICIDE is no good anyhow. But if done
at all it should be done at home. 1t is very
impolite to go visiting and then cut your
throat in the best front chamber of your
hosts house. Yet that is what Matthew
Cafferty did in Brooklyn the other day. As he
was Massachusetts, man perhaps he went
mad at the possibility of the election of But
Ii
Year: 1878

IT is still insisted by Chase's Chronicle
that resumption will be failure because the
resumption act does not provide for the re-
demptiol of bank bills. But as the bank
notes will be redeemable in greenbacks and
the greenhacks in gold the average man is
unable to see why the notes will not, indi-
rectly, be paid in gold. All that the holder
of them will have to do will be to exchange
them for greenbacks and then exchange
greenbacks for gold.
Year: 1878

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


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
muncations that are not used.
Year: 1878

The Greenbackers used to laugh consum-
edly with the rest of us at the belief Of the
negroes that each freedman was to receive
from the Government "forty acres of land
and mule" Yet many Of the Greenback-
ers are now asking for nearly the same gift.
Year: 1878

The Boston Herald thinks the argument
about the Bank of Venice, that its credits
were better than gold for six hundred years,
was an awkward boomerang" for General
Butler to fool with. Some designing person
must have stuffed the .confding "widow"
with that idea. The credits of the Bank of
Venice, to which he was led in an unguarded
moment to allude, were really certificates of
deposit money, against which checks and
drafts were drawn by the depositors and they
were at premium simply because the cur
rent coin was worn, clipped and debased
while the Bank of Venice only paid out coins
of full weight. That is to say, Its cheeks
were valuable simply because they were in
stantly redeemable in honest, hard money.
Year: 1878

IT is reported by the Washington reporter
of the Boston Advertiser that those inter
ested in making trouble with Mexico are
boasting among their friends that at last they
have so enlisted the prominent officers of the
Administration as to insure active steps
against that country at no very distant day.
Strong efforts have been made for some time
to induce some of the principal members of
the Administration to believe that war with
Mexico would be popular in the country,
and especially at the South, and do much to
unite those who fought against each other.
1t is also urged that the large acquisition of
territory which would follow successful war
would give the Administration much reputa-
ton in its closing days. While those who de-
sire trouble in order to favor schemes of their
own are likely to overrate the influence they
suppose themselves to have at the State De-
partment and in other quarters, there is
no denying the fact that they have good
grounds for part of their belief, There are
three parties vigorously at work in this mat
ter: first, an influential railroad combination
in New York, some of whose members have
the ear of the State Department at all times /;
second, a ring largely interested in Mexican
claims; and third, the Texas border politi-
clans and their allies.
Year: 1878

ARE You GAINING If you are gam
ns little every day be content. Are
your expenses less than your income, So
that, though it be little, you are COLI
stantly accommodating and growing richer
every day BE content, tor rs concerns
money! You are doing well. Are you
gaining knowledge every day ! Though 1t
be little by little, the aggregate of the
accumulation, where no day Is permitted
to pass without adding to the stock, will
be surprising to yourself. Solomon did
not become the wisest man III the world
in minute Little by little-never emit
ting to learn something, even for single
day-always studying little between
rising up III the morning and lying down
at night-this is the way to accumulate il
full stoYehouse of knowledge Finally
are you daily gaining in character! BE
not discouraged because it be little by lit
tie. The best man may fall short of what
he would wish to be- 1t is something, it
Is much, If you keep good resolutions bet
ter to-day than you did yesterday, better
this year than you did last year. Strive
to be perfect, but do not be lownheartcd
SO long as you are approaching nearer and
nearer to the high standard 1T which You
aim. Little by little fortunes are accumu-
lated, little hy little knowledge is gained,
little by little character and reputation
are achieved.
Year: 1878

WASTE AND Either man must
be content with poverty all his life, OF
else deny himself some Injuries and save
to lay the base of independence IN the
future. But if a man dcfes the future,
and spends AL he earns (whether his earn
inss be one or ten dollars a day let him
look for lean and want at some future
time-for it VIII surely come, no matter
what he thinks. To save Is absolutely
the on y way to get solid fortune; there
is no other certain mode. Those who
shut their eyes and ears "a these certain
facts will be forever poor, and in their
obstinate rejection of truth mayhap will
die IN rags and filth. Le: Them So die and
thank themselves. But no, They take
q sort OF recompense Ill curSIn9 fortune.
Great waste of breath. They might just
as well curse the mountains or the eternal
hills. For We can tell them fortune does
not give away good and substantial goods.
She sells it to the highest bidder, to the
hardest and wiseSt worker for the boon
Men never make So fatal Il mistake as
when they think themselves creatures Of
fate It's the sheerest folly in the world.
Every man may make or mar himself,
whichever he may choose. Fortune for
those who 10y diligence, honesty, frugal-
ty, place themselves in a position to grasp
hold of fortune when it appears in view.
The best evidence of frugality is the mo-
neg that appears to your credit in bank
The best evidence Of honesty consists in
diligence and frugality.
Year: 1878

If Suleiman Pacha has gone into the Bos-
phorus in bag in the old-fashionsd way
it is an evidence that in the general Otto
man decadence the Moslem has preserved
in full vigor that capacity to inflict sum-
mary Justice which was ever one Of the strk-
ing and even excellent features Of the gov
ernment of the sultans People find it diff
fcult to reconcile with their conceptions of
Justice the execution in any circumstances
of bold soldier by those in whose cause he
has fought all his lifetime and for whose de-
fence he has waded in blood. But it is a
logical practice, in which absolute govern
ments agree with all others, that no amount
of good and honest fighting condones the
attempt to turn the sword against the cause
in which that fighting was done, and that
the wilfulness which makes great service
practically valueless, throws it away, is to
be punished precisely as in the case of those
who have never rendered any such service.
It is reported that Suleiman was compro-
missed in plot to dethrone the Sultan,
which is probable, and justifies his punish
ment, of course from the Sultans standpoint.
But if it were otherwise, and if Suleiman
was punished in pursuance Of verdict on
his conduct in Bulgaria, not word can be
said in his favor. He was immediately re-
sponsible for the actual collapse of the
Turkish resistance in that campaign. His
waste Of an army at Shipka and his insub-
ordination, which >crippled Mehemet Ali's
operations against the army of the Gar
ewitch on the LON, destroyed the only
chance the Ottomans had to make peace with
the Russians north of the Balkans. That
misconduct was enough to forfeit the heads
of fifty generals.
Year: 1878

Deputy Collector Phelps has acted with
commendable firmness in the investigation he
is prosecuting into the alleged overcrowding
of the Staten Island ferryboat Blackbird.
The company owning the boat desired post
ponement of the case in consequence of the
absence of Mr.. Starin, who is ut Washing
ton. In these inquiries postponements are
usually the convenient hating places on
the road to final hushing up of the mat
ter or whitewashing of the parties impli-
Gated. Mr.. Phelps seems to be aware of
this routine, and he refused to- grant
the delay requested except on condition
that the Blackbird should be withdrawn
from the line and not used as a ferry
boat until the final decision is
reached as to whether the papers shall
be sent to the United States District Attor-
ney. The ferry company was compelled to
accedc to this stipulation hence it would
have no object in further postponing the
examination if it desired to do so. The law
in relation to the overcrowding of steam
boats has not been properly enforced in
New York, and now that the season of ex-
cursions is near at hand it is we'll that
attention should be drawn to it. If tho
authorities intrustcd with the enforce
ment of this necessary and important law
cannot perform their duties faithfully and
efficiently they should be removed and
their places filled by more capable and
more diligent men.
Year: 1878

That the spring business for 1873 is
rapidly increasing is shown by the con-
tinued pressure on the advertising columns
of the HERALD. An old merchant when
asked for the secret of his great success in
life replied, advertising. If you want to
get on in business, advertise" This motto
is now recognized to be the most important
in the mercantile calendar, and when busi-
ness prospects brighten advertising in
creases accordingly. To-day we again pub
lish quintuple HERALD in order to give
our readers all Of the news of the day
and at the same time accommodate
the demands of our advertisers. AS on
Sunday last, the HERALD to-day consists
Of three separate sheets containing twenty
pages, or one hundred and twenty col
umns Of close type The advertisements oc-
cupy sixty-fve columns, and are three thou
sand one hundred and thirty in number,
representing every class of society and
every branch of industry and mercantile
enterprise. In order that the reader may
gain clear idea Of the amount Of reading
matter contained in quintuple HERALD it
is only necessary to say that each column
of type represents on an average two pages
of any of our popular monthly magazines,
or equal to two hundred and forty pages.
Consequently the reader Of the HERALD
to-day gets for q few cents more reading
than can be found in any magazine pub
lished in Europe or America. Besides
spreading before it's readers the wants and
wishes of thousands of advertisers the
HERALD furnishes, by cable and domestic
telegraph, every important event that hap
pened yesterday all over the world. Such
is the modern newspaper-an epitome Of
the time and an index Of the prosperity
and progress of the nation.
Year: 1878

Mr.. PETER COOPER partly discloses his inten-
tions in regard to an educational institution in
South Carolina in another column What it
will be exactly the venerable philanthropist has
not determined upon, but it is very certain that
his ideas will take the practical shape which has
characterized all his efforts in this direction.
Year: 1878

From tho Now York Era, March 81


The eutorprising proprietor OF the HERALD has pur
chased vessel called the Pandora and nsks Congress
her for Arctic exploring cruise. The HERALD
proposes to plant the American nag wherever tho foot
OF man can hnd resting place. All honor TO the
ontorprising journalist Let Congress grant his petit
tion and encourage him In his noble work.
Year: 1878

rich wshall have uptown theatres and
uptown hotels, and when the Harlem River
improvement is completed and shipping
docks and piers will be fringed with
shipping and busy with commerce. The
improvement of the docks is therefore next
in order as great public necessity after
rapid transit. At present all is outlay on
the work and nothing is accomplished. We
hear of bulkhead wall creeping on a few
feet every six months or so, when capable
management would give us such wall,
built on the general principle of the present
departments own plans, at the rate of two
to three miles year and at cost of less
than two million dollars mile, instead of,
as now, from four to five millions. With a
new dock system of contract work after
public biddings the entire bulkhead line
on both river fronts, in accordance with the
Mcclellan plan, could be built in few
years and the docks and piers be completed
without departing from Comptroller kelly's
principle of "pay as we 60"


Common sense dictates the policy OF Sc



be obtained at comparatively trifling outlay.
We ought to have a supply sufficient for
city OF from three to four millions Of popu-
lation, and we can obtain it if we will, We
have no right TO depend any longer on re-
sources that may fail us, and which can only
now be made sufficient by a system of
storage reservoirs against the suse of which
many substantial objections can be urged.
We are fortunately in a position to secure
more than one source OF supply, and no
city with the prospects that lie before New
York should hesitate to avail itself of this
privilege. Several good plans of improving
and supplementing our present supply have
been proposed. We should adopt the broad
est and most certain of these and prepare to
carry it out, instead Of expending more
money in seeking temporary relief from
scarcity, if not protection against famine.
BY this means only can we provide ade-
quately for the great future that awaits u.s.
Our remaining need good street pavements.
is too apparent and too palplble to require
argument The best terminal facilities"
we can secure is by putting our roads in
such condition that full loads can
be carted over them without difficulty, and
that every street can be used and the delay
of blockades avoided. We have every rea-
son now to push forward such wise and
necessary Improvements as those enumer-
ated. because the prospect before us is en-
couragng. We may move freight cars
through the city at night as temporary
expedient, but we want substantial i'm
provements. 10 be sure we justly COM
plain of the burden Of taxation, but the
people Of New York will never begrudge
money honestly expended on needed and
beneficial public works. We are certain Of
rapid transit, and we shall now do well if,
by honest and wise expenditures on our
docks, our water supply and our pavements,
we manage to secure in return for our heavy
annual expenditures such substantial i'm
provements as will aid the growth and ada
| to the prosperity Of the city.


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Year: 1878

THE WEATHER. Yesterday the weather was
very unsettled in and west of the Mississippi Val
ley. Our reports from Cheyenne, Wyoming Ter
ritory, state that an exceptionally severe storm
with heavy SHOWS prevailed in the region of the
Platte Valley and over the territory north and
south of that district during yesterday. The
northwest winds following the storm centre
which is now moving over Western Iowa at
tanned avelocity of between fifty and sixty miles
per hour and traffic is entirely suspended on
the railroads between the Missouri River and
the Rocky Mountains. Up to late last evening
the gale continued ut Cheyenne and was in
creasipg eastward. Another disturbance is
moving over the Gulf coast toward New Orleans
and Mobile with very heavy rains OH its
northern margin. A violent gale prevailed
yesterday OH the Texas coast Rains have
fallen from the Gulf to Manitoba and
the winds are increasing from fresh to very
high On the Atlantic coast the pressure has
risen rapidly sure indication of the severity of
the disturbance to the westward. All the winds
are from easterly or ,southerly points,
except in the Northwest and West, whence
they follow the depression. AS the storm
will prove very heavy in. the regions of the
produce centres and subsequently on the South
Atlantic and Eastern COASTS timely precautions
should be taken by merchants and Davigators.
The weather in New York and its vicinity to-
day will be warm and partly cloudy or cloudy,
followed by threatening indications, with in
crcasing winds and light rain Tomorrow the
weather promises to be warm and cloudy, with
strong winds from the southward and rain.
Year: 1878

Two OR THREE PRIVATE COMPANIES control
the San Francisco water supply, and a bill has
passed the Legislature authorizing the purchase
of their franchises for fifteen million dollars.
She will have to economize ON the other liquid.
Year: 1878

What Is the Matter in Virginia.


It may be said to the credit OF Virginia and
to the honor of the people of that old State
that we do not often get from it such
story as is told in the despatch from Rich
mond printed to-day. Fortunately, that
kind OF punishment Of great crimes,
which itself partakes of the nature Of
the crimes punished, has been mostly
practised hitherto in our frontier dis
tricts and in those little civilized coun-
tries where the people have no other
remedy for self protection. Where courts
do not exist or where the organization of the
machinery of criminal justice is so loose that
there is no guarantee for the punishment of
deinquents, or where it is practically found
that crime has immunity through COR
ruptions in the administration, there is
some reason for the application OF Lynch
law, though even in these cases the fact
that action is taken under the influence OF
excitement and passion, and that the guilt
of the accused is never certainly established,
stamps it as barbarous remedy as bad as
the evil it endeavors 10 correct But how
can it be possible that there is any excuse
for the practice Of this kind of barbarity in
Virginia? If the story of the hanging of n
negro woman in Rockingham county for
having, as supposed, instigated the burning
of barn is not an exaggeration, it is evil
dent that the people have for some reason
lost faith in the administration of justice,
and equally lost faith in themselves thus to
yield to impulses that are essentially MUIR
darons
Year: 1878

The OLD BRIDGE across the Raritan at New
Brunswick, built more than forty years ago, was
accidentally burned yesterday morning. Having
been used by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, freight and travel will be temporarily
turned into new channels. The Bound Brook
route to Philadelphia will be used until the
structure is replaced or the new bridge finished