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Year: 1879

We object seriously to the propo sition lately put forth to begin al once the discussion of the merits and demerits of candidates for State offices. We want to see no such "ball" put in motion. It is time enough six or eight months hence to begin such work, Let us discuss immigration, agriculture, public schools, manufactures-anything and everything that pertains to the public good-but let us maintain ar iron quarantine on the several polit ical aspirants till it is time to heal from them. There is no sense ir climbing the mountain before we gel to it.--L. R. Democrat.

 We, too, object to opening the DO litical campaign thus early, so fal as the discussion of the personnel oI our next State ticket is concerned We are opposed to any man or sci of men pushing their names and claims before the people thus soon It is too early by many months fol slate making, and, in our estimation that candidate or aspirant who in sists and persists in letting the deal people know that he is getting bush els of letters soliciting him to run for office, only damages his owI chances for preferment at the proper time--at least so far as our vote is concerned. Thus far we fully agree with our respected contemporary the Little Rock Democrat. But while we concur thus far with oul city confreer, we do not think it toe soon for the newspapers of the State (since they are said to be moulders of public opinion) to commence let ting it be known that they are going to erect at their leisure, between now and the next election, stan dard of qualification as to compe tency, honesty, true moral worth and manly dignity, by which each and every aspirant who offers his name for office will be most rigidly and exactingly tried; and that no matter how clever fellow, how old friend or how much we may like him per sonally, we will not advocate any man for office unless he IS fully uI to the standsrd-or at least nearer up to it than any other man offered for the position.

 The press must educate the masse: up to this point and while we would not have the discussion of our man ufacturing, immigration and schoo interests neglected, we do not think it would be amiss to commence lay ing the groundwork for an "iror quarantine" against all imbeciles demagogues, political tricksters and worthless wire-pullers who swarm tc the front at every election.
Year: 1879

have succeeded in laying up few dollars. Why not number Of these good farmers in every county put their means together and start facto- ries to spin their own cotton? There could be no wiser or Safer investment made of their funds. We urge the consideration of this matter upon the good farmers of Pope county.
Year: 1879

We regret very much that our esteemed contemporary across the river, the gifted editor of the Darda nelle Immigrant, thinks we have been unjust, vindicurve and unkind toward him in the little discussion of our county seat matter which has sprung up between us. We can ss- sure our friend that we have net at any time had the least harsh feeling toward him in this matter.
Year: 1879

We made the statement above credited to us on the authority of some of our state exchanges. We did not see the item Tn the Fayette- vile Democrat but supposed the pa per from which we quoted was cor cect
Year: 1879

The month OF March will be an event.
full one for Detroit. A prominent citi-
zen, well known on Change, will DUR
ing that month make the attempt TO
walk 3,000.00 miles In 5000, 900 hours,
taking no rsfreshmsnt except ginger
beer and raw clans. No butcher. gro
Ger or milkmen suspected OF having q
bill against him will DO admitted to the
hall during the walk. IL he succeeds in
his enterprise the man who invented the
washboard will no longer be lionized by
the public. His walking costume will con-
uist Of three hats and pair OF socks.


Another citizen will begin March Is,
the attempt to walk from his house to
his Office. distance OF six squares. four
times per day for one month"; feat
never before attempted by any human
being In the West. He has already
gone into the hands OF q trainer, and
even In three days has made such pro.
gress that he can stand tiity-pound
sack OF fiour on end without looking red
in the face. His friends are confident
that he will succeed in this great under
taking. and are willing TO loan him
money at II per cent. interest. II the
feat IL accomplished the citizen will be
ON exhibition in front OF the City Hall
for three days-admission free. children
not permitted to approach nearer than
ten feet.


An estimable lady whose name Is
SPOKEN with praise on every street cor
nsr has been advised by her physician to
attempt the experiment Of winking her
eyes 1000. 100000 times in 1000, ,oOO,-
600 seconds. She will probably engage
one OF the opera houses. and the price
Of admission will be so low that every
laboring man can afford to have roast
chicken for dinner. II any man in the
audience imagines she is winking at him
and proceeds to wink back in return
seven policemen will be on hand TO drag
him down stairs feet first. There Is no
wager involved In this meritorious en-.
terpriss, bot the lady IL simply melted
by Q desire to recover her health. Alb
money taken ut the door will be donated
70 the purchase Of bronze busts to de-
corats ice wagons and street cars. The
lady Is sanguine OF success, and can any
day be heard singing. "And many q
wink she wunk." with the greatest en-
thusiasm.
Year: 1879

lNoTE.-Letters intended for this column must %
accompanied by the writer's full name and address TO
insure attention Compainants who are unwilling to
comply with this rule simply waste time in writing
Write only one side OF the paper.-ED HERALD
HORRIBLE CONDITION OF EAST FIFIIErH STREET.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


Where is the Street Cleaning Department? Is II
yet asleep? East Fifteth street from Fourth avenue
to Beekman place is disgrace to the city 1t has NOT
been cleaned since time immemorial. and the quan.
tty ashes garbage and dead cats to be along
the cutters make it easy matter TO spread malaria
Right under DIR. Chambers Office window in the
School of Mines dead Spitz dog has reposed IN
peace all winter ANTIDIRT
Year: 1879

year ago to-day few admirers Of the Rev. Will
lam Lloyd who had left the Reformed (Dutch)
Church with him, believing that he badly treated
by the consistory Of that body leased the vacant
church building on Madison avenue and Thirty fifth
street for year. They have held re-
ligious services regularly ever since. and
their success has been such that the trus-
tees have just purchased the building in which
they have worshipped. But not only this they also
propose to build church in another locality
and continue the present house mission. During
the year one hundred persons have been added
10 the communion of the church and 100 fam
lilies have rented pews. The expenses of the church


$1,000 month have been regularly paid. SO
that the new year begins without dollar OF debt.
This is certainly signal success for minister
and church starting of as did the Madison Avenue
Church. And best OF all crowds attend
the church at every service and hear the Gospel and
converts added monthly. il not daily. 1t will be
in order, therefore, for the successful pastor and
church together review. they will to-day their
difficulties and triumphs and their remarkable
growth for year. And with the divine blessing
the future may be the past and more abundant.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD:-


The Street Cleaning Bureau evidently fear an in.
undation Of the city by the waters Of the rivers
during the spring thaws else why the height to
which the streets being graded with ashes and
filth? is not necessary to travel to Egypt to view
the Pyramids. but just step into Hanover square
and there you will behold the most symmetrical OF
conical pyramids arising to the height of two and
three feet above the tops Of ash barrels. while the
centre of the street presents the appearance of the
most romantic of Brooklyn dumping grounds. It Is
so long since ashman was here that people forget
what he is like. and should at any time appear
is likely that he would be followed by rabble. re-
garding him . natural curiosity.


HANOVARIAN
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERAID:-


desire to ask for some information regarding the
Manhattan Savings Bank which it seems impossible
obtain with any degree OF accuracy from the bank
people. Do they Tean to pay Off? Every few
days call there. and each time am told "in very
few days, perhaps they viii name day. until 10
has become what the boys call ''tany." am poor.
have great need of my money deposited there. and
call upon your valuable journal to investigate this
outrageous delay. A DEPOSlTOR
Year: 1879

land on that sensitive spot and tempt you to lam
guage which Is reserved for grand occasions only.
II you walking quietly along the street and hap
pen to tread barrel hoop the further side OF the
hoop is to rise up and catch you just there. II
you are cropping about the room at TWO
O'Clock in the morning in order to strike
light because the baby has just been at
tackled by fourteen fatal ailments the sharp corner
of the rocking chair though it had been lying in
ambush for just such occasion. takes you right
on the sharp edge of that ossihcation and makes
you feel for single brief moment as though dozen
earthquakes and volcanoes ad hbitum had been let
loose. OF course it is all right and that delectable
bone is undoubtedly in the proper place: STILL the
problem looks little curious when you examine 1t
closely.


One of the finest puns was made by Erskine. See
ing old chest he wrote it the Latin inscrip-
tion "Tu doces" This bit of classic lore when prop
erly translated. means Thou teachest.'


1t is said that there woman illiterate
and uneducated that she would not generously give
the man Of her choice piece Of her mind.


This matter of the heather Chinee and his intru-
sion'on fair landscape is important than 1t
at first seems to be- Our great men in Congress are
wiser than give them credit for. They are utterly
unable or unwilling to take any measures to keep
the yellow fever away but ready to go any lengths TO
expe the Celestals which shows that In their logical
minds the yellow fever is comparatively harmless.
The policy which they have inaugurated TO kill off
all cheap labor is of those things which becomes
moro beautiful the more you see Of it, Now. q
man can't possibly make shirts at eight cents each.
and the whole feminine gender is thus interfering
with masculine prosperity Just soon as the
almond eyes of the Chinese are shut up measures
must be taken to get rid of all the working women
Of the world. They have no native land
to which they be sent but that they can all be
drowned by Legislative enactment there is comfort
in knowing. After that take in hand other
classes Of the community. and. il the principle is
carried far enough. cooperate with the law OF
selection leave the universe in the hands
of few who charge their own prices and grow
rich. 1t may be little hard somo of us who are
willing to work for what get. but even in
starving to death shall have the sublime con-
seriousness that somebody will get larger price for
doing work. and will be glad that out Of
the way.


The power Of association Is greater in some minds
than in others. 1t is not always safe. however. to
give expression to everything that happens to sug-
gest itself Two gentlemen were walking along the
street in friendly chat. when donkey started on
musical bray. "What cold that donkey must
have" said No. 1. Eyes. yes said No. 2. every bad
indeed. And by the way that reminds me; how is
your own cough to-dayY'
Year: 1879

Bread should be broken, not cut but
If you don't like bread, "cut" it, In
breaking bread use cuIb hit


DO not fill your mouth too full rather
allow some of the food to get into your
mustache


Split a biscuit with your fingers. in
stead of opening il with knife like an
oyster. II the biscuit hc hard. beetle
and wedge are admissible in the best so
ciety.


DO not pick your teeth at the table
Pick them at the dentists. if he has a
good assortment to pick from.


Salt should never be put on the table.
cloth, but on the side of your plate. If.
however, you want to pickle the table.
cloth IN brine, you must put salt on il, of
course barrel of salt table-cloth
would come in play should your pork
give out during the winter.


do not rattle your knife and fork. A
knife and spoon will be found moro mu-
sical.


Eat your soup from the side of your
spoon, either inside or outside.


DO not take game i'm your fingers
lhis, however, does not apply to a game
of cards.


40 not rest your arms on the table
cloth. Stack your arms i'm corner Of
the room before beginning dinner.


When asked what part of the fowl
you prefer answer promptly. II YOU
want the whole of il don't hesitate To
say So


DO not drink with the spoon in your
cup; put 1t in your pocket Forgetting
it. you will be so much ahead. (
close regard to this rule has enabled
Ben. Butler 10 accumulate com
potency.


1t Is bad taste for the host and hostess
to finish eating before their guests. 1t is
better To move their chairs - as To finish
behind them.


Never leave the table until all are
through, without sufficient excuse. The
sudden entrance of policeman with
warrant for your arrest, il generally
considered sufficient excuse in polite
circles.


Pay no attention to accidents or
blunders on the part of servants. If
Bridget blows herself up while cncourag-
ing the fire with kerosene, keep right on
eating just as if you had never (kcro)
sene il.


Never help yourself to articles of food
with your knife or fork. Use harpoon
or n lasso.


When you have finished your meal
lay your knife and fork on your plate
side 10y side, with the handles towards
the right n little south by SOU west,
bearing northcrly when the wind is of
the sideboard quarter.
Year: 1879

Several weeks ago, in the neighbor-
hood of Hettcnshaw, i'm this county. a
remarkable bear hunt occurred. IL ap-
pears that Dr. Stanley, while ON visit
to Hettenshaw, expressed an earnest de
sire to 20 bear hunting and accordingly
one morning he started, in company with
Greene French, George Burgess, and 10
llghttoOt Arriving at thiCket the
dogs gave notice OF their near approach
To bear, and the party decided TO sta
ton themselves at certain points and let
the dogs go in and drive the bear out.
This was done; but the Doctor, becom-
ing impatient, entered the thicket him.
self. The heavy underground made his
progress slow, but he fought his way
ahead until he came 10 fallen tree
lying in little gulch Helping himself
along by the limbs, he arrived at the
upper end Just in time TO be confronted
by huge grizzly bear. Retreat was
impossible, as il had been with the ut
most fliculty that the Doctor had ad-
Nanccd so far; there was no tree i'm con
venient distance, aud, IA the grizzly
showed fight, there was nothing left for
him TO do but shoot. Taking deliberate
aim with his Henry rifle. the Doctor
fired and the bear fell mortally wounded


Another load was sprung from the mag


azine into the rife, and the Doctor. look
ing toward his prey, was surprised to
see second bear in the same spot This
he shot also, and, quickly reloading. was
yet more astonished to sec third bear
I'm the same place where he had shot the
other two. Again the lever moved aud
fresh charge went into position, and
again the Doctor looked up and discov-
cred fourth grizzly coming toward him
from the same opening i'm the brush.
Whang went the gun again, and down
went bear No. 4. by this time the Doc
tor had got warmed up and excited, and
he kept moving the lever and firing into
the bodies of the bears until the sixteen
shots in the magazine were exhausted.
Meantime his companions, hearing the
shooting and presuming the cause, made
their way to where the Doctor was, with
the intention of assisting him, but found
him on the top of the largest bear, with
theothers strewn about, swinging his hat
and shouting Justify. One was an i'm
mense grizzly, so large that the hunters
could not handle him. and the other
three were good-sized grizzlies, probably
about two years old. The shooting Of
four bears by one man, without ever
changing his position, is something hith-
erto uhheard of, even i'm the most highly
colOred annals Of the Western wilds.
Year: 1879

That tenon does not fit the mortisc
10y quarter of an inch, said an en-
Ployer 10 young carpenter who had
just begun To- work for him.


" ! thought that for garden gate
you would not he particular, and il
would make no difference" answered the
young man.


But 1T did make difference. IL made
Just the difference between the Young
carpenter havinga steady summer lob
at good wages, and having his time un-
occupied upon his hands.


The employer found no further fault (:
but when the gate was finished, he paid
the maker without another word and
dismissed him The next day there was
another man in his place. He happened
to be Il man who thought il did make a
difference how everything was done he
always did his best, and he kept his
situation until the end of the season.


80 1T happens. Frequently some lit
tie thing which was not expected to at
tract attention, is noticed by some one
TO whom the excellence Of the work has
commended itself and the man who has
made Painstaking the rule Of all his
labor, is surprised by sudden and un-
lOoked-ior accession 10 good fortune. He
has been brought into note by some un-
considered trille, which was we'll done
merely because it. was his habit 10 do
everything rs well ~ possible


On the other hand, many a man who
is lamenting his i'll fortune, and don't
know what 10 attribute il 10, owes il to
some such carelessness in the way Of
doing his work as that which doomed the
young carpenter 10 summer Of idle
ness.


Men are by no means always told by
what particular act they are Judged :
but any good performance is always
liable 70 make, and any bad perform
ance is liable 10 mnr fnrfnne
Year: 1879

Recently occurred the annual exccu
tiOn day in China, when seven prison
ers were dcCapitatcd This does MOI
represent the sum total of those who
suffer the capital sentence during the
year, for all burglars and highwaymCr
are speedily put out II the way. The
ordinary criminals only are reserved foI
a day. especially appointed, shortly bc
fore the winter solstice.


There are some curious customs In
connection with these executions The
night before these unhappy mon are
brought To die regular iollfication
takes place within the gloomy precincts
of the prison. The doomed men arc
loosed from their chains, and have n
feast spread before them. with IA much
wine and meat, etc, as they desire.
The feasting goes on all through the
night, and IL is not until the time of
the starting of the procession draws
near that the shackles are put on


At the appointed hour each criminal
~ put into Il cart from which the cush.
ions aud the cloth covering have been
removed, so that the unhappy man
looks as If he were i'm cage on wheels.
His appearance shows that, however he
may have Jared during the previous
night, his general prison fare has not
been ovcr-abundant.


The road from the lIsing.pu to the
execution ground is through the
Swenchihmen. Through this gate the
emperor never passes. From the gate
to the ground the distance is two-thirds
of mile. About midway there il a
winc-shop, which, for the last two hun
dred years, has supplied the criminals
with as much spirit az they like to
drink; so that most of them are i'm n
state of intoxication when the fatal
moment arrives. The ground was
called " the vegetable market" II is n
wide portion of the large east and west
street of the Chinese city.


One very particular system is that all
the men conveyed To this place are not
executed three or four out of ten are
taken back 10 the prison TO bear y part
i'm similar procession the next year
When the men leave the prison no one
knows whether he will be bcheaded or
not. OF those thus repricved, eight out
of ten will be repricved the following
year, after which the sentence will he
commuted into Punishment.


If the man escapes for one year only
1T il thought to bo AN act Of imperial
grace. A list of those executed during
the year, and of their crimes, is burned
by the emperor on the altar of heaven
at the winter sOlstice. He is thus sup
posed to inform heaven of the manner
in which he has used it's delegated
authority.
Year: 1879

KEEP the tongue from unkindness.
Words are sometimes wounds not very
deep wounds always, and yet they irri-
tate. Speech is unkind sometimes
when there is no unkindness I'M the
heart SO much the worse that need
less wounds are inflicted 20 much the
worse that unfortunate pain IL caused
Year: 1879

The Sunday School Tines says:
'The character Of the surroundings
and belongings Of house is quite as
important as that of the changing and
ephemeral clothing, and adornments of
the body. Painting, statuary, bronzes,
and the thousand decorations of the
home should be watched very carefully;
for every one of them eXerts some intiu-
ence, eth n beneficial or injurious, on
the individual under whose eyes it
falls. A bad picture or image is like a
perpetually renewed glass of wine,
which intlames the mind, and bears
with it all sorts of temptations.


A bad book, an Objectionable period
ical or an evil piece of music is scarcely
less destructive, Tor its contents are all
too quickly transferred to the memory,
while the very sight Of it klndles anew
the fire it has lighted. Even if not yet
read, it bears within it possibilities of
future evil, and of evil enhanced and
defended in the readers mind, it may
be, by the very confidence he feels in
the moral worth of the owner. A good
mans bad possession bears more of his
personal endorsement than he is always
aware. 1t prostitutes all his otaer ex-
cellencies to the defence Of that one
fault.


If man is responsible for the char
acter of whatever he owns, he ought to
possess nothing, by gift, inheritance or
purchase, whose quality is evil. In too
many house there are little plague
spots, little nurseries of moral malaria,
perhaps unnoted, which, so far as they
go, make sinful every day of their
owners life. They ought, therefore, to
be rooted out as any other sin is rooted
out. Fire and destruction still have a
part to play in the Christian life"
Year: 1879

DIR. Holland has stirred up O


hornets, nest by an editorial in


the last Scribner's on Southern


civilization" which is full of


gross exaggerations of the law


lessness in that section of the


country, eliminating in the wild


assertion that things are in q


worse way down there than a.


mong the Italian wilds where


banditti still flourish. All the
papers are taking their turns in


replying TO the doctors charges,


and the Atlanta Constitution


makes out q very strong case


for Georgia. To the charge
that murder after murder is


perpetrated in high life with the
coolest blood and nobody is ar
rested for it and nothiDgis done
about it" it opposes the fact that,
although several Of the men who
committed the last six murders
in its city have all the advanta-
ges of money and position, ev-
cry one was arrested, one is un-
der sentence Of death, two to
for life, and the
are awaiting trial. To
the further charge that "any
man may commit a murder
there, and, if he he man in
high life, and do it for personal
reasons, and have a white skin,
with a great certainty that no
one connected with the law will
take notice OF his crime" tho
Constitution replies by quoting
the statement Of the solicitor
general of the Atlanta circuit
that not single white man es-
capped, while the negeocs had
nearly always got off, and by
recalling attention to the fact
that two white men had lately
been hung in Georgia for the
killing of negroes. Finally the
Atlanta paper retorts that, if
hey do have sharp personal
down south, in which
one man shoots another, "they
nave none Of the slow-forming,
deliberately planned, cold
blooded, sneak-thief murders
hat characterize New En-