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Year: 1877

One of the things which the public
does not concern itself about as
much as it ought to is the
kind and amount Of food it shall
eat during the summer. The general
ity of the people go on i'll the same
way during the summer that they do in
the winter with respect to the food they
eat, varying it only as the seasons them
selves vary it. The average man or wo-
man is not apparently aware that the
heat of the human body may be materi-
ally increased or decreased according to
the kind and amount of food that is
imbibed True, most people when the
hot weather comes along rush spon-
taneously to fruit, and cram themselves
with berries, cherries, peaches, water
melons. cantelopes, pears, and often
swallow much more than is good for
them. Hence cholera morbus, diarrhea
and other similar affections of the
stomach But very little or no care is
taken in eating heavy beef in as great
quantity us during the coolest months
III winter. 1t Is 10 infreqreus sigist to
see man sit down, when the thermom-
eter is ninety five degrees in the shade,
at table groaning with fat-forming,
heateproducing meats. On these he
gorges himself, until he is as filled to
repletion rs during the coolest days of
December or January. 1t takes repeat
ed warnings and a long experience to
teach him that it is just as senseless to
do this in the depressing days of July
and August as it would be for him to
wear his thick winter hannels and over
coat. True philosophy would teach us
to be as careful to eep the inside OF
the body as cool as the outside.


a great deal of stuff has been writ
ten concerning the danger of cold drinks
and eating ices and creams. There is
danger under certain circumstances, as,
for instance, when large quantities are
gulped down while the body is over


heated. But when no more heat is ex
perienced than what is inevitable in
warm weather from any, ever the high
est exercise, draughts of water may be
quaffed by mouthfuls at time, or even
the coolest of ices or creams be slowly
eaten with a spoon, without any risk,
save in exceptional cases. OF course
there are many ignorant and obstinate
people, who, eating and drinking habit
ually like pigs, cannot be satisfied with
this quiet and temperate mode of en-
joyment. They pay the penalty OF
their disqualiications. But for intelli-
gent people, who will learn how to eat
and drink reasonably, there is album
dance of healthful pleasure for the pal>
ate, even during the hottest of hot
days. Eating and drinking correctly
are arts, and have to be acquired.
Year: 1877

Who that has known Joy or sorrow in
early youth (and who has not known
both?) can look upon the familiar tace
of the moon and not live in the past?
Has he drank deeply of the waters of
Marah? Then will the bitter cup be
conjured mp, while the placid face Of
the moon will seem as that of sympa>
thizing friend of the past, who has out
lived many other friends and many a
cherished hope. If flowers have pre-
dominated over the thorns in his path,
then will Memory lead him to the most
pleasing pictures that adorn her gallery
all coloeur de rose. The words ''never
more" that involuntarily escape his lips
may be as the echo of the knell of his
hopes which was rung in the ''long ago, "
yet may it chime harmoniously with his
feelings as the night winds whisper of
re union and endless happiness beyond
the skies.


Romeo swore by the moon, and lovers
from time immemorial have preferred
making their VOWS by moonlight, made
sometimes to be broken; if so. then will
that silent witness, the moon, be ever
after q reminder of these false VOWS.
"Wild were the heart whose passions sway
Could rage beneath the sober ray"


The moon, we think, may light the
murderer to his victim, and he may be
firm in his diabolical purpose while his
gaze is earthward, but should he chance
to fix it on the face of the pensive moon,
even while preparing to aim the fatal
blow, methinks he would falter, his
heart would fail him, and his arm would
fall powerless under an influence sub
DUNG as the memory of the face of a
dead mother.


The holy moonlight! Who has not
felt its influence? 1t is the same to
night that it was of yore, and as we did
then we hear n)w the never obsolete
ditty of the katydid and the plaintive
cry of the whippoorwill from the grove.
Many, doubtless, under the same intiu-
ence are thinking tonight of lang syne.
We are thinking of moonlit lawn
where on such night in the long ago
we sported with our loved ones, when
together with the katydids in the home
stead oaks we made the welkin ring.
But hushed forever on earth are the
voices of our loved ones, and tonight
The pale moonbeams silver the narrow
beds where they sleep in the silent city
of the dead


Moons will wax and wane as the ages
go by; future generations will rise. en-
Joy the blessed moonlight and return to
dust as we will have done, aud none
should fail to thank the Hand that hung
tho moon in the heavens


BRooKHAvEN, July 2Sth, 1877.
Year: 1877

Many an unwise parent labors hard
and lives sparingly all his life for the
purpose of leaving enough to give his
children a start in the world, as 1t is
called. Setting young man afioat with
moley left him by bis relatives is like
tying bladders under the arms Of one
who cannot swim; ten chances to one
he will lose his bladders and go to the
bottom. Teach him to swim. and he
will never need the bladders. Give
your child a sound education, and ycu
have done enough for him. See to it
that his morals are pure, his mind cul-
tivated, and his whole nature made sub
servlent to laws which govern man, and
you have given what will be OF more
value than the wealth of the Indies.
Year: 1877

Is there any Joy greater than that
which is experienced by one person
when he helps another person? There
are some men so low down that it is said
they cannot bear to have the smell OF
their clover go into the highway fol
fear that other folk will get something
that belongs to them without paying
for it; there are some men who are said
to begrudge bees the honey which they
take from their flowers without leaving
anything behind; but that is doubtless
imaginary. A man whose heart does
not respond to an act of doing good o.
giving happiness is no longer man
He has passed the line of manhood
and should be ranked among beasts.
Year: 1877

Many man raised from poverty and
obscurity to wealth and honor can trace
his rise to civility; it is sure to repro
duce itself in others, and he who is al
ways polite will be sure to get at least
as much as he gives. We believe it was
Macaulay who defined politeness as be-
nevolence in small things. The French,
who are nothing unless satirical, declare
politeness to be the zero of friendships
thermometer,
Year: 1877

With clear sky, bright sun, and a
gentle breeze, you can have friends in
plenty; but let fortune frown and the
armament be overcast, and then your
friends will prove like the strings of a
lutte, Of which you will tighten before
you will find one that will bear the
stretch and keep the pitch.
Year: 1877

DoN'r sit down and say, Damn the
Dutch" Do like they do. Get up
and go to work. If things amt lively
enough, put your shoulder to the
wheels of commerce and trade and aid
in getting the road wagon of old Fogyism
out of the mire. Hitch the mule of en-
ergy in the shafts, take the whip of en-
terprise in your hand, and make the
dust fly along the road Of progress.
Get up, dod blast your lazy hides, ad-
vertise your business, Jet people throuhg,,
out the country know who you are and
what you've got TO sell, and our word
for it you'll have something else to 40
and think about this fall than to 81
around and wait for business to come to
you and "cuss the Dutch"


-CoRr,er-Jo Journal.


4 -
Year: 1877

INC AfecteF9s SoHHt ET0ttN'


That the Electoral Commission ha.
proved TO be nothing short of Return.
ing Board setting in Washington to con
firm and complete the secret and oper
frauds practiced in Florida and Louisiana
no one now can doubt. F


Every candid man must admit that the
Commission was organized to take evi
dence and weigh and carefully determine
the case and to give the vote Of the three
disputed States to the candidates who
carried them. In fact both parties had
through their official committees sent oul
their strongest men and secured the evi.
dence and this evidence was printed and
much Of 1t placed before the Senate and
the House. Its strong points were known
and it was also known to clearly estab-
lish the fact that the Democrats had car
ried both Florida and Louisiana.


This being the case the Commission
which was composed of a majority o.
Republicans, did not dare to hear and
consider. the evidence but ruled it all oul
by strict party vote excepting such as
might be tortured into favoring their par
tisan wishes, hence the decisions of this
scandalous body of men, who many be-
lieve to have perjured themselves to ar
rive at their partisan conclusions, is re-
garded as the most stupendous fraud of
the age. 4-fH.r Mr..


Under the circumstances is it any won
der that the eminent, learned and honest
Democratic gentlemen composing the
House of Representatives should hesitate
to unite with the desperate party to make
complete their detestable work-to over
turn the vote of the people and subject
the popular majority of quarter of a
million Of voters and majority of the
Electoral Colleges to a reyersion by the
desperadoes constituting the Return
Board of Louisiana?


We cnnnot see how any action that can
now be taken by the Democrats in the
House OF Representatives can prevent the
violent partisans who control the govern.
ment in conjunction with the Radicals in
The Senate and House, counting in HAYES
1t is said that MIR. Ferry in case of dilitory
action to delay the count until after thu
4th Of March, will invite the attendance q
the House while he opens the certificates
and that after the Senate tellers count the
votes he will declare Hayes elected
Grant and the Army under General
Sherman are to see to the installation,
And thus the fraud will be COMPLETED,
The case is not unlike a referee trial where
the parties agrieved find there has been
collusion. We see no way out of the
dificulty-the Commission has rendered
no relief. The only thing lef. is for the
House to refuse to sanction the fraud and
protest against its consummation and re.
peal the law under which the creo,
wrong was committed.
Year: 1877

IHE House of Representatives should
not give the War Department one dollar
Tor army purposes. after the present ap-
preparation has been exhausted, unless
coupled with a positive condition that no
portion of the military forces should be
used to control elections or interfere
with the disputed governments of South
Carolina and Louisiana.
Year: 1877

On appeal in the case of Gambetta it has
been shown that in the higher as in the
lower courts OF France the subserviency Of
the judges was equal to the demands of the
government. With ready haste the higher
court has come to the assistance of the
Ministry to guard against the contingency
that ''the laws delay" might defeat the OPP
pressive intentions of the govern
mcnt by giving the opportunity to cover
the victim with the privileges Of
delegate That possibility now no longer
exists, for the condemnation as first pro-
nounced is definitely affirmed and the
sentence must take effect. AS the legal
points are given in the despatch the appel
liant certainly makes a singular argument.
He is represented as reasoning against the
competency of the Court and demanding a
trial by jury. TO appeal to Court and
then hold that it has not jurisdiction of
the point appealed is SO irrational thet
there is probably an error in the state
ment 1t would be fortunate for the
some error in its relation to this case. But
that is only too plain and clear 1t de-
monstrates to the French people that the
freedom of speech and of the press which
are nominally guaranteed by their laws to
every citizen not possessed as rights, but
only enjoyed as privileges at the caprice OF
authority. Ifthis does not prove last drop
in the bucket, and so swell the indignation
against the government, already great, as to
give the elections to the republicans by an
overwhelming majority we shall be greatly
surprised.
Year: 1877

The streets Of the city are the property of
the taxpaye yers tn ey were paved and are kept
in order at the expense of the city. The Leg
islature, for the convenience Of the citizens,
at different times permitted private corpo-
rations to lay rails on these streets and run
cars on them. The city might Justly have
required that the companies should keep
clean and in repair the streets they use; but
this was not DONE instead of that a very
light tax was laid upon the cars.


After time the horse cars proved entirely
insufficient to accommodate the people, and
these demanded additional facilities for
travelling from one end of the island to the
other. Capitalists were found ready to con-
struct rapid transit roads Thereupon the
horse car companies resisted, and for years
have prevented such roads. Meantime they
have not only used the streets, the property
of the citizens, without charge, they have for
the most part neglected or refused even to
pay the very moderate license fee on their
cars. At last the Court of Appeals has de-
cided that New York may have rapid tram
sit and the horse car companies, who owe,
it is said, about three million dollars to the
city, threaten to carry an appeal against
rapid transit to the United States Supreme
Court. They can afford to pay for this liti-
CATION out OF the money they owe and re-
fuse to pay to the city.


This is the present condition Of rapid
transit matters A parcel of monopolists
first refuse to pay their taxes, and then at
tempt to prevent what they choose to think
opposition lines. In some countries this
would be thought the height Of impudence.
Would it not be we'll for the city authorities
to strike back at these companies by sum-
mary proceedings to collect the just dues !?
An individual property owner who does not
pay his taxes is sold out +; he may be too
poor to pay-that does not matter. But
these monopolists, who have become fat by
using the city's streets, refuse to pay, and
nothing is done. Is it not time to force
them to pay what they owe?
Year: 1877

The records of the Board Of Health show
that out of $40 deaths in this city in the
months of July and August 1876 occurred
in tenement houses containing more than
three families, and 8O4 in institutions, the
inmates Of which come mainly from tene-
ment houses. This excessive percentage
shows how largely the death rate is in
creased by the overcrowded, lily ventilated
dens in which the working classes are COM
PEELED to find homes. The diseases there
engendered doubtless spread beyond the
tenement house circle and add to the out.
side mortality. If we could get rid Of all
such buildings, OF, at least, Of the worst OF
them, we should show death rate that
would compare favorably with that of any Of
the large cities of the world. In the two
months named there were only 1,664 deaths
in houses containing three families or less.
As these embrace much more than half of
the total population there would have been
only about thirty-three hundred deaths in
the city in July and August instead of nearly
house system.


The success of rapid transit, provided we
have road built in such a manner as to
secure low rates Of fare, will speedily empty
our crowded tenement buildings and sweep
them out of existence. When the working
people of the city can reach the upper part
of the island from the Battery in half an
hour and find cheap and healthful homes
in the newly annexed district they will
shun these unhealthful dens as they would
pesthole. In this view the recent decision
of the Court of Appeals may be regarded as
public benefaction. If it really gives ua
rapid transit by putting an end to the vexa-
tious litigation by which the work has here
tofore been obstructed New York will soor
rank as the healthiest city in the world.
Year: 1877

The qualification with which we issue this
days number of the HEnALD in quintuple
form of one hundred and twenty columns
will be shared by our million and over OF
readers. Included in its ample pages is
such miscellaneous budget of business
wants. with business opportunities to bal
ance, that he or she who is not in
the almost extra-human state of want
ing nothing or desiring nothing will
to help to the desired end. Such
newspaper as the HERALD is the true busi-
ness exchange of our time, and the public is
admitted to its rich stores for fee which is
merely nominal. The growth of our adver.
tising business is o proof Of the cheering &C.
tivity which is visible in things commercial.
Within five weeks the space demanded by
our advertisers has been doubled, SO that to
give our subscribers all that they expect in
live, first class newspaper, the issue OF the
quintuple to-day is an actual necessity and
not, as in the case of papers that at spas
modic intervals enlarge their size, piece
OF unbusinesslike vanity. BY printing
all the news and accommodating oul
advertisers we do oil that is demanded OF
US, and no effort or outlay has been spared
to accomplish both. It is matter of some
pride to the HERALD that both by the read
ing and advertising public these efforts are
appreciated from years end to years end.
This confidence of the public is not to be
bought by a single achievement in news
gathering, such as any of the numberless
triumphs we have been able to record, but
is founded on nearly half century Of ex-
perience that wherever news is to be had
the HERALD will seize it and print it in the
shortest possible time. This public reliance
readers, and the result is such paper as
we present.
Year: 1877

there will be work and wages for all.
Can any reasonable person doubt, for in
stance, that we should be able to command
the trade of Mexico and all South America
against allthe efforts of European countries?
We need only to cultivate liberal commercial
relations with those countries and to re-
member that they cannot pay us money for
our goods; no nation is rich enough in the
precious metals to pay for all it buys in gold.
Commerce between nations means barter. We
can sell shoes to Buenos Ayres if we will
take hides in exchange; we can sell wool
lens if we will take wool; we can sell cotton
goods to Mexico if we will take sugar and
other of her products. AT present we re-
fuse to do this. We have tariff, ostensibly
to protect our manufacturers, which in re-
ality disablcs them from selling their goods
abroad, because it levies heavy duties on
the raw materials with which other nations
particularly in South and Central America,
must pay for what they buy; and which our
skilled mechanics need to work up cheaply
into man utaotured products.


Our advantages are so great that we need
only somewhat simpler and more moderate
tariffand a sound currency to give us start
on the road to prosperity which would leave
all Europe far behind, and which ought,
unless American enterprise has died out, to
enable us in dozen years to command the
commerce Of the world.
Year: 1877

If the police justices and the Police Com
missioners are both really desirous OF pro-
tecting prisoners who are arraigned at the
police courts against the impositions al
legged to be practised on them by lawyers
who hang about the courts looking for
clients, there can be no reason why they
should engage in an unseemly quarrel over
the measures by which such result is
sought to be accomplished. The Police
Commissioners insist that it is not expe-
dient to allow the precinct returns to remain
in the hands Of the justices clerks for an
hour or two before the courts are opened in
the morning, since it may afford an oppor-
tunity to make the lawyers, who are said to
be always ready to divide with those who
give them information, acquainted with the
names and offences of prisoners who seem to
promise good pickings. They have, therefore,
directed that the precinct returns shall
be sent to the police courts In sealed en-
velope, and delivered only to the Judge
after court is opened. Against this order
the justices rebel, refusing to receive and
open these sealed returns, and threatening
to dismiss the police OF the court squad and
appoint deputy sheriffs in their place if the
Commissioners order should be enforced
Bu, ii the clerks OF the courts have no in
Year: 1877

BY the correction of yesterdays report of
the battle between the forces Of Mehemet Ali
and the Czarewitch some doubt falls upon
its decisive character. 1t was given as hav-
ing been fought in front of Biela, point to
which it seemed probable that the Russian
troops had been forced by the operations
succeeding the battle at Karahassan. A bat
tie fought in front of Bela in pursuit Of
those operations might be decisive in the
most terrible sense if it went against the
Russians, since the overthrow of the army
of the Czarewitch would expose the rear Of
the Russian force in front of Plevna to the
advance of Mehemet Ali. But it is now ex-
LON, where the Turks seem to have
captured line of feldworl1s in front
of o village held by the Russians.
This is far different from battle in
front of Biela, and is very unlikely to be
decisive in any fair sense of the word. 1t
will be seen by the kilograms that the ter
rible acts of the Turks in Roumelia are ex-
citing a great deal Of attention in Eng
land. The summary execution OF some
we'll known Christian merchants for
having reported the barbarous acts Of
the irregular soldiers bids fair to
disturb England more deeply than did the
massacre of all the people in part Of Bull
garia. The report Of the London Times that
in a small place which formerly had popu-
lation Of twenty thousand there is not an
adult male person left living indicates the
thoroughness of Ottoman methods.
Year: 1877

The opening of our theatrical season is
not unattended with misfortune. Two of
the principal theatres in this city are now
without permanent management; one the
magnificent temple built by Mr.. Edwin
Booth and intended by him to be the home
of the highest drama the other the Fifth
Avenue Theatre. What will be the fate of
the first is unknown; but it is unlikely
that it will be kept as place for temporary
engagements. or precarious speculatons


Such theatre needs O strong and respon-
sible management, and there are no in
dications that this is to be obtained
this season. 1t would be pity if Booths
Theatre should be lost to the city and
turned into mammoth bazaar, as rumor
says is possible. The abrupt closing of Mr..
Dalys theatre adds to the darkness of our
city, and, for the present. deprives it of one
of its favorite places of amusement. There
are many applicants for the lease, and it is
to be hoped that whoever shall become the
manager will not fail to provide scenery
as beautiful and company as
strong us distinguished it under the
recent direction. Another misfortune
is the death OF Mr.. Davenport, in which the
stage met with loss not to be repaired.
Tragedy this season, we fear, will not have
many adequate representatives. Mr.. Edwin
Booths engagements appear to be uncertain,
and Mr.. John Mccullough and Mr.. Lawrence
Barrett are among the few tragedians upon
whom the public can depend. There are
reports of great foreign actresses who are to
delight US, but it is too early to accept
them as facts. Nine. Janauschck will
appear in November in October Miss
Augusta Dargon will play in Brooklyn /;
this week Miss Clara Morris will return
to the footlghts at the Brooklyn Academy
of Music, yet on the whole, we think the
want of tragic acting will be one of
the chief deficiencies Of the season. A
terrible calamity to come is the invasion
of the stage by multitude of Julicts, of all
ages, from fourteen to fifty, and ranging
through all the degrees of inexperience and
unfitness They have done much already
to make the name of Juliet odious; and if
Shakespeare ever looks down upon their
dreadful performances, he, no doubt,
wishes that he had never written the play.
Still the public must cheer up. There are
many good things to come in the season,
and of comedy there will be plenty.