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Year: 1878

Those ladies who have organized an
association for the encouragement OF
art-industry among women says Apple
tons Journal, are no doubt disposed to
listen to suggestions, and to welcome
anything which would open new fields
of labor for the class they are interested
in. Have these ladies observed that,
while the cultivation of flowers in our
cities has of recent years spread rapidly,
no Improvement i'm an artistic direction
has been made over the old-fashioned
hower-pot? A vessel of chaste and ele-
CANT form for flower culture cannot be
found, unless the recently designed box
with tile ornaments is an exception.
These tile boxes, however, are very
costly, and at best but inadequately
meet the demand. We need vases or
pots made of ordinary unglazed pottery,
simply and tastefully decorated, and Of
various sizes and shapes so as to suit
either the window-ledge, the veranda,
the balcony, or the courtyard, and ar
forded at low prices. There are now in
some of our court-yards urns of painted


IN that are certainly ugly enough, and


silly pots of very vulgar and fiorid or


mentation may occasionally be seen
at the shops of the dealers; but vessels
of inexpensive material and pure deco
ration suitable for the purpose described
are not to be found. Before window
hower-culture can be very general,
good deal will have to be learned by
those who now every spring permit
their hope and faith TO triumph over
their experience in former years; but
eventually it will come to be understood
that flowers will not flourish when
baked on hot stones, as we see attempt
ed in every street in our cities, and the
fact that selection must be made Of
plants, governed by the conditions of
exposure to sun or shade, will yet guide
the persistent flower-lover into the prac-
tical wisdom out of which his windows
shall in time be brought to bloom in
brilliant hanging parterres, charming
to those who look upon them and
sources of endless pleasure to their
owners.
Year: 1878

Mrs. Tappen, in the Beekeeper's Mag
azine, gives the following advice: "For
several years We practiced method
which We can recommend to any one
who care more for rapid increase than
for surplus honey, and it has this ad-
vantage, that you obtain nice white
clover or linn honey while you leave
the bees to fill up for winter on that
which is not so saleable. Having all
colonies very strong at the beginning of
the month, keep them so by supplying
them either with empty comb or space
in which to build it. Use the extractor
freely when yeu can do so without in
juring the brood, and secure all the
honey possible. Have supply Of
young queens or hand and at the end of
the linn harvest divide all your colonies,
just as you would do in May or June,
supplying each division with fertile
queen. Watch them all and feed il
they need it, but usually without this
help all will become strong stocks be-
fore frost. Wed0 not warrant increase
if this plan be attempted with any other
than strong colonies"
Year: 1878

Yes know there are b great many
provoking things in this life; for in
stance, it is provoking to find after you
have written half-a-dozen letters with
snub-nosed pen, that you had choice
new ones lying just under your nose, in
q box of cast-off powders that the doc
ter left-the very last place in the world
that a convalescent would be rummag-
ing.


It's just trifie provoking to have
some ignoramus set the clock back fif-
teen minutes just as you expected to
take the train for funeral, or, what is
akin to it, a political convention.


1t is aggravating, to say the least, to
have the teapot cover drop of every
time you pour cut a cup of tea.


Green wood is terrific evil, especial
ly when it is an inch too long at each
end. And, OIL when the best platter is
smashed the day before christmas, it is
simply awful. But then what are you
going to do about it, anyhow 1t keeps
ors on the move so to fare at every
thing.


Oh, your husband don't come home
nights, chr Well, he is a brute-that is,
If you are pleasant and keep pictures
on the wall. Tell him said 80, will
your Don't look in the least ru6ied,
though; don't even scosol, If there is a
dent in your forehead just as deep as
the window sash, made by bobbing your
head against the window to look Tor bis
coming.


Fretting is not admirable in any case.
1t takes the fat OF, deepens the
wrinkles. fades out the hair; and bile.
In stirred-up condition yellows the
skin. Oh, it don't pay" to fret il you
want to be handsome. Take everything
as it comes, whether it be q broken
clothes line or late husband.


And if you and 1, my friend, wait in
patience till beauty crowns our efforts,
patience will have had q perfect work
in at least two lives
Year: 1878

One of the most interesting and as
tonishing departments within the whole
compass of the Bank of England is the
weighing department, in which, with
the rapidity of thought, and precision
approaching the hundredth part of
grain, the weight of gold coin is deter
mined. There are six weighing ma
chimes and three weighers to attend
them. Large rolls of sovereigns, or
half-sOvereigns, are placed in grooves,
and are shaken one at time, by the
motion of the machine, into the scale.
If they are of the standard weight, they
are thrown by the same mechanical in
telligence into box at the right hand
side Of the person who watches the Op-
Grafton; if they have lost the hundredth
part of a grain, they are cast into box
on the left. Those which stand the
test are put into bags of 900 each, and
those below par are cut by a machine
and sent back to the mint.-London
Times
Year: 1878

To all Of us constantly choice is OF
fered: choice of many names, but OF
one significance: choice which may
be described variously, but which is
fundamentally the same. 1t is the
choice between law and license; be-
tween pleasure and duty; between the
flesh and the spirit; between God and
Satan; between worldly life and
heavenly hope; between Incorporate
sensualism and sober chastity; between
the love of self extended into forgetful-
ness of God, and the love Of God vic
torious in the forgetfulness of self; be-
tween something which is near and
seems sweet, but which in our heart of
hearts we know to be fatal and ruinous,
and something which is far off and
hard, but which in our inmost hearts
we acknowledge to be noble and divine.
In some form or other, great or small,
this choice comes daily, and almost
hourly, to all of us! daily, and almost
hourly, we have to appeal to great prin-
ciples to support us in the performance
of little duties, or stimulate us to the
resistance of small temptations.
Year: 1878

The following instance Of care in
growing and saving seed, initiated and
carried into practice by farmers gener-
ally, would add annually an untold
amount to their income and the wealth
OF the country. A farmer, well known
for his care in the selection of his seed,
made it a practice to set apart each year
certain portion of his fields for the
raising of seed. Upon these seed-plats
none but the most select seed was used,
and of given quality. The best cul-
tivation was given without regard to
cost, and the product of these seed
plats was used for the general crops;
the top or extra grain being carefully
sorted each year. to be again sown for
future seed. Thus he always had none
but the best and most mature seed for
sowing, aud always obtained an extra
price from others, for seed from his
fields. But his own selected seed for
these seed-piats, ccdld not be bought at
any price.
Year: 1878

Lucy Stone, who has been preaching
woman suffrage in Colorado, writes
that the Mexicans there have no plows,
but stir the ground with crooked
stick. To thresh grain they lay it in a
large circle and turn horses or flock OF
goats upon it. Two or three men then
drive the animals repeatedly round, un-
til the wheat is trodden out. The
straw is then thrown up with fork or
with sticks, and the chaff is blown
away. Such wheat as may be required
for family use is washed by the women,
and that which is sold remains un-
washed.
Year: 1878

AN impulse of sanity, at inter


vals, is exigent upon the followers


of great party. Not all the hy-


pocrisy and phariseeism which


have cloudetl and shrouded the


Republican party can conceal the


epic record, at times, of


that organization, We do not


recognize any rule of party


fealty which calls upon us


to deny the majesty of certain
attitudes of the Republican party.
All the more do we renrobate the
time-serving, the overweening at
tachment to the flesh-pots of office,
and, above all, the adoption of a
programme of fraud, of that party,
which, when we consider them all,
causes US to question whether it is
the Christening or the extinction Of
the Lincoln and Seward party
which is the present demand of the
hour. But, waiving our personal
opinions, the editors and orators of
the Republican party should de-
velop an animus which could cor.
rectly be described as other tn an
idiotic. The Republican party,
with its history, should desire not
to descend to posterity with simply
the heaped-up compost of Florida
and Louisiana as its monument.
That would be a monument
which we should not desire to have
over our party. Judging from tie
insane clamor of Republican jour-
nails over the Potter investigation,
we should think that the leaders
of that party do not desire that the
truth should be known. The sooner
the Republican party, in the in
terest of the cause with which its
name is identified, but which its
actions disgrace, strike a mood of
confession and reparation, the bet
ter it will be for that organization.
The distance which this party of
moral hyperbole has to fall, if it
identifies itself with Hayes, is so
great, that, from u merely utilita-
rian standpoint, we should Judge
that, II it can escape the plunge by
repudiating Hayes, it would gladly
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Year: 1878

In most instances almost entirely without more
education than 10 sufficient enable them To write
and read after very Indifferent fashion. In some
yachts racing yacnts in particular these men are
on TOO familiar terms with their masters. and
occasonaiy-but we are glad to say rarely
are even made almost companions by them. II, when
such the case, they should by chance forget their
position II Is not 10 be wondered at and We think
the blame with those whose higher position and
eoucation should have taught them better. III yacht
owners would take the trouble to be just, hrm, Kind
masters, ana would set the hands they employ good
example, We think complaints sf bad behavior among
yacht crews would be less frequent and that yachting
would gain much In pleasure aud comfort without
losing any thing In sport or heathIuI excitement.
Year: 1878

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


Your Complaint Book abounds with walls from suf-
fsring humanity concerning tho intolerable selfish
moss and despotism OF the New York Elevated Rail-
road Company. Some oftheso complaints are without
sense or reason others are well founded aud just
Allow behalf OF tho dwellera In this vicinity
add another mite to the latter class-vZ., request
for the removal Of the cars which are LETT constant
standing that portion OF thor road covering Bat
terry Park, thereby obstructng the fnc view OF the
river and bay SO much priced by Us New Workers.
Year: 1878

fNoTE-Lctters intended for this column must be
accompanied by the writer's full and address TO
insure attention. CompaiDants who unwilling to
comply with this rule simply waste time in writing
Write only one side OF the paper. -ED. HEaALD.l
Year: 1878

To THE EDITOR HERALD


Al the corner Of Pine and William streets on .
telegraph poe is posted an appeal OF a man, which
says his family the verge OF starvation aud his
wife near the period Of maternity He signs himself
"A German" and states his residence AS No. /. 456
avenue A, between Eightieth and Eehty-Erst Streets
top floor. VIII not the HERALD send word to the
proper quarter IRON winch reiief may afforded ana
have the matter investigatedr A READER,
Year: 1878

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD:-


At about three O'Clock on Monday afternoon l Wit
messed brutal assault by policeman on poor ped
ler boy, thirteen years old, in Grand street.
Allen street. The ofacer struck tho child with his
clinched hst about the head and in q cruel
manner and finished by punching him In the chest
with his cub. do not know what tho poor boy had
dopc; but surely u must have boon somethin ing
trining. Why should weak children be handled SO
roughly? II tho lad offended against the law why
did not tho officer arrest him as no would q mani
regret cannot give his number, but the time and
place will identify MN. MOTHER.
Year: 1878

To TIN EDITOR THE HRRALD-


How s - that the Frat brigade Of the First divi-
sion, N.Gs.NY., is ordered to proceed TO Prospect
Park for drill ana review noxt "Wednesday, and the
other brigade OF the division is not? think II en-
eral Ward, commanding the FIRST brigade. was poor
man working by the day, ho would be losth TO issue
such order. 10 inspector Of election exempt
from militia duty tor ons year2


AN ANCIENT READER.
Year: 1878

To THE EDITOR HERALD


Is there Law In existence prohibiting wagons and
trucks from block kading public thoroughbred The
German grocery Keeper at No. 40 Brsons keeps
hafa trucks and wagons standing in the street
al that number wners they lorm decided nuisance.
hey stand Idle Tor tho want OF license I. u.
Year: 1878

We don't like to be irrcyerent, bat would


like 10 ask. What did ourtoref!thers know?
What. for instance. did George Washing
ton know. He never saw Il steamboat he
never saw a fast mail train; he never held
his car TO Il telephone; he never sat for his
picture in photograph gallery; he never
received telegraphic dispatch: he never
sighted krupp gun; he never listened to
the ''iiz'' of an electric pen; he never saw
pretty girl running Il sewing machine; he
never SAW sclf-propelliny engine go down
the street TO Il fire; lie never heard Ofeyo-


luton; he never took laughing gas; he
never had a set Of store teeth; he never at


ended an International Exposition; he
never owned bonanza mine; he never
knew old Prob he-but why go on: No;
wi en- he took an excursion it was on a fiat
boat When he went of Oh train it was
mule train. When he wanted to tall,
with man in Milwaukee he had to q
there. When lie had his picture taken il
was done in profile with piece Of black
paper and pair of shears. When he got
the returns from back counties they had to
be brought in by Il man with an OK cart
When he took aim t the enemy he had t.
trust to crooked barrelcd old tlint-locl-


Wien he wrote. it was with goose-quill
When he had anything to mend his grand
mother did it with a darning-neelle. When
he went to Il fire he stood in line and pass
I'd buckets. When he looked at a clam he
never dreamed it was any relation of his.
When lie went to Il concert lie heard Il
cracked fiddle AMI IN insane clarionct
When he had tooth pulled he sat down


nd never lett Off yelling. When he got
out of teeth he mummed his victuals
When he wanted IN international show h.
sent for Lafayette and ordered his fricnds
up from Ol'l Virginia with the specimen
carefully labeled in bottles. When he one
got hold Of Il nugget of gold from an lr-
dian chief he felt rich. When he wanted tc
know anything about the weather he &C
suited til. grounl-hog or goose bOre
| WhCn-but why 30 on? What did such ?
man know: Who was he anyhow?
Year: 1878

loves the Sermon on the Mount and vii
live by it; if believes the 18th chapter o
Romans or the 18th of Corinthians. ant
lives by them, suppose he don't believe tina
this world was made in six days. o.
that Jonah was swallowed by the whale
What Of it: What has that to do with ,
good life? Let him believe what he can
that is, what he thinks true. So long a.
mankind are drawn to the life and expert
ences OF religion, we need not worry about
their beliefs; but If they fail OF these. al
their fine-spun orthodoxy will be of very
little value to themselves or to others.


Another thing: think the churches
should hasten to confess that we are all H.
nite-just beginning-and that all these
questions that relate to God and the future
are too great for our full comprehension
that. in fact. after all Our boasted knowl.
edge, we really know very little about
them. Let us confess that it is not ncces-
sary tor the purposes OF a good life that
we should know everything. Then let us
have our schools of theology. and our





our churches. and our speculations about
all these points but let us get over the
folly of quarreling about them. and reft,s-
ing fellowship to those who differ from us.
Let lis be done with the folly and even
wickedness of making doorway out of ill
our definitions and dogmas through which
souls must pass to reach the ever-prcsert
Lord God. Let us put away our narrow
ness and prejudice and be brothers in a
common love and common cause. Let
there be 4 broader personal liberty Of opir-
ion. Let it not be thought a erin. for a
man to hold and express an honest convic-
tioE. Let there be frank. open honesty
in tile pulpit. Let all unite in the active
duties Of doing good. Let us think more
Of conduct and less of creed-and there are
few so skeptics1 as to even question the
truth and beauty OF such a religion.
verify believe that thousands in this city
would gladly come into the churches.
could they come with their honest convic-
tions, and not be asked to believe what
they cannot believe. nor be blamed for be-
lieving what they honestly think is true.
And their honest doubts are not in the way
Of a pure heart and 4 good lite. Religion
is an uplifting of the soul to God. and an
outgoing of the heart in deeds of Kindness
to men and belief in he'll, or in some
special creed or theory of inspiration is not
essential to such lite. 1t is wicked to any
longer stand up and teach that the only
way to heaven is by a Romish mass. or a
Baptist immersion. or a Methodist class
meeting. or the Prcsbyterian's five points.
They have all done good III their way. Men
may be good in all of them, or may get to
heaven without any of them. The love of
God is broader than the narrowness of
men, and the Holy Spirit finds the open
door of all willing and waiting souls. The
pure in heart, of whatever name or nation,
shall sec God.
Year: 1878

We took a trip to Emmittsburg, per
rail, last week. In the car, just opposite,
sat a portly old gentleman engaged with
another in talking politics. We paid no
special attention to the conversation, but
could not help hearing what was said.
''Talk about economy in Congress" said
the pOrtly old gentleman, sit is absurd y
tWhat the country needs is a liberal gov
ernment, one that win spend money freely
aud make times better and give people
plenty Of work" We turned to scan the
visage Of the man who uttered this SEN
tence. We saw at glance that the ami
NAL predominated over the intellectual,
and that he was probably incapable Of ex-
pressing a single original idea of his own
upon the subject. He had no doubt re-
peated, parrot-like, sentiment which he
had received at second hand, and did not
understand that the only way out of our
financial difficulties, both for the govern
ment and the people, is in a course of un-
tagging industry and rigid economy. He
is but a type of his party, which would
plunge the country further and further in
debt in order to make the times better,
forgetting that the more money Congress
expends the heavier must be the taxes and
the greater the burthens of the people.
The government has no money to expend
but that of the people, and to expend it
for any other purpose than the support Of
an economical government, is to impOyer-
ish them more and more, under the vain
delusion of giving relief. Let the people
support only Democratic Congressman, who
are pledged to the strictest economy.
The expenses Of our government ought to
be reduced fully one-half below what they
now are, and with both Houses of Congress
in the hands of the Democrats, we shall
be much mistaken if they are not so re-
dueed.
Year: 1878

The Excursion TO HIGH RoCK.-Notwith-
standing the lowering aspect Of the weather,
on Thursday morning last, the excursion of
the Protestant Episcopal Brotherhood from
Baltimore, over the Western Maryland Rail-
road, to High Rock, in Washington county,
was n decided success. Westminster contri-
buted some fifty persons to the number, while
Hagerstown and adjacent places added their
quota to the grand total, which must have
numbered considerably over one thousand
persons. The excursonists we're chiefly com
posed of the better classes, and the utmost
order and decorum prevailed. The musical
programme at the grand pavilion was fully
carried out, and the stirring strains Of the
band and the admirable songs of the ehoris
ters alternated and added greatly 10 the en-
joyment of the occasion. The only drawback
was the difficulty and delay in getting vehicles
from the pavilion to the Rock. Many per-
sons had to make the journey, a distance of
two miles, on foot. Some new arrangement
will have to be made for the conveyance of
passengers from Penmar Station to High
Rock, and there must be system in the ar
rangement to avoid confusion and DELAY, such
as was experienced on Thursday Mr. Hood
will no doubt remedy this defect The enter
prise is new, and there has not been time to
perfect all the details, but by the next season
no doubt everything will be in complete work
ing order. High Rock is bound to be one of
the most popular resorts in this country. 1t
must be seen to be appreciated.
Year: 1878

Willis street is the name of the new street
to be opened in the rear Of the Court House,
in honor of DIR. Vim. Willis, the first Clerk
of Carroll county, a gentleman whose sterling
character did much to build up this county
Year: 1878

might refer to any Of our local depart
ments of government--the Courts, II
you please, to illustrate this matter OF
comfy. The high respect and great
Difference paid by each officer to the other,
and of all to the judiciary, partakes
greatly of this very nature. The judi
charge, but the several clerks and the
Sheriff, all representing various duties,
have their rights, as does also the Attor-
ney General. Either of these officers
might give serious trouble were they to
set up an exclusive right to do as they
thought right. just what control the
judiciary have over these officers is not
clearly defined; nor is 1t apparent what
would be the result should the Attorney
General, for inst ance, refuse to come into
court and try the cases or the Clerk of
the Peace and Prothonotary to refuse to
bring their books into court. These
gentlemen do not let politics interfere
with their duties, or the courtesy due to
each other in the transaction of the pub
lie business, and neither should this
comfy be forgotten or overlooked by our
city officers. We think the Finance
Committee has shown great respect for
the Treasurer, and we hope that matters
may be rendered more agreeable after
a little more consideration.
Year: 1878

The best, as well as the surest remedy for
lice on cattle we have ever used, is kerosene.
1t is easily applied. First, ssturate sponge
with water, then dip it in the oil, and go
over the parts infested. We purpose trying
oil in the whitewash for the chicken house
this fall, and think it will prove sure cure.
1t may make the place look little stresky
or smeared, and lift does it will not hurt /;
but it will, we think, rid us of pests. When
we told Dick to paint the roosts and the
nests with il, aud put little under the wings
he thought our idea was to kill OFF his broods
because of their raid on the small fruit
bushes now he. too, has learned its value