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Year: 1878

There is one rather absurd thing about
postal cards that seems not to be gener-
ally known. \ good writer, who gets
things down fine, can put several thous-
and words on a card and the cost is a
cent, but if he pastes printed slip con-
tanning simple word on the card the ex-
pensc is six cents: one, paid for the card.
and the other five collected from the
card receiver, yet if words are printed
on the card itself it is all right. If a
person pastes slip printed on card,
the size of postal card, and puts the
card and slip in an open envelope, the
Government will carry card, slip and
envelope for a cent, yet it charges six
cents for carrying postal card and slip,
without the envelope! Therefore if you
have occasion to paste a printed para
graph on a postal card, put it in an en-
velope and the additional weight will be
carried four cents cheaper than the
card alone goes. 1t looks ridiculous to
carry 5000 or more words in an envelope
for cent and then charge six cent for
carrying half dozen words on a card
without the envelope.-Detroit Free
Press.
Year: 1878

SUPT. PARKER's column in the Con-
serrattce, last week, was full of good
sayings. We extract the following:


just school government consists in
such control Of the young, according
to natural laws, as will tend to the har-
monious development of their physical,
moral and intellectual natures. In the
government of children, it is sometimes
necessary to repress in some directions.
but at all times it is necessary to devel-
op in certain other directions. The OBJ
ject OF the government of the young is
to put their higher nature in the ascend
ency.


If person have large combatiyeness,
continuity, frmness, appropriateness,
and small benevolence, and conscien-
tiousness, he would crush out young
life itself, that he himself might gain
the appreciation Of the patrons. He at
tempts to govern the school, not for the
good of the governed, not that govern
ment may be made an educational pro-
cess, but that he himself may be chief
Such school room tyrant would build
a pyramid of the crushed hearts, hopes
and aspirations of the young. if he him
self could sit upon the apex The still
school is not always the we'll governed!


In .recitations, the pupils should do
the talking, and the teacher should sug-
gest and direct. The greatest infection
a school can have, is wordy teacher
Some teachers talk all day. while their
pupils mentally sleep. The teacher
must have, at least, full language. and
must know when and how to use it.
Some persons are born blind; so too.
some persons with the natural faculty
of language, defective. The one case is
just as rare as the other; and the one is
just as easily detected as the other. In
the process of development, knowledge
comes before language; first the idea.
and then the word to clothe it. This
much abused saying, Il know but | can't
tell, is but an apology for saying, I
would tell if | knew. There is not
teacher in the county who has not this
natural faculty amply developed for the
conveyance of all his knowledge. In
this respect. the thing to be feared in
this teachers school room work. is the
use of words without IDEAS. If the
ideas are clear and well defined: if the
just relations between them are recog-
nized, and the connections are strong.
in six hundred and ninety nine cases out
of seven hundred, the natural faculty of
language may be firmly relied upon
Year: 1878

The school law has been so amended
that, after July 4, 1878, erery applicant
for certificate will be required to pay
a fee of one dollar This will relieve
the County Superintendent of quite an
amount of work, for many who now at
tend the examination, do so simply that
they may measure themselves from
time to time. and see how much they
have grown. and so be able to judge
how much longer they must study be-
fore they will reach the full stature of
teachers. Such examinations are bene-
fetal to those examined, helping them
to see their deficiency and stimulating
them to new effort, but they consume
much Of the Superintendents time,
which, in the opinion Of the law mend
ers, may be more proftably employed.


Now that this school, for it has been
a school, is practically closed, those who
wish to measure themselves by the SUI
perintendent's standard, or to compare
themselves with their fellows, and, at
the same time, secure more thorough
Year: 1878

"No LEGISLATION for Labor all for
Capital" was the utterance of Allen G..
Thurman in the Senate, few weeks
ago. The truth of the sentiment is as
remarkable as the propriety of its utter
ance. The labor of Congress had not
been to find how the people could be en-
abled topay the great war debt most east
ly but how the Indebtedness might be
made most valuable 1t was TO increase the
value of the bonds that they were made
payable in gold only; and it was to in
crease their value still higher that all
property was made to bear a tax for
their payment. The tendency of all this
legislation was to directly increase the
worth of the bonds, and decrease the
value of real estate and other taxable
property, not excepting other bonds.
To estimate the value of this legislation
TO capitalists is not easy but it would be
certainly within reason TO say that it
gave the bonds a purchasing value of at
least 70 per cent. within a year and il
reduced the value of real estate as com.
pared with L. S. bonds fully that much
making in the aggregate a difference be
tween the two clasSes-those whose in
Vestments were in bonds and those


whose Investments We're IN lands, othel


bonds, ,&c.-fully 80 per cent in favor o


the former.
Year: 1878

The EUey Erening and Commercial is
managed by a clique of men who hold it
for the benefit of their friends and favor
ties. This is known; and politically it
has less influence than any paper we
ever knew. Witness its failure again in
its attempt to aid DIR. Snitcher in the late
nomination election. 1t uses Mr..
Bayards name to give is force and in
fiuence, but its failure is remarkable. 1t
did the same thing in the late Mayoralty
campaign. 1t lauded Bayard and shame
fully denounced Whiteley. The G AzErTE
had, however, influence to cause the
election of Whiteley by determining a
number of our religious people who were
Republicans to vote for HIM by its expla-
nations. Had the EUery Euedng and
Commercial had the Influence with the re-
hecting masses Mr.. Whiteley could not
have been elected Mayor.


One of the owners of that unprincipled
paper was known to declare that he
"would rather vote for negro than a
Democrat" the other owners, with one
exception, are old Radicals who have
abused Bayard as scandalously and
freely as man was ever abused nor did
they cease here, they carried the abusive
and vindicuve malice so far as to falsify
the father and grandfather; against such
attacks the GAZETTE has time and again
defended both father and son. And
now what we wish to point out is the
fact that paper pretending, and with
seeming justice, to be an organ of n
Democratic senator should be 50 encour.
aged to attack Democratic candidates
We point this thing out to the Demo.
Gratis of the State. If Democrats conn.
tenance that paper which continually
assails the GAZETTE and other Demo.
cratic papers and Democratic men and
measures, with what consistency can
they complain if the GAZETTE refuses tc
countenance them? Heretofore men
and candidates have come to us on the
eleventh hour for protection from the
assaults of Croasdale and others in thei,
no-party organ, and we have labored tc
shield them as we did the Mayor; but
how long we will be able to do this now
when Senator Bayard's name is SO free
ly used in that paper and other kindred
sheets all over tho country we do no
know


The GAZETTE has heretofore sustained
the Democratic party and Democrat,
men in this State unflinchirgly and it in
tends to continue to do SO. But il find
1t harder to do so, because it has of lat
been rudely assaled and scofied at, be
cause 1t would not abandon the line O
policy held by the great mass of tn
Democratic party in the country, an
follow the lead of such men as Belmont
and such unstable papers as the Phila
delphia Times, managed by old, eDet
Republicans, and other organs of tn
bankers and brokers. In spite of all th
ingenious DISCUSSES the people are fas
finding out that through the Democrat
party and Democratic men is the onl
way to a more just and economical gov
ernment in national as well as in Stat
affairs; and we have faith in the sens
and virtue of the people.
Year: 1878

THE LABoRING PEOPLE will have to
maintain their rights, through their suf-
ffages. Every thing that tends to CEN
tralization tends to bind the laborer TO
low wages-there is no escape from a
government oppression except by what is
termed rebellious or reasonable act
1t is far easier to change your condition
under State laws than under government
laws. The present banking system is
the most aristocratic feature of the gov
ernment-more dangerous by far than
the army, 1t gives to the government the
whole control of the money power. the
''sinews of war;" and with the army un-
der chief as willy as the Shermans, il
would be far more easy for man like
Grant to change the whole form of gov
ernment, than people think. 1t is evident
that about half of the Senate and two
thirds of the Army and Navy are ready
for such change. II would only be
necessary to say to these people that their
salaries, or their pay, would be doubled;
and under the excuse that they were
bound by oath to obey their superior Off
GERS, all resistance would be put down.
1t was with this knowledge and under
this dread that Hayes was suffered TO be
installed by the men who knew he was
not elected by the people. We can see
no objection to the repeal of the restric-
ton upon State Bank circulation. Such
banks as desired to contine the present
system would do so, and they would af-
ford a medium of exchange that would
operate as the State Banks under the free
banking system in New York and Massa-
chusetts did, before the rebellion.
Year: 1878

THE GAZETTE never was more popu.
lar and its circulation never was so great,
nor was 1t ever increasing SO rapidly. 1t
is with difficulty we can supply our city
circulation in time to mail our country
list the same evening.
Year: 1878

To REMOVE STARcH on RUsr FROM
FLAT-IRoss.-HaVe piece of yellow bees
wax tied in coarse cloth. when the iron
Is almost bot enough TO use, but not quite,
rub Il quickly with tho beesKax, aud then
With clean coarse cloth. -
Year: 1878

SHOWING HOW SENSITIVE A GIRL IN
LOVE Is.-They were sitting IN an
open buggy on the cross road and
bounded on one side by the wood and
on the other by an orchard. Tie first
we heard was. Now stop, Will you
will uuss my hair" He laughed and
she broke out with, 'sYou don't love
me one bit" The carcss he gave her
would have made an anaconda turn
pale, al q as size threw up her head
for breath he said, 'Pm strong, ELI.
girl?" Yes, you are; but don't
think YOU are as strong as you used
TO be- And then we felt weak AMI
.eft them.
Year: 1878

THE GREAT ARID DESERT. = Recent
explorations in Australia show that, IN
addition to an extraordinary lake OF salt
wafer in the centre of the country which
blights thousands of square miles OF terri
tory in its yicinage. there is beyond an
arid desert Of greater extent than any
other in the world, on which there IS
neitberanimal or vegetable life 10 be found,
and even on the borders nothing but the
drvest sage brush can be seem An attempt
was made to survey this sand sea at Its
supposed narrow part, and after travelling
400 miles the camels showed signs Of ex-
baustion. and return became absolutely
necessary; but habitable ground was not
reached before several of these supposed
sbonarchs OF the Sahara drapPed dead 1t
is thus shown that only tae western part
of Australia can be utilized as refuge
for the thousands OF Europeans who are
seeking homes in the new country. that
more than half of the island continent
Will not support men or animals, and hence
that the limit of population can already
be approximately estimated.
Year: 1878

GoLD AND BONDS Gold and bonds
exhibit an mexpHcable perversity since
the passage of the silver bill. According
to the best financiers, OF those who assume
to be such, gold ought to have gone up
and bonds down. Instead, both are steady,
with gold falling. 1t reached l01t in
New York, which is the lowest since
greenbacks began to depreciate during
the war There is no apparent desire to
dispose of our bonds in Europe, and what
few have been returned have found a
ready sale at home The country does
not seem in the least disturbed by the
prospect of an additional S48, 600, 900 q
year being added to our metallic currency.
In fact, the world will probably be spared
the narrowing spectacle of nation ruined
by too much good money,
Year: 1878

Out OF the darkness, out Of the rain,


Into your presence SO loving and dear,
Into the warmth and brightness again,


Safe from al thought of trembling and fear
| sit by your side in the soft freight,


Your lips are press d to my check and brow
| care no more for the darkeniI,g night,


Nor list to the threats Of the storm king now.
know, as you whisper the sweet word, wife, "
And feel the clasp of Your sheltering arms,
That | am far iearer to You than life,


know you would die to shield me from harm
As tender and sweet as a mothers prayer


are your thoughts of Inc, and well know
Every burden Of mine you fam would share,
Every weary step would gladly 90.
As you guard, to night, from darkness and ram,
From storms of sGrrow, and darkness Of pam,
Would ever haven of refuge be.
wonder sometimes, as the daylight dims.


And the eloudsgrow W gray, while the shadows


fall.


And over the far horiz oms rim


Settles the evenings dusk pail,
What could do without You, dear;


Without your tender kiss on lny check;
Without your srailes of hope and Of cheer,
And the loving words you alone can speak.
Yet know the tears to my eyelids start,
And my soul is thrilled with t,.rOb of la;n
That many u weary, aching heart


Watches alone the daylight's wane.
l think to night, "a | sit by your side,


Di the tired ones out in darkness and cold;
Of the lonely, longing hearts denied


The rights Of strong arm shelterinS toid-
All one It's a weary world at the best,


For many We pass with careless eye;
Forgetting, because our lives are blest,


That life to them drags drearily by;
So think, dear one, that the warmth and light
Which heaven has shed about our way,
Should help to brighten their dreary night,
Should bring to theirdaiiiness a gleam of day
Our love was not given to us to bless


With rhythmical grace our lives alone,
But that. though It's strains of tenderness


Other hearts might catch a happier tone.
And 50 will our home he doublv dear:


And when we shall stand at the Golden Gate,
1t may be some hearts We have comforted here,
With songs OF welcome ourcoming shall wait
Year: 1878

SEVERAL exchanges are giving direc-
tions How to Dress" The most SEN
sible way is to stay in the bed till the
fire is started, and then take your clothes
under your arm and trot out to the din
ing room stove,
Year: 1878

An excellent old deacon, who, having
won fine turkey at charity rattle,
didn't like to tell his severe Orthodox
wife how he came by it, quietly remarked,
as he handed her the turkey, that the
'sShakers gave it TO him"
Year: 1878

is showd by his life as well as his death. A
few years ago the savings bank made losing
investment of few thousands, which he
was no more instrumental in placing than
any of the trustees of the bank, yet this
weighed so heavily ON his mind that he III
sured his life in favor of the bank to cover
their loss by this investment, fact which
they did not discover until his papers were
looked over to-day The funds of the bank
have been found intact, with the exception
Of about $50 in cash and check for 500
which he had in his cash drawer outside the
safe.-N. Y. Sun.
Year: 1878

The moon was ut the full, and
shone brightly when the first pair
of miscreants-the young man who
sat on tho jelly -cako and heavy
young lady to whom lie was affianced


issued from tho front door, and
instantly sat down with tremendous
emphasis. Close behind them came
the rest of the raiders, who with ono
accord strcwed themselves over the
ground, until in some places they
were collected throo or four deep.
The shrieks of the ladies and the
stronger remarks Of the mon filed
the mir. No sooner would strug-
Cling wretch regain his feet than
he would sit down again with
renewed violence. The atfrighted
clergyman and his wife gazed with
wonder at the appalling spectacle and
the good small boy never ceased to
sing "What Shall the Harvest Be"
at the top Of his lungs-interspers-
ing the stirring hymn with wild
''whoop whenever 'a particularly
brilliant pair of stockings waved in
the air.


Although only three persons sus-
tanned fatal injuries, there was
scarcely member of the party who
escaped without more or less serious
wounds, either of body or clothing.
1t is generally believed that there
will never be another surprise party
IN BroOkficld, and it is under con.
temptation among middle-aged
house-holders to present Master
Sawyer with a service of marbles
and o life membership in the Foreign
Missionary Society, as n testimonial
OF their esteem and gratitude.
Year: 1878

The silver men are represented as not so
confident as they were of their ability to
carry their swindle through over presiden-
tial veto. Discussion has opened the eyes OF
good many congressman who were inclined
to be honest but were captured by the clap
trap which such demagogues as Bland have
been printing and shouting about oppression
of the laboring man, and they now see that
the making of the silver dollar legal tender
is not only branding the American people as
a nation of swindlers but is also protecting by
law robbery Of the laborlng man.
Year: 1878

The Charleston Ne,os and Courier thinks
there is no doubt but the Republican elected
to the Legislature from Sumter county by 700
majority will be permitted to take his seat and
declares s'that the candidate who received the
majority of the votes legally cast must have
the place." The necessity for impressing upon
people of South Carolina so fundamental a
principle Of republican government as is con.
tained in the sentence quoted goes to show
how thoroughly the White League has up
rooted every Vestige Of popular rule in thai
State
Year: 1878

4 JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE has mortally Of
Tended Boston by declaring that he cannot
quite agree that that city is the 'hub of the
universe and the "Athens of America"
By and by some one will have the hardihood
to declare that there are other revolutionary
relics in the country besides the Old South.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous etters and eommuni
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty Of good faith.


we cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used,
Year: 1878

In the aises of the orchard fair blossoms are


drifting,
The white petals drop one by one,
And the tulips pale stalk from the garden is


lifting
A goblet Of gems 10 the sun
Come ramble awhile through this exquisite


weather
Of days that are feet to pass,
When the stem of the willow shoots out a


green feather,
And buttercups burn in the grass
When, pushing the soil from her bonny pink


shoulders,
The clover glides forth to the world,
And the fresh MOSES gleam on the gray rug
ged boulders,
With delicate May dew impearled
The brook in the pasture has hidden its peb-
bes,
Full flooded with April rain,
And listen, my love, TO the silvery trebles
That ring from the blossoming lane
What VOWS to their sweethearts the gay rob
ins utter
No marvel such wooers are heard
Heigh no how the bosoms that scorn US
would flutter
If man could make love like bird


Edgar Faucet.
Year: 1878

In Nubia, as soon as a girl is mar
ried her mother is forbidden by law
ever again to speak to her, under pain
Of being roasted on the spit. Oh dear !
what a great deal that is really good
in theinstitutions of heathendom might
be adopted by US Christians! Let an
American motheir-in-law beware, how
ever, if her daughters husband propo-
ses a trip to Nubia some of these days.
He will have her on that spit within
six hours after her arrival at the near
est Nubian port.
Year: 1878

| (From "Our Pets and Protectors, by Wm


NJ. Tileston, in May ScRIBNER.


If anything were wanting to con-
vince the skeptical as to the high status
of the dog in this country at the pres
ent day, it would only be necessary for
him to attend one of the dog or "bench'
shows which are held in all the princi-
pal cities. Although Englishmen have
always been more enthusiastic over
these four-footed friends than we, vet
even there a great revival occurred
some fifteen years ago when "bench"
shows became common, and rivaly led
to closer study and great Improvements,
in all popular breeds. The fever final
ly spread to this country, but was at
first confined almost entirely to dogs
used for sporting purposes, such as the
setter and the pointer; and it was not
until the occurrence of the show given
by the Westminster Kennel Club in
New York city last spring that the
merits of the transporting classes, and
their right to prominent position at
dog shows was fully recognized. 1t
was but just that this should be so.
We cannot all be sportsmen, and the
owner of pure mastiff or St. Ber-
nard. or even diminutive terrier or
pug, may take the same pride and
pleasure in the possession of his or her
pet and companion, as the sportsman
does in his 'bird" dog. Had we ever
been blessed with a Landseer or a
Harrison Weir in this country, it is
possible that our knowledge of the
various breeds of dogs might not be so
limited. AS it is, we are obliged to go
to England for our authorities and for
our standards of excellence. There is
but one breed of dogs that can be said
to have originated in the United States, |
and that is the Chesapeake Bay re-
triever, and of course the ancestors of
this train came from Great Britain.
although how and when is a matter of
uncertainty. Our best dogs q speak
of the classes about which [ am writ
ing) are all either direct importations
or but one or two generations removed
from such, and nine out of ten persons
who are describing to you the excel
lences Of their pets will say with pride
that he, or his sire or dam, was i'm
ported from the kennels of So-and-so.
In few years all this will be changed.
We are importing the best, and with
careful mating there is no doubt but
hat we shall equal or excel the pro-
auctions of our English cousins. They {
ire coming to us for their short-horns; s
We may yet send them dogs. A gen
leman who breeds St. Bernards told !
ne recently he could almost guarantee !
hat there would be fifty entries of /
hese dogs alone at the Westminster c
Kennel Club show which occurs on c
he fourteenth of May, 1873. S


l.,
Year: 1878

Norristown Herald. A Boston pa
per says: "a butterfly was caught at
the South End yesterday" Itmay be
safe enough to catch butterfly at the
south end, but when you go to grab a
wasp you want to catch it at the
northeasterly end, shifting westerly
towards the head.
Year: 1878

Chicago Times: 1t always pays to
be polite. As the steamboat Magneta
was descending the Hudson River last
week, being crowded with passengers,
an old lady and gentleman were un-
able to find seat A young man
noticing this gave the old gentleman
his chair and went forward. Two
minutes afterward the boiler blew up
and the old gentleman was killed,
while the man who had given up his
seat escaped unhurt.
Year: 1878

Ii any farmer would stop and esti-
mate the actual cost in time in letting
down and putting up a single pair of
bars between his lane and the barn
yard during period of twelve months,
he will, if his time is worth anything
to himself, go straightway and build
substantial gate for such a spot.