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Year: 1874

By o. W. HoJLEs.
There is no time like the old time.


When you and were young,
When the buds of April blossOmed,


And the birds of Spring-time sung,
The gardens brightest glories


By summer suns ara nursed,
But oh, the sweet, sweet viOlstS,


The flowers that open first.
There is no place like the old place,


Where you and were born,
Where we lifted first our eyelids


One the splendors of the morn.
From the milk-whits breast that warmed Us
From the clinging arms that bore,
Where the dear eyes glistened Ger US,
That will look on rs no morel
There is no friend like the old friend
That has shared our morning days,
No greeting like his welcome


No homage like his praise;
Fame is the scentless sun-Aower,
With gaudy crown Of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose,
With sweets in every fold.
There is no love like the old love
That we courted in our pride;
Though eur leaves are falling, falling,
And we're fading side by side,
There are blossoms all around Us,
With the colors of our dawn,
And we live in borrowed sunshine,
When the light of day is gone.
There ara no times like the old times
They shall never be forgotl
There is no place ike the old place
Keep green the dear old spotl
There are no friends like our old friends
May heaven prolong their ivesl
There are no loves like our old loves
God bless our loving Wivesl
Year: 1874

The time of the year has now
come when fires are to be re- kindled.
Old cracked stoves will be brought
out suddenly and put up the first
cold snap. Unsafe and sootfilled
chimneys are crowded with two or
three stove pipes. The consequen-
ces to some body will be disastrous.
The house, store or shop will take
fire some day snd burn up before
you are aware of it. And then
some one will find when too late,
they had no assurance. Be wise be.
fore the fire. Look to your stoves,
know they are whole. Examine
your stove pipes, clean your Chin
ney. See that all cracks and holes
therein are securely plastered up
Put up your stoves well, and then
come to


I. III. KEELER,


and get an Insurance Policy on
your building and all its contents.
l have splendid line of Companies.
There are none better. Many rep
resented in this city viii not stand
the test. Look at the following:
Year: 1874

SroCKs-The great feature OF Wall
street to-day was depression and gen.
ersl decline in speculative values on the
stock Exchange. There was steady
stream Of long stock poured on the mar
ket, with sharp pressure to sell Wabash,
which declined 3 per cent aud dragged
Year: 1874

your mechanic, your printer, have
likely served you faithfully, and
performed what you expected of them,
They have done this judging you to
be honest and just. Do not forfeit
their good opinion; as a matter of
policy it will result in loss to you.
The small consideration you may gain
pecuniarily will not be enjoyed with
good grace if You have defrauded
your fellow man.


The blush Of shame will at times
color your cheek, and a pang of NOR
titication sting your heart Your
dreams will be unpleasant, and your
rest will fail Of refrcshment. Those
you have injured will sutter-not
only the loss Of your kuavery and
pretty villany, but will be subject to
the humiliating necessity of confess
ing TO themselves, and 10 the commu-
nifty that they are poor judges Of
human nature, and those whom their
kindness and charity have prompted
them to trust had proven unworthy
their confidence. You will get a
reputation that will prove an incubus
to your children, and your example
may demoralze your neishbor and
excite the suspicion Of your friends.
AS men Of justice and honor, upon
the ground Of principle, You cannot
under ordinary circumstances de-
cline to pay your debts.


! II yon should be confronted and
informed that you were unjust or
dishonest, you would likely resent
such assertion as an insult But
Justice, the twin sister of honesty
consists in an exact and scrupulons
regard for the rights Of others, with
q deliberate purpose to preserve them
on all occasions sacred and inviolate
THAT we pay the full due to those
whom we bargain or deal with, Rom.
Is. Houor requires an exact per-
| formance Of what we have promised
Then pay your debts if possible
Seek no refuge if you are able to
meet them. DO not accuse your
physician Of neglect, Your merchant
Of dishonesty, your mechanic of un-
falthfulness, or your printer Of retain
ing your paper, and swear you will
retaliatc by withholding what is due.
This reason is threadbare, too thin to
shield or cloak your rascalty. Ev-
erybody understands it. If you have
been unfortunate or too prodigal, and
are bankrupt, hunt up your creditors,
Those who confided in you before will
be but glad to trust you again, and
will make liberal terms with honesty
Do not profess to be in reality what
you are not, or assume a character
which you are conscious does not
belong to you. BE one man; have
one purpose firmly fixed Pay your
debts, or they will rise up like
ghosts and haunt you by night and
by day. They will seyou to flee
like a coward from the presence Of
your creditors, increase your misery
and bar the gates of heaven against
you.


Ras- Monsieur. GEIzoT, the great
French Historian, is now 81 years old
He lives in Paris in modest apartment
and receives company, which is intel
lectually very brilliant, in a room
without q carnet and. q Sinola oil lomn
Year: 1874

The ability of the human body to resist the
causes of disease depends upon its vigor and
upon the regularity with which the several
organs perform their functions. In the winter
the most prolific sources of sickness are damp
and cod and it is therefore wise and prudent
to fortify the system against them by wholesome
stimulation. Hence it is that Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters prove such an admirable safeguard
against the complaints most common at this
season. The ingredients of this powerful vegc-
table invigorant comprise three essential medi-
cinal elements which act simultaneously upon
the digestion, the circulation the secretions,
and the nerves, infusing strength and regularity
into all. In this way the Bitters put the body
in the best possible condition to escape an atteck
of rheumatism, or intermittent fever, or indi-
psstion, or biliousness. or of pulmonary diseas",
Cold and damp are very depressing; almost as
much so as excessive heat, and protective med
icne is quite as needfu in winter as summer.
The commercial stimulants so unwisely taken In
the form of drains to keep out the cold, have
n precisely opposite effect 10 that produced by
Hostetter's Bitters. Their first result is sue
ceedcd by reaction which devitalizes and pros
trates the SYSTEM while, on the other hand
the tonic and vitalizing operation of the great
vegetable invigorant is not only immediate but
pei1nanent. There is no revulsion, no reverse
nervous action The physique is strengthened
the appetite increased, the bowels regulated, the
stomach reinforced and these conditions con-
tinue. If dyspepsia or rheumatism, or bilious
ness, or intermittent fever, or general debility,
or nervous weakness, is present III the system,
expel it with this pure and harmless antoote,
which is not only invaluable as a preventive OF
sickness, but also remedy for large class OF
disorders
Year: 1874

AN APOLOGY. The editor of western
p per once gave notice of bal, and hap
pened incidentally to mention that the dane
of Major Heeler's better half was like 'the
cavorting of hy-bitten COW in a field Of
cucumbers. The fact that the editor had
not been invited to the ball may somewhat
detract from the value of the simile, while
at the same time it accounts for his estab-
fishing the figure. The Major, accompanied
by his better half and a six shooter, called
on the editor to complain of the poetcal
nature of the image. On learning that the
lady was the one be had described, the
editor besought her to raise her veil. She
did so, adding Now, sir, expect you to
apologize Apologize! l should rather
think | would was the answer, as he seized
his hat and rapidly left the room. The
astounded Major rushed to the window.
Stop, you sir. you haven't apologized!
'All right, I'm going to do it in minute
what do you ? shouted the Major, accent-
ing the note of interrogation with pistol
bullet. The answer was waited back from
round the next comer-'Can't you see I'm
looking for that cow?
Year: 1874

"HEAD Us SOMEBODY. An enterprising
farmer who lives in the edge of town con-
ceived the idea of amusing himself the 9TH
er morning by breaking a pet calf to the
yoke, and to accomplish this worthy pur-
pose. in the absence of proper mate to tho
calf, he strapped the vacant end of tie
yoke over bis own neck. The man made
some demonstration his partner did not
quite understand, at which it elevated its
TAIL gave vent to loud below, and broke
up San Benito street at 40 gait; the man
went along, with his plug hat in his hand,
straining to keep up, and shouting at the
top of his voice, "IIere we come, darn our
fool souls; head us somebody. "-Hollister
Enterprise.
Year: 1874

AMERICAN DREAD OF WATER.-Amerl-
cans and cats are afraid of wetting their
feet. To an observer of animals it is anus


ing to see pussy cross wet or muddy
street. Standing on the last dry spot, she
hesitatingly puts one foot forward on the
wet ground and suddenly wthdraws it, Civ
ing it quick, nervous shake, and gravely
looks at it to supplement the testimony of
her nerves by the evidence of her eyes, that
her foot is really wet. Rendered desperate,
however, by the necessity of crossing, she
advances, crouchng low and taking long
steps, as the felid0e do when stealing on
their prey. Once across, she stops and
carefully removes every particle Of dirt and
drop of water from her feet, and goes joy
fully on her way to some game preserves
which she knows of, where The game is in
season before the 18th of August. There
is ludicrous similarity between Americans
and the cat in their dread of water. Our
boots are made more for show than comfort;
rather as groundwork Cor somebody's super
natural backing than for protecting the feet.
When it rains we keep within doors, if pos
sible; if we must go out we put on water
proof wrappings and make a rush for the
horse cars, feeling ourselves specially fa-
vored by Providence if, during our transit,
the rain holds up, and we finally reach our
destination dry. No cat breads water more.
-F6rneys Sunday Chronicle.
Year: 1874

PRUNlNe TRlEs.-The Rural Press re-
marks on this subject as follows:


With orchard trees there lie, as general
thing, too much pruning done in California.
Where the nearly vertical sun pours its
heated rays upon vegetation, particular care
should be taken that those rays fall upon
the leaves, and Dot upon the trunk Oh
boughs of the tree, causing sun scald and
blight. AS rule, there should be no prun-
ing beyond the removal Of certain superAu-
GUS branches, or those which override each
other. Trimming back. or cutting in, as it
10 called, is quite another process from prun
ing, and serves always to thicken up the
top, instead Of opening it, as pruning does.
The present is the time to do either, and it
may be continued till the buds are SO far
expanded as to endanger their injury from
the act of removal, when pruning should
cease. -..


We would observe that the cutting in
process throws the fruit-buds in towards the
body of the tree, and serves the purpose of
projecting the fruit from the sun, and also
TO place it where the tree can hold it up
without bending and inuring the limb.
Year: 1874

The Rochester Union publishes the following
a sample OF how the people Of that place being
heeced by the gas companies lady the East Side
has used strict economy all Winter In the OF gas,
burning IN part Kerosene and her bill Is jua double
what Il WAS for the quarter last Year"
Year: 1874

deeply into tho motives OF those who unto
with the friends and followers of Lincoln in
doing honor to his memory. Even il there be
exaggerations and suppressions in the fame
the world has agreed to award him, there is
enough of greatness and goodness In his life
to justify both the glory and the statues, and
the efforts at imitation of him which the glory
and the statues will excite. No boy will 60
very far twrong il he proposes to himself
to tread in the footsteps of Lincoln, and 1t
will do even the professional politician little
harm to give an hour to the thought OF this
wisest and shrewdest of his class, who did 30
much to redeem it in mems eyes. When be
was a candidate for Office he did not palter
with the truth or flatter the passing cur
rents of the hour, because he not only
hated a lie, but knew that in the
long run the truth paid better. When
he became President he was not ava
ricious, nor lawless, nor jealous, y nor
quarrelsome. He did not think he was there
for any other purpose than to do the best ne
could for the country. He considered the
office lofty public trust and administered it
as such. He filed the Cabinet with his most
formidable rivals because he thought they
would do their work well and command the
public confidence. He never made or refused
an appointment out of spite. He left his
family in poverty moro honorable to them
than to the rest of us, and his only son to-day
works honestly and well for his daily bread.


There are two ways of being politician
and President 1t will do no one any harm
to 60 to Springfield and think seriously about
LincOln's Way
Year: 1874

AXE MUNICIPAL IAAES HIGH ENOUGHf


Undoubtedly in one very important sense
they are; but our question means, assuming
the expenditures of the City to be no larger
than they should be, is the tax rate sufficiently
high to pay them and to remove gradually
the burden of the municipal debit Controller
Green answers this question in the affirmative,
apparently thinking it necessary to do so in
order to vindicate his administration of the
finances. We dissent from his answer and
think he is under no such necessity as he
imagines. The expenditures of which we COM
plain were made by authority obtained from
the Legislature, and the Controller cannot be
accused of any direct responsibility for them
When we censure the incessant issue of bonds
for boulevards and avenues, docks, parks,
bridges, sewer repairs, and dozen other pur-
poses, we do not complain of the Controller,
but of the system. lie, to our great SURPRISE
maintains that there is nothing of this sort to
find fault with, except little matter of two
and half million dollars year, and that in
reality, after making proper allowances, the
debt has not increased at all! We should like
to believe this, but as we cannot, we shall
endeavor to show that the Controller is mis-
taken.


The first question necessary to be considered


is, what are the objects of the Sinking Fund
Is the revenue of that Fund proper resource
for the payment of current expensesf In the
case of tho State 1t is now pretty well under
Year: 1874

In his wanderings about Rome Mr. Dickens used
to meet a certain typical British tourist whom he
describes as being devoured by slow curiosity
leading him to do extraordinary things, such as TAX
ing OFF the covers of funeral and looking in at
the ashes as if they pickles. Another English
in his peculiar habits of mind certainly recalls
this odd traveller: and that is Mr. Gladstone. No
subject is safe from him. BE flies. but not at all
sportiyely from politics to ritualsm and thence to
Homer, and now he has chosen to discuss feminine
costume. He lifts the heavy cleaver of his style and
smites the airy fabric of his subject. Take" he
says sad is to strike for at the softer por-
ton of the species-the dress of English women.
which, apart from rank and special gift training.
is reputed to be the worst in the European world.
and the most wanting alike in character and adapt
alton. The socalled Beauty is administered in por
ten tous doses of ornamentation sometimes running
to actual deformity. Who shall compete with the
awakened Englishwoman for the house of hair built
upon her head or for the measureless extension Of
her dragging train ~ 1t was aggravating enough
that Taine should have made his witty and wllful
comments on the attire of Brtannia's daughters;
what will they say to the grandiloquent dsapproba-
tion the elephantne satire of their own great coun-
trymanf
Year: 1874

The talk in political circles of the baser sort
has turned for day or two on the alleged
probability that Gov. Dix would now make
haste to express openly his hostility to the
Third Term. We have a sincere respect for
Gov. Dix, and we do not believe that this
talk has his sanction. He is not the sort
of man to be frightened by adverse election
returns into statement he has persistently
refused to make before, when his friends
sought it, when he might have made it with
dignity, and when there was fit occasion
for it.
Year: 1874

spondent who wrote the history OF our civil war,
and the best narratives of the Franco-Prussian


battles in 1901 were written with the
sound of the hostile cannon in the ears and
the whizzing of bullets flying over the head
of the correspondent who was rapidly
sketching the grand scenes Of the action for


the next issue of his journal. 1t seems to us
that in the rory near future almost everything
worth preserving in o book will be gathered
from the hasty, but none the less accurate or
interesting, narratives and essays of newspaper
writer's. Indeed, the tendency has long been
in this direction. Dickens would not have
been novelist had he not been journalist


Whittier would scarcely have thought to be-
como poet, that is to say singing poet, If
his earlier journalistic engagements had not
opened the way for his poetry; and most OF
his pieces first appeared and became popular
through the newspaper press. The Tenny-
sonian era of English poetry owes both its art
and its inspiration to the journalistic spirit in
literature. Literature fnds its real vocation
in journalism and journalism in turn fosters
literature. This is q plain lesson which even
journalists and literary people have been slow
to learn, but its truth is seen not only in the
new books to which we have just pointed as
the direct results of newspaper energy, but
in the additional fact that fully one-hnlf the
thoughts and ideas, facts and fancies which
are daily appearing from the book press have
already done duty in the newspapers.
Year: 1874

We could understand the hesitancy of the
President about interfering in Arkansas affairs
if there was any uncertainty about the right
or the wrong in the case but there is no uncer-
tainty. Whatever doubt may have once
existed was dispelled by the publication of the
letters addressed to the HERALD by the claim
ants for the Governorship, Mr.. Brooks and
Mr.. Baxter. The case was thus presented
fully, and public opinion decided that upon
Mr.. Brooks own presentation of the case he
was in the wrong. As we showed at the time,
to accept the doctrine of Mr.. Brooks was to
introduce the principle of anarchy into our
governmental system for if the case he pre-
then there is not State Executive that could
not be overthrown by writ from local court.
With such precedent embalmed in our laws
it would only have been necessary for Tweed,
in his power, to have made and unmade his
Governors by mandamus from one of his
"judges." Tweed, however, in the most
audacious flights of his genius, never con-
ceived this plan. II would have saved him o
great deal Of money in election expenses.


The mandate of the constitution on this
point is Of the most imperative character.
We do not see how the President can resist it
If there was any competent tribunal in Arkan-
sas to which the claims Of the contestants
could be submitted with any hope Of a verdict
that would really be accepted there would be
an excuse for delay But there is no such
tribunal, and, sooner or later. the question
must receive Executive consideration. As to the
courts, there are none that can be called
courts Of justice; and as the judges are In
danger of being taken out Of railway cars
with pistols at their heads, no matter how
they decide, we can understand their helpless
ness. Nothing remains but Executive inter-
ference OF anarchy. So far from interference
producing an armed conflict, we are convinced
that upon the declaration of an opinion by
the President as to his attitude there will be
instant acquiescence. The moral interference
of the President is all that is needed. One
word from him at this time would restore or
der to sorely troubled Arkansas.
Year: 1874

THERE Is A GENERAL DISAPPOINTMENT in
Great Britain over Sir Stafford Northcote's
speech in presenting the budget to Parlia-
ment The Pal MaA Gazette says that lit is
not lyrical enough" and declares "there is no
reason why questions Of debit and credit
should not wear the destinations Of rhetorical
ornament and only the absence of genius can
excuse the presentation of the national ac-
counts in plain, dull way" In this country
we know that these latter statements are true,
and we are sorry that they are. We have
many rhetorical fnanciers, and we could help
England to Chancellor who would obscure
her accounts with profuse foliage, gemmed
with flowers of speech whose wild beauty
should be the excuse for o subsequent
Treasury deficit
Year: 1874

The LABOR TROUBLE. war notes
sounded between the workngmen and the
employers have died away without producing
q conflict. The disturbers of the peace seem
to have thought it more prudent to leave
things as they are than run the risk of q
general strike among the trades affected,
which would have had the result of injuring
the trade Of New York without effecting any
permanent good. 1t would be well if the
same prudent spirit always animated the con-
tending parties
Year: 1874

rival claimants for State government, yet
this is what it undertook to do in Louisiana;
but II is clearly and unmistakably its duty to
prevent anarchy or civil war, and this is what
it fails to do in Arkansas, perhaps from ap-
prehension that it may repeat the false steps
OF its former endeavors. But the two things
are distlnct and as easily separable as the
functions of the President from the functions
of Congress. In Louisiana the government
accepted the initiative of judge whose i'm
parchment is now under discussion, and was
thus committed to bad course without delib-
crate examination of the merits and once
committed, the administration seems to have
no capacity to recognize that it is in error, or
to retire from a false position. In Arkan-
sas what is wanted is not . judgment,
not determination from the government
which Of the claimants is Governor of the
State, but the organization Of the armed
force accessible in the name of the United
States government and the maintenance OF
order and protection of life and property un-
til by some proper process it may be legally
or judicially determined who is entitled to
recognition and support as Governor.


Any delay in taking action that looks to
this result can but have an obstructive and
bad appearance, and will inevitably look like
favor to the insurrection in continuing the
disturbance it has brought about
Year: 1874

with Sanborn, wanted TO be heard. and he was
examined It is said. however, that no evil
dence calculated to change the opinion of the
COMMITTEES was brought out Whatever may
be the nature of the report as regards the in
dividuals concerned, there seems to be little
doubt that the moiety system is doomed
Year: 1874

saved Thanks to Bishop Corrigan! Thanks
to good government! Had ST. Johns been q
Protestant church it must have gone to the
hammer. The Protestant clergy of this coun-
try should study this Jersey case and learn o
lesson. The Masters maxim SHOULD not be
forgotten-"First count the COST