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Year: 1879

along the pathway Of life. [Applause. !


Abolish the club and the whip from
tn y house, because, if the civilized use
whip the ignorant and brutal will
use club, and they will use it because
you use the whip. [Applause.l


Every little while some door is
thrown open in some orphan asylum,
and there we see the bleeding back of a
child whipped beneath the roof that
was raised by love. 1t is Infamous,
and the man who can't raise child
without whip ought not to have a
child. Loud applause.l II there is
one of you here that ever expects to
whip your child again, let me ask you
something: Have your photograph
taken at the time, and let it show your
face red with vulgar anger, and the
face of the little one, with eyes swim
ming in tears, and the little chin dim
pied with fear, looking like a piece of
water struck by sudden wind. If
that little child should die, | cannot
think OF a sweeter way to spend an au-
tumn afternoon than to take that pho
tograph and 60 to the cemetery, when
the naples are clad in tender gold, and
when little scarlet runners are coming
from the sad heart Of the earth, and
sit down upon that mound and look
upon that photograph, and think OF
the flesh, now dust, that you beat.
[Applause. Just think Of it. could
not bear to lie in the arms of a child
that had whipped. could not bear
to feel the lips, when they were with
ering beneath the touch Of death, the
kiss of one that had struck. Ap-
plause. Some Christians act as though
they really thought that when Chris
said, "Sutfer little children to come un
to me-" he had rawhide under hi


coat. Laughter and applause


They act as though they really


thought that he made that remarf


simply to get the children within strik


ing distance. Laughter ! have


known christians to turn their children
from their doors, especially daughter


and then get down on their knees. an
pray God to watch over them and hel


them. will never ask God to help IN
,, children unless | AIN doing my leve
best in that same wretched line. Al
plause.] Twill tell you what say
. my girls: "Go where you will; d
.. what crime you may; fall to what dept
: of degradation you may; in all tn
. storms and winds and earthquakes I
u , life, no matter what you do, you neve
can commit any crime that will shut m
!, door, my arms or my heart to yo'
:. Loud applause. As long as live ye
v shall have one sincere friend" Al
plause,
Year: 1879

At length heavy sigh was heard from
the rear end of the car, and CLERICAL
looking man arose and said:


"Gentlemen, there goes fire alarm.
II strikes the box in front Of my house.
j have no doubt that my residence il at
this moment in flames and the lives Of
my family in peril. 1t is all owing to my
coal stove. l set up the stove last No
vember and put in one peck Of coal.
Every room has been so hot ever since
that the bas e-boards have warped of,
and We finally had to move down into
the basement. This morning the water
In all the pipes in the house was boiling,
the shingles on tho roof hot, and just
hired four men to form a snow bank
around the stove Too late alas Too
late That stove has accomplished its
feudish purpose, and no longer have a
home. 1t may not, however, be too late
to save the baby. Goodbye, gentle:
men"


He opened the door and got off the
car, and not passenger spoke again for
four Elocks.-Free Pres.
Year: 1879

SPEAKING of the way Tn which the Southern Pacific are building rail roads, the St0ck Report of San Fran cisco comments as follows: This is good deal better way to build railroad than to send big lobby to Washington, rent house, stock it with tapestries, billiard tables and champagne, and give everybody in Congress latch key. There is a smack of true business about that pushing a railroad a mile and half a day and doing it without a dollars aid from anybody. So much for the daring energy and vim of the Pacific coast. Before the lease expires on the headquarters of Tom Scotts lobby, VIC shall have our road three hundred miles into Arizona and one thousand miles eastward from San Francisco. And when we shall have made connection with the A,.hison Topeka < Santa Fe, the Tom Scot scheme of plumber will be quietly laid away in its little coffin.
Year: 1879

A GENTLEMAN from Santa Fe is now in this city investigating the future prospects of Phenix as a point for another newspaper. Come on. we always extend a cordial welcome to newcomers and are pleased to know that the HERALD has so per fectly demonstrated the advantages of Phenix as the commercial me tropolis of Arizona, and we hope that it will grow to sufficient size in the next three years to support half a dozen newspapers.
Year: 1879

R. E. HARRINGTON & O., of Ehren- burg, write to the Enterprise that they are prepared to remove to Gila Bend and establish their forwarding house as soon as the Prescott and northern freight goes that way. The freight will all be landed at Mari copa Wells in spite of all attempts to locate it otherwise, and a road through telegraph pass will cause all the freight to pass through Phenix.
Year: 1879

Novi-Bazar is the southeastern exten-
sion of Bosnia beyond the Linn into the
Albanian country. By the Treaty of Berlin
Austria was given permission to occupy
this district, with the privilege to move in
her own time, and to leave the country sub
ject to the Turkish administration mean
while. It is now announced that the troops
are ready on the line Of the Linn for the
occupation. and that they will move to-
morrow, under command of tho Duke of
Wurtemberg, who left Serajevo yesterday.
1t has been announced internationally for
some time past that the Albanians will re-
sist tho advance; and if they do, and ex-
hibit tho tenacity they have shown on
former occasions, this little strip of terri
tory may cost Austria as much trouble
AZ she had in the occupation of
all the rest OF Bosnia Beyond that it
may provoke conflict that will lead anew
to warike demonstrations in oil that part
of the world. 1t Is critical event for
many reasons, and this fact is perceived in
the country itself as well as in the several
capitals of the neighboring empires.
Count Andrassy went out of Office on his
refusal to carry out this point OF tho
Berlin Treaty. He thought he had
gone far enough when, as Hun
garian, he had committed himself
to the anti-Hungarian policy of the an
nexation of Bosnia, and got through with
it safely. Indeed, in that occupation he
had the hostility Of clements within the
Year: 1879

Although the leading sports peculiar to
the summer season are about over. there
are many others, to which thousands of men
are passionately devoted, that are yet 10
begin. The season for shooting, in genuine
earnest is barely at hand; great many big
fish will yet be taken; camping out"
which may mean any one of a dozen things,
each more enjoyable than the other, is
pleasanter in September and October than
in any other months Of the year, and all the
glorious winter sports will be at hand almost
before we know it There is something
cruel and inexplicable, however, in the fact
that among city people all the fall and
winter sports are monopolized by adults.


Why does not somebody-say o father
with ON instructive rage for out-of-door
sports-modify some of these for the
to the westward, where civilization is
not a whit behind that of New York, the
twelve-year-old boy carries o gun, rides a
horse, tramps the big woods and rolls him
self in a blanket beside the camp fire az
naturally as the men do; in New York a
boy of the same age is seldom more than
out of knee breeches and roundabouts, and
has no muscle, wind or blood worth speak
ing Of Parental neglect of these little fell
lows physical condition and needs is sure
to be punished, and too frequently the PEN
atty falls upon the tender heart instead of
the yielding pocket little attention di.
verted from ones boon companions in manly
diversions to the boys Of the family. and
occasionally those Of a neighbor, is sure to
bring it's reward. Even if it did not it is
part Of the birthright of the boys. and
father should be the last one to steal it,
particularly when neither society nor tho
school offers the slightest substitute for it.
Year: 1879

The WEATnER.-The barometer rose in all
the districts east of the Mississippi River during
the early part Of yesterday except in the lake
regions, over which depression is slowly NOV
ing eastward. The pressure is highest on the
South Atlantic coast and in the central valleys.
II has commenced to decrease again in the
Rocky Mountain regions where a small dcpres
sion is developing energy. This, however will
soon be dissipated again and will not be felt east
of the Mississippi River. Rain fell throughout
the upper lake districts and on the New Eng.
sections Of the country, except on the South At
1antic and Eastern Gulf coasts where cloudi-
ness increased. The temperature rose decidedly
in the Gulf and South Atlantic States remained
nearly stationary over the lower lakes and cen
tral valley districts and fell elsewhere. The winds
continue from fresh to brisk over the lake re-
gions and in the Northwest. They blow freshly
on the Middle Atlantic and New England coasts
md are generally light in the other districts,
The course of the disturbance that is moving in
the lake regions is northeasterly, on account of
the large area of high barometer that extends
over the southern portions of the country, and
there is no likelihood of our district being af
fected very much. The weather over the Brit
ish Islands is unsettled The fall in the barom-
eter continues and the wind is increasing at
some stations on the western coasts. The
weather in New York and its vicinity to-day
will be slightly warmer and fair or partly
cloudy. Tomorrow the same conditions are
likely to prevail.
Year: 1879

Secretary Evarts, some time ago, sent
Collector F. j. Babson, of Gloucester, and
Mr. Foster, of Boston, to the coast of New
foundland in o man-of-war, TO look into and
make report on the action of the colonial
people toward our fishermen. They have now
returned and report that the colonists are
persuaded that they may construe the treaty
as they like that the colonial merchants
find that our exercise of the treaty rights in
jures their trade, because our fishermen
pay cash for bait and tn us relieve some part
OF the Newfoundland shore population from
their dependence on the outftters; that
our fishermen use better tools and appli-
ances, and hence catch more fish than the
slow-going colonists, and that oil these
causes combine to create an intense jealousy
Of our people.


theless wrong as wrong can be. The
British governmen ent, which owns the colo
MES and exercises sovereign rights over NIL
that belongs to Newfoundland or any other
of the provinces, in the Treaty of Washing
ton gave to us certain rights, for which we
have since paid sum greatly above their
value. The real complaint of the provinces
is that the British government did very
cold bloodcd and selfish act in giving us
these rights, and we will admit freely
that this is true We believe that
if our government had been able to
negotiate on the fishery trouble directly
with the Dominion government, or perhaps
better yet directly in each case with tho
Province interested, there would be now no
fishery troubles or disputes. We should
have come to a mutual understanding, and
the Newfoundland people, ior instance,
having made treaty with us, would. wo
have no doubt, honorably adhere to it.


We do not blame them for kicking against
q treaty which they did not make and about
which they were not consulted. But as
they find it 30 disagreeable to themselves,
will they not help us to persuade the
British government to nbrogate the treaty
the fishery part of it, we mean, OF course
That Is what we want that is what they
Year: 1879

From all kinds of businesses como en-
couraging reports, which serve to show
that the trade improvement is general.
Our city merchants are now buster with
orders for the fall trade than they have
been in the early part Of September for
many years past. Early and lively is the
general commercial comment. It seems as
if the confidence which has been slowly
generating was beginning to rush freely
through the pipes OF trade, setting the en-
gines of commerce going at full speed.
turning the money over and over which
has been lying idle for SO long. Re
sponsive to this movement, or rather as q
part thereof the advertisements which
bring buyer and seller face to face in the
HERALD columns come pouring IN at such
q rate as to oblige us again to issue a quin-
tuple sheet. Moreover, the signs ON all
sides point to continuance of this press
ure on our columns, and 1t is needless to
say that the HERALD has taken means to
meet every demand Of the kind which the
business public may press upon US.
Ranged compactly, classified carefully and
indexed exactly. the sixty-one and n quarter
columns Of multifarious wants and oppor-
tunities which we print to-day form in
themselves feature of interest to the most
casual reader. We are aware that, while
the majority of our readers look as regu-
larly as the paper is issued into
from one to six different kinds
of advertisements, each reader according
to his calling or station, there are many
who only read advertisements casually and
when they have gone through the juicier
topics of news. But it is within the expert
ence Of every one that even when not con-
scious of any particular want, of house or
horse to buy or situation to obtain. he
has found himself absorbed in the study of
the curious world Of exchange which such
paper as a quintuple HERALD offers to
him in addition to that epitomized world
history Of which chapter is spread before
him. To the latter class as we'll rs those
who are watching carefully in the adver-
tising columns every Indication of the ups
and downs of particular businesses we com
mend the HERALD of to-day as IN interest
ing study, from the head of the first column
to the bottom Of the one hundred and
twentieth.
Year: 1879

Afghanistan has perhaps added one more
to the tragic stories that are dotted all
along the line of the history of England's
empire in India, for it is barely possible
that the revolt at Cabul stopped short OF
the massacre of Major Cavagnari and his
suite and the small military force retained
at Cabul for their protection. It cannot, of
course, be pretended that the government
was unwarned on this subject. All its
intercourse with the Afghans has Demon
strated the savage and treacherous char
acter of that people; and this nature of the
race was so notorious that it was un pardon
able not to keep 1t constantly in view in all
dealings with them. There is even this
particularly, that in all repressions of
these people by British force there must
be at some point in the story one of these
fierce and murderous explosions. Once an
explosion Of this sort resulted in
the butchery Of all that was left
of an army of invasion. Yet the
Indian authorities completely neglected the
fact that this explosion had not yet oc-
CURED in this war when they relaxed their
vigilance, withdrew nearly their whole
armed force, and presumed that the coun-
try was tranquil and satisfied because the
son Of the late Ameer had made conditions
with them. But the difficulties of the gov
ernment were great It hurried things
through at the end and withdrew its force
precipitately, partly, perhaps, on account
of the cholera, but more on ac-
count of the desire to make as good show
as possible on the point of expenses for
whether England paid or India paid On
enormous budget would serve as legiti-
mate basis of an effective criticism in Par
lament Government, therefore, shirked
the military responsibilities that properly
attached to its invasion and absorption, in
order to avoid expenditures; and its cheap
plan of annexation bids fair to prove very
dear one
Year: 1879

and sleeps well. and all the confusion and
mismanagement and corruption and dis
grace do not affect him. We are not attack
ing the Mayor. We want to point out the
irredeemable vice of system of govern
ment ingeniously contrived by republican
and democratic politicians to protect them
selves from the people. to leave fixed re-
sponsibility nowhere and scatter great
powers everywhere, SO that abuses may be
merely from punishment, but even from in
reference.


Under the most respectable Mayor the
city has had for a quarter of a century wo
see condition of confusion, maladminis-
tration. demoralization in the city govern
tho Mayor down-nobody concerned in
these matters appears to be ashamed or
in the least alarmed. Why should they be ?
The charter fosters inefficiency, it protects
maladministration, it encourages the most
shameless neglect Of duty in officials, be-
cause it prevents the people from hold
ing any one man responsible. If the
Mayor had the power to summarily re-
move all the subordinate officers,
if the responsibility of giving the
city an honorable and efficient admin
istration were put clearly On him, then Mr..
Cooper would have long ago either expelled
these disgrnceful Commissioners or he
would himself before this have felt the con-
tempt of the whole city as ON unbearable
burden. We do not think he has done his
duty to the city as matters stand; he has
weakly succumbed to the system and to
the requirements of his partisan friends.
He might have served the city at least by
vigorously calling public attention to tho
fact that to certain extent his hands are
tied
Year: 1879

Some further consideration of the va
rious projects for an isthmus canal may be
found in an interview which we print to-
day with Mr.. Menocal, one of the delegates
Of the United States government to the
Paris Congress-, and the man, perhaps,
above all others qualified to deal with this
subject by his ample knowledge of all its
phases which pertain to the engineering
side OF the case. Every subject of
the importance of this canal becomes
inevitably surrounded by q Wilderness
of opinions and facts-the learned
rubbish of theorists; so that the few dis
tiLct facts which it is important to know,
Judgment for one route or another, are OBJ
tanned only at the expense OF sort of
literary excavation. In this interview the
reader will find them on the surface. AS
to the Panama route-the route favored by
the French projectors-it is said that the
canal will cost about two hundred and
eighty millions of dollars-two hundred
and forty million dollars for actual con-
struction and forty million dollars to
buy out the Panama Railroad Company,
which owns the land and owns the conces-
sion. It will take ten thousand men twelve
years to construct this canal. Only twenty
four ships can pass through it in one day
on the French estimate. Tonnage dues
must therefore be such that eight thousand
seven hundred and sixty ships shall pay
returns on two hundred and eighty million
dollars. Finally, it is doubtful whether the
natural difficulties do not actually stand in
the way OF all this project; whether annual
floods would not prevent the con-
struction of the canal or wash it
away if constructed. The Nicaragua
route. the one favored by American engi-
neers, can be constructed in half the time.
1t saves above the other a distance of seven
hundred miles for every ship from United
States port to North Pacific or Asiatic
port. 1t will cost at the utmost sixty-five
million dollars. There can pass every day
one hundred and forty -four ships. There
are no great difficulties. Mr.. Menocai
makes the same report that others have
made Of the Congress as organized by
schemers to float bubble; and it is an evil
dence that the public is penetrable to pub
lished facts that the project has amentably
failad
Year: 1879

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-Stocks were dull
but higher. Government and railway bonds
active and stronger Money easy on
call ut 5 to 6 per cent on stocks and 4 per cent
ON governments. Exchange was dull and
shade firmcr. The weekly bank statement
shows a decrease of over three-quarters OF u
million dollars in the surplus reserve.
Year: 1879

THE GENERAL WEAKNESS Of humanity for
love stories is SO well known that we need not
call special attention to the story of love
match which occupies considerable space on an
other page The hero OF the tale happens to be
king, but that fact will not destroy the illu-
Year: 1879

CHICAGO is generally SO prompt to avail her
self of whatever is new and valuable that her
delay in adopting the GENITAL system is creating
considerable astonishment in trade circles.
Year: 1879

NEW York is promised another convenient
seaside resort-one which, like every other en-
terpIisc of the present day, is to outdo every
thing else of its kind. Read ''Rockaway Beach"
and long for next summer.
Year: 1879

In SPITE OF THE DRAWBACKS of the position
being emperor has its advantages. When
the rulers Of Russia and Germany met each
other, several days ago, either could summon a
policeman without raising his voice or being
cursed or dubbed.
Year: 1879

A SwoRDFIsH has been savagely assaulting
o swimmer in the East River. The poor thing
had probably come up through the bay and was
poisoned to madness by the emanations from the
garbage through which he was compelled to
make his way
Year: 1879

If THE SIDEWALK HUCKsTERs are really to 90
why are they not arrested when they return to
their old quarters, as they did yesterday near
Washington Market, in spite of repeated warm
inosl
Year: 1879

the tables are actually turned, ana that 'ne
men who strove to destroy the Government
now rule it, We have no disposition 10
taunt any of these gentlemen with their ms
take or their defeat, when we cite their
record. What we do mean to do Is to show
by theirpast record and their present utterances
that they are the same in spirit ana
in purpose as when they were In arms
against the Government. They have been
frankly forgiven for their rebellion and iully
restored to their rights as citizens. We would
not take from them a single right they now
enjoy. Nor would we revive the animosltles
of the past. If they are revived, it Is their
own work, not ours. They do 1t when III
carrying ont the work Of reconciliation, OF
which they claim to be 40 deslrous, they
clasp hands, not with their former opponents,
the supporters of the Government, but with
their old allies, the Northern enemies OF the
Union. The motives of the Southern leaders
lie too near the surface to he concealed. III
they do not like to hear their Confederate
record referred to- they should cease pursuing
in the Federal Congress the Confederate
nolicy
Year: 1879

Dog Show of this year-the third of its kind under
the auspices Of the Westminster Kennel Club


Nearly one thousand animals were exhibited, many
of them of extraordinary beauty and in excellent
condition. A finer opportunity could not be desired


of studying the different varieties of this special


and ancient domestic favOrite-whether in the form
of petted playthng of trusted guardian or of use
ful servant. Nothing, indeed, was wanting TO the
enjoyment, except a feeling that tho dogs them
selves were not enjoying 1t. We do not know that
any better method Of placing them could be hit
upon, but hardly one seemed at home in his narrow
cell, while the constant barking howlng and whin-
ing showed how Ill at ease the creatures were. One
of the plcasantest things in the exhibition was the
Year: 1879

The calling of the extra session was regarded
by most people-by all Republicans and Il
great many DemOcrats-as serious msfor-
tune. Our country suffers habitually from
too much political excitement and too much
Congress. We need long periods of repose,
to cultivate the finer arts of life, to look
after our business interests, to encourage the
development of industries which cannot grow
except in time of public quiet and still


more perhaps is truce in the conflicts OF
partisanship necessary to enable the popular
Judgment on political issues to ripen by ex-
perience and reflection. But it looks after all