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Year: 1879




One historical point ABOUT the fine old
saint whose anniversary we celebrate to-day
is OF character that makes people OF NIL
other nations envy the Irish most wiekedly-
ST. Patrick was a gentleman. There are
philosophers, principally of the positivst
school, who will insist that any ono who
can be saint is naturally gentleman also.
but it will not do those who arc con-
noisseurs in living saints know better.
peculiar fact about most saints. so called,
who can be inspected with the earthly eye
is that everybody wildly wishes them in
natural impulse would be to keep them
here. The critical, contemptuous spirit
which is born of science. falsely SO called,
may claim that there is nothing so wonder
full about being gentleman in Ireland
fifteen centuries ago, for at that timo Irish
manners had not been corrupted by contact
with Englishmen, there were no foreign
made laws to swear at until o man forgot
his politeness. and barrels that conveyed
the fragrant mountain dew abroad did not
return filed with cheap American whiskey.
which will knock the gentloman out of any
body, saints not excepted, quicker than
anything else in tho world except Captain
Williams club. But such would-be critics
know not of what they speak. Ireland
lacked the annoyances mentioned, but, on
the other hand, Scotchmen were continually
sneaking into the Green Isle at tho north,
and Scotchman is generally enough to
make any saint swear, unless the good man
has been dead long enough to be canonized (;
there was not potato on the island, and
this being the case any idiot can under
stand that there could not have been any
poteen; chimncys were unknown, so that
smoke in tho eyes, which would cause even
Chesterfield to forego manners for an in
definite period, was q common experience,
and there was very ''swelt' set, called
Druids, whose arrogance and underhand
ways must have taxed good mans ur-
banity and courtesy to the uttermost.
And yet, st. Patrick was gentleman;
it is highly creditable to the Irish
race that this fact is the keynote Of the
classic ode which embodies the saint's his
tory, and that next to it and like unto it is
the statement that he was mnn Of fine
family she came from dacint people," as


was eminently proper for him to do, for il
o man is going to regenerate nation SO that
nll families may be first families and with
out mistake it is important that he should
have some experience in the points of de-
sirable pedigrees. Such being the charac-
ter of the man whom every nation would be
glad to have in its local saints calendar il
is in order to propose the time honored
sentiment, "Then luck attend st. Patrick's
fist" for the only side of fist that a gen.
tleman shows is the inside, where he dis.
plays also the palm that real saints most
| like to have waved toward them.
Year: 1879

great reputation; to weaken the hold he
has on the hearts of the people; to descend
to tho level of common men-a descent into
the mire from an elevation rarely attained
by any man in history. Those who would
tempt him to this fall are not his friends,
but his worst and most dangerous enemies
Year: 1879

The tremendous impetus given to pedes-
trianism by the great international tramp,
and particularly by tho pleasing quantity
Of gate money gathered in at the Gilmore's
Garden box Office, suggests that now or never
is the time tor other contests of the same
sort. Many of these suggest themselves,
and among them is match between
Sitting Bull or any other Indian and
General Howard or any other represen-
tative of that compulsory skeleton. the
United States Army. The only belt to be
struggled for III such case would be that
belt of territory which offered most grass
and water for the contestants. Then, as a
struggle purely local, the public will back
Captain Williams club against any other
athletic club in existence, and guaran-
tee that tho present Police Commission
will see that the popular nominee
wins if any amount of official blindness
and duplicity can advance his prospects.
The belt in the encounter suggested would.
considering the proclivities OF ono of the
contestants, be what street gamins denonii-
nato ga belt over the head" A match be-
tween MI. Thurman, tho famous athlete of
the West, and Mr.. Tilden, who is ''little,
but, oh, my!" is also in order, and will
probably come off within a few months. In
this contest the Ashley rules would be necos-
sary, for unless both men are allowed to
run the conflict would not be interesting
enough to bring in gate money, and gnte
monoy-even although some may adopt the
subterfuge Of spelling it ''gait"-is the
grand and final object of oil contests.
Within day or two an interesting match.
on the dead run, may be witnessed between
Randall-who, according to his friends,
might have won in the great national cham
pionship race of nearly four years ago had
not his principal antagonist rolled barrel
Of money along the track in front of him
and Blackburn, of Kentucky. who has no
record to speak Of. but is said to have
any quantity of spirits, tho same being
quite influential when rightly used-that
is, with sugar and lemon juice. Perhaps
the most interesting, to New Workers, of
strifes for the championship will be between
the four Police Commissioners and the





The latter arc the stronger in responsible
hackers. but the former can depend upon
q strong force of ''heclers," who may break
into and destroy the new ring soas to compel
general falling back upon the old one.
The judge and umpire in this desperate
struggle may have moro to do than the par
ticipants in deciding who is tho winner.
but Cooper should not tnlze advantage of
his position to ''stavo OFF, any self-evident
verdict, while the umpire, although at Al
hany, is not far enough from the scene to
have failed to notice tho general system of
heel-kicking, toe-mashing. old sojering and
other trickery that has enabled the old four
to hold the track for years against oil COM
potitors, although for a long time two of
them have been on only by courtesy, and
the other two have merely been going
through the motions Of the work for which
they have never neglected to bag gate
money.
Year: 1879

larger body of patrons. should aim. by fur
ther purifying itself, to please that great
number OF respectable people who have had
frequent cause to partially agree with tho
preachers
Year: 1879

ALTHOUGH the Empire is no more Frlnee still
remains the arbitress Of fashion. Eastern ideas
IN DRESS it will be seen from the ettcl~elsewhere
printed. rule the hour III the gaYcapital.
Year: 1879

the bandana again around his body, he
motioncd to all a last farewell, and walked
off to almost instant death. lie struck the
water on his breast, and as it closed over
him we felt sure that for him this was 'thc


last of EARTH" Diligent search was at once
made for his body, but all in vain Early
the next spring, however, it was found
floating at the mouth of the river at Char
lottc, with the handkerchief still on. Ills
remains were dccently inferred in the vii
lagc cemetery. Some may wonder what
became of Sam's bear, that was also to
make Il similar leap that same day. If |
remember rightly, it was bought by one of
our village BARRIERS by the name of Sears,
who fed him few months till he became
quite fat; then he killed him and added
the "bcar's oiP' business to that of barber


ing. For a year or two after that Old
Sears, us he was called, might often be seen
Oh the street and in stores with basket
containing several dozen bottles of bears
grease, together with one of the feet OF the
feet Of the old bear himself as an evidence
of it's genuincncss. The bear, as we well
remember, was quite big fellow, but he
must have been extremely well fatted,
judging from the great amount of bears
grease that Sears disposed of. The money
that Sam collected, and that paid for the
bear, was all sent to his mother at Pater-
son.
Year: 1879

"All the same hundred years hence -
Do you really think so 1t may be all the
same to you, perhaps, though even that is by
10 means certain; but this thing that you do
to-day may have fruit that will work veal
or woe when century has rolled away. 1t
is not natural to consider ones unborn great
great-grandchildren very much. Most of us
think, If we do not say, "After us, the
deluge." But whether we care or do not
care, we may cause those great-great-grand.
children many tears or much Joy by some.
thing that we do or even say to-day. The
sins of the fathers are visited upon the chill.
dren through the generations, and so also
for their fathers virtues are the children re-
warded. Life is made up of little strands
braided together. Shall we be sure that
the one that is taken up to-day is Joined To
no otherr You choose between Esther and
Helen, and marry one of them. Assuredly
you should have the right Of choice, but YOU
cannot say it will be all the same a hundred
years hence. Even the same people will moi
be in the world, and therefore the same
deeds will not be done. Besides, what one
does in his own day sometimes influences all
the age. A helping hand held out when
it was needed to the discouraged inventor
has sometimes given the world inventions
for which the centuries are thankful. Is il
nothing to us now that our forefathers
signed the Declaration of Independence
When the deeds that are done affect nations
we can understand that it will not be the
same hundred years hence. We do not
understand quite SO well that our own char
acters and our own lives are yet influenced
even by the thoughts hidden in the souls Of
our progenitors, or that the shadows of any
wicked deed we may do may lie across the
path of some innocent man or woman hun
dred years hence when we are ashes.
Year: 1879

In the narrative of the days that followed
the first Easter there is suggestive food for
our thought in the weeks that follow our
Easter. If we have, indeed, realized that
our Christ is a living, not dead Christ, and
is to be found not in the tomb, but on the
street, in the garden, and by the roadside,
we have learned the first lesson of Easter


If we learn to look for him in the spirit of
those first disciples, we shall learn its second
lesson. To whom did he reveal himself in
the forty days after his resurrection To
weeping Mary; TO her who could not bear
the thought of a Christless life; to her who
was heart-broken at the thought of his de
parture. To the soul that cannot live with
out Christ Christ comes with comfort. To
the eleven met in the upper chamber to talk
of all that he had been to them, and all that
they had hoped from him; to the soul that
rejoices in Christian fellowship, Christ comes
bringing his own ineffable companionship.
To Thomas, skeptical Thomas yes, skep-
tical, but a reluctant skeptic who loved,
but could not hope nor believe; to him
whose prayer is, Help mine unbeief, he
comes to extort, by the vehemence of his
love, the cry, My Lord and my God to
the disciples walking to Emmaus, talking of
Christ and the hope which they had buried
him, and inviting to share their humble
hospitality the stranger whom unawares
they entertained. The disciple that well
comes the stranger for Christ's sake finds
Christ in the stranger when least he looks
for him. To the fishermen, returned to
their avocation, and toiling industriously at
that most prosaic of pursuits, fisherman s.,
he came unheralded, standing by the sea-
shore and providing fire for the wet and
food for the half famished. Honorable in
dustry is sometimes prayer that summons
Christ more quickly than chant of choir, or
intoned intercession of priest, or fragrant
incense. When we least look for Christ he
looks for us where we least look for him
he sometimes finds us. He delights in the
surprises of love. Look for him with Mary
in tears at absence, or with the ten in fel.
lowship in his name, or with Thomas in
sorrow of doubt, or with the two unknown
disciples in Christian hospitality, or with
the fishermen in hard work. And where
you least expect him there you may soonest
see him. Say not in thine heart, who shall
ascend into heaven (that is, to bring Christ
down from above) as though he were a
Saviour afar off or who shall descend into
the deep2 Chat is, to bring up Christ again
from the dead) as though he were to be
found in the past. But what saith it :
The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth,
and in thy heart. Christian Union.
Year: 1879

These men who talk of evolution claim an
infinity of time. | ask, How long since this
protoplasm developed into a turtle, the tur-
tie into monkey, or the monkey into a
man They admit there is no positive record
anywhere. Since human history began there
is no instance of any animal ascending to the
scale of man. If at all, it must have been
far back in the distant ages. Then | ask,
Why not give Christianity similar time 7
She is changing the face OF creation she is
Transforming sinners into saints, savages into
enlightened men. She took them naked,
rude, and uncultured, and has clothed,
taught, and refined them. She has taken
man, that bowed down TO stocks and stones,
and elevated him until he uses the world
as workshop, aud all elements as his in
struments; until he feels that he is son of
God and his vicegerent upon earth. Why
shall Christianity be called failure, because
it has not yet reached all the sons of men or
transformed them into sons of science
Give her at least as muchtime TO change mil
lions of savages into enlightened humanity,
millions of sinners into saints, as, according
to their own asking, it takes to change one
species into another. We promise that the
whole world shall be brought TO the foot of
the cross before the evolutionist shall find
even single monkey transformed into a
Bishop Simpson.
Year: 1879

Bring up child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he cannot reproach YOU
for the manner of his bringing up. When
night comes all good animals go TO their re-
pose none but sly and ferocious beasts are
now skulking round. No bird of good char
acter is abroad. The plants draw their
leaves closer together and sleep. The mias-
mas and grass that were rareiied and lifted
by the suns heat now condense and sink
with the mists and dews of evening The
night air is considered unhealthy. "Our
family are never troubled with billiousness, "
said lady, "and believe it is because we
never sit outdoors at night" A child is
hardly out of his mothers lap before he is
treated as an adult. Into his stomach is al
lowed to go all the food and drink, too, we
may add, that the adult stomach often re-
bells against, by becoming dyspeptic aud
feeble, aud he is suffered TO contract the
habit of being up late, being supposed to be
tough enough to endure the exercise and
excitement OF day heightened out by add
lug TO it part of the night. The night
is never too long at any time of the year for
the sleep of a healthy child, nor the day too
short to afford him all the play and exercise
he needs.


Our streets during the warm months
swarm at night with children of all ages.
They may be found roaming about until ten
and even much later. Some children are
permitted TO be out night after night for
weeks and months together. Such children
cannot grow as fast as children who get
their sleep at the proper time. The effects
of late hours may be seen in their iaded and
old looks. They become cross, fdgety,
nervous. They do not sleep the sweet sleep
of childhood They either drop into leaden
Year: 1879

What is the great lesson of the mission
and use of prayer which we gather from


Jesus constant praying Is it not this,


that the inner life of the soul is in God; and
that it is through our constantly keeping
open our communications with him that we
truly live If we were mere objects, mere
things, like those which grow up in our gar.
dens if you were an elm tree standing in
yonder meadow, God would care for you
each Spring and each Autumn, each Summer
and each Winter would bring its own appro-
pirate blessing and under the faithful
agents of God, the sun, the dew, the rain,
the frost, the snow, you would grow up and
have no need of prayer. But you are not
of these. You go forth in the morning
into your strenuous life. The moment you
leave your threshold you dip into the cur
rents OF human thought and passion. Each
soul which comes into relation with yours
brings you message, a purpose, a move
ment OF its own. Some of these souls are
helpful TO you, many stand directly in your
Year: 1879

The interesting and authentic letter from Kansas
which we publish this morning affords valuable in
formation respecting the emigration OF the Freed
men to that State. Ii confirms the general impress
sion that the negroes started upon their forlorn
hegira not out of mere whim rcauseess discomfort
but for substantial reasons credabe to their intel
ligence. They intensely anxious to leave their
native localities simply because they were con-
stantly in danger of brutal i'll usage and even muir
der; because they not fairly treated In business
matters and because they saw before them no hope
of bettering their condition by remaining. White
men venturng for similar reasons upon exile. have
been canonzed in history and have won the pIaudits
of their remote posterty. These negroes, seeking
liberty and life free from constant danger may
have no fine theories cultivated opinions; but
their instincts prompt them to seek in new State
what every true man wants and is willing To suffer
much to obtain.


Kansas, IN the kindly way in which she has re-
ceived these fugitives, has shown herself true to
her old traditions of liberty. She has also eXhib-
tied moral courage at once rare and admirable.
In almost any other State, such an addition 10 the
population would have produced panic, and pos
sibly an attempt would have been made to
stay the tide by interposing legislative restric-
tions. So far at least, the wanderers have met
with nothing but kindness Food has been fur
nshed, ana clothing; and judiciOus schemes. under
the auspices of the "Freedman's Relief AssOcia-
tom have been resolved upon Tor making the best
OF the matter by giving to the strangers the opDOr-
nifty of satisfactorily colOnizing. There has been
no selfish doubt but only practical pity. Moreover,
these colored people show that little temporary
helps all that they need. They have been dstrib-
uted over the State, and have become generally
self-suppOrting This result has been brought
about entirely by private assistance and ad-
vice-the State itself, in its public capacity, has
done nothing and under the laws as they exist can
probably do nothing.


The planters Of Louisiana and Mississippi are
evidently alarmed AT this tendency of colOred
labor to seek Northern fields. and see in it "an
treme danger to their property interests" They
are publishing appeals TO the business men and
benevolent societies of the North, begging that the
exodus may not bo encouraged. Practically, how
ever the matter is IL their hands. If they will
treat the negroes as they would white iaborers,
and make it for their interest to remain, the mlgra
ton will cease. But they must be fair cOnsiderate
and equitable, or the movement will continue.
Year: 1879

worth the money it costs, and a pleasant re-
membrance for the rest of their lives, they
| should in the first place, not attempt to do
| too much. Every man has some special pur-
| suit OF taste or enjoyment. Let him crafty
that exclusively. Pay little heed to what your
fellow passengers or the guide-books tell you
| must and ought to be seen. You can see only
| little let that little enlarge your own range
of vision. If yOu know nothing of architec-
ture, waste no time studying cathedrals. Ii
you have never studied pottery, pass by the
bric-a-brac shops as though they were blank
walls. If you really care nothing for art, why
should you break your neck staring at end
less rows of pictures The Madonna del Slsto
will not give you so much genuine pleasure
as the pretty, live shop-girl who sells gloves to
Won in the Bon March6. Go nowhere because
everybody goes. For at least this sum-
mer of your life don't be q sham and an imi-
tator. This is your holiday; enjoy it in your
own fashion. If you are q scholar keep to
the libraries and let Mablle alone. If you
are an epcure, 90 through the cafes thoroughly,
and do not bore yourself with Mont Blanc.
Abroad, if never at home, have the courage
10 be yourself, and not some other better
man.


Secondly-Dctermine on your route and pre-
pare Yourself for it before you go. You can
not freshen yourself III knowledge OF history
or art while driving post haste from one
object to another, or while cOurlers and guides
are dinning illusions in your ears TO dead
men and events that are only meaningless
names to you.


Thirdly-Having set aside the sum which
You can afford to spend, put money ont or
your mind. Don't go over there to fling 1t
about i'm order to show that an American
tradesman or clerk can live as well as a
foreign n0bleman. We have made ourselves
ridiculous long enough by that sort of vul-
garity. Neither is it wise to go along the
whole route squabblIug about pennies with
servants and inn-keepers, as many of our
people do You cross the ocean to gam
knowledge, impressions and emotions which
this country does not give; to let III new
air and light into your life. You cannot
afford to keep yOur mind battened down to
anxiety about the cost OF bottle OF WIN
ordinaire or the two sous tip to the porter.
What if the swinding landlord did charge
you for the bougie, when you burned the
candle-tip which you carry in your satchel
Are you to let slip all the strength which the
Jungfrau and her mighty companions have IN
keeping for you for that7


Lastly-Do not regulate your actions by
uneasy reflections as to what these foreigners
think of you or your country. The chances
are they do not think of You at all. Try and
learn the things which they know and you do
not. 1t will do you good to find out how
many they are. I'm a word, however little the
money or time you can afford for this voyage
if You take common sense and hearty good
will along, and leave snobbishness, bigotry
and pretension behind, you cannot fail to
come back larger man in mind and feeling
than you went.
Year: 1879

Outgoing steamers in this first we elk of
June have been crowded with the tourists
who go to spend only two or three months in
Europe Business men. who make one or more
trips every year, usually cross in May, and so do
the large class that might be dubbed Ameri-
can absentees, so regularly are their faces seen
in HYDE Park in June, and in Cbamounix or
the Norwegian fords i'll August. They can
choose the earliest season. But the man of
small means, who has been saving for years
in order TO afford this ono great holiday of
his life, the teacher or clergyman, who has
ONLY his summers vacation to give to il, as
a rule is obliged to defer going until June,
and to return in September. The first class
have learned by experience how to extract
the largest share of enjoyment from their
residence abroad whether that enjoyment
result from culture and the satisfaction of
aesthetic taste or the pleasure of finging the
money away which some Woodworking parent
has made for them. But many who rush over
for three months visit 90 with uncertain
ideas as to what to do or how to do 1t, and
come home with a blurred memory of count
less castles, galleries, cities and hordes of
human beings jabbering unknown tongues.
They have made breathless race of it,
urged on by guides and guide books. and are
not sorry to settle down again to the old
work and commonplace American surround
ings.


If these tourists, to whom every hour is
precious. wish to make their journey really