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Year: 1878

1t is thought by very many of the most active
friends of Temperance that the cause could be great


ly advanced in this State, by more judcious con-
cenration of purpose and effort on the part of the
various Temperance organizations, the Church and
the public generally, by association in some State or
ganzation similar in plan and scope to that of the
Massachusetts State Temperance Alliance which
organization has existed in that State for upwards of
twenty-five years, and embraces in active member
Ship members of all the various Temperance organ


zations, as well as the Clergy and Church of almost
every denomination; receiving and disbursing from
fourteen to eighteen thousand dollars every year ad


thenticating and sending out Lecturers into every
portion OF the State; arranging for public meetings
and supplying speakers, and closely watching the
Temperance pulse, and providing means and meas
ures to keep it in healthy and vigorous state care


uly scrutiDizing all legislation, and ready at all
times to sound the alarm when encroachments from
the enemy are attempted. With view to organiz-
ing similar Alliance in Maine, and auxiliary to the
to the National Temperance Alliance, the under
signed invite the friends of Temperance to meet at
Year: 1878

THE AduertiSer tells its readers that Gov
Nichols refuses to speak on the silver bill
unless he can dictate the appointment OF
Federal officers in New York. This state
ment is surprising, but quite as truthful as
the one which the Advertiser makes about
Senator Conkling in the same paragraph.
Year: 1878

EVERY regular attache Of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate COUP tersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us BY demanding
credentials Of every person claiming to represent our
Year: 1878

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


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munieations that are not used,
Year: 1878

TIE March report afthe Internal Reve'
nue. account shows that the revenue from
that source has fallen off rather more thar
4 million dollars during the month; and
this is one Of the arguments given in fave'
of restoration Of the Income tax. Atthe
same time the March statement Of the
public debt shows reduction somewhere
in the neighborhood of two millions.
Now how would it be to let the reduction
Of the public debt rest awhile, and give
the taxpayers a restalso? Paying off the
public debt faster than there is any ne
cesaity for it, and increasing the taxes
in order to do it, are rather incangrous
proceedings. Both might bel brought to
halt until times are better.
Year: 1878

Now as the pleasant weather Is at hand
the chief pastime with the young girls will
be 'jumpiug the rope" They should be
very careful not to jump too long, and not
exhaust themselves, thereby preventing any
fatal results. In New York, on Saturday
last, . little girl, named Corcoran, jumped
rope three hundred times without stop
ping and now lies in precarious condition
Year: 1878

A WoMANs lDEAs.-If workmsr
refuse to recognize and be governed
by the laws Of nature, which bind
men together as opposites, the com
plements of each other, they must
suffer the consequences. He
is the workingman's true friend who
says to each one, "Paddle your own
canoe" All this twaddle about
taking care of them, as if they were
flock Of tame pigeons, is an insult.
1t is bad enough to be a woman, and
have men make spheres like toy bal
looms, and put one in to stay, but it
must be worse to be man and have
to be taken care Of like little plas-
ter'of-paris Samuel saying his pray
ers. A human bipel with beard
must feel nice to have political econ
omists discuss him as though he
were one of thousand bags of
wheat which were to be disposed of
to the best advantage. Pears to me
if were a man. with all the waste
cabins and idle fields in this country
before me, should save Agitation
Committees and Secretaries the
trouble Of talking about me; for, if
] did not raise my own pork and
beans, il would be curious.
Year: 1878

To the Editor of the Standard:


DEAR SIR: Will you please insert the
following article on Eternal Punishment
in your paper ? 1t is the prelude of one
of Joseph Cooks Monday Lectures, in
Boston, and, as we think, contains the
true Bible doctrine on that awful subject.
Our earnest but humble desire is, that
every reader of the Standard would give
it a careful perusal


Yours, &c,
Year: 1878

fore the local law was passed and our COM
missioners forgot to reserve to local legisla-
tions the righ, Of making regulations. We
fear the dae fixed by the treaty for the pay
mcnt Of the award, Nov 23d. will be
long past before the American gov
ernmcnt is convinced Of the error of this
contention. The question is one of legal
obligation, and it cannot be too calmly dis
cussed on both sides. A reluctance to inilict
wrong should be at least as strong as de-
termination not to submit to one"
Year: 1878

Whether it be q shivering meteorologlst


reading the thermometer in the Arctic re-


gons when it registers fifty or sixty below


zero, or geologist in cavern, crowding
himself between ro;k walls, knocking his


head against stalactites and barking his


shns over stalagmites, in regarding their
devotion to science we are filled with


beautiful thoughts. ribald rhymester
once wrote and published burlesqne
upon such fine endeavors. 1T was called


''The. Hunting Of the Shark, and became
popular for while among the ignorant
masses, who do not appreciate these sub
lime inqucsts because they do not under
stand the lofty motive of the scientific
explorer. TO them u scientist squeezing
himself through remarkable cavern is
only man going through hole under
ground. We shall not stoop to point out


their mistake. Such people would be sat
isfed with the first thousand stalactites they


came to. They would not be wrought into
fine scientific frenzy and want to see any


more stalactites. They would enormously
say that one stalactite was as good as an
other. They bslong to that class who care


nothing about the solar spectrum, and
would not know the difference between


the Frnnenhoffer lines and clothes line.


But, scouting their sordidness, let us


point with pride once more to the votary
Of science who lays aside his stoyepipe


and his sober suit OF academic broad
cloth and takes his blue jean overalis


and his tallow candle, his compass and his
cold lunch, his Thermometer and his ball
Of twine, and goes wriggling and squeezing
along for whole days among exquisite stalac-


tai formations, bent-ay, often bent dou-
ble-on his mission of adding to our knowl-
edge Of the beauties Of the world. So was our


correspond ent lured to Luray, and how


fervently he examines and how lucidly he


explains the intricate labyrinth of rocky


delight to be found there may in other col


umns be more fully known to our readers.
Year: 1878

The recent outbreak of the negroes in
the Danish island Of st. Croix, which re-
suited in the destruction Of so much prop
erty, cannot Of course be justified. In
taking the law into their own hands and
avenging their wrongs with the torch and
the dagger the unfortunate people were
guilty Of the gravest Of crimes, for
which, it is to be presumed, their ring
leaders have before this been severely
punished. But this is only one side of the
picture 1t will be seen from the letter
elsewhere printed this morning that there
is a terrible record Of inhumanity and
wrongdoing on the other side OF the ac-
count. For more than thirty years the So
called freedom Of the blacks Of ST. Croix
has been . mockery and a dslusion. Under
the forms Of law they have been plundered
and oppressed in every way possible, and
it is not surprising that, despairing OF o
redress Of their grievances, they at last
rose against their prosecutors and in q
few hours destroyed the accumulations. of
years. The authorities and the planters
cannot be held wholly blameless in the
matter. Common prudence, to say nothing
about justice and humanity, onght to have
prompted them to pursue different pol
icy; but they goaded the half-savage people
dependent upon them to desperation, and
to-day they bewail their folly amid the
wreck and ruin of their plantations. In the
end justice and fair play is the best, the
cheapest and the wisest policy, and it is to
be hoped the planters Of st. Croix have at
least learned this lesson from their terrible
experience
Year: 1878

By the current number of the Medical
Record it appears that the supervising COM
mittee on good behavior of the local county
society has in the past eleven months caught
the professional brethren in zone hundred
and seventy-fve alleged breaches of the
Code Of Ethics" "--one hundred and seventy
five offences against that very code for the
violation Of which the profession has the
right to parboil its victims. 1t would seem.
therefore, that the committee has been very
acute and diligent in its inquiry or that the
profession is gloriously indifferent to the
obligations Of its own code. With this num-
Der Of violations actually discovered and
dragged into the light Of open day--brought
fearfully home to the trembling delin-
quents--one expects to read of the applics-
ton OF a discipline that will make these
cases terrible examples. But there was no
discipline at all for the delinquents, we
suppose, would not stand it. 1t appears
they did not know they were de-
linquents. They had certified with an
honest simplicity characteristic of oil
medical men that the public would be ben
Gifted by drinking a little water now and
then. As general rule oil water has cer-
tain value as beverage point that is only
doubtful as to the Croton in August and
the value Of water as beverage is nearly in
proportion 10 its purity. But even the Ger
man mineral waters are better than river
| waters. So the doctors delinquent had
urged the people to drink these. 1t was
plain puffery, as the committee on good be-
havior understood 1t, and they were ready to
put the sinners over tho knee of castigation !;
but when the case was explained the sinners
gave it up and promised to sin no more.
Thus have We narrowly escaped q fierce and
savage professional war. In this same Record
we notice, by the way, the argument from
DIR. Hammond that when you poke the end
of your finger in your ear the roaring noise
you hear il the sound Of the circulation in
your finger. II may be true But when
you poke the handle Of q knife in your ear.
and hear the same noise, what is the cause
| of that?
Year: 1878

The latest dispatches in regard to the
loss of the Pommerania throw little or no
additional light on the disaster. Captain
Schwensen, whose explanation woull in all
probability clear up so many OF the
mysteries that envelop the case, is
SO prostrated by illness at Rotter-
dam that lie is unable TO make
a statement, and until he has 50 lar recoy-
cred as to be in condition to give his ver-
sion OF the calamity it will be impossible
to form an accurate judgment in the mat
ter. The captain of the Noel Eilian has
already told us all he has to say on the sub
ject and there is really nothing of inn
portance in the latest accounts the
passengers give of the collision. 1t will be
seen from our dispatches that in London,
where the calamity has made profound
impression, the fact that MI tho crew
should have been saved while so many
passen gers were lost, has attracted rs much
attention and comment as it has on this
side of tie water. In one of our de-
spatches this morning it is reported that
some of the crew were overheard de-
scribing how they drew their knives and
kept the passengers from the boats. This
may be an idle rumor, but it is hard to re-
SIT the conclusion that the conduct Of the
crew was not all that it should have been
when the supreme moment came For
exact information upon this and other
points we must. in all probability, await
the official examination.
Year: 1878

in getting off the numerous heats darkness
will cut off the later events Great care
should be taken not to crowd too many into
one heat especially as the corners OF the
track are a little sharp and the men are
likely TO run unsteadily there. Doubtless,
if all goes off we'll now, winter meeting OF
this famous club a few weeks later Mt the
Hippodrome will draw even greater crowds
than did the police athletic. meeting last
winter, when these same Scotchmen showed
what they knew about the 'tug OF war.
Year: 1878

Fair OHer for the Ablest Manager.


There is in our possession check for
twenty-five dollars on the Brooklyn Trust
Company. drawn and Endorsed by Mr.. David
Taylor, the business agent of the Redpath
Literary Bureau, who have engaged Ole
Bull tor certain number Of concerts. 1t
1t was sent by Mr.. Taylor to an uttache of
the HsnALD, under the ostensible sugges-
ton that Mr. Taylor was the cashier of the
HKeALD and was paying off the attach6 for
work already performed on the paper, but
really as prepayment for weeks expected
notices in our columns. The check may
either be worth twenty-five dollars or be
valuable only as curiosity. The attache who
received it turned it over to US, as he was
in duty bound to do; and presuming that
Mr. Taylor is satisfied with this and other
notices we offer to dispose Of his check
as follows:-Let the visitors to the great
Cathedral fair vote this check to the
ablest manager Of place Of amusement
in New York, the manager receiv-
ing the highest number Of votes to
become its possessor, with such rights
as may be vested in it. Tins the ablest
manager will be honored like the most
popular general, who was voted sword
like the most popular police inspector, who
was voted a glorious shield; and like the
mos. popular editor. who was voted q gold
pen, or something of that kind, by admirers
visiting the great fair. As a United States
bond for large amount has been offered
to be raffied for at the fair we hope that
this little contribution Of Mr.. Taylor
check will be accepted. II is small in
amount, but the recipient will feel large


or course we do not need to indorse it,
but cnIy to present it to the abest manager
in New York. Visitors to the fair should
choose this manager by their votes. The
check might aiterward be framed and placed
in the corridor Of the place of amusement
conducted by the ablest manager. 1t would
be great advertisement for him. As an
Offering from the visitors to the fair il
would be worth more than many photo
graphs to the manager, and it would pay
him and the fair, too, il his friends would
flock around and support him. Perhaps
the fair might extend its time for iow days
i'm order IN allow ladies who attend matt
nees to express their opinions about the
.'ablest manager. Indeed, if the price OF
votes were small enough, Mr.. Taylor might
even become the owner of his own check,
as, Of course, he would if some other
''ablest' manager should get it cashed at
the desk OF the Brooklyn Trust Company.


Now, which of the lady managers or
which Of the tables will be first in the field
tor this check? First come first served.
Year: 1878

The open meeting this afternoon on the
new grounds Of the Scottish-American Ath-
letic Club, at Ninth avenue and Fifty-fourth
street, promises to far outstrip, in point Of
number of contestants, any event Of the
kind ever known in this country, If not even
in England. Upward of five hundred
youth, including many well known ANA
teur athletes, are on the lists, and, as the
races are to be handicapped and the man
ngement is in the hands of men we'll known
and Of long experience in these matters,
the meeting will probably prove one of ex-
ceptional interest. This vast list Of entries
shows the wisdom of charging, practically,
no entrance fee, and how easy it is at any
time to get up fine field meeting, espe-
cially in this city or its vicinity. The hour
of starting is fixed so late--two o'clock 4
that unless the utmost despatch is shown
Year: 1878

April as Thanksgiving Day in Novem-
ber. SO great and constant was the
anxiety Of the Puritans respecting their
crops that they assembled in their
churches in deep humiliation every
spring, before planting their seed, lest their
sins should be punished with IN unpropi-
tious season. The Fast Day was continued
in all the New England States down to a
time within the memory of people who are
not We. old. But when the harvest of each
year ceased to be the only barrier against
famine these obseryances gradually lost
their intensity until the Fast Day was dis
carded and Thanksgiving Day parted with
its deeply religious character and became
pleasant occasion for festive reunion Of
fani!ies-a beautiful holiday which retains
some tincture Of the profound piety which
marked its early history. Our special rea-
sons for thankfulness this year are fitly re-
cited in President Hayes excellent procla-
nation.
Year: 1878

The presentment Of the Grand Jury OH
and charitable institutions on Blackweils
Island is paper that deserves serions at
tention. The increase Of pauperism and
crime necessitates what the grand jurors
call ''cruel overcrowding, particularly in
some of the asylums and hospitals ga state
ment which will not be regarded as any too
strongly worded in face of the fact that the
lunatic asylum, which is designed to accom-
modate two hundred and fifty inmates, con-
tanned last year no fewer than four hundred.
AS these afflicted persons are especially in
need Of space for the purposes Of clean
Illness, pure mir and proper separation of
the different degrees and phases of insanity,
the evil Of this overcrowding cannot be
overestimated. Another hospital building
which is intended for sixty-six patients has
been forced this year, not to accommodate,
but to hold one hundred and twenty-six.


The evident remedy for this evil is an In
crease in the capacity of the buildings. II
our criminals and paupers have grown
upon our hands SO rapidly as to render the
institutions provided for their care and safe
keeping insufficient we must build addi-
tional asylums and prisons. But at the
same time We can provide partial remedy.
or, at least, relief, by exercising little
common sense in the disposition and use
we make Of some portion of the army Of
thieves, debauchees and vagrants we are
compelled to support. The statistics of
the institutions show that twenty thousand
and petty crimes last year represented
only five thousand individuals, or in
other words, that the persons imprisoned
for short terms during the year averaged
four commitments each. This makes it ev-
ident that the practice Of sending offenders
they eau idle away their time, instead of
being punishment is q favor 70 many who,
as the Grand Jury says, regard the public
institutions as recruiting places" The
same story is true of able-bodied paupers
to whom the Island is place of shelter,
where eating and lodging are TO be obtained
without work. Every person committed
for drunkenness vagrancy or any other
offence and every able-bodied pauper
ought to be put to hard labor during his
stay on the Island. We should then have
fewer petty commitments and fewer sturdy
vagabonds living at the public expense
This would speedily thin out some of the
institutions. So far as the hospitals, and
especially the insane asylum, are con-
cerned, if the present accommodations are
insufficient they should be increased with
out delay.
Year: 1878

THIRTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS, the amount Of
the verdict against railroad company in one Of
tho courts yesterday for killing hoy. Is not
very large sum for q life, but it will have
tendency to check the slaushtering propensity
OF the corporations
Year: 1878

COLLECTOR SMITH, of Chicago. in n card else
where printed. rises to explain in regard 10 the
Indictment Of Supervising Architect Hill and his
immediate predecessor. He modcstly dis
claims the prominent part assigned him in the
affair. and declares that he is only patriot try
Ing to do his duty and serve his country.
Year: 1878

o, blow for the Hero trumpet,


Let him lift up his head in the morn
A glory Of glories is battle,


1t ID we'll for the world he was born.
Let him joy in the sound of the trumpet,


And sun in the worlds proud smile
But what had become Of the Hero.


Except for the frank and file ?"
0, grand is the Earth in her progress,


In her genius and art and affairs
The glory Of glories is progress,


Let the great find joy in their cares.
Let the kings and the artists and statesmen
Look round them and proudly smile
But what would become of the nation,


Except for the rank and file ?"
And when the brief days of this planet
Are all ended and numbered and told,
And the Lord shall appear in His glory,
And shall summon the young and the old,
For the Hero shall sound forth no trumpet,
For the great no welcoming smile;
Before the good Lord in His glory


We are all the " rank and the file."
Year: 1878

The New York Times philosopher points out
several of the regular college studies which
girls cannot pursue:


The sophomore year in most of our colleges
is devoted to base ball. Will President Bas-
com have the temerity to assert that this is a
sedentary pursuit, or that it is one in which it
is possible for girls to excel? We all know
that nature has so constructed the girl that she
cannot throw a ball with any force or accuracy.
1t the most accomplished of President Bas-
CONS young ladies were to attempt to pitch
base ball, the chances are that instead of
coming within reach of the batsman, it would
describe parabolc curve and smash the pres
students strike or catch a ball when thrown
with the proper degree of force. In short, base
ball is study in which it is morally impossible
that girls should ever successfully compete with
men: The same may be said of foot ball,
which, in some colleges is an optional study,
which these who do not fancy base ball are per-
mitted to substitute for the latter. 1t is barely
possible, Judging from the remarks which Chi
cago and st. Louis newspapers constantly make
in regard to the feet of the ladies of those cities
that Western girls are better adapted for foot
ball than are the girls this side of the Allie
ghanies, but it may be safely asserted that no
girl can graduate iu foot ball, especially in col
leges where the Rugby method is studied, with
any honor, or indeed, with any standing in her
class. By far the most important study pursued
at any American college is that of rowing.
From this study girls are virtually debarred
simply by reason of their sex. Man is SO con-
stituted that he can reduce his clothing to a
close-ftting under-shirt and a pair of attenuated
trousers, which add scarcely anything to his
weight in six cared she'll 1t is asserted by
all scientific authorities that girls are incased
in many successive layers of clothing which
are believed to be permanently affixed to them,
and the aggregate weight of these is enormous.
This would alone render girls unfit to pursue
the fascinating and improving study of rowing,
but there are other obstacles equally impossi
BILE to overcome. Girls cannot run to any ex.
tent worth mentioning; and are hence unable
to run along the shore while boat-race is in
progress, yelling encouragement to the oars
men and announcing the odds which they are
prepared to bet on their favorite crews,
Year: 1878

Among the antecedents of disease are inertness in
the circulation of the BLOOD an unnaturaly attenua


ted condition of the physique, indicating that the
life current is deficient in nutritive properties,
wan, haggard look inability to digest the food, loss
of appetite, sleep and strength, and sensation of
Year: 1878

Russia puts it thus; As long as the
Turks hope for British aid, they will
hold out and the capture of CONSTANT
noplc being the last evcntbeyond which
such interference could be deferred,
they will even precipitnte it, in order to
force England into the fight, hoping
then to reclaim all they had previously
lost.
Year: 1878

A party of revenue officers in South
Carolina had arrested two men who were
selling tobacco without paying tax, when
they met an armed body of two hundred
men and were compelled to give up their
prisoners and the tobacco.