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Year: 1877

I THERE is to be revival of the
woman's suffrage agitation at Wash
ington this winter. Delegations from
the noble army of ballot-seekers have
gone to Washington at regularintervals
for years and have talked and talked as
only women know how to talk, but
they have never brought any considera-
BILE amount of suffrage away with
them. The coming winter will not be
afavorable one for the suffrage scheme;
it will be too full Of politics, and the
failure of the women to bring Colorado
into line will have depressing effect.
Year: 1877

DURING the extra session of Congress
there were presented in the House of
Representatives 1908 petitions, of which
1900 were of private nature; SO were
for the increase of salaries of letter car
rier; 40 related to currency, and 1S
were for the repeal of the bankrupt law.
Year: 1877

AND now Oakley Hall is to take the
lecture field. The contract has been
signed, and his first lecture is to be de-
hvered in Boston, next at Philadelphia,
then at New York. after which he will
do the other cities in the East, South
and West. He may come as far as the
Rocky Mountains.
Year: 1877

THE circulation in the "honest
policy" is generally demanded by the
Western press. The three-for-a-quarter
and the two for fifteen cents system is a
humbug and nuisance, and the people
demand that the nuisance be without
delay abated.
Year: 1877

Me. LAwD PIERREPoNT has in
formed Olive Logan that he had spent
in London during his one years tenure
of Office the sum of one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, irrespective of
the little official salary of S17, 500.
This is a good deal of money in general,
but not large sum for a member of
the British aristocracy.
Year: 1877

a condition of mind that they could not
resist. Zeal for the correction Of wrong
has led to the conviction of the inno-
cent. Let the man be remanded to the
body of which he is member. That
body is legally, constitutionally, NOR
ally and intellectually capacitated to
dispose of the question and to condemn
and acquit.
Year: 1877

is, to say the least of it, decidedly cool.
When, however, we come to consider that the
men whom his fellow citizens are thus called
upon to vote against are Republicans in reality
and by conviction, and that they are to be re-
buked at the polls for the very reason that
they are such, and would, if in power, seek
to make France Republic in reality as well
as in name the real force and bearing of the
Presidential manifesto becomes apparent


Notwithstanding the many acts of injustice
and folly by which his administration has
been marked, we have been thus far disposed
to believe that the Marshal President was
simply a somewhat narrow minded and wrong
headed man, whose military education and
life had rendered him incapable of entering
into the real spirit of Republican Institutions,
and who was to great extent under the con-
troll of set of re-actionary and anti-repubii-
can advisers.


The policy pursued by his administration
of late, however, looks very much as though
in case the nation returned an adverse ma
iority at the next election, he would be pre-
pared, if he saw reasonable hope of success,
TO overthrow the Republic, either in the in
terests of the exiled Bonapartes or of some
kind of military dictatorship of which he
should be the head The Republicans oi
France have never had greater need for firm
ness and wisdom than at the present time,
but we believe they will be equal to the
emergency, and that whether in victory or IN
defeat, they will show to the nation and to the
world spirit, and bearing worthy of states
men and of patriots.
Year: 1877

THE Advertiser appears to be "spoiling
for fight" After searching in vain for
several weeks past for grievance against us,
our " brother Editor" has concluded at last to
invent one. He asks us 10 remember that his
Excellency the Attorney General attacked
hun personally in his card in the GAZETTE"
We are fortunately blessed with pretty good
memory, but we fail 20 remember the occur
renee in question, for the simple reason that
it nerer happened. His Excellency's card does
allude to the attack of the AdvertiSer on him
self but nothing in said card can, by any in
genuity, be construed into an attack on the
Editor Of the AdOertiSer or on anyone else.
Our "brother Editor" also says that we
"rated him for simply expressing some sym
pathy for a number of children whose dis
honor has been exposed by his Excellency's
procedure" This charge is quite as unfound-
ed as the other If the Editor of the ADDER
tiSer has taken the trouble to read the GAZETTE
he knows perfectly well that we never did
anything of the kind We challenge the
Editor of the Adpefiser to point out single
expression in the Attorney Generals card
which can be regarded, even by implication,
as an attack on himself, either personal or
otherwise. As for ourselves, if our brother
Editor" can find an article, paragraph, vi
sentence anywhere in the editorial depart
ment of the GAZETTE which bears out even in
the slightest degree, his complaint of having
been "rdted" for expressing sympathy for
these unfortunate children, we invite him to
publish it in full.
Year: 1877

What daredevil, fnn-loying and inde-
pendent creatures boys are. Never tired
of getting into scrapes, they are and ever
will be trial to mothers and an unread
able book to people in general. Although
but an embryo man, in his opinion, he
always was. and in Importance is, man.
He is always ready to advance his opin-
ion on all occasions of Importance, and
seldom willing to be seen and not heard.


Your true boys only regular habit is
the habit of being on hand at meal-timc,
where he does full justice to all that is
set before him. But "boys will be boys"
and therefore let US make them men in
their youth.


Some say that boys arc not sensitive
and are ill-mannered and selfish. But
do not think that because he does not
wish to give up some plan of his, for the
sake of obliging you, that this is the
case. He has entered into whatever
plan he has made with his whole sole,
and is as fully taken up with his ideas
as stock speculator is with some of his
transactions. Let the boy grow conf
dent in his own opinions and give him a
chance to circulate and he will soon find
out when it is best to speak or keep ST.
lent If they don't know how to lift
the hat or make bow, say thank you,
or if you please, it does not matter.
You can easily see whether a boy is
grateful for kindness or not. Idislike
to see boy mimicing fashionable fop
who would not have the energy to lift
his hat if it were not for the sake of
appearance. And this wearing cane.
1t is silly and looks weak; looks as
though you were dependent, like the boy
who does not know what to do with his
hands and would give dollar for cane
to twirl. Get them in the habit Of read


ing. If you can get them started on


good books, all right But ten to one


they will, if they have the inclination,


read all they want of the latest novels


and you never know thing about it
Encourage them to bring whatever they


read into the house and read it openly



If they get started on dime novels LEI


them have their fill. They will soon gel
tired of it if you will not oppose them
and will want something more solid
something they can see through like
pane of glass. There is good deal O
sound sense in a boy if you will let hin
Judge for himself. / think that in som,
? of our public libraries there are novel
drier than husks and which it is impos


sible for any one to read unless it i


fashionable, or the reader has some dis
= ease of the brain. If your boys ge
strange freaks in their heads let then
: run to the end of the rope and they vii
seldom call for more.


Young America especially hates t
have his opinions taken for naught, an
. when he finds he is losing ground he wi


be ready enough to try something els
s more favorable. Make them toe th
+ mark in one thing, at all odds. That


in sending them to school regularl.
Year: 1877

Any boy with common sense will, by the
time he is sixteen, be perfectly satisfied
with the arrangement. and would be the
first one to blame you if you had let him
have his own way. You have heard the
motto wherever there is will there is
way" You will find that boys, if
they have a will, will always find the
way. Therefore be sure that you keep
them busy at something you know of,
rather than having them working at
something secretly.


Do not be in hurry to make little
gentleman Of them. They will be gen.
tlemen soon enough, for no boy when he
becomes old enough likes to be thought
ill-mannered. Give me the boys who go
to school and mind their books and never
think Of taking their girls to parties till
they are not afraid of getting homesick
if they should stay away from their
mother a month.


Boys, remember some day that you
will be men, and don't act SO like calves
in your boyhood, that you will be
thought calves all your lives.


Give me energetic, blunt. hearty. out
spoken boys and those who can listen
when older people talk, and talk them
selves, of politics, news and the events
transpirlng, as well as Of cigars, balls,
styles and dress, like some boarding.
school miss of sixteen. These will make
your outspoken, true gentlemen and you
may depend on them in every emergen-
cy. The 'boy is father of the man,
can be said with few exceptions. There
fore make your boys something like you
would have your men, in disposition
and character. Ohio Farmer.
Year: 1877

Though VIC may not change the cottage,
For the mansion tall and grand.
Or exchange the little grass spot


For boundless stretch Of land
Yet there's something brighter, dearer,
Than the wealth we'd thus command.
Though we have no means TO purchase
Costly pictures rich and rare
Though we have no silken hangings
For the walls so cold and bare,
We can hang them DER with garlands
For the flowers bloom everywhere.
We can make home very cheerful
II the right course we begin;
We can mako the inmates happy


And their truest blessings win,
It will make small room brighter
II we let the sunshine in.
We can gather round the fire-side
When the evening hours arc long
We can blend our hearts and voices
In happy. social song;
We can guide some erring brother,
Lead him from the path Of wrong.
We may fll our homes with music
And with sunshine brimming o'or.
II against all dark intruders,


We will firmly close the door;
Yet should the evil shadow enter,
We must love the other more.
There are treasures for tho lowly


Which the grandest fail 10 find,
There's a chain Of sweet affection
Binding friends of kindred mind,
We may reap the choicest blessings
From the poorest lot assigned.
Year: 1877

1t is astonishing how many people are
unpunctual. Thousands have failed in
life from this cause alone. 1t is not on
ly serious vice in itself, but the fruit
full parent of numerous other vices, so
that he who becomes its victim is soon
involved in tolls from which it is al
most impossible to escape. 1t makes
the merchant wasteful of time, saps the
business reputation of the lawyer, and
Injuries the prospects of the mechanics
who might otherwise rise to fortune; in
word, there is not profession nor
station in life which is not liable to the
canker of this destructive habit.


Many of Napoleon's great victories
were won by infusing into his subordi-
mates the necessity of punctuality to the
minute. It was his plan to maneuvre
over large spaces of country, to render
the enemy uncertain where he was about
to strike, and when suddenly concen-
trate his forces and fall with irresistible
force upon some weak point of the ex-
tended lines of the foe. Execution of
this system demanded that each divis-
ion Of the army should arrive at spec
fled point punctually, for if any part
failed to come up, the battle was lost
1t was by initiating his plan that the
allies finally succeeded in overthrowing
the Emperor.-The whole Waterloo
campaign turned upon these tactics
At Mt. st. Jean, Blucher was punctual
while Grouchy was not, and the result
was, Napoleon fell and Wellington tri
umphed.


In mercantile affairs punctuality il
quite as important as in military
Many are the instances in which neglect
to renew an insurance policy punctually
has led to serious loss. Hundred o
city merchants and manufacturers ant
publishers are now suffering in conse
quence of want of punctuality amonI
their country customers in paying u
accounts. 1t is sound policy whicl
moves the banks to insist, under penal
ty of protests, upon the punctual pay
ment of notes; for, were they to d
otherwise, commercial transaction
would fall into inextricable confusion
Many time has the failure of one ma
!, to meet obligations brought about th
ruin of score of others, just as the tor
pling down of the first in line of brick
causes the fall of all the rest.


r. IL
Year: 1877

Cultivate singing in the family. Be-
gin when the child is not yet three
years old. The songs and hymns your
childhood sang-bring them back to
your memory and teach them to your
little ones; mix them altogether, to
meet the similar moods, as in after life
they come over us SO mysteriously some
times. Many time and oft, in the
weary whirl of business: in the sunshine
and gaiety of Fifth Avenue, amid the
splendor Of the drive in Central Park,
some little things wake up in the men,
ory of early youth-the old mill, the
cool spring, the shady tree by the little
school house-and the next instant we
almost see again the ruddy cheeks, the
smiling faces and the merry eyes of
schoolmates, some gray headed now
most lie "smouldering in the grave"
And anon the ''song my mother sang"
springs unbidden to the lips and soothes
and sweetens all these memories. At
other times, amid the crushing mishaps
of business, merry ditty of the olden
times pops out its little head, breaks in
upon the ugly train of thought, throws
the mind into another channel; light
breaks from behind the cloud in the
sky, and new courage is given to us.
The honest man goes singing to his
work, and when the days labor is done,
his tools laid aside, and he is on his
way home, where wife and child and
tidy table and CHEEKY freside await him
he cannot help but whistle and sing.
The burglar never sings. Moody silence,
not the merry song, weighs down the
dishonest tradesman, the perfdions clerk
the unfaithful servant, the prejured par
tner.
Year: 1877

Schools AND WORK.--It is said that the
Dutch have schools for girls where sewing,
embroidery, nursing, housewOrk, &c, are
taught, and the Swiss, as was shown at the
centennial exhibition, pay great attention
to the handicraft education of children in
the public schools. There can be no doubt
that the education of children in anything
tending to the development Of handicrait
skill, or teaching them how they may make
a living in a working world, is as important
as any other branch of education. Girls
ought to be trained for such of the pract-
cal duties of life as are open to their delicate
hands and bodies, and this without refer
ence to the fact whether they are poor or
rich. The examples of change OF fortune
from prosperity to adversely are of frequent
occurrence in this country, and since the
close of the war, especially in the South,
these reverses have been so common as to
constitute the rule rather than the eXcPp.
ton. If the training in our public schools
could be so directed as to impress children
with the idea of work, whether their ne
cessities compel them to do SO or not, they
would add immeasurably to the benefits tc
be conferred upon the public.
Year: 1877

CORN BREAD IN EURoPE.-'rhe Americans
want to learn the Europeans how to eat
corn bread. 1t is proposed at the coming
Paris exhibition to make special exhibit
of the various sorts of food that can he pre-
pared from Indian corn, or, more properly
speaking, maize. Thus far the maize ex-
ported to Europe has been used there ex-
clusively for food for animals and the
people do not even know of it in the form
of hominy If they once could he taught
to use it for food it is believed that a very
large increase could be made in our export
of it, while the masses in Europe would
have a better and cheaper food than they
now can procure. The project is one
worthy of encouragement for the sake of
the poorer classes in Europe as we'll as for
the sake of our own interests.
Year: 1877

As white garment appears worse with
slight soiling than do colored garments
when much soiled, 50 a little fault in good
man attracts more attention than a great
offence in a bad man.
Year: 1877

10 prepare the horses of the Prince of


Wales for his visit TO India, it was deemed
| necessary to practice their introduction to


the various wild animals that they would


be likely to meet in the Jungle. They were
therefore ridden up to the Royal Park


where various wild animals are kept on ex-


hibition. Instead ofentering the gardens at
once, they were slowly ridden up to the


park fence, on the road known as the Out
er Circle, and from this position they could
clearly see the large male African elephant


walking about in his paddock; in this way
they felt somewhat safe, as they had the
road before them, and the elephant was
behind the fence. AS soon as the horses
had recovered their surprise at the sight


of this animal, they were ridden into the
gardens. and brought near enough to the
elephant to make a close inspection of his


general appearance. They were a little
nervous at first, more especially when the
great brute set up his large ears, and made


an attempt TO rush toward the horses, and


utter bis shrill note of alarm; they, how
ever, soon began to acquire confidence,
and cease to start or jump from him, when


let out with them, to come close enough


enough to touch the end of his trunk


The next thing was to introduce to their
notice the large male rhnoceros. How
ever quiet the horses were inclined to be,
this savage monster was extremely angry
at the sight of the men on horseback in so
close proximity to his abode, and he
rushed and snorted about in and around
his paddock in frightful state of ex-


element, and had it been in his power


to get at them, he would doubtless,


have made short work with his new


acquaintances. Notwithstanding bis fury,


"Coomassie" behaved in the most cool


and composed manner. 1t was most de-
lightful TO witness the watchfu and INTEL
ligent gaze with which this beautiful ami


NAL kept his eyes upon the frantic and en-
ragged rhinoceros, without exhibiting any


particular fear or alarm and no doubt


this GOODNESS on his part assisted greatly


to quiet his two companions, "Cockney"
and ''Dashwood 1t soon became eyi-
dent that the task would be safely and per-


soon aiterward tried Their long, shaggy


hair, the strange humps, and queer heads
and necks. seemed to puzzle the horses


considerably; but after while, they al


lowed them to come near enough to smell
them. and gradually acquire more conf
dence, until they would stand side by side


and pass round or between them, touch


ing them with their noses, and becoming
quite familiar. 1t may appear singular,


but the horse "Coomassie" appeared 10


have a wish to examine and revisit all the


animals in the gardens; he required no
urging TO bring him face to face with the


lions and tigers, Notwithstanding the ex-
element into which the sight of the horse


caused these animals to fly, but "Coo-


masie" looked at them with a most in


quiring eye, not appearing in the slight


est degree alarmed. This then ended the


training of thee of the finest of the


Princes horses. Land and Water.
Year: 1877

For four or five hours q prowling wretch
waits in the street near to house in which
he believes a certain woman is passing the
night. At daylight he thunders at the door
and calls upon her to come out. Trembling
with fear at the sound of his voice she
steals out another way to avoid him. He
sees her, however, and pursues her, and
thus they pass through the streets in the
CHASTITY quiet of that early hour, she flying
for her life, he pursuing with savage i'm
pulse. She is nearly run down. She reaches
point at which she can go no further.
There she turns and appeals for mercy
sFor the love of God, James. don't strike
me !"-and ere the words are fairly spoken
he drives an iron weapon into her heart
with one blow. She falls and dies in the
street. Now is there any doubt as to the
name of this crime? What will the counsel
for the defence call it? Is this insanity ?
Is this the vindication of o husband 8
honor? Or is it that substitution of the
hate of vicious scoundrel for justice which
makes law, authority, life and property all
worthless if it cannot be punished. If this
fagrant murder, this violent and inten-
tional killing after six hours of premedita-
ton, does not end in hanging, our criminal
laws are farce.
Year: 1877

The SIGNAL SERVICE BuREAu.-General
Shermans views on the status of the Signal
Service Bureau of the United States Army
are perfectly sound, and we hope that Con-
gress will adopt them. The Signal Service
is really non-military organization, al
though sustained out of the army appropri-
ations. Being instituted for the benefit of
commerce and agriculture its operation
should come under the jurisdiction of the
Treasury Department. AS it is. the miser-
able pay of the non-commissioned officers
and men comes to them from the army
funds, while the large annual appropriation
for the Signal Service Bureau goes in ex-
lenses that are often as mysterious as
they are unnecessary.
Year: 1877

information will enable the st. Johns Guild
in one hundred tons of coal distributed to
save the important amount of from two hun
dred and seventy-fve down to one
hundred and forty dollars, which
will purchase good many groceries
and other necessaries of life. As the Guild
does its noble work on large scale it must
purchase many hundreds of tons of coal
during the winter season. Our correspond
ent gives the Guild the names of the dealers
from whom the lower priced coal may DO
obtained, and the information will be very
welcome to the Master of the Guild, who
has not been conversant with the market
rates. The low prices have, however, been
advertised in the Third avenue and other
cars for the last two months.


Tho manager of the Guild is. no doubt,
too fuDy occupied with the details Of his
noble work of charity to be able to give
much time to the study of prices. But it
might be we'll to appoint some competent
person to look after these matters, as the
cost OF groceries, -four, &C., may also have
been higher than necessary. Perhaps it
might be we'll for the Guild to state what is
paid there for -four. tea, coffee and all other
articles, and Of whom and in what .quanti-
ties they are purchased, as the institution
may then obtain information that will be as
valuable and as welcome as that which has
afforded them the opportunity to effect SO
great saving on the single article of coal.