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Year: 1874

Beyond question, we abuse our toes.
They are intended in the first place to
give flexibility to the foot, and help us IN
our walking; but the modern custom OIL
cramping them up in tight shoes makes
them almost as immoyable as if they grew
together. SO the help they give is not so
much after all. And as for putting them
to any other use, We never think OF 1t.
We cramp and torture them out of all like
ness to their original state. Who, for in
stance, could imagine that the second toe
was intended to be longer than the first
And yet in perfect formed foot it always
is, though we are obliged to go to statues
and paintings to find out. And who, put
ting foot and narrow toed shoe side by
side, would ever suspect that they were IN
tended for each other? The fact Is, our
toes are our most abused members, and
so we don't get half the good from them
that we might. The Chinese and the ia
panese and BedOuin Arabs, it is said, from
continual practice, use their toes almOsta
well as their hands. Arabs braid ropes
with their fingers and toes working in con
cert. Why. then, should we dispense with
the use of these natural aids?
Year: 1874

SOME time ago while Viee-President
Huntington of the Central Pacific Railroad
was on a trip 10 California. he signed con-
tracts for tunneling the Sierra Nevada
Mountains at point near TTuckee, Cal.
The tunnel will be several miles long, will
cost s., 100000, and will preclude the ne
cessity which exists at present OF making a
steep ascent of more than 600 feet at a
very difficult part of the road. When this
shall be completed the snow-sheds, which
now form so important feature IN the
equipment of the road, will be no longer
necessary. Several thousand tons OF steel
rails have been sent to the line of the road
and will replace the iron rails as fast as the
latter are worn out.
Year: 1874

BAYARD TAYLOR has put his hand upon
the hotel servant of the future. The
man was found in Iceland, and when
he was offered piece of money for some
small service he laughed and ran away.
Year: 1874

the necessity which is laid upon him,
and while he will take the ordinary
precautions against perjured and distorted
testimony. he will not ask to have the bill
made unreasonably stringent. or the plaintlf
embarrassed in tho production of whatever
genuine evidence may be in his possession.
All this we take for granted, and we feel as
snrcd also tn the rumors of discOntinuance
Of the criminal suit arc entirely unfOunded.
1t is too late for suppression, and compromise
would be ruinous TO both sides.


Yet we do not understand why TiltOn should
refuse to 20 to trial under tho limitations
which the counsel on the other side have
called for. Of the various acts Of adultery
which he mputcs to Mr.. Bcecher he says that
he can give the dates and other particulars OF
two. These two consequently must form the
strongest parts of his case. If he can establish
them, as he says he can, the issue is at an end.
1t is unnecessary for him to go any further.
Everybody will take his word for the rest OF
the story, and Mr.. Bcecher is ruined forever.
Surely, in order to show that the pastor OF
Plymouth Church is liar and adultercr, there
is no need to test every particular in Tnton's
long Indictment. Break down the keystone,
and the whole arch tumbes.
Year: 1874

Mr.. Theodore Tillon has announced that
rather than go into court under the restric-
tions of bill of particulars he will abandon
his suit against Henry Ward Beecher, and
trust to tho verdict of a jury in the SANDER
case, or to the judgment of public opinion.
To nut the statement in his own fine Ian
guage, he "wil go into court ON the first day
"when he is permitted to carry all his evil
"dcnce with him, but never while he must
"leavc nine-tenths Of this evidence outside the
"door." This is not such a declaration as the
public promise of his counsel, to furnish
bill of particulars in thirty minutes if the
court ordered it, might have led the world to
expect; but it is the innate right of every
American citizen to change his mind upon due
provocation. A bill of particulars, in some
shape, is no more than the defendant has
right to demand, and we cannot blame Mr..
Beccher for insisting that his adversary shall
specify in the complaint just what he intends
to prove on the trial. But on the other hand


it should be remembered that this is not
merely an action for damages but an inquest
of character, and that tho defendant, if he is
innocent, ought for his own sake to invite the
most searching investigation into his life.
Mr. Beecher is doubtless sensible of
Year: 1874

to the amount now in the Gnited States
Treasury. Tho Companies cannot discredit
the Secretary's calculations without impairing
the market value of their stock, and in any
event they cannot escape the payment of q
considerable proportion Of tho amount assessed
against them.
Year: 1874

Mr.. Brooks Adams discusses in our columns
this morning an aspect of the Wisconsin
railway controversy which seems not to have
presented itself either to the legislators who
framed the Potter law or to the Western jour-
nalists and politicians who have so zealously
supported it. The fact that the statute is held
to be entirely constitutional only proves that
it is unfortunately competent for tho Wiscon-
pin Legislature to do a very inlqutOus thing.
Just how far the Potter law will injure the
business and cOnfscatc the earnings OF the
railways of tho State it is too soon yet to tell
but it is clear that upon the principle en-
bodied in that act and ratified by the decision
of the Supreme Court of the State, there can
be no check to the process OF appropriation
except in tho moderation or caprice OF the
l,ngislaturc. Whenever hard times, slow sales,
Oyerabundant crops embarrass the farmers,
and an excited and not always reasonable
agricultural class gets the predominance in
politics, q further reduction may be made,
until the companies are driven into bankruptcy.


The first result which we anticipate how
ever from the Wisconsin experiment is gen.
eral corruption Of politics. Mr.. Adams re-
marks that the remedy for the Potter wrong
is to be sought at tho polls. 1t will be sought
there the railroads in self-defense will be
compelled to put their money into politics,
and either run the elections in their own
financial interests, as Fisk and Gould used to
do at one period of their management Of Erie,
or buy legislators ready mado after the
method of Stockwell and Oakes Ames. Wis
consin will be charming State when corpo-
rations are obliged to resort to corruption in
order to save themselves from plunder.
Year: 1874

Did the young ladies who drop into poetry at the
slightest provocation and dispatch it to this office
in great hurry, with request to please send them
what it is worth. ever hear of Miss Actonf She was
the Englishwomau who refuted the assertion OF
that venerable Gruff-and-Glum. DR.. johnson, that
women could not make good book Of cookery. She
had written poems by the peck, and found that this
species of lunacy did not succeed in the matter OF
money. So one day Mademoselle went to see the
famous publisher, Mr.. Longman. and remarked that
she desired to writc book that was really wanted.
"The world does net want poems," said this wise
woman. Mr. Longman moro than limited at cook
cry book, and this extraordinary person, instead OF
fying in o rage and asking. Shall write about
tarts who have dscOursed of hearts and darts y inn
mcdately went OFF and wrote ono of the best cook
cry books that ever soothcd hungry man. COnsc-
ancnce Mighty accumulation of ducats. Let the
gentle beings who long to see their mild ngles in
THE TRIBUNE ponder well this tale. and remember
that good salad is q much plcasanter thing than
Soaring into Sentiment.
Year: 1874

The ccnsures Of Mayor Vance for his action in the
appointmont of members for the Board of Charities
and Correction seem to US largely gratuitous and
unmertod None but hide-bOund partisans and
office hunting party hacks will complain of him for
consulting with the man who is to take his place in
ten days as to the appointment of city officers to
hold for terms Of several years 1t is precisely what
business men in charge of any great enterprise
would do who appreciated the importance of unity
Of policy and management The really grave mis-
take Of the Mayor was in the appointment of per-
son ike Isaac II. Bailey who has no claim for tho
place save the fact that he seems to need an office
in order to make living. and is a thick and thin
partisan. Any severe Judgment even on this mis-
take is mitgatcd when it il known that an every
way reputable gentleman. and an original Repub-
can. was first asked if he would take the place and
was forced to decline But if the new administration
leave Bnilcy in power it will make worse mistake
than Mayor Vance did
Year: 1874

1t ia creditable to the Fire Department of
New-York that we do not often have to chron-
ice fire 80 destructive as that in Spring-st.
yesterday. On this occasion the fremen seem
to have done their whole duty, but the fire
had made such headway before the alarm was
given that it was not extinguished until prop
erty valued at o quarter of million dollars
was destroyed.
Year: 1874

The only thing settled beyond doubt as to
the election which took place in Louisiana
nearly two months ago, is the fact that the con-
stitutional amendments recommended by Gov.
Kellogg and approved by the Legislature have
been adopted by popular vote. These amend
ments seem judicious, as four OF them impose
wholesome restrictions upon the extravaganza
of State officials, and the fifth changes the day
of the State elections to that fixed by law for
Federal elections.
Year: 1874

The clever device by which Secretary Bris-
tow has made computation of the indebted
ness of the Pacific Railroad Companies for
taxation upon their gross earnings will doubt
less result in the addition of several millions
Year: 1874

Tomorrow the steamer Twilight will make an
excursion TO Rockaway Beach and convey a large
number of working girls thither whose opportu-
mites Tor recreation and enjoyment a days in
vigoratlon are few indeed. This benefcent work
is under the auspices and direction of the ''Free
Training school Tor Women" and doubtless hun
dreds OF hearts will bless the hands that hold forth
CROWDED CITY
Year: 1874

And now Brooklyn is emulous or New York's
charitable Deeds and, in spite OF her scandals and
sorrows has organized a "Fresh Air Fund" to en-
able the poor children OF the city to have days
pleasure by the seaside or in the woods. The first
picnic will take place this week.
Year: 1874

a CASE FOR LAwYEBs.-Thc people Of
Massachusetts are ahxiously awaiting the
opinion Of their Attorney General AS to
whether the State does or does not own
the lloosac Tunnel. Twenty years ago
the Troy and Greenfield Railway Com
pany finding itself unable to push the en-
terprise, applied to the legislature for as
sistance. A bill was passed and the State
advanced two million dollars on mort
gage Of the road But little progress was
made, and after several years the legisIa-
ture decided to take possession under the
mortgage and proceed with the tunneling
as a State work. The act under which
the State took possession had clause,
that the right Of redemption under the
mortgage on the part OF the Troy and
Greenfield corporation, should not expire
until ten year, after the tunnel should
be completed. That the right of rcdemp-
ton exists uude. this act, there can BE- no
question. 1t Remains to be seen whether
the State ha> lien for the whole amount
Of over ten million dollars expended, or
only for the amount Of the mortgage
haJySUate Appeat.
Year: 1874

All dairy cows, when practicable, should
have a respite from yielding milk from two
and a half to three months previous to drop
ping their young Nature demands this time
for recuperation and the production OF
healthy offspring. 1t has been suspected
and apparently with good reason, that the
habit Of milking COWS far into winter and up
to within a few weeks Of calving has been
one leading cause of abOrtOns now so prev
alent in some of the old dairy districts o!
New York. When II is considered that COWS
late in fall aud during early winter get no
extra feed, and are kept upon coarse fsdder
or hay alsne, while this excessive drain on
their vitality is going on, and especially at a
time when they are more or less subjected to
cold aud the inclemencies of the weather, we
may very reasonably conclude that nature is
unequal to the strain, and hence the trouble
referred to. Ii is true some animals are
very difficult to be dried of their milk, and
are inclined to yield it up to the time OF
calving. When such cases occur, it should
always be a rule 10 commence early with
generous diet, aud by no means allow the
animal to lose Aesh.-- Western Farmer.
Year: 1874

BY LEWIS J. BATES
Sore hearts, from passion TOO intense,
And snsws stiff with pain,
Whose faith in speedy recOmpense
Has proved once more in vain,
Though Wrong may sway the world ito-day
You hold the hand Of Fate
Your good seed grows beneath the SHOWS


Right can afford to wait.
Unwise alike are cold despair
And hot and angry hrei
His patience answers eager prayer,
His calmness quick desire


His harvest grows beneath the SHOWS,


And Tipsns soon or late;
Tho Wrsng may sway the world to-day,


Right can afford to wait.
stlll brightly burning in the skies,
The stars of Freedom shine,
There is no zenith for their rise,
Nor nadir of decline.


Lo! in our past how sure aud fast


Has Progress built her state
Wrongs ancient sway is weak to-day


Right can afford to wait.
Then let none harbor groundless fear
Our hope shall pass away
up all who wait the Promised Year,
And make that year to-day


The strong hand still and earnest will


May storm the throne OF Fate
Right waits for man ~ build her plan


GOd has no need " wait.
Year: 1874

The hy-kettle should be hot To the scorch-
ing-point when you begin. and the fire such
ns will keep it so till you get through Then
rub it with bit Of sweet butter, just enough
TO keep the meat from adhsrng. If the
kettle is hot enough, it will scar the meat in
a moment; then turn and scar the other side,
and if the heat is kept up the juices of your
meat are pretty we'll secured. Turn fire.
qusntly, and remove as soon rs cooked to
suit your family, Butter well, give sprink-
ling of salt and pepper-set one moment IN
the oven, aud il the steak was fit to eat as
steak, il will be good. II not, don't try ii,
but make delicious iricassee or meat pie OF
1,
Year: 1874

This time Is, all things considered, the best ever
made, when it is remembered that the course is
straight away and without tide or current TO help
1t.


Three great balls are going on tonight, but the
attendance Of students is very thin.
Year: 1874

the following record will show the changes in
the temperature for the past twenty -four hours in
comparison with the corresponding day OF last
year, as indicated by the thermometer at hud-
nuts Pharmacy, HERALD Building:-
Year: 1874

In our local column we publish a
letter from Belten with regard to the
recent ducking Of Rev. ex-Treasurer
Honey. We most unqualifiedlY con-
denim the action taken by the parties
engaged in 1t. We hardly think-in
the light of tbe ring developments III
Austin, that water will be equal to
the task Of washing the villiany
from the character of the reverend
ex-costodian of the revenues of the
State, but be that as it may, it is no
justification for the rather severe
practical, as well as wet, joke.
Year: 1874

The Civilian makes little dig at
the Statesman, and gets whole
column in reply for its pains, the
sum Of which is, that the Statesman
will criticise any public officer from
its own estimate OF the character Of
his public acts, without giving his
friends q like privilege to hunt mp
the weak points of the criticism.
The Statesmen's rule isn't intended
to work both ways.
Year: 1874

We are glad to hear that they
have had copious rains in the Pleas
ant Hill neighborhood Bell county,
and the cotton and corn crops are very
promising indeed. The wheat crop
has turned out much better than was
expected.
Year: 1874

The News of the esd, sick no
doubt of the public printing matter,
and still waging war upon the Gov
ernor attacks at this late day, the
same financial policy, it loudly and
repeatedly commended at the time
of its adoption, going SO far In Ms in.
decent attack as to quote the State
Journal, now defunct, in support OF
its weak, spiteful and pitlful attack
Should Moody's mission fail entirely
how docs that make us worse off
than we were before? Or does it
follow that because it failed in June,
that it will fail IN July. Should its
evil prophecy be fulfilled, aud utter
failure ensue;, who is more to be
blamed than the News for the re-
suit.
Year: 1874

This world Is all q fleetlng show;
bow sweet from 1t to pass,


To vanish up the chimney as


Carbonic acid gas. 'r ...ut1l
Don't lay me on the river bank


Amid the fragrant flowers. b r.
Nor where the grass Is watered by


The early summer showers.


But put me In the kitchen range,


And open wide the damper;
And then my vapOrOus remains


Can up the chimney scamper.
ave lit the poor fellow at dead Of


night


The carcass continually turning.
In order that every side might get its


share
OF this new patent process of burn
500; ing. 1855 ssh n
mo pelting rain storm came wetting
-9rqthe pile ,1gHel, mil
OF fagots TO which we had bound
him.
Nor Babcock ExtiDguisher deadened


the glare .ms e,g
That formed such a halo around
"' him" s@ t'' ai'1
Year: 1874

than Catholics; they have here
a fine synagogue"


From what l. have seen OF
Austria l think that the ma
jority are of very low order
Of intellect, yet Vienna is the
most beautiful city | have seen
on the Continent, and has a
fine looking population. But
both in Bohemia and in Styria
and the other country districts,
have a. very anterior class Of
people. Where We are now,
in Tuffer, place celebrated
for its bathing facilities, the
inhabitanls are very rude yet
very faithful to eltendapce at
church. Sabbath morning was
wet and drizzling, yet the
church was crowded to It's ut
most capacity, so that there
was no more standing room,
and all paid the 'strictest at
tention TO the services. / will
quote little here from my
diary: "when | got TO the door
| found the people crowdinR in
though the day was wet and
drizzIy, and had been so all
m,IFning The people were
found, in regular procession Of
some six persons deep and ex-
tending, about ten, rods. AS
they approached the door some
church official, / suppose the
priest, Sprinkled them with
water by means OF a large hair
brush. At the door there stood
an efngy Of person looking
something like aRoman figure
lido not know whatlt Is intend
ed to represens) and long rib
bon around the neck, and fast
to the ribbon a little round
case with something in it GOV.
cred with a glass; also a col
lection box. About one half
of the eudience on entering
cast some money into the box
and nine tenths kissed the
glass of this case, only those
omitllng 80 to Jo.who found II
almost impossible because of
the crowd pressing for en-
trance. The audience possessed
as little intelligence as any /
have ever seen of that size."-
"rhe women had instead Of
bonnetS, handkerchlefs tied
over their heads and one OF
the corners hanging down over
the neck. These handkerchieis is
were generally white but some
Of another color" The preach
er preached with Sclavonic
tongue entirely unintelliglble
10 me, yet this l noticed, that
every time he repeated the
name OF Jesus Christ they all
bowed" Since l have been in
Germany | have seen more
drunken men than l have ever
seen in the same time before
Yesterday evening as Mrs. F.
and Iiook a walk we met Ave
or SIX men thar were stagger.
ing. | never saw SO much ex-
treme poverty before in my
life. One meets beggars at
every turn, and it is no won
der, for the wealth Of the land
is drank up in beer and wine.
Men have told me more than
once that my living must be
cheap because / drank no wine
or beer. But | must close.


r I'D FRY.


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TINS section Of law remains
a dead letter on the statute
Year: 1874

THE intelligence comes that twelve insurrectionists against the Japanese Gov ernment have just been executed. Among the number was Katsuki, who was q student at the Troy Academy about four years ago. The Troy Times says: [" He remained nearly year, giving evidence of superior talent and an ambition rare among his countrymen. His great aim was to become statesman. He not only made the institutions of his own land a study. but industriously examined and observed the workings of our politics. As Troy did not afford the desired facilities, he went to Albany about three years ago in order to be an observer of our State Legislature While there he received private instruc- tions in his academic studies. When the Japanese Embassy came to this country he was persuaded to accompany son of one of the Ambassadors to England, where they both entered upon course of study. A few months since he returned to Japan:"
Year: 1874

THE bill to admit Colorado into the union has passed the House, and the bills for the admission of both Colorado and New Mexico are now before the Senate with fair prospects that both bills will pass and become law. If such should be the case and should the people of both Terri tories vote in favor of State organization, the number of States will then be increas- ed to thirty-nine.
Year: 1874

that the people of Walla Walla were
either opposed to it, or lacked conf
dence in the company which has it in
charge. In spite Of the attempts of old
monopolists and interested spectators
to create diversion by the presentation
OF other schemes which have no practi-
cal basis, the people of Seattle and Wal
10 Walla are as near o unit upon this
matter as the people of any community
ever were upon any question of public
interest, and if this unity of sentiment
is backed by corresponding unity of
purpose and determination success is
already assured. The property holders
of Eastern Washington and Oregon and
of Northern Idaho, are interested in the
completion Of this road to more than
the entire amount Of their present pos
sessions. for it would more than double
the value of their property without it,
and no other contemplated project offers
any such practical results. The opening
of the Columbia river to unobstructed
or free navigation is chimera which
has no practical support from any quar-
ter; railroad by the way of the Co.
lumtia river to ocean no vigation, all
engineering examinations have proved





to be too expensive to enlist capital in
its construction; hence the only practi-
cal outlet to the ocean for one of the
finest agricultural regions upon the con-
tinent is by the way of the Seattle and
Walla Walla Railroad. And by the
same token, it is manifest to all intelli-
gent men acquainted with the position,
that no unoccupied route upon this
continent offers as great inducements
for the investment of capital in rail-
road as this. If the people interested
in this road haYe not the capital to
build the road, they have sufficient to
subsidize capitalists to engage in it. II
Congress will not permit them to grant
municipal aid. no one can debar them
from extending to the work their own
private means, and if it took the abso-
lutte sacrifice of one half the taxable
property Of the two counties of Walla
Walla and King to secure the construc-
ton of the road the counties would be
much richer for it.