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Year: 1874

ct is an exploded theory, says one
who speaks with knowledge, that
women dress to please the men. They
dress to please or. spite each other.
Any girl of sense and experience
knows that it is as easy to break a
mans heart in a two dollar muslin,
neatly made up, as it is in 500 silk
costume made by man-dress maker.
1t is, in fact, a great deal easier. The
natural charm Of young girl is often
destroyed BY excessive dressing Men
like tasteful and not extravagant
toilets and the rivalry of dress among
women is to catch beau, but to NOR
tify any enemy.
Year: 1874

The e. h. and L. Boys desiring sufficient
balance due and become due their building have determined
this last entertainment and they neither
make this the


The Stewards for the gentlemen
the full confidence of the
made for perfect decoun throughout the


In order that the Hall much crowded
TO issue
Year: 1874

After the donation (Which will be made the
Hook and Ladder Company there will 800 which the
will distribute themselves according the following simple plan Each
donating S3 90 will be entitled
the Concert together with three each of which will ene
holder of the gift awarded the number said
the free distribution of cash gifts which will be
ued by a committee selected by the donors.
Year: 1874

only remains that its processes be
faiFhfnlly followed. according to the
proyisG-ons of our Discipline, by those
entrusted with its execution. A sol
emp responsibility rests upon the res
peetiKe assh9Ejties of the Church to
see that its sancGity be fully maintain
ed But We would remark that our
laws are not iGexerabIe, and that mo
process should be served without TAX
ing all the preliminary measures to Sc
cure the amendment of otfe".efs.-
Herein consists the safety and the
force of their execution. The times
imperatively demand that the moral
effect of Christian discipline should
yindicate itself against those loose ideas
which merge disciplinary distinctions
into a mere time-serying policy.


3. Congregational singing, as cop-
trasted with what are called operate
performances, has been brought to our
notice by the General Conference
Abuses have undoubtedly been intro
duced into this branch of worship
among Us. The extraordinary cultiva-
tiOn.of musical science in our day, and





its fascinating influence upon the 1s-
thetic elements of human nature, have
precipitate crisis upon the order
and simplicity of Christian worship IN
this particular, alike subversive OF its
Inspiration and its edification. We are
not wise enough to dictate the precise
limitations of improvement in sacred
song, but we do not hesitate to say that
no music should be introduced into
public worship that is not decidedly
devotional; that no tunes should De
sung to hymns announced by our
preachers, in which the congregation
can not participate. and that the pas.
tors of our churches, in virtue OF their
Office. have general supervision of this
as well as of any other department of
public service. We give il also as our
! Judgment that whenever instrumental
Year: 1874

IpexpressiDly grateful for your generous
support of my claims to the office when
sought. I have now but one further thing TO
ask at YOUR hands in reference to the approach
ipg election, and that is that those who fa-
yored my nomination will show themselves
in the canvass that has begun among the
foremost in the city In zeal, in activity, and
in unselfsh devotion to the Conservative
cause. No one shall excel ME in hearty and
honest effort to secure the success OF our
whole ticket, and he is no true friend OF
mine that lags behind and brings on me tbe
reproach of being connected with deieat OF
our cause. We must carry our whole ticker.
~ P. T. MOORE.
Year: 1874

Christmas Thoughts In the Pulpits.


The festival of Christmas and the approach
ing end of the year give the pastors an excel
lent opportunity and an additional inspira-
tion, if they need one, to call men to
repentance. Very many Of our city pastors
will, therefore. make these events the basis of
one or more of their dscourses to-day The
Rev. Mr. Alger will show how we may abuse
as well as use these events in our annual
retrospection, while Mr.. Hepworth will help
his people to take an account of moral stock
previous to embarking on another years
voyage. He will also repeat his sermon of
last Sabbath, by request on 'The Outlook
too, will have some thoughts to
offer on Christmas and on the New
Year as apropos to those who have allowed
another year to pass without having made
their peace with God. The Rev. Mr.. Corbit
will also preach q Christmas sermon this
morning, and in the evening will take peep
into eternity. And as time and eternity are
nearly related to each other DR.. Porteous
will probably tell us what they are and what
is their relationship. Dr.. Miller will have
something to say about the Christ child also
and Mr.. Hawthorne will revive the Sacred
Memories" of the season and of the year, and
will invite his people to accept the joy-pro-
ducing elements OF Christianity instead of its
melancholia. ''The Star in the East will
enable Dr.. Armitage to guide his congrega-
| ton to where the infant Redeemer NAV he
found, so that they can offer the material gifts
of their hands as well as the homage of their
hearts,
Year: 1874

Mayor Wickham will of course require
from Comptroller Green an explanation of
his relation to the misconduct for which the
Commissioners of Charity were 80 properly
removed by Mayor Vance. 1t appears, and
the fact was shown in the HERALD nearly q
year ago, that bills in excess of one thousand
dollars were illegally incurred by the Com
missioners but these bills were paid by the
Comptroller. How was this? Was the
Comptroller deceived? Where, then, is that
vigilance for which he makes the city pay so
enormously? Was he party to the game of
the Commissioners? Where, then, is his
honesty? 1t does appear that he must have
been one or the other-ether a party TO the
game or dupe of the players-and the Mayor
should call upon him to explain which he
was. Good-natured people would like to
believe that he was dupe only, but there are
difficult facts in the way. He is for instance,
peculiarly on the alert for games of this sort
He fully appreciates that the most important
function of his Office is to watch against them
He has greatly increased the burden of clerk
hire, ostensibly that he might the better be
prepared for this service, and yet his prepa-
rations are bald failure, Could his experts
not see through the thin pretence of division
of bills to make smaller sums than thousand
dollars? Nonsense. If they were experts
they knew; and if they knew it was Green's
duty to require contract before the payment
of the bills. In that duty he failed. For
what reason? This is as much case for
his removal as tor the removal of the Com
missioners.
Year: 1874

PETTIs, THE FoRGER. Spencer Pettis, the
forger, who is now residing in the Massachu-
setts State Prison, tells story, which will be
found in our news columns, of the manner in
which he was imposed upon in the Bolles
forgery case by sharpers sharper than himself.
He has petition for pardon, which he
is very anxious for the Governor to sign,
and if that functionary only complies with
his request he promises to come to New York
and reveal much about the recent forgeres of
railroad bonds and throw a food of light
besides on the true character of the New
York detectives. The latter, he insists. are
using their influence to prevent him from
getting out Of prison.
Year: 1874

The proper management of the city finances
nicipal government. An intelligent, compre-
hensive and well defined financial policy is
the best safeguard against mismanagement in
all the public departments. Since Andrew
81. Green has held the Office of Comptroller
the people have not been vouchsafed any full
information as to their financial condition.
In the Board of Apportionment, to which is
assigned the duty of fixing the amount to be
levied annually by taxation for the support of
the government, one OF the members de-
clared, day or two ago, that it was impossi-
BILE to obtain from Comptroller Green full
and satisfactory statement of the city debt.
Here is 5 board called upon to provide what
amounr.'of the public money shall be ap-
propriated for interest, and the financial
officer of the city is unable or unwilling to
tell its members how much the city owes In
removing the Commissioners of Charities and
Correction Mayor Vance charges upon those
officials criminal violation of duty in having
made purchases Of supplies, without con-
tracts. in amounts forbidden by the law and
at fraudulent prices. The removed Commits
sioners could not have committed this official
wrong if the Comptroller, whose duty requires
him to scrutinize such accounts, had not been
neglectful of that duty or willing party to
the offence. The Corporation Counsel, who
ton, reports hundreds of suits against the
city involving about ten million dollars
These are necessitated by the obstinate refusal
of the Comptroller to pay debts owing by the
city, against which he is advised there is no
possible defence.


These evils should be terminated by Mayor
Wickham as soon as he enters upon the duties of
his Office. One Of his first official acts should
be the removal of Comptroller Green. The
charter requires the Mayor to communicate
to the Common Council at least once year a
general statement Of the finances OF the city,"
No particular time is fixed for this statement,
but in view of the unsatisfactory condition of
our financial management it cannot be made
too soon by Mayor Wickham. 1t is duty he
owes to himself to enable the people to know
their exact financial condition and to initiate
new financial policy at the commencement
of his term of Office. He cannot do this until
he rids the city of financial charlatanism. His
removal OF Andrew H. Green will be indorsed
by Governor nlden in accordance with demo-
cratic principle, and with man of brains and
integrity in the Comptroller's Office our finan-
cial affairs can soon be redeemed from their
present confusion.
Year: 1874

CHINA AND JAPAN-Elsewhere we give an
perhaps, was averted the war between China
and Japan, that seemed imminent as a conse-
quence of the japanese expedition to Formosa-
Our correspondence will well repay an atten-
tive perusal on the part of all persons
interested in the relations of the two great
Eastern pupils of Western thought. China
never made more characteristic appearance
in any negotiation whatever, and the pecu-
liar tone and temper of the resolute and prac-
tical japanese are equally clear. The ulti-
mate point in the case-the actual result of
the negotiations-was given first in our
columns some weeks since; but the story of
the negotiations is now told for the FIRST time.
Year: 1874

THE GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS, nephew of the
Gar, who has been declared insane by an i'm
perial ukase, is the same royal parsonage who,
some months ago, robbed his mother of her
jewels to give them to an American adventures.
That scandal is fresh in the memory of the
American public, and is, no doubt the cause of
the declaration of the Grand Duke insanity.
There was no other way, probably, of dealing
with his offence and saving the honor of the
imperial family of Russia.
Year: 1874

Doors AND SHOES FOR THE NEBRASKA SUr-
FEREEs. General Brisbin, writing from
Omaha, Neb., thanks tire HERALD for its
efforts in behalf of the sufferers by the grass
hopper plague. 1t is gratifying to know that
an abundant supply of clothing is anticipated
from the benevolent Boots and shoes for
ladies and children are what are now most
urgently needed and the mention OF the fact
is only necessary to indicate to the charitably
disposed the character OF the donations which
at this moment would be most acceptable.
Year: 1874

THE BEEcHER CASE came up in the Brook
lyn City Court yesterday and gave the oppos-
ing counsel opportunity for spirited Pick
wickian debate, which had little to do with
the question. 1t was finally agreed that the
argument upon the appeal from Judge
McCue's order for bill Of particulars from
Mr.. Tilton should take place tomorrow, when
the time for the trial will be fixed. Thus far
the trial seems to have been not to appoint
any time whatever.
Year: 1874

"Home Rule" for New York City.


In the platform of the Convention which
nominated Samuel j. Tilden Tor Governor is
plank which declares in favor OF "home
rule to limit and localize most jealousy the
few powers iitrusted to public servants-mu-
nicipal, State an ! federal no Capitalization.
This language is sufficiently plain and en-
phatic. 1t is concise statement OF princl-
pie that has long been recognized as cardinal
one'with the democracy. Time and again that
party has protested against the interference
OF the federal authorities in State affairs and
the intermeddling of State authorities with
the affairs OF New York city. The democrats
of the Legislature of 1872, of which Mr.. Til
den was member opposed that provision of
the city charter which gives the Governor
veto power on removals of heads of depart
ments by the Mayor. Their opposition was
based on the sound principle that as the Mayor
is at the head OF the municipal government,
Is charged with the duty of seeing that
the duties imposed upon the several heads of
departments are faithfully performed, and is
directly responsible to the citizens of the me-
tropolis for his official actions, he should
possess the absolute power of removal, nde-
pendent of the Governor of the State. They
opposed the provision further on the ground
that it was special legislation, applying to the
New York city government restrictions not
imposed on other cities of the State. Their
objections to this feature Of the charter, as
well as their general protests against similar
legislation, are embraced in that portion of
''home rule; to limit and localize most
jealously the few powers intrusted to munich
pal officers


Governor Tilden accepted, approved and
was elected on this platform. This is sufi-
cient disproval of the rumors that he has
pledged himself to save Comptroller
Green from removal by Mayor Wickham,
through the use of the veto power,
conferred for political purposes by repub-
lican Legislature on q republican Governor.
Governor Tilden is an honorable man and o
democrat, and he would not violate the obli-
cation he voluntarily took upon himself when
he accepted the democratic platform and the
democratic nomination. He would scarcely
be ambitious to initiate in his administration
Of the State government the policy Of favorit-
ism and personal friendship in appointments
and removals that has worked so injuriously
in the city government for the past two years,
and that is so disgraceful to the administra-
ton at Washington. 1t will be the duty of
Mayor Wickham to remove Comptroller Green
from Office as soon as he has the power to do
so. Governor Tilden would not sacrifice his
personal honor, his party fealty, his avowed
principles and his future political prospects
by interposing any obstacles to this removal.
Year: 1874

The DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS was gloomy
enough at the Tombs, one hundred and sixty
persons having been arraigned at the Police
Court. This startling revelation of crime or
want is in dark contrast with the brightness
Of the Christmas festival
Year: 1874

KING KALAKAUA yesterday was presented
with an address of welcome from the Board
first real monarch who had chosen to per-
sonally examine the working OF republican in
stitutions. His Majesty to-day will attend
church, and we trust be will find Christianity
as earnest in the American capital as it : in
his own
Year: 1874

THE BALL Was Up in the Park yesterday
and the skating season was formally begun
The description of the scene and the rules
which govern this amusement which we print
to-day, will be found interesting to all
Year: 1874

interest for which the city is actually liable
will therefore greatly exceed nine million three
hundred thousand dollars but this sum is
enough to show the taxpayers at what a reck-
less rate we are heaping up the burden of
debt
Year: 1874

COMPTROLLER GREEN demands and has re-
ceived in the city estimate nine million three
hundred thousand dollars for payment of in
terest on the city debt Some of the debt bears
seven, some six and small portion five per
cent interest Averaging the interest at six
and half per cent the amount appropriated
represents debt Of about one hundred and
forty-four million dollars. But this interest
account is still deceptive and fraudulent. 1t
is based on the bonded and funded debt and
revenue bonds. The city is liable for interest
on all its just debts, as well as on its bonds
and stocks. Claims to the amount of about
ten million dollars are now in suit against the
city, If these should oil be recovered they
will cost the city seven hundred thousand
dollars year additional interest, and some of
them have been running for two and three
years and some for longer period. We owe
debts not yet in suit, but the payment of
which is withheld by Comptroller Green all
of which bear seven per cent interest. The
Year: 1874

Every lover of good music will be delighted
at the announcement made by Mr. Strakosch
that three special operate performances will
be given this week at the Academy. The only
regret will be that this enterprising impresario
does not see his way to giving us longer
season. We suppose the fault lies with the
public, for Mr.. Strakosch has certainly en-
deavored to provide for the musical wants of
New York with liberality that ought to have
commanded success. The first performance
Of the special season, given tomorrow, will be
a remarkable affair. There will be gathered
our royal visitor, King Kalakaua, Governor
Tilden, Mayors Wickham and Vance and
host of other distinguished people Beauty
and fashion will throng the Academy to
do honor to royalty, and the queen of
song, the charming Albani, will be well
coined back with unabated enthusiasm
"Lohengrin" has been selected for tomorrow
evenings performance, so that His Majesty
King Kalakaua will return to his subjects with
thorough comprehension of what is meant
by tie emusic of the future" Ever-delight-
tul ''Trovatore" is set down for Wednesday,
and on Friday the season will be brought to
close with "Don Giovanni" We hope the
public will not fail to mark their
appreciation of the sterling work done
by Mr.. SIrakosch in supplying operatic per-
formances not unworthy of London or Paris
at considerable risk. The support given to
the opera in the earlier part OF the season was
certainly not so generous as Mr. Strakosch
had right to expect. Now that the hard
times are drifting away the enterprise of the
manager should receive substantial tokens of
public approval
Year: 1874

Eating a hearty meal at the close
Of the day is like giving a labor
! ing man u full days work to do
just as night sets in, although he
has been toiing all day. The
whole body is fatigued when night
sets in, the stomach takes its due
share, and to eat heartily at sup
per and then 90 to bed is giving
all the other portions and tunc-
tions of the body repose, while
the stomach has thrown upon it
four or FIVE hours more Of addi-
tIonal work, after having already
labored four or FIVE hours to dis.
pose ofbreakfast, and still Ion
ger time for dinner. This ten or
twelve hours Of almost incessant
work has nearly exhausted it's
power; it cannot promptly digest
another full meal, but labors at it
for long hours together, like an
exhausted galley-slave on q newly
imposed task.


The result is that by the un-
natural length of time which the
food is kept in the stomach, and
the imperfect manner in which
the exhausted organ manages it,
it becomes more or less acid this
generates wind, this distends the
stomach, this presses up itself
against the more yielding lungs,
confning thcm TO largely dim
inished space ; hcnce eEory breath
taken is insufficient for the wants
Of the system, the blood becomes
foul, black, and thick, refuses to
flow, and the man dies, or in
delirium or fright leaps from a
window or commits suicide.


Let any reader who follows an
inactive life for the most part, try
the experiment for week of eat
ing absolutely nothing after a one
or two o'clock dinner, and see if
sounder sleep and a vigorous ap-
petite for breakfast and a hearty
dinner are not the pleasurable
results, 70 say nothing Of the hap
py deliVerance from that disagree.
able tullness, weight, oppression,
or acidity which attends over
eating. The great renovat;ng
and vivacity which a long, deli
cious, land connecting sleep imparts,
both to mind and body, will of
themselves more than compensate
for the certainly short and rather
dubious pleasure of eating a sup
per with no special relish.


Science Of Health
Year: 1874

WHEEL VELoc1TIEs.-The only
limit to the number of revolutions
which o wheel may be made to
make in o given time is the tensil
strength of the material of which
the wheel is made, and it's conse-
queRt power to resist centrifugal
forces which tend to render it
asunder. Savart, in his expert
ments on the theory of sound,
made wheels to revolve from one
thousand to two thousand times
per minute; but this has been sur
passed by Foucalt, who invented
an apparatus for measuring the
velocity of light, to which small
wheel with mirror attached,
which might have been made to
revolve six hundred, eight hun
dred, and one thousand times per
second, or sixty thousand times yer
minute. At these velocities the
ordinary amalgam was complete
ly stripped from the glass to which
it was attached, and it was found
necessary to use mirrors either of
glass coated with pure silver or
made entirely Of metal. These
are the most rapid revolutions
thus far obtained, probably, but
there is not the slightest reason
why even this should not be sur
passed. 1t is evident that for such
great velocities cog wheels are
out of the question. Only bands
or strings can be used.
Year: 1874

FEMALE TASTE 4 cultivated
taste marks . woman of elegance
and refinement as decidedly as
knowledge Of classical literature
does q gentleman ; and there is no
thing in which female vulgarity
is more clearly shown than in
want Of taste. This is an axiom
that we think viii! not admit of
dispute; but 1t is q question how
far taste is natural, and how
far it may be acquired. A delicate
taste must, to :: certain extent,
depend upon the organization Of
the individual; and it is impossible
for any rules to be laid down which
will impart taste to persons entire
ly devoid Of it. But this is very
seldom the case with women, as
it IS one OF the few points in which
women naturally excel men. Men
may be, AID probably are, superior
to women in all that requires pro-
found thought and general knowl-
edge; but in the arrangement Of a
house, ard the introduction Of Or
namental furniture and articles of
bijouter!e, there can De 10 doubt
OF the mate superiority Of wo-
men. Every one must have re-
marked the difference in the fur
uishing of bachelors house and
one where q LADY presldes; the
thousand little elegances Of the lat
ter, though nothing in themselves,
adding, like cyphers, prodigiously
to the value Of the solid articles
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Year: 1874

A very uged man in an alnsbouse "
asked what he was doing now. He replic
"Only waiting"
Only waiting till the shadows


Are little longer grown;
Only waiting ill the gimme.


Of the days last beam is flown!
Till the night of earth Is faded


From the heart once full of day;
Till the stars of Heaven are breaking


Thro' the twilight soft and gray.
Only waiting till the seapers


Have the last sheaf gathered home
For the summer time is faded,


And the autumn winds have come
Quickly, reapers! gather quickly


The last ripe hours Of my heart,
For the bloom of life is withered,


And hasten 10 depart.
Only waiting I'll. :ae angels


Open wide the mystic gate
By whose side long have fingered,


Weary, poor, and desolate,
Even now hear, their footseps.


And their voices far away;
II they call me am waiting


Only waiting to obey.
Only waiting till the shadows,


Are little longer grown;
Only waiting till the glinmer


OF the days last beam is down.
Then from ont the gathering darkness


Holy, deathleSs stars shall rise,
By whose light my soul shall gladly


Tread its pathway to the skies.