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Year: 1879

From the Chicago Express.


"With magnificent crops, while those
of the rest of the world are failure, 1t
must be apparent to every one that the
country is on the eve of great commercial
prosperity. For the next five years the
United States will enjoy the long looked
for good times. For those who have some
means, there never was Il better time to
embark in active business. " Hardmon
paper, Sept. 5, 1879.


At this time every allusion to the times
means an argument for or against the
Greenback party, there being no other
question up which is of any consequence.
Hence it is fair to presume that no Green
back party is necessary, because the
disasters of the rest of the world tavors
us.


1t seems that FIVE years is the outside
limit of the expected good times, and that
It is only those of ''some means" who can
take advantage thereof. | should say it
is rather sorry prosperity which is pre-
dicted upon the disaster of the rest Of the
world; that it is rather short one that is
to be limited to five years; that is an un-
Just one if confined to men Of some
MEANS" and that it was most cruel and
criminal in the money manipulatOrs to
make the industrial heart sick waiting fo"
the ''long looked for good times" whlcu
indeed would not have dawned yet if the
money men could have cut off our crops as
well as our currency.


This hard pan paper shows the size and
color of the cat which had well nigh es-
capped from the bag, when it places the
duration of prosperity at five years. The
money sharks will want what money has
been made, and will by that time reach
forth and gather it in by means Of pan
ic of their own producing, as they have
been dong for century, and as they will
continue to do, unless the people learn
common sense in the way Of finance, and
turn them out Of power.


The money sharks could have brought
the people little nearer to destruction,
and would have done so if God had not
taken compassion upon us, and in His
goodness given us almost n miracle in the
way of crops. As God has stepped in in
our defense, and has made it impossible
for the sharks to get the whole of our
property this year, their newspapers are
now advertising that the sharks will
give the people further lenity Of five
years before the final swallowing comes.
Year: 1879

From the Chlcago THOuhe,


As the physician is often obliged to trace
disease back to ante-natal causes before
he can arrive at correct diagnosis, so
many of the ills of society have to be
traced back to their root in order to to ar
rive at the correct cause of their existence
and origin.


Away back in ancient times human na-
ture was about the same as now.


There was class Of aspirants, ambi-
tiOus, proud, and avaricious.


The could not, or would not, earn and
produce by honest labor the amount they
desired to consume and expcnd. They
had to resort to device to obtain without
consideration the products of others la
Dor. After resorting to all other meas
ures they lit upon usury and the monopoly
Of money. A writer about the l4th CEN
tury says:


"The manners of the people were rude.
A man and his wife ate off of one plate,
There were no wooden handled knives,
nor more than one or two drinking cupt
in the house. Candles were unknown-a
servant held torch during supper. The
clothes of men were of leather and nm
ined. The common people ate flesh but
Two or three times a week. A small stock
of coin seemed riches. But some began
to want fine houses and lofty towers
Things exquisite and sumptuous were
sought for. Gold, silver, pearls, rich furs
and foreign wines and rich meats wert
required. Hence, Usury, Fraud and Ty
ranny."


Here is the solution, the root and cause
of the whole debt and interest curst
which to-day rests like a mildcw of death
upon the hearts and hopes of humanity
Year: 1879

When the Greenback party shall have
consummated its desires, the national
debt will have been paid, the national
bonds destroyed, and the money of the
nation, Of whatever material, will be coin
ed by the government, and supplied di-
rectly to the people without the aid OF
the middle man." the national banker.


The government will see that the poo
pie have a sufficienCy Of full legal tender
money to transact the business ofthe coun-
try without resorting to credit.


The volume of the circulating medium
will have to be increased yearly to keep
place with the increase Of population and
wealth.


Now, if it should turn out that the ex.
penscs of running the government could
be so reduced that the public expenses
each year should not exceed the amount
of necessary increase in the circulating
medium would it not be nice for the gov.
ernmcnt to pay off its officers all with q
new issue of greenbacks, and thus save
all the expense and annoyance to the peo
pie of collecting taxes each year2


We know the expenses of the govern
ment are twice as great as they should
be. They must be reduced. If individ.
uals wish to run wild after aristocratiC
and monarchical customs let them do so,
but we as a republican nation, one Of
whose missions is to establish anobility Of
labor, must not, while so many of our
fellow beings are destitute, attempt To
mimic such shallow, senselcss customs.
Year: 1879

From the Nat Live Stock Journal.


Beauty in dairy COW, unac:ompanicd
by a capacity to yield good milk, has no
value; and it is the giving of such promi-
nence to those collateral and more or less
fanciful points, while the actual milk and
butter yield is ignored, that we object to.
First determine whether you have a COW
worthy of consideration before you turn
attention to the athletic points of beauty.
A COW that yields 800 or more pounds Of
golden Jersey butter will be a model, and
altogether beautiful in the eyes Of dairy
man. Without this performance, the
symmetry of the little Jersey is not worth
thought. Utility first-then beanty
may come in to complete the picture.


We have high appreciation of the ca
pacity and value of the Jerseys as butter
yielders, and should like to see the Amer
lean Jersey bred to much higher prac-
tical standard than this breed has yet been
on its native island; and we think the
time has arrived for the American Jersey
Cattle Club, as the most influential body
of Jersey breeders, to take the necessary
new departure OF introducing test recOrd
into the pedigree. The real value of this
breed can never be sustained except upon
| actual performance; and when this shall
| be the mark towards which breeders shall
aim, solid progress will at once begin,
When performance, after purity of blood,
shall be made the practical basis of the
pedigree, the skillful breeder may safely
weave into the pattern, on this founda'
tion, all the real points of beauty, fol-
utility is not opposed to beauty. 1t is the
breeding to some frivolous non-essential
points, regardless of practical merit rs
mixers, that has let down the character
of the Jersey, and produced, as the Bul.
Teton of the Club says, many carload
| of worthless brutes" that "can be bought
for song" 1t now behoves the Club to
set itself against this "chaff Of pedigree"
and start upon the solid foundation Of
performance at the pail.
Year: 1879

Sir Henry Thompson, in Popular Science Monthly for


September,


Unquestionably tobacco IS an ally to
temperance; certainly it is so in the Csti'
nation of the gourmet. A relationship
for him of the most perfect order is that
which subsists between coffee and frag-
rent smoke. While wine and tobacco are
antipathetic, the one affecting injuriously
all that is grateful in the other, the aroma
coffee "marries" perfectly with the per-
fume of the finest leaf. Among the Mus
sulmans this relationship is recognized to
the fullest extent; and also throughout
the Continent the use of coffee, which is
almost symbolical of temperate habits, is
intimately associated with the cigarette or
cigar. Only by the uncultured classes of
Great Britain and of other northern
nations. who appear to possess the most
insensitive palates in Europe, have smoke
and alcoholic drinks been closely asso-
ciated. BY such, tobacco and spirit have
been sought chiefly as drugs, and are
takon mainly for their effects on the nerv-
GUS systematic easy but disastrous means
of becoming stupid, besotted or drunk.
People of cultivated tastes, on the other
hand, select their tobacco or their wines,
not for their qualities as drugs, but for
those subtler attributes Of flavor and per-
fume, which exists often in inverse pro-
portion to the injurious narcotic ingredl-
ents; which latter are as much as possi'
BILE avoided, or are accepted chiefly for the
sake of the former.
Year: 1879

A Curious Fact About Yellowstone Trout.
From the Chicago Times.


A curious thing about the fish in the
Yellowstone is related by General Whip
pie. Below the falls the trout are fine
fellows for table use, but above the falls
the fish are wormy. 1t is no trick at all
for fisherman to land three hundred
trout in three hours, provided his arm
doesn't become tired and the bait holds
out; but the fish are unfit for use after
they have been caught. No trout has
ever been caught above the falls that did
not carry worm somewhere under its
scales. The General examined large
number of trout, and every one contained
the worm. When examined it was found
to be in most cases about eight inches in
length, and resembling piece Of white
tape. This reptile, when freed from its
bed in the meat, would wriggle and
wnithe as if suffering from an attack Of
collie. Some think the worms breed In
the fish and then eat their way into the
flesh. Millions Of these fish die OF the


worms and float over the falls, and
the gulls can be seen feeding upon them
almost any minute in the day.
Year: 1879

IT is easy to forcsee the end of this po-
litical fight, when you reflect that error is
the only thing that can destroyed, and
that truth is the only thing that can
eventually come out ahead.
Year: 1879

GREENDAcKERs who have cut their eye
teeth won't be deceived when republicans
tell them that resumption caused the big
crops of wheat to grow in the West this
year. Nor will they be so green as to
take any stock in the republican soft soap
that resumption Is bringing the gold over
from Europe, when they know it is the
wheat we are sending there that does it.
Resumption has about as much to do with
all this as little boys jcwsharp in a
side show has to do with one of Thomas
one-hundred instrument grand concerts
under the big canvass.
Year: 1879

No wonder the bank stock of the First
national bank of New York is worth $3.50
per share and cannot be bought at that
1t cost 500: but Sherman gives it a place
at the head of the stealing trough, where
it has the first and best chance of all the
nthnr thinuns
Year: 1879

TnoUGu the rag baby is dead again
as usual, we haven't heard of anybody
ordering set of tombStones. 1t is not
certain that the grave will be dug till the
corps buys it a bigger pair of brccches to
he buried in.
Year: 1879

THERE is one important fact of
which many greenbackers seem to lose
sight, when they claim that the great is
sue before the people is whether the banks
or the government shall issue the money
of the country. The industrial prosperity
or adversely does not so much depend on
what kind of money we have, but on the
quantity of it. If there were thousand
millions of counterfeit greenbacks in cir
culation, so that they circulated, they
would perform all the Offices and function
thata thousand millions of genuine dol
lars could perform, even if they were gold
dollars. Here is the key to a very import
ant financial fact, into which it would be
well for all greenbackcrS to inquire most
seriously.
Year: 1879

To our friends in Iowa and Ohio we bid
God-speed. However the wind may blow
stick to your colors. Very much depends
upon your efforts the next few weeks. We
know whereof We speak when we assure
you that so soon as the National Green.
back party shall develop u winning stride
at the north, the south will come horse,


foot and dragon. The sympathy is al
ready with you. Our people are tired of
sectlonalism, and will Join with Il hearty
good will to recover the government from
the clutches Of the corrupt Money Power.
Year: 1879

atty was abolished, and Switzerland has


been for several years in the enjoyment


Of n season in which murder was compara-
lively free. The guillotine was ''played
ont" Naturally the experience of this
period has inspired very active move-
ment for the re-enactment of that penalty.
They find that the assassinating classes
take it too seriously. But there is hitch
between the two parts of the federal Assem-
bly,, and the Council OF States and the Ma
tional Council cannot agree to recommend
the revision of the constitution, so the sub
ject must be submitted to popular vote.
As the class of possible victims is more
numerous than that of actual assassins it is
highly probable that the popular vote will
decide to have life for life whenever 1t is
possible to get it.
Year: 1879

with persons who allow themselves to
be gullei by such shallow impostures.
Such queries ut this late day as those OF
Messrs. Powell and Atmore emphasize the
impossibility OF conveying warning to men
who are predestined to be cheated. How
often have We conspicuously stated that the
HERALD never allows its representatives to
accept railroad or other passes. hotel hospi-
talities or extraneous pecuniary compensa-
tion of any kind for the performance OF
their commissions? The experience OF
many years ought to have satisfied all who
come into contact with the genuine repre-
sentatives of the HERALD that they are
neither to be bought nor bribed. Persons
who will not take the trouble to ascertain
the code Of conduct observed by all reputa-
BILE journals have only themselves to
blame. for they certainly would not lavish
hospitality and bank checks upon persons
from whom they expected no puffery in re-
turn.
Year: 1879

them as the Zulus were to Colonel Glyns
column. Russia has apparently never shut
out from the Afghans till now all hope tor
aid to their cause, but now the final word
has apparently been given, and this is GER
tainly the result of an agreement with Eng
land as to Roumelia.


England is famous for betraying treaties
to which she is q party by secret agree
ments with some one or another OF the
Powers with which she negotiates. Imme-
diately after the Treaty OF Paris she made
secret treaty in regard to that document,
and while negotiating the treaty at Berlin
she agreed secretly with two of the Powers
present against all the others respectively,
and it need not astonish the world to hear
one of these days that, by new secret
agreement, she has gone further in regard
to Roumelia than the mere relinquishment
of her objections to mixed occupation.
Year: 1879

RTemcn COmbthtUtlOms


On the project for the revision of the
French constitution with regard to the seat
of government the Paris correspondent of
the London Times says, in one Of tho
dispatches we give to-day :-''In the event
of the Chamber of Deputies attempting to
dispense with the concurrence of the
Senate the government would be bound to
prevent such violation Of the constitu-
ton" We presume there is no ground
whatever for the imputation thus put forth
that some important section of the Deputies
have entertained this revolutionary project,
and we suppose this to be mere gratuitous
piece of injustice from o man who loses no
opportunity to show his inalignity toward
the Republic, On the point as to one
house dispensing with tho other for the
labor Of changing the constitution there is
no room for doubt. Tho law declares that
the chambers shall have tho right to de-
clare separately that there is occasion to
revise the constitution, and that "nftcr
each ono of the chambers" has so declared
the two shall form national convention,
which shall net upon the constitution and
change IL in one way or another by vote of
the majority. There is no revision without
the convention, and no convention unless
both houses are agreed that thefe shall be
one, md we do not believe that the repub-
licans have even thought of any violation
Of the law on this point.
Year: 1879

Happy is tho people that has no history |;
and low nations can possibly be happier
than the Swiss in the enjoyment of tram
quill and placid existence seldom disturbed
by the ruffle of an event worth repo cting to
tho world as news just now, however.
there is ripple on the ordinarily calm sur
face of Swiss life. by that revision of the
Swiss constitution which generalized and
unified the penal laws that had before been
different for every canton the death PEN
Year: 1879

a RESPECTABLE LADY. acting in an innocent
manner, was arrested yesterday in Broadway
dry goods store on suspicion of theft. This sort
of thing has gone on long enough. for it is posi-
lively becoming dangerous for ladies ito go shop
ping in the large retail stores. Ii merchants
cannot employ detectives possessed OF common
sense they should be made to pay roundly for
the social injury occasioned by an arrest under
such circumstances. Professional thicvcsare no
doubt too smart to be detected by these shop
detectives" hence their readiness to pounce
upon innocent persons. An example in the
shape of damages is the one thing necessary to
check these outrageous arrests.
Year: 1879




On Wednesday. the 18th inst, the Mayor
had three members of the Police Commits
sion before him to show canse why they
should not be removed It was his inten-
tion to limit the hearing to that day, but at
the close of the proceedings he accorded
such further written replies as they might
choose to offer. This betokened a refresh
ing impatience of red tape and of the dila-
tory proceedings of lawyers, and the public
was led to expect that the Mayor, being
thus quickly in possession of all the evil
dence he thought necessary, would forth
with remove the Commissioners and send
his decision and the grounds of it to the
Governor.


That summary hearing was on the 10th of
March; to-day is the goth, and, so far as the
public knows, the removals have not been
made, and painful doubts are beginning to
arise in the minds OF many who are dis
posed to strengthen the Mayor in his origi-
nal intention as to whether this surprising
delay does not betoken o quailing
before obstacles which may result in
an abandonment of his purpose We
sincerely wish him we'll, and tell
him in all frankness that he cannot
afford to let these painful doubts
grow into settled distrust His studied
reticence is operating to his disadvantage.


Unless he either acts at once or explains his
friends will find it difficult to stand up in
his defence. 1t is not wise for public
officer to disappoint the reasonable expecta-
tions of the public. especially expectations


which he has himself inspired and en-
couraged.


If the Mayor finds an unexpected neces-
sity for forbearing or postponing action he
should be glad of an opportunity to explain.
We propose to give him this opportunity,


which he ought to appreciate and even to
covet.i We shall send to him this afternoon
a courteous and intelligent reporter who
will offer the columns of the HERALD for
any statements which the Mayor may
choose to communicate to the public with
out the awkwardness of seeming to pro-
trude them unsolicited. We have found
in our experience that public men in high
stations are often glad to accept this kind


of courtesy from the HERALD, and we
proffsr it to Mayor Cooper in sincere and
friendly spirit. OF course. he must be his
own judge as to whether he will accept it,;
but if he declines it there is one excuse
which we trust he willno offer He is re-
ported to have said on several recent oc-


casions, in reply to inquiries Of the
press, that he is not prophet and
can therefore answer no questions in rela-
ton to his future action. We would gladly
believe that he has never said anything of
the kind. A public officer who does not
himself know what he will do next in a
matter on which he is presumed to have


entered with deliberate purpose puts
himself before the public in an unenviable
light. It is virtual confession that he does
not know his own mind Prophecy is con-
cerned only with the uncertain part of the
future, and a public officer. with plain
duty before him, who regards his inten-
tions as coming within the scope Of
prophecy that is to say, who cannot con-
lecture to-day what his own mind will be
to-morrow-is not properly considerate of
his dignity.
Year: 1879

by his foDdncss for red, green. and yellow pebbles
for ochreous earths and other pigments, and prop
ably for flowers, feathers. and similar natural OBJ
iects Long before the dawn of history ever found
him surrounding himself with these aesthetic ad-
juncts and wherever we see him still In the same
early stage of development we meet with the same
colored ornaments. Over the whole known world,
among the most civilized and the most savage races
alike, the perception of color now appears exactly
identical.


The work of Mr.. Allen will be as much admired
for its poetic beauty for its scientific suggestive
ness No well-informed reader will claim for 1t the
force of demonstration. Like the theory OF OAR
win on which it is founded, it can take the place
only Of an ingenious conjecture, sustained by
curious and more or less plausible array OF IN
stances from the domain of natural history, ana
defended with admirable fairness and intelligence
but from the very nature of the case, of tenta-
tive character and not reduced to the dimensions
of an exact and certain science. Mr.. Aliens vide
information and rare descriptive power Will at
tract readers of taste and refnement his pictures
of natural life glow with animation and beauty;
while his rich collection of facts forms valuable
addition TO our knowledge of the external uni
verse.
Year: 1879

Baltzer Schaffer, German tailor ffty-seven years
old. residing on the second floor OF the rear tene-
ment house No. is Eldridge street shot himself
twice in the abdomen last night and inflicted in
juries from which he died about half an
hour afterward. He had quarrelied with his
wife but few minutes before shooting
himself. For some months past he had been unable
to obtain work and his wife procured situation as
waitress in saloon. She was forced to work until
late at night and her husband became jealous of her
After supper the old feud between them
was revived. and the pair talked the matter
over for several hours. Mrs. Schaffer told
her husband that he had unjustly suspected her and
that she was still true to him. He apparently did
not believe her. the police say that in the heat OF
passion he presented revolver at her and threatened
to take her life Fearing that he might pnt his
threat into execution took her child in her
and ran out the landing few moments later
the suicidal shots were fired
Year: 1879

LArER-THE COAL MINERS AT SUGAR NOTCH, PA,


RESCUED ALIVE.


wilkesbarre, Pa, April 2S.-Great excitement
prevails here and there is feeling Of inexpress-
ible relief over the rescue of the seven imprisoned
miners, who for five days have been buried in
No. 10 slope. The men sustained life by the meat
Of mule which boy sent to give them warning
had fortunately taken with him, and stream
running through the mine gave them needful
water. Reliefs of laborers have been constantly
at work night and day, and finally these succeed
ed in making a channel through fifty foot
block Of coal, The men suffered little from their
confinement, and they and their rescuers were
loudly cheered as they reached the surface Of the
mine.


The scenes Of joy around the mouth of the pit
as the Door fellows were once more brought into
the light of day, can better be imagined than de-
scribed Many women tainted when the news
came from below that q rescue had been effected,
and the men were alive. Many of the rescued
are in a debilitsted condition, but with good
nursing all can be saved Thanksgiving services
are to be held In the churches The joyful news
spread like lightning all over the country The
rescueTs worked hard night and day. for hVe
days, digging through mammoth 0lock OF coal
in order to penetrate the lower gangway where
they were imprisoned In the mines: The cause
Of the disaster is attributed TO- what is termed the
''robbing" of the pillars The Mine Inspectors
will commence an investigation to morrow.