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Year: 1879

Yesterday afternoon a rcd-faced young
man belonging to an excursion party,
called into a Woodward avenue drug store
and softly asked the soda-fo fountain boy
if he was out Of any particular kind of
syrup. The boy made an investigation
and replied:


I'VE are out Of SarSaparilIa, but


That's all right-all right-you wait
a minute" interrupted the young man,
and away he went.


The boy took the empty reservoir from
the fountain and replaced it, and in about
two minutes the young man returned in
company with his girl and four other
people, evidently all friends Walking
up to the fountain he said:


I'm going to take sarsaparilla in mine,
for the doctors all recommend it, and if
he hasn't any sarsaparilla | won't take
nothing. What do you say


"Oh, we'll take the same, they replied.


The young man began to smile, and
his left eye began to draw down, but
what was his horror to see the boy draw
Of six glasses in succession and push
them to the front, where they were Gag
erly drained of their contents He tried
10 give the boy look of mingled hate
and murderous intent, but the lad was
too busy to see it. He felt in all his
pockets, brought up watch-kcys, pennies
and peanuts, and finally laid down TWEEN
ty-seven cents and whispered to the boy


That takes my pile, and if | ever
catch YOU outside of town I'll lick you to
death"
Year: 1879

THE Lord loveth cheerful giver;'
but there's no use chucking a copper cent
into the contribution box loud enough to
make the folks on the back seat think the
communion service has tumbled off the
altar.
Year: 1879

NEW YORK Tribune: There is genuine
truth as well as patbos in that complaint
which the Democratic Congressmen make of
the President-''He has disiu' bed the Demo-
cratic harmony" 81 he has. The Demo-
cratic editor will be able to add some feeling
remarks on this subject. Like bis friends in
Congress. he had his mouth all ready tn
howl that the President declared in favor of
troops at the polls, when 10! in came the
message saying in the fret paragraph that he
was opposed to that very thing, and adding
in the last paragraph that he would be glad
to Cooperate with Congress In any measure
which would tend to make such use still more
impossible than II is at present. That was
disturbing Democratic harmony with ven-
geance. A very able campaign yell was
strangled before its birth. and no time was
granted for the creation of q new one to take
its place.
Year: 1879

Our young folks think there is nothing
nicer for an evening retrcshment than corn
or nuts prepared in this way: Put into an
iron kettle one tablespoonful Of water and
one teacupful of white sugar; boil until ready
to candy, then throw in three quarts Of corn,
nicely popped; stir briskly until The candy
is evenly distributed over the corn; set the
kettle from the fire, and stir until it has cooled
a little. and YOU have each grain separate and
crvstaizpd with the sugar; care should he
taken not to have too hot a fire lest you ecorch
when crystalizing. Nuts of any kind pre-
pared ia this way are delicious.
Year: 1879

NOTHIN4 is more common than the ex
preston, 1.-The aun is drawing water" But
when his rays fall through a windaw or the
cracks in barn, and are thus emphasized BY
comparison with the surrounding gloom, no
one imagipes that old Sol is there especially
looking for fluid. No more II he when he
looks down upon the world through Il rift in
the clouds Actual measurement Demon
strates that the sun and moon are always the
same size at all timea, but it would he very
hard to convince some people that they are
not much larger when near the horizon than
at other times
Year: 1879

Brazil is still in the throes of a horrible
famine and pestilence. The northern prov.
inces are being decimated at a fearful rate.
The disease which has been raging ia a COM
bination of yellow fever and smallpox, hu'
it is now feared the pestilence will take the
form of the black plague The ptagne could
hardly be counted worse scourge than the
pest which has 80 long been raging.
Year: 1879

there WAS any expectation ot defeat
ing it in that body, but it was sup
posed the subject would provoke all
extended debate that would carry 1T
beyond the holidays, and prevent ac-
tion in the House until very late in
the session. 1t was rumored few
days ago that Democrats would make
opposition to the measure partisan
affair, and rally unanimously against
it. This rumor was justified by the
early stand taken by the Democratic
Senatorial Presidential candidate,
Thurman, but their hope of defeat
ing it as a party measure was dis
PEELED yesterday by the earnest sup
port given it by Senators Baysrd and
Norman, who, with Senator Morgan,
were the only Democratic support
ers Of it. Every Republican voted
for it. The Democrats of the House
it is said will fight the bill indirectly
by postponining its consideration un-
til too late for action, or try amend
ing it to death. They take the
ground that they must control tho
next election since they control both
Houses of Congress, and yet they
dare not go boldly to the country
upon such all such an issue as this
presents. They will try to dodge
the issue by non action probably.
Possibly, however, enough Demo
Gratis may favor the bill to insure its
success in spite Of this desire, and
the country will not be deceived cer-
tainly by Democratic tricks to avoid
responsibility. The Edmunds bill
provides that the Presidential eec.
tion shall be held on the first Tues
day III October whenever there shall
be vacancy in both the offices of
President and Vice President. The
electors are to meet and give their
votes Tor President aud Vice Presi-
dent on the second Monday in Janu-
AIRY next following. Thus more time
will be given to correct errors and
to adjudicate disputed points in the
local elections. The bill further pro-
yides that the electoral votes shall
be counted by the two Houses of
Congress on the second Monday Of
February succeeding every meeting
of the electors. Every objection
shall be made in writing, stating the
reason and be signed by at least one
Senator and one member of the
House Of Representatives. 1t fur
ther provides for the separation of
the two Houses, and the action up
on all objections after two hours
debate in each House, under the five
minutes rule. No vote objscted to
shall be counted, except by the affirm.
alive votes of both Houses. While
the bill is not altogether satisfactory,
those Republicans who believe that
the Constitution invests the Presi.
dent of the Senate with the power
and duty of finally supervising and
controlling the count Of the slecto.
raj votes, still for the peace of the
country it is believed that such a
measure should be adopted.


Senator Conkling presented a bill
OF some Importance yesterday, for
amending the late act relating to
pensions. That act, which was the
product Of dsmagogism, reduced the
fees of attorneys to such low fig.
urs that no reputable firm will take
any new pension business, and now
the pensioners who were supposed
to be served by the act are cIamor
ing for its repeal. Mr.. Conkling
said he had numerous letters from
pensioners complaining of this hard.
ah;n
Year: 1879

One of the special dangers and defects of
preaching in this country is connected with
the popular liking for oratory in the pulpit,
the demand for what's called eloquent preach
ing. The common American idea of pulpit
eloquence is low and sensational. 1t means
chiefly a rapid and emphatic utterance of
sonorous sentences, with something extreme,
paradOGical, and violent in the thought pre-
sented, though not much thought is required.
People demand of the preacher that he shall
arouse and excite them, and they enjoy with
a kind of voluptuousness the temporary slim
lus and thrill of emotion which the preaching
causes. 1t results from the laws Of mental ac-
ton that preaching of this kind does not in
spire conscientiousness, nor tend to practical
moral activity. II necessarily produces and
fosters mental conditions which are extreme
ly unfavorable to spirituality of character and
life.


This appetite for oquence, working with
other tendencies of the age, has helped TO
make the preaching in this country dramatic
and entertaining, but in large measure, un-
spiritual. This, think, can be rightly re-
garded only as a calamity, a tendency oppos-
ed to the interests of religion, adapted to
weaken and subvert it, and TO lead the people
who are influenced by it into region where
religion will be impossible or regarded as un-
necessary This is one of the most impor-
tant among the unfayorable tendencies of the
age. 1t has made preaching more interest
ing and attractive 10 the masses" but this has
been accomplished by sacrificing much that
is essential in religion itself,-AUg1ist AtIaR-
tic
Year: 1879

The Providence journal thus d. scribes the
unique "Pinafore' recently brought out in
that enterprising city. An audience of be-
tween 2OOO and 5000 assembl, d at the Park
Garden to witness the opening performance
of the comic opera III. NJ. S. Pinafore," in
the open air and ION a real ship on real wa
ter" There had been IA fear that the singing,
and especially the dialogue, might not be dis
tinctly heard, even by those of the audience
nearest the ship but this fear was almost en-
tirely dispeld With one or two exceptions,
after they got fairly into it, both singing and
dialogue were heard easily to the Furthermore
portions of the audience. The chorus of the sis
ters cousins and auuts as they left the landing
in the small boats to board the ship, was very
pretty. The good ship Pinafore, moored in
the lake, is 10 feet long, She was fully rig
ged, and a man-of wars-man present pro-
nounced her exceedingly well gotten up. Her
sails were 'loosed to a bunt-lne," her gun
deck ports were closed, but on the main deck
were four broadside guns and two boat howit-
zers there was the wheel in front of tho cab
in, the captain, the ropes coiled up around the
fife rail- the starboard anchor down-in short,
it was q good representation of a ship-of-war.
The orchestra was out of sight, in the fore
CASTLE but not ''out of sound" The action
was in the centre of the main deck, and when
the sailors departed they went down the fore
hatch while the Admiral, the Captain and his
lovely daughter and the sisters, cousins and
aunts disappeared at the proper times into the
cabin. When Little Buttercup came on
board she came in boat alone, was met at
the starboard gangway by gallant tar and
sang the first stanza while in the boat The
sisters, cousins and aunts arrived in the same
way. When the boat containing Sir Joseph
and Hebe arrived there was n commotion on
board There was a salute, and the yards
were manned by men who were as agile and
evidently understood what they were about
as though they were real man-Of-wars men.
Then there was a file of marines who did
their duty, notably the silent drill, so well as
to win merited applause. When the admiral
left the ship with Hebe he sang his 'Tm
Monarch of the Sea" after he had boarded
the small boat and while preparing to start.
And over all and above all was the strange
ness of the surroundings, the water and the
sky, the reflection of the opera in the lake,
the trees, the immense audience scattered
around the shore of the lake, giving a novel,
not to say weird appearance.


And there was an element which il is no
risk to say never before entered into n repre-
sentation of "Pinafore," and one which ere
ated good deal of amusement in quiet way.
This was couple of frogs-perhaps more,
but two at least, who played their little part.
One was the father Of all frogs, or, better,
Year: 1879

In his letter declining an invitation to attend
the Illinois Republican convention, in 1863,
Lincoln made use Of two or three striking
figures. Reviewing the military events Of
the past year, which had been favorable to the
cause Of the Union, he said The Father
OF Waters again goes unveIed TO the sea"
And, referring to the fact that Southern
Unionists and ex-slaves had done something
to help on the good work, he said "On the
spot, their part of the history is dotted down
in black and white" There was something
in the phrase dotted down in black aud
white" which nightly tickled the popular
fancy. At the time, however criticism was
provoked by this odd figure employed by the
presidents Nor must Uncle Sans web-feet
be forgotten. At all the watery margins they
have been present, not only on the deep sea,
the broad bay, the rapid river but also up
the narrow, muddy bayous, and wherever the
ground was little damp, they have been and
made their tracks" Lincoln was amused by
the discussion in the newspapers to which the
use of the phrase Uncle Sans web-feet'
gave rise. He explained that the remarkable
feats performed by the gun-boats, in making
their way through sloughs and bayous, here
tofore considered unnavigable, reminded him
of the stealthy passage of waterfowl. The
pleasantly concerning light-draught steamers
going where the ground is a little damp" is
familiar to everybody.


1t will be n long time before our people
will forget Lincoln's homely smile of elder
squirts charged with rose-water," as applied
to the conservative programme for prosecut-
ing the war. This was used in a letter ad-
dressed to Cuthbert Bullitt of New Orleans,
in which letter he also said that the conserva-
tivos were like complaining passengers on
ship The mutineers must go untouched
lest one of these sacred passengers should re-
ceive an accidental wound" His imagination
was powerfully stimulated by any reference
to the history of the republic. His address
at Gettysburg, now one of the great histori
cal speeches of the world, suggests, rather
than expresses, a crowd Of images. To Lin
coins mind, apparently, American history was
filed with noble and pathetic figures. In
some of the loftier flights of his eloquence
may be found traces of a strong poetic fancy
an imagination fired by love of country,
and inspired by the contemplation of the
stirring events that have marked its history.
No more striking example of this can be found
anywhere than i'll the memorable words which
closed his first inaugural address:


The mystic chords of memory, stretching
from every battlefield and patriot grave to
every living heart and hearth h-stone, all over
this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of
the Union, when again touched, as surely
they will be, by the better angels of our ma
ture. NOAH Brooks, in Midsummer HOLIDAY
.ScyTbHfy
Year: 1879

Now | say, and distinctively as n Christian
teacher that JOY is reasonable and becoming
and necessary. and unsp poakably helpful Rta-
sonRble, for il is one of the perfcctons Of
God and man, being made in the image Of
God, may be expected TO resemble Him in il.
We observe il in a thousand things: the song
Of the birds the mrth Of children. the in
stinct Of humor, the check dimpliug into Il
smile, the souls glce expressing itself in
laughter; here are but a few of the signs that
JOY is faculty Of man And if becoming in
all of US, how charming and suitable is it in
the young. As our years grow, and our mem
ory becomes charged with anguish, and the
setons of sorrowful associations give us quick
twists Of pain, and down the hill we travel to
the river at the foot, with but few of those
who climbed II in our company, or even stood
with us on the summit, JOY is not so quick or
so unmiXed once it was even when we
take it, the old sparkle seems gone 1t is still
joy, but not the gladness of youth. But the
young for whom life has but few cares, con-
science hut few stains, memory but few dis
appointments, judgment but few problems,
behind it childhood and in front manhood.
with the grandeur of enterprise aud the wine
Of hope JOY is not only natural but suitable.
All young things are full of Joy and He who
made them means them to be. The burdens
are at hand, and will be here soon enough.
Do not hasten them. Do not wish to bear
them until they come And this it is which
not only makes JOY necessary, but also ex-
plains the abundance and excess of it, which
tells us how it is that not so much for middle
age, oppressed with its Sombre and fatguing
common-places, nor for old age, with its work
done and its dismissal near, but for youth,
vigorous and buoynnt, joy is so facile and so
brisk 1t is to help the young to grow, and
to make their start, and TO bear their disap-
pointments, and to part with their illusions,
aud to face their discipline, and to remedy
their mistakes The little bark is on the shore,
and it needs vigorous shove to push it into
the water, and then a steady breeze to fill the
sails, and float it out over the bar into the
deep sea And this is what JOY does, and
nothing else like it, making the will vigorous,
the heart buoyant, coloring the imagination in
the hues of the tropics, and cajoling the rea-
son into mistaking the possible for the real
Bisiop IF Rochester, in Good Words.
Year: 1879

The races will commence at Prospect Park to-mor.
row under the most favorable circumstances. there
being larger number Of thoroughbreds at that place
than were there before The track in complete
order for grand racing and the quality OF the horses
engaged for tho stakes steepechases and hur
dies is o guarantee Of q brilliant and successful
meeting. Everything that the management could
think of that add to tho comfort and pleasure of
thesladies and gentlemen who will attend the
has been provided and all that is required to make
this q memorable meeting will be fine weather.
Year: 1879

MAJOR KINLEY has retired from
the editorial management of the
Star. He has contri buted to that
journal great deal of matter con-
ceived in fair and manly spirit
but much of which to us has
seemed highly impracticable. Had
it appeared in magazine instead
of daily newspaper We should
have had higher appreciation of
its literary value. We bid him
God-speed in whatever new line of
activity he may select.
Year: 1879

ANOTHER RISE IN WHEAT AND
IRoN.-The Brandywine mills an
nounce this morning that they viii pay
el.25 for wheat. This is encouraglng 70
our farmers who have been awaiting .
'sforeign market" for their surplus grain
for many years. The much talked
Of home maj ket in connection with
"high tariff has served to reduce the
farmers so much and the value Of their
land so greatly that they have not been
able to spend money with the merchant
or mechauics and hence all interests
have suffered terribly. Now, however,
we hope for change. There has also
been anothe rise in the price Of iron,
and complaint is made that 1t 10 too high.
But so long as the high tariff remains
upon iron II is feared that 1t may
have depressing effect upon such labor
as It Is most worked into. In this con-
nection It is not uninteresting to note
the fact that oIe of our extensive ship
building firms has recently made known
their opposition to high tariff through
q New York paper, in which II Is de-
clared that they are able to compete in
ron shipbuilding with any country In
the world, If iron can be had at the low
rate it can be produced for in this country
with handsome paying profit. This
statement is made more interesting and
noteworthy from the fact that It 10 stated
more iron was produced in this country
in 1878 under the low prices that ruled
than was ever produced before. 1t GER
tainly must have paid to produce 1t or
so much of 1t would not have been
gotten out while the market for 1t was 30
dull.


One thing Is certain that its tremen-
dous rise must soon operate greatly TO
the disadvantage Of labor and the result
be disastrous in all such manufacturing
districts as Wilmington.
Year: 1879

WHERE are the tons Of silver that the
,o,d standard Northern Congressman
and newspapers fearedGermany and Eng
land would overflow the country WIFE
They said silver was cheap in Europe
and II the silver bill was passed hundreds
Of millions of dollars worth would oe
sent here to be coined free. We sad
then these men were either ignorant or
practicing deception-that silver could
not Be shipped TO this country as cheap'y
q gold, and that it would not pay TO
send it here to be coined free; although
We would gladly have that done If with It
the owners intended to buy land or other
real eslale. The GAzErTE's opinions
were then denounced by some OF the
high priced and venal newspapers In
the interest Of the brokers. What have
these people to say now, when they see
the GAzErrE's predictions being liter
ally fulflled-that instead of silver COM
ing hsre by the ton to be coined free
there Is scarcely a dollar Of it received
from abroad, even Of Our own coinage.
But gold is pouring in by millions in all
descriptions of coin and in bars, and the
government is kept busy in furnishing
our own gold coin to the assay office to be
exchanged for gold in sovereigns, francs,
and bars, and the mints are kept hard at
work upsn this foreign gold, stamping
it into 81, s2a, s., $40 and $40 pieces
free Of cost, or at the mere cost Of the
work, just as the mints, previous to 1851
worked upon both silver and gold. But
one Of the funnies. things is that John
Sherman still boards up gold and legal
tender silver, and although the former is
coming into the country so rapidly he
puts it into his pet banks and makes the
people pay just so much interest fol-
keeping it instead Of paying it out and
letting it 60 into circulation giving con-
fidence to the masses and adding strength
to trade and commerce.
Year: 1879

tatives Of the people arranged their plans
of operations and selected the men and
the mode of doing their work orderly and
without confusion.


The Radicals are well-drilled corps,
who had been IN the majority for nearly
twenty years, and wished nothing better
than II at the Democrats might come INTO
the halls of Congress without having fixed
upon some mode Of action. Like the
regular army meeting regiment Of mill
tia, the drilled soldiers are sure to get the
advantage. But the Democrats were not
so foolish, and wisely resolved to prepare
to meet the political foes Of economy aud
an honest ballot with united front.


This course soon changed the policy of
the Radicals and now it is found that
they, too, have again resorted to King
Caucus to help them defeat the expressed
commands of the people at the polls, to
repeal all the barriers to an honest ballot
which have been erected through the pas
sage ,f the Federal Election Laws
These laws must be repealed.
Year: 1879

CIRCUMsTANCEs ALTER CAsEs.-It
is astonishing to notice how quick the
Radical leaders change their tactics
When they were in power they settled
everything under "King Caucus rule.
Edmunds and Conkling led the van they
cracked the lash and all the lesser lights
followed in their wake and did their bid
ding. From Hamlin Of Maine to Sar-
gent of California not one Of the Radical
Senators would utter a word, if King
Caucus bade them be silent They had
the majority and they took the response
bility, if they so pleased, to pass bills
under tie order Of caucus without per-
mi ting debate on the other side by ADOPT
ing the eag-law rule, OF by the other mode
OF refusing 10 answer any argument
whatever.


But now, when the boot is on the other
leg-when the Democrats have tile ma
jority-they set up hue aul cry In tie
very first week of the session, and caucI,,
meetings become very odious to the very
men that had practiced them for fifteen
years without interruption. Thus do CIR
cum,tanees alter cases.


Nov, the Democratic party discussed
the issues that are before Congress
before the people, and the meeting of it:
Representatives in caucus was not to dis.
cuss the measures themselves but to unite
upon the best, most direct and least ex.
pensive mode of obeying the direc ions
of the people and enacting their opinions
into law. In other words the caucus was
only conference by which the repressn.