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Year: 1877

state OF labor throughout the country ana tho
anticipated evil results to flow thereirom' Inc
League enoins GOODNESS and moderation upon the
members OF the order and especially warning them as
well as wokngmen general, TO beware OF emssarles


OF whom have endoavorcd to operate here-"no 10
around melting the commission Of strikes and Violence
measures which injure labor in general, disturb
order, and end tho conviction aud PUNISH
ment Of the participants therein. One resolution
was to the effect that moral agitation Is inc
strength power by which labor can acquire tangipe
reformation and that mob violence and riot lead ohy
anarchy and final destruction OF human hoery' ana
that 1t is better submit to any sort OF despotsh lor
the time being than TO have government at all.


mass meeting Of the Labor League OF this District VIII
he held here week, TO ndorse these principles
Year: 1877

This committee IL still a. work with close d
doors, and there are only slight ind cations that
the investigation will DO conducted otherwise
hereafter.


In conversation with one Of the members Of the
committee, we learn that they are directing their
attention to the expedency OF curtailipg the
clerical force in particular and the expenses Of
the Custom House in general. The reduction in
tho number OF employees will probably result in
he extension OF the working hours daily, Of tho
clerks at The desks until o'clock D. M, instead
Of o'clock as the rule now exists,
Year: 1877

ISpBtHl 10 tHt UemO0rnt.I


LONDON June THE arrival of the Gar at
Poesti was made the occasion Of the grand
est fcte on record The scene at the railway
almost battles description and the route Of
the Cars s march from the station was liter
ally packed with people.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, June THE President this
morning received large bust Of himself In
Terra cotta from the Louisiana Consti tutional
Union Association. This present was in ap-
probation Of his Southern policy. The bust
was placed in the library Of the Executive
Mansion
Year: 1877


OMAHA, June IA terrific wind and rain
storm prevailed In this section last night.
which came from the southwest. The dam
age done was extensive throughout the city
and country. The storm extended east into
Iowa, doing considerable damage to the tele-
graph lines In { nat State.
Year: 1877

tive might well feel otherwise when the
question of resurning specie payments IN
gold alone was directly presented to him.


Of course, If the bill to remonctize silver
be defeated by veto or otherwise, the same
influences can defeat the repeal of the Re
sumption law, and thus the question OF a
double standard of gold and silver, or OF gold
exclusively, will be the governing one at the
November election q year hence, and upon
this question there will bo no party division
in the West, or Northwest, or South. and the
people may find way to have their will ex-
ecuted in spite Of the Syndicates aud Sly
loc1x Of the East, and in spite Of the objec-
tions and prejudices of oven the Executive,
eddy the Secretary of the Treasury. Senators
aud Representatives, and those III executive
authority, nlay profit by n calm considera-
ton of the consequences of putting the M
ton ct Defiance
Year: 1877

Senator CoSovEE. Of Florida. is utilizing
his ti1ae in explaining his position. 1t mp
pears from his statement that he is rs good


2 Republican as could possibly be put for
ward, but TINT he is taking sort OF vacation
and voting with the Democracysn order to
brace himself for the time when his party
needs him, at which time he will duly and
gracefully fop again and come up smiling


THE whole business. with him, is matter Of
recreation. and he assures the country that
after he las effected the seating Of Demo-
crat lie will so hack to his duties, refreshed
and invigorated, and prepared for any cmer-
Year: 1877

l1EB Is probably prepared to explain that. as
his clerks were too mitch engaged during the
campaign to attend to tic business OF the office,
it is now absolutely necessary to make the
County Treasury pay for such extra or night
work to make up for lost time in his service.
The taxpayers would not object to the payment
of reasonable amount toward getting LEES
office in readiness for his successor, but it has
an aspect barren Of even common dcccncy to
gouge the county out of the time wasted in
elcctionccring for him, and then extort the
money paid from the pockets OF the clerks who
earn it.
Year: 1877

The practical question for the teacher who
desires to improve and enlarge his imagina-
ion is, How can do it? First, you can
famliarize yourself with the exact meanings
and the nice uses of words by the study of
synonyms. You can be careful in your daily
conversation to avoid false, or vicious, or low
forms of expression, under which head 1
group everything which belongs to the die
;ionary of slang, andyou can be equally care
full to speak we'll. A little care in the choice
of words at home, and in your ordinary talk,
would be repaid. If we were half SO earnest
in the formation of our habits of converse
tion as we are in trying to gain other accom-
plishments, there would be great additional
charm given to the intercourse of society.
Bear in mind that simplicity is elegance, and
pedantry is generally only transparent self
conceit. The word which most directly con-
v4ys your meaning is the best vehicle of
your thought.


Secondly, you can read every day some
good, strong, terse author, whose style will
insensibly form and color yours. Needing
to give scope and vigor to your imagination,
read, after the Bible, Shakespeare and Mil
ton. Never be without some volume which
will help and feed you, and stimulate your
own thoughts to new fights Margaret b.
,Sangster in National Sunday School Teacher.
Year: 1877

Beyond the stars that shine in golden glory,


Bey nd the calm, sweet moon,
Up the bright ladder saints have trod before thee,


Soul, thou shalt veuture soon.
Secure with Hi who sees thy heart-siok yesrninC
sac in HIS arms of tove
Thou shalt exchsng- the midnight for the morning
And thy fair home above.
Oh it is swees to watch the worlds night wearing
The Sabbath morn come on,
And sweet it were the vineyard labor sharing
Sweeter the labor done
All 6nished all the eon6ietand the sorrow,


Earth's dreams OF anguish Ger,
Dsathless there dawus for thee, q nghtless morrow
On Eden's blissful shore.
Patience then, patience Soon the pAag of dying
Shall all forgotten be,
And thou through rolling spheres rejoicing, flying
Beyond the waveless ssa,
Shalt know hereafter where thy Lord doth lead thee,
His darkest dealings trace,
And by those fountains where his love will feed thee,
Behold him face to face
Then bow thine head, and God shall give thee


msekness


Brsvely to do His will;
So shall arise his glory in thy meekness-
o strugg ing soul, be still
Dark clouds are His pavilion shining o er thee;
Thine heart must recognize
The veied Sheehinsh moving on before thee,
Too bright to meet thine eyes.
Behold the wheel that straighty moves, and Asetly
Performs the Soyereignis word
Thou knOwest His suffering love, then suffering


meekly


Follow thy loving Lord
Watch on thy tower and listen by the gateway,
Nor weep to wait alone;
Take thou by spices, and some angel straightWay
Shall roll away the stone.
Then shalt thou tell thy living Lord hath risen,
And risen but to save,
Tell of the night that breaks the csptives prison,
And life beyond the grave;
Tell how he met thee, slI his radiance shrouded;
How in thy sorrow came
His plying voice breathing when faith was clouded,
Thine own familiar name.
So at the graves dark portal thou may'st linger
And hum some happy strain;
The passing world may mock the feeble singer,
Heed not, but sing again.
Thus wait thus watch till BE the last link sever,
And ehaDgeless rest be won;
Then in His glory thou shalt bask forever.
Fear not the elOuds-prsSs on


From Changed Cross"
Year: 1877

The POWER OF PERsoNALITY.-It is idle
to ignore the part which strong personality
plays 10 the ministry Of the truth. Much of
tho current teaching finds acceptance more
from the weight of authority which attaches
TO the name of the teacher than from the in.
trinsic excellence of the word. There is
power going forth from large natures that
has been yelled beneath the convenient term
personal magnetism" But, call it what We
will, the power is there. Consciously or un-
consciousl y, We all pay tribute to it. 1t is
not the result of an intense vitality, or of in
tellectual gifts, or of an emotional nature
1t is the result of ALL 1t is the personality
of the man. We cannot divorce the word
that is said from the voice that says it.
Year: 1877

It he went up on the barnroof he would
be all right.


No such thing. The bear went right
up the ladder after him Then Solomon
ran up the roof to the ridge; but the
bear followed. Solomon ran down the
other side Of the roof, and so did the bear.
Solomon jumped on the cow-house, and
still the bear followed him. Then Solo
mon jumped on to a shed that was close
by the cow-house, aud the bear jumped
too.


Solomon now began to think that his
time had come. He gave one more jump
from the shed to the ground. This was
too much ofa jump for the bear to take
and so Solomon made good his escape.


l do not remember how the bear got
down; but am sure, that, when Re did,
Solomon did not care to feed him any
more with green chestnut-burs. I think
Solomon was too glad to escape a hug
ging to try it very soon again.
Year: 1877

girl who remembers to offer her seat to


an old lady or IN elderly gentleman who


remembers to give the newspaper to her


father when he comes down to breakfast


and has only few moments to read its
,world-sheaf Of news; who remembers


that it is not kind to hurry her eldest


sisters reading Of some attractive book,


nor polite to begin the book till the other


has finished it; who remembers to shut


the door softly, and to find places in the


Bible for aged eyes, to be good to the lit


tie hindering ones who are always cray


ing something from sister, and who re-


members always to be lady everywhere,


l am sure that I have found one who will


be queen Of home, if not of society. A
graceful, gracious, tender, considerate
girl will inevitably make 4 glorious wom-
an by and by. From the sweet, half
opened bud there will be evolved the
rich perfection Of the lovely flower. You
must think it troublesome sometimes to
be so particular as to the way you speak
to the people in your own house. 1T is
only Brother Dan or Cousin Matilda YOU
say;" why should modulate my voice,
and soften my tones, and be so gentle in
my bearing just to them2" Because it is
the being lovely and courteous and win
some every day and all day, to the broth
er and cousin, to the companion and friend,
to the child and the servant, which will
mold you into q gentlewoman, whose
manners will be as much part Of her.
self as the inner fiber of her character.
To such one it will be as impossible to
commit an act Of rudeness as to tell a lie.
and as natural to say. and do agreeable
things as to put on her gloves before 60
ing to church.
Year: 1877

X. NJ. Bishop, the recently nominated
Democratic candidate for Governor Of Ohio.
in his letter of acceptance thus alludes to the
question Of the hour: 1--WE arc now passing
through crisis in our commercial if not
national experience. Capitol and labor are
seeking to adjust their respective rights; this
adjustment will require most thoughtful con.
sioeratlon and deliberate action; In so far a. it
may depend in any degree upon the action of
the State government, I would certainly do
my utmost to effect on terms beneficial alike
70 laoorcr and capitalist. The times call for
most discreet management and economical
administration Of public affairs The mere
assertion Of principles will not meet the emer.
gency; they must be vltalized and cnergizcd
so as to restore confidence to our financial,
commercial and industrial pursuits
Year: 1877

Uncle Return was farmer; and he had
a great many cattle, sheep, horses, pigs,
geese and turkeys, all of which you know:
are usually found on large farm; and,
beside these, he had one animal not usu-
ally found on farm, and that was
tame bear. He hired large boy to do
the "chores," as the easy part OF farm work
is called; and the boys name was Solo,
mon Sturtevant.


Now, although the bear was tame, he
was kept chained; for there was no know
ing what mischief even tame bear
might take it into his head to do. He
might take notion to find out how nice
tender pig would taste.


Solomon thought it fine sport to tease
the bear, and there was one way of doing
it more amusing than any other, and
that was to pelt him with green chestnut
burs.


Chestnut-burs, you know, are covered
with sharp thorns; and yet the bear, be-
ing very fond of chestnuts, would try to
get at the nuts which he knew were in
demonstrating and whining, and making
up very comical faces because the burs
pricked his mouth.


Solomon would stand and watch him,
and think it fine fun. But he came near
doing it too often; for one day, when he
had carried the bear a capful of burs, in.
tending to have good laugh at him, the
chain that held the bear was not fastened
as firmly as usual. After trying two or
three burs the bear made a spring toward
Solomon, got loose from his chain and
started after him in earnest.
Solomon was not long in deciding that
he had something to do that time, beside
laughing, and started in a hurry to get
out Of the bears way. Now there was a
ladder leaning against the side Of the
barn close by, and Solomon thought that
Year: 1877

The Posts At the Mouth OF tho Big Horn.


Gen. Sherman in a letter to tho sec-
retary OF war, says with the new post at the
fork OF the Big and Little Horn and that at
the mouth Of Tongue river,occupied by strong
and enterprising garrisons, the Sioux Indians
can never regain that country; and they will
be forced to remain at their agencies or take
refuge III the British possessions. The coun-
try west Of the new post is good country
and Will rapidly fill up with cmigrants, who
Will In the next ten years build up country
a. strong and IA capable OF self defense as
Colorado. The weather has been as intensely
hot as In Texas lie is impressed with the
balmy air Of the country on the upper Yellow
Year: 1877

Friday nights snow storm was one Of
the worst ever known i'll this city. From
about o'clock until near midnight the
wind was most irresistible and the snow
7lndlng. Yesterday morning the sun
rose clear, but the air was filled with
PARTICLES of frost, the refracton
1'tom which caused the appearance of
"mocll suns or ''sun dogs A luminous
halo with bright centre of greater or less
hrilliancy. and at certain angle on
the right and left of the sum- in very cold,
frosty weather, and also in some other
conditions of the atmosphere, is not un-
common. Sometimes there are two each
on the right and left. and occasionally
same nature as the rainbow and exhibit
the same colors.


Yesterday mornings exhibition was
remarkable in extent and variety. First
extending from the sun right and left was
circle entirely around the heavens
Along it were the ''sun dogs" in their
usual places, with extra ones in the north
west, southeast and southwest, being
directly opposite the sun and at right
angles 10 that line. 4 very bright circle
like continuous rainbow, surrounded
The sun. and at an angle twenty or thirty
degrees from it and crossing the horizon
tai circle at the most brilliant of the false
suns. Another and similar circle, and of
about the same diameter, occupied the
IemtE. Thus there was complete rain
bow circles OF exceeding brightness and
seven mock suns or "sun dogs The
spectacle lasted with changing effects for
Two hours or more. No one need hope
10 witness such beautiful phenomena
very many times, if ever again.-Dearcf
\ -lrS. De"..5.
Year: 1877

The Building Societies in Philadelphia
are cleaning up with {. vengeance. A large
mart Of the sherif's sales this very day,
which must reach three hundred in all, are
cases where they are plaintiffs, thus sweep
ipg away in these times the savings Of
years and rendering houseless many a
worthy man. We notice in the sales by
Sheriff Grubb now in the HERALD that a
great many of them are by our loan funds.
LISA question Of very great Importance
to the poor, who are now through want Of
employ ment halting in their dues, whether
legislative aid should not be invoked to
declare contracts, no matter with whom
made, or under whatever kuise, be it as
bonus, Or in any other manner, for greate'
- rate Of interest than six per cent, to be vcid
for II excess over that rate.


The Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania ha'
recently decided that inasmuch as mar
r;ed woman cannot make a contract eptex,
for necessaries, a building society can onl,
recover back on her mortgage the net sun
lent, thus sweeping away all fines ant
shaves Of every kind. . ..... .


We should be very sorry to mar the use
fulness Of any society; but as the question
is being daily brought to public notice, i
the views Of many people are wrong, tn
advocates of the "loan funds' can set th
public right. .E
Year: 1877

New York, Nov. 9--In an interview
yesterday, Senator Conkling said:


"From the time Hayes came into Office
and appointed a Democratic cabinet,
the principal labor Of the little Evarts
and the rest has been to withdraw the
Republican support from me. lie
told a gentleman some time ago that
the reform movements Of the admins
tration as far as New York was con-
cerned, were to break up 'chieftain-
ship l suppose .chieftainship' was
declaration of censure upon myself. .


In regard to the civil service order, he
said: "Undoubtedly that celebrated
reformatory order was factional in its
Year: 1877

DAWES introduced in the Senate yes
terday bill giving the District courts
of Utah exclusive original jurisdiction


in all divorce proceedings, and transfer


ring all processes and proceedings now


pending in the Probate courts to
the District court. The bill provides
for an appeal from the final decision of
the District court to the Supreme court
of the Territory, and repeals all laws of
The Territory inconsistent with the act.
Year: 1877

U woman-form majestic, strong and fair
Sitting enthroned where in upper air
Thy mountain peaks in solemn grandeur rise,
Piercing the splendOr of the Summer skies
Vermont! Our mighty mother, crowned to-day
In all the glory of thy hundred years,
If thou doest bid me sing. how can but obey?
What though the lips may tremble and the verse
That fain would grandly thy grand deeds rehearse
May trip and falter, and the stammering tongue
Leave all unrhymed the rhymes that should be


sung2


can but do thy bidding, is meet,
Bowing in humble homage at thy feet
Thy royal feet-and if my words are weak,
o crowned One, twas thou didst bid me speak!
Year: 1877

An inventive genius at Minneapolis
Minnesota, has patented an apparatus
which. he calls car-shoe, for preventing
cars from leaving the track i'll collisions OF
by running upon a broken or dislodgei
rail 1t was given a trial short time
since, in which it did all and more than
was claimed for it. A rail was taken from
one side Of the track, and car with the
shoe attached, backed down at the rate OF
twenty miles an hour. just before reach
ine the break, the engine was detached.
and the car few across the break, the front
truck striking the track all right, ard the
rear truck missing it by few inches. the
shoe gripping the track and stopping the
ear without damage about SIX rods from
,he break. On the second trial the car
struck the track all right. and went on b
half mile as if nothing had happened. In
this are Of railroads. such an appliance q.
that if placed upon all cars, would ne ths
@eans Of saving thousands Of lives "a
uually.
Year: 1877

One hundred years ago not a pound
Of coal or a cubic foot Of illumins-


ting gas had been burned in the coun-
try. No iron stoves used and con-
trivance for ee0nomiziug heat were
employed until Dr. Franklin Invented


the iron framed fireplace which still
bears bis name. All the cooking and


warming in town as well as in the
country, were done By the aid Of ire


kindled on the brick hearth or in


brick ovens. Pine knots or tallOw


candles furnished the light


for the long winter nights, land


sanded floors supplied the place Of
rugs aad carpets. The water used
for household purposes was drawn
from deep wells by the creaking
sweep" No form Of pump vas
used in the country, 80 far Is We can
learn, until the commencement Of the
present century. There were no
friction matches in those early days,
By the aid Of which ire could be
easily kindled, and If the FIRE went
out" upon the hearth over night and
the tinder was damp 80 that the spark
would not catch, the alternative re-
mained Of wading through the snow
a mile or two 70 borrow q brand Of q
neighbor. Only one room Of any
house was warm unless some MEM
Der Of the family was III; in al the
rest the home temperature was st
zero during many nights in winter.
Tue men aud women Of q hundred
years ago undressed and went TO
their beds in a temperature colder
than in our modern barns and wood
sheds. and they neyer complained
Year: 1877

How wonderful is the blue dawning
Of the new day before the SUM- not
rosy-fugered, like that Aurors of the
Greeks who comes later with all her
wealth; but still. dreamy, wonderful,
stealing out of the unseen, abashed
by the solemnity ef the new birth.
When anxious watchers see that first
brightness come stealing upon the
waiting skies, what mingled relief
Year: 1877

calm the power Of thought was re
stored to Tim. If this benevolent
venerable patriarch was all be seem.
ed, why his fathers terror why the
secrecy in which his being was in.
volved His own mind, though
calm, did not seem to act in the usu-
al way. Thoughts seemed to have
been driven across it as by q wind.
One of these came to him suddenly
pnU
Year: 1877

AS BAD AS BuRNING.-The llin-
doc widow, through no longer
burnt on the funeral pyro OF her
husband, is subjected TO a process
for the rest of her life which may
sometimes cause her to doubt whetll-
er her latter state is really any
better than that which British law
terminated. No matter how beau
tiful the yonng widows tresses,
they are cropped off, all her orha-
menrs are, taken away, the very no.
tion of q second marriage is regard
ed as worse tlan murder, and the
poor thing never permitted to leave
her room. This is simply the
substitution OF imprisonment for
lite in PLACE of death. o.,
Year: 1877

Macarthur, the Chicago defaulting post
master, was another of those brilliant
military headlights who went into the
army early and as early saw the rich
places that lay open to an officer who
cared more for rlunder than he did for
honor, and sought promotion in order to
widen his opportunities 10 that direction.
He Was a small pattern Of man at best;
self-importdnt and consequential, in his
estimation. The idea that any Office, in
the army or the civil service, was a public
truSt never entered his head His highest
conception was that it might help him to
make money. Let him go to the pepiten-
| tiary,
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, March lin the su
preme court to-day the chief justice read
the opinion in the case of Mum & Scott
against the people of the state of Illinois
the principal granger case-afirming
the right of the state to fix by law the
maximum OF charges for storage of grain
in warehouses at Chicago, and other
places in the state having not less than
100000 inhabitants, in which grain is
stored IN bulk and in which the grain of
different owners is mixed together. or 10
which grain is stored in such manner that
the Identification of different lots or par.
GELS cannot be accurately preserved. The
conclusion is that the law is not repugnant
to the constitution of the United States
and that there is no error in the judge
ment,
Year: 1877

PARIS, March, 1.-The Marquis of
Caux and wife appeared yesterday before
the president of the civil tribunal in order
that the usual attempt at reconciliation
might be made. The attempt failed and
judicial proceedings for a separation will
accordingly begin and are likely to last
sometime The lady left for Vienna last
night to fulfill professional engagement.