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Year: 1878

Attempts to drown the sense of mis-
fortune III strong drink are the climax
Of human folly. Intoxication eventually
aggravates and inteRafes every evil
which it is invoked to alleviate. 1t has
been thus from the day when man first
"put an enemy in his mouth to steal
away his brains" and thus it will be to
the end Of time. No safe and sober man
denies the fact. Even the habitual drunk
ard, in his brief intervals of reason, shud-
deringly admits it. Yet thousands of in
tellectual beings-many of them richly
endowed with mental gifts-seek cOnsO-
lation from the bottle in the hour of af,
Fiction; though revelation, history, OBJ
servatiOn, and instinct alike teach them
that of all the broken reeds which weak
ness ever leaned upon, the false excite
ment caused by liquor is the most trcach-
eTOus.


1t is passing strange!-one of these
anomalies to which philosophy furnish
es no clue, and for which we can only
account by supposing that a power indie
pendent Of themselves, against whose in
huence mere reason is no sure prOtec-
ton, betrays men into ruin.


There are only two genuine salves for
sOrrOW-prayer and work. Trust in
heaven and Keep doing, is the best recipe
for every human care. There are no
wounds Of the spirit which it will not
heal. Strength, fOrtitude, patience, res
ignation, are as sure to be youchsafed to
the unfOrtunates who earnestly pray for
them, and at the same time are diIligent
in the performance of their temporal
tasks, as the harvest is to follow the
planting of the seed. Duty is balsamic.
Peace is the child of worship.
Year: 1878

There are few things with which tho
majority of US are less acquainted than
with our own organization and the con-
ditiOns upon which our bodily health
depends. And yet it is much more i'm
poTtant that we should learn how to
avoid disease and to cherish health III
! ourselves and in those who are dear to
US, than that we should possess a knowl-
edge of the dead languages or any other
lore included in the ordinary round of a
collegiate education. Physiology should
be taught in all our semlnaries and edu-
Cational institutions. Whoever under
stands even the leading principles of
this valuable science must regard with
regret the manner in which its laws are
set at nOught by society at large. In
their dress, in their diet, in their house
hold economy, in their business pursuits,
in their amusements, in a thousand
things that they do and neglect to do,
three-fourths of the community as
habitually and constantly violate the
rules of hygiene as if their aim were to
break down their constitutions and
shorten their lives. SHrely if everybody
knew the physiological consequences Of
OVerstimulating the brain, of negleCting
to protect the lungs, of everlasting the
stomach, of breathing impure air, We
should have less drinking, less consump-
ton, less dyspepsia, fewer of all the ills,
not that flesh IS heir to, but that it inUokeS
upon itself by its own folly, than we
have at present. If physiology and the
conditions of health were universally
understood, the mortality Of the human
race, in large towns especially, would be
materially diminished.
Year: 1878

One would think crime would have
learned by this time that it is no match
for the shrewd, patient, indefatigable
men whose vocation it is to hunt it down
and bring it to justice. Very rarely now
adays do criminals escape capture and
pMnishment. We refer, of course, to
eyil-doers whose villanies come within
the province of law, and who are pur-
sued and prosecuted in downright ear
nest; for there are rascals encrusted all
over with moral guilt who manage to
evade their just deserts by sailing to
WindWard of the statutes, and Others
whom the Law might reach, but at whose
offences official justice winks, for special
reasons. Burglars, thieves, and forgers,
however, very rarely succeed in baffiiug
the vigilance and skill of our detective
police. Their cunning is but poor de-
fence against the system of intelligent
espionage which is ever active in their
midst; and sooner or later, they almost
inevitably receive the wages of their
misdeeds. If men, inherently prone to
wickedness, were gifted with average re-
heCtiye qualities, they would restrain
their bad propensities from motives of
policy. But the truth is, that moral OBJ
loquy and lack of forecast generally go
together. Rogues are poor reasOners.
Otherwise they would know that from
the Gordon of the detective police, linked
together, as it is by the telegraphiC wires
there is scarcely a chance Of escape for
any prominent criminal.
Year: 1878

DEATH by DRowNING.-The death of
the drowned man is not that death which
we ESSAY all our lives by our daily sleep; /;
it is not that death which simply consists
in sleeping once for all on the pillow
where one has gone to sleep every night
for fifty years. It is a death joined to a
struggle, to despair, to blasphemy. Man
is not prepared for it by the excessive
enfeebling of his organs. He does not
expire by impcrceptible transitions; tits
not last thread which has parted-but
all his bonds have at once burst asunder.
He dies with his health, with his
strength, his hope, his life-without
friends, without a priest, and in those
immense solitudes Of ocean, Uttering
cries Of agony and despair, which the
whistling Of the wind and the tempest,
the joyful cries of the new and the sea-
gull seem to prevent ascending to heaven,
Year: 1878

Wax has been used for sealing since
the earliest ages. The oldest seals ap-
pear to have been impressed on white
wax. Subsequently yellow wax was
used. At a more recent period, sealing
wax was colored red; and about the
fourteenth century it was colOred green,
and sometimes black.
Year: 1878

WHEN Noah sent out the second dove
from the ark, she returned bearing an
olive branch, and they knew the flood
was recedIng; We bear you the olive
branch in the HoME SToMAcH BITTKRs
to relieve chile, fever, biliousness and
indigestion.
Year: 1878

believe heprejudiccd statements
of the partisan press, by which
he was represented as o coarse,
vulgar ware-houseman, ungainly
and illiterate, without a social OF
intellectual qualification adapted
to the position. So general was
this impression, that even here
in this far off country, while
at Portland, Immediately after
his appointment, we found some
of the best informed people of
that city bewailing the disgrace
entailed upon the country by
the appointment to the highest
foreign ! mission Of a man who
knew nothing but "truck and
dicker." We now find that no
Minister ever representing this
countryat the Court ofSt. James
made a more favorable first i'm
preston upon English statesman.
The contrast which he presents
to the dllettanteism Of Pierre
pont, is a subject of comment in
the London journals. His first
speech in England, in reply to an
address by the Liverpool Cham
ber of Commerce, showed him
to be the peer Of John Bright in
knowledge of political economy.
He is described as a somewhat
tall and slender person, with a
pleasant face, half hidden in a
gray beard, with large blue eyes
and a well. shaped head covered
with profuse gray locks. He has
the air and manner of an educat-
ed merchant, and has, indeed
been for the most of his life a
very successful business man.
He is lavish host and has
woalth to support his disposi-
ton. He is now holding his first
polltal position, and illustrates
the sagacity of the President in
selecting private citizen, backed
by no political party influence,
against the clamorous demands
of party caucus, for one of the
most honorable and responsible
positions in his control.
Year: 1878

i'd South. If the Republican


leaders had at once accepted th'
Southern policy, the solid Soutl


would have crumbled to piece.
before this; but he did not ex
pect that, and he is satisfied with
the benificent results thus fal
attained.


Of the matter of civil service
reform, Mr.. Hayes is reported te
have said: The reform of the
civil service is necessarily slow
work; it requires cautious action
in a great number of cases. But
though, in the opinion of some
friends of reform he has acted
too slowly, he believes thought
full men will soon recognize the
fact that new spirit has begun
to animate the public service;
that the work is better and more
efficiently done, because the old
officers he has not removed feel
that they are watched and that
they must attend more carefully
than ever to their public duties.
He believes that the public SER
wee is now more correctly and
effectively conducted than it has
been at any period since the war,
and while he is by no means sat
isfed that the highest standard
has been reached, and while he
docs not mean to relax his efforts
to improve 1t, yet he is satisfied
with the results so far attained.
1t follows from all this, if he is
correctly reported, that the Pres
ident has no intention of chang
ing, his policy in any respect, and
it is regarded as certain by those
best informed, that he will make
no change in his Cabinet either.
Year: 1878

The MINISTER TO ENGLAND
The most remarkable change of
public opinion in regard to any
noted individual which we have
ever noted, is that in relation to
John Weleh, the newly oppoint-
ed Minister to England. When
his appointment was first an
nounced, he had never been heard
of as politician, and all who
did not know him were ready to
Year: 1878

ing, for the first time in weeks,
publishes a lot Of telegraphic dis
patches not copied from the Ore
gonian of the day before, and
considers the remarkable event
of such Importance as to call the
attention of it's evening eotem-
poraries" to the fact.


An old woman who had for a
long time pestered her neighbors
by habitual borrowing, was one
day heard calling to nelghbor-
ing child: "Teil your mama that
l have a brass kettle of my own
now, and will neither borrow
nor lend" When Seattle had
not half the population or busi-
ness it has now the DISPATCH
took and paid for daily dispatch
es, while its entire receipts from
it's daily circulation did not pay
for the telegraph and carrying,
though it contributed ten times
it's cost to the material prosperi-
ty of the town, in representing
its enterprise, advantages and
resources. We had pald over
two thousand dollars for special
dispatches before the Latelligencer
ventured upon the enterprise of
a daily publication; during all of
which time from one-quarter to
one-half the reading matter of
Its weekly issue was made up Of
the dispatches for which we paid
exclusively, copied from day to
day from our daily issue, without
a single public credit, recogni-
ton or acknowledgment of it's
source. The large amount Of our
earnings which we expended in
building up the town, the LnteM-
gencer pro6tted by and applied
solely to it's own selfish purposes
of building up rival newspaper
at our expense. We can enter
tain no envy towards a success
full newspaper rival which can
point to no unselfish effort, no
single achievement for the pub
lie good; the creature of system
lc levies, with an eye only to
acquisition, regardless of moral
consequences or social obliga-
tions; infinitely preferring less
financial success, with the proud
consciousness that no one can
point out on our record single
act subject to the suspicion of
subordinating the public good to
selfih interests. With this record
we cheerfully concede to our
contemporary all the advantages
it boasts of having achieved by
it's superior financialmanagement
independent Of public considera-
tions. "No good soldier comes
out of battle with q full cartridge
box" We had rather be judged
by what we have done than by
what we have acquired.
Year: 1878

COUNTY HOsPITAIA-A wrong
idea was conveyed by our local
reporter, on Saturday, by saying
that complaint is being made
as to the manner in which the
county sick are being treated" !"
We have heard no complaint of
the treatment of the patients at
the hospital; on the contrary,
we have heard from many sour
ces high commentator OF the
manner in which the Sisters,
who have charge Of the institu-
ton, devote Sthemselves to the
care and comfort of their pa
tients, as is the uniform custom
of a sisterhood whose lives are
consecrated to works of charity,
and God forbid that we should
be the means of casting any re-
Election upon their pious work.


The complaint to which our
attention was called with the
request that we would make
public mention of 1t, came from
a discharged patient, and refer
red exclusively to his medical
treatment, or neglect. Deeming
this one of the personal grievan-
ces, real or imaginary, to which
all institutions of the kind are
liable from dissatisfied patients,
we declined any interference in
the matter, referring the COM
plainant to the County Commits
sioners for his redress. Our re-
porter, hearing this complaint
from another source, not know
ing that tho medical department
was as independent of the man
agement as our family physician
is of our domestic matters, sim,
ply stated the fact that COM
plant had been made, and call
ed the attention Of the Commits
sioners to the same, without ex-
pressing any opinion as to the
ground Of complaint. We know
that complaints of this kind are
often made without any reason
able cause. But no reasonable
man charged with public trust
will object to public investiga-
tion. Of any matter connected
with that trust.


Without having formed or ex-
pressed any opinion as to the
manner in which the duties Of
the office Of County Physician
have heretore been discharged,
we take this occasion to enter
our protest against the barbar-
GUS system of letting to the low
est bidder the medical treatment
Of the helpless wards of the gov
ernment, who have no other re-
source.
Year: 1878

The most sublime exhibition
of self-poise under the most try
ing and aggravating circumstan-
ces, presented by any man in
high position in this Republic
during its entire history, is that
by President Hayes from the
day he was nominated for Pres
ident until the present time
His department, in view of the
circumstances by which he is
surrounded, is worthy of our
highest admiration, and stamps
the conviction upon our mind
that of all men in existence he
is the very man for the times, as
if specially raised up by Provi-
dence to meet a crisis in our
public affairs which all parties
recognized as fraught with the
most imminent peril to our re-
publican system OF Government.
He is unlike any Of his predeccs-
sors who were distinguished for
iron nerve and indomitable will.
Washington was addicted to
fearful out-bursts of temper; Ad-
ans, always peevish and irri;a-
Bile; Jackson, arrogant and re-
sentful to any attempt to thwart
his purposes; johnson, pugna-
cious to the last degree; Grant,
stubborn and moody as balky
horse; Hayes, with no less un-
flinching Will than any of them,
has none Of the disagree
able characteristics ofthe others; !;
his entire self-possession under
the most stinging provoca-
tion, being the greatest cause of
irritation to those who oppose
him. His social qualities pro -e
him to be in no way lacking in
human sympathies or generous
sensibilities, or at all Indifferent
to the praise or blame Of his fel-
lows; and hence the only reason
able explanation of his conduct
is, that he is actuated by a SOL
emn conviction of the duties and
responsibilities of his position, to
which he subordinates all mere
personal considerations. Frank
and unreserved IN his intercourse
with all; entirely free from os-
tentation or supercilious assump-
tion, he exasperates to frenzy
those of his own party who call
to demonstrate with him, by SIM
ply pointing to their common
platform and his letter of accept
ance; politicians regarding an
official who is faithful to his an
te-election pledges as not only a
traitor to his party, but as a
standing reproach and menace
to themselves.


A Washington correspondent
of the New York Herald reports
some Of the personal sayings of
the President as follows: He is
reported to have said that so far
he has met with no surprise; /;
that what has happened was
foreseen by him before he left
Columbus, and that he has seen
no reason to change in the least
the course he laid out for him.
self before he came to Washing
ton. The results of the Southern
policy have been such as he ex-
pected. He is not surprised that
q part Of the Republican party
opposed that policy, nor at the
vigor of this opposition, and as
he foresaw and expected this he
is not disappointed that greater
political results have not been
reached in the Southern States
as-the fruit of that policy. It
was inevitable that an attempt
to arouse a solid North against
the policy of reconciliation sho'd
maintain SO far as possible a sol
Year: 1878

Mobile Register. ........


The death of Judge Leonard at
Havapa, aud the news from Rio,
should at once, even at this early
day, arrest the attention OF our
sanitary auth critics at all OF our
seaports, and induce more than
usual precaution against d visit this
summer from our tropical enemy.
The eonsnls general at Havana and
Rio Janeiro have notified the secre-
tary of state that the yellow fever
is exceptionally virulent in those
cities. A ship came to Baltimore
from Rio last week, and absolutely
cot up to the city, which had more
than one half it's crew laid up with
yellow fever, OF course. prompt
measures were taken by the city au-
thorities to send the shiptoquaran-
tine. 1t is proper that congress
should at once take steps to enact
a thorough national quarantine and
such health laws as will guard the
entire coast.
Year: 1878

Now that the Mineral Resources of Arizona are being rapidly developed, agricultural products will be in great demand and the Farmer will quickly find himself King, and while enjoying home comforts will reap largely of the golden harvest of the hardy min"r. Prospectors who are searching the moun- tains for hidden treasures it may be poor as Jobs turkey-will in a moment find themselves Bonanza Kings and be able to revel in luxury the rest of their days; but all men cannot become owners of rich mines! All men cannot become wealthy farmers. To the great mass of man. kind the price of pork and beans will still be an object.
Year: 1878

Montgomery Blair has pro-
cured the passage through the
Maryland Legislature of resolu-
tions asking Congress to confer
power upon the Supreme Court
to review the decision Of the
Electoral Commission by which
Hayes was declared President.
If the agitators of this matter
are successful in all that they
ask, we cannot conceive of any
measure better calculated than
this would be to destroy all
hope of future success to the
Democratic party. A very large
majority of the Democratic par
ty consented to the arbitration
which resulted In placing Hayes
IN the Presidential chair, and
were in honor bound to abide by
the result. Any attempt to
open the question, will be pro-
perly regarded by all honorable
men as breach of faith, for
which there is no reasonable ex-
cuse. What the country sought
in referring the matter of the
election to a commission, was
peace. That object was as fully
secured by the election of Hayes
as it could possibly have been
by the election of Tilden. The
Republican party triumphcd IN
the man, but the Democrats tri-
umphed more in the recognition
by the commission of the doc
trine of State sovereignty. and
Mr.. Hayes has fully recognized
that principle in withholding
Federal interference in State af-
fairs. Those who seek to open
the question are those who are
not in accord with the old Demo-
cratic doctrine of State rights
the right Of every State to con-
troll its own domestic institutions
in its own way. The leaders in
this movement are Blair, Dana
and others of that ilk, old Re
pubIicans who were bitterly hos
tile to the Democratic party be-
fore the war and have no SYM
pathy with the principles of De-
mocracy now. They will have
no following from the South or
among those Democrats who
have suffered in defence Of Demo-
cratic principles at the North.
Their effort can have no other
effect than to divide the Demo
cratic party and secure an easy
Republican victory at the next
Presidential election.
Year: 1878

The raising of the blockade
in the Black sea has given an
enormous impetus to the sugar
refining business in Marseilles-
a very important element in the
trade of that great port.


A bill prohibiting religious ex-
ercises in the public schools is
before the Wisconsin Legisla-
ture.
Year: 1878

We are no advocate of female
suffrage. Suffrage is not among
natural rights; else 1t could not.
be limited to age, sex, color or
condition; but a conventional
usage, to be regulated by social
conditions fer the best good of
societyo It would be perfectly
competent for the government
to confine the privilege to male
citizens over the age of 21 years,
who can read and write; or to
extend it to all intelligent mi
nors over the age of IS. Resi-
dence should be indispensable,
but the possession of property
should confer no special prlvil-
eyes under the law, except in
cases of special taxes for local
improvements, when the prop
erty-holders and tax payers
should have the exclusive priv
ilege of voting upon the ques-
tion whether to tax themselves
for that purpose or not. AS a
rule, we believe that no class of
persons should be allowed to
vote who are not subject to mil
itary duty, except in cases of
physical disability. No general
rules regulating suffrage can Sc
cure to all an equal voice in the
government; minorities are prac-
tically disfranchised at every
election; but it does not neces-
sarily follow that their equality
of rights are impaired in cense-
quence. We do not believe that
the political condition Of women
would be at all improved by
comforting upon them the priv
ilege of suffrage, while their So
cial condition would suffer as
greatly as though they were
subjected to military duty.
Mans progress and elevation IN
the social scale depends upon the
elevation Of women, and in that
view we would exempt the
women of our land as far as pos
sible from the rougher duties and
responsibilities of political gov
ernment, the associations of
which inevitably tend to the
destruction of feminine purity
and grace. But We would not
have such exemption depend
upon the surrender of any ma
turai rlght-the right of person
and property; "the inalienable
right to life, liberty and the pur-
suit Of happiness" the right to
her own earnings and the control
of her own personal accumula-
tions; to an equal right IN the
joint earnings of the marriage
relation and the disposal Of the
same; equal rights to the posses
sion and control of their Joint
issue. In fine, that the law
should make no distinction or
discrimination between the
rights of sexes. We would Sc
cure these natural rights to wo-
men beyond the contingencies of
Legislation, by a clearly express
ed Constitutional provision. We
believe that such a provision
would meet the views Of every
candidate for Delegate in this
Judicial District; the only ques-
ton being, if they would con-
slider it the popular thing to do.
We know that Col. Larrabee
dared 10 advocate such a measure
in the Constitutional Convention
of Wisconsin thirty years ago,
when politicians wore much more
chary Of meeting this issue than
they are now and we have no
doubt he will do the same thing
again when opportunity offers.