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Year: 1879

the use of troops at the polls. The
bill was referred to the Committee
of the Whole, and the House is
now in committee for the purpose
of considering it.


The House is considering the
Army Appropriation bill under the
FIVE minutes rule, all general de-
bates having been dispensed with
except on the clauses relating to
the use of troops at the polls on
which the debate will take place
later. A motion to reduce the ar
my to $4,000 has been rejected by
a vote of So to 119.


The Committee of the Whole on
the Army bill disposed of nearly all
the sections of the bill. That re-
lating to the use of troops at polls
was passed over for the present.
Year: 1879

IT will be seen by out dispatches
that the Constitutional Goa ventiOn
proposed by the Governor does not
meet with much favor, and the House
has passed the amendment its first
and second reading, to pay fifty cents
on the dollar, provided the bondhold-
ers will agree to accept this settlement,
the whole however, TO be submitted
to the people. Ii the bOndholders are
willing to accept fifty cents on the
dollar, and the Legislature agrees to
thus settle We see no reason for not at
once putting this vexed question out
Of politics. The power and duty to
act belongs TO the Legislature, and it
has no right to shift the responsibility
upon the people.
Year: 1879

THE Democratic members OF the
Pennsylvania Legislature have ell
spoken out at the instance of an inter-
ton for 1880. Reform aud Peltoa will
be in order, but new cipher will have
to be adopted, as the New York ITi-
blt1e has the key to those used in the
last campaign,
Year: 1879

country; and. according to the contract with the
Cramps. must make the fastest trip on record in her
voyage around Cape Horn. Her speed has
been tested in two days trial trip at sea aud
found to be quite up to the agreement The Cal.
ifornia Is built Oh the beautiful model
as the previous ship OF the
which captivaed the Russians that they purchased
her tor the first of the four American cruisers. A
full description of the ship has already been
published in the HERALD
Year: 1879

NEW PUBLICATIONS.
A NEW SOUTHERN BOOK


A SOUTHERN wOMAN'S STORY
bright and readable book the pen Phobe Yates
Pcnbcr. of South Carolina. price. zoe
Every reader throughout the South will greet this book
warmth IL will absorb their enlist their
sympathy and interest and delight them ALL


POLE on WHIST
An entirely and enlarged edition Of this
books the OF whist which is added the famous
rules and laws OF whist printed from Portland Club
Code which Is the leading authority all tho
BE careful TO order The Pcttiand Club Edition. u all
other editions are imperfect


O. W. CARLETON 4 Co, Publishers


Madison slu New York e
Year: 1879

The savage has few diseases, civilized
life has many. Are civilization and disease
inseparable This must not be admitted.
A higher civilization than we have yet at
tanned would show US that great proper
tion of our diseases arises from our semi
barbarous ignorance and are preventable.
This, our day is remarkable for quackery
that gives long list of diseases and nos
trums for the cure of all complaints. Is
not prevention better than cure, and wise
precaution that needs no better than the
ingenuity of mixing them? The savage
breathes pure air most of his time, civilized
man shuts himself up in boxes and takes
great pains to exclude the air. The great
art of ventilation is to admit pure air at all
times, but in cold weather to have warmth
and pure air at the same time. No gener-
al arrangement has yet been made on this
vital point. The savage drinks pure water.
Civilized man digs wells and taints them
with cess-pools, stables, rubbish thrown in
and around--then scientifically filters the
water and drinks it with great satisfaction.
(Filth chemically mixed ia water cannot
be filtered from it, The savage cats when
hungry. Civilized man eats at stipulated
times, and too often goes through the cer-
emony when not hungry. The savage eats
on average no more than is good for him.
Civilized man on ordinary circumstances,
eats twice as much as is good for him and
takes his risk ON the balance. But gaunt
poverty in hard times comes down below
savage life--ls worse fed, worse sheltered
and worse cared for. Disease and demor-
alization in abject poverty and in hard
times, 60 beyond anything found in saw
age life. The savage bathes often in wa
ter. Civilized man dips his hands and
face carefully in water twice day, but
most of them are innocent of good wash
all over, or of bath once year. Hard
work beyond the strength of the worker,
and to make up for hard times, is pres
ent source of disease and breaks down
the constitution OF thousands. And 80
on inscrutable Providence sends fever
and numberiess diseases. It is ignorance,
mismanagement, filth and poverty that
decinates . population with disease-it is
not Providence. The remedies for evils
may be far off, but still the facts should
be born ia mind.
Year: 1879

To read without research is to read with
out power because, whatever be our ma


tive aptitude and our educational prepara-


tion, there can be no proper power without
labor. AS the labor Of smithing develops
the muscles of the smiths arm into brawny


breadth and strength as the exertion of


walking similarly develops the muscles of
the pedestrians legs, SO the exertion of
thinking, OF analyzing, of comparing. of
combining, of testing and determining, Of
patient and diligent intellectual mining
develops and increases Intellectual capaoi-
ty. Want both knowledge and the power
to know and the power to know, the
power Of quick perception, of accurate
Judgment, of ready recollection, of grace
full combination, of comprehensive classifi-
cation can be acquired only by thorough
aud persistent addiction to Independent
research, to sound criticiom, and to &C
quaintance with writings of wiser and
greater men. All this calls forth and in
creases our cogitstive capability, and
forms such intellectual habits as are Of
priceless value in the walks and ways of
true intelligence. Power aad possession
are too oftsn confounded. 1t may be
thought that boy at school, or young
man in college, student in his library, or
a professor in his researches has wasted his
time by learning what he never will have
vocational use for but if be thus increases
his power for vocational labor or for intel
lectual labor of any sort, he is richly re-
warded, though the particular knowledge
thus acquired may never be turned to di-
rect operative account. Ability to distin-
guish is increased by distinguishing abili-
ty to assort is increased by asserting abil-
ity to remember is increased by remember
ing ability to criticize is increased by
criticizing ability to achieve is increased
by achieving and so the right rule OF
in relation to any intellectual
pursuit, is to ascertain how far we have in
creased, or may increase, not only by our
intellectual possessions but by our intel
lectual power. By this rule both early
education and self education should be ex-
amined and determined and by this rules
too, the real worth and rival claims of
classical culture and mathematical study
should be weighed and sattled.
Year: 1879

MIR. A. Petrie writes "In my own FAM


lily we had tabby cat who, would let her


self in at smother door by climbing up some


list nailed round it, then pushing up the


click-latch, pushing the door, with herself


hanging on it, away from the post, so as to


prevent the latch falling back into its place


and then dropping down and walking back


to the fire. I knew Skye terrier who, be-


ing told to carry a fishing g-rod, carefully exl


perimented along its length, to find its CEN


tire of gravity, then carried it on till his


master came to narrow path through the


woods. Here Skye considered, dropped


the rod, took it By the end, and dragged it


under him lengthwise till the open road was
gained, when he took the rod by the centre
of gravity again and went on. This could
not be copy Of human actions, but the re-
suit of original reasonin.." Mr.. Henry
Cecil gives the following on the authority
of the late Mr. Dawes, the astronomer:
" Being busy in his garden, and having
large bunch of keys in his hand, he gave it
to retriever to hold for him till he was at
liberty. Going into the house soon after
he forget to reclaim the keys. The remen,-
brance of what he had done with them only
returned to him when he required the use
of them in the evening. He then recalled
that he had given then to the dog, and for
gotten to take them again. Calling him,
and looking impressively in his face, he
said My keys fetch me my keys The
dog looked wistful and puzzled for mo
ment, and then bounded off to the garden,
his master following. He went straight to
the root Of an apple tree, scratched up the
keys, and brought them. May We not fari-
ly put into words the dogs train of reason
ing thus My master has given me these
keys to hold he has forgotten them /
cannot carry them all day but I must put |
them IN safety where can find them
again?'" Mr.. r. Howson sends US the
story Of terrier-like dog Of no particular |
breed, named Uglymug, who had poodle |
for companion. Whenever Uglymug saw
signs of family meal being laid out, he
inveigled the poodle into labyrinthine |
under pretense OF seeking for |
rats, and when the latter was fairly intent |
On its game. Uglymug sneaked back to
enjoy all by himself what he could get from
the family table.
Year: 1879

/ New York Graphic.
The bulletins from Menlo Park during
the past six weeks have been SO meagre


and unsatisfactory regarding Mr.. Edison's
experiments with the electric light that the
belief has become rather general in this
country and in England that for once the
great inventor has miscalculated his invent
i've resources and utterly failed In his prom
ise to make the electric light the illumina-
| tor of the future. Mr.. Edison has kept
thoroughly informed of the feeling of the
public on this score, but has not seen fit to
reply to the stories published regarding his
supposed failure, and has remained steadi-
ly ct work in his laboratory experimenting
and arranging the intricate machinery by
which he expects not only to fulfill his
promise but to confute the theories of the
scientific gentlemen who have ridiculed him
and his plans.


These stories about my failure" he
said last evening during conversation with
. Graphic reporter, shave had the effect to
thin out the crowd of visitors who usually
come to see me, which to me is blessing
in disguise. I have prayed for an earth
quake or something of the sort to keep some
of them away, and if I had put in stand
ing advertisement in the Graphic for this
purpose it could not have answered better
than these flying rumors. rather like it,
and it wouldn't bother me particle if they
kept up the cry-at least until am ready
to show what have accomplished"


Then you haven't given up your theo-
ries and have not made the failure in your
experiments with the electric light which is
reported ?'


Mr.. Edison laughed outright at the ques
tion and answered: "Bless you, have
made no failure, but, on the contrary, have
been successful in everything I have un-
dertaken. have already secured twenty
lights with one machine or six lights per
horse power. This is absolute and is no
idle assertion"


"Wil your success in this respect rem
der your method so superior to gas that it
will supplant the latter ?'


"It will do this. Il will render the cleo
trio light three times cheaper than gas.
This is but the entering wedge to what I
think can accomplish before have ended
my work. have secured six lights per
horse power, and think it is theoretically
possible to get.from fifty to sixty. You can
imagine what effect this would produce, or
what even ten horse power would produce,
when say that six per horse power rem
ders the electric light three times cheaper
than gas"


"And you have secured this without
doubt?''


81 have, and exhibited the lights in my
laboratory to my friends two week ago.
There is no doubt about it. It is absolute.
The lights furthermore burn brightly and
steadily


& "Is the Illuminating power superior to
gasp"


81 is both brighter AID BETTER


"When do you propose to give public
exhibition of your invention ?'


"Perhaps in month or six weeks.
There are certain improvements upon
which am nov engaged, and until have
finished them and have everything in good
working order, do not care to give an sx.
hibition. There is no mistake. I have
succeeded in my efforts and expect to &C.
complish great deal more"
Year: 1879

Uphill work, both literally and igura-
lively. means work in two directions at
once; literally, it is going forward while
we raise our own weight figuratively, it is
doing things and learning how to do them
at the same time; thus lifting ourselves on
to higher platform of moral or intellectu-
al being. There is always in some senses
an ascending slope before us, which we
may scale If we will. But happily it does
not rest with ourselves to decide whether
the general tenor of our lives shall be that
of laborious ascent or of gentle downward
gliding. The force Of gravitation need not
be always regarded as type Of the deprav-
ed tendencies of the human heart. There
is time for all things, says the wise man,
and if there is time for learning, 30 is
there, happily, time forgetting; and also
time for idly applying and enjoying what
we have learned. There is time for
scrambling upward, and time for lying on
the grass in the valley; time for climb
ing fruit-trees, and time for letting the
ripe fruit drop into our mouths. Even
Christian, who was not the man to finch
from his share of climbing, found rest and
refreshment in the Valley of Humiliation.
and it would be a poor view of life which
valued nothing that was not gained BY the
sweat of our brow. Let life tend eyer SO
steadily upward in its moral and spiritual
aspects, and intellectual labor be ever so
strenuously directed toward higher and
higher levels of attainment, still there will
be in tho outward life pauses from all activ-
ity, and welcome and gentle relaxations of
effort, when our wisdom is to sit still, and
receive the riches which flow into our souls
from above. Hard work is, no doubt, q
cure for many evils, and the taste for it
most excellent one to acquire If We can, but
not to be able to abstain from it for time,
not to have any idea of enjoyment without
1t, is miserable slavery and blindness
TIE Saturday Re0iesc..
Year: 1879

PROPOSAL TO EXPLORE TIM BIRTHPLACES OF


ARTS AND scIENcEs-wEALrH OF TREASURES


TO BE FOUND.


There is = talk in England. says the London Globe
Of the institution of fund for the exploration Of
certain spots in Western Asia. just similar work
has been carried on in Palestine. The interest Of
scholars in this part Of the world has Of late been
immensely increased and IL will be very surprising
II scheme for systematic and competent research
in what is now generally recognized the BIRTH
place OF all arts and sciences. does not call
forth 4 considerable degree CT enthusiasm. not
only among those learned In Oriental matters. but
among all who are capable of understanding the
kind Of knowledge to which such exp loraton would
pretty certainly lead. We already possess relics Of
the ancient Babylonian Empire which cannot but
hll with astonishment any one who will take the
trouble to examine them showing, Ms they do. that
in an age OF the world which we are accustomed
to regard M an age of all but universal darkness
and savagery, there hourished degree of learning
and civilization which seems IN many respects to
have been but little behind our own II IN really
startling to find library catalogue compiled some
1000 years ago, appended to which IL direction to
the student to write down and hand to the librarian
the number of the book he wishes to consult just
he would have to do to-day ct the British Museum
the Guildhall Library. There now In the cob


lection Bloomsbury Assyrian testfyina
to extinct but advanced civilization to extent
OF which comparatively few persons have any ides
Fortunately. the ancient libraries OF Mesopotamia
were largely made up OF tablets composed OF clay.
and fact that many of these have survived the
wreck OF the empires, and the extinction OF the
learning and civilization to which they testify. and
are in our possession Of course affords abund-
believe that Western Asia still
hidden treasures of q similar kind, such would
certainly have the most profound interest for every
recently been made to knowledge of this old
world that II is q matter for wonder that men and
money and State influence have not by this time
been secured for the OF earnest and ex
tcnslve exploration.
Year: 1879

THE amount of travel now passing over the roads near Tucson makes it absolutely certain that unless they are either of the very best quality natur- ally or have adequate repairs made to them from time to time they will soon fall into bad state. The fact is, that though in the main they are excellent natural roads, there are numerous places where they soon wear out and become bad. Heretofore we have de- pended on the recurrence of the rainy seasons to accomplish the mending :; but now that resource is not sufficient; |; the travel is too great, and especially in short rainy season like the pres ent. Accordingly we have reports that at some places, more particularly near town, the roads are now well nigh dangerous to the passage of any wheeled vehicle. We have never yet spent any money on these roads, but they have always been the avenue through which the business and wealth of Tucson have come. They are the dependence of this city now. We may sit still and say that it makes no difference how the roads are: the coun- try must find its way through the bushes to this place anyhow. But take care how we abuse the patience of people who must now come to deal with us. They may find other mar kets, by and by, to our damage. The city, of course, is limited institution and cannot expend money beyond its own boundaries; but the taxes levied by the county are largely paid by Tue son, and 1t would not be out of place for the city authorities to represent the true state of things to the Super visors and endeavor to secure from them the adoption of a good system, of road-mending. Perhaps the Super visors have as good authority for em- ploying the county prisoners upon the roads as the Council have for employ ing the city prisoners on the streets. There is really much at stake in this matter, and we trust that by saying this much the attention of the proper authorities may be drawn to it.
Year: 1879

WE are glad, indeed, to note the very greatly improved feeling which prevails throughout that part of New Mexico which lies on either side of the Rio Grande and which may be called "the valley" That country, which, with all its natural advantages, has long lain dormant and seemed to be covered by a blight, now appears to be awakening, and to be about tc throw of its lethargy and take its proper place in the rank of American communities. To those who have long endured the night of existence there it must appear that the day of prosperity is coming.
Year: 1879

Several complaints have been made to us concerning the careless delivery of mails at the Charleston postofice. We understand that the postmaster is very incorporate and the business of the office is conducted in a very rep Tehensible manner. This should not be tolerated by the people there. They owe 1t to themselves and to the public to correct these evils. Appoint sober man who will conduct your business carefully and promptly and both you and we will feel better
Year: 1879

THIS little life-boat of an earth, with its noisy crew of mankind, and all their troubled history, will one day have vanished; faded like a cloud speck from the azure of the sky. What then is men? He endures but for an hour, and is crushed before the moth. Yet in the beginning and in the working of faithful man is there already (as all faith, from the begin ming gives assurance) a something that pertains not to this death element of time, that triumps over time; and is, and will be, when time shall be no more.-Thomas Carlyle.
Year: 1879

SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 --Physi clans report Dr. Kalloch improving but not out of danger. It is said more or less pus has formed and is still forming around the bullet. There is no way for its escape as the hole from the surface is closed. It is feared il no outlet is found or made for it infia. nation and blood poisoning will en, Sue
Year: 1879

Dyspepsia is the nationaI complaint.
Almost every other man or woman YOU
meet has il, and the result is that the
number of pseudO-remedies for il is as
numerous as Pharoah's host. They are
for the most part worthless. There is,
however, a searching eradieant of this
distressing and Obdurate malady, one
whose genuine merits long since raised
it to a foremost place among the staple
medicines of America. HOstetter's
Stomach Bitters exterpates dyspepsia
with greater certainty and promtitude
than any known remedy, and is a most
genial invigorant, appetizer and aid to
secretion These are not empty asser-
tions, as thousands of our eountrymen
and women who have experienced its
effects are aware, but are backed up by
irrefragable proofs repeatedly laid be-
jOre the public. The Bitters also pro
mote a regular habit of body and give
a healthful stimulus to the urinary
organs. 22-lm
Year: 1879

No. vi.


PITY but We could learn to appreciate
and enjoy the virtues and good qualities
Of our neighbon, and leave their vicestO
themselves. To pluck the rose, there Is
no use In wounding ourselves with its
Year: 1879

THE agitation against vivisection has
taken deep hold in both Germany
and Switzerland. Numerous anti-vivi
section leagues have been formed,
and the countries have been flooded
with pamphlets on the subject. So in
tense degree of feeling has been
aroused against the leading yivisec-
ZIONIST, and their names have been so
covered with opprobrium, that they
have found it necessary to defend them
selves earnestly in public addresses.
One of the leaders in the movement
against them is Ernest Won Weber, the
South America explorer, who wrote a
book in which he experimental upon
living animals in such forcible colors
that thrill of horror ran through the
reading public of Germany, and thou
sands were straightway ready to take
up arms in behalf of the tormented
brute creation.
Year: 1879

The treasury department has declin-
ed an offer made by the electric light
company Of New York, to light by cleo
tricity portion of the New York post
Office building. Experiments made
with the light last spring were mainly
satisfactory as to the quantity and quail
ity of the light; but in view of the small
saving in expense which would be effect
ed by its adoption, the departm ent does
not deem it advisable at present to
make any change in lighting the build
ing
Year: 1879

YAKooB KHAN has notified the British
Of his intention to abdicate the throne
of Afghanistan. Gen. Roberts is said


TO have attempted to dissuade the


Ameer from his purpose, but without
effect, his determination being unalter-
able. Yakoob knows the temper of his
subjects too well TO exasperate them fur
ther by the pretense of ruling where
from the first he has only served. By
refusing to make an effort to retain his
crown he deprives the English of a
weak and vacillating prince, where they
need one, but he will be able to secure
life insurance policy on better terms.
Year: 1879

The capitol at Washington is being
put in condition for the reassembling Of
congress. Large windows and passage
ways have been cut in the south wall of
the house of representatives to improve
the ventilation. The air-holes in the
floor are also increased in number and
size, so that more air can be forced up
from below
Year: 1879

Now, l have no apology or excuse to
offer for that man who, when the war
was over, took his carpet-bag and went
south merely for the purpose of holding
Office and plundering the people, and


then returning to his northern home. l
have no sympathy with that class of men;
but I have sympathy for the men who
Year: 1879

MEMPHIS had but sixteen thousand
souls left within her limits week ago
and over half of these have had the
fever once and are not apt to have 1t
again, Perhaps thirty thousand have
nsd the city.