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Year: 1878

FROM recent advices from the United States
there appears to be a more buoyant feeling
among business men, and the spring promises
a better trade, and more of it, than has been
experienced in business circles for many
years. The passage of the silver bill in Con-
gress has had the effect of equalizing values,
and this, with the splendid crop of all kinds of
cereals throughout the country, gives encour-
agement to all classes. better feeling
seems to prevail in the city of New York,
which is the centre of trade; and the out
look promises to pan out much better than
was anticipated few months ago.


If we could only get copious supply of
rain even at this late day in the season, the
Hawaiian Islands would make much better
exhibit for the year than was anticipated by
our people, But if rain does not soon come,
short crops of cane and all other products
must be the consequence.


Business appears brisk in Honolulu, if we
are to Judge by the activity on the wharfs and
the shipping in port. All the vessels going
to the Coast lately are loaded down with is
land produce, which surely argues that trade
is thriving whilst we see at every turn new
buildings in progress of erection all round the
city. The Government seems to be very
active in the erection of warehouses and othel
needed facilities for the accommodation of the
growing trade.
Year: 1878

On an average, horses require shoeiug once
month. The length Of time shoe will wear de-
pends much on the kind of service horse is doing,
and on the kind of road he is daily travelling. A
team horse in heavy draft does not out many
shoes as one used in light vehicle; quick motions
grind shoes down more rapidly than slow use


Some kinds Of pavement are harder shoes than
ordinary road, while the friction of a gravelly
road wears them very rapidly; this is particularly
noticeable here, where the " black sand" is used, J,
the most destructive thing to the shoes of man or
beast, that was ever known; it wears away shoes
like the friction of Emery wheel. The hind shoes
wear out frst and there is strain and friction
on them than the forward shoes. It is mpossi-
bic and improper for horse shoes more than
six weeks, for the growth of the feet shortens the
SHOE as well as changes the shape otherwise.


The neglect will cause the shoe to encroach upon
the soft textures of the foot and produce lsmenes
There but few practical mechanics who have suf-
iceutly studied the foot of the horse. It is not
enough to know the anatomy of the foot and where
to insert nail not to pain but the foot should
be studied in the state Of nature, before the me-
chanism of has, by artidOial appliances, dis
torted it.


The shape of the hoof of the wild horse or of one
which has been shod. should be taken as q
model; the foot is then properly balanced neither
too long too broad, but it has adjusted itself tC
nature, and the muscles and tendons strained
by travel. Confinement and unskilful shoeing chang,
the anatomical relations of the foot, and the bes
judgment Of the mechanic is often taxed to correc
the growing deformity-frOm unskilful shoeing
When reasoning, skilful mechanic is found
the horse is safe in his hands, for he only pre-
serves the normal shape of the hoof ana adjusts tn
shoe to protect it. The frog in the hoof of the hors
is placed there for particular purpose, and shou
not be cut by the shoer If this is done contract
and lameness will surely follow. The shape an,
weight of the shoes should be Accommodated to tn
purpose for which they are designed. The hors
used in light vehicle of course, requires a lgh
shoe, while the draft horse requires broad heav
shoe, with calks, to enable him to obtain foot-hol
and travel with the least possible stain.


CABALLo.
Year: 1878

In Massachusetts and Rhode Island, the
Legislatures of the above States have decided
against female suffrage at elections. We have
looked upon the agitation of female suf-
frage question in the United States for some
years past, as we used to look upon the agitation
of the slavery question, and feel that the ulti-
mate result will be the same. The anti-sla-
very advocates started with but a few follow
ers at first; but by dint of perseverance and


pluck, they pressed forward until victory
perched upon their banner. We see precise
ly the same spirit animating the friends OF
female suffrage in the United States at the
present time, and we confidently predict for
them a final and complete victory. Our rea-
son is that the cause is championed by women,
and who ever heard of a woman giving up
anything she undertakes until she carries her
Year: 1878

Keely of motor (de) fame is hopelessly bankrupt.
This was predicted all along by all sensible news
papers and many of them at liberty to cry to the
deluded stockholders al told you So" Strange as
it may appear Cleveland editor has lost large
amount of money the transparent fraud and per-
haps that's what makes the Cleveland Herald get
mad and want to send Keely to State prison. 1t
says "Keely absorbed about one hundred thousand
dollars from credulous people to develop his humbug
machine, which going to supeTcede steam, and
edispense entirely with the of fuel He pretended
that With teacupful of water he could run train
of cars hundred miles. For over three years he
lived sumptuOusly, drove fine horses wore diamonds,
and drank champagne at the expense of the stock
holders in his motor company If Keely gets his
deserts he will furnish motive power for breaking
stone in the penitentiary."
Year: 1878

SENATOR SERGEANT's late speech, in the
Senate of the United States is the most pow
erful effort ever made on the Chinese question
in that body In fact, it is an exhaustive
argument, and at the same time, terrible
indictment against the Celestials as race,
and will have powerful effect in forming
public opinion in the United States against
fham
Year: 1878

WE understand that Her Majesty Queen
Kapiolani, left in the Likelike last evening
for a trip to one or more of the other islands.
There will therefore be no music this week at
Emma Square, as Mr.. Berger accompanies
Her Majesty on the trip to windward as we
are advised
Year: 1878

The toiling masses may and do suffer griev-
Gus expressions at the hands of bad or cor
rupt rulers, but when once aroused, they
generally think correctly and act with the
force and power of an avalanche. In a coun-
try like the United States this is surely the
case, because the people have the power to
change by the peaceful process of the ballot
their rulers, when found necessary.
Year: 1878

By the way of contrast with the Stewart Women's Hotel project, which Judge Hil- ton apparently not only expected but de- sired to fail it is refreshing to notice one or two minor schemes of benevolence, which, without any particular trumpet ing, have been planned to do good Tn an effectual but inexpensive way. One of these-for whose origin credit must be giv- en to Mrs. John Jacob Astor-is so entire ly a novelty that it deserves particular at tention. Her son was married few days since, and the wedding present which she devised was altogether unique. It dld not take the form of diamonds or jewelry, of gold or silver articles of ornament, or bank checks or deeds to real estate it was sim ply gift outright of $1, 800 to the Child- ren's Aid Society, for the purpose of con- veying one hundred homeless boys to homes in the West. Could there be pret- tier expression of the joy and gratitude of such an occasionP To be sure, it added nothing to the soD's wealth, which was ann pie enough already, nor did it add any use

 less and costly article to the decoration of his house but it must have given glow of satisfaction to all concerned to feel that the happiness which. had come to single household was by this simple act cornmu- nicated among 90 many. vn oaz,
Year: 1878

Some years ago we had in our employ g man who, several times in the day, ran out to buy drink of whisky. Every time he went out the cashier was instructed to drop ten cents into drawer to our credit. Al the end of seventeen months the man who had gone out so often had drank himself out of good situation; and the drawer, when opened, was found to contain four hundred and nine dollars, which we lent to young mechanic at z per cent. interest.

 He used it to purchase set of timers tools. On the 18th of February, 1876, he returned it to us with interest. saying in his letter that he has wife and two children, and property worth five thousand dollars.

 The other fellow is hummer hunting for food. eroy's Democrat. -
Year: 1878



 Otto Brunning, writing to the Journal de Musique of Paris, gives the following in- structions relative to the care of "pianos,- ,- \ The piano is constructed almost exclusive lysof various kinds of wood and metals cloth, skin and felt being also used in the mechanical portion. For this reason at mospheric changes have great effect on the quality and durability of the instru- ment, and it is necessary to protect it from all external influences which, might affect the material of which 1t is composed. It must be shaded from the sun, kept out of draught, and, above all, guarded against sudden changes of temperature. This lat ter is most frequent cause of the piano getting out of tune, and the instrument should be kept in a temperature not lower than s5 deg. F. When too cold the wood, cloth and skln swell, and the mechanism works badly when too warm those mate rials shrink and produce clicking. squeak ing and other disagreeable sounds. Moist ure Is the greatest enemy of the piano, and 1t cannot be too carefully guarded against

 In very short time damp will destroy ev- cry good point about the instrument. The tone becomes dull and fiat, the wires rusty and easily broken, the joints of the mech anism stiff and the hammers do not strike with precision, and If these symptoms are not attended to at once the piano is ire trievably spoilt. Therefore do not put your piano in damp ground, floor room, or be- tween two windows, or between the door and the window where there is thorough draught. ar,9 -irt sas.r. .t ..

 Never leave the piano open when not in use, and above oil, when the room is being cleaned. Do not put it near stove, chim- ney or hot-air pipes. Always wipe the keys after playing. Never pile books, mu- sic or other heavy things on the top. Be careful when you use the soft pedal not to thump the notes. Do not allow five-note, or other exercises of small compass on a piano you have any regard for. A leather cover should be kept on the instrument when rot in use, and removed every day for the purpose of dusting. A cushion of wadding or g strip of flannel laid on the keys will help to keep them white and pre- serve the piano. Never leave piano open after musical evening or dance. If you are obliged to have it in damp room do not place It against the wall, and raise 1t from the floor by means of insulators, and always cover it after playing. Employ the best tuner you can get, and fla new instru- ment, let it be tuned every two months dur ing the first year, and at least three times a year afterwards. Always have it tuned af. ter soiree If the room has been very hot" -nt. .nstf .r...a. ........ -
Year: 1878

RECRUITING for the regular army is
progressing very briskly. Nearly six
hundred recruits have been assigned to
the infantry arm of the service during
the last few weeks, and the drill SER
geants have as much as they can do to
put thin martial gloss on the awk-
ward squads Of recruits constantly ar
aiving at the several depots to be draft
ed of on short notice to our skeleton
regiments. Scarcity of employment is
driving to the recruiting Office hundreds
of respectable mechanics, clerks and
laborers, who under other circumstan-
ces would never have thought of serv-
ing their country for S13 month. 1t
will. therefore, be the fault of the re-
cruiting officers If they fail to secure a
much better material for the rank and
file of the army than has been obtaina-
bic at any time within the memory of
the Oldest veteran.
Year: 1878

The surest sign of prosperous city
is the kind of newspaper that citizens
permit to 60 out of their home. When
a person picks up for the first time a
paper well and neatly printed and ably
edited, masterpiece in Typography, he
is immediately prepossessed with the
city from whence 1t is issued; the same
in regard to one that is badly printed
and slovenly edited, suggests the kind
OF people In whose midst that paper is
printed. 1t is, therefore to the in
terest Of every business man to do what
he can to support his paper, to do all
he can to promote the interests of pa
per which must in turn promote the
interests Of its city and be the means
OF building up the town and county
generally. Central Register.
Year: 1878

Between the President and "Silver


Senator"


Washington, March 2.-The Presi-
dent was unusually irritated and net
tied by the summary disposition of his
veto. He said to a silver Senator yes
terday that he did not expect such in
decent haste. He did not suppose that
two-thirds of Congress would forget
what respect was due the Executive.
The Senator replied warmly, saying:
'Some of us in Congress, Mr.. Presi-
dent, consider our conduct quite as
respectful to you as your conduct in
vetoing bill which more than two
thirds of the representatives of the
people demanded should become law.
You must have learned by this time
that Congress does not pass bills for the
Executive to play with,''
Year: 1878

Washington, March 2.-There is
great rejoicing to-day among the friends
of the Texas Pacific railroad subsidy
bill over the action of the House Pacific
railroad committee in deciding to-day
by vote of to to report in favor of
Tom Scott's scheme. The supporters
of Scott's bill will endeavor to secure
early action on it, but there is not the
slightest possibility that the measure
will receive the sanction of the House.
Year: 1878

certain that no nomination for collec-
tor will be sent to the Senate until
after the Louisiana legislature adjourns,
and it is stated that the President will
wait until Williamson arrives from
Central America in order to consult
him before another appointment is
made
Year: 1878

ton special says: One Of the Democratic lead
ers says that when the Democrats get control
of the Senate on the fourth of March next,
one Of their first acts will be to expel Senator
Kellogg, for certifying to forged electoral
certificate from Louisiana.


Ex-senator Matt Carpenter, who was one of
the Democratic counsel before the Electoral
Commission, expresses the opinion that no
legal case can be made against the vote of
Louisiana, because OF the discovery that one
set OF the certificates were not genuine.
Year: 1878

The New Orleans Times says the Lottery
war has developed into teapot tempest Of
some size" We predict enough steam will
be generated by the time the next Legislature
meets to blow the lottery sky west and
crooked. Lincoln Sentinel.
Year: 1878

This veteran Magazine, which long ago Out-
grew its original title of the NeO Monthly
Maya zine, has not in the least abated The pOpl.
larity it won at the outset, but has added to it
in many ways, and has kept fairly abreast Of
the times, thanks to the enterprise Of the pub
fishers and the tact and wisdom of its editors.
For whatever is best and most readable in the
literature of travel, discovery and fiction, the
average reader Of to-day looks TO Harpers
Magazine, just as expectantly as did the read
er Of quarter of a century ago; there is the
same admirable variety of contents and TIE
same freshness and suggestiveness in its edl-
torial departments now as then.-BostOn jour
nal.
Year: 1878

Schmehl is suffering considerably from
lameness of the legs, and Bartlett felt quite
indisposed this morning before retiring
from the track. Each Of them is confident
OF gaining the victory.


The match will wind up tonight.
Year: 1878

We have stated time and again, and
we repeat it here, with such emphasis
as seems to suit the occasion, that there
is no desire on the part of the Southern
democracy to unseat Mr.. Hayes.-At'
lanta Constitution.


This is true. The people are against
it. But a proposition to disclaim an
intention to unseat Mr.. Hayes was
voted down by the Southern Democrat
ic members of the House, Stephens and
Mills excepted In this the majority
misrepresented the people, who should
rebuke them. Our Representatives
permitted themselves to be used by Mr..
Potter against their own views of right
and duty. They we're not sent to
Washington for that purpose fact
they will learn at the next election
Memphis Avalanche.
Year: 1878

Pacific, or what is CT moro Importance
still, give employment to the thousands
of starving laborers that are now scat
tered broadcast throughout the length
and breadth of the land? Would not
any of these schemes be more beneficial
to our people than wasting time and
money discussing question that has
already been settled by the highest
tribunal known to the law?
Year: 1878

Huntsville (Ala.) Advocate Dem.
says: If the investigation was honestly
intended to make fraud odious it would,
and always will, have our cordial sup.
port; but enough has come to the sur.
face within the past week to prove that
it was only intended for political pur-
poses-revolution though it be. The
politicians forced this country into
terrible internecine war for their own
personal ends, but the game will not do
now. The people are not ripe for a
revolution.
Year: 1878

Forrest City (Ark) Courier says
The man must posses a great deal of
moral courage who, unheeding the
frowns OF his friends, stood up for the
rights and privileges of the white men
of the South-men who strained every
nerve in order to defeat him-and yet
Hayes did so, believing conscientiously
that he was only discharging the duties
of his Office.


Would it not benefit our people more
if our Legislators would turn their at
tention to some scheme for levying the
Mississippi, building the Southern
Year: 1878

is not at all likely to suppose that a
member of communistic club, armed
with costly breech-loading rifle, and
in other ways cxpensively equipped for
the fray, is one of his sufferers.
He will naturally wonder why, if this
disturber OF the peace was SO earnestly
desirous of getting bread, he did not
sell his arms and ammunition and pur-
chase it These rioters would be no
longer to him workingmen whom dis
tress had made unaccountable for their
actions; but he would see in the drilled
and armed troops of communists bands
of men who were desirous, through
blood, pillage and confusion, of over.
turning the existing order Of society
substituting for it
Year: 1878

If it is the intention of the leaders
of the various communistic societies
that are now forming over this country
to repeat with a greater prospect of sue
cess the riotous attempts of last sum-
mer, they are making serious blunder
in their method of preparation and in
the publicity they are giving to it A
great many people who ought to have
known better, sympathized with the
rioters of last year under


THE BELIEF THAT THEY WERE POOR MEN
almost starving for want of sufficient
wages, and that they were driven to
deeds of desperation by sheer destitu.
tion. 1t was the support given to it
by those who took this view of the sub
ject that made the riots source of
alarm to thinking citizens. They saw
that it was possible by appeals to sym
pathy to make many consider even MUIR
der to be justifable. 1t was impossible
for one or two thousand ruffins to over
awe a great city for more than day or
two. If in that time tumult could
not be suppressed by the regular
authorities, there were more than
enough who would volunteer to put it
down; but


A DISTORTED PUBLIC OPINION


was not so easily corrected. Even
though the railroad employees asserted
over and over again that the active
rioters were in no way connected with
them though it was shown that a
large proportion of those who were
killed and taken prisoners were of the
professional criminal class, still the i'm
preston that it was the cause of the
poor workingman gave to the murder.
Gus movement a fascination which
thousands of honest, peace-loving per.
sons could not resist. But if the com.
munistic leaders in Chicago, st. Louis,
Cincinnati and elsewhere make an armed
assault in the manner they would seem
by their preparations to propose, they
will have none of this indirect assist
ance to depend upon. The poor but
Year: 1878

Docs any one know what the aim of
these German and French socialistic
leaders is? The French Revolution Of
17S9 had its origin in the despotic
character of the King and the aristocra.
cy /; but what special grievance have we
here that these armed reformers have
come across the Atlantic to correc' +?
Business is depressed, and men find it
difficult to make enough to support their
families in the degree of comfort or ease
to which they have been accustomed.
But this is a misfortune which runs
from the lowest to the highest social
scale, and from which few, if any, are
exempt. Even in the State of Massa.
chusetts alone thousands of men, who
ten years ago accounted themselves
well.to do, are now
Year: 1878

VIRTUALLY PENNILESs.


Their social position did not help them !;
for here we are all workers, and thrive
OF suffer in accordance with the con.
dition of business. Is there any way
in which this unfortunate state of af.
fairs can be improved by communistic
agitationsy suppose, for a moment,
that these men were to succeed in a
revolt at Chicago; what would they
do? They might, it is true, seize the
grain and provisions that happened to
be there, rob or burn the houses of the
wealthier classes and possess themselves
of the control of the municipal govern.
ment. But, after the poor workingman
had been given chance he would not
be likely to avail himself of stealing
some cloths and few days supply of
provisions.
Year: 1878

to on individual or class can come in
this age through violence. The fabric
of business and society is founded on
the basis of lawful and peaceful gov.
ernment. Once undermine this, and
every one who could not 90 to some
foreign country to live would be a
sufferer.-Boston Herald.
Year: 1878

If he suffered for work before, he would
certainly suffer for it after such a riot
Gus success. Chicago would be cut off
from all trade communication with the
rest of the world as completely as if it
we're located near the North Pole.
Laboring men are supplied with work
in Chicago, just as they are in Boston,
because it is part of great CONNER
cial system, but if the laws relating to
the safety of life and property were re-
laxed it would cease to have any hold
upon this great current of trade, and
the laboring men would have either to
starve at home or 60 to other cities
begging work.
Year: 1878

THE success Of resumption, which seems
now to be assured, Is by common consent
ascribcd to the individual efforts Of Secre-
tary SHERMAN more than to those of any
other single public man In the country.
His labors In that direction in the Senate
aud in the Cabinet have been consistent
and persistent This fact serves Just now
to bring him forward as a possible candi.
date for the Presidency In 1880 among that
class Of our citizens who devote more atteu.
tion to the question of finances than any
other topic of current public discussion.
But his qualifications for such q nomina-
ton are not circumscribed TO his excellent
record on this question alone, for he is a
Stalwart among Stalwarts. 1t will do no
harm to discuss the project of his candi.
dacy. Itisa move in the right direction and
may serve to concentrate aud sOlidify the
party determination to select candidate oi
the Stalwart stripe.