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Year: 1877

HUSBAND AND WIFE.-The "good
old times" when a wife was to be a
mere echo and family repeat her hus-
bands latest opinions, have gone. If
that is your notion of a wife, you ought
to have lived in Corinth in the first
century; or you ought to live in India
now. And even in India you would
have.to keep out of the way of trouble
some Miss Britain. Your wife is enti-
tied to her own individuality, to her
own opinions. They ought to clash
sometimes with yours, and you both
ought to know how to strike fire in con-
versation and have no explosion. Be
cause you are a Democrat is no reason
why she should not be Republican;
because you are CoDgregationalist is
no reason why she should not be an
EpiscOpalian. Shame on the notion
that wife is only cipher to stand OH
the right side of her husband 80 as to
make unit into ten. A dumb wife is
disgrace to her husband. An inde-
pendent wife is his glory. If she never
differs from you, it is because she is a
serf and you are despot. She ought to


be your best adviser. She ought to be
your most confidential counselor. The
selt-cOnceit of men amounts to genius.
| There are many husbands that would as
soon think of taking advice of theil


wives as of their children. But it is
only the fool who is too wise to seek
Christian Union.
Year: 1877

THE WIFE'S PIN-MONEY.-We do not
know if it is possible for man to under
stand a sensitive, high-spirited woman's
reluctance to ask for money, because he
can't put himself in her place. 1t
would require an impossible stretch of
the Imagination for him to conceive
what his feelings would be if he were
compelled to ask somebody when he
wanted a new hat, or coat, or pair CT
shoes. Perhaps he might be able to ap-
proximate to something near her state
of mind if he could recall his abject ter
ror when, as boy, he approached his
father to crave the boon of a few extra
dollars. a lady said to US: 81 have
lain awake half the night, dreading the
stern necessity of asking my husband
for money next day." Another said :
"If l were absolute mistress of even the
paltry sum of one hundred dollars a
year, so that 1 could spend it without
feeling responsible to anybody, should
feel that's great weight had been lifted
off me-" a wife who does her share oil
work for the family, and by careful
management and contriving adds to the
common fund, is entitled to her share Oi
the profits, and the division should be
Justly and cheerfully made by the head
of the firm, as with any other partner
| If women were so recognized ant
| trusted, many whose souls are now tor.
meuted about the vexed question o.
-their "rights' would be contented


happy "keepers at home" u Toledo
| Blade.
Year: 1877

Artists are you all whom your own
souls are given to mould into beauty |!
Happy ye will be if you labor through
life and seek no recOmpense save the
artists recompense-the joy in his work
the work of perfecting himself-and
that shall be your reward.-Prof. FettE
Adler
Year: 1877

A Journal for the People.


Devoted to the Interests of Humanity.
Independent in Politics and Religion.


Alive to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrong
Of the Masses.
Year: 1877

The latest one out is the "spring- bed
contract" An agent for the beds in
duces farmer to sign contract for
storing them for a certain time. After
ward another agent appears and informs
him that the beds he ordered are at the
station, and must be paid for and taken
away. When the farmer protests that
he has never bought the beds, the agent
shows him the contract, signed by the
farmer, agreeing to take so many beds
at given price. The cheapest way
for the swindled man to get out of the
trouble is to take the beds. The light
ning-rOd trick is another which is yet
on its profitable travels. The credu-
lous hOuse-owner allows the lightning
rod man, for five dollars, to put up a
rod as an advertisement, and in the
course of the transaction it is necessary
to sign paper, which proves to be a
note for several times five dollars, which
the dupe has to pay. Last year the
moving machine fraud had quite run
Now every one of these swindles has
been exposed over and over again in
the papers. But where the farmer has
taken no pains to read the news his los,
has been far more than the price of the
paper and his time-to say nothing o.
the countless other important facts ht
has missed.
Year: 1877

is not found in the East,-the celibacy
of the clergy. The priest not only may
be but must be ''the husband of one
wife," but if his wife dies he can not
marry again. This system prevents a
great deal of corruption among the
priesthood, and at the same time it in
sures the kind treatment of the wife, as
when she dies the priest knows he can
not get another.


There is, moreover, almost no pros
pect of promotion before the Orthodox
priest. He can never become bishop,
unless after the death of his wife,-as
the orthodox bishop, contrary to the
teaching of st. Paul, can have no wife
at all. The ranks of the bishops are
recruited from the monastic order, and
from these the order of succession is
direct to the highest Office in church
and state. In my next l will speak OF
the missionary work in Bulgaria.
G. A. S.


Robert College, Constantinople,
June %, 1877.
Year: 1877

where it belonged. He didn't succeed
very well, for the back weakened on
itself as he fumbled with it, and two or
three pieces fell out of it. Mrs. Bias
ingby was now begging him to leave it
alone and sit down in the easy chair.
His face was so hot and red he couldn't
hear word she said, and in despera-
tion he set the back on the chair, lean
ed it against the wall, and picked up
the chair bodily and started across the
room with it without any particular in
tention, and followed by trail of chair
back, legs and stray springs that dotted
the carpet like the track of tornado.
He doesn't know to this day how Mrs.
Blasingby got the chair away from him.
He can only remember that when he
was about two blocks away from the
house he discovered that he was carry
ing a switch cane with an ivory head,
carved in very Black Crook design,
evidently the property of one of the
young men, and that his head was COW
cred by jaunty little hat of dove
colored silk and rough straw, turned up
at one side, and decorated with pearl
buckle and long, dropping plume, all
of which he had often admired on the
head of the youngest Miss Blasingby.
His peculiar appearance and evident
mental distress when he was met in this
guise by his senior deacon gave rise to
tee rumors that he was intoxicated,
which were, however, so well explained
at the church meeting last evening that
Mr.. Benson was unanimously request
ed to withdraw his resignation. This,
we are sorry to learn, he steadfastly re-
fused to do, and it is understood that
he has accepted chaplaincy at the


Black Hills.
Year: 1877

THE BASHFUL YOUNG MAN WORSTED IN


AN ENCOUNTER WITH SHOW CHAIR.


From the Burlington Qowa) Hawk-Eye.


Rev. Jerome H. Benson is a young
man, minister of great promise, and
is greatly beloved by the members of
his flock. But he is a very bashful
young man, and it is quite a cross for
him to make pastoral calls and get ac-
quainted with the people of the cOngre-
CATION. He has lived in Burlington
only about eight weeks. A few days
ago he fixed himself up and went to
call at the residence of Mrs. Jasper l..
Blasingby on West hill, who is very
stylish, and has four lovely daughters,
and young Mr.. Benson was accordingly
more than usually nervous and embar-
rassed, and when he got to the house
and entered the parlor door and saw
company, two young gentlemen visit
ing two of the Misses Blasingby, his
wits Immediately went gathering.


Mrs. Blasingby bowed him into the
parlor, grandly introduced him to the
young men, and waved him toward an
easy-chair. AS he moved toward it
she made second effort to capture his
hat, and after some feeble resistance by
the young minister she succeeded. And
then that man, thoroughly demOralized
by the loss of his hat, made a wavering
advance toward the easy chair, and then
impelled by the thought that he was
very selfshly taking the most comfort
able chair in the room, he swerved
aside and headed for an inviting-look
ing straight hack chair that stood
against the wall. Mrs. Blasingby, re-
turning from the hat-rack in the hall


OWNED his intention, and bore down
upon him for the purpose of getting him
anchored in the easy chair. But the
young minister had the weather-gage


and the more she bowed and flourish
ed and said, ''Oh, do take this easy
chair. Mr.. Benson" the more steam
he put on, and the nearer he worked tC
the straight-back chair. He reached it
He caught hold of the back to lift il
from the wall, and the back came ou
in his hand like loose tooth. For {
I brief second he stood there, very grace


fully holding the chairback in his hand


listening to Mrs. Blasingby's hurried
explanation about the children, anC
then he attempted to put the chair bach
Year: 1877

OF their landscaperorms, Mr.. Waterman and Mr. Macy
have certain resemblance, but each mas bis ndlvduai
way OF looking at nature


The attendance the Academy continues to be unus
ally good and it encouraging sign That so many oI
the faces from day ~ day Inc sales Oh
pictures We regret say have been comoaratyey few
probably owing less to the general depression Of business
than the extraordinary number OF petnrc-anctiohs
which have been held this But eur artists have
given better evidence Of earnest study and varied
growth and they may that more prosperous days
In store for them. Intelligent ana ndenendent tase
Will in time succeed to imitation and emulation on the
part of a certain class OF pcturebuyers known name
Of course will always have its value bnt may also
look for the day when good work from unknown hand
Will not be dlsrusted.
Year: 1877

Last week, when General Grant took
his leave of this country, at Philadel-
phia, the people of that city We'd with
each other in doing honor to their part
ing guest As the head of the nation,
General Grant has been assailed with
that wholesale abuse and denunciation
which Americans delight in heaping
upon their public men; but underneath
all this abuse there is, and ever has
been, genuine admiration of and re-
spect for Gen. Grant among all classes,
even among those who are politically
opposed to him, the Democratic Office
seeker alone excepted. When he has
more fully dropped out of the political
arena, the American people will come
to value his services as President as
highly as they do his career as soldier.


The leading men of Europe, not be-
ing prejudiced or swayed by the drift
Of our politics, already appreciate him,
both as soldier and executive and are
prepared to honor him accordingly.
Already the British Cabinet are dis
cussing the ceremony of reception to
be accorded him. The decision arrived
at is, that he shall be received with all





the honors which are usually bestowed
upon those who have held the first posi-
tion in a nation. 1t is natural that he
should be received in foreign countries
with much enthusiasm and distinguish
ed honors. He is recognized, first, as
one of the greatest generals Of the age,
whose exploits in command of our
armies commanded the attention of all
people and elected their admiration.
Then, having been twice chosen Presi-
dent he so directed our foreign inter-
course as to prevent all discord and
misunderstanding, and to command the
respect of all governments Honor to
Gen. Grant in Europe is honor to the
American nation, and the people Of
this country cannot fail to be gratiied
thereby
Year: 1877

The history of the scurvy treatment
of the officers of the army and navy at
the hands Of the last Congress, forms
one of the disgraceful chapters of Amer-
can partisan politics. \ cotorie of ac-
cidental political leaders, the most of
whom would not hesitate to encourage
any species of political dishonesty that
would result in their personal profit,
under the popular cry of reform, perpe-
trated an unmitigated fraud upon the
people, by refusing the necessary appro-
priations for the army and navy, with
a full knowledge of the fact that they
were creating deficiency which sooner
or later the Government must meet,
and for refusing which there was no
earthly pretext other than a clap-trap
Democratic demand for Governmental
retrenchment.


Notice the case of the appropriation
for the navy. The actual and specific
sum required to maintain this branch of
the service, can be and was accurately
ascertained, and asked for by the Sec
retary. The pay rolls of that depart
ment are made up, and the amount
required to meet its expenses is as
definitely ascertained, as the monthly
or quarterly estimates of expenses of
any civil branch of the public service,
private corporation or business estab-
lishment. But, unfortunately, when the
Secretary Of the Navy sent his estimate
to the Lower House, it was not legis-
lating in behalf of the Government or
public interests. 1t was simply arrang-
ing the Democratic programme for the
Presidential canvass. They held the
National purse strings. Recklessly dis
honest though the act was, they appro-
priated nearl y two millions of dollars
less than the actual expenses of the
service required.


The economical hit was d palpablv
Democratic one 1t was directed against
Republican Administration, as a pre-
tended rebuke of supposed or assumed
extravaganza ofexpenditure The fraud
was heralded the country over Hol-
man, Randall, Cox, and the rest of this
kidney of political economists congrat-
ulated the people of the Nation upon
the sincerity of the act Democrats
applauded the fraud, and repeated the
story of false pretences, as an excellent
electioneering argument in hard times.


The election being over, and knowing
well that the Government had the de-
ficiency to meet, the House grindinglv
increases the appropriation one million,
but finally adjourns, leaving deficiency
of nearly one million of dollars, and the
officers of the service without pay
The American people now witness the
gratifying spectacle Of the representa-
tive men of our army and navy nego-
tiating their vouchers upon the streets,
to raise necessary funds to meet current
expenses. The proceeding throughout
was in every sense contemplate, and
as has been truly remarked, if Mr. Ran
dali and his associates had deliberately
conspired to make every man in his
Year: 1877

lenghtening into months, until wear
stones along ite's beaten road mark
her footsteps to he grave Death per
chance comes now ana then ami lavs
It's heavy hand on ragged urchins play
ing at the door-sil. A little unsodded
mound in some obscure cemetery alone
tells the story The working mothers
heart is wrung, but she has no time to
waste in unavailing grief Exacting
duty needs no monitor in decorous
mourning either for the dead or living.
Toll and work, work and toil-this her
destiny for those that are left her. If
YOU are benevoIently y inclined, here lies
the field for true philanthropy. If death
should Unexpectedly stop the activity
of her life, then let the inclination Of
charity ripen into an active impulse,
for it will lead YOU to the deserted
hearthstone, where henevOience realized
will add to the number Of your good
works. From such as these rise the
walls of the working women. Hence
echo the sobs of poverty aud want
awaiting MATERIAL sympathy. Indi
vidual shop girls doubtless need much
commiseration The duties Of their
situations may at times be exceedingly
irksome. But what of their less fav-
ored sisters Of humanity who are with
out and can get no employment! The
well-dressed female clerk has not fin
gers enough on which to count her
champions. But who pleads the cause
Of the plain-featured and the meanlv-
attired sister? "When she found her
"ieweiry and trinkets were dragging
her down to perdition, she took them
off and alfectionately gave them to
her sister" Amazing virtue. Tie
world is full of such.
Year: 1877

ANOTHER cold-blooded murder is re.
ported from the South, this time in
Louisiana, the cause being only that
the victim was a Republican, and one
of the witnesses before the Senate Com
mittee He was shot down in cold
blood, at his own door, by crowd of
bull-dozers, in the presence of his wife
and family. Ex-Gov Packard says that
James Laws had told him his life was
in danger, as he had testified before the
Howe Senate Committee, giving the
names of prominent citizens who had
threatened his life, and, as he believed,
had caused his store to be fired Pack
ard further asserts that Laws was one
of the best and most conservative col
ored men of the whole of the Felciana
district, and had previously held sew
eral influential positions with the full
acquiescence of the people, and was a
taxpayer owning thirty or forty thou
sand dollars worth Of property. Thus
the work of determination progresses.
Year: 1877

ACCIDENT AT CHEsTER-SEvEN MEN
kILLED.-On Tuesday morning, while the
preparations for the launch of the vessel
SARATOGA were in progress at Roach's yard,
in Chester, a terrible accident occurred.
rivalling anything of a similar nature that
has happened for years. While the work
men were engaged in wedging the vessel
up, preparatory to starting her on her way
to the river, without a moments warning
she started suddenly down the stocks, and
before the men engaged under her side
could get out of her way, she had crushed
seven of them to death and injured a mum


Der of others more or less seriously. The
killed and wounded were all workmep
employed at the yard. The vessel reached
the river safely, and rode out quite dis
tance into the stream. There are rumors
that some persons were drowned, but they
can be traced to no reliable source. 1t is
impossible, to give the number of wounded,
as many went away and others were re-
moved by friends. 1t is estimated that
between fifteen and twenty were injured.
Year: 1877

The difference between Gov. Stone
and carpet-bag Governor seems to be
that the latter could not enforce the law,
while the former can but will not. The
carpet-bagger's case is the better of the
two
Year: 1877

SENATOR Blaine tells correspondent
Of " The Philadelphia Press " that the
best advice he can give Republicans is
to behave themselves. If that advice
is obeyed the Democrat who yearns to
see split in the Republican party is
doomed to disappointment.
Year: 1877

of their united support. The President
seemed very much gratilied


The conference lasted two hours and
half During that time the Democrats
gave the President most cordial per-
sonal assurance of their support, and
predicted the establishment of an Ad-
ministration party in North Carolina
which would soon etiectually rescue the
State from Bourbon control.
Year: 1877

No further particulars have been recev
ed of any great battle in progress in the
vicinity OF Batoum, as reported on Thurs
day. A despatch from Erzeroum says that
the Russians had made two assaults upon
kars. both of which had been repulsed,
but that heavy firing continued to be heard
from both sides the whole of Wednesday,
but without result as far as known A
telegram to the London telegraph of this
morning from Erzeroum tells of the amaz
ingly accelerated movements of the Rus
slams, saying that it is difficult to describe
the situation and impossible to exaggerate
its Importance. An English Commissioner
in Asia telegraphs to Vienna that Mukhtar
Pasha has been entirely unable to hold the
mountain passes between kars and Ere
roum, and inclines to the opinion that the
latter must fall into the power of the Rus
SLAMS A Berlin correspondent of the
Times has learned that during the past few
weeks Russia has adopted measures for the
gradual mobilization of her eutire army so
as to be in condition to crush Turkey by
overwhelming strength. He adds that the
probabilities now are that Russia will post
pone any attempt to cross the Daunbe in
force till the middle of next month.
Year: 1877

1t is told as a fact that a Lancaster
county farmer who claimed to be too poor
to take newspaper, sold his wheat last
week for 81 80 per bushel when the mar


ket price was over 50. The loss sustained
by him in this single operation would have
paid for paper for 43 years Oxford Press
Year: 1877




The completed circle of summer and winter, seed
time and harvest have brought US to the accustomed
season at which religious people celebrates with
praise and Thanksgiving the enduring mercy of AL
mighty God This devout and public confession of
the constant dependence OF man upon the Divine
Father for all the good gifts of life and health and
peace and happiness, so early in our history made
the habit of our people, finds in the survey of the
past year new grounds for its joyful and grateful
manifestations In all blessings which depend npon
the benignant seasons this has indeed been memo
rabe Over the wide territory of our country with
all its diversity OF soil and climate and products the
earth has yielded bountiful return the labor of the
hust apdman; the health of the people has been
blighted by pestilence widespread diseases;
great disasters by shipwreck on our coast or to
commerce on the have brought loss and hardshps
to merchants or mariners, and couded the happ ness
of the community with sympathetic sorrow. In all
that concerns our strength and peace and greatness
as nation in all that touches the permanence and
security of our government and the beneeent inst-
tutions which it rests in all that affects the char
acter and dispositions OF our people or tests our ca
pacty to enjoy and uphold the equal and free condi-


on of society now permanent and universal through
out the land, the experience OF the past year is con-
picuously marked by the protecting providence of
God, and Is ful OF promise and hope for the coming
generations.


Under sense of these infinite obligations to the
Great Ruler of times and seasons and events let us
humbly ascribe it to faults and fraities if
in any degree that perfect concord and happiness,
peace and justice which such great merces should
duse through the hearts and lives of our people do
not altogether and always and everywhere prevail.
Let with one spirit and one voice lift up praise
and thanksgiving TO God for His manifold goodness
to our land, His manifest care for the nation.


Now. therefore, I, Rutherford 3. Haves, President
of the United States do appoint Thursday, the 29th
day of November next as day of national thanks
giving and prayer. and earnestly recommend that
in Withdrawing themselves from secular cares and
abor the people OF the United States do meet
together that day in their respective places OF
worship, there to give thanks and praise to Almighty
God for his mercles and to devoutly beseech their
continuance.
In witness whereof have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the United States to be
affixed.


Done at the city Of Washington, this Goth day
of October, in the year OF our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-seven, and Of the
Independence of the United States the one
hundred and second.


(Signed) r. B. HAYES.
By the President.


WILLIAM NJ. EvARTs, Secretary of State.
Year: 1877

THE Shoe and Leather Reporter is hope
full. 1t says: Although it is a season of the
year when few new CO ontracts are being made
between the manufacturers and their Gus
tomers-an interregnum, so to speak, incident
to the transition from the fall business to
that of the spring-there are already great
many signs of preparation for the coming
trade in boots and shoes, of which there
seems to be very general anticipation that
it will be large. The transactions in sole
leather for week past have been considera-
BILE. The buyers are chiefly parties who have
deemed 1t advisable to lay in their supplies
slightly in advance of their wants, so as to
get the advantage Of better weights than they
would be likely to secure later in the year.
This stock, of course, will not find its way
into consumption Immediately, but these
operations tend to enlarge the area of distri-
button and impart somewhat firmer tone
to the market. 1t is hig bly, probable that
this line of action will be pursued to suffi-
eient extent to prevent any burdensome ac-
cumulation of supplies in first hands during
the brief residue OF the current year. Indeed,
a week or two more of it would diminish the
quantities so far as to interfere materially
with that free range of selection which is
always so much of an object with careful pur-
chasers.