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Year: 1878

The war furry appears to have taken a
recess for the moment. In other words,
nobody knows whether or not Prussia is
willing to fight, and perhaps the Prussian
Government itself is not clear on the point.
Of course Russia is not going, by herself
to fight Turkey, England and Austria
combined, and so the whole solution is left
to Prussia. Therefore the most convenient
place that could possibly have been chosen
for the Congress to meet has been chosen
Berlin. If Prussia won't fight, Russia
can't, and then the whole success of the
late war will go for nothing; Russia will
be as far as ever from the Bosphorus.


But Gortschakoff has come to Ber-
lin in his furs and his arm chair,
with his pale face and his crutches,
to look after the quarry thar he had
thought already captured. The old
man does not want to be cheated out of it,
and will not, if be can help it. The real
game is to be played out between him and
Bismarck apd the willy Russian will bring
Bismarck up to the fighting point If he
can. But here the late contre temps Of the
attempt to assassinate Kaiser Wilhelm is
great blow TO the Russ. Bismarck's
nerves are said to be awfully shocked by
the event, not so much from alarm for the
future of the Emperor as of the Emperor's
Chancellor and Prime Minister. In fact
it is whispered that there's no fight left
in him. And no wonder! If "conscience
makes towards of Us all, what phenom-
email coward he must be If he has any con-
science at all


Gortschskoff has one chance, and no
don bt he will work it out faithfully. If he
can convince the gouty Prussian that great
war would draw the fire and cool the
fevered blood of Communism, then the fates
will emile on him and Bismarck's trucu-
lence will come to the front again. But at
this distance who can divine the issue 2
Hundreds, We might say thousands, of con-
flicting views, interests and passions are
boiling and seethipg in that cauldron of
fate. Time alone can divulge the resi-
dunn of hxed policy that will result from
the process.
Year: 1878

Editor Morning Star


From . late London letter in the Catholic
Book Netcs, I clip the following:


az will remark that the book trade is made
to suffer by the immense increase in daily and
over ephemecal journalism that they cannot
spare time for reading books. In the days
whom there w0S only Times or AorniaG
Chronicle, and these journals cost fiye pence or
six pence men and women spent their even
ings in reading good books whereas now they
skim idly the Telegraph. 1 don't know how q
''free press" has affected You in the United
States; /; but believe that in England it has
produced popular idleness, with o certain
levity Of tone and aspiration. All the news
papers affect to be infAnible as teachers on
every conceivable subject of ham0n thought !;
and since they all contradict one another, they
lower the dignity Of infallibility. should
say that the book market, in all its interests
and provinces, has suffered by the growth of
the newspapers the mere exhaustion of time
which the newspapers neoessitate, being fatal
to intellectual study"


This statement is unfortunately just as true
Of America as of Europe and, if anything, even
"a little more So" Such being the case, it be-
comes important for every newspaper writer to
reflect we'll upon the tremendous Importance
and responsibility Of his mission as . teacher Of
the people. Tho object of this communication
10 simply to draw writer's attention to their
changed position, in the hope that some COM
petent pen will devote itself to full exposi-
tiOn Of the weiGhty questions which cannot
fail to be evoked by little thought upon the
subject A READER.
Year: 1878

The Catholics of Germany have published in
the Berlin Germania, an address to the Em-
peror William, which has excited much COM
mont throughout Europe. They took for their
text the Emperor's own words addressed to the
high officials Of his Court Immediately after
the frat attempt to assassinate him. His
words were:


"Now again, and in Q still stronger degree.
let it be the task of the Governmen6 to strive,
90 that the revolutionary elements shall not
be upperhana. Each Minister must do his
tSna eSsy aos this
religion. To prevent this is now the highest


Commencing with this the address calls the
attention of the Emperor to the condition of
HE Catholic subjects which would be revealed
in the course Of an honest journey throughout
the whole land. Hundreds Of pastors of souls
dead without its being possible to give them
Ouocessors. Hundreds of Others In exile or in
prison, amongst whom are the majority Of the
still living Bishops. Thousands of religious
driven from their country. Hundreds of thou
sands Oflsymen deprived OF ell opportunity
Of hearing the word of God, OF assisting ct the
holy sacrifice Of the Mass, and Of receiving the
holy SscrAments even at the most critical
moments of their lives. And yet among the
millions Of Catholics who have to endure this
condition of things not one single revolution
ary act can be pointed out What stropR
confirmation of the Emperor's declaration that
It 10 only on religion any security can be based,
when We zee the mon who suffer aouteiy from
the political arrangements will do nothing to
interfere with public order, and will continue
to fulfill their duties As OitiHsns. They then
make . strong appeal 70 the Emperor that he
may resolve to ClOSe the evening of his life by
being TO HE people indeed q prince of peace in
the highest sense Of the word.
Year: 1878

The N. o. ChrtettdR Adroc0to had 70
Gently curious Article entitled "Voltaire


lam" II recognizes the fact that bis prin
ciples are at the bottom Of the revolution
ary, Soeialistic agitations Of the present
day and that his spirit 10 the real anti
Christ, the embodiment Of enmity to God,
and in lie working would utterly destroy
society. It admits that his hatred Of Chris
tianity found vent principally against the
Catholic Church, and that he 10 said to
have been ''somewhat more lenient towards
Professionalism" yet it relies on Protestant
ism to finally crush ont the evil Of his
teachings. It ssys:


We cannot doubt the result Of the conflict,
The hundred years since Votaire died have
marked the tremendous development Of Pro-
of equal progress and triumph, and there will
be little left of paganism In the world, and
not much Of Voltaireism.


Now this is giving Voltaire himself but
little credit for discernment, for, according
to the Christian Advocate, "Catholicity was
to him the representative Christianity Of
the world" It 10 said that "the devil knows
his own" and by the same power of instinct
he and his ought to recognize intuitively





supsrlative keenness of perception he
was no blunderer; he was waging q ter
rife war, terrific in its responsibility,
terrific in its ferocity; for three quarters
of a century he watched every move,
every indication of that great strug-
gle which he had made supremely his own.
Can it be believed that such man with
ounh koA fnO hu ha
suggestions Of his satanic master, should
have missed the real antagonism of the
contests Was there any Quzotic simpli-
city in his composition to lead him into
breaking lances with a wind mill Would
he have spent his forces on Catholioity
when Professionalism was his real foe


We won't fuss with the Christian Adro-
cate, however. We were afraid that it was
going to take sides with Voltaire when we
read its strong statement of his enmity to
the Catholic Church. But it didn't. On
the contrary it condemned him utterly,
and we feel quite proud of it. So, if the
Christian Adcocate can see any warrant in
the past for it's ssnguine reliance as to the
future on Protestant opposition to Vol
taireism, we shall not disturb it's dream.


Bat where does II. find the tremendous
development of Protestant Christianity I"
of the last one hundred yearsf Protest
antism made ali it's conques8 almost in the
hour of its birth. Within the last hun.
dred years it has not conquered another
inch of territory. On the contrary, the
regions that it then dominated have been
pretty thoroughly Voltaireized in the mean
time. No, NO, Voltaireism is, as the
Adroeate says, the spirit of rev olt it is the
logical extreme of the Protestant revolt
Professionalism is but a feeder to it, and
when Protestantism shall have been en-
tirely absorbed and assimilated by it the
Catholic Church will still be it's uuconQuer-
able antagonist as it was in the days Of
Voltaire himself, yea, and of Julian and
Naro
Year: 1878

On one Of our inside pages will be found an
excellent sketch Of tho life Of Pope Leo XIII.
republished from the Messenger Of the Sacred
Heart It is well worth reading and preserving.
Year: 1878

The Liver is the imperial organ of
the whole human system, as it controls
the life, health and happiness of man.
When it is disturbed in its proper action,
all kinds of ailments are the natural re.
suit. The digestion of food, the move
ments of the heart and blood, the action
OF the brain and nervous SYSTEM are all
Immediately connected with the working
OF the Liver. 1t has been successfully
proved that Green's August Flower is
unequalled in curing all persons afflicted
with Dyspepsia or Liver Complaint, and
all the numerous symptoms that result
from an unhealthy condition of the Liv.
or and Stomach. Sample bottles to try
10cents. Posltivly sold in all towns on
the Western Continent. Three doses
will prove that it is just what you want


Sold by Mills & Purdy.
Year: 1878

A NEW YORK paper has an account of a
pair of opera glasses found in California with
pictures of surrounding objects distinctly
formed upon the object glass. The pictures
it is said are mostly Of trees and shrubs and
seem to be nearly in the center of the lens
a little nearer the concave than the convex
side. This wonderful sight may be new to
Californians but it is familiar to opticians,
and can be produced any time by laying IN
opera glass in the sun and allowing the heat
to contract and separate the balsam which
cements the two parts of the achroma-
tic lens together. As it separates it will
form figures like frost on window pane.
To the eye of the astonished discoverer they
resemble trees and shrubs.
Year: 1878

THE New York Nation comes to the res
cue of the Rev. John Jasper, who maintains
that the sun moves ard the earth stands still.
1t will be remembered that Mr.. Jasper is sus-
tained in his position by the unanimous vote
OF his parishioners. Of course majority
canDot be mistaken, more than in Congress.
ut is impossible" says the Nation, "not to
regard this, in the light of recent events, as
part of the great movement now spreading
over the country to give the poor and igno-
rant fair chance in the solution of the lead
ing problems of the day. A good many
branches OF knowledge have been kept until
now in the hands of persons who have had
leisure enough and money enough to study
them, until the arrogance OF this class has
become intolerable. The people are, however,
going to take the astronomy question into
their own hands, ,as they have taken the money
question, and the word of the honest, ,God-fear-
ing laborer, no matter of what color, will
soon go as far about the motions of the plan
cts as that of the bloated astronomer in his
luxurious observatory with his costly instru-
ments, which never would have existed but
for the toll Of the industrious mechanic. A
good deal ofpublic money goes now to the
maintenance Of him and his paraphernala
which could be better spent in beautifying OF
cheering humble homes"
Year: 1878

THE Shoe end Leather Reporter is dis
casing the old problem whether the existing
depression of trade is attributable to over
production or underconsumption, and ad-
heres, as in the past, to the overproduction
theory. 1t is speaking of the leather busi-
ness, but its remarks apply to general trade
as well. In conclusion it says: "We have
strong doubts whether there are any good
grounds for anticipating relief to our trade in
the direction of increased consumption or
higher prices. At any rate, there can be no
dispute as to the expediency of adopting and
operating upon the other alternative. That
is the path of safety in any event, even if it
does not prove to be the way of escape from
danger. The precedents are all in favor of
the conservative policy. There are ninety
and nine cases of commercial calamity aris-
ing from OVERRIDING to every one that has had
its origin in underdoing. 1t would be well il
this historical truth were more generally re-
membered and profited by"
Year: 1878

AT the meeting at the Bracket Street School
House Saturday afternoon, Mr.. Fassstt, a


prominent architect stated that it would cost
as much to repair the old as to build new
school house. think he knows as much about
the matter as any person present at the meet
ing, The necessity of repairing or builiiDg


was admitted by ALL including the Mayor and
committee; the only question with the Mayor


being how to raise the money; the prevailing
opinion was that it could and should be done


by direct taxation.


The lowest estimate given as to the cost of


removing the vault, building cellar walls and


putting in ventilators, as offered by Dr. Ger


risb, we believe, was $4,000. A practical me-


chanic present thought it would cost S. OOO


Now call it Sc, 900 and add to that sum the ex-


pense OF building new stairway iE place of


the hre-hue now constructed on the outside of


the building, the cost of which has been esti-


maetd at 81 800, add we have a result of Sc 800;


add to this the expense of repairing the upper


floors, carpenter work. painting, white-wash-


log. Sc &c.-ssy 81 800 more, and we have


$4,000; and when to this sam is added the ex-


pense of building new schoolhouse to accom-


mocate the primary department to cost any


where from $1,000 to $4,000, would it not be


far cheaper in the end TO take down the old
building, and make use of the old material in
building new one?


MOob peOplo WHO nave bIleu tuo GApctluSDb
have found that it generally costs more to re-
pair an old house throughout than to build a
new one; and nothing bat the most thorough
and complete repairs will make the Brackett
street school house fit for children to breathe
in, and when done it would only be a piece of
carpenters patchwork, after all.


| And while, in the opinion of good Judges the
building cannot be properly repaired it seems to
me that the fact that nineteen twenteths of
the parties interested, desire a new school
house. should have due considerations; and that
whatever change is made, should be made In
| mediately, without waiting for the long vaca-
tion in July; for as all are agreed that it is a
positive injury to send children to the school in
| its present state-where is the gain? and as a
new building cannot be built and furnished
during the vacation, the extra time required
may as we'll be taken before the vacation as
after it.


have presented little that is new in these
suggestions, but have tried to put the matter In
comprehensive form, and hope with all parties
interested, that the city government Will take
Immediate action in the DremlsPS. w.
Year: 1878

New YORK will have about $500, 900 for
her College of Music from the estate of the
late Samuel Wood. The property is the re-
suit OF the accumulatioos of four brothers
who made compact among themselves,
promising each never to marry, and agreeing
that the first one who died should leave his
property to the other three, and so on.
Samuel outlved the Others and came into
possession of a million. Curiously enough,
he had no knowledge of music and made the
bequest at the sugges ton of his physician,
DR.. William Elmer.
Year: 1878

THE Navy Department has done wisely in
the matter OF the laboring-time in the navy
yards. There is no good reason why the
Government more than any other en-
ployer should pay men for working ten hours
who work only eight,
Year: 1878

we 90 not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
municatons that are not used.
Year: 1878

LEAF MANURE.-This manure possesses
excellent fertiizing properties, and greatly
improves the texture and character of the
soil. Ana .vss proves that the foliage of
trees contains vastly more IMMORAL riches
such as phosphatcs, lime, potash and soda
-thon the solid wood and that the older
the leaves, the greater the amount of these
they contain. Now, that the fallen leaves
litter the ground, the farmer whose farm
pays well gathers them carefully to be ci-
thcr used in the compost heap with other de-
composible vegetable matters, or employed
as litter for his animals during witer or as
coatiDgs for his yard or other Enclosures
where animals are confined, and where the
leaves by absorbing the liquid weddings may
be readily converted into excellent plant
food
Year: 1878

The Manure Heap may be made in
central place in the yard, and the different
kinds of manure should be wheeled out of
the stables and pens, and mixed together in
the heap. We find it pays to turn over tho
heap once or twice during the winter, mix
it thoroughly, and break up all the Jumps.
This makes it fine, and fit for use early in
spring.
Year: 1878

Watering Stock is very important part
of the care needed for them at this season.
Empty and clear the trougbs of ice every
afternoon, so that when filled in the morn
ing there is no ice to chill the water. In
cold weather water should not be drawn
from the well until i; is needed for the stock
Covers should be provided for all outside
water troughs to keep out snow.
Year: 1878

A near sighted hen that ate sawdust, sup
posing it to be corn-meal, then went and
laid a nest full of bureau knobs set on
them three weeks, and hatcbed out a
set of parlor furniture, and was pretty fair
hen.
Year: 1878

Rich Manure can only be made from rich
food. Animals add nothing to tho manure
Ii we feed straw, we get back as manure
something less than the straw we feed, and
straw alone is very poor manure. If we
feed o.l cake meal, corn meal, bran, and SIM
liar rich food, to mature animals, they con-
sumo the starchy and fatty portions, while
much of the nitrogen and phosphatcs go
into the manure heap along with the straw
or hay'eaton, which gives the needed bulk to
the manure. The more nitrogen the food
contains, the richer will be the manure
1t is thus that the statement made by chem
lists, that the manure made by feeding ton
Of bran, or linsced, or cotton seed oil cake,
is for some soils worth more than the food
itself, can be satisfactorily explained
Year: 1878

Corn Stalks and Straw should be cut up
with fodder cutter if only to be thrown
into the yard, or used for litter. Short
stalks absorb more liquid than long the
manure from them is easier handled, and
they rot more quickly. A fodder cutter
run by twohorsc tread power, will cut
100 pounds of straw, or stalks, in five min
utcs, and the cost of the machine and often
labor will be repaid in one season in the
convenience of handling the short manure
Year: 1878

Take two empty oyster cans and stout
smooth string Let a small hole be made in
the bottom of each can, through which the
string-say fifty to one hundred feet in length
is passed and secured. Then let the expert,
mentcrs set up their telegraph by choosing
their stations ~ far apart as the tightystrctch-
ed string will permit, and while one operator
holds his ear to one of the cans and the com
panion his mouth to the can of the other end
of the line, they will find that conversation
can be carried on so that most tones, and even
Il whisper will be distinctly pcrccptiblc. What
usually most aStOnisheS those that make this
experiment for the first time is that the sound
of the voice does not seem 10 come from the
person speaking at the end Of the string, but to
issue from the can itself, which is held To the
ear of the listener This at first appears to be
Il deception, but is really not So The ear tells
the cXac, truth The voice that is heard really
comes from the can that is held to the ear OF
the nearer. The voice ofthc speaker commun-
icatcs sound-producing vibrations To the wall
OF the can with which his voice is in immedi-
ate contact These vibrations are Cummunicat-
cd To the string, hut 81 changed that they no
longer affect the ear ApcrNun may stand hv
the string while the sound Is passing. and vet
hear nothing.
Year: 1878

A remarkable case of death in life Is report
ed in IA late number Of Pfuger's Archtc, by
DIR. Strumpell. 1t came under the notice of
tbc writer at a medical clinic at Lepsic and
the sufferer was "A youth of 49, The skin OF
the patient was utterly dead to every sensation
even a burning taper held to 1t induced no
consciousness. The mucous membrane OF the
body, so far as could be ascertained was alike
inscnSiblc To touch or feeling. When his eyes
were closed the patient could be carried about
and have his limbs placed in the most uncom-
Portable positons without the slightest con
sciousncss of the fact. Even the feeling of
muscular exhaustion was lost Gradually the
SENSE of taste and smell departed with the rest,
and amaurosis of the left eye and deafness OF
the right ear supcrvencd


In short, saws Dr. Strumpell, here was an
individual whose only connection win lhe
outer world was limited 10 two doors OF sense
to his one trighU eye and ms one QelU ear;
Moreover. both these remaining doors could
At any time be easily closed, and in this way
if was possible to investigate the consequences
of isOlating the brain from all external stihlt'-
lation through the senses. | have frequently
made the following eXpcrlmcntand olteh SNOW
ed il to others If the PATIENTS seeing eye
was bandaged and his hearing ear was stopped
after il few usually from two to thrce) minutes
the expression of surprise ana the uneasy
movements which at first showed themselves
ceased, the respiration became quiet and regu-
lar: in fact the patient was sopnd dsietP. Here
therefore, the possibility Of artticially Undue


ing sleep at any time in person, simply by
Withholding from the brain all stimulation by
means of the senses was realized.


The awakening of the patient was as lhlcr,
esting as the sending him to sleep lie could
be awakened by an auditory stimulation-as,
for example by calling into his hearing ear; or
by visual stimulation-by allowing the stimu-
llis of light to fall upon his seeing eye; but he
could not be woke by anypushing or shaking
If he was left to himself, he did eventually
wake up of his own accord in the course OF
the day, after the sleep had lasted many hours,
the awakening being due it might be, to in
trnsc stimuli acting through his stilltu.c-
tional sense of organs, and making themselves
felt in consequence of the scnsitiveness OF the
brain being increased during the repoSe OF the
.la
Year: 1878

Par Youg TAXES IF You WISH TO yorE
AT THE PRiMARY.-The City Conservative
Committee NIL have prepared and printed
for use al The primary and general election
a list of all white voter who hare heretofore
paid. or shall before The LIST ddg oy, aiau, ,r,ay
their capitation tax. Only a week is allowed
the clerks and printers between the 1st and
18th (the latter the primary -electlon day. to
arrange, print, and verify the list. They
cantet tloiwitf less time.


Persons who pay on or after LIST OF May
should preserve their capitation.tax receipts
TO show both at the primary and general
election.


But as 1t will be to the advantage of the
voters and the officers OF election likewise,
sit would be well foralI voters to pay up be-
fore The 1st OF Nay. Then all such persons
will find their names on the printed list.


The list OF names win be in alphabetical
order, under the beading OF the ward In
which they reside.