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Year: 1879

die by their own hands sooner than fall into the
power OF the besieging human demons thirsting to
destroy them. a noble Abarbanel. pleading with
bigoted Spain for the revocation of its suicidal
decree. Manasseh making his manly appeal for
the readmsson OF his people to the land where the
contest i'll the of religion had been so bitter
But for the selfdeny ing activity OF the rabbi the
nephiic breath OF the night of the Dark Ages would
have been fatal to Judaism. He ii who tended
the altar Of faith who kept alive the flame or
religion. To the rabbi. then. debt of gratitude is
due; but how has ii been paid


THE RABBI LITTLE UNDERSTOOD OUTSIDE or JUDAISM.


With many of us to speak OF a rabbi is considered
equivalent to speaking of mednval fanatic. To the
great majority the word personiies unreasonable,
bigoted. and. except in Hebrew lore ignorant and
uncultivated man. To that the rabies OF ancient
days said and Is to expose their dctum almost
to ridiculc as II they were actuated by no motive
save to make the observance Of Judaism difficult
possible. How little they understood! Their
motives were ever sincere. their intentions ever
pure. mot for my sake. nor for the glory
schism from becoming rampant among u.s." So
spoke rabbi chief of the Sanhedrim. and in speak
ing thus he struck the keynote of rabbnsm. They
gave MS faith founded on Moses and the prophets.
To-day their successors lead to believe that the
Holy Law is the cogitation of Moses We are TO take
the prophecies fguratively. We must cen dethrone
Moses from his niche in the temple OF our
hearts If the spirit of the age as it is
euphonistically termed, demands it, Nay let
us admire what is good OF Socrates and Spinoza,
the Nazarene. Voltaire. Zoroaster any Saul
among the prophets This is the cry of the day Ger
tainly we must admire what is good, but when the
good is enbaned in much that Is objectionable 1t
must not be communicated to minds unframed to
receive it, or the remedy is than the disease.


NOBLE WORK OF THE RABBIs.


The rabbis OF the age just passed did their work
nobly and well. Fifty years of policy has not
decreased but rather increased irreligon among u.s.
May their successors perform their task as we'll may
their cry be, mot for my honor for the glory OF
my name. but to prevent disunion and schism from
being rampant among u.s..
Year: 1879

Here is epitaph quite appropriate to the season
through which we have just passed.
Here lies miser. who. beside
Ten thousand other niggard shifts,
On New Years Eve expressly died
For fear OF making New Years gifts


And must not omit its mate, which runs as fol-
lows-


The last great debt is paid poor Toms no more.
Last debt? Tom never paid debt before
We never knew till now that kiss has strong re-
semblance to a sermon. They are alike however, i'll
three particulars. They both require first. intro
duction second, two heads and last. application
delicate complment--not with the sharp
pungent odor of de cologne, but with the re-
fined and coy bouquet of the tea rose-is thing
Here is good illustration Of one, however. Louis
NV. having gained victory the Due du Maine said
to him. "Sire, shall be anything but gnor-
ant Ounce, for whenever you gain victory my
tutor gives me a holiday" DR.. Johnson was in the
habit of saying very wise and profound things per-
haps because he knew that Boswell was right behind
him taking notes but he seldom said anything really
witty You would hardly expect sledge hammer to
be as sharp as surgeons knife He remarked. how
ever. when he heard that friend of his had married
second time that it an instance of the triumph
of hope over experience.


England hardly knows yet whether the in the
East is ended not. She has glorously captured





them. and by mastery movement to the top of a
hill has the enemy flying in the distance amid
cloud of dust. She can't find out how strong he is,
because it is impossible to catch him. Goliath
using the ferule in school of unruly infants and
telegraphing all the world the that he has
just cornered one child and made him cry and then
taking his seat with wreath of laurel his brow,
is pretty good illustration of what has been done.
Great England blowing penny whistle is very
funny spectacle. This whole Eastern business is
Ameer bagatelle.


The morals Of horse trading are somewhat pecu-
liar gentleman bought fine trotter. who was
warranted to be without fault 1t discovered.
however. that he was blind Of one eye The sold re-
monstrated with the seller. and indulged in long
discourse the virtue of truthfuness, just as
though horse dealing not outside all the rules of
commercial ethics. 'You told me- sir that the horse
entirely without fault and yet he is blind The
casuist looked blandy into the rrated countenance
Of the loser by the transaction and sad with charming
nalrete II do not regard blindness fault sir; it
is misfortune
Year: 1879

District, Arizona.

 The entire mining belt north of the King shows rich carbonites, and the only great want of this district is capital to develop the hidden wealth of untold ages. The general trending of the principal leads is northeast and south west, but few cross leads or feeders running east and west show very fine strata of mineral. Nearly all the mineral strata are more or less oxydIzed by atmos- pheric action some to a depth of sixty 10 one hundred feet, while rich deposits have been obtained in some at a mere nominal depth of a few feet. The geology of the district is well suited for rich mineral wealth, the country rock being granite, syenite, quartzitt. and in many places mica and tal- cose slate predominate. The great portion of the surrounding country appears to have belonged to the Silurian, as I find ali brec- cias and conglomerate formations are rich in trilobites and other fossils of both the riper and lower SilIrian period. A great many of the mineral veins are in inn mediate proximity to large for mation of dolomite or carbonites of lime and magnesia, and cover ed with capping of binoxide of manganese. Beneath this cap ping is found the rich chlorurets which make some of the Globe mines so famous. This country presents a wonderful study for geologists, as almost every period of the rock creation, from the Azoic to Tertiary times can be found.-"Cor. Oakland Tribnne. {"
Year: 1879

Everything shali be first-class, and all its departments shall be conducted in such manner as to conduce to the pleasure and meet the appreciation of the resident and travelling public.
Year: 1879

sire it shall be so crushing and complete
that the grave of Greenbackism will be dug
deep and wide next September. The Curl
ous and astonishing growth of the paper
money doctrine in Maine last year has
Justly provoked large amount of sur
prise, because the people of that
state are, as class, well edu-
Gated and quick-wltted. But due consider
alton had not been given to the great extent
to which the ship-building, lumber, and
manufacturing interests of that Common
wealth were depressed, stagnant or utterly
ruined. Men who were willing to suffer
in order that the dollar which the Govern
ment promised to redeem in coin might be
so recovered, were, after three years of
patient waiting, beginning to grow restless
under the specious pleadings of the den,a-
gogues who came among them, causing
thousands of timid and conscientious men
to hesitate, and this was fatal to the cause
of the Republican ticket. Times have
changed in one short year. Men are at
work, mills started up under full time, and
the crowds of idle men vainly seeking work
cannot be rallied again this summer by the
CHASE, EWING, and CARY charatans.
Year: 1879

TALKING about divisions in partisan
ranks, the split between the Democrats in
the House and their fellows in the Senate
must not be overlooked. Seven implacables
in the latter body are ready to starve the
Government from now until dOomsday,
while all of the acknowledged leaders there
in, from Dr. THURMAN, the Gar down to
WADE HAMPTON, are ready to surrender to
the Administration, In the House a ma
jority of the party Is in favor Of "no sur
render" while a weak minority seems to be
inclined TO do the opposite thing. This
jumbled-up condition of affairs will be
Strengthened out by the advisory committee
Year: 1879

Although the campaign hosnot been fairly
begun in Maine there are encouraging evil


dences that the Republicans of that State
will 90 into it with vigor and determina-
ton which are the equivalents Of success,
They fully count upon victory, but they de-
Year: 1879

in due time; but the fact remains that the
utmost confusion and the greatest diversity
of views exists in the Democratic camp, and
that the widest possible difference is dis
closed between the views of the majority
party in the two Houses
Year: 1879

THE New York Democrats are not rushing
frantically forward to subscribe to the Ew-
ING campaign fund. They are not bolster
ously anxious to plank down their hard
money for the use of q rag-money candi-
date
Year: 1879

THE veto of the judicial expense" bill
reads better the more it is read 50 to speak.
Its arraignment Of the Democracy for their
unconstitutional attempt to do what they
had failed to do under constitutional forms
is unanswerable. The President evidently
does not believe that under his oath of Office
he can conscientiously permit any law upon
the statute book to remain imperative OF
as a dead letter
Year: 1879

SOME of the Methodist Church leaders
have latterly been engaged in discussing
The objectionable Sin" This, in spite of
their desire to keep out of politics; but it
appears that the extra session has seduced
them into q regular wrangle.
Year: 1879

THE current inquiry, What are the DEM
ocrats going to do? can only be answered
by surmise and speculation; but the shrewd-
est guessers have arrived at the conclusion
that they will eventually disband their
caucus organization and permit each man
to take care of himsef-to make his own
peace, in short, with his constituents.
Year: 1879

"THEY" used to say that the carpet-bag-
gers down South were insatiate office-seek-
ers, The presence of an overwhelming ma
jority of Confederate Brigadiers in the Con-
gressonal representation from that section
would seem to indicate that there are other
people afflicted with the same selfish pro-
pensity.
Year: 1879

THE discovery and announcement by the
Chicago Tribune of the fact that the NrcH-
Oils Legislature in Louisiana in '67 was
corruptly organized seems TO disturb the
serenity of the Bourbon organ here in WASH
ington. The announcement is not made
more emphatic, however, by its repetition
in those columns. Noone has ever doubted
the fact; but it appears little strange that
it should be brought forward now at the in
stance of Democratic inspiration. What has
NICHOLS done recently that he should
now be denounced as an usurper by his
lellow-partisans?
Year: 1879

THE urgency Of the friendship of the
Democrats for the Greenbackers is evidenced
by their attempts to villify and destroy the
national organ Of that party here in Wash
ington. The truth is as all the world
knows, that the National Tic,c was started
by aud is printed at the expense of such
earnest Greenbacller5 as General BEN But
IER
Year: 1879

THE anti-railroad plank in the California
Republican platform was an inspiration
worthy of ex-secretary GoRHAM, its author,
The eucroachments of the Chinese upon the
labor system of the Pacific coast are hardly
less TO be deplored AZ inimical to the gem
eral prosperity of that section than the ex-
actions of the railroad corporations
Year: 1879

THE leading Southern papers insist that
the brains of the South are not in Congress.
So it would appear from the sterile results
of this extra session, In fact, the suspicion
is getting abroad that the South is repre-
sented, especially in the House, by a lot of
barren old women, and, as JEFF DAVIS says,
none of them have been reconstructed
Year: 1879

If the laws of the United States are not
made to be executed why are they per-
mitted to remain upon the statute book
Until they are repealed by constitutional
means it is the sworn duty of the Presi-
dent to administer them in spirit and letter.
Year: 1879

THE habit which obtains with the press
generally of upbraiding the police " for Its
inefficiency appears to be unwarranted and
unjust. The arrest of the murderer of Mrs.
HULL in Boston, last Monday and the sue
cess which has attended the efforts of our
Washington force in capturing the Govern
ment Printing Office thieves, furnish two
illustrations, at least, of thegeneral efficiency
of American detectives. The truth is that
greater number of mysterious crimes are
detected by them than they get credit for I;
greater number than those which escape
detection. But our people expect every
thing TO be done on the instant.
Year: 1879

the verse that God used 70 rouge
that man;


Sowing the seed of lingering, pain,


Sowing the seed of o naddeDed brain,


Saving the seed of q furnished name;


Sowing the seed of eternal shame!


Oh, what shall the harvest beT


Three years have rolled away.
One Of the most efficient work
ers today in Chicago, is that
man. l have heard him move
an audience, as I think I never
saw an audience moved. God
searched very low when he pick
ed him up. His wife and chill
dren are with him now, and
they have a happy home.-Ex,
Year: 1879

Mr.. Moody, in his Cleveland
meeting, the other day, told Of
a man who came into one Of
their meetings in Chicago, three
years ago, and was converted
and saved from the power OF rum.


He said: A poor man came into
that meeting discouraged and
disheartened. He had run away
from his friends in the hope
that he might come to Chicago
and die in a gutter. He had
given up all hope Of becoming
a sober man. He was the son
of a good man; he was the hus-


band of a lovely wife; he was the
father of two beautiful daugh


ters, But he had become such
a slave to strong drink, that he
had given up all hope. That
night he came into the taber-
nacle because it was cold, and
he wanted to get into a warm
place. He went up in the gal
iery and got behind a post, and
he said as the people came In,
well dressed and looking so hap
py, he looked down upon them
and gnashed his teeth, and ours
ed the day on which he was
born. Atlast Mr.. Sankey struck
up that hymn, Sowing the
Seed" The man said he did
not take any interest in the sing
ing until he came to the third
verse, and that was the verse
that reached him. And when
Mr.. Sankey was singing tonight
was in hope it would reach
some one else. Let me read
Year: 1879

We are glad to see that many
who formerly regarded the mere
cultivation of the intellect as the
grand means Of lessening crime,
are beginning to reconsider their
theory, Itmight have been con-
cluded, without any very large
experience, that a general knowl-
edge and a sharpening OF the IN
tellect would simply enable the
possessor to use more effectively
these instruments to carry out
his designs for good or bad as
he might be inclined, Geogra:
ply and grammar, history and
mathematics, will never make a
corrupt heart sound. There new
er was q greater absurdlty than
such a supposition.


But, say some, the education,
so called, places resources with
in reach which occupy the time
and The mind, which otherwise,
through sheer idleness, would
be passed in mischief. tits late
in the day to imagine that all
reading matter is calculated to
do good, that the time passed in
the perusal ef licentious and cor
rupting literature is less likely
to make men vile than even
idleness itself.


Ithas been proved by statis
tics, that while our prisons have
many occupants from the ignor-
ant and unenlightened classes,
the great criminals, without ex-
ception, are those who have had
the advantages Of education,


We must fall back, then, up
on the old and wise admonition,
"Traln up a chlld III the way ne
should go, and when he is old
he will not depart therefrom."
There must be a moral education
if a man is answerable for his
actions as a moral being, and
as there can be no pure morality
that has not it's basis in religion,
Of necessity this last must form
a part of all the education Of
men that is intended to prevent
crime.


We often admit this as rea5-
enable, we approve of this as q
theory, and yet are not careful
to provide that our children
shall have the advantages Of
Christian culture while this in
tellect is developed. Let US act
more reasonably in this respect,
and we shall be the more sure
not to suffer at last from vain
regrets. Episcopal Register.
Year: 1879

The creatures and oliques who
claim to have been chiefly instru-
mental in killing" Lucius Rob
inson are about as numerous as
those who, according to the nur-
sery rhyme, had a hand in the
killing of Cock Robin. The
latest pretenders in this respect
are the equal rights women OF
New York, who have been cack-
ling like a lot Of superannuated
hens ever since the election.
This class Of women is always
in antagonism to Democracy be-
cause Democracy long ago sat
down on all iSms that require
women to unseX themselves
st. Louis Times.
Year: 1879

With a wounded and broken heart
did the sage leave the presence of Ru-
fus; streams of tears flowed from his
eyes and descended upon his beard
many sighs escaped from the depths of
his heart, and he moaned:


.Woe unto me! my eyes have seen the
destruction Of Jerusalem, and the burn
~ing~of our sanctuary, and now [ am to
behold the devastation of Bethar and
the terrible suffering in store for the
remnant of Judahl


At this groan of Rabbi Eliezer, a voice
from on high like the report Of rolling
thunder responded; Thine eyes will not
behold this great evil, for before it will
come thou wilt be gathered to thy faith
ers."


When the sage heard this divine voice
his spirit was restored, and with calm
heart he returned to his house He re-
commended his only daughter to the
protection of God; whilst he covered
himself with sackcloth and ashes. He
would not even eat dry bread nor drink
any water: he gave himself no rest and
allowed his eyes no sleep but constantly
prayod to God that the evil may be evert-
ed. and mercy be shown to the remnant
Of Judah. His nation and heritage.


At that time Papus came to the house
Of Shimeon Bar Cochba and handed him
the letter which Rabbi Akiba had sent
through him; he also informed him that
all the people were willing to rise as one
man and to expel the Romans from the
land. but that their hearts were not bold
enough to commit any definite action
unless all the sages and scribes would
consent. He also told him that among
the rabbis there were many who loved
the Romans and sought their welfare
and prosperity; and that he even knew
the names of a good many sages who
were an obstacle to the realization OF
their plans, as for example Rabbi Ellie
zer Hamodai.


"What do you know or what have you
heard about that man?' exclaimed Shin
con, mgrily.


Il do not know anything, but [ have
heard from truthful men that hc....


'What did you hear? Speak, shouted
Shimeon.
Year: 1879

the Republicans will have something to say
on that subject. Not q single bill OF any kind
can be passed, if the Republicans exercise the
power which they possess. by refusing TO
vote they can leave the House without u
quorum at any hour. The country VIII heartily
sustain them in this or any other parliament
ary device by which bad measures may be
stopped, or a prolonged and senseless partisan
wrangle may be prevented. The PLAIN duty
of this Congress is to make the appropriations
which the laws require, and then to go nome
without delay. The Republicans viii do wisely
if they employ enough coereive power to COM
pei the majority to do Its duty WIN the leaS'
possible delay or fuss.
Year: 1879

fortnight ago lad deliberately set fire to aud
destroyed the barn and its contents which belonged
to an Orange County farmer who had employed
him. There was apparent occasion for the
boys successful venture as an incendiary. He
was not of malicious nature. Even if
he had been revengeful he had suffered no real or
imaginary wrong. lle not afflicted with the
infrmity Of ambition. like the youth who fired the
Ephesian Dome, and he did not claim that he burned
the barn for fun" But he was addicted
TO literature and it was at last discovered
that he had inst been reading an instructive
piece of fiction found in of those weekly papers
for the young which can be procured at every news
store The hero Of this tale had commenced his
career with a prosperous attempt Mt arson, and
after many adventures of this sort he was at last
brought to see the error of his evil courses
and was made over into reputable
and respected citizen. The Imagination of the
farmers boy evidently infamed by this cap
tivatmg history of enterprise and success, and he
went and did likewise. No one can tell how
many moral wrecks are made by this per-
nicious reading, which is so aluring to
the class for which it is furnished and it
would be hard to overstate its deadly effect upon
the minds, manners and morals of the growing boys
and girls VINO feed upon it. The evil, too, seems
almost without remedy. but it does look as If the
ClYll Damage Act cOuld De justly eAtenueu 10 cover
cases as PLAIN as this one. In States when
a rum-maddened man nfcts, during his delinum
any damage to the property OF his felOw-beinEs
the man who sold the drink is held responsible Tor
the loss. Why should not the writers and pub
fishers of this intoxicating stuff be held to like
countabity' The relation Of cause to effect can
often be traced with much accuracy
and certainty in the one case as in the
other. 1t was dealer in poisonous
literature who committed arson in this special in
stance as directly as rumseller Derpetrated
crime by the hand of the man whom lie had made
drunk.


What the New-York international Exhibition
really needs to make it All assured and complete
success in distinctiyely metropolitan way, is more
committees and more plans and more quarrellDg.
There is danger that some likely site,
such az Robbins Reef or New-Jersey
mosquito meadow. may be overlooked unless every
body with ALI to grind or lot to sell organizes
himself at once and posts of to Washington with
bill. Perhaps the most characteristic show
utter all which some of energetic cit-
xens and officials could make Of themselves
Year: 1879

Senator Randolph did not display his GUS
tOmary pradence the other day when he vol
unteered to reinforce Senator Thurman, as
that statesman WAS wildly charging upon the
Federal Election laws In another column
will be found some sharp testimony from
Hudson County Democrats which riddles Mr


Thurman's fimsy reasoning through and
through. and il is unfortunate for MIR. Ran
dolph that be has chosen to place himself
where his own facts and logic are subjected
to the same CALLING fire. If Senator Randolph
intended to give United States Marshals the
credit of accomplishing anything be-
vond the prevention of fraud at the
polls in Jersey City last Fall, he did
serious injustice to the Democrats In
the With Congressional District Of his State.
These are the men who deserve the glory of
defeating the GrGcO-Roman ticket, and a
Democratic Senator from New-Jersey ought
to be the last man to ascIibe it to anybody
else. Democrats who are better than their
leaders are rare enough iii New-Jerssy and
elsewhere, and when they are found IN suli-
Gent numbers and with sufficient courage to
repudiate candidates who are forced upon
them, but VINO, as they think, cannot worthiy
represent them, their political virtue deserves
commendation and encouragement, and poll
ticjans of the better sort like Mr.. Randolph,
should not fail at least TO recognize it. 1t Is
worth observing that the Democrats OF New-Jer-
sey reject with proper scorn the assumption that
Federal Supervisor or anybody else can
bully OF buy them out of the lawful exercise
of their rights as citizens. This fact Is COM
mended to the reflection of Democratic lead
ers in other sections as closet exercise.
Perhaps they do scant justice to their adhe-
rents when they assume that these are cattle
who can be scared or seduced away from the
polls where they have a right to vote by a
man with a gun or a man with a dollar.