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Year: 1878

julius Moser gives the following
counsel from wife and mother:


II try to make myself and al around
me agreeable. 1t will not do to leave
man to himself till he comes to you; to
take no pains to attract him, or appear
before him with long face. 1t 10 not
so difficult rs you think, dear child to
behave to husband so that he shall
remain forever in some measure hus-
band. ] am'an old woman, but You can
still do what you like; word from you
ut the right time will not fail of its
effect; what need yon play the suffer
ing virtue? The tear of loving girl,
said an old book, is like dew drop to
a rose, but on the cheek Of wife is a
drop of poison to a husband. Try to
appear cheerful and coptented. and
your husband will be so; and when
you have made him happy you will
become so-not in appearance, but in
reality.


"The skill required is not so great.
Nothing fatters man so much as the
happiness of his wife, he is always
proud of himself as the source of IL.
AS soon as you are cheerful you will be
lively and alert, aud every moment will
afford You an opportunity to let fall an
agreeable word. Your education, which
gives You an immense advantage. will
greatly assist you, and your sensibility
will become the noblest gift that ma
ture he's bestowed on yonu when it
shows itself in affectionate assiduity,
and stamps on every action soft, kind
and tender character, instead of vast
ing itself in secret repinings."


This is most excellent advice, and
worthy Of being treasured up.
Year: 1878

When the lessons and tasks are all ended,
And the school for the day is dismissed,
And the little ones gather around me
TO bid ME good night and be kissed.
Oh, the little white arms that encircle


Nv neck in tender embrace!
Oh, the smiles, that are haloes of Heaven,
Shedding sunshine of love on my race.
And when hey are gone, ! sit Dire aiming
OF my childhood too lovely to last;
Or love that my heart will remember,


When it wakes to the pulse of the past.
Ere the world and its wickedness made ME,
A partner of sorrow and SIR;
When the glory of God was about me,


And the glory Of gladness within.
Oh, my heart grows as weak as woman's,
And the fountains Of feeling will how,
As think of the pathssteep and stony,


Where the feet of the dear ones must GO
OF the mountains of SIN hanging DER them
OF the tempest of fate blowing wild!
Oh, there's nothing on earth half so holy
As the innocent heart of a child! ..
The twig is so easily bended,


l have banished the rule and the rod,
l have taught them the goodness of klowl


edge,


They have taught me the goodness of


God.


Ny heart is dungeon of darkness


Where | shut them from breaking a


rule, s...z.
My frown.is sufficient correction,


My love is the law of the school.
shall leaye the old house in the autumn,
To traverse the threshold no more;
All! how shall SIGH for the dear ones
That meet me each morn at the door.
Ishall miss the good nights and the kisses,
And the gush of their innocent glee,
The group ON the green and the flowers
That are brought every morningto me-
shall miss the low hum of their voices,
And the tramp of their delicate feet,
Whom the lessons and tasks are all ended,
And Death says, "The school is dis


missed"


May the little ones gather around me


To bid me good night "and be kissed"
Year: 1878

A New York man. against whom pro-
ceediuRs for limited divorce had been
begun by his wife, testified that he had
to keep his hair closely trimmed to pre-
vent his wife from pulling it ont.
When man takes such q mean advan--
tage Of his wife We are not surprised to
hear that she wants q divorce. No
doubt If he had permitted his hair to
grow as long as wild-eyed spiritual
lists, SO that she could get good grab
and dag him around the room three or
four times day TO relieve the dull mo-
notony Of her household duties. she
wonld never have thought Of bringing
suit for q divorce. Husbands should
read q lesson from this.
Year: 1878

the shore and say il you want pros
perity put out TO sea once more. We
don't want to--we want honest
methods. No man lives in country
whose money is uneer par, that be
does not feel little under par him
self. never took cut bill that was
at 2 or per cent discount that L
did not feel a little that way too.
This great and splendid Republic,
with the most intelligent and the best
people in the world-and | say the
most honest-I want its promise 10
be as good 10 every part OF the world
as the promise of any other nation.


want the greenback to be preserved;
want to have gold aud silver be-
hind il; want it so that if | should
go into the furthest isle Of the Pacit-
ic and should take out I greenback, a
savage would look at it and his eyes
would glitter as if be looked at gold.
Then you feel like you are somebody:
like you had great and splendid ma
ton, and even that cid flag would
look better if every promise of the
United States had been redeemed.
And YOU never know how much you
feel like that until you go to for
eign country When | was there a
few days ago, just happened to see
that old flag-it looked to me as if
the air had just bl0ssomed cut. |
want TO feel that way all my life. /
want TO feel that mac is capable of
governing himself, and thatsa repub-
Iican government is the very acme
aud height Of national honor
Year: 1878

Is harmless,
Is no drastic Aiolent medicine,
Is sure to cure IL taken regularly,
Is no intoxicating beverage,
Is the cheapest medicine in the world,
Is given with safety and the happiest results
the most delicate infant,
Does not interfere with business,
Does not disarrange the system,
Takes the place OF Quinine and Bitters Of ever
kind,


A Remadv
Year: 1878

BRICK PoMERoY must think that we
of the South are body Of knaves. He
is the great headlight and moral and
intellectual exemplar of the ultra
Greenbackers. He has brains, while
the fellow Kearney is ranting fool;
bu, Pomeroy's intelligence is not de-
noted by any proper sense of right.
Honest, just men can never approve
his advice to the Young Men of the
West and South" He says:


I'VE can clean all of those
Eastern pirates out of the homes and
the property they have stolen. We
car unite and whip them to reason and
to comprehension of the right. We
car leave the country northeast of the
Allegheny Mountains to pay the ma
tonsl debt. We can unite and make
the Southwest the garden of the world.
We can open the Mississippi River and
float our billions of produce down its
wa ers TO market. We can send our
surplus products to foreign countries
by way of Southern cities. With the
proceeds we can line the Vest and
South with new railroads, open new
mines and make the Esst bowling
wilderness, in which will roam the
ghosts of the witch-burners, and of
those Puritans who made fortunes in
supplying the South with slaves stolen
from the coast of Africa. We can do
all this, and you will take this for your
repast IN the near future If you do not
burn your ill-gotten bonds and let the
people live. Organize Greenback clubs,
with bayonets in reserve"


Pomeroy, a Northern man, seems in
spired by fiendish malignity. We go
to the polls and vote animated solely
by the purpose to serve the country.
We would demand only what is our
due and wrong the East in nothing.
What have We to gam by making
''desert of New England" Pomeroy's
paItisAnship is the outgrowth of pas
sion and malice rather than of reason
and conviction. he leads unthinking
followers by appealing to the worst
lns,Incts and impulses of human ma
ture, and it is only unfortunate that
Pomeroy has brains while poor Kear-
ney, as shown by his vapid speeches,
has only s'horny hands" with which TO
capture the unthinking mob. Neither
can ever gain following in the South.
We were reared honestly and cannot
become thieves and robbers. But it
was only proposed when producing
this gem from Pomeroy's diadem Of
glory to ask how Governor DAVIS,
Mayor DeGress, Tracy and Wash Jones
can submit to the mastery Of such
leader as this madmau Pomeroy.
Year: 1878

TIE people OF Manor and Round
Rock are not we'll pleased that Austin
has made them stopping places for
possible or impossible victims of yel-
low fever. They have declared that
they will take care of any victim of
the fever thrust from the cars at those
points, but will make those suffer who
compel the election there of victims
of disease. After all, the supposed
quarantine, If sought to be enforced
in giTen case, would probably be a
failure, and very certainly, since the
leading physicians of the city concur
in declaring that there is no reason or
need for tbs. services of the quarantine
qua .dsmen, they should be discharged
and the money given them devoted to
clesosing the city.
Year: 1878

SURGEON GENERAL BARNES has been
asked whether there be any process of
fumigsting mail bags SO that they will
not transmit the yellow plague, and our
inspectors of female bags on the rail
roads will be a little nervous when
smelling around among bottles and
thiags, and the Surgeon Generalshould
at once send his response to the city
fathers of Austin.
Year: 1878

II is so kind of Austin aldermen and
q few doctors to stop all possible and
impossible cases of yellow fever at
Round Rock on the one hand and at
Manor on the other. Would the two
villages submit to such an outrage if
they did not discover the stupendous
folly of our blessed city tathers2 Will
the people of either town suffer Aus
tin to thrust cases of the yellow dis
ease into their streets2 Would it not
be wiser to transfer the scene of dis
tributlon of disease and death, as
contemplated by our local masters and
by nervous druggists and. doctors, to
a remoter point2 Round Rock and
Ma lor will never assent to transforma-
ton into repositories for foul plaques
thai Austin, generous and good ard
great, may be exempt from these
scourges of sinful race.
Year: 1878

THE San Antonio Express had better
conduct the congressional canvass in
the sixth district on the record of its
own irregular candidates, and not up
on that of gentleman who is regu-
lar Democratic nominee in another DIS
kr,os
Year: 1878

APPALLING DISTRESS IN WASHING
ToN.-Letter of Grace Greenwood
to n. Y. Times: Matters cannot be
much worse than they are now with
out some outbreak and outlet. Here,
in the district, the financial distress,
the actual poverty, is appalling.
Scores Of families, once in circum-
stances of ease, if not luxury, are re-
duced to want of the most bitter,
desperate sort--are on the edge Of
starvation. So many dismissals from
the departments, cruelty sudden as
they are, have added, are constantly
adding to the great sum Of suffering.
so, that my tongue were in the
thunder's mouth" l would sound a
dreadful warning everywhere TO men
and women, especially women, not
to come to Washington in search of
employment. There are no places
for you-there is no work for you;
no consideration, little help in the
drest extremity, so overcrowded are
we, so overfull are our hands. Wash
ington is a worse place for people
out of work and out of money than
any great metropolis.
Year: 1878

There are many, aye, 700 many
who imagine the above term to mean
low bred or illiterate man. This
is unfortunately common mistake,
and is m injury done by those who
let their Imagination deceive them
To men who are in very many res.
poets their superors, the class OF
people who give vent to such ex-
pressions as, 81 can smell q me.
chanic," or that mechanic Is a good
fellow to pass away the time with,
never take time to look under the
surface and see what fountains OF
knowledge are in the possession OF
the mechanic. They see him as he
leaves the shop, weary with labor,
his face all begrimmed, clothes tat


tered and ruff, and horny hand, and
and as is too often the case, man is
judged by appearance. Our me-
chanic is too often passed by as one
not worthy to be grasped by cor
dial shake of the hand, or recognized
as an equal. Such acts should have
no i'll effect; they should not for
moment deter the mechanic from
striving to gain that position in life
TO which he is emitted; in fact, II
should nerve him on till he gaineo
the topmost round in the ladder o


fortune, and he should see how easy
and quick the false opinion woul,
give way to the true one. 1t you
doubt it, look at our men OF mari
and national reputation, and ask wh'
and what were they when the.
started in this life of changes; trace
them back, and we generally tint
them as hard working mechanic


whose aggregate Of wealth conslste,
in stout arms and an ambitions will
MANY of your associates in the shol
at the present time, who earn thel


bread by the sweat of their brow
will few years stand forth as meI
to be admired and respected. Hence
we say to our mechanics, do not un


derate yourselves, you are no man,t
inferior, and you are any mans equal
and it requires but little applica
.tion aud industry to make you the
superior Of many. Among us can b'
found many who combine all thu
finer attributes of a man coupled will
the skill of mechanicism, men who
are bound to be respected. Wha'
matters it to you if the aristocra


should frown upon you? Did yor
ever ask yourself the question what
would this country be without the
mechanic? A man might possess
the wealth of nation, and OF what
benefit would it be to him if the use
OF it would procure him no lu1urie'
or pleasures? Did you ever reason
to Yourself that it is to the mechanic
all are indebted for their beautiful


homes, the luxurious furniture, in
fact for everything that makes life
pleasant Dr. home agreeable? If you
have, your answer is, that the man ol
wealth, without your aid, would be a
helpless child: So when you hear
yourself spoken of a mechanic, let 1t
arouse your manly pride, don't blush
but hold up your head, and know
that if you do not possess wealth,
YOU possess the talent, without the
nse Of which they who are born in af,
fluence would indeed be miserable
So let mechanics devote all their
spare time to improving their minds
for the benefit to be derived from
such devotion will be of immense
value.--"Sunday Welcome"
Year: 1878

are scourging the Morocco country.
The inhabitants are said to be dying off
rapidly, ard with hunger and disease
so prevalent = general decentralization
exists to a most alarming extent. Help
is loudly called for and the great hand
Of charity will doubtless reach that dis
tant land with full supply Of the
remedies needed.
Year: 1878

1t may be violently suspected that some
members of Congress who have not looked
closely into the matter, entertain but confused
views Of the nature and importance of tie
diplomatic service. During the debate Oh the
Appropriation Bill, last Wednesday, in the
House. Mr.. Bount, of Georgia said that " he
"wou!d be glad to see the time come when the
Government could get rid of nearly all its dip
.lomatic agents, because there WAS no occasion
"for them; - and Mr.. Foster, of Ohio, "thousht
"that the diplomatic service was, to great
"extent, ornamental" 1t seems to have been
unaccountably forgotten that we have only
lately passed through most difficult period
OF the Nations history, during which it was
absolutely necessary that we should be ably
represented at all the principal courts
of the civilized world. The services
Of Mr. Adams alone, in London, were
Of incompatible value. If We had
any method of reading the future,
by which we might know in advance
just when and where a clever and accom-
plshcd representative of the Nation would be
needed abroad, it would be easy, in ordinary
times, to rub along unrepresented even in tho
great capitals. But we do not know /; and we
must be prepared for any emergency. Again,
it is necessary to consider the place Of this
Republic in the family of nations. We must
take the prevailing law of such an association
as we find it, and, although there may
be much in existing diplomatic customs
of which we may not approve, it would
hardly be profitable for US single
handed, to undertake their abolition. A ma
ton is judged abroad by certain rules which
have, through the lapse of centuries, been es-
tablshed. We are not obliged to regard them,
but at the same time it will be more conyc-
nicnt and even profitable for us TO do so.
Some of Our more economical lawmakers seem
TO be of opinion that we need only consuls in
foreign parts. They forget that cOnsuls are
no more than business agents. Their Office is
ancient and highly respectable, but it has been
created by the cxigencies of foreign trade
and its functions are mainly commercial.
though here and there they take on judicial
aspect. The business of consuls is mainly
with their fellow citizens abroad, and not with
the authorities of the country in which they
reside. They have none of the privileges of a
public minister. No foreign office would di-
Year: 1878

rectly do business with them, nor could they
be received officially at any Court Their
status is settled all over the world, and 1t Is
hardly probable that it can be elevated by any
act OF Congress.


Before any attempt is made to lower tiie
character of our Diplomatic Service. it should
be considered that already we send no repre-
sentatives of the first class to foreign Courts.
We have no Ambassadors, but our diplomatic
servants of the highest rank are Ministers
Plenipotentiary and Ambassadors Extraordl-
nary. This is proper enough, as mere mat
ter of etiquette, inasmuch as no crowned
head sends Ambassadors to Washington. Al
ready, therefore, our Ministers at foreign
courts are Outranked by the servants OF petty
princes while they are received at court, not
as a matter of right, but by special permission
and favor. All these distinctions may appear
artificial and unmpOrtant to thor0ughSoihS
Democrat, but they exist, and will continue 10
exist whatever we may think of them.


Every sensible man is in favor OF public
economy, but it is quite possible to go too far
in cutting down the salaries of our Ministers.
There are full missions which may without
detriment be abolished; but while they remain,





should be handsomely supported. DIR. Frank
lin was man who thoroughly detested
empty show and OstentatiOn, but during
the prolonged period of his official residence
abroad, he was careful to keep up good ap-
pearance and to exercise q liberal hospitality,
spending his own money freely when he could
get none from the Congress. We have had
Ministers of large fortune who expended an
nually much more than the amount OF
their salaries, making up the deficiency
from their private means. Living, of course,
is much cheaper at some Courts than at others.
John Quincy Adams, when he was at st.
Petersburg frankly told the Emperor OF
Russia that he could not afford to live at the
expensive rate INDUCED in by some other
Ministers and his Majesty commended the
plain speaking American for his candOr. 1t
may be foolish, but we all as Americans have
some feeling about the way in which our
representatives live abroad and the salaries
should be large enough to enable able men
who are not rich to live somewhat more than
deccntly. None of us would like to hear
of our Minister in London residing in
cheap boarding house, seeing no COM
pany, giving no dinners, and going to
Court on foot. In more than one sense. he
represents his country. He makes for 1t
character; and we do not know any country,
however unimportant may be our relations
to it, in which it would not be better for lis
to be respected than despiscd, however unreal
sonable might be such contempt If
"the diplomatic service is to great
"extent ornamental" it should not be
made shabbily so, or driven to the
abominable devices of a cheap gentity. There
are missions which might. doubtless, just rs
well be dropped; but there are Others which
should be handsomely maintained, and which
no intelligent person who carefully considers
the whole subject will seriously propose to
abandon.
Year: 1878

current-wiI depend largely upon future sales
of bonds, and arrangements for bringing gold
into use in this country in place of paper.


A drain Of fifteen millions week. or any sum
measurably comparable to the actual sales OF
bonds last week, will quickly exhaust the store
of gold in the country. 1t will make resump-
ton impossible, send up the price of gold, and
accelerate the sales of bonds. 1t will involve
consequences of the gravest character to the
credit commerce and industry Of the country
consequences which, we are sure, neither
the President, the Secretary, nor any patriotic
citizen wishes to see. Further these cOnse-
quences can by no possibility be avoided
by action some weeks months III the
future. A leak must be stopped, if ever,
before the dam breaks. The mere current OF
sales will itself cause greater sales Coming
at such period, sales Of bonds, shipments oil
gold, rise of gold, and extinction of hopes of
resumption, will all react upon and multiply
each other 1t seems in the highest degree
important for the Administration to consider
at once what it can lawfully and properly do
to guard the country. Frivolous and contra
dictOry assertions as to the future action OF
the Treasury have caused much mischief already.
The knowledge that 1t has fixed and wise
policy will now do good. We do not here
attempt to name policy. Much must depend
upon the Presidents opinion as to the powers OF
the Administration under existing laws. But
it does seem clear that, if the Administra-
ton has any power to arrest the sales OF bonds
and to bring gold more rapidly and surely
into use in place of legal-tenders, now is the
time to begin its exercise.
Year: 1878

We have received one of the new silver dollars
fresh from the Philadelphia mint, with the COM
plimens of Messrs. Hatch n Foote, Wall-st
bankers. Ii is coin of about the same size as the
trade dollar and is remarkable for the low relief of
the devices. The diverse bears head of Liberty
with Phrygian cap trimmed with wheat and cot
ton. The design may have been quite handsome
but the face has been cut badly that the effect is
not pleasing In the legend there full stops be-
tween the words AZ Plurlbus Unum." IN imitation
of ancient Inscriptions. On the reverse is an eagle
with wings OutSpread, surrounded by an olive
wreath and bearing in his taons arrows and an olive
branch. 1t is not an impressive looking bird; in
fact 1t is more like a mousing hawk than an eagle
and sick hawk az that he legend " In God we
Irust' is in very small letters between the tips of
the wings, while the denomination of the coin
zone Dollar" is conspicuous at the base. The coin
is not very we'll designed nor very we'll cut 1t looks
cheap as becomes a ninety-cent dollar.
Year: 1878

likewise divided. III Is eVluent, Ho"e'ei' th"'
the House adheres TO its former position that
it is inexpedient to reduce the tax on whiskey
at this session.


Governor Prescott's majority IN New-Hamp-
shire will probably hardly exceed 1,2OO, as
against majority last year of 3,61O. All
but sixteen towns have been heard FROM
and give him majority of 1.424, and
these sixteen towns last year gave
the Democratic candidate a majority of
269 To appreciate the full significance of this
loss of two thirds of last years majority in
the State, it must be noted that the total vote
will, it is estimated, he within a hundred or
two votes of that of last year. The vote is the
same, but the Republican majority has
dwindled.


Ex. President WOolsey takes Issue with Mr..
Blaine, in letter printed on another page
with respect to the legality of the Canadian
award. AS coming from one of the best, if not
the best. American authority on international
law, DR.. Woolsey's opinion must outweigh
any that has been given on the other side OF
the controversy. His conclusive showing
that international arbitrations are governed
by Roman, and not by English law, ex-
cept where it is otherwise provided,
and that under the Roman law a ma
jority of the arbitrators may decide seems to
deprive of all significance the omission in the
treaty to authorize majority verdict in the
Fisheries case. The authorities In Roman and in
international law agreeing that the decision OF
a majority Is binding, the Halifax award
seems as legal as it is unjust, and we are as
clearly bound to pay it, leaving the National
honor entirely out of the question, as we are
entitled to grumble at it.
Year: 1878

A theological seminary would hardly suggest it,
self as promising field for martial law but there
seems to be enough insurrection and domestic vio-
lence in Princeton, N j., to justify loud call for