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Year: 1877

responses of members of Congress to


the Presidents message touching the
matter of specie payments, it is not


believed that any action will be taken


by the present Congress. The fact il


that members at both ends of the Cap


itol have become so demOralized by
the uncertainties of the situation, SO


worn out by their violent alterations


from the highest crag of exultation to


the deepest abyss of detection, that


there is marked disinclination to


take hold of new enterprises. They
can barely be trusted to get through


the work already in hand. 1t is sup


posed that very determined effort is
about ready TO be made in behalf of
the Southern Pacific Railroad, and the
energetic lobby here on the ground,


watching a favorable state of exhaus-
tion of our law makers before making
an onset, are always on the alert and


in readiness to strike at the word of
command. The bill obliging the Cen
tral Pacific and Union Pacific to cre-
ate sinking funds for the reimburse
ment of the Government for aid fur
nislled them in their construction, was
again up yesterday, but went out of
sight before any perceptible advance
was made. Mr.. Eads has been wor-
rying Congress for some days by his
opportunities; he claims TO have full
filed every condition precedent to
the payment of the first INSTALL
ment of $500, 600, and am not aware
tliaE there was any doubt upon that
point. The Secretary of War drew
a warrant for the amount claimed on
the 18th ult. and the Senate Commit
tee has since reported that the law
has been fully complied with, he hav-
ing secured the specific width aud
depth of channel at the mouth of the
Mississippi river, and he was entitled
to the money, Strangers are gradu-
ally appearing, filling up the vacant
rooms at the hotels and boarding
houses WHICH were swept and gar
nished months ago and have been
waiting for them ever since. Of course
there are some !office-seekers among
them, SEINE gentlemen of leisure, some
pick pockets, some gamblers and rep
of various other indus
tries, all come, and more coming to
assist at the inauguration of-Hayes |
let Us hope. Still there are some |
among his supporters who would not
be greatly surprised if it should prove
to be Tilden. SENTINEL.
Year: 1877

A New York journalist sums up
the value of newspaper articles in this
fashion: A two column article has one
reader in one hundred. A column and
a half, one reader in seventy-fve. A
column article, one reader in fifty. A
three-quarter column article, one rea-
der in twenty-five. A half column,
one reader in ten. A quarter column
article is read by every one.
Year: 1877

There is altogether too much sent.
mentalism abroad w.a-days about
whipping boys In ancient days boys
were soundly fogged, and they grew
up into the men who laid the founda-
ton Of the worlds civilization. The
men who wen our independence were
all whipped at home and school when
they were boys. Our fellows who went
out to Mexico, and walked through
the hall Of the Montezumas had all
been spanked by their mothers, boxed
by their primary teachers, and fogged
by their fathers and the teachers Of
their youth. Every man on either
side in our civil war had felt the rod,
and there is not a man in the country
over thirty i've who does not remem-
Der the good old days Of Wholesale
hogging at school, and feel the better
for the discipline that made him theA
smart. 1t is only these latter.dsy
young saists whose spirits cannot en-
dqrc the rod. They are the high-toned
young bucks who sieze cue as soon
as they can look over billiard table,
who go into the mint. julep business on
joint speculation with pocket money
just sufficient to go halves on one julep
and two straws, who chow tobacco re
soon as they cut their second teeth,
who torture their infant stomachs with
mean cigars, and, as they approach
manhood, 60 home on Saturday night
into the presence of their hlother and
sisters as drunk as fools. They are the
saWo high-spirted fellows who, when
they, in the old age Of their young
manhood, take TO themselves wives,
being removed from their mothers and
sisters, make themselves agreeable BY
frequently going hopn and
making their families ecoHSe Nfor
the benefit Of the high-toned fellows
with whom they run. 1t Is all stuff
aud nonsense about breaking the spirit
Nfthe boys. All that has ever been
acoApplished in the world has been
accomplished by men who were fogged
when they were boys. What the new
sentimental training is to do for tho
world will be eft for time to reveal


but no person Of any Intelligence can
regard the tenderly-nurtured and mild
ly-disciplined youth coming up around
US now, and say that he discovers in
them the elements of a greatness that
is to make the grandeur Of the past
appear mean and little Cromwell
aud Nelson and Wellington, and al
the heroes Of English and American
history were vigorously strapped at
sch 1ol, and when the attention of their
fond parents was called to the occur
renee, they Justify fried out to Tutor
Macdulf to lay on, and De hanged to
him who first cried hold, enough. Boy
human nature has not changed since
the days of Solomon, and spelling the
youth is as much consequence now Of
sparing the rod as in his day. Half
the boys of this generation would be
improved if they were .soun1ly and
regularly trounced three times week.
They might not all reed it exactly at
the appointed time, but it would ben.
eft all by reminding them .Lat Aere
is an authority paramount to their
ogn unbridled will, and it would
make them grow up more law abiding,
peace observing, honest, sober and in.
dusrious men than three fourths of
them ever have any chance Of being.
Louisville Couier.JouTnal.
Year: 1877

Foolish spending is the kther of
poverty. Do not be ashameH of hard
work. Work for the best salary or
wages you can get, but work for half
price rather than be idle BE your
own master, aud do not let society
or fashion swallow you up individual.
ly--hat. coat and boots Do not eat
up or wear out all that you earn. Com
pei your selfish body to spare some
thing for profits saved Be stingy 20
your own appetite, but merciful to OH
ers' necessities. Help others aud ask
not help for yourselves. See that you
are proud, too. Let your pride be of
the right kind, BE too proud to be
lazy; too proud to give up without
conquering every difficulty too ed
to be in company that you can-Shot
keep up with in expenses too proud
to be stingy.


A boy going out poaching shot a
bird, and another ran to secure the
trophy On coming near to where 1t
had fallen. he found o white owl, so
sprawled ON ,hs grass as to present TO
his view only head with staring eyes
and a pair of wings attached. Instant
ly he shouted in dismay, Were IN tog
it now, Jock; we've shot a cherubim r
Speech is silver silence a'
Year: 1877

The FIRST mistake that is made by
most men is in making wealth the OBJ.
iect of their lives. But wealth, as we
know, does not give happiness. The
Vanderbilts, the Stewards and the
Ast2rs have not been our happiest
men. They are not the typical men


in our homes; they are not typical
men in social life; they are not the
typical men in the delights of life, or
in the profession Of learning, which
perhaps yields the finest joys man can
know. We can go down lower still,
and find the men who have only one
million or so, or a half million, and
they do not type the happiness of
American homes. Go into their houses.
How splendid, bow gorgeous, how
gaudy they are, and yet they cannot
rival the little homes in the love of a
husband and wife, in the reverence of
children for parents, in the parents
guardianship over children, in all the
sweet happiness that affection spreads
abroad like fragrance through the
chamb bers Of our houses. You know


that almost every American gets
wealth who chooses to, though he loos.
es it again, perhaps but he gets it. 1t
is no great proof Of ability nor evi.
dence of success for a man to get
wealth in this country and this age.
Now, then, it seems to US that if Il
young man should picture to himself
rather a quiet house, sunnily placed
on some hillside, with stretch Of
meadow in front, through WHICH courses
a running stream, shaded by pleasant
trees, with loving wife, a group OF
pleasant.hced and virtuous children,
quietude Of days and peacefulness ol
nights, health and eon:entmenr oI
mind, that would be much better than
to set up a fcticious standard aud
strive incessantly for it as if he thought
that you must reach it or be utterly
undone.-Murray.
Year: 1877

1t is an old saying that a man
should not marry unless he can sup,
port wife and from some examples
we have seen We are beginning to
doubt whether a woman can prudent
ly marry unless she can support a
husband.


Alexis has been living in a place
where the girls don't wear corsets, and
he was terribly surprised when he
went to waltz with an American girl
and found that his arms reached
twice around her waist, and met on
ber belt buckle in front.


Anybody can shovel snow, but the
man who can DO it and not swear, is
good enough to be an editor.
Year: 1877

In the life of Filipo Lippi. the Flo
rentine painter. we have a memorable
proof how much 1t is in the power oil
painting to charm even the most bar.
barous minds and to soften hearts the
most hardened.


Lippi and some friends happened
one day to be making an excursion in
small boat along the coast, when
they were surprised by a Moorish
brigantine and taken prisoners into
Barbary.


After they had been eighteen
months in a state of the most cruel
slavery, Lippi one day took piece o.
coal and drew on the wall a portrait
of the master he served.


The likeness was so strong that il
struck the barbarian, who had never
seen anything of the kind before
with the greatest astonishment and
delight.


He requested Filipo to draw some
other portrait for him, and was in the
end so pleased that he not only gave
him his liberty, but procured him E
state conveyance to Naples.


Thus painting. like music


Hath charms to soothe the savage
breast
Year: 1877

A good many years ago, sayg the
New York World, when the accom-
plished daughter of a well-known
gentleman of this city was little girl,
she was taken I'll with scarlet fever,
and when she recovered was stone
deaf Fortunately the child, who
possessed a remarkably sweet voice,
had learned to talk before the attack,
and the physician who attended her,
finding that her sense of hearing had
entirely gone, enjoined upon the
mother the necessity of carefully
keeping up the habit of speech, in or
der that it should not be totally lost.
From that time out the mother de-
voted herself to the preservation of
her daughters voice, almost to the
exclusion of everything else, and the
successful issue of her undertaking
has proved an ample reward for her
labors. The young lady is now not
only an accomplished member of So
ciety, but an excellent artist, well
known among the painters of New
York. Her education was so careful
ly attended to by her mother that she
not only talks we'll, but understands
everything that is said to her by Sim
ply watching the lips of her interlo-
cutor. On one occasion an eminent
clergymen of this city called to see
her mother and was received by the
young lady. After some fifteen min
utes the mother presented herself and
the young lady retired. Presently
the conversation turned upon the
daughter, and the mother said some
thing about her ''infirmity." The
clergyman. who had seen nothing 10
indicate any lack of perception in the
young lady, and who had not noticed
any physical defect, was surprised
and asked what was meant. The
mother then explained that her child
was stone deaf. The clergyman was
10th to believe 1t, and almost demand
ed further proof of the fact. The
young lady was then called, and 1t
was proven to his entire satisfaction
that she could not understand a sin
gle word that was spoken unless she
saw the motion of the lips which ut
tered it. Like the deaf girl described
in Wilkie Collins's novel of "Hide
and Seek" she is singularly suscepti-
bic to any vibration of the timbers of
the room or house In which she may
be, and her mother has established a
system of telegraphy with her by
means of the doors and balusters, by
which she can communicate with
her throughout the whole house. By
simply striking the baluster or door
with the open hand her parents can
apprise her that her presence is desir-
ed in a particular room or part of the
premises, and by modification of raps
can inform her of many of the minor
affairs that are taking place. AL
though her father has a handsome
competence, this young lady earns
enough for her own support in the
pursuit of her art.
Year: 1877

Brigham Young did not do much
good In his lifetime, but during his
latter years he resolved to set a good
example to humanity; he prohibited
the purchase of mourning at his fun
eraI. 1t is devoutly to be hoped that
this will have salutary effect upon
those mourners with expectations,
who plaster the old mans remains
with flowers and fill the superfluous
carriages with deadheads; and also
upon those widows and female orph-
ans who fiirt so outragerusly while
flying about fifteen yayds of black
bunting from the mizzentop. The
same observations include persons
who wish to make a big display on
nothing, and the families of poor la
boring men who spend their all in or
der to give the corpse a good send off.
Int er Ocean.
Year: 1877

that case, however, she would have
been compelled either to limp to the
water on crutches or to be carried
thither by self-sacrificing deacons.
Moreover. her appearance in public
without her customary leg would have
excited great deal of remark, which
would not only have shocked her sem
sitive feelings, but would have detract-
ed from the solemnity of the scene.
When, in addition to these facts, we
remem Der that she was a woman re-
siding in a country town to which
champagne baskets rarely penetrated
and hence presumably ignorant of
the scientific fact that cork is light
and buoyant, her neglect to remove
her cork leg prior to baptism seems
entirely excusable.


So long as the water was only
two feet deep, Miss Wilson, who
weighed full two hundred pounds,
managed 10 wade toward the minister
but as soon as the latter took her hand
and led her into deeper water, the
cork asserted its buoyancy, and Miss
Wilson was suddenly reversed. The
minister, with much difficulty, placed
her on her feet again, and rather surl-
lily requesting her not to do that again,
began to make brief and formal ad-
\ d.
words Miss Wilson, with a wild
shrek, fell backward, and her cork leg
shot swiftly upon the surface. Perhaps
this is the point where veil should
be dropped. To finish the narativein in
as few words as possible, it may be
said that after half dozen futile ef-
forts, the attempt to baptize Miss Will
son was abandoned. With all his
skill and strength the minister could
not counteract the effort Of the cork
leg, and could not keep the convert
right side up long enough to baptize
her. She bore it with patience until
the minister called for a fifty-six
pound weight, with a view to ballast
ing her, when she very Indignantly
scrambled ashore, hastened home and
subsequently joined the Presbyte-
rians.


We thus learn that there are times
when cork legs conflict with the most
important duties. The leg makers
should take a hint from this sugges-
tive incident, and revise light metal
lie leg wherewith to supply the Bap-
tist market.-NeW York Times.
Year: 1877

Governor Brockmeyer, of Missouri,
when somebody said to him, You
can't expect men to work for a dollar
a day. answered: why not? When
1 came to this country, boy of IS, /
worked as a bootblack in the streets
of New York. Thirty years ago 1
worked in a foundry for S. week,
and 1 saved my money until I bad
enough to buy piece of land, and
then 1 was independent. should
have spent the balance of my life on
this piece of land, but was routed out
by the war;
Year: 1877

Why don't I go out into the coun-
try?' said the tramp; gazing with
scorn at his heartless interrogator--
why, ain't 1t harvest time? Them
farmers are just mean and small-soul.
ed enough to ask man to turn to and
work for his victuals. Do you suppose
| want to have the back of my neck
all blistered up and my hands stuck
full of thistles, and like as not get
mashed up in a threshing machine :?
And besides, 1 never could eat fried
pork and hot biscuit all the time. 1t
amt healthy
Year: 1877

TOMATO PRESERVES. = Pare and
quarter good ripe tomatoes; place
them in a porcelain kettle with q lit
tie water, SO they will not burn. They
require to be cooked until the juice is
nearly all out, then add one pound of
white sugar to each pound of fruit
Cook slowly enc half hour.
Year: 1877

The Burlington HaaOkeye man
grieves that under the civil service
rules his position as editor of a strictly
political newspaper prevents him
from accepting an appointment as
commissioner to visit Sitting Bull.
Year: 1877

A cat saved a young lady in Scott
county, Mo-, from a snake bite. Tie
snake struck at her, and was renew
ing the attack hen the cat interfered
and made q fight. The snake lost
the battle.
Year: 1877

/ believe II were dead
And You upon my lifeless heartshould tread.
Not knowing what the poor cIod chanced


TO be,
It would find sudden pulse beneath the touch
OF him II ever loved in life SO much,
And throb again, warm, tender, true TO thee
Year: 1877

4 UtIItfN = n VlI MY bIfINNs
Hidden in woody deeps or by the wave,
Your eyes should drop some warm tears of


regret.
From every salty seed of your dear grief
Some fair, sweet blossom would leap into


leaf,
To prove death could not make my love


forget.
Year: 1877

Seven years have passed since the
gay scene described above.


1t is a wild December night; snow
is falling in a binding mass and the
wind drives everything before it with
relentless fury.


Far down in an unsightly part of
the city, stands a, a,delapidated tenement
house within whose walls dwells our
friend Kate, and the man she married
for money. Surrounded by the miser-
able remains of the fortune for which
she sacrificed her true womanhood, she
lives neglected. unhappy wife, with
out love, she is like boat without a
rudder, drifting farther and farther from
the one who should be her shelter
through life. Far from this sad scene
is a small house, which although plain,
has the word "home" written upon its
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR OF THx HKRALD:-


viii you kindly grant me space to complain OF tho
iu which soldiers treated Governors
Island in regard TO our "grub?" We are allowed by
the government eighteen ounces OF -four per man per
day. This will make, when baked, from twenty-five
10 twenty-four ounces OF bread, but all get eight
cen ounces Of bread per man per day. THIS together
with about thrcc-lourths OF pound OF cooked boef
three bowls oi cofcc or spoiled water, constitutes
daily allowance OF food with the exception that on
the days We have pork We get bowl OF soup
Tor dinner, instead Of coffee On this allowance wo
have 10 work hard from morning till night; tho
only easy day that we have IL tho dny We are
on guard. Tho reason that the ration is SO small
mainly TO support the post band, tho leader OF which
is paid $50 per month ana the other members pro-
poronatcly out or tho post fund This post iund Is
made exclusively out Of the rations OF the enlisted
men. AS the government has done away with buDds
and will make no appropriation for their support L
think they should be abolished altogether, then the
men woad get moro 10 eat and there would be fewer
descrtions. TAPS.
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:--


lady telegraph operator, passing through Park
to her place OF business, complains In tho HERALD
OF Friday that tho employees tporters) OF the New
York Bcltng and Packing Company grossly insult hun
drcds OF ladies' the lady operator included as they
pass by the warehouse OF the said firm ognt o'co,K
In the morning Now we, the men employ ed as por
at 3S Park row lar removed from the scandal
imputations whicn this lady operator brands US
with somo OF US are men OF middle age and have fam


cs which we are glad ~ say capable, through the
care which We bestow upon their moral and religious
training, OF assuming position in society above
That hold.


We most positively assert and deny that such accu-
sation has any foundation IN fac tnatit utterly
and unequivocally unjust. THE ACCUSED.
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR HERALp:-


have been residing on East Forty ninth street for
tho past iour years. during which tme 1 have never
seen policeman on patrol pass my residence. As wo
have had case OF highway robbery this wecka lady
having been struck IN the lace and her pock ebook
stolcn-l think u Is high time that should have
some sort Of protection ana that effort be
made 10 rid Us OF thieves and unruy boys s.
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD:-
Permit 10 call attention to the dangerous hole at
the corner OF Market and Water streets II not filed
up soon some one will probably be injured.


DRIVER.
Year: 1877

manly he bowed before the audience,
and proceeded with his lecture, but he
had spoken but few moments before
he discovered a pair Of black eyes
fixed upon him, the expressive black
eyes OF Ruth Ward. He hesitated a
moment embarrassed and confused,
then regaining his self-possession, he
broke the thread Of his discourse and
related his experience. There was a
dead silence in the room, as the hand
some man told his past degradation,
his temptations, his broken resolves,
and his meeting with the good man
who had befriended him. Not an eye
in that great assembly was free from
tears, and when he had closed with
an eloquent peroration Of warning to
young men, there was moments 81.
lence, then cheer after cheer rent the
air, and men and women crowded
around the platform to clasp the hand
of the young orator. In vain he looked
for the black eyes which had inspired
him to speak with such eloquence, they
were not there to greet him. Disap'
pointed he was about to depart, for
the hall was nearly empty, when he
felt touch on his arm, aud turning
behelI the black eyes full OF tears,
but the red lips wreathed with a
smile. At the treshold of the old man
sion that night, he received the good
night kiss, and the promise that the
early spring should find them man
and wife.
Year: 1877

There is man down town who
never lets a chance of making money
slip by him. Last winter he had the
agne he hired himself oat to Il carpet
cleaning establishment to assist in
shaking carpets.
Year: 1877

Country children who want to earn
some money should hear of the little
girl in the Delaware Valley who gath
cred and sold last fall over two hun
dred dollars worth of autumn leaves.
Year: 1877

D-1" A story is told Of daughter
of prominent person now IN the lee
ture which is peculiarly interesting
ana suggestive Of unconscious wisdom
A gentleman was invited to the lee
turer's house to tea. immediately OF
being seated at the table. the little
girl astonishcd the family circle anu
the guest by the abrupt question


where is your wife p


Now tie gentleman having beer
recently separated from the partner
Of his life, was ia ken so completed y by
surprise that he stammered forth the
truth:


I don't know


Don't krowl replied the infant
terrible. Why don't YOU know p


Finding that the child persisted in
her interrogatories, despite the mild
reproof of her parents, he concluded
to make a clean breast Of the matter
and have it over at once. SO he said
with calmneSS winch was the result
of inward expletives


We'll, we don't live together we
think as we can agree, we had better
not.


He stined groan as the child be.
gan again, and dArted an eXasperated
look at her parents. But the little
torment would not be qnieted until
she exclaimed:


Can't agree Then why don't yor
fight it out, as pa and ma do?


Vengeance is mine, laughingly re
torted the visitor, after pa and ma
exchanged looks of holy horror, fol.
lowed by the inevitable roar Of laugh
ter
Year: 1877

Don't LOSE A MlNUrE.-Keep busy
The man who has nothing to do is
the most miserable Of beings. lfyou
have no regular work do chores, rs
farmers do when it rains too hard to
work in the field In occupation We
forget our troubles, and get respite
from sorrow. The man whose mind
and hands are busy fluids no time to
weep and vail. If work is slack,
spend the time in reading No man
ever knew too much. The hardest
students in the world are the old men
who know the most.