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Year: 1879

invention. Man will never be ranked among baooons
aho cninpanzees. Darwnism as far as II represents
Is twin brother Of socialism. Both glo-
r,y. not right, which is celestial. but might;
whioh Is brutal. Self is the watchword OF
our age: ~ Is rebellion against God and the woru.
Hence disappointment in philosopher speculation
leads TO pestierous atheism. in politics to ruinous
nihliism IN love or business to suicide AtheIstic
morals cannot rescue society from misery and ship
wreck Only theistc morals, only the Snaitic revea-
ton. can and Will. And The Jewish pulpit must be-
come beacon to the storm tossed, saving the one
from the deception of science, the other from the
Intolerance of Church dogmatism. Rituaiism may
De hung aside but the law written by the DIVINE
hand the tablet of the human heart, the eternal
rules OF conduct must be emphasized as the kernel
and essence. Uncompromising earnestness and zeal
are required in modern preacher.


THE THIRD STREAM


,n n;, h1"u T ol i'ent shed oy JUDAISM, 10 o
origin. The Messianic ideal offered mankind lofty
aim and goal: The knowledge of God and His recog-
niton by all nations their common king and
father form the pinnacle Of human history. Israel
the first born. is the bearer OF the promise the wit
ness OF God. tho priest and guide of tho nations.
Judaism vouches for the union of the human
race. When Christianity cleft mankind into
vidcd mankind. according salvation to all
the good and righteous of whatever religion
totter and sink. The brotherhood of man is estab-
lished The world is rendered Still the day
not accomplished yet. The dawn of the new era
has arrived but not by far, the midday. Universal
brotherhood morality and humanity still lack the
centre and SOUL the recognition of Gods fatherhood
This IS the cosmopolitan mission of the Jews--the
priestly people Their flag stands for further rise
and progress till the mountain of God has beer
reached. The Jewish pulpit has to unfur banner
b fore the world. But first the young must come
within Its reach. As yet Judaism like Rachel Of
old, exclaims. Give me children else die!" To
enlist the interest and sympathes Of the rising
generations for the mission ami glorious history OF
Judaism is the great but arduous task of the pulpit
As the sun reflects its light upon all on earth. SO
religion must come 20 all and say. "Arse and give
light"
Year: 1879

Speaker Randall, of the House of Repre-
sentatives, is invited to attend the unveil-
ing of the statue of General Thomas at the
meeting of the survivors of the Army of the
Cumberland in Washington this week. All
right; his official position entities him to
that distinction. But to military men it must
look queer for General McCook the chair
man of the Committee of Arrangements, to
write to Mr.. Randall that 'this invitation
is extended not only on account of your
official position, but because the records of
the War Department show that you were
one of the first while serving as q private
soldier under General Thomas, to call the
attention of the authorities in Washington
to his merits as o commander" Pray, how
many high privates did the late Secretary
Stanton admit to q direct correspondence
concerning the merits of their commanding
generals? 1t was lucky for Private Ran
dali that General Thomas, that impartial
disciplinarian, was ignorant of his episto-
larry practices. Otherwise there would
doubtless have been a pretty severe appli-
cation OF the army regulations to his case,
without the slightest reference to the con-
tents of his letters, whether they conveyed
praise or blame.
Year: 1879

An account of important proceedings
on foot inside the democratic party is given
to-day in our special despatch from Syra-
cuse The story turns on an effort to recon-
cile the warning factions and reduce their
claims of supremacy to some common
ground of agreement as basis of COM
promise. The project lis to assem-
BILE in Syracuse a conference of all
tho men prominent rs democrats in
both the Tilden and anti-Tilden
factions, and to have them endeavor to
come to an understanding as to the terms
on which the two sections of the democracy,
whose division gave the last election to the
republicans, can in future act together. In
general way it appears that claims
incapable of other adjustment are to
be referred to Governor Seymour, whose
decision on any point is to be
taken as final by both sides. Some en-
deavor like this must naturally be made in
the circumstances, and this may possibly
succeed: but we are inclined to believe that
the only basis upon which democratic dis
sensions can be overcome is the absolute
retirement from positions of influence in
the party of the two men responsible for
the late division.
Year: 1879

The Commissioners of Pilots constitute
board in authority over the pilots and
pilotage interests of the port, not precisely
as the Fire Commissioners and Police Com
missioners are in authority over their re-
spective departments since the pilots are
not salaried iunctionaries; but their author
ity is substantially the same to care for Tho
public interests and control the acts of in
dividual pilots. 1t is their duty to license
pilots, and without their license it is q mis-
demeanor to act as pilot; and they have
the power to revoke the license for cause--
certain substantial causes being specified
in the law. They may revoke and annul
the license of any person licensed by them
to act rs pilot who shall not be attached
to q boat approved of by the Board;" and it
is their duty to prevent, by the coercion of
fines, .'any Of the pilots licensed by them
from combining injuriously with each other
or with other persons. The legal validity
of these two points Of their authority Is, it
appears, 10 be tested in the case of the
steamer Hercules. 1t is alleged that this
steamer is put in commission as q
pilot beat in virtue Of a combina-
ton between certain pilots and GER
tain employers of pilots, the intention
of which can only be carried out to the
detrimcnt of all pilots not in the combina-
ton. 1t is, therefore, contrary to the law,
and an offence punishable by considerable
fine, unless that part of the law is void for
uncertainty. But ii pilot boards ship
from the Hercules the Board can annul his
license, and If he boards another ship with
Year: 1879

Good reading is better than poor talking.
We suppose nobody will dispute the truth
of this when concisely expressed, and yet
a majority of the Protestant congregations
still insist upon their clergymen preaching
two original sermons every Sunday. Signs
are multiplying. however, of the decay of
the practice. In some quarters it is argued
that the sermon has become too prominent
feature of public worship and ought to
be modified in it's relation to the other cere-
monies without regard to the capacity of
the minister. In other quarters the strain
upon him is the chief argument Tor modi-
fication. The substitution of CONVERSE
tional Bible classes Tor the customary after
noon service has been proposed by some,
and others recommend the occasional read
ing of sermons or edifying essays not of
the minister's own composition, selecting
them from the published works of approved
diyines
Year: 1879

in the Supreme Court are put in the DILL
and perhaps even arguments in the Court
of Appeals! If Mr.. Evarts, Mr. OConor
and two or three besides of our great
lawyers should have to be heard on case
of this kind it is evident that Commodore
Vanderbilt himself could not afford to be
buried. while the heirs of Mr.. Stewart
would have new reasons to hesi-
tate before purchasing his remains
from predatory enemies of the grave.
1t is equally oppressive whether these bills
have to be paid out of the estate of the de-
ceased or out of the profits of the sale of
graves, as it will be if the burden Of ex-
pense falls upon the cemetery companies.
In the latter case it would be more dis
tributed, as each particular grave would
have to be sold for higher price. In order
that such difficulties may be avoided in
the future it would be we'll if the trus.
tees of cemeteries should at the outset
economize a little on the pay of landscape
gardeners and fee good lawyer to put
their papers in the right shape. If copy
of the bylaws or rules of Calvary Cemetery
had been included in the deed of his lot
furnished to the late Denis Coppers, and
been alleged as conditions of the sale, that
citizens lawyers would never have taken
his case into court and he would have been
quietly and reasonably buried in some
other equally excellent graveyard.
Year: 1879

Funeral expenses will be sadly increased
If it is to require, in addition to the ordi-
nary undertakers and grave diggers, half a
dozen lawyers and a judge of the Supreme
Court to get man satisfactorily placed In
his chosen plot or vault. Now and then
public opinion gets up in spirit Of
vigorous protest against the tendency Of
those who organize funerals to make
them dlscouragingly dear; and 1t is
even possible that this disposition must be
held responsible for some part of that ac-
tivity In contrivances to avoid and nullify
the whole practice of burying people which
brought out such projects as that for crema-
tion or for artificial petrifaction, in virtue
of which every man was to be converted
into piece of statuary and stood up in a
corner of his own hallway. But If the price
of ordinary sorrow forces the contrivance
of such escapes from the mere UNDER
taker and his satellites. how dreadful
will be the luxury of woe when arguments
Year: 1879

There was no wreck Of matter and crash
of worlds on Friday, according to predic-
tion. Evidently some one had blundered.
spects, a consummation devoutly to be
wished it would have settled the Eastern
question and allowed the combating di-
plomatists to meet on the only common
ground they are ever likely to find I;
it would have effectually terminated
tagging canvasses of the State vote
and prevented the whistling of "Pina-
fore" in the public streets. 1t would
have saved thousands of pedestrians from
slipping at pasty street crossings, for those
who went to walk the golden streets would
find everything as it should be, while emi-
grants to the other place would be sure of an
atmosphere that is ruinous to moisture under
foot or anywhere else. The probable price
of winter coal would have ceased 10 excite
the public mind in the presence of other
burning interests, and many pulpit warn
ings that will be sounded to-day
would have been entirely unnecessary.
Then-oh, rapturous thought !--our hard
worked, self-sacrifcing politicians would
not be compelled to provide President in
1880 and consume valuable newspaper col
umns that are sorely needed for the news
of the day. All the greenbacks would
have been burned up, without the weari-
some preliminary of Congressional
squabble. The Denis Coppers case would
havo reached n court of final appeal, in
which Denis shimselfmight have expressed his
views about matter 80 intimately concern
ing himself No more poisoning cases
would occur, the republican machine
would be put where IL would do most
good, the breach in the city democracy
would be permanently closed and the
braves could have reunion that in warmth
would beat anything on record. Finally,
the community could get rid OF the
policemans club and the Street Cleaning
Bureau, for the former would quickly be
burned, even If smuggled into the next
world, while the latter might meet ideal
retribution for their misdeeds by being
everlastingly surrounded by ashes, with no
water at hand to dump them into.
Year: 1879

England's Motive i'm COnstantinOple.


Gossip from Constantinople states Eng
lands present diplomatic activity, with
some accuracy apparently, to be due to ga
grave suspicion" on England's part that
there ssis an understanding between Rus
sia and Turkey" From the statement of
the case it must be judged that Eng
land looks upon it rs high crime
and misdemeanor on the part of Tur-
key to have an understanding with
any other Power but England, while
the perversity, villany and wickedness
of Russia in presuming to have an under
standing with Turkey is conceived to be
such as to justify all the evil which British
orators can say Of the Muscovite. Eng
lands suspicion-it might be said her dis
covery-that other than British influences
are in favor at the Porte is sufficient
ground for her quasi hostile atti-
tude if we admit that her usual
mode of proceeding in matters OF this
nature is good one /; but if she herself
deems that mode good and moral one
why do her statesmen put forth a pretext
rather than the real reason in explaining
what is on foot in Constantinople? Why
trump up the ancient and stale pretence of
those reforms in Asia Minor and put it all
on them? The place where England
wants reform is in Constantinople,
and the precise reform she wants
is to get Mahmoud Nedim Pacha
out of office and Midhat Pacha in
his place. That is the whole of it, and Sir
Austen Layard's demands about Asia would
be heard of no more if that change were
made tomorrow, and the pretended use of
the fleet-the ordering of hostile forces into
Turkish waters-is simply intended to bully
the Sultan and force him to concession. II
the Russian Ambassador at Constantinople
should suddenly assume o hostile attitude,
and Russia should threaten invasion as a
means of forcing the game of o change of
Ministry, how England would declare her
virtuous indignation at the unjustifable
methods and restless. troublesome spirit of
Russia! But Russia could not coerce Turkey
to such an end without the violation of
treaties. Is not England equally bound in
the same way?
Year: 1879

out license he becomes amenable to the
law. If judicial decision is justly reached
ON the proper point-namely. what is the
limit of the authority of the Commissioners
to approve or disapprove of the style OF
boats to be used by the pilots-the dispute
may not be altogether improbable.
Year: 1879

THERE Is NOTHING new under the sun. Even
Arctic expeditions, which modern science
claims fondly for her own, were devised by the
ancients, and it is not impossible that relics
centuries older than those of the Franklin ex-
petition may yet be found above the Arctic
Circle. We publish to-day partial exhibit of
what men did and thought about the Pole he
fore the days of steam and the magnetic needle.
Year: 1879

PRINCETON BEAT HARVARD yesterday in "a
glorious game of football and is to meet Yale
at the game next week. But why should such
exercise be enjoyed only by students match
between Wall street bulls and bears or
preachers and doctors, would delight the public
and the PLAYERS
Year: 1879

A COOKING SCHOOL is to be started in Boston
rs religious enterprise II it does nothing
more than start people to church after break
fasts that will not muddle the meaning of the
service it will be worthy of its name.
Year: 1879

and we take i. that nobody apprehends any
such interference-there is no excuse for
discord or acrimony, and scarcely any for
debate, touching this whole subject II
any parent prefers to rear his child exclu-
sively in q private or parochial school
which, with or without doctrinal religious
teaching, educates him sufficiently in those
elements of knowledge that are necessary
to the intelligent discharge of the
political duties of citizenship. the State
now interposes no obstacle. and there
is no danger that it ever will. 1t
merely holds fast to the right of inde-
pendence of the Church in providing free
public facilities for political purpose.
In conclusion, the HERALD protests against
any misconstruction Of its opinions or its
words into an undervaluation of earnest
religious education. So far from that we
yield to no journal and no person in
appreciation of its need for the welfare of
the people and the country. But it
must supplement, not supplant, the free
public education administered by the State.


Neither is necessarily antagonistic to the
other, and those who would make them so
fail to comprehend the nature of demo-
cratic government in the American Union,
the most resplendent glory of American in
stitutions the absolute disassociation OF
Church and State. We cannot live without
both of them but both OF them inde-
pendent of one another. We


Heed not the sceptic's puny hands


While near the school the church spire stands,


Nor fear the blinded bigots rule


While near the church spire stands the school.
Year: 1879

CARELEssNEss killed two men ut a Williams
burg ferry house yesterday. A piece of timber
that had already broken once was used again by
the same party; fortunately enough of the men
are alive to determine where the blame belongs
Year: 1879

THOSE ABUSES to use mild word, which
have been demonstrated by IN evening contcm-
porary to exist in the Lunatic Asylum on Black
wells Island have been apparent enough to the
Advisory Board of Physicians to induce prop
osition for the reorganization of the institutions
on the Island
Year: 1879

WHEN is the city going to begin to collect the
penalty of ten dollars per day upon every telc-
graph pole not inscribed with the name of the
company owning it = The aggregate sum would
make matters great deal easier for taxpayers
Year: 1879

attempt has just been made to bury man
in blessed ground, who, in his last will, left
stipulation that he should be buried ac-
cording to the rites of Protestant church,
and that his body, after Protestant service
had been held over it, should be conveyed
to Calvary Cemetery and deposited by that
of his wife and mother, both of whom are
Catholics.


After the Protestant service had been
held over the body Priest, who afterwards
held the service of the Catholic Church
over it, would be guilty of violating the
rules OF his Church. and would deserve ex-
pulsion. No member of a secret society
could be buried in blessed ground; neither
could an excommunicated member of the
Catholic Church, or a member who had,
while in his sane mind, committed suicide,
or any one who had died while under the
influence of liquor.


FAILURE OF A. G. WOOD.


The failure OF A. G. Wood, member OF
the Stock Exchange, has just been an
nounced on the streets. Up to this writing
seventeen hundred shares of stock have
been brought in under the rule on his ac-
count.
Year: 1879

PLEASANT AFFAlR.-The Forget. .Me-Not
cub had one OF their pleasant Solrees at
LEWIS Hall last night. About one hundred
and twenty ladies and gentlemen were
present, and most ENJOYABLE evening was
spent. at late hour the company dis
narSoI
Year: 1879

SO days, or in one-third of the time
made by the swiftest caravan. On this
wonderful journey he made his way
across terrible deserts, awful salt swamps
where for hundreds of miles he saw no
living being, and through countries
whose inhabitants were savage robbers
and who lived in state of continual
warfare.


At last the project was broached to
Mensen to explore the Nile and attempt
to solve the most interesting geographi
cal problem of the age, the discovery of
the sources of that great river. He set
out from Silefa on May IL, 1912, and
ran to Jerusalem, and thence to Cairo
and up the Western bank of the river
into Upper Egypt. Here, just outside
the village of Syane, he was seen on the
morning of January %, 1S43, to stop
and rest, leaning against palm tree,
with his face covered by handkerchief.
He rested SO long that some persons
tried to wake him, but they tried in
vain, for he was dead. He was buried
at the foot of the tree, and it was years
before his friends in Europe knew what
fate had befallen him.
Year: 1879

SOUND RRAsoNING.-Mr. Moody re-
Gently said: "Why do men put windows
in their houses to let in the sunlight ?
Why don't they have gaslight? The sun
has been shining so many years Why
don't they say, Let us have new light.
Let us shut out the light of heaven by
boarding up our windows There would
be just as much reason in that as in
their talk about the good old Bible. We
have not outgrown it. 1t is what we
need. Take all the books in the world,
and that Bible will outweigh the whole
of them. Let these men who talk about
the Bible travel into some country where
they have no Bible, and they would not
stay in such place. Take a town with
five or ten thousand inhabitants, and no
Bible and no ministers, and see if these
in6dels that are talking about the Bible
will live there. They would go out of
it as Lot got out of Sodom."
Year: 1879

The penitentiary management, deter
mined not to be outdone by Edison, have
introduced electricity as mode of pun
ishment The statement having been
made that prisoners exposed to this pun
ishment suffered more than they did by
the use of the ducking tub, a reporter
called at the prison and was shown the
method of punishment by Deputy War
den Quinn and DR.. Drury, the prison
physician. The electric apparatus is in
box ten inches in length, three inches
high, and three inches wide. It con-
tains electromagnetic. The prisoner is
taken to the ducking box, formerly in
use in the insane department. He is
stripped and blindfolded before coming
in sight of the water box, and then led
around corner of the interior cell build
ing, and placed in the box, handcufed.
but not shackled at the feet. The room
is warm, having fire in it day and night.
He sits down in water three inches in
depth. One pole of the battery is plac-
ed in the water. A sponge is attached
to the end of the other pole.


Deputy Warden Quinn surperintends
the punishment, which consists of touch
ing the bare skin of the convict in va
rious places rapidly with the sponge. A
prisoner turns small crank attached to
the electric apparatus. The concern is
SO small that it looks like a toy, but it
makes the subject of punishment yell
sometimes, as though he was badly
frightened. The punishment is said to
be effectual, on account of the man be-
ing blindfolded. He has no idea where
or when he is going to be touched, and
is not nerved against it, as one would
be who takes hold of the poles of bat
terry with his eyes open and his thoughts
concentrated for the expected shock.
The dungeons have been dispensed with
except FIVE. About one man per week
is sent there.-CoIasmbus (Ohio) Dis
patch.
Year: 1879

little elbow leans upon your knee


Your tired knee that has SO much to bear
child's dear eyes are looking lovingly


From underneath thatch Of tangled hair.
Perhaps you do not feel the velvet touch


OF warm, moist fingers holding yours to-night;
You do not prize the blessings overmuch-
You almost are too tired to pray tonight
But it is a blessedness year ago


did not see this as do to-day
We are SO dull and thankless, and too slow


To catch the sunshine as 1t slips away.
And now it seems surprising strange to me
That while l wore the badge Of womanhood,
did not kiss more oft and tenderly


The child that brought me only good.
And II, some night, when you sit down to rest,
You miss the elbow on your tired knee
This restless curly head from off your breast,
This lispiDg tongue that chatters constantly;
Iffrom your own the dimpled hand had slipped
And ne'er would nestle in your palm again,
Ifthe white feet into the grave had tripped-
could not blame you for your heartache then.
wonder that some mothers ever fret


At their precious darlngs cllnging to their gowns
Or that the footprints when the days are wet
Are ever black enough to make them frown.
If 1 could find little muddy boot


Or cap, or jacket on my chamber floor
III could see rosy restless foot,


And hear it patter in my house once more;
If could mend broken cart to day,


Tomorrow make a kite to reach the sky,
There is no woman in Gods world could say


She was more blissfully content than II
But ahl the dainty pillow next my own


Is never rumpled by a shining headl
My singing birding from it's nest has flown


The little boy used to kiss is-dead.
Year: 1879

There is no house on the shores of
time which the waves will not wash
away there is no path here which the
foot of disappointment will not tread
there is no sanctuary here which sorrow
will not evade. There is home pro-
Sided for the soul, but you can reach it
only by living for God to none others
than those who thus live will its doors
Be open.-Rev. John Todd.
Year: 1879

A decent provision for the poor is the
true test of civilization. Gentlemen of
education are pretty much the same in
all countries; the conditions of the low
er orders, the poor especially. is true
mark of national discrimination.-Dr.
johnson.