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Year: 1879

The Shoe and Leather Repo,ter makes
the following sensible suggestions:


1t is hardly necessary to caution tan
ners, or boot and shoe makers, against
exposing boots and shoes, or harness, or
leather in any form, to too great heat,
and yet, at the commencement of each
c)ld season, we feel that the warning
ought to be renewed. Probably there
is no other one cause which destroys so
much leather. 1t is so easy to warm
cold feet, or dry wet ones, by holding
them close before CRATE fire, or red
hot stove, or to warm up harness in a
similar way, that many who should
know better are continually doing it.
They forget that, if they do not actually
destroy the leather at the time, they
are actually killing its life and taking
the directest mode possible of making it
worthless in the next emergency that
may arise. 1t is safe rule never to
put leather where it is too hot to hold
the hand comfortably. More than such
degree of heat will, ordinarily, quickly
iniure any kind of upper leather, and
its damage to sole leather, if not sc
plainly apparent, is none the less de
cided.
Year: 1879




When I was thirteen years old cele-
brated public man died suddenly, and /
was moved to write an elegiac poem on
the occasion. l knew perfectly we'll it
was not remarkable, but the idea of see
ing myself in print was too delightful to
be resisted, SO l sent it to the daily
paper, and being fairly rhythmical and
grammatical it was printed at once. Ny
father in some way discovered that I
wrote it, and was nightly pleased; he
took the paper at the breakfast table and
handed it to my grandfather, gentle
man of education and taste, asking him
what he thought of that poetry. He
read it over and laid down the paper
carelessly:


"Oh it's ordinary stuff: such things
are ali trashy of course.


But, father, r. wrote it. "


My dear old grandfather's handsome
face changed at once; he picked up the
discarded journal, and with eyes full oI
delighted tears went on to praise the
"stuff" to the skies, and call it wonder
full. But, child as l was, l had learned
my lesson; and many time since, wheI
could trace a virulent criticism bacl
to some neglect of its writer, or favor
able one to the kind heart of friend,
have thought of my first critic, ant
smiled at the futility of dependence oil
such variable sources of pain or plea,
ure,
Year: 1879

A chute is laid from the rivers brink
up the steep mountain to the railroad,
and, while we are telling it, the monster
logs are rushing, laundering, flying
down the declivity. They come with
the speed of a thunderbolt, and some
what of its roar. A track of fire and
smoke follows them-fire struck by their
friction with the chute logs. They de-
scend the one thousand and seven hun
dred feet of the chute in fourteen
seconds. In doing SO they drop seven
hundred feet perpendicularly. They
strike the deep water of the pond with a
report that can be heard a mile distant.
Logs fired from cannon could scarcely
have greater velocity than they have at
the foot of the chute. Their average
velocity is over one hundred feet in a
second, throughout the entire distance,
and at the instant they leap from the
mouth their speed must be fully two
hundred feet per second. A sugar pine
log sometimes weighs ten tons. What
a missile! How the water is dashed into
the air! Like grand plume of diamonds
and rainbows, the feathery spray is
hurled into the air at the height of a
hundred feet. 1t forms the grandest
fountain ever beheld. How the waters
of the pond foam and seethe and lash
against the shore. One log. having spent
its force by its mad plunge into the deer
waters, has foated so as to be at right
angles with the path of the descending
monsters. The mouth of the chute is
perhaps, fifteen feet above the surface
of the water. A huge log hurled from
the chute cleaves the air and alights OF
the floating log. You know how bulle


glances, but can you imagine saw-lol
glancing? The end strikes with heav!
shock, but glides quickly PASTOR shor


distance, then a crash like the reverber


alton of artillery, the falling log spring


one hundred and fifty feet VERTICAL


into the air, and, with a curve like


rocket, falls into the pond seventy yard


from the logit struck.
Year: 1879

1t has been profoundly remarked, that
the true way Of telling toadstool from
a mushroom is to eat it. 1t you die it
was toadstool, if you live it was a
mushroom. A similar method is en-
ployed in the selection of husbands; /;
marry him: if he kills you he was bad
husband; If he makes you happy he is
a good one. There is really no other
criterion. As DR.. Samuel johnson re-
marked, the proof of the pudding is in
the eating thereof. Some young men
that seem exceptionable, indeed very
desirable, when they are single, are
perfectly horrid as soon as they get
married. All the latent brute there is
in the heart comes out as soon as
sensitive and delicate being seeks her
happiness in his companionship. The
honeymoon lasts very short time, the
receptions and the round of parties are
soon over, and then the two sit down to
make home happy. If she has married
a society man, he will soon begin to get
bored: he will yawn and go to sleep on
the sofa. Then he will take his hat and
go down to the club and see the boys,
sho pOlhdpo uOG COluC I'LL
ing. If she has married a man en-
crossed in business he will be tagged
out when he comes home. He may BE-
a sickly man that she must nurse, and
a morose man that she must seek to
cheer, drunken man that she must sit
up for, violent man that she fears,
fool whom she soon learns to despise,
vulgar man for whom she must apollo
gize-in short, there are thousands of
ways of being bad husbands, and very
few ways of being good ones. And the
worst of it is, that the poor silly women
are apt to admire in single men the
very traits that make bad husbands,
and look with contempt or ridicule upon
those quiet virtues which make home
happy. Men with very little personal
beauty or style, often make the wife
happy and sometimes quite the re-
verse. The number of ways of being
a bad husband is almost as great as the
number of ways of being ugly. No one
can tell from the demeanor of a single
man what sort of husband he will be.
Meantime she must marry somebody.
Eat it: if you die it was sort of toad
stool, if you live it was a sort of mush-
room.
Year: 1879

ApREAcHER in Kentucky the other
day, becoming exasperated, paused in
his discourse to say: Ladies and gen.
tlemen, if you will give me your close
attention will keep lookout on that
door, and if anything worse than q man
enters will warn you in time to make
your escape"
Year: 1879

The difference between gossip and
truth is that no one will ever stop to
question your veracity when you are in
dulging in the first, but he wants you
on oath when you are speaking solemn
facts.-Detr0it Free Press.
Year: 1879

A curious old custom fingers in some
of the more secluded parts of the coun-
try of placing patient, suffering from
smallpox, in bed with red hangings.
1t would be interesting to know the
origin of this custom, and how long it
has been in vogue. The tradition that
red is good for smallpox is at least five
centuries and a half old, for we read
that John, one of the sons of Edward
II, was treated for the disease by
being put into a bed surrounded by
red hangings, covered with red blank
cts and red counterpane, his throat
being gargled with red mulberry wine,
and the red juice of pomegranates being
given him to suck. This was the boasted
prescription of John of Gaddeaden,
who took no small credit to himself for
bringing hisroyal patient safely through
! the disease.
Year: 1879

"A Glance ut the fuIu{e.


The importance of the Mont{na cattle
trade to the North Pacific is notSets scarce
ly realized though it is increasing year by
year. This week and next 1, ,70dhead will


be shipped and as the Bozcmad Courier
concludes this is but the beginning. The


Courier says: No approximate estimate
can be made of the number Of beef and
stock cattle that will be shippedEast from


Montana over the Northern Pfific rail-
road when it once reaches the Y Yqlowstone
valley. The cattle ranges Of M(ntana are
almost ]imitless in extent and aye beyond
comparison the most nutritiOuskn md favor
able, summer and winter, ranges to be
found on the continent. During the past
eight or ten years the stock business here
has been gradually and steadily increas-
ing until it now assumes an Importance
second to no other industry in the Terri
tory, while in actual value if not in num-
bers, the cattle herds of Montala are be-
ginning to bear favorable comparison
with those Of Texas and Colorado, with q
reasonable prospect of outstripjing them
both at no distant day. If I'd the beef
herds which hereafter Montana awill an
nually turn out, are. added tho mutton,
wool and hides produced each Year in the
Territory, and which will have fo. seek an
eastern mar6et, then no estimate hereto.
fore made will indicate the MAGNITUDE of
the carrying trade in these lineA that the
Northern Pacific will control the moment
the road penetrates into the settlements Of
Montana. 10 ~
Year: 1879

This important paper makes It's appear


ance somewhat ahead Of time this morn


Ing, owing to the fact that Il saw the light


Yesterday in one or two papers that had
surreptitiousIy procured copy at Wash
ington. The copy that will go into Con.
gress to-day at noon will not have much
interest for the members. 1t is hardly
fair treatment OF the President to publish
lis message in advance OF its delivery TO
Congress, and it may result hereafter in q
refusal to send out advanced copies to the
Associated Press newspapers.


Our space is SO much taken ppwith the
document itself rs to leave but little room
for comment. Those who desire to be
posted up on the affairs Of the country
will read the message in full It's, like
all Of President Hayes productions, a
plain and business.Iike document, replete
with valuable statements and suggestions
in regard to the affairs Of the country.
lis principal financial feature is its recon-.
mendation for the retirement of the legal
tender notes, and the replacement Of them
by notes that are not legal tender, such,
for instance, as the National bank notes.
lie also recommends the suspension OF the
silver coinage upon the present legal ratio
Of 4l9! grains to the dollar, because, as he
fears and Is feared by so many others,
silver will come to be the only metallic
currency, it being, as now coined, of less
valne than gold.


WOdoubt whether either Of these recon.
mendations will be acted upon by Con.
gress at this session, because this is the
Presidential session, but that we will ulti.
mately come to them is hardly to be
doubted. Both parties will aim to keep
in line with the initiation boom until after
the elections Of 1880. They will be in
clined 10 take the risks OF the possible evils
to accrue from the indefinite continuance
Of unredeemed promises to pay; and from
an excess Of silver money that is below the
standard Of specie in Europe. But Presi-
dent Hayes is not writing for the present
feeling of Congress-, but for a record
on the future pages OF the country's
history. He therefore writes in the spirit
in which he expects our present financial
situation to be viewed hereafter.


The next important feature OF his meg
sage is his view OF civil service reform.
This topic is hardly inferior in import
GnCe to any consideration before the coun.
try. tits too much oil ia subject, however,
to be discussed in our limited space this
morning, and We therefore content our.
selves by asking for his remarks on this
head the careful consideration of our
readers,
Year: 1879




What is the matter with the
Appeal? A mental yellow fever
ichor seems to afflict our venerable
contemporary. But it ought to stick
to facts and kick vigorously against
the sensational pricks. 1t is due to
the truths of history to deny the
charges which the Appeal now brings
against the Memphis public of
the epidemic of 1878. 1t is
not true as the Appeal says in its
issue of this morning that during the
epidemic of last year robbery and
debauchery disgraced our common
humanity" Nor has this community
heard, until to-day from the Appeal,
that scOundrels last year made of
our greatest public calamity
time for indulgences of the gross
est character " the bare recol.
lection Of which is enough to
sicken the most abandoned.
These statements of the Appeal nor
anything like them we insist are not
sustained by the history of the cpl
demic of last year, and the Appeal is
doing gross injustice to the men who
nobly fought the terrors of the
fever last year by these un-
guarded sensational and ridiculous
statement of facts which are not facts.
under the circumstances surrounding
ths city last year, the wonder is that
so few violations of law occurred. A
handful of policemen had the whole
city to guard, and bravely and we'll as
these public guardians did their duty
it was not to be wondered at if some
thief here and there broke into a
deserted dwelling, or some prowIer in
the dark violated some of the com
mandments. From the Appeals S
charge, however, it would seem that
robbery and debauchery" held riot
in Memphis, and scoundrels the most
abandoned put the city in their pock-
cts. The Appeal should be more spe-
ci6c in its charges, and not stamp a
whole community as unworthy by an
exaggerated and sensational statement
of imaginary facts, We think if the
Appeal searches its own files it will
discover tributes paid to the men who
stood between this city and destruc-
tion last year, and compliments to the
people who remained through the cpl
demic Of 1873, for the good order and
general respect for the laws which
characterized our community during
those dark and bitter months of yellow |
fever.
Year: 1879




PLUM POINT, Mss, July Is, 1879
-ED1ToR LEDGER-Will you be kind
enough to allow me space in your
paper for few remarks on yellow
fever?


For a long time majority of the
physicians and people of your city
have been writing and saying a great
deal about the importation of that
disease. They have spared themselves
no pains to trace the first cases to
some steamboat or railway train Just
from New Orleans and have always,
apparently, been able to do so.


Now that the first case of yellow fe-
Yer eroceurring in the United States this
summer, was reported in Memphis,
quickly followed by five other cases,
nothing can be said about importation;
but the fact must be admitted that il
originated there. Some of your lead
ing physicians gave it as their opinion
that Francis Mulbrandon contracted
the disease by using clothing, furni-
ture, etc., which had been carried to
his house from the residence of some
of his relatives who died with yellow
fever last year and that such cases
always occur the next summer after an
epidemic. But how about Judge Rays
case? Experts do not seem disposed
to tackle the question of the origin
of this case" as was suggested by the
LEDGER Of the 18th.


Even the "iron-clad expert" of the
Appeal does not push his inquiries in
that direction. 1t looks like they
were afraid they might find something
that would upset some of their pet
theories. If Mr.. Mulbrandon caught
the fever from clothing that had been
used by yellow fever patients in 1878
Judge Ray did not.


| have it from good authority that
he and his family were outside of the
infected district all last summer. His
house was closed and unoccupied
during the whole time, and was only
occupied in the fall after it had been
famigated and thoroughly ventilated.
So Judge Ray must have taken the
disease in quite different manner. /
understand that it has been asserted
that he contracted the fever in his
courtroom. Was there any clothing
or furniture in the courtroom that
had been used byyellow fever patients.
lfso, how could Judge Ray take the fe-
yer from these articles bymerely going
there day by day and holding his
court2 ll


1t has been satisfactorily demon
strated that yellow fever poison ex-
erts its influence during the night,
and it is generally admitted by medi
cal men that people residing in a
Year: 1879

WE are gratifed to be able to OBJ.
serve that the utmost good order has
prevailed thus ar in the face of the vel.
low fever and in the midstof the great
est exodus ever known to Memphis OF
any other cityin thecountry. The peo-
pie are quiet, anxious and sober; civil
law scarcely asserts itself, yet nothing
has occurred to lower our respect for
our fellowmen or to cause any appre.
hension to those who had to leave
their property unprotected. The law
abiding spirit of this community ex-
tends to all classes, white and colored
and this we believe is strong enough
to give assurance that absentees will
find their affairs as they left them.
Year: 1879

The citizens relief committee, an
organization which, during the last
epidemic, did incalculable service in
behalf of suffering humanity in Mem
phis, and without whose aid it would
have been impossible for the city au
thorities to meet the demands of our
suffering poor, should at once reorgan-
ize, and thus be prepared to emulate
the coed works performed by them
during the epidemic Of 1873.
Year: 1879

working laborers, but floating class
oflittle use under any circumstances
or TO any community. The policy
adopted by our authorities and sue-
gested by the LEDGER several weeks
ago in anticipation Of the fever again


is to depopulate the city, and if ra-
tons are to be collected and given out
let this be done in the country, where
there is and probably can be no fever
this year. Thus the crowds will be
kept cut and many lives will be saved.
Year: 1879

A young man uamed flanagan shot
part Of his skull from the back Of
his head yesterday, in trying to sui
eide on Georgia street. He tried to
get his father and mother to leave
town. They refused and he said he
Year: 1879

The subscription price of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is s5 per annum and
Soc per month fOrlsss than one year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per annum-
postage free


Persons leaving the city for the summer
can order the DAILY LEDGER at SOC per
month in advance, with the privilege of
changing postofice.
Year: 1879

A writer from Washington says:
There Is 10 be- strong effort made this
winter to secure the repeal of the Thur.
man act compelling the Pacific roads to
calculate their percentage for the sink
ing fund. to repay the government loan
on net earnings. A bill looking to that
object will be introduced very soon after
tho opening Of the session, and those In
terested in the roads are hopeful Of Its
passage.
Year: 1879

ED. JOURNAL AS subscriber to
the JOURNAL makes inquiry on this
subject, l give the following sug-
gestions: Pass the halter-strap or
rope that you have to tie with,
through the ring or hole, or over a
pole, or whatever you have to tie
to, and tie the end around his fore
leg just above the knee; this leaves
him in such a position that he can
not pull back without pulling up bis
fore foot, and when one foot is off
the ground, he can get no more pur-
chase on the halter; but be sure to
tie in such way that the halter
strap or rope can slip backward or
forward easily. This leaves your
horse perfectly safe, anywhere, day
or night. O.P. REED.
Year: 1879

Mr.. EDITOR believing that the
plan | make use of to break a horse
of the bad habit of pulling back Oh
halter or bride is more effect ual in
working a cure than any as yet
brought forward in the JOURNAL |
am induced to state i'm what it con-
sists. Take 35-in. rope long enough
TO make loop, passing it around
the horses tail and extending on each
side of his back TO the front of his
breast " here both ends of the rope
are securely tied together; then
pass surcingle around the horses
body to hold the rope in position.
You will then be ready to put on
the halter passing the strap through
a ring i'm the manger or post, then
fasten the end OF the strap securely
to the rope at the horses breast, and
when he pulls on his halter the rope
extending over his body will tight
Ell and pull on his tail and he will
suddenly quit pulling back, and it
works an eflectual cure.


II. &. CARPENTER.
Year: 1879

The city council will be asked
to grant a yearly license to the
Music Hall Association, instead OF
taxing each troupe that comes along.
We believe this would be altogether
proper, for several good reasons,
among which are that the house is
not owned by one individual for
speculation, but by many whose
chief purpose was to provide suit
able place for entertainments. The
Hall is a great convenience as well
as credit TO the city, and the
Council will not be blamed if they
deal literally with an association
which has not sought and which does
not seek a merely private and indi-
vidual gain.
Year: 1879

steeple-chasing on Wednesday will bring
us lot of visitors from BiartitZ, Bordeaux
and Tarbes if the weather remains fayora-
BILE several Of whom will be going on to
Nice, where the animal races will be held.
Lawn tennis is the favorite amusement of
the ladies at Pau, though what with din
ners and dances they must find ample en-
ployment for their time, as there are few
pleasure resorts in which so much hospita-
lity is exchanged among the visitors as
Pau. Pau being a large town, the shops
are as well supplied as the most fastidious
could desire, and several English shops
heve been opened for the special benefit Of
the nglo-American colony, whose spiritu-
al wants are also well provided for. The
winter season is not very favorable for
mountain climbing, but few adventurous
spirits make their way from time to time
through the Valley of Angeles and Pierre
fitte, Nestalas to Cauteret, Bareges de Bi
GORE, by way of the Tourmalet, and there
is some good rough shooting to be had in
the hills and valleys about Pau. For those
who are unable or unwilling to use their
legs, many places of interest can be easily
reached by rail, chief among them being
Lourdes which is within an hours journey
of Pau, and which is well worth the visit of
all those who can appreciate beautiful
scenery.
Year: 1879

A gentleman of great experience in
the commercial world cashed a check
at London bank for Ell00 taking the
whole in fl00 notes. He was only a
few yards from the bank when a per-
son resembling clerk, bareheaded and
with pen behind his ear, touched him
on the shoulder, saying: "Beg your
pardon, sir; will you allow me just to
take tie number of these notes again
| won't keep youa minute" The gen.
tleman taken off his guard, handed the
notes over TO the supposed clerk, whom
he followed into the bank. After CIV
ing the former time TO reach the top
and return, he met the gentleman at
the door, saying: "Please walk this
way that gentleman will attend to you
in minute" pointing to a clerk who
was deeply engaged. Five minutes
elapsed before the gentleman could
draw the clerks attention to his case,
and he was thunderstruck to find that
the officer knew nothing about it. The
other clerks were interrogated, and
they were equally In the dark. or
course no time was lost in going to the
Bank of England, but too latej the
clever rogue had been before them and
obtained gold for the notes.