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Year: 1877

SPONGE CAKE.-Take of powdered
lump sugar the weight of 6 eggs in their
shells, and take half that weight of pota-
to flour, separate the whites from the
yelks of the eggs, beat up the latter with
the sugar, adding the grated rind of
lemon. Whisk the whites to stiff froth,
mix the two together, and incorporate
the potato flour with the mixture, quick
ly and effectually, beating it all the time
with the egg-whisk. Pour the mixture
in buttered mold and bake it in the
oven until done. When cold, turn it
out and trim it, to make it stand even.
Year: 1877

0FcOsg


How sad q thing to feel that one
must die away from home. Tell not
the invalid, who is yearning after his
distant country, that the atmosphere
around him is soft; that the gales are
filed with balm, and the flowers are
springing from the green earth; he
knows that the softest air to his heart
would be the air which hangs over his
native land; that more grateful than all
the gales of the South would breathe
the low whispers Of anxious affection;
that the icicles clinging to his own
caves and the snow beating against his
own windows would be far more pleas
ant to his eyes than the bloom and ver-
dure which only more forcibly remind
him how far he is from that one spot
| which is dearer to him than the world
beside. He may indeed find estimable
friends who will do all in their power
TO promote his comfort and assuage
his pains; but they cannot supply the
place OF the long known and long-lov-
ed; they cannot read as in q book the
mute language of his face; they have
not learned to wait upon his habits and
anticipate his wants, and he has not
| learned to communicate without hesi-
tation all his wishes, impressions and
thoughts TO them. He feels that he is
q stranger; and q more desolate feeling
than that could not visit his soul. How
much is expressed by that form Of Orr
entail bsnediction. MAY you die
among your kindred"
Year: 1877

There is no period at which the feel
ing of leisure 10 more delightful one
than after q break fast summer morn
Ing in the country. 1t is q slavish
and painful thing to know that in
stantly you rise from the break fast
table you must take to your work. In
that state your mind will be frettine
and worrying away all the time the
hurried meal lasts. It is delightful to
breakfast leisurely then 90 out and
sannter in the garden; walk down to
the water and give the dogs swim |;


sketch out kite TO be completed in


the evening; to stick up new color


ed picture In the nursery, and to do
this and more with the sense thoA
there u no neglect that yoa can eos.
ily overtake your days wtsks-~ lyvll1s
Year: 1877

HELP THOSE WHO TRY TO HELP THEM
sELvEs.-Mrs. Day is prepared to do all


kinds of plain sewing, and as she has only
her labor to depend upon for livelihood
and for the support of her children, she
asks the kind people of this city who may
have work which they wish done to give
her trial. This is case which should
interest all our benevolent disposed citizens.
Let any who have work of this kind which
they wish done take it to Mrs. Day.
Year: 1877

THERE Is NO EXCUSE for anyone suffer-
ing with sore throat, slight or severe


cough, or husky voice, for by inhaling
Ponds Extract it soothes and relieves the
burning irritation, thus allaying the cough
and hoarseness, while the entire pulmonary
organs are strengthened and invigorated.
The professional patient will only need
to make trial to perceive its good effect.
Year: 1877

A Rockport widow who supports her two
children by hard work was asked last week
by felIow-workman to aid In making a
go cents left to carry her and her two chill
dren through the month, but she gave 26
cents. A little later the person returned
and told the woman that the purse was
meant for her and handed her $25.
Year: 1877

Dave Morgan did not get away last week
for the mines as he expected, but made it
the first of the present week, and is now
doubtless far on his way to silver springs.
We hope Dave may meet with the best OF
fortune.
Year: 1877

THE PEACH TRAFFIC.-Much of our space
on the first page this week is devoted to
the correspondence between the committee
of Peach Growers and President Hinckley
of the Railroad Company. The committee
arraign the Company and the President
pleads not guilty. To this the committee
put in second charge and the controversy
ends by the committee saying to the Com
pany, virtually, "there is eternal war be-
tween me and thee"


And yet, while the committee accuse
the R. R. Co. of ruinous policies as against
the peach growers, the railroad authorities
are circulating pamphlets all over the coun-
try to enhance the peach growing interests
of the Peninsula and to induce agriculturists
to invest in its SOIL And while the COM
mittee are assailing the Company for dis
regarding the interests of the growers in
that they are to be deprived of chartered
cars, the Company are sending out circulars
notifying growers that they have instituted
a contract system for the convenience of
shippers by the carload. And when a
resolution is introduced in a meeting of
twenty-five growers to the effect that the
interests of grower and transporter are
mutual and should harmonic, the resolu-
ton is thrown under the table, while nine
teen members of the meeting insist that
the Company should be put under the law
and made succumb until it act to the in.
terest of the fruit growers.


This seems to be the long and short Of
the whole matter: Having reached this
point the peach convention has adjourned
and the railroad authorities go forward
with their arrangements just as before.
Year: 1877

much in detail. but not greatly in underlying
facts They were all started on the high
pressure system. and spent too much money
at the beginning, il not afterward. The
malodOrous Continental Life Insurance Com
pany was an Outgrowth from the North Amer
lea; their ways of doing business were in
many respects alike; both paid too dear
for their whistle. The other concerns were
shorter-lived and never made so great show
of prosperity, their business being on much
smaller scale. he action of the State Super


ntendent, in forcing these companies into re-
ceiyers' hands, deals another blow at the ANAL
gamaton process. A few years ago reinsurance
was regarded as the great panacea for sick
insurance companies; now it seems to be re-
garded as little worse than their dissolution.
Perhaps the new view is correct as to this choice
of evils but are these the only alternatives III
reinsurance is carried out as it usually has
been, the policy holders get a document in
another concern that may or may not be OF
some value. 1t is always of less value than
what they originally barganed for or were
led to expect. The reinsuring company is gem
orally hurt more than it is benefited by the
process. The officers and agents of both the
companies usually cOntriye to make money
out of the transaction. When a concern goes
into the hands of a receiver, the settlements
are long and tedious. By some inscrutable
alchemy the assets boil down to very small
capm mortum. The only people who are sure
of their returns in cash are then the receiver
and the lawyers.


The North America performance illustrates
the result where an attempt was made to steer
between these rocks. 1t might be naturally
supposed that when the assets of a company
are only technically impaired it can recover
itself after Withdrawing from active business.
As its investments will yield much more
than the AZ per cent interest OF the
State standard, and its deaths cannot ac-
crue faster than the rates of mortality pro-
vide, this seems at first sight sound
conclusion. But the actual result is widely
different Whenever a company gets into bad
repute, the holders of policies upon healthy
lives begin to drop out of it, because they
can obtain insurance elsewhere; the roll OF
lapscd policies increases with strange ra-
pi,lity eventually the company is left
with policies only on impaired lives
and after that the death claims come upon 1t
at frightful rate. There is no actuary who
can even guess at the figures which two or three
years of such proceedings may develop. The only
way to stop this ruin is to restore confidence in
the company. There have been instances where
that has been effected by liberal pecniary assist
ance and by the support of strong names in
the management As some Of the expert
ments OF that soit have succeeded while
others have failed, there is now plenty
of light on the subject 1t is quite time
that it should be thoroughly consid
cred. Recommendation as to the best course
10 ba pursued with life insurance company
in trouble might at all events be- put forth
with proprety by the Insurance Department
in the forthcoming annual report.
Year: 1877

1t would DC satisfactory no doubt, not ONLY
to The white people Of the South but to a great
many Northern Republicans, il the new prcSi
dent could settle the Southern difficulty this
wecl; by calling off the troops, sending Pack
ard and Chamberlain about thcir business. end
enabling the Conservatives TO take full pos
session of the governments of LOusiana ana
South Carolina. To some laSty rct0rmcTS Sdch
d course seems not only right but easy. As
general rule a prompt act Of justice is prefer
able to a deliberate compromise, and If we
considered only the poetical side of the question
we should certainly wish TO see the President
or Congress decide the long ana scandaloIS
contest at the South by immediate action IL
support Of the right side, whichever that may
be, and stern, unhcsitating, final suppression
of the other But there is no poetry III politics.
Statesmen must deal with affairs according to
their means, and when conflict mas gone on
as long as this has at the South the boundaries
Of right aud wrong become 50 indistinct that
a theoretically just decision ii often practically
impossible.


In the two States in question it is clear that
there has been for several years nothing cor
responding to the American idea of Il popular
representative government. There are certain
officials sustained by armed force from the
outside, aud although they profess to have
been elected by a majority of the voters they
can hardly be said to derive their powers from
the consent Of the governed. Whenever the
Federal guard has been withdrawn they have
pro,ed unable to sustain themselves a single
day. Nearly all the intelligent, educated, pub
Hc-pirited, and tax-payiug inhabitants are in
ilcxibly opposed 70 them--not merely quarrel
ing with their politics, which would he d small
matter, mt denying their right 10 hold office,
and refusing them any recognition or obedi-
enco except such as may be extoited at the
point of the bayOnct If it is true that nu-
mercal majority voted for these men, then
the numerical majority is too weak IN character
10 glve either moral or material support 10 its
own representatives, and does not supply
safe basis for popular government


Gen. Grant.hcld up the Southern Republican
administrations 10y main force for more than
four years, and they got no stronger on their
lees. but rather weaker aud weaker. We can
not continue that policy after experience has
so fully demonstrated its futility. But the OPP
poste course is 10y no means clear before u.s.
The plea that the Republicans of the South
who stood by the party through danger and
evil report are entitled to Federal protection
is merely a sentimental argument. They are
enlisted TO Federal support within the letter
and spirit of the law just as other citizens are,
and not otherwise. The trouble lies in the
difficulty of ascertaining which of the contest
ants is really in the right, or which is the
more in the wrong Question the carpet-bag
GERS tide, and he points to the table of votes
and the laws creating his returning board.
demonstrate with the bulldozer and be retorts
by showing you the forged affidavits upon
which votes are Cancelled, aud the clerks who
Year: 1877

CASE or YOUNG SCHU


Suicides, as rule should be passed over
with as brief mention as possible. They usually
proceed from a mixture of morbid sentiment
and cowariice, which public notice and SYM
pathy warm and foster in the living. The
suicidal mania, which has at different times
become contagious, has always been checked
at once by treating it with ignomlny and con-
tenpt, instead of compassion, aS Ill the we'll
known suicidal epidemic in Lyons III the last
century.


But self-slaughter like this of the poor boy
at Cornell last week, which is the effect of an
error in the social system that we all can help
to rectify, is different matter, and deserves
careful consideration. Schwerdtfeger, as we
learn, was a poor boy of exceptional talent
and ambition but weak physique. kind
patron sent him three years ago to Cornell,
and then the usual story begins struggle,
strugglo-urging driving, prize to-day, IA
"remarkable production for his age Tomorrow:
success in the eyes of his little world ut every
step, or despair; finally, with rapidly failing
"health he entered the intercollegiate contest,
"and gained his last and greatest triumph"
In consequence of which his eyes and
his brain gave way; he could neither
study nor remember what he had al
ready learned and convinced at nineteen that
"the struggle of life was unequal and hope
Cess he blew out his brains and ended 1t.
There is something absolutely ludcrOus in
this. if it were not so terribly tragic. This
poor lad was not perhaps to blame, nor his
friends Ii is the system. A boy in American
schools, as a rule, knows that his chance for


,txy,.
mon sense should teach his instructors that the
main object in that brief time should be to
give him the desire for knowledge, and to
tram his mind to acquire it during the rest OF
his life. Instead of which, their object and
his object, nine times out of ten, are to make
"hs mark" to take high rank in class, to
shine in the college world for one brief day,
or. as eliminating end and glory, to take
prize in an intercollegiate contest, and to read
his name once in print bazoned in the morn
ing newspapers.


In short, the fame of boy, and not the
slow building up of a man In mind and body,
is the aim of our system. Hence, the boys
who take honors in a class often drop into the
background Obscurely in active life, and the
dull fellows take foremost places, simply be-
cause the brains of the one class have been
forced and weakened when immature, and
those of the others have reached IA natural,
heathful development Young Schwerdtfeger
at seventeen in lis native country would not
have been held of the proper age to leave the
gymnasium and enter the university: his holi-
days would have been spent tramping the hills
with a wallet on his back his stomach would
have been strong enough to digest daily diet
of sausages and beer. His story here is per-
haps an extreme one. But we have known
too many dull boys disheartened by the driv-
ing process of our system, and too many clever
ones turned out of colleges with stunned fac
ulties and diseased bodies, not to enter our
earnest protest Make haste slowly is a rule
nowhere SO necessary as in our schools.
Year: 1877

No great Importance attaches to the pro-
ceedings last week by which five life insurance
companies were put into receivers hands.
Practically the five companies had been defunct
for more than year. The business of four
of them had been almost wholly and of one of
them in large part absorbed by the Universal
Life Insurance Company; the absorption III
the case Of the four being a rem
surance of nearly all outstanding risks.
The North Americas case was some
what different its business was in
process of being swallowed up. Two years
ago that concern went, so to speak, under the
wing of the Universal Company, and was thence
forth run by the officers of the latter. 1t was
understood at that time that the reserves of
the North America were technically impaired,
and il was asserted that the managers of the
Universal would make good the deficiency.
But the public, it appears, distrlsted the North
America after the change, and its policies, as
the payments fell due upon them, were in nu-
merous instances exchanged for new ones in
the Universal Company. All the five concerns
have assets hence the occasion of appointing
receivers. So far as the holders of policies in
any of the defunct companies are concerned,
the appointment Of receiver can only be of
interest to them in one particular-as to
whether the receiver will work for. their
interest more cheaply than the officers of
the Universal Company were supposed to be
working. That is q question not easily an
swered in advance.


The history of these broken COMPANIES varies
Year: 1877

Life insurance affairs occupied great deal
of the time of the Legislature yesterday. Very
thorough work will be required from the COM
mittecs that have these matters in charge, and
ANYTHING that looks like an attempt at white
washing will not be countcnanced. But II the
committees do their work heartily, it is likely
to be of much more value than the crude
measures which members Of the Legislature
are introducing separately.
Year: 1877

Senator Cameron dies game. He made
gallant struggle to keep both the Senatorship
and the War Department in the family. Fail
ing this, lie resigns the SenatOrslnp III order
10 control it for his son while he can. lie
cannot he said to have made much lately in
welding the vote of PENNSYLVANIA for other
people-apparently he means now to try and
make it count for the family for as much and
for as many years as possible.


The appointment of Frederick w. Seward as
First Assistant Secretary OF State deserves all
the praise that can be bestowed upon it. Mr..
Seward is well fitted for the place well by
former experience in the same position under
his father as by refined scholarship and
marked diplomatic taste. The appointment
too is a most appropriate one for Mr.. Eyarts
to make. There is peculiar fitness in the
choice by Stewards devoted friend, in succeed
ing TO the place which Seward made illustrious,
of Stewards son as next to himself III authority.


Testimony in the Continental Life Insurance
inquiry goes to prove the fact, long since
asserted that the concern had never been
examined by the State Department. There is
q neat and suggestive story of the way III
which this was avoided in one instance. The
officers of the company are said to have taken
the examiner off on fishing excursion, which
80 tired him that the examination was indeh-
nitely postponed. This weakfish episode ought
70 furnish a pleasant theme for the carIca-
tulists. Even the deluded policy-Aolders may
as well laugh as cry.


We're not everything anomalous an Turkish
politics, it would be strange that the naval
commander should defend the Ottoman Power
in the columns of London journal. Hobart
pasba who has again appeared in this claIac-
Year: 1877

They indulge. in little wholesome bull dozing even in Republican Nebraska. The parents of Catholic girl having com- pelled her by force to go through the ceremony of marriage with a Catholic, al- though she was engaged to a protestant, the community rose and compelled the bogus husband to skedaddle and the cruel parents to behave themselves.
Year: 1877

The Commission protest most forcibIy against the cruelty of herding the pau pers of different towns in one com mon establishment where they can be maintained at a cheap rate. GAS age and inirmities creep upon the pauper they fall with increased severity if he is sent amongst strangers. who care for him for 8 stipend, and with none of the love of a relative or townsman. Poverty itself is galling enough, but the manner in which relief is afforded may lessen it's burden or increase it's severity"

 The important disclosure of this part of the report, made incidentally as it were. is that our criminals are much better boarded and lodged than our pau pers. At the very time that our State poor were being badly lodged in narrow, crowded rooms, and bearded by contract at a about dollar a week, new jails were being built all over the State, affording far superior lodgings and accommodations to prisoners, and the State was paying the uniform rate of three dollars. week for their board This shameful preference of the criminal to the pauper has been purely the result of a neglect for which future legislatures will have no excuse.

 The Commission call attention to the abuses that have grown up under the laws that furnish discharged soldiers free treatment at the Hartford and New Haven Hospitals. An allowance has been made of $6 a week for each patient of this class. and, in the language of the gov ernor, has to very considerable extent. converted the Hospitals at Hartford and New Haven into mere chapels of ease for discharged soldiers who are able to earn a living, but arc too improvident or indo- lent to do it, and in some cases for mere impostors. Under this system the State expenses at the hospitals have more than quadrupled in the past five years, and amount in 1876 to the extravagant sum of $41, ,00O.

 The commission speaks in very high terms of the valuable work done by Dr. Knight in establishing his School for I'm beetles at Lakeville, and are glad that the present legislature has recognized the need of this institution by suitable ap- propriation, and by the passage of an act allowing the commitment of imbeciles to it by Judges of Probate, on proper exam ination and finding of facts.
Year: 1877

We are ourselves much annoyed, and our correspondents are much discour- aged, by the frequent postponement of their letters from one week to another. The occasion of the trouble is this. Near ly one half of the printed natter needed for our inside pages is usually in type by Monday night. Often little cor respondence has reached us by that time. The next day there is a rush of letters and advertisements, and a good deal of space is needed for news, and com ments upon the news. Then several let ters are unavoidably crowded over till the next issue. We see no way of avoid ing the difficulty but by forwarding cor respondence, early; if some could be sent in even as early as Saturday it would be all the better.
Year: 1877

F#5e

 The people of Connecticut have learned tosplace high estimate on the ability, candor and conscientious thoroughness of the firm of HALL < READ of Bridgeport. and there is no doubt 1t is an excellent pla6e to buy Dry Goods and Carpets. They are already making arrangements for spring, and are introducing some new de- s;gus in the celebrated ingrain carpetings of their own make. Their stock of fine oarpetines and house furnishing goods is always attractive. while they are always oHering some real bargains in Dry Goods.

 It is becoming an established fact that the interior of our dwellings can be furn- ished with carpets and wall decorations by Messrs HALL < READ of Bridgeport in better taste and at a less expenditure than by any other firm for the following req sons: They make their own carpets and control the designs. of the new decorations and can therefore not only fit up houses with good harmony in the fittings but save the purchasers one profit
Year: 1877

The father who for great portion of his
life has struggled with poverty is unwilling
that bis children should have a similar ex-
perience. So he denies himself indulgence
in even necessary things that he may save
and make for his family. The mother, re-
membering how irksome household tasks
were to her in her girlhood, permits her
daughters to lead lives of ease and indo-
lence, thinking that in so doing she makes
the best manifestations in her power of
maternal love. As natural consequence
of this view on the part If the parents, we
see growing up all around US young men
and women perfectly useless for all the prac-
tical purposes Of life unable to cope with
misfortune, Intellectual or moral fibre is
not inherent; it must ba built up from within,
and is the result Of independent thought
and action. The sooner boy can be made
to wait upon himself, 70 think for himself,
to act for himself, the sooner will the
germs of true manhood begin to develop
within him. II is no Kindness to surround
him with such attention anf care that he
Iinot bs compsEed 10 lesSn the lesson OF
self-reliance, Of pstien. ignlustry, Of per.
sistent hope. The real crowrsof this world
are crowns Of labor. a2