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Year: 1877

Gold is an inevitable standard.
1t may lie dormant in national or
private Golfers for years, while the
excited furry and flappings of the
irredeemable paper money sails
that are hung in profusion from the
masts of the ship of state will in
spire mad speculation and run a
wild career of insanest transactions,
yet when the port is IN sight the
crew will rush to the hold with
their massive gold to hold the YES
sci steady that she may not rush in
upon the breakers that loom so un-
expectedly. a child may swallow
gold dollar and call upon its
stomach and the powers within to
masticate it, still ii will resume of
of itself Gold is an inevitable
standard.
Year: 1877

The present financial condition of our
country should teach us the true value
of our economy. No man or woman
who can buy one dollars worth of goods
with fifty cents should think of spend
ing the dollar, yet it is done every day.
Bailey's Saline Apperient is warranted
equal to the best in size and quality and
is sold at only so cents. 1t is just as
pleasant as soda water. no29-4t
Year: 1877

Somebody brought us a load of
cedar very promptly, for which we
are much obliged, but we have new
er known who it was. Somebody
else may bring us another if they
wish. And by-the-way, if anybody
wants to haul us a cord of wood and
take it in subscriptions they may do
so. We want the wood before
Christmas, and we want stove wood,
not green beech, or sugar tree. We
will take five or six cords in this
way. Remember we want it before
Christmas.
Year: 1877

The pencil marks you sec around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that You
are requested 20 pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patrons. but
cash alone will Yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such n
course, and lrenew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


8 We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1877




plains itself. 1t was from a citizen
of a neighboring town:


Mr. John Arch Richersoh


Dear Sir since l have
come home l Want you to let Me
Now if l Was Arrested While l
Was there And iff so What did do
About it if Was l don't Now it tor
l Was So drunck that l don't Now
What 1 did do pleas let me Now
rate of and / Will do that Much
for you tell Me iff 1 Was hoo went
on My bon and l will Send the
Money to pay it Yours-


P S iff you don't Now ask John
Martin iff 1 dun Ennything ther
rong am Willing to pay for
it without it beeing Nown up her.
Year: 1877

The credit system is now one of
the curses of this nation. 1t has
entailed upon us more than any
other one thing, our present finan
cial troubles aud complications-it
has caused us to live beyond our
means, and made us a nation of
spendthrifts-yea, more than that
it has made many of us not only
dishonest, but worthless. Far bet
ter would it have been for us if we
never had any credit. Think of
it, what a happy people we would
be if we were out of debt-we would
hear no complaint of hard times,
but everything would run smoothly.
The interest that is being paid upon
the Indebtedness of this country,
amounts to more than its surplus
products. Where is the end, or
who can see 1t? What brought this
about? The credit system.
Year: 1877

There is man in Paradise Valley
known as "Old Duffer." who. if re.
ports be true. is grade or two lower
in the scale of responsibility than q
Piute. He has been arrested and fined
for selling whisky to Indians, and for
Drunkenness. and now complaint has
been made against him for indecen.
exposure of his person. 1t appears
that he cavorted through the streets of
Paradise village few days ago naked
or nearly so, for which complaint has
been made against him and we believe
q warrant issued for his arrest.
Year: 1877

One hundred years ago not pound OF
coal or cubic foot of illuminating gas
had been burned in the country. No
iron stoves were used and no cOntri-
vances for economizing heat were en-
ployed until DR.. Franklin invented
the iron-framed fireplace which still
bears his name. All the cooking and
warming, in town as well as country,
were done by the aid of fire kindled on
the brick hearth or in the brick ovens.
Pine knots or tallow candles furnished
the light for the long winter nights, and
sanded floors supplied the place of rugs
and carpets. The water used for house
hold purposes was drawn from deep
wells by the creaking "Sweep." No
form of pump was used in this country,
as far as we can learn, until after the
commencement of the present century.
There were no friction matches in those
early days by the aid of which lire
could be easily kindled, and II the fire
event out" upon the hearth over night
and the timber was damp 30 that the
spark would not catch the alternative
remained of wadipg through the snow
a mile or 80 to borrow q brand of q
neighbor. Only one room in any house
was warm unless some member of the
family was i'll; in all the rest the tenn


perature was at zero during many night


In the winter. The men and women o
a hundred years ago undressed and wen


to their beds In temperature colde


than that of our modern barns ant
Ilwoodsheds, and they never complained
Year: 1877

Unlike the fox, the wolf, when over
powered by numbers, becomes cowed and
dies meekly. A wolf surrounded in this
way suffers himself to be killed by ex-
hausting his strength in the struggle.
But woe to the luckless cur that meets
him alone in the forest, unless of a size
to inspire respect, or of strength to exact
it. The wolf takes kindly to dogs flesh,
Notwithstanding the dogs horror of wolf
flesh and, when rendered bold by hun
ger, the wolf approaches the village. His
lure is not so much the farm live stock,
which he knows is too well guarded, as
the stray cur which he expectsto find at
large and unprotected. In some parts OF
Europe scarcely winter passes without
visit from the wolves, and the smaller
dogs are nearly always the first victims
Sweeping through the village at dusk OF
daybreak, they snap up and bear off,
without stopping, some bowling mongrel
unable to get out of their way in time.
Year: 1877

Here is little story which came 70 -,


the other day, and which, if it is NOT


news, either political or marketable. has


the merit, which news rarely claims of or


beng absolutely true. Near a neighbor


ing city there is a little house, an asylum


for children founded by one or two good


women, and kept up from day to dsy H ba


voluntary contributions. 1t is rulo


with these women never to ask for bol,,
In their work from anybody except tha,
one who has promised to care ior the
fatheriess child. Business men are ant
to look upon this system of faith and


prayer ana charity as an insecure sort of
capital; yet it is a curious fact that two
OF the largest orphan asylums in the
country are supported in this way. and
have increased until thousands of belnless
little ones have been sheltered and fed
and clothed in them, during years in
which the shrewdest business men have
seen their fortunes wrecked at that in the
most careful and safest investments.


A winter or two ago the director Of
this little home issued a statement of her
receipts and expenditures, for the salts.
faction OF those who had given help to
it during the year. 1t fell into the hands
of wealthy man living some miles away
from the home, who glanced over it and
threw 1t aside. No help was asked, and
1t did not occur to him to offer any. A
month or two later, one bitter night, the
manager found herself absolutely with.
out morsel Of food to give the children
tor breakfast. There was not even -four
nor bread in the house. Institutions of
similar kind have their settled funds
from which to draw, or friends to whom
to appeal. These women had no money,
and but the one Friend to whom to turn.
The night was stormy, it was late, the
children would wakeu hungry; their
hearts almost failed them. But thew
went to their Friend. Before they rose
from their knees u carriage drove to the
door, from " hich when they went out the
coachman-wthout word-began to
unpack meat, bread, provisions of every
kind. Bundles Of clothing followed. It
was like lairy-tale or one of Dickens's
Christmas stories. At last lady held
ont an envelope in which was bank-note
for substantial sum, and the carriage
drove away through the snow without
word being spoken.


All this was mysterious enough. But
the explanation was simple. The banker
was toasting his feet before going to bed
at his library fire, thinking how glad he
was to be indoors, when his daughter
came in and said, after the inconseq uent
manner of women, how cold it was out.
side and how warm and cozy she had
been in her own chamber, and how it had
set her to thinking Of people who were
cold and hungry, and that she thought
she could sleep better if she could make
some one who needed help as warm and
happy as herself. The father was prac-
tical man. He remembered the little
home for children, but told her tomorrow
would be time enough to look it up. The
daughter was impractical, and insisted
that tonight was the time. The water
began to come into her eyes. So the IA
ther gave up, of course, aud put the note
in the envelope as his contribution to the
foolish adventure.-N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1877

SIR WALTER SCoTr.--It is frequently
the case that the marriages Of literary
men are unhappy ones, owing to the men
tai inferiority Of their wives, and Sir
Walter SCOTS matrimonial experience
proved no exception to what is almost
the rule. He was married on Christmas
Eve, 1895, the bride being Miss Jane
Carpenter Cor Carpenter), an heiress of
French birth. The marriage was not
felicitous, especially in view of her men
tai inferiOrity, which was lifelong an
noyance to the author. This feature was
inherited by their four children, all of
whom were far below mediocrity in point
of brain activity. The eldest son had a
noble figure, which is all that can be said
of him. The second was glad to get a
clerkship under the government, which
was his highest attainment. The oldest
daughter, Sophia, was the brightest of
the children, but never left anything on
record to suggest that she was the daugh
ter of a genius. The youngest daughter,
Anne, like her brother Charles, died un-
married She was frail creature, and
was dreadfully shattered by the ruin
which fell upon her fathers fortunes.
After his death she went to London, be-
came member of Lockhart's family,
and died there, less than q year after her
father. A pension from the king gave
her support, and thus the daughter of
the greatest author Of the age died an OBJ
ject of royal charity.
Year: 1877

THAT politeness which we put on, IN
order to keep the presumptuous at
proper distance, will generally succeed
But it is sometimes that these osaruslVe
characters are on such excellent terms
with themselves that they put down their
very pOliteness to the score OF their own
great merits and high pretensions, meet
ing the coldness of our reserve with
ridiculous condescenscion of familiarity,
in order to set US at ease with ourselves
Cotton.
Year: 1877

Messrs. Augustus A. Levey, George A. Fostor,
Thomas II. Faile, John A. Henry and Alvin Carr
recently appointed a committee from the North Side
Association to wait upon the Railroad Committee OF
Board of Aldermen in the interests Of rapid transit
They especially delegated to argue against the
opposition exhibited to the erection Of the Gilbert
Elevated Railway by the Sixth Avenue Company. Tho
preamble and resolutions passed by tho North Side
socation upon this subject were published in the
HERALD at the time. They shortly afterward sent
the Aldermanic committee. No action has yet been
taken upon them and yesterday, at the regular meet
ing OF the Board, Alderman Guntzcr offered the follow
ing, which adopted


Resolved, That the Committee Railroads be directed
to all available means to ascertain II the statement
which required TO be bed with the Comptroller by the
of the license given certain parties lay
railroad tracks inixth avenne and elsewhere ned
steps to ascertain responsible parties wall pledge them
take the road Of the sixth Avenue Railroad
its with added and subscribe


furnish the facilities ot pubic travel
rs required OF the said railroad company and
port to this Board.


The Railroad Committee Of the Aldermen will NEE at
two O'Clock Monday next
Year: 1877




TO THE EDITOR HERALDs-


hold and maintain that the mon have certain
rights In the cars and other public convsyanccs which
the women arc bound to respect have duly noticed
In my riding experience that large majority OF
the gentlemen do yield their seats chcerfuy to the
ladies', and have never known OF single instance
when an elderly lady lady with an infant in her
arms entered q car, but what u number OF seats
instantly placed at her disposal or course 1t is not
gratifying desirable spectacle TO observe number
OF ladies' hangi on by the straps; but In many in'
stances they as capable OF doing so as majority
OF the men, who are wearicd and tired by their days
labor and require little needed rest on their home
ward journey AS regards tho unfoundcd assertion OF
one OF your correspondents that perfectly healthy
woman stand any length OF tmc, can ut once
be dsproved by simply paying brief visit 10 the NAM
moth establishments Of our principal retail Dealers
where several hundred girls employed as saeswomen
and none are permitted to seat themselves during bust
ness hours, and, Furthermore, healthier and more
robust do exist than these same young girls
whose blooming cheeks, sparkling eyes and wcll
rounded forms amply attest the vigorous condition OF
their physical state. II. IL. H.
Year: 1877

WoMAN's Journal Let us dis
cuss the question why a woman can
pin on a mans collar the first time,
when the very same pin engineered
by man, would double up and run
backwards to stick in his thumb.
Year: 1877

TESTIMONY OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE
OF GEORGIA.-I have used Simmons Liver
Regulator for constipation of my bowels, caused
by 8 temporary arrangement Of the liver, for
the last three or four years, and always when
used according 10 the directions, with decided
benefit l think it is good medicine tor the
arrangement of the liver-at least such has been
nv personal experience in the use of it.


HIRAM WARNER,


rhiaf Justice of GeOrpia.
Year: 1877

pan slowly over the ground where grass
hoppers arc plenty, and as they leap in they
viii be Killed \ pan Of this description
can be supported on wheels at each end ana
with handles in the middle, to be run by one
man as q Wheel-barrow and the front raised
or lowered at will. There is no need Of wide
pans, as the grasshoppers will leap against
the back and fall back in the pan. estimate
that water Will ecOnOmlze the eXterminator
used, nearly three thousand per cent. Oil
cloth three feet wide and as long as eonye-
nient tackled to strip Of board with the
ends and back turned up in q Slight roll, on
which put coal tar with q broom, will do
good work when drawn slowly over the
ground where grasshoppcrs are numerous ;
but this plan requires much more tar than
the pan, or pans. The young locust cannot
be continually driven in any one direction.
They can be successfully hcrded by walking


in circle, advancing toward center at
each time around about twenty inches. In
this way they can be herded into pans or OH
oil-cloth. BY walking forward and back
say thirty, PAGES, they can be driven at will,
by advancing twenty inches each time. |
have gathered them IN this way successfully
without assistance. The locust, after it is
four weeks old, viii follow distances along
bitches, seeking. q place to cross at which
time, if there is a board, poe, sticks or a
bridge spanning the ditch, they will find il
and effect crossing. The county bridges
over my bitches cause me trouble. as they
come to these bridges from all directions. Il
would be good plan to make forls in place
Of bridges. The time may come when ooul
State and national governments will become
as humane as other governments and assist
in the contest With'the locust.
Year: 1877

enough to go over the bulb and Il portion of
the soil; if for glasses, it should fit the out
side OF the upper rim of the glass. The
pointed end should be cut off, so that when
placed over the plants the light will come
in at the top only; the flower stem will rise
up rapidly to reach it, and as soon as it is as
long as you desire take off the funnel and
allow it to bloom. After a little patience
with this method you will be able to grow
them all of a height, which very much en-
are arranged in q window.
Year: 1877

A HINT on HYACINTH CULTURE. E.-The
Gcryzeaer's Magazine contains the following
Instructions for preventing hyacinths from
having Short stems '+Get some stout
brown paper and cut it into squares of suit
able size, and then roll them zip into tunnels.
similar in form to the pointed bags in which
grocers put moist sugar. They should be
from six to nine inches long, and as soon as
rolled into shape, pasted up the edge to
keep them firm; if used for plants in pots.
the base of the funnel should be large
Year: 1877

PITTsBURG. Penn, Nov. 19.-William
CushmaD, a passenger on the fast line,Went
over the Pennsylvania road this morning.
He became deranged on the cars, and as
the train was passing Carney station, forty
miles east of Pittsburg, be ran out on the
platform and made desperate leap from
the train, which was running at d speed
of about forty miles an hour. The mad,
man escaped with few slight bruises. and
when the conductor stopped the train was
not to be found. After the train pulled
out, be made his way to the signal station
near Carney's, from which he sent tele-
gram to the superintendent, saying that
be had jumped from the train to escape a
party of men aboard who wanted to shoot
him. The telegraph operator did what he
could to quiet the man, but in short time
he became very violent, and drawing a re
volver forced the operator to vacate. The
latter notified the firemen, who ordered
out his forces and attempted to capture
the insane man. The latter however held
possession. threatening to shoot the first
one that entered, until daylight. when he
set fire to the signal tower, and was forced
to jump from window to escape the
flames. He was instantly captured, and
his friends in New York telegraphed for.
He is held at Greensburg to await their
arrival. He had ticket from Boston to
| Cincinnati
Year: 1877

The Finding of the pittsburg Grand Jury


PTTsBURG, Nov. 19.-The grand jury
made their special presentment to the
quarter sessions to day. On the subject of
the July riots 10 this city, they say that
the refusal of the state officials has greatly
retarded their efforts in getting at the
bottom facts connected with the origin of
the trouble They attribute the origin of
the difficulty to the railroad men, who
reduced the mems wages, thus causing
discomfort among the men, which was made
common cause through secret organiza-
ton. They are of the opinion that the
governor proclamation was premature, as
the sheriff power had not been exhausted
at the time of its issue. They say that the
military opened fire on the crowd without
orders from their officers, which resulted
in the death of ten citizens, which they
style as Unauthorized, willful murder. The
whole military operations, from first tc
last, displayed pitiable absence OF train
ing and executive ability. This grand
jury has returned indictments against
nearly 100 persons accused of participation
in the riots, and they will surely meet Will
| prompt and imk artial trials.
Year: 1877

IT is not the quantity eaten that gives
strength, life, blood and health. 1t the
thorough digestion of the food taken, let it
be much or little Therefore, do not
stimulate up the stomach to crave food,
but rather assist digestion after eating, by
taking Simmons Liver Regulator.
Year: 1877

One day last week an alligator was seen
swimming in Sampit river, near tho
wharf Captain David Steele's bull dog
was soon brought forward, and, upon
viewing the enemy, plunged off the wharf
to meet it. The alligator saw what was
up, and made for the dog. While they
approached each other, not sound could
be heard from the spectators, who were
expecting the moment they met to see
the dog submerged, never to rise again !;
but the dog got the first hold, plunged
his ugly teeth in the head OF the ierocious
monster, and caused it to sink. 1t soon
reappeared, looking as fierce as ever.
The dog and the alligator were soon mouth
and mouth. nip and tuck, until it was
thought that the dog had conquered, the
alligator disappearing. The dog, being
exhausted, was then picked up by boat:
The gator, however, soon appeared, and
made for the opposite shore. Several
persons got in boats and pursued him un-
til he got under the wharf, VIXEN one OF
the party fired a pistol, and as soon as
the report was heard, the dog leaped from
the boat and under the wharf. 1t was
nip and tuck again for awhile, but the
dog, soon gaining the advantage, brought
out his foe dead. The reptile measured
five feet and several inches.-Georgeto'0n
Camel
Year: 1877

Once upon an evening bleary,
While sat me dreamy, dreary,
In the sunshine thinking over


Things that passed In days of yore
While nodded, nearly sleeping,
Gently came a something creeping
Up my back like water Ieaping-


Leaping upward from the floor;
otis cooling BREATH" muttered,
" From the regions meath the floor
Only this and nothing mOrel'
All distinctly remember
1t was in that wet September,
. When the earth and every member
OF creation that it bore
Had for days and nights been soaking
In tha meanest, most provoking
FoGgy rains that, without joking,


We had ever seen before;
So knew it must be very


Cold and damp beneath thu floor


Very cold beneath the floor
So sat me nearly mapping
In the sunshine, stretching, gaping,
Craving water. but delighted


With the breeze from meath the floor;
Till 1 found me waiting colder,
And the stretching growing bolder,
And myself growing older


Older than felt before;
Feeling that my joints were sitter


Than they were in days of yore-


Suffer than they'd been before
All along my back the creeping
Soon gave place to rushing, leaping,
As If countless frozen demons


Had concluded to explore
All the cavities-"the varmints"-
'Twixt me and my neither garments,
Up into my hair and downward


Through my boots into the floor;
Then found myself a-shaking,


Gently first, but more and more
Every moment more and more.
Twas the agerw and it shook me
In my very clothes, and took me
Shaking to the kitchefi- every


Place where there was warmth in store;
shaking till the dishes c altered,
Shaking till the tea was spattered,
Shaking, and with all my warming
Feeling colder than before;
Shaking till it had exhausted


All its powers to shake nae more
Till Ii could no. shake me more
Then It rested till the morrow,
Then resumed with all the horror
That it had the face to borrow,


Shaking, shaking as before;
And from that day in September
Day that 1 shall long remember
1t has made diurnal visits,


Shaking, shaking on so sorel
Shaking off my boots, and shaking
Me to bed, if nothing more


Fully this and nothing more!
And to-day the swallows fitting
Round my cottage see me sitting
Moodily within the sunshine


Just inside my silent door
Waiting for the lager" seeming
Like a man forever dreaming;
And the sunlight on me streaming
Throws no shadow on the floor
For / am too thin and ssllow


To make shadows on the floor
Nary shadow any more


Bottom Gazette.
Year: 1877

my hand fervently, and said certain
words that shall not easily forget.


The viaduct was quickly rebuilt.
But the station-master at Ammering
does not forget the race of steam versus
water on the Vigilant locomotive. Nor
do /.
Year: 1877

Is the great blood purifier Syphilis, and re-
moves Fimples and HumOrs the face


Reason should teach that a blOtchy, rough or
pimpled skin depends entirely upon an internal
cause, and outward application can ever cure the
defect.