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Year: 1878

The New York Times has an ar


ticle on gambling at church fairs


which is highly suggestive. 1t vii


be remembered that many good peo


pie insist on raffling and lotteries a
a means of grace The Times is o.
the opinion that more artistic games
would be less Objectionable. We
quote:


There are many methods OF
gambling more worthy of the atten-
ton of cultivated people, than l.
raffiing. For example, there is ron
lette. It's introduction into churcl
fairs would do away with the present
necessity of providing things to be
raffled for which nobody wants,
There is no disguise about roulette ;
no pretext that the player. Instead
of frankly gambling for money. is
merely purchasing worthless articles
in a somewhat usual way. The
PLAYER stakes a small amount OF
money in the hope Of winning larg.
er amount, and the chances of the
game are so numerous and so vari-
ious that it could not fail 20 fascin-
ate the young. No fear need be en-
tertained that the church would lose
money by a run of bad luck at rou-
Iette. The percentage of the game
is heavily on the side of the bank,
and at the end of the evening the
winnings Of the ecclesiastical man
ayers could not fail to be satisfac-
torily large, While the ioulette
wheel should take the place Of raf-
fling in every we'll regulated church
fair, it should also be supplemented
by a rouge ct 2oir table. The chill
dren would undoubtedly patronize
roulette, since it is played with
small stakes, and its revolving wheel
is well adapted to excite the youth
full imagination. Rouge ct noir. On
the other hand, would naturally ap-
peal to the older members of the
congregation. 1t is game that ad-
mits of vast deal of elaborate cal
culation on the part of the player,
who can select his own system and
prosecute it with unfagging hope.
While the chances of the player is
far greater than those of the partic
pant in an ecclesiastical rattle, or
even of the roulette player, the in
evitable recurrence of the refait
gives the bank a percentage against
which no amount of calculation can
win in the long run. If, for example,
the managers of a church fair were
to establish a rouge noir bank,
with capital Of one thousand dol
lars, nights play would probably
yield them profit of at least two
hundred dollars. OF course, an ex-
ceptionally lucky deacon might pos
sibly win three or four hundred dol
lars in one night; but were the fair
to last three successive nights, the
bank would in the end be a large
winner
Year: 1878

1t is far from being always a dis.
advantage to young men that they
should commence life in poverty
In explanation of this, the Examine,
md Chronicle says:


''The worst thing that can hap
pen to young man in college is to
have father or mother so injudici.
Gus as to keep him amply supplied
with poeket-money. It. is fatal to all
stadious habits and in the end gen
orally fatal to good morals. This
is equally the case with a young
man in business whe is made to feel
that to him s'salary Is no object
that a wealthy fathers purse is
always open to his most extravigant
demands. Nothing develops a
young man like fighting his own
way in the world.


Seme spur of necessity. some
bracing air OF adverse surroundings
is needful to most man. If they are
to put forth their whole power.
The rich mans heir, nursed and pet
ted from infancy, and shielded from
battling with the world. aeverafairly
learns TO stand erect and walk alone.
Ifby chance he is stripped of his in
herited wealth, and has to learn TO
give and take hard knocks like 9TH
ers, he generally goes under in the
struggle-At any rate he seldom re.
gains by his OWE efforts the fortune
he has lost.


Nearly all of the wealthy and
effective men of this country are poor
mems sons. Nearly all of the schol
ars, poets. orators. and statemen
are poor mems sons. Wealth has its
advantages, it is true, but, after all
he son of a rich man begins life will
the odds against him. The poor
man son has all the odds in hi.
favor. He must work or starve. He
has nothing to lose, and everything
to gain. The rich mans son has al


ale a.it assat3e eaEE
Year: 1878

What the goose-bone says in re-
spect to the weather is important, if
true. But whether true or not. it has
an opinion and is thus expressed in
the Louisville Commercial of the
7th: ~ 3"


"This year eur goose has insisted
upon taking its own time getting
fat, and numerous letters have been
received from differeAt parts of the
country inqairing after our little
prophet. but until our goose got fat
and offered up its life as a sacrifice
to science there was no change for a
consultation. A study of its mete-
rological cOIOring indicates that we
are to have q severe winter. There
Is some cold weather about the first
of December, which we are now
realizing. but it will net last long,
and the next week or two will be
more pleasant, with the prospects
good for fair Christmas weather; al
together December will not be very
cold month. but what it lacks will
be fully made up in January. The
new year will probably be welcomed
by bright weather, but the welcome
will he brief, and we will have cold
weather before the middle of the
month, which will continue, with the
interspersion of a few bright days,
and running. at the last of the month,
into the most severe weather we
have had for years. February will
be cold, clustering month, and win
ter will no doubt 60 good way along
with spring, carrying. cold weather
snow into March. Those who take
stock in the goose bone will lay in
their fuel and keep plenty of warm
clothing about the house, as
the little prophet predicts . loag
winter. and some very severe wealth
or in Januaryi according to it. we
will have long spell Of cold wealth
er during the fret tWo months OF the
new year,
Year: 1878

A lady at summer resort, whose
unruly children annoyed everybody
in the heteI, the other day said to a
noted teacher sitting near her at the
table: I" Professor, do you believe
in the use Of the rod in the manage
ment of childrenT The professor
glared at her annoying children, and
grimly replied: Sometimes, mad
am but there are cases where /
should prefer the revolver r.
Year: 1878

THE New York Times concisely expresses
the situation when it remarks that the sec
immediate cause is thing apart from the
issue which received its quietus at the hands
of the Hayes administration. 1t is not the
North against the South; it is the South
in unprovoked antagonism to the federal Law
and authority, to the rights of a large proper
tion of its own citizens, and to the instinc-
tive sense Of freedom and justice which in
this controversy the North expresses.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations. The and address Of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
muncations that are not used,
Year: 1878

The New York Sun has discovered that
the negroes of South Carolina are seriously
minded to petition Congress to distranchise
them. As they are not permitted to exercise
the right of suffrage they do not care to add
TO Democratic Congressional strength.
Year: 1878

Mr.. HALE's reply to Fernando Wood We'd
nesday was sharp retort. He reminded the
Democratic side of the House that British
Ministry had been often hurled from power
for permitting the violation of the rights of a
single British subject, either at home or
abroad, and yet the President was blamed be-
cause he called attention to the fact that
thousands of American citizens had been de-
prived of their rights. The question would
not and should not be allowed to be put down
in that way. The President had honestly
and earnestly done, in the direction of concil-
iatlon, what many of his party friends be-
lieved unjust in Withdrawing the troops from
the South, but in which others of his party
friends sustained him, and on the heels of it
there had taken place in South Carolina and
Florida and other Southern States what the
President had called the attention of Con-
gress to. He would tell the gentleman that
on the great fundamental doctrine of the pro-
lection of the citizen in all his rights there
was no Radical or Conservative wing in the
Republican party, but there was one party in
the land united to man on the proposition
that the American citizen, North, South, and
everywhere, should be protected in the exer-
else Of his constitutional rights.
Year: 1878

An admirer of Ingerson got hold of that
paragraph in which 1t is related how Bob keeps
pocketbook in drawer where his children
can go and get what money they want at any
time, and he read it at the supper table to his
wife and children and told how much he sd.
mlred the man for it. The next morning when
ne woke up he discovered his youngest boy
going through" his pantaloons pockets.
what are you doing there, young man?' he
exclaimed in voice of thunder "Why, pa
replied the youngster, 81 couldn't find your
pocketbook in any of the drawers, and
thought you must have forgot to lay 1t out"
Theory is one thing and practice another.
Year: 1878

Boston Transcript: It is astonishing what
whopping lies young folks will give and take
during courtship. The trouble with a good
many marriages is that the parties quit lying
when they enter matrimony
Year: 1878

matter are so numerous that the Secretary finds
II impossible to reply in detail to each inquirer.
De has ID consequence had photographs made.
both OF the compound interest notes which
have been redeemed with greenbacks, and the
l-5O ponds which never went into circulation,
in order that the difference NAV be seen by
comparing the two. The former is the once fa-
miliar note bearing in broad gilt letters across
its face Compound interest,"" The other il an
unwieldy coupon bond, three times the size Of
an ordinary bank bill, and which very few peo-
pie who have not themselves bought Govern
ment bonds as an investment will remember
ever to have seen. The 1908 were never made
legal tender.
Year: 1878

The Treasury Department, which, like
other great bodies, is not especially strong
in the matter of agility. seems to have at last
comp-ehended the fact that it ought to rem
der more efficient aid than it has yet done in
correcting from official sources the popular
errors in regard to the real character of the
now retired issues of short term loans. A
Washington special to the New York Tribune
says:


The fact is, the 1905 never did and never
were intended to enter into circulation.
The letters making inquiry with regard to this
Year: 1878

THE depredations of the Indians north and
east of Denver and south of the Union Pa.
ciic railroad are of a very serious and alarm
ing character. They are numbering ranch.
men and slaughtering stock in the most
wanton and reckless manner. Great excite.
ment prevails at Denver and it is thought
that the militia of the whole State will need
to be ordered out to drive back the savages.
No murderous raid of the kind so near large
white settlements has taken place before in a
number of years,
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The anne and address Of the writer are in
ell cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty OF good faith


We cannot undertake to return or preserve com
munications that are not used
Year: 1878

The warm weather and the yellow fever
hold out together,a and seem likely to continue
until far into November at the Southwest.
There does not as yet appear to be any sign
of an abatement of the fever or the approach
Of cold weather. Under such circumstances
au importance has been given to the State
elections in Louisiana and Mississippi, by the
flight, sickness and death of so vast num-
Der of the population of the afflicted districts.
The terrorism cf yellow fever exceeds that of
the. White League.
Year: 1878

You remember that powerful steam blower
in Machinery Hall, nelr the wassr works at
the Centennial?-a blow which sent forth
volume of wind strong enough to blow the hair
off a'bald headed woman if she didn't have it
fastened on with gross or two of hsirpins?
Well, it is now believed that that blower was
Dennis Kearney in disguise
Year: 1878

What to him was love or hope? What to him was


joy or care?
He stepped pug Of foap the girl had left on the


topmost stair.
And his feet few out like wild, fierce things,
Aud he struck each stair with sound like drum;
And the girl below, with the scrubbrng things,
Laughed like fiend to see him come,
Year: 1878

We have often wondered why the god Pan
always wore the legs of a goat when he was in
full dress, but we suppose that it was so that he
could stand on his head and thus thoroughly
gun came down the block, looking for the m an
who was playing the fute.- Burlington
Hawkeye.
Year: 1878

Superintendent Fuller Of the Detective
Bureau. at s41 Broadway. says that he has afi-
davits charging prominent physician In this
city with being implicated in the case OF Miss
Bush. who lived In Forty eighth street. between
Eighth and Ninth avenues. and who died from
the effects Of an alleged malpractice on the 9th
OF last month. DR.. John T. Magic. Register OF
Vital Statistics. says that person OF this name
died at that time and the residents OF the neig-
borhood are equally In the durk as TO Miss
Bush's identity. Superintendent Waling who
Is said to be associated with Superintendent
Fuller. declined 10 give any information last
evening. and ntimated that the affair had been
greatly exaggerated.


The complainant against the physician is
said 70 be lady moving In good society. She
was betrayed by a gentleman to whom she was
engaged, and subsequently fell into the hands
Of the physician and woman who acted as
his confederate. She was taken TO a private
lying-in asylum. and there became cognizant
ot the alleged malpractice in the case OF Miss
Bush, Detective Fuller positively refuses to
give the name Of the physician or OF the woman
who makes the charges. saying that the case is
still incomplete and that the publication Of the
facts would defeat the ends OF justice
Year: 1878

Commissioner Belts began the examination
yesterday ordered by Judge Bachtord OF persons who
were arrested by order OF Commissioner Davenport
the time OF the ate election very brief inve
IN the Of Archibald Robbins who was accused Of
illegal registration from III Thompson showed not
only that he had not registered from that place but


e was legal voter registered IN another district and
that his residence well known tu respectable


sesseA In the ease Of James Williams II was shown that
ne was not r.ssred from either mat place other


Accordingly the District Attorney consented that the
men should W discharged from Ludlow street Jail in
which they hats been confined since election day Rob.
Year: 1878

Persons who have become thoroughly
chilled from any cause. may have their
circulation at once restored by taking In
tothe stomach a teaspoonful OF Johnson's
Anodyne Liniment. mixed In a little cold
water. we'll sweetsred.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, jan. 15.-The Vice Presi-
dent has laid before the Senate resolutions
adopted by the Union League Club of New
York city at its annual meeting on the 10th
inst, opposing any legislation which will
tend to postpone the resum ption of specie
payments and the coinage of silver to an
unlimited extent.
Year: 1878

1t is astonishing to the earnest
thinker to discover, as he looks
about him, how vast a mass Of posi-
tive ignorance prevails, where he
had lancied there must be clear and
perfect knowledge.


We hear much said about the
proportion of certain populations
that can read and write, and the
proficiency of some in the multi
plication table thrust before us as
an evidence of high progress. But
who comes forward to show us how
much his pupils know Of hygienic
principles, and of the laws Of light,
heat, cold, ventilation, and proper
food and clothingI


The air we breathe is the first
absolutely essential requirement Of
existence. BY respiration we live,
and by wholesome respiration only
can we live in health and have the
full use Of eur mental and physical
faculties. Yet, it is only necessary
to enter at random almost any ont
Of our churches, schools, Offices
public eonveyances or places o
general resOrt-tO look at the con
Year: 1878

groups here and there. The Tory
newspapers had made much Of it
beforehand, and evidently it was
meant to be a kind of demonstra-
ton; but a hundred Or two people
were all who came, and they sup
pressed their enthusiasm, if they
had any, with consummate self-con-
troll. | have not seen all the papers
to-day, and cannot say what they
make of this miserable fiasco; but
as the Quarterly Review recently
said the queen received three cheers
lately at u Willis Room dinner,
when l happen to know there was
no cheer at sll, it may be we shall
bear Of tremendous things at Al
dershot.
Year: 1878

Train up child in the way that he
shall go, and it may turn out that
way in the long run, but all the precept
and example ever promulgated can't
save him from the sheepish, awkward
feeling sure to seize him when be goes
sparkling the first time.
Year: 1878

"lF the fool-hiller were 10 visit this
country now, it is a question whether
there would be enough left to bury the
dead. d."-E. b. and Com.


II the aforesaid individual is not Il
myth and would visit the corner of Fifth
and Market and take off the President of
the ''fools' organ, it is very likely that
the balance OF the company would shed
fewer tears than are now being shed by
them over the defeat OF the single gold
standard shams.
Year: 1878

The Wilmington (Del) Republican
says: On Saturday last decrepid old
colored man came into the Farmers
Bank, of Delaware, and surprised the
officers by handing them a rusty old
bag in which was about eleven hundred
dollars in specie, six hundred dollars
being in gold chiefly and the balance
in silver. The bag of course was heavy,
and although the colored man who
brought it was known as a regular de-
positor at the bank of money in notes,
from time to time some surprise was
manifested that he should have brought
so much specie at one time. In answer
to interrogations the colored man said
he lived near the canal between Sum-
init Bridge and Kirkwood, he was now
somewhere between seventy and ninety
years old, and that he had worked on
the canal ever since he was young
man, and that he had been saving up
his money for great number of years
he could not tell how many, and that
the only place he had for its secretion
was up an old chimney. Some of the
silver gave evidence of the truth of wha
| the old gentleman said, for it was blacl
and smoked, and had evidently lain {
long time in one position without ever
having been turned over. He was asked
why he had not sold the gold when il
was bringing such high price during
the war, but he expressed surprise t.
think that it had ever been worth NOR,
than dollar, and could not see why on
dollar should be worth more than an
other. Under the direction of Mr.. Rob
inson, the cashier, the colored man ,ol
his six hundred dollars in gold up t,


Robinson & Co., where he sold it for on,
per cent. premium, which it was bring
ing, after which lie made full deposi


at the Farmers Bank.
Year: 1878

HENRY H. ERB, of Lancaster, Pa, re-
Gently closed up his store and his house
and withdrew with his family from all
intercourse with the world. The neigh
bors became suspicious that something
was wrong, as Erb's children could be
heard crying bitterly, and Erb himself
was not known to buy any food. Two
officers effected an entrance into the
premises by crawling through back
window. The house was found to be in
most wretched condition. All the
furniture had been sold, there was no
fire, and the three girls and two boys
were crying with hunger and shivering
in rags, while the mother crouched in a
corner. Erb explained that spirit had
appeared to him and directed him and
his family to fast for five days, at the
end of which period a most wonderful
event would occur in his house, at which
the whole world would be present. He
ordered his children not to accept the
food offered them, and the mother, who
seemed to be entirely under the influence
of her husband, also refused to eat any


thing. The children were clothed and
made to take nourishment, and the wo
man was at length reused from hel
apathy by some very vigorous talk.
Year: 1878

A MOST unfortunate man, resident
of Murray County, Ga, has, since the
war, accidentally killed five men. The
first was slain by an AK slipping from his
hand and striking the victim on the
head; the second he drowned by snag-
ging and sinking boat in which the
pair were crossing stream; the third
was shot through the brain, being mis-
taken for turkey; the fourth was
killed by tree he had chopped down,
and the fifth was killed at a log rolling.
He was put on trial for his life on sew
eral occasions, but each time was ex-
onerated from all blame. He is peace
able, law abiding man, simply the. vic
tim of chain of unhappy circum.
stances.
Year: 1878

AN English writer calls attention to
the fact that the failure of the potato in
Ireland in 1916 gave an almost new
population TO the United States and to
the British colonies. This writer thinks
that If the millions of men oppressed by
famine in China are not debarred from
migration a great many of them will
seek the United States.
Year: 1878

WHEN the telephone comes into
general use there will be considerable
more pleasure and safety in telling a
man he lies, than is obtained under the
present constrained and inconvenient
| system.
Year: 1878

Information had been received by Col
Black that Mr. Clark, engineer in charge
OF the surveying party sent out recently
by the N. p. r. r. Company to examine
the Packwood Pass, that the pass was
found to he all right and perfectly prac-
ticable for railroad route across the
mountains; whereat the Tacoulaites re-
joice exceedingly
Year: 1878

1t is a suggestive fact that the White
House Fraud has not a single upholder 10
the New York daily press unless it be
the Eremang Post. which just now amounts
to very little politically.
Year: 1878

Senator Sherman says he has not de-
cided to announce the resumption of specie
payments in advance of the first of January
next, the time fixed by law. He says, howev-
er, resumption may come before that time by
natural causes, or when the premium on
specie shall disappear that We are now ap'
preaching the point; and that 1t is the duty OF
the government to employ all legitimate
means to procure such result. The coin
balance in the treasury is about two hundred
million and steadily increasing, as there is no
idea the balance will fall below the present
figure this, with the present low premium on
gold form the basis Of the general anticipa-
ton here that resumption will occur before
the first of Jannary.