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Year: 1879

Greenbackers think they are the first to
discover the new road to wealth, but in 1894,
the Greenbackers of England were as en-
thusiastic over their novel idea of a Land
Bank as any Greenbacker of Maine is to-
day over fiat money. To be sure Macaulay
calls them ''incorrigible FOOLS" but perhaps
he was a bloated bondholder ''with rusty
gold dollar in the back of his head and eyes
that shone like toad's in the night" The
proposition was to have National bank to
which the stockholders should pledge their
land and receive it's full value in paper cur
rency, thus doubling their capital and max
ing everybody rich. The projectors said a
gentleman with an income of $500 year
could pledge his estate for $4,000 worth of
stock, receive that amount of paper money,
paying only $50 for interest, and still retain
his estate and income. They treated with
contempt the idea that there could be an
over-issue, when there was piece of land
of equal value behind every note. Perhaps
our s0ft-money friends are wilder now in
thinking that public faith is better security
than mortgaged land. An especially foolish
theory was held that if an income of $1,000 a
year were obtained from manor it could be
safely pledged for hundred years for a
hundred thousand dollars, ignoring the fact
that it would sell for only $4,000. The
scheme was referred to committee in Par
lament, and that committee reported that it
was practicable. But" says Macaulay,
"by this time the united force of demonstra-
ton and derision had begun to produce an
effect even on the most ignorant rustics in
the House. The report lay unnoticed on the
table; and the country was saved from a
calamity compared with which the defeat of
Lander and the loss of the Smyrna fleet
would have been blessings"
Year: 1879

new and very noble picture by Mr.. Fred
erick E. Church was exhibited last night at
the Century club. 1t is o grand composition,
the theme of which is taken from the higher
temperate region of the Andes in Ecuador. and
the sentiment of which is admirably summed
up in the name which the artist has given it
of "Our Lady of the Shows" Upon a lofty
cliff which rises to the right hand in the pic
ture CLEAN rosy-red against the setting sun the
strong tower and the picturesque walls of a
monastery, set off with wonderful power by the
golden and dazzling masses of vast Nevada
or snow-clad mountain beyond. A mighty An
dean chain lit up here and there in the riffs
of the mountains with lines and patches of
snow stretches away to the left under a sky
indescribably lustrous, soft and pure in color


and slopes to deep valley in the foreground
which is as full of GOODNESS and shade as is the
upper heaven of warmth and light. In this,
his latest work, Mr.. Church has treated an en-
tirely new phase of South American landscape.
1t is no longer the tropical plains and still la
gunes of New Grenada, the picturesque and
verdant mountain lands of Jamaica, the desc
lately cleaning grandeurs of the great sierras
or the Columbian Andes which he brings be-
fore US, but the sub-Alpine solitudes as we may
call them, of Ecuador, amid which the piety
of the Conquistadores bade the enduring mon
uments of their faith arise and confront the
eternal SHOWS of the giant Cordillera. This
lonely monastery perched upon the pinnacled
rocks with the shining SHOWS above and around
it and the mountain roadway winding far be-
low through the green valley which it over
looks and guards, speaks like the Grande Cha
treuse among the pine-clad precipices of the
Spaey, "of God and of the SOUL" 1t brings
before us the South America not of the aborig-
ines alone or of tropical nature in her uncon-
trollable luxuriance, but of civilized and Span
ish history. This eyre of the church planted
thousands of feet above the level of the Carrib-
bean and the Pacific and dedicated to "Orr
Lady of the Shows" speaks to the memory and
imagination of every educated man as we'll as
to the eye of the artist and the worshipper of
nature. Though but a single figure is visible
on the great canvas, that of an italian woman
close wrapped in her dark blue rebozo, and
trudging along the winding roadway in a cool
dusky vale, the whole picture is informed with
subtle human interest and significance which
give it special place of its own among the
great landscapes which have earned for Mr..
Church the name and the authority of master
in the art not of this country alone, but of this
century. From the point of view of its tech
nical qualities, much more is to be said of this
remarkable work than we can now attempt to
say. 1t is the property of Mr.. III. B. Hurlbut,
OF Cleveland, who intends, we believe, to send
it at once to that city, but we hope at some fu-
ture and not distant day better opportunity
may be afforded the artists and the amateurs of
New York of studying in detail and enioying
at their leisure picture which must be ranked
with the very finest of Mr.. Church's works.
Year: 1879

may as well take up for refutation the
charge occasionally brought against reporters,
that their reports are colored by personal feel
ings. This is distinctly untrue. The report
er, as a reporter, has no personal feelings. In
so far as the mere writing out of the words of
speaker goes, he is machine. Toward sem
timentS uttered his mental attitude is indiffer-
ence; or if he takes the trouble to differ from
the spirit of the proceedings, his disagreement
does not appear in his report, but takes the
form of a sarcastic comment to a confrere at
the table. 1t would not suit the reporters
purpose to alter in any way the tone of meet
ing; that would be giving himself good deal
of unnecessary labor; and unnecessary labor is
what he is generally most anxious to save him
self. Irish reporters have frequently sustained
this charge; and are still often accused of Civ
ing Catholic coloring to their reports of po-
htlcal or religious meetings. But my own ex-
perience has been that Irishmen are as willing
in their professional capacity, to become the
channels of ultra Professionalism as to give ex-
pressons of the most pronounced Shamrock
hue 1t might, indeed not little disturb the
readers of extreme religious journals were they
to overhear at the reporters table the repre-
sentatives of two mutually hostile sheets ar
ranging with each other for a friendly inter-
change of notes. To condense the whole sub
iect into one sentence no reporter cares but
ton what he reports. 1t is q fond illusion To
suppose that the reporter is an eager politician
posted up in the movements of the session. he
has no political procliyities whatever You
may see the representatives of the fiercest radi-
cal sheet debating his notes to the Reporter of
the Oldest Tory paper. The same man often
works for both, transferring his services from
one to another with no concern save that of
getting the best market for his copv-rrha
University Magazine.
Year: 1879

THE New York San has no doubt it is a
backdown. 1t says that ''Hayes, the Fraud,
towers up in comparison with the cowardly
Democrats of Congressp' He stands up
and vetoes like man, but ''the Democrats,
on the other hand, like a pack of frightened
sheep, abandon the field and run away after
voting the money that is necessary to keep
at the polls the troops they have repeatedly
declared should never be allowed there !!
The end and the net result of the extra ses-
sion is that the Democracy are covered with
disgrace while glory is shed upon Hayes.
What disgusting businessW
Year: 1879

SAYS the Cleveland Plaindedler, Demo-
cratic: perhaps it is not too much to hope
that the idea will yet dawn upon the majori-
ty mind of the Democracy that the part of
wisdom is to drop the financial agitation out
of party issues till it be seen conclusively
how the present settlement works.
Year: 1879

GENERAL GARFIELD declared at the be-
ginning that ''the people of the country
would not permit Democratic Congress to
starve the Government to death any more
than they permitted the Confederate Demo-
Gratis to shoot it to DEATH" The Demo-
cratic Congress believes him now.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publica
ton but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1879

organ at South Bend, TO let his nelghbors
know that man had come to see him, who
considered his dlsmal recolections Of suf-
ficent Importance to print them.


The inhabltants OF South Bend say that
SCHUYLER goes out into his front yard
every evening, and holds his ear TO the
ground for q good half hour to see II he can
hear his country call him, and then walks
sadly back. The way OF tho transgressor s
hard, and on some accounts we pity
SoHuYIKR But justice TO society requires
that he should continue to be secluded and
kept beyond the roach OF temptation.
Year: 1879

The Legislature did not open with its
usual flourish yesterday. Snow blockades had
prevented 30 many members from reaching
Albany that the Republicans postponed the
Speakership caucus. and thus blocked the or
ganization OF the Assembly. There was meet
ing in the old $4,000 Capitol. and then Senate
and lower House trudged over to the new one
OF many millions. and after unimportant cere-
monies. scattered TO plunge anew into the
Speakership contest. The Senate did find time
TO request the States Congress delegation to
oppose the Army Reorganization bill. and to
place on lo Mr.. GoEBEL's plan for changing
New York city's Board OF Education. but too
much was going on outside for the transaction
OF business within.
Year: 1879

OF the bills introduced in Congress yes
terday there is at least one that should not be
suffered to GO through. That the Mare Island
Navy Yard would bear great deal OF improv-
ing is true; but the country isn't rich enough
Just now TO spend 800 600 in improving 1t.
Year: 1879

Drink cayenne pepper tea for cold


The most dreadful thing to put on farm
Is mortgage.


May-weed blossoms put into alcohol
make superior liniment


In case of Ivy poisoning, bathe the parts
in sweet spirits nitre.


Pure air is the most valuable for its cost
of all our necessities.


1t is better to be tenant free from debt
than to own mortgaged farm.


Plenty of light and sun are essential to
all domestlcated animals as food.


For burns bind on moistened baking soda
1t will give prompt and permanent relief


Rub spralns, bruises and lameness with
a paste made of salt and the white of an
egg.


Torestore the elacticity of rubber springs,
bands, ETC., place the rubber bands of
springs in hot water.


He who ministers cruelty to his family or
animals may expect to "be paid off in his
own coin" some day.


A small spoon of molasses added to buck
wheat batter each morning will make the
cakes temptingly brown.


Mixed husbandry is the most profitable,
provided one knows just how to mix it, but
unless there is judgment, experience and
skill in the mixture it will not combine to
profit; but, as chemists say, it will pre-
cipitate. Then stand from under"
Year: 1879

Never betray confidence.


Never leave home with unkind
words.


Never give promises that you do not
fulfill.


Never laugh at the misfortunes of
others.


Never send a present hoping for one
in return.


Never fail to be punctual at the time
appointed.


Never make yourself the hero of your
own story.


Never make much of your own per-
formances.


Never pick the teeth nor clean the
nails in company.


Never fail to give polite answer to
a civil question


Never present gift saying, it is no
use to yourself.


Never call attention to the features
or form of another.


Never read letters which you may
find addressed to others.


Never question a servant or child
about family matters.


Never fail, if gentleman, of being
civil and polite to ladies.


Never refer to gift you have made
or favor you have rendered.


Never associate with bad company,
have good company or none.


Never, when travelling abroad be
over boastful of your own country.


Never look over the shoulder of an
other who is reading or writing.
Never punish your child for a fault
to whi h you are addicted yourself.


Never appear to notice scar, de-
formfty, or defect of any one present.


Never answer questions in general
company, that have been put to others.


Never arrest the attention Of an ac-
quaintance by a touch. Speak to him.
Year: 1879

Here are few good rules worth re-
membering when one has occasion to
select flour for family use. Of course
the color is of prime Importance. Ii it
is white, with a yellowish colored tint,
buy it. If it is white, with BLUSH
coat or with white specks in it, refuse
it. Second examine It's adhesiveness.-
wet and knead little bit of it between
your fingers if it works soft and sticky
1t is poor. Third, throw little lump
OF dried flour against a smooth surface;
if it falls like powder it is bad. Fourth
squeeze some of the flour tightly in
your hand; if it retains the shape CIV
en- by the pressure, that, too, is good
sign. 1t is safe to buy flour that will
stand all these tests,
Year: 1879

One evening at one of the theatres
gentle amused himself by pulling the chairs
from under the people who sat before him.


His victims may not have appreciated the
joke, but the audience did, and their roars
of laughter encouraged the man to perse-
we're. He next blew out all the lights he
could reach, and nobody said him nay.
Then, finding large stove in his way, he
kicked it down. This was considered quite
hit. Finally drawing revolver, he fired
into the crowd, sending ball through the
thigh of a spectator. Turning on his heel
after this, he walked out unmolested into
the street, and was soon lost in the crowd.
Year: 1879

AN ELECTION CONTEST IN ST. LoUIs.-The six
defeated republican candidates Of the upper
house OF the municipal assembly In st. Louis
have served notices OF contest upon the demo-
at the recent election. The grounds OF contest
are generally fraudulent voting, and sDocifi-
cally that the registration OF voters at polls on
also petitioned the council TO appoint q commit
tee OF its old members to investigate the mat
ter
Year: 1879

THE House COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
contemplate moving their committee head
quarters to the rooms now occupied by Clerk
Adams and his chief clerk. The clerks Office Is
be moved into the room now occupied oy the
naval committee, and the naval committee is
10 take the room now assigned to the appropri-
alton committee
Year: 1879

The Feeling as to the Pending Measures.


The Washington Sunday Herald, an authorit
in military matters, expresses this opinion as
to the reorganization Of the army: $50 far as
expressions of army opinion have as yet been
made, they are generally favorable to the At
kins-Hewitt reorganization bill. The staff


who, being here in Washington, are sooner
heard from than the line, favor this bill, as the
retirements in their bureaus compensate the re-
ductions, and in most OF them even furnish
promotion for the senior retired officers The
Burnside bill has been somewhat amended by
It's authors, and the committee will hold 4
special meeting in few days to consider some
additional amendments that have been sue-
gested. There is good authority, however, for
saying that the features which have aroused the
most opposition will not be altered, and the
feeling is general in both Senate and House
that whatever amendments the committee on
reorganization OF the army may make to their
bill cannot prevent lis failure. To show the
feeling in the Senate the Burnside-Banning
BILL the following is related: A Senator de-
sired to pair with some one on the bill should
1t come to vote. His vote would be nav.
and he could find no one who was not Of the
same opinion himself. Senator WadIeigh
confidently expects to pass the bill for the
codification and revision Of the patent laws in
the Senate on Monday OF Tuesday. Senator
Burnside will then call up his army bill, un-
less it should have been taken up in the House.
Year: 1879

Czar Alexander made q noteworthy speech
yesterday in the Kremlin. Gathered around
him were the members of deputation of
Moscow citizens desirous of thanking His
Majesty for graciously deigning to visit, and
sojourn short time in, their historical city.
He spoke words that may be considered
ominous to nihilists. "Anxious only
for the welfare of Russia" he said, II
have placed myself in the hands of
Providence, but sedition must be extir-
pated. I appeal. therefore, to you and all
right-minded people to aid me in the eradi-
cation Of this evil which has taken root in
Russia" With this latest crime the revo-
lutionary party of Russia have destroyed
all sympathy which may still have fingered
for them and their cause outside of
the Empire. At present the attempt
is laid at the doors Of the nihilists, and it
will probably be found that one or more of
their more ignorant followers will be proven
guilty. The latest dispatches show how
narrow was the Cars escape and with
what devilish perseverance the villains at
tempted to accomplish their purpose


Kullmann, Hoedel, Nobiling, Moncasi and
Solovieff were but the products Of diseased
revolutionism. The world will not be the
worse if these latest specimens of would-be
"king killers" are caught and strung up.
Year: 1879

1t would seem that the Clerk of the
Weather has tired of the monotony of turn
ing out the seasons all the one way and has
reversed the crank. While in nearly every
section of the United States the most sum.
mer like weather is being experienced our
friends on the other side of the Atlantic are
enjoying that of mid-winter. The great
snow storms that have swept over the British
Islands had, of course, to pass over us first,
but they did SO as very innocent de-
pressions. 1t will be some time before our
winter comes on, Notwithstanding the fact
that its arrival was officially set down for
the 1st, while theirs descended upon them
in manner that was truly startling. Our
special cablegram from London, printed
to-day, states that the British Meteorologi-
cal Council has espied another storm
approaching. We are glad that it recog-
nized it when the gales began blowing hard
and the barometer to fall rapidly and hope
that it was in the slightest way put on its
guard by the warning sent by the HERALD
Weather Bureau to thee feet that q storm
would arrive on the European coasts
between the Sd and 9Th.
Year: 1879

its blunders in Congress 1t was said of


one of the Roman emperors that he would
have been thought to possess great capacity
for government if he had never reigned.
In like manner the democratic party
was thought fit to legislate until it
was clothed with Legislative power 1t
did no end of foolish things while
it controlled only the House of Representa-
tves; but when by the elections of 1873 it
gained majority of both houses the first
use it made of it's power was to furnish a
notorious demonstration of its unfitness to
possess it. BY reckless blunder it forced
an extra session, as if impatient not to lose
a day in giving the country taste Of its
quality. It's course in the extra session
was an accumulation of blunders, like
Pelion piled upon Ossa and other
mountains upon these in the fabled
war of the giants. The steamer which the
other day butted against an iceberg off
Newfoundland was prudent in comparison.
If, after having it's bows stove in by the
first encounter, it had made two new dashes
against the iceberg, as the democratic Con-
gress rushed thrice in collision with the
Presidents veto, it might have been unable
to put into harbor for repairs The fruit
of the extra session was seen in the late
elections. Whether those blunders can be
retrieved depends on the action of the
party at the present session.
Year: 1879

meeting Of the Worlds Fair Executive Commit
tee held last evening in the Fifth Avenue HOTEL
Mr. Samuel A. Hainos presiding. Reports were pre-
sented from several subcommittee. after which the
reaolution for the holding Of mass meeting came
up and gave rise to long discussion. Sev.
eral gentlemen favored the holding of the
meeting the 22d inst, and motion
to that effect was offered. Rev. Dr. Newman came
forward at this moment and announced that in
answer to- a communication sent by him q SUBJ
committee he had received letter from General
Grant setting forth that he would preside at the
mass meeting any night fixed by tho
committee which would not interfere with
his other engagements. The motion fixing the
date of the meeting thereupon laid on tho
table, and the question was set down for the next
meeting. A committee was appointed to receive
General Grant and escort him to the place of meet
Music The time is not to be later than the last week
In this month. The next meeting will be held next
evening.
Year: 1879

novel sensation to the taxpayers OF New
York A special charter for almost pre-
cisely the same route as this corrupt Alder
manic license comedies was lobbied through
the Legislature of 1874 and refused approval
by Governor Dix, although it purported to
reserve to the city all the earnings of the
road above ten per cent on the capital
stock. Another bill for Chambers street
charter was also vetoed by him in 1878,
if our memory is correct There
certainly is desire for greater facili-
ties of passenger transit across the lower
part of the city, but it is desire
which must be held subordinate to the ne
cessities of existing traffic, and whenever,
if ever, it is satisfied it must be on some
route publicly debated and lawfully ap-
proved, with reasonable fares and with due
compensation to the public treasury for the
franchise.
Year: 1879

for taxes, but as the government
must disburse in expenditures the money
1t receives as revenue the greenbacks
would be perpetually paid out again SO
long as those having dealings with the gov
ernment were willing to receive them.
They could be forced upon nobody, since
they would be a legal tender only to the
government itself, but as their credit would
be perfectly good people would probably
be as willing to receive them as bank notes.
A considerable proportion of them would
be likely to remain in the ordinary channels
of circulation until Congress makes some
provision for final payment and cancella-
tion.


But the passage of Mr.. Bayard's resolu-
ton would be great stride toward none
tary soundness. The banks at present hold
s95, 973. 446 in legal tender notes, and these
would be Immediately laid away in the
Treasury, never to appear again in the
channels of business. This would be an
absolute withdrawal of greenbacks to that
extent. There would remain $3.50, 7O7, $40
of United States notes divested of their





by the willingness of the community to re-
ceive them. Should they depreciate in
value the people would exercise their lib
erty of refusing them. It would doubtless
be better to get rid of them altogether, but
they will be comparatively harmless when
their legal tender claws are extracted.


If the democrats in Congress have any
sense or wisdom they will rally around
Senator Bayard and pass his timely resolu-
tion. 1t would lit the party out of
its ''slough Of despond" and give it, what
it most needs, great affirmative ISSUE We
are glad that Mr.. Bayard has the sagacity
and courage to stake the bull by the horns"
and force this subject upon the considera-
ton of Congress. The most intelligent
part of the country will give him their
warmest encouragement. The democratic
party will throw away great opportunity
if it fails to support this intrepid move
ment Of Senator Bayard and follow him
back to the old and honorable democratic
ground