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Year: 1879

THE GAIN OF CONFINEMENT WITH GOODNESS


SERMON BY REV. DR.. BUCKLEY.


very large congregation gathered in Hanson
Place Methodist Episcopal Church, Brooklyn. to
listen to discussion by the Rev. DR.. Buckley of the
rich mans philosophy and the poor mans wis
dom, with observations on the career of the
late Daniel Drew. The subject broad
and comprehensive and was based on
the familiar text:-"Godliness with contentment
is great gain" He analyzed godliness
aud found that it contained such elements love
God, right thoughts about and right words
ing God and obedience to the Divine law. He ana
lyzed conentment and found that it consists solely
of voluntary acquiescence In the circumstances of
the present. He showed that contentment differed
from Indifference and wherein it so differed, gave
apt illustrations OF the existence of godlness
and discomfort in the nature, and
also OF contentment without goodness which
is seen in the qualification of the merely
animal passions and appettes. He demonstrated,
too. that there contented rich men and
tented poor men, both with without godliness.
And he had known some Of both kinds. Applying
these principles involved in the text to the Of
the late Daniel Drew, DR.. Buckley said that every
one knows that that man was engaged in making
money by methods that contrary to the text and
to the discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church
and to the law Of the land. And yet he had no
doubt that at times Drew thought he right.
But he was not educated, and had one to tell him
that his methods were wrong. But between Drew,
who died poor and Vanderbilt, who died rich 1t is
hard to choose.
Year: 1879

1t is not the general custom to use
napkins at luncheon in England, al
though at great houses luncheon is in
reality a small dinner--as it may well
be when sta muckle dinner hersel !" is
at o'clock, and on great occasions at
8. An American lady was visiting at
one Of the houses, where she found the
usual absence of the napkin at midday.
She knew her hostess SO well that she
could venture to ask her why it was
that napkins were not used at lunch
con. Her grace (for she was duchess)
replied simply and briefly that it was
"not the CUSTOM" and with an air that
signiied that that settled the question.
But her guest had taken luncheon With
the Queen more than once at Balmoral,
and there she had found napkins. This
she told her friend as sort of justlfca-
ton CT her inquiry. "Indeed !" said
the duchess. "The Queen had better
be careful. She will make herself un-
popular If she undertakes to change the
custom of the country" The Philis-
tinism of John Bull does not even stop
short of napkins.
Year: 1879

sit Anl rock beside my cottage window;
My baby boy is lying on my knee
His tiny hand clasped close about my finger
His wistful hazel eyes regarding me;
Outside among the cherry trees thicl


branches,


There sings a robin with a crimson breast I;
| hear her song and guess it's tender meaning
She has two little eggs within her nest
The summer days are blossoming around us,
And every heart is filled with summers JOY
l wander slowly through the sunny garden,
And by my side totters the baby boy.
Gay sings the robin in the tree above us,
The mother-rapture thrilling all her song;
And tw ttering answers from her two brown


brdlings


Fill the soft air with music all day long.
Autumn has come the crimson leaves are fall


ing,


And golden leaves are flying here and there
The cherry tree is stripped Of half its beauty
And stretches out its branches brown and


bare.


Robin sits lonely mid the autumn splendor,
And my heart echoes to her plaintive moan.
This is the end Of the sweet summer story:
Our nests are empty, and our birds have


flown.
Year: 1879

From Cucharas the main line Of the
Rio Grande road strikes directly for the
mountains and crosses the Sangre de
Christie range. As we go bounding
over the plains toward the pass, the
Spanish Peaks, two giant twin noun
tains, stand ont in all their majesty to
our left. Both of them lift their heads
above timber line, the one being II, ,720
feet. and the other 13 620 feet high. At
the Mexican town of La Veta we COM
menced the up grade. From this point
heavier engine, built expressly for
mountain climbing, takes our train. In
the next fourteen miles we must mount
up on our "trail" Of steel, 2,400 feet,
and then sweep down the other side of
the mountain into the Rio Grande Val
lev. At Ojo the tremendous climb
really commences. From here the
grade is sleeper and sleeper, and our
speed slower and more cautious. First
we mount up the steep side of Veta
Mountain, the towering summit Of
which we have to lean out of our car
window to see. Higher and higher
climbs the train, sleeper and sleeper
grows the grade until there is rise OF
2l7 feet to the mile. Our brave little
engine, with sinews of steel and breath


of fire, and voice of thunder, pufls and
pulls as if in agony. Now we begin TO
climb the Mule Shoe Bend. We are on


one end of it. Look yonder across the
narrow deep valley to our left. Do
You see that road looking like a little
rocky shelf running up the rocky
mountain side? That is the other end
of the ''shoe." 1t is hundreds of feet
above MS, but our train will be up there
half an hour hence. What shoe. Over
mile long on each side, and one end
500 feet above the other. And what
must the mule have been? Slowly up
and up we go, dodging the precipices,
and swinging around the mountain
curves. in the steady pull, until we
reach the toe of our great shoe. Here
we swing around from the Veta to the
Dump Mountain, on the sharpest curve
known in railroad building. Still up
and up we climb on the tremendous
grade, as if it were in balloon instead
of n railroad train. At last the dizzy
height of Inspiration Point is reached.
GLOW magnifcentw shouts fellow
traveller. GLOW lovely = says another,
''How frightful" " whispers third,and
no wonder. This is the Dump Of Dump
Mountain, the "CaDe>> Horn" Of the
pass. We are swinging round the brow
of the promontOry, and from our car
windows we can look over the verge of
the precipice into the abyss below, and
off upon a scene magnificent beyond de
scription. The valley up which we
started, the Veta Mountain, along
which, hundreds of feet below us, we
can trace our track, the Spanish peaks
looking more majestic than ever from
this lofty standpoint, and the stplain
on the bosom of which nestles little
Veta; all together form one Of the
gIandest panoramas this earth affords.
"This must be the summit" No, we
Year: 1879

of bark or rushes and then slowed away
out of reach of children or dogs till


winter. 81 have never" says Mr.


Lord, "seen any fish half as fat and a:
good for Arctic winter food as these
little candle-fsh. 1t is next TO impos-
sible to fry or brOil them, for they
melt completely into OIL" They are SO
maryelously fat that the natives use
them as lamps for lightning their LODI
ges. For this purpose the dried fish is
perforated from head TO tail by a piece
of rushpith by means of long needle
made of hard wood. The wick is then
lighted, and the fish burns steadily,
with a sufficiently good light to read
by. The candlestick is a bit of wood
split at one end, with the fish inserted


II the cleft. When by heat and pres
sure these little fishes are transformed
into liquid oil, and the Indian drinks
them instead of burning them, he sup
plies his own body with a highly car
bonaceous fuel, which is burned slowly
in his lungs and keeps up his animal
heat. without full supply of some
such food, he would perish in the cold
of & long northern winter. When 1t
sufficient supply of the fish has been
dried and ut by for the winters food,
the remainder is piled in heaps till the
fishes are partly decomposed, for the
purpose of being converted into oil.
The method of extracting the oil is We
ry primitive. Five or six large fires
are made, and in each fire are a number
of large round pebbles, to be made very
hot. BY each fire are four large square
boxes, made of the wood of the pine.
A squaw piles in each box layer of
fish. covers them with cold water, and
adds five or six of the heated stones.
When the steam has cleared away small
pieces of wood are laid on the stones
then more fish, more water, more
stones, and more layers of wood, and so
on, until the box is filled. The oil
maker now takes the liquid from this
box, and proceeds to fill another box,
using this oily liquid for the second box
in place of water. From the surface of
the contents of this box, the floating oil


s skinned off. One very small tribe
often makes as much as seven hundred
weight of oil. Not only is an abun-
dance of oil supplied by nature, but the
bottles to store it away in are actually
provided. The great seawrack grows
to an enormous size in these northern
seas, and has a hollow stalk, expanded
at the root end into a complete flask.
These hollow stalks are cut at a length
of about three feet from the terminal
bulb, and are kept wet and flexible till
required. The oil as it is obtained is
stored away in these natural bottles,
which hold from a quart to three pints
Year: 1879

Philip Anderson, of Philadelphia, one
Of the workmen at the new Court
House, met with slight accident at
tho latter place, yesterday morning
about ll.3O. A large stone was being
raised, and Anderson had the guy rope
tied around his body. The shears gave
way and Anderson was thrown violent
ly to the ground, receiving what was
at first supposed to be serious injury
to his spine. DR.. Ogle had him sent
to the City Hospital, and attended to
his injuries last evening. This morn
ing DR.. G. Troupe Maxwell, the regular
physician, informed us that beyond a
few bruises the man was all right and
would be able to resume work shortly.
Year: 1879

MEssRs. EDITORS We commend the
REPUBLICAN for all it has to say about
the war against unregistered dogs. But
do you remember that registering dog
will not prevent him from being bitten
and going mad and doing the greatest
amount of mischief. Rather let the cry
be death to all dogs found on the street
unaccompanied by, and under.control of
their masters. If the master will run
the risk he ought not to have the right
to subject the community to it.


Yours for ExTERMINATIoN.
WILMINGTON, Oct. IA, 10.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, May 25.-The Subsi-
diary Silver bill which passed the House
some weeks ago is now before the Senate
in the morning hour. 1t will undoubt-
edly pass, although there is some opposi-
tion to it, led by Mr.. Edmunds, on the
ground that it is not the duty OF the Gov
ernment to redeem its coin as is provided
for by this bill. The Warner bill has
gone to the Finance Committee, where
II will probably lie until next winter.
There is some doubt as the standing of
the committee on the subject of free
coinage. There are only three opponents
of 1t who can be relied upon, Bayard,
Herman and Morrill,. Wallace, Voorhees,
and Beck are pronounced friends Of the
measure, while Ferry and Allison are
doubtful. Jones Is out Of town.


The two doubtful men therefore will
decide whether the bill shall be report ed
back at The present session, and it is ex-
pected that to this extent at least they
will act with the hard-money men. This
afternoon in the conference of House
Democrats General Ewing expressed
himself very strongly in favor of waiting
| for veto of the Warner bill, but the
prospect is that he will not be gratified.
Year: 1879

A rumor was current last evening in
New Castle, to the effect that steam
ship had sunk, during the afternoon, in
the Delaware river, about the vicinity of
Fort Delaware. A visit to James Gegan
telegraph operator and marine reporter,
at New Castle, this morning, revealed
the fact that the rumor was wholly with
out foundation.


The old Creedmoor Cutter was taken
to one Of the Jersey landings, above
Chester, yesterday afternoon, by tug,
and sunk, and it is likely this gave rise
to the rumor. All on board were got
ashore.
Year: 1879

Six freight cars loaded with the dis
jointed parts OF an iron bridge for the
Kansas Pacific railroad passed north
ward over the p. w. & B. road last even
ing from the works of the Edgemoor
Iron Company.
Year: 1879

Sir Leonard Tilley, the Finance Min
lister OF the Dominion, spent part of last
week in visiting the manufacturing estab-
lshments OF Western Ontario, with view
tojudge of the effect of the new protective
tariff. He was entertained at large ban
quet in the city OF Guelph and made long
and rather jubilant speech extolling the
benefits of the new national policy"
With the craft of O politician he
claimed for the new government all the
credit of the recent revival of prosperity.
although it is due in fact to the abundant
crops of the last season and the large ex-
port demand-to the same causes, in fact.
as the business revival in the United States


We do not think of attributing our prosper
ity 20 our protective tariff, tor We had the
same protective tariff during our long years
of depression. The Canadian tariff was
passed only last February, and it's effects,
for good or for evil, can be but
partially developed in so short time BY
fortunate coincidence a magnificent
harvest and large foreign demand followed
the enactment of the tariff law, and tho
Finance Minister exclaims, 'Behold the
benefcence of protection r Of course the
Canadian manufacturers share this pros
perity, for the prices which the farmers
receive for their products enable them to
make liberal purchases. But if, next year,
the season should be unpropitious and the
crops scanty, the farmers, having little to
sell, will complain bitterly of the high
prices they will be compelled to pay for
protected goods, and the manufacturers
will find great falling off in their sales.


The Canadian market is not large enough
for manufacturing industry to flourish.
Manufactures must be on an extensive
scale if their products are to be cheap,
since small establishments cannot practice
the economies of large ones. Canada as q
manufacturing country will be what New
England would be if shut out from the
other markets of the United States.
Year: 1879

Any combination OF. the great steamship
companies made to protect their interests
in the harbor against what they may deem
excessive charges or an improperly exer-
cised authority is power which we APP
prehend the pilots will find 1t difficult to
resist. It must he remembered that all our
pilot laws are State laws, and that the au-
thority of the State over this subject stands
only upon sufferance-may be all brushed


away any day by a law of Congress. Sooner
or later the appeal of a great foreign
commerce to be freed from vexa-
tious local laws and to have its
rights protected by national authority is
sure to make itself felt at Washington.
For many years these same companies sub
mitted quietly to the Board Of Emigration-
State authority which imposed upon them
regular head money tax for the emigrants
they landed here. An appeal to the Supreme
Court Of the United States did away with
that particular case of State imposition
upon foreign commerce and as the pilot
Year: 1879

is made to overcome the Irish difficulty
the moment it reaches a point at which
the government can deal with it by means


projects are on foot for peaceful remedies.
Government, it is said. will literally loan
money for the improvement. OF estates,
in order that this money may be laid out
in the employment of laborers in ''dis-
tressed DISTRICTS" device not unknown
to Tammany Hall, which in its palmy days
could put many thousand laborers on
the payroll for few weeks before
election day. Public money, it is further
reported, will be supplied to assist emigra-
ton. Emigration is a good safety valve at
all times, but the appearances are that the
demands OF the Irish people have reached
a higher point than either of these remedies
the government must do to placate their
discontents have grown within recent years
until they are beyond the recognition of
English statesmen. Beaconsfield discourses
the smooth commonplaces of the "blarney"
style over "our brilliant brethren" and
an "imaginative race" of people, regrets
that they are not as contented and
submissive as the English people are, and
assures them that if they really come to
the starvation point England will always
spare them q copper and crust for
charity's sake and at the same time the
Irish demand neither crust nor q copper,
but such q revision Of the relation of the
people to the law as will abolish privileged
classes. AS this strikes at the British con-
stitution it reaches too far, but the de-
mand and the proposed satisfaction con-
sidered together show how futile must be
any effort of the government to suppress
the discomfort
Year: 1879

The MOTHER of the ex-Empress Eugenie and
also of the Duchess of Alba died yesterday at
Madrid, where at one time she was leader of
society. With the memory of 80 much worldly
honor and success it would seem that she should
have died happy, but probably the longing for
the daughter who was hurrying toward her from
Chiselhurst, yet arrived too late, Obliterated
every other thought from her mind
Year: 1879

tax is found oppressive its history is likely
to prove the same, though here the appeal
of commerce must be to Congress, as the
pilot laws are enforced with the declared
consent of the national legislature.
Year: 1879

REALLY THIS Is EMBARRASSING. A preacher
yesterday alluded in feeling terms to what he
called the "HERALD Pulpit"-meaning the col
umn in which we occasionally mention persons
deserving charitable assistance. We have never
had the slightest intention of assuming any of
the duties of the pulpit; but when members of
the HERALD staff discover needy persons whom
the Church has overlooked it would be cruel
not to inform the charitable public, which will
always find the cases exactly as described.
Year: 1879

Irishmen resident here was much smaller
90 into Parliament with solidity equal to
what it has SO often shown here both
tories and liberals would have to bargain
with it for the passage Of any cherished
measure of their own. In the next British
Parliament the division Of parties will al
most certainly be at q point which will
afford chance for a united Irish represen-
tation acting with either party to defeat
every measure of the other. Liberals can
be defeated If the Irish act with the tories,
and tories if they act with the liberals;
and the purposes of tories and liberals are
so widely ut variance, they are separated
by SO much of party passion, that the like
lhood of their being able to agree long
enough to slaughter an Irish party is
very remote. Success for the present Irish
demands is therefore very likely to turn on
the points whether the leaders can keep
their men together in Ireland and make the
agitation hot enough to compel strictly
patriotic canvass and the return of men,
bers OF known fidelity to the common pur-
pose; and this, again, turns on their power
to keep the agitation within constitutional
and lawful limits: Any government like
that OF England would be glad enough ii it
could get an opposition like this committed
to the unmistakable ground of open revolt
and SO disperse it with musketry, and it
can only do this if the leaders lose their
heads.


Abundant preparation, It will be noted,
Year: 1879

Whatever there is of conservatism and whatever there is of radicalism in Connecticut

 finally united- to smash the amendments. When they passed the present House, with only the opposition of single Greenbacker in that body, and the Senate with only the mega tive vote of the Hartford Senator, the adoption by the people seemed foregone conclusion. At first the opposition came merely from what the Springfield Republican terms the "hunker- Ism" of Connecticut-the 0is t11ertiR Of one of the most conservative communities in the world Most of us radicals were led to favor advantages that would certainly have sprung from it's adoption.

 Gradually, however, radicalism has come to see that biennial sessions would be hindrance to reform. Those who want equal representa- ton, woman suffrage, and government by the people rather than an autocracy of rich men, need frequent sessions of legislature, leading up finally to constitutional convention. We desire radical changes in laws and constitution, and here is a device which doublesthe difficult ty of change.

 There is. another radical interest which had a considerable effect upon the fortunes of the biennial amendment. The people are waking up, here as elsewhere, to the necessity of some regulation of railroad management by law. IncJ DfonnIa1 I.--e-. nirnnlv a measure of obstruction slyly put forward by the monopolists.

 Whatever may have been the reasons of this opposition: of radicalism and conserva- tsm united, the result has been simply over- whelming. By majority of two to one, on full discussion and a full vote the amendments are crushed out of existence. Now let us push on to the real reforms the state needs, remem- be:ing that the culmination of all op- efforts must come in the calling of constitutional convention
Year: 1879

California seems to have as good a voting system as any state in the Union Liquor sa- looms are shut on election days. There is very perfect registration law and an absolutely secret ballot is secured. All the ballots are printed at state expense and are exactly alike, save in the names of the candidates. Before their deposit in the boxes they must be folded in certain was, and no person other than the voter and the officers of the law are allowed within 100 feet of the polls. %' AZ.
Year: 1879

The difficulty still continues in New York between the Tilden and anti-Tilden factions. Three Police Commissioners have been ordered by the Mayor to show cause why they should not be removed. A batch of appointees by the Mayor have also been promptly rejected by the Aldermen. '"a
Year: 1879

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 WE have established agency in this place for the sale of garments to be made from measure. We have supplied the most liberal iine of samples We have instructed agents to guarantee to each cus- toner perfect fit, and to warrant the colors and qualities of every sample shown. In this way we are represented in nearly every city and town in New England and the purpose of this notice to assure those to whom the method of business is new that tey mag apply to oasasents UitA muck oonadenee as they seOd to We hold ourselves personally re- sponsbe for the exact fulflment of every contract The price of each article is plainly printed on every sample card and will be found to correspond with the prices asked st our place of business in Boston We should be glad if you would favor our agents with liberal orders. remembering that the entire risk and responsibility is ours. Suits are sent with privilege of examining, and one is asked to keen anything that is not perfectly satisfactory. ,l.

 c. w. SIMMONS & SON.

 COAX HALL,. BOSTON.

 eea 27-4t ;.4.!l .su .
Year: 1879

The death Of Mrs Sabina r. Nudge of
Maine, was melancholy in the extreme
Previous to the death of her husband
who was killed in the war of the rebellion
she was in attluent circumstances, ard
moved in the first circles, but being sub
sequently in reduced circumstances she
was obliged to resort to employment be-


low her former station. She found in
Brunswick and Bath, such employment
and being high spirited and proud lady
entered into it under an assumed name
yet was obliged to draw her pension by
her true name from the agent at Concord,
n. H., She forwarded her usual voucher
for the December payment, and soon af-
ter was surprised to hear that her pension
was stopped and that Il government de-
tcctlye was upon her track because Of her
living under an assumed name. She fled,
and fear OF exposure so seized upon her
mind that she became frenZied, and death
has now relieved her suffering