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Year: 1877

Mr.. Editor In your issue of
the 8th inst you published an article,
signed Democrat, calling attention
to certain phrases of the resolutions
considered and adopted by the "Dem-
ocratic County Executive Committee,
at late session, held upon the 9th
of this month, limiting by rule the
specified act sand duties of the resi-
dent committeeman in the several cleo
ton districts in the county, at prim-
aries held under the call of the
County Central authority.


1t was gratifying to the committee
to see that the resolutions had attract
ed the critical attention of the demo-
Gratis, as it was productive of the val
liable suggestion of democrat in re-
lation to what should constitute the
line of action to be pursued by the
people assembled in primaries, when
the local representative of the County
Committee is not present at the time
and place selected under the general
CALL


The committee at it's recent session
modified the restrictive tendencies OF
the resolutions by incorporating an
additional clause to the effect that if
the committeeman is dilatory in his
attendance at the time and place Sc
lected for holding said primaries, the
undoubted right, inherent in the peo-
pie to move in political organization,
shall be freely exercised.


"Democrat" very reasonably desires
to know what the powers are that are
vested in the district committeeman,
and to what extent they can be exer-
cised in assembled primaries operat-
ing under a call of the central au-
thority.


Upon reading the resolutions in
question it will assuredly appear that
the full weight and effect thereof
will be to restrict, in the free use of
residing powers, none but the commit
teemen themselves in the performance
of whatever defined powers may be
invested in them by virtue Of their
membership Of the County Com
mittee.


Party organization and political
efficiency undoubtedly require that
the entrusted powers of the Central
Committee should be transferred by
subdivision to the several election dis
tricts, that they may be made more
effective in their application to locaI
party work.


| The selection of delegates from the
, several election districts to attend &
, county convention (Which is purely
an element of distinctive party or


ganization) unquestionably require


that local representation of the in


terest of party organism, howeve


constituted should be present to sar
i peryise the ordinary or preliminAr.
organization. It embodies in its ex


ercise the cardinal principles OF tn
Year: 1877

tue po"el VI appointing Gil


cials (the very state of affairs


passage of the said resolutions was
intended to obviate) necessary to an
organized meeting. The observance
of the letter and spirit therein con-
tained is certainl y not incumbent upon
the people, as they are but instruc-
tons to the committeeman directing
his line of action, provided he be pres
ent to preside at the opening of the
meeting. "Democrat" will not gain
say the obvious fact that in all mat
tsrs of intended organization it is in
finitely the safest and most expedi
tious method to select a responsible
person to open the meeting and get
it in working order than to leave the
initiatory steps to be taken upon the
spur of the moment by the newly as
sembled people.


There were ten members of the
committee present and V ing upon
the resolutions adopted at meeting
held on the 9Th inst. Th printed
report of the meeting in 'rectly
stated the number. COMM TEE.
Year: 1877

The PERMANENT EXHIBITION which
opened yesterday in Philadelphia with so
much pomp ard display, is not, in its
present state, calculated to impress visi-
tors very forcibly. Those who had the
pleasure to examine and admire the Cen
tennial Exposition last year, must have
felt disappointed. There was lack of
elegance as well as neatness and cleanli-
ness in many parts of the Main Building
that was well calculated to disgust. 1t is
true that some of the exhibitors made
very creditable displays, and deserve
credit for doing SO, where there was such
a lamentable falling off, 1t would seem
that there was very little spirit in the en-
terprise, or that it had been badly man
aged, and opened before proper time was
allowed for proper arrangement.


The crowd that was present was i'm
mense, and must have far exceeded the
expectations of the managers, since there
was an utter lack of anything like ade-
quate accommodations. Very many oil
the visitors seemed to have anticipated
this and were prepared with cabas Oh
pis-nic baskets, These fared pretty well
but those who depended OH what they
could get about the building found them
selves situated somewhat like the ten yir
gins who were without oil in their lamps


The music which accompanied the per
formance on the grand organ, was exceed
ingly fine, and went very far to make vi
for other deficiencies. 1t is probable tina
those who were near enough to hear fel
amply rewarded for the small expense i
had cost to be present. The day wa
rather cold and not propitious for stroll
ing through the groves of the park, or thi
would have made up for all that was los
IN the meagreness of the show inside th
buildings We presume the great crow
present will warrant the Philadelphi
newspapers in fattering their reader
with the opinion that it was great sue
cess. But this will have to be prove
hereafter.
Year: 1877

THE President has done good thing
in ordering the reduction of the army !;
but the reduction is not sweeping enough.
This, however, will do for beginning if
Hayes will do better after while.
Year: 1877

ing S useless to his country as an in.
habitant-he is mere cipher, he does


not fulfill the Obligations for which he


was sent into the world, and when he
dies he has not finished the work that
was given him TO do. He is a mere
blank in creation. Some are born


with riches and honors upon their
heads, but does it follow that they
have nothing to do in their career
| through life?


Be Something. There are certain
duties for every one sent on this earth.
Don't live like hermit and iale unrc-
gretted.


Be something. Don't be a drone.
You may rely upon your present pos
sessions or your future prospects, but
these riches may fly away, or other
hopes may be "liehted.and if yon have
no place of your own in such a case,
ten to one you will find your path be-
set with many thorns. What may
come upon you be fore you are aware
of it. and having no profession of any
kind, you find yourself in anything
but an enviable condition. 1t is,there.
fore important that you should be
something. Don't depend upon For
tune, for she is a tickle support, which
often fails when you lean upon her
with the greatest confidence. Trust to
your own eXertIOns. BE something.
You certainly have part to act, and
the honor in performing that part de-
pentts upon yourself. Everyone is ca
pablc of learning some ''art. trade or
mystery" and can earn a competence
for himself. Children should be taught
to Be Something ; to know how to pro-
vide for themselves in case of necessi-
ty. and TO act well their part they VIII
reap the honor that therein lies.
Year: 1877

Man was not made TO rust out his
lite. 1t is expected he "shOuld ac!
we'll his part" Aud is it not the duty
of every one TO assume some part as
actor on the great stage of life? Many
think they can vegetate, as it were,
without being any thing in particular.
This is q great mistake, and one very
common man has work to perform,
which it is his duty to attend to-hc
must be somebody. It is principle
in the creed of the Mahometans that
every one should have trade. No
Christian doctrine could be better than
that. Is a man to live upon the wealth
acquired by his ancestors? Is he to
pass through life as an automatoD! As
a citizen of the world, has he nothing
to perform? A man who does moth
Year: 1877

1t may seem very easy thing to
trim a bonnet; but hundreds of expert
workmen, who can do things far more
difficult and compli ;ated, fail utterly
when they try 20 trim a bonnet.


Was there ever a school-boy who
did not make his mark with his jack
knife, whatever his failures in reaita-
ton?


A book may be amusing with nu-
meroua errors, or it may be very dull
without a single absurdity.


A man is in no danger, so long as he
talks his love; hut to write it, is to
impale himself on his own pot-hooks,
Year: 1877

Night air and damp weather are
held in great horror by multitudes of
persons who are sickly or of weak
constitutions consequently, by avoid
ing the night air, and damp weather.
and changeable weather, and weather
that is considered too hot or too cold,
they are kept within doors the much
largest portion of their time, and as
matter of course, continue invalids.
more and more ripening for the grave
every hour; the reason is they are
breathing an impure atmosphere nine
teen twentieths of their whole exist
ence.


AS nothing can wash us clean but
pure water, SO nothing can cleanse the
blood, nothing can make health giving
blood, but the agency of pure air. So
great is the tendency OF the blood to
become impure in consequence o!
waste and useless matters mixing with
it as it passes through the body, that
it requires hogshead of air every
hour of our lives to unload it of its
impurities; but, in proportion as this
air is VT ated in such proportion does
it infallibly fail to relieve the blood Of
these impurities, and impure blood is
the foundation of all disease. The
great fact that those who are out OF
doors most, eummer and winter, day
and night, rain or shine, have the best
health the world over, does of itself
ialsify the general impression that
night air or any other outdoor air is
unhealthy AS compared with indoor
air at the same time.


Air is the great necessity of life; so
much SO, that if deprived of it for
moment we perish; and so constant is
the necessity of blood for contact with
the atmosphere that every drop in Il
body is exposed to the air through the
medium OF the lungs every two min-
utes and halt of our existence.


Whatever may be the impurity o,
the out door air of any LOCALITY, the
indoor air of that locality, is still
more impure, because of the dust. and
decaying and oderiferous matters
which are found in all dwellings. Be-
sides, how can indoor air be more |
healthy than the outdoor air, other
things being equal, when the dwelling
is supplied with air from without?


TO this very general law there is one
exception. which it is of the highest
Importance to note. When the days
are hot aud the nights cool, there are
periods of time within each twanty-
four hours when it is safest to be in-
doors with doors and windows closed
that is 10 say, for the hour or two in
Guiding sunrise and sunset, because
about sunset the air cOOls, and the va
pOrs which the heats of the day have
caused to ascend far above us, con-
dense and settle near tho surface o! |
the earth, SO as to be breathed by the |
inhabitants as the night grows colder |
these vapors sink lower, and are with |
in foot or two of the earth, so they |
are not breathed. As the sun rises, |
these same vapors are warmed, and |
begin to ascend, to be bresthed again, |
but as the air becomes warmer they !
are carried SO far above our heads as /
to be inncucus.-[ lIslt's Journal Of /
Health. I
Year: 1877

To those who are waiting for bust
ness to revive itself, the Louisville
CourierJournal gives this timely
advice, which is especially applicable
to the merchant that doesn't adver
tise his wares: Get up and 90 to
work. If things amt lively enough
put your shoulder to the wheels of
commerce and trade, and aid in get
ting the road wagon of fogyis1n out
of the mire. Hitch the mule of ener-
gy in the shafts, take the whip of
enterprise in your hand, and make
dust fly along the road of progress.
Get up dod blast your lazy hides,
advertise your business, let people
throughout the country know who
you are and what you have got to
sell, and our word for it, you'll have
something else to do and think
about this fall than to sit around
and cuss and wait for business to
come to you.
Year: 1877

Carefully prepared statistics show
that there are over six hundred
thousand drunkards in the United
States, and that seventy-thousand
die annually who go to the grave of
a drunkard. Every year one hun
dred thousand men and women are
sent to prison under the influence
Of intoXication, while three hundred
murders and four hundred suicides
occur from the same cause. Two
hundred thousand orphans are annu
ally thrown upon the charity of the
world by this curse of intemperance.
Nine -tenths of our crime and not
less than seven-eighths of the pau
perism is the immediate result OF
whisky, and that at a cost to the
government-besides individual
want-of not less than 5000, 100000
every wear.
Year: 1877

A brown, hard, weather beaten
face may be 50 full Of goodness as
TO awaken instant and entire conf
dence in the beholder; or one bear
ing every indication Of culture and
refinement may be SO strongly
marked with cunning passion that
we shrink from il with repugnance.
Nature gives us our features, but
we stamp them with the cheerful.
ness proceeding from nobleness OF
purpose, or the discomfort arising
from unredeemed promises.
Year: 1877

1. Let every youth be taught
some useful art and be trained to
industry and thrift.


2. Let every young man lay aside
and keep sacredly intact a certain
proportion of his earnings.


8. Let every one set out in life
with a fixed determination to en-
gage in business for himself, and
let him put this determination into
practice as early in life as possible.


4. Begin in a small, safe way,
and extend your business as expe
rience shall teach you is advan
tageous.


5. Keep your own books and
know constantly what you are earn
ing and just where you stand.


6. Do not marry until in receipt
of tolerable certain income-sulli.
cient to live on comfortable.


Z. Never get into debt. A man
who ewes nothing can never fail.


s. Let every man who is able buy
farm upon which TO bring up his
sons. 1t is on the farm that the
best men, morally and Intellectu-
ally, are turned out.


8. Bear in mind that your bust.
ness cannot be permanently pros
porous unless you share its advan-
tages with your customers. An all
turkey, an all buzzard system Of
business can never succeed in the
long run. Both parties TO a trans
action must be mutually benefited
if the trade is kept up.


10. Experience has shown that a
scrimping policy with employees is
not the most profitable for the EN-
ployer. Live and let live is bet.
ter theory.


IL. Never get your business 30
much extended that you are driven
to take in a partner. If you engage
in a partnership at all, let 1t not be
forced upon you.


II. you find yourself incompe-
tent 10 manage a business success
fully. settle down contentedly 10
work for wages, do your best fol
your employer, make his interests
yours, and shape your expenditure
so as to live within your income
Every one is not qualified By nature
TO manage successfully, bat as muci
real happiness is enjoyed in sala-
ried position as in any other, If The
individual be only frugal and con.
tented.


13. Don't seek political Office.


II. Aim to be just and fair in all
Your dealings, and cultivate good
reputation for paying promptly.


If these few rules we're generally
observed, we should hear but little
complaint Of hard times.
Year: 1877

Mary was the propTietress Of diminutive,


ineipient sheep,
Whose outer cover was as devoid of colorinz


ss CONCEALED atmospheric vapor,
And to all localities which Mary perambu-


lated,
The young southdewR was morally sure to


follow.
II tagged her TO the dispensaTy Of learning


one dismal section of the timo,
Which was contrary to all precedent,
And excited the cachinaiion of the Seminary


attendants,
When they preceived the presence Of young


mutton at the establishment Of instruc-


ton.
Consequently the preceptor expelled him


from the interior,
But he continued to remain in the immediate


vicinity,
And continued in the neighborhood without


fretfulness,
Until Mary once more became visible.
Year: 1877

Boston Globe: The following
is told by a wealthy merchant OF
this city: "Oae day, as 1 was pass
ing through Congress street sud
den shower came up, and ] stepped
into a store and asked for the loan
of an umbrella for a few minutes.
The proprietor kindly loaned me q
cheap looking, second hand article
and smiled as l promised to return
il promptly. / did 50. A few days
afterwards, being short $500 to take
up a note, and not having time TO go
to my place of business, l stepped
into the same store and requested
loan TO that amount. The gentle
man was a stranger to me, but he
remarked that any one who would
return 75 cent umbrella could be
trusted, and he at once drew his
check for the $500.
Year: 1877

The mere lapse of years is not
life. To eat, drink and sleep; to be
exposed to the darkness and to the
light; to pace round in the mill of
habit and thought into an implement
of trade-this is not life. In all
this a poor fraction of the concious
ness of humanity is awakened and
the sanctities still slumber which
make it worth while to be. Knowl-
edge, truth, love, beauty, fifth alone
can give vitality to the mechanism
OF existence. The laugh hat vi
brates through the heart, the tears
that freshen the dry waste within,
the music that brings childhood
back, the prayer that calls the fu-
turc, near the doubt that makes us
mediate, the death startles us
with mystery, the hardship that
forces us to struggle, the anxiety
that ends in trust-are the true
nourishment of our natural being.
Year: 1877

Saying smart things does not
pay. 1t may crafty your spite at
first, but it is better to have friends
than enemies. IT you cannot make
people happy, ut least refrain from
adding TO their misery. What if
this woman is not your ideal OF
womanly perfection, or that man
your model man? Your mission on
earth is not to remind them of the
fact. Each of us has faults of his
own or her own; in correcting them
we shall ind ample occupation. A
"sting" or dig" never did any
good-never helped any one to be
better. One who falls into the habit
of giving them soon looks lima
tured. 1t is not always possible to
join the Mutual Admiration Society
and be a good member, hut at least
one can hold ones tongue.
Year: 1877

No man who is fit TO live need fear
to die Poor faithless souls that we
are! To us here death is the most
terrible word we know. But when
we have tasted it's realty, it will
mean to us birth, deliverance, new
creation of ourselves. 1t will be
what health is to the sick man. 1t
will be what home is to the exile.
1t will be what the loved one given
back is to the bereaved. AS we
draw near to it a solemn gladness
should fill our hearts. 1t is Gods
great morning lighting up the sky.
Our fears are the terrOrs of children
in the mig bt The night, with its
darkness, with its terrors, It's fever
ish dreanls, is passing away; and
when we wake il will be into Gods
sunlight.
Year: 1877

Danville Va J Times: There is
man living near the railroad in
Orange county, Va, who belonged
to Florida regiment during the
war. He was wounded in one of
the numerous battles fought in that
portion of Virginia. The surgeon
told him he could never recover the
use OF his leg. "Then, said he, Il
shall never leave this battlefield" I"
And he has kept his word. His
tobacco lot was pointed out TO US,
and we were informed that he has a
little factory where ne makes chew
ing aud smoking tobacco. Strange
fancy 10 him to spend his life on
the battle field where he lost his leg
Year: 1877

Dyspepsia Bread - Three quarts
of unbolted white me. al, one quart
of soft water, one gill o f yeast, one
gill of molasses, two t easpoonfuls
of cream tartar, and teaspoonful
of soda.
Year: 1877

Next to a Rooster in u rainstorm
or man with his mother in law in
his arms, the most wretched looking
thing in the world is a candidate
who has just owe. cheard some friend
wanting to bet tn rec to one that he
won't be elected.
Year: 1877

THE members of the New York
Produce Exchange yesterday passed
resolutions to the effect that if the tele-
graph companies did not afford them
thesame facilitiesthat they had previous
to the consolidation, they would invite
the co-operotion of Boards Of Trade
and Chambers of Commerce throughout
the country to combine in furnishing
the necessary funds for the construc-
tion of an opposition line to connect
with all cities In which the different
Exchanges are situated.
Year: 1877

IT IS intimated at Washington by a
member of the Cabinet that A. B. Cor
nell, naval officer at New York, retains
his membership on the National Repub-
ican committee in pursuance of an
understanding between himself and
President Hayes. The matter was dis
cussed at the Cabinet meeting on
Tuesday, and one or two members were
anxious that the President should COM
pei Cornell to resign his membership at
once or be suspended from his federal
Office.
Year: 1877

Cleveland, August ga very large
crowd is at the fair ground to witness
the prize drill of the knights Templar.
Thus far six communicates have drilled
and the decision will not be known un-
til tonight.


The Detroit Commandery took the
first prize for drill; indianapolis the
sepond
Year: 1877

THERE was no demonstration at any
of the Chicago banks yesterday morn
ing, beyond the appearance of some
what larger proportion of depositors
than usual, who had drawn out their
accounts from the savings institutions.
There was n large crowd about the
State bank, but the doors were closed
and guarded by small detachment of
police.
Year: 1877

TO THE EDIrok OF TIKI HERALD


Why is there law Tor protecting the victims of
certain men, who. under the pretence OF advertising
for governess housekeepc request the applicants
TO call their Offices and there insult young ladies'
who are dependent upon the world for an honest
livngY Having been treated myself by certain par
ties Broadway, who hire room Tor this purpose
method OF warning other young ladies', who,
perhaps, might tail Into the same trap. NJ
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


Does the Comptroller Of this city know that Judge
Campbes court room, Clinton street, was used for


gathering of voters previous TO the late election. and
that il Is now used by the Tammany Hall General
Committee OF tho Sixth district, who meot there. and
that boln parties burned the cys gas without paving
for itY Does the court room IN The absence OF ITS
regular business belong to the political following OF
the Judgef "FlAr JUSTlIlA"
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


May aak your "Compiaint Book" TO add one more
to the many good works it has dones went TO tho
Twenty y-second Regiment Armory last Friday night,
and the dirt h that covered every thug somc
thing emar kable 70 see II almost impossible TO
see through the dust which in clouds when the
men marched. What is the matter? Has the Twentv-
second regiment contract with the Street Cleaning
Department or have they no armoreri BAYONET
Year: 1877

New YORK, August l..


The Herald reports an interview with
Vanderbilt. The latter said there will be
plenty of business and work for everybody
this fall, but at low rates also plenty for
the railroads to do, but it will barely pay
them. The trouble Is that everybody in
America spends too much money. We are
too hopeful. When the habit of looking
at the present as it is and the future as it
will be prevails, there will be no more
strikes. The railroad trouble is ended, but
there is great danger from the spirit of
communionism. To the press, perhaps,
more than any other cause, Is owing to our
salvation from the peril which just men,
aced US, the most serious through which
the country has passed.
Year: 1877

About forty persons charged with riot
ing were committed for trial at the next
term of court. The seventh and eight reg
iments left to-day for the western part of
the state. The first division arrived from
Plttsburg and the fourth regiment from
Allentown. The former has been ordered
to Luzerne county.
Year: 1877

which comes from the southeast through
Il beautiful bottom. On each stream
grows an abundance of cottonwood, and
At this point the valley of the Big Horn is
described ss broad and fertile. The river


was n feet deep when the command
crossed. and the splendid grass detained
the worn animals in tree shadowed
camp situated 53} miles from Fort Pesse.