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Year: 1871




though to begin with they have
much in their favor. a writer
in the Farm Advocate does not
like the IDEA of so many boys
getting sick or ashamed of ag-
riculture, and despising the
old country homestead when
they grow up. He says:


When l was a boy, my first
savings Of ten cent pieces,
earned by Saturday afternoon
work-for school kept half a
day on Saturday then-were
expended to buy a heifer calf.
Then / worked on and paid my
father a CERTAIN sum each
month for keeping.


When the calf was one year
old I traded it for two steer
calves, and now l had to put
in good and strong to pay for
| their keeping; but | occupied
all my spare time in teaching
these calves to work in the
yoke, and at one year old they
would gee and haw as well as
old oxen, and my father paid
me for their use In leading the
team for breaking in his two
and three-year-olds.


Again, I had a piece Of
ground each year after | was
fourteen, that / could plant
and work on shares; and if ]
wanted help, why / had to give
two days Of my time to the
hired mans one day. / grew
just what my fancy and read.
ing dictated, and from the
proceeds / dressed as well al
any boys at the present time
/ always had some time tt
play, time to read. and nov
' look back with love and pleas
ant thoughts to the old farm
and the farm hand who taugh
me how to use tools, and whip
ped me when / neglected t.
drive the team out straight a
{ the end of the furrow in plow
(; ing. tin ut f-l
7 This remembrance of M
5 own boyhood has always in
! duced me to favor all items {
z encouragement at home on tn
i farm; and i believe if it wer
D more generally practiced, W
{ should have more good farm
}; ers and less broken-down me


chants, or loafng, hanging-ol


time-serving clerks, ready fl
I anything except honorable ];
9 Dor and usefulness belongiu
! to the higher order of creatio
Year: 1871

GOOD HABITs.-During an
alarm of fire in a schoolhouse in
Easton, Pa, the scholars all
waited till one of their number,
a crippled little girl, had got
safely ont, and then they with
a rush cleared the room. They
had been taught to give the
little cripple the precedence
every day, and when the hour
of peril came they did not for
get their duty towards her, but
remained perfectly quiet til


she was safe. 1t was a beauti
ful incident.
Year: 1871

The State Central Committee, in it's call
for a convention. directs, among other
things, that at least one weeks notice be
given by all the clubs of the election to
take place on the seventh of August. AL
though We deem this merely advisory, yet
it is well to adopt the suggestion, as it is
proper in itself, and to omit to give the no.
tice might result in dispute as to form atty
We hope presidents of clubs will attend to
the matter
Year: 1871

There is man living within three miles
of New London, Missouri, who says he was
never on the deck of steamboat never
was aboard Of car, never slept under the
roof of a hotel, and never spent but twenty
five cents for meal in his life. The gentle
man is forty-fve years of age, and farmer
in pretty good circumstances.
Year: 1871

ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
viii buy fourth interest in the manufacture of
an article of constant use in the cotton raising
States. This is a good opportunity for a
willing to enter into perfectly legitimate bust
ness


For particulars address c. l., this office; stating
where an interview can be had. jy28 ct
Year: 1871

PEsTH, March q, 1871.
Active EFFORTS are being made by the leaders OF the
political opposition, both in and outside or the halls
OF Parliament to make capital the subject OF the
recent policy OF the imperial government towards
the belligerents In France.


The members OF the Ministry remain very vgilant
and are exceedingly dexterous In debate in consc-
quence.


l am in q position which enables me to state by
cable telegram to the HERALD that In the AustrO-
Hungarian Diet the government was attacked by
the opposition for not intervening In favor OF France
during the negotiation OF the preminaries Of peace.
Count Andrassy, IN reply, defended the course Of
the government In the course Of his remarks the
Premier said that at was the care OF the govern
ment for the real interests Of the monarchy that
prevented the use Of ITS good Onlces between
the belligerents. The government ould only fol.
low war policy II the existence OF the monarchy
was threatened, and in such an event would develop
q strength far beyond general expectation"


FRATERNAL TO THE NORTH.


The Emperor Francis Joseph has sent an auto
graph letter to the Emperor William congratuating
him upon the oc curreuce OF the seyenty-fourth
niversary OF his birthday.


The Emperor or Germany was born on the 22d Of
OF Marc h, 1897.
Year: 1871

On the recommendation OF the Chief Of Engineers
First Lieutenant George NJ. Wheeler is assigned to
the charge OF the exploration, under the direction
OF the Chief OF Engineers, OF the portions OF the
United States territory lying south or the Central
Pacific Railroad, embracing portions OF Nevada and
Arizona.


The Commissary General Is ordered to furnish
rations and anti-scCrbutics for the party the Sur
geon General one medical Oilcer anu two hospital
Stewards and the Chief OF Ordnance horse equip
ments, arms aud ammunition


Surgeon James 7. Chiseim is ordered to report to
the Commanding General OF the Department of the
East for assignment.


Surgeon G. q. Byrne and Assistant Surgeons H.
IipplncOtt and q. M. Miller are released from duty
In the Department Of Missouri. The two former are
ordered to the Department OF the Easr and the
latter TO the Department OF the South.


The superintendent or the mounted recruiting
service is ordered to forward 20J recruits LOUIS
ville to be assigned TO the Seventh cavalry in the
Southern states.
Year: 1871

Our BROOKLYN Patrons VIII Servo Their
and convenience by leaving
the HERALD at the Branch ONCE removed
No. 4 Court street. Hall
building tn Erie Railway oilce Tha is only author
lied Brooklyn Office and advertisements received
regular rates without extra charge OF kind Open from
Year: 1871

THE Washington Republican Is au'
thorlzed to state that the statements tele.
graphed abroad with regard to the con.
templated retirement Of Hon. HAMILTON
FISH, as Secretary of State, have been
made without any foundation OF fact, and
are entirely erroneous, Would 1t no be
well for news vCnders to select another
subject for discussion These changes at
the State Department have been made 80
often and ContradiCted that the public arc
getting shy of their announcement.
Year: 1871

TNllE clocks were striking midnight
4 threw a pile of exchanges on the
floor, upset chair and an inkstand, caught
u glimpse in cracked glass of half doz-
en- fierce faces with disheveled hair and
whislecls and felt ashamed Of myself |
was cross and sleepy.


had just bought out the Daily Budget
an exceedingly diapidated sheet, establish
ed some years ago by old judge Gordon to
help him into Congress. According to
all accounts it helped him considerably the
other way. 1t appears the judge expected
to astonish the world with the wit and
learning Of "The Budget !" but was more
astonished himself to find that the world
was too dull to see its wit, and too ignorant
to appreciate its learning, for nobody cared
10 read it. He was an obstinate fellow,
however, and although he possessed house and
lands, the best horses in the country, and
the handsomest daughter, by strange
freak Of fancy he took most pride in the
Budget, which he continued to publish to
the end of the chapter; that is, until one
day he was found dead in the editorial chain
with the editorial pen in his grasp, and an
unfinished editorial on the desk before him
entitled Ethics Of the Ancient Greek
Philosopher"


Frank Grentham-half-nephe Of the dc
ceased--profanely intimated that that odi
,oral was enough to kill anybody.


When the paper was sold at auction, the
auctioneer knocked IL down with a pro
fessional groan to an aspiring young repor
ter for the Transcript, who had saved {
few hundred, and fancied he could produc'
better paper than that old and delightful
sheet.


That ambitious young man was myself
and now worked night and day to built
up my paper
Year: 1871

1t cannot fail to arrest the attention of
the most Indifferent to what fearful ex
tent the rum demon IS responsible for
the numerous frightful murders that
have occurred within the last few
months. In more than two-thirds of the
cases we are able to trace directly its
baleful influence. The last recorded is
that of the woman Moran, in Jersey
City, who fatally stabbed her husband
about noon yesterday. Infuriated by the
fumes of the liquor in his brain, he assault
ed his wife with great violence, striking
her a terrible blow and knocking her al
most senseless to the floor. As soon as
she arose he again attacked her, and so
savagely that, in fear for her own life,
she seized a large carving knife, and cut
her husband across the abdomen, open
ing a ghastly wound from which the
intestines protruded. The dying man
requested that his wife should not be ar
rested, and the poor woman besought
that the papers would not abuse her,
declaring that she would go mad II her
husband died A more dreadful sltua-
ton than this can scarcely be imagined
and rum, too, at the bottom of the
whole of IT, Sumptuary laws, all re-
straints upon mans base thirst for
alcoholic drinks, excise statutes, and the
like, may meet with derision, but no
man in his senses can deny that such
instances as the above are enough to
justify some effort to stay the ravages of
the liquor fend.
Year: 1871

The project for tapping Lake Tahoe.
on the top of the Sierra Nevada, and
taking its waters in a grand stream down
the Mountain sides and through the
great central plains of California to
San Francisco, distributing it for mining,
irrigating and town purposes along the
way, and at the end furnishing San
Francisco with abundance of water for
all uses-this, perhaps the most mag
nifcent water scheme ever attempted
seems to be seriously put in the way of
execution. The company is formed;
Congress has conferred the necessary
rights upon it; San Francisco welcomes
it, and the route is already laid down.
There is to be at first tunnel Of three
miles, and for twenty-five miles the
water will be carried along and in the
north fork of the American River. The
use of the water for mining purposes,
along and among the foot hills through
which it is to be carried, is relied upon
as a chief return for the cost of the en-
terprise. A large extent of rich placer
mining territory now remains utterly
or but partially improved for
the lack of such a generous and con
stant water supply as this will be.
Year: 1871

The New York Z5751tHe has the fol-
lowing sound views on the subject Of
regulating railroad tariffs by law;


No turnpike company, so far as we
know, was ever authorized or allowed to
charge travellers or teamsters such rates
as its managers saw fit, and tell them
IF you don't like our terms, you are
welcome to keep off our road. On the
contrary, the State has always prescribed
the rates, and compelled obedience
thereto. A turnpike or plank road that
doubled its charges on the recurrence Of
November floods, rendering ordinary
highways all but impossible, would soon
have its tollgates lifted off their hinges
by the ministers of the law. and the
public authorized to traverse its entire
length without paying.


The public mind seems to be steadily
gravitating toward these conclusions:


]. AS the State fixes, in the public in
terest, the price at which railroad COM
pany may take any ones property which
It needs, so the same State should FIX the
rates Of travel and transportation over
that company's road. In other words
as the company Is authorized to take
farmers house and grounds at an inn
partial valuation, so the farmer should
be authorized 10 use the railroads cars
and power on similar terms. Hence,
the rates of fare and freight should be
fixed by some disinterested tribunal au-
thorized by the State, and should be sub
ject to change only with that tribunals
express assent.


II. The stock and bonds Of a rail-
road company should be limited TO the
sum honestly spent in buying the track.
building the road, and providing the
necessary equipment. They should un-
der no pretense be watered, and should
never be increased, even to pay for eN-
tensions or improvements. without eN-
press authority from the State.


III. The device for preventing or
suprressinp conspiracies Of railway man
agers AGAINST the public veal by forbid
ding the consolidation of parallel lines,
is the merest fog-wreath. It isn't worth
the paper whereon it is written. So long
as half a dozen managers of diverse
companies can meet in an Office or par
lor and double or treble the rates at
which they have hitherto transported
produce or merchandise, without hinder
ance or supervision, the value Of every
farm, the prosperity Of every city. is
virtually suspended on the good pleasure
of three or four men.


Such are the new ideas now vaguely
floating in the air. They may not yet
have taken such shape as to render them
formidable to the rings whereby our
great railroads are managed. But any
one whose duty il is to watch the cur
rents of public opinion must realize that
the times are exceedingly favorable to
their reception and diffusion. That which
is now "a cloud no bigger than a mans
hand is liable suddenly 70 expand so
as 10 enshroud the sky, inaugurating a
tempest which shall become a tornado.
Year: 1871

Only let the woman be sure she is
precious to her husband-not useful, not
valuable, not convenient simply but
lovely and beloved let her beth recip-
lent of his hearty attentions let her feel
that her cares and love are noticed, and.
appreciated, and returned let her opiri-
ion be asked, her approval be. sought
and her judgment respected in matterS
of which she is cognizant in short, let
her only be loved, honored and cherish
ed in the ful6ilment Of her marriage
vow, and she will be to her husbard,
her children and society a well-spring Of
happiness. She viii bear pain, and toll,
and anxiety, for her husbands love to
her is a tower and fortress. Shielded
and sheltered therein, adversely viii have
lost its sting. She may suffer, but sym
pathy will dull the edge Of sorrow. A
house with love in it--and by love we
mean love expressed by words, and
looks and deeds, for we have not the
least spark of faith in love that never
crops OUTS to a house without love as
a person to machine-one is life, the
other is mechanism. The unloVed Wo-
man may have bread just as Light. a
house just as tidy as the other, but the
latter has a spring of beauty about her,
joyousness, a penetrating kindness to
which the former is an entire stranger.
The deep happiness Of her heart shines
out of her face. She CLEANS over. It Isl
airy and graceful, and warm and well
coming with her presence; she is full Of
devices and plots and sweet surprises for
her husband and family. She has never
done with the poetry Of life. She her
self is a lyric poem, setting herself to all
pure and graceful melodies. Humble
household ways and duties have for her
a>golden significance. The prize makes
her calling high and so the end sancti-
fes the means. Love is heaven and
heaven is love. +"
Year: 1871

l commenced being good at a very
early age, and built myself up on the
best models. l was yet an infant when
read the affecting story of hacking
down the cherry tree by George Wash
ington, and his manly statement to his
father that he could not tell a lie read
the story and it filled me with desire
to surpass him. / was not going to al
low any such boy as George Washing


ton, if he did afterward got to be Presi-
dent, to excel me in the moralities I'm
mediately seized an axe, and cut down
the most valuable cherry tree my father
had and more. dug up the roots and
burned the branches, so that by no
means could the variety be produced
and / went skating on Sunday, so that
might confess the two faults, and be
wept over on account of my extreme
truthfulness. The experiments were. /
regret to say partial failures. was very
much like Washington, but the trouble
was my father did not resemble George
Washington's father. which was essen
tial to the success of my scheme Ibid
you cut down that cherry tree ?" asked
he, Father, / cannot tell lie, did it
with my little hatchet," / answered.
striking the proper attitude for the old
gentleman to shed tears on me. But he
didn't shed. He remarked that he had
rather had told thousand lies than to
have me cut down that particular tree,
and he whipped me till was in state
of exasperating rawness. My skating
idea was no less a failure / broke
through the ice that Sunday and was
pulled out with dificulty--and boat
hook. AS lay sick for month with a
fever, didn't get a chance to get off the
Washington remark.-1Aas-k I9OaIn.
Year: 1871

A man who should have the palm for
possessing extraordinary managing abil-
tiles halls from a remotely populated
township in Iowa. Living remote from
a school house, and having children to
educate, he contrived to get a certain
territory, of which he was the only in
habitant, set off as a new district. He
then elected himself as sub-director, and
secured an appropriation to build a
school house. He built dwelling house
for himself with the money, finishing off
a school room in the upper story. He
then used the contingent fund to buy
himself a cooking stove, placing it in
{ he lower room and warming the school
room by taking the pipe through it to
the chimney. He then installed his wife
as teacher Of her own children land no
others), fixing the salary to please him
self. Such a man as this ought not to
be hidden away in an unpopulated will
derness of the West
Year: 1871

There are certain ignorant and over
Jealous people who believe that to sus-
tain the President it is necessary to at
tack his late Secretary. The President,
believing that the New-Idria Mining
Company claimed more land than the
mining laws of California and the laws
of the United States authorized it to hold
and being unable at the time to investi-
gate the subject, ordered a suspension of
the law granting a patent until after the
Judiciary Committee of the House had
ended its labors by report. He at no
time Endorsed, directly or indirectly, the
claim. of McGarahan. Gen. Cox. as we
think, somewhat unwisely took offense
at this suspension, and retired from the
Office he had honored through his able
and honest administration.
Year: 1871

"A young lady in Hartford died last
week, and on the day appointed for her
funeral, instead of laying her out in
coffin. the body was laid upon the sofa,
robed in white, and looking as peace
fully as If in a natural sleep. Rare flow
ers were plentifully strewn around, but
all the usual death-like emblems were
carefully put aside, The burial was at
the convenience of the family, and took
place ten days after the funeral services.
Year: 1871

The present style Of mems hats is an
exact reproduction of the fashion Of 1870
The present scrambled style Of ladies
head dress is of older origin. being the
identical fashion which prevailed before
the invention of combs.
Year: 1871

magistrate, a police officer, is strong in
the strength of the Law-not otherwise. But
for the Law, unless enforcing the Law, he is
no more than any other man but, acting in be-
half of the Law, insisting that the Law shall
be obeyed, he embodies the strength of the
entire body polite, and is entitled to the sym
pathy and active support of every citizen.
whoever strikes me, strikes the Common
wealth of Massachusetts, !" exclaimed little
constable; and, if he were acting in the line
of his official duty, his statement was strictly
correct Outside of that, he had no more sane
tity than any other man.


A. B. is wroth with C.. ID. for some good
or bad cause, and proclaims his purpose to
kill the aforesaid G. ID. on sight. Hereupon, a
magistrate orders C.. ID. to remain barricaded
in his house, and on no account to appear ON
the street, since by so doing he would provoke
a breach of the peace That order would not
be worth the paper on which it was written,
because the magistrate had no right to give it.
1t was his proper business to protect every one
in his legal rights; not to deprive any one
thereof on the assumption that some one else
meditated crime.


The pity of it is that there is no halting-
place on the dOwn-hill road of surrender to
Year: 1871

pen. The city sufficiently understands this.
In the honest and fresh Indignation of yester-
day, there were no words wasted on kelso
Tammany was the source of all the shame
and wrong. The country will readily learn
this evident lesson. As long as we were only
robbed of our money and insulted by the
open profligacy of our rulers, the interior
seemed to care very little for It, But now
that grave offense has been committed against
the very spirit of social order, blow has been


struck at the foundations of civil freedom, the
whole country will recognize the peril we are
in from this oligarchy of tricksters 80 weak as
to quail before a handful of rowdies, and 80
ignorant and reckless as not to know or care
when they are rudely touching vital point or
civil freedom.


If, after all, the procession takes place, much
depends upon the prudence and discretion OF
the Orangemen. If they avail themselves with
tact and good temper of the privilege now
guaranteed to them. they may profit
by the movement of generous resent
ment against their lawless prosecutors.
They should understand that the good
citizens of New-York are neither their
enemies nor their partisans. Ii they I'M
agine they are the one or the other, they
make a fatal mistake. The city is tired OF
these endless and unjustifiable feuds among
its foreign population. 1t cannot SEQ its peace
continually endangered by their mean jeal-
ousies and hates. 1t says. like the Mountain
Chief, IL hold the first who strikes, my foe y '
Year: 1871

The Democracy of California are in sorry plight
they have been ravished of their organ 1t has left
them disconsolate and without that necessary APP
pendage-a head center. California Democrats like
those OF other States, do not much affect newspa-
pers and 40 the organs all langushed
for lack of support. despite their truculent
threats of committing suicide If tho DEM
oorats did not come forward with cash.
So the last Democratic Legislature made official
organs of all of those which then existed by order


ing the legal advertising into one in each judicial
District the District Judge having the designation
of the paper thus to be fed This created an oxcuse
for tho existence of several new Democratic sheets
and kept alive those already born But The State
Capital Reporter published at Sacramento was
specially designated as the State paper WIN inc
best class of legal advertising and the latest
of other fat takes" In due time. now
ever the Central Pacific Railroad Company, which
is reaching out for everything portable bought into
The Reporter stock secured controlling interest,
turned ont the friends of Gov Haight, who was
anti-subsdy candidate for Democratic denomination.
and opposed him bitterly. But he renominated,
and now The Reporter bolts and says the action OF
the nominating Convention made it an Independent
paper with Democratic proclivites, So Haigbt.
Democratic nominee, is belabored by the newspaper
which he and his party helped to make. and Demo
cratic State Government is obliged 10 furnish the
funds for tho show. Moral: Put not your faith III
organs that can't live without "pap'