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Year: 1876

Boys, the most valuable and misused
portion of humanity, are too often the
victims of restless and rudderless i'm
pulses. Let any one of us who has
reached middle age look back upon his
school days and recall his schoolfellows
and how many Of them can he count
who have been of any use to the world !:
You may count dozen after dozen who
have thrown away their lives, OF not
achieved even respe liability, and have
faded when middle aged into mere
nOthingness.


When a boy gets out in life, always
difficulty with the parents, whether
of the upper, middle, or lower class,
there seem 10 be many chances to one
that he will be placed in some uncon-
genial sphere or occupation. The grief
of the young fellow whose father put
him as pupil to celebrated artist, when,
as he said with tears, he "wanted to be
a butcher" Is very real, and is repeated
every day. The wonder is, not that
boys turn out Indifferent workmen un-
der these circumstances, but that they
turn out we'll at all. There Is too little
trouble taken TO find out the impulse of
genius or to consult the fitness of the
lad something offers-an advertisement
is put in the papers, or an uncle ia found
who has some influence with somebody
else, and the round boy Is drifted away
into the square hole. The matter is not
mended when boys show q general
cleverness. They are the most puzzling
and deceptive Of creatures. They are
capable Of doing everything, and too
often doing nothing. To fix them to
any one thing is sure, like mailing a
weathercock to one quarter, to render
them useless. They, too, drift into
troubled beings-dabblers at many
things, masters Of none, and at fifty
perhaps out of place, and looking for
something to turn up. the victims of
being too clever by half
Year: 1876

The period of complete manhood Is
fixed by law at twenty-One. But physio-
logically that is certainly not universally
correct; for although development may
be regarded as accomplished in every
respect at this age in the healthy Eng
lish female, and vertical growth may
have terminated even in the male, a
mans vital power cannot be regarded as
having attained its maximum develop
ment until about the age OF thirty. For
some years after the youth has ceased to
grow, in the ordinary sense of the
word, the dimensions of his chest-the
great index of vital power-cOntinue to
expand; and numerous are Instances
derived from military experience show
ing that recruits at the age Of twenty are
unable to undergo the fatigue of active
service that is borne with impunity by
men Of more mature age. They are,
literally, not as yet we'll knit together.
Several important bones are not per-
fectly consolidated; and it may be spe-
cially mentioned that the sternum which
has to bear so great strain in labored
respiration, and which Especially taxed
by the weight of the soldiers knapsack,
is not converted into a single plate of
bone until after the thirtieth year. 1t
is not until the sixth quinquennial period
of life that our leading anatomical
authorities find that the following events
connected with the consolidation of the
skeleton. take place: l. Completion of
the vertebral column; .. Completion of
the sacrum; 3. Coalescence OF the third
and the second piece of the sternum; 4.
Completion Of the ribs; and, 5. Coales-
cence of the haunch-bones with their
crests.
Year: 1876

Wait, husband, before you wonder
audibly why your wife don't get along
with the household affairs "as your
mother did," She is doing her best
no woman can endure tina; best to be
slighted. Remember the long weary
nights she sat up with the babe that
died remember the love and care she
bestowed upon you during that long
sickness. Do you think she IL made of
cast iron? Wait-wait in silence and
forbearance, and the light will come
back to her eyes-the old light for the
old days.


Wait, wife, before you speak reproach-
fully to your husband when he comes
home late, weary and tout of Sorts"
He has worked hard for you all day,
perhaps far In the night; he has wres-
tied, head and hand with care, selfish
ness, and greed and all the demons that
follow i'm the train of money making.
Let home be another atmosphere en-
tirely. Let him feel that there is no
other place in the world where he can
find peace and quiet, and perfect love.
Year: 1876

Keep your eve on your peighbors.
Take care of them. Do not let them
stir without watching. They may do
something wrong if you do. To be sure
you never knew them to do anything
very bad, but it may be on your account
they have not. Perhaps if it had not
been for your kind care they might
have disgraced themselves long ago.
Therefore do not relax any effort
to keep them where they ought to
be Never mind your own business
that will take careOf itself. There
is a man passing alOng-he Is looking
over the fence-be suspicious of him /;
perhaps he contemplates stealing one
of these dark nights; there's no know
ing what queer fancies may have got
into his head.


If you find any symptoms of any one
passing out Of the path of duty, tell
every one else what you see, and be par
ticular to see great many.


1t is good way to circulate such
things, though it may not benefit your
self, or any one particularly. Do keep
something ag0ing-silence Is dreadful
thing; it is said there was silence In
heaven for the space of half an hour dc
not let any such thing occur on earth
1t would Be too much for this mundane
sphere.
Year: 1876

Arise. for the day Is passing su
While you lie dreaming on
Your brothers are cssed in armor
And forth to the & hit are gone;
Your place in the ranks awaits you-
Each man has part to play;
The past and the future are nothing
In the face OF the stern to-day.
Arise from the dream OF the future.
OF raining q hard-fought field,
OF storming the airy fortress.
OF bidding the giant to yield
Your future has deeds OF glory.
OF honor God grant 1t may)
But your arm will never be stronger,
Or needed as now-to-dsy.
ARISE, if the past detsin you.
The sunshine and storms forget
No chains so unworthy to hold You
As those Of vain regret
Sad or bright she is lifeless ever;
Cast her phantom arms away.
Nor look back, save to learn the lesson
OF a nobler strife to day.
Arise. for the hour Is passing;
The sound that you dimly hear
Is your enemy marching to battle
Rise! rise for the foe is near
Stay not to brighten your weapons,
Or the hour will strike at last,
And from dreams of coming battle
You will waken and find it past


Hart ford Post.
Year: 1876

In the preface to his recent excellent
book, "The Abode Of Snow" Andrew
Wilson, well known as the author of
one Of the most interesting works on
the Chinese Empire revives the old
theory of NJ. Adhemar that the earth
will topple over one Of these days and
send the oceans sweeping over the con-
tinents. The theory is that owing to
the greater preponderance Of water in
the Southern Hemisphere, the greatest
accumulation of water is round the
South Pole; when the accumulation
has reached a certain point the bal
ance of the earth must be suddenly de-
stroyed-the center Of sphericity alb
ruptly change far from the center Of
gravity, and the whole earth almost in
simultaneously must turn transversely
on its axis, move the great oceans, and
20 produce one Of those grand cata-
clySus which have before now altered
J the whole face Of the globe.
Year: 1876

SLEEPING ROOMS should be selected in
such parts of the house as have the most
benefit from the rays of the sun. The
bed and bed clothes should be thor
oughly aired and kept In the sun as long
as possible every day. Many of the
sleeping-rOoms in our hotels are so
situated as never to feel the influence Of
the suns rays, and those who occupy
such rooms for any length of time are
simply committing suicide.
Year: 1876

Infinite toll would not enable you to
sweep away mist; but by ascending
a little you may often look over it alto
gether. SO it is with our moral im-
provement; we wrestle fercely with a
vicious habit, which would have no
hold upon as If we ascended into a
higher moral atmosphere
Year: 1876

Fit Work To The Ldborer.-"If you
are wise,n said the old trunk, You will
let me alone in this corner. Standing
here in peace, l will hold your clothes,
and keep them safe from dust and loss I;
but carry me over the country and j
shall go to pieces on the way. You had
better be satisfied with the little / can
do well than injure me and yourself
too by putting on me work to which l
am not equal.r
Year: 1876

Humility A Test Of True Serriee.-"I
notice. said the stream to the mill.
"that you grind beans as well and as
cheerfully, as tine as wheat"


Certainly clacked the mill, "what
am for but to grind and as long as |
work, what does it signify to me what
the work Is My business Is to serve my
master, and | am not whit more use
full when | turn out fine flour than
when l make the coarsest meal. My
honor is not in doing fine work but in
performing any that comes as well as
can
Year: 1876

The Avoca Qa.) Neacs says: Well, the
grasshoppers have almost disappeared and
the crops as whole have suffered but little
They have deposited their eggs here, but no
farmer need be afraid of these if he is will
ling to work There is not a man in this
county who cannot clean every hopper off
his place in the spring, before they do dol
Iars worth of damage, if he will go to work
and do it, instead of sitting down and whin.
ing about it, Two farmers, north of Avoca,
saved eighty acres of barley this year by Kill
ling about twenty-five bushels of grr sshop-
pers. They each got a pan sixteen feet long
by about three feet wide, Put wheels on it
and about one inch of coal tar in it, hitch
ed their horses behind it, and pushed it a.
cross the field, the same as header.


The hoppers, not yet having wings,
jumped straight up for the pan to pass under
them and dropped back into it, stuck, and
were killed by the tar. The total cost of
saving the grain was about So each, and
it would have been less had their neigh
bofs done as they did. You can save your
crop and annihilate this pest in the same
way if you will all go to work with will
and determination to- do it, Call u meet
ing in your respective townships and talk
the matter over, and all unite in one com
mon raid against the eaenay.
Year: 1876

''Where are all our town officers? or the
Sheriff ." is the cry. "Why do you not
put stop to the noisy carousing and
drunkenness that prevails iii our streets af
ter EVENING"" Every few days we see some
of our fellow men going to ruin rs fast as
possible for them to do so. This road
which they travel is Il long and weary one;
and we hear the remark " what business
is it to us? We do not care, as long as we
90 not have anything TO do with these low,
drunken men," Low in the scale of hui
man degradation, all for the cause of liq
uor Is it right for us thus TO scOrn the
way Of our fellow men? Is it right for
fellow citizens to run down and scor at
his neighIor? No! Why do we not, i'll
stead Of doihg this, try 10 bring them up
to our own position aid Standing? We, in
good II ny Gases, might accomplish very
much, with very little eXertion. But, we
hink we will not trouble ourselves about
the matter. We do not use the beverage
ourselves, therefore do lot feel, or see, its
influence Rui is this the way God means
for mankind to do? Treat these men re-
~prctfully and YOU gain their respect; do
the opposite and you have the bad will of
The same. Then again comes up the oft
rtpratrd question let the Officers of the
law attend to them We hear complaint,
made every day. about this matter. Still
we are waiting for some one else to take
mold and see to it. We blame the officers
of the law fer their incomretcncy, for not
taking such men to proper place and see
ing to thcm that they shall not carouse up
and down the streets.


Let ia remember that a man is a man,
and likewise deserves the respect of all
Do not blame the Sheriff, but turn out,
and see for yourselves in regard to bring,
ing matters to Il more perfect point in this
re, pect Go 10 the places where liquors
are sold. This is the place TO begin-right
at the beginning of the great evil created
y the use of the fiend in the shape of liq-
uor. We Can make our town more pleas
ant by taking this matter into considera-
ton, and assisting the Order of Good Tenn
plars in our midst.


Hoping we shall see some start in the
right way soon, we will close for this time.
Year: 1876

We have literally no election news to give.
In answer to all inquiries we may say that
Mir Tllden certainly has a majority in at
least two of the contested three states; we
mean in Louisiana andFlorida, but his enc
mics have the counting to do, and we do
not expect this Presidential question to be
fully settled until the next meeting of Con
gfess.
Year: 1876

At Il festival at a reformato"y institution,
d gentleman said, of the cure of the use of
Intoxicating drinks: ''overctme the appe-
tite by il recipe given to me by old DR.. Hat
field, one of those good old physicians who
do not have IL percentage from d neigboring
druggist The prescril ton is simply an
orange every morning before breakfast.
Take that, said the doctor, and will neither
want liquor nor medicine. 4 have done so
regularly and find that liquor has become
repulsive; the taste of the orange is the sal
iva of my tongue, and it would be as well
to mix Water with oil as rum with my taste
Year: 1876

NEW YORK. Oct 10, 1915
To THE EDITOR or HgRALD:-


Can you not give US some relief? For over thirty
years havo taken your paper, and many times have
subscribed to the charities you recommended beiev.
ing that yon would only ask for the most deserving
objects want Croton wster. Al my house up town
we only get It TO limited extent in the kitchen; ut
my store down town we only get part o the time In
the cellar and my Office is the second story pay
full price for both store and house promptly Is there
no remedy Tor thisY VIII the Croton Board deduct
pro rata amount from he bill Tor the time we nave
been deprived OF the use OF the watcrY for one,
think II should be tested. don't think you would
ask pay Tor your valuable paper If II served.
hope every one who has paid and who has been dc.
prved OF the use OF The will deduct their
next bill a pro rata amount for the time they have
boon deprived OF It's usc II these officials would pay
lttio more attention TO the interests OF the dear
people and less TO politics and robbery all would be
happier and better on You eau rcmeuy this evil ior
you can bud up monuments and tear them dow !;
you can give the widow and the orphan compel cncv
and happiness GIVE us reasonable amount Of Gro.
ton water and your humble servant will over pray


cIrlZEN
Year: 1876

The one thing that was settled beyond per-
adventure in the twenty-four hours lmme-
diatcly succeeding the closing of the polls on
the 7th of November i'll which the belief was
general that the Democratic candidates had
been elected, was that the party opposed to
Gov. Tilden had enough genuine patriotism,
enough respect for law and regard for the
forms of law, and enough faith in the people,
to aco1iesce in the result, whatever it might
be. and to offer no factiOus opposition to any
sof the steps in the process OF declaring the
election and inaugurating the successful can
didate. If there was universal disappointment
in the party, there was likewise universal
submission to the will of the majority.
1t may be said of the Republican party
as an organization that it not only compels
obedience to the law i'll others, but 1t obeys
the law itself. 1t not only quells insurrection
and puts down rebellion against its own ad-
ministration of the government, but 1t shows
that higher quality of self-cOmmaDd that re-
strains its own impatience under loss OF power,
and, with faith in the people and reverence
for law, surrenders its high places with no
sacrifice of dignity or loss of self-respect. 1t
is not less grand in practicing than in enfOrc-
ing obedience. The country was convinced by
the behavior of the party that supposed itself
defeated, during these twenty-four hours, If 1t
had not been satisfied before, that one party
at least was able to swallow its disappointment
and hope for the best. With a reverse of the
situation, and the rising probability of
Gov. Tilden's defeat, there came an opportunity
for Democrats to exercise the virtues of pa
tience, submissiveness, and self-restralnt. and
70 show their reverence for law and their re-


gard for public order. How they did it, the
buster and bravadO, the menaces and threats,
with which their organs fumed and fOamed
day after day, the froth of which has hardly
yet subsided, abundantly attest. They, too,
have been true to their history and their ira
ditions The party without which there has
been neither rebellion, insurrection, riot nor
mob since it began to be, fell naturally to the
bent of its instincts and either openly threat
ened violence or sullenly plotted an outbreak.


1t was the first duty of THE TRIBUNE to in
sist upon an honest count and fair election
and the removal of any pretext for disturbance
of the peace or proyOcatiOn to lawlessness. 1t
did this, and upon the first breath of suspicion
of unfairness demanded, with all the energy it
could command, an honest count and honest
return of honest ballots. It's demand was Sec
onded OH the instant by every respectable Re-
publican newspaper in the country. We are
glad to believe that the response, speedy and
Year: 1876

Among the many persons who wagered their
money upon the Presidential election was Mr..
Samuel Lambert of Cincinnati, gentleman
well known i'm the street railroad business.
Mr.. Lambert, during the heat of the canvass,
made bets in pools, which he has actually lost,
to the amount of $1,595. He also lost 5000
in outside bets. Not at all reconciled to his
misfortunes, he has now brought actions to re-
cover his money. There are twenty-four cases
on the pool bets, and two OF the other Sort
EnibOldened, maybe, by the example OF MIR. Lam
bert, it is stated that there Is talk in Cincln-
natl of the purpose of those who have wagered
money on the general result of holding mass
meeting, for the purpose of declaring bets
90 Off" The practice of betting on elections
can have nothing said in its favor, and great
deal justly against it. For this reason, some
feeble effort has been made in several States
to suppress it by law, and even where
no such prohibition prevailed, it is doubtful
whether any court would enforce such con-
tracts which would seem to be void as against
public policy.


Mr. Lambert, it is probable unless he has
some difficulty with his testimony, can recover
his money. 1t would be more pleasing to





grounds, and not because he is angry and dis
appointed He, of course, understands exactly
what he is doing. He is cutting himself OFF
from the pleasure, if there be any, of joining
in the battles of the pool. Hereafter, OF
course, nobody will bet with him. Perhaps 1t
might be wholesome, in the long run, TO have
q general fashion of repudiating lost bets.
Nothing can be of good import which conduces,
as bets certainly do, to lower the dignity OF
political Ct atests and to make them merely the
occasion of speculative gains and losses.


Meanwhile, if all who have lost bets are like
Mr.. Lambert in his indomitable Discrimination
to pay them, and in his taste for lawsuits,
there will be plenty of judicial business in the
United States for several years to come, and
no end of actions for money had and received.
Nor would it be astonishing if the more re-
spectacle tribunals should decline to consider
such actions, and should nonsuit right and
left on the general ground of the immortality
of the whole transaction. Debts of honor, un-
less they can be collected without suit, are
usually very bad debts indeed.
Year: 1876

hearty as il was, was entirely sincere, and that
il voiced the earnest wish of the masses or
the party. 1t settled the question, we think,
"a to the real disposition of the Republican
party, leaving no reasonable doubt that the great
majority of the party preferred defeat with an
honest count rather than victory tainted witn the
suspicion of fraud or dishOnor. Since tleh hh
TRIBUNE, in full confidence that the measures
adopted on both sides to insure fairness anu
compel strict compliance with all the iorii's VI
law would be successful, and in the Deiei Una,
the Republican claims to the three uispu'e"
States were well founded, has endeavorea W
demonstrate by well attested facts ana unuiS-
nuted figures the reasOnableness OF the ne
nublican claim, and to show how utterly III
excusable and mischievOus were the persistent
efforts of the Democratic press TO preJudge
the case and infame the minds OF their readers
Inv unfounded charges of fraudulent intent
upon their opponents. Already the oilclal
canvass. under all the disadvantages imposed
upon it by unjust Democratic restrictions, has
yindicated The TRIBUNE's belief as to one OF
the doubtful States. We anticipate similar
vindication as to the other two. We are con-
fident that Gov Hayes has been fairly elected,
and we still have faith in the fairness OF the
count, but The TRIBUNE is not so welded to
its opinions which in this case are Its hopes,
as to consent to have them vindcated at any
sacrifice of principle or the expense OF truth. it
will scrutinize with the utmost care every
step in the proceedings of the Returning
Boards, and will not only not consent to any
questionable procedure, but will be the first to
denounce it. This it will do first in the inter
of nj / nj W.
cherished, and because it. is in the line of its
traditions second, because it has so much
confidence in the honest masses OF the
Republican party as to believe that
they would scorn to accept a triumph tainted
with dishonor; and third because it has
such faith in the simple honesty and un-
selfish patriotism of Rutherford B. Hayes as to
feel assured that in SO doing 1t would best
represent him and his wishes.


The country may rest assured that no wrong
will be done, and that if any is attempted 1t
will not be carried out If Gov. Hayes has
been fairly elected he will be inaugurated. If
he has not been he will not be counted in"-
for two reasons the Republican party cannot
afford to take the election by fraud; its
leaders know the critical temper of the people
too well to take the risk of it; and second,
the quiet, unassuming gentleman, who did not
seek the nomination, and has not turned n
finger to secure his own election, has too
much self-respect and dignity of character,
and too high a sense of personal honor, to
take the Presidency or any other office with
stain upon his title. We shall have an honest
declaration of the result. The Democrats are
poweress to hinder it, and the Republicans
cannot afford to-
Year: 1876

of the Government, welded by the present
Executive. We have friendly feeling for Mr..
Potter, and therefore advise him that the at
tempt to set up second President on Ameri-
can soil is one which he had better not advise
nor laad
Year: 1876

havior, and that the alternative is simply HE
determination. This, of course, implies per-
feet good faith upon our own part. What we
promise we must perform. Our record at
least should be clear one, or we give tho
savage an excuse for his violence, and do
something toward justifying his excesses in
the eyes of the world
Year: 1876

The Vermont Legislature is sufficiently easy
in its mind about the one electoral vote the
Democrats are scrambling after to make de-
mand for early resumption. 1t adhercs to the
date fixed in the Resumption act.
Year: 1876

"Let man for time become editor
if he would be thoroughly acquainted
with men outside and inside, and
through and through" said DIR. Taylor
in lecture before the Yale divinity stu
dents.


This is very true, and when DR.. Tay-
lor says that in early life he was an edi-
tor, we get one of the reasons of his
power and success as preacher. There
is no man who obtains such an insight
into human character and the motives
which govern mems sconduct as an editor
of daily journal who is fitted for his
place-that is, one who is capable OF
both observation and reflection, who
preserves his independence and does
not let prejudice disturb his analysis.
We will add to what DIR. Taylor says,
that training as reporters would be very
useful to theological students. Sun.