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Year: 1876

'tOUTsIDE BARBARIANs" are apparently not
growing popular in that great Empire
where prejudice is almost immovable,
China A general war on foreigners is
thought to be looming up. The Chinese
have been making improved artillery of the
largest calibre and adopting breech-loaders
for their immense army, so that an excursion
to Pekin will not be as easy as when the
French and English made their last retalia-
tory march and sacked the palace of the En-
peror.
Year: 1876

Schuyler He will damage himself II he
carries out such purpose.


He cannot succeed in such policy if he
attempts it, for the statute relating TO filling
vacancies in Office enables the Legislature to
take the whole matter out of his hands. The
following provision Of the act of 1849 gives
/. the Legislature a perfect remedy:-''Any
person appointed by the Governor Except
State Prison Inspector) may be removed from
such office by concurrent resolution of both
houses of the Legislature. On such removal
both houses shall forthwith, by joint ballot,
appoint person to the office made vacant
thereby" Governor Tilden cannot, by any
technical quibble, parry the force of this
plain statute


Rapid Transit and the Horse Cars.


1t has been asked by duerulous corre-
spondent if the HERALD had abandoned
rapid transit to advocate reform on the horse
railroads. To this we answer that the two
things are parts of whole, for which, in the
interest of the community, we shall not
cease to strive until both are ac-
oomplished. We have never relaxed
our efforts on behalf Of providing
steam transit for New York, but our cor
respondent must remember that local travel
which will not call for steam communication
will remain to be supplied, and the grasping
corporations in whom are vested the fran
chises for supplying the accommodation
therefor show no sign of honestly meeting
the public want. If it is fognd that travel
falls off on any of the lo1se car lines. owing
to the superior attractions of the steam rail-
roads, we shall see the companies draw in
the number of cars until the erowding
;s as bad as at present, unless law is passed
compelling them now and henceforth to give
a seat for fare The companies have slid
away from many of the provisions of their
charters, until those only remain in force
which compel passenger to pay his fare for
half an hour or an hours sufocation and
crushing with the alternative of being left on
the sidewalk. The companies have pitched
their profits at 50 high rate that in the
face of rapid transit they would seek to pre-
serve that rate by reducing the expenses and
leaving the public that would use their cars
no better off than before. 1t is plain mat
ter in regard to the horse cars. They take a
fare and offer in exchange 'the chance of a
seat" which during the hours of going to
and returning from business means one
chance in four, or as twenty-five is to seventy
seven, the number which Third avenue car
director likes to see on a car, with all its ac-
COMMITMENTS of unhealthiness discOurtesy
and indecency.
Year: 1876

A New Use FOR CoRN.-From time to
coveries in means for utilizing our farm
products, discoveries which, though seem
ingly unimportant at first sight, have in
the end proved of great advantage to both
producer and consumer. OF these the
latest is the discovery that sugar and molas-
ses of good quality can be produced from
Indian corn. The first experiment was
made in Iowa a short time since, and the
result of which is said to be such as may
be considered the foundation of an extern
sive and important industry. Following
this initial experiment, q few farmers in
various districts took the matter in hand
and found it very lucrative. A somewhat
extensive Western sugar mill has intro
duced the new process, and to this mill the
farmers in the vicinity took their corn and
sold it, the operation being similar to that
factories. 1t is stated that a quality of
molasses can be produced from corn
far superior to that produced from sorghum,
and the syrup can be made to granulate for
sugar with little skill and experience.
The culture of corn is we'll uudestrood by
every farmer in the country, and, as there
is scarcely any limit to the quantity that
can be raised, the manufacture of corn
sugar ought to be more free from obstacles
than the manufacture of "beet sugar. "
The matter should at least be fairly tested
and the result made known as soon as pos.
sible.-N Y. Bulletin.
Year: 1876

Two workers in one field


Toiled on from day TO day,
Both had the same hard labor,
Both had the same small pay;
With the same blue sky above,
The same green grass below,
One soul was full love


The other full of woe.
One leaped up with the light,
With the soaring of the lark,
One felt it ever night.


For his soul was ever dark;
One heart was hard as stone,
One heart was ever gay;
One worked with many a groan,
One whistled all the day.
One had fower-clad cot


Beside merry mill,
Wife and children near the spot
Made it sweeter, fairer still;
One a wretched hovel had,


Full of discord, dirt and din,
No wonder he seemed mad.


Wife and children starved within!
Still they worked in the same field,
Toiled on from day to day.
Both had the same hard labor,
Both had the same small pay;
But they worked not with one will,
The reason let me tell
10! the one drank at the still,


And the other at the well.
Year: 1876

fancied they would find him. twas hardly |
a stones throw from the road and the ford,
but such quiet, soothing, winsome little
nook that it might have been fragment
of some other world. He was lying upon
the grass, with his arms under his head,
and his feet hidden from sight by the fallen
leaves. He could almost have reached the
river with his hands, but the murmuring of
it there in the bend among the bewildering
roots and stones was so soft and SO uncer-
tain that it seemed only an echo. A clus-
ter of haw- bushes, bending beneath an
overplus of fading and shriveling wood
bine, shut off the vision on the south, as the
river bank did on the west and the north
but on the east, up the steep bluff, beyond


the massive decaying tree-trunk that lay in


the edge of the thicket of hazels like some


great broken-hearted giant, was the little


arbor in the rear of the widow Hainline's


house, where the honeysuckles grew, and


where the widow often sat in the cool of


the late afternoon with her sewing. When


they reused him, Perky turned his eyes in


that direction a moment, then closed them


again, and said as if in reverie, d" must


have been dreaming"


They stood waiting around for some


minutes in an undecided way, and then the


editor gently raised him to sitting post


ure, and he tried to smile as he looked from


one to another of them and said, $50 on


with your picnic don't mind me-


No one spoke when he sunk down again


upon the grass and leaves; but Aunt Naomi
Seybold took off her shawl and made q
pillow of it for him and buttoned his open
coat over his breast, for it was nearly sun


down, and there was chill in the air from
off the river. He appeared to be sleeping
| the Widow Hainline thought, as she leaned
, forward and gazed intently upon him ou
, of the shadow of the maple just back o
where his head lay; and Benny knew sh'
Y must be very, very pale, she trembled so a
e he felt her put an arm around him an'
G press him to her side.


c The setting sun flooded the crisped ant
n stained foliage with transient ecstasy Q





n little and sat upright again and said h
c wished Benny would hurry back, for it wa
:. growing dark. The widow walked rapid
: around in front of him where the res


were, and knelt close to him, and took HI
-, hand in hers. "Julia, darling" he mu
-, tered, with harsh laugh that was half
=, moan, and fell back as if all his strengt
if had suddenly failed him. How she stoope
% and kissed him-on the lips, on the eye
"a on the forehead-and rising to her fee
n met the questioning stares of those abo1
: her with a look that would have been teri
% BILE but for the abounding tenderness the
- was in it, as she exclaimed.


. "I was once his wife, God help him!'
~ "Then he's my father, isn't he mammal
os cried Benny, and we'll take him home
II "Oh, child" they heard Aunt Nao1
ot sobbing, "he's-he's done gone home"
~ When they turned to see what she mea
or she was covering his cold, still face with h
Nc handkerchief.
Year: 1876

Mr. Buckle states that human nature has
changed very little in the last three thou
sand years, but we do not remember any
record of a Roman Senator trying to
account to his wife for light deposit of
pearl powder on the left shoulder of his
toga on the ground that he had been play
ing checkers in a grist mill.-NoTTisto'c,s
R,i1Iefju
Year: 1876

A devoted father entered a saloon with a
horse-whip one night last week, and found
his son playing euchre. He tanned the
young mans jacket and sent him home,
and then sat down and finished the game
himself
Year: 1876

Anybody can tell you what you ought to
do, but he alone stirs you to do it who is
trying to do it himself. During the war an
impassioned speaker who said &C.," was
hissed down, while the man who said
" Come" was loudly applauded.
Year: 1876

It is said that Mrs. A. T. Stewards


charities have amounted to more since
the death of her husband than did his


during all his life. However that may
be, it seems that her principal object
in visiting Europe was to escape beg
ging letters.
Year: 1876

The Professor is pleased to say
s'This is an extraordinary result in re-
gard to fat and is as rich as the Still.
ton cheese in England, of which they
so much boast, and in which they feel
"a just pride. Have not we, as Ameri'
cans, a right to feel little pride if we
can equal that famous cheese with
the milk of Aldernys and Natives mix
ed -
Year: 1876

CuE1osIrIEs OF WELDING. There has
lately been shown in this country very
interesting specimen of blacksmith work.
By means of Sehier oh 8 welding compound,
it is alleged that, in one example of bar
of Bessemer steel, five different kinds OF
iron and steel have been perfectly welded
without changing its shape in the least
The bar was rolled into form at Thompson s
steel works, in Jersey City, and is ! by p
inches in the cross section.


First, piece Of Bes6emer steel, cut from
the end of the bar, was welded fast to 1t
again, the heating and weldin.; occupying
eight minutes. On the reverse side of the
bar piece Of fine cast steel was welded in
six minutes. Further along on the bur a
piece of blister steel was welded in eight
minutes; This same stc4l cannot be weld
ell with Lorax az the high temperature
needed with the hux makes it as brittle as
cast iron under the hammer. Opposite
this a piece of wrought iron was welded in
six minutes, and further along on the bar
piece of cast iron was welded in three
minutes. This was a piece Of the mold
bo4rd of plow. The br, with its addi-
tions, WAS then ground and polished on the
edge, s. as to show the points at which the
welded metals came into contact. No weld
was visible on any one of them, and the
difference in the metal could only be told
by the color after polishing. This solves
a great many important problems in iron
manufacture, among others the welding OF
Bessemer scrap.
Year: 1876

ONE OF the officers at WsSt Point recent
ly resorted to the following experiment
to determine whether the ice on rivers and
creeks thickens on the bottom or on the
top. He cpt hole in the ice opposite
West Point, and bolted piece Of board to
the under side. Examining it three or
four days afterward, he found the bolt
head on the top just as he left it; and cut
ting through the ice found the board sand
wiched between the upper layer of Ice to
which it had been bolted. and about focr
inches of solid ice which mad formed un'
derneath it. showing conclusively that ice
thickens on the under side and not on the
ION
Year: 1876

The PRoDucTIoN OF ARSENIC IN COPPER
M1NEs.-In 1873 o,449 tons of arsenic were
produced i'll England. More than third
of it came from the Devon Great Consols
mine Sometimes 200 tons month are
sold from this mine, quantity Of white
arsenic sufficient to destroy the lives of
more than 50o,0OO,o0o of human beings.
The Commissioners Of Mines saw, stored in
the warehouses, Of the mine, ready acked
for sale, a quantity Of white arsenic proba-
bly, sufficient to destroy every living animal
upon the face Of the earth. The Commits
sioners consider that, in the case of mines
in which arsenic is actually manufactured,
it is only reasonable that the manufacture
of g poison so virulent should be sui ject to
special state supervision; and they submit
that an officer should be empowered to re-
auire that the best practicable means be
taken not only to prevent the poisoning of
the cir by the volatlization Of the arsenic,
but also to hinder the access of the poison
to running water.
Year: 1876

IT occasionally happens that woman
with her husband or her lover comes into
crowded street-car, and young man
whose chIvalric feelings have not been ut
terly destroyed by constant contact with
the busy world, rises and surrenders his
seat to the lady. He takes hold of one of
the straps hanging from the roof of the
car for the convenience of passengers to
whom all other cOnveniences of travel are
denied, and stands patiently in the aisle
with the glow of conscious well-doing
upon his ingenious countenance. He
feels that he has done an act of kindness
to damsel in distress; that he has paid
due homage to the gentler sex; that he
has acquitted himself courteously toward
a stranger. He can, therefore, bear with
content the elbowing of the conductor as
he pushes in and out, and tramping of
fellow passengers upon his toes. The
meek satisfaction of self-sacrifice exalts
him. Let such one enjoy the illusions
of his youth while he may, for a few mo-
ments will see his reverence for woman
hood disSipated, and hard, distrustful
cynicism take its place. Invariably after
his act of courtesyIcOmes a sequel of self
ishness, as if in bitter mockery. One of
the passengers sitting beside the lady rises
to go out. She slides hastily along so as
to make room for her escort, lover, or
husband, as the case may be, and that
gentleman glides quickly into the seat,
leaving the courteous young stranger still
hanging to the strap from the roof, and
abiding the buffets of the conductor. To
him the little drama is revelation. He
sees at once the meanness of humanity,
The hollowness of the world and the saw
dust stuffing in his dol, are painfully
manifest. He feels toward the man and
woman who have disenchanted him as
Sir Pilleas did toward Gawain and Ettarre
when he laid his naked sword across their
throats. They have destroyed his faith
in mis- kind. He who has been cheated
out of seat by the woman to whom he
has surrendered his own, has touched
the bottom of all meanness and disgust,
and may go through life confident that
he will never again experience such a SEN
sation of cheapness and weakness as he
did when he saw the couple to whom he
had been so courteous, complacently settle
close to each other and smile in blissful
forgetfulness of his existence. Even the
fiend's arch mock would be bearable to the
victim of such misery.-V. Y. World.
Year: 1876

MIR. William E. Dodge has been con-
strained to request public announce
ment of the fact that he is not so wealthy
as he has been represented to be; and he
desires to have it known that the demands
upon his purse for contributions to char
liable objects are greater than he can
meet
Year: 1876

Laughable But Painful Mishap.


A laughable incident occurred in a gro
Gerry store in Newport, r. l., day or two
since. An empty barrel, with few inches
cut off the top, had been left standing in
the store, and man who had been atand-
lug around until he was tired, sat down in
it. This would haye been very we'll if he
had not sat down too far. As it was he
went so far into the barrel as to double
him up after the manner of pair of COM
passes. The fellow realized his mistake
and strove to correct it, but the more he
did this the further he worked into the
barrel. Finally he was constrained to crv
out for help. and half dozen men, among
them the proprietor Of the store, came to
his rescue. They tried compression of the
upper and neither extremities, but this
brought too great strain amidships and
had to be abandoned. Then a council of
war was held. AT this it was decided that
either the man or the barrel must be sac
rifced, and although the barrel was worth
twenty cents, the latter alternative was de-
cidsd upon. A hatchet was procured and
the sides of the barrel dashed in. It will
scarcely be credited that the man left the
store without offering to pay for the bar
rel.
Year: 1876

Edmund Sisler, Esq, discovered this
morning that chimney in his residence,
that had refused to permit the smoke to
descend, was filled with dead birds-swal-
lows that perhaps had taken up their
abode there during the summer and on
fire being made in the fall had been
sufocated. The dead birds were removed
from the chimney when it commenced to
perform distinctions as of yore,
Year: 1876

This gentleman, in connection with
Gen. Mcmillan, closed a canvass of the
river counties at Fort Smith, Thursday
night. They have done good work in
the west. The vilification and abuse OF
Mr.. Smithee will only rebound upon the
heads of the perpetrators, and, in two
months from now they will every one of
them be ashamed to acknowledge that
they were so low as to throw mud and
filth at gentleman, a peer of any Of
them. The Newport News expresses
our sentiments below:


"Col. J. N. Smithee has taken the
stump in the Third congressional dis
trict in defense of Judge Stuart and him
self, both Of whom are being dealt rath-
er severely with by the press of the
northwest. OF one thing we are satis-
fed, and that is. when Col. Smithee gets
through talking to the good people of
Yell, Crawford, Franklin and Sebastian
counties, they will clearly understand
that he is anything but a radical, as some
of our exchanges in that section are try
ing to make it appear. He is ssimply one
of the best-posted men in the state on
political affairs, and has ever been a
faithful friend of the people of Arkan-
sas, and those of our democratic cotem-
poraries, who are trying to injure his
reputation by crying radical, or even in
timating such thing, are simply max
ing asses of themselves. His majority
at the late state election, for commiss.
er of immigration was several hundred
in excess Of any other candidate ON the
ticket"
Year: 1876

In congratulatory serenade after the
election of Williams, Governor of Indi.
ana, Gov. Hendricks had this to say Of
Tilden, and the work before the Indiana
Democracy:


"My fellow-citixcns, the work does
not stop, tonight. 1t goes on yet for an.
other month. I believe We follow the
leadership of chieftain worthy to be
followed. We follow a man who has
shown in his past record that he is a true
reformer. believe that Gov. Tilden is
worthy Of your support and mine. There
is nothing in the history of the Democ.
racy of Indiana of which am prouder
than this fact. Governor Tilden was not
the first choice of the Indiana Democra.
cy for the Presidency. But when, in
National Convention, the Democracy OF
every section united upon him as the
best and most available candidate, then
the Indiana Democracy looked the thing
squarely in the face, and they came up
shoulder to shoulder, step to step, and
they have under his leadership, so far as
it was felt in the State contest, made the
most sublime, determined and grand con-
test for the right that has ever been
made, in my opinion, in the politics of
the world. Let US 10 on, and make No.
vember, in Indiana, more glorious than
October is. Let them know in every sec
ton of the Union that tho Indiana De-
mocracy, while they fght the State bat
tie with gallantry and determination
never seen before, lot them know that
in the National contest, Indiana will pre-
sent her more than 100000 voters in
support of the National platform of the
arty."d
Year: 1876

\ correspondent is anxious to know if the
bloody shirt" put out from the STANDARD Office
by Pisbury, is the same one worn by that hero
in the Kingfeld campaign. We are authorized to
say that it is not. The shirt worn in the King
field massacre is still white, white as his liver.
or as the blanched countenance with which he
lied fiom that scene of danger into which he had
led his innocent and confding dupes.
Year: 1876

Au ex-soldier in this city says that in one of the
battles of the late war in which he participated.
his brother was shot down by his side and died
upon the field of carnage. The fatal shot pierced
his breast and blood s,reamed profusely from the
wound, covering the shirt. When the boody shirt
was caricatured upon the streets Of this city, it
revived the memory Of the bloody scene; the
ghostly wounds opened anew, to be ridicucd and
burlcsqued by the display Of deaths head and
crossbones. Il is no wonder that the blood of
he hero boiled again.
Year: 1876

Horse men have begun to clip their horses. II
that don't keep them cool enough this winter, ice
packed under their cribs is said to be very cool
and refreshing to an urcomfortably warm horse.
Year: 1876

More drunkenness on the streets in the city for
the past two days than for two years previously.
Is this the result of supposed democratic vcto-
ryi There was little moro soberness yesterday
and better ORDER as the returns squinted less dem
ocratically. These straws show which party are
the friends of law, order and sobrety.
Year: 1876

That bloody shit outrage was not rencwed yes


terday; the shirt was kept inside the Standard
office, where it properly belongs. Those who had
charge Of it did not dare to display it again. 1t
was well, as there would have been trouble had
the thing been shown. The city Of Augusta
never suffered such disgrace in all its history.
And the disgrace spread abroad. Before noon it
was told in the streets of Lewiston, and Mortified
all who heard it, During all the exciting cam
pagn that has just closed, it remained for the con-
ductor of the Maine Standard to put out an ensign
more insulting and disgrsceful than has ever
been displayed by the worst Ku. X lux of the South.
Year: 1876

What is the cure for gossip? Simply,
culture There is great deal Of gossip
that has no malignity init. Good-natured
people talk about their neighbots because,
aud only because, they have nothing else
to talk about. As we write, there comes
to us the picture of family of young
ladies. We have seen them at home, we
have met them in galleries of art, we have
caught glimpses of them going from a
bookstore, or a library, with fresh volume
in their hands. When we meet them,
they are full of what they have seen and
read. They are brimming with questions.
One topic Of conversation is dropped only
to give place to another, in which they are
interested. We have left them, after a
delightful hour, stimulated and refreshed;
and during 9e whole hour not a neighbor's
garment was soiled by so much as touch
They had something to talk about. They
knew something, and wanted to know
more. They could listen as well as they
could talk. To speak freely Of a neigh
boris doings and belongings would have
seemed an impertinence to them, and, of
course, an impropriety. They had no
temptation to gossip, because the doings
Of their neighbors formed subject very
much less interesting than those which
grew out of their knowledge and their
culture. And this tells the whole story.
The confirmed gossip is always either
malicious or ignorant. Gossip is always
personal confession either of malice or
imbecility, and the young should not only
shun it, but by the most thorough culture
relieve themselves from all temptation to
indulge in it. 1t is low, frivolous, and
too often dirty business There are
country neighborhoods in which it RACES
like pest. Churches are split in pieces
by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it
for life. In many persons it degeuerates
into chronic disease, which is practically
incurable. Let the young cure ii while
they may.-Dr. j. G. Holland.