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Year: 1873

There is disposition among certain people to
criticise the railroad tariffs thai have been made
up to conform to the pro ra.a principle Of the
new Railroad law. 1t is held that the intention
of the law and its makers Was not to increase
the rates at the competing points, but to de-
creaso the immedinte local rates and to retain
the competing rates as they wero. II the Legis-
tature, OF tho people who demanded the passage
Of the pro rata law, believed that this would, or
could, bo the effect OF the Law, they must have
based it on tho belief that tho railroads will
consent to run at loss. No statute could be in
vented and no power asserted which could coerce
them to do this. The fact OF establishing a
lower rate at competing points by no means in
dica:es that business could be done al along the
line ut the same rate. There are number Of
reasons why special rnte may be established
st certain points,-among them, that OF compe-
tition; the fact that the increase Of business
adds to the gross receipts without increasing
the expenses in proportion; the circumstance
that the cost CT handling is the same for
greater or less distance; the advantage Of CEN
tcring trade at common junction like Chicago.
But when it is required by law that one
ratio ehal1 establish all the Others, the
railroads cannot afford to make concessions
that might not be damaging to their interests
under free management, but which would be
ruinous to them under the operation Of the
present law. It is charged in certain quarters
that it is the intention OF the railroads to make
up their tariffs in such way as to render the
law odious to the people but We confess our
inability to discover how the pro rata principle
could be more fairly applied than in the BurGng-
ton j. Quincy tariff. II the doctrine itsoH shall
provo to be unacceptable to the people and
projudcial to important interests, it is certainly
not the fault OF the railroads. There is also
good reason Why the railroads will not under
take to make the law odious by any unfair action
on their part. The Supreme Court has decided
that they may not mako rates which are e1tor-
tomato or unreasonable, and the new Railroad
law prescribes penalties for any violation Of
this principle, which ths railroads do not care to
incur. In the absence Of prosecution, therefore,
it Is fair to presume thas the ralroads are pre-
pared to demonstrate that the new rates, estab-
lished to conform with the new law, arc reason-
able II this be true, then the pro rata prtn-
ciplo Of the law must rest On its own merits. In
the meantime, the assumption is entirely unwar-
ranted that the railroads are purpoae1y making
e1orbitant rates to render the law unpopular.
Year: 1873

20 The Washington correspond
ent of the New York Post, of a late
date, says that Secretary Belknap
will not award the contract for sup
plying hoadstones for national ceme-
teries until some time next week,
having decided to divide the con.
tract and give it to several bidders.
He has written to several bidders
who propose to take the entire con-
tract to ascertain whether they are
willing to take part of the contract
for supplying stones at the same
rate which they proposed for the en-
tire number.
Year: 1873

A correspondent Of the Scientific liner
lean relates a singular incident. In
company with other persons he was
crossing Seneca lake on the tenth Of Oc-
tober, when a small wave was seen near
the center Of the lake, caused by the
moving Of some insects. Upon investi-
eating the matter, it was found that
three spiders were gliding over the sur.
face Of the water, and attached 10 them
was a single thread, the size of a knit
ting-needie, extending in the air TO
the hight OF thirty feet, at an angle of
sixty degrees, aud terminating with an
enormous baHoon-shaped web. This
latter was judged to be eight feet long
and five feet wide, with stays fastened
at the main thread, something similar
to those Of a balloon, and it was man
aged apparently by an innumerable
number Of the insects stationed at prop
er intervals. The party attempted to
obtain a closer view, but when within a
few feet of the web It began to rise,
though the last spider, which proved to
be about the size of a horse-fy, was
brought back by the stroke Of an oar.
The balloon went onward and upward
until lost to sight.
Year: 1873

Fort SCOTT, April 23.-A terrific fire
has broken out on Market street,
in the central business part of
the city. Many buildings are already
in flames, and it is impossible to tell
where the cOnfagratiOn viii end. Great
CONSERVATION prevails, as there seems
to be no way to prevent the destruction
of large portion of the business part of
the city.
Year: 1873

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


Having seen in your valuable paper a subscrip
ton list started for the blackboard delineator,
Tom Mast, and thinking that he would like to go
TO our probable scrlmmage with Spain, Will send
by express suit OF blue that have got since the
war oil 1872 AN OLD VETERAN.
Year: 1873

Diligence, tact, quickness and accu-
raey, good temper, controlled enthusi-
asn. the power to do without sleep and
an imperturbable digestion, all of these
combined in one man, say civil ser
want. will no doubt save him from be-
ing failure in his career. But they
will not secure him brilliant or a rapid
success. They, or some of them, are
among the conditions of success F; but
they are not the sole or essential condi-
tions. It is we'll that he should be dill
gent but it is better still that the great
man should think he Is so. He may
strive much to be quick and exact in his
work but he should strive more to
catch and keep his chiefs eye. To hap
pen to be always standing Just where
that eve happens to fall 70 be ready
with his ''Here am !, send me, when
ever the chief is considering whom he
shall employ on delicate business, and
then. of course, to do the business satis-
factorily 20 be about his patron TO oc-
cur TO him; to observe him to oblige
him; and so, as the last and triumphant
achievement, 70 become the man OF
whom his patron thinks the best and
the kindiiest in his particular depart
ment or profession, and whom, there
fore. he means 70 send to the top of it


this Is the cheapest. the safest aud trU-
est srt of rising in life and this Is NFha'
is ordinarily meant by button-ho,ing
Year: 1873

PRIVATE LIFE N COUNTRY VILLAGES.


The little villages that nestle down


among the Massachusetts, hills are
charming retreats, but do not know
that I should care to spend more than
five years of life at time N any one of
them. And as for being retreats, I'm
not sure Of that, since I come to think
about it. You stand out in pretty bold
relief if you are a resident, still more
50 if you are q visitor. For instance,
there was an engaged couple in VIII
liansburg. not natives to the manner
born, but city swells, on visit to rel
atives. Very few of the villagers were
ignorant of what was going on. When
the young man walked out with his
sweetheart, It must have been partio-
uIarly gratifying for him to see him
self pointed out by one urchin to an
other with 81 say, Bill, you see that
fellow without no hinge in his back
he's goin' 70 mary thsf there gal.


When the thing first began there was
later sitting up than usual, naturali =.
And one Of the old lsdies stepped in,
Year: 1873

dark; keep 1t boiling. Put fresh meat
into boiling water, salt meat into cold
allow one quarter of an hour to every
pound Of meat. In roasting poultry or
birds be careful to bsste and turn often.
The back, having little flesh requires
little cooking.
Year: 1873

The principal object of the Indian COM
mission which recently visited the Sioux AT Rcd
Cloud Agency was to procure the surrender of
all that region known as the uncedod Indian
territory by verbal agreement made by the
Gen. SHEPMAN commission In IS6S RED CLOUD
and his chiefs were guaranteed the occupation
for n long term OF years OF territory extending
from the Big Horn Mountains IN Wyoming east
ward two hundred miles, and northward along
the western line Of Dakota one hundred and
hfty miles. UpoD the first broaching of propo-
sition that they should give up this territory,
the Indians who met in the council exhibited
such violent passion that the matter was sum
marily dropped. In the attempt TO induce the
Sioux to re.inquish the right of hunting on the
Republican river, the commissioners were
equally unsuccessful; and all that they appear to
have really accomplished was to procure the
assent Of the Indians to the removal Of the Red
Cloud Agency from Its present location to the
Grand Sioux Reservation in western Dakota.
The commissioners profess faith In the peace
able intentions of the Sioux, and 80 far as the
majority Of those Indians concerned their
confidence Ia doubtless well placed. But there
are at least one thousand Sioux warriors VINO
are hostile, many of them young men who care
nothing for this authority Of their chiefs. whilo
az the same time tho border is overrun with
reckless whites who are anxious to provoke an
Indian war for the profits to be made In supply
Year: 1873

Spring chickens are in market. But
what spring is not known.


A Daubury jeweler is confident the
dag will come when sleeve-buttons will
he sold by the pound.


Mature is dying, slowly dying. Bill
GUS fever, by the looks.


Putting up stove pipe is known in
Danbury as attending the Black Crook
matinee.


A detected man on the Wooster House
corner this morning announced to a
couple OF friends that The panic was
playing the mischief with all branches
of business; he never got a fish yester-
day."


A tableau on Essex street OF late
moonlight night: Young daughter in
front room singing Father, dear 'ather,
come home" Old man in back yard,
ekinning woodchucks with a borrowed
knife and swearing about the lcss OF hls
own.


A NORTH Main street man kindly
volunteered to hold fractious COW by
the tail while it WAS being milked, Sat-
urday evening. He hung on vel! GO
ing up, but inadvertently let 60 in com
ing down, and hurt himself.


WHEN man jumps down from q
marble top table on which he has been
sitting, he brushes himself with his
hand. This might be called instinct
were it not for the fact he will frequent
ly Jump down from a flour barrel with
out doing it.


OyE of those miserable boys whose
sole object in this life appears to be
the making of extraordinary faces at
honest and industrious store clerks,
mistook roll of oil cloth for a roll OF
carpet, hanging in front OF Main
street establishment, Saturday evening,
and making q sicltening grimace at the
clerk, who stood in the door, doubled
his fist aDd struck the inofensive roll
tremendous blow. Then he put the
fist under his other arm, and doubling
up his body, ambled swiftly away,
while the clerk retired to the store 10
drv the tears Of a new found joy.


OyE of the most extraordinary things
in this world is the conduct OF hen
on the approach of team. II she is
standing IN the way at the time, che
remains there, and you instinctively
stop your horse Only to discover that
she is safely out OF the way. And If
che Is one eide of the road she im-
mediately dashes into the centre and
brings you up again, while the cold
sweat forms on your back at the
thought OF the damages. And it is o
little singular that while you are con-
fdent you never saw a hen run over,
nor ever heard OF such thing, yet no
number OF trials can keep back the
perspiratiou from your back, or prevent
you from drawing up your horse, to the
imminent danger of his hind legs,
Year: 1873

THE new editor OF the Wheeling In
teIliqencer and the editor OF the REGIsTsR
greet each other like long lost brothers
Has either OF them got 8 strawberry
on his left arm p WelESburg Ne0S.
Year: 1873

When people feel the need of an
acid, IL they would let vinegar alone,
and use lemons or sour apples, they
would feel just as well satisfied, and
receive no injury. And a suggestion
may not come amiss as to good plan
when lemons are cheap in the market.
A person should, in those times, pur-
chase several dozen at once, and pre-
pare them for use in the warm, weak
days Of spring and summer, when
scid; especially citric and maIie, or
the aolds of lemons aud ripe fruits,
are so grateful and useful Press your
hand ON the lemon, and roll 1T back
and forth briskly on the table, TO
make it squeeze more easily; then
press the Juice intoa bowl, or tumbler,
never into tini strain out all the seeds.
IS they give bad taste. Remove all
the pulp from the peels, and boil In
water,-a pint for dozen pulps,-to
extract the acid. A few minutes
boiling is enough; then strain the
water with the Juice OF the lemons !;
put pound or white sugar to pint
of the eJnice; boil ten minutes; bottle
It; and your lemonade Is ready. Put
a tablespoonful or two of this iemon
syrup. in glass Of water, and you
haYe a cooling, healthy drink.
Year: 1873

During az earthquake the inhabi-
tants Of q village were very much
alarmed, but were at the same time
astonished at the calmness and appa-
rent Joy Of an old lady whom all
knew. Some one asked her If she
was not afraid. ..No,n said she, q
rejoice to know that I have u God


that cpfl shake the teOrid- y r rr
Year: 1873

The Origin OF LADIES STAYs.-Stays
were first invented by brutal butcher of
the thirteenth century as n punishment
for his wife. She was very loquacious;
and finding nothing that would cure her,
he nut pair Of stays on her in order to
take away her breath, and SO prevent, as
he thought, her talking. This cruel pun
ishment was inflicted by other husbands,
till at last there was scarcely wife in all
London who was not condemned to wear
stays. The punishment became SO uni
yersal at last that the ladies in their own
defense made II fashion of it, and so it has
continued to the present day.
Year: 1873

Gen. Garfield has putlshed a long letter in nc
ply to the resolution Of resent Republican Con-
vention at Warren, Ohio, calling upon him to re-
sign from Congress because he had voted for the
retroactive salary bill. "If" he exclaims, In con-
cluding his letter, "Ihe delegates believe the re-
tro0ctive salary clause is soinfamous that ought
to resign for voting for the appropriation bill to
which 1t was attached, will they follow out their


logic and Insist that the President ought to resign
for signing its My vote did not make 1t a law
His signature did"


Tins is all perfectly true, and 1t is not the whole
truth. The President not only signed the bill
when there was ample time for him to send IL
back TO Congress without his approval and have
the backpay clautc stricken out-and this would
certainly have been done had he intimsted that he
was opposed 10 such an act of fplunder-butworse
than this, he lobbied for the clause before it was
| adopted, evincing more anxiety for It's passage
than even Gen. Butler himself, the ostensible
father of the measure before the country aud all
this President Grant did Notwithstanding that be
had but just got himself elected President upon
the express condition that he should receive S25,-
600 year, and no moro, during his four years OF
Office. And everybody knows that IL this prOpo-
sition TO give him $4,000 year had appeared in
the platform of his party during the canvass, not
even tho purchase of the Democratic leaders In
North Carolina nor the unparalleled election
frauds in PENNSYLVANIA could have saved him from
u crushing defeat.


OF course Gen. Grant will not resign, however
great the Indignation of the people against this
act of plunder may he but the fact should not
be forgotten when the next election comes
arouud.-N. !. Sun.
Year: 1873

A WONDERFUL WAR VEssEL.-The French
Government has recently completed new
armOred vessel, which its architects believe
will lead to a complete revolution in naval
construction. Two powerful engines supply
motive power, and allow it to rush ON an en-
presents spherical surface, scarsely above
water. As if this spherical form was not E.
nOugh to prevent boarding, the vessel is pro-
vided with a number of tubes which enable
the officers to inundate the deck with scaldiDg
or beak, seven and one half feet long and
twelve inches in diameter which will enable it
to pierce the armor of the stOutest plated YES
sell Its one gun, which is on tower in the
vessel, has a range of 5000 yards
Year: 1873

The Boston horse car companies
thought to circumvent their conductors
with little implement called an alarm
punch, which gave notice every time a
passenger paid his fare and registered
the number Of fares taken. This worked
well for time, and increased the re-
ceipts of the company to surprising
extent, but soon there was falling off,
and the old fashioned kind of detectives
had to be set to work to discover where
the screw was loose in the little alarmist.
1t was finally discovered that the con-
ductors had ingeniously cireumyented
their circumventers by carrying an ex-
ira punch wherewith they could produce
the customary tinkle without registering
the receipts Of fare.
Year: 1873

The SNAIL Pox IN kent CoUSTY.-A young
man named Wheeler near WhiteleyAburg, in the
ower part Of Kent county, near the Maryland
line, died with the small p0x week before last,
and three other members of the family were
stricken with the disease. 1t is said he caught
the disease from wearing an army oyercoat which
his father purchased Of a merchant VINO had re
Gently repleni=hed HE stock of ready made cloth
lug from the city,
Year: 1873

sw-Marpeio,.s beyend precedent In the effect o
Sozopogr upon the whole economy OF the mouth
Keeping the gums rosy and healthy the teeth IN pei
fact order, giving to the breath ballny fragrance
Year: 1873

WsGrs IN FuRorr = After reading
such STATEMENTS as the following, the
wonder is, not that emigration is not
more rapid, but that SO many people in
European countries manage TO scrape
enough money together with which TO
seek more profitable fields of labor
Sixty cents day is considered good
wages for working man in any of the
European counties, except Great Brit
ain, wAcre The wages are somewhat high
CT In Tyroi silk region, and in Italy,
they often do not getmore than ten cents.
In the country, in Germany, ten cents is
the common pay Women there often
get bg, FIVE cents In Sweden, men Of


ten work from clock in the morning
till clock in the, and do not get any
more. During the late war many poor
women in Berlin were hired to knit stock
ing for soldiers for five cents The pro
fits Of the poor who keep petty shops,
sell trinkets in the streets, or act as suit


lers, DO not average more than three OF
four per cent BARRIERS in Berlin since
the raising OF the prices, get five cents
for hair cutting and two-and a half cents
for shaving. Servants at hotels get
from three to eight dollars a month


Servant girls in private fomilies often get
but ten dollars year. Sometimes these
GLASSES cannot get work at any price "
Year: 1873

Ty Life is like roll Of costly mate.
rial passing swiftly through our hands
and we must embroider our pattern on as
it goes. We cannot wait TO pick up u
false stitch, or pause too long before We
set another
Year: 1873

EI- 1t is now announced on the au-
thority Of that " eminent physician " that
il is not healthy to rise before eight
o'clock in the morning This applies
only to men Wives can rise at seven
and start the fire AS heretofore
Year: 1873

G1- One watch set right will do to try
many by; but, on the other hand, one
that goes wrong may be the means of
misleading whole neighborhood And
the same may be said of an example.
Year: 1873

HENRY Brown, a we'll known
miner, fell down a shaft of the Saw
age mine a distance of four hundred
feet and was instantly killed. This
accident of which we are apprised
by the Chronicle happened yesterday
morning.
Year: 1873

In CONNECTICUT the Republicans
elect three of the four Members of
Congress and have majority OF one
in the Senate the Democrats elect
the Governor and a majority of the
lower House of the Legislature.
Year: 1873

The farmers Of West Tennessee met
yesterday in convention at Humboldt,
and organized as promptly as men
usually do who have business to trans
act and are pressed for time. The syn
Opsis Of the resolutions passed, which
we publish by special dispatch else
wheIe, show that the farmers under
stand the power and scope of the
oranges quite as well as their brethren
Of the northwest, and are quite as deter
mined to make a right use of them.
The mOnOpolies are to feel the weight
OF that power first, and no doubt the
next legislature of Tennessee will be
elected on a platform in which the es-
seutial plank viii be relief for the
planter. The farm eTs have at last hit
upon feasible plan OF relief. They
have only to keep it out of the hands of
the hungry politicians and they will
succeed. Theirs is the paramount inter
est IN the State, and it should receive
the consideration due its importance
and their numbers. Let them see to If
that they make no entangling alliances,
and they cannot only elect their candi-
{ oates, but control the State. The
oranges will continue to find in the AP-
PEAL warm friend and advocate.
Year: 1873

The jury have decided the case OF
young WalwOrth, on trial in New York
for the murder of his father. The YER
dict is murder in the second degree, en-
falling, we believe, the sentence Of i'm
pIisonment in the penitentiary for life.
This viii be a disappointment on all
sides. The friends of the muir
dered father looked for verdict
that would bring the patricide
10 the gallows, while those who allowed
theirjudgment to be overridden by their
sympathies, had made up their minds
to an acquittal and release. We be-
heve the jury have done well.
They could not overlook the
accumulating provocation afforded by
the father, nor the enormity of the deed
OF the avenging son. The verdict is
just, and we hope the sentence will be as
severe as the law allows. If the young
man is subject to epneptic fits, or to
dangerous MOODS, the penitentiary is a
good place to indulge both without iniu-
~ to his neighbors, and without excit-
ing their spprehensions. Then, too.
something is due the society whose
most sacred laws he violated. The
manner Of his taking of is to be re-
gretted, otherwise the demise of the vel
low-cOvered Walworth is a blessing.
The imprisonment for life of his equally
crazy son viii very properly supplement-
the tragedy, which is the most shock
ing crime Of the year, viewed in any
light.
Year: 1873

Boston, July 2.-Reports that the
condition OF Vice-President Wilson's
health was causing a renewal of anxiety
are without foundation. He is enjoying
the needed season of quiet and rest in
the country.
Year: 1873

PROPOSED VOYAGE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC


Professor John Wise, the we'll known aero
naut, has it in contemplation to make bal
loon-trip across the Atlantic next summer,
preparations for the great aerial voyage be-
ing in course of arrangement now. The
Professor, it will be remembered, made the
famous air trip from St. Louis to the eastern
extremity of Lake Ontario, a distance of
over twelve hundred miles, in the short space
of nineteen hours. or at the rate of about
sixty-three miles an hour. He feels entirely
confident of his ability to make the quickest
trip on record across the Atlantic. Quite
number of scientific gentlemen have made
application to accompany him in this great
est of all ballooning expeditions. AS show
ing how far America is ahead in aeronautics,
so far as distance travelled is concerned, the
longest trip ever made by European bal
loonist was only four hundred miles, while'
that of Professor Wise was three times
that distance, and, what is more, the greater
portion of it was accomplished in the midst
of cyclone, and with three passengers be-
sides himself. Philadelphia Star.