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Year: 1872

Rev. Chauncey Giles, pastor of the
Swedepbnrgian church in Thirty-fifth
street, Yesterday preached from Isaiah
TX. 20 Thy sun shall no more go
down, neither shall thy moon with
draw itself, for the Lord shall be thine
everlasting life and the days of thy
mourning shall be ended" The
pastor, speaking of the text, said =
1t is not figure; it is not an Orien-
talism il is not an eXtravagant way
of saying that those who obeythe Lord
will come into clear knowledge of
truth. 1t is a statement of things to
which it relates, as they are in the
spiritual world. 1t gives US glimpse
of one most important fact, as we
shall see it when the Lord in His
mercy permits us to enter that world.
1t tells there Is q sun and moon there,
that the Lord is that sun, and that its
shining will never be interrupted I;
the sun will never go down. There
is light in the spiritual world, then.
1t is q clear and steady light. What
we call death is not going down into
darkness; it is rising into new and
clearer light Our children and loved
ones are not in the cold and darkness
and dampness Of the sepulchre, they
are in the warmth aud the brightness
of spiritual and divine sun, whose
clear and steady shining fills the
world in which they live with light.
How comforting and beautiful the
thought! If set out with the idea
that the material sun is the only one,
we shall regard everything that is
said about the Lord as q sun, and
about the light of truth as mere
figure of speech and If We take the
idea so often stated in the Scriptures,
directly or by implication, that the
Lord is sun, that spiritual heat and
light, which are love and truth, flow
from Him, we shall find q meaning
which will give us much comfort
and hope. The doctrines of the New
Church, he said, regard every subject
and question from spiritual point of
view. If there had been no spiritual.
world there would have been no ma
terial world. If there had been no
spiritual sun there would have been
no material sun; there is spiritual
light and that light is truth. The
light OF the material sun has its
origin in spiritual light; IL is light
because il performs the same Office in
the material world that the spiritual
light does in the spiritual world. The
Year: 1872

was extended to the thousands whose
houses were burned in Chicago, 50
must they extend help to those
plunged in moral darkness. There
was a great amount Of suffering in the
world from lack Of trust in God, from
no confidence in a coming immor-
tality. Christ was so much divine
that He can lift Us up TO where He is.
His prayer was that they all might be
so lifted nm. ....u
Year: 1872

CHICKEN SALAD.-Boil two chick
ems until quite tender, and when cold
euJ the meat in small pieces about the
size of grains of corn, discarding all
fat, skin, gristle, etc. Mix with it an
equal portion of celery cut fine, and
half hour before eating, dress as fol-
lows: Boil four eggs hard, and when
cold chop them fine and mix with the
chicken and celery, and sprinkle over
all large teasp0onful of salt. Put the
yelk Of four raw eggs in an earthen
pudding dish and pour on them, drop
BY drop, half teacup Of pure olive
oil, stirring rapidly with a wooden
spoon until it thiekens like cream
then add slowly three-fOurths of q
teacup of vinegar and one tablespoon
ful of mustard and half a spoonful of
cayenne pepper. Set the dish con
tanning the dressing on the stove and
stir constantly until it begins to
thicken. Take off Immediately, and
when cold pour it over the salad and
mix thoroughly through it. Garnish
the dish in which it goes to the table,
with the fresh heads from the celery,
and you will have a most beautiful
aud delicious dish.
Year: 1872

crea asingin potency to the last day OF


his imprisonment.n That is the whole
philosophy in a nutshell OF true and
reforElatOFy prison discipline. And


that is the true solution ofthe wonder
full decrease of crime and laWlessness


in that land within the past fifteen
years. ~


The prison at Lusk DR.. Wines found
without bolts or bars, and yet he new
er saw 3 higher degree of discipline
anywhere than is there exercised. ''In
the prison of Wakefield, West Riding
4of Yorkshire, industrial labor is well
organized, and the prison has cash
capital of one hundred thousand dol
lars, all OF which is the result Of the
earnings of the prisoners. 1t is very
nearly self-suppOrting. Two Homes,


one for male and the other for dis
charged female prisoners, established
in connection with this prison, are
worthy of special commendation and
ought to be widely initiated"


The prisons of Belgium the Doctor
found among the best conducted OF
any in Europe, and as worthy Of praise
to-day as they were a century ago,
when the self-saerificing John How
ard visited them. The result of DR..
Wines's trip to Europe is that an In.
ternational Prison Congress is to as
semble In London in the month Of
August, in the present year. And
the readiness with which the Euro
pean governments appointed their
commissioners and delegates gives
abundant proof that the subject Of
prison reform had already pressed its
claims upon their attention. The true
principle of all our criminal reforms
should be, that "where sin abounds
grace should much more abound"
and no man spould be cast off as utter
ly unworthy of self-government-
certainly not in this land-until sOcie-
ty can show that it has done every
thing in its power to help him to stand
alone. Let the Christian Church, then
do its duty. and take those classes of
by the hand, instead of jost-
ling them out of the way or passing
them by on the other side as unfit for
notice. -...
Year: 1872

Nervous children get the least pity,
and are treated worst. Grown people
think they have q right TO monopo-
lie all the nervousness in the world;
and so, while forgiving their own.
sins on the score of nervousness, they
set down those of the child, who has
inherited their aER temperament, to
total depravity.
Year: 1872




sl,S7O,2 2S5 in 1872


There is nothing in the sporadic incurslons and
of measures now in force for the treatment OF the
Indian tribes. so far from any change OF policy
being decided upon or being Indicated as neces-
slry by the events OF the year, there Is abundant
reason to take oil proper steps to render the policy
more efficient wherever it may be found necessary
Seu Sa to Of
various religious associations of the country have
been OF the highest value. The missionary author
tics have done well In their portion OF the work.
They have not only generally nominated as agents
good men, whose hearts are in the work, but they
have nodded and directed healthy public Sentl-
ment favorable to the Indian policy, without which
no measure Of governmental policy In this country
can, can be entirely successful They have done @ 50 SO
assume the appearance OF suggesting or advising
any change in their methods. Yet cannot refrain
sistant secretary OF the Interior, who made very
extensive tour of inspection among the wild tribes
OF the Upper Missouri River during the past SUM-
mer:-


have returned from my three months among the
Indians han conyncsd ofthe proprsty and the
dian Affairs Il time Be given, Il must more and more
rs s to
eurated d ali its detiis It seems me however that
Tsssden i the ssIsSi!ss%sns If soi,sy invited
and the department expected them 70 name men oi in
This has been done in highly SATISFACTORY manner But
as Ts Of nSSa IssSss
men, not only in favor of the policy but who will
take active in promoting 1t in oil its details This
only bo done properly, as believe by men of pro-
nounccd religious convictions. It is not enough
that agents willing to tolerate missionary
men who can and will render efficient aid
themselves in the work, and cordially acquesce in all
proper missionary appliances There now men on
duty agents who although good business men, have
confidence whatever In the capacity or disposition Of the
Indian tor moral or mental improvement nor any desire
apparently to see the experiment tried Such men are
obstacles to the missionary branch Of the present policy
OF the government, whom i am well satisfied the
move their attention invited to the subject
These remarks apply to all government employees
at the agencies . . !.
would gladly perfected and carried out to its full
est extent and capacity Jhe religious bodies have
dcred such valuable assistance In the past and seem
heartily in accord with the executive and the department
that they will undoubtedly act upon the suggestion made
above, and wherever IL may be necessary replace unfit
agents by those who will be entirely satisfactory to the
department. while at the time carrying out in other
particulars the details OF the peace policy.


concur in the suggestions made by the Assist
ant secretary; and the department has received
evidences from majority OF the missionary socie-
ties having part in this work that those sugges-
tons are Received in the most cordial Christian
spirit and will be acted upon wherever 1t may be
found TO be necessary. ~>-g,,'sss.ss.sN ..ts..


PUBLIC LANDS
During the last fiscal year public lands were dis


lH
Year: 1872

ENGLAND's Duty TO AFRICA.-Almost for the first
time In history, declares the Spectator it has be-
come possible to act on the advice offered by Lord
Brougham forty years ago, and declare the kidnap-
ping of human beings by sea-going vessels piracy,
to be punished in any port after the trial. with the
highest sentence of the law 1t Is, believe, per-
fectly possible for Lord Granville, who is exerting
himself heartily to put down the slave trade in
Eastern Africa, to obtain an agreement from all
the civilized Powers establishing code OF two or
three clauses which in five years would stamp the
ping in Zanzibar, In the FIJI Islands and In the
Archipelago, and relieve humanity finally Of an in
tOerablc burden. 1t Is for England to take the in
itiativo In this work, not only because public
opinion here Is matured np0n the subject not only
because she has for half q century led the way
GalliOs like Lord Pamerston being on this point
as determined as the most fervent OF phanthio-
pists-but because it is the one cosmopolitan work
OF rivalry and dsinterestedness she feels just now
competent to perform. Nothing lowers the stand.
ard OF a nations character like the abnegatOn OF
every duty to the world and 1t Is to this selfish Sc
cluson that this country, "weary," the Germans
say, ''Of action" weiry as we should say, OF the
contrast between the grandeur OF its external
people, now rapidly tends. We have surrendered
the guardianship OF feeble States the defence OF
Freedom and even the protection OF the Protestant
faith, and are fast becoming convinced that no
thing Is worth an effort except the preservation OF
our trade. The suppression OF kidnapping through
out the world Is, however, duty we can still, II
please, perform, for 1t Is one on which the public
mind Is not seriously divided, or divided only by
disagreement as to the expedient method.
Year: 1872

The great cry of the Democratic Office
seekers is the complaint of dishonesty
in the present Republican administration
and the promise of an entire reformation
under Democratic rule. To form an idea
Of what we might expect under their rule
let us see what they have done when they
were in power. American Democracy
commenced with the election of their
President Gen. Jackson. lie was the
first that. proposed and carried out the
pernicious principle that ''to the
victors belong the spoils." He re-
moved every Office holder that was not
for him and what was the resuIt2 Out
of the revenue which amounted then to
only about thirty millions, one million
was stolen by one man in the New York
Custom House, being nearly as much as
has benn stolen under the present ad-
ministration in collecting and disbursing
seventy times that amount. Under Van
Buren's administration Of the ninety
eight receivers of public money, nienty-
six became defaulters, and what is still
worse, these thieves never were punish
ed. But let US look at more recent oc-
currences.


Look at the short reign of Andy. John
son who are the thieves that are still
found among the Office holders under the
present Administration? They are most
ly men who were appointed by that Presi-
dent. Why is it that sixty seven million
dollars MORE were collected during the
first fifteen months of the present Ad-
miniStration, than during the proceeding
fifteen month under the same la.cs under
Johnson's Administration ? because just
sixty-seyen millions were stolen and the
Government has lost them.


Look at New York tha. has been in
the hands Of the Democracy for years and
what an awful picture Of gigantic fraud
and loathsome corruption does it present.
The leaders of the New York Democra-
cy stole the entire control and revenue OF
the Erie Railroad, they stole the result
Of the State election in 1868 from Grant,
they stole millions upon millions from the
City, corrupted Judges, jurics, lawyers.
Mayor and Aldermen, in fact, every man
and everything that came within their
reach. They are all members and lead
ers Of that party, that now claims to be
the advocate of honesty and civil reform
and that dares to ask the aid aud support
OF the American people, to restore its
chiefs to power and affluence, and then
again to destroy the financial and ciyi
success Of the present Government which
has won the wonder and admiration oI
the whole civilised world. If such De
mocracy ever obtains the supremacy. the
ruin of our Republic is doomed forever
Year: 1872

After all, is the world SO very alb


surd in its love of pretty woman?


Is women so very ridiculous ir her


chase after beauty? A pretty woman


is doing wonian's work in the world ,


but not making speeches, nor making


puddinSs, but making life SUMMER


and more beautiful. Man has for


sworn the pursuit of beauty altogeth-


er. Does he seek it for himself, he


is guessed to be frivolous, he is


guessed to be poetic. there are


whispers that his morals are no bet


ter than they should be. In society


resolute to be ugly there is no post


for an Adonis, but that of model or


guardsman. But woman does for


mankind what man has ceased to do.


Her aim from childhood is to be


beautiful. Even as school girl she


notes the progress of her charms, the
deepening color Of her hair, the grow
ing symmetry of her arm, the ripen-
ing contour of her cheek. We watch,
with silent interest, the mysterious
reveries of the maiden; she is dream
ing of coming beauty, and painting
for the glories of eighteen. Insensi-
bly,, she becomes an artist, her room
is q studio. her glass an academy.
The JOY of her toilet is the JOY Of
Raphael over his canvas. of Michael
Augelo over his marble. She is
creating beauty in the silence and
the loneliness of her chamber; she
grows like any art-creation. the re-
suit of patience, of hope. of a thou
sand delicate toucbings Woman is
never perfect; never complete. A
restless night undoes the beauty of
the day; sunshine blurs the evan
escent coloring of her cheek; frost
nips the tender outlines of her face
into sudden harshness. Care plows
its lines across her brow; mother
hood destroys the elastic lightness of
her form; the bloom of her cheek,
the quick fash Of her eye, fade and
as the years go by. But
woman is still true to her ideal. She
won't know when she is beaten, and
she manages to steal fresh victories
even in her dofeat She invents new
of womanly grace; she
rallies at forty, and fronts US with
the beauty of womanhood; she makes
q last stand at sixty. with the beauty
of age. She lalls like Cesar, wrap
ping her mantle round her-''buried
in woolen! 'twould saint provokew
Death listens pitifuily to the longings
of a lifetime, and the wrinkled face ,
smiles with something of the pref
tiness of eighteen.
Year: 1872

Many a man, with the aid of dress,
appears on the street to be in perfect
health, and we can never tell, until we
have lived with him under the same
roof, and sat with him at the same table,
that his hair was another's, that one eye
was of glass, that one limb was of cork,
and that after every meal he was racked
with dyspeptic pains; that for the first
hour or two of every morning he was
racked with the cough of a chronic
bronchitis. and never knows what 1t Is
to enjoy full nights refreshing sleep.


So it is with the characters of men.
We may visit them and they may visit
us; we may be in the same church Tor
wears, and transact much public bust
ness together, but it is impossible
form any true estimate of a mans prin-
ciples until we have had an opportunity
of trusting him and he of trusting US.
The truth is, no man can be assured
that he is en- honest man until he has
had an opportunity of cheating his
friend out of a thousand dollars without
being found out-and didn't do it. No
wonder the Bible cautions us all to go
softly" and "let him that standeth
take heed lest he fall.
Year: 1872

The notion that those who work only
with their brains need less food than
those who work with their hands has
been the cause of much untold mischief.
Students and literary men have often
been the victims of "a slow starvation,
from their Ignorance of the fact that
mental labor causes greater waste of
tissue than muscular. According TO
careful estimates, three hours of hard
study wears out the body more than
whole day of work at an anvil or on
farm. "Without phosphorus, no
thought" is German saying; ani
the consumption of that essential in-
gredient of the brain increases accord
ing to rre amonnt of iapOr which the
organ IN required TO perform. This wear
and tear of the brain Is easily measured
by careful examination of the salt in
the liquid eXcretiOns. The importance
OF the brain rs a working organ is
shown by the amount OF blood i: re-
ceives, which is proportionally greater
than that OF any other part of the
body. One-fiith of the blood goes to
the brain. throngh its average weight
of the body. This fact alone would be
sufficient to prove that brsin-workers
need more food and better than me-
chanics and farm laborers.
Year: 1872

A little girl four years had learned
the verse, Ask, and it Nspall be given
you; seek, and ye shah find; knock,
and it shall be open unto you. When
a few days afterward she was asked to
recite her verse she said quite giibly:
Seek, anil ye shall find; ask, and you
shall be knocked.
Year: 1872

Some young Texas hunters, feeling
cold, built fire in the woods. About
the time it got well under way they
had reason TO believe that the fire had
been built over their powder flask, for
the only one who was not hurt by the
explosion ouuted the others as they
came down.
Year: 1872

~-r TIONAL COMMITTEE-WHEN 1T MEETS,


VIE CONTINGENCIE5 THAT MUST GOVERN


" ~ONDUCT.


Icy TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBuNB.i


.SGToN, March Sit is stated on the
authority Of Democratic members OF Congress, that
call for meeting Of the National Democratic
Committee will De issued within tho next
fortnight and that the time for the meeting will
be fixed for day early in May The Visit of August
Belmont the Chairman OF the Committee. TO this city,
last week. was for the purpose Of consulting the leading
Democrats in both Houses OF Congress as
10 the propriety OF calling the Committee
together at an early day. At the infor-
NAL gathering which was hold last week;
the opinion was expressed by several persons present
that tho passive action Of the Democracy ought not 10
be disturbed the present. and that no meeting Of the
Committee should be called at present. Tie weight Of
opinion, however, upon the other side, and 1t Is
said that Mr. Belmont has since his return to York
expressed his intention OF bringing the Committee
together soon after the meeting OF the Cincinnati Con-
Year: 1872

SOLD woodsmen have noticed that beech
es and sycamores are not liable to be struck
by lightning" The reason is that such
trees contain but little iron in them, while
many of the oaks and other dark-wooded
trees contain considerable; and it is, no
doubt, the presence Of iron that makes the
intense heat that is given off when red or
black oaks are burned, or other dark wood
ed trees. SO it must naturally follow that
trees which contain iron in them will be
more subject to be struck by lightning or
electricity.
Year: 1872

From Lippincotts Magazine.


We are fond of laughing at the antigua
rian nations and slow progress of "the old
country" but somehow in these latter DAYS
she seems to go pretty well ahead, and, as
one of our eminent eountrymen observed,
London has during the past half century
gone on increasing with the rapidity Of a
Western township. Whilst we talk about
''rapid transit" the old metropolis of Eng
land has railways running over and under
her in every direction, and there is no large
city in the world where ingress and egress
are so easy. Then the postal arrangements
are almost perfect. Before we get the
great convenience, postcards, they will be
quite an old institution in London, which
after only few months followed the lead
of Vienna, the original patentee in this ma
tional convenience. The rapid delivery Of
letters is greatly accelerated in London by
the fact that nearly ever house in all the re-
| spectacle streets throughout the town is
supplied with box, into which the post
man drops the letter, and forthwith hurries
on. This plan, only very slightly adopted
| here, is an immense economy of time, men
and money to the department. Almost
every month the authorities of the
postoffiCe and telegraph devise some
new plan for the public convenience. A re-
cent invention is an arrangement by which
the sender of telegraphic dispatch, about
| whose transmission there is mo- violent
hurry, can put the requisite stamps upon it
and drop it in the nearest postofiice box,


when it will be transmitted so soon as the
box is opened, a proceeding which takes
place nearly every hour.


The last novel improvement, Of another
kind, reported, is plan to supply fresh salt
water to the metropolis from Brighton, a
distance of fifty miles, so that when in the
heart of London you can jump out of bed
| into one of the waves which was few days
before rolling in from America. The water
is TO be CONVEYED by a series Of lifts to the
top of the Southdown Hills, whence it will
gravitate through enamelled pipes to the
West End of London. The supply is esti-
mated at million Of gallons day.
Year: 1872

ATTENTION has been directed to the sig
nifcant fact that, while nearly all of our
late Presidents have been nominated either
at Baltimore or Cincinnati, and candidates
selected at Philadelphia have been defeated.
The coming election wiz be no exception
to The past rule.
Year: 1872

THE State of Michigan is entitled.to the
credit ofhaving taken the lead in legislation
against accidental murder. In that State
the pointing of firearm, loaded or unloaded,
at fellow citizen is adjudged misdemean-
or,punisl La aAle by fine and imprisonment, and
if damage comes of such criminal folly, the
perpetrator is held responsible, pecuniarily
and crimnally. Other States would do
well to pass a similar law. II every man
who points a gun or a pistol at a fellow
being were sent to prison for six months, it
would probably have salutary effect in
stopping the practice.