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Year: 1875

1t is a common saying that 1--WE Judge
others by ourselves" A scandal monger,
according to this rule, believes all others
to love scandal; libertine is quite sure
others are like himself; thief who sue
ceeds in his exploits, congratnlates him
self that he is more cunning than others,
who would have done the same things
had they been bold enough. A flirt
practices on others what she supposes
others would, If they could, practice on
her This is a low. selfish standard by
which to judge others, but mlny have no
higher. Can river rise higher than its
source2 Can a dog reason? Can he
pray? Can he forgive? There are hui
man beings among US who still live in
their animal passions, and are not de
veloped much above their animal in
stincts. How can they be expected to
Judge righteous judgment? Can such
persons come to correct conclusions? In
one sense, they are still in childhood
the childhood of undeveloped intellect
and of moral sentiment One may h ave
lived to be old and gray, like many whom
we know, and still be only "boys." In
general society, how many there are,
men and women in bodily stature, who
need the watchful care OF a Guardian, and
to be directed 10y an "overserr." How
can such creatures do otherwise than act
as children. feel as children, and be as
children? Call them mental dwarfs if
YOU wilt but here they are


We repeat, tattling gossps, prurient
scandal mongers. and malicious SANDER
ers naturally suppose others to be like
themselves. So of the libertine, seducer
thief, gormand, glutton, mIser, mischief
maker, miscreant. But there is u higher
criterion than ones self by which to
Judge OF men and things. That criterion
is God. Let each however low his con
c-ptions, and however limited his mental
or moral reach, carry his case or his
cause to this higher court or tribunal
and he will obtain a Judgment somewhat
above that of his own poor fallIble com
prehension. But men, low down in de
velopment, do not often go to this high
court for counsel They 20 where they
hope to secure a verdict in their own Ia
vor, be it right, or be it wrong lew
more just persons seek only the right,
though the case may go against them.


Thus we see that, though we may ordi
narily '.jud Ie others by ourselves" there
is higher and a better standard for ar
irving at the truth. Let Us, each OF U.s.
learn all we can in this matter of Judging
ourselves and one another, but let US be
very careful not to misjudge-especially
let us be just. and mercIiul as just in our
judgments, always submitting the case.
whether of ourselves or of another, to
Almighty God, and abiding whatever de
cision he may pass theiienpon.
Year: 1875

the fowls of the air came and lodged II


its Iranches-the little leaven that thu


woman put in her meal, and it leaveneo
| the whole lump. l never see or hear hi
name but l say, Heaven bless him
| There is such urgent need for more Mr.
| Berghs, especially in my native South
! where the whip seems yet to he the pas
I time of some of the inhabitants.


There is another topic in this connec
ton which one seldom hears much about
| the seuere punishment of children by thei'
parents. II is a dsagreeable subject, bu'
If tender children can endure the reality


surely for the sake of reform, we ma!
read of it. Many parents spare th'
rod when a slight inhiction would re


form the child, and wait until he is thor
oughly spoiled" by habit; and then
when their anger is sufficiently aroused
give a terrific beating-not only that, bur
prevent the child from crying, stop what
nature demands as an outlet for pain


Those very persons could not bear, with
out writhing, five strokes upon then
toughened, fuil-grown flesh, while they
may make the soft flesh of child beal
perhaps fifty or IL hundred, and that with
out cry. 1t ought TO be a rule for every
parent and teacher to strike himself with
the rod at least once, and with as much
force as he uses upon his offending child,
and know how it ieels before he infiicts
it; and policemen should seize the man
or woman who prevents child from cry
ing reasonably when it is hurt | speak
strongly, because my sympathies have
been put upon the rack by these brutal
ties, and they are common, even among
otherwise respectable people, and should
be exposed.


What the child needs is to be taught
prompt obedience from his infancy when
Il firm word or judicious management is
all that is needed to quell him; and all
his habits should be so supervised that
an evil trait can not develop for want oi
exercise This is ten thousand times
the easier way to train youth, as any
sensible mother will tell you. One must
jud re of her capabiiity as mother. how
ever, by her obtdient, Thoughtful chill
drtn, and not by her general knowledge,
tor the wisest are often dolefully ignorant
OF child-nature.


1t may be said that when all the re
forms one could wish for have been made
the Millennium will have arrived. Would
there be any harm in each one of US try
ing, by our own conduct, to hurry that
good time? Would that this paper could
set one cruel person seriously to think
ing or prompt him to one act of obedi-
ence 10 thtSGolden Rule, in place OF
premeditated cruelty! Would that it
could cause some cowardly tvrant to
realize how he should feel If his back
were scored, and cause him to spare some
poor urchin horse, or animal! Perad
venture he might thenceforward adopt
the habit of kindness to all creatures.
Year: 1875

In view of the stern duties each and
every human being is called on to per-
form, on his way through life, let him
never forget the fact, that those of high
and holy motives-men who seek the
good OF their fellow men-will meet with
rebutfs, opposition, persecution, cry y,
and, sometimes, life itself will be imper-
lied. 1t is not long since men were
hooted at. pelted with eggs, even lynched,
because they opposed the extension of
human slavery in this, our boasted land
of liberty. To be an abolitionist in the
South was considered as bad as to be a
horse thief in the North. Honest men
proclaimed the truth, though struck
down by bludgeons for so doing Tenn
prrance men and women are denounced
a. fanatics, and have been mobbed while
praying to have drunkard making men
discontinue their bad business. Most of
the apostles were put to death for preach
ing Christian principles, while the Au-
thor Of our Religion was cruelty wicked
ly, crucified In view of these Facts, can
not we stand up maniully in defense OF
our profoundeSt convictions? If we do
know that the use OF poisonous alcohol,
tobacco, opium, and other stimulating or
narcotic drugs, with the entire list of
quack nostrums, is not only il furious
when taken into the stomach, but the
direct cause which leads to drunkenness,
crime, and premature death, ought we
not to be brave and plucky enough to
defend the right though the devil and
all his legions opposeP Aye, the want of
this age is clear minded, conscientious
honest, unperverted men and women-
such as will not finch in the time of trial
Calling one hard names doesn't make
him a bad man. Reiormers have been
charged with infdelity, but that did not
make them so. Martin Luther was call
ed an apostate, but he was not dscour-
aged in his work of religious reform.
Priessnitz was called a cold water quack.
but his methods. to great degree, have
been adopted in all the hospitals through
out Christendom; and water dressing for
wounds are now the rule, and thousands
are thereby saved who would, under the
old dry-lint treatment, have perished.


Progress and Improvement may be
seen in all countries where there is men
tai activity and religious freedom.


At present, we are i'll Il state OF transi-
tion from the curses of negro slavery,
civil war, and the barbarities of savages
on our frontier settlements. But we
shall overcome all these, and in good
time emerge from the darkness OF ignor-
ance, superstition, and wickedness, into
the light of intelligence, reasonable
faith, good health, and true Godliness.
Year: 1875

A good many years ago, when publish
ing newspapers in Michigan was a brig
andish sort OF business, a man known as
ole Sol Shipley" was employed on a
jcdrnal in Eaton County. lie had just
come from the East, and was in MOI tai
terror of wolves bears and the other wild
animals abounling in the swampS and
forests. The proprietor OF the paper had
Il big dog, which took n great liking to
Shipley. One evening the old man start
ed to go out to a farmers, about a mile
from town. where there was to be II grand
hoe down" and the dog sneaked after
him, skulking along so softly that Old
Sol ddn see him until clear of the VII
lage. Then happening to turn around
he found the dog at his heels, and he
made clean jump of ten feet, believing
that a wolf was with him. The dog gave
yelp and made after him, and Shipley
fi-w down the road like rabbit going
FOR a hollow log. The dog kept close to
him, thinking it was all in fun, and the
printers yells were plainly heard half n
mile away. Nearing the house he
thought the wolf was gaining on him,
and he turned aside and began circling
around a log barn and yelling with all his
might. The folks came running down
the road, but they saw what was up, and
they stood back and yelled Tor Shipley
to put in his best licls until they could
get IL gun. And then they stood there
and counted until he had made the cir
cult of the house thirtytive times At
last he found his legs failing and he
would yell out as he came around


"Oh, Lor'-githegun-giterquick-give
ye fifty dollarl'


The race came near using him up,
When he stopped he had but one boot
on and was bareheaded, and no one could
ever find the missing articles.
Year: 1875

he world, His way of keeping a secret
$ entirely peculiar.


Now comes Mrs. Moulton, wife of the


mutual friend. Her husband told her


he story. She told Beecher that Frank


lad told her ALL Beecher said he was


lad of it, as that gave him one woman
lie could talk to- Elizabeth had also told
Ter, and thus she also became a mutual


riend, carrying messages from one to
the other Beecher talked freely to Mrs
Moulton, who gave him some advice, aud
lissed him. That was kind but peculiar.
IN another occasion Moulton took
Beecher into a room where his wife was,
md left hlm there The wife says
Beecher remained three hours. She
:aused him to lie down on a lounge, COW
red him over, took a char and sat
,longside: Whether she kissed him on
that occasion she did not say, but being
,ross-examined, admitted she could not
tell how many times she kissed him. On
mother occasion she threw her arms


round Beecher's neck and begged Frank
10 save the good man-the good man
being the alleged dehaucher of a friends
wife, and also prominent teacher OF
religion. Mrs. Moulton was a member
of Beechers church, but she could not
receive the communion from his hands,
although she could spend hours with him
n her own house, kiss him. throw her
rms around his neck, and pronounce
aim good All this was very peculiar.


We do not refer to this for the pur
pose of strengthening Beecher's case.
We do not choose to discuss the question
of guilt or innocence until the testimony
is all IN, but We have to say that the
Brooklyn set, according to their own
showing, are models of society that are
to be avoided. There can be no purity
where such loose ideas of propriety pre-
vail. The city, whose society would be
toned by such a set as that to which we
refer would be worse than Sodon, where
there was but one good man, and he got
drunk at last


Upon the whole, men and women who
do not care to'be suspected of the pecu-
liarities of the Brooklyn set, should see
that the cut of their hair corresponds
with the usual style. Men had better
not even part their hair in the middle.
We know of an editor who does the lat
ter, and he is peculiar. Peculiar people
are to be avoided - Cincinnati Gazette.
Year: 1875

HEBREW BENEVOLENT SocIErY.-The an.
pual meeting Of the Hebrew Benevolent So


ciety will be held at the Eleventh.Street
synagogue Oh Sunday afternoon at O'Clock


This Society was established about seven
years ago for the purpose of aiding the
worthy resident poor among the Israelites ol
the city. To secure large membership the
dues were put at the low rate of ten cents q
week. This small tax has up to this time
been sufficient to detray all calls upon the
Society; but, as the winter season is always
hard one for the poor, it is desirable to in'
crease the membership Of the Society, so as
to give more efficient aid. This end will nc
doubt be reached at the meeting tomorrow
Year: 1875

THE BILL FOR TAXING TIE DISTRICT sHoRN OF IT'S


WORST FEATUREs-THE TAX OF II PER CENT
: FALLING FAR SHORT OF THE DEFICIENCY-EX-


GOV. DENNIsoN PREVAILED UPON TO REMAIN AS


COMMISSIONER.


IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNRl


WASHINGTON, March 3.-The District Tax bill has
passed both Houses shorn of all of the Objectionable
features which had been saddled upon it in the
House Committee on the District of Columbia, at
the instance of the old Ring. The bill orders the
levy of tax of II per cent all real and personal
property in the District the tax to be payable in
two equal installments Although the rate Of taxa
ton is lower than it has been in Washington for
several years. it is only fair that the people should
be at least partially relieved during the next fiscal
year. since during the current year they have been
obliged to pay the two taxes, one OF and
the other Of per cent, besides heavy assess
ments for special improvements. The tax of
II per cent the present real estate valuation in
the District, will produce $1,350,000. Deducting 10
per cent for delinquencies land this is very low
rate there is left $1,215.OO0. If to this be added
S200O0 for licenses and water rents the aggregate
amount raised in the District Will be 81 $4,000 The
necessary expenses of the District Government for
the next year. as estimated by the District Commits
sioners, will amount to S9,12O,OOO. leaving de-
ficiency to be provided for by the Government of
S1,650O0O


The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill contains an
item for the District of 81 100000 80 that about
$500 900 will have to be appropriated for this
purpose in a deficiency bill by the next Congress.
This is the result of less than three years Ring rule
in Washington Previous to the creation of the late
Territorial Government in the District, the highest
tax known here II per cent, and has been
since the war as low as $500 of per cent Then
the proceeds of this tax paid all of the expenses OF
the District Government, including interest on
debt, &C. Now the highest rate Of taxation ever
levied before the ruinOus rule of the Ring began,
will not pay one-haf of the current expenses Of the
District Government


AS reported in THE TRIBUNE two or three days
ago, ex-Gov. Dennison, one of the District Commits
sloners had determined to resign, and the President
intended to appoint Representatives Harmer, Chair
man of the House Committee on the District Affairs,
in Lis place. The fact that Mr.. Harmer has always
been friend of the old Ring is notorious that
leading members of both parties opposed making
any provision for raising tax IN the District to be
dSbursed under his direction; and, when 1t became
apparent that if Gov. Dennison should persist in
his determination to resign the Tax bill would fail,
he reluctantly consented to remain.
Year: 1875

The short Summer nights and the
long twilights of this region are just
now the subject of remark. It is not
fairly dark until after nine O'Clock at
night, and day breaks before three in
the morning. When the nights are
shortest, it is day break by half past
two. So much light will help to ac-
count for the rapid growth Of vegeta-
tiOn.
Year: 1875

Mr. o'Conor was not as strong last night as he was
yesterday morning The great number of people who
call upon him annoy him very much He had a num-
Der Of visitors yesterday and last night but he did not
see any persons but two ladies. His diet was al
tered to toast and water by advice OF his
physicians There is to be consultation to-
day about Mr.. o'Conors between Doctors
Van Buren and Keyes. Mr.. oConor's pulse had
fallen so much that the doctors little frightened
and must consult His sleep is very bad and Mr. Sloan
very anxious and thought that he would have very
difficult night Rose Bray the nurse, is attending Mr..
OConor TO the last with fidelity, and there is clerk
who time in Mr.. oConor's Office and who
has been studying law with the eminent jurst, who
all questions that asked OF him by saying that
Mr.. 0'Conor is in the same condition.
Year: 1875

The situation at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum has not
changed only that the patients very much worse
than Sunday night Some of the sick children will
have be moved Today from the main building to the
cottage in which there twenty y-ive patients at
uresent
Year: 1875

Peter Haberg, conductor OF car No So on the Eighth
avenue line, yesterday evening assaulted ana
knocked OF the platform by a stawart looking
named Daniel McGule, at the corner OF West Broad
way and Canal street The latter taken into
tody by officers OF the Fifth precinct
Year: 1875

THE GRAHAMITE PATENT OPPOSED.
WHY THE COURSE or THE COMPANY Is LOOKED


UPON WITH SUSPICION.


TO the EdftOr Of The Trtbune.


SIR Like your correspondent of this morning.
who claims that certain afiidavts can be produced
by the officers of the "Grahamito Pavement Com
panyn but does not produce them, the officers of
that Company impudently assert that tho city
authorities and Board of Health have declared in
favor of their pavement but cannot prove their as
serton. II is true that young assistant inspector
of the Board of Health. by the name of A. McLane
Hamilton. has thought it worth while to look out
side of the district assigned him, and to write to
his superior officer in the Health Board n letter
recommending the Grabamite pavement. This let
ter it would appear was written under the dictatlon
of the Grahamite Pavement Company, or without
full inquiry into the merits of the subject What
object there was in the production Of this letter it
might be difficult to learn 1t is understood that the
stock of the Grahamtc Pavement Company has been
placed "where it would do the most good" and the
name of at least one officer in the City Government
can be given who, on taking official position where
it was supposed he might have to advocate or oppose
this pavement returned to the Company stock which
had been presented to him. When such an example
is known those who step aside from the strict line
of duty to advocate something outside of their
proper official sphere cannot fe5 aggreved if their
action is looked upon with suspicion. AVENUE.


Neu- YoTE, Feb. TO- 1878.
Year: 1875

WHAT is THE DIFFERENCE f-wHY WON'T AS


PHALTE" DO FOR FIFTH-AvE.f


TO the Edftor Of The Tribune.


SIR Can you inform US who want to know the
bottom facts of the pending paving question what is
the composition Of tho "Grahamiter The other
day stated in your columns what the French
"Asphalto" was made Of; now let us have the in
gradients Of the otheri When wrote before was
not aware how different Ia appearance tho two
were; but since then have procured bit Of the
Grahamite and compared it with bit Of Asphalte
Now these two specimens. each taken by my own
Year: 1875

DEPRESSING REPORTS CONCERNING PACIFIC
MAIL.


Pacific Mail stock was disturbed yesterday by
the report that the steamship City OF Peng had shaken
out almost oil Of Its bolts, and that It would require
sxtsnvs repairs costing ~ much ~ t2oa bstegs tho
Year: 1875




How A MEAN MAN FooLED HIS WIFE,
He was an awful mean man! He carried Il
fifty-dollar counterfeit bill to make show
of it sometimes when lingering for single
drink Or Wheeling stogy. His poor, hard
working wife had been begging him for q
nice gold chain she had see4sia-Ta
dow downtown. One day he felt in a
merry mood gave her the ifty-dollar eoun-
terfeit bill, and told her to buy the chain.
Then he left home laughing SO hard that he
had to go and take asdrink to wet it down.
He may have taken several drinks. He
went home to dinner feeling full of jokes.
1t appeared to be the happiest day of his
life. He had made fool of the old woman.
But the old woman wore that gold chain at
the dinner,table, and called the brute Cher
dear old darlngr; That put another face
on the whole affair. 1t had ceased to be
joke for him. The jeweler called before
dinner was over, and, handing him the
base paper, told him to "shell out fifty
good dollars if he wished to escape annoy
ancc. He shelled out, and has never been
able to see the point of his joke. But the
poor woman enjoyed it.
Year: 1875

Seventeen years ago a Louisville young
woman was told by elairvoyant that she
was destined to marry an auburn haired
young man with blue ewes and heavy
mustachc; that he would soon be rich, and
that they would have two children-a boy
and girl. She did marry the auburn
haired man. They have FIVE children now.
the auburn hair has disappeared from the
top of the husbands head, and he is getting
fifteen dollars week.
Year: 1875

OuR RECIEATIoNS.-That people will have
diversions for the leisure hour is Il truth
which legislators are sometimes too apt to
ignore, and to which many well-intentionel
persons williully shut their eyes. 4 coal
miner, for example, who spends his holi-
days, as some do, in pcrfrcting his knowl-
edge of some musical instrument. or in
learning to take a creditable part in the glrc
club to which he belongs is a worthcr mem
bcr of society than if he insisted on improv-
ing the shining hour by patronizing dog
fights and badger batting beer and pugilism
The worst of it is that the nccdful taste for
and instruction i'll mild accomplishment
are not always present, while the rOughrr
and coarser modes of enjoyment force them.
selves but too readily upon the notice. 1t
is an error to suppose that while work re.
quires care and forethought, pleasure-seelS
ing is an art spontaneously acquired. Ne
form of amusement can by possibility be
discovered which cannot be abused or per
verted, but of the great majority of existing
diversions it may confidently be alleged
that the good which they occasion largely
outweighs the incidental evil, and that thi,
would be worse as well as gloomier world
could there be an end put at once and for
ever to our recrea-tions.
Year: 1875

MACHINE PofTBY.-The man that Iuns our ma
chine Is greatly Disguised with the miserable lnita-
ton that apr cared IN the Usioa Of last week. He
saws that the that inspired that eifusion must
have been suffering from attack OF summer
complaint, and thinks that the man who turned the
machine Is the individual who is described by the
IroqoHiIH as having exhausted his powers IN eaf4y
life by the practice Of a naIne!ess vice.
Year: 1875

re- NOTICE TO CAPTAINS OF VESSELS ENTERING
THE PORT OF NEW YORK AT NIGHT-The NEW YORK
HERALD has adopted distinguishing Coston night signal for
board the HERALD yacht showing while burn
ing the coors red green red changing from the other
succession and can be several miles distant Cap
tans Of vessels upon seeing this signal will obse by
pairing any marine they may have for the Ship News
Department Of the HERALD.


BPersons desirous Of communicating with vessels arriv
ing New York do addressing such vessels
of HERALD yacht pier No East River New York.
received from all parts Of the world promptly de-
hyered. Duplicates required.
Year: 1875

The spectacular play Of "Around the World in Eighty
Days. is still being presented at the Academy Of Music
by the Kiralfy troupe to good and remuneratve
houses The enjoyed by this remarkable piece at
the Academy is appropriate Of the great success
attained by the original the Porte ST Martin Theatre
in Paris where they adopting tho American fashion
OF matinees in order TO accommodate the crowds OF
people desirous Of seeing The scenery introduced at
the Academy is very hne notably the ship in the
fourth act The mechanical effect elcits much applause
rs does also the railroad scene
Year: 1875

of the Senegal grind it down to powder,
and in this state they use it to season
their food and to maintain moderately
free perspiration, which enables them
the more easily to withstand the heat. 1t
serves, also, as an antidote for certain
fevers.