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Year: 1872

pelier, cheaply built, cheaply run, and offering
superior facilities for freight Again, under tae
dog-in-the-manger policy of our governme
American steamship companies find the Ms
cost Of their steamers the great obstruction i9
successful competition If we could buy f
vessels in the cheapest market no doubt ~
should have good paying lines, and Patino
Mail might be legitimately worth two or thrs-
hundred As it is we seek by petty subsidies
to keep afloat American lines that must fail in
the end unless we have reversal of our stupid
and self-sacri6cing policy. It seems somewhat
inconsistent that the Pacific Mail Com
pany, with such brilliant prospects before
it as its directors represent and as their Presi-
dent within the sacred precincts of the Opera
House, solemnly afarms, should be found year
after year in the Washington lobby sturdy
beggar at the public treasury. If the vigorous
efforts now directed towards securing SUBJ
sidies should be used to effect a change in our
laws that would suffer our steamship lines to
build their vessels in the cheapest market the
Pacific Mail Company might accomplish de-
sirable reform, and then their dividends would
be based upon legitimate profits, and they
might bid defiance to the competition of the
world.
Year: 1872

Bogus Reformers and the Nomination


for City Judge.


concerted effort is to be made to defeat
the reelection of Judge Cunning s. Bedford
to the Office of City Judge, for which he has
been nominated by the reformed democratic
organization. William M. Tweed and his as
sociates in crime, who were indicted by the
Grand Jury of the Court of General Sessions
mainly through the fidelity and frmness of
Judge Bedford, are parties to the attempt the
friends of the murderers burglars and thieves
who have been severely dealt with by the City
Judge in his sentences are the allies of the in
dicted conspirators in the work, and they are
aided by city journals whose opposition to the
Judge is melted by q silly jealousy and malice,
growing out Of the erroneous idea that the
HERALD is his especial advocate The enmity
Of Tweed, Woodward, Garvey, Ingerson and
their companions and of the cutthroats and
robbers Who infest the metropolis, is natural
enough against Judge from whom they are
all certain to receive the punishment due to
crime. But the idea that the HERALD cares
any more about Judge Bedford's election than
about that Of any other public officer who has
discharged his duty faithfully and well is as
erroneous as it is absurd.


A little over year ago Tweed and his asso-
ciates were Haunting about the city in defiance
of popular indignation. The Reform Associa-
tons had commenced civil suits for the re-
covery of the stolen moneys, but nothing had
been done towards bringing the plunderers to
the bar of a court Of justice to answer the
criminal charges made against them. Bold in
their power and their wealth, they laughed at
civil proceedings, and the city was disgraced
by the spectacle of Tweed sitting at the head
Of one Of the most important Of our
municipal departments. The reform commit
tees and oil the public authorities seemed
unable or afraid to move in criminal proceed
ings against the offenders. The people knew
they had been shamefully robbed, but saw
their plunderers as arrogant and insclent as
ever, with no prospect of their punishment.
The famous jury of the General Sessions was
empanelled, and Judge Bedford charged the
jury that these alleged crimes against the peo-
pie should be thoroughly investigated by
them that they should present any one found
to have been guilty Of public fraud or robbery,
regardless Of persons and fearless of conse-
quences; that the non-indictment of the sus-
pected parties, if the evidence was found to
substantiate the charges made against them,
was public shame and scandal. The history
of that jury session is well known Every
obstruction was thrown in the way
of the investigation; the testimony
was hard to reach; the crimes had
been committed by experienced rogues,
who knew the Importance of covering up their
tracks, The jury we're compelled to ask for
time. Judge Bedford granted them extension
Year: 1872

maid show.


The fine, healthy picture which is presented
in the comparison between the Pharisee and
the publican is one that always suggests itself
when that complacent entity, John Bull, rolls
his eyes to the London clouds and unctuously
thanks Heaven that he is not as is Brother
Jonathan he has no ''rings," no Tweeds, no
Reddy the Blacksmiths, and-O Lord !-ha
has no baby shows but he has barmaid
show, and is rejoiced through all the fbres Of
his snobbery and not scandalized in his morals
therewithal. Now, therefore, let us ask, What
is barmaid show and what are barmaids? ?
It would perhaps be more convenient to look
at the barmaids first. The barmaid is the
agent of the British publican in dispensing
beer to Britons. She (for the sex is female)
is bedizened creature, frivolous creature,
hard-worked creature, whose duty it is to
stand behind the bars Of English liquor stores
and pump beer for the multitude, receiving
in exchange the pennies for the landlord
and all the maudlin stuff which men are
capable of uttering in woman's ears for her
own share. How shocking this must be at
times can be calculated by the ratio in which
drinking induces immoralities to bubble
flthily from lewd lips. This is her lot year in
and year out; and what wonder If she is gerc-
rally weak in the end and something to ~
hidden away from the eye of day? It is, in
fact huge school Of gradual debauchery for
women from whose depths but a favored few, q
very few, can escape Amid the blaze Of the
tawdry gin palace she drinks in the infection
in the air; perhaps she assists the process by
draughts from the brandy keg, at first to put
feverish existence. The barmaid is generally
q physical attraction, chosen for her points by
the landlord as one would choose q horse.
She must keep up this appearance and culti-
vate slang as another portion of her stock in
trade. The refined taste which in England
demands this sad exhibition of woman
hood has, however, of late gone step
further, and got together an exhibition
Of this very class Fifty fashy girls
were set behind fifty bars in place on the
suburbs Of London, and the British public
were invited to come and guzzle beer, and in
guzzling to note their admiration of the bar
maid to their fancy by dropping ballot in
her favor. prize of gold watch was to be
the puerdon of her who took the most money
and received the largest number Of votes. And
the British public came in its thousands to
swill, to talk slang to gazzle and to vote that
fifty girls might be booked as surely for perdi-
ton as their nonsense could inspire. But,
then, to look beyond and observe the thou
sands of barmaids in London longing for
and enjoying the fame Of Miss Some
body, who could pump SO much mora
beer, look SO much prettier, or so much
faster, and talk so much slang It is
safe to say that nothing more demoraliz-
ing than this system exists in anl
Year: 1872

The Great French Pilgrimage to


Lourdes.


M. Theirs, in late session of the Assembly,
with considerable warmth called attention to
the contumelious treatment which certain
pilgrims received at the hands Of the French
populace on their way to q shrine in the
South of France. He resented it as an insult
to the national religion. The pilgrims to
whom he referred were those on their way
to Lourdes, quaint old village in lovely
spot under the shadow of the snow-clad
Pyrenees. Hard by this village are the grot-
toes or caverns Of Massabielle, scooped by
natures hand out of the solid rock, and in
one Of these grottoes, they say, young peas
ant girl, named Bernadette Soubirous, in
1858, saw time and again the vision Of q
beautiful lady, clad in pure white. They say,
too, that this girl of fourteen, when once en-
tranced before the mystic vision, commenced
digging with her hands upon the earth that
covered the rock before the grotto, and that
thereupon q stream burst forth which has
flowed ever since, with the usual reputation
of working miraculous cures. Il has
been a great resort for pilgrims, but
until this year it has never reached
the dignity Of national movement, that is, SO
far as Catholicism there is national. Fifty
thousand people Of both sexes and all ages
and stations have journeyed thither from the
most remote districts Of France, to pray before
the shrine Of Mary Of Lourdes for the saliva
ton, peace and prosperity of France. The
terrible visitation that humbled France has
already produced such extraordinary manifes-
tations of faith and hope in the rehabilitation
Of the nation as the world in its most heroic
ages has never surpassed This great religious
movement Of faith in Divine assistance is
really one Of them, although unique in its
character. Even those who sneer at what they
will call superstition, as well as those who
only smile at childlike faith, will not fail to
be impressed by the lesson of pure patriotism
which it teaches. The jeers that met them on
their way did not intimidate them. It was
scepticism laughing at credulity; both, doubt
less, burning with the same yearning to exalt
France and each ignorant that the other could
be anything but a stumbling block in the way.
In another portion Of the HERALD we give an
interesting description Of the origin of the
pilgrimage and this its latest manifestation.
Year: 1872

The WEEK IN WALL STREET closed with
continued activity in the stock market and
quiet and steady speculation in gold. The outgo
of specie by yesterdays steamers was about a
million and half of dollars-a rather rare
movement for this time Of year. Trade in
Great Britain is represented as SO depressed by
the activity of money that our merchandise is
not furnished the ready market it usually has
been at this season. Hence gold, cotton, wheat
and petroleum are all on or near the level of
exportable availability. Money was easy most
of the week, but closed with better demand
Year: 1872

ciating the future destiny of the
metropolis, vigorous in action, free from petty
spites and jealousies, firm in purpose, and
willing to assume. the responsibility of ruling
in reality as well as in name, Of subordinating
the several departments to their proper head,
and of pushing forward those great works of
improvement upon which the progress Of the
city and the prosperity Of all its inhabitants SO
materially depend.


Three candidates for Mayor have now been
placed in the field, and all of them prove the
Difference shown by the politicians to the views
of the real reformers of the city. While Tam
many eschewed all aspirants not Of it's own
political faith; while republicanism uttered
the usual cant phrases to prevent the nomina-
ton of any but supporter Of the present
national administration; while Apollo Hall
was from the first bold in its independence,
none of them would have ventured to place
before the people for Mayor name not in
some way or another identified with the reform
movement of last year. 1t is fortunate for the
taxpayers that each of the nominees is by his
antecedents pledged to the cause of honest
government, and that in their choice between
the three they can be guided by other
considerations than the mere protection of the
public purse. Mr.. Abraham r. Lawrence has
been nominated by Tammany, an organiza-
ton that has won many brilliant victories and
suffered some severe defeats; that has enjoyed
great honor in the community and borne deep
disgrace The name Of its candidate is q
Year: 1872

sed to sell pistols, and knives, and powder; but
let him sell these things to minor, or an in |
sane person, or a weak minded creature, with !
one twentieth the damage that follows the sale OF
rum, and there is a power in the civil law, that
is above his license, which would take hold Of
him and shut up his establishment at the
shortest notice. Now, men who drink rum, at
certain stages are just as incompetent i'll the
matter of selfcarc as minors or insane people,
and the man who takes advantage of anOthers
weakness, to his injury, is the verrlest william
among Williams.


How is it that law loses its divine power in
connection with Rum? How is it that life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness are such
talquestious in every other issue Of life, except
that made by Rum? How is it that the man
that enters your barn at night and takes few
bushels of grain is arrested, thrown into jail
and threatened with the lash, when the
man that takes whole farm or a fortune,
through the power and influence Of Rum, Is
counted gentleman and a law abiding Citl
zen. He has money, but it is the price Of
blood, Just as much SO as the thirty contemp-
| tible coins that tckled the palm Of Judas,
| tie stands high in the community, but ne
stands on a pyramid of human bones. lie


has respectfully, but it is a rotten respecti


bHtty, that decOys our youths into steps that


take hold on he'll. He has influence, but it
| Nils the social atmosphere WIN 4 cOntaSlol


more loathsome than the miasma Of a cesspool.


What shall we do? Let Christians and


moralist have clear and pronounced opinion,


about Rum and all its belongings Let these


opinions be maintained and lived everywhere


and at all hazards, financial or POLITICAL anC


such a persistent agitation of right opinions


by the respectable masses of the community


will make it disreputable to sell Rum, viii


make it disrespectabe to drink it. Cut off th


demand and the supply will cease, and NOR


than this a good public opinion against Run
will breathe the breath of divine life into tn
laws we already have, and this will prepare tn
way for new and better ones. Until this


done, we talk in vain about a prohibitory law
or local option law, for public opinion is tn
soul of law, without it all the laws Of Go
: Incorporated into our civil code would do us u
r good. Let every good man abhor that whic
1 is evil in Rum. Let him do it always an


everywhere, in society, business and politics
. and that which becomes the object Of privat
e and public adherence will soon cease to be
. private and public nuisance.


c J. f. CLYMER.
Year: 1872

Now that the true nature of the disease is
known, the method of treatment becomes most
obvious, and we learn not merely what to do,
but also what not to do. As heat is the cause
OF the symptoms, common sense points to the
abstraction of the heat in some way as the
mode OF cure. And here again VivisectlOn
comes into play. | have taken an animal,
cOmatose, parayzed by heat, apparently dying,
and plunged it into a bucket Of cold water.
The temperature of the sufferer at once rapidly
fell until it reached the normal point, and just
in proportion that of the water in the bucket
rose. AS the animal cooled, it's respiratiOns
became more regular, the unsteady whirr OF the
heart was stillcd, by and by the eyeids were
lifted, and out from the CLASSY eye came the
beams OF new life. If the period of uncOn
sciousness hud been short, the animal was in a
few hours apparently as well as ever; if long,
the animal would recover sufficiently to recog-
nize its surroundings and to struggle for re-
lease hut, when allowed to escape, the para
lyzed limbs and the slow imperfect progression
Indicated the profound injury the nervous sys-
TEN had received, and in "a few hours the ami


NAL would DC dead.


The lessons Of these experiments arc toe
plain to be overlooked. Whatever is to be
done in this disease must be done quickly


Clinical as well as experimental observation
eniorces this doctrine. There should in such
cases be no waiting for the doctor. The remed,


is 50 simple, the death imminent, that tn


good Samaritan passing by should save hi


brother The good Samaritan must, however


have a cool head to be useful. Not every ma


that falls unconscious on hot day has sun


stroke. There is fortunately one criterion s


easy Of application that any one can use il


Go at once to the fallen man, open his shir


bosom, and lay the hand upon his chest; if tn
| skin he cool Won NAV rest assured that, Rha
ever may be the trouble, it is not sunstrok,
If on the contrary, the skin be burning ho
, the case is certainly sunstroke, and no tin


should be lost. The patient must be carried


the nearest pump or hylrant, stripped to h
, waist, and bucketful after bucketful of co
> water be dashed over him until consciousne
: begins to return, or the intense heat Of the su
i face decidedly abates.-Dr. Wood IN LipPi


colts for July.
Year: 1872

A rural gent of eighteen summers invested
in banana ON the cars recently. lie carefully
removed the peel, and put it on the seat by his
side; then he broke the fruit up in small pieces,
cycling il anxiously as he did So When this
was done he picked up the peel shook it In his
lap and finally threw the pieces out of the win
dow, remarking as he did so: THAT'S the fust
of them prize packages ever bought, an it's
the last, you bet.
Year: 1872

A New Fairfield man who failed to get
thirty cent pineapple for quarter of a dollar
wanted to know whether we are breathing the
pure air of freedom or being strangled with
the fetid breath of a hellish despotism?" The
storekeeper said those were the only pineapples
he had.
Year: 1872

DRINKING WATER.-Drinking wine is q
habit. SO is drinking spirits, ale, cider, coffee,
and water. The last is thought a necessity.
But to drink much is habit. Some people
drink littie-nOt because their constitutions re-
ouire less than others-it is their habit. These
people never perspiro so much as those who
drink more. The more that is drunk the more
water passes away, or the system would suffer.
AS it is the strain affects it. The skin, the
kidneys, bowels, lungs, all are drawn upon.
The result is, as may be naturally expected,
exhaustion For this reason, the man who
drinks much water particularly during the
summer and iu the hottest weather, is less able
to endure fatigue, The water is of no benefit
to him-that is, the excess. 1t must pass
away, and this requires an effort Of the system,
which is the sweating process Had he not
used the excess of water he would not have per-
spired so-it would not have been there for the
system to expel. 1t is habit to drink water
SO much-a false thirst is created We should
drink only what is needed. The habit Of drink
ing more will soon be overcome, and the person
will feel much stronger and more capable Of
bearing fatigue. In winter little fluid is needed
beyond what our food furnishes; in summer


some more, but not much.
Year: 1872

If man and his wife


Wish to glide through life


In manner both kind and inviting,


They must mix cum arouse"


And never clean house,


For it can't be done without fighting.
There is one piece of furniture in our house
that will escape the annual cleaning, and that
is poor grandmOther's lounge. Ghost of the
original Dolly, arise and with gaunt face,
hollow eyes and shaking bones, bring terror and
dismay upon all these latter day Vardenites.
Poor, prosecuted grandmother Poor tor ment-
ed manhood Wicked, infatuated, iniudicious
Dolly Warden.
Year: 1872

BETTER DAYs.-Whenevcr poor, forlorn,
threadbarc, semi respectable person intrudcs
himself upon you in the hours of care and
business to sell cake Of soap, lead pencils,
Tribune AlmdndcS or even a box of matches,
if you do not desire his wares, let him down
easy. Don't suub him and chill his desolate
heart By harsh words and forbiddng looks
PUT yourself in his place" and dismiss him
gently, even if his frequent opportunities
annoy you. Fancy yourself a poor friendless
wretch, past the meridian Of life, bufeting the
waves of outrageous fortune, pinched with
cold, i'll clad, half starved, bearing your secret
gliefs and sorrows with resignation, determined
to live the remnant of an illspent life honestly
in a calling so humble that few pence per day
will suffice to succor nature in wearing out
the soul case in Gods own time-with health
and friends gOne-'homeless beside thous-
and homes" then a word, sypathetic look,
helping hand, even penny bestowed in a
kindly spirit, and even the cup of cold water
given in the name of disciple of Him who
had not where to lay His head" will make
the wheels of his and Of your own busy life
run smoother-in word make yourself more
humane byi eing humane to Others when sOr-
row and despair overtake them.
Year: 1872

From all sources we get the most

 encouraging news of the probability

 of the speedy construction of the

 Texas Pacific Railroad. The man.

 agers of the road confidently expect

 to have 160 miles of road west from

 Marshall, in Texas, completed by

 January 1, 1874.

 It is now certain that one or two

 lines of railroads below the snow belt

 will be completed as fast as money and human skill can perform the

 work. It seems that an amicable ar- engagement has been made between

 San Francisco and the Atlantic and

 Pacific Railroad, and all that IS now

 wanting to insure a harmonious and vigorous prosecution of this work, is the promised aid from St. Louis, which will no doubt be given. As the peo-  pie of every country, after obtaining railroads, seem to think they are the worst abused and trodden deeper in the dust by heartless, bloated mon opolists than any other; therefore, upon that basis, we shall soon be in the way of having an immense amount of imposition practiced upon us, but we say let the bloated aristocrats come-we rather banker for a little persecution of this kind. With all the indignities and frauds that are heap ed upon the people who live near rail- roads, we can't help but think that we should prefer to ride on the cars at the rate of 20 miles an hour in con- parative safety, rather than plod along through dust and heat at four miles an hour with the constant thought that the gentle Apache might spring upon us at any moment and desire some of our auburn locks to ornament his belt. Come on, ye bloated aristo- crats, and if we can't stand your op- pressions we will join the Apaches and Vincent Colyer, and then you will be to pull up the track and Ieave.
Year: 1872

LIKES Henry Jamison, a discharged soldier who arrived here recently from Camp Apache, called on us Wednesday last. and begged us to state his sentiments regarding the Captain of his old company, Stephen Whipple, First Cavalry, who, Jami- son says, is the best company con- mander he ever knew; all of which praise is, no doubt, due Captain Whip pie and should be, by him, held in greater esteem than g. medal from Congress.

 We copy the above from The Miner of June 1, and we "rise to explain !" that we have known Captain Whip pie as citizen and soldier for fifteen years, and we never knew him any where that he did not do his whole duty. Just and kind to all with whom he comes in contact, he cannot fail to win the confidence and esteem of those who know him best.
Year: 1872

GENERAL CROOK has again take1 the field in person, and if not inter fered with, a year will not pass before we shall have peace in Arizona. We cannot see how in honesty and fair ness to long suffering people the Government can again hold the hand that is trying to ward off the toma- hawk and sca1ping knife from strik- ing people who are trying to make an honest living and homes in this new country. We hope and believe it will not be done, for he now has the endorsement of General Howard in the course he is pursuing, and the civilized world would revolt at again turning us over to the mercies of the Apacbes.