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Year: 1873

their own guilty heads. There Is reason
to hope that our government has at last
reached this conclusion and is prepared to
act accordingly. We learn semi-oficially
from Washington administration paper that
Madrid has voluntarily promised, within
given time, without requiring any demand, TO
make such reclamation for the virginius
Outrage as may be required by the laws OF
nations or treaty obligations, and that the
time specified has not yet expired. We are
told that at the Cabinet meeting yesterday
our government resolved to demand of Spain
the punishment of the parties who have been
mainly instrumental in conducting the out
RACES of which we so seriously complain, and
if this is not to be obtained from Madrid to
proceed to extreme measures to obtain it.
BY cable despatch from Madrid We
learn that Castelar's organ, the I'M
parcidl, comments on the Cuban butcheries,
and endsavours to show that it Is
impossible for our government to make any
demand on Spain in consequence OF these
our Washington authorities feel the useless
ness Of applying to Madrid for redress after
waiting the specified time for her action,
and that the Spanish home government
admits her inability to control the rebellious
volunteers or to exercise any authority over
them. This is the situation, and the duty Of
our government can no longer be misunder-
stood


We have no desire to provoke war with
Spain. We believe there will be no war; for
the republicans at Madrid have our sympathy
and will not be likely to go to war to defend
an act they admit to have been unjustifable
or to protect ruffians who are as offensive to
Spain as to the United States. But we must
send sufficient feet at once to Cuba to pro-
tect our rights and redress our wrongs, and
this is within the province and the duty of
the President, as Commander-in-Chie of our
naval and military forces, without the
action of Congress. A sufficient force
of iron-clads at Santiago de Cuba, with guns
loaded, must demand the return Of the Vir-
ginius, the release of all the survivors of her
passengers and crew and the surrender Of the
buccaneer, Costello, and the murderer, Bur-
riel. If these demands are not complied
with within reasonable time they must be
enforced by the EXTREMIST measures.
If the destruction of the blood-stained
town should follow the atonement
will not be too heavy. Spain ought to have
no quarrel with us for taking our own meas
ures of redress, when she is powerless to
work her own will On the island or tn control
its rufianly people Our work should be done
quickly and decisively, and, while we vindicate
our national honor, we shall really strengthen
the Spanish Republic, with which we sympa-
thize and which has its worst enemies in the
shareholders Of the Casino EspaiioL
Year: 1873

The New YORK STATE TICKET-A Liberal
REPUBLICAN VICTORY. -"The stone which the
builders rejected has become the head of the
corner" 1t appears now that the State ticket
elected in our recent State election is the
ticket OF the liberal republicans, including the
democratic and the republican candidates Sc
lected by the liberals at their Elmira Conven-
ton for the suffrages of their party Thus of
the regular republican ticket Hopkins and
Platt come in, while all the rest are thrown


out by the liberal republican vote. So much


to the Custom House ring" for its rejection


OF the liberal republicans and its bad bargain
with Apollo Hall.
Year: 1873

If the horror-filled series Of events which
have transpired at Santiago de Cuba should
necessitate the formal declaration Of war
with Spain it is well TO consider how it
would affect this country in o material
point Of view. A doleful despatch, which
came from Washington few days since, pic
tured the difficulty which the government
would experience of paying the interest in
gold upon that portion of our debt held
abroad in the event of q war with Spain. The
reasons why no difficulty of the kind could
arise are plain enough. A war with Spain
might diminish our imports in some direc-
tons but, as these have to be paid for
in gold. it would be clear gain
to the country in the balance Of
trade, which would be otherwise almost
undisturbed Our wheat and cotton would
be grown as usual, and find their markets in
Europe without any loss to the Republic.
These would bring back their streams of gold.
In the war Of the rebellion our shipping was
our vulnerable heel. Now the carrying trade
is largely in foreign hands, and, at the worst,
this vehicle would be open to us for disposing
Of our products and importing what we require.
But Spain has commerce which would need
oil her protection and would yield rich
harvest to our privateers. Such thing as the
blockade for any length Of time Of any of our
ports is out Of question. Harboring the
thought, too, that America would be unable to
protect what ships we possess, is to forget
the war of 1912. We have unfortunately,
little to lose in the way Of mercantile marine,
but, under a war with Spain, American ship
building would receive stimulus which few
can foresee at present. We should soon
have fleet of swift steamers, which on the
resumption of peace would fall into the
channels of commerce. The need of supplies
Of all kinds would stimulate industry.
Money would be plentiful and the rich
island of Cuba, which we would free from
Spanish rule forever, would compensate us in
some form-how, not to be decided at present
for our outlay, even should poor, bankrupt
Spain have not the wherewithal to meet it. If
war comes it will be because it has been
forced upon us but let no croaker think that
materially it would bring anything like diff
Guilty, not to speak of danger.
Year: 1873

The questions for our ships of war now on
their way to Cuba to determine are narrowed
down to few points. Has an American ship
been seized upon the high seas? Have any
American citizens been executed? To save
time an international lawyer of ability should
accompany the fleet, on board the flagship of
Admiral Scott, and decide these points. To
send our ships to Santiago de Cuba and have
them await the slow ways of diplomacy with
government powerless as Spain is, means to
waste time and effect no good in the end.


All the points necessary for final
determination of our position could be learned
on the spot which witnessed the bloody scenes
of the outrage. The opinion of an able iurist
would leave the road clear for such action MS
would be necessary. As hint Of how the
matter Of responsibility will be divided by the
Spaniards, in case the matter is left to long
despatch writing, we may construct from for
mer cases the following formula: General
Burriels butchery will be boldly condoned by
the Casino Espafiol; the Casinos conformation
will be mildly condoned by the Captain
General, and the Captain Generals
mild conformation Of the others will
be mildly rebuked by Castelar's min
istry at Madrid. In the latter city
the mild rebuke will be smilingly shown to
our Minister to Spain, who will gleefully send
copy thereof to Washington, where, after
awhile, it will be exultingly whirled forth to the
world about the time ofthe next Congressional
election Compare this distant result with the
outrage to our flag and the brutal murder of
our citizens, and ask will it satisfy any citizen
with soul that does not belong to Spain
The questions to be settled are Of the simplest
nature, the reparation to be taken quite as
simple. Let oil be settled at once-settled on
the spot where the crimes were committed and
in q manner that will show we are nation
worthy of respect-that is, able to command it.


The ANdLo-RUssIAN ROYAL MARRIAGE will
be celebrated according to the rite of the
Protestant Church by Very Rev. Dean Stanley,
OF Westminster. Queen Victoria has. as will
Year: 1873

The CHANGES m THE GLADSTONE CABINET,
which have been accomplished in accordance
with the report furnished specially to the
HERALD from London, will necessitate the
holding of a couple of Parliamentary cleo
tions, which will have the effect of testing the
popularity of the British Premier and his
policy before the people of the United King
dom
Year: 1873

be seen by HERALD special cable report,
already commissioned the Dean to proceed to
st. Petersburg for the purpose Her Majesty
is prudent in her management of Court matri-
monial alliances.
Year: 1873

The following record will show the changes in
the temperature for the past twenty-four hours In
comparison with the corresponding day OF last
year as indicated by the Thermometer at Iudnuts
Pharmacy HEuAI.p uuiidtuQ.
Year: 1873

A man must not yield to dependency,
nor sit down inactive, despairing, be
cause he is in darkness. Sometimes a
few steps onward or upward are all that
are needed, aud he, for want even Of
that activity, may remain all his life
beneath the cloud. Perhaps you have
been ascending a mountain with the
mist so thick before you that at few
feet from you not an object was visible,
and so wet that it was like dripping
rain. Tmidity and dependency say in
such a case, you had better turn back,
at any rate lie by in the first shelter.


But perhaps you viii find clear sky
with a little more travel upward. Cour-
age and hope say, Go on Faith says,
Go on! higher up you find light. So
you 60 on, and at length, unexpectedly,
at one single step, you emerge into clear
sunshine Then all your trouble is for
gotten. How glad you are that you
persevered, that you did not turn back ;
you would have lost this glorious sight,
this magnificent prospect, this peculiar
ity of glory, which you could enjoyed
only under these very circumstance OF
preceding mist and gloom. =" You
would have lost the sight of the clouds
under you, and the atmosphere resting
upon them as on sea of chalcedOny,
smooth, soft, undulating, and the sum
mits of the mountains all around gilt
tering with ice and snow. And You
would have lost the glory of the break
ing up and trooping away of these cloud
congregations, as the departure of an
army with banners, and the revelation
of the unveiled world as new creation. -
Year: 1873

The Mayor Of Philadelphia iustructs his
police to report every gambling house, lottery
shop and brothel in the burg.


Some eighteen hundred emigrants arrived
at Castle Garden, last week, a number quite
unprecedented for this inclement season. The
Germans and Italians are especially reported
as having suffered intensely throughout the
voyage from the effects Of cold and poor treat
mont
Year: 1873

FAT AND LEAN.-Meat eaters and veg
etarians show in their persons the effects
of the diet. The first has the most brain
force and nervous energy. A mixed food
of animal and vegetable rations develops
the highest intellectual powers. A strictly
vegetable living ordinarily gives fair
complexion, and amiability and extreme
pugnacity when the vegetarian's views in
regard that one engrossing thought of his
life are discussed. They are annual
meeting reformers, without ever setting a
river on fire. Arabs are a sober, frugal
race, rather slender, not tall, conscien-
tious and contentious on religious subjects


They largely subsist on rice, milk and kei-
mac, something similar to whipped cream,
though a vast region of an arid country
where they are indigenous. They are not
destitute Of mutton, goats, camels and
game but they manifest no disposition to
feed upon meats, as is necessary in temper
ate zones or in high northern latitudes.
An intellectual man, one of their kindred,
who rises to distinction by the grandeur of
his mental status is extremely rare. The
beer and ale drinkers expand and grow fat,
but they are not much!given to profound re-
searches in science Scientific american.
Year: 1873

WILD OArs.-We too often hear the re-
mark made, in reference to some spirited
young man, that Z" he is sowing his wild
oats" This is spoken in palliatiop. He
will be different by and by-perhaps all
the better Christian in the end for his
more thorough knowledge of the world.
But this illustration is very unfortunate
peculiarly SO, because there is such an in
innate connection between the sowing and
the reaping. We cannot think of such
thing as a seed-time without harvest.
They are most intimately-yes, indissolu-
bly, connected in the natural world. Not
less are they SO in the moral. BE not
deceived; God is not Knocked for what
soever man soweth. that shall he also
reap" If men sow barley they do not
expect to reap wheat nor will oats pro-
duce rye. If men SOW wild oats, they
reap harves. accordingly. The good
ness of the soil will be exhausted in that
which is worthless bad habits will be
formed, difficult of correction, and others
will be contaminated. The longer we re-
main in sin, the worse it will be. We
had better break off before the conscience
becomes hardened. The effects may re-
main after the heart is changed, and We
may be troubled with the thoughts of the
evil we have done and said, even after the
evil may have been repented of and for
given.
Year: 1873

MILLERITEs IN 1S43.-Some of the So
cieties were so sure the end was at hand.
that they put their individual possessions,
which were usually very slender. into
joint stock, in imitation of the early Chris
tians who had call things common" In
Oneida county, n. Y, well-to-do farmer
being converted to their doctrine, cams to
join their church and, on being told of
this rule, said he would think of it a while.
and pray over it. He went away sorrow-
full for he was very rich. At the next
meeting he appeared, and upon being
called upon for his answer, he said he had
received message from heaven and was
prepared to obey. while engaged in
prayer for divine direction" said be, d"
have had one passage of the Bible so
powerfully impressed upon my mind tha.
know it is from God and shall do as I
am commanded"


The brethren and sisters were in breath
less expectation of the tremendous sacri-
fee he was about to make. TIE elder
bade him be of good courage, and declare
the message. And the rich man said:


That passage that came to my mind
and which | am resolved to obey, was in
these words, Occupy till come. Sc
lected.
Year: 1873

My wife, seated beside me. did not like
the music But | said What beautiful
sentiment My dear it is pastoral
You might have known that from Wo-
haw-gee . You have your taste ruined by
attending the Brooklyn Tabernacle. The
choir repeated the last line Of the hymn
four times Then the prima donna slip
ped and fell on the second, and that
broke and let her throug h Oh the third.
The other voices came in to pick her up
and got into a wrange, the bass and So
prano had it for about ten seconds, but
the soprano beat women always do),
and the bass rolled down into the cellar,
but the latter kept on squalling, as though
the bass in leaving had wickedly torn out
her back hair. | felt anxious about the
soprano, and looked back to see if she
had tainted, but found her reclining in
the arms of young man who looked
strong enough to take care of her.


Now, admit that we cannot all have
such things in our churches. 1t costs like
sixty. In the church of the Holy Bankak,
it costs one hundred dollars to have sung
that communion piece.


"Ye wretched, hungry, starving people"


But let us come as near to it as We can.
The tune Pisgah has been standing long
enoug on 'Jordans stormy banks Let
it pass over and get out of the wet wealth
er. Good bye, Antioch, Harwich, and
Boylston.-Good bye, till We meet in
Glory.
Year: 1873

LANGUAGE AMONG ANIMALs.-M. Houzeau
maintains that not only does each group
of animals possess language which is un-
derstood by other members of the same
group, but that they can learn to under.
stand the language of other groups. His
dogs, for instance, perfectly understand his
poultry. His cocks and hens have one
danger signal for the approach of a bird
of prey, another for that of terrestrial
animal or for a man. When the latter
was sounded the dogs would rush out and
bark, while to the former they psid no
attention whatever. He therefore concludes
that fowls have the power of expressing
slightly different but closely allied ideas,
and dogs can learn to understand these
differences
Year: 1873

To-day the sun shines clear and bright
Across the fields of snow,
And wakens into sparkling light
The rivers icy fow.
And spring is coming back we know
With all its happy train,
But the joyousness of other years
Cannot come to US again.
One year ago, our best beloved
Beside us watched for spring,
And waited for the coming health
We hoped that twould bring.
The birds and flowers came, while we watched
With music and perfume,
But to our darings faded cheek
Came back no healthy bloom.
And yet her smileslike. spring time flowers,
Grew brighter day by day,
And her voice fell soft on.our aching hearts,
AS she brushed our tears away.
And we learned a lesson of patience and love
Each day in her quiet room,
Where her cheerful face, with its heavenly light
Like an angels, dispelled the gloom.
And we knew the spirit so pure and bright,
That left us in early June,
But scared to a realm of eternal spring
Where flowers perennial bloom
The gain was to her, but the loss to us
Was so deep that it still must cling,
And so, tho all nature is glad again,
A shadow is over the spring.
We look to God, and ask for peace,
And an unlailing trust,
That JOY may be ours when we cross to that shoI
Where our darling is waiting for us.


ELLEN.
March, 1873.
Year: 1873

DnEcr EvIDENoE.-A revivalist is re-
ported to have told this story to illustrate
coming straight to the point,


When boy, he was summoned. to tes-
tify in case of assault, in which one man
had hit another with hoe A host of
witnesses had been called, who 8" beat
about the bush" in the most tedious and
provoking manner. without giving one iota
of inculpating proof This exasperated
the lawyer for the prosecution, who broke
out as follows, as the teller of the story
entered the box 3:


"Here, boy, we've been going around
and around this case all day and yet have
no evidence to convict the prisoner. Now,
sir" he savagely continued "do you hear
me? l want you to come to the direct
point. Did you see the blow struck p


"Yes, sir ~


'.Ah. ha ~ chuckled the lawyer, rub
bing his palms together, and grinning i'm.
moderately. Now we shall have some
thing to work upon. Here, nv good lad,
take this cane (handipg him his walking
stick. "If you saw the blow struck you
must know just how it was gwen


Yes, sir. -


Now, then, DO words about it. | tell
you ~ thundered his interrogation. " am
the defendant and you are the prisoner
Now just raise the stick and show the
court


The bewildered lad did q raise the stick,
and the next instant it came crashing
down upon the head of the astounded law
yer, echoing from the bald pate to the
end of the room, and sent him staggering
to his seat.


That's the way it was done, SIR" said
the boy, amid the shrieks of laughter Of
the whole court room. The discomftted
counsel, with a CHASTITY attempt at a smile
said that he had done with the witness
the evidence was direct.
Year: 1873

instead Of whisky, a strong mixture of
pepper-sauce and water. Some of the by
ISLANDERS claim that there was less water
in that drink than there has been in any
drink sold over that bar in some time. Be
this as it may. water or no water, the
victim swallowed the pepper-sauce.
Shortly afterward, the landlord. in mock
alarm. informed the man that ne had given
him, by mistake, a glass of strychnine.
The poor fellow Immediately fell to the
floor, where he was apparently seized with
convulsions similar to those produced by
the poison he supposed he bad swallowed.
He moreover asserted that he felt the
poison doing its deadly work, and that he
soon would be dead man. The unexpect-
ed success of the joke creating some
alarm, box of pills was procured, and
the victim informed that they would act
as an antidote if taken. A small dose of
them (about handful. we are informed, J
was swallowed Immediately. Additional
=" antidotes" were also administered, and
the patient finally brought around" A
day or two afterward, the imbiber of pep
per-sauce was questioned as regarding his
health. He stated that he was far from
well, but was doing as we'll as could be
expected from man who had swallowed
strychnine, and barely escaped its fatal
effects. We publish the incident, not be-
cause of its comical features. for we are
no admirers or countenancers Of such
radical, practical joking, but because it
offers another curious example of the
effects of the imagination upon persons
physical nature"
Year: 1873

A VENERABLE CoAsrER-During one
of the coldest mornings of this week, a
gentleman who generally drives to his
place of business in a one horse cutter,
thought he would change his mode of loco
motion, on account of the severity of the
weather.


The gentleman, who is very giant in
physical proportions, weighing about two
hundred and twenty pounds, started to
walk down Julien avenue, but soon tired
of this, and seeing youth approaching
with a handsome coasting sled, he sighed
and wished he was boy again. This feel
ing eliminated in his seizing the coaster"
and starting down the middle of the street
as he had seen other boys do. Everything
was lovely until our overgrown boy round
ed the turn at the {" Diamond House, :"
when the rapidity at which he was going
began to terrify him. He did not under
stand the art OF " regulating the speed of
his conveyance" He pulled up on the
rope in front of him, only to fnd that this
increased the velocity. Thoroughly
frightened now, he called with the voice
of Stentor to the astonished spectators,
I" Stop her stop her for God sake, stop
her. But his appeal avaied not; in
stead of coming to the imperiled riders
rescue, people fed hurriedly out of the
way, and down came our friend, faster and
faster, to the music of laughing men,
screaming woman and barking dogs, his
own cries for help adding to the uproar.
Suddenly the sled shot into an alley near
Locust street, and dumped our amateur
coaster headforemost in a snow-bank
After ascertaining that be was uninjured,
our friend registered solemn vow to
never again attempt to play boy on the
ice,-Dubuque Telegraph
Year: 1873

A young woman on Brooklyn Heights
prudently engaged herself to four young
mel, meaning to wait year and marry
the one who at the end of that time could
show the largest bank account. THIS
quadrllateral arrangement was unfortu-
nately discovered, however, and aoy
young gentleman in want of cool, pru-
dent, far-sighted wife, will find that young
female still at Brooklyn Heights and free
from all matrimonial ENHANCEMENT what
ever.
Year: 1873

Ayoung lady writes to an exchange
giving receipt for having fun. She
says, invite half dozen boys and girls to
your house when your pa and ma are away /;
put half-dollar silver piece in dish with
molasses an inch deep in it, and offer it to
the boy who gets it with his mouth. The
more the boys who try to get it, the moro
fun will there be. That girl deserves
diploma.