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Year: 1876

As to which would be the strongest can
didate for the Presidency is question that
excites some little discussion among the
opposite party. We do not mean by this
to even hint that Grant has rslinquishsd
his thoughts of the Third Term, for far is
such removed from his mind. Heis gradu-
ally day by day tightening the cords about
himself and his party that will pull in the
direction to bring him to the surface a. the
Thir, Term candidate. 1t is vel. known
that Grant 'squints quietly at Cuba and
holds it in reserve like disputant
does certain arguments to be hurled forth
with all their force when the occasion shall
require it. He is cndeavoring to draw on
a war with Mexico by making certain an
nexations from that country to this and for
which there is no evidence Of good reason.
These things Grant intendsshall subserve
his purpose if he should ..nsed them, to
either be the means Of drifting him into
the popular tide or involving the country
in the throes of war and placing him at the
head Of its army as chieftain. The man
has had position from almost abject pev-
erty by the mere wave Of circumstances.
1t is like putting the bcggar on horseback
anil he will ride to the devil. Grant
knows that out of high position he will at
once sink to insignifcance, and he will re-
tain it no matter At what cost Of personal
honor or at what sacrifices it wrings from
the people. As Mr.. Bayard has said there
are few in his party who dare oppose him,
and those who have done SO, have felt the
weight of the decapita.ins a:c. r2y


There will be strong opposition to
him, though in his own party, and the
Presidential hooks have been cast into the
political sea of Republicanism. Some
tolerab.y large sized fish have been landed,
dissected and discussed by the savans Of
the party. Some have BEEN thrown over
board, but two have been retained and are
now chalked upon the black-bo rd of the
Black Republican party as the subjects for
debate. They are two BIS. Blaine and
Bristow. These names will undoubtedly
be offered in the Republican National
Convention this year as the opponents Of
Ulysses 8. Grant for the Presidential nomi-
nation. Bristow in this connection has
only been spoken Of as political gossip, but
his reforms in the crooked whisky transac-
tions will provo powerful recommends
ton for dim TO bis party. Amid all the
taint Of corruption in the party-Delano,
Babcock, and hints Of Presidential fingers
in the pie, together with hundreds of other
administration pets who have been weighed
and found wanting-the discovery of one
man in this same party who is vested with
the ernine Of Reformer is like an oasis
in the desert. Grants "Let us have
peace,' has been obscured by Bristow's
lightning which strikes daily in some por-
ton Of the West and shows new victim
how crooked is the path that leads the way
that Joyce and Mcdonald have Travelled.
As Col. Joyce said and found out ''an cpl.
demic Of reform seems to have broken
out" Bristow is the hero and he will be
the strongest opposition that Grant will
have in the next Republican National
Convention.


Before Bristow's conspicuity In the way
! al we have mentioned, Blaine was most
Year: 1876

The year 1876 carries joy to more
hearts than those who find patriotism in it
for the Centennial. The girls are 10 have
a rare opportunity in this century. 1t is
leap year and they have chance which
they should by no means let slip.
Year: 1876

A CORRESPONDENT writes to US to know
why Wilmington, like many other places
Of its size, cannot have public park.
That we cannot have public park or
square is altogether cut Of range Of the in
formation asked. There are many things
that We could have, but whether We could
afford them or not, is another question al
together. And at the present. and per-
haps for several years TO come, Whining
ton cannot afford to make other improve
ments than those that are of imperative
need. A public square or park, located in
some one Of the many eligible sites VIII
mington has for such, would undoubtedly
be an ornament to the city, and prove
luxury to the people. But at present the
city cannot afford any such extravasance
as such would undoubtedly be. Improve
ments that have already been made, have
effected serious inroads upon the treasury,
and before others are made in the form of
such luxuries as parks or squares, there
are several which need immediate atten-
ton. One in particular is the appearance
that our streets present in their unkempt
condition. The broom and hoe are badly
needed upon them, and we trust that it is
here, it there is any money to spare for


improvements, the work will FIRST be be-
Year: 1876

The publication in THE MORNING
HERALD of local upon trial in this
city in which c.lored man and one Of our
most respectable German citizens were
concerned has given us cause for embarass-
ment and we hasten to say that Mr.. Kienle
has been done an injustice. At the time
we were no: made acquainted with the ex-
act facts Of the case, but now that we have
ascertainel them, we feel confident
that the reporter wrote indiscreetly and
offer an apology to Mr.. Kienle, whom we
understand to bo an honorable and re-
spectacle citizen, that such should have
appeared in these columns.
Year: 1876

l.
TIE Latest annexation schems which
has been mapped out BY the Presidsnt and
his Cabiset is to splice on 10 the United
States large portion Of Mexico, for no
other reason than that It b ies the protso.
ton Of the Texan frontier from the raids
Of Mexicans after cattle. II there was any
semblance of reasonable ground for this
there would be NO cause for remarks upon
the subject, but there is none whatever, only
in 90 far as it will result in the enrichment
of the President, and these who have in
vested in Border claims at comparatively
low price. 1t is the signal for another at
tack on the Treasury. -'.
Year: 1876

The whisky trials are very nearly
all completed, and it is shown by the
records that about three millions have
been gained thereby. 1t is ascer-
tanned officially that the cost Of the
trials will not exceed one hundred
thousand dollars.
Year: 1876

I was sitting in my little snuggery
back Of my Office, before a blazing
CRATE, with nv feet in slippers, and
my body in warm dressing gown. |
had y mug of hot punch and q cold
mince pie on the table beside me, along
with an uncut novel, and a genuine
Havana, with which | intended to re-
gale myself presently. Ana although
! had L very strong desire to secure
Jorlette, it must be confessed that |
was altogether too comfortably situa-
ted to relish going out that dismally
dirty night.


This Telegram was from my chief,
who, | might as well say, was a de-
tective; and had followed that thank
less and rrocarious business for sever
al years. People considered me very
successful in working up difficult cas-
os, but | was never quite satisfied with
myself. | wonder if any man ever is.


This game 1orlette had given us a
great deal Of trouble, We had never
had so Iiponly cunning a spirit to deal
with. Strategy was matched with
strategy, diplomacy with diplomacy;
and scores Of times, when we were
sure Of him, he had slipped from un-
der our fingers like a hea, and left us
wondering how he managed it,


Perhaps it would be well to explain
that Pierre Jorlette was q murderer
upon whose head was set a price Of
two thousand pounds by the crown
A Frenchman and nobleman by birth
a gentleman by education, he haG
when very young married a beautiful
English girl, with whom he passec
two years Of unalloyed happiness. Al
the end Of that time, some fea fu
shadow come between them-none
knew ofwhat nature, and the nhumar
husband stabbed his wife to the heart
Her confidential maid witnessed the
deed, and attempted to save the life
Of her mistress, but Jorlette fell upor
her with savage lelocity, and left the
two corpses lying together side by
side.


These are the facts as briefly rs
can place them before you. Of course
there were many minor circumstances
not worth recording, as they have lit
tie bearing upon the short story | an
writing.


1t seemed from this telegram that
Jorlette was to be on the 7:3O train
| wondered how Cathcart had got this
information, but he had armies Of
spies constantly working for him, anc
probably some Of them had made the
discovery.


I had only to follow Instructions.


For the hundredth time took Jor-
let's photograph from my pocket.
book, and examined the features Of
the murder, 1t was a singularly
handsome face that | saw-clearly
cut, with large hazel eyes shaded by
lon6 dark lashes, mouth sensitive
and delicate as woman's, high
rather narrow forehead, half hidden
in clustering curls of auburn hair, a
form rather spare, yet we'll knit, and
. hand symmetrical and rounded as a
Womans,
Year: 1876

DISTRESS after eating, which is one of the
most unpleasant results of indigestion, will
no longer be experienced il a tablespoonful
of Simmons Liver Regulator is taken after
each meal. This will prevent the distress
referred to; and by persevering in the ust
of this remedy for few weeks, a permanen
cure will be effected, and pain will no Longer
be the penalty of eating.
Year: 1876

In almost every instance, accidents are


the direct result of carelessness. Find
ing can containing gunpowder ON the
kitchen table, a lad deposited it on the
kitchen stove, near which little brother
and sister were playing. The conse-
quence of this experiment was that the
Kitchen was blown one way and the
house another, and the children, includ-
ing the author of the sport, disseminated
over an adjacent eight-acre lot. 1t Is
probable that the parent of this dis
persed, but luckily not seriously injured
brood, is now sorry that he did not put
the can on an upper shelf; but such
tardy repentance never brings back the
kitchen which has been shot off the end
of the homestead, nor the fireside goods
which are scattered in fragments about
the neighboring gardens and barnyards.
This occurrence impels us to a passing
observation upon the incredible care
lessness which pervades many house.
holds, and which 80 often issues in ire.
trievably injurious or fatal consequences


A tOlerably steady and even number Oi
fatuitOus housewives are burned up each
year in consequence of trying to fill
lighted lamps with infammatory burn


ing fluid. Not very long ago, a promis
ing young gentleman, feeling a slight
illness in the night, rose, went to a closet
poured from bottle and drank what ht
supposed was brandy, but what turned
out to be some sort of insect poison, Ol
which the gentleman died day or two
after in the most eXcruciating agony
So in an Eastern State, recently, al
elderly and highly respected citizen
feeling slightly unwell, requested hi


wife to prepare him some simple medica
infusion, but received instead dose O
oxalic acid, and, of course died almos
instantly, in tortures as terrible as
melted iron had been poured down hi
throat. The observations of lifetim


had not taught the aged housewife t


keep asunder her household poisons an


balms. We could mention innumerabl
instances of this kind, as warnings t
Others, if it would do any service; bu
so rooted is the heedlessness and inapt


tude of large part of mankind tina
one may reasonably doubt whether
would be attended with any good resul
Year: 1876

The following is the substitute for the
house joint resolution proposing an
amendment to the constitution concern
ing religion and common schools, agreed
upon and reported by the senate judi
ciary committee.


Resolved, By the senate and house of
representatives, two thirds of each house
concurring therein, that the following
article be proposed to the legislatures of
the several states as an amendment to the
constitution of the United States, which,
when ratified by three-fourths of said
legislatures shall be valid as part of said
constitution.


Art. 16. No state shall make any law
respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ;
and no religious test shall be required as
qualification to any Office of public
trust under any state. No public prop
erty, and no public revenue, nor any
loan of credit, by or under the authority
of the United States. or any state, terri
tory, district, or municipal corporation
shall be appropriated to, or made, or used
i for the support dfauy school, educational
or other institution under the control o.
any religious or anti religious sect, or
| ganizatiOn, or denomination, or wherein
the particular creed or tenents of any re
ligious or anti-religious sect, organiza
ton, or denomination shall be taught
and no such particular creed or teneti
shall be read or taught in any school o.
institution supported in whole, or il
part, by such revenue loan of credit; anC
no such appropriation or loan of credl
shall be made to any religious or anti
religious sect, organization, or denomina
tion, OF promote its interests or tenets
This article shall not be construed 4
prohibit the reading of the bible in an,
school or institution, and it shall no
have the effort to impair the rights G
property already vested.


Sec. 2. Congress shall have power, b
appropriate legislation, to provide for tn
prevention and punishment of viols
tions of this article.
Year: 1876

Everything you know how to do, that


is done in a home, is something spun and


woven and laid upon the store some


thing acquired for a lifetime, that will


last as those beautiful old linens used to


last; something that you viii have to


spin and weave again.


do not mean something that you


have done once, or once in n while, or


that you think you know how ought to


be done. l mean something that you
have got at your fingers ends, till it
does not seem hard to you or cost you
the least toll of thought and anxiety.
Something that you can handle as you
handle your crochet-needle, or run your
fingers up and down the piano keys, play
ing your scales. Something that you
can do as you do your hair" or tie a
bow-knot in your cravat; with turns
and touches that you do not measure or
think about, but have got so used to that
the right thing comes of 1.-THE result
that is nice and becoming, and full Of a
skillful grace that can not be analyzed or
got at by method or recipe, but that
yot have just grown into forgetting how.


Every hit of a woman's work in a
home, when She takes it up rs a strange
thing, Is like tying a bow-knot for the
first time, or ike sewing, or k.ittirg. ssr
s.rotoIsctiIse to who has never
touched the implements before. When
you think of trying one such task after
another, day after day, mall the complex
doing that housekeeping" implies, with
your very living depending upon it all
the while, you may well fancy how it is
that American girls break down under
the physical and mental strain that
come upon so many of them with the
fulillment of their happy hopes-the
having and ordering n "housc of their
own" There is no help for it, but Just
the making all these things, in their
knowledgcs, such parts of yourselves as
the alphabet and the multiplication ta-
BILE, and the consciousness of the parts of
the day and week and year are; things
that have been used till they are like
limbs and senses natural furnishings,
that you feel as if you were born with.
Then, you can take hold of life and live.
You have not got the whole way and
method to invent yourself


And the best way of all is, that one
thing grasped in this way is the essential
grasped OF great many more. Every
side ofa honeycomb cell is the converse
side of another; every row of knitting is
half stitch all along for the next row !;
in all kinds of building and making, that
which is completed is already the begin
ming of the father structure.-MrS. 4. d..
r. Whitney, ST. Nicholas.
Year: 1876

The subject of our common school sys
: tenn should be to furnish to our young
| practical education. The great majority
of our children have no other education


than that given in our common schools


and it is, therefore, of the utmost import


ance that the system should be divested


OF all susperfuous features, making it


simple aud thoroughly practical. Edu-


cation in this country is of such a char


acter, and colored by such false social


ideas, that many of our best men have


been led to doubt the P-acticabiIity Of


school education, The young man is


more apt to graduate from college a
| diplomated fop and classic loafer than


useful citizen. Our institutions of learn


ing, instead of emptying their gradnatAs
into h., f,I.l..,.s ss-s.isAs7.tf pursuits


are continually swelling the already over


crowded professions, Ihe great ocean oI


useless humanity, and feeding the black


sea of vice. This is not the fault Of


education, howeYer-it is the fault of


society, which attaches to education


false notions, among the worst of which


is that labor is degrading to the ed


ucated. We can not educate to) much,


if we will make it practical. If every


farmer in America were a thorough
scientist the results of our farming


would be largely increased, and the
happiness of that important class of our
population greatly enhanced. The time
will be when as much culture will be
found in the furrow as in the library,
when the field, and woods will blaze with
as much brilliancy of mind as does the
city Great progress has been made in
this direction within the last few years,
and it must go on until our schools are
something besides hot-houses of i'm |
potency and fashionable uselcssness, and |
our farms become the homes Of cultured |
intellectually.


a change in our common school sys-
ten is the first thing to be sought We |
must begin here to learn our boys and |
girls that education is only an aid to
a means for the accomplish
ment of the proper aims Of life, and is
not simple ornament. More attention
must be paid to the practical pursuits of
life and less to the accomplishments.
Instead of leading the susceptible mind
entirely away from the thought of in
dustry, never permit it to forget it. If
the science of agriculture, for instance,
had place among the studies of eur
common schools, the boy would be led to
see beauties instead of drudgery and
gloom in life upen the farm,
and would be less inclined to leave 1t,
often for less honorable and even less re-
employment. The Western
Rural believes that agriculture is one of
the noblest and safest, and can be made
among the most profitable pursuits, in
which the young men of America can
engage. gnd is desireus that apy hiAg 50
soGssfst II winning une hearts OF our young
men to the farm or III weaning them
rom it as are cur educational facilities,
should be managed in the interest of this
great and important industry.
Year: 1876

| /" Wait but little, sweetheart" you said
Her fine hair under your finger tips
Watching the droOp OF her fair young head
And the aeath-white curve OF her quiyeripr fps
" Wait till the violet ieds are filled
By the bountiful hand of the maiden spring.
Wait till the birds are beginning to build


Wait till the brooks are beginning TO sing.
q Wait with song in your heart, my girl


For the life bear in Inc land so new
a life as pure the purest pearl


And white as a lily because Of YOU.
And, oh remember that come " hat NAV,


Ere the robins call to her mate is heard
shall lean TO the light OF your eyes and saw


cur nest is waiting, my wounded bird.'h
Hard was the snow on the hills that day,


Winds were cruel as want of war,
The sky sullen and cold and gray,


And ships were wrecked on the haTbOr bar
And, - Oh, but, my love- my love and mine


Whithersoever your way may be,
My heart shall cling TO your faith divine


Till his pulse is under the dust 3" said She
And 50 yoH parted. The desolate days


Vent lettering on to the longed-for time,
When all the glittering garden ways


Were red with roses and rare with rhyme
The birds were merry in every tree,


The wind sang high and the brooks sang low.
And the ships sailed cheerfuily out 10 sea,


And the sea was summers in foam and how.
And she-your darling' I sIoooth her hair.
- 6.s words Ian back ir9nl my PityinS 1liPs
To poison your life in 8 long eclipse
Here is picture. She hade me say


Your faith had failed her (God help you frIsndl
But added " Bury my face his way;


lie will know loved him unto the end
Year: 1876




1t is boldly affirmed by many and qui-
city assumed by many more that the pull
pit OF to-day is losing power with men.
This is no doubt in some sense true. The
pulpit has to-day relatively less iufu-
ence than it had half a century ago.
But is the cause to be attributed wholly,
rs many intimate, to n decline in the
style or character Of preaching? We
think not. We think, on the contrary,
that it may be fearlessly asserted that
there was never more ability, more learn
ing, more power in ranks of the christian
ministry than there is at the present
time. We believe, too, that ministers of
to-day are on an average as devoted
to their calling as those of former gen
Grafton.


But while ministerial culture has in
creased greatly within the last fifty
years, general culture has increased in a
still greater ratio. The clergy a.e no
longer distinguished, as a class, for their
learning. Education is more dif'used,
and is of higher order among all classes
than it was in the times of our fathers.
The pulpit is not now, as then, the chief
popular intellectual power in the land.
1t divides its influence with the lecture
system and the press, which latter agen-
cy especially has acquired prodigious
potency among us. Men need not 90 to
| church now to gain mental stimulus and
ideas.


More than this, far greater demands
are made upon a minister than were
made a generation ago. More literary
culture is expected of the pulpit. An
increased amount of outside work is de-
volved upon the pastors of our churches.
The minister of to-day must be n we'll
lead man in order to satisfy the intellec-
tuaI tastes of his hearers. He must be
an intelligent observer of the progress OF
events, know something of politics and
of whatever is agitating the public mind


When due account is made of the drafts
upon preachers time and energy apart
from his regular ministerial work, the
visiting that must be done-and many
people are thoughtlessiy exacting in this
matter-the books, reviews, and papers
that must be read if he would keep him
self at all abreast of the age and be "'
workman that needeth not TO b'
ashamed, #" it ceases to be a matter OF won
der that his energies sometimes flag


and he is not always so profound or bril-


liant as his critics might desire.
1t is one thing for lawyer to maxi
half dozen great efforts year at th


bar. or Tor statesman to make a singh
great speech in a session of congress, o
for a scholar in the seclusion of his well
! stocked library to turn off an elaborat


review article once or twice in twelve
!, month. and quite another thing for
i minister. often harassed by the petit
cares of a household or the petty trout
les of a parish, obliged to deny himsel
: many helps to intellectual effort, to Pre-


duce week after week, year in and yea
> out. sermons that will interest and IL
" struct an intelligent sand, perhaps, fastic
! ions congregation. 1t is no wonder i
i with all that is expected of it, the pulp
y sometimes fails to meet the popular d,


mand.


But another and more serious difhcu
5 ty is found in the settled and GROWN
~ aversion among large class in the con
smunity to all religious instruction. Ii