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THE NEW YORK LEDGER.
NOVEMBER 26, 1892,
- . IssveD WEEKLY.
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CONT)
EXriaTIon,
Tilustrated.
OnLy A Girv’s Heart.
(2nd instatiment.)
Henry Hugh, 1
Illustrated.
re. Southworth, 3
Tue Spanish TREASURE.
(10th installment.) Isabella Castelar, 6
EpIToRiIALs, ETC.
Home CuLTurE. , N.S. Stowell. 8
Tne King or Honey Isvanp.
(13th installment.) Afaurice Thompson. 9
A THANKSGIVING HeriTsGE:, A Porm. 10
. . Neva’s TuREE LOVERS.
(28th installment.) Mra. Harvict Lewis.
From THE Wortp’s Four C
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Helen Marohall Nor th. 12
CMILDREN ALL OVER THE WORLD. 12
CORRESPONDENCE, SCIENCE, 12
Woman's Wortp. oe . 13
FAsHion CoRNER. ° 13
VENUS, THE EVENING Star: A Poem.
: Mary Kyle Dallas,
a HUNTING THE REINDEER.
Illustrated. Frederick Schwatka, 14
THE PROSPERITY OR DECAY OF
AMERICA,
Some would-be philosophers are fond of
assuring us that our decline and fall must
come, because they came to Rome and
Greece. The future artist must stand on a
n Bridge and sketch
Thence he
i as viewed from the dismantled piers of
: Brooklyn Bridge.
| We candidly Fconfess that the necessity
for this catastrophe has never impressed us,
and if art must needs wait until London or
New York relics are its themes, it may be
i a forgotten capacity,
' No shadow of grief can cloud the life of
. this nation as long as it is true to its mis-
: sion. We have seen one period pass with-
: out diminishing our welfare. - The pioneer
movement, which gave us our territory,
. homes and government, developed, in so
- doing, the sturdiest manhood and the best
administrative genius, Our fathers have
and native troops. Lord WOLSELEY, how-
subdued nature and left us to complete the
triumph in every fresh invention and dis-
covery of science.
And now we have come to the second
stage of existence, known as that of accu-
mulation. Wealth and increased value of
every kind has made the United States the
center of grgvity for the earth’s population,
and new Possibilities are arising on every
and.
’What has been the usual course of other
nations at this point? Luxury, ease, dis
integration and defeat, Promptly answers
it has.
dd history Fepeat
itself at such a critical juncture? Decidedly
not. Because certain dynasties committed
political suicide, must we go and do like-
wise to justify these melancholy visionaries
and their prognostications? a isit true
that the great dra of th t has been
enacted for. our warning, “ad. ‘the whirl-
pools which lestroyed others are marked
in its chart we may avoid them.
e An rhe ‘Saxon race, wherever found,
is not showing many signs of decrepitude
as yet, whether here, with three hundre
years of life upon it, or in England, with
two thousand. Wealth is being conse-
grated to helpful philanthropy, to the build-
g of charitable institutions, to the main-
ena race of all those appliances which solidify
True, we stand to-day upon
the dividing line; but, if we mistake not,
the banner of our progress turns toward a
nobler manhood and not a baser selfish-
ness and lust. Look widely and with en-
lightened vision, and the horoscope of our
destiry bids us hope and never fear.
e have entered into a promised land
of intellectual activity and elevated moral
sentiment hitherto unknown. The 353,797
trained and qualified teachers of our com-
mon schools, initiating twelve millions of
pupils into the richest treasures of knowl-
edge, are dealirig with a juvenile popula-
tion which numbers almost as many souls
as did the entire English race a century
ago, These are supported by 890 higher
institutions, with 138,902 studen
these minds with scholarship and
science, these hearts with breadth of sym-
pathy, the splendor of heroism and fervent
patriotism, and need we fear for the future
of America? We say: No! For the en-
lightenment which has ¢ gone forth can never
be obscured, nor can the ages backward
roll.. The hand of the Deity. guards and
gues those who have said: ‘‘In God w:
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LORD WOISELEY SE AND OUR CIVIL
Se
This British penal is a soldier of good
reputation and some success. His friends
claim he could make a great record if only
opportunity presented itself, At present,
he has nothing to show beyond the late
Egyptian campaign against ARABI Pasha
ever, has undertaken to criticise our own
Civil War and the methods of commanders
who operated millions of men over hun-
dreds of miles of territory. Lord WOLSE-
LEY, as a general, may be all his friends
claim and more, but he certainly has very
slight qualifications to pose as a critic of
the late stru:
He speaks of General SHERMAN as °T.
Ww. SHERMAN.” This may be a printer’s
error, and so we pass Te by. But other
statements are not so easily disposed of.
The troops who took part in the gigan' nic
contest were not ‘‘raw levies” and ‘‘u
ined mobs.” It is incorrect for ‘his
lordship to state that ‘‘crowds of armed
citizens dressed as soldiers absolutly un-
m the battle of
One new regiment did so; the
rest were run away with by WOLSELEY’S
racy imagination. There is an ‘old, ol
story ” of the few levies who received their
first rifles on the steamer taking them to
Shiloh, and he seems to at once assume
that the whole Union army was solemnly
paraded before the battle for the distribu-
tions of arms.
Again, Lord WOLSELEY remarks that
neither side possessed any cavalry at all, iz
the Eurepean sense of the term, and that i
they had done $0, the cor uuntry was utterly
unsuited or their movem:
Ofcourse we arein delightful j ignorance as
to the ‘‘ European sense of the
alry.’” The Federal armies had eighty
thousand mounted troopers armed with car-
bine, pistol and saber. The Confederates
arly as many. They charged, even
brigade formations, at infantry, artillery,
and cavalry again. But what may be the
European sense of the term, Lord WOLSE-
LEY does not condescend to ‘explain.
At Gettysburg, the tidal battle of the
war, the cavalry fights covered miles of
ground, and o1 ur best strategists tell us they
helped materially in the deciding of the
2
2
battle. .
Fancy some grizzled old ‘‘ vet” of either
if | by Rummler, beautifully printe
army reading this astounding rubbish from
England's “only g eneral.” No cavalry!
men who have followed 5. Kignting
pate” and Major-Gen. STUART
upon a hundred fatal fields !
Enough of these haphazard quotations
from a very haphazard criticism. But here
is one more, which will serve as a key
to the riddle of the writer’s ignorance,
WOLSELEY says:
“The American Civil War is full of features
dificult of comprehension by those who have
never lived among our brethren across the A
lantic.
Then why does such a one, as his lord-
ship confesses he is, attempt to criticise-—
an art where the first essential is correct
information ?
oe
THE PROGRESS OF THE YEAR.
The reports of our country’s progress for
the year are coming in rapidly, and they
tell of a wholesome and active condition of
trade. Despite temporary disputes, the
treat march of American commerce has
een a forward one all along the line. The
balance- sheet declares for nearly three hun-
red millions of dol our favor, he
crops are excellent, and most of them safely
harvested. Some pessimists and, indeed,
many optimists thought that, after the
superabundant yield of 1891, the harvests
this year would be rather Scanty. This
has not proved true. The earth has given
her abundance, and our surplus growth
will find its way, some of it generously
donated, to the suffering nations of Europe.
Indeed, a brief glance across the Atlantic
might well increase our thankfulness. Af-
fairs there are ina deplorable state. Trade
is bad, crops poor, and disease is doing
deadly’ work among the overworked and un-
derfed peasants of the Continental nations.
Other motives besides sympathy prompt
our references to nations. If w
needed any Sottuction as to how cosmo.
politan is the intercourse of this century,
the recent brief cholera-scare will amply
afford it. Russia’s criminal neglect of soap
and water tried to visit its consequences
upon us, and only failed because we, asa na-
tion, were wide-awake to the situation. A
five days’ voyage brings the modern Amer-
ican within reach of European problems,
and the time is being reduced every year.
Even England is passing through dark
seasons of depression. Lancashire haslo long
been her queen county for manufactures,
he proud center of the cotton industry,
Abeotbing our South American trade. And
there lies upon our desk as we write a let-
ter from a Manchester merchant in which
he says with melancholy emphasis: ‘
cashire’s supremacy is a thing of the past.”
s, the vigorous life of the younger na-
tion, blessed’ with endless resources of
every kind, is now asserting itself as never
before. The promise of a great commer-
cial fleet is already with us, and when that
is fulfilled, the rest isassured. Any one who
has seen the sorrowful people who flock to
this land, the Eldorado of their most san-
guine expectation, will realize how complete-
ly we have been blessed beyond our fellows.
Such comparisons as these are made, as
we need scarcely hint, in the most sympa-
thetic spirit. There is no lack of tender
bounty and gifts from the West to the
East. As citizens of a wider circle than
even our own beloved land, we could wish
these things were not; and while we feel
devoutly thankful for food, shelter and
abundance, for deliverance from pestilence
and dread disease, our hearts go out in
heartiest good-will to those not so signally
fortunate.
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JOE KERR’S JESTS, JINGLES AND
JOTTINGS,
of “Joe Kerr” (the nom de plume of
Mr. William Melville Kerr) is familiar to readers
of our newspapers as the author of very amusing
dialect sketches, especially his characterization
of an Italian organ- onkey.
Many a bright and witty sketch in verse from hi
pen has gone the rounds of the press without any
credit whatever to the author. These have now
been collected in a handsome oblong sketch-
ook, illustrated with many comical pictures
‘ted on fine paper in
dark-blue Photograpbie ink, which adds greatly
to their artistic eff 6 Geo, M, Allen Co.,
corner Broadway and aist Street, are the pub-
lishers.
+++ —___
“OUR ANIMAL FRIENDS”
8 a very beautiful and interesting monthly, is-
sued by the American Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, at 10 East 22nd Street,
New York. The subseription price is one dollar
per year; single copies, 10 couts. ten
of the magazine comprise interesting aeconnts
of the usefulness and intelligence of dom
animals, their dependence and friendliness and
their claim upon us for kind and humane treat-
ment. Much information is given of the best
modes of their treatment and care in health and
disease. We know of no publication which better
deserves the patronage of all who like horses and
dogs and other domestic animals,
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HOME CULTURE.
BY N, 8. STOWELL.
here are many persons who profess to
look upon all new isms and theories with
contempt, and who lose no opportunity to
ridicule and make absurb any movement
that leads toward the cultivation of ithe
finer qualities of humanity and the
delicate phases of the mental and physical .
ndemn refined ideas as
nonsensical, ” which is, to them, the ex-
treme of weakness and foolishness.
It cannot be denied that there is room
for great improvement in the habits and
manners of the masses of the people,
and that anything tending in the direction
of educating or reforming them shoul
hailed qth delight and encouraged in ev ery
Instead of this, there are
gent person should regard as among the
fundamental principles of correct and judi-
cious living. :
History and observation prove that nearly
all radical reformers have been at first ridi-
cule ew ideas almost always received
with suspicion if not with the most outspoken
oppos he fine old aristocrats of the
ancien pene of France had no scorn too
utter, no Tidicule too superior, when the first
mention of «* iberty, equality and fratern-
ity” was made in the opening days of the
French ‘Revolutions still their scorn and
ridicule gave ‘way before the mighty effort
of a long-suffering populace, over-radical
though that effort became. And when any
such ridicule obstructs the advance of educa-
tional principles and strengthens the bonds
that bind us to ignorance and awkwardness,
it is time that the more advanced element of
society stepped in tointerfere and to bring to
bear every influence that will further the
work of elevating and refining the world.
If objection to a better state of things af-
fected only the mature portion of society,
there would be less reason for regret; but
when it delays the developiment and _re-
tards the progress of the younger members
of the community, it is almost in the nature
of a calamity.
There are families all over our land in
which the boys and girls keep along in all
sorts of careless habits and ill-bred prac-
tices simply because they not only have no
encouragement from. their elders to do bet-
ter but would certainly be made the sub-
jects of Hdicule if they attempted to change
their ways. If the boy takes pains to brush
his hair, keep his hands and finger-nails
clean, his spoes polished and his clothes
free from dust, some one says ‘‘dandy
dude” or well » and hints about ‘‘the
best girl” or sneeringly whispers ‘‘ma’s
baby” or ‘‘ pretty poy, ” then goes off into
aroxysms of lau No sensitive boy
will willingly sulject himself to such an-
noyances as these, and there is little won-
der that, after a few such experiences, he
grows careless and indifferent and at last
loses all regard for his personal appear-
ance and grows up that most disagreeable
of creatures, a slovenly, untidy man, one
who is tolerated from necessity but not
welcomed with enthusi
We have in mind “the case of a boy of
eighteen living just outside of a city, who
possessed a mind naturally turning to the
external refinements. This lad’s sensitive
nature was distressed by unnecessary hu-
miliations imposed on him by a father
whose
lurge.”
avert this possibility, the parent, though .
wealthy in this world’s goods, would hunt
for excuses to send his boy. to town in a
rickety cart, though he owned a neat buggy
which would have usually served the pur-
pose as well as the cart.
It is the duty of every parent to see to it
that the boy is equally educated in culture
and good manners with the girl, and that in
no case should there be the least discour-
agement of improvement permitted, but, on
the contrary, every indication of attention to
personal appearance and the cultivation of
a refined and polished demeanor should be
encouraged in the warmest term
If, as is sometimes the case, the parents
are ignorant of or indifferent to the nicer
shades of propriety, there is even more
need for upholding the boy in his desire to
rise above his surroundings, and if he gets
his inspiration outside of the family, surely
his parents should be the last to reprove or
make sport of him. It is very well for them
to say that what is good enough for father
is good enough for son, but this statement
will not bear analysis. What is good
enough for the past decade is not Food
enough for the present. Let no parent
make the mistake of trying to harness his
son to the usages and traditions of the
past. e bonds avail nothing before the
presence of nineteenth-century progress,