, 1867-03-15
NUMBER I3.
The sunlight of Truth.

The Sunlight of Truth.
Did you never, in walking in the helis. com,
across a fiat stone which has lain, nobody knows
how long, just where you found it with the
4 grass forming a little hedge, as It were, all
| around it close to its edee--and have you not.
| N obedience to n kind feeling that told You il
q bad been Dying there long enough insinuated
| year SUCK or your foot, or your fingers under
ITS edge and turned it over as a housewife turns
! a cake when she. says to herself lie -doas
thrown enough by this time /" What an odd
revelation, aud what an unforeseen and unpIeas,
ant surprise to small community, the very ex-
| istence OF which you had not suspected, until
| the sudden dismay and scattering among its
/ members produced by your turning the Old stone
over! Blades of grass htttened down, colnrless
matted together if they had been blcachei
and ironei, hideous crawling creatures, turtle
bugs one wants to call them some Of them
soft, but cuuninsly spread out and compressed
Ike Lepinc witches (nature never loses a
crack or crevice, mind you, or joint in a tav>
ern bedstetd, bat she always has one of her
fiat pattern live ine,keepers to slide into il \
black, glossy crickets, with their long flaments
sticking out like the whips of four horse stage.
coaches, m1tIOuless, slug like creatures ltryHp
perhaps more horrible il their pu.py Stiffness.
than even in the wrigge OF maturity2 But no
sooner is the stone turned and the wholesome
light OF day let upon its compressed aHd blind,
ed community of creeping things, than all of
them that enjoy the luxury of lcgs-aud some
of them have Il good mIuy-rush around wild
ly, butting each other and every thing in their
way, aud end IN general stampede for uuder,
ground retreats from the region poisoned by
sunshine. Next year you will fad the grass
growing tall and green where the stone lay the
ground bird bids her nest where the beetle had
MS holei dandehon aud bultercup are growing
there, aud the broad fans of insect.augels open
and shut over their gold discs, the rhymltic
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their glorious being
The stone is ancient error The grass Is h..
man nature borne down aud beachel of all its
color by it. The shapes that are found beneath
are the crafty being that thrive in darkness, and
the weaker organism kept helpless by it. lie
who turns the stone over is whosever puts the
staff Of truth to the old lying incubus no mat
ter whether he DO it with Il serious face or
laughing one. The next year stands for the
coming time. Then shall the nature which has
been bleached anl broken rise in its full stature
and native hues in the sunshine Then shall
Gods minstreis build their nests in the hearts of
newborn humanity. Then shall beauty-di-
ynity taking outlines and color-lght upon the
souls of men as the butterfly, image of the beau
tiful spirit rising from the dust scars from tho
shell that held the poor grub, which never would
have found wings bad not the stone been lifted.
You never need think that you can turn over
any hlSehoOd without a terrible squirmiBg and
scattering OF rue nptflu niue pOputatlGQ tEaL
dwelis under il Il Holmes
THE TRADs OF san FRANCIsco.-The San Fran
cisco BIlisla Publishes its tenth annual review
of the trade aud commerce OF that port. The
import trade for the past year amounts to about
Sl4 O)O 900; increase Of 50 900, 900 overl8Gj.
Tne export trade last year was the largest ever
known in the history OF San Francisco, being
SI7, ,2SO,000, An increase of 81 700, 900 over
1865. OF the total amount last year, SlI 500, 900
was for California productions. To this amount
the cereal crops contributed S5,747, 900, and the
mines 81, ,577 900. The value of the wheat and
-four exported was over 6 100000 The exports
of wheat for the last hIif OF tn. year were larger
than for any entir, year heretofore. The wine
product netted about SlG3, 900 ag gtin.t 51S 900
in 1865. The exports Of hides and wool show
little decline, though during the past year thcy
together aggreg gat. 81 ,j3}. .0JJ. About 600 900
Ib, of wool nave beea used ~ local mills during
the year. This amount, it is thought, will be
increased one-ourJh the preseht wear. The ex>
ports of treasure were S4,3jDO0O, which is
about the slme for the preceding year. This
does not include 50 100000 Of import duties,
shipped to the East by the Sub Treasurer
Government account. The amOuat Of treasure
produced is not definitely ascertlned, the
returns are not yet all in; but it will not be far
from $50, ,0O0, 900.