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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-05-06

~ A cruel way of cooking turtles ap.
pears in Chinese cookery book. The
turtle is placed in vessel Of water on the
fire, and with lid over it having an ap-
erature so arranged that the turtle can get
his head out, and within reach of highly
spiced wine. As the temperature of the
water increases so does his thirst, and he
gradually goes on drinking the seasoned
fluid until the heat kills him, by which
time his whole system is impregnated with
the vino.aromatic seasoning, and a favor
described as delicious is impaired to the
flesh.
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COnfuciuS and the Girls.

Confucius, who is highly esteemed by
over four hundred millions of Chinese as
Jesus among Christians, was born 546
years before Christ, and died 473 years
B. c., at the age of 73. The empire was
divided into provinces called kingdoms.
Confucius found tha. interest, avarice,
ambition, dissipation. false policy, pleasure
and luxury prevailed in all these little
courts. He undertook to Danish all these,
and accordingly began to preach and to
practice the virtues of modesty, dsintcr-
estedness, equity. temperance, and con-
tempt of riches and pleasures. He rose
to distinction, and though Offices we're
urged upon him, he refused to accept
them, in order that he might not be III
verted from his great work. At length
having made so good an impression upon
the court of the kingdom of Loo, in
which he resided, he accepted an Office in
the administration. He was so thorough
in returning the king and his court, as
we'll as the people at large that the jeal-
ousy and alarm of the neighboring kings
was greatly excited. among these"
says the Chinese historian, 1.-The king Of
Tsi was alarmed. He had several coun-
ellis with his principal ministers. and after
frequent deliberations it was concluded
that, under pretence of an embassy, they
should make present to the King Of
Loo and to the grandees of his court of
great number Of young girls of extraor-
diuary beauty, who had been instructed
from their infancy in singing and dancing,
and were possessed Of all the charms that
we're likely to please and captivate the
heart"
The stratagem succeeded. The king,
his court and the grandees gave them
selves up TO the entertainments of the
girls, and devoted themselves more to the
invention of new diversions for them
than to the administration of the State.
Confucius demonstrated, and tried to bring
them back to sobriety, simplicity aud vir-
tue, but in vain. He threw up the Office
in disgust and left his native country for
other people, more fit to relish and prac-
tice his maxims. aGA7
The influence of the girls is considera-
BILE to this day, even in our own country.
The greatest Of philosophers was so COM
pletely beaten by them that he was COM
PEELED to consider all as lost for the king
dom of Loo.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-05-06

QUININE--There are now but two
manufacturers Of quinine in the United
States, and they are located 10 Phiiadel-
phia. In order to give these two manu-
facturers absolute power to fix their own
prices. tariff. Of As par cent. il simpossd
on imported quinine. The revenue ftoa
this source last year was just $16, ,545. hut
the duty serves lis purpose, BY enabling
the aforesaid manufacturers to add 46 PER
cent to their prices and take several huu-.
dred thousand dollars from the pootsts u
auinine consumers.
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AN EDITORIAL BRUTUs.-Hear US for
our debts, and get ready, that you may
pay trust US, we have need, as you have
long been trusted; acknowledge your in-
debtedness, and dive into your pockets
that you may promptly fork out. Ifthere
be any among you-one single patron
that don't owe US something, then to him
We say, step aside, consider yourselfa gen.
tlemau. If the remainder wish to know
Why We dun them, this is our answer: Not
that We care about ourselves, but that our
creditors do. Would you rather that we
went to goal, and you go free, than pay
your debt and keep US moving! As we
agreed, we have worked for you; as We
contracted, we have furnished the paper to
you; but as you don't pay us, We dun you
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PAY YOUR DEBTs-A writer in the
Methodist thus moraizes on the subject Of
paying off debts: Did you ever read the
story of Sinbad the Sailor! There is q
moral you may gather from it, which is
this: never let the demon of debt mount
your shoulders or you will find him hard
person to shake off when you want too
the harder to shake-off, the further you
carry him. Shun debt as you would
contagious diseasc--which, in fact, it is in
many communities. How can you avoid
it? When you purchase an article, pay
for it, and if you have no money, do not
purchase it for it is fact worth noting
down, that persons are led inte debt by
tastes, not by their neccssites-by their
desires rather than their wants. Pay as
you go, and thus you will add virtually one
tenth to your income. Best of all, you
will always have somes money for the
claims of charity, and thus grow in grace
by giving to the needy.
Ye who are Christians, ever be sensitive
to your financial obligations. Be guided
by the spirit of the Gospel Infuse into
the Transactions of daily life lofty moral
ity, and show that even in The fiery furnaces
Of business strife you can go and stay, yet
have a moral character unscorched. Let
your credit for strict morality remain un-
scorched
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wool, being less than an average of four

wool, being less than an average Of four
pounds to the sheep.
Titus, didn't tell you that neighbor
Deepwater's sheep would prove by far the
most profitable! 1t costs no more to keep
one of his splendid animals than it does to
keep one of ours. And then his lambs are
heavier; and his mutton is"
Stop yer CAB, Nance! 1 know what
yere pitchin at It's one O them 'tarnal
papers Let John Deepwater go it, if he
wants to. I've got more wool'n he has.
"And you wintered twice as many sheep
as he did.
"Shet up! will you?"
Nancy was silent. But the end was
not yet.
After the haying had been done, Mr..
Deepwatcr and his wife called over aud
took tea, and spent the evening with Titus
and Nancy.
In the course Of the conversation, Pru-
dcnce told to Nancy many new things
which she had learned Of household mys,
terics, while Mr.. Deepwater talked to his
host of the great improvements which
were being made in agriculture. And
Titus was interested in spite of himself.
though he tried to appear otherwise.
"By the way. Titus" said John Deep.
water, late in the evening, when you get
ready to sell your wool, think can rec
ommend you to good market"
Much obleeged John; but I've sold. y
"Sold ? 10 whom 2"
"To Saddler & Ryder, of Brinkton.'
% Did they come for it
eyes. Old Saddler came himself"
"What did he pay you?"
"Thirty-cents Thirty cents per
pound"
YES"
"Goodness mercy, John! You didn''
sell your whole clip at that price 7"
"Yces. Why?
" Why y?-Why-wool, like yours is
worth forty five cents and was author
lied by MIR. Pai:man to offer you that
price for your clip. You must have had
over five hundred pounds"
YES" said Titus, gaspiug!y, ~ sold
five hundred and seventy"
But-didu't you know that wool had
risen in value %
No. MIR. Saddler SAID thirty cents
was all twas worth"
Mr.. Saddler deceived you. But you
should have watched the Market Reports.
Didn't you notice them in the paper?"
"I-I-don't take no paper"
declare, Titus, am sorry for you
But it can't be helped now"
Mr.. Deepwatcr saw how badly his friend
was feeling, and he said no more.
When the company had gone Titus took
down the old slate from its peg by the
side Of the looking glass, aud began to
cipher. The difference between thirty
and forty five was fifteen and fifteen mul
tiplied by FIVE hundred and seventy gave
u product Of eighty-fve dollars and fifty
| cents.
On the following morning Titus Closely
went to the village, and subscribed for two
papers--one for himself, and one for his
wife; and in time he came to regard the
Newspaper as one of the greatest institu-
tions of the age.-N. Y Ledger.
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GATHERINGS by THE WAYsIDE.

There are 1925 Friends in Iowa.
Brigham Young weighs 240 pounds.
Iowa has 10000 more men than wO-
men.
-Fostoria, o., boasts twenty pound
radish.
Old fashioned bounets are getting into
style again.
In Utah sweet clover is said to grow
six feet high.
Massachusetts has 10000 more wo.
men than men.
The King OF Sweden is an advocate Of
woman suffrage
The tin mines of Missouri prove as
rich as The English.
Twenty thousand women are working
on Wisconsin farms.
WISCONSIN is preparing for grand
State musical jubilee.
A Ncna, O.. man has invented a
dishwashing machine.
"A ncgrcss took the prize for dentistry
at the Texas State Fair.
Onion lozenges are the latest inven-
ton in the confectionery line.
FIX Queen Isabella of Spain has settled
a: fine residence near Geneva.
A lodge of colored Masons has been
organized at Dcs Moincs, Iowa.
San Francisco has an area of 2S, 900
acres, divided into l75, 900 lots.
or the ten oil cloth factories in the
United States, five are in Maine.
Seventy five cents ton is now the
wholesale price of ice in New York.
Kerosene is the popular hair oil with
the Maryland Fifteenth Amendments.
Albany. N. Y, has brass band COM
posed oftwelve beautiful young ladies'.
There are twenty three Farmers Mu.
tual Insurance Companies in Michigan.
The whole number of students in tho
various departments of Yale College is $50.
AT Salt Lake over $4,000 silk worms
eat thirty bushels of mulberry leaves daily,
In Memphis, Tenn, young married
woman with her baby attends school regu-
larly.
The Merrmac river furnishes water
power for 230,OO persons who live on its
banks.
"A Muscatipe brewers pet goat licked
OH $7OO worth Of revenue stamps from la.
ger beer barrels.
The highest taxed article of import is
altar Of roses, which bears tariff of eleven
hundred per cent.
The production of rubber boots and
shoes in New England of late has been
$4,000 pairs per day.
The Idaho Statesman thinks the Ter.
ritory is failure, and recommends annex
alton to the State of Nevada
Capitalists are now talking of build.
ing thousand mile railroad across the
Andes, at a cost of $50 100000.
There are twenty ex-Confederate off
GERS in the Forty second Congress, of whom
five are Republicans and fifteen Democrats.
There is something the matter with
the planet Saturn. The German astron O.
mer, Struve, says that its inner ring has
fallen upon its body.
Gen. VIM. S. Rosecrans favors the
building by Government of railways north
and south, and declares them necessary to
complete national harmony
Grant has lost the good will of the
people OF Indiana. He tried to induce
Orth to go to Brazil after his constituents
had elected him to stay at home.
-" Grant" according to Webster's
dictionary, is "a term applied to convey.
ances OF every kind of real property" es-
pecially houses, land, horses. Libraries, etc.
The late Thad Stevens once remarked 1:
There are ten Republicans in Congress
VINO don't know that all this kind of leyis
iatlon is outside Of the Constitution, aud
they are d-n fools" :
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-05-06


OVERLAPPING THE MARK.-President
Grant, in his wild career for the success
sion, has overleaped the mark. There
are those in his own party who have the
the vision to perceive, and the manhood
to recognize the real cause Of the evils at
the South, and the true remedy. Among
these is the Chicago Tribune, with whose
statesmanlike utterance We close this arti'
Gle. 1t says: The Constitution provides,
and provides amply. for all cases OF insur-
rectiou, and it is true that the South has
fully returned to constitutional condition.
What is wanted is civil aud not military
government, aud the sooner the RESPONSE
bility of providing that, by her own efforts,
is thrown upon the South, the sooner will
she begin effectually to put her own house
in order. What she needs is Republican
form of Government, created and main
tanned by herself, and not military gov
ernment, with its headquarters in the
White House at Washington"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-05-06

1 An eccentric minister in large
parish, had seventeen couples to marry at
once in grand common service at church.
The course of the weddings he asked one
Of the men to pledge himself to the wrong
woman. The man naturally protested aud
was told: Hold your tongue I will
marry you all now and here; you can
sort yourselves going home"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-05-06

B1- A young Hoosier once said to a
Hoosieress, "Sal, is there anybody court
ing you now ?" And Sal replied, /" Well,
Sam, there is one teller sorter cOurtin' and
sorter not; but reckon it is more sorter
not than sOrter."
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ny. A liberal deduction will be made in fa-
vor of those who advertise four squares, or up
wards, by the year.
R6- Legal notices will! be CHARGE to the
attorney or officer authorizing their insertion.
By- Advertisements sent from n distance,
and transient notices, must be accompanied by
the cash.
HEr Announcements IF births, marriages
and deaths inserted free of charge.
ray- Obituary notices, or poetry" appcnd-
ed to marriages or deaths, will be charged one
half our regular advertising rates. We Will
not hereafter dcviate from this rule.
Rsl~ Blanks, bill-heads, cards, circulars,
catalogues, bills of Are, posters, programmes,
pamphlets, etc, printed mt reasonable rates.
OFricE-Corner of Second and Washington
Streets.
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al theories advanced, and do hereby unan.
imously decide that the game commonly
known as old sledge, or seven.up, is emf
nently game of science aud not of chance.
In demonstration whereof it is hereby and
herein stated, iterated, reiterated, set forth
and made manifest that, during the entire
night the "chance" men never won game
Of turned jack, although such feats were
common and frequent to the opposition /;
and furthermore, in support of this our
verdict, we call attention to the significant
fact that the chance" men are all busted
aud the science" men have got all the
money. It is the deliberate opinion Of
this jury that the "chauce" theory con-
cerning seven-up is peruicious doctrine,
and calculated to inflict untold suffering
and pccuuiary loss upon any community
that takes stock in it.
That is the way seven,up came to be set
apart and particularized in the statute
books of Kentucky as being game not Of
chance but of science, and therefore not
punishable under the law. That verdict
is of record and holds good to this day.
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A Coon Word FOR COOP HUMOR.-
Every man should be sober sometimes. We
once knew one to be so unfortunate as to
be sober all the time, and yet an honest
man. We have known men who never
smiled. or seldom, whose face was as rigid
as an iron mask, and yet they were kind,
simple, and really reliable.
But such are exceptional cases. Uni
form sobriety is presumptively very much
against man. He who gives no play to
the geutler feelings has something the
matter of him which should be looked into
before you trust him.
Mirth itself is always honest. Mirth
has better stuff in it to make a man Of
than sobriety has. 1t, too, is sometimes
used as mask of hypocrisy, but not as Of
ten as sobriety is. Only consider how
many men, quite empty aud worthless in,
wardIy, are kept going BY the mere trick
of gravity.
When some men come to you it is like
sunrise. Everything seems to take new
life and shines. Other men bring night
with them. The chill shadow of their So
briefly falls on every innocent gaysty, and
your feelings, like birds at evening, stop
singing and 20 to their roosts.
Away with those fellows who go growl-
ing through life, all the while passing for
birds of Paradise.
He that cannot laugh and be gay, should
look we'll to himself He should fast and
pray until his face breaks forth into light.
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VERDICT.

We the jury in the case of the Common
wealth Of Kentucky VS.. John Wheeler e.
al, have carefully considered the points o.
the case and tested the merits Of the sever
The Portland daily press., 1871-02-28
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

WASHINGTON, Fee 4, 1871.
Public notice is hereby piven that books will be
opened on the sixth dav or March next in this coun.
aho IN Europe, Tor subscriptions 10 the National
Loan under the Act approved July IA, 1870, entitled
AN Act to authorize the Retunding the National
Dent" ard the Act in amendment thereof. approved
January 20, 1871.
The places at which subscriptions NAV be made,
and he names OF the authorized Agents OF The Gov
ernmeDt, will be announced hereafter. he propos-
ed loan comprises three classes Of Bonds, namely:
Fsrst. Bends to the amount OF tive hundrel mil
w IONS Of OF noa's, payable in com, at the pleasure
Q. me United States alter ten years rom the date
81 heir i.sce. end bearing interest. payable quar-.
Ter In com. at tue OF five per cent er snDum.
second. Bendst ihe amount Of .hree hundred
H!,h rs OF d0iiar pay able coin, The p. asure
OF me OhteI States after fifteen from the date
OF tner issue and bearing interest," payable quarter
o'n' at the rate OF four and halt per cent per
Third Bonds to the amount Of seven huldred
~ .ons ~ OF dollars. payable in coin, at the pleasure
OF the United states after thirty years from the
" eir issue, and bearing interest, payable quar-
Fsy 10 col at the rate OF tur per cent. per annum
FIJI Hiiuo;cr.beEs 20 the Loan will have reference in The
First subscribers tor equal amounts Of each class
bearing nterest at the rate OF iour nd half per
semt. @ and OF bonds bearing interest at the rate OF
Third. Subscribers Tor five per cent. bends.
when subscription is made the subscriber will
no ieqaref to deposit TWO per cent. If the amount
.nseIeoi: 10 be accounted Tor oy tie Government
Su ne bOndS are delivered; aud payment may be
aue eieher in or in bcnd5 OF the United States
1mown r.n az FIvE-1wENTI BONDS, at their par value.
Le com received in payment will be applied to the
le99se'hption Of five twenty bonds.
Inc oonds will be registered or issued with c0u.
POI as NAV be desired by subscriters. Registered
sToo VII be issued OF the denom atons Of $50.
Saoo $500, 81 900, S. 600, and $4,000; and coupon
99nds OF each den Mutation except the last two.
% ,sterest will be PAYABLE in the United Sates at
IN .ne once of the Treasurer Assistant Treasurer,
vi aDDeslpnaed Depository OF the Government.
ne oonds Of the several classes Aforesaid, and the
.eIest III st thereon, are exempt from the payment OF
e. sa .a.es or dues OF the United States, as well as
,rai taxaton in any form by or under State, muni-
c'pal, or local authority.
After maturity the bonds last issued will he frst
.;:usemed by classes and numbers, as may be de-
sisnatsd by the Secretary OF the Treasury.
GEO. 8. BOUTWELL,,
IeolOdlw w4t-7 Secretary of the Treasury.
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