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The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-10-25

A CAPTIVE Owl FED BY ITS MATE
From Mr.. Abraham Orator, of Fatland
Farm, Lower Providence Township, Mont
gomery County, Ala, we learn the following
interesting facts: About a year ago his
sons caught large gray owl in the woods,
and taking it home, confined 1t in cage
and placed it upon the porch. At night
this bird commenced to warble the notes
peculiar to its species. One morning short
y after its capture, Mr.. Orator was surpris-
ed to see his porch covered with feathers,
and rabbits head lying on it. This
occurred morning after morning, when MIR.
Orator came to the conclusion that some
thing was feeding the owl, which be set
about finding out. Consequently he put
the owl in recess under the bake oven,
and fixing door upon the track, went to
sleep. In the morning the trap had been
sprung, the door was down and an addition
al owl was found imprisoned. 1t was very
evident that this was the mate to owl No.
l, as no more rabbit heads or feathers were
found after the second owl was captured.-
Exchange.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-10-25
Every Day.

Oh, trifing tasks so often done,
Yet ever to be done anew
y cares, that come with every sun,
Morn after morn, the long years through
We shrink beneath their paltry sway,
The irksome calls of every day.
The restless sense of wasted power,
The tiresome round of little things,
Are hard to bear as hour by hour
Its tedious iteration brings;
Who shall evade or who delay
The small demands Of every day!
The bowlder in the torrents course,
BY tide and tempest lashed in vain,
Obeys the wave-whirled pebbles force,
And yields its substance grain by grain;
So crrmble strongest lives away
Beneath the wear of every day.
Who finds the lion in his lair,
Who tracks the tiger for his life,
May wound them e'er they are aware,
Or conquer them in desperate strife;
Yet powerless he to seattle or slay
The yexing gnats of every day.
The steady strain that never stops
Is uighiier than the tiercest shock;
The constant fall Of water-drops
Will grove the adamantine rock;
We feel our noblest powers decay
In feeble wars with every day.
We rise to meet heavy blow
Our souls sudden bravery fills
But we endure not always so
The drop by drop of little ills;
We still deplore and still obey
The harsh behests of every day.
The heart which boldly faces death
Upon the battlefield, and dares
Cannon and bayonets, faints beneath
The needle-points of frets and cares;
The stoutest spirits they dismay-
The tiny stings of every day.
And even saints of holy fame,
Whose souls by faith have overcome,
Who wore amid the cruel fame
The molten crown of martyrdom,
Bore not without complaint alway
The petty pains of every day.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-10-25

You've LADIEs.-It is not your dress.
your shawl, or your pretty fingers, that at.
tract men of sense. 1t is the true loneliness
of your nature that wins and continues to
retain the affection of the heart. Young la
dies sadly miss it who labor to improve the
outward looks, while they bestow not a
thought on the mind. Fools may be won
by gewgaws and snowy dresses. but the
wise and substantial are never caught thus.
Let modesty be your dress.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-10-25

At a private party recently held in De-
troit, boy thoughtlessly drew chair away
from a corpuent gentleman who was about
to seat himself, thereby letting him down
on the floor in a very unpleasant manner.
A merry laugh greeted the unfortunate vic
tim when the Joke was discovered, which,
however, was soon changed into murmnr
Of regret, for it was soon found that the
gentleman was unable to rise. He was as
sisted into an adjoining room, where'a ply
sician, who was one OF the guests, ascertain
ed that the force Of the fall had created
rupture, the effect of which will be felt
through life.
There ought to be such an atmosphere in
every Christian church that q man going
there and sitting there two hours should
take the contagion Of heaven, and carry
home fire to kindle the altar whence he
came Beecher.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-10-25
NO. 81.

FREE MARRIAGE. AS for our own day,
and its progressive doctrines on this subject,
they hideously combine the spirit of feudal
license and classic sophistry with some in
sufferable new mixture of pharissism proper
to the spoilt Puritan. This last trait, by
the way, crops out in some remarkable
methods of attack by the reformers, which
we pause 10 notice. Taking their stand as
high moral accusers, they not only hurl un-
limited charge of hypocrisy on the marriage
institution because some who are under its
VOWS break them by leading lives of covert
immortality, but they sweep into the same
catalogue of perjured sinners all those who,
entirely faithful in life and conduct, yet wan-
der in any inmost thought from perfect al.
legiance to their married mates.
Their favorite proof-text for this dogma
is saying of our Lord, rebuking gross i'm
aginations, whose monstrous perversiOn to
such an application is a sufficiently fatal be-
trayal of what is their conception of love.
And on this dogma they raise an unspeaka-
bic creed whose whole practical outcome,
so far as it can be spoken, is that inasmuch
as by the wandering thought above describ-
ed marriage is instantly broken, and mas
much as to remain in broken marriage is
deadly sin, therefore the aforesaid wandering
thought of another is not merely permis-
sion, but of the nature of divine injunction
to flee out of the false bonds into the new
ones, as from the wrath to come. And such
programme of virtue is wound up by one
of the reformers with the sober assertion
We are austere moralists on marriagel"
So was Henry the Eighth. He austerely
cut off the heads of his series of wives as
fast as they dropped out OF his fancy; if
there was anything that pure spirit was
scrupulous about, it was to have the old
love well murdered as soon as he fell in with
the new.-iSG'ibner's.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-10-25

Man has not love for spiritual life and
Immortality, until sin breaks to pieces the
earthly things on which his affections are
fastened.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-10-25

Three questions to put to ourselves before
speaking evil of any man: First, is it true?
Second, is it kind Third, is it necessary?
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-10-25

Often do We think when we. ought to act
and act when it behsoves Us to reflect
hence caution is frequently as fatal as rash
ness.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-10-25

The two best rules for system of rhet-
oric are, first, have something to say, and
next say it, Emmons.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-10-25


ABSENT MINDED.-Here is another case
of being absent minded. A citizen on New
Street has been several times dunned for an
amount due his grocer, but has always ne
elected to SETTLE Yesterday he received
the bill again, with note sharply remind
ing him of his backwardness. He at once
counted out the money, and, having done
so, deliberately enclosed in the bill sheet
of tiy-paper, and put the money in his pock-
ct again. Then feeling triHe irritated at
the tone of the grocer's note, he relieved
himself by scribbling on the back of the
bill" This is all the money you will get
out of me-" and sent it. When the mer-
chant read these words and looked at the
hy-paper, he took it all in at a glance, and
explosively shouting" Stuck, am 2" put
his cap on wrong and dashed out to the
nearest law-office. The proper papers were
promptly drawn up, and Immediately served
upon the astonshed citizen. When notified
of the trick on the grocer, he Indignantly
repelled the insinuation but upon feeling
in his pocket and discovering the money,
he was forced to admit that his treacherous
mind had got the best Of him. Explanations
followed, good nature was restored, the legal
people refused any compensation, and the
whole party buried all memory of the un-
pleasantness in exhilarating soda water at
the expense of the grocer. After that they
had cigars all round at the expense of the
pleased customer, who in his delight at the
happy result of the threatened trouble, lost
sight entirely OF the fact that he never
smoked. Fifteen minutes later, when rest
ing over barrel in the back yard of the
store, and trying his utmost to keep down
his stockings, he bitterly regretted that he
hadn't went to law and " busted that gro
cer-Danburu NeUs.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-10-25

Absent-minded men are not all dead yet.
This morning well-known Washington
Street merchant went to the post Office with
bundle of eight or ten letters for the mail,
all the letters being unstamped. AT the
post Office door he stopped to talk moment
with friend then, without going to the
letter-box, he commenced to open the letters
he had in his hand, and walked away from
the office, until the spontaneous exclamation
came: "Confound it, these are my own
letters," Then he walked back to the Of
flee, and, still absent minded, put the un-
stamped letters in the box together with
those of which he had broken the seal. He
calculates upon sending his office-boy to the
mail hereafter, since he has grown distrust-
full of hlmself-BOstOn IraceLer.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-10-25


I'LL TELL YoN."-An amusing instance
of childish humor used to be narrated by a
Mr.. Campbell, of Jura, the subject OF it be-
ing his own son. 1t seems the boy was
much spoiled by indulgence in fact, the
parents were scarcely able to refuse him
anything he demanded. He was in the
drawing room on one occasion, when dinner
WAS announced, and on being ordered up
stairs to the nursery, he insisted on going
down to dinner with the company. His
mother at first refused, but the child perse-
vered and kept saying, If you dinna let
me, I'll tell yon." His father then, for the
sake Of peace, allowed him to go into the
dining room. He sat at the table beside
his mother and when he found every one
getting soup, and himself omitted, he de-
manded soup and repeated, If dinna get
some, Ill tell yon." Well, soup was given,
and various other things yielded to his i'm
portunites, to which he always added the
usual threat of telling yon." At last,
when it came to wine, his mother stood
firm, and positively refused to let him have
some. He then became more vociferous
than ever about telling yon;s and as he
was still refused, he declared, "now Ill tell
yon;" and at last roared out, to the great
amusement of all present, MY new breeks
were made oot o the auld curtains p"
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IN many affections peculiar to ladies' the Ex
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fulness or Suppression of Customary Excavations,
liberated or Schirrus state OF the Uterus, Leu
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before he could hope for release. He
heard Ned call him. The calls came near
er. He was coming after him! He would
catch him in this plight How Wills face
flushed, as he thought of that If he
could only lock the door and put down the
curtains. But Max was alert, he dared
not move. The calls came nearer, and at
last Ned's knocking face looked in at the
open window.
why don't you come along" was his
question.
II can't, | don't want to" he SIAM
mered. Max glowed, and Ned saw how
it was.
..Oh, he the dog won't let you. He
remembers old scores, eh! Say, VIII,
why don't you sit down, if you will stay !?
Aren't you tired holding that pail ?"
So he went on, as boys sometimes will,
teasing and provoking, till Win fairly
ragged.
Ned Willis he said, savagely, ''ii
you don't shut up, I'll pitch this pail of
milk at you, if Max eats me up"
Ned saw it was time to stop, so he turn
ed away, calling, as he went:
Il heard Mary anxiously inquiring foi
you. I'll stop and let her know you have
got q pressing engagement"
Well, he did, of course, and as he went
through the village he told everybody he
met: and one by one they crept up and
peeped through the window at the unfor-
tunate prisoner, each one saying his witty
or smart thing at Wills expense.
Poor Will 1t was rather hard. He
had threatened to fight every boy in town,
and every muscle aehed like the toothache
before his brothers wife came in and
found him.
With difficulty she got the dog off. and
Will had TO confess to the beating.
He dragged his weary bones home
found Mary in towering passion, no Gus
tards for tea, and lecture from his father
on cruelty to animals.
The boy didn't forget ii either, and it
made life burden to him for weeks. As
to Max, he did not offer 10 touch him
again: but he never forgave MIN and met
all his advances with grow-
And this is true story.
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b H,HE undersigned Committee ON Slate pensio,s
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instant. al , o'clock +. NJ, and each sueceedina
Wednesday Vt the same hour, for four week 10
examine into any Gases that may be presented of
applicants FOR State Pension.
Il Il. ATKINS.
W. II. LIBBY.
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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-24

DIVIDING THE CoLoRED VOTE. -
Those who claim to be the conservative
politicians of this State wonder why
they have not succeeded in dividing the
colored vote. Other classes OF voters
are divided in their political sentiment,
some being Democrats and some Repub-
licans, and why should there not be the
same diversity among the negroes The
reason is manifest. 1t is the generaIim-
preston that the conservatives wish to
divide aquestion which, in it's nature, is
indivisibIe, that of suffrage and the
right to seek and hold Office. They con-
cede suffrage and all civil rights, but
have not shown themselves willing to
e colored men seek and obtain impor-
tant official stations. It is not likely
that any portion of the colored people
Of the South viii give up their adhesion
to the Republican party until opposing
parties shall become as WilingtorecetYe
them on terms of equality n.the nOmi-
mating caucus al well as at the polls.
This question can not be divided, and
tile conservatives will fare betteriff fihey
will palpably take n side Oh. the.other
of the aggregate issue, 1t is not in rea-
son to expect the eOlored people Bi1wil-
linGly GOIsentt to he rated Roodfsh at the
polls, and spoiled meat in the division
of the spells Of Office. We speak OF this
matter simply as q practical question
under the laws ashley are, and without
any reference whatever to the disputed
policy Of universal suffrage.-LCresceAt
City,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-24
Ministerial Support.
n. Q. Christian ADVOCATED

Mr.. Editor: I read q great deal in
our advocates and hear a great deal
said upon this subject; and many plans
are. suggested as a remedy. I am per.
suaded that there is no remedy which
will ever succeed but that laid down by
Christ. "Seek first the kingdom of
God and his righteousness, and all
these things shall be added unto you.
If God SO clOthe the grass that to-day
is in the field, and tomorrow is cast
into the oven, will he not much mere
clOthe you? OyeaftitHe fdithm
AS long as the preacher tries to drive
the church to its duty, he will fail. AS
long as the preacher tells the church
he is dependent upon themffOr a living,
and tries to beg a support cut of them,
he viii fail. He will get their contempt
for his trouble. lie he grumbles at them,
he will get their ill-Will; If he urges
the stewards to more Jealous exerti0ns
in his behalf, he soon finds it difficult.
to get stewards. Wy
If God has called NE to preach, he.
has also pledged himself for my sup
port. IL / discharge my duty as a faith.
fal minister, then God will fulfil his
promise as a faithful steward. I have
jus5 as much rigl57to believe God will
support me and my family, while I am
faithfully engaged in his service, as I
have to believed am-called to preach.
Trust in the Lord and do good so
shalt thou dwell In the land, and verify
thou shalt be fed.i7 (Read the entire
thirGy-geventh Psalm. go
Are not the promises as pointedly
made by our Savior who has promised
to be with his servants always7 (Read
Mathew, vi, 10 to the. end.) Are these
idle words? God viii crush this world
to atoms before these promises shall
fail.
Never will the ministry succeed until
they withdraw their hopes from chur-
| ehes, stewards, financial schemes and
all other worldly appliances, and, in
humble supplicatiOn before a throne of
grace, go to God and ask for daily
bread. Has he not taught us to- be
careful for nothing, but in everything,
| with supplication and Thanksgiving,
make our requests known to God7
Why did he tell us that il he expected
us to go to begging men? ut is not
begging, thought That is what it is
commonly called, and the evil is the
same. Put off the very appearance of
| evil; show the church you are not de-
pendent upon them. that you expect
your support from God, and that you
are not afraid to trust nina for it,.
Teach them that giving is a privilege,
and not a mere duty, Teach them that
they are al stewards of God, and he
will require of them an account; and
if they have been unfaithful, they Will
be charged with robbing God. But be
sure to tell them God will feed you.
| whether they help or not. And to show
our people that We are wiling to trust
in God, we have had orr Quarterly
"That stewards do notask anybody for
anything for the preacher
used to be ashamed TO speak about
NV claim under our rule; but now
can stand up and preach about my sup
port with, as much grace as ] can preach
salvation to a ruined world:
II. B. SMITH,
stephensvilIe, Texas, April 81, 1878.