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The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06
Uncle Joe DOpple's Story.

We were hungry jury, kept out by an
obstinate Judge, who told us the case was
very plain one, at the same time taking
good care not to tell US on which side it
was so plain.
Most of the testimony on both sides, we
were convinced, was false and the problem
to be solved was one not unusually present.
ed in law-suits-to find out the truth by
striking a balance between contradictory
lies.
Being in for night of it, and having re-
gained toward each other the good temper
we had lost in quarreling over the case, the
next point was how to get through the time
Somebody tell story" suggested the
foreman. Mr.. Dopple, you're an old set
tier, and must have met with some adven-
lures in pioneer times that would be worth
telling"
well, have seen some queer things"
said Mr.. Dopple-" Uncle Joe" his neigh
bors called nina hale old man of about
sixty, with face full of good humor and good
sense. al have seen some queer things,
but am not much at narrating them
Never mind, Uncle Joe," we said,
you'll do it well enough"
Well boys, if you'll exsuse mistakes, I'll
tell you about case that might have turned
out a good deal more seriously than this
one"
"Go on" was urged.
"This is how it was" began Uncle Joe
clearing his vocal hatchway by rolling an
immense quid into one cheek. When I'd
made up my mind to come out here and
buy, mother, as | call my wife, she made
me belt to carry my money in.
"Them was the days before backs,
and bank-notes were no great shakes il
they got too far from home. So land buy
ers mostly carried what they had in specie,
which they commonly did in belts, buckled
around their bodies-a dodge the robbers
soon got up to, and the first thing they did
when they got hold of chap, was to look
for his money belt.
"Well, kissed mother, and bid her good
bye one morning, and set out to hunt new
home for us, carrying the price of it in
hard cash.
Nothing worth mentioning happened
till one night I stopped at cabin and
asked for lodging.
"'Y GU can have it, was the answer that
is, providing you don't object to sleeping
double, for another strangers here before
YOU
al didn't exactly like the idea but hous.
es were scarce in them parts, and not caring
to risk going further. and faring worse,
lit, and taking my saddle-bags on my arm
led my critter around to the stable, the pro.
prietor showing the way, and when old Roam
had been looked after, we went into the
house. .
The other stranger was sitting by the
fire, and gave me a sharp look as l came
forward.
AS / sat l noticed he kept watching
me sharp. didn't fancy his looks much
but after spell he managed to be quite
friendly, and it was always my way to meet
that sort of thing halfway.
Z" he, too, was on the lookout to buy, ant
we compared notes on the subject till bed
time. Our host was one of them sort o
chaps that listen a good deal without saying
much, and his wife looked as if she daren'
say much if she would
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06

ONE BETTER.-An old joker who was
never known to yield the palm to any an
tagonist in Keeling knotty yarns, was put to
his trumps at hearing traveller state that
he once saw brick house placed upon run
ners and drawn up hill to a more favor
able location, some half mile distant.
What do you think of that, Uncle Eth
ely" said the bystanders. "Oh, fudge."
said the old man, F" 1 once saw two-story
stone house, down East, drawn by oxen
three miles? ?" A dead silence ensued the
old man evidently had the worst of it, and
he saw it. Gathering all his energies, he
bit OF huge piece of pig tail, by the way
of gaining time for thought. "They drawed
the stone house." said the old man, ejecting
quantity of TOBACCO juice toward the fire.
place; but that warn't the worst of the
job; for after they'd done that, they went
back and drawed the eellarp' The stran-
ger gave ill.,"
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06

the oldest boy, Dear, are you too tired to
let little Annie put her head on your shoulder
and take nap? We shall get her home
in much better case to see papa if we can
manage to give her little Sleep How
many boys of twelve years hear such words
as these from tired overburdened mothers :?
Soon came the city, the final station,
with its hustle and noise I fingered to
watch my happy family, hoping to see the
father. why, papa isn't here" exclaim-
ed one disappointed little voice after an
other.
Never mind" said the mother, with
still deeper disappointment in her own
tone ; perhaps he had to go to see some
poor body who is sick" In the hurry of
picking up all the parcels, and the sleepy
babies, the poor daisies and the buttercups
were left forgotten ia corner of the rack.
| wondered if the mother had not intended
this. May be forgiven for the injustice
A few minutes after | passed the little
group, standing still just outside the station,
and heard the mother say, "Oh, my dar-
lings, have forgotten your pretty bouquets.
| am so sorry l wonder if could find
them if | went back. Will you all
stand still and not stir from this spot if I
do"
"Oh, mamma, don't go, don't go. We
will get you some more. Don't co." cried
all the children.
"Here are your flowers, madam" said 1.
I saw that you had forgotten them, and l
took them as mementoes of you and your
sweet children" She blushed and looked
disconnected. She was evidently unused
to people, and shy with all but her children.
However, she thanked me very swsetly, and
said
Il was very sorry about them. The
children took such trouble to get them and
| think they will revive in water. They
cannot be quite dead"
"They will nerer die p' said I, with an
emphasis which went from my heart to hers.
Then all her shyness fed. She knew me !;
and we shook hands and smiled into each
others eyes with the smile of kindred as we
parted.
As followed on, heard the two chill
dren who were walking behind, say to each
other, " Wouldn't that have been too bad
Mamma liked them so much, and we
never could have got so many all at once
again"
Eyes, we could next summer" said the
boy, sturdily.
They are sure of their next summer" l
think, all six of those souls-children and
mother, and father. They may never again
gather so many ox-eyed daisies and butter
cups call at once" Perhaps some of the
little hands have already picked their last
flowers Nevertheless, their summers are
certain. To such souls as these, all trees,
either here or in Gods larger country, are
Trees of Life, with twelve manner of fruits
and leaves for healing and it is but little
change from the summers here, whose
suns burn and make weary to the summers
there, on which "the Lamb is the light
Heaven bless them all, wherever they
are" Bits of Talk" bu II. H.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06
Minlged Feelings.

We know not, on an April day,
How soon the sun may yield to showers;
The hawthorn bloom of closing May
Still hides the fading of its flowers.
We know not, in a smiling eye,
How soon the starting tear may tremble;
The heart where JOY may seem to lie
Hath oft most sorrows to dissemble.
We list to music that brings back
Dear musings of forgotten pleasure;
Y ct meet with sorrow on the track,
Where memory foateth with the measure.
The pleasure of the human breast
Can never quite from pain be singled;
And that remembrance is the best
Wherein the least of griefs is mingled,
Down the broad Vista life has passed
When wearied1nemory seeks indulgence,
She ever finds some shadow cast
To cloud the suns complete refulgence.
But, like picture long laid by,
From which the garish hues have faded.
Few spots are all obscurity,
And most are only softly shaded.
-Orerland Monthly for September.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06

WHAT LOVE Is.-That alteration which a
man gives to a woman whom he feels to be
greater and better than himself, is hardly
distinguishable from religious feeling What
deep and worthy love is not 30 whether of
woman or child, or art or music. Our caress-
es, our tender words, our still rapture un-
der the influence of autumn sunsets, or pil-
Jared vistas, or calm, majestic statues. or
Beethoven symphonies, all bring with them
the Consciousness that they are mere waves
and ripples in an unfathoma5le ocean of
love and beauty our emotion in its keenest
moment passes from expression into silence,
our love at its highest food rushes beyond
its object, or loses itself in the sense of d.
vine mystery. Is it any weakness, pray, to be
wrought on by exquisite music Ito feel its
wondrous harmonies searching the subtlest
windings of your soul, the delicate fibers of
life where no memory can penetrate, and
binding together your whole being, past and
present, in one unspeakable vibration melt
ing you in one moment with all the tender
ness, all the love that has been scattered
through the tolsome years, concentrating in
one emotion of heroic courage or resigna-
ton all the hard-learned lessons of selfre-
nouncing sympathy, blending your present
Joy with past sorrow, and your present sor-
row with all your past joy2 If not, then
neither is it a weakness to be so wrought
upon by the exquisite curves of woman's
cheek and neck and arms, or the sweet
childish pout of her lips. For the beauty of
lovely woman is like music what can one
say more? Beauty has an expression be-
yond and far above the one woman's soul
that it clothes, as the words of genius have
a wilder meaning than the thought that
prompted them it is more than woman
love that moves US in woman's eyes-it
seems to be far-of mighty love that has
come near to US, and made speech for it
self there; the rounded neck, the dimpled
arm, move us by something more than their
prettiness-by their close kinship with all
we have known of tenderness and peace.
The noblest nature sees the most of this
impersonal expression in beauty lit is
needless to say that there are gentlemen
with whiskers dyed and undyed who see
none of it whatever), and for this reason,
the noblest nature is often the most blinded
to the character Of the one woman's soul
that the beauty clothes. Whence, | fear.
the tragedy of human life is likely to con-
tlnue for long time to come, in spite of
mental philosophers, who are ready with
the best receipts for avoiding all mistakes Of
the kind. -George Eliot.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06

The INTERVIEWER NUIsANCE.-The inter-
views, whether real or imaginary, between
newspaper correspondents and the most dis
tinguished persons of modern times, on both
continents, recently reported at considera-
BILE length by several of our daily contempt
raries, are sufficiently farccal in their char
acter to warrant the belief that interview
ing" as means of attracting attention, is
rapidly becoming as inefficacious as the rev.
Citations of spiritual mediums. As soon as
people found out, which they did very rap
idly, that the greatest men of ancient and
medieval times talked in their interviews
with mediums as foolishly and pointlessly
as foolish school girls, communications from
the other world lost all their interest, even
for those who believed in them. The do
voutest Spiritualist cannot now deny that a
halfhour with Plato, or Marcus Aurelius,
or Descartes, is one of the dullest and most
Improbable experiences a man can have,
and that nobody can pass through it with
out wondering that sage can be such an
ass. The newspaper correspondents, we re-
greet to say, are slowly driving the public
into a similar state of mind with regard to
the great men Of our own day. Either it
begins to say, interviewers are false knaves.
or the King of Sweden, the Shah of Persia
M. Lesseps, M. Theirs, Marshal MacMahon
and Don Carlos are all but born naturals
The alternative is not, as a general rule, fac
ed with resolution or definiteness. Most
people content themselves in lowering their
opinion both of the interviewer" and Of
the distinguished parsonage" without
making up their minds fully as to the mer.
its of either, but the general result is q
greatly increased indifference as to what
the newspapers say, whether by way of news
or comment-M. Y Nation.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06

Newport idlers have established casino,
or club house for both sexes, where, during
the waste hours between lunch and dinner
time can be killed by Irritation or other
harmless amusementS
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06

Colts Firearms Company have received
an order for thirty thousand pistols, which
will make it lively at the armory for some
time to come. Eight thousand of the new
order are for our government, and the bal
ance are on foreign account.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06

At st. Paul, Minnesota, a Baptist church
is being built, which, with the grounds, will
cost about 100000. 1t is said to be the
wealthiest Baptist church west of the Mis-
sissippi River.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06

GENIUs OF WoMAN.-Miss Knight, of Bos-
ton, has invented machine for making pa
per bags with satchel bottom, which is at
tracing attention for its complicated me-
chanism and extraordinary ingenuity, not
only all over this country, but also in all
parts of Europe and throughout Canada
The fortunate inventor has already refused
fifty thousand dollars for her patent. An
other Massachusetts woman now enters the
field Mrs. Bardwell, of Amherst, has re-
Gently received patent for self-fastening
button, which needs no button, hole, holds
fast and unbuttons at touch. The inven-
ton can be applied to buttons OF all sizes,
and there is every prospect that it will come
into extensive use. The world indeed is
progressing, when we owe to the inventive
genius of roman that two and Wallpaper bags
can be made in second by single ma
chine, and that the making of button holes
will become lost art. When we think OF
the time and eye-sight now devoted to max
ing buttons holes; we feel sure that all wo-
men will unite in erecting statue to the
woman whose ingenuity has taken away
the necessity for the weary and countless
stitches required in this laborious depart
ment of feminine industry.
Journal.
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06

Baron Gustave de Rothschild wants the
Shah to ameliorate the condition of the
Jews in Persia, and the King of Kings saws
he will
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-09-06

Ann Jones. of Providence, r. l., fell to
the floor dead on seeing an undertaker's
hearse drive up for the burial Of her child.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-05-27
MYSTERIOUS FIELD GLASSES,

Concerning the field glasses with foli-
age mysteriously photographed on them.
reported by the Inyo Independent,
Thomas Tennant Of San Francisco,
writes: In your issue of yesterday, un-
der the above capation, you quote from
the Inyo Independent concerning pair
Of field glasses found by an Indian on
the desert, both object glasses of which
were covered with beautiful photographs
or etchings of desert shrubs, leaf stalks,
etc This is one of the cases where a
vivid Imagination misleads the judg-
ment; there is no photographing about
it, each object glass of those field glasses
is made of two seperate lenses, one
double convex-the other plane-concave,
fitting accurately together, and thus
forming one achromatic glass. For the
purpose of preventing the introduction
of moisture or dust between these lenses,
a thin film of perfectly transparent var
nish is laid on the surface, gluing them
together; when i'll use, if allowed to be
exposed to the heat of the sun, this var
nish melts and spreads over the interior
surfaces of the lenses, frequently assum-
ing very beautiful and fantastic forms
but there is no ghost in it," l have in
the course of business during the past
twenty. three years removed many such
photographs in object glasses by sepa-
rating the lenses with the agency of heat,
clearing of the old varnish and renewing
with fresh, then no photographs are
visible. The lnyo case is one of the
same kind, and if the editor of the Inde-
pendent will send the glasses up here to
'Os Battery street, l will demonstrate it.,
under the supervision of committee of
the Academy of Natural Sciences.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-05-27
ROUTES TO VIENNA

Int nding visitors to the grand exposi-
don at Vienna will be interested to hear
,hot they will have n choice OF some
thing like thirty different routes. or
rather of railroad and steamboat combi-
nations, to choose from when they reach
Tnohnd. The London Standard is the
authority for the statements which we
summarize in regard to the leading
roads to Vienna. The journey can be
done in fifty hours by way of Calair,
Cologne, Darmstadt. Nuremberg ana
possan at u cost of S36 in gold. This is
the price of what is called "mixed
ticket that is, first-class TO Cologne.
and second-class cars from that point.
By way of Cologne, Frankfort, Munich
and Salzburg, the journey requires
,venty-four hours more, and costs S45 66
6rst-elass ticket, and S32 80 second-class.
Taking the somewhat larger channel
massage between Newhaven and Deppc,
and the railroad connections by way Of
Paris, strasburg, Stuttgart, Augsburg,
and Munich. the trip will coss S4372,
ooM. OF a return ticket can be had for
SG672. Four days are required for the
Journey by this route. Then there is
The cheapest Of all the routes. that by
Hamburg or Bremen and the East Ger
man railroads, which can be travelled for
$50 4s gold, for first class ticket, and
the almost equally cheap route by Har-
wich and Rotterdam, or Antwerp, CO.
logue and the Rhine, Darmstadt, or
Frankfort, Munich, aud Salzburg, for
which first class ticket can be had for
so, gold, and a second-class return for
$40. Bythis last route the traveller can
see the best part of the Rhine, can spend
few hours in Cologne, night in Mu-
mich, and can accomplish the single
Journey in four days.-[N. Y. Times.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-05-27
Cheap for Cash.
STANDARD MIN and Mining Com,

standard MIL and Mining Com.
pany-Location of Principal Place of Business.
San Francisco: Location Of Works, Ely Mining
District, Lincoln County, Nevada.-Notice is
hereby given, that at meeting of the Board of
Directors, held on the 10th day OF May, 1873.
per share was levied upon the capital stock
OF the corporation, payable, in United
States gold and silver coin, to the Secretary,
at the Office Of the company, No. SIS California
street, San Francisco, California.
Any stock upon which this assessment shall
remain unpaid on the 2lst day Of June,
1878, will be delinquent, and advertised for sale
at public auction, and unless payment ia mdse
before. will be sold ON the Seventh day Of july.
1878, to pay the delinquent assessment, to.
gether with costs Of advertising and expenses
Of the sale. By order Of the Directors.
]. n. LKNZARDER, Secretary,
Omce-No. 615 California street, San Fran.
cisco. California. mveI -iav4w
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-05-27

"a hoRAx factory is to be started in
Los Angles county, Cal.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-05-27

The London Daily Telegraph pub
fishes a telegram dated Mosul, April
18th, from the distinguished English an
'lquarian, George Smith, whose previous
discoveries i'll ancient Assyrian history
have created SO much interest. Mr..
Smith is prosecuting his researches in
Mesopotamia and has been again sue
cesstul III obtaining results of real
value. Among these are many inscrip-
tons of early Assyrian kings, tablets Of
Babylonish legends, contemporaneous oi
historical memorials of Nebuchadnezzar,
Cambyses, Darius and other kings; Gu
r'ous mementoes of the Parthian period
. with unmlstakable dates, and a perfectly
new text of the annals of Tiglath Pileser.
he has forwarded full descriptive letters
which will be awaited with the profound
est interest. His discoveries bear date
rs far back as 1900 b.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-05-27

BARBER; mo offense, sir, hope, but
iI nas !, ever struck You as bald I'd is
.ke ..M 'ne lt better world?" Customer (cmtly)
40! Barber; well, sir (I thought
o oi II myself, it's bright and shiny
pace, you see, sir, where there's no par
''uS Customer smiles painfully.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-05-27
TERMS OF ADVERTIsING,

Done at the RECORD office in the best style
known to the art; and must be paid for on de-
livery. unless persons having the work done
have standing accounts with the Office No de-
Walton from this rule.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-05-27

Q. A CAMEL and an elephant belonging to
Stone circus We're tied to n tree near
SIshkill Landing the other day, says the
o', LOUIS Democrat, when the express
1faln came along. The camel tainted
away, but the elephant started off with
the tree, the camel and the keeper.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-05-27

~ WHEN a wife in Turkey forgets to keep
iue suspender buttons sewed on her hus-
baaI bauas trowsers she is patted on the
oa onck Tor half an hour with pine board
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-05-27

a " EsTERN paper says that trying TO
Se' up business without advertising is
ma; mAe winklng at pretty girl through a
par OF green syectacles-you may know
does. "'o's o''e
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-05-27

ihE st. Louis Democrat says: whales
~; ale running their noses against that por-
.,oh OF Rhode Island that sticks out into
.ne water, and the inhabitants are
troubled with earthquakes.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-05-27

AN industrious housewife in Milwau-
Se nc. mas completed forty-two dozen straw
tna an's since February, in addition to per-
tudes. P''
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-05-27

ca, aiss MoLLIE j. ZEvELY succeeds her
a'uer n'r as the editor of the Unterrifeld
democrat at Linn, Mo.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-05-27
Gift Enterprises.
POSTPoNED!

The drawing will take place at Virginia. Ne
yada, the time Of which due notice will be given
SO soon as enough tickets have been sold to pay
the State proportion for the ASYLUM Fund, as
well Ms the Prizes in full that being the purpose
Of the Trustees
All unsold tickets i'll the hands OF Agents will
be called in before the time. set for drawing.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-01-25


same IIano Forte S75 gorueda
mcen
"" nave he largest and most complete
luon OF the Piano
"eu'imans poh oattake advantage everything
o" All the
Factory, so that all the
on the OIL land
ne WOO" their and ship
vast advantage manufa
fcu As
ii me to time
"hch most demanded rument apcew
1ar poht and throws off the fictitious
The Chckerng Pianos still
the United Sat to those
forward ldeaines
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-01-25
WANTED.
900 GIRL S
TO MAKE h
Hoop Skirts 4 Bustles.
inexperienced help will be required to give one
weeks time in learning. rs
WANTED.


Like all other business, it takes time TO
learn this, but after a few weeks work
good pay can be made. Only those who
intend to work are wanted. Those who
will be discouraged because large pay
cannot be earned at first. need NOT apply,
We wish TO sta here that girls formerly
employ ed by us as the same ratcs, have
made from five 10 mine dollars per week
ON Hoop Skirts, and from six to twelve
dollars ON Bustles. We charge nothing
for teaching our help and nothing for the
materials wasted i'm learning. All we
quire of them is thnt they work long
enough TO fully learn the business; know
ing they will then be satisfied good pay
can be made. We guarantee steady em-
plOyment during the dull as we'll as the
busy season. Applications from those
who mean work received from A. M. 10
p. Nj. To those living out of town we
give any information required by mnil.