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The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-03-15

DEATH-BED SPEEcHEs.-A writer in
Sc,'ihner's Monthly does not sympathise
with the idea of laying up choice
thoughts and impressive words to be
drawn out and delivered inst as Death
Is knocking at the door. He is greatly
in favor of employing them now, instead
of risking them in the condition of lock.
ed. up capital which may prove unavail-
able when the sad hour comes He SAYS
How would it do for us to say to-day
some of the things We intend to say in
our last illnessl Honor bright! are you
not saving up several fine, generous,
pathetic little speeches to be made on
your death-bed; all the scenery set, full
company on the stage, grand final tab
leau? Ten chances to one you'll forget
them then; or have rattling in your
throat that will shake them out of shape
Forth with them now like men, My
dear boy, You have been the light and
comfort of my life My dear girl,
without you L would have been nothing
in this world
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-03-15

Ayoung lady writes to an exchange
giving receipt for having fun. She
says, invite half dozen boys and girls
to your house when your pa and ma are
away; put half-dollar silver piece in a
dish with molasses an inch deep in it.
and offer it to the boy who gets it with
his mouth. The more the boys who try
to get it, the more fun will there be.
That girl deserves diploma.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-03-15

At Pilatka, Florida, S24, 900 worth of
oranges were sold from nine acre patch
this season.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-03-15

TEETH SET ON EDGE.-All acid foods.
drinks, medicines, and tooth washes and
powders, are very injurious to the teeth.
If tooth is put in cider, vinegar, lem
on-juice or tartaric acid, in few hours
the enamel will be completely destroy
ed, so that it can be removed by the fin
ger-nail as if it were chalk. Most peo-
pie have experienced what is commonly
called teeth set on edge The explana-
tion of it is, the acid of the fruit that has
been eaten has so far softened the enam-
ell of the tooth that the least pressure is
felt by the exceedingly small nerves
which pervade the thin membrane con-
Meeting the enamel and the bony part of
the tooth. Such an effect can not be
produced without injuring the enamel.
True, 1T will become hard again, when
the acid has been removed by the fluids
of the mouth, just as an egg-shell that
has been softened in this way becomes
hard again by being put in the water.
When the effect of sour fruit on the teeth
subsidies, they feel as well as ever, but
they are not as well. And the oftener it
is repeated, the sooner the disastrous
consequences will be manifested.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-03-15

ksakg HoEYMooN CONVERSATION. cor
Nk respondent, writing from a watering
place, gives the following report of a
conversation between a newly married
couple There is depth of affection
in it which is quite refreshing to con-
eEt template:
ed the wife, with a world of affection in
her eyes.
Speak heavenly charmeri" replied
the new husband returning, with inter
est, the expressive glances of his spouse.
fs u ~ "Dear William I"
'Adored Elizal"
Sweet hatterer !"
Angelic creaturei"
"Dear-dear William pardon me ;
but do you think short walk would
hurt us?"
81 fear, loveliest of thy sex that You
may be fatigued."
Fear not, dearest !"
Heavenly emanaton bright dream
of my precarious existence but can
not help fearing"
'Sweet William 7"
.@f.A Celestial Eliza !"
Here they fell to violent kissing which
lasted some minutes. Almost breath
T4sE-r fs less, the lady exclaimed
.@@a1t 4..1 - William-dear William why are
you so sweet! Oh the Joy. the ecstacy
of welded bliss Best beloved, will you
ever love me thus?" -
-. By yonder fearful 4 say, tremen-
dous orb sweari" he exclaimed
pointing to the setting sun.
& And as a mementO of our wedding
day, will You yearly bring me here-will
A You, cherished idoll' ft i1L
Yes, my only pet-my life-my Lowell
will bring you here every year, if my
capital holds OUT
Oh, bravest and best of thy noble
ffdk sex talk not of capital in this our hour
of bliss"
How much longer they talked the
writer can not say, for he was called
EL away at this moment to welcome some
friends. But he is firmly of opinion that
fs- none but married people know what real
happiness is. While the above happy
couple We're talking, he felt as if i'm
mersed in molasses; and everything
since has looked, felt, and smet sweet
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-03-15

Rstilk
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4--F a.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-11-21
gos Aageles Nerala.
PATRONS OF AusBANDRY.

Following is q list Of Oranges in Los An
geles county: ~
Silver-Los Nietos-J. H. Burke, Master; E.
: II. Wylie, Secretery. #..tI--.t
Compton-A. Higbie, Master; ]. A. Walker,
Secretary. Z
FL Monte-G. C. Gibbs. Master; J. II. Gray,
Secretary. -t
Entorprlse-Los Angeles IT. G. Alexander,
Master; w. T. Henderson, Secy
Eureka-Spadra-P.C G. Tonner, Master; Jos.
Wright, Secretary "a
Fairview- Anaheim Edward Evey, Master;
j. d. Taylor, Secretary. = tH.a
Fruitland-Tustin Clty-A. b. Hayward, Mas
ter; F. B. Nicols, Secretary.
Los Angelcs-T. A. Carey, Master: T. d. Han
cock, Secretary.
Los Nietos-E. 3. Grandon, Master; J. E. Mar
OUTS, Secretary. q ekEF NJ
New River--Los Nietos-R. B. Guthrie, Mas
ter; d. 8. WardlOw, Secretary.
observation-disclosures Brown, Master;
j. w. Anderson, Secretary.
Ayusa--M. w. Maxy, Master; j. G. Preston,
Florence-H. Gibson, Master: VIM. Porter,
Secretary --
Alllance-El Monte-S. s. Reaves, Master; ].
w. Marshall, Secretary.
County Deputy-THOs. A. CAREY. sd.
Local Ayent-J. q. A. STANLEY.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-11-21

there should be no other state of life,
no other occupation, art or science, in
which some method of instruction is
not looked upon as requisite, except
only the science of legislation, the no.
blest and most difficult of any. APP
prenticeships are held necessary to
almost every art commercial or me-
chanical: a long course of reading and
study must form the divine, the
physician, and the practical professor
of the laws: but every man thinks
himself born q legislator" The same
author says again: "How unbecoming
must it appear in member of the leg
islature to vote for o new law, when
he is utterly ignorant of the old!
What kind of Interpretation can he
be enabled to give who is stranger to
the text upon which he cOmments?"
Concluded Tomorrow.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-11-21
DIRECTORY OF OFFICERS.

r. NJ. Widney, District Judge i7th judicial
District, composed OF Los Angeles county.
Court meets In February, May, August and
November.
Ignacio Sepulveda, County Judge.
Court Commissioner, ]. q. Howard.
state Senator, B. d. Wilson.
Members OF Assembly. ThOs II. Mott and
Asa Ellis.
sheriff. VIM. r. Rowland; Under Sheriff,
Albert D. Johnston; Deputy Sheriff, j. NJ.
County Clerk, A. w. Potts; Deputies, c. w.
Gould and s. H. Mott.
District Attorney, c. f. Thorn; Assistant, f.
County Treasurer, Thomas f. Rowan.
Superintendent OF Public Schools. William
McFadden.
Public Administrator, George Carson. d.
County Surveyor, F. Lecouvreur.
County Assessor, d. BOtiller.
Coroner, Joseph Kurtz. ...sz
County Board OF Supervisors Chairman, H.
Forsman; A. I. Bush, F., Palonares, 3. b.
Caswell. +"
.suue.- CITY OFFICERS. . as
MayoryJ. II. TOberman.
Marshal, ]. r. Wolfe.
Treasurer, George II. Butler. lI.af
Attorney, A. W. Hutton.
Clerk, NJ. Kremer.
Surveyor, William Moore. ,.a
Health Officer, Dr. Wise. 500
Engineer, George g, McLain.
School Trustees-H. d. BarrOws, President;
George Smith, VIM. II. Workman, VIM. Prld-
ham, NJ. Kremer.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-11-21
TE6TIMONIALSs4
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES.

- OAKLAND, July II, .lH72 :.
Herewith certify that Miss Josephine Lind
lev has been student In my department of
from September, 1870, to April Sd, 1872. During
this time she studied the French, the Spanish
and the German languages, obtaining always
the highest markgfeF proficiency and attend
being 81 per cent. Net Hh8 l
On entering the University, Miss Iindley
possessed already such knowledge of the
French and Spanish idioms as to be able to
speak them with ease, fuency, correctness,
and q pufe pronunciation. yka III,
She may now be considered thoroughly IA
miliar with the theory and philosophy, as well
and she may safely be recommended as q can
didate OF great promise, for teaching the
French and Spanish languages. H.
p. PIODA, Prof Modern Languages.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-11-21
BOARD OF TRADE.

President-S. I.aZard.
Secretary-I. w. Lord.
Treasurer-S. b. Caswell.
DirectOrs-Dr. J. 8. Griffin. G. G. Lips, II. w.
Hellman, rs Griffith, p. Beaudry, N.J. New
mark, ]. q. Downey, r. N. Widney
Regular meetings, Tuesdays, at 1890 p. NJ.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-11-21
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.

su.,l UNIVERSITY OF, CALIFORNIA.
Josephine Lindley has been declared by the
Faculty entitled to this Certificate of Profi-
cheney in the departments of Geology and
Natural History Botany and Physical Geolo-
gy) Bellies Lettres, English Literature, Histo-
", Ancient and Modern Chemistry, Modern
Languages, french and Spanish,l fyfa ..
Henry Durant, President Of University; E.
8. Carr, Prof Chemistry; p. Pioda, Modern
Languages; Joseph lie Conte, Professor Of Ge-
ology and Natural History; William Swinton,
Professor OF Bellies Lettres; Martin Kellogg,
Dean Of the Faculty. oc2-tf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-11-21

Erecutire Committee:
OLIVER ELDRIDGE, JOS. A: DONOHQE,
JAS. T. BOYD, GEO. w. BEAVER,
CHAS BURRELL THOS. BELL,
f. B. PERRIN.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-11-21
LINES oF TRAyEL.
LOS ANGELES e SAN PEDRO
E1 u
+. RAILROAD.

ON AND AFTER NOV. l, 1873,
~ trains will run as follows, leaving
WILMINGTON-7:45 A. M. and p M.
LOS ANGEL ESD "A. M. and 345 p. NJ.
T Except ON days of steamers arrival and de-
parture, when trains will run to connect with
Passengers for San Francisco and San Diego
viii leave Los Angeles by the 10 A. M. train,
connecting at Wilmington with the Compa-
nys steamer. ~ t.---.- -
s1 First-class passenger cars will run regu-
larly.Is
No Charge Sbr storage 20 merchants I'm
81 y dsil08I The Conntry.E 4 -
.i a JOHN MILNER, Agent at Los Angeles.
oc2tf r. e. HEWITT, Supt.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-11-21
MISS JoSEPHiNE LlNDlEY
r e r M 81.

70 class Of Ave or less, per lesson ..:.....2 90
lehhOn VI W
For further particulars, inquire at the Office
of the Los ANGELES HERALD, of Lindley 4
Thompson, or at the PicO House. Is.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-11-21
EDUCATIONAL.
SPANISH AND FRENCH
LESSONS.

INSTRUCTION IN FRENCH AND
L SPANISH will be given to classes in the
afternoons or evenings, by
Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-11-21
PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP CO.
.R}pNu aa4 la8guo------ f9ar. sff
+ SCHEDULE FOR NOVEMBER, 1879.
THE STEAMERS
1&s Mohongo 4 0rizaba 4E&s e.
For santa Barbara, San Pedro, Ana.
helm Landing and San Diego.

Il =
d STEAMER ORIzABA, CAPT. H. J.JOHNSTON,
Leaves SAM Arrives Sdea Leaves Sanl Arrives San
Frdncisco Pedro. Pedro. Francisco.
Nov.......l8 Noy......15I Nov..-.20
Nov.-...25 5Nov.-....27l ov.-......S Dec .....
STEAMER MoHoNGo. CAPT. @. H. DOUGLASS.
Nov....1! 7lNov.... .l2I Nov .....l4
Nov.-...-l9l Nov.-...... .2l INov.-....A Nov ..26
Dec........ 11Dec....... 3lDec.........s 6lDec..
!. The Mohongo will call at San Simeon and
syn '' sfEAMER Gypsy, iiT
For San Diego and all way ports, carrying
OILS, ACIDS, POWDER, ETC., not allowed to
be carried on passenger steamers, will leave
San Francisco November 29th., sa4s
Freight on OILS, to San Pedro, 80 cents per
-7o FOR NEW YORK VIA PANAMA,
Steamers leave San Francisco November
4th and 10th, All call at Mazatlan, Manzan-
lilo and Acapulco, and all except steamer of
November 4th, at San Diego. saaH.t
Passage from San Pedro, cabin, 500; steer
.T'''IE "a FOR CHINA AND JAPAN.
Steamers leave San Francisco November LIST
Through Bills Of Lading signed, and through
tickets sold to all ports on the San Diego route
to New York. Europe, Mexico and South
America, at San Francisco tarif rates.
sad Gg l.aa PASSAGE: 8sf 81,
To New York, steerage e........................ 80
To San Francisco, cabin n............ Is
To San Francisco, steerage.. .........
Cabin plans ct agents once; e., Fqr passage
mol = Agent for Los Angeles County.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-11-21

OFFICE OF THE PACIFIC BRANCH.
NO. sI7 CALIFORNIA STREET,
Below Sansome Street.
nO2dlmlp .t e.E .U
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-12-04
Childreu's department.
GRANDMOTHERS.

Grandmothers are very nice folks;
They beat all the aunts in creation,
They let chap do as he likes,
And don't worry about education.
I'm sure can't see it at all,
What a poor fellow ever could do
For apples, and pennies, and cakes,
Without grandmother or two.
Grandmothers speak softly to "mas''
To let boy have Il good time;
Sometimes they will whisper, It's true,
'Tother way, when a boy wants to climb.
Grandmothers have mullins for tea,
And pies, whole row, in the cellar.
And they are apt Gf they know it in timc)
To make chicken pie for "tcller.'
And if he is bad now and then,
And makes great racketing noise,
They only look over their Spccks,
And say, "Ah, those boys will be hoys!'
"Life is only so short at the best,
Let the children be happy to-day
Then they look for awhile at the sky,
And the hills that are far, far away.
Quite often, as twilight comes on,
Grandmothers sing hymns very low
TO themselves as they rock by the fire,
About heaven, and when they shall go.
And then, boy stopping to think,
Will find hot tear in his eye,
TO know what will come at the last:
For grandmothers all have to die.
wish they could stay here and pray,
For a boy needs their prayers every night
Some boys more than others, s'pOsc:
Such as need wonderful sight.
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WHAT FoR?-A gentleman came into our
Sunday school not long ago, and said to the
children: There are two questions want to
ask you. One of them you can answer. The
other, do not know whether you can or not.
Will you try?
"The first question is, "Who made you ?"
When the gentleman asked this, the chill
dren looked at him and round at each other,
as they answered, "God," as if they hardly
knew how to answer such all easy question,
or why he should ask it.
His second question was, "What for p
Could you have told him? Do you know
why God made you?
The children did not seem to know what to
say, so they said nothing. But there was one
little boy up in the gallery, whom his mother
had taken there because she thought he was
not old enough to be down with the rest. lie
gave very nice answer to this second ques-
ton. 1 wish you could have heard his sweet
little voice saying, "To be good and do good"
Do you think he was right? If God made
us to be good and do good, how sorry he must
be to sec us, instead Of this, "being wrong,
and doing wrong"
Now the only help for us is our dear Lord
Jesus Christ. He can and will, if we ask
him, make us over again by his Holy Spirit,
so that he will not only forgive our past sins,
but help us grow more like himself.
So we shall please God, so we shall be what
he made us for; and so only can we be happy
in this world or in another.
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more-if you 60 to neighbor's house and
find books and papers scattered around upon
tables and shelves, throwing light upon the
occupation in which he is engaged, you may
set him down as man of sense and progress !;
but if you find no printed light in his "den,"
record "gourd-head and ever likely to remain
SUCH" JAS. II. OLlPHANT.
Stellaville, Ga, October, 1873.
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TIE DowN-IIlLL RTDE-A halftipsy lad
was once sliding down hill in fine coasting
weather. He saw an old COW at the foot of
the hill, and a remarkably funny thought
came into his head, at least so he regarded it.
"I'll steer straight for that old cow" he
thought, "and I'll knock her into ten thousand
bits. Won't she be surprised to find herself
a flynn ?"
"When the wine is in, the wit is out, you
see, and there is no end to the mad pranks a
person will commit. But full of glee, Dan
coasted on with all the speed Of good sled on
a smooth track. He did hit the old COW fair
ly, and no doubt gave her great surprise
and shock; but they were not equal to the
boys surprise as he found himself tossed high
in the air. Though terribly stunned, it SEEM
ed to knock sense into his head rather than
out of it. He was sobered effectually, and
glad to escape with his life. Afterwards, as
he was nursing his bruises, he called to mind
his past folly, and resolved never to touch the
cup again which had so nearly caused his
destruction. That ride down-hill he always
regarded as the turning point in his life. lie
grew up to be useful minister, though rather
eccentric in his manner. Many a time did
he tell over the story Of that winters morn
ing, for the benefit of the youth of his ac-
acknowledgements Banner.
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PERSONAL INFLUEScE.-Upon the higher
Alps the snow is sometimes piled so high, and
so evenly balanced, that crack of a whip or
the shout of a voice may give sufficient vibra-
ton to the air to bring down the whole mass
upon the travellers below.
So in our moral world there are souls just
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even look from us may cause them to plunge
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return; or hel ping hand stretched out to
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