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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-06-13

The DENVER NARROW GAUGE Road
The Denver narrow gauge road is now
completed and in operation for 118
miles. It is the first narrow gauge rail-
road of any considerable length con-
structed in the United States. It ex-
tends from Denver south along the
Rocky Mountain range to Pueblo, and
is destined for New Mexico, and so on
to the E" Halls of the Montezumas. It
has also branch to Canyon City coal
mine, about forty miles from Pueblo.
An Oregonian has recently made jour
ney on the road, says it has twelve To-
comet YES, ten passenger cars and two
hundred and ffty-eight freight cars
1t did business last year of $500 900,
one-half of which was net profit. Its
managers report saving in operating
expenses over the broad gauge Of thirty
five per cent, and saving in construc-
ton and equipment of thirty seven and
o half per cent. on what broad gauge
would have cost. No serious accident
has yet been reported on the road al
though it makes time nearly or quite
equal to the trains on the broad-gauge
tracks, which is proof of the safety of
this sort of road, in addition to it's much
greater cheapness in construction.
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JOHN STUART MILLS ATHEISM.

He seemed to me quite different from
any other man had ever seen. He
was in no sense a negationist or de-
structive as to the character of his mind;
he never approached any person or any
dogma with bow and spear; he never
sought to make captures. He dealt in
affirmations, uttered his truths in lu-
minous, genial way, and if he offered an
opinion fatal to your prejudices, it was
as if he offered you the rarest flower
from his garden. Such tendernessl
There was something pathetic in his
treatment even of wrongs, as If there
were written in his breast the motto Of
of the Eastern king, "Act as if you
watched over an infant" Such humil-
ityl Buddha sat down on the grass,
and the grass became jeweled throne. 4"
He, too, took the lowest seat, and pub
lished therefrom eternal laws. Never
shall I forget the sensation produced
here during the second great canvass in
which he stood for Parliament, by his
outburst of horror at the image which
Mansel had set up as the Christian God.
In contending that the highest human
morality must be altogether different
from the morality of an Infinite Being.
~ WILL" said Mr.. Mill (whom must
here quote from memory" will call
no being good who is not good in the
same sense as l mean when I apply that
term to my fellow-men. And if there
be any such being, there is one thing
which, however powerful, he cannot
make me do-he cannot make me wor-
ship him. And if such being can
sentence me to hell for not so calling
him, to hell I will CO." This senti-
ment was dragged out at the election,
and placarded the walls as specimen
of Mills atheismw Canon Kingsley,
preaching at the time in the Chapel
Royal, quoted the words, and said,
" To my mind these words express the
most exalted Christianity" And an
other said, "The religious world owes
great debt to this man it has distrust-
ed, who, when blow was aimed at the
moral majesty of God, upheld the
shield" They who had best studied
and pondered Mr.. Mills works-still
more they who knew him personally,
and could witness his life and conversa-
tion-required no such vindications.
They would not be at any loss to see in
this outbreak of feeling in the midst
of philosophical essay and instance of
the depth and strength of it's authors
religious feeling. And it is probable
that Mr.. Mills intimate friends were
one and all asked to-day what they con-
sidered the profoundest element in their
great friends character, each would
reply: his essential righteousness. -
Harper's Magazine.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-06-13

COULDN'T BLUFF HER.-Among the
waiting passengers at the Central de-
pot, says the Detroit Free Press, were a
widow woman aud five children, and
by-and-by man who was waiting for
the same train opened a conversation
with the widow, and soon remarked
that he'd like to marry just such little
woman. Here, Susan, hold this satch-
el!' said the woman to her oldest
daughter, and then reaching for the
mans arm she continued: "I've been
looking for you about five years! Every
body shouted and jumped in glee. and
when the scape-goat backed fiat down
they said he ought to be dumped into
the river. 1t
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-06-13
DEoENERA0Y OF THE TINEs.

The recent discovery of the insurance
fraud, in the shape Of q coffin full of
bricks, recalls to q New York CORES
pondent numerous deceptions of the
recent past. He claims that everybody
in the metropolis cheats, from the gro
Ger who mixes chicory in his coffee, to
the political ring whose spoil is twenty
millions in . single year. The CORES
pondent says:
There is no trade mark or label which
is not counterfeited here. Icould mem
ton an establishment which is devoted
to this specially. You can get imitat-
ors of the best wines, or patent medi-
cines, or perfumeries (the labels, I
mean), at this place, at mere trife,
and hence champagne or other wines
are manufactured in a manner which
defes inspection. The liquor trade,
indeed, is susceptible of almost unlim-
tied fraud. The fish trade is not free
from fraud. Some dealers take out the
bottom heads of mackerel barrels and
then steal about twenty pounds of fish,
filling the space with salt. Such men
can sell cheapiy, and their customers
may not in years learn the everlasting
cheat practiced on them. In the fruit
trade 1 have known (this very season)
apples sold in barrels, the top and bot
tom being of good quality, while inside
one-third would be rotten. In dry
goods, short measures in some articles,
and counterfeit labels, besides shoddy
goods and many other tricks, show
how fraud may be practiced with i'm
punity. The grinding of pepper, spice,
mustard and coffee, affords great room
for cheating. Indian meal is generally
mixed with ginger. and in this great
city I know of no place where the
ground article can be got pure. Ground
cream tartar may be mixed with plaster
of paris. Coffee is reduced with chic
ory, which is now imported in great
quantities from Germany for this pur-
pose. A little chicory is an advantage
to coffee, but I advise consumers to do
their own mixing. The manufacture of
fraudulent goods has become q large
feature in trade. Great quantities Of
medicine of this character are annually
seized and condemned in this port on
account. have seen blue mass de-
ficient in its principal element to such q
degree that it could not be used in med
ical treatment. Quinine is adulterated
with salacine, and no doubt the salacine
with something else of less value. It
is not to be wondered at that physicians
often fail in curing their patients when
their medicines are 90 thoroughly be-
deviled.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-06-13

BAD DREAMs.-Bad dreams are fire.
quently caused by a tight neck-band,
which prevents the blood when it reaches
the brain from flowing freely back
again. Compression of any part OF the
body should be avoided at all times,
but especially during sleep. The light
er the bed-clothes the more refreshing
and sweet will be the repose. For this
reason, comforters made of delaines. or
other thin wooden material, and stuffed
with wool, are far preferable to those
made of cotton, and warmer even than
blankets, since the fibers of wool are
wider apart, and the same weight goes
farther in retaining the warmth OF the
body.
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CHRONOLOGY AS PROVEN BY ASTRONOMY.
The Chaldcan astronomers, from the
earliest dates, were exact and full i'll
their descriptions of eclipses and other
starry phenomena that occurred within
the range of their observation. Mod
ern astronomers can calculate back and
tell exactly when-that is, how many
years since-what they find recorded
i'll the Hindu annals occurred, and in
this way verify or falsify the chronology
of the nation where the records were
made. 1t is thus that the fallacy' of
the Hindu reckoning, which extends
back some eight millions of years, has
been conclusively shown.
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~ Pass. "A young man in Roch.
ester, who is is very fond of euchre,
and also very fond of the daughter of q
pillar of one of the Orthodox churches,
was taking tea at the house of his adored,
some time since, and had some fruit
cake offered him. Being somewhat con-
fused on account of his situation, as the
cake was held out to him, he politely
said, II pass" The father, hearing
him, and having played in some Of his
younger days, was horror struck at his
infatuation for the game, and thought
he would teach him O lesson. He spoke
bluntly: I" You pass; then I order you
up--and there's the door; I shall make
q march,!
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-06-13

SrRA1E " OF AN OMAHA SAIooN-KEEpER-
AN Omaha saloon-keeper deserves to
carry off the palm for strategy in deal
ing with the crusaders, or crusader,
rather, as there was but one in this
instance Miss Garrison, who had
been making herself rather conspicu-
Gus in crusading alone. On this occa-
sion she had taken possession of one
Captain Lees saloon. Among the au-
dience which gathered was the notori-
GUS Tennie c. Clafin, who happened to
be in Omaha, soliciting subscriptions
for her paper. The Captain saw his
opportunity, and, knowing the pen
chant OF Tennie for talk, he introduced
her to the crusader. Immediately Miss
Clafin wanted to know what Miss Gar
rison was going to do, to which the
latter replied she was going to reform
the den she was in. Miss Clafin re-
torted that she would be better en-
gagged in reforming her fallen sisters in
Omaha. This little spark kindled the
conAagration. The two women went at
it, give and take, and waxed hotter and
ii,o:ter as they progressed. After about
half an hours hard sparring, Miss Ten
ME was evidently getting the best of it,
and Miss Garrison thereupon struck up
a HYMN. Tennie, however, wasn't to
be sung down. She kept at her work,
and finally drove Miss Garrison away,
but followed her up, and for aught we
know they are still at it. Captain Lee,
however, is not harrassed any longer by
the crusaders.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-06-13

@A A fair and buxom widow, in
Portland, Maine, who had buried three
husbands, recently went with gentle
man, who had paid her marked atten-
ton in the days Of his adolescence, to
inspect the graves of her tleir departed.
After contemplating them some min
utes in mournful silence, she murmured
to her companion, "Ah! Joe, you
might have been in that row if You had
only had little more courage" 'aA@
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-06-13

u A Georgia negro who bet ten dol.
lars that General Washington CON-
manded the Federals at Bull Run
handed the money over with the remark
Well, dis here hist'ry business is all
mixed up anyway"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-06-13

@ At the State Convention.of Gran
gers, held recently in San Francisco,
the most important business transacted
was the organization of the Changers
Bank of California, with capital stock
of $4,000, 900, divided into shares of
500 each. 1854 900 has already been
paid up and the bank. has been incor-
DOrated,
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x The Chinese empire has q greater
population than any other nation of the
earth - four hundred and twenty-five
millions. The British empire (includ-
ing India) stands next to it, with two
hundred millions.-Olirer Optics Mag
nziue.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-06-13

@ Six persons are killed in London
every day on an average by being run
over by horses or wagons; the mortality
from that source being greater relatively
in that city than any other because the
streets are more crowded and the fogs
are denser and more frequent. The
people there are used to it, however,
and they do not give it q second thought.
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@ The Chicago Tribune estimates
that the getting born costs the people
of the United States $22O, ,O95, 900 an
nually; getting married. $3.50, ,OOO, 900;
getting buried, s73,S39, ,45O; total,
S543, 1884 ,45O.
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@ A California paper says of Gov.
Stafford, of Arizona, :" that he can go
it as long without a plug hat and a
billed shirt as any man who ever looked
q grizzly straight in the face.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-06-13

I9r A little boy, carrying home some
eggs from the grocers shop, dropped
them. "Did you break any?" asked
his mother. when he told her of it.
"No," said the little fellow; "but the
shells came off of some of 'em."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-06-13

."D Do try and talk little COM
mon sense!" exclaimed a sarcastic
young lady visitor. OH" was the re-
ply" but wouldn't that be taking an un-
fair advantage of your" ,.. f.,
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IA According to the last returns
the aggregate income of the English
life insurance officers is SIT 600 600;
their total accumulated funds amount
to $500, 900 900 and the policies in force
represent nearly 81 ,75O, ,OOO, 900.
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WHAT DID THE CLOCK sAY7

The clock in old Mrs. Mason's cozy
country mansion was just on the stroke
of six. Two little grand children, Will
lie and Rosa, were playing about the
room.
Children" said Mrs. Mason, from
her seat by the window, where she sat
knitting, and occasionally glancing at
her Bible, "watch the clock, and tell
me what it says when it strikes"
They marched up in front of the
clock and stood waiting n few minutes
At length the clock struck sir. Slowly
and solemnly it tolled forth the knell
Of another departed hour.
AS the last sound died away, Willie,
followed by his sister, walked up and
stood at his grandmother's feet, and
looking earnestly in her face, asked
Grandmother, what dill the clock
say?'
"To me-" said his grandmother,
sadly, seems to say, Gone-gone-gone
-gone-gOne--gOn
"What, grandmother, what has
gomez"
Another hour, my dear"
"What is an hour, grandmother"
ga white winged messenger from our
Father in Heaven, sent Ivy him to in
Quire of you-of all of us-what we
are doing; what we are saying; what
we are thinking and feeling"
"Wbere has it gone, grand -mother?"
"Back to him who sent it, bearing on
its wings, that were so pure and white
when it came, a record of all our
thoughtt. words and deeds, while it was
with u.s."
Reader! what record are the hours,
as they come and 60, bearing up on
high fer you? Is it such as will bear
the inspection of the judgment day
Have your hours been passed in such
occupations rs our Heavenly Father
can smile upon? Have they been used
in preparing to meet the God to whom
We must all answer for the way in which
we have spent our time on earth?
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E Vermont has young lady six
feet seven inches high, and when =
young man succeeds in kissing her they,
say be is gone up gasSsga
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T At what hour did the devil make
his appearance in the Garden Of Eden ?
Some time in the night. He certainly
come after Eve. gs sss ss 8si:ifss,
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@ One family has occupied the
throne in Japan for twenty-five odntu-
ries. az
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pD- Hartwell, Ga, has a man sc
years old that has just married for the
first time. t'. 4.G.
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s-" Siamesed" is the North Caro-
lima word for marriage.
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~ The berrying season is the prop
or time to discuss creamation. -
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~ Mormon missionaries are Utah
lizing the resources Of Michigan. ~ As1s
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@ Lake Erie has drowned over
%, 600 persons within 100 years.
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New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-07-02
From Mississippi.

JACKSON, MISS, June &c, 1874.
To tie Editor Of the New National Era:
No weekly visitor is more welcome to me
than the ERA. 1t is as new as the events
of the day, as national as the sentiments of
our broad country, and it truly represents the
era in which we live.
Long live the New NATIONAL ERA, and
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ers.
AFFAIRS IN MISSISSIPPI,
arc somewhat stirred, and we are closely
watching the course of events. TO say that
we are satisfied with the manner in which
the Civil-Rights Bill has been overlooked
would be an insult to our people. We are
not disposed to be unreasonable; we are not
disposed to lay stumbling-block in the way
of national legislation, and neither are we
disposed to stack our arms and suffer our
selves to be marched over like so many cat
tie. The time for smoothing over things
has passed, aud the sooner we know our real
friends the better.
The Associate Press agents have tele-
graphed all over the country that the Presi-
dent is opposed to the civil rights bill, and,
had it reached him during the recent session,
he would have vetoed it. 1 am not alto
gether disposed to believe this, but 1 must
say that the course of certain leading Repub-
lcan journals which are always friendly to
the President, seems to indicate his feelings
in the matter. The New York Times, the
Washington Republican, and the st. Louis
Globe have taken firm stand against the
passage of the bill. These papers have
always advocated the passage of the Presi-
dents favorite measures, but their opposition
to the civil rights bill, together with the long
delay of the Judiciary Committee of the
House in reporting their bill, and the manner
in which the Senate bill has been disposed
of in the House, have caused us to ponder
whether the President fayors our full and
complete rights or not. We can often judg e
what PERSONS feelings are on certain ques-
tons by putting this and that together, and
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toficai Tact was startling for two reasons
First. ltwas not known when he first brought
out the fact that he intended to compromise
as much depended upon him. Second. The
TACT itself was in diametrical opposition to
the common teachings from the bar, the
pulpit, and the press, whose theory was that
color was everywhere the insignia of moral
and mental inferiority. Since these ideas
have grown with the growth and strength
ened with the strength of the nation, is it
not after all wonder that the ghost against
whom we are contending is not, to say the
least, more reckless?
Mr.. Editor, the second to proposition to
which l above referred-namely, we must
possess lands, homesteads, &C., suggests
the idea of flank movement on the common
enemy-a movement in which all are inter-
ested, and therefore all ought to wheel
into line. Not only those of us commonly
called freedmen, but the movement should
be general; and system or scheme intro
duced that from the highest to the lowest
might take share. When two enemies are
about to engage IN a conflict, the victory
greatly depends upon which has the vantage
ground. Such was the case with General
Taylor at Buena Vista. We are American
citizens, and are not going to Africa or any
other place, except as others go and come.
Therefore we must have foothold in this
We must have lands. And what
does this mean? 1t means merchandise,
trade, and all the various occupations from
which we are now excluded, and are liable
to be still more so by the enemy. Such
it must be seen, would draw off ad-
from the cities and towns, and
political arenas thousands of our people and
raise them from the servile state to that of
wealth and industry, and prevent them from
becoming the mere dupes of such men as we
now see in Congress elected by their votes
and then turn their heel against them.
Mr.. Editor, this scheme is not new idea
with me. A few years ago l watched with
great anxiety this same proposition sent by
The distinguished Bishop Payne to a conven-
Lion that met at Washington but, unrortun-
ltely, as think, it was Informally passed
over. Now let us utilize those two propo-
sitions and let all our people everywhere
put the brakes hard down at the ballot-box,
and sooner Or later it is my humble opinion
we shall be successful in driving the ghost
INTO secluded quarters, which he will starve
10 death. So let it be.
w. s. WILSON.
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could ever drive him from his devotion to
the Republican party and its just principles !;
that he harbored no hatred towards those
who had sought to injure him he trusted
the day would soon come when they would
see the error of their ways and do him and
all other Republicans Justice
Resolred, That we, the colored citizens of
Marshall county, State of Mississippi. hail
with unspeakable joy the timely return of
Colonel G. Wiley Wells to our midst, and
that we recognize in him one of the best,
truest, and ablest Republicans in the Stale
one who had done more in the past four
years to put down disorder, bring peace and
security to the colored people in North Mis-
sisslppi by protect ting them in their lives,
property, and in the enjoyment of domestic
happiness than any other man in the State
OF Mississippi. To him we feel belongs the
honor of having annhilated in this State the
organization known as the Ku-Klux.
ReSOlred, That we do not countenance the
actions of certain officials in attempting his
removal from the position of United States
District Attorney, and that we recognize in
him true friend to the colored race, and
one more sincere in his purposes and bear
ings towards US than any of the officials who
attempted his removal. In their efforts to
overthrow Colonel Wells they have met with
the disapproval of all true Republicans, and
merited the denunciations of the colored
people of North Mississippi, whose lives and
property have been protected repeatedly by
the timely action and sleepless energy of
Colonel G. Wiley Wells.
Resolved, That the charges made against
Colonel Wells are wholly untrue and without
foundation in fact, prompted only by mean
spirit of malice and by a set or clique of men
who would "rule or ruin'
Resolved, That copy of these resolutions
be sent for publication to the Washington
New NATIONAL ERA, Prairie Ne,cs, and
other Republican papers.