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National Republican., 1875-06-04
DYE. u. WARNER,
u P0Al Estate Broker and Auctioneer.
Federal Buildings, cor Seventh and streets. N. W.

TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE UNIM.
PROVED PROPERTY ON THE W WAsHIHG-
TON CIRCLE, BETWEEN PENNSYLVANIA
AyENUE AND TWENTY-THIRD STREET
By Virtue Of deed OF trust dated May 10, A. D.
1874 duly recordtd in Liber No ~, folio 81 seq.,
Of the land records for the District OF COlum-
ba, and at the request OF the party secured there
by, we Will sell at pubic auction, in front Of the
premises, on SATURDAY, June u, 1879, at s
O'Clock p m, the following described real estate,
situate In the city of Washington. District or CO.
lumbia, to wit: All that certain piece parcel OF
ground known and described as all of originll lot
numbered nine, o. In square numbered flour,
l5,l as the same Y described and designate upon
the plat or plan of said city.
cash; balance at six, twelve and eighteen months,
with Interest at ten per cent. er anRum. secured
by deed of trust on the property sold. A deposit
OF SDo win be required az time OF sale. All con-
veyancing at expense of the purchaser. " terms
OF sale not complied with In days the trus
tees reserve the right to resell the prOpe ty at the
risk and cost Of the defaulting purchaser after ye
days advertisement.
GEORGE u, PLANT. trustees
my2lsTuTh&ds
National Republican., 1875-06-04

CLOSING SALE OF BUILDERS HARDWARE,
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, WOODEN
WARE. VAhNlSH, METALLIC AND OTHER
PANTS, AT THE STORE OF THE LATE
p0uI Us THY SON, No. Si SEVENTH
STREET. BETWEEN ii AND ! STREETS
ON Wednesday MORNING, June ?, 1szs. at
10 O'Clock, and Ihc following days at that
hour. shall sell tie remaining stock, which COM
pTises an extensive assortment Of the above goods
n. B.-The Narnlsh and Paints will be sold on
WEDNESDAY MORNING. Parties desiring
such goods should not fall to attend.
Terms In first sale.
PARTHENIA THYSON, AdmlntstrStrIN.
THOS. DOWLISG,
yny Arsr
National Republican., 1875-06-04
The Livestock Market.

WAsHISGToN, June 5.-Cattle active at 4dTr[c.
Calves, 5661&c. Cows. per head, S2O65O. hOSs,
9G1O1kc. Sheep, 46je. Lambs, 81 JO04
GEORGETOWN, June 3-Sale3 to-day at DrOV-
ers' Rest Of l10 head Of cattle at 5 to nc. per
pound: as sheep and lambs At 10 &c. per pound
iOr old sheep, and from - to 81. IS per head fUr
lambs: 30 COWS and calves at S25 10 $50.
National Republican., 1875-06-04
Auction SALES
A(@N||
To-Day.

PY b. H. WARNER,
~ Real Estate Broker and Auctoneer,
Federal Buildings corner Seventh and sts NV,
CHANCERY SALE OF IMP aOYED PROPERTY
ON MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE. BETWEEN
FOURTH AND FIFTH STREETS NORTH
WEST.
By virIue of q decree of the Supreme Court Of the
district Of Columbia, passed in cause No. SlJ6.
SIade and Others vs.. slade and others, will sell
In mont of the PREMISE, on FRIDAY, the 4th day
Of June, 1875, At $50 O'Clock m, the west half OF
lot q, in square No 5E, Improved by brick house
containing ten rooms, Sater and gas.
Terms OF sale: One third cash, and the balance in
six, twelve and eighteen months, with eight per
cent interest per annum, the purcEASE toIgive his
notes for the deferred payments, indorsed to the
satisfaction OF the trustee. lien will be retained
on the property until final payment Is male. A de-
pOst OF $40 will he required at the time Of e. II
tie terms Of sale not compile with In six days
the property will be resOld at the risk and cost Of
purchaser, II. s. DAVIS, Trustee.
my25-d +. u. CLEARl, Salesman.
National Republican., 1875-06-04
DY DUNCANseN BROS,

AS-THE ABOVE SALE IS POSTPONED UN.
til WEDNESDAY. June Q, 1S7i same hour auI
place. THOMAS J. HOBBS. Trustee.
iel TuW&GS j. T. COI.DWELLI. Salesman.
National Republican., 1875-06-04
nv THoWGS 00WTH6

ID AuctiOneer and Real Estate Broker,
(SuCcessor to Latmer 4 Cltary,)
Southwest corner Pennsylvania avenue and
Eleventh street.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-11
How Teeth are SpOilt.

Extra fine flour is nearly destitute of
phosphate of lime, and will not make
teeth oatmeal is much richer in bone
material. The London Medical Record
says: cit has long been noted in this
country that in those districts where
the use of oatmeal in place of wheat
flour prevails, we find children and
adults with the best developed teeth
and jaws and so we'll recognized is the
influence of oatmeal upon the teeth
that many practitioners order its use as
an article of daily diet for children in
cases where dentition is likely to be
either retarded or imperfect. Defective
teeth are more common than defective
bones but both complaints are I'M
fortunately too we'll known where fash
ion and civilization deprive children
and adults of the very thing nature
demands to form and preserve through
life sound teeth, and soundness in all
other organs. Very fine family flour,
corn starch, rice, tapioca, arrow root,
sugar in all it's forms, with cream, but
ter, and lard-living on the fat of the
land-operates to make dentistry a lu-
crative profession, and fill the mouths
of thousands with masticators formed
of porcelain or metal. Men and women
have SO changed constitutionally that a
decayed tooth, infamed in nerve, and
full of pain, represents the most ad-
vanced humanity. The remedy is plain
enough, but how many will go back to
oat meal cakes and brown bread for the
sake of health, comfort, and long life ?
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-11
The Prairie Gopher.

Among the burrowing species belong
lug to the squirrel family, the prairie
gopher (Spermophilus RichardsonD
holds prominent rank. Though one of
the most abundant animals in our coun-
trv, InfestiDg hundreds of Thousands
of square miles of territory, almost to
the exclusion of other mammalian forms
the prairie gopher has but lately re-
ceived the honor of an adequate descrip-
ton. This service has been rendered
by DIR. Elliott Doues in the pages of the
American Naturalist. The habitat of
the prairie gopher appears to extead
from the Red river of the North to the
Rocky Mountains. and from latitude 3S
deg. to SIS deg. So numerous are they
in Dakota and Montana that according
to DIR. Coues, should certain portions
of these territories ever be settled, the
little gophers will contend with the
husbandman for the land more persist
emily and successfully than the Indians
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-11
Production OF India Rubber.

A writer in the journal of the Soci-
'ety of Arts says that the finest caout-
chouc of commerce is not the produce
of eny species Indigenous to India,
but is produced by the HeUea Brazil
iensis. Attempts are being made to
procure and introduce this species.
The caoutchouc of India is produced
from the Ficus eIastica, which grows
naturally in northeast Bengal, in Chit
TAGGING, AMI in Cachar, from which dis
trict good deal is said to come. 1t may
be seen in parts of Sikkim, where in
the moist but rocky side valleys of the
torrents that feed the Teesta and the
Mahanadi the huge stems stretch down
straight to the ground or Irvine in fam
tastic groupings of contorted roots.
These have originally started from a
young plant, long ago produced from
seed deposited in the topmost fork of
some tall terminalia or toon tree, which
has in the course of years been smoth-
cred by the giant growth. In nature
the Ffcus elasticd is always found
towering above other trees, from the
circumstance of its epiphytic origin.
When once it has got its firm hold it
sends down aerial roots that become
stems, and thus single tree will form
a grove covering half an acre in extent.
The chief habitat for rubber is in the
moist lower hill forests of Assam and
in the moist forests of Burma beyond
British territory. 1t is we'll known that
the rainfall of Burma steadily dimin
ishes towards the north, till at last it
ceases about the region of Paghan in
the Irrawaddy but thence again, in
fiuenced by the mountain masses to the
north, it again increases; it is in the
moist forest of the northern rainy zone
that the FTcus eIaSticG occurs. 1t has
recently been reported that climbing
species of Willughbeia, yielding caout-
cbouc, has been found in forests in
Burma. In Assam the Ftcms eldstica
is found in both the forests of the Him.
alayas and in the low valleys of the
Maya hills. The Indian caoutchouc has
hitherto been collected by persons buy
ing the right not only to collect it, but
claiming also to monopolize the pur-
chase of that brought from foreign ter
ritory, and this has given rise to many
disputes. The greater number of trees
are in the territory of some independent
mill tribes, who bring the India rubber
in and sell it. At present the collection
in British territory has been stopped,
partly owing to complications arising
out of the monopoly, but partly because
of the enormous waste and the injury
inflicted by overlapping the trees and
working them at the wrong season. 1t
is to be hoped that this fine source of
revenue will not long remain in allegiance
but that the management of the whole
work may be intrusted to the forest
department.
The yield in Assam amountedin 1873 to
IL 900 mauuds aud i'll Sikkim to 700
maunds. The trees do not form pure
forests, but are scattered one here and
one there, the best forests containing
hardly twenty trees to square mile.
They are cut all over with knives, both
on the stem and on the long, running
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-11
NUMBER 10.

can hope to. The animal &c ems to be a
modification of the chipmunk in the
language of DIR. Doues, "If we take q
chipmunk and crop its ears down close,
| cut off about third Of it's tail, give it
| biunter muzzle, and make a little al
teration in its fore feet. go that it could
dig better" we have pretty good prai-
RE gopher. The holes they dig are
small, but many ot them, ike the bur-
rows of the badgers, foxes, and prairie
wolves, will admit horses Eoof. In
some regions so numerous are these
holes that it is impossible to gallop a
hundred yards except at the risk of life
or limb.
1t is not easy to determine what par
ticular kind of ground the gophers
most affect. passing over a sterile,
cactus-ridden, alkali laden waste" says
DIR. Coues, "there would be SO many
that would say, 'Ihls suits them BEST
i'll camp that very night, in some low
grassy spot near water, there they would
be plentiful as ever" If the animals
have any preference, it is a choice of
the lighter and more easily worked soils;
and they seem to haunt especially the
slight knobs of tine prairie a few feet
above the general level. One gopher
10 Gue mole is The universal rule, nor
has the author ever seen any signs of a
burrow being occupied by pair.
The female brings forth in June, but
the young are never seen outside of the
bu row till July, when they are about
two thirds grown. The number of
young produced at a birth is supposed
to be about eight.
DIR. Coues is of the opinion that the
gopher is torpid during most of the
winter. The animal boards up food, it
is true, but not in sufficient quantity to
suffice for SO active a creature during an
entire winter. The author has often
them, where the grass was tai
Ter than usual, gathering their store.
They rise straight up on their launches,
seize the grass-top, and bite it off ;
then settling down with a peculiar jerk,
they sit with arched back, and stow
away the provender in their pouches,
with the aid of their fore paws. Their
cheek pouches, both together, would
hardly hold a heaping teaspoonful.
Though properly a vegetarian, the 60
pher derives no small share of his sum-
mer food from carcasses of Buffalo.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-11
The History of Glass,

Taken in connection with the glass
exhibited in Japan, and said to be over
| one Thousand years old, an article by
M. de Foville in the Economists Fran
oaise may be read with interest. That
| gentleman says that France long re-
manned indebted to italian art in the
matter of glass, although in the sixth
century drinking glasses were manu-
featured at Paris and Quiquengrogne.
But in 1912 we find a Dauphin paying
for little glass service for his daugh-
ter Diana the price of an OK. Some of
the most curious windows in the
Gothic cathedrals date from the thir-
tenth, twelfth, and even eleventh CEN
turies, but it was only under Louis
XIV. that France appropriated the
Venice sold her for their weight in
gold. There are now in France It's
glass manufactures, without counting
seven manufactures of looking glasses.
Every year on an average 125, 900, 00O
bottles are made, and 100000 of
these. filled with good wine, find their
way abroad, together with about co.
100000 empty bottles. Forty years
ago 100 bottles cost about 30 francs
now they cost half that price. Accord
ing to NJ. de Foville, the invention of
glass deserves to rank with printing and
steam as an agent of civilization
and refinement, for it rendered indoor
life possible. There are proofs, he
Gays, that glass existed in the early days
of Christianity, but it was an excep-
tional luxury which did not survive the
Roman empire. The window-pane re.
appeared at latter period in the
churches under the form of small
lozenges of equivocal transparency. At
the castle of duke of Northumberland, ]
in 1867, say the writer, there were a
few glass windows, which use to be put
in when his grace was at home; and
not a century ago there existed in
France a corporation of Chassissiere,"
whose profession was to put in the win
dows of oiled paper. 1t was only in
ITO that glass panes in wooden frames
were used.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-11
A Negro Prayer.

The following grotesque, yet solemn
prayer is verbatim report taken in the
winter of 1923, at Methodist meeting
held by plantation negroes in q settle
ment near camp:
go Lord God of dis glorious uni
verse. wilt dou look down in the omni-
presences of dy eye upon desc, dy col
lard children, bowed upon de knucklep
bone dis night. Take a solemn pee
upon us, and let heap O. light in. Dou
knowest what desc poor darkies need.
Dere be Sam. dere be jerry, and dere
be Pompey. lDey are in dere sins, OATS
what reckon. Help dem to git up and
git from de wilderness of sin and come
into dc clearing of salvation. Take q
solemn peep also upon de darkies in de
other cabin, vino fiddle and wllirl upon
de bombastic toe, while dy servant full
inmates words to dee. May dey rise
above the anthratory things of dis world
and fly like Massa Linkume balloon,
heavenward. professor loves balloon
was anchored near by. Ruler of all
humans on dis earth, wilt don Dress de
circumspection in dy eye. Bress de
colonies in de field dis night, if it be
circumspection in dy discreet eye, and
also Dress de Union soldiers, who carry
de musket and chew de cartridge, fight
ing for de Union and do stars and
stripes. Dey fight in scientific cause,
and be de bestest OBJ men but, good
Lord. may dey swear less and prby
more. And finally, Dress dy humble
servant now supplicating dee in behalf
of desc benighted darkies. 1t behooves
dee to dig deep and sound in de very
bottom of his heart. Nav dere be nary
blimmage between myself and my Sa-
vior. In de language of de mighty
Washington, dis world is all feetin'
show. To day we are alive and hoppin'
around like grasshoppers to morrow
de sickle of death cuts MS down and
spreads us out like grass in Daytime.
On every side, dou knowest, o Lord, is
de evidence of de disIocation and de-
struction of de human family. Dere be
fighting among one anoder, and natural
disease. But we die to live again, either
as saints or evil spirits. Dere be dis
cussions on doctrines, Elecshion, Be-
fore ordination, Perfection, and SIGH
like, confuse de inteilects of both black
men and white. But dou knowest, good
Lord, dat desc are vain allusiona,
split in and dividin' dy creatures into
sexes without mercy Many dere will
he with slick contingencies, white col
lars, and fine clothes, who will find de
gates shut against them, while de blind
old woman, hobbling on crutches. she
go straight in. Amen. "-Educationat
Monthly.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-11
SEPTEMBER II,

roots; no care is taken to prevent in
jul1ng the sap wood. The cuts arc
eliptical in shape the milk is received
in holes in the ground or in leaves
doubled up to form funnel. A tree
tapped in August will yield so ounces of
milk, giving 49, ounces of pure caout-
chouc. The mlIk is scanty during the
cool season, October to March. The
india rubber is sometimes prepared by
stirring the milk in boiling water, when
the caoutchouc coagulates. 1t is shipped
in baskets made of split rattan,
weighing about cwt. each. It is as a
rule badly prepared, and mixed with
sticks and dirt. Mr.. Collins, in his re-
port upon this article, gives the import
of East Indian caoutchouc into London
as 1,347 tons from June, 1871, to June,
1872. 1t is obvious that there is vast
room for improvement in the collection
of the juice and the treatment of the
trees, as we'll as in the manufacture of
the material and in organizing the
method of production.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-11
Lead us Not into Temptation.

The Rev. Julian Young's Journal con.
tains the subjeined good story of po
lemical parishioner
La one of my ministerial rounds al
Falrlight, in Sussex, | visited Dame
Pankhurst-quite a character in her
way bluff, blunt, and shrewd, and close
on the verge of eighty. She was seated
at her tea-table, and, with knitted brows
| and a puzzled expression of face, was
porting over her baize- covered Bible.
As soon as l entered she took off her
spectacles, wiped them with her checked
apron, and deposited them on the chair
by her side, and thus accosted me !:
Muster Young, tits very handy your
coming in just now, for be sadly put
about; and I amt, to say, easy in my
mind at summit as I We been reading
in this here book. I've stumbled,
think, on one of the things, as Peter says
is hard to be understood She then
pointed to the first chapter of st James,
and desired me to read aloud for her
the second verse, which had so discop-
certed her: "Count it all joy when ye
fall into divers temptations" When I
had complied with her request, she
stuck her arms akimbo, and, shaking
her head specifically and defiantly, asked
me "what thought O. that? If there
be meaning in them words, they mean
as we are to be glad to fall into tempta-
tions Perhaps there's summit moro
in the meaning of that word 'tempta-
ton than know on. Anyhow I can't
make head nor tail ont" She then
hung down her ht ad and repeated to
most of indignation, the words, "tempt-
a-tions tempt a-tions tempt-a-t ions.
indeed What be UNI, I'd like to know"
1 told ner that the word had two mean
ings-one signifying "to allure or en-
tice ;" the other, "to try :" and that in
the passage to which she had directed my
attention the word temptation meant
"trial." That st. James, in writing
those words, was exhorting Christians
" to be patient under trial !" and that
though God could not directly tempt
his servants, yet that sometimes, as in
the cases of Job and st. Paul, he per-
mitted them to be tempted, that by the
confirmation of their faith they might
win the greater glory, and therefore
have the greater cause for JOY. In con-
frmation of my assertion, that God
could not himself directly tempt, how
ever he might be said to do 80 Indirectly,
pointed her notice to the thirteenth
verse of the same chapter, on which she
fairly exploded. "What dye mean ?
My mother taught me to pray to God,
Lead us not into temptation from the
Lords prayer. The Master himself
tells us, Watch and pray, that ye enter
not into temptation and this here st.
James, an excellent good man, sup
pose, tells us that we're to be uncom-
mon glad if We fall into temptations.
Why are we to be warned ag inst tempt
atoms, if, when they come, they are to
make us happy? And then, again, as
to what you've been saying out O. your
own head mean that God can't tempt
if he can't tempt, what's the use of
praying to him not to Tempt us ?"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-11
Garcia Moreno.

Detail of the assassination of the
president OF Ecuador show that the
crime was one of unusual cowardice
and atrocity, even for Spanish America,
which is saying great deal. Senior
Moreno was strong Ultramontane, and
had exercised powerful influence in
the politico- religious affairs of Ecua-
dor. Under his manipulation, indeed,
the republic had practically become q
theocracy. Ecuador was the one only
country in all the world that formally
protested against the italian seizure of
Rome in 1870 Garcia's death at the
hands of party of assassins is natur-
ally supposed to be the first outburst of
n Iong-suppressod hostility to the policy
of the dominant party in the state.
There are, however, rumors of revo-
luton slumbering under the dead calm
that followed the death of Moreno.
are so common in South
that we should consider one
inevitable at this iuncture. But, at
last accounts, the constitutional presi-
dent al interim, who is the governor of
the province of Guayaquil, had been
unm olested in the Office to which he
succeeded.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-11

He who has low and unworthy idei
of his nature will act unworthily; while
he who feels how great is the life of {
being made in the image of God will
not readily blot and blur that image. I
any one be told that he cannot choose
the right and love the true, and live out
| the pure, he will feel that il it be so
to try is hopeless work. But We are
| very sure that 1t is not so, else how
! could there dwell within us sorrow and
unquiet after doing wrong, if we do not
feel that we can do, and ought to do,
the right? If such chilling unfaith in
themselves and in their kind had been
in the heart of the sanity men whose
lives have blest the world; who, like
salt, have kept the mass from decay
how, think you, could they have dared
and done? They had faith in man as
the fruit of faith in the God who made
him they felt that the life of man is not
what it will one day become, and this
it was that fred them to earnest effort
in the service and salvation of their fell
lows, and to help on the time when
earth shall be the paradise it never has
been yet
Who rowing hard against the stream,
Saw distant gates OF Eden CLEAN,
And did not dream it was a dream.
1t is the faith of such men, some of
whose lives have been looked at in this
book, that you and must share. Life
is full of duty, and to do we'll the work
that lies close at hand is to fulfil the
purpose for which we were seLt here.
The weakest and youngest amongst us
is power for good as well as for evil,
and it should be our aim to do our part
on the side of ever-increasing human
goodness against ever lessening human
badness. There is but one life, if life
it may be called, which seems to me to
be God forsaken it is the life that is
idle or selfish. Those few words express
meaning has been set to sweeter music
than can command by Leigh Hunt in
the story of Abou Ben Adhem, with
which close this book
About Ben Adhem-may his tribe increase -
Awoke one night from deep dream of peace,
And saw amid the moonlight in his room,
Making it rich and like lily bloom,
An angel writing in a book of gold:
Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold,
And to the vision in the room he said,
What wIitest thou ?" The vision raised its
head.
Aud with voice made of all sweet accord,
Replied, The names of them that love the
And is mine one ?" said Abou. "Nay, not
so"
Replied the angel Abou spoke more low,
But cheerly still, and said, Il pray thee,
then,
Write me as one who loves his fellow-men."
Tho angel wrote and vanished. The next
night
He came again with great Weakening light;
He showed the names who loved God had
blest.
And loI Ben Adhem's name led all the rect.
The Childhood of Religions.