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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-11-07
Words of Wisdom.
saltwater Lumberman.

When men, women and opportunity
meet, the devil sits down, knowing that
the fire will burn withouthelp from him.
1t is better to rise from your knees,
and shut your hens out of your neigh
boris yard, than to indulge in long
prayers.
The perfectly contented man is also
perfectly useless.
Try to see yourself through the eyes
of those around You.
The ideal saint of the young moralist
is cut from sappy timber.
The Lord can more easily have faith
in the religion that wears an old coat
to church, than the man in the coat
can.
True prosperity builds up the soul
rather than the pocketbOOk.
The vigorous ideal keeps warm though
wrapped in few words.
Faith that asks no questions kills the
soul and stiles the intellect.
Happy is the man who has neighbors
willing to forgive his mistakes.
Appear to be better than you are, and
aim to be what you appear.
He who thinks poorly of himself can
not win the respect of his fellows.
Many who expect to go to heaven,
will find little comfort there unless
they are able to get up a lively trade in
harps, and gold, and nickel plated crowns.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-11-07
Neglected Children.
Rural Sum-

Many mother has wept over the sins
of her child, little dreaming that while
she pursued her round of idle pleasures,
that child was taking its first lesson in
sin from the example of vicious nurse.
The truth is, parents take upon them
selves too many unnecessary burdens,
and consider themselves bound by duty
to perform too many tasks, which are of
much less consequence than the teaching
and training of their children. The
father has his trade or profession, and
his few leisure hours he must spend in
social pleasure. The mother has her
household cares, and the comforts of her
family to study; and besides this there is
much time to be devoted to fancy work,
visitors, and to amusements of one kind
and another. Her children are mere
secondary considerations, and depend
upon the kindness of hirelings. Their
dresses may be miracles of putting, ruff
files and embroidery, but what does that
count when their minds are dwarfed
through neglect? Her house may be the
model of neatness, her bread excel that
of all her neighbors, her jellies and pre-
serves enough to tempt the most fastid-
ious; but if in all this she has kept aloof
from her child, has chilled his heart
towards her, what does it count?
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-11-07
An Extraordinary Fish.

A most interesting discovery has been
made in the Sea of Liberals of a fish
which incubates its young in the cavi-
ties of the mouth and, what is the more
remarkable, it is the male which per
forms this part of the family function.
As soon as the female has deposited its
eggs in the hollow CT the sand, the male
approaches and draws them into the cav
tiles of the mouth by the process of pi.
ration. Here they are distributed be.
tween the leaves of the gills; and in the
midst of the respiratory organs the eggs
rapidly develop, distending the mouth
of the male fish in the most extraordi.
nary manner. Finally the young fishes
make their appearance, packed in the
gills like 50 many behring's, all with
their heads directed toward the opening.
From this place of safety and retreat
they run in and out until they are large
enough to take care OF themselves. II
is said that as many as two hundred
individuals are sometimes crowded into
the mouth and gills Of the male fish.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-11-07
Two San Francisco Women.

San Francisco is vast gambling hell
at the present time, and the women are.
| if possible, worse than the men, in their
greed to obtain money by gambling in
mining stocks. A very sad case, Illus
trative of the generalization which the
craze is developing, is now before the
police court Ayoung woman of one of
the best known society families, wild to
raise n few hundred dollars with which
to speculate in mining stocks, invented
a bogus charitable society to relieve the
pressing wants of needy and starving
families, whose m0desty would not per-
nit them to make personal appeal to
the charity of their friends or the public,
She appointed herself treasurer, under a
false name, and sent out number of
circulars begging for money. One of
these circulars was sent to Mr.. sam, Will
son, a prominent lawyer, who, suspect
ing swindlc, sent Il police officer to fol-
low the messenger and investigate. At
the same time he handed the messenger
a small sum of money, which was duly
delivered to the young woman who was
waiting in the street, and who, being
unable to establish the good faith of the
society for which she pretended to be
acting, was arrested, and charged with
swindling and obtaining money by false
pretenses. Mr.. Wilson was sent for, and
found, to his CONSERVATION, that the
prisoner WAS fashionable young
woman, II frequent visitor at his own
and others Of the best houses in town.
Bail was taken for her appearance her
true name was withheld from the police
report and newspapers, and strenuous
efforts are being made to avoid trial
and public exposure. The affair is, how
ever, an open secret, and the girl,
who is only nineteen years of age, is
ruined for life.
The Palace Hotel in San Francisco,
is just now perplexed with an amusing
contest with the wife of an army officer,
who has made her presence very obiec-
tionablc to the inmates of that vast es-
adjustment by undertaking, on her own
assumption, to manage its social arrange
ments. She has succeeded in making
herself SO obnoxious to the guests of the
house that the managers have requested
her to leave, which she percmptorily re-
fuses to do, and challenges them to put
her out by force.
Her gas and water are cut off, but she
holds the fort and refuses to surrender
Her appearance in the public rooms oc-
casionS Il general stampede but as she
pays her bills regularly, and has an I'M
commonly volublc and bitter tongue,
Senator Sharon and his staff are in an
awkward dilemma.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-11-07

A Romantic Career.

William Buckley, British soldier,
convicted of receiving stolen property,
or being concerned in an attempt upon
the life of the Duke of Kent, was sem
fenced to transportation in Australia for
life. He escaped, and fell in with
tribe of natives, with whom he resided
thirty-three years, without meeting a
white man until he discovered party
of tourists, and saved them from a
treacherous attack by wandering band
of native warriors. 1t is believed that
he owed his safety to his gigantic size
and ferocious appearance. A more ro-
mantle explanation is that, having taken
spear from the grave of a dead chief,
he was supposed by the natives to be
their leader come to life in a new body.
Buckley says that these people imagined
that the world was supported by props,
which were in charge of man who lived
at the extremity of the earth, and that
unless the props were renewed from time
to time, the whole fabric would tumble
to pieces.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-11-07

perienced before or since, seemed to
creep over me, Notwithstanding my
endeavors to shake it off with the idea
that it was simply nervousness. liur.
rying through with my work, and after
a close inspection to see that all was
right within, lit cigar, and, repairing
to the smoking-car, seated myself by the
stove. Scarcely five minutes afterward,
and hardly before had time to direct
my thoughts from the mental gloom
from which was suffering, there came
a shrill, short whistle, known to the
boys as a signal of danger, followed by
a series of crashes, terrible jar, and
then a long and awful silence. With
the rest | rushed out to see what was
the trouble. There was the engine cut
loose from tho train, lying upon its side,
nearly parallel with the track, close UP
to the rocks, while my car was precipi-
tated over the cliff into the river, about
thirty feet down 1t appears that a
large rock had fallen to the track, and
as the front of the locomotive struck it
she glanced to the left, and turned over
on her side, while the baggage-car, fol-
lowing next, had glanced in the opposite
direction, broken her coupling and gone
clean down the bank. The fireman was
killed outright, while the engineer was
hurled out of the forward cab-window
to the track, and the boiler of the engine
came down upon him, resting upon his
legs and hips. His name, | think, was
Talloman-a good fellow, too-and there
he lay with about twelve tons of red-hot
iron crushing him to the ground. We
had no 'jsck-screws' or derricks to prop
up or raise the engine with, and were
alone on the rocky cut in the middle of
the night, with nothing on earth to
rescue or relieve the poor fellow with.
His suherings for the few awful minutes
which preceded his death were fearful
to contemplate. 'Ohl save mep he
cried, with an expression of painful
horror and desperate agony, For Gods
sake, if you are men, help me. don't
care if | lose my legs, only save me
from this terrible death. My wife and
child will starve. Oh, God, it's killing
men And there he moaned away his
life, while, perhaps, his dcarer ones at
home were awaiting with eager expect
ancy his welcome return. Powerless as
We were to save, it was a period of horror
for us strong and willing men to witness
this sight. Not until morning could
the wreck be removed, and then a large
corps of trackmen and laborers were
obliged to clear the track. Those are
about the worst accidents | have ever
witnessed. | had five dogs with me
when we left the Port, and upon going
down to the car found those CANNES
as healthy and frisky as you could wish,
barking Justify AS they saw me approach,
and not a hair singed or a scratch upon
them. Funny, wasn't it? My residence
is in Oswego, and | make the entire trip
from New York to Buffalo twice a week
having every other Sunday off in New
York. Our road is now in condition
second to none in the country-road-
beds smooth, rails solid, and reputation
as trunk line unexcelled. In the Eric
of to-day there remains not vestige of
the clumsy contrivances which all new
railways then possessed"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-11-07
WORK WHILE 1T ~ DAY.

The world IL wide, but It's want Is wider,
No least endeavor shall frultless he
Though the say Ia full Of the moons soft glory,
Each smaller star shines from sea tosea.
The world is wide, and the work Is waiting,
We can only call one day our own;
o. slumher not for the day is breaking
For an hours loss you can never atone
The world Is wide, and the violet growelh
side by side with the queenly rose;
Ore llleth the air with subtle fragrance
In silence and shadow the other grows,
Yet who shall tell what the angels know not
Witch of the two shall farer be,
When the flowers are gathered from earthly gar
dens,
To bloom in the light Of Eternity.
The world Ia wide, and the people in IT,,
Each has work TO find and do;
The sunshine dicth, the dark night hieth,
Haste while the daylight waits on YOU
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-11-07

THE Countess Marie Bismarck, the
daughter of the Prince, is to be married
sometime iii the winter. She is a charm
ing lady, and a great favorite with her
father Count Rautzan, her betrothed,
is the descendant of an ancient family
in HOlstein, is member Of the German
diplomatic corps, and has always been
much liked by Prince Bismarck, who
appointed him one of the secretaries to
the late Congress.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-11-07

DOESN'T it seem like sarcasm on the
complaint of hard times to see the bril-
liant fabrics which are exhibited Tor
women's wear this season. There is a
positive gorgeousne-s about some Of
the importations. The color and the
combinations Ut color doubtless have
great deal 10 do with this, and then the
materials themselves are rich and heavy.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-11-07
A POEM WITH A KEY.


Mary had little lamp;
Her lover, all serene,
Extinguished 1t, for he did not
Want any caress seen.
S0lu'ion.-Let equal caress,n and plus ca ual
"caIess seem" then X plus y plus will equal
"kerosene'' and W. have the answer thus:
ExlinPuished it, for he did not
Wsnt any kerosene.
When Mary saw the lamp put out
She screamed: 60 dear, it's dark!n
" But bright enough" her lover said,
with delight of spark
SOlution.--Let equal delight" and X plus Z
equal yphen ~ when plus k plus will equal
delight, which reduced to United States means
tine light" N0te-a, The word delight " refers
10 the joys Of courtship. b. Ia some countries
spark " and occurring" are synonymous terms.
Therefore:
" But bright enough, :" her lover said,
with the light Of spark"
What makes the youth love Mary so?
I'll tell you she's a catch:
And he put out the lamp, you know,
30 he might strike match.
Solution This is very simple, and can be solved
by mental process. The young man extinpuished
the lamp 40 that he could have the fun of striking
match and lighting 1t again. OIL Ciiy Derrick
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-11-07

The two rooms occupied by Voltairt
in his chateau at Ferney have been
kept lovingly and reverently as he left
them His sleeping apartment, with it,
truckle bed and its walls hung round
with portraits-among them Milton and
Newton is exactly the same as when be
died there century ago. Unchipped,
too. by Cook tourists knives is still the
black sarcophagns in which his heart is
interned.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-11-07

TAKE in your geraniums at night; lay
away your straw hats; take your listers
out OF the camphor or pawnshop.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-07
SARSAPER'S REFRIGERATOR.
A Friend Calls to Nee II ON His
Return from the Lodge.

. j HIa
A couple II weeks ago Mr.. Sarsa-
per told his wife one morning that he
had got about tired of buttering his
bread with . spoon, and so that day
hesent home a refrigerator: It was
q beauty, and be felt proud of it, SO
much so that he had agreat deal to
say about it at the store.
Il suppose you have to put ice in
it, don't you 2" said one Of the clerks.
'Cerfainly,''2 said oIr. Sarsaper,
!'but then it takes very little. It's an
improvement on all the others ever
made, Full of little. boxes and
places for all sorts of things. Keeps
everything separate-meat. vegeta-
bles, milk, and SO on, without any
mixing up. 1t makes hot weather so
much more comfortable, Bob, to pull
up to the table and find everything
nice, cool and crisp, instead of limp,
sour and slushy. We wouldn't be
without it again for any money. I
wish you would run in and look at
it, Bob, the first time you are going
by. It's curiosity, and I know
you'll get one as soon as you see it.
Don't bother about ceremony run
in any time"
Bob said he would.
About two o'clock one morning
last week, Mr.. Sarsaper was awakened
out of the slumber that always keeps
company with an easy conscience, by
bis wife poking him in the ribs, aud
calling on him to hustle out and see
what the matter was. The doorbell
vas jingiing like all possessed.
Mr.. Sarsaper crawled out of bed,
and after banging his nose on the door
post till the blood started, giving
himself black eye against the cor
ner of the mantle, and falling down
over pretty much everything in the
room, he finally made his way to the
front part of the house, threw up a
window and peered out into the wet
and murky gloom.
"Who's there r. he demanded, look
ing down at the top of an umbrella.
sMe y came up in thick voice
from the under side of it.
"Whos me :" a.sa
"Bob."
"Oh, it's you is it9 What's the
matter, Bob2 Anybody sick 2"
..Oh, no. You see I've been out to
Sedamsville with some of the boys
tohelp institute lodge, and I'm just
getting back. I happened to think
about that refrigerator Of yours as
was going by, and SO ! thought !
would stop in and see it, without
ceremony, as you said. Come down
and let me in. I'm in a hurry to gel
home, and can't stop but minute
Mr.. Sarsaper said somthing that
would bend the types double if we
should undertake to print it, and
slammed down the window.
He remarked to Bob the next day
that for downright freezing GOODNESS
his refrigerator was like Q bake oven
compared TO the prank practiced or
him---Cincinnati Bre akfast Table.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-07

the board Of Directors. made on the Four
teenth day Of June. 1873, no many shares Of
each parcel Of such stock as may be necessary
will be sold 1t public auction at the once Of the
company. in the ONCE Of Gold Hill Foundry,
Lower Gold Hill Nevada, on WEDNESDAY,
the Fourteenth day Of August, 1878, At the
hour Of l O'Clock ?. n. OF said day,
to pay said delinquent assessment thereon,
together with costs Of advertising and ex-
penses Of the sale.
JNO. H. SHERMIER, Secretary.
Office--In the office of Gold Hill Foundry.
Lower Gold Hill, Nevada. jy2itd
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-07
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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-07
CAUTION NOTICE.

yuVHE TRUSTEES OF SILVER CITY
L. Miners Union hereby caution all boy
from disaguring their hall. by writing on the
walt, cutting the doors, breaking windows
etc. Amy one caught in the act of any way
1isfguring said building will be severely
dealt with.
By order of THE TRUSTEES.
Silver City, Sept. s. 1877.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-07
Delinquent Sale.

DLACK DIAMOND COAL MINING Com.
II pany.-Location of principal place of
business, Gold Hill, Nevada; location of
works. Lyon county, Nevada. Notice. There
are delinquent upon the following described
stock, on account of assessment mo. y
levied on the 18th day of June, 1873, the sew
eral amounts set opposite the names of the
respective shareholders, as follows:
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-07

This IMMINENT very naturally originated In Ameri-
ca, where Nature provides in her laboratory such
surprising antidotes for the maladies OF her chill
dren. Its fame has been spreading for - years.
until now 1t encircles the habitable globe.
The Mexican Mustang Iiniment Is q matches
remedy for all external ailments Of man and beast.
To stock owners and farmers It IL Invaluable
A single bottle often saves human lie or r.
stores tho usefulness of On excellent horse. az
COW. sheep.
It cures foot-rot. hoofai, hollow horn, grub
screw worm, shouider-rot, mango, the bites and
st.ngs OF poisonous reptiles and insects, and every
such drawback togsocls breeding and bush life
II cures every external troahlc % horses, such
rs iamcnets. scratcaos, swlnny, sprains, founder.
w!nd.gal. r.ac.5oac etc., cite. lisa
The Mexican ..us.ang L.nlment u the quickest
cure in the world for accidents occurring In t~
family, IN the absence OF = physician. such y
burns, scalds spra.Es, cuts, ete,, and for rheunA
tism, and stiffness engenderea by exposure. Par
ticularly valuable TO Miners.
1t Is tho cheapest remedy IN tee world, for It
penetrates the muscle 10 the bone, and single
application IL generally sufieien. 10 care.
mexican Mustang Eminent Is put up IA three
sizes of bottles the larger ones hcins proportion
ately much tho cheapest. Sod everywhere.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-07

THE STICTEST CONFIDENCE observed
In every case. Those unable to call may con-
suit the Doctor by letter, he having trested
many cases successfully by correspondence,
but one personal visit is strongly recon-
mended when practicable.
~IMPORTANT NOTICE.-There is a
large class of patients suffering under some
form of chronic disease who have been
afflicted for years. and have in vain sought
medical aid. DR.. DAVIDSON has been re-
markably successful in his treatment of such
cases, and would earnestly advise all SO
afflicted to call on him.
New-York tribune., 1878-05-24
MACMnLAY's MAGAZINE. May.

Tn an article on "NOvclists and Novel
Writers in Italy," sOme curious illustrations are
given of the influence OF the unsettled state OF
the language. and the difference between the spoken
and the written tongue popular Italian literature II
would be difficult thing says the writer, to compose
a tale Of everyday life in language which has no
universally recognized terms for everyday objects
Leaving dialects out OF the question: II would be easy
10 m pages with lists Of the different names used by ed
ucated persons different parts OF Italy for articles OF
common use A wdshiug-basiD, for instance. is
known in Tuscany as edttnetG, while in
LombaIdy 1t is b0cino, and IN Naples 6aeae
A thimble in one province is called
anelIo in another It is dtae II writer ventures into
the domain Of domestic life, he will find that many OF
the terms are quite unntelgibo within fifty miles Of
his native town Even dictionary words have not every
where an Identical me0nDg. II he accused Of writing
bad Italian be cannot prove his case by precedent be-
canse the ella ssea puriss do not cOndescend 70 the
tivia details with which he has occupied his pen lie
can only take refuge in the prescribed language OF po
etry abstanng from descriptions Of dOmestc things too
humble for poetic dicon. Bu this makes bad work for
trarslators. sIgnor ROtOnd for instance, who
has translated LongfellOw's Evangcline," apOl
oc1zcs 70 his readers for yenuring on u
poetIcal rendering OF domestic. scenes OF so
bomely a character. The effort to preserve the dig
nifty OF the poetic style mpedes his version at every
step. lie seldom ventures TO use common terms for
common things, and has perpetual recourse 10 peri
phrasis IN order 10 avoid simplicity lie renders ga sunny
farm (of GrandprC by the classical and antauated
COLI apyic,, and the local cooring and special charm
OF Longfelows delightful idyll disappear beneath q
load Of stted Lanized words. There IS good article
on Bohemian Literature IN the Fourteenth Century,"
critical paper ON The Philosophy OF Kant" and an
Easter Hymn Oh the Immortality OF the Soul" by
Dean Stanley. suggested by the lines of the Emperor
Hadran Of which Pope has given version In the we'll
known poem, vital Spark of Heavenly Flame"
New-York tribune., 1878-05-24
THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW. May.

The first paper in tins number is the com
mencemeut OF course of lectures by Professor Max
Miller " The orisln and Growth Of Religion"
Ounded the ancieut literature OF India The author
starts from the premiss that religion is not nyen
on but II not old as tho world is at least old
be world we know. As soon know anything OF
the thoughts and feelings Of man. find him In posses
sion OF Aeligon The oldest literary documents are al
most everywhere religious. Even 20 beyond the
age OF literature and explore the deepest levels Of hu
man thought we discover tho presence OF religious In
gradients The foundation Of religion In the human
soul, according to Max Miller Is the function
OF tho consciousness for appTebending the
Infinite. ia addition 10 the scnsuouS aud
rational faeulties This, be contends, Is not
o introduce q mysterious element into psychology
The religious function OF consciousness need not bc more
OF and reason In fact noh
ing is more mysterious than perception 1t Is
the real mystery Of all mysteries though VIC are aceus