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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-06-06
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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-06-06
NICHOLS, INPALLlBLE INJECTION

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how long standing, if directions followed. Internal
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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-19
Gems Of Thought.

He who is false to the present duty
breaks a thread in the loom, and will
see the effect when the weaving of a
lifetime is unraveled
MORE hearts pine away in secret an
guish, for the want of kindness from
those who should be their comforters,
than for any other calamity in life.-Dr
Young.
OUR true bliss is being, not having
What we are is everything; what we
have, comparatively unimpOrtant. To
be victors over temptation, and purged
from evil, is the supremest well-being.
REV. DIR. Deems told the following
story to his Sunday As lady
and her little daughter were passing out
OF the church door the child bade good
by to a very poorly dressed little girl,
How did you come to know her?'
inquired the surprised mother. "Why
you see, mamma, she came into our
Sunday-sChOol alone and made a place
for her on my seat, and l smiled and
she smiled and then we were ac-
quainted." 1t is the part of the child
who is already in to make room and
smile, and thus begin the acquaintance.
1t would be good rule for Grown up
people in church. If you are in first
and stranger enters, make room for
him and smile, and then he will smile
and you will be acquainted. baptist
Weekly.
WE ought to shun' sin because it is
sin. But fallen human nature does not
shrink from sin instinctively. Human
nature, before it was fallen, did not
so far as we can learn-shrink from sin.
Hence it is well for us to have always in
mind the fact that sin will surely fail to
bring us the delights which it seems to
promise. The golden flame which at
tracts the moth will give nothing but
pain when it is finally reached. The
glittering knife which the child would
grasp would cash the little hand that
seized it, instead of proving a Joy, as
was expected. 1t is so with every
bright light or glittering blade which
sin flashes before our minds eye. That
which is the very temptation itself
would prove a source OF pain and
misery, if not of disgust, if it were at
tanned to. As a devotional writer on
the Psalms says of David's experience
in sin: David learned what we all
learn (and the holier the man is the
more speedily and sharply does the
lesson follow on the heels of his SIM,
that every transgression is blunder,
that we never get the satisfaction which
we expect from any sin, or, if we do,
we get something with it, which spoils
it all" If there is one temptation
stronger than another before you Just
now, understand that in addition to the
fact that its sin is sinful, and ought to
be Stunned because it is so, the very
thing you desire would prove most un-
desirable and disappointing if it could
be secured to you. IS. S. Times.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-19

AN interesting account of how hum
ming-birds are caught appears in a
recent number of Nature: " Let us fol-
low little Dan, the oldest and sharpest
of the humming. bird hunters, as he
goes out for birds. First he goes to a
tree called the mountain palm, which
replaces the cocoa palm in the noun
tains, the latter growing only along the
coast. Beneath the tree are some fallen
leaves fifteen feet in length; these he
seizes and strips, leaving the midrib
bare, long, slender stem tapering to
point. Upon this tip he places lump
of bird lime, 10 make which he had col
lected the inspissated juice of the bread
fruit and chewed it to the consistency
of soft wax. Scattered over the savan-
ma are many clumps of Towering bush
es, over whose crimson and snowy
blossoms humming birds are dashing,
inserting their beaks in the honeyed
cOrollas, after active foray; resting
upon some bare twig, pruning and
preening their feathers. Cautiously
creeping toward bush upon which one
of these little beauties is resting, the
hunter extends the palm rib with its
treacherous coating of gum. The bird
eyes it curiously, but fearlOssly, as it
approaches his resting place, even
pecking aU it; but the next moment he
is dangling helplesslY, beating the air
with buzzing wings in vain efforts TO
escape the clutches of that treacherOus
gum"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-19
A Place Where Wood is $50 a Cord and
Water Five Cents a Gallon.

CANDELARIA is without doubt the
toughest and most uncomfortable min
ing camp in Nevada. The houses, what
there are of them, are poorly built, and
the cold wind that has been blowing for
the past few days goes through them as
easily as it would through a sieve. A
great many people still live in tents
Wood costs $40 cord and is scarce
and poor at that. 1t takes a capitalist
to keep fire going here. Water re-
tails at five cents a gallon and is hauled
in wagons from Columbus-eight miles.
This water is not very good, being inn
pregnated with alkali, but the average
Candelarian doesn't care much for
that, the majority Of them preferring
beer, which, by the way, is sold at the
rate of bit drink in many of the sa-
looms. The whisky is of good quality,
so you can see we are not altogether
without the blessings of civilization. At
present the camp is enlivened by the
presence of lot of Belleville people,
who are here attending the preliminary
examination of Child Brummett, who
killed Billy Bell in Belleyille last Thurs
day. The killing occurred in front of
the Belleville Hotel on Thursday even
ing, Bell went TO the faro game where
Child was dealing, Wednesday night,
and put So on the layout. Child said
81 don't want TO play for you" Bell
said: 81 have been after you for three
years, and l will get you yet. would
like to have six bits a dozen for whip.
ping such men as you. You think
you are a fighter because you licked
drunk in Austin" The next day they
passed each other and didn't speak. At
six O'Clock in the evening Child was
walking up to the hotel from Jaokson's.
Bell came up from the other corner of
the street. Child got TO the porch four
or five feet ahead of Billy. Child had
taken two or three steps on the sidewalk,
and Billy had one boot on the sidewalk
in the act of stepping up when Child
turned and shot him in the neck. The
ball went through the collar-button hole
of his shirt, and was taken out from
the shoulder blade at the back, Pick
Handle Gulch is the name of the real
mining town of the section, being locat-
ed in the ravine directly below the
mines. - Virginia city (NeU.) Enterprise,
A COW with trunk like an elephant
is reported in Michigan.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-19
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

A CONGRESS is to be held at Sara
gossa, to discuss matters relating 10 the
phylloXera.
SOME interesting experiments, re-
Gently made in Paris 10 test the infu-
ence of the various colors on the eggs
of animals, showed that the eggs were
developed most by the violet and the
blue rays, while vitality was retarded
by the red and the green rays. Yellow
rays acted as the ordinary white light of
day.
NJ. RIvETT CARNAC, who has ex-
plored many of the barrows and burial
mounds of India, has found in them
new evidences of the resemblance of the
mounds and their contents to similar
works in Europe. The shape of the
tumuli is the same in the East and the
West, and they are always placed on
the slope of hill facing the south.
CHINESE varnish is made by mixing
three parts of fresh bioed, which has
been deprived of its fibrin by beating
with small twigs or broom straws, four
parts Of slaked lime and little alum.
This may be used at once. 1t is said
that straw baskets coated with it are
rendered water and oil tight, and that
pasteboard to which it has been applied
becomes as hard as wood.
NJ. BoUT1GNY has called attention to
the remarkable powers of resistance
against chemical agents possessed by
insects. Having put common fly into
the lye of potash, he found it in the best
condition on the next day. He also
Fnt1g,l l,nN yrranv-tI- e., 4,
considerable time in flask containing
caustic stone and coriander-seed, pros
pered, multiplied and lived as long as the
seed lasted.
THE minute organisms of microbes,
which NJ. Pasteur has shown to be con-
cerned in epidemics and contagious dis
eases, are so very minute that they may
sometimes easily escape detection, es-
pecially in pure water. In such case
they may be killed, without being de-
formed, by certain chemical agents,
among which is osmic acid, and will
sink to the bottom in such quantities as
to admit of microscopic examination.
The deposit may be examined after sew
eral hours (twenty-four or even forty
eight If the water has been very pure.
Coloring Reagents mixed with dilute
glycerine may also be used with advant-
age in the work.
SHELLAC, the product of an insect,
principally obtained in India, is deposit
ed on the twigs of trees to protect its
eggs, and, later, to feed the Larvae. From
the deposit (known as lac-seed) shellac
and coloring matter Qacdye) are manu-
factured. The officers of the Forest
Department of India have recently dis
covered that by applying the lac.seed to
different trees, or by transplanting the
trees bearing the deposit, the insect can
be farmed, and the supply thereby in
creased indefinitely in a given locality.
The lac industry is thus being spread in
India. A few years since 100000
worth of lac was annually exported.
The amount sent abroad now amounts
yearly to three-quarters of a million
sterling.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-19

stll It is desirable that wo should have as
pure text as possible, and the common
reader should have reasonable assurance
that the book he reads Is free from corrup-
tions. An immaculate text ls Of course, out
OF the question But critical helps have be-
come so abundant that In a majority Of cases
men are able to conclude, with a good de-
gree OF confidence, what was originally writ
ten. The revision, therefore, win exhibit
what, In the concurrent judgment OF
approach to the very words which
holy men OF old used I'm declaring
the will Of God. Some have opposed tue
movement on this very ground, claiming that
the matter is still too uncertain for any such
COURSE and that the part OF wisdom is to wait
for further light. But considering what has
been done in this field, what rich materials
have been gathered, how carefully the COM
parative value Of authorities has been esti-
mated, how far the principles of textual crti-
csm have become settled, and how general is
the agreement Of the ablest critics on the
more important questions, there is small rea-
son for apprehending any discoveries in the
future which will throw the past into the
shade. The most interesting and momen-
tous recovery Oi the present century was the
Sinaitc manuscript, and too much credit can
hardly be given to its dlscoverer and editor,
Ttschendorf; yet the chief use Of that pre-
cious unclal has been not so much to furnish
new readings OF any portion OF the text, as to
readings already known, and occasionally,
where the existing evidence was balanced, to
add enough TO turn the scale. 1t isreasonable,
therefore, to suppose that little could be gained
by delay. Something, no doubt may be
acquired In the course of the next century.
But meanwhile 1t is surely Of profit to use
what has already been settled and to make
our Bible represent, In some degree at least,
the achievements of modern Biblical criti-
cism. In the main body Of the work the
requisite corrections can be directly intro
duced, vile in all the more important cases a
statement of the rival text can be added in
the margin, where 1t is of equal or nearly
equal value. In this way the unlearned
reader may be taught how the case stands in
any given passage, and can have upon it the
opinion of a larger number Of British and
American scholars. In many cases he will
be saved from the danger Of taking the mere
mistakes of transcrbers for the words of
evangelists and apostles, or even Of our Lord
Himself, while In others he will discern a new
beauty and vigor in the turn given to an i'm
portant utterance by the alteration or addi-
tiOn Of a very few words He may regret to
part with passages such as the wel-known
text of the three witnesses in John, but the
loss will be abundantiy compensated by
gains in other directions,
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-19
Religious.
LIFE AND DEATH.


o LITEl o Death Ye dread mysterious twain,
BufllinF us from tho cradle to the bier;
Phantoms that tlll our souls with strange
vague fear,
Elusive as the forms that haunt the brain
OF the sick raver. Question we in vain
Tho lore Of all the ages, sage and seor,
ms clouds that round you evermore remain.
whence come yer whittier go yer None may
say-
One leads man walking in an idle show
Along the myriad paths of joy and woe
10 where the other waits to bear away
The enfranchised Soul, that ohartless Ocean
To the dim land whence man returns no more.
o Lifel o Death How good ye are and fair,
As, luminous in the glory Of Gods love,
He stand revealed His Angels from abovel
angels we've entertained, though unaware
The JanitOrs that wait our souls to bear
through either gate of Being; not TO rove
Unguided, but In course prescribed to
Fixed as. the planets paths that roll through
In Christ's ",dear might" your Lord and ours,
with reverend courage, lol the vail we raise
Erst wrapped around you, and with wonder
Your solemn beauty undlsmuyed behold,
NO more dread mysteries, our souls to scare,
Making Life Vanity and Death Despair.
III.
Life is no sleepless dream, as poets sing;
Death Is no dreamlCss sleep, as sOphists say.
A deeper wisdom tells us, brothers they,
Loving, though parted until Time shall bring
The twain together in their jOurneying,
To part no more on that suprumest day,
When Heaven and Earth and Time shall pass
away,
And Christ shall reign DER all as God and
King.
Yet, till they meet, there stands a third be-
tween,
A brother, like yet differing from each,
And he is Sleep, whose mission is to teach
What Lies and Deaths less mysteries may
mean
Till, Life's watch DER, we "fall on sleep" to
spring
To deathless Life through Deaths awakening.
john Francis VuUer.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-19
His Exact Age.

WHEN Uncle Reuben Clay, an old
darkey of about seventy winters, drop
ped into Griswold Street tobacco store
day or two ago, and was asked his
age, he promptly replied
"Wall, sab, reckon I'ze about as
nigh seventy vars ole as dey can make
'em."
"If you can't read, or write or cypher
how can you tellPn
"I'ze kept de dates in my head, sab,
an if you'll take a pencil kin prove my
age in no time tall"
One Of the lOungers prepared himself
with pencil and paper, and Uncle Reu-
ben proceeded
"Now, sab, in what var did Colum-
bus diskiver American"
"In 1892"
"Den sot dat down"
"Why, what has the discoverer of
America to do with your age!" asked
several voices.
cit makes no diffunce, sab. lie got
to git some pint to reckon from, an
take dat one kase it's de handiest. Put
down 1892"
eyes,
"Now, den, when was de Revolu-
shunary wa ftP"
"In 1776."
EXACTLY. Take dat from 1902 and
it leaves how manyP"
"Just 2S4 years"
"Dat's k'rect. Now, when did dey
fight de next wa'P"
"In 1924. Take that out and it
makes a difference of thirty-six years,
and reduces the figures to 24S."
"Dat's all right, said Uncle Reuben
as he bent over the figures. Snow, den,
in what var did my great-grandfather
land in ole VirginnyP"
"Why, how do l knowP You must
know if any one."
The old man scratched his head,
looked over the figures and said:
"Dat's kinder Gurus. De ole man
comes in dar sum WHARF"
All the men began to laugh at him,
and the old man got up and tied on his
comforter and said:
"You white folks needn't feel so
mighty peart kase you fink you've got an
ole nigger in box. lie gwine ober to
see my son George, an George he'll
take piece o. chalk an de bottom of a
cheer an begin wild de day dat Cain
killed Abel an run my aige down to dis
very mawnin' quicker'n de smartest o.
you kin rub So heel !"-DetroH Free
Press.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-19

cigars, and manage by hook or by crook
TO have nice clothes, who forage on their
friends for writing materials, umbrellas,
small change, shoe-blacking. II this
class of borrowers ever had any thing to
lend, one might get even with them, but
they never have any thing you want,
and you can not come into their vicinage
without losing something
A Tribune reader, person in very
moderate circumstances, writes: "In
your article recently on Studies at
Home, you say to a correspondent that
doubtless were she diligently TO inquire,
she might borrow books from her neigh
bors who do not read them, from her
physician and from her pastor Let
me tell you we have had our books and
papers destroyed to such an extent by
borrowers that hate to ask for books.
A man who owns two farms borrows
our papers every week, and we can
scarcely read them ourselves until they
are gone. People that ride in their car
riages borrow papers of us that can not
afford carriage" Very WE'LL borrow
of them something they value as highly
as you value your books and papers
" exchange is no robbery" choose the
occasion to borrow of them when they
come to borrow of you; by no means
omit to do so, and get all you can out
of them, for their sakes as well as for
your own. There is no other way of
teaching such people the doctrine of
gttid pro quO-the doctrine of equiva-
lents-something for something, and
not something for nothing. Exchange
of books is perfectly legitimate, and of
those who are careless in the use of bor-
rowed books it is perfectly right to re-
quire voluntary or involuntary hostages.
If one is so disposed, it is well to keep
books just to lend. We have had a
great many volumes worn out in this
way, lent to those who did not know
what they should buy or those who were
not able to buy or TO those who needed
their tastes cultivated in certain direc-
tions. The money thus invested is
reckoned as spent in charity, and in one
of the noblest of charities 1t is more to
feed the starving soul than to feed the
starving body.
Nothing said here is intended to apply
to those exchanges of friendly and
neighborly courtesy upon which we are
all more or less dependent for comfort
and happiness; but they are exchanges,
and benefit is mutually Y. Tribune.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-19

A COW with trunk like an elephant
is reported in Michigan.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-19

tion upop the tenantry.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-19

He who is false to the present duty
breaks a thread in the loom, and will
see the effect when the weaving of a
lifetime is unraveled.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-19
Winter on the summit Of the sIorras.


SPENT the winter of 1S6l-5 "snowed
I'M on the Sierra summit, at Eureka
Valley, on the Sonora and Mono road,
some 5000 feet above the level. had
the company of two men, Dave Hays
and Jack Welch, both good mountain
GERS, good hunters, good miners, ranch
men, hotel-keepers, good men and true
at any thing they chose 10 turn their
hands to. Both are alive now and are
deserving Of fair share OF immortal
lame. Hays had most Of his toes frozen
OFF at the second Joint a winter or two
afterward, as he had become over-conii-
dent and thought he could risk any
thing In the mountains. He was be-
lated one winter night crossing the
-'AiOuntain Brow distant some forty
miles east of Eureka Valley. Over the
'4BrOw'' swept the coldest Of winds and
Hays betook himself for shelter TO a sort
'ni cave, and when he emerged In the
morning he was as good as toeless. In
point ot weather the Sierra submits are
eeAfiully deceittul. You may cross and
slho u as tair as an October day In New
england. In two hours a storm may
come up, the Air be filed with fine nee
ule-ilke particles Of snow blown from the
surrounding peaks, and these striking
against you like millions on millions OF
nne needle-points viii carry the heat
srOm your body much faster than the
body can generate il. Twas once nearly
frozen TO death Ia one of these snow.
drlving gales when less than three mile,
from our house. Hays built the house
We lived In and Il would have been 3
credit 10 any architect IL was fiftV fee
do length by eighteen in width and mad,
Of logs, squared and dovetailed AT tn,
ends. II was intended for ''roa,
house" Hays was landlord, cook
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-19

P. PAUL NADoN, a blacksmith of ST.
Rose, nine miles from Montreal, went
shooting the other day, and returning,
laid his loaded gun on a beam in the
kitchen. On the same evening Cleoptras
Cloutier, n afarmer' son of nineteen, and IA
sweetheart of Nandon's daughter, Vic
torine, paid her visit. While he was
chatting to her in the doorway, her
brother Hermidas, aged fifteen thinking
the gun was empty, took it down, play
fully presented it at Cloutier, and
pulled both triggers, Two charges of
buckshot lodged in the young mans
brain and he fell dead, Verdict, tao
cident6lly shot"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-19
FOURTH QUARTER.

FOURTH QUARTER.
Nov. 2l-JOscph and his Breth-
en................G Gen. A 1904; 45 :1-s
Nov. 2S-Jacob and Pharaoh. Zen. 4: 1-l2
Dec. 5-Last Days of Jacob ....... G en-. 4S: S-22
Dec. l2-The Last Days Of Joseph Gen. 5O:l426
Dec. l9-Review Of the Lessons.
Dec. 26-LessOn Selected by the School.