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HENRY ECKIIARDT GJNSaIITH.

MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
lyI Guns, Rifles, Revolvers, Ammunition and
Sporting Goods. All the leading makes of
Guns and Rifles al popular prices-Parker,
Lefever, Colts, Smith, Ithaca, new Baker and
new make Guns. Firstciass Gun and Rifle
Work. Send for price-list of Guns No. 523
X Street, Sacramento, Cal.
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a good understanding is the Foundation
of knowledge. A wise man is therefore
known by his selection. If you are not
capable OF SO doing, call on
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Houses Rented, Money to Loan,
Insurance Placed, Cata :
loues Issued Monthly.

We offer an opportunity to purchase a
farm for small payment, and on terms
that you can pay for il out of the earnings.
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For $500 cash-A tract of 81 acres seven
miles southeast of Sacramento: deferred
payments in annual installlncnts of $3.50,
with seven per cent. interest. Full price OF
land, 81 per acre. No improvements
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For 81, 4,G00-Eighty acres near Loomis, in Pla-
Ger county; has several acres III vineyard;
can all be irrigated. Terms--Sl 900 cash,
balance i'll ten annual payments, with inter-
est at seven per cent.
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For 50, ,75O-Five acres adjoining Oak Park,
ten minutes walk from terminus of electric
railway; has a small house and barn, ~.
acres in alfalfa, . acres in fruit trees; will
sell for $500 cash payment, balance on easy
terms. This is Il nice place for anyone wish
ing home near the city.
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VALUABLE suaeEsTroNs

There are two almost insurmountable
difficulties which now confront the North
ern Democracy, namely, the next Con-
gress with its overwhelming Democratic
majority, and, this persistent demand for
payment of the Confederate debt.
The former is bad enough but it can't
be helped. They are elected and we can
only grin and bear it, confidently hoping
that they won't act half as bad as is ex-
pected.
The latter is purely foreign and wholly
beyond our wishes or control.
Pond, Coleman, English, McGettigan
and other of the leading statesmen of
California, out of the generosity of their
natures. would suggest the propriety of
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Filled January 12, 1871
Appeal from Superior Court, Los Angeles
county,. w. Mckinley, Judge.
well.
For respondents, Charles S. McKelvey.
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RELIGIOUS READING.

OUR ONE LIFE.
'Tis not for man tc tri1e! Life is brief
A sin is here.
Our age is but the falling of a leaf,
A dropping tear.
We have no time to sport away the hours;
All must be earnest in world like ours.
Not many lives, but only one have we
One. only one;
How sacred should that life ever be,
That narrow span!
Day after day filled up with blessed toll,
Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil.
Our being Is no shadow Of thin air,
No vacant dream,
No fable Of the things that never were,
But only seem;
'Tis full Of meaning rs of mystery,
Though strange and solemn may that mean
ing be.
Our sorrows are no phantom of the night,
No idle tale;
No cloud that floats along SKY Of light
On summer gale;
They are the true realities of earth,
Friends and companions even from oul
birth.
O life below how brief and poor and sad
One heavy sigh!
o life above! how long and fair and glad
An endless joy!
Oh, to be done with daily dying here!
oh, to begin the living in yon sphere!
o day of time how dark! o sky and earth,
How dull your hue!
o day of Christ, how bright! o sky and
earth,
Made fair and new.
Come, better Eden, with thy fresher green,
Come. brighter Salem, gladden. all the
scene.
Il Horatius BOnar.
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Hair and Teeth.

The increasing number of bald pates
among the western nations has been ex-
planned on the principle that nature is
too economical 10 perpetuate any useless
portion of the annual organism, and that
hats and night caps have made our natur-
al head cover rather superauous. The
increasing demand for artificial teeth
might be traced to similar cause. Hot
coffee is said to crack and destroy the
enamel of our teeth: passionate fond
ness of that same beverage does not,
however, prevent the Turks from having
excellent teeth; but like their Arabian
neighbors they eas hard barley cakes,
while baking.powders aad hash. mills
forest&ll the functions Of our natural
masticating apparatus. Unless hygenic
reforms should change our present modes
of life, the coming man risks to get
toothless aud nailless, as we'll as hairless.
NsU York Foice. -x
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Degrees Of Misery.

Travellers who have visited the deserts
of Kaffir-land or the colder latitudes of
South America might easily come to the
conclusion that some tribes of savages
are more wretched than the most miser-
able slum- tenants of civilization. But it
is curious fact those pitied barbarians
are themselves by no means conscious OF
their misery. General Booth, of the
Salvation Army, will have no difficulty
in getting thousands of colonists for his
Redemption town, and the paupers of
Italy emigrate in spite of Government ap-
peals to their patriotism; but the house
less natives of TERRA del Fuego cannot
be persuaded to leave their dreary birth
land. Cafir orphans desert from their
civilized foster parents and rejoin their
kinsmen in the baboon-haunted wilder
ness; expatriated Laplanders pine away
with homesickness. The fact seems to
be that an abundance of savage freedom
will reconcile human beings to hardships
which, in conjunction with the restraints
of civilization, would seem wholly iutol-
erable. Yort Hoics.
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Food OF MOles.

1t is stated in the ''Encyclopedia Bri-
tannica" that moles ore entirely carniv-
orous, are exceedingly rapacious, and
will die if left longer than eight or ten
hours without food. Says a correspond
ent of the Scientific american: 81 re-
Gently kept living mole for time to
study its habits. I shut it in venti-
lated wooden box, giving it a tin lid full
of water and some grains of corn. It
drank the water, refused the corn, and,
while kept strictly IN the dark, was
quiet. After twelve hours captivity /
offered it boiled rice, which it refused.
After sixteen hours fasting, it ate bread
and milk, though not freely. When l
had had it twenty hours, I gave 1t
cracked oats, soaked we'll in milk, but
uncooked. This it ate ravenously. l
then released it in the room, and it traV-
eled about, seeking place to burrow,
the carpet and upholstery. threw
down large, thick woolen mitten,
which it speedily found and entered,
thrusting its head into the thumb. If
undisturbed, it would hide in this way
for hours, the light and warmth of the
room seeming greatly to annoy it. 1t
lived in the mitten for three days, COM
ing out to eat oats soaked in milk, but
refusing cooked oats. 1t was given one
small meal of raw meat. At the end Of
four days it was killed, being apparently
in a healthy condition, and not having
lost any flesh"
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They Worship q Log.

There is log of yellowisa colored
wood standing just outside of Chi HUI
Gate, Peking. This log has remained in
its present position since the fall of the
old Ying dynasty. 1t is in good pre-
scrvation, and has commanded the re-
spect of all classes and conditions of peo.
pie. Insects in China usually make in
roads Oh timber in very short while,
but they are said never to alight upon
this sacred tree trunk, and it is true that
they have not left single trace Of their
work upon it, while the timbers in every
direction are perfect honeycomb of in
sect work. The Chinese people believe
that the log is the habitation of some god 1,
and, on that account, gather and worship
at its base at least once year. Among
the higher classes the day for this unique
species of worship is the first of each
succeeding month, unless that day should
happen to be new moon day. On Octo-
ber / of every year the Emperor COM
mands the Board of Ceremonies to appoint
a committee to pay their respects to the
dei6ed log st. Louis Republic. --
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NOTWITHSTANDING POWER.

"What has become OF the Church's DOW
err says all able minister of these times, 81
cannot tell. 1t is partially. almost wholly,
lost. The Church is now prudent, self.re-
garding, self-adIniring, self-protecting, trim
ming her edges, locking her gates, repairing
her walls, talking much within her borders.
Where is the old Notwithstanding power? So
far gone down that men mockingly say,
Presently there will be no Church, or there
will be Church without an altar Oh, for
lamp enklnd:ed by other than human
hands,"
This is the feeling Of men who are pos.
sessed of spiritual vision, and are able to see
the real spiritual state Of our Zion. Other
eyes may be attracted by numbers, and
wealth and CEREMONY; but those whose eyes
have been opened to see, are not blinded by
this outside show. Underneath all this is
clearly seen moral weakness, which is gradu-
ally sapping the foundation of the whole
structure. The great need of the Church Is
q baptism Of fire, to consdme the rubbish OF
Journalism and ceremony, and bring forth
what remains as gold tried in the fire." or
as ''silver tried In q furnace of earth,
purified seven times"
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

A good conscience is a good sleeper.
To bo content is simply to cease re.
sistance.
Discomfort is the want of self reliancel
it is infrmity of will.
People sometimes keep their secrets in
order to keep their friends.
There is q continually growing de-
mand that other people be good.
A man never outlives those who have
seen him make fool Of himself.
The superiority of some men is merely
local. They are great because their as
sociates are little.
Fathers who whip their boys for doing
on the sly what themselves are doing
openly, make big mistake.
No man is without friend so long as
his mother lives, or in need of pity if ht
has wife who believes in him.
Young men who think they know il
all, and that father and mother don''
know anything, make big mistake.
Don't be too profuse in your thanks OF
the man who lets you have your OWL
way. He may be doing it to cure you Of
a folly.
No woman can be handsome by thu
force of features alone, any more than
she can be witty only by the help Of
speech.
A man was never 80 rich or so power.
erful that he had friends who would care
for his children if he should become sud
denly poor.
Everything that looks to the future ele.
Yates human nature; for never is life so
low, or so little, as when occupied with
the present.
Frivolity, under whatever form it ap
pears, takes from attention its strength,
from thought its originality, from feel
ing its earnestncss.
He who sedulously attends, pointedlY
asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers, and
ceases when he has no more to say, is IN
possession of some of the best requisites
of man.
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Origin OF Safe Deposit Vaults.

l was told recently that the safe de-
post companies, which are now so pros
porous all over the civilized world, had
their origin in New York in an accident.
A man who kept restaurant near one OF
the markets used to take care of the
cash boxes of the marketmen who were
his regular customers. One day he was
at an auction, and seeing large safe 60
ing for q very low price he suddenly
thought it would be good thing to buy
the safe and fit it up in compartments
which he would rent to the marketmen
for enough to cover the cost.
He acted on the idea, and his patrons
gladly accepted the improvement upon
the old method OF caring for their Cas- h.
An enterplising inaucier heard of the
new idea, paid visit to the restaurant
in question, aud then set to work and
formed safe deposit company with an
Office and storage vaults on Broadway.
II was successful from the start, and has
had numerous successors in the business
of the safe keeping of valuables s-B0st0o
IrUveller.
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WISH AND FAITH.


The Junk of Pork Is the name given to
certain rocks off the coast Of Maine. On
these rocks the schooner Ida Parker struck
few weeks ago. One Of the masts In falling
made a bridge over which five or six men
passed to the long and narrow ledgo " hich
rose out of the sea- There they raised their
signal-a shirt on an oar-and then crouched
together, protecting one another as well as
they could. 1t was q fearful place in q
fearful storm. They wished some vessel
would come to their rescue. They
longed to be saved. But there was
little hope that they would be seen, and If
they were seen there was not much chance
that they could he taken of. The same
watchful Providence, the kind Father who
made the broken mast act as bridge, turned
a ~ revenue cutter that way, and the Signal
was seen and the men were found. But 1t
was impossible to reach them. The wish
had soon grown toward hope, but the hope
was close to despair. The men OH the cut
ter longed to save them, but the boat which
was lowered was dashed back against the
vessel. 1t could. dot live in such sea.
At last the men on the rock
saw the cutter turn away. Then they had
hope. For they knew the heart OF the
sailor. They knew that the ottlcers anu crew
would not leave them to perish. Tbey knew
that the vessel had gone to return with the
means of reaching them. They, believed in
the men on the cutter though they did not
know what they would do. This was
faith. They could not see tut
they believed. They had confidence
in the men because. while they did
not know their names. they knew their
hearts-their courage and patience and hui
manity. So thcv waited in faith through the
long night, with the sen breaking over them.
The faith was rewarded. In the morning
the cutter was there again. with more men
and with the means Of reaching the ledge:
The sea had gone down little but was still
fearful. Yet the rocks were reached and all
the men were taken off, and they were car
rie,l in safety into Portland harbor. Wish
ing is one thing; faith is another. Faith
rests OIL knowledge. We trust men whom
we know TO be trusty. A shpwrecked
man on q rock can trust the sailors who see
him from their masthead. and he will do as
they tell him and he will be saved. We
wish to be saved from our sin and its desert.
We hope to enter heaven when we die. But
we need moe than to wish anil hope--we
need faith. We know Jesus the Saviour; we
know what He has promised and
what He has done. We may not
know all which He will do, but we
know Him. He assures us that He will save
us if we trll<t Him to do as He tells US. We
must lit Him take us from the rock; we
must get into His boat; and He will carry
Us to the shore of the Heavenly country.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and
thou shalt he sared.-[The Sea Breeze.
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SCYTHE SONG,

Mowers weary and brown and blythe,
What is the word methinks ye know:
Endless over word that the scythe
Sings to the blades Of the grass below!
scythes that swing in the grass and clover,
s Something still they say as they pass;
What's the word that over and over
/ Sings the scythe to the flowers and grasss
Hush, alb, hush! the scythes are saying,
Hush, and heed not. and fall asleep;
Hush, they say the grasses swaying;
Hush, they sing to the clover deep:
Hush, it's the lullaby time is singing;
Hush, and heed not for all things pass;
Hush, ah hush the scythes are swinging
Over the clover, over the grass!
-AndreW Lang.
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Rr.srLED OFT OF HIS SPIRITUALITY"


DR.. Chalmers is quoted by the editor OF
the London Sunday School Chronicle as say
ing in q time of intense activity that he was
"bustled out of his spirituality" How
many Christian workers can re-echo that
sentiment. So much trading, so many calls,
80 much studying, so many newspapers to
read, so much Of this, that, and the other.
that there is no time for meditation and
quiet thoughtfulness. Many Christians are
hustled ont of their spirituality BY their reli-
gious work itself. Their re igion consists in
tees, and sewing for the heather. and visit.
ing the sick, and distributing tracts,-all
most excellent and necessary forms of SER
vice, and yet all of the stirring, busy kind.
A voice comes to all such: "These things
ought We to have done, and not to have left
the others-prayer, communion and medi.
tation - undone." Busy, bustling work
is no substitute for quiet, thoughtful!
preparation of the heart. The fallow ground
yields the largest increase: the rested soul
bears the sweetest spiritual fruits. Modern
life seems to necessitate intensity of action.
Busting activity is thrust upon US. In the
langu 'ge of the street, every one who gets
along must hustle and rustic, which are the
modern EQUIVALENTS for DR.. Chamers's
hustle. We have good deal of respect for
the Christian who cali "rustle," but we have
still more for the one who knows not only
how to rustic, but how to rest, how to pos
sess his soul in patience, how to be still in
Gods presence as we'll as active in his SER
vice.
A real danger of modern life, danger far
more imminent now than in the time or Dr:
Chalmers, Is that we shall be hustled out OF
all spirituality; but the tendency can be cor
rected, the danger can be overcome. A half
hour day spent alone with God and Gods
Word will leave US all the time we need ror
active service. and will prevent any danger
of being hustled out Of our activity.-lGold.
en- Rule
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The forces OF nature were utilized
in q remarkable manner at the West
Hartford, Conn.,, reservoirs, and good
deal of money was saved to the city
thereby. The new reservoir, No. s.
was drawn down last summer in order
to be cleaned out. The job had not
been finished when cold weather came
on, about one-third of the bottom still
being untouched. The water was shut
out, but a small quantity Of rain and
melted snow soon covered the bottom
with several inches of water. This
froze solid over the muck which cover.
ed the uncleaned portion of the reser|
voir bed. Later on the gate was
opened and the reservoir allowed to
fill with water. AS the water rose the
layer of ice on the bottom rose also,
bringing with it the mass of muck on
which it lay and to which it was firmly
attached. This operation was per.
formed gradually, and the ice kept
growing thicker. At length the water
rose to its full height, and then the ice
with its burden of muck was hauled
ashore, where it now lies. The bottom
of the re reservoir was perfectly cleaned,
and the work thus easily done would
have kept large gang Of men at work
for considerable period.
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In the Revue dHygier,e, NJ. Bourri-
er, inspector of meat for the city OF
Paris, describes his experience with
meat impregnated with tobacco smoke.
Some thin slices of beef were exposed
for O considerable time to the fumes OF
tobacco, and afterward offered to q dog
which had been deprived of food for
twelve hours. The dog, after smelling
the meat, refused to eat it. Some OF
the meat was then cut into small pieces
and concealed within bread. This the
dog ate with avidity. but in twenty
minutes commenced to display the
most distressing symptoms and soon
died in great agony. All sorts OF
meat, both raw and cooked, some
grilled, roasted and broiled, were ex-
posed to tobacco smoke and then given
to animals, in all cases producing
symptoms of acute poisoning. Even
the process of boiling could not extract
from the meat the nicotine poison.
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aG1vE Es," loudly and emphatically
exclaims the New York Mail anil Er'
press, "more water and less beer"
The Colonel knows what he wants and
is not afraid to say 50. Some persons
would have kept on ordering been
rather than have any fuss about it.
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They are trying to make out that ii
Is a very strange thing that Camden
girl of IA never saw Bible in her
life. There are figures to prove that
100, 900 families in this country never
had such book in the house.
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A SAVANNAH undertaken, not to be
behind everybody else in business IL
that city, advertises "a grand spring
and summer opening of things in my
ine." That's right. There are styles
In coffins as we'll as in hats, and all o:
us want the latest thing out.
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The Sultan of Turkey has attached
10 his bodyguard soldier who is ITO
years old, -.--.. --..-.~
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A BooKKEEPER in Wall street
banking house has made the discovery
that ink stains can readily be removed
from the fingers with the head of
parlor match. Moisten the ink-stain.
ed spot and rub it gently with the
head of the match, keeping the skin
wet so that it will not be burned.
Tho stain rapidly disappears. The
match should not be used where there
is q cut. Violet ink stains can often
be removed by rubbing them with
rough woolen cloth. A coat sleeve
answers very well.
AN English sailor named John Will
liams, who was cast away IN the South
Seas, would have been killed and
eaten but for his double chin-the first
Of the kind the natives had ever seen.
Instead of frying and eating him they
named him Two Chins and made him
. chief. .-:.-...-.-..~.- =
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SUPPOSE the world thought that Thomas
Chalmers preached great sermons in his early
ministry but Thomas Chalmers says he never
preached ut all until years after he had occu.
pied pulp pit he came ont OF his sick room, and,
weak and emscated he stood and trld the
story of Christ to the people. And in the great
day Of eternity it will be found that not so
much the eloquent sermons brought msn to
Christ rs the story told perhaps by those who
We're unknown on earth, the simple story Of
the Saviours love ani mercy, sent By e pow
er OF the roly Ghost straight 10 the heart.
come, Holy Ghost. Ay. He is hare this morn
ing. He fills all thu place. 1 tell you the
Holy Ghost is ready.
Then 20 on and tell yor the church is
ready. There are those h re who say, "No
on cares for my SOUL" We do caro- for it,
You see man bowing bis head in PRAYER.
and you say, "That man is Indifferent" That
man bows his head in prayer that the truth
may 20 to every heart. The air is full OF pray
srs. They are going up this morning from
this assembly. Hundreds of prayers straight
20 the throne of q listening God The air Is
tull Of prayers-prayers ascending noon by
noon from Fulton street prayer meeting, FRI
day night by Friday night all OVER this land,
going up from praying circes. Yea, there is
not minute Of an hour of any day that there
are not suppications ascending to the throne
of mercy The church is really. And if YOU
should this morning start for your Fathers
house there would be hundreds and thousands
in this assemblaSe who would say ifthey knew
it, snake room for that man. make room for
him at the holy sacrament; bring tho silver
bowl for his BAPTISM give him full right to
all the privileges Of the church OF Jesus
Christ"
Do not say you have never been invited. I
invite you now to the Kings feast. One and
all All! All! But I 60 further and tell you
that the angels are ready. Some people think
when we spsak about angels We ara getting in
to the region Of fancy. They say it is very
we'll for a man when he has just entered the
ministry to preach about the angels IN Heaven,
but after he has gone on further 1t is hardly
worth while. My friends, there is not any
more evidence in the Bible that there is Go,
than tina: there are angels. Did they not