Year: 1865

mutual understanding, all the principal bus
mess men in town have decided to close
their stores on Sundays after 10 O. clock A.
M. Waiting to hear from an absent mem
Der of one of the largest establishments
prevents them from closing on Sunday next.
This they prefer doing in order to secure
unanimous action. -.


We are glad that our business men have
at last come to an understanding upon this
subject. Aside from the religious motives
ywhich should aetuate all in this country to
remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy
eevery man should have at least one day in
the week on which to "rest from his labors"
The time so spent from the cares of bust
ness is not time lost but much more time
gained for the man who goes to his work
after day of rest, goes with body and
mind reinvigorated, and will accomplish
twice as much as he who drags along from
his meals to his work day by day and year
by year, and never knows what it is to en-
joy season of rest. In a social point, too,
there are advantages to be gained While
a man allows himself to be constantly i'm
mersed in his business, by which he hopes
to lay up something" for enjoyment at
future day, besides physically disqualifying
himself, he is as constantly cultvating hab-
Its and disposition which will incapacitate
him for any recreative pleasures when that
future day arrives. This we have noticed
here on occasions when the business houses
of the town have been closed; and while ac-
knowledgng its truth to- a certain extent,
we could not help feeling slightly piqued
at homely comparison made by a stranger
in our presence a week ago-that "the early
social education of the business men of the
upper country had been sadly neglected, or
that while educating themselves to business
they had forgotten all else they ever knew"
and that "when they locked their business
indoors and themselves out, they reminded
him of greeny' at a party who didn't
know what to do with his hands, or of flock
of geese in pen trying to crawl out of ev-
cry crack that they could get their necks
through !" Isn't that beauty? Of course,
we didn't stop to discuss the matter with
him as he didn't indiyidualize though we
slightly guessed that he meant us and the
rest of the Walla Walla-ans. But, taking
as much ofithe charge to ourselves as he
intended should apply, we know that our
city has all the "means of grace" and " ele-
ments of civilization" usually found in the
towns of new countries. We have Church
es where an hour of each Sunday may be
,spent in listening to sermons, sometimes
distasteful enough, to be sure, to those net
clothed with the mantle of charity" but
men are not bound to make personal appi-
cations Of all they hear; neither are they
compelled to sit under the droppings" of a
particular sanctuary any more than they
are to subscribe for newspaper they don't
like or purchase lot of goods they don't
need, We have a number of institutions of
the kind, and if one don't suit perhaps an
other will and if all should fall possibly
some benefits might be derived from dis
cussing the weak points of sermons.
That at least, would give respite from bus
iness cares Men whose right it is to be-
lieve chat their day of rest should not be
spent exclusively in religious exercises,
can end ample opportunity here for social
enjoyment--in visiting and being visited,
aud in such other usual ways as always
make the Sabbath welcome day to the So
cially inclined.


We congratulate our business friends up
on the happy agreement which proves that
they have not forgotten all they ever
knew" and which is to relieve them from
their thralldom. aC n3 .ia


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FOSSIL REMAINs.-M Mr. Odell, in survey
ing just south of the line between Oregon
and iWashin otOn discovered Tho ranoo;ne Of