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Year: 1874

A certain Norwegian hunter, who was
one morning keeping watch in the for
est, saw fox cautiously making his
approach toward the stump of an old
tree. When sufficiently near he took
high and determined jump on to the
top of it, and after looking round awhile
hoped to the ground again. After
Reynard had repeated this knightly ex-
ercise several times he went his way,
but presently returned to the spot, bear
ing pretty large and heavy peace of
dry oak in his mouth and thus bur,>
dened, and, as it would seem for the pur-
pose of testing his vaulting powers, he
renewed his leaps on to thu stump. Af-
ter time, however, and when he found
that, weighted as he was, he could make
the ascent with facility. he desisted from
further efforts. dropped the piece of wood
from his mouth, and coiling himself up
on the top of the stump, remained mo-
tionless, as if dead. At the approach
of evening an old sow and her progeny,
five or six in number, issued from a
neighboring thicket and pursuing their
usual track, passed near the stump in
question. Two of her sucklings follow
ed somewhat behind the rest, and just
as they neared the ambush, Michel, with
the rapidity of thought, darted down
from his perch upon one of them, and
in the twinkling of an eye bore it in
triumph to the fastness he had so cum
ningly prepared beforehand. Confound-
ed at the shrieks of her offspring, the
old sow returned in fury to the spOt,and
until late at night made repeated des-
perate attempts to storm the murderer's
stronghold; but the fox took the matter
very coolly, and devoured the pig under
the very nose of its mother.
Year: 1874

BEAUTY OF OLD PEoPLR.-Men and
women make their own beauty or their
own ugliness Lord Lytton speaks, in
one of his novels. of a man "who was
uglier than he had any business TO be :"
and if be could but read it. every human
being carries his life 10 his face, and is
good-looking or the reverse az that life
has been good or evil On our features
the fine chisel Of thought and emotion
are eternally at work. Beauty Is not
the monopoly Of blooming young men
and Of white and pink maidens. There
is sIow-growing beauty which only
comes to perfection in old age. Grace
belongs to no period Of life, and good
ness improves the longer it exists. /
have seen swceter smiles from a lip Of
seventy than upon lip Of seventeen.
There is the beauty Of holiness beau
ty much more seldom met, and more fire.
quently found in the armchair by the
fire with grandchildren around its knee,
than in the ballroom or promenade.
Husband and wife, who have fought the
world side by side, who have rsade COM
mon stock Of Joy or sorrow. and aged To-
getber. are not unfrequeBtly found curl
ously alike IN personal appearance, and
in pitch and tone Of voice--just as twin
pebbles on the shore. exposed 70 the
same tidal influences, are each others
second self. lie has gained feminine
something. which brings his manhood
into tall relief she has gained a mas.
euline something. which acts as a toll
70 her womanhood.
Year: 1874

A student In a Nonconformist College
having sent a letter to Mr. John Bright,
asking his opinion on the art of public
speaking and on reading sermons. the
right honorable gentleman returned the
following reply:


DEAR SIR Your letter, written in
May last, only met my eye. few days
ago it has been at the Reform Club,
and was not forwarded to me till quite
recently. You ask me two questions. to
one of which | can give ready answer
| have never been in the habit of writ
ing out my speeches. certainly not for
more than twenty years past. The labor
of writing is bad enough, and the labor
of committing TO memory would be intol-
erable and speeches read TO a meeting
are not likely to be received with much
favor. 1t is enough 10 think over what
is to be said, and 10 form an outline in
a few brief notes Bat, first of all,
real knowledge of the subject to be spo-
ken of is required with that, practice
should make speaking easy. As to what
is best for the pulpit, | may not venture
to say much 1t would seem that rules
applicable to other speaking will be
equally applicable to the pulpit. But in
a pulpit man is expected to speak for
given time On great theme, and With
less of exact material than is obtainable
on other occasions and on ordinary SUBJ
jects. And, further, majority of preach
ers are not good speakers, and, perhaps.
could not be made such. They have no
natural gift for good speaking-they are
not logical in mind, nor full of ideas,
nor free Of speech-and they have none
/ of that natural readiness which is essen.
tial to powerful and interesting speak
er. 1t is possible-nay, perhaps, very
/ probable-that if reading sermons was
abolished, while some sermous would be
better than they now are, the majority
Of them would be simply chaos, and ut
/ terly uncomfortable to the most patient
congregation. Given a man with knowl-
edge Of his subject. and gift for public
speaking, then think reading mis-
chief but given a man who knows lit
tie, and who has no gift q speaking,
then reading seems to be inevitable, be-
cause speaking. as | deem it, is impossi-
| bic. But it must be a terrible thing TO
have to read or speak sermon every
week On the same topic to the same pco-
ple-terrible 10 the speaker, aud hardly
less 50 to the hearers. Only men Of great
mind, great knowledge and great power
can do this with success. wonder that
any man can do il. ! often doubt If any
man has ever done it. forbear, there
fore. from giving strong opinion on the
point you submit 10 me. Where man
can speak, let him speak il Is no doubt,


most effective but, where man cannot
speak, be must read. Is not this the
sum Of the whole matter? thank you
for the good wishes expressed in your
friendly letter. Ny health il greatly
improved and hope TO be able 70 give
some time TO the House Of Commons du.
ring the coming session. | am, trulJ
yours. JoHx BEIGHT.
Year: 1874

FISH AS FooD.-The people of those
nations who eat fish with one meal, each
day, are undoubtedly the most active in
intellect, and the most capable of brain
labor without exhaustion or fatigue. Not
only is such phosphate food conducive
to the activity of the brain, but it pro-
notes fecundity, and increases the abil :
ity to endure cold, fatigue, etc and
while the facilities for obtaining it are
constantly increasing. it would be well
for the rising generation were they made
to partake of and realize it as second
only in many respects to the staff of life.
The husband and father who occasional
ly takes half day from his legitimate
business to fill his basket with delicious
fish, should not be considered as mere
sportsman, but good provider" for
his family of those things which are of
vital utility.-HeraId Of Heatth.
Year: 1874

GETTING RID OF BAD HABITs.-I once
heard a minister say: Suppose. some
cold morning, you should 60 into a
neighbor's house and find him busy at
work on his understanding away.
and should ask what he was up to, and
he should reply, Why, | am trying to
remove the frost; but as fast as | get
it off one square it comes on another;
would you not say: Why man, let your
windows alone and kindle a fire. and
the frost will soon come off? And have
you not seen people who try to break off
their bad habits. one after another. with
out avail? Well. they are like the man
who tried TO scratch the frost from his
windows. Let the fire of love to God
and man, kindled at the altar Of prayer,
burn in their hearts, and the bad hab-
its will soon melt away"
Year: 1874

enee on God, urging all present to make
their peace with their Master while in
health. that they might claim his prom
ise when heart and flesh failed them.
Then the eternal God shall be thy ref
uge, beneath thee shall be the everlast-
ing arms" Leaning over the desk and
gazing intently on the cofined form be-
fore him, he then said, reverently:


From a little child l have honored
the aged but never till gray hairs cov-
cred my own head did | know truly how
much love and sympathy this class have
a right to demand of their fellow crea-
lures. Now | feel it. Our mother" he
added, most tenderly, ''who now lies in
death before us. was stranger to me,
as are all these, her descendants. All
| know of her is what her sons have told
me to-day-that she was brought to this
town from afar, sixty-nine years ago.
happy bride-that here she has passed
most of her life, toiling, as mothers only
ever have strength to toll, until she has
reared a large family of sons and daugh-
ters-that she has left this home here,
clad in weeds of widowhood, to dwell
among her children-till health and
strength left her. God forbid that con-
science should accuse any of you of in
gratitude or murmuring on account of
the care she has been to you of late.
When you go back to your homes, be
careful of your example before your
children, for the fruit of your own doing
you will surely reap from them when
you yourselves totter on the brink of the
grave. entreat you as friend, as one
who has himself entered the evening of
life. that you may never say in the pres
ence of your families nor of Heaven
''Our mother had outlived her usefulness
she was a burden to US Never. nev-
er A mother can never live so long as
that No ; when she can no longer la
Dor for her children, nor yet care for
herself. she can fall like a precious
weight on their bosoms, and call forth
by her helplessness, all the noble, gener-
Gus feelings of their hearts. Adieu then,
poor toil-worn mother, there are no more
days of pain for thee. Undying vigor
and everlasting youthfulness are thy in
heritance."
Year: 1874

dread nothing more than to hear
young men saying, Il am going to the
city" If they ask me. as they often do,
when l am travelling about the country,
what chances there are for lawyer in
the city, l say, Just the chancea fly has
on spiders web; 90 down and be eat
en- upr' If they ask me what chances
their are for mechanic in the tity. I
say, ..Gcod good their Death carries
On wholesale and retail business The
mechanic art fourisbes finely Coffin
making Is admirable, Men are dying
ten times as fast as anywhere else -
IF a mans bones are made Of flint. if
his muscles are made Of leather; if be
can work sixteen or eighteen hours day
and not wink. and then sleep, scarcely
winking; if, in other words, be is built
for mere tOughness, then be can 90 iEto
the city. and 20 through the ordeal which
business men and professional men are
obliged TO 20 through who succeed.
The conditions Of city life may be made
healthy 50 far as the physical constitu-
ton is concerned but there is connect
ed with the business Of the city 50 much
competition, 50 much rivalry. 50 much
necessity for industry, that think there
IS a perpetual chrome. wholesale viola
ton Of natural law. There are ten men
that can succeed in the country. where
there Is one that can succeed in the city.
-Eochnnqe.
Year: 1874

We'd credit the following good thing
if we knew TO whom the credit is due
The drummers came down like wolves
on the fold, their toes were all frosted.
their noses all cold.-Their weather
peeled bugles soon shone through the
town. they gobbled the money and salt
ed it down, then took few orders and
lit out of here, with their heads full of
business and skins full Of beer"
Year: 1874

Any young lady whom Providence
has endowed with gifts which will enable
her 70 write more than 3239 letters on
the back Of postal card, may take the
benefit Of the fact and eclipse Rhode
Island maid who has written the above
Year: 1874

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For some time | had a tender spot
which to touch would make me leap
from NY chair and fairly rave round the
room, and do my best 1 could not regain
the ground [ lost that night on the Ma
sonic question. Batteries opened upon
me every Lodge night, and a charge for
wheat bran appeared on my grocery bill,
which my wife said was for the goat
when he came again, until | could stand
it no longer, and affected a compromise
By agreeing TO stay at home nights, if
the shadow of the goat would leave the
house forever. Our compromise has been
faithfully kept, and would advise all
masons. no matter how importunate their
wives may be in their curiosity about
the goat, never 70 attempt TO bring him
home to crafty it or they may repent
it as | did.
Year: 1874

The following record Will show the changes in
the temperature for the past twenty-iour hours,
In comparison with the corresponding day Of last
year, as Indicated by the thermometer at Hud-
nuts Pharmacy, HERALD Building
Year: 1874

FELLOW w-CITIZENS:-When rendered the nomination of candidate for Delegate to Congress by the Democratic convention which met at PhenIx on the 4th day of May last, said to that convention I could not internationally accept the nomina- ton; that had not sought it and did not aspire to the position; that in justice to myself could not become a candidate for Delegate unless 1t were desired by a sufficient mum ber of my fellow-citiZens to assure success.

 I then said l would take the matter of my acceptance under adviSement; that would use all reasonable efforts to learn the public sentiment, and, when advised, would accept or decline according to cir cumStanceS.

 I have kept my promise in this regard; ; and while believe that were to become a candidate, my chance for success would be as good as that of any one now before you for that position, yet the assurance of success is not of such a character as to warrant me in making the personal sacri- flee necessary to be made on my part in becoming a candidate.

 l therefore respectfully decline to accept the nomination tendered me by the con- vention of May last, and hereby notify you, fellOw-citizens, that l am not can didate for Delegate to Congress.

 JOHN A. RUSH.
Year: 1874

Having full faith in the country, they mean to stay by it until the day of general jubilee shall come, when all can rejoice together in its peace and prosperity.

 Drop in and examine our stock.

 Exchange sold on all parts of the world.

 Telegraphic transfers made with any section of the country.

 A few more of those "Dont mention them" left T .1. l-
Year: 1874

| PALISADES, July 1.-Ninety-six carloads of base bullion were shipped from here, amounting to 1,100,06l pounds, to San Francisco and points west during the month of June.

 The attention of our people is asked to this item. Palisades is a small station on Central Pacific railway, in the noted Hum boldt canyon above Gravely Ford. It is the shipping point for Eureka district from which the 96 car loads came in June. Only a few years ago Eureka district as we'll as the town of Palisades was un- known, and the adjacent country about as uninviting as very much of Arizona; now over three carloads of bullion is daily shipped west from there, and we believe some goes east.

 It is quite certain that in the near future, new districts yielding as large amounts of bullion per month, will be opened in Ari- zona; in fact, if we had railway com munication through the Territory, we have copper mines now open that would alone daily furnish from fifty to one hun dred tons of metal for shipment. Every week increases our belief in this respect.

 Of course we have to struggle along for awhile with smaller yields and at times little encouragement, but a more and we believe very prosperous time awaits all stand by Arizona few years longer. and we are pleased to know that this view is generally held by our citizens.
Year: 1874

Is 1T BETTER Better to wear calico dress
without trimming, If it be paid for, than too
owe the shop keeper for the most elegant silk,
cut aud trimmed in the most bewitchinG man
ner.


Better to live in long cabin all your own
than brown stone mansion belonging to some
one else.


Better to sit, by pine table for which you
paid three dollars ten years ago, than send
home a new extension black walnut top, and
promise to pay for it next week.


Better to use the old cane seated chairs and
faded two-ply carpets, than trembe at the
bills sent home from your upholsterer's for the
most elegant parlor set ever made.


Better meet your business acquaintance with
free don nt.owe-you-a-cent" smile, than to
dodge around the corner to escape a dun.


Better to pay the street organ grinder two
cents for music, if you must have it than to
owe for grand piano.


Better gaze upon bare walls than pictures
unpaid for.


Better eat shin soup from sarthen-ware, if
you owe your butcher nothing, than dine of
lamb and roast beef, and know that it is not
paid for.
Year: 1874

A man in Hartford has stopped his news
paper because his name was printed in list of
advertised letters. and his wife, happening to
see it FIRST, went to get it for him, and found it
was from young lady, who complained that
he didn' t meet her at Wsrcesteras as he promised.
Year: 1874

An exchange refers to a young man who,
having just returned from a sequestered vii
lage to the city, declared that it was SO still at
night in the country tavern where he lodged
that he could hear bed tick. This is equal
TO the experience Of Boston detective who
oft in the Silly night could hear the stealing OF
a pocket handkerchief.
Year: 1874

A Norristown doctor recently asked an old
lady patient if she experienced any relief du-
ring the night. She said she did. First the
relief was in one shoulder and then the other,
and then 'peared to settle in her back; but
she put mustard plaster between her should
srs and the relief left her, and now she telt
better.
Year: 1874

A Missouri girl, on her wedding day, sold
her piano and bought a sewing machine and
material enough for a suit for her husband and
herself, and ut once set to work making them
up. Her husband told of it. In two month
her four sisters were all married.
Year: 1874

A good deal has been said about reforming
the drama. 1t is time to say something about
reforming the patrons of the drama. many of
whom, just as the curtain is ready to fall at
the close OF the last act, seize their hats and
rush for the door as franticaly as if they had
Just received the startling intelligence that the
only saloon 10 the city would be closed for the
night in two minutes and half
Year: 1874

GV The arrest OF eleven Swedes by
United States Marshal MacLaren, on
charge of picking up sticks on Govern
ment land in Minnesota to save their
wretched families from freezing, turns
out to have been entirely unjustifable,
there being no proof that they had even
picked up stick. Meantime millions
of acres of pine land are being denuded
with the sanction of Delano by men 10
whom the land was sold for almost
uothinr
Year: 1874

and after due deliberation and inquiry,
they returned the inevitable verdict,
which has been so familiar to our ears
all the days of our lives. Nobody to
blame"


In note the authors vouch for the en-
tire authenticity of the above account. 1t In
from the Gtted Age a novel written con-
jointly by Mark Twain and Charles ID. War
npr.
Year: 1874

The NEW YORK HERALD with that enterprise
and ingenuity which command the admiration OF
all. has by a series Of diagrams presented the
days work OF the contestants very clearly to the
public. These diagrams show the closeness OF the
struggle. They reveal the wonderful skill and
ability OF the men on both sides. They show the
valuable results that are gained BY earnest appi-
cation IN one direction That so many bnIls' eyes
and shots within the board should have been made
by the nternationals at such enor nous distances
as 800, 900 and 1000 yards is evidence of the per-
fection to which In our day rihe shooting has at
tained. That the result OF the contest should
depend upon the last shot, and that from the
Americans who were second in the order OF firing,
shows that the art OF rifle shooting has received
equal attention on both sides OF the Atlantic.
Year: 1874

The national government has assumed the
ownership OF the sulphur mines at Gacnala.


The national executive is authorized to contract
with any coming establishment in Europe or the
United States, the coinage Of silver to be an
amount equal TO what the Panama Railroad Com
pany pays TO the general government
Year: 1874

News from La Paz to August 20 has been re.
ceivcd.


Congress would be installed septembers


The opposition press attack the present govern.
ment vigorously, and attempt to prove that the
present President holds his seat illegally and that
he was never elected, so that the present sessions
will be OF most exciting nature.
Year: 1874

The views advanced by Mr.. WET
MORE, U. 8. Special Commissioner of
she Mission Indians, at a meeting of
officials and other citizens held yes
tsrday at the U. S. Land Office, are
decidedly sound and practical, and his
plan Of action for the protection and
advancement Of these wards of the
nation, If approved at Washington
and carried into effect, will prove Of
service both to caucasian and to red
man. He very rightly opposes the
doctrine, advanced by some, that these
Indians should be granted the full
privilege Of citizenship, maintaining
that they must still be treated as
wards, although they are now semi
civilized, as citizenship would only
result In the debasement and final ex-
termination of these poor fellows. He
is exactly right when he says that the
red man would be wiped out if placed
on equal footing with his intelligent
and refined white brother. The grant
ing Of citizenship to the Indian would
soon put an end to the vexatious ques-
tion, for the result would be that in a
very short time all these "wards',
would be translated to the happy
hunting grouud. This would be
a very easy and not q costly
solution of the difiiculty, and
in exact harmony with the bearing of
Christians to the American aborigines
since the day when COLUMBUS first
trod our virgin soil. AS the Indians
are still with US and evince but little
inclination to retire from our genial
fields, the only policy ia to make them
industrious, sober and profitable to
the community, and this can only
be accomplished by treating them as
humans, giving them homes and pro-
tecting those homes from the inordi-
nate rapacity Of unscrupulous whites.
Mr.. WETMoRE very practically sug-
gests that small homes be given to the
Indians and held in trust for them by
some responsible party; and also that
general Indian rendezvous be estab-
hshed, and the Catholics be invited to
establish q mission thereon. Even
the most enthusiastic Protestant will
admit that the Roman Catholic Church
has dealt most generously with the
RED men and accomplished much good
for them, and 1t is reasonable to ex-
pect that just as much good can be ac-
eomplished by them at this latter day.
Let there be new deal, and we conf
IDENTIFY predict that the Indian vaga-
bondage, that has proved such shame
and curse, will soon Geese.
Year: 1874

IT Is announced that the failure of
MoRGAN's Sons will not interfere with
the farmers movement to ship their
grain direct. So lit seems the strategic
movement of the great wheat ring by
which they crushed out the Granger's
agent will not avail them to a great
extent, after all. - erl
Year: 1874

The old question of the removal Of
the National Capital is once more on
the tapis. It Is, however, not attract
ing half as much attention as the
movement Of the people for the re-
moval of the present government off,
cials from Washington.
Year: 1874

THE Oakland Tribune, q very lively
paper, by the way, classes the HERALD
a. Democratic. The HERALD is the
most independent paper In the State.
1t Is for the right and hews to the line,
let the chips fall where they may.
Year: 1874

ter from Congressman Kelley of Pa. to a So
called Independent Executive Committee, AN
nouncing that on the currency question, he
will not be bound by party ties but will follow
his 3.65 convertible bond banner into any
political camp which will receive it and bear
it aloft. Sweet William, let us part but not
in sorrow.
Year: 1874

Especial attention is invited
to the large assortment Of these
fabrics now offered by all the
Leading Dry Goods Stores in
the Country.


Silks of this manufacture
are made in the most approved
manner, and will not Crack or
Change Color in Wearing.


They are highly recommend
cd by all who have used them,
for Cheapness, Beauty, and
Durability.