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Year: 1877

A GkM.--Sidney Smith cut the follow
ing from newspaper, aud preserved it for
himself: "When you rise in the morning,
say that you will make the day blessed to =
fellow creature. A lsft-off garment to the
man that needs it; kind word to the sor-
rowful an encouraging expression to tho
dejected-triaes in themselves as light a.
air--will do at least for the twenty -four
hours. And if you are young, depend upon
it, it will tell when you are old; rest assured
it will send you happily and gently down
the stream of time to eternity. BY the most
simple arithmetical sum, look at the result
II you send one person away happy through
the day, that is three hundred and sixty
FIVE in the course of ayear, aud suppose you
live forty years only after you have com.
menced that course OF medicine, you have
made fourteen thousand six hundred per-
sons happy-at all events for time"
Year: 1877

WHrN AND How TO EAT FRuyk.--,
When fruit does harm it is because it is
eaten at improper times, in improper quau.
titles, or before it is ripened and fit for the
human stomach. A distinguished physi-
clan has said that if his patients would mako
a practice Of eating couple of good oran-
ges before breakfast, from February to june,
his practice would be gone. The principle
evil is that we do not eat enough of fruit;
that We injure its 6ner qualities with sugar;
that We drown them in cream. We need
the medicinal action Of the pure fruit acids
in our system, and their cooling, corrective
infuencc.-Medicdl Journal.
Year: 1877

FRIENDSHIP AND CIvILITY.-Be civil
and obliging to all, dutifnl where God and
nature command you but friend to one,
and that friendship keep sacred, as the
greatest tie upon earth, and be sure 10
ground it upon virtue; for no other is either
happy or hsting.
Year: 1877

city alone, and many Of them are large handsome and
imposing structures Twenty OF them. howover, are
small chapeis The Convention OF this diocese will
assemble here next month and OF tho questions 10
before u will be this proposed change in the
name and constitution Of tho venerable church.
Year: 1877

District Court, Ninth Judicial District.


The State Minnesota all persons who
claim right title, interest in claim lien
several pieces parcels aad the list hereto attached described
The list of real for the Redwood
the 1st Of June 1877 for for 1875 and former
been filed the Office the Clerk Of
Redwood Of which that hereto attached copy Therefore, and
hereby required to file the Office said Clerk within days
last publication of this notice. writing setting
objection defense have to the taxes thereof
parcel land described said list in which
claim right title interest claim lien And in default thereof
judgment will be entered against such parcel land for the
said list appearing against it, and for all penalties interes and


W. H.HAWK'
Year: 1877

In an article on the above topic in Scri5-
aser for March, DIR. Holland makes the


following suggestions


We have our military and naval schools
for training men for the army and navy.


After their graduation, they may go into


civil life, but, in time of war, they are the


nrst We call upon to organize and lead the


FORCES OF the country. They alone trnly


understand the business. They have been


instructed in all the details of organization,


subsistence, engineering and active war.


NOW, We cannot understand why the men


engaged in legislation and administration


lin the civil service of the government


DO not need as careful training as those


called to its military and naval service.


Ihe knowledge demanded covers q wider


field. The principles involved are a thou


sand times more complex. International


law and polity, political economy, finance.


the relations Of the federal government to


the states, the relations of the states to


each other, constitutional history and


constitutional law, diplomacy, and a vast


aggregate OF recorded usage and technical


ostsll-aH these need to be understood by
the men in office. How are men to be
grounded in tho principles of government,
and to acquire even the elements of this
vast range Of knowledge9 At present tho
only education we give them is in active
service. We are not only at the expense
Oh their subsistence and tuition, but we
are at the still greater expense of their
blunders.


Welb we do not propose another West
Polnt or another Annapolis. 1t would
not 90 well, we presume, to establish n
governmental school Of politics. There ara
insuperable objections in the way. The
partlsans Of free trade and protection. for
instance, could never agree on the style of
political economy to be taught. But there
is no good reason why Yale and Harvard.
or any otherr college, for that matter,
should not have department Of politics.
which should give solid three wears course
OF study. There is no reason why a man
should not go before high examining |
BOARD at Washington, from such a school |
as this, and win his certificate of fiteess
for public Office. There are a thousand |
good reasons why such man should re-
celye the suffragss of the people for any
office which they wish to fill.


Aside from all direct influence upon
governmental legislation and administr,
Slon' the effect Of the training which such
school would give would exercise q most
benefcent influence upon the country. II
The men who are trained there never enter
offlce, they will add to the popular intelli-
sence' and raise the public standard and
me public tone. They will not only help
% leaVen the mass. but they will place the
government under intelligent criticism.
Under their influence, the demagopue
would be subjected to fearful discount
hat has sunk into deserved contempt.
gnorant men would be ashamed to show
themselves in such light. The simple
of such a school would call
he attention of the public to the gross
!buses from which they have suffered, and
hey would be glad to be represented by
nen who would not only serve the country
veil, but would honor them. '
Year: 1877

Usage, Iowa, Jan. 90, 1877.


1. How does tree grow! II a young
tree should have crotch or fork, say one
foot from the ground, would it remain so,
or would it rise higher as the tree grows
up? Please explain fully. 2. Please e1-
plain the philosophy of hairs turning gray
from age or any other cause. 3. Is it pos
sible for hair to turn gray in SO short
time from fright or extreme mental agony,
as in the case mentioned in the wonderful
story attached to the Ashtabula horror?


Ans.-1. A tree grows by the inner bark
forming layer of wood out of the sap that
it contains, and which is the return sap
after having passed through the leaves.
The sap goes up from the roots to the
leaves in the wood, but returns through
the inner bark, when it is utilized for the
formation Of wood. A crotch in young
tree will always remain at the same dis.
tance from the ground. 2. The color of
the hair depends on the presence of a
peculiar oil sccreted by the roots of the
hair. The hair becomes gray in advanced
age by failure of the secretive organs of
the hair to take up its coloring substance.
j. 1t is possible, and many well-attested
cases are on record. |
Year: 1877

FRANCE has passed through so many
perils within the last lew years, and has
come out OF them all so well, that We
must bope that she may have sale de-
liverance from the political crisis that
has been SO Unexpectedly precipitated
upon her. But certainly it is crisis that
may cause the grsvest apprehensions,
for Marshal MAC ACMAHoN has at last dis
played the dangerous daring, the con-
tempt for ali legal and constitutional re-
straints and for the ascertained will OF
the country, that sooner or later devel-
open itself In every military man called
to civil office, and it Is impossible to pre-
dict to what violent measures he msy re
sort. The Marshal's action in suddenly
summarily dismissing Cabinet that had
the confidence of the Deputies and of the
country is inexplicable on any otner sup
position than that he contempiates the
actual overthrow Of the constitutional
government, which has been slowly and
painfully, but steadily, shaping and
strengthening itself in France.
No man in his senses would attempt
10 form reaCtionist ministry
in the face of such ma
iority as was shown by the vote of the
Deputies Thursday, 305 to l54; the pro-
rogstion of the Chamber followed, and
the Marshal can hope to secure the re-
turn of majority favorable to his plans
only by q resort to the means which con-
trolled the election under the empire
the supervision of she military. 1t is
pcrilous time in which to subject the
country to such strain, with wars and
rumors of war on every hard, and we do
not need to be told of the excitementand
apprehension which the crisis has pro-
duced on every hand.
Year: 1877

We have already announced that it is
generally expected in the West that the
four States OF Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Iowa and Kansas will have at least
$4,000 600 more bushels of wheat TO sell
this year than last. The Chicago 7rib-
uae, endorsing this expectation, con-
siders that The average ability OF the
farmers in those States To buy goods
will consequently be At least 90 per cent
greater this year than last. From this
will come u revival of trade. The far
mars will net only have more whe to
8 Il, but, the price keeping up through


hs forels de nand, they will get mo Q
money for It, and can be heavier pull
chssers. They will thus increase the de-
mand and aid every branch of manutac-
turing as well as transporting industry.
There seems To be no doubt that there
will be an active demand over the water
for the large American crop. All the
English journals poirt out that the crop
in England is bad, that it IL worse on the
continent, and that Russia is not sending
near As much grain to the English mar
ket as WAS her won't. America will have
substantially clear field. Mr. JEN-
N1NGs, the London correspondent OF the
New York World, writes:


I'VE now know quite enough to be
sure that the English harvest will be far
below the average, and the ordinary sup
plies OF Russia will be much interiered
with, if not wholly diverted from these
shores 1t is to America that England
must look for the supplies requisite to
make up her own deficiency in fooc. 1t
is evident too that the war will not be
over 20 soon as some people supposed.
Russia is ut the time | write IN u position
OF great peril, and l have heard some
military men express an opinion that an
other defeat such rs that at Plevna Woui1
cause the whole campaign to collapse,
ard compel the Czsr TO make peace on
sny terms. Nothing short OF such
n contingency as that actually happen
ing would induce me to believe IN It's
possibility. 1t is far more probable that
Russia will go on 'pegslng away, no
matter at what cost or sacrifice The
longer the WAT lasts the more certainly
must the UGItcd States become the great
emporium OF the world. Of course such
an advantage is merely temporary, and
it would not do to depend much upon it,
still temporary advantage is not to be
despised in hard times"


Good crops, good prices, coed times.
This has been the invsrisble rule. The
effect for this crop year may not De felt
until next spring, but it is coming.
Year: 1877

Nobody who knows anything about it can
have any other feeling than compassion for the
ordinary keeper of a private boarding house.
She has been the prey of small satirists since
clearinghouse and small satirists we're. II
has been customary to represent her as a will
ing and skillful adulterator of yictuals and
drink skinfint and a sharper In noInt of
fact, she is generally an Intelligent and sepsi-
tive woman. who has chosen this mode of
earning her living partly because it is the only
one for whlch her habits life have at ali fitted
ner, ana partly because she has fancied that it
would do less violence to her sensIbllltes than
any otner business open to her. The boarding.
mouse keeper Is commonly a widow, aud her
condition is testimony in the first place, to
male improvideuce. 1t entities her 10 the con-
sderation of all men, and that consideration is
by all decent men cheerfully given to her. If
all boarders were decent persons, her lot would
be much easier than it is Instead of being the
most crafty, she is usually the most guiieless of
women. There is scarcely a boarding-house
keeper who has not been made the victim of
swlnd ers of ali kinds, froIn the swindler who
merely omlts to pay his board, and whom she


is TOO compassionate to turn out at his first fail
ure, to the swlnder who engages board for the
purpose OF robbing the house. 1t Is high time
that these hard working and long suffering
women should receive the commiseratioa and
respect to which they are entitled, instead of
the sneers aud suspicious they oftener encoun-
ter Not one woman out of Thousand who keep
boardlug-houses derives from her business NOR
than bare subsistence, and it is lnhuman auo
indecent to grudge her that Whatever the
price of board in ordinary boardipg-housss may
be, we may be quite sure that II IS Justined and
compelled by the prices the boarding-house
keeper has to pay.
Year: 1877

A NEW wrinkle in the Democratic pro-
gramme is made necessary by the exclusion
of evidence going back of the action of the
proper state authorities. The plan regarding
Louisiana is to contest the legality Of the
returning board itself, on the ground that the
law requires five members, whereas but four
acted. 1t will be claimed that in consequence
there was no lawful canvass of the vote of the
state and, therefore, no election of electors.
The object sought is to throw into the House
the election of President. 1t will be remem-
bered that the vacant position in the return
ing board was rendered to several Democrats
all of whom declined to accept, and the board
finally proceeded with but four members,
Year: 1877

THE Republicans contend that the consti-
tuition makes each state the final authority in
determining the choice of its electors, and
that there is no power in Congress to 90 be-
hind the certificate of the state. But they
take this ground because it is the true con.
stitutional position and not because they
would be unwilling to enter upon scrutiny
of the election. They believe that the case
of Gov. Hayes is as strong in equity as in
law and that any just examination behind
the returns would give the same result as
appears upon their face.
Year: 1877

WHETHER Gov. Hayes is ever given GER
tifcate of election or not, the whole people,
irrespective of party, will certify to his gen.
tlemanly and dignified bearing from the open
ing of the canvass to the present moment.
He has done nothing himself and has allowed
no one to do anything for him indelicate or
unbeceming 1t is different with Tilden.
He not only sent out emissaries to secure
delegates to make him candidate, but after
his nomination became the chief manipulation
OF his own canvass. And since the election,
his nephew and confidential clerk has been
scattering money broadcast to bribe electors
to defeat the popular will. This is the differ
ence between the two men.
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
al cases Indispensable necessarily publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1877

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with a Card certificate countersigned by Stanley
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent o
Year: 1877

Reslea ana kheHESn I'D HOaf knsAsitSs
We have put up and sold this article for years and
CAN SAY in CONFIDENCE AND TRUTH of it,
what we have never been able to say of any other
medicine-NEVER HAS IT FAILED. IN A SIN
GLE INSTANCE, TO EFFECT CURE, when
timely used. Never did we know an instance of dis
satisfaction by any who used it. the contrary,
all are delighted with its operations, and speak in
terms Of highest commendaton of its magical effects
WHAT V p WE Do RNow after Years IS of I experience %
AND PLEDGE OUR REPUTATION FOR THE
FULFILMENT OF WHAT WE HERE DECLARE.
In almost every instance where the infant is suffer-
ing from pain and exhaustion, relief will be found
in fifteen or twenty minutes after the syrup is ad-
minstered.


This valuable preparation has beeu used with
NEVER FAILING SUCCESS in


Thousands of Cases.


1t not only relieves the child from pain, but in
vgorates the stomach and bowels, corrects acidity'
and gives tone and energy to the whole system. 1t
will almost instantly relieve


Gripping of the Bowels, and Wind


Collie.


We believe it is the BEST AND sUREsT REMEDY IN
THE WORLD, in all Cases Of DYSENTERY AND
DIARRHEA IN CHILDREN, whether it arises
from teething, or from any other cause We would
say to every mother vino has child suffering from
any of the foregoing complaints DO NOT LET
YOUR PREJUDICEs, NOR THE PREJUDICEs OF
OTHERS, stand between your suffering shld & and the
SURE to follow the use of this medicine, if timely
used Full directions for using will accompany each
bottle.


Be sure and call for


s'NIrs. WinslOw's Soothing Syrup"
Having the fac-simile of COURTS s. Perkins,
on the outside wrapper


Sold by Druggists throughout the world


auU2Q
Year: 1877

]. Wilkinson, of Byron, ILL.,, gives the iol-
lowing method of making gravel-drains; the
drains, dug in the usual manner, being partly
filled with coarse gravel. He SAYS:


"For ordinary laterals or side draies, I rare
ly find the quantity ofwater to be conducted
requires more than one-fourth of a square
foot as section of the gravel in the bottom
of the drain, or six inches wide and six in
depth. have. in my experiments, found
that gravel drain, formed of pebbles from
the size of kernel of wheat to that of part
ridges egg, six inches by six inches. will con-
vey in a level ditch four feet in length as
much water as will flow through section of
two-inch drain tile four feet in length, said
pipe also to lie on level bed. This rule
may serve as guide to the inexperienced. l
have, however, used of similar gravel in main
under-drains, a cross section of one foot six
inches each way. When shavings are con-
venient use them on the gravel, but unless
the soil returned on the gravel is very fria-
BILE alluvial or muck soil no covering is requir-
ed before the earth is returned. In case the
veins break out of the bank higher than six
inches above the ditch bottom, the depth of
the gravel shonld be increased so that it will
receive the lateral water directly in the gravel
instead of ihe soil overlaying it. The reasons
are obvious. Until latterly I have found
more difficulty in maintaining infect the dis
charge ends of main gravel underdrains
than have where stones or tiles are used,
but am now able to make them equally as
durable as with other material
Year: 1877

Chop pieces of roast beef very fine, mix in
grated bread crumbs in the proportion ofone-
third crumbs to tAo thirds beef; season with
pepper, salt, chopped onions and parsley
moisten with little of the drippings or cat
them make In fiat cakes, and spread coat
of mashed potatoes on the top and bottom of
each. Lay piece OF butter on every cake
and sit in aquick oven to brown. Other cold
meats may be prepared in the same way.
Year: 1877

AsCuVvhnS SuO" AEOuA SAuCWhA


62.-The tenant or occupant, and in case there
should be no tenant, the owner any person having
the of any building lot of land bordering
more than one hundred and fifty feet any street,
lane, court, square pubic place within the city,
where there is any foot-way sidewalk, SHALL after
the ceasing to fall Of any snow, if in the day time
within three hours, and if in the night time, before
ten Of the clock of the forenoon succeeding cause
such snow to be removed from such foot way side
walk, and in default thereof, shall forfeit and pay
sum not less than two dollars, more than ten
doars and for each and every hour thereafter that
the same shall remain such foetway or sidewalk,
such tenant occupant, owner or other person, shall
forfeit and pay sum not less than one dollar, nor
more than ten dollars And if such building or lot
should extend more than one hundred and fifty feet,
any street or land it shall be the duty OF such
tenant or occupant, owne or other person to remove
such from the footway sidewalk the space
of one hundred and fifty feet, according to the pro-
visions and subject to the penalties aforesaid.


Sidewalks to be Sanded.


64.-Whenever the sidewalk or any part thereof
adjoining any building lot of land on any street,
shall be encountered with ce it shall be the duty Of
the occupant and in there is no occupant, the
owner, or any person having the care of such build
ing or lot, to cause such sidewalk to be made safe
aid convenient, by removing the ice therefrom, or
able substance; and IN case such owner occupant
or other shall neglect so to do for the space
of six hours during the day time he shall forfeit and
pay not less than two more than five dollars, and
like sum for every day that the shall continue
so encountered.


G. K. BRIDGES,


dec27dtf CitV Marshal.
Year: 1877

WE know of scarce any animal pos
sessing more instinct than the beaver.
A very small pond they dam up in
such a way as to render approach to
their habitations almost impossible.
A house is constructed of rails laid
across main beam and covered with
bushes and turf It is divided into
two compartments, one for the animal
to dry itself in after coming out of the
pond, and another to eat and sleep in.
1t is entered through a passageway
communicating with the outer edge Of
the pond, but in such way as to ad-
NIT water entering the house and about
midway between the surface and the
bottom. On the least indication Of
danger he leaves his home by this
subterranean passage, and does not
raise to the surface till far beyond the
reach of danger on the other side of
the pond
Year: 1877

ton came, we expressed and en-
tertained as great a horror for
the youthful follies and crimes
of Mr.. Mitchell as any one; but
that has never restrained US to
withhold from him just need
of praise for the untiring energy
and answering devotion to the
the interests Of his constituents
which all candid parties concede
to him. 1t is not only very mar
row, but the very worst public
policy, to throw mud at public
men charged with representing
our local interests at the seat of
government; it is Of a peace with
the practice Of some local news
papers to traduce, and thus i'm
pair abroad, the character and
influence Of the representative
men Of the town.
Year: 1877

The Portland people are rails
ing a panic because the managers
Of the n. p. Railroad have or
dered the survey Of new rail-
road route across the Cascades
by the way Of the Naches. To
any one acquainted with the
country and the designs of the
managers, there is no cause for
alarm in this movement, which
Is but q feint to frighten the Or
egonians out Of the Mitchell bill,
and at the same time as an argu-
ment for awarding the land grant
10 the building Of the Puyallup
coal road, which they pretend is
a portion of their branch road.
Let the reader take any map of
the country, with the mountains
and water courses clearly indi-
Gated thereon, and he will at a
glance see the absurdity Of the
proposition, which impression
will be confirmed by reading the
report Of any authentic survey
of the mountain passes. The
coal punches to which the Puy-
allup railroad now rms, are in
mountain gorges, about 35 miles
southeast of Tacoma, fanked
by high bluffs barring all further
railroad progress in that direc-
ton. There is no possible way
of connecting a railroad at that
point with one passing over the
Naches pass, but by going back
over the line, in a northwest
direction, tWo-thlrds OF the way
to Tacoma, and then diverging
at an acute angle towards the
Naches Pass, which competent
engineers have pronounced ut
terly impracticable for a railroad
passage. The managers of the
N. p. have no more intention of
building road over that route
than the p. D. and S. Il. Co. have
Of building a railroad over the
top Of Mount Hood. 1t is only
one of the innumerable false pre-
tences which have characterized
the management Of that compa-
ny from its organization to the
present time.