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Year: 1879

fun is good, truth is better, and love
is best of all.


He shall be immortal who liveth till
he be stoned by one without fault.


No man ever regretted that he was
virtuous and honest in his youth, and
kept aloof from idle companions.


Stick to one thing until it is done, and
done well. The man who chases two
hares not only loses one of them, but is
pretty .sure to lose the other also.


You ought not to ask odds of any one
Like a blooded horse, all you have Il
right to demand is to be put even on the
whiffletrees. After that show your
mettle.


The fortunate man is he who, born
poor or nobody, works gradually up to
wealth and consideration, and having
got them, dies before he finds they We're
not worth so much trouble.


The damps of autumn sink into the
leaves and prepare them for the necessity
of their fall; and thus insensibly are we,
as years close round us, detached from
our tenacity of life by the gentle pres
sure of recorded sorrow.


No man possesses real strength OF
mind if he cannot, after having heard all
that others have to say, resolve, and
firmly resolve what to do, and carry his
resolution into effect. Take counsel OF
others; profit by their experience and
wisdom; but above all take counsel with
yourself; make up your mind what to
do in the world, and-do it.


A habit of scolding indicates a want OF
self discipline. The machinery has got
from under our own hands, and has
fallen to grating and destroying itseli
under the friction and perpleXities OF
life. Possess thyself" is a more inn
portant rule than know thyself
Without this primary virtue, we are not
/ in a condition TO receive much gOOC
ourselves or TO afford aid to others,
Year: 1879

The grave can have no terrors for an
eccentric individual out in Illinois. He
SCOTS at the comforts of patent spring
mattress, with the accompanying pill
lows, holsters, sheets and snowy cover
lids, and even deems the Indian luxury
of a blanket and fire effeminate and
unworthy of man. In his back yard
there is a shallow trench, in which he
lays himself each night at bedtime, and
a faithful man servant shovels earth over
him till nothing but his head is left un-
covered. He has no fear of fire or bur-
glars, but sleeps serene and happy in his
couch of earth. If he should wake up
and find himself dead some morning, he
would be both dead and buried. 1t is
hardly necessary to say that he is not a
married man.
Year: 1879

CHEERFUL FACE.--Carry the radi-
nnce of your soul in your face; let the
world have the benefit of it. Let your
cheeriulnsss be felt for good. wherever
you are, and lot your smiles be scattered
like sunbeams-''on the just as we'll as
the unjust" Such disposition will
yield you rich reward, for its happy ef.
fects will come home to you and brighten
your moments Of thoughts. Smiles are
the higher and better response Of nature
to the emotion of the soul. Let the
children have benefit Of them, those lit
tie ones who need the sunshine of the
heart to educate them, and would find a
level for their bouyant nature in tbs
cheerful, loving faces of those who lead
them. Let them not be kept from the
middle-aeed, who need the encourage.
ment they bring. Give your smiles to
the aged. They come to them like the
quiet rain of Summer, making fresh anG
verdant the long and wearisome patti
of life. Be gentle and indulgent to all
love the true, the beautiful, the just. th'
holy. 81
Year: 1879

Life is too short for it to be con-
stantly filed with sadness. Let
people laugh when they can. A
man should not so about with a
face long enough to make the world
believe he had money deposited in
savings bank.
Year: 1879

A discouraged editor wrote as
follows:
Tell me ye weary winds that round my pathway


roar,
Is there no place where delinquent subscribers


are no more I!
Is there one lone and dcsolnte spot, some hollow


IN the ground,
Some island far away
Where men who owe the printer are not found,
And editors get their pay
The loud wind blew the snow into my face
And answered as il did so, "Oh, no. there's nary


place"
Year: 1879

"Gentlemen of the jury" said
an Irish barrister, sit will be for
you to say whether this defendant
shall be allowed to come into court
with unblushing footsteps, with the


cloak of hypocrisy in his mouth,
and draw three bulloclks out OF
my clients pocket with impunity."
Year: 1879

A baby is one of the sweetest,
cutest things in the world, and we
wouldn't think of doing without
them for an instant; but, then,
really, baby is ever so much bet
ter off at home in its little bed than
it is at a concert, and we can find
three hundred people who think as
we do.-Steubenville Herald.
Year: 1879

little population during the past
year. This loss has been more
than made up in the county at
large. There is every reason to be
lieve that this preponderance of
settlement in the rural districts
Will continue for year or two to
come, and it is highly desirable
that such should be the case. Prob
ably, when the connection Is made
in Arizona between the Southern
Pacific and the AtchisoD, Topeka &
Santa Fe railways, the turn Of the
city will come to again grow rap
idly. 1t is good, at all events, to
have the base which supports the
city, which is really the apex of
the common growth, broad and
strong.
Year: 1879

The Downey City Outlook evil
IDENTIFY don't believe In personal
journalism. Tt says, in its last
issue:


The New Constitution, a small
paper that is intended to last dur
ing the present campaign as the Or
gap of the New Constitution party,
mas degenerated into a thorough
'smut machine" we are sorry 10
say. 1t. slang, that Is intended to
be facetious or sarcastic, is simply
filthy. We have heard gentlemen
of the New Constitution party-be
it said to their credit-express un
qualified disgust at the low conduct
OF their organ. The Democratic
nominees who have been beslimed
by this Journal are not in the least
Injured. We would remind the ed
itor. that eny attempt to disregard
Year: 1879

THE ensuing election will show
Los Angeles to be the second coun-
ty in the State in population. Hith-
erto Alameda has led us by q
couple Of hundred votes. We are
informed by those who have had
the charge of compiling the Great
Register, that the vote of this
county this pear will rise consider
ably above seven thousand. Their
estimate is that fully six or
seven hundred more votes will be
poIled in September than were re-
corded In the Presidential election
OF 1876. Already we have exceeded
the votes Of Santa Clara and Sac
ramento counties, though each of
those counties have two State Sen
ators to our one. 1t is a great
hardship that this county will have
to wait four years to have the ipjus


tice done to 1t In Senatorial and


Assembly representation rectified.


We ought of right to have two


Senators and four Assemblymen in


the next Legislature, instead of
one Senator and two Assembly,
men. We confess that We are very
much surprised that not n single
member of the Los Angeles dele
cation to the Constitutional Con-
vention bethought him of remedy
ing, In advance of the United States
census of 1880, this fragrant injus.
tice. Provision could at least have


been made for the apportionment
Of representation on the basis of
the Presidential vote of 1876, which
would have given us as large a
legislative representation as the
counties of Sacramento, Alameda
and Santa Clara, all but one of
which are inferior to US in popula-
tion. The population of Los Ange-
les county Is really relatively larger
than that of most counties compared
with our vote, because, firstly,
ills not mining county, In which
there is generally preponderance
Of males without families; and,
secondly, our population Is greatly
Spanish and agricultural, both OF
which classes abound in children.


The facts disclosed by the Great
Register are significant in another
,espect. There can be little doubt
M that the city has been losing 3
Year: 1879

NEW YORK, August 9th.-A Bos.
ton company is now turning out
between ten and twelve thousand
pounds of ice per day, which they
contract to deliver at half u
cent per pound. The process en-
ployed is said to be the cheapest
known to science. The cost of
manufacture is only eighty-fve
cents ton.
Year: 1879

The ANTI-CHINESE BILL-SenatOT
Hamlin, chairman Of the foreign rela-
tious committee, under instructions
from the majority, yesterday reported
the House Auti-Chiuese bill back to the
Senate without recommendation. For
himself, however, he gave notice that
when IL shall come up he will move its
indefinite postponement. Being ques-
TONED whether this was the sense of the
committee or only of himself, he said he
only spoke for himself. Thereupon Sar-
gent gave notice that he will call the
bill Up next Wednesday for prompt ac-
tion, as every Senator and Representa-
tive from the Pacific States is anxious
that it may become a law at this session.
II is impossible now 10 anticipate what
the Senate will do with this bill. Doubt
less it will cause very hot debate, and
every means will be taken by its enc
mics to Kill it by amendn ents, which
the House is supposed to ha in no mood
to accept. And this will IOt be difficult
to do, considering that the apparent
ruling motive of the Democrats in the
House in passing the the bill was par
tiZan clap-trap, aud not an honest puT-
pose of Kidding the country of a great
and growing nuisance. We are OF the
opinion that the only way the bill can


he saved from final defeat is for the
Senate To pass it without amendment,
auG of this we have not much hOpe.-S.
/ T. Chronicle
Year: 1879

An ex-clergyman says: "There is
some reason tor young girls going crazy
over a clergy man, but there is none for
the married women. Yet few OF these
would ruin themselves and the clergy,
too, IL they had the chance. Especially
is this the case where the husband is
careless aud leaves his wife at home.
II he will not consent to be the home
idol, the minister is exalted 10 that po-
sition, aud then both minister aud
women must pray with their might
that they may be delivered from temp
/ tation.n
Year: 1879

"Yes, I whistle when ! am at work, )"
admits an industrious young lady, "and
let no one deny me that privilege when
working alone at my sewing machine.
If / am compelled to walk the street
alone at night, l never fear danger at an
approaching footstep, If it be accOmpa-
MED with the music Of whistling. / do
not believe person can whistle who is
intent on evil.n
Year: 1879

a Journal for the People.


Devoted to the Interests Of Humanity.
Independent in Politics and Religion
Alive to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrongs
of the Masses.
Year: 1879

The following is an extract from a


diary kept by Admiral Pathnan, Am


bassador of the French Republic to the


Court of St. James:


"Youth can dissimuIate; advanced


age can nf-. The history of the elderly


man or wtIDan's life is always written


on the face, and there is no means that
| know of to attenuate the record.


Queen Victoria was pretty, then comely,


and would now be decidedly plain were


it not for the impress her physiognomy


bears of a virtuOus and holy (Satnte)


existence. She has not the English love


of action. A sense of duty alone keeps


her in the world of reality. To be truly


happy she must suffer herself to drift


into dreamland A lady in Ter conf


dence told me that beautiful scenery has
the effect on Her Majesty's imagination


which the hand of musician has on the
key board of a piano. The expression OF
the Queens eye is vague and dreamy,
unless she is addressing somebody who
like your very humble servant-has
been Just presented to her. 1t then is
sweet, animated, and, above every thing
else, honest. | can not think how
knavishly minded person could support
her frank, open gaze. They tell me she
has the gift of divining spirits. As
matter of fact she has nearly always
shown discernment in forming friend
ships and in placing her confidence.
After presented my letters she asked
about you and Mile Rose, and said
she felt greatly obliged to the President
of the Republic for sending to
England as his Ambassador naval
officer of, by his mothers side, English
blood. The French navy was very pop
ular in England, and her Majesty had
always heard that French naval officers
we're men of the best education and
most elevated feelings. The Princess
Beatrice is small and fair. She gives
the idea of being in poor health and
without stamina Her sister, the Prin-
cess Christian, would be one of the
handsomest women in England were she
a little taller and much less stout. She
came up with her babies from Frogmore
when was at the Castle. Her life Is
placid and beautiful as the scenes in the
midst of which she lives. 1t has the
dignity, soitness, richness and calm OF
the Windsor landscape. The Princess
is the most skilled needlewoman in
England. She is also a musician OF su-
uerior excellence, and a wonderful
housewife and farmer Her poultry
yard and dairy are models OF excellent
Not the least of her tai
ents Is one fJr cooking Every day,
vi hen the Queen is AT Windsor, she pre-
pares with ner own hands dish for her
ldnch which is sent up to the Castle IN
a Norwegian apparatus for Ike ping 1t
hot The children Of the Prlnce~s are
we'll grown and robust Tie Qleen
seems most loving grandmother Size
neither hides nor parades the womaGly
sentiments in the exercise of which she
has found her greatest happiness"
Year: 1879

IF there is any class of persons who
need sympathy, tenderness and en-
couragement, it is the tired women of
our pleasant land. Weary limbs and
hearts, puzzled brains, all attest the fact.
There should be special privileges grant
ed to them as much rs to lnvalids. 'Tis
said


"Over all pathways some clouds must lower,


Under all feet some sharp thorns spring,
Tearing the flesh TO bleeding wounds;


Or entering the heart with their bitter sting,
Upon NIL brows rough winds must blow,


Over all shoulders cross must be lap,
Bowing the form in its lofty height,


Down to the dust in bitter pain"


True, into all hands there are duties
thrust, and into all arms some heavy
burdens given; to women doing double
work, anxious, scheming, planning and
economizing how they can manage every
detail of domestic life with least cX-
pense. Doing double, OH triple work
themselves to save for this or thai until
their nerves are strained and shattered to
degree uDbearable TO themselves, and
particularly offensive ~ others. But
into all hearts and homes and lives Gods
dear sunshine may be brought, gliding
the ruins of lifc's great plain, if only
husbands or fathers would but deal
gently with the wife or mother, cheer
and brighten her life by I'LL the means
in their power, for she needs your help,
and your sympathy does much to buoy
her up, that she may be nervtd witt!
fresh vigor to impart sunshine in her
home and to all who are constant drain
upon her life and energies. believe it
to be woman's duty to be cheerful
companion, making her home a model
one, place where her husband delights
to be. And if trials come she will find
linn ever ready to sympathize and assist
in making the pathway Of life smooth.
and when our time on earth has expired
we have woven golden crown.-De-
troit Free Press.
Year: 1879

BENJAMIN Franklin first mad the OBJ
servation, = hundred years ago, that all
so-called northeast storms came from


the west. This observation of our great
est philosopher has been since so abso-
luteiy verified rs to constitute a law.


All great storms in this country move
from the west in general easterly di-
tection-usually u little to the north of
east. Nearly all of them originate in
that section of the country marked on


the maps as the. w estern plains-the high
tablc-land between the meridian of nine
ty-tive degrees on the east and the Rocky
mountains on the west, comprising the


urea occupied by Montana, Dakota,


Nebraska, Western Kansas, Indian Ter
ritory, New Mexico, Western Texas and
Northern Mexico. The origin of a storm
in this region may be stated rs follows: {:
The air over q large sandy area, becom-
ing raritied by the intense heat of the
suns rays and rapid radiation from the
sandy surface, begins to ascend; the
moisture-laden air of the Missouri and
Mississippi valleys and the Gulf of Mcxi-
co on the one hand and the cold current
from the Rocky mountains on the other
rushes in to take the place of that which
is ascending. We have thus produced an
easterly wind on the front or eastern
side OF the area of ascending air, and Il
westerly wind behind, or on the western
side Of it; to the south, north and inter-
mediate points the wind will blow to-
ward the center from those points
around this area toward the center.
Now. if the earth were flat and at rest,
and the air over this sandy area equally
heated, the wind would blow in straight
lines from the circumference toward the
center; ascend and spread out at the top
there would be no motion forward OF


backward of the whole body Of air, and
this condition of things might exist for
ever. But. owing to the configuraion
and motion Of the earth, and the laws of
heat and its influence in evaporation and
condensation. clangcis soon impressed
on this initial upward and centric mo-
ton of the air, and the collection OF
phenomcna which we term storm re-
Year: 1879

Onward of $4,000 letters yearly are
sent to the Dead Letter Office from the
Boston Postofiice alone, and want of
proper direction is 4 large cause of it.
The expert, who has become so by long
years of practice, is called upon to tax
his powers to decipher some obscure
direction often fount on letters. We
will mention q few CT them:
Year: 1879

"God send the rime. A weary land is wait
ing


With aching hearts the coming of the time
When smiting downward through the vault
ed open


The wintcr-sprite shall rain the hoary rime
For here the good, the brave, the fair and


tender,


Are clipped and wlted by the simoom's


breath,


As through the limits of a land plague-rid-


den,


There stalks the awful carnival of death.
"God send the rime. o days of ripe October,
Sweet art thou with thy veil of hazy light!
Thy leaves and fruits are dipped and dyed in


beauty;


Thy red and gold is gladsome to the sight!
But linger not! Let winds, from Northand


blowing,


Move and dispel thy mellow wealth dis


played.
And wake the fullness of the Frost-king s


vigor,


So long delayed -ame-so long delayed"
So sighed people, in the early autumn.
When heart and hope We're dull and cold


with grief.
And through the long night they sat with


weary watching,
To catch the coming signal of relief.
So slow it came The Heavens tardy season
Seemed far and fainter as itrolled away;
AS they, who in the stretch of expectation,
Live through long ages in waiting day.
But while the saving season Jagged and halted
There rose relief bestowed in other form;
For house and home within the Northern re-


gion


Gave forth their goods In answer quick and


warm.
Yea man with man, and each with other Wy
ing,
From great and small, from rank and low


condition,


To sooth the sick, or ease the bed OF pain.
Not IDLY was the cry of psin repeated
In that fair land of coast and signing pine :;
For hearts that stirred at pangs of distant an


guish,


Ieaped to the work of charity divine
Not vainly was the call for succor rendered :;
In one vast swell, from city and from town
They gave in lavish measures their possessions
And blessed the giving that they showered


down.
Sweet sister, we. with misty tears upstarting.
KISS the kind hand thou held'st lis in our


need;
Thy gifts we measure not upon their value,
But for the priceless sweetness of the deed.
And long, to children's children, in rehears-


ing,


The grief that dimmed our overburdened


eyes.
Shall we recount alike thy sanity action
That knit us to thee with enduring ties.
Not statesmen in the halls of legislation;
Not gems of genius on the poets page;
AS this thy favor. in the teyers rage.
And who can say, but that the closer draw


ing


Was meant by Him with all foresight en-


dowed
To be one earning from dread disaster
A silver lining to an ebon cloud.
LITTLE Rock, ARK.


st, Louis Republican.
Year: 1879

The editor of the Monroe county Register
s'does not believe there is any moral wrong"
in Sending a bullet through the brain of a
Democratic rebel" he would do it with
far less compunction than be would feel in
shooting mad dog" We hear good deal
about the shotgun policy and the shot gun
spirit of the Democracy of the South. How
will the above serve for sample of the re-
fined, gentle and inoffeusive Republican
spirit we hear SO much about? Will not the
Republican press make note of it?


Wheeltnq Rcqister.
Year: 1879

cratic alliance on platform of yextiuction
OF the Natiohal banks, Governments legal
tenders the only paper money and unlimited
coinage of silver. With that to carry the
country In 1880, we, will trust to fortune
and the logic of events for tho rest" they
say.


THE SOLID SOUTH


1t will be observed that in all these cal
culations a solid Democratic. South is taken
for granted. Butthereare Democrrtic poll
ticians here hos8sgip. to recognize the fact
year, an extremely uncertuiu political
quantity. They acknowledge privately that
there is an undoubted and growing tenden-
cy in the Southern States to q reorganza.
tion of parties, and that if such movement
should once begin in any one State it is i'm
possible to foretcll where it would end
They confess that nothing but the low and
blundering character of most of the Ad-
mi inistration's Frederal appointments in the
South, and the continued hostile attitude
OF prominent Republicans and their sweep
ing dcnunciations of the South as a section
and as a people, have kept the Southern
States solidly i'll the Democratic ranks.


SHERMAN has controlled the Southern
appointments, said prominent Democrat
the other day, "and he has fixed them for
himself. If he can continue to have his
own way we Democrats may hope for a
solid South next yaar, anl laying his
OWE plans for the control of the Southern
delegations in the Republican Convention
Sherman is really helping u.s.


Here and there a Republican, however,
begins to sec the same thing. There is so
general an opposition in that party to MIR.
Sherman as successor to Mr.. Hayes that
his labors to pave the way for nomination
arc watched with great deal of jealousy
it it said that he aims to secure the South
ern delegations in the Convention for HIM
self as against General Grant or any one
else, and it is possible that if some of the
Republican leaders should see the Western
States endangered by Il coalition between
the Democratic and Grccnback vote, and
Mr. Sherman gaining control of the South
crn delegations for the convention, they
may hold it the part of good policy to as.
in order to split it up and at onSe preaE up
Mr. Sherman's plans and secure four or
five Southern States to the Republican
party next year. There is no doubt that
this can be done, and with very little diff
Guilty, if the attempt is made in time
Even Gen. Grant could carry half dozen
Southern States next year if he would SIM
ply say that he would recognize an honest
Southern Republican party and turn out the
carpet.baggers, bummers and incapablcs
who still hold the Federal offices down there.
Grants policy in other rcpscts has great
fascination for Southern men, and he is Of
ten very kindly mentioned by them here.
". T. Herald.
Year: 1879

A Ne INDUsTRY.-It is not generally
known that the article called Russian ca
Ware, which comes here in cans, and which
is said to be a very delectable thing to eat,
is mostly production of South Carolina.
A company of cnterprising Northern men
are engaged on the Edisto River in the bus.
iness of catching sturgeon, tho flesh of
which is sent North and converted into
canned salmon, while the spawn is sent TO-
the same place, and after being prepared
and canned, comes back to Us with a for
egn trade mark, and is sold as Russian ca.-
Ware.