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Year: 1879

Where Shasta lifts its lofty peak


Unto the aZure sky,


BY Sacramento's flowing stream,
This is the land of poets dream,


The land of which I speak.
The lofty pinacle towering high,
Is first to see the morning sun,


And when the day is done,
Is last to see the suns bright ray,


The light of day,
Fade in the western sky.


Some years ago there did abide
Within vale near Shasta's side,
A proud and noble Indian race,
Whose braves We're noted far and wide,
For valiant deeds in war and chase.
And Jnanipah was Shastas queen,
As fair maid as e'er was seen,
Nor did she lack in any grace;


Or dignity of mien !;


But fine of form and fair of face,


She was is indeed q queen.
And many came from out the land,
Chiefuains bold and warriors true,
To seek and plead for Juanipah's hand,


And for her love to sue.


But for them little did she care
Her heart was free as the mountain air,
Until there came 4 hunter youth,
A pale faced youth, with golden hair,
OF manly form and winsome air


In features not uncOuth.
And then her love did seek its prize;
Ee read the love light in her eyes,
And there beneath the clOudless skies,
No ominous signs in the vault above,
They pledged their lives and love.
But when the Shasta warriors found
The daring youth had won their queen,
Their passions fired, their hate unbound.


With arrows keen,
They covered him with many wound ;
And as le lay upon the ground.
Juanipah DER his form bent low,
Her heart in grief, her soul i'll woe.
In vain she tried to Staunch the flow
OF fblood, that slowly oozed away,
Beseeching him one word to speak
And smoothing his pale and pallid check.
But when she found it was in vain,
Those lips would never speak again,
She slowly raised her stately head,
(The light of reason now had fed
From her once beauteous eye;)
And lifting high her hand she said,


While pointing to the sky:
'The Great Spirit looks down on me,
Looks down upon my misery,


And sees me in my woe;
He heeds the words that now speak
Ere many many moons shall come and 60


O'er yonder peak,


The Shasta race will be laid low;
A blight will fall upon your land,


And your once happy band,
With bitterness, this day shall rue,
For she who once was Shasta's queen,


Now curses you"
Since then and now have pass'd some years
The mountain still its top uprears,
But once where dwelt happy race,
There remains not now a single trace
For like the sheen of a summers day,
The Shasta race has passed away.


II. T.. CHAMBERS.
Year: 1879

The President has nominated HoratiC Burchard, of .linois. to succeed Dr. Linder- man, as Director of the Mint The New York Times intimates that this is anything but a judicicus selection. It states tha, Burchard is pronounced silver inffationist and cne of the most rabid advocates of the Bland Allison bill. If that statement is correct it would have been hardly possible to choose a more unfit man for the position of Director of the Mint. The official who occupies that responsible and delIcate office ought to be first of all scientific man, but it is said that Burchard has no scientific capacity. In the second place he should be man of sound economical training, and not flIghty scIolist, such as every silver inflltionist is of necessity. If ths Adminis- trau0n wishes to have the country com mitled to the single ai!ver standard We can understand why 1t should have maue a selection like this, but on the theory that it is desired to maintain the gold standard the appointment Is inexplicable. It appears, if the Times is right, to be not only square defiance of all the theory of civil service re- form, but a Tot less open repudiation of the dictates of common prudence.
Year: 1879

} To sell only for cash, and to never,
under any circumstances, open an ae-
count with any one. The reason it
pays is that we always know just
what we are doing. and can give every
customer equal and impartial advant-
ages. Never being compelled to as
sess cash customers for their proper
ton of losses sustained by reason of
bad debts.
Year: 1879

TT PAYS To mark the lowest cash price on the
ticket of each garment, and never to
deviate one penny from these prices.
The reason it pays is thatour custom
ers find by comparison that it is i'm
possible to buy goods under any sys-
tenn cheaper than we sell them, and
that with us they have the lowest
price named at once, and are not COM
PEELED to beat down from asking" to
taking price.
Year: 1879

IS To avoid the slightest misrepresenta
ton in selling goods, and to let custo-
mers know Just what they are paying
their money for. The reason it is
that we thereby secure the confidence
of our customers, and make permanent
friends and patrons Of almost every
buyer, as our long list of regular Gus
toners most abundantly and gratify-
ingly attest.
Year: 1879

ATTORNEY GENERAL DEvENs left the city last
evening for Boston to be absent until January
1st next, or perhaps a day earlier. Before
leaving he said that no selection for District
Attorney had been made.
Year: 1879

A very foolish and yet very prev
alent prejudice is entertainedagainst
unmarried women as a class. This
we hold to be as absurd as it is un'
generous. We will start with the
totally unchristian axiom that wo-
meD are vastly superior to the
.IorGs of creation in goodness.
This point admitted-snd what man
will gainsay it?-we proceed to ar
que that among the many good wo-
men in this very good world, as
worlds 90, there will be quite a
number far above their sex, and SO,
by consequence, incidentally above
the best of men. 1t might often
happen that the ladies Of great splr'
itual altitude would never meet IN
the course of their lives man grand
enough to mate with them. 10
unite with man whom they do not
feel to be their equal would be al
NEST as great an outrage on the finer
instincts as marrying for money,
which is a meaner, viler thing than
any animal could possibly dream OF.
Besides this there are many old
maids who have had numerous Of
fers, but they, with a fidelity worthy
a better thing than a man, cling to
some first fancy-some memory of ?
lover who has passed away. That
there are old maids Of a sour aspect,
with lips severe and eyes of formal
cut" we do not deny, but we believe
them from our observation to be
very few compared with legions OF
'poky' old bachelors who infest the
shady side of forty-fve, and soon af'
ter retire from a world where we
hope they will know better. In
short, we conclude that, while it is
also best for man to be married, it
is often the wisest thing a woman
can do to remain single.-Battlmore
EUerg Saturday.
Year: 1879

Teach them that a true lady may
be found in calico quite as frequent
ly as in velvet.


Teach them that a common school
education with common sense, Is far
better than a college education with.
out it.


Teach them that one good, honest
trade, we'll mastered, is worth a
dozen beggarly professions


Teach them that honesty is the
best policy, that tbs better to be
poor than to be rich on the profits
of crooked whisky" ETC., and point
your precept by the examples OF
those who are now suffering the tor
ments of the doomed.


Teach them to respect their elders
and themselves.


Teach them that, as they expect
to be men some day, that they can
not too soon learn to protect the
weak and helpless.


Teach them by your own example
that smoking in moderation, though
the least of vices to which meu are
heirs, is disgusting to others ano
hurtful to themselves.


Teach them that to wear patched
clothes is no disgrace, but to wea
| black eye Is. E8
| Teach them that God is no re
speeter Of sex, and that when HI
gave the seventh commandment
| He meant it for them as well AS TO
their sisters.


Teach them that by indulgini
their depraved appetites in the wors
forms Of dissipation, they are no
fitting themselves to become tn
husbands of pure girls.


Teach them, that it is better t.
be an honest man seven days in tn
week than to be a Christian % on
day and villain six days.
Year: 1879

hew away this faculty of memory
You know very well that our joy in
any circumstance is augmented by
the companiOnship of our friends.
We cannet see a picture with less
than four eyes, or hear song with
less than four ears. We want some
one beside US with whom to exchange
glances and sympathies, and I sup
pose the joy of heaven is to be aug.
mented by the fact that we are 10
have our fireside with us. Heaven
is not bedwarfng-it is an expan
sion. Here l see you with only two
eyes. but there the soul shall have a
million eyes. 1t will be Immortality
gazing on Immortality, ransOmed
spirit in colloquy with ransomed
spirit, victor beside victor. When
John Evans, the Scotch minister,
was seated in his study, his wife
came in and said to him, my dear,
do you think we will know each other
in heaven?" He turned to her and
said, my dear, do you think we will
be bigger fools in heaven than we
are here" (Laughter.)


Again, l accept this doctrine OF
future recognition because the
worlds expectancy dirms it. In
all lands and ages this theory is re.
ceived, and under all forms Of reli-
gion. Under every sky, by every
river, in every zone the theory ia
adopted, and 80 l say principle
universally implanted must be god
implanted, and hence a right belief
The argument is irresistible.


FEATURES OF THE SOUL.


Again adopt this theory because
there are features OF moral tempera
ment and features of the soul thai
will distinguish us forever. How do
we know each other in this world
Is it merely by the color of the eye,
the length of the hair or the facial
| proportions? Oh, no! 1t is by the
disposition as we'll, using the word
in the very best sense aud not in the
bad sense, and if in the dust our
body should perish and lie there for.
ever, and there should be no resur'
rection, still the soul has enough
features and the disposition has
enough features to make US distin'
guishable. 1 can understand how in
sickness a man may become SO
delirious that he will not know his
own friends, but will we be blasted
with such insufferable idioCy that
standing beside our best friends fol
all eternity we will never guess who
they are?
Year: 1879

Where shall we find rest?" asks
religious weekly. NY dear sir,
the very best place to find rest, and
a plenty of il. is to become clerk
in a dry goods and grocery store
that does not advertise.
Year: 1879

Beecher says there is ten thousand
times more happiness than trouble in
this world. There may be, but it is
not equally divided. Some people
enjoy ninety mine per cent of happi-
ness, and others ninety.nine per cent.
of the Norrtstiaun Herald,
Year: 1879

One more reason why / am dis.
posed to accept this doctrine Of fu-
ture recognition is, that so many in
their last hour on earth have con-
irmed this theory. speak not of
persons who have been delirious in
their last moments and knew not
what they were about, but Of per.
sons who died calmly aud who were
not naturally superstitious. Often
the glories of heaven have struck
the dying pillow and the departing
man has said that he saw and heard
those who had gone away from him.
How often it is that in their dying
moments parents see their departed


children and children see their de-
parted parents. came down to the
banks of the Mohawk River. 1t was
evening, and / wanted to 60 over
the river, aud so / waved my hat and
I shouted and after awhile saw
sSme one waving on the opposite
bank, and / heard him shout. and
the boat came across and l got in
and was transported. And so l sup
pose it will be in the evening Of our
life. We will come down to the ri iv
er of death and give signal to our
friends on the other shore and they
will give a signal back to US, and
the boat comes and our departed
kindred are the oarsmen. The fires
of the setting day will tinge the
tips of their paddles. In my hrsI
settlement at Belleville a plain man
said to me :-"What do you think
heard last night? / was in the room
where one Of my neighbors was dy


ing. He was good man, and h'
said that he heard the angels of Goo
singing before the throne. haven
much poetry about me, but / listen
ed aud heard them too" Said
II have no doubt Of IT," Why, ",
, are to be taken up to heaven at las
Year: 1879

Never in this world have we an
opportunity to give thanks to those
to whom we are spiritually indebted.
The joy of heaven, NE are told, is to
be augurated by a review of life's
work. There is mother before the
throne of God. You say her JOY is
full. Is it? You say there can be
no augmentation of it. Cannot
there be? Her son was a wanderer
and a vagabond on the earth when
that good mother died. He broke
her old heart. She left him in the
wilderness Of sin. Years pass, and
that son repents of his crimes and
gives his heart to God aud becomes
a useful Christian and dies and en-.
ters the gates of heaven. You tel
me that that mothers joy cannot be
augmented. Let them confront each
other, the son and the mother. "Oh j.
she says to the angels of God, ere
joice with me. The dead is alive
again and the lost is found. Hsllelu
jah! 1 never expected TO see this
lost one come back"
Year: 1879

fectly legal and proper. His examination
closed here.


Joseph Hence, deputy State Treasurer at
Albany, N. Y. next examined, was i'm New
York two weeks prior to the elections of 1876
While there he was most OF the time about the
Democratic headquarters, at the Everett
House, and at No. Is Gramercy Park. He


was clerk In the executive office at Albany,


and went to New York on leave OF absence
for pleasure. He was not sent there to look
| after or transact any business relating to the
| elections. The witness was question d close
ly, but had no very clear recollection OF the
ciper kilograms or other papers.


JDO. T. Coyle was recalled and asked how IT.
was that certain cipher dispatches shown b m
were sent in his name. He couldn't say. he
didn't know the handwriting, nor the author
ity upon which they were sent. Pelton was
the controlling spirit about the Democratic
headquarters


Ex-Controller Thomas C. Dunn, formerly
chairman of the South Carolina Returning


Board, but now OF Boston, the next witness,
said he was called at his own vOlition with the
desire to pronounce the statements made by
Smith Weed, recently before the sub-com-


mittee In New York, false He then went on
to say that during the meeting OF the board
at Columbia Henry SOlomons, grocer there
and q former Republican, went to witness
and said he was authorized by leading Demo-
Gratis to see and ascertain whether or not the
vote OF a majority OF the board could not be


made in favor OF Tilden. SolomDDs said the
request was made because there was great
danger OF bloodshed and anarchy unless
a peaceful solution was arrived at. He


said further to witness that the Democrats
could call out 40,0 900 armed men to assist Til
denis claim in two hours notice; that the
State was to be carried for him anyhow, and
1t was better to settle matters by gold instead
OF steel. The witness told him that such
proposition was utterly useless. Hayes was
elected, and the board would unquestionably
refuse to accede. Solomons refused to give
such answer to those who sent him, belev-
ing, he said, that the witness and board would
change their motion on rejecting, and said he
would see him again next night. This was at
the house OF witness Next day witness told
Gov Chamberlain all about it.. His object In
doing that was that ii any attempt should
be made to deny the proposition by
those on the other side he would have good
person to back up his integrity. After giving
a detailed statement OF SOlomons' action,
with a view to securing the vote OF the State
for Tilden, the statement made by Weed, he
said, before the committee In New York, that
he saw the witness talking with SolomonS
and then repeating the conversations to
other members of the board, was false.
Solomons never talked with him in the pres
ence OF any living soul, and he had never
mentioned what Solomons and he had talked
OF to a single member of the committee.
Furthermore, he never saw Weed in Colum-
bia


The committee adjourned until tomorrow
morning at IL O'Clock.
Year: 1879

The royal wedding in Spain, ushered
in by storm of rain and celebrated in
the midst of a kingdom laid waste by
flood and famine, has had anything but
happy auspices; but it is singular to
note how many royal matches during
the past century have been similarly
linked with misfortune. The marriage
of the famous Austrian Empress Maria
Theresa, was Immediately followed by
a Prussian invasion which drove her
from her capital. The show of fire.
works ut the wedding of her ill-fated
daughter, Marie Antoinette, ended in a
panic that caused the death of several
thousand persons. Napoleon's wedding
with Maria Louisa of Austria was
marked by the burning to death of
Princess Pauline of Schwartzenberg and
several other victims of less note. The
Russian Grand Duke Nikolas. died
shortly after his betrothal to Princess
Dagmar His sisters marriage to the
Duke of Edinburgh was followed by the
death of the Cars aunt, Elena Pavlona,
and King Alfonso's first bride survived
her wedding only few months
Year: 1879

AHe Iumpklns
Oh! greenly and fair in the lands of the sun
The vines Of the gourd and the rich melon
run,
And the rock and the tree and the cottage
enfold,
With broad leaves all greenness and blossoms
all gold
Like that which DER Ninevah's prophet once
grew
While he waited to know that his warning
was true,
And longed for the storm cloud, and listened
in vain
For the rush OF the whirlwind and red fire of
rain.
On the banks of Xerid the dark Spanish
maiden
Comes up with the fruit of the tangled vine
laden;
And the Creole Of Cuba laughs out to behold
Through orange leaves shining the broad
spheres OF gold;
Yet with dearer delight, from his home in the
North,
On the fields Of his harvest the Yankee looks
forth.
Where ciooknecks are coiling and yellow
fruit shines
And the sun of September melts down on his
haa.S vines
All! on Thanksgiving day, when from east
and from west,
From north and from south, come the pilgrim
and guest;
When tho gray -hah ed New Englander sees
round his board
The old broken links OF affection restored;
When the care-wearied man seeks his mother
once more,
And he worn matron smiles where the girl
smiled before;
What moistens the lip and what brightens the
eye,
What calls back the past like rich pumpkin
pie?
Oh! huit loved OF boyhoood! the old days
re, alling,
When the wood grapes were purpling, and
brown nuts were falling;
When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin,
Glarng out through the daik, with a candle
within;
When we laughed round the corn heop, with
hearts all in tune,
Our chair broad pumpkin, our lantern the
moon, @
Telling tales of the fairy who travelled like
steam
In pumpkin shell coach, with two rats for a
team.
Then thanks for thy present! None sweeter
or better
Fer smoked from an oven or circled platter.
Fair hands never wrought at pastry more fine,
Brighter eyes never watched Ger its baking
than thine;
And the prayer which my mouth is too full
TO express
Swells my heart that thy shadow may never
grow less;
That the days OF thy lot may be heightened
below
And the iamo OF thy worth like the pumpkin
vine grow;
And thy life be as sweet, and its last sunset
sky
Golden tinted and fair as thy own pumpkin
pie!


John G.. UhiHfer.
Year: 1879

The virtue of advertising is of more
consequence, in n general way, than it is
often credited with. A too contracted
view is so frequently thrown around it's
salutaIy influence that those who read
business card seem to link its import is
OF but little consequence to any one be-
sides the advertiser. This, however, is
a great mistake, for the community at
large is benefited, according to our own
way of thinking, by every business card
of town store appearing in the local
papers. 1t needs no very skillful
reasoning TO elucidate the proposition,
tor there can be no better method to inn
prove a village, town or city than that
whith keeps the bulk of trade at home.
BY so doing the results of industry are
widely diffused in the expenditures
made, society becomes co operative to
considerable extent, material improve
ments are encouraged and pride OF place
is fostered. Our live storekeepers are
beginning TO understand the value OF
advertising. and our residents fail not to
regard them for their enterprise.
contemporary puts the matter in this
wise When t business men of a town
fail to advertise extensively, they di-
minish the Importance and trade of
place, and permit more enteTprising
localities to take the latter from them.
Although done for their individual in
terest, advertisers should be looked upon
by citizens of the town where they re


side as in some sense public benetactOrs,
and they should be encouraged accord
ingly. One merchant who advertises
extensively is worth to his own town
and people more than forty that never
show themselves in print, and should
he for this reason alone preferred, AS
suming that he is,sof course, fair busi-
mes man, WobNrg (Mass.) journal.
Year: 1879

How dreary are the crowded streets


With not a soul abroad!
How sunless is the sunny sky


No fire on hearth, no mirth at board!
How long the nights, how slow the day
My loves away! My loves away!
How gay the crowded city streets!


How cheerily shines the sun!
Dances the fire, and round the board


From lip to lip the greetings runl
No longer in the dumps roam
My loves come home! My loves come


homel -.New York Tribune.
Year: 1879

&" The three live very happy together
in the big house on the hill, an from
which nobody that's sick or in trouble
Is ever turned away uncontrolled or
empty handed. Mary Grace Halptne.
Year: 1879

A BRUTAL PRIZE FIGHT IN NEW YORK Cry
A special to the Baltimore american from New
fork, May 18th, says: All that is required to
nave prize hight In New York Is for the pugi-


lSts 10 put on their gloves and call ft boxing,
jim Kelly and Frank White fought in saloon
Tonight with the full knowledge OF tho police
Arthur Chambers and Mike Coburn were among
the seconds: Harry Hill was referee. Kelly
forced the fighting from the first. but White
met MN squarely. 1t was most savage fight
nom nrst TO last. Science was thrown away
aIter the sixth round. and it was blow for blow
on MS ieet. Both were terribly punished at the
Deglnhlng OF the sixteenth round, and came to
tne scratch bleeding and painting. Kelly forced
pace again. White struck him terribly Kel-
" tottered and lunged forward into Whites
corner an In heap on the floor He was un-
conscious Tor ten minutes. They thought him
called. The fight could not have been more
savage or brutal II in prize ring In Canada.
The police did not interfere
Year: 1879

Awoman took her place In the line at the
post -of1ice yesterday, and when her turn came
she placed quarter before the cashier, with
the announcement that she would take seven
and one OF them ere new ten-dollar stifdcates.-
LOuiSuilLe Journal.
Year: 1879

While knowledge and skill are both
highly desirable, they are still of second
rank, and it is possible to acquire them
at too greata cost. Ifaman has ideas
original, individual. creative ideas-he
can usually hire skill and buy knovl
edge. They are essential elements of
education. But they should be gained
by processes which make them the tools.
not Che end of culture. The man should
be the master, not the slave of his learn
ing; and whether be is the one or the
other depends very largely on the way
his knoWledge has been gained. And Il
is better to be tho master of a little


knowledge, with capacity to use it crea.
lively, than to be the unproductiye car
rier of all the learning in all the libra
RES. Our young readers whose scholas-
TIC advantages, so-called, have been few,
may well take the lesson to heart. Study
to have ideas : life viii give no end Of
opportunities for using them.
Year: 1879

In a review of the condition of Allan
ia, Ga, the past year, the Constitution of
that city says: 1.-THE number of houses
built during the past year is larger than
for any year since 1870-the most of
them being residences. Whole blocks
of tenement houses have been put up,
and the tap of the hammer has been
heard in all parts of the city. These
houses have been promptly filled, usual
ly having been bespsken before they
were finished. There has been a re-
markable influx of people during the
past year, it being hardly possible that
less than five thousand citizens have
been added to our population"