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Year: 1874

For q man to do his work to the
best Of his ability,to put al his energy
into it, Is, Of course, an obvious duty {;
to devote himself to it is a sin. A
man who deyotes or gives himself up to
any work, or anything, to any name
save One, in Earth or in HEAVIER, is an
idolator. The language Of one mans
idolatry is revolving to us, the other
commands our respect; but The result
is much the same in both the soul
can be smothered in lawsuit as effect
ually as in beer tankard and fifty
years hence the former, as well as the
latter, will be gone, and the two men
left equally bare, equally dead, equally
unproftable.-Oakfc!9
Year: 1874

at trees, only to find the worms. You
will only be worm-fed if you do so.


Don't peck at Christians either
they are poor feeding enough. 1t is
not we'll to whet appetitas on the evils
of mankind. They make diseased
blood. Turn to the great model, the
church spiritual, the Jerusalem above,
which is the mother Of US all. Great
en- your nature and your conceptions
of what is noble and charitable and
true. One of the great uses of sor-
row in the world is to keep its heart
tender and great. We all know that
joy is not perfected until it is brewed
over the fire of grief. Sorrow dies ia
its elimination; after that comes the
bloom of ecstacy. The last conflict is
victory. Be gentle and You will be
mighty. The more deeply the more
divine and godly will you be.


Elnbosom these truths in your con-
fdence; broaden your life and deepen
aspiration from their great lie aud
power. God is down here among tho
fading flowers and the dying embers Of
life, to retint vanishing hucs and re-
lumen the brightness that fades into
shadow. Sorrow and grief are among
the heavenly mordants that prepare
the soul for the fast colors Of glory,
and help God to paint His name in it
in letters living, indelible, immortal.
Year: 1874

=" Those who know the truth, says
Confucius. are nos equal to those who
revere it-are not equal to those who
find pleasure In it,


Every nature nsust have the sub
soil plowing of sorrow before it car
recognize either its present poverty or
its possible wealth.-MacdonaId.


As the sun is reflected in q spring
when it is clear and limpid, so God is
reflected in the soul Of man when it IS
pure and spiritual.


Be always ready to excuse every
oversight, or indiscretion, or Ill action !;
but if thou becst guilty Of it, confess
it, plainly.


--"Passion makes the best observa-
.2ons and the most wretched conclu-
sions. It IS telescope whose field Is
SO much the brighter as it is narrower. -"


=" As the Lords mercies are new
every morning, so those to whom they
come have a perpetual freshness Of life
untouched by the burden and heat Of
the day"


=" They but poorly discharge their
trust who are content to find fault with
and condemn what others may propose
without ever venturing a proposition Of
their own"


One Of the highest benefits we
can reap from understanding the way
of God with ourselves is, that we be-
come able to trust Him, though we do
do not understand His ways.


The true Christian is neither afraid
of dying or living; desires to go to
heaven to see Christ, yet is willing to
stay upon earth to serve Christ.


No man ever sank under the bur
den Of to-day. It is when tomorrow S
burden is added to the burden OF TO-
day that the weight is more than a
man can bear.


The first thing to be sought, and
sought until it is realized, by those VINO
yearn to make their life sweet SAVIOR
unto God, is that for which David
pleaded: Create in me clean heart
Q God, and renew a right spirit within
me-"


-'' Our habitual life is like wall
hung with pictures, which has been
shone on by the suns of many years !;
take one of the pictures away, and 1t
leaves definite, black space, to which
our eyes can never turn without SEN
sation of discomfort. Nay, the invol-
untary loss of any familiar object most
always brings chill as from an evil
omen; it seems to be the first finger
shadow Of advancing death" :"
Year: 1874

Mature is always consistent, though
she feigns to contravene her own laws.
She keeps her laws and seems to tran
scend them. She arms and equips an
animal to find its place and living in
the earth, and, at the same time, she
arms and equips another animal to de-
strOy it. Space exists to divide crea-
lures bat by clothing the sides of a
bird with few feathers, she gives him
pretty Omni- presence. The direction
is forever onward, but the artist still
goes back for materials and begins
again with the first elements on the
most advanced stage otherwise, all
goes to ruin. IF we look at her work,
we seem to catch glimpse Of a system.
in transition Plants are the young Of
the world, vessels Of health and vigor
but they gr0pe ever upward towards
consciousness the trees are imperfect
men, and seem to bemoan their impriG
onment, rooted in the ground. TIE
animal Is the novice and probationer of
more advanced order. The men.
though young, having tasted the first
drop from the cup Of thought, are al
ready dissipated the NAPLES and ferns
are still uncorruPt yet no doubt, when
they come to consciousness, they too
will curse and swear. Flowers so
strictly belong to youth. that We sdult
men, soon come, to feel that their
beautiful generations coacern not US;
we have had our day; now let the
children have theirs The flowers jiit
us, and We are old bachelors with our
ridiculous tenderness.--RaLph HaEdo
Emsrsoa.
Year: 1874

The Committee on Wharvos and Public Grounds
Of tho Common Council mot in tho Mayors
Office yesterday afternoon, Aid. Caunon in tho
ohair.


THO consideration Of tho Lalso-1ront question
was taken up.
Year: 1874

The Washington correspondent Of the
Cleveland Leader writes: i" Several years
ago, when John T. Hale was here as
senator, his daughters were among the
most admired of all bellies. They lived
in elegant style,at the National and en-
tertaiued with great deal of vivacity
all who visited them. The youngest was
really very pretty, fresh, piqusnt girl
Of eighteen or so. OF course there were
great many admirers, and among them
the actor, John Wilkes Booth was the
most devoted to Miss Eighteen. You
perhaps remember Booths appearance,
handsome, dark melodramatic fellow,
and among a certain set he was a great
favorite socially. AT night he played
his Charles, in Schiller's Robbers and
Miss Hale was always at the play, with
bouquet and smiles for him. In those
days who could guess the sad sequel to a
romance of love that promised bright
enough ? remember night when the
hotel was blaze of light. The guests
were giving hop for their friends, and
between the waltzes every one was gossip.
ing at the devotion of a couple who
walked up and down The rooms, and were
apparently oblivious of place and sur
roundings. They were very attractive
pair, he tall and darkeyed, she fair and
sweet as an English rose. There were
some who cavilled at her choice the
father must be wild to permit such an
alliance, they said-tbe daughter of a
United States Senator to marry a play
actor. But the many to whom the young
girls sweet face seemed excuse for any
infatuation, looked with indulgence at
the little drama of the old, old story.
l remember too we'll er.night, Just
the eve Of two days later. We were at
Ford's old theatre. Again a blaze of
light and music, and crowded house, to
look on at Laura Keene in the Ameri-
can Cousin How many times have you
heard the story of that night, too dread
full to talk of even The sudden pistol
shot, the uproar that followed, and in
the figure that sprang from the Presi-
dents box saw the lover of two nights
ago, and knew that even as he whispered
in that young girls ear he was planning
this dreadful scene. La Wilkes Booths
pocket was found the picture of his be-
trothed, and she wrote of the assassin
that she would marry him at the foot OF
the gallows. Such devotion hangs like
divine fragrance about our recollections
of tdis wretched, mistaken man, and
though it cannot blot out, yet surely lei
it dim little the horror we rightly feel
at his work.
Year: 1874

WAYS OF CARRYING BABIEs.-In the
Vienna exposition are number of mod
els illustrating the style in which wom-
en- Of different nations carry their ba-
bies, The Asiatic Indian woman carries
hers in blanket hanging in front some
what below the waist; the Bengalese
woman, with the child astride low down
upon her left hip, and her left arm sup
porting its back. The figure seems quite
Indifferent as to the difficulties in this
style of carrying, which must be high
ly artistic performance if done SO clever
ly in reality. The Egyptian woman
carries hers in stately manner, the
child sitting astride her shoulders with
its hands upon her head, and without
any clothing to speak of. The Brazilian
woman carries hers in somewhat sim
liar manner, also in full undress, it sit
ting astride her neck. The Chinese ba.
by is carried upright upon the back, in
blanket, and the South African in a
bag in front, formed by blanket about
the hips of the mother. The lower
Austrian woman carries hers by swing
ing it in blanket over one shoulder up
on her back while the northern Austrian
carries hers bound upon a board, after
the style of candy models in confection-
cry stores. The Lapland baby is carried
in sledge-shaped cot, made of leather.
1t seems to have been chucked in, feet
foremost, and then frame tied over the
opening for its face. whether to prevent
it from crawling out or to keep the dogs
from kissing it, is more than can be i'm
agined. The most unique style of all is
that of Esquimaux woman, who wears
wide, high-tOp boots, and pets the baby
right-end foremost down in the outside
of one of them. and doubtless, accord
ing to DIR. Kane's description of her
style, carrying her cooking and heating
utensils in the other. The North Amer
lean woman carries her papoose strapped
to board, and that strapped upon her
back by band over the forehead.
Year: 1874

it. That being done he asked whether
the diamonds were all there. Yes, the
box had not been opened they were ex.
actly as the merchant had left them.


Again the Archduke rang the bell
and to the attendant who entered he said,
designating the guilty man, "Take him
to Siberia he is not to go to his home
again"
Year: 1874

When pretty woman goes out alone
IN the streets Of Paris, the chances are
that she will be aceosted by some gallant,
especially if she loiters to look in the
shop windows. There are exemptions in
homely face and forbidding exterior;
also age. To the pretty young Ameri-
can this is one Of the greatest drawbacks
to her enjoyments, accustomed as she is
to outdoors freedom, and to attack the
rude sex rather than to be attacked by it.
Thus the serpent, man, prevents our
daughters of Eve from wandering through
her Paradise. Freedom from the annoy
ance may be purchased at the price of
green goggles and cork-screw ringlets:
but the price of liberty in such case is
exorbltant and not to be thought of. An
exasperated beauty, the other day, said
that man is hateful creature, ANYHOW.
and it's pity we cannot do without
him, and all those who have been SUBJ
Ieeted to the same street attacks doubt
less repeat the same thing in chorus.


There is safety only in being conveyed
the pretty woman must put herself un-
der the flag of the woman-of-war called
the bonnie, for this flag is recognized and
respected by all the piratical cruisers
about the streets lying in wait for booty.
Year: 1874


Fading beneath our passing feet,
Strewn upon lawn and lane and street,


Beautiful leaves
Dyed with the hues Of the sunset sky,
Falling in glory so silently,


Beautiful leaves
Never to freshen another spring,
Never to know what the summer may bring


Beautiful leavesl
Withered beneath the frost and cold,
Soon to decay in the common mould,


Beautiful leaves
SO will the years that change your tint
Mark upon us their autumnal print,


Beautiful leaves
So shall we fail from the tree Of time,
Fade MS We fade in wintry cline,


Beautiful leaves!
But when the harvest of life is past,
And we wake in eternal spring at last,


Beautiful leayesi
May He who paints your brilliant hue
Form Of our lives chaplet new


OF beautiful leavesl
Year: 1874

NThIN STREET-Notice is hereby given
M that the city of Los Angeles intends To
make the following Improvements upon
Main street, i'm conformity with the provisions
of Act VII ofthe Revised Charter,to wit: From
the Plaza at the northerly line of the Pleo
House to the northerly line of Fourth street a
distance of $500 feet more or less.


The sidewalk shall be l5 feet wide from
said place of beginning to II point on line with
the front of Temple Block, distance OF l,V65
feet from the place of beginning from sald
point on line of Temple Block TO noTthery
line of Fourth street, the sidewalks shall be
II feet wide they shall be constructed IN the
following manner, ana oi the Following ma
The sidewalks shall have redwood curbing
inches thick by II in hes wide, which shall
be spiked to redwood posts 4X1 inches square,
three feet long, set two feet in the ground be-
low the bottom of the curbing and six 1eet
apart; said posts to be set on the inside OF the
curbing in the sidewalk; the sidewalk shall
have StTngers i'm add ton to curbing 3NS
inches square to which the pankng of the
Sidewalk shall be spiked, the plank shall be
two inches thick; the sidewalk shall be made
of wood and shall extend on both sides of the
street, from the place of beginning to First
street, Il distance OF 1926 feet from this point
to Fourth street "a distance of ,S7i feet the
sidewalk shall have curbing as heretofore de-
scribed, but shall have gravel walks, instead
of wood surface, the walks to be according to
the established grade.


The roadway Shall have cutters on each
side, paved with hard granite cObble stone;
the cutters shall be five feet wide, and shall
begin ten inches below the top of the side
walk and shall be concave on the bottom,
the outside of the cutters being seven inches
below the top of the sidewalk.


The street in order to receive the material
for the roadbed shall be cut down or filled up,
eight inches below the grade, and shall con
form To the shape of the street when finished (;
upon this bottom Il layer of gravel shall bo
LAID five inches thick after being rolled.


over This layer, n layer of broken stone or
screened gravel shall be laid three inches in
thickness, the stones making this layer shall
not be over II inches in diameter; over this
layer of stone thin layer of red cement
gravel shall be spread, after which the whole
mass of material must be wetted and thor
oughly rolled.


The slope of the street or roadbed shall bo
one foot in thirty feet from the cutters to the
center or crown of the street.


by order CT the Common Council.


NJ. KREMER,


Clerk of the Common Council.
Year: 1874

One Sunday, not long since. says the Boston
waltzed into church with that inimitable grace
that is at once the popularity and the charm
of the female denomination. As she took her
seat, by little behindhand movement she ar
ranged her overskirt, and then settled herself
to mediate upon how she looked and what the
other girls had on. The services concluded
she arose to GO out. Alas for human hopes
That last touch on the overSkirt was too much
She threw it too hiph and there it rested on
an old muff, which was serving as a hustle
So the wret"hed girl wiGgled away, unconscious
of the JOY that filed the hearts of the other
girls who saw il.
Year: 1874

AN ACT authorize issue OF duplicate agricultural land


scrip where the original has been lost destroyed.


Be ii enacted by the and House
OF the United States Of America assembled
the provisions of the act OF Congress the
June eighteen hundred and relating the
land warrants certain BE- and the
extended to include the reissue
land scrip lost cancelled destroyed without the fault
thereof under such rules
tarY Of the interisr may prescribe


Approved, June
Year: 1874

LEMONS WHoLEsoME.-When peo


pie feel the need of an acid, if they
would let vinegar alone, and use
lemons or apples. they would feel
as well satisfied, and receive no in
jury. A suggestion may not come
amiss as to good plan, when lem
ons ere cheap in the market, to
make good lemon syrup. Press
your hand on the lemon, and roll it
back and forth briskly on the table
to make it squeeze more easily ;
then press the juice into & bowl or
tumbler-neTer into a tin; strain
out all of the seeds, as they give a
bad taste. Remove all the pulp
from the peels, and boil in water "a
pint for dozen pulps-to extract
the acid. A few minutes boiling
is enoughh then strain the water
with the juice Of the lemons; put
a pound of white sugar to pint Of
the juice; boil ten minutes, cool it,
and your lemonade is ready. Put
a tablespoonful or two of this lem
on syrup in glass Of water, and
have O cooling healthful drink.
Year: 1874

to know low yon will manage those
ferocious moustachts of yours il
the operation. IL
He pushed Lizzie, laughing and
blushing toward me. \ gleam Of
light and hope almost too dazzling
to bear, came over me, and I cried
out before I thought, Not Mary.
I must have betrayed my secret
to every one in the room. But no
thing was sud; even Frank, in
general so obtuse, was this time 81
lent. I kissed the fair cheek Of the
young wife, and hurried to the 81
lent figure looking ont Of the win
dow.


'Mary-Iary Moore" I said ins
low, eager tone, ''have you no
welcome to give the wanderer?"


She turned hurriedly and laid
her hand in mine and said hurried
ly.


Il am glad to see you here, Har-
ly.


Simple words and YET how bless
ed they made me. I would not have
yielded her up at the moment for
an Emperor's crown. For there
was the happy group and dear
home iireside. with sweet Mary
Moore. The eyes I had dreamed
OF day and night, We're falling be-
meath the ardent gaze of mine, and
the sweet face [ had so long pray
ed to see, was there beside me. /
never knew the meaning Of happi-
ness, until that moment.


Many years have passed since
the happy night, and the hair that
was dark and glossy is fast turning
grey. I AIN now grown to be an
old man, and can look back to a
happy, and as I hope we'll spent
life And yet sweet as it has been
I would not recall a single day, for
the love that made my manhood SO
bright, shines also upon my white
hairs.


An old man? Can this be 50 ?
At heart I am young as ever. And
Mary, with her bright hair parted
smoothly from brow that has a
slight furrow up orit,is still theMary
Of other days. TO me she can nev-
er grow old OF be changed. The
heart that held her in infancy and
sheltered her in the flush and beau
tv of womanhood can never cast
her out till life shall cease to warm
IT,
Year: 1874

They tell Of a hen that foated
down the raging tide Of Mill River
in a barrel, setting on nineteen eggs.
She attended strictly to business
during the food, finally brought up
in a friendly harbor, and has since
left her barrel with nineteen chick
ems at her heels.
Year: 1874

How LONG SHALL WE SLEEP
The fact is that as life becomes more
concentrated, and its pursuits more
eager. short sleep and early rising be-
comes impossible. We take more
sleep than our ancestors; we take
more because we want more. Six
hours sleep will dosTery well for
plowman or bricklayer: or any other
man who has no exhaustion but that
produced by manual labor, and the
sooner he takes it after his labor is
over, the better. But for a man
whose labor is mental, the stress Of


work on his brain and nervous system,
and for him who is tired in the even
ing with day Of mental application,


neither early to bed nor early to rise
is wholesome. He needs letting down


to the level of repose. The longer the
interval between the active use of the
brain and his retirement to bed, the
better his chance for sleep and refresh


ment. To him an hour after mid


night is probably as good as two hours


before it, and even then his sleep vii!


not so completely and quickly restore
him as it will his neighbor who is
physically tired. He must not only


90 to bed later, but must lie longer
His sleep probably lies in the early
| morning hours, when all the nervous


excitement has passed away and he
is in absolute health.


[Sciencs Of Health.
Year: 1874

A Duluth paper says one OF the
streams running into lake Superior
from the north is called Temperance
river, because it is the only one OF
the tributaries of the lake that has
no bar at it's mouth.
Year: 1874

There is no virtue that adds SO
noble o charm to the finest traits of
beauty as that which exerts itself il
watching over the tranquility Of an
aged parent. There are no tears
that give so noble a lustre to the
cheek Of innocence as the tears Of
flial sorrow.
Year: 1874

A shrcwd old gentleman once
said to his daughter. "Be sure,
my dear, you never marry poor
man; but remember that the poor
est man in the world is one that
has money and nothing else."
Year: 1874

1t Is not polite to refuse to &C
commodate another, when it is in
your power. and you can DO it
without detriment to yourself ard
without infringing on the rights
Of others.


1t is not polite to request Of an
other favor you would not will
Iingly grant under similar circum-
stances.


1t is not polite to invite persons
to yonr house when you do not
desire to see them.


1t is not polite to chew tobacco
in the presence Of those to whom
your breath may be offensive
whether in q dwelling.house,
stage coach: a car or q steamboat.


1t is not polite to say through
another to q stranger Or acquaint-
ance at the door, whom you do not
wish to see, that you are engaged
or not at home.


1t is not polite to spit on the
floor ofa church: q dwc!Iing-bouse,
car, in the cabin of l. steamboat
or d ferry boat. The splitting on
the floors Of our cars and ferry
boats has become so common that
ladies have often found it difficult
to obtain seats where they could
prevent soiling their dresses. A
person who uses tobacco, and is
obliged TO spit should never enter
apartments set apart exclusively
for ladies and gentlemen, unless
be is willing to swallow the delect-
able juice.


1t is not polite to con tradict an
other, or rudcly to question the
truth Of his remarks. You should
speak with moderation, and con-
vince with truthful arguments.


1t is not polite, when passing
another on the sidewalk, to turn
to the left; always to the right.


1t is not polite to hurry through
the streets, jarring one person,
jostling another, aud stepping on
the toes of q third.


1t is not polite to use perfumery
about your person. Nature does
not require it in those who keep
themselves clean and pare. When
a person is highly scented, it ap-
pears as If it were done TO conceal
an offensive breath or some other
disagreeab!e smell.


1t is not polite to borrow money,
book or any article and not to
return it at the time designated, or
to wait until called upon by the
owner. Forgetfulness or thought
lessness is not i justifable excuse
when you retain. q moment longer
than the time specified, whatever
belongs TO another.


1t is not polite to use pompous
or bigh-sounding words in con7er-
sation. The more simple words
the better, in which you can con.
vey your meaning and be under
stood.


1t is not polite to notice the de-
fects Of nature in others, or to
speak in their presence of their de-
formity. Cast your eyes on what
is perfect, and speak only Of what
is agreeable.


I: is not polite to beg earnestly
in public for any charitable object.
1t is sufficient to lay your case be-
fore your hearers, and let them de-
eide how much it is their duty to
give. They can judgewithout the
advice or dictations Of another.