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Year: 1874

Mr.. Spurgeon has addressed a letter
10 the papers on account. of it having
been stated that on q recent Sunday,
evening, when q minister in his chapel
had condemned smoking, he rose after
the sermon, and expressed his dissent
from the preacher, a ding that it was
possible to 60 'smoke to the glory of God, "
and that he hoped TO enjoy a cigar that
evening before he went TO bed. Mr..
Spurgeon saws "I demur altogether,
and most positively, to the statement
that to smoke tobacco is in itself sin.
IL may become so, as any other indiffer-
ent action may, but as an action 1t is no
sin. Together with hundreds and thou
sands o. my fellOw-christians, l have
smoked, and with them I am under the
condemnation of living in habituai sin,
if certain accuseTs are to be believed.
As would not knowingly live even in
the smallest violation Of the law of God,
and sin IN the transgressiOn of the law,
will not own to sin when l am not
conscious of it. There is growing up
in society a pharisaie system which adds
to the cOmT lands of God the precepts
of men to that system will not yield
for an hour. The preservat on of my
liberty mHy bring upon me the mp
braidings of many of the good and the
sneers of the self-righteous but shall
endure both with sincerity so long as l
feel clear in my conscience before God.
The expression smoking to the glory
of God standing alone has an i'll SOUND,
and do not justify it but In the sense
IN which employed it will stand to
it. No christian should do anything in
which he cannot glorify God-and this
may be done, according tOseripture, in
eating and drinking and the common
actions of life. When l have found IN
tense pain relieved, a weary brain
soothed, and calm, refreshing sleep OBJ
tanned by a cigar, I have felt grateful TO
God and have blessed his name this is
what meant, and by no means did
use sacred words trihingly. If through
smoking I had lost an hour of my time
if I had stinted my gifts to the poor
If had rendered my mind less Wig
orous-I trust I should see my fault
and turn from it but he who charges
me with these things shall have no an
swer but my forgiveness. am told
that my open avowal will lessen my in
fluence, and my reply is that if / have
gained any Influence through being
thought different from what I am, I
have no wish to retain 1t. I will do
nothing u"on the sly, and nothing
about which I have q doubt"
Year: 1874

Grace Greenwood, in writing from
Colorado, says it was expected that we
should have a fine exhibition of farm
and garden products, but "m man pro
poses and the grasshopper disposes.
be has disposed of everything green.
and now, as though acting on the scrip
tural assertion that 50 all flesh is grass.
has taken to regaling himself on his
brother hopper. 1t is shocking to dis
cover what reInorseless cannibals these
small creatures are. If one becomes
disabled in the slightest degree, his
friends and relatives rally around him
IN his extremity, and generally help
themselves to whatever is eatable. They
generally 90 first for the brain, as the
morsel, cunningly abstraeting it from
its cells; and yet he somehow lives on
for time, and hardly seems to miss
that rather important organ. The
younger ones seem the most voracious
and rapaciOus, but, while they make
fatal charge, stout, grave-loOking elders
viii stand about, watching their old
friends demise, evidently specializing
as to how he will "cut up." They are
in no haste, but are always in at the
death. The other day I whiled away a.
half-hOur in one of the summer-houses





ceedings of a set Of these small ruffans
toward a disabled comrade. He had
lost a leg-how I need not state.
Thou canst not say did ii" though,
if for the sake of scientific investipa-
tion brought myself to perform that
little surgical operation, what harm (?
1t is surprising to see how easily a
grasshOpper's leg is detached. 1t seems
ALWAYS to be a sort of semi-detached
member. The creature don't seem to
mind the loss much, and will go on eat
ing as though grasshOppeIs' legs "grew
on every bush. This one evidently
did not realize his misfortune till he was
attacked, and found he could neither
walk nor fly. How he was beset, to be
sure First, II brisk young fellow, with
the cool, business air of a surgeon, be-
gan tapping his rather distended stom-
aeh another probed him about the
joint whence the leg had been removed !;
third set himself to dissect the ampu-
tated limb. One slim starveling began
browsing on the delicate tips of his
long wings then a big bustling old
wretch stepped forward and interviewed
him, by deliberately boring into his
brain next a yellow Jacket settled on
him and stung and sucked here and
there, while, to add insult to injury,
two spiteful black ants pierced through
the Joints of his cuirass and worked
their way into his vitals. He fought
bravely-it was astonishing to see how
pluckiIy he stood up against his fierce
assailants, like a miniature MoultoD.
He kicked furiousIy with his one sound
hind leg "against the pricks'' of the
wasp. He struck out and gesticulated
wildly with his arms or fore-legs-his
mustache or antenne bristled with de-
fiance-but the great congregation of
his foes was too much for him, though
he did not cease to struggle while any
thing remained to struggle with. They
did not leave him till he was reduced
to the mere shell of q grasshopper.
Year: 1874

An amusing anecdote is told of a we'll
known French general, who played a
conspicuous part In cavalry charge.
This gallant warrior had been severely
wounded on his head and bullet in his
thigh. Such an allowance might have
satisfied a man of quiet tastes, but was
far from sufficient for the hre-eating
general. In relating the charge, which
he did at every dinner party, he was in
the habit of throwing in half a dozen
bayOnet thrusts and a couple of stray
splinters from q shell, and he invariably
appealed for cOrroboration of his narTa-
tive TO an aid-de-canp who had ridden
by his side. On one occasion, having
imbibed more than his usual allowance
of AT Chateau Yquem, he drew q more
than usually startling picture Of his
riddled and perforated condition. A
cannon ball had killed his horse, dozen
sabres had descended at once on his
head, a couple of lances had passed
through each Of his arms, and all the
bullets and bayonets of Germany
seemed to have given each other a rem.
devious in his body lyon remember
it we'll, don't your" he added, turning
to his aide-de-carap. The well-trained
subalttrn had suffered long in silence.
The bayonets, bullets, lances, ETC., he
had got used to by long practice, but
the cannon ball was the last straw that
broke the camel's back. "No, general,
7 don't remember it. How could you
expect me to? You know as we'll as
do that the very cannon ball that killed
your horse struck the breastplate Of g
cuiFassier behind rs, and then bounded
back end took my head of =
Year: 1874

The experiments of scientists have
demonstrated the following facts re-
specting the strength of certain mate
rails Gold may be hammered so that
it is only one three hundreds d-siItv-
thousandth of an inch thick. An iron
bar would support its own weight if
stretched out to q length of 81 miles.
A bar of steel was once made which
would support its own weight if extern
ded to q length of 49, miles. Bunker
Hill monument might be bnilf more
than g mile in height without crushing
the stone at its base. When bars Of
iron are stretched until they break,
those which are the strongest increase
in length less than the weaker Ones.a A
piece Of wood having the breadth and
thickness of three inches, and the
length of four feet, If supported at its
ends, would be bent one miilionth of an
inch by a a weight Of three pounds
placed In the center. and a weight Of
one-tenth of an ounce would bend it
one-seven- -millionth of an inch.
Year: 1874

Perhaps some housekeepers would
like TO know how they can make an in
expensive, and at the same time a good
and durable bed, or mattress and
bolster. l have a bed that will with
good usage) last lifetime. 1t is mere
ly q tick, the same as for straw, or
husks, with openings in the upper side
to insert the hand for stirring, and filed
with cut paper. Now, reader, do not
throw aside the paper with disgust, but,
If for nothing but curiosity, finish the
article, it will do you no harm f; possibly
you may be induced to make one. The
work of cutting the paper is not such a
long job as you would think. Take any
kind of clean paper Except straw paper
and fold it, or roll, so that 1t can be cut
with one clip of the shears, and then
cut it you need not be particu ar a. to
the width, although the narrower it is
cut the better. These clippings are
like little curls or rings of paper, and
lie like feathers, and after using the bed
they will not grow fine and dusty, but
are clean, and can be stirred as light as
when first used. I have heard people
who have slept on them say " they were
the best beds they ever slept on" l
prefer them to feathers or common mat
tresses hair mattresses are nicer, OF
course, but few of us farm RS wives can
afford to buy them whereas the paper
bed we can have without cost, except
the work, and that the smallest child
you have who can use q pair of shears,
will help you, and ii not kept busy too
long at time, will think it but play.
The same material makes nice pillows
for lounges, chair cushions, cradle ticks,
etc. I have box to keep waste paper
in, which is out of the way, and at the
same time handler then the rsg-bag /;
and when it is full, I cut them up into
another box and put them into the tick.
[ use the same ticks that I have used
for straw wash them and sew up the
openings, so they are just large enough
for the hand to pass through readily /;
three openings are suficieut.-C Cor. Cf1a-
ciHndti Times.
Year: 1874

People Will soon want to know what
Turkey intends to do with so much ex-
plosive material, such quantities of
deadly missiles, such engines of de
struction. But it is not in New York
alone that the ferocious Mussulman is
arming himself. The other day the
viceroy of Egypt gave the Turkish sui
tan an iron, clad, and now his majesty's
mother, the valide sultana, has kindly
told the grand vizier that she will her
self pay the cost of thirty feld-pieces,
gun carriages and all complete, for her
son. This present is in addition to
twenty other pieces of Krupp artillery,
which her highness a short time ago
good-naturedly gave for the troops.
The sultan is also treating himself to a
few guns, and the grand vizier has Just
signed a contract with the local repre-
sentative OF the Krupp foundry ct Eisen
foI 200 fieId-pieces for the Turkish army,
the cost of the order to be defrayed out
of the sultan's own privy purse. The
valide sultana has made it a condition
of her little order that the thirty cannon
shall be delivered within four months
time at the latest. If the design is to
use this waTlike material somebody is
likely to get hurt il not, the imperial
treasury Is burdened TO little purpose.
Year: 1874

Mark Twain, in his new book about
England, tells how he had the toothache
one night in London, and gives some
pleasing recollections of the dentists
shop which he was wont to patronize
when he lived in Elmira. He says {:
g One night that tooth did Jump, and
every time it jumped it raised my head
off the pillow. How I did lie awake and
think about that dentists shop IN Elmi-
re-, where I had been under torture so
many times of those pretty dental in
struments, so polished and so cold
How did long to lay my cheek against
one-one of those short, thick, heavy,
twisted chaps, with the bOw-legged,
futed, and curved handles and short
hawksbil Jaws How revelled IN de-
light at the thought of having such a
thing clutch my ref aotory tooth, and
syank it = With what pleasnrable emo
tions came crowding into my mind the
reeoilections OF that dentist and his
room and its fixtures-his big easy
chair, with the pretty, white-eurtained
window before it, and the nice, big, red
glass spittoon to the left, with the hole
in the bottom, and the bits of vet cot
ton and the bright pieces OF gold and
streams of blood stained saliva on the
sides. And then the pretty little
bureau with the bottles on the top, and
the little yellow drawers which he jerks
out so gently when seeking for some
new and more delicate instrument of
torture. And then the beautiful little
round, velvet-covered stand on the gas
fixture, covered with the nice drills and
pretty files, and the lovely little crow
bars with the stained ivory handles, and
the long steel crochet needle with which
he hunts for new cavities, and the little
round pastebOard box full Of gold
plugs and the dirty little napkin and
the rubber ball syringe, and the slngu-
lar smell of his thumb, and all that
Oh, how nice p


THEY have found in Holeomb valley,
California, a mineralogical marvel, q
mountain Of gold bearing quartz. 1t IS
twelve miles from Bear lake, above
which It rises SOC feet. The crown OF
the mountain Is said 70 b n mass Of
/ gold bearing rock, 50 feet high, 100
/ feet wide and about two miles IN length.
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Year: 1874

We clip the following from tho
Mutual Aid for July, just issued. The
statement comes from an official
source, and may be relied upon as cor
rect. 1t gives a more comprehensive
idea of the status of the enterprise and
its objects than we have yet presented
to our readers:


The Grange Cooperative Company
has established its main store in Los
Angeles, on Main street, between Sec
ond and Third streets, and have COM
menced strictly cash business. The
trade starts out under favorable aus
pices and averages at the rate of about
$4,000 Il month. fla credit system were
adopted this trade would be more than
doubled, but goods could not be sold
as low as they are at present. The
capital of the Company at present is
very limited and tits absolutely neces-
sary to adhere strictly to cash trade.
Experience will show the Company
what it is best to do in the future.
The General Manager now has on
hand full stock of groceries which
are being sold to stockholders at from
10 to 40 per cent. below the ordinary
retail prices heretofore prevalent in
this country. TO persons who are not
stockholders, goods are being sold at
prices much lower than those in vogue
elsewhere. Thus far about one-half
of the trade is to persons who are not
stockholders and both goods and pri-
ces give general satisfaction to all.
The company regrets that it was
unable to get in operation in time to
furnish grain sacks for the grain crop
in the south end of the county, but
the officers have done their best to
meet the wants and have the satisfac-
ton of knowing that they will be pre-
pared to meet any emergency another
season. Notwithstanding this delay
large quantities of sacks are being sold.
Arrangements have been made by
the General Manager for the shipment
of grain and farm produce. Stock
holders and others should consult
Mr. Seymour before disposing of
their produce elsewhere. All kinds
of farm implements will be pur-
chased by the company for those
giving it their orders, stockhold-
ers receiving their implements at as
near as possible to wholesale prices.
More capital is needed. There are
hundreds of Changers yet in Los An
geles and San Bernardino counties
who have not yet subscribed to the
stock of the company, and they
should do so at once so as to give the
General Manager more funds with
which to operate. There are also few
who have subscribed to the stock OF
Year: 1874

The first of Murphy's series of en-
a rousing response from our citizens
last night. The audience was the
largest which we have ever seen
in Turner'S Hall, every available
space being occupied. The proceeds
from the house doubtless reached
thousand dollars. The entertainment
was what Murphy's playing always
prOves--immense. The minor char
acters were all well sustained and cap
ital hits were made throughout. IF
you want to laugh and laugh again
and keep it up for two hours or more
go and hear Murphy tonight.


There is telegram at the Telegraph
Office for VIM. Denver, blacksmith.
Year: 1874

the company who have not as yet
made their first payment of five dol
lars per share and taken their stock.
Such persons should respond at once
and thus help the movement.
A large amount of the trade at the
store is now with those who are not
stockholders. A large city trade will
soon be built up which will furnish a
good market for the farm products.
The surplus products will be shipped
to San Francisco so as not to allow the
market here to become glutted if pos
Cih1o
Year: 1874

Bs- The tide ofimmigration is steadily set
ting In, and the first thing eastern people do
is TO throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. They say there Is no
comparison between the two. 2Ro
Year: 1874

We have to dispose of our immense
Stock Of Clothing, Dress Goods, ETC., ETC., TO
make room fora very extensive Stock of Fall
Goods, just purchased in New York, and en-
route for us. We have reduced the prices, and
vou will find it to your advantage to call
the
Year: 1874

the man you are looking for. He will give
you the incest fitting garments to be had in
the city; cloth Of the best material; work
done upon honor, and the best satisfaction


generally. Call on him and have full suit
made ut once. jy2 ifs
Year: 1874

BIDAL GIFTS The New York World dis
courses on the crying social evil Cf our times
and country known as wedding presents.
Time was-and thirty or even less years ago
will limit it, it says-when young girl in all
the freshness of feeling was about to be mar
ried, that her father and mother quietly pre-
pared the EouSseau-nOt then so termed
literally or scantily, according to their means,
and the father, if he was rich, gave, or at least
furnished the house where the young couple
were to live, and uncles aud aunts and cousins
sent them little and unostentatious gifts usually
of household articles, and this was the end OF
1t. This is all changed; rich people are
invited because they give presents and poor
relations are excluded because they cannot.
And what sort of present" to the young
bride entering on new exfStence2 An array
of gorgeous presents stimulates no noble i'm
pulse. A meagre show, according to the new
system, works disappointment and bitterness
where there should be room for neither. The
whole sytem is radically wrong.
Year: 1874

three years, development has been rapid.
Eucharistic alteration has been avowed and
glorled in. Private masses are defended. 1t
is taught that the receiving by the priest
profits the people, even if they do not partake
themselves. Auricular confession is advocated,
and judicial absolution by the priest recon.
mended so also are prayers for the dead and
invocation of the Virgin Mary and the saints.
Indeed it would be hard to say what will be
left to distinguish the churches adopting this
system from those of Rome. But the eyes of
many who had been deluded by specious
sophistries are now opening and they recOil
from the brink of the precipice to which they
have been artfully conducted, and ask, What
agreement hath the temple of God with
idols 2


Il WOULD AFFECTIONATELY URGE


upon all my brethren the duty of abstaining
from aught that cOuntenances such departures
from the simplicity of the gospel There should
be no dalying with the deceiver. Blindness
to the true character of these corrupt practices
is now inexcusable in those who watch for
souls. As lovers Of the peace of Zion, minis.
ters should be careful not to SOW the seeds of
confusion and discord Obtaining their COM
mission from church which was purified by
fire and blood from these soul-destroying errors,
and which emblazOns the word Protestant
upon her banner, they should be loyal and
true. If we censure those who break the
unity of the church by open withdrawal, shall
there be no condemnation of those within who,
still cleaving to place and emoument, are
doing all they can to betray her into the hands
of her enemies? My own feeling would have
led me to avoid these remarks upon so painful
a subject, but this is no time for a Bishop to be
silent. May the Lord hear US in the day ot
trouble - Commercial
Year: 1874

The Prince of Wales owes debts to the amount
OF $300,000 Some of these debt have been
running for long time, and the creditors are
somewhat impatient for their money. How
did it happen that the Prince got so deeply
into debtH Who can tell? From his birth
up to his majority the revenues of the Duchy
of Cornewall were saved up for him. Inst
year his income from this source was E62, $40.
1t was not so much before his shrewd father
stopped many leaks in its administration, but
but the sum saved must have been large.
Then there Is his annual allowance from Par
Lament, and the annual allowance to his Wife
aud while he pays no rent for his town resi-.
dence, Marlborough House, he probably gets
a small income from his tenats at his country
estate, Sandringham. Besides all this his
late lamented father is known to have left a
very large amount of money, although it is
probable that his mother keeps very close
guard over this No one can tell anything
about it, for if the Prince C9nsort left a will
his widow has never sent it to be recorded. But,
on the whole, one would be inclined to say that
a gentleman with an income of at least $3.50 600
year ought to keep out of debt, even if he
had large family of small children and enter
tanned much company.


The Prince of Wales has not kept out of
debt. He owes, as [ have said, 100000, and
the government is about to ask Parliament to
pay nls deptS. ne proposition Will cause
row, and if the Republicans had any real in.
Auence, they could make some capital out OF
the affair. The plea 10 favor of the PROPOSE


tiOn will be that the debts have been incurred
in the performance of State duties which have


been imposed upon him by the Queen. The


truth is, L believe, that the Prince, who is


very shrewd fellow in his money matters, ha
! always borrowed the funds which have beet


expended on these occasions. refusing to us
his own money for such purposes, and saying


thai in the end either Parliament or his mothe
, must pay the debts thus contracted. u
raisGn. The simple justice of the case woult
seem to demand that the Queen should pa
, the money.
Year: 1874

A Virginia railroad was made to pay twenty
five dollars for killing rooster The engineer
said he spoke to the gentleman with the
whistle as kindly as possible but when the
rooster dropped one wing on the ground, raised
his good eye heavenward, and commenced
whetting his spur on the rail, forbearance
ceased to be a virtue, and he lit into him
with thirteen freight cars.
Year: 1874

A young widow advertises in a Cincinnati
paper that she has an income Of three thou
sand dollars year, and will marry any man,
young or old. who possesses the same means,
and can produce certificate of good character.
Year: 1874

RAISING CHILDREN Many children are
raised with the bottle, but many more deserve
to be raised with the boot, remarked Quiz,
on discovering that his landlady's hopeful son
had been shaving the cat with his new razor
Year: 1874

"What would our wives say if they knew
where We are p said the captain of schooner
when they were beating about in a deep fog,
fearful of going ashore


"Humph | shouldn't mind that, growed
the mate, IF we only knew where we are our
selves -
Year: 1874

Trackeray tells of an Irishwoman begging
of him, who, when she saw him putting his
hand in his pocket, cried out MAY the bless
ing OF God follow you all the days of your
lite! = But when he drew out his snuff box,
she quiz K added, and never overtake you -
Year: 1874

We hear of men contessing on their DEATH
bed to the crimes of murder, abduction and
incendiarism, but whoever heard of a dying
man confeSsing to stealing papers? Nobody
Death cannot scare that man.
Year: 1874

The editor of the Columbus, S. G. Mat,
with grateful eloqucnce acknowledged the
receipt Of a milk punch in one column, and in
the next published "a Temperance Depart
ment. Somebody has complained of his
inconsistency, and he explains that the editor
of the Mail has nothing to do with what goes
in the temperance column Of his paper nor
have the gentlemen who conduct that depart
editor of the HII