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Year: 1877

This is the cry in every town and
village throughout the entire coun-
try from Maine to California, and
still there are two sides to the story,
for nine out of every ten of the men
who cannot find anything to do,
would not accept work at fair wages
II offered them. As a good sample
OF their earnest endeavOrs to find
work, we may cite a recent instance
occurring in Indianapolis, Qnd.,)
Where several thousand men demand
ed work or bread. The proprietors
of stone quarry at Vandalia offer
ed employment to large number of
these, and free passes were given for
the railroad. Eighteen accepted the
passes, but only five used them, and
not one of the latter went to work.
Is it any wonder that business flags
and capitalists prefer to loan money
at three per cent. rather than risk it
where they will be at the mercy of
Trades Unions and untrustworthy
laborerS generally? No sooner does
a man get the foundation of build
ing fairly under way, than the ma
sons and other laborers employed
strike, and force him to pay higher
wages or lose that which he has al
ready invested.


A few DAYS since the foundation
stone for a new silk-mill was laid in
Paterson, n. j., and the next day
the operatives in all the other mills
struck, declaring that if business was
good enough to insure the building
of another mill, it was good enough
to pay better wages in those COM
pleted; and this is the way it seems
to go in all branches of business
the laborer blocking up the path and
preventing a revival of trade and
better times generally. 1t looks very
much to us as though it was the
poor who were making hard times,
instead of capitalists and "blOated
monOpolies;" at least, we know it is
so in this city, if not elsewhere.


Rural Near YOrEpF
Year: 1877

Prof. Spencer F. Baird, in let
Ter from Cape Hatteras, published in
the american Sportsman, says:


"On the night of October II, 1876,
l was on the top of Cape Hatteras
light house. 1t was a very dark
night and 'misting.' The wind was


blowing thirty-fVe miles per hour
from the northeast. AS soon as it
was fairly dark 1 could see thou
sands of small birds flying around
the leeward of the tower. 1t was a
grand sight, as the lens of the light
would perform its steady revolution,
throwing its dazzling rays upon
them while seeking shelter by how
ering close up under the lee of the
tower. As soon as the light would
fall upon them they would fly from
it and come in contact with the
lantern with such force that they
were instantly killed. At one time
the whole element was ablaze with
them shining in the rays of the
light like myriads of little stars or
meteorS. The moon arose by ten
o'clock, which Afforded them light
to 90 on their way south flor they
were coming from the north and go
ing down the coast SOUTH. L do
not think one bird stopped or went
into the woods at all, as not one was
seen, for 1 particularly noticed.
After the moon was up one of the
birds came striking the lantern gloss.
| went out and gathered from the
balcony of the watch-room and lam
tern three hundred and fifty dead
birds, beside one hundred and forty
more that were picked up next
off the ground at the foot
of the tower, which had been blown
off the balconies. They were a Spe,
cies known here as myrtle bird or
winter yellow bird. They are about
the size of the sparrow, with gray
back and head and yellow breast.
They are excellent food"
Year: 1877

ers on the Cl1hs Ofthe MancOs Canon


Back of the lost Aztec cities there
are in this region of the country not
merely traces, but very well preserv-
ed ruins of the dwellings, of people
who lived so long ago that not his
tory or tradition, or even legend, has
kept even so much as the shadow of
their memory. They were and are
not, is all we know. Prof. Tuckner
of Hayden's q. S. Survey, has made
quite study of their remains, and
has given some interesting details
concerning their discovery. At first
the existence of these cave dwellings
were unknown to the party, but one
of them, sharper-eyed than the 9TH
ers, suddenly described way up.
near the top of the bluff, fully a
thousand feet from their base, per
feet little houses, sandwiched In
among the crevices of the horizon
tai strata of the rock of which the
bluffs were composed. At the peril
of his life one of the party scaled
the precipice, and letting himself
down into one of the houses, found
the masonary as firm and solid as
when first constructed, and so smooth
and even that the casual observer
from the canon below would not no.
tice the difference between it and
the rock itself once in fifty times
passing. The Cliff House, in the
Mancos, was one of the wonders of
their discoveries, it being first seen
one evening just as the sun was
sinking behind the western walls of
the canon. Perched in its little
nook, like a swallows nest, the Cliff
House was found to be two stores
in height, and evidently an edifoe of
considerable distinction, as its up
per windows command an extended
view down the canon, and its posi-
ton generally that Of pre-eminence
over the entire section theYeabouts.
The interior was found to- be ar
ranged far more elaboEately than in
any other building yet explored,
the windows encassd in wood, neat
ly fashioned, the sills, and lintels
still showingA evidences. of having
Year: 1877

It's the solemn thought connected
with middle life that life's last bust
ness is begun in earnest; and it is
then, midway between the cradle and
the grave, that man begins to mar
vel that he let the days of youth go
by so half-enjoyed. 1t is the pen
sive autumn feeling; it is the sensa-
tion of half sadness that we expert
ence when the longest day of the
year is past, and every day that fol-
lows is shorter, and the light fainter,
and the feebler shadows tell that ma
ture is fastening with gigantic foot
steps to her winter grave. So does
man look back upon his youth; when
the first gray hairs become visible,
when the unwelcome truth fastens
itself upon the mind that a man is
no longer going up hill, but down,
and that the sun is always wester-
ing, he looks back on things behind.
When we were children, we thought
as children. But now there lies be-
fore us manhood, with its earnest
work, and then the grave, and then
home. There is a second youth for
man, better and holier than his first,
if he will look on, and never look
back. +. w. Robertson
Year: 1877

been stained in imitation of dark
woods, and most of it in a remarka-
bly, fair state of preservation. Some
distance from this building, and up-
on other lodges, the ruins of ou1te
a number of smaller buildings were
found, and all of them ranging from
seven hundred to a thousand feet
above the bottom of the canon below,
Many readers will recall the models
of these cliff houses which were on
view at the Centennial exhibition in
the government department, and
which were always the center of
a facinated throng of the msot in
telligent and cultivated visitors.


Colorado SylriD0S Gazette.
Year: 1877

In the atmosphere experienced here during the
Summer months, the lethargy produced by the
heat takes away the desire for wholesome food,
and 'requent perspirations reduce bodily energy,
particularly those suffering from debilitatng dis
eases. In order to keep natural heslthful ac-
tivitY of the system we must resort to artificial
means; fOr this purpose Schenck's Weed Ton
ic is very effectual. few doses will create an
appetite and give fresh vigor to The enervated
body. For dyspepsia it is invaluable. Many EN-.
inent physicians have doubted whether dyspepsia
can ever be permanently cured by the drugs which
are generally employed for that purpose The Sea
weed Tonic in its nature is totally different from
such drugs. 1t contains no corrosive minerals or
acids; in fact it assists the regular operations of
nature, and supplies her deficiencies. The Tonic
in its nature so much resembles the gastric Juice
that it is almost identical with that fluid. The
gastric juice is the natural solvent which in
healthy condition of the body, causes the food to
be digested and when this juice is not excIeted
in sufficient quantities indigestion. with sll its
distressing symptoms follows. The Sea Weed
Tonic perfoms the duty of the gastric juice when
the latter is deficient. Schenck's Sea Weed
Tonic is sold everywhere by all Druggists.
Year: 1877

What is the use of worrying :?
You may fret and fume, and sigh
and whine; You may make your
self and all around you nervous and
uncomfortable, and may continually
exclaim that men and times are de
generating, and not half so good as
they used to be; you may do all
these foolish things, and score be-
sides, and what the better off will
you be? Things will 60 along just
the same, and you will 90 along
with them, whether you grumble or
not, Just as the world turns and
takes you along with it. You can
not jump off from the globe; but
dead or alive, round and round you
must 90 with it. and share its fate.
Here YOU are, and you cannot get
awav So what is best for you to
do about it? Keep on worrying and
orumbIing? or, looking everything
souarely in the face, trust in Provi-
dence and do your supIemest and
bravest in meeting the days demand
upon you? If you cannot get what
YOU desire, take what you can get
honestly, and be thankful if you
find enough bread to eat and clothes
to wear, and a roof to shelter you
and yours. Worthier fellows than
Won have lacked some OF all of these
essentials. EG.
Year: 1877

No subject can be named which is not in.
exhaustiOle to the spirit of man. Whether
he looks at nature through the microscope
or telescope, he sees wonders disclosed on
either side which extend into infinity, the
infinitely great or the infinitely little, and
can set no limits to the approximate per
fectiOn with which he may study them. II
il the same also with languages and with
any branch oil moral or metaphysical sol
enoe. A man may, If he will, be ali his life
long employed upon a single language, and
never absolutely master its vocabulary,
much less its idioms; like the ancient, after
many years of solitary application, he may
unornsciOusly proclaim himself foreigner
to the first apple woman he meets, by some
s0leoism too subtle tor any but q native ear
20 detect il Henry Rogers
Year: 1877

the fact that some of the mem
snator Howe's committee had
gements to take a trip down the
Q purpose of taking a look at the
business was transacted by that
An adjournment was had until
Monday morning.
Year: 1877

On the fonrth page of this paper will he
found the report of an interesting lecture on
earthquakes, delivered by Prot. lie Conte, he
fore the University Of California. just at this
time the subject possesses more than ordinary
interest, in connection with the eruption now
in progress on Hawaii. The theory that earth
quakes are caused by electricity may not be
sound and yet the fact that electricity is gene
rally an accompaniment of volcanic eruptions
tends To strengthen it. Twice We have seen
the smoke clouds over the crater vivid with
lightning in ls59 and again in ls6s.
On the latter occasion, particularly, ii attract


ed much attention, darling in every conoeiva-
bio direction, very much like me,eors in a
meteoric shower. II is also noteworthy that
the strength and frequency of The earthquakes
accompanying that eruption have never been
equailed in the history Of Hawaiian volcanoes.
Year: 1877

The next point in the voyage, is the port of
entry for the Waimea and Hamakua districts.
Its freight and passenger traffic was formerly
much larger than now, Kohala having lately
drawn of its surplus population and capital.
The Waimea Grazing Company, which turn
out fifty or sixty thousand pounds of wool, and
the Messrs. Parker who deal largely in cattle
and other stock, are the principal firms The
latter have broken ground for sugar planta-
ton in the village of Waimea, and from one
hundred to two hundred acres of ground will
be plowed and planted by August of this year.
If necessary, irrigation will be introduced, and
water viii be brought for this purpose from
the Kohala mountains Mr. VIM Mossman, of
Wailuku, is interested in this enterprise with
the Messrs. Parker.


Between Kawaihae and Kailua rugged and
barren shore stretches for thirty or forty
miles, without a single village, and but few
hamlets occupied by fishermen The steamer
generally passes along here during the night,
and nothing of interest Is lost by tourists, if
asleep.


KAILUA,


The Northern port Of the district of Kona, is
generally approached by the steamer early in
the morning. Several large stone and frame
buildings give it an attractive appearance
from the sea, but on nearer approach they are
found to be old and partially dilapidated. The
Year: 1877

On BOARD STEAMER kLAUEA.


NOTHING helps mole to make n voyage
agreeable than fair wind and a smooth sea
Our good boat started off from Honolulu on
the Goth Of February, under these auspices,
and they proved true omens to the end of the
trip. Ten hours from the wharf, with fresh
west wind, found us at the Lahaina anchorage
at o'clock q. m, where the steamers merci-
less whistle reused all within its sound, on
board or ashore A short hour, aided by a
bright moon, suffieed to debark all the freight
and passengers destined for that place, and at
four our propeller was again in motion, push
ing US ON to
Year: 1877

Where we arrived at six o'clock This is the
steamers landing place for all freight or pas
sengers by her destined for Wailuku and the
four plantations along the road to Waihee, as
well as for Makawao and that region. A sub
stantial wharf is needed here, and also a
second buoy, Just abreast of the landing, to be
used in light weather, which improvements
will assist the boating necessary to transfer
the increasing traffic, which will naturally
collect here. From this point short sail of
Year: 1877

DR. Hall relates the case Of man who
was cured OF his biliousness by going
without his supper and drinking freely
OF lemonade. Every morning, says the
Doctor, this patient arose with won
derfui sense OF rest and refres hment,
and feeling as though his blood had been
literally washed, cleansed, aud cooled
by the lemonade and the fast His
theory is that food can be successfully
used as a remedy for many diseases.


This treatment might do for persons
who require acids, but another, appar-
emily as strong and healthy, it would
kill in a week. Lemons and other acid
fruits are healthful to some persons and
almost rank poison to others. Hence it
is folly to advise their indiscrimina:e
use. Let every person determine for
himself what kind suits his own stomach
best, for it will tell him soon and if he
does not heed this mentor, he deserves
TO suffer, as thousands do, from over
indulgence i'll those things which tickle
the palate while destroying the health.
The too free use and indulgence in acid
fruits have done more to make Ameri
cans race of dyspeptics than any thing
else; but our physicians do not seem to
have looked in that direction for the
rapid increase of this prevalent and an
moving disease. 1t might seriously in
iure their trade il they did.
Year: 1877

CHIMNEY SoOT.-Chimuey SCOT is
very powerful manure applied at the
rate OF one pound to the rod; it abounds
in ammonia, and consequently possesses
stimulating power in remarkable de-
gree. Too much SCOT per rod will drive
vegetation beyond what is desirable.
One part of SCOT and two of guano
possess more stimulating ammonia than
any other proportionate quantity of any
other manure extant. SCOT forms an
exceedingly rapid stimulant for peas,
lettuce. carrots spinach, and most crops,
IN liquid state at the rate Of half an
ounce to two quarts of water given so
as to soak down to the roots. ALWAYS
give SCOT while the plant is in an active
state. Most houses make SCOT enough


to manure whole garden for the year.
Year: 1877

lti- generally supposed that every
farmer knows how to make hay; but
many of them manage their having very
badly. | consider the following points
applicable to the case:


I-Gct ready tor haying in advance.
see that your machines are in good or
der, and as tar as possible guard against
delays by breakage, the loss OF nuts, &c.
by having duplicate parts Of machines
that are most liable 10 get ont Of order;
and also keep 4 supply Of extra nuts OF
hand. % be used in the case Of losing
one while the machine i at work.


begin your having early if YOU
have much TO cut, a, you lose less by
cutting part oi Your grass before it Is
Tipc for the machine than You do by
waiting I'LL all OF your grass j. ready 10
cut; and then have TO cut part OF it a
week or two after i ought to BE- cut.


when the time comes 70 commenc c
moving. which should be when there
j. prospect OF fair weather. 20 ahead.
ana DO nor wait M the dew i of, on
account o' any INJURY the lay may sus-
tam, a YOU VII! never be able TO see
aaF difference IN value between hay
IRON grass cut with or without the dews
upon it. o course, men viii differ till
tie end OF time.


Just as soon as the sun has dried
theupper surface OF the gra-S, the spread
Ing operation shpl,i commence; and
YOU should have help enough to DO the
work well NJ grass cut during the
previous afternoon, and up to ten o'clock
that day, should remain unspread at
dinncr-ume, unless il be such a i light
and i LETT IN good shape 70 dry by the
machine, a Is often the case. Keep the
grass moving a long as possible before
You begin 70 protect It FOR the night !:
and here we will say that luever would
allow load OF hay 10 be put into nv
barn that was cut the sgmc dGy, except
when the grass had been DELAYED to be
cat I'll. II was past its prime, and par
TALLY dry, 80 that few hours OF sua and
wind -utliced 10 cure it. | never saw
any reason 10 regret curing hay ,reil;
bnt have thrown away ton, OF it that
hai been moved away. in my absence,
in a half cured state. No grass can be
injured by two days OF sun and air,
when cut at the proper time.


When the time comes to commence
having, YOU should have all other work
finished, a, the cultivation OF crops, be-
cause YOU should be able TO devote your
Year: 1877

A ScARE-CRow.-A good way to keep
crows away from corn-fields is to string
ten or fifteen kernels of corn on a long
horse hair (frem the taiD, and a crow
will swallow one of them, and the note
of alarm will soon be sounded, and it
will be impossible for him to dislodge
the grain, and in short time he will
cut his own throat by scratching at the
corn and hair; and in consequence of
the noise the crow makes, all of his
companions will leave the field and not
pull up any more corn that season.-Er.
Year: 1877

To WHrrEN STRAW HATs.-Scrape
stick sulphur with knife, mix the pow
aar 70 a mush with water, plaster it
thickly over the straw aud place it in
the hot sua for several hours. Brush off
when dry. This will bleach your hat
Year: 1877

An assistant Of druggist recently put
up a prescription of dose Of castor oil for a
young lady. She innocently inquired how
it could be taken without tasting it. He
promised to explain to her, and, in the mean
time, offered her, courteously, glass of
favored and scented seltzer water After
she had finished it, he said, triumphantly,
"You see, niss, you have taken your oil and
you did not know it." The young lady
screamed out, at was for my mother ~
Year: 1877

FAMINE AND DROUGHT IN CALIFORNIA.
The accounts from California are very
dismal indeed in regard to the bad crop
prospects in that State, tho ruin wrought by
which is to be added to tho bursting of the
silver mining bubble. Doubts are express
sed if the entire San Joaquin valley will
yield 100000 bushels of wheat and barley,
which yielded last year about 100000
bushels. A California correspondent of the
New York Graphic writes under date of
May 18: Gall the news from the Pacific
coast is disastrous. will give it as my de-
liberate opinion that we will have famine
in this State before the season is over. The
drought has killed all our crops, and nearly
destroyed all our cattle. This is the Sec
ond great drought since the settlement Of
California, and the memory of those two will
always be cloud upon the business horizon
ofthis wonderful State, for capitalists will not
invest money in ranches and cattle, and rpa
the risk of burning season, when all their
possessions will be devoured and aunihila-
ted by the sun and dust. fear you will
soon hear of more business disasters of
most gigantic character from this coast
Things were really in an unwholesome state
when Ralston died, but the difficulty was
then avertcd only to end in greater calam-
ity and panic. 1t is fact that people who
were millionaires six months ago, are to-day
eager to secure situations as walters and
farm laborers. The drought alone nearly
ruined the State, but occurring simultane-
ously with the bursting Of the mining bub-
bic, it has proved more than the people Of
the State can stand. Starvation literally
stares the whole farming population in the
face, and in few weeks more they will have
neither meat, fruit nor grain"
Year: 1877

An enthusiastic citizen declared yes.
terday that an Inch OF rain III this state
was worth miliion dollars. lie certain.
ly did not make an over estimate IL this
instance. The agricultural products OF
this state were worth last year not less
than $70,000,000. With no more rain
than has fallen this year up 10 The lOlh
OF January ouly the fruit crop would
have maturcd Grapes would have done
tolerably well, bat the cereal crops would
have been a failure. Three or four inch
es OF rain, in addition 10 Whist has fallen
within tue last two days will be sulli-
cient TO mature most of these crops
Now that the rain has cope, II brings
also promise Of more. II las put heart
into the whole farming community
They will shape all their operations for
dry season one with just enough
moisture to bring forward the crops
where the tilage is good.


After the middle Of January, and IN q
dry season, we cannot expect more than
four or five inches OF rain at the most II
this is well distributed we shai get fair
crops over considerable area Except
on irrigated lands wheat and other cere.
ais will be failure in the San joaquin
valley. Irrigatlng canals viii be pushed
by private enterprise, aud those who
can turn water on their lands this year
will probably lnd their account ia high
prices for pasture, hay aud grain. There
is little prospect that more than twelve
inches of rain will fall IN any OF be coast
counties or in most Of the interior val.
leys, II is reasonably certain that II will
be relatively dry season. The present
rains will revive the pastures, which BY
frost and drought had been nearly ruin
ed. The grain crops will DO brought for
ward. In many instances grain sown
late had not even sprouted; in others II
had germinated and died. Some fields
will have to be sown again, But in
most cases the rain will bring out enough
dormant seed to make good start


1t is quite within bounds TO say that
every inch Of rain wheh falls after this
date will be worth million dollars TO
the state; and every foot Of snow on the
mountains will be worth nearly as much
more TO the miners-San Francisco
January II.
Year: 1877

SAD--The Ohio election has developed
IN large part OF the radical party the
state OF mind Of a hardened wording al
a camp-meeting. BE didn't want TO be
Saved-and he thought ii was piece of
rresumptuous impudence on the part OF
the preacher, in inviting him to be saved.
Indeed, he rather preferred hell anyway.
Inns was rather sad for the wicked man,
as 1t is for the radical party; but the
preacher and the president have the con-
seIousness OF having done their duty-and
the country viii probably be able to stand
n
Year: 1877

A woman testifying IN behalf OF her son
pwore that he had worked on farm ever
since he was born"


The lawyer who cross examined her said
lyon assert that your sou has worked on q
farm ever since he was borny'
Il do


"What did he do the first year"
"He milked.n


The lawyer kerflummiXed,