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Year: 1879

Ofthe thousand that go in, nine
hundred ard ninety-nine perish.
Suppose one of these wanderers
should knock at your door, would
you admit her! Suppose you knew


where she came from, would you ask


her to sit down at your dining table?


Would you ask her to become gov


erness of your children? Would you
introduce her among your acqualn-


tances? Would you take the re-


sponsibility of pulling on the outside
OF the gate of hell, while she pushed


on the inside of that gate trying to


Get out. You would not, not one in


thousand of you would dare do it.


You write beautiful poetry over her


sorrows and weep over her misfor-


tunes, but give her practical help you


never will. There is not one person


out of thousand that will-there is


not one out of five thousand that has


come so near the heart of the Lord


Jesus Christ as to dare to help one


of these fallen souls. But you say:


care there no ways by which the


wanderer may escape?' Oh, yes,


three or four! The one way is the


sewing girls garret, dingy, cold,


hunger-blasted. But you say is there


no other way for her to escape. Oh,


yes! Another way is the street that


leads to the East river, at midnight,


the cad of the city dock, the moon


shining down on the water, making it


look so smooth, she wonders if it is
deep enough. 1t is. No boatman
near enough to hear the plunge. No
} watchman near enough to pick her


out before she sinks a third time


No other way. Yes. BY the curve
: of the Hudson River railroad, ut the
: point where the engineer of the light
) ening express train cannot see hum
dred wards ahead tv the form that
? lies across the track. He may whis-
! tic "down brakes" but not soon
, enough to disappoint the one who
l seeks her death. But you say,
s.Isn't God good and wont he for
f giye?" Yes, but man will not, wo-
| man will not, society will not. The
2 church of God says it will, but it will
r not. Our work then, must be pre-
= vention rather than cure. Standing
} here telling this story to-day. it is
e not so much in the hope that / will
4 persuade one that has dashed down a
4 thousand feet to crawl up again to
G life and light, but it is to alarm those
t that ale coming too near the edges.
Year: 1879

The Rev. w. H. II. Murray whose
advice is worth needing, says about
shoeing:


The nails should be quite small,
and driven in more gently than is the
custom. There is no reason why the
smith should strike blow at the lit
lie nail head as strong as he would
deliver at the head Of spike IN an
oak beam. The hoof of the horse is
not an oak stick, and the delicately
pointed and slender headed nail is
not a wrought iron spike, and yet you
will see the mailer whack away at them
as if il was matter of life and death
to get them entirely set in at two
blows of his hammer. Insist that the
mailer shall drive his nails slowly and
steady, instead of using violence. In
this case. if his nail is badly pointed
and gets out of proper line Of dfrec'
ton, no great injury is done. 1t can
| be withdrawn and 4 new one substl-
tuted, without harm having been done
the foot. But the swift, blind ano
violent way prevents all such care
and exposes the horse to temporary
if not permanent injury. Gentlenes<
should be cxcrclscd in clinchng the
nails. Never allow smith to toucl
n rasp to the outer surface OF the
hoof. Nature has covered 1t with
thin filament of enamel, the object o
which is to protect the inner mem
branc and fibre from exposure to wa
ter and atmosphere. The enamel /
exactly what nature puts on the sur
| face Of your finger nail, reader: Tn
d,r NO circumstances should it eve
| he touched. If it is removed, natur


will be wickedly deprived of her need
ed covercing and cruelty left expose
to the clements.
Year: 1879

A STRANGER, whose horse succumbed
TO the heat near town, not wishing TO incur
the trouble or expense of having the dead
animal hauled out and buried, purchased
a gallon ofcoal oil, and, after pouring it
over the defunct animal, applied match.
In one hour the cremation was complete
nothing remaining but the hoofs. The
animals fat, in addition to the oil , proved
sufficient fuel to consume the carcass
We are inclined to believe this simple way
Of crematng dead animals will prove a
great sanitary blessing during the very
warm months.-AltOon0 I|fbnne.
Year: 1879

A YOUNG man who vent to circus and
his arm seized and savagely jerked by one
oil the monkeys. lie would have escaped
safely had he not said " it was mereya
monkey wrench" but when they heard
tnat the infuriated crowd threw him into
the lion S cage or Ciy Derrick.
Year: 1879

DELIEyING THAT the District Attorney yship
u ought to be unconnected with politics, off
er myself as an independent candidate for that
position, promising that II elected, will per-
form the duties Of the Office according to the
best of my skill and ability.
Year: 1879

the PRESS will be devoted as in the past to a dis
eliminating support OF the Republican Party and
will stand through thick and thin for an honest and
stable currency and the equal rights of all citizens
throughout the length and breadth Of the Republic.
Will always speak out for education, good morals
and Just laws, believing that the safety OF the nation
depends upon these things.
Year: 1879

Nine o'clock in the morning
struck. The second pistol shot
corcluded his dream and he sprang
to his feet.


l will not attempt to describe
the emotions Of the young man
as be carried his hand to his heart,
and then shook his right arm, to
see if he was wounded. But be
was unscratched. He had slept
all night, and had dreamed 1t
was morning, and he had awoke
young, rich, a happy child, and
Year: 1879

Sr. LOUIS, November lI.-Thero is q
movement among tho milIers here to
close their mills until the price Of wheat
defines. Two mills closed to-day, two
more will shut down as soon Us what
wheat they have on hand is ground and
this action will probably become general.
The principal reason assigned for this Il
that -four Is below the price OF wheat and
can only be made at d loss. Many mil.
lers have already lost heavily on contracts
made when wheat was less than a dollar
per blshel, and they see no profit in the
immediate future. But little flour has
shipped from here for the last three weeks
and large amounts are In store, more than
enough to supply all the demands for
sometime. The millers are satisfied that
there must bo n decline in wheat pretty
soon. In all events they will not pur.
chase until the price falls or there Is q
margin on flour.
Year: 1879

DowS to October 20 tho increase in the
export from this country Of flour and
grain to Great britain and tho continent
over last year, amounted to 10 per cent,
The increase in the export Of corn during
the came period was less than 10 per cent.
Year: 1879


FATAL FLAMES.
A New York Tenement House


Horror.
An Entire Family OF Five Persons
Meet a Fearful Death by Fire.
Supposed lncsndlarIss Under Ar.


rest,
Who Are Thought to Have Burned
the House For the Insurance.
Year: 1879

The Promenade Concert Of last Tuesday eve
ming for the benefit of Prof. krommcr was not
so successful as anticipated The audience num-
bercd 100 or more, so that the benefit pecunarily
was something. But Prof. Bernhard on reaching
the building suddenly taken i'll so severely
as to be unable to take part in the concert The
programme was thus necessarily brolicnup, only
four numbers being played These were well
given and highly pleasing to the audience The
rest Of the evening was spent in dancing, for
which the music was perfect.
Year: 1879

Petitions are being circulated through the
county asking the state legislature to submit the
question of license or no license in any place or
at any time, to the people of the state, The women
of lawful age to have n vote on such question.
Year: 1879

The businesss men OF the city, it is hoped, will
not neglect the meeting called for next Monday
evening at the court house to rcorganzc the
Business Mems Association. The object Of the
Association is to make known as widely as posi-
BILE the advantage Of this city as place of resi-
dcnce and manufacturing town, upon which she
depends for future growth and prosperity. All
should be interested in this purpose, and should
lend their aid to make the project succeed. Let
everYOne attend.
Year: 1879

Twill close out my entire stock of ready-made
clothing at cost, as wish to enlarge my tailor
ing department and contine myself to merchant
tailoring alone. Now is the time TO secure bar
gains Remember the place, VIM. Trabings,
Opera House Block, Ottawa, III.
Year: 1879

Adam Coonrod tied his team the other day in
front OF store in Mendoza, and left it. When he
returned he found the sleigh relieved of new
hat and vest, photograph album, jewclry and
other items he had deposited in it,
Year: 1879

For necessary have decided to close
entire stock of TEAS, GROCERIES, FLOUR PRO
VISIONS. &c, at Wholesale Prices. This Is an OPP
pcrtunity every should avail themselves OF lay in
supply OF goods cheaper than sold in this market
1t is impossible quote the prices Of all our goods and the
trade will ind their advantage to call at our store ANY
buying t of goods OF the next sixty days WILL
GET BARGAIN. In a decline occurs In goods our
prices are always lowered correspondinGly We quote:
Year: 1879

Bowman has somewhere said that "having dis
cardcd all outside work as Il servant of the dear
people, he resumes his position in the gallery
sc. We have noticed the good effects of this
step in many ways; but the great improvement
of his photos, cabinets, &c, over his past excel
lent work, is especially to De noted. The work
we saw was certainly as fine as any shown any
where. and indicates that Bowman is still in the
van of photographers in this neck of the woods.
Year: 1879

The heavy snow storm oi wednesday has given
a new lease Of life to the slcighng in the city,
which had become about worn out and again the
streets are filled with fine turnout- and lively
with jingling bells.
Year: 1879

Twelve lins of Agate make one square.


Advertisements not under must he plainly marked
the length time desired they will be continued ana
charged for until ordered out


Business and professional card. no exceeding hVe llnts
inserted dollars per annun. over tvc lines one do
lar per line extra.


Transient advertising in all eases to be paid strictly IN
advance.


lE Yearly advertisers dscontnung their advertisements
before expiration of the contract will be charged the full
rates as above charge will also he made for disso
ton other notices not connected with their regular
business


Local notices, fifteen cents per line


sF- In no case will these terms be departed from.


sE- The date the slip which the Subscribers name
printed indicates the time when the subscription expires
Persons who have paid for the FREE TRADER should be
careful notice the date the slip corresponds to the
which they have paid and at once notify the publish
.nrs of any discrepancy.
Year: 1879


At this season the Tax-Assessor is calling upon
people to make return of their property. This is all
right and it is TO be hoped such returns will be made
as shall enable the Government to support its officers
and make the necessary improvements. Just now
auch as the following would seem to be Improvements
reqaired in Honolulu:


1st. Osr streets and sidewalks need special atten
ton. There Is not decent sidewalk in the city,
unless made by private property holders No atten-
ton, at ALL seems to Is paid to this subject on the
part of the Government.


I'd. Our city Is very insuficiessy lighted. Lamp
posts are at "magnifcent distanees spart" On a
dark night, when the whholds its s.nae light'
there is real danger in walking about


Sd. "a nercifui man is merciful to his beast,
at very little additional expense, drinking paces
refreshed. In the days of Kamehameha v and
under DR.. Hutchison's administration, such places
fitted up, but for ths want of little attention,
the part of the Superintendent of Public Works,
these have been allowed to become utterly use
less.


Such improvements as are now suggested, might
be made at a small outlay. With the amount of
taxes to be collected these and many other improve
ments might be made. Surely the reason why these
suggestions may not be carried out, is not because
there are no funds in the Government Treasury
Taxes will be chee.fully paid if the Government is
efficient to make improvements for the public benefit
The Minister of the Interior is doing much but could
he not do little more, and at moderate expense, il
would essentially contribute to the public benefit.


A TAX-PAYgR
Year: 1879

The French people have determined to raise the
necessary funds, by grand national lottery to pay
the expenses of completing and furnishing to the
United States the colossal Statue of Liberty by the
artist Auguste Barholdi, which is to be erected in
New York harbOr, and is almost completed. A ma
tional lottery win afford the entire population of
France opportunity to participate in the gift from
one Republic to her sister Republic, between whose
peoples there has existed the feelings of fra
ternity for so many years. This act of generosity
and brothery love the part of France is invested
with delieacy of sentiment and grandeur of lofty
patriotism that could ouly emanate from n nation
whose people are deeply imbued with genuine love
of liberty; the act itself will tend in no small degree
to cement the cordial friendship which is inherent in
the breasts of Frenchmen and Americans towards
each other Such exhibitions of fraternity are credit
able alike to the peoples OF both hemispheres as well
the age we live in. In this connection It is but
proper to note that the British Government having
ordered the Arctic exploring ship Resolute broken up
has q token Of remembrance of the generosity Of
the United States Government, which had the Reso-
lutte repaired and presented to the British Admiralty
after she was rescued by American EhaIers in the
Arctic regions having ornaments and articles of
furniture made to be presented to President Hayes
This is it should be, and evinces that the British
Government is not insensble to generosity and acts
of comfy the part of sister nation. These inter-
changes Of International amenities are commendable
in the highest degree and carry with them the same
influences between the peoples of two nations that the
same nterchanges do between individuals and cannot
fail to produce the haPpiest results.
Year: 1879

babies. Think what is in store for the pres
ent crop, fifty years from now. We shall
all be dead, trust, and then this flag, if it
still survive, and let us hope it may, will be
floating over republic numbering 100000
900 souls, according to the settled laws Of
our increase. Our present schooner of state
will have grown into political leviathan-
Great Eastern. The cradled babies Of to-
day will be on deck-let them be well-train-
ed, for we are going to leave big contract
on their hands. Among the three or four
million cradles now rocking in the land are
some which this nation would preserve for
ages as sacred things, If we could know
which ones they are. In one of these era
dies the unconscious Farragut of the future
is at this moment teething. Think of it,
and, putting in a word in dead earnest, in
articulated, but perfectly justfiable, profan-
ity over it, too. In another the future re-
nowned astronomer is blinking at the shin
ing milky way with but liquid interest
poor little chap-and wondering what has
become of that other one they call the wet
nurse. In another the future great histori-
an is lying, and doubtless will continue to
lie, until his earthly pilgrimage is ended.
| In another the future President is busyinR


himself with no profounder problem of state


than what the mischief has become of his


hair SO early, and in mighty array Of


other cradles there are some sixty thousand


future office seekers getting ready to furnish


him occasion to grapple with that same old


problem second time; and in still one


more cradle, somewhere under the flag, the
future illustrious commander-in-chief of the


American armies is so little burdened with


his approaching grandeurs and responsible


tiles as to be givinghis whole strategic mind


at this moment to trying to find out some


way to get his big toe into his mouth, an
achievement which, meaning no disrespect,


the illustrious guest Of this evening turned


his attention to some fifty-six years ago, and
if the child is but a prophecy OF the man
there are mighty few who will doubt that
{ he succeeded
Year: 1879




Come one, come ALL there yet is room


Thanks be to God, + ON heaven to home


is nothing but Il flash OF light.
1t is better to have clear conscienee
and be threatened than to have bad one
and be fiattcred


When God commands to take the trum-
pet and blow dolorous OR jarring blast,
it lies not in mans will what he shall say on
what he shall conceal


Moderation is the silken string running
through the pearl-string of all virtues!
The world will never be in any manner
Of order or tranquility until men are firmly
convinced thatconscience, honor and cred
1t are all In one interest,".


If thou wouldst be informed what God
has written concerning thee in heaven, look
into thine own bosom and see what graces
he hath there. wrought in, thee.
When God commands to take the taum-
pet and blow dolorous or a jarrihg blast.
it lies not in mans will. what. he shall. com.
,ceal.
Year: 1879




Home happiness depends upon many little
things, as the planting of flowers, the train
ing of vines, the setting out Of trees, paper,
paint and whitewash, pictures, books and
papers; wood and water; food and fire;
many smiles and few frowns; plenty OF
calico and Woolen, and an occasional glimpse
of silk and broadcoth.


Those who really know little or nothing
about home happiness can give out rules tor
the requirement of it, ust as nine-tenths of
those people who have never had child to
train can tell you all about how to bring up
children. The truth is, each home needs
different rule or combination of rules, and
1t is just as sensible to try to perform all
examples in arithmetic, algebra and geome-
try by the rule of addition as it is to lay
down general rule for home happiness.


One man wants gay, snowy wife; an
other perfectly domestic woman; but the
majority want angels, and as they are hard
ly competent to take care of such ethereal
creatures, the Lord has mercifully provided
them with heipmates a tride lower.


The man who expects his wife to do all
her own work and train up in the way they
should go a family of from six to ten child
ren, must make up his mind 10 be perfectly
happy and contented SO long as no more
than four of them are crying at any one
time. 1t is useless for him to enter upon
domestic life with the idea that his children
must never fret and cry, and when they do
y: l.: l.
he made sad mistake when he married her,
tor he never supposed that all his children
would inherit such dispositions.


1t does not contribute to domestic happi-
ness to twit each other facts or in regard
to relations, and woman has as good a
right to say 'other men do this or that as
her husband has to say "other women do
thus and so, and why can't you?'


Some women neglect their house-work
and take care of their children; others un-
mercfully neglect their children, both body
and soul, and will have their house in zap
pie pie order,' if the whole family eternally
suffers for it.


There are people who have little to dc
except to make home happy, but give tc
such poverty, sorrow, ten small children
and the rheumatism, and then-hear then
howl.


1t is usually all nonsense this thinking
that men and women are not suitably mateo
in this world. Unless man is a confirmed
drunkaId or is cruelty abusive to his wife
she has no good reason to suppose that she
is not well mated, and unless a woman il
utterly false to her marriage vows, no hus
band has any right to even think that she il
not suitable companion for his adorable
self. AS Mrs. Partington says: When
was young, never used to hear tell Of tlAs
Year: 1879

Let them who will thank God for light,
Such shadows never made it night,
Come one, come all, there yet is room
Thanks be to God, i. ON heaven to home,
is nothing but a flash Of light.
Year: 1879

instances however, where the wife votes
one way and the husband the other, but
I have never known or heard Of its gen.
Grating any unpleasantness in their fam
lily relations. The pioneers of the West,
whatever their faults, are not SO intoler-
ant as to abuse their wives because of a
difference in opinion in politics or even in
religion. The fact that husbands and
wives usually vote alike seems to me no
objection 1t is only placing an addi-
tional power and influence in the govern
ment of the country where it is most
needed and will naturally be most wisely
used. The more the home influence is
felt in the general government the bet
ter. 1t is not from that source, but from
the restless, the wandering, the indiffer-
ent, not to say the vicious, who have no
home or domestic ties and responsible
ties, that danger is to be apprehended.


Almost every lady here is not only
reconciled to, but hi ghly gratifed, with
the practical results of woman suffrage in
Wyoming.


The only element that would desire its
repeal are the vicious and corrupt-those
who fear not God nor regard man-who
fear its power and are restless under the
restraint it helps to improve.


The women are more generally repub-
licans, but they are less governed by par
ty considerations than men, and both
political parties have come to recognize
the necessity of selecting their best men,
or at least not nominating bad men, if
they desire to succeed.


The e0omen hold the balance of p0Uer and
the politicians know it. Since my resi-
dence here more than one instance has
come under my own observation, where
corrupt or immoral men have been defeat
ed in their efforts to secure positions of
high public trust and it has been generally
conceded that their defeat is attributable
to the direct influence of woman suffrage


If had the time to write and you the
patience to read it, I should like to draw
for you a true picture of the result of
woman's influence (backed by the ballot)
upon our schools, in the jury box, and in
all the relations OF life, social and polite
al, but l have already written more than
you asked. am not aooman's righhst-
We have not one in the territory | be-
lieve. l do not endorse the ultra ideas
which its champions advocate | do not
think women will derive any special per-
sonal benefits from its exercise, outside
of their general interest, as other mem
bers of the community, in good laws and
good government, but l believe the re-
suits of the experiment in Wyoming have
demonstrated that woman's influence in
the government of the State is just as
in the government of the family.


You are at liberty to make such use of
this hastily-written letter as you may
deem proper.


Very respectfully yours,


MRS. 1. P. C.