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Year: 1877

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Other holidays may have their fluctuation,


OF popular support, but the regard in which


Christmas is held knows no shadow of vsris


alton, only question Of ability. Where we


are able to "keep" the day as inclin alton


urges IT is done right willingly; where We


are forced to substitute the will for the deed,


and to make the day an hnmbler festival


than We would have It, the hope is always


strong that in more prosperous times We


may be better able to observe the time ac>


cording to our notions of an "old>fashion-
ed" Christmas. This is not to say that


men believe that on that day they celebrate
the precise anniversary of the birth of the
Saviour, but that they therein celebrate the
event, and by charity and kinkliness and
good fellowship acknowledge their depen-
dence upon and obligation to an Existance
Intimately superior tothemselves. So strong,
yet so subtle, is this feeling that the civiliz-
ed man does not live who has not been sub.
dued by it, and on no other ground can We
explain the all embracing reach and grasp
of this king of festivals. What cheeriness
and comfort there is in the time Never
was there more deplorable mistake than
to suppose that only the wealthy can enjoy
the Chrismastide ; rightly viewed, all evi-
dences of prosperity and well.being are but
signs but they do not represent mans in
ner life and the offerings of fellowship and
good will do not depend on riches or fashion.
The open heart is the priceless treasure /; the
open hand is good, too, but with the one
The other is sure,-and the great majority
who cannot do what they woul in Clearing
gifts" can still make life about them sweet |
sr. And they will do so this year as they
have done ever since Christmas nrst blessed /
he world. It is holiday which never |
grows old, for it is founded deep in our
best affections.
Year: 1877

The fair for the benefit of the Orphans
opened last night in the Institute Hall. A
very large assortment of useful and fancy
articles were being arranged for exhibition.
The fair promises to be most beautiful
display. This Christmas time We invoke
every kind-bearted and christian man and
woman to remember the orphans, and aid
the good sisters in their efforts to rear and
educate the cuildrsn under their charge.
Year: 1877

Never encore an apple more than once.


Things are looking up in Arizona. The
soil and the mines can now be worked with.
out fear of 1ndidns ; the rough food Of the
old days has given place 10 better fare :
stage, telegraph, and mail lines ,gin TO
traverse the Territory in every direction ;
the mines yield handsomely, end the future
is full Of promise.
Year: 1877

Yesterday, after our report closed, james Williams
weak. sickly looking little white boy, was brought
INTO court at the instance Of his father stout Tpugh
locking man, charged it'll iHcorrigibility. The elder
Williams told rather equivOcal story about the
duct of the boy the worst feature being that ne
IN the habit of running away from home, and his
step mother could not manage him. The court. after
listening To the testimony, questioned the little fell
low who burst INTO tears SAY ing that they whipped
hum AT home 50 much that he could not stay there
The court gave the father q talking TO, and
said was evidently attempt his part get the
government 20 support his boy. lie cautioned him
about further bad treatment Of his son, and dis
missed the boy.


Champ alias John Criter, assault on Maurice
Wright; S3. VIM. Campbell. colOred. an inmate of
the woTkh"uss, was up for assault ON John W. West
fal, an Oyerseer, and sentenced to ninety days in
Jail after his term in the workhOuse is concluded.
Year: 1877

IL OF snch q character tbst no one can fail 20 be
suited either as to Style quality price. Unusual
care has beer taken 1" its preparation, and feel
confident of our ability TO please all ho have occa
sion to buy goods in this lire.
Year: 1877

Let me tell yOu, my young friend


some of the things | would do if [ were
a boy again some Of the too often neg
lected acts l would strive to accomplish
if it were in my power TO begin all over
anew.


III were a boy again, l would have a
blank hook in which I could accord, be-
fore going to bed, every days events
just as they happened to me personally,
If began by writing only two lines a
day in my dairy, l would start my little
book, and faithfully put down what hap
pened to interest me.


On its pages l would note down the
hibits of birds and animals as l saw
them, and if the horse fell i'll, down
should go his malady in my book, and
what cured him should go there too. If
the cat or dog showed any peculiar
traits, they should all be chronicled in
my diary, and nothing worth recording
should escape me.


There are hundreds OF things l would
correct in my life if I were a boy again,
and among them Is this special one: I
would be more careful of my teeth. See
ing since l have grown up, how much
suffering is induced by the bad habits of
constantly eating candies and other
sweet nuisances, I would shut my mouth
to all allurements of that sort. Very
hot and very cold substances / would
studiously avoid.


Toothache in our country is one of the
national crimes. Halt the people we
meet have swelled faces. The dentist
thrives here as he does in no other land
on the planet, and it Is because we spoil
our teeth at the age of five to six years.
A child eight years old, asked me not
long ago if l could recommend him 10 a
dentist "who didn'thurt :" pitied him,
but was not acquainted with such an
artist. They all hurt, and they can not
help it, poor, hard-working gentlemen,
charging, as they do, like Chester


1 would have no dealings with tobacco,
in any form, if were a boy again. My
friend Pipes tells me he Is such a martyr
10 cigar-boxes that his life is a burden.
The habit of smoking has become such II
tyIant over him that be carries a tobacco
bowsprit at his damp, discolorel lips
every hour of the day, and he begs NE
TO warn all the boys Of my acquaintance
and say to theIa emphatically, Don't
learn to smoke :" He tells me, sadly,
that his head is sometimes in such a diz-
zy whirl, and his brain so foul from long
habits of smoking he can not break of,
that he is compelled to forego much that
Is pleasant in existence, and live a to-
bacco-tortured life from year TO year
Poor Pipes he is a sad warning to young
fellows who are just learning to use the
dirty, unmannerly weed.-Joseph T.
FIelds.
Year: 1877

q" Because she was paid to do so. Be
cause she was hired by me through the
agency of a private inquiry office to act
as she did act. Madame, by profession,
is not thief but a thief-catcher. You
had grown so self-conceited of late. mas
ter Ned, you had got such a mighty tall
opinion of yourself and your abilities,
that thought it would do you no harm
to take You down peg or two. l hope
| have succeeded in convincing You
that there are people in the world quite
as clever, or may be cleverer, than GER
tain young gentleman of one-and-twenty.
If you profit by the lesson my money will
have been we'll spent"


An hour or two later l said, " But
wasn't it rather a risky thing to do with
a ring worth five hundred pounds ?'


My father winked at me with the So
lemnity of a judge. My dear Ned,
what do you take your old dad for? The
diamonds were nothing but paste"
Year: 1877

Light, which travels with amazing
velocity, required eight minutes to
reach the earth. Sound would require
fourteen years to travel from the sun TO
the earth, so that five saw an explosion
at its surface it would be fourteen years
before we could hear il. But II We
could place a rod of iron from
the earth to the sun and then strike It
with hammer on one end the sound would
reach the opposite end in about. eleven
months. But perhaps the most sing uiar
illustration of the suns distance was
drawn from the human economy. sen
sation took a certain time to tIavel TO
the nerve centres, and if we could mag
inc human infant with an arm Ioag
enough to reach the sun it wouiq laSe
one hundred and ffty years for tne ;, u
sation to reach him after burning i,ls
fingers; in other words. he "ouru De
dead several wears before the s, sensation
of burning could reach him: Inc suns
distance was so inconceivable thae IL y was
only by making such comparisons " at
we could form any idea OF 1t at AL
Professor Young's Lecture.
Year: 1877

A. n. MENIER, of Bordeaux, has in
vented a new continuance for the steering
of balloons. The mechanism is placed
behind the car, and by n clever arrange
ment Of network acts upon belt which
encircles the body of the balloon, ex-
tending about four or five degrees above
and below horizontal plane through its
centle-its equator, SO to say. The rud-
der is plane, and can be used as a sail.
The balloons are said to move obliquely
upwards and dowDwards and also side
ways, according 10 the position of the
rudder The sideway motion is very
likely facilitated by changing the posi-
ton Of ballast. One circumstance, which
may be Of special practical use is that a
balloon provided with this new ap-
paratus, when falling to the ground, can
be made to touch the earth's surface
very obliquely, and thus avoid any sud
den shock, and at the same time facilitate
a safe anchoring.-Na Nature.
Year: 1877

OF The night, and thought that his


companions were still around him.
at the outpost in the valley; but
soon the recollection Of what had
happened dawned upon him, aud he
began to look about him, and TO
wonder how he happened still to be
alive. The problem was soon solved.
He found that he was lying at the
bottom Of a fiissure among the rocks,
about Ten feet deep and three or four
feet wide. Some vines were grow
ing over il, and it was upon them he
had jumped, when he thought that he
was planting his feet upon a bed of
moss. The Indians, on emerging
from the thiclket. had evidently faiIed
to find the unconscious fugitive, and
supposed him to have reached the
wooded land, d few hundred yards
distant. How much further they
went in search of him will never be
known.


The fall had stunned the seargentl
and cut cash in his head, but he
was not seriously hurt. He soon
gotup, climbed cautiously out upon
the face of the earth, saw that no
enemies were about. and started for
the camp of the army, which he
reached in safety. and related to his
comrades, who were about TO start in
in search of him, how he had been
t'saved by accident
Year: 1877

Never use a lady's name in an improp-
er place, at an improper time, or in mix
ed company. Never make assertions
about her that you think untrue, or al
lusions that she herself would blush to
hear. When you meet with men who
do not scruple to use a wOman's name
in a reckless manner shun them. They
are the very worst members of the com
munity; men lost to every sense of honor
every feeling of humanity. Many
good and worthy woman's character has
been forever ruined and her heart brok
en- bv lie, manufactured by some viii
lain and repeated where it should not
have been and in presence of those
whose little judgment could not deter
them from circulating the foul and
Dragging report. A SANDER is soon pro-
pagated, and the smallest thing deroga-
tory to a woman's character will fly on
the wings of the wind and magnify as it
circulates, until its mOnstrous weight
crushes the poor unconscious victim
Your mother and sisters are women, and
as you would have their fair name un-
tarnished and their lives unembittered
ed by the SANDERS bitter tongue, heed
the i'll your own word may bring upon
the mother, the sister, or the wife of
some fellow w-creature.-Neto Orleans Pea
aflIae.
Year: 1877

There are people, mostly young and


gushing, who look upon newspaper life
as about the pleasantest thing going
something that makes one feel good all
the time, excepting when the compost
tors and paper man have to be confront
ed, and cash comes in with slowness
rather than with celerity. Let such
read the following tabular statement,
setting forth with bald accuracy, the ex-
perience of an able journalist of Texas,
and determine whether thai man had


many leisure hours that he could give to
the cultivation" of poesy or the higher
Year: 1877

Those who "grope," sometimes
grope wilfully. A man who feels
around just before daybreak for the
kindling wood and finally Grams his
wife's hoopskirt into the stove will
not when she comes to dress herself,
be able to protect his skull by any
argument Of mistaken identity"


An editor wishes no bodily harm
to his subscribers, but he hopes that
some Of them in arrears will be seiz-
ed with remittent fever.
Year: 1877




The La Grande Gazette furnishes an
statement in regard to the
prospects Of the Blue Mountain and
Columbia river railroad. 1t says: A
survey was begun several weeks ago.
which has proceeded from Grand konde
Landing on the Columbia river nearly
to the summit of the Blue mountains. Its
general line is OH the shortest and
cheapest route, crossing Wild Horse
Greek about eight miles below Weston;
thence on the Blue Mountains on the
pass Of Meacham Creek and Grande
Ronde River. the lowe st by several
hundred feet ofany on the whole range
The work Of grading is to commence
in few weeks, and the work will be
vigorously pushed forward until CON-
pleted. The company expect to have
fitty miles completed by one year from
this tune. and the whole in two years.
1t 10 to be three foot track. and to be
everyway equipped with first-class roll.
ing stock and rails The company have
undertaken this work because their own
interests and business demand that it
bs done. They are NO adventurers.
They are nsn whose every hope and
every dollar is in the valley. Hence
they are pledged. in every way, to a
truthful and energetic fnl6lment of
their task. and the public may trust
them TO finish what they have begun.
The rise in the value Of land alone in
this valley. in one year from the COM
plc,ion Of this road, will more than
pay the entire COST Every landowner
ought to aid the enterprise forward by
labor. money and materials. They have
the came interest as those who have
organized themselves into q company
solcly to consolidate and utilize the
force and ability IT the people for the
benefit of the people A strong pull,
and . pull altogether. though not a
very laag pull. will surely open this
valley within 4wenty-four month"; to
the coming and going Of one OF the
most prosperous trades of Oregon. and
make Il the favorite resort Of tourists
and pleasure seekers all over the coan-
try.
Year: 1877

Indlanapolis llerald.l


In one of William Blacks novels
he makes one Of his people vaguely
dcs .ribe a land which lay across
the sea, to which had fled all who
were numbered among the miss
ing, who there lived untrammclcd
BY the follics or misfortunes Of the
past. But the land Of the missing
docs not always care for its child
rem. Sad wrecks 20 down in the
surging scas which surround it.
One case saddest of all IN tho CON-
pass of memory, presents itself. A
boy, an only child, the idol Of
wealthy and cultivated parents,
started for school one morning
with his mothers goodbye kiss
warm upon his lips and his books
In his hands and never returned.
lie was only eight years old, was
as handsome as y cherub, and was
known everywhere among his ac-
quaintanccs as a good boy. lie
was etlcminatc IN nature. and new
er, ordinarily, vcntured upon boy
ish cscapades. lIe was to have II
rabbit for dinner, and he asked a
favor that It might be ''stewed
with a heap Of gravy" The din
ncr was prepared, but he never
came to cat It. There had been
njthing TO make him dissatisfied
with his surroundings and ell
courage the idea that he had run
away. lie was timid and shrink
ing, and as everybody believed
too good and too cowardly to run
away. Sixteen years later hi
father and mother met him on
Mississippi River steamboat,
bloated, drunken, profane, bruta
gambler. Death would have KEEP
him q beautiful and loved child
but the land of the missing sen
him back a ruined soul.
Year: 1877

mcnt. As It had remarkably skllful gang
of workmen. it is not probable that 1t suffered
all its operations to be suspended or deranged
upon a mere punctio, or for the sake of saving
an insignificant sum Of money. But from the
first it determined to be master of its own
business, and to set its face resolutely against
dictation. It had the power, and 1t used 1t
not pitilessly, we are wiling to believe, but
with a view to the best interests OF all parties.
The secret of this strike, as of so many others.
is TO be found in a mutual misunderstanding.
Sensible men, with common interests ought
not to quarrel in this way; and they never
would, if they were not misled on the one
side by the consciousness of power when us
dains to be conciliated, and on the other by
designing and factiOus associates, who acquire
an influence over the mass of workmen ana
use it for their own emolument. There rs
barrier of custom and tradition between the
employers and the employed, which at last
will be broken down, if there be any virtue IN
common sense and intelligence. A good time
in which strikes the clumsiest possible method
of redressing grievances, will not for moment
be thought Of is probably coming; and until
it shall arrive patience and forbcarance are
our only resources.
Year: 1877

The confusion in the streets yesterday was
but an inadequate representation of moving
day, because a larger part than usual of the
annual shifting from house to house began this
year as early as March. Rents have sensibly
decreased in Ncw-YOrk since January, es-
pqcially in dwellings which may be ranked as
third or fourth class Yet even with this IN
Gucement to housekeeping the tendency has
been with a large class of families to try the
experiment of boarding. Boarding rates have,
1t is true, gone down very fast, but we thlnk
the experiment is q mistake, both on ecOnOml-
cal and moral grounds. A professional man OF
tradesman with small family feels the ur-
gent necessity of economy this year lie has
occupied u house on one OF the side streets,
furnished and kept with an amount OF pre-
tension diSpropOrtioned to his means. The
choice is be fore him of going to much
humber house, and adopting a system OF close
expenditure totally devoid of any show or
style, or Of taking apartments on high floor
Of a Snowy clearinghouse. Ten to one he
chooses the latter. oil pretense that it ls the
more economical.


Boarding-housc were meant by Providence
for homeless people, not Tor families The
question Is Il more ScIlOHs bhc lhdh "O hiS'
appears. New-York is slowly coming to be a
city of boarding-hOuses; not only her immense
floating population live in them and in cafes,
but year by year more and more of the sober
class, heads Of families and their children, fall
into the same unsettled public way OF life. A
certain loudnes5 of tone and cOarseneSs OF
thought and manner which characterize our
would be fashionable classes of every grade, are
due to this cause. COrnelia herself never could
have reared her hero sons in the petty gossip
and publicity of bOarding-hO and Una
would have grown trihc coarse through long
training in a hotel parlor. The hotel and
boarding-hOuse may be the best of their kind,
hut they cannot give the privacy the shadow
of home, the tender associations, which every
boy and girl ought to have as a right in their
childhood. Many of the evils which women
in this city complain Of as resulting from club
life result from the homeless condition of
married men. Any rational man would prefer
tho club, with companions whom he has
chosen, to II like publicity in hotel or boarding
house parlOrs with associates forced upon him
b, accident In philadelphia, where every man
has his own dwelling, clubs drag out languid
life.


The moral is that it would be wise in every
head of family 30 provide a home for it, if
pos,be, at this beginning of the domestic
wear, mt the cost of all pretension, gentiIity,
even comfort. Better dinner of herbs under
ones own roOf-trcc than q stalled OK at
hotel.
Year: 1877

scheme or plan, and perhaps without any
change of names.


In respect to civil service reform, for ex-
ample, some new adjustment of political forces
seems inevitable. There are a number of Re-
publicans who shouted for reform as loudly as
anybody when they were anxious to win pub
lie confidence, but whose notion OF reform Is
that the Government should be run for the
benefit of one ring rather than for the benent
of another. These men will be profoundly
diSgIlstCd if the President insists upon running
the Government for the benefit of no ring
whatever They dislikcd " the Grant machine"
But they wanted instead n cleaner or mt least
less odiOus Republican machine, with them
selves as engineers. Mr. Hayes will "betray
" the party" IN their opinion, if their eminent
services 90 wholly unrCcOgniZed. We shall
hear curses both loud and deep if he persists
in trying to serve the party only by serving
the country. Presently some of these dlStin-
guishcd patriots will sneer, and then openly
denounce, and finally they will be found i'll the
ranks Of the opposition.


Among the Democrats, also, there are men
who utterly dcspse and discard the tradl-
tional Democratic doctrine, "To the vlctors
belong the spoils." Their hearty sympathies
will 90 out to President who conducts the
Government for the benefit of the whole
people. Between these men and the Demo
Gratis who believe in Democracy and clam0r
for reform only in order 10 get possession 0l
the Government and divide the spoils sharp
divisions will speedily arise. The mallgnants
who want to 'fght on, fight ever" against
Mr.. Hayes and everything that he may DO,
who mean to embmrass and defeat his adj
ministIatIon, no matter bow excellent 1t may
prove. who have no higher motive than to
turn Republicans out of power in order to
secure the spoils for Democrats, will find
very worthy and probably strong bod OF
Democratic leaders to resist them.


If President Hayes adhereG uncompromis-
ingly 10 the principles he has announced, he
will find certain Republicans drifting into an
tagonism and certain Democrats gathering
with increasing confidence and numbers to his
support His resolution not to allow any pub
lie trust to he prostituted to the use OF either
party will gradually become a dividing line.
4 reconstruction of parties Will take place, all
the more thorough and enduring because 1t
Will lss half uuobscryed and wholly unpre-
meGisatcd. The millions who really want gov
ermcnt for the people will gather on one
side; The millions who really want govern
mcnt for parties or rings or Ciiqucs viii gather
on the other. Mechanical patching and dove
failing will lack endurance; the connection
which lasts is the chemical union OF elements
by reason of natural aiTnitics Of character and
purpose. That kind of reorganization is not
improbable. And one of the very best things
that could happen for the country would be a
reconstruction OF parties which should put the
tax-eatcrs on one side aud the taxpayers on
the other.