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Year: 1878

He was poor little fellow, errand boy
IN the large grocery OF Rice, Gloves &
%. Q don't mean the brown dog, but
Harry Jacklow), and he earned Just two
dollars a week.


Sixty cents of this went for car fare
he lived so far from the store that he
was obliged to ride to and from it-and
the rest to his mother, who, with that
and the eight dollars q week she received
from the cloak factory where she worked.
supported herself, her children-Harry,
twelve years of age, Eddie, seven, and
Jennie, two-and Mr.. Jacklow.


Mr.. Jacklow was her husband. and
the less said about him the better. I'll
merely state that he could sit in a rock
lng-chair and smoke and think longer
than any man ever knew.


But besides this two dollars week.
Harry, who was bright-eyed, willing,
whlstllng young chap, sometimes got a
two or five cent piece, or, more rarely,
dime, fr m his employers customers
when, the grocers' wagons being over
loaded or the customers in great hurry,
he carried home their purchases for
them. And it was this money he had
been saving ever since the 1st of Janu-
airy, for the purpose of having a good
time on the next holiday.


On Christmas day they had real nice
time at his house. His "boss" had
given him two dollars, and the superin-
tendent of the place where his mother
worked had given her one, and some
body (they had never found out who)
had sent them large turkey, and the
dressmaker down stairs had put box of
tools IN Eddie's stocking-dear me |
what am saying she couldn't have
done that; meant to say SD had given
Ned box of tools, and JenI doll, in
the name of Santa Claus-,.hd Harry
had presented his mamma with a new
cohee-pot, and his mamma presented
him with a woOlen comforter and a pair
OF woolen gloves, and Mr.. Jacklow had
bought himself new pipe; and when
Harry saw how happy they all were, he
quickly made up his mind to give them
party on the very next holiday, which
would be the Fourth of July.


1t was the Sd of July when my story
commences, and Harry had kept his res
olutlon OF saving every penny outside of
his wages. He had had to pass many a
heap OF rosy apples without glancing at
'iiOul, tuH away from many peanut
stands, force himself not to look into
the tempting windows of the candy
stores, and go by on the other side when
he knew himself near a well-known
bakery, to do so; but he had done so,
and now his reward was near.


The house in which he lived was an
old-fashioned one in an uptown street.
A quarter of century ago it had been a
small farmhouse surrounded by mead
ows, but now it had large tenement
bouse on each side, and whole row of
brick buildings in front of it. But one
splendid old oak tree still stood before
the door" Bully to tack pin-wheels
on, said Harry to himself, and there
Year: 1878

These that love the Lorl's service
naturally associate with kindred spirits,
wit those ii at fear Him and keep his
precepts. These Two features identify


The same character as cheerful obedi-
nee is always the fruit of fiial fear.
These. then. are the Lords people and
anion with Hun = IN fact union with
them. SOmrtnes the society Of the
refined and intelligent Of this world may
he more cOngenal to our natural taste.
But ought there not TO be restraint
here? Ought not the Christians TO say,
"-urely the fcarof God is not in this
o ace;" and "shOuld love them that
hate the Lord?" Let those OF Us who
live in close, and to a certain degree
necessary contact with the world, sub
iect our hearts to an evening scrutiny
cn this subject. HAS the society OF
this day refreshed my soul. Or raised my
heart TO spiritual thingss Has ii pro-
NOTED watchsul temper? Or has it
not rather '9uenched the spirit Of pray.
er, and restrained my intercourse with
God?" To meet the Christian in Or
dinary courtesy. not IN unity ofheart, is
a sign ofan unspiritual walk with Coo.
Fellowship with God walking in the
light" Fellowship with one another
is the natural how." The communion
Of the saints i, the fruit and effect OF
communion with God.
Year: 1878

Professor Brewer remarks that, while
the effort to extcrninate the sheep kill
ing instinct from dogs has not succeed
ed. it is still true that it is much more
pronounced in the cross.b bred and i'll
bred than in the purehlooded.
Year: 1878

What heart has not Acknowledged the
influence Of this hour, the sweet and
soothing hour Of twilight, the hour of
love, the hour of alteration, the hour OF
rest, when We think Of those we love
only to regret that we have not loved
them more dearly, when we remember
our enemies only to forgive them
Year: 1878

My Uncle Ben believe in ghosts ? or
course he did he used to say "No
modern mansion of stucco and plaster
for me give me a grand old house. al
covered by ivy and hidden by trees.
whose walls are hung with tapestry, and
whose passages, extending from room to
room, make the blood curdle with their
gloom and length. Why, sir, there is
something enlivening even in its decay /;
the dampness of its walls, and the cracks
in the discolored ceilings, which only
suggests to the vulgar mind ague and
rheumatism, are evidences to me of It's
venerable age and respectabiIity. Tne
very mice that scamper up and down in
the time-worn wainscoting give me a
friendly greeting that L never meet in
your new-fashioned houses, built for
race of mammon-worshiper who have
made their wealth out of shoddy and
petroleum.


really believe that Uncle Ben valued
the shade that was said to haunt his
house far higher than all his more tangi-
BILE property. Nothing made him more
angry than for any one to doubt its ex-
lstence f; he was always ready to break a
lance with any skeptic on the subject,
and TO offer him bed in the haunted
room and, although many of the young
members of the family scoffed at the
story, very few had the courage to accept
the challenge.


One winter night, when the wind was
moaning round the chimney-pots and
through the caves, singing a dirge
among the leafless branches of the gaunt
old spectral trees for the joys of the dead
summer, the family was gathered round
the fire in the drawing-rOom.


Uncle Ben, who was standing with his
back to the fire, said to his nephew:


=" think, Joe, we had better put on
another log of wood; l don't feel inclined
for bed yet, and L suppose you young
sters intend to sit up half the night, as
usual"


ct don't mean to turn in yet for one,
uncle" replied Joe. "Tell us one of
your ghost stories; regular blood
curdler."


''Ah, joe" said the old man, 81 am
afraid you are a thorough skeptic. You
disbelieve in all supernatural appear
ances." -


Certainly" answered Joe, who was
secretary to the Literary Debating So
ciety In the little town of Marlborough,
and who had written an essay to prove
the non existence of everything, and that
we are simply the creations of our OWL
thoughts Certainly these impalpablt
specters are only illusions which the dis
ordered condition of our weak physical
organs bring before us. "


"I own you are clever lad, Joe, bu
I don't CARA a buffon for NyOur arpu mantg
believe in ghosts because l have seer
them"


"Oh, am pen to conviction; if yoI
Year: 1878

The short dress for the street is at last
an accomplished fact.


Several rows of knife-pleated lace will
be used for trimming mantles.


Most of the wide collars and cuffs have
lace frill to stand around the neck and
wrists.


New. ties are of plain silk, the ends
finished in embroidery and fringe to
represent the tip of a peacock feather.


Get sheer striped muslin, or else dimi-
ty, and work the edges in colored seal
lops for drapery for an infants basket.


Satin will be much used for trimming
spring and summer dresses. Some of
the new grenadines are trimmed entirely
with black satin.


A half-lorg sacque or else dolman
mantle of black silk or of camel -shair,
with Jet aud fringe for trimming, is what
you want for the spring.


Cashmere suits are coming more and
more into favor. Cashmere made over
silk is exceedingly attractive. Rich
garnitures of all kinds are employed on
these much admired and very serviceable
promenade and dinner suits.


Carrick capes promise to be much
worn on various spring garments. They
are seen on cloth sacques, on basques of
plain costumes, on polonaises, on dol
mans, on English cloth travelling cloaks,
and finally on linen ulsters.


The furnishing stores display new
costumes of percale, cambria, and Scotch
ginghams, trimmed with pleated frills
of the material, on which fall scant
ruffles of white Hamburg embroidery.
The favorite design for these is the
pleated basque.


Cambria wrappers are also being fan
cifully made at the furnishing houses.
The prettiest of these have yoke with
Vatican pleating in the back, and are
made of bordered cambrics, with the
border used for trimming down the yoke,
pockets, collar and cuffs.


Silks of light quality with raised fig
ures are offered for spring costumes, or
as parts of combination suits. These
are more stylish than checked or striped
silks sold for the same money, but they
do not wear so we'll, as the raised figures
are apt to fray they serve, however,
for a season, or as long as the capriciouf
fashion lasts.


To make yourself look more slender
you should wear the princesse under.
clothing with yoke skirts and with close.
fitting chemises that add nothing to the
figure. Arrange your hair so that it will
add nothing to the size of your head.
Braid the back hair, and make coil Of
it high on the crown wave the front
hair, and combit back from the temples.


Put velvet buttons on a silk dress
trimmed with velvet. Put wide panels
of velvet down the sides of the over
skirt, and edge it with fringe The vel
vet hounce should be so deep that the
bottom of the over-skirt will cover the
top of the founce, and make the skirt
seem to be entirely velvet. Turn the
edge of the founce under, and face il
with silk. Gathered founces are very
scant. Pleated velvet founces are twice
the length of the space to be covered.
Year: 1878

The gardener to the University of
Berlin has found that hyacinths may be
propagated by their leaves, and this
method would appear to specially rec
ommend itself where the object in view
is to raise large number of specimens
of new rare varieties. The leaves require
to be cut off as near to the bulb as pOssi-
BILE, put in a saucer, and covered over
with thin layer of sandy leaf mold,
the same as geraniums are propagated.
The saucer having been placed in a
greenhouse or frame close TO the inner
surface of the glass, in eight or nine
weeks time the extremities of the leaves
will begin to turn dry, a sure sign that
bulbs are growing out of them. The
leaves selected for propagation must be
fresh aud green, the latest time at which
they should be removed from the plant
being the close of the towering season.
Year: 1878

The proprletors of the Mechanics
store wish to inform the public that
they make no clearance sales and
offer no bats. We receive new
goods every week and guarantee to
give our customers perfect satisfac-
ton and the full value of their
money. We also wish the public to
know that We intend giving you
goods lower than the lowest, at ali
times, not merely for few days,
but will be with you, we hope, for
many, many years. Patronize the
Mechanics store and you will find
1t to your advantage. Do not mis-
take the place. Look for sign and
number.


MECHANICS STORE,
40 Main street, directly opposite ST.
Charles Hotel. ser27.tf
Year: 1878

The facilities of the HERALD Steam
Printing House for doing job work are not
surpassed In California outside of San
Francisco and Sacramento. All work en-
trusted to US will be executed with neat
ness and dispatch at the lowest living
ratea
Year: 1878

subject overflow soil extra fertile dry and nearly ready fer
and products DO taken by
this BY from premises TERMS EASY The best
o6Ged Territory fine farm JUST IhB LOOA-
TI0N FOR cOLONPl sub divided INTO forty acre % rasn
which will yield abundant support for family Address
Year: 1878

divided twenty-five strips of about nine each extending
include and garden land already
cleared bluff Five OF these fine Honesads already
interest to those unable to pay cash
front sale lease reasonable terms
Bargains offered in tracts OF 40 and so acres OF aho
adjoining Mukieo The natural advantages OF
Year: 1878

y Western paper wants modern inn
provements worked into school reading
books, and offers the following as sam
pie of the sort that would be up TO the
spirit of the age


"The horse is on his nest. He is n
fine horse. Can he make his mile i'm two
minutes? Some horses have the scratches.
So do some boys


The goose is on her roost. She is a
fine quadruped, and has tender tenor
voice. Can goose fly far? No, neither
the goose nor the rhinocerOs can ny far.


Here is man. He is fireman.
He belongs to No. 10. IL you are a good
boy, you will some day be an angel like
this fireman. II is dangerous thing
to be n fireman. They sometimes get
their heads broken.


Here is the gas works 1t is high
building All our Congressman are
born here. DO Congressman evcrstc
You may be sure that they do.


do you see that small boy? He is a
good boy, and supports his mother by
selling newspapers. His father don't
have 10 work any more now.


Here is a picture of young widow.
Her husband could not pay her dry
goods BILL and 80 he died DO you
think she will get another man? She
will try hard


"Here is seaside You see that
swell there drinking spring water?
What is he here for2 For his health.
Will he get it? Yes, if his fathers
money holds out, and she don't get en-
gagged first to that fellow with the paste
diamond.


What is that man doing there? He
iscOuntingoyer Govcrnmentgr tgreenbacks
he is n public official. See how fast he
counts Those one dollar bills on the
left hand side are the money ne is to re-
turn 10 the Government, and those ten
dollar bills on the right are the money
he is going to put into his pocket. IT Is
a good thing to be a public official? Now
you're talking.


Here is the face Of reporter. See
how joyful he looks He has lust heard
that a man has cut his own throat, and
he is going for the item. Should you
like 70 be q reporter, and get licked ON
dark nights, and see dead persons, and
climb up four pair of stairsg"
Year: 1878

A large proportion of the American
people are 10 day dying from the ef-
fects of Dyspepsia or disordered liver.
The result of these diseases upon the
masses of intelligent and valuable
people is inost alarnli g, making life
actually burden instead of a pleasant
existence of enjoyment and usefulness
as it ought to be- There is no good
reason for this, if you will only throw
aside prejudice and skepticism. take
the advice of druggists and your
friends, and try one bottle of Green 5
August Flower. Your speedy relief
is certain. Millions of bottles of this
medicine have been given away to try
its virtues, with satisfactory results
in every case. You can buy a sample
bottle for 10 cents to try. Three doses
will relieve the worst case. Positive
ly sold by all Druggists on the Wes-
tern Continent.


For sale by J. a. Dickey & Co.


Dec.1l, ~
Year: 1878

The WectheT.-We have passed the
short days and long nights Last Fri
day the sun rose and sat at six all over
The globe. We are four days past the
Equinox and yet we have had for ten
days nothing but the most lovely
weather, save a few wind gusts last
Sunday aud a slight freeze the night
following. Indian Summer was nev-
er more beautiful and pleasant, Peach
es are in full bloom, but the dryness
prevented their injury.
Year: 1878

Negroes from the back country of
South Carolina continue to throng into
Charleston with view of taking pssage
to Liberia, though so far no ship destined
for that far off shore has made its appear
ance in the harbor. The faith of these
simple Americans of Africen descent in
the ultimate success of their pilgrimage
is astonishing. "We'll get dar, shuah,"
was the reply of a gray-headed old negro,
when told that there was no vessel to take
him, and that several hundred colored
people, bent upon a similar journey,
were already almost starving in Charles
ton. The persons responsible for this
seemingly cruel houx deserve reproba-
ton and contempt, If nothing worse.
Year: 1878

Two ladies died in Iowa last week
who had lived Michigan, Wisconsin and
Iowa territories and in Iowa state with
out change of residence. One of them
had lived constantly on the same farm
through all these changes.
Year: 1878

IT seems almost incredible, but is
nevertheless, stated as fact, that after
the recent terrible theater panic at Liver.
pool, by which over a score of people
lost their lives, the proprietor of the
house publicly announced his intention
of opening the doors as usual and giving
the customary performance. The indig-
nation which this proposal awakened was
intense, and there were threats of wreck
ing the house if a performance was
there attempted within "a hours of 80
great calamity. In consequence of the
danger the mayor forbade the opening of
the house and the manager finally ac-
quiesced.
Year: 1878

THE PowER or ToRNADo.-A dispatch
from Darlington, Ill, relates some remnrka-
ble incidents, showing the terrific force of the
tornado which swept over that locality few
days ago. On the farm of Henry Mnnecke,
a German, the gale struck granary about II
by - feet on the ground. In this were stor-
ed about 200 bushels Of grain and good deal
of corn The wind raised this building with
its load up, and carried it about 100 feet, when
it was dropped just against tie owners house.
That the granary and its contents were actual
ly lifted instead of being slid along the ground,
was proved by the fact that some small cherry
trees standing between the old and the new
location had hardly been disturbed. Across
the road and perhaps ten rods away, stood
the house of William Bruins, in which there
were Mt the time of the tornado his wife and
four children. This house, which was per-
haps 20 by 30 feet, was simply aunihilated.
No other word can express it. One moment
it was a residence the next, there remained
not so much as one stick of timber, not per-
ceptibe trace of the fact that a house had ev-
er stood on that spot. Even the cellar walls
were forced in, as if to make the ruin more
complete. No recognizable fragment of the
heaviest part of the house has yet been seen.
No part of the stove has been found, but one
of the feather beds was picked up not far
away After the catastrophe Mrs. Bruins was
found lying near where the door of her house
had been, dead with hardly a bruise and no
serious injuries visible about her Not more
than three feet away lay her boy, Willie, aged
four years He also was dead. but with no
mark to show by what immediate means his
death was caused. The daughter, Minnie,
was found dead in lot across the road and
fully fifteen rods away from the other bodies,
and this was place where the storm had not
touched All these bodies were perfectly
black, that being the result Of even a momen-
tary exposure to the tornado The other two
children were injured somewhat, but have
chances of recovery.
Year: 1878

A screech owl took possession of the Ian
caster pa box in which pair of martins
were building their nest, and, when they re-
turned at night would not let them enter.
The martins few away and soon returned
with whole army of companions, who went
to work and pastered the entrance to the box
tightly with mud. When the box was open
ed a few days later the owl was found dead.


When Tweed was in his glory at New
York he built 500, 600 stable for his horses
ON Fortieth street, contiguous to his Fifth av-
enue mansion. When the law pricked the
golden bubble and Tweed was sent to prison,
Alden b. Stockwell, the Pacific Mail operator,
who had palace near the stable bought the
latter and added it TO his grand establishment.
Stockwell went to Europe and was so unlucky
as to bet his money on the wrong horses up
on the English turf and ON Tuesday his ele-
giant house and stable were sold under the
auctioneer's hammer by order of the sheriff.
Gen. Baxter of Rutland, VT, became the
nominal purchaser, though Elias S. Higgins
the carpet man, is now the real owner, and
will present the property to his daughter us a
bridal gift.
Year: 1878

A sagacious St. Louis cat observed that two
of her kittens were invariably saved and the
rest of ths litter thrown into the Mississippi.
Again becoming happy mother she hid two
of her babies in am OuthOuse and carried the
rest in a different direction. Investigation
showed that she deliberately took them to the
river and threw them in evidently preferring
TO select herself the two kittens she wished TO
rear.
Year: 1878

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June I'D, 1873. ~ 18th street


We very readily give place to the above,
and certainly THE STAR had no intention in
the publication in question TO reflect upon the
management of restaurant of the excellent
reputation OF WelckerS. That an occurrence
of the sort mentioned in The STAR took place
ION Tuesday night instead OF Wednesday
night in city restaurant there seems TO be
no question, but as most of the parties con-
cerned have left the city the particulars can
not for the moment be obtained In the
meantime, the public can be assured by the
above that il did not occur at our much-eS-
teemed Welcker'S
Year: 1878

A SUBCOMMITTEE of the Potter committee,
consisting of Messrs. Stenger, Blackburn and
Reed, will proceed to Louisiana next Tuesday
The remainder of the committee will remain
here and continue the investigation, which
promises to last at least a month longer
Year: 1878

Editor o. the Stdr-Dedr SRI notice an
article in your paper last evening in regard to
an occurrence in my house. j wish 10 say the
whole thing is an internal falsehood as there
were no ladies in the house that evening, nor
has anything of that kind euer occurred in the
house. Respectfully.
Year: 1878

The REPORTED RUPTURE of the amicable
relations between the President and Stanley
Matthews would not appear to be borne out by
the facts. Senator Matthews called on the
President to-day and had long interview
with him. He has also been at the White
House nearly every day for the past week.
Year: 1878

DIR. MARY WALKER was arrested
the other day in New York city while
walking the streets dressed in pam
falcons, and taken before the proper
officer who expended the law in this
wise: As her pants were not worn
for the purpose of disguise in order
to commit a felony, he ruled that
her wearing them did not come
within the Statute prohibiting wo-
men from attiring themselves as
though they were men. So she was
discharged, and the officer warned
not TO arrest her again. She threat
ened the officer with prosecution
for illegal arrest.
Year: 1878

In an other column mention is
made of the arrest of the supposed
murderers of Stevens, and now
comes the sad intelligence that while
The sheriff and a posse of men were
taking the prisoners, Ketchum and
Mitchell to the county seat for trial
the party was overpowered by a
mob of about twenty-five men, who
were all masked and well armed.
They took the prieoners away from
the officers, tied them to a tree, and
burned them to death. Murderers
and cattle thieves are meeting with
terrible punishment at the hands of
judge lynch in this State. II is most
certainly not the best condition of
society, as it takes too many risks
that some of its victims may be in
nocent, which a proper legal trial
would fully establish to the entire
satisfaction of the community.
Year: 1878

will fall heavily on them. To those
who know the prompt and desper-


ate action which the stock-men find
necessary in such cases, the predic-
ton has deal of meaning, provided
the circumstances are all as stated"