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Year: 1872

TIE LOAF OF BREAD.-In a time of
famine rich man allowed twenty of the


poorest children in the town to come to
his house, and said to them: "[n this
basket there is loaf of bread for each of
you. Take it, and come again at the same
hour every day, till God sends better times" !"
The children pounced upon the basket,
struggled and fought over the bread, be


cause each wished to have the largest and
best loaf, and then they went away


without word of thanks to their friend


But Francesca, little girl meanly, though
neatly dressed, stood side and took the
loaf that was left in the basket, which was
the smallest, then kissed the old mans
hand, and went quietly home. The next
day the children we're just as naughty and
ill behaved; and this time there was left
for poor Francesca loaf that was hardly
half as large as the others. But whep she
reached home, and her mother cut the
bread, there fell out number of new
pieces OF silver. The mother was friohten-
ed and said, "Take back the money this
moment for it is certainly in the bread by
mistake" francesca took it back But
the kind man said, 8, 1t is no mistake, ny
good child, had the money baked in the
smallest loaf in order to reward you. BE
always as contented and yielding as you
now are. He who is contented with the
smallest loaf, rather than quarrel for the
largest, will receive abundant blessings"
Year: 1872

EATING CRow.-The County Clerk of
Sacramento has received the following
queer letter.


Mr.. = Clerk SIR: You will please for
ward my certificate of registration to this
place. I am, by unavoidable circumstances
compelled to vote for Old Bean Belly
Horace for want of white man, and may
the shades of many Confederate heroes look
with leniency upon the act, and the Lord
have mercy on my soul.


Respectfully yours.
Year: 1872

FLY TIME.
Oh, the fly the horrible fly
Dabbling at nose and mouth and eye,
Over the ceiling, oyerthe meat,
Over all the people eat,


Dabbling,


Tickling,


Crawling about,


Miserable insect, you get out !
Wading in paint on lady's cheek,
Leaving behind tortuous streak,
Accused fly From the hell below
Never came pest that plaques us so.
Dancing,


Nibbling,


Fresh from the sty,
The horrible sty where the porkers lie.
Even the dogs with snarl and bound
Snap at the insects that swarm around
The air is blue with the oaths that try
To drown the hum of the hateful fly.
When the weary pilgrim seeks repose,
There's hornpipe danced on the top of
his nose;
There's vigorous oath, and a slam and
slap,
And that's the end of the sleepers nap.
Singing,


Singing,


Why, oh, why,


Were you created, pestilent fly?
How strange it is that woman will try
To kill with cobalt this villanous fly;
How strange it seems when q million are
slain,
To find the multitude doubled again.
Whisking,


Frisking,


Twisting your feet,


H. nting us out in quiet retreat.
fiat the Hy like Toby we swear,
And the angel recorder enters it there,
Give us, then, the welcome doubt
Year: 1872

THIS odd advertisement is from an Eng
lish paper: "My husband is out on strike
He prefers that to work He amt any use
to me. l must work to keep the children
and self His ten shillings goes in beer
I'll swap my husband while he's on strike
for a sewing machine"
Year: 1872

When YOU bring me something I can


not do without, you command my


money; my money does not command


you. Labor and capital is a false dis


tinction. Labor is capital. Brain-pOwer


is capital. Isnot an editOTsa capitalist?


The note-of-hand of the New York Irj-


b1B7e is as good paper as can befound on


Wall or State streets, is excellent securi-


" for deposit. If ninety per cent. of


business men fail, why should the skill


ed mechanic be so anxious to enter their


ranks? If women are less successful


than men in many pursuits, is it not


that women begin, but men 90 on? Let


woman prove herself capable Of her own
support. and then all hail tor the


new Declaration of Independence.


Are rich parents able to pro-


vide for her? Rich to-day is often
poor tomorrow: but an industrial edu-


cation is inalienable capital. Employ
ers say that unskilled labor strikes. Is
there no social duty to make it skilled?


[ doubt if capital, sO-called, be as happy
as labor. Labor, more than study, viii
keep down morbid fancies, and does
poverty alone break the law? Is the
Commune or the International more
hostile than the political, military, rail-
way ring? We cannot suppress crime
by law. If we try to legislate drunken
ness out of society, how do we succeed?
If we shut up dram-shOps, forbid the i'm
pOTtatiOn OTsale of liquors, put, as Father
Taylor said, all the alcohol in cave
and roll a planet to the door of it, vet
shall we find the appetite not dead o.
subdued, an evil angel of horrible resuTr
rection, ready to roll away the stone,
and sitting upon it to mock us. We
shall never regenerate society till labor
ceases to be irksOme, is rid of its ban,
and loses its burden in blessing. To la
Dor will be to enjoy, when labor is COM
bined with deftness, and enjoyment is
born of activity. This state of things
viii come by the same train with Indus
trial Education, and Health will also be
q passenger. Peace will reign, too, in
this good time coming. The North was
10Th to fight, because it was diligent and
rich; the South willing, because lazy
and poor. Riches are an ant-hill which |
.he hOof of tattle will crush; and the |
power of labor to increase values is !
proved by the comparative prices OF a |
piece of iron as crude metal, as nails, as |
needles, and as watch springs. All hail |
70 material sciencel Give her line !
without limit. She viii never hang |
herself or US with the rope. Her mortal |
teps lead TO Immortality; and her res
Irrection is Of no one dead body but of |
nyriads into loftier forms; ten thou
and Elijahs got up in her chariot of
ire
Year: 1872

A Boston correspondent of the Ports
mouth Times has the following story of
the exploits of a female forger, and says
that the source of his information is q
reliable one. The lady is the wife Of a
well-knOwn BOstOnian, and by a bold
forgery she succeeded in obtaining a
large sum Of money from one of the


banks in this city. The particulars,
without going into details, are as fol-
lows:


About two months ago a very beauti-
ful, lady-like and accomplished woman
arrived in San Francisco by the over
land railroad, and booked her name at
one of the fashionable hotels as Mrs.
Geraldine, from Boston, Massachusetts.
She had a large amount of baggage,
and was supposed to be the wife of
millionaire, as she represented
that she expected to meet her hus-
band in San Francisco, who had been
a successful merchant in China for sew
eral years. She stated that although
he had not met her as she expected, she
had received letters from him informing
her that business delayed him in China,
and he had instructed her TO enjoy her
self until bis arrival, as became her for
tune. She attended balls and parties,
and received very polite attention from
some of the Z" first families" Things
went on hummingly until a few days
ago, when a detective made his appear
ance on the scene, and informed her that
he had a warrant for the arrest of Mrs.


-, of Boston, and that she, the pre-
tended Mrs Geraldine, was the identical
person he was after He told her
that it was his duty to arrest her for the
crime Of forgery. She stoutly denied
the soft impeachment, but when she was
informed that her husband had instruct
ed the officer, if she would quietly go to
Boston with him and return the money,
she would not be exposed, she admitted
that she had obtained nine thousand
dollars on a check TO which she had
forged her husbands name, and had fled
to California to meet her lover who
had been in China. She gave the
officer seven thousand five hundred
dollars, which she had in her
trunk, and returned to her Eastern
home. 1t is said she is now very repent
ant, and, with tears, asks to be forgiven.
Year: 1872

A correspondent of the San Francisco


Bulletin writes from Lake Tahoe as fol-
lows: "SOme twelve or fourteen persons
have been drowned i'm this lake within
the past ten years; none of the bodies
have ever been recovered. Superstition,
ever ready to weave a sensation from
natures laws, asserted that there was
doubtful mystery in the nOn-reeOvery Of
the drowned; that, in fact, a monster
had its abode in this fresh water sea,
aud that the bodies all passed into his
capaciOus NAV. The true explanation


of this mystery never has been given.
The nOn-appearance Of the bodies is due
TO these causes. The first is the great
purity of the water and its consequent
lack Of buoyancy. Drowning is very
easy in it for this reason, though l have
not while swimming in il found any
more than ordinary difficulty in sustain
ing myself The second and main cause
is due to the great coldness Of the water.
Even at this, the warmest season, the
surface water Is as cold as the drinker
desires it to be, but it is warm there
compared with its temperature at the
depth Of one hundred to two hundred
feet. 1t is as cold there as the arctic heat
Of an iceberge. When a body sinks in
the lake to the depth required, it isfrozen
stiff. The process, OF course, preserves
it, so that the gas which originates in
the body from decay in other water is
prevented, and detention checked. The
body is thus kept in a state Of greater
specific gravity than the water in which
it is suspended, and thereby prevent
ed from rising to the surface. The third
cause lies in the great pressure of the
pure water on anything which is sunk
to a great depth in it. Corks placed on
deep-sea nets are pressed down in a week
to half their size, and one Of the oldest
residents of the lake expresses the belief
that bv the time mans body has been
suspended for week at the depth of
about two hundred feet Gt is not likely
that it ever reaches the cavernous and
almost fathomless bottom Of the great
lake., the compression Of the water has
reduced its size to that Of a child's.
Doubtless the idea of uncof1ined sHspen-
sion in such a world of water is not
pleasant one to contemplate; but TO be
pressed into a solid mass and suspended
in liquid coffin Of ice temperature, is
quite as pleasant as interment and mold
ering IN the grOand.N
Year: 1872

GENEVA, August 3.-There is nothing
new in circulation nregard to the Board
of Arbitration, and the most absolute
quietness reigns. Several of the gentle
men connected with the tribunal have
gone short distance into the country to
remain over Sabbath. Others are busi-
ly engaged in preparing work for the
session on Monday.
Year: 1872




It's History Teaches.


The Rev. s.. II. Graham, pastor OF the United Pres
byterian church. on Seventh avenue preached q
sermon to large and attentive congregation yes
terday afternoon on the subject OF "rhe Departing
Year." After the usual religious services the rev.
erend gentleman announced for his text the first
clause OF the seventh verse OF the thirty-second
chapter OF Job-"I said, Days should speak.n He
said:-we are standing on the eve OF the depart
ing year, and we propose ere we lay aside
the volume OF the past and turn to the
bright, fresh pages OF the future, with
which we are all unacquanted, ere we rcverently
close the eyes the old year and look I'M the bright
cleaning eyes OF the new, TO indulge In some
Christian reflections, with the fervent prayer that
God will free us from all sellshness and enable us
TO consider Him more and ourselves less. After
arguing in favor of the idea Of a


SPECIAL PROVIDENCE


TO considerable extent, and that its workings are
clearly evident to the spiritual Christian, he urged
that there Is to fear that the lessons taught
by its operations are likely TO be overlooked.
The events OF year. in all their varied relations,
are so numerous that only cursos@ glance can be
Year: 1872

The song "The True Shepherd followed the re-
sponsive service. Then was recited the chlld's
creed, and, after prayer, the pastor preached
Christmas discourse to the children, couched in
such playful and original style as to interest and
delight them greatly. His text was taken from
Isaiah xi 6:-"The wolf also shall dwell with the
lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the Kid,
and the calf and the young lion and the failing
together, and little child shall lead them"


The preacher dwet long upon the slngulary
powerful influence which little children may have
at times the natures Of their grown-up elders.
He himself had been led from bottom TO top OF the
house and all over By certain little fellow whom
all his listeners knew. And thus lt was by the
bright purity OF their hearts they inspired higher,
tenderer and nobler thoughts and awakened more
beautiful ideas where the circumstances of life
lief; where sin might have held q long lease OF
power.


THE STUDY OF CHILD LIFE


was the richest in its results and that rom which
would grow the greatest recompensc II taught
lessons OF heaven and the cheerful merry prattle
OF the children sometimes seemed the voices or
weak and leaned upon u.s. That trust of. theirs
was what touched the heart with tenderness to
which no other Is akin and 1t was the inspiration OF
that stron rest and most deathless OF passions-a
mothers love. In most .of them could be seen the
conception OF what we ought 10 be to be perfect In
righteousness-.Fo OF such is the kingdom
OF heaven.n The Christmas season particularly
belonged to them as holiday and as festival,
because He the great hero OF all history, suffered
ample Of the lives which they ought to lead and the
love which they ought to feel Tor God and man.
If they followed in His footsteps they would never
be unhappy, and they would grow to be noble men
consummations OF their lives.


Alter the Rev. Mr.. Camp had concluded the chill
vices were closed by recitation OF the Lords Prayer
and the Benedction.
Year: 1872

Christmas Greeting to the Little Ones by
the Pastor, the Rev. Stephen Camp
Pleasant Services, Good Music and
Happy Children-How They Lead
Elder FOlk-The Lessons Of Child Life.
Yesterday, as usual, this pleasant little edifc6
was well filed and the services were cheerful and
refreshing. Lately new organ Of fine quality has
been erected here. and the music creditable to
both the choir and the Organist for It's simple yet
tasteful rendition and appropriate selection. The
sermon in the morning was preached by the Rev.
stephen Camp the pastor, and in the afternoon
the Christian exercises Of the sabbath school took
place. The following


CHRISTMAS CAROL,


written for the occasion, was sung with beautiful
Year: 1872

the only authority empowered 10 convoke the Columbus
Convention, for when II adjourned 10 TO meet again
subject to the call OF the National Executive COMMITTEE
alone The National Committee will meet on August g.
ut Indians polls and in all probability will then oonvoke
the Columbus Convention
Year: 1872

In worry warm weather, whom it is
difficult to preserve milk from beoom-
ing sour and spelling the cream, it
may be kept perfectly ewcct by sca'd'
ing the now milk very gently without
boiling, and puttingit away in earth
ern pan or dish in which it has been
calded. This method il adopted in
sll the largo dairics in England, and
poarticulaly in Dovonshire. Cream
already skinned may be kept quite
sweet for twenty.four hours if scalded,
but if as much powdered loaf sugar
be added as will sweeten it, and then
scalded, it will keep in cool place
for two days.
Year: 1872

The New York Evening Post ad.
vocates q sweeping change in tho
Railway system Of the United States,
proposing o general system Of con.
selidation and the establishment Of a
uniform rate for both passengers and
freight for all distap cos.
Year: 1872

Yesterday afternoon James Hewlett, colered,
got into quarrel with Mary Green, his mistress
at their residence in Pacific street. near Ralph
avenue. While they were engaged in q scufle,
William Green, brother OF the girl, cut Hewett's
throat with razor and made his escape. Hew-
etts wound is not considered OF O fatal character
He was removed to the hospital
Year: 1872

Citizens of Red River, think
Of these things! Think of the
vast amount Of Statel think
of the vast amount of Parish
debt! and think of your indi-
vidual individual indebted
ness? and you will discover
that you are en- failing ON your
posterity, a more CALLING ser
vitude than the slavery that
has been recently stricken
from the freedman ofthe South


[Coushatta Citizen.


The rich men in New Or
leans who have held up the
hands of Warmoth have help
ed sink the city and crush the
State. Their criminality is even
greater than that of Warmoth.
They have betrayed their
neighbors and +" sold their
birthright for a mess of pot
tage." Daniel bennett.


We are Of those who care
very little for politics except
as they may contribute to the
common prosperity of the
country. If they cannot be
made to advance the interest
ofpeace, order, individual lib
erty and security, the allevia-
ton Of the public burdens, the
return of public tranquility
and prosperity, we care very
little about politics; and no
doubt this is the common feel
ing of the Southern masses. !"


South Western.
Year: 1872

BY COL. A. W. sLAYBACK, OF ST. LOUIS.
July sun, in torrid cline beamed on an


exile band,


Who, in suits of gray,
Stood in mute array
On the banks of the Rio Grande,
They were dusty and faint with their long


dreary ride;
And they paused when they came to the


river side,


For its wavelets divide,


With their flowing tide
Their own dear land, of youth, hope, and


pride,
And comrades graves who in vain had died
From the strangers home in the land M tried
Above them waved the Confederate flag,


with its fatal cross Of stars,
That had always been


In the battles din,
Like penon of potent Mars,
And there curved from the crest of their


leader plume
That the brave had followed in joy aud


gloom.


That was ever in sight


In the hottest fight
A Haunting dare for soldiers tomb,
For the marksmens aim and the cannon s


boom,
But it bore charm from the hand Of doom
Forth stepped that leader and sail to the


faithful few around,


This tattered rag


Is the only flag
That floats on Dixie ground,
And this plume that | tear from the hat |


wear
OF all my spells is my only share;


And brave men | swear,


That no foe shall dare
To lay his hald on our standard there;
Its folds were braided by fingers fair;
lis the emblem now of their deep dispair
Its cause is lost. And the men it led on many


a glorious field;


In disputing the tread


Of invaders dread
Have been fOrced at last TO Weld,
But this banner and plume have not been to


blame.
No exulting eye shall behold their shame;
And these relics so dear


In the water here
Before We cross shall burial claim:
And while yon rnontains NAV bear a name
Shey shall stand as monuments of our fame
Tears stood in eyes that had looked on deaf .


in every awful form


Without dismay,


But the scene that day
Was sublimer than mountain storm . .
lis easy TO touch the vetran's heart
With the finger of nature, but not of art.


While the noble of soul


Lose self-cOntrol,
When called on with flag, home and COUNT '


to part,
Base bosoms are ever too callous to start.
With feelings that generous natures can


smart
They buried then that flag and plume in


the rivers rushing tide


Ere that gallant few,


Of the tried and true
Had been scattered far and wide,
And that group of Missouri's valinnt thror @.
Who had fought for the weak sgainst the


strong


Who had charged and bled


Where Shelby led,
Were the last who held above the wave
The glorious flag of the vaDqushed brave,
Nomore to rise from its watery gravel
Year: 1872

For every name taken from our subscription
list of the COMMERCIAL. within the last month";
we have added two others. So much for the
mud thrown at us by the enemies OF an lnde-
nendent Press
Year: 1872

A PRINTING OFFICE LEssoN.-lf any bus
mess on this mundane sphere, remarks an
exchange, teaches all the various phases OF
human nature it is the business of the print
ing office in which advance payments are not
enforced. Here the publisher sees, and his
books attest, the carelessness of the many,
who let the paper run on, without thought
of paying for it; the dishonesty of the mean
hearted who never intend to pay for it, take
the paper on the same principle on which the
thief takes his booty; and the good-natured
and liberal spiritedness Of the honest and fair
dealing subscriber who pays in advance, or
intends to pay when called on. All these
are fully illustrated, and each fully brought
out on the publishers book.


The first class takes the paper, reads it,
and seems to never realize the fact that it
is his duty to pay for it..


The second class takes the paper, reads it,
and when the publishers patience is ex-
hausted and he strikes the name from his
books the delinquent and dishonest subscriber
declares he will only pay "at the end of an
execution.


The third class pays in advance, or when
called upon-or if he has not the money he
promises to pay as soon as he can get it.


Readers, to which class do you belong
Look over the matter and see.
Year: 1872

The following poem by Edmund Waller
ne of the old English poets, 16O5-16S7
las sentiment as fine as the flower itself
weet:


Go, lovely rose!
Tell her that wastes her tine and me,


That now she knows
When / resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.


Tell her that's young,
And shuns to have her graces spied,


That hadst thou sprung
In deserts where no men abide,
Thou must uncommended died.


Small is the worth
OF beauty from the light RETIRED


Bid her come FORTH
Suffer herself to be desired,


Then die, that she
The common fate of all things rare


May read in thee;
How small part of time they share
That are SO wondrous sweet and fair.


Yet though they fade
From thy dead leaves let fragrance rise,


And teach the maid
That goodness Times rude hand defes;
That virtue lives when beauty dies.