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Year: 1875

The way some parents have to


talking and thinking that boys do


not need to be treated as gently and


considerably as girls, is productive
of wide. spread mischief. five treat


children as If they were honest,


truthful, pure minded, if in all our


intercourse we appeal to their high


est feelings, If we expect nothing


which is not respectful and noble of


them, we shall keep high standard


before them. We should, in look
and word, carry ourselves so they
will feel sure we have no thought or
suspicion of anything low or mean.
We do this in our treatment OF girls;
and is not that one reason why they
are purer and nobler, because they
are shielded from wrong, so hedged
in from things that are vile7


Boys are spoken of, and too, as If
they were expected to be rude and
unmannerly. l notice even Sunday.
school Superintendents speak harsh
ly and severely to the boys, when
the girls are whispering and making
as much noise and no notice is taken
of it. Would it be so, think you, IL
the mothers were Superintendents,
instead of the fathers? I think not.
Mothers have as keen sense Of jus
tice toward the boys AS toward the
girls. The sense ofjustice in small
boys hurt by such treatment: but
soon they learn to shield themselves
behind the feelings, there is no use
trying to behave well, nobody en-
poets it of boys. Thus little by little
the standard of excellence and deli
cacy, which they have until they
have got beyond childhood, is mar
red and destroyed. Even mothers
comfort themselves by saying: "Boys
must come in contact with the
World"-meaning with otner boys
and men, who Eave had their best
impulses blunted and scared by just
this same process, until to be manly
does not imply all that is grand, no
bic and true in human being.


The standard of manliness in he.
roes and poets is the one we find as
we mix and minGle in this busy
to prove the class rot extract.


How many thousand hearts have
ached, and are aching, because their
i lois are all broken. This ought not
to lie so. Men should be as pure, as
clean, AS noble and high-lninded as
woman. There is no way to make
them so except to begin with the
boys. AS long as our boys must go
t, an unclean closet in the yards of
our academies, and arc shut out OF
all the best places, and treated as If
they were culprits, so long will they
be just what they are; which is
largely the result of their training.
Until different course is pursued
we shall have bad boys and bad
men. IF society was anxious to have
them bad, it could not devise surer
way of doing it. Make the standard
for the boys as high as for the girls.
If this could be done for fifty years
the millennium would be dawning.


The standard for men and women
should be just where God put it
Just the same.-Mrs. NJ Cuenc, IN
Herald Of Health.
Year: 1875

SAN FRANCISCO, June 24th.- The
examination of books and accounts of
the defaulting Secretary, Miller, of the
Western Development Company, con-
tinues. 1t is believed at the Office of
the company that the Irregularities do
not extend very far back. The invest
ments in fancy stocks seem to have
been made recently, and the earlier
embezzlements were placed in city real
estate, most of it of good character. 1t
is thought that the amount of the de-
ficlency will be nearly or quite made
good, Miller rendering all the assist
ance in his power to make restitution.
Considerable comment has been made
upon his being held in custody by the
railway company, instead Of the proper
authorities.


The Z. S. steamer Benicia left here
Tuesday evening for Mare Island to
take in coal for the trip to Vallejo to
bring down the officers and crew of
the wrecked Saranac. She was in
charge of a pilot near Point Pinole and
got about mile off her course and
ran on a mud bank. She got off with
out material damage.
Year: 1875

The frantic efforts of the Express
to persuade its readers that the HERAD
Is antagonistic to the Los Angeles and
independence railroad, are amusing
if not convincing. We fully under
stand the motive of our cotemporary,
and under the circumstances we can
readily forgive its persistent misrepre-
sentation of us. Senator JONES may
swallow the bait and the purpose may
be obtained, but we doubt if such an
old bird will be caught with chaff.
Meantime we advise the overZealous
advocate to overhaul the HERALD
files, and when he finds line in our
columns which can be construed into
an opposition to the road, let him
make note of it. Not line or word
to that effect can be shown. We have
said that if Senator JONES and those
associated with him in the building of
this road, intend, as the authors of the
"coming city," boastingly assert that
they will rob Los Angeles of her trade
and destroy her and the Wilmington
landing, that the money subscribed to
the road by the citizens of this city,
will not be paid, and do not hesitate
to repeat this again and again. There
is not the slightest danger that this
boast will ever be carried in
to effect, but we accept the
will for the deed and denounce the
attempt as strongly as if there was
danger that success would crown the
effort. 1t is to the interest of all Los
Angeles valley that the improvements
in Wilmington Harbor which have
progressed so far and have cost so
much money shall be carried to COM
pletion; yet some scheming specula-
| tors in San Francisco are using Sena-
tor JONES' name and influence to con-
vince the Government that the money
already expended is thrown away and
that further appropriations will be
useless. We are opposed to this be-
cause 1t will injure our valley and
city and we have expressed our dsap-
probation in strong language. But
not word has been said against the
railroad. These same schemers, cireu-
lating the report that the town of one
hundred thousand inhabitants which
they and Senator JONES are going to
build at Santa Monica, will destroy
Los Angeles, have slightly depreciat-
ed real estate in this city; and if they
are permitted to circulate these false
hoods without contradiction, they will
shake the confidence of those not ac-
quainted with the circumstances in
the future growth and prosperity of
our city. We have denounced these
reports and their authors, and we shall!
continue to do so. But not word has
been said against the railroad.
Year: 1875

SAN FRANCISCO, June oath. - This
morning the Chronicle comes out fiat
footed in support of the Independent
ticket. 1t claims that it is the true
Republican ticket, which every hon
est man of the party can endorse, and
considers the result of the Convention
as the defeat of the politicians and the
triumph of the people.
Year: 1875

Moore's Restaurant, on Commercial street,
ID the proper place to go for a good meal, with
q good cup OF coffee or tea TO drink with It,
There Is probably no restaurant on the Pacific
coast where so many of the substantials and
80 many OF the luxuries may be had for Is CTS.
Don't forget the place-Moore's Restaurant,
Commercial street. Private eating rooms have
been neatly fitted up for the accommodation


! ladies' j5-tf
Year: 1875

Now Is your time! No such chance again in
one hundred years! This Bazaar is selling out
their entire stock of Dry Goods % per cent.
below cost, as they intend giving up their dry
goods business and keep only Gents Furnish
Ing Goods This is no bogus sale, but genu-
Inc selling out of our entire stock of Dry
Cry Goods, as YOU will find ont by calling at
the Bazaar, corner of Main and Requena
elreefs nnnosite the L. S. Hotel. iel7
Year: 1875

II is a good thing to be al editor,
for when your creditor conios around,
you can tell him that you have no
money and when be talks of selling
your Office for debt. you can show
Lim that two privileges and three
mortgages exist upon it already, each
for twice its value and when you
have thus convinced him Of the i'm.
propriery of Il lawsuit, yon can satisfy
him Of your large assets, and console
him by exhibiting long list Of de-
linvuent subscribers Vienna Senti-
Hci
Year: 1875

As convincing proof that the grass
eoppers read the papers, it is mention
ed that they have this season entirely
avoided certain county which was
mentioned last year as raising the
poorest quality of wheat in Kansas
Year: 1875

1t is when, after mans death. two
separate and distinct families appear
and claim his estate that the world
really begins to feel what an irrepara-
BILE loss it sustained in the death of
King Solomon.
Year: 1875

The arrival of General Cotton and
party in our midst is the signal
not only for more railroad build
ing, but for some much to be de-
sired improvements at Wilmington in
the shipping of goods to and from the
city. In the first place, a considera-
BILE reduction, probably twenty-five
per cent, in the cost of lighterage will
be made. This, in the aggregate, will
amount to considerable sum, which
will be saved to our people. We shall
not be surprised to hear that the visit
of General COTTON led to determina-
ton on the part Of the company to
extend the railroad track to or near
Old San Pedro and the building of a
wharf at that port at which steamers
will be able to lay and discharge
freight into or receive it from the cars.
1T is already announced that the
Southern Pacific road will be extended
one hundred miles from its present
terminus at Spadra, in the direction of
Arizona, by the close of the present
Summer. This, as we have before
stated, will turn the trade of Arizona
through Los Angeles. General COL
TON says the gap in the road between
Sad Fernando and Aliens Camp will
be closed on or before the 1st of July
of next year. All this is good news
for Southern California, and indicates
a good time coming which is SO near
at hand that we can fix the date
thereof.
Year: 1875

should not longer retain control of the
Government. For over six years
President GRANT and his advisers
have labored, or pretended to labor,
at the task of bringing about peace
and harmony in the States of the
South. Let the address of the Com :
mittee be read, as evidence of how
little they have accomplished in the
desired direction. If they have la
bored in earnest, their utter failure
proves them incompetent for the
work, and they should be relieved
from a task they do not possess abil-
ity to perform. If they have not la
bored in earnest, their perfidy and
bad faith merits the disapprobation of
the people to the extent of hurting
them from place and power. BY no
parity of reasoning can the present
unhappy condition of the South be
urged as an argument for longer re-
tanning the Republican party in pow
er. AS whole, we do not admire the
address nor can we compliment the
good taste and Judgment of the COM
mittee in composing and sending it
forth. 1t is an appeal to the preju-
dices, not the good sense aud intelli-
gence of the people, and as such it
must be accepted more In the light of
an insult than as the semblance of an
argument,
Year: 1875

The recently issued address of the
Republican State Central Committee
is characteristic, yet singular docu-
ent-characteristic because it is all
about the war, which has been the
stock in trade of the leaders of that
organization during the campaigns of
the last decade, and peculiar in the
fact that it asks for new lease Of
power and further maintenance of
supremacy on questions and issues
which have long since passed into his


tory and are not now matters for ma


tional consideration. The rebellion
made the Republican party. 1t came
into power on a minority of the popu-
lar vote and the attempted secession of
part of the States gave it a power
and influence which under no other
combination of circumstances it could
have attained. Being in power at the
Transportation of an event against
which was thrown the mighty union
sentiment of the nation, it received
the support of that sentiment and ex-
panded to dimensions only bounded by


the confines of the nation itself. Who
shall say that the primary object of
the war - the maintenance of the
Union-wouid not have been attained
had the act of secession been attempt


ed under the domination of the old
Whig or Democratic parties? 1t was
the people and not political party
that put down the rebellion, and this
great Union which stands to-day one
and inseparable, is cemented with the
blood of the people, not by the ties of
party. Intelligent citizens of the
United States understand this main,
in fact, chief, point in the war contro-
versy and they are weary of hearing a
few office-seekers arrogating to them
selves all the heroism and patriotism of
the nation. That portion of the address
devoted to the condition of affairs in
the South, is in especial bad taste.
The capitulation of the riots and MUIR
ders that have occurred in the South
since the close of the war as an argu-
ment why the Republican party
should be retained in power will have
no weight, except to indicate the
straight to which the committee is re-
duced for material to make up a
lengthy address. The instances of
bloodshed and anarchy recapitulated,
are in truth so many indictments
against the Republican party = so
many reasons why that organization
Year: 1875

One Of the finest improvements in
the city will be the rebuilding of the
Lafayette Hotel. The whole of the
back of the house is already being
torn down, and the front will shortly
be built up. The stores will be just
half as large as they are now, and, as
the Important has very large stock
on hand, they will not have half room
enough for their goods and in order to
prevent them from being damaged by
dirt and dust, they have decided to
sell all their Spring goods at less than
cost, and others, such as cottons, table,
linen, etc., at exact cost. We advise
all to call at the Important and con-
vince themselves OF the great bar
gains. Such bargains they can never
get again, and in order to prevent a
great rush, we advise all to call early
and take advantage of the building of
the Lafayette Hotel. ai6
Year: 1875

SAD SPECrACLE.-A man by the name OF
arrested and brought before Justice Reilly,
charged with larceny by bailee. Not being
able to furnish bonds to the amount OF 500,
he was sent to Jail. This morning be was
brought into court for trial, and accompany
ing him was a little woman, whose sympa-
thies expressed in his behalf, showed plainly
that she was faithful wife, Drawing every
thing, suffering all things for the man who
was evidently the idol Of her heart and the
father of her little children. While entering
the court room Drumsmith was seized with
violent spasms, and fell PROSTATE to the floor.
So great were his sufferings that District At
torney Thompson sent Tor physician, think
ing the mans life was in danger. The piie-
ous lamentations OF the poor wife at this
moment were heartrending to behold. no
additional proof was needed to establish that
she was indeed true and good woman, and
that hers was a sad story. No one, without
they possessed a heart of stone, could have
looked upon the scene without experiencing
a choking sensation about the throat; and
indeed, there was disposition on the part OF
bystanders TO cheer the Prosecuting Attorney
and complaining witness when they an
nounced they believed the man was unac-





countabIe for his acts, and that for this reason
the charge against him would be withdrawn.
It seems that Drumsmith is a poor man, sub
jeet TO temporary fits OF mental alteration
and heart disease, and that during one OF
these fits he had pawned the watch to pro-
cure the common DecessaTics OF lie Tor MS
family Under these circumstances, he was
blameless; and through pity for the noble
little woman, who has lived with and loved
him through many years, with all his faults,
We must compliment those whose hearts pre-
vented them from adding another pang to
her sutferings BY incarcerating her husband,
upon their forbearance, though it should be
nothing more than we would expect OF all
| human kind.-Futlana journal.
Year: 1875

The case OF Colonel Valentine Baker is n
suggestive one. He was travelling on an


English railroad with young lady, stran-


ger to him, and committed criminal assault


upon her. She complained at the next station;


he was arrested and within month from
the time of the offense he had been triel.


found guilty, and sentenced to pay a fine of


five hundred pounds and suffer q years i'm


prisonment Yet this Colonel Baker was An


intimate friend of the Prince of Wales. the


commander OF crack cavalry regiment, the


brother of Sir Samuel Baker, and an officer


who had gained laurels by his distinguished


gailantry in the campaign against Coomasie.


IL III England there Was one law for the rich
and another for the poor, this was the kind
OF case 10 show justice hslting. But had he
been tramp or loafer. he could not have
been dealt with more promptly or sternly;
and As the Pardoning-out system does not
exist there, 1t may be regarded as certain
that he viii serve out his term. OF course,
such a penalty TO such a man means ruin,
complete and irretrievable; but the law has
nothing TO do with considerations of that
kind. It recognizes him only as an offender
against the statutes of society, and it pun
ishes him with impartial severity. Now
turn 10 New York, AMI contrast the case of
Tweed with this. Tweed stole millions from
the public treasury, and organized n system
of public plumber so audacious and far
reaching that it required almost revolution
to unseat him. Sentenced to twelve years
imprisonment and paltry fine, he succeeds
from the first in evading all the punitory in
tent of the law, and, after years confn6-
meut, procures his liberation on something
very like a quibble, while he retains the
whole of his stolen wealth. The most terri
ble punishment that could be visited on a
man in Bakers position was, no doubt, the
application of the full ordinary penalty pre-
scribed by the law. But 1t WAS done without
hinchiug. In Tweed s case the whole course
of Justice seems TO have been paralyzed from
the moment of his arraignment; and, while
the courts appear to have thought it becom-
ing to make things easy possible to him.
even honest citizens have somehow regarded
the matter as though it were IN some sense a
pity 10 make a convict out of so magnificent
thief. It Is not always that. when sin is
plated with gold, 1.-THE strong lance of JUS


tice hurtless breaks. Sac. Record.
Year: 1875

How ONE Man DEFIED MoB-Some
newspaper has lately unearthed story of
mob law in Henry county, Kentucky, in
1853, story which will bear condensation,
and which should go down to posterity, de-
scribing an example TO be immortalized- In
1853 there resided in the county named
several brothers hearing the name of Henry,
one of whom was charged with murder He
was acquitted upon trial, bat the mob was
dissatisfied with the verdict, and demanded
that not only the man charged with the
crime but all his brothers should leave the
country. One Of the brothers thus unjustly
branded was slow to leave, and in consequence
was assaulted, being shot at, and narrowly
escaping with his life. His wife and chill
dren were afterward taken to him by young
man, named Hunly. The the nob demand
cd that Hunly should leave the region. Hun
ly went TO his house and told his aged parents
of the situation. They decided not TO obey
the mob and barricaded the house. On the
next day the mob came, twenty members and
a number of respectable citizens who dare not
resist. The mob rode up to the house and
demanded the body of young Hunly. The
old mother appeared at window and said
her son had committed no offense; he had
simply aided an innocent woman and her
children he would not he driven out of the
country as a criminal; she and her husband
were prepared TO die with him. Then she
bowed and retired. The mob crowded for
ward, but there was man among the speeta-
tors 10 be heard. AS the old mother ceased
talking, he came forward with tears on his
face and said "Of all fortunes in life there
i nothing like a fortunate ending. 4 man
should be esteemed fortunate who finds an
answer to the old Methodist prayer: " Lord
give us good time TO get ont of the world. y
| may live a hundred years without finding
another opportunity 10 so happily end my
Ilfe. am blessed My prayer is answered
| I will die with these people !" Then draw
ing his pistol. the man (his name was Pollard
plaeed his back TO the door and his face L
the mob. The effect was grand. Hesitst


lag citizens, lacking but the nerve to opPos'
ruffianism, rushed to Pollard's support. Tht
mob fled for their lives before the desperate


resolve of the men before them, and Hunly
and his family were saved Pollard's nam'


is still II synonym for brave manhood IL


Henry county. and his glorious example ha
| done not "A little good. Could grande


sceeeh be conceived than this brief one of sil


clean sentences: And is not the story one t
| become immortal?
Year: 1875

CoURTIXG UNDER DIFFICULTLEs.-The
victim of the Joke We are about TO re-
late is well known TO most of our
readers. lie is rear-sighted, and can
not see a haystack q yard off, which
infirmity is the source of many of his
mishaps. Some sixty winters have
left their marks upon his bleaching
hair, but he still imagines that his
courting days were not yet over. One
day he alighted from his horse at a
farm house near lone, to pay his ad-
dress to a girl in her teens. The
sight was suggestive of the union of
the SHOWS of winter with the roses of
summer, and the girl treated it as a
farce, and determined to play her
suitor trick. While he was engaged
with the old folks, she stepped out,
took the saddle off his horse, turned
it the wrong way, and then plastered
it over with grease. AT length the
purblind old sinner prepared TO depart,
and unaware of the slippery condition
of his saddle, attempted to mount.
After a while he succeeded, and rode
off, amid the giggIing of the onlook.
ers. On the home journey the fat
gradually melted, penetrated the old
mans pants and ran down his legs in
little streams, while be wondered what
allied the animal that he sweat SO.
Reaching home, he attempted to brush
his clothes, but the dust refused to go,
and at last the thought struck him
that another little job had been put
up on him, and he exclaimed, Thun-
der the duIned gals have fooled me
again another Sunday courting suit
ruined guess Sally don't want my
'tention.' And the old man ceased
his visits in that quarter.
Year: 1875

Aman was pardoned from the Charles
town State Prison, Fridav. after serving
almost eight Years on Il life sentence for
q crime which he never committed.
This was Moses B. Wheeler, convicted
Of arson in February 1866, on the testi-
mOnv of his sister and her husband, who
said they saw him fire house in Brigh-
ton, occupied by Il widow, and against
his own oath and the testimony of the
widow herself, who declared that " hee-
lcr saved her house from burning, the
actual damage the building sustained be-
inc $50.


Two years after Wheeler'S entrance
upon his life imprisonment, the sister
who had condemned him to it died Of
small pox. On the day before her death
she confessed to another sister, in an
agony of remOrse, that she had periurcd
herself at the trial at the bidding of 9TH
ers, and for the purpose of getting her
brother ont of the way. Before legal
deposition could be obtained, she was
too far gone to give it.


The motive for this unnatural conduct
was at the onset explained by Wheeler
to be that he was charged by brother
who died in battle by his side to see that
their mother had his property, which,
when he returned home, he found
claimed by his sister on the strength Of
q forged letter purporting to be from
the dead brother. Be the motive wha3
it may. she and her husband had a2tu-
ally put him out of the way by perjury.
Wheeler has made incessant efforts
since to have his sentence removed, and
at last succeeds. 1t is a consideration
that might we'll give pause 10 the zeal
Gus advocates OF capital punishment,
that this discovery Of innocence is liable
to be palai,eled aftera nan is hanged.
Year: 1875

They have engaged as foreman of this de-
partment one of the most experienced Book
and Job Printers in the country: and the
presses will be superintended by a Skilled
Pressman from one of the largest offices in
New England.