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Year: 1875

How TO SuCcEED.-lf your seat is
too hard to sit upon, stand up. II n
rock rises up before you, roll it away
or climb over it. If you want money,
earn it. If you wish for confidence,
prove yourself worthy of it. 1t takes
longer to skin an elephant than .
mouse, but the skin is worth some
thing. Do not be content with doing
what another has done-surpass it.


Deserve success and it will com.
The baby was not born 3 man. The
sun does not rise like q rocket or e
down like bullet fired from q gun
slowly but surely it makes its round
and never tires. 1t is easy to be 9
leader as a wheel horse. If the iot
be long, the success will be greater
ii the task be hard, the more compe
tent you must be to do it.
Year: 1875

DEATH WHILE RowING.-The
following was received here by
telegraph from La Conner under
date of to-day:


The body Of John Newton,
more generally known as Capt
Newton, a resident of Fidalgo
Island, was picked up in his boat
on Squaw Bay a few days ago.
1t is supposed he dropped dead
while rowing, as there were no
marks of violence. He had ap-
parently been dead and drifting
around IN the boat some ten
days before being found.
Year: 1875

have been promising would succeed the Re-
publican resignation of posTer! But if
this can happen in the green tree, what
1aay not happen in tie dry: II the Dem
ocrats commence their gambling, and swim
ding, and corruption before Congress is Or
gan'zed. what may we expect when they get
to work in the House2 # the lobby
ists and political hacks Gun bribe and pur-
chase now, what viii they not do when cor
rupt Democrats are in the open market with
their votes2 It is not a hopeful outlook; but
the result will have its compensation If it
only convinces the. people Of the insincerity
of Democratic pretensions aud the impossi-
biGty Of Democratic reform.
Year: 1875

The Star of last Sunday morning
contains paragraph in which ref &C.
tions are made upon the Democratic
nominee for Superintendent of public
Instructions-Rev. o. p. FITZGERALD
which we consider unwarranted and
unjust. In his official capacity moth
ing can be urged against him. His
record as State Superintendent IS with
out blemish and no man since the or
ganization of the State has done more
to systematic and place on substan-
tial basis our public schools than o. P.


FITZGERALD. He and the teachers
worked in accord and to-day he is with
our educators the most popular Super
intendent the State has ever had. We
are aware that with large class Of
people there is no good in ministers.
We are not one of these. Ministers
are the most potent of humanizers;
the most successful of; teachers. Their
influence is all powerful and we be-
lieye they as whole, use it for the
good of those with whom they live
and labor. We object to no man be.
cause he is preacher of the gospel.
Mr.. FITZGERALD is minister but he
does not carry bis sectarian opinions
into the schools. 1t has been charged
by the Express of this city that he is


an enthusiastic politician. Mr.. FITz-
GERALD is Democrat; has always
been Democrat and we doubt not
will dlea Democrat, but he leaves his
politics with his peculiar religious ten
ents when he visits the putlic schools.


He is an eloquent speaker aud gen.
tleman of intellect and education. For
years we have been personally ac-
quainted with Mr.. FITZGERALD and


we can cheerfully testify as to his


genial wholesouled social qualities.
No man Is better or more extensively
known In this State than he and not
one of bis scores Of friends but will
willingly testify to his ability, high
Year: 1875

A prominent citizen of San Diego
writes to a gentleman in this city that
the articles in the HERALD showing
the apostacy Of Mccoy and LEACH to
Mr.. WIGGINToN were the chief cause
of the defeat Of those two trimmers.
We are glad to know this. We had
rather be the means of defeating a
man who goes into a convention and
then seeks to defeat his own nominee,
than to be elected to alucrative office.
If the HERALD put quietus on Nc
Coy and LEACH in addition to win.
ming splendid victory at home, the
HERALD is proud Of its achievements
and rejoices in its power.
Year: 1875

have endeared hismemory to all class
es in our midst. RESOLVED, That the
members of this Board respectfully
extend their heartfelt sympathy to the
family of the deceased, and that in
token Of respect q copy of these reso-
lutions be transmitted to the family
of the deceased, and the same be en-
tered on the minutes of the Board"
Year: 1875

The Bulletin claims that it has been
largely instrumental in securing all
the Independent victories ever won in
San Francisco. We believe there is
some grounds for this claim. The
Bulletin is something like the Express
Of this city-often helps party to
victory by opposing it.
Year: 1875

THE Call says the Democracy of
California now have splendid oppOr-
tunity. That Is true and one of the
beauties of the situation is that the
Democracy is in no way indebted to
the Call for the opportunity and it
will be no fault of that paper if the
Democracy does not let that splendid
opportunity slip by unimproved.
Year: 1875

in land which offers the best security.
let it be distributed in the building
of new cities and roads, unearth the
treasures which lie hidden in the
mountains. Start industries for the
employment of the people who flock
to your shores. Let your ships COM
pete for and carry off the commercial
prize from all parts of the globe.
Year: 1875

Rubber rings, slipped over bottles when
packing, ensure salty against breakage.


Rancid butter, pork and lard casks may
be purified by burning straw or shavings in
them.


A piece Of alum as big as hickory nut
will render clear pail Of muddy water.
Dissolve the alum, stir and allow the impur-
ities To settle.


\ A strong solution Of carbclic acid and
water poured into holes, kill all the ants it
touches, and the survivors Immediately take
themselves of. So says a correspondent
who has tried it on ants nesting in his gar
den.


Cur WoRMs.--J. Parish Steel, Of Ala
bama writes the Journal Of Agriculture
that his experiments show that handful Of
dry sawdust, placed around the roots Of a
plant will effectually protect 1t from cut
worms. His experiments have been on a
pretty large scale and failed in no instance.


A genuine erasive soap that will remove
grease and stains from clothing is made as
follows: Two pounds of good CASTLE soap;
half pound of carbonate Of potash, dis
solve in apint Of hot water. Cut the soap
in thin slices, boil the soap with the potash
until it is thick enough to mold in cakes;
add alcohol, half an ounce; camphor, half
an ounce; hartshorn, half an ounce; color
with half an ounce Of pulverizod charcoal.


Al LAUNDRY SEcRET.--Take two ounces
Of fine white gum arabic powderput it into
pitcher and pour on it pint or more Of
water, and then, having covered it, let it
stand all night. In the morning, pour it
carefully from the dregs into q clean bottle
and cork it, and keep it for use. A table
spoonful of gum water in q pint Of starch
made in the usual manner, will give to
lawns, either white or printed, look of
newness, when nothing else can restore
them after they have been washed.
CouaHING.-The best method of easing
cough is to resist it with all the force of will
possible, until the accumulation Of phlegm
becomes greater; then there is something to
cough against, and it comes up very much
easier and with half the coughing. A great
deal Of hacking, and hemming, and cough
ing in invalids is purely nervous, or the re-
suit of mere habit, as is shown by the fire.
quency with which it occurs while the
patient is thinking about it, and its COM
parative rarity when he is so much engaged
that there is no time to think, or when the
attention is impelled in another direction.
Year: 1875

Nothing is sharper and more penetrating
than the rebukes of love.


There are many who talk on from igno-
rance rather than from knowledge, and who
find the former an inexhaustible fund of
conversation.


Julian Hawthorne says Of q meerschaum
pipe: aIt is like woman's heart--as soft as.
light as brittle, and as enigmatic, and only
time and use can prove it true"


Truth wears well, and sits easy on the
wearer; while new-fangled errors, like new
fashioned Clothes please for q while, but
pinch men hard for the sake of the fashion.


Much Of our early gladness vanishes ut
terly from our memory; we can never re-.
call the Joy with which we laid our heads on
our mothers bosom, or rode our fathers
back in childhood; doubtless that joy is
wrought up in the soft mellowness Of the
apricot-George Eliot


HoNEsTY.-There is no man, but for his
own interest, hath an obligation to be hon
est. There may sometimes be temptations
to be otherwise; but all things considered,
he shall find it the greatest ease, the highest
profit, the best pleasure, the most safety, and
the noblest fame, to be honest.


IDLENEss.--It is mistake to imagine
that only the violent passions, such as am
bition and love, can triumph over the rest.
Idleness, languid as she is, often masters
them all she indeed, influences all our de-
signs and actions, and insensibly consumes
and destroys both passions and virtue.


The man who does nothing don't amount
to much. It makes but little difference
whether he is a millionaire or a pauper. He
is only stagnant pool, without energy
enough to start ripple. He difnses a
moral miasma over everything around him
Do something; don't stand on the corner
gaping with your hands in your pockets
4 like an idiot. The world was made to worl
in, and if you fill your hearts with gooc
angels, the bad spirits will keep out because
there is no room for them.
Year: 1875

FUN AT HoME.-Don't beafraid OF a little
fun at home, good people; don't shut up
your homes lest the sun should fade your
carpets and your hearts, lest hearty laugh
should shake down some Of the musty cob
webs there. If you want to ruin your sons,
let them think that all mirth and social en-
ioyment must be left on the threshold when
they COME in at night. When once home
is regarded as only place to eat, drink and
sleep in, the work is begun that ends in
gambling houses and degradation. Young
people must have fun and relaxation some
where If they do not find it at their own
hearthstones, it will be sought in other, and
perhaps less profitable places. Therefore,
let the fire burn brightly at night, ami make
the home ever delightful with all those lit
tie arts that parents SO perfectly understand
Don't repress the buoyant spirits OF youl
children; half an hour round the lamp and
freight of home blots out the remembrance
of many a care and annoyance during thu
day, and the best safeguard they can taxi
with them into the world is the unseen in
fluence of bright little domestic sanctum
-Dio Lewis.
Year: 1875

SEAsoNABLE ADvIcE.-Getting up in
cold room to make fire is like getting up
in life. If you crawl timidly out of bed, 60
on tiptoe to the stove and allow the shivers
to get control of you before kindling starts,
your fire will probably be failure, and
you will half freeze to death in the opera
ton. But If you jump out bravely, hustle
around, pull on your clothes, kick over
chair or two and pitch in the stove wood
you will probably be to warm by the time
the fire gets to burning. Soin life; attack i
timidly and you fail. Grapple with it
hurry up things, stir around conquer for
tune, and you will be a success.
Year: 1875

A Coop THOUGHT WELL SPoKEN-No
young woman, says contemporary, ever
looks SO well to sensible man as when
dressed in plain, neat modest attire, with
but little ornament about her person She
looks then as though she had worth in her
self and needed no artificial rigging to en-
hance her value. If young woman would
spend as much time improving her mind,
training her temper, and cherishing kind
ness, mercy and other good qualities, as
most Of them do on extra dress and orna-
ments to increase their personal charms, she
would at least be recognized among thou
sand-her character would be read in hei
countenance.
Year: 1875

EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD.


The Berlin correspondent of tho
London Daily Neacs writes to that


journal as follows


Speaking of Wcstphalia, l ought to


bestow a few words upon an artist,
native of that province, whose talent
and perseverance have just completed
very remarkable work. Some thirty
or forty years ago, when the Unity
movement had barely commenced Herr
Ernst Won Bandel, a Westphalian
nobleman devoted to the sculptor art,
convinced the patriotic idea of erect
ing q gigantic statute to Hermann, the
vanquisher of Varus in the Teutoburg
Forest. A grand national monument,
the statute was to reach the enormous
proportions of 100 rect, not to speak
of pedestal and base; and as 1t was to
be placed on the top of hill, tho site
of victory, the difficulty of getting it
in position not little added to the
magnitude of the undertaking.


In spite of all obstacles, what ap-


peared chimera thirty years ago has
now become reality. Assisted by


wealthy friends and occasional public
subscriptions, Herr Won Bandel has
completed the figure, and in two
months expects to witness tho solemn
Inauguration of his monument by the
German Emperor. The statue is of
embossed copper, and has been wrought
| by the hand of the man whose brain
created it, His whole life has beea
consumed in this one object. When
he had done modelling-no small task
in the case of figure five feet long
he took to the hammer and forge, lit


orally formed the immense surface with


his own unaided strength. A good


deal of it was done at tho foot Of the
hill whereupon it aaads, the sculptor


having built himseENsforgeland a..hut
close to his chosen locality. If the
whole isas imposing as the head, which
| saw ten years since, Germany will


possess not only the largest, but also


one of the best statues in Europe.
This eighth wonder of the world
will tower over tho famous oak woods,


near Detmold, the capital of the Prin-


cipality of Lippe.
Year: 1875

The Orleans Dramatic Association is the
first of similar organizations in this city to
unfold its programme for the coming sum
mer season. The first performance will be
given on the thirteenth of May, when will
be played the Robertson comedy called
Society" Other performances will follow
at intervals until September. For this
season the association has concluded an
engagement with Miss Isabel Freeman as
leading lady. The last stock position
occupied by Miss Freeman was as the
leading lady at the New Park Theatre,
in Brooklyn. Since making New Or.
leans her home she has too seldom
appeared in public, but she is by no means
forgotten by those who witnessed her
charming presentations at the old Varieties
Theatre. Miss Freeman first appeared on
the stage in 1860. when she played Juliet at
the Howard Athenaum, in Boston. She
was little more than full grown child
then; but her debut was most successful.
and ever since she has stood in the front
rank of her profession. Miss Maggie Stroud
back and other ladies will assist, and the
prospect is fair for the association to keep
up it's entertainments to the old standard of
excellence.
Year: 1875




According to the provisions of act No. q
of 1875, Colonel William Wright, State reg.
istrar of voters has made every necessary
preparation to secure an accurate and
thorough enumeration of the population OF
Louisiana.


Circulars to the supervisors of registra.
ton who are charged with this duty and
blank forms have been prepared, and will
soon be distributed. In the circular the
duties of the supervisor are clearly indi-
Gated and all necessary information given.


The forms are three in number-twO of
them for the use OF the supervisors in max
ing compilations and the other to represent
only single household.


Colonel Wright designs taking the census
in the city on the English plan; that is, by
households simultaneously. About fort
night before the end Of she month a blank
form will be left with every householder
This contains explicit directions for filling
up, with data Of age, sex, color, nativity,
naturalization Of each person in the house,
together with the trade or calling, voters,
acres of land cultivated and births. These
data the householder is asked to furnish on
honor, and it is hardly to be supposed that
any who are able to fill the blanks them
selves will do SO Incorrectly. They are to
be filled up on the thirtieth day of April
and all collected the following morning
They will then be compiled and forwarded
to Colonel Wright's office, where the heavy
work will be done.


1t will be seen that the scheme compre-
hends an accurate statement of every i'm
portant particular Of the population of the
State at one certain given time. Such a
statement will be invaluable to statisticians,
and of great importance to the welfare of
the State and every person in it. The sue.
csss Of it depends, as it should, entirely on
the people themselves. The State Registrar
has done his duty, thus far, by conceiving
the plan and providing blanks. The super
visors will dc theirs, for they will be stimu-
lated by pride in their work. Their labors
will be valuable or worthless according to
the aid they receive. As there can be no
political object in Withholding the informa.
ton, and if correctly given it will afford
the surest data for future estimates, all
newspapers should urge the people to give
every assistance in their power.
Year: 1875

Mississippi No. 2 and st. Bernard No. l
will give the first grand festival of the
season at the Fair Grounds next Sunday,
and anticipate high old times. Plenty of
sport is promised, and especially of the
kind to please ladies and children, who are
admitted free. Ticket holders will also
have chance to draw gold watch and
chain, piece of silverware or $25 in gold
as their luck is better or worse than the
other holders.
Year: 1875

tee, with instructions to report to.mor-
row. BE thought strange that Judge
Macarthur, of the District of Columbia
Court, should lave decided that he
had jurisdiction, with the record bo.
fore him that each house was Judge of
contempt.


After long discussion tho follow
ing was adopted:


Resolved, That the Sergesnt-at. Arms
be directed to make q careful return to
the writ Of habeas corpus, that the
prisoner is duly held by authority of
the House Of Representatives, to an
swer in proceedings against him for
contempt.


Adjourned. ...
Year: 1875

The Chicagoans have q live King
among them--He arrived yesterday at
SAM. He remains there three days,
and of course will have extended TO
him the hospitalities of the city. He
lis provided for at the Grand Pacific
Hotel, aud to day is doubtless review
Ing the sights and pretty women Of
the city of tho Lakes.
Year: 1875

Since reading the balance Of the
Presidents message after making oul
former remarks upon it, we are more
delighted with its matter and tone. Il
seems TO US that no candid person can
peruse that document and arise from
Its reading without saying that 1t is Z
clear, unbiased statement Of facts and
principles Of law, as well - evincine
the possession Of the highest senti.
ments of patriotism and love Of free
dom for oil men, in the President. He
certainly makes - clear as the noon
day sun that there was no act on the
part Of the military at New Orleans
calling for any denunciation, or the
slightest grounds Of fear or the re.
motest wish to ustain or insugurate
military despotism. How any good
citizens of this country can believe
that the Administration Is desirous OF
infringing upon the rights Of citizens
by the use Of the military power, or
has the remotest idea 90 to do, we can.
not imagine. Is it not perfectly nat
ural to believe what all good men
must feel, snd know, that the utmost
care has been exerted to avoid any
seeming oppression by military force,
Of the citizens Of the South.





Last spring, as the President says,
it was represented to him that no VIC.
lence was likely to ensue, and it was
asked that troops might be removed,
so far as could be, from the State.
Very solicitous to allay all complaints
and desirous to do anything which
would tend in any manner TO concili-
ate. the President did remove all the
troops but q small detachmen left at
New Orleans, from the State. What
cnsued? Why, the most atrocious,
Wholesale numbering, and finally, rev.
oiui,on. IA ,no nanlo or alA lnaL IS
sacred to life and quiet citizenship
in this beloved Republic of ours, is
there no way to stop the terrible
scenes that have for months past trans
pired In Louisiana? Shall great
party triumph in the land whose
great and chief subject Of allegation
against the reigning power is that it
seeks to stop murder and revolution
in sister State, while tho fault-find-
ing party has no word of complaint
against the perpetrators of these he
nious crimes, but on the contrary up.
holds them?
Year: 1875

Don Piatt whose tongue 80 drips
with slander as a Washington CORES
pondent, has got into trouble in the
Pacific Mail subsidy business. He
owns that ho borrowed 5000 of Irwin
but that he gave his note for IL which
was duly paid. That it had no con-
nection with the subsidy. When ask
ed however, who paid the note refer
ed to, he declined to say, as that
involved private transactions. The
committee, upon consultation decided
that he must tell who paid it. This
looks like Don had laid cunning
plan to avoid being caught, but it
looks very thin for him to decline to
tell all about by whom and how said
note was settled. The question call
ing for this part was further querying
than Don had provided for in his
plan.
Year: 1875

The government of the French ma
tion is in an extremity. 1t is fair to
presume that it is but a question Of
time and that time but short, when
another revolution will change again
the character of the French govern.
mcnt. The elements for Republic
do not exist there. 1t is simply Inn
possible for that people to govern
themselues-indeed tits very problem
atical whether they can sustain even .
limited Monarchy.


The prevalence of ignorance and
vice. the intimate intermingling of
Church and State as Is believed in by
her people, the multitudes ofintrigues
proceeding from the various adherants
of the many claimants for the throne,
stimulated by the mercurial character
of the French people, makes it impos-
sible for them to exist " without strong
government lodged In the hands Of a
few. The present year is likely to
witness another change in their form
ofgovernment, and what will be the
new regime is hard to conjecture.
Year: 1875

The look Of sympathy, the gentle word,
Spoken so low that only angels heard
The secret art of pure self sacrifice,
Unseen by men, but marked by angels eyes


These are not lost.
The sacred music of tender strain,
Wrung from poets heart by grief and pain,
And ehsnted timidly, with doubt and fear,
To busy crowds, who scarcely pause to hear,


These are not lost.
The silent tears that fall at dead of ight
Over soiIed robes that once were pure aud white
The prayers that rise like incense from the soul,
Longing for Christ to make it clean and whole


These are not lost.
The happy DIRE % that gladdened all our youth,
When dreams had less OF self and more of truth
The childhOOd's faith, so tranquil and so sweet,
Which sat Ike Mary at the Masters feet


These are not lost.
The kindly plans devised for others good
So seldom guessed, so little understood;
The quiet, stesdfast love that strove to win
Some wandsrer from the ways of sin


These are not lost.
Not lost. o Lord for, in Thy city bright
Our eyes shall see the past by clearer light;
And things long hidden from our gaze below
Thou wilt reveal, aud we shall surely know


These are not lost.