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Year: 1876

Senator SATTERWHITE OF san Her
nardino, has introduced bill to grant
OLIVER M. NAzENCRoFr and his as
sociates, about two and half millions
of acres of land, upon condition that
they introduce an indefinite amount
of water along the lines of travel
across the Colorado Desert. The HER
AID has frequently alluded to this
subject before, we have always eonsid-
cred it nothing more nor less than a
ring job, which was being put up on
the Government, but until this bill
was presented we did not know the
precise status of the affair. All its
previous advocates appear to favor the
idea of turning the desert into an in-
land bay, by which the whole South
ern coast was to be blessed with Sum
mer showers, and refreshing Summer
breezes, with general change OF eli
mate, which was to turn this whole
Southern coast into an Eden. Being
perfectly satisfied with our climate as
it is, and believing that If is the best
on the globe, we demurred to making
any change. 1t now appears that this
lake business was only blind presen-
ted by the ring as feeler. The o.


ect is, not to make lake, or change
the climate. but is one of pure benev-
olence, that of giving water to the
weary traveller.


The leader of this ring informs the
legislature that once he came very
near losing his own precious life on
that very desert. Under the influence
of thirst his humanity was so impress
sed, and his benevolence excited
to that degree, that he resolved to put
water OH that desert for the benefit of
all future wayfarer5 provided the gov
eminent would donate the pitiful
amount of two millions of acres of
land. Here is paragon of benevo-
lencc, the like of which we may not
see again in this generation. What
blessed thing suffering is.


"Affiictons though they seem severe


In mercy are often sent"


None but those who hive passed
through the furnace can appreciate
this wonderful stretch of benevolence
This is all very kind on the part of Mr..
WAZENCRoFr, but we presume our leg
islature will hardly tax his over
wrought humanity to perform this no.
BILE act of charity for us. 1t has been
twenty-s years since this unfortu-
nate man passed over the desert and
such suffering. Things have
changed considerably since that early
day. We have railroad running
across that country now and travellers
can ride over it in few hours. Be-
sides there are stations and settlements
framing all along the route and some
of this land is worth five, ten and some
as high as twenty dollars an acre, and
if the govern ment will spend few
thousand dollars iii digging a canal,
hundred thousand acres Of it can be
made to bring fifty dollars an acre.
Year: 1876

A country editor once received the
following: Dear Sir: | have looked
carefully and patiently over your pa
per for six months for the death of
some individual / was acquainted
with, but as yet not single soul |
care anything about has dropped off.
You will please to have my name
eksed.n
Year: 1876

PRA1sE no man too literally before
his face nor censure him to lavishly
behind his back; the one savors Of
flattery, the other Of malice, and are
both reprehensible; the true way to
advance another's virtue is to follow
it; and the best way to cry down an.
others vice is to decline it. -
Year: 1876

AN exchange wants somebody to
invent new dance for the girls
Yes, do! Get up one where the young
ladies dance around the house helping
the old lady to get breakfast. wash
the dishes, and sling dirty shirts in
the wash-tub. Do, and see how the
girls won't-dancc worth cent.
Year: 1876

A Buffalo man dreamed that he was
going over the falls, and he had his
wife by the throat when he woke up.
Next night she had a dream, and broke
his nose as she struck at an Indian. ]
Year: 1876

MEMENTo OF A GEORGIA CYCLONE
A Talbot County gentleman has a large
block of pine tree into winch a plank
was deeply driven by the force OF one of
the hurricanes or cyclones OF last spring
The plank. which was about an inch in
thickness and six inches in width, was
torn by the fury of the storm from a
house. 1t was not splintered or shivered
by the collision, but entered the body of
the tree as clearly as If it had been a piece
of sharp-edged iron driven in by a maui.
The force and velocity must have been
tremendous. On one side the block had
been cut to the depth of about three
inches, without reaching the end of the
plank that entered the tree. II probably
extended to the depth of at least four
inches, and did not split the tree in the
least. tits understood that this wonder
full memento of the power of the wind
will be sent to the Signal Service
Bureau, where it will give beholders a
faint idea of the force of Georgia
cyclone Ne,cs.
Year: 1876

Do you know what they arel Did yon
ever try to lie down on theml They are
hard, starchy things, with beautiful
monograms embroidered all over them.
They won't fold up, but rustic and slip
off of the bed on the floor; they are al
ways ready for n launch out into some
place where they ought not to be. Back
of them, as they are pinned on TO the
pillows, you can see the Sing Sing stripe
of the vulgar ticking in which the isn-
aginary goose-feathers are enclosed.
Then, too, there is broad, white, hard
piece of embroidered linen, which goes
across the bed, with a stiff, large mono
gram on it, This is also ''sham," and
is always put on when strangers are
coming into the ROOM lt looks like a
piece of fancy pie-crust. oh, how
man hates these shams; how he hings
them away when he is alone in the house
and tells the chambermaid never to
bring them out while the wife and fami-
Iy are away Why do women take such
comfort with theml Why is the white
connterpane so religiousiy guarded from
the tired man when he wants to lie
down, but don't want to fold up this
thick article into its lawful creases, and
put it away in the closet, and then take
off the unmanagesble '.shams' and stow
them awayl Then there are the Tides.
They are always coming off on your
head and shoulders, "Piek up that tidy,
DEAR This is about the last word nom
the madam as you leave the room.
ssDon's put your head ON the tidy


This is the booming minute gun Of do
nestle danger wheE the cigar Is lighted,
and the newspaper is obtained, and the
home-eirele for the evening is begun
Then there are the white dresses Tor the
children. of course they will play on
their hands and knees, and will get soiled
and marred with nursery warfare; OF
course the servants will complain OF the
big wash, and the quantity of starched
clothes required for the demands of the
family wardrobe why not dress the
children in colored clothesl why not put
WOODEN articles on them such as Mrs
As children wear" How queer
you men talk, Don't you know tbat
Mrs, A-doesn'tl live on-street, and
doesn't go with our set at alli How
mortified | should feel If Mrs. B
should call and see the children dressed
in different way from her own Thaf
is the way the talk goes on between the
public realities of bills and the domestic
shams of embroidered white dresses. "lt
is worse than wicked, my dear, said
Punch, the other day, representing
mother speaking to her little daughter
..It is worse than wicked-it is vulgar
-AppSetoB's Journal.
Year: 1876

SOME one well says, 81 would not
give much for your religion unless it can
be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they
do shine. A light house sounds no drum,
it beats no gong, and yet far over the
water its friendly spark can be seen by
the mariner. So let your actions shine
in matters of religion. Let the main
sermon of your life be illustrated by
your conduct and it shall not fail to be
illustrious.n
Year: 1876

ONE OF TIE WoMES.-A woman of
the strong minded sort arrived here yes
terday on the Idaho stage. She took a
position in the passenger depot, protect
ed ON one side by a revolver, and on the
other by fiat iron, thus defended, await
ed the arrival of the train. When the
locomotive bell announced the arrival
of the cars she took her revolver in one
hand, walked up TO the ticket office,
purchased her pasteboard, and then, TAX
ing her fiat iron, boarded the train the
moment it came TO stop. She was evi.
IDENTIFY determined to protect herself, and
seemed disappointed that nobody at
tempted to modest her.
Year: 1876

ETERNITY is a solemn word and SOL
emn world. The soul of man shrinks
back with DISNEY and dread from enter
ing that abode of spirits. And yet all
are on their way to eternity, and must
soon enter it, and enter it alone. But
how little think the gay and pleasure
loving, who tread so near its dark shores,
how soon they must launch away on
that untried ocean.
Year: 1876

MAY be one of the weakest, provided
only in my weakness, that immortal and
better vigor be put forth with greater
effect; provided only in my darkness, the
light OF the divine countenance does but
the more brightly shinei for then shall
at once be the weakest and the most
mighty, shall be at once blind and of the
most piercing sight. Milton.
Year: 1876

them"


Though heroes on their camping ground
BE strong with body guards besei:
And fearless warriors stand around,
With cleaning sword and bayOnet;
Yet slumber may the eye beguile,


Or treachery her art employ;
And fancy fear no peril, while


The foe is rushing TO destroy.
But all along my humble way,


My every step is guarded well;
For following close, by night and day,
There walks an unseen sentinel.
Sent from the armies of the sky,
Thy life from danger to defend,
No motion can escape His eye


of lurking foe, or treacberOus friend.
When on the mountain heights climb,
Or wander in the valley alone,
lie watched, lest at any time


| dash my foot against stone.
In burning heat and noon-dav light,
His lowering wing is DER me bent,
And on my pathway every night
see the shadow of His tent
When sorrows Thong with pointed sting
And all my fears within me stir,
hear the rustling of his wing,
And see his flashing scimeter.
And when | cease my plaintive cries,
For then know my fears are vain;
And that to-morrow's sun shall rise,
And look upon an army slain.
And when the universal foe


Shall seize and rob me of my breath,
Then will he strike the cOnquering blow,
And break the mighty arms OF death.


-Presbyterida Weekly
Year: 1876

THE FATAL DELUsIoN.-One of the
saddest sights in the world is to see man
deceived in reference to the salvation of
his soul, and yet determined not to
know the truth. Who, when you ap-
proach him kindly, and ask him to ex-
anime and see for himself what God
says in reference to his eternal welfare,


turns upon you with anger, and ae-
counts you as an enemy, calls you a
fanatic, and most contemptuously casts
aside the words of divine truth. He
may be a member of the Church, posi-
bly, minister, but whoever assumes a
hostile attitude toward the doctrine of
Christian purity can never enter heaven.
Year: 1876

The hotels at Rehoboth will close this
week. On Saturday last there were only
ten guests at the Bright House, and fifteen
at the Surf House. The weather there is
very cool. We understand that Mr.. Bright
is trying to get Mr.. Ryder. of the Surf
House, to take the Bright House for the
season of 1877.
Year: 1876

To LAD1Es.-A gentleman from New
York is here introducing an article worth
notice. 1t consists Of q sweeper for heavy
carpets, q wall duster and scrubbing brush,
with patent extension handle. He will
canvass the city, and housekeepers will miss
seeing q very useful improvement by being
engaged when he calls.
Year: 1876

oSVtys


NEW YORK, January 31.-Mrs. Fuchs,
the wife of the murderer tells the follow
ing story: Simmons came TO the house
about 9 o'clock Thursday evening bring
ing doll for the little cir, There was
brandy and beer in the house, and after
drinking the beer Fuchs went out and
got three pints more and all OF US drank X
the beer. Simmons said he was ashamed
to 20 home drunk and 80 l said hs might
STAY and sleep with Fuchs and would
sleep with Ellen for we had only two
rooms and Simmons agreed to this. My
husband says slept on the hoor and
that was unfaithful, but was SO drunk
knew nothing of it tor my husband and
child put me to bed and tell on the
floor and cut my face When got up in
the morning l saw body on
the floor of the kitchen and Fuchs
taking it by the heels and dragged it in
to the the bed room to cut it up and when
saw it called out we will be hung; l
did not see the body cut up. AS the wo-
man told this she wept bitterly. An
dreos Fuchs or Victor Kretz says he
worked for three years with Simmons,
but never had difficulty with him. He
SAYS Simmons was in the habit of visit
ing his wife while he was at work and
that about six months age he had detect
cd them in the crime He says Thurs
day they both drank beer and he went
out to buy more beer and when he re-
turned found his wife violating her mar
riare VOW. Calling his stepchlld Ellen
as witness of her mothers crime, he
seized the hatohet which was
there and struck Simmons
dead with one blow. The next morning
be intended to give himself up, but his
wife persuaded hln not to do so. On
Friday he took the body into the bed
room and cut it up, packing the pieces
away in different places until he could
get rid OF them.
Year: 1876

lection or preservation Of the improve.
ments then existing or commenced and
not completed at that date. II so, state
and specify what improvements have
been so made, :. in what parts of the
city, who are contractors on the work;
who they were paid to lin 365 bonds OF
otherwise) and the amount so paid, now
due or to become due TO such contractors
Further state whether there was any
open competition for such work under
advertisements and if so in what
cases and whether the lowest responsible
bidder obtained the contract. The cem.
missioners are also asked among other
things to state whether they have made
any estimate of personal property in the
district that can be reached by taxation
if SO state the estimate and amount OF
tax that in their opinion can be realized
therefrom at the present rate and at 2
per cent on said valuation. The com.
mite will thoroughly investigate the
official acts of the commissioners for the
District.
Year: 1876

1t awakens very lively interest in
the typographical features of the coun-
try, when you know that any hill or ra-
vine may conceal party of the enemy.
There is little rear or front in the usual
Indian fight. In fact it is all front, for
they circulate on all sides, and shoot
from every point which offers n place Of
concealment. When the Sioux attacked
Gen. Crook in the valley of the Rose
bud, Just before the Custer disaster, the
fire opened in the rear, front and fanks,
within five minutes of the time the first
shots were heard. There are no non
combatants in such an affair. One
place Is as safe or unsafe as another,
and every man who has a gun goes in
to use it if he wishes to save his scalp.
1t is entirely a mistake, however, that
only the cavalry are of use in Indian
fighting. Tue infantry carrying rifles
which shoot closer and further than the
cavalry carbine, have driven the Indians
from positions which cavalry were una
bic to carry. These savages understand
the difference between the infantry and
cavalry gun, as well as the men who
carry them; but they will make bold
stand against both. Artillery, however,
is the thing that demoralizes them. Let
a shell explode among a lot of rocks in
which they have been making stand
against the musketry, and there will not
an Indian remain a moment longer than
is sufficient for him to Jump and run.
Brave as the Sioux are, and they are the
bravest of their race, they will never
stand against field guns: but, with
small arms alone, it is the opinion of
officers here who have fought them, that
it requires man to man to thoroughly
thrash them. This may seem strange
talk to people who have been accus-
toned to believe that one white man
was equal to any three Indians, but 1
give the opinion of gentlemen of un-
questioned courage who are thoroughly
acquainted with the Sioux.-Cor. N. Y.
Times.
Year: 1876

A SINGULAR FACT.-A recent traveller
in Mexico, who visited the mines there
during his journeys, says that he was
much astonished at seeing the men who
carry the ore come out of the mine,
each with an eye open. The foreman,
seeing his. surprise, explained the mat
ter. he said the candles belonging to
the tarateros (who drill and blast) do
not give sufficient light in the drifts,
where it is consequently quite dark, but
where. nevertheless, the tarateros see
well enough not to run their heads
against the rocks. But on emerging
into daylight, they would be blinded
did they not take precautionary meas
ures. For this reason, as they approach
the mouth of the shaft, at the point
where they catch the first glimpse of
light, they drop the eyelid of one eye,
and keep this down while discharging
their ore, and until they have rede-
scended the shaft. When they are again
in the dark, they open the eye kept
hitherto in reserve, and at once they see
everything distinctly; while the other
eye, previously open and blinded some-
what by the daylight, perceives nothing
at all.
Year: 1876

HATH Doc CONSCIENCE ?"-"Hath
q dog conscience?" quoth the corporal
II had this dog for several years, and
had never, even in his puppyhood,
known him to steal. Nevertheless, on
one occasion he was very hungry and
in the room where 1 was reading, and
he was sitting there within easy reach
of o savory mutton chop was greatly
surprised to see him stealthily remove
this chop and take it under the sofa.
However, 1 pretended not to observe
what had occurred, and waited to see
what would happen next. For fully
quarter of an hour this terrier remained
under the sofa without making a sound,
but doubtless an agony of contending
feelings. Eventually, however, con-
science came off victorious, for, emerg
ing from his place of concealment, and
carrying in his mouth the stolen chop,
he came across the room and laid the
tempting morsel at my feet. The mo-
ment he dropped the stolen property he
bolted again under the sofa, and from
this retreat no coaxing could charm
him for several hours afterwards. More
over. when during that time he was
spoken to or pstted, he always turned
away his head, in a ludicrously con-
science-stricken manner. Altogether I
do not think it would be possible to
imagine more satisfactory exhibition
of conscience by an animal than this;
for it must be remembered, as already
stated, that the particular animal in
question was never beaten in his life. y
Quarterly journal Of Science.
Year: 1876

A RAT IN THE TELEGRAPH SERVICE.
A telegraph inspector in England recent
ly pressed into his service II rat under the
following peculiar circumstances 1t was
necessary to overhaul cable of wires
! inclosed in iron tubes. A certain length
of the cable had to be taken out Of the
tube, and the men commenced hauling
at one end without having taken the
precaution to attach to the othera wire
by which it might be drawn back into
the tube after inspection aud repairs.-
The question arose how the cable was to
be restored to its proper place; and here
the ingenuity of the inspector was mani
tested. lie invoked the aid of a rat catch
er, and, provided with large rat, fer
ret, and ball Of string wound on Morse
paper drum, he repaired to the opening
in the tube. The " flush boxes We're
opened, and the rat with one end Of the
string attached to his body, was put into
the pipe. lie scampered away at II rae
ing pace, dragging the twine with him
until he reached the middle Of the length
of the pipe, and there stopped. The fer
ret was then put in, and oil went the rat
again until he sprang clear out the next
fush-b box. One length of the cable was
thus safe, and the same operation was
commenced with the other ; but the rat
stopped short few yards iii the pipe,
and boldly awaited the approach of the
ferret. A sharp combat here commenced,
and it was feared that one or both OF the
animals would die in the pipe. But, af-
ter sundry violent jerks had been given
to the string, the combatants separated
the ferret returned to his master, and the
rat, making for the other extremity of
the pipe, carried the string right through,
and so relieved the inspector from his
anxiety. POpuidT Science MOnthiy.
Year: 1876

Economy IN FLAG RAIsING.-Tho re-
sources Of nomenclature have been cx-
haustcd in finding names for the places
occupied by ex Confederates about the
House this Winter. The matter has its
pathetic side, and | have no heart to en-
ter the rich field of sarcasm and inyective
which might be worked so productivity.
II is curious to find an Confederate,
who fought all through the war against
the flag, now intrusted with the duty OF
raising the same old flag over the Capitol
each day; perhaps he silences his scruples
by rejecting that he only draws big
salary for filing the office, and pays Il
negro ten cents day for doing the work.
Still it must gravel him somewhat that
he now earns his bread by taking care OF
the flag he fought against Wash. Cor'
ohio State journal.
Year: 1876

One of the most marked features of an
age of luxury, and one of the strangest at
first sight, is the tendency to cruel and
degrading forms of amusement. The
recreations of the Roman nobility and
populace in the palmy days of the empire
were only less terrible than battles. Rt-
mem ct c(rceRSeS meant fearful amount
OF needless agony both to brutes and to
men. The Greeks seem to have clung
throughout their history TO nobler con-
ception of the recreations of great peo-
| pie. In their games humanity was not
outraged, tho sands of the arena were not
red with blood. And they retained their
humanity even in the hour of national
weakness and degradation. When an
Emperor of Rene offered to exhibit glad
iatorial games with them, the Athenians
nobly replied that they must throw down
their altar to Pity first. But the altar to
Plty was never erected in Rome there
was sterner and more cruolstrain in the
Roman blood, and their games at last be-
came SO horribly ferocious and destructive
that Christianity succeeded in making
even Romans ashamed of them; and
when TelemaChus offered himself as n
sacrifice in the arena, the Institution,
which was doomed already by the public
opinion which Christianity had gradually
developed, was formally branded and
banished from the world.


But all ages of luxury easily run into
cruelty. 1t seems strange that the
softness of luxury and the ferocity of
cruelty should be found so constantly in
close alliance. But tho truth is that lux
ury lowers tho tone of the moral man
hood and the appetite for simple, manly
pleasures. To healthy frame the sensa-
ton of life is enjoyment; the play of the
muscles and limbs in breasting mount
ain or stemming stream, or battling
against natural danger and difficulty,
yields the keenest pleasure. To frame
pampered by luxurious living and jaded
by excitement, II strong stimulus must
be applied to stir it TO activity natural
pleasures are exhausted, and natural APP
petites are palled. The mind Graves its
drains of stmulant as we'll as the body,
and all kinds Of unnatural excitement
present irresistible temptation to those
who have fallen into an unnatural habit
Of life. And just as one ho is sure to
breed larger lie to cover it, SO one slim
ulant is sure to generate the craving for II
stronger stimulant, to counteract tho las
situde which it leaves rs its legacy; and
so addiction to stimulants grows, and at
last becomes master in the house of life.
A luxurious age has already departed
from the healthy conditions of living; it
is sure to crave some strong form OF eY-
cltement in its amusement the craving
grows by what it feeds upon and 50 the
recreations Of such an age or people be-
come continually more coarse and de-
grading until, if there is no restraining,
renewing force at work, they drag the
life of the people down to the pit.-En-
giiSh IidepeRdeHt.
Year: 1876

A FoRT MADISON man went into his
COW stable tho other day, and, by mistake
mixed her up nice mash in a box full
of saw dust instead of bran. The COW,
merely supposing the hard times had
come and they were all going to econo-
mize, meekly ate her supper, and that
man never discovered his mistake until
the next morning, when he MIXED that
COW, and she let down hafa-gallon OF
turpentine, a quart Of shoe-peg' and a
bundle Of laths.- Burlington Hdpkeye.