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Year: 1871

A DEATH SUT.-In a New York court
an undertaken sues to recover the amount
of bill for an expensive funeral ordered
by the deceased, who had determined
upon magnificent funeral. The whole
cost of the affair and the amount sued
for was sl,395.0l. Among the items
was one four-horse hearse. OF s35, and
eight coaches at $50, each coach driven
and followed by a driver who wore
black kid gloves bought at wholesale
for 81 per pair. The court found for
the plaintiff, and the estate was COM
PEELED to pay tho bill.
Year: 1871

We expected an article opposed to fence
laws, even in these foot hills, for this number
of the HERALD, by friend living in this
community, but we have not received it,
We are aware that there are two sides to
this question, and we are disposed to give
both a fair showing in our columns. The
greatest good to the greatest possible number
in any particular community is what we de-
sire 70 arrive at, and this can only be reached
by hearing both sides of any question, and
to this end we now say that our columns are
open to the discussion, temperately, respect
fully and at moderate length, of this fence
or no fence question, as applicable to these
foothills. Whatever may be the force of
argument on either side, there is one thing
that the Placer delegation in the Legislature,
and other mountain members, must not lose
sight of for moment in this fence or no
fence law question. We think that no
fence law should not apply and be enforced
in the whole of Placer county, if in any
portion of it, and the point most to be
guarded is, where shall the line be between
the fence and no fence territory. If Sacra-
mento, Sutter, Yuba, or even portion Of
Placer want trespass law and no fences,
then our delegation must insist on inserting
clause prohibiting the stock of these coun-
ties or territory from coming into Placer, oil
being driven here by their owners, and this
clause must provide for the summary and
final disposal of all stock reaching our terri
tory, except that which is merely transitory
If we are to protect our crops, vineyards,
orchards, etc, by fences, it is lis that must
have the use of the public common, which
we have made at our own expense, for oul
own stock. 1t would be unjust, almost in
sane Legislation that would make the people
of this county fence to protect their crops
and then allow men from the valley counties
to overrun us with stock and eat out ou,
range every Summer, and leave our owr
stock to starye and die in the Winter. We
feel confident that our Senators and Assem-.
blymen will take the same view of this ques
ton that we do, and see that no undue advan
tage is taken of their constituents on thi
fence law question.
Year: 1871

The press of the State have almost unani-
mously demanded change in the law of libel,
or rather, farther legislation TO protect pub
fishers from malicious, blackmail, shyster
persecution. We have always favored the
severest penalties for the wiful and mali
cious libeing of any one by a publisher,
even to making the very type responsible,
and to the present law we have no objections
so far as it goes. The writer or informant,
if known or revealed, should be the first
party prosecuted, and second the publisher,
whether by printing or otherwise. This the
law should provide for, as all law should be
directed first against the real criminal. Jures
are the safest judges, except in times Of great
excitement. The real legislation wanted on
this question is to provide a remedy for the
defendant where lie had been wrongfuly
prosecuted, and to this end the Legislature
should enact law giving him the most com
pete remedy demanded by justice. This
remedy would be most readily and easily
provided for in requiring the plaintiff to give
bonds with good security in an amount suf-
fcient to cover all the costs. damages and
attorneys fees accruing to the defendant in
case the verdict is for him. The law re-
quires that bonds must be given before an
attachment can be issued or executed on
property, and yet it would be just as equit-
able to repeal this law as to leave the libel
law as it now stands Under the attachment
law a remedy is provided whereby defend
ant can recover costs and damages if the
suit goes in his favor, and why is the prin
ciple not good in libel? All that we ask is,
that if we are wrongfuly prosecuted and
we prove the fact to the Court and jury. that
we can recover from the plaintiff all that it
has cost us in time, in the procuring OF tes-
timony, attorneys fees, and such damage as
our business has sustained by reason of the
suit, and that is all that any publisher ought
to ask, and less than that is not justice.
The Legislator that refuses this should be
marked by the whole press of the State and
made TO feel his error through all future life.
In framing this simple and just law care
should be taken to make it cover the cases
now pending, for if right, and no man dare
deny its equity, the sooner enacted and en-
forced the better. The law should read,
before the commencement of suit for libel,
or at any time before the final trial Of the
same, or on demand of the defendant, the
plaintiff shall enter into bonds, with good
and approved sureties, etc, etc, to pay all
costs, damages, attorneys fees, etc. accru-
ing to defendant in case of his obtaining
verdict, etc. Hold the press to rigid re-
sponsibty and hold those who prosecute it
to the same responsibility and we are con-
tent This, we believe, is the voice of every
respectable man and newspaper in the State,
and we will not envy that Legislator his iu
ture reputation that denies the press this
simple justice.
Year: 1871

SENATOR Cole was serenaded Grabbing il
in) after his defeat in caucus, and in his re-
marks said, " In the contest just closed !
have MT been backedGby the moneyed corpo-
rations of the State" If Cole will practice
on this idea for the two sessions he has yet
to serve in the Senate the country may reap
some benefit from his defeat
Year: 1871

THE San Joaquin Repablicdn gets great
deal more out of our notice Of the Record
than was in our head when we wrote it, and
yet we don't deny that all the piquant points
unearthed by the Republicans might have
been fairly inferable from the language used,
but if SO the Republicaa is entitled to the
credit of extracting the kernels.
Year: 1871

The child was born in joint convention on the
18th, and Its name is Aaron. Sargent was
shrewd in becoming Republican and remaining
one. That party is composed of men of medioc,
rlty. lie Is large where the rest are all small.
Greatness is matter of comparison.
Year: 1871

1t always fills US with an underlined
feeling Of pleasure to see a thorough
sailor at his post in time Of danger or
need. The graceful evolutions Of vessel
with a good wind and with plenty of
water under aud around her are very fine,
but they ARE the results of rules as simple
as a, b, C; the quick, sharp action that is
required in extraordinary cases, where life
or property is in danger, requires a more
extended knowledge, found only among
men of practical experience. The gentle
man whose name heads this paragraph has
repeatedly proved himself thorough in his
profession, and the safe delivery Of the
schooner Loleta from her rocky berth on
the beach to anchorage, on Tuesday last,
can be credited only to his knowledge and
prompt action. We did not hear one man
say, as we stood among the crowd watch.
ing the work, that he thought the vessel
could be got off, while many expressed
themselves emphatically to the contrary !;
but Willoughby, with his able volunteer
crew, worked away, and when everything
was ready, the windlass was manned, and
the vessel was dragged off. We don't
know what the owners intend doing in the
matter, but handsome present to Capt.
Willoughby, as a testimonial OF their ap-
probation for bis services, would be about
the thing. Not only the owners. of the
schooner, but those who had freight on
her should share in this. At any rate. we
congratulate our Coast Survey Department
for the gallant conduct of one Of its Off
GERS. If all Of our branches of public ser-
vice were oficered by men. as competent,
our country would be much better Of, PEI
cuniarily and otherwise.
Year: 1871

A philosopher hath said He who is
passionate and kssty is generally honest.
It is. your cold assembling hypocrite you
should beware of. There is no deception
in bull dog. 1t is only the cur that
sneaks Rp aud bites you when your back
is turned,
Year: 1871

1t is remarkable that in this great CON-
mercial age, when the science of arithme-
tic and knowledge of the combination Of
figures have produced such wonderful re-
suits, the full accumulative power Of CON-
pound interest should be so little appre-
ciated. We are from time to time aston
isbed with the results of certain instances
that come to the personal knowledge, but
the impression is seldom deep enough to
do more than arrest our attention for the
moment; and yet this power of accumula-
ton really forms the corner. stone in the
foundation upon which the whole system
of life insurance is raised Indeed, an
English writer says " that interest is the
very alchemy of life assurance aud all
monetary investments; it transmutes even
the most vulgar coppcrs into masses of
hard and solid gold"


The operation Of simple interest is ia
miliar to all of us; but let US take the
words of Mr.. Hillman as lucid cxplana-
ton of what compound interest really is:
Compound interest is the rccompensc
for the loan and the forbearance Of the
simple interest arising therefrom, which is
added to the original sum at each period
Of its becoming due. aud forms a new
principal upon which simple interest is
paid at the next period, when the same
process is undergone"


In comparing simple with compound in
terest, we find that money will double
itself through the former medium in l4l
years, by calculating it at per cent; but
compounded at the same rate, the same
amount will be doubled in 10l years.


The difference, however, is made more
striking by the calculation Of Mr.. Francis
Bailey, who discovered that if two cents
had been put out at 5 per cent. compound
interest at the birth of Christ, it would by
the year 1910 have amounted to more
money than could have been expressed by
357 millions Of globes, each equal to the
earth in magnitude, of solid gold of stand
ard quality; whereas, if the calculation
had been made at simple interest, it would
not have amounted to over 81 83.


Mr.. Hillman carried the larger calcula-
ton on to the end of the 1916, resulting
in quantity too large for human compre-
heusion.
Year: 1871

n1r An Iowa girl, who read Cooper's
novels until she became impressed with the
idea that she never could be happy unless
as the bride Of \" red man Of the forest," I"
found ono last week, married him and
went to the banks Of the sylvan stream
where he trapped muskrats. She only
stayed one night aud came home with .
black eye, and had to send out for bottle
Of hair restorative. Itseems the noble saw
age got drunk and punched her in the eye
while his old squaw went among her hair.
The girl don't want any more Indian if
she knows her own heart.
Year: 1871

SOMETHING FOR THE LADIEs.-Science
has made discovery of a new method Of
bleaching white goods. 1t is as simple as
it is said to be efficacious, and is vouched
for by German chemists. 1t consists in
dissolviug one part oil and turpentine in
three parts strong alcohol, aud placing a
tablespoonful of the mixture in the water
for the last rinsing. The clothes are to
be immersed in this, we'll wrung out and
placed in the open air to dry, not in q
room. The bleaching action Of the oil Of
turpentinc consists in its chan ging oxygen
into ozone, when exposed to the light, and
in this process the turpentine disappears,
leaving no trace behind. 1t is SO simple
as to warrant one or moro trials.
Year: 1871

SEVERE REpRooF.-A little shoe black
called at the residence of clergyman, and
solicited a piece Of bread and some water
the servant was directed to give child
some bread from the crur- basket, and as
the little fellow walking slowly away and
sitting the gift between his fingers for a
piece large enough to chew the minister
called him back and inquired if he had
ever learned to pray. On receiving a
negative answer, the minister directed him
to say 'Our Father but he could not un-
derstand the familiarity.


els it our Father-your Father-my
Father 2"


"Why, certainly"


The boy looked at him awhile, and then
commenced crying and at tho same time
holding up his crust Of bread, and exclaim.
ing between his sobs:


You say your Father is my Father,
and yet you aren't ashamed to give your
little brother such darned stuff as this to
eat, when you have got so many good
things for yourself"
Year: 1871

dCIS ABDUL inc money bces


There are three classes of bees in hive
the worker, queen and drone.


Queens are raised by peculiar food and
treatment from eggs that would otherwise
produce workers.


The worker is an undcveloped female.
Workers, in the absence of the queen,
sometimes lay eggs. These invariably
produce drones.


The queen lives from two to FIVE years.
The worker from two to three months in
the working season, and from six to eight
during the season of rest.


The queen is perfected in fifteen or six.
teen days from the egg, the worker in
twenty to twenty one, and the drone in
ty-four.


The queen usually commences laying
from two to three thousand eggs in a day.


The impregnation Of the queen always
takes place outside the hive, on the wing,
aud generally the fourth or fifth day after
leaving the cell. Excepting in rare cases,
one impregnatiou answers for life. The
drone she has mated with dies immediate.
ly.


The eggs of an unimpreguated queen
produces nothing but drones and it is
generally conceded that impregnatiou does
not affect the drone progeny; consequent
ly, the male progeny of pure Italian
queen is pure without regard to the drone
she has mated with.


The queen aud worker are provided
with stings but while the latter will use
it upon any provocation, the former will
only use it on her own rank. The drones
have no sting.


One queen, as a rule, is all that is tol-
Grated in hive; but previous to throw
ing off " after swarms," two or more queens
are permitted in the same hive for short
time; but the extra ones are disposed Of
In case of superseding a queen, the old
one is preserved until the new one is fitted
to take the place. Queens have o deadly
hatred for each other, and will destroy, if
permitted, all queen larvae or cell in the
hive, and will fight each other until there
is but one living one left.


Bees gather three kinds Of products ;
Propolis, from the gum trees and shrubs,
for fastening the joints and cracks Of their
hives; pollen, or bee bread, from flowers.
for feeding their young and themselves ;
and honey, which constitutes the main
food Of the hive. Water is also carried
into the hive during the breeding season,
for mixing with the food for their young !;
salt is also made uso Of for the same pur-
pose.


Wax, like fat, is an animal product and
is secreted by the bees in thin scales from
tho underside of the body. While doing
this, they consume large quantities of
honey-from fifteen to twenty pounds for
every pound of wax secreted.


A frightened bee, or one filed with
honey, is not disposed to sting.


"A good swarm contains about twenty
thousand bees.


A strong or medium hive, with good
laying queen, is never seriously troubled
with the moth worm; but hive without
a queen or means of raising one is sure
to be taken by them.


Bees recognize each other by their
scent.


The first one or two weeks of the young
bees life is spent inside the hive, as
nurse of a wax worker.


The range of bees fight for food is
generally within two or three miles; much
greater range is but of little benefit to
them.
Year: 1871

|G hlpulsil taught in the common


n&s. Leteach teacher keepa GER
1nea record Of attendance, and on
thing the same under oath with the
township treasurer, receive so much
per head for each pupil he has taught.
IN this way each teacher would get
pay for only the work done, and the
teachers UNFIT for the profession
would soon have to leaveit, for they
would get nobusiness."
Year: 1871

FROM POLE TO PoLE-A merchant
going ho ne elevated, staggered against
telegraph pole. Beg your pardon"
said he, " | hope no offense. It's rather
dark, and the street is so narrow, you
see, In few moments he came in con-
tact with another pole. Couldn't help
it, sir, said he lifting his hat; Il never
saw such crooked lanes as we have in
this city!" Again he ran against pole,
this time with force that sent him back
ward to the ground. "Look here, neigh
Dor, you needn't push a fellow down be-
cause he happens to touch you: the road
is as much mine as yours, and have as
much right to be here as you have, you
old stick in the mudW He picked him
self up, aud made another effort to reach
home, but he soon came plump against
another pole. i shan't make any more
apologies said he; if you get into
the middle of the street and stand in my
way, that your lookout, not mine" Pro-
ceeding on his journey again, and be-
coming dizzy, he seemed to be entangled
in an inextricable labyrinth Of telegraph
poles, which led him to make general
speech. Gentlemen you are not doing
the fair thing. You do not give mana
chance. You run from one side of the
street to the other, right in my way"


just then he met a friend, and taking
him by the hand, he said: There is q
procession going along the street, and
every man is drunk they have been
running against call the way. knock
ed one of the fellows down, and one of
the fellows knocked me down, and then
a lot of them got around me, and | be-
lieve they would have whipped me with
in ali inch of my life, if you had not
come to my rescue. Let us 90 out of
the street before the procession comes
back, for they are all drunk"
Year: 1871

How TO KEEP WATER CooL.-Wa-
ter can be kept cool for drinking in
warm weather by the following method:
Get fresh water let it be kept in an un-
glazed earthern ware pitcher, wrapt
around with two or three folds of coarse
cotton cloth kept constantly wet. The
theory of cooling water in this manner
is the absorption of heat from it by the
evaporation of the moisture in the cot
ton cloth-expansion produces cold, COM
preston heat.
Year: 1871

WHAT WE SHOULD EAT.-Those who
expect to think, says the chronological
journal, should not eat much food which
simply produce warmth and fat, such as
ham, fat pork white bread, butter, rice,
tapioca and starch. These contain very
little phosphate food, being carbonace-
Gus.


The proper food for laboring men
we mean those who have to exercise mus
cular strength chiefly should be that
which contains the greatest amount OF
nitrogen. Among these barley and
cheese stand high. The red flesh of the
OK or sheep and unbolted bread are the
leading articles. Men who train prize
| fighters seem to understand much better
than others how to build up physical
strength and endurance. When their
battle or their race is ended, they lay
aside their unbolted bread and fruit, their
lean beef and mutton, and fall into their
old habit of liquor-drinking and of eating
starch bearing articles, such as rice, fine
bread, pudding, with fat meat and but
ter, and they soon become as fat and
| lazy as the carbonaceous articles can
make them.


If man wants to stand the cold he
may eat buckwheat cakes with butter,
syrup, fat pork and white beans but let
him look out when hot weather comes
for bilious fevers, pimples on the face
and rank smell of the whole system,
and muddy, dirty complexion. Men
living at the north pole, OF near it, can
drink fish oil by the quart, or eat pounds
of cake tallow, and the cold climate will
burn it out; but in warm or temperate
regions the food should be so selected as
to furnish nourishment for muscle, bone,
brain, and warmth in proper proper
| tions.


The student should eat articles which
are pretty largely charged with phos-
pilates or brain food the laborer, those
articles containing nitrate or food for
muscle; aud those who are much expos
ed to cold, but not required to exert
muscular strength, that kind of food
which is largely chared with carbonates
or heat produces.
Year: 1871

Up this world and down this world.
And over this world and through.


Though drifted about.


And tossed without,
Still paddle your own canoes"
What if the breakers rise up ahead.
With dark waves rushing through.


More steadily try


With steadfast eye
To paddle your own canoe"
If hurricane rise in the midnight sky.
And the stars are lost TO view.


Glide safely along.


" it'll smile and song,
And paddle your own canoe"
Never give up when trials come
Never grow sad and blue;


Never sit down,


With q tear or frown.
But paddle your own canoe"
There are daises springing along the shores,
Blooming and sweet for you ;


There are rose hued dyes


In the autumn skies
Then paddle your own canoe"
Year: 1871

Fanny Foo-Foo was Japanese girl
child of the great IycoQni
She wore her head bald. and her clothes were
:, Half petticoat half pantaloon
Her face was the color Of a lemon peel
And the shape of a tablespoon.
A handsome chap was Johnny Hi-Hi.
And he wore paper muslin clothes
His glossy black hair on the top of his head
>, In the form Of shoe brush rose;
His eyes slanted downward. as If some chap
Had savagey pulled his nose.
Fanny Foo-Foo loved Johnny HILL
And when in the usual style
He popped she bushed such deep orange tinge
You'd have thought shed too much bile
III II hadn't been for her slant-eyed glance
And her charming wide-mOuthed smile.
And oft in the bliss of their newborn love
Did these little pagans stray
All around in spots, enjoying themselves
In u strictly japanese way;
She bowling a song to a one-stringed Lutte
On which she thought she could play;
Often he'd climb to a ladders high top.
And quietly there repose,
As he stood on his head and famed himself
While see balanced him on her nose;
Or else she would get in pickle tub.
And be kicked around on his toes.
The course of true love, even in Japan,
Often runs extremely rough;
And the fierce Tycoon, when he heard of this.
Used japanese oaths so tough
That his courtiers hair would have stood on end
If only they'd had enough.
80 the Tycoon buckled on both his swords,
In his pistol placed a wad,.
And went out to hunt the truant pair
With his nerves braced by a tod
He found them enjoying their guileless selves
On top of lightning-rod.
Sternly he ordered the gentle Foo-Foo
TO Come down out OF that there r.,
Then he told Hill 10 go TO place
/ won't say precisely where;
Then he dragged off his child, whose spasms


eyinced


Unusually wild despair.
But the Tycoon. alas was badly fooled,
Despite his pate rnal pains
For John with toothp pick, let all his blood
Out of his jugular veins;
While with back somersoult on the floor
Foo-Foo battered out her brains.
They buried them both in the Tyeoon's lot,
Right under a dogwood tree,
Where they could list to the nightingale and
The buzz of the bumble-bee;
And where the Musketo's sorrOwful chant
Maddens the restless flea
And often at night. when the Tycoon's wife
Slumbered sound a post.
His almon-shaped eyeballs looked on sight
That scared him to death almost
Twas bald headed spectre fitting about
With paper muslin ghost.
Year: 1871

A Hoosier having learned somewhere
that the best method of egress from this
life was to shut ones self up and burn
charcoal, he was found the other day
sitting in the center of ten acre lot
near very comfortable fire of that ma.
telial. As he had not put the bss M.
it didn't operate.
Year: 1871

Any amount and every class of Insurance required
can be placed at this Office in the best Companies
and at as low rates at any agency in the country
Expiration Notices Promptly Given.


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Year: 1871

A Nav YORK Herald dispatch says a


scheme is on foot for the Impeachment of
the President. The subject was under con
sidsrasion in the Democratic Congressiona al
Committee en- the 9Th will be further pursu-
ed. 1t is believed that Montgomery Blair
is at the bottom of il. The main charge
Will be for violations of international law
and usurpation of war powers in connection
with the attempted annexation of San Dom