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Year: 1871

We commend the following ex-


tract to the thoughtful study Of the
eSoung. Nothing is so disgusting
nnd repugnant to the feelings Of
the noble and good. as to hear tile
young, or even the old, use pro.
fame, low, or vulgar languaSe.-
The young of our town are partic.
ularly guilty of profanity. In our
day, it seems the boy" does not
feel himself q " man" unless he can
excel in this great sin.


" We would guard tho Young
against the use of every word that
is not strictly proper. Use no pro.
fame expression-allude to no sen.
terce that will put to- blush the
most sensitive. You know not the
tendency of babitually using indie.
cent and profane language. l
may never be obliterated from
your heart. When you grow MP
you will find at your tongues end
some expression which you would
not use for any money. 1t was
used when quite young. BY using
care you will save yourself a great
deal Of modification and sorrow.
Good men have taken s elk and be-
come delirious. In these moments
they used the most vile and indie
cent language imaginable. When
Informed of it after restoration to
health they had no idea of the pain
they caused they had learned and
repeated the expressions in child.
hood, and though years had passed
since, they had been indelibly
stamped upon the heart. Think of
this, yon who are tempted to use
improper language, and never dis
grace yourselves"


ONE Of the peculiarities of the
Government of tho Paris Com.
mune was the great preponder-
ance in the really influential posi-.
tioDs OF foreign adventures. That
these men, composed Of almost
every nationality, were involved
in the leadership of the movement.
is shown in recalling the names of
many Of them. The question is,
how did the majority of these men
find themselves in Paris inst at the
luncture when their reckless polit.
ical systems might find opportuni-
ty for action2 1t is not clear that
they were in the city before the
war, and but little time was afford.
cd them to reach Paris during the
interval between the departure of
the Germans and the flight OF the
Theirs Government. Their pres.
ence in Paris, with all their hair
Drained theories, must always have
something of the mysterious at.
tachcd to it but there the myste
ry connected with them ends.
Year: 1871

No less than sixteen kinds of balls are
IN use, from the regulation ball to the
children's or fancy ball, and prices vary
from SIS to IS cents dozen. Some half
dozen regular manufactures of base balls
alone, exist in this city, the largest produc-
ing just now seventy five dozen balls per
diem. The town of Natick, however, in
Massachusetts, is the greatest ball man
ufactory perhaps in the world, many hund-
reds Of people being employed in produc-
ing these articles, and it is not uncommon
for houses in this line of business to order
thence 5000 balls at time. Their man.
ufacture entails no thing of very special
interest, the inside being of wound rubber,
and the wrapping of wooden yarn, save
that the winding of the yarn around the
ball is principally done by men. One
would suppose from the nicely shaped
spheres women make when winding up
worsted, they would be most adapted to
this kind of work, bat it seems to require
certain amount of physical strength
which the weaker sex is not endowed with.
The cover of horse hide is put on entirely
by women. The total number of balls
made and sold in New York is immense,
one manufacturer alone having supplied
1872 600 balls last year. Perhaps the
United States will bat to pieces half a
million of balls this season. Bats from an
important business alone. They run
through dozen different varieties. 1t
sounds somewhat preposterous to think
of mills running all the year round, turn
ing out bats. As more bats are used than
balls, one can form some idea of the enorm-
Gus quantity ofmaterial consumed Orders
for all baseball implements are just now
at their hight, and the supply is barely up
to the demand-Neu York Times.
Year: 1871

LIVE as long as you may, the first


twenty years of your life is the longest


half of it." this was said by one of our


modern writers, and doubt whether any
thing more true was ever said by any


man.


Don't you fnd-you that have reached


middle life, and you that are approaching


middle life-that time passes much more
quickly than it used to pass? Don't you
find, when the evening comes and the
days work is over, that it seems only
few moments since the days work began?


You may have been very busy, but when


you return home to your children, it ap-


pears a very short time since you left them.


in the morning. Of course there are ex


ceptional seasons, as when health is baa


or when heavy grief presses on you; but


on the whole, is it not now subject of


constant remark that the days pass with


incredible rapidity?


And don't you remember when the case


was very different? Don't you remember


how long the day used to be, when you


yourself were child-what a crowd of


delightful interests multiplied and diversi-
fed the hours-and how extensive the
prospect was when you looked toward the
future? The fact is, you and your chill
dren are living lives of different lengths
in the same space of time. The day is far
longer to them than to you. They feel as
if time would never end. You feel, when
you think of it, as if its beginning and its
ending were almost the same. When
they lay their little heads on the pillow,
weary with their twelve hours plsy-their
toys broken-their excitement about trifles
at an end-their merry laugh, their eager
quarrels, at length brought to pause
those twelve hours have been to them
very large period in their existence.
Your toys too, perhaps, are broken-you
too may have been occupied with trifes-
your laughter may have been thoughtless
your Qaarrels inconsiderate-bu your
longer, your more responsible day, has
been far shorter than theirs


It might not be very difficult to explain
this. Our sense of the lapse of time does
not depend entirely, or even chiefly, on
the duration of the time itself When i'm
pressions are vivid, fOrcibie and fresh, the
time seems long. When the events Of our
lives are mOnotonous and uniform-if only
We are in dihgent occupation
the time seems short. Any man may
test this for himself by comparing passages
of his own experience. The first few days
spent in a new place are longer than those
that succeed them; but soon the novelty is
past, and then the stream moves on, quiet
iy and rapidly as before. And no one, on
the other side, needs to be reminded that
days of anxiety and watching, when the
mind is consciously on the stretch, are
long. At the battle of Water
loo, for instance, can you not imagine, if
you remember the circumstances of that
Engagement, how different WAS the length
Of that summer day TO the great captain,
On the one hand, on whom rested all the
suspense and responsibility, and to some
private soldier in the ranks, on the other,
actively occupied, and with nothing to
.hink of but be prompt and to obey?


How desirable then to make sure of do
ing something in the present which really
will bear good fruit in the futurel
Year: 1871

If tailors, boot-makers and tradesmen
generally did but know it, the public hold
punctuality in as high estimation as per-
feet fits. As there is nothing more annoy
ing than repeated delays after thing has
been promised, so there is nothing more
satisfactory to the customer than to be
served according to agreement Those
tradesmen make a mistake who habitually
promise what they know themselves they
cannot perform A purchaser, after being
disappointed two or three times, seeks
some other establishment. 1t has been
truly observed that men "who are habit
ually behind time are habitually behind
success" They are always losing custom
ers, never contrive to establish permanent
relations with buyers, and make no head
way, while others who are prompt and do
as they agree to do, extend the number of
their patrons, and acquire wealth An IN
quiry into the records of all successful
business men will show that. punctuality
has been one of their virtues. No one has
or can succeed without it, however supe-
rior their qualifications in other respects
Hearth and Home.
Year: 1871

Then the mother, turning to her boy


"Georgie, mamma is going to pray"


Instantly the boy closed his eyes, and
folded his hands across his breast And
the mother repeated, in slow and earnest
words:


"Oh, thou Father of the orphan, and the
child"


There was quite pause before the little
fellow opened his eyes and unfolded his
hands Then he extended them to his
mother, and clung to her with all his
strength, refusing TO be removed from her
Those words had brought back recollec-
ton, and all was with him as if he had
never been separated from that parent.


The justice held up the paper, and his
utteTance was choked as he said:


:" Mrs. Avery wrote upon this slip Just
what the boy would do when she spoke of
prayer. He has done it. The child be-
longs to her."


There were few dry eyes in that court
room, and while the true mother smiled
again with joy, the kdnappers were thor
oughly crushed They skunk from the
place, and to avoid further investigation,
they left the city, and all trace of them
was lost.


But the whole facts of the case after
ward transpired. Mrs. Bradley had mar
ried against her fathers wishes, and that
father had sworn a solemn oath that he
would disinherit her. After a time he
relented, but would not break his oath.
And to whip the devil around the
stump" he had made provisions that the
first child should have very large annual
income, and at his own death that child
was to receive a splendid fortune. But
eleven years had passed since the mar
riage, and still the woman was without an
heir. The husband and wife visited
Europe, and were gone three years. Dur
ing this absence they had sent word home
that the old gentleman was grandfather.
This was not the case, but one of power
ty's children of the suitable age, had been
adopted by them, and was to be palmed off !
as their own. This was necessary, for |
poverty was staring them in the face, and |
only the will of her father would enable |
them still to live in affluence.


On the passage over from England, the |
child died. 1t became necessary for them |
to find another, and on the very day of |
their arrival, they had stolen that of Mrs. |
Avery.


This is a strange world, and events |
stronger than anything in fiction are oc- |
curing every day all around US.
Year: 1871

SEVENTY THOUSAND letters, filing one
hundred and fifty sacks, and weighing
nearly eleven hundred pounds, were re-
Gently mailed from the city of New York
to various foreign lands within the space
of two days. This statement will give
some idea of the immensity of the postal
business in that city. 1t is also estimated
that between one hundred and twenty and
one hundred and fifty tons of mail matter
are, on the average, handled every day by
the eight hundred post-of6ce employees
and that not less than 100000 letters, and
often much larger number of newspa-
pers, are sorted out by them during each
twenty-fo hours. From two to five
hundred unstamped, misdirected, unad-
dressed or unsealed letters and packages
daily accumulate in the New York Post
Office.
Year: 1871

HEALTHFULNEss OF APPLEs.-There
is scarcely an article OF vegetable food
more widely useful and more universally
liked than the apple. Why every farmer
has not an apple orchard wherever the
trees will grow at all, is one of the mys-
teries. Let every housekeeper lay in
good supply of apples, and it win be the


most economical investment in the culin1
aries. A raw mellow apple is digested in
an hour and half. while boiled cabbages
reouire five hours. The most healthfli


dessert that can be placed on the table IS


baked apple If eaten frequently at


breakfast withscoarse bread and butter,


without meat or flesh of any kind, it has
an admirable effect on the general systems
of removing constipation, acidities, and
cooling off febrile conditions more effect
uallys than the most approved medicines
| If families could he induced to use apples
sound and ripe, for pies, cakes and
sweetmeats, with which their children are
too frequently stuffed, there would be di-
minution in the sum total of doctor s
bills, in a single year sufficient TO lay in a
stock of this delicious fruit for the whole
caaSou - = on "a II
Year: 1871

See. 90. No person shsll be allowed to vote
except at the polls held in the election district
where he resides; nor unless his name is en-
rolled on the poll list where he offers his vote
in such district. nor for local or representative
Officers, unless he shall have had his residence
for thirty days next preceding within The terri
t"rial limits prescribed for the election Of snch
officers. If any person enrolled on the poll list


whose vote shall be objected to on the day Of
election by any qualified elector, shall be
proved to the satisfaction of the Board OF
Judges, either BY his own oath or
BY the oath of any qualified elector and house
holder of the district, or BY any other clear
and competent evidence, not to be legally quail
ifed and entitled to be enrolled on said poll
list, or if it be proved as aforesaid that he is
enrolled on more than one poll list, when he
offers his vote, ,-or is otherwise not legally
qualified TO vote at such election, his vote
shall be rejected. st.
Year: 1871

TENHE UNDERSIGNED GIVES NOTICE TO
/ the Property Holders of Shasta County, that
in accordance with the requirem nts of law he has
entered upon the performance of his official duties
for the current year. He would call particular at
tention to the following section Of the Revenue
Law:


"If any person shall willfully make. or give,
under oath affirmation, false list of his or her.
their taxable property, false list of taxable
prepe, ty under his her. their conhol such per-
son shall be deemed gnilty of perjury and upon
conviction thereof shall be punished therefor, as
is by law provided for the punishment OF perjury ;
and any property willfuly concealed. removed,
transferred, or misrepresened by the owner or any
agent thereof, to evade taxation shall upon dis
covery be assessed at ten times the amount of tax
for that year, which would otherwise have been
assessed upon 1t and fifty per cent of the amount
OF such additional tax, when collected shall be paid
to the person PERSONS who shall furnish the
per centage for collection shall be paid into the
Treasury. for the benefit of the Common School
Fund of the State.


If Tax Payers were to have a list of their pro-
perty prepared, ready to be sworn to, as the law
directs. by the time of my reaching them. they
would thereby perhaps themselves much an
noyance, as well as facilitate my work.


C. w. TAYLOR,


Assessor of Shasta County.
Shasta, April I'd, 1871. n4.
Year: 1871

doctrine in regard to it. On the other
hand, I did not and do not now regard
the reconstruction measures passed by
Congress as any part of the law of the
land, and if I had been in a positi N
of power where / was called upon to act
upon those so called laws, should have
acted out my convictions, let the eonse-
quenees have been what they might /
never did believe that they were constitu-
tiOnal. think now, although these laws
have done their work in subverting the
legal governments of the Southern States,
yet there is a perfectly constitutional
mode by which this could be repaired if
we had an Executive who regarded the
duties imposed on him by his Office. It
Is only necessary to withdraw the army
from the South, where it is employed in
driving voters from the polls and carry
ing the elections against the majority Of
the legal voters in those States, and the
people will resume their rightful authori-
ty.


This would be the way in which
would carry out the "Brodhead letter." OF
which so much has been said The sug-
gestion it contains that "the army should
be compelled to undo its usurpations"
and disperse the "carpet-bag govern
ments," which has created such clamor,
would be accomplished in q perfectly
peaceful manner, in strict accordance with
the duty Of the President under the Con-
stitution, by the simple act of withdraw
ing the soldiers of the United States from
the South; the carpet-bag governments
would then quietly disperse themselves
with the booty they have already secured,
and the people would be at peace. Thus,
by the application of the Executive pow
er, and IN strict accordance. with his
sworn duty, the restoration of the right
of self-government might be promptly
and completely accomplished.
Year: 1871

Brevet Major-Gen. Dom Piatt thinks
President Grant is getting to be just the
least bit imperial in his ways, and cites
his action in paying marked and usual
attentions to Secretary Creswell immedi
ately after the exposure of the Chorpen-
ming fraud, and the fact that the White
House for the first time in its history is
overrun with liveried hunkeys. as instan-
ces in point. The stolid indifference TO
public opinion manifested by the Presi-
dent may probably be attributed 20 his
peculiar notions Of propriety rather than
to any aspirations toward Imperialism
It is not likely that he has ever suspected
how offensive the contemptuous attitude
he has assumed toward the people appears
to those who put him where he is, and
who have the power to elect q successor in
his place
Year: 1871

A New Haven youth was made 70 be.
lieve that he had swallowed his artificial
teeth in his sleep. He suffered terrible
pains in his stomach till ne discovered
the missing grinders in his YES. pocket
Year: 1871

A writer in the Providence (R. L.
journal offers well-considered advice, al
follows 4..... elft4 ne
7 Each child has natural aptitude fol
and qualification in some especial study
employment or pursuit One takes "a
music, another to mathematics; some
boys turn spontaneously to mercantile
undertakings, others are born book
worms. tits the duty Of parents to ac-
quaint themselves with, and direct these
inherent tastes. a Few people can do
many things well, but almost all with the
proper training could perform success
fully, IL not with marked superiority, in
some one line of life. S6peradded, then,
to the general education requisite in all
conditions, there should be the full de-
velopment of any particular valuable
faculty .''.


Excellent as are our common and high
schools, and important as may be col
legiate education, there is the further
necessity-if the highest attainable point
is to be reached-that the dedication Of
the life be made to that calling which the
natural capacity of the youth best fits
him for. A large proportion of those
who are stranded in the early part of the
voyage Of life, are wrecked because they,
or others for them, have mistaken their
vocation. They go on year after year
like an axle that is always either rubbing
in its bearings, or hot from friction.
They may rub through with decent
success, but it is by hard effort and with
an abiding dissatisfaction We are in
clined to think that the rage for entering
professional life is somewhat abating, it
having given place to that thirst for gold
which is promised a speedier satisfac-
ton in commercial life. But every
youngster desires to begin where his
father left of, and most are likely to
leave off where their father began-in
poyerty
Year: 1871

The number Of left-handed people
seems to be on the increase. Formerly
it was quite rare thing to meet a per.
son who gave the preference to the left
hand, and those addicted to the habit
were little disposed TO conceal the pc
cdliarity, but now it is no unusual thing
to see lady or gentleman sitting at the
table with the knife in the left hand and
the cup Of tea at the left side of the
plate. This reversal Of the general or
der of things appears awkward enough,
yet we do not know but the time is
coming when the left hand will generally
have preference over the right. In one
schoolroom at Perrysburg there are IF
teen left-handed children. This indicates
rapid progress on the part of the left
digits in their struggle to gain the mas
tery over those of the right hand. How
long will it be ere we shall be told to
put the left foot foremost" and hear
people speak Of the strong left arm''H
Year: 1871

faces Of once handsome women. 1t is
beauties that make wrecks-an epithet
never applicable to the harsh or com
monplace. In attenuation Of the effort
to keep yonng, so severely ridiculed on
all hands as the last mark of yainas a
frivolous character, one may remark
that it is not every one who can afford
to put on old age-to be any older than
they can help. Respect to old age does
not come naturally to most men; it
argues a finer clay than the common.
SO long as a man has vigor enough TO
keep 10 the FORE his wisdom is to let his
work speak for him. Every allusion TO
age is caught at as confession Of which
ungenerous use may be made.
Year: 1871

From the Springfield Republican,


The attempts at reconciliation between
Mr.. Sumner and the President have
utterly failed. How anybody knowing
the two men could have supposed it pos
sible to bring them together after the
San Domingo debate, | cannot imagine
but there were such fools in existence
here. 1t was not expected that they
would ever be cordial again, but there
wes a strong hope that the Senator would
moderate his opposition to annexation,
and that the President would continue to
regard Mr.. Sumner as a Republican and
a supporter of the Administration.


In short, it was hoped that an arrange-
ment could be made which would have
enabled the two gentlemen to meet off
cially with courtesy. The work in this
direction was flung away, for both Mr..
Sumner and Mr.. Grant are intensely OBJ
stinate. and the former has enough OF
vanity to feel absolutely certain he is
right, and the Republican party will fol.
low him. Nor is he deferred from a
jealous opposition to annexation, and
indeed personal quarrel with the Pres.
ident, by fears of running the party, for
he doesn't believe that the party depends
upon any man fer its existence, and in
fact he believes that General Grant is at
this moment a weakness to the party.


Mr.. Sumner has been stayed with y
by more than one of his associates. and
beseeched to look all the contingencies
of the future in the face. One Senator
said to him: " Gen, Grant is sure TO be
renominated, and the course you. are
taking viii take you into a position
where you cannot support him, and then
you will find yourself outside of the
party" To this Mr.. Sumner replied that
he did not believe Gen. Grant would be
renOminated, and if he were to be, his
present position would not prevent him
from supporting him, or any other Re-
publican, as choice of evils.
Year: 1871

makes is more durable and beautiful than
any other, presenting the same appear,
ance on,both sides Of the fabric and will
not rayel. 1t is also more economical,
requiring oNE-THIRD LESS cotton than
anyot.er kind of stitch. Being the same
on both sides, it is not necessary to use
the extremely fine sewing cotton required
by those machines which make a stitch
with ridge on the under side, which can
only be concealed by using thread too
delicate and fine to bear ordinary wear
Year: 1871

TIE New York Post, leading republican
newspaper, th7S warns the president to
retrace his steps or suffer the consequence :


There is time for him TO turn about.
AnI surely in she light Of the extraordinary
aud unconstitutional proceedings, which the
dispatches elsewhere disclose, it is high
time for him TO turn. The acts OF war
winch ne has authorized are such that should
it seem ft TO the house Of representatives. to
IMPEACH HIM AZ the bar of the sen ate
for UioIatioR Of the constitution he spore to
respect. HE WOULD FIND IT Diff
CULT TO MAKE A DEFENCE
Year: 1871

LIFE is more precious than silver OF
gold, and to preserve is as long as possible
is our duty, consequently no plausible
scheme should be left untried to secure an
end 80 devoutly desired. DIR. Bells BAlsan
of Alpine Moss for Consumption and al
diseases of the Throat and Lungs, has be
came very popular within few years, ant
we attribute its fame, TO its success. Se
advertisement in this paper.