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Year: 1873

Two gentlemen were one day crossing
the river in ferry-boat. A dispute
about faith and works arose one saying
that good works were of small impor-
tance, and that faith was everything;
the other asserting the contrary. Not
being able to convince each other, the
ferryman, an enlightened Christian,
asked permission to give his opinion.
Consent being granted, he said: az
hold in my hands two oars. That in my
right hand I call faith : the other in
my left, work Now, gentlemen, please
to observe, pull the oar of faith, and
pull that alone. See the boat goes
round and round, and the boat makes no
progress. do the same with the oar
Of works, and with a precisely similar re-
sult-no advance. Mark pull both to-
gether, we go on apace, and in very
few minutes We shall be at our landing
place. So, in my humble opinion, he
added, "faith without works, or works
without faith, will not suffice. Let
there be both, and the haven of eternal
rest is sure to be reached"


+ As the flower is before the fruit, 50 is
faith before good works. e


Faith is the parent of good works, and
the children will bear resemblance to
the parent. - a9p


It is not enough that the inward works
Of clock are well constructed, and also
the dial-plate and hands the one must
set on the other the work must regu-
late the movements of the hands
Bishop Whately.


BosroN's burned district is to be re-
built on 9 plan peculiarly appropriate to
the HUI" namely, after the pattern of
q wheel, with straight streets radiating
like spokes from common center and q
curved avenue at the periphery, in which
fellows may circle till they are tired.
This scheme is said to have been pro-
posed for London by Sir Christopher
Wren, and viii doubtless give occasion
for formal ceremony Of Wren-ovation
when completed in the Home Of Jubilee.
Year: 1873

Scene in restaurant at Brussels
Two persons sitting at a table, face
to face each with a mug Of beer
before him; each with face resting
on his hand, intently watching the
table in profound silence. Fifteen
minutes passed, when suddenly one
Of the parties remarked, Il have
won p' and the other handed over to
him piece of money. The silence
and attention were resumed, when
after ten or fifteen minutes the same
party made the same exclamation,
and there was another transfer of
money-and so on for more than sn
hour. An impulsive Frenchman was
looking on and wondering. At last,
unable to restrain himself, he rush.
ed to the proprietor to know what
those two silent people were doing.


1T would seem that they are play.
ing some game, but what? There is
absolutely nothing on the table but
the two mugs-no cards, no dice
what are they doing?'


"They are playing a game very
popular here" was the reply. Each
has put a drop of beer on the table.
and that drop which first attracts a
fly wins. The one who puts slyly
little powdered sugar on his drop is
winning all the others money"


The gambling spirit, and along
with it the heathen Chinee, creeps
out all over the world, and in every
conceivable disguise.
Year: 1873

A very curious suit, arising out of
one Of the incidents Of the late war
between France and Germany, will
shortly be brought to trial in the
French courts. During the war a
German soldier was shot near the
village Of Vaux, whereupon Prus-
sian column swept down on the
place and captured twenty-eight
peasants who had fed for refuge to
a church. The Prussians, deter
mined to have revenge for the death
of the slain soldier, announced to
the frightened captives that three Of
their number would be shot, leaving
the selection of the victims to the
prisoners. The Prussians proposed
that they should draw lots and kind
" offered them the use of a soldiers
helmet to serve the purpose Of an
urn but, the offer was declined.
Finally, after they had been shut in
the church for seventy-fye hours.
they reported that the three requir-
ed victims had been selected, though
no information was given as to how
the selection was made. The unfor-
tunate men who found themselves in
a minority, were led out and shot.
and now the survivors are sued for
damages by the widows, on the
ground that the three were not Sc
lected by lot.
Year: 1873

A Danbury boy who reads the pa,
pers went to his father with a rope
in his hand and told that worthy
that If he did not give him fifty
cents to buy a two-bladed jack
knife he would forthwith hang him
self. It was the place OF the old
man to say: "Heaven forgive you.
my son, for the awful thought, here's
the fifty cents" He didn't say it.
however. He merely twined his
fingers in the young mans tresses
and bumped his head against the
door jam until the suicide thought it
was 4th Of Jaly night.
Year: 1873

We notice that Building and Loan
Associations arc again coming into
favor in this State. They have been
of great advantage in enabling me-
chanics and laboring men in the
North to procure homes.
Year: 1873

SATURDAY EVENING, June 28


The past week has been characterized by
duietude in finances, and an accumulation Of
money in the financial centres. This will prob
ably be the tendency Of things in this line for
= month or two get. In this market there is
moro money offered by brokers in the street
than for year past. Loans On prime collater-
ais are offered in this way as low as per cent,
but in expectation Of . stringent money
market this fall, lenders are not disposed to let
their money out for longer than sixty days' The
very fact. however, that tight money market
Ii anticipated after that time, is likely to prevent
its being the case.


There seems to be q little moro disposition to
invest in local stocks, though prices OF tho
leading local stocks, city railways, banks,
etc., have not experienced tho usual
advance induced by the abundance
Of money at this season Of the year. 4
good many OF tho stocks had been pressed upon
the market this spring by merchants who had
held them for investment, but were obliged to
sell because the unfavorable spring trade had
left them short OF money. The earnings Of the
great majority Of these stocks, however, Were
never 80 large as this spring. The receipts Of
all the horse-rAilWayB are largely IN e1cesa OF
last year, and the banks have all made money.


The Commercial National Bank has declared =
semi annual dividend Of s per cent payable July
the last e1 months at Is per cent, OF e the rate
OF 80 per cent per aanum.


New York exchange WIS scarcer and higher
to-day; 25c per 81 900 premium VAS freely Of
fered, but sellers asked Soc.


The clearipgs Of the Chicago banks tor the
Year: 1873

The Bulletin urges Los Angeles to
exact guarantee for the completion
of the Southern Pacific railroad to San
Francisco within the specified time,
and of the connection with Anaheim,
before transferring the bonds of the
county. This advice is timely; not
that there is any reasonable fear that
the company will not perform all they
have promised. Their action i'm the
past renders it almost certain they will
keep their engagement in the future.
But, when II private party makes Il
contract, he wishes security, and it is
thought foolish and 'unbusinesslike, If
he neglects all guarantees possible, no
matter how honest aud honorable the
man with whom he is dealing may be.
That course, which it is appropriate for
a private party to pursue, is the one for
the public. Far more guarantees are
required that man may be honest i'm
his dealings with community, than
in his dealings with individuals. Many
who would shrink from wrOnging one
man, shrink not from wronging many
combined. Let our Supervisors in this
look to our common interests.
Year: 1873

When will the papers which support
the gold system in this State, see that
a paper currency had no more to do
with the financial crisis in the East
than Captain Jack. When will they
discover from their own files, that on
the closing day of the panic a dollar
in greenbacks was worth just exactly as
much gold as it was a week before the
crisis took place. The fact is, the peo-
pie for two great reasons have lost faith
i'm railroad stocks. The first is this:
Credit Mobiliers, Construction Com
mittees, and other swindling corpora
tions have been from East to West,
North to South, over all this wide
land. They have stolen boldly, shame
lessly, and have leagued themselves
with those in power that the due pun
ishment might not follow their crimes.
No department of the Government,
no officer from the President down has
been free from their bribery The
great head and front of many steals
has been the President himself. He
has not hesitated, time after time, to
sell his name and influence for gold.
Legislators, revering the man whom
they suppose saved their country i'm it's
danger hour, have not looked into the
the honesty of the enterprises bearing
his name. The Presidents example
has been only too well followed.
Every petty, political lord, master of
u dozen primary offices, or controlling
some little patronage, has sold his
power, stealing everywhere-hon-
esty nowhere, or SO concealed as to be
scarcely discovered. The second cause
is this: The market has been crowded
with stocks. Railroads have been
built faster than the settlement of the
country has demanded. Their bonds
by stupendous system of advertis-
ing and by great discount from the
face, have been thrown upon the
market, which has been completely
choked.


From these two causes there was no
faith in bonds left in the people. They
were shy to invest in stocks which eXpe-
rience had proved unproductive. They
We're unwilling to trust any mans
word or bond, when they saw corrup-
tion winked at by those in high places,
and stalking unpunished. Consequent
ly, the financial agents who had bur-
dened themselves with bonds, unable
to dispose Of them, unable to pay even
the interest on those already sold,
We're compelled to suspend. They
would have been no more able to sell
if gold had been the currency, than
they Were with greenbacks. They must
have failed under any circumstances.
Year: 1873

Whether the Western Changers have
been indiscreet or not i'm the welding
of their immense influence, yet their
bitterests opponents admit the strength
of the organization. If the HERALD
thought that the publication of the fol-
lowing article could for an instant
damage the prospects of the Oranges,
it would consign it to the waste-bas-
ket; but it is SO thoughtfully written,
and recognizes SO thoroughly the good
ofthe Farmers Unions, that its words
of warning as to the care with which
their power should be welded, are not
misplaced. Whether the Oranges has
tened the railroad crisis or not, their
strength for good or evil is not doubt
ed. AS far rs human foresight can pre-
dict, the Changers will never abuse the
influence they are SO suddenly pos
sessed Of:


The sturdy blows given by western
grans ers to railroad interests, all over
the Union, have not been delivered
without producing some reactionary
effect. Immense masses of grain and
other domestic products remain al
most Theoretically sealed up in west
ern granaries and store-hOuses, and
this, too, at the very moment when
they could command the highest prices
in markets of consumption, and when
the whole country is in need of money
to the point of actual, widespread SUI
fering. In killing railroad bonds, and
initiating without sufficient discre-
ton against railroad interests, they
have caused much damage to them
selves and others with whom they are
not at war. If western farmers thought
themselves aggrieved by excessive
freight charges, they were entirely
right and justitiable in addressing
themselves to an abatement OF such
grievance. This reform could and
would have been effected in n natural
and business-like manner, if the power
Of combination and organization had
not led people unused to its exercise
into the spirit of fanatical persecution,
which extended itself to points having
no possible connection with the one
source of complaint. If western pro-
duets were ''corked up in bOttle'-to
use q Presidential eXpressiOn-they
could not be more effectually kept out
of market than they have been by the
grangcrs' onslaught. 1t is all well
enough to say that railroad companies
have been dabbling too much in their
bonds; that Over-speculation plunged
them under; that the rascalities per-
petrated by some prominent compa-
the whole thing was bubble which
everybody knew must burst at some
time, and was only prematurely prick
ed by the grangers. The fact remains
that it was their action which precipi-
tated the crisis at period when we
were least able to bear it, and that they
have seriously injured themselves 10y
| the act.
Year: 1873

EDITOR HERALD: This is the sea-
son of the year to visit the mountains
The scenery up our caiiOns is most
beautiful-we do not think sublime
is too strong descriptive adjective.
In the canon one can see the same
character of vegetation that fiourishes
in the country East OF the Sierras.
The beechJ the maple, the white oak,
and many other deciduous trees that
are not dreamt of by the low-land
Californian are to be found, spreading
their broad and generous shade over
vast spaces that need no shade from
the SUMS rays-being already suffi-
GENTLY protected by the shadows east
from the misty mountain heights.


Such cafiOn as we have above al
luded to, is to be found back of the
Santa Anita Rancho. In former years
Hon. B. ID. Wilson made road up
the side of this caiiOn to the top of the
mountain, where an ineXhaustible
supply of good timber covers the table
land.


No more inspiriting, or health and
strength-giving trip can be found on
the face of the earth or in the mid
mountain air.


II you don't believe it, go and see,
and be satisfied. .


You newspaper men nave no idea
what beauty and lOveliness is to be
found near the city. Proclaim gem
eral holiday, and go out and see such
spots AS are above described.


N0urS 40
Year: 1873

A convict from Siskiyou county, on
his way to San Quentin in charge OF
Sheriff Morgan, on the night of the
4th, took advantage of the darkness
and made leap from the stage down
hill into the brush, about thirty miles
of Yreka, and was not recaptured
at last accounts, though the Sheriff
and two citizens were holding him ut
bay in the brush until morning, when
they anticipated an easy conquest.
Year: 1873

From The Little Rock Gosstte we learn that
the attorney general has given his written
opinion that the board Of registration have
the power. and II Is their duty. to appoint
judges of election That being true there
need no longer be any fears Of a conflict at
the approaching election. a free ballot and


fair election next month. That Is all we
could ask. Now, then. II the people do not
register aud vote they alone will be to blame
II officials are elected who are not their choice.
Year: 1873

The last number of Appleton's
Journal is highly revolutionary. In
an able editorial article it urges wo-
men to demand the privilege of wo


manhood and the right of support
from man, and insists that men who
won't marry should be taxed for
their benefit This il sound and
sensible. We have always thought
that women ought to do greater
share Of the courting than they do.
Year: 1873

the return to power of the pure and
holy Democratic party!


This claptrap is paraded by the
column, with the most ingenious
suggestions of matters calculated to
still further damage the Republican
party, and the most adroit suppress
sions and evasions of precisely like
matters calculated to damage the
Democratic party.


We are not careful to defend the
record of any defaulter or thief, who
has deceived the Republican party,
and by means Of such deceit gained
office We demand that all such, as
well as the defaulters of private cor
porations, copartnerships, churches,
banks, and business houses of all
kinds, shall be punished. One would
suppose from Thurman's speech that
all the defaulting bank officers, trus-
tees of church funds, railway swind-
lers, "knock-down" conductors, and
all the rest, are Republicans in good
standing, and the Republican party
as such is responsible for all the pee
ulation and bad faith growing out of
the maniac haste to be rich, which
now prevails in all classes of society.
Mr.. Thurman would hold the stream
responsible for the impurities of the
fountain, in order tofx responsibility
for all evils upon the political party
in the ascendant.


We have no more respect for
Republican thief than a Democratic
thief; we have no more respect for
Republican slangwhanger who seeks
to make party capital out of unfair
personal misrepresentation than we
have for Senator Thurman in the
same role for his party. 1t is always
and forever contemplate to attempt
to secure the prosperity of a party
through such foul means.


We are therefore forced to the con-
clusion that it will be no calamity to
the people of Ohio if Senator Thur
man shall be retired from the public
service at the close of his present
term, and remanded to that strictly
partisan service which he seems to
hold above that of the public.
Year: 1873

Governor Noyes and other Repub-
ican speakers report that they have
had the best meetings in Southern
Ohio that they have ever had, unless
in the largest cities. The people
turn out, and they listen with avidity
and interest. They all seem to feel
that if there is that need for reform
which the Democratic and Liberal
papers would have us believe there is,
then the proper way to insure reform
is for Republicans to look to the bu-
siness. There is no more hope that
the Democracy will bring about re
form than that the devil will transfer
his affections to holy water. On the
other hand, the Liberals are power
less, if they have the will. The only
hope for reform, if reform is needed,
is for the Republican masses to take
hold. And this is what they are do
ing, They are hearers, and will be-
come doers.


One thing has been developed in
so strong and clear light that the
wayfaring man, though salary grab
Der, need not err therein-the people
will not trust, they will not even list
en- to, any man who defends the Cred
it Mobilier frauds OF the back salary
appropriation. No epithets are too
strong for them, in denunciation OF
these matters. They are not con-
tent with parliamentary language
they will have the word with the bark
on.


For these reasons, the efforts Of
some Democratic journals of the
baser sort, to create the impression
that the Republicans as party are
responsible for the salary grab and
the Credit Mobilier, excite only ridi
cule and disgust. The people, being
of the Republican party and part Of
its spirit and essence, know of theil
own knowledge that the man who
charges that party with such respon
sibility lies Columbus Journal.
Year: 1873

There was a lad who, at fourteen,
was apprenticed to soapdealer. One
of his resolutions was to read an
hour a day, or at least at that rate,
and he had an old silver watch left
him by his uncle, by which he timed
his reading. He stayed seven years
with his master, and it is said when
he was twenty-one he knew as much
as the young squire did. Now let us
see how much time he had at one
hour day. Itwould be 1855 hours,
which, at the rate of ten hours day,
would be equal to three hundred and
ten days, equal to forty-five weeks;
nearly years reading. That time
spent treasuring up useful knowledge
would pile up very large store. See
what you can do. Begin now. In
after years you will look back upon
the task as the most pleasant and
profitable you ever performed.
Year: 1873

Treasurer Spinner has written
letter to a member of Congress on
the pay question, and says; Il doubt
whether the covering in of this mon
ey, without consideration and with
out legal authority or warrant Of law,
will place it beyond the reach of par
ties to whom it legally belongs. I
think it could be reclaimed any time
hereafter, and even on the mere state
ment of an account by the depositor,
OF his heir at law, against the United
States, for moneys had and received.
1t is possible you might yourself, by
last will and testament, stating as
consideration the love and affection
you bore your native land"
Year: 1873

The Mansfield Herald tells the sad
tale of General Brinkerhoff, that on
the day of the Richland County Re
publican Convention, he offered the
Republican candidate for Auditor the
support of the 'third party" provided
he would pledge himself to appoint
as his deputy the Liberal candidate
for the same place. This is elegant
business for a man who pledged him
self against bargaining and trading
in politics.
Year: 1873

THEY are telling~the East
ern papers-a nea! little story
OF a book canvasser who talk
ed with dazzling volubility TO
a pretty little woman sewing
at a window for over halt an
hour, endeavoring to sell her
a book. Finally handing her
the book for a subscription,
she wrote: "Ime defe and
dumb" We suppose it doesn't
hurt the story at all that ii isn't
true, but then it is as we'll to
point out to its originator that
The errors in spelling of deaf
and dumb people are never
phonetic in their character
Sham deaf and dumb people
have often been discovered
from that fact.
Year: 1873

The lat test item of local re-
liglous news is SAID 10 be the
following; A certain sinner,
recently received as a member
in a certain church, was asked
by some friends one Sunday
soon after that event, to take a
stroll with them over the hills,
1t so happened that Sacrament
was to be administered that
day at the church of which the
young man was a member, and
felt it incumbent upon him to
attend that rite. He therefore
declined the invitation, but
not being we'll posted as yet
in church matters, he put it In
this way: IL can't go with you
boys. They have lunch at my
church to-day, and | must at
tend"


Force Of old associations
you know.-Ross County Reg.
aster.
Year: 1873

The following is from the
Wheeling IVA Register:


Some scoundrel played a
trick on one of the employees
of Robinson's "Great Moral
Combination Show" when 1t
was at Wheeling the other day.
Just about dark as one of the
groOms attached to RObinson's
circus was taking the very val
liable horse rode by Robert
Slickney, in his fearless bare
back act, from the boat, he
was approached by man who
pretended TO be deputy Sher-
if, having an execution on The
animal. The horse was sur
rendered and the pretended
Sheriff mounted and rode off,
The fraud was soon discovered
and search made Tor the dar-


ng thief, but without success.
He had TOO great a start 10 be
easily found. 1t was one OF
The boldest, cleverest aud best
executed tricks ever played
There was no process against
the Circus company, by any
authority, in the city or county,
and all the Sheriff's officers
were in the Court house at the
time the horse was stolen.
Year: 1873

On last Sunday Major Pea
body severed his connection
with the Walnut street M. E,
Sunday School. Among those
who will mourn the Majors de-
parture, none will be more
sincere than his little friends
of the Sabbath School, who
had learned to love him for his
kind and pleasant disposition
and true Christian piety.
Year: 1873

To Make Posts Last Forever.


A correspondent OF the Wes-
tern Rural says: | discovered
many years ago that wood
could be made to last longer
than iron, in the ground, but
thought the process so simple
aud inexpensive that it was not
worth while making any stir
about it. | would as soon have
poplar, basswocd or quaking
ash as any other kind of timber
for fence posts. | have taken
out Eastwood after having
been set seven years, that were
as sound when taken up as
when they were hrst put into
the ground. Time and weather
seemed to have no effect on
them. The posts can be pre-
pared for less than two cents
api, CO. Fol. the benefit of 9th.
ers | will give the recipe; Take
boiled linseed oil and stir in it
pulverised charcoal to the con.
Slstency of paint. Put a coat oI
this over the timber, a1d there
is not a man who will live to
see it rot.
Year: 1873

NOTHING to lchej patience
like a garden. You may go
round and watch the opening
bud from day to day, but it
takes its own time, and you
cannot urge it on faster than
it will. 1t forced, it is torn TO
pieces. All the best results
of a garden, like those of lite
are slow but regularly pro-
gressive.
Year: 1873

AN item is going the rounds
to the effect that clamp Chin
neys boiled in hot wa ter will
not break, unless you filg a
flat.iron at them, and then
won't il you don't hit them. p
Boiling in cold water, we sup
pose, would answer tie sine
purpose.