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Year: 1875

already skilled to this terrific act, let US not
make it more terrible BY our Protestant
bungling. The amendment means that the
names, principles and powers of the Evan
gelicai sects are to be enforced by specific
law-all our statutes model ed on them
or it is farce. You and must bow down
and take the dose without protest, and for
excuse they Urge-llojoityI! 1t cannot
be that grave assemblies will discuss pro-
foundly, such a project, unless there Is
purpose in II, and there is no purpoee per
ceivable, but an arbitrary religious author
ity, under cover Of national Law.


know there are some who would only
advertise their religion by such zeal for
words. A. a business meeting of the Lon
don School Board, member proposed that
the meeting be opened with PRAYER Prof.
the business which the act creating the
Board contemplated. The pious man who
was thus snufied out, drew up requisition
Tor room TO be set apart for PRAYER before
each meeting. The room was given, and
when the time for prayer came round
again, the poor man was all alone with his
religion, not one OF the s...ners came 10 pray
with him. All around Us there are men
and women who love to see their
names upon religious documents,
but who only mean by il q
harmless parade of piety. Ii this endea-
vor speak Of tonight, is only parade of
religious zeal, all good men should hate it.
II it means national religion all freemen
sheuld utter their word against it with
out reserve. If it is harmless We should
dispise the sham, if it intends infringement
of mems liberties, let US stay the work be-
fore the wrong is done.


Dear friends, if We reveal religious life
We do not need the advertisement Of the
name. Ii We have not the life the name
will only be our shame. The spirit OF
real religion in all a nations acts would
make sunlight for It's people.


But words alone are whited sepulchres.
Give the nation an ideal worthy OF human
ity, let it struggle to fulfill it, and be loyal
TO it forever, and every soul will find God
in the movements of its progress, and His
blessing in the good which it confers Give
it a religious name, make the Bible respon-
sible for all the degradation of our lie,
and God viii show His hatred of it in the
scorn and contempt of every nation ON the
globe for such senseless cant. Blazon your
walls with the sweetest precepts, fling ban
ners on every breeze with cabbalistic names
upon them if injustice, inequality or un-
truth reside within, you will
deceive no one but yourselves. God
Is amongst us now, awaiting our
Acknowledgement of Him in deeds that
shall gild the world, in worthy lives which
shall bless all time. Christ is present, not
as person or idol, but as the ideal of our
manhood. He does not ask our tongues to
tell how well we love him, but that our
works shall show the whole world how.
Let US build our nation of name, great
hearted men and women who can see God
in souls OF all colors, sexes and conditions,
and We may some day reach that time ideal
of nations when equality, right and truth
will be so much the natural condition, that
church and dogma will be unknown, and
law itself be absolete.
Year: 1875

By reference to the first page Of The
TINES this morning it will be seen that
Wichita has been visited by the fire-fend.
1t seems as though there are several cities
in Kansas that are endeavoring to rival
Chicago and Boston in the extent of their
fires. A special, the other morning, told us
Of the great fire in Independence, and now
Wichita has passed through fiery ordeal.
But we have no doubt that the little city
will arise from its ashes more busy and
prosperous than ever
Year: 1875

do not realize that the negro obtained his
freedom at that time. Young Claude is


in training, and gives promise of becoming


a iirst-class White Lacquer in a short time.


1t seems that there is still work for Sheri-
dan in the South.
Year: 1875

Dear sir
in your paper barring date Feb 25th 1875,
! See peace printed Headed
Hines Record as a county quill pusher and
barring date Stranger Station Feb 18th 1879
with my Initial Sined at the bottom Z. E.
b.


well Sir Neaver write Eney such a peace
and Noz of No one in this part Of the coun-
ty that has the Same initial
Mr. Editor l damand of you to Exspane to
the publick that Neaver write this peace
as it is a great inquire to me as am one of
They pure Old Dimocrats my Self an Run
Last Spring as candidate on that ticket /
Demand an Exspanation


Your truly


+ E Brunk
of Stranger Station


Leavenworth county
Year: 1875

The life of an Editor is one of constant
work and continued trouble. We were jus,
congratulating ourselves upon the fact that
the suiis of Lecompte and Houston's "Quill
Pusher" were the only ones now on hand
when here comes the following demand ad.
dressed to Editor" which We for fear o
more serious charges than libel copy from
the original word for word, letter for letter
and punctuation for punctuation:


Stranger Station Leavenworth CO


March 1th 1875
Year: 1875

tTOteStants CRY out dgdlHst tHS eHcrOacH-
ments of Roman Catholicism upon the lib
critics of the people, and fear the entire su-
premacy of the Romanish Church, but BY
this amendment the way is opened wide
for Romanism, Buddhism, or any other ism,
to make the nation religious after its ideal.
1t is no stretch of Imagination to suppose
the day may come when Romanists will
| outnumber all others vastly, and with such
legal right as this precedent would give
them, they would not lie true to their love,
their instincts, their purpose nor their his
tory, did they not make America the temp
oral home and kingdom of the Pope. The
nurIerous Cinnamon, in some far future,
may be absorbed by millions in the indus
tries Of this land, NAV cut away the Chris
tian name, remove the Bible as the funda-
| mental law and substitute their Buddha
and his precepts in their place. Let it be
declared that the majority may do its will,
and all equity will disappear forever. There
is no injustice like that under which a class
numerically strong enslaves weaker one,
and it is slavery when the majority re-
auires the minority to assent TO it, beliefs,
or deprives it Of all rights and privileges in
equal government. Against such slavery
the sword will leap from its scabbard, ar
mics will be fiercely maAhalled, and woe
and blood and death will fill the land.


OF course these men do not intend such
grave disasters, but such disasters are the
Iogical result They MAJ disclaim any de
sire-to unite religion and the state, but the
words, the dogmas announced in the amend
ment deny all their disclaimers, and one
application OF these honestly comPels us TO
believe that they would make the nation
represent their religion. 1t is either mere
word mumbling, silly and pointles-, or
there is a living principle to be enforced in
all the ramiieatiOns of national law. 1t Is
either childishness, or a determined pur-
pose to make the name and source OF their
religion equally supreme. Ii We are TO
have a nation created on the dogmatic
enunciaiions of theology, We shall save
much blood and life and treasure, By ma
king it Roman Catholic at once, for wars
and many struggles would lead to this at
IN. The hands Of the Romish church age
Year: 1875

Sunday-Scho0l Times.


A late editorial in leading daily pa
per, headed Certain Holiday Books,
attributes the mutiny on the school.shiJ
to the inaamed ambition of some of thl
lads who had been reading the adven
lures of a certain cheap hero Of the Bow
cry variety. The same article goes OF
to show that the modern parents guilty
neglect, if not positive misdirection Of
the boys taste for reading" i" is the fruit
full cause of the mass OF boy crime thai
of late has startled thinking people into
closer observation-and finally it adds
these very suggestive words:
The Mayor Of Philadelphia, it is said
asserts that he could rid the jails of two.
thirds of the juvenile criminals in the
next year, if he could Danish certain
plays from the boards of the variety the
aters, and put certain books out of print.
We only suggest these facts to mothers
and fathers. 1t is their part to clear the
jails in future. No Mayor can help
them.


Now, it will not do to take fascinating
and bad literature out OF these boys
hands, and give them in its place Mrs.
Barbauld and Peter Farley, or worse
still, the sentimental dribblings of those
writers who think that any "good.y''
talk will do for children. We must give
them good, strong interesting reading,
with the blood and sinew of real life in
it-heRrtsome, pleasant reading, that
will waken them to closer observation
OF the best things about them.


The great mental evil Of the day is
the impression invariably given to young
minds that seeing the world necessarily
means seeing the badness of the world.
Oace let boy understand that to see
the world in fair, manly way, one must
see all its good side, its noblehess and
true progress, and you at.once put his
soul in the way Of a wholesome growth.


1t is right and natural for boy to
want to see the world. 1t is right and
natural for him to want to read books
that, according to his light, show him
what the world is.


The wrong and the unnaturalness are
IN the careless way In which parents and
guardians ignore this want, ore fail to
meet.it in proper manner.


Vile writer's and worse publishers are
fattening on this tendency Of boys and
the carelessnesS of parents.


Good writer's and honest publishers
are offering the means Of remedying the
great evil, and are showing the boys of
this country how they may see the
world and yet remain pure and true.


Parents must decide which class of
writer's and publishers shall win the
race.
Year: 1875

DIFFERENCES IN QUALITY OF MILK
In the spring of 1886. | made II difference
OF 20 per cent in the value OF the milk OF


my own dairy, for cheese making, in u
single week time, by change in the
quality of feed. and thought had been


doing pretty we'll by my cows all the
time oecau gave them all they would
eat of early cut hay but the hay had
old. By feeding with green hay. and
some oil meal and shorts, the milk which


had before made l2o pounds of cheese,


now made 1870. In the summer and tail
of 1871, had occasion to make some eS


act tests ot the value of the milk OF the


different patrons OF cheese factories.


will let one of these tests speak for itself:


took n per cent glass holding just about


halt pound to the top OF the graduated
scale, and two ounce graduating meas


uring glass, and lot of common tin


basins, and with this kit" went to


neighooring factory early on a Septem-


Der morning. From the milk OF each


patron. AS 1t arrived. | took milk and


TILED the per cent glass to the top of the


scale, and turned the milk of each into


separate tin basins. which set In q vat


OF water warmed to "a degrees. where


they fioated till the milk was all in. The
samples were then all of the SAME tenn
p-ra,ure. The little graduated glass


was then brought into use, and an exac;


quantity Of rehnct was applied to each.


1t occasioned d little disappointment to
see that they did not ali coagulats exact
~ at the same time: but did not trace
the c.use OF that here After they had
all become PERFECTLY curdlsd, the eurd


was broken and carefully stirred, and


raised TO IS degrees By turning steam
into the water in which the basins fioated.
When the whey had all been separated
and turned OFT. and the water raised 10


boiling heat. and tie basins kept float
ing on it till the curd WAS thoroughly
dried. This dried curd was taken rs the
standard OF value for ih- milk OF each


patron. To be perfectly exact, it requir-
ed that each sample should be weighed
Not having snything at hand with which
to weigh with sufficient exactness. the
relative values were determined by meas
ure in the following way: The per cent
glass Was fillel up to SO degrees with
Year: 1875

A CURIOUS PEAR TREE | have
pear tree called the "Martyr Pear" 1t
is of great size, and aged. The ground
it occupies once formed part of aaenclos-
ed garden to an ancient monastic build
ing. which was probably erected in the
18th century and occupied by the monks
of that period This tree, however,
must have been planted at much later
date, when the land adjacent formed
part of Windsor Great Forest. The fruit
is four inches long, and about two and
half inches in diameter, rough coated
with t;nge of green and pink. dark red
inside, and fine flavor. When fairly
divided down the center, the pips may be
seen to bleed, and have the appearance
of martyr from whence it derives its
name.-THOMAs G OSBORN, langley
Park, Gultord, in Science Gossip.


QUALITY OF APPLEs.-We have had
occasion to observe, during the present
fall and winter, the great difficulty Of
getting good apple. Greening. Bald
win, Belleflowcr and others, have an
unpleasant acidity we have never known
before The saacharine element seems
undeveloped, and they are acid enough
to set ones teeth on edge. We find this
also to be the general complaint. The
only ripe and perfect apple we have
eaten this season is 20 ounce pippin.
There must be Il cause for this, which
we take to be the extensively pervading
drouth which checked ripening, and
sometimes, perhaps, caused fruit to drop
before maturity. The drouth of the lat
ter part of 1874 was more general over
the United States than any we rccollect
Ii of course affected orchards and the
proper maturing of fruits. The only
preventive would appear to be mulch
ing. This is practicable for Il few
trees, but might be difficult for whole
orchards.


WUHCH SHALL RULE-NINE-TE TENTHs
OR ONE E-TENTII.-About one half of our
population belong to the farm ng class
About one-quarter OF our population be
long the mechanic class. And about
fifteen per cent. OF our population are
laborers who make their living bv their
muscle. Has any one ever asked himself
how much legislation is done by this
ninety per cent. OF our population? IS
it not potent fact that they have scarce
ly any influence in our natioual legisla-
ton? The truth is, the Legislation OF the
country is shaped and controlled 10y less
than one-tcnth Of the population. 1t is
made in the interest OF capital, instead
OF tie interest OF the people. And this
is the reason there is SO much sutf ring
among The industrial classes to-day.
There has mover been such Il concentra
ton OF capital going on rs within the
past lew years, and u concentration OF
capital brings concentration OF law
making power. Capital has got the peo-
pie within its tolls. Can they release
themselves? This is an i'm ortant ques-
ton, This must form great political
issue. Ii one-tenth OF the people are to
govern pine-tenths, and make them sub
servient to their peculiar interests. it is
time we were awakening to that fact. 1t
can do no harm to bestow Il little thought
upon this matter,-Rurai World.
Year: 1875

The newest novel, In paper covers, from
james r. Osgood & Co., Boston-is "Buffets,"
by Charles H. Doe, originally published as o
serial in the Boston Courier.


The outline of the story is that in New York
city, just before and during our civil war,
family of people-very good natured agreeable
people too-who have wealth and are accus-
toned to the luxuries and elegancies of life,
are suddenly doomed "to suffer the slings and
arrows of outrageous fortune to an extent
which does not place them in poverty by any
means, but still obliges them to change essen
TALLY their mode of living. The only son,
young fellow who has hitherto led life of idle
ness and spent his time and money very freely
upon cigars, billiards and club-dinners, finds
himself forced, at the death of his indulgent
father, to begin at the bottom and work his way
up in the world.


This serves as we'll as anything for narrative,
since the charm Of the book is in the accident
ais as it were, in the sketchings of outside facts
and fancies. The story is the stem, but it is
the little buds and blossoms Of sketch and sug-
gestion all along that have color and fragrance,


The description of the club dinner and the
after homeward sauaterings of the young men;
the picture of Mrs. Vincents boarding house
table; the graphic account of Miss Pulls we'd
ding; the way in which Royingstone's char.
acter is drawn by half dozen strokes of the
pen, all this and much more, the same in effect,
shows that the author has his share Of real wit
and humor and understands men and women
well. The style of writing is careful aud cor
rect, yet not lacking in ease and grace. The
book is such that if it were to be Rad aloud to
party of people, its pages would be found full
of suggestions-there would be frequent in-
terchange of smiles, now and then a hearty
laugh or Interruptions for the purpose of
little mutual chatter on some point or other.
The listeners would feel they were learning to
know the characters, were mingling with these
wide-awake attractive personages.


"Buffets'' is brim full of fun, only:perhaps
too bright to last for the latter portion loses
in force and in fact becomes as little animated
study as face where all expression has died
out. There is as great a difference in the
favor Of the first and last parts of the novel as
in the sunny and shady sides of a peach;
whereas a story and peach should be of equal
good taste Throughout.
Year: 1875

The Auburn Reformer announces that
hereafter it will be Democratic paper. This
Is square thing although its tendency has
been toward that camp for some time. 1t
announces that it will be like the Belfast
Journal in being courteous and in being can
did will be like no other Democratic organ in
the country.
Year: 1875

MARYLAND, with an air of triumph, brings
to notice Miss Nancy Valentine, dame one
hundred years old who can thread needle
with quickness and precision, who has never
used spectacles, who does her own cooking,
and occupies all her spare time knitting
stockings for sale, first spinning the wool
herself
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used
Year: 1875

and would be very glad to take their part of
work and care if they only knew how to begin.
1t is true that Miss Alcott's vivacity partakes
of the element of ''prance;"- that her later
writings are not equal in literary merit to her
charming "Little Women'-but this want of
artistic finish is partly owing to the fact that as
she is more and more impressed with the sense
of her mission. and her stories are written
with the purpose of illustrating some especial
point, the limitations thus imposed are not
favorable to the graceful development of
the story itself. But to her credit be it
said, she wholly refrans from sermonizing
upon miscellaneous texts, and recognizes
the great conservative principle OF letting


nature take her own way, and not analyzlng
thought and emotion to see if their hidden
springs are in repair or if the delicate ma
chinery needs drop of oil. Such introverted,
farciful studies Of grl-life as very many of
our thoughtful writers for young people con-
scientously offer, are most unfortunate mis-
takes Tue most perfect health Of. mind as of
Year: 1875

Prayer is q holy intercourse with
God. "It is" as Bradford expresses
it, "a simple, unfeigned, humble and
ardent offering of the heart before
God, wherein we either ask things
needful, or give thanks for benefits
received" Acceptable prayer is the
desire of the heart offered UP to God
through the influence of his Spirit, in
the name of his son Jesus Christ, for
things according to his will, and in
confidence that he hears us and will
answer us. There is no prayer with
out the exercise of holy and suitable
dispositions and affections. "The
true worshippers," says our Lord,
"shall worship the father in spirit and
in truth, for the Father seeketh such
to worship Him. Prayer 10 not the
mere posture Of the body. A man
may kneel till he wears out the stones;
like Ahab, he may put on sack-cloth
and ashes; or, like the monks of mod
ern times, kneel till his knees become
horny, and yet never pray at all, II
Is not the mere expression of the
mouth. A man may repeat hum
dred times in day that comprehen-
sive and affecting prayer which our
Lord has taught us to use; or he may
say "My soul thirsteth for thee, my
flesh longeth after thee" and yet not
offer up one prayer unto God Nor is
the mere act of Joining in family, So
cial or public worship acceptable
prayer. Uniting with others, in the
most earnest petitions where your
own heart is unmoved, will avail you
nothing. All these things may be the
husk and shell without the kernel-~
the body without the spirit, Ones de-
votions should be sacred bond knit
ting the soul unto Coda holy con-
verse with Him. +
Year: 1875

Says Leighton: "Learn lesson Of
candor towards others. Need you
wonder at the different opinions which
prevail among Christians Who is
there that at all times-nay, itmay be
said at any time-reads his Bible with
all the dispositions and attending to
all the rules which have been men,
toned? Who is altogether without
partiality /? Do not the best some
times bring to the Bible sentiments
and opinions formed beforehand Be
you, then, the more earnest diligently
to seek grace for yourself, that you
may receive the truth in the love of it
and be saved" 81
Year: 1875

Tn the heraldry Of Heaven writes
Bishop Home, "goodness precedes
greatlless;" SO on earth it is far more
powerful. The lowly and the loving
will frequently do far more in their
limited sphere than the gifted. To
yield constantly in little things be-
gets the same yielding spirit in others
and renders life, by the wise Disposer
of events, who knows what is suited
to our talents much better than we do
ourselves, and who would not have
placed us here if He had not some-
thing for us to do. How few there are
who live up to their own power of be-
ing useful! Earth is our dwelling
place, where each has his or her ap-
pointed sphere of usefulness and mis-
sion of iove-duty while passing home
TO Heaven.-NeU Age.
Year: 1875

Over the choicest portion of theli table lands
and purchasers will have the right to water
without charge. Such an opportunity to se-
cure land admirably situated and watered
and perfectly adapted to semi-tropical fruit
culture, will not occur again.
Year: 1875

The rev railroad is completed at Anaheim
and runs directly along the southe'n portion
of our tract. We will offer lands within from
one to three miles of Downey City as well
adapted for corn as any now under cnltiva-
ton. and there are none better in the world.
Year: 1875

WHAT CAUSES THE ScAB.-Mr Joseph Hoyt, Superintendent of the Salem Woolen Mills says that when he first came to Oregon, about thirteen years ago, the wool of the country was clean and in nice order, much more so than at the present time. The pres ence of scab in sheep deteriorates the value and is great damage to tho wool He ex- presses the opinion that sheep should be sheared as early as possible in the Spring, and before the first day of May. During the winter the wool stops growing, and when the Spring weather commences it commences to grow again, and where the old growth stop ped and the new commenced the wool is al- ways weak and rotten and i. is damage 10 it to have any of the new growth clipped. I, is his opinion that leaving sheep to carry their old fieeces too long has a tendency to cause skin diseases and that scab is either caused or made worse in that way The wool interests of Oregon are scarcely second to any other and it is important not only to exclude disease from the fiocks, but to keep them in condition to improve every year and grow better sheep aud better mutton.-[Wil- lsmctte Farmer.