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Year: 1871

Mother, watch the little feet


Climbing over the garden wall.
Bounding through the busy street,


Ranging cellar, she'd and hall.
Never count the moments lost,


Never mind the time it costs,
Little feet will go astray--


Guide them, mother, while you may.
Mother, watch the little hand
Picking berries by the way,
Making houses in the sand,


Tossing up the fragrant hay.
Never dare the question ask.


'sWhy to me this weary task"
These same little hands may prove


Messengers of light and love.
Mother watch the little tongue
Z Prattling, eloquent and wild;
What is said and what Is sung
- By the happy. joyous child, Ma
Catch the word while yet unspoken,


Stop the VOW before tits broken
This same tongue may yet proclaim


Blessings in a Saviour's name.
Mother! watch the little heart


Beating soft and warm for you;
Wholesome lessons now impart;


Keep, o keep the young heart true.
Extracting every weed,


Sowing good and precious seed
Harvest rich you then may see,


Ripenillg for eternity.
Year: 1871

No blister draws sharper than interest
does. OF all industries none is compsra-
bic to that of interest 1t works all day
and night, in fair weather and foul. 1t has
no sound in its footsteps, but travels fast.
It gnaws mans substance with invisible
teeth. 1t binds industry with its film, as
fly is bound in a spiders web. Debt
rolls a man over and over, binding hand
and foot, and letting him hang upon the
fatal mesh until the long legged interest
devours him. There is but one thing on
farm like it, and that is the Canada
thistle which swarms new plants every
time you break its roots, whose blossoms
are prolific, and every flower the father Of
a million ceds.-Every leaf is an awl,
every branch a spear aud every plant like
a platoon of bayonets, and field Of them
like an armed host. The whole plant is
tormen. and vegetable curse. And yet
farmer had better make his bed Of
Canada thistlcs taan attempt to DO at case
upon interest. us Cj n0ifskr4o8 ~ if
Year: 1871

"If I only had capital" we heard q
young man say a few days ago, as he puff
fed away ten-cent cigar, II would do
something" @ saaa'as


If oaly had capital" said another.
as he walked away from dram-shop
where be had just paid ten cents for .
drink, II would 60 into business"


The same remark might have been
heard from the young man loa6ing on the
street corner. Young man with the ci-
gar. you are smoking away your capital.
You from the dramshop are drinking yours
and destroying your body at the same
time--and you at the street corner ara
wasting yours and destroying yours in
idleness and forming bad habits. Dimes
make dollars. Time is money. Don't
wait for fortune to begin with. If you
had ten thousand dollars year and spent
it all. you would be poor still. Our men
of power and influence did not start with
fortunes. You, too, can make your mark
if you will. But you must stop spending
your money for what you don't need, and
your time in idleness.
Year: 1871

Keep your eye fixed on the mark, and
don't finch when you pull the trigger !:
The steady nerve is necessary to carry out
the bold plan. Could the multitude of
failures which are recorded every day be
thoroughly examined as to their cause. it
would be found that great proportion of
them have resulted from want of nerve, at
Just the moment when unawavering sight
and steady pull would have accomplished
the object. If one is to succeed, he must
fix his eye on the mark, and never think
otherwise than that he shall hit it. Many
a huntsmaD, whose craftsmanship is none
ofthe best, has astonished himself by shots
made under circumstances when he must
up with his gun and blaze away, with
time scarcely given him to know what he
is firing at. This was because be bad no
opportunity to hesitate or waver. when
pressing the trigger. Let any enterprise
be ever so boldly projected and energetic
ally pushed. if the nerve fails at the last
moment. goodbye to success.
Year: 1871

Every young man, after he has chosen
his vocation, should stick to il Don't leave
it because hard blowsare to be struck or dis
agreeable duty performed. hose who have
worked their way up to wealth and useful
ness do not belong to the shiftless and un-
stable class, but may be rcckoned among
such as took off their coats, rolled up their
sleeves, conquered their prejudices against
labor, and manfully bore the heat and
burden of the day.
Year: 1871

DowN-EAsT editors have o familiar and
free-and-easy way ofspeaking of each 9TH
er. The following for example: e


'.He is too lazy to earn meal and too
mean to enjoy one. lie was never gen-
erous but once, and that was when he gave
the itch to his apprentice. So much for
his goodness of heart. Of his industry.
the public may be the better judge when
we state that the only way he over worked
was the day he mistook caster oil for
honey"
Year: 1871

A German writer says that our
Hurrah, is of Asiatic origin; that it
signifies God help us" and is used
in war when the Hindoo is conscious
of his own weakness, and feels the
necessity of divine aid.
Year: 1871

The extraordinary increase that has taken place in the
sale OF Hosetter Stomach Bters during the past year.
is another proof that intelligent people, although they
may try all things, hold fast only TO that which is good
No amount of put1ery lift inferior articles to the
position of standard specifics To the words of Tom
Paine, they may go up like rocket, but
down ANONYMOUSLY like its extinguished stick. Hun
dreds of such nostrums have gone up and come down
since the Introduction Of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
nearly the fifth of century ago. Yet it still remains the
supreme tonic of the age It has not and has had


rival in efficacy or popularity and now stands at the
head of all proprietary remedies manufactured tins
side Of the Atlantic In every civilized community
this continent South America, It is the accepted
remedy for dyspepsia, bilious complaints, constipation,
general debility, weakness, and many other
unpleasant dangerous maladies, Amedeine widely
extended is of course praed and initiated by dealers
without conscience or integrity.


Therefore, let every man and woman who designs to
purchase the genuine Ho5tetters Stomach Bitters,
to it that they have what they pay for andno the results
of an nfa lmposture. Look carefully at label,
stamp, ana blown tue glass, and do not forget
that the rue 6itterS is sold in bottles only.


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Year: 1871




Buffers fliendsIexpain their failure to secure


the Newburyport delegation by saying that they


were too confident of their strength, and, sup


posing their opponents knew it equally well and


would make no contest, they did not turn out in


such force as they would if they had expected a


struggle. Perhaps this is true; most people
would have been willing to conccde Buffers
preponderance in Newburyport. That his friends
have failed to carry the caucus there is excel
lent evidence that his strength has been gcncr-
ally oYerated. What is really mean; by saying
that his friends stad away from the caucus
probably is that they hoped they would have
votes enough in a caucus composed wholly ol
republican voters, and therefore trusted
TO these and were disappointed. If they
had not miscalculated their strength they would
have done as they expect to do clscwhere-where
they have the opportunity would have
packed the caucus with men belonging TO that
mongrel party which voted for Mr., Phillips last
wear. and thereby ceased to be republicans, il
they ever were, or with any other material that
could be found ready to cast vote for Butler
delegates. For these tactics republicans in every
town should be on their guard. Whatever dan
GER there is, and it is not very alarming,
of Buffers nomination, arises from this
source. While protesting to discard the
ordinary political machinery, he has or
in all the towns, which propose
to manage the caucuses in the way we have in
dicated. If genuine republicans will be active
and vigilant, attending the caucuses themselves,
protesting against participation in them by any
who are known not to have acted with the party
previously, and if need be Withdrawing for in
dependent action where these elements happen
to be in the majority, they will secure fair rep
-esentatiou of the party nj the state convention
and a convention so composed may be trusted
o nominate somebody of whom the state need
lot be ashamed.
Year: 1871

One OF the objections to the utilization of
sewage as a fertilizer has been that the crops
raised in land so manured are injurious TO ami
mails feeding on them, and through these ami
mails introduce into the human system the
germs of loathsome and dangerous diseases.
This has been confidently asserted by some
writers and as positively denied by others,
though probably neither party had such expert
mental knowledge Of the subject as would justi-
fy its statements All questions which have
any bearing upon the subject of utilizing
sewage are now being investigated in England
with thoroughness and a practical interest
which is not felt here. Reports from two hun
dred cities and towns have been received, which
detail the results of various experiments re-
lating TO the cost of different methods of
making the sewage useful, their effects on the
soil and crops aud on the health Of the neigh
borhood. The reports are all highly fayora.
BILE and none of the i'll consequences apprehend-
ed from this employment of town drainage have
yet been detected. The odor is less offensive
than was expected, and an analysis, as well as
experience indicates thar it is not preiudicial to
health. The reports present no evidence that
animals fed on the crops from sewage irriga-
ted land are in any way injured or their flesh
made unwholesome for human food; but care


ful experiments to determine this point specific
any are now IN progress. Pigs fed on crops
from such land and others on food which has
had nothing to do with sewage will be com
pared, and the flesh submitted to microscopic
analysis, and other tests, the result Of which
may be trusted to decide this mooted question
Year: 1871

REMARKABLY SUCcEssFUL.-Dr Hall. stopping
at the Lincoln House is hourly demonstrating his supe
ror success in curing the most of stammer
ing. His new system of treating this terrible habit,
astonshes everybody. Those wishing to av4il them
selves of his services should not delay moment he
will remain but short time longer. No charges in
advance.
Year: 1871

Henry Cannon and Taylor Palmer,
the two colured men sentenced to bc
hung last Friday. for the murder oil
G NJ. Stevens, on the night Of the
:31st day Of Dccemher last, suffered
the penalty Of the law as ordered by
the Court. They died without ma.
king any disclosures except that on
the day OF the murder it had been ar,
ranged by negroes in the village TO
meet at or hear the place where the
murder was committed and 80 from
there to Joncsvile, about five miles
beyond, to fight the Ku Klux, and if
they could not geta fight there they
were to call On respectable citizen
who lives on the road and stake his
head off," The prisoners acknowl.
edged that they were 10 thu crowd
who murdered Stevens, but persisted
in saying they did not commit the
deed. They pretended to know none
who were present, except those who
had been taken out Of the Jail by the
disguised parties, and three who are
now at large. There is no doubt they
had been led to believe they would be
pardoned at the scatfold; but when
they stepped upon the platform and
/ the sheriff commenced to aLjnst the
rope around Palmel's neck, all hope
vanished and he fell to the ground.
The prisoners were attended upon by
Golden Foster, a colored minister
Before the rope was cut the minister
appealed to them not to die with u lie
upon their mouths, but to reveal all
they knew; to which they replied
"you know all" Ina moment after
the drop fell, and the spirits of Hen
ry Cannon aud Taylor Palmer were
. sent from time to enernity.-Unio,
Times.
Year: 1871

HNHE UNDERSIGNED GIVES NOTICE TO


Il the Property Holders of Shasta County, that
in accordance with the requiremt nts of law be 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,
or their taxable property, false list of axable
property under his her, their CONTROL 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 wilfully concealed, removed,
transferred or misrepresented by the owner or any
agent thereof, to evade taxation, shall upon dis
coyery 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 or 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 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 save themselves much an
| noyance, well as facilitate my work.
C. W. TAYLOR,
Assessor of Shasta County.
Shasta, April I'd, 1871. n4.
Year: 1871

The disgracefully corrupt aud extrava-
CANT administration of Grant, with total
disregard of the feelings and hopes of the
Democracy, has saved enough of the nation
alrevenre in September to apply thirteen
anda half millions on account of the public
debt, which makes the reductions of the
past six months little more than sixty
millions of dollars. Such niggardly frugal
ity will certainly ruin the country unless
the people rise in their might very soon
and place the strictly moral and economical
Tammany Democracy in charge Of the ma
tonal finances. Marin Journal
Year: 1871

And then from out the shadowed wood
The antlered deer came stalking down
In half shot of where stood;
Then stopped and stamped impatiently-
Then shook his head and antlers high,
And then his keen horns backward threw
Upon his shoulders broad and brown,
And thrust his muzzle in the air,
Snuffed proudly, then blast he blew,
As if to say the coasts clear.
And then from out the sable .od
His mate and twy sweet dappled fawns
Stole forth, and by the monarch stood;
She timid, while the little ones
Did start like aspens in gale.
Then he, as if to e-assure


The trembling and demure,


Again his antlers backward threw,
A gain blast defiant blew,


Then led them proudly down the vale
Year: 1871

The magic lantern has been successfully
applied in London to the study of disease
offhe skin, by DR.. Balmanno Squire. A
transparent photograph of the patient is
taken, then placed in a magic lantern a
strong hydro oxygen light casts the figure
enlarged on white sheet, and in this way
the smallest details are brought out with
astonishing miuuteness.
Year: 1871

Important to Money Lenders and Mon


ey Borrowers.


A case was lately decided in the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, at
Philadelphia, that may possibly be OF
some interest to bankers and business
men generally. The case is substan-
TALLY this:


A business firm borrowing a sum
Of money OF a bank deposited ss col
lateral security therefor an equal
amount of ten-forty United States
bonds. While the bonds were so held
the bank was robbed, the bonds in
question being included in the booty
secured by the robbers. The firm, be-
ing sued by the hank for the amount
of their loan, claimed that the loss
should fall upon the bank, hrst be-
cause the bank was bound, on the pay
ment of the indebtedness Of the firm,
to return to them the securities which
had been deposited by them, and sec
ondly that the bank had not used due
diligence to protect itself from rob
berry, and that not only was the loan
paid and extinguished in law and
equity by such negligent loss OF the
securities pledged, but that the bank
was bound to make good to the defen-
dants the excess in the value Of the
bonds over and above the amount Of
the loan with accruing interest. On
the first point the court held that
when the holder of the pledge exer-
else ordinary care, Notwithstanding
which the pledge is stolen, he is in
no manner responsible for the loss,
but by law can recover the amount Of
the loan from the borrower, upon
whom alone the loss of the stolen Sc
curities fall. If, however, the holder
of the securities fails to use the requi-
site degree of care, then the law
makes him responsible for the loss
and he must suffer the consequences
Of his negligence. 1t being shown
that there had been a very great de-
gree : carelessness on the part Of the
officers Of the robbed bank, in this in
stance, a judgment was rendered in
faver OF the defendants for the differ
ence between the value of the bonds
deposited and the amount of money
borrowed.
Year: 1871

WANT OF TACT.-Arguing with an
opponent who is lame, and assuring
him that he has not a leg to stand on.


Telling a man with only one eye
lin an insinuating way that you
would like TO get on his blind side.


Urging a friend who stammers moi
to hesitate TO express his opinion.


Declaring to the pOssessOr Of q false
set that you mean 20 do it in spite o.
his teeth.


Informing an acquaintance, whC
never has his glass out Of his eye, tha
you consider he takes a very short
| sighted view of things.


Telling a man who squints that yoI
are sorry you can not see the matte
as he sees it Punch.
Year: 1871

An Irish judge bad habit Of beg
ging pardon on every occasion. At
the close Of.the AssiZe, as be was about
10 leave the bench, the officer OF the
court reminded him that he had not
passed sentence Of death on one Ot
the criminals, as he had intended
Dear me ~ said his lOrdship, Il
really beg his pardOn-bring him in
Year: 1871

The correspondence between Secretary
Fish and sx-Ministsr Motley discloses
the fact that our government is IN accord
with that OF Great Britain and most Of
the powers OF continental Europe, on
the question Of the right Of a govern
ment 10 recognize a state Of war or bel
Iigerencv in any other country without
being called in question Tor the exercise
OF such right. It Is conceded, therefore
that the Queens proclamation Of 1851
recognizing the southern rebels as bel
ligsrents, does not in itself constitute
ground OF complaint on our part. This
being the present aspect OF the case
there is no reason why the Alabama
claims should not be speedily and salts
factorily settled.
Year: 1871

Poor old man! He seems to have


found more than he expected. We


All admire his courage and love Oflib-
erty, but are inclined to think that
as he will not very likely be able to
change Moltke's plans, he could have
served the cause Of liberty and truth
I better by remaining at home, and
. looking after the health Of beautiful
black eyed Italy. We're there shad-
ow of hope that through his services
order could be evoked out Of eonfu-
sion. and the French be induced tC
{ see and follow the only safe road to
/ Independence and genuine national


respect, we would delight to bid him
7 a most cordial God speed.


THE HEALTH AND SPIRITS OF TIIE
Year: 1871

fore quite a new vessel and does not seem TO have
been seriously damaged. Doubtless her captain.
whose name is supposed TO be Simons, anticipated
the


IMMEDIATE LOSS OF THE VESSEL,
owing 10 the heavy cargo she was conveying, and
being, moreover, In the midst oi heavy fog,
thought 1t prudent to beat a retreat. He and his
crew were subsequently picked up. Men are now
employed in pumping the vessel, and 1t is thought
that matters Will be arranged shortly, as repre-
sentative from the Underwriters Is daily expected.
Had the Alice Campbell been out In the gale OF last
night she certainly would have gone down. and
Captain Aitken must, therefore, fee grateful Tor
his speedy trip 10 this pOrt OF refuge


MELANCHOLY CASE OF DROWNING.


very mourniul case OF drowning occurred here
tins morning. About eight O'Clock Miss Lulu Gambler,
aged sixteen years, daughter OF Mr.. j. W. Gambler.
a Boston merchant, went TO bathe, IN company
Point. The strong un1ercurrent carried her beyond
her depth and scrambllng on rock she crled Tor
help A farm servant went immediately to the
rescue but Just as ne was reaching out his hand TO
save her huge wave swept her from the rock ana
sue was seen no more aiive. The body was re-
covered this evening.
Year: 1871




EARLY FRuGALrTY.--Iu early child.
hood, you lay the foundation Of poverty
or riches, in the habits Of your children.
Teach them to save everythiog-not for
there own use, for that would make
them sclish--but for some use. Teach
them to share everything with their
playmates, but never allow them to des.
troy anything. | once visited family
where the most exact economy was OBJ
served yet nothing was mean or un.
comfortable. IL is the character Of true
economy to be as comfortable on little,
as others can be with much In this
family, when the father brought home
a package, the older children would, Of
their accord, put away The paper and
twine neatly instead Of throwing them
in the fire, or tearing them to pieces,
Ii the little ones wanted piece OF twine
to play scratch cradle, or spin a top,
there it was in readiness aud when
they threw it upon the floor, the elder
children had no need to be told to put
il again in its place.
Year: 1871

The ruin Of most men dates from some
yacaut hour. Occupation is the armor
Of the soul There is satirical poem,
in which the devil is represented as
fishing for men, and fitting his bait to
tho taste and business of his prey; but
the idIer, he said, gave him no trouble,
as he bit at the naked hook
Year: 1871

A little dissolved alum is very effec,
tive in clearing muddy water. If thrown
into a tub Of soap suds, the soap, curd.
led and accompanied by the muddy
particles, sinks to the bottom, leaving
the water clear and pure. In times Of
scarcity Of water this may be used a
second time for washing clothes.
Year: 1871

Sec. 10 Every white male citizen OF the
United States, and every white male citizen OF
Mexico who shall have elected to become a
citizen Of the United States under the treaty of
peace exchanged ana ratified st Queretaro on
the Both of May 1913, ofihe age Of twenty one
years, who shall have been resident Of the
State six months next preceding the election,
and the county or district in which he claims
his vote, thirty days, shall be entitled to vote
at all elec'i ions which are now or hereafter may
be authorized by law


Sec. II. For the purpose OF voting, no per-
shall be deemed to have gained or lost a
residence BY reason OF his presence or absence
on the service of the United States, nor while
engaged in the navigation of the wates Of this
State or the United States, of the high seas
nor while student Of seminary of ofleAraiRg
nor while kept at an almshouse or other asy lum
nor while confined in any public prison.


Sec. H. No idiot or insane person % persons
convicted Of any Infamous crime, shall be en-
titled to the privileges of an elecior.


Sec 3. i crime shall be deemed Infamous
which is punishable by death or by imprison-
ment in the State Prison.
Year: 1871

See. %. No person shall be allowed TO vote
except at the polls held in the election district
where he resides nor uDless 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 bad his residence
for thirty days next preceding within the terri
torial limits prescribed fer the election of such
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 10 the satisfaction Of the Board Of
Judges, either by hs 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 qual-


fed and entitled to be enrolled Oh said poll
list or if it be proved as aforesaid that he is
enrolled on more than poll list, when he
offers his vote, is otherwise not legally
qualified 10 vote at such election, his vote
shall be rejected. St.