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Year: 1875

Rev. Mr.. SHIPMAN, of Lexington,
KY, has delivered an able discourse
in defence of theatres and in opposi-
tion to the theory of DR.. TALMAGE, of
Brooklyn. Mr.. SHIPMAN defends the
theatre upon the ground of innocent
recreation alone. This defence is suf-
ficient If there were no other. But
TALMAGE, SHIPMAN and all recent
writers on this subject seem to have
overlooked the fact that the stage
originated among the devotees of re-
ligion, and for the noble purpose of
teaching the people. In the absence
of books it was found to be the most
successful way of imparting informa-
tion to the masses. Like all other
blessings it has often been used for
bad purposes; but we venture to say
that there have been as many useful
lessons taught upon the stage as from
the pulpit. Indeed, all our modern
pulpit lessons were originally pre-
sented upon the stage. And it is the
opinion of many of the best thinkers
of this age that if the churches would
erect theatres for the purpose of pre-
senting moral subjects upon the stage
the lessons would be far more effective
and lasting than those received from
the pulpit. To make the stage as USE
full to mankind as it ought to be it is
only necessary for the religious world
to take hold of it. Recreation in re-
ligion is what the churches need. The
youth of the world are disgusted with
the long-faced, broad-brimmed chris
tianity of the present day. They are
vivacious, full of life and cheerfulness,
and are not willing to be chained
down to stale old fogy gait through
life. 1t is contrary to nature, to the
Bible, and to the good Of the race.
Religion is broad principle of char
ity and goodwill to men, and those
who possess it manifest it by making
everybody happy to the extent of their
ability. All innocent amusements
should be made the hand-maids of re-


ligion. The stage is not only inno-
! cent, but very instructive.
Year: 1875

1t was an enjoyable affair-the pic
mic Wednesday of the members and
friends of the Episcopal society-and
the stranger within their gates was
made very welcome, it being his own
fault if he did not have good time.
The gathering was held In the grounds
about the residence of Mr.. Neales, the
pastor, and about sixty persons par
took of the good things prepared by
the ladies under the shade of the fine
trees growing there. This society
should have the hearty cooperation of
all friends of q moral and religious
community in their efforts to build a
suitable place of worship, and it is to
be hoped the solid men of Anaheim
will respond generously to all appeals
for that purpose.
Year: 1875

We had a run around town on
Thursday. After taking the hack we
dismissed dull care and went off at the
rate of eight knots an hour with our
faces to the sea. The atmosphere was
balmy and the scenery delightful. A
drive of one hour and fifteen minutes
over one of the most lovely roads we
ever saw brought us to our beautiful
Summer resort and what Is to be our
future shipping point-Santa Monica.
The aspect of things there have
changed wonderfully within the last
twelve months. When we visited this
place one year ago everything was
calm and serene except the gentle
rolling of the sea. Now everything
seems to be in motion. Thirty teams
and drivors all at work, the steam
pile-driver and operatives as busy as
bees, beautiful ship riding at anchor
just beyond the end of the new wharf,
a new hotel standing on the bluff with
all its inmates stirring around, all pre-
sented scene in such striking con-
trast with what we saw twelve months
ago that we stood and gazed with as
tonishment. The new wharf is pro-
crossing rapidly and the grading for
the roads and warehouse is nearly
completed. When the iron and ties
arrive we will have another railroad
to connect our city with the sea before
we can realize it. We see the Santa
Monica Land Company have been at
work. They have driven thousand
pegs on beautiful plot of ground OH
the Southeast side of the railroad and
running out to the sea, only two hun
dred steps below or East of the wharf.
When they put these lots in market
they will soon find purchaser for
every one of them. There are not
many citizens in Los Angeles who
will not want a lot there to build
cottage for Summer retreat, and there
is no more convenient and beautiful
plot of ground than this company
owns. We came back home feeling
that the surroundings as well as the
future of Los Angeles is grand.


B. L. P.
Year: 1875

One of the finest Improvements in
the city will be the rebuilding of the
Lafayette Hotel. The whole Of the
back of the house is already being
torn down, and the front will shortly
be built up. The stores will be just
half as large as they are now, and, as
the Important has very large stock
on hand, they will not have half room
enough for their goods and in order to
prevent them from being damaged by
dirt and dust, they have decided to
sell all their Spring goods at less than
cost, and others, such as cottons, table,
linen, ETC., at exact cost. We advise
all to call at the Important and con-
vince themselves of the great bar
gains. Such bargains they can never
get again, and in order to prevent a
great rush, we advise all to call early
and take advantage of the building of
the Lafayette Hotel. ale
Year: 1875

We have before us an article cut
from the st. Paul Daily Dispatch, In
which California is roundly and
soundly abused. On the authority of
the Atchison (Kansas) Champion the
writer asserts that during the month
of March $500 persons passed Kear-
ney Junction bound for San Fran
cisco, and of this number at least 1000
had expended their last dollar for the
railroad ticket on which they were
travelling. To this the writer adds
that gentlemen who have just re-
turned from San Francisco inform
him that the prospect of making a
living there is little less than any
place they have ever seen, and that
hundreds of able-bodied men are beg
ging bread in the streets and sleeping
in barns and out-houses. The article
closes with the statement that most
of the people who have gone to Cali
fornia are dead broke, and are aiming





to dead-beat their way back home.
This is one of the many stories rela-
tive to California invented and circu-
lated by journals in the interest of the
land owners of the frozen and plague
ridden Northwest. We are informed
by a gentleman now resident of this
city that the article in the Dispatch, to
which we have alluded, was written
by an individual who but recently
visited San Francisco and other parts
of this State, and it is therefore rea-
sonable to conclude that he writes but
his own observations and experiences.
Yet when this man asserts that he
saw hundreds of able-bodied men beg
ging in the streets of San Francisco
for means to obtain food, he asserts
something which we, and thousands
of others who have spent the greater
part of our lives in that city since
1850, have never seen nor heard OF.
That the greater portion or any con-
siderable proportion of those who
have arrived in California within the
last six months or year are trying
to beat their way back to the place
from whence they came Is most GER
tainly false. We are aware that the
severe Winters and plague-ridden
Summers which are blighting Kansas
and other Northwestern sections are
driving the people thence, and they
are going whittier their means will
enable, and their judgment and infor-
nation tells them they will better
their condition. Naturally the greater
number turn their eyes toward the
Pacific coast. 1t is new country, and
comparatively unsettled; its climate
is genial and the soil productive to a
remarkable degree. Those who have
come here with means to secure land,
and industry to cultivate it, have no
cause to regret their coming. There
is room for millions of such people.
False and malicious stories like the
one under consideration will not seri-
ously affect California. The truth is
too we'll known. But they may pre-
vent hundreds of families from taking
the step which will procure them
happy and prosperous homes. There
may be dead-beats who work their
way back home, and doubtless the au-
thor of the article in the Dispatch is
one of them. All such We are as glad
to get rid of as those at home are sorry
to see return; but we welcome the
honest and industrious men and wo-
men who come here, and we are con.
fident that none of them will ever
have occasion to regret their coming.
Year: 1875

The plans by which our City Coun-
Gil perform their duty to the citizens
are so complicated that the common
understanding cannot fathom them.
For instance, they hold that nine feet
of public thoroughfare is amply suf-
ficient for all practical purposes. Here
are the facts: San Fernando street
between the Hospital building and the
new railroad depot is about one hum
dred feet wide. This space is to be oc-
cupied by two sidewalks, each ten feet
wide and three railroad tracks, leav-
ing for teams and other travel only
strip nine feet in width. Through this
strip it is now proposed to run a horse
railroad track. This was the original
proposition, and so determined were
some of the Councilmen to carry it
into effect that they actually refused
to 60 on the ground and examine the
premises. The intimation of the
Mayor that the ordinance would not
receive his signature only prevented
its passage at the special meeting on
Friday evening. Something very like
a trick was then attempted by the SUBJ
stitution of modification on which
was written In pencil conditions
which were intended to cover about
the same ground and attain substan-
TALLY the same end as the original
proposition. The whole matter has
been referred back to the committee
and will doubtless come up at the next
meeting of the Council, changed in
language but with intent the same.
The gist and purpose of this ordinance
seems to be to give the street railroad
the use of the public street and compel
the citizens in the vicinity to purchase
land for more street. By purchasing
a strip one hundred feet in length the
street railroad company will be ena-
bled to reach the depot grounds with
out crossing the Southern Pacific
track, but the wisdom of the Council
is that the street railroad should be
allowed to cross the Southern Pacific
track, occupy the public street, and the
people purchase land for more street.
In San Francisco they would say this
was a job with money in it, but of
course no such thing is to be thought


of in connection with the Los Angeles


Council. One of the Council remarked
that there were but few people-not
more than one hundred who used
that thoroughfare. This is mistake
which only Councilman could make.
1t is one of the most travelled streets
In the city. The Indiana colony, a
growing settlement, already compris-
ing over one hundred families, will, if
this street is blocked up, be compelled
to travel three miles around to reach
the city. There are also hundreds OF
others who reach and leave the city
through this street. But the question
is, what is the motive which induces
the Council to give private corpora
tion the use of public street, when,
by doing so, they deprive large pro-
portion of citizens of the use of that
street, aud compel them to purchase
land to be substituted for the thor
oughfare which has been given away.
We have too much faith in the good
sense and integrity of Mayor BEAU
DRY to suppose that this scheme can
be carried into effect except by pass
ing it over his veto.
Year: 1875

Moore's Restaurant on Commercial street,
Ia the proper place to go for a good meal, with


good cup of coffee or tea to drink with it,
There Is probably no restaurant on the Pacific
coast where so many of the substantials and
20 many of the luxuries may be had for 25 cts.
Don't forget the place-Moore's Restaurant,
Commercial street. Private eating rooms have
been neatly fitted up for the accommodation
of ladies. j5-tf
Year: 1875

The lots ON Cemetery Avenue were
reserved. The total amount of the
sale is $7,46O. Noyes displayed his
usual skill in persuading the bidders
up and did much to make the sale a
success.
Year: 1875

OLD BEN BUTLER.--The World. the lead ing Democratic paper of New York, speak ing of B. F. B. says, "We like to give the

 Devil his due. In domestic life, no man could be more charitable, gentle and pleas ing; be is true friend. both in public and private. His memory is prodigious he can examine, eross-examine, and sum up case without taking note. He is familiar with every branch of light and solid literature, and his wife, who Is beautiful reader, reads to him great deal. By the charm of bis and his perfect courtesy of manner he becomes almost handsome. He has always lived quietly, extending hospI- tality to a few favored friends, whose reco lection of that home before the beautiful daughter left it is one of the most charming pictures in the world"
Year: 1875

A S1T Is sad to think of tbe condition of the

 msn's soul who says that the more peevish

 women there are in the world the sooner shall ve be able to listen unmoved to the -flinc of a saw.
Year: 1875

F Do Nor EAT RAW EGGs.-One of the most . common preiutlices of housewives and moth

 CTS Is that hard eggs are difficult to digest,

 especially the white, and that the less they

 are boiled the better they are for the weak

 and dispeptic stomachs. medical journal

 of good authority, however, reverses the

 case and asserts that there is more danger

 of raw and soft white of an egg passing

 through the digestive apparatus without

 being really digested than when thoroughly

 boiled and hard in fact. that a hard boiled

 egg constitutes most excellent food for dis

 peptics, as experience is proving. A writer

 in the Medical Journal says: "We have

 seen dlspeptics who suffered untold torments

 with almost every kind of food. No hQuid could be taken without sufferings bread

 became burning acid meat and milk were solid and liquid fires. We have seen these same sufferers trying to avoid food and drink, and even going 10 the enema syringe for sustenance. And we have seen their torments pass away and their hunger reiev- cd by living upon the white of eggs which had been boiled in bubbling water for thirty minutes. At the end of week we have | given the hard yok of the egg with The | white, and upon this diet alone, without fluid | of any kind, we have seen them begin to | gain flesh and strength, and refreshing sleep. | After weeks of this treatment they have | been able, with care, to begin upon other food" And all this, the writer adds, with | out taking medicine. He says, what we also | have always maintained, that hard boiled eggs are not half so bad as haf-boied ones, and ten times as easy to odigest as raw ones and we have no doubt that an animal may be starved to death by eating only raw white of egg, for the same reason that dogs have been starved by eating gelatin alone.
Year: 1875

The Live Stock Journal has the following


on the best method of utilizing the grass


crop. The suggestions therein may be Of


practical value where land bears very high


price and is mostly suited for moving fields,


and where labor is cheap. With us 10 Yer


mont, where rough, broken land, suitable


only for pasturing, is abundant and cheap,


and labor dear and not remarkably efficient,


sOilug, to any considerable extent, is out of


the question. IL is bad enough 10 be obliged


to cut the food for animals six months in the


year. If compelled to do it in summer,


also, we should beg to step down and out as


a farmer.


About three acres are devoted to pasture
for one to meadow. But it is to be observed
that the one acre Of meadow keeps at least
two-thirds of the same stock through the
winter that the three acres kept through the
grazing season, which shows that the pas.
turage is not as well utilized as the meadow.
1t is just here that the farmer must begin
his referm. His ingenuity ought, certainly,
to be equal to making the grass that grows
upon an acre, and fed in warm weather pro.
duce as great result as the hay grown on
an acre and fed in cold weather Ii is too
great waste to devote three times the
amount Of land to summering an animal
that is used in wintering the same animal
when nine animals of the same weight may
be kept IN summer on the same am punt of
food that would be required for eight in
winter. Pasturing is the most wastefu of
all old ways to use grass, yet the farmer
goes on, year after year, throwing away
large percentage Of the produce of his fields,
because he has not the independence to
change an old, wastefu custom.


Soiling will double his capacity to keep
stock, and also largely increase his yield Of
grain from the extra manure made We do
not, of course, advocate soiling on rough
lands which can be used only for pasturage,
but there are millions Of acres Of grass upon
tillable lands troddeu down by cattle, pro.
ducing less than half the net income thew
might it this grass was cut and fed to the
animals. Every farmer who raises an acre
OF fodder corn and feeds to his cows or other
cattle, green, in the fall. must see that this
acre OF green corn produces as much food as
six to eight acres Of pasture, We have
soiled good-sized cows from the Goth Of May
to the 10th of November, upon a half acre,
when not less than three acres would have
been required to feed them equally we'll on
pasture. The wastefulness of the general
system Of pasturing may be seen in the fact
that throughout the dairy region two-thirds
OF each farm is devoted to keeping the stock
through summer, and only one-thiId to keep.
ing the same stock through the winter, be.
sides raising grain to put the family through
the year. We do not advocate keeping
stock confined, for that is not at all neces.
sary IN the soling system, but to give them
runway OF few acres, or the wood lot, or
the broken land on the farm, and then feed
them the grass in racks or in stable three
times day.
Year: 1875

S. f. Swift, V. S., says in the Western
Farm Journal:


A cure for warts is a frequent subject of
inquiry, and the question as to the mode of
treatment is difficult to answer in the alb.
sence of any knowledge Of the locality of the
disease and the character of the growths.
ln good hands there is no better remedy for
warts which have broad base than white
arsenic; portion of the surface of the wart
is first scraped with the knife, and the arse
bic applied to the exposed surface Liga.
lures arc useful where the warts have con.
stricted bases which can be- readily inclosed
IN loop of silk or horse hair, which must be
pulled sufficiently tight to stop all circula
tion in the tumors.


After ligature has been applied for some
days, II commonly, from the shrinking of the
part, becomes loose, in which case it is bet.
ter to apply second one than to attempt to
tighten the first. When the wart falls off,
the ligature, if it still remains attached to
the skin, may be removed the wound will
quickly heal. Excessive granulations, which
sometimes spring up, must be Kept down by
an occasional application of caustic. A
rough plan Of removing warts which hang
from the skin by distinct stalks is that of
grasping them by means Of pincers, and lit.
orally pulling them out by the roots The
plan is not scienti6c,-probably it may be
called cruel although when there are two
or three warts to be got rid of, the oproa-
ton only occupies as many minutes, and it
is certainly very effective.
Year: 1875

We tried last year a number of remedies
for the cabbage worm, an insect too well
known to many persons as a voracious eater
OF the pulp of the leaf. The sprinkling Of
red pepper did well but the best, simplest,
cheapest and most efficient was applying hot
water. 1t may be wrongly applied, to the
injury or destruction of the plant; and it
may be properly applied, doing no injury,
and killing the insects. Fill watering pot
with boiling water, and sprinkle the in
Tested leaves only for second or two. 1t
does its work very quickly on the worms,
but the leaves being thick are not heated or
injured. The older the heads become the
less the danger. The operator must prac-
tlce and spoil few plants to save the rest.
The water, by the time it reaches the plants,
will be several degrees below boiling he
must determine by trying, how long the hot
water will do its work before becoming too
cold. AT the same time he must ascertain
by experiment how long he can contriye to
apply the hot water before the leaves are in.
jured by it. A very little time. will deter.
mine these points. Country Gentleman.
Year: 1875

The agricultural editor sometimes finds


himself placed in position to test his vir-


tue. 1t is very pleasant to say good word


for the implements Of house that has put


the editor under a sort Of obligation by lib


eral advertising patronage, or free "copies''


Of his goods "for testing"


1t is evident to any person of ordinary
sense and integrity that an editor can do no
greater wrong than to print as editorial, or


in any shape which may appear to bear his
approval, compliments or comments which
he does not know of his own knowledge to
be deserved. Many readers rely on their
paper to tell theIn what is safe to do. If
the editor gives good puff to machine
because he has had present Of one or a fee
for writing it, and for no other reason. how
long can his readers go to his columns for
the advice they need ?


The editor of the New England Farmer
was asked by u correspondent for informa-
tion as to the relative merits of two plows.
The very intelligent answer given is accom-.
panied by the statement that pillow had
been sent to him by one Of the manufacturers.
and the following aIluson to the difficulties
and duties incident to the case:


1t is very pleasant, as practical farmer
desirous OF obtaining aud using the most
useful and economical agricultural imple.
ments, to be thus remembered BY the manu-.
facturers, but it is not quite so pleasant to
remember that if good word is said for a
machine or tool, through our editorial col
umns, the manufacturers or dealers in other
machines may take us to account for rela-
lively throwing theirs in the shade. We
are also reminded of the old expression
'never look gift horse in the mouth" and
wonder whether we must always speak of
the horse in the presence of the giver, at
least as a colt. Then, again, when we think
of the great mass Of farmers who take and
pay for their agricultural newspa-
per, Tor the purpose Of being instructed upon
questions like the one 10 the letter before us,
we are forced tc the conclusion that the
position Of an agricultural editor, like that
Of any other Iaborer, is not always particu.
arly pleasant.


We cannot allow the New England Farmer
10 become medium for indiscriminate putting
'f either new or old inventions or farm i'm
elements, while we have anything to do with
is direction, and We may as well say here
hat, however well we may be pleased by
he personal favors of the manufacturers of |
7aluabe tools or machines, we should much
prefer that they should send them elsewhere 4,
Unless they are willing to have them fairly
md honestly tried aud reported, if reported
It all.