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Year: 1873

The Salt Lake papers have lately come to us
filled with the proceedings of the committee
appointed to make arrangements for the proper
celebration in that city Of Decoration Day. The
Finance Committee. after having collected funds
from citizens there, irrespective Of political OF
social creeds presented the same to the meeting.
and, on q vote, that portion subscribed by the
Mormons for the purpose Of having proper
observance Of the day was refused. and an order
given 10 refund the same. We all know that
the Mormons were enemies of the United States
Government during the late war that they lost
no opportunity Of making thst fact manifest !,
but why not have refused the subscription given
by them at the time the collections were being
made Why receive from them and then attempt
to return the amount donated? The rebels were
enemies of the North during the war. but we
very much doubt IL gift from one of them
would be refused; on the contrary, in nnny
instances we have heard Of both Union and Con-
fedrate soldiers joining in together to pay hon.
ors TO the heroes Of both factions. Would II not
be better to sink these prejudices. which seem
to be growing up all over the country. regarding
Decoration Day. and unite. whether under the
auspices OF the G. A. H., which many think is
fast becoming political organization. or as
unit, thus giving an unanimous tribute of affec-
tion and regard for those who have fallen.
such exhibitions of feeling, which seem not
only to have afflicted the Mormon community.
but also to have caused division in the ranks of
our own soldiers. seems to be uncalled for and
very much out of place.
Year: 1873

FIRsr NOW ron THE EMPmE.-The French
Assembly has voted to rebuild the Column Ven.
dome, destoyed in the revolution. This is the
first movement toward the re-establishment Of
the Empire In that war-distracted country. The
days of the Republic ART undoubtedly numbered.
and the only question now is, who shall be the
next Emperor or King, as they may please to
style the coming ruler
Year: 1873

The Speck of war that had arisen in
the political horizon between England
and S pain, as to the disposition OF the
vessels seized by the former from the
Spanish Insurgents, has been dissipated
by the return of the vessels to the
Spanish Government. This settles a
matter that at one time looked threaten
ing, and settles it in manner
honorable to the Spanish Government.
which had to make peremptory
demand before they were given up.
Fortified by the slight nrestige thus
acquired, the Government of CASTELAR,,
having stamped out the Intransigente
insurrection, can set to work to crush
the Carlists in the North, The
employment OF two such men as Ser
rano and Topete-The first one of the
former chiefs of the Spanish army, the
latter the late head of the navy
shows degree of political sagacity on
the part of the President CASTELAR, that
is in itself prophetic of success. With
peace restored and with the present
Constitution in fair working order,
Spain would rapidly recnperate and
improve her standing among the nar
tions of Europe.-S. f. ChroaicIs.
Year: 1873

THE ILLUSTRATED PHYSIOLOGICAL
L JOURNAL, is in every respect First
Glass Magazine. It's articles arc of the highest
interest to all. Itteaches what we are and how
TO make the most of ourselves. The informa-
tion it contains on the Laws of Life and Health
is well worth the price of the Magazine to every
Family. 1t is published at s. 90 year. By


special arrangement we are enabled to offee
the PHRENoLoGIcAL JOURNAL as a Premium tor
q new subscribers to the OREGON REPUBLICAN,,
or will furnish the PHRENoLoGIoAL JOURNAL
and OREGON REPUBLICAN together for 81 90
We commend the JOURNAL to all who want


good magazine
Year: 1873

The Philadelphia Press, commenting on the
general Republican success, says " it is impossi-
'ble to anticipate the exact policy of the Re
publican party. 1t is clear that If we have won
" this ight easily, we dare not abuse our power,
but must take warning from popular indif-
" difference that may soon changeinto suspicion
and ultimately into resentment. Wise and
honest leadership may perpetuate what has
been readily secured, whereas hasty action or
" the persistence in wrong will leopard and lose
"al"


This is simply one way Of saying what ought
to be said, upon all suitable occasions, by every
s.acere Republican newspaper in the country :
namely that the Republican organization, which
is now in complete control of the nation, is
bound to give it good and honest government
l. has the power to do so il it fail in the duty,
it VIII be it's own fault, and it will suffer and de-
serve tho condemnation OF the people.


The worst feature OF our politics is its ele-
mont of mean and sordid influences. Too many
men go into Office ION the make" and not to do
their honest duty. They may not openly steal,
Int they manipulate. and manage and suck.
s1ch ype of politician disgraces the Amer.
can system and wherever the people sec the
head Of sGch man, they ought to hit it, The
independent press must do their share of the
work By giving the alarm when such man
comes to the surface.


The future policy of the Republican party is
summed up in two words-"Reform !" and "Pu.
rifcaton!" 1t is composed OF a greater part Of
the best clements Of the nation, and it can ac-
complish great things, if it will. But it must
put its best men, its honest men its simple
hearted, plAia-liying men Into the front, and
dismiss to the Hades where they belong the le-
gion OF hungry roosters, and FOUNDERS, and shy
stera who always attach themselves to a sue
ceseful party.
Year: 1873

Middlemarch," like all of George Eliot's
works, is full of brief paragraphs connected
with the story, yet conveying independent
lessons OF truth worthy to be remembered.
For example:


"We are on a perilous margin when we be-
gin to look passively at our future selves, and
see our own figures led with dull consent into
insipid misdoing and shabby achievement"


"There is a torsaking which still sits at the
same board and lies ON the same couch with
the forsaken soul, whitening it the more by
unloving proximity


'There are natures in which, if they love
us, we are conscious of having a sort Of bap-
tism and conservation; they bind us over To
rectitude and purity by their pure belief
about us; and our sins become the worst
kind of sacrilege which tears down the in
visible altar of trust"


"Who can know how much of his most in
ward life is made up of the thoughts he be-
lieves other men to have about him until that
fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin ?''


SIN courtship everything is regarded as
provisional and preliminary, and The smallest
sample OF virtue or accomplishment is taken
to guarantee delightful stores which the
broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But
the door-sill of marriage once crossed, ex-
pectation is concentrated on the present.
Year: 1873

The barbarous superstition that the direct
ors of company have anything to do with
guarding its trust funds, is gradually yielding
TO the pressure of more enlightened and
Christian views of mans obligations to man.
Year: 1873

THE famous "Pro-rata freight" law of
the State of Illinois is likely to find its way
to the Supreme Court Of TIE United States.
Some of the railway companies, which
object to it, hold that ii is an encroachment
on the authority given to Congress to ere
eulate commerce among the several States"
a recent decision of the Supreme Court
in the case OF the Reading Railroad vs..
PENNSYLVANIA sustains this view OF the case,
and interprets the authority of Congress as
extending to the regulation of all freight
taken up within State and carried out of
t, or taken up out Of it anc brought within
it; in other words, all freight carried across
State boundaries.
Year: 1873

ANECDOTES OF JOHN BUNYAN.-To
pass away the gloomy hours in prison,
Bunyan took rail out of the stool be-
longing to the cell, and with his knife
fashioned it into a flute. The keeper,
hearing music followed the sound to
Bunyan's cell but while he was un-
locking the door the ingenius prisoner
placed the rail into the stool, so that
the searchers were unable to solve the
mystery; nor, during the remainder of
Bunvan's residence in the jail, did they
ever discover how the music had been
produced In an old account of Bed
ford, there is an equally good anecdote,
to the effect that a Quaker called npon
Bunyan in Jail one day with what he
professed to be a message from the Lord.
"After searching for thee" said he, Sin
half the jails of England, l am glad to
have found thee at last" 'If the Lord
sent thee," said Bunyan, sarcastically
''you would not have needed to take SC
much trouble to find out, for he knows
| have been in Bedford jail these seven
years past"
Year: 1873

The Litchfeld, MINI, Ledger says:
About two weeks ago, Swede by the
name of Torgilerson, who resides in
Swift county, was proceeding to neigh
boris, some three miles distant from his
own house, carrying a shovel on his
shoulder, which he was returning to his
neighbor from whom he had borrowed
it. He had accomplished about half
his journey and was passing through
small grove when he heard crashing in
the underbrush, and turning around,
saw stalwart deer, of the buck persua-
sion, making for him with every demon
stration of hostile intention.


There was but one course to pursue,
and that was to fight for his life, and
being powerfully-made man, he antic-
ipated an easy conquest. Mistaken man
The deer charged with antlers lowered,
even as an enraged bull would lower his
head when dashing at his foes. Nels.
grasped his shovel and stood stoutly on
the defensive. AS the enraged buck
neared him he aimed desperate blow
with his shovel full at its head. Il
struck one Of his antlers with such force
as to break it, but the concussion was so
strong that it forced Nels. backward sew
eral feet, and hurled him breathless
against tree Just how the fight went
after that Nels don't remember, but ne
knows he fought with all the strength of
desperation, and at last the deer and
himself both fell to the ground, and Nels.
lost all consciousness for a time.


When he came ground to his soul
again" the deer was lying stark dead
near by him, and he could barely crawl
away. His clothes were in rags, his left
cheek torn open, cash on the right
side, where the deer had inserted one OF
the prongs of his antlers, and the three
fingers on his left hand jammed up.


The shovel was a total wreck, and the
carcass of the deer was pretty we'll hash
ed around the head and shoulders. The
blow that caused the animals death was
inflicted by a sharp corner of the shove

remaining on the handle after most O
the blade had been broken off. Tn,
wounded man succeeded in crawling bacl
home, which he reached in terribly ex
hausted condition. 1t is thought that h
will survive his wounds.
Year: 1873

To find some universal tongue
That all can understand,
Has long been wished by old and young,
In almost every l. nd.
They never seemed to have confessed
What wondrous power lies
In that mute speech, by all possessed,
The Language of the Eyes.
Why can not people be coutent
With this dumb voice alone?
Perhaps because it says what's meant,
And all that's meant is shown!
SO still use artificial speech,
Which hides and mystifes,
For that which Truth and Nature teach,
The Language Of the Eyes
How much the better should we be
If fewer things were said
If words spun out less easily
In Conversations thread.
How many questions we might spare
How many VAN replies
Would We bnt practice everywhere
The Language of the Eyes
But ah l fear, too oft we feel
Shut up in hollow pride;
And what our eyes would sure reveal
The world intends to hide
We cannot trust our eyes to speak
Truth only in them lies
And falsehood never dares to seek
The Language of the Eyes!
We are not yet so good, a!asl
AS that we all can say,
"Look through these windows, as through glass,
And read our hearts Away
We yet must suffer speech to fill
The world with sound and lies
But there win be one true thing still
The Language of the Eyes!


-Firesidc Companion
Year: 1873

There John, hitch Dobbin to the post; come me


and sit down;
Your mother wants to talk to you before you drive


town:
My hairs are gray, soon shall be at rest within the


grave;
Not long will mother pilot you DER fe's tempestuous



I've watched DER you from infancy till now you
And have always loved you as a mother only can;
At morning and at evening have prayed the God of


love
To bless and guide my darling boy that bright home


above
A mothers eye is searching, John, old age can't dim


its sight,
When watching DER an only child to see if he does


right;
And very lately have seen what has aroused my


fears
And made my pillow hard at night, and moisteued it


with tears.
I've seen light within your eye, upon your cheeks


glow,
That told you the road that leads to shame


and woe;
Oh John, don't turn away your head, and my


counsel frOwn,
Stay upon the old dear farm; there's danger in


the town.
Remember what the poet says-long years have prev
That Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to
do"
If you live on in idlcness with those who love the
bowl,
You'll dig Yourself drunkards grave and wreck your
deathlt soul
Your father john is growing old; his days are nearly
through
o. he has labored very hard to the farm you
But it will go to ruin soon, and poverty will frewn.
If you keep hching DObbR up to drive into the
Your prospects for the future very bright my
Not many have your start in life when they twenty
one;


Your star that shines so brightly now in darkness will
decline,
If forget your mothers words, and tarry at the
wine.
| Turn back, my boy now in your youth; stay by the
dear old farm;
The Lord of Hosts will you, with His powerful
right arm
Not long will mother pilot you DER fes tempesuous
| wave
Then light her pathway with your love down to the
| silent grave. John b. Yates.
Year: 1873

o, that precious thought, how cheering
When we part with those we love,
Though we may so sadly miss them,
We shall meet in realms above.
Then why sorrow when Christian
Leaves this world of grief and care,
Goes to dwell with Christ and angels
In that land of beauty rare
We should look for them in heaven,
While We lift our hearts in prayer;
We should Lope for them in glory,
Sharing Jesus love and care.
Then why sorrow when they leave us
For that bright and happy land,
Go to meet the loved and cherished
Who have Joined the angel band.
Albany, Jan. I3.
Year: 1873

ing is about S7,OOO,OOO. A PROPOSE
ton has been made by an eminent New
England firm to construct dome over
the court which dome shall be the -larg-
est and most magnificent in the world.
All this firm ask is that they may be
granted a perpetual lease of the dome,
above the spring of the arch, subject to
the reasonable conditions. The estima-
ted cost of this dome is $4,000, ,OOO.-
Financially, it is believed by those who
have become especially interested in the
Worlds Fair" enterprise, that it will
prove a profitable speculation, besides
showing the development of material
progress since the year 1854, when the
New York Crystal Palace was opened.
Year: 1873

The Rev. ". G. Clark of Brooklyn,N.
Y, is now on trial before a council of
the Methodist Episcopal church, charged
with gross immortality in originating a
lottery scheme and refusing to abandon
it upon the order of the New York Con-
ference. The Police Commissioners have
caused an investigation to be made and
find that the enterprise is similar to those
at church fairs, only on a larger scale.
The council deserve commendation for
their action in the matter and striving to
break up this species Of gambling.
Year: 1873




The public schools reopened yesterday with
full attendance and general appearance of
pleasure among teachers and pupils that the
work of the school year had begun. 1t is an
event that ought to be of the widest and most
general interest in the metropolis. Nothing
so affects the stability of the Republic and the
welfare of society as the education of the chill
dren of all classes. The public schools should
be neither for the rich nor the poor, but so
perfect in management and curriculum that
both rich and poor will find them
the best places for the education of
their children. In a city like New York
this is feasible. Our schools do not afford
that scope in the course of study, that thor
ough appreciation of the advances made in
science and thought, which are necessary to
their success. Private institutions are out
stripping them in many respects, and espe-
cially in modern languages, natural science and
music. A gentleman who desires his son to
learn French and German can only have his
child taught these languages by sending him
to private school. This entails an expense
of from one hundred to two hundred dollars q
year-a burden which laboring men and poor
widows cannot bear. The public schools Of
New York ought, in fact, to be great
university, rivalling Harvard in the facilities
of instruction they afford to the young men
and women Of ths metrQpoliA
Year: 1873

The Ccntr0l NahrOa0 hOnu Forgery


and the Effect I'm Wall Street.


The spectators in Wall street have had
lively time over the Central Railroad bond
forgery. To increase the excitement there was
another piece of rascality in that quarter, the
absconding of o clerk, temporarily employed,
with thirty thousand dollars in gold certifi-
Gates, money and bonds. Then the Rodman
plundering case over in Brooklyn helps the
fever. Of course, all those holding and deal
ing in stocks and bonds feel more or less
excited at such developments, and it is said
there was some hesitation among dealers
yesterday morning as to buying But, looking
at the well known elasticity of Wall street and
Wall street men, we judge the affair was pretty
effect was seen after the first morning hours of
business. 1t was naturally theme for gossip
and speculative opinions among those who live
in an atmosphere of sensation, and
there are always number of stock
operators who seize even the smallest event
to disturb the market. They live by such
disturbing causes, and, therefore, are
ready at all times to exaggerate them. The
extent of the forgeriss is not yet known, but
it is generally thought they will not exceed
two hundred thousand dollars, and that
large amount of them will be got at or be pre-
vented from negotiation. Commodore Van
derbilt does not think there will be much loss
or inconvenience. One good effect this for
gerry discovery will have will be to cause the
brokers, bankers and dealers to scrutinize
carefully the bonds and stocks they hold But
will it make them more careful in the futurep
Will they not return, after the excitement is
over, to the old easy going and confiding way
of doing business? A great deal of the crime
which prevails in the financial world results
from the carelessness of the principals in busi-
ness establishments. The eagerness to make
money and the gambling propensities of Wall
street make criminals of many weak men
when temptation lies in their way Against
the professional forger or thief there is no
safeguard but constant vigilance. Let us
hope the detectives will not fail to find the
guilty parties in this Central Railroad bond
forgery and that the criminals will be pun
ished. To allow such crimes to 90 unpun-
ished has fcarfully demoralizing influence in
the community.
Year: 1873

The first of the great autumnal lake gales
was yesterday announced as central near Lake
Ontario, moving eastwardly, and, in anticipa-
ton, at an early hour the storm-warning flag
was flying on the upper New England coast.
The arrival Of this first instalment of the
equinox is apparently the harbinger Of an
early fall and the close of summer among
the most remarkable on record for its short
lived, but high thermometric ranges, its cold
midsummer tempests and its phenomenal
rainfalls. In some sections of the
country the temperature has been
excessively low for the season, and the
August precipitation has exceeded that of
last year by one hundred per cent and of the
August OF 1871 by nearly two hundred per
cent. The weather reports of yesterday morn
ing left no doubt that New England and the
st. Lawrence valley and the surrounding
ocean, recently narrowed by the great Nova
Scotia anti-cyclone, would be to-day the scene
of another violent gale. II is not to be hoped
that we shall escape q few warm days in this
month, but with the breaking up of the hot
season the absentees from the cities will soon
return.
Year: 1873

SHOCKING CONDITION OF Our STREET PAVE
MENTs. never in the history Of New
York as city have the street pavements been
in more dilapidated condition than they are
at this moment. As if to add to the natural
beauties of the rat trap now occupied by the
United States government as Post Office, in
Liberty Pine and Nassau streets, the wooden
and other pavements have been allowed to be-
come almost impossible for ordinary vehicles.
In Nassau, between Beekman and Spruce
there is circular conglomeration of paving
boulders that would amaze native of Central
Africa on his first visit to New York The
wooden pavements in nearly every part of the
city, as matter of fact, are worn out and have
become almost as intolerable nuisances as have
the reform city authorities, in consequence
Of their delay in not having these pavements
properly repaired and their miserable economy
in conducting the affairs of the city generally.
These matters should be reformed altogether,
and as soon as possible, or the city of New
York will soon become disgrace to the civil
zation of the nineteenth century on the Ameri-
can Continent.
Year: 1873

The BRIT1sH NAVAL COMPLICATION IN SPAIN
with respect to the seizure of the national IRON
clads Vlttoria and Almanac remained in q
very delicate and rather difficult position on
the 3Oth ultimo The Cartagena insurgents
were in correspondence with Vice Admiral
Yelverton on the subject of the future DISPOSE
ton Of the ships, and, Judging by the contents
Of our latest kilograms the end is not vet.
Year: 1873

remaining farmers Of the hamlet
adorned not Sans log. but wandered
about with faces vacant of all express
sion, save the agony ofthe patriot who
secs his home invaded by corrnpting
Influences too powerful for him to
resist.


Then Merick sent up a plow-gang
and eight horses, and the tender green
OF Sans quarter section was rapidly
changed to n dull brown color, which
is odious unto the eye Of the Pike.
Day after day the brown spot grew
larger, and one morning Sam arose to
find AL his neighbors departed, having
wreaked their vengeance npon him by
taking away his dogs. And in bis de-
light at their disappearance Sam freely
fOrgave them all.


Regularly the children were carried
to and from school, and even to Sun
day school. Regularly every evening
Sam visited the grave on the hillside,
and came back to lie by the hour
watching the sleeping darlings. Little
by little farmers began TO realize that
their property was undisturbed. Lit
tie by little Sans wheat grew and
waxed golden. aud then there came u
day when man from Frisco came
and changed it into heavier gold-more
gold than Sam had ever seen before.
And the farmers began to step in to
see Sam, and their children came to
see his, kind women were unusually
kind TO tle orphans; and, as day by
day Sam took his solitary walk on the
hillside, the load on his heart grew
lighter, until he ceased TO fear the day
when he, too. should lie here.-CaH-
fornia Ere}anqe.