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Year: 1871

This eminent Divine is reported by the
papers to be confined to his home in Phila-
delphia, by illness, the results of long con-
tinued oyertaxing of his energies in the
work of his Episcopate. The Methodist
Episcopal Church, since the close of the
war, has needed complete reorganization in
the south and southwest, while the superip-
tendent Of the missions in all parts of the
world has lately added to their labor. All
OF the Bishops last elected have fallen vic
tins to the immense pressure of oyerwork.
and except the utmost care be taken and
the fullest exemption from the labors of
his office be conceded, there is little doubt
but that the most eloquent preacher of the
church will soon join his associates in the
land beyond. If Bishop Simpson be not
counted, there are but three Bishops capa


BILE of effective labor one of whom Bishop
Scott, is III state of health which is more
than precarious. We understand that the
Bishops have determined to decline all out
side labors and for the present confine them
selves strictly to the interests of the annual
conference. Its new elections can not be held
before next May, when the general confer
ence meets in Brooklyn, at which time it
is generally understood that five or six of
the most eminent ministers of the denomi-
nation will be elevated to the Episcopate
Year: 1871

Ice CREAM.-Ritner & Custer have fitted
up their Ice Cream Saloon in good style and
invite the public to give them call. Those
who once taste the Ice Cream manufac-
tured by them will be sure to call again
Strawberries and cream in their season.
Year: 1871

and examine the vast and mag
nificent assortment of Summer
Clothing made up from a choice
stock of materials, purchased
recently al prices much balow
market value as special bar
gains, which are being sold
every day in large amounts at
prices which defy competition.
Year: 1871




The Democratic stumpers
have all got sick and quit,-
First, McCook left the field.-
Week before last Thurman got
sick and went East Last
week Pendletonb got sick,
and went home, where
he will stay, like hosts q q
the rank and file, as they
are advised to do by that old
wheel, horse, Col. Sam. Pike
until the party is compelled e g
return to Its old land marks
Year: 1871

AN exchange says: sit 10
not good taste for young men
to stay after ten o'clock when
visiting young ladies. A friend
of ours says he never noticed
any difference in the taste after
ten O'clock"
Year: 1871

II was about buckwheat cakes | told
Maria Ann any fool could beat her making
those cakes, and she said had better tfy it.
So did. cmptied the batter all out of the
pitcher, one evening and set the cakes my
self. got the -four and the salt and the
water, aud warned by the past, put in lib
eral quantity Of eggs aud shortening. l
shortened with talow from roast beef, because
| could not find any lard. The batter did
not look right; | lit my pipe, and pondered
yeast--yeast to be sure. had forgotten
the yeast. went and woke up the baker
and got six conts' worth of yeast. set the
pitcher behind the sitting room stove, and
went 10 bed In the morning | got up early
and prepared to enjoy my triumph but |
didn't That yeast was strong enough to
raise the dead, and the batter was running all
over the carpet. | soraped it up and put it
into another dish. Then got fire in the
kitchen and put on the gridde. The first lot
of cakes stuck TO the griddle. The second
dittocd, only more. Maria came down and
asked what was burning. She advised me to
grease the griddle. did it. One end Of
the griddle got too hot and | dropped the
thing on my tenderest corn, while trying 10
turn around. Finally the cakes were ready
for breakfast, and Maria got the other things
ready We sat down. My cakes did not
have exactly the right favor. | took one
mouthful and it satisfied me- lost my up.
petite at once. Maria would not let mo put
one on her plate. l think those cakes may
be reckoned dead loss The cat would not
eat them, Tho dog ran off and stayed three
days after one was offered him. The hens
won't 90 within ten feet of them. l threw
them into the back yard, and there has not
been pig on the premises since. | cal
what is pnt before, me now, and do not aludS
to my mothers system of cooking.
Year: 1871

ard at night with goat tied to tree for a
lure but then | must not do what did once
before fall asleep with the goat--as have
previously described to you, for, perhaps in-
stead of taking the goat, it might take me.


When we got back to the camp there was
an immense excitement. The Apingi said that
they had killed the leopard also, for three of
their spears had been in his body. 1t was u
huge old fellow. ] wish you could have seen
his teeth and his large paws. What tremen-
dous claws it had With blow Of his paw
the monster could have killed the strongest
man. ] was greatly pleased to secure this
animal for its skin was superb, and ! knew
that it would gladden. the heart Of some friend
at home when should present it to him.
Year: 1871

Their is public sentiment in ordinary
communities which send crimes and
vices into the shadow, So that wickedness
of certain grades has to skulk. 1t is a
sorrowtul thing when crimes become toll
erab.e and when vices become respecta-
Bile. The average conscience OF any COM
munity must be deteriorated very much
before men who are notorious for their
various wickedness cali walk in the high
places. and be regarded as "hail fellows
well met" and bo permitted to hold the
principal offices of trust and profit, and
be honored and smiled upon, and every
where greeted and recognized. A scoun-
drel, if he be clothed with kings robes,
ought TO be treated by every good man
as if he were scoundrcl, SO tar as that
is his typical character, and so far as he
puts that character out. You may pity
him; you may labor for his reclamation !;
but il he is placed ip such circumstances
that he is represented by wicked con-
duct or by wicked actions, somewhere
there must be testimony Of such horror
and hatred Of his wickedness that he
shall be made to feel how hateful wick
edness is. And the public sentiment of
society ought to be made TO feel how
hateful wickedness is. If there is no re-
probation of counterfeiting, if honest
men who could never counterfeit, still
are charitable TO take counterfeit mon
ey; if though they thiuk it bad, and say
that they would not take it if they
could very well help it, they yet, when
they have it in their hands, will pass it
along-then it will be sure to thrive. II
,neu who are known TO be genial, good
fellows, and who are respected in the
community, should say OF counterfeiting
cit is bad, but there are worse things
than that in society,"" what would be-
come OF our trust and security in regard
to any circulating medium? But hon
est men hate counterteiting. They trown
upon all the spurious money which
comes under their notice and the re-
suit is that it has to sneak and go
through society in the lowest channels,
and the best way it can. But if there
were no public sentiment, il there were
no Indignation of honesty, if there were
frowned upon it, it would rise up at
once. Wickedness in society is all the
time seeking to gain sscendency; and
there is nothing to keep it down but
that hatred of it which the educated
conscience of society gives. How far up
the common sewers OF society shall rise,
and how fast they shall send out their
miasma, depends upon the education OF
the conscience of the Christian commu-
nifty. And a community that has been
brought up to be tolerant OF wickedness,
or to find excuses forit, or to be indiffer-
ent to it, or to be good natured over it,
becomes patron of wickedness, and
demoralizes and weighs down that
which God sent the Church and the
Christian community to enlighten aud
to lift up.
Year: 1871

The following description of scene
on the Cornish Road in Italy, between
Nice and Mentone, is from Alice Dut-
toms lecture, "The Vexed Question :"


With almost breathless wonder and
awe, we cluug TO, and crept slowly up
the narrow ledge, which forms this won
deriul road, with the stupendous, snow
crowned wall of rock, in which it is cut,
rising two thousand feet above our
heads, while the soft blue ripples of that
tideless sea, and never ceasing summer
airs. and the fragrance of ever-blooming
flowers, bathed its teet as far below
Every curve of the ascent revealed
scene after scene of gorgeous and en-
chanting splendor. While the dreamily
rocking waves lay bathed in flood of
purple, and pink and golden simmer,
flung out through rift in the mountain
like goodnight glances from the droop-
ing eyes of the departing sun, the su-
perb southern moon swept up from her
billowy couch among the clouds, touch.
ing first with matchless grace, each
snowy peak snd undulating curve of the
Apprentices, as they wound their SER
pentine course down through the fair
and classic land Of Tuscany, toward the
immortal bay OF Naples, and then went
swinging up into the central heavens
from whence she seemed to drop down
almost within our reach, and hung like
great flashing jewel suspended from
the breast of night. A vision more Won
derful in radiant beauty, until the open
ing gates of Heaven disclose to our i'm
mortal gaze the great beyond, our long
ing eyes can never hope to zee,
Year: 1871

A few months ago a lad in Whining
ton, North Carolina, sent letter to the
Emperor Napoleon, telling him that he
was but boy of IL years, but that with
the heart OF man, he sympathized
with him in the heavy misfortunes that
had fallen upon him. A few days since,
to the astonishment of every one, an au.
tog raph letter was received from the
emperor in reply. 1t thanked him for
the kindly aud generous sympathy that
Lad been bestowed, and hoped tha: the
lot IN life of his little friend would fall
in more quiet scenes and more peaceful
times than had fallen 20 the share OF the
emperor Of France,
Year: 1871




The WALLA WALLA PosToFFICE-Our
neighbors in the northern part of the Territory
complain, and justly, too, of the irregularity
of the mails We take the following from the
Lewiston Journal of August 9th: 5


More evidences of the carelessness of the Walla
Walia Postofice have transpired. amorg which some
of our exchanges came back to this Office that were
sent but two days before. This is the second time
that our "ex' to the Idaho World has come back in
the same bag in which it was sent Other papers
and letters meet the same fate.


We have been, for some time, at loss to
account for the irregularity with which we
have received not only the Journal but the
Walla Walla Statesman. 1t has frequently
been the case that the Statesman would not
come to hand for nearly two weeks, when we
would then receive two different numbers on
the same day, or. one number upon the day
following the receipt of the other. The Jour-
nal has come to hand in almost the same man.
ner, and it has been the case that numbers Of
both papers have failed to reach us altogether.
From our acquaintance with the postmasters
of Idaho City and Boise City, we know the
blame does not lie ate their DOORS If other
Offices were conducted as well there would be
no complaint about the irregularity of the
mails through the negligence or carelessness
OF postmasters. Gsa..
Year: 1871

The New Haven woman who re-
Gently got married and took her
wedding tour i'll horse car, wrote
to her friend the next morning, say
ing she was just as well satisfied as
though she had travelled around the
world.
Year: 1871

A DIscovERy.-We understand that q
company Of mountaineers have at length
been able to penetrate to the great basin Of
the middle fork of the great Kaweah river
This region has, heretofore, only bee viewed
from the summit of the Sieras. The party
referred to procured the services of an old
Indian; he led the party short distance up
the second north fork, and then, instead Of
pursuing the course generally followed by
parties making an effort in this direction, he
turned back around the edge of certain big
bluff rock, and ascending behind it soon led
the party into rolling country covered by
the most magnificent pneyy in this portion
Of the State. 1t is said that there is the
evidence of an old Spanish trail having run
into this region, but that no one has been
able to follow it beyond certain point,
where large slide has taken place in the
bluff. There is legend that mine of the
precious metals was once worked by the
Spanish in the region referred to, that the
miners were murdered by the Indians, and
that all English company were left in posses
sion Of a chart containing diagram Of this
mine. 1t will be but short time before
the truth of this legend is tested. The
pinery referred to is nearer to Visalia than
any of the present lumber mills. Visalia
Delta.
Year: 1871

A MoTuEn's K1ss.-A day or two since a
ragged and dirty-looking boy, fourteen years
of age, pleaded guilty in the Superior Grim
inal Court to having fired building. Foi
two years past, since the death of his mother,
he had wandered around the streets va
grant, without home or human being to
care for him, and he had become in every
respect bad boy" A gentleman and q
lady interested themselves in bis behalf, and
the latter took him one side to question him
She talked to him kindly, but without max
ing the slightest impression upon his feelings
and to all she said he manifested the greatest
Indifference, until she asked him if no one
had ever kissed him. This simple inquiry
proved too much for him, and bursting into
tears he replied, No one since my mother
kissed me- . That one thought of his poor
dead mother--the only being who had eve,
spoken kindly to him before-touched hin
to his heart, hardened young crimna
though he was. The little incident caused
other tears to flow than hs.-Er.
Year: 1871

TIE DYING NEVER WEEp.-It is a strils-
ing fact that the dying never weep. The
sobbing, the heart rt-breaking agony of the
circle Of friends around the death-bed call
forth no responsive tears from the dying.
Is it because he is insensible and stiff in the
chill of dissolutionP That cannot be, for he
asks for his fathers hand, as ii to gain
strength i'll the mortal struggle, and leans on
the breast of his mother, sister or brother,
in still conscious affection. Just before ex-
piring, he calls the loved ones, and with
quivering lips says: " Kiss me! showing
that the love he has ever borne in his heart
is still fresh and warm. 1t must be because
the dying have reached too deep for earthly
sorrows, too transcendent for weeping. They
are face to face with higher and holiel
things, with the Father in Heaven and His
angels. There is no weeping in that blessed
abode to which he is Fastening.
Year: 1871

A PAINTER was once engaged upon a like
ness of Alexander the Great. In one of his
great battles Alexander had received an ugly
scar on the side of his face. The artist was
desirous of giving correct likeness of the
monarch, and at the same time desirous of
hiding the scar. Il was difficult task to
accomplish. At length he hit upon happy
expedient. He painted him in reflective
attitude, his hand placed against his head,
while his finger covered the scar The best
men are not without their failings, their scars
but do not dwell upon them. In speaking
of them to others, adopted the painters ex-
pedent, and let the finger Of love be placed
on the scar.
Year: 1871

A Hoos1ER housewife furnishes this as the
original recipe for making the genuine and
world famous Indiana gingerbread: "Git
your ginger; melt molasses till it biles over;
melt some butter till it is thin; stir it through
the molasses candy; multiply by wet sugar;
thrash come clover and maryander seed, and
grind them together; get a twelve pound sack
Of -four on credit; two cups of sour oil of kline;
beat somebody out Of the eggs; strain them
to substract the shells; line the pan with red
flannel, saturate with equal parts of coal tar
and strong butter, and pour the mixture in.
Bake until it tastes good'
Year: 1871

A STATE fair is queen; an agricultural
fair is farmers daughter; church fair is
a parsons wife; soldiers fair is the best
looking girl he can get hold Of; charity fair
is female pauper; and the most unpopular
fair in the universe is boarding g-house fare.
Year: 1871

From THIS WORLD To THE OTHER.-We start
in life an unbroken company /; brothers and
sisters, friends and lovers, neighbors and COM
rades are with us there is circle within circle,
and each one of us is at the charmed centre
where the hearts affections are aglow, and
whence they radate outward upon society
Youth is exuberant with joy and hope, the
earth looks fair, for it sparkles with May-dews
yet, and no shadow hath fallen upon it. We
are all here, and we could live here forever.
The home centre is on the hither side of the
river, and why should we strain our eyes to
look beyond But this state of things does not
continue long Our circle grows less and less.
1t is broken, and broken and then closed up
again; but every break and close makes it mar
rover and smaller. Perhaps before the sun is
at his meridian the majority are on the other
side the circle there is as large as the one
here and we are drawn contrariwise, and vibrate
between the two. A little longer, and we have
almost crossed over; the balance settles down
on the spiritual side, and the home-centre is
removed to the upper sphere. At length you
see nothing but an aged pilgrim standing alone
on the rivers brink, :and looking:earnestly to-
wards the country on the other side. In the
morning, that large and goodly company, re-
joicing together with music and wine; in the
evening, dwindled down to that solitary old
man, the last of his family, and the last of his
generation, waiting to go home, and filled
with pensve memories of the long ago!-E.
II Sears.
Year: 1871

There are two ways to live on earth


Two ways to iudge-to act-to view
For all things here have double birth


A right and wrong-a false and true
Give me the home where kindness seeks


To make that sweet which seemeth small
Where every lip in fondness speaks,


And every mind has care for all.
Whose inmates live in glad exchange


Ofpleasures, free from vain expense
Whose thoughts beyond their means ne 'er range,
Nor wise denials give offence.
Who in a neighbor's fortune find


No wish-no impulse-to complain;
Who feels not-never felt-tbe mind


To envy yet another's gain
Who dream not of the mocking tide


Ambitions foiled endeavor meets
The bitter pangs OF wounded pride,


Nor fallen power that shuns the streets.
Though Fate deny its glttering store,


Loves wealth is still the wealth to choose
For all that man can purchase more


Are sands it is no loss to lose !
Some beings, whereso'er they go,


Find naught to please, or to exalt-
Their constant study but to show
Perpetual modes of finding fault.
OF daily wants and daily care,
Can vet Gull flowers from common ground,
And twice enjoy the joy they share.
oh happy they who happy make


Who blessing, still themselves are blest!
Who something spare for others sake,


And strive in all things for the best
Year: 1871

DAILY PRAYEn-An aged minister once gave
some advice to young Christian. 1t was
this "Never neglect, never forget secret daily
prayer. 1t is here that the Christian always
loses ground. Neglect this, and you cannot
fail to grow cold and Indifferent. Never let a
day pass over your head without earnest pray
err


The good old man is dead, but the words he
uttered may serve as warning to more than
one, especially the young. Never neglect Sc
cret prayer. Are you busy7 Do you excuse
yourself because you are so hurried every
LAY? Remember who gives you time. Are
you we'll and strong? Thank God for health.
Are you sick Surely your heart must frame
petitions to Him who holds life and death in
his hand. Are you exposed to tempt tions !?
There is no safeguard like prayer. Have you
neglected this duty? Take up again the bro
ken threads Have you never begun "Life
is short and time is feeting," Do not neglect
secret pray Magazine.
Year: 1871

G- A lawyer in Connecticut, not remark
able for his cleanliness of person, appeared at
party while ago with rose in button
hole. "Where do you suppose it came from p
said he to brother lawyer who was admiring
it. The latter looked up and down the entire
length of the questioner, and with great deli
beratipn responded "Why suppose it grew
there ?"
Year: 1871

ges- 1t has always been a mystery to us
where all the Smiths came from but while
lately visiting in neighboring city, the mat
ter was satisfactorily explained by the ap-
pearance of large sign over the door of fac
tory with the announcement that this was the
"Smith Manufacturing Company"
Year: 1871

Keen all kinds of Goods suitable for city and
country wear. All we ask is to give us trial,
and we guarantee satisfaction.


We would respectfully call the attention OF
our customers to a recent improvement in our
Nn have nnaned
Year: 1871

Frosty nights remind us that the ice
crop for the warm weather of 1872 Will
soon have to be gathered, and plans for
ice-houses will soon be in demand. Amy
builder or architect can design and put
up an elaborate ice-house which may or
NAV not preserve the ice entrusted to
its keeping, but cheap make-shift lee
house, which will serve temporary
purpose until better one can be erect
ed, is greatly to be desired. We know
by experienc that very simple struc-
ture will serve every purpose, and the
following directions, which we clip from
the Country Gentleman, seem to meet the
required conditions as well as any which
we have seen:


"Throw down dozen or two of old
rails or poles upon a piece of ground
sufficiently inclined to throw off water,
fill the crevices between the holes with
sawdust, cover with old boards, slabs,
or barks-get from the saw-mill a few
| loads of slabs, take four-say twelve
feet long, notch the corners. like log
house, set them on the platform, and
YOU have a crib about ten and "a half
feet long by the width of the slab deep;
fill this crib with sawdust and pack it
down hard. Cut your ice so that it will
pack close, and eight feet square,; lay
it on the sawdust, put on another crib
of slabs and fill up and pack hard with
sawdust all around, and so go on till
you get up six or eight feet then put a
foot and half of sawdust on top; over
this put shed roof of slabs-one end
of the slabs nearly to the ice, raising the
other nearly three feet. If ice is all
that is wanted, it will keep in this man
ner as well as in a vanished house.
Let farmer once get in the habit OF
keeping ice, and he will soon find way
to make something better than q crib
to keep it in-and L think this cheap
plan will be apt to get him started.