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Year: 1872

"I would like to keep sheep on
my hilly farm" writes a correspond
ent, "but am afraid of the dogs. IA
there no remedy" there are thred
remedies: l. Ii there is a tax on
dogs in your State, see that it is en1
forced in your neighborhood 2. IA
there is no dog law in your State
vote for no man who will not pledge|
himself 10 do all he can to have one|
enacted. 3. Let all the sheep mem
in the neighb1rhood form themselves
into al association. Let nothing bel
done TO CRAFTY personal spite butt
if a suspicious dog is found prowling|
about the farm, shoot him. Then, III
the owner can prove damages, letI
the association pay them, and repeat
the process. City and village dogH|
must be taught to stay at home
They are often abused and half
starved, and it would be mercy to|
them to give them one good meal of
mutton with a liberal allowance o1
strychnine in it. The neighbora'
might be told that this feast was
provided solely for visitors, so.thatI
they keep their dogs at home.


4 good plan to adopt is, when
sheep dies, dress it and wash it witt
water containing few spoonfuls o
crude carbolic acid. 1t will preserve
the meat for months. Cut it up
into Joints and hang it up, and you
will always have a piece of muttor
on hand for a hungry dog that may
visit You from the city village 0
swamp. 1t is rarely that well-bree
and well-fed dog attacks sheep, and
it is not often that such dogs wander
far from home at night. If there
are any good dogs in the neighbor
hood, inform the owners of the fac
that you have set a trap for th
half-starved prowlers from the city
and that they had better fasten their
up at night. In this way no harn
is likely to done.-American Agricul
turiM.
Year: 1872

I saw temple reared by the hands
of men, standing with It's high pin
nacles In the distant plain. The
streams beat upon 1.-THE God of
Nature hurled his thunder bolt
against it-and yet it stood, as fro
as adamant. Reyelry was in its walls
the gay, the happy and the beau
tiful were there L returned, and tue
temple was no more, its high walls
lay scattered IN ruins moss and
wild grass grew wildly there. The
young and the gay who revelled there
had passed away.


1 saw a child rejoicing in his
youth-tbe idol of his mother, the
pride Of his father. returned, and
the child had become old-trem bling
with the weight of years, he stood
the last of his generation-a stranger
amidst the desolation around him.


[ saw an old oak stand in all its
pride, on the moIntains-lhe birds
were carroling IN its boughs. 1
returned, the oak was sapless, the
winds were playing at their pastime
through its branches. Who is the
Destroyer said L to my guardian
angel.


at is Time" said he. "When the
morning stars sang together in joy,
ever the new made world, he com
menced his course, and when he
shall have destroyed al! that is beau
tiful Cf the earth-plucked the sun
from his sphere-veiled the moon
into blood ; yea, when he shall have
rolled heaven and earth away as a
scroll, then shall an angel from the
Throne of God come forth, and with
one foot on the sea and one on the
land, lift up his hand toward Heaven,
and swear by Heavens eternal,
Time is, Time WAS, but Time shall
be no more 2"
Year: 1872

THE Local PAPER. The New York
Times says you might nearly rs well for
get your churches, your academies and
school houses rs to forget your local
paper. 1t speaks to ten times the au
dience that your local minister does. 1t
reaches you all. and if it has Il lower
spirit and less wisdom than u sermon,
it has thousand times better chance at
you. Laying, as it does, on every table
in most every house, you owe it to your
selves to rally literally to its support,
and exact from it rs able, high toned a
character as you do from any educator
in your midst. 1t is by no sense beneath
notice and care-unless yourself are be-
meath notice and care for it is your
representative. Indeed, in its character
it is the summation Of the Importance,
interest and welfare of you all. 1t is the
aggregate Of your own consequences, and
you cannot ignore it without miserably
depreciatng yourselves.
Year: 1872

HONEST MINERS communication is under
consideration, and may appear next week.
In the meautine we would like to meet the
autiaor, if convenient, or have the specific
cases upon which the communication is based
more clearly stated in a private letter. If
each frauds are being perpetrated the HERALD
will make them public, no matter who
suffers.
Year: 1872

The SCHOOL LAw.-We learn that the
amended School law of last session is not to
bc had by school officers. Superintendent
Kinkadc has daily applications for copies OF
this law, by school trustees, which he cannot
fill. He wrote to State Superintendent
Bolander for copies and received an answer
that the law was out of type, and none
could be had until the codes were printed.
This is an awkward position for our Supern-
tcndent, and we make this explanation that
Trustees may know that it is out of his
power to supply them with the law.
Year: 1872

In our house and farm column will be
found the description of a machine to keep
birds from destroying fruit 1t goes by
wind and can be easily made from the de-
scrption. This is just the tinae of the year
this machine is required and just the country
for its use, as birds are bad, and there is al
ways wind enough to keep this cousin of the
horse fiddle rattling.
Year: 1872




A LEARNED MAGIoIAN.-Prof. Pepper,
a learned English naturalist now in this
country, in one of his recent lectures
gave quite an entertaining account of
the so called fire eaters. Fire, he said
might be handled with impunity if va
rious conditions be complied with, and
as he frequently remarked, ''ifyou know
how" Sometimes the skin is naturally
hard, thick, and callous, so that highly
heated substances may be held for some
time without danger; or non-conductor
might be intcrposed-a fact which he
illustrated by covering his hand with
charcoal and placing thereon a lump of
red hot iron Certain chemical substan-
ces, being applied to the skin, will,
when in contact with other substances
of high temperature, vaporize, forming
cushion of vapor which protects the
part from injury. To prove the fact,
the speaker, first dipping his hand into
turpentine to cleanse the skin, and then
into ether, coolly plunged it into a tank
of boiling water and removed an egg.
Then, as a concluding experiment, he
moistened his hand with strong ammonia
and dipped his fingers into molten lead,
hot enough to infame paper, aud finally
poured the molten metal on the palm
of his hand, scattering it about as if it
were quicksilver.
Year: 1872

My dear young friend, whose shining wit
Sets all the room ablaze,
Don't think yourself "a happy dog
For all your marry ways;
But learn to wear sober phiz,
Be stupid if you can,
1t IS such very serious thing
To be funny man!
You're at an evening party, with
A group of pleasant folks
You venture quietly to crack


The least of little jokes
A lady does Mt catch the point,
And begs you to EXPLAIN
Alas for one who drops jest


And takes it up again
You re talking deep philosophy
With very special force,
To edify a clergyman


With suitable discourse:
You think you We got him when he calls
A friend across the way,
And begs you'll say that funny thing
You said the other day.
You drop pretty jeu-de-naot


Into neighbor's ears,
Who likes to give you credit for


The clever thing he hears,
And so he hawks your jest about
The old, authentic one,
Just breaking off the point of it,


And leaving out the pun!
By sudden change in politics,


Or sadder change in Polly,
You lose your love, or loaves, and fall
A prey to melancholy,
While everybody marvels why


Your mirth is under band,-
They think your very grief "a joke


You're such funny man
You follow upa stylish card


That bids you come and dine,
And bring along your freshest wit


(To pay for musty .wine)
You're looking very dismal, when


Ny lady bounces in,
And wonders what you're thinking of,
And why you don't begin!
You're telling to knot of friends


A fancy tale of woes
That clouds your matrimonial sky,


And Danish all repose,-
A solemn lady overhears


The story of your strife,
And tells the town the pleasant news:


You quarrel with your wife
My dear young friend, whose shining Wi


Sets all the room ablase.
Don't think yourself "a happy dog,


For al your merry ways;
But learn to wear a sober phiz,


Be stupid if you can,
1t S such very serious thing


TO be funny man
Year: 1872

A gentleman from the lower country,
says the Alta California, where grizzly
bears help the herders to take care of
the sheep, relates curious adventure
which occurred to an Indian herdsman
in his employ. He sent the man to a
distant portion of large rancho to look
after herd of sheep short time since.
The Indian at nightfall got under a
shed with roof Of branches, but open
on all sides, and lay down in his blank
cts. After few hours sleep, he was
awakened by feeling the hot breath of
some animal on his face. He moved
his arms, and at once understood the
situation. A huge bear was snuffng
him. The man, with great presence of
mind. determined to keep perfectly still,
for he knew if he moved or cried out,
one blow of those huge paws would
break his skull like a walnut. Bruin
scratched off the blankets, and seized
the Indian by the leg. Though suffer
ing terribly, the brave fellow did not al
low groan or cry to escape him. The
bear dragged him from the hut for some
distance, and then commenced to dig
hole to lay the Indian in and cover him
up from the coyotes. After the grave
had been dug deep enough, the bear
(contenting himself with about pound
of flesh from his victims thigh moved
the body to the hole and covered it up.
The Indian managed to keep the earth
over his face loose enough to allow him
to breathe, and when the bear retired,
he crawled out toward the mustang,
which was picketed some yards outside
the hut. With great difficulty he mount
ed, and then rode toward the rancho
house. A doctor was then sent for, and
pronounced the wounds, though severe
and painful, not likely to prove fatal.
The next day hunt was organized, and
the grizzly was killed in the neighbor-
hood of the spot where he had slowed
away his intended meal


Besides the gold snuff boxes and 9TH
er gifts which Stanley has brought home,
/


he exhibits the bright little negro boy
kalula, who has followed Stanley's for
tunes to the country where the African
race lave a home and vote. This lit
tie chap, with whose portrait, in state
of semi-nudity, New York is familiar
through the illustrated press, is now
clothed after the manner of an English
page of the nineteenth century, whose
status is better expressed in the ''but-
TONS" He is a little shy on being first
introduced When, however, he is ad-
dressed in Kisawihli, the language Of
his tribe, which is located in Cazembe's
county, south of Tanganyika, he talks
with considerable fuency. He is SAID
to possess considerable musical talent
and sings with great gusto the following
refrain from the ancient scriptures o.
the Ujijians:


| Shufii doanbodamee


Shuf doanbodamee,


Ibel onStocumanejee
Year: 1872

On the banks of the river Ganges, says
military journalist, there are many
quicksands; and during our expedition
a somewhat distressing scene happened.
An elephant incautiously came within
the vortex of one; first one foot sank,
then another, and endeavoring to extri-
cate himself, matters became worse; no
portion of either of his legs was at last
visible, and the bystanders had given up
the poor animal as lost. Being, fortu-
nately, unusually powerful, he three
several times, with what appeared to be
supernatural strength, drew root from
the closely clinging earth, placing it
where, by sounding it with his trunk,
he found most solid not until the third
time did the ground bear his pressure
when he gradually released himself
During the whole period of his troubles,
his cries were exceedingly dolorous, and
might have been heard couple of miles
his grunt, when they are at an end, was
equally indicative of satisfaction. The
internal application of bottle of strong
spirits soon dissipated his trembling,
and restored his equanimity. Many un-
fortunate elephants are lost in these
treacherous sands, when large quantities
of grass or branches of trees are not at
hand to form an available support for
them. After certain time the poor
beast becomes powerless /; and the owner
can only look with sorrow at the gradual
disappearance Of his noble animal, and
lament the pecuniary loss be hereby suf.
fers, for all human aid is futile. They
have been known to be twelve hours be-
fore entirely sinking.
Year: 1872

CoNsIDERATE,-Iti is very seldom that
physicians will encourage their patients
to swallow medicine by taking it them
selves to show how harmless and nice
it is but there was one in Kansas who
lately took dose of chloral to prove to
patient that it would not hurt her,
The patient has every reason to place
the fullest confidence in his word. 1t
did not hurt her, but that was because
the doctor took it, 1t killed him. We
hope this practice will not prevail to any
great extent, or we shall soon be left
without physicians whose mission is not
to kill themselves but their patients
Year: 1872

The President is said to have express
ed himself in favor of paying female en-
ployes of the Government the same wa
ges that arc paid to males for doing the
same work. No honest and sensible
person could well be in favor of any
thing else. 1t is about time the dis
elimination against women workers was
everywhere abolished 1t is a species
of injustice of which American gallant
ry should be ashamed.
Year: 1872

In time of famine a rich man allowed
twenty of the poorest children in the
town to come to his house, and said to
them, 'In this basket there is loaf of
bread for each of you; take it, and come
at the same hour every day till God
sends better times


The children pounced upon the basket,
struggled and fought over the bread, be-
cause each wished to have the largest and
best loaf, and then they went away with
out word of thanks to their friends.


But Francesca, a little girl meanly
though neatly dressed, stood at distance,
and gratefully took the loaf that was
left in the basket, which was the small
est, then she kissed the good mans hand
and went quietly home.


The next day the children were just as
naughty and ill-behaved, and this time
there was left for poor Francesca loaf
that was hardly half as large as the 9TH
ers. But when she reached home and
her mother cut the bread, there fell out
a number of new pieces of silver. The
mother was frightened and said, "Take
back the money this moment, for it is
certainly in the bread by mistake


Francesca took it back


But the kind man said, lit is no mis-.
take, my good child l had the money
baked in the smallest loaf in order to re.
ward you Be always as contented and
yielding as you now are. He who is
contented with the smallest loaf, rather
than quarrel for the largest, will receive
abundant blessings Children S Hour,
Year: 1872

In Tic Douloureux, rub Renne's Pain
Killing Magic Oil all around the ear, and
especially on the prominent face bone above
the ear. You thus reach the ''fifth pair of
nerves, which go to the face" andif you use
it faithfully it soon cures.
Year: 1872

A trial of but one box of DR.. Price g
Cream Baking Powder, and one bottle Of his
Special Flavorings, Lemon or Vanilla will
satisfy any of their quality. Money will be
refunded if they ere not as represented.
Year: 1872

from lands end to lands end, that all may
read, and reading, believe, that for the
countless millions who are on the road to
an untiusly grave with bilious complaints,
there is but one truly great and reliable
remedy, and that is
Year: 1872

HORSE THIEVES. Last May couple
of men who went under the name of Will
son, came down from Oregon BY way of
Big Valley and stopped for some time about
Oak Hun and Millville They had in
their possession a number Of fhorses several
Of which they finally sold to Dan Huut. and
afterwards went up into tire Shiogletown
country and vent to work on a saw mill
This week the Sheriff AID Deputy Sheriff
Of Jackson county Oregon. came down and
arrested the Wilson's on charge Of horse
stealing, and took possession of the horses
sold to Huat. The prisoners were brought
into Shasta and lodged in Jail for few days,
and on Thursday morning the officers start
ed with them for Oregon. Joseph Asbel.
Of Cow Greek, rendered the most assistance
in arresting the men, and now thinks he is
able to snatch up airy horse thief that runs
the country if he only has 8 cue to act on
Hunt is out and injured some. but then he
will make that up in the next trade or two
he makes. for Pan is lightning on the
trade. He will pr'bably look out for Ore
gonians for awhile though.
Year: 1872

WELL.-W Water has been struck in the
well being dug by the Company at Ped-
ding. The well is down eighteen feet and
water has come in SO ireeley as to prevent
further work mt pump can be rugged
up. 1t is thought permanent and ample
supply of good water can be obtained by
sinking the we'll to the depth of twenty five
feet.
Year: 1872

SALE OF Lors.-By notice elsewhere
in this issue it will be seen that there will
be sale of lots at public auction in Red
ding on the Sd Of August. Parties desir-
ing to secure real estate in the proposed
new town on the railroad can then and
there have an opportunity to do so.
Year: 1872

The-Chico Enterprise states that JUDI ge
Pratt has determined to divide his lar ge
landed possessions in Butte county into
farms and sell them Now that large land
grants are being assessed at something like
theirreal value tt e example of Judge Pratt
will doubtless soon be followed in other
parts Of the State, and the public will there
by be benefited
Year: 1872

LONG ROUTE.


DEAR EDITOR AS l promised
you in my letter of last week L will
now try and give you a description
Of our second days journey to the
Mammoth Caveby the "Long Route. "


After pleasant nights rest, the
next morning, at s promptly, we set
out on the long route to reach the en-
trance of which we went over a mile
or more of ground Cor rather rock)
traversed the day before, and left the
main cave at the foot of the "Giant's
Coffin" The entrance is very diff.
cult and requires one to appear very
much in the same ridiculous attitude
the ladies assume in the Grecian bendl


Rowing on through the deserted
chamber and other places of no in
terest we came to a long, serpentine
and narrow passage, called Fat
Mans Misery" and it is well named,
Year: 1872

The poet or priest who told us this


Served mank ind in the holiest way:
For it lit up the earth with the star of bliss
That beacons the soul with cheerful ray.
Too often we wander despairinE and blind.
But Ills kinder to bid as see{ and and
"A silver lining to every cloud"
May we not walk in the dingIe ground
Where nothing but Autumn's dead leaves are
But search beneath them. and peeping around
Are the young Spring tufts OF blue aud green.


he S tsaE n crowd
Ills saving creed that thinks and believes


There's silver lining to every cloud"
Let us look closely before we condemn
-, Bushes that bear no bloom nor fruit.
There may not be beauty in leaves or stem,
But virtue may dwell far down at the root;
And let US beware how We utterly fpurn
Brothers that seem all cold and proud.
If their bosoms were opened. perchance we might
There's a silver lining to every cloud"
Let us not cast out Mercy and Truth,


When Guilt is before us in chains and shame
Whep passion and vice have cankered YOUTH
Ass % yss soo wt1 s Be tSsre
:, Though its voice may never be heard aloud.
For Shie black with the tapOrs "a Of RsStilsnt air
Sad are the sorrows that ofsentines come.
=, Heavy and dull and blighting and chill.
Shutting the Zig ht from our heart and our home'
Marring our hopes and defying our will;
But let us not sink beneath the woe,
For Se sure. though we may not Of zee # below.
And when stern Death with skeleton hand.
Has snatched the flower that grew in our
Do We not think of fairer land.
Where the lost are found, and the weary at


rest?


Oh the hope of the unknown Future springs.
In its purest strength DER the coffin and STROUD,
The shadow is dense, but Faiths spirit-voice


sings,


There's a silver lining to every cloud"


-Eliz1 Cook.
Year: 1872

THE FAR WEsT.-Mr. S. A. Phillips,
of Royalton, Wisconsin, writes to the
New York Farmers Club:-I often see
the far West extolled by the correspon-
dents and speakers of your Club. 1
know whereof l affirm. Poor men with
families cannot commit greater blunder
than to go to those distant prairies.-
For the past two years there has been,
and there still is, terrible suffering among
the poor settlers in all the new States.
think if we knew of every instance
where poor men of small means have been
totally ruined and beggared by going
West and investing their all in part
payment for railroad lands, and being
obliged to forfeit or sacrifice to get
means to get away. the number would
exceed that of those who have bettered
their condition by the same change
With $1,000 or $4,000 capital the change
will do; but with less a man had best
stay where he can get daily wages for dai-
ly service. A large crop of corn sounds
nicely to tell of. but what good if man
cannot make good wages at marketing it
after he has grown it? Missouri is a
fine country and if had $4,000 l would
go there but with less than S250O l
prefer Northern Wisconsin. The Han
nibal and st. Joseph Railroad, with all
their advertising, have not forty acres of
fair farming land for sale, think. for
less than Sl7 per acre; while all good
locations are held at $40 and S25, and
this with not stick of timber
Year: 1872

A Truthful SKETcH--Leta a man fail
in business, what an effect 1t has upon
his former creditors Men who have
taken him by the arm, laughed and chat
ted with him by the hour, shrug up their
shoulders and pass with a cold How
do you do?


Every trihe of bill is hunted up and
presented that would not have seen light
for months to come. but for the misfor-
tune of the debtor If it is paid, well
and good if not, the scowl of the sheriff,
perhaps meets him at the corner. A
man that has never failed knows but lit
tie of human nature.


In prosperity he sails along gently,
waited by favoring smiles and kind
words from everybody. He prides him
self on his name and spotless character,
and makes his boast that he has not an
enemy in the world Alas the change.
He looks at the world in a different
light when reverses come upon him
He reads suspicion on every brow. He
hardly knows how to move or do this
thing or the other; there are spies about
him, writ is ready for his back. To
know what kind of stuff the world is
made of, a person must be unfortunate,
and stop paying once in his lifetime
If he has kind friends, then they are
made manifest. A failure is moral
seive it brings out the wheat and shows
the chaff. A man thus learns that words
and pretended good will do not consti-
tute real friendship.
Year: 1872

PRIDE.-A proud man is fool in fer
mentation, that swells and boils over like
a porridge pot He sets out his feathers
like an owl, to swell and seem bigger
than he is. He is troubled with tumor
and inflammation of self-conceit, that rem
ders every part of him stiff and uneasy.
He has given himself sympathetic love-
powder, that works upon him to dotage,
and has transformed him into his own
mistress, and he makes most passionate
address to his own dear perfections. He
is his own favorite, and advances him.
self not only above his merit, but all
mankind. He gives place to no man but
himself, and that with very great dis
tance to all others, whom he esteems not
worthy to approach him. He believes
whatever he has received to have value
in being his as horse in a nobleman's
stable will bear a greater price than in
common market He is as hard to be
acquainted with himself as with others,
for he is very apt to forget who he is.
and knows himself only specifically.
He strives to look bigger than himself,
as well as others, and is no better than
his own parasite and hatterer.