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Year: 1872

We like to see young ladies who are
bitter enemies kiss each other very af-
fectionately when they meet. 1t IT.
minds US of man named Judas, Who
lived several years ago. We like to
see fashionably dressed lady prome-
nading the streets wearing . blue silk:
dross, trailing yard behind her in
the mud-it cleans the street 80 NICE
ly. We like to see young men very
polite and obliging to other. young IL
dies, who are scarcely civil to their
sisters at home-it provea that the
lords of creation are void of deception.
We like to SEQ little boys come to
church iu the evening, and amuse
themselves by sticking Plus in their
sleepy neighbors-it shows that they
are not burying their talents in tho
earth We like to see q man invari-
ably throw his newspaper, boots and
hat Oh the floor for his tired wife to
pick up-it is evidence that he re-
members the promise to "cherish her y
We like to see the choir spend their
time during the divine service in vhis-
pering and telling stories-it helps US to
appreciate the sermon, and convinees
US that they are capable Of singing
"with the spirit and the understanding
also" We like to see young ladies
keep their jaws in constant motion, en-.
deavoring to masticate a huge ball of
chewing gum-it look 80 lady.like
We like to see q man sporting fast
horses, while he owes the printer and
gives nothing to the minister-it looks
honorabl: There are many other
things which We would like to see,
but We forbear.
Year: 1872

A man may drink moderately, but
steadily, all his life, with no apparent
harm to himself, but his daughters
become nervous wrecks, his sons cpl
lcptics or drunkards the hereditary
tendency of crime having its pathology
and uuyaried laws precisely as scrofu-
la, consumption, or any other purely
physical disease. These are stale
truths to medical mon, but the maiori-
ty of parents, even those of more than
average intelligence, are either ignor-
ant or w;ckedly regardless of them
There will be a chance of ridding our
jails and almshouses of half their ten
ants when our people are brought to
treat drunkenness as disease of the
stomach and blood, ps well as of the
soul, TO meet it with common sense
and physician, as well as with threats
of damnation, and to remove gin-shops
and gin-sellors for the same reason
that they would stagnant ponds or un-
clean sewers.
Year: 1872

The following resolutions were drawn
up by Dean Swift, to be observed
when | come to be old:" Not tC
marry a young woman. Not to keeI
young company, unless they desire it
Motto be peevish, morose or suspicious
Not to tell the same story over and
over to the same people. Not to be
covetous-the hardest of all to be
kept. Not to be over severe with
young people, but to make allowance
for their youthful follies and weak.
ness. Not TO be too free of advice
nor trouble any but those who desire
it, To desire some good friends to in.
form me which of these resolutions
break or neglect, and to reform accord.
ingly. Not to talk much, nor of my.
self--very hard again. Not to heark.
en- to fatterers, nor conceive | can be
beloved by a young woman. Not to
be positive or opinionative. Not to
set up for observing all these rules, fol
fear L should observe none.
Year: 1872

BnIiot-box.


The following address from the Lib
eral State Committee Of Pennsylvania
has been issued to the people of Penn
sylvania


The successful consumption of q
measure of fraud in this city that must
appal alike the guilty authors and their
no less guilty, respectable abettors,
has made Philadelphia appear to give
the unexampled majority of over
twenty thousand in favor Of continued
corrupt rule in Pennsylvania. With
every channel Of power ready to aid in
executing the systematic defiance of
the popular will, with the debauched
or plant canvassers to register twen-
ty-five thousand fraudulent names,
with the most desperate repeaters of
three cities to vote the registry, with
abundance of money plundered from
the people to pay them, with election
officers selected expressly to receive
every vote offered in favor of the Ring,
with police force to pilot repeaters to
their localities, and protect them in
polling illegal votes, with officers of
the law to guarantee them immunity
from punishment, with large pre-
ponderance of our citizens who claim
to be the champions of morality and
reform giving their unqualified sane
ton to what they know to be deliber-
ately planned pollution of the ballot
box, the result of the rule that is now
supremely enthroned in our city and
State.


Nor was this gigantic system of
fraud confined to Philadelphia. In
the principal cities and towns through
out the State thousands of illegal votes
have been polled. The Liberal cause
was thus overwhelmed in Reading,
Chester, West Chester, Columbia,
Harrisburg, Pittsburg, and other To-
calities, while the rural districts give
large and uniform gains. l am war
ranted in announcing that the large
majority polled for Hartranft is wholly
| fraudulent.


Friends of good government, let
no triumph of lawlessness deter you
from giving your best energies to the
cause. The highest prerogative of a
free people has been violently usurped
by an insolent and debauched power
and the people must resent it, and re-
sent it promptly, or give unquestioned
license to wrong. Now, more than
ever in this contest, is the election OF
Horace Greeley to the Presidency q
supreme necessity. If peace and hon
est government are not to perish from
the annals of our history, right must
triumph sooner or later; and it will
yet triumph in this desperate struggle,
if the people shall prove faithful to
themselves, to their laws, and to their
country.


"A. X. MCCLURE,
chairman of Liberal Republican
Committee.


PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 8, 1872"
Year: 1872

INDUSTRY AMONG FEATHEREn
BIPEDs.-The thrush is said to work
from half past two in the morning un-
til half past nine at night, or nineteen
hours. During this time he feeds his
young BOG times. Blackbirds work
seventeen hours, the male feeds the
young forty-four times, and the female
fifty-five times per day, (the female al
ways will outdo the male in good
works, which does not apply alone to
the bird tribe) The Industrious tit
mouse manages to spread All meals a
day before its voracious offspring
these meals do not consist of many
courses, for according to one natural
ist their food is made up largely of
caterpillars. The eight hour agita-
tion has not yet commenced among the
birds, yet the necessity may be want
ing, for we take it their work is a good
deal mixed with play. Altogether
they have merry, good time.
Year: 1872

MISREPRESENTATION did people
get in the habit of shaking hands
The answer is not far to seek. In
early and barbarous times, when every
savage and scmi-sayage was his own
law -giver, judge, soldier and police
man, and had to watch over his own
safety, in default of all other protec-
ton, two friends and acquaintances
or two strangers desiring to be friends
or acquaintances, when they CHANGED
to meet, offered each other the right
hand-the hand alike of offense and
defense, the hand that wields the
sword, the dagger, the club, the toma-
hawk, or other weapon of war. Each
did this to show that the hand was
empty, and neither war nor treachery
was intended, A man cannot well
stab another when he is in the act OF
shaking hands with him, unless he be
a doubled-dyed traitor and william
and strives to aim cowardly blow
with the left while giving the right
and pretending to be on good terms
with his victim.
Year: 1872

Learning willaccumulate if you add
a little every day. Do not wait for a
long period of leisure. Pick up a
book or a paper and gain one new idea
at least. Save the one aud add another
as soon as you can. The old Scotch
adage has it it; Many little makes
a mickle."
Year: 1872

81 want to give you the secret Of
my success. 1t is combined in two
words-be earnest. That was what made
me in any degree successful. When /
had anything to do, whether it was
study, play, work or kindness, l went
at with all my might, giving myself
wholly and entirely to it. So it must
be with you, in your study, your work
your tasks, your sylnpathies; you must
give yourselves, else you will get moth
ing back"
Year: 1872

We can never say why we love, but
only that we love. The heart is ready
enough at feigning excuses for all that
il does or imagines Of wrong but ask
il TO give reason for any of its beau
tiful or divine emotions, aud it can
only look upward and be dumb.
Year: 1872

Women make a great mistake who
wish their lovers to see in them the
end of all beauty aud loveliness; they
should rather try to make windows Of
themselves, to let eternal beauty, that
is above and beyond, shine through
them.
Year: 1872

This is the season of the year when the
large city newspaper and ma gazine publishers
are sending out their prospectuses into the
country, and every post office is flooded with
''great inducements" to subscribe for this and
that periodical. This is all right, provided
you do not lose sight of the fact that you have
a newspaper nearer your own door that is a
hundred times more closely identified with
your prosperity, and more sincerely interested
in the welfare of your own neighborhood and
county, than all the city publications combined.
A cotemporary says on the subject: Do the
city papers say anything in regard to your
own county? Nothing. Do they contain
notices of your schools, churches, meetings,
improvements and hundreds of other local
matters of interest, which the county papers
publish without pay? Not an item. Do they
ever say word calculated to draw attention
to our county and its numerous thriving towns
and aid in their progress and enterprise? ? Not
q line. Andyet there are men who take such
contracted views of this matter that unless
they are getting as many square inches of
reading matter in their county paper as they
do in city paper, they think they are not
getting the worth of their money. 1t reminds
us of the person who took the largest pair of
boots in the box because they cost the same
as pair much smaller which fit.-Er.
Year: 1872

Many people laugh at what is called ''grap-
tomancy," or the art of judging characters by
handwriting; and yet all acknowledge that
handwriting does indicate something. Every
one allows difference between a mans and
a woman's hand; we hear people speak of a
vulgar hand, gentlemanly hand, sc. 81
had once" said Archbishop Whately, ga re-
markable proof that handwriting is some
times, at least, an index to character. had
a pupil at Oxford whom liked in most res
poets greatly; there was but one thing about
him which seriously dissatisfied me, and that,
as often told him, was his hand writing; it
was not bad as writing, but it had mean,
shuffling character in it, which always in
spired me with feeling of suspicion. While
he remained at Oxford l saw nothing to
justify this suspicion; but a transaction in
which he was afterwards engaged, and in
which saw more ofhis character than had
done before, convinced me that the writing
had spoken truly.


''But l know of a much more curious case,
in which celebrated 'graptomancer' was
able to judge of character more correctly by
handwriting than he had been able to do by
personal observation. He was on visit to a
friends house, where, among other guests, he
met a lady whose conversation and manners
greatly struck him, and for whom he con-
ceiveda strong friendship, based on the es-





pure minded, and single-hearted woman. The
lady of the house, who knew her real charac-
ter to be the very reverse ofwhat she seemed,
was curious to know whether Mr.--would
be able to discover this by her handwriting.
Accordingly she procured a slip of this lady
writing, having gascertainedh ne had never seen
it, and gave it to him one evening as the
hadwriting of a friend of hers whose charac-
ter she wished him to decipher.


His usual habit, when he undertook to ex-
ercise this power, was to take slip of a let
ter, cut down lengthwise so as not to show
any sentences, to his room at night, and to
bring it down with his judgment in writing
next morning. On this occasion when the
party wore seated at the breakfast table, the
lady whose writing he had been unconciously
examining, made some observation
which particularly struck Mr.--as seeming
to betoken very noble and truthful charac-
ter. He expressed his admiration of her
sentiments very warmly, adding at the same
time to the lady of the house, Not SO, blythe
way, your friend;' and he put into her hand
the slip of writing of her guest which she had
given him the evening before, over which he
had written the words Fascinating, false, and
hollow-hearted' Mhe lady of the house kept
the secret, and Mr.-never knew that the
writing on which he had pronounced so Sc
we're Judgment was that of the friend he so
greatly admired"
Year: 1872

A quaint and gallant waiter of some fifty
years ago, says: II love an old maid-I do
not speak of an individual, but of the species
Il use the singular number, as speaking of a
singularity in humanity. An old maid is not
merely an antiquarian, she is an antiquity;
not merely record of the past, but the very
past itself; she has escaped great change,
and sympathises not in the ordinary mutations
of mortality. she inhabits little eternity
of her own. She is Miss from the beginning
of the chapter to the end. do not like to
hear them called Mistress, as is sometimes the
practice, for that looks and sounds like the
resignation of dispair, q voluntary extinction
of hope. I do not know wheather marriages
are made in heaven; some people say they
are, but | am almost sure old maids are.
There is something about them which is not
of the earth, earthly. They are spectators of
the world, not adyenturers nor ramblers; per-
haps guardians; we say nothing of tattlers.
They are evidently predestinated to be what
they are. They owe not the singularity of
their condition to any lack of beauty, wis
dom, wit or good temper; there is no account
ing for it but on the principle of fatality. l
have known many old maids, and of them all,
not one thai has not possessed as many good
and amiable qualities as ninety and nine out
of hundred of my married acquaintance.
Why, then, are they single? 1t is their fate!"
Year: 1872

AN English savant makes the alarming an
nouncement that the revolutions of our globe
on its axis are not as rapid as formerly, and
that in the course of few million of years
it will be about one month in turning over;
that is a night will be IL fortnight long, and
so will day. This will give lazy people
one good nap at least.
Year: 1872

THE lady of a mariner, about to sail on
distant voyage, sent note to the clergyman
of the parish expressing the following mean
ing: "a husband going to sea, his wife de-
sires the prayers of the Congregation" Un-
fortunately the good matron was not skilled
in punctuation, nor had the minister quick
vision. He read the note as it was written:
"a husband going to see his wife, desires the
prayers of the congregation"
Year: 1872

AN oDE-BY CHIP.
ZEN for the Herald.
Montana, Oh! Montanal
Beautiful western star,
The brightness of thy glory
Ia shining near and far;
Its brilliancy hath lured Us
Many mile to roam,
What can'st give us in return
For leaving friends and homer
We gaze upon thy grandeur,
And dream of ages past
Thy solitude unbroken
Amid thy mountains vast;
Thy sleeping hills and valleys
No foot of man had trod;
All eloquent, thy silence,
CTruly, the land of Cody
We dream of years to come,
And strive to look beyond,
When those who people thee,
Over the stream are gone.
Oh give us one glance, just one!
Into thy far off time!
When laurels shall wreath thy brow
And crown thee in thy prime.
Uplift the mystic curtain,
Unroll, oh, Time unroll
The secrets of the future,
All written on thy scroll.
Give us the Prophets vision
The wisdom of the sage,
To read the coming glory
Of Montana's ripper age.
Oh, home of our adoption,
Beautiful Northern Queen,
Thy crest aglow and glitter
With gold and silver sheen.
With thee we hope to linger,
With thee at last grow old,
And living, yea, or dying,
Bless thee, the land OF gold!
And when life's dream is over,
What filter grave to find
Richer tomb nor king could give
In any land or cline
Buried amid thy treasures,
Pillowed upon thy breast,
Graded among thy mountains,
Taking our final rest!
Year: 1872

On the 2Oth of last March Commissioner
Drummond sent important and valuable, tor
Land applicants, instructions TO the Register
aud Receiver Of the Sacramento Land Office.
We referred to this new order as given by
telegraph, and now find it in the Union Of
Wednesday complete, and will re-publsh it
in our next issue. The order will relieve
applicants for agricultural land in this county
from heavy burden in time, travel and
money. 1t directs the testimony, us to the
mineral or non mineral character cf land ap-
piled for, to be taken before the County
Clerk (except when the land office is nearer
than the Clerks office to the land, of the
county IN which the land is situated. This
rule will save both the applicants and con-
tcstants more than half the expenses formerly
incurred, IN having to 60 TO Sacramento for
this purpose The order directs the Register
aud Receiver as follows: "l OH will on such
application being made, require such appli-
cant to publish, at his own expense, notice
thereof for four consecutive weeks in a
weekly newspaper of largest circulation
published nearest the land in question" of
the time the testimony will be taken before
the Clerk. which must not be less than 30
days from the first publication of such notice,
etc. AS now, copy Of this notice must
he posted in conspicuous place on each 40
acre division of the land and kept so posted
for 30 days, and proof Of such posting must
be made By two witnesses. The whole Or
der proceeds on principles of justice and
equity, and is another evidence of Commis-
sioncr Drummond's determination TO pre-
servc the rights of both miners and farmers,
and at the least expense possible, as far as
be is permitted 10y the land laws as they now
stand to do so. The order is full and quite
lengthy, but wc will give it entire in our
next issue. In the meantime we advise par
ties about to apply for land to postpone the
matter a week or two, or call at this Office
and see and understand the order, as it will
mako great saving to them when put into
practice.
Year: 1872

BRANCH ASYLUM. Booth has ap-
pointed Drs. G. A. Shurtleff, w. T. Wilkins
and G.. II. Swift Commissioners to select
a site for branch asylum for the insane.
We suggest to these Commissioners that the
finest, most commanding, healthy and con-
vcnicnt site for such aninstitution to.be found
in the whole State is at Auburn. Two
Of these Commissioners are ply yscians and
know that physical health is essential in the
treatment of mental diseases, and that above
all things an asylum should he located where
every element is conducive to bodily health
and vigor. This site is hut two hours
from the capitol of the State, three quarters
of mile from Auburn and Auburn depot
and commands view of the whole country
from the Sierra Nevadas to the Coast Range
The land is Government title, and if the
State desires it it will be donated free of
charge. There is no speculation in this offer,
but real desire to benefit these untortunates
and the State. We ask the Commissioners
to visit Auburn by all means before deter
mining on a site.
Year: 1872

Extra SESSION. The Gorham, Carr,
Stowe, Hoodlum faction of the Republican
organization are demanding an extra session,
oste,sibIy to apportion the Senators and
Representatives for the next session. We
had better never have another Legislature
than that this one should again convene
The universal demand of the honest people
of the State is that these rapscalions, and
especially the dishonest majority of them,
shall never, never meet again on this earth
to lcgislate in the name of the people of any
State. Rather war, pcstilence, and famine,
winding up with Lone Pine earthquake,
than that these pimps should again have
power TO rob the people in the peoples name.
This talk can as well stop. Booth would
rather convene the hoodlums of San Fran
cisco than these scallawags, traitors to their
State and constituents, to make laws for
honest people. The man that would sug-
gest the reconvenms of these hoodlum legis-
lators must be fit subject for the States
Prison or Insane asylum.
Year: 1872

CALIFORNIA REpUBLIcAN.-T This is the
name of new daily paper started at San
Francisco, several numbers of which we have
received. The paper needs Improvement in
its mechanical departments. We are ready
to accept the Repubiicdn as the chief organ
of the party in this State, and would like to
be assured that it speaks the sentiments of
Grant and his advisers. 1t takes strong
ground against the railroad attempt to grab
Goat Island, and condemns the course of the
three Republican congressman, Sargent,
lloughten and Coghlan, for their course on
that measure, and intimates, in the strongest
language, that San Francisco should rebel
rise in mob violence-if the bill passes. 1t
is out for Grant, but what will it do if Grant
signs this infamous bill ? The Republican is
ably edited, and we wish it financial success.





OUGHr To BE PREVENTED. Our Govern
ment has been dsgraced in every court in
Europe by our petty pot house politicians
being sent there as ministers by Grant, and
now comes the news that Mrs. Grant and
daughter are going to Europe with that old
muggins and bore, Borie, who made Grant a
grand present to be made Secretary of the
Navy, and who has not sense enoug to last
him to Christmas, if he would use it literally
And Mrs. Grant, weak sprout from a
weak stock, what right has she to exhibit
her mediocracy and mental impotence to the
courts of Europe, to our national disgrace
This is more than the American people should
stand, and more than their sins deserve as a
punishment.