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Year: 1871

THE ELLIPTIC SEWING MACHINES ARE
l. manufactured and warranted by the Wheeler
Wilson Sewing Machine Company. The late
and important Improvements enable us to guar
antee to every purchaser that the Elliptic Ma
chine will do more work, better work, and
greater variety of work than any other Sewing
Machine now in use. The economy of the Ell
liptic Machine in family is almost incredible ;
with one, good operator do the work of
twelve hands. By it the making of garments is
reduced from question of hours to one of min
utes as the following table will show:


ut not to be understood that the following table is the
time to make the garments but do the stitching ony
Year: 1871




The shameful collapse at Sedan was
the inevitable result of the collision be-
tween power based on honest and
healthy relations between government
and people and power based on fraud
craft, and arbitrary force between a
government which might oppress but
never lied to its people and one which
was the embodiment of lies and per-
juries between a government which in
spired devotion and one which could by
by no possibility inspire anything but in
terested service for hire. Napoleon
cheated the people and their representa-
tives and all France knew it. In turn,
he was cheated by his most trusted SER
vitors. He knew that his army was not
the tremendous and resistless power that
he pretended it was; and his subordi-
mates knew that it was far less efficient
than he imagined. The revelations that
have been made since Sedan have shown
how pitiably ignorant he was of the
condition of just that branch Of admin
istration on which he most prided him
self He was swindled by wholesale
and by retail. All the Jobs that disgraced
the first months of our war were lnslgnl-
ficant and harmless compared with those
that came to the surface as soon as the
French army went into action. In the
ordnance. cOmmissary, and quartermas-
ters' departments there was a systematic
swindling which could never have
reached such horrible perfection in any
other army in the world. And not only
were Chassepots, cannon, ammunition,
and all other essentials deficient, of
doubtful quality, and more or less unser-
viceable; but the army itself was a
gigantic swindle on its master as well
as on the world. Where Napoleon
thought he had a regiment of three
thousand, there was, in fact, a pitiful
fraction of fifteen hundred His subor-
dinates had learned how to deceive even
their master in the art. We have never
seen more signal retributive Justice on a
scoundrel in high place, or on a people
who submitted to his rule. 1t is the NOR :
al aspect of the military disasters of the
Empire which impresses us first and
most strongly. At no time do men so
naturally recur to the simple rules of
honest action as when they are startled
by the sudden failure of some gigantic
fraud on the public. Consciences that
have gradually become hardened by
contemplating the great success of vio-
lators of plain maxims of morality are
made wonderfully acute when these
splendid criminals breakdown and reveal
their short-sightedness How grandly,
at such times, do the characters of the
honestly successful stand out, even be-
fore the vision of the very men who an
hour before were secretly paying homage
to the external prosperity of tricksters IN
the race for money ol power!


Had the Empire been equal to its old
traditions, and sent out its decrees
from Berlin, instead oi signing its death
warrant at Sedan, l fear that its essential
and radical immortality would have sunk
out from public gaze and comment. But,
Year: 1871

know lady who would expect to be
punished in another life forever if she
went to hear one of Shakespeare dra-
mas played at a theater; but her. con-
science does not seem to reproach her
any for spending her whole life in buy
ing and wearing "featherses' of the
most costly description, of putting en-
ough in single garment to support a
poor family for year. know anoth-
er lady who denounces without stint the
sin of "dress yet in all her life she has
not learned the law of kindness, and
day by day, and hour by hour, she
wounds and slays with a cruel tongue.
There are people reputed for goodness
in certain directions the very thought of
whom makes me shiver, and people
with no reputation for goodness at all,
whose hourly memory is blessed. We
often find very little to love personally
in those who profess Glove to Christ the
loudest; and, almost without knowing.
gather the fairest fruits of His spirit from


some unconscious soul who never dared
to call itself His child. How much we
find to love in this world" which it is
so much the fashion egotistically and
self-righteously to denounce Is there
no way to harmonic all that is best in


it with all that is truly religious 7 Must 1t
be either dissipation or asceticism 2 Must
it be Lent or license? Because you


dance, must you dance all night, pro-
miseuously and wickedly? Because you
Year: 1871

viii relate a truthful incident of the
late rebellion, given to me by Vice Presi-
dent Colfax, which will, l think, tend
to make the proposed visit of a Russian
prince pleasant to him and his recep-
ton most cordial on our part. France
and England, it seems. had resolved to
Recognize the Southern Confederacy.
France was to father the movement and
England was to join in, and both were
to give the South such aid and comfort
as they consistently could to help them
achieve their independence, and thus
make Jeff Davis and cotton, slavery and
Southern aristocracy, rule this country
forever. There was only one little if in
the way of this grand movement for an
other empire or kingdom on these be-
nighted shores. They must have the
''0aoZai S16b01f' (they said they wanted
nothing more) of the Emperor of Russia.
That, they thought, they could easily
obtain. Napoleon was to make the ap-
plication; and he did so, through his
Minister. He commanded said Minister
to wait upon the Russian ambassador in
Paris and communicate his wishes. He
did so. ''Put that in writing" said the
faithful ambassador, land / will send it
to my master" Il was done and what
was the result mo No p said the
noble Gar. and he did not stop there.
mo No and l will apprize President
Lincoln and his government of your
wicked intentions, and do all in my
power to help sustain the North in their
patriotic struggle for the overthrow of
slavery and the establishment of liberty. "
On the pivot of that prompt and right
eous decision hung the untold interests
of our beloved country. God bless the
Gar of Russia, and give him and all his
royal house the blessings which crown
the heads of all God fearing, liberty-lov-
ing, humanity-serving rulers And when
the prince steps foot on our soil in June
next, the mouth Of roses and of all the
year the best, may the right hand of
this nation forget its cunning if it fails to
give.a. most cordial, Princely reception
+ to one of the chief princes of Europe
and a beloved son ofthe great ruler who,
when we were in the depths of great
troubles, did not forget us,
Year: 1871

A man committed suicide by
drowning, lately, in six inches Of
water. He couldn't have done it
alone, but his wife. with that self
sacrificing devotion and helpfulness
so characteristic of the sex, sat on his
head,
Year: 1871

been struck down in the Senate. Far
be it from us to intimate that the
second assassination bears the same
marks of criminality which charac-
terizcd the first. We acknowledge
a refinement of cruelty in this latter
assault, by which it escapes the
charge ofvulgar brutality and damn
ed its prototype. Nevertheless, in
the earlier case, the author and the
instrument were one and the same;
there was but single assassin;
there were no conspirators; where
as in this fresher murder the dag
gers, when counted, were found to
quadruple the number Of those
which hacked each other inside the
body Of Caesar. But as if history
refused to repeat itself, it is this
time Caesar leading his conspirators
against Brutus. 1t is the President
of the United States inv ding the
Senate chamber to point his finger
at a Senator, and to say ''That man
is in the way Of my plans-remove
him; he is my enemy-strike him"
With the obedience of henchmen,
the nnholy blow was struck. 1t has
wounded a million American breasts
Year: 1871

Z A Texas EDITOR AND ACLEAN SHIRT
we are told, have first
rate time in Texas. The ladies OF q
town out there having given to the
editor an embroidered shirt, which
contains splendid history of Texas,
including the war with Mexico, and
the meeting of the first legislature,
and also pictures of the fruits and ce-
reals of the State, all worked in red
yarn and worsted. The editor never
wore shirt before in his life, and he
thought it was banner for q temper
ance procession which was to come
off the next week. So he made little
speech of thanks, in which he said he
would fling it out forever to the
breezes of heaven. that they might
kiss its folds, and till his hand was
palsied il should never be trailed i'm
the dust--never." The ladies did not
understand him, and when he spoke
about it's trailing they blushed, and
said they were very sorry they made
it too long. But a committeeman
took the editor aside and explained
the shirt to him in a whisper, and the
next day he eappeared at his Office with
that shirt mounted over his coat, and
wrote four columns of explanation
for his paper. The shirt is much adj
mired by the boys of the town, for
when the editor goes out to walk they
follow him in regiments studying the
history of Texas and the fine arts on
the back of the shirt. -
Year: 1871

FROM RELIGIOUS STANDPOINT
The New York Observer (reIigious
journaD says: LET any one make an
estimate of the amount OF money li-
verted from the Government Treasu-
ry by the whisky frauds on the reve-
nue., by the evasion OF taxes, by dis
honest collectors, and many frauds
which from time to time have been
exposed and have now been forgotten,
and it will be seen that within the last
ten years there has been a fearful
work of decentralization going on, and
that il needs powerful revival of
oldtime honesty in the community to
restore the ruins of this lamentable
fall. And we trust the time for such
revival has come"
Year: 1871

A GEORGIA negro thought he would
economic by sending his son to
school and then make the boy teach
him. The plan worked we'll until the
young teacher, following the custom
taught gave the old man thrashing
for spelling dog d-o-r-g, and then the
Year: 1871

Not satisfied with getting the roads
built for them, the managers are graz
cious enough to permit the govern
ment to pay the interest on the debt
contracted for their benefit-amount-
ing to over three millions and half.


Since these railroads were built the
government has paid in interest on
their account as follows:
Year: 1871

GERMAN PEACE JUBILEE.-The German pop
nlaton of the Forest Hill Divide hold a grand
Peace Jubilee on Monday, and Monday evening
next at Forest Hill. This celebration Is IN ac-
cordance with an arrangement for Simultaneous
celebrations all over the county on Easter Aioh-
day wherever there is u considerable herman
population At sunrise in the morning there
Will be salute of l3 guns; at noon, 81 guns ana
at sunset ~ guns. During the salutes ana 'he
day the Forest Hll Brass Band will furnish pat
riotic music. The same band will also furnish
music for grand ball in the evening and at the
supper table, during the speeches and toas's'
The day will be devoted wholly to the celeora-
ton and to having good and pleasant tinc' "A
large gathering is expected and ample arrange
m.nts are made for the entertainment and ell
iovment of all. The exercises of the day Will
close with grand display of fireworks. IN the
evening Grand Bali will be given at the Forest
House, which will close the celebration.
Year: 1871

GoLp BANK BILLs.-We were shown, this week
by Hubbard & Andrews, Bankers here, slo
bill on the new gold bank at San Francisco. The
bill is well executed, has yellow cast, but is not
so pleasing to the avaricous eye as gold eagle
However they are good and command their face
in gold at the bank and soon will everywhere
in the State When these bills circulate freely
all over the coast, they will be counterfeited, and
AZ Caifornans are exceedingly green on paper
money manya fellow will be stuck or we ere mis-
taken.
Year: 1871

LETTER FROM JUANITA-O our first page will
be found very interesting letter, sketching the
life, settlement and Improvements of j. r. Nick
erson, with complete description of the mas
sive new wine cellar just built on the Rancho,
from the pen of celebrated pioneer writer OF
the coast This letter does but justice to the
proprietor and the celebrated orchard, vineyard
and improvements described, which really issve
no superior on the coast. We ask the careful
at enton of th reader to the letter. and to those
that will followt, as they from the pen of GEL
ebrated and truthful writer, one that has travelled
extensively and added volumes to perpetuate the
history of the Pioneers and pioneer life Of
California.
Year: 1871

SToLEN.-Last ednesday evening some thief
stole case of boots from the sidewalk in front
of Houser's dry goods store next door to the
Postoffice and packed it up the Hill about one
hundred yards and stuck it under an old build
ing. This thief was seen and discovered that
fact himself and got away before be could be
ID ntifed or caught.
Year: 1871

School BALL.-The Trustees OF Smithville
School District have arranged to give grand
calico ball at the residence of James Laird near
Smithvlle, for the benefit of the District Public
School at that place. On Friday evening, April
2lst, 1871. Unfortunately many of cur smaller
and srarsely settled school districts are short
of funds to keep up their schools, which s a
great misfortune to the children, and Smthville
School District is in this condition This ball
furnishes an excellent and pleasant opportunity
for the whole community to aid the district in
funds to keep the school going, in way they will
scarcely feel it, and at the same time pass a So
cal evening All that can should attend this
ball We hope it will be largely attended,
pleasant and enjoyable party, and result in tinan
cial success yielding liberal fund the educa-
ton of the children of the district
Year: 1871

The following paragraph is from the
description of a scene witnessed in the
north of Norway, from cliff one thou
sand feet above the sea


"The ocean stretched away in silent
vastness at our feet: the sound of the
waves scarcely reached our airy lookout; !;
away in the north, the huge old sun
swung low along the horizon. We stood
silent, looking at our watches. When
both hands came together at twelve,
midnight, the full round orb hung tri-
umphantly above the wave, a bridge of
gold running due north spanned the
water between us and him. There he
shone in silent majesty that knew no
setting. Combine. if You can, the most
brilliant sunrise and sunset you ever
saw, and its beauties will pale before
the gorgeous colors which lit up the
ocean, heaven and mountain. In half
an hour the sun had swung by percepti-
bly,, the colors changed to those of
morning, fresh breeze rippled over the
flood, one songster after another piped
up in the grove behind us-we had slid
into another day."
Year: 1871

But few housekeepers are aware of
the many uses to which waste paper
may be put. After stove has been
blackened, it can be kept looking very
well by rubbing it with paper every
morning. Rubbing it with paper is a
much nicer way of keeping the outside
of tea-kettle, Coffee pot and teapot
bright and clean, than the old way of
washing them in suds. Rubbing with
paper ig also the best way of polishing
knives and tinware after securing. This
saves wetting the knife handles. If a
little flour be held on the paper in rub
bing tinware and spoons, they shine
like new silver. For polishing mirrors,
windows, lamp chimneys, &c, paper is
better than dry cloth. Preserves and
pickles keep much better if brown
paper, instead Of cloth, is tied over the
jar. Canned fruit is not so apt to mould
if a piece of writing paper, cut to fit
the can, is laid directly on the fruit.
Paper is much better to put under a
carpet than straw. 1t is warmer
thinner and makes less noise when one
walks over it. Two thicknesses of paper
placed between other coverings on a
bed are as warm as quilt. If it is
necessary to step upon chair, always
lay a paper on it and thus save the
paint or wood work from damage.
Year: 1871

Mr.. Van Arsdel, like many of our
merchant princes, had come from ru-
raj district, and had an early experience
of the hard and frugal life OF farm.
Good sense, acute observation, an ablli-
tv to take wide and clear views of men
and things, and an incorruptable in
tegrity, had been the means of his rise
to his present elevation. He was true
American in another respect, and that
was his devotion to women. In Ameri-
ca, where we have a clear democracy,
women hold that influence over men
that is excited by the aristocracy in
other countries. They are something
to be looked up to, petted and quieted.
The human mind seems to require
something of this kind. The faith and
fealty that the middle class Englishmen
has toward his nobility is not at all
snobbery. 1t has something Of poetry
in tit is his romance of life. Up in
these airy regions where walk the no
bility he is at liberty to fancy some
higher, finer types of manhood and
womanhood than he sees in the ordi-
nary ways of life, and he adores the un-
seen and unknown. The American life
would become vulgar and common
place did not chivalrous devotion to
woman come in to supply the place of
recognized orders or nobility. The true
democrat sees no superior in rank
among men, but all women are by cour-
tesy his superiors.-Mrs. tStoaoe-'' My
Wife and T."
Year: 1871

The following paragraph appeared IN
the editorial columns OF the London
Daily NewS:


People who go to Switzerland should
be careful about bathing in the Lake of
Wallenstadt. We are informed that
" a number of persons" excursionists,
probably, who venture to swim in the
water in the course of the season, never
came out of it, either dead or alive, and
the matter has at last been made the
subject of a serious investigation. As
tending toward solution of the mys-
terry, we are told that several fishes of
an enormous size have recently been
observed gamboling in the loch, but
"no one can at present give any accu-
rate description of these monsters of the
deep" 1t is to be hoped that the rela-
tives of the unfortunate individuals who
have disappeared in the Lake of Wall
lenstadt will insist on careful and
deliberate inquiry into the habits of the
new kind of shark that has evidently
developed the most uncomfortable pro-
pensities of Switzerland. Our coasts
and rivers are at any rate free from
fishes addicted to drowning bathers; but
from scientific point of view 1t woulo
be interesting to learn more OF the ter
rible creatures.
Year: 1871

The London papers give accounts of


several accidents on railways o3caSioned


by the fracture of the axles of salt cars.


1t appears that between the sound por-


ton remaining and the outside of the


fractured axle the surfaces were quite


smooth, presenting the appearance of


having been severed by a sharp instru-


ment. This peculiar effect is thought


to have been caused by the gradual ac-
ton of the brine on the metal the heat
at the boss favoring the evolution of
chlorine from the brine, and its then
combining with. the iron to form a solu-
BILE chloride of iron. From the position
of the defect it was not discovered by
any ordinary inspection; and, whatever
may be the scientific explanation of the
peculiar destructive action which thus
goes on in the axles of salt-cars, the fact
must be regarded as a very serious one,
in view of the statement
made that on one railway alone no less
than seven axles of salt-cars were
broken while running in period of less.
than three months, and this out of
total number of about five hundred
wagons, showing an enormously large
as compared with the frac-
ture of axles of any other description
of rolling stock. To diminish this
the plan has been proposed
that, in addition to requiring such cars
to be provided with well-constructed
axles of good quality, it also be insisted
that the date of their commencing to
run be stamped upon the axles, and
that reasonable number of years be
prescribed as the maximum of their
being used.-Iron Aqe.
Year: 1871

Attention has been invited by several
industrial journals to the fact that little
substantial progress has been made
since l845 in the art of building pas
senger cars that will guarantee safety to
life and limb against the ordinary risks
of travel by rail.


he Take the following from the Iron Age:


ave build cars of most beautiful
finish and ornamentation, commodious
in their interior dimensions, and luxur-
ious in every appointment. We have
sleeping coaches furnished with an ele-
gance that .iustifes the adjective 'pala-
tial , which is SO often applied to them;
drawing groom cars in which every COM
fort is provided to tempt the traveller
to rest and enjoyment; and, on some of
our roads, we even produce that latest
gaudy tribute to American snobbery,
the bridal carr but with all this, our
cars are still the long, dangerous boxes
upon wheels which thev were when
railroad building was in It's infancy, and
they telescope as readily now as in
1S45, crushing together like egg-shells,
and ending in brilliant bonfire over
the blackened remains of crushed and





in use are the most dangerous part of
the equipment of a railroad, and how
ever costly they may be in finish and
decoration, collision or accident OF any
kind serious enough to wreck train,
smashes them into mass of splinters,
and the passengers are more than ordi-
narily fortunate if they escape being
impaled in their seats, like bugs in an
chronological cabinet. But, should
this danger be passed, another equally
serious contronts them. The wood work,
saturated with oil and thickly coated
with paints and highly inaammable
varnish, bursts into instant fame at the
touch of spark from lamp, stove or
engine, and the living and dead are too
often consumed on, or, more properly,
under the same funeral pyre."


Iron cars are strongly recommended
in place of wooden ones.
Year: 1871

Said Tom to Dick, Pray tell me, friend,
About your married lite"
Most gladly, Tom. Well. to begin,
The first year with my wife
Twas sunshine every day. dear Tom,
And bliss without alloy;
The next twas moonshine all the time
And since that day. my boy,
We've had no shine of any kind


Believe me. neighbor mine
Except when Molly takes freak


That she'll kick up shine
Year: 1871

Those that are subject TO it only know what
distressing complaint it is. and is a vary IN,
welcome visitor At fret it cautes dimnest oil
vision, followed By terrible pain, sickness at
the stomach. and vomiting and then for ost
or two, person feels as though they hao
;Lr.!s One dose will cure when first at
t.cked. and one to three bottles will effect per
m lament cure,