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Year: 1870

The following incident. with is true in
every particular. we have never seen in print.
and we take this occasion to rescue it from
oblivion, and give the precious waif the i'm
mortality it deferves. We hope it may meet
the eye OF the hero of the incident. that b.,
may know that goods are never lost We
only regret that our informant has fnrg ,tien
the name of the brother, or that toe, sh, d
have immortality in this life, as well us tne


life to come:


Some years ago French brother, whose
name we are unable to give, after having
spent nine years of severe toll delving in tn.
gold dlggngs, resolved to return to France
with the competency which he had been for.
tunate enough to acquire in those nine wears
OF hard labor, toll and exposure He took
passage in the Inflated steamer Golden Gate.
the particulars Of the loss of which is vividlv
impressed upon the minds of all Calfornians.
and need not to be recapitulated here. Suffice
IT TO say, that when the alarm was piven.
that all was lost, this brother secured his bell
of hard-earnod gold around his waist. and
seizIng fnating spar. made what effort he
could to save himself and the treasure tina:
constituted his all, Presently he discovered
little girl. though partly sustained from
drowning by life perserver, yet evidently
being every moment in the most imminent
danger of being engulfed Without thought
OF self, he struck out for the little girl, brought
her to the spar, with hope of yet reaching
shore. Alas the additional weight made
one thing evident. that the dear little one
must be abandoned, or-the. gold What
did our hero do7 Simply his duty-thai
40 often inculcated around the alter of Free
Masonry. Unlashing his heavy treasure helr,
he let it sink, down to the coral caves of the
mighty deep, and had the hsppines of reach
ing shore with his charge--with empty pock
cts Poor and destitute indeed, hut richer
and far happier than the miser with his mil
lions. What glorious reward awaits tha,
brother. if he has not already received it,
when the Grand Master of the Celestial Lodge
shall say to him, We'll Done !"-Masonic
Mirror
Year: 1870

The Reese River Reveille of the l4th inst.
tells IN very happy style of the items and
incidents that occurred at a picnic lately in
that vicinity. After first inaugurating the
ceremonies Of the day with dog fight, in
which man got his hand bit and then faint
cd, the crowninR ceremony took place under
shelving rock which Natures hand bad
made NEST romantic. and which was consid
eraoiy above the spectators heads, and, in
deed, above every body else's. except few
boys who sat ON the rock over the throne.
and were fighting bob-tailed lizard with
praise-wortly energy, to the intense disgust,
and hnally, to the complete stampede of the
whole royal party. After laying due tribute
TO the May Queen and her Maids of Honor,
other incidents ara spoken of as follows:


Dfuner was next in order. While this
performance was in frll blast, and Just as
we were destroying sur fifth bottle Of soda,
small boy who had been made to put down
shotgun nineteen times, picked it up the
twentieth. and shot it of. This started an
old crack.brained horse, who, having sud.
denly and safely deposited his rider in sage
brush. came cavorting into the midst of th..
dinner. Some individual to us unknown.
perhaps the man that struck Billy Patterson.
delicately smashed bottle over the old fools
head, and turned his course, preventing dun
age. This occasioned the second and more
general stampede. The Queen, unaccuston
ed to retreat. made bad out of it by falling
into the creek. We were better skilled in
thesart, and having rapidly decamped on
first alarm. with soda in one hand and sand
wich in the other, reached place of safety
soon enough to observe less fortunate in
dlvidual, who had not found time to get on
his feet, swiftly Looping down tbs canon Oh
all-fours


Alter dinner we went up the creek to q
level spot. Here a game was introduced.
the gist of which seemed TO be that evervbodv
should kiss his sweetheart Those of US who
were not favored with such commodities didn't
play. While at this place we were favored
with some feats Of h0rsemanship in the fall
ing of line. that was hard to equal. n,
turtle ever rolled off log with such prompt
ness or with such entire lack of all intention
to do so.


When the happy day closed. all started
home fully satiated with pleasure. After a
pleasant trip in, we wound our way home
ward. calmly meditating upon the probable
thoughts and impressions of the man who
tumbled out the back of the wagon. chair
and all, as we were coming over the hill.
Year: 1870

The New York Democrat is severe on the
recent speech of Senator Hendricks at New
Orleans. Under the head of - Softing of the
BRAIN" it says:


Senator Hendricks. of Indiana, lately made
speech South. advising the people to accept
the Fifteenth Amendment and cultivate the
negro vote. We dislike to see great men
chasing wagon a little faster than they can
possibly run. in the hope of stealing ride
by climbing in over the tailboard. And we
have no admiration for the pluck or. Demo-
cracy Of those cunning Democrats who first
loathe. then pity, then embrace ideas they
know. and all their lives they taught US 10
believe wrong. simply to gain Office. il is a
pity to see tall, old hickorys decay and fall
10 the earth but thank God for tho second
growth Of more hardy timber.
Year: 1870

A young man running in debt is a painful
sight. The disposition to do this is the
forerunner AMI exponent of all evil. Apos-
toc authority says: The love of money is
the root of all evil" But when a young
man loves money so well as to get it while
knowing he cannot repay, or be willing to
take it before he has honestly earned it,
there is, in the most cases, lying behiT this,
some passion so strong as to thus overbear
his mo raj principles in clamoring for its in
dulgence Pleasure, especially unlawful
pleasure, is a perllous and exhaustive thing.
Lawful, necessary, and healthful pleasure,
like the pure mountain air, and the gushing
waters of the mountain spring, has been
made accessible by our Creator, at compare
lively little trouble and expense Any in
dulgcnce may be known as unlawful when it
can be reached only by running in debt.
The highway of sin is an expensive road to
travel The fare. the charges are all high.
And they have to be paid twice over, not
only in currency, but also in something more
precious than gold. quarried from the depths
and springs of our being. No person ever
travelled on that highway so attractive IN
prospect, without becoming bankrupt, and
pawning hi. own peace and lite long before
he got to the end of his journey.


Whenever a young man of moderate sala-
ary, is seen always cramped for money, and
ready to borrow of his friends, he Is surely
on the downward grade of respectability.
Willingness to run in debt is itself great
vice. 1t is c~used by the wish to crafty
the unlanf.l craving lying behind, as yet
perhaps undisclosed to the eyes of the world.
Experienced men really judge What this
want of money indicates; and however fair
your character may seem in other respects,
they will lie satisfied from this alone, that
there is some hidden tant and unsosndness.
However small your income, always live
within your means. There is less unhappi-
hess in doing without necessary things than
there is in the consciousness of being in debt.
HerOdotus says, that among the ancient
persians, ITO tell lie is considered by them
the greatest disgrace next to that to be in
debt; and this for many reasons, but espe
cially because they think that one who runs
in debt must, of necessity, tell lies. Does
not your experience, your consciousness, tell
you this is true?


Always keep an unspent and unpawned
dime in the bottom of your pocket. Its
touch will alwsys be invigorating; and with
talismsnic power, send through your SOUL
an energy making you carry countenance
flushed with honorable frankness. This sim
pie dime is invaluable, as the symbol of
manly independence. The consciousness of
debt, in young man, begets iucipient mean
ness Of character, and when continued, de-
veIOpes this into confirmed habit, tainting
the whole nature. A man yet in his prime,
who had accumulated fortune of two mil
lions by honest industry, said, Il began
with a determination to keep within my
wages When getting only twenty five cents
day, always saved something. This
principle has carried him, and will carry you,
to high elevation of character, to great in
fuenco aGd to independent fortune. The
OccjieRt
Year: 1870

THE NIGHT LAMP.-There are many fam
lilies who use nigth lamps, and through ina
bility to provide gas have been in the habit
of burning kerosene oil, very good thing
when properly used A few words on the
subject of its use at night may prove inter
esting to the general reader. Whoa the
light of the kerosene oil lamp issurned down
low. the combustion is not perfect, and the
atmosphere of the room becomes vitiated by
the uncousumed oil vapors, by the gas pro-
duced by combustion, aud also legitimate
particles of smoke are thrown off, to be tax
en- into the lungs of the occupants. Air
thus poisoned is deadly in its effects, and the
wonder is that the people are not immedi-
ately and fatally injured by breathing it.
Its consequences are the mysterious head
aches, irritation of throat and lungs, dizzi-
ness and nausea.
Year: 1870

lis not on the sign board sir


60 search both far and wide;
Or in the town directory.


The map or railway guide.
And IL you pump your neiS b Dor, sir,
You pump, alas in vain,
Por no one e'er acknowledged yet


He lived in Scandal lane.
It is fearful neighborhood,


So secret and so sly,
Although the tenants oftentimes


Include the rich and high.
I'm told they re even cannibsls,


And when they dine or sup.
By way of change. they II turn about
And eat each other up!
If you should chance to dine with them,
Prsy never be deceived;
When they seem most like bosom friends
They're least to be believed.
Their claws are sheathe ed in velvet, sir,
Their teeth are hid by smiles,
And woe betide the innocent


Who falls beneath their wiies
When they have singled out their prey,
They make a cat-like spring,
Or bug them like a serpent, ere
They plant their fatal sting
And then they wash their guilty hands,
But don't efface the stain,
These very greedy cannibals


That live in Scandal lane.
Year: 1870

THAT OLD FASHIONED MoTHER.-One
in all the world, the law of whose law is
love; one who is the divinity of our infancy,
and the sacred presence in the shrine of our
first earthly idolitry; one whose heart is far
below the frosts that gather on her brow !;
one to whom we never grow old, but, in the
pluned troupe, or in the grave council are
children still; one who welcomed us going,
and never forgets us-never. And when in
some closet, some drawer, some corner, she
finds a garment or toy that once was ours,
how does she weep as she thinks we may
be suffering or sad? Does the battle of life
drive the wanderer to the door of the old
homestead at last? Her hand is upon his
shoulder, her dim and fading eyes are kin
died with something of ''the light of other
days. as she gazes upon his worn and troub-
led face. ''Be of stout heart, my son No
harm can reach you here" But sometimes
that arm chair is set back against the wall,
the corner is vacant, and they seek the dear
old occupant in the graveyard
Year: 1870

FUNAND PovERTY.-Poverty runs strong
ly to fun. A man is never so full of jokes
as when he is reduced to one shirt and two
potatoes. Wealth is taciturn and fretcul


Stock brokers would no sooner indulge in a
hearty laugh than they would lend money
on second mortgage Nature is a great
believer In compensations Those to whom
she sends wealth she saddles with lawsuits
and dyspepsia. The poor never indulge in
a wookcock, but then they have style of
appetite that converts number three mack-
erel into salmon, and that is quite as well.
Year: 1870

4 Maine soldier has had his name remov-
ea from the pension roll, saying he had re-
gained his health and does not need the pen
SION Commissioner Van Aerman wrote
MIN that his name should 60 down into
history as a worthy example for the coming
generations
Year: 1870

The discovery of the chief sources of hu-
man enjoyment has all been attributed to
some fabulous origin in the ancient world


The story of that important feature of din
ner. the beefsteak, was thus given in the
middle ages: Lucius Paucus, Roman of
rank, was ordered by the Emperor Trajan,
for some offense to act as one of the menial


sacrifcers to Jupiter. He resisted but was
at length dragged to the altar. There the
fragments of the victim were laid upon the
fire, and the unfortunate Senator was COM
PEELED to burn them. In the process of
roasting, one of the slices slipped off the
Goals, and was caught by Plaucus in its
fall. 1t burned his fingers and he instinct
lively thrust them into his mouth. In that
moment he had made the grand discovery
that the taste of slice thus carbonated was
beyond all the old scdden cookery of Rome


A new expedient to save his dignity was
suggested, and he at once evinced his Obe-
dience to the emperor, by seeming to go
through the exercises with due regularity,
and his scorn of the employment by making
the whole ceremony matter of appetite.
He swallowed every slice, deluded Trajan,
defrauled Jupiter, and invented the beef
steak Such a discovery could not be long
concealed; the sacrifices began to disappear
with a rapidity and satisfaction to the par
ties too extraordinary to be unnoticed. The
priests of Jupiter adopted the practice with
delight, and the King of Olympus must
have been soon starved if he depended on
any share of the good things of Rome.
Year: 1870

REMEMBER, when you cast your vote
for ANY radical, you arc doing oil in
your power to sustain and endorse the
men who have forced negro suffrage upon
u.. and who have now before Congress q
bill I o abolish all distinctions on account
of race or color in the free schools,
churches, hotels, and Conveyunces.
Year: 1870

That was a sadly suggestive death


which occurred In the Harrisburg
prison short time since. The de-
ceased was man In the very prime
of manhood-the SON of most excel
lent parents; he was carefully trained
at home, sent to Europe to finish his
education and complete him In all
the accomplishments; a young man
of remarkable fine talents, he stud
led and graduated with high honors
In law, medicines, and theology; he
was learned In the Languages, became
q Professor In one of our colleges,


was skillful surgeon, inherited q
fine fortune, became low drunkard
and yagrant, made himself a common
nuisance, and had to be locked up In
Jail a. protection to the community,
was discharged from jail only to be
returned again and again, until about
ten days ago he returned for the last
time, and died on the next morning
a raving maniac from the effects of
his frequent and violent drunken de-
bauches. This was the end OF Pro-
fessor P. s. K, formerly Of York
county and Of Gettysburg. The
name. however, Is nothing; the les
son Is everything. How many of the
brilliant young men who have en-
tered on the same path, will take
Eeed, and save themselves and their
families from the shame Of such a
career and such a death - Exchange.
Year: 1870

Habit Is everything. We have all
heard Of the story of the man who
slept over bakers oven for twenty
years, then changed his lodgings,
but had to go back to the oven before
he could 60 to sleep.


A case illustrating the same prin.
ciple recently occurred in Ohio. A
city man, accustomed to lodge or
one of the noisest streets, visited o
country friend. Too much quiet de.
stroyed his rest at night. His friend
felt for his distress, and said he
would try to relieve 1t. Accordingly
he went to neighbours and procur-
ed bass drum, which he beat under
the fellows bed room window, and
had his boy run squeaking wheel
barrow up and down OH the porch,
while his wife played GA the piano,
and his servant pounded on the
chamber door with the tongs. In
this manner the sufferer was enabled
to get two or three hours of quite re-
freshing sleep, though 1t was heavy
on the family.
Year: 1870

The London Spectator, thus closes
review Of Epes Sargent's "Woman


Who Dared" to propose to the man
she loved:


"It is strange that this demand
comes from the United States, from
the very place where the courteous
difference to woman, with which 10 Is
obviously incompatible, Is practiced
even to an excessive degree. Or do
the American ladies think they can


retain the old privileges, and also the
new? Will they, for instance, still
be able to indicate to man by a
touch Of the parasol, that he must
vacate some seat they may fancy,
while they have every power and
right for which these conces.
sions OF courtesy are really meant as
an equivalent? Why, the parasol
would become the awful instrument
with which they would order eff the
unresisting man to the church, or
wherever else their advanced wis
dom might choose the ceremony, IL
indeed they still cared for a ceremo-
NY, to take place! it Is quite clear,
indeed, that the whole order of our
social arrangements must be remodel
W oNsOAO VIZ RAAFANHO Va pIJ1lUS~
ing" at her pleasure can be accorded to
woman. Atpresent, the woman who
chooses to do such a thing, uses an
enormous and most unfair advant-
age, which our customs give her, on
the implied understanding that IL
should not be SO employed. The
rules OF courtesy which make her
requests law must be abrogated i'm
view Of this contingency. There
must be no precedence, no Difference
nothing but the courtesy that Is ac-
corded by equals TO equals. And
there must also be the equal purse on
both sides. A man proposes because
he can offer an establishment and
maintenance; q woman who can do
the same Is allowed to do something
very like proposing. TO share that
which they do not help to earn Is a
thing which, IL men would endure
1t, they could hardly venture. Such
state Of things may come to pass.
Happy he who can congratulate him
self that hia matrimonial arrange
ments are made already, and who
will and In the possibility OF such an
event new motive for hoping that
they may be permanent.
Year: 1870

| 1hLns


"A young lady in New Or
leans under paternal injunction
not to.attend any Of the balls,
made arrangements with her
lover the other evening. Her
parents found it out and also
made an arrangement. JoThe
lover came. The waiting maid
quietly admitted D him, and
then hurried away to advise
her young mistress of his pres


ence. But all this had been
been, and provided for. No
sooner was the youth seated in
the parlor than q terrible alarm
arose; a policeman who had
been quietly waiting on the
back gallery for an hour or two
rushed in and the youth was
marched off to the lookup as q
burglar. In vain he protested
and demanded an explanation.
The family got around him, and
the young lady herself, ia
whose behalf all; bis troubles
had come upon him, capped
the climax of his misfortune
by declaring that she knew
nothing at all about him. The
youth called her a perfdious
girl. q She only smiled.0o He
asked her ifhis presence there
was not. owing to her invita-
ton. She was inexorable, land
the policeman intent, upon his
duty locked him up. .aosidoS ID
Year: 1870

THE Athens Journal publish,
es a . census curiosity, found,
in that county: a. family is
composed of husband and wife
and three pairs of twins. The
husband was the second hus-y
band of the wife, and the wife
was the second wife of the
husband. The wife by her first
husband had a pair of twins;
the first wife a pair Of twins by
her first husband, and now the
second wife has a pair of twina
by her second husb band. 'FoA a
Year: 1870

The principal inhabitants of Treves have ad-
dressed "A memorial to Count Bismarck, in which they
protest against the notion Of combining the political from
tier TO the limit OF language and thus leaving Metz in
the hands OF the French. They admithat the separa
ion OF the Lorraincrs from France VIII be at first pain
in nut they urge that the effect OF the annexation will
hot be scnsby different whether IL goes beyond Keeps
WITHIN the linguistic frontier. The difficulties and dan
gers which are apprehended cannot, they insist. out
weigh the strategic advantage OF the possession OF Metz


We, they add, whose city touches the present from


e protest against the habit Of making account OF


he lhclnatons Of part OF the country about 10 be
hexed than OF the critical position in which should
Otherwise reaI and the serious dangers which actual
~ menaced us when the war broke out"
Year: 1870

Manifestations OF the earthquake lasting for several
seconds were experienced IN Williamsburg at about
twenty-five minutes past eleven yesterday forenoon,
preceded by momentary darkness. The shock was
most sensbiy felt In the large building Broadway
and First street, by the occupants OF the upper
stories the walls OF which trembled to such
an extent that the occupants ran into the street.
Three persons who in the building at the time
say that they were all overcome with feeling Of
when they first felt the shock, and this feel
ing was experienced by Others some distance OF.
Mr.. Joseph A. Adams the well known New York
artist, states that he


FELT THE SENSATION


at his residence in South Second street. Fourth,
al the time. In First street, near North Sec
Ond, the pavement opposite the residence OF Mr. Ben
jamin johnson sank several inches at the same
timc and still further northward, on the same liue,
horse sank into the earth nearly six inches and
water spirted up from the cavity thus made. Tne
earthquake was the subject Of earnest discussion
during the afternoon and evening.