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Year: 1872

In the active pursuit of pleasure or gain,
the inestimable blessing of health is too Of
ten forgotten, until disease is firmly seated,
ana the fact only realized by great bodily
and mental suffering. The Liver is the
vulnerable point in most persons, and the
disarrangement of the organ involves al
most the whole system; hence the reason
why under Liver disease there if euuhera-
ted such a number OF afIlictions, and We
claim the Simmons Liver Regulator to be
a remedy for them all.
Year: 1872

4


That many terrible abuses still exist on the
American boards must be acknowledged, but that
the prospects for the regeneration Of the drama
and for removing these abuses are encouraging Is
no less true. The principal evil connected with our
stage is that we ind so many unscrupulous and r.
responsible people in managerial positions, whose
only aim is to make money In the speediest man.
ner and In the largest sums possible, without the
slightest reference to taste professional pride
common decency. Hence the production at times
OF plays so outrageous as to meet with general
probation. Here the unblushlng efYrontery OF
this type OF manager Is shown by using the
very condemnatory notices as advertisements
Of the filth in which he deals. His line Of
argument to the public Is this -"Here is play
condemned by the press as one Of the most ip.
decent productions ever placed on the boards;
there is nothing to compare with 1t in vulgarity,
Come aud see it," 1t may be .ilat this appeal
to the worst passions Of htmaf nature viii sue
ceed In drawing an equlvoca class Of people to
theatre, but IT places beyond the pale Of respect
able society the managers and the actors and
actresses that thus degrade the profession. There
Is only one method Of correcting this evil, and
that Is by establishing censorship some
what on the plan In operation In Europe.
The police are powerless or unwilling to
interfere for the sake Of public morals and
common decency, and where the evil will
end II Is terrible to contemplate. The only hope is
in the good sense of the public to frown down such
performances in the refusal OF the better part OF
the profession to touch such filth and In salutary
laws in this respect.


Another evil is the tendency Of managers to rush
like q flock OF sheep after some bell wether who
has discovered new path to success. The conse-
quenSe Is that the newly discovered path becomes
uncomfortably crowded, and what might have
acquired a lasting popularity is "run into the
ground" The first comers in gold region are the
lucky ones but II all the world and his wife go there
some one must come to grief. The best plan is for
every manager prospect for himself and to attend
solely to his own business. Because one manager
chances to make hit with certain piece that
Ia no reason why all his brethren should rush in
for share OF the spoils. This Is particularly the
case with French and English plays which, owing
to the absence Of International copyright, become
the property OF ALL The world Of dramatic litera-
ture Is wide enough for all, and there are many
rich placers as yet lying perdus In the histrionc
disGings. Competition y the sopl Of business but
Year: 1872

are to give character and motion to the


machine.


Senator Carpenter said he had Just
heard himself ridiculed, reviled and
misrepresented because he had been
unable to agree with the senator from


Massachusetts (Sumner) as to the


merits OF this bill, and had stated two


points in which its coEstitutionality


seemed doubtful. He was in favor Of


the substance of the bill, and had en-


bodied In his substitute all OF it that


was clearly constitutional; but the


senator from Massachusetts, did not


seem to be anxious for the passage Of


the bill TO secure civil rights unless it


had some branch or claw tearing


into the constitution. I will not speak


disrespectfully Of the declaration,


and you will not attempt 10 violate


the constitution, and we will Join


hand in hand in the support of the


principles that are the foundation Of
your bill. The senator has done me
the honor to point out my prototype
in a constitutional argument-PetrO-
lum V. Nssby. Laughter. That is
one particular in which l must bow
to the senator. l cannot point out
his prototype in a constitutional dis
cussion, he never had one. He is the
beginning, and if our constitution is
to be much respected or to long last
trust he will be the end Of the school
of constitutional debatOrs, who COM
mencs by asserting that the cODstitu-
ton has nothing particular to do with
the subject. That it is a mere ma
chine and means something or moth
ing, according to the declaration of
In conclusion, Senator
Carpenter said that the senator
from Massachusetts could neither
drive him into the Democratic party |
by calling him a secessionist and COM |
pairing him to Calhoun, nor by using |
the lash compel him to vote for any
thing that he thought unconstitu- |
dOnal. Sumner earnestly denied that |
he had ever disregarded the constitu-
tiOn, and said he had alWas supported |
it. He predicted that history would |
show that his construction of it would |
be approved and confirmed by the |
people.


The senate went into executive |
session and soon after adjourned.
Year: 1872

CONSIDER Me- SMITH" IA good story is told
of old DR.. CALDWELL formerly of the University
Of North Carolina


The doctor was small man, and lean, as hard
and angular as the most irregular of pine knots
He looked as though he might be tough, but be
did not seem strong. Nevertheless, be was,
among the knowing ones, repaied to be agile las
a cat, and, in addition, was by no means de-
6cient in the knowledge OF the ''mauly art"
Well, in the freshman class of certain year
was burlv beef mountaiueer of eighteen or
nineteen. This genius conceived contempt for
old BoluS physical dimensions, and bis soul was
horrifed that one so deficient in muscle should
be so potential! in bis rule


Poor Jones--that is what we'll call him-had
no idea of moral force. At any rate he was not
inclined TO Knock under and he controlled despod-
callv by man be imagined he could tie or whip.
At length he determined to give the old gentle
man genteel, private thrashing, some night, in
the College Campus, pretending to mistake him
for some fellow student


Shortly after, on dark and rainy night Jones
met the doctor crossing the Campus. Walking
up to him abruptly:


''Hello, Smith you rascal-is this you l'


And with that he struck the old gentleman
blow on the side of the face that nearly elled bin.


Old Bolus said nothing, but squared himself,
and at it they went. Jones' youth, weight and
muscle made him an ugly customer but after
round or two the Doctors science began to tell,
and in short time he had knocked his antago-
mist down and was straddle of his chest, with
one hand on his throat and the other dealing Wig
orous cuffs on the side Of the head.


"Ah stop | beg pardon Doctor, Doctor
CALDWELL mistake--for Heavens sake, Doc
tor" he groaned. 81 really thought it was
Smith ~


The doctor replied with word and blow al
ternately:


at makes no difference, for all present pur-
poses consider me Smith"


And it is said that old Bous gave Jones such
pounding that he never made another mistake as
to personal identity.
Year: 1872

A tiny, slender, silken thread


Is Friendship, and we make it
Bind hearts and lives to hearts and lives,
But cen breath may shake it,
And oft it takes but one wee word
But one wee word to break it.
1t draws the lips in smiling shape,
It draws the look of pleasure
From eye to eye when hands touch hands,
When two hearts beat one measure;
And draws a meaning from word
Which makes that word a treasure
Like string of taneful harp or Lutte
Between glad souls tits holden,
And loves fond fingers on the thread
Make music rare and golden
Make music such as tender hearts
Could live, and meier grow old, in.
But if breath may shake it, let
That breath come near it never;
And never spoken be that word


Which Friendships tie might sever;
But let the cord grow stronger till
The daWning of Forever
Year: 1872

4 middle-aged woman, recently from New Hampshire, called at one of the numerous employment offices in this city, and told the clerk she desired a situation as do- mestic in some family. A gentle man happened to be present who was anxious to procure just such @ person in his Cwn family. X bar gain was made at once, and the la div accompanied him home and commenced herdutieS immediate ly. A few days after gentleman was invited to dine at the house. When all were seated around the table, this lady came into the room and recognized the gentleman as her long-lost lover. It appears that about twenty years ago they had known and loved each other, and were engaged to De married: but the California fever had car ried him off, as it did many others. It was an old, old story overagain. He had been unlueky in the mines for many years, but finally cameto San Francisco, few years agoIgot a position as clerk in a dry goods store, saved up money and Invested in Crown Point, and is now up in the millions. This story may sound little romantic, but it is every word true. They will soon be married, and the faithful woman rewarded at last for her constancy.-[S. F. Republican.
Year: 1872

U 1t is really too bad, that the Electoral vote
of louisiana should have been declared for Grant,
after warmoth had taken such extraordinary
precautions to have it for Greeley. He ran in
enough fraudulent votes to carry il by decided
majority, as he thought, and then, to make it
sure, put in an extra ten or fifteen thousand.
Year: 1872

q Watermelon sugar is one of the new things
In saving your watermelon scraps for the sugar
factory. he careful to discard all that have butter
on them, as the grease injnres the quality of the
sugar.
Year: 1872

R The Greeley Electors had q good deal of
discussion as to whom they should vote for, Gree
ley having died before the time fixed for their
meeting. The Thing they could have done most
cheerfnlly, and at the same time more nearly rep
resented their real principles, would have been to
vote for JEFF. Davis
Year: 1872

~ The papers are again going for Judge Webb,
Superintendent of Insurance, and demanding that
he be legslated out of Office. We have always
believed the present Insurance law to he fraud
and would like to see it wiped Ont. Likewise
We could never endorse webb's Greeley chute
But we think the bother about insurance has
been more in the law than in the Superintendent.
and have no donbt that Webb does as well as any
ether man could do. 1t is Of more Importance to
be rid of the law than of the man.
Year: 1872

~ We this week publish number of articles
relative to the treatment of the horse disease.
1t is here, and anything will be of interest that
promises relief to those indispensable animals.
Year: 1872

From the Elko Independent, May Is


August Belmont has spoken. and
if he did say what has been attributed
to Linn it would have been better had
he remained silent. He is reported
to have said, in substance, that no
one outside of himself and his CO.
members had right to express an
opinion about the Cincinnati noml-
nations. bat that it. the National
Committee, shOuld be left perfectly
free to do as itthought best. Unless
the press throughout the country
shall speak. each representing the
various sentiments that may prevail
in its respective localities, We are at
a loss to know from what source the
National Committee will obtain the
information upon which to base its
own action.


The people themselves constitute a
National Committee which may say
that Mr.. Belmont has no right to jeo-
pardize the triumph of right over
wrong; of principle over passion aud
prejudice; of constitutional law over
the rule of imbeciles and money
changers.


Far too long has a central dictation
assumed bv virtue of their position
as members of the National Demo
cratic Committee, controlled and sub-
dued the voice of the masses. Far
too long has a guided ring of
New York city political money
changers detiled the temple of our
political faith Their action has been
too often prompted by the desire for
gain, and the opportunities for mani
pulating the keys to the Treasury
vaults. Their interests and the in
terest of the monied power of New
York have been superior to the neces-
sites of the people, and now when
the country IS groaning under the
burden of corruption and taxation,
heaped upon it by the Grant Admin
istration. this same August Belmont
virtually tells the people they have
no right to say or do aught to check
that corruption, and amellorate their
own suffering condition. He knows
as well as any man living that the
failure of the Baltimore Convention
to indorse the nomination of Mr..
Greeley will be but a solemn assur-
ance of General Grants reelection.
The major voice of the leading honest
Democrats throughout the nation
have already told him so.
Year: 1872

of the representatives of the successful
ring publicly acknowledged that Al lie
Der would have been nominated for Sec
retary of State if he had not positively
refused to enter into combination to
nominate Grover for Governor that
John F. Miller stated to US in the Con-
ventien that the friends of Mr.. Grover
were obliged to pledge their votes to
other candidates in order to secure their
votes for Grover, and that such bargains
were made in all conventions which he
had ever attended.


We might mention many other like
facts, none of which will be denied by
any honest man present at that Conven-
ton, but these will suffice. If the pre-
sent managers of the Herald, who know
what we have stated to be literally true.
do not deem the packing of Conventions,
the bargaining for the exchange of votes
between delegates, and the buying of
delegates to secure nominatio s, corrupt
practices, we simply differ with them in
our views of political ethics. During
tllirty-fve years services in and to the
Democratic party, without ever before
having been left out of a State Conven-
ton of that party in whatsoever State
we resided at the time, we never went
into convention pledged to any candi-
date for any nomination never entered
into combination Of any kind to infu-
ence the action Of Convention by per-
sonal consideration and never once ask
ed a delegate for his support for a nom
nation The first time we ever witness
ed Democratic Convention so entirely
controlled by open corruption, bargain
and bribery, we had our name withdrawn
from it, Trough we had voluntary assur-
ances from delegates sufficient to secure
the nomination against the ring candi-
date who was being merely use as a
cats paw. No consideration on earth
would have induced us to accept nom
ination on that ticket and that platform.
Year: 1872

An article appears in the Oregon Her
aid assailing the editor of this paper for
having incidentally remarked, that ''the
most corrupt party convention which We
have ever witnessed, was the last Dem
ocratic State Convention of Oregon -
This personal assault could not have
been written by Col. Taylor, for he has
the reputation Of being gentleman by
birth and breeding, and hence he would
not have adopted the style so common
to Oregon Of addressing a cotemporary
with boorish familiarity which not only
breeds contempt, but betrays low breed
ing and vulgar instincts style, for in
stance, which the editor of the Oregon
i'm. with more than ordinary editorial
ability, cannot rid himself of, carrying
with him to his more elevated position,
the odor Of the dung-hill from whence
he sprung. We are accused Of slander-
ing the Convention because We failed to
secure the nomination for State Printer.
1t makes no difference what our motive
or relations to the Convention were, but
there are those now connected with the
publication Of the Herald who will not
deny the facts as we stated them, unless
their notions of political corruption diff
fer materially from our own, or they
have more efrontery than we had ever
credited them with. No honest man
familiar with the facts will deny that
the Convention was packed in the inter
est of certain candidates; that in the
county Of Marion the times and pisces
of holding the primary meetings were
not known to one-half or attended by


one-ffth Of the Democratic voters, that
those persons desired to attend the


County Convention were designated,
sent for and their expenses paid /; that
before the public meeting of said Con-
vention, private meeting of the dele


gates was held at the store of Grover
and Miller in Salem to select delegates
to the State Convention; that money


was sent from Salem into Polk and 9th
er neighboring counties to influence the
election of delegates that when the
State Conventional assembled at AL
bany, candidates for the several State
Offices met with their several supporters
in private caucus and formed combi-
nation to control the nominations in
their own interests !; that all delegates,
including the delegation from Multno-
nah county, who were not personally
pledged to one of the candidates who
composed the ring, were excluded from
the private caucus that, for the pur-
pose of conciliating faction, John F.
Miller, the leader of this ring combina-
ton, reported to the Convention O reso-
luton repudiating the public debt, in
which eighteen of the twenty members
of the committee concurred that this
resolution was afterwards amended SO
as to attempt to disguise its intent, and
subsequently repudiated by all of the
candidates IN the canvass that several
Year: 1872

Not long since I met a gentleman
who is assessed for more than a
million. Silvered was his hair, care
upon his brow, and he stopped be-
meath his burden of wealth. We
were speaking of that period of life
when we had realized the most per-
feet enjoyment, or, rather, when we
had found the happiness nearest to
being unalloyed. I'll tell you, said
the millionaire, "when was the hap
piest hour of my life. At the age of
one and twenty I had saved $500.
I was earning $500 a year, and my
father did not take it from me, only
requiring that 1 should pay for my
board. At the age of twenty-one /
had secured a pretty cottage just
outside of the city. 1 was able to
pay two-thirds of the value down
and also to furnish it respectfully.
was married on Sunday Sunday
in June-at my fathers house. My
wife had come to me poor IN purse,
but rich in the wealth of her woman
hood. The Sabbath and the Sabbath
night we passed beneath my fathers
roof, and on Monday morning I was
to work, leaving my mother and sis
ter to help in preparing my home.
On Monday evening when the labors
of the day where done, I went not
to my parental shelter as in the past,
but to my own house-my own house.
The holy atmosphere of that hour
seems to surround me even now in
memory. I opened the door of
my cottage and entered. I laid my
hat on the little stand in the hall
and passed on to the kitchen-our
kitchen and dining room were both
one then. I pushed open the door
and wVs-in heaven. The table was
ready-prepared by the hand of her
who had come to be my helpmeet in
deed as well as in name-and by the
table, with a throbbing, expectant
look on her face, stood my wife. I
tried to speak and could not. I
could only clasp the waiting angel
to my bosom, thus showing to her
the elastic burden of my heart. The
years have passed-long, long years
and worldly wealth has flowed in
upon me, and I am honored and en-
We'd 4; but, as true as heaven I would
give it all-every dollar-for the Joy
of that June evening, long ago.
Year: 1872

A traveller O'er dusty road,


Strewed acorns on the lee;
And one took root and Sprouted up


And grew into tree,
Love sought its shade at eventide,


To breathe its early VOWS,
And age was pleased at heat of noon


To rest beneath its bOughs.
The dOrmOuse loved its dangling twigs,
The birds sweet music pour;
It stood glory in its place


a blessing eYermore.
A little spring had lost its way


Amid the grass and fern;
A passing stranger scoOped a well,


Where weary men might turn
He walled it in, and hung with care
A ladIe at the brink
He thought not of the deed he did,


Butjudged that toll might drink.
He passed again, and 10 the well


By summer never dried,
Had cooled ten thousand parchiug tongues
And saved life beside.
A9dreamer dreamed a random thought,
Twas old, and yet twas new;
A simple fancy OF the brain,


But strong in being true
It fell upon genial mind,


And o! the thought became
A lamp of light, a beacon ray,


A safely guiding flame,
The thought was small, its issue great;
4 watch-fire on the hill,
1t sends its radiance far adOWn,


And cheers the valley still.
A nameIess man amid the crowd


That that thronged the busy mart
Let fall the words of hope and love,
a whisper on the tumult thrown,
Naught but passing breath


1t raised brother from the dust,
oak! o fount! words of love!
o thought at random cast!
We were but little at the first,


But mighty at the last.
Year: 1872

Beauty.


Not on the earth
Hath Beauty bloom, hath Beauty power
This is alone its natal hour


The chamber of its birth


Here the germ dwelIs,
And prone to silence and to night
1t bursts to love and life and light,


As daisies IN our dells.


But not on earth
Hath Beauty growth beyond the flower
The life that in day or hour


Goes to another birth;


And all we see
OF beauty is a glimmer bright
Is but the promise of n night


The glory yet 10 be.


When in the skies,
The spirit doth unfold and find
Lies hopes grown perfect to the mind,


For Beauty then it sighs;


And Beauty there
Compares with Beauty here below
"A $ mornings golden skies agIoW


With murkiest clouds compare.


The forms we love
And cherish for each faultless Iine,J
But shadows are of those divine


That we shall know above.


So let us live
In love of nature, not of art,
That each may thus with reverent heart
Fit homage have to give.
Year: 1872

STRANGELY do some people talk of
getting over" a great sorrow; over
leaping it, passing it by, thrusting
into oblivion. Not so. No one ever
does that-at least, no nature which
can be touched by the feeling OF
grief at all. The only way is to pass
through the ocean of affiiction sol
emnly, slowly, with humility and
faith. as the Israelites passed through
the sea. Then its very waves of mis-
erv will divide and become to us a
wall on the right side and on the
left, until the gulf narrOws and mar
rows before our eyes, and wa land
safe on the opposite shore.
Year: 1872

IF YOU wish to do good, do good 4;
if you wish to assist people, assist
people. The only way to learn to
do thing is to do it, and that i'm
plies, before you learn to do right
you will do wrong-you will make
blunders, you viii nave failures-but
persevere, and in the end YOU will
] arm your lesson, and many other
lessons by the way.
Year: 1872

a MAN was complaining because
his wife was recently taken with
the OH fever. She had a piece of
lanu Of her own in West Virginia
where oil had been found, and MOTH
ing would do but she must organize
company and so to boring. So
she bored him to go for long time,
bus be wouldn't; so she went her
self. l told the man he would he
justified in suing for divorce. "On
what grounds 2" asked the man.
fright there, on her oil grounds. J"
81 mean what plea could [ offer ?''
"Why, that she left hero bread and
bored.