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Year: 1876

A business man in New Calisle, Ind,
has issued a circular letter to his credit
ors couched in the following terms:


My DEAR SB:-I want to ask you a
plain question in all Kindness and sin
cerity, and l would like to have you an
swer it honestly and candidly, not in two
or three years or months, but now, this
week. Supposing you were as poor as
Jobs turkey and had invested $1,000 or
s., 600 in an enterprise which you de-
signed to make an exclusive cash bust
ness supposing as a matter Of accomo-
dation and good nature you had trusted
it out all over the country from Charlisle
to Jericho; suppOsing you had kept add
ing to your means and still putting it on
the books until your funds were played
out supposing you had claims against
you in the hands of business men who
had accommodated you in good faith
and needed their money supposing you
had some pride in you, and ment to be
square-toed and punctual, and hated to
see the man you owed when you didn't
have the legal tender in your trousers to
pay his Just and lawful demands, worse
than you would to see an Indian, and
supposing those whom you had accomo-
dated felt perfectly easy and contented,
SHE'D the track when you went to see
them, and told the wife of their bosom
to answer mot at home" or come into
town and left without even paying O
part supposing that they held your
money and waited patiently for wheat
to come up to ninety cents or one dol
lar, or pork bring five or six dollars a
hundred, what would you do? Would
you let your debtors go and smile and
be a william, or would you sue every
mothers son of them that did not pay,
If it was the last thing you did in town ?
If you were an honest man you would
do the latter, and that's Just what I'll De
compelled to do if there's king in Is
reel. 1 don't want money to look at 1
can earn enough for that don't want
any to salt down i never could make it
keep), but out of several thousandr
trusted out 1 humbly want few hun
dreds, and I'll be hanged if 1 won't
have it or an execution returned nNlld
bona. love you myself as a mother
loves her first born, but I love to pay
my debts better than 1 love any man,
woman or child ON the face of God Al
nights green earth, and by the Great
Jehovah and the Continental Congress
propose to do it, if 1 have to make costs
for every man in Oliver township or in
st. Joseph's county owing me. Now,
let us have the "spondulix" and see how
sweet and pretty can smile upon you.
Yours courteously.
Year: 1876

WHY WE COUGH An italian investi-
gator has been studying the cause of
coughs, and has come to the conclusion
that they are the result of the presence
of q parasitic fungus in the air pas
sages. In severe cases the parasite null
tiplies, and takes possession of the lung
cells. Cuinine is said to possess the
power of stopping the microscopic
fungi, and is therefore recommended as
remedy. The italian doctor has sue
cessfully used powder composed of
the chlorhydrate of quinine, one part;
Bicarbonate of soda, one part; gum ara
bic, twenty parts. The soda is intended
to dissolve the mucus, the gum arabic
to increase the adherence of the powder
on the bronchial passages. The blowing
in of the powder should take place dur
ing deep inspiration of the patient, so
that it may penetrate the windpipe, the
chief seat of the microscopic fungus.
The remedy, whatever may be the truth
of the theory on which it is founded,
has the merit of simplicity; and if its
application did little good, it could not
do much harm.
Year: 1876

Nor ASHAMED OF WoRK.-Two Of
the most agreeable. girls we ever met,
kept a grocery store-yes, and kept it
veil, though they had been rich mans
daughters. When that father lost his
wealth, and became confirmed invalid,
did they sit down and wiring their
hands? Did they go moaning all their
days, begging men to give them little
sewing, little teaching, little copy
ing? Not they. They began, in q small
way, to keep dry goods and grocery
store. They gave fair measure and right
change. They kept what people wanted;
and if anything was called for which
they had not. they put it down in the
list of their purchases. They had the
cleanest, the incest grocery for miles
around, hired clerk, bought horse,
built house, and are at this moment
independent property-holders, as well
as piquant and agreeable women. 1t
paid them to step out of the beaten
track, and find new road TO fortune.
Year: 1876

AN ELEPHANT FIGHT IN INDA.-Fo OF
the elephant fight proper the contending
pairs are carefully trained and prepared
beforehand, with stimulating food and
drugs, and advantage is also taken of
the periodical frenzy displayed in the
male elephant, which is known as must.
At such a time of natural excitement,
the elephant becomes fierce and fOrmid-
able even to his keeper, and only to
lead two such beasts forth into the arena,
and to show them for O moment the
waving trunk of the distant female,
produces q degree of pugnacity which
wants little additional encouragement.


When the fight does begin, such as
can look with pleasure on these things,
behold colossal duello. The enormous
creatures charge like mountains rolling
together, their tusks clash and clatter.
their huge feet delve chasms in the dust
and scatter it In the clouds; and they
rear up their hind legs and wrestle for
mastery, with an agility astonishing as
is their senseless fury. The trunk, ear
and flank are the weak places, as the
beast well knows; and what with each
keeping his own clear, and seeking to
seize that of his opponent, SO that he
may force him aside, and drive an ivory
under the elbow or hawk, or wiring off
his leathern ear, one and the other pro-
boscis fly about in the air like the arm
of an infuriated windmill. Shrill sig
mails Of fear or rage, of victory or defeat,
accompany the rounds, for the wrathful
elephant blows his own battle music
continually, and screams with tremen-
dous anxiety when he is getting the
worst Of it. Presently some advantage
is gained, and blow or q dig which
would annihilate anything but leviA-
than is dealt, whereupon, ordinarily the
sagacious brute VINO has fought in vain,
knows that he is defeated, and quite de-
clines to stand up to any needless pun
ishment. He turns tail and trots of
ungainly and discomftted, and covered
with dust and blood, and pursued lit
tie while by the victor, who soon, how
ever, is content 10 trumpet out an in
sulting blast, and range the arena for
another foe. 1t wants considerable skill
at such moment to slip the foot ropes
on the triumphant monster and get him
out of the way; but this is managed by
the adroit mahouts, either by cunning
approaches, or bringing in couple Of
females. Sometimes a weak elephant is
forced to the earth, and gored or
stamped till he dies, but generally they
live to fight another day, provided that
the tusks have not been fitted with
steel points, which is occasionally prac-
ticed.
Year: 1876

A good story is told of an old shoe
maker. he was charged with practicing
unlawful arts as an ague-charmer. "I
cure people" said he. ''by pretending
to do it; people believe 1 can cure the
ague, and when they come to me 1 say
/ can cure them. Bidding them wait
till my. return, I go into my garden, cut
a twig of some tree, make nine notches
in it and bury it in the garden; then 1
tell them l have buried the ague with it.,
and they have such confidence in me
that the ague leaves them.-Philadel-
phiG Herald.
Year: 1876

A BLACKSMITH having been slandered,
was advised to apply to the courts for
redress. He replied with true wisdom.
"I shall never sue anybody for slander.
I can go into nv shop and work out
better character in six months than I
could get in court house in q yearp
Year: 1876

READ AND REFLEcT.-The young me-
chanio of the present day should be an
earnest reader. Whether learning a
trade, operating o machine, or drafting
designs for the builder, he should be a
lover of useful books. They will make
him broader and happier man, Civ
ing him continually fresh themes for
thought, and pleasing topics for medi-
tation. Books are to the mind what food
is to the body. They fill and strengthen
it. They add vim, force and vitality to
its every function. They furnish that
life blood which is the handspring of
all action, and benefit their admirer in
manifold ways. Do not, then, neglect
so rich boon, but read much and read
carefully.


We cannot all be rich, or great, or
powerful; but we can all build for our
selves inviting palaces of wisdom, where
the noblest and best OF every age may
come through the silent but immortal
agency of books, to store our minds
with the rarest samples of their genius.
These choice legacies, too, will stand by
us, and remind us, when trades, for
tunes and friends fail, to comfort and
satisfy our dropping spirits. Who, then,
would think of living without the asso-
Citations of interesting books ? No young
man should.


The world is full of reading matter,
and it is utterly impossible to read all;
still, every apprentice and tradesman
can find leisure enough to acquaint him
self with so much as is necessary to
perfect him as mechanic and broaden
him out as citizen. Read, then, by all
means. Read slowly; read carefully;
read with reflection; and reflect with
reading.
Year: 1876

A VALUABLE HNT.-It may not be
generally known that, when person is
drowning, if he is taken by the arm
from behind, betweeen the elbow and
shoulder, he cannot touch the person
attempting to save him; and whatever
struggles he may make will only assist
the person holding him in keeping his
head above water. A good swimmer can
keep man thus above the water for an
hour. If seized anywhere else, the
probability is that he will clutch the
swimmer, and perhaps, as is often the
case, both will be drowned.
Year: 1876

Confederate citizens. The COnfed-
eracY was dead long ago and nobody
thought any longer about it except as
an unfortunate incident in history.
He denied that the people of
the South expected to be paid for
any Of the losses sustained by them
during the war, and although few
cl im mad been presented there would
be no concerted attempt TO press those
CLAIMS for spoliatiOn, au.: no such
clIinI would ever be supported by the
democratic members of the House to
do justice to the South, aud to no
longer believe that people to be out
laws or hypocrites. Let them have a
good government and a whole-soul ad-
ministratiou of justice and they would
be as true friends to the color. i peo-
pie as could be found on this cnnti-
rent He did not believe that there
was any purpose on the part OF any
considerable portion of the republican
party to perpetuate the rule that had
existed IN the South since 1868. It
would be calamity to the whole coun-
try and especially to the South if
another administration of the same
sort were TO control the government
for four years to come.


Stevenson of Illinois introduced q
bill to abolish the boa. d of health of
the District of Columbia.


The committee on Indian AHA
have agree TO recommend al appro-
priation of $500 for the Arizon 1
Indians Immediately.


Indian Agent Hastings. of the Red
Cloud agency. reports all the Indians
coming in. Tasting states that he
learns from half breed scout who
was with the B 'ooks exp dition agains
the hostile camp that it WAS com
plete failure with the exception OF
killing an old squaw and two children
Year: 1876

Alexander Sprunt, Esq, the British
Vice Consul at this port, has been
granted leave of absence for a visit to
Europe, and will probably sail in few
days by the,Cunard steamer Russia from
New York. By order of the Earl of
Derby. Secretary of State, Mr.. James
Sprupt has assumed charge of the office
as Acting Vice Consul during his
fathers absence.


We trust that the winds and the
waves will deal gently with our friend
during his ocean passage to and from
the Old Country. ana that health and
prosperity attending his long journey
he may return to our midst ATTENDED
by the greatest good fortune and hap
piness. Bon Uoyages mon ami.
Year: 1876

dream? We boys of the Quarter, who
come only to look ON and to renew our
feeble. but [ trust our virtuous indig-
nation at such sights, turn at last from
the girls in boys clothes, and the boys
in girls clothes; from the jammy sailor
girl-boy who has just ridden around
the room on the shoulders of her cap
tain; from the queen of darkness who
swept past us in diamonds and sables.
and never so much as suffered her Ian
gushing eyes to rest for a moment on
any one of us; from the misery of the
jealous one in the corner who has been
robbed of his prize, and the melancho-
fy of the two who are advising one an-
other to 90 home"
Year: 1876

Sad news is received from Brussels of
the condition of the ex-Empress Car
lotta, widow of the unfortunate Emperor
of Mexico. Her physical health is good,
but the unfortunate lady can no longer
recognize her nearest relations. and the
visit of any one who is not one OF her
regular attendants irritates her beyond
expression. She has occasionally lucid
intervals, but they are of very brief dura-
ton, and at such times she only occupies
herself in domestic pursuits.
Year: 1876

DISHONESTY BEaINs AT HONE. The
crying sin Of the day is dishonesty -
One hears much Of it in public life; bu.
as we have said before. there is too
much Of it in private life. And its
cause is to be found in the want Of self
control 10 the indulgence Of tastes and
appetites Reckless extravsgant living
is at the bottom of it all. If this living
had any true foundation in any hearty
desires for desirable things, there would
be more hope of amendment. But when
one comes to see what ill-gotten gains
are spent upon. the outlook is sad
one. Dress. display, amusement, costly
things bought because they are "cost-
ly:" wealth won evily, merely that it
may be wasted foolishly these are the
signs Of . time which is not pleasant to
contemplate.


If man loves any one thing. say
rare books, Or pictures, or objects Of
any kind, music or science, SO we'll that
for the sake Of that one thing in which
be would be rich, he is willing to be
poor in anything else, no matter though
his choice be an unwise one according
to the best standards Of choice, be will
yet have motive which will help to
Year: 1876

some places, I believe the bridge is by
far the most feasible plan Of the two.
But let's 60 back to our steamer.


The Ariel is splendid boat-one OF
the swiftest on the river-handsomely
furnished and capable Of carrying with
perfect safety and comfort over l500
passengers. Her officers are at all times
courteous and attentive to their passen-
gers, and it will not be their fault if ex-
cursionists do not have good time
while on board their boat.


Captain Robson has been SO long on
the river that he is doubtless SO we'll
known to large number Of your read
ers that any attempt on the part of .
newspaper correspondent to give them
a pen and ink introduction to him is
utterly useless. 1 can only say that !
owed much Of the pleasure Of the trip
to bis courtesy and intelligent anc
pleasant conversation. The gentlemanly
clerk, Mr.. W. G. Eliason, is also we'll
known in your neighborhood. Always
on the alert, active, energetic: alive to
the interests of the boat and the welfare
Of the passengers, be is favorite with
the company as we'll as with the officers
and crew Of the vessel. We are indebt-
ed to him also for much Of the pleasure
of our trip.


At three o'clock, having spent three
pleasant hours upon the water, we re-
turned to Collins and joined the com
pany mentioned above and spent the re-
maindcr of the afternoon in quiet enjoy
ment, lounging under the shade Of the
trees, in pleasant conversation and play
ing "shuffle " Thus the time passed
rapidly away until the gong gave the
welcome notice that supper was ready,
aud all hands repaired in haste to the
dining room where the long array Of ia
bles were fairly groaning under the
weight of broiled chicken, fried oysters,
soft shell crabs, stewed oysters and
other delicacies in abundance Every
one who has ever visited Collins knows
all about its magnificent suppers, SO it
is not worth while for me to say any
thing more about it. And now reckon
I have written enough for one time and
SO will close. At another time maybe
| will tell you more Ever yours,


ORION.


Collins Beach, July 25.
Year: 1876

keep him upright. But for those who
love none Of these things, but simply
desire them because it is the habit Of
the time; because, like pampered chill
dren, they must need cry for whatever
they see just out Of their reach for
them is needed the wholesome self
discipline which shall teach them to let
alone whatever is not theirs. And the
beginning Of this selfdiscipline is in the
home. Parents must teach their boys
and girls the great lesson Of doing with
out whatever cannot be fitly theirs
There need be no niggardly restraint,
but in some way the first lesson for
childhood should be that Of earning its
pleasures. To get what ever it Graves
as soon as it asks for it, is the worst
training child can have. :
Year: 1876

energetically humane society in the
city, is doing a. noble work in its free
excursions for poor children. Its plan
is to charter immense barges which it
fills with the little sufferers and their
mothers, when they have any. and then
has them towed down the bay to where
the fresh salt breeze can blow over
them, bearing healing on its wings
By these various efforts many lives have
been saved, but nothing short Of a
speedy and radical change in tempera-
ture will save the Centennial summer
from being remembered with black
mark.


As u result Of short ice crop Of last
winter and the recent great demands
upon them, the ice men have put up the
price of that indispensable commodity,
and should change not come soon, a
further advance will be the result -
Fortunately the water supply about
which the alarmists began croaking a
week ago proves equal to the emcr-
gency, the chief engineer reporting that
we can stand a month Of drought yet
without suffering that terrible dcpriva-
ton


DON CARLOS.


Don Carlos is in the city, having ar
rived here from Philadelphia. but at.
tracts little attention. We're too hot
to bother ourselves much about Pre-
tender SO soon after having genuine
Emperor among us.


DROWNING OF MILLIONAIRE.


A sad accident occurred on the even
ing of the Goth in the capsizing of the
Yacht "Mohawk" off Staten Island, by
which her owner. Vice Commodore
Garner Of the N. Y. Yacht Club, with
his wife, wife's brother and young
lady were drowned Mr. Garner,
though a young man Of thirty-6ve
years, was very prominent business
man, owning many large cotton mills.
and leaving fortune variously esti-
mated at from fifteen to eighteen
millions RADIX.
Year: 1876

The success which attended the ex-
curson to Whitewater few weeks
ago has induced our Eastern visitors
and some of our citizens who were un-
able to participate on that occasion to
start another excursion over the South
ern Pacific road to its terminus which
is some miles beyond, at Seven Palms.
The subscription lists are at the Pico
House and Grand Central Hotel, and
as the excursion is expected to take
place on Monday or Tuesday next it
is advisable that they should be filled
by tomorrow night. There will be
special train which will start at s
clock in the morning and return at
7:30 in the evening, giving the excur-
sionists one hour and a half on the
desert. 1t will be regular pic mic
and each one, or party will provide
themselves with a lunch. The tickets
will be only So for the round trip.
Year: 1876

AS the procession in honor of st.
Patrick was passing the French Hos
pital yesterday the flag was dipped as
a token of respect from the French to
the Irish nationality. In return the
procession saluted the flag most heart
lily and the band struck up the Mar
seillaise. Such q token of mutual re-
gard is we'll timed in this land where
national prejudice and animosity is
put aside from one impulse of patriot
ism and freedom.


DR.. II. W. Walker, popular Den
tistfr San Francisco, is stopping at
the st. Charles Hotel. The Doctor is
a very agreeable gentleman and
stands high in his profession, and
must be man of good sense, as he in
tends to make his home among US.
We give him q hearty welcome.
Year: 1876

We are offering unusual induce
ments to purchasers of clothing, and
can safely guarantee you saving OF
fully fifty per cent. if you will but ex-
anime our mammoth stock before pur.
chasing elsewhere. Important, under
the Lafayette Hotel.


George Furman leaves in day or
two for Cincinnati to look after the
estate of his lately deceased mother.


Robinson, of the Palace Shaving Sa-
loon, handles the shears with equal
skill as the razor, and can remove the
superfluous hair from mans head
with almost rs much celebrity as an
Indian warrior, and u great deal more
pleasantly.
Year: 1876

George Trent has been obliged to
get an assistant at his boot polishing
stand under the stairs in the entrance
to the Hotel des Princes, Downey
Block, all because he has got that new
style of blacking and is particular to
see that all his customers have their
clothes busted


The piles of % inch water pipe on
Alameda street indicate that the Wa
ter Company mean business.


n. Smith has $4,000 to loan and
40 acres of land to sell. Apply at his
store on Also street.
Year: 1876

THE CUNNiNa OF The Fox.-The
Tart. Field and Farm relates the follow
ing. illustrative of the cunning, or shall
we say, the reasoning faculty Of the fox
"A farmer possessed large number Of
fine turkeys, which usually roasted in
the branches Of some tall Scotch frs,
Immediately joining the farm vard.-
REWARD had his eve on them, and made
several visits during the moonlight
nights. but unsuccessfully. as they were
perched too high for him to reach them
He was therefore obliged to resort to
stratagem, and this was the plan he
adopted: He first scratched the ground
beneath the tree with his fore feet, and
then the base of the tree itself, in order
to attract the attention Of the turkeys,
at the same time looking up to mark
every movement. He then ran round
the trees in rapid rings. The turkeys.
aware Of their danger, followed his
quick movements with their eyes, and
became confused and dizzv. One fine
bird fell to the gronnd. was INSTANTLY v
killed and carried of To The earth. The
scheme was repeated with equal success.
The less Of turkey after turkey induced
the farmer to watch in ambush. and
the truth Of the strutagem was fully
Year: 1876

S At Atchiscn, Kansas, a girl ate
four pounds of Wedding cake in order
that she might dream of her future
husband. And now she saws that mon
ey wouldn't hire her to marry the man
that she saw In that dream.
Year: 1876




etfic.


With every advance of emigration into the
far West, a new demand is created for Hos
tetter's Stomach Bitters Newly peopled re-
siors are frequently less salubrious than
older settled localities. on account Of the
miasma which rises from recently cleared
land particularly along the banks Of rivers
that are subject to freshets. The agricultural
or mining emigrant soon learns, when he does
not already know. that the Bitters afford the
only sure protection against malaria and
those disorders of the stomach, liver and
bowels to which climatic changes. exposure,
and unaocustomed or unhealthy water or diet
subject him. Consequently, he places an es-
innate upon this great household specific and
preventive, Commensurate with It's intrinsic
storative and promoter Of health SO implicitly
70 be relied upon In time Of need.