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Year: 1873

Kiss me, mamma, before l go to
sleep" How simple boon, yet how
soothing to the little supplicant is that
soft gentle kiss. The little head sinks
contentedly on the pillow, for all is
peace and happiness within. The
bright eyes close, and the rosy lip is
reveling in the bright sunny dreams of
innocence. Yes kiss it mamma, for
that night kiss will linger in memory
when the giver lies moldering in the
grave. The memory Of gentle, low
ing mother's kiss has cheered many a
lonely wanderers, pilgrimage, and
has been the beacon light to illuminate
his desolate heart; for remember, life
has many stormy billow to cross,
many a rugged path to climb, with
thorns TO pierce, and we know not
what is in store for the little one
so sweetly slumbering, with no mar
ring care to disturb its peaceful dreams.
The parched and fevered lip will be-
come dewy as recollection bears TO the
sufferers couch a mothers love-d
mothers kiss. Then kiss your little
ones, kind mother, ere they sleep,
there is a magic power in that kiss
which will endure to the end of life.
Year: 1873

How TO WATER HORsEs-One
writer says, never water Immediately
before or after feeding. | say that if a
horse is thirsty always give him drink
and he will thank you for it. have
often seen horses put in the stable at
noon for an hour or two, and eat a
pound of hay or grain, but looking
wistfully for water, and then their care
ful owner, who would not letthem have
water when WARM, will come to give
enough to kill, and drive the remainder
of the day ON two buckets Of water
and no feed. Ten chances to one his
horse gives out with him or gets sick
before night. Now, l say, give the
horse water if he is ever so warm. give
him swallow, rinse out his mouth
and nostrils, give hima bite of hay, in
short time little more water, but
not too much.


IF he is watered several times, lit
tie at time, until he is satisfied, he
will not drink more than half what he
would if you let him gulp it down all
at once.-Cor. Tribune.
Year: 1873

A Louisiana exchange, in an article
upon the coming sugar crop of that
section, remarks: At the present
time the plant cane is up in every field
of this parish, and it is seldom plant
er is heard to complain of not having
as good stand as he could wish, and
never since the memorable season Of
1853 have the crops promised so well.
The.long rains, it was feared, had in
jured the seeds in mats and winr0xs.
But the contrary has proven the case
with planting in this parish, and the
number of acres of plant cane are
greater this year than any time since
the war closed. Such are our crop
prospects at this early day, and we
think we hazard nothingin saying we
believe prosperous season is ahead of
ne -
Year: 1873

The witty local of the Augusta
Chronicle gives the following. which
may be beneficial to the subscribers Of
other papers Delinquent subscri-
bers should not permit their daughters
to wear this paper for hustle. There
being SO much due on it, there is dan
ger of taking cold.
Year: 1873

JOURNALISM is fast extending
throughout Japan; new paper making
its appearance most every week. Con-
victed criminals who are hired out to
work are encouraged to buy newspa-
pers and books with the earnings they
obtain, to read on Sundays, which is
now day of rest TO them.
Year: 1873

The Supreme Court Of the United
States decides that person commit
ting suicide does not vitiate a life in
surance policy, the Court holding that
the facts show the reason of the sui
eide to be so impaired that the act was
not voluntary or intelligent.
Year: 1873

lowing beautiful sentiment:


IF we work upon marble, it will
perish if we work upon brass, time
effects it; if we rear temples, they will
crumble into dust; if we work upon
immortal minds,--if we imbue them
with principles, with the just fear of
God and love Of our fellow men-we
engrave on those tablets something
which will brigaten for eternity"
Year: 1873

There seems to be misunderstand-
ing in regard to the gas question. The
Common Council rejected the propo-
sal Of the Gas Company, because it
would give q franchise beyond their
term of office. There Is no doubt, in
fact, we have been informed by several
Councilmen that had the time been
one year instead of five it would have
acceptedit. Six dollars is a high price;
there Is no doubt of this. But the city
ought to be lighted even at this price,
II it cannot be done cheaper. But it
would seem inexpedient to contract
for a long time, just at present.
There is talk, and it is somewhat prob
able that company to furnish gaso-
line lights will soon make proposal
to the Common Council to light the
city. If a previous term contract be
made, the Council will not be at lib
erty to accept this. 1t is said that this
gasoline gas will only cost So so per





thousand feet.
The Council would in al. probability
agree to put the lamps in order and
pay six dollars per thousand if con-
tract could be obtained with but
years time. 5sa


Below we give the text Of the pro-
posed contract. People can form their
own Judgment of the expediency of
adopting it:


Los ANGELES, Nov. 6, 1873.


To the Honorable, the Mayor, and
Common Council of Los Angeles City,
Gentlemen:-The undersigned, on be-
half of the Los Angeles Gas Company,
hereby proposes to your honorable
body, through your committee:


To light with gas the city street
lamps, to the number of sixty (60) OF
more, and to keep the same in repair,
and to clean, light and extinguish the
same, In conformity with the rules
now in use in the city of San Francis
co, for and in consideration of the sum
Of six dollars (S6) per month for each
and every lamp so lighted, payable in
scrip issued upon the gas fund of the
city, in payment for gas consumed in
each lamp per month. The contract
for lighting the said street lamps to
extend for the period Of five (5) years
from the date of its execution, pay
ment to be made ON the first day of
each and every month, or at the first
meeting of the Council thereafter.


Provided, That the city shall levy
the full amount of the tax authorized
by law for lighting the streets with
gas, viz: one-fourth Of one per cent.
4 Of per cent, in the next tax levy
tc- l074-5. w. II. PERRY,


President.
Year: 1873

it comes from an official source that negotia.
tions are still in progress, but the affairs are
in such condition that not even an intima-
ton can be given Of their character. There
is reason for saying with certainty that the
ment of the difficulty as it was several days
ago. There were grounds for believing the
report that the Spanish Cabinet had agreed
to surrender the Virgnius, which was predi-
Gated mainly on the professions of willing
ness on the part of the CASTELAR, Cabinet to
DO everything compatible with honor in sat-
isfactiOn Of the wishes of the United States,
and also from the friendly assurances OF
Admiral Polo, the Spanish Minister, and his
action in the premises The Government,
yesterday and to-day, was in receipt of dis
patches from Madrid of all elaborate charac-
ter, giving an account of interviews between
Minister Sickles and the Spanish Minister of
Foreign Affairs on points in the controversy,
which are not yet concluded, nor from pres
ent indications is it probable the matter will
soon be terminated by negotiation, although
it is hoped there will be something definite to
lay before Congress on the day the Presi-
dents message shall be transmitted to that
body. AS the negotiations are still pending
there can be no truth in the report, freely
circulated to-day, that Minister Sickles had
left Madrid for Paris. Another report pre-
vailed that the Virginius had been scuttled in
the port of Hayana, but inquiry of officials
here tonight failed to confirm these reports


The President this morning called at the
residence of Secretary Fish, with whom he
had consultation on the pending negotia-
Year: 1873

A writer in the Medical Journal, London.
states that in case of the whooping cough in
the last stage-that is after the third week
he has had one ounce of the strongest liquid
ammonia put into gallon of water in an
open pan, and the steam kept up by means of
half brick made red hot throughout, and
put into the boiling water containing the am.
monia, the pan being placed in the middle of
the room, into which the patients were
brought, as the ammoniated steam was pass
ing off. This method, he says, was used in
the evening, just before bed time, and it
proved so eficacious in abating the spas
modic attack, and after three or four days,
terminating the malady, as to establish, be-.
yond doubt, the great value of this mode OF
inhaling ammonia as therapeutic agent in
tranquilizing the nervous system in the
whoOping cough.
Year: 1873

NEW YORK, April 24.-If the bill to re-
gulate interest and prevent usury, passed by
the Senate yesterday should become the
law, it would still be illegal to take more
than seven per cent interest. The penalty
for taking more is reduced to forfeiture of
the interest, leaving to the lender the prin-
cipsl intact. No person but the borrower
can bring suit for recovery of the excess of
interest, and no suit can be brought unless
commenced within six months after the
time for which money was borrowed has
ov Dirad
Year: 1873

Al the conclusion of Phelps address,
Judge Fullerton addressed the court for the
people principally on the question of malice
and the difference between the statute and
common law on the subject. Tremaine
made the closing argument. The decision
of the court is not expected before May 6.


A Contractor Searching for His
Year: 1873

The PARK-Onr neighbOr OF the -AdveTtissr is
greatly ooneerped about the Park. lIe seems to
differ with the Gazette as to its desirability. and is
ready to saerice something for it. We wish to
see 4 park, but the same time, 1t may be wise 20
wait until the city is better able to make the pur
chase Republican, .ttI. .au.l4-. tt. ?


We hope that the Republican, may prove to be
correct in its ntimatlOn. We are unable TO speak
advisedly on the subject, yet We have heard that
the purchase had been abandoned by the city au-
thoritet, and that therefore, the case, involving
the right of the city to purchase will not be aFSu-
e before the Chancellor as was expected.
Year: 1873

A report comes to us that two Mexican horse thieves from the Gila had been introduced to the Pale Horse and his Rider by three vandaI Californians who were the rightful owners of the stock stolen. What right has anybody to have anything that noble but indigent Mexican may want? Ob- serve the egotism. r.
Year: 1873

Messrs Backer & James are opening out a fine stock of goods in Humboldrs large building on Main street. You will hear from them through the columns of the SENTINEL as soon as they are quite ready for business.
Year: 1873

honor have there home and abiding
place. By the solemn vows we
have taken then, by the faith we
have sealed around common alter.
charge you that you see to it that
our profession shall be continued to
be known and respected by the lives
we live.


Life is before ye-and as now We stand.
Eager to spring upon the promised land,
FAR fsn smiles the way
re can ot-turn then, take ye up the load,
Not yours to tread or leave the unknown way:
Ye must go o'er IL, meet what ye may.
Gird up your souls within you to the deed,
angels and fellow-spirits bid ye speed.
What though the brightness wane, the pleasures


fade,


The glory dim. oh, not of these are made
The awful life that to your trust is given,
Children of God, inheritors of Heaven.


Let that life be so spent in view of
that which is to come, that when we
are called to the silent chamber of
death, we may be welcomed in that
eternal world among the redeemed
of earth, with "Well done thou good
and faithful servant" Then shall
our ideal have been fully realized,
mans highest hope attained.
Year: 1873

Faaewell, ma n'ie, since part we must,


And each from each must severi
How hard the word how long the pain


To part-and forever
'Twere bootless now to question why,


Or fan the dying ember-
Enough The wrathful moons have changed
Our May to sad December.
Farewell, ma ME, since part we must,


Wen part in quiet fashion;
For us no foolish tears, you know,


For us no foolish passion.
You sometimes wished that you had died


Ere you had ever met me
The future years are all your own,


Wherein to quite forget me.
We drained loves goblet to the dregs,


With neither rhyme nor reason,
And shamed the fervor of the days


Through all summers season.
We drank the cup of passion dry


Through lips our spirits blending;
How strange that that should cease to be
Which once we thought unending.
saw you first in early spring


just tipped with green the heather;
The robin piped upon the tree,


All Nature came together.
The light of love was in our eyes,


And you were happy hearted
The brown leaves lie beneath us now,
And we, ma mte, are parted
But why should love like yours survive
The fading of the pansy?
An April blossom of the heart,


Twas but summers fancy;
And if the thought of it should chance
To cross my mind hereafter,
How like an April day twill seem
thing of tears and laughter.
But back, ma zsie, you'll sometimes turn,
Your thoughtful vigils keeping,
To early days where, early slain,


Our buried love lies sleeping.
And happy, then, you'll learn to feel,
When Mem'ry stirs the ember.
How sad the heart which would forget,
But must the past remember!
Year: 1873

The West Union Gazette is sound
on the political poultry question
saying: "Republioan rossters must
have been used up for chicken pie,
as they are not as numerous this fall
as usual. The old birds had worn
out their voices, any way, but by
another fall new lot of young and
vigorous chandeliers will be able to
sound their clarion notes over sub
stantial victories"
Year: 1873

ever require, in your behalf. 1t is,
then, your Order as much as ours :
and as the Crusader of olden time
then threw down his gage in behalf
of beauty and innocence, and met
the shock of mortal combat in the
presence of her for whom he waged
the warfare, stimulated and encour.
aged by her smiles, so we, modern
Templars, ask of you your approx.
ing presence and commendations OF
an Order founded upon the Christian
religion and the practice of the
Christian virtues.


Sir Knights, our ideal is of true
excellence and great merit. That we
do not more nearly attain it is not the
fault of our teachings, but of our.
selves individually. Whatever NAV
be our theoretical belief in our creed
30 to speak, it is our practices that
will be and are the more carefully
enquired after. 1t is as true with us
as with any other society, that by
our fruits we shall be known.


Where great moral and sublime
doctrines are proclaimed much may
rightfully be expected, yes, demand.
ed, of its adherents. low nearly,
then, do We each one of us come up
to our standard. This is of impor-
tance, not only to US personally, but
as an organization. Personally, as
it affects our individual welfare, for
the more nearly we square our acts
to the requirements of Temple Ma
sonry, the more nearly we shall live
correct and exemplary lives. AS an
organization that we may not tarnish
its good name, or bring disgrace
through our unworthiness upon SO
fair and beautiful an edifoe as has
been erected by the fathers of the
Order. The promise for the future
is of a golden harvest. The bright
rays of the midday sun of prosperity
are even now reflected from our ban.
ners, and the fash of Templar's
sword is q guarantee that truth and
Year: 1873

Let II stand by the fireplace daughter,


In the nook where 1t always has stood,
Do not send It away to the garrett


should miss II so much If you should,
Just wait till mine can go with it


II will not be many a day;
It.may be I'm simple and childish,


But daughter, don't send 1t away.
Iknow it is queer and old fashioned,


And its cushions are faded and worn,
And beside your nice sofa and carpet q
It looks rather old and forlorn; 81
But it's stood in that very same corner


For many and many year,
And mother has sat SO much in it,


sometimes still think she is here.
And sometimes can just see her sitting


With her Bible and specs in her lap,
Or her knitting work dropped from her fingers,
And she leaning back for nap;
OF course II is only my fancy,


For mothers in heaven l know,
And Il will not be long till Ijoin her va
I'm ready and willing to GO. ~ -
You have always been kind to MS, daughter,
Since Benjamin brought you to town,
And you are not used to old people,


You have never given US . frown, g
You have always been cheerful and plcasaqf
And we never have felt in the way;
And now you will humor as, daughter, :,
And let the old rocking chair stay!
Year: 1873

A LEXINGTON dispatch to the Louisville
Courier journal say the epizootic is re-
ported to have appeared in some of the up
per counties of Kentucky, though in amuch
milder form than last year.
Year: 1873

ago. The family believed that he unmarried. On
the following morning young lady employed in the
Treasury Department. known as Miss Oer On hearing
tho announcement OF his death read from newspaper,
tainted and 1t made known that the deceased
was her husband In October, the will of Aulick, made
in Philadelphia In May filed in the Probate Court,
by which he left his property consisting OF ten shares Of
Cincinnati Gas Light Company's stock. worth nearly
$4,000 to his widow. His father filed caveat the
WILL and the Judge ordered that issues be made for trial
at the Circuit Court When the called to-day,
counsel for Commodore Auck sad that consequence of
severe sickness IN 1871. the family believed that the dis
ease had affected the young mans mind The validity Of
the marriage admitted hut in explanation of the
caVea counsel said that the stock received by the
deceased from his father Jan. g. 1864 TO whom he


paper 6pulHtng that he would neither sell dispose Of
said stock during the lifetime Of his father without first
consulting MIN: He was young man who was under a
solemn obligation 10 his father and yet broke that ob


CATION Not being armed with that degree OF evidence
which would warrant his going 10 jury with proba-
bty of success, they unwilling that the fraties of
this young man should be dragged from their dread
abode He would further state, that after cOnierring
with the family. they Cheeruy agreed not to further


nterpose objections to the probate OF the WILL The jury
returned verdict that the estatOr OF sound mind
at the time making the wll and that IL not pro-
cured by fraud. artifce, or undue influence.
Year: 1873

AN INDIANS REVENGE Richmond
county (Wisconsin) Independent tells a curl.
GUS story, which it asserts as fact, to the fol-
lowing effect: An Indian trapper and hunter
has been operating in one Of the northern
towns of that county, and near his camp lived
a farmer. The Indian had box filled with
rattle.snakes, covered over with glass; Last
August, the Indian came to the farmers house
one day intoxicated, and asked the farmer to
give him certain sheep that he was prepar-
ing for exhibition at the county fair, saying
that he was hungry. This the farmer refused,
but offered him hen if be would shoot it.
The Indian thereupon declared he would
have the sheep, and fired at it, but missed it.
The farmer then set his dog on the Indian and
drove him away. A few nights since, the
farmer was awakened from his sleep by some
thing cold crawling over him, and, selling the
object, he hurled it across the room. He was
Mortified to hear the noise of rattles in every
direction. Telling his wife to lie quiet for
her life, he raised up and turned up the light,
when he saw large rattle-snake coiled up at
the foot of the bed, ready for spring Seiz-
ing his revolver, he fired and shot off its head.
The noise of the pistol aroused the hired man,
who hastened to the room, and before reach
ing it, (the door was open,) killed two rattle
snakes. Two more were killed in the bed
room, making five in all. At the foot of the
bed was the Indians box. 1t is supposed
that he entered the open window and emptied
the snakes out on the bed.
Year: 1873

A Mr.. Peck had long entertained the
idea that he could invent a self-acting
sewing-machine, and he did. He pro
cured a steel ribbon spring about twenty
feet long, and of sufficient power to run
a horse-car. This he rugged on his
wife's sewing machine with a lot of
cIockwork. and it appeared to him,
when he finished the job that evening,
that he had realized his hopes. If any
sewing-machine ever would go that one
would, so he wound it up ready for use
in the morning, and went to bed. At
At four o'clock Mrs. Peck aroused him
and told him to listen to the burglars in
the house. He listened and heard a
most terrific racket in the sitting-rOOm.
1t appeared to him that there must be a
million burglars refreshing themselves
with a prize-fght. So he loaded his
gun, crept softly over, and peeped
through a crack in the door. 1t was not
barglars, it was Mrs. Peck's sewing
machine. The peg had slipped out and
that spring was having full play. It
would rear the machine up on one end
and charge it three or four times like a
battering-ram against the glass front of
the bookcase then it would wheel
around and suddenly tear across the
room, and butt up against the mantel-
piece, and it would lie down and roll
over the floor, and hammer the sofa,
tear up the carpet, and boost the center
table and try and jam a hole through
the wall, and then endeavor to leap up
on the chandelier Then as Peck en-
tered the room, it few at him, and tore
in and out between his legs, the wheel
revolving like lightning all the time,
and the spring gradually Unwinding


And then Peck retreated and the family
all got up and got a mattress of the
bed, with which they covered the ma
chine, and sat on 1t for a while, but
finally pushed it out of the window into
the yard, where Peck piled boxes and
ash barrels and slOp-buckets and fence
pailings and wagon-wheels on to it to
keep it still. But all night under the
heap it kept up a continual buzz and
snort and hum, so that one of Mr.. Bird
sails boarders fired at it sixteen times
with the impression that it was cats.
Peck has presented his better half with
a new sewing-machine, and he IS salts
fed for her to run it with her feet. he
Is taking a short vacation IN the study
of mechanics at present.-NcoOs.
Year: 1873

Heinrich Heine thus wittily cata-
Iogues and describes the charms of the


Paris woman am their greatest ador-
er. admiring them far more because of
their faults than their virtues. I know


of nothing more fully appropriate than
the old legend which tells US that the
women of Paris are at their birth en-
dowed with every imaginable fault, but
that a friendly fairy, taking mercy on
them, lends them to every fault a spell
which converts it into a new charm.
And this friendly fairy is Grace itself.
Are the Parishian women beautiful
Who knows? Who can penetrate
through all the artifices of the toilet
Who can decipher whether that which
tulle suggests be real, or that which