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Year: 1875

1t is a fashion to say that Christmas has
usurped the place of Thanksgiving in the
popular regard; that the Christmas tree has
crowded the turkey out of notice; that the
last festival of the year is also the greatest.
Many excellent articles have been written
upon this presumed change in taste and man
ners, and much philosophizing done there
upon. The rhetoric and the philosophy are
both good, and the only possible objection to
them, trifing in these cases it must be con-
fessed, is that they have no basis in fact


Christmas has not crowded Thanksgiving out
of favor. 1t is true that the growing taste
for church festivals, the greater regard paid
to the holy days of the church calendar, and
the constantly deepening admiration for the
beautiful myth Of the Christ Child have
brought the last days of December into great
er prominence among our holidays. 1t is
true also that Thanksgiving has lost its dis
tinctively religious character. But it occu-
pies high and peculiar place of its own,
upon which no other festival can from the
nature of the case intrude.


Thanksgiving is pre-eminently the home
festival, the feast of the hearthstone, the
one day in all the year when the widely scat
tered members of the family circle gather at
the old home and about the family gods. In
other lands it could scarcely reach The i'm.


portance it has attained in this country
Elsewhere the family associations are seldom
so efectually sundered as here. Father,
children and grandchildren not unfrequently
find their homes under the same roof, or


dwell not far apart, and the patriarchal char


acter of the relationship is maintained. Here


families are early broken up, members scat


tered from Maine to Oregon. Sons rarely re-


visit the old homestead. Brothers and sis
ters grow to be strangers. The faces of the
old people are unfamiliar to the grandchil-
dren. Cousins do not know each other by
sight. But the great New England festival,
now grown to be national, unites them all
once year, gathers them at the old home
rich with its memories, preserves the love for
and place in the circle about the family
hearthstone. A day of reunions was sadly
needed, and the Puritan Thanksgiving has
in accordance with well-understood laws of
development shaped itself to the need. 1t
is essentially an American holiday, and
would be wholly out of place elsewhere. So
generally has its value in this respect been
felt that its observance has spread far be-
yond the bounds of New England, and is
now limited only by the limits of the coun-
try.
Year: 1875

"DUKE' GwrNN, who was resurrected the
other day somewhere out in California, and
it was announced had reappeared among
men inspired with fervid missionary zeal in
behalf of honest currency, which inspired
him to set out for Washington to labor with
the Southern Congressman in that behalf, is
indeed coming, and is filled with missionary
spirit. But it inspires him not in behalf of
honest money, but as chief of the lobbyists
for the Central Pacific monopoly, and yet
may do some good in aiding to kill off the
Southern Pacific subsidy scheme,
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1875

THE latest from Louisiana is to the effect
that the Legislature at the ensuing session
will MOI disturb the Wheeler compromise,
which is satisfactory to all parties, but will at
tempt indirectly to revive the Louisiana mud
die by an elaborate investigation to establish
that West was fraudulently elected to the
United States Senate,
Year: 1875

ABOUT this time the papers abound in
warnings against over-eating, fault SUP
posed to be common on thanksgiving. Doubt
less the people do make great havoc with the
courses on the dining table; but it is too bad
that man cannot be permitted to over-eat
himself once year without being lectured
for it.
Year: 1875

We are every day more and more con-
vinced that fighting grasshoppers can be
made a success. Mr.. R. D. Hubbard
put in last spring nearly 800. acres Of
wheat and other small grain on his farm
in the worst infested part Of Garden City.
lie spent about five hundred dollars in
fighting the 'hoppers. He estimates that
he has now about $4,000 worth of crops
ready to harvest.


In the town of South Bend. farmer
had so acres of wheat, and the pests
Matched out all through it and around it.
He gave it up for lost. Not so his wife.
She bought four sheets, sewed them into
sacks and told her husband to rig them
onto the one horse wagon. He did so;
then she left girl in the, house to do
the work, hitched her own horse, which
was gift from her father, to the wagon
and drove him on brisk trot back and
forth across the grain. She caught all
the hoppers off the wheat and then
caught them off the prairie adjoining it.
All she asked Of her husband was to bury
them as fast as she caught them and
emptied them into sacks. She saved the
wheat and it is now ready for the reaper.
The pluck shown by this lady would have
enabled thousands of farmers to save
their crops. We are more than ever sat-
isfied that fighting grasshoppers can be
| ,nada a success. .It,!!!* I,:'..."
Year: 1875

his first born child before he was five
years of age. He being astonished,
changed his family diet to the use of
whole grains in connection with the
usual meat and vegetable diet, and
the next child had no appearance of
diseased teeth up to the same age.
How common it is to see infants not
cutting teeth at all until they are
twice as old as they should be, or see
their teeth begin to decay before they
are scarcely old enough to wean.


Some interesting facts viii be in
place here relative to recent examina-
tions of different primary schools in
the land by a reliable dentist, the re-
suits of which are as follows: In the
examination of 2TS children teeth in
various primary schools, 213 were
found to have deeayed teeth, and only
65 in which these organs were not de-
cayed. And there is no doubt but
similar results could be ascertained
in the schools of Gallipolis and vi
cinity. When Lycurgus, the great
lawgiver of ancient Sparta had the
lords and potentates of other prov
inces invited to his great banquet, he
in common with the others surround
ed the princely table bountifully
spread with boiled wheat, and on
finding no changes were to be made
many of his lordly guests indignant
ly complained, as it was not thought
suitable for such dignitaries. When
they were politely informed by the
master himself that, "Spartans eat
to live, but did not live to eat Would
it not be wisdom for our modern civ
ilizatiOn to benefit by such wise ex-
amples?
Year: 1875

Getting up in cold room to make
fireis getting up in life. If you
crawl timidly out of bed, go ON tip
toe to the stove, and allow the shiv-
ars to get control of you before the
kiudling starts, your fire will proba-
bly, be a failure, and you will half
freeze to death in the operation. But
if you jump out bravely, hustle
around, pull on your clothes, knock
over a chair or two, and pitch in the
stove-wood, you will probably be too
warm by the time the fire gets to
burning and have to open a window.
So IN life. Attack it timidly and
you will fail. Grapple with it, hurry
up things, stir around, conquer for
tune, and you will be success,
Year: 1875

stand on Memory's golden shore,
And muse and dream, this Autumn night,
Recalling forms that nevermore
Shall bless on earth my weary sight.


reach in vain to grasp the hand
That beckons from the farther side


Where CLEANS the shining silver sands,
Where murmurs soft the silver tide.


| stand on Memory's golden shore,
l tread life's weary rounds alone;


The dear departed comes no more,
The all loved of life is gone.


o, thou unloving, dreamy past.
Give back what have given to thee
Flowers that loves tree abortive cast,
Fair hopes that mid thy treasures beam,
Life's tender buds that have kissed
And watered with my tears,


l see not through the gathering mists
OF doubt and vain distrust and fears.
Yet sometimes visions come to bless,
Again with her | seem to stand,


And full of newborn ongings, press
With trembling clasp her gentle hand.
Dear loving spirit. leave me not
To wend these weary shores alone;


Hath not thy heaven for me spot
Full of sweet love and near thine own?
dream, but dreaming is in vain
To resurrect the buried dead,


And waking but Ienews my pain,
With memory of the vision fled


In vain l stand ON Memory's shore,
And plead with tears for what is gone.
The holy past returns no more;
| walk the shores of life alone.
Year: 1875

How SHE Cor IT.-She was crossing
the street. Dressed in the hight of fash
ion, with skirt drawn tightly about her
form, it was with some difficulty that she
could move her limbs sufficiently to walk.


When at about the middle of the cross
walk, she dropped well-flled wallet out
Of her hand. Then the trouble began in
earnest. She stopped over IN front to pick
it up, but her fingers could not reach the
wallet by at least eight inches. She
changed her parasol into her right hand,
and tried to reach sideways for the wallet


1t was no go, however, for her fingers
did not reach anywhere near the coveted
article. Then she tried to get down on
her knees, but she might as well endeavor
to pick up drop of water with her ear.
She reached backward, but her hand only
extended downward on level with her
hips. She appeared to be much embar-
rassed. We could almost hear her regret
that she had not her "stoop.over" dress
on. What could she do? No ore seemed
10 be passing at the moment who could
assist her. All thought struck her
suddenly. Quickly turning her parasol
with the top to the ground, she glided a
pretty little foot from beneath the snow.
white skirts, and with gentle kick the
wallet lay in the concave parachute. The
fair owner quickly drew up the parasol,
and recovered the wallet, when she i'm
mediately tripped off with the grace and
agility of II boy trying to skate with II
meal sack tied about his lower extremites.
Year: 1875

A VERY tall and shabby looking man,
fellow that reminded you of vagrant
letter from font OF forty-line paragon
extra condensed, stepped up to one of our
bars last week, and after having n glass
Of liquor into his cold throat, blandly
asked the bartender if he could change IL
$40 bill. The gentleman informed him
that he could. " Well, said the tall one,
with a sigh of satisfaction, "I'll go out
and see if can find one" aud be plunged
out into the cold world on his mission.-
Louisville Courier.
Year: 1875

A NARROWING TALE.--It was on
Fourth street, near the Post Office that it
happened, and the particulars would, if
written down, read about ms follows
The man whose duty it was to blow cut
the water mains had just been letting Il
stream of muddy water out of the fire
plug, and it became necessary for pedes-
trians to step over the muddy place to
get to the Post Office. She came along
up X and was about to cross over, when
her keen eye foresaw chat forty weight
inches was too big leap for woman
dressed in the hight of fashion. The San
Francisco train was in, and she knew in
stnctively that there was letter from
Charles Augustus awaiting her at the
window. She stepped back few feet,
and then tried how far she could step
without coming against the rope, COM
pared the distance To be bridged, sub
traeted the one from other, and found
she lacked just twelve inches. What to
do she didn't know and to make matters
worse several young men stood watching
her and evidently understood the situa-
tion. Something must be done and that
quickly. She remembered the auburn
hair OF Augustus, his ripping laugh and
velvet eyes, and that decided her. Love
was the conqueror. Backing up few
yards, she took a run and leap, rising
with both feet close together, and lighting
in the same position, just as robin hops
after crumbs. A smile wreathed her face
and the look she gave to the admiring
crowd who had been watching her, was
equivalent to the application of II puerile
nose to a Juvenile thumb and fingers


Record Union.
Year: 1875

The economy Of keeping . few sheep
on every farm devoted to mixed hus-
bandry, is apparent to any one giving
the subject careful consideration. As
scavengers they will, on many farms.
pay handsome interest on their first
cost-not taking into account their
yield Of fleece and lambs. Much Of the
straw and stalks about the barn yard,
the growth in the fence corners and
other out-of-the-way places, will be
kept clean and slightly by few sheep,
with very little trouble and no expense
to their owners.


Ar regards vegetation, the sheep
may be said to be omnivorous-the
goat is it's only peer-and very few Of
the most troublesome weeds and gras-
ses can long Withstand its short and
persistent clipping In clearing out
and subduing timber pastures they are
invaluable. II turned in when the
young shoots are still succulent, moth
ing within their reach will escape
them. They can be turned into the
stubble6eld after harvest, and not only
thus save every stray head Of grain,
but leave the field clear Of weeds and
in the best possible condition for the
plow With equally good results they
can be herded through field Of stand
ing corn after the growth Of grass and
weeds is we'll under way. This is es-
pecially advantageous where the very
common course is pursued Of sowing
wheat in standing corn. True, now
and then broken or bent stalk falls
prey, but then the advantages Of air
and sunlight to the too long shaded
ground, will be found to compensate
many fold for these light losses In
short. sheep cannot be omitted from
the farm economy without loss to the
farmer who thus overlooks their merits.





A BoY's DESCRIPTION or CATTLE
SHow.-A cattle show and fair is where
they trot horses. They sell pools out
side Of the ring. It is wicked to play
cards for pools. Pools at the cattle
show encourage the honest farmer,
and develop that noble animal, the
borse" | read the last part Of that in
the paper. The honest farmer has a
red face and wears white hat. He
smokes and swears. The best way to
develop horse is to hire the driver on
the other side to let yours beat. A
driver that can scream and scare the
other horses is bully If he can smash
another fellows wheel, and not tip over
his own sulky, he gets the first prize.
The place to do this is on the home
stretch. The home-streteh is next the
Judges stand The Judges don't stand
all the time-I saw one judge sit down
and sauint at the horses through the
bottom OF tumbler. When | grow
no. / mean to study law and be a judge,
INIT don't want to be tumbler.
Year: 1875

From the american Farmer.l


Sow1NG CLovERsEED The plan Of
sowing cloverseed on the snow, when
there is any on the grain fields this
month, is one which has many advan-
tages. The seeds can be distributed
very regularly, and the snow melting
carries them down into the crevices Of
the soil, where they are ready to ger
inmate. If not so sown, it is prefer
able to wait until the frost is out Of the
ground and lightly harrow them in,
and roll. On most soils bushel Of
seed is sufficient to SOW five acres. In
the South fall sowing is believed to be
preferable. A good article from q
practical hand was given in last months
Farmer on getting set Of clover,
which it will be worth while to again
refer to. The value Of clover as for
age plant and as a fertilizer begins to
be more and more appreciated, and en-
terprising farmers all through the
South, in sections where it was for
merly supposed it would not flourish.
are giving practical demonstration to
the contrary.


PASTURES. the ground does
not poach when team goes on it, az
often is the case for day or SO at this
time Of the year, it affords q good cp-
portunity for applying to grass lands 2
renovating mixture Of say one hundred
pounds fine bone dust, four or five
bushels Of ashes. enc Of plaster and one
Of salt to the acre. When practicable
it will be well to harrow the ground
first, then SOW this mixture and roll.
Cloverseed may be sown, if desired,
when the ground is narrowed.


SowING Oars. 1t is not too early to
begin to think about and prepare for
this crop, which is generally regarded
as rather an Improbable oss, probably
from the fact that an insufficient amount
Of care is given it, It is crop which
will not grow on poor land without con-
siderable fertilizing material is added.
Meagre supplies Of manure and hasty
preparation Of the ground is the key to
the production Of the poor crops 50
often gathered.


The late Robert Sinclair, Jr., Of this
city. very close observer, was a great
advocate Of sowing oats in February
upon the snow, as practiced in sowing
cloverseed. His plan was to SOW on
land plowed the previous fall, and,
after the plants had grown sufficiently,
to harrow the land and roll. The uni
form result, be claimed. was heavier
crops, both in grain and straw, and
much earlier maturity than from seed
sown in April. on similar ground no
better prepared.


It is prudent to make frequent
changes Of seed with this crop, as
it rapidly deteriorates. Twenty-Five
horse. cart loads Of manure, or well rot
ted compost; 800 pounds Of good super
phosphate, or 400 pounds Of bone dust,
with, say 10 bushels Of ashes and one
Of salt, ought on most soils to produce
a crop which would prove remunerative.
Year: 1875




endorsement--an open show in order to
obtain public committal to programme
which bad been arranged in private
council. The necessity for this grew
out Of the freedom Of debate and the
growing liberty Of the press. Let those
who tire Of the reports Of legislative
speeches and proceedings take pote that
the utterances Of legislators have far
wider audience than the immediate
hearers, and that the consequences Of
argument and discussion 60 much fur
ther than the settlement Of the perhaps
unimpcrtant matter immediately in
question.


The opposition in Parliament de-
nounced the address as declaration
Of war" And the diplomatic residents
in England, notably the French, ap-
pretended the possible consequences
much more truly than the British Min
istry did. Perhaps it is not too much
to say that the French Cabinet saw
almost clearly the loss to Great Britain
Of her American colonies. The recep-
ton of the address to the King was fol-
lowed by message from the throne
asking the increase Of forces necessary
to redeem the royal pledge to "enforce
obedience. Various measures. which
will come under consideration farther
on, we're introduced and debated. As
Year: 1875

No less than seven amendments of our State constitution were proposed last year. The first forbids town subscriptions to railroads, restriction that does not strike us as wise. Occasionally such subscrip- is jnstifiable and necessary. The power cueht, however, to be so limited as to at least secure. the assent of those who pay 0 majority of the taxes.

 The second amendment proposes to postpone the time of our elections till fall; and of our legislative sessions till winter, Half of the Senate, only, is to be elected, each year. This is all very we'll as far as it goes; but biennial elections and legis- latlve sessions would, we imagine, be a greater improvement still. Nevertheless, the present arrangement which throws our election into season when residences are changing, when the weather is uncertain, and when there is political rest through out the remainder of the Union, and which brings our legislature of farmers together at the very season when farmers are bus jest. is so very objectionable that we hope this amendment will pass.

 The fourth and fifth proposed amend ments give the legislature power to restore forfeited rights and increase the official terms of the Judges of Probate and other minor judges to six years. -..-

 The sixth and seventh proposed amend ments are for an increase in the number of Senator's. This is reform that is much needed. The present Senate is too small a body for debate, and too large for mere legislative council.

 Our only objection to the passage of these amendments is that they are Reform in fragments, whereas we need a thorough revision of our whole Constitution. either by Commission or Convention.
Year: 1875

The Lives Insured by the Society are carefully
selected in different parts of North America and
Europe, furnishing by this broad field of opera
tons, an additional and exceptional safety to the
Policy holders. The assurances are made only on
the Mutual Principle. The Surplus Premiums are
returned annually TO the Insured.
Year: 1875

In the Council OIL Tuesday night,
Mr.. Leahy moved to declare the char
ter of the San Pedro street railway
forfeited, and the Council under his
leadership voted unquestioningly with
him. The vote seemed to be against
a suppositious prismoidal railway,
though 1t is really blow against the
comfort of the people who would be
accommodated by the road. The peo-
pie care nothing about the manner of
their railroad, but they do want rapid
and convenient transit, and one rail
will do, SO it Is not fence rail. The
prospect of having about fifteen miles
Of prismoidal railway was flattering
until the Council made this insane
war on the system. The prospect of
the employment of a vast number of
men seems to be no argument with
these gentlemen. The enhanced value
of real estate i'm the suburbs is over
looked and they are engaged in max
ing Quixotic war on prismoidal
windmill while their constituents
walk home instead of having this
.democra tic conveyance.
Year: 1875

To THE CITY FATHERS; Know We
that we have one of the finest fish
ponds that could be imagined, and it
must be alive with fish, so much so
that when people irrigate from the
ditch Of the Canal and Reservoir Com
pany numbers of fine, fat, beautiful
trout swim down and strand them.
selves in the fields. Only yesterday
saw a boy with a string of fish that
would makea frying-pan laugh-trout
from to 8 inches long that he had
fished out Of small pool in one of the
irrigating bitches. Now II you vener-
able fathers would order screen put
over the mouth OF the tunnel that con-
ducts the water from the reservoir, you
would save the lives of many fishes
and make glad the hearts of future
fishermen, KING FISHER.
Year: 1875

Now Is your timei No such chance again In
one hundred yearsi The Bazaar is selling out
their entire stock of Dry Goods 25 per cent.
below cost, as they intend giving up their dry
z ssi~ business and keep only Gents Furnish
ing ioods. This Is no bogus sale, but q genu-
Inc selling out OF our entire stock of Dry
Cry Goods, as you will find out by calling at
the Bazaar, corner of Main and Requena
streets, opposite the Z. s. Hotel. jel7
Year: 1875

From the Walla-W ana oCaIesliiah'J


A few days since Mr.. Messenger,
of this county, was up on Snake
river, with a team, accompanied by
his dog. He was driving along leis-
Iurely, when all of a sudden bald
eagle swooped down and grasping the
dog by the small of the back attempt
ed to fly away with him. The dog
was too heavy and the eagle missed
his prize, although 10th to give it up.
In the mean time Mr.. Messenger got
his gun, and by well-directed shot
brought down the monarch Of the
skies, who proved to be a monster
bird. The eagle was brought into
town and found to measure over
seven feet from tip to tip OF MS
wings. He is what is known as the
black variety, and by all o Ids the
largest eagle ever seen in this sec
tion of the country.
Year: 1875

A CENTENNIAL GREETING.


In submitting my seventh annual
message to Congress, in this Centen-
NAL year of our National existence
as free and independent people, it af-
fords me great pleasure to recur to
the advancement that has been made
from the time Of the colonies, one
hundred years ago.
Year: 1875

"IF," said New England preacher,
pausing suddenly in his sermon, "the
youth who has just thrown that egg
in at the window will wait till service
is over. he will learn what christian
minister can do for the salvation of
his soul"