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Year: 1870

At meeting of the stockholders of n
prominent railway corporation, recently
held in this city, were present two gentle
men, both well up in years, one, however.
considerably the senior of the other. In
talking of old times gone by, the youngest
gentleman called the attention Of his
friends and told pleasant little story
which should be read with profit by every
poor. industrious and striving lad. We
use his own language Nearly half q
century ago, gentlemen, was put upon
the world to make my living. was stout,
willing and able. considering my then ten
der years, and secured place in hard
ware store to do all kinds Of chores re-
quired. I was paid seventy-fvc dollars u
year for my .boyish services. One day.
after had been ut work three months Or
more, my friend there. Mr.. b., who holds
his age remarkably wei, ,came into the store
and bought a large bill Of shovels and tongs
sadirons and pans, buckets, scrapers and
scuttles, for he was to bo married next
day. and was supplying his household in
advance, rs was the groom's custom In
those day. The articles were packed on
the barrow and made load sufficiently
heavy for young mule. But moro will
ING than able, started of. proud that I
could move such mass on the wheel.bar-
row. 60. on remarkably we'll till l
struck the mud road.now Seventh avenue.
leading to my friend BIS house. There l
toiled and tugged aud toiled, but could
not bulge the load up the hill. tho wheel
going its full half diameter In the mud
every time I would propel II forward. FL
nally, good natured Irishman passing by
with dray took my barrow, self and NIL
on his vehicle, and In consideration of my
promise to pay him a 'hit' landed mo Mt
my destination. / counted the articles
carefully as I delivered them, and with
my empty barrow trudged my way back,
whistling with glec over my triumph over
difficulty. Some weeks after paid the
Irishman the bit and never got 1t back
from my employers. (Mr. b., l am sure
would have ronumerated me, but he new
or before heard this story, so If ho Is in
clined he can compromise the debt by
sending me bushel of his rnrcripe peach
es next f,ll) But to the moral. A mcr-
chant here had witnessed my struggles,
and how zealously l labored to deliver tho
load of hardware he oven watched mo
to tho house and saw me count each piece
rs handed II in the doorway. He sent


for me next day, asked my name, and told
mo he had arcward for my industry and
chcurfulncss under difficulty, In the shape
of a five hundred dollar clerkship in his
extensive establishment. accepted and
now, after nearly half q century. look
back and say wheeled myself into all l
own. for that reward of perseverance was
my grand stopping stone to fortune


The speaker was very wealthy bank
CT man or influence and position, and
one universally respected for many good
qualities of head and heart. Boys, take .
moral from this little story and be willing
and Industrious. You do not know how
many eyes are upon you to discover
whether you arc sluggish and careless, or
Industrious and willing, or how many
there are. who. IL you are moral and
worthy. will give you n stopping stone to
wealth and position.-httsbury Gazette.
Year: 1870

Miton's blindness was the result of over
work and dyspepsia. One of the most en-
nent American dieines, having for some
time been compelled to forego the pleas
ure of reading, spent thousands of dollars
in value, and lost years OF time, in conse-
quence OF getting up several hours before
day and studying by artificial light. His
eyes never got well.


Multitudes of men and women have
made their eyes weak for life by the too
free use of the eyesight, reading small
print and doing fine sewing. In view of
these things it is well to observe the fol-
lowing rules in the use of the eyes:


Avoid all sudden changes between light
and darkness.


Never read by twilight, or moonlight.
or on very cloudy day.


Never sleep so that on waking, the eyes
shall open on the light of Il window.


Do not use the eyesight by light SO scant
that it requires an effort to discriminate


Neverread or sew directly in front of
the light, or window or door.


1t is best to have the light fall from
above, obliquely over the lett shoulder.


Too much light creates a glare and
pains, and contuses the sight. The mo-
ment you are sensible of an effort to dis
tinguish, that moment ceases, and talk,
walk, or ride.


As the sky is blue and the earth green,
it would seem that the ceiling should be a
a blush tinge, the carpet green. and the
walls of some mellow tinge.


The moment you are instinctively pro-
NOTED to rub the eyes, that moment case
using them.


If the eyelids are glued together on
waking up, do not forcibly open them.
but apply the saliva with the finger-it is
the speedicst diulent in the world-and
then wash your eyes and face in warm
Year: 1870

There are two things that always pay.
even in this not oyer-remunerative exist
ence They are working and waiting.
Either is useless without the other. Both
united are evincible. and inevitably trium-
phant. He who waits without working is
simply man yielding to sloth and des-
pair lie who works without waiting Is
iitiul in his striyings, and misses results
by impatience. He who works steadily
and waits patiently may have a long jour-
ney before him, but at its close he will find
its reward.
Year: 1870

Fill the boiler with soft Water to within about
three inches of the top of the inside boiler. Slice
up one pound bar of good hard soap.


Bring the water to boil, and then place the
clothes in the bot water. The water will imme-
diately pour over the shell all around, and if it
boils over raise the lid.


Keep up hvt fire for twenty minutes. Then
take the clothes out and Immediately SUDS them
through in soft water. If any shade of the dirt
remains. few rubs will take it all out. Then
rinse them in clean water, wiring dry, and the wash
ing is done. Give particular heed to the following
SUGGESTIONS.


The clothes need not be wet before placing them
in the Boiler. 1t is of vital importance to THOR
OUGHLY SUDS the clothing after boiling. Every
lady knows that the least particle of suds left in
the clothes to dry will cause the clothes to look
yellow. A brisk fire is important in order to Pro-
duce rapid boiling. Time may be saved by stirring
or turning the clothes occasionally while boiling.
The should not be removed, except when
necessary, IN order to insure quick work. If the
washing be large one, the clothes should be as
sorted as dirty shirts, for instance, will require
double the time of sheets, pillow cases, ,~napkins,
&c.


Articles much soiled may be left in for a second
boiling. White fannels may be beautiful washed
without FULLING) by this process. They
should be put in when the water is hot, and rnsed
out in hot water.


Colored clothes should not be mixed with white,
and unless the colors are fast they should never be
washed by this process. The most delicate laces,
cambrics, de-, such as would nearly fall to pieces
if washed in the ordinary way, may be was he'd per-
fectly, without injury, by this process The almost
absolute necessity of using soft. or "broken,"
water, is so well understood, as to hardly need
mention here.


No machine ever invented will entirely remove
the streaks from dirty wristbands and Collars
This Self washing Boiler more nearly does it than
any other device. Should shade or streak remain
it i'll be found to be so reduced and softened as to
disappear without the of wash-board, by
merely rubbing them with the hands, thus avoiding
all the wear and tear of clothing by washing. 1t
has been carefully estimated that clothing receives
more than ONE-HALF ITS WEAR by the old
process of RUBBING, and consequently will last
twice long if washed by this new process, which
alone would pay for Boiler many times during
single year. in almost any family, to say nothing
of the important consideration CT saving labor


For any required information call on or address


THOMAS GREENE,


Shasta, Cal.
Shasta, April 2nd, 1879.
Year: 1870

There are but few inventions or discoveries
which produce a complete revolution in any de-
partment of labor. To have supposed, year ago,
that the dirtiest garment could be washed clean,
in twenty or thirty minutes, by boiling alone,
would have been regarded as an indication of in
sanity. But it has been demonstrated beyond any
doubt, that this process not only cleans the clothes,
but that garments thus washed become whittier and
clearer the longer it is used Some people suggest
that clothes will get yellow after awhile. by being
washed in this way but such a surposition has no
foundation in fact, and is contradicted by the ex-
perence of every lady who has adopted this mode
of washing.


Everybody who has tried the machine in Shasta
have expressed themselves highly pleased with
its operations 1t must be seen to be fully appre-
ciated, as its full merits cannot be properly set
forth in an ordinary advertisement


Public and private tests have been given of this
apparatus for the last six months, and more than a
million of people have witnessed its success. Ten
thousand boilers were sold in New York City in less
than i've onths, from one stand, and at this time
the orders reach about one hundred day. Nc
one ever used it directed that did not recommend
it. 1t has been recommended by more than five
thousand persons in less than six months. Among
the names those of the most distinguished cit
izens of the United States but the best recommen-
dation is to take the boiler and use it yourself Do
just you directed and you will be more than
satisfied. 1t appeals to us all matter of econ
omy, and can be shown to be the best kind of an
investment. 1t will return a yearly dividend in
cash of TWO HUNDRED PER CENT. 7on the
money invested. For instance, we will suppose
your white clothing such as bed and table linen
ladies' and gentiemens' wear, and childrens cloth
ing, only cost you $40 year. They will last twice
as long WASHED in this way as by the old method.
Thus, you actually save $50 year by investing 10
or 200 per cent. annually. There is no family
scarcely but spends than here stated but this
ID taken very low average of this branch Of
family expense. Added to this is the great con-
venence and comfort of the thing which, all taken
together, makes it luxury which no. family can
well afford to be without.


This Boiler sells the best of any article offer
ed to the public. Anybody after trying it fairly
will not let it go out of of the house.
Year: 1870

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy, and effectual
for preserving the
hair. Faded or gray
hair as soon restored
to ats original color
'c'h the gloss and
freshness Of youth.


Thin hair is thick
Year: 1870

into them. We were hard lookipg
set of human beings, that night. To
add to it all, our provisions had re-
ceived their share of the flying dust.
We keptthis a secret from the ladies'
for had they seen the preparation of
that supper and its ingredients, few
mouthfulls would they have taken.


During the storm our mules STAN.
peded, and an hoHr or more was spent
in catching and driving them back 10
camp. "All's well that ends we'll"
We got to bed late and tired out We
had no difficulty in sleeping soundly.
One of the ladies lost her hat during
the storm, and the cook in trying to
catch it lost his. -.


June /. Had good nights rest
after yesterdays storm. The morning
is clear, cool and perfectly calm
Breakfasted and broke camp at FIVE
O'Clock and was on the road before six.
Started ahead of the wagons, leaving
them far behind. Saw herd of ante
lopes, not to exceed four hundred yards
distant, but our Nimrods left their guns
in the wagons and thereby missed the
best shot yet offered to them. 1t might
be we'll to add that our sporting men
have not as yet succeeded in bagging
an antelope or buffalo, consequently
our fresh meat has come short of the
promised allowance. The country, to-
day, grows more rolling and more
beautiful-the soil has more apparent
richness to it, while here and there
good grass makes its appearanee-with
trees (scrubby on either side. We
passed, this morning, what is called
'the mounds" There are three of
them, the center one being the largest,
side by side, looking very much as if
they had been cut out of the noun
tains by the hand of man. The noun
taius on either side, with their huge
bluff sides facing the mounds, at the
distance we saw them--about eight
miles, it seemed as if between each
one was pass through the noun
tains. We are gradually approaching
the Rocky Mountains. To-day we
caught sight of the Spanish Peaks, and
the "Snowy Range" where, upon the
summit of the latter is perpetual snow,
plainly visible in the bright sunlight.
, We halted for while at the Iron
Springs. The water is clear as crys-
tai and is impregnated with iron and
sulphur. 1t is considered quite healthy
by people of this section of the coun-
try, but our ladies did not seem to
relish it very well.


In rounding the point Of a hill to-
day, going at the rate of ten miles an
hour on down grade, a valley appeared
to our view, which for beauty and ap-
parent richness of soil exceeded any
thing we have yet beheld since leav-
ing the States. 1t must have been
forty or fifty miles in length and its
greatest width about eight miles,
Here in this valley 1--WE crossed at its
narrowest point, is the best grass We
have yet seen. What a magnificent
farm it would make? Not a house
was to be seen in the whole valley
as far as the eye could reach. From
the high ground here we had full
view of the Greenhorn Mountains,
Spanish Peak and Snowy Range. The
snow-capped summit of the latter fair
ly glistened and sparkled in the bright,
clear sunlight. We are distant from
them at least sixty miles, yet it seems
barely ten miles, the atmosphere is 80
clear.


TContinued nert tCeeE.
Year: 1870

E Talk about your square root
and cube root, but the root OF the nog
at Sparta, Missouri, that rooted up TWO
thousand dollars in gold which ITS own.
er buried and forgot, is the Foousss
root yet rooted.
Year: 1870

The Washington specials to the Gin
cinnati Commercial state that a
prominent and thoroughly informed
Republican Senator told Kentuck-
ian, this evening, the Fifteenth
Amendment would be ratified and
officially promulgated within twenty
days, and advised an immediate or
ganization of the negroes in Lexing-
ton, Kentucky. with view OF a
sweeping Republican triumph in that
city, at the municipal election in
March. Immediately after the pro
mulgation of the amendment, there
will be passed, he believes, an act
providing severe pains and penalties
on all who interfere with or prevent
the exercise of the right OF franchise
Of those upon whom it is conferred
by the Fifteenth Amendment.
Year: 1870

Tn following Is an extract from pri-
vate Letter written by b.Ie ProprietOrs OF
the Plantation sitter:


" We had no conception of the wide
spread suffering when exists, or of the al
most infallibIe cures reduced by the
PLANTATION BITTERS, when we first
commenced Offering them for sale. We
now find that every house has weak
child, an ailing parent, or debtiitated aged
member, who needs this Tonic. Our Lab
oratory has grown from a single room to
an immense building, and our sales from
n few BOTTLES to many hundred cOz n per
day, and we are glad to know that they
have done you so much good"
Year: 1870

Live for some purpose in the world.
Act your part well. Fill up the measure
Of duty to others Conduct yourselves
50 that your presence will be drawn to
the slant land with sorrow.


Multitudes Of our race are living in
such selfish manner that they are not
probable to be remembered after their
disappearance from the world. They
leave behind them scarcely any traces Of
their existence and are forgotten almost
as If they had never been. They are
while they live, like one pebble lying un-
observed among a million on the shore !;
and when they die, they die like that same
pebble thrown into the ocean, which just
raffles the surface, sinks and is forgotten,
without being missed from the beach. =
They are neither regretted by the rich,
wanted by tho poor, nor celebrated by tho
learned.


Who has been batter fot their life
Year: 1870

We have just visited the hatching-house
Of Albert D. Hager in North Chester, in
which we saw what was estimated to be
10000 salmon ova,, which he has recent
ly obtained from the Mirimlchi river in
New Brunswick.


Tho dva were packed in moss and were
two weeks and three days in being trans
ported from the Matching .house in New
Brunswick to North Chester. In conse-
quence Of this long journey and other
mishaps, about twenty per cent. of the
entire lot died on the passage-leaving
between forty and fifty thousand ova now
alive and we'll.


Should good luck attend these ova, it
is thought that about 40, 900 young SAL
mon fry will be sporting in the hatching-
house within two months. It will be quite
a sight, but not equal to what it would be
to s,e half that number of adult salmon
in the rivers of the State.


We understand il is the intention Of
the Commissioners of Fisheries Of this
State to place them in such rivers as are
best suited to the habits of the salmon,
and where the people will aid in the work
by contributing portion of the funds o.
material necessary to build fshways over
the dams, so the salmon can return to the
streams when they have attained their
growth in the sea.


1t is curious but we'll authenticated
fact that every young salmon placed in .
stream will be sure to return to that iden-
tical stream to deposit her ova, and it is
when the adult salmon are on their way
to their spawning beds in the mountain
streams that they are taken.


They get their growth in the sea and
it is said that they never eat anything
from the time that they enter river till
they return to the sea again, after spawn
ing.


Many Of the streams of Vermont were
once filled with salmon, and We only need
fshways and young salmon to secure their
return again to our rivers.--Rutland
Herald.
Year: 1870

All night on the house-tops falling


The soft fakes futtered down,
And the church-bell's voice grew husky,
From the weight Of its frosty crown;
But when the first gleam of daylight
Through darkness began to steal,
He took it down from his forehead,


And shouted gIadseme peal.
But the hosts of the mail-clad storm-king
Had triumphed throughout the night,
And the banners and blades of autumn
Were crushed in the bitter fight;
But when the red glory Of sunrise


Was unfurled in the east again,
There was smoke on the edge of the hilltop,
And a glimmcr of spears on the plain:
And the children, the merry children,


Who saw the lights on the hill,
When teams that were late with their meal


grists
Come toiling up from the mill;
When the winter SHOWS are falling,
And the fire on the hearth is warm,
May they think Of the prayer Of their grand.


dame,


/" For the shelterless lambs in the Storm"
Year: 1870

Behold that small wheel, the only pur.
pose of which is to make a 9 take the
place of when the second thousand
years of the Christian Era shall have
elapsed.


On last New Years night the whole
was illuminated--the interior, also; and
all the aislcs of the church were crowded
with spectators. The interest which was
excited was intense, when, with the twelfth
stroke of the clock, a 10 sprang into the
place place of the SO after the IL. The
man who explained it to all us, a mere la
borer, exclaimed, with much warmth, -
"One would almost suppose that the ma
chine can think. 1t makes one think Of
the blood which circulates through the
veins of the human body"
Year: 1870

"A Dutch church contains picture
of the sacrifice of Isaac, in which Abra-
ham is represented as about to slay his
son with musket. This anachrosism was
equalled in this country some years ago
by a popular magazine in a picture rep
resenting the giving of the law to Moses ;
a neat post-and-rail fence was shown rum
ming along the base of Mount Sinai.
Year: 1870

CHICKEN CHoLERA.-Mr. John Palmer OF
Rappahannock informs US that he has discover
ed a sovereign remedy Tor hen cholera. l1's
recipe is a teaspoon full of gun powder mixed
with halt a Gill oil whiskcy, administered one
teaspoon full at dose night and morning By
pouring it down the throat of the sick fowl
Warenton Ipaer
Year: 1870

Is any change operated on man by a
change in the velocity of his motion round
the axis of the earth? Suppose, for in
stance, dweller in latitude 60 degrees
were to change his residence to the equa-
tor, he would double his velocity For
while at latitude 60 degrees, he travels
round with the earth at the rate of 500
miles an hour, at the equator he does 1000
miles an hour. Again, at the latitude rs
degrees, the Greenlander is lazily carried
round paltry 130 miles an hour, while
the man at the North Pole calmly revolyes
about himself once in "a hours. OF course
the motion is unfelt, because all things
move together, but the change from
tropical to an Arctic climate is so great
that it may possibly produce physical or
mental effects of which we are as yet un-
conscious. of course the steering of
ship from nortL to south must be sensibly
affected by the constant acceleration from
west to east. On the long railways of
Russia, too, I believe it is found that rails
are uniformly more worn on the one side
than on the other, in consequence of this
force.
Year: 1870

-.'"-NN~---
Beautiful child by thy mothers knee,
In the mystic future what wilt thou be?
demon of sin, or an angel sublime
poison of Upas, or innocent Thyme
A spirit of evil flashing doDn
With lurid light of fiery crown
Or gliding up with shining track,
Like the morning star that ne'er looks back,
Daintiest dreamer that ever smiled,
Which wilt thou be, my beautiful child?
Beautiful child in my garden bowers,
Friend of the butterflies, birds and flowers,
Pure as the sparkling crystalline stream,
Jewels of truth in thy fairy eyes beam
Was there ever whittier soul than thine
Worshipped by Love in mortal shrne2
Ny heart thou hast gladdened for two sweet


years


With rainbows of Hope through mists of tears
Mists beyond which the sunny smile
With its halo of glory beams all the while.
Beautiful child, to thy look is given
CLEAN serene, not of earth, but of heaven,
With thy tcl-tale eyes and prattling tongue,
Would that thou couldst ever be young.
Like the liquid strain Of the mocking-bird,
From stair to hall thy voice is heard.
How oft in the garden nook thour rt found,
With flowers thy curly head around
And kneeling beside me with fingers so quaint
Oh who would not dote on my infant saint?
Beautiful child, what thy fate shall be
Perchance is widely hidden from me.
A fallen star thou may st leave my side,
And of sorrow and shame become the bride.
Shvering and quivering through the cold street,
With a curse behind and before thy feet
Ashamed to live, and afraid to die;
No home, no friend and pitiless sky.
Merciful Father, my brain grows Wild
Oh keep from evil my beautiful child
Beautiful child, may st thou soar above,
A warbling cherub of joy and love,
A drop on Eternty's mighty sea,
A blossom on Life's immortal tree
Floating, Towering evermore
In the blessed light of the golden shore;
And as gaze on thy sinless bloom
And thy radiant face, they dispel my gloom,
! feel He will keep thee undeiled,
And His love protect my beautiful child.
Year: 1870

How many readers know that the head
Of jackson on the old two-cent postage
stamps is a copy from Sully's once famous
portrait of the General? And how many
will be surprised to hear that this eminent
portrait painter is still living in Philadel-
phia, at No % South Fifth street, where
he has lived and labored for the past for
ty-ono years. Though now eighty-seven
years old, his step is firm and his eye un-
dimmed.
Year: 1870

A young lady once married man by
the name Of Dust against the wish of her
parents. After short time they lived
unhapily together, and she returned to
her fathers house, but be refused to re-
ceive her, saying: "Dust thou art, and
unto Dust thou shalt return"
Year: 1870

An erring Indiana hen was recently
found in the back part of hardware store
where the misguided fowl had struggled
for three weeks, trying to hatch out half
dozen white porcelain door-knobs. She
was very much reduced