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Year: 1875

There are few places in the world
where flowers flourish, rs they do in
Southern California, the year round.
Every house in the country and city
can be surrounded with ever-blooming
flower beds with the least imaginable
trouble; and as it is universally
acknowledged to be the very best evil
dence of refinement and taste, it is a
cause of astonishment to all strangers
who visit Los Angeles to see so many
cottages and homes with surroundings
as barren and destitute as if they were
standing i'm the desert of Sahara.
Only few of our citizens deserve to
be complimented for the good taste
displayed in making their homes beau
tiful. The cost is but trifiing, and the
labor required is really pleasure.
Every man, woman and child can
grow a rose-bush, and few can realize
how much pleasure attends its culture
until they raise one from the cutting
to the perfection of the flower. There
is no occupation on earth so refining
to human nature as the cultivation of
a flower garden. Every cutting you
plant and every flower you raise seems
to become endeared to you, and before
you know it each one appears to be-
come a special pet, and when you
walk among them you feel as If they
greet you with joy. and every flower
and shrub seems to vie with each other
in looking the mpst cheerful in your
presence. And then there is that
sweet, silent language of flowers,
which no ear can hear nor tongue
utter, yet it reaches the heart with its
heavenly sensations and softens your
nature and makes you smile upon the
world. There is some excuse for those
who live i'm hired houses in the crowd
ed part of the city, If they have no
flower garden. But they can have n


window garden. Why should We not


have gardens in our windows? What


sets room off better than fresh grow.


ing flowers? Hanging baskets form 9


graceful adjunct to these window gar.


dens. Most people need instruction


on flower culture in window garden


We want something snowy and at thu


same time hardy and free blooming


Make collection so as to secure del


icate blending Of colors; it is prefera


BILE to gaudy display of antagonisti'


tints. A most beautiful window gar


den can be made by selection from


the family of geraniums, felices, ol


ferns, and trailing mosses or grasses


in the hanging baskets. But the grea


variety of flowers in this country af


fords every one an opportunity to dis
play their own taste.
Year: 1875

We have the deepest sympathy for
what are called bad boys. Everybody
hates them and they are forever in
trouble. Nobody wants them around,
and they never hear word of encour-
agement from any quarter. They are
whipped at school, kicked and scolded
at home, scowled at in the street and
abused wherever they go. No wonder
they are mean; it would sour saint
to be treated as they are. They are
made bad; it is not their fault that
they are so. There may be such u
thing as natural bad boy, but we
doubt it. There are few deformed
children born, but it is unnatural.
The same may be the case in regard to
few bad boys, but they are very few.
About one-half the boys of this city
are called bad, but there was time
when they were just as good as the
best boys in the city, and the cause OF
their badness must be sought for out
side of themselves. In nine cases out
of ten, parents are to blame; perhaps
in one case in twenty accident or bad
association may have turned q good
boys head in the wrong direction. If
q committee were appointed to inves-
tigate the causes that make bad boys,
they would return a report about as
follows: "Home was never made
pleasant to the child; the father was
unbending; never spoke to him ex-
cept to command him; never was
known to converse with the boy in a
confidential manner; often whipped
him for disobedience and threat
ened him on all occasions. The
mother is fussy and scolding,
often boxed his ears. No efforts upon
the part Of the parents to make home
attractive for children-such as fur
nishing toys and games and music to
delight the childish heart; when the
boy found any pleasure such as makes
the youthful heart happy, he was
compelled to go from home to find it,
and very often on his return home he
was chastised for being out; he first
learned to tell falsehOods in order to
avoid these floggings. Thus the boys
heart has been driven from home, his
nature soured and his feet forced into
forbidden paths by the cruel treat
ment of his parents" If parents want


good children and easily controlled,
they must make them, love their


homes. This can only be done by


making home the happiest place in


the world for the child, and this is no


great trouble. The first thing to do is


to convince the child that you love it;


first, by talking tenderly and kindly


with it; don't sit back on your dig


nifty, as an old autocrat, but laugh


and play with your children. Then
bring around them such little parlOl


games and music as will delight


them; never deceive them, never


threaten them, never correct one


when you are angry. o, it is miser-


able life that some boys live, with


crusty, stiff, z-eold hearted parents.


Fathers and mothers, blame your


selves if you have bad children; you


ran them from home with your crusty


old dignity or your downright mean


ness, and now they make your heart
ache. No pity for you.
Year: 1875

One of the finest improvements in
the city will be the rebuilding of the
Lafayette Hotel. The whole of the
back of the house is already being
torn down, and the front will shortly
be built up. The stores will be just
half as large as they are now, and, as
the Important has very large stock
on hand, they will not have half room
enough for their goods and in order to
prevent them from being damaged by
dirt and dust, they have decided to
sell all their Spring goods at less than
cost, and others. such as cottons, table
linen, ETC., at exact cost. We advise
all to call at the Important and con-
vince themselves Of the great bar
gains. Such bargains they can never
get again, and in order to prevent
great rush, we advise all to call early
and take advantage of the building OF
the Lafayette Hotel. alo
Year: 1875

LUDUs comes atus in yesterdays is
sue with "plea for women" There
are severa! reasons why we are not in
clined to enter into controversy on
this subject. Our principle reason is,
desire to obey the injunction of the
Bible which reads. "As muchsas lieth
in you, live peaceable with all men,"
The Apostle did not include women,
but we conclude it was an oversight.
He was an old bachelor, and having
no one at home to tickle his ears oc-
casionally, he often neglected to men,
tion them, when he could and would
have done SO, and very gracefully too,
if he had had Hannah or Rebecka at
home mending clothes. He not only
neglected to say many things that he
might have said, but we. are satisfied
that he said a great many things that
he would not have said if he had mar
ried when young. For instance he
says "wives obey your husbands"
at is a shame for women to teach in
public" "Let their adorning be
meek and modest spirit" and many
other similar remarks which none but
an old bachelor ever would have dared
to say, and if he were living in this
generation an old bachelor as he was,
he would have all the GRACE GREEN
WOODS and GAIL HAMILToNs in
America in his hair. No sir-ee-We
want to live in peace, you can't draw
us into any such trap. But it is our
private opinion, which we hope no
body will mention publically, that all
the power which women possess over
men, consists in their re-
tireing modesty. When they
intelligently occupy this po-
sition they are fortified as by Inn
pregnable walls of granite, and it
places them in supreme command Of
all the surroundings. Their will is
law, their slightest wish implicitly
obeyed, and all the lords of creation
bow i'm meek submission to them.
But when, from any cause, they are
induced to abandon their position,
they lose their power and influence.
AS we do not wish to get into any fuss
about it, we will say, in a low tone Of
voice, that the meekest and most re-
firing housewife in all the Gland can
WELD more potent influence in the
affairs of the nation than can GAIL
HAMILTON, Lucy STONE or any other
so-called strong minded woman. We
would not have anything we have
said to be construed as placing us in
opposition to the best and highest in
terest of the women. We are rejoiced
to see them occupying any and every
position suitable to their sex, but it is
source of the deepest regret to us to
see them placed in any position calcu-
lated to unsex them. Our opposition
to woman suffrage is based alone upon
this ground. AS to the effect it would
have on the Government, the men
have made a miserable botch of It.
and the women could not have done
worse; but 1t il for the sake of
WOMAN, her own dear self, that we
oppose 1t.
Year: 1875

LONDON, April lin the House Of
Commons last night there was an
acrimonious debate on the question
OF summoning to the bar the printers
OF the Times and NeWs for breach of
privilege for publishing documents in
the hands Of select Committees on
Foreign Loans. Disraeli moved q
resolution that select Committee be
instructed to investigate the affair and
report how the Press obtained the doc
uments. This resolution was carried,
and the order summoning the print
ers revoked.
Year: 1875

NEW GOODS! New Goods! Marxsen Bros.


the new variety store, corner OF Main and
Third streets, keeps constantly on hand a
large variety OF Dry goods, Clothing, Gents
large supply of new goods just received,
and sold at reasonable rates. All goods are
OF the best quality; no auction goods sold by
u.s. We respectfully solicit the public to ex-
anime our goods and judge for themselves
Goods delivered to any part of the city free of
charge. feb3-tf
Year: 1875

SAN FRANCISCO, April 2lst.-At a
meeting of the Democratic State Cen
trail Committee yesterday resolution
was adopted authorizing the Execu-
tive Committee to change the time of
holding the primary election in this
city and county from April oath to
May 1st.
Year: 1875

If the Ark had been manned by Mis-
sissippi steamboat captain, he would
have been very unhappy during the en-
tire voyage, because there was NO opp0-
sition Ark on the river to race with.
Year: 1875

believe, that they are in an unregenerat
state though they have been solemnly conse
Grated to God and baptized.


l most earnestly, yet respectfully anG
humbly submit that both of these teachings
cannot be correct. One of them must be an
error, and if an error, it must be vital and
most mischevous error. If we have the
right to bring our children to Jesas-to con-
secrate them to Him ;.if we should make this
gift with earnest solcitude and prayer if
we have any sufficient warrant for this dedi-
cation, and any promise that Jesus will not
despise or reject it.; if He can give, and has
promised to give, his blessing to every child
thus consecrated to Him, then surely the act
of conservation should be performed yith
the full assurance Of simple, trusting, child
like faith. That being done, how dare that
psrent--in the nature of the case how can
he, proceed to educate that child on the prin.
ciple that it is in an unrenewed state until
the contrary clearly appears! To pursue
such a course is to renounce the conservation
heretofore made, and to show by our works
that the faith exercised in all the prayers
and act of dedication was dead faith, which
failed to lay hold Of Christ, and thus dis
honored his promise and his love.


l most solemnly entreat all Christian pa.
rents to dedicate their children to God with
a full and unquestioning faith, believing that
in every such case the Lord Jesus will re-
ceive the gift and bestow his blessing upon
the child. And let every parent from the
date of such dedication educate his child
upon the principle that it is redeemed child,
and as such, may rejoice in its portion with
q JOY that is unspeakable and full of glory
Other remarks will be added next week.


T. J. K.
Year: 1875

According to the proposed plan for contri-
buttons, each General Assembly is to appoint
a Committee, who, in conference With the
Secretaries of the four schemes of benevo-
lence, shall make careful estimate of the
amount that will probably be needed for the
work of each Committee for the following
year. These amounts are then to be equi-
tably apportioned among the Presbyteries,
upon the basis of their pecuniary ability, &C.
cording to the best information before the
Assembly, or its Committee AS this is to
be done annually, if the apportionment of
the first year is found to be unequal, care
full revision will enable the Assembly to
make the division more equitable for the
next year.


In like manner each Presbytery at its fall
meeting will, through Permanent Commit
tee on contributions, apportion the amount
assigned it among its churches according to
their respective ability. But the apportion-
ment is not carried farther; it does not reach
the individual. Each church is left to COL
lect the amount assigned it, as it collects
money for its own use, whether by a church
collection, subscription list, or any other
approved method. The individual is left as
free to give according to his own view Of
duty, as he is under the present system.
1t is not proposed to keep any account
with Presbyteries or with the churches. II
they are delinquent, the duty of faithfulnesE
in discharging their solemn obligation in this
matter, may. properly be urged upon them


but no charge Of any unpaid debt is to bt
kept against Presbytery or church. Al
the beginning of new year all start upor
the same footing again only that the expe
rience of the past year may lead to more
equitable apportionment for the year tt


come.


The estimates will be increased from yea


to year to meet the demands of the CROWN.
work of the Committees, so far as can b.


justified by the readiness of the churches tt
respond to the calls made upon them. Th
plan by no means intimates to church tina
the amount specified is all that is needed
The sum mentioned is the minimum of tn
J measure of its duty in contributing to tn
proposed objects. Any amount above ma,
be used judiciously, in the same good work
Year: 1875

The non-appearance of the annual reports
OF this Department is explained i'm its
monthly report for September:


1.-THE statistical correspondents Of the
Department have endured patiently the de-
lay Of Congress to provide their quota Of
Reports Of Agriculture for 1872 and 1873.
After a years delay an appropriation for the
publication of editions OF those volumes for
the use Of the Department. was made, and
one of each was sent to county corresponds
ents and their assistants, and two copies
extra have recently been sent to each county.
Many correspondents, knowing that the re-
port of 1874 was made to Congress last JAM
uary, and properly expecting its receipt in
printed form, have deemed the sending Of
duplicates of 1873 a mistake. The annual
for last year is indeed printed, the Senate
having ordered IN edition Of 1000 copies for
its own use, the largest number obtainable
without a joint resolution, but no provision
has rs yet been made by Congress for any
distribution whatever. The Department
should be promptly supplied with IN edition
for its official distribution, and exchange,
especially to, its faithful and gratuitously
working correspondents. As to q general


distribution, the English plan of sale at cost
should be adopted, but not unless the rule
is made toapply to all documents =
Year: 1875

We gave expression to our belief in
the injurious policy of the third term
agitation so many months ago, that re-
cent events, foreseen by those who
study cause and effect, cannot be alleged
as a motive, in suggesting that the op-
perfume moment has now arrived for
President Grant to show his apprecia-
ton of the distinguished honors be-
slowed upon him by the Republican
party, by announcing his determination
to abide by honored precedent and retire
from the Presidency at the end of the
present term. Such an announcement
would be most appropriate on the occa-
sion OF his approaching visit to the State
of Massachusetts, which has sustained
him IN the field and during his presi-
dency with zeal and confidence That
bold and manly enunciation of this in
tention would revive the dropping spirit
of the Republican party and impart new
vitality to the issues and principles
which it represents, there cannot be a
shadow of doubt. We do not propose
to discuss the sound and substantial rea


sons that might be advanced to sugtain
The belief cherished by the best Repub-
iieans in this State, that an authoritative
announcement of his desire to be re-
lieved of the high office would be ser
vice which he owes to the party, nor do
we care TO eriticise the wisdom of that
silence. which the President has thus far
preserved upon this important matter.
Ii IS sufficient to. state that, whether IL
be his intention TO remain candidate
OF to retire, it is due from him to the
Republican party that he should frankly
state his position. --lSGS5o7l Journal.
Year: 1875




Wefind in one of our Southern exchang-
es some very good advice to this numerous
class OF people, who are grumblIng all
the time about oppression, and charging
upon the Administration every act that
has disgraced the history of law-break-
ers and tyrants for centuries. These
acts of oppression, as they are called,
have had but one object in view so far
as the general government is concerned.
They are intended to restore the Union
upon the principle that all men, born or
naturalized in this country, are citizens,
and entitled to participate, not only in
the benefits of the government, but in
the administration of it. Whatever may
be said of the wisdom of the methods
employed to carry out this principle, it
must be admitted that it is right, and
must in the end become a part of our
governmental policy. Any inequality
of rights Which Iuay be left in the
country as remnants of slavery, will be
fruitful of strife as slavery itself has
been. 1t is for the interest OF the South
as well as of the North to have this
question settled at once and forever.
There is nothing oppressive in the Re
publican policy of reconstruction, and
nothing to warrant this cry through the ]
South of oppression and the necessity of
returning to constitutional government. /


"Many of the Republican measures,
says our exchange, ',were perhaps not |
the wisest that could have been devised. /
but the party has necessarily operated |
upon experimental ground, and the won I
der is that so few mistakes have been.
made. Mistakes in this regard should l.
not cause patriotic men to abandon a
principle, upon the establishment of I
which the future peace of the country I
so certainly depends. Growth of the
sentiment which now opposes the equal
rights and citizenship of the negro, will /
as surely follow the defeat of the Re-
publican policy, as growth of the slave
sentiment followed its triumph in 1882,
and the one, as much as the other is cal
culated to involve the country in civil /
war. Hence we are justified in declar-
ing the present attitude of the South as
hurtful TO the country at large and es-
peciallY hurtful to itself; and the talk
of its indictments about oppression as
ridiculous. We are also equally iusti-
fed in predicting that the defeat of the
Republican policy will eventually in
volve the country in strife agaiu. y ...
Year: 1875

longer to be counted as property, in the
I common sense. y When a new


road is made where there was none, the
state, or some individual, sacrifices the


value OF the land it covers, and the


money spent in building the road. 1t


also sacrifices the opportunity to tax, in


the future, the improvements. which


might have been put upon that land if


1t had not been converted into road,


and all the indirect taxable benefits


which might have been derived from
the use for productive purposes of the
land, and of the money which the road
cost. When church, or college, or q
hospital buys land and erects buildings
thereon, the State does not sacrifice the


value of the land, or the money spent
upon the buildings private persons
make these sacrifices but the State
does sacrifice, by the exemption statute
the opportunity to tax, in the future,
the Improvements which might have
been put upon that land if it had not
been converted to religious, educational
or charitable uses, and all the indirect
taxable benefits which might have been
derived from the use for productive pur-
poses of the land, and of the money
which the buildings cost. The
State believes that the new road will be
such convenience to the community
that the Indirect gain from making it
will be greater than the direct and indi-
rect loss. In the same way the State be-
lieves, or at least believed when the ex-
statute was adopted, that the
indirect gain to'its treasury which results
from the establishment of the exempted
is greater than the loss
which the exemption involves"
Year: 1875

The North Adams NeeoS says: Sat
urday evening train of seven cars
loaded with rock was sent from near the
central shaft through the tunnel with
no engine attached. 1t was started by
an engine about two hundred feet this
side of the shaft, from which point it
came to this village with no motive
power save that furnished by the tunnel
grade, the weight of the train and the
momentum given at the start. The
speed was sufficient to necessitate using
the brakes upon leaving the western
portal, the precaution of running at a
rather slow rate of speed being taken at
this point through fear of meeting with
distractions on the track. The grade
in the tunnel Is twenty-six feet to the
mile. -...s.. .-...
Year: 1875

|. The samples exhibited as coming from


the new mines, together with the glow
ing accounts, oft repeated insaloons and


On street corners. by the heroes Gordon


and Witcher, famed the excitement al


ready intense into flame which carried
everything before it. Sober, steady


men lost control of their Judgment and
scores were ready TO start at once in: the
foolhardy enterprise. What the result


would have been had not govern


ment put a veto. upon further en-.


croachment on the Indian domain,


none can fortell. Certain it is, the In


dian knows his rights, and as in a: case


like this, when they can exercise their


blOodthirsty nature and fsraise white


mans hair" without fear of retaliation


by the abig father at Washington"


they are not slow to improve it, as


many man would have found to his


cost had not strong hand held them


back. AS it is there will doubtless be


an attempt by some more reckless than


wise, to force their way there. Now
arises a question: What is tall about


Is there any gold in the Black Hills +?
Curtis survey found it by pulling grass,


while men that were with him failed to
find any of the precious metal by dill
gent search, and are incredulous as to
its existence. Extracts from letters re-
ceived by wives and friends from some of
the party remaining in the Hills, state
that prospecting to any extent had not
been carried on up to the time of Cor
don and Witeher's departure, owing to
frost and snow, yet they thought the in
dications good, and were anxiously
awaiting spring, that they might begin
operations. They would not advise their
friends to come until something more
definite was known. The conclusion
arrived at by every sober thinking man
OF Sioux City, whose sense of honor
keeps them aioof from lending their in
fiuenee TO what they cali humbug, al
though their interest might be advanced
with the general interest of the place
by SO doing, is that those who remain at
home are the ones that will make the
most money. To run the guantlet now
of Indians and troops, would be rash in
the extreme, even if there is gold there,
which will soon be known. There will
then be plenty OF time and room for all
who want to go. s. B.