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Year: 1876

And now comes Senator MITCHELL
of Oregon, and pleading guilty to
former dereliction, gives the Prod
igal SARGENT a word of encourage
ment in his assumed effort at refor-
nation. The arguments of Senator
MITCHELL are stronger than those of
the Senator from California in sup
port of his resolution. 1t is very well
but not consistent. for these gentle
men are both going back on their for
mer record. We are willing to give
credit where credit is due, but we are
often prompted to think that in some
cases the maxim, "Tis never too late
to mendn is M istake. In discussing


the Chinese question the San Fran
cisco Examiner remarks that "It is
impossible for US to understand that it
was the intention of the Creator of us
all that the inferior races of mankind


should drag down those of a higher
order OF being to their own level. The


Radical theorists do so believe, and
| the actions of their party plainly indi-
cate their intention, if not thwarted,
tn practicallv illustrate their views in
that DIRECTION. The threat ofsome of


the radcal journals that if we endeav-
or Z, make the Chinese plague party


,.sue, their party, being in power, will
do nothing for the relief of California
from its blighting effects, does not in
timidate us in the least. The truth of
history must be vindicatad ~Sany haz-
ard. and the Radicals will strive in
vain to escape the verdict of the fu-
ture on this score.o The action of the
Republican party with GoRHAM and
SARGENT at the head of the Republi-
can party have imposed the curse up
on us, and have heretofore preached
the universal fatherhood of God, and
the universal brotherhood of man,
This was a catch phrase for gaining
Radical votes, and at the time it cap
tured the support of many extreme
lists. We do not believe that in the
inception of the movement there ex-
listed a particle of sincerity in the
original promuigators of the doctrine
1t was not love for the Chinese, but
desire for votes on this coast that sug-
gested the idea of the BURLINaAME
treaty. That the Chinese are adroit,
no one can deny, and we find that in
the East one or two educated represent
tatives of the Mongolian race have
been arguing before some of the
humanitarian associations their
admissibility into national fra
ternity on religious ground, alleging
that they believe in God and that their
worship of idols is merely form
that they are but symbolic of the idea
of Deity. Let that go for what it is
worth. We are not opposing the Chi
nese on that account, but from a hu-
manitarian point Of view in regard to
the effect of their presence upon the
welfare of the white man, and their
influence upon the moral as we'll as
the financial condition of the masses.
We do not take this stand from a fac
tious or demagogical view, but as a
matter of protection. We do not
think the matter needs further argu-
ment. Messrs. SARGENT and MITCH
ELL have covered the ground. We
will wait the result of their good ef-
fort, though tardy and, we fear, insin-
cere.
Year: 1876

Winter still fingers in the upper
country. 1t Is reported that snow is
ten feet deep on an average at Meadow
Lake, four feet deep at Ossaville and
about two feet at Carlysle, and the
pack trains will not be able to go i'm
for month to come. There is no
doubt but there will be a big excite.
ment at Meadow Lake as soon as the
snow goes off. A large number of old
time Meadow Lakers are returning al
ready. We are content in the enjoy
ment of fine Summer weather, and
eondole with our friends at the North.
When the snow vanishes we predict
resurrection In Meadow Valley Dis
trict. Capitalists are looking anx-
iously toward that locality.
Year: 1876

A sixteen hundred dollar clerk, named
Redway, went through the Land Office to-.
day levying the political assessments on the
clerks for the Presidential campaign. The
male employees are assessed at the rate OF
two per cent. on their salaries. Redway
carried with him two lists, and informed
the employees that he was expressly or
dered by Secretary Chandler to put upon one
list for dismissal all who refused to pay.
Some plead inability to pay on account of
their large families, and some few refused,
but were openly told they would be dis.
missed. The Commissioner of the Land
Office headed the list with a subscription of
$50. They are hurrying up these political
assessments, and want to get them collected
before the legislative bill becomes law,
because 1t contains section which makes
It penal offence for any person to solicit
an employee of the Government to pay an
assessment levied for political purposes.
Year: 1876

When farmer can so manage his farm
as to make "both ends of the year meet"
even if it be with the most rigid economy,
he should be contented with his lot. ii
we take survey of the business men of
our villages and cities, we find that only
three or four in hundred realize com
petence for old age. Then imagine the
unhappiness of those who, sooner or
later, fail to support themselves and
families respectably-the cares and anx-
ieties that constantly produce pangs and
tortures that no farmer ever felt. These
men may apparently lead pleasant lives,
as the outside world can not witness the
emotions of man who daily strains
every financial nerve to meet his notes
falling due at the bank. The time be-
tween one and three o'clock, brings more
anxiety to business men than all the
farmers of the United States realize in a
lifetime.


No, farmers, your let is not hard one.
Your food may be plain and the cuts of
your coats may not be as fashionable as
those of the merchants of the day but
when you lie upon your pillow your re.
pose is sound and sweet. The horrors OF
protested notes seldom keep you awake
at night; and in the morning, as you 60
around to feed your focks and view your
crops that have visibly grown while you
were in the arms of Morpheus, you may
take more real enjoyment of life in one
hour than many city merchants and
manufacturers do in year. Our advice
therefore, is, be not discouraged. The
times may now be hard, but you are
promised seed-time and harvest to the
end and, with hard labor and judicious
management, you come out in the end
victorious.
Year: 1876

We hear such wonderful instances oI
the intelligence of dogs, that we car
scarcely wonder at any fresh proof OF
their sagacity; but the following anec
dote would appear almost too good to
be true:


A certain Monsieur N, going or
foot from Leuze to Lessines, in Belgium
took with him his dog, which he was
anxious to get rid of; but as he was un.
willing either to drown him, to hang
him, or to shoot him, he resolved to lose
him on the way. The dog who, instead
of kind words and caresses, received
nothing but threats, seemed to under.
stand his masters project; he kept quite
close to his heels, and would not leave
him for a moment. N. Obliged to
sleep out that night in order to finish
his business, went to the inn, and said to
his four-footed companion, instead OF
goodnight: Tomorrow, you rascal,
shall take the train, and you will have
to walk about here" He then went ur
to his room and went to bed.


The next morning, great was Ms
surprise to perceive, when he got up
that one of his socks and his waistcoat
were missing. The landlord, when ques.
toned, maintained that no one could
have taken these articles, as no other
stranger had been lodged in the inn
they were all searching and wondering
when they found, in the corner of the
house, the dog who had been 50 threat
ened the evening before, lying upon the
stocking and the waistcoat of his master
The poor animal seemed to have wished
in this way to prevent his master from
starting without him. N, admiring
the sagacity of his dog, no longer tried t
get rid of him.
Year: 1876

In olden times the flesh of pigeons
was considered preventive of the plague,
and all other pestilential diseases; also
a cure for trembling and palsy; and the
superstitious believed the use of it to be
of great benefit to near-sighted people.
The flesh was always given as a restOra-
tive after severe illness, and thought
quite as much Of for the purpose, as
+" beef tea" is at the present time. Yet
to-day, in some foreign countries, pigeons
are not considered fit for food. In parts
of Russia they are revered as emblems
of the Holy Ghost. In Venice they are
the proteges of the city. They are fed
every day at two o'clock, being called
together by a dinDer-bell, and no one is
allowed to interfere with them. Any
person found ill-treating them is arrested
and fined, or, if an old offender, is i'm
prisoned. 1t is believed by the Viennese
that these pigeons are in some way con-
nected with the prosperity of the city
that they fly three times round it each
day, in honor of the Trinity, and that
their presence preserves the people from
danger by water and food. =


So far as we can learn, the flesh of all
pigeons is good for food. 1t is nourish
ing and heating in its nature, and for
that reason we'll suited as diet for con-
valescents. The flesh Of our wood pig
cons is the finest favored of all species
in America, and by connoisseurs is es-
teemed superior to that of any other
bird. In Kitchen parlance the pigeon is
considered game, whether wild or de-
mestic, the flesh of the latter being less
fine and delicate.
Year: 1876

There is a popular belief, an Indian
correspondent writes to Nature, that it is
dangerous to sleep in full moonshine, as
it is supposed to produce some injurious
effect called moon-stroke. A clear sky
admits of rapid radiation, and any per-
son exposed to such radiation is sure to
be chilled by rapid loss of heat. There
is reason to believe that under the cir
cumstances paralysis of one side of the
face is sometimes likely to occur from
chill, as one side of the face is more
likely to be exposed to rapid radiation
and consequent loss of its heat. This
chill is more likely to occur when the
sky is perfectly clear and in full moon.
l have often slept in the open in India
on clear summer night when there was
no moon, and although the first part of
the night may have been hot, yet toward
two or three o'clock in the morning the
chill has been 80 great that have often
been awakened by an ache in my fore
head, which las often have counteracted
by wrapping handkerchief round my
head and drawing the blanket over my
face. As the chill is likely to be great
est on very clear night, and the clear
est nights are likely to be those on which
there is bright moonshine, it is very
possible that neuralgia, paralysis OF some
other similar injury, caused by sleeping
in the open, has been attributed to the
moon, when the proximate cause may
really have been the chill.
Year: 1876

Mark Twain's description of the hap.
piest boy in the village: Huckleberry
was always dressed in the cast-off clothes
of full-grown men, and they were in
perennial bloom and fiuttering with rags.
His hat was vast ruin, with wide
crescent looped out of its brim his coat
when he wore one, hung nearly to his
heels, and had the rearward buttons far
down the back; but one suspender sup
ported his trowsers the seat of his trows-
ers bagged low and contained nothing (;
the fringed legs dragged in the dirt when
not rolled up. Huckleberry came and
went at his own free will. He slept on
doorsteps in fine weather, and in empty
hogsheads in wet he did not have TO 90
to church or school, or call any being
master, or obey anybody he could 20
fishing or swimming when or where he
chose, and stop as long as it suited him (;
nobody forbade him TO fight; he could
sit up as late as he pleased; he was al.
ways the first boy to go barefoot in the
spring and the last to resume leather in
the fall he could swear wonderfully. In
a word, everything that goes to make life
precious, that boy had"
Year: 1876

How shall we learn science by mer


common sense?


First, always try to explain the un


known by the known. If you NEE


something which you have not met be


fore, then think of the thing most lik,


it which you have seen before; and tr,


if that which you know explains the ont


will not explain the other also. Some


times it will sometimes it will not. But


if it will, no one has right to ask you
to try any other explanation.


Suppose, for instance, that you found
dead bird on the top of cathedral.
tower, and were asked how you thought
it had got there. You would say, 'sOI
course it died up there" But if friend
said: mot SO; it dropped from bal
loon, or from the Clouds" and told you
the prettiest tale of how the bird came
to so strange an end, you would answer |:
mo, no, l must reason from what /
know. l know that birds haunt the
cathedral-tower; / know that birds die !;
and, therefore. let your story be as pretty
as it may, my common sense bids me
take the simplest explanation, and say
it died here" In saying that, you would
be talking scientifically. You would
have made fair and sufficient induction
(as it is called) from the facts about
birds habits and birds deaths which
you knew.


But suppose that when you took the
bird up you found that it was neither
jackdaw, nor a sparrow, nor swallow,
as you expected, but humlning bird.
Then you would be adrift again. The
fact of it being a humming bird would
be new fact which you had not taken
into account, and for which your old
explanation was not sufficient; and you
would have to try new induction--to
use your common sense afresh-
saying, 81 have not to explain merely
how dead bird got here: but how
dead humming- bird"


And now if your imaginative friend
chimed in triumphantly with, "Do you
not see that / was right after all? Do
you not see that it fell from the clouds
That it was swept away hither, all the
way from South America, by some south
westerly storm, and wearied out at last,
dropped here to find rest, as in sacred
place? what would you answer, "My
friend that is a beautiful Imagination
but must treat it only as such, as long
as l can explain the mystery more
simply by facts which ! do know. Idonot
know that humming birds can be blown
across the Atlantic alive. / do know
that they are actually brought |
across the Atlantic dead; are stuck in
ladies' hats. l know that ladies visit
the cathedral; and, odd as the accident
is, l prefer to believe, till get better
explanation, that the humming bird
simply dropped out of lady's hat"
There, again, you would be talking COM
mon sense; and using, too, sound induc-
tive method; trying to explain what
you do not know from what you do know
already.


Now, ask you to employ the same
common sense when you read and think |
Of geology. y.-Rev. Charles Kinsley.
Year: 1876

Idwell on this point, for l would de-


Ter others from entering that place OF


torment. Half of the young men in


this country, with many old enough to


know better, would 60 into business


that is, into debt-to-morrow, if they


could. Most poor men are 80 Ignorant


as to envy the merchant or manufact urer


whose life is an incessant struggle with


pecuniary difficulties, who is driven to


constant shining" and who flom


month to month, barely evades the in
solvency which sooner or later overtakes
most men in business; so that it has been
computed that but one man in twenty
OF them achieves a pecuniary success.
For my own part would rather be
convict in the State prison, slave in a
rice swamp, than to pass through life un-
der the harrow of debt. Let no man
misjudge himself unfortunate or truly
poor, so long as he has the full use of
his limbs and faculties, and is substan-
TALLY free from debt. Hunger, cold,
rags, hard work, contempt, suspicion,
unjust reproach, are disagreeable, but
debt is infinitely worse than them all.
And If it had pleased God to spare
either or all my sons to be the support
of my declining years, the lesson which
l should most earnestly seek to impress
upon them is, "never run in debt"
Avoid pecuniary obligations as you
would a pestilence or famine. If you
have but fifty cents, and can get no
more for week, buy a peck of corn,
parch it and live on it, rather than owe
a dollar! Of course 1 know that some
men must do business that involves a
risk, and must give notes or other obliga-
tions, and do not consider him in debt |
who can lay his hands directly on the
means of paying, at some little sacrifice,
all ne owes; l speak of real debt-that
which involves risk or sacrifice on one
side, obligation and dependence on the
other-and say from all such, let every
youth humbly pray God to preserve him
evermore.-Horace Greeley.
Year: 1876

What happy star shone on her birth?
What grassy corner OF the earth
Grew daisies for her baby feet
10 dance between, since they repeat.
On all the fowerless ways they passI
That breezy motion Of the grass?
What brook bewitched her to its brink.
And drew her fresh lips down 10 drink
It's music, while II slipped unseen
Its happy cadences between?
So sweet and glad the voice that slips
From ambush of her maiden lips.
What winds upon the hills gave room
10 her, and buffeted to bloom
Her rounded cheeks, and nader her hair
a flying sunshine In the air?
FOR still, like sun-gleams on rose,
her wayward color comes and goes
what graybeard tree upon the down
Taught, as she sped, her floating gown.
ana whispered through his ancient girtb
The long dumb sorrow of the earth
For the sweet pity In her eyes
Almost their gladness overlies.


-ScTtbner for December
Year: 1876

At l:io p. m. to-day the grand excursion of
Cook, Son * Jenkins will leave this city for Phil
adelphia, TO spend their hours amid the scenes of
the great demonstrations which are to take place
there on the 4th and 5th. The preparations for
celebrating the Day Of Independence in Phila-
delphia are simply immense. Nothing SO grand
and imposing has ever occurred in this country,
and nothing as fine as this will again occur before
our second Centennial. Those who lose this op-
portunty will lose it forever, and those no take
advantage of il will never regret the time and
money spent. Cook, Son & Jenkins have ar
ranged it so that they are enabled to take you to
Philadelphia, keep you there in irst-class style
for TWO days, and return you to this city for the
remarkably cheap rate Of $40 each. Their ao-
conmodatiOns are of a first-class order and their
agents will meet the excursionlsts on the train
and escort them to their quarters. 1t is un-
doubtedly one of the best opportunities that will
be offered of attending the great Exposition and
what makes the trip particularly attractive is
the brilliant and unprecedented demonstrations
which are to take place on the 4th and ath, the
two days allotted to the excursion. This excur-
sion is under the management of Col S. r. Ha
mill, which is enough TO secure its success.
Year: 1876

The following were the receipts and shipments Of
the leading articles Of produce in this city during
the twenty -four hours ending at o'clock on
Saturday morning. No business was done on the
corresponding day last year:
Year: 1876

The following occurrence, to which
my friend was an eyewitness, will il
lustrate the prevailing tone of German
men to women as women: A young girl
entered a street car in one of the best
streets in Berlin. The car had its usual
complement of eighteen people, ten men
and eight women. She quietly took her
standing position. A man near her,
slapping his hand on his knee, said:
&" See here, Fraulein, you may sit here"
She drew near the ladies present, and
said not word. This he repeated
twice, with some other insulting words,
until the poor girl trembled and Grim
soned with shame. A married lady sit
ting near, with her daughter, rose to her
feet and said: " Is there not man gen
tleman enough to protect this young
girl from the insult of this man, who
has not only insulted her, but every
lady in the carp" Profound silence.
Then 1 will see what 1 can do" and,
forcing open the car door, she called the
conductor, and. stating the case, asked
to have the man put out. With the usual
feeling that q woman's opinion is not
worth anything, the conductor turned
to the man for an answer, and some
said: "Oh, it is not bad enough for
that" When the lady insisted, one
single man at the other end of the car
rOse and said: 1.-THE lady is right; tie
fellow should be put out" 1 regret to
say for the last ten years I have not
lived in Germany, and 1 return to my
native land to blush over the rude, i'll
manners of my countrymen. The fellow
was silenced, but the conductor had not
the moral courage to put him out. The
lady reported the conductor to the
authorities. Whether he will be repri-
manded or not, remains to be seen. Now
1 do not belive there was a single man
in that car who would not have resented
the insult had the girl been a relation.
or even an acquaintanc, for as such it
would have touched his honor; but as
simply woman, he acted on the prin-
ciple that every one must look out for
himself. Such is the chivalrous atten-
ton Of Germans to women.-Berlin
Cor. Cincinnati Gazette.
Year: 1876

MB. RUsKIN ON FEMALE ATTIRE
In a late number of F0rs CLapi0era.


Mr.. Ruskin advises his girl readers as
follows Dress as plainly as your pa
rents will allow you, but in bright col
ors (if they become you), and in the
best materials-that is to say, in those
which wear longest. When you are
really in want of q new dress, buy it, or
make it, in the fashion; but never quit
an old one merely because it has become
Questionable. And if the fashion be
costly, you must follow it. You may
wear broad stripes or narrow, bright
colors or dark, short petticoats or long
lin moderation) as the public wish you
but you must not buy yards OF useless
stuff to make knot or q hounce of, nor
drag them behind you over the ground.
And your walking dress must never
touch the ground at all. I have lost
much Of the faith 1 once had in the
common sense and even in the personal
delicacy Of the present race of average
English women. by seeing how they will
allow their dresses to sweep the streets,
as it is the fashion to be scavengers. II
you can afford it, get your dresses made
by good dressmaker, with the most at
tainable precision and perfection; but
let this good dressmaker be a poor per-
son living in the country. not rich per-
son living in large house in London.
Learn dressmaking yourself, with pains
and time, and use part of every day in
needle-work, making as pretty dresses as
you can for poor people, who have not
time nor taste to make them nicely for
themselves. You are to show them in
your own wearing what is most right
and graceful, and to help them to choose
what will be prettiest and most becom-
ing in their own station. If they see
you never try to dress above yours,
they will not try to dress above theirs. "
Year: 1876

"Kiss me mamma, before I sleep" How simple a boon, yet how soothing to the little suppli- cant is that soft. gentle kiss! The little head sinks contentedly on the pillows, for all is peace and happiness within. The bright eyes close, and the rosy lip is revelled in the bright and sunny dream of innocence. Yes, kiss it, for that goodnight kiss will lin ger in memory when the giver lies mouldering in the grave. The memory of a mothers gentle kiss has cheered many a lonely wan derer's pilgrimage, and has been a beacon light to illuminate his desolate heart; for remember. life has many a stormy pillow 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 sWeetiy slumber. ing, with no marring care to dis. turb its peaceful dreams. The parched and fevered lip will be- come dewey again as recollection bears to the sufferers couch @ mothers lOve-a mothers kiss. Then kiss your little ones ere they sleep; there is a magic power in that kiss which will endure to the end of life.
Year: 1876

National Associated Press to the STAR


WASHINGToN, Dec. 7.-The Democrat
ic caucus held i'll the hall OF the House
Of representatives. Immediately after
the adjournment WAS called Oh the spur
OF the moment, and partook of the ma
ture nj an Indignation meeting at what
was denounced going outside Of official
duty by the President in making an
nf1eial and partisan report OF private
gentlemen. No decided action was
taken bey end q reference of the whole