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Year: 1870

| cannot for the life of me feel as ifI had
the first right to what [ possess. Aman
comes to my house and says be wants to be
married. marry him in four or five min
utes, and he gives me ten dollars. A few
years ago would work a week for ten dollars,
and think | bad done very well Or ly-
ceum wants lecture slip down in the
| afternoon and come back next day with a
hundred dollars. One month, | remember
when | worked at the anvil, Hid every
ounce ofwork that was in me, and my wages
came to S73. Now, four times year | go
to our church treasury and draw as much as
| could earn in three years at my old work
and then plume myself in my secret heart
on my handsome moderation in not deman-
ding more salary. Now, what religion is
there in my saying that this is intrinsically
mine 10 spend as | will, when Bill and John
ny are hammering away on the old spot, at
lower prices, if anything? Somebody says
my talent makes this difference Well, my
talent, my great Teacher says, belongs to God


1t is a trust to use wisely and well, and not
to keep to myself | look through my
church and city, and [ say to hundred men,


why are you not living on twenty acres of
hard scrabble Why are you not sailing
before the mast? Why are you not running
round as a country doctor, the most hope
less slave in your section except your horse +?
Why are you not school teacher boarding
around Why are you not catch-penny-
lawyer, where a lawyer is nuisance ?"
say this, TO myself of course, as | see great
merchants and men, with splendid faculties
OF all kinds, making their mark and their
money, and say: Your money and your
faculty are committed to you for the holiest
uses. God gives you five talents that he
may get ten back again. A rich banker
In heaven has given me great trust, aud
he has sent with it a fair white angel, called
Conscience, to watch and guide, and keep
me right. If | drive that angel back to
heaven, by perpetual insult and injury, its
place will be taken by the fend Remorse.
Now, | want to keep on good terms with The
angel Everything beside is dust and ashes
if that leaves me and | can only be true to
it as | am true to my trust. To be sure that
the gift in me, out of which grows my for
tune, is Gods gift is vast inspiration to a
just generosity, and turns the steel chain
around my purse to silken string.
Robert Co}yer.
Year: 1870

Don't crowd; this world is broad enough


For you as well as me;
The doors Of art are open wide


The realm of thought is free;
OF all earth places you are right


To choose the pest you can,
Provided that you Go not try


To crowd some other man.
What matter though you scarce can count
Your piles of golden ore,
While he can hardly strive to keep
Gaunt famine from his door
OF willing hands and honest heart


Alone shall man be proud;
Then give him all the room he needs,
And never try to crowd.
Don't crowd, proud Miss, your dainty silk
VIII gIi,ten none the less,
Because it cones In contact with


1 beggsr'5 catered dress.
This lovely world was never made
For you and | alone;
4 psrper has the right to tread
The pathway to throne.
Don't crowd the good from out your heart,
By fostering all that's bad,
But give TO every virtue room
The best that may be had;
Be each day 5 record such one,
That you may well be proud
Give each his right-give each his room,
And never try 10 crowd.
Year: 1870

A story is told of an ancient Mohawk no
ton that some great misfortune would hap
pen if any one spoke on Saratoga Lake. A
strong minded English woman on one occa-
sion, while being ferried over, insisted upon
talking, and as soon as she got over in safety
she rallied her boatman on his superstition.
But he had the best of it after all. for he al
once replied: The Great Spirit is mercfuI
her tongue"
Year: 1870

A WONDERFUL PLANT.-A specimen of
the wonderful plant, The Flower of the
Holy Ghost" has been successfully raised
in Norwich, Conn. The flower is creamy
white cup, nearly as large as half an egg,
and extremely beautiful, and its wonder as
a natural floral growth is the fact that in
this flower Is a little pure white dove, with
pink bill and eyes, and its head turned as if
looking over its back. It's wings, feet, bill,
etc., are absolutely perfect those of the
living dove, whose counterpart the wonderful
flower dove is.
Year: 1870

The SECRET OF IT.-An old farmer being
asked why his boys stayed at home when
others did not, replied that it was owing to
the fact that he always tried to make home
pleasant for them. He furnished them with
useful and attractive reading; and when
night comes, and the day s labor is ended,
instead of running with other boys to the
railway station and adjoining towns, they
gather around the great lamp, and become
absorbed in their books and papers His boys
were still at home when the eldest was TWEEN
ty-one, while those who we've furnished with
no reading at home sought city life and city
dissipation as soon as they we're seventeen
or eighteen. All will do well to heed this
testimony OF farmer who has known how
hard the struggle for footing on a free soil
without capital is, and how valuable and
comparatively cheap are the aids which
good reading brings to him. In this age of
general intelligence, the mind must be ca
tered to and books and papers furnished ;
and not only this, but, iu this age of cheap
and artistic chromos, pictures can also be
brought to use in making home attractive.
The farmers life is the most independent of
any and there is no reason why it may not
be as attractively surrounded.
Year: 1870

At spiritual circle the other evening a
gentleman requested the medium to ask
what amusement was most popular in the
spiritual world. The reply was, Reading
our own obituary notices.
Year: 1870

An exchange asks: why is it that the
census-taker is required to write down the
name of every body in his district 2" We
presume it is done in order to carry out a
determination on the part OF the government
to settle definitely the question as to wheth-
er or not there is within the United States
man of the name of John Smith.
Year: 1870

At Kingston, Canada, dry goods clerk
was recently accommodated with the loan of
a revolver to blow out his brain. with, in
order to spite lady who had rejected him
him and married another On sober second
though he sold the revolver and got drunk.
Year: 1870

Music IN OUR PUBLIC ScHoOLs.-This
subject is beginning to be more discussed,
and no doubt music has claims to larger
place among school studies than it has
hitherto occupied. The able address of
Daniel B. Hagar, delivered before the Mu-
steal Convention at the Boston Music Hall,
a few months since, has already excited a
powerful influence in this direction, and in
quiries are being made with regard to the
best method of adopting the reforms which
have been suggested. Without a doubt
music is the art which is most fostered
among US, and parlors are not considered
fully furnished that lack piano. We are
not only musical people, but We are des-
tined eventually to become great musical
nation. 1t is necessary, therefore, that we
devise some means of educating, to this
end, the rising generation. In Germany,
no one can be a school teacher who has not
a thorough knowledge of music, and the
divine art there is taught, as here, in the
common schools We hope that it may
soon be more generally taught among US
for its influence On physical Development
alone is one of the utmost Importance by
tending to keep the lungs and vocal organs
in a sound and vigorous. condition. 1t is,
however, in its moral power, that its espec-
ial excellence lies, and this is evident to all
who know its mysterious influence on the
mind and heart There is no better way of
combining moral culture with intellectual
attainment than by incorporating music as
a branch of common school education
Year: 1870

A rather bashful young man, after a long
and arduous courtship, found himself one
bright evening the betrothed Of apretty girl


the very pink of modesty. He was about
to take his departure, aud after lingering
about the door for some time he declared
and protested to Miss Sallie that he couldn' t
and wouldn't leave until she had kissed him


Of course Miss Salie blushed beautifully
red, and vowed in return that she could not
and would not do that-sbe never had done
such thing, and meyer would until she was
married. The alteration became exciting


until the gentleman got huffed and declared
if she couldn't kiss him he wouldn't have
her, and was marching off. She watched
him to the door, and seeing be was in ear
nest, and that she would lose him unless
something was done, she said coaxingly,
Come back, then; III split the difference
with you. You may squeeze my hand -
Year: 1870

MANSION HOUSE, Clearield, Pa This.
w well known hotel. near the Court House. is
worthy the patronage of the public. The table
will be supplied with the best in the market The
best of LIQUORS kent JOIN DOUGHERTY
Year: 1870

BY reference to the proceedings of the
Supervisors, which We publish in full to-day,
it will be seen that the $250,OO0 of railroad
stock held by the county has been sold Tor
par and on the same conditions and at the
same price which the Board has bee u author.


lied 10 sell for for the last four years. This
result has been brought about by the oper-
atous Of an outside party who holds laNge
amount Of stock in tie Company, Of wbi'
we have been coGDizant for the past i've
months, but of which we do not nov pro
pose to speak more particularly.


That Placer was entitled TO much great
er sum for Der pro rata on the construction
Of the road, and in divilend-, we know and
all our readers know, bat notwithstanding
this, we are pleased aud gratfed at this sale,
Counties cannot fight corporations as stock
holGegs, and never Should become such By
this sale we receive money enough to take
up our railroad bouds, which leaves Placer
ont Of debt with the exception of the ri-
fling sum Of some @5 coo in outstanding
warrants.


We feel relieved, and the people of the
county should leel relieved at getlug lid
of this stock aud getting in our bonds, and
above all at the final separation of the coun-
ty as a stockholler in the Central Pacific
Railroad OF California, from this corporation.
Sacramento sold her stock at seventy cents
on the dollar, but we get par. We beat
Sacramento and we know how we beat her
which we sometime in the future may tell
We, Che taxpayers Of PIacer) have paid
about $4,000 for our experience in voting
ourselves stockholder in corporation, let
that suffice fos the people Of Placer for all
future time, Placer again stands proudly
before her sister counties of the State, out
Of debt and those who have contribuie .
from good motives 10 this result shall have
each for himself the full need Of praise.


ID. O. Mills & Go. boueht the stock but
they were operating in The corner"
Year: 1870

AUBURN, April 18Th, 1870.
Office Of the County Clerh Of Placer county
STATE Of CaHfornia, and er-c6icjo Clerh Of
the Board Of Supervisors Of said County:


1t appearing to the satisfaction of the under
signed that it is proper and necessary that a
special meeting of the Board OF Supervisors Of
Placer county should be called and held for the
transaction Of the business OF said county, 1t is
by them hereby ordered that such special
meeting be called and held at the Office Of the
County Clerk OF Placer county, in Auburn in
said county at the hour of two o'clock, +. M.
of This the 3th day of April, 1870 for the pur-
pose of said Board taking action in reference to
the sre of the twenty five hundred shares OF the
Capital Stock Of the Central Pacific Railroad
Company OF California owned and held by said
county, and for determining and fixing the price.
terms and conditions Of the said sale OF said
Year: 1870

The NATIONAL GAZETTE -1his is the til
tie Of a new Democratic paper Published at
Nevada City by The National Gazette Print
ing Company. The paper is published da-
ly and weekly, makes a good live appear
ance and cannot be otherwise than sue
cess. The people of Placer and Nevada
have always been fraternaI in heir relations,
aud if. we are not so with our cotem. on The
other side Of Bear River 1T shall not be our
fault. We wish the Company every sue.
Aess.
Year: 1870

The trial of Thomas Cotsrell, for the
murder Of his brother last Christmas, is in
progress at Jacksonville. The defense set
forth that there was no malice in the case
and that both were intoxicated at the time
of the alteration
Year: 1870

"Spare moments are the gold dust OF
/ time" When Queen Elizabeth lay
upon her dying bed, she cried, in the
! deepest sorrow and anguish, "Mil-
/ lions of money would L give for an
! inch of time.n At that moment any


who would have Offered her gold, dia-


mOnds, or power, more than she ever
before possessed, who would have bore
to her the news of a splendid victory,
or paid the most delicate compliment
would have been thrust aside to make
room for any one who could have pro-
lOnged, even for an hour, the life of
the dying Queen. Time is n priceless
gift of God to weak humanity. We


are placed i'm this world for a purpose,
and time is given to lis to fulfill our
allotted task. If we act in unison with
the Almighty, we find that not one


moment need be unemployed. The
service of God, the improvement of


our talent, and the bestOwal of charity


upon those less favored than our
selves, will fill up every inch of time.


As the minute PARTICLES of which gold


dust is composed glitter i'm the light of


the sun, so shall the apparently insig-


nificant actions which OCCUPY but Il


moment, brighten the page of our


lives, when the powerful light of the
dissOlving elements shall expose it to


the scrutiny of the All seeing Judge.


In view of such Il time should We not


gather up the fragments, the minutes


aye, the seconds d? As short time


will suffice To say that which may


save another from committing sin rs


would be occupied in mOmentarily


gratifying ourselves. We cannot cal
culate the ultimate value of hours and


minutes, but we know that, rs gold
dust carefully gathered becomes valu-
able, so we may expect To become


happy reapers of an Invaluable treas


ure harvest, if We faithfully garner
and cluster times golden fragments.
Year: 1870

Henry Ward Beecher gives the fol-
lowing excellent advice:


We can sing away our cares easier
than We can reason them away. The
birds are the earliest tO sing in the
morning the birds are more without
care than any thing else know Of
Sing in the evening. Singing is the
last thing the robins do. When they
have done their daily wOrk-they
have flown their flight, and picked up
their last mOrsel of food, and cleans
ed their bills on a napkin of n bOugh,
then on a top tWig they sing one song
for it, They dream music, for some
times in the night they break forth
in singing, and stop suddenly after
the first note, startled by their own
voice. o, that we might sing eve
ming and morning and let song touch
song all the way through. As was
returning from the country the other
evening, between six and seven
O'Clock, bearing basket of flowers, /
met a man that was apparently the
tender of a mason. He looked brick
and mortar all over. He had worked
the entire day, and had the appear
ance Ofa man that would not be afraid
of work. He was walking on with a
light step, and singing himself as he
passed down streets, though he had
been working the whole day and near
ly the whole week. Were it not that
my thoughts came too late, should
have given him a large allotment of
my flowers. IL he had not been out of
my sight when the idea occurred to
me, should have hailed him and
said; "Have you worked all day ,"
"Of course l have" he would have
said. "Are you singing?' "Of course
| am" ''Then take these flowers
home and give them to your wife, and
tell her what blessing she has i'm
you" 'Iaaisf


o, that we could put songs under
our burdens! o, that We could extract
the sense OF sorrow by sOngI Then
these things would not poison so
much. Sing in the house. Teach
your children to sing. When troubles
come, go to them with songs. When
griefs arrive, sing them down. Lift
the voice Of praise against cares.
Praise God by singing; that will lift
YOU above trials of every sort. At
tempt it. They sing i'm heaven; and
among Gods people upon earth, song
is the appropriate language of Chris
tian feeling. .- .
Year: 1870

IfyOu wish to kill town put up no
more buildings than you are Obliged To
occupy yourself IfyOu should have
an empty building, and any one should
wish to rent it, ask about three times
its value. Look at every new conner
with a scOwl. Turn a cold shoulder To
every business man and mechanic who
seeks a home among YOU. Go abroad
for your wares, rather than purchase
of your own merchants and manufae-
lures at the same prices. Refuse To
advertise 50 that persons at distance
will not know that any business is be-
ing done in your city. a prompt,
close observance of these rules will
ruin any town i'm two Chicd-
90 Real Estate Journal.
Year: 1870

LOYellness.-It is not your neat
dress, your expensive shawl, or pret-
ty figures that attract the attention OF
men of sense. They look beyond
these. 1t is the true lOveliness of
your nature that wins and continues
to retain the affection Of the heart.
Young ladies sadly miss it who labor
to improve their outward looks and
bestOw not a thought ON their minds.
Fools may be won by gewgaws, and
fashionable, snowy dresses; but the
W ise and substantial are never caught
by such traps. Let mOdesty be your
dress. Use pleasant language, and
though sou may not be eOurted by
fOp or sOt, the good and truly great
will love To liRger in your footsteps.
Year: 1870




Joe started up, with an oar raised
as if he would brain him; but mas,
tered himself, sat down again, anG
cOntented himself with cursing him
and his noise.


The boat sped on at last, riding ev.
enly over the bright water, and show
ing no signs of the awfulness of its eT-
rand, except perhaps in the stiffness
and uprightness of the four men, each
of whom kept his pipe in his mouth in
a steady business-like way.


The little Sailing-bOat, to which the
dark little line was attached, was
reached. A man-not JOe-unfasten-
ed the rope, and tied il to tho Other
boat and presently the four erect fig,
ures were rowing shOrewards, and
the dark line coming with them, held
i'm tow at about three yards distance.
Steadily, gently it came along nearer
and nearer, with the bright sunshine
upon it and the gaze of all the town
Nearer and nearer it came, till il be.
gan to assume other shape and sub.
stance than the thin black line it had
before appeared.


The crowds pressed close to the pier.
side and to the edge of the parade, and
were beginning to distinguish the
white face from the dark clothes Oi
the floating form, when one of the
four bOatmen took large dark piece
of stuff from the bottom of the boat,
and pulling the rope till the drowned
mar was nearly close to it, threw il
carefully over, entirely cOncealing the
face and form.


''That was father" l heard young
Mary say. 30 mother, how good OF
him! / couldn't help looking, and il
would have been so horrible to see it r'


JOe's terrOrs that his crime would
find him out when the face of the
dead man was seen were grOundless
for it was SO fearfully injured and
changed, that not one of Jacks old
mates recognized him as they placed
the body in 4 shell, and bore it as that
OF stranger, and laid it inside a shed
in the cOal-yard.


At night, when pair of strong but
listless arms were thrown over the
door there, and a pair of wild coal
black eyes were fixed on my fire,
was bad enough to almost pity the
poor wretch. | knew something OF
the misery he suffered. / knew that
if the picture of that bright sea and
the pier-stands, and the black line
moving up and down, up and down.
i knew that if this was so clear before
Bly eyes wherever turned that night
it was all far more horribly clear be-
fore his.


He didn't speak till went to push
him off and shut up for the night, and
then he muttered


al shall give up the game in the
morning. | shall go TO Chalmers
(Mr. Chalmers was magistrate), "and
tell all. What's the use of waiting
till his mother comes and knows him,
or TIL my lads find him out, as they
will,tO-morrow2 All the watermen and
and boys are ordered to go and look at
Year: 1870

hands, and bare breast were Of differ.
ent healthy sandy-brOwns; and his
eyes were of misty sea blue. He was
always singing, whether at sea with
Joe, or drawing out the bathing ma.
chimes for old Mary, or mending nets
and looking up at the pretty ladies on
the parade, or helping young Mary
fold the bathing-gOwns. Not that
Jack had much notion of any song
the thing he sang was a sort Of chant
ne might have caught from the waves
and stones when they mix and roll
over in fresh strong weather. There
was a surging sort of rise and fall in
Jacks song which made one feel that
the happiness which was the source OF
it was bOundless as the sea. His words
were his own, and, as well as any one
could catch them, were these, which
no doubt came to him as he was shov-
ing the heavy boat down the sands,
and expecting a fierce voyage of it
with Joe:
Year: 1870

BURLINGTON CEDAR RAPIDS, AND MINNESOTA
RAILROAD CoMPANY's FIRST MORTGAGE SEVEN PER
CENT FIFTY-YEAR SINKING FUND BONDS principal
and interest payable in gold, free OF Government
tax coupon OF registered convertible at the option
of the holder into stock of the Company at par which
privilege will at no distant day enable the holders
of these bonds TO realize upon them at price con-
siderably above par, besides paying about nlne C9
ser cent currency interest in the meanwhile. The
established character of this road running as Vt does
through the heart of the most thcky-setted portion
of the great State of Iowa. together with ITS present
advanced condition and large earnings, warrant us
in unhesitatingly recommending these bonds to In
vestors as in every respect undoubted security
limited quantity are still offered at 90 and interest
by HENRY CLEws & Co., No, 81 Wall-st.
Year: 1870

will take place. Governor Chamberlain accom-
panied by his ul Staff will conduct the review and
conveniences will be provided for the public to wit
the same.


For the evening there has been provided mag.
nifcent display OF
Year: 1870

This is the compliment my husband
usually pays me during the reason Of
pumpkin pies, viz "My wife makes
tle 6est pumpkin pies eat any
where"


Aud this is my recipe for making
them:


Cut the pumpkin in nalf, put it in a
dripping pan skin side down latter
the seeds are remOvedl, in slow Ov-
Ell; bake until all the good can b.
easily scraped from the rind with a
spoon; if it is as brown as nicely bak-
ed bread, all the better; mash finely,
and to one quart add quarter of d
pound of butter while hot, when cool
sweeten to the tIst-; one pint of milk
or cream (if cream be used three eggs
will be sufficient, If milk four will be
better), beat them separately; stir in
the yOiks, two tsaspUunfuls of cinBa-
mon, one of nutmegs. wine glass Of
wine or brandy; lastly, add the white
of the eggs, It rring but little after
they are addict to the mixture; bake
in a quick oven.
Year: 1870

We are glad to note that the decency
Of New York 50 far prevailed over is
pruriency that Surratt was attended
by an audience not large enough to de-
fray his expenses. The object which
he TRANQUILITY acknowledges himself IN
have in view in his ''lecture" is there
fore defeated mere, as is to be hoped il
may be everywhere else. A convict
Ell thief once put in TO the judge plea
of The same SOFT as Surratt's. "Well,
your Honor, must live;;"tO whom the
C ear headed jurist responded: 'I see
no necessity for that" 1t does not
seem even to have occurred to Sur
ratt that between dying and living by
such means as he proposes to himself
the former is clearly preferable. OF
the two alternatives let US commend
suicide to him as being much more
creditable to him and immeasurably
more edifying to his fellOw-citizens.-
Judas IscariOt had tie grace to hang
himself even after he got lis money.
We STE no reason why Surratt, who
has not got his money, which he has
made himself an abOminatiOn for,
should not emulate the example.-N
y. World.