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Year: 1875

and look through your library, and
then having looked through your Ii
brary, look on the stand where you
keep your pictorials and newspapers,
and apply the Christian principles 1
have laid down this morning. If
there is anything in your home that
cannot stand the test, do not give it
away, for it might spoil an immortal
soul; do not sell it, for the money
you get would be the price of blood;
but rather kindle fire on your kitch-
en- hearth, or in your back yard, and
then drop the poison in it, and keep
stirring the blaze until from preface
to appendix there shall not be sin
gle paragraph left, and the bonfire in
Brooklyn shall be as consuming as
that one in the streest of Ephesus.-


Idtmdge.
Year: 1875

A very well executed crayon portrait
of the former publisher of THE HER
AID, and present president of THE
HERALD PRINTING COMPANY, hangs
above our desk, and looks down upon
us as we write. Twenty-Five years of
legitimate, but illy-rewarded, labor in
the newspaper field, have left their
traces upon his face, as, indeed, they
would have done upon the brow of the
Egyptian Sphynx passing through the
same ordeal, but they have left behind
that genial, gentle expression so char
acteristic of the man and all his ac-
ticns. A more honest face never looked
er's pencil, and q kindlier or gentler
heart never beat more modestly
through the columns of n newspaper.
We might almost say, his pen had
never written line that, dying, he
would wish to blot.


This is not the language of empty
compliment or fulsome panegyric, Out
slight tribute to his modest and genu-
inc worth. He has always striven,
during long and honorable career, to
hold back the fiery tongue orpen which
would convert his columns into a tilt
ing field for the weapons of abuse or
invective. Other chiefs of newspapers
may have made louder hlare of trum-
pets, or carried loftier crests, but none
ever broke more lances for the right,
or wore more nobly and purely the
golden blazon OH their shields, " Do
do unto others as you would have them
unto YOU" than the original Of our
picture.
Year: 1875

According to Deherian, leaves
kept in confined atmosphere in
darkness will absorb all OF the oxy-
gen, and still continue 10 givo of
carbonic acid, the resistance to as.
phyxia varying with the species.
The rapidity of growth and the
energy of respiration Of plants are
both favored by obscure heat and
it is shown that the internal com.
bustion, by the absorption of oxy-
gen and the emission OF carbonic
acid, is the origin of part of the
heat necessary to the elaboration Of
new proximate principles in the
plant.
Year: 1875

The unlimited confidence and liberal
patronage bestowed on the Texas Real
Estate and Gold Distribution, of which
am the manager, is a subject of gene
raj remark. The postoffice records of
this city show that we have received
twenty-five times as many postoffice
orders and registered letters with
money than a similar enterprise of
this city of larger pretensions. The
management take great pleasure in ac-
knowledging their gratitude to the
public, with the assurance that the
drawing will positively take place on
the 30th of June, 1875. Our October
drawing took place with but one post
ponement, and so would this, but for
circumstances (see advertisements and
circulars) utterly unavoidable. Our
success is such that we can safely
promise TO refund every cent Of money
and present every ticket holder with a
Texas farm, If the drawing does not
take place on the 30th of june 1875.


We also offer plan (see advertise
ment whereby those buying tickets
can keep their money in home bank
till the drawing takes place. go
i J,E. FOSTER, Manager.
Year: 1875

Get all the bones you can find
Put into q wide wooden trough,
500 to 1000 pounds at time take
pure sulphuric acid (60 degrees
quality), at the rate of two carboys
to a ton Of bones. Sprinkle over
the top with dirt; allow them to
remain day or two, and uncover
ing, the bones will fall to pieces
upon the slightest touch. Spread
out on the floor to dry, and you
will have a superphospbate better
than can be bought.
Year: 1875

1t is related that when an old
friend of Mrs. Lincoln went to her
recently and told her plainly that
she was insane, and that her best
friends felt it was best for her to go
to an asylum, the unfortunate
woman said: at may be so, and
what if it is so, what wonder is it
Have l not had enough cause to de
range any woman's brain2 Did i
not see my husband assassinated
before my eyes? Have | not been
homeless for years, and have | not
buried all my children, with the ex-
ception Of Robert? Do you wonder
that am deranged 2"
Year: 1875

There were ninety and nine that safely lay


In the shelter of the fold,
But one was out on the hills away


Far off from the gates of gold
Away on the mountains wild and bare
Away from the tender Shepherds care.
Lord thou hast the ninety and nine,


Are they not enough for thee?
But the Shepherd made answer this of mine


Has wandered away from me,
And although the road be rough and steep
L go the desert to find my sheep.
But none of the ransomed ever knew,


How deep were the waters crossed,
Nor how dark the night that the Lord


passed through


Ere he found his sheep that was lost.
Out in the desert he heard its cry,
Sick and helpless and ready to die.
Lord, whence are those blood drops all the way


That mark out the mountains track?
They were she'd for one who had gone astray


Ere the Shepherd could bring him back.
Lord, whence are Thy hands so rent and torn
They are pierced tonight by many a thorn.
And all through the mountains thunder riven


And up from the rocky steep
There rose cry to the gate of heaven,


Rejoice, have found my sheep y
And the a. gels re-echo around the throne,
Rejoice, for the Lord brings back His own"
Year: 1875

Perhaps at the outset Of the strug-
gle, when everything was in an Uniform
ed state, there was no one man who
did better work or exerted a wider
and more benign influence on the
troops around Boston than Mr.. Avery.
Entering into the cause fthe colonies,
before hostilities commenced, with an
earnest and zeal that knew no abate-
ment, he so infused his spirit into his
people that they stood as one man on
the question that divided so many
other parishes. 1t had been arranged
that the announcement of open hostili-
ties should be made by a courier on
horseback, beating drum hung at the
saddle-b bow, as he rushed through the
street When the tap of that drum
broke on Mr.. Avery's ear his whole
strong nature was intensely aroused.
He was settled at Gaysboro at the
time, and had preached patriotism to
his people till they believed that to
fight for freedom was to fight for God
and now came the solemn question:
what was his duty in the momentous
crisis that has arrived? Men were few.
leaders were wanted, and great exam
Piles needed. He felt at once that
duty called him to the battlefield to
act in whatever capacity circumstances
Or Providence might direct He laid
his case befor God, in earnest, solemn
prayer, and after much calm deliberat-
ion, resolved to leave his parish at once.
The next Sabbath morning, after he
had finished his discourse, he told his
people it was his farewell sermon; that
he had sought the direction Of Him
whom it was his earnest endeavor to
serve faithfully, and whose will alone he
sought to obey. God would take care
of them, he said he himself must go
to the army. But he had no thought
of going alone After the services
were over, he stood on the steps of the
church and called around him his con-
gregation. saying that, having perform
ed the duties of the sanctuary, he now
wished to perform those Of a-patriot.
He then made stirring appeal to them
to accompany their pastor to the field
of battle. He spoke of the greatness
and sacredness of the cause, of their
duty to coming generations, the desper-
ate character of the struggle, and the
great need Of soldiers. In that little
parish twenty men Immediately rallied
around him and elected him their cap
tain. The news spread into the sur
rounding region, and the neighboring
ministers assembled: together and ag-
reed to take turns in supplying his pull
pit during his absence. He arrived,


with his little band, in Northampton
on Saturday night. His coming was
soon known by old and young, as was
also the fact that he would preach next
day. The entire town turned out to
hear him. His sermon was strong
appeal to the patriotism of his hearers,
and in the morning volunteers came
pouring in, spelling his little band
greatly. He then kept on his way,
arriving at Cambridge on Saturday,
the 29th of April. The news of his
coming had preceded him, and the
troops were assembled on parade to re-
ceive the reverend captain,' as he
was called, and his company. The
! next day from the top of rum hogshead
Year: 1875

n snort Dip Into Natural History.


One sunny morning in summer, down
the pathway, still sparkling with the
dewy moisture, came stealthily moving
the long, ithe form of a mink. Her
fur looked worn and rusty when the
sunlight struck her as she skulked be-
tween the tussocks of grass. Occasion
ally she halted to look about her, alert
for anything eye could see or ear could
hear; but hearing nothing but the
sweet notes of a sOng-sparrOW and the
complaining cry of a cat-bird among the
alders, she again moved on. As she
reached the muddy edge of the brook,
she trod more daintily, then, winding
among the pickerel-weeds, swan down
stream, hardly disturbing the water,
only making long, wedge shaped wake
as she stole into the shadowy edge of
the brook. Suddenly she came up,
struggling with something that swayed
and pulled her about, disturbing the
quiet stream, and sending a muddiness
down with the current. But she bore
the almost unmanageable wriggling eel
(for this it was) to the stone wall, and
drawing herself and burden mp out of
the water on the large stone, read
iusted her hold, and seized the creature
back of the head. Then bracing her
self to suck the blood, the thrashing,
struggling eel grew gradually weaker
and weaker, until 1t looked perfectly
limp and lifeless. Then she jumped
from the wall. dragging the eel longer
than herself, up through the grass, tax
ing a different and more concealed way
than the one by which she came, and
soon disappeared altogether.


In the thick-banked wall of this barn
ova Ln hillside ha ho6 bcTs TyortTcy oy7H
after they grew large enough to require
something more substantial than natures
first provision, the mother used to bring
them fish of different kinds-eels, ducks
and like prey. So slyly and stealthily
did she keep herself, that she was not
seen until the young were half grown,
and looked like little fawn-colored wea-
sells; when she betrayed herself by
bringing this food, which impeded her
movements. By travelling the same way
so many times she grew bold.


These mink are very destructive to
fish: and when the brook is low they can
be tracked for long distance by the
dead eels, pickerel, sinners and some
times trout, lying along the bank, the
mink only sucking the blood and leav-
ing the fish unmutilated. One autumn
some small sinners, meant for bait In
pjckerel fishing through the ice, were
kept in an old tub set in the spring
near the brook, and one night all these
fish were killed by a mink, who left
them laid in a row on the ground. They
looked precisely as if some person had
so arranged them. But through the
back of each fish, near the head, were
four tOoth-marBs, this being frequently
the only mark the mink makes on his
victim.-OId and -NeaO.
Year: 1875




Col. PEEL has just returned from
the East end of the county. With what
has been subscribed, together with


amounts promised, he has about three
thousand dollars, this makes about
nine thousand for that end of the
county. He says all the people are
favorable to the Los Angeles and In
dependence Railroad, and will
give further assistance rather than lie
it fail. The crops in the East end OF
the county were never better. The
sheep raisers are uneasy about range,
there is so much of the land being
plowed up. No need of rain there yet.
Year: 1875

MEssRs. TIFFANY & PAINTER have
sold the EVening Express to joint
stock company, and last nights issue
of the paper appeared under the title
and ownership of the "E'epresS News
paper and Printing Company The
Express is under the editorial control
and business management of Messrs.
AYERS & LYNCH, two able writers
and experienced newspaper men, who
will make it the evening as the HER
AID is the morning paper of Southern
California.
Year: 1875

Moore's Restaurant, on Commercial street,
is the proper place to 60 for a good meal, with


good cup OF coffee or tea to drink with it,
There Is probably no restaurant on the Pacific
coast where SO many Of the substantials and
SO many of the luxuries may be had for 25 cts.
Don't forget the place-Moore's Restaurant,
Commercial street. Private eating rooms have
been neatly fitted up for the accommodation
of ladies. i5-tf
Year: 1875

Camp Is to-day. The body was in a
remarkable state of preservation.


Doctor Shaw, the well known mill
wright, stabbed himself fatally at
Banner mill, this morning. He was
suffering from delirium tremens.
Year: 1875

WE are still considerably be-fogged
as to the causes which led to the defeat
of Senator Carpenter. First the sapient
U'Ton informed US that the Senator was
not acceptable to the Reiormers."-
And now we have the same authority
for saying that the railroad" Republic
ans beat him. OF course VIC all know
railroad men arc not ref, rmers,
Year: 1875

SPEAKER HAINEs, of the Illinois AS
sembly, does not reflect much credit on
the Democrats and Independents who
combined to give him his position. The
Illinois papers charge that he used his
power to keep satellite of his own in
place at the expense of the State and
over-ruled oil parliamentary courtesies to
do So
Year: 1875

MERCHANDISE ofapy sort not Weighing
more than four pounds can now be sent
by mail. For two cents one may send q
package weighing . quarter Of o pound
from Maine TO California and eight cents
will carry pound across the continent.
Year: 1875

TIE Now York Wo,3d demonstrates
that in 400 years the earth will fall into
the sun and be burnt up and then it goes
on lying about Louisiana and Grant
again just as though nothing was going
to happen, ,-BaGcti0 Express.
Year: 1875

RED BLUFF people want their China
town. removed to some other part of the
town than what it now occupies. If all
tho Chinatowns of the State could be
moved back to the Celestial Empire we
don't know Of any one who would com.
ulain
Year: 1875

A kansas farmer purchased revolv-
or for his wife and insisted on target prac-
tice SO she could defend the house in
case of his absence. After bullet was
dug out of his leg and tho COW buried, he
said he guessed she'd better shoot with
Year: 1875

The Tweedocrats say nothing
in their platform this year for the
comfort Of the farmer aud nothing
about cheap transportation. They
give utterance to no word OF
pain or sympathy for the soldier but
weep over their Southern friends.
They utter not word about the
law regulating railroads, but propose
to repeal that other law which reg
ulates the sale of their beloved
whiskey. They care nothing for the
school laws and tax laws, but are
opposed to Sunday laws and the
National banking law.
Year: 1875

The Old World, too as well AS our
own is being swept with storms and
rocked with tornadoes. Our dis
patches this morning tell Of most
terrible storm, causing great loss of
lite and property 2n one of the Older
cities. Five hundred people are
missing, and one hundred are known
to have lost their lives.
Year: 1875

At So'clock the jury retired TO
its usual roostiing place, ard at 10
O'Clock the court house was locked
for the night" This is getting to be
the regular nightly song Of the tele-
graph.
Year: 1875

The we'll known head of the Repository
ring and the active and efficient leader
of the party, is Louis Schaefer. Things
have been tending that way for years
past. 1t is some eight years since the
Republican leaders sent him east to buy
the gas fittings for the Court House. On
his return he rampaged and helped to
elect the radical county ticket that fall.
Ever since that he has been laboring
with the same gang, at times more activ-
" than at others. Our readers are aware
that in 1873 he was the active and chief
magnate of the Republican leaders, He
it was that opened and led the crusade
against Governor Allen, hoping thereby
to defeat the Democracy in the county.
Year: 1875

THE Canal Investigation being con-
ducted by the Joint Legislative Commit
tee of the New York General Assembly
is attracting considerable attention in
that State. Though they have not gone
very deep into the subject as yet, some
Interesting facts have been elected,
Year: 1875

THE weather has been quite variable
during the past week, winter mostly pre-
yailing. Old Sol did his best every day
and generally succeeded in melting the
snow fall of the previous night; only,
however, to have the snow renewed the
night following. Several nights ice was
frozen about half an inch thick.
Year: 1875

EDO the Louschaefer Repository Preyer
ring call it Know Nothing victory Or
is il Just a good Grant Administration
radical victory? Some people would
like to know; speak out, LousChaefer &
Year: 1875

THE elections in Connecticut and
ohio did not show the reaction" against
tAe Democracy so glibly spoken of by
the Grant journals. 1t would seem to be
in the other direction, very decidedly.
Year: 1875

How IT IS DONE have seen boys, and
even men, who in moving sheep from one field
to another would let down only one eud Of the
two or three top bars or rails, and compel the
sheep to jump over the rest, thereby, running
the risk of breaking their legs, and learning
them to jump. The common sense Way! to take
sheep out Of field is either to open wide your
gate, or let your bars or rails clear down, anC
thus give the flock clear eangway, and aVolo
further trouble. -1American Farmer.
Year: 1875

Here is an account of the dress that the Bel
gian Princess Royal wore at her wedding 1T
is of the richest white satin, decolletee, with
short sleeves. in accordance with the etiquette
usual on royal marriages. The tram, which IS
very long,is trimmed with lovely Brussels lace,
embroidered with silver The tabler, entirely
made of lace, was much admired it is trim
med on each side with crepe sse, embroidered
with silver, and the trimming is repeated on
the corsage. The whole dress is covered by a
magnificent veil of Brussels lace, which reaches
from the head to the extremity of the train.
TUFTS of orange flowers will ornament the robe
when the ceremony takes place.
Year: 1875

Dress Makers recommend 1t as being the best
Corset to fit dress over because it is cut in
such manner that the front and back seams fl
like seams to dress.


And it is superior to any other Corset now in
USE because its peculiar style of cutting gives
sufficient flu lness at the bosom, without folding
over The hips, is longer front and back than or
dnmry Corsets, and in fact is the only Corset cut
in this FORM =,


In addition to the DOLLAR CORSET will
be found large assortment of other makes at
the following prices-Sl.25, Sl.5O, SLID, S25O,
So so and SIS.
Year: 1875

To KEEP PLows FROM RUST. boy of
fourteen" or any other person, does wrong to
allow his plow to become so rusty that great
labor is required to scour them. There is no
help for it in that case, but to scour with a
piece of brick and sand and water, until the
mould board is bright. But if, when the
pillow is done with, the mould board is covered
with thick lime wash, or good coating of tai
low, and put into dry place, under cover, there
will be no need to spend whole day in scour-
ing it when it is wanted for use again.-44mer-
ican AoricultariSt.
Year: 1875

A PHILOSOPHICAL correspondent of the


Tribune attempts to account for the rush and
hurry to be seen in the streets of New York.
His theory is this: In the vicinity of Nassau,
Wall and Broad streets, there are many hun
dreds of active, strong-minded business men
men whose minds constitute the real mo-
tive force that keeps in motion the gigantic
machinery of our great financial and COM
mercial systems-whose wills necessarily, are
strongly concentrated upon their responsible e
business transactions, until around each in
dividual there is formed nervous or vitaized
atmosphere which increases in intensity and
quantity in geometric ratio according to the
number of individuals collected together in
such state of mind. They are in feverish
haste, while anxiety is expressed in their
every action; and the emenations, projections
of the mind, SO to speak, partake
largely of these attributes. If this be
the case there would seem to be
danger that the promenaders in the vicinity
of Wall street would be so influenced by this
"vitalized atmosphere" that they would al
fall to picking each others pockets and
would feel an irresistible desire to gamble
and steal
Year: 1875

ONE of the business men Of Worcester has
a communication in the Spy in which he
takes the ground that there can be no pro-
lection from fires so long as such high build
ings are put up. He advocates the passage
ofa city ordinance forbidding the use OF wood
in the construction Of any part of buildings
more than ffty-fve feet from the ground, and
limiting buildings to four stories.% He asserts
that in Worcester no fourth floor except in
factories, will net the owner two per cent,
and no third floor tbree-and-a-half per cent.
on the cost,
Year: 1875

THE hearts of the New Hampshire Demo
Gratis appear to have failed them when the
time for action came, and they did not care
to carry out their scheme for getting posses
sion of the House. Perhaps the old clerk
disliked to sacrifice his reputation to party
exigencIes by making up false roll. There
is no evidence brought forward that he was
born in New Hampahire.
Year: 1875

THOSE prejudlced Indians actually believe
that white men will lie and cheat. Consider
ing how honestly and kindly we have always
treated them, and what noble specimens of
manhood we have sent out to deal with them,
their distrust is unaccountable. So sus-
picous race must be very treacherous them
selves; their treachery should be punished.
and the best way to punish them is TO take
their land, and we shall get at the gold in the
Black Hills after all. Such is the train of
reasoning familiar to the supreme Caucasian
mind
Year: 1875

In accordance with the spirit Of the Demo
cratic formula. "the more laborers the more
votes" Tammany Is about to increase the
number OF men employed on public works in
New York city. But as the appropriations
are limited wages have been reduced in order
to furnish employment for more men. The
two thousand laborers now under pay don't
like this much. They say they were induced
TO vote the Democratic ticket last fall by
promises Of plenty of work and by assurances
that the hard times wers solely attributable
to the Republican party. They are very mad
now because they have been lied to, and will
not be likely to rally at the poles with any
great enthusiasm next fall.
Year: 1875

SPOTTED Tail appears to be an observing
sort OF man. In one Of the conferences a.
Washington he remarked that he should pre-
fer not to sign the treaty until he had seen
the presents that are TO be given to his tribe.
In the course of negotiations during many
years, he had noticed that'presents invariably
grew very small before they reached the IT,
dans, and he was anxious to guard against
the shrinkage. He made no charges against
any one; very likely the atmosphere had
something to do with it. The Secretary as
sured him that the gifts would be put in the
hands of his best friends, but the chief was
inclined to think that they would be little
safer in his own. His experience with best
friends had not been calculated to promote
the growth of confidence,
Year: 1875

THE Republicans of Ohio have fine pros
pect for victory before them. They are rid
of the third term bug-bear, their platform is
excellent, and in their candidate for governor
they have man equal at least 10 the old me-
gatherium-tamer whom the Democrats will
nominate. The people of Ohio are tired OF
Democratic misrule, and are ready TO turn to
the Republican party once more.