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Year: 1875




Did you ever see . woman putting
down a carpet? How slow and un-
handy she is at the work. Mr.. Clarke
went home one day last week and
found bis wife putting down the carpet
in the parlor. He watched her for
awhile. He noticed how she'd careful
ly take a tack and fix it in. the carpet
and then strike it half dozen little taps
before she gave it one blow that forced
it into the floor. Then she'd gather up
another part Of the carpet, pull and pat
it, and strike in a nail the same way
as before. my dear. !" said Mr.. Clarke,
II think 1 could do that faster than
you do if you were to let me try"
"With great pleasure. said Mrs. Clarke
II know you're so handy" Clarke
took the paper Of tacks and the hammer,
and Topped down on bis knees on the
carpet. He grabbed hold Of the carpet
near whore the last tack had been driv-
en-. gave it pull and dragged ont
every tack on that side Of the carpet.
Then be had to get to work and pull
out the tacks. During this work he
kept informing his wife that carpet
couldn't be expected to stay put down
when the tacks wern't driven half way
to their heads. He'd show her how
tacks ought to be driven. Then be
took tack in bis fingers, inserted the
point in the carpet, raised the hammer,
and then he brought it down with trs-
mendous force. Then he gave a ysll.
flung the hammer through the window
jumped to his feet. plunged tive fingers
into bis mouth. and pirouetted about
the room. first on one leg and then on
the other. The loving wife went up to
him and said. "Dear. did you hurt
yourself? How sorry I am. Go down
in the basement and let the croton run
on yeur fingers. Thafll take the pain ont
Of them. If you want any amusement |
afterward. you can split some kindling |
wood. Your style Of putting down car
pet is novel. but not successful"
Clarke went dewn in the basement, but |
he didn't put his fingers under the cro-
ton. He went cut of the front door, |
and found place. where he could get |
some good rye, as be drank be kept |
''d-n cleaning house, any
how"
Year: 1875

To revenge is not valor, but to bear


Remorse is the echo of lost mother
Mans the circled oak woman The
ivy.


Iudolence and stupidity are frs,
cousins


There is music in all things if men
had ears.


Magnificent promises are always to
be suspected.


Virtue is the beauty, and vice the de-
formity of the soul.


An acre of performance is worth q
whole world of promise.


There is frightful interval between
the seed and the timber.


There is not string attuned to
mirth but has its chord of melancholy.


If a man empties his purse into his
head, no one can take it away from
him.


Purposes, like eggs. unless they are
hatched into action, will run into rot
tenness.


Measure not men by Sundays, with
out regarding what they do all the
week after.


All the rarest hues of human life
take radiance and are raiubowed out in
tears


The worth of a State, in the long
run. is the worth of the individuals
composing it.


am sorry to see how small piece
of religion will make a cloak Str
William Waller.


The chains Of habit are generally too
small to be felt till they are too strong
to be broken


While the world lasts the sun will
gid the mountain tops before it shines
upon the plain.


Pitch plucky man into the Nile.
says the Arabian proverb. and he will
come up with fish in bis mouth


As riches and favor forsake man,
we discover him to be a fool but no.
body could find it out in his prosperity.


True religion is the poetry Of the
heart; it has entertainments useful to
our manners it gives Us both happi-
ness and virtue.


If a man is not rising upwards to be
an angel, depend upon it be is sinking
downward to the devil. He cannot
stop at the beast


The habit of virtue cannot be formed
in closet. Habits are formed by acts
Of reason in a persevering struggle
through temptation.


I hate ingratitude in man more than
lying. vainnass, babblisg. drunkenness,
or taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood. -Shakespeare
Year: 1875

THE MEETING OF CoNG REss to-day
I3 M, will marke Il memorable epoeh IN
the history Of the Republic. For eight
teen years the Democratic party which
had, through compromise and conces-
sion, built up the country, again sue
oeeds to the control of the House of Re
personalities, and is looked to to initiate
1t is expected to so direct the national
legislation as will restore confidence,
and enable tho business interests Of the
country once more to assume that ener-
getic character which had given our peo-
pie prominence throughout the world.


Although Republican Congresses that
have preceded until now, have fail
ed utterly in this particular, there was
matter. 1t was only necessary for them
to reduce the expenses of the govern
ment and put an end to official rascality


1t was perhaps hard for party made
vp and controlled by class, such as con-
trolled the Republican party, to apply
the knife to its own friends, and all r p
peals from honest men to do this failed
to induce the effort. The party could
not reform itself. Therefore the Demo
cratic House will OF necessity have TO
commence the work. and complete it as
best il can, in opposition to a Republi-
can Senate and Republican President
and Cabinet.


The people demand Retrenchment of
Congress, ami the election OF Michael c.
Kerr, as Speaker is a guarantee that
the House of Representatives under
stand and mean to obey the instructions
Of its constituents. The only regret that
we have TO express at this election is that
10 pure a man as Mr.. Kerr is removed
from the floor of the House, where lie
wac conspicuous, and always dreaded by
the lobbyists and schemers.


II the Senate and Executive obstruct
and defeat the measures of Retrench-
LDent and Reform matured ana passed
by the House the people will at once see
that it will be necessary to annihilute
the Party which has for eighteen years
led the Republic into numerous and in
extricable difficulties, and robbed the
National treasury all the while of the
money gathered frem taxes levied upon
hard toll
Year: 1875

hR. KERR's ELECTION to the Speaker
chip is received by the Dem ocrAtic peo-
pie with great favor. The choice Of no
other man would have given SO much
assurance and satisfaction. Heis man
Of undoubted purity in politics as well
as in personal life; ana it is to such
men now that the country looks to assist
t cut of its difficulties.
Year: 1875

M. LAMAP's ADDEIss on taking the
hair at the Democratic caucus Is an
admirable one and IS receiving commen-
dation from all but the Radical newspa-
pers. Coming from Southern man


the Radical Congress sought to
disgrace, it Is especially distasteful to
them.
Year: 1875

We are pleased to see that the ADLER
journals of the Republican party eth
er openly oppose the third term scheme
or treat it as an impossibility. Presi-
dent GRANT gets but cold comfort from
such dignified journals as the New
York Times and the Chicago Tribune,
and the latter coolly suggests that
GRANT should run for a third term in
1880. The Tribune says in foxy
manner that President GRANT must
desire to retire on his laurels of states
manship and hints that four years of
another Presidents administration
will satisfy the people thathe is the
pilot needed to guide the ship of State
and then national demand will be
made for his elevation to the Presiden-
cy. This is kind of third term that
tho people are in favor of and Presi-
dent GRANT will consult the good of
his party and the desires of tho coun-
try, 10y stepping out to await the pub
lie demand for his return to power. AT
present we do not hear this popular
clamor for GRANTS reelection, but,
if there is anything in the signs of the
times, it is rising storm of public
opinion that will sweep Grant and
his Washington rings from power, and
they will never be re-instated.
Year: 1875

blunders in financial affairs, but we


will not apply the appellation OF


"beggars, sneaks, thieves, etc" to them


until we convict them of these crimes.


We believe they have discovered their
mistake and will make haste to correct
them. One mistake is now apparent
to all, viz-the act by which the gov
ernment refused to receive greenbacks
for all dues. If the currency could be
received for import duties, all the ma
tions dealing with this country would
take it as readily as gold, which would
bring it to par with specie at once.
But we are told that the government
would then have no visible means of
procuring funds to redeem its paper.
This is great mistake too. The gov
ernment has several thousand tax col
lectors scattered all over the country,
who collect annually over five hun
dred millions of dollars from the peO-
pie, the most of which goes into the
treasury of the government. AT this
rate all the currency will soon tbe re-
deemed-and destroyed-then the
government will call on the bankers
for the amount due from each. There
being no currency out these banks
must collapse, or forfeit the bonds they
left as security. We are not surprised
at the stringency of money matters in
the East; the tax collectors are re-
deeming the currency and it is getting
very scarce among the people. That
is what is the matter with them, and
if the government does not stop this
class of redemption It vii! be worse
yet. All that we want is to have the
government make gold the only legal
tender, and then make its currency
equal to gold. This latter can be done
as above indicated. The bond holders
and hard money men may say what
they please, but nation of forty-five
millions of people owing debt OF over
two thousand millions of dollars, with
only six hundred and fifty millions of
in all the land, must have something
besides a metallic currency to pay the
expenses of the government and liqui-
date their Indebtedness. We believe
the wisdom of our present Congress
will be equal to the task of arranging
our finances satisfactory to all.
Year: 1875

IT was rumored yesterday on the
streets in San Francisco that the fa-
nous race horses, Springbok and
Golden Gate, were to be sent to New
York. This would imply fear, on
the part of the owners of these IA
nous horses, that the great race
was to be failure. 1t would seem
that racing in California is destined to
an inglorious future unless the track is
divested of many of its repulsive feat
ures. The Pacific turf needs Il Bon
NER who will labor for the improve
ment of the horse from love of that
noble,animal and not from the mere
desire to win money on the success of
a horse race. Il - Ecezz>
Year: 1875

The following is the language used
in reference to our Government, by
our townsman III. ID. BARRows in an
article published in the evening E.c-
press of the 7th:


Beggars and sneaks desire to have the use
of capital that is not theirs, against the will
ofthe owner,) without paying for il; and
thieves only go a step further and seek to
get possession of other peoples capital with
no inten tion. OF returning it7much less of
paying anything for its use. Z & ihI


Although we are as far from being an
inflationalist as the hardest money
man in the State, we do not consider
the exposition which Mr.. BARRows
has given of this subject fair one,
neither do we commend the language
used Interference to the Government.
1t seems to be the general impression
of all who write on this subject, that
the government has attempted
downright swindle upon the people,
by issuing It's small notes as circu-
lating medium, and has got value re-
'ceived from somebody for these worth
less notes, and pocketed it, and is
about to repudiate the redemption Of
them. This is not only an unfair way
to present tlds subject, but it is false
from beginning to end. The Govern
ment has not received dollar for these
notes, but as matter of accommoda-
tion issued them and loaned them to
the bankers throughout the country,
and hold the bankers responsible for
them. The government has received
as security for their payment bonds
upon which the government pays an
annual interest of about 81 per cent.
Now Mr.. BARRows would have the
government call in these greenbacks
and give other notes for them which
viii draw compound interest, thus
making the government pay double
and compound interest on three hun
dred and fifty millions of dollars. We
object to all such financeering upon
the part of the government. If Mr..
BARRows wishes to conduct his own
business upon that basis we have no
objection, but we seriously object to
being taxed to pay double interest to
benefit anybody. There is no doubt
but the authorities have made some
Year: 1875

To the Turn Verein Germania, and
all friends who assisted in paying the
last honors TO our beloved son, Freder-
ick Auten Trabant, we desire to return
our heartfelt thanks, and we trust that
the consolation bestowed at this time
ofour sore necessity, may return to
them many fold when all or any of
them are called upon to mourn the
Christening hand of death.


HEINRICH TRABANT and WIFE.
Year: 1875

THE DAILY and WEEKLY HER
AID has more than double the cir
culation of any other paper published
in Southern California. Businessmen
recognize it accordingly as the best
advertising medium South of San
Francisco.
Year: 1875

Many young men have fathers
that ore we'll off and they have no
ambition, and no particular prospect
They scorn trade. A man that is
too well-born for trade is very well
born for q gallows! Thousands of
parents, who, by industry, have
gained position which enables
them to destroy their children, take
the surest means of accomplishing
their destruction by encouraging
them in idleness, and allowing
them as they grow up to feel that
it is disgraccful to work at whatcv-
cr manual labor best suits his tai
ents, no matter whether his father
is minister, or n lawyer, or if sen
ator, or the President of the United
States. Many young men arc look
ing forward upon life with the gen
cral idea that they arc going to en-
JOY themselves. They arc provided
with all needful physical comforts,
and they mean to be happy. They
have no trade. They slight their
profession. Their whole governing
principle in life is to shirk anything
like work and they expect to have
enjoyment without industry. But
no man in this world will be happy
who violates the fundamental law
of industry. You must work if you
are going to be ahappy man. I know
you think tits hard; but if God had
meant that you should be butter
fly, you would be born butterfly
And as you wore not born q moth
or q miller, but man, you must nc
cept the conditions Of your man
hood. And if there is one principle
that is more important at the very
threshold of life than another, it is
that man is born to work


TRWat NeW YORKER.
Year: 1875

ROMANCE AND REALITy.-A lady
read the following paragraph in a
paper: "a young wife once cured
her husband of q disposition to ab-
sent himself from home atnights by
providing good dinner, and say
ing to him afterward, George, if
you find n swector spot than our
home describe it to mo, and T will
rival it if I die in tho attempt. A
kiss and q few tears completed the
victory This lady tried tho game
on her husband. He wasn't melted
bit; he merely said, "Whon you
can get the boys to come here and
smoke cigars and talk politics, and
you set up keg of lager, you can
count nc in. ] like the company
of the boys. [ do" Our lady saw
that sentiment had no effect on
him. So sho didn't throw horself
on his mock and hug and wot his
paper collar with tears; but sho
took a saucer and fred it at his
head, and followed it up with cup,
and ended by singing q dish Of
strawberries on his shirt BOSOM
Since that time he has been an OK
emplary husband. Yet he does
seem very anxious for her to visit
her dear mother as often aa four or
AYe times @ week.
Year: 1875

Dobbs finally abandoned his mat
rimonial intentions and resolved to
live the secluded life Of bachelor


Nevermorc would ho droam of
matrimony, and nevermore of the
widow Spriggins.


He was going to be q bachelor
misanthropo in the future and not
be pestored to death by the fair sex,
and the narrowing thoughts caused
by dreaming Of them. So long as
ho dreamed of matrimony, just so
long was lie in trouble.


Ho was not going to have it any
moro.


He would be as free and uncon-
fined as tho winds Of the field,
with undisputcd power to 60 and
come when he choose without be-
ing bedeviled by some imaginary
picture of q fair maid of sixteen
summers who might possibly be all
in all to him in tho misty future.


No!


He had made up his mind. The
future should sec him IN honorable
celibate Of great responsibility.
There is not tho slightest doubt
but that Dobbs was worry earnest in
his resolves but like n great many
others ho was not specially struck
with tho magnitude of them. BE
it to his praise, however, that he
kept them for number of days,
and stayed entirely sway from the
widow Spriggins.


A short time subsequent to his
avowal of nevermore mingling with
the fair sex, he resolved to 60 hunt
ing and for that purpose, strapped
on. his game bag, shouldered his
gun and sailed forth.


The morning was unusually pleas
ant, and Dobbs being in an enyia
bic franc of mind whistled away ns
he strollcd along.


Dobbs was not, in the common
acceptance Of tho word, skilled
sportsman, hence it was some min
utes before he sighted game. HI
had no sooner "sighted" than h'
carefully approached the place
placed the gun to his shoulder, tool
deliberate aim, and pulled the trig
ger. The lock flew down, but ther,
was no report. What was the mat
tor? He scrutinizod the gum
There were no cap on the tube
Adjusting one no again raised tn
gun to his shoulder, took aim blazet
away. Other than the sharp nois
of the cap there was no report
Dobbs iwas puzzled, he took out tn
!. ramrod and thrust it into the ba1
. rel. It. went in the whole length
a. "W6ll, I declare, muttored Dobbs
glancing around to see if any on
Y had been looking, 81 believe tn
thing isn't loaded"
Year: 1875

OIL CITY, Pa, September l0-At six
O'Clock this morning the lightning struck one
OF the tanks belonging to the Imperial oil
refining company, whose works are near this
plsce. The tank contained about eight thou.
sand barrels OF crude petroleum, which i'm
medately ignited, end owing to strong
north wind prevailing at the time, the fire
spread nearly over the entire works, Up to
TO this hour mine o'clock in the EVENING" II is
still burning. The loss in oil, both crude and
reAned, of which there was nearly forty thou
sand barrels, and on the buildings, machinery
and iron tankage, will not fall short OF two
hundred thousand dollars, upon which there
is no Insurance. The OilwOrkS were one of
the most extensive and most perfect in this
country, and wiz be almost entirely DESTROYED.
Year: 1875

We clip the following from an ex-
ch ange, which puts us to thinking
again. We have read everything we
could get on the subject and racked
our brain to discover, If possible,
common sense reason for the vast ex-
penditure of life and property in these
expeditions; but thus far our search
has been in vain. We have all the
while supposed that other people
knew all about it; consequently, we
kept quiet; lest we should expose our
ignorance. But it now seems that
other people are precisely in the same
fix; and it also appears from the fol-
lowing article that the very parties
who are interested in the enterprise
are not sa isfied that there is any
sense in it. The article is as follows:


There Is reason to expect better results from
the English expedition which will start for
the Arctic regions in the coming summer
than ere obtained from any Uf its predecess-
ors. Certainly, no exploring expedition for
FOlar seas before fiefed out has hal so much
money lavished upon it as tn $, and none has
been so vel nted TO profit by the accumu-
laed experience of the world in reference 10
Arctic explorations. The pal els relating to
the expedition have just been laid before Par
Lament, ana We are in possession for he first
time of all the particulars. Mr.. Disla.li short.
iy AFTER his accession to power last year Off


ciaily Informed the Admiralty that the Gov


ernment had resolved TO send an expedition
to explore the Arctic country and, If possible,
reach the pole. Since that time preparations
have been actively going Oh. A board of ma
val officers, experienced in Arctic navigation,
was formed FOR consultation g eat care was
exercised in the selection of a commanding
omcer. The SubinOrdinate officers scientific
assistants and crew have been picked from a
host al volunteers, the selection In each case
being decided by the physical and mental fit
ness oi the candidate for the special ork in
volved in Arctic neutrality-suspicious. in
this perilous labor being largely taken into
account. The advice of eminent men in all
departments OF science, as to the advantages
that may be derived from successful exaini-
natin Of the Polar regions has been invoke ed.
And to crown all, Parliament has made the
generous allowance OF nearly half a million
OF dollars 10 fit out the enterprise, and will
maintain IL on the same liberal scale.


The only advantage that we have
been able to discover is dependent en-
tirely upon the correctness of a theory
set forth by some modern philosopher
(his name we have forgotten) to the
effect that the accumulation of ice at
the North Pole was depressing that
end of the earth, and that it will even
tually become so heavy that the earth
will tip over and spill us all out. II
this theory should be favorably re-
ceived by the expedition, as We have
no doubt it will, we would respect
fully advise them, while up there, to
determine accurately the ratio of ac-
cumulation of ice and calculate pre-


cisely when the tipping of the earth


will take place, and advise us at once,
that we may prepare for the great
flop. The English Parliament car


send US check for this advice.
Year: 1875

Men are always eager to invest
money in any paying enterprise. 1t
is the duty of every man to make all
the money he can, honestly. Thrift
lessness is a sin no less than profanity.
"Be diligent in business" is both a
Divine and commercial Injunction.
Money, honestly acquired and used. is
one of life's greatest blessings.
Wrongly employed, it becomes a
curse. He who makes the most money
legitimately and uses it for the good
of humanity as well as his own, is a
benefactor. Such q man is public
spirited. He rises superior to the
petty claims of self and into vital
sympathy with the broader claims of
community and theState. He invests
his money, not simply because it will
pay him a dividend, but because it
will also benefit others. A man
should always strive to so invest as
that he may obtain the largest divi-
dends in an honest way. That which
is worth more than it costs should
ever be an object to engage capital.
Business men understand this; hence
they prefer to invest money in the
United States than in Mexico, in Los
Angeles than in Acapulco. The herds
and fiOcks of ABRAHAM were worth
more OH the plains than the city
property Of LOT in Sodom, because
the surroundings of ABRAHAM were
essentially moral, while those Of LOT
were licentious and wicked. The in
trinsic value Of the soil of the Nile is
doubtless much greater than that of
New England. Yet the poorest acre
in the latter is worth more for per-
manent occupancy than the same
amount of the richest land in Egypt.
Capitalists know these things. In
proportion AS licentiousness and law
lessness prevail, insecurity to prop
erty prevails. On the contrary, in
proportion to the vigorous moral con-
science that prevails, security to prop
erty prevails. This is clear to all.
Thus history and observation teach
that property is much more valuable
in Christian than unchristian coun-
tries. The former invites and secures
capital, the latter never. The strong
est evidences of a moral civilization,
such civilization as alone secures
property and makes its possession
stable are school houses and churches.
These things always add to the intrin-
sic value of property and cause it to
increase; while it is fact that the
percentage of such increase always
overbalances the cost of such edifices,
because they prove a general good.
When our High-schOol was built
every town lot i'm Los Angeles ac-
quired value much more than it had
before. Then let other school houses
be built and let churches be built and
still greater value will be given to our
city property by the outlay of money
for such purposes.