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Year: 1873

The early immigrant to California by
the southern route will remember the
grateful spectacle OF the palm tree grove
ot the mouth of Cahiulla Creek, dis
lance of thirty or forty miles EAST of
Warmers ranch, on the border of the
desert. To the Indians it WAS known as
the Spring of Thousand Palms" and
there they resorted to feed upon the
tender shoots and drink of the grateful
waters Of the spring. SO rare a blessing
in that region, and which the thirsty i'm
migrant also hailed with thrill of de-
light The San Diego (Cal.l Union says
that in the vicinity of this grove are to be
found numerous springs of various
kinds of mineral water; also, hot min
eral springs. The adjacent hills are OF
a clay formation, covered, as is also the
lowland Of the desert, with musquit trees.
The line Of survey taken by the engin-
GERS of the Texas Pacific Railway via San
Gorgonio Pass, has been run within
about three miles of this interesting
spring. Farther to the south are two
other springs that take their names from
palm groves, one being called the
Spring Of the Three Palms" and the
other Dos Palmos." The water of the
latter spring is brackish, being in that
portion Of the desert which is below the
sea level.
Year: 1873

WHEN the announcement was made
that the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany had reduced their rates about fifty
per cent. TO all parts Of the country, we
in common with most everybody else,
were made to rejoice at the pleasant in
teligence. SO far as this place is con-
cerned, however, we fail to see that we
have been benefited in the least. The
people Of Pioche who transact nearly all
their business with San Francisco, are
still paying the old rates and are there
fore not conscious that any change has
been made. What has Phoebe done that


it should thus be Disseminated against
Year: 1873

A silly fool of lover at Des Moines draws
blood from bis arm, and uses it in the place
of ink 10 write to his girl. Ten to one that
he don't pound her with the stove-hande in
less than year after ma .riage.
Year: 1873

The Pulaski Citizen learns of a young man
of that town who made an engagement to
call upon certain Giles county young lady,
who had fire and light in the parlor, dressed
herself and waited all the appointed evening
in vain. Next day the old lady sent round
to that young man neat bill of 81 for that
fire and light.
Year: 1873

Duluth was electrified by the intelligence
that immense stratas of solid metal had been
found near its limits. They proved to be
piles of railroad iron and the Zenith City sub
sided
Year: 1873

THE REAsoN-The reason of the un-
precedented demand for DR. Price s
Cream Baking Powder and Special Fla
vorings, Vanilla, Lemon, etc, is the result
Of their being just as represented, of su-
perior strength and uniform quality,
coupled with the equally potential fact
that they contain not one grain of adulter-
alton Having thoroughly tested them
ourselves we have no hesitancy in saying
that they will accomplish just what i
claimed for them, and one single trial vii
readily convince any person as to the truth
Of our assertion.
Year: 1873

Parchment was invented at Pergamos,
in Asia Minor, but Renne's Killing
Magic Oil was first made in Pittsfeld
Mass, and almost every family there
keeps it in the house for daily use 1t is
an honest and good article, and its use will
give YOU satisfaction.
Year: 1873

A MELANCHOLY BREAK-DowN. There
are lively break-downs that make an audi


bic laugh, and there are sad and sorrowful


break-downs that make the kind hearted
grieye. To the latter class belongs the
enervation Of body and mind which is usu-
ally called general debility, or nervous
weakness, and which, when neglected,
too often terminates in atrophy and death.
4 wholesome medical stimulant is the one
thing needed in eases of this description,
and science and experience unite in point


ing to PLANTATION BTTTERs as the true
specific, The fact that it combines the
properties of an invigorant with those Of a
regulator and Alternative, in exactly the
proportions necessary to produce a radical
change in the tone of the system, and the
action Of the digestive and secretive or
gans, is an unanswerable argument in Its
favor as a general restorative
Year: 1873

Have you ever tried NATURES HAIR
RESTORATIVE? You will be delighted
with it. Clean, safe, and efficient. 1t is
driving all the poisonous compounds out Of
the market 1t is as clear as crystal
See advertisement
Year: 1873

A very instructive lesson as
to the inutility and impractic-
ability of usury laws has been
afforded lately by the action OF
a grand jury in New York City.


The jury was charged direct
ly by the Judge, under whose
jurisdiction it came, to consid'
or gross violations Of the law
which were notorious IN the
New York money market. The
jury, accordingly had summon
ed many men who were cog
infant OF the violations of the
law. Direct confessions were
in some cases made that
would implicate the witnesses
themselves, if followed up, and
enough information gathered
arundantly to confirm the fact
that the usury laws we're dead
letters; yet the jury found mat
ters so complicated that the
members came to the sensible
conclusion to recommend the
repeal of the laws. In accord
ance with this conclusion, they
resorted to the anomalous plan
of deputing three Of their
members to 60 to Albany to
urge the Legislature to either
repeal the law or exempt New
York City from its penalties
4
Year: 1873

!. d. W. Kaafman of Des
Moines, Iowa. writes to the
Iowa Homestead, that ashes are
worth one dollar per bushel to
put about fruit trees, and that
he would not sell his ashes at
that price, and do without
their use In the orchard. He
has used ashes about fruit
trees for fifteen years, and du-
ring all that time has never
seen a borer where ashes were
used. The borer Is a terrible
pest to the fruit grower, and if
all other impediments to the
successful growing were as cas-
lily overcome, and completely
controlled as Is the borer, then
fruit growing would be very
successfully practiced. At the
recent meeting Of the Fruit
Growers Association of Onta-
rio, Mr.. Noodle stated that he
had been in the habit of using
unleached ashes as a manure
for his fruit trees, and that he
values them more highly Tor
this purpose than barn yard
manure. If our farmers knew
the value Of wood ashes for the
garden, orchard and farm, they


would not sell them Tor a few
cents per 5ushel. The ashes
that they barter for a few
pounds of soap would, if ap.
piled to the soil, SO increase
their crops of fruit and grain as
to yield them ten times the
value they now get for them.
Year: 1873

A TOUCHING incident is told
in connection with the recent
Richmond switch disaster on
the Stonington road. The en-
gineer of the train, William
D. Guild, who was burned to
death at his post OF duty, had
his home near the railroad
track, in a suburb of Provi-
dence, r. I. It was his custom,
winter or summer, in daytime
or at night, whenever he camo
near his home, to sound o short,
peculiar whistle OF greeting to
his lolks at home, which event.
ually became we'll known to
all the regular passengers on
the road as Guilds signal to
his wife. Last Saturday morns
Ing, for the arst time IN years,
the signal was unheard by the
waiting wife, and at the time
when it was usual for It to be
sounded the husband and faith
er was charred corpse among
the remains of his engine in
the ruins Of the ilt-fatad train :
Year: 1873

Chiiuren's ears should never be box.
Cd so writes an eminent surgeon iu the
FoM1'0r Science MonMW. Though the
statement will doubtless be received bv
many juvenile reader in the light of q
sell eyidea: proposition, there NAV yot
remain lew parents and rural pedapo.
guOS 10 whom the reasons for the abolition
oi THIS form OF rebuke may lie of in crest


we havs seen, writes Professor Hinton
That the passage of tie ear is closed BY a
thin membraucc especially adapted to be
influenced by every impulse of the air, and
with nothing but the air to support it in.
terhally. What, then, can be more likelv
to injure this membrane than a sudden
and fOrcible compressing of the air in
front Of it? If any one desiged to break
or overstretch the membrane. ba could
scarcely devise more effective means
than to bring the hand suddenly and for>
cibIy down upon the passage of the ear
thus driving the air violently before it,
with no posi- iility for its escape but
by the membrane giving way. So reas>
enable are these conclusions that there
was not needed even the high authority
OF tho writer for the subsequent statement
that many children are made deaf by
boxes on the ear. 1t is unfortuate, how.
ever that this and many other rebukes of
the same order prccede the reason and
hence a safer general order may be issued
to the intent that no child should ever
receive ,-"y form of corporal punishment
until the parent or preceptor has stopped
to reaSon-6rst with the child and then
with himself.
Year: 1873

If We can make as much improvement
In the next two years as we have in tho
last two, We shall then be appr ,aching
what we conceive to be on efficient school
system. Many have never considered
the difficulties to be encountered in estak.
fishing free schools. Our cherised notions
must be laid aside. Our preju5iccs too
must give way. With some of these we
reluctantly part, but part With them we
mnst. Though matters may not turn
out just as we would have them, still we
must learn to labor aud to wait. Our
poop are taking deep interest in edu,
cation. They are building school houses
in many of the districts-good substantial
modern style district school houses.
Year: 1873

Let US take the case Of house
badly infested with rats, says the Rurul
Mew Yorker. How shall we get rid of
them3 Of couse, if they come from some
public is probably unlimited, and the
first thing must be to cut of the access Of
all outsiders. But if we are troubled BY
none hut natives, it will not require much
skill to capture every one of them-old,
cunning fellow and ALL In the first place
then, we must resolve to take time to it
and capture the whole lot, and to this
end no attempt must be made 10 capture
single animals, since this will tend to
make them suspicious and put the ones
on their guard. Then provide n large
box or barrel; place in it n quantity of
old carpet, brush. &c, and also some food,
such as meal, cheese, herring &c. Bore
two>inch hole in the side of the box,
and leave it for some days. The rats will
soon find it out and frequent it. First
young one will go in and have good
feed ard come out all right the vnes, see.
ing that he is not hurt, they, too, will
go in, and in short time every rat about
premises will frequent it. When this oc-
ours, see that it is well supplied with food
and arrange over the hole block having
also a series of wiras struck around the
hole aud pointing inwards, just as they
are arranged in the common wire traps
Every rat will 60 in as before and not
one can get ont. varions methods may
be adopted for killing them. Ifyou are
sportsman. You can let them out one at
time and shoot them or kill them with
terriers. A f9w slips of sulphured par
thrust through the hole and burned. is
however, a very simple plan and will give
most ofeetual quietus We have
known case in which Sixty.sovcn rats
were caught at one time in a box arranged
as described. In this instance the pre.
mises were efectually cleared Of the YER,
min.
Year: 1873

The flavor of the popular chestnut
worm this season is said by an epicure to
be cross between q custard pie and a
croton bug.


Welded bliss ON THE WING.


A newly married couple, who were tn
take the trian at Brewster for ALBANY,
were much disappointed to learn there
was not a palace Car" OH the train, but
hoped to compromise on a state,room,
And didn't got that. Welded life is not
without its thorns.


AN ASCENSION.


Even the broadest intellect and the
most experienced management occasional.
ly make failure. There was an Italian
at the fair selling red balloons. Wheu>
ever | took up position it was known by
the cluster of red balls swinging above bis
head. 1t was while making change for
customer that he put the string which
held his wares in bis mouth, and it was
while the string was thus secured that he
undelto took to make an observation on the
general appearance of the weather, and
an ascension Immediately followed. At
4 80 P. M. he took the train for Italy.


SEPARATE APARTMENTS.


A gentlemen who lives in Dsnbury, re-.
eea"y read an article setting forth the
evil OF two persons sleeping together
lie became SO impressed with the truth
OF the argument, that he proposed to his
vile that they sleep in separate beds, and
she acquiesced. The experiment was put
in practice that night. About two
O'Clock in the morning the lady was awak-
ened BY some one stealing softly into her
oed' aud on uttering scream, was great,
relieved te find that it was her husband
1t had turned off cold in the night, and
be had concluded that if he had to die
anyway, he might as well 60 off quietly
with nervous attack, as to be frozen
dead in grotesque attitude.


SYMPATHETIC COUGHS.


What sympathetic cough that is which
people have in church. There is a notice.
able silence upon the congregation
Nothing is heard but the low measured
tones of the service. There is no other
movement or sou I'd in the building. Sud.
denly in the southeast corne., there is q
tmld hack from ahuman throat. Thus en-.
o1Idehei, some one coughs little louder,
and he is followed by some one with more
courage still and in an instant, there is a
perfect whlrlwind of coughing, splitting
aud Wheeling all aroung the room. You
hnd hourselt joining in, although you have
felt no desire to clear your throat, and
are surprised at the relief you experience
The storm subsidies as suddenly as il
arose, and an impressive lull follows,
Then the skirmiShets start up egain pop,
pop, pop, 60 the reports, FIRST 10 one dir.
ection' and then in another, and gener,
al engagement at once comes off,
When it still more remarkable than this
battle Of the tonsils, is tho impenetrablc
mystery which surrounds the individuality
OF the first cougher, He is like the man
saved by patent medicine. You know
there is such a party, although you may
never hope to meet him on account Of
the great distance Of his town.
Year: 1873

CHAPTER !.


Among the varied expressions of
which the human face is capable, there
is perhaps none more beautiful than
that which lights the counte nance of a
busy man as he stops to read letter
from some loving woman, be it daugh-
ter, wife, or mother.


So as Philip Farley stood reading
the letter just handed him in the office
of the hotel at Milwaukee where be
was staying, one would have pronounc-
cd him almost handsome man,
though there was only plain, honest,
manly face. with the love-light in the
steady brown eyes. Looking over his
shoulder, this is what we read, making
the story-teller's necessity an excuse
for the rudeness thereof.


There is the outline Of chubby
childish hand, with outspread fingers
and extended thumb.


Here is Myrtie's mark, with kiss
from within it for papa Philip as she
calls you now. Queer little Myrtle
She seems to be absorbed in studying
our erratic language, and guided only
by her ear make all sorts of odd
speeches. She asst onished poor grand
pa last week by asking him, at the cons
clusion of the blessing at the dinner
table, Grandpa, why don't you say
sA.boys' sometimes? you always say
Amen


You should have seen grandpa lay
down his knife and fork, and look at
her over the tops of his glasses,


Bridget came to me yesterday with
q complaint that Miss Myrtle was
turning round and round like top.


Sure enough, there she was walking
about a round figure in the carpet, as
though walking for a wager.


''Why, Myrtle said l, don't do so
you'll get dizzy


''Oh, will II said she, and then
went on faster than ever, Il want te
get it, just like grandma. Didn't she
have the dizzentery, and didn't you
say she got it going round too much ;
sand didn't she have splendid things to
eat, cruel and jelly3 I'm goin' rount
till get dizzentery too, and I'll have
jelly and Cruel


To-day she announces that Milwau
kie is SO called because everybody
walks out there; SO if you see he
coming on foot some fine day you neet
not be sstonished at all. We ar
counting the days before Christmas
time, when you will come home to ii
once more, most eagerly. I have
long spray Of ivy cut from the vine
and laid by Nyrtie's little bed. 1t ha
just as many leaves as there are day
before that time, and every night th
little hand pulls of one leaf befor
she says her prayer


Philip Farley was not ashamed
great bearded fellow though be wal
to Hiss the print Of the baby ham
softly before be folded the letter u
Year: 1873

dent. l don't propose now to discuss
his merits or dement's. | think we
shall not appreciate his worth until he
is dead and gone, but in twenty years
you will be ready to declare him as
good a President as any in the long
list. Applause.


When he went to take the chair, he
went with most mischievous impress
sion, viz: that this Government could
be run by the common people, and
politicians kicked out. Now, when
you can run a mandatory with green
hands, and all the trained operatives
turned out, then you may hope to
administer the Government of the
United States by excluding politicians.
A Government must be governed by
men who study Governments and he
that studies Government must not be
an amateur: lie must make it the
business of his life.


This was Gen. Grants first mistake.
and it was more the mistake of the
people, who, in putting him there.
SOi'' hi'Ai w lIt alalES OIL
Government without the politicians.
What was the result? lie saw his mis-
take as soon as anybody else, and be-
gan to lean towards the politicians. 1t
is my impression that in the four years
past he has learned to study govern
ment, and is better prepared man to
sit in that chair than any one that
could be selected.


lie has, 1t is true, one fault He can
not cut a dash. When he was called to
leave the church, where our lamented
friend and neighbor lay in state and
here Mr.. Beecher dropped his voice
revcrentIy, as great and sudden hush
fell upon the company he blushed
like q school boy to walk down the
broad aisle with every eye upon him.
1t was a most refreshing sight.


| have always believed in him and
do now, and think we ought to be
grateful that in the chair at the White
House sits man whose grandfathe,
was born in New England, and il so
good man as Gen. Grant himself
was not born there, what would he
have been fine had been so fortunate?
Year: 1873

Evils, like burglars, often creep into
our hearts and steal our inward riches,
when we are asleep.


When we are watching the Lords
people," we are doing picket duty for
the Devil.


Advice is very much like medicine
that which is most unpleasant to take,
is often most salutarv in its effects.


The love of originality is SO strong in
some, that they can't tell the truth.


The thoughts of some great men
ought to be handed doWa to this gene
ration before they are to the next.


Information is the furniture of the
mind-we can get along with little,
but it would often be great conven-
fence 10 have more.
J. NJ. H.
Year: 1873

An Arkansas local soliloquizes thus:
"Some Of our exchanges are publishing
as q curious item statement to the
effect that horse in Iowa pulled the
plug out OF the bunghole Of barrel for
the purpose of slakiDg his thirst. We
do not see anything extraordinary in
the occurrence. Now, if the horse had
pulled the barrel out the bungho,e and
slaked its thirst with the plug, or if the
barrel had pulled the bunghole out of
the plug and slaked its thirst with the
horse, or if the plug had pulled the
horse out of the barrel and slaked its
thirst with the bunghole, or ii the bung-
hole had pulled tho thirst out of the
horse and slaked the plug with tn g bar
rel, or if the barrel had pulled the horse
out Of the bunghole and plugged its
thirst with slalIe, it might be worth
while to make some fuss over it,"
Year: 1873

Saws the Stockton Gazette: Where
the road between Merced and Smelling
crosses the Merced river, that stream IS
about two hundred yards in width and
even at this season Of the year, when the
water is quite low, it looks like danger
GUS and deep stream to cross. Last
Thursday patent-medicine agent, traV-
cling on horseback through that section,
came to the river and hesitated about
attempting to ford it as he saw the wide
expanse Of rushing waters. There is no
bridge anywhere along there, so after
some indecision, spying a boy hshlng IN
small punt tied to the bank, he said


Hello, bub"


Hello, yourself" ,I


Can l get you to take my clothes
across the river in your boat ?


II rekin you kin, if you've got any
soap"


"All right. I'll give you a quarter to
take over my clothes and the carpet
sack to the opposite shore.


TO this the boy nodded assent, the
stranger Iisrobed, turned over the car
net-sack and ha6iliments TO the juvenile,
who padded out into the stream, and
mounted his horse prepared to swim the
river and enjoy the luxury OF BATH
With a splash at every movement the
horse stepped into the stream, and
walked across. The wator was nowhere
more than eighteen inches deep 10
say that that medicine man, perched on
the back of his horse, was man OF
iniouity for the space Of half an hour
would hardly do justice to the occasion.
There we're enough dams" along the
Merced that afternoon to supply hun
dred mill sites.
Year: 1873

Select villain and a virgin; the for
mer must be a craven cuss--the latter
must have rare fortitude under most ad-
verse circumstances. Now stir IN a
heroic lover, who meets the maiden by
moonlight alone and makes occasional
remarks about the stars, which he com
pares to the eyes of the maiden aforesaid.
Simmer gently over a slow fre-add a
seasoning of tender regrets, and hand
full of VOWS. Flavor with a husky old
father who never listens to reason, Make
heroic lover rescue maiden just in time
TO save her from villain; sprinkle IN a
few mysteries which no one can under
stand, and serve up piping hot This
dish will be found an excellent relish 70
produce sleep. rlei5tf
Year: 1873

l Saturday evening, says the Sacra-
mento Union, n gentlemani j u the employ
Of the Central Pacific Railroad Company
drove out 10 o place about fifteen miles
from the city, where his family are stop
ping, and soon afterward started on his
return TO town. Before starting he lighted
his meerschaum and INDUCED in long
and pleasant smoke as be drove along.
This over, he placed the pipe in the
outer breast pocket Of his coat, and
paid no more attention TO it. By
and by a peculiar smell greeted his
olfactories-a smell Of burning wooden
cloth-and, as II increased, he began
TO look about TO see il his garments
were on FIRE, and at the first movement
he found that the whole pocket had
burned out of his coat, and the fire was
spreading rapidly. He grabbed at the
burning material hastily, but was so
nervous about it that he frightened the
horse, and the animal ran. To make
matters worse, the lines were not buckled
together, and one slipped out OF his
grasp while he was endeavoring to
smother the FIRE with his other hand.
Still worse, the increased speed in
creased the breeze, which famed the
fire, and portions of it dropped down
upon his pants, burning through them,
and causing him to bounce up and down
en- the seat as though he were trying to
settle an unusually hearty meal. And
there he was-horse running away, line
dragging, and FIRE rapidly making the
cuticle OF his leg rival the hue of his red
flannel underclothingl At last, by dint
of dexterous clawing, he managed to
smother the 6re,Ithen stepped out on the
shafts and recovered the line, and in
course of time subdued the horse. Ex-
ceedingly thankful to get out Of his
trouble without broken bones, he rode
on to the city in a subdued frame OF
mind, and never thought of being pro-
fame until, just as he was quietly slip
ping into clothing store with the buffalo
robe gathered about him to conceal the
deficiency Of his wardrobe, he met full
in the face two lady friends, who insisted
upon his escorting them home, and
wanted to know whatin the world he had
got himself wrapped up tina. way for.