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VOL. XVI.—NO. 36.
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OFFICE— Corner of Second and Washingtoa
Streets.
NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
You, XebucliadnezzaU, whoa' tab!
Wliar is you tryin' to go, sail ?
I'll liab you for to know-, sail.
IV a-lioldin' onde lines.
You better stop dat praucin':
YouV pow'ful fond of dancin'.
Hit til bet iny ycab's advauciu'
bat I'll eure you oh your shines.
I. >ok lii-ali, mule! Betrer min' out--
Kus' t'iug you know you'll An* out
How quick I'll wear dis line out
On your ugly stubbo'n bark.
You needn't try to steal up
An' lif dat precions heel up;
You's cot to plow dis Bel" up,
You has, sah, for atn '.
bar. dat's de way to do it!
He's cumin' right down to it;
Jes" watch him plowing t'roo it t
bis nigger ain't no fool.
Some rolks tncy would 'a' beat hi in:
Now. Dat would only heat him—
-1 know jes" how to treat him;
You mus' reason wid a male.
He minds inu like a nigger.
If he was only big«e.-
llc" forli a mighty flgger.
lie would. I tell you I Yes soli!
Sec how he keeps a-clickiu'!
lie's us gentle as a chicken.
Alt' nebber thinks <>b kickiu'—
Whoa dar! Kcbucliadncznih!
is dis hcah tne, or not met
or is de debbil got tne
Was dat a cannon shot me t
Hah I laid lieab niore'u a week ?
bat mule do kick amn/.in' I
bat mule was spiled in raisin'—
liv now 1 '«p#ct he's grazin'
On de oaer side de creek.
Seuisu LOVE MAKING. —Oh! the soft,
sweet language of love! It's soft in the
stilly night, we hear its gentle murmur.
" Dost thou think Spring hath come,
Henri V"
" Yes, dearest Consatina, I feel
that I may assure you that this warmth
ness will be no more dispelled by the
wind. But why so strange a ques
tion!"
" Because I fain would Clothe my
nether extremities in silken covering,
were I assured of the contiuuance of
the present balminess. To thee, who
art so good and wise, your Consatina
looks for counsel in all things affecting
her health and happiness."
" Believe me, they are dear to me,
sweet one, and I am proud that thou
shouldst deem me worthy to advise
thee in a matter of so grave import. I
am confident tbou hast naught to fear
in making the change thou desirest.
To prove the strength of my conviction,
I have but to inform you that only yes
ter-night I laid aside my flannel."
"Ota, Henri!" she gasped, clinging
convulsively to him;" was it not pre
mature ? Horrid fears assail me.
What if thou shouldst take cold and
de-i! O, me protector! me—ah- "
" Calm thyself, me angel! There is
no danger. All will be well."
"I shall hope for' the best, Henri,
and pray nightly that no rude blast
shall return to cbill thy frame and
place in jeopardy thy precious life.
What would silk stockings be to Consa
tiua wert thou gone ?—a hollow mock
try, u stufHess fabric."
Then they clinched and we left.—
llriinstack (ilfo.) Neics.
"POWERFUL" DRY.— He was seedy and
battered and looked "powerful"* dry.
He entered a Main street saloon, and
approaching the bar, said to the bar
keeper: -»
"It's a good ticket, aiut'tit?"
" First-rate," replied the barkeep.
" You Betcher life, them's my men—
Hayes'n Wheeler! Set out some o' yer
'publican whisky, barkeep."
" My friend," replied the barkeep,
" you're a little off; this is a Democra
tic house."
"Thunder!" exclaimed the soaker,
the dimmycrats ain't got nobody to
holler for yet, and I'm as dry as a pow
der-horn and not a cent 'twixt me and
eternity."
"My friend," said the obliging bar
keeper, "while differing with you in
politics, I cannot resist your appeal;
help yourself to some of this"—and he
*et out a glass and the bottle of light
ing kept for the special use of " stiffs."
The " stiff" poured out a glassful of
the stuff and emptied it into his throat,
and when he got through coughing and
wiping his eyss on his coat sleeve, said:
"I ain't got no money; but if I was
the Comstock ledge I'd bet myself agin
1 Lander Hill lazor blade that them
durned Black Bepublicaas don't get away
with the ensooin' election."
t
haT* Among the many wonderful
things on exhibition in Philadelphia
ere a steer and a mule. The steer,
which is eight years old is as large
a . s the average elephant, weighing
' J -il3 pounds; measures 12 feet around
. ' Rrith, over 18 feet from the nose to
/"■> 3 feet 2| inches from hip to hip,
cow measurement stands 18£ hands j
t>?h. This ox is supposed to be, and
"°ubtleßs is, the largest specimen of i
I ">* bovine species in the world, and is ;
1 curiosity worth seeing. The mule is
5 black mare, standing 12 hands or
1 .feet 2 inches high. The average
iei nht of mules is 4| feet. She is a
Q °Me looking animal, finely formed,
eat very lively in spirit.
' 'Ss another " sunstroke,"
-pnotfrt to fltirs, politics, the gteeminntion of Istfut |nfo«n«tion and the promotion of the Jest interests of Washington SerritOeg.
THE UNITARIAN CREED.
A Discourse delivered by Air*. D. X. I'tler. in Olympic
Hall, on Sunday evening, the Oth insl.
"Be ready always to give au answer to
every man that uskctli you a reason for the
hope that is in you."—l PETER, 3-15.
It is good for us to pause occasionally,
and examine the ground upon which
we are standing and the path that lias
led us to it, and to-night, without wait
ing for any man to ask us, let us look at
some of the beliefs and opinions we
hold, to discover why we hold them.
In many cases, this most wholesome ex
ercise is too much or wholly neglected;
no doubt many persons grow up to mid
dle age, supposing tbcmselves to believe
things which in reality they do not be
lieve at all, individually. They take
their opinions like a sealed letter, of
whose contents they are ignorant, from
the hands of parents, or perhaps their
minister, or tho sect into which they
were born, and carry it about with them
unopened. It is possible to live hap
pily and successfully iu this way for
many years, but it is not safe. There is
likely at any time to arise some test ques
tion, where individual decision is im
perative, and the opinions of others can
no longer be taken unquestioned for
our own, and then the effect is like a
glare of light to eyes long closed—be
wilderment, dazzle and pain. The only
right and natural course for us, to
whom God has given eyes, is to open
and use them. If any of us have not
done so heretofore, let ns begin now.
To begin theu at Mie beginning of the
path, why are we Christians, in the
broadest sense of the word —not Ma
homedans, or I think the
first and truest answer to this question
is, because we were born in a Christian
lfliid and »11 the influences that surround
us and ail the laws of inheritance com
bined to make us so. Of course, if we
had been born of savage parents, in
some remote corner of the earth, where
tho name of Christ is unknown—if there
be such a corner in this age of mission
aries—however moral and upright we
might have been, we could not have
been followers of Christ consciously.
And here the question occurs to me, I
confess for the first time, Is this a suffi
cient reason, pr is it really every
man's duty to examine for himself other
religious, for whose sake men have been
willing to lay down their lives, or un
der whose influence they have lived
nobly and well ? Although the principle
of the text, strictly carried out, would
lead to that, I do not think it would be
worth while under ordinary circumstan
ces. If life were long enough to enable
us to follow every path that opens as far
as it goes, no doubt there would be
mucb interest and some profit in thus
comparing tbe religions of the world;
but considered as a duty I think we are
quite justified in taking the ex
perience of past generations for our
own to that extent. We know that in
Christ we have a noble guide and leader;
we see and feel that every attempt to
follow in his footsteps, every effort to
lecome like him, unselfish and self
sacrificing, in life and spirit, lifts us up
and makes us nobler and truer men and
women; aud until we have mastered
this lesson and learned to carry out
perfectly in our own lives the principles
that governed bis, we are under no ob
obligntion, as I believe, to look else
where. But such a study would not be
lost if it taught us, as I thiuk in many
cases it would, to respect the moral lead
ers that have been and are still venerated
by tbe followers of other religions
whose lives were to their peoplo in some
degree what the life of Christ is to us.
Were not they too sent by God to help
his children rise one step nearer to him ?
But we do believe that more of God's
spirit was shown to men through the
words aud deeds of Christ than any
other way, and tbeiefore we are Christ
ians in our religion—theoretically, at
least.
And now why are we Unitarian
Christians ? . Some of us perhaps by
birth, but all of us I hope who call our
selves by that name, by conviction also;
for as regards th>i**pt to which he be
longs, I think it ia person's plain
duty to think and decide for himself
and act up honestly to the conclusion
at which he arrives. With all respect
for the good people of every sect who
honestly differ, it does seem to me
that the doctrine? held by the great
body of Unitarians contains more of
God's truth than those of any other sect
of Christians, and that is why I am
Unitarian.
It seems to me that we occupy a mid
dle ground between the two extremes,
of the Evangelical churches on one
hand and the Free Religionists on the
other, more free from error and more
conducive to right living than either.
Take for instance our ideas of the
right use of Sunday. The custom of
the Puritans in regard to the observance
of this day was almost strictly Jewish;
they retained the Jewish name of Sab
bath, and made their Sunday laws in
tbe spirit of the Fourth Commandment,
exactihg strict penalties from all of
fenders and making the breaking ol the
Sabbath a sin not to be lightly passed
over. Perhaps in many homes in the
land the shadow of this Puritanic Sab
bath still lingers, hushing the mirth of
children, checking many an innocent
enjoyment, and in the name of religion
making tbe hours which should be rest
ful and happy, a wearisome burden of
restraint. Some of us have heard our
mothers tell bow New England children
of the last generation used to watch the
going down of the sun on Sunday even
ing, and how when its last rays disap
peared a shout of joy went tip and week
day plays were begun with redoubled
zeal after the enforced quiet of the
sacred day. The Puritan idea of wor-°
ship was that it consisted of prayer and
preaching and psalm-singing and con
sistently with this definition, tbe Lord's
day must be devoted as much as possi
ble to these exercises, and heaven was re
presented in one of th eirhymns, which
you may have seen, as a place {
" There congregations ne'er breakup.
And SabbMha bare no end."
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON TERRITORY, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 22,1876.
Opposed to that extreme, in the
position taken by the Religionist, and
also by the Catholic countries of Eu
rope. I suppose the free Religionist
would tell you that there was no reason
of any kind why public worship should
be attended on Sunday, any more than
any other day; that the custom was
established by Moses to meet the needs
of the Jewish people, and was not
binding except on them; that public
worship was at best a useless ceremony;
that God could be worshiped truly only
in spirit, and that any attempt to ex
press worship outwardly led toward in
sincerity, and hypocrisy. Accordingly,
he would say, if you wish to make
Sunday different from other days, use
it as a day of rest from business,
and devote it to any form of pleasure
that you can best enjoy; put the idea
out of your mind that it is in any way
connected with religion and have a good
time. Between these two extremes,
there is sarely a middle ground, which
is both right and reasonable. Let us
try to find it. Thote is a way of using
these hours so that they shall bring us
both profit and pleasure, and become a
season of sweet refreshment to body and
spirit. It is true that the strict observ
ance of one day in! every seven was es
tablished by. Moses, for the use of the
Jews and the early.Christians,or at least
some of them, did not look with favor
upon its continuance as a Christian insti
tution. This is distinctly and frequent
ly stated by the Apostle Paul. But
Paul would never hove said to Chris
tians of the present time, " Make Sun
day just like other days." He would
have said instead, " Make all your days
Sundays, let the example of Christ, and
the will of God so enter into your lives
that every day shall be filled with noble
deeds of helpfulness and charity to
wards those about you; all your busi
ness conducted not only honestly and
justly, but generously; all your pleas
ures of a kind that you need never
feel ashamed of; all your thoughts and
desires such us would not shame the
namo of prayer." Christ himself vio
lated the Jewish Sabbath and taught
his disciples to do so, but he also
taught them to give their week days
to the service of God, by serving and
helping their brother men. So, until
you are sure that j our whole life is thus
devoted, let no man succeed in persuad
ing you that you can afford to dispense
with a religious use of this one day in
seven. But what is a religious use of
Sunday? Like every other question of
conduct, this can be settled in detail
only by each individual for himself.
Consider conscientiously in what way
you can best make these hours serve
your own improvement, and then con
sider, also, how far your course ought
to be modified by the influence of your
example upon others, and act according
ly. If your own heart does not con
demn you neither will your Father in
heaven. But as a general rule, I should
say, give a part of the day to public
worship, even if you go sometimes un
willingly, and without the devotional
feeling which makes the service true
worship. Often the association with
those who have the feeling will beget it
in you. In so doing you are plaoing
yourself in the way of good influences,
by whioh you are almost sure to be ben
efitted. But do not go because you
think God strictly requires it of you,and
will be angry if you do otherwise. He
does not. Under some circumstances it
might be much better for you to do some
thing quite different, and you must de
cide for yourself whether the circum
stances are yours. Do not givS the best
part of the day to sleep, unless you are
sure, that for you it is the best use.
" Day of rest," it is called, but not day
of laziness. The truest rest is usually
change of occupation; therefore dismiss
from your mind, if you can, the week
day cares of business, and money-mak
ing, and household economies, and by
reading, and by intercourse with friends,
and enjoyment of the summer glories
of God's beautiful world, or by other
means, which for you may lead to the
same result, try to lead your thoughts
into green pastures and beside still
waters whose memory shall lefresh you
through the week.
I should like to say a ward about the
Unitarian view of Christ, but how can
, I hope to speak clearly on a subject
which has been so discussed and dis
sected by theologians of every school,
that words when applied to it 6eem to
have acquired a hidden meaning, dif
ent from every-day use?
Here; too, our position is midway be
tween two extremes. We do not hold
that he was Qod himself, condescending,
to come down among men for a
short stay; we do not say that he was a
common man, no more entitled to the
high place be holds than some other
good men have been. Son of Man and
Son of God are the two titles oftenest
applied to him in the New Testament.
To my mind these together exactly and
satisfactorily define bis nature. Son
of Man, the child of Joseph and Mary,
growing up with his brothers at iirßfc on
no different footing from them; Son of
God, in spirit,more closely allied to him
by bis fearless and persistent devotion
to right aqd duty, by the clear/pure
spirit of unselfishness in which his
whole life was spent, than any other
child of His on this eerth has ever yet
been. How can we call him God,
when he himself would not accept from
his disciples the honors due only to the
Father? How can!we call him a com
mon man, when the world has beeu
striving through th j long centureis that
have elasped since his death, to attain
the heights to which he climbed, and
has not succeeded ?- Yet we are partak
ers of hisnature—dike him in kind, but
not in degree. We too are children of
God. else how coiilil we in any way im
itate our Great Example. We are chil
dren of God, jttSt so far as we are like
him in spirit, some'more, and some less,
but none, as I hopp and believe with
out some little spark of the divine,
which gives ns the tight to claim kinship
with Christ, as our ; elder brother. Let
me read you what a recent writer, who
represents the " new school of. Unita
rians," has to say upon this point. Af
ter mentioning some things which they
do not believe, stating the negative
side, he goes on to say; j
" lint have we ntiy positive side? iAre we
Christians by any lair showing? Upon this
point we have that inward monitor upbn our
side, against which the thunders of exeom
inunicatior. can only peal in vain. We are
Christians, and we profess ourselves such,
because we believe in Christ; because we re
gard him as the greatest person whom God
has given ns power to knoxv; bee tuse we re
gard his thought as the apprehension of di
vine realities beyond the original scope of
any other hunian intellect, nis life as the
most perfect obedience to diyine truth known
in human history. We believe in Christ as
the one person whose nature includes within
itself the natnreof all other men, and stretch
es far beyond them all, beyond the reach of
our thought. Wc believe in him as the one
man whose greatness no one has yet fully
fathomed, whose nature we can only hope (o
know in part. We humbly profess ourselves
his disciples and his followers, looking to
him for teaching and for guidance antthelp."
Does not this satisfy you? It does
me.
Concerning the Bible as the Word of
God, we believe that much that is in it,
is the word of God; but we know that
it was written by human bands, that it
is not free from traces of human imper
fection. We think that God spoke to
men in those days just as he speaks
to them now; through their own con
science and sense of right, and we
know that words have been spoken, and
deeds of cruelty have been done in the
name of religion, and prefaced with
" Thus saith the Lord," when we can
see plainly afterwards that the Lord
never could have said it. So, while we
cannot think that every word of the Bi
ble has the sanction of God, as a rule
and guide of life through time and eter
nity, we know that such words are con
tained in it, and I think that God has
also given to men, sense and judgment
enough to disceru which precepts have
his sanction, and which have not, if they
will take the trouble to study the mat
ter. Ido not think the Bible contains
all God's words to his children; I hope
the time will never come when we can
truly say that his revelation is finished
and complete, because then humau pro
gress in every direction will be at an
end. All truth is a revelation from
him, through whatever channel it may
come, and because he is inexhaustible,
endless progress is possible. Just as
all our light is from the sun, though
some of it comes to us reflected from
the moon, some from the planets of the
solar system, and that which shows us
each others fuces to-nighr, is still sun
light, as the philosophers of the present
day would tell you, the sunlight that
ages ago built the immense forests, that
formed our coal-bedß,and which now lib
erated from its long imprisonment,
gives back to the world unvested light
and heat. ;
I will not close withoiit touching
upon our view of life and death. We
do not think that upon leaving this
world we enter upon a state of perfect
bliss or perfect misery, as the decree of
God shall decide. We think that life is
given for improvement and progress,
and that sooner or later every soul God
has made will put it to this use. That
at any moment of time or eternity when
a soul ceases to do evil and learns to do
good, that moment it begins to enjoy
God's favor, and to receive as it can
then, receive of the joys of heaven; but
never in this world, nor in any world
over which God reigns, does he shut the
door of heaven in the face of any soul,
however low and sinful and weak it may
I) 6* •
What else but this could have been
Christ's meaning when he told us tbe
story of the prodigal son? But none
the less are opportunities unimproved
aud time misspent, a loss that cannot
be wholly made good. Christ did not
say nor imply in this parable that the
Good Father gave his repentant son
another fortune in the place of the one
he had wasted and restored to him im
mediately the vigorous health and hope
of youth and effaced tbe burning mem
ory of his life of dissipation and said to
him " Now you are just where you were
before; try again and do better." Who
that has sinned and repented can not
fill out the untold story of this young
man's after-life, and see the doable dif
ficulties under which he labored—
wholesome work made distasteful by
long indulgence in idleness and luxury,
will weakened by habitual yielding to
temptation, conscience silenced and
perverted by misuse and disuse—such is
tbe misery which nothing short of anni
hilation can separate from sin. Let no
one say or think that the Unitarian view
of life does not include punishment of
sin.
Those are some of the opinions
which we hold to be God's truth. To
some of us they may be new, and those
of us to whom they are old and familiar
will find profit in thus occasionally re
viewing and restating to ourselves, or
to any man that asketh, " Our reason for
the faith that is in us."
FUNKY EXPERIMENT WITH RESTLESS
CHILUUEX. —The latest thing in the in
vention line is a contrivance for prevent
ing uneasy and mischievous children
from "joggling " each other iu school.
It is described as follows: "In the seat
of each chair is placed a small metallic
plate connected by a wire with a gal
vanic battery on the teacher's desk.
Each alternate chair is connected with
a positive pole of the battery and the
other with the negative pole. So long
as the children remain quiet uo shock
is experienced, but the moment one
child touches another an electriocurrent
is created, and both the victim and his
assailant are held fast. An uproar is
created and the attention of the teacher
is attracted." This novel plan is des
ignated " a macbiue to prevent joggling
in school-rooms," and the inventor has
actually enlisted the help of the keeper
of a small private school in the Tenth
ward to allow him to exhibit the effect
iveness of the invention. It is no. ex
ageration to say that it is a complete
snccesa, and that restless boys once un
der the operation of this galvanic
shock are done forever with;" joggling"
as a mea. s of grace.
" GERTIE."
Boys of ten or twelve, seen on the
street, appear heartless and without
sympathy, and yet;you wrong them.
Among the bousaa on Clinton street is
one which has missed many a pane of
glass in its windows. Rags and papers
are used to keep the cold air out, or it
may blow in and whistle through the
desolate rooms without let or hindrance.
A girl of ten, whose life had been one
long period of hunger, pain and unhap
piness, was taken sick one day in March,
and people passing by could see her ly
ing on a miserable bed near one of the
windows. It was curious that any of
the boys coming or going should have
stopped to think or caro about it, but
they it. One of them feeling sad at
sight of the sufferer's pale faee, handed
an orange tli rough a broken pane, saw
it clasped by slender white fingers, and
then ran away. He told other boys,
and by and by there wasn't a day that
some lad didn't halt at the window to
pass in fruit or flowers. None of them
knew the family or ever spoke to the
girl and so they 'gave her the name of
Gertie, and called her their orphan.
Boyß went without marbles and the
other things which belong to boyhood
sports that their pennies might buy aft
orange, lemon or some simple flower for
Gertie, and their anxiety for her to get
well was fully as great as the doctor's
or the mother's. Whatever present
they had they handed it through the
broken pane, waited for her to reach up,
and never liugered longer than to hear
a soft " thank you" from her lips. Days
went by, but the boys did not grow
weary, nor did they miss a day. It was
romance and charity so well combined
that it gladdened their hearts and
made them found of each other. Yes
terday morning a lad's hand, holding a
sweet flower and a big orange went to
the window. No white fingers touched
bis as they grasped the offering. He
waited a moment, and then with beat
ing heart looked through into the
room. The bed had been taken away.
On a table rested a pine coffin, and on
tbe coffin was a bunch of faded flowers
which had been banded through the
window the day before. Death had
been there, and the boys no longer had
a mission.
You might not have seen the boy hid- 1
ing in a doorway and wiping tears from
his eyes. He was seen, however, and
when asked the cause of his sorrow he
sobbed out the whole sad romance in
four words, " Our Gertie is dead."—De
troit Free Press.
WD A KING HANDS.
" Who is it that will shake hands
with me?" asks Job. "A man void of
understanding strikes hands, and be.
cometh surety," saith the wise King of
Israel. In this old-custom of striking
hands, hand-shaking, no doubt, origi
nated for, before it became a mere
friendly greeting, a shake cf the hand
was accepted as a pledge. When
Ferdinand and Miranda strike their
tender bargain, he• says, "Here is my
hand," and she replies, "And mine
with my heart on it." Dunbar, Lord
Treasurer of Scotland, congratulating
Y elver ton upon having made his peace
at Court, said to him, " I will desire
your friendship as you do mine, and I
will promise to do yea my best; where
upon as a pledge I give you my hand!"
and so shaking Yelverton by the hand,
he bade him farewell. Nowadays a
shake of the hand may mean very much
or nothing at all. The strong hearty
grip for grip of two old, long parted
mends, meeting unexpectedly, is one
thing; the nevertheless, loose, indif
ferent clasp of acquaintanceship another.
Sydney Smith attempted to classify
hand-shaking, dividing them into the
high official, tbe sepulchral/ the digi
toiy, the shakns rusticus, and the re
tentive. The first was practiced by the
then Archbishop of York, " who kept
his body erect, carried his hand aloof to
a level with his chin, and gave it a
rapid, short shake. Sir John Mackin
| toßh affected the sepulchral, " Laying
his open hand flat on yonr palm, so
coldly you were hardly awaro of its con
tiguity." The digitory—in favor with
the high clergy—was adopted by
Brougham, who used to put forth his
forefinger with, " How are yob?" The
shakos rusticus was " having your hand
seized as in an iron grasp, betokening
rude health, a warm heart, aud distance
from the metropolis, bnt producing a
. great sense of relief when yonr hand is
released with tbe fingers not broken."
—All The Year Round.
Over One Hundred Maud Mdllzrs. —
Quite a picturesque illustration of the
" Centennial" spirit was given' in the
quaint old town of Guilford, Conn.
It had been arranged that the young
ladies of the town Bhould meet on the
Common, for the purpose of clearing
its surface of the dead leaves and etc.,
of the past year. At Ba. m. ,at the
ringing of all the church bells, about
one hundred and seventy-five young
ladies eaine together; in suitable attire
for tbe work. They wore on their
heads immense splinter hats, tied flown
with .blue ribbon, while their dresses
were of various colors, to suit the taste
of the wearer. Ttie handles of their
rates were .tied with red, white and
blue, and, with these in hands,
they made a most grotesque but pleas
ing appearance', as they f raked to
gether" on that charming " old green."!
It was decreed by these young maid
ens that no one of tho other sex should
trespass on their ground. A email fine
waa the penalty. One dariflg ap>rit» in,
attempting to ran tho gauntlet, was
driven from the field.' When the clock
struck twelve, our young ladies marched
in proaeamon to Congress Hall, to par
take of a well-earned lunch. True to
the instincts of a century rinoe, no mu
sic was tolerated but that of a drum
and fife. Tbe tune to. which they
matched was that of " Tbe Girl I left
Behind Ma." At 2A. K., a centennial
oak" WAS planted on the green, with
i suitable ceremonies.
WHILE BELOW
Sharing mingled joy and aorrow,
Hope to-day and fear to-morrow,
Strcngh of heart we needa moat borrow,-
While below.
Suaehine with the atorm U blended;
O'er the flood the bow ia bended:
Truating sonia shall be heflriended
While below.
'Mid tbe Uunpest blooms the willow;
Sings tbe seiior on the billow;
Hope of Heaven may be onr pillow,
While below.
Though the way seems dark before us
Oft tbe clonds are rifted o'er ns.
And we hear the angel ehorns
While belew.
Love haa never vainly striven;
Needed strength ia ever riven;
Dawns on ns the light or Heaven,
While below.
From the Captain ot Salvation.
Faith shall have tta coronation;
Sbont we then in exaltation.
While below.
EARLY DAYS IN SAN FRANCISCO.
From the Boston Commercial Bulle
tin's sketches of the eaily history of the
new cities of onr Republic, we extract
the following of San Francisco in 1849-
1850:
In those days people were not at all
fastidious as to what they did or about
their personal appearance. Professiona
men who found themselves adrift with
out any hopes of engaging in their le
gitimate professions donned overalls and
woolen shirt and " took up the shovel
and the hoe/' without hesitation or com
punction. College graduates, yonng
gentlemen who at borne had led lives
of elegant leisure, scholars and teach
ers, all of whom had been swept into
the Golden City from nearly all points
of the compass, with a vague sort of an
idea that they conld fill their pockets
with gold and go back by the next steam
er, accepted tbe situation in which they
found themselves, and took hold .of the
roughest work.
One of tbe wealthiest stock brokers
of San Francisco to-day formerly ped
dled potatoes along the same streets
where he can now count his own build
ings by tbe dozen. Another well known
resident, then a lawyer, now a Judge
in one of the Cenrts, worked for sever
al weeks as cook in a restaurant. Over
hearing one of the patrons of the place
complain that he could not find a law
yer to take up a case he had in court,
he offered his services, took off his
apron and went before the court, won
the case, charged a fee of S2OO, and was
retained for two other cases before
leaving the court-room. A certain col
lege professor who went ont from New
York in '49, while working with a shov
el on the public street, overheard a
Frenchman trying to arrange business
with a wealthy real estate dealer.
Neither one of them could understand
the other. The professor leaned upon
his shovel and explained the meaning of
the Frenchman.. The matter was ar
ranged in a moment.
" Drop that shovel and take off your
overalls. You're just the man I want,"
blufly said the real estate man; and the
next morning the professor began his
career as business interpreter at twenty
dollars per day.
jy At a meeting of the Methodist
preachers in Newark, the discussion
drifted to a question whether it was
righteous to do wrong in order to do
great good. The question grew out of
the case of " Rev." George K. Wood
ward. This person lately appeared in
Newark as an agent of tbe Temperance
Brotherhood, which is countenanced by
most of the clergy. His business was
to enter saloons on Sunday, procure
drinks, cigars, etc., and then on Mon
day cause the sellers to be prosecuted
for violating the Sunday law. Should
the Church sustain Woodward, himself
a Sabbath law-breaker? was the ques
tion raised. To bring matter* to a fo
cus, a clergyman present asked if, in
order to obtain evidence to prosecute
and break up a house of ill-repute, a
minister should visit the place and com
mit Bin himself ? Blank amazement was
depicted on every one's face present.
Rev. Mr. Graves stone had courage to
answer the most extraordinary question.
He raised his voice and boldly declared
that a ministerial transgressor in each a
case would be justified; that he himself
would not scruple to sin a little that
great good might come; and he believed
that God would approve the act. The
clergymen were abashed before, but
now they were shocked outright, and
the whole subject was quietly dropped.
The reporters were warned not to make
any mention of the discussion. — New
York Herald.
SHOP BOY'S LOCOMOTIVE.— A locomo
tive is being built by the apprentice
boys in the Philadelphia and Reading
railroad shops, at Reading, the whole
work being done under tbe direction of
a young map who has not yet served his
entire time with the company*. It is a
heavy ten wheel draft engine, cylinder
18x22 inches, and salt is to bo built for
exhibition at tbe Oentennial, every part
of tbe locomotive is receiving an extra
finish. The casting and- frame work
are well scraped, the latter being
finished on both sides. All brass work
is to receive a high polish and finish.
The main and parallel rods are to be
bright, and ; the oab is to be of passenger
finish and extra painted. Spring bang
ers, equalizing. beams, bolt heads and
nuts are alt to be milled PlT ana finished
with the greatest of care. '
These is one thing op ngbich a
husband and wife never can agree, and
that is what constitutes a well beaten
carpet. When the article is Clean, *tisa
man's impression that it should be re
moved, and he be allowed to wssh .up
and quietly retire, Rut a woman's ap
petite tor carpet.basting is hfcver ap
peased while a manhaa a whole muscle
m hia body. Arid' If he waßed tffl she
voluntarily gave the signal to stop, he
might best away until he dropped flows
dead. It is directly owing to his su
perior strength of mind that the civi
lized eroridFu not a widow this day.
i Car vithint.
It wpuld bed if be were t« rush ;»
between rnyee nod Tildeo nad grasp tbe
prite.
WHOLE NO. 824.
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
We, the delegate* of the Democratic party of the
United State*, In national convention assembled. do
hereby declare the adminiatration OF the Federal GOT.
ernmeat to be in great need of Immediate idtm; do
i hereby enjoin npon the nominee* of the convention,
'and of the Democratic party In each State and at St.
Louis, to make eflart* and to co eiimnla to tbiaend, and
do hereby appeal to onr fellow clttsens of every former
political connection to andertaka With on thU first and
moat pressing and patriotic dnty for the benefit of the
whole country.
We here affirm our bith in the permanency or the
Federal Union; our devotion to the constitution of the
United States with its amendments nnlversally accepted
as a final settlement of the controversies that engen.
dered the civil war, and do here record tuadfort confi
dence In the perpetuity of BepnfaUean self government
in an absolute acquisition In the will of ths majority,
the pridple of republics; in the supremacy ofths ffitll
over mUttary authority; in the total separation of
Charch and State, tor the sake She of etvOand rMgi
ous freedom; in the equality of all citisen* before the just
laws of their cent enactment; in the liberty of individ
ual conductnnvezed by sumptuary laws: In the feith
thledncathmaf MM rising generation, that they may
these beat condition* of
We upfco&'th* noblest product* of one hondrad years
of chammMMstery.bqt while dpboid lag the hand at
gtetsaaaaaaKi!!
llance which is thepdea af fibartj. Reform is neces
sary to rebiliH aim «*££s** tatlMrhaaitt'Orthhwhaife
people of the Union, eleven year* ago hapoUy ssscued
Km danger of corrupt emfartfim wUehdßefiMMfag
open ten States the rapacity of the carpet ban tyranny,
has honeycombed the office* of the Inderal Govern
ment itself with Incapacity prone than fraud; indicted
States and municipalities with contagion of rniaMO
and locked bat the property of an Industrious people
In the paralysis of bard times.
Reform is necessary to establish a sound currency;
restore the public credit and maintain the national hon
or. We denounce the feilare for ail the** ten years' to
make good the premise of the legal note* which are
changing the standard valne in the hand* of the people,
and the non-payment of which Is a disregard 'of the
pßghted bith of the nation. We deaeence the Improv
idence which in eleven year* of peace baa taken from
the people in ftaads tea times tke whole amOuhl of the
eg* l tender notes and squandered four times the stun
In useless expense without accumulating any reserve
for their redemption. We denounce the financial poli
cy and immorality of that party which during damn
years of peace, ha* made no advance toward* reaamp
tioa, no preparation for resumption, but instead has
obstructed resumption by wasting oar resources and
exhausting all our sarplus Income; and while equally
professing to intend a speedy retain to specie payment,
has «-"-Siiy added fresh hindrances thereto. A* such
a hindrance, we denounce the resumption clause of
the act of 1875. and demand its repeal. We demand a
Judicious system ot preparation by public eoonomies;
ay official retrenchments aud by wise finance, which
shall enable the nation to assure the whole world of its
perfect ability and perfect resdtneei to meet any of He
promises at the calf of Its creditors entitled to payment.
We believe that such a system well devised ana Intrust
ed to competent hands of execution, creates at no rims
an artificial scarcity of currency, and at no time alarm
ing the public mind in withdrawal of that vaster, ma
chinery of credit, by which 95 per cent, of all busfuess
transaction* are performed—* system open, public and
inspiring general confidence, would from the day of It*
adoption bring healing on its wings to all our hsfmsaad
industries; set in mot Too the wheels of commerce, man
ubcture* and the mechanic arts; restore employment
to tabor and prosperity to the people. Reform is neces
sary in the sum sod moce of Fcdeml taxation Is the
end, that capital be set free from distrust and tabor
lightly burdened.
we denounce the present tariff levied npon nearly
4/WO article* aa a masterpiece of lnJastlen and talso
pretenses. It yields a dwindling, not a yearly rising rev
enue. It has impoverished many industries to subsi
dize a few. It prohibits imports that might purchase
the product* or the country. It has reduced American
commerce from the first to an inferior npon the high
seas. It has lowered the sale of AaMrttna maim lec
tures at home and abroad and deplete* th* returns of
American agriculture and industries mowed by half of
our people. It costs the p.ople five times more than
it produces to the Treasury. It obstructs the processes
of production and wast, s the fruits of tabor. It pro
motes frauds, fosters smnggitng, enriches dishonest
officials and bankrupts honest merchants. Ws demand
that custom house taxation shall be only for revenue.
Reform is necessary in the scale of public expense, na
tional, State and municipal. Our Federal taxation ha*
swollen fromfaO/MO.OOO gold, in 1959 to $4501,00fi,a00
currency in 1920. Our aggregate taxation has grown
from $150,000,000 gold, in UNO to $790,000/100 enrrency,
or in one decade lrom less than $5 per head to mora
than $lB par head. Since the peace th* people have
paid to their tax gatherers more than three tunes this
amount ofths national debt, and mo** than twice off
that sam for Federal outlays. Above all, we demand
frugality in all the departments and every effice of the
Government.
Kefcim la necessary to pat a stop to the ps«o*ale
waste of paUlc leads sad their diTsnlon fleas aetaal
settlers bv the nartr in sssav. arhlah baa anaaadend
twohandred millions orscresupon railroadsalooe,and
oat of more than twice that afes waste has dispose* at
less than a sixth to the tillers or the soil.
Bafarm Is necieeaty to oocrect the omissions of a Re
publican Congress and the crron of «n treaties a ad di
plomacy, which hare stripped oar fellow cttUeas of
foreign birth and kiadrsd racecroealnettie AUantlc, of
the shield of American citizens, and exposed oarbreth
ern of the Pacific coaat to the incursion* of fans Be
speaking a language from the same great parent stock
and in fact now by law denied dtlsanshin throogb aatt
oralization aa being neither accustomed to the tradl,
Hons of a progressive civilization nor exercised In lib
erty nnder equal laws. We denounce the policy which
thus discord* the liberty loving Uemaa and I Sklsa ■
the coolie trado In Mongolian women Imported tar Im
moral purposes and MoagoUne men held to peribnq ser
vile labor contracts, and we demand such a modUcaUeo
or the treaty with the Chinese Bmpltw, er each legisla
tion by congress within Constitutional limitations aa
ahall prevent the farther importation, at Immigration
of the Mongolian race.
Reform la necessary, and can never be efiheted bat
by making it the controlling issue of the slot Hens and
lifting it above the two false Issues with which the of
fice-holding class and the party la power seek tat moth
er U. I. me mite issue with which they would en
kindle sectarian strife ha respect to the pebUe
of which the establishment end support hoong exeln
ury. J. The false inane by which they seek to frrht
anew the dying embers of sectional hate between kin
dred people ones tunaturally eetanged, hot aenr naked
In oni indivisible republic and a com moo destiny.
Reform la neeeseaiy in civil service. Rxpci touts
proves that the efficient economical conduct of the gov
ernment bnsinesa is not possible if lta civil service be
a prize fought for at the ballot box, be a brief reward of
party seal instead of posts of hooor assigned far pravad
a tax on the time of all <wr pebiicmen nor the instru
ment at their ambition. Here agate pSofsealan hlmi
fied in the performance attest that the patty In power
nowcanweckcntnopracilcff taisfimipiyihihiui. Be
i
t stives, Cabinet efilcen—these and all In aaibonly art
the people's servants. Their offlees tfe not private per-
BHSSZSHKISS; JUfzst SW A
M ,^SSWASSF2, ."BSA?SK
of three Senators profiting sacral ly by thsir TvUrm aa
- lawmakers:'of five chairmen oflheleading commlt
; tees of the late Monen of Brnrsimtotltee enpneefi In
1 robbery; of n late Secretary of the Treasury, forcing
balances la the pnMh acoaaat* : at altte Alfotaey Gen
eral misappropriating pnbttc funds,; of n ftciahi et
the Navy, enricbsd.ersnrichnigfrtoada.by prnnpkfiP
levied off the profit* of contraeten with hie dapart
ment; of an tmbamador Is Utetofal —mates far dfito-
I honorable apecnltUon; of thePreUdent's private sec
retary barely escaping caarvtoOeaopen trtoitor gteMy
demeanors. The demonstration I* comiileta that thn
■rat step to refavm mnst be chairs foe how
fwji's.ow »w» S3RS
crimes. 'Thenthe prcdncUoo of jfatteen Kqrwef **
reform. Is confessed by the Bspehllmaa the—ipfye^
EF&arjsss. SA.'SSA
change or jnrttoe that we may hove nehengn fif fannm
ares anjd ermen.
1 " 1 . I .1 nte ,V )/I r
The Elkidef (lowa.) Journal cays:
Some young Indian on retiring to their
bed-room one night recently, opened the
window and saw a waap'a nail outside
in the upper corner of the easing, and
not knowing what it was, thought it
would bo proper to knock it off, awl
proceeded to do so. What was their
surprise and horror, a moment later to
hear a dozen or more wOfpe buxkhig
around them. ' They wen not hi at con
dition to he "huzasd," neither weee
they , prepared to rum down dates, where
their parents bad bat no
other choice was left them, ab down they
Tasked, followed bjr the pestiferous in
sects. The Wtopiqr —in ftdght as
the apparitions from Uirnoyir>-iegiano
and—weH, the gwii «lept in th»%are
room that night, and the company;***!
home and dreamed of. b—otifalhbta-'
goWiM- t , ii; !ti
COCOAHUT CAM.— Two pounds of KU
gar, one ponod of butter, onieaadthr*#.
«e«ter pounds floor, token-two
BTTTED » S 1 *•"
•poonful fioda, last thing. This makee
two loaves.