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- .r:•!•111t1111111..s,. - THE MADISONIAN. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 26, IS74. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year in adv.Ince` • 35 00 ixPee°11Attiinths .12 50 Three 1 50 ADVERTISING RATES. TIlE l tI)IO1.t. sn advertising or:1110i: ,S o any paper in Montana. (nett. 2 lnehes 3 Inches I Inchee Inches 1.1 Inches Inchea 41) re :.) ,?; • :II sal $5 $7 SS:$19 , $154%1 $25 5: s 9 101 12: 20 30 40 1 1 ; 11 12; 15! 25 371 55 S ii 12 141 17; :0) 451 70 1'1 1.2 15 i 241 :k 4 05i 9 0 't 3o 31: 401 15 901140 tOi . 40.i 50: 551 65; 75 150c250 - The above scale of prices Is for ordinary sin - display advertising. soiill add ad..rtisernents will be charged at the Web rate far apace ocrupied. LOCAL NOTICES Fifteen cents per hne for trrst, and ten cents Der line or each adititbeial insertion. CARDS One-half inth. $2 for one insertion ; $3 for two insertions; $S per quarter; $16 per year. tle The foregoim - schedule of prices will be N'Itiricatil::eratthLt:irneelittos counted in Nonpareil measure • 3 013 of every description, executed in the best n..e.c.st style. and on reasonable terms. NEWSPAPER DECISIONS. 1. Any one who takes a paper regularly from the r os toffice—whether directed to his name or another's, or whether he has aubscribed or not —is responaible for the payment. 2. If a person orders his paper discontinued, he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher ma y continue to send it until payment is made, and c,diect the whole amount, whether the pa- per taken from the effice or not. a. The courts have decided that refusing to take the newspapers or periodicals from the i'ostoffice, or removing and leaving them un- called for, is printalacia evidence of intention- al PROFESZIONAL. G. F. COWAN, iitOrfle3 anti Counselor at Law. Rialier•berg. Notetnna Territory. IIENiti F. WILLIAMS, Atly & Counseior at Law, ITTRIMIA CITY MONTANA. orricc over the Post Officer. J. E. CALLAWAY, Attorney anti Coun- selor at I_Jart w. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. i OFFItI. adjoining, the office of the Secre- I tan' of the Territory E. W. Toot.E. TOOLE & TOOLE. .Attorneys at Law. HELENA, MONTANA. Will practice in all the (_,Jurt,_ of Montana. J. K. TOLE. 1011N F. '4110HE:it. T. J. OWERLY1 SHOBER & LOWERY, Attorneys and coun- selors at Law. HELENA, M. T. Will practice in all the Courts or Montana. — SAMUEL WORD, tt Orney at Law. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. JAMES G. SPR ATT, Attorney and Coun- selor at Jaw. VIRGINIA . CITY, MONTANA. Will practice in all the Ceurte ef Montana. F. SANDERS .A.ttorney and Coun- selor at Law. HELENA, IL T. Will practice in all Courts of Record in Montana. VOL. 2. CO]E r ralV• GUILTY OR NOT GVILTY. She stood at the bar of justice, A creature wan and wild; In form too small for a woman, In features too old for a child; Fora look so warm and pathetic Was stamped on her pale, young face, It seemed long years of suffering Must have left that silent trace. \Your name,\ said the Judge, as he eyed her With kindly look, yet keen, \Is\—\ Mary McGuire, if you please.sir.\ \And your age?\ \I'm turned fifteen.\ -4 We1l, Mary,\ then from a paper He slowly and gravely read, \You're charged here, I am sorry to say it, With stealing three loaves of bread. \You look not like an offender, And I hope that you can show That the charge is false. Now, tell me, Are you guilty of this, or no?\ Pab3lUlascatc MITSt of weeping Was at first Inc sole reply, But she dried her eyes in a moment, And looked in the Judge's eye. \I will tell you how it was, sir; 3Iy father and mother are dead, And my little brothers and sisters Were hungry and asked me for bread. At first I earned it for them By working hard all day, But somehow times were hard, sir, And the work all fell away. `•I could get no more employment; The weather was bitter cold, The young ones cried and shivered— (Little Johnny's but for years old)— So what was I to do, sir? lam guilty, but do not condemn, I took—oh, was it stealing?— The bread to give to them.\ Every man in the Court-room— Gray-beard and thoughtless youth— knew, as he looked upon her, That the prisoner spoke the truth. Out of their pockets came 'kerchiefs, Out from their eyes sprung tears, And out from old, faded wallets Treasures hoarded for years. The Judge's face was a study— The strangest you ever saw, And he cleared his throat and murmund Something about the law; For one so learned in such matters— So wise in dealing with men, He seemed, on a simple question, Sorely puzzled just then. But no one blamed him or wondered, When at last these words they heard: \The sentence of this young prisoner Is, for the present, deferred!\ And no one blamed him or wondered When he went to her and smiled, Aed tenderly led from the Court -room Mary, the \guilty\ child.\ C. W. TURNER, T4'\VXIEiE, 'VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. OFFICE: Adjoining Colonel Callaway's. • WM. F. K I R KWOOD. Attorney at Law, VIRGINIA CITY. Can be found at Judge Spratt's office or Pro- bate Court Rooms. Will practice in all the Courts of the Territorv GEORGE CALLAWAY, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA.. OFFICE, at the Law Office of J. E. Calla- way, Este , until further notice. 1. C. SMITH, M. D., Phy;cian and Surgeon. tRtitNIA insoNTANA- ottiee at the 4.)1(1 Le Ito.au stand, Wallace • ,. .treet where he can he found night or day E. T. YAGER. M. D., Physician and Surgeon. VIRGINIA CITY, M. T. Will practice in all branches. Office one door above the City Drug Store. THE JEWELED TREE. BY A. M. MACHAR. From the St. Nicholas for December. When all the trees were clad in green, And all the birds were singing. And blossoms full of incense sweet Their perfumes forth were flinging,— One tree, amid the joyous seene, Looked sad and discontented, And to the gentle summer breeze In whispering tones lamented. It murmured to an oriole That on a bow was swinging: \Last eventide, in silvery ..train, 1 heard a poet sing, Of trees afar, with jeweled fruit, In flashing diamonds shining: These green leaves are so commonplace— Forjewels I am pining!\ The summer tied, the trees stood bare Amid the wintry weather, Until the night, when rain and frost Came silently together— Then, when the dawn had ushered in The rosy -fingered morning The tree rejoiced at its array 01 new and strange adorning. From every twig and bow there hung A sparkling crystal pendant; The proud treeglittered in the sun; In jewelry resplendent. But with the night there came a wind, And with the wind came sorrow; And then alas! a piteous case Was seen upon the morrow. For when again the morning broke, The hapless tree presented A sight to warn all other trees From being discontented. The ground was strewn with glittering ice; The stately bows lay under; Borne downward by its weight of Gems, The tree was snapped asunder! H. u. BARKLEY, M. D. Physician & Surgeon. RADERSBURG, M. T. IT AS had twenty-one years' experience in J1 in his profession—tour years of that time a surgeon in the Confederate army. He is pre- pared to perform all kinds of surgery. IN FEMALE COMPLAINTS, his expe- rience is not. surpassed by any physician in the Territory. TO THOSE WINO HAVE VENEREAL COMPLAINTS.—Gonorrhea, it called upon Within eve days after the first appearance, he Will cure in seventy-two hours. In Syphilis, he will cure in live days. Ills treatment is different frsm any physi- skin in this Territory. He is prepar e d for Cleansing. Extracting- and Filling Teeth. DR. C. S. ELLS H AVING taken an interest in the Drug Department of A Carnsieheel'e store at Silver Star, Montana,can be towel at all times, day and night, at said store, when not absent on profeesional busi- see,. 1-2Stf 0.6. WHITFORD, M. D., Ph ysician anti Surgeon, L91)GE, urs:se THE BURIAL. BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. Yes, faith is a goodly anchor; When skies are sweet as a psalm, At the bows it lolls so stalwart, In bluff, broad -shouldered calm. 0' VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26 9 1874. WHISKY WILL FETCH 'EM—SAD H YOU MADE BY THE DESTROY- ER IN ONE \SET.\ The other day, two old gents, who had been reared boys together hi London county, Va., mot by accident at the Rob- inson house, in that city, after a separa- tion of fifty years. Their names were reapectively Mr. Brown and Mr. Shack- lett. After the usual greetings and con- gratulations they fell into a dialogue, a portion of which we reproduce, as to!- lo the way, captain, how is lilY oh! friend, George G•lasscoke. I havn't heard from hi In for thirty years? Shacklett—He's dead, sah. Died at the early age of 75. Brown—Dead? George G lasscoke dead? And only 75! What was the supposed cause of his death? Shneklett (snaking liL, heau mourntel- ly)—Whisky, salt. Brown—Captain, have you heard of Major Payne lately? Shacklett—Yes, sah, the major is dead, sah. Only 71i when he went oil'. Brown—What was the supposed cause of his death? Shacklett—W hisky, sah, was the sup- posed cause. Brown—How is . our old friend, Col. Black more, down at the manor? Shack lett —Dead, sah , dead; he dropped off unexpectedly in his 100th year, much egretted. Brown—You don't say? And the colo- liel is dead! What was the supposed cause of his sudden decease? Sliacklett—Whisky, sah, Dreadfully trying on the constitution, sah. Brown—ills death must have been deeply regretted. But, captain, of course you remember old John Marshall, who lived dowu on the little creek, called Goose Run. He had two charming girls; one was called Pretty Jane and the other Blooming Rose. Don't you remember 'em? How's tho oil gentleman getting alone? Shacklett-011, he's gone too, sah; he was getting a little oldish, and died at 105. Brown—What! old John Marshall dead? What took him off? Shackiett—Whisky was the supposed cause. Brown—Let's And when over breakers to leeward The tattered surges are hurled, It may keep our head to the tempest, With its grip on the base of the world! But after the shipwreck, tell me What help in its iron threws, Still true to the broken hawser, Deep down among sea -weed and ooze! In the breaking gulfs of sorrow, When the helpless feet stretch out And find in the deeps of darkness No footing so solid as doubt, Then better one star of Memory, One broken plank of the Past, Thou our human heart may cling to. Though hopeless of shore at last! .To the spirit its splendid conjectures, To the flesh its sweet despair, Its tears o'er the thin worn locket With its anguish of deathless hair! Immortal? I feel it and know it. Who doubts it of such as she? But that is the pangs very secret— Immortal away from me. There's a narrow ridge in the graveyard Would scarce stay a child in his race, But to me and my thought it is wider Than the star -sown vague of Space. Your logic, my friend, is perfect. Your morals most dreadfully true; But, since the earth clashed on her coffin, I keep hearing that, and not you. Console if you will, I can hear it; 'Tis a well -meat alms of breath; But not all the preaching since Adam Has made Death other than Death. It Is Pagan; hut wait till you feel it— The jar of the earth, that dull shock When the plowshare of deep passion Tear down to our primitive rock. Communion in Spirit! Forgive me, But I, who am earthy and weak, Would give all my income from dreamland For a touch of her hand on my cheek. That little shoe in the corner. So worn and wrinkled and brown, With its emptiness confutes you, And argues your wisdom down. see, captain, did you know Major Thompson? He was a great fox hunter, and thnd of running horses. Shacklett—Oh, yes, sail, I remember Win well. He left us only a short time ago. He wasn't quite 115—lacked two months of it. IVInsky was the supposed cause of his death. It will floor the best of them. Brown—I suppose, captain. that you r000lloot C'.mla.,ivl r 11 1 • et , 1 1 1 who lived down in Flat bottom? He had a pretty daughter whom we used to call Sweet Briar; (nudging the captain) that was your name for her, leastwise. She mar- ried a young chap named Smith, who owned the tine horse Silver Lake—won a great many races at Hagerstown—took a pile of money out of Maryland. How's the old man? He was in his 80th year when I saw him last. Shacklett—He's dead, salt. Died, as all supposed, from whisky, a month after he was 110. It takes off many of our friends, Isaac. Brown—But 1N - hat has become of young Tom Smith? He cut you out of the girl once, you know. Shacklett—Gone, sah. Died before the war in the prime of life; only ninety-one. He had just sold his last nigga, and drank him up. But whisky fetched him at last. Brown—Well, well, I always thought that would be the end of him. Will you go out to the bar and take a nip, cap- tain? Shacklett—Well, Isaac, beinl as it's you, I don't care if I do. Whereupon they adjourned and took a \nip\ of the identical poison that had brought so many of their friends to pre- mature gaaves. Will our young men take warning by these frightful exam- ples of men cut off in the prime of life. and in the midst ol their usefulness? We hope so. death suddenly seizes him. The fame of men's gool dom goes beyond their own CHINESE PROVERBS. The excellence of aphorisms has been said to consist chiefly in the comprehen- sions of some obvious and youthful truth in a few words; anti it this be the ease le Chinese language is peculiarly adapt - intelligence ot the cold-blooded butchery ed for the production of proverbs, for it by Indians of two white men, late eiti- NO. 7. MURDER AND 01 AGE BY IN. Di 1.1.S. possesses from its peculiar structure, a beautiful and pointedness of exi_ression, which, however, no degree of care or pains can adequately convey into a trans- lation. Let us cite from various sources a few of the numerous aphorisms, maxims, and proverbs current among the Chinese, many of which will suggest parallel sen- timents in our own and other languages. By a long journey we know a horse's strength, so length of days shows a nian's heart. In the days of affluence always think of poverty; do not let want come upon you and make you remember with regret he t contra-distinction to this sentiment in another. Let us get drunk to -day, while we have wine; the sorrows of to -morrow may be borne to -morrow. To correct an evil which already ex- ists, is not so well as to /tit - sc.:mil prevent it. Wine and good dinners make abund- ance ot friends, but ill the time of adver- sity not one is to be found. Cautions conduct under circumstances of suspicion is inealculated somewhat oddly by the following: In a field of melons do not pull up your shoe; under a plum -tree do not adjust your cap. \Fe in p us fugit\ becomes in Chinese, \Time flies like all arrow; days and monthelike a weaver's shuttle.\ Do not expect what is not yet come; du not vainly regret what is already past. The Chinese evidently agree with Sol- omon's well-known advice to a parent; for they say: \If you love your son; be liberal in punishment; if you hate him, accustom him to dainties.\ It you would understand the character of a prince, examine his ministers; if you would understand the disposition of any man, look at his companions: if you would know that of a father observe his son. On Wednesday - evening. December 0th, W. H. Henderson, City Recorder, return- ed from a trip to Panamint and brings zens of and the severe wounding of a OM. It appears that a week since, three young men—Wm. Honan, Peter Dawsen and Chas.- Olsen left Pioche for Panamint on foot. They had reached the Crescent Mills, about fifteen miles beyond the Hiko, and had become foot- sore and somewhat less hopeful of mak- ing th.: trip, so they determined to re- turn to Hiko valley and work among the ranches until they had earned sufficient means to prosecute their contemplated journey better shape. • They then start- ed on thereturn trip to Hiko, and Ho- esse only survivor. gays they likul reached a point about seven miles from Hiko, when they were met by nine In- dians, membrrs, it is supposed of Flute Bill's band. The Indians had a good many inquires to make and their ac- tions caused Loran to suspect something was *wrong. The Indians apparently wanted to lurethe:n off the trail. Horan warted on a rag(' suite urging his com- panions to Corm on with him, but. they didn't appear to ihare his alarm and fell slightly behind. The Indians succeeded in separati •g tie two hindmost white n men and then Bade a attack by shoot- ing them with arows. Horan the fore- most being Owner out of their reach they shot at him with; ride and wounded in the shoulder. lie hurt did not disa- bled him and le continued his flight. He had a little stat of his pursuers and kept it. Though the Indians followed him five miles, liewas successful in get- ting close to the sAtlements of Hiko val- ley, and there his 3ursuers left him. The whole settlement vas at once up in arms. Parties were ergatised un-ler Charles G. Heath and Judge Vilson t far the ill-fated companiots of the wounded man. Horan descrited the place where the murderous assault was made, and there the body of Peter hawson was found. It was only to be recop.,mized by some of his clothing; the face hal been mashed by rocks beyond all reco;:nition, with' other frightful mutilations. The other body— Man is borne without knowledge, and that of Charles Olson—was not found when he has obtained it, very soon be -1 until the next day. The Indians had comes old; when his experience is ripe, taken it down the a -ash some distance and buried it. The same frightful muti- lations were also to te seen on the corpse as had been inflicted on the remains of Dawson. The bodies were taken to Hiko and recently buried. The settlers of Hiko valley held a meeting and have sent out parties for the purpose of dealing out a proper punishment on the murder- ous wretches.—Pioche, Ex. actions se - doors; but evil deeds are carried to the distance of a thousand miles. Though powerful medicines are nause- ous to the taste, they are good for the disease; though candid advice is unpleas- ant to the ear, it is profitable for the con - MICE. From the following simile, looking - glasses are evidently appreciated by Chinese ladies. Without a clear mirror, a woman cannot know the state of her own face; without a true friend, a man cannot discern the errors of his own ac- tions. The evidence of others is not compara- ble to personal experience, nor is \I heard\ as good as I saw.\ The three great misfortunes in life are: In youth to bury one's father, in middle - age to lose one's wife, and being old to have no son. A virtuous woman is a source of honor to her husbaad; a vicious one causes dis- grace. The strong feeling existing among the Chinese against a widow's marrying a second husband is as follows:—It being asked, \Supposing a widowed woman to be very poor and destitute, might she in such a case take a second husband?\ It was answered, \This question arises merely from the fear of cold and hunger; but to be starved to death is a very small matter, compared with the loss of her respectability!\ They are very much afraid of what they term \losing face.\ He who at °ace knows himself and knows others, will triumph as often as he contends. It is too late to pull the rein when the horse has gained the brink of the preci- pice; the time for stopping the leak is past when the vessel is in the midst of the river. A short time since a young lady, a rest- It is easy to convince a wise man but dent of Brookville, Pa., experienced a to reason with a fool is a diffieult under - creeping sensation in her nose after she taking. To meet with an old friend in a di s - tent country may be compared to the de - lie -fitfulness of rain after a long drought. To the contented, even poverty and ob- scurity bring happiness; while to the am - bitious, wealth and honors themselves are productive of misery. The truth of the following sentiment is, we all know not confined to China: Though a poor man should live in the midst of a noisy market, no one, will ask about him; though a rich man should bury himself among the mountains, his relations will come to him from afar. A single hair of sink does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a had retired tor the night, and all eflbrts to remove the annoyance were without the desired eftect, the difficulty rethaining for several days, merely changing to it location further up in the nostril. At length it seemed to pass down into the throat, causing a choking sensation. Im- mediately alter its disappearance the vic- tim experienced acute pains in the stom- ach. and called medical assistance in vain, the only thing that gave her any relief being copious doses of brandy, which failed to produce any of the usual etrectt.4. Finally sevete vomiting ensued, and after one whole night's sullering, and the pa- tient giving up hopes o1 life, the cause of the trouble was removed, and an exami- ffrove. nation found it to be a small particle of A smele conversation across the table blood and matter, in the centre of which was a common -sized black spider. Evi- dently the brandy saved the young lady's That the Grangers as a party do not amount to much is evident from the fig- ures of the late election. They did fair- ly a year ago, when tl ey helped to fright- en some Grant Congressmen and Leg- islatures into Nut demonstrations against railroad monopolies, but as re- formers they are evidently worth nothing. The Grantites this year pulled the wool over their eyes. ever thus with organi- zations which are composed of a class, and assume to exclude all not belonging from the privilege of acting with them. To be successful, a political party must be of the people, and of the whole peo- ple; it must be composed of mechanics, bankers and lawyers as tve:1 as of farm- ers, and its object must be the advance- lee& ment of the interests not of a class only, ocean\ and \To turn a somersault in al; but of the whole people. I oyster shell.\ THE BANKING LAW. National banks will be interested in the result of the controversy between the treasury department, and the Second Na- tional bank ot Lawrence, Kansas, the notes of which, as Treasurer Spinner has given notice, will not hereafter be re- deemed in consequence of the failure of the bank to comply with the terms of th e law. The act of last June provides that every National Bank \shall at all times keep and have on deposit in the treasury of the United States, in lawful money ot the United States, a sum equal to five per cent, of its circulation:\ that the notes of the banks shall be redeemed in United States notes when they are presented in sums of even thousands of dollars, and that when the notes of any bank have been redeemed to the amount of $500, the treasurer shall notily the bank which shall lir met - Pately depoait it h the treas- urer an equal sum of United States notes. The law attaches no penalty to a litilure to comply with its provisions. The treasurer is required to redeem all nation- al bank notes, but cannot do so if the banks fail to make good the five per cent. fund, but the law does not authorize any discrimination between hanks which comply with the law and those wh!ch re fuse or fail ,to do so. So far as the Law- rence bank is concerned it is not troubled by the refusal of the treasurer to redeem its notes, for unless there should be con\ celled action among other banks to send home its bills for redemption, the action of the treasurer gives it an advantage over other banks in enabling it to keep its notes in circulation. The law, of course, did not contemplate such a state of affairs, and the oversight will doubt- less be remedied at the coining session by providing a suitable penalty for a fail- ure to comply with the terms of the law. In the meantime it is suggested that other banks could ad in inis: - er a deserved rebuke to the Lawrence bank by combined move- ment to collect its notes and send them home for redemption. There is an in- centive to such action in the fact that the other banks in forwarding notes to Wash- ington for redemption will be obliged to exclude the bills of this bank or have them returned unredeemed. It is evi- dently for the interest of all that each in- dividual bank should stand upon precise- ly the same footing in regard to the law, and the action of the teresurer will there- fore meet with approval. and, if necessa- ry, with such co-operation as has been suggested. THE JEWISH DIETARY SYSTEM. The dietary code relates almost entire- ly to animal food. None of the products of the vegetable kingdom are, under or- dinary circumstances, forbidden, nor is the manner of their use limited. There is, in fact, no reference to them, no dieta- ry law whatever of practical importance, except, as I shall presently show, in con- nection with the Passover festival. As to animal food, the first ordinance requires that the quadruped, fowl or fish shall be, in the Biblical sense: \Clean.\ The law on that point is laid down in Leviticus xi., and is partially reiterated in Deuteronomy xiv.; and in all the many centuries that have since expired it has undergone no alteration. There we see that quadrupeds, to be fit for food, must chew the cutl and be clover -footed; and some that are clean, and a number that are forbidden, are particularly men- tioned. To enlarge a little on this list, we may say that among animals not eaten are, of course, the horse, the ass; the squirrel and the rabbit. Those fam- ed delicacies, bears' paws and beavers' tails are in the catalogue of the prohibit- ed. In China an orthodox Israelites can- . not partake of the cat, nor in Brazil of the tapir; but on the °bier hand, it he can have it properly slaughtered, there is no sufficient reason why. on the Western prairies, he should not feast on the savory hump of the buffalo. with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. It a man has plenty of money but no child, he cannot be reckoned rich; if a man has children but no alone y, he can not be considered poor. If a man does good, heaven will be- stow on him a hundred blessings. Great goodness and great wickedness, sooner or later, are sure to be awarded. Ofa hundred virtues, Alia' piety is the first. True gold fears not the fire. Inconstancy is expressed `ry the adage; Tsao san, sze, i. e., \In the morning three, at night four.\ The French \Dormer un ceuf pour tin bceuf,\ in Chinese is to give a sheep for an ox. \To look for a needle in a bundle of hay\ is with ns expressive of trying to do an impossibility; the Chinese say \To a needle at the bottom of the Of fowls that are unclean we find in the chapters referred to an enumeration of twenty-four. All others are regarded as clean; the only difficulty consist in identifying those that are by name for- bidden. The translations of this list differ widely, and among Talmudic com- mentators there is the same uncertainty as with later scholars. They have sug- gested certain peculiarities in the forma- tion of the feet and stomach as marking the unclean bird; but the pessibility of mistake, notwithstanding, lel p ressed the rabis so gravely that they haye ad- vised the scrupulous Isralite after all to eat of no fowl unless he is convinced, for reason beyond these suggested peculiar- ities, that it does not belong to the pro- . hibited two dozen. It may be stated as a general rnle that all birds ot prey are forbidden, and that birds which feed on grains are clean. This is, of course, a more agreeable classification to the L- raelitish epicure than that of quadrupeds. PAPACIOS AAD THEIR PASTORS. 4 HOW OFTEN HAVE WE EAT. REMARKABLE MASONIC INCIDENT • The first masonic funeral that ever oc- curred in California took place in 1849, and was performed over the body of a brother found drowned in the Bay of San Francisco. An account of the cere- monies states that on the body of the de- ceased was found the silver mark of a Mason upon which were engraved the in- itials of his name. A little further hives- tigation revealed to the beholder the most singular exhibition of Masonic em- blems that was ever drawn by the inge- nuity of man upon the human skin. TSere is nothing in the history of the traditions of Freemasonry equal to it. Beautifully dotted on his left arm, in red and blue ink, which time could not efface, appear- ed all the emblems of the entire appren- ticeship. There was the Holy Bible, square and compass, the 24 inch guage and common gavel. There was the mo- saic pavement representing the ground floor of King Solomon's temple. the in- dented tessel which surrounds it, and the blazing star in the center. On his right arm and artistically executed in the same indelible liquid, were the emblems of the fellowship degree, viz: the square, the level, and the plumb. There were also the five columns representing the five or- ders of architecture—the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthiau and Composite. In removing the garments from his body, the trowel presented itself with all the other tools of operative masonry. Over his heart was the pot of incense. On other parts of his body were the bee- hive, the book of constitutions, guarded by the Tyler's sword pointing to a naked heart; the All -Seeing Eye, the anchor and ark, the hour -glass, the scythe, the forty-, seventh problem of Euclid,the sun, moon stars and comets; the three steps which are emblematical of youth. manhood and age. Admirably executed was the weep- ing virgin, reclining on a broken column, upon which lay the book of constitutions. In her right hand she held the pot of in- cense—the Masonic emblem of a pure heart, and in her left hand a sprig of aca- cia, the emblem of the immortality of the soul. It has been demonstrated that at cer- tain intervals, when food is received into the stomach, gastric juice is secreted to digest it, and that no more gastric juice is secreted than is required for the diges- tion of the proper quantity of food. If a person eatatwice or thrice a day, at regular periods, the gastric juice is secre- ted by the stomach to digest the food it has received. If, while the food is being digested, more, food is introduced into tie stomach, digestion, in relation to the food already in the stomach, is arrested. For instance: A person takes, in the morn- ing - , a piece of bread and several potatoes; now it will take about three hours for the stomach to dispose of that food. Sup- pose the person, about an hour after eat- ing this food takes a piece of bread and an apple or two; what would happen ? The digestion that was going on in the stomach would immediately stop, and not be resumed until the food was receiv- ed last was brought into the condition of the first. Suppose he took food every hour, what would be the consequence? The stomach would become prematurely worn out and could do nothing perfectly —working alt the time without rest. But if the person possessed a good constitai- tion and a large amount of vital power I.e would not feel at first this drain upon the system, but sooner or later he would have to pay the penalty of outraged nature. For instance: A person may have a large capital in bank; he can live upon the in- terest very well, but he draws upon his capital. He does not feel this drain at first, because he has so large a bank ac- count; but if he keeps on he will become, sooner or later, a bankrupt. Some per- sons have an enormous amount of vitali- ty—good ce n sti Onions. It is said of these persons that nothing hurts them; they can eat and drink anything with impuni- ty. This is a fatal mistake; see how many years of life they are cutting off by such foolishness. It such persons live to the age of seventy or eighty. they might have reached the age of one hundred or more years by better diet ic habits.—From the seience of Health. Ofa verity, the mother church has fallen upon evil days. First Biemarck, and then Gladstone, and now Wilbur: Wil- bur is the agent of the Papago Indians, an Arizona tribe which the Govermnent has turned over to the Roman Catholic Missionaries to be evangelized. After holding his place till patience has ceased, in his judgment, to be a virtue. Wilbur writes to Commissioner Smith that. it is no use. The Bishop and Priests are a bad lot. They are considerably more interested in the property cd the Indians than in their souls. They have repeat- edly attempted to impose a system of tithes, and are bent, in Wilbur's opinion, upon reducing the poor Papagos to a condition of vassalage and servile bond - :met Moreover, they are hostile to the Territorial public school system, have no sympathy with the genius of American institutions, and plot against Wilbur. For all which reasons. at t . he unanirus NEW COUNTERFF.ITS--THE ARREST OF TOM BALLARD. Mr. Benson of the United States secret THE MADISONIAN PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY — A T — Virginia City, - - Montana THOS. MARMON, Editor and Proprietor. J. R. WILSON, Associate and Local Editor. Papers ordered to any address can be changed to another address atthe option of the subscriber. Remittance by draft, check, money order or registered letter may be sent at our risk. THE MADISONIAN is devoted to the advocacy of the principles of the Democratic partv and to general and local news. GEN. GARIBALDI PAYS FOR HIS SON'S LOVE -MATCH. Ricciotti Garibnldi has lately made a love -match of the most decided character. In other words, having become attached to a young English girl. Who reciprocated his attachment. and the cruel papa having re- fused his consent, he cut the Gordian knot by running away with her. It is very un- fortunate that Garibaldi's son, like so many young Italians, was brought up to no busi- ness or profession. Ricciotti could not live In London or carry on his courtship without money, and, having none, he drew upon his father, who could not meet his bills without great sacrifice. Accordingly he decided to sell the beautiful yacht, present- ed to him some years ago, by the Duke of Sutherland. The yacht was sent to Genoa, but the friend who conducted the bargain and received the price of the yacht, some sixteen thousand dollars, decamped, money and all, for Columbia's happy shores. The bills meanwhile became due, and Garibaldi was obliged to borrow the money of the Bank of Naples, mortgaging to the same his house and farm at Caprera, the only property he now possesses, as security. The friends of the General instantly open- ed at Genoa, a subscription for his benefit, which, however, he begged to have discon- tinued. The yacht was bought by the King, and the money paid to the agent chosen by CI; aribalda himself. The govern- ment, or at least the King, has again and again endeavored to come to the aid of the man whom it would delight to honor. But Garibaldi refuses positively to receive any- thing at the hands of the King or his Min- isters. It is hoped, however, that a means has been found of r'epaying him the sum of money out of which he has just been cheat- ed, and at the same time of respectirg his prejudices. A bill will be brought before Parliament early in the approaching ses- sion, making provisions for his support. This gift will be made by the nation, and from his country he need not refuse so small a payment on the great debt she owes him. The General, who has several times been elected to parliament, but always re- fused to accept the honor, consents to be returned this year, on condition that he Shall take his seat when he considers it necessary. He lets been elected. --Venice Correspondence N. Y. Evening Post. Immediately beneath her stood Time, with Ilk scythe by his side, which cuts the brittle thread of life, and the hour- glass at his feet, is ever reminding us that our lives are withering away. The withered and attenuated figure of the Destroyer was placed amid the long and flowing ringlets of the disconsolate mourner. Thus were striking emblems of mortality and immortality blended in one pictorial representation. It was a spectacle such as Masons never saw before, and in all probability such as the fraternity will never witness again. The brother's name was never known.— Philad“lphia RELIGION AND SCIENCE. In a recent address to the Glasgow op- eratives, Lord Shaftesbury said: \As for science, he would say to them, give it all your attention and all your energies; go to it with all the ardor you can command, and with all the time and intellect you can spare, having regard to the necessities of your position. There were some peo- ple who said that the pursuit of science was adverse to steady faith in revealed religion. Anything more weak and yet more dangerous he had never heard ut- tered in the course of his life. Nay, the very reverse; they should dive dev,' esrch wide, and the further they went and the more they acculn ulated,tlie greater would be the amount of evidence in favor of re- vealed religion. His complaint, his con- stant complaint, was that scientific men did not go last enough. They lingered and lagged, and when facts were called for the reply was given in theories. A learned friend of his had told him that in conversstion with the great Laplace, Lap- lace remarked, \We have had speculation enough; we want more facts.\ Now. they also wanted more facts, and nothing but facts. If he had the wealth of Gins - or the wealth of a few people in it. (a laugh) so far from fearing the progress of science, as many people did, he would spend no end of money to encourage it. He would urge upon these masters of wisdom that they did not plunge deep enough; they should go further, and wi- der, and higher. He wished a thousand times as many minds were engaged in scientific pursuits. A few eminent men held a monopoly, and they crushed the public. with their crude and abundant timeless But there was no greater folly than that committed by those who Nvould maintain revealed truth by 'counter theo- ries. The Bible has suft'ered far more from its friends than from its enemies. Ie. their timidity they have deprecated inquiry, and so have appeared to distrust their own Zien. In their over -zeal, as it the Bible could not take care of itself, service bureau has informed a reporter of they have proceeded to give explanations a New York paper that himself :Ind asso- ciates have succeeded within the last three weeks in discovering over $44.000 in counterfeits, mostly on Clinarso banks, and ch.( tly in notes of flue denomination of five dollars. They have also succeeded in obtaining and destroying the plates, and in sonic instances in arresting the counterftiters. Tom Ballard, who is said by Mr. Ben- son to be the most expert counterfeiter in this country, was captured in Buffalo a month ago, and is to be tried soon in Auburn. Mr. Benson, who is an import- ant witness against him, having in his possession several plates made by Ballard and captured from hira.left Monday nie-ht to attend the trial. Among these plates is one yet unfinished, which was to have been an impression of the rive dollar bill of the bank of British North America, in Montreal. and with which Ballard stated that he Gould have bankrupted all Canada. One of the bills in the possession of Mr. Benson is a $500 treasury note which de- ceived the expert whom the secret service bureau usually employs as an expert wit- ness in cases brought to trial. :2 1. • • • 511- • request ot his charges, NN ilhur asks Coin- \Oystur Stuze \ are what a Chicago missioner Smith to come to the rescue. slop -shop offers its patrons. and interpretations which the language of Scripture would never justity; and then sonic clever scientific man laid hold of it, and in his criticisms has overthrown the tnith ot many by his just and his ridicu- lous observations. Had he the wealth of Glasgow he would say to Max Muller and his Orientalists: \Here is it sum of .£50,000; collect the facts you re- quire. Send abroad your men. You say languages is dying out; send abroad awl take the dying speech, the last con- fession of these dying tongues.\ He would send the same sum to Professor Tyndall and say to him: \Accumulate your facts: I don't care about your theo- ries, but turn your powerful intellect :o the pursuit of facts.\ He firmly be - lieved that if Glasgow or any wealthy city were to come down with such a means of advancing science, they would see that in less than ten years that grand old book would be like the ark upon Mount Ara- rat, surveying the subsiding of the wa- ters, and rejoicing at the restoration of life and joy.\ An Ohio man has been converted to temperance ninety-eight times, and he says he'll go up to a hundred or die. A NEW CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA. Dr. George Cragin, of the Oneida com- munity, thus explains a novel and, very successful treatment of deplitheria: Recognizing as we do the spiritual na- ture of disease, as well as its physical char- acteristics, our first efforts were to arouse the spirit of the patient ivy means of eriti- cism to resist the power and leaden influ- ence of disease, which enveloped him like a cloud, stupefying and befogging every mental faculty and etlort of the will to re- pel the intruder. The invariable result of criticism was to stir up the patient in mind and heart to make a stout defence against the attack, to resist the influence of the disease with might and main, and to tnrow him into a sweat, thus at once relievingahe fever. The next thing was to prepare a quanti- ty of ice, broken into small bits, ‘vhich could be easily taken into the mouth amid swallowed, or allowed to melt, letting the piece slip as far back as possible on time roots of the tongue, tonsils, and upper part of the throat. This application of ice was made every ten minutes, day and night, until every vestige of the canker had disappeared, and the inflammation had subsided. During the day the patients, unless very sick, could help themselves to the ice if a supply were placed at the bed- side or near at hand; but during the night watchers were required to give the neces- sary lump of ice every ten minutes, one nurse attending to several patients. This course of treatment was faithfully followed as long as there were any traces of the dis- ease about. and although we had over six- ty eases during the fall and %Inter, and many of them very severe, we lost not a single patient alter adopting the ice criti- cism treatment. Of course the application of criticism would be difficult, if not impossible, tinder ordinary hospital routine or private prac- tice, even if desired by the patient, but the application of ice can be made under any circumstances, and there must be but few who cannot afford a few pounds of a med- icine, so pure, and so powerful. The efficacy of the ice treatment lies in its being applied continuously until every trace of the fungus growth has disappear- ed and the swaing and inflammation has subsidtd. Acids and alkalies and fashiona- ble gargles will, in some measure, cheek the morbid growth, but they cannot allay the fierce heat and reduce the inflammation of the swelled throat. Ice will do both and not injure the patient. Try it. In July last the construction of the Sierra Madre, in Colorado, to Middle Park, was begun, and in November a six -horse coach made the ascent for the first time. The road runs from Empire through Berthoud Pass, a gap in the mountain chain 500 feet below the timber line. 10,600 feet above the sea, with Mount Russell towering 3,000 feet higher on one side, and Mount Flora 2.01)0 on the other. From this point the road descends the Pacific slope eleven miles to the edge of timber, where, crossing Vos- quez Fork, it enters a dense gro% e of young pins on level groun•I extending a mile and a half to the head of Middle Fark, which is an elevated •alley 8400 feet a tove the sea, entirely surrounded by the lofty chains of the Rocky Mountains and abounding in magnificent scenery. This is one of the most famous of the natural parks of California. A regular line of stages from Georgetown to the park v.:11 he placed upon this road next suer. As my wife at the window one bcauttful day stood watching a man with a monkey, a cart come along with a broth Of a boy, who Was driving a stout little donkey. To my wife then I spoke, by way of a Sok , . \ There's a relation of yours in that car- riage.\ To which she replied when thu dv - nikey she spied, \Ali yes: a relation by marriage.\ The name of Hon. E. C. Bailey, of the Concord Patriot, is mentioned as the Democratic candidate for Congrees ill the Second New Hampshire District. 4 et There is noneof God's creatures for whom the Recording Angel reserves a larger share of pity than the man condemned to wrestle with the average boarding-housa sirloin.
