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A "Weekly Newspaper, devoted to tie Principles of Jeffewonittn Democracy, uud advocating the Bide of Truth iu every issue. y 10 UBUartjtrnM mntt.N tukicrlp titnt rtetiudfar a Itit period. fjty" AT paper disanlinutd until all arrtnrngu Vol. nr. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FEBRUARY 13, 1858. No. 44. art fait, unfit at tht nptun aj tht puhlitntr, mm Cedar Crree-, Inn. 23.1, 1658, Editor or The Arous Sir: Having , boon for nearly three ysars a subscriber to , your valuable paper, and alio been tolern. bly puootual In " paying the primer," and . never troubling you with any cummiinlea t lions, inquiries, suggestions, or advice, or . In any manner middling w'ub eilhor your publio or private affair, except upon three occasions whan I to fur Intruded uponyaur notice a to request you to credit the am onnlef my subscription, I now claim tba . attention of one of your " hundred eyes" long enongli to reconnoiler the Pott Office at Portland, and tea if you can discover any hole, crack, or corner, empty box, out of the-way place, or any thing of that tort, into which audi a piper ai Tho Argue , would be apt to find in way unaided. For certain it ii that through tome (to me) un explainable meant it hat contracted the habit of keeping bad company and loiter ing at that office longor than ia at all ne cesanry or agreeable. Surely, the very gentlemanly Post Master at Portland would , not detain the paper, if he knew it was iktrt, any longer than was convenient. But from tonio cause or other it due es , cap hit notice, and lie concealed two, three, and sometime four weeks, although , called fnr every woek regularly. To day I received two papera, one Jan. 10th and one Dec. Sih. I thought it very kind of lnm In send the old one. He mint hare bad quite a lime looking for it. Perhaps though, the " book trade" was not o bri.k dining the stormy Weather, and ha had more time to look over the mnil. I think ho would be ft little more careful if he had time. Dut thn book atoro is an much in Ilia way that it is impossible for him logive the oQke that attention he otherwise would, provided he felt disposed to. Now, if you can find the hole they hide in, just pleaso fill it up, or tell me how, nd I will. Yours, Sio., Cumtux. Xy Our friend ia informed thiit we send his paper to Portland regularly by tla Jnnnie Clark, which reaches Portland ev ery Saturday aseeily w think n twelve o'clock, and gtnerally at ten. If The Ar gus it called for nfW the arrival nf the Southern mail, an t la not liunded out In subscribers, it is owing in the culpable and shameful negligence nf thn Puaiiusster. We hear constant complaint of villainous carelessness in that direct inn. Will ituii Postmaster repent of hia sins, and mend hi ways! He certainly needs to be prayed for. A. turd. Editor of Thk Argus ! notice in that foul Five Point tdicet, the Portland Times, that the bombast ia James A. Ilubbina haa seen fit to apeak nf my ferry charges for crossing, 5to. I will "answer a fool accord ing to his folly." tto tllakea charges that cannot be substantiated, no says hia neighbors all havo to pay seventy-five cents fur crossing a span nf horses or a yoke of cattle and wagon, during low wa ter, I never have charged seventy-five cents for crossing any such team and wngon. If any of hia neighbors say so, I pronounce It false, My neighbors con aider him a neighborhood liar, and say the truth is not in him. His father, an old gray-headed man, also falsified facts by stating to my neighbors that I charged him double ferriage. That is false in toto. If he had paid up his dues as lie crossed, it would not hare come double; but it was the tlerk't duty to double it when he had mud two erodings without " anteing up." He has got mad at me, " Dutch Pete," and, for the ak nl revenge, circulated a petition to vacate the controverted road. In this, he failed be fore the Legislature. your friend and subscriber, . Pete A. Wbss, . Feb. 3, 1858. "WAT THE UNITED STATES ARB WoRTH. 'The national wealth af tha United States is thus calculated by the Boston Post: (Fatsos and cultivated soil, 5.000,000,000 (Horses, attl, sheep, Sic, 1,500 000,00(1 Agricultural implements, 500,000.001) Wines, 4,500.(100,000 Dwelling houses, 3,500.000,000 Rail ways sue canal, 1,100,000,000 Factoriea, mills, and ma chine shops, ' 400.000,000 Commercial marina, - 200,000,000 Agricelturel produce, -domestic manufactures, nd foreign roods OH hand, . 1,000,000,000 Cold and silver coin and - bullion, 300,000,000 Pufclis laaids, ship of war, fortifications, navy y'ds, public buildings, dec, 4,000,000,000 Grand total. 124,000,000,000 A National Foc.tDt. The Secretary f War, in hia Annual Report, recommends the establishment of a National Foundry 1 tor tha manafacture of small arms, and to raise the standard of Iron Manufacture in rata country to 1 leva! with thai of any other ti?B. Later frees lbs Msrsaea War. Tha following letter, from tht cftrres pondenl of the N. Y, Tribune in tha regu lar army, ia the latest we bsve sect from that quarter. Camp 0.1 Ulaci'r Fori, Nov.5, 'fi7. I have been permitted to day to read some nf the papers found on tha person of Joi'eph Taylor, the Mormon prisoner, agninst whom a writ was issued yesterday charging him with high treason. I regret that it is nut in the power of Cot. Johnston to allow me to tski copies of them. It is deemed advisable, fur various reasons, to withhold them at present from publicity lam, however, permitted to stale the sub- si a nee of ona document, which was a let' ler of instruction! to hint from tha Mormon Commander-in-Chief, dated October 4. It directed him to harass tha troops in every posaihln manner nn their march, by stain peding, stealing and maiming cattle, burn. ing grass wherever found, and especially, if possible, on the windward of trains, so as to envlop them iu the flames ; by hang. ing on the rear of the army and cutting off any wagons which lag btliind ; by fell- ng trees to at to block the road, dec. It slated, further, that similar orders bad been issued to William Hickman, Potter Rock well and Col. Denton. I should like to hear any remark which the Cut. Benton of Missouri may be pleased to make upon the commission of his Mormon namesake. Tliis interesting document is signed "Yours in Christ, Daniel II. Widl," and in a poat script Mr. Taylor is reenj'iinod to do every thing in his power- to cripple the army, short nf taking life It is piobablethat all ihe banditti who have been hanging around Col. Alexander's command for the last month are acting un der precisely the same instructions. A yet they have taken but one soldier pria oner ilia assistant hospital steward of Ihe 10th Infantry who was captured a fort night ago, whilrt passing from the camp ol his own regiment to that of the 9th Infant ry, four or five miles distant. They have been more expert in stealing cattle, and in addition to the principal robherie, which I Iihvb recorded, tln-y succeed in running off a few head almost every niffht. On one occasion, I am told, they stole twenty itne brail of hurscs and tntilet within 500 ynrds nf the camp. What constitutes the basis for the dis tinction between their present system nf lOxtilitiea, and the shedding of blood, I am unable to umer;and. Out whatever it may be, they jsivn us official information that it wi!l cease to exist tho moment we attempt to force a passage through the mo'iniain. If it lies 111 a belief that they do not become traitors till they take human life, the; are greater fouls than I am will ing to believe. No such scruples exist on the siils of the army, and on the first occa sion on which n soldier a musket can be leveed at any of the banditti, the trigger will certainly be pulled. In the present crisis there is no longer room for child's play. There ii but one alternative. Ei ther the laws of the United States are to be subverted and its territory appropriated by a gang of traitorous lechers who have de clared themselves Iu cunstiiuta -'a free and independent Siate," or Salt Lake City must be entered at the point of the bayo net, and the ringleaders of the Mormon re bellion seized and hung. Whether such an entrance can be effected this year ia a matter of great uncertainly. My own opinion is that it cannot. Even after Col. Cook shall have arrived, the strength of the regular army will not exceed 2,000 men. The dragoon horses will be unfit for soivice, and an enormous train will embar rass all operations nntil a depot is formed. The force which the Mormons will be able to put under arms, I judge, after careful and extensive inquiry, caanot exceed 5,000 men, and of these not more than one-half will be formidable adversaries. If an Aineiican army numbering hardly 0,iuJ able-bodied men, was able to rtorra out work after outwork, and at last to enter and occupy the capital of Mexico, garrison ed by 40,000 regular troops, and inhabited by 200,000 sou!, the 2,000 win) will soon be gathered under Col. Johnstons command have little reason to fear a foe only twice their number, with whom religious fsnati cinn supplies the place of military disci. p'ine. But tbe season is in war against us, and thai is, among these mountains, a more formidable enemy. Ever since the storm of October 15 and If), wo have been remarkably favored by the weather, as we were before. But last nigh came another heavy fall of snow, and ihe sky ia still low ering. Before we can disencumber our selves of the hundreds of wagon's and ihdu sands of cattle which are entirely dependent on military support, it is too certain that the Wasatch Mountains will b covered lo the depth of several Crtt with Snow. The utmost, in my opinion, which Col. Johns ton can ba expected to efT.-et withia the next three weeks, will be to pat himself into posttie t0 taks advantage of any favorable turn that may occar thereafter in tha weather, for a rapid movement upon tha Mormon capital. The loss of lbs three trains by Irs proves to ba far less serious then at first appeared, although tho value of tha property destroyed, enhanced at it was by tba cost of transportation, must exceed 11,000,000. To day, Sibley tents have been issued 1 all lbs companies, both lor officers and men, and the loading of the trains shifted, so as to render it at compact as possible and to-morrow the whole army will be put in motion toward Port Rridger, In the action which Congress must taks at iu coming session concerning the eitra ordinsry condition of affairs la this Terrl lory, there is one subject which perempto. rily demands attention the present insuf ficient rales of pay of ike Territorial officials, In tha first place, it it no holiday work in which they are engaged. They require to exercise all tha ability which they have acquired by nature and experience in the daties which devolve an them. In the next place, their life during the coming winter will necessarily be subject to many privations, for which they deserve recom pensa ; and, besides, their present sslaries are entirely inadequate to support them properly, enhanced at are the prices of all ariiclet of food, clothing and furniture by their exclusion from the valley of tbe Salt Lake. Every mouthful which they eat and every coat which they purchase du ring tha next few months will cost them about two hundred per cent, more than the price of the same articles in the States. For instance, the price asked by tbe sutlers for blsnkets is from 918 to 923 per pair ; for cape, 95; for common woolen gloves, from 92 to 4 per pair. Such ratea are absolutely neeeasary to guard them from loss, for it is probable that almost all tht oxen which they have employed in hauling their goods from Missouri will perish with iu two months, and their wagons also will be a perfect loss. The United States is no pauper. Iris competent to furnish a pe cuniary equivalent for all services of iu officials which can be bought with money. It will not furntab such an equivalent to the officers of this Territory unless thtir sala ries are raised. CO" The force of tho Mormons are esli mated ta amount to about five thousand men, officered as followt ; Daniel II. Wells, Lieutenant General ; Jemes Ferguson. Adiutant-General : A. P. Uockwood.Commioaary-General J Goo. D. Grant, Brigadier General of Cavalry; II. II. Clnwsnn, Aid-de-Camp; L. W. (lardy, Division Commissary ; W. H. Kimball, Lietitennnl-Colonol of Cavalry; Wm. Ilyde, Livutenant.Colonel nf Infantry ; R T, Bunon, Major of the Lift Guards. The Acquisition op Cuba. The Now Orleans Courier, the Administration paper of that city, arguing from the stsnd-iieint that Kansas will likoly, at least, come into the Union as a free State, presses the ac quisition of Cuba during the present term of Mr. Buchanan, to supply its loss to the South. It ttyt : We learned many yeart ago from his (Buchanan's) great speech on the Panama mission that the Moro Was practically a fortress at Ihe mouth of the Mississippi. It oujtht, therefore, to belong to the Uni ted States. The acquisition of Cuba is a question offer greater importance lo us than any other now before this Adminis- I rat ion. It would be a peculiarly fit lime to annex it as a slave Slate, when it could be made a twin sister to a free State from ihe West. All partieaouzht to be satisfied the great majority of all paniet would be. Mr. Buchanan would earn the crown ing glory of his life, and the whole Missis. sippi valley would embalm his name among tnose 01 her neroes. feace and quiet would be restored to the North, security would be given to the commerce of 'he South end West, and the people of Cuba would prosper at tbey never prospered before." Twenty Years Hence. " Ion." cf tbe Baltimore Sun, reasons that there will be another financial revilsion in the United States twenty yeart bene tsy in 1877. It will be attended by greatly dilfsrent re sults from those which mark tbe present one. Through the agency of immigration, and by the rapid development of internal elements of wealth, the United States will, by that time, have become the most pros perous and powerful nation an tbe globe, commercially, industrially and politically. The throne of Commerce may even be transferred from London lo New York, and financial dominancy from Europe lo the New World. A crarb here, then, will be a crash in the centre of the business world, which would be followed by a disastrous prostration in Europe. MtTHonlst Statistics. Tbe member, whip of the Methodist Episcopal Church in ihe United States is said lo be 820,319 an increase of 30,192 river last year. Tbe number of traveling preachers is 6,134, and of local preachers, 7,169. The number of ch arches it 8,333 ; and the probable val. oeof theenurchet atid parsonage it esti metad a! 917,008,184. Tke Merasea Bible. At tha Mormons are just new attracting considerable attention, it may not ba amiss to publish what Is generally regarded as the history of the book called the Mormon Bible. Tht lime has not yet arrived when a formal disproof of its being an inspired work is necessary, and a plain story will not be denied on tha ground of its exclud ing the supernstural. Tha opinion is of many yeart' standing that the uborijfiuet () of America are de scendants of the lost tribes of Israel. Adair, in his history of the North Amori can Indians, adopts the theory, and takes great pains lo prove it. It givs a minute account of soma Indian dancee, where cer tain words art used (yo ho-wah), which, by a little torturing, he supposes derived from lbs word "Jehovah," Aerebre very cogenl reasoning the Indians came from the lost tribes. Whether this ao. count is mors scceptable, or less so, than that of Mynheer Diedrieh Knickerbocker, in his veracious history of New York, the learned must judge. Diedrieh speculates far and wide lo acoount for their being people on this continent, bul found the problem attended with as much difficulty as other ethnographers have experienced in accounting for a race of bipeds on the Eastern continent. Me finally cuts ihe knot by tho sage conclusion that tho peo pie of this continent came here by ac cident. Be this as it msy, the opinion of their Israelitish descent has had many support ers, and it so happening, an ingenious young clerical gentleman by the name of Spaulding, In the Slate of Connecticut, be ing out of health, determined to amuse and occupy his leisure hours by writing remance upon this idea of the Jewish da. scent of the North American Indians. Upon this idea he wrote the book known as Ihe Mormon Bible. The writer of this article lies been as sured by a gentleman of intelligence and unquestionable veracity, that he came from tha town where Mr. Spaulding lived, and that he had teen persons of that town who declared that they saw whole chapters of the Book of Mormon, when in the course of composition, shown to them by the author. Mr. Spaulding finally emigrated, either to improve hit fortune or his health, or both, and went to the interior of the Stale of New York, where, it seems, be has been lost sight of. He no doubt died with out being able to find a publisher for his romance, which ultimately tumed up am ong some rubbish in the garret of a print' ing establishment in Pittsburg, where it was found by a cunning rascal by the name of Sidney Rigdon. This Rigdon meeting with Joe Smith (or Joe Smith meeting with him), the two rogues together determined to turn the work to account. The book ia written in Scriptural phras eology ; " and it came to pass," that Joe and Rigdon made a bungling addition by way of preface, slating thai certain me- tallio plates had been mysteriously discov ered under a certain bill thus and so all scribbled over with certain characters, and that, in short, Joe had been illuminated from heaven and empowered and instructed to " read" ; whence, according to their ac count, lo and behold, the Book of Mormon came forth, of course from heaven ; though some think the other place has a higher claim to its paternity. The book, in itself, is not a bad romance. The author takes up the lost tribes, and lias them marched to tho (or a) coast, where vessels are constructed, upon which they embark, and, guided by a miraculous nee dle, supernaturally provided by which the reader may see that the mariner's compass, though without a name, is older than any thing of the sort known lo the Chinese, who know everything except a steam en gine; guided, I say, by a mtraouloua neo d!", tbey are conducted to (a) coast where they land. That coast is our Awn. After landing and occupying tha country, the author, to provide himself with incidents for 'chronicles," introduces the serpent discord, and brings about a separation and a long series of wars snd conflict!. The author, knowing by an easy method of foresight (after the fact) nil of the con troverted poinU of theology, has taken care to solve them by indisputable authority. The question of the trinity, the doctrines of free agency, baptism, dee., are all definitely settled beyond any dispute for those who accept tbe Mormon book as ihe fruit of in spiration ; a very easy method. It is but just to say that the book con tains nd immoral doctrine, or anything to shock delicacy or refinement. That the customs of iu followers do not precisely indicate its character, may readily be be lieved by those who are acquainted with the multitudinous forms in which, under the notion of following the Lambj the world bss been astonished by men of Vast pretensions and little brains. Mormonism, a few years ago, was almost too contemptible lo ba noticed. Tbt "Saints" firtt established thsmielvct Ohio ; (ben moved lo tbe western part of Missouri. Driven from this latter place, they settled in Illinois, and founded Nau voo, where they toon made themselves of fensive to their noighbort, and finally aroused an opposition which eud.-d in the death of Joe Smith and his brother Ilyrum and in a new exile. At last they fixed upon Suit Lake, in '.he remote and then unknown West, where they hoped lo live apart from ihe " Gentiles," as they call us At Salt Lake they have accumulated in numbers to an extraordinary extent, most of their accessions being from abroad, in cluding Englmli Wel.b, Danes, and others They are absolutely blind lo everything but Alormonism, to which they are fan at icnlly devoted, under their recognized prophet, Hrigham Young, whose word is, to tliem, Ihe word of God. Uriguam loung has now raiaed tho standard nf rebellion against the United States, and wo are about lo enter upon a war which ia likely to attract the notice of tbe civilized world, and possibly may cost much life and treasure; and then, and not not till then, will the end be known. It is not generally known, and yel il ia true, that Mormons are scattered through out most or our Northern cities. They are counted by hundreds in this very city of St. Louts, though they keep very still, and are often employed for whole months with out their employers knowing who they are. In our country we can have nothing to uo, governmental, with the Mormon faith or roligion. The question is purely one of civil polity, and it is hoped that the Gov, eminent will vindicate the cause of civili ration, ns it is bound to maintain its civil supremacy. Missouri Republican. OCT The New Orleans Delta estimates Ihe number of slaves at ihe South at over three-and a-half millions, and their aggre gate value, at present prices, st fully six teen hundred millions of dollars. The cot ton plantations in the South are estimated at eighty thousand, and the aggregate value of their annual products, at the present prices of cotton, at fully one bun dred and twenty.flva millions of dollars. There are over fifteen thousand lobacco plantations, and their annual producU may be valued at fourteen millions of dollars. There are two thousand six hundred sugar plantations, the products of which averaco annually more than twelve millions. There are five hundred and fifty-one rice plantations, which yield an annual revenue of four millions of dollars. Rising in the World. You should bear constantly in mind that nino tenths of us are, from the very nature and necssi lies of the world, born lo gain our liveli hood by the sweat of our brow. What reason have we, then, to presume that our children aro not to do the same I If they be, as now and then one would be, endow ed with extraordinary powers of mind, those extraordinary powers of mind may have nn opportunity of developing them selves ; and if they have not that opportu nity, the harm is not very great to us or them. Nor does it hence follow that the descendant of laborers are always to Le laborers. The path upward is steep and long, to be sure. Industry, care, skill, excellence, in the present parent, lay the foundation of a Had under more favorable circumstances, for tho children. The child ren of these take another rise; and by and by the descendants of the parent laborer become gontlemen. This is the naiurnl progress. It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world. Society may aid in making the laborer virluout and happy, by bringing children up lo labor with steadiness, with care and with skill ; lo show them how to do as many useful things as possible ; to do tlicm all in the best manner ; to set them an example in indus try, sobriety, cleanliness end neatness; to make all these habitual to them, so that they never ihall be liable lo full into the contrary; to let them always tee a good living proceeding from labor, and thus lo remove from them the temptation to get at the goods of others by violence and fraud ulent means, snd to keep far from their minds all the inducement to hypocrisy and deceit. Colbelt. Waeefclnf.ss. Sleeplessness is the result of over effort, bodily or mental. When a man works beyond his strength, or thinks or studies more than rest can restore them, sooner or later comes that inability to sleep soundly, that wakeful ness which is more wesring even ihsn bodi ly labor, and which feeds the debility which first gave rise lo it. Tha result is a man is always tired, never feels rested, even when he leaves his bed in the morn ing ; hence he wastea away and finds le pete only in bis grave, if Indeed insanity do not supervene. It is too often a mala dy, itmedilesa by medical means. Avoid 1 ben, as you would a vipr or a rrtraefer, in all over effort of mind and body it is aui- cidul. Whatever you do, get enough tf sleep; whatevor you do, take enough it to restore tho used energies of taih pri ceding twenty-four hours if you do no', you may escepe for a mouth, and If pos sessing a good conlititlion years may pass awny before any decided ill result furcs itself nn your attention ; but rest nssirrj, the time will come when (Le loo often baffled system, like a tattle Lor.e, will refuso to work. It will not take prompt and sound sleep ; it will not be rested by repose, and that inhaling wakefulness will come upon you, which philosophy cannot conquer, which medicine cannot cure, and wasting by slow degrees to skin and bone, rest is found only in tlis grave. Itadrra Jerusalem. An Oriental correspondent of thu Bjs. Ion Post, now on bis travels, draws a som bre picture of that famous place once the "joy of the whole earth." After the first few days of excitement, which every visit or to Jcruialcoi must exprieuce, there succeeds an inexpressible sadness, a set tled melancholy, which appears to be impressed upon tho countenance of every iuhiibilant. A walk through llio filthy streets is a horror tho heaps of garbage left to rot in the sun ; .the slaughter-house in the centre of the city; the tannery adjacent to, and polluting ihe Holy Sepuluhro ; the skins of animals, yet warm from their bodius, and coveredvwith vermin, exposed at every corner for tale and yet worao, if possible, tho abominably filthy Jew, the hnlfnnkud Arab, tho horrible peasants whose skins are hardly to be distinguished from tha beastly rags whioh cover them, creato a loathing in tbe mind of tho stranger, which ennnot be better described than in the words of the prophet" They lie down in heir shame, and their confusion cove ret h them" " I will make tho city desolate, and an hissing; every one that pusseth thereby shall be astonished, and hiss ba. ctuse of 1I10 plagues thereof." If what our traveler asserts about tba accommodations in Jerusalem be true, we should not fancy a long stay thuro, how: overanxious we might be to examine the topography of the Uoly City and ils sur roundings. There aro no famished lodg ings to bo had. The visitor is cither obliged to hire a house, furnish it and pro-' cure servants, which are there the worst in the world, or go to a hotel. The hotel, whicu arc private houses changed to pub lic oiks, are of the most wrotched descrip tion. There is not a house in the city, except those built for the consuls by their respective governments, as good as that nf n American backwoodsman. In the win ter, lbs houses are cold, and the roofs let n the water. Tho floors are mudo slant ing, that tho water may run off, In sum mer they are uninhabitable from the heat. There are in the city three miserable hotels in which the fare is poor, and thechurgas as high as at tno Astor House iu New ork. But ihe worst feature about modern Je rusalem is the everlasting broils snd dis sensions among lite different religions sects which are almost innumerable. It is only the dread of tho Turkish poser that keeps them from literally devouring euch other, The Turk sits at the door of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, smoking his pipe, npinghU black collee, and viewing with qual indifference the Latin, the Greek, he Armenian, the Copt, the Chuldean, and dozen others who pass by him on their way to different altars, wLilo the Jew who ventures into the open squaru in front of llio Church, exposes himself lo great peril, if not to certain death, from tho hands of both Turk and Christian. Tbe Christian cannot enter tho Grand Mosque of tho Turk. The Greek, the Latin and the Armenian are engaged in constant dispute among themselves. In the meantime the Church of the Holy Sepulchre it falling to pieces, and the wind and rain are beating upon the Holy Sepul chre itself. There is of course no society no common ground upon which all msy meet. The unsocial Turk Inhabits his own quarters, and scarcely ever leaves it except to give some specimen of his tyranny. The Jew lives iu his own filth In another quarter, or sneaks about the city in a list less manner, until some charity tent from abroad gives him excitement enough te. quarrel about his share. The Christian have their own quarter, which is somewhat less dirty than the others. Oar traveler announces the recent arrival . of a new Pasha who seemed disposed to aid in the work of cleansing tbe city ; yet he might turn ou', like other functionaries before him, bul a nets broom. Still be ap peared leu opposed to innovation than hia predecessors. 03f Every day bas its appropriate do- , tirs 1 attend to them ia succession.