60
THE WEST SHORE
December
MUSIC AND THE FORTS.
Upon music, the finest of the tine arts, the
language of BbftkoipMM is very forcible and
striking. Among other sentiments we find the
following:
"Wlien griping firitif ft heart l"th wound,
And doleful rhUDH tilt iriiml
Then mimic with MTJIIw ouiid,
Willi itedj' nelji doth tend mlrww."
Again he writes:
'TV MB thnt huth no mimic in liiiiMulf,
Nor it not moved with rd of sweet sourulii,
1m lit fur UiMOIII " i in- UK) Ipoflli
Tliu miHlMII of hi it spirits art dull tut night,
And lii SftTsCttooi dark us KruLiw;
Let no RHb MB lw tnwlwJ,"
Other poets ami authors have paid homage to
the Muhc. Lather tells nil "Music is the art
of the Prophets, the only art thnt can calm the
agitation of the soul." Hogg has expressed the
ame sentiment in verse:
"Of all Um ln-.'0-ts tMBMBln Uic Heaven,
That man him found, 'r Ood Hum gitn,
None draw the wiul H aweet awaj,
As nutkri milling, mystic lay;
WiicU tuiohiii l the t'H short,
t tuOtim the '. ni all to love."
Milton, in describing the enravisliiiieiit of
music, says:
"I was all cur,
And Ufik in strains that might HSSts u wiul
Under IhrlUof ilealh "
Or. Ihirwin thus speaks of song:
"(.' me Ian a IMg, a winding Keiitlu wing,
To lad me into ilMtt, lM If Dt I"
Ax Zephyr telllty -mn I- Id i.i
l or I v
Ami Nl 1 'I '."i"' Hi'li
flmt iff" around tin-it
llul most of llnuiuht, for
And when the ISSVSS "f
If tht ru'N m Mad, reiwui
8o life. i deth; awing
lleoin before another del
From tin'
of my Utoufuts,
her inuole
I'm hid -
I IMen,
I -li- .1 SINHI It,
HELPING PAPA AND MAMMA,
I'lai ting the 00fH ami (NiUtoea,
Helping tn Hatter the ISSUS.
Feeding tlie hSM and the thick urn,
I'neiiig (he gunk-n frotn weods;
liming the niwa Ui Hie paitiire,
r'iMilmg Hie horfW in Hie sUll,
We huh- ehildrrii are tinny;
Mure Ihere in work lor u all,
Uelplnfl
hinsaliiiu the hay In the matliU,
linking it "p Hw il'B l,r i
hekiiig OH BMMSSl uml t-eadiea,
Down in thl orchard lianl hy:
I'liklug the i:mh b in Hie untyitnl,
Helping '.i(a.
Bwseping and matting Hit
tiring
- the M
..l rrotn u
illnhen.
Innuttt, i
Mi l ui.; I.i m.tK.' iy llm lull,
i.i.ii.,- .1 . n of ih.-huhy.
Watching lltrr lent nIiu ihould full,
We Huh' BnildfM are him ;
Oh ' there in work for H all,
Helping mamma
Work tnaken us eheerfnl and happy,
Ihtke UN 1h.Hi aotlVS and Mining;
Mai woenj ly all Ihe heller
When we hart laUirul M lung
U bully we help our kind parent,
yn.. k we Ml ,,t their ea.11.
ChlMrm ibould hive lo hu bun ;
There ii murh work for u all.
Helping USDS and mamma
iv fmtk'i c
THE TftUK UKNTLKMAN.
l(o is above a low act. I If OWUOt sti
Soiiimit a fraud, Ho invades no secret in the
keeping of . l i . I. i. He takes adits!) Ad
vantage of no man's mistakes, lie is ashamed
of muemloes. Ileuses no ignoble weapons in
controversy- He never stabs in the dark. Ho
is not one thing to a man's face and another to
his back. If by' accident he cornea into pos
session of his neighbor1! counsels, he passes
them into instant oblivion, lie hears scaled
packages uithout tampering with the wax.
raKT not meant fur Ins eye, whether they
llutUT in at his window or lie open Itefore him
in unrcuarilcd ciosiiru are seciet to him. Ilo
profanes no privacy of another, however the
sentry sleeps. Holts and bars, locks and keys,
Ivouda ami securities, notices to trespassers, arc
not for him. lie may be trusted out of sight,
near the thinnest luirtltioti, anywhere. He
buys no ollice, lie sells none, intriuues for none.
lie would rather f nil of Ins own right than
win them through HiHhoiior. He w ill eat hon
est hu lie tramples on no sensitive feeliuga.
lie insults no man. If lie has a rebuke for an
other hti is straightforward, oiien ami manly.
lie cannot descend to scurrility. MdlniKcate
docs not lie on lus track. Of womati, and to
In i he speaks with decency and rvsjH'ct. In
short, whatever lie iintges tionoraide tic nrac
ticea to want every our. He is not always
.tressed in broadcloth. "Some people," says a
distinguished bishop, "think a gentleman meniia
a man ol i, i ml. nt tortmic a man win
(area umptuousfy oiery day; a man who need
not laiHir lor hw Uaily hreaH. NOMM tie
make a gentleman not one of them nor all of
lliem tocetlnr. 1 have known men ol tin
roughest exterior who have bjMfl ustnl all their
lives to follow tlie plow, and look after horwa,
aa thorough gentlemen in heart aa any nobleman
who ever wore a ducal coronet 1 mean I have
hMW them aa uiisellish, I have known them as
truthful, I have known them aa ympathiring;
and all the qualities go to make what 1 under
stand liy the term "a gentleman. "
H ta a noble privilege which ha trn aadly
pnntituted ; and what 1 want to tell you ia, that
the humblest man who has the coarsest work to
do, yet, if his heart ie tender, and pun and
true, can ln in the moat emphatic seuae of the
word, "a gentleman." Tht CArwfMti .S'fufe-nIN.
Tut fact that the tin suspender button in a
hurch coiilnl'iitmu U.i on foreijjn uusiionscaii,
vn a aquar issue, outvote the nickela, two to
ooe, ia uot to te taken a an indication of a re-
turn to ieeie payineuU.
Till latest rniHly (or hog cholera Kaai, ia ly
and aoft eoap. tHir butcher uaa np all their
tie aim solt soap ou ineir cuswuier.
FUNNY I'AKACitAPHH.
Thk Smith family are to have a reunioii in
New .Jeraey. It is too soon to nominate a president.
A Yorso couple that are devoted to each
other and eat onions, must undoubtedly Imi cn
gaged,
Wk are offend m-veral dontilt'l advertise
ments payable in "trade." Their trade is not
eiyVnmble with us.
"Thk lalmrer is worthy of his hicher," as the
fellow remarked when he married a girl a foot
and a half talk-r than himself.
Iv I marry my wife's cousin, ami niv wife
marries my cousin, what would be the legal re-
Tins year the mowing machines and reapers
did much towards keeping the wooden leg fac
torial of this country m successful operation.
ADHMIVXirMfl is a strong development ot
Washington's character when developed by a
"lick on tlie hack ol his liead, at tlie post
yfloo,
In the search for stolen goods at I'ittslmrg
the poUoe recovered sixty hams from a single
house. That man worked harder on the strike
thuti he ever did on a job.
A UlOHIOAM widow recently hid her cow
away under the bed to save it from the tax
collector. This may lie called a genuine case of
"OOWJUOulg ly ii lemale.
The exploring party struck the store where
lam used to trade for his Hour and beans at
Myceuie the other day, find found the Trojan
Monarch's poll book, showing that his account
was behind .'ill ilraeliime. Dr. Schlieman sayw
this arouses all the grocer passions of his nature.
"Si: in-:, Teddy, iwhatiw the mailing of this
'do facto" that the Sun kapes a call in the l'res-
Identf "Kuix, an it's mesilf as don't know,
I'at. and it II be sonic hcucli parhvoo, ami tile
UUne intirely as honorable."
Ha VI vou 'OoldKnjth'l ( ireeco f " was
asked of the clerk in the store in which books
and various miscellaneous articles were sold.
No," said the clerk, reflectively, "wo haven't
lioldsmith's grease, hut we have some splendid
liiuroil.
HOW TO WASH LACKS.
Now that luce and muslin riilllcs are univers
ally worn, the pleasure of the possessors is a
ittle (lushed by the UlOWledgfl that the pretty
varieties will lose their freshness mm hulf, at
least, of their Wauty in the wash, unless re-
mrse be had tothe expensive skill ol a rreneli
laundress. Hut if they are washed at home af
ter the following manner, they may hold up
their heads with the beet of the unwashed:
er half a doi n w ine or porter bottles with
old stockings, sewed on to tit as tightly M pos
sible. Ou these haste the soiled lace, carefully
catching down every tiny loop in the border.
The work is tedious but necessary. When the
lace is fastened, cover the lsittle in hot suds made
of line soap and change the cooling suds to hot
again several times a day. Or, lietter still, put
the lsittle in the Isiiler, and let it boU two or
three hours, by which time the lace will bo
unite clean. Set the Isittlo in the air, and leuve
it till the lace is nearly but not unite dry. Then
np the lace off carefully, and presH it in a book
for a few hours. It will come out spotless, not
too white, and with the almost imperceptible
stillness which new lacu has. Kveii point lace
emerges unscathed from this process. With
half ft dozen bottlH much lace can 1- cleaned
at once, and the lacu can be tacked on at odd
moment.
Kxid roR Bornmnu Hxm in thk. kd us
RU8, In the course of a recent lecture at
I'hiladelphia. Mr. W. H. Wahl, one of the edi
torsofthe Pohjtirhnic litrirtr, sHike as follows:
Wo need, imperatively, the educated skill of
scientific workmen in every department of
technology, men who can rationally direct the
tillage ototir countless acres of productive soil,
and the rational utilization ami cultivation of
our forests, that the ignorant impoverishment
of the former, and the improvident and criminal
destruction of the tatter, may not, despite the
exulierancu of Nature's bounty to this, tlie rich
est of her continents, cover lier fuce with the
widespread desolation that has converted so
many of the fairest garden mjhiIs of Asia and
KurojHj into arid deserts; men who can direct
us how to tap, with the magic wand of science,
the rocky ribs of our hillsides and mountains,
and force them to disgorge their hidden treas
ures; we need designers and constructors, who
shall supply to skilled laborers, in other fields
of industry, the tools, implement and machin
erv which will miiltinlv their nroductive ivow-
ers a hundred-thousand fold, so that the products
of multifarious industries shall U placed within
the reach ol the huiulilest ami poorest ot us.
Itut alove all, the preeminent merit of a widely
disseminated scientific training will le to inspire
men, who comprehend what science ha done
for civilization, through patient, faithful, un
flagging and unselfish labor and study, with a
genuine enthusiasm for the pursuit of truth
for toe truth s sake, with a keen conviction ot
the dignity of lator, with a thorough hatred of
sliam ami pretense, ami keen pleasure in tn
consciousness of work w ell done.
Mrsimoow Knviin. -1'lace agaric of aa
large a site aa you cn procure (not worm eaten),
layer by layer, in a deep pan, sprinkling each
layer, a it is put iu, with a little salt; the next
day stir them up several times, so as to mash
and extract their juice. On the thin) day
strain otT the liquor, measure and boil for 10
minute, and then to everv pint bottle of the
liquor add one-half ounce of black pepper, one
ouarter ounce of bruised ginjror root, a blade of
mace, a clove or two and a teaapoonful of
mustard seeH; noil again lor halt an hour, put
in two or three hey leave and set aside until
uuite raid: naa through strainer and bottle.
cork well and dip the end in reain. A very
little t'hila vinegar is an improvement end some
add a glass o( port wine or a glaaa of strong ale
to every bottl. lw ahould be taken that the
spic is not added so anunuanuy as to over
power the true tUvor uf the mushroom.
SULPHIDE OFOABBON AS A CURE FOR
MITES.
A foreign newspaper, the Journal tlr. f Ayn
cuitnrr, has an assay by Or. Felix Schneider, giv
ing the results of IB years' experience m meth
ods to rid poultry of mites or lice. In all this
time experiments were made with almost every
proposed substance, but the writer proclaims
fulphideof carUn the remedy for which he
sought long and diligently. We give his re
marks concerning this substance. He sajs: 1
had failed to find my desideratum a remedy
whose etiieaey should not depend on its b.cal ap
plication, or ou subsequent attention to it, that
should be both curative and preventive,
ami that, placed once for all in tlie pigeon
house, should keep away the vennin without
injuring my pets. At last the idea struck me
to have recourse to a well known insecticide
used by the vine growers of the South for the
destruction of the phylloxera I mean the sul
phide of carbon.
The very next day I was agreeably surprised
and encouraged to rind the enemy had evacuated
thulr htnni"h"ld" leaving none but dead and
lying behind, and on the following Hay noL a
siligle living insect was to bo found, while my
birds, that Lad hitherto been wretchedly perse-
cuted day and night by their microscopic tor
mentors, were sitting quietly on the roof en-
joying an uuvvunte.uy peaceiui revise.
This nappy Btate of ailairs lasted for 12 days,
till the sulphide of carbon has fully evaporated,
a fact which I noticed on Saturday morning at
alsmt nine o'clock. Twenty-four hours later a
fresh invasion of lice had already put in an ap
purauce under the wings of the birds in the
warmest portirtns of the house, where there
nere no currents of air. I replenished the
iiipply of Bulnliide. and by Monday morning
only a few of thcue frcah visitants were remain
ing, and no turtlu-r arrivuis nau occurred, wu
luesday morning every trace oi venom nau
fllnnmarad.
Since that time I have personally made a
great number of further truis witn tne sul
phide, and have witnessed others carried out by
my advice by some of my friends who keep pig
eons and poultry. hclorc pnn.-ce.nng opnoiisu
lhi. ti . vitv I wished to be doubly ;:ud trebly
asauredot its real value, lor l could nanny nenevn
the evidence oi tnv own n-- - " lien, altei such
long and patient, researches, I had the good for
tune to lay my hand upon an apparently infal
lible remedy in so convenient and cheap an appli
cation as this. Having two pigeon houses imme
diately contiguous, but separated by an imper
meable plaster partition, I employed the sul
phide in one of them and withheld it from the
other. The latter in a very few days was swarm
ing with vermin, while the former remained as
free from them as at the commencement of the
observation.
Mv brother, who is a very skillful fancier,
prided himself a good deal for some time upon
having his birdB free from vermin, but one day
in the month of duly he was very glad to ap
ply to me for my recipe, which he used with
immediate and absolute success.
I should recommend the sulphide of carbon
to be put in small medicine phials hung about
the pigeon house or poultry most. When it
has about three parts evotHiratcd the remainder
will have acquired a yeUOWUO tinge, ana no
longer acts so completely as before, but if it be
shaken up afresh it will still sutlice to keep the
lemy at a distance.
(Ieoluijii-ai. Si'itvKY ok Hiiazil Anion j the
more important results so far accomplished by
the geological survey of Brazil, says the Eiuji
iit'cr, has oeen the discovery of the existence in
Hrazil, of tlie Bilurian, Hevonian, car Donn emus,
trials 0, Jurassic, cretaceous ami pott-tertiary
formations, all of them furnishing well-charac
terized fossils in great variety, and ot w hich
large numlters have been collected by the com
mission for its investigation, ami for the pur
pose of distribution in Brazil and of exchange
with foreign establishments. So far no well-
leliued tertiary lias OtMtfl loiiiiu to exist in nra-
zil. The survey has also been very successful
in its ethnological researches, especially among
the kitchen-middens of Santa Catharina, Para
na, San Paulo, Bahla, and the Amazons, the re
suits of which have licen announced in part,
although much of interest yet reniaius to be
published, 1 be researches in the corai reels
nave been made the occasion of securing niun
lers of marine animals, all of which add to the
resources of the survey.
Fkab or Okath. - It is said of the late Dr.
Arnold that, finding one of his children had
been greatly shocked and overcome by the first
sight of death, he tenderly endeavored to remove
the feeling which had I awakened, and,
opening a Bible, glinted to the words: " Then
Cometh Simon I'eter following him, and went
into the aepulcher, and seeth the linen clothes
lie, and the napkin that was almut his head, not
lying with the linen clothes, put wrapped to
gether in a place by itself !" "Nothing, "he
said, ' 'to his mind atl'ords us such comfort, when
shrinking from the outward accompaniment of
death the grave, tlie grave . I itlies, tlie lonel
nets as the thought that all of these had Wen
around our Ionl himself round him who died,
an.l is now alive forever more.
Tiif. E:i; Trape or thk Uniteh States.
The egg trade of the country ia immense. It iB
atiniatcd that the inhabitant of the United
States consume 4.OUU,000 eggs per day. Th
city of New York alone, it is estimated, con
siiniea 40,000,000 dozen annually, and Boston
IMNQLQUQ BOMB, rilty-seven dealers in t hi
cage alone, last year, received 4,660,000 dozen
ol eggs.
Dm fkoii HuiH Altitude, M. Gaston
Tissaudier and his brother, aays Saturt, have
made an ascent from Gilford a aeronautical gaa
worn, tor uie purpose ol collecting the dust
floating in the atmwphcre. The method em
ployed ha been to condense the moisture of the
air and analyze the water and ice thus obtained
with a microscope,
Knolasd ia e neck ahead. The man who
Hvexl 18 hours with hia neck broken is outdone
by the young Knglishman who has lived five
years in that condition.
TREES AN1 KAINFALL.
utfLUoa oi nuns ox climate.
In considering the influence of trees upon the
climate and rainfall of the Pacific coast, we tirst
encounter the impossibility of finding any rec
ords of the climate and rainfall of ancient times.
Beyond the mere fragments handed down by
the early Spanish discoverer?, the records do
not extend beyond a quarter of a century, a time
too Bhort to be of value in determining a change
of climate.
Looking first at Arizona, we see extensive
ruins of aqueducts and cities, showing the
former presence of a large agricultural popula
turn. That Arizona, and, indeed, the whole
Pacific coast, has been peopled by one race or
another from remote antiquity does not admit
of doubt. Some pprtions, as central Arizona,
were densely Bottled. Western Arizona iB now,
for the most part, a sandy desert, destitute of
trccH, with but a few inches of rain dnrine the
year, and burned by a blazing Bun. By what
means, then, did Arizona ouce sustain her large
population, and why is the country now a dts
ertl Arizona had once an abundance of rain
and that within the general historical era and
the present geological epoch. Now the raiim
have ceased, and these are the reasons why :
The nmiBture that now falls in scanty aummer
showers upon Arizona comes from the same
monsoon that blows up the Mississippi valley ;
it crosses Texas and New Mexico, losing most
of its moisture in passing over high mountains,
and by the lime it reaches Arizona its humidity
is so greatly lessened that very little of its re
maining moisture can be condensed, and the
surface of Arizona does not oiler the necessary
conditions for condensation. When the rain
fell iu ancient times the aurface of the territory
was covered with forests ; the air and earth
were cool, and the moisture of the warm rain
olottdl w as easily cooled and precipitated. But
the ancient people, through ignorance, through
selfishness, through domestic use, and through
wars, slowly destroyed their forests. The re
sults were mdHt disastrous to them. Soon the
summer rains ceased to descend, the hot and
bare earth increased the dryness of the air.
Only the winter mills then fell. To raise crops
the people were forced to resort to irrigation,
and the remains of great reservoirs and canals
attest their struggle for existence. More trees
were destroyed, and less rain fell in winter,
and soon not enough to fill the reservoirs against
the summer drouths. Then began the extermi
nation of the inhabitants ; no fruits or grains
matured, the blazing sun parched the ground,
and the sands of the desert slowly crept over
the ouce smiling valleys. Most of the people
starved, a few fled to foreign lands, and the re
mainder managed to subsist upon the moun
tains till exterminated by the Indians. The
Bjmliation of the forests, the robbery of that part
of naturewhich alone can make a country fertile
and inhabitable, was the cause of their destruc
tion, and not the Indians. Nature, justand kind
and beneficent when understood and obeyed,
peiniHs no infractions ot her laws, hut drives
from their country, or sweeps out of existence
as unworthy of her contined favors, nations
who commit tlie unpardonable sin oi destroying
her living forests. Sumurl Piirntll in Pacific
Rural 'rat
NEW PATENTS.
ThroiiL'h Pewcv k Co.'b Patent Agency, San
Francisco, we receive the following list of U, S.
patents, granted to Pacific Coast inventois, viz.:
For the week ending Nov. 13th, 1877.
Ives Scovillc, Oakland, Cal., Bash holder; John
II. Mackie, Oakland, Cal., sewer trap; Irvin
Macy and John C. Watkius, Harrishuig, Ogn.,
wheel cultivator; Leonard K. Clawson, S. F.,
sectional chimney; Horatio N. Cook, S. F.,
leather splitting machine; John M. Crcal, Los
Angeles, Cal., device for preforsting artesian
wefl tulies; V. Dale, San Lorenzo, Cal., tin
ner's machine stand; Byron Jackson, Wood
land. Cal., horse hay fork; Gmdo Kuatle and
Ottokar llofman, S. F., amalgamating nan;
Charles Mowrey, Stockton, Cal., gang-plow;
(trade-marks) Balfour, Guthrie & Co., a. r.,
salt; A. S. Hallidie, manufactured wire in th
coil
For the week ending Nov. '20th, 1877.
Frank A. Ho wig, S. F., production of woodsn
liottle-stoppers and bungs; Ives Scoville and
Pliny Bartlett, Oakland, Cal., washing ma
chine; William P. Barclay, Virginia City,
ftev., hydraulic and wire-rope pumping sysveiu,
William A. Cates, Union, Ogn., geographical
clocks; Calvin H. Covell, Stockton, CsL,
wrench; James N. Dudly and John Anderson,
Petrolia, Cal., Baw handle; Henry C. Fallin,
Grangeville Cal., windmill; Thomas A. Fits
simons, Benicia, Cal., device for tilting ch"
George McArthur, San Leandro, Cal., chul
mold for wheels; Joseph Perkins, 8. F., CsL(
aign; (trade-marks) More, Reynolds k Co., S.
F., whiBky; Whittier, Fuller k Co., S. f.,
white I. .i.l.
Amono the amendments to the general de
ficiency bill reported by the Senate Appropria
tion Committee is one proposing an appropria
tion to pay claims allowed by the Treasury De
partment for services, supplies and traniporta
tion of Oregon and Washington Territory rol
unteers in the Indian war of 1865.
Watertiuiit Paprr. Packing paper may h
made watertight by dissolving 1.8 Pjgg
white soap in one quart of water, and in another
quart 1.8 ounces of gum arabic, and 5.5 of glse.
The paper is soaked in the mature and hss
up to dry.
Thk following silver piece were winff
the Philadelphia mint during November: Ti
dollars, 400,000; half dollars, 834,000; qaarj
dollars, 722,400; dimes, 140,000. Total nomW
of pieces, 2,096,400; value, fl,011,000.
Till United States coast surveying chMjJ
Sarn'M sailed from Baltimore November
for Pnget 8ound. She will go thro g
Straits of Magellan.