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Wyandot County Republican,A PREBENT SAVIOR.DY JOHN O. WHITTHB.Wc may not cllm!» the heavenly steeps To bring the Lord Christ down;In vain wo search the lowest deeps. For Him no depths can crown.But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help U He;And faith has still its Olivet,And love its Galilee.The healing of the seamless dress Is our beds of pain;Wo touch hlin in life's throng and press. And we arc whole again.Through Him the first fond prayers arc said Our lips ol childhood frame;The last low whispers of uur dead Are burdened with his name.O. Lord and master of us all!Whut’s our name or sign.We own Thy sway, we hear Thy call, Wc test our lives by Thine.OVER THE FENCE.Boy.Over the fence is a garden fair—How I would lave tube master there! All that 1 lack is a mere pretense,I could leap over the low white fence.CONSCIENCE.This is the way that crime commence, sin and sorrow are over the fence.SOY.Over the fence I cun toss my ball. Then I can go in for It—that l-» all; Picking an apple up near the tree Would not Ikt really a tlicfl you see.CONSCIENCE.This Is a ful-elood—a week pretense. Sin and sorrow arc- over the fence.BOY.Whose is the voice that speaks so plain? Twice have i heard it, and not in vain. Ne’er will I venture to look that way, Lest I shall do as I planned to-day.CONSCIENCE.This i the way that all crimes commence. Coveting that w bich is over the fence.MARK TWAINON THESALT LAKE OF CALIFOROIA !Mono Take or the Dead Sea of California, is one of her most extraordinary curiosities, but beingsituated in a very out-of-the-way Dorner of the country, and away up among the eternal snows of the Sier ras. is little known and very seldom visited. A mining excitement carried me there On—. : ml I spent several months in ~ \ lily. It lies in a lifeless.tret- c—. hideous desert, 8,000 feet above the level of the sea. and is guarded 1 v mountains 2,000feet higher, w den always in i! « emn, silent. sn: tenant of the ilt; i — is litile gi: ..turesque. It I-expanse of g e» -miles in eireirm.i lands in its ceiiii-i m in its are hid i • ds. Thissol-- - -*n—this lonely -.-pot on earth I U the pic-r i ... lending L lUO.i .«• i-upUc aval\lthing like our house fly. These settle on the beach to cat the worms ashore—and any time you see there a belt of flics an inch deep and six feet wide, and this belt extends clear around the lake—a belt of flies 100 miles long. If you throw a stone among them, they swarm up so thick that they look densct like a cloud. You can hold them under water as long as you please they don't mind if—they are only proud of it. When you let them go, they pop up to the surface as dry as a patent offlce report, and walk ofl* as unconcernedly as if they had been educated especially with a view to aifording instructive entertainment to man in that particular way Providence leaves nothing to go by chance. All things have their uses and their part and proper place in Nature's economy. The ducks and and gulls eat the flies—the flies eat the worms—the Indians eat the flies —the wild eats cat the Indians—the white folks eat the wild cats when their crops fail—and thus all things arc lovely.Mono Lake is 150 miles in a straight line from the ocean—and between it and the ocean arc one or two ranges of mountains—yet thou sands ol sea-gulls go there every season to lay their eggs and rear their young. Oue would as soon expect to find the sea-gulls in Tennessee. Ar.d in this connection let us observe another instance of Nature's wisdom. The islands in the lake being merely huge masses of lava, coaled over with ashes and pu in ice-stone, and utterly innocent of vegetatiou or anythiug that would burn ; and seagull s eggs being entirely useless to anybody unless they be cooked. Nature lias provided an unfailing spring of boiling water on the largest islands, and you can put your eggs in there, and in four minutes 3‘ou can boil them as hard as auy statement I have made during the past fifteen 3*ears.—Ten feet from this spring, is a springof pure cold water, sweet and wliol-some. So in that island 3'ou can get 3’our board and washing free of charge—and if nature had gone further and furnished a nice American hotel clerk who was crusty and disobliging, and didn’t and didn'tatitlnonfi'9¥0.r.df. mereof rent, and scorched and blistered lava, snowed over with gre3r banks and drifts of punice and ashes, the winding sheet of the dead volcano, whose vast crater the lake has seized upon and occupied.The lake is 200 feet deep, and its sluggish waters are so strong with alkali that if you 011I3* dip the most hopelessly soiled garment into themouce or twice and wring it out, .itwill be found as clean as if it hail been through yolir ablest washerwoman's Lands. While we camped there our laundry woik was easv*.— We tied the week's washing astern of of our boat and sailed a quarter of a mile, and the job was complete all to the wringing out. If we threw the water 011 our heads and gave them a rub or so. the lather would pile up three inches high.— This water is not good for brOised places and abrasions of the skin.— We had a valuable dog. He had raw places on him. He had more raw places than sound one9. He was the rawest dog I almost ever knew. He jumped overboard one da3r to get awa3* f ora the flies. But it was bad judgement. In his condition it would have been just as com fortable to jump into the fire. Thealkali water nipped him in all theraw places simultaneous^', and he struck out for the shore with considerable interest. He yelped, and barked, and howled as he went— aud by the time he got to the shore there was no bark to him—for be had barked the bark all out of his insides, and the alkali had cleaned the bark all off his outside, and he probabli’ wished that he had never embarked in aii3? such enterprise.— He ran round and round in a circle, and pawed the earth and clawed the air, and threw double summersets, sometimes backward and sometimes backward and sometimes forward, in the most frantic and extraordin-ar3f manner. lie was not a demonstrative dog, as a general thing, but rather of a grave and serious turn of mind, and I never saw him take so much interest inai ything before. He flnalty- struck out over the mountains, at a gait which we estimated at about 250 miles an hour, and he is going 3'et. This was about five years ago. We look for what is left of him along here every day.A white man cannot drink the water of Mono Lake, for it is near-\y 13 c. It is said that the Indians in the vicinity drink it sometimes, though. It is not improbable, for Lhe3' are among the purest liars I ever saw. [There will be no additional charge for this joke, except to parties requiring an explanation of it. This joke has received high commendation from some of the ablest minds of the age. Horace Greely remarked to make a joke like that, he would not desire to live an3r longer.]There are no fish in Mono Lake —no frogs, no snakes, no polly wogs —nothing in fact, that goes to make life desirable. Millions of wild (lucks and seagulls swim about the surface, but no living thing exists under the surface, except a white feathery sort of a worm, one half an inch long, which looks like a bit of white thread fra3*ed out at the sides. If 3’ou clip up a gallon of water 3'ou will get about 15,000 of these.— Thc3T give to the water a sort sf a gra3*ish-whtte appearance. Then there is a fly, which looks some-kuow anything about the time tables. or the railroad routes—or— anthing—and was proud of il—I would uot wish for a more desirable hoarding house.Half a dozen little mountain brooks flow into Mono Lake, but not a stream of a»3* kind flows out of it. It neither rises nor falls, apparently, and what it docs with its surplus is a dark and bloocty rm'steiy. All the rivers of Nevada sink into the earth mysterious^ after they have run 100 miles or so—none of them flow to the sea, as is the fashion of rivers in all other lands.There are only two seasons in the region round about Mono Lake— and these arc, the breaking up of one winter and the beginning of the next. More than once I have seen a perfect^* blistering morning open up with the thermometer at ninety degrees at 8 o'clock, and seen the s.iow fall fourteen inches deep and that same identical thermometer go down to fort\r four degrees under ^shelter, before 9 o’clock at night.— Under favorable circumstances itsnows at least once in eveiy single month in the year, in the little townof Mono. So uncertain is the climate in summer that a lady who goes out visiting cannot hope to be prepared for ail emergencies unless she takes her fau under oue arm and her suow shoes under the other.— When they have a Fourth of July procession it general^ snows on them, and they do say that, as a general thing, when a man calls for a brandv toddy there, the bar keeper chops it off with a hatchet, and wraps it up in a paper, like maple sugar. And it is further reported that the oil soakers haven't any teeth—wore them out eating gin-cocktails and brandy punches. I don't indorse that statement—I simply give it for what it is worth— and it is worth—well, I should say, millions, to anv man who can be-believeit without straining himself.But I do indorse the snow on the Fourth of Jul3'—because I know that to be true.tosthiteinO’tbviscbieib:TsiC(pbtl0a11dtitlP
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Wyandot County Republican
Upper Sandusky, Ohio, US
Fri, Nov 19, 1869
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