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Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-25

ed, in the midst of an important session, to
walk dccently to the common and enjoy the
screams Of a woman burned for the crime of
Anabaptism; and equitably divided among
themselves the territories of a neighboring
Indian tribe, whose members they had either
murdered or sold into slavery, upon charge
of heathenism. We are living in period
of revival of the same kind of justice; and
who have better rights than we to look up
on ourselves as divinely appointed to its ad-
minstration?
There are prudential considerations which
wise men, when they are undertaking great
enterprises, will not overlook. No man in
his sober senses, when the Joy is in itself
large, will make it unnecessarily larger. -
He who digs his cellar too deep and too wide
for his building capital, will negative all the
credit due to the splendor ofhis conceptions,
by his failure to make his ediicc proper
tionably complete. For one people to. re
wise the loyalty of another, is rather a
heavy undertaking and though it has been
several times attempted, during these latter
ages, it has not, so far as we have learned,
ever been accomplished The North and the
South are two people. If they were not so
before, they are so, most distinctly, now
For one people to supply loyalty, institutions
anu ADMINISTRATOR W dHOIllcl, anu ldNc illc
thing work nicely, easily and accurately in
practice, will need an amount Of skill in the
task of adaptation Of which we have yet
given but scanty evidence. The North can
build steam engine, scndit South and put
it in running order, easier than it can build
a government; and the faculty to do the
one is but Indifferent proof of that to do the
other. When there has been fire, the
proprictors of the burned houses, usually,
avail themselves, in the work Of rebuilding,
of as much Of the foundations and materials
as remained uninjurcd. Before we get
through with the work Of frcconStructing the
South, it will probably be found that it is
advisable to ratain pretty nearly all that the
war has failed to destroy.
We see difficulty under which the party
in power will labor in this matter, and which,
to all appearance, it has not discovered -
1t is difficulty inherent in the party itself.
1t is fundamental doctrine Of ethics, that
human rights exist: that they can neither
be made nor unmade neither be gwen nor
taken away. OF this doctrine, which lies at
the foundation of all government, the party
in power not only has no knowledge, but it
has not the capacity to learn. On the con
trary, it holds, as is shown by all its teach
ings, and all its acts, that it can make right
and wrong; create principles and extinguish
Them that, in short, it has sovereign power
over human nature itsclf-to law down the
laws of its social instincts, moral impulses,
and intellectual conclusions, and to enforce
them. We shall see how, under such aus
piccs, the labor of rcScuing an empire from
anarchy will look when it is finished
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-25
Interesting Historical Facts.

The tardncss with which mankind adopt
improvements may be, in some degree, il
lustratcd by the following facts, hastily
thrown together:
Canal locks were invented in 1881, by en-
gineers of Nitcrbo, in Italy. They were
nearly hundred years getting fairly into
use iii France, and about one hundred and
fifty years in crossing the British channel.
At this time it was made felony in several
European states to ride in wheel carriages.
The steam engine was invented. or, rather,
thcprinciplc oft discovered, by the Marquis
of Worcester, as early as lGGO. Few under
stood and none encouraged it. He died in
great modification. The honor was after
wards cngrosscd by Savary.
In 1863 the Earl of Stanhopc applied the
steam engine to propcling a vessel. A
steamboat was run twenty miles on the
Sankcy Canal, Liverpool, in 1877, and an.
other on the Fourth and Clyde Canal in 1901.
\ steamboat trip was made on the Delaware
as early as l79l. In 1907, when Robert
Fulton was fitting up his first steamboat al
| New York, respectable and gray headed mcr
pronounced him n ''fOol for his pains. -
Oliver Evans went before committees OF
legislatures, first in Pennsylvania and ther
in Maryland, with project of steam car
]
aid to dctray the expense. They could
hardly be prevented from reporting in favor
not of steam engines for carriages, but of ;
straight Jacket for himself. Now, almost
| all nations have had the sagacity and inge
nuity to seize and utilize the precious idea
| When Peter the Great, in 1860, or there
abouts, commenced canal between the Y oil
! "a and the Don, the Governors and Bayard
/ ni ln fro 4 tINr inly
/ ing il impicty to turn rivers out of the chan
! nclS which heaven had assigned them.
| When some Dutchmcn proposed to max,
the river ManzanareS navigable to the Tagus
and that to Lisbon, the Council said that i
it had been the will of God that the rive,
should be nayigable, lie would have made
! it so.
| When Brinlcy, the great engineer, toc
| a committee ofPariamcnt, to whom Bridge
waters petition was referred, that canals
were better than rivers, and would super
scde them for the purpose Of navigation, the
committee were shocked, and asked him
And pray, sir, what were the rivers made
iorY' 80 feed the canals" was the
answer.
DIR, Franklin surveyed the route of the
Delaware and Chesapeake Canal at his owl
expense, in 1857.
Baron Napier surveyed the route of the
Forth and Clyde Canal at his own expense
| in l7Gl.
Both these works were subsequently ac
complishcd, but after great delay
! Dr. Xabdicl Boyalstonintroducedin inocua
ton for the small pox in Boston, l72l, anC
tried it first on his son Thomas, and othe,
members of the family, but such was tn,
force of prejudice and unbclef that tn,
other physicians gave a unanimous opinion
hiGi,cd its practice, and the populacc woul
have torn him to pieces if he had not re
tired from the city.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-25
A Little Deaf.

In the oldcn time, before Maine laws were
invented, Wing kept the hotel at Middle
Granville, and from his well-stocked bal
furnished accommodation to man and
beast" He was q good landlord, but ter.
ribly deaf. Fish, the village painter was
afflicted in the same way.
One day they were sitting by themselves
in the bar-room Wing was behind the
counter, waiting for the next customer
while Fish was lounging before the fire, with
a thirsty look, casting sheep eyes occasion.
ally at Wins decanters, and wishing most
dcvoutly that some one would come in and
treat.
A traveller from the south, on his way to
Brandon stepped in to inquire the distance.
Going up to the counter, he said "Can you
tell me, sir, how far it is to Brandon?"
''Brandy?' says the ready landlord, jump.
ing up; Eyes, sir, | have some," at the
same time handing down dccanter Of the
precious liquid.
"Youmisunderstand me" sayst the strang-
er; 81 asked how far it was to Brandon. "
They call it pretty good brandy" says
Wing. "Willyou take some sugar with it?'
reaching, as he spoke, for the bowl and
toddy-stick.
The despairing traveller turned to Fish.
''The landlord" said he, "seems to be
deaf; will you tell me how far it is to Bran
don? ?'
"Thank YOU" said Fish ''l don't care il
| do take drink with you! ~
The stranger treated and fled.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-25
Cider Vinegar.

There are hundreds of farmers in the wes-
tern country, who are most of the time,
either destitute OF vinegar entirely, or make
use Of some slops, which is not only un-
healthy, but decidedly unpalatable. The
vinegar manufactured from acids enters
largely into the consumption of town and
cities and to some extent into that Of the
country also Whiskey, with all its adul-
tcratlons is used for the purpose Of making
pickles, and in that manner lends its aid to
the destroyer Of human life. Many Other
different methods Of procuring the sours OF
life is practiccd, and many of which are not
only productive of dcleterious influences tc
the health of ourselves and our children, but
require tar more labor than ought to be be,
slowed upon that branch of a house wife
business.
We live in an age of labor saving machines
and we out to economize, both in labor and
money, as well as in the less important mat,
ters OF living as in the more important. -
And to apply little Yankee ingenuity il
this case is not 50 difficult as many people
imagine. Almost every family in the coun
try have the materials for manufacturing
pure cider vinegar, ifthey will only use them
Common dried apples with little molasse,
and brown paper are all you need to make
the best kind of cider vinegar. And what
is still better, the cider which you extract
from the apples, does not dctract from the
value Of the apples for any other purpose
Soak your apples few hours washing
and rubbing them occasionally, then take
them out of the water and thoroughly strair
the latter througha tight woven cloth-put
it into Aug, and add "a pint Of molasses tC
Il gallon Of liquor and piece Of common
brown paper, and set in the sun, or by tho
fire, and in a few days your vinegar will be
fit for use, Have two Jugs and use out O
one while the other is working. No family
need be destitute ofgood vinegar, if they vii
follow the above directions. .-NorthtOesterl
Farmer.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-25
SIT Facing the Light.

We do much injury to our eyes by sitting
sideways to the lamp, SO that one eye is a
strong glare Of light, while the other is in
the shade. The optic nerves, which trans
mitlightto the brain, unite before they reach
it. A strong light vibrating through one
nerve, and II dim one through the other,
will impair the perfect unity, and the Gus
tom followed night after night for years,
will, by thus destroying harmony of the deli
cate nerves, result in damaged eyesight. -
The woman who works at night by her table
loses her sight early. Some evening when
you have thus sat for an hour, go immcdi-
atcly into a dark room-a blur will be before
the light-scorchcd eye, while the other will
be clear. The contraction of the iris has
something to do with this but the .iarring,
discordant action of the nerves is the same.
They were designed to act as one if they
act as two there is a wear and tear. Eye
sight will fail with the decline Of the body,
but people that cant read and won't sew,
keep their cyeoight the longest. Avoid the
strain on the sister nerves by facing the
light.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-25
The Great Mystery.

The body is to die. No ond who passed
the charmed boundary comes back to tell
The imagination visits the realms of shadows
sent out from some window in the soul
over life restless waters, but brings its way
wcarlly back, with no olive leaf in its beak
as token OF emerging life, beyond the close
ly bending horizon, The great sun comes
and goes in the heaven, yet breathes nc
secret OF the ETHEREAL wilderness. The eres-
cent moon cleaves her nightly passage acros,
the upper deep, but toSses overheard no sig
mails. Tho sentinel stars challenge each
other as they walk their nightly rounds but
we catch no syllable of their countersigr
which gives passage to the heavenly camp
Between this and the other life there is {
great gulf fixed, across which neither foo
nor eye can travel. The gentle friend who's,
eyes we closed in their last sleep long years
ago, died with rapture in her wonder strick
en- eyes, a smile Of ineflable joy upon he
lips, and hands folded over triumphan
heart, but her lips We're past speech, ant
intimated nothing of the vision that enthrall
ed her d. e. Holland.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-25
Receipts.

Cucumber CatSup. Take 10 or 12 fully
grown yellow cucumbers; having pared off
the ring and scooped out the seeds, wipe the
melon dry, cut it into narrow strips, a
fourth of an inch in width, and chop up
each strip in tiny blocks; to these add six
large white onions and six green peppers, al
so chopped into little bits. Mix all togeth-
err, adding handful Of salt. Put them in
to joly-ba and drain for few hours I'M
til no more Juice drops from the bag
When dry, add to them, two ounces each,
Of black and white mustard seeds, put into
stone jar, cover with cold, strong vinegar,
and in two weeks the housewife will be re-
paid for her tro,.Jle by some of the most
appetizing sauce that ever graced her table.
Nm's Brcad--One pint of milk, a large
teaspoonful of lard, two eggs, a cupful of
yeast, salt, and sufficient flour to make it al
most to the consistence Of rusk dough. -
Grease the pan in which you intend to bake
it. Pour in the dough. Let it rise and
then bake in a quick oven. When done,
cut into slices and butter them, beginning
with the lower crust. Replace them and
send to the table in the original loaf.
Potato RoH.-Boil 2 pounds potatoes,
pass througha Il calender, or mash them well,
add . OF. butter and a pint of milk; a little
salt, gill Of yeast, and as much -four as
will make soft dough- set them to rise;
when light cut them in cakes; let them rise
half an hour and bake. Sweet potatoes
make beautiful biscuit, mixed as above.
French RoNs.--Boil | pint of milk; cut
up two or. butter into it, add little salt ;
when tepid, sift in pound of -four, one
egg beaten, one tablespoonful yeast; beat
these well together; when risen, form into
rolls, with as little handling as possible
Bake on tins.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-25
A String Of Pearls.

Words cannot heal the wounds that words
can make.
Politicians and wheels were made especi-
ally to turn.
Only crows and fools arc afraid of a
shabby suit of clothes.
IF quack would be famous he must be
sure to quack so loud as possible.
A man who goes into speculation had
better look out for breakers ahead
A man may sac a thing twice if he says il
better the second time than the first
Always lend acrutch to hating humanity;
but trip up, if you will, the stills of preten
tion.
Dependency is the overweight that may
make you kick the beam and the bucket
both at once.
Patience and cheerfullness adorn the ru,
ins of fortunes, as ivory does those of cas-.
ties and temples.
Fault finding docs not require and does
not generally Indicate a high order of tai
ent.
Emerson says, Life is train of mood,
like a string of beads, "
As the good man saith, so say we; but as
the good woman saith, so it must be.
Every man can tame shrew but he that
hath her.
Ladies' will sooner pardon want of sense
than want of manners.
Women are wise on sudden, fools on q
premeditation.
There is one good wife in the country and
every man thinks he hath her.
Colts arms are useful when you want tc
fight, but if you want to run away, colt
legs are better.
If some men had their limbs broken they
would be cripples for life; their bones would
be too lazy to knit.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-25
DO IL with Thy Might.

Fortune, success, fame, position, are never
gained but by piously dctermnedly, brave
ly sticking, growing, living to a thing till it
is fairly accomplished. In short, you must
carry thing through ifyou want to be any
body or anything. No matter lift does cost
you the pleasures, the society, the thousand
poarly qualifications Of life No matter for
these Stick to the thing, and carry it
through. Believe you were made for the
matter, and that no one else can do it. Put
forth the whole energies. Stir, wake cleo
hify yourself and 90 forth to the task (. -
Only once learn to carry a thing through in
all its completeness, and proportion, and
you will become a hero. You will think
better Of yoursclf-othcrs will think better
ofyou. OF course they will. The world,
in its very heart, admircs the stern, deter.
mined docr. 1t sees in him its best sight
its brightest object, its richest treasure. -
Drive right along, then. in whatever you
undertake. Consider yourself amply suffi-
ccnt for the deed. You'll be successful -
Never fear.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-25
Your Evenings, Boys.

Great boys and little boys, here is oucs-
ton which concerns you all. How do
you spend your evenings? If your parents
or guardian allow you to go from home in
the evenings where do you go, and how is
the time spent by you? Read this little &C,
count, and think of the lesson it teaches.
Joseph Clark was as fine looking and
healthy a lad as ever left the country to &c
into city store. His check was red with
health, his arm strong, and his step qnick.
His master liked his looks, and said, "That
boy wi II make something"
lie had been a clerk about six months
when Mr.. Abbot observed change in 10.
seph. His cheek grew pale, his eye hollow
and he always seemed sleepy. Mr.. Abbott
said nothing for awhile. At length fndine
Joseph alone in the counting room one day
asked him if he was well.
Pretty well, sir, y answered Joseph
YOU look sick of late, said Mr.. Abbott
II have the headache sometimes" the
young man replied.
wv hat, gives you the headache ?" asked
the merchant.
~ do not know as | know, sir
do you go to bed in good season 2"
Joseph blushed.
'As early as most of the boarders," he
said
Add how do you spend your evenings
Joseph ?"
"Oh, sir, not as my mother would ap
prove answered the young man, tear,
standing in his eyes
"Joseph," said the old merchant, YOU
character and all your future usefulness ant
prosperity depend upon the way you spenC
your evenings Take my word for it, it i
a young man evenings that make or break
him.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-25
Furnishing the Dead.

What becomes of man after he is dead
is not matter of the slightest importance
to himself lislilcloss remains have ceased
to be any longer conscious of respect or of
indignity. The only right which civilza-
ton comedies to the dead is the right to be
put out Of sight, how this is to be done, i.
a question alone for the living. In general,
the bodies of the dead, even those of exc.
cuted fellons, are admitted to belong TO
their friends; and often the demands of sci
cnce has been refused, in favorof the claims
of affection Respect for the inanimate
bodies of the deceased among people, bas
been deemed an evidence of civilization and
refinement-o the meliorating effects of the
benign spirit of the Gospel; and the fact
that we the people of the United States
have abandoned the barbarous practices of
our ancestors, and ceased to insult and mu-
tilate the bodies of malefactors, has often
been alluded to as proof that we are nobler
and more merciful than they.
The treatment accorded to the remains of
the assassin of the President, seems to neg
ative these claims to superiority. AS there
is no proof, nor even ground for presump
ton, that the family of Booth were in any
way implicated in his crime, the refusal Of
those in authority to allow them the posses
sion of his body stands in the light of an
unmerited and vindictive injury. 1t is q
step in progress toward the old rule of bar
barrie despotism, which included the rela-
tives of the criminal in his guilt, and for
the act of one, swept off a generation.-
What was done with the body Of Booth is
not publicly known; but it is known be-
cause it is avowed, that it was intended, by
the mode of its disposal, in some way, to
add to the infamy which had fallen upon his
memory. We suppose the act was dictated
by persons high in authority; for none in
low positions would have ventured to re-
fuse, to those whose title by every rule of
custom and humanity was perfect, the pos
session Of thot upon which justice and re-
venge are alike importent.
It's not an act of magnanimity to insult
corpse. 1t argues nothing of u sense of
justice. 1t proves that they who do it,
think and act upon low plane of humani-
ty. What we regret is, not so much that it
has been done, as that the doing of it seems
to have been in accordance with the spirit
and feeling of those who claim to repre-
sent the best side of our civilization-the
refined, the religious, the Conscientious of
the people. Plans for the disposal of
dead body have been elaborated in our pull
pits and in our newspapers. What to do
with the body of the assassin was scarcely
a secondary topic to the act Of assassination,
or its probable consequences; and had the
views of the most tender-h hearted and phi
lanthropic been allowed to govern, the re-
mains of the criminal in the place of sleep
ing in some obscure corner, would have
been dragged about the streets of our cities,
or carved in pieces or set up to horrity pass
ers along the highways.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-25
The Honest Man.

Most men are not as dead to moral prin-
cples but what they feel Il spontaneous
glow of admiration for the man that does
right, because it is right, no matter if he
does make less money by it ? Some few
men say he was fool or a unatic not to
make the most Of his advantages right or
wrong; but the heart Of many is loyal to
rectitude. We look, and admire, and
praise. We camot help it. lie who is a
selfish, covetous age, when all men are fight
ing and scrambling for money stands W
strong in his integrity, and modestly does
the thing, not that is legal, not that is ex'
pectcd, not that is customary, that is as
others do, or as many preach, but does the
thing which is right, such man is worthy
of all imitation If the heaven-minded are
few in the world, are not the righteous few
likewise A moral character that is genu
inc is seen as rarely as Diogeuos' men, when
hunted for with lantern at noon-day.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-25
Sadness.

There is a mysterious feeling that fre-
quently passes like cloud over the spirit.
1t comes upon the soul in the busy hustle of
life, in the social circle, in the calm and ST.
lent retreat of solitude. It's power is alike
supreme over the week, and the iron-heart-
ed. At one time it is caused by single
thought across the mind. Again, sound
will come booming across the ocean of mem
Dry, gloomy and solemn as the death knell
ovcrshadowing all the bright hopes and sun
ny feelings of the heart. Who can de-
scribe it, and who has not felt its bcwildcr-
ing influence Still it is delicious sort of
sorrow; and like cloud dimming the sun
shine of the river, although casting mo-
mentary shade of gloom, it enhances the
beauty of returning brightness.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-25
wendell Phillips and Jefferson
Davis.

In a late speech in New York, Wendell
Phillips said :
MR.. PHILLIPS WOULD NOT HANG JFEE.
DAVIS.
Mr. Phillips, in reply to the former
speaker, said That, holding to the com
mon Southern white man in one hand, read
ing the newspaper, and the niger on the
other, holding the ballot, and each standing
on his own farm, he was not afraid of jeff.
Davis; not if he was multiplied by hun
dreds of thousands. And until you made
me free of him and his influence, | would
never hang him. [Applause, and cries of
"You ought them" and cheers. Virginia
was afraid to let John Brown live. But
never, with any consent, shall Southern
er have to say over the grave of jeff. Davis
that the Union dare not let the wretch live.
(Applause.) Wandering over the face of
the earth, pointed at with the finger of
scorn as the man who tried to establish an
empire based upon slavery, he left a country
where his own people would in their wrath
at his crimes tear him to pieces. He is not
SO strong as he would be resting in his
grave, with friends saying that he had been
too strong in his cause and adherance to
permit tue Union to allow him to live
Applause. Therefore will never assist
to set up the gibbet in this land in the name
Of the Union. (Applause.) | despise the
man so much that care not whether he
lives Or dies. That is my answer to gibbct
Applause