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The union Democrat., 1869-10-02

THE OVERLAND MoNTuLY-The October
number of this Magazine is a literary treat.
Every article in it is good. and many of them
are racy Of the soil. In the latter class we
place the leading article 'Knapsack and
Blanket" which we attribute to the pen of
our talented friend Prentice Mulford; it ia n
very interesting sketch of his pedestrian tour
to this county, last summer, with some remi-
niscences of flush times on the Old Tuolumne
and sundry philosophical reflections on the
past, present and future of ''the boys" who
still linger in the old haunts. "Un Pasear
en- Grande;" "The Sea-Lion at home;" Geo
logical Notes from Oregon" and Tennessee $
Partner" are the remaining home articles
care Our Public Schools Failure? No. %
"Why She never Married Charley" ''Our
Antipodean Cousin;" "Autographomania;
"The Cruise of the Monadnock, No. s; and
"The Northwest" with the usual spicy
"Etc" and "Current Literature complete
the prose articles. Poetry is represented bv
three charming little contributions: "Exi'e;''
II cannot Count my Lite Loss.' and n
ballad to the King" The Overland should
be subscribed for by all Califorrians.
The union Democrat., 1869-10-02
DEF ~.

DEFW.
this CITY. Sept 30th Charles s. Stanford. aged 81
years. a native of New Jersey.
The union Democrat., 1869-10-02
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the prices with those OF deaieTs in yomr o"n iO'S!
CT elsewhere. Address in full HOW NkD w.
,ers aud SiIvers,,is s. N. s!H ErosanaS New t"'-
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Why Don't Boys Learn Trades.
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Why Don't Boys Learn Trades.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
The present generation of young
men seem to have a strong aversion to
every kind of trade, business, calling or
occupation that requires manual labor,
and an equally strong tendency toward
some so-called "geuteel" employment or
profession. The result is seen in q su-
perabundance of elegant penmen, book
keepers aud clerks of every kind who
can get no employment, and are vast
ing their lives in the vain pursuit of
what is not to be had and terrible
overstock of lawyers without practice,
and doctors without patients,
The passion on the part Of the boys
and young men to be clerks, Office at
tendants, messengers, anything, SO that
it is not work that kind that will make
plorable sight to those who have full op-
portunities to see the distressing effects
of it in the struggle for such imploy-
ments by those unfortunates who have
put it out of their power to do anything
els by neglecting to learn some perma-
nent trade or business in which trained
skill can be turned to account. The aP-
plications for clerkships aud similar od-
sitisns in large establishments areI Inu-
merous beyond any thing that would
be thought of by those who have no
chance to witness it. Parents and rela-
tives, as well as the boys and young
men themselves, seem to be affiictep
with the same .infatuation. To all SUCH
we saw. that the most unwise advice you
can give to your boy is 70 encourage
him to be q clerk or bsok-keeper. At
best. it is not well paid occupation
Very frequently it is among the poorst.
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farm aud AousehuId.

A RECEIPT WORTH ONE THOUSAND
Ohio. Cultivator says
the following receipt is worth thous-
and dollars to every house keeper:
Take one pound of sal soda and half
pound of unslacked lime and put
them in gallon of water; boil twenty
minutes, let it stand till cool, then drain
off and put in small jug or jar soak
your dirty clothes over night or until
they are wet through, then ring them
out and rub on plenty Of soap and to
one boiler of clothes we'll covered with
water, add one teacupful of washing
fluid; boil half an hour briskly, then
wash Them. thoroughly with one suds..;
rinse, and your clothes will look better
than by the old way of washing twice
before boiling. This is an invaluable
receipt, and every poor, tired woman
should Try it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-03-25

VENTILATE YOUR CELLARS.-Manya a
dangerous fever has been caused by the
foul air fromsdark, damp, aud unventila-
ted cellars. Confined air, without the
purifying influence of sunlight, soon be-
comes impure and wholesome. Most
cellars serve rs a reservoir for this i'm
pure air, which, in addition, is loaded
with decompOsing organic matters and
foul gases, given off from the masses of
decaying vegetables with which they
are stored. The foul air finds its way
slowly and constantly into the upper
rooms of the house, there TO poison the
systems of its occupants. Cellars should
be kept as clean and pure as any portion
of the house. They should also be well
ventilated. which can easily be done by
having flue opening from the cellar
into the chimney, and by having one or
more openings from the outside to ad-
nit the fresh air. Cellars should also be
kept dry, as well as clean and well VEN
tilated
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An Excellent F.rtilIz.r.

We advise our readers, those who have
farms and gardens to cultivate, TO pre-
pare as large a quantity of the fertilizer
we suggested and recommended in the
April No., Vol. H., of the Journal, as
they possibly can. 1t embraces in it's
composition quite every element requir-
ed in the growth and maturatian of
roots and the cereal gFsipsj and it has
the advantages Of being comparatively
cheap and easily prepared. No fertilizer
we have yet devised--and we have pre-
pared and experimental with large
number-affords more certain and salts
factory results than this one and those
who prepared and used it last season are
extravagant In their praises of it. 1t
supplies a most desirable dressing for
fruit trees and vines. We use no other
fertilizer for our grapes and if auy of
our friends have had better results in
their cultivation than we have, it will
afford us pleasure to publish their sue
cesses. The method OF preparing the
fertilizer is as follows:
Take one barrel OF pure finely ground
bone, and mix with it a barrel Of good
wood ashes; during the mixing, add
gradually about three pailfuls OF water.
The heap may be made upon the f1eor
of an outhuilding or upon the barn fioor;
and, by the use Of hoe, the bone and
ashes must be thoroughly blended to-
gether. The water added il just sufli-
cient to liberate the caustic alkalies, pot
ash, and soda; these react upon the
gelatine of the bone, dissolving the little
atoms, forming kind OF a soap, and
fitting 1t for plant aliment. Ii must be
used in small quantities, or in about the
same way as the so-callsd superphos-
pilates. A barrel of this mixture is
worth two Of any of the commercial |
fertilizers, and the cost will be but about !
half ss much. 1t remains to be added |
Il the boLe meal and ashes are very dry,
our psilfuls Of water may be required
,ut care must be exercised not To have
t inconveniently moist. 1t will be ready
or use in a week after it is made. Pure,
aw, background bone and the best Of l.
lshes should be employed.-[Bo Boston i
Journal Of Chemistry.
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This is the case when the clerk is fortu-
nate enough to be employed but if he
should happen to be out of place, then
comes the weary search, the fearful
struggle with the thousands of others
looking for places, the never ending
disappointments, the hopes deferred that
makes the heart sick, the strife with
poverty, the humiliation that takes all
the manhood out of the poor souls, the
Fprivations and sufferings of those who
depend upon his earnings, and whe
have no resource when he is earning
nothing, No father, or mother, or rel
atives should wish so see their boys or
kindred wasting their young lives in
striving after the genteel positions that
bring such trials and privations upon
them in after life.
How do these deplorable false notions
as to choice of occupations get into the
heads of boys? Why do they or their
parents consider it more "genteer or
desirable 10 run errands, sweep out Of
fees, make fires, copy letters, etc., than
to make hats and shoes, or lay bricks,
or WELD the saw or jackplane. or handle
the machinist's file, or the blacksmith's
hammer? We have heard that some of
them get these notions at school. If
this be true, it is sad perversion of the
means of education provided for your
youth, which are intended to make
them useful, as well as intelligent men,
bers OF society, and not useless drags
and drenes. Should it be so, that the
present generation of boys get it into
their heads that, because they have
more school learning and accomplish
ment than their fathers had, they must
therefore look down upon the trades
that require skill and handicraft, and
whose productions make up the vast
mass of wealth of every country, then it
is time for the controllers and the di
rectors to have the interior walls of the
school house covered with maXims and
notices warning them against the fatal
error.
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far tic atouus FOLKS.
A LITTLE BOYS POCKET.

Do you know what's in my pottet?
Such q lot of treasures in it!
Listen now while bedin it;
Such lot of sings it hold,
And all there is you sail be told;
Every sing dat's in my pottet,
And when, and where, and how I dot 1t.
First of ell, here's in my pottet
A beauty she'll picked 1t up:
And here's the handle OF a tupj
That somebody has broke at tea;
The shells hole in it, you see;
Nobody knows that have dot it
keep it safe here in my pottet.
And here's my ball, too, in my pottet,
And here's my pennies, one, two, FIRE,
e That Aupty Mary gave to me;
Tomorrow day I'll buy spade;
2 When I'm out walkin with the maid;
/ can't put dat here in my pottet,
But can use it when I've dot it.
Here's some more sings in my pottet!
Here's my lead, and here's my string,
And once had an iron ring,
But through a hole it lost one day;
And that is what always say
A holes the worst sing in pottet,
Have it mended when yop've'do 1t.
Hearth and Home.
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iPhilosophical Plan.

In this Seminary we have been led TO adopt
/ the Philosophic plan of each Professor and his
class devoting theiT whole time and d energies to
led to this by seeing SO many students
disheartened, or rendered superficial, by being
required To carry forward three or four studies
at the same time. Then each Professor was
Quired to hear so many recltations and the time
was SO broken up that it was out of the question
10 give each subject and each pupil the required
attention. In Introducing this method, We ex-
pected to be able to make our classes much more
thorough and practical, but not only are We
succeeding beyond our expectations In this par
tlcuiar, but We are accomplishing great deal
more more IN the same Time as well as doing 1t much
and expense is saved, matter of great consider
alton TO every one. After thoroughly mastering
Inc Common Branches, students complete the
scientific Course in two instead of three years,
AS heretofore required; devoting three months
to Algebra, two TO Geometry, and two to Chem
istry, and one month each To all the other stud
les. Our course is full and practical, and the
time allotted to each study enable US to do vast
plain this on the principle, that men show the
greatest results in given time, when they de-
vote their whole energies to one thing. II has
bsen claimed that students deyoting their whole
time TO one study would become weary, but we
find instead OF this being true, that the student
having an opportunity to concentrate his whole
energies upon one subject, succeeds, and as a
result OF his success, an enthusiasm is awaken
ed, before unknown in schools; the student be-
comes genuine Philosopher in search of truth.
New Studies are commenced monthly, at which
time students can enter and remain as long as
desired. Glasses for FAIL and early Winter, will
be formed September Iith October 18th, and
Novemb Der 9Th. A class will commence Algebra,
November 9tn, and 20 regularly through with
Mathematics. By our plan we propose TO make
this more thorough class than any ever con-
Quoted on the old system. Those wishing to
enter ii, would do well to engage rooms soon.-|
The department of Music and Painting, are
now offering the very best advantages.
The Ladies, Ornamental Course is short, but the
most practical and useful. All is left out that
will not De practiced in woman's appropriate
sphere. And they are made SO thorough, and
such IL love OF science Is induced that they will
carry il into and adorn every department oflife;
and not, is too frequently DONE lay all aside
as soon as they graduate.
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WHICH IS THE GREATER CRIME
Carefully collected statistics show the
following facts, as the effects of intern
perance:-
200,OO0 orphans are yearly sent to the
poor house.
200, 900 children are yearly left 10 pub
lie charity.
800 murders.
All these cost the people in taxes and
other ways not less than two hundred
million dollars yearly.
And yet we are told that no laws
must be made against this evil, and the
crime which causes it. Is arson, or
horse-stealinS, S,ormskingbogus money all
greater crimes, that laws should be
made against these?
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THE FARMERS WIFE.-Is there any
position a mother can covet for her
daughter more glorious than to he wife
of an honest, independent. happy farm
er, in u country like this? To be the
wife of one whose farm is noted far and
near as IA model of neatness aud perfec-
ton of cultivation? To be mistress of
a mansion of her Owu-a sweet and
lovely home? TO he the angel that fits
through the garden, bidding the flowers
bloom and twining roses and honey
suckles around the bedroom window,
or sweetening their fragrance with her
sweetest smile; or spreading the snowy
cloth beneath the old oak at the door,
to welcome her husband as he returns
from his toll, or even tipping the cradle
with her feet as she plies the dasher
with her hand, or busily moves the
needle, at the same time humming a
joyous song of praise that she is the be-
loved wife of an American farmer-o one
of the noblemen of this free country
one that should by right rank as the
pride and glory of America?
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THE FALLEN SON.-FOllow him home
now from the scene of his debauch. He
is an old son. On him the hopes of the
family are centered. Every nerve has
been strained to give him the choicest
education. Parents and sisters gloried
in his talents and looked forward to his
future fame. Alas! already those Wis.,
ions are less bright.
Enter now the family circle. Parents
surrounded by lovely dauhgters, Within
that circle reigns peace, virtue and re-
finement. The evening has been spent
in animated conversation and the sweet
interchange of affectionate endearment.
But there is one who used to share all
this, who was the centre of that circle
Why is he not here? The hour of de-
votion has come they kneel before their
Father and God. A voice that used to
mingle in their praise is wanting. An
hour rolls away another hour is gone
Why do those parents start at every
foot step?
The step Of that sen and brother is
heard, The door is opened-he staggers
in before them, and is stretched out at
their feet in all the loathsomeness Of in
toxicatien.
"Oh, who shall tell the horrors Of a
home made dark with sin ?"-Rev. DIR.
Wayland.
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Does Glover Or Timothy cause Rust OF
Wheat.

Does Clover Or Timothy cause Rust on
Wheat.
Upon this subject a correspondent OF
the Rural Gentleman says:
This is a question that has for long
time agitated The minds of intelligent
farmers, but IL has been settled to my
mind at least, by series of ofexperinents
l am satisfied that it does in at least
ninety-five cases out of hundred
/ have sown the wheat with and with
out the grass seed, and have never seen
rust when there was no grass, whilst in
the same field the rust has affected the
wheat. The grass holds the dampness
at the roots of the wheat, and when the
sun shines out very warm, produces the
blight. Besides, the wheat standing
alone will produce five bushels more to
the acre than when the grass is sewn. 1
mean, now, that this will be the average
difference.
But the question arises: When shall
the grass be sown? / answer: After
the wheat harvest. Plow the field and
prepare it smoothly and sow the grass
seed of whatever kind you desire, and
your crop of grass the ceming season
will be equally as good, if not better,
than il sOwp with the wheat,
Farmers, try the above, and my word
for it, the result will he satisfactory.
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THE rumseller goes TO market with a
pocket full of greenbacks. The wife Of
his customers goes to market with a few
twenty-five and ten cent stamps, and
perhaps a few pennies. The rumseller
buys an abundance of the best roast beei
and turky, and apples, and other deli
cacies. The wife of his customer bagsa
shin-bone, head of cabbage. five cents
worth of red beets and quarter of q
peck of small potatoes
That will continue to be the case as long
as professed temperance men vote to sus-
tain the the rumseller in his business ?
Whoever votes for a legislator that is not
known as an opponent of license law,
votes to feed the rumseller on roast beef
turky, and other delicacies, and the starv-
ing wives and children of their custom
ers on liver. shin-bOne, cabbage and po-
tatoes. Mark that! What Good Tenn
plar or Son of Temperance will ever cast
another such vote? If we must have
such satanic Legislators, let every tenn
pereance man be able to say, Thou
canst not say !. did it Show not your
bare tables and famished little ones to
me! Worthy Chief.
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THK Boston Traveller tells this story
In one of the villages of Endfield, n
H., large number of men have been
in the habit of meeting at liquor sa.
loon every Sabbath and spending the DAY
in beer-drinking and other dissipation.
On a recent Sabbath they met as usual,
and the fact that the keeper Of the place
was suffering from deliriuna trsnaens did
not deter them from spending the day
there. But one of the men, who had
been leader in their dissipation, while
on the way home began to ask himself
what would be the result of his course !;
and came to the conclusion that the fate
of the saloon-keeper would soon be that
of himself and his boon companions
Before he slept that night he had decid-
ed upon his future course, but kept his
own counsel. The next day he secured
a hall, and posted notices that meeting
would be held there on an evening NAM
ed, without stating the purpose. 1t
leaked out who had hired the hall and
as he had been somewhat famous for his
joking propensities, there was great GU
irosity among the villagers, who expect
ed some rare sport would be had. The
evening arrived, and the hall was filled
with the old companions of the lessee,
who was promptly on hand. Mounting
the rostrum, he made powerful tenn
perance speech; told them that they
were all going to ruin together, but he
had made up his mind to reform, and
should take his wife and children to
church on the next Sabbath. He then
produced temperance pledge, affixed
his pwn name to it, and sagreat was the
influence of his remarks and his exam
pie that one hundred and thirteen names
were affixed to it before the meeting
slosed. Since then the good work has
been going on, and the pledge has been
takenby ever two hundred persons in the
village,
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WHAT WE wANT.-There is too much
truth in the remark of the New York
Nation that, "the reason why the whis-
key ring is SO powerful among US, is that
they've applied brains to the business of
stealing, and swindling, and the good
people have opposed to them nothing
but rhetoric"
The people are beginning to under
stand this s'question better than they for
merly did, and are casting about for
some more effective means of checking
the fearful whiskey tide which threatens
to overwhelm us. Rhetoric has done
much in the way of creating healthy
public sentiment, but is not all-suffici-
ent for the work. It has its limit of USE
fulness, but must be, in connection with
other means, constantly applied. Our
misfortune has been in following up
but single mode of attack at time
While we have been doing this the
enemy has been devising new means Of
escape and new plans of action. We
have rode our temperance hobbies until,
one after another, they have fallen dead
beneath us, Then we have adopted
something new-usually better-and
have followed it upin the Same manner.
Now we are beginning to see that there
is no single, universal panacea for the
evil, and that We must use every instru-
mentality, without the exclusion of a
single one. The rum traffic has thous-
and phrases and each one requires the
application of its respective remedy
We want preaching and praying. We
want lecturing and exhGrtation. We
want temperance training for our youth
and temperance information for the
older heads. We want our secret beni-
fetal organizations and We want open
associations. We want temperance news
papers and temperance literature. We
want temperance off1ce-hOiders and tenn
perance voters, and we want more
liberality and much less parsimony
among temperance men. We are learn
ing these things, and the chances for
success are in our favor. Let us have
more brains and money applied to the
suppression Of the rum curse.-[ [Ameri-
can Guardian