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Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-04
How to Clean House.

IT is pretty near time for the semi annual
house cleaning, and l should ike to tell
you how clean house, and if you think
the plan sensible one, try it.
In the first place, take dswn all your
white curtains, and wash, starch and iron
them ready for the windows. Begin, for
instance, with your parlor, removing all
your furniture into the next room. Take
the pictures from the wall then pull up
the carpet and take it out of doors; hang
it across a strong line Tor, what is better, q
pole), and have il beaten with long, linz
Der whips, cut from trees. Never use a
short, blunt stick, for the end of it is apt
To break the threads of the carpet. If you
can't get whips, use1a broom, beating with
the brush end
The next thing is the wall paper. If
you have step-ladder, stand upon that,
and with soft rag or towel wipe the pa
per as far as you can reach, changing rags
as soon as they are soiled. II you have
no ladder, tie or pin the rag around the
brush of the broom, and rub the wall with
that. You will be surprised to see how
much smoke and dust you will wipe off
the walls.
Before you begin to wash paint or win
dows, provide yourself with q pint of
liquid ammonia, which will cost you, say,
thirty cents, and put teaspooDful OF this
ammonia into pan of water; make suds,
and wash the paint, a small space at a
time, wiping with dry cloth.
There is no earthly use in taking out
the windows to wash them, If you can g, t
at them on the outside. Wash them just
as you do the paint, and wipe, and polish
till perfectly dry. When paint and win
dows are clean, mop the floor; put down
clean straw, and nail your carpets down
replace your pictures, hang the curtains,
and this room is ready for your family to
sit in while you clean the sitting-room.
think it is not well to clean more than
one room in a day, unless they are so small
bedrooms, for instance-that you can
clean two, and put them both to rights.
1t certainly does not pay-in my opinion
to turn house topsy-turvy from garret
to cellar, keeping the family for week
standing upon one leg like troop of for
lorn hens, and yourself in perfect Irish
stew.
And, pray, do not begin to clean house
when it is cold enough to freeze the water
as you work, make the good mans nose
blue as indigo, set the children's teeth in
a chatter, and give the baby the Group.
know, positively, that housekeeping can
be managed so as not to be a nuisance to
all Western Rural.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-04
Grafting.

As THE proper time for grating aap-
proaches, preparations should be made for
this very important operation by procur-
ing cions of the best varieties OF fruit
trees, and also a sufficient supply of graft
ing wax, bass mating, etc. The soft bark
of the bass wood of which mats are made
is the best material for bandages. This can
be PREPARED for use by sleeping the bark
in water for few weeks; after this it can
be separated into long, thin strips. If
mats are available they will furnish the
prepared bark. Some orchards have been
planted without any attention being given
to the selection of the best varieties OF
fruit trees, and on this account are unprof-
table. If the trees are in good growing
state, great Improvement may be made by
grating them with cions of the choicest
varieties. In doing this 1t is not advisable
to remove the whole head of the tree at
once the branches in the center should
be first cut away, and gratis put en- their
stocks. The ensuing year the branches
next the central should be operated on,
and the third year the exterior branches
should be removed and the grating COM
pleted Cherry trees should be grated
early in April, apples and pears about the
middle or end of the month; the stocks
and ciops should be In healthy growing
state Western R1raE
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-04
Apple in Jelly.

TAKE large, sour apples Baldwins
have the finest flavor-wiihout bruise, per-
fectly shapely and fair, because the slight
est blemish will show; peel them very
smoothly, halve, and carefully core. Have
ready, in a porcelain lined dish, syrup
made of the same weight of white sugar,
in just enough water to dissolve it. Into
the syrup lay with care as many of your
halves as can be placed, without crowding,
and let them gently simmer until tender
enough to eat, but not to break. With a
silver spoon remove each TO large shall
low dish, never putting one above another
each can be neatly rounded up with the
spoon, so that it shall be perfect little
half globe by ITSELF Add to your syrup
another pound of sugar, boil up, skim,
and pour over the apples when partly cool
Every piece will be seen a symmetrical
island of pale, greenish gold, in q tTanspa
rent sea of amber Jelly. So arranged the
dish is exquisitely attractive and so served
up, especially If you add a spoonful o
cream, is delectable. The apple favor i:
sufficient-you need no other. This viii
keep for weeks. and is almost always avail
able, because apples are to be had at times
when other fruits fail Western Rural.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-04
Asparagus Beds.

EVERY asparagus bed should be top
dressed with stable manure in late autumn I;
but when this important operation has
been neglected, the surface of the bed
should be forked over, at any time in the
winter when the ground can be worked, and
a dressing of rich manure spread over the
surface, say two or three inches deep.
Care should be exercised in forking the
soil n t to tear up and mutilate the roots
of the asparagus When weeds and grass
begin to start in the spring, rake off all
the manure and scatter salt of any kind
over the bed, until the surface appears
white. There is little danger of applying
too much salt to asparagus. One can pro-
cure salt of an inferior quality for such a
purpose. Brine of any kind may be pour
ed over the surface of the bed. If weeds
and grass appear, after the lapse of few
weeks, apply another. dressing of salt.
The productiveness of new beds of aspar-
agus is frequently injured seriously by cut
ting the shoots too soon, too frequently,
and too long in the season. New beds
should be allowed to get well rooted be-
fore any of the asparagus is gathered. A
bed of strong roots cannot be produced
without the tops are allowed to develop.
-Ercltdnge.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-04
Try IT.

1t is amusing that the feeble should totter, with
uncertain steps, over the face OF the earth, In
danger every day of falling victims to the morbid
influences by which we are all surrounded. when
tested and proven vegetable tonic, capable OF en-
dowing them with the vigor they need, is procur-
able In every city, town and settlement. 1t might
reasonably be thought that after the twelve years
experience which the world has had Of Hostetters
Bitters, all would know that its effect is to prevent
disease.
st certain seasons the atmosphere is surcharged
with the seeds OF intsrmittents renittents, rheu-
matisln pulmonary disorders, bilious complaints
and the like Persons whose nervous systems are
relaxed are the first to succumb to these distem-
pers. Brace up the physical energies, then, with
this potential vegetable tonic. 1t is the most pow
erful ecuperant which the botanic kingdom has
ever yielded to patient research and experiment
Try it. The blindest desciple Of the old medical
dogmas will at least admit that tonic and altera-
tive, compounded Of approved herbs, roots and
barks can do no harm, while the testimony OF
thousands invites trial Of its virtues.
vIgor ia the thing most needed in these cases as
well as in dyspepsia and nervous affections, and
Hostetter's Btters is the Safest surest and most
wholesome strengthening preparation that human
skill has yet concocted.
Hundreds of physicians have abandoned all the
ofcina receipts and prescribed this harmless TONIC
as preventive and for all cases Of chills and
fever.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-04
Gas Tar on Seed Corn.

MANY farmers suffer very serious loss
from the depr. dations of birds, pulling up
the sprouted corn as soon as it begins to
peep out of the ground. This is a
trouble no farmer need sustain. for gas tar
put on the corn before planting is sure
preventive. Corn well saturated with it
is distastpful to birds, and almost every
other kind of depredators. A table
spoonful will be enough to coat over a
peck of corn. However, it should be well
a thoroughly done, so that every grain
receives due share. 1t can be sprinkled
over and dried with ashes or plaster so as
to separate the grains so as to plant with
facility But the less it is busted the more
it will be avoided by birds and insects
Corn properly treated with gas tar will be
less liable to rot in the ground, as the tai
resists excessive moisture, and will be nc
detriment in case of the earth being very
dry, thus resulting in good in either state
of the soil, apparently acting by contrast
harmless, and certain preventive of the
depredations of the ieathered songsters
which do so much good for the farmer by
destroying insects = Western Rural.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-04

FRANCE will have to pay $4,000, ,OOO, 900
francs to Germany as warindemnity. This,
in flve-franc gold pieces would weigh 55,-
| OOO, 600 pounds averdupois. To transport
all this gold by rail, supposing each car to
carry II 900 pounds, train of 5000 cars
would be required. When spread out on
the ground, one touching the other, these
| five franc gold pieces would reach almost
around the globe. If five-franc pieces
enough to make this amount were placed
one above the other, they would make a
column of gold 1876 miles in height. If
, this column, having its base in Paris,
lin, Berlin would be only third of the
| whole distance reached by the coin at the
| top of the column. A quick cashier, able
to count 10000 five-franc pieces in an
hour, supposing that he commenced at the
age of thirty, would be nearly seventy
years OF age before he finished counting it,
| in case he should count eight hours daily
for three hundred days every year.
A WRITER in a recent number OF the
Chicago Times tells the following rat
story: az was employed as tally clerk in
an old grain store. Sitting one evening In
the office, expecting every moment a visit
| from my numerous friends Qhe rats), L
| saw young rat trot nimbly down the
| stairs, give one look around, and then re
trace his steps Immediately. He again re-
turned, holding in his mouth short piece
of cord, the other end being firmly held
by another, larger and apparently older
than himself They descended step by
step, until they came to some water at the
bottom of the stairs. After quenching
their thirst they deliberately began to as
cend. This was too much for my pa fence !;
l rushed out, club in hand, and to my
amazement the old rat quietly awaited his
doom. A sharp knock quickly brought
him down. Looking closely at him per-
ceived that the sockets of his eyes were
empty This Immediately solved the mys-
terry. He was stone blind. Several told
me that they saw these rats in the same
way before"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-04
How to Educate Animals.

To educate an animal is not to force it's
nature, but to tame and direct it, so as to
make it fit for the service or the society of
man. This is not difficult task for one
who knows how to go about it. Most ami
mails are drawn toward man, whose su-
periority they recognize by instinct, whom
they are proud to please, whose love is
agreeable, and whose protection is advan-
tageOus to them. But before these rela-
tions are established, there is an obstacle
to be conquered-the distrust natural to
the lower animals. The first step to be
taken, then, is to obtain the pupils con-
fidence.
Unhapplly, many do just the contrary of
what is necessary to obtain the end. Some
brutal men know how only to maltreat
their animals, which do not obey because
they do not understand; other mer make
playthiDgs of them; and many fatigue
them with importunate caresses. DoEone
OF these things. What an animal demands
is security. Never harm him and you will
soon have his confidence.
When your first relations are established,
| ne will come to be caressed of his own ac-
cord Always be careful of him, but with
| out feebleDess or importurity. Never
| tolerate a vicious act; never allow vour.
self to be defed; but be indulgent for un.
intentional disobedience, or for any dam
age done unintentionally In these last
cases, content yourself with making the
animal understand wherein he is wrong,
without too much severity. Well doing
should always be rewarded by caress. In
habltual intercourse be affectionate if YOU
WILL, but first be reasonable Do not be
lavish OF caresses, make them less frequent
but let your rule be gentle, peaceable and
| just.
|
Violence and blows are bad means OF
education for animals as well as men,
Force makes. itself obeyed, but only on
condition of continual action: a sad condi.
ton! 1t sometimes happens that despair
revolts against every force; we often sec
this in the case of the ass, sometimes in
that of the horse. Besides, in making
yourself obeyed by outward force, YOU
drive from the animal all spontaneous ac-
tlon, his grace, his amiability, his ardor to
obey you; without that, in using this
means, you reserve for yourself an ex.
IRENE resource for extreme cruelty. Look
at the facts. Your poor asses are unmer
clfully beaten, and are stubborn. You
cruel teamsters Overwhelm their horses
Wrh blows and oftentimes can scarcely
govern Them the Arabs caress theirs
talk to them, live with them, and do with
them whatever they wish. For NV part
in my relations with animals. | alway.
make it an amusing study to obtain theil
obedience with the least possible expense
The art of education is like that o.
music, by which Mozart or Haydn obtains
a greater effect by simple shades dexter
ously handled, than some modern com
poser does by the deafening uniformity O
an orchestra.-& a. BerUille, in BuLEeti7
de Paris.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-04
The Power of ihe Imagination and
the Will.

THE mind and body bear such au init
mate relation to each other that disorder
in one occasions disorder in the other.
They are affected very frequently by the
same causes, and exert a reflex influence
upon one another. Keeping these facts in
view, we can often trace or remove the
cause of real or supposed illness without
the physicians aid, and thereby avoid
much pain and many prescriptions. 1t
may be asserted with perfect safety that
fully one-half of the sickness of the pre-
sent day is fictitious, unreal "Imaginatio
general fdusans," the proverb of the school
men, holds true to-day" The imagination
creates what it imagines." Being we'll,
we think ourselves into being unwell.
Suffering from ennui and lack of exercise,
the lady in the boudoir takes to her bed
under the belief of illness, and the hale
farmer magnifies a chest pain into dys-
pepsia, on being told that this malady is
becoming very common in the rural dis
trlcts, by reason of too much pork eating.
Physicians are applied to by hundreds to
cure troubles whose existence has merely
been assumed from reading spurious med
cal books, scattered broadcast by charla-
tans. The knowledge of the fact that it
has been hereditary in their families, has
been sufficient to bring insanity upon
individuals. Proofs of the powerful in
t1uence of the imagination on our corporal
natures, are to be drawn from every quar-
ter Writing of the Chinese, Riccius
says:." If it be told them that they shall
be sick upon a certain day, when that day
comes they frequently will be sick, and
will be so terribly afflicted that sometimes
they die upon it." An instance is on re-
cord, of condemned man being found
dead on the scaffold when the sheriff un-
bound his eyes, pre- paratory to reading his
pardon to him. 1t was one of Frederick
the Greats soldiers, if we mistake not
who dropped dead, when, after burlesoue
court martial, twelve comrades DISCHARGED
a volley of blank cartridges at him. A
woman, thinking that she had swallowed q
pin, was seized with severe pains. A com.
panion, believing it was a mere fancy
caused her to reich, at the same time
placing a crooked pin in the bottom OF
the basin. On seeing the latter, she sup
posed that she had cast up, and was al
once relieved of her pains.
There is story of d Frenchman, who
crossed dangerous passage on plank in
the night, and upon perceiving the next
day what q narrow escape he had had, fell
down dead. The eminent DR.. Gotta mar
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-04
Whipping Horses Dangerous.

l would caution those who train or use
horses, against exciting the ill-will of the
animal Many think they are doing finely,
and are proud of their success in horse
training, by me ans of severe whipping, or
otherwise rousing and stimulating the
passions, and then, from necessity, crush
ing the will through which the resistance
is prompted. No mistake can be greater
than this, and there is nothing that so
fully exhibits the ability, judgment and
skill of the real horseman, as the care and
tact displayed in winning, instead of re-
pelIing. the action of the mind. Although
it may be necessary to use the whip some
times, it should always be applied judi
ciously, and great care should be taken not
to rouse the passions, or excite the will to
obstinacv
The legitimate and proper use of whip
is calculated to operate upon the sense of
fear almo-t entirely. The affections and
better nature must be appealed to in train
ing horse, as well as in training child.
A reproof given may be intended for the
good of the child, but, if only the pas
sions are excited, the effect is depraving
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-04
Life Insurance Agents.

PHILADELPHIA, according to the follow
ing, which is from the Dispatch of that
city, is inflicted with very intrusive and
persistentset of life insurance agents, who,
when they get hold of subject, poster
him almost to death:
THE FATE OF BENJAMIN P. GUM.
His name was Benjamin P. Gum, and
he was the agent for an insurance COM
pany. He came around to my office four
teen times in one morning to see if he
could not persuade me to take out a life
insurance policy in his company. He used
to waylay me on the street, at church, in
my own house, and bore me about that
policy. If l went to the opera, Gum
would buy the seat next to me, and sit
there the whole evening, talking about
sudden death and the advantages of the
ten-year plan. If I got into street car,
Gunn would come rushing in at the next
corner, and sit by my side, and drag out a
lot of mortality tables, and begin to ex-
plain how could beat his company out of
fortune. If sat down to dinner in
restaurant, up would come Gum, and
selzing the chair next 10 me, he would tell
cheering anecdote about man who in
sured in his company for $50, 900 only last
week, and was buried yesterday. If l at
tended the funeral of departed friend,
and wept as they threw the earth upon
his coffin, I would hear a whisper, and,
turning around, there would be the indom.
table Benjamin P Gum, bursting to say !:
"Poor Smith! Knew him we'll. Insured
for ten thousand in our company. Widow
left in comfortable circumstances. Let me
take your name. Shall II"
lie followed me everywhere; until at
last got SO sick of Gums prosecutions
that left town suddenly one evening, and
hid myself in secluded country village.
hoping to get rid of him. At the end OF
two weeks l returned, reaching home at
one In the morning. had hardly got into
bed before there was a ring at the door
bell. looked out, and there was Gum.
with another person! He asked if Max
Adeler was at home. l said was the man
Mr.. Gum observed that he expected nv
return, and thought he would call around
about that insurance policy. He said he
had the doctor with him, and if would
come down he would take nv name and
have me examined Immediately. | was
too indignant to reply. l shut the window
with slam, and went to bed again. Aftel
breakfast in the morning 1 opened the
front door, and there was Gum sitting OF
the steps with his doctor, waiting for me
He had been there all night. As | came
out they seized me, and tried to undresl
me there on the pavement in order to ex
anime me. retreated and locked mysel
up in the garret, with orders to admit no
body to the house until came down stairs
But Gum wouldn't be baffled. He actualI,
rented the house next door, and stationed
himself in the garret adjoining mine
When he got fixed he spent his time
pounding on the partition and crying
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-04

and injurious. This Is vital principle,
and can be disregarded in the management
of sensitive, courageous horses, only at
the imminent risk of spelling them. l
have known many horses of naturally
good character to he spoiled by whipping G
once and one horse that was made vicious
by being struck with a whip once, while
Standing in his stall.
Sensitive horses should never be left,
after they have been excited by the whip
or other means, until Gained down by
rubbing or patting the head or neck, and
giving apples, sugar, or something OF
which the animal is fond. Remember the
whip must be used with great care, or it is
liable to do mischief, and may cause ire
parable injury.-Prof Na9nr.