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Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-06-21

from the nights Of Zion, with long re-
sounding crash of ruin and shame,
Some of your own households have
already been shaken. Perhaps you can
hardly admit it; bat where was your son
last night! Where was he Friday night?
Where was he Thusday night? We'd
nesday uightG Tuesday night Monday
night?
Nay, have not some OF you in your
own bodies felt the power OF this habna
You think that you could stop? Ale you
sure you could! Go on little further,
aud am sure you cannot. | think, If
some of you should try TO break away,
you would find chain on the right wrist,
and one on the left; one on the right
foot. and another on the left. This ser.
pent does not begin to hurt until it has
would round aud round. Then it be-
gins to tighten, and straugle, and crush.
until the bones crack, aud the blood
trickles, and the eyes start from iheiF
sockets, and the mangled wretch cries,
80 God! 0 God help! help!" But it
is too late; aud not even tho fires OF woe
can melt the ehaiu when once it is fully
fastened.
| have shown you the EVIL BEAST. -
The question is, who will hunt him down,
and how shall we shoot him? | answer:
first, oy getting our children right on this
subject. Let them grow up with an utter
aversion to strong drink. Take care how
you administer il even as medicine. If
you find that they have natural love
for it, as some have, put in a glass of it
some horrid stuff, and make it utterly
nauseous. Teach them, as faithfully as
you do the catechism, that run is fiend.
Take them 10 the almshouse, and show
them the wreck and ruin it works. Walk
with them into the homes that have been
scourged by it. If a drunkard hath fall
en- into ditch, take them right up where
they can see his face, bruised, savage,
and swollen. and say, "Look. my son.
Rum did that!" Looking out Of your
window at some one who, intoxicated TO
madness, goes through the street, brand
iahing his fist, disappearing God, howl
ing, defying, shouting, reeliDg, raying,
and fOaming maniac, say to your son,
'Look; that man was once child like
you" As you go by the grog shop, lot
them know that is the place where men
are slain, aud their wives made paupers,
and their children slaves. Hold out to
your children all warnings. all counseIs,
leas: in afer-days they break your heart,
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-06-21
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Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-06-21
Lowell, Smith, Hay.

Lowell, like divers other literary men,
ia great smoker. When about to ens
gage in writing, he swathes himself in q
dressing gown tinted like a June flower
garden. dons smoking cap of the same
cloth. and armed to the the teeth with u
long Turkish pipe, is ready to encounter
single handed any of the MUSES.. It is
only fair to admit that he generally
comes out victorious. Lowell writes
quite rapidly and with comparative case,
though all Of his productions are subject
to a careful revision before appearing IN
public.
Goodwin Smith, Professor of Cornell
University, is a model scholar. tall and
angular in appearance, exclusive in man.
ners, constrained in conversation, ySt
haunted everywhere with remote poe
likeness, exceeding studious in his habits,
moUastic in his diet, he forms perfect
specimen Of the literary recIuse--a mas
terpiece Of English education. Whom
he wishes to smilo he previously unbends
himseifyet bis smile is always courteous
and always sincere. During his school
life he exceled in everything. a large
part Of his library consists of books
which he received as prizes at Elton and
Oxford He is liberal in politics aud
orthodox IN religion.
John Hay, the author of Little
Brooches" is from Warsaw, in this State.
lie was studying law with Mr. Lincoln,
Mt Springfield. when tho latter was elect
ed President lie went TO Washington
as private Secretary to Mr.. Lincoln, and
was present at the memorable death bed
scene. Afterwards be was appointed on
our Legation 10 Spain, where he remain
ed until year or two since. He is now
doing bis Lowell best as New York jour
nalist. Dir. Hay is quiet, mid looking
young man, but will make noise with
his pen hereafter Chicago Nal.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-06-21
JONES'"
A STORY FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT MORE LAND.


hiOhA fo" Ii nv WANT A'AA Lam
T.,,o,,- 49,, and bo liyod in Joros
WEN I ,,.' ;a cnUntv Of rod biIl ,rd stopoo
I'M nj nc hS ',i.P 49,, No. hinS ~, "a "a h
~ ~ ~ ~ itS 49, - AT as ~; o9d 49, s'
49, Ia Isd Mont a ihonSand scras Of la 7'
AN % A''A ~ % "a
rrlis r,on--and his name Was o1so Tonas
Ift ~ I,t 70 noibin. bt III ii aiu 80 80
49, I;'tJ ~ nat for his a. COS 49, rot4
~ ,,l,af IL. Ia cntton no had +bat NO hoIbto
Al he ronidn't cet a Iivino, fron, H. Ion55 ~
HU ~ -ON' w -'0
And the LONGER he swore the madden he got
Al IN III 80 a,,d TralI,ed 70 tba sehI ~ .s''
For 10 emi~rafe somewhere where the land was
rich
And 10 omit raisinp cock-burs thistIes and SIGH
And vasfino their line on harren land
60 hin, and Tom ,bav bitcbad mn THAR ron1as
That 'ud stay in Georgia their lifetime out,
jest scratching living, when all OF them mought
Get places in Texas were cotton would sprout
BY the time you could plant it in the land.
And be drove BY house whar man nam'd Brown
Was living, not FAR from the edge of town.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-06-21
MY NEPH EW FRED.
AsAa IIis Two Funerals.

Yes, aunt, you must excuse me-
But, Fred
There are no butts about it. my dear
aunt. | cannot and will not be taken
down to the drawing room tonight
Then shall certainly be compelled
to excuse you replied, striving hard to
keep the tears which some way would ell
my eyes every time | attempted to rea
son with the fellow lying SO helpless be.
fore me.
Months before the opening of this
story, Fred. Travers, in attempting to as
cend a scaifolding raised upon building
of which he was the architect, was pre-
cpiiated 10 the pavement, stricking upon
his feet. The effect was partial paralysis
of the lower limbs. Everything that
medical skill could suggest was promptly
attended to, but with very little success !;
and the poor fellow had about decided
that be must remain a helpless cripple
the rest of his life. shall never forget
the day be resigned himself to his fate.
Every member of the family was request
ed TO keep out of his room until he sig.
nified his desire to be visited.
About 8 o'clock in the evening was
summoned to Fred's department.
'Well,' said taking bis outstretched
hand what is itg
'Oh, nothing, aunt; only | have had
a funeral; and the strangest part of it
all is, | WAS chief mourner. | have
buried all my youthful hopes and aspira-
tons; aud henceforth there will be no
more sniveling over the inevitable
Since my nephew's accident | had not
held my usual Wednesday evening re.
ceptions; but he was now so far recover
ed that l thought it best to begin again
All my attempts to have him make one
of the party were useless. He saw that
/ was grieyed, and said, willie q bitter
smile played round his handsome mouth /:
st would be pretty sight now, wouldn't
it, to see me, a great, Swapping fellow,
six feet in my stockings, carried by a
footman down into the parlor?'
But, Fred, Ben can take you down
before any one comes. And all my
friends know that l never entertain COM
pany after eleven; SO you will not be
come tired of sitting
Ny dear, precious little aunt, don't
you see that l am not yet able to conquer
the modification this helplessness entails
upon mel shall lie on the sofa in the
library, and you can leave the doc RS
open, so that the strains of music will
float up to me; and shall enjoy myself
quite as much as if one oe the crowd
/ don't know why I was unable to
keep my thoughts with the company as.
sembled; but they would stray off up
stairs. and several times | caught myself
whispering, Poor Fred, poor Fred?-
More than one inquiry was made fol
him, for he was favorite with US all
but to no one did | say, Go up stairs.
| knew he did not wish it.
The belle of the evening was Mis-
Griffin, an intimate friend Of one of my
boarding school cousins, but stranger tc
me. She sang exquisitely, palyed witt
skill truly professional, couversed intel
ligently and intelligibly-and these latte
accomplishments were so rare among
young ladies generally, that found my
self quite attached to her. Some on
i volunteered TO play waltz, and as tb
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-06-21

The Dubuque Times says: There is
a difference between n frog and toad
There is difference between preacher
and a pickereI. A Humboldt county
preacher, on tho lookout for frog foE
o bait, founI toad. loaded hook with
it and went pickerel fishing. He caught
no pickerel. because, although he didn't
know the difference between frog an,.
a toad, The pickerel did, and that's the
difference between preacher and pick.
erel.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-06-21
Against the Heather Chinee.

Nich vOs going for TO say,
Und | spyechen it blaiu.-
But dot nonsense dot durns up
All der bceble's pTein
Bout dot dricky ShOn Shineyman's actions,
Makes me dake Oop mine pen TO COMPLAIN.
Not' sh der oOOt of dose dings?
II Shon Shineyman pcats
Mynbeer NSe al der EaId-Dl0y.
PeCause he can saeais
Like Ter dug fel and all his imbsY
Snail we schhicker and shOompof our seats
NEIN, now dells you some dings
Nich you all order see:
Don you spiel nit lose card-poards;
For four lines in dree
Der pest hand is held by anodder-
Nich lOund vas shOOst so NIT me
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-06-21

The women should make note
Of this item and apply the moral
Il correspondent sends it to q Delaware
paper: 81 saw hen Sunday THAT is a
gay old chicken-half bantam. Shs
used to lay eggs aud hatch them during
the first five years Of her life. She thea
ceaed to Iay-changed her manner aul
looks to that Of rooster and now crows
for day and oil day. fights the other roost.
ers. aud mates with the other hens.s
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-06-21

This is Celia BurIeigh's idea of The
womanhood demanded by the present
age: ''All the best attributes of human
ity-Ienderness without weakpess; trust
without! credulity; modesty without prud-
cry; dignity without haughtiness; self
respect without conceit; confidence With
out boldness; courage without coarsenesss
goodness without pietism; and reverept
worship without superstition"
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-06-21

One ought. every day. says Goethe,
at least TO hear a little song, read good
poem. se, fine picture, and, il possible,
to speak a sas reasonable word.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-21
IMPROVEMENT Of CrOpS.

Almost every crop raised on the farm
or in the garden, is susceptible of inn
provemeHt. The Trophy Tomato is the
result OF twenty years, or more, OF study
and selection. Its good qualities are
made permanent, and with little care it
can be kept up TO its present standard
of excellence. The French, who cult
vate the sugar beet for its saccharine
qualities, have, by selection and cultiva-
ton, produced beet that yields nine
per cent. of sugar, instead of four and
a half, i'm the root, with which they be-
gan. The wheat plant is susceptible of
very great improvement, and most of
the varieties now cultivated are the re-
suit of careful selection Of the largest
seed, or the longest and fullest ears. a
larger crop of corn can be grown by
selecting the best ears from the most
productive stalks. Some farmers do
this habitually, and find the plant very
tractable in their hands. The amount
of fodder in the stalk can be increased
or diminished by the selection of seed
and change of soil. Every plant will
be found plastic to human skill. and
every animal can be nodded in success
sive generations to our convenience and
taste. Even the Canada wild goose,
whose feathers seemed to be fixed,
hopeless of change, has yielded to the
influences of domestication at Bronx
vile, and broken out into new colors.
White wild geese may yet be in the
market. These plastic qualities of the
plants and animals under our care
should be carefully studied and turned
to economical use 1t will give us more
grass and grain to the acre larger pc.
tatoes, and of better quality; more lus-
cious fruits, and longer keepers; better
mixers in the stall working cattle of
heeter step and greater symmetry;
more eggs in the basket and more
pounds of poultry for the Christmas
market. 1t cannot fail to make all our
labors lighter, pleasanter, and more
profitabl e-HearM and Home
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-21
A Remarkable Murder Case.

The Richmond Wing of a recent date
has an account Of a brutal murdeg COM
mitted across the border, in Wilkes
county, North Carolina, few DAYS
since, and the circumstances of which
are not q little remarkable. 1t apple ars
that gentleman, residing in that coun-
ty, few days previous to the murder
sold to a neighbor tract Of land, for
which he received 81 900 in cash. Bust
ness calling him away from home soon
after, he left the money with his wife.
On returning he stopped over night
with friend living some ten or twelve
miles distant from home. In the night
he dreamed that some men had entered
his house, murdered his wife and two
children, stolen his money and de-
stroyed his property. He became uneasy
and restless and requested peddler
stopping at the house with him to ac-
company him at once to his home, for he
feared there was a reality in the dream.
On arriving, to his horror he found his
wife and family murdered, and two
men sitting at table counting out the
money he had left. He and the peddler
being armed, Immediately fired upon
the men and killed them. The assassins
turned out to be the neighbor who had
bought the land, and the neighbour
son.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-21

United States Minister Washburne during
the siege of Paris, Vy the Versailles army,
and stating in the most positive terms that
Washburne was never in favor of the Com
munists.....I is announced that the city of
Paris will issue loan of coo, 900 900 francs
TO repair the buildings, monuments, and
public works damaged or destroyed during
the siege. Official advices from Russia de-
clare that ike Grand Duke Alexis Alexand-
rovitch will certainly visit this country next
fall, and will probably arrive here in Sep
been totally wrecked on the coast near the
Cape of Good Hope. All on board, includ-
ing a large number of passengers, were lost.
One hundred and fifty bodies had washed
ashore from the wreck.
SIXTEEN thousand Communist prisoners at
Versailles have been released by order of
the Government, but $4,000 are still held,
and will be tried in squads. Cardinal
Potrize, the Vice General, has prohibited the
reading by members of the Church in the
Roman States, Of non-clerical newspapers.
....Thiers, hearing that the Pope intended
TO ask the hospitality of France, has adj
dressed letter to the Holy Father, assuring
him of fitting welcome, but strongly dis
suading him from the project Such "A pro-
ceeding, he says, would offend Italy and
create difficulties in France, where it would
be impossible to grant his Holiness privi-
leges suitable to his exalted position. Theirs
promises the friendly offices of France as q
mediator between the Italian Government
and the Holy See, with "a view to the resto-
ration of conciliatory relations between that
kingdom and the head of the Church......
The French Government has paid to Swift
erland 100000 francs as a partial REIN
e ,I,,, he
maintenance of French soldiers who took
refuge on her soil Switzerland restores to
France the greater portion of the war mate
rial brought across the frontiers by the
French army.
THERE is a struggle among the Americans
in Paris to secure possession of the Com
munist prisoners as colonists. Some want
them for Colorado, and others for Lower
California and Arizona. The Government
is puzzled to decide."..The ship Madagas-
car, from London, bound to Quebec, was in
collision recently with the steamer Widge-
on, in a heavy fog in the British channel of
Eddystone light. Both vessels sustained
such injuries that they sunk in a short time
Both crews took to the boats, and, the sea
being smooth, reached the land in safety.
The English crew who are to compete in
the four-oared race, on the Kennebeck- Assik
river, with the st. John crew, in August
will sail on Friday for America, taking with
them new boat, Al feet long and Is Ia
inches broad, constructed expressly for the
race by Robert Jewett, of Dunston, and
named the England. The names of the
crew are James Renforth, stroke; James
Perry, John Bright, and Robert Chambers
The Saxon troops who served in the late
war made their triumphal entry into Dres.
den on the 18th inst. 1t was announced
that Emperor William had made the Crown
Prince of Saxony Field Marshal of the En-
pire
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-21
Harvesting Hay Early.

"In 1859, the hay crop in the United
States amounted to l9,129,l2S tons.
worth at least $l0l ,29l $50. Eleven
years has increased this by at least one
third, so that the crop in 1870 was at
least 10000, 900 tons, worth 100000, 600
Making a low estimate one-sixteenth of
the value of this crop is lost by late cut
ting. And yet the practice SO costly is
surprisingly common. Were argument
necessary to convince farmers of their
mistake and loss, attention might be
called to that wonderful and most sug-
gestive provision of providence that in
almost if not all sections Of the world
where cattle depend upon wild grass for
winter as well as summer food, sudden
and great heat and a correspondence
dry atmosphere combine to change the
grass into what civilization calls hay
while in the fulness of its growth and
always before its maturity and thus it
is that when for months not green
thing is eaten by the herds of rowing
animals, they are found to be in better
flesh at the end than at the beginning.
If the grass reached completeness in its
growth and seeding before being dried,
cattle eating 1t would die of starvation
rather than thrive. Science as we'll as
observation demonstrates the necessity
of an early hay harvest. Grass is the
natural food of animals, and before the
plant reaches its maturity it contains all
the elements needed to make perfect
aliment in the best possible combination
and in the best possible proportion.
Afterwards, the nature Of the plant
changes, and reproduction, not force
if we may put it in this place-becomes
the ultimate object. If, therefore, far
mers would secure the best and most
valuable hay crop, grass should be cut
while the seed-vessels are forming and
never after they are formed. Haying,
therefore, should be commenced, on an
average, ten days earlier than it is.
There may be little loss in the begin
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-21
The Most Shocking Crime Oh Record.

An Irishman named Martin Mera,
farmer, who resides near Gilman, lro-
quois county, H., has been arrested
and placed in Jail at Watseka, Ill. The
terrible crime of which he is accused, is
the murder of one of his Children
boy II years of age-whom, according
to the testimony of his wife and other
children, he whipped numerically with
a blacksnake whip, while naked, after
having previously laid him naked upon
hot stove and roasted his back terri
bly,. The boy died in his sick mothers
bed room immediately after the whip
ping. The crime was committed in the
evening. and the brutal father buried
the body in q hedge, and the next day
went to Gilman and posted up a public
notice offering reward to any person
giving information Of his runaway boy
This was intended as q blind, but it had
the contrary effect, arousing the suspi
cion of his neighbors that he had killed
the boy. These suspicious were subse-
quently fully confirmed on search being
made, the roasted and bruised body of
the lad being found buried four feet
deep in a secluded spot of Mera's
premises. The murderer was at once
arrested, and taken to Onarga, where
the indignant citizens threatened to
lynch him, but the officers, in order to
save him, brought him to Watseka,
where he is now in custody. The coro-
ner's Jury at Gilman found verdict in
accordance with the above facts, and
the hope of all is that he will have a
speedy trial, and be hanged as he richly
deserves. Mrs. Mera, the murder er's
wife, testifes that her husband was
generally kind to her and the children,
but that occasionally he flew into VIC
lent passion and whipped his family
very cruelty. She witnessed the whip
ping and death of her boy, but was
helplessly sick in childbed, and could
not help the little victim.-ChicqgO Jour
nal.
LArER.-A dispatch from Watseka
dated July 9Th, says that Martin Mera
confined in the county Jail there, await
ing trial for burning and whipping his
son, II years old, to death, was taken
from the Jail at 7 o'clock this evening
by an incensed mob of 800 armed men,
followed by over one thousand men,
women and children. Mera gave the
Masonic signal of distress, which was
not responded to, and he renowned
the craft. He was given opportunity to
speak and pray, and confessed his
guilt in an address TO the crowd. He
refused the benefit of prayer by a
Protestant clergyman and begged for
mercy
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-21
The West.

A LARGE number of persons were seriously
injured in Chicago, on the 4th, by the acct
dental explosion of fireworks ...... Professor
Steiner made balloon ascension from Mil
waukee on the 4th, for Michigan. The bal
loon went directly east, and unless its
course changed, must have passed near
Grand Haven. lie was heard from near
Kalamazoo, Mich, the next day...".John
Betz. German, had both arms blown off
above the elbows, at Madison, Wis, on the
9TH. He died in a few hours after the oc-
currence......A young lady named McCor-
mick was shot and killed by her lover on
the Sd inst. near Ottawa, H., because she
would not 90 to a fourth of July celebration
with him......Two soldiers engaged a room at
q hotel in Cincinnati on the 4th, and the
next morning one of them was found dead,
and the o.her senseless, with a pistol shot
through his head.."... Two sons Of James b.
Thompson, named Albert and Lewis, aged
respectively IL and 6, were drowned in Pap
ma lion river, at Ireland's mill, about eight
miles from Omaha, on Monday.
ANOTHER severe storm Of rain and wind
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-21

LIME RENovAToR or SoILs.-Ihe
constant use of special manure tends
to make the land what is called sick"
Thus we hear of land being clover-sick;
of land that has been manfred with
superphosphate, guano, or fish, as being
burnt, and no longer yielding to the
application of more manure. Barn
ward manure is not yet in sufficient
supply TO have produced the same eff
feet or given rise to a similar complaint,
but even when this has been applied in
large quantities to the soil, it will be
found that something is needed to rem
edy the lodging of crops from want of
stiffness in the stalk or straw. Lime is
a remedy in all these cases. When the
soil is filed with vegetable matter lime
rapidly decomposes it. and not only is
il a solvent for this, but for many min
eral matters that plants need for food.
A limestone soil is as much improved
by lime as any other land, and needs it
equally at stated periods; for limestone
is not lime in the sense in which agri-
culturists use the word and il car not
fill the office of lime until it has been
fitted therefor by the operation of the
kiln.