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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-06-01
An Item for BOYS.

1t is not necessary that boy who
learns traders compelled to follow
it all his life. Governor Palmer, OF
Illinois, was a country blacksmith
once, and began his political career
as a constable in Macoupin county.
A circuit Judge in the central part
of Illinois, was once q tailor.
Thomas Hoyne, rich and eminent
lawyer of Illinois, was once book
binder. Erastus Corning of New
York, too lame to do hard work,
commenced life as q shop boy in
Albany. When he applied for en-
ployment first he was asked: ''Why,
my little boy what can you do?" 81
can do what l am bid" was the an
swer that secured him place. Sen
ator Wilson, of Massachusetts, was
a shoemaker; Thurlow Weed ca
nal boat-driver. Ex-Governor Stone
of Iowa, was a cabinet maker, which
trade the late Hon. Stephen A.
Douglass also worked at in his
youth. Large numbers of men of
prominence, now living, have risen
from humble life by dint of indus
try, without which talent is as use
less as a gold coin on a barren is
land. Work, work alone makes
men bright and it does not depend
on the kind of work you have to do
whether you will rise or not. 1t de-
pends on how YOU do it.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-06-01
How to grow Hogs.

A practical breeder gives the fol
lowing advice, which, in the main, we
think sound, for those whose herd
is not to large, and who are engag
ed in mixed husbandry.
''To handle hogs to the best adj
vantage a pasture is needed Ofmix
ed grasses, clover, blue grass and
timothy, and it is best if there is no
running water or stock ponds in the
lot. Hogs do better where there are
no branches or stock ponds to wal
low in. In place thereof. have
good well-water pumped for them.
Have troughs made, and nail strips
across, eight inches, apart, to keep
the hogs from lying down in the
water, and let these hogs be put on
floors to keep them from digging
up wallowing holes. If any feed be
given it should be soaked in swill
barrels for twelve hours before feed
ing-no longer-and fed to them as
drink.-GeTmdntosrR Telegraph.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-06-01
How to Rest the Minds of
Children.
BY PROF. W. II. LATHROP.

The problem how to rest the mind
is full of importance in its applica-
tion to children. Our school sys-
TEN, as at present constituted, is at
tended with many evils. The chill
dren are kept still too long. They
are expected to study six hours or
more in a day, when grown men
find it difficult to do as much,
though fully interested in their sub
jects Of study, and gifted with ma
ture minds. 1t is believed that the
ultimate education of youth would
be as efficient, both to the individu
ais themselves and to society, if the
children did not begin so young, or
study more than half as long.
A bright little girl, with a pale
face, and undetinable pains all over
her body, presents herself to the
physician for treatment. She has
been at school since she was six
years old, and she is now eleven.
Her mother informs him that her
child has been little inclined to take
any exercise for two or three years
past, though previously robust and
healthy. She cannot go out to play
after coming from school, because
she is tired, or has lessons to get.
Every little while she has short
illness. She is fond of school and
study, is flattered by her teacher,
and makes good progress in her
lessons. Such n child should leave
school at once, and remain away un-
til she is well, Notwithstanding
the protest of the teacher that she
knows more about the child than
the doctor does, and it is a shame
to take away her best scholar. Not
only are weak and delicate children
made invalids by this excessive con-
finement, but those who are strong
suffer loss of stamina.
Now the great difficulty in reduc-
ing the number of hours of school
is, that the parents are unwilling to
have it done. They want the chill
dren out of the way. For this rea-
son they send them to school at the
earliest possible age, and wish them
to remain there as many hours in
the day as possible. Calisthenics
and walking exercises are now quite
generally introduced into school
rooms, and every effort is made on
the part of the teachers to secure
the good health of the pupils. 1t is
the public who need to be aroused
to the Importance of this subject.
Ii, then, it be true that a much
greater length of time is spent in
the schools than is required for men
tai discipline, could not the surplus
time be better utilized in attempts
to keep the children alive? If three
hours day will secure the good re-
suits that are now accomplished by
six, the three hours thus gained
might well be devoted to some man.
ual employment that will at the same
time give the children exercise, and
teach them useful trades. At all
events, it would show them what
labor is, and would make
them feel that it is honorable
Home d Health.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-06-01
Anecdote of Ben Wade.

A decent regard for truth compels
us to admit that reverence for eX-
alted position is not characteristic
of the political society of Washing
ton. And if ever there was a man
who regarded with entire indiffer-
ence the mere formal conventional
tiles of society, it is the late acting
Vice-President, Ex-senator Wade,
of Ohio. During the impeachment
trial, the following is reported to
have occurred between himself and
Chief-Justice Chase, who presided.
The session was to open at twelve
o'clock NJ, and it was within twenty
minutes of that time, and the Chief
Justice had not made his appear
ance in the Vice Presidents room,
which, for the time, was used by
Mr.. Chase as robing-room. The
hands of the clock crept slowly but
surely nearer the figure "XII.,"
when suddenly the door was thrown
open, and in stalked the Chlef-Jus-
tice. He walked hurriedly to the
wardrobe; but his robe of Office was
not upon its accustomed peg, nor on
any peg. What was to be done?
Pages were summoned; this, that,
and the other room, desk, and
drawer were examined, but no robe
was discovered. In the midst of
this excitement the grim, honest
old hero, Ben Wade, made his APP
pearance, with q nod and a grunt,
to the flurried occupants of the room.
He walked to the hat rack, and af-
ter dcpositing his hat went to sofa
on the other side of the room to
leave his umbrella in safe place.
The excitement was still going on,
when Wade, after learning the cause
of the trouble, without entering into
the furry of the hunt, leaned over
the sofa and with his umbrella
hooked up an uncertain looking
black bundle. Seeing it was the
long-looked-for robe, he held it to-
ward Mr.. Chase with, Here, Chase
here's yer darned old frock you've
been making such a coniounded fuss
about The pages smiled n smile.
The Chief-Justice was too overjoyed
to do anything but speedily get in
side of his robe; and if on that
morning the heated, crowded au-
dience saw the Chief-Justice look
redder than usual they now know
the cause of it. 1t was all about
| that "frOck.'
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-06-01
Squirrel Wisdom.

Some one has deposited in our
cabinet of curiosities a half dozen
butter-nut shells in the state they
were left picked of their kernles by
a squirrel. Attention is called to
the economy of the little rodent by
paper marks under them,as follows
l. That the opening is on that
side of the nut which gives access
to the flat side of the kernel.
3. That the opening is nearest to
the blunt end of the nut, where
most of the kernel lies.
3. That the opening is no larger
than is absolutely necessary, less
than half an inch square.
4. That every particle of kernel
is extracted.
How does the squirrel know, be-
fore trying, exactly where and how
the kernel lies? There is only one
nut in great hoard which showed
a liability of the squirrel to make a
mistake.-On this he began to knaw
ON the wrong side, but was deceived
by the unusual prominence of the
line that passes on round the nut at
right angles to the medal. He soon
discovered his mistake, however, and
worked round and struck the kernel
at the right spot.-Onetdo Cirenlar.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-06-01
Cost of the Miners Strike.

The coal miners strike has now
lasted for four months. What has
been the loss in wages to the men
engaged in it? Ii we suppose 80
600 men-the number embraced in
the Miners Union-to earn on an
average 81, 80 per day, or $37, so per
month, the loss of wages would be
81, 500, 900 to the miners and labor
ers since the strike became general.
On the other hand, the statistics of
the coal trade show that production
for the first four months of 1871 is
only $500, 900 TINS below the figures
for the corresponding period of
1870 Now the cost of labor per
tun of coal cannot be placed higher
than 80 cents. Multiplying 2,500,
900 by 80, we obtain $2,25O,OO as
the sum by which the miners and
laborers are worse off than if they
had continued work as in 1870.
While this shows how irregular
work is in the coal regions during
the Winter and early Spring months,
it also shows that on any basis of
computation the cost of the strike
to the miners has been immense.
But the cost to the community in
the increased price which they have
been compelled to pay for fuel is
vastly greater. Since the 1st of
December, when the suspension
took place in the Northern region,
consumers have purchased not less
than 100000 tuns of anthracite
coal at an average advance of 50 per
tun by the most moderate calcula
ton. What has become of this
$S,000,000? The sum must have been
divided among the wholesale and re-
tail dealers and spectators in coal,
among which classes of the bust
ness community must be ranked the
three great Northern companies
and the Reading Railroad.
The cost of the strike to the
transporting companies cannot be
computed by outsiders. 1t will
doubtless come out when they make
their reports a year from now. We
may note one circumstance: The
market price of the shares Of these
corporations has suffered no depre-
citation, Reading, in fact, having adj
vanced 10 per cent above its price
six months ago.
1t is not to be supposed that these
strikes, or suspensions, will be as
frequent in the future as they have
been in the past. We are glad to
see that arbitration is commencing
itself to miners and operators alike
as q means of preventing the de-
structive losses and unspeakable
privations necessarily attendant up
on strikes. The concessions which
have lately been made on both sides
show that the men and the opera
tors have learned to respect each
others power. The contest in
Schuylkill is already settled, and
little moderation on the part of the
great companies of the North is only
needed to compose matters there.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-06-01
Marching Along.

An exchange prophesies that the
"Coming Woman is destined to
hail from the West, citing as proof
thereof promising achievements by
the worthy women of that region.
In Grand Rapids, Michigan, fair sex
appear to threaten a monopoly of the
posts of honor, the city physician is
a woman, one of the church pulpits
is supplied by woman, the large
city library was established by wo-
man, and the Historical Society, or
ganized by the sex several years
ago, has regular course of lectures
delivered by women.
Illinois shows her advancement in
the same direction by appointing
Frances E. Willard the President of
Evanston College; while an Iowa
lady proudly exhibits five hundred
beehives in a thriving condition,
besides being the center of inteli-
gence in a bee-keeper's Convention,
and winning for herself fame and
fortune by the most tasteful and re-
munerative industry.
In the face of such testimony the
prophecy is not without ground, we
admit, but reports from the Key
stone State would seem to indicate
that the East is not to be so easily
eclipsed.
Titusville, Penn, has a Ladies'
Welr' controlled by an oil company
composed entirely of women. The
lease of the well was generously
presented to Miss Hoape, of this
city, by a wealthy landowner ofthat
place, on the express condition that
women alone should manage the
whole affair.
Accepting the terms, the lady at
once formed a partnership with some
friends. and with their joint capital
set to work to fit out the enterprise,
which was in working order by the
1st of Dec, ult.
The well now yields at the rate of
$50 barrels of oil per day, and, be
sides paying costs, in addition to
current expenses, is already realiz-
ing to the fair capitalists very
handsome income. We say, "fair'
capitalists, not because 1--WE know
them to be good-looking but because
handsome is that handsome does.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-06-01
Plants in Sleeping Rooms.

We do not think towering plants
in sleeping rooms render the air un-
healthy. Such plants extract car
bonic acid from the air, thus render
ing the latter richer in oxygen.
Keep the plants themselves free
from all decayed leaves, and the sur
face soil in the pots free from often
sive eXhalations, and the air will be
improved rather than vitiated by
their presence. Every pot should
allow thorough drainage; it should
be porous, rs well as have an apert-
ure in the bottom, otherwise the soil
becomes injurious both to the plant
and to the air. Never paint the
pot, either within or without. We
repeat, keep the plant healthy and
the air will not he injured.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-06-01
A Fish Story.

We met boy on the streets, and,
without the ceremony of asking our
name, he exclaimed:
''You just orter been down to the
river a while ago?"
''Whyw we inquired.
Because niger was in there
swimming, and big catfish came
up behind him and swallowed both
of his feet, and went swimming
along on the top of the water with
him; and they came behind another
big fish, and the niger swallowed
his tail, and the nigger and two fish
went swimming about"
well then what?'
why after q while the Niger
swallowed his fish, and the other
fish swallowed the nigger, and that's $
the last l saw of either Of them"
Sonny" said we with a feeling
of alarm for the boy, ''you are in a
fair way to become the editor of q
Democratic paper"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-06-01
Experiments in Tomato Grow
-.t-- ing.

The three rules to follow in the
cultivation of the tomato are:
l. Secure the seed of fruit acch-
mated to the section where it is to be
grown.
3. Free use of liquid manure dur
ing the season.
3. Looping off the superfuous
branches, and training the stalk of
the plant over trellises, and up the
sides of fences and houses, to its
full length and capacity.
The tomato is too sensitive for
the plant grown in northern lati-
tude to succeed south to flourish in
the north, until it is acclimated.
Acclimation is essential before pro
nouncing Judgment on its merits.
Select the smoothest roundest and
heaviest, adapted to table consump-
ton, during it's natural season, and
a medium size, grown and adapted
expressly for canning purposes Sc
cure the plant that is adapted to
your climate and wants; keep that
seed pure, and study to acclimate 1t
to the section and soil and improve
its size, color and flavor each year.
Then You will never leave home for
3 good tomato.
To prepare the ground, mix with
the soil equal parts of hen, chip and
sand manure. Heap the earth in
hills not less than two feet high;
at the base and around these hills
set the strongest and stoutest plants
Then apply soap-suds, dish-water,
&C., over the hill and let it run down
and feed the plant during the sea
son. Draw the earth from this hill
around the growing plants every
two weeks, spreading the same
about over the roots until the eleva-
ted earth is consumed in feeding
the wants of the vine.
1t is interesting and important to
train and cut away the surplus un-
bearing limbs from the first to the
last spreading branch; a young
shoot spring from the crotch; this
infant sprig must be plucked out
on all occasions. On the side OF
the main stalk the flower stem
shoots out; these bear and blossom
and fruit. Near these very heavy
and large branch grows, as large As
the original stem, with big leaves;
that is fruitless, and burdensome.
All these should be cut off with 4
sharp knife, so as to leave the main
stalk and flower stem exposed to
light and air. The blossom branch
will often double its capacity IN
fruit bearing. The surplus should
be reduced so that the remainder
will come to early and perfect ma
turity. The vine will commence
hearing at about twelve inches from
the ground, and under this treat
ment continue to bear fruit at every
twelve and fifteen inches, to the ex-
treme end of the tree Country
Gentleman.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-06-01
To Color Black.

For one pound of goods, take one
ounce of logwood ct,about one
tablespoonful of copperas; dissolve
the copperas in about one and q
half gallons of soft water, boiling
hot; stir it up, put in the goods, and
let it simmer for fifteen minutes,
then wiring out and wash in good,
hot suds. Dissolve your logwood
in about the same quantity of clean,
boiling water; put in your goods,
stirring it often to prevent spotting;
let them boil slowly for half an hour,
or until they are as black as you de-
sire; take out and hang up, and let
them dry. Then wash in good suds.
and rinse in clean water.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-06-01
Preserving Meat and Fish by
Sugar.

To preserve fish by sugar, open
them and rub the sugar in, in the
same manner as salt, t,leaving it there
for few days. If the fish be in
tended for long keeping, dry after
this, taking care to expose new sur
faces to the air frequently, to pre-
vent moldiness. Fish preserved in
this manner will be found, when
dressed, much superior to what has
been cured by salt or smoke. For
salmon of six pounds weight
tablespoonful of brown sugar is
sufficient.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-06-01
ODDS AND ENDS.

Flat falshood-Lying on your
back.
Vegetable Philosophy-Sage ad-
vice.
Fits peculiar to theatrical people
Benefits.
Take care of your plow, and your
plow will take care of you.
The Paris Commune has sent to
London and sold a number of pic
lures from the collection of the
Louvre.
Chillicothe lady, last week, led her
husband home from drinking sa-
loon by the ear.
An accident occurred in the Rub
ber factory, at Akron, last week,
wherein one of the workman got
his hand badly crushed.
A woman advertises in the Nash
vile papers for her children, saying
that she has had twenty-seven, and
knows the whereabouts ofonly three
of them. ...
Porter-"Werry sorry sir, but this
yere's the ladies' compartment
Calm Being Delighted, ah'm,
shaw! Show 'em in! And 1 say
(aside), the youngest for prefer
encew
The Detroit newspapers have dis
covered a new method of driving
away the organ grinders. Every
day or two they have a small para
graph like this: Organ grinders in
Memphis make about ten dollars a
day" .. -........r ..F... ...
Reverend Gentleman-"You don't
come to church as often as you used
to, Mrs. Chops" .-
Mrs. Chops-"No, sir, l knows l
don't, but l oughter, / m sure,
cause you has a deal O. meat of
u.s." .. .. -l .a
A woman who never owned a Bi-
BILE supposed she was quoting it
when she greeted her son, who came
home to keep Thanksgiving, in the
following words: Here comes the
fatted calf"
Governess -" Why Harry !!
haven't you kiss for Uncle Potter
and haven't seen him for so long,
too?"
Harry-"No, Miss Dorsale. Men
in America at least-don't go
kissing each other .......
1t is immeasurably difficult to re-
fute false doctrines, because they
rest on convictions that error is
truth.
Attending church is accompanied
with difficulties in Leayenworth.
One of the congregation sat down
on a bent pin that his son had pre-
pared for him, and Immediately
rose and commenced praying. He
was elected as irreverent, and fined
ten dollars for injuries done to the
sexton.
A traveller who saw pretty little
girl in the same car with himself,
says: ''In a few years, thought l,
that infant will be al ornament to
society; but had she not better die?
Very soon they will tie some dead
mans hair to the back of her own,
fasten her ribs with a corset, and
hang a bird cage around her lower
limbs. Worse than that, when she
arrives at maturity, she will be COM
PEELED to determine whether she is
for protection or free trade, to under
stand the intricacies of pig-iron,and
go to the polls and vote"
Not long ago a gentleman had
occasion to reprove his little son,
aged five and half years, for an Of
fense which had on other occasions
called forth words of correction.
The parent closed with, snow, Will
lie, 1 don't want to speak to you
again about thisr' which was
and very decidedly re-
sponded to as follows: "Well, pa, l
doesn't want you tor There was
nothing further to be said.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-06-01
WOODMAN. SPARE THAT TREE.
GEORGE Z. MORRIS.

Woodman, spare that tree.
Touch not single bough.
In youth it sheltered me.
And I'll protect it nov.
Twas my forefather's hand
That placed it near his cot:
There, woodman, let it stand
Thy axe shall harm it not.
That old familiar tree.
Whose glory and renown
Are spread o'er land and sea,
And wouldst thou hew il down:
woodman, forbear thy stroke!
Cut not its earth-bound ties:
oh, spare that aged oak,
Now towering to the skies.
When bnt an idle boy.
sought its grateful shade:
In all their gushing joy
Here too my sisters played.
My mother kissed me here;
Ny father pressed my hand
Forgive this foolish tear,
But let that old oak stand.
Ny heart-strings round thee cling
Close as thy bark, old friend,
Here shall the wild-bird sing,
And still thy branches bend.
Old tree. the storm still brave.
And, woodman, leave the spot:
While I've hand to save,
Thy axe shall harm it not!
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-06-01
German Proverbs.

One has only to die to be praised.
Handsome apples are somtimes
sour. ......-..
It's not enough to aim, You must
hit.
High houses are mostly empty in
the upper story.
A hundred years of wrong do
not make an hour of right.
More are drowned in the bowl
than in the sea. ~ -t#.
Better free in foreign land than
serf at sea.
Better go supperless to bed than
run in debt.
The fewer the words the better
the prayer.
There is no good in preaching to
the hungry.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-06-01

Henry Ward Beecher, in a recent
sermon, asserted that the devil did
not strive with bad people, but with
good. "If he strove with bad peo-
pie, the devil would be fool. He'd
he wasting time" he said
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-06-01
A Good Liuirnent.

One of the very best liniments
that was ever made for man or beast
is composed of equal parts of laud-
anum, alcohol, and oil of wormwood.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-06-01
Buttermilk for Indigestion.

Many of the Welsh peasants live
almost wholly upon oatmeal-cakes
and buttermilk, and seldom suffer
from Indigestion. The acid (tactic
ocid) is regarded as promoter of
digestion. Try il.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-06-01

The hight of pugilistic sarcasm
was reached the other day by Jem
Mace, who, speaking of 4 rival ac-
cused of beating his wife, said
"What, him? He couldn't lick a
postage stamp"
A wooden man-An alderman.