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The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26
stage they saved it from defeat by

stage they saved it from defeat BY
direct votes for it.
On the motion to reeoumit it tC
the committee. but 1cibo,a instruction.
to strike out the salary clause, Mir
Thurman voted IN tie affirmative.
FInsily, siter the several contest il
the Senate had bsea fought through,
and, by the setive aid OF enough
Democratic votes TO defeat it, the
back psy victory won, except that
formal vote upon agreeing 10
the conference repOr: remained, Mr..
Thurman rose.
o. course, it wss 70 rally the Dem
Ocrats at the last moment, and strike
the matter with lasting destruction
In all the long and hessed struggle
he had restrained himself. Now the
Senate would hear what an honest
Democrat, bursting with the pent up
indignation OF days, had to say upon
the black proposition before the
American Senate Now the Democ.
racy would be rallied to a man BIZ
this eloquent leader. and the sa sry
oil would fail So thought many as
he rose.
Senator Cragin hsd just read q dis
patch from New Hampshire beseech
ing the Senate net to pass the bill,
and had warned his associates that
the Republican party in New Eng
land would De beaten if it should
become a law. He had taken his
seat, and the roll was about to be
called on the final vote which decided
the fate of the measure in the Senate
and when Mr.. Thurman took the
fioor all supposed It vas to assist in
the defeat OF the bill, and 4 strong
ana most effective assault upon it was
expected. He spoke as iollows-his
sole effort on the salary question Su-
ring sll the contest in tie Senate:
fMr. Thurman-aIr. Presiden, :
There have been very extraol dinary
things about this bill, and about this
raising Of salaries. / think there hss
been about the greatest legerdemain
in the way of legislation that have
ever seen, and now at this late hour
for the Senator from New Hampshire
to get up and make an argument,
apparently against the bill, but really
TO carry all the Democratic votes for
it, is the most extraordinary OF all.
Laughter. II
Such is Sll that the Globe contains
from Mr.. Thurman on the subject oi
back pay.
Those who heard his late speeches,
or those who read them, will hardly
credit it, but, short IS it is, it con-
Iains eli his spoken opposition to the
measure during both the contests
over it. And so Mr.. Thurman g
speech in the Senate against the back
pay, which he now finds such fraud
upon the people, is reduced to joke,
and an attempt to ridicule Republi-
can who was honestly trying to de-
feat the swindle. III. V. B.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26
The Potato As EOnd.

Since Mr. Lecky suggested that tht
use Of the potato as an article Of diet
was responsible for the physical de-
generacy of the Irish race, severa
German writers on ethnology have
put forth the prediction that nations
so far from improving, will deterior.
ate both physically and mentally,
should potatoes become their princi-
pal food. Carl Voigt maintains that
the potato contributes very little to-
ward the restoration of wasted It's
sues; while Mulder, the Holland
Psychologist, gives the same Judgment
when he declares that the excessive
use of potatoes among the poorer
classes, and coffee and tea by the
ranks, is the cause of the Incidence Of
nations. Leidentrost maintains that
the revolutions of the last three cen
turtles have been due to revolutions in
nutrition. The question has also been
raised whether the general use of the
potato, TO the exclusion of other arti
cles of food, is no: responsible for a
great deal OF the growing physical
legeneracy of New England.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26

TIE TRUE GOSPEL OF DRESS is that
of fitness and taste. Pictures are
painted, and music is written, and
flowers are fostered, that life may be
made beautiful. Let women delight
our eyes like pictures, be harmonious
as music, and fragrant as flowers, that
they also may fulfill their mission Of
grace and beauty. Let them think
less about ringIets and ruflles, in order
to give themselves to the contempla-
ton of whatever is noble, and lovely,
and of good report. BY companion
ship with beautiful thoughts shall their
tastes be so formed, that their toilet
will never be out of harmony with
their means or their position. To buy
and to wear the right thing will come
TO be as natural as to breathe. They
will be clothed almost as unconscious
ly as the lilies OF the field; but there vii
be no more of uniformity in their at
tire than in their faces.--New YorI
IndeDendent.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26
Seasoning Timber.

Experience mas shown that the moro
rapidly lumber can be seasoned in
open air the better the quality, and
the less liable it Is to be affected by
the variableness Of the atmosphere
During the months of June, July, and
August the air is drier than at any
other period, and consequently better
adapted to seasoning lumber. Planks
or boards should be piled up under
sheds open on all sides, to allow of a
free circulation of air; in no case
ought lumber to be subjected to the
rays OF the sun or rain, and il should
be elevated two feet above the ground
1t the shed has a floor it will be much
the better. AS soOn as the moist
weather of the fall months commences
the sheds should be inclosed on all
sides, and opened only on clear, dry
days. Lumber well "stuck up" under
sheds of this kind will dry out in two
seasons, and retain all the natural
strength and elasticity of the timber
The bark should always be removed
from white oak and hickory. The
growing scarcity of lumber necessi,
,ates more care IN seasoning if we
would prevent prices advancing toe
rapidly.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26

THE Journal Of the Farm offers a
few good suggestions upon kitchens.
1t recommends that the housewife,
instead of wearing out her muscle and
her temper scrubbing floors, should
resort to the simple expedient of paint
ing. All that is necessary is two qaarts
of oil, three pounds of ochre, and one
pint of japan, which will paint a floor
twelve by eighteen feet. The time
taken to clean painted floor, and the
labor saved, are eqa1l to ten times
the cost. The writer also SUI Iesis
another convenience, viz a good
sized sink, five or six feet loag by tvs
and half wide, at the blck az the
top of this sink should be a shelf tol
lamps, vases, etc. under 1t plac
| for ironware, and at the ends tw
pumps one for hard and the othe
for soft water.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26

PRESERVING EGGS We have kept
eggs perfectly good from October tc
March, in the following manner: A
: iece of lime, as large as quart DIP
per, is put into five gallons Of water,
and salt added until an egg will fiat
This is strained and put into a clean
keg into which loose head is made
to fit easily; knob is fitted to the
head for handle. The eggs are put
as they are gathered into the liquid,
and the loose head placed on them to
keep them below the surface. The
keg should be kept in cool place in
the cellar. The liquid will not freeza
except at a lower temperature than
freezing point. Eggs thus preserved
will sell readily as "limed eggs" until
fresh eggs come, and are almost as
good as fresh ones.-American Agri,
cUlturist.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26
keeD:ng Apples.

A successful orchardist in Maine has
IN odd theory in regard - the decay
os apples. His farm Of fifty acres,
with the exception Of about ten acres
in pasturage, is covered with app.e
trees of various sizes and ages, though
a majority OF them are nov in bear
ing. One of his theories Is not to use
apy animal manure around his trees,
but to depend wholly upon vegetable
manure in form of mulchiug- He de-
tends his position upon the ground
that the one is the natural method and
The other artIfcial-the latter tend
ing TO decay and the former to health
lie kept over 200 buhsels OF apples,
mostly Baldwins, through the past
winter and spring in his cellar, and has
only Just sold the last of them, the
rcss ranging from 81 81 per bushel
He says by his mode apples may be
kept the year round without losing
their iuiciness or crispness and his
method should be understood by every
His theory is that the
early rotting and decay OF apples Is
due, to a great extent, to a vegetable
mlasmi in the air, which is communi-
Gated to it by vegetable evaporation
under certain conditions. The effect
Of this miasmi is first seen in minute
speck; sometimes as many as dozen
may be counted on the same apple.
His method is a daily airing OF the
cellar or place where the apples are
stored, arranging SO as to have
brisk circulation until all the stagnant
.ir is expelled and its place occupied
by pure, healthy ar.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26
GEN. SPINNER AND SENATOR CAR
PENTER.

Gen. Spinner, Treasurer of the
United States, has written a reply to
the letter of Senator Carpenter. from
Millwaukee, September 8, 1873, re-
spectiEg :he back Salary Grab. The
SentOr from Wisconsin takes excep-
tion 20 the views OF the Treasurer,
and has written 3 letter rather hume
rous in tone. The Treasurer an
sWers seriously, aud adduces addI-
liOnal facts 10 substantiate his POSI-
lion, that the government has no
right TO the money unless accepted
The same as any other donation he
states that the increase voted by the
Thirty fourth CongrGss was lOO per
cent. and by the Thirty-ninth 6o5
Der cent, and by the Forty second
80 per cent, tie last the least oi al,
and yet the former were not no'ice0
at all.
Three OF the members OF the
Tairty-fourth Congres who tcok tneir
nav have since been elected Vice
Presideat; their names are Hsmlin,
Colfsx and Wilson. Mr.. Spinner
avs he took his pay which was on
rsise from SO 8 day to 3,OOe yesr'
and was elected three times after 2y
nsiorities OF nine thousand. he
.hiDLs the cause OF the opposition
-ngia the too frequent repetition OF
~" n Ia,ies upon thepeople's money.
He adds, however, that nesrly all fAe
t-a,ds committed are tracesble to
he insdequacy OF pay, and TO such
=, extent has it been carried that
ssnone but rich men and rascs's can
hold office"
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26
fsaR 80. f9Ann-,.. .. Farm.


The iAri ~ who owns tut it,
'c''s an! :-r!a- ~ Ia, l. ricner tn,t
.e = ~Ag, O-sa:rg sagcn at",- - &
sa-te and bc en- poor in tie ca
Ieayor TO keep more than his TAR
'san carry. slu;h # the Thrift an'
rider about the fam lies with th'
children However much the parent.
may -.Ii.c, 81 'ar children are not H.
teresLed il preserving order; II the!
nave Lot constantly before them ia
centiyes tD DO 50, ono little deTelIctior
sIi! to.lJw another, until In the end
disorder viii mcvsi, the farm vii
Degin TO run down, and it will b.
lounl tha. il costs more TO bring IL
back txier told, than il would - have
kept !. intact at fifs. Whenever you
arc through with q tool or implement
for the season, pat i away in z secure
place TIE objection sometimes made
that il takes 70 much room for storage.
is not valid. There is On every farm
plenty of loft room fer the lighter
.oO.s, aud many ways viii suggest
themselves for raising comparatively
heavy ones, a. pioSs and harrows,
and little time spent al the right
time, Will be money in the end. Even
mowers, harvesters and threshiug ma
chimes occupy but little room if prop
erly taken apart, and the exercise in
doing 20 and putting them together
again, often gives valuable lessons III
the mechanics, and renders the OPP
orator thoroughly conversant with the
OF the machine itself. There
is mOre in the care OF little things
,han most people imagine, for if these
ire thoroughly looked after greater
)nes are no: apt to suffer.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26
Brown Sugar 10 be Avoided.

A wliter 10 the Herald of Health
says: at surprised me to see your
correspondents recommendation to
use brown sugar in the preparation 0 +
food. queried whether she had ever
seen the process of the manufacture
and refining OF sugar. Does she know
that brown sugar means, simply and
solely, moist and dirty sugar ? Does
she comprehend the quality and nature
of the dirt which constitutes its
BROWNIES ? Does she know that pure
loaf, crushed, Or gTsuulated sugar is
not only perfectly free from dirt, and
and is incapable Of aduiteratiOn, but
is much cheaper, pound by pound,
even at the slight additional price
usually charged for it, than brown
sugar OF any grade, because you buy
no dirt or moisture, but saccharine
matter? Does she know that the
notion that drown sugars are sweeter
than white is pure fancy, and that
the contrary is true? l suppose We
are each and all destined to eat our
peck oi dirt sooner or later, but there
is dirt-and save us from the dirt
that makes brown sugar brown
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26

CHRIST AND CoRsETs.--A lady who
had charge Of young ladies' Bible
class, speaking Of defective home
training, said her best pupil, IS years
of age, had caused her the most acute
anxiety. Rain or shine she was al
ways at her post. The girls whole
soul seemed absorbed in the straight
ening out of intricate theological prob
lems; sand yet,' SAID the teacher,
''the girl was so pale and wan that l
was afraid every Sabbath would be
her last in class. One day she tainted,
and in trying to restore her loosened
her dress, and what do you think /
found (? Corsets so tightly drawn that
q iull respiration was impossible. /
removed them and found that the
girlI ribs actually Tapped! l took
her to her mother, very prominent
and useful church member, and stated
the case without reserve. 'Well you
see, said the parent, Fanny never had
any figure. l shouldn't be surprised
il the lacings were drawn little too
tight. Her waist is naturally SO large
that it is almost impossible to make
anything fit genteelly on her. How
is your class prospering, Miss -? /
hope you are drawing many souls to
Christ ?''
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26

DRY GOODS BY MAIL.-Pdckages
entirely closed, not as formerly open
at one end, nov go for one cent an
ounce, which tavors mailing laces and
light articles. l sent a linen dress
made up for child OF three years, the
other day, for six cents. The silk for
a dress skirt may be sent to any part
of the country for something Ike fifty
cents. A half dozen of stockings, OF
one of the rufiisd and tucked white
polonaises, nicely made, that are sell
ing for So and 81 apiece in New York
stores, can be sent as easily as not to
Wisconsin or Colorado, sooner and far
cheaper than express companies can
take them, and fashion writers very
seldom object to make selections for
any of their readers who compliment
their taste by applying to them -
Shirley Dare.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26

WESTERN farmers are proposing to
use their old implements or hire from
their neighbors, or If they must buy,
to pay cash, and to make wholesale
purchases, whereby they will save at
least 20 per cent. 1t is well enough
to consider that a good deal can be
saved in another direction. When a
reaper or mower stands in the field or
by the side of the fence for year at
ter it is used, or a plow stands in the
furrow all winter, there is loss OF at
least 90 per cent, which if saved Is
just as good as 40 per cent, earned
---Nelo York Tribune.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26

CHAFING IN INFANTS.-1 will give
you a recipe for the benefit Of suffer-
ing babes from being chafed and sore,
which you can publish if you think
proper. We had fieshy baby IN the
family that got very sore in the
wrinkles on his neck, arms, and legs.
We tried everything we could think
of without relief, until a lady friend
told us to take the outside bark Ct
sassafras, shave off the weather.beaten
part, crate or pulverize the balance
fine, and dust it on the parts affected.
We did so, and it cured it in a very
short time. This suggestion may prove
of use to some one.-Ecebange.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26
II is claimed--snd certainly

IT is claimed--snd certainly with
good reason--that glass can be very
extensively and advantageously used
in the decoration of houses. Mantel
pieces, cornices, brackets, and Other
ornamental finlshings and appurten
ances may easily be made of this ma
terial /; as glass, when of the requisite
substance and quality, is scarcely more
brittle than marble, and, as it can bt
moulded in any desired form ,,or shape
the heavier cost of the article, as com.
pared with some others used for such
purposes, is compensated for in the
saving of hand labor. One of the
newest invented building material, now
being introduced, is marbleized glass
and the closest examination is to be
required to detect it from genuine
marble, and the beauty of its appear
ance Is all that could be desired. II
can be made plain, white, or variegat,
ed, to suit any taste or requirement.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26

THEDREssoFTHESA SANDWICH IsLAYDs
WoMEN.-Their loose dress gives
grace as well as a dignity to their
movements; and whoever invented it
for them deserves more credit than he
has received. 1t is little startling at
first to see women walking about in
what, to our perverted lasts, look ike
calico or black stuff night gowns; but
the dress grows on you as you become
accustomed to 1t it lends itself read
lily to bright ornamentation; it is en-
irently fit for the climate and astately
Hawaiian dame, marching through
the street in black holaku-ss the dres,
is called-with long necklace, or lie
of bright scarlet or brilliant yellow
flowers, bare and untrammeled fee
and flowing hair, compares very favor
ably with a high-heeled, wasp.walsted d
absurdiy bonneted, fashionable whit,
lady.-CkOrles Nordhof.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26

BRICK PoMRRoY, while making 8
speech in Texas, was asked by a
listener: "What has the Northern
man done for Texas ~ To which he
repled Taken the weeds out Of
your fence corners, rai-e1 vegetables,
planted fruit trees, built you, largest
and best bouses, imported your finest
breeds of horses and cstsie, erecte d
nearly every machine shop, founcry
and 1rilI that you have among you.
They have minded theiroTn business
and have not disturbed a large au-
dI.ree by asking ooish questions
They hare striven by honest Industry
to keep out OF the sheriff 5 hands, ,auC
thirty feet ahead OF the collector ,
Too true, Brick, and "better Let,
than never" DURING the war yol
told the Southern people an entirely
different tale about Northern men,
Washington I'd. C) Chronicle.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26
SOUTHERN HISTORY.
The Spirit AnInatinS the Men who RrG
-ARxious 20 write their own Sfory.

Jubal Early, President of the re-
Gently formed Southern Historical
Society, has sent to the Virginia ps-
pers letter from Gen. Dabney Ii.
Maury, wherein the latter Gays:
Soon after the war closed my at
tention was called to the Tact that
not only had we been subjugated to
the power of the North, but the his
tory of our revolution was being
written exclusively by our conquer
ors and every effort was being made
by them to misrepresent us, our cause,
its principles and our conduct during
the war, which was forced upon US in
defense Of our country The whole
power of the newspaper press, OF
the pulpit, magazine literature, the
makers of history books, of the
school teachers, and most potent of
all, of the school book makers, was
combined to falsify and degrade US
in the eyes of pcsterity. The effect
of all this was painfully manifested
upon the character and demeanor CT
our own people, We had become so
familiarized with the odious names
and the odious light in which we
we're presented, that We were fast
losing our self respect, and seemed
ready to acquiesce in all the degra-
dations thus prepared for US, and to
be ready to transmit, without an
effort at retrieval, our names to our
children with all the odium malig-
nant, un-elenting, active, and unscru-
pulous enemy could throw around
them. The policy Of rendering
treason odious, (which was announced
by Andrew johnson, when he mana
cled our President and cast him il to
prison to die Of slow torture, when
he judiCislly murdered Wi,tz, and
hanged sn aged and innocent woman
contrary to the evidence and without
the forms of constitutional law, had
reached such o practical result as
must have been satisfactory to the
most exacting "loYalty." We had
been called ''rebels' until nine-tenths
OF US felt we had been rebels ; and ii
was impossible to recognize in the
anxious, cowed aspects of the men
of the South, whose only care seemed
now to be TO avoid every thing which
could give ofense or would not be
entirely pleasant to our Northern
masters, the gallant spirit Of the olce
proud Southern Confederacy, who
had challenged the admiration Of the
world by their heroic defense Of their
country. All that was now left TO Us
was to rescue the true history Of that
defense from oblivion and destruc-
ton, and to leave posterity to judge
US aud our cause by the testimony
we should place before 1t. This aad
this alone is the scope snd object OF
the Southern Historical Society. And
for this inaugursted in New Orleans
more than five years ago, the first
step in q movement which now al
last seems likely to produce the re-
suit we have aimed at.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26

PROFITABLE SHEEP KEEPING.-The
Sacramento Record says: Mr.. Z
Giddings, OF Woodland, some six or
eight years since purchased eighty
acres Of land near town, paying for
the same the sum OF S7OO. He soon
.fier seeded the same down to alfalfa,
and purchased some good blooded
sheep, which he has since been keep
inc upon it. The sale OF the WOO
and some cf the increase for three ol
four years past has netted him a profit
equal to 10 per cent. on $500 per acre
In other words, the land has paid hin
an annual net profit of $50 an acre.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26

KEEP cattle and sheep in the yards
until the grass has grown sufficiently
to afford some nourishment as well as
4 reasonable "6ir' for the animal
Watching a spire of grass to see it
grow, and cropping it when the six
teenth of an inch above the surface,
makes a constant but not a satisfactory
aud much less a delectable employ
ment tor a COW or sheep; and yet on
an inconsiderable number of farms
the animals are permitted to wear the
flesh from their bones during the
early spring days in doing this hard
and reprehensible business.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26

4 FARMER should never go to town
without carrying something to sell
butter, eggs, potatoes,poultry, or even
a load of wood. By so doing his in-
come il quite sure to exceed his out
goes There is 10 more miserable
and poverty-stricken way than to keep
sending to stores and shops, and hav-
ing things charged, with the expecta-
tiOu of paying for them when special
crops come off, for these crops seldom
or never turn out as well as was ex
pected.