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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
Owning u Home.

The strength of the American Re-
public is in the universal desire to
own house. 1t is moulding all the
people native and foreign born, into
one homogeneous mass. The owner
ship of home is something of which
neither the Irish peasant or the Ger
man laborer has, in his own country,
any conception, but it is here the goal
of his hopes and desires. Education
comes next it is something the need
of which is not felt until the adOrn-
ments of home are thought of. This
desire to own the roof under which
one sleeps is distinctly an American
characteristic, and seems by nature
adapted to the growth which is rails
ing us in Importance in the scale of
nations. 1t is the link which con-
meets the man with the Government;
it adds to his interest in making and
execution of the laws, and identifies
him with the usages and customs of
the people. 1t is this element which
gives the people of Switzerland their
unity and power, and the lack of it
causes nine-tenths of the unrest in
Ireland. No feeling is stronger than
the attachment of home, and no
nation whose people possess them
as common sentiment can lose its
liberty.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23

There are a class of persons who
are never satisfied unless they are In
advance of everybody else, no matter
what the cause, or in what direction
they arc moving. 1t is only few
days since the idea of burning the
dead, instead of burying, was started
In this country. 1t has been practic-
ed by the HindOOs from time imme-
mortal, and all who have visited the
cities OF India, where the funeral
piles are erected near by and to the
WindWard of some of the most splen-
did mansions. of the living las in
Benares for instance), know chow
strong the custom is RECOMMENDED 10
one, at least, of the senses. There
the ashes of the dead are thrown into
the sacred river Ganges, to become
incorporated with this river deity.
In the recent proposition to intro
duce the custom into civilized coun-
tries, ii was at first suggested that the
ashes of the burned-up dead could be
collected and kept in memorial urns,
as sacredly as If they We're permitted
to mingle, in a natural way, with
their kindred dust. But now, mt the
very first meeting called to consider
the subject, q radical turns up who
isn't satisfied even with being burned
and urned. Hear him! "The thing
most essential for the growth of veg.
etables is carbonic acid. 1t is agrand
mistake to urn your ashes. Let them
be scattered over the fields. The baby
born weighs two pounds, this body
weighs two hundred and fifty pounds;
where did get it? BY eating wheat
and fruits and meat. If l bury my
body beyond qualification, i am q
thief. You can appeal TO the fine lat
fellows, the gourmands. Tell them,
if 1 die, that my gases are given To
the earth, my ashes are scattered over
the earth, to nourish the seeds and
and plants. The OK eats the plants
and man eats the OK, and those very
elements come back and live again.
By all means let this man be burned
when he dies, and let his ashes be used
to raise grass which shall go into the
stomach and circulation of the OK
and then again into some human
frame, and back again to ashes, grass
and OK. dd infi,tt,an7.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23

Never take a mean advantage of
any one In any transaction, and never
be hard upon people who are i'm your
power. Try to do to others, AZ you
would have them do to you, and do
not be discouraged If they fail some
times. 1t Is much better for you that
they should fail In obeying the great
est rule laid down by our Savior than
that you should. Iput u New Tesla
ment among your books for the very
same reasons that made me write an
easy account of it for you when you
were little child: Because it is the
best book that ever was or ever will
be known in the world, and because
1t teaches you the best lessons by
which any human creature, who tries
to be truthful and faithful to duty,
can possibly be guided. AS your
brothers have gone away, one by one,
have written to each such words as
l am now writing to you, and have
entreated them all to guide them
selves by this book, putting aside the
interpretationsand inventions fman.
You will remember that you have
never at home been harrassed about
religious observances or mere formal
tiles. l have always been anxious
not to weary my children with such
things, before they are old enough to
form opinions respecting them. You
will therefore understand the better
that Inow must solemnly impress up
on you the truth and beauty of the
Christian religion as it came from
Christ himself, and the impOssibility
Ofgoing far wrong if you humbly but
heartily respect il. Only one thing
more on this head. The more we are
in earnest as to feeling it, the less we
are disposed to hold forth about it,
Never abandon the wholesome prac-
tice of saying your own private
prayers, night and morning. 1 have
never abandoned it myself, and
know the comfort of it. 1 hope you
will always be able to say in after life
that you had a kind father. Yon car
not show your affection for him sc
well, or make him so happy, IA by
doing your duty.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
A Texas Invention.

Stork raising and turtle catching
do not occupy the attention of every
one in the youthful town of Rock
port. My attention was called this
morning to q machine, in practical
operation, ironing the weeks wash
ing. 1t is an ironing machine, in
vented by the Rev. Mr.. Cottinham,
who, with his worthy lady, were
ironing the family clothing in the
presence of several curious spectators.
We will not attempt to describe the
machine, but can Vouch that it IRON
ed sheets, folding and pressing them
in about one minute towels two per
minute, and thatits average capacity
was about sixty pieces per hour of
the ordinary run of Il family wash.
Two minutes were required for a
shirt, and handkerchief, stockings,
etc, were smOothed in less than no
time. The iron, is about eighteen
inches long, and twelve broad, when
once "tlred up" continued in work.
ing order for two or three hours, and
its weight and the pressure upon it,
enabled it to do efficient work with
out any excess OF heat. 1t requires q
boy to turn the crank, and woman
to handle the linen and keep it
straight under the iron. For laun-
dries and hotels this ironing machine
will be invaluable. The largest size
can be sold for about fifteen dollars,
and small family machines for about
eight. The faith of the inventor can
be judged from the fact that he has
taken out patents in the United
States, England and Canada. He
will start on his way north with it
tomorrow selling rights and ma-
chimes in the different cities. The
iron is stationary, the table with the
linen on it travelling under the iron,
thus enabling the attendant to stana.
in one position, and not follow the
iron. The heat of the iron can be
regulated with little attention.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
We Fade.

We extract the following beautiful
and very truthful illustration from an
exchanges:
"As the trials of life thicken, and
the dreams of their days fade, one by
one in the deep vista of disappointed
hope, the heart grows weary of the
struggle, and we begin to realize our
insignificance. Those who have climb
eel to the pinnacle of fame, or revel i'm
luxury and wealth, go to the grave
at last with the poor mendicant who
begs by the wayside, and like him are
soon forgotten. Generation after
generation says an eloquent writer,
have felt as we feel, and their fell
lows were as active in life as ours are
now. They passed away as a vapor,
while nature wore the same aspect of
beauty as when the Creator COM
manded her to be. And so shall it
be when we are gone. The heav.
ems will be as bright over our
graves as they are now around our
path; the world will have the same
attraction for offspring yet unborn
that she had once for ourselves, and
that she has now for our children"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
What Constitutes q Carload.

Some one who has been looking the
subject up, says that, generally, 20,
600 pounds is a carload, and that OF
the more important articles carried
the following quantities make car
load:
Seventy barrels of salt, seventy of
lime, ninety of flour, sixty of whis-
key, 200 sacks of flour, six cords of
hard wood, seven of soft, eighteen to
twenty head of cattle, fifty to sixty
head of hogs, eighty to a hundred
head of sheep, 5000 feet Of solid
boards, 1900 feet of siding, 1000 feet
of flooring, 10000 shingles, one-half
less hard lumber, one-fourth less
green lumber, one-tenth less of joists,
scantling and all other large lumber,
$40 bushels of wheat, 800 of corn, $50
of oats, 400 of barley, 800 of flax-seed,
$50 of apples, $50 of Irish potatoes,
800 ofsweet potatoes, 200 bushels of
bran.
The foregoing figures are as near as
can be arrived at, the exact quantities
not being ascertainable, as the rules
of the different railroads differ on
some points. Still, as it is, it will be
useful.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
india Rubber.

We hear alarming rumors, occa-
sionally, of the probability of the
coal supply becoming exhausted on
one side of the water, while wood
may fall short on the other side, in a
given number of years. It is COM
fort to know, therefore, that some
thing Is inexhaustible, though it be
only rubber. The belt of land around
the globe, five hundred miles north
and five hundred miles south of the
equator, abonnds in trees producing
the gum of the India Rubber. They
can be tapped, it is stated, for twenty
successive seasons without injury, and
the trees stand 80 close that one man
can gather the sap of eighty in day,
each tree yielding on a average three
tablespoonful daily. Forty-three
thousand of these trees have been
seen I'm n tract of country thirty miles
long by eight wide. There are In
America and Europe more than one
hundred and fifty manufacturers of
] india rubber articles, employing some
i've hundred operatives each, con-
'uming more than ten thousand
pounds of gum per year. And the
Is still In its infancy. But |
Q whatever extent IL may Increase
here will still be plenty of rubber to
tipply the demand.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
The Silent Man.

The man who possesses the power
of maintaining silence in seasons of
anger, danger, SANDER and tempta-
ton, always Yields an Influence over
his fellow-men which the fluent deal
er in loud epithets can never COM
mand. His words are waited for, his
gestures are noted, his sountenance
studied. He never condescends to
apologize, bullets new actions explain
the old ones. Are ISLANDERS circulated
about him? Do they even creep in
to the columns of some careless or I'M
scrupulOus sheet? He does not hast
en- to set himself right before the peo-
pie by a card, but lets them die, lives
them down. In times like the pres.
ent, when political bitterness gives
birth to so many unwarranted state
ments, the man who has not by birth
or culture, this self-restraining pow
er, has great need to acquire it, unless
he desires to be kept bristling like q
porcupine, every quill sharpened to
pin point, and constantly in the vain
task of refuting SANDER. "rouch, and
l PIERCE" Is a foolish motto.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
Busby,s Iron wedding.

.
Busby, of Trenton, celebrated his
"iron wedding" one day last week,
and he invited about 120 guests to
the wedding. OF course each person
felt compelled to bring present of
some kind, and each one did. When
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith came, they hand
ell Busby pair of flatirOns. When
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones arrived, they al
so had a pair of fiatirons. All hands
laughed ut the coincidence. And
there was even greater merriment
when the Browns arrived with two
pairs of flatirons. But when Mr.. and
Mrs. Robinson came i'm with another
pair of flatirOns the laughter became
perfectly cOnvulsive. There was,
however, something less amusing
about it when the ThOmpsons arrived
with four flatirons wrapped in brown
paper. And Busby's face actually
looked grave when the three John
son girls were ushered into the parlor
carrying a flatiron apiece. Each one
of the succeeding sixty guests brought
fiatirons, and there was no break i'm
the continuity until old Mr.. Curry
arrived from Philadelphia with cast
iron cowbell. Now Busby had no
earthly use for q cOwbell, and, at any
other time, he would have treated
such q present with scOrn. But now
he was actually grateful to Mr.. Cur
ry, and he was about to embrace
him, when the Walsinghams came in
with the new kind of dOuble-pointed
fiatirons with wooden handles. And
all the rest of the guests brought the
same articles, excepting Mr.. Rugby,
and he had with him patent stand
for holding flatirOns, Busby got mad
der and madden every minutes, and
by the time the company had all ar
rived, he was nearly insane with
rage and he went up to bed, leaving
his wife to entertain the guests. In
the morning they counted up the
spOils, and found that they had 2ls
Aatirons, one stand, and a cOwbell
And now the Busbys have cut the
Smiths, and Browns, and JOhnsons
and the rest entirely, for they are con.
WINGED that there was precOncerted
design to play trick upon them
The fact, however, is that the hard
ware store in the place had an over
stock of fiatirOns, and sold them at ar
absurdly low figure, and Busby's
guests unanimously went for the
cheapest thing they could find, as
people always do on such occasions
Busby thinks he will not celebrate
his "silver wedding."-Aar Aoeter
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
The Beard.

Many of our trades derive their
names from the articles they work or
deal in. A saddler fabricate5 sad
dies and other, horse gear; a black
smith fashions black metal or iron; a
goldsmith FORCES nothing less than
gold, unless he expands his title as
gold and silversmith. A jeweler tells
you plainly what he deals in. The
BARRIERS name does not come from the
English beard he shaves, but from
the Latin 6ar6a, the Roman beard,
doubtless through the French barber.
Our beard is Saxon. The beard has
never been matter of Indifference,
but has even given rise to religious
wars. The Tartars prosecuted the Per-
slams as intidels because they refused
to conform their mustacheS to the
Tartar ritual. There existed at least
a plausible reason for Alexander's
commanding the MacedOnians to
shave, lest their enemies should
clutch them by the beard and cut
their Threats. Less clear are Peter of
Russia's motives for his pitiless on
slaught on MuscOvite boards. If he
had any, he was too great man to
tell them. He would have been hap
py had all Russia possessed but one
beard, so that he might have cut it off
at Il single stroke. But so little will
ing were his loving subjects to yield
their boards ut word of command,
that he had to employ gangs ofofiicials
to catch them, hold them down, and
shear them, us the shepherd shears
sheep. What became of the ravished
boards, is not recorded. Had the
clipping been deferred to the pres
cnt epoch, money might have been
made of it as material for chignOns.
The kings of Persia had their boards
woven and braided with golden
thread. The early French kings also
adorned their boards with gold.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
Baked Ham.

III the ham has been long hung Put
it in cold water and let come to II
boil, when this water should be turn
ed off. After trimming from the un-
der side all rusty and smoked parts,
return to the kettle with sufficient
water to cover it. Bring it gradually
to boil, and as the scum rises, care
fully remove it. Keep 1t simmering
gently until tender, being careful
that it does not stop boiling nor boil
too quickly. A ham weighing fif-
teen pounds will require about five
hours. When done let it remain in
the hot water until nearly cold this
will retain the juices. After remov-
ing the skin stick whole cloves in the
fat about an inch apart each way, and
sprinkle the surface with powdered
crackers. Bake the ham in a moder-
ately hot oven for from three-quar-
tiers of an hour to an hour. When
taken from the oven place Il frill of
paper around the knuckle, and gar
nish the dish with fresh or fried pars-
ley leaves.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
Anticipating Fate.

Opinions in favor of cremation are
gaining ground in Zurich. The dis
cussion of the question is forced upon
the citizens by the peculiar fact that
some tOmbs have been opened i'm
which interments took place when
the cemetery was established i'm 1913,
and the remains, instead of being
decOmposed, present all the appear
ance of almost complete preserva-
ton. The cemetery is now nearly
filled. A meeting is to be held to
discuss the subject. A Leipsic pro-
lessor has designed q furnace specially
for the purpose of cremation, which
will do the work efficiently in
twenty minutes at the outside. The
body Is to be placed i'm an upright
position inside Of a fire-proof recep-
tacle, through which artificialiy
heated air Is current, carrying all
the nOxiOus gases up chimney,
and leaving after the process q small
residue only of snow-white ashes.
The cost ut which the furnace can
be constructed Is s2,250. The cost
Of cremation for each body will not
exceed nine .shillings.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


Every farmer who has to fence his
land knows too well how quickly
posts planted I'm the earth become rot
ten, especially in damp spot. All of
them will welcome the following pro-
cess to prevent rottenness-a process
as wonderful in its effecrs as 1t is SIM
pie and almost cOstless. 1t Is taken
from lie Bed Public of Dion, France;
Take linseed oil, boil it, and mix il
with charcoal dust until the mixture
has the consistency of an ordinary
paint. Give to the post single coat
OF the mixture or paint before plant
ing them, and no farmer, even living
to the age of patriarchs OF old, will
live long enough to SEQ the same
posts rotten.
Some years ago / discovered the
way of rendering wood more durable
in earth than iron itself, says the au-
thor of the communication, but it
seemed to me SO simple and SO mex
pensive that i did not think it worth
while to make much ado and fuss
about ii. Posts of soft wood thus
prepared wereremOved after remain
ing seven years in earth, and were
found as sound as when they We're
planted. The only precaution to take
Is to use only well dried posts before
covering them with the charcoal
paint.
The above recipe is certainly cheap,
and seems to be well worth the trial.
If what islsaid of the efficiency of that
simple and cheap (about two cents
per post process be only half true,
certainly it would save yearly mil
lions of dollars to the farmers and
telegraph companies. For it is said
that the farmer, even in his teens,
who will plant posts having received
q coat of this "Perpetuity Post Paint"
will never live long enough to see the
same post rotten. Philips Southern
Farmer. ~
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
Things Mixed.


We find the following in an ex-
change, without credit:
"Some years ago, when the writer
was repOrterupO an Eastern paper,
it devolved upon him to write for the
same edition an account of the presen-
tatiOp OF a golden headed cane to the
Rev. DIR. Hodge, the clergyman of
the place, and q description of a
patent hOg-killing and sausage ma
chine which had just been put into
operation at the factory. Now, what
made Rev. DIR. Hodge mad was this
The incOnsiderate buccaneer who
mada up the forms for the paper got
the two locals mixed up i'm a fright
full manner, and when we went to
press something like this was the ap-
palling result!
Several of the Rev. DIR. HOdges's
friends called upon him yesterday,
and after INSTRUMENTATION, the un-
suspicious hog was seized by the
hind legs and slid along beam until
he reached the hot water tank. His
friends explained the object of their
visit, presented him with a, very
handsome gOld-headed butcher, who
grabbed him by the tail, swung him
around, and in less than a minute the
carcass was in the water. ThereupOn
he came forward and said that there
were times when the feelings over
powered one, and for that reason he
would not attempt to do more than
thank those around him, for the man
ncr, in which a huge animal was cut
into fragments was simply ast0nish.
ing. The doctor concluded his re.
marks, when the machine seized him
and in less time than il takes tC
write 1t, the, hog was cut into frag.
ments and worked up into delicious
sausage. The occasion will long bt
remembered by the DOCTORS friends
as one of the most delightful of Their
lives. The best pieces can be pro
cured for fifteen cents a pound, an(
we are sure that those who sat so long
under his ministry will rejoice tina
he has been treated so handsomely
Mad {? Well about nine O'CLOCK
that morning the. Office had beer
abandoned by every man but the ad
vertising clerk, and he assembled t,
the roof and ROBBED himself in bOile
iron, so that he could watch that ven
cradle clergyman tearing aroun(
down there in the street with his con
greSatiOn, all wearing the panoply o
war and carrying butcher knives ant
things. Next day we apologized, blu
the doctor, stopped his subscription
and began to take the rival paper
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-23
In Proportion.

The whole human figure should be
six times the length of the feet.
Whether the form is slender or
plump, the rule holds good; any de-
Walton from it is departure from
the highest beauty of proportion.
The Greeks made all their statues ac-
cording to this rule. The face, from
the highest point of the forehead
where the hair begins, to the chin,
is one-tenth of the whole statue. The
hand, from the wrist to the middle
finger, is the same. From the top of
the chest to the highest point of the
forehead is a seventh. If the face,
from the roots of the hair to the chin,
be devided into three different parts,
the first division determines the place
where the eyebrows meet, and the
second the place Of the nostrils.
Height from the feet to the top Of the
head is the distance from the extrem-
ity of the fingers when the arm are ex-