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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-09-19

A TEMPERANCE SToRY.-A New Orleans paper
tells of q printer who, when bis fellow workmen
went out to drink beer during working hours,
put into bank the exact amount he would have
spent if he had gone out to drink. He thus kept
his resolution for FIVE years. He then examined
his bank account, and found that he had on
deposit 1921 sc. In the five years he had not
his fellow-workmen had, in the meantime, be-
come drunkards, were worthless and were dis
charged. The water-drinker then bought out the
printing office, went on charging the business,
ard in twenty years from the time he began to
put away his money, was worth 500, 900.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-09-19

MY MOTTO-wh hal il worth doing at aIl, Is
worth doing well.
MY INTENTION-T0 Give Sa IisfncIIOn TO all
MY ON DELIVERY.
Respectfully Solicit the Public Patronage
~ Office at n. E. MCINTYRE l. BROS Grocery, Feed
Store and Bakery, Corner of Fort and King SITS. Wagon calls
jyI2q or W. NJ. WALLACE Proprietor.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-09-19
PRICE LIST
CHELSEA LAUNDRY |

HONOLULU, II. l., July z, 1873.
an AND AFTER THIS DATE THE FOL-
" LOWING RATES will be charged on all work done at
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03

DEATH IN THE BARNYARD.-Careless
and neglectful farmers permit the accu-
mutation of animal excrement, decaying
straw, chat, and hay to lie and rot all
summer in close proximity to the dwell
ing, whence bad odors are waited into
every room, and the inmates breathe the
foul and pestilential odors. night and day,
all through the year. In hot weather,
windows must be kept shut to keep out
these sickening and deathly barnyard
smells. Finally, one of the members has
an attack of typhus fever. The doctor is
sent for, and prescribes what?-a lot Of
poisonous drugs! The patient dies, and
another one sickens in the same way and
goes through the same experience, with
the same results; and then anoher, and
that stricken family is left without moth
er, daughter. or the younger children
that made it happy. Those away at
school, or at work away from the house,
escaped with their lives. Here is case
of the most palpable cause and effect. and
yet it was not seen till death had thinned
the ranks of that family.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03
Raising Sheep Successfully.

There is no difficulty in raising sheep
successfully, if the necessary care be tax
en-. This can all the more be secured if
but few are kept. Then there is n chance
of properly seeing to them, and keeping
only good stock, which is the most profita-
Bile. The farmer who has the long wooded,
heavy bodied sheep, has a great advantage
in his 'ambs. With small flock it needs
but little care to save the lambs, and com
mand early in the season, not only the top
price, but more, if the breed is a LARGE
healthy one, and the lambs come early and
are well taken care of The wool also
will realize well.
If there is land to be cleared of shrubs
and weeds, or it is steep or broken up so
that the plow cannot be used, sheep are
the thing to subdue it and establish a
growth of grass. No greater profit can
be realized from such land than by keep
ing sheep. But even when the land is
all tillable, and heavy crops can be raised,
a few sheep, can in general, be kept with
advantage, as there is always time enough
to see to few sheep. See to them well
keep only what is good, providing always
there is a near and good market. This,
on the principle of carrying all the parts
in farming so far as climate, locality, etc
will admit
Even though the depressed period when
sheep were slaughtered in the West fol
their pels and wool WIS Il drug, there
were farmers who "made it pay to keel
sheep-they were heavy, long-wooled
bore large lambs politically, which founc
n ready market, while the wool -combine
wool from such sheep, kept in the hes
manner, so us to secure in perfection The
finest properties to the fleece, realized
something, and could always be sold
however stagnant and reduced the mar
ket. Then, instead of two or three
pounds of wool per head, five to sever
were averaged. Those men continued
their sheep with little or no loss-som,
averrng they realized profit during The
discouraging period; and when the time
changed and flush prices prevailed, (as i
always the case in any branch,) they 90
the benefit-they were the only ones there
to receive it, the rest having Withdrawn
and they have been receiving it ever since
1t is a question whether this or that brancl
will pay best.-Cor. Utica Herald.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03
My Labor.Saying Husband.

Some husbands are more plague than
profit, and make vastly more work than
they do good; but mine is one to brag
about When | was married--to my
shame be it spoken had never made a
loaf of bread or Il pie. | had no idea of
saving time or of saving work. But. had
a husband who had love enough for me to
bear with my simplicity, and not scold
when the bread was burned and the pies
not tit to eat.
Going into the kitchen one morning, he
saw me baking huck-wheat cakes. and
greasing the griddle with II piece of pork
on the end of a fork. He said nothing,
but went into the wood house and soon re-
turned with IL smoothly whitfield stick.
about six inches long, through the split
end of which he had passed a folded strip
of white cloth, and then wound it round
the end and tied it with Il bit of string.
So had continuance which could be dip
ped in melted grease and passed smoothly
over the griddle
One day he saw me securing knives
with piece of cloth &" Dear mer said
he, - YOU will surely cut your fingers" So
he contrived machine by mailing Il broad
piece of cork to a spool for a handle, sink
ing the head of the nail into the cork SO
far that it should not touch the knife. This
lifts the hand from the knife. and does not
cramp the fingers.
used to call him occasionally to whack
over the mattress and straw bed for me.
" What a nuisancer' he exclaimed, and
replaced them by a spring mattress. OF
III the nice things foy beds this is the best.
1t Is always in place, requires no shaking
up, and it takes only three minutes to re-
place the bed clothes, and the bed is made
1t always looks round and inviting, and
gently Yields to the sleeper.
He saw the dish towels hanging heller
SHELTER around the kitchen stove, and forth
with made the most convenient hanging
frame over the wood-box, where it can
take up no room, and is near the stove
Here the towels hang smoothly, and are
always in place.
l fretted because my refrigerator had no
shelves, and | could not make room for all
the meat, butter and milk SO he made
two racks, and fitted ventilated shelves
from one to the other The shelves are
ventilated by being bored thick with auger
holes, and can be removed for scrubbing
He is troubled to see me sew, sew, and
stitch, stitch, and makes sewing machines
the constant topic of conversation. He
reads to me every advertisement and every
letter from women who praise them in pa
pers. If he could make one, l should be
in possession of one Immediately; but as
he cannot, | must wait till the ship
comes in
These are some of the ways by which he
lightens the labor of the house Would
that more husbands were like him.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03

TIE VALUE OF SUNFLOWERs.-We
would call the attention of farmers at this
time to the value of sunflowers as Il crop.
and enumerate some of their values and
uses. In the first place, the flowers abound
in honey, and furnish food for bees The
seeds contain oleaginous matter, and
yield oil at the rate of one gallon to the
barrel, which is little inferior to olive oil.
One acre will produce fifty bushels of seeds.
1t is also valuable for food for horses and
poultry, it has been used for bread by the
American Indians, and also in Portugal.
The leaves are excellent fodder for cattle.
The stalk while growing may be utilized
as bean poles where they are scarce and
difficult to obtain, and when dry may be
used as roofing, or set up against fence
to form a wind-break. They contain a
large amount of potash, and are excellent
for fire kindling. The seeds has also been
recommended for fuel. The reputation of
the growing sunfower to absorb miasmat-
ic vapors, and preventing fever and ague,
is well known---Buckeye Farmer.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03

CHARCOAL FOR SICK Nearly
all animals become sick from improper
eating. In nine cases out of ten the di-
gestion is wrong. Charcoal is the most
efficient and rapid corrective. 1t will cure
in majority of cases if properly admin
istered. An example of its use: The hired
man came in with the intelligence that
one of the finest cows was very sick, and
kind neighber proposed the usual drugs
and poisOns. The owner being i'll, and
unable to examine the COW, concluded that
the trouble came from some over-eatino.
and ordered a teacup of pulverized char
coal gwen in water. 1t was mixed, placed
in Il junk bottle, the head held upwards
and the water, with its charcoal, poured
downwards. In five minutes an improve
ment was visible, and in few hours the
animal was in the pasture quietly eating
grass. Another instance of equal success
occurred with a young heifer which became
badly bloated by eating green apples after
n hard wind. The boat was so severe
that the sides were almost rs hard as a
barrel. The old remedy, saleratus, was
tried for the purpose of correcting the
acidity; but the attempt to put down al
ways caused coughing, and it did little
good. Half a teacupful of fresh powdered
charcoal was next given. In six hours all
appearance of bloat had gone, and the
heifer was well.-Country Gentleman.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03

CULTURE OF HORsERADIsH.-In Gar
dening for Profit, Mr.. Peter Henderson
gives the following directions for its cul-
ture: 1t is always grown with cabbages
or beets as u second crop. In preparing
the roots for market during winter, all the
small rootlets are broken off and reserved
for planting. The rootlets, or sets are
cut into pieces of from 4 to inches in
length, from One-quarter to one-half in
diameter; the top end being cut square
and the bottom end slanting, so that in
planting there will be no danger of setting
the root upside down, for although it
would grow if planted thus, it would not
make a handsome root. About the first of
May it is planted between rows of cabbage
snd at about the same distance as the
cabbage is in the rows, giving about H.
900 or $4,000 plants per acre. The plant
ing is performed by making hole, about
or 10 inches deep, with a long planting
stick or light crowbar, into which is
dropped the hOrseradish set, so that its top
will be or inches under the surface if
the sets should be longer, the hole should
be made prOportionately deep, so that the
top of the set be not nearer the surface
than 2 or 3 inches the earth is pressed in
alongside the set, so as to fill up the hole
as in ordinary planting. The main reason
for planting the set so far under the sur
face, is to delay its coming up until the
crop of cabbage is cleared off; the horse
radish makes its main growth in the fall.
so that it is no injury to it to keep it from
growing until July; in fact it often hap
pens that by being planted too near the
surface, or too early, it starts to grow so
as to interfere with the cabbage crop; in
such cases we have often to cut the tops
off twice by the hoe, before the cabbage is
ready, but this does not injure it in the
least. 1t is crop with which there is
very little labor during summer; after the
cabbage has been cut off, the horseradish
is allowed to grow at will, and as it quickly
covers the ground, one good deep hoeing
is all that is required after digging out the
cabbage stumps. As it is an entirely
hardy plant, it is one of the last roots we
dig up in fall, it being DELAYED until De
cember. After digging. the small roots are
usually broken off in the field and slowed
away in boxes so that they can be trim
med under cover at leisure. The main
root IS then put away in pits, so that it can
be got at as required during the winter.
The preparation for market is very simple.
being merely to cut off the green tops and
small rootlets, leaving the main root only.
1t is sold by weight, and is generally
washed, which is done sufficiently bv
rinsing quantity of it together in large
tub.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03
agricultural.
or the Freeman.

TRIMMING APPLE TREEs.-From years
of close observation, with practice, l am
fully convinced that June and July are de-
cidedly the best months for pruning apple
trees. First, the dry branches are easily
discovered and removed. Second the
thrift of the tree is such, through the cir
culation of sap, that the wounds will heal
in perhaps one-fourth Of the time of trim
ming early in the spring, when the wounds
made heal very slowly if at all, thus affect
ing the life of the tree. Added TO the
pruning at Il later date, a knife may be
drawn down the bodies of trees, cutting
through the bark, to the great benefit of
rapid growth. b.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03

PLANTING STRAWBERRIES writer IN
the Cottage Gardener describes method
by which he obtains early results from
planting Strawberries. He fir-t allowed
the runners to form mass of rooted
plants. These he took up with spade,
three inches deep, and in blocks nine
inches square, the work being neatly done
by cutting them by lines. In well pre-
pared bed, these blocks were set eighteen
inches apart, in trenches dug two feet
least, the crop was excellent. We have
adopted similar plan. cutting smaller
blocks with single strong plants to each.
They were set out in the spring, and the
plants being checked none, the bed bore
fair crop of ripe berries six weeks after
setting: If the operation is well performed
beds might be set in autumn without dan
ger of the plants suffering by the freez-
ing of winter, light covering of ever
greens being given.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03

THE GOSPEL OF GLAD TIDINGs.-Any
presentation of the gospel of the Lord
Jesus Christ that does not come to the
world as the balmy days of May come to
the yet unlocked northern zones; any way
of preaching the love of God in Christ
Jesus which is not as full of sweetness as
the voice of the angels when they sang at
the Advent; any mode of making known
the proclamation of mercy which has not
at least as many birds as there are in June,
and as many flowers as the dumb meadow
knows to bring forth; any method of bring
ing before men the doctrine of salvation
which does not make every one feel,
There is hope for me-in God, in the di-
vine plan, in the very organization of hui
man life and society,"-is spurious, is a
SANDER on God, and is a blasphemy against
lowell W. Beccher.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03
A POTATO CULTURIsT SAYS he was edu.

A POTATO CULTURIsT says he was edu-
Gated to plant three or four good sized
tubers in hill, but much against his
Judgment, he was finally induced to cut
the seed. and for seven years past has
been cutting closer and close each season.
until now he cuts as near as possible to
single eyes. and plants in rows three feet
apart, and ten or twelve inches in the
row. His success has been greater since
he adopted this plan. Each spring he
sells from half an acre of land 100 bushels
of surplus, having used literally in his
family during winter, and reserved enough
for seed: He prefers Early Rose, and his
soil and his tillage are excellent. Another
experimenter records, in the american
R"rGt Home, that he placed large and
small potatoes in juxtaposition in the same
row. and in adjoining rows, and found
that, when planting was followed by moist
and favorable weather, there was but little
difference in results; but when a DROUGHT
followed, the large potatoes took the lead,
and held it through the season, yielding
much larger crops.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03
goetru.
FAIR WEATHER FRIEND.

BIZ MoNCKToN MILNEs (LoRD HoUGHroN.,
BecauseI mourned to see thee fall
From where / mounted thee,
Because did not find thee all
1 feigned friend should be;
Because things are not what they seem,
And this our world is full Of dream
Because thou lowest sunny weather,
Am to lose thee altogether?
know harsh words have found their way.
Which would fain recall,
And angry passions had their day,
But now-forget them all;
Now that only ask to share
Thy presence, like some pleasant air,
Now that my gravest thoughts will bend
Seel l am careful to atone
My spirits voice to thine:
My talk shall be of mirth alone,
OF music, flowers and winel
will not breathe an earnest breath,
will not think of life or death,
will not think of any end,
While thou art here, fair weather friendi
Or, if / see my doom is traced
By fortunes sterner pen,
And pain and sorrow must be faced
Well, thou canst leave me then;
And fear not lest some faint reproach
Should on thy happy hours encroach;
Nay, blessings on thy steps attend,
Where'er they turn, fair-weathcr friend!
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03
9ortru.
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Sweet things by bitter so closely chased,
Smiles droo2 so soon to whitening trouble wed,
The softest skies with gloom 50 quick are spread
And over life death stalking makes such haste
We wonder if enjoyment be not waste
OF priceless pearls of time, or rubies red
OF vital power, bestowed by God instead
For sOberer uses. But, . love, the taste
OF just one memoried kiss can turn the tide
OF such reflection, while flow in to chide
Warm seas of rarest perfume al my feet
Aud then recognize, however small,
joys precious seed: it yet may bloom DER all,
And hood the bitterest wds with heavens sweet
-Jaru B. Dodge, in Gakary.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03

Dr. Woods relates the following circum
stance, which appears to show that some
times, at least, malarial poison is to be
found in water, and not in the air: Two
ships were dispatched simultaneously with
troops from Algeria to France, both under
similar circumstances. excepting that the
supply of water had been drawn, in one
case, from the low, marshy lands where
ague was prevalent, whilst the other ship
had taken water from a locality situated al
a greater elevation. and where the disease
was unknown. The passengers on the
first transport were generally seized with
remi tent fever, whereas no case of illness
occurred on the other vessel.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03

CHEAP PAINTING.-An inexpensive but
durable method of painting old buildings
is as follows: First give them a coat OF
crude petroleum, which is the oil as il
comes from the wells, and can be pro
cured for about four or five dollors a bar.
rel IN almost any town or city. Then mix
one pound of ''metalic paint which is
brown or red hema tie iron ore finely
ground, to one quart linseed oil, and apply
this over the petroleum coat. The petro-
leum sinks into the wood and makes a
good groundwork for the iron and oil
paint. The color of the iron paint is a
dark reddish brown. and is not at all disa.
greeable; it is color not readily soiled
very durable, and is fire-proof-N Y
Tribune
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03

SHALLOW PLoUGHING FOR CoRN.-Tt
was once said by an intelligent farmer
that the soil should not be ploughed deep
er than it could be MANFRED. There IS
much truth in that idea. Upon that prin.
clple it would not be well to plough a sod
for corn SO deep that the sod is buried he
yond the reach of the roots of the corn
The depth of the ploughing depends alto.
gether upon the character Of the soil and
what may be right for one soil may not be
so for another.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03
DR. FLINT'S QUAKER BITTERS.

These celebrated Bitters are composed
of choice Roots, Herbs and Banks. among
which are Gentian, Sarsaparilla, Wild
Cherry, Dandelion, Juniper and other ber-
ries, and are so prepared as to retain all
their medicinal qualities. They invariably
cure or greatly relieve the following COM
plants Dyspepsia, Jaundice, Liver Com
plant, Loss of Appetite, Headache, Bill
ious Attacks. Remittent and Intermittent
Fevers, Ague, Cold Chills. Rheumatism,
Summer Complaint, Piles, Kidney Dis
eases, Female Difficulties, Lassitude, Low
Spirits, General Debility, and, in fact,
everything caused by an impure state OF
the Blood or deranged condition of StOm-
ach, Liver or Kidneys. The aged find in
the Quaker Bitters a gentle, soothing slim
ulant. so desirable in their declining years.
No one can remain long unweu (unless
afflicted with an incurable disease) after
taking a few bottles of the Quaker Bitters.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03

HOMEMADE HoMINY.-Put in an iron
Kettle three quarts clean wood ashes: fiji
the kettle with boiling water, and boil hall
an hour: then take it from the fire and let
stand until cold; then pour off the I've and
boil the corn in it until the hulls beein to
come off; then rub and wash thoroughly
three or four times, and boil until very ten
der lit can be made in large quantities1 +:
then take small portion and put in the
frying pan and add one pint of milk; when
it ooils mash it fine and add butter. salt.
and cream. or, if preferred, warm it in
milk and add salt without MASKING it
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03

Clover has singular property Of being
able to extract from the atmosphere, with
out the aid of manure or stimulants,
nitrogen sufficient for its own proper
growth and nourishment. The straw and
roots of clover contain a large amount of
nitrogen, and these, when ploughed down
are therefore as valuable to the next crop
sown as a copious supply of guano.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03

card board, paper, and small articles of
fancy work, the best glue, dissolved with
about one-third its weight of coarse brown
sugar in the smallest quantity of boiling
water, is very good. When this is in a
liquid state it may be dropped in a thin
cake on a plate and allowed to dry.
When required for use, one end of the
cake may be moistened by the mouth and
rubbed on the substance to be joined.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03

A writer of the Country Gentleman. in
Onondaga county, New York, says A
neighbor had last year ten acres of wheat,
on a rich, alluvial soil, rather difficult to
seed to grass in spring; had made several
attempts and failed; after sowing the
wheat in September he Immediately
sowed the field to timothy, designing it for
on it, but few lambs, after the harvest.
| never saw such a promising field for hay
as this is today-clear timothy, and com
pletely covering the ground like a mat
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03

The production of salt in Cheshire, Eng
land, is enormous. A million and half
tons of salt are sent out of that country
annually to foreign lands and the home
market The demand increases, and the
supply rs yet shows no sign of failure, for
the salt district occupies about twenty-six
square miles, of which not more than five
have hitherto been worked. As a single
square yard of surface is reckoned to cover
one hundred and twenty tons of salt it will
be understood that the total quantity is
amazing.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-03

One who claims to know says, in the
Ohio Farmer, that handful of salt
rubbed on the back of a horse directly
over the kidneys is a simple but sure rem
edy for collie. Rub briskly and until the
salt dissolves, and longer, if necessary,
and if it is the wind collie and the horse
does not get over it in fifteen or thirty
minutes, then say | know nothing about
it; for thirty-fve years l have never
known it to fail. first learnt it from a
teamster in Illinois, and have seen it tried
in numerous cases.