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Middletown transcript., 1874-06-27

A New ADVERTISING DopGE.-The
familiarity of the frontiers man with scenes
of shooting and executions by Lynch law.
and his ceolness in the average Western
alfray, are proverbial. The last instance
that has come to our knowledge in which
enterprise and self-posscssion were admir-
ably mingled occurred at the recent exccu-
ton of criminal in Washington Territory.
Just as he was about to be swung off, aud
after he had remarked to the sheriff that
he had nothing to say, real estate agent.
whose Office was in his hat, forced himself
to the front and up the steps of the scat!old,
and jointly addressing the criminal and
the sheriff, said, If tie gentenua who
occupies the platform will kindly yield for
a tec minutes, | would like to make few
remarks upon the cheap homestead lots ut
Dobson's Hole am now Offering for sale"
The polite request was assented to, aud
after brief summary of the advantages
presented by that locality the sheriff re-
sumcd his duties, pulled the cap over the
gentleman's' countenanee, and permitted
him to drop.-EDIroR' DRAWER, in Har-
per's Magazine for .Jaiy.
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NO. 26.
Choosing a Career.

| One sharp lesson Of the autumn's panic,
and, indeed. of our shifting American for.
tunes without any panic at all, is the
wasteful folly and cruelty of the old edu-
cation of women. 1t is folly. in an econ
omic sense, that ignores the sharp possi-
bilities of the future for our girls. while
we send our boys out into life fully armed
and equipped for the fray.
The young man, returned from college
or the scientific school, in the bright glow
Of dawning powers, untrammeled as yet
by care, and under the shelter Of his faith
er's roof, decides upon his career Ad-
mring aunts and sisters watt their prayers
and hopes upon the winds that wing his
sail the fathers experience and counsel
pilot the boat through the shallow waters
near the shore. Every thing aids his
start-youth, freshness, and special train
ing. He has no responsibility upon him
save for his own health and good behavior
When does woman choose her career?
In middle age; broken down by sorrow;
when she has seen her life's hopes go down
one by one in the horizon. AS girl, she
has waited in her fathers house for the
lover who nevtr camo. All Of youth has
gone by in vague dreams. In the frivo-
lous business Of fashionable society her
strength has spent itself
Her hands are skill-less save in delicate
embroidery; her brain is sluggish, though
It aches with new anxiety and despair.
Heavily weighted with responsibility, it
may be, with the broken-down father or
the always invalid mother now suddenly
dependent upon her, she sets out upon this
new path with weak, uncertain steps -
Beginning a career at forty. all unframed!
The daughter of her washer woman can
distance her the girl who used to bring
home her shoes has already shot far ahead
She scarce used to notice these girls, save
when they were thinly clad or look cd
hungrier than usual. 1t was easy to-
loosen her purse-strings or send them into
the servants room to be warmed and fed.
Where are they now, while she is haltiug,
timorous, on the sharp stones of the high.
way! The washer woman's girl is sal
aried teacher in the model school house
yonder; the other is book keeper in her
fathers shop, and it pays her we'll
Ah that artisan father. that mother
toiliug early and late. had deeper Wis
dom in their need than the merchant, the
clergyman, the railway king in the hour
of his power. What cruelty like to their
indulgence now The unreasoning fond
ness which reared their girls in luxurious
helplessness, which assumed the future as
certain in its golden round, has its parallel
in other lands, There are Asiatc fathers
who put out the eyes of girl that she
may be more pathetic beggar. To the
study of this Chinese prototype we COM
mend the American father who, choosing
career for his boys in the fine freshness
of early manhood, leaves his darling
daughters helpless amidst the butFets Of
the changing tide.-Hmper's .Ntgaztnc
for Jaly
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A New FERTILIZER. Indian Meal is
said to be equal to Peru Wan Guano as a
fertilizer. Like the latter, it will kill the
germ of the seeds if applied in too large
quantities. 1t may be used in the hill,
furrow or broadcast, in about the same
quantities as guano, At 60 cents per
bushel for corn a ton of it costs S2l.OO,
or about one-third as much as guano. 1t
acts quickly upon the growing crops and
may be applied to wheat in the S.,ring at
the time of sowing clover, and raked in
with the grassseeds,
From all that we have heard of this ar
ticc as fertilizer it is certainly worthy a
trial, and we hope that some of our read
ers will experiment with it the coming
season and report the res ult. Wheat brand
also may be quite as va liable for this pur-
pose and may be tried ih the same man
ner. A table spoonful of corn meal may
be applied to a hill of corn, or 800 lbs to
the acre on wheat or other broadcast crops.
1t is said to answer quite as well on pota-
toes and other root crops.
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FARMERS RIGHTS. A Western farmer,
evidently Patron, talks in this straight
forward way, protesting against farmers
taking "the ground tha all other classes
are arrayed against them" and prating
"about our not having our rights" &c.
He says: Now, the fact is we have always
had all the rights that we have had the
pluck to ask for, and the capacity to en-
joy. The truth is we are prospering in a
greater degree than any other class of cit
izens, considering the industry, econcm
and brains that we are bringing to bear
upon our business. Let us be reasonable,
and if we are not making money as fast
as we would wish let us 60 out and count
up the old reapers, plows, seeders, and
threshiDg machines that are lying around
loose, and see whether we have not dis
covered that the fault is in ourselves and
not in these "cussed" middle men of whom
we bought the machines, but who cannot
make them last four or five years, or as
long as we leave them in the fence corners
from one year to another.
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A Word to Young Farmers.

In one respect the business of farming
is like all other trades Or professions -
Those persons who enter upon it with the
most determined energy q md perseverance,
continually guided in their course by a
habit of close observation Of whatever is
taking place all around them in the line
of their chosen pursuit, will be sure to
win success in the end. Another class,
who feel as if they we're more or less pros
pered by the doings of ONE other class,
or must do as their neigf bors about them
do, trying to follow in their tracks, with
out taking into account The difference in
their circumstances, will be almost sure in
the end to fall behind tho bright anticipa-
tions they had formed for the future Ev-
cry man in the end usua y makes or mars
his own fortune. If person would be a
successful farmer he must be self-reliaut
As rule, have good vocation. and
stick to it; but there are exceptions to all
rules, and the man the most interested
should be the best iuo &C. Conform to
circumstances, but be Sc f-rcliant, and act
as your best judgment dictates. In all
matters relating to expenditures, either for
the family or the farm, this trait of char
acter should be well cultivated or devel-
oped. | think a greater portion of our
young enterprising farm hers fail than OF
those who comprised that class thirty and
forty years ago.
To use the old adage, "Don't be afraid
to cut your garment according to the
cloth" If your neghbo r, who is twenty
years older than you and worth $50, 600,
rides in his carriage and his horses 60
past your door in silver platce harness, it
is no reason that you, " ho are worth but
$4,000 and perhaps owe $4,000 or more
for the farm upon which you live, should
ride ia the same style as he. Nobody,
excepting a very small class of the most
shallow minds, will think any the better
OF you if you do so. Tile larger and by
far the better part of the community
among whom you live will respect you all
the more for riding in your best lumber
wagon, and waiting few years until
your debts are paid, and with the money
in hand you can pay for a carriage as good
as that used by your weplthiest neighbor.
-Germantopa Teegraph.
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Srlett poqtrp.
The Maiden's Last Farewell.
IN THE DAY OF CREMATION


Then the night wore on, and we knew the worst,
That the end of it all was nigh
Three doctors they had from the very first
And what could one do but die2
"Oh, William y she CRIED strew no blossoms
offspring,
For the new apparatus might rust;
But say that handful of shavings you II bring,
And linger to see me combust.
ooh, promise me, love, by the flre-hole you'll
watch,
And when the mourners and stokers convene,
You will see that they light me some solemn,
slow match,
And warn them against kerosene.
1T would cheer me to know, ere these rude
breeZes watt
Ny essences far to the pole,
That one whom love will look TO the draught,
And have a fond eye on the coal.
"Then promise me, love '--and her voice fain-
ter grew
While this body of mine calcifes,
You will stand just as close as you can to the fue,
And gaze while my gases arise.
" For Thompson-Sir Henry-has found out a
way
(Ofhis process you've surely heard tell),
And you burn like parlor-match gently away,
Nor even offend by smell.
80 none of the dainty need sniff in disdan
When my carbon floats up to the sky;
And Pm sure, love, that you will never COM
plain,
Though an ash should blow into your eye.
"Now promise me love and she murmured
low
hen the Qualification is DER
You will sit by the grave in the twilight glow
mean by my furnace door:
Yes, promise me- love, while the seasons revolve
On their noiseless axes, the years,
You will visit the kiln where you saw me re-
solve
And leach my pale ashes with tears"
john PAUL, in Harper's for June.
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Aoritultul' at.
Bread and Bll liter.

The girl engaged in moulding bread
Shall make some sweetheart flutter,
With hope to get the daify-maid
To make his bread and butter.
She may not play the gal me croquet,
Or French and German stutter,
IF we'll she knows the Gu i'd from whey,
And makes sweet bread and butter.
In meal and cream she's elbow deep,
And cannot stop to putter;
But says if he will sow and reap,
She'll make his bread and butter.
The dairy-maid, the farm ler's wife,
Shall be the toast we utter;
Alone, man leads crusty life,
Without good bread and butter.
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SALOON SIGNs-No one hears in this
country of an ale-house, porter-house, a
gin-shop, dram-shop, but only of res
taurants, Offices, saloons, samplc-rooms
&c. 1t would be half the battle if we
could compel the liquor sellers to put up
truthful signs; if where there are license
laws man was required by law to have
in large letters on the front of the house
" Licensed Liquor Store" or the words
"Licensed to Sell Intoxicating Liquors !"
Why not? 1t would be simply the state
ment of the truth as when in some States
we see signs " Licensed to Sell Gunpow-
DER" And it were no more than the
truth could the liquor dealer be made to
see whenever he looked up to his sign
some such announcement as Tipping
Hail." "Drunkard's Resort" or Gate
way to He'll. ."-Reiigious Exchange.
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MISPLACED Confidence The Galena
editor who published that funny thing
about the Sunday school superintendent 5
remark to his scholars about the steamer
did not remember how good the original
was, written by Mark Twain, and pub.
lished three years ago in London 1t is
as follows:
MISPLACED CoNFIDENcE.-"J just about
the close of that long. hard winter" said
the Sunday school superintendent, " as |
was vending toward my duties one bril-
liant Sabbath morning, Iglanced down to-
ward the levce, and there lay the CITY, OF
Hartford steamer! No mistake about it:
there she was, putting and painting after
her long pilgrimage through the ice. A
glad sight? Well, should say so And
then came a pang right away, because
should have to instruct empty benches,
sure: the youngsters would all be off well
coming the first steamboat of the season /.
You can imagine how surprised l was
when | opened the door and saw half the
benches full My gratitude was free,
large and sincere. l resolved that they
should not find me. unappreciative.
said, Boys, you can not think how
proud it makes me to see you here, nor
what renewed assurance it gives me of
your affection. confess that | said to
myself. as | came along and saw that the
City Of Hartford was in No but IS
she, though9' And, as quick as any
flash of lightning, | stood in the presence
of empty benches l had brought them
the news myself. "-EDIroR's DRAWER, in
Harper's Magazine for July.
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There are people (do not initiate them y
who, if they hear an organ, fnd out at
once which are the poorest stops. Ifthsy
listen to great speaker, they remember
nothing but some slip in the construction
of sentence, or break in the consistency
of metaphor, or flaw in the evolutions Of
an argument. While their friends are ad-
miring the wealth and beauty Of tree
whose branches are weighed down with
fruit, they have discovered a solitary
bough, lost in the golden af1iucncc, on
which nothing is hanging.
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A Detroit female, breathing hard and
carrying a large hickory cane, ran down the
street, the other morning inquiring if any
body had seen % small, cross-eyed man
anywhere along here 2" Several persons
asked What's the matter Z" But she
hurried on, saying, Haven't time now
l want to get my paws on the fawning
sycophant for just a minute
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A Scotchman went to a lawyer once for
advice and detailed the circumstances Of
the case. "Have you told me the facts
precisely as they oecurred?' asked the
lawyer. "Oh aye, sir!" replied he. "I
thought it best to tell ye the plain truth.
Ye can put the lies into it yourself"
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A REMEDY FOR HORSE THAT HAS
EATEN TOO MUCH CoRN-ls to give him
two table spoonfuls of saleratus dissolved
in one pint of warm water, being sure to
see that it is all diss solved. In severe
cases give half cup full Of saleratus and
repeat the dose if the horse is not relieved
in thirty minutes.
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A Milwaukee boy has swallowed half a
dozen steel buttons, and his mother doesn't
have to scream for him when he is cut on
the street playing with those Cluckerson
boys. She just brings magnet to the
door, and he flies to it like needle to the
pole
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1t was asked by scholar why master
Thomas Hawkins did net marry Miss Bla-
grove. He was answered, f" He couldn't
master her, SO he missed her," As
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The Chicago man who stepped behind
pair of mules that he intended to pur-
chase, asked with much feeling. when he
was picked out of the gutter, 'if the der
rick killed anybody else."
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Waste not moment of you time for q
moment of time is moment Of mercy.
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Cremation by sun process is to be the
name for sunstroke, this summer.
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Wheat harvest is dra wing near.
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We seek to Judge those only
whom we regard not; all con-
nected with. those we love is
held sacred; to endeavor to
penetrate into their characters
or intentions would seem 9
profanation. ap
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Subscription, So in Advance.
Little Fannie May Moore.

Little Fannie May Moore.
Dainty, darling, Fannie May,
Laughing, dazzling little sprite;
Warbling, darling, bright and gay,
. Thoughart being Of love and light. y
Thou camest in autumn, mellow and golden,
Trsnsplanted to earth from starlit skies;
Thou nakest a memory sweet and olden,
Angel-like baby with violet eyes.
A baby moro beautiful never did meet,
!, With skin as lovely as rose tinted pearl,
Soft emery arms and fairy feet,
fair of sunshine, on nut brown cheek.
May sAe ever wander through fairy bowers.
Her life be one blissful, beautiful dream,
With nanght but sunny, golden hours,
Asonward she WATTS . er life's great stream.
May religious pure, celestial light,
Gaile ner teAtonward, upward to the sky
Till her spirit takes its Hcavenward fight
Ts Its native purity round the throne on
high.
When she has reached womanhod's height,
She will pardon me know;
Fur doing no justice b theme SO bright,
Bya gray haired xoman's writing So
~ sF4.ssts .EUNITIA.
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How the Early virginians got Wives

~" ~" Wy dAesA4y ldle 8Vt W4V0S
The history Of the Common
wealth Of Virginia, says the
Richmond Wing, commences
with anauction sale-not, how
ever, in a store, but beneath
the green trees Of jamestown,
W where probably the most anx-
ous and interested crowd of
auction habitnes ever known
in the history of the world
were gathered. In a letter
still to be seen, dated London,
August 81, 1921, and directed
to a worthy colonist in that
settlement, the writer begins
by saying: lot
"We send you a. shipment,
one widow and eleven maids,
for wives for the people of Vir-
ginia. There has been espe-
cial care in the choice of them,
for there hath not one Of them
been received but upon good
recommendations. In case they
cannot be married presently
we desire that they may be put
with several honseholders that
have wives until they can be
provided with husbands" ]"
But the writero this epistle
had little reason to fear that
any Of the .smaidens faire''
would be left over. The ar
chives contain evidence to
prove that these first cargoes
Of young ladies were, sold at
auction and sold for one hun
dred and twenty-five pounds
of tobacco each, and it was or
deied that this debt should
have preference over all others.
The solitary zone widow" went
along with the others for they
could not be particular in those
days. The good minister OF
the colony no doubt had a busy
4 z
time that day. He did not
/ mention any fees, nor did the
bridegrooms think of tetider-
ing any. Ali was JOY and glad
ness; no storms ahead, no in.
quisitive clerk to stand up and
say, Here's the license; fork
/ over that 81" Nothing Of the
i sort. From some ofthese coup
les the first families Of Virginis
are descended.
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An Ohio constable has ab~
seconded with the sum Of 81 2P.
Do not, gentle, reader, tura up
your nose, for il was, al tho
public money he could got hold
OF. asas a. ssg1i:nf. .Tissf
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Tfiessason approaches yhen
the bad man wants to find opt
if il his bis ncighbo9r il going 70 haYe
a big wood-pile, and i he is
near sighted.
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Garters witH monogram
clasps are now all the. fashion
vii With pretty girls, The he style style is
said to be convenient and ele~
CANT and we hope 2, p'E'., 70 SEP 81 mqfe npi
Of it. 81; ts s Isl ,..,,xeu
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Applause waits on success;
the Tickle multitude, like the
straw that aoats along the
stream, glide with the current
sk1l, and follow fortune.
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The Colum bus Enquirer hav-
ing completed its inquiry into
the state Of local science, pre-
sents the following r report,
which is as wildly drawn as
one of Dore's pictures d ila
80 !" a sorry sight it is to see .
spike team, consisting of a
skeleton steer and skinny,
blind mule, with a rope har-
ness and q squint-eyed driver
hauling q barrel of new whis-
ky over poor roads, on a her
maphrodite wagon into a
farming district, whore the peo.
pie are in debt, and the chill
dren forced to practice scanll
attire by day and hungry
sleeping at night" ~, -,
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In, q single county in Ver-
mont thera are 95 farms va
.caut, and 1876 abandoned farm
houses. Lack of railroad ia
.cilities is the cause assigned
for this wholesale exodus of
farmers.
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Our v VALIANT MILITIA. .-Ad

Our Y ALIANT MILITIA.-Ad
jutant General Street, the col
ored militia, and the Metro
politan brigade ought to be at
once and forever abolished and
the, State arms should be sold.
The only object of a State force
is to clean out the White
Leauge. AS this cannot be
done without Federal troops
let us rely on Federal troops
.aloue.-[M Vaudeville Wave, Re-
publican. N
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Private 70 Young Men.
By NJ. QUAD. ,

Don't lie too sudden about
it. Many a girl has said "no, !"
when she lHent "yes," simply
because her lover didn't choose
the right time and pop the
question gentle.
Take a dark night for it.
Have the blinds closed, the
curtains down and the lamp
turned most out. Sit near
enough to her SO that you can
hook your little finger into
hers. Wait until conversation
begins to flag, and then quiet
ly remark
w sSnsie. I want to ask you.
something" e ilis
She will fidget around a lit.
tie, reply, "yes,'' y and after a.
pause you can add:
o"Susle, my actions must
have shcwn-that is, you must
have seen-I mean you must
be aware that-that-"
here for u while, but
keep your little finger firmly
locked She may cough and
try to;turn the subject off by
asking you how you liked the
circus, but she only does it to
encourage you. After about
ten minutes you can continue: !:
II was thinking aseII came
up the path, to night, that be>
fore I went away / would ask
you that is, I would breach
the subject nearest My-I
mean | would know MY
Stop again and give her hand
a gentle squeeze. She may
give q yank to getIit away, or
| she may not; in either ease it
augurs well for you. Wait
about five minutes aud then
go on sss.s.ss
1.-The past year has been very
happy one to me. But I hope
that future years will be still
happier. However, that de-
pends entirely on yon. I am
A
here tonight to know--that is,
to ask you'll 4 mean m I am here
tonight to hear from % your own
lips the one sweet &
Wait again: It isn't best to
be, too rash about such things
Give her plenty Of time to re-
cover her composure, and then
put your hand on your heart
and contiiine:.., s.s.a.
Yes, I thought as I was
coming through the gate to
night how happy I had been
aud q I said to '.| myself self that that # ]; J
only knew you would consent
to be my-that is, I said if
only knew-1f I y, was as only. Ger el.
tain that my heart had not de-
ceived me and you were ready
to share''at 1aat
Hold on-there's no burr,
about it. Give the wind
chance to sob and moan arount
the gables. This viii max.
( her innocence and call up al
the love 10 her u heart. Whel
she begins to cough and grow
restless, you can go on:
"Befbre I met you this worl,
was 4 desert to me. I didn'
lake any pleasure III goinI
blackberrying and stealinj
rare-ripe peaches 4 and nd y didn'
mottor xuhnthor. fha Snn. .ahnn
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It has been discovered that
the jointed fishing rod was ips
vented because one cant hide
a long cane pole under his coat
Sundays. y As''s' ~
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IA man in Maine, instead of
appealing to the ballotbox, shot
the thief whoiwas stealing his
apples, but he has since been
convinced Of his rashness, for
his fellow-citizens have sent
him to the penitentiary.