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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-08-04
Taxation Under the New Conssi-
tuition.

O9e OF the most important reforms
proposed under the New Constitution, is
taat provision against double taxation.
The present Constitution provides that
All @e4aerty shall be taxed by uniform
taie. IA the new the word rule is struck
out and the word rate is inserted. So
the Legislature may adjust system of
taxation to the various classes Of prop
erty in the State. The present system
works so that, the land property bears
1.-The greatest burden of taxation. You
may conceal your personal propesty,
money and notes, but you can't hide
your farm, house or lot If ore buys 8
farm and makes one payment, and in:
vests all he has III that, be nevertheless
Aust paw upon the full valuation of the
tarm. So, tao, the seller must pay upon
the money lie receives and upon the
notes he gets. This last is rigbt,for the
fnotes and money constitute the tull value
Aof the farm, but it is not right that the
former should also pay for the same
thing
ga" sells farm worth ten thousand
dollars. "B'' has in money three thou,
sand dollars. The farm and the money
fsltogeiher represent thirteen thousand
! dollars, and that is all the State is enti
tied to recover taxes upon, for this is all
the property there is. But as it is now,
and must be under the present uniform
rule, "A" pays upon the full valuation OF
ten thousand, aud "B,'if he docs not
conceal them, upon the money and notes,
so that upon thirteen thousand dollars
of property there are twenty thousand
taxed.
There is also in the same article pro.
tvision taxing franchises, source of in.
come never yet adopted in Ohio. In
! Pennsylvania the real estate is not taxed
at all for State revenue. The entire State
expenses are levied upon incorporael
property. The great corporations of the
State, which live upon the State ARE made
to pay. largely the expenses of the State
Why should not Ohio utilize them fol
similar purposes Allen County Demo
srat.
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nnerv
THE LIFE TO LIVE,
BY GEORGE W. BUNGAY.

BY GEORGE W. BUNGAY.
Life is worth the living when
We can earn our daily bread
With the spade or with the pen,
With the hand or with the head.
With one talent or with ten,
Following where truth has led
Alas! how many live in vain,
Aimless, cold and hard are they!
Nopity for another's pain,
No kind, tender words to say.
Sorrow pours her tears like rain,
Not for them to wipe away.
Life is worth the living here
When our hearts for others feel,
When we look beyond our sphere.
When we seek our nelghbor's veal,
When we dry the falling tear,
When the wounded heart we heal
Yes, life is blessed boon
To him who to himself is true;
Who lives not for himself alone,
But with others good in view,
He'sa king upon his throne.
Crowned with deeds bright as the dew,
Life is worth the living now;
Human hands can reach so far;
Where stately steamships plow,
Where caloric drives the car,
Where the wire-trained lightRings flow,
Objects Of love and pity are.
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Rersipts.

FRIED PoTAToEs STTLR ~
Pare and slice very thin; put them into
cold water FIVE or ten minutes, Have
ready o frying-pan of boiling lard.
Dry hepotatoes with o cloth; fry them,
a pale, brown; drain in q colapder;
sprinkle on little fne salt, and serve
at once. Keep the lard boiling and fry
but few at time.--Goaatry Geasle.
Rda. .f4flsia
RASPBERRY CRsAM M-Rub q quart Of
raspberlies, or raspberry jam, through
hair sieve, to take out the seeds, and
then mix it well with cream !; gsweeten
with sugar to taste; put into a stone
lug aud raise froth with q ehocblate
mill as your froth rises, take it off With
a spoon, and lay upon a hair seiya ~
When you have got as much froshs %
you want, put what cream remains into
deep china dish or puaeh ahowls and
pour your frothed cream upon iii ras
high as it will lie ou,-Cgltirqtor-1 IN,
LEMoH CusTARD PlB.-For two pies:
Xix together the yolks. Of six eggs
(well beaten four heaping tablespoon.
fuls Of white eotfes sugar, the grated
rind of three large lemons and about |
pint of milk. Bake in one crust: put
on frosting made Of the whites Of
four eggs, four tablespaon,n's Of white
sugar and the juice of three lemons;
bake ill the irosting is q pale hFQHn,+r
Country Geatlcmaa. q. i1'2'ppt
To DRY CHERRtss AS ehcrrics VIII
soon be here, those Wishing toadty,
them win doubtless be satisfied il they,
follow this plan: Cherries intended tp
be dried must first be stoned, then
spread on Eat dishes and dried in the
sun Or warm oven; pour whatever iuiee
may run from them over them, little
at time; stir them about, that they
may dry evenly When perfectly dry,
line boxes or jars with white paper and
pack close in layers. Straw o little
brown sugar and fold the top of the pa
|per over them aud keep ia dry place.
t-Caltipator. zaF
/ DELICIOUS LEaoz PIE- -For 4 pies !:
To twelve eggs, whites aud yolks, well,
beaten together, put four teaenpfuls and
Eight level tablespoonfuls Of white cof-
fee sugar; rub eight evel tahl spooufp,s
of si!ted flour into teacupful Of cold
water; add the grated iinds and the
Ijaice Of six large lemons; mix all 10.
gether, and bake Immediately Ia oRe
crust. For each pie, beat until stiff the
whites of two eggs; add two tablespoon.
iuls Of nice sugar; put on this frostins
and bake three minutes COaatry Gen,
tis2laa isi!
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fashio,1 nohs.

J..
Italian baizc is new dress material
The newest sashes are Of Chinese
i silk embroidered.
Banas of velvet around the hair are
lin vogue again.
White grenadines striped WITH pink
forms beautiful evening dress.
| The bead and bugle mania is grad
ally dying out. is about time g,,,, :. =,
Wedding cards next winter are to e
small and embellished with the crest Of ;
the Juilet's family. Suppose they
haven't any aH aH 2 a9EFH 81
! Don't put all the trimming on the
Iwaist.ana leave the sLift plain This is
mistake great many ladies mike
who ought TO know better.
They have those little hanging peck
cts Low of ivory and cut glass. Bor-.
lrow mas smallest fruit dish and hang
it on. please. 5si-ooW
Yak lace dresses are very much worn
this season by fashionable ladies at the
summer resorts. They (ths- dresses)
Sie very pietty'
There is way Of inverting the, Eas-s
ter bonnet so that it looks like hat
Several ladies have found this out,
|"Necessity is, etc. Jg
To keep up the deception and excite
ment ladies have false hair fastened
Estrongly on the inside of their bathing
/ hats. .goi ..r
/ A man with machine for recurling
feathers is circulating at the seaside re-
sorts and IL said to be making his fol-
tune.
| Diamond shaped fans are the latest.
They are of black satin handsomely
and cleverly braided with gold cord.
Hats are now worn low on the fore
head and not on the crown of the heat
T in the ridiculous style of six weeks ago.
/ Dressmakers generally are reducing
their charges. A few years ago ladies'
paid s25 to make up $40 material, ,h0t
we are not so rich (and so foolish as,
we used TO be.
4 There Is just as much style In mourn
ing as in anything else. Grief someE
times makes US awfully fastidious. more
especially about what we shsll wear. \, :.
The best Of travelling dresses after
all is black silk. It is genteel TO be-
gin with, and when you arrive at your
destination you are not necessarily,
obliged to change your costume, There,
is no real satisfaction in any but black
silk. ~ So 9-Fss
Silk dresses are much worn at the
watering places this season. Grenas,
dimes and stuff dresses are the favorites,
and thus far there has been little if any
.extravaeant' costumes displayed qss-r,
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-08-04
sPATESTLCs,
Paris has 1926 lunatics

Paris has 7 ,526 lunatics.
Pennsylvania owes S25 100000.
Connecticut has 3,547 Odd Fellows
There : are $4,000 Israel;tes iu
France.
There are $500 policemen in New
York.
Tae German population OF Ohio
numbers 1894
Arizona boasts $4,000 population
two thirds Indian.
Holland has a bookseller to every
tour thousand inhabitants.
The cotton factories in Augusta, Me.
employ about 500 operatives
Along the Kennebec river, Maine
there is stored 10000 tons of ice.
Maine is always behind every othe
State Sac has but 149 State Prison
convic;s.
In single day recently 1858 China
men were landed in California from two
steamers.
The tax levy for the city OF Ne,
York for the ensuing year has beel
fixed at $3l S22 ,39l.
aEchmond sets up for a rival Of Bos
ted because she has 400 pretty widows
and 1,400 pretty girls.
The Yantic mill at Norwich turne,
out 81, ,5S4 yards Of scarlet flannel on
week, thousand better than ever be
fore.
Sixty nine Johnsons have boxes i
ttEe Moline postoliice, nine Of whom
are christened simply John, and 81
Andrew.
Eighty-two cities in Germany no,
boast Of cremation societies. But W
have yet to near Of the first case of crt
nation.
The emigration from Liverpool las
month was 1928 In May, 1873, tn
number WAS 35,364, or more tina
double.
Seventeen iron steamships have bee
built at the works of John Roach, Ches
ter, since their establishment, two year
ago.
Macon, Miss, is willing to max
affidavit that an African bride within ii
limits is nursing her first born babe G
the age Of sixty.
The gross weight Of New York's Fa
Men has been reduced five tons, thre
cwt., and ninety-four pounds since th
hot weather set in.-Br ooklyn Argus.
During the year just ended thel
passed Bartlett reef light ship, Lon
Island Sound, a ships, IA banks, 43
brigs, 32,1l2 schooners, 1892 sloop:
1865 steamers, and 1,l29 barges, m;
king u total of almost $4,000 vessels.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-08-04

A western paragrapher writes that
"The Beecher scandal lights up the relig-
ious armament OF Brooklyn with lurid
glare" has
A gentleman ate a meal ia an Island
restaurant the other day and refused to
pay for it, wbereupon the hash house
man took it out of him.
The bull pup which Alexis took with
him from England is said to have Intro.
duced the finest breed Of fleas ever seen
in Russia.-Brooklyn Argus. 3Yo
Dom Piatt says the proper thing to
do when your horse is running away; is
"to hold fast to your seat and say yenr
prayers; anyhow, hold fast to your
seat" "S'
| Old age is not, father, the hcaviestiof
burdens, as thou thinkest; but whoever
bears it morosely, he is the party who
makes it so; but if he bear it without
grumbling, he sometimes in this way
lulls it asleep, dextrously changing its
character, taking away pain and substi-
tuting pleasure, but making it pain il
he is peevish.-AleeaadTides.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-08-04

white, and there were deep furrows on
his brow; but, despite this. the old man
recogniz ed him. 1t was Dick, changed
into wild-looking, hard, stern man.
.H"See," he said, pulling seven fresh
scalps from his belt. 81 have kept my
vow-Marv and my babe are avenged =
All old Ebens efforts to make him re-
main proved futile. He went. away, no
one knew where, and has reser been
heard from since.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-08-04

The Chicago Board Of Underwriters
has adopted resolutions expressing The
belief that their principals will entirely
withdraw the protection of insurance
companies represented by them, unless
the Fire Department be speedily aud rad
ically reorganized, and the building laws
be enforced.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-08-04
MATTERS OF INTEREST.

w aYDoSDuFG, L d., u55 y CAT tlaG
catches two rats at jump
Rrazil is TO have q grand new arsenal
costing S2,O00,G00, near Rio Janciro. /
A man has been fined SO in St Louis
for uwilfulIy Iaolestinq small bird -
ponohkosnsia claims ladv who slan
nod a mans month while he was saving
her l:fe
Two children, twelve and thirteen
wears of age, have just been married at
Gouldto Ru.
A woman, efshty-seven years old, has
started from Rocaland for San Francis.
CO, alp4sa .t7t
AHwoSsan Lowell, Mass, who
wef3hs 3sr poantss, is ruiring the hack
business in tbst place.
Mrs. Bowler OF De Kelb, Ill, is
Jailed for FIVE years; she chopped her
husbands head off,
| Manchester, England, 10 to have q
100000 cathedral to vie with that of
Canterbury or York.
The hailstones abio as oranges" will
please continue to fall in New York
Philadelphia Herald.
| The first thing San Francisco lad is
ltauoht, after he can walk. ia how to
Throw stones at Chinaman.
A London artist thinks be can brush
nm St paups Cathedral so That It will
Hook ouita ti6v for az OOo NnO
The king OF the Sandwich Islands
Iadyises the negotiation of reciprocity
treaty with the United States.
/ No~ho-r G q not,roI;.t ho,;.vs0
THAT lhe catfish is the male and the eel
the female of the same species.
Tho Nouyor,, ponan Catho,;o tom
noranoa ~ " sno;a.;os aro ~ n,nuina tor . non ~
nment to Father Matthew
sc,.tcb oioobom hoe hoen rovived fb;s
soasnn and aaa;n .fter manv vears 81
ro.rloot :, - aonnlar and nrottv
-
uooninr somsla doo,or IN s.oors
VIII s.,sscbaa.,, noon ,sm,Ia in
strncto,, "
M ~
I ne iatesl Jemel ID onlcagos crown
ol,S - ,ho norld Re -. hooton
- w :ao os'' ''"'1N
"A.- '.Ii Z" es
a Slfi arrested IN Boston We o'hei
Gay lor stealing an appie was 90 WeaA
IN in tho nonrt-m,om ~
- ~
A mover signs at cape may 10
ohahgn'a rooster sha1 draws oapy
J, a'%n' IN carriage. 1he pipeo asS
-'' 'o--'s " sto" o'0i'
a Japanese young laay, VINO came
over 10 our shores three years ago, pore
on lour oi tiie hl9hese pr'Aes q! = !" asn
lnston seminary last week.
a HUE 9lll III siiaqueinine Tsrish
M LOUISIANA J'atapeu the sklPpihS-fope
ooo umes' 1nen sue drank a quanu1y
OF Ice WAFER. Anen sue ciea' Anc
aei-
| A supposed case OF hydrophobia il
Jersey o''S tulileu ous W pe aeilrlul. .
'reinehS. I'd. '.,e way o''u 'l.e nos'
ol lne oisoroers 'haS Jersey hesn Ii
heIr w.
), -Four persons in the Jura-iather
mother and two children-Were g-aa
ered up under one umbrella curing .
recent thunder Storm and were al
slucH ny hgnln'hs'
In Paris painting pays much better
than writing. Ihere are forty painters
mere VINO make at least S5o,ooo year
Not fve literary men have anywhere
near SO great an income.
, Cincinnati has the champion diver
He dived to inspect a sunken barge, OF
last Thursday, and hasn't come up yet
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The man at the wheel'-The veloci
pedestrian.
A volume Of water cannot be called
dry reading.
The paper containing many Gne points
Paper of needles.
Champagne is the popular drink
Philadelphia Herald.
Evening papers are now called night
blooming serials.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-08-04

If the new Constitution is adopted
elections will take place onlT once il
two years. There are about $500 elec
tioc precincts in the State. Each cost:
about S25 per election. Total,S62, 500
saved on elections alone.-Lima Demo
crat.
If the new Constitution is voted
down, all the three separate clauses fai
also. Neither Liquor License, Railroad
aid, nor Minority Representation Car
be adopted unless the new Constitution
is adopted.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-08-04
A E.oVc story.

'Phairest Of the phoir," sighed the
lover, ''phancy my pheelings when
phrose the pheerful consequences of oul
phleeing phom your phather's phamily
Phew phellows could have placed the
muse with SO much phortitude as
have; and as pickle phortune phails
to smile upon our love, l phind myself
phorced to phorego the pleasure of be-
coming your husband. Phari Phances
pharewell phor ever" "Hold, Phrank
lin, holdn' screamed Phrances. IL viii
phollow you phorever." But Phrank
lin phled,and loving Phrances phainted
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-08-04
,;., or ADVERTISING:

"a Twelve hAes, or less, VIII De cnarYeu Is
enc square,
81 All legal. advertisements will echarged
by the line, and must be paid in advance Of
publication.
MaNosices of the appointments of Ad- -Sa
G-dministrator's and Executors; also 50
A.tachment Notices and Road nett -
81 ees, two dollars and fifty cents, in 3
G advance. 81
M Advertising done at published rates
and payment required in advance, in all
cases., -,
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n UEsTs will find the best accommodation
I a. this Hotel, and no pains will be spared
to make them comfortable.
Hacks leave the Hotel every morning TO
Woodsfeld.
Carriages and drivers furnished travellers
At all times, July1 1,lS7o-Y
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-08-04

This is the Best Hotel IN Baraesville.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-29

or anywhere the wind can circulate through
them, and it isn't great job when one
makes a business Of it to stack them upon
poles in the field.
The bean likes q light, warm soil. In a
rank, heavy soil IL runs too much to vines I;
plant after il becomes warm, in rows three
feet apart, or ia drills. IF in rows, make
the hills two feet apart and drop four beans
in hill hoe thoroughly after they are we'll
up, and again when the weeds threaten
you need not hill them at all they grow
rapidly and, as they do not need to be plant
ed as early as corn, do not require as much
hoeing We know man who, two years
ago, made good thing Of it by invertiug
the sod Of field early in June, narrowing
in light coat Of fine manure, and then SOW
ing white beans as he would have sowed
grain. These beans, of course, were never
hoed, and received no attention until harvest
ing, when they yielded good crop. 1t was
job though to pull them, and the labor of
planting in rows would have been less.
The best bean for us TO raise is what is
called the medium. 1t grows rapidly, ri
pens early and uniformly, and yields well ;
and, while it does not sell for quite as much
per bushel as the pea bean, will net more
profit. Ashes make the best of manure for
beans, but almost any fertilizer that is fine
will answer, and light coat at that.-Mir.
ror and Farmer.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-29
VOL. IV.--NO. 20.
MermnMt 4armet
PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
1T ST. JOH.rSB BURY, VT,
BY
ROYAL CUMMINGS.

Terms.--0ne copy, per annum, um,............s2.50
paid strictly in Advance 90, T. ,1;,;c,
for United States postage.
No paper discontinued until all arrearages paid,
except at the option Of the publishers.
We desire that all subscribers should send their pay
GALL handing thom to third party who is apt to
delay sending them, causing unnecessary correspond
s2OO will pay for year not than half the year
has elapsed, and s4.00 will pay for two years " not
moro than ono Of them has passed. But II only mon
ey enough is sent to pay up arrearagos oss Il must
be at the rate Of $3.50 per year or q cents per month
except In Of understanding in reference 10 fur
ther payment.
Money should by sent by postal money order, pay
able 70 ROYAL CUMMINGS, OF by registered letter,
and when sent in either Of these ways the safe
mission will be at our risk. money order for $40
less costs but Ave cents Registration fees have
been reduced TO eight cents Money sent by ordinary
letter will seldom fail to reach US, but do not as
sumo the risk.
office must give the OF the Office IL Is sent to
as well rs the one 1t s 20 be sent TO.
The date on your address label is the time TO which
your subscription is paid When a new payment Is
scrbor ticing mistake in the date of his label Is re-
quested 10 notify the publisher at once.
Advertising Rates.
Legitimate business advertising 75 cents per inch for
FIRST Insertions each subsequent Insertion % cents per
inch. Special Notices, 90 per cent additional. Farm
ers advertisements and the like, If paid in advance
swndling advertseme nts inserted at any price Cuts
must be on solid metal. Advertising space limited.
Newspaper Decisions.
The Courts have decided that
/. Any person who takes a paper regularly from
the postoce whether directed to his another
name whether he has subscribed or not, is respon
sible for the pay.
O. Ifa person orders his paper discontinued he must
pay all arrearages, or the publishers may continue 20
send IL until payment is made and collect the whole
amount whether it is taken from the Office Or not.
3, The courts have also decided that refusing to take
newspapers and periodicals from the postofce
moving from the place and leaving them uncalled for
Is prima facie evidence Of intentional fraud.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-29
CLOVER HAY FOR STOCK.

After having finished feeding fodder corn
in connection with good bay to my cows, |
commenced feeding from the top OF a NOW,
which consisted of a good quality OF mixed
hay. With hay knife | cut a space about
three feet wide, from the end Of the NOW
next to the barn floor and fed the hay to
my COWS, and there was no perceptible in
crease in the flow Of milk, from what it was
when they were fed one.half fodder corn.
But when the lump Of mixed hay was consum.
ed, and | came to the clover, which was be-
meath it, found there was an increased flow
OF milk at least one-third, aud ut the next
weeks churning there was also an increase
of nearly one-third of butter. But after
had used off the clover hay in this space aud
began again at the top to feed the mixed
hay, the cows shrank both in the quantity OF
milk and butter, aud continued at the former
stand, till the clover was again reached when
they increased again in their milk as at the
first instance. This hay was cut the 2lst OF
June, just as it was in full bloom, received
two days sun, and was housed without being
wet, in fact, it was cut aud housed during
the dryest week of the season, and there is
now a very rich aroma arising from 1t as 1t
is taken in fakes aud fed to my stock, for |
feed not only my cows with it, but my hors-
es aud calves, and from the way they eat it.,
| am perfectly satisfied it is exceedingly pal
atable, for they do not stand about the order
Of their eating, but eat.
Now if clover hay has such milk
producing qualities, it must be equally good
for beef; for the same elements that 90 to
make an increase of butter, if they were not
appropriated to this use, would be employed
in laying on fat, if not building up the flesh.
Cor. NeW England Homestead.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-29

ifested an extravaganza in agricultural i'm
plement buying, quite equal TO that of their
wives sisters, and daughters, for fine bon
nets and rich and expensive dresses. A first
class milliner's shop and a suit Of thoroughly
well-furnished agricultural implement rooms
have many points of resemblance in CON-
mon. In the first, to captivate the women,
there is a profuse display of silks and laces
flowers and feathers, rufies, tucks and en-
broidery, and hundred other costly and Sc.
ductive triies. In the implement store the
trap is set for the masculine mind and tast O..
Consequently there are reapers and mowers,
plowers aud sewers, and every conceivable
form of tool and machine, for every real aud
imaginary farm purpose. Then it is all
dressed up in the brightest Of high-coored
paint, the purest Of gliding, aud the glossiest
Of varnish, to say nothing of polished iron
and shining brass, and those many comforta-
BILE contrivances of rests, and seats, and
springs, which promise to take half its pains
away from labor.
There have been thousands upon thous-
ands, yes, millions upon millions, wasted in
unnecessarily expensive dress and decora.
tions, by the female portion Of our farming
classes, but there has been quite as much
money thrown away by their husbands, ia.
theirs, and brothers, on worthless implements Is
and farm tools, aud those which wise econ.
omy should have taught intelligent men it
would have been better to have done
without. But the punishments which follow
great wars and their nseparable companion,
irredeemable paper money, touch and punish
all equal y-but not all alike, for into the
lives and conduct of whatever class and con-
dtion of society Que looks, there will be
found the devouring dragon Of wasteful ex-
travagance, in some form or other.