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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05
Needed Small Things.

There are great many farms that
are supplied with the best of all kinds
Of large field implements, such as
reapers and mowers, horse rakes,
horse pitchforks, hay leaders, gang
and single plows, cultivators, plant
crs, harrows, markers, and so on
through the list, but yet you cannot
find about them many little conven-
fences, trifling SO far as cost is con-
cerned, that save time and labor, and
do away with many Of the yexations
that beset the craft. How many
fal liners are provided with LADDERS for
picking fruit, mounting the house or
barn or step ladders for inside use?
The garden or even the ordinary canal
wheelbarrow is not found with any
great frequency, yet they are exceed
ingly convenient ut most all seasons
of the year. The wagon-jack is an
other little thing that finds a welcome
place in the considerate farmers
hands. The farm scale should not
be forgotten, neither should a small
kit of carpenters tools, including a
plane or two, saws, chisels, etc. We
only enumerate few OF the many
little articles of tools not often found,
but always needed, and call upon our
readers to fill out the list with all the
smaller contrivances that they have
invented, or whose usefulness has
been proven by others. Another
thing, when purchasing these things
always get the best; they may cost a
little more ut the start, but their dur
ability more than r.pays. When got
beware OF the borrower. Choose
your customers in this respect.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05
Horse Clothing.

A great many more horses are pre-
maturely worn out by neglect than
by hard work. Cold kills more than
work does. Sudden chills, when they
are warmed-up by severe exercise,
ruins numberless horses. In how
few stables can good set of blankets
be found? These are always seen in
the stables of valuable horses, but
rarely elsewhere. But a cheap horse
feels and suffers from sudden changes
as much as costly one, and humani-
ty calls for the proper care Of such Il
one as much as for any other. Nor
should the lap-robc or the buffalo
robe, with which the driver protects
himself, be used to cover the horse
while standing fora short time. This
conveys the disagreeable smell OF the
animals not always clean skin to the
clothes, form which it is plentifully
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05
In q Tight Placo..

A man in Baltimore, while under
the influence of liquor, few days
since, climbed out upon his root, and
amused himself by jumping thence to
the next, till his antics had attracted
quite crowd of persons in the street
below. Seized with a sudden idea that
the spectators were going to shoot
him, he sought refuge in a chimney
and slid down to within few feet OF
the first floor, where he became
wedged in beyond the power OF
eXtrication.
At about the same moment. the III
habitants of that story, unaware that
the draught was choked by human
body, lighted fire. The unearthly
noise which proceeded from tho
chimney were attributed to some agen
cy similar to that which recently
cuused the mysterious bell-ringing in
the same city; and it was not till two
police officers entered the room and
made an attack upon the fireplace
that the scorched inebriate was res
cued from his perilous position.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05
GRANGE DIRECTORY.

RESCENT GRANGE, No. 15T2-Regular meet
ings en- the last Friday before the full moon Of
each month. ace:-Meets at the residence OF
It. $. Stone, three miles south Of Jesup, and
nine miles southwest Of Independence.
s. G. MASON. Secretary.
WINTHROP GRANGE, No 6l1-Meets at Win
throp on Friday on or before the full moon Of
each month.
S. G. PIERCE. Master. S. W. RICH. Sec
WEST BUFFALO GRANGE. No. 1216-Meets
Tuesday, on or before full moon.
j. ID. RUSSELL. Master.
MIDDLEFIELD GRANGE, No. 52s Meets on
Wednesday, on or before full moon.
b. DU BOIS, Master. E. j. WIGG, Sec.
SUPERIOR GRANGE, No 352-M Meets Saturday
on or before full moon at No. School House
HazletOn twp. G. NJ. MILLER,
7. MESSENGER, Secretary, Master
BYRON GRANGE No. 267. Meets at Justus Dur
KEGS, on Tuesday evening, on or before u new
MOON EDWARD GLEASON, Master
A. KNOWLES Sec
PERRY CANOE, No 3lS-,Meets at the Center
School House, in Perry Township, or Tuesday
evening, on or before full moon.
f. LITTLE, Sec.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05
Suggestions.

If many of the complaining and
nervous men and women, instead Of
being cooped up would take regular
outdoor exercise in the glorious sun
light and the pure, cool atmosphere,
their spirits would revive, color come
to the check and an improvement to
the temper.
Water for making tea should be
used the moment it boils. The rea-
son assigned is, that if it is boiling
for some time, all the gas that is in
it escapes with the steam, and it
will not then make tea of the best
flavor.
If man does not have food
enough, or food of suitable quality,
he cannot work to advantage. And
animals, like men, need suitable food
and plenty of it.
To prepare potato balls for break
fast, boil and mash double quantity
of potatoes for dinner, season with
sweet cream and a little salt; work
in two fresh eggs to a quart. Mold
into little balls, prick the tops and
lay away in the cold on plate. In
the morning put them Oh baking
pan and set into the oven until done
to delicate brown, which requires
fifteen or twenty minutes.
HoMINY.-Two quarts of white
corn; three half pints of white beans;
two pounds Of picked pork. Wash
! the corn and put it on to boil in
water sufficient to cover it, and us
the corn swells more water must be
added, SO as to keep it covered all
the time it is cooking. After boiling
four hours, add the beans and pork,
which being done, the hominy may
be sent to table. Should the pork
not make it sufficiently salt, more
may be added. This is very nice
warmed over the next day.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05
THE OLD HOME.

An out door quiet held the earth
Beneath the winter moon,
The cricket chirped in coy mirth.
And the kettle crooned, upon the hearth.
A sweet old fashioned tune
The old clock licked, a drowsy race.
With the clicking Of the cricket
And red Goals in the chimney place
Peeped out with many u rosy face,
Like berries in thicket
The cranes arm empty stuck out stiff,
And tinware on the shelves
Tinkled and winked at every Cliff,
In the Pickering fire light. as II
They whispered to themselves.
The good dame, in her ruffled cap,
Counted her stitches slowly.
And the old man, with full many gap
Read from the big book on his lap
The good words, wise and holy.
The old clock clicked; the old man read
His deep voice pausing, lowering
The good wife nodded, dropped her head
The lids Of both were heavy us lead
They were sound asleep and snoring.
Oh, hale old couple! sweet each dream,
While-all the milk pans fitting
Puss paints her whiskers in the cream,
Till John and the belated team
Bring Maggie from the quilting.
May Time, pray, when failing years
Make thin my voice and thrapple,
Find my last days Of life like theirs,
As sweet with children's love and prayers,
And like winter apple.
= Scribner's Month";
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05

The convention of Fine Stock
breeders of Iowa met in Vinton on
the 18th of January, and contin-
ued three days.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05
Aoritnltnral Column,

The reading columns on this page will be devot
ed mainly, to topics pertaining to FARM and
HOUSEHOLD. The farmer readers of the BULLETIN
are requested to write for it.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05

Living beyond their income Is the
ruin of many people; they can hardly
afford to keep rabbit, and must
needs drive pony and chaise. lam
afraid extravaganza is the common
disease of the times, and many pro-
Tossing to be Christians have caught
it to their shame and sorrow. Good
cotton gowns are not good enough
nowadays; girls must have silks and
satins, and there's Il bill at the dress
makers rs long rs winters night,
and quite as dismal. Show, and
style, and smartness, run away with
mans means, keep the family poor,
and the fathers nose on the grind
stone. Frogs try to look as big as
bulls and burst themselves. Abound
week apes five hundred year, and
comes to the county court. Men
burn the candle at both ends, and
then say they are unfortunate-why
don't they put the saddle on the right
horse, and say they are extravagant?
Economy is half the battle of life; it
Is not so hard to earn money as to
spend it well. Hundreds would have
never known want if they had not
first known waste. If all poor mems
wives knew how to cook, how far a
little might goeyohn Roughman.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05
Fattcning Hogs on Cooked Food.

Some of the agricultural papers
have denied the great advantage of
cooking corn for swine. Omitting
our own experiments, we refer to Il
few others.
The two best farmers among onr
neighbors at Union Springs, who
weighed and measured, arrived scpa-
rately at nearly the same results, as
to the superiority of cooked meal over
corn in the ear. One of these found
that when corn was 60 cents per
bushel fed in the ear, it was worth
81 cents in dry meal, and SLIP to
1925 in cooked mcal-that is, it was
about double in value.
The other farmer merely scalded
his meal. He was in the practice, in
preparing his feed, of pouring 80
pounds of water on Is pounds of
meal, then allowing this to stand
from II to Is hours in covered tub
before feeding. The whole swelled
SO us to make thick pudding, although
the bulk Of water applied was three
times as great as the meal. He found
this scalded meal one-half better than
meal soaked in cold water, and at
least double in value to corn in the
ear.
George Geddcs told us that his ex-
pericncc showed cooked food to be
over double in value to corn in the
ear. Il skillful farmer in Wayne
county, who had tried it many years,
placed it between twice and three
times the value. Results will OF
course vary somewhat with the man
her of conducting the experiments
Country Gentleman.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05
DO LARS

TO THE AMOUNT OF TWO MILLION FIVE
HUNDRED THOUSAND ARE TO BE DISTR.B-
UTED ON THE nth OF FEBRUARY BY THE
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KY UPON THE OC-
CASION OF THEIR FIFTH AND LAST con-
CERT
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05
Drawing Certain or Money Refunded

Whole Tickets $50 Halves, go Tenth- OF
each Coupon, s.. Eleven whole tickets, 500.
For Tickets or information. address
c. NJ BRIGGS
Agent and Manager Louisville Ky
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05

BASKET PLANTs.-The Gardeners
Monthly says: ''Basket plants often
suffer from too much or too little wa
ter. If from too little the leaves
curl or fall, and the plants have a
dried-up appearance. If too much,
they get yellow and drop off: AS a
rule, a basket in a warm room should
be taken down once Il week, soaked
in bucket of water, then drained
and hung up again. Every day dur
ing the rest of the week little water
may be given the plants, and some
thing put under to catch the drip.
Some baskets have no provision for
the escape of moisture. These arc
dangerous. Still, some people man
age to watch closely, and do well
with them. Fern cases do best when
given little sun; for, though Ferns
are supposed to grow naturally in
shady spots, it is because there is
generally more humid atmosphere.
If they can get this moisture they
rather like light.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05

WANTED AGENTS for the LIFE AND EX
WHNllU1 PLORATIoNS OF DR. LIVING
STONE. Complete. authentic: fresh book.
Price suited TO the times. Address
B. b. RUSSELL, Publisher, Boston. Mass.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05
Geo. p. ROwell &CO's Ads

n c-The choicest in the world.-Im :
6AOporters prices-Largest company
in America--staple anticipates everybody
Trade continually increasing = Agents wanted
everywhere-best inducements- waste time
send for circular to ROBERT WELLS, 40 Vesey st.
n Y, p. 0. Box 1887.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05

SO0A month to agents everywhere. ADDRESS
pS"V EXCELSIOR NJ FIG Co. Buchanan. Mich
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05
PvsLIc lIg3ARY cF KENTUCKY.

DEATH OF GOVERNOR BRAMLETTE Action OF THE
TRUsTEEs-A SUCCESSOR APPoISTED-No MORE
POsTPoNEMIsTs-DRAw CERTAIN FEB 21th.
At meeting OF the Trustees Of the Public
Library Of Kentucky. Jan. 10th. 1875. it was re-
solved that G. NJ. Briggs, Esq. who under the late
Hon. Tho. +. Bramlette was the real business
manager Of the gift concerts already given in aid
of the Public Library of Kentucky, be and he is
hereby authorized to take the place made vacant
by the death OF said Bramette in the manage
ment of the affairs Of the fifth and last gift con-
cert. and that the drawing announced for February
81. 1873. shall positively and unequivocally take
place that day without any further postpone
ment or delay on any account whatever.
X. T. DURRETT, Pres.
JoHN S CAIN. Secretary.
Hereafter all communications relating to the
5th Concert should be addressed to the under
signed: and | pledge myself that the drawing
shall come OFF February 9th or that every dollar
paid for tickets shall be returned.
c. NJ. BRIGGS. Agent and Manager,
Room 4. Public Library Building.
Louisville. Kentucky
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-05

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for twenty-five cents; together with Marriage
Guide. Egyptian Oracle. Dreams. Hints to Ladies'
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JoHN S. CAIN. Secretary

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Middletown transcript., 1875-03-13

ify their rightful titles, but Acrelius
and his editors have given the means
of doing that The interest in this
ought to be heightened by the fact of
the arrival at this port Of the Swedish
corvette, the GeAe. which has been sent
here by the government Of that coun-
try, partly to revive the close relations
that once existed between the Swedes
of the New World and the Old. The
kindly interest and benevolent zeal Of
the authorities of Sweden were extend.
ed to the settlers on our shores long
after all political authority had ceased.
Now, again, the Swedish Government
is one of the earliest and most earnest
among those which have come forward
in support Of the Centennial Celebra-
ton. The arrival Of their nan-of-war
on visit of courtesy is of itself har-
binger of the visitors we may expect in
1876, to look after the great interests
of the present and to revive the recol-
lectiens of the past; and the presence
of the "Gefe'' recalls to memory the
names of the "Key Of Colmar," the
Bird Griffin" the "Fama," the
"Charitas," the "Swaa," the key"
the "Black Cat" and the Clamp
the ships which brought the early
Swedes to the shores Of the Delaware
in 1888 and in 1647.-Phila. Ledger.
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The End Of Four Great Men.

Alexander after having climbed the
dizzy nights Of his ambition. with his
temples bound with chaplets dipped in
the blood of millions. looked down upon
a conquered world and wept that there
was not another Sorld for him to con-
quer, set city on fire, and died in
scene Of debauch
Hannibal, after having, to the aston
ishment and CONSERVATION of Rome,
passed the Alps, and having put to
fight the armies Of the mistress of the
world, and stripped "thres bushels Of
golden rings from the fingers of her
slaughtered knights and made her
foundation. quake" fled from his coun-
try. being hated by those who once ex-
ultipgly united his name to that Of their
God and called him Hani-Baal, and
died at last by poison administered with
his own hand, uulamented and unwept,
in foreign land
Caesar, after having conquered eight
hundred cities, and dyed his garments
in the blood of one million Of his foes
and after having pursued to death the
only rival he had on earth, was miser-
ably assassinated by those he consider
ed his nearest friends, AID in that very
place the attainment of which had been
his greatest ambition.
Bonaparte, whose mandates kings
and popes ebeyed, after having filled
the earth with the terror of his name,
after having deluged Europe with tears
and blood, and clothed the world in
saek-cloth, closed his days in lonely
banishment, aim ,st literally banished
from the world, yet where he could
some times see his country's banner
waving over the deep. but which could
not and would not bring him aid.
Thus these four great men who SEEM
ed to stand the representatives of all
those whom the world called great
these four men, who each in turn made
the earth tremble to its very centre by
their simple tread-severally died one
BY intoxication or, as was supposed, by
poison mingled with wine; one a
suicide, one murdered by his friends ;
and one lonely exile! How wretcbed
is the end of all such greatness
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To Cousin Carrie w.,
or McDoNoUGH, DEL.

The sky is bright and all aglow
With the westward sinking sun.
Sweet strains of music-the ceaseless flow,
OF the little rill as on it goes,
Singing its spring-time song.
Sweet perfume from tree and bower,
Laden the balmy air,
Calls back to mem'ry that happy hour,
When we wandered mid many flower
In your well-kept parterre.
We culled the rose, the lily too,
With pinks so fresh and rare,
The beautiful daisy bright with dew,
AS if this gem on its bosom grew,
Its loveliness to share.
Thy hands among these gems Of earth,
Played deftfy hide and seek;
While many a witty speech gave birth,
The air rang clearly with joyous mirth,
With bushes on thy cheek.
Twas lovely morn-the skies were bright,
Yet brighter were thine eyes.
Thy hair was braided, in bands of light,
The sunshine kiss d, and an angel might
Have claimel thee for the skies.
To me, thou hold'st sisters place;
Ah more if that could be-
Thy winsome WAYS so full of grace,
The smile for all, that decks thy face,
daily long to see.
LILLE BELL.
TOWNSEND, DEL, March IL, '75.
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The Three Sisters.

Madam Virtue and Miss Genius,
With their sister Reputation,
Travelled once through foreign countries
On a tour of obser rvation.
Ere they started Genius hinted,
That by some unlucky blunder,
While they journeyed through the kisgdsms
They might chance to get asunder;
"And' she said Kit seems but prudent,
Should we break our pleasant tether,
Some device should be suggested
That may bring us three together.
As for me, if frsn my sisters
l should chance to be roamer,
Seek me at the tomb of Shakespeare,
Or before the shrine Of Homer"
Virtue said, 'tIf am missing.
And you deem it worth the trouble,
Seek me in the courts of monarchs,
Or the dwelling Of the noble.
If among the high and mighty
You should fail to find me present,
You may meet with better fortune
In the cottage of the peasant"
"Ahp' said Reputation, signing,
s1t is easy Of discerning,
Each of you may freely wander
With prospect Of returning.
But pray you watch me closely,
For despite your best endsavor,
If you miss me for moment,
am lost-and lost forever"
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A big boy threw little boy down
on Randolph street Saturday. and gave
him bad pounding, and after the big
boy had scooted around the corner
the little boy sat up and cried. A small
crowd worked fifteen minutes to com
fort him. and he finally dashed the
tears from his eyes and exclaimed {:
"Well. I know one thing-he'll never
90 to Heaven, blamed if he will !"-
Detroit Free Pres.
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Original poetrp.
THE SEXTON'S DREAM.
BY THE AppoouINrMINK BARD.


l dream'd old Scratch, in shape Of a man,
Came prowling through town collecting his
clan
Through each alley and street he silently
sped,
Nor stop'd till he came to the abode Of the
dead
| was then, all alone, with my pick and my
spade,
And he saw at q glance the grave | had
"whose is it?" he asked, and wink'd his
black eye.
'sJohnnie Tombstone's," was my trembling
reply.
i'That's good When came they were blow
ing the Goals,
And the door I left open for note-shaving
souls.
For him not sigh or tear will e'er flow,
Not bosom with pity or sympathy glow.
I will teach him, at ence, that have fixed
laws,
If there, as here, he evades, I'll slap his thin
jaws
His palm had an itching, like Shylock Of old,
That infamous Jew, for flesh or the gold,
Till not being in town, no matter how
poor,
But shuns, as they should, the shades OF his
door
Zen there, we dspise such an unfeelng brute,
From his nose and his mouth a red flame he
did vomit,
And the speed that he went at was that Of
comet
v
When awoke at last, the long-departed sun
Told day and night had mingled into one.
The pick and spade were quickly left per Sc
And my strides were some for duck-legg'd
man like me.
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No Success Without Industry.

l really believe, young friends, that
idleness is the ground of most vices. 1
am acquainted with certain young men
who are running about the streets.
whom see stepping out of drinking
saloons. Some of them are sons of re-
putable parents. remember last sum-
mer meeting young maa-ene of the
best-dresscd lads in the city-a young
man whom met in the omnibus fire.
quently riding up and down; and l
had seen him SO often and always with
such leisurely air, that said enc day,
calling him by name, "What are yeu
doing y"
II have not got any particular busi-
ness" he said.
"Well havn't you anything to do ?"
Nothing in particular. he answer
ed.
1t was somewhat impertinent. but I
said
"Well, suppose now you are out
Of school, you mean to get into some
thing pretty soon ?"
well. I have not anything just now
in view" he replied.
To make long story short, the poor
fellow has not anything in view, never
did have much of anything in view
Drifting, drifting, drifting! Down,
down, down! He is not the boy he
was when l eonversed with him last
summer. There is nothing truer,
though trite, than the adage. "An idle
brain is the devils workshop" Unless
there is an aim, plan, purpose in a
man, there is depravity, and appetite,
and lust, and passion 1t is idlensss
that rells up millions of dollars for
splrltuous liquors every year.
Industry, my young friends, is the
first law of success. Some one asked
a man who was counted great genius,
to define genius, and he said, "Genius
is industry" Things never come about
of themselves. The man who writes a
great book never wrote it in day or a
week. The man who has reported a
great invention did not combine wheel
and piston in an hour or in month ;
but it was the industry of inquiry, the
industry of application. Industry is
the first law of success.
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A POWERFUL MAN.-The Indianapo-
lis Journal says: "Mr L. Barr, an
employee Of one Of the rolling mills. is
said to be one Of the most powerful men
west of the Allsghanies. He often picks
up a couple Of rails weighing 1,120
pounds for small wagers, and can handle
a 500 pound rail easier than most men
can handle fair-sized stick of wood.
He is credited with having lifted ,475
pounds net long since"