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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-04

Mamma was weary.
Annette watched her at the table at
tending to everybody, but never attend
ing to herself. Everybody was to be
fed; everybody was to be fixed and
who was to see to it bat mamma? APP
petites were to please; pleasant dishes
were to dress luncheons were to be put
up every day; and every day mamma
thought and did it all but who thought
of doing for mamma?
Annette forgot that her omelet was
getting cold, that breakfast was almost
over, and sat tasting and thinking, as
she saw the untouchedfood on mamma
plate and the WEAKNESS and anxiety on
her face.
Every ont was off school or to
work but Annette; Ina, exhausted
FROM hurry and labo., sat rocking and
resting.
Annette looked up from her school
of dolls, and saw mamma pale and tired,
and remembered the untasted food on
the plate at mammals place at the
breakfast.
"She is tired" she whispered 6" she
is hungry she has so many to tend,
and no one to attend to her; If was
only bigger if 1 was a woman like
Jo'phine, or big girl like our Ted !"
and she sung low lullaby, uncon-
sciously, to the doll in her arms. 81
wonder if could" she thought, eff I
could make her anything good. 1
wonder what could make; ;" and light
as the air her little feet flew over the
stairs, down to the kitchen and pantry
below.
"I don't dare to ask about any
thing" she thought, because mamma
would say, No, little daughter, you
can get me nothing; am not hungry,
and you are too small )" and she peeped
into this jar, and that pan, and dishes
without number, to decide at last
that she only could "guess about
making broth, which was easy, and
which it was quite certain her mamma
would like"
1t was just the incest thing in the
world to hear the meat blubbering in
the pot, and know that she had put it
there to see the rice dancing on the
bubbles, and to pick fresh parsley leaves
from the garden patch and fix them in
the prettiest china bowl, all ready for
the broth.
Never mad luncheon tray so much fix
ing before from the napkin, white as
snow. to the polished spoon. everything
was arranged and rearranged, till the
kitchen was redolent with the vapors OF
broth, and Annette decided it was ready
and done.
But mamma was asleep and over
powered by WEAKNESS, on the chair
where she had rocked, and Annette
sat on the door-sill to watch and to
wait.
Boots rang ON the sidewalk and on
the steps, and before Annette nadine Il
to do more than think, s. 1t sounds like
Bob, but what can he ,5ant ?" Rob had
banged the door behind him, and was
whistling up the stairs.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-04
Household Helps.


PLUM PUDDING.-Two eggs, six
crackers, three pints of sweet milk, a
piece OF butter the size of an egg, one
cup of Iaisins, little salt aud nutmeg.
STOVE PoLIsH.-If stove polish is
mixed with very strong soap-suds, the
luster appears Immediately and the
dust of :he polish does not fly around
as it usually does.
Much pleasure may be derived from a
few flowers in the house if properly at
tended to. Remember that you will
not have good plants unless you give
them proper care.
ARNIcA LINIMENT.-Two ounces a1co-
hol; one drachm tincture arnica. IN
equaled for pains in the feet and limbs;
for all fresh or recent sprains, bruises
or confused wounds, and for rheuma-
tism of the joints and equity pains.
CLEANING CoAT COLLARS. Obtain a
little spirits of ammonia, and mix it IN
a pint OF cold water, then well sponge
the collar or the other parts until the
grease disappears, which it will quick
ly do. Or dip soft flannel in spirits
of turpentine, and rub the greasy part
with it.
EDWARD SMITH, in his new work on
I" Foods" gives the following simple
formula for making vinegar One gal
Ion of water, one and a quarter pounds
of raw sugar, and a quarter of pint of
yeast. At temperature of eighty de-
grees it will be sufficiently acid in three
or four days to be drawn of, when an
ounce of cut rais'ns and the same
weight of cream of tartar should be
added, and after few weeks the sweet
taste will entirely disappear, when it
may be bottled.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-04
To Sow Light Grass Seed.

A correspondent of the Practical
l'urnaer has not found machine ca
pable of properly distributing the lighter
and more chaffy grass seeds, such as
blue grass. He, therefore, still clings
to hand sowing, and he does it as fol-
lows The course which 1 now pursue
is thoroughly to mix one part of the
seed with one part of coarse, sharp
sand, or fine gravel (the sharper the
better), and moisten the mass, carefully
manipulatingit until the seeds and chaff
are well separated and caused to adhere
to the rough particles of sand. The
weighty sand thus becomes an effective
vehicle with which to distribute the
seed, which by moisture is made to ad-
here to the sand.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-04
Making Sausage.

To one hundred pounds Of meat, add
two and one-half pounds fine salt, fif-
teen heapins tablespoons of sage, fiji
teen tablespoons of black pepper and
ten of thyme or summer savory, if,
these are relished. Mix in kettle over
the fire. Another is as follows To 100
pounds of meat, add two and one-half
pounds salt, one and one quarter pounds
of sage, three-quarters of a pound of
black pepper, six tablespoons of mus
tard and summer savory to taste. Those
who do not like the summer savory or
mustard can leave either or both out.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-04

CHILDREN have d power over each
other What one does and has the other
wants. "Lucy," says one school girl
to the other, "do You work in the
kitchen at homer" Eyes" says Lucy.
"Well, 1 wouldn't" And so Lucy, if
not over sensible and wise, lets her
mother do the work, and she plays the
butterfly. This is all wrong.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-04

DETROIT boys do not say A stitch
in time saves nine," but yeG out:
Here, mann, il ye don't yank this old
rent together pretty soon the hole will
be all over my clothes"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-04
FARM AND GARDEN.
Feed Iiberaily.

1t does not pay to starve stock be-
cause cora IS high. The best way for
farmer is to rely on his stock for
his profits. and feed literally at all
times.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-04
TO ccHRrspnSDExrs.

Ali communications for this paper should be accom-
panied by the name of the author not necessarily for
publication but evidence of good faith the part
of the writer Write ONLY side of the paper. Be
particularly careful IN giving and dates to hays
The letters and figures plain and distinct.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-04

A SINGULAR blindness prevails among
the salmon in York river, which flows
into the Gulf of st. Lawrence, SO that
the fishermen can drop down in q birch
bark canoe right over the fish. and whip
them out with gait 1855
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-04
Horticultural Items.

The President declares agriculture to
be the ground work of the prosperity of
the nation. The President is not given
to making puns, but he accidentally hit
one here.
A HERD book for poultry is in actual
existence. tits called Pedigree Record.
and the ROSTERS and pullets of high
blood can see themselves there as others
see them.
A GARDENER in Maine pinched his
raspberry Genes when about three feet
high, which caused thein to throw out
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-04
THE YOUNG FOLKS.
Intra. Cufra, Corn.

Intra, Cufra, Corn.
Ten small hands upon the spread,
Five forms kneelins beside the bed,
Biue-eyes, Buckeyes, Curly -hesd;
blonde, Brunette-in glee and glow,
Waiting the magic word. Such q rowi
Seven years, six years, five, four, two.
Fifty fingers, ell in a line,
yours are th:,ty. and twenty are mine,
Ten sweet eyes that sparkle and shine.
Motherly Mary, age of ten.
Evens the finger-tips again,
Chances along he line--and then
Entra, lrintra, cutra, corn,
Apple-sesd and apT.,e-thorn,
Wire, 6rSer, limbeT Isck,
Three geese in rock,
Iilible, robe, rabble and rort,
7, o, O, T,
OUT
Sentences falls on Curly head
One wee digit is ''gone and dead"
Nine-and-forsy left on he spread.
Intra, nintrs," the : zee,
Who'll be taken, nobO ,ws,
Only God may the lot dispose.
Is it more than childish play.
Still you sigh and turn away
Why? What pain in the sight, pray?
All, too true: "As the fingers fall,
One by one, at the magic call,
Till, at last, chance reaches all,
$50 in the fAteful days to come
The lot shall fall in many a home
That breaks heart and fills a tomb:
"shah fall, and fail, and fall again,
Like Law that counts our love but vain,
Like Fate, unheediDg our oe and pain.
Zone by one-and who shall say
Whether the lot may fall this day.
That calleth of these dear babes away?
True, too true Yet hold. dear friend:
Evermore doth the 10th depend
On Him who loved, ana loves, to the end
"Blind. TO our eyes, the fat goes,
Who'll be taken, no mortal knows,
But, only Lore wiH the lot dispose.
" Only Love, with His wiser sight;
Love alone, in His infinite might;
Love, who dwells in eternal light
Now are the fifty fingers gone
To play some new play under the sun
The childish farcy is past and gone.
SO let our bodipg prophecies go
As childish, for do we not surely know
The dear God holdeth our lot below?
.so,, C.,, .rrs.r.vfso .,oTsSy
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-04
Purifying Cider Barrels.


A correspondent of the Boston Cut
tivator accomplishes it this way: 81
cleansed a cask that had boiled cider in
1t; it is as sweet as a new one. 1 put
about two quarts of lime in it, and
filed it with water. and let it stand
twenty-four hours, then turned it out
and rinsed thoroughly with water.
Then l took piece of sheet iron and
made funnel-shaped cup that would
go into the bung- hole, riveted narrow
piece of hoop iron to it, about eighteen
inches long. then put red hot bolt into
the cup and filed it with sulphur, and
put 1T into the barrel and cleansed the
vents and bung. I let it stay about
five hours, then rinsed well, and it was
all right. The handle to the cup makes
it easy to fumigate barrels"
Red Glover the Cheapest and Best Fer
tilizer.
A correspondent of the Southern
Planter and Farmer says he has ascer-
tanned by fifty-four years farm ex-
perience that red clover is the basis of
all permanent improvement on South
ern lands. If plaster acts well it
should be plentifully supplied to the
clover lands, and he never knew q good
clover lay that did not make a good
crop of wheat. Clover is manure both
above and under the surface the roots
are large, run deep, and bring up
plant-food, from the subsoil that has
been washed in below the reach of or
binary plants. Clover. according to
V@lcker, fixes nitrogen in the soil dur
ing every stage of its growth, and nitro
gen Is the specific manure for the wheat
crop. A good crop of clover has been
estimated as the equivalent for twenty
loads of ordinary yard manure for an
acre of land. Plaster does not always
benefit the wheat, but it helps the
clover. 1t is true that clover is lime
plant that does best on the fossiliferous
limestone lands. George Geddes, of
Onondaga, n. Y, has some fields that
have been cropped more than fifty
years with no other manure than clover
and plaster. He says crop of corn
raised on clover lay needs but little
hoeing, if the cultivator is used to keep
the surface open to the light showers
and dew.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-04
Two Glasses Of Boys.

A young man was engaged IN very
profitable situation in one of our lar6A
cities, and was highly valued by all who
were associated with him. No consid-
Grafton would have induced his en-
ployers willingly to part with him, yet
there were fully 400 young men in the
town who would have been happy to
step into his shoes. The salary was
high fer such youth, and it was also
III the line of promotion. Many had
applied for it who had rich fathers to
second their suits. Charles father was
Only d laboring man, and could not do
much for his boy except roofing and
grounding him in good principles but
that was worth something to boy.
Don't you think so? Stop a minute
and let your minds eye run over the
lists of boys you know, and recall what
kind OF fathers they have. Are not
those boys most respects whose fathers
are honorable, temperate, Christian
men, and who train their children up to
walk in their footsteps? Do people as
a general thing want a bar-tender's son
to fill a place of trust or are the fami-
lies of those who go fishing on Sundays
ever much esteemed, or very prosperous
in the community?
Charles started out to make his for
tune with a stock of good principles
and habits, the best kit of tools young
man ever had. He began as an GRAND
boy, and found favor in every ones
eyes. His leisure time was not spent
in cracking his knuckles in the now so
greatly abused game of base ball, but
in perfecting his writing aud arithmetic.
Then he learned to telegraph, and
at every successive step his perfect ac-
curacy was the praise of his employers
While he was rising in favor and pros
perity, scores Of boys went and came in
various situations, their employers ex-
claiming in vexation that every" one
was worse than his predecessor. They
were unfaithful and not to be trusted
out of sight. They will grow up to
join the great army of the incapable,
half-paid workingmen. Which class
would you prefer to join - Country
Gentleman.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-04

side branches, and yield q much larger
crop of fruit, he thinks.
The renowned Victoria Regia has
competitor in water lily found in
Paraguay, some seeds have been sent
to NJ. Ven Hulle, of Client. 1t is
feared the seeds will not germinate,
owing to TIE condition they were in
when sent.
THE new peach, Alexander, ripens
the last week in July in latitude forty
degrees. The Amsden is still earlier,
so says the Prairie Farmer. There
are other new candidates, which are
quite early, fo. foreign extraction, the
Early Beatrice, Early Louise and Early
Rivers. Some of these early varieties
will doubtless prove valuable here.
If this proves a good and reliable
remedy for the cabbage worm it will be
of great value. 1t is given by j. L.
Van Wyck in tie New York Tribune,
and is simply sprinkling the cabbage
heads with wheat-bran. Il viii not do,
he says, to wait till the worms are
strong and fat, as then it will not de-
stroy them. Sow the bran on the first
appearance of the worms. Some sea-
sons it may be necessary to SOW it the
second time. A hundred weight is
enoug... for an acre.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-04
Children,s Crumbs.

IT is the kind words and bright
smiles that make people happy often.
They are worth more, sometimes, than
great speech or rich gifts, and any little
boy or girl can give them.
A LITTLE boy who attended tenn
perance meeting was asked by his
father when he returned, Have you
learned anything, my boy? ?" eyes,
father, l have. i have learned never
to put strong drink to my lips; for it
has killed fifty thousand persons an
nually, and how do / know that it will
not kill me ?"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-04
Now are the fifty fingers gone

Now are the nifty fingers gone
To play some new play under the sun
The childish fancy is past and gone
SO let our bodipg prophecies go
As childish, for do we not surely know
The dear God holdeth our lot below?
, 1875-12-04

Jersey and Wisconsin. Illinois was
carried this year by aid of independ-
ent papers which have no especial
liking for the republican party, but
Joined with it in the last canvass on
local issues. New jersey Is only
spasmodically republican. North
Carolina is republican by her last
vote, but the conservatives controlled
the late constitutional convention, and
the tendency Of the things IN the
South is 70 tie restoration OF
that party the power. The re-
cent election in Mississippi is an e4-
ample, and North Carolina has much
less 10 contend with TO secure VIC
tory. Wisconsin is very closely bal
anced this year, and may be counted
as a doubtful State, with the chance
in tavCr or the republicans. On the
whole, the democrats are as likely to
win States froi5 the UeralGs repub-
lican column as to lose them from its
democratic column. The parties start
fair, and the result will depend in
large measure upon which party
shows itself most deserving of success
in their action the coming winter.
Journals like the New York Tribune
and the Chicago Times, which are
ready to act with the democrats, if
that party does not repel them, insist
that initiation must be discarded as an
issue. Whether the democrats are
prepared to do this, will appear from
The choice of Speaker by The demo
cratic house.
, 1875-12-04

WIscoysIH.-The STATE of Wiscon-
sin, to the surprise Of everybody, has
gone democratic, the whole State
ticket of the party having been elected
with the exception Of Governor, whom
the republicans probably elect by a
majority Of seven or eight handred.
This is considerable glory for us, and
knocks the talk right ont of our oppo.
nents. With New York, Wisconsin,
Maryland and Mississippi all carried
by the democrats, the battle of the
3lst ult. hasn't resulted so badly
after all, and the democrats had been
crying over disasters that did not oc.
cur. Wisconsin has heretofore been
a reliable republican State, and the
democrats have great reason to rejoice
over the fact that she will hereafter
become permanently democratic. II
is great defeat for the republicans
not TO have elected their whole ticket
by large majority, and the democrats
well afford TO losa the Governor by so
small figure. The democracy have
likewise got . majority in the legisla,
inre, and all things look as if Wis.
consin was good for the democratic
candidate for President in 1876.
, 1875-12-04
President Making.

Just now an interesting pastlme
for newspapers and politicians is spec
uiating as to the result of the Presi-
dental election in 1875. Although
everything looking toward that event
can only be guess woIk, yet that, in
case it hits, Is Just as good as any.
That the prospects of Democratic sue
cess are brighter than since 1860,
even tie most sanguine radicals ad-
init. and that class Of newspapers that
are on either side can only tOresee rad
zeal success through the worst demo-
cratic blunders. The New York
H.raH fixes up the electoral college
in the following way:
, 1875-12-04
Northern Mexico.

nv NNAN 'S''' NA-N
report that the Q oyeTnment is about
to annex the Northern Mexican States.
We trust the report is well founded.
Nearly all our available territory Is
already settled. and unless some new
acquisition is made, in a few years
these will be no outlet for our ambl-
tious young men, We have always
regarded it as mistake that we failed
10 retain the whole of Mexico after
having computed the country, and we
shall hail the acquisition Of the North
ern States as a prelude 10 the absorp
ton of tie whole country. Mexico Is
too rich in resources 10 be left in the
possession of It's present grcaser popu-
lation, and accepting the manifest
destiny" theory, we are ready to
second any movement that promises TO
bring the land Of the MOntezumas I'M
Ter the rule Of more vigorous race.
The States now proposed 10 be annex
ed are rich in mineral and agricultural
wealth. To commence with II Is stat
ed that the superficial area is not far
from 100000 square miles. The
State Of Sonora, which is included en-
tire in the proposed cession, comprises
little over 100000 square miles.
Lower California comprises $4,000,
and chihuahua about $4,000. In ad-
dition 10 these States, which it is pro-
posed to transfer in entirety, there are
portions of the States of Sonora, Du-
rango, Sinaloa, and Coahuila included.
The population Of these States and
portions of States will not exceed
half million Sonora and chihuahua
together have about SOC, 600. Duran.
90 and Coahuila combined have a
population ofaboat 00.000,a and Lower
California only 10000 The entire
population of Mexico is about 5000
600, of whom only 100000 are of
unmixed European descent. The In
dams number 900, 5000, aud the mi1-
ed races ard negroes about 5000, 900.
With this large territory, averaging a
population of less than Two to a square
mile, vast field for land speculation
will be opened. The opportunity thus
afforded is doubtless the secret of TIE
present excitement. The Washington
politicians and the capitalists in their
confidence have for long time look
ed Wit. greedy eyes upon this unoc
cupied territory, and the circumstance
that our Government had claims
against Mexico amounting TO millions
of dollars, suggested way for them
to realize their designs. y very pow
ertul interest is thus created to carry
the project TO the desired eonsrmma-
ton. An established government eX-
ercising its power over the new ter
ri;ory will give it at once an enh4nc-
ed value, and system Of internal i'm
provementS. which will naturally fol-
low, will add still more to lis value.
American capital and enterprise, un,
der the protection Of the : merican
Government, will soon work a marvel
lous change in the physical aspect Of
the country. Eet the acquisition be
made, and in time to benefit the pres
ent generation.
, 1875-12-04


Must BE DEsTRoYED.-The New Yolk
Hsraid is making fierce warfare upon Tam
many Hall, and calls loudly for the destruc-
tion of the society Of that name. 1t says:
"If Tammany Hall is permitted TO control
New York. and through New York the next
National Democratic Convention, the rCpub-
licans may have an easy victory Tammany
j. only democratic embodiment of the old
Know Nothing idea. The Know Nothing
party was a secret organization intended 70
nntiie the enemies OF the Catholic Church
asi Of foreign citizenship. Notwithstanding
II was opposed to the fundamental principles
Of our constitution and 10 the manifest inter
eS's Of civilization, it struck the passion
Of A vulgar throng and lived for two or three
political seasons. II rested upon i secret
lodge, midnight meetings il a club room,
and passwords and dark lanterns. It fell be-
cause as soon as the American people came to
know what was behind II, with that COMMON
sense which never yet failed our nation n
any time OF real emergency, they struck it
down and drove 1t ont. Tammany Hall il
Know knothingism in another form. Il is
governed by q secret, irresponsible cabal.
beginning under It's character a. a benevo-
lent and social society, with no connection
with politics, it has grown up step by step.
ty different abuses ani variations Of is orr
ginsl purpose, TO be a secret oath-bound, ir-
responsible club, governed by men who ell
themselves " Sachems and Wiskiuskies :"
and other foolish, Ineanin gisSs Indian names.
and who hold 1t in their power 70 prevent
the democratic party in New York from e1-
pressing itswill unless that viii is pleasing
- othen.''
, 1875-12-04

HENRY WusoE, late Vice President,
was buried at Boston On the 29th uit.,
with all the honors. Ills death has
created 4 great sensation Throughout
the country. and he is being euloglsed
as one Of the purest men that ever
figured in public life.
, 1875-12-04

MlSSissPPl's NEXT SENAroR.-Since
the election IN Mississippi is ascertain
ed to have gone largely for the cen
servatve demOcrative, Congressman
L. q. c. Lamar looms up conspicuous
Iy asa candidate for the United States
Senate. to succeed Governor Alcorn-
This gentleman, by his expression of
liberal views on questions of sectional
nature, has Won well.merited applause
among the intelligent and conserva-
tive PEOPLE of his own State, while be
has not failed TO win approval in the
North. lie is = national statesman
IN the in,I accep;ation of the term,
end the position to which he aspires
r"uid rot, IfCThaps, be filled by q man
who would give greater satisfaction 10
the entire country.