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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27

A dead horse or other animal should
be skinned, and roughly cut up into as
many small pieces as possible. A plot of
ground few rods square should then be
plowed deeply, and the carcass thrown
upon the soil in the center of the plowed
ground. Some freshly dry-slacked lime
should then be scattered upon the heap,
60 as to cover it tbinly but wholly. The
loose earth is then heaped over it, a foot
in depth, and the pile covered with
boards, so that the dogs cannot get at
the heap and tear it up. If the least
smell is perceived, more earth should be
thrown upon the heap. In three months
The heap may be dug over or turned over
with the plow, and well mixed. The
bones that cannot be broken up should
taken from the heap. and the fine mat
ter will be worth at least twenty dollars
per ton, to use in the hill for corn. The
larger bones may be broken up and
buried among the roots of grape vines or
fruit trees.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27
NUMBER 80.
Solving the Tramp Problem.

For several months the country has
been seriously annoyed, and, in some
cases, grossly outraged, by tramps. The
Supervisors of Orange county, New
York, have taken hold of the subject in
right good earnest, and expect to abate
the nuisance.
1t is said that about twenty thousand
tramps have been fed and lodged in that
county during the year at the public ex-
pnese, costing. on an average, one dollar
each. The plan adopted by one town
was simply thus: When tramp applies
he is put in the lookup, which has no
furniture buta stove and wooden bench.
A warm fire is kept up, and the tramp is
furnished with pound of crackers and
all the water he might drink. In the
morning he is released, and never tarrics
to accept the hospitality of that place
again. The number was in a short time
reduced to almost nothing, and the cost
from seventy-five cents day per head
to few cents. Another town adopted
the same plan, or similar one, and has
reduced its allowance from thirty day
to two or three week. These facts in
dicated that the tramps keep up some sort
of communication among themselves. The
county has now adopted the plan. a
Port Jervis letter says:
Each town is required to erect or lease
suitable lookup at nominal expense,
the money being appropriated for the
purpose, and every tramp applying for
relief is, on complaint, to be arrested and
taken before Magistrate, who will COM
NIT him to the lookup at hard labor and
fare for not less than thirty nor more than
sixty days. In Sussex county, New Jer-
sey, they have had plan in operation
for some months which has driven every
professional tramp out of its precincts,
although before it was Overrun with
them. An inclosure was added to the
County Jail, in which every tramp
caught in that county was committed and
set to breaking stone for stated period.
When released, he was furnished with a
ticket of leave, good for twenty-four
hours. If at the expiration of that time
he was found in the county, his arrest
followed, and he was sentenced to long
term of breaking stone and prison fare.
Your professional tramp loves liberty
and good victuals and lodging, and hates
work; 50 Sussex county is given wide
berth by him, and the army, from Maine
to Texas, knows the locality.
The New Jersey policy is too harsh, for
some tramps are more to be pitied than
blamed; but the Orange county plan is
fair, and no really deserving and penni-
less wayfarer could complain of its
rigOr,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

PRAIRIE farmers should plant wood
lots as soon as they get their farms fenced.
THE Executive Committee of the
Michigan State Agricultural Society has
decided not to offer any premiums for
horse races at future fairs of the society.
The Adrian Times calculates from
careful statistics gathered in Lanawee
county, Michigan, 125, 900 barrels of ap-
pies, G, 1000 barrels of cider, so, 900 pounds
of dried fruit, and 81 900 pounds of pre-
pared apples have been bought and
shipped in that county this fall, for which
the farmers must have received $3.50, 600.
MAJ. CHAs. II. WILLIAMS is one of
the oldest short-horn breeders in Wiscon-
sin, having been engaged in the business
for nearly quarter of century. he
does not believe in high feeding. His
herd is fed this winter as follows: Three
quarts of oats in the morning; one peck
of cut roots (and one quart of bran to
cows giving milky at night, with hay
and corn stalks freely.
The Practical Farmer, speaking OF a
wash for bodies of fruit trees, recon-
mends the following: One ounce of cop
peras to eight or ten gallons of water,
forms good wash, and is advised for
trial as preventive against blight. One
pound of Breaches soda and one gallon
of water forms wash that cleanses off all
insects, and leaves the trees with fresh,
young-looking, healthy bark.
THOMAS MEEHAN lays down the fol-
lowing rule: The proper distance to sow
or plant any thing is so that the roots of
the plants, whatever they are, should
about touch each other when mature.
Thus wheat plant requires for its best
development to he about four or six
inches from another plant, to have for its
own self to occupy about sixteen to
thiry-six square inches of surface.
EXPERIMENTS have been conducted in
Paris with reference to a method of
autumn planting of potatoes, by which
new may be dug in January. The sets
are planted in August, on thin layer of
salt, which appears to be the special secret
in the process, and the potatoes are
earthed in September, the ground being
cleared of weeds in October The result
is crop of seven or eight fair-sized tubers
to each root in January.
A SUCCESSFUL swine breeder says sows
should be put in their farrow-pens about
two weeks before the expected time.
This pen, for the largest breeds, should
be about eight feet square, and for the
small breeds seven feet square. A shelf
of one and halfinch plank, eight inches
wide, should surround the inside of the
pen, fastened securely, with the under
side of the shelf seven inches from the
floor.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27
Business Maxims.

1. After the feast the 'giver shakes his
head.
2. The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
3. Creditors have excellent memories.
4. Caution is the father of security. :.
g. He who pays beforehand is served
behind hand.
6. If YOU would know the value of a
dollar try to borrow one.
Z. Great bargains have ruined many.
8. Be silent when fool talks.
Q. Give a foolish talker rope enough
and he will hang himself.
10. Never speak boastingly OF your
business.
IL. 1t is hard for the hungry man to
wait when he smells the roast meat.
IL. An hour of triumph comes ut last
to those who watch and wait.
13. Word by word Webster's big Die
tionary was made.
IA. Speak well of your friends of your
enemies say nothing.
Is. Never take back discharged SER
want.
16. If you post your servants upon
your affairs they will one day rend you.
IL. No man can be successful who neg
lects his business.
1S. Do not waste time in useless regrets
over losses.
l9. Systematize your business. and
keep an eye on little expenses. Small
leaks sink great ships.
20. Never fail to take receipt for
money paid, and keep copies of your let
| ters.
81. Do your business promptly, and
bore not business man with long visits.
%. Law Is trade in which the law
yers eat the oysters and leave the clients
the shell. -,
Rothschild, the founder Of the world
renowned house of Rothschild " Co., as
cribed his success to the following:
Never have anything to do with an un
lucky man.
Be cautious and bold.
Make bargain at once.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27
Haunted House at Scarboro. Maine.

Scarboro, Maine,. Is strong in the faith
that she has haunted house. Ten years
ago it was owned by man who died and
was buried on the place. The farm was
sold to pay unjust demands, and last
spring Mr.. johnson and family moved in.
They say that every night while they re-
mained they were tormented with mys-
terious sights and sounds. Sometimes
crossed hands upon the wall, surrounded
by a circle of light, appear. Then doors
begin to open and shut and latches rat
tie. There are sounds like water boiling
over upon the stove, and then whisper
ings in different parts of the house. The
stove shook and the stove. covers ratified,
and the figure Of person of full size,
dressed in white, in full sight, and with
out eyes or nose. travelled about the room.
Some nights IL appeared Just as soon as
the family retired, and they would get
up and sit up all night.-Boston Globe.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27
A Tale OF Love and Death.

The mangled body of man found on
the track of the Erie Railway at the
Bergen tunnel was identified as that of
Charles Preis, of 345 West Twenty.eighth
street, New York. In his diary was the
entry:
"Charles Preis and Lizzie Geiss, on the
night of the 18th of October, swore eternal
friendship, and to prove true to each other
as long as they live."
The second entry is dated October IS,
1876, and is q record of betrothal, fixing
the date of marriage in one year. The
last record was. entered on last Wednes-
day, the day before the suicide:
don the morning of the 4th Of January,
1876, the only dear friend / had, my dear
Lizzie, went back on me, and broke friend
ship by giving me back my ring"
Immediately under this writing, in q
cramped and unsteady hand, is the fol-
lowing: -,
"If my body be found hope the city
may bury it. don't want my folks to know
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27
LIFE AND DEATH.

What Is life, father
A battle my child,
Where the strongest lance may fail,
Where the wariest eye may be beguiled,
. And the stoutest hearts may quail.
Where the foes are gathered on every hand,
Aud rest not day or night,
And the feeble little ones must stand
In the thckest Of the fight.
What Is death, father?
The rest, my child,
When the strife and toll are Ger;
The Angel OF God, who, calm and mild,
Says We need fight no more;
Who, driving away the demon band,
Bids the din OF battle cease;
Takes banner and spear from our falling hand,
And proclaims an eternal peace.
Let me die, father! tremble, and fear
To yield In that terrible strife.
The crown must be won for Heaven, dear,
In the battlefield of life;
My child, though thy foes are strong and tried
He loveth the weak and small
The angels of Heaven are on thy side,
And God is over all
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27
The Habits OF the Dynamite Fiend ON
ShlpbOard.

Thomas was a marked charactt Z among
the whole corps of stewards onacconnt
of his appetite. He. was three men for
eating. Those of the saloon stewards who
did not know his name, when asked to
describe the " big 'eater,.o. al once mem
toned the stout gentleman, with full
beard and gold spectacles. Not single
meal out of the five or six served daily
was missed by him, and at each meal
nothing was amiss and no quantity too
much. One of the passen ers used to
joke him on his capacity, and Thomas
replied laughingly, never appearing pro.
vOked. He was at all times jovial and
laughing. One steward recalled him as
the gentleman with spectacles, who took
the whole passage when going to his sa-
loon, no one being able to pass him in
the narrow gangway between decks. The
bar-keeper, by whose door he frequently
passed, and whose wares he not unfre-
quently tried, jokingly alluded to his
sylph-like form. Thamas again replied
good naturedly. One of his specialties
was fnner.haddy." This he insisted on
having each morning at breakfast, order.
ing the steward to get it. He would
especially instruct him not to =" bring a
bit on a plate," until the calls each morn
ing at the pantry for " fnner-haddy for
three" came to be a matter of merri-
ment among the boys on the ship.
Thomas mingled freely with the pas
sengers, and in every way made himself
agreeable. In the smoking room he
showed himself an apt student of Schenck
on draw-poker, playing the game with
almost uniform good luck and managing
to relieve his fellow-passengers of many
sovereigns. He would familiarly take of
his coat while at the game, and even
then perspire freely, but withal watch
ing the game with the keenness of an
expert gamester, laughing and chatting
the while. He was liberal, SO the
stewards say, and their opportunities for
testing that point were not unfrequent
during the trip.
He kept late hours at night in his
state-room, having the light burning long
after hours, and at times removing the
shade globe from the swinging light.
This was all contrary to the ship rules,
and attracted attention to him. What
be occupied himself with in the state
room is not known, as he kept the door
fast to prevent surprises. One of the men
remembered seeing some small tools In
the berth once during Thomas occupancy
of it. -New York World.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27
Missouri Girls Try the Leap.year Plan.

Louisiana, Mo-, leads of in the leap year
festivities. The young ladies OF the Har-
monica club, of that city, gave Gen.
tennial leap-year hop at Baird's Hall, a
few nights ago. The young gentlemen
were invited by the ladies and requested
to assemble at certain dry goods store,
where the girls called at the appointed
hour and escorted them in an omnibus
to the hall. Instead of gentlemen rush
ing around with pencil in hand to mark
engagements on the programmes the Or
der of the evening was reversed and the
fair damsels besieged their gentlemen
guests calling for their cards and en-
gaging their partners for the different
dances. When the intermission for re-
freshments arrived, fair ladies were to be
seen leading brave men to the oyster
supper, as lambs to the altar. Supper
was served in Womack's restaurant, un-
der the hall, where again the girls showed
true leap year grit by paying for the
boys suppers. The gentlemen wore their
coats pinned back, and were addressed
as "Miss," while the bewitching ladies
assumed the role of Mister" II was
altogether an enjoyable affair, and con-
Quoted throughout in genuine leap year
stvle
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27

THE horseshoe nails dropped in the
streets, carefully collected, reappear in
the form of swords and guns. The clip
pings of tinkers' shops, mixed with the
parings of horses hoofs or cast-of wooden
garments, appear afterward in the form
of dyes of the brightest blue, in the
dress of courtly danes. The bones of
dead horses and other animals yield the
chief constituents Of lucifer matches,
phosphorus. The dregs of port-wine,
carefully rejected by the port-wine
drinker in decanting his favorite bever.
age, are taken by him in the form of
Scidlitz powders. The washings OF coal
gas reappear carefully preserved in the
lady's smelling-bottle rs ammoniacal
salt. There is In fact in the whole world
no such thing as useless matter. The
true chemist can use every thing for the
benefit Of mankind.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27

OF one hundred and seventy-eight
Congregational clergymen whose deaths
the past year are mentioned in the Con-
gregationdlist, eight were over eighty
years of age, and only six under forty.
The average age Of the entire number
was sixty-four years and nearly six
months, which indicates that Congrega.
tional clergymen have pretty good
lease on life on an average.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27

A CORRESPONDENT of the Indiana
Farmer says: II hogs are plentifully sup
piled with ashes from wood, bone, coal,
and common salt, the danger from chol-
era is not great-less, in fact, than from
nasal catarrh.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27

went back, having nothing because l
had lost you. Little did l think in the
far.back days that my little wife would
bring me back to my Kindred, Out Of
the Storm"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27

THINK of John Bull making bis Christ
mas dinner on fresh beef from Indiana
and Ohio, and at only sixpence per
pound at that,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27

AN effort is to be made in Michigan
to secure the working of plaster bed at
Granville, by a company composed Of
Patrons Of Husbandry.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27

POETRY must be affirmative. It Is the
piety of intellect. "Thus saith the
Lord" should begin the song.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27
Modes of Walking.

Observing persons move slow; their
heads move alternately from side to side,
while they occasionally stop and turn
around.
Careful persons lift their feet high and
place them. down quietly by the side of
the way. -.
Calculating persons generally walk
with their hands in their pockets and
their heads slightly inclined.
Modest persons generally step softly,
for fear of being observed.
Timid persons often step off from
sidewalk on meeting another, and always
20 around stone instead of stepping
over it.
Wide-awake persons :" toe out" and
have long swing to their arms, while
their hands move about miscellaneously.
Careless persons are forever stubbing
their toes. rstN. 81.
Lazy persons scrape about loosely with
their heels, and are first on one side of
the walk, then on the other.
Very strong-minded persons have their
toes directly in front of them, and have a
kind of stamp movement.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27
Calilornia's Customary Expectations.

The San Francisco Chronicle of Decem-
ber 10 talks with characteristic conf.
dence thus: In no year since California
became State has the prospect at this
season of the year been so magnificent
for the farmers. Looking over the whole
State, there is one general expression of
satisfaction, from the northern to the
southern counties. The area of land
under cultivation is much larger than in
any previous year. A considerable area
has been reclaimed, and still larger one
rendered fertile by irrigation. Unless
some unforeseen and unfortunate change
in the weather should take place before
harvest time, we shall be able to pour
into the markets of the world from
twenty to twenty-five per cent. more of
the cereals than in 1873 and 1874; in
other words, we shall have to sell from
six hundred thousand to seven hundred
thousand tons of wheat. Unless the
European markets should be specially
unfavorable, this will bring into the
State an enormous amount of money,
that can not fail to place our farmers
fairly on their feet and stimulate every
branch of business. Our wine and wool
crops will also add some millions to the
income of the State for the ensuing year.
From present appearances no State. in
the Union has brighter prospects. than
California. 1t is high time. that our
farmers should have good luck to recehl-
pense them for some Of the losses and
discouravementsd df the mast
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27
BEYOND EARTH,s FROST.

BEYOND EARTH's FROST.
Where are the howers2 where the leaves?
Where the sweet zephyrs' gentle breath?
Where meliowet fruits and golden sheaves?
Dead, dead-all icy bound In DEATH
Is Love- too, dead? Hence, needless pain
Love only sleeps to wake again.
Love dead I? Ah no, not so with Love!
Love only dies to live above.
Ennis Graham.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27

"Grace, darling, / have learned to be-
lieve in the compensations of life. /
sought you everywhere, but no one
knew anything about you, and at last /
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27
WINTER WAITS.
THE FACE OF NATURE.

THE FACE OF NATURE.
As maidens who have passed their prime,
As beauties who have seen their day,
To cover UP the tracks OF time
And hide the russet OF decay,
Puff powder Ger their faded roses,
Those tawny traces time discl0ses;
So, In the waning of the year.
When, ribbed and wrinkled, brown and bare,
Our Mother Earth feels age draw near,
Sh, makes her face with snowfakes fair.
-Hdrper's Basar.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27

Ten days later young man in West
ern town might have been seen busily
writing what appeared to be an import
ant document. From time to time he
referred to some papers that lay before
him on the desk. His face bore the inn
press of subdued sorrow and heroic
endurance-such an one as we see a
dczen times in the course of whole
life, but when once seen is never forgot
ten.
Erred, does this concern your Harry
ran across 1t in the New York Herald
and brought it over to me. / hope it is
good news, old fellow"
If Frederick Arnold will send any
tidings of himself to No. 1O5 Arlington
Place, Boston, he will hear of something
TO his advantage. Any information re-
garding this gentleman will be richly re-
warded."
"I am off on the 4:30 train, Hall. II
il news of my lost Oracle. Goodbye.
We will not forgetl Expect me back
any day. Will telegraph Immediately"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27

The ladies of England are not disposed
to allow their sisters on this continent to
have monopoly of honors won in intel
lectual contests with the "lords of cre-
ation." Miss Isabella G. Clark success
fully passed the Major Examination Of
the English Pharmaceutical Society, and
was thereupon duly admitted as phar-
maceutical chemist. Her performance
in passing the examination is the first on
record of a lady doing 80.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-04

"The Wasp" is the name of new
weekly paper-of the indiscriminate
singing sort, We suppose,-announ-
ced to appear in San Francisco to-
morrow.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-04

Speaking of what Tilden may well
treat in his forthcoming letter, the
n. Y. Herald says: "In his annual
messages to the Legislature OF New
York he did not hesitate to discuss at
great length the question OF the cur
rency, with which he had no concern
in his capacity as State Governor and
with which the Legislature he ad-
dressed had no concern; and it would
be odd indeed if as q Presidential can
didate, in letter meant for the whole
country he should not dare to give
his views on a question of such grave
national consequence As the state Of
affairs in the South"
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-04

An unknown man went to the OK
pense of firing two loads Of his revoi-
YER to kill himself at Oakland, when
by the exercise Of Thoughtful econo-
nv in the direction of Reform with
large Democratic r., he could have
done it with one.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-04

Ground has been broken for the
French exhibition next year. The
building will stand in the Champ dc
Mars.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-04

S ElIlNC OUT
Close Business!
Bar gains in Shirts;
Bargains in Underwear;
Bargains in Boots g. Shoes;
Bargains in Hats & Caps;
Bargains in Furnishing Goods.
Rubber Goods, Trunks,
vaiises,
T"r osD""s'es"" BEING
DETERMINED
To Close Out His Business
IN CARSON.
Offers His Entire Stock Of
MEMS
FURNISHING
GOODS
AT BARGAIN:
CALL AND LEARN THE PRICES!
Joe EsOseTlslOck,
Corner Of Carson and Musser streets,
County Building,
cARsGN ............'..h .Ysoa
August 2, 1875.