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CHEAP ICE.HOUSES.

The Practical Farmer gives practi-
cal example of how easy it would be for
every farmers family to have the luxury
of ice through the hot summer months.
Here is how one farmer had it in abun-
dance:
All that is needed is the simplest kind
of a board building. l built woodshed
last season, thirty feet long and fourteen
wide, and used twelve feet of the north
end for ice, and notwithstanding the fact
that we had but one freeze, last winter,
and only got our ice-house two thirds
full Of ice less than six inches thick, we
have used not less than fifty pounds
day since the lst of May, and have let
our uelghbors have at least one thousand
pounds. We still have plenty of ice,
and think it will last through September
For drainage we threw in foot of stone
varying in size from a goose egg up to
those that would weigh ten or fifteen
pounds each. On this we put foot of
sawdust, and then packed the ice as close
as possible, leaving space of l5 inches
all around the outside. The ice should
be cut as true as possible, SO as to pack
closely, and every crack should be filed
closely with broken ice. 1t should be
filled in cold weather, so that the ice
will freeze solid, and you should have
sawdust ON hand to cover it at once.
Take great pains to pack the saWdust
we'll around the outside. As soon as the
open windy weather of March sets in.
visit the ice-house every day, and with
spade in your hand. tramp around and
feel with the spade for holes, and when
you find them fill and tramp solid. In
small ice-house this is absolutely nec-
essary if you expect to keep your ice
through the summer.
/ am satisfied that my ice wasted more
in March and April than in July and
August. A body of ice, ten feet square
and ten feet high. well packed and cov-
cred with sawdust to the depth Of eight
inches. will keep through the hottest
season we ever have. if attention is given
to it daily; but a weeks neglect, even
in March, may work hole through it
from top to bottom, and leave you with.
out ice in midsummer.
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Who will care for Kearney now?

Ode to the $500 sealskin cloak: Thou
art so dear, and yet so fur.
Don't get into debt to a shoemaker if
you would call your sole your own.
Parlor magic is best performed by two
young people alone, but the trouble is
the old folks find out the trick too quick.
They've been there.
A man has invented chair which can
be adjusted to 5000 different positions.
1t is designed for boy to sit in when
having his hair cut.
A Californian paper says the japanese
"will win universal respect by sort of
heathenish habit they have of minding
their own business"
"What Is wisdom % asked teacher
of small class of girls. A bright-eyed
little creature arose and answered: "In-
formation of the BRAIN"
young lady y.about to marry farmer,
said: "Mother Eve married gardener" 4"
She forgot to add that owing to the
match the gardener lost his situation.
One of the saddest and most vexatious
trials that comes to girl when she mar
ries, is that she mas to discharge her
mother and depend upon hired girl.
Concerning the long bow, no American
effort can surpass one that comes to US
from Scotland: 1t was told that Colonel
Andrew M'Dowall, when he returned
from the war, was one day walking along
by The Myrock, when he came on an old
man sitting grectin' on muckle stane
at the roadside. When be came up, the
old man rose and took off his bonnet,
and said, "Ye're welcome hame again,
laird" Thank you" said the colonel
adding, after pause, 81 should surely
know your face. Aren't you Nathan
MCulloch?" "Ye're RIGHT, deed" says
Nathan; "It's just me, laird" "You
must be good age, now, Nathan" says
the colonel. I'm no vera aul' yet
laird" was the reply: "I'm just turnt
a hummer" ga hundred l' says the CO.
lionel, musing; "well. you must be ali
that. But the idea of man of hundred
sitting blubbering that way What evel
could you get to cry about p at wal
my father ,lashed me, Sir" said Nathan
blubbering again; IAN he put me oot
SO he did," "Your father!'' said tn,
colonel; is your father alive yet p
"Leevin! ay." replied Nathan; 81 kel
that the day tao my sorrow" "Wher
is hep" says the colonel. "What an ag
he must be- l would like to see him.
"Oh. he's up in the barn there" say
Nathan; "an' no in a horrid guide hume
the moo. aither." They went up to tn
barn together, and found the father bus
threshing the barley with the big hai
and tearing on fearful. Seeing Natha
and the laird coming in, be stopped an
saluted the colonel, who, after inquirin
} how he was, asked him what he struc
Nathan for. The young rascal 70 say
the father, "there's nae DOOM wi him
he's never oot O. mischief. l had ia
lick him this mornin' for throa0in' stan.
at has grandfather !'-HarPer's Mage
zine for December.
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THE HOME DOCTOR.

DYspEpsrA IT emanade mada with
honey, and used freely, is an efficient
remedy for dyspepsia.
For ScALDs OR BURNs.-Poultices of
tea-leaves, moistened in hot water, are
preferable to all other remedies in the
first stage of burns and scalds. Or take
raw onions, pound or mash fine as pos
sible, and apply at once; it will give
immediate relief.
To HEAL A Without waiting
for it to stop bleeding, press the edges
of the lacerated flesh together, and ap-
ply Immediately plaster made of a SCOT
and cream, binding it firmly on, not to
be removed till healed, without cleanli-
ness requires it. Then put another of
the same on, without delay, not allowing
exposure to the air any more than possi-
BILE to prevent.
How TO CURE SwEELED FEET AND
ANKLEs.-Take plantain leaves (Which
can be found in almost any grass plot,
and in our public parks) wilt them by
putting separately between the hands;
cover the swollen parts with them. and
keep in place by wrapping the limb
with rags or towel on going to bed at
night, or keep them on during the day if
not obliged to be upon the feet. A cure
will be speedily efebted.
ScALDING OF THE THROAT FROM SwAL.
LOWING BOILING WATER-This accident
occurs not uncommonly among the chill
dren left by themselves, and is very
dangerous, as the throat swells, and the
sufferer is in danger of being sufocated.
Send for the medical man Immediately.
Meanwhile, if it can be procured, let the
patient suck ice constan tly. and apply a
strong mustard poultice to the ontside
of the front of the throat.
BELADoNNA IN AsTHMA.-The Mel
bourne Medical Record states that
smoke from the leaves of belladona pos
sesses much more power in cutting short
an attack of asthma than that from
stramonium, long pipe being the best
means of smoking them. the smoke to be
drawn deep into the chest. Or if, when
the attack is at its height, the patient
has not the power of doing this, the
leaves map be placed in saucer con-
talting lighted charcoal or wood ashes,
which should be put on chair in front
of the patient, this chair, as we'll as his
own, being covered with large sheet.
SO as to confne the fumes, before the
leaves are put on the hot charcoal. From
two and half to five grains of the leaves
are sufficient when smoked, and from
FIVE to twenty grains when burned,
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thing has to be invented from the very

thing has to be invented from the very
beginning
Down stairs. Tt is furnished by our
engine. We use Wallace's machine
William Wallace of Ansonia wonder
fully ingenious man. We use his gen.
orator. It simply turns power into gas.
In actual operation, one large engine
would supply whole town with light"
''How much will your lights cost, Mr..
Edison ?''
"They will cost good deal less than
gas. How much less is not now certain
nor is it prudent to estimate it. But
confidently. | will tell you that
Mr.. Edison here told in whisper
how cheap he though the electric light
could be furnished. but the Graphic am
bassador did not take notes, and is un-
certain whether he said it would cost
four cents an hour for 100 feet, or
cent for four hours for 100 burners.)
We returned to the electric lamps.
"You light one of these" said Edison,
"by just turning thumb screw. No
lighting of matches, no fumes, no danger
of suffocation or damage if you leave it
turned on full. And the beauty of it is,
said he taking up his pipe and lighting
it, "that no electricity is wasted. What
you don't use, the other lamps in the
circuit do
"Now,' he added, laying down the
pipe, where it presently went out, 81
wish l could give to the public the
whole secret. but l can't run any risk.
1t is impossible to tell the public at
present just what I have patented. But
you may assure the readers Of the
Graphic that l have this thing within
sight" We followed him to the back
window, where he called our attention
to groups of workmen digging and said,
81 am putting up new building there
to perfect this electric light. 1t will
be 1876 by 50 feet and will be equipped
with two eighty-horse power engines, an
immense hydraulic press, and much 9th
er machinery. We are going to put
electric lights all over Menlo park and
see how many horse power will feed.
We want to know exactly all about it. .
The return train whistled unexpected
ly, and the visitors rushed down across
the field, followed by the warning voice
of the Wizard, who shouted from the
porch, Don't you give me away-till
next week" ."-Neao York Graphic.
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HOME DEooRATIoN.-Decorative art
was once know only to the rich, but now
it is familiar to the middle-classes, who
crave form of beauty. Let US dwell for
a few moments on houses and the art of
furnishing rooms. Rooms are quick tell
tales Of character and taste, or the lack
of it, and each room should express some-
thing and be in harmony with itself.
There are elegant drawing-rooms which
chill you as you enter, and simple, cosy
sitting-rooms, in which every chair says,
..do sit down with me, and welcome
will come from the very walls. Taste is
but synonym for good household cul-
ture, and she is wise woman who sur
rounds those she loves with objects of
beauty. 1t is not an impossible fact, for
women can accomplish much In this di-
rection. | know one who has changed,
as if by magic. an ugly seven gabled
house into marvel of beauty. 1t is a
thousand little felicities, pretty brack-
ct. an artistic gem Of a picture, statuette
or bust, gauze curtain yelling some
little recess. pretty hanging basket,
graceful stand of flowers, tiny cabinet
Of choice treasures, cosy chair. or a
comfortable divan, these and many
another object, trifling in itself and easily
manufactured, are the straps to catch
sunbeams," which simmer and tighten
up and glow through the dwelling where
taste dwells in unity with utilities and
| love a1e
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-11-25
is YOUR LAMP BURNING !!

There is whole sermon in the following line'
written by a colored man..
Say, Is your lamp burning, brother?
Ipray you look quickly and see;
For if 1t were burning. then surely
Some beams would fall bright upon me.
Straight. straight is the road; but falter
And oft shall fall by the way.
Then lift your lamp higher my brother.
Lest should make fatal dely.
There are many and many around you,
Who follow wherever you go,
Ifyou thought that they walked in the shadow,
Your lamp would burn brightly, 1 know.
Upon the dark mountain they stumble,
They fall on the rocks, and they lie
With their white. pleading faces turned upward
To the clouds and the beautiful sky.
Ifonce all the lamps that are lighted
Should steadily blaze out in line
Wide DER the earth and the ocean,
What girdle Of glory would shnel
How all the dark places would tighten;
How the mist would rise up and away;
How the earth would laugh out in her gladness,
And hail the mellennal dayI
Say, is your lamp burning. my brother?
1 pray you lcok quickly and see;
For fit were burning, then surely
Some beams would fall bright upon me.
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sUNDAY-scHooL LESSON.

The Lords Supper. Luke %, 1920.
Sunday, Dec. l.
The greatest sacrifice and feast Of the
Old Covenant was the Passover. It cell
ebrated the great event. when Jehovah
''passed over'' the dwellings of the chill
dren of Israel and smote the first born of
the Egyptians. See Ex. IL, 2-30.
The sign of the "passing over" was
the paschal lamb. which was sprinkled on
the door posts of their houses. They
were commanded to eat the meat of the
lamb with unleavened bread and bitter
herbs. The Jews celebrated this great
feast once year. It commenced on the
l4th Of Nissan (about March 17th) and
lasted seven days. Jesus and his disci-
pies now made preparations to eat the
passover-the last under the Mosaic dis
pensation, for Christ, in his death, full
filled the type of the paschal lamb.
He sent Peter and John into the city
to certain man, whom they were to
recognize by a sign, and who. at the
simple intimation Of the Lords will,
showed them large upper room, furn-
ished, where they prepared the feast.
When they are assembled, he assured
them of the ardent desire he felt to eat
with them this passover, which was his
last before he had delivered mankind
from the bondage of sin and death, by
his death and resurrection. He then
took the cup of wine and water, and
having given thanks he bade them di-
vide it among them, for he would not
drink the fruit of the the vine till he
had fulfilled the mission of earth.
For this refusal of the cup, which he
repeats later in the feast, there seems
to be both physical and ceremonial
reason.
In the same spirit in which he refused
the opiate offered to him on the cross,
he would incur neither the danger or
suspicion of his mind being clouded
with wine; and he abstained also as the
officiating priest, about to lay down his
own life in sacrifice. AS the Supper
was drawing to an end, Christ took
loaf of unleaven bread, and having given
thanks he brake it and gave it to them
to eat as the emblem of his body broken
for men. The words, "This is my body"
gave to the bread a new character. As
our Lord had just celebrated the paschal
supper, which was called the passover,
SO in like fgurative Language, he calls
this bread his body. But this bread
was no more his real body than the pas
chal lamb was, really, the passover.
After Supper he took the cup and divid-
ed it among them. as a pledge of the
New Covenant in his blood, shed for the
remission of sin. This new testament
in his blood, fulfilled the wonderful
prophecy, in which that new covenant
had been, for in Jer 81, 31-34. Jesus,
when he instituted "the Lords Supper, -
did not appoint new rite, but app ro-
priated an old one to new purpose.
His disciples leave unnoticed all the
ceremonies of the passover except those
that have been transferred to the Chris
tian Church and perpetuated by it.
They celebrate it no longer in remem-
brance of the deliverance from the Egyp-
tians but in remembrance of our Lord
and Master. TEACHER.
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Milwood's. Never thought of it before.
And, to tell the truth, it has given me
several warning pulls in the last few
months
There was present the young man
Bradford, referred to in the beginning
He had not spoken during this conver-
sation. Of all who had enjoyed Medal
ry's supper on the night before, he had
INDUCED in the largest excess, and did
not really know when. or how he reached
his room at the hotel. 1t was not the
first time that wine had been his mock
err; nor the first time mornings
shame and repentance followed nights
debauch.
Telegraph p he calculated, as Hen
derson ceased speaking, and with an
emphasis that drew all eyes upon him.
there was no mistaking the signs in
lis face. He had been in the grip of
the undertow as surely as his friend who
by weak and exhausted upon the bed,
and was in almost as much danger of
drifting out to sea and drowning as this
friend had been few hours before.
His sense Of peril was SO great that he
felt a shivcr run along his nerves.
'sThen we're all agreed" said Hen
derson, rising. "I'll 60 at once and tel
egiaph Steele not to send the cham
payne. In the meantime you can study
the undertow question, and let me know
thu result when | come back"
What the conclusion was we are not
informed; but it will do the reader no
harm to study up the question for him
self; and SO in closing we submit it for
bis careful consideration-only remark
ing that the undertow of an indulged
appetite sets harder against man than
anything else, and comes. sooner or lat
er, to act with an almost resistless force.
Selected.
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--38-
DANCING.

The Chief-of-Police of New York says
that three-fourths of the abandoned girls
in that city were ruined by dancing.
Young ladies allow gentlemen privileges
in dancing which, if taken under any
other circumstances, these gentlemen
would be reported as improper persons.
/ have sister who has passed away.
On a marble block is written:
Willing to be absent from the body,
and to be present with the Lord"
had rather 60 there with my sighs,
tears, flowers and prayers, and visit that
little grave as shrine. than have her
ssns ia bf hGaS sHs So iess hfE foo% IL 4s
requires neither brains, good morals nor
religion to be good dancer. 1t leads
to bad society.
/ never saw such vicious crowd of
young men at our college on a night
when there was to be ball. 1t won't
mix with religion any more than oil and
water will mix. AS the love of one in
creases. the love of the other decreases.
How many eminent Christians are distin-
guished dancers? AS certain as the at
mosphere around the thermometer at zero
will freeze things, as certain as wind
that is bellying the sail will drive the
boat, so certain will dancing freeze the
religious sentiment out of the soul; it
will drive its deyotees away from the
church-it is wind that blows in that
direction.
No dancing is spoken of in the Bible
that was done by divine authority. In
ancient times the sexes danced separate
ly. Alchohol is the spirit of beverages.
Take it out, and the young men of the
land would as soon seek beverage in
the swill tub as in the saloon. So sex
is the spirit of the dance. Take it away
and let the sexes dance separately. and
dancing would shortly be out of fashion.
Parlor dancing is dangerous. Tip
pling leads to drunkenness, and parlor
dances leads to ungodly balls. Tipping
and parlor dancing sow to the wind and
both reap the whirlwind. Put dancing
in the crucible. apply the acids, weigh
it, and the verdict of reason, morality
and religion is: weighed in the
balance and found wanting. "--Erchange.
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held pattern
Smooth bore
new, with
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-11-25

The Ratrol Nea0 Yorker recommends
music boxes for the girls instead of prac-
ticing on the piano for five years, with
an expense of fifteen dollars quarter
for teacher. Elegant music boxes
can be purchased for $50 that play bet
ter music, play more tunes, and play
them better, than the girls--that is, than
forty-nine out Of fifty of them."
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THE PROBLEM OF OLD AGE.

Hall, ye slghing sons Of sorrow.
View with me the autumnal gloom,
Learn from me your fate tomorrow.
Dead, perhaps, laid IN the tomb.
See all nature fading. dying.
Silence. all things seem TO mourn,
Life from vegetation fying,
Brings to mind the mouldering urn.
Oft an Autumn's tempest rising
Makes the lofty forest nod.
Scenes Of nature how surprising,
Rayed in natures nature, God.
See our sovereign. soul creator,
Lives eternal in the skies,
While we mortals yield 10 nature,
Bloom awhile then fade and die.
Death and war my mind depress,
Autumn shows me my decay.
Calls to mind my past distress.
Warns me of my dying day.
As the annual frosts are cropping
Leaves and tendris from the trees,
So my friends are yearly dropping
Through old age and dire disease.
Just to cheer my dropping mind
But they're gone. like leaves in Autumn.
Driven before the dreary wind.
Pleasures once fondly ceurted,
Shared each bliss that youth bestows,
But to see where once sported
Now embitters all my woes.
Age and sorrow since have blasted
Every youthful, pleasing dream.
Quivering age with youth contrasted,
Oh, how short our glories seem,
When few more years are wasted;
When few more springs are Ger;
When few more griefs are tasted
shall fall to rise no more.
Nations die by dread Belonia
Through enraged tyrannic kings.
Just like plants in pale Pamona
Fall to rise in future springs.
Mournful scenes. when vegetation
Dies by frost, or worms devour,
Doubly mournful when nation
Dies by neighboring nations power.
Fast my sun of flife's declining.
Soon will set in endless night.
But my hopes. pure and refining,
Rest in future life and light
Cease this fearing. trembling, signing.
Death will break the sullen gloom,
Soon my spirit, futtering. flying,
Must be borne beyond the tomb.
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SHOT GUNS!

The subscriber offers the remainder
of large lot of guns, purchased of the
Government, for the extremely low price
of $3.50. These Guns are the Spring
:s:''i s.: #; s;; $3.50 $s:s 5s::;:
percussion lock, black walnut stocks,
and are warranted perfect. They have
been thoroughly tested, aud are reliable
for any distance under 20 rods. Sent
&c. o. D." for $3.50. Address,
t G. III. BLAKE, Barton, vt.
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of nominations, and who have so
often been sold out by combinations
between the republicans and the
kellogg democracy, but 1t is demo
cratic doctrine, and 1t is their only
chance of ultimate success. Let
the Varieties Hall and Court House
factions stack arms i'll the Opelou-
sas Court House, and then let them
march in body to the offices OF the
Opelousas Courier and the st. Ian
dry Democrat, and give three cheers
and tiger for the united democ-
racy of st. Landry. 1t is that or
Anderson. Which do they prefer 7
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AS viii be seen from the following
section of the State revenue law of 1878,
all those who pay their taxes before the
first day of July next will have o reduc-
ton made in their favor. Nowis the
time to save money.
Sec. 20. BE it further enacted, etc,
That the tax collector shall he author
lied to receive one4haf or the entire
amount Of taxes, at the option of the
taxpayer, and on either amountso paid
the tax collector shall issue said hall
paid or fun paid tax bills to taxpayars
or their subrogees, at five per cent DIS
count, during the month Of February,
at four per cent discount during the
month Of March, at three per cent dis
count during the month of April, OF Two
per cent discount during the month %
May, at one per cent discount during
the month of June. No discount shall
lbeallowed on taxes paid afterth The month
of June, and on the first day Of Deem
Der two per cent per month damages on
the face of tax bills unpaid shall be iaa-
ded as penaltyfo for delinquency colleeti-
BILE as provided in this law for enforcing
the payment of taxes.
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The burdens resting upon on

The burdens resting upon our
people are heavy, and it is true
that in this city, as we'll as in all
large cities, some failures have oc-
cnrred, but we hazard nothing in
asserting that our mercantile and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. arein as sound
and satisfactory q condition as
those of any State in the Union,
and that the financial condition OF
oar State government is such as
to justify the belief that we shall
be able, in the immediate future,
to meet our obligations with far
less effort than we havelheretofore
been called upon to make.-N. O.
Democrat.