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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-05-20

Men who are inclined to accept the the
DRY that paper currency issued by gov
eminent in sufficient quantities for business
need not be redeemed in order to maintain
it at par with coin, should bear in mind
that not only the unanimous judgment of
all the great authorities In finance and po-
itical economy, but also the experience
of centuries, is against them. The trial
has been repeatedly made and has failed.
History shows that nothing but redemp-
ton in coin will prevent the depreciation
of paper currency. The United States
tried IL in the war OF the revolution, and
failed. France tried it in 1896, and
failed Italy, Austria and Russia. under
the stress OF war, have tried and failed.
We tried it in our late war, and it was not
until we solemnly pledged the redemption
of the grcenbacks. that they began to APP
proach coin Cuba is trying it, and her
paper notes are worth only fifty per cent.
The Belfast Age says that Cuba has failed
because she is only a provincial govern
ment:" but the paper currency of the
banks of the provincial government" of
Canada was worth as much as gold, while
our greenhack was deprecated. simply
because the Canada currency was re-
deemed in gold when presented, and ours
was d,honored. Lewiston Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-05-20
General News.
4 SPRING LAMENT.


Fair flowers of spring, in vain for me
Your perfume fills the air;
The charms ell others may enjoy
Alas | cannot share.
This heart, l swear by Flora's hand,
With fondest passion glows;
But inhuepxs-soulless iend-
Hath his pincers on nv nose.
Brazil wants to hire two hundred and fly
American negroes to engage in railroad build
ing.
A sole-felt grief is now manifested by wearing
mourning stockings Of black, white and lavender,
embroidered with seedlings of cut jet beads.
Charles Menges, of Omaha blew out his brains
with pistol ball, because he was discarded by q
young German girl to whom he had been afh-
anced.
Some creatures never know where they belong
A mud turtle at Saudlske, N. Y, got into the tur-
bine wheel of grist mill. breaking several cogs
and stopping the machinery.
The papers which devoted columns of space to
morazing over Morrissey's death, failed after
ALL of saving anything more pertinent on the sub.
ect than the Dramatic News condensed into one
sentence: "He was q law-msker who de6ed the
law"
Score one for Decentralization" SAYS Mary
Anderson. "is lovely. went there very much
frightened. but assure you everything was love
~ from the beginning to the end and came away
convinced that your Newspaper people do not al
ways confnc yourselves to the truth in speaking
of Boston,
Julia Ward Howe says: The Roman journals
report that the Pope, in the instructions given
BY him to the Lenton preachers, desired that their
sermons should not treat of the Madonna, but Of
God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. This
looks something like . step in new direction.
An old cat belonging to . farmhouse, four miles
southeast of Topeka, had four kittens recently.
and three of them died. In running around the
cat came upon . rabbits nest in which we're sew
and brought the little ones to her nest, and is
now nursing them, and will probably be able to
put them hrough.-Kapsas paper.
A New York correspondent says that John Hsb-
berton, author and father Of "Helen's Babies" is
feeling very jubilant over the birth of . daughter
to keep company with Bulge which hearty and
earnest boy is lonesome since "Todde" died last
year. Canoeing 10 Habberton's peculiar mdsum-
ner frenzy, aud Alden. the sXth-column funny
man of the Times, is afflicted with the same dis.
ease.
young man from Massachusetts, then resi-.
dent in Barranquilla, New Grenada. some time
since evinced remarkable ingenuity and persever-
ance worthy Of Robinson Crusoc." A vessel
having sunk on the cosst. he constructed, with
the aid of natives under his direction, from just
such material Is he could procure from the wreck
and the forest. complete diving apparatus. pumps
and everything necessary for successful operations
and in one month from the time of leaving Bar.
ranquilla he returned to that port with $4,000
worth Of cargo, which was sold for that amount
at auction. The novel apparatus was exhibited at
the auction sale.
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Paper Money.

The greenback is associated in the popular mind
with all the evidences of wealth. Overlooking
the fact that it is merely representative of debt
anil that its value rests wholly on the power of the
government to redeem it in coin, that is to nav II,
debt-they see in it the possibility of unlimited
enrichment of themselves. In this state of mind
they come to believe that there is no such thing
as standard of prices, or of money, that credit j,
everything, and debt is nothing. The popular
fiat is to create unbounded wealth, as God made
the universe. out Of nothing. We have seen q
man, like Henry Carey Baird, supposed not only
to possess com mon sense, but to have some knowl.
edge of the laws Of finance demanding the issue
of three billions of fiat" money, to paw off the
national debt at one stroke, and there are men to-
day apparently honest enthusiasts, who believe
the happy time is coming when they can 90 to the
United States treasury and demand thousand
dollars in Rreenbacks. If you ask how they are
to pay for them, they reply they cost nothing but
the expense Of printing and that should be die
counted from the sum demanded! These NAV h.
extreme instances of the greenback madness. hut
they are oil of piece with the policy that call,
for an unlimited issue Of irredeemable psper
money.
The delusion Of the greenbackers Is THAT paper
money can be sustained by the public credit alone
But the public credit is based on the faith Of the
government, and the government 20 ssesses moth
ing OF lis own. All its resources are drawn
from the people bv taxation, and whatever il
gives them with one hand it must take from
them with the other. Until the people
are willing to put all their possession,
/ into one common stock there can be no sncb
thing as currency sustained by all the wealth of
the country. In this sense ereenbackism i, the
very essence Of communism. II demands that ev
cry mans possessions shall be made the bass of
the currency, bat as yet il provides no wsv in
which those possessions can be made available
The most ardent Rreenbacker is not quite pre
pared to give up his own house 10 sustain the
credit of his fayorite currency.
All wise statesmen have ever held the emission
OF paper money to be most dangerous exercise
OF government power. II is never resorted In en-
eept IN times Of great emergency like tina, of our
war. 1t Is q strain upon public credit which. to
De sustained, must ever be sparingly used. Even
where It is expressly provided that paper i,sues
be redeemed in coin, there 10 always danger Of rs.
pudiation as in the case OF . revolution or change
in government, and Of deprscstlsn from tSs a..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-05-20

tendency ef parties inimicsl to the public faith
Every man. not under the influence Of this delu
sion. sees that if the infstonists were put in po.
session of the government to day, with power Il
carry out all their schemes. greenbacks would q
once depreciste 10 value, and become ultimately
worthless.
The worst features OF these wild financial meas
ures is that evils are more severely felt by the Ia
boring classes. The capitalists can take care o.
themselves before the crash comes, but when
paper currency becomes worthless, the bulk of II
is found in the hands of the poor. 1t stimu ate,
speculation, the worst enemy of the lsborer, snc
is the o effectusl of all devices for making th,
rich richer and the poor poorer .-PortiGHd Tran
script.
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is also specially adapted TO adults sufT ring from
Meakness Of the digestive organs, and, therefore,
tnose af1icted with any sympt ms OF INDIGES-
FlON will find, on trial. it has all the aualit es tina,
have been claimed for it, a d all they can desire
10 the way of nutrition d strength.
WOOLRICH 4 CO., on every label.
Sn0sll
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-05-20

has the endorsement OF the Of the Matrons and
Physicians of the principal Iniait Asylums and
Lyng-ln Hospt Ills in he United states, and Physi
clans OF all schools have given it their unqualified
approval as a HIGHLY NUTRITIOUS and ea sily
assimiated food and especially adapted for infants
md grutcinq children.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-05-20

A raining fsvorite umbrellas.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-05-20
Special Notices
a 9 ARD.

To all who are suffering from the errors and IN.
discretions OF youth, nervous weakness. early de
cay, loss Of manhood, &C., win send receipt
that will sure you, FREE OF CHARGE. This
great remedy was discovered by q missionary in
South America. Send a self addressed envelope
to the Rev. JOSEPH T. INMAN, Station d. Bible
House. New York CITY. sept15.snteod&wfv
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-14
About Eating.

Professor Blot used to say it Is a fact
bevond question that the intellectual
and moral faculties of man are influenced
in a large degree in their operations by
these physical conditions which are
dependent upon our food. Physiology
proves that it is the contraction of
muscles that produces wrinkles and a
person whose food is properly prepared
appears younger and more beautiful than
one that follows no scientific principles
in his eating. Good food, properly pre-
pared, viii keep his muscles in order
and elastic. Any one, male or female,
young or old, starting with good
stomach, can keep healthy and in COED
flesh with proper food it is only neces-
sary TO select the kind required by the
constitution, and prepare it judiciously.
It Is not what we eat that makes us fat,
but what we digest. Bad food may
bring temporary bloatedness, but nst
the plumpness of good health. He
agreed with the opinions expressed by
Thomas Jefferson, as well as by a cele>
brated New York clergyman, that good
things have been ms4e by the Creator
Tor good people.
Another thing in food--it ought always
to be prepared according to the age of
the person for whom it is intended, and
for the sex, as well as according to the
climate and season. In winter more
fatty matter is necessary TO be eaten than
at any other time OF the year. In spring,
green's, which purify the blood and
remove the bile occasioned by eating
fatty substances in the winter. In
winter we need more bile in the spring
we must get rid of it if we would be
healthy. When warm or hot weather
GENES. we must supply the wasted sys-
TEN by eating meat. Meat is better in
summer than anything else.-[ Southern
Farmer.
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-14
Be- Faad for Hcrsas.

There is a great diversity of opinion
as to what kind of food and the amount
to be given as best adapted to the wants
of working animals. J. Stanton Gould,
in investigating this subject, visited the
horse-rAilroad stables of New York and
Brooklyn, and found that they had all
settled down, each company for itself, as
The result of careful and repeated ex-
peliments, upon one uniform rule Tor
horse-railroad horses, and that was
twelve pounds Of hay and ten pounds of
Indian meal per day. In that way a
railroad horse was kept up to his highest
condition, and they were enabled te do
their work more satisfactorily than
under any other system that had been
tried. Oats had repeatedly been used as
an article of food, and their cost was
carefully compared with that OF Indian
meal. 1t was found at the time that
during hot weather the feeding of this
amount of meal would be Injurious but
tee result OF their experience was, that
Indian meal, on the whole, for a railroad
or omnibus horse, was the true thing.
But they have one very curious practice
which ought to be stated in connection
with this, as possibly bearing upon the
subject They invariably water all their
horses at l o'clock at night. They have
an idea that watering their horses at night
sdds greatly to their power of digzsting
food, aud prevents injurious conse-
quences
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-14
Clover and Timothy Hay Compares.

Many OF the best farmers in the north
ern states sell their timothy hay in cities
and villages and feed clover to their own
stock, because it is found by experience
to be more nutritious and to produce the
best manure made on the farm Clover
cut early IS rich IN nitrogen and albumi-
noids, being nearly equal to wheat and s
little better than corn. Boussingault
makes the nitrogen 2.40: while the aY.
erage OF timothy is 150. If clover OF
timothy be allowed to ripen seed, the
nitrogen in hay Qeaf and stem, is greatly
reduced. This is why corn blades on
ripe grain are poor fodder.
Taking nitrogen as representative OF
nutriment in the best clover and timothy
hay, clover will stand twenty-four tc
timothy only fifteen. Hence it follow.
that two parts clover will represent
forty>eight in fesh-forIning material
while three parts of timothy viii repre-
sent forty-tive of the same natritive SUP
stances. The same remarSs spply to inc
solid and liquid excretihs OF horses
cattle and sheep that mg &c fed on clo-
yer or timothy hay.
Glover is equally rch in PhosphateS,
and requires a soil stong in the mineral
food of plants to produce a large crop
Salts of lime, potash and magnesia do
the needful for clover and timothy
The last named needs ammonia or nitric
acid as manure more than the iormer.
Wood ashes rarely fail to greatly
improve meadow and pasture which
contain both clover and such grasses
as timothy, redtop, orchard and rye
grass. a mixture of clover snd grass
makes the best hay. Meadow foxtail
deserves far greater attention than It
receives il this country. There are sew
eraI species OF fescuea and cat grass, hardy,
perennial and nutritious, whose value Is
little known. Hay production Is too
little studied by all farmers
1t is the backbone of manure and
growing fertility. Corn plants are worth
more tor hay than for grain st this time,
because their fersge benefits are gener-
ally neglected Some farmers who can
grow only two tons OF timothy hay on
an acre raise ten tons of corn fodder
equal to timothy pound for pound. In
rich Permeable soil corn is a grass
feeder snd rapid grower, sending its
roots far into the subsoil. In this respect
it resembles clover, lucerne and COW
peas. The peculiarities of all the plants
cultivated should receive attention tha,
all may be turned to the best account.
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-14

UNBUcKLE a harness before cleaning
and oiling it.
INSECTS on vines can be driven of by
sprinkIing the vines with plaster, SCOT or
air Stacked lims.
If you win plant feed of the caHsor
bean where mOles are troublesome, it
will drive them away.
FINGER MARKs.-Finger marks may
be removed from vanished furniture by
the use of a little sweet oil upon a sef.
rag.
POTATOES cut in small squares, and
put into cruets or bottles, with water to
wash them, will clean them quickly and
well.
Do NOT trim up your trees five or six
feet. Let the limbs OF the tree come
near the ground. In other words, shorten
in your tree.
To RESTORE the color of black kid
boots take small quantity of black ink
mix it with the white of an egg and ap>
ply with soft sponge.
TURNIP PICKLES. Wash several tur-
nips clean, then boil till quite tender;
then peel and slice them, and pour over
them hot vinegar Add spices, if you
wish them.
BUTTERscoTcH.-Take one pound of
sugar, three quarters of pint Of water,
and set over a slow fire; when done add
one and half tablespoontuls of butter,
and lemon juice to favor.
CocoANUT CGsTARD PIE--Grate one
cocoanut; add three eggs and one and
one-half cup of sugar; beat well; add
the milk of the nut, one cup Of sweet
milk, and a piece OF butter the size of a
Walnut.
The great English agricultural writer
and practical farmer (Jethro TuiD, liv-
ing and writing one hundred years ago,
held that frequent plowing and stirring
the soil was equivalent 70 liberal coat
of manure.
IT is stated that 500 new cheese facto-
ries are to be put up in the state Of Iowa
this spring. Other parts OF the west are
also increasing the number of cheese
factories. In New York the same ten
dency is evident.
CoREs.-Soft corns can be cured by
this corn-saIve: Boil tobacco down to
au extract, then mix with it quantity
of white pitch pine, and apply it to the
corn, renewing it once a week until the
corn disappears.
WORMS in horses are caused from hard
work, poor food aid general neglect
For ordinary cases of worms, common
salt, nutritious food and pure water will
prove satisfactory. Salt should always
be kept in the stalls OF horses.
PoRTABIRLEMoNADE.-Powderedtar- tar
taric acid one ounce, powdered sugar ak
ounces, essence of lemon one dram. let il
dry thoroughly in the sun, rub together
and divide in twenty-four papers. One
makes glass Of good sweet lemonade.
| CAULIFLowERs should be transplsnted
in rows some two feet apart, LEAVING
about two feet between the plants CuI-
tivate as cabbage. Aid the growth nv
liberal manuring and protect from the
sun by breaking its leaves over the head
when in flower. Caulifowers succeed
best In deep, rich, meist soil.
EXPERIMENTS have lately been made
in Germany to determine the vslua of
the common nettle as textile fha,
The weed having been treated the same
way as hemp yielded fiber as fine as silk
and as strong as hemp fibre.
considerable area of ground il nov
planted with the nettle in the Pus0;on
province of Nassau.
GOLDFISH AND EGGs--Shred fine ord
properly soak some Goldfish. Press = -
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-14
RussianLsw and Justice.

A few DAYS ag0 We gave an account of
the experiences OF Vera Sas5ulitsch,
Young Russian woman, who had been
imprisoned in Russian dungeons for nine
wears withouta q trial She was arrested
simplv because she was the school friend
Of the sister Of d eonspirat0r, the arrest
and incarceration having taken place
when she was only seventeen years old.
She was lately libIated without a hear~
ing. but resolvingto be heard, she shot
at the Preiect OF Police Of st. Petersburg
her chief enemy @d prosecutor. For
this she was arrested and tried and her
story came out. She was acquitted by
the court and then was a CREST public
demonstration her in the streets 80
she was driving ofin her carriage. She
knew there was then an order for her
resrrest in spite q her scquittal by The
court. The geD!srmes tried 10 get
through the crowd 70 the carriage for
the purpose OF transferring her TO another
one which they hal near at hand. Her
iriends-the excitd Popuiace-were 50
strong that the pOice failed to reach her.
There was firing sIi g great riot, in the
midst of which shi drove of and got
safely away. Se disappeared. The
police thought the knew she was going
to the house Of q Ain lady friend, and
this was the origiBat intention, but she
changed her mindon the way and went
somewhere else-Ehere, her hunters do
not know. TheyTent to the friends
house and Tummsged it all over for the
girl. but she could not be found. and
they gave up the search in that quarter.
Then IL was n0ised about that Wers
Sassulitsch had been spirited away to
Siberia. Thinking this rumor would
distress her relatives and friends. Vera
writes a letter toa st. Petersburg news
paper from her hiding place, explaining
her conduct. She says that she was
prepared to suffer the judgment OF the
court, without murmur. but was re-
solved not to endure the endless peTse~
cutions Of the administration. She states
that she was. therefore, compelled to
hide herself until the day when there
will be 10 risk of being again arrested.
After nine years OF dungeons she has
gone into voluntary exile to escape from
the administration and its police, and
that after being tried and acquitted by
the proper tribunal. This Is the Russian
idea of law and Justice Missouri Re-
uublicau
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-14
American Rascals and German
Justice.

The German newspapers have accounts
of an extraordinary criminal trial which
took place in Berlin at the beginning of
April The principal defendants were
four Americans, who showed American
medical diplomas, and who called them
selves DR.. St. Mari DR.. Van Dusen, DR.
Balleau and Dr.. Sampson. They came
TO Berlin in 1875 and opened in Louisa
street 3 place which they called " The
Lying-in Institution" Suspicious were
excited that it wasa place tor malpractice,
and the police made a descent upon the
hOuse. They arrested Anthony Ward,
siiss Dr. st, Mari; John Williams, alias
Or. Van Dusen Jeremiah Preston, alias
Dr. Baileau, and Carl Niattzberg, alias
Dr. Sampson. Several yeung women,
0le Of whom was q school girl of q noble
Anily, and s Nine. Durivage was il
attendance on them. The trial of the
dilty parties lasted some days; and the
fury rendered a verdict against them
Ward and Niattzberg were condemned to
death, Williams and Preston to impris-
ment for life, an agent named Kraushaar
to fifteen years, Nine. Durivage to eight
years, and two assistants To five years
each. This is the way German justice
treats criminals of the Restell profession.
/ 1t would be interesting to get descrip~
ton of the American diplomas that
1 those rasoaIa rracticad uudar II TPbiIa
| delphia Bulletin.
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-14
The Cincinnati Organ.

The organ just erected in the Cincin-
natl Music Hall was built by Messrs. E.
b G.. G.. Hook & Hastings, of Boston,
Mass, and is the largest one ever built
in this country, and ranks about the
fourth or fifth in size in the world. 1t
is fifty feet wide, thirty feet deep, and
sixty feet high. There are 6,237 pipes,
and ninety six steps. We are informed
that the design of the case was drawn by
some Of the most talented pupils of the
art school To give an idea by com
psrison of the size OF this instrument,
we append the number of pipes and
stops in some of the very largest Euro
pean organs. That in the Albert hall.
London, Is the largest IN the world.
Albert hall organ, one hundred and
eleven stops, 1879 pipes; st sulplice
Paris, one hundred stops, 6,706 pipes
Cathedral at Ulm, one hundred stops.
6,564 pipes; Ct Georges hall, Liver
pool, one hundred stops. The interior
of the Cincinnati Music hall is of tulip
wood finished in OF. 1t is one hundred
and ninety-two feet long, one hundred
and twelve feet wide, and seventy feet
high. The stage is one hundred and
twelve feet wide by ffty-six feet deep.