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The Monitor., 1890-04-25
wEAKENTSG OUR EYES.

| wish | could move out to Dakota,
twenty miles from the nearest schoolhouse.
and bring the children mp myself. They
would know hawk from hernshaw as
far as any one. See those boys with big,
handsome eyes going from school. Half
can't sight target or duck in marsh
or ship down the bay. IF the country
should have another war the government
would have TO find regiments in spectacles.
Nine hours a day do those public school
children pore over school books with the
vilest print that ruins eyes. Between
the poor print of school books and news
papers, and incessant reading, we are los
ing eyes as fast as possible. The big,
handsome-eyed women have to use afro
pine TO see at all, and the clever women all
have contracted sunken eyes from reading
too much. They begin at 5 years old and
keep tasking the eyes till the amaurosis
sets in. Do you know there isn't one per-
son in 500 with really good eyes, and
fewer ehildren?-S Shirley Dare
The Monitor., 1890-04-25
INCUBATOR CHICKENS.

Without entering into any dispute with
incubator men | wish to say that to secure
the best results you cannot use male that
is hatched by any other means than by its
mother hen. The warmth producing in
cubation, being impaired by flesh and
blood to the egg in the open, is far diff
ferent process from the heating of confined
air and confining the eggs therein, giving
the embryo two puffs Of breath per day of
open air when the eggs are being turned. |
leave all theory aside. | say for myself,
| want no male to sire my chickens that
owes its life solely to an incubator.
7 believe an incubator Matched chick can
not as a rale be grown as large. believe
an incubator hatched hen will not lay as
large an egg as She was Matched from, the
same coming from a naturally born hen.
But in the early season, that you may have
fowls for early exhibitions and winter pro-
duee of eggs for kitchen use, yeu may and
are compelled to use inenbators, for at that
time there are few sitting hens.-L 4.
Feleh.
The Monitor., 1890-04-25
FRETTING FADES THE FACE.

The woman who cries must expect to
have faded eyes; and there is nothing that
will breed such deep burrows adown the
cheeks as the little salty tears, of which
the nervous, fretful woman seems to have
such a surprising quantity The woman
who would retain her youth steers as clear
of unnecessary worry and repining as she
would of the plague. She rises superior to
the petty annoyances of the day; keeps her
face studiously turned on the bright side
of life and is repaid by unfurrowed cheeks
and the entire absence of the tell-tale crows
feet. Such woman is never day older
than she wants to be, and she can cling to
s.just twenty-five for decade and be a
living verifcation of the statement
Cleceland Union.
The Monitor., 1890-04-25
THE CENSUS.

By Aug. /, if all goes well, we shall
know once more how many people the
United States contains at present. The
enumeration commences June 1, or rather
June 2, the first day of the month being
Sunday.
30 well are the plans arranged that it is
thought the work will be finished in two
weeks in the large cities. Among the
struggling country populations it will take
longer. 1t is said to be fact that in some
parts of the country are persons SO ignor-
ant that they do not know the ages of their
own children. Others viii insist on giving
also the names of their children who are
dead.
For census purposes the country IS di
yided into 175 districts, with supervisor
to each. The president appoints the super
visors of these districts, and the super
yisors appoint the enumerators who do the
field work. 1t is expected that all the
enumeration will be ended by July 1.
In the list of questions are some that
constitute a new feature ia census taking
and show how Americans are advancing in
metaphysical science. The enumerated
person must tell whether he is married,
single or divorced, which might be called
neither married nor single. So, if we tell
the truth, it will be known just how many
legally disjoined persons there are in the
United States, the home of divorce.
You must also tell whether you have
any acute or chronic disease and how long
you have had it. You must likewise in
form the census man whether you are an
idiot, whether you are deformed, crippled,
crazy or manned. If you are tramp or
pauper. that too must 60 down on the pitt
less page of the enumerator, and you must
'fess if you are a prisoner, homeless child
or convict You are obliged to mention
whether you own or rent the house you
live in. The amount Of mortgaged prop
erty in the country is expected 10 be ascer-
tanned. Finally, the only way to escape
telling how old you are is to die before the
census taker comes. A heavy fine is i'm
posed for refusing to answer questions or
for answering them untruthfully.
The Monitor., 1890-04-25
NEwspApER ETIQUETTE.

1t very frequently happens that visitors
to printing Office do things calculated to
annoy some of the employees. For the ben
eft of those we print few rules:
When you enter a printing office do not
handle the type in the case. If you want
to handle it say so to the printer, and he
will be glad to leave his work and empty
the type upon the editors table, where
You can sit in his easy chair and examine
it at your leisure. Never mind putting
back the type--the printer can do that
after yon have finished.
Don't read the proof sheets, clippings
or manuscript. If you wish to know what
is going to appear in the next issue of the
paper, ask the editor to read it aloud to
you He has plenty of time and will be
grateful to you for the chance to quit
his work and entertain you.
If you want to look over the cash book
have the editor 60 and get it for you. Your
interest will please him.
Never ask for sample copy. Discover
W MDSlS luCy 1iC cPb anu icip JVhiSNiA W
as many as you want. Above all things
do not offend the editor By rendering pay
ment for them. 1t flatters him to think
you want to read it and it is cruel to end
his satisfying day dream by the mention
of so worldly thing as money. Besides
be only publishes it fer the glory there is
in il.
Just help yourself to the exchanges. Ii
any are still in their wrappers take them
out, by all means. They contain later
news than the others.
Before going, make some pleasant re-
mark to the editor about Low easy it is to
run paper, and express your surprise
that he does not do it better. You would
leave an aching void in his heart should
you forget to do SO.
If you are interested in seeing how things
look in type, have the primer set up your
name in the incest type in the office, and
then take it home with You for a curiosity.
The editor likes you to have menento of
him. Other peoples forgetfulness is the
bane of his existence.
Ask the editor, if you are a perfect
stranger to him, to supply You with dn-
plicate key to his post Office box, so you
can get his papers regularly. If he be a
gentleman he viii give you the key with
out asking; bat some editors are not gen.
tlemen.
The Monitor., 1890-04-25
CHARACTER IN The FAMILY CIR
Gle.

Home life is the sure test of character.
Let husband be cross and surly, and the
wife grows cold and unamiable. The chill
dren grow up saucy and savage as young
bears. The father becomes callous, peev-
ish and hard. The wife bristles in self-de-
fense. They develop an unnatural growth
and sharpness of teeth. and the house is
haunted by ug illness and domestic bra wis.
This is not what the family circle should be.
If rude to any, let it be to some one he does
not leve-not to wife, brother or parent.
Let one of the loved be taken away, and
memory recalls a thousand sayings to re-
gret. Death quiekens recollection pain
fully; the grave cannot hide the white faces
of those who sleep. The coffin and green
ground are cruel magnets. They draw us
further than we would go. They force as
to remember. A man never sees SO far in
to human life as when he looks over a
wife's or mothers grave. His eyes get
wondrous clear then, and he sees as never
before what it is to love and be loved; what
it is to iDjure the feelings of the loved. 1t
is pitiable picture of human weakness
when those we love best are treated worst.
The Monitor., 1890-04-25
WORDS OF WISDOM.

To have what we want is riches, but to
be able to do without it is power
There is nothing in life so earnestly to
be sought for as character and probity.
There are those who never reason on
what they should do, but on what they
have done.
house is no more home unless it con-
tains food and fire for the mind as well as
for the body.
Can man or woman choose duties2 No
more than they can choose their birthplace,
or their father or mother
Who is wise? He that learns from every
one. Who is powerful? He that governs
his passions. Who is rich? He that is
content.
An egotist will always speak of himself
either in praise or in censure; but modest
man even shuns making himself the sub
ject of his conversation.
Women never truly command till they
give their promise to obey, and they are
never in more danger of being made slaves
than when the men are at their feet.
Nothing binders the constant agreement
of people who live together but vanity and
selfshness. Let the spirit of humility and
benevolenee prevail, and discord and dis
agreement would be banished from the
household.
He that opposes his own judgment
against the consent of the times ought to
be backed with unutterable truths, and he
that has truth on his side is fool. as well
as coward if he is afraid to own 1t because
of the currency or multitude of other mems
opinions.
The Monitor., 1890-04-25
CuRRANT RUsks.

Rub ounces of butter into one pound
Of -four; add a saltspoonful of salt and
tablespoonful OF brown sugar. Dissolve
ounce of dried yeast in half pint of
warm milk; stir this into the middle of the
flour and let it stand one hour to rise.
Then add ounces Of washed and dried
currants. mix TO a dough with warm milk;
knead well and stand another half hour.
Bake in quick oven.
The Monitor., 1890-04-25
BREATH OF SONG.

From the minister's ofgan-loft.
Floating down the shadowed nave,
Comes a strain of music soft,
Falling as a weary wave
Falls upon the beach of sand.
Murmurous and sweet and bland,
Bearing from the mighty sea
Messages of melody.
There, alone, the organist
Lets his listless fingers GO
Lost in melodious mist
Der the key board, to and fro:
There, halfdreaming, in the gloom,
Sits the weaver at his loom,
Weaving with the threads of sound
Masie-woof the warp around.
All unconscionsiy he hides
strains familiar in his theme
When a master-spirit glides
Through the doorway of his dream;
Mozart, Handel. Chopin; or
Harmony's great conjurer-
Rapt Beethoven!-each is part
OF the dreaming players heart.
50 the Poet dreams, nor heeds
Who may listen, who may hear;
Following where Fancy leads.
She alone to him is dear;
Omar, Keats, Theocritus,
In his voice may speak to
From the realm of ages dim
These are in the heart of him,
Poets in the fields of Time,
Since the world began, have sown
Wide the precious seeds of rhyme,
And TO MS to-day are blown
Oaors from these poem-howers-
Seedlings of the later hours
Blossonling the fields along,
Breathing the sweet breath of song
-Frdak Dempster Sherman
The Monitor., 1890-04-25

Tt is nobler far to do the most common
place duty in the household, or behind the
counter, with a single eye to duty, simply
because it must be done; nobler far | say,
than to go out of your way to attempt a
brilliant deed, with double mind and say
ing to yourself not only-"This will be a
brilliant deed but also-"and it will pay
me, or raise me, or set me off, into the bar
gain.'' Heroism knows no ..into the bar
gain. .''-Kings}eg.
The Monitor., 1890-04-25
Hold il 10 the I.fght.

The man who tells you eonfiaentially
lust what will cure your cold is prescrib-
ing Kemp's Balsam this year. In the pre-
parafion of this remarkable medicine for
coughs and colds no expense is spared to
combine only the best aud pnrest ingredi-
ents. Hold bottle Of kemp's Balsam to
the light and look through it; notice the
bright, clear look; then compare with
other remedies. Price 50c. and 81.
The Monitor., 1890-04-25

Blessed, in these sitting days, is the
church, in whose pulpit stands man who
has accepted the full gospel Of utter sep
aration from the unclean thing, has replied
to Gods order to ''come out and be sepa-
rate with s'Here | am, send me. ;"
That is the church which to-day is getting
that down-pour Of the Holy Spirit, whose
Office it is TO '.bring men into the King
dom.
The Monitor., 1890-04-25
EXCELSIOR.

Build thee more stately mansions, o my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy fow-yaulted past!
Let each rev temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with dome more vast,
Till thou at length are free,
Leaving thine out-grown shell by iife's unrest
ing sea.
eve have no time 10 waste
In critics sneer, or eynic's bark;
Quarrel or reprimand;
Twill soon be dark,
Then choose thine aim
And may God speed the mark
The Monitor., 1890-04-25
MUTTON IN BREToNsE FAsHIon.

Serve the roast mutton with small white
beans that have been soaked all the night
before and then boiled Just before serv-
ing them, and when they are thoroughly
soft, toss them for few minutes in a fry
ing pan, with two tablespoonfuls of sweet
oil, some onion juice, the spoon rubbed
with Glove Of garlic and little thyme, a
sliced ghe.kin or the juice of lemon
The Monitor., 1890-04-25
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/ viii surprise some TO find that the key

II viii surprise some to find that the key
to woman suffrage is the key to the kitch-
en- cupboard; but believe it is. Il con-
Germs both sexes--all grades Of society
from Bridget to the President How? Tho
relation of the part to the whole, the lever
to the machine, cload-form 70 picture, the
simple element TO the whole design; Bridg-
ct to the mistress, the mistress to home,
home to society. society to the 6txte. -
Selected.
The Monitor., 1890-04-25

1t is reported that famine threstsns
northern Russia, but it is certainty tnat
millions of colds will be bothering Ameri-
can people this winter. Against famine
there is no protection, but for every cold
there is a bottle of DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup.
The Monitor., 1890-04-25

Veni! Vidi. Wei. this is said of Saliva
ton OIL, for it conquers the worst cases Of
rheumatism and neuralgia at ence. Price
25 cents bottle.
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only
prices ant the books desired
TO OIL subscribers whose subscriptions are paid for one year dyanse
the subscriber also two ofthe books
bindng
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The Monitor., 1890-04-25

Ninety.nine out of every hundred suffer ing
with Dyspepsia. virtually starve themselves
TO obtain relief. and at last sink under the in
iuenee of general debility, when TO effect a
cure should eat good solid food which, ii di
gested, produces rich blood ana imparts new
life and strength to the entire body.
TRUTHS Vegetable Es0zenges have prov
The Monitor., 1890-04-25

Adam Bede, George Eliot
Andersen's Fairy Tales,
Arabian Nights Entertain'nts,
Mary Cecil Hay
Esops Fables,
Anne Gray,
Amateur Amusements,
Lorento
American Humorists,
Haweis
Adventures among the In
dians, Kingston
Arundel Morte, the, Mary Ge-
ell Hay
BrOwning's Poems, Mrs. Il. Il.
Barnaby Rudge Il Hard Times,
Boy Conqueror
Boys Own Book of Outdoor
Sports.
Bryant's Poems
Boys own Book of Indoor
sports,
Burke on the Sublime and
Beautiful,
Cast up by the Sea, Baker
Champion Book OF Recitations
and Readings, Hawthorne
Children of the Abbey, Roche
Christmas Book, Dickens
Camille. Dumas
Charlotte Temple, Rowson
Charming Stories,
Mary Hewitt
Cioister and Hearth, Reade
Comic Speaker, L J See
Corinne, De Stael
Course of Creation, Anderson
Crooked Path, Mrs Alexander
Creasy's Battles,
Chris, w L Norris
Canon's Ward, James Payn
Complete letter writer,
Hundford
Cook Book, the Household
Daughter of Heth, A, Black
Deerslayer, Cooper
Don Quixote, Cervantes
Devils Die, Grant Allen
Derrick Vaughan, Novelist,
Lyall
DR.. Rameau, Ohnet
Diseases of the Horse, Hind
David Copperfield, Dickens
Dombey and Son, Dickens
DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde,
Stevenson
Dora Thorne, Clay
Daniel Deronda, Eliot
DIsowned, Bulwer
Earl's Atonement, Clay
East Lynne, Mrs Henry Wood
Eliot's, George, Poems
Economical Cook Book,
Warren
Ellen Terry's Ladies' Reeiter,
Emerson's Essays,
Eugene Aram, Bulwer
Esther, Carey
Earnest Maltravers, Bulwer
Ethan Brand, Hawthorne
FavoIite Poems
Felix Holt, George Eliot
Fern Leaves, Fanny Fern
File No. ll3, Emile Gaboriau
Foragers, Slinms
France, History OF, ionee
Family Cyciopedla,
Fox's Book of Martyrs,
First ana Second Marriages,
Leslie
Fairy Bells, Lander
Faust, Geothe
Farmers Barn Book,
Five weeks in q Balloon.
Flowers from Fairy Land,
Footprints of Fate,
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The Monitor., 1890-04-25

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Nevada County picayune., 1890-01-08
ENsIlAGE FOR MARKET.
How to Keep the Food in Good Condition
 for Six Months.

A demand for ensilage would give our farmers another product for the market. Immense numbers of cows are kept in all of our cities and large towns, and if their owners could procure ensilage in a convenient form for use at as cheap rate as they can hay, they would prefer to have the food best adapted to promote the flow of milk and at the same time to cater to the appetite and health of the cows. Again, when great saving in expense of feeding Is made, then there is every inducement for our city dairymen to buy ensilage. A neighbor- ing farmer first packed ensilage in bar rels, and there it kept perfectly safe for two years. But the expense of bar rels was found to be too great, and that plan was abandoned. Now the inexpensive plan is adopted of putting it up in crates, holding from 300 to 400 pounds each. These crates arc made by using two heads 20 inches in diameter, with common laths nailed to the heads about three feet long. held in position by three wires encircling the crate. This is pressed full. In this way enSiIdge VIII http' II nteu!u, oiA hiohpiiS The crate is filled from the silo, and this can be filled at the pleasure of the seller or buyer In this form it can be handled as readily as baled hay, and thus stored in the limits of city or village barns. When we consider that nine out of every ten cows prefer ensilage to dry feed, and also that there are very many horses that suffer from hard breathing, or what we call heaves, which If fed on ensilago very soon forget to wheeze when driven about their work, the importance of this innovation becomes apparent. The labor of packing could be performed by farm CTS at a time in the season when other farm work doesn't drive them. Ensilage at it's best should not be cut and placed in the silo before the corn is glazed. Oftentimes green, immature corn is ensilaged, and is little. if any, better than organized water" and when put in the silo makes a 'sauer kraut," good foI nothing but to fill the stomach of COW, yet producing but little good milk American Cultivator.
Nevada County picayune., 1890-01-08
Pruning the Pear.

Some varieties of pear trees produce more wood than others, and more than Is well to leave on. The Seckel is one, the Lawrence another. When this is the ease. more fruit will set than tho tree can bring to perfection. In times past few advocated the pruning of pear trees, but advised the thinning of tho fruit We followed this course for years, says a writer in an exchange, and did not prune, but lately have adopted the method of pruning, and are well pleased with the result We have taken from our Secltol pear trees from quar. ter to a third of the small branches, and shall thin them out even more. The fruit Is very much larger, higher col ored and better every way, and quite as much in weight and measure, though not in numbers. We fail to see any ob- iection to such pruning. We seldom cut off large limb and when we do VIC paint over the wound. This work may be done any time in the fall or early winter-O. J. Farmer.
Nevada County picayune., 1890-01-08
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

De Jinks-"Do owe you any thing old fcllow?" Mcrritt-"You can't or you'd never think of it."
 -IIe-"IIow timid and shy the bride appears" Naturally; this is her fourth husband. Life.
 It is not often that doctors know so much that they must sit with closed doors to prevent information from get ting out.-N. O. Picayune.
 Texan marriage notices arc quite in the national style of manners: No cards, no cake no flowers. no thanks, no , regrets, hobo ly's business"
 Well, Mir. Assessor, what are you going to make out of your boy?' II think he will do for policeman, be- cause can never find him when l want him"
 What? Is the Widow Brown going to be led to the altar for the third time?" "No, Iguoss not. She ought to be able to find her way there herself by this time. Flicgende Blatter.
 We hab little mo dan two thou sand members. said the colored brother but dey'rc not so many as dat when you go round wid de collection paper for lc minister's salary"
 Judge you ever notice any signs of insanity in the deceased?" Witness Ia member of the Legislature) Well. once when he was a member of the Legislature he introduced a bill that had no poodle nit, and wasn't particle of interest to anybody-eXcopt tax payers
 Fond mamma-"O, uncle, you should see our darling baby when I play tho piano! He just listens by the hour, and when cease playing the nurse has to take him away he cries so awfully." Cynical uncle-"Perhaps aw-my dear, he--aw weeps for-aw-joy?" - Pitts burgh Bulletin.
 Miss Plainum-"That horrid Mrs. Bute actually had her photographs for sale in tho stationers' shop. couldn't do such thing under any considera- tion." Her bitterest friend - You haven't the face to, have you, dear?"- rerrc IIaute Express.
 Hast knew you were deep in the Mind Cure" ''So was That was last week. Now I am in tho Faith Cure. I've found out about both The difference is, in the Mind Cure you don't require any faith, in the Faith Curo you don't require any mind. The Faith Cure just suits me. "-lIarper's Monthly.
 I've been thinking said Jenkins mother-in-law, who is something of gos- sip. that it is woman's duty to fl her self for the same struggle iG life that men undertake, I've determined to apply at your fathers bank for a place." "Ies, " said Jones, "ask him to let you be Teller. "- Merchant Traveller.
 Mir. IIardcash-"Weli, sir, what in. duced you 10 imagine that would give my consent to my daughters marrying you?' De Gall-Pardon me, my dcRf sir, l wasn't so foolish to imagine any thing of the kind l merely asked for 1t as q matter of form. If you refuse VIC snail marry without it, that's all. l.'--Grir.
 --Perhaps you are lookir for a land flowing ~ith milk and honeyr If so you should know tbat only one person in thirteen can drink nilk in any quan- tity without becoming bilious, snd QniY one in eleven can eat honey without having a touch of the collie. Just better stay right here in this lani, and get ; l blue-handl"d now shovel rsady Tor pia 1 tor,--nQs loa Press