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Year: 1869

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Every intelligent, progressive farm
er takes a paper. This is a fixed fact,
1t is to be hoped, too, that he has half
a dozen Journals Of one sort OF another
coming every month; but however
that may Be- when he reads them
over he often says: "NOW I wish I
could remember that item, aud put It
[ into practice next season. I believe I
will cut it out and save it somewhere.
. He does cut it out and puts II In MS
vest pocket, or between -theleaVes Of 4
book, or in some odd out of the way
] place, where there is little chance Of
! his ever seeing It again.


Now, when he cut it out, he took a
| step in the right direction. Why dld
he not go a little further, aud paste il
into a scrap-bOOk? Then It would
have been permanently saved, and
very convenient for reference. Pre-
serving papers in fles would save ali
the articles, but few would take the
trouble to look through them for
some point they wished to read over
again. 1t would seem too much like
looking for that proverbiaI s'needle In
a hay-moW."


The scrapaboOk gives you tiie very
cream of all your papers. There are
usually only few articles in each Ona
which seem to have been written ex=
pressly for you, and you do not care
to save those belonging to everybody
else. You do not care to read columns
on bee-keeping, when you never own
ed a bee in your life; but probably
your heighbor takes more interest in
that department than in any other. It
is the beauty Of a good paper that 1t
has some thing in it for every one. =
Year: 1869

When picking over apples IN the
cellar, have a barrel prepared with q
few holes in the bottom, standing
upon an Inclined platform, aid lin this
throw the rotten apples mash them
up, add a little water, and a pressure,
The cider extracted will make excel
J lent Ylnegar.
Year: 1869

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A gentleman of an adjoining town
ship was called to spend much time
With a neighbof OF his in his last
sickness. This neighbOr was a con-
vert of grace, and, as be looked for
ward to the grave, to which his feet
were rapidly tending, death, By this
same divine spirit, had been deprived
of its sting, and the grave Of its victo-
~. Hence he spoke of his death as
one would speak of a pleasant and
delightful journey, with a bright and
glorious Inheritance in prospect. His
attendant was skeptical, and express
ed his doubt of the immortality of the
soul, and asked his dying friend, if
It would not detract from his happy
condition in that eternity, which he
would soon be called to enter, in or
der that his doubts might BE- oremO7ed,
that he would revisit him after his
deoease. This, the dying. friend said,
if possible, he was willing to do. .q.-


The sick man died, and his friend
having nearly lost all remembrance of
the request he had made, was awak-
ened from a sound sleep, in the still
hours ofthe night, by the distinct call
ing Of his name, and, when awake,
his name was again called. On open
ing his eyes he beheld his deceased
friend with all the distinctness of life,
but surrounded with halo of tight
fthe brightness of the sun. Giving
time to be distinctly seen, he vanish
ed away. Har . aaa b"


These visits became frequent, and
the gentleman (fOr s1ch he isl pos
sessed of a strong mind, was dnWill=
ing to admit this manifestation as a
spiritual FeYisiting of his departed
friend, but ascribed il to some pecu-
liar condition of his own mind; so they
were kept to himself, as he had but
little disposition to let the facts be
known. -..


The visits eeased,a soon after his
son, a bright and handsome boy, be-
gan to fade. The parents became
anxious. After treatment for a while
| it seems as if the disease had been
staid, and then again came a slight
return of indisposition, but not sufi-
eient to awaken any serious appre-
tensions. But at period of hopeful
ness he was seized with a violent fit,
and for eight hours the child strug-
gled in one Of the most violent con
tinued commissions ever Witnessed
Death set the little sufferer free
Again the parent is revisited by the
spirit Of his departed friend, and for
the first time confession of this re-
markable manifestation is made to the
father Of the deceased young man not
with any expectation that he would
repeat it, but as he did, and the story
has become Exaggerated, the facts
are given as substantially narrated.
Why all this, if It Is not Gods
method of reminding the thoughtless
and Indifferent that His word is true2
Will it be needed, or will more of Gods
providences be visited to cause sub
mission to His win and an aeknowl-
odgment Of His truth?
Year: 1869

How TO STOP TRoUBLE.-To shake
off trouble, we must see about doing
good 10 somebody. Pat on your hat
and go and visit the poor; inquire into
their wants and minister to them,
seek out the desoIat6 and oppressed,
and tell them of the consolation of re-
ligion. We have often tried this and
found it the best medicine for a
heavy heart.
Year: 1869

Ayouug man went to visit his intended
in Jersey the other evening, and as Il was
late and very dark when he left the house,
she insisted on his taking lantern with
him, and gave him red paper one, ia
Chinese. The youth bad long distance
TO walk to the depot, and took the railroad
track as the shortest route. He walked
along, paying very little attention to any
thing, being somewhat distracted with
thoughts of bis lsdy-love; but the revery
was suddenly brought to an end by some
one from the rear, who gave the Chinese
lantern kick that sent It flying. Con
found you," said the person from be-
hind, there 1 have. been slowing NY
train for the last two miles on account of
that red light" And indeed It was true,
for not far behind him the young gentle
man saw q freight train, and il was the
engineer Who kicked the light. The
young man now goes among his chums
by the name Of "Rei Light Bill
Year: 1869

sermons inappropriate to the occasions thai
call them forth once heard minister
preach a funeral sermon on the text, " And
in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in tor
ments." The circumstances were such as to
make everybody feel that there was some
thing approaching an outrage. But the
preacher, he was very able one, was infu-
enced by the best motives.


Common sense will prevent you from rid
ing hobbies.


Much of the tact that is attributed to a
knowledge of human nature as it is called,
comes from the possession of common sense.
You ask me to point out to you some of the
leading differences between the people to
whom you have just gone, and those of your
late charge. / might perhaps give you some
hints, but if your common sense does not
soon supply you with the necessary infor-
nation in this particular, the little aid can
give you, would.be of small avail


. The thought may occur to you that what
l have written upon this topic, even if true,
is superfuous in the way of advice, seeing
that common sense is gift to be used, rath-
er than faculty to be acquired. Certainly
it is gift of Him who is the giver of every
good and perfect gift, but so is eloquence,
and so is piety. And just as the last are to be
cultivated, so is common sense. 1t depends
for its vigor, as each one of our powers does,
upon attention, will, and practice. Accus-
tom yourself, force yourself to observe and
to remember, and you will rapidly strength
en- your practical judgment. Allow your
self to be inattentive, and to shirk, through
Incidence or timidity, the responsibility of 3
clear decision upon practical questions as
they present themselves for consideration,
and presently your congregation will be
laughing at you as absent-minded, or CEN
suring you as eccentric. Least of all men
has he, who is set to rebuke the thoughtless,
and correct the perverse, the right to be
either absent-minded or eccentric.


S. L. G.
Year: 1869

One or two things must be done in this
country. Parents must expend money to
educate children, or they must pay taxes to
build penitentiaries and to punish crime.
There is great mistake about what is called
education. Some suppose every learned
man is an educated man. No such thing.
That man is educated who knows himself.
and VINO takes accurate common sense views
of men and things around him. Some very
learned men now, are the greatest fools in
the world; and the reason is, they are not
educated men. Learning is only the means,
not the end; It's value consists in giving the
power of acquiring the discipline which
when properly managed, it gives the mind.
Some of the greatest men in the world were
not overstocked with learning, but their ac-
tions. proved they were thoroughly educated.
Washington, Franklin, R. Sherman, were of
this class; and similar though less striking
instances may now be found in all countries.
To be educated, man must be able to rea-
son, compare and decide accurately. He
may study metaphysics till he is grey, and
if he is nothing more, he is an educated man.
There is no class in the country who have a
stronger interest in the proper education Of
children than farmers, and the subject should
receive from them the attention it deserves
Year: 1869

The comparative expensiveness of living
in Rio and Sac Paulo may be seen from the
following figures, furnished me by the Rev.
Mr.. Blackford: In Rio the missionaries pay
from eighty to one hundred milreis per month
Year: 1869

Nothing is mora ncomprehensible to
girls than the love and admiration some
times given to the middle-aged women.
They cannot understand it; and nothing
but experience will ever make them un-
derstand it. In their eyes, woman is
out of the pale of personal affection alto
gether when she has lost the shining gloss
of youth, that exquisite freshness of skin
and suppleness of limb, which to them,
in the insolent plenitude of their unfaded
beauty, constitute the chief claims to ad-
miraton of their sex.


A woman of ripe age has knowledge
of the world, and certain suavity of
manner and moral hexibility wholly
wanting to the young. Young girls are
for the most part all angels-harsh In
their judgments, stiff in their prejudices,
and narrow in their sympathies. They
are full of combativeness aud self asser-
ton if they are one kiud of young people,
or they are stupid and shy if they belong
to another kind. They are talkative with
nothing to say, and positive with nothing
well and truly known, or they are mono
syllable dummies who stammer out yes or
no at random, and whose brains become
hope!essly confused at the first sentence
stranger utters. They are generally
without pity; their want of experience
making them hard toward SORROWS which
they scarcely understand, and let as
charitsbly hope to certain extent igno.
rant of the pain they infict. Girls are
cruel there is no question about il. Ii
more passive than active, they are simply
Indifferent to the suferings of others; 1t
of more active temperament, they find
q positive pleasure in giving pain. A girl
will say the most cruel things to her
dearest friend, and then laugh at her
because she cries. Even her own mother
she will hurt and humiiate if she can,
while, as for any unfortunate aspi-
rants not approved of, were they
as tough skinned as a rhinoceros,
she weuld find means to make him vince.
But all this acerbity is toned down in the
mature woman. Experience has enlarged
her sympathies, and knowledge of sutfer-
ing has softened her heart to the suffer-
ings of others. Her lesson of life, too,
has taught her tact, and tact is one OF the
most valuable lessons that man or wo-
man can learn. She sees at a glance
where are the weak points and sore places
in her companion, and she avoids them,
or If she passes over them, it is with a
hand SO soft and tender, touch so mex
pressibly soothing, that she calms instead
Of irritates.
Year: 1869




In Green township, Erie county, about
eight miles east of Erie, lived Andrew
Baker, thrifty young farmer, of German
descent About five years ago he COM
meneed paying his addresses to a young
lady who resided in the neighborhood.
1t is said that he proposed to her on sew
eral occasions, but met with steady and
persistent refusal On Wednesday night
of last week he again visited her and told
her that if she would not consent to
marry him he would commit suicide.
The lady again assured him she would
not be his wife, and in his desperation
be left her, proceeded to his barn,
attached rope to his neck, fastened the
other end to q beam upon which he was
standing, and his purpose was accom-
plished. In the morning he was found
suspended as described. Mr.. Baker owned
wellstocked farm of seventy-fve acres,
was sober and industrious, and leaves a
widowed mother, FIVE sisters and one
brother to mourn his death. His remains
we're inferred in the Erie cemetery on
Friday-the. young lady on whose ac-
count be committed the foolish deed
attending the funeral. She appeared very
much affected by the tragical death of
her lover.
Year: 1869

Here is the latest from Paris. At a
recent opera ball, yellow domino was
observed bowing to every lady in black
or rose domino, whose hand he kissed
respectfully and retired without saying
word, but making a note in his tablet.
Yellow domino was one Of the most dis
tineuished editors in Paris. who was en-
gagged in the solution Of great social
problem. How many pairs OF new gloves
are worn tonight at this opera mask 2
Aud he found that of three hundred and
6fty-six which he had smelt at, under
pretence Of kissing, there were only
eighteen which had no aroma Of benzine,
or which had not been cleaned.
Year: 1869


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Year: 1869

The indianapolis Journal, the Repub-
iican State paper of Indiana, is opposed
to the universal manhood suffrage"
amendmentto the constitution. Itsays:


There has been some agitation in
Congress upon the subject of an amend
ment to the constitution of the United
States which shall confer universal
manhood suffrage in all the States, but
as yetno action has been taken upon it,
and we presume none will be this win
ter. 1t is matter Of grave doubt as to
whether requisite number of States
can be induced to ratify it, if it were
passed, and if they could would it not
be an act of bad. faith i'm the Republican
party to attempt to force it upon the
people in this manner? Both the State
and national platforms stated distinctly
and unequivocally that this question
should be left to the States to be deci-
ded by themselves; the canvass was
fought upon that issue, and every mem
ber of our present Legislature was cleo
ted with that understanding.
Year: 1869

Dion Piatt, the Washington cores
pondent of the Cincinnati Commercial,
writes as follows of the carpet-bag con-
gressmen from the South:


And in oil sober earnestness, to write
in "a frank and manly way" the net
purport and upshot of our reconstruct
tion measures at the South as seen in
Congress is not pleasant. No amount
of certificates of election and formali-
ties of an oath can make these gentle-
men Of the hand-baggage real M. C.'s.
When one makes his appearance on the
floor we cannot look each other in the
countenance without audible smiles, that
are indecorous. If tho gentleme,,
would only indulge in little disgisd
to help on the delusion something
might be gained, but not only is the
voice of the enemy, but the look, man.
ner, dress, and above all, the vote, is
the vote of the alien.


The antagonism between New Eng
land civilization and that of the South,
previous to the war, not more deadly
than is the antagonism of interest now
between those localities, and yet these
gentlemen Of the paper collar and ex-
ira dickey follow New England, and
vote all the time against the interests of
their own constituents.


1 had a long talk with one of these
representatives ad interim last night,
and tried to convince him that it would
be well, jnst for the appearance of the
thing, to cast q vote now and then for
the region he claimed to represent
But, no! found my friend hr dan in
tense contempt for cne-half of his peo-
pie, and deadly hatred for the other
half 1t was Connecticut congress
man elected in the South.


Having no very high opinion of my
self and a contempt for the rest of hui
manity, can put up with the grotesque
and absurd as well as any one. But
there is point, you know, beyond
which find it difficult to keep my
countenance, and the New England
carpet-bagger carries me there. wrin-
kle and haw- w-haw-I can't help it-when
the gentleman of the paper dickey,
from New England, grave.y takes his
seat as a representative from the South.


Better cut the South into provinces,
and give them military Governors to
keep the peace until the negro is edu-
Gated, the white master subdued, and
time the consoler, heals the wounds OF
war, than thus to make caricature of a
representative Government and stultify
ourselves.
Year: 1869

The following, from the Sheibyville
Rescue, is probably the true version of
the recent Kuklux affair at that place:


Last Saturday night, about half past
eight o'clock, just as we were on the
corner of the Book Store, on our way
home we were suddenly confronted by
q squad of some twenty-five horsemen
in disguise who came rapidly on to the
Square whistling and yelling. They
made circuit around the Square, went
down, Depot Street and returned, and
then struck a bee-line northward down
Washington street. When some three
or four hundred yards from the Square
a, heavy firing commenced, which we at
first supposed to be several decks offlre
crackers set off at once, but we learned
afterwards that body of negroes fired
into them from behind houses and fences
as they were passing out of town. No
one was hurt that we have heard of. /
Year: 1869

The House succeeded in getting quo
rum on the 9TH. The following was in
troduced ON that day:


A bill to authorize the election of
delegates to convention to amend the
Constitution of the State, the Conven-
ton to be held on the first of April, by
proclamation of the Governor, in the
event of majority voting therefor.


The Senate was still without quo
rum
Year: 1869

Victor Hugo says M. Bonapartc is
climbing slowly up that ladder which
Charles the Tenth and Louis Philippe
have descended before him, on the top
most step of which sits the Goddess of
Liberty with sword drawn, her eyes
flashing with Indignation, and her hand
ready to hurl him into the abyss.
Year: 1869

The Philadelphia Press of the I'd
inst. reports the scene at the conviction
of Twitchell for the murder of his
mother-in-law in that city:


Mr.. Galton-Gcntlemcn of the jury,
how say you, is the prisoner at the bar
guilty of the felony of murder whereof
he stands indicted, or not guilty?


The foreman-Guilty.


Mr.. Galton-Of what degree?


The foreman-Of the first degree.


Mr.. GaltOn indorsed the verdict on
the bill, and said: Gentlemen of the
jury, hearken to your verdict, as the
court have it recorded. You say you
find the prisoner at the bar guilty in
manner and form as he stands indicted,
and so you say all"


The prisoner stood unmoved until the
verdict was pronounced, when he clasp
ed his hands on his heart, and raised
his eyes as prisoner would do in sup
plication.


Young McCully, who had been. con-
stantly with the prisoner, rushed for
ward and threw his arms about him,
both falling over. McCully was in
deep anguish, and gave vent to his feel
ings by outward cries in manner that
could not be mistaken.


The prisoner maintained his nerve,
although he seemed bewildered for a
moment at the verdict, he having evil
IDENTIFY expected an acquittal. His faith
er leaned his head upon the rail of the
dock and wept bitterly.


The intense excitement in getting the
dense mass of people out of the court
room made very great noise, and it
was sometime before silence was re-
stored. The court having recorded the
verdict before the motion to poll the
jury was made, it was too late to do so.


The counsel for the prisoner convers-
ed with him, and he maintained the ut
most composure, but not more than
could reasonably be expected of one
who would batter in his mothers aged
head for the price of q bloody heritage.
He was subsequently, removed to pris-
on by the Sheriff's officers.
Year: 1869

In his message to the Legislature Gov
crnor Hoffman recommends registry
law for the whole State, which should
aim to secure to every citizen his right
of suffrage free from intimidation, cor
ruption and exaction, while the corrupt
use of money in elections should be Sc
verely punished and every guarantee
established by which illegal voting may
be prevented.
Year: 1869

Governor Brownlow says in the Wig
of last week that he has no scheme for
dividing the State, and that he has not
communicated with any member of the
Legislature on the subject. Though
somewhat beyond the period of sound
thinking, he still has sense enough to
know that the silly proposition would
fail, therefore he is not for it.
Year: 1869

S1d 10 take advice as to the fitness Of persons
soliciting the Office. Such practice, wisely
administered, will conduce to efficiency in
public position. But the mpudent claims Of
the caucus-making republicans in Congress,
that they are the only representative men and
should have the power to control the President
in all nominations, is sublime. Asa general
principle it may be safely laid down that the
members of Congress are the most unfit
advisers regarding nominations to Office that
can be found. Their personal relations within
their own district are, through the inevitable
necessities of their professional practice OF
politics, more intimate with the most corrupt
men therein, and not unfrequently they are
under personal obligations to sustain for Office
persons Of the worst character. If, then, we
admit the principle on which the caucus Of
the Pennsylvania delegation is based, we
consign the public Offices of this country to the
hands of the most corrupt and worthless class
In it, and put of for long day the restoration
of common honesty to the administration Of
public affairs.


There is one saving clause in the report Of
the proceedings of this Pennsylvania caucus.
After arranging the cards for the new deal
committee was appointed to wait upon the
President and inform him of the result He
replied to them that he should want to appoint
few personal friends, but beyond these he
would consult the delegation. It is to be
hoped that the personal friends whom the
President wishes to appoint will be sufficient
to secure the leaven Of honesty in public Office.
The old cry, ''To the victor belongs the
and every political party for the last forty
years, and no one comprehends more clearly
than President Grant the truth Of the axiom,
5'The army that plumbers is demoralized."
Year: 1869

All the lettering was In gilt. ana the arms Of the
State Of New York were admirably executed in
COiOrs.


COLONEL RYAN,


after his escape nom the United States officers OF
wednesday night Last. went IN carriage TO the
long flowing hair and stsned his face with iodine TO
darken his complexion. But three persons OF the
whole Cuban Junta knew OF has whereabouts. At five
O'Clock on Thursday afternoon he was nOaifed that it
was unsafe to remain at that retreat any longer and
the house OF lady friend near Clinton and Atlantic
streets with basket on his arIa. Here he renamed
IN third story back room untir Friday night when
no came to this city In the guse Of q policeman
without shield, and actually TOOK up quarters
within two blocks Of Ludlow street jail-where he
was wanted 50 badly-repaining there until about
nine O'Clock last night when he was driven In
age to the Stevens House. and proceeded thence to
the tug at the foOs OF Norris street.