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Year: 1869

SocIALrsM.-The Socialistic principle
is very simple and universal. Every
man who by riding in car or omnibus
the common carriage-saves many
times what he would pay for private
carriage, or who by sending his child to
public school pays but tenth of what he
would pay for family teacher, avails
himself of the Communistic principle. 1t
is plain by common residence or COM
mon table people might save money as
well as by having their carriage, their
church, or their art gallery in common
and nothing can prevent the springng up
among the poor of lodging-houses, work
mems institutes and reading-rooms, soup
kitchens, cooperative stores, and the like,
all of which are Socialistic But lust so
soon as Communism aspired to abandon
the ordinary materials and implements Of
society it really left behind the only peo-
pie who could have formed a community.


1t implies thought, enthusiasm, study.
and imagination for man to become the
practical devotec of an idea and these
are precisely what the life of the pauper
and drudge has never permitted to germi-
nate in him. But a man need not be
poet to take better rooms for less money
in model lodging-house, any more than
to employ the common baker instead of
making his own bread. The followers of
Owen and George Ripley were men and
women of extreme individuality but for
such to put themselves into common
drill, was to set pyramid upon its apex.
For the very object of Harmony Hall OF
Brook Farm must be to secure from the
pressure Of physical toll more leisure and
freedom for moral and mental culture
whereas such culture must at once mani
fest itself in an individuality inconsistent
with too close association with others.
Culture affects taste, food, modes of
amusement, and leads men to devote life
to things which no Community can regard
as produce. The possible Community
must have men and women with minds
full Of the common question, How shall
We exist ? When Communism took the
pen from Hawthornes hand and put
hoe into it, il furnished its own rell,,c,aa
al abwriam. Hawthorne plunged from
the comfortable room that meant his real
work into snow-storm, in order to do
some other mans work. But if the in-
mates of Brook Farm had all plunged ont
Of snow-storms and out of starvation


Brook Farm would have proved some
thing else, though possibly nothing more
valuable than the artistic study Of So
ciety sure to reappear in completed form
on the American canvas.-M. ID. Cox
WAY, in Ifd'per's Magazine far Augus.
Year: 1869

There's many rest on the road Of life,


II we would only stop and take it;
And many u tone from the better land,


If the qucrulous heart would make it.
To the sunny soul that is full Of hope,


And whose beautiful trust ne'er faileth,
The grass is green and the flowers are bright,
Though the wintry storm prevailcth.
Better to hope, though clouds hang low.
And to keep the eyes still lifted;
For the sweet blue skies will soon peep through
Where the ominous clouds are riftedl
There was never night without day,
Or IN evening without morning;
And the darkest hour, as the proverb goes,
Is tho hour before the dawning.
There is many gem in the path of life


Which we pass in our idle pleasure,
That is richer far than the jewelcd crown
Or the misers hoarded treasure
IT may he the love of little child,


Or . mothers prayers to Heaven,
Or only bcggar's grateful thanks


For cup of water given
Better to weave in tho web of life


A bright and golden filling,
And to do Gods will with ready heart,


And hands that are swift and willing,
Than to snap the delicate, minute thread.
OF our curious lhe asunder,
And then blame Heaven for the tangled ends,
And sit and grieye and wonder.
Year: 1869

A pious old clergyman, while vending
his way to his church one Sunday morn
ing, caught sight of the two sons of one
of his parishioners going to the woods,cv-
identity for the purpose of hunting. Feel
ing certain that anything like remonstrance
with the young gentlemen themselves
would scarcely turn them from their
ways, he waited until after preaching"
and sought their father. After recount.
ing the circumstances of meeting Billy
and Sammy as he had done, he closed an
affecting appeal by inquiring of their ia.
ther why they had not been "brought up
in fear of the Lord"


"Fear Of the Lord, Parson-fear of
the Lord Why, they have. They'er
of feared of him now, they dassent 90
out Sunday without double balrd shot
guns on their shoulders 7"
Year: 1869

TnE PRoDIdAL Son IN CHINEsE-A
young Chinaman, Choy Avail, a scholar
at the Five Points House of Industry,
reads the Testament in English, and then
gives the sense in dialect of his own ;
and this is what he makes of the parable
of the Prodigal Son:


A man, he two sons. Son speak he to
father; father got money; give some he
father he take it all right, | just now
give you half. He give him half; he 90
long way-like me come China to New
York. No be careful Of money, use to
much money all gone f; he very hungry.
He went to man. He want work, he say;
all right F.; he tell him to feed pigs He
give pigs beans he eat with pigs himself.
He just now talk : my father he rich
man-too much money What for me
stay here hungry? | want to 90 back
and see my father, say to him, very
bad He knows bad, Emperor [Godl
see | bad. No be son, me be coolie."
He go back /; long way, father see him.
He take him on the neck. The son say,
81 very bad Just now no be your son
| coolie.' His father talkey to boy, and
say, "Get handsom coat give he ring
give he shoes bring fat eow-kill him
give him to eat" They very glad. lie
all same dead just now he come back
alive; he lost he get back, Number
one son come. He hear music he tell
servant, "What for they make music p
He say, "Your brother come back your
father very glad he no sick he kill fat
cow Number one son very angry he
no 60 inside very angry, Father he
come out he say, "No, no be angry"
Number one son, he say, 81 stay all time
by father never make him angry. My
father never kill one fat cow for me. My
brother he very bad, he use money too
much he have fat COW and music. Fa-
ther say, "You no understand he Just
dead he now come to life he lost, he
now come back. ."-DRAwER, Harper.
Magazine for Auyast
Year: 1869

Mr. ALEXANDER DELMAR, an able
statcian, for long time employed in
the Treasury Department at Washing
ton, has written letter to the Secretary
of the Treasury on the subject of the
fraud attempted to be palmed off on the
people, by q pretended reduction of the
national debt, when in reality it is in.
creasing in amount, in which he says:


The last public debt statement con-
tains summary of the amount of pub.
lie debt, less cash and Sinking Fund in
the Treasury This summary is neither
required by law nor warranted by the
truth, and it must inevitably lead to
wrong conclusions.
The cash in the Treasury is not an
available resource for the payment of
the written debt, unless, indeed, the
Government has no other indebtness TO
hQuidate, which is not the case On
| the contrary, there is outstanding at the
present time probably much larger
amount of debt than the cash balance
amounts to, for which neither bonds,
certificates nor paper money have been
given; but which is, nevertheless, Just
rs msch portion of the public debt as
is a five-twenty bond or a Treasury
note. Moreover, if am not mistaken,
some of this cash in the Treasury-a
small portion, it is true-is Trust Funds,
and does not belong to the United States
at all.


Nor is it shown whether the s, ,S67 ,2S2
of Sinking Fund bonds and accrued in
terest, counted as part of the amount
IN the Treasury" was previously in
cluded In the body of the statement.
Ii 1t was not, ITS inclusion in the


amount in the Treasury" would de-
serve very harsh name; even if it was,
1t Is no more correctly to be accounted
as part of the amount in the Treas
ury" than is the value of the Treasury
building, or any other property, other
than money, belonging to the Govern
ment.


The Treasury Department appears to
labor under the delusion that the
monthly statement of the public debt
called for by law, is to be a balance
sheet of the National finances, which
shall exhibit on the one side the public
debt, diminished by construction tC
mean the written debt, and on the other
the public resources, distorted as vel
as diminished by construction to NEAR
all the cash in the Treasury, no matter
to whom it belongs, as well as tht
Sinking Fund bonds, whether the same
are first counted as part of the debt oI
not Surely it needs but to call atten
tion to such extraordinary improprietie;
to cause them to be remedied.


Again, the amount of the public debt
less accrued interest (which formerly
was not counted as part of the debt
and should, therefore, be omitted il
making antecedent comparisons i:
stated at s.. ~, 1888. But from this
amount is omitted S5S, ,63S 800, the sun
of the bonds issued to the various Pa
cifc railroads.


1t is not only quite obvious that these
bonds form portion of the public debt
and that there is, therefore, no sound
reason for their omission fror, this state
ment; but as they were included in al
the statements issued by your predeces
sors in Office, no correct comparison car
be made of the progress of the public
debt unless the sum Of these bonds II
either emitted from all, or included
3 in all.


Finally, the statement contains com
Iparlson of the puhlic debt on the lat O
Year: 1869

A correspondent writes that he finds
sowing the common field or Canada
pea, at the rate of about two and one,
half bushels to the acre, and plowing
them in about two inches deep, early
in spring, one of the best methods OF
keeping the ground loose and light and
the trees healthy that he has ever tried.
The crop is left to decay on the ground,
and the whole expense is the cost OF
seed and blowing in spring.
Year: 1869

A writer in the n. Z. Homestead says
the best and easiest way to exterminate
this troublesome pest is to take sharp
hoe and give it sliding stroke, so as TO
cut the dock just below the crown, and
throw the crowns into basket and
leave them in the travelled track of the
highway, or any other place where they
Will not get foothold in the ground,
and the work is done.
Year: 1869

One egg well beaten, one quart of new
buttermilk, or milk just turned sour,
and little sweet cream. Stir in flour
to make smooth batter; add little
soda aud salt. Beat it well. Set in a
warm place for half an hour before
using. If very sour milk is used the
cakes will be clammy.-NrS. J. o john
son.
Year: 1869

IT is said that movement is on foot
to divide the Republicans of Maryland.
Considering the already infnitesmal
proportions of the "loyap faction in
that State, the proposed split implies a
good keal keener cutting and finer work
than would be necessary to


distinguish and divide,


hair 'twiXt South and Southwest side"
Year: 1869

Without any special complaint, except grad.
ual declination of bodily strength and nervous
erergy, will find in the TONIC A FOUNTAIN
OF VITALITY ANDEX!G0R AS RE
A POOL IN HE DESER 4 TO THE SAND
SCORCHRD AND PAINTING TRAVELLER
Year: 1869

But no financier, or creditor of the
Government, regards these comparisons
as of any value. The first matter affect
ing the credit of Government is not
whether her public debt has increased
or diminished, but whether she is receiv-
ing more than she is paying, or rice rerSd;
whether her people furnish without
complaint current revenues enough to
liquidate her current expenditures or
not.
Year: 1869

THERE may be some doubt by what
name to call the party that won the late
election in Virginia, but there is no
doubt what party was beaten-it was
the Radical party. 1t is that party that
is now working hard to retrieve its for
tunes. At first, Congress was to set the
Radical carpet-baggers up again. But
they have found friend nearer home in
General CANDY. He has entered into
the scheme for disqualifying all the ma
tive white Virginians, elected to the
Legislature, by requiring them to take
an oath that they never at any time
gave "aid or comfort to the rebellion"
Now it is the Radical construction of
this oath, that every white man or
woman who submitted to the Centeder-
ate Government during the four years
ofits existence thus gave it "sid and
comfort CANBY'S plan contemplates
driving out the Virginia Legislature all
but the arpet-baggers and the negroes
for no matter how we'll negro served
the Southern cause, it is now settled
that he did it on compulsion, though
that plea never avails for white man.
On the success of this plot to nullify


the election by military power, now
hang the hopes of the carpet -baggers


for continuance of their reign in Vir-
ginia.
Year: 1869

A writer in the Western Rural saws:


'Three years ago tried new plan
of planting potatoes, by which I


saved the time and work of marking


the ground and covering the pota-
toes. l first laid out the lands with
some care. ] then started the break
ing plow, with two men, one starting
at the end and the other atthe middle
of the furrow, to drop the potatoes,


placing them, not in the bottom OF
the furrow, but in the side, where
they can be put in at any depth and
distance desired. The next furrow
turned by the plow covers them
The potatoes are dropped in every
third furrow, so that each dropper
has only to drop one half row, while
tie plow turns three When each
has finished, thus finishing one row,
they step scross to the other side OF
the land and repeat the process. Two
men will readily drop the potatoes
as fast as the land is plowed, and by
care in laying out the land in starting
it, the rows are straighter, and the
potatoes more evenly covered than
in other ways of planting. os


"Last spring l tried the same plan
on sod ground, except that here |
laid fit iurrow with the sod plow,
dropping the potatoes on the furrow
thus turned, and then running anoth-
or plow in the same tnrraxv cova,;
the potatoes with the furrow turned
by this. -


"ln both cases the plan worked
very well indeed, and / think it the
most labor-ssving plan of1which /
know.' .-..-T 10 sbrst
Year: 1869

While BeDjamin Franklin was
printer IN Philsdelphia, it seems he
printed newspaper Among other
things that received strong censure
at his hands, were certain modes OF
transacting business by the mer-
chants of Philadelphia. He han
died the knayes in such manner as
to excite their wrath, and calling a
meeting among themselves, they
waited upon Franklin, demanding to
know what he meant. hu


"Here." said they, "we have been
patronizlng and supporting you, and
this is our reward. You must change
this mode of doing, or we'll show
you that the merchants are not a
power to be triffed with. Without
our patronage where would you
stand ?n


"Gentlemen of the Merchants
Committee" said the polite printer,
Il am, as you see, very busy now
call at my house this evening for
supper, and / shall consider the
matter over with you in friendly
manner" s 81


The Committee left, congratulate
ing themselves that old Ben was
frightened, and came to supper at
the hour mentioned. But they were
surprised to find nothing but mush,
made from ill-ground corn, and
pitcher of milk. The Merchants
Committee not being used to such
coarse fare, could do nothing but
watch the healthy old printer while
he made a hearty meal. Rising
from the table he addressed the Com
mittee thus


sNow, gentlemen, he that can live
on such food, can live
your patronage. shall
cease to attack those practices when
YOU cease to practice them, and not
before. Gentlemen, good night


And for many year Philadelphia
were better and far more
honest, owing to this incident
Year: 1869

A Connecticut editor fell on an
icy side walk last week. He did not
use "unparliamentary language as
some would have done, out bit his
lips, rubbed down the bruises, and
while benevolent smile radiated his
remarked: I've don't
cherish any ill will, but tor light
and entertaining reading matter,
recommend to us the obituary of the
man who owns this sidewalk
Year: 1869

ment held out to tho citizens, by ono Of
the managers Of the road that Frank
ford is to besomo stopping point, and
. market for the crop Of 1870, which
gives new impetus to every branch of
industry, and the time when tho road
shall be completed to this place and the
shrill whistle Of the ponderous engine
is heard in our midst is looked for with
no little anxiety.


Recognizing the fact that an inde-
pendent county paper that is neutral in
nothing that effects tho interests Of the
county, and is free from partisan drill
and creed is as essential to our prosper
ity as the railroad, our citizens support
the MOWER County TRANSCRIPT,
paper that owes no ALLEGIANCE to clicks
or clans, and never pipes the key notes
for some leading demagogue, but always
chronicles the important events trans
piring in the county which makes it a
live paper, and a welcome visitor At ev:
cry household to which it finds its way
As Intelligence and progress enhances
the wealth and increases the happiness
Of = people, the improvement Of the
mind and the morals is not neglected by
it, but every effort made to advance the
social and moral condition Of society by
observingthe sanctity Of the Sabbath
and the sanctuary and encouraging q
fostering care for the cause Of educa
.tion and religious institutions to keeI
pace with our exer tions to attain tenn


poral means. W. A. G.
Year: 1869

Who is Interested in Public Schools?


Every parent in the State. Those
who have not the means Of affording
their children as good an education as
they would bcstow, and as the age de-
mands, are of course deeply interested
in the success and welfare of the
schools; let them be we'll sustained, and
their children are placed on a par, in
respect to education, with the children
Of those the most highly favored Of for
ture.


Those who are able to educate their
own children have nearly an equal in
terest in them, since they can furnish
an education as good as that afforded
by the best private schools, at lar less
expense. II


Every tax-payer-it is his interest,
that the monies he contributes for their
support, be expended in preparing the
youth to become intelligent, orderly and
industrious citizens, in training them
to correct habits and good morals; and
that thus his money should be co inverted
into intelligence and virtue, in the
minds Of those in whose society he and
his children must expect to live.
Every man who owns dollars worth
of property, whether it be taxed or not,
let the. education ofhis children be neg
lected, and he will very soon, be sur
rounded with a generation of idlers,
thieves and gamblers, w'o will prey
upon his property, and that of every
other honest, industrious and frugal
citizen.


"What was real estate worth in Sod
om?" What is the value of any kind
Of property in neighborhood where not
stick of wood or bushel Of coal is
safe, unless secured by bolts and bars,
or guarded by watch-dogs, or an armed
police?


And what security ould,therebe for
our homes in the vicinity of: those who
would set fire to our barns or dwellings,
for the opportunity Of stealing what our
vigilance would otherwise protect
from their grasp? 1t certainly need
not be proved that every patriot, every
philanthropist,~ every one who values
property, reputation or life, has a deep
interest in the support Of an efficient
system of Public Schools.


Without such system multitudes Of
youth will grow up in ignorance, attain
the age Of majority and.become ve:ted
with the rights, while utterly inca
pable of properly performing the duties
of citizens.


Let every true American, then feel
it to be his duty and his privilege, to
give his influence and his suffrage to a
good system of public Schools as the
best interests of cur State imperatively
demand.
Year: 1869

Hayin9 and Harusst.- 1t requires a
good general to manage the cutting and
curing of q large grass crop, and the
harvesting of several fields Of grain of
different kinds, avoiding injury from
rains and thunder showers, if they pre-
vail, unless large gang of hands and
teams stand ready all the time to do
whatever is most needed. Good plans
are worth much, and should be made,
knowing the order in which different
fields Of grass and grain will be fit to
cut, where the products Of each is to be
stored, permanently or temporarily; the
use to which the hay, grain, or straw is
to be put, and the amount Of work that
can be done each week.
Year: 1869

The following from the pen of Harry
l.. Gunn is a good report to make of the
progress Of a school, and shows that he
isa Ave teacher. He is interested in
his scholars, and desires their fastest
progress, and he is not disappointed.
They are orderly, studious and are ma
king rapid improvement in their studies
and will long remember him as one of
their best friends and instructors. We
hope to have other reports presented
that will show that there is more than
one prosperous school in the county.
EDITORS TEACHERS COLUMN:


In a late number of the TRANS
cR1pT, [ saw a request for teachers to
send in a report of their schools, and
as I am a teacher, / thought I would
send you report Of my school.


I am teaching n joint school district
No. 80, where VIC have commodious
brick school house pleasantly situated
I commenced teaching on the tenth day
Of May, with fourteen scholars, but
the roll now numbers twenty-eight,
just twice as many as I commenced
with. / have five classes that study
Reading, three Spelling, one Grammar,
one Primmer, three Primary Arithmc-
tic, two intellectual Arithmetic, two
Practical Arithmetic, and four Gcog-
raphy, and by having some Of the reci-
tations come twice a day,I can keep
myself busy enough. The scholars are
all young, but they have done pretty
we'll, tho highest class in Arithmetic
has gone as far as Decimals, and the
rest have done proportionally we'll.


This is my first attempt at teaching
school, but I can say that I have sue
ceeded much better than I expected
The scholars all seem to be interested
in their studies and SO at them with a
zeal which indicates that they intend to
accomplish something. The teacher i.
also interested in the scholars and the
school hours pass on smoothly, and
swiftly. There has been no trouble Sc
far between scholars and teacher, and
there is not likely to be.


would like to hear report from al
the teachers Of the county.


HARRY L. GUM.
Year: 1869

Thelatest instance Of the Presidents
inordinate desire to oblige his personal
friends is related by Judge Brockins, Of
the Territory Of New Mexico. It ap-
pears that q man who was formerly
Speaker of the Territorial Legislature
was appointed by Grant and confirmed


by the Senate postmaster st Santa Fe,
New Mexico. He was one of the msst
prominent Republicans in the Territory
Year: 1869

. DEATH WHooP ON THE PLAINs.-Lieu
tenants Mason and Carter, writing from
Fort Hayes, Kansas, May 10th, give an
account Of the killing of some Indians who
were confined at that point. The chiefs
were ordered to remove, in charge of a
guard, from the corral to the guard room,
when they gathered in their tents, began
the death whoop, and taking out their
knives went for the soldiers. Cardegon
attacked the sergeant of the guard and
was knocked senseless by blow with the
butt of musket. Sallie, ferocious squaw,
welding knife, tried to sheath it in the
body of an officer, when one of the guard
shot her dead. Big Head looked with
scorn on the circle of bayonets surrounding
him and stabbed Sergeant Hazen, danger
ously wounding him in the back. One of
the guard shot him dead Dull Knife tried
to stab everybody near him, and he was
pricked severely by bayonets. He and the
senseless Cardegon were then disarmed
and placed in the guard house.
Year: 1869

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sound aud scientific Medical Aid, in the treatment
and cure of all Private and Chronic Diseases, Gases
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