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Year: 1859

of the very bes, catches among them have
signed pledge not 10 marry any girl who
is not willing to commence matrimonial
life with two rooms and kitchen, and
who doesn't know how to bake, cook, and
sew, and to wash and iron into the bar
gain | am the President


" Preposterous exclaimed Lizzie.
| you'll crv some other word when
you go on the old maids list, and see
your place filled in the house OF some man
that is a man, by some woman who is
not ashamed of useful employment when
she was girl. can tell you what, my
dainty sister, there's reform at work, and
men worth having are beginning TO
choose between marriage, with palmer
notions and more useful accomplishments
than are passed by the butterflies who
lounge on sofa all day. knitting zephyrs
or reading novels. So make up your
mind 10 conform to old maiGism. And
now, as in all probality you understand
that am in earnest about marrying Har-
riet Parker, hope you will reconsider
your has,y resolution about not speaking
TO your sister.in-law. The loss, lie, me
tell you, will be all on your own side.
Brother Tom understood his own propo-
si,ion entirely. He was not man to
sloop below himself in marrying. He
could not unite himself with one who
was ignorant and reined-against that
his generously cultivated soul would kave
revolted. Bu, he wanted real, not an
artificial woman--one who could take
her place beside him, as he said on the
lowest round of fortunes ladder, and
keep step with him upward. Such one
as he had found in Harrie, Parker, and
he was independent enough to make her
his wife.


Lizzie was not long in discovering
after brother Tom had actually got mar
ried and commenced housekeeping in
two rooms with his model, cheerful and
earnest minded wife, that her new sister
had something about her that insensibly
won the love, comma nded the respect, and
almost extorted the admiration of all who
were so fortunate as u make her ac-
quaintance.


Marriage. they say, makes or mars
man. the brother overheard Lizzie saying
in a under tone to lady friend, % but il
will not mar the fortunes OF brother Tom.
He's got just the wife to help him along
in the world and one that will grace any
position 10 which they may aspire.


My own sentiments, exactly, pretty"
spoke out brother Tom She's a jewel,
and worth thousand of your paste and
tInsel women. Didn't | tell you so ! But
you couldn't belive me, Now If you'll GO
and apprentice yourself to a dress maker
or milIner, or learn any useful work, not
ornamental, | will introduce you to the
new President of the Society l told you
about | had to resign when l got mar
ried. He is a splendid specimen, and
will make husband worthy of Queen.
Year: 1859

Without order on the farm. peace of mlnd
success and profit are impossible Watchful-
ness aud care are implied IN this forcible word.
OLDER.


Who is the farmer that does not know of .eriou.
accidents happening TO animals and crops for
want OF proper care? Some farmers are negli-
gent of their animals when at grass, as if no ac-
cIdent could happen. We once knew most
excellent horse to get on his back In the furrov
oil pasture held that was seeded down with
a gram crop grown on lands" or ridges
Sheep of good quality (and what farmer should
grow any other) are liable to meet with similar
accidents-so. too, to be IN ured by dogs etc -
and Tor which. care seems, after all the expert
ments that have been made, to be the best
remedy.


The farmer should not allow his cattle that
are used on his farm work To be scattered In
discriminatory over his fields. In the most
busy season 1t often happens that a great deal
OF time IS lost In catching working animals that
are let out on pastures while the men eat din
der. In the heat of a hot day, as at noon hor-
ses and oxen would do much better In the sta
bles If supplied with green food For such
purpose no farmer should be without the neccs-
sary Quantity of clover to be used as soilinp-
We do not refer to that grown on meadow land
with grasses, but to clover produced on meadow
land HEAVILY MANFRED Such clover will ha
sncculeut. and while IT furnishes a highly nu-
tritlve feed for working animals it prevents
them from having desire to consume large
quantities of water. Clover grown in the man
ner referred to, would produce the second season
three crops After each cutting it should be
heavily top-dressed. If the pastures are bare
from being over-stocked. parched by the heat
OF summer. The cattle should be fed clover or
solling- The value oft for increasing the ouan-
tlty and quality of milk and butter, will soon
be understood by any person who pursues such
course This sy stem of practice has its in
fGense IN saving time. If the fences are bad
or the cattle roam In the woods. by the feeding
OF special green food In particular place thus
causing cattle 10 come IN search of it, much
time may be saved. We know of a shi ftless.
disorderIy farmer--and perhaps there are others
as well as he-who drives his cattle three or
four miles % be MIXED often when above their
knees IN mud he has several horses to spare and


MIX cans growing rusty for want of use He
does not estimate the loss arising from such a
practice His cattle travel ia coming home
twice a day 70 be MIXED, aud returning tn the
pasture. make four journeys equal 10 twelve
mlies-when the roads are muddy the Ia bor ia
much Increased-the feet of the cattle hecome
subject To dlsease-whIls travelling they are
not feeding, and consequently not supplying
the raw material from which to max flesh milk
or butter - they dung the road and It's ma
nurIal effects are lost to the pasture-and in ad-
dItlon to these LOSSES arising from careessness
or want OF ''"rdcr upon the farm" the time
OF a man or boy Is also lost in making the Jour
neys referred to Working Farmer
Year: 1859

REAL AND IMAGINARY WANTS. -
Very few, we presume. will acknowledge
how few real wants we have, and how lit
tie it takes to give US genuine happiness.
If we could get rid of our artificial, sense
less. and expensive way of living, we
should find ourselves better off In purse,
in prospect, and In heart. Let every one
who has auy ambition TO go ahead In life
try the experiment this year. and see how
much virtue there Is IN economy. Make
your expenses less than your income. and
see how much you will have gained, not
only in money but In feeling.
Year: 1859

A FABLE.-A young man once picked up a
sovereign lying in the road. Ever afterwards
as be walked along, he kept his eyes fixed
steadily on the ground, in hope Of finding an
other And in the couise or long lifo he
picked up at different times good amount Of
gold and silver. But all these years while he
was looking for them he not that heaven
was bright above him and nature beautiful
around. He never once allowed his eyes to
look up from the mud and filth In which he
sought the treasure, and when he died. rich
old man, he only knew this fair earth of ours
as dirty road in which to pick up money as
you walk along.
Year: 1859

The LUSGs.-A recent writer says that the
injurious effect of compression of the chest Is
shown by the fact that man in a nude state Is
capable of inspiring 80 cubic inches OF air at a
breath, but when dressed only 100 inches. La
dies who encase themselves III tight fitting un =
der garments, should remember thus tact Though
we draw into and eject a similar amount Of air
thrown from the lungs il has lost much of Its
oxygen, and has gained from three to SIX per
cent. carbonic acid. large amount of vapor.
traces of amonia, hydrogen and other volatile
substances,
Year: 1859

eB- Editors, as well as other people,
are sometimes the heroes of interesting
little adventures, episodes, or whatever
YOU may choose to call them. The follow
ing is related Of one of the unfortunate
creatures.


AT festival, a pretty Miss waited
upon an editor with pie-piate of antique
manufacture, In the centre of which, he
espied the following interesting couplet ::


"0ne sweet kiss


Is the price Of this"


This excited his feelings, and as soon
as an opportunity presented itself he mo-
toned The young lady to his side, and
pointing his knife to the line said d" Your
pay is ready whenever you present your
bill'
Year: 1859

~ Two centuries ago not one IN a hundred
wore stockings Fifty years ago, not a boy In
a thousand Was allowed TO run AT large at night.
Fifty years ago not one girl Ia thousand made
a waiting maid of her mother. Wonderful i'm
,roveInents in this wonderful age
Year: 1859

RAIL RoAD.-Mr, Alliot, Civil En-
gineer from Auburn, is, in town with
the view of making a preliminary
survey for railroad from Auburn to
this place. He reports the route To-
Gated from Folsom to Auburn an easy.
practicable ore, and that the compa-
ny formed to construct the same are
willing to continue it to this place if
the route is feasible. If our citizens
will take the matter in hand we can
easily convince the most skeptical
that the route is good one. We are
assured that the preliminary survey
can be made in about two weeks, and
at a small expense.
Year: 1859

THB NEW YEAR.--The year of our
Lord one thousand eight Hundred and
fifty-nine is passing away forever
The last sands ia its dial are almost
un. As we watch the last grains
passing irredeemably away, and see
she vacuity left, we can not but be
Ieminded of the fulncss Of our hopes
atwelvemonth ago and the enptyness
of them now On the morning of the
year whose evening is about to close.
how bright were our visions and how
illusory have they proved to most of
US Pew, indeed, are our realiza,
tions to the prizes hope places xithin
our grasp. Thus is it ever. Yet With
how much dissatisfaction soever we
may retrospect the past, the bright
crown we would win still gIstens and
resedcs in the future and bids us not
despair. We chase the phantom over
the boundaries of years and decades
and leave it for the pursuit of millions
yet to be.


Unsuitable as are our desires and
tr;Aing as may appear all that we ac-
complish as we glance backward upon
It; vain and mocking as the world
may seem to be, we find but few wko
are quite willing to exchange it for
another, from whieh fact it is fair to
conclude it is not so bad a world after
all. We are not sure, even the most
sanguine, that to shuttle off this NOR
tai coil would be gain, and therefore,
endeavor 10 WOO sweet contentment
to make ear lot more tolerable, and
console ourselves with the reflection
if not all our hopes are realized, we
are growing wiser If not better as life
wears away. That


The souls dark cottage battered and decayed
lets in new light through chinks which time has


made.


1t is we'll to begin the new year with
good resolutions, even if the weak
ness of the flesh will cause us to fall
far short of the object aimed at. An
arrow aimed at the sun will 60 higher
and farther :han when discharged at
the horizon. Let us begin the new
wear, then, with TO less firm resolves
than before. BY trying, something
may be d,ne valuable to ourselves
aua to mankind. Bright hopes and
firm purposes are necessary to the
achievement of ordinary purposes as
well as great deeds. Let the future
then be unclouded, and our hearts
stout; let our objects be worthy, and
go ahead"
Year: 1859

THE Shasta Courier predicts that a
Yankee preacher, whom it names, will
abscond with somebody's wife in less
than a year. and. charges the world
to remember the prediction. The
preacher has been expressing sympa-
thy with Old Brown.


The prediction of the Courier is
based on the natural tendencies of
psalm singers to initiate the psalmist in
his dealings with Uriah. We go still
farther and prophesy that the said
minister, after giving US a practical
demonstration of popular sovereignty
will become prominent Administra-
ton man soon after. We hazard moth
ing in the prediction sinceIthe princi-
pal North Star men are known to be
leaders in that same party.


While our hand is in we will try a
tilt with the Courier In the art pro-
phetic. We prophesy that one-eighth
Of all the nigger babies born South in
the year 1860 will be Of the color of
a new saddle or "chaw of toback-
er," and we will do southern preach
ers the justice to say they will not be
entirely responsible for the astonish-
ing phenomena. 4
Year: 1859

Irrigation.-The Alameda Gazette
says that an enterprise is in the way
of completion on the Estudillo ranch
in that county, having for its object
tie irrigation of the ranch during the
dry season. The San Leandro creek
is to be damned and tunnel cut
through hill six hundred feet in
length through which the water will
be conducted.
Year: 1859

PRESIDENTS MEssAGE.-It is re-
ported in case of a probable long
wrangle about the Speakership, that
the President will follow the example
of his predecessor and send in his
Message to the Senate. 1t is also ru-
mored that the. President will make
the Harper's Ferry affair a topic of
his message. The latter report is
probably true, at least it is given cur
rency in the N. Y. Herald, which is
supposed to speak by the card in ref
erence to the doings of james Bu-
chanan. In various ways the Admin
istration party is tanning the slavery
question to the full extent of itslwind.
A gentleman from Virginia has anti
cipated old Buchanan little by intro
ducing into Congress resolutions of in
quiry into the causes &c. of the Har-
per's Ferry affair.


The whole of this ado over that
misguided attempt of Old Brown is
certainly out of place, and will return
like boomerang to the feet of the
operator. The least said about it by
tho South. the better it will be for
that section. The attemptthat is be-
ing made to make the body Of the
Northern people responsible for the
mad acts of Old Brown must surely
end in evil to the South. 1t is enough
to furnish two thirds of the revenue
for the support of the government, to
pay largely for carrying the mail
through the Slaze States, to surren-
der the larger share of the national
offices to the weaker section, without
being taunted after much forbearanee
with being thieves, robbers and cut
hroats-enemies at last.
Year: 1859

RAIL RoAD TO PLAcERvILLR.-
Some of the people of Piacerville
and the Sacramento Union arc talk
ing Of a railroad from Folsom to PIa-
cerville. A meeting was held last
week in the latter place to take steps
to procure the road, the proceedings
of which meeting we have seen re-
ported Ill the local aud Sacramento
papers. The road, in advance of the
observations Of civil engineers, is de-
clared practicable, ard the purse Of
ElDorado deemed amply full to build
the road. We do not doubt that all
these opinions and declarations are
true. Where there is will there is
a way. IfEl Dorado county goes to
work in earnest a railroad will be
seen ending at Placerville ina few
months from this date. But if Edo
RADIO can do this, we shall maintain
that Nevada is quite as able. to build
railway from near Auburn to this
city. Unless there was an error in
the report of the assessed valuation
of property in Ell Dorado: the means
of this county exceeds that Of Ell Do~
4rado largely. The distance iss not
longer from Auburn to Nevads than
from Folsom to Placerville, and the
grade and ground more favorable
So far, then, as advantages of wealth
and route are concerned we have the,
per centage in our favor. Add to
these the superiority of our transmon-
tame communication with Western
Utah, and the inducements on the
part of the citizens of Nevada coun-
ty for energetic action are vastly
greater. We have pass lower by
several hundred feet, more accessible
from either side, and smoother by far.
If there can be a motive to inpel
the people of Ell Dorado to build
railroad to Placerville we shall main
tain there is stronger motive TO in~
duce us to construct railroad to Ne
vada. We ask every one of our
readers if this be net SO.
Year: 1859

The editor Of California paper thus ad-
vises gambling correspondent of his jour
nal:


Find three story warehouse, crawl
along the ridge pole, discover big Hat rock
on line cropped from the termination /;
turn your moccasins up to the sun and let
yourself go-the discovery OF your brains
on the rock below will be conclusive and
gratifyi ing evidence that q nuisance has
abated
Year: 1859

Preserving FRUIT WITHOUT SUGAR 10 pre-
serve fruit fresh for winter use put it in bottles,
fill them up with cold spring water. tie down With
a bladder tightly put them in kettle or copper
Of cold water up to the neck Of the bottles, with
hay to steady them; let them simmer for . quar-
ter of an hour, but not boil let them cool in the
water; wipe the bottles, and put away in DRY
place On no account open them till their ecD--
tsnts are wanted for eating. .-Cstege Gdrds~sr.
Year: 1859

A BLACK BEAN SToRY.-On mild October
day, 1853, a little girl aged four years took
small shining hard black bean between her I'm
gers, and put it to her nose to smell, it disap-
peared. She said it was in her nose; surgeon
was called who upon examination, declared that
it conld not be there. The mother was quieted,
the child soothed, and ran about as if nothing
had happened, maintaining her high and vigorous
health On the afternoon of the eighth of May
following, it was discharged from her nose, by
the slight blow child can make, into q hand
kerchief; the moment she saw it, she cried the
bean the bean and ran with great glee to show
it to her parents it was now dingy, soft, shriv-
elled, and we found on measuring that it was
two eighths of an inch thick, four -eighths broad,
and five eigh,hs long. During theseseven months
the child never complained OF any thing in the
direction of the accident, except an occasional
smarting of the eyes On the previous evening,
she had been soused head and ears under water
in a bath tub, and the struggles incident to an
operation of that kind, most likely dislodged it
for in the middle of the night she walked up with
a startle and cry, and after some throwing her
self about, went to sleep in an hour, but was
fretful all next day until the discharge of the
bean, when her accustomed joyousness returned.
Lesson-Don't give beans to children for play
thinpa
Year: 1859

YEAST A APLANT.-Housekeepe will be inter.
ested in knowing that yeast is plant. When
examined under the microscope, says the London
Quarterly Review, it is found to consist OF glob-
ular syesicles,' about 1-2500th of an inch In di-
ameter when full grown. They are multiplied
by little vesices budding out from the SIDE OF
the parent. These soon acquire an equal size
and repeat the reproduction, either while at
tsched to the parent globule or after separating
from it. The multiplication goes on to an IN
definite extent, with fitting supply OF food and
a moderate temperature 60 deg's. to 80 degs.
Fabr.) The vesicles are nourished by sucking
in a portion Of the organic liquid in which they
exist decomposing this chemically, aud either
actually giving off or causing the separation at
their outer surface of carbonic acid in the form
of gas, which appears as bubbles in the liquid
This. however, is not all. Some phenomena
accompany the growth of yeast which involve
one of the most abstruse, aud, at present, OBJ
scure questions of modern chemistry. The yeast
ia a wasteful feeder. Not only does 1t decom-
nose so much of the liquid as 1t requires tor its
own nutrition, but II produces similar decom-
position in the liquid around it, which is refer


rad by chemists to the same unexplained force


by which many inorganic substances cause the
combination or separation of substances with


out themselves undergoing alteration. An ex-
ample is furnished by the action of spongy pla-
tinum upon mixture of hydrogen and oxygen
assses, causing them to unite and produce wa


fer This contact action is at present stumb-
limo block to natural philosophers, many OF


whom ara earnestly endeavoring to surmount 1t,


and when this is accomplished they will probs-
blv secure point of vantage whence they will
ain an insight into multitude OF unexplained
pbeponens Of vegetable and animal chemistry"
Year: 1859

1 Have No Mother Now.
NV heart Is lone and sad to-day;
For now am an orphan boy;
have no mothers loving smile,


No mothers smile of joy.
All! yes do remember well,
That night, that dark and stormy night
The fell destroyer came and bore


That mother from my sight.
Her gentle voice is lingering yet,
That voice which oft did charm my ear;
That taught me how to bow the knee,


And lisp the Savior's prayer.
And shall see her face again,
And shall hear her winning voice?
Yes, on yon radiant shore we'll meet,


And evermore rejoice.
What if my heart is sad to-day,
What though am on orphan boy,
What If have no mother now


No mothers smile of joy?
NV heart is thrilling with the thought,
That she was lent to me, not given,
To teach me how to live on earth,


That we might live in heaven.
Year: 1859

A GooD THING IN THE STORY NE.-Some
wears ago Cincinnati paper received and print,
ed the first chapter of what appeared to be q
most thrilling romance, in the expectation Of
being provided with the concluding portions as
might be needed. The chapter was very inge-
niously written, and concluded by leaving the
principal character suspended by the pantaloons
from the limb of tree over perpendicular
precipice. 1t attracted the attention of the
press, and inquiries began to be made concern
ing the continuation or the fate of its hero. Day
after day the victimized publishers looked for
the remaining chapters, but in vain. They nev-
er came to hand. Finding that they had been
sold, and wishing to put stop to the jokes their
Contemporaries were cracking at their expense,
they briefly concluded the story thus:


CHAPTER n-OoNoLUsIoN.


After hanging to the treacherous tree for four
weeks, his pantaloons gave way, and Charles
Melville rolled headlong over the yawning prec-
ipice. o.


He fell distance of five miles, and came down
with the small of his back across a stake and
rider fence, which so injured him that he was
compelled to travel in Italy for his health, where
he is at present residing. He is engaged in the
butchering business, and is the father of large
family of children.
Year: 1859

A man who passes through life without mar
rying is like fair mansion lett by the builder
unfinished. The halt that is complete runs to
decay from neglect, without the addition OF that
which makes the whole useful