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Year: 1869

''SHADowING7 A CLERK. Many of the
principal business men OF New York make
use of private detectives for the purf ose Of
determining whether their clerks and other
employees are living beyond their means, and
what their pursuits are after business hours
There are several firms with a large number
OF individuals in their service who make it
their business to give information in regard
to the moral standing of employees, just as
commercial agents furnish to their subscrib-
ers the business standing of business houses
in different parts of the country. They keep
day-books and ledgers in which the moral ac
count ofyouns men is entered and balanced
as ii it were so much cash. The testing of
individuals is technically called "shadowing"
a clerk, or other person as the case may be.
The method fperiorming this duty is thus
described in a New York paper:


The shadow, after getting aspot" on the
clerk, seeing him for the first titue,) takes up
position near the latter's place Of business
shortly before closing up time, and when the
clerk comes out he shadows him till he re-
tires to his home for the night In all propa
bility when the clerk leaves the store he wi n
go to his home and get supper, during which
time the shadow must remain outside, sufi
GENTLY near the house to enable him to see
the clerk when he comes out. When he re-
issues to the street the detective must dog his
steps from place to place. When the clerk
enters a restaurant or billiard room ii Is the
duty of the shadow" to follow him In, IL he
can do so without being dropped on,p (no-
ticed by the clerk,) to see how much money
he spends, il any; also to see il he associates
with any one inside; If so, find out who,
whether they are fellow clerks or more dlsrep-
utable and dangerous associates ofeither sex


Ii lfthe"shadow cannot safely enter the place in
to which the clerk has admission, he must re


main outside, no matter how inclement the
weather or how late the clerk remains. II
the detective does his duty faithfully, he will
not leave the clerk till he is convinced that
he has retired for the night. The reader can
readily see that the position of private detec-
tive, when the duties are faithfully discharged
is no sinecure. n rs
Year: 1869




Now farmers wives, don't get angry
with me, but look at the statement-con-
slider it carefully and then say if we are not
right In the first place we will suppose
that your cream is all right, your churn
sweet, &c. Well you churn your cream
and it finally makes what we call butter,
you wash it in good cool water, salt it ac-
cording to taste, and rejoice in your nice
fresh butter here you call it done. 1t is
Just at this point where am going to find
fault.


There is no process of working or wash
ing that will secure good article of but
ter, or that will get all the buttermilk out
till it has stood short time, when it must
be worked over the second time, after which
it will keep Il long time. Butter that has
not been worked the second time will not
keep more than two or three days in warm
weather. | don't care how much pains
YOU take with it, the buttermilb that is left
in the butter becoming sour, makes your
butter rancid. have bought and sold but
ter in this state, and know what l am talk
about; and here is where the trouble begins,
you are bound to sell all the buttermilk you
can and so long as dealers pay as much for
buttermilk as they do for a nice article of
butter we cannot expect you to do much
better. l am satisfied that there can be
Just as good butter made in Indiana as is
made in the cheese and butter regions of
the Eastern States. But just so long rs we
pursue the suicidal policy Of selling butter
milk with the butter, so long our butter
will be quoted in eastern markets as west
ern grcase.-NorM Western Farmer.
Year: 1869




Considerable anxiety is now being mani
Tested hereabouts by many farmers in re-
gard to fences. Fence material of all kinds,
as well as fire wood is steadily growing
scarcer and dcarer. Fences ON every hand
dccaying must be renewed in some way
and drived by necessity, farmers are gradu-
ally planting Usage orange and honey 10
Gust hedges. Many have tried white will
low, but generally fail to make afence. eth
er through want of knowledge of how to
manage it, or neglect, or both. We have
some Usage hedges in this country fifteen
years old, and there is no winter-killing;
they are generally on sandy, gravelly
ground, with a porous or dry subsoil.


l want to tell your readers how to grow
or train the Usage SO as to make a tight
fence that will stop pigs, chickens, and
even rabbits to Il great extent. Set the
plants eight or ten inches apart cultivate
well the first season. In the fall mulch it
well to prevent winter-kiling. This mulch
will keep the weeds down, with 4 little at
tention, for the next two years, and will
also give vigorous growth to the hedge
After three years growth in hcdge-row,
plow a deep furrow two and a half or three
feet from the hedge with Landslide of plow
next the hedge, and have two men, one
with a shovel, the other with buck mitts
and thick boots to bend mot cut the hedge
and tramp it to a horizontal position, OF
level with the ground diagonally with the
line of hedge. Tramp the tops in the fur
row, and throw dirt on them to hold them
in position, leaving two and a hall or three
feet of the base uncovered. Thus treated
they will send up from ten to twenty vigor-
Gus sprouts from each plant. This being
done in April, the latter part of June clip
it within six inches Of base of sprouts
The September following clip it six inches
higher, and continue the clipping semi-an-
nually until your hedge gets the desired
height, and it will be two or three feet thick
at base and impassable to man or brute.


GeyYuant0rn TelegraDh.
Year: 1869

low TO TEST Flour. Place a thim-
bleful in the palm of the hand and rub it
gently with the finger If the flour
smooths down, feeling gentle and Slippery,
it is of inferior quality, though of fancy
brand, high priced, and white as the virgin
snow drift, and will never make good, light.
wholesome bread. But if the flour rubs
rough in the PALM feeling like fine sand.
and has an orange tint, purchase confident
ly. 1t will not disappoint you. Such flour
whatever may be its branded reputation,
though its price be at the lowest figure,
will make good, light, nutritious bread
Year: 1869

WAGON TIEEs.-A newspaper writer
says his wagon tires ''wear out before they
get loose and the reason is he saturates
the felloes thoroughly with linseed oil be-
fore the tires are set. The felloes are plac-
ed in hot oil for about one hour, and are
thus rendered perfectly water proof, so that
the shrinking and swelling that loosen the
tire are prevented.
Year: 1869

A Marshal county correspondent Of the
Avalanche mentions well-grounded be
lief that nearly all the Radical freedmen
in that county have applied for and re
ceiyed duplicate certificates of registration
Con the false plea that they had lost
those they obtained last year, with the
purpose, Of making fraudulent use of
them at the approaching elections. The
game is to import voters on the eve of the
election to use these duplicate certificates
in the interest Of the Radical ticket
Chanengers are admonished to be on the
look out for them.
Year: 1869

The income tax will expire by Limitation
next year, unless Congress shall provide for
its continuance ia the coming session. Our
Washington dispatches OF yesterday said
that either Commissioner Delano nor Secre-
tary Boutwell, will recommend any mOdih.
cation of the tax. but that there Is "A strong
feeling among Congressman in favor Of re-
ducing it to three per cent, or even a lower
rate. Ii Is now generally conceded that the
present tax is so oppressive that but frac-
tion Of the amount OF revenue which IL
would yield, were he tax honestly paid. il
derived from it.-Chicago Times.
Year: 1869




am End.


We may congratulate the people of the
State that these instruments of Radical
tyranny are virtually destroyed. This is
the practical effect of the arrangement
between the Supreme Court and the Ex-
ecutive in the Yerger case. The knowl-
edge that the Court would decide that
military commissions in time of peace are
in violation of the Constitution of the
United States, and that E. NJ Yerger is
illegally restrained of his liberty by mill
tary authority, has induced the Attorney
General to pledge that he shall be ''sur-
rendered to the civil authorities when the
State shall have been reconstructed. !"
Henceforward there need be no appre-
hension by citizens of trial and punish
ment by military courts. The power of
the military rulers will exhaust itself in
the arrest of citizens at discretion and
this is as purely arbitrary and unauthor-
lied as their trial and punishment by the
same tribunals; but our despot here is
acting on the principle that might makes
right and there is no present relief.


1t is to be regretted that the arrange
ment in the case of Yerger was effected
at ALL Otherwise, a decision would have
been rendered which would have instant
ly tore up, root and branch, the whole
system of military government. Never
theless great point has been gained.
Year: 1869

One or two country stores in South
Carolina have been burnt recently, and
Scott. the carpet-bag Governor, has made
the proceeding the occasion of the issu-
ance of a blood-thirsty proclamation,
threatening more vigorous application
of the bavonet to the down-trodden peo-
pie of that State than they have yet ex-
perienced The Charleston News calls
this passing strange, coming as it does
from an official, who already, in the brief
period of his own administration, has
turned loose upon the community more
robbers, incendiaries and cut-throats than
were ever before pardoned by all the Gov
ernors that have figured in the history of
South Carolina. His carpet-bag Excel
lency sends forth from the penitentiary
and other prisoners all the many convict
ed burners and murderers that have been
in confinement, and then wants a most
remorseless dynasty of the bayonet and
bullet established because burning and
murder are on foot in the State. He un-
muzzles mad dogs and would punish the
whole people because some are bitten.


The outrages which are perpetrated in
South Carolina will be brought home to
the people of Mississippi in the event OF
the success of the Ames-Alcorn faction.
Year: 1869

One Of the members of the Honorable
board of Police of this county, states that
Judge Franklin told him that IL the Radical
party Is successful In the coming election, IN
less than six months after they get back into
the Union the colored man will have no
more rights here than they have In the State
of Ohio. He further states that what the
Radical party is after now. Is 20 be- success
ful. and afterward 20 deprive the freedmen
of the right L. vote. hold Office, or set on
jnries. any one who doubts the correct
ness of this assertion, can get the authors
name by calling at this office. He Is I'm every


respect reliable and responsible gentleman.
Year: 1869

In order that our present Weekly may
reach its distant subscriber before the cleo
ton, we have issued it several days in ad-
vance. Time is called on us while we
are yet in the midst of the argument.
The eventful hour is at hand. The day
of action is upon u.s. "Once more into
the breach, dear friends, once more!"
Year: 1869

We wish to direct special attention To a
very important circular just issued by the
National Union Republican State EXecu-
tive Committee, and which we publish
herewith. The information it contains
is of vital consequence to our people, and
the different newspapers in the State, are
requested to give il as wide "A circulation
as possible:
Year: 1869

Men Il Mississippi. yon have befose
YOU the alternatives of a stable. hberai
and harmonious government in the sue
cess of the ticket of the National Union
Republicans under Louis Dent, or OF
violent, proscriptive and corrupt admin
istrafion in the success of the ultra Rad
icaI party under J. l. Alcorn. The
supporters OF the one are the real citizens
who have clung to the fortunes OF the
State through sunshine and storm; the
leaders and master spirits of the other
are political adventures who have come
to perpetuate strife and to speculate on
the misfortmes of her people. As you
decide, SO it viii be for the next four
wears; and the impress of evil which four
wears of misrule will infict upon the State
NAV last for generations. See toit, then,
that Tuesday and Wednesday, are devo-
ted exclusively to her deliverance from
the calamities which viii attend the rule
of the men whose very breath is pesti-
lence and strife.


SELECT YOUR CHALLENGES,
firm, discreet, intelligent men who viii
remain at the ballot-box from the opening
to the closing, and will be prompt to de-
tect every attempted fraud.


INSTRUCT THE UNINFoRMED,
and teach them the folly and wickedness
of voting to place the enemies of both
races In power.


NO SCRATCHING.


Vote the whole ticket. We have not
nominee but is a thousand times more
worthy than his opponent on the ultra
Radical ticket, and to refuse to vote for
the former, is to help the latter.


ATTEND TO THE LUKEwARM-
and warn them of the consequences of
inactivity and Indifference. Remind them
that two years ago, the conservatives
could, if they had tried, have saved the
Convention, and thus have spared them
selves the money, and trouble, and con-
tention which followed the success of the
MongreIs. The difficulties in the way of
success have vastly increased, but Heav-
en- be praised, they are not insurmount-
able


WORK WORK., woRKi!i
He is poor patriot who cannot give two
days to his country. He is a poor parent
who cannot work two days to spare his
wife and children the hell of horrors
through which the people of Arkansas
have passed since the yoke of the carpet
bagger and scalawag was placed on their
necks.


| WATCH THE CANVASS.


Warn your challengers to see that no
illegal votes are cast-that the boxes are
not stuffed-and that the count is fair.


And then, when you have fought the
good fight, send us the glad tidings of
| vOl.r
Year: 1869

Warn your challengers to see that no
illegal votes are cast-that the boxes are
not stuffed-and that the count is fair.


And then, when you have fought the
good fight, send us the glad tidings of
your victory
Year: 1869

In a late number of the College C0Urdnt
is an article ON sleep by DR.. G. w. Beard,
from which we make the following ex-
tract: e


"Students who are really faithful labo.
rious brain workers need all the sleep they
can get, whether at night or in the day
time. The night is the most appropriate
season for sleep, and yet we should pever
hesitate to take nap in the daytime when
ever we find IL necessary Amid the cares
and responsibilities of our modern civil.
zation, there are unnumbered Interrupt
tions and contingencies that make it prsc-
tically impossible for us to obtain our full
amount of sleep in the hours that are usu.
ally devoted to that purpose. Now there
is no law so imperative on man as the law
that requires us to sleep. If we deny our
selves of 1t if we get behind and, to use
the expression of the street, fall into debt
to nature in this respect, we must improve
the first opportunity to make ourselves
good, else we shall ultimately fail. A brain
worker who religiously enjoys a liberal
amount of sleep may preserve his health
and elasticity, even though he violates
every other law of hygiene On the con
trary, he who faithfully observes all the
rules of diet, of exercise, and of labor, YET
denies himself of sleep, is really guilty OF
all, and can by no means escape unpun-
ished. There is no appeal from this law
There is no virtue that can redeem its vio
lation. 1t admits of no atonement To sleep
is the one great hygienic commandment.
1t Is the Alpha and the Omega, the begin
ming and the end, the first and last of the
great laws of mental hygiene. He who
understands and obeys this law really un
derstands and obeys the whole hygieniC
decalogue, for no one can long sleep wei
who persistently disregards the other laws
of health. Sleep is one of the best of oul
thermometers of health. BY the quantity
and quality of sleep that our patients car
take, we can best Judge of their daily con
| dition and of their progress toward recov
cry. We always feel assured that what
ever improves the sleep of the exhausted
invalid to that degree helps him TOWARD
| recovery, and that whatever disturbs tn,
sleep, to that degree, brings on relaps,
and disease. S'eeplessness is one of thu
earliest and most constant symptoms of in
sanity, of hydrochondria and of all the
nameless forms of nervous derangement
| Whenever, therefore, we find that we ar,
not sleeping as well as we arewont, whel
our dreams are peculiarly dark, and ugly
and distressing, and leave unsightly scar
in the memory, when we roll, and toss, an
worry through the watch of the nigh,
anxiously waiting for the day, when W
awake long before our accustomed hou
of rising, and find no pleasure In tn
morning nap, then may we suspect tina
our bark is nearing the quickssnds al
shadows, and then, without delay, shoult
we examine our charts, revise our cslcula
tions, and, according to our best judgmen,
return to the channel from which we hav
suffered ourselves to be driven.
Year: 1869

life the other one may be made TO lead.
II might be reasonably urged as a cause
for judicial separation, possibly even for
divorce, since the practice Of quietly press
ing the spirit and life out Of human be.
ing, no matter how many years the opera.
ton spreads over, is not one that ought TO
be permitted In q Christian country "vm
victis y the weak go TO the wall, aud too
often the weak are the pleasantest and
most lovable Of earth's creatures


Sometimes person Is seen to exhibit
something which resembles and yet IL not
sulks. IL is q silent moOdiness of manner
arising from sense of failure, mortitica.
ton, or secret discouragement and vexa-
tion which he cannot get over all at once
II is often seen In youth, but In reality the
man is struggling with his intirmity, and
kind word or q friendly overture will al.
most always float him over the difficulty.
But genuine sulkiness is essentially pre-.
meditsted and of a forethought It is also
vindictive, sometimes even malignant, in
its nature, and If much INDUCED In causes
the manners to be hsbitually morose, and
the face and person acquire heavy, sod
den appearance as of q substance too long
stepped in unwholesome juices. Dragging
the feet along the 1oor and slamming the
doors ot the house tor weeks and months
together arc vulgar and lgnoble but
neither uncommon nor inexpensive modes
Of sulking, We all know of other way
more refined, but not less dissgreeable,
and remember them too we'll The
fashion In which the very few words which
custom and convenience render absO-
lutely necessary are dropped from the
lips as if they were 80 many leaden bull
lets; the steadfast, surprised stare that
you or any one else should venture TO
ask such questions as shall require reply
at any kind, the pertinacious coldness
h. carefully averted glance, the steady
gloom, the hand withheld, the smile un.
returned, and the hardly muttered &C
acknowledgement of the morning or eve
ming salution,-who that has witnessed OF
endured these amenities can forget the
effect of thcm2 In fact, the severity o
the pressure which really able, discrimi
mating, and obstinate sulker can bring tC
bear on others for indefinite space Of tim,
amounts to tyranny, dumb, indeed, bu
sufficiently unholy of its kind; neitheI
soft coaxing nor urgent crushing can af
feet it, and, though to yield is humiliating


it is well nigh hopeless to resist it--Pd
Mall Gazette. UH.r ...-..e
Year: 1869

THOMAS DICK puts the boarding OF
wealth 10 this striking way:


Suppose man could lay up q stock OF
clothes and provisions sufficient to last
him for 800 years, what would it avail
him, since he can live at most but from 20
to 100 yesrsP Suppose he had laid up in
q store house 10000 pairs of shoes, to what
end would it serve, if he could make use,
during his whole life, of only the one
hundreth part of themS He would be in
the same condition as a man who had a
hundred dishes placed before him at din
ncr, but who could only take one or of q
person who had hundred mansions pur-
chased for mis- residence, but who could
occupy only one. How ridiculous II
would appear If all that could be said of
q man while he lived was simply this
that his whole life was occupied In collect
ing and laying up in a store house 10000
mahogany chairs which were never in.
tended to be used for the furniture OF
apartments, or $4,000 pairs of trowsers
which were never Intended to be worn
And where is the difference, in point OF
nationality and utility, between such alb
surd practices, and boarding thousands o
guineas and bank notes which are never
brought forth for the benefit of mankind
There is no conduct connected with the
pursuits of human beings that appears
more absurd and wicked than such prac
tices (however common), il examined by
the dictates of reason and the word o.
(lnd
Year: 1869

allowed moderate amount Of meat, vege.
tables, aud bread. This treatment was
continued until his full restoration to
strength, care being taken to keep him al
ways slightly hungry.


On recovering his speech, he retailed
his experience. He is y native of Nassau,
aged 90 years, and had never been afflicted
with any severe sickness. lie fell asleep
in the hold OF the Rising Star after eating
his dinner, and on awakening found him
self closely packed between two bales of
wool, with but about twelve inches be-
tween himself and the ceiling. He said
that he did not fall asleep again until his
arrival, but this seems incredible. All
efforts 10 make himself heard proving
fruitless, he resigned himself to his fate.
He experienced no pain, and his hunger,
though great, gave him very little uneasi,
ness. He could take no account OF time,
but two or three days before reaching
here, to the best of his judgment, he was
annoyed by a constant buzsiug in his ears,
his mouth was dry, and has saliva was
thick as paste. Alter arriving he found
his sight, hearing, touch, and smell unim-
paired, but his sense of taste had departed.
- NeSo York Sun
Year: 1869

voice whose halfdespairing tone we'll
remembered; tr


Gomez And had so counted on her
promise ?" ....


1t flashed upon me that another months
rent was over due. The money that
should have redeemed my grsndAther's
watch was burning in my pocket; and
as thrust Il into her hand said to her


"You have proved yourself good pay,
Miss Payne; you won't run away with
anybody. just take that and run away
out of this"


This time she actually did smile in my
face, but she hurried away without q
word.


II took some time to convince the old
banker that was not an accomplice of
De Roos aud, though he had to pay too
much money on the failure" of his sud
den soniu.law ever to pardon hIn1, he
seemed to pardon me very readily when
he found that had not done anything.
In fact, the shape HIS pardon took has
been worth something to me. AS for
Clara Payne, l have seen her since several
times. In fact, see her every time go
home Hdrper's Weekly.
Year: 1869

ABouT fortnight ago the Sun pub
ished the story of Richard Wilson, @
young colored man, who had been acci-
dentally shut in the hold of an Aspinwall
steamer, and had existed nine days on
board without food until his arrival In this
city. He was sent to the Colored Home,
in Sixty fifth street, and having regained
his strength, lately returned to AspinwalL
On reaching the home he was unable
either to stand or sit unsupported, or even
70 speak. His pulse was 1uttering, his
eyes were dull, and his feet and hands
were cold His tongue was slightly coated,
his frame tremulous, and he vomited
water of a syrupy consistence. A loud
systolic murmur was also heard at the
base of his heart.


An ounce was given him every fifteen
minutes Of mixture consisting of two
ounces of whisky, pint of water, and
four ounces Of milk, until he became com
posed and was able to Sleep In half an
hour his pulse strengthened, and his gen
eral aspect improved. Before dark he was
able TO speak and sleep sOundly. The
next day one ounce of milk and one ounce
Of beef tea were given him. On the fol-
lowing day he was much better, and was