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Year: 1867

Another Grand Dividend!
WILL be. made on the first OF February next
w Those who insure at this time will derive the
benefit OF that dividend, which will add largely to
the sum insured, or may be used i'm PAYMENT OF tu-
lure premiums. 1t is the best


r New Years Gift
man can bestow on his family, in view of the un-


certainty Of life.


Many Policies now subssting with this Great
Company are yielding A LARGE INCREASE as the
folOwinp eases will chnw. ~
Year: 1867

Mrs landrs ceting simply admirable We recall few things
more oppressive uan the scene the close o the fourth act Of The sig
nature OF the rendering Of deeply pathetic
tue drop falls on this act
Year: 1867

The great want Of this age is
men. Men who are not for sale.
Men who are honest, sound from
center to circumference, true to the
hearts core. Men who will con-
denim wrong in friend or foe. Men
whose consciencies are steady as
the needle to the pole. Men who
will stand to the right if the heavens
totter and the earth reels. Men
who can tell the truth. Men who
neither brag nor run. Men who
can have courage without whistling
for it. Men careless of mans ap-
plause. Men too large for secre-
tartan limit, and too strong for
sectarian bands. Men who do not
strive nor cry, nor cause their voices
to be heard in the streets, and who
will not fail nor be discouraged.
Men who know their message and
tell it. Men who know their duty
and do it. Men who know their
place and fill it.
Year: 1867

WORKING AND Thinning 1t is
no less fatal error to despise labor
when regulated by intellect, than to
value it for it's own sake. We are
always in these days trying to sep
arate the two. We want one man
to be always thinking, and another
to be always working; and we call
one gentleman and the other an
operative: whereas the workman
ought often to be thinking, and the
thinker often to be working; both
should be gentlemen in the best
sense. As it is, we make both un-
gentle, the one envying, the other
despising his brother; and the mass
of society is made up Of morbid
thinkers and miserable workers.
Now, it is only by labor that thought
can be made healthy, and only by
thought that labor can be made
happy; and the professions should be
made liberal, and there should be
less pride felt in popularity Of EN-.
ploymcnt, and more in excellence OF
acbievment.-Ruskin.
Year: 1867

A false impression seems to be
prevalent in regard to the wheat
crop of Minnesota. The St. Paul
Press of Wednesday says there could
be no greater mistake than to Sup
pose that there has been any gcncr-
al scarcity Of seed there tlifs year,
or that less breadth of wheat has
been sown than usual. The area of
land put in wheat this year is al
lodged to be much greater than ever
before, and even in those frontier
settlements where the scarcity of
seed prevails, four times as much
land has been sown to wheat as last
year. More than that, the spring
weather has been exceedingly aus
picious, and if the vernal promises
holds out till harvest, the wheat
crop will be immensely larger than
ever The same paper estimates
that at least fifteen million bushels
of wheat will be produced in Mime
sofa this year if no casualty inter-
venes to darken the brilliant pros
pcct.


Tho same statement Of facts is
generally true as to Wisconsin. Ac-
cording to the present prospects the
product will not only be large, but
considerably larger than the average
yield Of any previous scason.-Ncws.
Year: 1867

The formation Of peat generally
takes place in a depressed suface,
nearly or quite surrounded with a
rim Of rock or dry soil. 1t seems
to require the effect of standing
water. Sometimes bed of peat is
so wet and soft that it has to be
dipped out, and throw upon the
ground to dry, before it can be
handled. Most generally it is over
grown with coarse grass or scdge,
sometimes with alders, or even large
trees. If the ground shakes as you
walk over it, there is probably peat
below and one way to determine
the presence of peat is by thrusting
pole into the bog. If the pole
penetrates easily, there is promise
Of peat. Observe what sticks to
the pole; and, if it is soft and
smooth, and feels greasy, it is peat.
Run a gun-barrel or other long tube
into it, and push out what it brings
up, leaving the layers unbrokcn as
much as possible. When it is partly
dry, see if it cuts like cheese and,
when fully dry, if it cuts like choco-
late. Mash it with the blade of q
knife, and see if it is free from grit.
Try if it will burn freely, and OBJ
serve how much ash it leaves. Pare
off the grass and fibrous material
from the top, foot deep or more,
and then cut out some blocks with
the spade, tho size of bricks, and
dry and try them, and if they will
burn in the CRATE or in heap out
Of doors, they are peat =; if they
burn with but little smoke, and
down to light ashes, they arc good.
If you have only muck so poor in
carbon as to burn impcrfectly, it is
worthless as peat for fuel. Unless
the signs are very clear, and the cx-
periments quite satisfactory, it will
be prudent to have the place ex-
amined by somebody who UNDER
stands peat, or, at least. to send
some specimens to an expert to be
tested, before going to the expense
Of setting up machinery to work it.
A good test is to cut up few cords
in blocks, dry them, and use them
for fuel in your house; you will then
see how clearly they burn, and how
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Evening Post.
Year: 1867

habit Of drinking can be cured BY
giving the drinkers all the liquor
they want all the time. That this
experiment will prove a success we
know. 1t was tried on a man in
Milwaukee not long since, who, after
drinking all the liquor he could hold
for two weeks, imagined he saw
snakes, devils Ben Butler Thad Ste
vcns, and jumped out of a four story
window, running a curb stone into
his head. He has not drank drop
since, nor will he the rest of this
century.
Year: 1867

They arc not parted, though their feet


Have wandered far in different ways
And though they never more may meet


On winter ewes or summer days.
II matters not though realms divide, Troll


Though boundless seas between them
For still, defying wind and tide,


Heart yearns to heart, and soul to soul.
They are not palted--only those


Are parted whom no love uiiites:
Their absence breaks not our repose
49, Who have no share in our delights;
They may be by our side and still


As far from us as pole from pole,
Who lack the sympathetic thrill


Of heart to heart, and soul to soul.
Year: 1867

EXTRAORDINARY Powers FOR AN
AssEssoR.-The A amendment to the
Internal Revenue Act gives assess
ors the undisputcd right to exercise
arbitrary power over the property
of any unfortunate taxpayer. The
new law provides that mo suit for
the purpose of restraining the as
sessment or collection of any tax,


shall be maintained in any court. -
Year: 1867

The Radical party just now are
far more anxious that President
johnson shall be hung for standing
by the Union than Davis for trying
to break it up. Kindred principles
will have some good effect at times
Year: 1867

The Now York Tribune lamcnts
the days when to be virtuous was to
be respectable in that community.
Certainly, the success Of the Radi-
cal party has effected a wonderful
revolution in that matter.
Year: 1867

INlE Little Rock and Fort Smith Packet


l. Company, having been formed into a
joint stock association. as per agreement on
record in the office of G. NJ. Barnes, Notary
Public, at Little Rock, have now provided
suitable boats for high and low water, and
propose to transport freight, passengers, live
stock and all other property at as low rates as
any other responsible party or parties.
the ;" Packet Company" at Little Rock. will be
forwarded from that point free of all charges
whatever


With this statement of the intentions of the
company, we solicit your patronage hoping
by doing your business ON the square to merit
the same march lS-tf
Year: 1867

Buried in the tomb of years flown by
TheFlag of the South now lies,
No more to wave where stand the brave
This side eternal skies.
The breeze that lifted high its Bars
Ger johnson. Lee, and Bragg,
Now gliding DER the Southern shore,
Does wave another Flag.
The Soldiers in gray who carried it long,
Ger fields of strife and gore,
In hopes of naught but what they thought
Was due our sunnie shore;
Now push the plow and raise the hammer
From dawn of day to night,
In which they know there is no foe


Can out them in the fight.
Though dead to view yet not to mem'ry;
The days of it are gone,
To come no more upon the shore


Which gave to them their dawn;
Yet as it were the glitterlng rays


Which made those hours bright,
Still kiss the flag of which we brag


With everlasting light.
Year: 1867

The physician approaches the
sick room with courtesy and po-
liteness, and, having ascertained
the nature of the disease of his
patient, proceeds to prepare his
prescription. Their prescriptions
generally are vast compounds; ;
they 60 on the supposition, very
common with other practitioners,
chat it is best to give several REM
edies together, so that one or an
other of them will hit the case.
Sometimes they compound as ma
ny as fifty or eighty different in-
gradients, stew them all together,
and then administer them. They
hardly ever prescribe less than
fifteen or twenty simple medicines.
The physician is not SO much a pre-
scriber as seller of medicine. He
tells his customers what he thinks
best for them, or their friends, but
it is very frequently the case that
they make the selection. For In
stance, he may make up prescrip-
ton of ten or thirty remedies to
be compounded, when the ques-
ton will arise, how much Is this
to cost? The physician makes as
low an estimate as possible, and
replies. The patient or friend
may think it too high-that it can
not be afforded, and one article or.
another is thrown out to reduce
the cost-often the article most
valuable for the patient. In some
cases they cannot agree on the
prescription, or its price, and the
patient deliberately gives himself
up to die rather than to pay the
price demanded.
Year: 1867

A curious divorce case lately
came up in q Rochester New
York; court, in which the husband
sued for release from the connu-
bial tie on account of the adul-
terry of his wife. Having failed to
prove her guilt, he turned about
and proposed that she assume the
position of plaintiff, to which she
assented, and the husband readily
furnished her with the facts to
prove himself guilty Of the same
crime which he charged on her.
Year: 1867

The world is great busy, bust
ling workshop and there are none
of us so lowly, none SO elevated


but we must perform our part in
the running of its intricate ma
chinery. Manifold and widely
different are the laborers therein,


there mingle the aged and the
young, the weak and the strong,


the rich and the poor, the sinful
and the sinless, each performing
some part be it great or small in


the business transactions of the
stupendous compact. Each in
proportion to his application is
accelerating or retarding the vast
WheeIwork of human enterprise
and greatness. Darkness and
gloom are not the surroundings of
all in this vast workhouse, for there
are brave, youthfullaborers whose
sun of hope ever brightly glows,
lightly bound their springy foot
steps, blithely comes their CHEEKY


laughter and warmly, truly beat
their hearts with the hopelight
and lifelight of youthful courage
and enthusiasm. Slow-stepplng
experience has not yet raised the
rosy vail that hides life's blood
stained battlefield, and oh! how


boldly and impetuously they spring
to the scene of combat But
there are many, very many pale
faced, fearful toilers who faln would


lay aside their weary work and


toll and weep and wall no more.


To them how sweet 'twould be to
close the fearful eyes, to rest the
aching limbs, to fold the thin,


toil-spent hands meekly DER the
patient breast+how sweet to
soothe in sleep the earth-weary,


broken spirit and nevermore be
summoned by the stern roll-call
of duty and necessity. To these
many may Heaven be merciful!


Yes the world is a workshop
and life is a day of toll and a0e
are the laborers-ah, woe to him


who waiteth till the setting of the
sun and the gathering of evening
shadows to address him to his
allotted task! The sun will 60
down and the evening shadows
thicken fast, but the courage and
hope of the early morn are gone,
and with them the power and the
strength wherewith to work
All! sorrowful and broken indeed
will be the lamentation of such
an one-though in the eleventh
hour his spirit should grow willing,


his lamp is nearly out, his hands
will 90 down and who will be the


kindly.Aaron or Hur to stay them
up? We are all creatures OF
limitation, tenaciously clinging to
the robes of those who precede
us-and unwilling to turn aside
from the beaten track since the
feet that make new footprints are
sure to find new thorns. The
busy little ant which has SO often
shamed ''repose-loying man" with
it's untiring zeal and energy Illus
Itrates much in human nature
WHO has not while reclining IN
some cooling shade watched with
lhalfclosed dreamy eyes a long
Year: 1867

The dew lay on the glittering grass,


A mist lay on the brook:
At the earliest beam of the golden sun,
The swallow her nest forsook.
Ths snowy bloom of the hawthorn tree
Lay thickly, the ground adorniDg;
The birds were singing in every bush.
At tive o'clock in the morning.
And Bessie, the milkmaid, merrily sang,
For the meadows were fresh and fair;
Theb of the morning kissed her brow
And played with her nut brown hair;
But oft she turned and looked around,


As if the silence scorning;
Twas time for the mower to whet his scytht
At five o'clock in the morning.
And over the meadow the mowers came,
And merrily their voices rang;
And one among them wends his way


To where the milkmaid sang;
And as he fingered by her side,


Despite his comrades warning,
The old, old story was told again,


At five o'clock in the morning.
Year: 1867

a hen belonging to Rev. E.
Knight, of Fort Fairfield, Me-,
was lately found brooding four
young kittens. She had been
setting a day or two on one egg,
and 1t is supposed the cat had
carried them there in the absence
of the hen. When found the
cat was trying to get at the kit
tens, but the hen would drive her
away and then return to her
charge.
Year: 1867

: A woman gave birth to a child


one day last week in street car


in New Orleans. All the passen-
gers vamosed except two gallant
old bachelors who had weathered
many a storm. The Crescent
proposes that if the child is a boy,
he be called Oscar; if a girl, Car
Year: 1867

A matrimonial alliance was
lately consummated in Atlas,
Genessee county, Michigan, which
was noticeable for its business as
pect. Some. three years ago, a
man desired to secure for himself
a companion to share his joys
and sorrows in this vale of tears,
but disliked the idea of entering
the state of matrimony, beyond
the power of recall! until a fair
trial should prove that he bad
made a good selection. He there
fore purchased a girl for the sum
of three dollars, and has lived
with her ever since. On the 10th
ult., he made up his mind that
she was a safe investment, and the
parties were married. They
have two children.
Year: 1867

clean thy feeble weight on me, let
me carry awhile thy burden and
light you DER the gloomy ways


How sweetly "the lovely Naza-
rine" hath said unto us, "Little
children love ye one another
then let us be strong and earnest
and mighty in our love. ''Let us
us for each beacon be-" and when
we shall go down into the valley
of the shadow of DEATH" He, the
loving Father, will set up for us a
beacon light to guide us safely
through.


Yea, when our landjourneying
is ended, and deaths sable oars
men are rowing US DER the still
dread river, methinks we shall
fear no evil, there will be glad
music on the waters and the
sweet moonbeams of faith and
hope will play softly around about
US.


CAS- DER these dreamy oceans We


Are sailing swiftly on,


To one great mark, for one great prize


And an immortal crown


Let each for each a beacon be,


Though stormy tides bestride thes
And cen distractions whirlpool opes


To hide our aims and blast our hopes.
sThough mountains rise and intervene


And waves keep dashing high,


Though would be friends and foes curtail


Our progress to the sky


Let us for each beacon be


That we may pass life's stormy sea
And land in safety on the shore


Where foes once reigning reign no more"
Year: 1867

and we cannot seek alliance with party
that would restrict his rights, The ex-
elusive right of the States TO iegislate upon
suffrage win make The enfranchisement OF
the blacks, whether for better or for worse,
fixture among rs. 1t appears, therefore,
that those who cry loudest against this
new order of things as a public calamity
are those whose principles would fix it up
on us without remedy. Hence il becomes
us to insist that suffrage should pc extend
ed in all the States, and fully tested. The
people of the North should adopt what
they have forced upon Us; and if it be
proved to be mistake, they should re-
move it by the remedy under the republi-
can principles Of uniform laws upon suf
frage. If every man in she country will
meet the crisis with proper appreciation
of our condition, and come Fairly up to his
responsibilities, on tomorrow the sun will
smile upor happy people, our feds viii
again begin to yield their increase, our rail
roads and rivers will TEEN with abundant
commerce, our towns and cities will nc
sound with the tumult of trade, and we
shall be invigorated by the blessings Of AL
mighty God. am, Sir, very respectfully,
your most obediedt servant


JAMES LONGsTEET
Year: 1867

"


For the past few weeks we have had our
share Of bad travelling; it SHOWS one day and
rains the next; as soon as the sun has with
drawn spurious moisture a liberal supply is
Immediately forwarded by the "clerk of the
weather to fill up vacancies. The only kind
OF backing now in use, seems to be "Saccarap-
pa; DAY & Martin" has long since gone out
of date. i.ga ,tt..t gg. .,...... .r.u


Fast young men carefully pick their way
along, and look with rueful countenance at
their dirty boots. Gaily dressed ladies' still
continue to promenade the streets with skirts
soiled and bespattered with mud. gs..st
The only ones that really seem to enjoy this
kind of walking are few dirty boys, who make
mud walls or sail small pieces of wood down
the cutters, and few young ladies with more
waterfall than brains, who avail themselves of
the travelling to show the tops of their boots to
young men that have no better business than
standing on the street corners, making lewd
speeches about the passers by.


1t is amusing to hear the expressions of an
guish and despair as one walks along One
wishes to charter boat, another offers COM
panion small sum to be carried ''pig back" to
the opposite side, and some of the modes of
speech are anything but refined


As we pass along we see muddy horses, mud
dy carriages, mud up town, mud down town,
mud everywhere.


Hyou should happen to accomplish the diff
cult feat OF choosing your way until you have
almost reached your destination, ten to one
that some small boy comes along and splashes
the fnnl mir vfrra oil .
low crowds you off the crossing, and dashes
your fond hopes to the slime below.


Rubber boots are the only remedy that can
offer, but one does not wish to wear them all
summer, and think all will agree with me
that we have had Quantum s,!6icit for one year
at least. UrNpv
Year: 1867

ETY. is not surprising. But we do not
look for such reports az those which are
left to appsl US by the ebbing season.
We do not look to see ladies and gentle
men who are prominent in metropolitan
social life engaging in downright ca
rousals. We mean drinking and drunk
enness-not one whit short or less. This
has been the shame and curse of the
season. It has left a blight which will
sadden life through long years. 1t has,
TO our certain knowledge, taken two per
sons straight down to death,
Year: 1867

Life is but feeting dream,


Care destroys the zest of it:
Swift it glideth like a stream
Mind you make the best of it!
Talk not of your weary woes,


Troubles, or the rest of it,
If we have but brief repose,


Let us make the best of it.
# your friend mas got heart,


There is something fine in him;
Cast away his darker part,


Cling to what's divine in him.
Friendship is our best relief,


Make no heartless jest OF it;
II will brighten every grief,


If we make the best Of it.
Happiness despises state;


'Tis no sage experiment,
Simply that the wise an6 great


May have joy and merriment.
Rank is not its spell refined


Moneys not the test of it,
But calm, contented mind,


That will make the best of it.
Trusting IN the power above.


Which, sustaining all Of us,
In one common bond of love.


Binding great and small ofus,
Whatsoever may befall,


Sorrows or the rest of it,
We shall overcome them all,


If we make the best of it.
Year: 1867

THE DIRECTORS OF THIS CELEBRATED


L Medical Institute wish to thank the public for
the generous manner in which they have sustained
the Resident Physician with their patronage. 1t is
six years since the institute was established I;
daring that time there have been over THIRTY
THOUSAND CONSULTATIONS, and in all cases
where the disease was durable.
Year: 1867

Forty years ago, the State of New York grew a
surplus of Grain (Wheat) for expectation, and
"Genesee Flour" was known and priced in many
foreign markets. Canal-boats took in wheat at al
most every store-house from Syracuse westward
and brought it to Troy, Albany, and this City, for
manufacture and sale. Now, all is changed. The
Genesee valley is no longer mainly devoted to
wheat even the counties west of Cayuga Lake no
longer grow their own grain. Sheep husbandry,
once popular, is now on the wane. Dairying is
rapidly supplanting all other farming in our ru-
raj districts; and we judge that the next census
will return thrice the number of COWS in our State
reported in that which preceded it by Decade
And even Dairying itself is undergoing decided
and rapid transformation, through the introduc-
ton and multiplication of factories for the syste
matte and wholesale production Of Butter and
Cheese.


These factories are located near the centre Of
each radius of three or four miles wherein grass
and COWS abound-usually but one in township
as yet, though they are being rapidly multiplied.
A min-stream and water-power often determine
the site, though we believe small engine and
boiler flour to ten horse,) are preferred to water
power. A cold and copious spring is well nigh in
dispensable; a good stock of ice well stored and
saved, is desirable A large reservoir (ike eel,
lar) is dug in the ground and tightly walled with
planks board platforms extend into this, floating
on two or three feet of water, constantly renewed
from the spring. In this reservoir, deep pals OF
cans are set and filed three-fourths full Of milk
they sinking and floating in like depth Of water.
The milk remains here twenty-four to thirty-siz
hours, when the cream is taken off and churned
by steam or water-power- to twenty churns be,
ing operatedat once, with no draft on human mus
Gle. The butter thus made each day, from cream
in the very highest condition, is of such uniform
and superior quality as to bring from five to ter
cents per pound more than fair farm dairies will
command. And the milk, thus skinned, is ther
made into Cheese, rather mild in flavor, but palat
able and of very fair quality. We never wish te
eat better than some of this, made wholly Of skim
med milk, and sold by the makers at ten cents PEI
pound to their entire satisfaction. 1t is cheaper
than Pork, and may be substituted as staple ar
ticle Of diet for laboriDg men, to their great ad
vantage and comfort


The milk is brought in by the farmers Of tht
yicinage, weighed as received, and placed in ths