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Year: 1877

Be deaf to the quarrelsome, and dumb
to the inquisitive.


Character is the diamond which
scratches every other stone.


Laziness travels SO slowly that poverty
soon overtakes her.


At all times confidence and truth are
better preventives of jealousy than con-
cealment.


They who least shrink at the storms of
fortune are always most virtuous and
victorious in the end.


We would gain more if we left our
selves to appear such as we are, than by
attempting to appear what we are net.


He is happy whose circumstances suit
his temper but he is more excellent
who can suit his temper to any circum-
stances.


The most polite, because the most
effectual, way of governing in a family
is for the husband occasionally to lay
aside his supremacy so in public as
we'll as in private life, that king will be
most popular who does not at all times
exercise his full prerogative.


1t would appear that there is great
sympathy between the mind Of man and
falsehood when we have truth to tell,
it takes better if conveyed in fable f;
and the rage for novels shows that we
may not only divert extremely without
syllable of truth, but truth is even COM
PEELED to borrow the habit of falsehood
to secure itself an agreeable reception.
Year: 1877

Miss Jenny B was born for me,


And | was born for Jenny;
For any other miss see


hardly care penny.
Two turtle-doves you never saw


So fond Of one another,
And yet my rapture hath a flaw
My Jenny hath a brotherl
A child of eight, or under that;


OF manners inoffensive.
You rarely find so young brat


With knowledge so extensive.
For him two syllables are naught,


He laughs at long division;
He says his lessons, as he ought,


With laudable precision.
Due reverence for me he shows;
70 he greets me as "mister,"
The clever boy II know he knows


love his pretty sister.
1t may be chance-and yet see
That more than chance is in 1t
He never leaves Miss B and me
Together for minute.
| can not heave the tender sigh


With any satisfaction
While such an incubus is by
To mark my every action. 80
can not bend the supple knee,
And "pop" the tender question
The very thought of Number Three


Forbibs the soft suggestion. @
We never meet, we never talk,


But those two eyes espy us;
We never strive to steal walk


But Number Three is nigh us.
In such sad and sorry plight


Perhaps it would be better
To plead my suit in black and white,


And register heletter.
Year: 1877

BY HARRY ALDEN.
Up, when the larks to labor call,
Just as the suns first glances fall
Lovingly on the breeding soil,
Cheerful the farmer goes to toll;
Sober and honest, hearty and hale,
Thrift and industry never fail
Working, still working, till set Of sun,
And rest at last when the toll is done.
Contented he looks at the work of the day,
Then happily homeward takes his way;
A light in his window shines before
Brighter the light at his open door
The star of his home smiles welcome there;
"Thanks be to heaven the worlds so fair y
Heart speaks to heart, and husband and wife
Merit the Joy of their humble life.
Year: 1877

clerks shall take the same oath and
have the same powers and authority
as the judges and clerks of general State
elections. After tile closing of the polls the
ballots shall he counted and the returns
made out and returned under the seal Of the
City or Village Clerk, as the case may be,
within two days after election, and there
upon the City Council or Board of Trustees,
Us the case may be, shall examine and can
vass the same aud declare the result Of the
election, and cause q statement thereof to be
entered upon its journals. As tho law now
stands there is no protection against repeat
ing and illegal voting, except such as the
vigilance Of the people may provide for them
selves. An instance Of it may be found IN
the statement that 1lr. R1oRDAN has already
run down 164fraudulent votes in the Seventh
Ward, constituting more than H11DRETHs
pretended plurality, and he could probably


find several hundred more if the search were
pursued. Registration is tho best protection
that has yet been discovered, and cities need
it in their elections as much as, if not more
than, the State.
Year: 1877

Mr. KEHoE's energy has secured the pas
sage Of another bill in the Senate which will
be Of substantial benefit to Chicago and all
the other cities organized under the general
act Of incorporation, By providing for regis
tration at the charter elections in the spring.
4 similar bill Was defeated in the House, but
we hope this one will have better fate. It
is in the shape Of an amendment to the In
corporation act Of 1872, and provides that
no person shall be permitted to vote at any
election held under the provisions Of this
act who is not registered as is provided for
in case of State elections; and the manner Of
conducting, registering, and voting at cleo
tons to be held under this act and contest
ing the samc, the keeping of pon-lists, and
the canvassing Of the votes, shall be the
same, as nearly as maY be, as in the case of
the election Of county officers under the
general laws Of this State. The Judges of
election shall appoint clerks when necessary
to ill vacancies, and the judges and
Year: 1877

ANcE SUPERINTENDENT.


When the magazines take to printing
articles about life insurance it is evident that
the subject las great popular interest.
tScrs1ners 1ately had paper full Of interest
ing information about the history and
methods Of tho business. The International
for May-June discusses the insurance crisis,
and the last number of the GALAXY contains
very intelligent contribution on the same
topic. The article is anonymous, and is evi-
IDENTIFY written by some one familiar with the
crooked ways Of life insurance. Policy
holders who have been induced to change
their policies for those Of some new form
will here find explained the motive of the
companies in proposing the trade. When
al insurance company does not care to resort
to tho brigandnge Of freezing-out !" its
policy y-holders, as F1osr and HAMMOND did
in the case Of the Continental policy-holders
in California, it will employ secret
method known as " changing" It's agents
are sent out to persuade the policy
holders that some new form Of policy IS more
desirable than the one they have. But the
old lamp is worth mora than the new one,
In the exchange the po1icy-holder lets 20 the
reserve TINT has been accumulated On his old
policy, and this money is distributed between
the agent and the officers Of the company.
every policT-holder," emphatically says
the writer in the GALAXY, who is asked to
surrender his policy and take money for it,
or any other policy, may rest assured that
there is fraud at the bottom Of the transac-
tion, and that, whoever will make money by
Year: 1877

that he has already traced l6+ Voters
who have no local habitatlon IN tnot
ward, men who registered themselves
as living at street numbers "neIe
there are only vacant lots, or as reslolne III
barns, or as sojourning in saloons, the pro-
prietors Of which swear they know no such
men. It is not likely that any or many OF
these fraudulent votes were cast tor R1ohpAS'
who made no effort to get them and. II thas
number be deducted from HnDRETH's vote,
it will leave plurality for R1onDAS. Iho
Council has the power under the charter 10
institute judicial inquiry into the Legality
of the vote, and will probably proceed to do
so as soon as an ordinance can be adopted
for carrying out the provision OF the charter:


This will be the proper way to proceed.
The Council has no right to call special
election if the man who received plurality
of the votes can qualify legally. There is lit
tie doubt that HnDnErH could run
such special election to suit himself, with
the roughs and rcpeaters at his command
aud the respectable citizens Of the ward
quiescent, and elect man who would serve
his ends as fully as if he himself were in the
Council. It is wise to avoid special elec-
ton, if it cen be done fairly. Mr.. R1oRDAs,
too, has claims which the Council cannot
justly ignore. If he got more honest votes
than H1nRErH (Which We hope is trne for
the credit of the ward) then the seat is his
by rights, and his claim should be thor
oughly examined before special election is
ra11ed
Year: 1877

The Self-cOnvlcted rcveuue-defrnuder Hill
DRETH (who had the shamclessness to run
for Alderman in the full flush of his infnmyH,
having been declared ineligible on account
Of his criminal record, has about made M his
mind, it is said, not to press his IS claims to
seat through the Courts. If he has come
to such q decision, it is not because he has
suddenly acquired sense Of shame, which
Is entirely alien to his nnture, but because he
knows that be could be kept out during the
entire term by the laws delays, and in the
end would be informed by the Courts that, as
convicted, haff-pardoned felon, he hns no
claim to place in the City Council. He
thinks he knows trick worth two of this.
He wants his case hurriedly disposed of and
special election called for the Seventh
Ward, which he can manipulate in tho inter-
est Of some tool of his own, equally corrupt,
but not bearing the bar sinister of criminal
conviction to exclude him from an Alder
manic sent among decent men.


The Council will probably refuse to crafty
H1LpRETH's desire in this particular, aad take
time to ascertain definitely whether Hu1
pHETH actually received plurality Of the
legal votes Of the Seventh Ward, as the re-
turns seem to indicate on their face. IF hc
did not, then there is no necessity for call
ing special election, as Mr. R1onpAH, his
competitor, is the legally elected Alderman.
Mr. R1oRDAs and his attorney think they
will be able on careful CANVASS of the votes
to prove that Hunaz1H did not receive the
plurality he claims. Those who ore f.
mi1iar with the hard character of a large
Fart Of the inhabitants Of the Seventh Ward,
and with HnDRErH's methods for carving
an election, will not doubt that several hun
dred fraudulent votes were cast for him.
His seeming plurality over R1oRDAx is only
liz votes, and Mr. R1oRpAx claims
Year: 1877

it. he will not" The picture that is drawn
of the management Of State Supervisory
Departments makes it plain why, as ali pol
icy-holders found out, it was Of no use to go
to them wanting ITO know, you know Inc
purpose of these departments is supervision;
but they have long since become empty
forms. At the game time, full head OF
steam is kept up as far as show and expenses
20, A large body of clerks is kept busy in
the agreeable task Of receiving, folding,
fling the reports of the various companies,
in receiving applications for licenses from
agents of foreign companies andissuing them.
in furnishing printed copies of the charters OF
companies and their reports to all who apply
for them. These clerks are adopts in COL
lecting fees and writing Delphio letters to
policy.holders who evince that curiosity so
distasteful to officials Of the Circumlocution
Office. The Superintendent keeps himself
busy the while in picking out of the re-
ports of the companies the paragraphs
for his annual report. These annual
reports, bound in gilt covers, contain
"year after year faint and delicate sugges-
tions as to nmendatory laws, opinions that


there is doubt of the legality Of ama1gama-
tions, and other twaddle, not word, how
ever, denunciatory of the frauds being per-
pet1ated under the very nose Of the Depart
ment, and which every man in the State can
see quite plainly but himself" The frauds
md mismanagement that the Department
ought to uncover and prevent are number
less, and have been made only too familiar
by the disheartening revelations of the last
few months. The public have found them
out before the Insurance Super1ntendents.
The theory OF State supervision, which hos
fallen into disrepute among students of
political science, hns lost q great deal Of
ground among practical men since the failure
of the New York Superintendent Of Banks to
protect savings depositors from single one
of thedozen and more insolvent savings banks
Of New York City, and the failure of the
Superintendent Of Insurance to save the
policy-holders of the Continental and Secur-
ity. Whether or not good system of State
superintendent is practicable, we are JUS
titled in rejecting that Of New York as bad
in principle and practice. What shall the
public look to for protection2 The sugges-
ton is made that the officers of an insurance
company are trustees, and consequently with
IN the jurisdiction of Courts Of Equity,
which can compel them to account for their
trust at any time, and can hold them
responsible for it's breach. The natu-
ral protector Of the interests of the policy
holder is the policy The principles
of human nature that are shown by recent
disastrous experience to work against the in
:terests Of policy-holders in the system of
State supervision will work with it, when
the poicy-holder is left to take care of HIM
self. At any rate, if he is swindled and ru-
ined then by his own blind trustfulness or
want of care, he cannot charge his misfor-
tunes to betrayal By others, and his self
reproaches will be powerful force towards
greater care and prudence.
Year: 1877

The st. Louis Globe Democrat is finally pulling
n the HATES team. but it reaches it's back little
too much. A truly good mule always holds It's
spinal column level when pulling is to be done.
There ought not, usually, to be over six inches
Of daylight between the ground aud the belly Of
thoroughly trustworthy mule when it is
ssdown TO its work." a word to the wise is
sufficient
Year: 1877

their wives, but Bachelor WENTWORTH IS said to
be assiduously courting the amiable daughter OF
an eminent political gentleman rrsldest III
Springfield! No wonder he remains on deck.
But to try and play the CAsAB1AscA under such
circumstances is little too childlike and bland.
The fact Is, WENTWORTH could not have been
dragged outside the corporate limits Of Spring
field by six-mule team"
Year: 1877

Those who have declared that new party
will be formed based on the creed, ''He
serves his party best who serves his country
BEST" will be disappointed ri the attitude
of the President, for he 1aS declared for the
old party which honoredhim, and as against
any other. In fact NE Republican party is
a new party, mad6 such by an active prac-
tice of what 1--we been only ornamental
theories heretofore.
Year: 1877

A cable dispatch informs the 10. that the
aged cunuch, who WAS to be sent by the Sultan,
as d remuneration for its support Of Turkey in
the war, killed himself yesterday, as he saw
nothing but starvation ahead Of him. The
ssbag-trousers' are on their way. Nixon will
wear them when he goes for the Pension
Agency. In that way be expects to secure the
influence OF DR.. MART WALKER, and other
advanced women, and SO oust Miss SWEET.
Year: 1877

HAMPTON, Of South Carolina, forgot to men,
ton the President in Ills late message. The
President, on that account, will not forget
HAMPTON II he fails to keep his promises. II
lie does what he has agreed, the National
Executive will be no more disturbed at his fail
urc to recognize him in his mcssagc than tho
Creator is at the omission Of any recognition Of
His person and work in the Constitution of the
United States. Little HAMPTON and his little
bankrupt State take up far more space in the
newspapers than their Importance iustifics.
Year: 1877

There has been lawyers strike at
Carlisle, England. The Clerk of the
Peace announced that the treasury
would in future allow only one guinea
instead of two for brief. The lawyers
organized a most successful strike. They
would have nothing to do with cheap
labor briefs When the Deputy Re
corder concluded his charge to the Grand
Jury a barrister handed in brief
marked one guinea, at the same time
saying that there was strike among
the lawyers, who would not accept the
briefs and the fee allowed. The Clerk
said the matter had been brought before
the Deputy Recorder. who had arranged
to pay the two guineas on this occasion
So the strike ended IL complete victory
for the lawyers.
Year: 1877

A snore is an index to a dream. Don t
you believe it? A nights experience in
any sleeping-car will prove this. When,
during the midnight run between sta
tions, cannonade of snores is followed
by rattling volley of snuffies and a din
of wheeling, the traveller knows that his
neighbor is veteran, and is dreaming of
one of his old battles. But if the invol-
untary music is soft and low, sniff an
swering unto sniff in measured cadence,
the traveller may rest assured that there
is young man in the next berth dream
ing of his sweetheart Given the snore,
and one has the man and the dream. At
least, that's what they say.


An inventor proposes vessel that viii
not be affected by waves at sea. A hol-
low body is to be submerged several
yards below the surface of the water
and above the surface, supported by
strong posts, is to be the part of the
vessel for passengers. The propelhng
machinery is to be in the submerged
portion.
Year: 1877

To PREVENT CLOTHING BEING 1NFLAM-
NABLE.-Add an ounce of alum to the
last water used in rinsing children S
dresses, and they viii become almost un-
infammable, taking fire very slowly, if
at all, and not burning with a flame.
Mothers who live in houses where open
fires are kept will do well to remember
this


BLACKING KID BooTS-Put some good
black ink mot tiuid) into al old cream or
pomatum pot I'LL it about half full and
set IN cupful of very hot water, SO as to
heat the ink melt down common tai
low candle and mix thoroughly to a
smooth paste with the heated ink. This
may be rubbed into kid with piece of
old flannel 1t makes kid boots and
shoes very durable, and the Kid looks al
most new while it lasts.


How TO WARM COLD PoTAroEs.
friend we learn her method of warm
ing up cold potatoes, and as it excels
Year: 1877

The commercial aspect Of the farm needs
frightening. There are many men who
have grown rish upon their farms. They
are successful business men. They have ex-
ercised as high commercial skill, at times, as
merchants and manufacturers employ, and
their success has been in proportion to their
skill in the art and science of money gather
ing. But, aside from these farmer princes,
for there are farmer princes SIS well as mer-
chant princes, there are many men on farms
who do not succeed better because they are
not good business men, and not because the
business itself is not profitable. Farmers
should be MS wise in their generation as the
shopkeepers. The production for market
is matter in which much high skill may be
compressed. The selection Of the best mar
ket, the increase OF demand by adapting the
production to meet popular tastes, and the
opening of new markets, the question OF
how much the cost should be for meeting
the consumer--all these are questions which
come before1the farmer as business man !;
and who can doubt that farming would be-
come betteroccupatien if all these matters
were settled according to the best OF their
possibilities? afs


A great deaEdepends upon the settlement
of these questiens. Here is a man who gets
so cents pound for his butter the year
round by giving an attractive form and
by working up a constant demand anaong
wealthy customars. There issanother man
who 2ets returnsat the rate of $12 day for
his labsn, because he sas at work to RAISE .
crop fog whicn there ssaaspecial denand.
These things ars, done hwa,ens who.As asr
Year: 1877

OF land is cropped, the moisture becomes
exhausted, and unless there be AN abundant
supply from the next winters rain, there is
liKeiy 70 be faittTe of the following crop.
lhe same piece of land under fallow. and
kept free from weeds, with well stirred snr-
lace solb, Will retain much of the moisture
stored up during the preceding winters
rans. Adding to tins the water of another
RAINY season for one crop, it is reasonable to
suppose that summer fAllowed land will be
much sa2rer OF crop than ground not fall
lowed.


And now the question arises, inasmuch as
last winter WAS 4 dry one, and the soil was
not wet to amount to anything, will the rain
OF the coming winter insure /, crop on soil
which has this seasons lain fallow! Will
such summer fallow show mucip advantage
over sod not fallowed which was too dry to
produce crop? We think that the differ
ence will not be SO marked as in ordinary
seasons. In some cases the soil not ifallowed
will produce just as well as the talowed, if
we have anything like enough rain to- make
crop. On some other deep soils where
there is amoisture arising from great depths
the Summer fallow will hold it from evapor-
ating, and accumulate enough to make a
marked difference in the crop in favor of fal-
lowing. The fallacy about the great advaal-
tage of s'resing the soil,'; and another of
the soil "drawing moisture from the air."
we are prepared to combat, and can give to.
them little weight in forming conclusions.
Experience and science are alike opposed to
such theories. We are doing we'll when we
so cultivate the soil as to prevent the least
possible loss OF moisture from the soil tothe
air.


The fact is, we have to depend upon what
moisture there is stored in the soil for our
crops, and we should see that sufficient
amount is stored there to produce a crop,
and then SO cultivate the surface soil as to
prevent its escape into the air.


On soils that can be irrigated, or that are
furnished with abundant moisture from be-
low, as bottom lands are, it matters not 80
much what is the method of cultivation, so
long as the soil is not ploughed while too
wet, OR allowed to bake-Calitornia Agricul-
tu,utast and Artispa.
Year: 1877

ways watching to make the best use of the
productive power of their lands and animals,
just as the merchant watches for new ways
TO dispose of his goods at a profit. sa


A hardware dealer INA western New York
village found in his stock three dozen wire
ox-muzzles for which there was no SALE He
fastened three wires to the edges of one,
hung it out in front Of his store, and in less
than a week wire which was dead property
as OK muZZles was all sold and was hanging
Oh plazzas as new style Of flower basket.
This is the way merchants succeed. They
foster every demand and excite new de-
nands in every way they can. The farmer
ingenuity. He needs to look more closely
into the desires Of other people, and to turn
every whim and taste of consumers to his
profit. The more thought and study he
gives to his operations will not only improve
them the more, but people will see that he
is busy, progressive man land he will learn
that people have handles by which ne can
turn them to advance himself. The farmer
needs closer contact with the world; he
needs to understand it better, and then he
will be prepared to move at the head Of af-
fairs and use both his ingenuity and strength
to secure business advantages, as manutac-
turers and spectators now use theirs at his
expense. F


And the farmer can be- better business
man, generally, in the conduct of his farm.
AS we remarked, not many weeks ago,
farmers have crippled themselves too much
by robbing the land to support wildcat en-
terprises. It is from money which ought to
have been invested in gaining larger crops,
that great monopolies have been able to
grow. Here is a business principle that
shossld be better understood. The merchant
thinks money well spent which is used to
advertise his business and draw purchasers.
The manufacturer spends money on new
machinery because he can get larger returns
and make more in the same time. The farm
should be business enterprise to be inn
proyed.in a like spirit. 1t should be more
business in itself, and not piece OF ground
from which everything is to be taken, and
to be left in the end as barren as deserted
ore bed The experience of our best farmers
teaches thab this is commercial principle
which may be successfully applied to the
land, and, like man who builds mansion
near his growing mandatory, these men
live in plenty and their land grows in value
every vear-F}l,nZ p,cse