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Year: 1874

STICKING PEAs.-A correspondent of
the London Field makes suggestion as
to sticking peas which is worthy of trial.
He thinks that "to those who have to
procure stakes at great cost the follow


ing method will prove advantageous, be-
ing very cheap, simple, and easily per-
formed. A few rough stakes should be
obtained and driven into the ground on
either side.of the row, about twelve feet
apart. These stakes should be of cor
responding height to that of the peas
and when the required number for line
is inserted, some tar twine or other strong
cord may be tied to the end stakes, and
passed along the line of stakes, making
IA turn one ach within n few inchs of the
ground, and as growth progresses, raise
the next turn little higher, advancing
in succession until the plants attain their
full height. These lines being run on
at the right time, the tendrils of the peas
will clasp firmly round them and sup
port the plants quite equal to the well.
known plan of sticking. Some imagine
advantage to be obtained in this way OF
training, as the lines get better circula.
ton of air, and pods can he gathered al
all times without injuring the haulm.'
Year: 1874

A good housewife is one of the first
blessings in the economy of life. Men
put great value upon the housewife
qualifications Of their partners after mar
riage, however little they may weigh
with them before; and there is nothing
which tends more to mar the felicities
of married life than recklessness or want
acknowledge in the new housekeeper of
the duties which belong to her station
Men admire beauty, and order, and sys-
TEN, in everything, and men admire good
fare. If these are found in dwellings,
and are seasoned with good nature and
good sense, men will see their chief en-
joyments at home-they viii love their
homes and their partners and strive to
reciprocate the kind offices of duty and
affection. Mothers that study the vel
fare of their daughters will not fail to in
struct them IN the qualifications Of mar
ried life; and daughters that appreciate
the value of these qualifications will not
fail to acquire them.
Year: 1874

A. J. STILL ON THE WATCHTowER.
Andrew johnson concluded his ad-
dress inlMemphis, Saturday night as fol-
lows: II will simply say that I know I
have been charged with being ambiti-
ous Ambitiousl am ambitious. APP
plause.] And do not think would be
worthy of being called man unless
were ambitious. Applause.] l am am
bilious of acquiring reputation among
this people that I have been faithful
representative, and that have stood up
on the watchtower of my country, and
defended and vindicated their rights
when they were not in condition to do
it themselves. am ambitious of their
esteem, of their respect, and their conf
dence, for the reason that / have done
my duty to my God, to my country, and
to my family. Yes, am ambitious! !
have lived and toiled for the people be-
cause wanted their appreciation and
their esteem; and when the time shall
come when my connection is to be sever
ed from this people, and from things that
are mortal; when the lamp of life is about
Pickering its last, the most pleasing
thought that can pass through my mind
will be to feel and know that when dea
and gone I still occupy a place in the
respect and affection and heart of my
countrymen."
Year: 1874

The local editor of the Burlington
Qowa) Hawkeye says a man has invent
ed patent rat-trap that does not require
any bait, and will fetch rat every time
it reaches for him. 1t operates on the
principle of a stomach-pump-the in
ventor is retired physician, the sands
of whose life have nearly" &c.-and the
trap is placed at the mouth of the rat
hole. When it is wound up and the
suction begins the rat comes. He many
hold on to the ground with his teeth,
and hump his back and paw dirt, and
weep, and yell for the police all he wants
he comes out of that hole backward, is
dragged into back compartment, where
a steel glove drags his hide off and lays il
aside for kid glove manufacturer, while
the carcass is pushed into a little fur
mace and cremated.
Year: 1874

The House of Representatives. yester-
day, by vote of 16O to 81, passed the
bill to admit New Mexico into the Un-
ion as a State. The prospect is that the
bill will become law. The manufac-
turers of bunting and the artists who en-
bellish the flag that floats over that
country which possesses-in stump ora
tory-"the best Government the sun
ever shone upon," may prepare their
machinery and their paint brushes for
revival of trade The old banners will
be useless, for no patriot can celebrate
an anniversary so near "our one hun
dredth centennial" as a Pennsylvania
Senator glowingly terms ii, with latter
ed bunting made more forlorn by new
star upon its union in the nature of
patch.


1t has been a sort of common law in
politics that no territorv should become
a State until it had population enough
at least to entitle it to one member of
the House of Representatives, but for
tunately there is nobody to enforce polit-
ical common law against political neces-
stiles, and new States have generally
been admitted to promote some object
other than the general welfare. The
Democrats seem TO think that New Mex
leo is expected to reinfore the Admin
istration power in the Senate in order to
balance its losses in the recent elections.
There seem, however, to be more reasons
for the admission of New Mexico as
State than can be alleged of any other
of the Territories. That Territory had
a population of $1,000 in 1870, and its
present population undoubtedly exceeds
that of almost any other State admitted
since 1920, at the time of its admission.
The friends of the bill assert that it has
10000 inhabitants; but if We omit the
rowing and dangerous class which is
proverbially so large in that part of the
Continent, it is questionable whether
they exceed 100000. But it promises
good behavior and rapid Development
Ne,v York Post
Year: 1874

The following story, thatruth Of which
is vouched for by a California paper,
would seem to show that the noble traits
attributed to Indians by novelist and
playwrights have some foundation Of
fact to rest upon: Six weeks ago seven
male Indians and young Indian wo-
man started to cross Clear Lake, near
the northern end, in a small boat, which
was eapsized three miles from land. They
righted it, but as the lake was rough,
they could not bail it out, and while
full Of water it would not support more
than one person. The men put the girl
in and held on the edge of the boat, sup
porting themselves by swimming till ex-
hausted and chilled through by the cold
water, and then dropping of, sank one
by one. They showed no thought Of dis
putting the young woman's exclusive
right to the boat. She was saved by
their self-sacriice.
Year: 1874

THE EXODUS FROM CALIFORNIA
A Sacramento, California, contemporary
is the reliable authority for the state
ment that California is losing its ncne-
too-large population by emigration to
the east of the Rocky Mountains at the
rate of two thousand per month. Rath-
er an alarming decrease, and one that
would be regarded as a gross exaggera-
ton if put forth in the columns Of any
other than a California journal. The
Golden State does not seem to be alarm
ed either at the departure of her citizens,
perhaps depending ON arrivals from Asia
to make good the losses, though Ori-
entail emigrants are not by any means
popular on the Pacific slope. All ofthe
Eastern commonwealths will be glad to
welcome right cordially the surplus pop
ulation of the Golden State, though it is
not at all likely that California will long
submit to such drain upon her people
as is now said to be in active progress.
Year: 1874

A very bad little boy in Dubuque
rubbed cayenne pepper dust all over the
back of his jacket, and then went shame
fully into school. The school ma'am
thrnshed him briskly, but dismissed
school Immediately, to run to the near
est drug store for eye-salve.
Year: 1874

A Milwaukee man has applied for a
patent on a fountain pen, which, by the
pressure of the thumb on a small rub
Der ball, projects a stream of ink through
the holder and into the face Of the fell
low who Ia looking over your shoulder
while you are writing.
Year: 1874

Sometimes in hot weather everybody
about daily newspaper Office wishes
that he was beloved pastor of a rich
congregation, that he might have two or
three months vacation with salary run
nlng along all the same. But survices
can be dispensed with but the daily pa
per can't.-Dayfon Journal.
Year: 1874

From the PittsDurg COmmerca!1


For the government to hesitate, to retreat or to
attempt to undo its present Southern policy,
would, especially under existing circumstances,
be the height OF suicidal folly, and this Is probably
the reason why the NEW YORK HERALD is SO
nolsily ClamOrous in that direction
Year: 1874

A.-The Elastic Truss Company, 0S3
Broadway has greatly benefited society and placed the
whole community under lasting obligations BY invent
Ing SAFE comfortable ana effective Cure Of worst
Of
Year: 1874

To ALL. particularly invalids, spring Is O
trying season. Indications of sickness should
at once be attended to. Fatal diseases may
be caused by allowing the bowels to become
constipated. and the system to remain in a
disordered condition, until the disorder has
time to develop itself. An ounce of preven-
tion is worth pound of cure, is an old and
truthful saying. Therefore, we advise all who
are troubled with the complaints now very
prevalent-headache indigestion, disordered
liver. want of appetite. nausea, or feverish
skin, to take, without delay, Sehenck's Man
drake Pills We know Of no remedy so harm
less and decisive in its action. 1t at once
strikes at the root of the disease and produces
a healthy tone to the system. People never
need suffer from any disease arising from
disordered condition of the liver If they
would take this excellent medicine when
they feel the first indications of the
malady. Families leaving home for the
summer months should take three or four
boxes of these pills with them. They have an
almost instantaneous effect. They will re-
lieve the patient Of headache in one. or two
hours. and will rapidly cleanse the liver Of
surrounding bile, and will effeetually prevent
a bilious attack. They are sold by all drug
gists. 53-eod-l9
Year: 1874

Cherries Francis Adams Me mOlrs of


Bis Father.


To many who remember him by the
grand title of his late years, the Old
man Eloquent" it will doubtless be
surprise to read in this book how elo-
quent he was as young man; and
and tolls he passed in order to acquire
his wonderful power as debater. Thus,
under date of January l6, 1905, when be
was member OF the Senate, be writes:
ION this occasion, as on almost every
other, felt most sensibly my deficiency
as an extenporaneous speaker.


1t is slowness OF comprehension
AN incapacity to grasp the whole COM
pass of subject liz the mind at once
with such an arrangement as leaves
proper impression on the detail-an in
capacity to form ideas properly precise
and definite with the rapidity necessary
to give them uninterrupted .utterance.
My manner therefore, is very slow, hesi-
tatingly and often much confused
Sometimes, from inability to furnish the
words TO finish thought commenced, /
begin sentence with propriety and
finish with nonsense. Sometimes, after
carrying through an idea OF peculiar
force to its last stage, the want of
proper word to close drives me to use
one which throws the whole into a
burlesque. And sometimes the most
important details Of an argument escape
my mind at the moment when / want
them, though ever ready to present them
before and after. And hence in making
the transition from one part of it to the
other, / am often compelled to take
minute or two for recollection, which
leaves chasm of silence always disa-
greeable to the hearers l must, there
fore never fatter myself with the hope
Of oratorical distinction At the same
time, it is possible that by continual ex-
ertions, application and selfcensnre,
part of the illefects of these ipfrmities
may be remedied" Surely in these
words, and in the later career Of "the
Old Man Eloquent" there is material for
instruction and for encouragement for
many ayouthful aspirsnt after orato rical
distinction.
Year: 1874




death Of distinguished member Of the
family.


A hairy armed girl called May Moul-
lach brings the like sad news to the
Grants of Grant; the Bodach.am-dun,
otherwise the ghost of the hill, performs
! the Office for the Grants of Rothiemur.
Gus, and most old Highland families
boast their own familiar banshee, whose
wailing, screaming and weeping tells
them the head of the house must make
room for his heir. Lady Fanshaw, visit
ing the head Of an Irish sept in his
moated baronial grange, was made
aware that banshees are not peculiar to
Scotland. Awakened at midnight by an
awful, unearthly scream. she beheld by
the light of the moon, female form at
the window other room, which was too far
from the ground for any woman of NOR
tai mold to reach The creature owned
a pretty, pale face, and red, dishevelled
hair, and was clad in the garb of old
very old-Ireland. After exhibiting
herself some time the interesting spec
ter shrieked twice and vanished. When
Lady Fanshaw told her host what she
had seen, he was not at all surprised.
" A near relation" said he, died last
night in this castle We kept our ex-
pectation Of the event from you lest it
should throw cloud over the cheerful
reception which was your due. Now,
before such an event happens in the
family and castle, the female specter
you saw always becomes visible. She is
believed to be the spirit of woman of
inferior rank whom one of my ancestors
married, and whom he afterward caused
to be drowned in the moat, to expiate
the dishonor done to our race
Year: 1874

James White owned right up like a


man. He said it was all nonsense for
a man to claim that he was sober when
the city hall and opera house seemed to
him to be nodding to each other, and
the monument to be skipping around on
one leg. Yes, he was drunk. He hap
pened to come along where man was
selling new cider at five cents per glass,
and he bought and drank three cents
worth, and it few TO his head. He was
a man of large family, respectable char
acter, worked hard, and if anybody
ever again saw him drink three cents
worth of cider he was willing to sit
down on a buzz saw.


CIT seems to me that you are IN earn
est, :" remarked his honor. Truth and
veraeity can be seen right in your eyes,
and I believe it will be safe to let you
90. But beware of cider in the fu-
ture. Shun it as you would nomina-
ton for alderman. It looks nice, tastes
good, but, ah! it has sapped the toun-
dation of many a noble structure and
brought bitter ruin to many a happy
hearthstone. Go, Mr.. White, go forth
into the great, wide world with the de
termination in your heart never to drink
three. cent cider or TO have a large fam
ilv or q respectable character again"
Year: 1874

An amusing 2necdOte IS told of we'll
known French general, who played a
conspicuous part in a cavalry charge.
This gallant warrior had been severely
wounded on his head and bullet in his
thigh. Such an allowance might have
satisfied a man of quiet tastes, but was
far from sufficient for the fire-eatipg
general. In relating the charge, which
he did at every dinner party, he was in
the habit of throwing in half q dozen
bayonet thrusts and a couple of stray
splinters from a shell, and he invariably
appealed for corroboration of his narra-
tive to an aid d-de-camp who had ridden
by his side. On one occasion, having
imbibed more than his usual allowance
of AT Chateau Yquem, he drew a more
than usually startling picture of his
riddled and perforated condition. A
cannon ball had killed his horse, dozen
sabres had descended at once on his
head, a couple of lances had passed
through each of his arms, and all the
bullets and bayonets Of Germany
seemed to have given each other a rem
devious in his body "You remember
it well, don't you?" he added, turning
to his aide de-camp. The well-trained
subaltern had suffered long in silence.
The bayonets, bullets, lances, etc., he
had got used to by long practice, but
the cannon ball was the last straw that
broke the camel's back. ''No, general,
l don't remember it. How could you
expect me to? You know as we'll as I
do that the very cannon ball that killed
your horse struck the breastplate of a
cuirassier behind us, and then bounded
back and took my head off y
Year: 1874

Perhaps some housekeepers would


like to know how they can make an in
| expensive, and at the same time a good
and durable bed, or mattress and
| bolster. I have a bed that will with


good usage) last lifetime. It is mere
| " q tick, the same as for straw, or
| husks, with openings in the upper side


to insert the hand for stirring, and filed


with cut paper. Now, reader, do not


throw aside the paper with disgust. but,


if for nothing but curiosity, finish the
article, it will do you no harm possibly
you may be induced to make one. The
work of cutting the paper is not such a


long Job as you would think. Take any
kind of clean paper Except straw paper
and fol3 it, or roll, so that it can be cut
with enc clip Of the shears, and then
cut it you need not be particu ar as to
the width, although the narrower it is
cut the better. These clippings are
like little eurls or rings of paper, and
lie like feathers, and after using the bed
they will not grow fine and dusty, but
ere clean, and can be stirred as light as
when first used. I have heard people
who have slept on them say they were
the best beds they ever slept on" 1
prefer them to feathers or common mat
tresSeS hair mattresses are nlc6rs OF
course, but few of US farmers wives can
afford to buy them whereas the paper
bed we can have without cost, except
the work, and that the smallest child
you have who can use pair of shears,
will help you, and If not kept busy too
long at time, will think it but play.
The same material makes nice pillows
for lounges, chair cushions, cradle ticks,
etc. I have box to keep waste paper
in, which is out of the way, and at the
same time handler than the rag-bag
and when it is full, cut them up into
another box and put them into the tick.
use the same ticks that I have used
for straw wash them and sew up the
openings, so they are just large enough
for the hand to pass through readily;
three openings are suficient.-Cor. Gin
ciglnGti Times.
Year: 1874

representation of Father Hyacinthe,
the coming war will be three-fold,
and will include a fearful conflict be-
tween popular rights and the power of
capital, in which the combatants will
tear each other to pieces. According to
the vaticination of Victor Hugo, the
great and inevitable encounter is to be
Z" between two principles, republic and
empire"
Year: 1874

THIS is strange story not to be used
in Sunday school. An Albany man out
Of work, and nearly starving, turned for
comfort to his sainted mothers Bible for
the first time since her death in 1867. To
his surprise and delight, he found a $40
bill between the leaves, and Immediately
fell on his knees for the first time since
1910. With light heart and gittering
eye he prayerfully started for the bakers
to obtain loafof bread. There he found
the bill was counterfeit, when he swore
bitterly for the first time in three hours.
Year: 1874

THE LEGEND OF THE GYPsIEs.-Did
you ever hear the old Eastern legend a
bout the Gypsies ? How they were such
good musici ans that some great Indian
Sultan sent for the whole tribe and plant
ed them near his palace and gave them
land and plows to break is up and seed to
SOW it that they might dwell there and
play and sing to him. But when the
Winter came, these Gypsies all came to
the Sultan and cried that they were starv-
ing. " But what have you done with the
seed-corn which l gave you? "Oh
Light of the Age, we ate it in the Sum
mer." "And what have you done with
the plows which | gave you ?" "Oh
Glory of the Universe, we burnt them t.
bake the corn withal." Then said the
great Sultan" Like the butterflies 'you
have lived, and like the butterflies yor
shall wander" And he drove them out
And that is how the Gypsies came hither
from the East.
Year: 1874

TwENTY-THREE brigands who in the
Summer time had committed a robbery
at watering place on the French frontier
were recently brought to the scene of their
exploit to be shot there by Spanish troops.
The troops were at fifteen yards distance.
Ten men fell at the first fire. Eight fell
at second fire and the other five ran
away, the bullets having cut the cords
that bound them. One of them was last
seen pursued by four soldiers who contin-
ued firing.
Year: 1874

A WOMAN in New London, Conn, saw
her husband carrying a lady's satchel,
and she tore the lady's dress off her be.
fore discovering that it was her mother.
who had dropped down on the evening
train to surprise her. Every husband in
the land who is out evenings should read
this little item to his wife, and hold up
the danger Of her becoming suspicious
withou: the best Of cause.
Year: 1874

BOSTON. July II. 1874.
The excitement over the Pomeroy boy batchery
has been greatly Increased by the publication of
his confession of the murder OF the Curran girl
No such intense feeling at the discovery OF crlIso
has been manifested mere since the days Of the
memorable Webster-Parkman tragedy.


CONDEMNATION or POLICE OFyiCERs


The condemnation OF Captain Dyer's course with
regard to young Pomeroy is general. PrOminens
citzehs went to the city authorizes yesterday and
demanded his head. Councilman Flynn, tho
senior representative from Ward T. waited on tho
mayor and reiterated the request made several
months SINCE, tnat Dyer should he rel emoved The
mayor was determined 10 act cooly and dlscreetiy,
anu promised to remove the man whenever
documentary evidence was received from tho
state House covering the charges which
were made against Dyer. The Mayor as:er-
tanned that while Station was besleped Nv an
iniurlated crowd OF 5000 or 5000 persona SnndnV
evening Dyer left the house and pursued his Ordf-
OF the crowd MAYOR Cobb concluded thai to nxsr
was not the man to master the situation in tho
event OF any serious difficulty and expressed HIM
sell as being greatly displeased Ut Captain Dyer'N
complaints reached the Mayors ears. aud finally
one hour 10 winch to resign his position on tho
Police Department.. with the alternative OF being
discharged forthwith.


Captain Dyer slept on the matter LAST night ana
this morning by direction OF the Mayor, he again
waited on His Honor and rendered hts resignation,
which was gladly and unhesitatingiy accepted and
as he left the may orally once Mayor Cobb Dreathed
ireer, and seemed TO give mental expression -
the quotation, "Never more be Oflcer OF mine"


rHK ExCITEMkNT IN SOUTH BOSTON.


The crowd In the vicinity or ehe sixth police
station last evening was very large and MIRA
Pomer0y looked out upon the spectators from
one Of tine front upper wlndOwA Directly
alter her presence at the window was dis
covered the crowd became noisy, ana
hooted and yelled almost without cessation, Cap
tain Dyer came TO the door and announced 70 the
people present that II they didn't make less noise
he'd put them through course OF sprouts, or words
to that effect. Thereupon the populace demanded
that the woman be removed from the window
and several citizens condemned Dyer for permit
ting the woman to remain In a position where she
could be seen and where her presence would ex-
cite the fury OF those who thought she should
suffer, IS we'll as the boy Jesse, Tor the terrible
crime which he had committed. Things became
exceedingly warm for Mr.. Dyer, and now tnxt be
has been removed the anger OF the people Of south
Boston will be in some degree appeased.


CONTINUATION OF THE INQUEST


The examination by the Coroner Will be resumed
tomorrow, on which OCCASION the Juvenile hcnd
and his mother and brother will be among the wit
nesSeS examined.


The feeling Is general that both the mother and
the boys brother are innocent OF any knowledge
or completely OF Jesse's crimes.