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Year: 1874

1t has been generally supposed
that the spirit of gambling did rot
rest in the feminine soul, to any
alarming extent; but this like many
other suppositions, is a mistake. Let
woman once get the passion for
gambling fixed in her, and she is the
worst and most persistent gambler
on the face Of the globe. 1t takes
full possession Of her-it becomes a
part of her very nature-it is q
madness, which only succumbs to the
severest possible treatment.


The fashionable woLlen Of the
great cities fall into it easily. The
life that they lead is of nature that
makes it almost q necessity to them.
The season" of fashionable gaiety,
which commences in October and
November, is nothing but a whirl of
excitement from four P. M. till long
after midnight. There is the opera,
the great theaters, the parties, recep-
tions and balls, and a thousand other
forms of the most exciting dissipa-
tion. The lady who has spun all
night in the voluptuous dance in
the arms of flushed men-who has
drank wine and eaten exciting delica-
cies-and who goes to her bed at
three in the morning, wearied but
not satisfied, awakens from her sleep
in about the same condition that a
farsi young man does after q
debauch. There is a space Of time
to put in after her rising, and to a
woman who lives on the fercest ex-
elements, an hour that has nothing
exciting in it is an hour in purgatory.
As male debauchee is compelled to
take his cocktail at intervals during
the day to steady himself till the
time comes for his regular drink, so
does the female debauchee require
some stimulant during the terrible
hours between nine A. NJ. and four
P. NJ. to keep her alive. This ex-
element they have found in gamb-
ling. Some Of them play draw-po-
ker, the regular game, but not many.
That game, as | have been told, re-
quires frmness, decision, knowledge
of human nature, judgment, dash,
daring, and pluek-qualities which
the little dears are not, as a rule,
blessed with. What they prefer is a
game of pure chance, in which no
skill is required. To this end a doz-
en- of them will gather at a house,
and make a pool Of say S. each,
making a "pot" of $50. The twelve
numbers are put into a box, and one
drawn at random. The first number
drawn is entitled to one half the pot,
the second to one-fourth, and the
third to the remaining fourth. This
goes on for hours and hours-till, in
fact, it is time to dress for dinner.


This game, simple as it is, is excit-
ing enough to satisfy their natures,
particularly as they car win or lose
a very large sum of money in a day.


At one hotel in the upper part Of
the city, at which great many rich
men board, the ladies made a game
in which each put in 500 each time.
One lady won that day nearly s., 900,
which was lucky thing for her, as
she was in debt, and wanted it. But
how was it with the losers, who,
probably, were also in debt and wan
ted it likewise?
Year: 1874




How utterly senseless is this jar
gon of free trade when addressed to
the people living in the Mississippi
Valley far away from the sea coast ?
Here we are in Indiana, eight hun
dred miles from the nearest seaport.
However great and cheap the facili-
ties for transportation may become
for our products to the seaboard, the
distance can never be diminished,
and transportation must always be q
great obstacle and expense to our ap-
proach to foreign markets and add
largely to the cost of all we import
Here in this great valley we have a
soil of unsurpassed fertility, timber,
Goals, ores, mineral resources of ev-
cry character, and all the means for
sustaining a vast population, and al
most every variety Of industry and
production. And with these immense
advantages in our possession, how
unwise it is to cultivate a policy
which is to make US dependent upon
foreign, distant and costly markets
for our productions, and to import
from other States and countries those
articles which we can better produce
ourselves?


Now, when the time has come for
the development of the resources and
industries of the West, ald for the es-
tablisbment of our prosperity uoon a
sure foundation, and to obtain that
commercial superiority which our
natural advantages give us, if we will
but improve them, we are met by the
insane cry Of free trade, and advised
to throw down every protection to
home industry to put the labor of our
country upon level in price and dig
nifty with the pauper labor of Europe,
and.to continue our dependence upon
the East, and the payment of tribute
to foreign countries.


The States of the Northwest have
ceased to be regarded as mere outly-
ing vegetable gardens and truck
patches to furnish the marketing of
the older and richer communities of
the East, and have become opulent,
powerful and intelligent eommuni-
ties, capable of forming their own
policies, and becoming. by the devel-
opment of their resources, the most
independent and prosperous among
the States.-Ertracs from Senator
Morton's Indianapolis speech.
Year: 1874

Want of Water lcieR TKarm.-We
have never had the slightest doubt
that more men and animals suffered
in summer time from want Of water
than from too much. Hundreds Of
horses die every year in towns and
cities from the heat Of the sun, the
papers say; but as we believe, from
want Of water


We have repeatedly given express
sions to this opinion in these columns,
but always with a sense of responsi-
bility knowing how cautious a news
paper ought to be on questions ike
these, dealing with the health, or
even the lives Of men and valuable
animals.


1t was not, indeed, till quarter Of
a century Of close thought and observ-
alton, making the writer feel sure he
was right, that be ventured to ques-
tion publicly the preYalentimpression
that it was an injury to take cold water
when warm. He hes been on fatigu-
ing expeditions, where great heat and
physical suffering prevailed; but, in
spite of the continual caution of the
timid, those who feared not to drink
freely of water were always the
healthiest and the strongest, and, in
deed, the life Of the whole party
Look at the immense quantity of cold
water used nowadays by a gang Of
laborers on any public work, in COM
parison with what wonld have been
thought reasonable fifty years ago !;
and yet, in spite of the fearful quanti-
tY of bad whiskey which the same
class of men too often consume, they
are as healthy as any class going.
Indeed, sunstroke among this class
is very often another name for being
struck with Jersey lightning"


There is mo doubt, however, but
that a great change has come over
the public mind since the first article
in the Weekly Press on this subject
but still both men and animals en-
dure vast amount Of suffering, be-
cause the water they so much long
for is withheld Weekly Press.
Year: 1874

a Kalamazoo Judge went to
neighboring town to see a man, and
telegraphed back to his wife; Have
found Garland; won't be home in a
week" When the dispatch reached
her it read, Have found girl, and
won't be home in a week" Herele let
US draw a veil.
Year: 1874

Everybody is wondering why the BAZAAR
is selling their goods so cheap. The reason is
they must clear out their~Spring and sum
mer goods to make room for the immense
stock of Fall and Winter goods which they
will soon receive. -.
Year: 1874

Almost every person must at some
time or other have experienced the ut
ter misery of waiting in a bleak, desc
late room for the appearance of The host
or hostess. The stiff. uniform angular


ity of everything the room contains re-
duces in a few moments the most gay
and sarguine disposition to q state of
abiect dullness. The mind begins to
work out mathematical problems with
the picture cords, or eXhausts itself in
vain endeavors to discover if one of the
pictures is hung not quite parallel with
the pattern of the wall paper. The
whatnot does not offer any relief. There
are the same little parian images, and


shells, and china of antique fashion,


that you have been accustomed to see
in other houses ever since you can re-
member anything. The specimens of
wool work and embroidery displayed
with agOnizing regularity over the
backs of the chairs, or on the lounge,
an exact fac simile of those in the par
lors of at least a dozen Of your ac-
quaintances. The little table, with the
absurdly crooked legs and marble top,
/ and the basket of wax-work-fruit under
the glass case, have long ago ceased to
charm. The lounge is one of double
ended pattern, and the least motion
sends you coasting down off the seat,
while the rigid rectangular chairs pre-
clude all ideas of comfort. Everything
is so distressingly orderly that a speck
| of dust would be a positive relief, and
a remnant of last months newspaper a
treasure of untold value. People who
have no desire to subject their friends
to this ordeal, will note what Scribner's
| Magazine has to say on the subject :


"While you are arranging the parlOr,
| Just have thought for the visitors who
must sometimes wait to see you, and


carefully refrain from putting every
object of interest beyond their reach.
! OF course, as a careful hostess, you
never mean to keep callers waiting but
if they come when the baby is on the


eve of dropping to sleep, or you are il
the midst of planning a dinner with
the cook, you must delay little, while


they are reduced to staring out the win
dow, or to an involuntary effort to pen
citrate some insignificant household
secret. The family photograph album


is usually regarded as a sufficient re
source in moments like these but is


there not something akin to indelicacy
in allowing strangers and ordinary &C
quaintances to turn over the hkenesses
of our nearest and dearest; perhaps tC
criticise them with the freedom of unfa


niliarity, or the unsympathy natural tc
a lack of personal appreciation The
lat magazines, book of good eDgrav.
| ings, a household volume of poetry, g
stereoscope and views, photographs oi
foreign scenes, and a dozen Other
things, are all good aids TO the occupa


ton of stray minutes. Moreover, they
often suggest to the visitor and hes
topics of conversation more profitable
aud interesting than the state of the


weather or the history of the kitchen.
Year: 1874

TweEty-fve Millions a additional National


Bank Ctrcuiat'On TO be authorized fox


The law of 1872, which authorized
fifty-four million dollars OF additional
currency, provided in the sixth section
that when the fifty four millions shall
have been taken up, the controller of
the currency shall withdraw from the
banks IN the eastern states having a pro
rata excess of circulation, their proper
tionate amount, to be distributed IN the
western and southern states. All this
circulation has been allotted to banks
applying therefor, but the full amount
has not yet been issued. The controller
has held that he had 40 power to exc
cute the provisions of the law relative
to withdrawal of twenty-five million
dollars from the east until every dollar
of the ffty-foUr millions was issued.
The law makes no provision by which
he could compel the banks to which
this was assigned to deposit their bonds
as security for circulation, and to com
ply with the other conditions precedent
which should entitle them to receive
their circulation. There remain about
81, 600, ,000of the $54, 600 600 unassigned,
and it is presumed that the issue there
of VIII be soon completed. The con-
troller will then be compelled to make
his requisitien upon the eastern banks
tor the twenty-five millions excess, who
viii have one year in which to comply.
In case of the failure to comply, the
secretary of the treasury is directed to
sell enough of their bonds pledged as
security for their circulation to enable
him to realize from the proceeds thereof
tho amount equivalent to the amount of
national bank notes to be withdrawn
from each eastern bank respectively.
The proceeds of the sales of these bonds
must then be applied to redeem the
proper amount of national bank notes,
a process which may take years for the
treasury department to accomplish.
The subcommittee on banking and cur
rency has been directed to examine this
law, in order to ascertain whether it is
adapted to the immediate necessities of
the west; and it is understood that they
viii report that they find the existing
law, even If Immediately executed, to
be entirely inadequate for present ne
cessiti7s. It is improbable that any
currency will be given under its pro-
visions for two years 10 the south and
west. The subcommittee will, there
fore, report bill providing twenty-five
millions of additional banking circula-
ton to be allotted to the west and
south, and also repeating the section in
the act OF 1872, providing for the with
drawing of the twenty-five millions. It
is highly probable that the banking and
currency committees will ADOPT this
report. It is conceded by some of the
hard-mOney men who have canvassed
the house and senate upon these ques-
tiOns, that this bill viii pass, and also
the bill legalizipg the issue of the forty
four million reserve. In other words,
these hard-mOney men concede that
there viii be an addition to the cur
rency, as it stood six months since, of
at least sixty-nine millions, and per-
haps more,
Year: 1874

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that vour snb-
scriptior is out or unpaid, and thai
you are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure in extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons.
but cash alone Will pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity OF such n
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. we solicit your favor.


81 We enter no new names ON our
books without the money IN adyarce.
Year: 1874

We do not care to have our humorists
always turning up, like a prize-fghter
after each round, still smiling; but the
coming man viii not find his welcome
less warm for this. He will know that
the nation which laughs so easily has
still q capacity for deep feeling.
Year: 1874

The death of Baron Meyer de Roths-
child is reported at London.


A special says Russia refuses to send
goods to the exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876.
on the ground that it is private AFFAIR
Year: 1874

some of the new collars intended for
Young ladies who are weary Of the EliZ-
absthan Tuff fasten at the throat by
small gold link with ball pendants.
We have 10 ea On to anticipate that
those new affairs will attain any very
great popularity,
Year: 1874

CONDUCT OF ELECTION INSPECTORS.


Maurice Krauss, a Republican Inspector of
Election the election previous to the last. was
raigned in the Court OF Oyer and Termner yesterday
morning, the charge OF changing ballot in the With
Election District OF the With Assembly District but
acquitted by direction OF Judge Barrett on the es
timony Of the witness, Waenwebber, who admitted his
inability to say whether the ticket which fell not
the same which Krauss placed in the box. Mr. Purdy
de Tended the accused.


John McCabe, another Republican Inspector OF the
election Of 1s73 was also tried for violation of the 67h
section. by excluding duly qualified voter, Thomas j.
Kenny. The prisoner testified that when Kenny offered
his vote In the With Election District, Ist Assembly
District, the accused as chairman OF the inspectors
refused t the ground that Kennys name was not
the register Subsequently the name was found, but
different residence noted from that given by the
complainant The jury decided that the exclusion Of
the vote not malicious but q mistake. and ac
quilted McCdbe.


James Keegan fined s25 yesterday by Judge Bar
rett In the Court of oyer aud Terminer for giving
brandy the inspectors OF the Xth Election District OF
the XVIlIth Assembly District In violation Of law. Al
though pleading guilty, Keegan declared he did MT
know that he was doing anything wrong
Year: 1874

AIbon p Man won suit against Alfred T.
Conkin yesterday before Judge Brady in the Supreme
Court Circuit branch. Mr. Mant appointed receiver
OF Eighth National Bank, OF the stock or which Mr..
Conkn had held shares, claimed to have been sold
to him by the bank The suit was to recover the vauc
Of those sharess oOO-a demand Mr. Conkin resisted
on the grounds, frs that the sale was an unlawful
transaction the part Of the bank and secondly that
he never actually purchased the stock having merely
acquiesced in tho proposal Of friend to become di
rector the bank, and therefore, letting the legal
amount OF stock stand in his the books OF the
bank Judge Brady held that he could not sustain him
self the first ground after other interests had inter-
fered being contrary public policy As for the SEQ
ond point IL question Of fact for the jury whether
he was an actual purchaser OF the stock. The jury
found for the receiver the full amount with interest
334 Is.
Year: 1874

Judge Lawrence of the Supreme Court
granted yesterday tho motion made several days ago
for "a commission to Germany behalf OF Won Radde
the in the divorce suit OF Pauline Lucca
singer. There much opposition, the part OF
Madame Lucca's counsel. TO the appointment Of Mr..
Kapp of Berlin, who formerly q Commissioner OF
Emigration this country. that the Judge decided to
leave the appointment with the parties themselves
Madame Lucca first obtained judgement OF divorce
by default against her Prussian husband who Is Ba-
The default, however, was subsequently opened
and Radde was allowed to come III and plead As
soon commissioner IS agreed upon he Will proceed
to Berlin to take testimony
Year: 1874

At Washington are found Con
servatiye-or Democratic -delega-
tions from Louisiana and South
Carolina, urging national interfe-
| renee in the affairs of their respect
i've States. They ask that the ma
jority may be ignored, and that the
will Of the minority may be set up
as law.


Who would believe that these
were the very men who have been
SO alarmed at the progress OF tFed-
eral aggression -? They now ask
the Federal Government to go
farther than the Republican party
has ever dared to suggest in the
direction of Capitalization. To how
much better service could they act
if these delegations would go home
and make an honest effort for pol
itical reconciliation, healthy party
contest, and the obliteration of all
race prejudices before the ballot
boxl


On this point the New York
Graphic puts a strong case, when it
asks the South Carolinians at Wash
ington to remember what the con-
dition OF the colored man has been.
As that paper says:


"The white people hated him. They
looked OH him as the cause of all their
woes. They would have expelled him
from the country if they had possessed
the power. They took advantage of
his ignorance. They traded on his
necessities. They cheated him out OF
his wages. They burned his school
houses and churches. They set the
Ku-Klux loose upon his hut, who muir
dered his brothers and compelled his
wife and children to flee for their lives.
Nothing could well exceed the bitter
ness with which these people persecu-
ted the negro for years, and if they
did not exterminate him it was because
the Federal Government interfered for
his protection. The negro remembers
all this"


And Why should he not remenn-
ber it? But he is willing to forget
and to forgive. Speaking through
the eloquent Elliott Of South Caro-
lima the despised negro offers to
unite with the whites in overthrow
ing those unworthy to rule.-Buf-
falo Commercial Advertiser.
Year: 1874

.1


This rather comicsl picture is iron
the pen Of Mrs. Bradley, an East.
ern< missionary. We elipfi it from
| the Inland Advocate t>1


There is a pretty grove Of mango
trees just out Of Lucknow, called
the Ash Grove, or the monkey
grove. In this place there are hun-
dreds Of monkeys. One evening
I went ont to see them. At first, OF
1 rode under the big tree, looking
everywhere and not seeing one, i
was beging to feel disappointed.
But presently / saw two or three
in the road, three or four ON the top
Of o house, and all at once they
were everywhere, hanging from the
branches Of the trees above my
head, running across the road, up
the tree trunks, sol concluded there
were few left.


As I was watching these few, a
man came out Of q small shop with
q big bag full Of grain, and going
up and down the road in front of
our buggies, began calling out, 40,
40, 40; which means come, come,
comet


In a few minutes everything
seemed alive with the ugly, long
tailed monkies. They sat down on
their hind feet and put the grain
into their mouths as fast as they
could; very greedy they were. Some
of the mother menkeys took up
their little babies in their arms,
rocking them backward and for
wards, just as you have seen your
mothers do with your little brothers
and sisters.


Just as they were in the midst OF
their big dinner, eating as fast as
they could, there appeared on the
top Of a house a very large black
monkey. He sat a moment and
gazed upon the feost, then sprang
from the roof, seating himself in the
center Of the assembly. There|was
a general breaking up, and sqqeal-
ing fearfnlly, they all ran away to
the edge Of the road.


The old fat monkey sat upon his
hind feet and looked around, then
wisely looking up at me, seemed to
say


+ IT am monarch of all I survey;


My rights there is none to dispute"
and then quietly settling himself to
work, began eating:


Not one of them dared to come
near him. I asked the reason, and
they said he was the king-monkey,
and oil the others were afraid of
him. After he had eaten enough
he scampered back upon the house.
top and sat watching the others as
they finished what he had left.
Year: 1874




The proper time to pull hemp is
any Friday that good judge may
select.


| Castor-oil beans succeed best in
the bowels of the earth. They will
soon work their way out.


The best preparation for hops is q
toad or two in each hill. They will
make the vines fairly jump.


The usual time to put in rye is
early in the morning. Some hus-
bandmen, especially those in the
city, continue, to run it in at inter
walls of half an hour until bedtime.
YThe practice is only allowable in case
of dry season.


In reaping wheat, never take it by
the beard. 1t is found to so against
the grain.


Buckwheat is not healthy food. 1t
is apt to cake upon the stomach,


Corn in the ear is apt to affect the
hearing If eaten green, it will
make the voice husky. When dealt
out as army rations, the'kernel should
always be served first, and then the
men privately.


Never plant your potatoes early.
1t is the early potato that gets the
worm, 1t is uphill work with them
after that.


To be certain of the right kind of
squashes, compare them with your
head In adopting this rule, / first
mistook pumpkins for squashes; but
by continued, careful comparison, l
soon learned to detect the difference.
But for some new beginners it re-
quires great caution.


In making cider out Of apples, I
found it a pretty tight squeeze, not
withstanding my long connection
with the press. Never drink cider
made from crab apples. 1t is pretty
certain to ego back" on you.


A correspondent asks us what we
think of late plowing. Flowing
should not be continued later than
ten or eleven o'clock at night, It
gets the horses in the habit Of stay
ing out late, and unduly exposes the
pillow, We have known plows to ac-
quire springhalt and inhammatory
rheumatism from late plowing. Don't
do it.


The cold weather should suggest
to the humane farmer the necessity
for a good cow shed, The following
is q receipt for making good COW
shed: Pour pailful Of boiling hot
water on her back, and if that don't
make q good COW shed--her hair
we are no prophet, to anybody,


When you make cider, select moth
ing but tho soundest turnips, chop
ping them into sled length before
cradling them. In boiling your ci-
der, use plenty of ice; and when
boiled hang it up in the sun to dry.


To another correspondent who
wants us to suggest good drain on
farm, we would say heavy mort
gage-ten per cent.-will drain it
about as rapidly as anything wo
know of.


In sowing your winter apple-jack,
q horse-rake will be found preferable
to a step-ladder Step-ladders are
liable to freeze up, and are hardly
palitable unless boiled with sugar.


In cutting down homlock trees for
canning, select only the largest.
Don't throw away the chips, as they
make fine parlor ornaments, encased
in rustic frames of salt and vinegar.


A pick-ax should mover be used in
picking apples. 1t has tendency
to break down the vines aud damage
the Hives.