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Year: 1874

PARASITES IN BIRD CAGES
Many a person has watched with
anxiety and care pet canary, gold.
finch, or other tiny favorite evident.
ly in state of perturbation, pluck.
ing at himself continually, his feath-
ers standing all wrong, always fidg-
citing about, and in every way look
ing very seedy. In vain his food is
changed, and in vain is another
saucer of clean water always kept
in his cage, and all that kindness
can suggest for the little prisoner
done; but still all is of no use, he
is no better-and why ? because the
cause of his wretchedness has not
been found out, and until it is, 9th
er attempts are but vain. If the
owner of a pet in such difficulties
will take down the cage and cast
his or her eyes up to the root there.
of, there will most likely be seen a
mass of stuff looking as much like
red rust as anything; and from
thence comes the cause of the poor
birds uneasiness. The red rust is
nothing more nor less than myriads
of parasites infesting the bird, and
for which water is no remedy. There
is, however, a remedy, and one easi-
ly procurable in a moment-fire. By
procuring a lighted candle and hold
ing it under every particle of the
top of the cage, till all chance Of
anything being left alive is gone,
the remedy is complete. The pet
will soon brighten up again after
his "house- warming" and will in
his cheerful and delightful way
thank his master and mistress over
and over again for this, though
slight, to him, important assistance.
Land and Water.
Year: 1874

l do object to. 10 having Gov. Dix,
Tilden, and q delegation from Tam.
many kicking their heels in my en-.
tryway as they did last Tuesday
morning, waiting to get my opinion
Of the issues, possible and probable
Of the election.


Now ! distinctly gave notice that
10 o'clock was the earliest hour at
which I could be seen, and here at
s were they at my door! Anything
in a man but irregularity can l over
look. The precision Of my person.
al habits is simply clock work.


Rising at half past three iu the
morning, I 60 Immediately into the
backyard and ssunter among the
clothes poles until half past flve.
Repairing to my study with every
faculty ennobled and elevated by
this communion with nature, I de.
vote the time before breakfast to
the OPINION, London Times, and
some minor publications. The first
morning of my honeymoon found
delicious cup of hot coffee on the
study desk when l returned from
my walk. That was 80 years ago.
1t hasn't been there since.


But pardon this depression. I
left some prominent politicians in
the hall awaiting my pleasure.
rather ungraciously, perhaps, sent
word that it would he impossible
for me to see them until later, ex.
pressing my dissatisfaction at the
unreasonable interruption in such
strong terms that they returned a
unanimous Endorsement of resolu.
tion drawn upon the spot by Dix,
which contained, l grieve to say,
a great multitude Of symbolic DIS
and dashes, and wound up with a
fine consignment to the place where
ceases to be q specula.
tive theory. Learning that Dix was
at the bottom of this, I determined
to throw the entire weight of my in
fiuence in favor of the opposition,
with what result the country has
been made aware. My name does
not appear in connection with the
majority. True modesty consists in
doing a thing and keeping quiet
about it-a precept which may, 1
trust, come under the eye of every
little boy and girl in Bradford, and
l will furthermore state that, as an
instructor of youth in those domi-
nant principles of veracity and the
like so pleasing in the young, 1
stand alone and defy competition.


Snow.
Year: 1874

FAILURE TO IDENTIFY THE CHILD IN ILLINOIS THE


NEW YORK DETECTIVES WITHOUT CLUE.


The member of the Ross family who went on
TO Chester, ILL.,, to identify the child taken away
from the ruiiians there, has been heard from
He was at first unable to decide as to the identi-
ty OF the child, but finally pronounced it not the
missing Charley.


The New York detectives are again at sea. and
the mystery of the case remains unpenetratod
Superintendent Walling, of the metropolitan
force thought he had discovered clue to the
Whereabouts Of tine child in the killing of Mosiel
and Douglass, but he has followed it to the enc
still at work
Year: 1874

HEARING OF THE TWEED HABEAs CORPUS CASE


NEW YORK, Dec. II.
Boss Tweed was brought before the Court OF
Oyer and Terminer to-day on writ Of habeds
corpus to have the case argued and carried to
the Court of Appeals in January.
The case was adjourned until Monday next,
and the prisoner remanded
Year: 1874

The Boston Transcript calls Jayne and San
born "those mercantile freebooters The Pnila.
delphia Al Day City Item odds "the title is an
appropriate one, for the way those two worthless
have been kicking the merchants right and left
fully justfes it,"


Why not go a little further and state the
other fact that they were licensed by Radical
Congress and Radical Administration, while
Radical Secretary Of the Treasury contracted
with them to perform the work of robbery
Year: 1874

SIX Per Cent-Multiply any given
number Of dollars by the number Of
days of interest desired, seperate the
right hand figure and divide by six,
the result is the true interest on such
sum for such n number Of days at six
per cent.


Eight Per Cent.-Multiply any
given amount by the number OF days
upon which it is desired to ascertain
the interest, and divide by forty-five,
and the result VIII be the interest
each for the time required at eight
per cent.


leu Per Cent Multiply the same
as above, and divide by thirty-six,
and the result viii show the rate of
interest at ten per cent.
Year: 1874

Sydney Smith said: "AmOng the
smaller duties of life l hardly know
of anyone more important than that
of not praising where praise Is not
due: Reputation is one Of the
prizes for which men contend. It
is, as Mr.. Burke calls il, "thC cheap
defense and ornament of nations
1t produces more labor and more
talent than twice the wealth of a
country could ever rear up. 1t is the
coin of genius, and it is the imperi-
Gus duty of every man to bestow it
with the most scrupulous justice
and the wiSest economy"
Year: 1874

Here is something for young
men 10 consider if they care any
thing about happy longevity:


Young men are careless of lon
gevity; but how precious arc ad-
ded years TO the'fullDcss Of the in-
telIectual life. There are lives,
such as that Of Maj. Pcndennis,
which only diminish in value as
they advance-when the man OF
fashion is no longer fashionable,
and the sportsman can no longer
stride over the pIoughed fields.-
The old age of the Maj. Pendenni-
scs is assuredly not to be envied;
but how rich is the age Of the Hum
boldts. l compare the life OF the
intellectual to a long wedge OF gold
tho thin end Of it begins at birth,
and the depth and value Of it go on
indefinitely increasing till at last
comes Death Ga parsonage for
whom Nathaniel Hawthorne had
a peculiar dislike, for his unman-
nerly habit of interruption, who
stops the auriferous processes. Oh
the mystery OF the nameless ones
who have died when the wedge
was thin and looked 80 poor and
light, Oh the happiness OF the for
tunate old men, whose thoughts
went deeper and deeper like wall
that runs out into the sea,
Year: 1874




The Twins appeared well pleased
to have me to stop at their house and
begged me to stay a week with them.
After supper some two or three hours
we went to bed, they in the big room,
bat not in the big bedstead, and in
a little room adjoining. The children
were put in a trundle-bed, and Mrs.
Chang, of course. ''tOok sides with
her husband.


On the next morning they apollo
gized to me for having disturbed my
rest by getting up some four or five
times. They had a girl runaway, who
had the previous night been seen in
their kitchen, and they expected to be
able to find her that night.


The Twins dressed very poorly;
when saw them they had on pants
made Of country homespuu, and cot
ton Osnaburg shirts. They always
complain of being very poor, say they
must be saving, big family coming
on. etc. The one desiring anything,
say pipe or any other luxury, the
ather also desires the same thing"


''SARAH AND ADELAIDE.


When Eng first proposed rourtiDg
Year: 1874

THEATRE. We are pleased to learn
that Madame Duret, an artist well
known at home and abroad, is now in
our city, and intends giving us two or
three evenings entertainments at the
Pavilion.


Madame Duret is ably supported, and
we advise the play going public not to
miss so good an opportunity.
Year: 1874

T Notwithstanding the rumor to
the contrary, there will be no postpon-
ment of the ball this evening on account
of the weather.


Carriages will be in attendance for
ladies. An invitation is extended to
all.
Year: 1874

May 25th motion was made in
the House to suspend the rules and
take mp the supplementary Civil
Rights Bill. The motion was lost by
not having the majority required.
Among those who voted against the
motion we find the name of Hon. Il.
R. Butler, Representative from our
District.


Mr.. Butler is not a favorite with
the conservatives of this District, but
it may be unhesitatingly predicted
that his action in this matter will
produce such revulsion Of feeling
that, should no popular conservative
come before them in the next cam
paign, he will be their choice Mr..
Butler has a large negro constitu-
ency and the position which he has
taken on the Civil Rights Bill does
honor to the man and the legislator,
and shows him to be d man Of higher
sentiments than he ever gets credit
for being. We say, all honor to
him for his decisive stand IN the
RIGHT. AmeTicaR.
Year: 1874

One of the results likely to accrue
from the extension of the right of
suffrage to the freedmen of the South.
and the consequent pillage of the
Southern people by the negro, car
pet-bag, and scalawag rulers, who
from partisan considerations have
been so fondly cherished by Grants
Administration, is a general repus
diation of public Indebtedness by
those States which have suffered the
worst from spoliation.


The average Southern negro re-
CARDS the idea of paying taxes with
intense disgust. and among all the
black Legislators who have so recE-
lessly voted to increase the debt Of
their various States by millions of
dollars. the number who have con-
tributed to the public revenues by
any direct payment of taxation is so
insignificant as not to be worth
mentioning.


A great proportion Of the bonds
of Southern States is held by North
ern capitalists, the most of whom
have been conspicuous supporters Of
the Administration, which has en-
oouraged the plunder of the recon-
structed States and there is a very
large class of Southern taxpayers
who believe that it is such men as
they who are really responsible for
the ruin which has been wrought by
misgovernment, and therefore would
take infinite satisfaction in seeing
these bOndholders whistle for their
interest and principal.


Such people will have little diff
Guilty in persuading the blacks de-
pendent upon them for employment
and subsistence that it will be inn
possible for them to pay the enor-
nous taxation which would be re-
quired to maintain<the credit of their
several States, and at the same time
pay living prices for labor; and this
proposition once made plain to the
perception of the colored voter, the
latter will be as anxious to procure
exemption for his white employer as
for himself. Perhaps if the question
of Reputation should be left entirely
to the whites it wonld be defeated
at any cost; but if in the cotton
States the whites who favor such a
policy should be reinforced by the
solid colored vote, the value of a
great portion of Southern securities
would at once become iniinitesimal.
Year: 1874

The poor fellow to whom this pa
thetic inquiry is attributed, says an
old Democrat. could scarcely have
been more shocked than the Demo
Gratis are at the changes wrought du-
ring their twenty years absence.
The nation was almost free from
debt; now it is measured by thou
sands of millions. Such a thing as
direct taxation had never been heard
of; now it is familiar and painful
grievance. Official robbery and cor
ruption were unknown, now it is a
virtuous day which reveals nothing
of the sort. Our commerce was up
on every sea, with fair prospects of
exceeding every nation of the world ;
now it is limited to a small coasting
trade. Then we had a government
of law, now of party necessity. We
had men in Office we find block
heads, thieves and tricksters now.


Verify, "who's been here since
we've been gone ?'-Des Holmes
Leader.
Year: 1874

than ten dollars and that in one
year after resumption all bills Of
less than five dollars should be with.
drawn from circulation, and in two
years all bills of less than ten dol
lars should be withdrawn. The ad.
vantage OF this would be strength
given to the country against time Of
depression resulting from war. fall
ure of crops, or any other cause, by
keeping always in the hands of the
people large supply of the precious
metals. With all smaller transac-
tions conducted in coin many mil
lions of it would be kept in constant
use and of course prevented from
leaving the country. Undoubtedly
a poorer currency will always drive
the better out of circulation. With
paper a legal tender and at q dis
count, gold and silver become ar
ticles of merchandise as much as
wheat or cotton. The surplus will
find the best market it can. With
small bills in circulation there is no
use for coin except to keep it in the
vaults oF banks to redeem circula-
tion. During periods of great spec
ulation and apparent prosperity
there is little demand for coin, and
then it will flow out to the market
where it can be made to earn some
thing, which it cannot do while ly,
ing idle. Gold. like anything else,
when not needed becomes surplus,
and like every other surplus it seeks
a market where it can find one. BY
giving active employment To coin,
however, its presence can. it seems
to me, be secured, and the panics
and depressions which have occur
red periodically in times of nominal
specie payments, if they cannot be
wholly prevented, can at least be
greatly mitigated. Indeed, | ques-
tion whether it would have been
found necessary to depart from the
standard of specie in the trying
days which gave birth to The first
legal tender act had the country
taken the ground of no small bills
as early as 1880.


ECONOMY AND TAXATION.


Again would provide an excess of
revenue over current expenditures.
[ would do this by rigid econo-
my and by taxation, where taxa
tion can best be borne. Increased
revenue would work a constant re-
duction of debt and interest, and
would provide coin to meet demands
on the Treasury for the redemption
Of its notes, thereby diminishing the
amount Of bonds needed for that
purpose. All taxes after redemp-
tion begins should he paid in coin
or United States notes. This would
force redemption on the national
banks. With measures like these
or measures which would work out
such results, l see no danger in au-
thorizing free banking without limit.
Year: 1874

previously been read for the purpose, is
most excellent method of passing
part Of an evening. The selection of a
book Of history, or travel, in which the
whole family would be interested, to be
read aloud is a most beneficial and sat-
isfactory way Of putting in the time.
The reading aloud the news Of the day,
talking about and over the lessons of
the children, should come in to give va
riety and interest. OF course study
should not be carried so far as to make it
tiresome, but if interesting subjects are
chosen it will take considerable to
cause weariness. As change, however,
innocent games, and puzzles, and plays
should be resorted to; yet We believe that
these may be secondary and still all the
pleasure and Interest be preserved.
Year: 1874

the Baxter government, and says that
the people who created the constitution
cannot change it, without they do it
according to Hoyle, or as he puts it " in
manner provided" He AYERS that the
people did not comply with the provi-
sions Of the old constitution, in creating
the new one, and therefore haven't a
new constitution but the old. Having
reached this very logical conclusion,
he reasons farther that the election of
Garland under the new Constitution
was no election, and in turning over the
Office to Garland Baxter abdicated,"
while is as good as being assasinated so
far as Smiths rights are concerned, and
therefore he, Smith, is legal Governor Of
Arkansas. Smith, with true patriotism,
of course wants to put down the re-
bellion in his State, and appeals to the
for help, and it is said the
Government is in doubt In the mean
time Smith keeps dark, waiting probably
for reinforcements from Washington.
The rebellion is bloodless one, so far,
and the present prospects are that Smith
will be permitted to enjoy his present
seclusion until he succeeds in getting
somebody to shoot some other body,
and then he may be permitted to enjoy
all the power and glory of Governor Of
the Common wealth of Arkansas.


The Executive Committee of the
Missouri State Grange. after advising
against the idea of the State Grange
going into the manufacturing business,
as an Order says:


But we need not be disheartened that our
first crude ideas were not q success.
"Where there is will there is way"
and we can do all we contemplated. We
can give the farmer his implements at
wholesale rates, and have them manufact-
ured at home out of our own raw material.
We can accomplish not only all we project
ed, but much more, but on different plan
one already tried and proved by our
brother Patrons in other States-by what
is known as the contract system"


To do all that we could wish requires but
little money, and if the plan is approved
the State Grange can easily devise a way to-
furnish all the funds required,


Our great object is to give to the Patrons
their farming Implements; made at home.
at as low = rate as they can be made, allow
ing fair remuneration to the makers for
it is good Grange doctrine sc that the zaborer
Is '0o,thy Of his hire. - We aim only to re-
strain the exorbitant profits of the manu-
facturer, and to do away with the unneces-
sary and always extravsgsnt exactions Of
the middlemsn )" and II We can accom-.
plish this without taking the risks Of busi-
ness failure, We have certainly achieved Ill
that We could desire. Wisdom and experi-
enee. then, dictate that our true policy is to
induce manufacturers to come among us
with their skin and capital, and for Us to
encourage them by our combined patronage
to throw oil their talents and energies into
manufacturing everything that the Patrons
need, in large quantities, and selling to Us
1t the lowest possible price.
Year: 1874

A writer in the Western Rural uses
the following strong language in speak
ing of sheep raising:


"By keeping more sheep and raising
not always fewer bushels Of grain but
cultivating a less number acres Of it,
you will need less help, be more at ease,
make more money and have less need
for insane asylums. 1t is well known
that the largest relative proportion of
female patients in lunatic asylums are
wives Of farmers.
Year: 1874

value Of its volumes will increase con-
tinually. Donations of books and pa
pers of interest and profit to the farmer
will readily be made by those who are
prepared to. render such assistance, and
in few months u valuable collection
can be secured at but little expense.
Select an active and prompt librarian
who will keepa close watch over the
interests Of it's readers and the machin-
cry is in successful operation. That
great benefits would be derived from
such an institution there can be no rea-
sonable doubt,
Year: 1874

Intellectually, we do not have the same
tastes and talents, and there is no reason
why we should expect our temperaments
to be all alike; but much can be effected
by habit and cultivation.


There are some people who seem to
prefer darkness to light, and gloom
rather than gladness. They can readily
turn the chapter and verse that reads,
sorrow is better than laughter, for by
the sadness of the countenance the heart
is made BETTER" but they could scarcely
tell whether in the Bible or the almanac
are to be found the sayings, He that is
of merry heart hath continual feast )"
Pleasant words are as a honeycomb,
sweet to the soul, and health to the
bones )" "a merry heart doeth good like
a medicine and for any practical use
they are to such, these sayings of the
wise man might as well be in the other.
These persons feel confident that Jesse
will ever be a wild, worthless fellow,
because he always comes from school
whistling, and that Julia will "never
make anything" because she often in
dulges in an audible laugh.


Some are constantly unhappy from the
first of January until the last of Decem-
ber, because the weather isn't right. If
it is very cold, they are certain that the
buds of the fruit-tree will be injured;
and if it is warm, and the pond doesn't
freeze so they can get supply of ice,
they don't know what they shall do next
July. In summer, if a shower doesn't
come every day, they predict drouth and
famine; and if it is rainy, they are sure
the corn crop will be failure, it is so
cold and wet. Indoors, it is little If any
better. The good woman, returning
from visit, finds some one has opened
the blinds and raised the curtains, and
the full-blown roses and green leaves on
the carpet have become several shades
lighter in consequence; and this is not
the only consequence as the offender can
testify This woman cannot see why the
sun should shine so much of the time
it has completely ruined six of her very
best curtains; and then when it comes
cloudy and wet, what will be done? the
cellar is so damp and moldy that the but
ter won't keep. If child should be so
unfortunate as to break dish, one would
suppose from the ado made that it had
come in direct ancestral line from the
king of England, and was the only one he
ever possessed. And so, indoors and
out, there is an atmosphere the density
of which no philosophical computation
has calculated, but which has often been
felt by those who were unfortunate enough
to come within the precints of such
home (O.


Some are always on the lookout for
aches and pains. They feel pretty we'll
to-day, but they shall be sick in bed
Year: 1874

to-morrow-they always know, when
they feel so, just what to expect; and
Robert B. Thomas never predicted
eclipses with greater accuracy, for they
lie awake all night, dreading the NOR
row, and conjuring up all manner of
doleful consequences arising from this
yet-in-the future unavoidable (O illness.
Others had fever once, the last OF
August, and were so certain there would
be a recurrence of the same every sue
ceeding year, that, in view of the time
they must lose, they have ever since done
four months work during June and july
and little more, accordingly, the first
part of the next month, every night
counting with sad forboding the inter
vening DAYS until the twenty-seventh of
August. OF course the fever comes reg
ularly.


Some are always telling you their trials
and difficulties, and if you feel deeply for
them, and try to benefit them by divert
ing their minds, and turning their
thoughts away from themselves, you are
at once set down as cold unappreciative,
and unsympathizing


Some people can truthfully say. when
anything of a melancholy nature occurs,
81 told you it would be so" for they are
always looking on the dark side, and
predicting something of the kind. To
be sure, they may sometimes make mis-
take, like the old lady who, whatever
happened, always met her husband with
this same comforting assurance. Such
things sometimes become a little monot-
onous, even to men, and he thought he
would cure her of the habit, If such it
was One day he rushed into the house
exclaiming: WIFE, the cow has eaten up
the grindstone" Not look of surprise
was visible as she very complacently re-
marked, II told you 1t aoould be So