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Year: 1877

CANNED STRAwBERRIEs.-Fill glass
jars with fresh whole strawberries,
sprinkled with sugar in the proportion
of half a pound for each pound of
berries lay the covers on lightly; stand
then in wash boiler filled with water
to within an inch of the tops of the cans
(the water must not be more than milk
warm when the cans are placed in it. }
When it has boiled for fifteen minutes,
draw to the back of the stove; let the
steam pass of, roll the hand in towel,
lift out the cans and place on a table.
IF the berries are well covered with
their own juice, take tablespoon and
fill up the first can to the very top OF
the rim from the second: wipe the neck,
rub dry, and screw the top down firmly.
Fill another from the second can, and SO
on until all are finished.
Year: 1877

WHEN MEN ARE AT THEIR BEST
DR.. Beard states that from an analysis
of the lives of thousand representative
men in all the great branches of the
human family he made the discovery
that the golden decade was between 40
and so: the brazen between 20 and 80 !;
the iron between so and 60. The su-
periority of youth and middle life over
old age in original work appears all the
greater when we consider the fact that
all the position of honor and prestige
professorships and public stations-are
in the hands of the old. Reputation,
like money and position, is mainly con-
fined to the old. Men are not widely
known until long after they have done
the work that gave them their fame


Portraits of great men are delusions /;
statues are false! They are taken when
men have become famous, which, on the
average, is at least 20 years after they
did the work which gave them fame.
Original work requires enthusiasm. If
all the original work done by men un-
der 45 was annihilated, they would be
reduced to barbarism. Men are at their
best at that time when enthusiasm and
experience are almost evenly balanced.
The period on the average, is from 38
to 40. After this the law is that ex-
perience increases, but enthusiasm de-
creases. Of course there are exceptions.
Year: 1877

A Boston lawyer was called on short
time ago by boy, who inquired '-if he
had any waste-paper to SELL" The law
yer had crisp, keen way of asking
questions, and is, moreover, a methodi-
cal man. So, pulling out large draw
er, he exhibited his stock of waste paper.


"Will you give me two shillings for
that ?"


The boy looked at the paper doubt
ingly for moment and offered fifteen
pence.


"Done p said the lawyer, and the
paper was quickly transferred to the bag
of the boy, whose eyes sparkled as he
lifted the weighty mass.


Not till it was safely slowed away
did he announce that he had no money.


"No money! How do you expect to
buy paper without money y?'


Not prepared to state exactly his plan
of operations, the boy made no reply.


''Do you consider your note good %
asked the lawyer.


Eyes, sir.''


Every we'll if you say your note S
good, I'd just as soon have it as the
money but if it isn't good l don't want
ii"


The boy affirmed that he considered
it good /; whereupon the lawyer wrote a
note for fifteen pence, which the boy
signed, and lifting the bag of paper,
trudged off.


Soon after dinner the little fellow re-
turned, and producing the money, an
nounced that he had come to pay his
note.


"Well,' said the lawyer, "this is the
first time I ever knew note to be tax.
en- up the day it was given, A boy that
will do that is entitled to note and mon
ey too" and giving him both, sent him
on his way with a smiling face and a
happy heart.


The boys note represented his honor.
A boy who thus keeps his honor bright
however poor he may be in worldly
goods, is an heir to an inheritance which
no riches can buy-the choice promises
of God.-Ch7IStian at York.
Year: 1877

A SIMPLE CURE FOR DRUNKENEss.-
A Brooklyn man writes to the San :
81 drank more intoxic ating liquor from
the year 1857 to the last day of 1878
than any other person ever knew or
heard of and in the mean time, know
ing this sure cure, did not practice it on
many others, and effected permanent
cures. The remedy Of the cure is this !;
When a person finds he must have a
drink, let him take drink of water,
say two or three swallows, often as the
thirst or craving may desire. Let him
continne this practice. His old chums
will laugh but let him persevere, and
it Will not be week before the appetite
for any kind of stimulant will disappear
altogether, and water be taken to quench
the natural thirst If at any time the
victim should feel craving, let him
the first opportunity and obtain swal-
low of water, and he can pass and re.
pass all saloons. When he goes home
at night he will feel satisfied and be
sober and have mon ey in his pocket. ]
commenced this practice the first day
of 1874, and never think of taking q
drink of stimulants.
Year: 1877

1t sometimes occurs to US that the
babies get more than their share of pet
ting, not that anybody can help it. The
dear little dimpled things, with their
sweet ways and their helpless depend
ence, and the charm of some new reve-
lation every day, invite our caresses and
our whole store of complimentary ad-
jectives. Darling, and treasure, and
the common stock of nouns of endear-
ment and appreciation, come easily to
our lips when we talk to the little
ones.


How often we drop these pretty forms
of speech as they grow older. They
leave the cunning age behind and grad
uate into the awkward one. Girls and
boys alike pass through period when
they are shy, sensitive, morbid, and
self-conscious, yet perhaps withal arro-
CANT, conceited, and opinionated- With
what motchIess confidence sixteen and
eighteen adopt and parade notions on
subjects which have puzzled prophets
and sages Then their fathers and
mothers too often feel impatient and dis
appointed. They do not remember that
this queen husk will fall away, and
from it emerge flower by-and-by.


So gradually and insensible do moth
ers lose the habit of caressing their OIL
der children, that the latter would look
very much surprised at kiss bestowed
out of the regular way.


The habit of morning and evening
salute is kept in families where it is
merely mechanical and prefunctory.
Yet it is better than no kiss at all. The
magnetism of mother-love shown to the
boy or girl, however unamiable their
transitory mood may be, is strong enough
to save them from the attack of tempta-
tion. Do not slight so strong power.
Even though you fell difident in taking
up what should never have been laid
aside, begin again and pet your big sons
and daughters.
Year: 1877

DON'T LOSE MINUTE.-Keep busy.
The man who has nething to do is the
most miserable of beings. If you have
no regular work, do chores as farmers
do when it rains too hard to work in the
field. In occupation we forget our troub-
les, and get a respite from sorrow. The
man whose mind and hands are busy
finds no time to weep and wall. If
work is slack, spend the time in reading
No man ever knew too much. The har-
dest students in the world are the old
men who know the most. If you lack
books, there are free or very cheap lib
raries, at least in cities, at your COM
mand. The man who does not acquire
some item of useful information between
daybreak and bedtime must mournfully
say with the Roman Emperor, 81 have
lost day."
Year: 1877

LITTLE BY LITTLE.-If you are gain
ing little by little every day be content.
Are your expenses less than your income
SO that, though it be little, you are yet
constantly accumulating and growing
richer and richer every day Be con-
tent; so far as concerns money, you are
doing well.


Are you gaining knowledge every
day? Though it be little by little, the
aggregate of the accumulation, where
no day is permitted to pass without ad-
ding something to the stock, will be
surprising to yourself.


Solomon did not become the wisest
man in the world in a minute. Little
by little--never emitting to learn some
thing, even for a single day-aiways
studying little between the time Of
Year: 1877

Two little children of E. R. Turner
of North Concord, VT. aged four and
six years, met with quite an adventure,
recently, which but for the GOODNESS and
bravery of the little boy, who was the
elder of the two, would have made their
parents hearts unspeakably sad, by the
death of one of them. Mr.. Turner's
farm lies upon both sides Of Moose riv-
er, and to reach the meadow on the op-
posite side from his house, a foot bridge
consisting of a single plank, some
eight inches wide-has been thrown
across the river, which is here some for
ty feet wide. The little boy having been
led safely over this bridge by an older
boy, some time previous, thought he
could do the same thing by his little
sister, The crossing over to the meadow
was safely accomplished; but on the re-
turn, when some twenty feet from the
shore, the little girl slipped off the plank
upon the up river side. The current be-
ing quite swift, carried her under the
plank at once, but her brother clung to
her hand till he could reach down and
get hold of her, with his other hand on
the down river side of the bridge, and
then drew her ashore, not being able to
get her upon the plank, as she, although
tive years his junior, was as heavy as
he. The two children went home cry,
ing, the brother saying, 81 did not lei
her drown. mamma" and the sister re-
| naatinn. 1lI Al not GET drnwnad mann
Year: 1877

CLovEs.-Cloves are unopened flowers
of a small evergreen tree, that resembles
in appearance the laurel or the bay. It
is native of the Molucca or Spice ISL
ands, but has been carried to all the
warmer parts Of the world, and is large
ly cultivated in the tropical regions of
America. The flowers are small in size
and grow in large numbers in clusters at
the very end of the branches. The cloves
we use are the flowers gathered before
they are opened and whilst they are still
green. After being gathered they are
smoked by wood fire and then dried
in the sun. Each consists of two parts
a round head, which is the four petals
or leaves of the flower rolled up, inclos-
ing number of stocks and flaments.
The other part of the Glove is terminated
with four points, and is, in fact, the
flower cup and the unripe seed vessels.
All these parts may be distinctly shown
if a few leaves are soaked short time
in hot water, when the leaves soften
and readily unroll.
Year: 1877

ma p About the time the children got
to the house, the father, returning from
his work in the meadow, on coming to
the bridge, found a lot of pebbles which
the children had gathered in a heap
which told him they had been there, and
looking around and not seeing them. he
became alarmed fearing they might have
got drowned. On hurrying home he
found them alive and safe. With what
thankfulness he clasped his darlings to
his bosom, after learning how nearly one
of them had been folded by the angels,
none but parent VINO has passed thro'
a similar experience can realize.-Cole-
fIo7aan3z
Year: 1877

ADoRNMENT OF HoME.-Money which
goes to buy picture, statuette, or
tasteful brackett for home adornment is
wisely spent. The general character of
home will make great difference to
the children who grow up in it, and to
all whose experience is associated with
it, whether it be beautiful or cheerful
one, or only homely and bare one, or
a merely formal and conventional one.
The relation of these things to education
is all that gives dignity or poetry to the
subject, or makes it allowable for a rea-
sonable man to give much thought to it.
But it has real vital relation to life,
and plays an important part in educa-
tion, and deserves to be thought about a
great deal more than it IS. Seeming
trifes like this make life either happy
or miserable Western Agriculturist.
Year: 1877

THE OTHER SIDE OF 'EARLY RISING"
For farmers and those living in local
tiles where people can retire at eight or
nine o'clock in the evening, the old no.
tion about early rising is still appro-
pirate. But he who is kept up till ten
or eleven or twelve o'clock, and then
rises at five or six, because of the teach
ings of some old ditty about ''early to
rise" is committing sin against his
own soul. There is one man in ten
thousand who can afford to do without
seven or eight hours sleep. All the
stuff written about great men who slept
only three or four hours night, is apo
cryphal. They have been put upon such
small allowance occasionally, and pros
pered; but no man ever kept healthy in
body and mind for a number of years
with less than seven hours sleep. If
you can get to bed early, then rise ear
ly. If you cannot get to bed till late,
then rise late. It may be as proper for
one man to rise at eight as it is for an
other to rise at five. Let the rousing
bell be rung at least thirty minutes be-
fore your public appearance. Physicians
say that sudden jump out of bed gives
irregular motion to the pulses. 1t is
barbarous to expect children to land on
the center of the floor at the call of their
nurses, with the thermometer below ze-
70. Give them time after you call them
to roll over, gaze at the world full in the
face, and look before they leap.-Eva'a-
geiSt
Year: 1877

KEEP STRAIGHT AHEAD.-Pay no at
tention to ISLANDERS and gossip mongers.
Keep straight on in your course, and
let their back biting die the death of
neglect. What is the use of lying
awake at nights, brooding over the re-
mark of some false friend. that runs
through your brain like lightning!
What is the use of getting into worry
and fret over gossip that has been set
afoat to your disadvantage, by some
meddlesome busybody who has more
time than character? The things can
not possibly injure you unless, indeed
you take notice of them, and in CON-
batting them give standing and charac-
ter. If what is said about you is true,
set yourself right; if it is false, let it 60
for what it will fetch. If a bee sting
you. would you 60 to the hive to destroy
it I! Would not thousand come upon
you? 1t is wisdom to say little respect
ing the injuries you have received. We
are generally losers in the end, if we
stop to refute all the backbiting and
gossiping we may hear by the way.
They are annoying, it is true, but not
dangerous, SO long as we do not stop to
expostulate and scold. Our characters
are formed and sustained By ourselUeS,
by our own actions and purposes, and
nUJ by oUneIs. Leu US always peaK IN
mind that "calumniators may usually be
trusted to time and the slow but steady
justice of public opinion y
Year: 1877

rising up in the morning and laying
down at night /; this is the way to accu-
mulate full storehouse of knowledge.
Finally, are you daily improving in
character? Be not discouraged because
it is little by little. The best men fall
far short of what they themselves would
wish to be. 1t is something, it is much
if you keep good resolutions better to-
day than you did yesterday, better this
week than you did last, better this year
than you did last year. Strive to be
perfect, but do not become downhearted
SO long as you are approaching nearer
and nearer to the high standard at
which you aim.


Little by little, fortunes are accumu-
laCeu IIUU1V NJ I=tlI-.1 II
ed little by little, character and repu-
tation are achieved.
Year: 1877

SINCE the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe Railway Company advertises for
contractors to complete the line to Bel
ton, old fogy property-holders and
plodding merchants and three bankers
of Austin have been seen hob-nobblng
with one another and tipping one an
other sly winks and asking what they
thought fancy property would be worth
in the capital when the Galveston
scheme is perfected. One of them
said to US very solemnly yesterday that
"Mr. Horst was wisest of US when he
proposed to invest most literally in the
narrow gauge leading towards El Paso'
and to connect finally with that which
comes down from Denver.
Year: 1877

Do NOT forget that the State tax in
Maine is only third of a cent on a
dollar of assessed valuation, or about
a sixth of one per cent. on real value.
And yet we are gravely told that the
expulsion of whisky from community
by law availed people nothing. The
people of Maine are intelligent, educa-
ted, moral and industrious. The Maine
liquor law was repeatedly denounced as
the synonym of extreme sumptuary leg
islation, but the recent session of the
Legislature in that State proved that
there could be still deeper depth or q
more dizzy height, according as people
look at 1t. The intensified liquor
law" as it Is called, will soon 60 into
effect. The penalties for selling any
intoxicating liquors, except cider made
by the seller in the State, are two
months in the countY Jail and fine OF
$1,000, the offender to stand committed
until the same is paid. The law treats
cider-vending by the glass just as it
treats the sale of rum and whisky; SC
dealers expect to sell it by the gallon
for home consumption instead, and il
any medicine man" can discover c
sure cure for stomachic grippe, Maine
is the State where a fortune awaits
him. But We only proposed to show
that experience in Maine has demon,
strated the wisdom of the restrictive,
repressive policy. The people approve
the results of prohibition, even as in
England statistics before parliamentary
committees show that the liberalIza.
tion of codes affecting the sale of in
toxicating liquors of all kinds has led
to the degeneracy of the English race,
to the multiplication of crimes, OF pau.
pers and of brutalizcd men and de-
based women.
Year: 1877

WoMAN's aid is imperatively demand
ed in this temperance movement; and
no influence is SO potent; it is felt
throughout all the ramifcations of So
ciety. To her, for the most part, is
entrusted the education of our chill
dreD, both at home and in our schools.
Prohibition aad the rights and interests
of woman are one and lnseparable.
Morally and socially woman can be
happy only as the eternal principles of
temperance prevail at home and in the
community. Every family preserved
from intemperance, every family edu-
Gated to virtue and useful knowledge,
every family exalted to useful labor
becomes a foundation, a unit OF
strength and safety to her own loved
ones at home, and will send up re,
deeming spirit and power through all
the circles of society in which those
loved ones move. How deeply, how
vitality Is woman concerned, then, in
this local option movement. If the IL
quor traffic could assert absolute sway,
it would speedily reduce woman here
to her degraded condition in heathen
lands. 1t has no sympathy with the
purity of her chancter, and seeks only
her debascment and enslavement. Let
our women, then, meet this foe of all
that they hold sacred, or regard as
dear, with q most determined and &C
tive and uncompromising opposition.
We are not afraid of Dur women taking
the stump, or crusading the streets,
but they are a power behind the
throne, far greater than the throne it
self. They can, without comprOmIs
ing that delicacy which is the glory oi
our Southern women, do immense ser
vice
Year: 1877

4 New York letter says: "There
is another fight growing out of Sewing
Machine Singers VIII. Singer had
been married five or six times, and his
heirs are very numerous indeed. He
left fortune of some $14, 600, 900, and
of course the heirs are not all of one
mind as to the distribution of it. Some
of them are now raising a row in court
because they cannot get enough money
TO support them IN reckless extrava-
garce. Here is one young man OF
eighteen whose mother says he ought
to have at least $500 per month out of
the estate to enable hin to live up to
his position For each of his two sis
tiers the same allowance is claimed.
Another heir, a young married woman
named Foster, who has been getting
$500 per month, now wants $1,000.
She also wants to live up to her posi-
tion. l wonder If these people ever
think of the position of Singer and
his first wife, in their early married
life, when they travelled with shows
and hay-loft theatrical companies about
the country, and would have thought
$1,000 almost fortune"
Year: 1877

The completion of the road from
Houston to New Orleans, to be ef-
fected by Commodore Morgan, gives
Austin, as We have before stated, an
other and shorter railway route to the
sea and to the Crescent City. But, be-
yond this, if Morgan own the road
from Houston to New Orleans, he
would give 1t the greatest possible
quantity of freights and travel, and it
therefore happens that the necessity for
the extension of the Indiano!a and Cue
TO road to Austin becomes greater than
before. Every passenger and bale OF
freight whose course could be control
led by special rates from Cuero to New
Orleans would be sent through Austin
and Houston by Morgan, and it occurs
to US that the necessity for the exten.
sion of the Cuero road to the capital
becomes so manifest because of Nor
gan's recent investments and declared
purposes in New Orleans, that we
should devise some measure to promote
and hasten the consummation. The
route for this extension is already sur
yeyed to Gonzales. Does city govern,
ment have any duty to discharge beyond
that Of squeezing taxes and perquisites
and jury fees out Of the peoplel |;
Year: 1877

IT Is question whether the huge
obelisk given by the Egyptian govern
ment to England will be removed to
the Thames embankmcnt or broken up
for building purposes. The answer
should be prompt if the monument is
to be saved. Its hieroglyphics are in
only tolerable preservation, but they
are Of the best period. A leading
shipping firm of Alexandria offer 10
put it upon the Thames embankment
for $1,000 The obelisk IN the Place
de la Ccncorde, at Pans, cost eight
times that sum.
Year: 1877

WE have a stray copy of the stray
horse newspaper of Waco. Any ass
might edit it, and does we reckon. 1t
contains list of lost quadrupeds in
Texas and we commend it to horse
thieves. People will hardly take a
paper to see list of stolen horses. 1t
isn't interesting reading and thieves
are not ANXIOUS to diffuse information
of the sort given, and we are afraid
that this tasteful literary venture will
be failure.
Year: 1877

WADE HAMPTON says that I'VE sub,
united our case to the commission
and we could better afford to suffer
defeat than to incur the imputation of
acting in bad faith. The interests OF
the 'cdo'e country demand a peaceful set,
tie'aeat Of the pending question. Means
of redress are open to US, without re.
sorting to tactics which may imperil
the public peace, and place the Democ,
racy in false position"
Year: 1877

The State tax in Maine is only one
third of cent on the dollar of assessed
valuation; arising from the fact that
courts do not spend the substance of
the people in criminal prosecutions
coming from the use of whisky.
Year: 1877

You can get rid ot II wart by stealing
a piece of pork and burying it under u
stone. A horse chestnut carried in the
lett pocket is equally effective Or get
an old piece Of string and rub with it the
Objectionable exerescenIe, repeating in a
soft and appealing voice the Invocation,
"Anamana monamike, Barcelona bona
strike, hare ware from back, huliCo baico
we wo wack ~ The wart will vanish.