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Year: 1874

Don't. be too sudden about it.
Many girl has said no when she
meant yes, simply because her lover
did not choose the right time and pop
the question gently.


Take dark night for it. Have
the blinds closed the curtains down
aad the lamp turned almost out. Sit
near enough to her SO that you can
hook your little finger into hers -
Wait until conversation begins to lag
and then quietly remark:


"Susie, want to tell you some
thing"


She will idget around a little, re-
ply yes" and after pause you can
add


Susie, my actions must have
shown-that is, you must have seen
II mean that you must be aware
that-that-"


Pause here for a while, but keep
your little finger firmly locked. She
may cough and try to turn the sub
ject of by asking you how you liked
the circus, but she only does it to en-
courage you. After about ten min
utes you can continue


al was thinking as / came up the
path tonight that before | went away
| would ask you-thst is, / would
h1oach the subject nearest my-I
mean ] would know my"


Stop again and give her hand
gentle squeeze. She may give q
yauk to get away, or she may not
In either case it augurs well for you.
Wait about FIVE minutes and then go
on


"The past year has been a very
happy one to me, but | hope that fu-
ure years will be still happier
However, that depends entirely upon
you. l am here tonight to know
that is, to ask you-I.mesn an here
tonight to hear from your own lips
the one sweet"


v hit again. It isn't best to be too
rash about such things Give her
plenty Of time 10 recover ber COM
posure, and then put your hand oa
your heart and continue


"Yes, thought IS / was coming
through the gate tonight how happy
/ had been, and | said 10 myself that
if l only knew you would consent TO
be my-that is, / said il / molly knew
If | was only certain that nv heart
had not deceived me and you were
ready to share


Hold on--there's no hurry about
it. Give the wind q chance to sob
and moan around the gables. This
viii make her lonesome and call up
sil the love in her heart When she
begins to cough and grow restless,
you can 90 on


Before l met you this world was
desert to me. / didn't take any
pleasure in going blsck-berryiug and
stealing rare-ripe peaches, aud it didn't
matter whether the sun shone or not.
But, what q change in one short
year 1t is for you to say whether
my future shall be a prarie of happi-
ness or . summer fsllow Of Canada
thistles. Speak, dearest Susie, and
ssy-and say that-thst-"


Give her Eve minutes more by the
clock, and then add.


That you will be-that is. you
will mean that you viii be-be
mine p


She will heave sigh, look up a.
the clock and over at the stove, and,
as she slides her head over on your
vest-pocket, she viii whisper:


You are right, | willl''


N Quad
Year: 1874

dis ion of this large amount
data additional labor has been thrown
upon the Signal OfHce 10 the con-
struction aud management of Tele-
graph lines in Texas, Arizona, Cali
fornis and on the seaboard Of the At
lautic States.


When it is considered that all this
work is done by the small number Of
four hundred and fifty men, the total
enlisted force under the control Of the
Signal Office, and with an annual ap-
preparation of lees than $40O, ,0Oe, it
will be seen that there cannot be
idlers among the men nor any waste
ful expenditure Of money. Every
man must do his full quota Of work,
and every dollar expended be legiti-
mately applied
Year: 1874

Ia some places where local option
prevails. they sell Il under the name
Of laudanHm. Prom one Of these
places the following story comes;


"a sort Of simple fellow from
Woodford was sitting ia the drug
store the other day, when a man
came in and said be did not feel well,
and would like some prepared lauds-
mum. The spothecsry went into tbS
back room and prepared q good
sized glass, and the man drank it.
WOodfOrd remarked that the fellow
wouldn't live long after taking so
much lsudanum. Presently another
man came in and got drink Of laud-
.anum. The Woodford chap followed
him 10 the door and watched him for
. long time as be wen; down the
street, aud remarked as be come in
and sat down, That fellow stands it
well be must be used 20 taking it,
By and by q third man came in and
took large dose Of laudanum and
went out. This rubbed up the dull
intellect Of the Wcodford man, and
stepping up to the counter, be said +:
See here, boss, III take a dose Of
that laudanum it don't seem to kill
anybody, and folks seem TO Ike it,"
Year: 1874

Having some experience with both oiled
and painted floors, unhesitatingy recon-
mend the former. If some uniform dark tint
is wanted, like black walnut, mix burnt UNI
ber VITA boiled linseed oil, and rub it in
thoroughly with wooden cloth. The um-
Der can be bought in boxes containing
pound and upward, already ground in oil,
which is most convenient, as that soil in q
dry state is apt to be coarse and rough. Tha
depth OF tint is varied by using more or less
OF the color, while the tone may be warmed,
II desired, by adding burnt sienna. II an
imitation of the handsome ash and walnut
floors is preferred, rub every alternate board
with pure boiled oil, and use paint brush To
apply the dark staining, taking care not to
have enough in the brush to spread on the
part intended to be light. Leave the floor a
day or two to dry, though the only harm
done by using it Immediately is that the oil il
liable to he tracked over other parts of the
house.


The great advantage an oiled floor possesses
over painted one is, when marked or
scratched, some oil rubbed over the spots re-
moves them, and it is necessary to repeat the
process again. All that is needed to Keep tho
hoor bright and fresh, is to occasionally rub
it over with a cloth wet with a little oil oc
kerosene, as you would treat oiled furniture.
piece of old carpet or newspaper may bs
spread before entrances to other rooms for a
few hours, to prevent the possibility Of car.
rying away footprints, or the extra oil may
be rubbed off with dry woolen cloth. No
doubt after time our sensible American
housewives will, like their transatlantic sis
tiers, discard the dusty carpets nom all but .
few rooms, and fashion will replace the ex.
travagant Administer by the no less expen-
pensive inlaid floors of various woods aud
patterns now winning their way into popular
favor.
Year: 1874

s.a s,ouau are evidences of abject poverty. The
furniture is little better than that Won will
ma ! In the wigwam of Digger Indian. The
iarin hAnd receives just enough wages 10 keen
MIN out OF the poor house, to which he Is
pretty sure to go if he falls sick. Tbese ae-
rlcultural laborers are kept in Ignorance and


i've on without hoping, one generation fol-
lowing another, century after century. except
in cases where farms are discontinued thattbe
land may be turned into hunting grounds for
some sport-loving lord. That very thing was
done with very large estate a few miles from
here. The farmers had to give up their farms
10 the occupancy of game. for some years, that
a sporting king might hunt over their
grounds. That was long ago. We were at
the castle on that estate recently, and you
can Judge OF the style of the establishment
when tell you that the entrance hall is %
leet long and the ceiling over 30 feet high
Inc entire castle >Darnaway) is elegantly
furnished; and such is the extent of the
house lot that it is mile and
halt from the castle to the nearest public
ROAD. The young man who inherited this es-
tate two years ago from a bachelor relative
lives in London. Last year Es spent Just
one week at the castle AID this year he has
not yet visited it. Such is life among the
landed aristocracy of Britain. Us.
Year: 1874

The Squantum Debating Society propose
discussing grammatical construction of the
sign displayed in public parks, "please keep
off the grass" Grass, it is argued, does not
fall upon you, and why then should you be
asked to keep it off?
Year: 1874

The American Grocer says: "Perhaps
three-feurths Of all the butter marketed
might be made, with proper care and sys
tenn, worth twenty per cent more, and
actually at less expense than it is now pro-
duced; and something of this sort the but
ter-makers must do to compete with the
artificial product. 1t can, in our judgment:
be accomplished by the farmers adopting
some plan of cooperative making,
as is done by cheese factories. We do not
say that the same plan may be suited to
every locality, but the principle, in some
form, is equally applicable to every Sec
tion. Where the population is sufficiently
dense, the regular butter factory, taking
the milk directly from the farmers, may be
adopted. Where the difficulties Of trans
porting the milk are too great to admit Of
this plans the farmers might churn their
. cream, and carry the raw butter itself to a
central factory to be manipulated by some
such method as is proposed by the Dake
process, by which all the different grades
of butter could be thoroughly worked over,
and a uniform quality and color obtained
Factory butter, like factory cheese, now
commands an extra price.
Year: 1874

The eastern dealers have made some
very important discoveries as to our
wheat and flour, and of especial value to
our producers and to the reputation of our
State in general.


One Of the most important Of these dis
coveries was announced by the Boston
bakers. They tried Minnesota spring
wheat flour with the best Southern and
Western winter they could. get, and by
actual baking of bread from a barrel OF
each, found that our best flour produced,
by careful. actual weight, 40 pounds more
bread than the other and of better quality
and, thinking that possibly they had made
a mistake, repeated the experiment with
the same results.


Another important discovery has been
quite recently imported, and it is this
wheat, shipped by way of Duluth to the
New York market, will bring about ten
cents per bushel more than the same
wheat shipped in the old way, by Milwau-
kee and Chicago. What is the reason :?
everybody will ask. The reason is that
there is less opportunity for mixing with
inferior wheat going by Duluth. Read
the following slip from the market report
from the New York World:


'There is a very irregular market for
flour. There was something of specnla-
tion in the better grades of Minnesota
brands, including ''patents' and shipping
extras in good to prime lines were wanted
at 1925 to Sc 5o-some 5000 or 10000
barrels of these two grades being sold !:
but low extras and s'seconds'' from Western
winter wheat were hard to move and were
reported sold below Sc. Supers and No.
were dull and dropping. Family brands
from winter wheat were quiet"
Year: 1874

~ must tell you," writes New York
correspondent, show an amiable lady from
the right little, tight little island was de-
ceived by her trusted but wicked nephew,
who had lived in this city some time be-
fore his aunt came to pay him a visit. She,
the aunt, had heard much of our water
melons, and was anxious to see and taste
one; so in the height Of the season off
went the nephew to Washington Market,
and there procured the largest melon that
ever grew. At dinner, the whole affair
having been previously arranged, this
huge specimen was put on the table, when
all at once another nephew exclaimed to
the host: "Well, I should have thought
you would have got a good-sized melon
to-day, when you knew auntie has never
seen one, and that is such miserable lit
tie thing!" Poor auntie looked at the
fruit with staring eyes, and it was found
that she had written in her notebook,
Mel ons grow gigantic in America"
Year: 1874

If the digestive process in cattle were
better understood, would it not rather
seem strange that there are not more sick
oxen than that there are so many? Just
look moment at the treatment our work.
ing oxen receive during the spring while
doing the plowing They are fed in the
morning with all the hay they will eat,
and perhaps have only just about time
enough to swallow it brfore they are yok~
ed up and hitched to the plow. They are
made to stick to it till noon, when they
are again fed with more hay. AS soon as
it is eaten they are taken to the Geld again
and driven before the plow till five, six or
seven o'clock, according to the ambition
or necessities Of the owner. They are
then put up again and fed with hay.


Now, if an OK can only digest his food
after it has been remasticated, and he is
given three meals in succession Of such
food as needs to be chewed over, and is
made to work hard, as at plowing, all the
time between meals, what time does he
have in which to prepare that food for
digestion except during the hours Of night,
when he should lie expected to sleep I?
If the night, after hard days work, is
the only time in which digestion can 60
on, is it strange that we find every year SO
many oxen that are ''otf their fecd," have
no appetite. and do not seem to be ben
netited by what food they do eat


If cattle are fed meal after meal Of long
hay, with no time allowed for rumination,
how can they be expected to long remain
in health Does this peculiar condition
of the working OK explain the reason why
a daily feeding Of meal and less hay to a
hard working animal is great deal better
for him than hay alone? And does the
fact that the OK needs long time every
day in which to rechew his food, and that
he cannot retain his health without it, ac-
count for the superiority Of horses over
oxen for doing very hard and continuous
work for whole days at a time


If the above propositions are pertinent,
do they not help to throw some light on
the long disputed question Which are
bette, oxen or horses for the farmer
The answer must depend wholly OH the
kind Of work to ne done, the length Of
time allowed for doing it, and whether the
work is continuous for many hours in sue
cession or alternated by frequent resting
spells, as when waiting for a cart to lie
loaded or unloaded.-i New England
Farmer.
Year: 1874

DO you wish to kindle that hatred
which ought to have been buried in a
gravel; continued De Ceran.


May God forgive you,' replied his
listener, for you are unmerciful and
cruel


No, madame resumed Monsieur de
Ceran, his face clouded with look OF
deep anger sno, I am less cruel than you
have been, less unrelenting. Listen to
me. You destroyed my happiness when l
surrounded you with love; you brought
dishonor upon my name while knelt to
you in the widest worship, the most pas
sionate love; you deceived me when I
placed all confidence in your virtue. !
have suffered too much to forgive you,
madame. I have loved you too dearly


i do not ask for your forgiveness, l
only petition for Justice The words were
uttered proudly.


Il, whom you have SO cruelty wronged,
seek not for revenge. alone despise you,
yet there have been hours in my lie when
the thirst for revenge has been great. Alone
in this room with you, the thoughts of the
asst cropwd wildly upon me. again see
Henri dying. I hear him calling upon you
in his raving, and again he reveals to me
your husband, his brother, your love-. As
he spoke De Cer:n arose, lis eyes cleaned
Year: 1874

Editors Dispatch, In an; article pub.
lished in your paper some time back the au-
thor advised our whites {male and female)
to seek all kinds of labor to enable them to
live comfortably, and particularly recon.
mended the domestic employments to our
white women. These employments are
not materially affected by financial troubles.
They furnish comfortable living, and
bring the occupants in immediate contact
with the better Informed classes, which can
not be done in any other way, or except
where mutual interests concur. While l
would not have those who are profitaoly
employed in factories and elsewhere to leave,
yet 1t would be we'll to look favorably upon
household services and properly appreciate
the advantages they offer.


There are considerations which should in
fuence those who employ labor to desire a
change from black to white. 1twould tacili-
tate rapid change in our population by
causing a larger immigration of the blacks
to the North, where they would not disturb
the political arena, as they do here. 1t would
raise labor in the scale of respectability, and
would influence many, who now pay more
for labor than they can afford, to do their
own work. If we could make our popula-
ton the busy, industrious, selfsustaining
crowd that fills the North and West our
prosperity would be assured. There, every
body is expected to do something !; here, en-
ployment is put off as long as possible, and
when necessity compels it the individual is
subjected to the disadvantages of want Of
training, which often prevents success and
always brings increased labor.


Your paper states that we have some 5000
registered voters in Richmond, while about
90 pay the taxes. In the country things
are even worse, We have there two voters
for one taxpayer. This non-taxpaying class
is composed mostly Of negroes, who will
never be any richer as a class and never as"
sist In developing the country, while they re-
ceiye large part of the money in circua.
tion. And we can never lessen this class un-
til we can wait on ourselves or get the
whites in our midst to consent to till all sorts
and kinds of employment. Will not en-
ployers consider this matter and offer some
inducements TO our poorer classes to send
into service all the unemployed girls in our
midst9 Local agencies in various parts Of
Richmond may be established. and venture
to say that DR.. W. w. Parker, always inter
ested in what concerns the poor, will desig-
nate men who will act without charge.


One WHO VISITED THE Poor


LAST WINTER.
Year: 1874

A LAST CHANCE TO HEAR NIcHoLLs.-Mr
Nichols leaves Richmond tomorrow mern-
ing. He has declined to return again Ibis
season, and the last chance to hear him Will
therefore be at Assembly Hall tonight at
8 O'Clock. Those who have been OF the
large number he has charmed and delighted
during his previous readings VIII rejoice IN
the opportunity of hearing the fresh, tempt.
ing programme arranged for tonight, ana
those who have not been so fortunate will
scarcely miss this last opportunity Of hear
ing Richmond's favorite. An hour OF rare
amusement, enjoyment, and real benefit Is
In store for a crowded house.
Year: 1874

And what will add more 10 their adornment than a
basket OF Beautiful cut flowers or plants In full
bloom casting their fragrance into every nook and
corner Of the house? Goito MoRToN's and see his
cto orIy
Year: 1874

A girls everyday toilet is part of har char
acter. The maiden who is slovenly in the
morning is not to be trusted, however fine
she may look in the evening. No matter how
humble your room may be, there are eight
things it should contain a nirror. washstand,
water, soap, towel, hair, nail and tooth brush
es. These are just as essential as your break
fast, before which you should make good use
of them. Parents who fail to provide their
children with such appliances, not only make
a great mistake, but commit sin OF omission.
Look tidy in the morning, and after the dim
ner work is over improve your toilet. Make
II a rule of your daily life to 'dress up for
the afternoon. Your dress may, or may not
he. ANYTHING better than calico; but with a
ribbon. or flower, or soiue bit OF ornament,
Won can have an air of self-respect and satis-
faction, that invariably comes with being
well dressed. A girl with fine sensibili-
ties cannot help feeling embarrassed and
awkward in ragged, dirty dress, with her
hair unkempti if a stranger or neighbor
should come in. Moreover, Your self-repect
should demand decent appareling for your
body. You should make it a p ,int to look as
we'll as you can, even if you know nobody
will see you but yourself
Year: 1874

A good many Cincinnatians are sensitive on
the point of Horticulture, since they were in
terviewed by a young man, who after exhibiting
a delicately perfumed plant which he called
the Arctic Morning Glory, sold them neat
packages of turnip seed.
Year: 1874

When the cock and the fox went on board
the Ark. they had no fear of baggage smash
ers; for one had comb and the other had
brush, and that was all the luggage they had
between them.
Year: 1874

A quorum of the House Appropria-
tion Committee is now here. Hon c.
O'Neill arrived last night, and they
will hold the first meeting to-day. he
various bills will be apportioned among
the different members on the Commit
tee, in order that they may at once
fill up that portion Of them which are
to carry out the laws where there is no
discretion as to whether the money
shall be voted or not. This is the first
instance where the Committee has met
a month before the assembling of Con-
gress, and if they get the proper COOP
Grafton of departments they will be
able to put their bills before the House so
that they can be passed understanding
ly, and not left to be hurried through
In an unintelligible mass in the last
week Of the session, as has frequently
been the case.-WAsH, Con.
Year: 1874

WON'T LODGE THEM.-Tbc Com
missioners of Beaver county, Pa, are
down on professional tramps, and give
them all public notice that they will
not be accommodated with lodgings
during the coming winter at the ex.
pense OF the District. The following
is the notice:


Tramps take Notice-To Whom it
may Concern. The Commissioners of
Beaver county, having been greatly
annoyed during previous winters with
professional tramps, take this method
OF giving timely notice that from and
after this date they will absolutely re-
fuse to furnish any tramp with lodging
at the expense of the county.
Year: 1874

This work is progressing, to be sure


But in the most singular way. There
seems to be no fixed plan on which the
excavations are being made; but sort
Of haphazard system Of digging all over
the ground. They have pretty effectu.
ally blocked up the easiest way of exit
for carts with dirt, and the consequence
will be that it will all have to be drawn
up hill. But where it is all to bo deposit
ed seems question not easily answered.