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Year: 1877

1t is not necessary in this age of the


world for the farmer to rise in the


middle of the night and begin his


work. This getting up early in the


morning is a relic Of bsrbarism. 1t


hiss made hundreds aud thousands of
young men curse the business. There


is no need ofgetting up at g. ORA o'clock


in the winter morning. The farmer


who persists in doing it and persists


In dragging his wife and children


from their beds ought to be visited by


a missionary. 1t is time enough to


rise after the sun has set the example.


For what purpose do you get up? To


feed the cattle? Why not feed them


the night before? It Is waste of
life. In the old times they used to get
up about o clock ia the morning and
60 to work long defore the sun had
risen with "healing on his wings"
and ss just punishment they all had
the ague; and they ought to have 1t
now. The man who cannot get liv-
fng upon Illinois soil without rising
before daylight ought to starve.-
Eight hours day is enough for any
farmer to work except in harvest time.
When you rise at 4 and work till dark
what is life worth. or what use are
all the improvements in farming. or
what use is ali the improved machin-
ery unless it tends to give the farmer
a. little more leisure. What Is har-
vesting now compared with what 1t
was in the old time. Think OF the
days of reaping, of cradling. OF rakins
and binding and moving. Think OF
with fail, and winnowing
with the wind. And now thlnK OF
the reapers and mowers. the oinoers
and threshing machines, the pio"s
and cuItivators upon which the farm
.r rides protected from the sun. H.
With all these advantages you can not
Year: 1877

TREEs.-Trees should be planted
not only by dwelling-houses and
along roads, but they should be in ev-
cry pasture and by watering places,
and near every barn, wherever cattle,
horses or sheep are to be provided for.
All these animals suffer from our bur-
ming sun and to say nothing of their
comfort and enjoyment, the cost OF
shade trees will be many times paid
back in the saving of the milk. fat,
fleece and strength, which will result
by projecting domestic animals from
the heat of the sun.
Year: 1877

Bishop Potter, of New York, In ex-
cusing himself from the making of a
speech at a luncheon, after the Trini-
ty dedication at Boston. told the story
of the man who always boasted of any
speech he made, and once told a
friend that he had just been down to
Boston, where be made a speech -
"Oh did you ?" said the friend, II m
glad to hear it. / always did hate
those BostoniaDsn ~
Year: 1877

Is there much difference between
a gay lutte and blasted Tyre? Music
al folks will be able to guitar good idea
of the subject at once. Each one is
expected TO answer accordion to his
views, as concertina case like this Is
not looked for, but we hope they will
not spinet out too long.-This violin-t
ate effort is made by the Boston Ad-
1,erfiSer
Year: 1877

get a living without rising in the mid
die of the night, go into some other
business. You should not rob your
families of sleep. Sleep is the best
doctor upon the earth. There is no
such thing as health without plenty
of sleep. Sleep until you are thor
oughly rested and restored. When
you work, work and when you get
through take good, long and refresh
ing rest.-FrOm IngersoWs address at
Peoria.
Year: 1877

Tarred paper, known at paper stores
as building paper, is the best defense
against the depredations of rabits.
mice and borers. Now is the time to
use it. Cut In strips about eighteen
inches long, and wide enough to en-
circle the tree once and half, and tie
on. Let it fit snugly to the ground.
Year: 1877

An eastern paper declares that late
fair in that vicinity consisted of a calf,
goose and a pumpkin. 1t rained so
hard the first night that the goose
swan off, the calf broke loose and ate
the pumpkin. and thief prowling
around stole the calf, aud that ended
the fair.
Year: 1877

A professor was expostuiating with
a student for his idleness, when the
latter said, ITS of no use was cut
out for loafer." WELL" declared
the professor, surveying the student
critically, whoever cut you out un-
dersto0d his business
Year: 1877

Ifsmoke enters the room and 1t is
difficult to stand erect, get your mouth
as close to the floor as possible. and
breathe easy, as there is always fresh
current of air near the floor. A wet
cloth over the mouth will greatly aid
breathing.
Year: 1877

Oar lady friends will see By card on our
hHh page that the popular arm ofLevy Bros intend to
from $50 Magazine street larger the
iS: Of October. AS it is their intention open thei-
new with entirely fresh stock o. tail goods
they offering their present elegant stock at
great SAcrhce and invite their friends and
the public in general TO call At and secure bar.
gAins To dAythey will continue sail celebrated
Cork ooraet ths arst OF the kind Esver brought 80 s
city.
Year: 1877

THE FIRE CRACKER NUIsANCE.-The
average American boy delights in cele-
brating every holiday possible by the use
of fire-crackers and gunpowder. And the
average American boy is not alone in
his enjoyment of these noisy amusements,
for John Chinaman is rs bad of not worse
than he. But the privilege of burning
FIRE crackers is denied by some local gov
ernments, as a precautionary measure
against fire, and the heart of Young
America was sad, The boys certainly
exhibit as much, ifnot mora caution than
the grown up heather, whose days of
noisy rejoicing come altogether too fire.
quently and too unexpectedly to suit us.
A Chinaman has not bit of discretion
in his use Of fre-crackers, but is just as
apt to throw them in front of skittsh
team ar any other place. There should
be some law making such actions crimi-
nal offences and then the heathen would
learn something.
Year: 1877

THE recent opening Of several very
productive oil wells in Pennsylvania is
said TO have raised the daily products of
petroleum to an average of forty thous
and barrels, with an attendant decline Of
prices that has greatly extended the for
eign demand and export trade in the ar
ticle. So large are the foreign shipments
that not less than 200 vessels are reported
at Atlantic ports loading oil this week for
Europe, and it is said to be just now fur
nishing shipping more employment than
any other article Of commerce.
Year: 1877

IT is said that equal parts of CASTLE
soap and red lead mixed together and ap.
piled to felon rs soon as the prickiHg
sensation is felt, will cause it to matter
ate and discharge in few hours.
Year: 1877

A serio-comic religio-agricultural ceremony took place with much cir cumstance on Sunday afternoon in one of the fields just behind the Rifle Butts under the auspices of some friendly priests of the Taoist denomination. In handsome open chair, carried by eight bearers, sat an old gentleman of

 color; indeed, his face was as black as any hat, and he can hardly be said to have been comedy. This was a P'u-sa known as the Yang Lao-yeh. and he was being propitiated with good deal of singing and rapping of wooden eggs. Then he was carried into another field and large bonfire of silver paper lighted for his entertainment. This finished, he was carried back to his original position and placed in front of two huge structures of bamboo covered respectively with gold and silver paper and intended, apparently, to represent wheat sheaves, which were set on fire and burned with much solemnity, in order, as loquacious native. informed us, to send them up to Heaven. Every body seemed quite satisfied when the ceremony was over that they had reached their destination, and the old gentleman in the chair having been carefully dusted and wiped down, lie was removed till he should be wanted to preside on another accasion.- = Shdnghdi Celestial Empire. 'at --.'F 'y
Year: 1877

The numerous superstitions that still finger among us, constitute very in- teresting, though painful, field for thought and reflection. A few of the most popular in connection with love and marriage we place before our readers.

 On St. Marks Eve the custom still fingers among the maidens of North amptOnshire to make the dumb cake. The number of the party never ex- ceeds three. They meet in silence to make the cake, and as soon as theclock strikes twelve they each break DOT tien off to eat; and. when done, they walk up to bed backward, without speaking word-fOr, if one speaks the spell is broken. Those that are to be married see the likeness of their sweet hearts hurrying after them. Those that are to die unmarried neither hear nor see anything; but they have terrible dreams, which are sure to be of new-made graves. winding sheets, and churchyards, and of rings that will fit no finger, or which, if they do, crumble into dust as soon as put on.

 There is another dumb ceremony also prevalent in Northamptonshire of eating yOlk of an egg in silence, and then filling the shell with salt, when the sweetheart is sure to make his visit in some way or other before morn ing.

 The young women of Scotland, in l former times, determined the figure
Year: 1877

There is no word in the English lan- guage more often used and universally admired than money. In fact, it is con- sidered the thing altogether desired, and men to obtain it. will go through all kinds of toil and hardship imagina= 'ble. They will even commit the most heinous crimes. Everybody is after money, and the great desire to gain it hastily often ends in total failure to accomplish the desired end. ...

 About the first question a youth asks when he gets old enough to think about providing for the future is, ''How can I get money, and how can get rich ?'' There are two ways of getting rich. One is by industry, economy, and judi cious investments that never detract from man s dignity and self-respect but carry with them happiness, content ment, and clear conscience and leave no regrets. The true secret is "make haste slowly" ........ ...

 In getting money it does not make so much difference as to what kind ot OuSAACSS o IldA O1SoSOS AA1 AOA dAl y business will pay if attended to prop erly, but no man should embark in any business to which he is not adapted but when he does make his selections he should go in with steady and de- termined purpose to win, and succeed by constant and persistent labor-re- membering that 'little by little'' is the sure way to succeed, and out of that little little should be saved. Remem- bering also that it is by what we save that we get rich, and not by what we make. A man may make million s year, and if he spends it all, he will be no better off than Tn the beginning

 whilst the man who makes five hun dred year and saves but ten dollars k getting rich. The man at thirty who can save five dollars month, and in. vest the same in real estate, is in a fail way to be in easy circumstances wher he reaches his fiftieth year. No mar has yet lived who saved his money ant invested it in real estate that did no make money. Therefore, the true anG only certain way of getting money i by industry, economy, saving, and in vesting in real estate; and the man wh' follows this rule is sure to win.
Year: 1877

One of the most remarkable features of uncivilized life is the power savages show of tracking men and beasts over immense distances. Many travellers have spoken of this as something al- most miraculous, yet it is often the re- suit of careful observation of we'll known signs; and we have here before hints on the subject. In countries like ours every trace of foot print or wheel track on roads and paths is soon oblit- erated or hopelessly confused; but it is otherwise in the wilderness, where neither man nor beast can conceal his track. In Kaff1rland, when cattle are stolen, if their footprints are traced to a village, the headsman is responsible for them, unless he can show the same track going out. A wagon track in a new country is practically indelible. "More especially" says our author, 'this is the case a fire sweeps over the plain immediately after, or if wagon passes during or after 8 prairie fire. We have known fellow traveller recog- nize in this manner the tracks his wagon has made seven years before, the lines of charred stumps crushed short, down remaining to indicate the passage of the wheels, though all other impressions had been obliterBted by the rank annual growth of grass fully twelve feet high" Sometimes the original soil being disturbed, a new vegetation will spring up along the wagon track, and thus mark out the road for miles. Even on hard rock a mans bare foot will leave the dust caked together by precipitation, so that a practiced eye will see it; even if there is no track, stone will be disturbed here and there the side of the pebble which has long lain next the ground being turned up.-Chdnabers' Journal.
Year: 1877

PENSION AGENCY TO BE ESTABLISHED IN
R1cHMoND.-Under recent order from the
authorities at Washington the pension agent
for Virginia (Major Anable) will have bis
jurisdiction enlarged so as to take in the
States OF West Virginia, North Carolina,
and Tennessee. He has already been noti-
fed that he must give additional bond in
keeping with the responsibilities added to
the position. His Office will be at Rich
mond.


Some effort to effect the removal OF Major
Anable has been made. It is thought that
the President was reminded that Anable
was appointed by the influence OF the Conk-
ling element; and as the majestic Conklins
has never yet condescended to decidedly
approve the Presidents policy it was hoped
that the President would be disposed to
return the compliment by displacing. this
favorite OF the Conkling faction. Major
Anable was brought into prominence in
connection with this Office solely because ne
had been q Conkling man. The fight for
him was made as Conkling man, and as
Conkling man he won.


However, it would seem that by being
notified by the Department that he must
furnish additional bond, it is implied that
Major Anable shall continue to serve bis
country at increased pay corresponding
with the enlarged duties OF the position.
Year: 1877

SE.CUTTERs' MEETISG.-Therc will be
a meeting OF the Granite stone-cutters at
New Market Hall tonight for the purpose
OF discussing the pay question and to see il
some method cannot be devised to improve
the financial condition OF the parties in
terested
Year: 1877


SAN FRANCISCO Post: The other
day a groceryman at Vallejo gave a
large party, at which the daughter
of the carriage painter who lived
next door created decided sensation.
It was not that she was more hand
somely attired than the other ladies
present, but when she gyrated in the
"dance of death" she was observed to
display the only pair of silk stockings in
the room. She left the house for a few
moments at the expiration of the dance,
and in the next waltz exhibited a pair
of light blue dittos. An hour later her
crushed and exasperated female friends
beheld these supplemented by further
hose of a delicate chocolate shade. And
so it went on until her miserable rivals
determined to follow her the next time
she disappeared. They traced her to her
fathers paint-shop in the back yard,
where she was discovered, brush in hand,
and about ornamenting her neither ex.
tremities with final artistic coat of
light salmon. The exulting spies rushed
back with the damaging news, but it was
too late. The men were all too tight 10
understand, the music had gone home
and the lights.were being put out. Thus
it is that fraud and duplicity triumph
while honest simplicity walks around
with darn on its calf and hole in its
! heel.
Year: 1877

The diseases arising from compression
of the chest and body in early life are
not exclusively restricted to the female
sex. Schoolboys and youths constantly
practice the habit of binding up their
clothes around their bodies by means of
belt frightened firmly above the hips,
instead of wearing the braces over the
shoulder. Some boys and youths are
also taught the plan of putting on an
extra belt for holding in the breath !"
before they run or leap. In the pursuit
of certain active businesses, in which
weights have to be carried, this same
system of wearing tight belt is adopted
and practiced by workingmen, until the
artificial and ingenious support, as it is
assumed to be, becomes, like the corset
of woman, a veritable necessity. To
the belt the same objection applies as to
the tight band and corset. 1t impedes
the free action of the abdominal organs
it impedes the freedom of the respira-
ton; it interferes with the circulation
in the young athletes who wear it while
they are running, rowing, climbing OF
wrestling Intends to bring on hernia
| rupture.
Year: 1877

No MoCKERY in this world sounds to
me so hollow as that of being told to
cultivate happiness. Happiness is not
potato to be planted in mole and
titled with manure. Happiness is a
glory shining far down upon us from
heaven. She is divine dew, which the
soul feels dropping upon it from the
amaranth bloom and golden fruitage o.
Paradise.
Year: 1877

VIRGINIA Enterprise: A man from
Honey Lake saw railroad for the first
time in his life, the other day, at Reno.
In speaking of the wonder to friend
he said: "The forward thing give cou-
pie of coughs, and then the whole string
of them got up and started right off"
Year: 1877

1t Is daily becoming mora and more painfully
apparent that DAN VooRuBxs Is candidate for
fc-clect'on to the Senate. He has put a muzzle
on h'a worst enemy, his mouth, and the pros
poet that he will not 10 found out for what be
Is becomes moro promising Us he grows accus-
toned TO the enforced but unnatural etlencc.
Year: 1877

The can.makers of Baltimore have
undertaken to worry the fruit-packers into
paying them 10 cents more per hundred.
They took advantage of the opening
of the fruit season, and united in O
demand for increased wages. The pack.
ers declined to pay them what they asked,
and a general strike was ordered. Nearly
500 men have left the shops. The bosses
say that they may not be able to can much
fruit this season, but yield to the men they
will not.
Year: 1877

July is the month for wheat harvest in a
large portion of the United States. Farm
ers with care prepare their implements and
enter into the field with merry hearts, an
tlcipating handsome recompense for their
twelve months hard toll, but here a horse
falls and there another, and the profits of
years toll are gone. The farmer had
forgotten that they had taken cold during
the winter, which by the timely use of
Foutzs Horse and Cattle Powders, purify
ing the blood and Strengthening the
system, would have been prevented.
Year: 1877

There was an economical farmerin Athol,
Mass, who was rich, of course, and he
stopped his newspaper because he found it
was on file at a hotel reading-room, where
he could, by driving two or three miles
read it gratis. Unfortunately, the next
thing was that the hotel stopped the news
paper, too.
Year: 1877

In this Department everything will be found from
French China Tea Sets and Decorated Toilet SETS
down through Granite and G. G.. Ware i'm infinite
variety, TO Common Stone and Red Earthen Ware
Stove Pipe Guards Specially. Flower Pots
Year: 1877

the cause and tue remedy


REpnY.-Thc mischief is caused by
too late pruning, and by not covering
the wounds with somc impcrvious coat
ing. Sometimes no harm is done, but
when there is an excessive flow of sap 1t
exudes from the wounded surface, and,
containing considerable sugar, it be-
comes sour and damages the bark over
which it flows. To prevent it the prun-
ing should be done very early IN the
spring, and when any branches OF con-
siderable size are cut off they should be
cut very smoothly and even with the
bark, and the stump be covered with
common oil and lead paint or q coating
of shellac varnish.


How to Apply Paris Green, md also Ashes
to Potatoes.


L. 81. NJ. asks if common plaster Is as
good mixed with paris green as flour OF
gypsum; also, which is the best way for
using ashes for potatoes, in or on the
hill


REp1Y.-Common plaster is the flour
of, or finely ground, gypsum that has
been treated to drive off the water OF
crystallization, of which about twenty
one per cent. is contained in it. When
this is freed from water it is used as
plaster, and when mixed with water
again it chemically combines with it and
forms a solid mass 1t will not answer
to use this with paris green, but instead
of it the raw, finely ground gypsum, OF
agricultural "plaster, should be used.
A very good way to use ashes on pota-
toes is to scatter them about the hills,
now, and hoe them in when the crop is
hoed, which, by-the-bye, may be done
now very usefully.
Year: 1877

All day, all night can hear the jar
OF the loom of life, and near and far
1t thrills with its deep and muffled sound,
As the trclcss wheels so always round.
Busily, ceaselessly goes the loom,
In the light of day aid the midnight's gloom,
The wheels are turning early and late,
And the woof is wound in the warp Of fate.
Click, cack there's thread of lcvc wovc i'll :;
Click, clack another of wrong and sin;
What checkered thing will this life be


When we see it unrolled in eternity.
Time, with face like mystery,


And hands as busy as hands can be,
Sits at the loom with its arm outspr .ad,
To catch in its meshes each glancing thread.
When shall this wonderful web be done?
In a thousand years, perhaps or one;
Or tomorrow. Who knoweth? Not you or l.
But the wheels turn on and the shuttlcs fly.
All, sad-cyed weaver, the years are slow,
But each one is nearer the end know;
And some day the last thread shall be woven in
God grant it be love instead Of sin.
Arc we spinners Of wool for this life wcb-say
Do we furnish the weaver a thread each day?
It were better then, oh my friend, to spin
A beautiful thread than = thread Of sin.
Year: 1877

A little son of James Chapman, aged
five years, had very narrow escape
from death lately, says the New London
Telegram. He was playing on the en-
bankment at the lower end OF Briggs
pond, when he slipped and fell into the
flnme of the old oallum mill, and was
carried rapidly down the stream, being
tossed about by the rushing waters like
a chip. It was thought that when he
reached the old wheel his brains would
be dashed out against it, as the space
beneath was not large enough to admit
of his passing safely through. But he
shot under it like fish, and went under
the bridge at Cedar streeta and into the
trough through which the water is con-
Quoted to Smiths organ factory. Here
he succeeded in clutching q joist fasten-
ed across the trough, where he clung mn
til lie was rescued. His first words,
after he had been put in q place If
safety, were "Where's my top I"