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Year: 1874

If Brahmin dies, his widow dons a
garb either all white or all red. AS these
ladies Of Bombay marry when seven or
eight years Of age, they are not unfre-
quently widows at ten after which they
are forced to remain single and do the
drudgery of the household.
Year: 1874

A DULUTH paper says one of the riv-
ers emptying into Lake Superior is called
Temperance River, because it is the only
one of all the tributaries of that lake that
has no bar at its mouth.
Year: 1874

mt that it cannot be repeated too Of
ten. or dwelt upon too long. The most
marked example of this want OF COM


mon salt have ever noticed has been
in surgical disease. especially in open
wounds. Without 81 supply of salt the
tongue would become broad. palid.
puffy. with tenacious. pasty coat, the
secrctions arrested, the circulation
feeble. the etlusion ut the point of in
jury serious. with all unpleasant WI
terry puS. which at last becomes Il mere
sanieS or ichor. y few days of a free
allowance oi salt would change all this,
and the patient get along We'll
Year: 1874

petuate the family name therein, should
see to it that what the country schools
may do to this end, by giving instruc.
ton in matters relating to farm life and
the duties of farmer in his relation
to his crops, is done and done we'll
This will never happen without an eff:
fort is made by farmers themselves to
secure professional instruction for their
children-until they insist that the
studies their children pursue shall
at least relate to the vocation they are
to follow.--N Y. World.
Year: 1874

BRAN FOR HoRsEs.-Bran when fed
to animals is laxative, and on this &C.
count should not be fed to horses in anv
quantity when hard work is at all re-
quired Of them, because weakness is
caused by this relaxation of the bowels,
and great injury inflicted. The theory
that introduces bran into the horse sts-
blee is as pernicious in it's effects as the
indiscriminate use Of bran itself, as the
whim Of the stableman, and the theory
is that horses, sick OF we'll, should be
fed on bran mashes. A little bran with
other and more substantial articles of
food may, however, be occasionally given
With advantage, but always taking care
not to feed it in quantities to give rise
to loseness Of the bowels, nor be counted
to the poor horse as 90 much other SOL
id food, for in doing so, you not only
deceive yourself, but cheat your horse.
Of Farm.
Year: 1874

ECONOMY IN FEED.-The very dry
Spring has caused very short crop Of
hay and other forage for the season,
with very little left over from last years
crop. 1t is not uncommon to see barns
but half filled and many farmers uneasy
about their supply Of feed holding out
through a hard Winter. Farmers will
have to shift in many ways to make
their feed last through. I have used
all kinds of rough grasses, aud it has to
be a very poor grass indeed it by steam-
ing and mixing little mill feed one
cannot help their stock through with it.
| have had very good results from feed
ing common swamp and pond grass. cut
in September, by pouring hot water
over it and mixing with corn meal,
shorts or wheat bran. The same pro-
cess will make any Of the late growing
rough grasses, or even weeds. make very
good feed, much better than starvation.
Those that have means Of steaming can
turn most all kinds Of rough stuff into
palatable feed, and those that have no
steaming apparatus cun make good
substitute by having a box, with size sufi-
cient to hold feed for their stock, and
use boiling hot water to mix their cut
hay, straw or coarse feed with. | have
ted the common swamp grasses that
way previous to putting in steaming ap-
paratus, and little additional meal
would make my COWS milk as we'll as
when they had the best of dry hay.
My plan was to have my feed mixed
about an hour before feeding time, and
let it stand closely covered during that
time and soften as much as possible it
was then about the right temperature to
feed:--C C: Belou, Ohio,) in ". Y.
Tribune.
Year: 1874

The common schools of farm districts
ought to receive more attention from
farmers themselves. Why? Because
there is rarely any effort made to adapt
instruction to the professional needs of
the class of pupils who attend them.
A mechanic should be educated in the
laws Of mechanics, a physician study the
laws of hygiene and physiology, a law
yer read law; farmers boy should
learn botany, vegetable physiology,
animal physiology, hygiene, chemistry,
constituents Of soils, plants, &c. But
the common schools of farm districts do
not furnish him any such knowledge.
In how many country schools is botany
taught? Not one in one thousand, it
is safe to assert, ever had . teacher who
possessed any botanical KNOWLEDGE
whatever! Yet the farmer boy from


his youth to old age has to do with


plants constantly. He has also the
care Of animals, and yet he has not been
taught how many stomaohs the COW has,
nor the difference between ruminatine
and other animals. His knowledge Of
the diseases of animals is only the tra-


ditional neighborhood wisdom" hand
ed down from father to son, generation


after generation, as often opposed to all


physiological. law as, otherwise. Even


the parts of animals with which he has
to do has no names for him. He does
not even know enough of the points of
a good animal to be able to act lntelli.
gently as a judge thereof at fairs he
may attend, and give reason for his
judgment. This is asserted concerning
the average country boy, born, brought
up and educated on farm as farmer.
Is there not need that the farmers who
would keep their boys at home and
whose ambition is that they shall take
charge Of the old homestead and per
Year: 1874

e'AAi0S oAAoA SnAAuAoA pursue snail
at least relate to the vocation they are
to follow.-zN Y World.


Farmers and Patents.


A farmer sees a gate, a clevis, or
some other useful contrivance illustrated
aud it meeting his wants he makes one
and uses it. His ncighbor living sever
al miles off sees the affair and makes
one like it, and so the thing gets into
use thronght a large section Of country.
At length there comes long chap
who claims that he holds patent upon
the gate or other device, that the farm.
er has infringed upon his rights,
threatens immediate prosecution if roy
atty is not paid. In nine cases out OF
ten the farmer is intimidated by the
assurance of the fellow, and to avoid
trouble pays the sum demanded, and
the fellow, who is nine cases out Of ten
a swindler, goes on to fleece the next
farmer. This, in brief, is the story
that comes to US 80 often that we are
sure that large amount of swindling
is carried on in this manner. Being in
Washington short time ago, we had
an interview with the Hon. Commis-
sioner of Patents, with view to see
what could be done to stop this grevious
nuisance.


The Commissioner is entirely in SYM
pathy with the farmers, and is ready to
do all in his power to save them from
imposition. He told US several things
in relation to the matter which it is not
advisable to publish: as the rogues would
be put upon their guard. We give our
friends the following advice. In the
first place. do not be frightened.
Most farmers are willing to make almost
any sacrifice in order to avoid anything
that looks like a lawsuit, and these
swindlers know it. Acting upon this
knowledge, they bluster and threaten.
Let them blow. They cannot, under
any circumstances, bring you into court
under several months, and "blufP' is
their chief reliance.


If a man claims that you have in
fringed his patent, demand to see the
patent. IF he can show it, or give you
its date of issue, and the name in
which it was issued, do not bother with
him. Demand the date, and if you get
it tell him to call again. Pay no money
until you have written to the Patent
Office at Washington, to acertain if
such patent was issued on such date.
Be particular about the date. Do not
fear, that being an unknown individu-
al the application will be unnoticed.
1t is part of the business of the
Office to answer just such letters.
If the pretended owner of the patent
is fraud, he, finding that YOU
are not frightened and know what you
are about, will not trouble you any
more. Still there are cases in which
the farmer may have unwittingly in
frin:ed upon the patent.right of an in.
ventor. Publishers of journals are
sometimes imposed upon by persons
who send them drawings Of things that
have already been patented. An
honest owner of patent is likely to be
fair man, and when you are fully con-
vinced that you have unwittingly tres
passed upon his rights, there will gen.
orally be no difficulty in eAecting d
settlement. 1t is only the. pretend
ers who bluff and bluster. Do not be
afraid of any who try intimidation, but
adopt the course we have counseled.
-Ag'iculturalist.
Year: 1874

In moral point Of view, the life of the
agriculturist is the most pure and holy
Of any class Of men ; pure, because it
is the most healthful, and vice can
hardly find time to contaminate it; and
holy because it brings the Deity per-
petually before his view, giving him
thereby the most fascinating and endear-
ing view of moral benignity.-Lord
John Russell.
Year: 1874

the people? If be does not and the Sup
Elementary Civil Rights Bill" becomes
part of the Law Of the land, the only rem
edy will be for the people to take the law
making power from the hands Of the mon
who have SO recklessly abused it. and
give it to men who will be influenced by
justice and patriotism and not by sectional
malice and partisanship, and repeal this
act at once.


At the approaching State election the
citizens Of Delaware will be called upon to
decide for themselves how far the provi-
sious of this bill snail be enforced, within
our limits.


To prevent its practical ful6lment here
we must see to it that the law making and
law enforcing power shall remain in the
hands Of men who will use their authority
to protect our citizens and their children
from the condition, SO utterly repugnant
to their feeling, to which this bill seeks
to reduce them.
Year: 1874

SATURDAY, JUNE 9th,


at clock, P. M for the purpose of designat-
ing the time for holding the Nomination Elec-
ton for sheriff and Coroner, appointing the
judges TO hold the same, and organizing for the
ensuing Campaign Believing that time is only
demonstrating that adherence to the cardinal
principles of the Democratic faith is necessary to
the successful operation of constitutional govern
ment we cordially invite all who are in favor of
Local Self-Government, of the maintenance of
the limitations imposed upon the power of Con-
gress and the Executive by the Federal Constitu-
ton, of a sound currency, and economical ad-
ministraton of the State and National Govern
ments, and who desire to prevent and avert in
our own State the deplorabe consequences that
have followed Radical ascendency in the pros
trate States OF the South to meet with US, and
aid us by their presence and counsels.


By order of the Executive Committee


GEORGE GRAY, Chairman.
Year: 1874

WHtrE riding in the Western part of the city a


w POCKET BOOK, containing owners name
address, papers and sun of money. The finder
will please leave same at thi office and receive suit
able reward. jyl5dtf
Year: 1874

It is said that one Of Barnum's monkeys
died the other day from chew Of tobacco
given it by fellow who was fooling with
it. Now wont Mr.. Darwin stop insulting
people by trying to prove that men could
ever have descended from such creatures
as that
Year: 1874

Ills pretty evident from the advices re.
ceived from the first encounter OF West
Union between the two candidates for
Congress in this District, that Colonel
Ben WILSON has found General GoFF q
rather tough customer to meet before
the people. As long as the Colonel could
swing round the circle by himself, and say
his say without contradiction, especially
in the wllds OF Wetzsl county, the situa.
tion was very lovely in his eyes, and hiu
journey seemed, no doubt, q sort OF tri.
umphal progress, But when he came 10
meet representative man Of tho anti.
Ring and anti.Bourbon element Of the
people, on the hustipgs, the situation mate.
rally changed. 1tis not improbable that
after meeting General Corr at West
Union last Friday, and having his
sophistries and tallacles ventilated before
the people, that the Colonel felt a little
like that other Colonel who had q brush
with some Union men during the
war, and who wrote to his General
commanding very laconic note saying
"We have met the enemy and they are
not ours" Thus It was with Colonel Ben
He met Gen. Corr and was captured.
Gen. GoFF showed him, like the Arkansas
traveller, how to play the other half Of
that tune he had been So wing on ever since
the opening OF the Canvass Hitherto the
Colonel had been telling only oue.hsli Of
the story as he swung around among tho
people. Corr enlightened him little on
the balance fthe narrative. The Colonel
will be better posted hereafter. Hisgsl-
liant opponent will escort him round the
district from now until election day, and
keep administering to his necessities in
the way Of information. In this way 1t is
our opinion that the Colonel will bo a
tolerably elliniormed man alter the 18th
Of October.
Year: 1874

Today


GoFF and WILSON met at Richie Court
House on Saturday, and will meet at
Grantsville, the County Seat Of Calhoun
county, to-day. We expect our gallant
standard bearer to give Col. BEN his third
inStAllment OF information in regard to
the doings Of the Ring and the Bourbon
Democracy in West Virginia to-day.
The first instsllment at West Union last
Friday seems to have SET severely on BEN.
He almost cried out peccavi, and virtually
plead the baby act in regard to the record
Of the Ring, The Colonel does not seem
inclined to discuss West Virginia matters.
He prefers to roam in pleasanter pastures
where there are fewer briars and thorns
to steer clear Of. He would like
to spend his entire time we
presume in bowling over the Civil
Rights bill, Notwithstanding he voted for
HORACE GREELEY in 1872. But Gen.
GoFF does not dodge any issues himself,
State or Federal, and he is determined
that Colonel BEN shall not. The Colonel
is not at Richmond this trip. He can not
rise and ask to be excused from express.
ing himself. He Is compelled to face the
music, and oil all performances in The
world this is the most unpleasant to Col.
onel BEN. The role of the artiul dodgel
ia one SO coDgenial to him, and one thai
he has so long practiced, that it nearly
kills him to be brought squarely face to
face with the issues Of the canvass.
Year: 1874

THE idiot who edits the Fairmont
Ktrgintan, and who has no more sense
than to be jealous Of our remarks from
time to time concerning the political stu.
alton in the Second District, as If that
was his patch OF ground and everybody
else was an intruder, iutimates that
because we do not sing peans Of praise TO
the administration VIC must want an
office OF some kind. We esteem the
honor and profits of editing the Wheeling
ISTELI1dENcER as a rather better thing
than office hunting, and VIC arc Of the
opinion that these, together with our an.
tipathy to third term, would be proof
against the seductions Of a postofflce. To
an idiot, however, this may seem incred.
ible.
Year: 1874




Eclipses, comets, and extraordina-
rily high tides can be predicted with
accuracy; there even seems to be
probability that in time the weather
will also strike its flag to science, and
that means will be found of disen-
tangling the conflicting influences
which send an aneroid up and down.
But in the art of foretelling the prob
able current OF public enthusiasm
there is no sign of progress. The
keenest observer of human nature
can no more guess whether the ca
reer of any particular suitor, war
rior, explorer, or criminal will sim
ply appear in the newspapers and
excite no more attention, or will be
generally taken up as a matter of
national Importance, than the mer-
est tyro can. 1t was more than a
million to one that Robert Jeffley's
wrongs would remain unnoticed, or
raise but feeble and passing inter
est. He became a popular idol,
however, representative victim of
the press-gang system, and the ty-
ranical customs which naturally
grew out of it, and so a very curious
story has been handed down to us.


In 1907 a priVateer named the
Nelson was fitted at Polperro in
Cornwall, a place famous for its har-
dy race of smugglers, the entire
population being brought up to look
upon coast-guardsmen as natural en-
emies, who might be killed with as
coed a conscience as though they
were Frenchmen. The profits of
privateering were often greater than
those of smuggling, and the Lord
Nelson had no difficulty in gathering
together a first rate crew. Amongst
them was a man who had been
brought up as blacksmith, but had
found both excitement and profit in
an occasional sea-trip, and indeed
was as good at the tiller as at the
forge, perhaps a trifie better. The
name of his amphibious Corni>hman
was Robert Jeffrey and his career as
privateersman was a short one; for
the Lord Nelson, at the very COM
mencement of her cruise, was forced
to put into Falmouth, where she
was boarded by a press-gang. 1t
was a perfectly illegal proceeding;
the press-gang had no more right to
take a man out of the Lord Nelson
than you or l have to break into a
house and take the plate-basket. But
at the commencement of this centu-
ry private rights were very little re-
spected where the public service was
concerned, unless the person whom
1t was proposed to injure had plenty
of money or political influence
Robert Jeffery had neither, and he
was carried on board IL. NJ. S. Re.
cruit, and converted into man-of.
wars man quite against his will, and
in defiance of his clear and undoubt.
ed protection.


The commander of the Recruit
was a young officer at that time well
known in the navy as wreckless, sell
willed, passionate man, the foibles
of whose nature were forced and ex
asperated by despotic powers and
drinking habits. AS if his norma
thirst was not enough, he was now
"SHt 10 GruisS m tbs Cxribbsan Ssa
Year: 1874

Through pleasant paths and flowery ways
Through lesfy woodland cOlOnades,
Where cen at noon the suns keen gaze
Could scarcely reach, We two had stray


ed.


All left behind the glare and strife
The din and babal of existence;
Save US no trace of social life


In that enchanting sylvan distance.
And then beside giant tree,


The remnant of some ancient race,
Whose gnarled roots your throne might


be,


We made awhile our resting place.
Here lichen moss, and fern and flower.
Their carpet soft as velvet spread;
Forget you, love, that happy hour!


Would you recall the words you sand
The thrOstle poured his liquid lay:


The vagrant bee passed tuneful by;
And there along its pebbly way


The cleaning brO0klet murnurcd nigh.
l needed not the thrOstlc's tone,


Nor saw the hroOklet's silver shine;
l held your hand, your heart, my own;
only knew that you were mine.
l cared not else to know; for while


We rested in tEat woodland place,
My sun, my love, was in your smile,


And heaven itself within your face.
So what for me was Lloom or flower,
Or arching branches overhead?
Can forget that happy hour?


Do you regret the words you said ?
Punch.
Year: 1874

That FLOUR TRIcK.-Recently an
innocent looking young man was
loafng around the Central Depot
with one of these small lung testers,
which throw a handful of flour in
mans eyes just as he imagiRes be is
going to blow her up to 3 hundred
and fifty pounds. There was an
old man waiting around for the train
to 90, and he was at once attracted
to the machine. He saw the Others
blow and when told that it wouldn't
cost him a cent, he pitched in. He
was allowed to blow two or three
times, and then the young man told
him to put in a regular hurricane
and beat everybody by five pounds.
The old fellow threw back his coat,
took the pipe from his mouth, and
then his eyes opened like traps as he
sucked in the air. After a second
or two he let her go, and the -four
struck him. He didn't say a word
for a moment. He softly laid down
the pipe, winked his eyes, spit -four,
and as the roar of laughter increased,
he backed up against the wall and
said: "Yon kin lat and laf snd LAT
but 1 swan to gum I'll lick some
body for that!


Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1874

hand: He bumped his head against other


barrels, scratched his knees on the floor. and


was bombarded in the face and neck and un-
der his coat tail by the fierce stream. But


he 'roud find that faucet. lie beat the
cement surface with his fist, and PRAYED. and
howied, and screamed, and wept. But he
wouldn't go after light The flying ale
got into his throat and choked him, and into
his nose and made him sneeze. 1t ran from
his ewes and his ears, and down his neck and
face from his hair. But he wouldn't give
up. And down there on his knees in the
dark and flying liquid, he stayed like an
honest and honorable citizen until he had
found that faucet, and jammed it into the
barrel. Then he felt his way up stairs, and
appeared to his family with a want of con-
gruity in'his appearance that was painful to
behold. The blood from scratch over the
eye had mingled with the necks of foam and
trlckling ale and these in turn were loader
with dust and cobwebs His hair and cloth
ing were saturated, and one eve was COM
pletely closed while the other glared upon
the, horror stricken family in unconscio
ierocity. But he had found that faucet, and
and she would have found it if he had stayed
down there until Canada had frozen over


we think he said Canadal. Then he went
up stairs and got into bed.
Year: 1874

WOMEN IN PoLIrIcs. 1t would -esm as
though natures decree had gone forth AS
solemn warning to women to keep our of
politics. in the sad case Of the lament ed
Mrs. Badger, who committed suicide few
weeks ago, while laboring under temporary
insanity. For the testimony of those to
whom she was near and dear, and Com
petcnt to judge, is that. had she kept ont of
politics, Mr.. Badger would not to-day be
called upon to mourn over the sad way OF
that noble woman's death. The evidence
in the case goes to show that the excitement.
the result of the discussion OF the question
of the eligibility of women to the Office of
school COMMITTEES. told - upon her tempera-
ment that it made her believe that she
would become insane. and ~ she
goes to sad and melancholy end
The gentle sex should take heed lest
they become too ambitious for fame
and reputation bat who can say that Mrs.
B.dger's ease is the only one that will occur
In the nineteenth century? An all-wi-e
Providence has already destined woman for
a sphere better suited 10 her nature than
politics They should h.ware of such an
end us politics may ler,d them to, and be-
lieyc that women ARE better OF out of poll
ties than in Boston Cor. NJ. iBans Ad-
rerfiser.
Year: 1874

no longer a nonegardian dotard, but n full
veined, fiery youth, who gave her kiss for
kiss.


How the transformation was wrought
nave no idea, but there is one before our very
eyes. The music grew soft and passionate,
the chorus of the old women came out, and
with strange Phallic songs and dances bore
the two away-a bridal pair. l never ex-
pect again to behold sight so wonderful
as that whole transformation. which, | may
mention, my learned Jesuit friend, to whom
described it, regards as piece of pure
symbolism. His explanation is too long and
to learned to quote, but he connects the
ceremony with the world-old myth of Venus
and AdoniS- and claims that it is all form
Of sun worship.