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Year: 1874

The absent daughter, married and far
away, sends home tiny curl i'm letter.
il is that of the first-born. "The softest,
silkiest, brightest hair, she verify be-
lieves i'm all the world And its dear
little head is covered with it like so many
rings of gold. All, if they could but sec
it" Why, it seems but yesterday she
was child herself, the merriest of the
household band, the most mischief-lov-
ing, provoking and yet fascinating being
one can well imagine. Threats and re-
proof were alike thrown away upon her
but II fond word would bring her to her
mothers side in moment, all penitencc
and humility, although ten to one the
next she was as wild as ever. But she
become grave all of Il sudden, married,
and took to housekeeping by instinct, as
it were, for she could have had little ex-
perience in these matters but loving
makes us apt scholars, and she be-
came very patient wife and mother.
We need not say how the tiny curl will
be kept and priced by the happy grand
mother, who wept with joy as she re-
memberced all this. Mindful, ut the
same time, with the sad experience which
is the heritage of old age, of the precari-
business of human felicity, and how many
as bright birds of fair promise as the
golden-haired child were now among the
angels of heaven!


The young soldier, perishing on the
field of glory, prays with his dying
breath that lock of his hair may be cut
off and sent in remembrance of him to
his mother and dear Mary. And when
it reaches them, having travelled, per-
haps, hundreds of miles, how sacred and
holy is such relic? We can fancy the
aged mothers tears and kisses, and his
Mary" laying it on her heart, and never
being known to smile again on earth,
although she continues meek and patient
to the last.


The death of beloved object seldom
fails to sanctify and make us better-to
wean us gently from earth and heaven /;
such, at least, is the intention of all our
Affections, if we could only but think so; !;
while change and estrangement harden
and petrify the affections until they seem
turned to stone! cit is a perilous thing"
says Frederick Bremen, "when the be-
loved image in the heart of man is de-
stroyed."


The lover sends lock of hair to his
mistress, friend to friend; parent to child,
child to parent. We verify believe this
same hair love to be universal, and
pregnant with thousand romantic and
touching episodes
Year: 1874

THE Paris Figaro contains sensa-
tional mention of Mile. Croizette, who is
performing in the ,Syhinr at the Theater
Francais. In the enactment Of her char
acter in the play she assumes to poison
herself and dies upon the stage-a per
sonation which she is said to perform
with such truthfulness to nature as to
call forth long comments in the daily
press. One physician comes out in u
card, and declares over his own signature
that she does virtually poison herself
nightly, and that such reality will sooner
or later prove fatal IL persisted in.
Year: 1874

The little boys of Rochester, whose
street ball playing and kite flying has
been stopped by order of the police, dis
play considerable ingenuity in getting
around the command. They allow the
little girls to fly kites and play ball,
while they sit by and enjoy themselves.
Year: 1874

Daughter, don't let mother do M


DO not let her slave and ton,
While you sit useless idler,


Fearing your soft hands TO SOD.
Don't you SEQ the heavy burdens,


Daily she Is wont to bear,
Bring the lines upon her forehead-
Sprinkle silver In her haira
Daughter, don't let mother do III


DO not let her bake and boil;
Through the long, bright summer hour
Share with her the heavy ton.
See, her eye has lost its brightness
Faded from her cheek the glow,
And the step that once was buoysut,
Now Is feeble, weak and slow.
Daughter, don't let mother do n.


She has cared for you 80 long.
Is II right the weak and feeble


Should be toiling for the stroag?
Waken from your listless languor,
Seek her side TO cheer and bless;
And your grief will be less bitter


When the sods above her press.
Daughter, don't let mother do III
You will never, never know
What were home without mother
Till that mother lieth low
Low beneath the budding daisies.
Free from earthly care or pain
To the home so sad without her


Never to return again.
Year: 1874

People who buy for cash always buy
cheaper than those who buy on credit.
They buy also more closely, and select
more carefully. Purchases which are
paid for when they are made are limited
more exactly to the purchasers wants.
There is nothing like having to count
the money out when the article is bought,
to make people economical. The amount
of Indebtedness incurred is not much
considered when the payday is not far
off. Persons who do all their business
on cash basis know just where they
stand and what they can afford; conse-
quently they find after-occasion for re-
GREETING, in turn of times, that they
have indulged in this luxury or that,
which they would have foregone had
they seen what was coming. Real wants
are few, and can be gratiiied for cash at
all events they should always be limited
to what can be paid for in cash. How
much of anxiety, how many sleepless
hours, how many heart-burnings, disap-
pointments, and regrets would be avoided
II this rule were always strictly adhered
to
Year: 1874

To CLEAN PAINT.--A good way to
clean paint is to smear it over with whit
ing, mixed to the consistency Of common
paste in warm water. Rub the surface
to he cleaned briskly, and wash off with
pure cold water. Grease spots will, in
this way, be almost. instantly removed,
as well as other marks, and the paint
will retain its beauty and brilliancy un-
impaired.
Year: 1874

CURING A Boris TOOTHA AcHE.---A Town
Hill boy was awakened by a severe tooth
ache Thursday night, and soon signified
to his father by sundry howls, and a fire.
duent repetition of the name of Moses,
that some sort of attention should be
paid him. The parent aroused at once
and set to work to relieve the pain. He
pntia saucer of alcohol on the stove and
touched a match to the liquid. While it
was blazing he took hold of the saucer
tQearTy it to the bed for the purpose of
advancing some operation calculated to
obliterate the to0thache, when, not ma
king the proper calculation of the tenn
perature of the saucer, he was obliged
to let 60 of it with some precipitat tiOn.
1t may be necessary to state here that,
the parent in his anxiety to- relieve his
Offspring, had omitted an elaborate t0i.
let, and was moving about in primitive
attire 0nsisting wholly of o very short
shirt. The moment the saucer dropped
the burning liquid spurted from the dish,
and catching hold of the capillary sub
stance on the legs ef our friend, mount
ed up his body nife o flash of lightning,
and reaching his very luxuriant Whisk-
eTS almost instantaneOusly, burst out
into cloud of flame, and instantly dis
appeared. The movement was so rapid
that the man was stupefed for o second.
In the next he fell to slapping his SCARED
limbs, rubbing his burnt face, and howl
ing like 6isappo pointed lunatic, But it
cured the boy, and as that was what the
parent got up for, he is probably salts
fied.-lDanbury News,
Year: 1874

A gentleman who rather suspected
some one was peeping through the key
hole of his Office door investigated with
a syringe full of pepersauce and went
home to find his wife had been cutting
wood and chip hit her in the eve,
Year: 1874

WASHING MILK D1sHEs.-I was some
what exercised in mind by directions |
lately read in O. farmers paper for wash
ing dishes. The writer bids us wash


our milk-pans, etc, first with boiling
suds, then rinse them in boiling water,
and then wipe them with adalnp CLOTH y
Shesays she cannot tell the reason, but she
finds that il tin things are wiped with a
perfectly dry cloth there is sickness
left behind which soon becomes a, sour
ness | think can tell her the reason.
1t is because the cheesy part Of the milk
has been scalded on the tin, and is only
taken OF land but partially thens am
afraid by the cool damp Wipiag cloth.
| think that most good housekeepers
prefer to wash the milk pans FIRST in wa
ter below sCalding heat. It is very COM
mon in good dairies to wash them first
in cold water (which does not remove
the cream then in hot sttds (Which doesl,
then in clear hot water rinse, Wining
or setting them in the hot SUN. Since
reading the article referred to / have tried
IL many times, and have never found
that the eleanest and driest of wiping
cloths left any sickness behind but /
never wash dishes in scalding water. /
see people pile their dirty dishes into
the dish pan and pour boiling water over
them, and feel sure there will be some
Z stickiness left behind..r Warm. water,
but below the sealding heat, is best, unr
less your dishes arc sailed principally
by fat and butter, Everything but grease
sealds on instead of off.-[Agrienlturist.
Year: 1874

The LOCOMoTIoN OF SERPENTs.-We
read that the curse pronounced upon the
serpent was, Upon thy belly thou shalt
Co." and the inference seems to be that,
previous to that time, its mode of pro-
gress was not upon it's belly. This
would imply great anatomical change
in the structure Of the creature at the
time in question, change which, far
as weare aware, is notproved by paleon-
tological research, and the expression is
probably tigurative one, as observed
by Dr: auckland. Serpents progress by
the " folding and windings they make
on the ground" and the stiff, movable
scales which cross the under portion Of
the body; but the Windings are side.
ways, not vertical. The structure of
the Vertebr9 is such, that upward and
downward undnlations are greatly res
tricted, and many illustrations, showing
sharp vertical curves of the body, are
exaggeratiOns. Most persons have seen
snakes glide slowly and silently, without
any contOrtion. They seem to progress
by some invisible power; but, if per-
mltted to move over the bare hand, an
experiment easily tried, a motion of the
scales will be perceived. These are
elevated and depressed, and act as le-
vers by which tie animal is carried for
ward. Nor can serpent progress with
facility on the ground without the resis-
tance afforded by the scales. tits stated
that it cannot pass over plate of glass
or other entirely smooth surface. We
saw the experiment tried, by placing n
small pane of glass in q box, in which
was a common black snake. He was
made to pass over it repeatedly, but
evidently found that he had no foot
hold on it; and the third time he ap-
proached it, elevated the fore part of
his body slightly, and brought his head
down beyond the glass, and, on passing,
his body seemed scarcely to touch It,
This gave an opportunity to witness the
wave like movement of the scales, that
is, of their elevation, which runs from
the head to to the tail, enabling the
animal to move continuously, instead
of by 9 series of minute pushes, as would
occur If all the scales be lifted and de-
pressed at onee.-[Popular Science
Year: 1874

The man who stands upon his own
soil, who feels, by the laws Of the
land in which he liyes-by the laws
Of civilized nations-he is the right
full and exclusive owner of the land
which he tills, is by the constitution
of our nature, under a wholesome
influence, not easily imbibed from
any other source He feels, other
hings being equal, more strongly
than another, the character Of a man
as the lord of an inanimate world.
OF this great and wonderful sphere,
which, fashioned by the hand Of God,
and upheld by his power, is rolling
through the heavens a part Of his
his from the centre to the sky, 1t is
the space on which the generation
moves in it's round of duties, and he
feels himself connected by a visible
link with those who follow him, and
to whom he is to transmit q home.
Perhaps his farm has come down to
him from his fathers; but he can trace
their footsteps over the scenes of his
daily labors. The roof which shell
ters him was reared by those to whom
he owes hls being. Some interesting
domestic tradition is connected with
every enclosure. The favorite tree
was planted by his fathers hand.
He sported in boyhood beside the
brook which still winds through the
meadows. Through the field lies the
path to the village school Of early
days. lie still hears from his WIN
dow the voice of the Sabbath bell
which called his fathers to the house
Of God; and near at hand is the spot
where his parents are laid down to
rest, and where, when his time has
come, he shall be laid by his children.
These are the feelings of the owners
of the soil. Words cannot buy them;
they flow out of the deepest fountains
of the heart; they are the life-springs
of a fresh, healthy and generous ma
tional character.
Year: 1874

Winter is sending cold shivers
through the lap Of spring


An Oswego woman says she cannot
pray in the saloons, but will shoot the
first man who sells her husband liquor.


sfa.- We are On the eve Of stirring
events.
Year: 1874

Last year / raised twenty oxcart
loads of pumpkins with corn from an
acre. The cart would hold forty
bushels Of potatoes. I consider
them a valuable feed for stock tax
ing into consideration how eheaply
they can be raised. I undertook to
dry in my apple dry house some for
market, and was offered five cents
per pound. I found that a green
pumpkin weighed from fifteen TO
twenty pounds would make about
one pound ofWell dressed dry pump
kin, and that it would pay better to
dry them for my hogs as it could be
done very cheaply) than it would to
sell them.


soaked the dry pumpkin in milk
and fed the same to the hogs; they
gained fast. / also dried quite an
amount and barreIed it to feed them
with in the summer. I fed my sheep
upon the green ones two months, and
it did very much toward fatteHing
forty which I sold for mutton,- and
the forty which I Wintered never did
better. I commenced to feed my
cattle in September, and fed some
every day until February. It saved
q vast amount of feed. am planting
but a small piece of corn, and wish to
raise a large amount Of pumpkins; 50
1 plant then with my early rose po-
tatoes; their tops die early, which let
in the sun and gives the pumpkins 9
| chance to grow.
Year: 1874

In some sections apples are very
plenty this year, and the markets so
Overstocked with tue early varieties
that they are being sold for a song.
Now some viii be apt TO be diseour-
aged, and be almost ready to cut
down a part of their orchard. But
We beg OF you do no such thing. II
there was no other use for our esrly
apples than to feed them to mich
cows, they would still be very prof
table. It has long been known that
sweet apple are excellent for stock;
yet not only sweet apples, but nearly
all of our cultivated varieties are rel
ished, and highly beneficial to stock.
provided the fruit is thoroughly ripe
and mellow when fed. A half a peck
fed in the morning, and the same In
the evening, with q small amount Of
wheat bran, will do wonders in caus-
ing a milch COW to keep up her hoW
Of milk. Our own COWS, thus fed,
are giveng as much milk now as
when they came in fresh six moaths
ago. We are feeding Summer Rose,
Early Strawberry, Benoni, Summer
Queen, and Golden Sweet We
would prefer the latter and the Sum
mer Queen if we were confined to two
varieties.


The Golden Sweet is an excellent
variety to grow larger. The tree is
healthy and q good bearer, and the
fruit sweet and very large. But wiz
some orchardist state what good,
sweet, TO ripen say the last of Au-
gust or the fore part Of September,
in this locality?
Year: 1874

A Fisherman was Tom by trade;


He slept on briny planks;
And though not rich, he often made


A run upon the banks.
On fish he lived from day to day


Fish caught by his own hand;
And when he did not land his prey,


He did not praise the land.
When he had seen shoal of shad,


Their struggles were in vain;
The. fish might hop around like mad,


And soon they were in-seine.
He led happy life; content,


He never thought to roam;
And every day he fishing went,


And brought his net gains home.
Tom loved girl, so tall and slim,


The fairest in the town;
But Sal would not AXE up with him,
So he was taken down.
By passions power now Wracked and worn
He called on Sal, a swain forlorn,


Led on by Loves suggestion,
He found her popping corn,


And so he popped the question.
She was the sweetest girl in town,
And playful as a kitten,
For her Tom threw the gauntlet down
And she gave him the mitten.
Then Tom was mad He kicked a lad
His heart was sad His head was bad
His language was still Bladder
And he who once had lived on shad,
Soon faded to shadder.
To be man he swore to try;


He left that town of woe;
He went out West to do or die;
he met an Indian six feet high


OF course it was not Lo
The Indian saw the Yankee small;
The Yankee saw the Sioux;
At once they knew that one must fall.
At once they both fell to.
The Indian struck mighty blow;
By Toms good luck it missed the foe;
The Indian was forlorn.
Tom tried the Indian to lay low;
Tom dropped rock upon his toe,


And erus ed his Indian corn.
The Indian paused: This blow was rude
Had caused him great solicitude;
He thought he would no more intrude;
He thought he'd fly, if none pursued;
The white man next be slyly viewed,


Aud then began to beller.
Tom deemed all Indians copper-hued,
But this one proved yelIer.
Tom seized log to make thrust,
To lay the Indian in the dust;


The Indian ran away
So swift he cut his stick, he must


He must have been Chip-away.
And thus was fought and won the fight,
In which Tom took great pride;
Then home he went to Sally bright,


And won her for his bride;
But on that night his hair turned white,
And stayed so till he died.
Year: 1874

aud often asingle one is enough TO
cause them TO dry up and disappear.


they should be made at intervals


say morning, midday and evening.
The same treatment is equally sue


eessful in whitloW and all other in
juries of the top Of the fingers. As
soon as the pain and redness are
perceived in the finger, it should be
soaked in camphorated sweet oil
The relief is immediate, and three
applications generally effect q per
feet cure.
Year: 1874

In San Francisco recently, at
the funeral of girl 13 years
old, the pall-bearers were all
girls of her age. They were
dressed in white, each holding
a white band which was attached
to the hearse, and they walked
at the sides and rear Of that We
hicle.
Year: 1874

A painter being asked to es'i-
mate the cost of painting a GER
tain house, drew forth a pencil
and paper and made the follow
ing calculation: ga nought is
a nought; three into five twice
you can't-I'll paint your house
for fifty dollars" :"
Year: 1874

On Sunday last a hole was
discovered in the dam of Scotch
pond, near the manufacturing
village Of Lee, Mass. The
prompt drawing off of the wa
ter saved a disaster whichwOuld
have been ten fold worse than
the one at Middlefeld, as the
pond is 200 feet above the vii
lage and only one and a half
miles distant.
Year: 1874

i'The members of this order have
been charged by the monopoly organs
with being communists. Nothing, we
believe, could be farther from the truth
than such charge. No class of our
population are more deeply interested
in the preservation of all those rights
and privileges which law and govern
ment were instituted to secure, than the
farmer. None have higher apprecia-
ton of the rights of property, or a
keener sense of the necessity of their
preservation. We have no fears of
communism from such a source. On
the other hand, the oranges, it seems
to us, if rightly managed, must prove a
valuable educating agency. In this
fact centers our chief hope of good re.
suits. The movements of the Patrons
then, will be watched with interest, not
by demagogues alone, but also by good
and true men everywhere. With
power comes responsibility. Let them
bear it soberly and discreetly.
Year: 1874

From the Constitution OF the National


Grange.


The ULTIMATE OBJECT OF THIS oHGANIzA-
TIoN IS FOR MUTUAL INSTRUCTION AND PRO
lection.


Human happiness is the acme Of earthly
ambition. IrdividHGi A0ppiness depends
upon GENERAL PROSPERITY.


From the address of the Master of the
National Grange, Master Adams of Iowa, de
iivered at the last National Grange meeting
at St Louis. January, 1874:


"Artcle XII. also demands most serious
consideration TO definitely decide what in
terpretation shall be put upon the word
political. | am gratiied that our members
are substantially a unit in the opinion that
the Order should not in any sense become q
political party. But at the same time, there
are questions most Fundamentally affecting
our material interests lrhich car only be
reached through tegislGtion.-lt seems M
PERATIvE that such questions should BE dis
cuSSed IN tie Grange. Shall it be said that
such questions were political in the meaning
of the Constitution! The questions OF
TRANSPORTATION, TAXATION, FINANCE, COR
RUPTIoN IN PUBLIC PLACES, lrere such GS come
home to the c0nScteHceS and pockets OF our
members, and they wish to know whether
they will be denied the privilege of can
vsssing them on the ground of politics"


To this suggestion the National
Grange replied as follows in their
NATIONAL PLATFORM.


"We emphatically and sincerely assert the
Oft repeated truth taught in our organic law,
that the Grange, National, State or Subor-
dinate, is not political or a party erganiza-
ton. No Grange, is true to its obligations
can discuss political or religious questions,
nor call political conventions, nor nominate
candidates, nor even discuss their merits in
its meetings


let Lne PRINCIPLES We TEACH UNDERLIE ALI
TRUE POLITICS, ALL TRUE srArEsNANsHlP and
If properly carried out will tend to purify the
whole political atmosphere of our country
For We seek the greatest good to the greatest
number


We must always bear in mind that no one
by becoming Patron of Husbandry, gives
up that inalienable right and duty which be-
longs to every American citizen. to take q
proper interest in the politics Of his couutru. D


1--WE propose meeting together. rALKfsc
roGETHFR, and generally ACTING TOGETH-
ER, for our mutual protection and advance.
ment"


"We are opposed to any such spirit and
management of any corporation or enter
prise as tend to oppress the people and rot
them of their just profits"


1--WE are opposed to excessive salaries and
high rates OF interest"
Year: 1874

We have an ar-suffcient weapon in
united voting. Our common interests
demand that We stand by each other.
The weak and treacherous who desert
their post at this critical moment must
expect slow forgiveness. We have en-
listed for the war-if We remain firm.
our ranks will be more and more rapid
ly filed. Our principles appeal to the
natural love Of justice of our country
men. We come to the front in pursuit
and defense of honest government and
the rights Of labor. We leave the old
organizations because the managers
have no sympathy for this work, and
because SO long . our voting power was
neutralized in opposite camps We could
never expect to accomplish it ourselves.
Golend Indusfrial Press.
Year: 1874

After the first Of January next-but short time distant
-pubishers will be required under the postal law
to prepay postage every Of their papers
outside of the County in which they published At the
fixed the postage the Chif viii be about 10
a year which shall nave to prepay We propose to
prepay postage without additional charge all pa
pes paid for in advance at the rate Of o. per year. But
subscribers will that afford send
the paper credit and the postage OO-they
not reasonably expect it. Ten cents insignificant
single paper but hundreds 1t up This law
viii necessarily do away with the newspaper credit system
-St least, papers sent Outside of the County.


To be fully prepared for the order of things,
shall in short time enclose bills all subscribers


ing under this rule showing their Indebtedness up


first Of January which amounts they requested
nit prompty-and of course If they wish to continue the
paper they all w) they will know what sd-
donal amount send the time they it, Those
who fail to respond will be dropped from the list
cannot afford send the paper credit and pay the
privilege


W This mark paper the wrapper will indicate
~ that the time paid for has expired about expir
ing Subscribers finding ii their papers, will govern
themselves accordingly.