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Year: 1874

rT A worthy Quaker thus wrote
expect to pass through this world but
once. If, therefore, there be any kind.
ness can show. or any good thing ! can
do to my fellow human being, let me do
it, now. Let me not defer nor neglect it,
for will not pass this way again. "
Year: 1874

The modes Of swindling seem to be in
finite. No sooner is one discovered and
exposed than the ingenious gentlemen who
follow this business for living Instantly
have from one to dozen new devices for
obtaining money without returning an
equivalent. They belong to the great in
ventors Of the day, and certain it is that
for fertility of resources and adaptability
of means to ends, they are among tho most
successful inventors of the age. Their
plans are generally ingeniously contrived
and skillfully executed. Sometimes, how


ever, they change their tactics, and by the
very boldness and openness of the fraud,
succeed in allaying suspicion and dupine
the people. They are the most thoroughly
posted in the knowledge of human nature
OF any class Of men living. They are per-
fectly familiar with al the weaknesses and
frailties Of humanity, and know just how
and when to take advantage Of them. To.
day or this month they work for one class
Of men; Tomorrow or next month they are
fishing for another and entirely different
class. They are we'll aware that the same
kind Of bait will not catch all kinds Of men
no more than it will all species Of fish,
There are gudgeons, and bull-heads, and
suckers, and sharks, and whales amoSa
men as we'll % among 6sh. The same net Q,
thssame kind Of bait will not do for all kinds
/ The sharper is perfectly familiar will
their vsrious tastes, habits and prsjudioes
Year: 1874

and prepares his devices accordingly. The
~, the hook, the troll, the spear are moi


used Unfortunately upon al kinds but
are applied - circumstances may require.
It nay astonish some readers to be told
that these swindlers profess to be engaged
in legitimate business, as honorable and
just % that Of any other class Of men; ye,
such is tho fact. The way they reason is
this: All men delight in being humbugged,
some in one way, and some in another, and
others in still different ways. 1t requires
. great deal of time aud thought aud skill
on our part to enable US to meet these
varied tastes and wants, and we ought to
be paid for that time and thought and skill.


Il is just as laudable and honorable to eat
isfy these wants Of human nature as it is
to satisfy any other class of wants. Peo-
pie will gladly pay their money to go and
see the magician or delusionist perform,
~ell-knowing when they 60 that they are
being humbugged and deceived, and indeed
they go and pay their money for the ex-
press purpose of being humbugged and
deceived. Are we not just as much en-
titled to pay for doing the same kind OF
business as the juggler is: Besides, we
educate the people. No amount of school
learning or newspaper instruction will ed
ucate a man as he is educated after we
have had few turns at him. We do not
take peoples money for nothing as is usual
ly said; we do more hard work for an
honest living than the skilled mechanic or
the average of merchants, lawyers, doc
tors or preachers


Such are the sophisms with which many Of
these men seek to conciliate their own con-
nefarious vocations. OF all the work that
= newspaper does, none is so thanklessly
received as its efforts to expose swindles
and humbugs, and it almost seems as if
none was more useless. 1t does seem some
times IS though men delighted in being
humbugged, and were determined to lose
no opportunity of satisfying this desire.


The latest dodge we have noticed is as
follows: The swindler represents himself
to be the proprietor Of hotel in Louis
Vile called the " Atlantic" He floods the
country with letters, in which he informs
each party addressed that relative of his
died at the Atlantic hotel short time pre-
vious, leaving trunks and moneys which he
desired sent to the friend he is writing to.
He then requests the friend to send the
amount of the deceased relatives bill,
when he (swindler) will instantly forward
oil the valuables now in his possession
OF course there is no such house as the
Atlantic in the city. This fellow operates
under the name of NJ. L. Mason, and hun
dreds Of letters containing money were
sent him within the last few days. Hap
PLY the fellow has been caught. and it is
to be hoped that his ingenuity will here
after be confined to making boots and shoes
or some other State prison industry.
Year: 1874

people Of this county and increasing their
taxes in order that he might grasp the last
farthing Of fees and commissions, and drain
the last drop Of blood nominated in the
bond, before he lost his clutch upon the po-
sition he was so unqualified to fill.


Let US look for = moment at some Of the
statements he makes in his "card." He
says that am the loan agent Of that grand
monopoly, the Etna Life Insurance Com
pany, aud that l take extended trips
through the State hunting up victims.-
Now every word Of this is absolutely false.
It is true that some five years ago, 1t the
urgent solicitation Of several parties in
Goodhue county, aided them in present.
ing their applications to that company for
money, and after hard struggle, sue
ceeded in getting the money. Since that I
have frequently done tho same thing for
others and in this way done much toward
bringing interest from 24 per cent. down to
IL. Win Hegna loan his money as cheap
Is that; company? Let him either put up
or shut up. never had dollar of that
company's money in, my hands or under
my control to loan to any one. I make
this statement to show that in his efforts to
dodge the charges he viii sink to any sort
Of falsi6oation, and do not make thunder
any sham pretense that would not loan
Year: 1874

feet wide and as deep as the river at the mouth


of the canal, from Chicago to Loclpo1t,-a ditch


that would not freeze in winter, would not fill


up from the..washngs Of the adjacent lands, and,


not being embarrassed with locks. would permit
continuous stream of water all the year round,
there would be possibly current kept up


sufficient to keep the South Branch aud the


main river pure for many years to come Pro-


vision has already been made for the puridcation
Of the North Branch by the introduction OF water
| from tho lake, thus forcing current that will


keep that branch comparatively clean. The
| canal has utterly failed to make the least i'm
preston on the water in that branch, and the
Fullerton avenue improvement is necessity.
May it not be prudence to take steps at this


time to provide for an outlet from the South


Brunch into the lake, and, by similar process


as that adopted to bring the water from the


lake into the North Branch, to throw the water Of


tie South Branch outward to the lake? Some
thing must be done for the future drainage Of


the city. To depend on the canal is only


to depend on temporary e1pediont. Owing to


SiCuk CaA1114t9 WHICH, UGlCu ua LII tAo IAo3


tho city got back the money it expended on tho
canal, md has used it otherwise. The canal
debt will eventually be retired and paid, but
long before that time Chicago will stand in
greater need Of sufficient drainage than it did in
1867, when that canal improvement WAS projected.
The present interruption of the drainage of the
river is but the beginning Of that general in
terruption which is inevitable from the iusuf1i-
cheney OF the canal to carry of the Wa
ter needed to keep the river comparative |
II free from filth and stiling odors, and
the warning is too impressive to be passed un-
heodod. Something must bo done. The city |
cannot afford to let the river become again the |
that it has been, and ret it is rapidly |
in that direction. Let us act now
let us have the surveys and the estimates for
system of drainage independent Of tho canal,
That this or next year tho work may be begun.
Public health ls above n1l price. Better do with
out Courthouse indefinitely than have the
Chicago River stencil oven for single season-
Dur trade and commerce. our whole material
as we'll as the personal comfort Of
he people, demand that sufficient system of
(rainage shall be maintained 1t whatever cost,
nd in preference to any other public work.
Year: 1874

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


Twill not undertake to answer in detail the un-
wise and very foolish objections which have been
made by some Of our aged of1cials as to our up
town improvements, but simply state a fact. I
know Of at least six owners OF lots on Riverside
Park who are willing and quite anxious to build
residences fronting ON this avenue when COM
pleted that will cost more than the land used for
the purpose has ever been SOLD for. The idea that
improvements on this island are In advance OF the
wants Of Onr citizens Is too ridiculous to merit an
argument. Since these Improvements were COM
menced the taxable value Of property above
street has increased nearly $40 000 000
as can be seen by reference to the tax books.


l. MCC
Year: 1874

OF an early and prosperous business In most
branches OF trade. At the Produce Exchange
business during the week rather light in
or two exceptional cases Breadstufs compara-
lively quiet but the downward tendency In prices
ch cked early In the week ana the bulk of the
tions were steady prices Toward the close of the
week, however, the market ruled dun prices re-
ceded materially under pressure to sell. Flour
quiet less irregular that prices not
tally changed Wheat qui and steady until
Thursday, when the market became dull and
prices nominal On Thursday and Friday there
was some pressure to realize, and sales
altogether lower basis Corn was fairly active all
daily foreign account Oats Irregular gen
orally higher, ruling heavy toward the close OF the
week. Whiskey quiet and shade easier. There
considerable irresuiarity in the pork market but
eventually the market was firm and higher prices
obtaned Lard firm all through the week, prices
showing slight appreciation Freights quiet and
generally irmer At the close than ON the commence
nent the week.
Year: 1874

4 practical dairyman says the first thing
to be considered in making good butter
is the proper care ofthe milk, which should
be drawn from the COW into clean vessels
and carried Immediately to the cellar or
milk room and strained. The milk should
not stand in the vessel in which it is drawn
from the COW moment longer than is alb
solutely necessary. Vessels for keeping
milk in for the cream to rise, l prefer
should be of tin, holding four or five quarts
each; they are lighter to handle in wash
ing and in carrying to and from the milk
room, and are not so liable to be broken
as earthen jars or crooks. The pans or
whatever is used for holding the milk
should be washed thoroughly and scalded
with boiling water ever time they are used,
especially in warm weather, and it is ad-
visable to sun them for a few hours.


The length of the time the milk should
stand before skimming depends upon the
temperature of the weather and milk room :;
the warmer the milk is kept the sooner it
must be skinned; the time with me varies
from twenty four to forty eight hours-the
shorter time in very warm weather, when
accompanied with thunder. The butter
is never so good when milk cannot be kept
for more than twentyfour hours. Igener-
ally succeed in keeping milk thirty six
hours in the warmest weather, with very
Year: 1874

Poultry should be fat and kept twenty
four hours from food before killing to have
the crop empty. Food in the crop sours
blackens the skin, Injuries the sale of poul-
try, and buyers will not pay for this use
less weight Opening the vein in the neck
or bleeding in the mouth is the proper
mode of killing. If bled inside the throat
! the bill should be pried open with piece
of chip and the poultry be hung up by the
feet on'a line This makes bleeding free
and prevents bruising. The head and feet
should be left on and the entrails in.-
| (Others advise drawing the entrails). The
flesh should not be mutilated in any man
ner. Turkeys and chickens dry -picke ed
keep much longer and sell higher than the
scalded. If the picking is done by scald-
ing, the water should be heated Just to the
boiling point, and the poultry held by the
feet, dipped in and out the water four or
FIVE times, counting three each time in or
out The work should be done quickly,
! neatly, and thoroughly


After picking, hang up the poultry by
the feet in cool, dry place, till all animal
heat is out and the poultry thoroughly
cold and dry. Avoid freezing. as poultry
will not keep long after thawing Wrap
in thin, light, strong paper Brown and
dark, heavy paper, having too much acid
in it, Injuries the poultry. The head should
be wrapped separately. Always pack head
downward. This throws the soft cntrails
on the breast bone. the poultry keeping
longer in this position. Pack in clean.
dry, tight flour barrels.


Geese and ducks, after being killed,
should have all the feathers picked Off
then rubbed all over thoroughly with fine
rosin, after which dip them in boiling hot
water in and out seven or eight times, then
rub off the pin feathers, after which wash
off the fowl with warm water, using soap
and hand brush immediately after
rinse them well in cold water, then hang
them up by the feet in a cool, dry place
till they are thoroughly dry, when they
can be wrapped and packed as before sug-
gested. Poultry thus dressed and packed
will, in moderately cold weather. keep
sweet and fresh for fifteen or twenty davs
and can he shipped from the extreme est
with safety, by freight.


Never pack poultry in straw as in damp
or in warm weather it causes it to sweat
or heat. Game, deer. rabbits, coons, op
possums, and squirrels should be opened
all the entails taken out, leaving only the
kidney fat; then the insides should be
wiped perfectly dry with a soft clean cloth
after which wrap the small game in paper
packing back downward. Wild turkeys
ducks, geese, grouse, pheasants, quails
pigeons, and birds of all kinds should al
ways have the entrails left in them. anC
the head and feet left on. They should
never be mutilated in any manner. Drawn
birds sour in short time. and sell for les:
than the undrawn, even if sweet. Wral
the head separately in paper, then the
body. Pack head downward in tight
clean barrels, the same as poultry. Ship
pers should remember we'll that all game
and poultry should be thoroughly cold
before being packed, otherwise it will soor
sweat and heat. Barrels are the best pack
ages that shippers can ship in.--Narytond
i Farmer
Year: 1874

rare exceptions, and then it is always in


very hot sultry weather, accompanied with
thunder but | always make the best but
ter when the milk is kept forty-eight hours.
One reason is, the weather is always
cooler. The milk should always be skim
med when it becomes thick or clabbered,


whether the time it has stood be short or
long.


Cream may be kept a week in cool wea-
ther, and make good butter; but in warm


weather, churn twice week-three times


is better, unless kept very cool. I have
never used thermometer, consequently


am unable to say the exact temperature at
which cream should be churned to obtain


the best results; but if the cream be too


warm, the quantity will be increased at the
sacrifice of quality.


Catfish.


The following is from the Calvert Jour-


nal: MANY of our readers may not be


aware of the fact that the catfish trade of
the Patuxent river has become quite an


important business. For several winters
past this branch of trade has been grow
ing, and preparations have been made by


DR.. Richard Stanforth, at Deep Landing,
to go into the business on much larger
scale than ever before. DR.. Stanforth has
just completed pond in which the fish
are placed when caught, and so kept alive
to await shipment. This pond has been
made in creek on the Deep Landing farm,
by using wire fencing above and below,
so that while the water passes freely with
the tide, the fish are kept ''till called for.
This pond will hold from two to three
thousand bushels of fish, which are taken
out when wanted by large 'dipnets," and
when the supply on hand becomes reduc-
ed a small seine will be used in catching
them. DR.. Stantorth buys all the catfish
that are brought to him alive, and quite
number of seines on both sides of the River
will be run constantly after cold weather
sets in, for the purpose of supplying this
demand. After the season fairly opens, it
is expected that large quantities of fish
will be shipped to market every week;
quite large force of hands skilled in the
business will be kept employed in prepar-
ing the fish for shipment. The fish are
dressed" that is skinned and cleaned,
and packed in boxes with ice, and shipped
on the Patuxent steamers to Baltimore, and
thence through the canal to Philadelphia,
which is the~great catfish market of the
country. Why more catfish should beco
sumedin Philadelphia than any other place
in the world, except Huntingtown and its
neighborhood, is a conundrum which thel
Journalmen can't answer, but such is tf
fact. As may be supposed large cutli
of money will be necessary to carry q
such an extensive business, and as tn
greater part of this money will be spent
the purchase of fish, and in obtainiz6
during the winter to ill the comodid
house which is now being construc1
Deep Landing, residents of the nei2
hood take mitch interest IN the ente
and DR.. Stanforths success in the b,
will be conducive to the welfare of
many people in the vicinity
Year: 1874

~ A bashful young man mortally of
Tended the bride ofhis most intimate friend
by stammering, when taken aback bv
request for toast at the wedding supper:
"Iom, my friend, may you have a wedding
once year as long as you live"
Year: 1874

She signed this Ellen A. F. Campbell,
Incorporating her initials with the name
of Scott's Lady of the Lake, and forwarded
it to the poet. In those days Of slow
coaches much time must necessarily
elapse before response could be receiv-
ed, and it is but natural to suppose that
during the interval buoyant hope and
lively thought alternated with missgivings
and doubt as to the reception of her let
ter Perhaps when the first glow of ad-
vcnturous feeling passed, she half regret
ted her action and felt the natural shrink
ING Of a woman's heart from offering itself
unasked, even in Jest. And when at last
the long looked for, hoped-for packet ar
rived. with what trembling eagerness she
must have opened and read it.
Year: 1874

led to conclude that there is probably
some antagonism between the venom OF
a poisonous serpent and the virus OF a
mad dogs saliva. He imagines some
such relations to exist here as between
the active principle of contagion in the
smallpox and the cow-pox Surprising
this to be the case, he imagines that
immunity from hydrophobia may be Sc.
cured by innoculating human beings
with serpent poison before they have
been exposed to the bites of mad dogs.


There are perhaps timid or fastidious
persons who would esteem remedy like
that here proposed to be worse than the
disease. And others might be disposed
to take their moderate chances of death
by hydrophobia, which are perhaps about
one in one hundred million, rather than
to run the risk Of going off prematurely
by so ignominious cause as the poison
of serpent Mr.. Jitzki, however, is not
disposed to relinquish his hope of being
recognized as second Jenner for lack
of perseverance,. He notified the society
that before leaving the country he had
taken measures to catch and shut up
considerable number of the poisonous
reptiles, to whose bites he intended to
submit all animals in his neighborhood
which should happen hereafter to be
bitten by mad dogs.
Year: 1874

A cynic shrewdly remarks that wealthy
clergymen do not, to any great extent,
go forth to bear the tidings of salvation
to the heather. Perhaps there is GER
tain wise economy regulating this thing
based upon the reflection that tender,
capon.lined, daintily nurtured laborer in
the vineyard is temptation to the an
thropophagous savage that poor, hog
and-hominy.fed clergyman is in less
danger of offering. Brooklyn Argus.
Year: 1874

The Madison Courier has the followin


a sad tragic story comes to us from North
Vernon. A gentleman living near that
place named wilkinson is very wealthy
and the father OF three sons who have never
dwelt together in unity and peace. About a
week ago one ofthe sons abstracted from his
fathers safe $4,000 in bonds and fled. On
Monday it was learned that the thief was in
Kansas, and one of his brothers telegraphed
10 that State ordering his arrest. Tine of
fieers made the arrest and were preparing to
bring the young man home, when he placed
a revolver TO his head and blew his
brains out, dying instantly. At
Year: 1874




CARLYLE on CAPITAL AND LABOR. The
following unpublished letter from Mr..
Carlyle to Sir j. Whitworth, regarding the
announcement made some months ago
Of the latters intention to supplement
the savings of his work people by a bonus
upon them was read ON January Goth, by
the Hon. and Reverend W. II. LyttletoD,
at a meeting of the Stourbridge School
of Art: II have heard of your offer on
behalf of the thrifty work people Of Dar-
ley, and of the thankful acceptance of it
by the district authorities of the place.
! cannot resist the highly unwonted de-
sire that has arisen in me to say that
highly approve and applaud the ideas
You have on the subject, and to declare
in words that in my opinion nothing
wiser, more beneficial, or worthy of your
distinguished place as master OF work.
ers has come before me for many year.
Would TO heaven that all or many OF the
captains of industry in England had
soul in them such as yours, and could do
US you have done, or could still further
cooperate with you in work and plans to
the like effect. The look of England is to
me at this moment abundantly ominous.
The question of capital and labor, growing
even more anarchic. insoluble altogether
by the notions hitherto applied to it, is
pretty certain to issue in petroleum
one day unless some other gospel than
that of the Dismal Science come to il
Illuminate it. Two things are pretty sure
to me. The first is, that capital and la
Dor never can or will agree together, till
they both, first OF all, decide on doing
their work faithfully throughout, and
like men Of conscience and honor, whose
highest aim is to behave like faithful
citizens of this universe, and obey the
eternal commandment of the Almighty
God, who made them. The second thing
is, that sadder object than either that
of the coal strike, or any conceivable
strike, is the fact that. loosely speaking,
all England has decided that the profit.
ablest way is to do its work i'll, slimly,
swiftly and mendaciously. What a con-
trast now and, say, only hundred years
ago. At that latter date. or still more
conspicuously for ages before that, all
England awoke to its wo,k with an in
vocation to the Eternal Maker to bless
them in their days labor, and help them
to do it we'll. Now, all England, shop
keepers, workmen, all manner OF COM
peting laborers awaken, as il an I'M
spoken, but heartfelt prayer to Beeize,
bub: oh, help us, thou great lord oi
shoddy, aduteration. and malfeasance,
to do our work with maximum OF
slimness, swiftness, profit, and menda'
city, for the DEVILS sake, Amen.