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Year: 1879

Who would have thought twenty years
ago that Americans would have ever be-
come people so devoted to athletic
sports as they seem to be now? Then
rowing was in it's infancy. An annual
boat race between Harvard and Yale was
about all the country had in the line of
aquatic contests Since that time how
the love of this sport has increased until
rowing matches of great interest occur
almost each week as long as the tempera-
ture will permit every year. Wrestling
matches are of comparatively later orr
gin, but now experts at this physical
sport are as thick as fleas in the proverb-
ial localities. Base ball is the rage"
and seems to grow in. popularity with
each succeeding 6 year. Pedestrianism has
almost taken the country off its feet, and
every four corners this summer will have
its walking matches. 1t can no longer
be charged with truthfulness that we as
a people are afraid to use our muscle or
to enter into athletic contests with our
neighbors, The season that has just
opened promises to surpass all others in
the past in the number and Importance
of its athletic matches. Intense activity
prevails among the rowing clubs of the
country, while all the champion rowers
are challenging right and left.-7roy (N
~ Budget.
Year: 1879

While parents and guardians would
consider themselves culpably negligent
if children under their charge should
partake of poisonous food or drink, yet
how few areequally solicitous as to the
character of the mental food supplied to
the youthful mind. Three New! York
forgers, brought back from Barbados by
the police, ascribe their crimes to the in
fluence of dime novels. 1t is not enough
that parents should simply forbid
their children reading such demoralizing
literature; it is equally important that
every household should be supplied only
with papers, books, and magazines that
are elevating and instructive in their tone
and contents. The active minds Of youth
demand some occupation, and will gravi-
tate towards that which is exciting and
stimulating, unless wiser counsels pre-
vail Let those in authority beware of
the presence frank moral poisons in the
household.
Year: 1879

y Thanks to Hon. james Smith, Secretary
of State, for pamphlet copy of the Report of the
Senatorial Investigating Committee Doniphan
County had four members in the Legislature,
who received ten or dozen copies apiece Of this
Report. They scattered them promiscuously
among those who have no other use for them
than for shaving paper, or still baser uses, while
not one of them thought of Us. 1t has occurred
to NJ, that if We had as completely ignored these
gentlemen previous to the election as they have
us since that event, it might have gone hard with
some of them, aud we should have heard some
loud squealing. Now that We have a copy, We
shall examine it, and see what there 10 in the
evidence as to bribery.
Year: 1879

A lady writer in one of our exchanges
furnishes some of the reasons why
Eve did not keep hired girl. She says


There has been great deal said about
the faults of women, and why they need
so much waiting on Some one, Ia man
of coursci has the presumption To ask
why, when Eve was manufactured of a
spare rib, a servant was not made at the
same time to wait upon her, ?" She didn't
need my. A bright writer has said that
Adam never came whining to Eve with u
Year: 1879

1t WAS Sabbath in the little town OF
Frisco, and holy quiet settled down,
az though a mist from heaven, with the
sunlight DER the Wasatch mountains,


wrapped all In peace. Out from the
little town came the stage. Dick Catlin
was the driver, and better one never
whaled the flank of a broncho. The
warm sun thawed the old mans heart,
and the memory of old times stole into
his soul, bringing back again the days
gone by the swimming, apple.stesliug,
dog>6ghting days when he was boy.


Rounding point in the river, the shade
fell across nook. Dick pulled up, and,
as he had DO passenger, concluded to
take q swim. He knew his team and
they knew him. they had been TO-
gether Tor years, and as Dick dropped
the lines he said to himself: There is
nothin' like tnowin' stock that is posted,
Stay still nov, boys" (this to the borses)
"and the old man will have a good
wash" Undressing and piling his
clothes on the seat, Dick left the stage
and plunged into the cool waters. But
the stock" Was posted" No sooner had
Dick plunged in than they plunged out,
and when he crswled out on the bank a
streak Of dust away off through the
sage brush was all that the poor fellow
could zee. Now came the tug of war.
The team kept the road, and Dick knew
that by cutting across the country and
running he could head them of. There
was no one there 10 witness that race.
and TO laugh at tbst big, burly, stark
naked man, outrunning the Jack. rabbits
In the valley OF Beaver. When he over
took the stage and got the team under
control he didn't say much, but, picking
the cactus and the sage and the grease
wood from his limbs, he swore that if
the good Lord would forgive him tha.
time be would never wash any more.
And to this day Dick has kept his
promise
Year: 1879

and night. Next vedro Of dogs dung
is boiled In as much water as will soak
hity skins, the latter being put into this
solution when 1t is at the heat which the
skins can bear, and in this they remain
one day and night. The skins are then
sewed up wster-tight; about one-third
OF what the skin will contain is then
filled up with leaves snd small twigs,
chopped together, of the plant called
toloknanka, or besrberry, and the skins
filled with water they are now laid one
on the other in a large trough, with
heavy stones upon them, so as to press
the infusion through the pores Of skin in
about four hours. After this, the skins
are taken TO the river and washed, and
are ready for the dyeing, the white.t
skins being laid aside for the red and
yellow leather.
Year: 1879

three quartsrs of an hour. This prepa'
ration OF tapioca IL superior to any


other, 10 nourishing, and suitable fol


delicate children.


LEMON PIR.-First make your crust
and line your .dish; next take one Ia
blespoonful OF cornsstasch, wet with .
little cold water, pour on one tescupful


Of boiling water, and cook as for starch


ing clothes; set away TO cool. Crate


the rind of one lemon, souef ze the juice,


removing the seeds, and the pulp cut In
bits, the shell being worthless. Beat
the yolks of three eggs with one teacup
OF sugar; put your ingredients together,
adding . pinch OF salt, pour into your
dish and bake In Q moderately heated
oven. When nearly done, beat the
whites Of three eggs TO . froth and add
four tablespoonfuls Of powdered sugar
remove the pie, spread the frothing with
. knife, and set 10 the oven until nicely
Drowned.


BFEPsrKAK PUDDING. - Take two
pounds Of round steak, one teaspoonful
each Of summer wvory, celery salt, and
one small onion chopped very fine, a
sprig of parsley, salt, and white pepper.
Cut the steak into small pieces and place
q layer of It in buttered dish, the sides
Of which Jou have lined with paste.
Sprinkle over the steak some OF the
onion, celery salt, &C.; add another layer
of steak and seasoning until all Is used,
then pour over 1t a little water and
cover with paste. Place on the top OF it
q buttered paper, and stand 1t in basin
of boiling water, cover it tight, and let
II boil two hours and a half. To make
the paste, take one teacup and half OF
-four, q half teaspoon ul OF salt, and two
tablespoonfuls of roast beef drippings,
and wet 1t up with half teacupful OF
water.


SOUR BRATEN.-Iake eight pounds Of
rump, not too lean; dry the meat with
. cloth; mix q pint of vinegar with tie
same quantity of water; put the beef in
a deep earthenware pan, and pour the
vinegar and water over 1t; leave the
meat In the mixture for two hours, turn
ing 1t from time to time; take it out
and rub the meat with two tablespoon.
fulr of salt and tablespoonful Of pepper ;
cut in strips half pound of fat smoked
bacon; take baking pan and cover the
bottom with the strips Of bacon cut in
thin slices three large carrots. three
onions, . stick of celery, one bay Leaf,
twelve cloves, and crate small piece Of
lemon or orange peel; put the beef in
the pan on the strips; sprinkle the beef
with the cut vegetables add two large
tablespoontuls Of brown sugar; cover
the beef with what remains of the bacon I;
pour on the vinegar and water, and bake
slowly for four hous. As It evsporates
in baking, pour from time to time some
warm water iuto the pan, not pouring IT
on the beef. May be eaten hot or cold.
The tauce may be strained or not. Sour
braten, in some respects, Is the German
a Ia mode beef. 1t ID national dish, and
being less troublesome than a Ia mod,
beef, may be substituted for it.
Year: 1879

Few subjects attract more attention and
give rise to more discussion and want OF
agreement than that of the depth of piow-
ing. Many do not consider the very impor-
tanr fact that deep or shallow ploWlng de-
pends upon the nature of the soil. The
truth is, there are many soils in which If one
plow deep hemay find great profit in doing
so; but on the other hand, there are thou
sands and thousands of acres of land where
it is sheer madness to plow deep. On Hat
clay land where water cannot drain rapidly
away, and where the lack of drainage IS
the bane of the cultivator, it is found by cx-
perience that shallow but rich surface soil
is much better than deeply-stirred one.
And the reason is obvious. If water be an
injury, and it cannot get into the soil by
reason of the hardness of the subsoil, the
rain will pass over the surface to the open
bitches, which always have to be made in
fiat country. If we loosen such sell deeply
we only harbor more of our liquid enemy,
and this counterbalances what otherwise
might be good thing in a deep soil. Be
sides these, there arc other considerations.
If the surtace-soil be poor, and we turn this
down into still poorer subsoil, we bury
what little good there might have been in
the surface-soil far below the reach of the
roots.


A little learning is undoubtedly a danger
Gus thing in farming. There is no depart
ment of industry wherein circumstances
alter eases more than in this. While deep
plowing is an excellent thing when circum-
stances suit, there are innumerable eases
when it is wise to go the other way.-Ge'.
nantoaon Telegraph.
Year: 1879

TIE prospect for swine raising does not
appear SO good at present as heretofore.
Montana farmers are still getting good prices
for pork, but we cannot reasonably expect
Il continuance of present figures much
longer. st. Louis and Chicago packers are
only paying from $40 to $3.50 this season,
and onr merchants are confident that clear
sides will be laid down at Benton in the
spring 1T five cents per pound. This Will
necessitate decline in Montana made bacon,
as It will not command more than q cents
above states made at best. These facts may
have a tendency to discourage the industry.
There is however little cause for alarm. we
do not pretend to argue that we can COM
pete in hog raising with the great states Of
Missouri and Illinois With our present prices
of labor, yet the hog may be made quite
profitable. A limited number can be kept
BY every farmer and dairyElan. and almost
without cost. Hogs are essential to gather
up the waste which occurs in oll' extraya-
cant mode of farming. and which would
otherwise be lost. Every family uses a cer-
tain amount of lard and bacon each year.
This should be produced ut home. 1t IS
cheaper to produce it than to- buy at any
price. Those who have entered into swine
raising AS a b,lsinesssWill have to rely on the
quality of their products. By curing their
own meat and marketing it in good shape
in the small mining camps, they will still
be able to get as much rs has been realized
the past year from merchants. Those who
,taI ma
not be alarmed at the present decline. Some
of the wealthiest men i'm the Mississippi val
lev made their money raising hogs. and
this depression in. prices Is realized at least
once in every six years, but patiently bldlng
their time, they have made it win ia the end.
The Montana farmer will probably undergo
the same experience, but he should not be
Discouraged but proceed more cautiously; il
is all that is necessary.


Five yearssago Bitter Root farmer who
had transported his oacon III early spring,
over miserable loads, and received twelve
cents per pound for it. assured us that ne
was well satisfied, and if these prices could
be maintained he could make handsome
profit. If the class Of hogs grown IN Bitter
Root at that time could be made profitable.
in those days, at that price, good breed
would>he equally remuneratiye now, at three
or four cents less.


The outlook is not SO promisingeas here
tofore, but twelve months will probably
bring change. 1t will reduce the cost oi
production if nothing more. Let the farmer
he cautious but not abandon the business.
Year: 1879

The burning of the stables of the Eighth
Avenue Street Railroad Company yesterday
afforded our fircmcn another opportunity OF ex-
hibiting their energy and courage; and the
public will learn with much commseration
that they were shown, upon this OCCASION
at the possible expense of human life Several OF
the force experienced severe injuries. which ID one
case are likely to prove mortal. There sreason Tor
congratuation that the hlmes'were confined TO the
stables and that the distress aud danger winch
would have followed the extension OF the IRE To
the tenement buildings in the neighborhood were
averted In this age of humanity, some sympathy
ought to be felt for the poor horses, one hundred
and fifty in number also burned. The life of a car
horse is not an easy He works hard, IS not
at least luxunously cared for. and is soon worn
out in the service. STILL If permitted to make
choice we presume that The worst bundle OF
equine bones would prefer to pull on little longer
Whether it would be any comfort TO him II he
could know that he Is insured against fire. we cam
not say but we do not well see how 1t could be-
However one hundred and fifty Eighth Avenue
horses will drag their heavy loads no longer. The
cars will continue to run, but tLey at any rate are
n rest.
Year: 1879

1t is difficult to see how the war in South
America can be prolonged with any hope by
the allies ii the news published yesterday is
accepted as Trustworthy. For eight months
the Chihans held the disputed territory while
the allies made no direct efforts to dis
lodge them. At last, after the Peruvian
Navy has been virtually swept from
the sea. the Chilians assume the offensive,
Year: 1879

Tie observanoes of Thanksgiving Day will
include, as usual, some attempt to extend the
cheer and hospitality of the day to the I'M
fortunate inmates and dependents of chari-
table institutions and missions. Those who
are anxious TO join in this pleasant work ca ,


easily find out from our local columns how TO
nut a turkey where it will do the most good.
After they have done it. 1t will be all the
pleasapter to make another attempt tomorrow.
Year: 1879

No man could desire more sincere and
affectionate tribute than the public ceremony
at the Academy OF Music last night,
which closed the commemoration of the
twenty-hfth anniversary of Bishop Potter's
elevation to the episcopate. Under the
circumstances this easily took the shape
Of personal ovation, unhampcred
BY the restraints that necessarily at
tended the former services. Mr. Eyarts
spoke with characteristic felicity, and the re-
ply Of the Bishop TO this address and the pre-
sentation speech of Mr.. Jay, breathed gentle
Year: 1879

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue re-
ports an improved condition of the service.
The receipts for the past four months are
better than usual. in spite of the loss from
the reduction of the tobacco tax. 1t is
believed that violations of the revenue
laws are now as infrequent as can be
expected. and it is even thought that there Is
a growing sense of duty to the Government
in the regions where neither fraud upon the
revenue nor the assassination of revenue Off
GERS IA considered a crime.
Year: 1879

Congressman Manning. of Mississippi speaks
rather contemptuously of the alleged Southern
Democratic Grant boom. Concerning the assertion
that Grant would be able TO carry several Southern
States he says to reporter of The Washington
Post Nobody but politicians who have soue end
TO gam by IL would make such crazy assertions,
and no sane man ought to pay any attention 10
talk of that kind"
Year: 1879

The amount of talk which IS devoted to the ques-
tou of removing George c. Gorham from the Ma
tonal Republican Committee is absurdly out OF
with the Importance of the subject The
only thing 10 do with him is to drop him suddenly
and drop him hard. He is more OF Democrat than
a Republican. and more of humbug than either
Year: 1879

A novel courtship occurred at At
Ian ia, Ga; che other day. While q
widow lady was waiting in the rail
way station for train, a strange
gentleman walked up to her and
poured out tale of love with such
volubility and ardor that she could
not stop him till he wound up with
an offer of marriage. He informed
the lady that he owned one thou
sand acres of land in the western
part of the state, and was the fond
parent of two interesting children,
aged seven and eight years. II =
begged her to marry him at once,
and If she could not do so, then to


egister a promise that she would
not defer the nuptial ceremony
longer than the ensuing Saturday.
When the lady got a chance to
speak she replied that, never having
seen him before, and not even
knowing his name, she could not
for a moment think of marrying
him in such haste. Upon this the
passionate lover granted her brief
hour for reflection. and walked
away, but returned promptly befoI e
the departure of the train, and tax
ing a seat behind her in the car, he
resumed his pleadings in the most
ardent manner, and was thus en-
gagged as the train passed out of the
station. 1t would be interesting to
know the result of this strange love
affair, but the Boston Journal
thinks the chances are that the ar
dent wooer won the widow.
Year: 1879

The absorptive power of charcoal
is well known in the arts. Its ca


pacity in this direction is most re-
markable. Accurate experiment
has proved that in twenty four
hours it would absorb ninety times
its own volume of ammoniacal gas,
eighty times its volume of muriatlc
acid gas. and sixty five times its
volume of sulphurous acid gas. 1t
is this remarkable quality that
makes it so valuable in destroying
odor, color and taste in many sub
stances, and preserving meats, veg


etables and fruit from rapid decay.
Its use as filter in cisterns is well
known, aDd it's value here depends
upon the same quality. 1t sepa-
rates and appropriates to itself the
decsying matter and other impuri


ties in water, rendering it pure and
sweet. If placed an the surface of
the soil, it will gather from the air
moisture and gases and impart
them to the growing plants. On
the same principle its value in. the
barn yard, stable and hog pens, as
an absorptive agent, is incalculable.
When used for this purpose to form
the basis of manure, it should be in
the powdered state Ohio Farm'r.
Year: 1879




- And then remember, my son, you
have to work. Whether you han
die pick or a pen, q wheeibarrow
or a set of books, digging bitches
or editing a newspaper, ringing au
auction bell or writing funny things,
you must work. If You will look
around, you will see that the men
who are table to work are the
men who work the hardest. Don't
be afraid OF killing yourself with
son. 1t is beyond your
power to do that. Men can not
work SO hard as that on the sunny
side of thirty. They die some
times, but It's because they quit
work at 6 p. m, and don't get home
until 2 a. m. It's the intervals that
kills, my son. The work gives you
an appetite for your meals; it lends
solidity to your slumber; it gives
you a perfect and grateful apprecia.
ton of holiday. There are young
men who do not work, my SON
young men who make a living by
sucking the end of a cane; whose
entire mental development is insult
ficient to tell them which side of
postage stamp to lick; young men
who can tie a necktie in eleven diff
ferent knots and never lay a wrinkle
in 1t, and then would get into a
West Hill street car to go to Chi
cago; who can spend more money
in day than you can earn in a
month, son, and who will go to the
Sheriff's to buy a postal card, and
apply at the office of the Street
Commissioner for a marriage Ii.
cense. But the world is not proud
of them, son. 1t does not know
their name even; it simply speaks
of them as old Soanso's boys. No
body likes them, nobody hates
them, the great, busy world doesn't
even know they are there, and at
the great day of resurrection, il
they do not appear at the sound of
the trumpet, and they certainly will
not unless somebody tells them
what it is fer and what to do, 1
don't think Gabriel will miss them
or notice their sbsence, and they
will not be sent for or disturbed.
Things will go On just as well wi b
out them. So find out what you
want to be and 10 do, son, and take
off your coat and make a dust in
the world. The buster you are the
less deviltry you will be apt to get
into, the sweeter will be your sleep,
the brighter and happier your holi
days, and the better satisfied will
be the world with you.
Year: 1879

"Call no one happy till he dies" the old
Athenian saying, has the stamp of truth;
And obi how many . bright and glowing


youth.


Lit with the mornings sunshine and its gold,
As years swept on has darkened with the mold
Of vice and bitterness and sin-brought carel
How many fond and fearful mothers prayer
Had been uttered If she could have told
His future life whom she sought God to sparel
NAY, rather she had prayed he sh 'uld lie cold
In all the purity Of his childhood drest;
And standing DER my fIst-borh's little grave
/ can but humbly murmur God knew best;
Stainless He took the precious flower de gave.


-IGood Words.
Year: 1879

good remedy for cold feet is to
tathe them at bedtime, commenc-
ing with water at blood heat, and
gradually raising the temperature
Till the water is as warm as
as can be borne. They SHOULD be
dried with q coarse towel, rubbed
well with an inunction, and then in
cased in a well warmed pair of cot
ton stockings. Vasehne is recon
mended as an Injunction. Salicylic
acid and bromide of potassium (ot
each five grains, add one ounce OF
vashne) will often remove fostor il
present, and plunging the feet in
cold water on rising in the morning
will often act well. Boots that are
thin, or light and low shoes, should
b. avoided in cod or damp weather.
Heavy, 1oose-itting boots, with
double uppers and wide soles, are
proper. India rubber overshoes
shonld be worn in damp weather
only, and should be removed as
the wearer enters the house,. Slip
pers should not be worn by either
sex during cold or even cool wealth
er. One of the ways in which a
cold is contracted is to exchange
warm boots for low slippers. Those
who do this forget their feet and
ankles have been protected all day,
and that they have not only uncov-
cred them, but placed them in the
coldest stratum Ct air in the room.
If they take the precaution to draw
on over the stockings they usually
wear a pair of heavy wooden socks.
the chances for taking cold from
wearing the slippers are greatly de
creased.


DIR. Rumbold says that most
women use the elastic garters, which
compress the veins and hinder the
return of the blood from the feet and
legs. Almost every patient claims
that her garters are not tight, yet
most OF them will acknowledge that
when they are removed at night deep
creases are found under the knees.
In order to keep up the stockings
without garters at all, they should
be pulled on over the stocking-knit
drawers, and fastened with tapes.
-Four of these tapes, about six
inches long, should be se~ed on the
drawers at about the middle of each
thigh, one on the outer side and
one on the inner side; also four
tapes should be sewed on one of the
outer and one OF the inner sides of
each stocking. The tying of the
-four tapes secures the hose in their
place, and as they are long enough
to come above the knees more of
the limbs is then covered than
when held up by the strangulating
elastic or non elastic garters.-


Boston Journal of Chemistry.