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Year: 1877

A New York dairyman of large expert
ence says:


To obtain q good lot of cows in the
shortest time, buy the best regardless of
cost But unfortunately, with most
dairymen this cannot be done tor want
of means. so We must look for other ways
to procure good cows. One way will he
to raise heifers from the best cows in the
herd, got by thoroughbred males of dairy
breeds. Thus, although not the quick
est, will be by far the cheapest and best
way to accomplish the desired result
A good COW often lacks much of being a
handsome one. But the size and shape
OF her head and horns have much to do
towards making her good COW. have
never vet seen good one that had large,
broad horns. The best cows carry a
small, fine head. with good sized ears
and in broad-hipped COW we always
| find the milk marrow well developed
Anyone who owns a COW should lose no
time in finding cut her qualifications,
and il she will not make, at the lowest cal
culation, 200 pounds OF butter per year,
she should be speedily disposed Of. In n
large herd it will be more difcult to ac-
complish this than where only lew are
kept. But still it can be closely approxi-
mated fcare is taken. A COW that gives
milk as blue as milestone is poor
property for any but a city milkman.
Many farmers keep too many cows that
produce that kind of milk. A COW can
be KEEP. until she is four years old with
out loss, as her growth will pay the cost
OF her keeping, and by that time the
amount OF her production should be
, ascertained beyond a doubt. / think
that with care in breeding, cows can be
raised that will yield, on an average.
three hundred pounds of buffers year, II
well kept.


Fifty years ago very few dairies in
New York averaged one hundrel pounds
of butter to the COW; now the best cows
doi,hree times as well. In one district
tla milk Of $500 cows is now received at
: single butter and cheese factory
l3robably greater changes will take place
id the next half century in New York
yusbapdry, as the Patrons of Hushandry
combii --ai'-Ance, activity and Co
bpers
Year: 1877

A young man entered the bar-room
Of village tavern and called for a
drink. 'No," said the landlord "you
have had too much already. You
have had delirium tremens once, and |
cannot sell you any more" He stepped
aside to make room for a couple of
young men who had just entered, and
the landlord waited upon them very
politely. The other had stood by 81
lent and sullen, and when they had
finished he walked up to the landlord
and thus addressed him six years
ago, at their age, | stood where those
young men now are. I was a man
with fair prospects. Now, at the age
of twenty-eight I am a wreck, body
and mind. You led me to drink. In
this room l formed the habit that has
been my ruin. Now sell me a few
glasses more, and your work viii be
donel l shall soon be out Of the way
there is no hope for me. But they can
be saved they may be men again. Do
not sell it to them. Sell it to me, and
let me die, and the world viii be rid
of me; but for heavens sake sell no
more to them r The landlord listen
ed, pale and trembling. Setting down
his decanter, he exclaimed, "God help
ing me, that is the last drop l viii ever
sell to any one!" And he kept his
word.
Year: 1877

How to deal with the tramps and
"peach plucks," who annually swarm
into this peninsula, is question that
seriously bothers our people. That very
manyof them are worthless, do-nothing
vagabonds, who, too lazy to work for a
living, scatter themselves over the coun-
try to prey upon the properly, or live
upon the bounty of Others, all are we'll
satisfied, and if that was the whole Of
it there would be no difficulty in know
ing what to do with them. The peo-
pie could utterly refuse to feed or em-
ploy them, but have them arrested
wherever found, and committed as va
grants, and in short time, by the ex-
ercise Of such vigorous means a stop
could be put to their inyasions. But
there's the rub. While there are many
Of them who really do not want work
and wouldn't take it if they could get
it, there are numbers among them,
honest, industrious men, who, thrown
out Unemployment in other places, have
come down into the great peach dis
trict with the hope of getting at least a
few weeks work to relieve present ne
cessities. These are deserving men to
whom the refusal Of little food and
other triAing assistance would be un-
charitable, and which would cause the
persons who refused it much regret
There are comparatively few people in
the world who are not willing to give
little assistance to their fellow men
when they think they need it and are
deserving of it; but nobody likes to be
@gouged" and everybody hates to give
Of their means to support worthless
drones in idleness. How to distinguish
between the deserving and the unde-
serving is the difficulty. Some persons
adopt the plan of giving to none, and
Of treating all thatapply to them alike
Others give to all and refuse none
when they have anything to give. The
former thus often unWittingly refuse
aid where it is really needed and de-
served, and the latter are guilty of
lending encouragement to vagabOndism
and idIeness. It is a hard alternative
to be put to, and people are often at
their wits end to know what they ought
to do.


Many of these creatures are genuine
"tramps" who never do a days work
from one end Of the year to The other
and get their whole living BY begging
and stealing. These prey upon our
Year: 1877

A SPECK OF WAR.-A band of des-
peradoes made a raid across the Texas
border into Rio Grande City last Sum
day morning, and released two muir
derers from the Jail in that town and
carried them off and made their escape
into the interior of Mexico, rendering
pursuit from the American side lmpOs-
sible. During the attack upon the
jail the county attorney and three jail
Ors were wounded. Alta cabinet meet
ing On Tuesday it was announced that
the Governor Of Texas had determined
to make requisition upon Mexico for
the delivery of the desperadoes to the
Texan authorities.
Year: 1877

Lucky is the baby whose mamma uses
GLENx's SULPHUR Soar, with which to wash
the little innocent. No prickly heat, or other
rash, can annoy the infant cuticle with which
this cooling and purifying antiscorbutic comes
in daily contact. Sold by all Druggists
Hills Hair b Whisker Dye, black or brown,
Rnc
Year: 1877

The gum used is imported d.
rectly from Africa, South America
and Central America, that from
Central America being the best,
while the African gum is the poor
est. The raw gum, which is nearly
white, is ground several times be-
tween immense futed iron rollers,
after which it passes through the
composition room, which process is
secret, but when it comes out the
gum has the black appearance of
common rubber. The next process
is that Of passing the rubber be-
tween chilled iron cylinders of
many tons weight, which are kept
very hot and very smooth. A part
of the rubber intended for "uppers"
is here spread upon and fastened to
long sheets OF cloth. The heels
and taps are stamped out of sheets
of gum of the required thickness.
The rubber cloth is now carried to
the cutters rooms, where it is cut
out and sent to the bootmakers.
The boots are made by men, the
shoes or ordinary rubbers by girls,
while the oyershoes are made by
either. One man will make twelve
or fourteen pairs of boots a day,
and receive twenty cents a pair.
An active girl will make from
twenty-five to thirty pairs of rub
bers. After the bootmaker is
through they are placed in an oven,
where for twelve hours they are
subjected to temperature of three
hundred degrees. They are then
ready for boxing and shipping. In
one factory about four thousand
pairs Of boots, rubbers and over
shoes are turned out daily.
Year: 1877

Phele's hair, and when first taken
out is red hot, and yet preserves its
peculiar characteristics. This sin
gular volcanic glass has always been
supposed to be formed by the wind
blowing the floating lava as it rises
from the crater, and causing it to
spin out. How it gets down under
Kona is a question for scientists to
solve. Numerous fishes were killed
by the action Of the volcano, and
were picked up on the surface by
natives cruising around the spot in
their canoes. The foreigners resid-
ing on the hill at Kealakeakua
watched the singular eruption with
glasses, but SO far as we could learn
it was not visited by boats until
after the passengers by steamer had
done so. What is most singular in
this connection is the fact that no
volcanic eruption has been known
to have occurred in the Kono dis
trict of Hawaii during the residence
of foreigners there, or within the
last hundred years. The active
fires and flows were supposed to be
confined to the summit crater of
Mokuaweoweo and to the districts
of Puma aAd Kau. The present
outbreak indicates that the internal
fires are again at work undermining
the earth crust below Kona, though
it is to be hoped that there will be
no further outbreak. How long
this eruption will continue in ac-
tion no one can tell; but it is high
! ly probable that the volcano will
soon burst out again, either near
this spot or somewhere else on the
Islands of Hawaii. 1t is quite
probable that her British majesty's
ship Fantoine, Captain Long, will
visit Kealakeakua bay during the
present week, aud if SO, will make
Investigations regarding this erup-
ton which viii be of public inter
est.
Year: 1877

In the wardrobe of Hebrew
lady, the most splendid article OF
clothing was the turban, for those
who could afford it. The poor peo.
pie had to be satisfied with wind
ing a piece Of cloth round their
head, and fixing it as well as they
could. The turbans were of various
colors, and wound in different ways;
some of them were like a high
tower. Shoes and stockings were
fastened with two latchets. The
ladies, who carried luxury into
every department, and who are sup
posed, even in the present day, to
be far from Indifferent to a nice,
neat boot, or to elegant slippers,
had their shoes, or rather sandals
and their latchets, made. of colored
leather; dark blue, violet and pur-
pie, were favorite colors. The
ankles were decorated with brace
lets of gold or dainty silver chains
and rings, with tiny silver bells.
Hair-nets and head bands we're in
great request. The latter were
made of gold or silver, and worn
under the net, extending from one
ear to the other. Earrings were
much thought of; we are told of
some that weighed a thousand and
seven hundred shekels of gold, and
were so large that a man could
easily put his hand through them.
Some of the women wore several
rings with little bells attached to
them. They were generally made
of horn or of silver. But the most
popular ring was the nose-ring.
The left ncstril was pierced for the
purpose, aud a ring made of ivory
or metal put through it. Bracelets
were favOrite ornaments, and were
generally worn on the right arm.
Some of them were exceedingly
large, so that they reached up to the
elbow. Rings on the fingers were
worn; chains Of fine gold, or
strings of pearls with little silver
balls, or small tinkling bells, were
worn round the neck.
Year: 1877

l never can forgive myself Your
mother warned me about keeping you
out in the night air on account Of the
typhus prevalent, and now have YOU
here and these terrible symptoms tell
of the approach of the destroyer. Let
me help you home rpy darling, and
should you die, the waters of Lake
Erie will close over my helpless form
forever. Come, sweet one, let me take
you home"


Ten minutes later that young man
stood over a sooner Of lager in cor
ner saloon, and wiped the prespiration
form his brow as he laid down his last
fifteen cents, and congratulated him
self on having beaten woman on the
ice cream business, while a young yo-
man sat on the doorstep waiting to be
let in, and SO mad she couldn't sneak.
Cleveland Herald.
Year: 1877

in mourning. Editorially it says these
are days of humiliation, shame and
mourning tor every patriotic citizen,
and 1t urges every upright citizen to grid
himself up for the work for redressing
this monstrous iniquity.
Year: 1877

EdHor Democrat Following my article on
hygiene permit me to present to you some re-
marks on water:


Conditions viii III are very important to the
Increase and permanent residence OF popula-
tion IN cities are good food, good water and
pure air.


Sanitary laws have been passed to protect
New Orleans from exterior disease, to provide
for the inspection Of food, to supervise and
regulate the condition of markets, etc, but
little attention has been given to water. In
what manner the law required for obtaining
good food is administered we do not know.
The casual glance which we have at intervals
of time given to some Of the markets induces
the belief that decided improvement might be
made in their management. The subject we
introduce to your notice is the
CITY WATER


the supply of which is in great part taken
from the Mississippi river and furnished in
the shape in which it is forced up into the
reservoir. If it be essential to human health
that the solid portions of food should be pure,
it must be necessary to have the fluid consti-
tuent water also pure. The amount of water,
however, required to put our food in that con-
dition necessary for its reception into the
body and for its resolution afterward is but a
small quantity of the whole amount which is
by each individual in his daily liv-
ing. Drink of all kinds isin great part water,
Year: 1877




WASHINGTON, August IA suit brought in
the Equity Court here against n bankrupt
coal company, shows that large amount OF
coal has been purchased from this bankrupt
company for the use of the House of Repre-
sentatives, and although it had not been
delivered. a certain sum Of money had been
advanced on account.
The law against advanced money on gov
ernment contracts being plain, the officers Of
the House who authorized the payment of the
money will doubtless have to sustain the loss.
Year: 1877

Especial to tho DemOerAt1


PARIS, Aug. 1.-Cassagnac, in reply to the
letter of the Bonaparist committee refuses, to
acknowledge the authority of the committee,
and says if the empire does not know how to
subordinate itself to the needs of France to
contain itself and wait it will never be re-
stored
Year: 1877

kind in town. In addition to its light and
graceful appearance, it possesses the advan-
tage of not obstructing the view of the passer-
by of the results of the taste of the owner of
the enclosed garden. If this style os fence
could be generally substituted for the homely
whitewashed board and picket deformities,
which now SO generally abound, the appear
ance of the town would be much improved.
Year: 1877

in the remembrance of observant readers, that
some months since it was stated, and never
contradicted, that Great Britain would not in
terfere until Russia carried the war into Ar
menia. Her advance into that region has for
some time been known. and now the proba-
bility is that Russia may find herself sudden
ly checkmated by powerful tri-partite alli-
not sent a squadron to the Levant for nothing,
neither have the Ambassadors departed from
the three chief capitals without cause.
Year: 1877

Especial to the Democratic


WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-There is no longer any
prospect of q short session, and members are
settling down for the winter. This session will
undoubtedly merge into the regular one. Not
much business will be done beyond passing the
army bill. but there will be Il good deal of spar
ring over other matters, such as the financial
question. etc.


There is q hitch in the programme of repeal
ing the resumption act, caused by o conflict
among those who support that measure in
general over details of method The Commit
tee on Banking and Currency had agreed once.
and the repeal bill was before the House. but
was STAYED off by fllibustering, since which the
phalanx of the supporters has been broken
with no immediate prospect of reunion.


There is no doubt now among well-informed
people that Conkling has given up any hopes
he might have entertained of effecting COM
promise with Hayes. and is preparing to make
general onslaught aloeg the whole line upon
the plan mapped out in my Utica letter Of Octo-
Der |. This fact inspires our senatorial claim
ants with new confidence. Enough has already
been ascertained to show that the break cannot
long be delayed Hayes friends in the Senate
will undertake to push the New York
appointments next week. as soon as the cleo
ton IL over, and that will precipitate The con-
Hict. The programme will be to discharge the
committee from further consideration of them
and then confirm them by aid of the Demo-
craey. The latter agree TO do this. provided
Hayes friends will act with them in similar
manner to dispose Of the contested aena ors
ships. There is ground for asserting that an
informal agreement to this purport has been
reached within two days, and may be carried
out next week or week after.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON. Nov. 2-No special measure was
the COMMITTEES on Banking and g rreney to
consider the remonetizaton of the silver do lar.
phiS phi;i, g.. eommttee F met at tn, rooms Of Mi
q bill, the scope OF which il as broad as the
most ardent advocate of the remonetization of
silver could wish.


This morning the entire Committee on Bank
ing considered again the D nding bill for the
repeal of the resump ion act


Z he subcommittee also submitted the silye-
bill referred to, which was discussed at some
length. and the consider ton of which VIII be
resumed after the adjournment of the House
To- day
Year: 1877

bus. according to adispatch to the State Depart
ment are undoubtedly In st. Domingo city and
not In Hayana as is generally believed. A sub
to the. great. explorer. The proper thing, It is
thought. to do would be to bring the remains to
this city, where there would be no trouble about
raising O monument over them.
Year: 1877

INFATUATED CoLoRED PEoPLE.-A
good many Of the colored people in South
Carroll na have gone almost crazy overthe
idea OF emigrating to Liberia. They ex-
pect TO be carried free on government
vessels, and many OF them have given up
attending their little homes, and refuse 10
labor for the white people, while some
have gone so far as to give away their
standing crops, being in daily expectation
Of the coming of the Liberian transports
to take them where they can get living
without working tor it.
Year: 1877

ScANDALous AND MERCESARY-Wel
have heretofore foreborn to speak Of the
men who operate the factories on the
Brandywine Otherwise than with respect.
But some ofthese people are shown in the
report of the committee Of the Board Of
Health, to be 50 mercenary thai forebear-
ance longer would be doing injustice to
this community. The men who run
these factories have been repeatedly urg-
ed to abate the nuisance they are charged
with causing upon the banks OF the
Brandywine creek above and adjacent TO
our city. But on every occasion they
have either denied the charge or promised
to abate the nuisance and still not
remedied the evil complained Of. And
here We present another instance Of this
character. The committee /. will be seen
in their report directly charge a Nuisance
to exist and purposely made upon the
Messrs. Bancroft's property, and at the
same meeting Of the Board of Health a
letter is submitted and read signed by
name Of this firm alleging that there
exists no nuisance on their property and
saying If such exists and it is pointed out
they will abate it. This dodge is scanda-
lous,mercenary and cruel to an extent that
we did not believe such vie conduct
could be attached to the character of any
owner on that stream. Years ago the
nuisance was pointed out and after re-
peated DELAYS iu which it was conclusive
ly shown that the nuisance would not be
abated unless the law compelled its
abatement aud when the law was found
to be IN the side of the people of the
city, then and only then was a promise
or willingness extorted to abate it from
the men who are perpetrating for filthy
lucre this crime; for nothing short O
crime it is to thus trife with the healtl
Of forty thousand people. 1t is disreput
able in the extreme and the whole com.
munity should rise and with one voice
demand that the nuisance be abated a
once. If there is one crime greater thar
another it is we believe trifiing witt
health and endangering the lives of the
people by the slow torture that results il
disease. And if the reports of the severa
Boards of Health during the past fv,
years be true our people have suffered al
of this at the hands of men who hav
heaped princely fortunes. Can these mel
reflect that while their factories arr
grinding out small fortunes every yea
the babes Of thousands of citizens ma
be drinking in the seeds of disease AM
the parents hearts wrung with anguish a
witnessing the suffering of sick and dyin,
little ones. OF what avail is the promise
Of such men as these? What do they
care for the children even Of their friend:
n the city-all they seem 10 aim at is /,
grind out the almighty dollar, and the,
laugh with caw-faw, at the terrors re
sulting from the illegal nuisances com
plaiDed OF By the Board. The injury i
not sustained by one class; the Brandy
wine water enters all dwellings, those {
the rich cannot be exempt-it is beyon
the power of man to avoid the evil re
sulting If it does result as the Boar
alleges.
Year: 1877

II certainly is time that the White
House should have an occupant who
would show some Of the gravity that i
supposed TO belong 70 the dignity Ct the
high functionary to whom the President
tlal mansion is entrusted. The people
must be tired indeed, of Presidential
junketing when such one sided politi-
cal journal as the New York Times be-
comes so disguised with it as TO allude
10 the Administration as it does in the
article from which We cut the following:
THE PRESIDENT AND THE SOUTH.
From the New York Times of Monday.


AT the risk Of seeming TO he ungracious.
we mu I say that the daily record of Presi-
dehtlal trips grow somewhat wearisome
II Is always the same old story-adulatlon,
bordering upon servility, on one hand a
eonhdlng, hopeful ami ability which some
Times look Ike weakness. on the other We
are not OF those VINO would assail the Chief
Executive for occasional absences from
Ihe capital and certainly if he NAV with
proprlety leave his post for any purpose OF





any place, a visit 10 mis- home and an ex.
change of pleasant words with men 1vi,b
whom he shared the griefs and glor;as NJ
the war might be supposed to be in or Ter
But these trips" OF President HAYES are
IN some respects peculiar. They are shared
oy We know not how many members q
MS Cabinet. a captious critic might de
care that the administration is on exhibi
ton rather than on its trial, and that tn
members thereof have constituted them
selves into mutual admiration society
whose reciprocal affiliations are expecte
70 please and Instruct the public. The al
legation would be plausible, though unius
The President is proud of his confdentia
advisers, and they in turn are grateful an
complimentary. The posturing resemble
little too closely some of the pictorial vel
sions Of the Happy Family, but he mus
indeed be sour-natured who likens the at
fair 70 show, or impugns the motives of tn
distinguished statesmen who figure in i
conspicuously. Only the thing does grow
rather liresome because it has had no oh
vious significance and has not risen abov
the dull level OF commonplace.


There is scarcely a doubt that tn