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Year: 1874

Miss Cushman's Farewell 60 the


Stage.


Only few weeks ago the public Of Paris
were called upon to assist at Nine. Dejazets
farewell to the stage The generation that
had first welcomed this actress to the stage
had passed away, but like other great figures
she had known how to conquer the admira-
ton Of the new generation. The demon
stration was as remarkable for its enthusiasm
number of persons distinguished in art and
literature as focked to pay homage to
genius that seemed to set time at defiance has
seldom been assembled even III Paris. All
that the exquisite taste of the French capital
could imagine was done to render the event
of Nine. Dejazet's withdrawal from the stage
an episode that would leave pleasant remem-
brances in the mind of the actress that only
death could blot out This homage to genius
does infinite credit to the Partisan public It
is just that we should ask ourselves if at this
moment we also could not do ourselves some
honor by paying well deserved tribute to
the genius and worth of the greatest actress
America has yet produced. The last night OF
Miss Cushman's present engagement will be
her final appearance ON the New York stage.
She will then bid long farewell to the pomp
and circumstance of the mimic world, in
which, for generation, she has reigned su-
prema At such moment it would be em-
inently fitting for the members of the literary
and artistic professions to mark in public
manner their regret at the loss the stage will
suffer on Miss Cushman's withdrawal into pri-
vate life, and their admiration for an honorable
career closed, after years of struggle, crowned
with unrivalled triumphs- No doubt the lead
ing actors and actresses Of the metropolitan
theatres would seize eagerly any opportunity
offered to them to show their respect and ap-
probation Of lady who does honor to the
stage. The initiatory steps, we feel, ought to
come from some Of the literary clubs Of the
city. The Century, the Lotos, the Palette, the
Arcadian ought, singly or in combination, to
take steps to organize such demonstration as
would adequately mark public admiration for
Miss Cushman's worth and genius. We feel
certain that it is only necessary to call atten-
ton to this matter in order to secure suitable
action on the part Of the numerous admirers
of the great American actress.
Year: 1874

One of Nellie Grants wedding dress
es used up forty yards Of white silk at
ten dollars a yard. Mr Sartors Will
doubtless find Miss Nellie dear little
wife, if he can ever find her at all in
that dress.
Year: 1874

D. Prentice, and was written for the
latitude of Louisville, KY:
Hurrah for the rights of man.
The day of his triumph has come,
And women and children have No rights
In this glorious age Of rum i!
Rum for the laborers arm
Rum for the scholars head;
Rum for the man that lies in the street,
And the man that lies in the bed.
Drunk drunk ! drunk


On Jefferson, Market, and Main
Drunk drunk drunk


Til the lamp posts reel again.
The little girls have no bread
The boys have no shoes to their feet;
! The CRATE is as cold as the pavement


stones


The father is drunk in the street.
Drunk drunk drunk


There's whisky at every door;
There's palace for whisky on every


square,


But no shelter for the poor.
There's darkness in the halls,


The voice Of joy IS dumb :;
And the graves, and the jails, and


the lunatic cells,


Are filed with the spoils OF lum.
John Blunt worked all the week
His fortune was his time
He drew his wages Saturday night
Six dollars-eyery dime.
And as lie sought his home,
Some friendly voice did say:
''Valk in, walk in. young shentlemans,
And hear de organ play.
There was music, and gas, and wine,


But not a kind word to save ;
And on Monday morning Johns chill


dren saw


Their father sent to the Gave.
A boat has left our shores,
TIC the Southern market bound
But the pilot was drunk and the boat


was sunk.
And a hundred people were drowned.
There was whisky enough for all,
But not life boat to save;
For the beauty Of woman and strength


Of man


There was Il watery grave
Drunk drunk drunk


Let the world do all it can
Let children starve and women pray
We will not barter our rights away
TO drink is the right Of man.
TO the city fathers we call
If you have children and wives,
How can you turn your eyes away
When we plead with you for our lives!
If you have hearts of flesh,
Hear lis while we entreat
That YOU break the foul, deceiiful snare
Set for our naked feet.


If you regard us not,


And no compassion take,
When the Lord demands your stew


ardship,


What answer will you make
Year: 1874

In turning over some old papers III
country attic some time since, L came
across the following sentiments, which,
from some hints by the author accom-
panying, think he intended eventually
TO put into verse They struck me
ever in prose, as expressing the cry
from so many hearts, that | have ven
tured to copy them ::and send them to
you, hoping that YOU may find place
for them i'll your paper


When the heart is oppressed with
anxious cares, when the world looks
cold and drear, when black disappoint-
ments hang heavy round our necks, and
we hunger after 4 love that seems ever
to recede, whittier do our souls turn for
succor? To that mother in Heaven
who never failed rs while here.


When our hearts ache to find our
selves no longer needed to partake in
the pleasures of our children-scarcely
welcome even to share in their sorrows ;
when cold duty takes the place of the
hearts offerings in sickness or suffering,
to whom do we cast our eyes upwards,
thinking, oh, were she here whom
should we find ever at our slde7 Our
mother in Heaven.


When those we love have gone astray,
and language fails to express the bitter
shame when the little feet whose first
totterng steps we have upheld, or
watched through the firmer strides OF
youth and manhood, have turned into
devious paths, needless OF entreaty or
prayer, whittier do we turn, longing to
rest our weary heads on tue bosom that
ewes answered our cry for sympathy =!
The mother in Heaven.


When years have passed, and we are
left alone, children gone, some separa-
ted by seas or mountains, Others by the
greater distance of coldness or forget
fulness. whose voice then comes back to
us with the loving tones we valnly long
to hear once more ? The dear mother
in Heaven.


Is not the wish wrung from us, that
once again we were children TO be clasp
ei in that warm embrace Do not the
bitter tears come rs ne remember how
unmindful we were of the rich mother
ly blessings while we had them!


Oh, We who still have mothers to feel
for you in your joys or your SORROWS
remember. however your hearts may
change, theirs never do; the mothers
heart is the one thing that never grows
old Amid the trial that must be our
portion in this world, good Being has
sent to all one blessing-one love purer
than all others. Happy are those who,
with anguish aud remorse, do not have
10 say. Il is nnr molher in Heaven.
Year: 1874

4 BOYS COMPOSITION OK Girls
Girls are the most unaccountablc things
in the word-eXcept women. Like
the wicked ticas, when You have them
they amt there. ! can cipher clean o
vei to improper fractions, and the tea
cher saws DO it iirst-rate, but / can
cipher out a girl, proper or improper
and YOU can't either. The only rule III
arithmetic that hits their case is the dou-
bic rule of two. They are rs full Of the
Old Nick as their skins can hold, and
they would die if they couldn't torment
somebody. When they try to be mean
they are as mean as purseley, though
they amt as mean rs they let on to be-
excert sometimes, and then they are u
great deal meaner. The oEly to get 4
long with a girl when she comes with
her nonsense is to give her tit for tat,
and that will hummux her and when
you get a girl fummuXed she is as nice
as new pie. y girl can SOW more
wild oats in 4 day than boy can IN n
wear, but girls get their wild oats sowed
after while, which boys never do, and
then they settle down as calm and plac-
id as a mud-puddle. But | like girls
iirst-rate and guess all the boys do. !
don't care how many tricks they play
on me-and they don't care either.
The hoity-toi,icst girl in the world can
not always boil over like a glass of So
da. BY and by they will get into the
traces with somebody they like and
pull as steady as an old stage
horse. That is the beauty of them.
So let them wave, say they will pay
for it some day, sewing on buttons, aud
trying to make decent man Of the fel-
low they have spliced on to and ten
chances to one if they don't get the
worst Of it,
Year: 1874

L came here thirty years since, and
began clearing land, building houses
with heWn logs and boards split from
the tree. After several years residence
L noticed very often that pieces of the
same KIND of timber decayed more
quickly than others and after much
obs ervatlon, came to the conclusion
that timber felled after the leaf was
fully grown lasted the longest. / no.
tlced that timber felled when the leaf first
commenced to grow rotted the sap of
very quickly, but the heart remained
sound that timber felled after the fall
OF the leaf rotted in the heart, even
ti Wnen apparently sound on the outside.


w men hre-wood cut in the winter was
put on the lire the sap came out of the
heart but when cut in the summer,
the sap came out of the sap-wood and
next the bark. / noticed also that all
our Iastlng wood had but little sap
at any tlme IN the heart such as cedae,


mulberry, sassafras, and cypress. "A
cypress post cut in the summer of 1888
IS stIll sound, although exposed to all
weathers, while one of the same kind
OF timber, cut in the winter of 1856
and painted, has rotted in the heart. l
saw Yesterday a piece of gum plank,


Whlch L sawed in the summer of 1859,


that has lain exposed ever since, and is
perfectly sound white oak timber that
was telled in the winter before is now


entirely rotten. My conclusion then is :
Cut timber after full leaf, say in July
and august, e get the most last from
1t. The sap soes into the heart of the
tree after leaf fall, and causes decay.


Arkansas Cor. Scientific american.
Year: 1874

We yield to no others in the earnest
ness of our belief in the higher educa-
ton of women: but we want to see
them take the matter In their own hands
and work out a system of mental cultl-
I vations adapted to their own ma
lures and needs. The higher education
as embodied in existing institutions
cannot meet this requirement. 1t is in
fact, under indictment for non-adapta-
ton to the present wants of men /; and
one of the most profound and impor-
tant of the reforms of our age Is that
thorough modification of collegiate
methods of study that shall bring them
up TO the demands of modern life.
That they now answer to these demands
bat very few will maintain. There are
many, and the number is increasing,
who do not go TO college because the
education there obtained is thought to
be of little use to the possessor, if not
indeed a hindrance to him in his future
experience with the world. Thousands
ignore all consideration of the useful
ness of what is 10 be learned, and go or
are sent to college because it is the
proper thing, a fashion of society, and
his its social benefits and many un-
doubtedIy go because they have been
made to believe that the old education
is the perfection OF human wisdom for
mental discipline, and is, after all, the
best thing even for practical life. Yet
the distrust of the system is deep, and
has already made itself so powerfully
felt that the colleges have been com
PEELED to yield to it, and in many cases
to modify their methods of instruction
and create supplemental schools de-
voted to modern knowledge. The
"a Tins in cfata Of
conflict and transition the old educa-
ton is giving way, and new education
is rising in its place.-POoulGr Science
1EoufhIU
Year: 1874

Sell no corn in the ear have all you
sell shelled-a hand shelling machine
will answer if your crop is a small one
If large, get one to be worked by a
horse power; neither will cost great
deal-and we are very certain that the
cobs, if crushed, steamed and fed to
your cattle, Will be worth more to you
in a single winter than the price of a
corn shelter, whether you get large or
a small on. We believe there is one
third as much nutriment in a bushel of
cobs as there IS in bushel of grain,
and we do know that COWS and oxen fed
upon three pecks of the steamed or
crushed cobs, in addition to their usual
quantity of hay, or tops of fodder, viii
keep fat. Then why haul your corn
crops to market to be given away? 1t
costs you as much to carry bushel of
cobs to market as it does a bushel of
corn. Shell your corn, leave your cobs
at home to nourish your cattle, and
through them your land and where
you now send one bushel of corn, you
will be able to transport two for the
same money. Look this subject fairly
in the face-consult conomy-consult
the comfort of your cattle-consult the
wants of your soil. and you cannot fail
to take our advice.
Year: 1874

Too low an estimate is apt to be set
on the domestic value of newspapers.
After reading them, and putting our
selves, through their agency, in mental
correspondence with the world, they
are thrown aside and forgotten. but to
suppose their usefulness bounded by
their news columns and the waste-bag is
Ia thriftless mistake.


y In the first place, there are the house
hold recipes, to be found IN stray cor
ners. often excellent, and deserving a
refuge on the fy-leaf of the family
cookbook. Then come the pretty
Aerses, the strange and drol stories,
The brief biographies and "reminiscences
which, pasted in a scrap-book, are. q
source of never-ending pleasure, not
only of those who do not care for richer
intellectual food, but to those who
have only odd minutes for reading.


Notwithstanding the squibs jocular
journalist have penned on the use OF
newspapers for bed-clothing, we know
from experience that these are not to
be despised. They may not be as com
Portable as your blankets, but GER
tainly they keep out the cold. Two
thicknesses of paper are better than
pair of blankets, and in the case of
persons who dislike the weight of many
bed-clothes, they are invaluable. a
spread made of a double layer of pa
pers between a covering of calico or
chintz, is desirable in every household.
ryNlft-a aTsaIyssrs aI,oI1I1 DO - -eSttiSI
with thread, and also basted to the COW
ering to keep them from slipping. An
objection has been made on account of
the rustling, but if soft papers be chosen
the noise will not be annoying, espe-
cially should the spread be laid between
a blanket and counterpane.


As protection to plants against cold,
both in and out of doors, nothing is
better. If newspapers are pinned up
over night at a window between pots
and glass, the flowers will not only not
be frozen, but will not even be chilled,
as they are so liable to be at this season.
In the same way, if taken to cover gar
den-beds, on the frosty nights of early
autumn, they will allow the plants to
remain safely outdoors some time later
than Is common.


One of the oldest services to put our
Aurnals to is the keeping of ice in sum-
mer An ingenious house-keeper re-
Gently discovered that her daily lump
of ice would last nearly twice as long
when wrapped in newspapers, and
placed in any kind of a refrigerator.
Ehis is very convenient, since 1T Is pos
Eble to have the best and cheapest re-
frigerator constantly at hand.


To polish all kinds of glass, no cloth
or flannel is half so good as a newspa-
per and for bakers dozen of other
uses, quite foreign to its primal pur-
pose. it is without a rival.-Scri6ner
for March.
Year: 1874

| While certain amount of salt is alb
! solutely necessary for the health of


stock, it by no means follows that its
| indiscriminate use Is either needful or
| safe. On the contrary, salt used IN ex-


cessive quantities is highly dangerous.


1t then acts upon the stomach and in


testines as an irritant poison, and cases


of death have occurred through per
4 kNitting cattle and hogs to consume too
f>much of it. When stock are allowed


access to it they will take small quan-


tity very often, but if denied frequent


supply they become ravenous for it,


and are in danger of eating it to excess.
Rhe safest way is TO use a small quanti-


1y regularly in the food; quarter of


an ounce daily being amply sufficient


for a hog or n sheep. If stock are


salted once a week no more than one
ounce at a time should be given to
COW, and a quarter of an ounce to
sheep or hog. It should also be given
IN such manner that no one animal
should eat more than its share. 1t NAV
be given scattered thinly in the feeding
trough with more safety than in any
other way, excepting when it is mixed
with the feed. Regularity in its use is
the most conductive to the health of the
cattle. We find it necessary to give
this caution because some of our read |
rs have been led to suppose, very err
that as salt is a good thing, |
stock cannot have to much of it
american AgTic1tlt,trist
Year: 1874

This has been a most serious enemy
for the last few years to fruit trees in
all parts of the country. Some years
it has nearly stripped the orchards Of
foliage to the great destruction of the
fruit crops, and If left alone to accumu-
\ late and gather strength, it will finally
Nery much enfeeble the tree. At this
Mason of the year will be seen a small
glutinous ring around the small
branches, and at or near the extremities
of these. This ring is composed of
eggs in number from three to five hun
Nred. In the winter the eggs are pro-
tected by waterproof varnish which
can be destroyed neither by frost nor
rain. There is no trouble about detect
ing the little knots to which reference
is here made. And now is the time for
their speedy destruction. For this
purpose it is best to select a cloudy
day, as on bright one the continuous
round of inspection which is carried on
is painful to the eyes. Take a basket
and ladder so that you may be able TO
ascend at pleasure Scrutinize the
branches closely, and cut off all those
on which eggs are located and burn
them. In this way, in one hour, m re
of the pests can be destroyed than in
whole day, further on in the season,
when they are scattered about ON the
tree. Ii any of the eggs chance to
be overlooked they will be hatched
open. At this stage the most effectuaf
method is to take a long pole, at the
end of which attach a sponge. Then
prepare strong lye, into which up the
sponge. Finally swab the nest of cat
erpillars thoroughly, and every single
insect that the sponge comes In contact
with will be killed.
Year: 1874

DoN'T TAMPER WITH CoUGH-Per-
haps in the whole category Of diseases
to which humanity is susceptible, the
cough is most neglected in Us early
stage. A simple cough is generally re-
garded as a temporary affliction-un-
pleasant and nothing more but to those
who have paid dearly for experience, it
is the signal for attack for the most fear
ful of all diseases-consumpti A
cough will lead to consumption, if not
checked, so sure as the rivulet leads to
the river, yet it is an easy enemy to
thwart, if met by the proper remedy.
Aliens Lung Balsam is the great cough
remedy of the age, aud it has earned its
reputation by merit alone. Sold by all
good druggists.
Year: 1874

The woods of Florida are reported to
be white with the snowy flowers of the
dogwood, the borders of the swamp
golden with the yellow jessamine, and
the farm-houses buried in a bed of
peach and plum blossoms, while the
warm air is burdened with the fragrance.
Year: 1874

Have you become so penurious, so
sordid that, for hope or gain you join
the vampires against yourselves
Don't all history and reason and COM
mon sense cry out against ysur indl-
ference and inactionl Don't the love
you bear your children appea! to you
to move, to make o stand before it IS
forever too late, and save them from
the evil consequences that have 'clung
to you, and which are now staring
them in the face, and which will surely
follow them down to the graves, unless
you now turn and face the foe who is so
arrogantly and persistently crowding
YOU out to make room for himself. He
don't economise with your money: he
always has enough, and always will so
long as you permit him to have his own
wav. IL reform comes at all it will
come through your own ea,nest and &C.
tive efforts and not by crying hard
timts.-Dirigo Rural.
Year: 1874




The Merchants Exchange and Board
of Trade of this city have united in
memorial praying Congress to grant the
aid desired by the Texas Pacific rail.
way. They urge that the completion
Of the road is necessary for the protec.
ton Of the Southern frontier; that it
will afford the only protection against
Indian raids to settlers and miners OF
the Southern territories, and will save
the government millions yearly in cost
of transportation of supplies to garri-
sons or to troops operating against the
Indians in that region; that it will So
cure competition in transcontl'
mental traffic, which wili reduce
the rates and4 draw to the
overland route larger share of COM
merce between Europe and Asia; that
it is but Just to the South, since the
present line leads to the northward OF
the capitals and centres of population
of % out of 81 States Of the Atlantic
slope; that it will stimulate the p7oduc-
ton Of cotton, which already pays the
interest on thirty millions Of foreign in
debtedness; that it will greatly increase
the supply of cattle, and cheaper food
to Eastern consumers it will develop
sheep culture in New Mexico, and sup
ply to wool manufacturers the cheap
qualities Of wool which are now import
ed at cost of over S20,OO0,0OO yearly
that it will develop the richest minera
regions OF this country and Mexico, ane
may speedily double our production Q
precious metals, that will prompt sucs
another food tide Of emigration ss fol
lowed the discovery Of gold in Califor
MIA. and the opening Of the Union Pa
cifc.
Year: 1874

resistably driven to the conclusion that
this whitewashed theory will not stand
the test.


We may feel slow to sever our old
party connections, but as it is impos-
sible for us to accomplish anything by
remaining in the old organizations,
why should we feel in doubt as to the
proper course 10 be pursued? We
have recounted our grievances time and
again. We have beSougft and in-
pl0red our rulers to protect us from the
grasp'of the cormorants who have fed
upon us, and to raise the load of tax,
State and county, weighing. us down,
but they have either added '.insult to
injury" or treated our appeals with
silent Indifference.


Why should we hesitate under the cir
cumstances We are drifting from bad
to worse, and unless we can
stay the tide ere long we will be en-
quilted in utter ruin. 1t is no longer a
matter of speculation as to whether the
people will inaugurate Il party and
place candidates of their own selection
in the field. The only question to be
determined by us is: Shall we con-
tinue to support the men and organiza-
tons that have only increased our
troubles rather than diminished them,
or will we avail ourselves of the pres
ent opportunity to encourage reform
that can be productive of good, and
only good, to the farmer, laborer and
taxpayer? We must either calmly sub
NIT, or, like men. dash old party ties to
the winds, and shoulder to shoulder,
support the peoples ticket. COLLINS