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Year: 1874

town takes out no license to sell, and yet keeps up the traffic? To be sure there is no worldly wisdom in paying out $10O in

 to the town treasury, when one can sell without, saving that money and perhaps making all the morel To save the price of license is wise in the sense that the unjust steward was. Certainly the town has to take care of the paupers I make without this help from me: but the rest must do the more. Perhaps, dear Editor, you like this woman's movement to stop liquor selling. We'll, there is certainly no need of being illegal in their methods, and no doubt they can do much tempora- " good. But would it not be still better for the VOteGs to go, and talk over the matter? Your 'tgood time" has not come yet, when woman can put down the traf- lie by the ballot. She is yet on that com- mittee of the publc's whose duties are to sweep, mind parents, and to be taken care of generally. I refer to that body called ''women, children and idiots,'' of which woman is chairman Surely she ought to be satisfied with that dignity. But, as was saying, how much better for the voters to take this matter of temper ance in hand. It would mean more; and It would be after the fashion of good Dea. Sherman, the old prophet of North Wood bury, who, years ago, dld so much for the cause of total abstinence here. I heard new story about him lately. It is just in point, and too good to lose.

 The Deacon had had his horses tail sheared, because of his faithful work

 One day seeing an old gentleman stop at the watering trough opposite his house who was somewhat given to drinking the Deacon went over and asked him in a friendly way if he:had not better give it up. "Oh," said his friend, s'I will only drink just enough to keep on my horses tall!' This is the plea here still of some who will not vote no license Butyour hum ble correspondent is not able to keep a horser' T
Year: 1874

On Saturday night the Dist inst, an attempt was made to fire the Congrega- tional parsonage in this place. About half dozen pounds of powder in paper bag were exploded on the hatchway door, doing no damage, however. except to dis color the building somewhat. It is believed that the guilty party can be traced and we hope to hear soon of his arrest
Year: 1874

Subscribers who are in arrears must make up arrearges before taking advantage of the forego- ing propositions; and subscribers who are in advance may deduct tine amount their subscrp- tions are in advance.

 Money should be sent by post-office order, check or registered letter, if possible. If remit tances are made by mail we cannot be responsible for loss before the letter reaches us, but will take all risks of remittance to the clubbing peri odical. Receipt will be returned in the next paper.
Year: 1874

The undersigned, majority of a com mittee appointed by the First School Dis trlct of the Town of Litchfeld to report upon the establishment of a graded school Tn this village and upon the probable expense of providing a suitable school building and maintaining suitable schools therein, would respectfully report
Year: 1874

|
| The other day as we were passing


along the front OF our village and no.
! ticed the pretty, comfortable little houses


contrasted their condition with that of


a number OF drunken men whom we saw


gathered in front Of a store, or laying
along the levee, we could not help ask
| ing ,ourself the question: Why is it that
we have so many thousands, tens and
hundreds of thousands of mechanics and
| workingmen, in this country who are
always poor, and never think of build
ing home or buying home or saving
something substantial for comfort or old
age?


Mechanics and laborers are better paid
In this country than in any other, and
yet there is as much poverty and suffer
ing among mechanics and laborers of
America as among those of any other
country!


The cause is simply whisky! We
know clever, we'll disposed and skill
tul mechanic, who in a recent conversa-
ton with us admitted that, he being
moderate drinker, it costs him about 35
cents q day average for drinks-whisky
and beer. He has family to support,
and he is barely able to do so and pay
his rent, and he is known to be con-
stant grumbler about hard times and
low wages.


Now, we don't know whether this man
spends 35 cents day during the seven
days OF the week or only six. To make
our calculation safe one we will only
charge him with six times 35 cents per
week, making SO 10 or $109 90 in one
year. This sum, if invested at per
cent. will at the end of the first year
amount to $115 "A, and add another 500
2O spent for whisky and beer, and we
nave at the end of the second year 1894
94. By adding another S1O9 90 and in
terest on 1924 "a we have at the end of
three years the sum of $347 81; at the
end OF four years, the sum will amount
TO WATT 70; ut the end of five years it
SIX years it will amount to 761 SO; at the
end of seven years to 1916 So; at the
end OF eight years to S1080 70; at the
end OF nine years to 1854 "a; and ut the
end OF ten years to 81 ,439 23.


But, not one man in q hundred who
now spends thirty live cents a day for
Intoxicating drinks, will just drink the
same daily quantity ten years hence
should he live so long and continue to
drink at all. In ten years he will drink
at least double the quantity il able to
procure it. But, even at IS cents per
day spent for whisky, the mechanic and
workingman rObs himself and his family
of neat and comfortable fifteen hun
dred dollar home! And how much will
it amount to in fifteen and years?


Let our workingmen study and pom
der over these figures, and as. soon as
possible stop the use of Intoxicating
drinks. Let them reflect that they owe
a duty to their families and society, and
at once determine on Q mode of living
the most beneficial, healthy and honor
ahleI - -
Year: 1874

A preacher Of Waushara, Wis, has
been discharged for being personal to
his hearers. He said, eff you should
take barrel and fill it with the Holy
Ghost, and another barrel and fill it with
whisky, and call this congregation up
and let you take your choice, the whis-
ky would be gone first.n g.....I
Year: 1874

The first thing a young man does when
he sees friend with O new hat ON is to
take it off and serenely try it on his own
head. When young lady sees one of her
acquaintances with q new bonnet, she
just lifts up her nose and serenely won
ders 's'swlere the thing got that fright
from,n at
Year: 1874




tai Old Bachelor.


HICKMAN Co., TENN, June 25. 1874.
To the Editor of the Ledger;


Will you kindly accept a pleasant
good morning2 If | am up too early,
you must condemn the wood robins that
ring their wild notes down the valley to
greet the coming sun, and the deep
mouthed music Of trained band OF
fox hounds that have just passed my
door. | am but little given to romance,
still less to poetry, but the charming
scenery of this secluded nook is really
bewitching, and we are led away into the
land Of the ideal with a winning force
that cannot be resisted. We 60 first to
the lake, filed with charming little boats,
and take a morning row of half mile
as breakfast appetizer; thence we as
cend some one of the numerous rocky
cliffs and gather garland of wild flowers
for our much loved lassie," or perch
ourself on some mossy knoll to watch
the wood robins and the orioles coquet-
ting in the green bowers above US.


Our dogs have turned the point of
yon rocky hill just now, where so many
gray anu NcutIdDic AOA6S nave llVeQ anu
reveled for generations past, but they
will come back anon and wind all
around us before they give up the chase.
In the meantime we hear the wild notes
Of different music-the faithful efforts
of well trained band in front Of the cot
tages, trying to arouse the sleepy guests
to q waiting breakfast. Why they sleep SO
late, while nature wakes so early, is a
mystery that mo fellow can understand"
Hot rolls snd smoking cakes greet the
early birds, while the loiterer in the
land of Morpheus is consoled by mad
steward and cold mullins. Sich is
life, and as we drift along its chequered
stream, it unfortunately happens that
mullins of cold comfort are often made
a part of our destiny, where very little
extra effort would surround us with hot
rolls and French coffee.


Our mornings at Bon Aqua are deli
ciously cool-no feg nor dampness, very
little dew, and bracing mountain air
that brings health to the cheek and Wig
orous life to the dropping body. Among
the natural curiosities around the
Year: 1874

It was wild. sequestered spot


On the bank of the Bois Loree.
Whose rushing waters tarried not


In their race for st. Louis Bay.
And there sat by the side Of the yellow stream
A fisherman bearded and broad Of beam,
And he angled for perch with skill supreme
The whole Of that summers day.
The fish were shy. or the bait was stale,
Or the water too muddy, ween,
Fer never perch tapped his silvery tail
On the bank where the fisher was seen
Not bite, not a sign of a nlbble to show
That here in the depths Of the broad bayou
Was perch, or pike, or pompano,


Or gartish pearly green.
As the yellow sun was going down


To the sound of the marsn hens cry,
The tsherman's brow was marked with


trown


And his broad breast heaved with sigh
For his hook was fast in hidden crag,
A water-logged bough, or the root OF flag
Such as wave where the naiads lie.
To his feet arose that fisher brave
That fisherman broad of beam
And with delicate care essayed to save
His dipsy and hook from the stream.
Twas delicate care and delicate touch,
But more than a little was much too m uch 4;
A jerk TOO many, pull too strong.
And prone on his back he lay along
With prickly prongs of cactus plants
Inat pierced the linen OF blouse anu pants
In band and body and seam.
Did he rave and tear his shaggy hair.
As men are wont to do?
This fsherman-did he curse and swear
Until the air turned blue?
Far from il. One brawny hand he laid
On port side aft where many blade
VI cactus had gone through;
The other he slowly raised aloft


AS he heaved heavy sigh,
And then in accents sad and soft,


"Helen Blazes' heard him cry.
How sweet, methought, is the love which


quells
The evil passion that rises and swells
Within this troubled soul,
When pain excites the wicked swear,
Or disappointment, corns, or care,
Leave woe instead of comfort there,
And misery holds control
Sweet Helenl May thine influence
Bide ever with him thus;
Thy spirit soothe the rage intense
That prompts the spoken cuss; 3
For men will rage. and men will swear,
And carry on. and rip and tear.
And break the decalOgue everywhere,
If thou, dear woman, be not there
To counsel and to keep them clear
Of things iniquitous.


GATH BRITTLE.
Year: 1874

which is not representative of what |
remember once as child saying my
drawings were intended to depict when
reproved for giving the rein to my artis-
tic fancy on a Sunday, Good people
going to church" or something in the
same style; the man who preserves a
grave immovable countenance when
everybody else is laughing at some par
ticularly good joke, who watches as care
fully for lapsus lingue as Mrs. Shoddy
watches for a bow from the Princess
Blueblood. and pounces down on the
offender with the bowie knife OF morality
and the tomahawk of orthodoxy; the
man Who if he were to be judged by the
number of times he takes charity in
vain, only requires five hundred small
infants clustering around him to sit for
portrait of charity herself, yet says, as
plainly as looks and actions can say, to
the world in general: go to the left
hand, all ye goatsl" and reserves the
right hand locality exclusively for him
self.


New York city has ordered the arrest
Year: 1874

The Evansville Journal gives the follow
ing account Of this famous mare: The
"Maid' was wayward child. From the
date of her birth on the farm of John B.
Decker, in Vantage township, Sussex
county, n. Y, in the spring of 1857, to the
age Of six years, she distinguished herself
in many ways, but never as trotter. She
was understood, nervous and fretful, and
utterly refused heavy farm work Mr.


Decker, her owner, says lie never got any
work out OF her but twice, one-half day in
plowing corn and one-half day in drawing
stones Once she was hitched to a har-
row, but after a short distance she reared
backward and entangled both her hind
legs in the ss-piece Of the harrow and
SO injured those members, that when she
goes out for her morning walk, it is said
she still shows signs of stiffness behind,
caused by this fall in early life From the
time she was six mouths old until Mr.


Decker sold her she was, used as a race
horse, though without her owners know
ledge. The boys on the farm Of course, as
boys do, were anxious to know which was
the speediest horse, and at an early day
they found it was the "Maid." And 50,
after the ''old man had gone to bed they
would take her out of the pasture or stable
whenever race could be made up, and
run her ON the road after night. She
beat everything that could be brought to
run with her, so that finally none but the
uniformed from distance could be found
to bet against her. These races were made
up at the country stores and lounging
places in the evening, after farm work was
over, and the race run the same night, af-
ter the ''old man had gone to bed. No
training, no grooms, no jockeys, no
weight for age-just man or boy in his
bare feet, mounted bareback, with his toes
hugging the mares belley like leech, was
the style and the 'Maid" no doubt en-
joyed it more than she has some of her
late races in the trotting ring. One day
in the summer of 1868, two men were out
buying horses for the army, and stopped
all night at Mr.. Decker's. ana in the morn
Year: 1874

If you are gaining little by little, every
day, be content Are your expenses less
than your income, so that, though it be
little by little, you are Yet constantly ae-
cumulating, and growing richer and richer
every day? Be content so far as concerns
money, you are doing very well.


Are you gaining knowledge every day {?
Though it be little by little, the aggregate
Of the accumulation, where no day is per
mitted to pass without adding something
to the stock, viii be surprising to yourself.
Solomon did not become the wisest man in
the world in a minute Little by little
never emitting to learn something, even
for single day-alwaya reading, always
studying a little between the time or rising
up in the morning and lying down at night;
this Is the sure way to accumulate full
storehouse Of knowledge.


Fenaily, are you daily improving in
character? Be not discouraged because it
is little by little. The best Of men fall far
short Of what they themselves would wish
to be. 1t is something, it is much, if YOU
keep your good resolutions better to-day
than you did yesterday, better this week
than you did last, better this year than you
did last year. Strive to be perfect, but do
not become disheartened so long as you are
approaching nearer and nearer to the high
standard at which you aim.


Little by little, fortunes are accumulated
little by little, knowledge is gained little
by little, character and reputation are
achieved.
Year: 1874

One of the most interesting papers read
before the Portland meeting of the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement of
Science was in answer to the question 'Do
Snakes Swallow Their Young ?" and was
prepared by Mr.. G. Brown. In order to
elicit testimony relating to the disputed
subject from all available quarters, Mr..
Brown inserted letter in the American
4gTicuifmist asking for a recital of the
facts from any person who had ever wit
messed the phenomenon of snake swallow
ing its young. In response to this requset
he received over eighty letters from cor
respondents in twenty four States and
Year: 1874

ing have discovered it at an expense of but
little time or labor.


As an evidence of the rich pasturage to
be found in this region I can state the fact
that my beef herd, after marching upward
of six hundred miles, is in better condition
than when | started, being now as fat as
consistent with marching condition. The
same may be said of the mules of the wagon
train. The horses of the command are in
good working condition [ have never
seen as many deer as in the Black Hills
Elk and bear have also been killed. We
have had no collision with hostile Indians.


G. A CUSTER,
Brevet' Major General United States Army,
commanding the expedition.
Year: 1874

Feed only meal to fattening fowls
for at least two days before killing,
and feed nothing for few hours be-
fore killing.


Chickens cannot be raised profit
ably alone, but in connection With
other farm operations nothing pays
better. m s#


You can save feed and trouble by
getting rid of your poorest stock now.
This is particularly true Of sheep
Get rid of the miserable, scrawny
ones that you know will not winter
over, or if they do, will be worth
nothing when spring opens. Better
knock them in the head and sell the
pelts than to feed them all the winter
for nothing. 1t pays to keep good
stock, but poor stock never.


A good lubricator for wooden axles
is made of six parts of clean tallow
and two parts Of fine smooth plumba-
90. Another is made of Eve parts Of
tallow, FIVE parts Of soapstone, one
part plumbago, and nine parts rosin
oil; the tallow and the oil are hea-
ted aud mixed, after which the soap
stone and plumbago are added.


In putting away winter apples,
give them the coldest part of the Gel
lar. Every cellar ought 10 have .
partition in it, cutting off q space
large enough to store apples, and then
keep this room at . much lower TEN
perature than that for other yege-
tables. Instead Of stufing straw in
the cellar windows or banking dirt
over them, put in an extra sash out
side of the one that 10 in, giving four
to six inches space between them. i
the outer sash is 6tted close with
weather strips, there is no danger oi
freezing, and your cellar is light en-
ough to 20 into without . candle o.
lantern. A cellar perfectly dark u 9
4
Year: 1874

Judge Swayne of the United States
Supreme Court, reached his seven
tieth year the other day, and is there
fore entitled under the law to retire
from the bench on full salary. He in
tends to do SO, but has not yet fixed
the time.
Year: 1874

Each mother is historian She
writes not the history OF empires or oi
nations on paper, but she writes her
own history on the imperishable mind
OF her child. That tablet and that his
tory will remain indelible when time
shall be no more. That history each
mother shall meet again, and read with
eternal JOY or unutterable grief in the
coming ages of eternity. The thought
should weigh on the mind of every
mother, and render her deeply crcum-
spsct, prayerful and faithful in her sol
emn work of training up her children
for heaven and immortality.


The minds of children are very sus-
cepuble and easily impressed. A word,
a look, a frown, may engrave an impress
sion on the mind of a child which no
lapse Of time can efface or wash out
You walk along the seashore when the
tide is out, and you form characters or
write words or names in the sand which
is spread out so clear and beautiful al
your feet, according as your fancy NAV
dictate; but the returning tide shall in
few hours wash out and efface all you
have written. Not so the lines and
characters of truth and error which
your conduct imprints on the mind of
your child, which neither the floods nor
the slow-moving ages of eternity can
obliterate. How careful should each
mother be in her treatment Of her child
How prayerful and how serious, and
how earnest to write the eternal truths
OF God on his mind-those truths which
shall be his guide and teacher when her
voice shall be silent in death. and her
lips no longer move in prayer in his be-
half, in commencing her dear child to
her covenant God.
Year: 1874

! She was not fair she was not prett,
even: but her pale golden hair covered


him like halo and cloud, and red
Paris, erstwhile so furious for his blood
raised him and her on their shoulders
and wild, furious array marched
away down the street TO where La Com.
mune sat with closed portals. La
Commune was, however, easily got at,
and when the wild array burst in will,
its hostages borne aloft, it was only
too happy TO grant what was wanted,
and when they returned, like sea
going out, the two were landed close
together, and he, the great general, the
proud marquis, folded her in his arms
and kissed her, while the tears stood
in his eyes. They were very happy.


Do YOU see that couple yonder-
that tall gentleman with gray hair,
riding behind the Marshal of France |?
Well, that is Monsieur the Marquis,
and the tall lady, with hair like a sun
beam, is his wife.


They are married, Yes B.; and though
the red ashes of La Commune are
crushed out dead forever, as they ride
on the boulevard many a cap is touched
that way, for they are always very kind
to Paris in "sabotes," she never for
getting. though she is now Madame
the Marchioness, that she was once
only poor sewing-girl.
Year: 1874

with him in the spirit in which he resist
cd what seemed to him lese majeste


aagains, the Sovereign of the Universe.


Nor was his u mere theoretical faith.


His whole life, in its broad philanthropy,
in its prevailing spirit OF service, in its
fidelity TO all arduous trusts and duties.
In his simplicity and truthfulness, he
spake as one who was consciously full
filling mission from God to his fellow
men. We mourn his departure as an
irreparable loss. Yet is there not ground
for thankfulness that he was taken from
us while we could lament his removal;
that he was spared the slow decay, the
living death, which added years might
have brought; that there is no sad ap-
pendix OF decline and intirmily to the
fair volume of his life; that he has been
translated with such appalling yet mer-
ciiul suddenness to larger, higher
sphere Of activity.


God comfort and help those W hose homes
and hearts he has LETT dcsolate, and grant
them that nearer fellowship with the fast
gathering company of kindred in heaven,
IN which alone they can find consolation
and peace.
Year: 1874

and at once remove the stain, which
if unnoticed would in time become q
great blot. We are told the Water
Company of this city speak of the
HERALD as their enemy. We are at
a loss to know what they have seen in
the columns of the HERALD which
could warrant such a conclusion. 1t is
a great mistake. The HERALD is now
and always has been animated by the
kindiest feelings toward both the
Water Company as corporation and
its members as individuals. The HER
AIDS regard for the corporation Is so
great that when complaints regarding
the quality of water furnished are
made it, in the hope that the COM
pany will remove all cause for adverse
comment, publishes the statement in
its columns. This is done in the kind
est feeling and for the best of pur-
poses. Surely the HERALD has never
Intentionally given the Water Com
pany the slightest reason for regard
ing it as an enemy.