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Year: 1879

THERE is a story ahoat that both KELLY
and ROBINSON are to withdraw from the
New York canvass and permit CLARKsoN n.
POTTER, now candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor, to run for Governor This tale OBJ
tains credence from the well-known fact
that S. JONES TILDEN promised the New
York Governorship to the head of the PoT-
TER Committee, pending its notorious no-in-
vestigation of the Presidential title ques-
tion. But it is hardly probable that Boss
KELLY would agree to such proposition.
He knows full well that POTTER is TILDEN
man from sole to scalp, and it is not ROBIN
son that he is fighting so much as it is Til
denism. On the other hand, it appears
that the leaders of the ROBINSON wing
disclaim any knowledge of movement
looking to n reunion between the factions.
Mr. FOWLER, chairman of the ROBINSON
State Executive committee, says that moth
ing of the sort was known to him or to any
members of the committee. He knows of
no one who was attempting to make COM
promise or who desired one.
Year: 1879

An intelligent farmer who is very close
observer and very successful corn farmer says
that he always smokes'hs seed corn. After
selecting the seel, he hangs it in his smoke
house and smokes it we'll Sometimes the
corn is quite black. The refult of this treat
ment is that the corn is not liable 10 rot before
il sprouts and insects do not disturb it
Where he uses smoked corn, there Is no nc
cessity Of replauting He has tested this ex-
pertinent for a number Of years and has a
ways been successful Last year he run out
Of smoked corn while planting one field snd
used a small quantity Of corn that was not
smoked On the portion where the unsmoked
corn was he was compelled to replrut the
greater part.
Year: 1879

Any subscriber wishing his paper stepped with the expiration of his subscription, should notify us at the time of subscribing, before the term paid for ex- pireF Any subscriber in arrears desiring to stop his paper must pay up arrears,
Year: 1879

CHICAGO, April 5.-on Monday next the
people Of Michigan will vote for Judge oi
the State Supreme Court and two Regents
OF the State University. The issue turns
almost wholly upon the support Of the
soft money question, or the successful es'
tabllshmelt Of specie resumption.
Year: 1879

Do not be above your business
lie who turns up his nose at work
quarrels with bread and butter. He
Is a poor smith who is afraid of his
own sparks; there's some discom-
fort in all trades except chimney
sweeping. If sailors give up going
to sea because of the wet; il bakers
left off baking bread because 1t is
hard work; if ploughmen would not
plough because Of cold, and tailors
would not make our clothes for fear
of pricking their fingers, what pass
we would come 10. Nonsense, my
fine fellow, there's no shame about
any honest calling; don't be afraid
o soiling your hands, there's plenty
of soap 10 be had.


All trades are good to good trad
ers. Lucifer matches pay well If
you sell enough OF them. You can
not get honey if you are frightened
at bees. nor plant corn If you are
afraid of getting mud on your
boots. When bars of iron melt I'M
der the south wind; when you dig
the fields with toothpicks; blow
ships along with fans; manure the
crops with lavender water, and grow
plum cases in flower pots, there will
be fine time for dandies; but until
the millennium comes we shall all
have a deal TO put upwith.
Year: 1879

is, that we can see but little pros
pect for change; we are going
rapidly down the decline, but yet
We can find no brakes to put on the
wheels. Public opinion once had
control, but even that has lost pow
er on account of having become de-
terioEated and poisoned by the in
fected atmosphere surrounding us.
These are no idle words, but they
are notes OF warning. The disease
is already fastened upon the whole
country and must be shaken off or
it will assume a chronic form, and
defy the pruning knife. The me
chanic and working man must have
a higher station in life; he must be
made to believe by actual expert
ence that he with his horny hands
is far more respected than the ma
jority of those who have their
gloved hands in the public crib.


The desne for office, or in other
words, the desire to make a living
without labor. mast be frowned
down, while industry must be en-
couraged. The mechanics and la
boring men among us must be pat
ronized and respected. They should
meet with kindly smile and en-
couraging word from every we'll
wisher of his country, and all may
vet be well.
Year: 1879

The desire for office among every
class is o bad omen for the prosper
ity of the country, and indicates


more clearly than anything else the
destitute condition that many are in.
One cause of this destitution no
doubt is the stringency in the mon


ey market, but another and greater
cause is that the present race are,
TO great extent, q worthless and
improvident set, who spurn to live
by the sweat of their brow, as ma
ture intended they should. Oi
course this evil is not local, but il
extends throughout the whole coun'
try, and for this reason is more &c
be regretted. Whoever hears of al
office seeking the man now, but on
the contrary the man seeks the of
fee with a will that is TO be ad


mired, though i: is to be regretted


The worst feature about this mattel
Year: 1879

1 saw a temple reared by the
hand of men, standing with its high
pinnacles in the distant plain. The
storm beat upon 1.-THE God of ma
ture hurled his thunderbOlts against
it-and yet it stood as firm as ada
mant. Revelry was in its halls
the gay, the happy and the beauti-
full were there. | returned and the
temple was no more; its high walls
lay scattered in ruins; moss and
wild grass grew there. The young
and the gay that had reveled there
had passed away.


saw child rejoicing in his
youth-the idol of his mother, the
pride of his father. | returned and
the child had become old-trem-
bling with the weight of years, he
stood the last Of his generation-a
stranger amid the desolation around
him.


saw an old oak standing in all
its pride on the mountains-the
birds were caroling on it's boughs.
| returned; the oak was leafless and
sapless, the winds were playing at
their pastime through its branches.


"Who Is that destroyer" said l
to my guardian angel.


cit is Time," said he. 'When
the morning stars sang together III
Joy over the new made world, he
commenced his course. And when
he shall have destroyed all that is
beautiful of the earth-plucked the
sun from its sphere, veiled the moon
in blood; yea, when he shall have
rolled heaven and earth away as q
scroll; then shall an angel from the
throne of God come forth, and with
one foot on the lands, lift up his
hand towards Heaven eternal-Time
is, Time was, but Time shall be no
-
Year: 1879

No subscriber worth retaining
will object to the payment in ad
vance system. Those who wanted
to hear Jenny Lind sing had to pay
in advance; and what were her di
vinest strains compared with those
which flow from the editorial pensS ?


You cannot take your seat in a
rlckety mailcoach, or go to or from
on a railroad car without paying in
advance for the risk of being
killed.


If you ever went to hear con
cert or literary lecture, or to see
Tom Thumb or the Siamese Twins,
YOU planked down your twenty five
or one hundred cents before you
could pass the threshold. And yet
men hesitate and cavil about pay
ing in advance for a paper fur
nished at price on the very brink
and utmost verge of prime cost.
Year: 1879

1t is indeed funny and ridicu-
lous sight to see a lovely young wo
man stop at "A street crossing, give
her body fearful twist, stoop low,
and reach backward and downward
nearly to her heels, and grab from
five to forty pounds of dress trail,
full Of dirt and dust, shake 10 five
or six times, like buzzard fixing
his wings TO fly, then hobble across
the street like lame turkey to the
other side there to "let go" turn
around tour or five times, and start
of like a stern-wheel boat in IA
storm. Such fantastic, fashionable
freaks of folly as we see sometimes
upon our streets are certainly very
unbecoming in all that is modest,
beautiful and lovely in women
Think of it. The idea of fashion
ably dressed blonde or brunette
stopping dead still upon the street,
kicking out and up like a COW at
an army of loose hornets, grabbing
her clothes in her hand, with body
bent, looking out with one eye
from under little hat perched on
one side Of her nose, and making a
public exhibition of her heels and
hose as she skips across the street
like an ostrich On a run, an exact
copy in style and dress of the wo-
man who rides a spotted horse in a
circus and jumps through a paper
balloon for fifteen dollars week
and applause.


Look at that modestly dressed,
sweet faced, humble girl, walking
homeward, having been on mis-
sion for her mother perhaps. No
foolishness about her. She lives,
dresses, acts aud looks plain. She
and fashion are strangers. Loafers
| and blackguards do rot stare at
and after her, and make all kinds
OF vulgar remarks about her. MOI
She commands respect by her dress
and conduct upon the public
streets. See her in her spotless
white, looking like an angel; kneel-
ing at her bedside with her face
and eyes lifted heavenward, and in
accents low and sweet, breathing
from her pure lips the language Of
her soul in humble prayer, sour
Father who art in Heaven" An
gels put their ears TO the twinkling
stars and listen to her prayer. The
one, a meek, humble, Christian
Young woman, whose affections are
fixed upon things above the foibles
and follies of a fashionable world
whose very soul pants for the
light and love of "home over
there" The other, a thin-yisaged
..made-up" woman of fashionable
world, whose whole heart and soul
is cngulfed in the great whirlpool
of mock happiness and folly, who
never looks in the Bible one hun
dredth part as much as she does a
looking glass, whose whole idea of
life is TO "have fun with the boys
until she's forty, and then take the
chances of fooling sOme old coon
into @buying her" The one
breathes her prayer ana lies down
upon her dOWny bed TO sleep and
dream of heaven and the angels.
The other comes out Of the parlor
at a late hour, like a tired and hun
ery coach horse, rushes TO the pan


try, grabs a pickle in one hand,
! and a cold ham bone in the other.
Then to her room. She swings her
aharuessp over the backs of six or
eight chairs, scatters the other
make up" about the door, forgets
Year: 1879

Cincinnati Gazette: One OF the
queer things In business is the pro-
pensity OF people TO seek irregular
mediums for advertising. IL Is un-
accountable the prices some men
paw for sticking their advertise
ments in irregular places ftspe.
cially is this so when cOfnpared with
their unwillingness 10 pay anything
for advertising in the regular chan.
nels. Men viii pay large sums for
inserting their business cards In n
section of a frame in a hotel, bar
loom, street car, railway station or
in hotel register or an almanac or
guide book or an annual of one sort
or another. The byways they seek
or that successfully solicit them are
innumerable Likewise they will
spend large sums for printing spe-
cial circulars, and in postage To
send them. In all this they ignore
the most essential condition in al
vertising, namely, that IL has the
character and effect from the medi-
um through which IL is given TO the
reader. Advertisements thrust into
irregular and unbusinesslike places
impress the general mind that the
concern is of a similar character.
On the other hand,an advertisement
in general newspaper Of li-st.class
standing carries the impression that
the advertiser has n standing in his
own community, which he Is not
afraid TO show TO his neighbtrs,
and that he does not shrink from
competition with the best OF them.
These are the different impressions
that are made on all minds by ad-
vertising in a journal OF high char


acter and circulation among the rep
utable classes, and when seen In by
places and irregular or low chan


nels. Every one finds this in his
own feelings, if he would but think
on the subject. If any one is going
To a place TO buy, whether he be a
trader or buying for his own use,
and has 20 seek dealers through .ad-


vertisements, where will he look for


them? To registers, almanacs, the


ater-bill frames, in railway stations


occasional advertising sheets or cir


cular? On the contrary, he looks
To the most reputable newspaper o


the place, and he thinks that adver
tising in these gives an assurance o
the good standing of the advertise
| and his business enterprise and o
the sufiiciency Of his stock.
Year: 1879

From the Boston Journal of
Chemistry: DR.. Emil Querner, of
Philadelphia, sends us the following
note on this subject which will in
terest our professional readers,
even if they are not prepared to ac-
cept the authors theory:


After laborious and scrutiniz-
ing investigation into the cause of
a large number of cases of diphthe-
ria that have come under my care
during several years past, have al
most arrived at the conclusion that
the primary infection of an indi-
vidual comes from the fungi which
are found as spots of different col


ors on the exterior of fruits, partic-
ularly apples. As far as the power
of my microscope has shown, these
fungi seem identical with the fungi
from a diptheric ulcer; and last au-
tumn l traced a number of cases, at
one time five together in one fani-
ly, back to the eating of apples
picked from the ground in orchards
without previously cleaning the
truit by rubbing or washing. The
prevalence of this dreadful disease
in the last three decades may be well
accounted tor by the fact that the
appearance and fourishing of the
lower vegetable and animal organ
isms is periodical; of which we have
examples in the potato disease, the
disease of the grape vine, and chol-
era, which latter has been ascribed
to fungus growing on the ears of
rice in East India, and carried in
the human body as a c0ntagion
over all parts of the globe and in
many other cases. OF course, any
person infected with the disease
from the primary cause may be the
center of infection for others. Why
many persons eat fruit with fungi
on them with lmpunity is explaina-
bic simply on the ground that the
su> u>ceptibility for disease differs
greatly in individuals; and that, for
instance, for the propagation OF
fungi upon the mucous membrane
of the Dharynx there may exist a
previous catarrhalic affection, with
spongy condition of the same.


1t is my opinion that in times of
epidemic diseases almost every one
takes the contagion into his system,
but that for the development of the
disease, a certain predisposition, OF
some additional cause, is necessary.
Thus, cholera breaks out in an in.
dividual only after the cooling of
of the abdomen; and smallOx at
tacks timid persons often after be
ing frightened by the sight of {
| pitted face of a convalescent patient
from a distance Thus, also, the
lmpunity of physicians who trea
such diseases with jealous anC
investigating mind, and with fear
less interest in every case, may bC
accounted for; their nervous energy
resisting the tendency of their vita
power to succumb to the contagion


By this communication, wish
not only to give a hint for further
investigation in this matter, for GER
tainly it is time that the medical
profession should discover more ol
the hidden causes of zymothic dis
eases, which bring so much havoc
among the human race.
Year: 1879

AS a rule, prevention of disease
in all kinds of live stock is easier
and cheaper than the cure. Could
dumb animals make us understand
their language, a vast amount OF
malprac ctice on our part would be
brought to light. Regular feeding,
shelter from storms and a constant
supply of salt, generally insure per
feet health.
Year: 1879

A practical joker living near Dan
bury, Conn, stole scareCrOw from
farmers corn field last week and
leaned it up against the owner s
door yard fence. The owner saw
it, and supposing it to be q burglar,
sat up all night waiting for it to at
tempt to enter his house.
Year: 1879

The Lexington, KY, Transcript
says that clerk pro tenn in that
city sold a quart of vinegar-it
turned out to be whisky. The
news that he was drawing from the
wrong barrel spread, and the clerk
did not discover why on earth so
many people wanted vinegar, until
the proprietor OWNED what was
tho m atfar
Year: 1879

Knoxville Tribune: The mem
ber of the Tennessee Legislature
who fails to place himself on the
record at this session in favor of
an honest settlement of the State
debt, has a long stretch of private
life spread before him after he leaves
Nashville this year.
Year: 1879

The man with good, firm health
is rich.


So is the man with a good clear
conscience.


So is the parent of vigorous, hap
py children.


So is the clergyman whose coat
the little children of his parish
pluck as he passes them in their
play.


So is the wife who has the whole
heart of a good husband.


So is the maiden whose horison
is not bounded by the looming
man, but who has purpose in life
whether she ever meets him or not.


So is the young man who can
lay his hand on his heart and say,
81 have treated every woman l ever
saw as l should wish my sister
treated by other men,"
Year: 1879

The Columbia wagon train is
getting to be a noticeable feature
on our turnpike road. There has
not been since tie railroad was fin
ished so large an amount of cotton
carried to Nashville on wagons as
during the season just now closing
1t is in the power of the railroad to
stop this, but it can only be done
by adopting more liberal policy
and a lower rate of charges fol
freight. We do not urge this mat
ter, as it is working to the interest
of our friends of the turnpike com
pany-I Franklin Review.
Year: 1879

By u careful and


continued application


for a time it may be
solved, and we can but
think, when solved, a
not very great leugth
of time will elapse be-
fore the benefit of this
soIntion will he felt in
Year: 1879

fabrication of the axles of vehicles, in
cluding even wheelbarrows, and of the
journals of machines, is not only saving
of power in their use, but it prevents waste
and destruction of the material Of the
working parts. Nevertheless, if we should
examine hundred wagons, reapers, or
fodder cutters at any time, ninety or more
of the hundred, would be found wanting
of oil or other lubricants. The choice Of
lubricant is frequently i'll made. Com
mon kerosene oil is too often injudiciously
used i'm place of thicker or more bland
oil. because the heat produced by the fric-
ton, rapidly vaporizes the oil. and leaves
the journal dry. Crude petroleum for
the same reason is fitted only for very
slow revolving journals, such as water
wheels. For very heavy machinery or for
gearing, tallow or black lead rubbed up
together, is the best lubricant, and is also
the best for wagon and carriage axles,
during hot weather. For light running
machinery, sperm oil is the best; good
olive oil that has not become rancid, and
acid, is perhaps the second best, and for
winter use, lard oil is excellent, but is
rather oodryng to be a first-class lubri-
cant. Castor oil is better for axles in the
winter time, and black lead mixed with it.
is a help at any time.
Year: 1879

For fnture business men, says writer
in the Springfield Republican, less Latin
and Greek and more French and German;
for future wives and mothers less Latin
and Greek and more cooking and practi-
cal knowledge in every way. There is
more real practice of good cooking and
serving OF food among the daughters of
the rich than there is among the daugh-
ters of our great middle class. 1t Is rec
Ognized that a woman must understand
all the branches commonly known as
"wOman's work. no matter what she in
tends to be IN the world. II she is to have
the control of servants she needs her
knowledge quite as much as il she is to
do cher own work" all her life. This
knowledge can seldom be given at home,
because although there are no people in
the world so comfortable in circumstances
as the Americans, there are none who
live, so far as their tables are concerned,
at once So expensvely and so unwhole-
somely. The want of knowledge neces-
sary to give good cooking is a serious evil.
No one thing troubles physicians so much
i'm their practice as the inability of q wife
and mother to cook plain food well. How
many women of twenty years old who
read this article can make real appetiz-
ing bowl of Cruel. or a loaf Of bread
raised properly with brewers yeast, and
not soda or yeast powder abomination P
Not long ago a woman talking over family
affairs with her physician pleaded poverty.


My husband earns only sixty dollars q
month-there is my husband and myself
and our little girl; have son but he
earns wages and pays his board


And ysu can't live on sixty dollars
month -


The answer was: ''Our grocer's bill
alone is forty dollars-how can we?'


"Gracious !''-said the doctor-one Of
our best physicians-"my grocer's bill
isn't so much as that


In talking it over he found that they had
pie. cake and dOughnuts every day, and for
this food they needed a great deal Of butter
the most costly item on the grOcer's list
AS well as a great deal of sugar.


The hard times have shown how rare is
the ability TO sew well. Here Is one in
stance: A woman was applied to for work
and gave it gladly. The applicant was q
Springfield girl who for years attended the
high scheol. Her story was pitiful and
common enough: she was the daughter of
a well-tO-dO mechanic, and married; her
husband had deserted her, leaving her
with two children. She said. with tears,
''If only had trade il had only
learned tailoring, as my sister, could
have plenty of work now, but mother al
ways wanted me to teach.'' She was
asked. "Why don't your "Ican't. new
er did like to study only done it cause
they wanted me to at home, and was go
ing to get married anyhow. / never knew
the first thing when was married, and he
said never could cook fit to eat" She
certainly couldn't sew; her work was
brought home and paid tor-and picked
out again. Her family being unable to
help her. the poor woman drifted away.
Wouldn't cooking school havei helped
her9 Perhaps with better food "he'
might have stayed at home, and she, with
more knowledge. would have spent her
money to better advantage and have had
better food for her babies than doughnuts,
hot soda biscuits and tea three times day.
Year: 1879

IL believe it to be all wrong and even wicked
for clcrgymen or other public men to be led
into giving testimonials to quack doctors or
vile stuffs called medicines, but when really
meritorious article is made of valuable reme-
dies, known to ALL that all physicians use and
trust in daily,we should freely commend it.
therefore cheerfully and heartily commend
Hop Bitters for the good they have done me
and my friends, firmly believing they have no
equal for family use. will not be without
them Rev., Washington, d. c.
Year: 1879

discovered the way to saddle als
most every community in
this broad land with q
disabling debt. To them we
are indebted for Ingenious defences
of whatever the ambition of man
meditated, which would have put
to the blush those famous disput-
ants of Fielding, Thwaekum and
Square. Tweed would never have
been able to carry out his superb
schemes of plunder had 1t not been
for the ready wit and sagaclous
counsels of that eminent lawyer
and promoter of an International
code, David Dudley Field.


This is one aspect of this multi
tudinous bar, ramifying, as 1t does,
through every section of the United
States. Undoubtedly, on the other
hand, its ranks have been thronged
with men who elevated humanity
aud breathed the breath of life into
the grandest events of our history.
With this view of the matter we
do not propose to concern ourself
in this cursory notice of an absorb
ingly interesting subject. We
merely desire to hint at the enor-
nous influence for good or evil our
manifold judiciary and innumera-
BILE bar are destined to have on our
national character and upon the
development of American institn-
tions. Thus far, we have no doubt
whatever, the disappearance of the
Arcadian and frugal element of our
earlier national life is directly
traceable to the legions of lawyers,
and the thousands of contentious
forums, which could not exist ex-
cept in highly infiamed and arti-
fetal state of society.