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Year: 1874

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Endeavors are being made to in
duee the Governors of Pennsylva-
MIA, New Jersey, New York and
Connecticut. to grant immunity to
any one who will produce the child
W hen this is agreed upon a reward
win be offered for the production of
the child.


The following will give some idea
of facts that. confirm the belief of
the Police Departments of the two
cities that no harm has come to lit
tie Charlie Ross.


The abductors had always stub
bornly adhered to one plan, that is,
they demanded that the twenty
thousand dollars should be paid to
them that they should have some
margin of time to examine the
money and see that it was not mark
ed, and to get away to some dis
tance, and that for these purposes
they must have the money from FIVE
to ten hours before the child was
handed over, the boy being held for
that time as a kind of hostage for
the good faith of his friends. This
plan the abductors stuck to from first
to last. On the other hand the Po-
lice Department., and those who re-
presented the family and the citi-
zens' reward fund were as resolute
that no such plan should be carried
out; that they would make every
possible effort to recover the child,
and make his recovery the means of
capturing the brigands, and that
there should be no compromise or
tie matter that would enable the
thieves to get the money and then
make their escape. Thus there was
struggle involving endurance. and
determination on both sides, the
thieves expecting to wear out the
patience of the suffering family and
the resolution of the police. and the
latter being determined to wear out
the resources and purposes of the
thieves.


After struggle of FIVE months, it
became manifest to the abductors,
at the close of November, that they,
were baff1ed and beaten in the plan
they had stubbornly held to for so
long time, and that they would
have to, adopt some other. H


They became very hard pushed
for the means of living, and this
doubtless compelled them to take
the risk of the burglary at Bay
Ridge. They had finally come to
the conclusion to abandon their first
plan, and oD the night before they
were killed at Bay Ridge, they were
considering another that they had
partly worked out for re-opening the
negotiations on the basis of stimuli
taneous exchange of the child for
money. The obvious deduction
from this that the child must have
been alive at the time, December
II, or else the abductors would have
had no necessity for considering any
change of plans, and especially a
change that would require the re-
production Of the child at the time
when the money was paid. 1t may
be added that the police authorities
never had any reason to suppose
the child had died, and now they
have the foregoing reason for the
belief that he was living a few
hours before his abductors were
killed.
Year: 1874

No one can pursue a business in
telligently and proftably without
carefully kept debit and credit ac-
counts. With these accounts care
fully kept, the farmer can, by yearly
balances, see just what he is doing.
If the account is too heavy on the
debit side, the farmer can see Just
where he is tending, and will by this
information be Influenced to take a
new tack, and recover himself before
he has gone too far. -tr -1rr
Now. January will soon be here,
and we advise all who have not done
so before to open an account with
the farm and its operations Here
are the items that should be q Is .e


CHARGED AGAINST THE FARM.


Interest on the capital invested, at
the usual rate, 10 per cent


The taxes. ,ls34x a


The depreciation in value from ex-
haustion. tad


The interest on the capital invest
ed I'm implements, farm machinery
and the stock employed to work on
the farm.


The depreciation of these from
use. This item can be estimated by
the average length of time these ar
ticIes last by good usage. s. Y I


The value of manures and seeds,
and of the materials for repairs and
improvements.


The interest on these until returns
are had on their use.


The cost of all labor, both Of the
owner and his hired help, at tue rate
he pays for help.


The actual cost of board for his
hired help.


All female labor employed in the
production of butter, cheese. &c.


CREDIT THE FARM WITH.


All its products, both that sold and
that consumed by the family.


The enhanced market value of the
farm.


Permanent improvements.
The rent of tile dwelling house.


We can not too strongly urge the

Importance of knowledge of just
how our affairs are going. If the
facts, which will be brought out in
these accounts each year. show that
We are on the down grade, we shall
ee prompted to call halt, and to be-
gin earnest inquiry as to what we
should do. If it should be found
by comparing notes with our neigh
bors that exclusive corn-growing was
the cause Of our trouble, we should
take new tack. If it should prove
to be an attempt to grow wheat, OF
any other special crop that caused
the failure. we should cast about to
see just what our farms, and our 10.
cations to markets, require that we
should do.


Open your accounts. on the Ist oil
January, keep the items. It viii
prompt you 10 look carefully after
the little details. and save much thai
! Is now wasted,
Year: 1874

To KEEP Ice FROM WINDOWS
Take aa ordinary paint-brush or a
sponge and rub over the glass once
or twice day little alcohol This
will keep the glass as free from ice
as in the middle Of summer. and give
as fine a polish as can be got in any
other way.
Year: 1874

Prof. Huxley, than whom there are
few deeper thinkers, does not believe
in the oft-told told tale of woman s
physical incapacity. He says:


We have heard great deal, lately,
about the physical disabilities of women.
Some of these alleged impediments, no
doubt, are really inherent in their
organization, but nine-tenths of them
are artificial the products of their
mode of life. L believe that nothing
would tend SO effectually to get rid OF
these creations of idleness, WEAKNESS
and that over stimulation of the emo
tions," which, in palmer spoken days,
used to be called wantonness, than a
fair share of healthy work, directed
toward definite object, combined with
an equally fair share OF healthy play
during the years of adolescence and
those who are best acquainted with the
requirements of an average medical
practitioner will find it hardest to believe
that the attempt to reach that standard
is likely to prove exhausting to an ordi,
narily intelligent and well educated
woman.
Year: 1874

1t was fortunate for Crusoe that the
island OF which he became monarch per-
force was a fruitful one. At the pres
ent day it is a perfect garden, and
abounds in fruit and flower planted by
Selkirks successors-for he was not the
only man who inhabited the island. An
cumulative Englishman became his sue
cessor, though he did not occupy the
historical cave, having built himself q
hut of stones and sods, roofing It with
the straw of wild oats. As cooking
utensils, he possessed only a single
iron pot, the bottom of which, one I'M
fortunate day, had fallen out. This
damage he had, however, had the in
genuity to repair with a wooden bot
tom but now he was compelled to
place his pot in the ground and build
fire round it. This man was q Lon
doner, and finally left the island because
he could get no roast beef At least,
tradition sayeth thus. This famous
island is now in possession of colony
of Germans, who brought with them
everything necessary to make life com
Portable.
Year: 1874

In Wisconsin the other day we'd
ding procession and a funeral process
sion met and got so badly mixed that
half the people living near s'a, the scene scene
declare that they saw funeral process
sion accompanied by brass band,
while the other half are ready TO swear
that a wedding procession passed head
ed by hearse.
Year: 1874

THE CITIZEN office will soon be moved to the first door south of E. N. Fish &S Co.'S store on Main street. It will occupy the first floor of the building and will be much more roomy and convenient in every way than the present location. The building belongs to E. N. Fish X Co.,, and they are putting in new windows and otherwise ln- proving it.
Year: 1874

WEATHER this week has been good enough for the season. Had several very heavy rains accompanied by sharp lightning and cracking thunder. Last night this sort of an atmospheric perform ance came of. The air is cool this morn ing with flying clouds.
Year: 1874

THERE will be good music at the Park Gardens tomorrow Sunday evening, and MT. Levin invites the pubic to come and listen to it and be happy under the green trees and amidst the Beautiful flowers.
Year: 1874

MAGNIFICENT GENERosIrY.-A Gin.
gular compliment has been paid to q
policeman by the Town Council Of
Exeter, England. A short time ago
Arch bishop Freeman and his daughter
were riding in their carriage, when
the horse took fright and bolted.-
Policeman Sullocks, at the risk of his
life and with great presence of mind


stopped the horses, and the archdea.
con and his daughter were saved from
serious accident. Tho archdeacon,
sensible OF his Indebtedness to the
policeman, wrote to the watch com.
mittee of tho Town Council in praise
Of his gallant conduct. The Town
Council compimented Sullocks, and
resolved, with the approval of the
chief constable, to hand him over
Archdeacon Frecman's letter. Such
is paragraph going the rounds of the
papers. Is is not delightfuly Such
magnificent generosity on the part oI
an archdcacon and Town Council |:
only too rare. What will the happy
policeman do with the archidacona


letter, is now the question. Have il
framed, it is supposed, that future
generations of Sullbcks yet unborn
may gaze upon it with proper pride.
Year: 1874

During the next three or four weeks we
shall hear great many platitudes on education
from the chosen orators Of the literary societies
at our colleges. The choice of orators is usu-
ally made from motives so whimsical that it is
not surprising 60 few Commencement ad-
dresses attract any attention whatever Be-
cause a man has made some fame as a lawyer
or politician is no reason why he should be
asked to come to his alma mater and bore
everybody with Il speech on a subject which he
has nOught thought about since he left college;
nor Is there any reason why the old line OF
topics should be any longer discussed. There
is nothing new to be said of the poems and ro-
mances of Sir Walter Scott and kindred sub
jects Advice to young men even is we'll
worn theme, that might be LETT to the bacca-
laureate sermon. There are plenty of new
themes growing out of the progress of the age
which would be filter subjects for discussion.
1t was good impulse which prompted the
young men of a Massachusetts, college two or
three years ago to ask New York editor to
tell them something about the profession of
journalism. The editor could not fail to
interest and instruct them, for he came be-
fore them with fresh topic, concerning which


he knew great deal and they nothing.


| What we wish to do is to call the attention
of persons connected with our leading colleges
| to the changes which have taken place in the
last I0fty years, aG0 the consequent necessity OF


looking upon educational processes from a


different standpoint. The common schools
| have become the foundation for all subsequent


instruction. 1t is idle to oppose them either


for sectarian or social reasons, and what is OF


more importance is the fact that our colleges


must adopt the methods of instruction which
| find favor in the common schools. In conSe
quence the controversy about the value OF the


classics in mental training is practically over


If the older colleges fail to appreciate this fac
younger institutions will spring up to take


their places. Harvard occupies the first place


among our institutions to day, not because sht


is the oldest, but for the reason that she is


with all her years, the youngest Of our colleges


Her optional courses give wider Opportunitie
than are afforded by those institutions whicl


oonfne themselves to an effete curriculum


This, then, is the topic we wish to suggest 70


Commencement Day-the great question o
, how to make our colleges take up the work Q
the common schools and carry it forward i
the spirit in which it was begun. 1t is on thi
question and on the necessity of adaptin
: collegiate instruction to the needs of tn


time that college professors and the alumni {
all our higher schools should give their in
mediate attention, for if they fail to meet til
e wants of the people the sphere of public educ'
) ton will soon he so widcncd as to destroy ii
uneHdOwed colleges and to make the othe
D useless. This Commencement season will
an excellent opportunity for the considerable
e of a question which, if left to itself, will
| settled adversely to the colleges. .-Ne,0 HOI
4 Herald
Year: 1874

REMEDY FOR RHEUMATIsM.-A patent medi-
cure the rheumatism of nineteen years stand
ing" AS far as it goes this is perfectly salts
factory but we want light upon another view
of the matter. Suppose mans rheumatism
is only of three years standing, must he let it
stand sixteen years more before the medicine
will cure it? Or if it has stood twenty years
is there no hope Of remedy? We want to
know about this 1t is going to be very un-
pleasant for man to endure rheumatism for
seventeen or eighteen years before he can
take medicine for it.
Year: 1874

WHEAT AND GoLD.-It seems that many
wise pioneers who sought gold in California
have found wheat An estimate of the har
vest for this year alone is that after deducting
the amount of wheat used for home consump-
ton, enough will remain for exportatioa to
double the amount exported last year by Rus
sia, much larger indeed than that exported by
the rest of the United States. 1t would be aR
odd and at the same time gratifying circum-
stance if the land of gold should become the
land of wheat, and richer from its wheat than
it could ever have been from its gold.
Year: 1874

You ask why hate that woman should
think you might see for yourself She has
better complexion than mine, and | hate her
for that. Her hair is two feet longer than
mine, and [ hate her for that. Her face is
fresher than mine, and that is another reason
why l hate her. Her jewelry is finer than any
| have, and that is enough for me to talk about
her. She lives in better style than do,
and | hate her all over for that. She has
new bonnet every month and | have only six
in year, and despise her for that. She has
beautiful dresses, and they always fit her SO
well, and that is another reason why hate
her. She minds her own business and never
says mean things about any one, and a woman
who does that should be hated by every other
woman. Her husband is more prominent man
than mine, and hate her for that. She never
goes about grumbling and telling things to
make others feel mean and uncomfortable, and
hate her on this account. She will not lend
me her jewelry, and feel above any woman
who will not cheerfully lend her best clothes
and jewelry. Then, her diamonds are real,
while mine are paste, and | hate her for that
Hate her2 | should think l had enough to
hate her. She can sing and | can't, and hate
| her for that. When offered to tell her half
dozen of lies that had heard and twelve
more that L made up about her and she would
not hear me | was mad enough at her to bite
her head of-the stuck up deceitful thing.
When give her advice she paid no attention
to it, and hate her for that. When try to
tell her of something about her husband that
will make her hate him as hate mine, she viii


not even listen to me, and hate her for that


When 1 would tell what somebody or some
other body has said against her, she says she
does not care what folks say, so long as she
has her husbands devoted love and conf


dence; than | hate her more than ever fo


throwing out slurs against me. Her breath il


sweeter than mine. and hate her for that


And Ill hate any woman who is happier o.


getting along better than am.-Fdnny Fern
Year: 1874

You've MEN TAKE WARNING Young men
who sit up late on Saturday night playing
cards, and who go to church the next morning
with a " full dock" in their pockets, should be
careful about their being 50 bestowed as to not
fall out When Bob Howe went to the Bap-
tist meeting in Circlevillc, and took his seat
with his sweetheart in the front pew in the
gallery, he had occasion to use his handker-
chief, and drawing it from his breast pocket,
drew with it the entire pack of " Cohen's best
linen, which flew about below The good
minister g saw it, and knowing whereof he
spoke, simply observed, Young man, your
Psalm book has been poorly bound !" That
seemed to be the prevalent impression.
Year: 1874

A New Bedford paper tells story about
shop. keeper, who advised lady customer to
buy two mohair switches instead of one, as the
article was becoming scarce. He said that the
man whom he had hired to hunt NOES had
only caught two within fortnight.
Year: 1874

The following is said to be good antidote
to use on vines that were infested with potato
bugs at this time: White helibore mixed with
twice its bulk of -four or plaster and applied
with dredging box. 1t is not so poisonous
as Paris-green.
Year: 1874

A Southern journal issues the following
notice Many people ask for papers at this
Office who would scOrn to beg for Eve cents /;
yet that is the price charged for copy. We
hope they will see the point"
Year: 1874

HARD WoRK.-A young man "out in the
country not exactly of the country, tried
milking cow, and as he MIXED he he smoked
his cigar He got on very well, as he believed,
until he lowered his head and touched the
cow flank with the lighted end of his weed.
The next instant hiMself rs and cigar were dread
two tons weight into one of her legs, and then
passed it under the mixers left jaw. When
he ceased whirling around, and myraids Of
stars had disappeared, he said farming was the
hardest work "a man could put his hands to.
Year: 1874

The Dramatic Critic of a newspaper in
neighbOring city recently wrote to Miss Char
lotte Cushman asking her to give a gratuitous
representation for the benefit of the poor of
that place, and requesting her to answer by
telegraph "Yes" or No" To this sum-
mons Miss Cushman sent the following reply


DEAR SIR: | am in receipt of yours of the
lst, in answer to which find myself under the
necessity of saying mo" to your request that
L would give one of the nights of my short
engagement in Washington for the benefit of
your local charities. My reasons for this
decision are as follows:


L think the time has come in which some one
should make protest against the system now
so fully inaugurated of making artists pay 50
much more than the rest of the community for
charities in which they are not especially
interested, and which have no claim upon them
You simply ask of me that | should give from
$40O to $500 to your poor, while those more
| Immediately concerned, those who are bound
by all the ties Of neighborhood and common
brotherhood think they are doing their part in
paying their quota of dollar or two, when
they receive in return full equivalent out of
the labor, severe enough, of the often hard
pressed and struggling artist Each one of
these already does to the best of his or her
ability, within the range Of the claims which
fall upon every human creature alike. You
may tnlnR IL lnueUcato, but 1t is surely not
irrelevant for ME to say here that | every yeal
give to my poor and needy, and my poor S poor


and needy, upward of $4,000 which | consider


very fair percentage upon my income. A.


for myself, it would take every day of every


year, if [ were to respond to one-haf the ap


plications of this kind that meet me at ever!


turn and each one of us who are SO frcel,


called upon in these ways, | have no dOub


have not only their regular clientele of clai


mants to whom they are bound, and for whom


they are accountable, but also hosts of such ap
!, plications and claims for which they are in n
way bound.


1t strikes me that the whole affair is one


sided and that word is necessary in the wa
J of justice. | am willing to place myself in thi
breach, and say for all my confreres in art


whose errors have never been on the side {
r niggardliness-that it is unfair we should i
f all the work, and pay also, both publicly an
privately, as we do to my certain knowledge.
D Allow me to suggest that in place of th
5 easy manner of doing good, house to hous
z visitation for charitable objects would place
e within the power OF every citizen to help tt
f poor of his own city and neighborhood, wit
J. much greater comfort to his conscience thu
c this cent per cent. contract of SO much mon(
= for so much amusement-and the poor throw
Il in. Believe me to be, with much consider
IS ton, respectfully yours,


70 CHARLOTTE CUSuMAN.
Year: 1874

A Cornwall farmer told us that his cattle
were 50 gentle and kind that they followed him
all over the farm, and in passing haystack
obligingly gave each one lock of hay. The
traits referred to are not uncommon among
domcsticated animals. We were visiting a
family last week in the vicinity Of Goshen,
and, having occasion to cross field where a
male COW was grazing, when he followed US to
the gate with an eager expression, and, lifting
the gate off its hinges, he took after US at full
speed. No doubt he would have called when
we passed haystack, but the folks were
waiting dinner for us and We couldn't stop.
SO We left our coat tail and portion Of our
pants on the gentle creatures horns, and went
into the house
Year: 1874

SUICIDE MANIA.-There have been con-
siderable number of suicides in Baltimore re-
Gently, but they are in greater proportion in
some ether parts of the country. In sixteen
days, between the 10th of May and the 9Th of
June, there have been seventeen cases of sui
eide in New York city, or over one Z dey, and
in the last five days there have been nine cases.
1t is a somewhat noteworthy fact that all these
cases have been Of persons of foreign birth,
the ;a@ majority 3ora a+ being Germans The American
that Of either the German or the Frenchman,
the volatile character of the latter, and the
metaphysical inclination of the former, each
leading to pretty nearly the same result. One
cause in bringing this result about is said to be
the almost utter impossibity of the laboring
classes to obtain work in some districts
Year: 1874

ESALL RIVER LINE TO BOSTON
via Newport and Fall River


The magnificent steamers NEWPORT and Old
COLONY leave pier . North River foot Of Murray street
at all principal hotels in the city