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Year: 1878

THERE is much sense in the soI
lowing excerpt: "Practical farming
is in no way Incompatible with scien
,iGc knowledge, as those who fling
the epithets skid glove farming"
sidewalk farm;ng,'' "aristocratic
farming," and scientific farming"
would have US believe; but the prac.
t;cal farmer ayails himself of every
fact and improvement which the
plodding farmer despises. He takes
a good paper which intelligently dis
cusses the great subjects of agricul.
ture, which interests the great mass
of the population of nearly every
country. The reading farmer who
farms in the broadest sense, imparts
his knowledge to others as freely as
he received it, that the benefit he
enjoys may be enjoyed by all who
farm for pleasure or for profit; he
feels the generous impulses which
should actuate the universal brother.
hood of man. For none of US 'liv-
eth unto HIMSELF


SrEwED DUCK.-Cut the duck in
pieces and brown it slightly in a lit
tie butter and salt pork drippings,
then add a teaspoonful of chopped
onion, Glove, stalk of celery, one
of parsley and sage leaf. Cover
with cold water and stew slowly for
two hours, seasoning when half done
with salt and pepper. Keep the
saucepan closely covered and add a
little boiling water if necessary.
When done, put the pieces of duck
on warm platter; mix teaspoon
ful Of butter with as much flour and
add it to the gravy; stir until it
thickens; season with lemon juice
and strain it over the duck. Gar
nish the edge of the platter with lit.
tie triangles of buttercd toast and
serve with currant jelly.


LEMON SAUcE.-Cream half a cup
Of butter with cup Of sugar. Crate
the yellow peel from lemon and
put it, with the strained juice and
half a grated nutmeg, into the sauce.
Add the beaten yolk Of an egg, then
the white cut to stiff froth, and
beat all together for ten minutes.
Lastly put in four tablespoons of
boiling water, one at a time. Stir
only just enough to mix, Gnd set the
sauce over tho teakeetle where it
will steam but NOT BOIL. This is a
rich sauce; palmer one can be
made by mixing two teaspoonfuls of
-four or corn starch with n cup Of
sugar, and boiling it in pint OF wa
ter. Add little hutter, pinch Of
salt, some grated nutmeg and tea
spoonful Of lavoring extract, or, in
stead of the latter, season to taste
with cider vinegar.


IT will be in order from this time
on to put the winter quarters of
stock in the best possible conditions;
so they may be comfortable for the
cold season. Arrange so they may
get water and feed with the least
possible outlay of labor, and at the
same time have it just when and
where they want it. 1t will also be
in order to pick up all tools and i'm
plements and see that they are safely
housed. Remember that the first
storms are most hur,ful to stock, and
Il little rust in the autumn and early
winter on machinery and tools may
grow into II serious thing before
Spring.


SrEwED CELERY. --- Wash, and
break apart, three heads of celery.
Cut off all the green portions and
put the balance into boiling water
slightly salted; Gust enough water
to cover). When tender, pour off
portion er the water and to the bal
ance add teaspoonful of corn starch
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Year: 1878

OUR BoYs.-One of the best things in the
world is to be boy.


Boys have always been so plenty that
they are not half appreciated.


A boy is willing to do any amount of
work if called play.


The feeling of boys toward pumpkin pie
has never been properly considered.


A boy furnishes half the entertainment,
and takes two-thirds of the scoulding of
the family circle.


1t is impossible to say at what age boy
becomes conscious that his trouser legs are
too short, and is anxious about the part of
his hair.


In fact boy is q hard subject to get
moral from.


1t is now time for the boys to 90 in SWIM
ming, and run their parents in debt for
funeral expenses.
Year: 1878

The prospect of an amicable settlement
of the threatened war troubles in Europe,
is having its effect on the -four and provi.
sion market of this country. Flour and
provisions are lower now than they have
been any time for the last twenty years.
This is good news to the laboring men, but
what they want is labor to get the money
to buy provisions with. 1t matters not if
flour was down to dollar barrel, if there
was no dollar to pay for it.
Year: 1878

The Herald Steam Printing House is
q 1t surpassed by any Job Printing office
on the Pacific Coast, outside of San Fran
cisco, In facilities for doing job work,
Low prices. good work and expedition
may be relied upon at this Office.
Year: 1878

people there regard Conkling as great man,
but he is not talked about for President


''San Francisco would give Grant big re-
ception l. he should land thnreY


ut would give him the biggest old time he
ever had We would light a bonfire whose
light would be seen In Omaha. Grant seems
to me to be the coming man, but we don't
know what may occur in the next year and a
half He could easily be elected. He is as
strong In New York as Conkling, and stronger
everywhere else. Blaine is not strong In New
York. / think Grant would run better than
Blaine the country over. But ! have all idea
that neither Blaine nor Conkling will be q
candidate II Grant is in the field. Blaine told
me 9 year ago that bis time was in 1876 and
would not come again. He said lightning
never strikes twice in the same place. and it
came SO near him In Cincinnati that 1t Is not
likely to come near him again"


The army, Of course is for Grant to 81 man.
1t is fhirly. represented by General Sherman,
between whom and Grant there is an mex
pcable attachment Sherman has said ever
since Grants last term expired that the Coun-
try would have use for him yet In the prosi-
dentlal chair, and he has always expressed
the belief that the Republicans would nOml-
nate him In 1880, and Chat he would be elected
He has said within two days that the country
was rapidly settling down to the belief that
Grant was the only man who could bring
safety and confidence.
Year: 1878

The proposition Of the New York Clearing
House to treat silver dollars as bullion ana
receive them only as special deposits, thus
making q difference between the new legal
tender and gold and greenbncks. Is exciting
much sharp comment That the national
banks will be permitted to nullify an act OF
Congress- deliberately passed after warm
and prot1acted discussion / the merits Oh the
measure, is not to be supposed Ihe coming
session of Congress may be expected 10 l'lo
a corrective for the importinent action OF the
New York Custom-Housc which cannot llnd
mn apologst even in John Sherman, But IL
NAV be as well for tho banks to persevere III
their proposed method Of treating the stand"
ard dollar. The moro obnoxious they make
themselves the sooner they will give place tt
a new banking system, with tho States, ano
not the general government, guaranteeing
the circulation.
Year: 1878

The loyal Canadians yesterday had an op-
portunity to display their devotion to the
English crown, and did it with an enthusiasm
which was highly satisfactory to oil con-
cerned. The ceremonies attending the induc-
tion into Office of the new Viceroy are fully de-
scribed In the DEMOCRAT. They were worthy
Of the occasion and will be read with interest
Now let us hope, since the Queens son-in-law
is safely landed and enthroned, that the enter
prising press reporter at Halifax will give us
no more Of Lorne. We can afford to dismiss
him with the hope that he will prove to our
Northern neighbors as able statesmanlike
and progressive ruler as the late Governor
General Lord Dutferin.
Year: 1878

There never was a more glorious prospect
tor any party than that which the present
political outlook gives to the Democracy for
carrying the presidential election of 1880.
We now have carried and shall then hold the
Senate and the House of Representatives.
and with the majority of the States and a
large popular majority In the nation, nothing
short of miracle can prevent the election Of
q Democratic President in 1880, and sustain
ing nm with Democratic Congress- All the
signs point toward this happy consum nation
SO devoutly to be hoped for. It is good time
to get into the Democratic wagon
Year: 1878

The Democratic party is reduced to the
necessity Of choosing between two evils. 1t
may by keeping away from the Greenbackers
remain III the minority in nearly oil the
Northern States, or it may by forming CO.
alition with the Grecnbackers drive hard
money Democrats to vote the Republican
ticket. 1t must be evident in view of all
these facts that there will be a great many
scratched tickets in 1880.
Year: 1878

THE Eastern noodles cry out against the
silver dollar, and say that nobody wants
them, while the superintendent of the mint
at San Francisco informs the public that lie
hundred and fifty-fve thousand silver dol
lars at par for gold. We doubt if it would
he safe to leave many of these silver dollars
lying loose around where these chaps who
say nobody wants them most do congre.
gate
Year: 1878

THE base wretch who touches the bulb of
thermometer in these swcltering days
with the lighted end of his cigar, loves not
his iellow-man. One glance at that instru-
nent when it is influenced in its business
operations by the weather alone is sufficient
10 make man enlist before the mast in jim
BEINErr's polar expedition But when it is
made falsely to register a higher degree the
impulse is TO provoke social discord by
seeking to mako every one turn the cold
shoulder OF freezing contempt upon every
body else.
Year: 1878

MAJOR GARDNER, the recorder Of the
Porter Court of Inquiry now in session at
West Point, is required by surrounding cir
cumstanccs 10 the performance ofimportant
itnot distastcful duties. He is practically
the prosecuting officer ii the case and as
such brings upon himself much an'agonism
that it would be more comfortable to avoid.
fact that the Government requires Of him
the most careful effort to sustain the dis
ciplne Of the army as well as the integrity
OF its former proceedings in this case. Aside
from all personal considerations, the final
action in this important rcvisory inquiry
cannot fail to have direct effect upon the
morale of our military establishment. If ii is
competent to revise the findings of q court
OF inquiry in one case, and one rs import
ant rs PoRTER's is, ii stands to reason that
similar petitions from petitioners of Lesser
grade, both in rank and in alleged crime,
must be treated in tho same way. Major
GARDNER, rs well as the other members OF
the court, will not fail TO bear this fact in
mind, nor the further fact that the decision
they arc now reviewing was reached after
due and solemn deliberation by the highest
court martial in the rank of its members,
ever held in this country II not in any
other. The court martial Of Marshal BA-
zAINE, after the Franco-P Prussian war. was a
similar proceeding, with the revision omitted
But history records the truth in both these
great military trials, despite the attempts o
the offending or criminal parties to excuse
Themselves
Year: 1878

Mock marriages for the fun of the thing
sometimes turn cut not to be the joke they
we're supposed to be. A Miss Clara Man
nIDg, of Brooklyn, and Mr. Brundage, of
Unionville, IN New York State, at social
gathering in the house of the latter, last
August, went through this joke to her, but,
as he now claims, reality to him. He says
he meant if, and she says she did not mean
it. The marriage service was read to both
by a minister, and both publicly assented to
the contract by the appropriate response.
Mr.. Brundage procured certificate of the
fact that the parties had been united in
wedlock according to the laws of that State.
The step-mother Of the unwilling bride ap-
piled to the clerk Of one of the courts of
Brooklyn to know what could be done about
it; and the clerk, after ascertaining the
facts advised that the bride should accept
the situation and make the best of it, es-
pecially as Mr.. Brundage was substantial
farmer who understood the management
of pigs and cows" and was "a much better
match than some city swell who carries his
fortune ON his back" Whether such a
marriage is valid in law is a question for
the courts to decide. The lesson is that, if
the parties do not mean tie thing, they had
better keep clear of the form. If they go
through the form the presumption of law is
that they mean it.
Year: 1878

From an English Paper.
Worth is tallish man, with big, clever
head, and very prominent forehead. His
brown eyes are singularly shrewd in ex-
preston, and their seizure of detail is sur
| prising-that is, for a man. AS rule, men
have no more eye for detail than owls haye
for the sun. Worth takes you in at glance
and knows what your style ought to be,
| which is such comfort. When 60 to a
dress maker, do not care to "work my
passage" as Bob would say. want to
order harmony in one or two colors, and
to encounter brains equal to the OCCASION.
Worth's taste, when allowed full play, is
irreproachable. 81 prefer simplicity to
everything else," he says, but there are
women wig, don't believe in the value of a
dress unless it is loaded with trimming.
They drive me mad for they won't take adz
vice. Now, what is becoming to one per-
son is hideous when worn by another.
study to make the best of the subject given
me, as, unfortunately, we can't have peo-
pie made to order, can we If bad my
way all women should be slight, graceful
and pretty. Then dressing them would be
an artistic pleasure. A dress should never
overpower the wearer. 1t should merely be
an appropriated frame for a charming pic
ture, bringing out the beauties of the pic
ture, but never distracting attention from
it. So few women understand this Why,
when find | can make costume for less
money than has been agreed upon, actual
ly annoy clients by telling them so. They
think that it cannot be as handsome as it
ought to be, and they would rather have
more material added, however much the de-
sign may be marred, than pay less. l as
sure you, this is fact. Consequently, when
I meet ladies who know that dressing is in
art, take very great satisfaction in having
them as patrons. 1t ism teyery woman who
knows how to wear dress. When l have
done my best, try to make my client do
her best, by seeing her walk and sit down.
To walk with style is rare enough, but when
it comes to being able to sit down in dress
properly-well, there are not many equal to
that, can tell you. Then, women think
they ought to have number of dresses,
however hideous, than wear one dress, how
ever becoming. There never was a greater
mistake. If your frame is appropriate,
stick to it. Don't be getting out of it, and
trying experiments have just made a
dress for Madame Nilsson, in which she
looks better than I ever saw her before, and
l have begged her to wear that dress con-
stantly in Russia, if she wants to produce
most charming effect. As she is sensible, |
think she will take my advice, which, you
perceive, is against my interest. but, good
gracious me, money is not my only object
Art is intended to beautify nature, not to
deform it.''
Year: 1878

A CHINESE DOG STORY.-The C0ntlnen-
tai Societies P. C. A. have printed in their
bulletins the story of Sin Chun's faithful
dog. Sin Chun nourished in his household
a dog to which he was much attached.
One day as Sin Chun was sleeping heavily
in thicket, the Governor of the province,
who was out on hunting expedition,
chanced to pass and ordered the grass of
the thicket to be fired ia order to frighten
from it whatever game it might hide. The
dog tugged at Sin Chun's clothing, but
could not aronse him; then running to a
stream hard by plunged into it, aud return
ing to where his master lay rolled himself
over and over, wetting the grass. This
performance he repeated several times, till
be had SO saturated the ground that his
master was afe from the flames; then, ex-
hausted and cruelty burned, he laid down
by his masters side and died. Sin Chun,
awakening, was not slow to comprehend
the danger to which he had been exposed,
and The means by which 1t had been avert
ed. With many tears he carried home the
body of the dog, wrapped it in costly
shroud, and placed it IN handsome tomb,
which the Governor caused to be called
ever afterward, "The Tomb of the Faith
full Dog
Year: 1878




A LUNG TESTER. The Easton Free Press
says: We don'tw want Moore township
girl for a lung tester. At singing school
the other night, young man was brag-
ging about the strength of his lungs, and
invited girl in the company to hit him in
the breast. She said she was left-handed;
had been washing that day and was tired,
and didn't feel very active, but at bis ur-
gent request she let go at him.


When his friends went to pick him up he
said he thought he would die easier lying
down. He had lost all recollection of hav-
ing any lungs, but the young woman con.
soled him by admitting that she didn't hit
him as hard as she might have done, be.
cause she rather liked him, and besides was
afraid he might run mp her arm. ss
Year: 1878

A SLEEPING CAR EPIsoDE.-Only few
nights ago an accident occurred, says the
Nashville American, ON the Northwestern
road in which sleeping coach was turned
over on it's side. AS the car went over a
lady in berth on the opposite side vas
hurled out and landed in the berth of a
gentleman whose weight was about $50
pounds. She was sound asleep at the time
If the accident, and so was ne. Both
awoke, startled at the sudden turning of
the car, and scarcely knowing whether they
would be hurried into eternity or not. The
clothing had fallen out Of the lady's berth
and was almost suffocating the gentleman.
She heard his deep breathiny for moment;
then it suddenly ceased, and the horrible
thought passed Ghrough her mind that he
had been smothered to death. He recover
ed himself, however, to find that his nose
was flattened against the cold glass window.
Not knowing what manner of person had
fallen upon him., he held the lady mp off his
head, and at this juncture, when the con-
ductor asked if any one was hurt, he cried
out breathlessly: "Nobody's hurt; but /
wish you'd come and take this fellow off
my head" The lady attempted to move,
but found she could not. Lights were soon
procured and both passengers were relieved
of their awkward dilemma.
Year: 1878

-Liszt, the great pianist,is now at Rome.
It is one OF his pecnliarities- in which
many other musicians are like him-that
be will only consent to play after much
pressure and fattery. Not long ago a lady
who was expecting him to join her eyen-
ing company, locked her piano and put the
key in her pocket before he arrived. No
body asked or even limited for music but
Liszt was rot at ease. He wandered around
the instrument for while, and finally asked
his hostess for the key. and presently her
guests heard him at his very best.
Year: 1878

The best way to induce sleep is to shut
your eyes and think of nothing. An old
man told his minister that he did this one
Sunday morning while he was preaching
and that it worked admirably. The min
ist er asked him why he did not think of
the sermon, and the old man replied naively
that that was just what he was thinking
about, and that it was so near to nothing
that the difference could not be perceived
and so he dropped off into quiet and re-
freshing slumber.
Year: 1878

DURING toe protracted session of Il e
Senate, that ended with the passage of
the silver bill, few of the country's
greatest statesmen were grievously In
toxicated. One of them in this condi-
tion moved to ''strike out the second
line of the word government" The
Boston Herald suggests that govern
ment sis not in his line." On the
contrary, its crook edness is such that
it might take IN almost anything.
Year: 1878

A GOOD man says, I'll there be DO
hell there is probably no heaven" !"
However that may be, we suppose no
man ever went to heaven because he
feared hell. Terror or dread never
made oRe good or wise or vir;uous or
great. 1t impels to no good deed or
virtuous, generous action. Fear is in
itself vice and begets no virtue and
hell is failure if designed t. drive
people into heaven. Gods love draws,
but the devils rage does not frighten,
men into Paradise.
Year: 1878

We hear people complaining every
day OF outrageous assessments of prop
erty, not here alone, but of those made
in distant counties. Land agents
charge from $3.50 to S. for each sec
ton on which they pay taxes. This
sum is required because Of the risk in
cident to the transmission of money
Though the mails and because of the
untrustvorthiness ef those to whom
Remittance may be made. But this was
one Of the put up jobs of the Rutabagas
who made the present Consultation.
Year: 1878

There are several grounds Of
divorce in China, one of which
is for talkativcness-not such a
foolish one as it might seem.
Speaking of divorce, an easy
one is that of the Burmese. If
the husband and wife are tired
of each others society, they
dissolve partnership by light
ing two candles and shutting
up their hut, sit down and wait
quietly until they are burned
ont. The one whose candle
burns out first gets up and
walks off with nothing but the
clothing he or she may have on
at the time; all else becomes
the property of the one who re-
mains.
Year: 1878

A paper that publishes obitu-
ary notices intended to give a
certain deceased a good send
off with that familiar old hymn,


Jerusalem, my happy home,


o, hew 1 long for thee
but got the poem into the collec-
ton Of marriages.


The melancholy individual
who sat on the steps leading up
to the editorial rooms all the
forenoon of the day of publica-
ton, sadly balancing a gun on
his knee, was the groom speci-
fed.
Year: 1878

Twas part Of my wedding portion,


This spot where the old house stands,
And had the choosing of it,


From all my fathers lands.
We were young but we were not foolish


Or wasteful, you may depend,
And my mother always tlught me
| Twas better to save thln spenl.
For while, you know, it was lonely
! With me in the house all day,
And no one to come anigh me


To hear what had 10 say;
But when / sat with my baby,
My boy, asleep on my arm,
didn't care much for the neighbors


Or anything else on the farm.
There were Jack and Ben. you remember,


They were all that ever had;
And Jack was his mothers idol,


Though Ben was likely lad;
And we saved up every penny,


j
For little farm is little cramped


For couple Of growing boys.
l was bent on their having learning,


For / wanted my Jack and Ben
To be able TO serve thir country


Whenever she needed men;
And father said was silly,


For he never couli understand
The use of spending money


For anything els, than land.
But kept on my way of thinking,


And. thoughnot otherwise, saw
That both had taste for study,


But Jack had taste for law;
And knew that my prayers and prudence
Would after Will. BE- acknowledged,
And it paid for all the struggle


When eaterel my boys at college.
can see that father is failing,


And there is no strength in his arm
To swing the scythc in the meadow,


Or do the work on the farm;
And somehow I've lost my courage,


Though try to be calm and brave;
But what can mother do but weep,


With both her boys in the grave?
The house was never SO Lonely,


Aud my poor old man and

Sit oft in the chimney corner


And drssm of the days gone by;
And when the too solemn silence


Is broken by sudden noise,
We start with the old-time gladnees,


And whisper: "Here come the boys"