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Year: 1877




The Business Outlook.


From the New York World.


The revival of trade is thing
that has been so anxiously looked
for and has been so long in coming
that there is a general feeling of
skepticism when its arrival is indi-
Gated. Yet the expectation of bet
ter days is based on sound sense,
and its fulfillment is only ques-
ton of time. 1t is now four years
since the the panic of 1878 pros
trated the business and industries
of the country. The general
shrinkage of values and the general
loss of confidence throughout the
East, West and South paralyzed
all enterprise. Unsound firms
and mismanaged corporations fail
ed one after another, and those
that were safe contracted their
operations, moved cautiously,
avoiding new schemes. Specula-
tion largely ceased, and the credit
system, which is, whether for
tunately or unfortunately, the
active principle of modren society,
was contracted in its operations.
A manufacturer needing new
machinery put off the purchase Of
it. A merchant contemplating
the opening up of new depart
ment in trade postponed the
scheme. A man intending to build
a new house waited. The same
tendency prevailed in regard to
all expenditure, and in all the
luxuries of life especially. People
watched, incurred no obligations
and took on risk. The result has
been the longest and severest
depression ever felt in this
country; hut the inevitable reac-
tion appears to be at hand. Labor
has grown so cheap that capital Is
tempted into use. The fuctuating
value of money is so nearly settled
at last that it may be invested
with some degree Of certainty rs
to its returns. The self-denial and
economy of four years have
have put many families into a
sound condition financially; the
lesson of the panic has prepared
others to look with satisfaction to
the possibility of life of useful in
dustry and the people who have
avoided building, buying new car
pets, new sofas and many luxuries,
to say nothing of articles of COM
fort, are stepping into market. A
plentiful harvest adds to this feel
ing of generous confidence and
hopefulness, and the South, so long
overwhelmed with poverty and
dispair, has awakened to q lively
participation in the business of
the country. appearing once more
as a great customer in the manu-
factories of the North. In the
world of affairs there is now
stirring of the tide Of trade like
the movement of the forces of ma
ture in the early spring. The
change is perceptible even TO the
casual observer in the action in
our thorougbfares and the air Of
our people. To test the condition
of things beneath this appearance
of prosperity we have taken
pains TO collect the opinions Of
our leading merchants, shippers
and railroad men, and we present
their views elsewhere IL this morn
ing's World. The evidence which
they submit gives the ground Of
their belief, at least that the revival
of trade is at last with us. Messrs.
Vanderbilt and Jewell testify to
the increase in traffic on the rail-
roads which they control. Other
gentlemen, as well qualified to
speak in their own department,
Year: 1877

that he could not interfere, but
whether he could or not, he afford
ed US no protection. Midnight
was approaching, and we turned
into Moseley's for some oysters
They enter the shop at the same
time, and while we went in for a
feed Of oysters, they too, went in
for a feed, until we were driven to
desperation. One would have
thought they had never satisfied
their hunger before, yet behind the
scenes we knew they are always
terrible gluttons. Without wish
ing to shock our readers we are
bound to state that they did not
leave US when we left the shop,
and we must also state that Mr..
Moseley, who happened to be alb
sent, would not have admitted
them had he been able to prevent
their access. We paid, they didn't.
1t was not to be expected they
would. Against our will they made
us pay. 1t was piece of pure
robbery. However, we did not like
to have row on the premises, and
we left. AS we just said, this was
not the last of them. We went
home and would willingly have
wished them kind good night if
they had then left us but no, these
depraved creatures insisted on en-
tering our bedroom. We need not
say more, nor did we wish to say as
much, but if the theater is to be
crowded with a company of this
sort we unhesitatingly assert that
the theater must be condemned as
a place to be avoided.


Miss Ward and her company
draw crowded houses. She is we'll
dressed, has good figure, a pref
ty face, and nowadays these advan-
tages generally suffice. She is, in
addition, very fair actress. Mr..
Chaplin is good actor, and his
American accent not very notice.
able when he takes the part of an
English gentleman. OF the others,
one actor has an aggravating man
ner of Jerking bis head, while an
actress displays ignorance of prop
er get up and action-for instance,
in East Lynne she was not dressed
correctly, and when the drop scene
fell on a touching picture she made
the audience laugh by dropping on
her knees instead of placing her
hand affectionately and consolingly
on her brothers shoulder. We
wish to draw attention also to the
system of issuing tickets for the
stalls long after there is not even
standing-room to be found in that
part Of the theater. We have al
ready alluded to the fact that the
house is "frightfully full of fleas,"
as lady remarked. During the
most tender passages, visitors
might be seen quietly and perhaps
unconsciously scratching them
selves. The theater is dirty, and
until the f1eas are reported to have
been turned ont we are not going
there again.
Year: 1877

didn't you 2 l asked.


"'Yes, SIR said he, and looked
red and confused.


"'Did he induce you to run
awayp


Ono; no, SIR said he 'but he
told me he was coming in this Ship
That was all l said about it then.
A week or so afterward, when he
was cleaning mp my cabin, he got
hold of photograph of my wife,
which an artist in Liverpool had
undertaken to color and had made
a botch of it.


"'Did you ever do any painting p
l asked. He said he could paint q
little, and | got a box of water
color paints from the third mate,
and some brushes, and gave him a
few photographs to color. You see
how we'll he did it. He surprised
me-


Then the Captain opened his
album and showed the reporter
some photographs which were very
skillfully and artistically retouched.


81 saw him once continued the
CAPTAIN, painting the photograph
of a very fine-looking old lady.
He told me that it was Beans
mother. Well, to come to the day
the accident occurred. l was on
deck at the time, and Bean and
Cotton were sitting for'ard. / was
inst going the call the young chap
aft to help the sailmaker, who was
working on the poop, when a
squall came along. The mate sang
out, the royal halyards were let go,
and Cotton jumped into the rigging
10 get aloft and stow the foreroyal,
for it was darkening up to the
windward. Bean also got into the
rigging and seemed to want to get
up, hut Cotton got ahead of him.


"He laid out on the yard, and
got hold of the canvas, and the
next thing we knew something
came whirling down on deck with
a thub that made me shudder.
The first one at the poor fellows
side was Bean. He turned him
over. for his face was toward the
deck, and then fell down in fit.
and the boatswain attended to him.
The watch carried Colton's body
aft. His neck was broken. i
pulled off the shirt and then /
knew the whole story" and the
skipper took a glass of sherry and
his eyes were moist.


"What was the mystery!" asked
the reporter.


"Well," said the Captain, "just
then Cotton did not belong to our
side of the deck. The body was
sewed up and launched into the
deep as a young woman, and she
was Beans wife, for | found the
marriage certificate In Beams trunk
with some letters that partially ex-
planned the matter. But I'll tell you
about that afterward. AS soon as
Bean got all right he came alt,
looking like ghost, and he knew
by my face that / had discovered
the secret.


"'Captain,' said he, taking off
bis hat, would you have any
objection to letting me stay alone
with it this nightr


II let him stay all night by the
body, and l can imagine what the
poor fellow suffered. never saw
such a face on q man in my life as
that which met me when / opened
the cabin door and the hands were
summoned for the funeral services.
He stood by until the last moment,
and when the body slipped of into
the sea, and the shot carried it
down, down into the blue depths,
he watched 1t until il disappeared.
Then he jumped on the topgallant
rail, and before any one could grab
him he was gone"


"And the letters I"


al hunted through bis trunk"
said the skipper, "and found a
bundle Of letters which am going
to inclose 10 his friends at home.
From what I could learn from them
Year: 1877

belong to himself. He wears a large,
round, low cap made of skin from Astra-
Fan, wide pantaloOns stuffed iuto his boots
and reaching just below his knees, the
whole covered by kind of overcoat but
tonlng on the back and having three | NO
flaps reaching to the feet and fastened on
the full length. On his breast to the left
and right in vertical cases he carries six
cartridges at each side. In his belt he
carries a poniard. A baldrick hangs from
his right shoulder and passes to the left
side, where 1t supports a long saber in a
leather scabOard. On his back, hanging
from bandoleer and trapped in case
made of goats skin, he carrins his rlfie.
The Cnssaelr always carries in his hand a
whip, with a short lash, which he calls
hanYdt. His horse is small and rather
ugly, and, though he is made of good
stuff, his form is somewhat angular. To
form an idea of the Cossack saddle.
imagine an ordinary saddle upon which
would be fastened by a strap square
leather-cushion about four inches high.
This is the reason that at first sight one is
so much surprised to see this curious
looking cavalier perched up so high on
his saddle. He sticks on his horses back
by sticking his knees into the animals
sues WIN all MS strength, Which gives
the legs the appearance of a pair of
pincers. The stirrup is an equally curl
Gus thing. The bottom is round and thick
enough, but from that up it resembles
very much one of those tin boxes in which
preserves are sold. 1t has been already
said that the Cossack's horse is his person
al property, and it may be added that he
turns it to business account by hiring it
ont Since the arrival of tho trOOpC Of
Kischeneff they have been the delight of
the collegians, who, for a rouble an hour,
have been enabled to make promenades
on horseback in bands on these valiant
little animals.-Ksschenef Cor. ". Y.
Herald
Year: 1877

We do not know whether it is from
carelessness or unskilfulness On the part
of clergymen in tying matrimonial knots,
that so many of the knots show ten
dency to unite themselves, but during the
last six or eight months this tendency has
been seen in an altogether unusual and
alarming number of cases. Our readers
have not forgotten the Knox Merritt case,
in which the knot slipped SO badly that
even the clergyman who tied it was un-
able 10 say, with that degree of certainty
which is desirable in courts of justice,
whether or not it was ever tied at all. AL
most Immediately after Miss Knox was
officially converted into Mrs. Blank-that
is to say, after it became matter of proof
that she was the lawful wife of some per-
son to her and to everybody else unknown
another case of like kind arose, and
another woman was found to be married
in a vague, general way to nobody in par
ticular. In both cases the knot seems to
have slipped almost in the act Of tying it,
and now we have a case in New York in
which young woman clandestinely mar
ried man without the consent of her
parents, and Immediately thereafter had
so strong return of filial piety that she
secluded herself in her fathers house,
and now upon oath declares that she does
not wish to be the wife of the man whom
she ran away from home to marry.


The lamentable looseness with which
the marriage bonds are worn in such cases
as these suggests some fault and demands
a remedy. We are reminded of the plan
of worthy Baptist deacon whose way
ward son made a new profession of faith
at every revival, but always g backslid'
between meetings. The old deacon final
ly wrote to his pastor, saying, " You had
better baptiZe John in tar, and see II that
will not make him stick"


After all, however, the trouble was
with John, and not with the clergyman,
and in this matter of marriages that will
not stick, the trouble is with the young
persons who approach marriage good
deal more lightly than is wise for them or
wholesome for the public; or rather the
fault is with our customs with respect to
courtship and marriage. If we had de-
liberately planned TO make hasty and un-
considered marriages common, we could
scarcely have accomplished the end more
effectually than we have DONE The pub
lication OF banns is an obsolete ceremony
among us. Marriages are solemnlzed
without solemnity oftentlmes, and the
prevalent view of marriage among TOO
many young persons Is that IL is sort OF
Joke, to be laughed over, Jested about ana
concealed. 1t would be a good thing If,
in the absence of any legal restraint, cler-
gymen would insist upon greater sol
emnity and deliberation in this matter; 1t
might be well if Trey would at least en-
courage return to the old habit Of pub
fishing banns either in the pulpit or the
newspapers, and marrying in public afler
due deliberation. They may do much N
this way to cure an evil which Is IN
doubted, and which they lament.-N. i.
EUeni7g Post.
Year: 1877

Do our stockmen and farmers apprec;-
ate the difference between q good steer
or COW and poor one? Do they know
how much more good large draft
horse brings tLan little, inferior ami
NAL, bred from small worthless trot-
ter, so called; or good weil-bred hog
or sheep more than prairie rooter
or Mexican mongrel? If they do not.
just let them make inquiries of those
who raise and sell the improved breeds.
We know the good stock btings one
hundred per cent. more than the scrub
and at their enhanced value they are
more profitable to feed or to Craze thas
the poorer kinds. It is waste Of cap
ital for farmer to breed anything but
good stock, whatever argument may bo
advanced in favor of tie Texas COW up-
or the plains. It is ss easy to raise Q
fifteen hundred pound steer at four
years old. if good bulls and COWS are
used to breed from, as to raise nine
hundred pound Texan. aud the price
obtained for the full breed one is nearly
twice as much as the scrub fetchas. As
to horses, it is almost Impossible to sell
a little. trihing horse, only for COW
pony. bnt the large draft horse always
sells at good figures. A Berkshire or
Poland China hog win make nearly
double the pounds Of meat from given
amount Of food as the poor. ilI-bred
hog, and the meat is better A Merinc
eve will produce from eight to ten
pounds OF good nerchantable wool; the
Mexican and specimens brought from
Missouri and Arkansas will not show
over three pounds of hair aud wool that
sell only for carpet wools. pc


Why our farmers will waste their
money, feed and grass on such kinds OF
stock is mystery, when they can do so
much better; but We are young and
have time to improve, and judging from
the number of, enterprising stock meu
who are purchasing good bulls and rams.
he day is not far distant when Missis-
3ippi will do far better than she is doing
now. We hope to see before another
year the stock OF hogs in our State
quadrupled, and before five years enough
pork made in our State TO supply the
home demand.
Year: 1877

In all the actions which man per
forms, some part of his life passes. We
die while doing that for which alone
our sliding life was granted. Nay,
though we do nothing, time keeps his
constant pace, and flies as fast in idle
ness as in employment. Whether we
play, or labor, or sleep, or dance. or
study, the sun posts on, and the sand
runs. An hour of vice is as long as an
hour of virtue. But the difference be-
tween good and bad actions is infinite.
Good actions, though they diminish our
time here as we'll as bad actions. yet
they lay mp for us happiness in eter-
nifty; and will recompense what they
take away by plentiful return at last.
When we trade with virtue we do but
buy pleasure at the expense OF time. So
it is not SO much consuming of time
as an exchange. As man sows his
corn, he is content to wait while. that
he may, at the harvest, receive with ad-
vantage.
Year: 1877

| A farmer in Ohio has recently mads


an experiment which suggests An idea.
He had procured an ear of very fne


yellow corn, and wishing TO procure
seed from it, planted it in good soil,


having first ascertained that there we're


about five hundred grains on the cob.


The corn produced from these five hun.
dred kernels measured nearly nine BUSH
els, or about nine hundred ears froEu
one. The seed SO obtained was as good
as the specimens planted. If farmers
in this State world strive to obtain i'm
proved seed--and improved seed does
not necessarily mean new vsrieties--
they would make money by the operG-
ton The truth is that little or no at
tention is paid to saving seed. When
wheat is to be sown the farmer goes To-
the store and buys his seed wheat, ig-
norant. perhaps. that on. sack OF good
wheat may be mixed with two Of bad,
and not knowing where it comes from.
BY such carelessness TIE field is often
seeded with thistles or weeds. which re-
quire years to eradicate. We have
case IN mind Of little wheat. growing
valley which ten years ago was innocent
Of weeds or thistles. But since that
time one of the farmers boTght his seed
wheat without taking proper precau-
tions in regard to where 10 was raised,
and the following season he found his
field with a very little wheat and a great
many California thistles. The next year
the wind had scattered the seeds broad.
cast over the valley, and to-day it is ais
most useless to SOW grain of any kind
in that valley, for the thistlesschoke ii
out completely.


1t would be an excellent idea to go
through tine wheat fields in the fall aud
pick out few choice heads, we'll filed
out, and thresh them ont by rubbing in
the hand. Put the seed in water and
skim off the floating grains which are
not we'll filled out. Save the balance
carefully and in the spring SOW or plant
in some good mellow ground, spd not 50
thick but that the soil around each
stalk can be stirred with the hoe, and
where it can be watered if necessary. A
quart of seed planted in this way would
produce large amount OF grain supe-
rior to a large majority OF the seed
wheat in the country. In this way the
crop can be renewed, and not only high
priced grain, but more of it. will be the
result
Year: 1877

In 1910 (saJs the Able Huc) we were
once making u Journey In wagon III
the province of Pekin. Our equipage
was under the guidance OF an old
schoolmaster, mounted upon magnifi>
cent ass, so full of ardor and agility that
the two mules that completed our team
had all the difficulty in the world to
keep mp with him. This ass, however,
was so filled with sense of his own
superiority, and 80 proud of it, that
whenever lie became aware of the pres
ence of any of his brethren, he never
failed to commence boasting of it in
such loud. sonorous and harsh tones
that his folly became quite insupporta-
BILE.


When he got to an inn, instead OF
trying to rest himself, the beast passed
the whole night practicing music, set
ting all the donkeys in the neighbor-
hood to singing the same tune, so that
it WAS impossible to sleep.


One evening we said to the school
MASTER:


"Your donkey is an abominable
brute; it prevents my getting wink ol
sleep"


"Why did you not tell me so before?'
said the schoolmaster. 81 would soor
have stopped his singing"


As the old pedagogue was somewhat
of wag, and indulged sometimes in {
small joke, we took little notice of his
reply. but that night We slept quite
soundly.


"WeIl, did the ass make a noise las
night?" he asked, when We met in thu
morning.


perhaps not" said we; "at al
events we did not hear him."


NO, l think not" said he; II saw
to that before l went to bed. You
must have noticed" he continued
that when an ass is goirg to bray, he
always begins by raising his tail, and be
keeps it extended horizontally as long
as his song lasts. To insure his silence,
you have only to tie a large stone tc
the end of his tail, SO that he cannot
raise it.


| We smiled without reply, thinking
this was only another piece of pleasant
ry; but he cried:


Come, now, and see; you can easily
convince yourself"


And accordingly we followed him tc
the courtyard, where we beheld, sure
enough, tie poor ass with large stone
attached to bis tail, and with the air Of
having lost his accustomed spirits
His eyes were fixed on the ground
his ears hung down, his whole
appearance denoting humility and
detection. Feeling quite com
passionate towards him, we now
begged his master to unite the stone
directly; and as soon as ever he felt the
musical appendage at liberty. the crea-
ture raised first his head. then bis ears,
then bis tail, and at last began to bray
with all his wonted energy.
Year: 1877

As we have seen, fresh milk is the
best food for the young calf, and the
most natural method of taking it is for
the calf TO draw it from the udder OF
it's mother. But there are maDv con-
siderations that come in to prevent this
natural method among the five hundred
thousand dairymen of the United
States. This natural method is only
practicable among the breeders OF ptre.
blooded and high-priced stock; and II
such breeder is located in q dairying
district where milk is valuable, it is
quite unnecessary that he should feed
new milk longer than two months. Afs
ter that period the calf may be fed on
1he skim milk and linseed or fax seed
Cruel, with an excellent chance of grow
ing prize animal. In two months the
calf will have made an excellent start
and be ready for the modified diet. Aud
| il the calf is to be taught to drink, 1t 10
better to do this when ten days or two
weeks old II will learn easier at that
age than later, and the COW will give


more milk through the season than il
the calf is permitted to suck longer.
| The milk being fed warm from the
/ COW, Jile Chil Will uluhc u RTONtu HOb
perceptitly different from one that
sucks. This blooded calf should have


the free run of dry yard, with little
hay or grass to eat, that IL may early de-
velop its first stomach and chew its cud.


A small field of grass in summer is still


better. When the time comes for feed


ing skim milk, the ration may be made


about as nutritious as the new milk by


adding to it fax seed Cruel, made by


boiling pint of faK seed and pint of


oil meal in ten to twelve quarts of Wa


ter. Mix this in equal parts with skim
milk, and feed blood warm. Let the


calf have its fill twice per day, at regU-


lar times, until six months old.
During this time teach it to- eat a few
oats, and in case of q tendency to scour,
give, for a meal or two, in the milk,
quar-. of coarse wheat -four, sometimes
called by farmers camel. 1t will be
perceived that the oil Of the fax seed


will make good the loss Of the cream Ia
the milk-in fact it is ration as rich


as milk itself; and we have seen calves
raieed upon it quite the equal of calves


running with the dam. We have also


used fax seed and pea meal 10 make the


Cruel to mix with the skim.milk, and it


has proved an excellent combination.