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Year: 1874

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We find some Of our contemporaries be
ginning to talk of the Fall elections. Il
il not rather too early to begin? Oul
impression is, that grand mistake was
made last campaign by holding conven.
tions at too early day If Greeley had
been nominated by ajoint convention OF
Liberals aud Democrats, two months be-
fore the election, he would have made a
much better race He would not have
been elected perhaps, but his chances
would have been better. Let us not rush
into the coming campaign, but let us take
it easy and let events develop themselves
Somewhat Make haste slowly before
convention and make things "red hot ;"
after and until the election is over. The
coming election is all.important to Ar
kansas. 1t is general overhauling and
we have too much at stake to hazard any
thing by hasty action. We must select
good men for the various positions we
will be called upon to fll. aud we should
deliberate calmly before fixing upon our
men 1t is long time before the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in No
vember and many changes may come.
The Louisiana muddle and the financial
problem, are before us We cannot yet
tell what the result Of Congressional ac-
ton may be, and this result will doubt
less have u marked effect on the politics
Of Arkansas as we'll as the entire Union
The Oranges are still coming more and
more prominently to the front, and we
cannot forcsee the effects to follow their
action. The Temperance movement is
gaining ground daily and will doubtless
enter into our politics this Fall. Disis-
tegration is the present prevailing polti.
cal law, chrystalizatiou will come in its
proper time, and no man or set Of men
can hasten it 1t is born of true popular
opinion and is not made by leaders. The
Patrons Of Husbandry and Temperance
men can do much towards shaping and
giving individuality to this coming chrys-
talization, il they shape their course
wisely. They may by folly become cy-
piers. So we mad better take it for
granted that time will open our eyes to
many things, and not be over anxious to
open the campaign Shrewd Radicals
have heretofore made practice of lying
in wait for the mistakes Of the Conscrva-
tives and they have made profit by it.
Let us try to watch little, too, and not
be pulled up with the idea that the Con
servative party must succeed. because the
Radicals are quarrelling. The honest
Republicans are trying to correct the
evils existing in their party, but they are
still Republicans, and as between Demo
,crats or Liberal Republicans and the Ras-
Gals they now abuse, they will unhesitat-
ingly 60 for the rascals to preserve the
party in power.
Year: 1874

Es' The deranged young woman con-
fined in the County Work House at Lit
tie Rock, is, from what we can learn the
daughter Of old man Keefer, who has
lived in this county about year. We
hope it will require nothing more than


this information to stimulate efforts on
her fathers part, for her relief.
Year: 1874

Burleigh writes from New York to the Boston Journal. cone of our city pastors is most excellent singer. He has a sympathetic voice. He frequently supplements his sermons with song, ana the music is quite as efficient as the appeal. He visited mad house the other day, and was shown a cell in which a madman was confined. He was one of the most furious sort. He had to be chained to the floor to keep him from dashing his brains against the sides ef his cell. It was as much as ones life was worth to approach him. He tore his clothes into ribbons. and his bed was mass of rags. As the minister looked through the grating the prisoner made for him, and with such violence as to jerk himself back on to the floor. He rose foaming with rage. 'I'll kill you.' sIll beat your brains out Clear cut. Instead of moving, the preacher began to sing. The hymn he selected was. Our home in Heaven First the madman Is- tened then he stretched himself out to the full length of his chain. First one arm relaxed and then the other. Tears molstened his eyes. Then he coiled upon his bed of rags as quiet as a chifd, And when the hymn was ended he looked up, saying, More, more.' The preacher sang till his strength gave way, and when he left the madman seemed hushed in slumber. The keeper said he had no doubt but it would have been perfectly safe for the minister to have gone and sat down by his side in the cell. It was the old case of Saul and David."
Year: 1874

The Boston Transcript relates the following anecdote of an old-time New England stage-house: s'At one of them, day after day, 8 stranger, apparently a guest, was politely asked by the landlord if he would be good enough forthat day to carve the dish before him. Uni formly the well-dressed stranger grace fully complied and as gracefully carved the contents of the platter. Some over- inquisitiye person, for there were such even in those famous old times, at last observed that day by day the same dish appeared in the same spot, that the same person occupied the same place at table, and the same polite request was in the same tone preferred and compiled with. The weu-dressed guest was @ neighboring tailor who was famous as carver, perhaps from prac- tice on the goose, and who got his din ner for his services"
Year: 1874

In this reckoning I have said nothing of the value of sour milk or labor. The COW IS an old one, no front teeth, and had fodder cut and was we'll cared for :: was very poor in spring-is in excellent condition now for beef. I have mixed. fed and fatted her to the present time.
Year: 1874

RmISIsCENCE UNDER DHFICULTIES.-A cor
respondent who has been doing Boston in
company with the lIo0sier editors. writes
Il stood in Faneuil Hall for the first time.


| uncovered my head, and mentally | was
going of eloquently, Here the voices OF
Samuel Adams, Warren, John and Quincy
Adams. Choate. Webster. Everett. and sum
ner have poured forth the treasures Of their
great minds and hearts, when | was wound
up hy come on you dol blame g,lley, The
hack is waiting for lis Then we went 10
Bunker Hill Monument, and there at last |
had determined to make one gigantic effort
To feel romantic | went up-and the Iloosi-
ers went up with me-the side Of the hill
that the red-coats esSayed To climb that
bright morning in June in the face Of ter
rible storm of battle that drove them back
again and again | walked on the sod that
had once been wet with the Sanguinary dew
of heroism, and Strewn with the torn bodies
Of brave men, but did not get any blood on
my shoes or trample on any dead men, but a
fellow told me to get off the grass. | stood
on the last remnant of the old b-eastwOrks.
and tried to imagine the burning town in
the distance the men-oi-war laundering in
the harbor the British troops coming up
the hill the rustic COntinentalS nesting
close behind the earth works and pointing
their old flint locks resolutely at the foe and
waiting for the command to fire. and | al
most thought could hear a stout voice ring
ing out. Don't fire, boys, till you see the
whites of their eyes : but heard n police
man telling me to get off the grass and a
small boy offering me three bananas for
dime. Bat here was tie noble monument
before ne. would ascend it, and at its
top. away from the busy world. | would re-
cite portion Of Webster's immortal speech
delivered at the laying of the corner stone.
and at last | should commune with the
mighty past ; bat when had climbed 2222
steps, for once in my brilliant career my
breath gave ont.
Year: 1874

And have gone to play witfthe ANGELS.


Onc of our good little boys, says the
Marquette Journal. read the story about
that other good little boy who got 4 situation
in hank. and became rich and respected,
and was enabled to give money to the FIJI
islanders. and have his wood sawed for a
dollar day, and make the wood-sawyer
wait ninety days for his nav, all through
picking up pin when the banker was
looking. Our little boy went to one of the
hanks and asked for work. and didn' t get it;
so, Just before he got to the door, he stopped
and made believe pick up pin. But the
cashier, who saw him, thought it was money,
and Jumped over the counter like lightning
and collared the good little boy. and shoe X
him, and called him thief, and finally went
through his pockets and raked out - cents,
which the boy had found in his fathers
pockets while the old man was asleep. This
he contiscated, and kicked the boy into the
street And our good little boy says he
thinks in a few years he can fog the man
who told the story about the other good
little boy.


\ New Orleans school-boy. who swallow
ed his slate pencil the other DAY, is sure to
make his mark in the world.


Athol, Mass, has strange case of de
PRAYED youthful propensity in foar year
old child, that, from its very cradle. has
eyinced constant desire to bite. or rather
gnaw, his fingers and hands, until an indul-
gence in the appetite seems to he almost his
only source of qualification. If left alone he
would lie on his back for an hour at a time,
chewing his fingers and tearing ont pieces
of flesh and bone with the voracity OF a
savage animal. lie has pursued this habit
with such fatal persistency as to reduce all
the fingers of both hands to raw and bleed
ing stumps, while of the thumb of the left
hand nothing whatever remains.
Year: 1874

The SCISSORS EpIroR.-Some people eSti-
mate the ability of a newspaper and the
talents of its editor by the quantity of
original matter 1t is comparatively an
easy task for frothy writer to pour daily
a column of words-words upon any and all
subjects. His ideas may flow in one weak
washy. everlasting flood, and the compound
of his language may enable him to string
them together like bundles of onions, and
yet his paper may be poor concern. In
deed the mere writing part of editing u
paper is but small portion of the work.


The care. the time employed in selecting, is
far more important, and the tact ofa good
editor is better shown by his selections than
anything else; and that, We know, is half
the battle. But, as We have said, an editor
ought to be estimated and his labor under
stood and appreciated by the general conduct
of his paper-its tone, its uniform. consis-
tent course, its aims, its management, its
dignity, and its propriety. To preserve


these US they should be preserved, is enough
Year: 1874

Tmr MAIN OBSTACLE To THE RIGHT Cox
DUCT OF EDUcArIoN lies rather in the parent
than in the child. 1t is not that the child is
insensible to influences higher than that OF
force. but that the parent is not virtuous
enough to use them. Fathers and mothers,
who enlarge upon the trouble which filial
misbchaviOr entails upon them, strangely
assume that all the blame is due to the evil
propensities of their offspring and none to
their own. Though on their knees they
confess to he miserable sinners, yet to hear
their complaints of undutilul sons and
daughters YOU might suppose that they were
themselves immaculate. They forget that
the deprayity of their children is repro
duction of their own deprayIty. They do
not recognize in these much scolded, often
beaten little ones, 50 many lookIng-gasSes
wherein they may see reflected their own
selfshness. 1t would astonish them to as
sert that they behaved as improperly to their
children n their children do to them. Yet
A little candid selfanalysis would show them


that half of their commands are issued more
for their own convenience or qualification
than for corrective purposes. 81 won { have
that noisel'' excaims disturbed iather to
some group of vocferous juveniles; and the
noise ceasing, he claims to have done some
thing toward making his family orderly


Perhaps he has but how? BY exhibiting
that same evil disposition which he seeks to
check in his Children determination to
sacrifice to his own happiness the happiness
of Others. Observe, too, the impulse under
which refractory child is punished. Instead
of anxiety for the delinquent's welfare, that
severe eve and compressed lip denote rather
the ire of an offended ruler-express some
such inward thought a., ''Iou little wretch,
we'll soon see who is to be MASTER uncov-
er its roots, and the theory of parental au-
thority will be found to grow not out OF
mans love for his offspring but out OF his
love of dominion. Let any one who doubts
this listen to that common reprimand, "Iow
dare YOU disobey me?'' and then consider
what the emphasis means. No, no, mo raj
force education is widely practicable even
now, if parents were civilized enough to use
il But of course the obstacle is in meas
ure reciprocal. Even the best samples oil
childhood as we now know it will be occa-
sionly unmanageable bv suasion and, when
inferior natures have to be dealt with, the
difficulty of doing without coercion must be


proportionably great. Nevertheless patience,
selfdenial. sufficient insight into Youthful
emotions, and a due sympathy with them,
added to a little ingenuity in the choice oil
means. will usually accomplish all that can
Year: 1874

be wished. Only let parents actions and
words and manner show that his own feeling
is thoroughly right one, and he will rarely
fail to awaken responsive feeling in the
breast of his child Spencer.
Year: 1874

In the chapter on "Epigrams' in Prof.
Mathew Great Convcrsers'' the author has
collected several of the most piquant both OF
ancient and modern times We give below
few of the most pungent. though perhaps
dialogue between a clergyman and travel
Year: 1874

BECOMING MARTYR TO TEsT a PRINCE
PLE.-A rule OF tie Chicago, Burlington aud
Quincy railroad company, that passengers
r8ust show their tickets before getting on the
uaiD-which was adopted 70 head or grangers,
Who are in the habit Of rendering money for
the purpose OF testing the right OF the company
to charge more than the legal fare
went into operation on the frrt instant.
The legality Of this rule has been brought 20 a
PRACTICAL test by a man who refused 20 show
bis ticket before entering a train on that road,
the other day, and insisting upon entering, was
seized by employees and pitched on the plat
form. He viii commence suits for beth civil
and criminal damages at once.
Year: 1874

The secretary shall see that the
quarterly dues of Subordinate Gran
ges are promptly paid, and in case
the dues remain delinquent two
quarters, the delinquent Grange
shall be reported to the Master IF
Year: 1874

The New Haven Union, in discussing
the Western railroad war, refers to the
claims of the corporations that the
legislation of the Northwestern States
would be ruinous to their interests.
should they run the roads in compli-
ance with its provisions. 1t says, the
truth or falsehood of this statement
can only be gathered from the railroad
reports, and these are misleading, their
apparent cost not being certain indi-
cation Of their actual cost. There is
good sense in the Unions concluding
remarks:


at is more than probable that the
lapse of time has made it so difficult to
eliminate these various elements in cal
culation. that the only true basis for
an estimate would be what it would
cost now to build. equip and run the
different lines. Of course, the latter
plan leaves no margin for watered
stock. or for stock the value of which
was largely wasted IN experiments and
prcfiigate expenditure. But if the Va


idity Of the law is to turn upon its
reasonableness, that is, upon the
question whether the rates fixed BY it
will return = fair percentage
upon the cost of the roads after paying
running expenses, it is evident that the
Year: 1874

There is no report for 1868. It ap-
pears from the foregoing that, out of
twelve crops recorded, the price
has been higher in nine
instances and lower in three;
and that, Of these three, one (1S64-5)
was caused by the suppression of the
rebellion and the consequent fall in the
price of gold; while another, (186O-l)
was probably somewhat affected by the
depression in business which acoompan-
led the outbreak Of the rebellion.


The probabilities all are, therefore,
that our wheat will be worth more next
May than it is now.


The next crop in Europe can hardly
be full one;-the doctrine of chances
would indicate that it would not be. If
it is not. it's effect will be anticipated
and felt in May and June next.
Year: 1874

cost also must be put at reasona bic
figure. The stock and debt of most
railroads represent not only their cost,
but their waste, the aggregate of their
bad luck and their good luck. To ask
the public to pay handsome interest
on the waste, losses and profits of rail-
road corporation is an absurdity on the
face oft. If an individual put $780,
600 capital into an enter prise, and
100000 in bad notes, and expected
the concern to pay him 10 per cent. on
100000, he would be laughed at, and
the principle applies with equal force
when railroads come into court and ask
to be permitted to levy rate of
charges which will pay them interest on
all the losses they have sustained as
we'll as the actual cost Of their lines.


sit seems to us that the best way
would be for the railroads to submit to
the smooth operation of the laws. IL,
after one years running, they can show
they have been running at a loss, or
that but meager percentage has been
earned, we presume the representatives
of the industrial classes would be will
ing to modify the laws. We think,
though, that no such showing would be
made. If the roads were obliged to
confess to their actual capital stock,
and were to deduct from this what the
people have loaned, it would be made
manifest that in the past the monopo-
lists have been earning enormous divi-
dends. Let the people 60 on with the
fight. Truth is mighty and will pre-
vail"
Year: 1874

A correspondent of the Farmer $
Union, writing from Iowa, says:


l see you are trying to keep politics
out of the Grange in your State. l
doubt about your entirely succeeding.
The Grange bids fair to entirely
change the politics of this State, and !
shall not be surprised if it is Grange
and anri-Grange in less than two years.
Already | see that state of feeling in
some of the political papers.
Year: 1874

From the Constitution OF the National


Grange.
The CLIMATE OBJECT OF THIS oRGANIzA-
rIoN IS PoR MUTUAL INSTRUCTION AND PRO-
lection.


Human happiness is the acme of earthly
ambition IndiridudI happiness depends
upon GENERAL PROSPERITY.
Year: 1874

hccorulng 10 rradluon, one OF the standing
notices in California hotels in the early days,
ran thus =" Any man taking off his boots in
the psrlor of this hotel will be shot" Like Buck
Fanshawe, in Mark Twain's legend the Pioneers
were all for peace they couldn't stand any dis
turbance, and go they told the traveller plainly
at the outset what the customs of the place were
and what was expected OF him. Something in
the same spirit the western papers, in view of
recent calamity on the Ohio river, are giving
steamboat travellers some useful hints as to the
manner of conducting themselves on the water
highways. The rules have especial reference to
disasters, which they seem to regard as more
likely to happen than not, and they treat the
topic in cool-blooded way which may be CRATE
ful to Western nerve but which would be rather
horrifying to more sensitive people. Thus, the
Cincinnati Times says: "When steamboat
sinks, go to the hurricane roof that portion Of
the craft is seldom covered with water" Sound
advice, no doubt, and we are bound to believe
honestly meant, but how many people are there
who know what Hurricane roof is and is it
not evidently place not intended to be gone
to n But it is the manner of this rule which
we especially refer to: /" When steamboat
sinks is as business-like as :" any man taking
of his boots'


Again sin case OF fire, proceed at once to the
iaekstaff that is always the last thing to burn.
This, we presume, is on the supposition that the
traveller must stay on the burning deck though
all but he fed, II the jack-staff we're in the water,
we should stay proceed" to it; not otherwise,
nor even if its security was even
better assured than is here intimated.
Still another of these "Rules" strikes our fancy
lin case of explosion you either know that a
thing has occurred, or you don't" (most true).
'If you have escaped injury, the safest plan is to
remain where you are until you have opportuui-
ty to collect your thoughts" Bnt suppose you
have been blown up into the air? 1t is plain
under those circumstances you cannot 'remain
where you are" and it ia probably equally the
fact that you cannot 'colect your thoughts un.
der those conditions. We fear, after all, that
these rules are not practical. 1t may be that
since the time "Panurge" was caught in storm
at sea no passenger thrown on his own resources
ever went through such an exceptional expert
ence with coolness and deliberaton. All thes,
rules are of little value, but discipline and firm
ness on the part of officials are of every value
Let the craft be well appointed and well officer
ed and all will be done that can be done. PAM,
quickly subsidies when it secs that every precau
ton is being taken, and in the presence of sterr
and incorporating authority though, TO b,
sure, in how many cases out of hundred wher,
vessels meet with disaster, is there any sort o
discipline, order, and good management show
by those in command
Year: 1874

1t is not very often, in these progressive
days. that we find the ancient methods of
measuring time in actual employment. The
sun dial, it is true, occasionally serves as an
ornament to some country lawn, but little
dependence is placed on its slowly creeping
shadows The hour glass bt4s disappeared
from the pnlpits OF the parN.ns; for twenty
minute sermons, instead Of many-headed
dissertations prolonged through hears, are
now sufficient for the spiritual needs of their
llockS. The divided candle exists ouly in
history, and is linked with the story of good
King Alfred. Bat the water clock remains;
not in this country. to be sure, but where it
was used Il thousand years ago.


Julius Caesar, tradition tells us, found by
its aid that the Summer nights in Britain
are not the same length as those in Italy.
Cicero relates that the length of speeches
made by senators was regulated by clepsydra
kept in The senate chamber; and the same
parliamentary practice, which now holds i'll
our own legislative halls, Of a member yield
ing the floor for certain number of minutes
ol his time to another speaker then existed,
for a grave senator often gave 50 much Of
the water as remained in his clep>ydra to II
colleague, who was thus enabled, to obtain
a longer or an extra water time for his speech
than would have been otherwise at his com
mand.


The water is led by pipes to Il reservoir in
which a constant Level is maintained, and
from an orliicc in which the stream escapes
into Il receptacle divided into two compart-
ments. Below the latter is an arrangement
in the form Of an anchor, the carved portion
OF the latter serving As Il rocker on which
the divided receptacle yibratcS. This o>cit-
lation takes place under the entering stream !;
50 that WREN one compartment is carried
down by the weight OF water within, the
second is raised to receive its supply. A
pendulum, heating seconds, is suspended
from two springs, parallel to and cquldistant
from the resting point of the rocker, and
regulates the movement Of the receiver.


The springs are prolonged in the direction
OF tangents to the curve of the anchor arms
and maintain the pendulum in motion with
Il constant force. 50 that each oscillation of
the latter corresponds to one Of the rocker
and of the receiver The water from the
latter falls upon balanced mechanism which
i, so constructed is to oScillate every second
minnie, and t" transmit motion to a suitable
train Of wheels, which move the hands upon
one or more dias in the usual way.


The sounding apparatus consists in a
cylindrical reservoir, which is suspended by
claims to the axis of a wheel and is arranged
to empty Itself every fifteen minutes. Its
weight tarn> the wheel, and thus sounds the
hours and the quarters.