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Year: 1878

EvAPoRATED FRUIT.--lf any of our lady
readers have not yet discovered the fact
that the evaporated fruit takes the place of
all preserved, canned and otherwise cured
fruit, we advise them to learn this fact be.
fore another season passes. In many
families it has entirely superseded all other
methods of putting up fruit, and the pro-
duct is superior to anything we have ever
had before. Those who have the fruit
should procure an evaporation of size suit
able to your demands. If these are only
for home use one of the small Boswell ma
chimes, advertised in these columns by Mr..
Underwood, of Kenton, will answer the
purpose; but if you have plenty of fruit,
and wish to evaporate it for the market,
one of the large machines like the auto
matte will be necessary. The former will
dry ten bushels day and the latter from
one to three hundred baskets.


The fruit should be full ripe and soft
enough to break open easily. Taken when
full ripe, the product is very much sweeter
and more valuable. Let the fruit be well
pared, and, if peaches, placed in the ma
chine "cup up" and thus dried. If you
want some extra sweet and nice, fill the
cups with sugar after they are laid upon
the drying trays. Fruit of any kind may
be cured in this way, and when family
once has it they will desire no more of the
old-fashioned preserves or marmalades.
Every farmer, at least, ought to have an
evaporating machine of some kind, and
our town readers will find it to be to their
interest to lay in supply of the fruit thus
cured instead of preserving by the old
method for themselves.
Year: 1878

TAR-WATER FOR MELON BUGs.-" For the
last five years l have not lost cucumber
or melon vine or cabbage plant. Get a
barrel with few gallons of tar in it; pour
water on the tar; always have it ready
when needed, and when the bugs appear
give them a liberal drink of the tar from
the garden-sprinkler or otherwise, and if
the rain washes it of, and they return, re-
peat the dose. 1t will also destroy the
Colorado potato-beetle, and frighten the
long potato bug worse than threshing
with brush. Five years ago this summer
both kinds appeared on my late potatoes,
and l watered with the tar-water. The
next day all Coloradoes that had not been
well protected from the sprinkling were
dead, and the others, though their name
was legion, were all gone, and have not
seen one of them on the farm since. | am
aware that many people will look with in
difference because it is so simple remedy;
such should always suffer both by their own
and their neighbors' bugs, as they fire.
quently do."-ChicagO Times.
Year: 1878

1t is now full time to cut and get into
stacks your winter supply of marsh hay.
Do not let it go until it gets coarse, stalky,
hard and wirey, but cut it early, while the
stalk is green and tender, and you will find
it much more valuable. Another point in
this work is, do not let it burn up in the
sun or blacken up un.lcr rain. Cut and
cure just as carefully as you would clover
hay, and you will find it to be of greatly
increased value.
Year: 1878

Go forward. Find something
noble and exalted to do, and be
blessed in the doing Let each act
be an Improvement upon every one
that has gene before. Let 10 day
be a spur upon tomorrow. Let
there be no turning back when
your hand has been placed upon
the plow. IfAlpine heights are be-
fore you, climb them with unfinch-
ing feet aud unwearied arm. Re
member that though mountains may
rear their inhospitable crests, Rome
is beyond for you ever as for him of
old No matter how mighty tree,
a sharp axe and repeated blows will
bring its towering strength TO the
ground. The block from which
you would carve the statue, around
which a world may bow with the
homage that genius ever commands,
may lie deep in the quarry, but
strong muscles will dig it out, and
the triumph be more grand for the
sweating toll. Nothing produces
nothing. enterprise of great pilh
and moment" are not the work of an
instant. The pigments and brushes
and canvas are given, but the pc
ture comes not without thought and
effort aud inspiration, never by
standing still.
Year: 1878

IT used to be that good many
Americans made it convenient to
travel through Canada, when going
East, in order to lay in a supply of
clothing. but the rule works the
other way now. The Toronto
Mail says the Canadians now come
over TO s'the States" when they
want to buy a new suit of clothes,
because they can buy the articles
So much cheaper than there. They
can afford to pay ferriage both
ways and yet save mo.cy by the
operation.
Year: 1878

BLUsH1Ne.-Nothing can be more absurd
than the idea that "looking guilty proves
guilty. An honest man, charged with crime,
is much more likely to blush at the accuse.
ton than the real offender, who is generally
prepared for the event, and has his face
"ready made" The very thought of being
suspected of any thing criminal, will bring the
blood to an innocent mans cheek nine times
out ten. ..-...
Year: 1878

who had never passed beyond its walls
during the course Of sixty years, being order
ed by the Governor not to stir beyond its
gates, became Immediately miserable, and felt
so powerful an inclination to do that which
he had 80 long contentedly neglected, that
on an application for release from this re.
straint being refused, he became quite melan-
choly and at last died of grief. The pains
of imprisonment, also like those of servitude,
are more in conception than in realty. We
are all prisoners. What is life but the prison
of the soul?
Year: 1878

1t matters to us in life not SO much
what part we play as it does to play
our Part we'll. In a drama ( is not SO
much q question who played the king
or the peasant as who played the part
best
Year: 1878

Bellew, in his account of the mission
which he accompanied into Afghanistan,
tells a most remarkable story, which
may be quoted as illustrating not only
the determination which the race is
capable of, but OF sense of honor
snch was the word the relator used and
although it is only honor among thieves,
there was mixed with it desire for the
honor OF the family to which the hero of
the story belonged, which would be
creditable anywhere.


The person who tells the tale was
called Khan Gul, and he was one of the
actors in it.. The whole of his family
had. at former period, became band
OF robbers, which occupation they prac.
ticed, seemingly on the sly, and their
neighbors were kept in the dark about
their doipgs. They had determined on
robbing a house at some distance, and
going there during the night they made
bole through the mud wall. Khan
Gul's brother. like Oliver Twist, was
passed in, and he began to hand out
whatever was within his reach.


The people Of the house chanced to
waken up, upon which the brother tried
to made his escape, but while in the act
OF returning through the hole in the wall,
those on the inside caught him by the
feet. Now began tug like the "tug of
war;" fiercely they pulled to get him out
OF the hole, but 1t was useless; those
within had one or two holding Oh to each
leg, and the burglar was held as il in a
wise. The fear that they would be recog-
nizsd and detected became at last the
dominant feeling, and, as they could not
possibly pull him out, they determined
on an extreme measure, and one 30 very
extreme that it was hard to believe it
could have occurred to any others than
these knife-using Afghans.


The only plan to prevent identity was
to cut off the head. carry it away and
leave the body; and the very striking
part of this tale lies in the fact that it
WAS done at the suggestion of the man
himself, and, as he expressed at that in
stant, 80 that "the honor OF the family
might be preserved undefled." This
was done. They fed with the head only,
leaving all the spoil which had heen
thrown ou'. and, as Khan Gul ended the
story. ne thanked God that the honor of
the house had by these means been pre-
served. There is something heroic in
such acts. Neither Agamemnon nor
Achilles, as described by Homer, sug-
gests q chapter capable of such devotion.
Year: 1878

No one who looks down from a gallery
in church upon devout and God-like
congregation can fail to notice how very
prone the Christian is to the loss of his
hair. Piety and bald-headedness seem to
go together, and the head of the believer
might be shining light, a city on the
hill. And yet, if one goes to Goddess
theater the same thing is observable.
Wordliness is as bad as piety. The
bloated capitalist and the horny handed
son of toll are equally liable to barefoot
edness on top of the head. And this, too.
in the face of the fact that proud science
has long wrestled with the problem, and
inventions innumerable announce them
selves as causing luxuriant growth of
hair. Bald-headedness, however, does
not impair mans value in the ordinary
affairs of life. He can buy or sell, in
sure, run a bank, or accept an Office,
with not enough hair on his head TO
make first class eyebrow; but when it
comes to making love to girl it is very
much in the way. There is great deal
of capillary attraction in love. Girls
adore handsome suit of glossy hair
1t is lovely. And when lover comes
too WOO her with the top of his head
shining ike a creased pumpkin, he is at
disadvantage. Just as the words that
glow and the thoughts that burn begin
to awaken in her bosom a sympathetic
thrill, she may happen to notice two or
three flies promenading over bis phren-
illogical organs-and all is over. Girls
are so frivolous. She Immediately be-
came more interested in those flies than
In all his lovely language. While he is
pouring out his love and passion, she is
wondering how the flies manage to hold
on to such slippery surface.
Year: 1878

1t is nearly twenty years since Father
Newell, as he was called, happened to be
in Charleston. S. c., during the pastoral
vacation, and was invited to preach in
the old Circular Church, then as venera
ble as st Michal's. The committee had
heard Of him and his eccentricities, in
which he rivaled Lorenzo Dow, and
resolved to give him hint on the Sab
bath. They did so, saying that he must
not forget that he was in the great city
Of Charleston and was 10 preach in
very fine church to very refined aud
fence.


There was an ominous smile as he
said he would remember.


Service commenced, and hymn and
prayer were not much out of the COM
mon, save with more power in them,
and the Committee on Pulpit Supply
began to breathe freely, and to use their
fans and handkerchiefs.


1t was time to preach and old Newell
got up. He looked all around and up at
the gallery, crowded with quadroon and
mulatto nurses and servants of the quail
ity, and then he began.


81 am told I must be careful what l
say to-day, for this is a refined church
and refined city, and I am to preach
to refined audience. / have been
looking around for the refinement, and
1 see it. You refine anything when you
take it in its coarse state, like black
molasses or yellow sugar, and make it
white and fine. You bring a ship load
of negroes to this city of Charleston and
every face is so black it would cast a
shadow on the chimney back, and the
hair is as kinky as a theologicalstudent's
ideas. You keep them in Charleston a
hundred years, and, to save my soul, 1
can't tell. half the time, the negro from
the white man, nor the quadroon nurse
from the child's mother, nor the yellow
girl from the white, only she amt so
bilious. Yes, own up to you. You
are powerful refined people and 1 give
you glory for doing it all, for the Lord
had no hand in it. 1t is your refinement
for the Almighty never made mulatto
or a mule"


Then he preached to as humble a
congregation as he ever had in the fiat
woods Of Ebert. But he was not asked
again.-Hdrford Post.
Year: 1878

The Ohio Salesman, published at the


city of Columbus, is the organ of the
Democratic party of the State of Ohio


and has been its organ for at least forty


years. During the war itwas celebrated


for its reasonable utterances; but since


the close of the war its policy has been


to keep comparatively quiet for the pur-
pose of deceiving the loyal men of the
State as to the true character of the
leaders of its party. Now. however, it
has become so much elated at the mere
prospect of a Solid South, with its North
ern sympathizers, getting full possession
OF the Government, that it IS again Civ
ing utterance to the true sentiments of
the Democratic leaders In an issue of
this Democratic organ, of August, 1878,
the editor says:


The war of the rebellion was a worse
than useless war, and it was prolonged
to three times its necessary length"
GOOD and true men, in the patriotic
enthusiasm of the movement, entered
the ranks to fight the rebellion only to
find that they had volunteered into
slavery that was more CALLING than that
of a PLANTATION NEGRO. they
were treated like dogs-made to submit
to indignities that would produce a re-
bellion in aState prison. = And
all this, while they knew that their FAM
lilies at home were suffering for the COM
mon necessaries of life, AND WERE
BEING DEBAUCHEDB BY THE STAY
AT HOME THIEVES, WHO MADE
THE LOUDEST PROFESSIONS OF
LOYALTY"


In the Statesman of the 31st of August,
1878, the editor makes an argument in
justification of the above outrageous and
slanderous declarations, in the course of
which he uses the following language:


During such times as '62-3 and 4 the
generous and self-sacrifcing will be
found at the front, while the cool, calcu-
lating, self-indulgent will be found at
home unscrupously taking advantage of
the situation. And to increase their
opportunities these men are uniformly
the loudest in their professions of loyal
ty. THE WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
OF THE GENEROUS MEN WHO GO
To THE FRONT, ARE LIKE THE
WIVES AND DAUGHTERS OF
OTHER MEN. KEEN NECESSITY
AND CONSUMATES TESCOUNDRELISM
MAY WORK THEIR RUIN JUST
THE SAME AS 1T HAS THE RUIN
OF OTHERS"


In reply to the Columbus Dispatch the
editor says that the Saxon epithets that
he had made use of were intended to
apply &to the men who, during the war,
remained at home to speculate in bonds
and bounties, and to TAKE ADVAN
TAGE OF THE NECESSITIES OF
WIVES AND DAUGHTERS, TO IN
SUIT OR DEBAUCH THEM, while
their natural protectors were in the
field.


These are the sentiments of that same
old Copperhead party that's now asking
your support, veterans, and endeavor
ing to deceive you by the hypocriical
cry of REFORMl They say the war is
dead issue, and yet they SANDER and
villify those who we're engaged in it,and
basely insult the wives and daughters of
the brave men who saved the nation
from the fratricidal hands of their
Southern brethren. See that you give
these infamous slanGerers the grand
bounce on the second Tuesday in Oc-
tober.
Year: 1878

the occupants were the bodies ofwomen.
the other two those of men. One, upon
the extreme table to the right, was
handsome woman of nineteen; the long
blonde hair, all disordered and dishevel
led, almost covered the upper half of her
naked body; her dress and Jewels. sus-
pended upon the hooks above, showed
her to have been woman ofelegArce-
perhaps pleasure; she had been fAnd in
the Seine on the day before, and had
been dead, when found, only few hours,
as the body was still warm.


Next to her, an old man, who had been
found dead in the BOis de Bonl0gne three
days ago; EVIDENTLY an outurier or lab.
orer of the poorest class, to Judge from
the style Of his dress. A sickening
spectacle was that which was presented
to view on the leaden couch next to him;
the body of a man, half eaten up by
fishes, the hair all gone and bowels pro.
truding; he had been found in the river
two days before, but must have been in
the water for weeks. He had been found
naked, and there were no articles of
dress to assist in his Identification. The
fourth slab was occupied by the body of
woman who had committed suicide by
cutting her throat; she had been found
N one Of the streets Of the FaubotIrg 81.
A''tOine, with paper in her hand stat
ng that she had committed this deed of
Ter own free will, and that no one was
she appeared to have been
! woman of about fifty, of the lower
class, to judge from her appar-
j suspended above.


At times, all Of the twelve tables were
but this is fortunately, a rare
occurrence. Equally as rare an event is
t, unfortunately, to find all of them
'mpty. In that horrible chamber, di-
-ided from the outer world of life by an
wall of glass, there is no
ound save that of the dripping water;
ife moves without, death, only, is here,
nd in its most sombre and terrible
spects. Most of the bodies remain for
yer unclaimed and unknown; they are
'qried and forgotten, and others take
heir place; and 50, from day to day, the
World wags and time takes its course,
title thinking of the terrible secrets and
Mysteries of La MOryue of Paris.


LOUIS.
Year: 1878

The Minstrels do not perform tonight,
but they give matinee tomorrow after
noon with only Is cents admission to all
parts of the house.


At the Grand Opera-house the splendid
play, "a Celebrated Case is drawing to \
close. Cincinnatians can have an oppOrtu-
nifty of seeing Mr.. Frank Roche in the lead
ing role He is decided favorite here, and
the change will be no disappointment to
any one.


The Midgets, those wonderful little folaB
who have been entertaining such crowds sf
our best citizens at Greenwood Hall, have
been induced to remain one week longer.
Only Is cents admission is charged, and tho
receptions are SO interesting that our people
can not afford to miss going.


The entertainments to be given at Pixies
Opera-house Saturday and Sunday nights
by Professor Everett are of novel charao-
ter, and never fail to delight an audience
Spiritualsts are left to insist that the spirits
assist the Professor, while others are per-
mitted to believe they are only witnesses of
the most skillful of magicians but whether
spiritualist or magician, his performances
are most wonderful.
Year: 1878

In the latter part of January Georgo
Mckay, alias John W, Scott, was arrested On
the charge of robbing Post-office of Green
County, and when brought before this
United States Court, in this city was found
guilty and sentenced to eight months impris-
onment in the Hamilton County Jail. Sincs
that time evidence has been produced to
connect Mckay with the murder of john
Mccormack wealthy hardware merchant
of Mt Vernon, Knox County, who was
brutally stabbed and beaten to death in hs
own store some three years ago. Accord
ingly committee was appointed to wall
upon President Hayes and after laying the
matter before him pardon was obtained
for Mckay in order that he might be tried
upon the charge of murder Yesterday the
committee arrived in this city with the par
don and will at once start for Mt. Vernon
with their prisoner, where he will be tried
at an early date on the charge of murder.
The officers in charge are confident that
with the evidence which they have against
him clear case can be made.
Year: 1878

A fearful tragedy occurred shortly before
8 o'clock this morning, at the corner of
Hunt street and Broadway, man, still in
the prime of life, committing suicide by
cutting his throat and the arteries of his left
arm.


The suicides name is Frederick Wells, a
German, about forty years DID, who is
butcher by occupation, and who lives on
the second floor of the corner house on the
above mentioned streets.


He is in the employ of Richard Gohman,
on Pendleton street two doors above Wood
ward.


He was a man of steady habits, not ad-
dicted in the least to strong drink, and
never had occasion to complain of his mar
riage felicity.


For some time, however, he has been suf-
fering from a painful illness. EARLY this
morning his wife arose from bed and, on
sick, told him that she would go for physi-
clan. She did so, and in the mean time
Wells also arose, put on some few garments
and locked the door leading to the kitchen.
The door fronting the entry he barricaded
from the inside by placing child's crib in
front of it.


He then drew from his pocket pen
knife, the blade of which was as sharp as
that of a razor, and going in front of the
looking-glass he severed the arteries in his
left arm under the elbow joint He next
drew the knife across his throat, cutting the
jugular vein and making a frightful cash.
The blood spirited in torrents from the
wounds, and covered the carpet and furni-
ture. Wells fell on his back and lay on the
floor with arms Outstretched and his eyes
set.


About five minutes after o'clock his
wife returned and, finding the entrance to
the door obstructed, summoned assist
ance. Officer Shaeffer and some neigh
bors responded, and after break
ing in the door found the dead
man lying in u pool of coagulated blood.
His body was still warm When his wife
saw the sickening sight she went into hys-
terics and tainted The deceased was the
father of two handsome daughters, the old
est being about fourteen years old. The OH
| ly cause to be assigned for the rash act is
his illness, his wife stating that her hus-
band never expressed himself as being tired
of Life. Coroner Stitch was notified. Amin
quest will be held tomorrow morning at
half-past 9 oc clock.
Year: 1878

Complaints come from American ves-


sel.owners at New York that while trade


Is generally very brisk aud business


prosperous, their vessels find diff
Guilty in obtaining employment, not


withstanding the extraordinary mag


nitdde and enterprise Of the domestic
exports. This is explained by refer,
ence to the immense fleets Of foreign
craft seeking cargoes in the American
ports. As TO the extent Of that bust


ness it may be inferred from the fact
that four thousand empty ships come
to our ports annually In search Of car
goes, exclusive of all The foreign craft
that come hither with eargoes. In
Great Britain all the ports swarm with
unemployed vessels to such an extent
AZ TO reduce freights to the lowest pos
sible rates by sheer competition. The
truth is that the foreign shipbnilders
overbnilt the market, and even in the
midst Of the imitation their competition
had become ruinously excessive. Yet
they still go on building vessels for
sale, apparently for the purpose of
still controlling the general market.
To such an extent has this been car
ried that they could take possession OF
our entire domestic coasting trade to
the utter exclusion Of American ton.
mage If the navigation laws did not
make it a domestic monopoly. Thous.
ands Of foreign vessel owners have suf.
tered seriously by the depreciation Of
this property.
Year: 1878

There are many who still remember
with pleasure the sociabls given by the


Harkins' Senate during last season and
still refer to it as one OF the NEST pleas,
urable affairs of the Ball season, and
We know that the mere announcement
of the fact that the young senators are
arranging another Of their popular So
ciablrs is guaranteeing an evening of
rare pleasure to all who may attend.
The evening Of the Oath Of January has
been set apart by these Young gentle
men rs the one upon which they pro
pose to meet their many friends and
while awav the hours ian tripping the
light fantastic. No psi are being
spared to make the occasion a pleasant
one and the young men composing the
Harkins' Senate are even now streup-
ously preparing for this event and We
may safely venture the assertion that
those who attend this Ball on the 24th
Of January will at least spend one eve
ming untroubled by the cares fife.
Year: 1878

Of giving signals of warning at sea,
said TO be an American invention, has


been successfully tested. A hollow
cylinder, closed at the lower end, is
secured by an anchor to the bottom Of
the sea. In this cylinder is a pump
which sucks in the air, congresses it.,
and sends it ont through whistle. A


huge fagot, floating on the surface of
the water, and rising and falling with
the waves, furnishes the force by
which the pump is worked. Tn.
whistling which will vary in loudness
according to the violence Of the move
ment of the fagot as it is tossed by the
waves, is repeated at short intervals,
and can be heard for long distance,
even against the wind.