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Year: 1874




From the Boston Pilot
No song Of a soldier riding down
10 40 the raging hght from Winchester town:
with nations throe at q nations birth;
But the song Of brave man free from fear
AS Shertdan's self or Paul Revere;
who risked what they risked free from strife
And Its promise Of glorious pay--his life.
The peaceful valley has walked and stirred,
And thus answering echoes of life are heard
The dew still clings to the trees and grass,
And the early toilers smiling pass
As they glance aside at the white-waled homes,
OF up the valley, where merrily comes
The brook that sparkles in diamond rills
AS the sun comes over the Hampshire hills
What was It, that passed like an ominous breath;
Like shiver of fear or a touch Of death?
What was itY The valley Is peaceful still,
And the leaves are afire on the top of the hill;
1t was not a sound, nor a thing of sense
But pain, like the pang OF the short suspense
That wraps the being Of those who see
AT their feet the gulf Of Eternity!
The air Of the valley has felt the chill;
The workers pause at the door Of the mill
The housewife, keen to the shivering air,
Arrests her foot on the cottage stair,
lnstinctiyely taught by the mother-love,
And thinks OF the sleeping ones above!
Why start the listenersp Why does the course
Of the mill-stream widen? Is IL horse?
Hark to the sounds of his hoofs, they say,
That gallops so wildly Williamsburg way?
God! what was that like human shrick
From the winding valley? viii nobody speak?
Will nobody answer those women who cry
AS the awful warnings thunder byr
Whence come they2 Listen! And now they hear
The sounds Of the galloping horse-hoofs near
Ihey watch the bend OF the vale, and see
The rider, who thunders SO menacingly.
With waving arms and warning scream,
To the home filed banks of the valley stream,
He draws no rein, but he shakes the street
With shout and the ring Of galloping feet,
This Is the cry he filings to the wind:
To the hills for your lives? The food is behind 70
He cries and is gone but they know the worst
The treacherous Williamsburg dam has burst
The basin that nourishes their happy homes
Is changed TO a demon-It comes II comes
A monster in aspect with shaggy front
of shattered dwellings to take the brunt
OF the dwellings they shattered-white-maned and
The merciless terror fills the course
Of the narrow valley, and rushing raves,
With death on the first Of its kissing waves,
Till the cottage and street and crowded mill
Are crumbled and crushed.


But onward still.
In front of the roaring flood is heard,
The galloping horse and the warning word.
Thank God that the brave mans life is spared!
From Williamsburg town he noby dared
To race with the food and to take the road
In front OF the terriabe swath IL moved
For miles Il thundered and crashed behind,
But he looked ahead with steadfast mind
They must be warned I" was all he said,
As away on his terrible ride he sped.
When heroes are called for bring the crown
To this Yankee rider; send him down
On the stream of time with the Curtius old;
His deed as the Romans was brave and bold,
And the tale can as noble thrill awake,
For he offered his life for the peoples sake.
Year: 1874

The finest kitchen garden in France is
that of Versailles. It belongs to the
State, and brings in a yearly revenue,
taking good and bad years together, of
about 10000 francs. The Assembly has
determined to apply this valuable prop
erty to the formation of model market
garden and school of horticulture. The
details of the institution are not yet ar
ranged, but it is presumed that it will be
selfsupporting, and that it will render
valuable assistance to the development OF
horticultural science in France.
Year: 1874

AN English writer thinks the Ameri-
can early potatoes will come to an end
ere long, for as each variety is claimed to
ripen about ten days earlier than any
other, the time between planting and
digging will soon be used up.
Year: 1874

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 1874.
CABINET CONSIDERATION OF THE CRISIS IN


LOUISIANA.


The Cabinet was Ia session to-day for nearly an
hour and hail. Secretary Bristow was not pres
ent. the Treasury being represented by Assistant
Secretary Conant. The condition OF affairs In
Louisiana was the only subject OF attention, be-
yond several unimportant matters OF routine pre-.
sented by the various heads OF departments At
torney General Williams made some remarks upon
the necessity, in his opinion, OF the government
sustaining the Returning Board In Its recent
decision. The views OF the Attorney General
we're fully set forth, and although the
members OF the Cabinet decline to give specific
Information regarding the statements presented
by him, his opinions emphatically expressed both
in public and private during the examination by
and since the report ofthe Returning Board, are
known to have been reiterated in the Cabinet
meeting to-day These are that there Is a necessity
for the government sustaining the report OF the Re-
turning Board at all hazards, and that It's decision
is right law and fact. These were asserted at
some length. other than the remarks OF the At
torney General there was no discussion upon the
subject, and no decision OF any character reacned.
1t Is said in high official circles here tnat the
forces of the War Department now In Louisiana
are sufficient to preserve the public peace and
dignity should their violation pc threatened.
Year: 1874

WASHINGTON. Dec 90, 1874
A RECIPROCAL POSTAL TREATY FORMED WITH


CANADA.


lt Is useful to have q business man at the head
OF the Post ONCE Department. The one event OF a
duh day here has been the conclusion OF a postal
treaty with the Canadian Dominion, by which sub
stantaily we get the use OF the Canadian Post
ONCE as completely as though it was our own.
they Of course enjoying like privileges. Under the
treaty letters aud printed matter Tor any part OF
the dominion Will be sent under our stamps and
rates, and while letters will begin to be carried
thus only from the lst OF February, the carriage OF
newspapers viii begin with the irst day OF the
new year, when the new rate OF two cents per
pound for printed matter goes into effect In the
United States. The Assistant Postmaster General
OF the Dominion came to Washington at the re-
quest OF MIR. Jewell and the postal treaty was
negotiated here. 1t was laid before the Cabinet
to-day and at once approved, and was signed this
evening. 1t is estimated that under the new ar
rangement our government Will lose not more
than 100000 per annum, while the convenience
and business interests OF the people Will be
greatly advanced 1t IS possible that a similar ar
rangement Will be perfected with Mexico alter
while, and the sea rate on letters to Cuba Is also
to be lowered. The Postmaster General is also de-
under which a three cent postage stamp would
carry letter from any part OF the United States
TO any part OF Great Britain and Ireland. The
double rate would still be called ior letters sent
Dy last steamers, but the single rate would be
saving and q convenience to thousands OF the
poorer people who have friends in the old country.
Mr.. Jewell thinks he can get slow mail carried
for $40 per ton, and that this would enable him to
arrange for three cent ocean postage.
Year: 1874

Travel was somewhat delayed yesterday on tho
Erie Railway in consequence OF accident near
Chester Some workmen repairing the track took
up rail or TWO. and from some criminal neglect.
failed to send out nagman to signal approaching
trains. rcgnt train came along, and the engine
ment. NO one was injured fortunately, although
travel was considerably delayed Ia consequence OF
NO ant
Year: 1874

The performance given last night at this house
by the Germania Theatre Company for the beneht
Of the German Hospital and Dlspensary was a
magnificent success. Every part OF the vast
auditorium was filled ny an enthusiastic
audience. The piece selected for repre-
sentat0n was the fayorlte hve-act comedy
"Ultm0," which has won immense favor with the
German speaking portion of our citizens. The
large audience were kept in a state OF merrlmeut
during the whole evening. and the benefit which
was under the direction OF Mr.. Neuend0rd, was a
pratllyluG success
Year: 1874

Whatever may be the private opinions OF Dr.
Clarke he certainly takes no ground in this voiume h
favor OF the explanation OF the human faculties by any
system Of materalism. Together with Professor Bain
whose language he adopts, he believes that no know


edge OF the nervous substance Of the body would suffice
70 solve the problem OF its connection with the mental
functions At the same tne he is no less strenuous
advocate OF judicious and thorough physical education
than IL the perfection OF the body exhausted the capa
CITY of the individual He deems the great problem o.
The age to be how build the best brains out of the
gwen materials The necessity equally great In the
ease Of either sex Unless men and women both have
normally developed brains there no hope for the coun
fry 1t requires as good brain govern household
as to command ships to guide family as to direct
Congress- to do the least and the greatest Of womans
work as to do the least greatest of mans work
Both IN man and woman the brain is the coDservator
of strength and the prOlonger OF life. Poor
brains, like weeds, will grow any soil. The
best brains built by education in accordance with
the plans OF Nature. human brain is the "consum
mate flower" OF Natures development on this planet
No perfect brain imperfectly developed
body. These principles discussed at length. and
with marked ability in their application to female train
Ing author carries out the same line OF thought
which maintained in his recent work that excited
30 much public interest and discussion, but with
and varied illustrations, and practical examples
Although the subject not for the first time pre-
sented the attention Of thinking men, 1t still needs
more complete eucdation and the suggestions IN this
volume accordingly will be found TO possess not little
interest and value The author pursues rigid method
In his treatment and in his zeal for producing conviction
often presents the idea in variety OF lights His
discursive and miscellaneous Statements however,
perhaps better adapted to impress the popular mind
ban "a m
Year: 1874

On a ranch on the Carson river, eight
miles below the mouth of Six-mile can
on, is to be seen herd of twenty-six
camels, all but two of which was born
and raised in Nevada. But two of the
old herd of nine or ten brought here
some years ago are now living. It
would seem that the original lot fell in
to the hands of Mexicans. who treated
them very badly, overlooking and abus-
ing them. The men who now have
them are Fr9nchmen, who had formerly
some experience with caRels in Europe.
They find no difficulty in rearing them,
and can now show twenty-five dne
healthy animals, all of Washoe growth.
The camel may now be said to be thor
Oughly acclimated In the state. The
owners of the herd find it no more diff
ticult to breed and rear them than would
be experienced with the same number
OF goats or dOnkeys. The ranch upon
which they are kept is sandy and sterile
III the extreme yet the animals feast
and grow fat on such priekly shrubs and
bitter weeds as no other animal would
touch. When left to themselves their
great delight, after filing themselves
with the coarse herbage of the desert,
is to lie and roll in the hot sand. They
are used in packing salt to the mills on
the river, from the marshes lying IN the
desert some sixty miles to the eastward,
They have animals that easily pack
eleven hundred pounds.
Year: 1874

The Territorial Enterprise thus de-
scribes the Piutss of Nevada What
ever may be the case with other tribes,
the Piute has no notion of passing away.
They are a remarkably healthy people.
They are seldom sick, and there appears
to be about 100 births, to one death.
Hardly squaw that is over sixteen and
and under sixty years of age can be
seen who has not q pappoose slung on
her back. What shall be done with
these people? viii one of these days be
q question that must be answered IN
some way,as ther' seems to be no like
Iibood of their dying off. Among the
Piutes to work is considered no dis
grace, and their biggest brave IS not
ashamed to be seen handling an axe or
saw The women are quite industrious
and the men are always ready to work
when coin is shown them. Their great
est vice and their ruling passien is
gambling. They play among them
selves, and when they have money cards
are never out of their hands. "
Year: 1874

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription Is out OF unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure in extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons.
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to 8 strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of guch s
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


g We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1874

{" Certainly, young lady he pleas
antly replied. I stop here myself. You
seem to be burdened with packages.
Allow me to take some OF them out OF
the car for you


''She did not reply IN words but she
threw back her head and Ioc ked intense
ly disousted that he should offer to
touch her things. He evidently tried
to suppress a smile as he turned around
and crossed over to the young carpen-
ter. On account of your Aunt Ruth's
Iameness we sat quietly IN our seats,
waiting for the other passengers TO 60
out, before I helped her out. So had
nothing to do but observe what was go
ing on around me. The young lady's
Year: 1874

A writer in the Country Gentleman who
raises five or six acres of onions annually,
in the vicinity of Rochester, N. Y, de-
scribes his soil and his method of manage
ment. He says his onion land is muck
swamp, and he never fails of getting
good crop. The maggot never troubles
him, even when the crop on the neighbor-
ing upland is almost wholly destroyed.
dis crop last year averaged S45 bushels to
the acre for five acres. AS to variety, he
finds the Yellow Danvers the most profit
BILE, and the Early Round Red the next
best His seed is sown with drill at the
rate of four pounds per acre if it is his
own raising and he knows it is good;
otherwise. six pounds are used. If the
weeds begin to show before the onions
are up, he goes over the worst places
with steel garden rake. His hand weed
ing is done by little girls. The work be-
TWEEN the rows is done by hand cultiva-
tors, and one man and five girls will take
care of five acres until the onions are too
large for the girls to 60 among them. AT.
ter that the work is done with hoes. For
this purpose he finds the push hoe the
best. This he keeps going until the crop
is ready to harvest, which operation is
performedby raking with common style
wooden teeth hand rake-the teeth how
ever are shorter and nearer together than
in those used in the hay field. A man
can easily rake out an acre per day. They
are left on the ground two or three weeks
after raking, to cure, when, if the wealth
er is good, they are topped into the field,
otherwise they are first hauled to the barn
and sheds, where the topping operation is
performed. He ploughs. his land in the
fall if possible, for the reason, as he says,
that the onion will bottom better where
the land is compact than where it is light
and porous. If he fails to get his plough
ing done in the fall, he simply cultivates
in the spring instead Of ploughing. For
fertilizers he uses unleached wood ashes
and all the hog manure he can get.
Year: 1874

4 Young hunter writes to Beadles Sat
urday Journal for advice about learning to
shoot The advice was as follows:


To learn to shoot, first select good rifle
Nowadays these are plentiful. There are
many kinds of brcech-loading sporting
rifles, all good, and costing f:om $50 to
$50, with fine sights adapted for fine shoot
ing. The most ordinary kind is that known
rs the peep and globe sight, an American
invention. The rear sight has little pin
hole through which you look and see the
mark and also the front sight, which is a
short, slender pin with globular head
TO shoot we'll with these sights, you have
only to bring the head of the pin on the
bull's-eye, and, if the gun comes from a
good maker, the ball will go straight to
wherever that pin-head covers. The rear
or peep" sight is disk that can be shift
ed up and down a graduated scale to give
more or less elevation to the bore accord
ing to the distance. Peep and globe
sights are easy to shoot through. You
have only one thing to attend to, which is
to bring the front sight on the object fired
at. With open sights you have to attend
to three, the mark and both sights. All
three have to be brought into the same


line before firing, and the front sight, if
shown too much or too little, makes vii /
shooting. With peep and globe" the
rear sight attends to itself.


Having selected your rifle, practice in
your own room, aiming at wafer on the
wall. You will soon find out how to keep
both sights steady on the object. After a
day or two, cock the piece, and pull the
trigger when aiming. Continue this prac-
tice till you can pull without disturbing
your aim This will take you nearly a
week. Then commence with caps, then
with blank cartridge. Persevere for three
weeks without any bullet, and when you
come out for target practice at last, you
will find that you will hit the target every
time.


Your further progress depends on your
self alone. From hitting the target you
will get to making centers, and finally
bull's-eyes. Remember to keep q record
of every shot fired, and where it went to-
Unless you know why you have missed
you will never know how to hit. Ten
shots day, fired slowly and with
careful aim, are worth hundred fired
rapidly When you can make bull'seyes
all the time, you may begin to think of q
quick aim. Till then, take your time, and
keep cool, for one hit is worth fifty misses
Year: 1874

~ A fellow who hid under sofa at
an informal Boston missionary meeting
says that the thirty-tive ladies spoke twice
of the down trodden heather, and more
than u hundred times of new kind of
hair dive.
Year: 1874

"Can the watermelon be successfully
cultivated on sandy soil, in rural town
of four thousand inhabitants, and the
illogical institute located near by, con-
tanning one hundred and twenty stu
dents studying for the ministry9' This
question excited considerable comment
and loud discussion among the agricul-
turists present Cat the meeting of the
"Hayseeds" in Cleveland), and nearly
an hour and half was spent in discuss
ing the same. An old green grocer
who had raised early and late vegetables
for the market for twenty years of his
earlier life, said he could raise melons
on top of barn, or on billiard table,
even, lot him pick the locality and his
neighbors. 1t was not 80 much the soil,
nor the season, that the melon depended
upon for its perfection, as it was The
peculiarities of the inhabitants of the
country roundabout. Where there was
an excess OF colored citizens it was al
most as impossible to raise paying
crop of melons as it was to keep spring
chickens, unless they roasted at night
in a Herring safe. Then, again-col-
leges have bad effect upon the melon
crop, and even a minister's family of
seven BOYS has been known to blight n
large patch in single night. In sec
tions of country where these drawbacks
exist, the speaker had learned that the
only method to insure full crop of
melons was to station o man by each
melon from the time it was the size of a
hens egg until it ripened. This was
expensive but the result was always
gratifying. AS the fruit grew in size,
and approached ripeness, the speaker
had sometimes found it necessary to
station two guards over each large mel
on, and even then, in communities
where's great fondness for these luscious
products existed, he had known of the
insides of q large watermelon being
stolen and devoured while two men
with clubs and pistols were seated on
the shell, or rind, engaged in friendly
converse. --Dan6ury Nel0S.
Year: 1874

The wild, rushing winds of the tempest are sweep
ing
lhe frost-fettcred land like spirit OF wrath;
His fierce, icy breath with keen arrows is piercing
The breasts Of the wanderers who stand in his
path;


The earth in trance lies enshrouded in silence
The storm-king knocks loudly at window and


door;


The prayer of the ptiful fervertly rises
God shelter the homeless and pity the poor
God pity the poor who are wearily sitting
by desoate hearth-stones. cold, cheerless and
From which the last ember's pale ackerins has


faded,


Like Hope dying out in the midst OF despair;
Who look on the wide world aud see 1t a desert
Where ripple no waters. no green branches wave,
Who see in the future az dark ~ the present
No rest but the death-bed, no home but the grave.
God pity the poor when the eddying snow-drifts
Are whirled by the wrath OF the winter wind by,
Like showers of leaves from the paid star-lilies
That float in the depths Of the blue lake on high
For though they are drapng the broad earth In


beauty,


And yelling some flaw In each gossamer fold,
That beauty is naught to the mother whose children
Are crouching around her in hunger and cold.
God pity the poor, for the wealthy are often
As hard as the winter and cold as Its snow;
While fortune makes sunshine and summer around


them,



Or if from their plenty trihe be given,
SO doubtingly, grudgingly often IT'S doled,
That to the receiver their "charity " seemeth
More painful than hunger, more bitter than cold
God pity the poor for though all men are brothers.
Though all say " Our Father" not mine, when


they pray,
The proud ones of earth turn aside from the lowly
As If they were fashioned Of different clay;
They see not in those who in meekness and pa.


tience,


Toll, poverty, pain, without murmur endure,
The image of Him whose first couch was manger,
Who choose for our sakes to be homeless ana


poor.
God pity the poor give them courage and patience
Their trials, temptations and troubles TO brsVe'
And pity the wealthy whose idol is Fortune,
For gold cannot gladden. the gloom OF the grave;
And as this brief life, whether painful or pleasant,
To one that is endless but opens the door,
The heart sghs while thinking on palace and


hOvel;


God pity the wealthy as well as the poor.
Year: 1874

NEW METHOD OF IRoN-MAKING.-Ac
cording to the English Mechanic, a new
process of iron-making, which dispenses
with the blast furnace, has been practi-
cally tested, and specimens of its pro-
duce shown at Wolverhampton. The
bloom is made direct from the ore,
which is ground mixed with lime and
pitch, and baked in coke oven. This
is treated as pig.iron, and furnace
being charged with it, it is ready for
the helve or the squeezer in half an
hour. The inventors claim that by
their process they can make a ton of
finished iron from the ore at an e1pen-
diture of only two tons Of coal that
they can make German steel as cheaply
as cast-iron, and that they can further
more make the latter equal in purity to
charcoal iron.
Year: 1874

This matter of sweeping carpets
during the winter season is not so easi-
ly managed as one might think. With
a window full of charming greenery,
a hanging basket with feathery sprays
falling around it, and ivies clambering
around our picture trames.to say moth
ingofthe various byOWtsrie on brackets
and etageres, how can we bear to raise
a dust {? Yet the carpet must be
swept and the green leaves must not
be banished. A patent sweeper, my
friends say, wears off the face of the
carpet. That must not be permitted,
have tried tea leaves with fair re-
suits pieces of newspaper wet and
scattered over the floor, or sawdust,
answers pretty well; but my best sue
Cess has been with bran wet and
sprinkled over the carpet. This swept
off nicely, aud followed by a damp
cloth frequently wrung from clean wa
ter, will quite effectually remove dust
from the cIrpet without raising the
latter. Once q week, or once in two
weeks, will be often enough to go
through this process, which, for fear
OF injury to the carpet, should not be
given over entirely into the hands Of
an ordinary servant.