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Year: 1874

Owing to failure of the mail, we learn only
as we 60 to press that the Democratic State
, Central Committee have changed the place of
holding the Convention of the Gath inst. from
New Orleans to Baton Rouge.
Year: 1874

There is no change to report in the condition
Of this market. It is dull, and any evil effects
to result from Tuesdays fire cannot make it much
dul1er. OF course the calamity referred to does
not tend to make matters pleasanter to borrow
ars. but ut this season Of the year the wants OF
this class are not excessive, and when business
rogives capital will no doubt have tully recover
ed from the blow.


The tabular statement belo" aho"s the loans
that hare bean made matter OF record the past
Year: 1874

The Western Union Telegraph Company yes
telday fled bill in the Circuit Court of this
county, praying an injunction to restrain the
County Clerk from extending, and the Treasurer
from collecting, the tai levied upon the capital
stock OF that Company, assessed By the State
Board Of Equalization nj over 81 o0o 000 SIS, 900
Of which il apportioned to Cook County. The
bin rccitcs that ths Company was organized
under tho 1aus OF the State of New York, and
not under those OF Illinois, an; it denies the
authority Of this State to ASSESS capital stock
OF corporations chartered By tho laws OF another
State. 4 pro tornaa decree will be entered, and
by stipulation the case viii 60 up to the Supreme
Court With MI the Others
Year: 1874

The Canton Qll.) Register, in very clear,
concise. and intelligent manner, demolishes the
claim Of the Macomb Journal that promissory
notes given in payment Of property should, in
equity and Law, bo taxed in addition to the prop
erty. The Register illustrates the double taxa
ton Of this proceeding BY the case Of two men,
one owning horse and the other owning
nothing. Their aggregate taxable property
is one horse. The ownoc sells that horse to the
other man, taking his note for the price. where
upon the State law .and the Assessor ard the
Auditor and the State Board OF Equalization
proceed to tax both the horse aud tho note, in
eist1ng that by the exchange Of the horse there
had been creation Of new property. The
Req;ster states tie true doctrine when it says:


4 man who has no property in his possession ought
not to be taxed although millions may be due Kim.
The millions due him ia IN possession Of other people
who pay the taxes thereon and being ouce paid, any
further taxation is tax upoa the person, or double
taxation upon the property.


Tho mysterious principle upon which our
revenue laws are founded is not confined to
double taxation. It is not merely that the horse
and tho note g1yen for him are both taxed, but
the Board Of Equalization have tho power,
where tho horse Is owned by corporation. to
tax the horse and tax~tLe stock which represents
the horse, aud tax the note given for the horse.
Here the same piece Of property ia taxed three
times. The same Board hiss authority also to
add so or 100 per cent to the taxable value OF
tho horae. the note, aud the debt. One OF the
cases presented is that Of man who returned
some 100000 cash deposited with him agtinst
this he put down his debts, 100000. The Board
Of Equalization added the debt to the amount
Of money, making 100000, and then added es
per cent to the yalue Of both, making tho un-
fortunate holder OF other peoples money pay
taxes on 900. In another case, thepart1
returned $4,000 in-greenbacks, and tho State
Board added 63 per cent to their value, aad Tho
owner has to pay tax On ssa, GOO. So all through
the list Of ta1abies; and yet down ut Springfield
they consider the system the very perfection o.
human knowledge and reason. i
Year: 1874

The Illinois Legislature Will commence its ad-
jouzued session at Springfield on Tuesday next.
The only regular business to come before it, We
be!ie7e. is the Revision Of the Statutes Tie
decisive expression Of the Dccatur Convention
against the holding OF this extra session at all,
will probably have tho effect to make it short,
while the abrogation Of railroad passes will tend
to keep the members in contin,fons session till
their work, whatever it may be, is finished
There is one piece of unfinished business before
them which they will perhaps now feel encour-
aged to complete. Ne refer to tic resolution
which passed one House, and Was suppressed in
the other, denocucing the salary-grab. Possibly
:he members thought tina. their own extra sce-
non Was no better than salary grab, and hence
hat they we're not qualified to csiticise Congress
n that behalf.
Year: 1874

The Havans newspapers are very indignant
over the American perddy shown IN the ainking
of the Visgiaius. q result which they assunae
WAS Intentional on tho part OF our Government
They have much to say Of the hour Of bitter
ntonement which is in waiting for the Americans.
Year: 1874

~Chubb is an unfortunate man.
He is hald, and he uses some "reno-
vator" every night before going to
bed, for the purpose of making his
hair grow. He forget it on Wednes-
day until after he was in bed, snd
then he rose, and as he knew just
where the bottle was. he thought it
was hardly worth while to strike
light. He CROPPED around in the
closet until he found the bottle, and
pouring out some of the stuff into
his hand, he rubbed his scalp we'll
with it; after doing this a second
time, he put the bottle back and went
to bed. During the night the baby
got to crying, and Mrs Chubb rose
and lit the gas; as soon as she did so
she glanced at Chubb and began TO
scream. He woke and tried to rise,
hut found his head held firmly to the
bolster. Then Mrs Chubb screamed
louder than ever Chubb, in serious
alarm, jumped out OF bed. carrying
his bolster in his arms. As he came
opposite the mirror he perceived that
his head was perfectly black, and
upon making an examination he
found that he had rubbed his scalp
with his wife's shoe varnish. 1t was
dry and hard, and immoveably fixed
to the bolster-case. He soaks his
head three times day in warm wa
ter, and has still patches of black dis
tributed all over it, like GASES IN the
desert. But this doesn't worry Mrs.
Chubb as much as the condition Of
the bolster case. That is ruined. 1t
had to he cut away to give Chubb
freedom
Year: 1874

A lady from Baltimore related to an
exchange the following account of
little white rabbit which she was the
happy owner of. So much sense filed
his young head that ne was qnite COM
panionable, and the lady said she never
felt lonely with the little white pet sit
ting beside her, straight up OH his
hind legs like dog when he "begs,"
crossing his snowy paws on his white
breast SO demurely, and never taking
his pink eyes off her face while she
talked to him about what he would like
best for his dinner. For breakfast, he
had a plate regularly laid for him at
the family table, and when the bell
rang knew as we'll as any of them that
breakfast was ready, and would stand
by the table, and beg in his pretty way
for his favorite cup of coffee, first
tasting it dainty to see il it was sweet
ened to his taste; if not, waiting till
more was added. A large slice of
bread, plentifully buttered and sugared,
uo 6uJOy6u Wl1A LIS COut6. pduSdBo
was his special delight +; he would run
around the stove with great glee while
it was cooking, and then beg for some
in his irresistible way. He was fond
of raw meat and raw dough. He loved
to sleep part of the night with his in
dulgent little mistress, and would cud-
die lovingly under her arm and fall
aslaep. His first house and home was
little wire cage, but the closed door
was no hindrance to wider freedom !;
one push of his nose would send the
door up and out he would come. At
last one sad day came that put an end
to Bunny's young and happy life, and
broke the heart of his little mistress.
Among his many virtues, he possessed
unbounded curiosity, and deep we'll,
with its unknown depths, attracted his
venturesome footsteps, and one fatal
leap extinguished the precious life en-
cased in that bundle of white fur.
Year: 1874

reptitiously alongside Of our vans and
cars and donated us the parcels with a
heartiness that spoke well for their
generosity, but wore on the paper. The
party on our van looked like crowd of
indignant millers trying to climb a
fence
Year: 1874

OLD PoTAToEs-Potatoes to be good
should never be exposed to the light, but
be kept in as dark place as possible


After they begin to sprout in the spring
they should be taken up from the bins or
heaps and kept in boxes or barrels. If
you have few barrels saved out for fam
lily use, instead of picking them over and
turning them over and spreading them
every few weeks, put them into enough
barrels, so that you can turn from one to
another. Have one extra barrel, and
once every week turn them all out from
one barrel to another. This keeps them
moving so often that the sprouts cannot
grow enough to do much harm. The
sprouts which come out from the potato
use up the nourishment it contains, and
leave it soft, watery and insipid. By
treating them as proposed above they may
be kept in condition FOR the table several
weeks longer than by sprouting them,
and at the same time save deal of work.
Year: 1874

SAVING SEED Com The best plan,
as general thing, is to select the best
ears at the time Of husking, and spread
them on the barn floor, so that the cobs
can become thoroughly dry. The old
method of leaving the husks attachad to
ths corn, so that il could be braided to-
gether, and suspended in dry aud airy
place, brought about similar result In
all cases, the corn should be kept where
it win be free from dampnoss. Many, in
saving seed, are particular to select only
from stalks that produce two large, well
developed ears. As you say, corn is often
planted so deep that it win not germinate
quickly. If the soil is fine and dry at the
time Of planting, the planter viii be apt
to SOW deeper than it should.
Year: 1874

CooKING Conn FOR HoGs.-It is claim
ed by some that thirty-three per cent. of
corn fed to hogs for the purpose of fatten-
ing may be saved by cooking it. We are
fully prepared to accept this estimate, but
now is q good time for some Of our readers
to test the question, to their own satisfac-
tion, at least. There are many who are
prepared to conduct such an experiment
intelligently, and we hope they will do SO,
reporting results, that we may give them
to the public. Prairie Farmer.
Year: 1874

A scientific agriculturist reports that he
has found as high as thirty per cent of
cream in the last pint Of milk drawn from
a COW, when the first pint from the same
COW yielded only nine and half per cent.
Year: 1874

The developments of the last winter
and spring, in connection with woman
and the great public work which she has
so largely engrossed herself with, form
an epoch in her history, which appar-
emily standing by itself, is yet telosely con-
nected with other agitations which have
preceded it, and with movements TO fOl-
low with which it is closely allied. The
great Woman's Temperance movement,
the great cyclone which has swept the
country, has not sprung up like a sudden
fungus growth, eXtraneous and uneon-
nected with other deep-seated interests,
but preceding events have prepared the
way for it; it has advanced on the high
/ tide of necessity-a force Invisible but
with all the inevitableness of fate, has
permeated the movement as an integral


element and made it what ii has become
not a sensation as it first appeared, but


a power felt and feared. Feared by those


whose interests it directly defeats; feared


also by another class who only Indirectly


dread its effect on other interests. II is
condemned by some who stigmatiZe itas
an irregular proceeding, but reverenced
by others who see in it something too
serious for criticism. But it still moves
maiestically on. The opposition which
it meets with in particular eases, seems
to have no effect to dampen it. Its wide


extension and steady persistence IS a


wonder and a marvel, and of logical
minds the most serious thinkers with


hold criticism. The condemnation OF the


unthinkinga aud the calm respect of the
thinkers, verifies in this instance the
proverb, 'tFOOls rush in where angels
fear to tread"


/ Women have suffered and never fairly
realized that they had power to work
thair Xrav ont Their oDiDiOnS were at
that stage too crude to recognize in the
demand for Woman Suffrage the great


power which was to deal sledge-hammeT
blows at every form of oppression. But
still the Woman Suffrage influences were
felt far and wide and deep, and the latent
feeling of resistance developed as far as
il could go, into this determination to
! overcome, at all costs, the causes of in
temperance. The women worked in the


way in which their education in life had
directed them, by persuasion, but deter
mined persuasion, rather than that more


potent means which should be attainable
through law. This, however, is one
phase. They are being rapidly developed
to that point where they feel that they


must insist upon direct power through


legal methods, that the exercise of the


ballot is the safe and sure avenue to


which all other powers or influences are


but auxiliary. II will soon be as i'm


possible for the women to help a deter
mined demand for acknowledgements as 1t


now appears impossible for them to help


entering into this other movement,


which is but transitional step toward


the position where women shall be


recognized as an equal power with OPP


portunities for self-protectiOn commen-


surate with needs.
Year: 1874

IT RUNS LIKE A PRAIRIE FIRE DIR,
WALKERS VINEGAR BIrTERs runs like a
prairie fire. The fame of the Temperance
Tonic is, however, but poorly exemplifed
by this figure of speech; for prairie fire
runs only in one direction, whereas the
reputation of the Bitters spreads toward
all points of the compass. There is not a
square mile of inhabited territory in the
United States where this meritorious
preparation is not appreciated. IF any
theoretical gentleman thinks he is prepar
ed to show that there is nothing in it. ,
we advise him to go to the Prairie States
in the Mississippi Valley, to the deltas Of
the Southern rivers. to New England, in
fact anywhere within the limits of ''Uncle
Sans real estate, and ventilate his views
By so doing he can raise a heartier and
more general laugh than has ever yet
shaken the sides of an intelligent people
Persons who have been cured can't hell
laughing at other people who tell then
that the medicine which saved their live
is failure
Year: 1874

To literary men, preachers, teach
ers, lawyers, doctors, journalists, and
brain workers I'm general, the follow
ing hints are exceedingly worth at
tentiOn:


The fact is, that as life becomes
concentrated, and its pursuits more
eager, short sleep and early rising be-
come impossible. We take more
sleep than our ancestors, and we take
more because we want more. Six
hours sleep will do very well for Il
plOwman or rbricklayer, and any other
man who has no exhaustion but that
produced by manual labor, and the
sooner he takes il after the labor the
better. But for man whose labor is
mental, the stress of work is OH his
brain and nervous system and for him
who is tired in the evening with a
day of mental application, neither
early to bed nor early to rise is whole
some. He needs letting down to the
level of rcpOse. The longer the inter-
val between the active use of the
brain and the retirement to bed, the
better his chance of sleep and refresh
ment. To him an hour after mid
night is probably as good us two hours
before 1t, and even then his sleep will
not so completely and quickly restore
him as it will his neighbor who is
physically tired. He must not only
go to bed later, but lie longer. His
best sleep probably lies i'm the early
morning hours, when all the nervous
excitement has passed away, and he
Is III absolute rest.
Year: 1874

"A single bitter word may disquiet
an entire family for u whole day.
One surly glance casts Il gloom over
the household, while smile, like a
glcam of sunshine, may light up the
darkest and weariest hour. Like un-
expected flowers, which spring up
along our path, full of freshness, fra
GRANGE, and beauty, SO do kind words
and gentle acts and sweet dispositions
make glad the home where peace and
blessing dwell. Ne matter how hum
ble the abode, if 1t be thus garnished
with grace and sweetness, with kind
ness and smiles, the heart will turn
lovingly toward it from all the tu-
mults of the world, and home, be it
ever so homely, will be the dearest
spot beneath the circuit of the sun.
And the influences of home perpet-
uate themselves. The gentle grace
of the mother lives in the daughter
long after her head is pillOwed i'm the
dust of death and the fatherly kind
ness finds its echo i'm the nobility and
cOurtsey of sons who come to wear
his mantle and to fill his place while
on the other hand, from an unhappy,
IhLOSONCihCuy uIoOtNOICu
go forth persons who shall make
other homes miserable, and perpetu-
ate the sOurness and sadness, the con-
tentiOns and strifes and ratings which
have made their own curly lives so
wretched and distorted.


Toward the cheerful home the
children gather Gas clouds and as
doves to their windows" while from
the home which is the abode of dis
content and strife and trouble they
fly forth as vultures to rend their
prey.


The class of men that disturb and
disorder and distress the world are
not those born and nurtured amid the
hallOwed Influences of Christian
homes, but rather those whose early
life has been scene of trouble and
vexation-who have started wrong I'm
the pilgrimage, and whose course is
one of disaster to themselves and
trouble to those around them.
Year: 1874

Nowhere have we chanced upon q
better or more pertinent plant
against the sea than Charles Dudley
Warner thus makes in his "Saunter-
ings: ~


A square yard of solid ground is
worth miles of the pitching, turbu-
lent stuff. Its inability to stand still
for one second is the plague of 1t. To
lie on deck when the sun shines, and
swing up and down, while the waves
run hither and thither, and toss their
white caps, is all well enough TO lie
i'm your narrow berth and roll from
side to side all night long; TO walk up
hill to your state-rOOm door, and,
when you get there, find you have got
to the bottom of the hill, and open
ing the door Is like lifting up trap
door i'm the floor; to deliberately start
for some object, and before you know
1t, to be flung against IL like bag of
sand; to attempt to sit down on your
sofa, and find you are sitting up, to
slip and slide and grasp at everything
within reach, and to meet everybody
leaning and walking on q slant, as IL
heavy winds were blowing, and the
laws of gravitatiOn were reversed to
lie i'm your berth, and hear all the
dishes ON the cabin table go sOusing
off against the wall i'm general
smash to sit mt table holding your
soup plate with one hand, and watch
ing for u chance to dip your spoon i'm
when 1t comes high tide on your side
of the dish to vigilantly watch the
lurch of the heavy dishes while hold
ing Your glass and your plate and
your knife and fork, and not to notice
IL when Brown, who sits next you,
gets the swash of gravy from the
roast beef dish on his light-cOlOred
pantalOons, and see the look of dis
may that only Brown can assume on
such an occasion to see Mrs. Brown
advance to the table, suddenly stop
and hesitate, two walters rush mt her,
with whom she struggles wildly, only
to go down i'm heap with them in
the opposite corner to see her par
TALLY recover, but only to shoot back
again through her state-roOm door,
and be seen no more; all this Is quite
pleasant and refreshing IL you are
tired of land, but you get quite
enough of this I'm couple of weeks.
Year: 1874

A PRETTY mantlepiece ornament
may bc had by suspending an acorn.
by a piece of thread aroundIt within
half an inch of the surface of some
water contained i'm vace, tumbler,
or sucer for several weeks. It will
soon burst open, and small roots will
seek the water (; u strait and tapering
stem, with beautiful glossy green
leaves will shoot upward and present
a very pleasing appearance. Chestnut
trees may be grow i'm the same
manner, but their leaves are not SO
beautiful as those of the oak. The
water should be changed once n
month, taking care to supply water
of the same warmth; bits of Charcoal
added to it will prevent the water
from sOuring. If the little leaves
turn yellow, put one drop of ammonia
into the utensil which holds the
water, and they will renew their
luxuriance. Anotherpretty ornament
Is made by wctting u sponge and
sprinkling it with canary, hemp grass
and other seeds. The sponge should
be refreshed with water daily SO as to
keep IL moist. In q few days the
seeds will germinate, and the sponge
will soon be covered with a mass of
green foliage.
Year: 1874

Up To the year 1867, the twins lived


together quite harmoniOusly, it Is


said, when, owing to domestic quar-.


rels, the true cause of which never


has transpired, q dissolution of the


firm OF Il. 4 q. Bunker was agreed


upon. Some say 1t was fighting


among the children, others say that il


was jealousy of the wives about the


number of children they had that


caused the separation; but be that


as it may, Eng purchased an adjOin-
ing plantation, upon which he built
a house, just one mile distant from
the old home, which now became the
exclusive property of Chang. In
the division of the property the
whole of the original plantation fell
to Chang, while a large majority of
the slaves, being movable property,
became Eng's. Hence it was that,
when the result of the war brought
about the emancipation of the slaves,
Eng found himself a much poorer
man than his brother, though both
of them were very we'll off.


Immediately upon the separation
the brothers made an agreement,
which, like the laws of the Meades
and Persians, was unalterable, and
which to their very deaths was rigid
ly observed. This was that every
alternate three days were reserved
exclusively to each of the brothers to
do as he pleased. For instance, the
three days that belonged to Eng were
spent at his house or anywhere else
that Eng might choose to go. During
that time Chang was merely an ap-
pendage of Eng, having neither the
right to 60 anywhere that Eng did
not choose to go, nor the power to
attend to any business whatever of u
private nature of his own. In the
same way, when Changes three days
came, and they were punctual to q
moment, they departed at once for
his home, where he assumed supreme
control of the actions and movements
OfbOth, and Eng became the nonenity.
So exact were they with this rule that
no event, however great in import
ance; and no stress of weather, no
them from starting from the house of
one to the house of the other, when
the three days of either had expired.
1t Is related of them that this rule
caused one to leave his home just as
the marriage of his daughter was
about to take place, and the other
was prevented from attending the
funeral of Il son by the stringency of
this singular compact. They carried
1t out to the last, for Changes final
three days had expired OH the Thurs
day evening prior to their deaths,
and though. it was very cold, misty
and severe weather, to Eng's house
he would go, in accordance with the
irrepealable law.
Year: 1874

Is it worth while that we jostle brother,
Bearing his load on the rough road Of


life !?
Is it worth while net we jecr a; each other
In blackness off'.eart?- that we war to


the knife2


God pity usall aur pi'iful strife
God pity us all asswe jostlc each other;
God pardon US ailfo the triumphs we feel
When fellow goes down meath his load on


the heather.
Pierced to the leart; words are keener


than steel, A


And "isA'ias sea for veal.
We're it not we'll, in this brief little journey
On over the isthmus, down into the tide.
We give him a fish instead Of serpent
Ere folding the hands to be and abide
Forever and aye in dust at his side
Look at the roses salu,ing each other;
Look at the herds all ut peace On the


pain
Man and man only, makes war on his


brother,


And laughs ia his heart at his peril and


pain;


Shamed by tho beasts that So down on


the plain.
Is it worth while that we battle to humble
Some poor felow-soldier down into the


DUST
God pity us all Time eft soon will tumble
Ali Of us together like leaves in q gust
liumhlcd. indeed, down into the dust.