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Year: 1874

Mr.. EDITOR, SIR


What do you ask for a Lawer p
We, the people Of Hartland, should
like to purchase one or two, if you
would sell cheap. We would be
willing to pay fifty or sixty dollars for
a middling fair one. We have none
in town and our people act so like the
"old scratch" that our ministers
have given them over to satan long
ago. We think if we could get one
or two Lawyers to expouud the law
to the rascals, perhaps we might CON
vert some of them. Do you think
there is any chance for trade ? We
will swap horse or trade watch for
one. We should hate to pay CASH
Now you can spare one just as well as
not. | know it is not a very promis-
ing place for Lawyer the last one we
had would have starved to death if he
had not denied the Lord his God, and
run his country. If you cannot spare
a Lawyer, how much will you take for
an Editors Perhaps an Editor would
answer our purpose just as well, and
we are not particular, if we can only
get a good editor. We want one
that can stand up before the people
and talk to them in christian like man
ner with tears in his eyes, warning
them to forsake their evil ways, and
lay hold ofthat which is good. For
such one we will swop deacon or
a professor.--By the way, Mr..
Editor, we have an author here, who
says that he spenta whole week get
ing thoughts out of his Uranium and
putting them on paper, and about
three weeks ago he sent them up to
Woodstock for little Mac. to publish.
He says the little scamp has not done
it.But next week he shall try again, land
if Mac. fails to publish his communi-
cation, he shall march up there with
colors flying and drums beating and
just clean out the whole scrape Of you.
He says he will make Macs old shanty
so desolate that the bats and the owls
will build their nests therein. A word
to the wise is sufficient.


Yours in truth and love, G.


If you have Satan there now, you
don't want Lawyer or an Editor
A co-partuership would be formed
with him at once, and you would be
worse off than you are now. Law
yers are plenty here, if you think you
must have one, we will sell one for a
song, and if you'll come ami get him,
you needn't sing at all. Editors are
drug also-thiuk you can make the
Year: 1874

1t is particularly with those who have
been accustomed to water drinking,
that it would show its good effects in
after life. During the first nine months
the infant is to be nourished by its
mothers milk, which serves as food
and drink it is gradually accustomed
to other sustenauce during the period
of weaving. After this is accomplished,
however, the infant should have fresh
water as we'll as milk.


By water drinking in childhood and
youth, the foundation of durable
stomach is laid, and thus a healthy
body throughout life. The nervous
and blood systems are over-e1cited by
spices, beer, wine, chocolate, coffee,
ETC., and thus constant artificial state
of fever is maintained, and the process
is 80 much accelerated by it, that chill
dren fed In this manner do not attain,
perhaps, half the age ordained by ma
ture. Besides this, experiences has
taught that they generally become pas
sionate and willful, having neither the
will nor the power to make themselves
or others happy.
Year: 1874

Mrs. Threnart, one Of the sufferers by
the trichine in Aurora, Ind, by which
half dozen persons nearly lost their
lives, had two pigs, which she was fat
tening in pen in her garden for her
own family use. During the summer
these pigs were allowed to run in the
streets Tor short time, after which
they were again kept in the pen. With
in few days after they were penned
up, one of them began to droop and re-
fused to eat the animal stood upon it's
legs us if unable or unwilling to move,
and when forced to move it appeared to
be very stiff and its muscles tense ;
breathing was somewhat difficult. With
the assistance of her son and neigh
Dor Mrs. Threnart administered repeat
ed doses of sulphur and milk, and after
three or four weeks the animal began to
eat freely and gained in flesh, and when
killed seemed to be healthy and in good
condition. The other hog, which was
in the same pen, remained perfectly
we'll, and careful examination of his
flesh did not reveal any traces OF
trichine. These facts are interesting,
as they show that hog may be fatten-
ed in the same pen and kept In close
contact with one diseased with trichine,
without contracting the disease. They
also show that hogs apparently healthy
may be swarming with trichip@, making
their meat poisonous. The flesh OF the
hog which poisoned the persons must
have contained thousands Of trichine to
every square inch.


There is nothing in the appearance OF
the flesh of the diseased hog which the
eye alone and unaided could detect, ex.
cept, perhaps, that the meat had rather
a lighter color, and some very minute
grayish specks were perceptible to the
eye. The fat parts looked healthy, and
had the proper consistence.
Year: 1874

The Sydney Empire publishes a mar
rative of q shocb ing occurrence which
recently took place at Newcastle, New
South Wales. Among other demonstra.
tions, it says, to celebrate the abolition
of the tonnage dues, there was bonfire
on Shepherds Hill. The firemen, eager
to make the affair as successful as pos
sible, poured kerosene oil upon the
burning heap, but for some time this
had simply the effect OF creating o
momentary blaze, which would subside
as soon as the kerosene was consumed.
Lewis Wood, member of the brigade,
then mounted the heap, took the can
IN his hands, and commenced pouring
the oil on the fire. He was warned by
some Of the danger herein, but took no
heed of what was said. Presently, an
awful explosion took place. A dull
sound, like the booming OF distant
cannon, was heard, and an immense
volume OF flames shot out among the
crowd. When the shock was over, the
unfortunate man Wood was seen rolling
down the burning heap in sheet of
fame. The oil had apparently splashed
over his clothes, and as he emerged
from the heap he was mass Of fire.
He struggled to his feet, and gained
the open space. his cries of despair be-
ing terrible. The flames had got such
a complete hold of his oil-saturated
uniform that the work of putting them
out was next to impossible, and he sank
to the ground exhausted. Some of the
firemen took off their coats, and tried
to beat the flames off, but they still
chung to their unhappy victim, and it
was not until he had been wrapped up
in several of the large coats of the fire.
men that the flames were subdued.
His heavy uniform had protected the
trunk of his body, and his helmet had
also prevented the flames from reach
ing his head, but his face presented an
awful sight to look at. He fingered, in
indescribable agony, till Sunday after.
noon, when death put an end to his suf-
ferinps
Year: 1874

A man killed bear and brought the
meat to town to sell. I asked him if it
was good to eat. He said, GER
tainly it was, and cheap as dirt at
twenty-five cents per pound. I asked
him why bear meat should be any
higher than any other meat. he told
me bear meat had peculiar effect on
the human system; that those eat
ing it would psrtake for a time, not
only of the meat, but Of the nature of
the animal that bears were great fel-
lows to hug that if I was a married
man I should buy some for my wife
and get her to eat it for supper, and
she would undoubtedly hug me.


Now my wife isn't an angel, so !
bought four pounds and paid that man
a dollar-my last dollar, and he folded
it up, rolled paper around it and put
it down in his pocket. Then he slap.
ped his pocket to see if it was there.
He then went on to say that sometimes
when the bile wasn't right the meat had
the contrary effect, and made the
woman growl and sometimes in place
OF wanting to hug her husband she
would want to hug the man that killed
the bear. I told him that I didn't like
bear meat, and never did that I felt
sick that I owed man the dollar and
he would sue me If I did not pay him
right of. But he told me he had Just
paid his internal revenue tax and hadn't
q cent in the world. I Thought then.
and still think, that he must have told
a lie. In fact, after thinking over the
matter, I would not believe him under
oath. Now, I am poor man, and
could not afford to throw the meat
away, and so I took it home, and Mary
Ann Chats my wife's name) cooked it,
and we ate it for supper. It tasted
good. I think bears and 'possums are
made out Of the same timber, only put
up on different plans and specifications.


After supper we sat down by the
stove. Mary Ann went to sewing. and
I sat looking at her. Directly my bear
meat began to take effect, and I felt
like I wanted to hug Mary Ann. So I
put my arm around her, and she told
me to take it away, and wanted to know
il I hadn't been drinking again, q
never drank a drop in my ife). I
hugged her little and she growled. I
knew then the jig was up, and the bear
meat had gone back on me in her case,
bnt I thought I would try it again. Her
arm few back and I saw thousand
stars. This riled me, my bear meat
turned on me, and slapped her square
in the mouth. Well, I have confused
remembrance of seeing her spring
toward me, of hearing frightful roar
ing in my head, and feeling sensation
as il I was being run through thresh-
ing machine, and then all was blank.


I can see q little out OF one eye this
morning, and can set up in bed with pill.
low behind me. Mary Ann has gone out
to buy some chairs. The servant girl
says they all got broken. I feel sore
and bad, and I don't want any more
bear meat in mine, and if ever I get
hold OF the man that sold it to me-
well, you know how it is yourself.
Year: 1874

A few nights ago there was an almost
penniless tramp in Woonsocket who
wanted to go to Providence, R. I. he
applied to the conductor for o free
passage, but was refused, and then
offered the engineer drink OF whisky
to allow him to ride upon the engine,
but this was also refused. The fellow
felt that his case was an urgent one, 80
he crawled under one Of the cars, took
position on the iron rod passing under
t. and there. with his feet hanging
nearly to the ground, his face within q
few inches of the bottom OF the car,
and his hands grasping the rods for
dear life, rode to Providence. Upon
arriving at the depot he was nearly
frozen and scarcely able to move.
Year: 1874

enjoy their prolonged visits, and invites
them warmly, and is treating them with
every civility. This daily watching
does not suit the customers, who object
to having their names enrolled as fire.
uuenters. Van Pelt says he will not
quit the business as long as he can
raise money enough to buy pint Of
rum, and the women say they will never
raise the siege until they pray him out.
Year: 1874

tible material Had the fire begun in the
northern portion of that metropolis it would
have been comparatively unharmed. This
fact proves the necessity of building the most
freproof structures in the southern parts OF the
Western towns and Cities SO that IT the fire
begins among them it may be extinguished,
and not spread over the whole area of tho
town. No doubt, also, further precaution
might prove useful in the agricultural dis
tricts, to reduce the amount of inaammable
fencing, or, as is done in France and Ger
many to dispense with it almost entirely.
The cinders of the fences swallowed up in the
fire storm are it's most efficient means of ex-
tension, tor those of the prairie grass are too
small to be very dangerous. As it is mani
fest impossibility ever to employ any extin-
gushing agent on these enormous confagra-
tions, they can be checked only by some such
expedient tor Withdrawing fuel from the
flames.


It is, we hope now so late in the autumn
that the Indiana burnings may be arrested by
heavy rains But the farmers in Western
New York, Ohio and Western Pennsylvania
may we'll be warned to look out for the spread
eastward of this devouring agent.
Year: 1874

The alarming prairie fires in Indiana are
the natural sequel Of the intense aridity which
has prevailed there since the close of sum-
mer. The September weather review shows
an extensive belt Of drought running south
westwardly from the southern shores of Lake
Huron across Indiana and Illinois to the
lower Ohio valley, in the centre of which the
reported prairie couAagi alton has ragged. As
the beautiful West, SO promising to the
farmer, develops its civilization the conviction
grows that these fires of the fall are becoming
more frequent and fatal The unguarded
camp fire, the spark of locomotive, the dis
charge Of the huntsman's rife, the lightning
fash, may instantly ignite the vast seas of
parched grass which wave over the prairies
and the autumnal winds spread the havoc far
and wide. These winds are the southwest,
whose breath, like that of the desiccating
sirocco, prepare vegetation, and even the
soil itself, to burn. The prairie fire is, it is
true. as old an institution as the prairie
ITSELF which, from the earliest period, as far
as geologic indications point, has been kept
trceless by the annual burning When as yet
no human incendiary trod the Western wids
to desolate them wantonly the electric dis
charge from the storm cloud was probably
sufficient every year to kindle the flames At
any rate, experience shows that no human
device can avert the annual calamity of forest
and prairie burnings and, aside from ar
tifcial clearings, the area OF treelessDess has
rapidly expanded in the memory of living
Western settlers. The resinous nature of the
forests which fringe the Western lakes gives
admission and lends terrific intensity to the
once kindled fame.


The only practical question which is lett for
the Western farmer to solve in his effort to
stay the fiery element is how to build his
cities so that they may best resist it. The
winds which transport the ashes of the con-
suming prairie and COW thcm broadcast are
from the southwest. The ill-fated city of
Chicago, in her great fire, was utterly at the
mercy OF the fames because they commenced
in her southwestern precincts and were
borne enthusiastically by the prevailing
winds till arrested by the waters of Lake
Michigan "E ArhAustAd for want Of combus-
Year: 1874

All OF our candidates for Mayor-Wickham


Wales and Ottendorfer-are loud in their
promises of reform, but none of them has
yet told us what he means by his promises
In municipal canvass like that now going on
in this city generalities are not sufficient. We.
should like to hear from each of the candi-
dates not SO much that he is in favor Of re-
ducing the debt as the means by which, If
elected, he expects to tighten the burdens of
our people and improve the credit of the
metropolis. Which of the candidates has as
yet indicated policy which promises good
streets instead of the present wretched thor
oughfares in many localities2 Has any one
of the three aspirants for the Mayoralty any
definite policy Of public utility, or is each of
them willing to accept the Office and drift
along from one emergency to the other, as
has been the course of the present incumbent?
Such course will not much longer satisfy
the demands of the people. In national,
State and local politics we have heard nothing
but generalities for years. In 1872 the
almost solely upon the cry, Anything to beat
Grant, to bring them victory. There are no
longer defined issues in our politics, as there
were from the days of Jefferson to the time of
Van Buren. return to the old order of things
is becoming imperative. Generalities are be-
coming distastefuL Promises of reform mean
nothing, as is evident from the fact that every
candidate makes them. Where is the candi-
date for Mayor who will tell us just what he
expects to accomplish, and how he hopes to
accomplish it? The city debt is serious
problem. Each Of the candidates ought to
tell us how to meet the current expenses of
municipal administration and yet pay the in
terest on the debt and provide for maturing
obligations. He ought to tell US, BESIDES


what measures Of public improvement it would
be the object of his administration to under
take and accomplish Up to the present mo-
ment we have had many promises, but, para
doxical as it may seem, no distin ct promise.
It is time that candidates ceased crying their
wares in the Cheap Jack fashion and told
us just what they are going to do
Year: 1874

to establish the fact of Grants aspirations, il
would be impossible for us to use them. The
HERALD stands, we suppose, on the same
ground as the venerable editor of the Evening
Post who is intrusted with many condolences
by the leading public men of the country, but
never divulges them in the columns of his
paper. In his recent striking leader on the
third term question he shows how thoroughly
he is convinced of the reality of General
Grants aspirations without betraying any
private confidence, and the HERALD has con-
sistently maintained the same reserve respect
ing private communications. We do not see
how respectable newspaper can pursue a
different course. The confidential informa-
ton it receives assists and guides its judg-
ment in interpreting public facts. but it
would be baseness to make any public use
of private conversations.


The exact sense of propriety always main
tained by the venerable editor of the Euening
Post gives peculiar significance to his en-
phatic protest against the third term ambition
OF President Grant He has the amplest op-
portunities to know, from his wide and conf
dental intercourse with public men, what
Grant is really aiming at, and unless he were
thoroughly convinced he would not come forth
from his retirement to make an energetic pro-
test. But we doubt if even he has yet grasped
the full magnitude of the danger II is not
o mere question of the ambition OF particu-
lar man who happens to be Presi-
dent; it is the symptom of deep
seated disease, which threatens the life
of our free institutions, and which has not
yet been set forth in the full diagnosis
which truth would warrant The HERALD
displayed the symptom because that was
the readiest method of enlisting public at
tention. Having accomplished this it does
not despair of impressing the country with
the full magnitude of the danger as viewed
from the highest standpoints Of political
philosophy.
Year: 1874

The COLLISION between the Adriatic and the
Parthia, like oil events Of this kind in which
the public safety is concerned, has occasioned
q good deal of comment. The officers and
pilot of the former vessel have joined in
statement declaring that the Parthia was to
blame. At the same time it must not be for
gotten that there may be another side to the
story, and the Parthia having gone to sea it
will be impossible to determine the question
of responsibility till her officers have been
haard from
Year: 1874

An EXAMINATION of the prisoner supposed
to be Mana Sahib has caused the British
authorities to doubt if he is really that no
torious monster. His personal appearance is
too youthful but other witnesses will soon
determine the question Of identity.
Year: 1874

SHREVEPORT, La, last fall suffered dread
fully from destructive siege of the yellow
fever, and this fall, though exempt from the
fever, the city is under the terrors of the
bayonet. Such is the progress of law and
order under Kellogg's benign government in
Louisiana
Year: 1874

The REPLY or LORD DERBY to the COM
plant of the Spanish government that ma
terials of war were shipped from England for
the Carlists was an example of independence
and candor which will make the American
policy in regard to Spain seem even more
timid aad humiliating.
Year: 1874




actually say what has been attributed to
him in conversation at Congress Hall,
in Albany. The names of the gentlemen with
whom he had that conversation have bee
communicated to Us, with free permission to
use them to authenticate the conversation
We trust it is scarcely necessary to say that
the HERALD declines to avail itself Of such q
permission. In our judgment the cas-
ual conversations Of gentleman in
hotel, uttered in the freedom of
social intercourse, can never be justifably re-
ported tor publication in newspaper. There
is, perhaps, nothing contrary to the usage
which prevails among gentlemen in repeating
such conversations in private circles if there
was no express or implied injunction Of se-
crecy but there is no valid excuse for giving
them to newspaper for publication. It
seems that the respectable young gentleman
who was one of those to whom Judge Pierre
pont addressed his conversation at Congress
Hall happened to repeat the substance of it
to the editor of the Utica Observer, who had
the indiscretion to printit When its authen-
ticity was denied the editor OF the Observer
called on his informant to support him, and
the young gentleman, whose youth must be
his excuse, was unwary enough to write let
ter to that paper, stating what Judge Pierre
pont had said. And this young gentle
man has authorized US to use his
name and the names Of the other gentle
men present at the conversation. We
are bound to respect the sacredness Of
private conversations, and even if we needed
what may be said in tham--which we do not
Year: 1874

The shooting of the two children of JOS
lad of twelve years, proves shocking in.
stance of Juvenile depravity. The chill
dren were at play during the absence of
their parents, when the boy brought out
q loaded gun from the bedroom, saying
he was gong to kill some of them. He
found some caps, put one on, took delib-
crate aim, fired at his infant brother
which was only two feet distant ftom the
muzzle. The little one was fearfully
mangled. A little girl in whose lap the
babe was sitting was also struck in the
face and shoulders, a ball passing through
her cheeks, cutting her tongue and knock
ing out two teeth, while several lodged in
her face and neck. As soon as the deed


had been done she laid the dying babe on
the lounge and bade George run to the
village and bring his mother.


The boy went,as directed, but, instead
or telling OF the affair, remained with her
until evening, when both parents and
himself returned home. A light was
struck, and a moment suficed to reveal
the sad sight. Stretched upon the lounge


lay the CHASTITY corpse of the babe, the
terrible wound in its throat filed with
| clotted blood, while its clothes were com
pletely saturated. Chrouching in the cor


ner was the wounded girl, who had pre-


pared rude bandage for herself, and for
five hours she had borne indescribable


pain from her wounds. Her face had SO


swollen as to be tscarcely recognizable,


and she was hardly able to speak. The
floor was covered with blood, and in the
| wall of the room were embedded such
portions of the charge as had not lodged


in the victims. The boy acknowledged


his guilt, and said he was only in fun, and
did not mean to kill the children.
Year: 1874

we have devoted this column to our
young in order to interest and improve
tnem' and We hope that the boys and girls
VINO write for TIE GRANGE ADVANCE will
try to see how nicely they can write, and
now much better they can write each time.
Remember that the boys and girls of to.
Day will soon be the men and women Of our
country, and in their hands will be The
farms, tho homes, the schools, the interests
and welfare Of the State and Nation.
Year: 1874

HonER, M1xx., April q, 1874.
Mr.. EDz7oR MY father and mother
both belong to the Grange and they take
TEE GRANGE ADVANCE. read your young
folks column every week and like it verv
much. As it is very wet day I thought I
would write you a short letter. see that
Nellie German has been telling you about a
Dig egg her brother found We have not
got any big eggs like that but we had a lit
tie chicken hatched out three weeks AGO.
Gan any Of the young Changers beat that ?
an just eleven years old, and if you print
this l will try and write again.


Yours truly,


P. NEWTON BALDWIN.
Year: 1874

The Modern Wonder Department


Store has opened at 161 South Clark street. Every
should visit ahis Wonder Store, only to look This
store sold 1000 chromos and paintings while here last
year at Il each. Open day and night. Goods in every
department that cannot be bought elsewhere for u.