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Year: 1878




liquor trade and its attendant evils,
the civil damage law has been tried
in various States, and we believe
with unifol mly happy results. This
IS the law under which tie seller is
made responsible pecuniariIy for
whatever harm may come to the per.
son or family Of the man in couse-
quence of drunkenness from liuuor
purchased from the dealer. The New
York statute, however, goes still
further, and holds II It only the seller
responsible, but also the owner of the
premises whereof the seller is the
tenant. The conStitutionality of this
statute has just been affirmed by a
decision of the New York Court 'of
Appeals. The New York EUenin0
Post says that it would be difficult to
underrate the Importance of this de-
cision. For one thing it is in accord
with that enlightened view of ~ump-
tuary legislation which looks to
restricting intemperance instead of
attempting to cure it by a shock
which ultimately proves to be no cure
at all. In diseases there are often
remedies which supply temporary
relief, but after a while allow the all
ment to run with new violence; and
thereare other remedies, at first used
with almost impreceptible effects,
which treat disease cOnstitutiOnalIy
and eradicate or modify it by slow
steps. The latter is the most thor
ough specific for the public disease of
intemperance. Although the vice
cannot be entirely abolished, still, by
surrounding it with restrictions we
can minimize and make indulgence
in intoxicating liquors less Of an
abuse. 1t has been found in the rural
sections of New York that the civil
damage law works in this direction.
Men do not now so often as hitherto
lease their property to laWless and
irresponsible liquor sellers. The
dealer in turn is more careful to see
that his customers do not drink to
excess, and that he be put in a situa-
ton where they can recover at law
for the injury done. But the tenant
and the landlord are placed in Il new
attitude of esponsibiIity tc the com
munity, and 20 become interested
parties in preventing drunken ess.
The moral sense of the public gravi-
tates towards making intoXication
more difficult, and we venture to say
that it is aided in no slight degree by
drinking men. 1t is no uncommon
thing for men who use liquor to vote
for local option and against license.
There are plenty Of drinkers who are
glad to help IN erecting barriers be-
tween themselves and temptations
and opportunity; for it is not until
an individual is utterly sodden and
degraded that he loses perception of
his own unluckIy state. AS long as
he is above the lowest level-so long
as he has his hours of repentace-he
has clearer understanding of his
wretchedness than anybody else pos
Sibly can, and his assistance can gen
orally be relied upon to support pre-
ventive and reformatory effort.
Year: 1878




Notwithstanding it has been raining
every day for twelve days, Che pros
pect is still good for a fair crop: Most
farmers have their crops il very good
condition, considering the continued
rains. Very little pioughing has been
done for nearly two weeks, but the
hoe has been freely used during the
time when it was not toe wet to get
in TIE field ara by this fheans have
succeeded in keeping the grass in
check: All but Che lac planting of
corn was laid by before ths rains set
IN. The late eStn Is considerably
dar1agsd for isant Of work. Forum
ateiy there is comparatively but lit
Gle hate corn this tesr, The fine
weather ifi early Sptitg enabled farm
ers toplant nearly all ttelf cprn yer,
early It is too eatls yet to tell much
abo1t cotton.


The wheat cropis about oil threshed
and Is the sorriest for many years in
Quantity and quality.


Oat crop is very fine but is badly
damaged in the field by rain; thsstrsw
is already lost.


If we could have week of fair
weather; our crops would be finished
zip, and we would be ready for oit
annual batbecues: l believe it is 1.-THE
intention to protract them this year:
Would the Editor like to happen up
On us Some day? FARMER.
Year: 1878

We are willing to receive twenty OF
thirty cords of wood in payment ot
subscriptions for the EXCHANGE, and
we would be glad to receive it during
the Summer months. Bring it in
while The roads are good, and before
cotton picking time comes.
Year: 1878

Hk was traveller for New York dry
goods house. and while ON the train he
chaneed to meet with very agreeable
young lady from Boston. but ere hs had
been in her company half an hour he
was compelled to improve ON Byron as
follows "Maid Of Athens, ere We part.
give, oh. give me back my watch and
chain. pocketbook. gold pencil. ivory.
handled penknifs and cigar case. or III
give YOU to the authorities at the next
station" She gave them back.
Year: 1878

WILD HoRsEs IN KANsAs.-It is q we'll
known fact that from time to time i'm
memorial herds of wild horses have
roamed over the plains OF Southwestern
Kansas. Their origin no man knoweth.
1t may date back to the early Spanish
conquest of the country. II has been ex-
ceedinglv difficult to capture them, the
method pursued having been to run down
and lasso them with feet horses. Latter
ly, however. it has been found that they
can be captured in herds. The method
is to get up an outfit of fast walking
team on wagon carrying provisions and
camp supplies, and three or four riding
ponies and as many men. When herd
is found they are kept moving, no effort
being made to drive them in any direction.
The team and ponies are not driven faster
than walk, and every opportunity is
embraced OF cutting across to save dis
tance. The wild horses are kept in
motion until dark, being given no op.
portunity to Craze during the day. At
night they are too tired to Craze and will
lie down. The pursuers camp, feed their
horses from grain which they carry with
them, and are up by daylight, have break
fast and start again. This is kept up
day after day. Every day takes some OF
the scare and wild out of them; they be-
come accustomed to the sight of the men
on horseback and the team, find they are
not going to be hurt by them, and tired
and leg weary from constant travel and
little feed, and in from eight to ten days
will allow the men to ride in among them
and drive them in any direction. They
are then headed for the ranch, and quite
tanned and docile by the time they get in.
They are of the pony order, such as are
used in the cattle business, make good
riding ponies, and when thorough broken,
good teams for light driving in the coun-
try. They sell. when broken to ride. at
$15 to 1926 her head. and when broken to
drive at from $50 to $75 per span.
Year: 1878

The band Of gypsies encamped on the
Hare's Corner road, is giving some of the
farmers in that vicinity considerable trouble
BY turning their (the gypsies) horses and
mules into the wheat for pasture, one
farmer finding no less than nine of them 10
his field at ore time. He promptly took
charge of them and put them In his barn
yard where they still remained at last
accounts. Isr't there any way of protect
ing our farmers from the incursion of these
vagabonds? -,
Year: 1878

The Government, under mature delibera-
tion, has determined to transmit coin
through the mails as tbird-class NATTER
and this is now regarded as proper sub
iect for criticism and comment. We enjoy
the opinion that the more thoroughly this
question Is ventilated the more favorably
the action Of the Government will impress
itself upon the public mind. 1t is only q
question whether the Secretary of the
Treasury shall ship coin by contract
through and at the risk of the express COM
panies or become its own carrier through
the medium OF the mails, as it transmits
public correspondence aud at its own risk.
The express companies have enjoyed a
rich harvest from Government patronage in
the way of transporting coin AMI paper
money throughout the country, and 1t be-
came an economic question under the
terms demanded by these companies
whether it was not largely for Govern
ment benefit that it should asSume the
risks of transportation and save to
itself the large amounts heretofore expended
upon common carriers for this service It
has determined TO try the experiment, and
1t can well afford to do it, in view of past
experience with the express company mo-
nopOlics, which have become somewhat ar
rbgant in their wealth and power, 1t is
claimed. Whether this be so or not we can
sec no improprie;y in the Governments us.
ing its own mail facilities for transporting
its own coin, provided the mail contractors
consent to the arrangement and it chooses
to take upon itself the risk of transporta-
tion. We cannot see why these coin remit
tances cannot be rendered perfectly safe by
an armed guard, which will cost far
less than the rates of insurance heretofore
allowed TO the express companies, and which
has made the transmission of coin aud other
Government valuables somewhat expensive
The friends of the express companies will
of course, carp at this new arrangement, but
it is well worth a trial, under proper provis-
ions for safety.
Year: 1878

and the same may be said Of every member
of his family, albeit Mrs. GRANT was COM
plant to the demands Of her exalted social
position, and in her management Of the ES-
ecutive Mansion never gave offense TO any
one or occasion for adverse criticism. The
diamonds and rich jewelry, of which so
much has been said and written descriptive
of Washington -Sse, are here yet, or, more
properly speaking, are always here during
the official season. They are sported by the
lobby, fair and foul, now rs they were then,
and ms they were before, and rs they always
will be; but they played no part In the
plain and unostentatious manners of the
family at the White House." Perhaps the
most conclusive proof we can advance OF
the truth Of what we have said in refuta-
tion of these ISLANDERS resides in the fact
that the children of the GRANT family are
models Of good behavior and quiet deport-
ment. They are scattered about now, oil
over the world, so to speak; but they have
reached the age OF maturity and paternity
retaining the respect and friendship of oil
who know them. They have profited by
the example Of their parents, imbibing theiI
pure and simple tastes aud habits. They
are good citizens wherever they are, which
is enough of praise for any one, and at the
same time speaks volumes for those who
were responsible for their training.
Year: 1878

LEGIsLATIoS, good or bad, cannot bc per-
fected without the sanction OF the Senate and
the approval of the Presidcnt.-Chicdgo Times.


This stupid bit of political logic serves
the purpose of the Democracy just now
whenever 1t Is driven into a corner and at
tempts to shirk the responsibility of its own
acts upon the shoulders Of others. But the
merest tyro in political affairs knows that
the House is alone responsible and power
ful under the Constitution for the origin OF
legislation cltrcting the commerce OF the
country. The Ways and Means and the APP
propriations Committees of tho House are
the sources from which low the good and
evil influences over personal and general
business enterprise. The Senate ard the
Executive, being opposed by an ovcrshad-
owing Democratic majority in the popular
branch OF Congress, are practically forced to
yield to its dictltion in all matters relating
to those interests
Year: 1878

President HAYES and defraud the people Of
their legitimate choice Of Chief Magis-
trate. There were numberless others en-
gagged in tho same conspiracy, but these per-
sons have been so directly connected with
it by the deciphering Of their cipher tcle-
grams about that time as to give them
greater prominence than their fellows in the
estimation Of the general public. When all
or even one of them shall he subpTnaed to
appear before the POTTER committee for ex-
animation regarding these telegrams, the So
called title investigation will be relieved of
the damning partisanship which is now its
leading and only characteristic.
Year: 1878

met my love when meath the evening breeze
The corn swayed to and fro, when mid tho
trees
The wind moaned softly, when the reAper's
song,
The echoes OF the deep glen would prolong-


In harvest time.
And brighter than the golden sheaves, her hair
strayed downward DER a neck 30 purely fair
That cen tho snow-white lily we'll might hide
Its bending head beneath tho streamlet's tide


In harvest time.
The thrilling Of the songsters nowwas hushed,
Meath sunshine bright the rose no longer
blushed
And day was ended, far beyond the bill
The respor's song grew fainter and was still


In harvest time.
Twas then my love was spoken and twas
then
1 reaped loves golden harvest in the glen.
The nightingale walled forth her low, sweet
strain,
Singing joys triumph in glad refrain


In harvest time.
And now the autumn OF our livos, instead.
Approaches aud summer all have fled
Tho still OF loves bright setting sun the gleam
Is glorious az that which first lit our dream


In harvest time.
Year: 1878

Necessity never made good bargain.


Man lives only to shiver and perspire.


Mems judgments sway on that side
fortune leans.


Many are willing to wound who are
yet afraid to strike.


Misery leads to despair, aggrsndize-
ment to presumption.


Give full measure, when you measure,
and weigh with just balance. Expend
not but according to the measure of your
goods.


The slanderer Injuries three persons at
once he of whom he speaks i'll, him to
whom he says it, and most of all himself
in saying it.


Imitation is always unhappy, for all
which is counterfeit displeases by the
very things which charm us when they
are original.


Great souls are not those who have
fewer passions and more virtues than
the common, but those only who have
greater designs.


The desire of talking about ourselves,
and of putting our faults in the light we
wish them to be seen, forms great part
of our sincerity.


The same pride which makes us blame
faults from which we believe ourselves
free, causes us to despise the good quail
ties we have not.


Happiness is in the taste, and not in
the things themselves; we are happy in
possessing what we like, not from pos
sessing what others like.


SO scanty is our present allowance OF
happiness, that in many situations life
could scarcely be supported if hope were
not allowed to relieve the present hour
by pleasure borrowed from the future.
Re carefuI how vou indorse draffq
Year: 1878

Ourd is alluded to as "offal from the
dairy" but it is an offah allusion.


"Why should the spirit of mortal be
proud ?" We can tell you he has got
trusted for a new suit OF clothes.


Most women have need to whisper
"lead us not into temptation" " wheIi
they see another with new bonnet.


Serpent skin shoes for ladies are the
latest Paris novelty. Thus it is that
they get even for the way the snake
treated Eve.


The proverb ga short horse is soon
curried," must not be construed as ap-
plying to mules. The shortest are the
most careless with their feet.


Appearances cannot always be relied
on. A young man may seem 10 wear q
fine gold watch-chain, girls, but after
all it may be plated, and pinned into his
vest pocket.


1t is said that the left foot of a left
handed man is always longer than his
right one, but when the old man reaches
after Adolphus from the top step he
always sends the right foot, and in moat
cases it is long enough.


Educate the nose" says some YriteI
on physical culture. A great m are
sufficiently educated now to turn at
people who are their betters.


The people of Ceylon bake and eat
bees. If we were going TO indulge "a
this kind of provender, We should waa
to know that the baker understood
business, for if bee should revive a
he had been swallowed -
Year: 1878

In describing dinner at the sultan's
palace, Mr.. Drew Gay writes "And
now comes the critical moment for you
if you are present at this feast as a
stranger. You will have placed your
meat on your plate, and be carefully
cutting it up, when suddenly a more
than ordinarily juicy morsel will be
pushed into your mouth by pair of
very greasy fingers. You must not re-
sent this. 1t is a token of loving kind
ness, a sign that you are respected, es-
teemed, beloved. Eat it you are a
favored mortal"
Year: 1878

Listen to the water mill, .
All the livelong day
How the clicking Of the wheel
Wears the hours away.
Languidly the autumn wind
Stirs the greenwood leaves;
From the field the reapers sing,
Binding up the sheaves
And a memory DER my mind
As spell is cast
The mill will never grind
With the water that is past.
Take the lesson TO yourself,
Loving hoart and true
Golden years are fleeting by
Youth is passing, too.
Strive TO make the most Of life,
Lose no happy day
Time will never bring you back
Chances swept away.
Leave no tender word uDsaid,
Love while love shall last
The mill will never grind


With the water that is past.
Work whilo yet the daylight shines,
Man OF thought and will
Never does the streamlet glide
Useless by the mill
Wait not till to-morrow's sun
Beams upon your way.
All that you can call your own
Lies in to-day.
Power, intellect and health


May not always last
The mill cannot grind


With water that is past.


ID. G. MCullum.
Year: 1878

Parents and other persons. though
having at heart the good of children,
are very apt to be needless Of what they
say in the presence of the young ones.
whose minds and hearts catch the hue
of every sentiment expressed. They
talk on, and the child is seemingly en-
gagged in its play. but words and state
ments then made come up days after,
when, perhaps, they had forgotten the
conversation, wonderfully fresh from the
child's lips. It's mind has been revolv-
ing what it heard, for good or evil.
Boys grow old too fast by hearing men
at their talk among themselves. Says
a writer: If We stopped to think how
every word spoken in the presence of a
little child affects its future for good or
evil, we would be far more considerate
in our speech. 1t is astonishing how,
for days, children will ponder over a
| careless word or sentence which no one
supposed they had even heard, and at
some critical moment use it themselves
with startling and horrifying effect
How an impatient, petulent word shocks
US coming second hand from those inno-
cent lips Then, alas we see and de-
plore its real deformity, and realize
how potent is our influence over these
observant innocents, not only at all
times. but at every moment of time il
which they arc in our presence.
Year: 1878

Baseball is noble game. 1t devel-
ops the muscles, closes up mans eyes,
makes his back feel as if fourteen mules
had kicked him for week, smashes his
fingers into seventeen different shapes.
and costs him pile of money. Then
he lays off for week to doctor up, and
by the time he pays up his bets he
begins to feel there are other amuse-
ments quite as pleasant and great
deal more profitable than bunting base
ball and then running $50 feet in the
heat Of the sun,-to say nothing about
chasing the balls that some other fellow
bunts away out over some high fence or
on top of some house. But then they
all do it, and wasting words on this
subject is about as useless as trying to
convince a girl that the amount of
strength spent mixing bread that she
wastes pounding piano would make
her more useful if not quite as orna-
mental member of society.-N Z.
Mercury.
Year: 1878




CURE FOR CoNsUMPTIoN.-A Western
physician-as we withhold his name it
cannot be said that this is free adver-
tisement for him-has made public a
remedy for consumption that is said to
have been tried with very excellent re-
suits. This is the prescription:


One half pound finely cut up beefsteak
(fresh.)


One drachm pulverized charcoal;


Four ounces pulverized sugar;


Four ounces rye whisky;


One pint boiling water;
Mix all together, let it stand in a cool
place over night, and give from one to
two teaspoonfuls liquid and meat before
each meal. The theory of the above is
that food containing large amount of
carbon produces the best effect on con-
sumption sufferers. That is an acknowl-
edged axiom in the medical profession.
The virtues Of remedies are in proportion
to the amount of carbon that can be in
fused into the system to feed the con-
suming fame that wastes the body.
Year: 1878

The following fitting and singing re-
buke to the scandal mongers who. to
greater or less extent. infect every COM
munity, is from the Ottumwa, Iowa,
Osaacard: Whisky under ordinary cir
cumstances can and does great deal of
mischief. But when you desire to see
the devil do his best work at torturing
poor humanity, just call and see him
when he has turned lot Of long timber
tongues loose in community. There
is class of creatures-he's and she's
things that are neither men nor women,
they are hyenas in human form, and
they gorge themselves to the full on the
foul and fetid falsehoods that continu-
ally ooze from the shiny and sinking
sewers of each others mouths. Their
daily food is falsehood and filth; and
the more nauseatlng and nasty the more
nourishing and nutritious to these gloat-
ing ghouls. Their daintiest dish is
served up in its most savory manner,
when two or three of them meet to
handy bawdy lies about some good or
virtuous girl or woman. These he-har-
lots of hades are always happiest when
| spreading the spawn of their lecherous
lies over the salnted name of wife or
mother, for by SO doing the devilish
ichor, dripping from their ulcerous lips,
will eat through and poison the whole
family. She scorpions are the samples
which Satan's drummers have located
in each village to show mankind the
meanest thing on earth or hell-a tell
tale termagant. Shut your ears and
doors against them. Let these filthy
fends feel that you loathe them as you
do the sow that is fresh from the wallow.
If the long-eared and long tongued
hound come into your presence, bid him
begone and return to his vomit. Kick
these skunks of society from your path
Make them feel they are no more well
come to your homes or in your presence,
than is bedbug or polecat. Show these
vermins that there is no place for them
in decent society any more than there is
for the buzzard, or the bawd or the
louse-infected bat. Sooner should We
welcome to our humble home Shiny
snake than one of these babbling. tat


tling, scandal-serving cesspools that be


foal society.
Year: 1878

The Greenbackers are unfortunate in
their nominees. Bradley Barlow, their
candidate for Congress IN the Third
Vermont District. is a wealthy banker
at St. Albans and famous mail con-
tractor. He testified before a committee
of Congress that he paid $4,000 to
secure a favorable report on the straw
bidding system Of letting the contracts
for carrying the mails. Barlow was a
candidate before the Republican Con-
vention of the District for the nomination
but upon his defeat bolted and organized
the Greenback movement in his locality.
Barlow is now running to secure revenge
for his defeat, but as the District is
good for 5000 Republican majority he
will not be able to prevent the election
of Gen. Grout, the regular Republican
nominee.-Iroy Times.
Year: 1878

"ABsoLUTE MoNEY"-ABsoLUTELY
WORTHLESS following truthful
and timely remarks are copied from an
address by the Republican State Commit
tee of Wisconsin to the people of that
State:


"The value of all paper in currency,
whether issued by the Government or
banks, consists in the promise it bears
of payment and in the degree Of credit
attached to the promise. If it cannot
be converted at pleasure into currency
of intrinsic value it cannot remain at
par, and its depreciation will be in pro-
portion to the prospect of its being con-
vertible within longer or shorter perl
cd. The printed bits of paper which
some wild theorists propose to employ as
currency, and which they term absolute
money containing no promise Of pay
ment and no intrinsic value, would soon
become absolute in one respect only
they would be absolutely worthless.
This and all the other chimerical pro-
jects by which it is proposed to find a
cheap and worthless substitute for the
measure of value accepted and employed
by the civilized world are based upon
delusion, if not dishonesty, and if adopt
ed would result in disaster and shame.
We hold it to be the duty of Republicans
and all good citizens to oppose with un-
compromising frmness all these mischiev-
Gus theories, as we'll as the cognate doc
trines of Communism and International
alism. which menace society, individual
liberty, and the accumulated savings O
industry.