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Year: 1867

LIEBIC's FooD FOR INFANTs.-The suffer.
ings of an infant grandchild of Prof Liebig
recently, led the great chemist to investigate
the subject of artificial food for infant chill.
dren. The child was pining away, notwith-
standing the care that was taken in the pre-
paration of artificial food from cows milk,
to supply the place of the natural food. of
which it was unfortunately deprived. Dur.
ing the Investigations, DR.. Liebg found,
first, that even the best cows milk is slight
ly acid, while the mothers milk is alkali
and the cows milk contains different proper
tioas of constituents, so that, to get the same
nourishment, the child has to take more and
wants more in order to get enough of the one
kind of substance it needs. Second, that
most artificial food, however carefully pre-
pared, is still more acid, and that the flour
is never chemically dissolved, and that full
twenty per cent. Of it is never digested, and
the whole taxes the digestive system too
severely. Third, that by mixing with the
soluble parts of one ounce of wheat and one
ounce of malt, ten ounces of milk, and sixty
drops of a solution containing eleven per
cent. of carbon ate of potassa, the nearest
possible approach is made to food contain
ing the nutritive qualities Of the mothers
milk. He has, therefore, published the
following prescription tor the preparation OF
what he terms rational food for infants
This is said to be sweet, pleasant, requiring
much less of it than of pure milk to satisfy
them, while it nourishes them far better. 1t
requires no more sweetening, and should
have none ordinarily for infants. The fol-
lowing is the prescription 8" In a small |
saucepan carefully mix, so as to avoid the
formation of Jumps, wheat flour, one-half
ounce milk, five ounces bring this mix
ture to boil slowly, and keep it boiling for
three or four minutes, and then remove it
from the fire. During the time it is boiling
mix, in another vessel, malt, one-half ounce;
water, two ounces and thirty drops of a
solution containing eleven per cent. of car
Donate Of potassa. Then add this mixture
to the hot contents of the saucepan, put on
the lid, and let it remain for half an hour
undisturbed in a warm place, where the
temperature does not exceed 8'degrees.-
After the lapse of this time put the sauce
pan on the fire again till its contents begin
to boil, and then pass the liquid through a
fine strainer. The exhausted bran will be
! retained upon the sieve"
Year: 1867

thou Eternal one, whose presence bright


All space doth occupy-all motion guide
Unchanged through Times devasting fight
Thou only God there is no God beside
Being above all beings Mighty One


Whom none can comprehend and none explore
Who flPst existence with thyself alone


Embracing porting-ruling Ger


Being whom we call God-and no more!
Year: 1867

In its sublime research, Philosophy


May measure out the ocean deep-may count
The sands or the SUMS rays; but God for thee


There is no weight or measure; none can mount
Up to thy mysteries. Reasons brightest spark,
Though kindled by thy light, in vain would try
To trace thy councils, infinite and dark


And thought is lost ere thought can soar so high
Fen like past moments in eternity.
Year: 1867

A NOVEL eopement occurred recently at
Danyille, New York. A wife became poi
soned against her husband through the ma
chinations of lover, who furnished her
with money to procure divorce, and then
married her. After living with her second
husband while, she became convinced she
had been deceived as to her first husband,
and her old love returning, she elopei from
her second husband and ran away with her
fir
Year: 1867

Mr.. C. Otterstatter, of Meadville, Pennsyl-
vania, walked out Of his chamber window, a
nights since, and fell to the ground, crush
inS his shoulder, and breaking several of
his ribs. He had just returned from Franklin,
where he had been in the habit of going out
of his chamber window on to the roof OF the
porch, during the warm nights, and is sup
posed to have arisen from his bed not fully
awake, and thinking he was still in Franklin,
proceeded to pass out upon the roof of the
porch, and met with the accident described.
Year: 1867

the flow Of foreign capital In this direction and
to operate unfavorably upon our national
credit. "a


The Assistant Treasurer of the United states
at this post sends us the following statement of
the business of his office for the month Of July
1867
Year: 1867

We are grst.fied to observe that some at
least, of our farmers are profiting by the
experience OF other counties where free
labor is not n novelty, and hiring the bulk
of their labor by the day. This is the
dawn Of brighter day for our agriculture,
for all the farmers will soon see by the diff
ference in results, the advantages Of this
system. They will find that they cannot
afford TO keep lot Of laborers eating dke
bread al their expense when they cannot
be employed, or what is next to the same
thing, fsoling away tho time during half
the year. when their labor DOES not puy-
We know Of one farmer ia a nefsKborine
county who will make this year thousand
barrels of corn aud other things in proper.
tfon who r.hes almost wholly on labor
hired by the day, for the cultivation of bis
crop. and we are assured that he has never
found any difficulty in getting hands The
only thing needed to secure hands is t pay
them good wages and pay cash. The freed
men will qnit their own crops to work for
anybody who will pay them cash for work
ami give a literal price. We have seen
chen, do il time and again. H our farmers
could ouly be induced to- calculate the cost
Of their business. and compare the cost and
the profits of the system Of hiring by the
day for money wages with the "proft and
l"ss," especially the loss, of the other sys
TENS, and 10 look at the results Of the former
system ns shown by the experience of the
best managers. we are sure they would not
hesitate to qnit experimenting, but would at
once adopt the system which the experience
Of all the world has demonstrated to be the
only profitable mode Of employing free Ia
bor.-- ViryiniG 1dpertiser.
Year: 1867

A NATIONAL CURREScY.-Tho government
can give us all the currency We want Every
body is willing to take greenbacks issued by
the United States Treasury. Why should a
lot of national banks that are constantly
breaking and victimilng their depositors,
bo authorized to force their own circulation
upon us and make us pay them thirty millions
year bonus for the privilege of keeping their
own paper afloat? p Recorder and Democrat.
Year: 1867

AaoUr rnE wAn.-Tho Louisville Journal
wOll' says that chad the Radical party before
the war been as earnest to avoid war as it
now is to use tho war for keeping in power,
there would have been no war Mt all snd no
national debit"
Year: 1867

A valued correspondent from Mar
shall county makes some pertinent and
practical inquiries as to the disposition
which has been made of the School
fund in that county. While he does
not directly charge the party in posses
sion of the cash with corruption or rob-
berry, he yet makes it very plain that
tho official whom he arraigns has been
guilty of very gross irregularity.


We are glad tc see disposition on the
part of the writer of that communica-
ton to bring to light the wrongs upon
the people that are being perpetrated
by those in charge of their funds. In
the excited state uf affairs incident to
war times, there WAS but little inquiry
into public financial management
and but little responsibility on the
part lof treasury officials. The
consequence was that public
monies were frequently diverted
from their proper channels, aud squan-
dered in manner that resulted III no
public benefits" too frequently they
were co0lly stolen and used for private
advantage. Every session of the West
Virginia Legislature has been mark
ed oy applications to relieve
'loyap but delinquent officials from
their obligations to the State Treasury
and we know the rascally theft of coun.
ty and township funds to have been
also very general.


Our Marshall county correspondent
shows disposition to talk about these
things,and we can assure him of the en-
couragement of every honest man in the
State. Radical officers, under the Piles
of "loyaltyp--that ''last refuge of the
sconndrer-haye pursued system o.
irresponsible robbery long enough, and
the people are tired of contributing Il
the support Of o band of public plum
dersrs. From the Governor down, il
they can get down lower than the Coy
ernor, there has been q very general
course of fraud and peeulation pursued
Year: 1867

1t is matter that is publicly talked of
here, that certain men who have been
furnishing stone for the penitentiary
building in Moundsville, have had the
good fortune to have their stone twice
measured, and paid accordingly, and
that convict is the principal measurer
at that concern. i will have word TO
say on that subject at another time.
The Moundsville National will please
copy. MARSHALL
Year: 1867

the time Of Alexander the Great, up to
the present time, is altogether the best
written article on the subject we have
ever had the pleasure Of perusing. His
description of our great country, its
railroads, rivers, canals, and other inter
nal improvements his full description
of the Pacific slope, with its 10000, 900
acres of undisposed of public lands, and
its great Pacific railways, is State pa
per in which every man in our country,
desirous of being informed Of our true
national greatness and prosperity, and
our great prospect for the future, will
eagerly seek for. -a


Mr.. Wilson reports that there is room
enough ON the great Pacific slope for
forty new States. He thinks that by the
commencement Of the next century we
will be united country Of one hundred
States, with the control OF all the great
treasure shipments of the world. He
says this country has commenced her
grand imperial course, with the control
of the Eastern trade in her power, and
that the immigration and natural growth
of the country will place US at over one
hundred millions of people by the year
1900. He speaks Of the civilizing influ-
ence of our great Democratic institu-
tions, and their effect upon the rest of
the world


Mr.. Wilson has been a long time pre-
pairing this elaborate paper. with the ac-
companyiug map of the world, which
has also been well prepared. He has
consulted over one thousand different
volumes, been in constant correspond
encc with the principal officers of the
European Governments who could give
him information on the various subjects
of which he treats, received much in
formation and data from the State De-
partment and our ministers and consuls
throughout the world, has had the assist
ance of the surveyors and mineralogists
of our Interior Department, and now
lays before the people. through the Sec
retary Of the Interior, one of the most
valuable public documents this country
has ever received from any of its public
officers.


In preparing this paper the facts out
side of the General Land Office matter
have been detailed by Mr. Wilson, SO as
to show the value and influence Of our
public lands, and their great wealth to
this country for years to come. We
hope to see the report and accompanying
manuscripts printed by order of Con-
gress and freely distributed througout
our country.
Year: 1867

A lawyer who consumes three hours


in urging question Of law relating to


the ownership OF barrel of apples, is
indignant at the preacher for exceeding
twenty five minutes in unfolding one of
the greatest principles Of morality, on
the observance of which the tolerable
existence of society depends. The Judge
who fills two hours with his ssopinion"
on the right of the counsel to challenge
a witness, grumbles at the minister be-
cause he has prolonged the discussion
of fundam entail laws of hnman progress
to thirty minutes. The physician who
takes ten minutes to prepare the medi-
cines for a headache is nervouslv rest
i've if his minister spends only twice as
many in attempting to relieve chronic
heart ache. The belle who has spent
how long?-in adjusting the bows of her
bonnet, is remorseless in her criticism
on the minister who does not finish his
on the Fatherhood of God
in fifteen minutes. The fop, who has
combed, and stroked, and perfumed, and
waxed his mustache for half an hour, is
mortified past endurance if the poor
is not through his discussion of
the immortal life 'sinside'' of twenty
Year: 1867

To issue greenbacks to the amour t


requisite to pay the National debt is
equivalent to putting up gold to 80 pre-
MUM, or to make one gold dollar worth
three dollars in currency, and raising the
price Of all tho necessaries of life in a
corresponding ratio. A paper dollar is
promise to pay something; it is usual
ly understood to be promise to pay
gold dollar. The paper dollar is new
er understood to be a payment in itself,
but only the promise Of somebody's
bank or government-to make pay
ment on demand, or at some future time
The gold coin is payment itself. How
absurd, then, to say the public debt
which is promise to pay gold coin at
definite time can be paid with new
promises to pay, with no definite time
in the future fixed upon.


Gold can not be deprived of its value.
The attributes of gold were given to it
by the Almighty, and no government is
strong enough to add to or subtract
from them. The value of gold is older
than any government, and will outlast
all governments. 1t has never been af-
fected hair ir's-breadth by legislation,
and never will be. The French Gov
ernment, in 1893, did every thing in it's
power to deprive gold of its value, for
the purpose of keeping the paper cur
rency-" assignats''-a at par. Yet, in
spite Of the dungeon and the guillotine,
gold went up and assignats' went
down. 1t has been held by the most
eminent writer Of the French Revolu-
ton that more misery was caused by
the paper currency than by all the blood
shed of that tremendous epoch. The
necessities of the Government of the
United States has forced gold out of cir
culation, but has not abated particle of
its value, nor can its value be diminish
ed.
Year: 1867

The bill of fare being provided in
the South for the good people of the
North,s who have clamored SO much
about taxes is very encouraging. The
old rebel planters are getting up muster
rolls of their former slaves with values.
intending, when the Democracy get con-
troll of Congress, to present their little
bill of four or five thousand millions of
dollars for payment, SO that it may be
placed on our tax duplicates. If the
Democracy get into power we shall en-
joy the privilege of helping to pay the
Southern rebels for their slaves, their
war debts, and their individual losses
caused by the war. A sweet prospect
indeed
Year: 1867

The New Albany Ledger wants to
know what ''sort of money" the Indiana
State bonds have been redeemed with by.
the Republican authorities. With law
full money, is the answer. The Ledger
proceeds thusly IS eg


The holders of our bonds, as is well,
known. gave US the gold for them, and
we contracted to pay them six per cent.
per annum in gold, as interest After
wards the State became SO deeply in
volved that the Legislature was com
PEELED to cut down the interest to p per
cent. on those bonds the holders of
which did not choose to come in and
take the canal for half the debt. Now,
have we paid these foreign creditors of
ours this miserable pittance of interest in
gold, or have we compelled them to take
greenbacks z@..


The parallel is not good. There is
no objection to paying the National bonds
with greenhacks when they are due.
The objection IS to making new notes TO
pay she old ones. The Ledger would
have been in accord with the staple Dem
ocratic argu,p ent had it insisted on com
pelling the holders of State bonds to
take only the amount they had paid
for the bonds in gold say 80, so or SO
per cent. The argument urged so furi-
ously that bondholders gave grecnbacks
for bonds when gold was from 200 to
2:85 premium is worth nothing if it cam
not be applied to the States indebted
ness. The Ledger having failed to make
this point we do so for it.


Yet the parellel drawn between what
the State did in the payment of outstand-
ing bonds, and what it is proposed the
Nation shall. do is not good. AT the
time the State made a composition with
her creditors, giving the Erie Canal and
its lands for one-half of the debt, new
bonds for the other half, and two and a
half per cent. bonds for the interest then
due, there was in existence State Trea-
sury issue Of circulating notes, beariug
per cent. interest, and receivable for
all taxes due for the State. The Dem
ocracy-f5 was not so-called then
did not then propose to enlarge the is
sue of these circulating notes to pay of
the five and two and half per cent
bonds. Such q proposition the old hard.
money -Dalnocrats would have scorned.
The State Treasury notes were redeem
ed in lawful money, and a large amount of
the principal paid.


At the beginning of the war the State
issued six per cent war bonds The
bonds sold in the market as low as SOC
for a dollar. The State promises only
to pay them interest and all in lawful
and they have been paid-one
hundred dollars in lawful money for the
eighty dollars loaned. The National
Government is doing what it can as fast
as possible to make the lawful money
eqnal to gold. Prudence and common
honesty will make the greenbacks equal
TO gold long before the bonds became
DUE Madison Courier. -
Year: 1867




hold that Christian grace abounds
& Where charity is seen that when
We climb to heaven, tits on the rounds
Of Love To uen.


hold all else, named piety.
A selfish scheme, a vain pretense


Where centre is not, can there be
circumference


This I, moreover, hold and dare .9
Affirm, where'er my rhyme may GO,


Whatever things be sweet or fair,
Love makes them so.


Whether it be the lullabies
That charm to rest the nursing bird,


Or that sweet confidence of signs
And bushes made without a word


Whether the dazzling and the flush
of softly sumptuous garden bowers,
s Or by some cabin door or bush
Of ragged flowers.
'Tis not the wide phylactery,
Nor stubborn fast, nor stated prayers.


That make us saints We judge the tree
By what it bears.


And when a man can live apart
From works on theologio trust,


know the blood about is heart
Is dry As dust.
Year: 1867

49, Il Is said TO he dangerous iO be working
with a sewing machine near window when
there is a thunder storm II Is also dangerou
10 b. working near some sewing machine that
wear gaiters) when there Is no thundsf si'fm
Year: 1867

HAVING INCREASED OUR WHOLESALE


HI Business to a large extent, and it being
utterly i'm possible TO give the usual attention
our Retail trade requires, We are fully deter
mined to give up our long established Betai
Business at the earliest possible moment and
shall, from this day on, commence 70 close out
our entire stock OF above mentioned
Year: 1867

EDrToR STATESMAN Permit an humble in
dividual to seek little light through the cCl-
umns of your paper, but from which no infor-
nation has emanated, to the knowledge of the
enquirer, on the matter under investigation.
Every where you go into the merchants well
stocked store, into the mechanics shop, into
the professional mans office, into the farmers
premises, you hear the cry of hard times dull
times no employment and a desire to accom>
modlte the public at reduced rates, is expressed
by all the numerous devotees of the various oc,
equations enumerated. The merchant sells his
goods cheaper than formerly was his custom /;
the mechanic will accommodate you with his
handwork at % per cent. reduction on his for
mer prices; the professional man will attend to
your wants, real or imaginary, on more accom-,
modatng terms than at any time in the history
of Walla Walla, and the farmer will almost give
you anything produced on his farm then why
is it that the teachers of our schools can not fall
into line of retreachmenr, reduce the figures
they have heretofore exacted for tuition, aud
share the hard times with ali other trades and
professions? The merchant, the mechanic, the

farmer, or any other individual who has lot, BY
hard times, one hai: his weekly or monthly in
come, cannot afford to pay the school master his
former figures any more than be can afford to
pay the former price for wood, flour, bacon, or
any other of the uecessares of life.


Then the question arises, will the teachers of
the schools deprive the poor child the facilities
ofpreparing him or herself for future usefulness,
and thereby thrust into the world, at the age of
man or womanhood, an illiterate and less useful
man or woman, than he or she would otherwise
be if the facilities of an education had been ez,
tended unto him or her in youth?


In view of these facts, would it not be well, in
fact, do not the necessities of the people demand
reduction in the present rates of tuition charg-
ed by the various schools our community is
striving to build up aud support? If you, or
some of you intelligent readers will enlighten US
in this matter, you will accommodate yours
truly, PArERFAMILAs.
Year: 1867

DESTINY OF LABoR-The condition Of
the working classes in our large cities is ex-
tremely hard, and is daily growing worse,
aud must soon become uncomfortable. A
great many expedients have been geSOrted
to, to secure and afford relief-among them
strikes aud CO Cooperative combinations called
Trades Unions. The New York Journal of
Commerce reviews the situation, shows that
cause and result run PARALLEL to the condi-
tiop of European laborers, thus far, and that
the ultimate consequences must be the same
We annex the conclusion to which il arrives,
and in view Of the fact that an immense dis
proportion of the public burdens rests upon
the laborer, the least able to bear it, we do
not see how he is to escape the destiny so
clearly foreshadowed. Our people are be-
coming restive under excessive taxation. and
are coming to the conclusion that a national
debt is a national curse, instead of national
blessing, as the radicals assert Says the
Journal:


We limited the other day the solution of
this labor question is to be found in the
melancholy fact that the laborer in this
country must learn to live in more eco
nomicaI fas hiou. He must do without many
of those luxuries he has heretofore epioyed
He cannot help it, nor will any contrivance
of the phiIanthropic enable him to avoid the
result The burden of increased taxation on
the labor will cut off from one who has no
accumulated means those expensive COM
forts he has enjoyed in common with the
wealthy. Plain food, plain dress, and no
surplus for superAuities will be the rule he
cannot violate, and he will henceforth, in
the distinction of classes, resemble his fellow
labOrer in other countries heretofore less
favored than ours. This law he cannot re>
peal nor violate with impunity; but its due
observance will be the saddest lesson ever
learned in this Western world
Year: 1867

To CoRREsPoSDESrs.-Corr should
understand that anonymous communications
cannot receive attention. The writer of /" 'Tis
all for the best" comes within this rule and will
have 10 send in real name, when we shall be
happy to give the lines q place in our columns
Year: 1867

authority that Hon. Alvan Flanders, now in San
Francisco, will at once proceed to Washington
and remain there until after the close of the
next session Of Congress. This will be quite
disappointment to parties who had business they
desired TO entrust to bis care.