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Year: 1879

THE idea prevails with the average
teacher that if he is able to answer
fair ratio of the questions proposed by
the County Superintendent, he is able
to discharge all the duties of the teacher
This is a great mistake-such teachers
are only school keepers. The ability
to teach does not depend on actual
knowledge, or even communicating
that knowledge to others !; but in devel-
oping all the pupils faculties-mental,
moral and physical-training him to
think for himself, and cultivating in
him a love for study, so that he will
go on to educate himself long after he
has left school and the living teacher.
No one can do this without a love for
the work, and an earnest desire and
determination to be found worthy of
the high vocation of teacher:
Year: 1879

POLITICAL MACHINE AXIOMS.-A
political party needs machine in the
sense that it needs a working organiza-
ton.


The machine in this case exists for
the good of the party.


The machine in this sense is an in
strument of the party-an essential
instrument, perhaps, but still an instru-
ment


There is no vitality in political
machine.


The strength of political machine
is the strength of the party behind it.


The object of political machine is
to do the work required of it by the
party.


When a political machine tries to
control party the order of nature is
reversed-the tail tries to wag the dog.
This makes the dog laugh.


When the engineer of political
machine-whethe the engineer is
United States Senator or Presiden-
tial candidate-runs this instrument of
party counter to the Judgment of the
party, he lies awake nights thinking
what the party will do about it


1t is supposeable that in certain cir
cumstances political machine may be
more intelligent than public opinion,
but in the United States public opinion
is the court of last resort, and possesses
the power to enforce its DEGREES.


A party which is worse than its
machine is an untrustworthy party.


A party which is better than its
machine cannot be controlled by its
machine


When political machine ceases to
be responsible to public opinion it is
time to change the engineers, for if it
is better than public opinion it will be
inefficient, while if it is worse public
opinion will not tolerate it.
Year: 1879

A young lady advertised for
maid. One applied, and, in response
to the inquiry whether she was quick,
she replied: "Oh, SO quick that l will
engage to dress you in half an hour"
"In half an hour" reiterated the
young lady; land what shall do the
rest of the day ?"
Year: 1879

There are said to be no less than
twenty-three candidates for legislative
Offices in this county at the present
time, and the number will be increased
largely between this and the time the
legislature meets. This is a sad com
mentary on the manly independence OF
the people OF this county, and We sup
pose that other counties in the State are
in about the same condition. The re-
vlval of business has furnished employ
ment TO all, even the tramp, but now
the number OF political tramps seems 10
have largely increased. Some of them
are deserving men, but we are
sorry to say that most of them are
not the kind of men that ought to
be selected to fill offices OF that,
or any kind. They have no particular
qualifications for the positions they ask
to fill. Cheek is about the only thing
they have in abundance. Some OF them
are chronic seekers for position, but
some OF them are just entering on their
course Of boring their friends and hum
bugging the public. They ought to be
discouraged-taught to rely on them
selves for a livelihood. The whole lot
OF them would be better men and more
useful citizens if their desire for Office
could be entirely eradicated, and they
could content themselves to work for a
living as the majority of men do.
Year: 1879

At the meeting of the grain trade of the Produce
Exchange yesterday. revision OF the rules was
agreed upon so as to adapt them to the GENITAL "
SYSTEM A rule was adopted that the Committee
on Grain shall as early practicable in each year
establish the grades Of all grain, excepting corn,
the grade of which shall be established on or before
December 1. An amendment to Rule %. providing
that on all deliveries of grain atoat buyers snail
pay all delivery expenses, except customary tow
ing as agreed upon by the joint committee OF grain
merchants, transportation agents and tow-60at
men, was strongly opposed and was defeated. The
rule as il now stands makes the seller incur the
customary half lf-weIghing expenses as charged by
elevators and the buyer pay all additional ex-
penses in harbor towing, etc.


A resolution was adopted requesting the Board OF
Managers to modify its action IN relation to the
adoption of the GENITAL" system so that its opera
tion will be postponed from October to January
l. 1880 The petroleum trade also made similar
request While the railroads now carry gram by
the hundred pounds, the lake and canal boats carry
it by the bushe and 1t is feared that If the
"centalr is enforced at early date IL Will cause
great confusion in the adjusting OF bills of lading,
and by waiting until the 1st of January the bills
of adIng will be all in aud the different interests
can begin the system with the new season.
Year: 1879

The first point to observe is to keep
the leather soft and pliable; this can be
done only by keeping it we'll charged
with grease; water is destroyer of these,
but mud and saline moisture, are even
more Obstructive. Mud in drying, ab-
serbs the grease and opens the pores of
the leather, making it ready prey to the
water, while the salty character of the
perspiration from the animal Injuries the
leather, stitching and mountings. 1t
therefore follows that to preserve har


ness, the straps should be washed and OIL
ed whenever they have been moistened
by sweater soiled by mud. To do this
ettectually. the straps should be unbuck-
led and detached; then wash with little
water and brown soap, then coat with a
mixture of neatsfoot oil and allow it to
remain undisturbed until the water is
dried out; the rubbing Is important, as it,
in addition to removing the surplus oil
and grease, tends to close t 1e pores and
gives finish to the leather. In hanging
harness care should be taken to allow all
straps to hang their full length; brides
gig saddles and collars should be hung
upon forms Of the shape of each. Light
is essential to the care of leather. and
when the harness closet is dark the door
should be left open, at least half the time
during the day. All closets should be
ventilated, and when possible they should
be we'll lighted. To clean plated mould
ings use a. chamois with little trip oil
or rotten stone, bat they should be scour


ed as little as possible. Rubber covered
goods are cleansed in the same way.
Leather covered needs to be brushed
and rubbed with woolen rag. If a
harness is thoroughly cleaned twice a
year, and when duly treated as we have
recommended, the feather will retain its
softness and strength for many years.
Year: 1879

Furniture coverings are of thick Gre
tonne; the colors are ol We with yellow,
slate color and blue, tan with rose and
dark blue with white. Only two colors
are shown in the new combinations.
Year: 1879

EXTENDING THE WHEAT CULTURE SOUTH
The Macan Telegraph announces that for
the first time in the history of Georgia the
local mills find wheat in sufficient abund-
ance to run them without drawing supplies
of wheat from the North. There are I'M
doubtedly parts of Central Georgia where
wheat can be grown to perfection, for there
the soil is a stiff clay loan and is rich in
the elements that wheaet requirs. But
even upon the sandy soils of that State it
appears that good wheat crops can be raised
by the application of fertilizers, and if care
be taken in the tillage. 1t seem to be a
remarkable thing that in such soils wheat
should be grown, as the Telegraph states,
as far south in Georgia as the Florida line.
This success has been achieved by the use
of the drill Nor is it only in Georgia that
the cultivation of wheat is extending. In
Northwestern South Carolina the Germans
have demonstrated that excellent crops OF
both wheat and rye can be raised by deep
drilling and manuring with the waste OF
the barnyard composted with muck and
pine skaters. The seed is drilled in
punches, the drills being sufficiently wide
apart to admit of running narrow cultiva
| tor between. After while the wheat
tillers and covers the whole ground. Three
crops of rye for forage are cut there by the
| Germans in one season.
Year: 1879

A NERVE TURNER.-Now for the nerves
Now for those little filform organs that give
our American bodies more trouble than do
those pesky, little politicians our American
souls. An Italian physician of high stand
ing claims that he has discovered method
of tuning up nerves-actually tuning them
Just as the strings of a violin, guitar or harp
are tuned. Moreover, he proposes to bring
the cords into such harmony that the ner-
vously-disordered person shall be instantly
and entirely relieved. He says that the
nerves lose their tone, justa musical in
strument loses tone. If they are run down
alike it is of small consequence, as they will
still be in unison; but when some run down
completely, some partially and others not
at all, harmony is wholly destroyed and
nervous suffering is the necessary result.
Thus far the Italian goes and no farther
he doesn't give US single hint as to how
the tuning will be done. Should he come
to this country, however, he can find any
number of subjects to experiment upon


His idea certainly is a delightful one.
Year: 1879

The improvement Of property on the sea
shore and the increase in its value
are among the wonderful things in the way
of business enterprise of the present time.
From Sandy Hook to Cape May every avail.
able place for bathing and the enjoyment Of
sea air has been. or soon will be, taken up
and built upon. Localitses which few
years ago were in undisputed possession oi
the sea gull, sand snipe and mud hen have
been converted into pleasant places fol
Summer residence, and value given tc
them which is astonishing to those who. in
former generation, believed that " New
Jersey was but shovelful of sand left after
the world was made, and thrown there be
cause there was no other place in which tc
put it."
Year: 1879

The Now Orleans Times has from the first
declared that the negro exodus from Louis
lana was not instgatsd by landsharks or
railroad agents, According to its report
the mania not only continues, but has
reached the sugar plantations and threatens
ruin to the agricultural, industrial and
commercial interests Of the State. The
Times holds that the exodus is the result OF
a spirit of dissatisfaction with their sur
roundings and of sense of insecurity on
the part of the negro.
Year: 1879

Trustworthy advice from the silver min.
ing region in Montgomery county Arkansas,
near Hot Springs, are to the effect that rich
ore near the surface has been discovered in


many places, covering an area of several
miles. California, and Colorado miners
now there concur in saying the prospect is
very good AS yet there is no satisfactory
discoTary Of true fissure vein.
Year: 1879

THE INDICATIONS at three o'clock were tha


the army bill will be passed In committee of the
whole with the exception OF the clause relating
TO the use Of the troops at the polls, this after
Year: 1879

BE ready to throw in an odd half
hour or hours time when it will be
an accommodation, and don't seem
to make q merit of it. Do it hearth
ly. Though not a word be said,
your employer will make a nose OF
it. Make yourself indispensable to
him, and he will lose many OF the
opposite kind before he will part with
you. These young men who watch
the clock to see the very second their
working hour is up-who leave no
matter what state the work may be in
at precisely the instant-who calcu-
late the exact amoant they can slight
their work, and yet not get reproved
who are lavish of their employers
goods.-will always be the first to re-
ceive notice, when times are ouii,
that their services are no longer re-
auired. ....-
Year: 1879

''Ieee Wagon Come Nextee."


A short time ago the Hub of the
Universe was visited by a terrible
storm. accompanied by a well
sample of the Kansas tor
nado. Many lives were lost amongst
the shipping along the Massachu-
sets coast, and especially in Boston
harbor. The damage to glass in the
city of Boston was very heavy. The
next day after the storm one firm on
Canal street reported the sale of two
thousand panes of window glass. The
whole performance was without a
precedent in the memory of the old
est native. The startling appear
ance of the sky previous to the burst
ing of the shower warned travellers
and pedestrians to seek cover.
Among the many careless ones caught
out in the storm was George B,
a young reporter on the Boston Tele-
phone. He was caught by the show
er on Hanover street and stepped
into a doorway to wait until the
heaviest was over. George had COM
pany in the doorway. There were
two Chinese washee-Washees from
Howard street, and several less queue
rious looking individuals, each and
all of whom it would be safe to say,
had not for long time back had any
very close relations with a laundry.
The rain fell'in torrents, and soon
great hail-stCnes struck the sidewalk
and re-bounded a few feet in the air.
| Rushing out in the rain, the enthusi-
astic reporter got several specimens,
drew tape line from his pocket,
measured them carefully and record
Ell the exact figures in his memoran-
dunn. Repeating this operation sew
eral times, he attracted the attention
of some young clerks in the offices up
stairs, who broke large chunks of ice
from the block in the ice-cooler aud
threw them out to the reporter, who
measured them carefully and record
ed the result. Everyone in the door.


way was awe struck at the size of the
hail-stones, and the Cinnamon were


exhibiting eyes Of an unusual round,


ness and prominence. One of the


chaps in the office accidentally drop.
ped the balance of the block of ice


from which the monstrous hail-stones


had been Clipped and it came dowr


and landed on the sidewalk with al


immense crash. 1t must have weigh


ed all of twenty pounds, and spatter


ed the water right and lef.. Just a


this instant came that awful crash O


thunder that startled everyone whC


heard it, and of which the paper.


spoke the next day. This was toC


much for John Chinaman. The,
both ran yelling up the street in th'


driving rain, the last one saying a


he cleared the doorway: "Whoope


up. helEee. Icee wagon cone nextee


Goodbye, john
Year: 1879

Yesterday about 10 o'clock tele-
gram reached us from J. Z. Burke,
Ridley Park, Delaware county, Pa,
with the following: "Can of ice cream
OH arrival two-ffty depot. Compli-
ments J. L. Burke" Our comprehen-
sion sometimes dull took in the mean
ing of this at once, and at the time ap-
pointed we were on hand with what is
called in printing Offices, the "devil, !"
and wheelbarrow. Arriving at the
depot, we found the promised can of
cream, and in wonderful short space of
time it was whirled up to the editorial
and composition room OF the REPUBLICAN
office, where we soon had the whole
force employed on the REPUBLICAN
around us with spoon and dish in hand.
We commenced and we dished out, and
then dished again, and then we dished
out q third time to those who had re-
markable expansive powers until the
whole of the two dozen and odd ELL
ployees of the REPUBLICAN were served
to their satisfaction. We can find no
better word than delicious" to give
our ides of the cream, and in this all
agreed without dissenting voice. The
whole REPUBLICAN force units in thank
ing Mr.. Burke for his kind compliment
which meant more than mere sentl-
msnt. We intend to practice little
more on croquet so that the next time
wa visit Ridley Park and play a game
with Miss Lille, We will not be COM
pelled to come home with our colors
trailing in the dust, and be sn'ggered
at by our Wilmington friends who have
no idea how bad a fellow feels when he
upts heat
Year: 1879

No matter what may come, some one Is
growing about hard times
but, from what can be CLEANED from the
journals Of the state, they are even fair at
this writing. There has been a quicken
ing Of trade for a mcnth in nearly all
branches Of business, and consequently a
need for more lands. Railroad repair aud
construction is necessiiating the employ
ment of extra men, and the farmers will
soon be in need of much help. Compare
lively speaking, the times never have been
hard in Oregon .--Astorian.
Year: 1879




Here is shoe shop. Owe man in the
shop is always busily at work during the
day--always industrious. In the evening
be goes courting good, nice girl. There
are five other men in the shop who don't
do any such thing. They spend half Of
their working hours in loafing and their
evenings in dissipation. This FIRST young
man, by and By, cuts out from these others,
and gets boot and shoe shop Of his own.


Then he marries this gtrl. Soon heis able
to take his wife out to ride of an evening.
The five laborers, his former companions,
who see him indulging in his little luxury,
retire to neighboring saloon, and pass a
resolution that there is an eternal struggle
between labor and capital Bob IngersoN.
Year: 1879

The English ordinance officials At
Woolwich, England, are trying hard
to burst the twin 3S- tons gun, in order
to find out how its fellow on board the


Thunderer came to explode. The ex-
pertinent is to take place, not in the
open, but in a great c Aanber Of earth
an! stone, which is being constructed
for the purpose. The theory is that
the cannon burst because it was double
loaded, and the chief end of TIE forth
coming trial is to ascertain whether
other cannon are liable to the same ac-
c;.Gut under the same conditions, or
whether this gun was simply a weak
er brother which could not stand the
extra pressure. 1t seems like a p}aG-
tieai Joke, for if the second gun bursts
there will be no proof that lis expo
sion was due, tothe. same cause as that
which operated in the case Of the first
and if it does not burst the fact that
the other one did will remain un,lter-
cl, The experiment is likely TO cost
the British Government $50, ,OQ9. -'
Year: 1879

1t is seldom that we stop With the
doing Of one act Of the,same nature.
Steal once, and one. generally steals
twice. One cigar smoked, and no
real ease is felt until we have tried
another, One game Of cards slides
into two, and then three, for the draw
game. One mean action covered from
sight, aud we think, that's all right,
and proceed to another. which wa as
clsetu,ly lis grave for. AID 50
It goes. And yet few believe this
until they have tried it for them
selves.
Year: 1879

a class in village school was up for
a recitation in spelling and defining
The teacher wrote the letters Sew on
the blackboard and asked the class how
that word ought to be used. To sew
with a needle and thread was the cor
rect reply. Sow was the next varia-
ton, and the answer was prompt, To
SOW grain in the 6eld.' The teacher
then wrote SO, and asked what that so
meant. The class hesitated. Then a
small girl near the end of the class an
swered, It's what we say when we
want the old COW TO stand STILL
Year: 1879

From the time boy is eight years
old until he is thirteen he devotes two
solid hours of every day of his busy life
to learning how to make a new kind d
noise. BY .he time he is thirteen years
old he has accumulated noise enough tC
last him The rest of his natural life, an'
use three kinds Of noises the same day
too.
Year: 1879

The sermon of the best preacher in
the world will not make much impress
ion upon congregation as the sudden
patterng of rain on the window panes
ofa church containing two hundred new
winter bonnets. ca
Year: 1879

Let US make our attendance on the
worship in the house OF God matter
Of thought and Of serious earnest pur-
pose let US endeayor to bring our minds
INTO accordance with what is inculcated
in Scripture, and exemplifed in vari-
ETY. Of instances there.
Year: 1879

gress refuses it is his part to send back its bills
for correction. An attempt to repeal a law by IN
direction, to leave the President without power
to enforce a law because he has exercised his
constitutional right to object to It's repeal
will not deceive him. Sooner or later, Con-
gress will be obliged to pass proper appropri-
alton bills, for the support of all departments
of the Government and the enforcement OF all
its laws. Until Congress does this it may ex-
pect new veto at every step. and swelling
chorus of popular approval for the President
and condemnation for the Democratic reyolu-
tionlsts after each veto. That sort of thing
the President and the Republicans can stand'


if the Democrats can.
Year: 1879

God. there are pitiful people left who care for
them TO the best of their ability. for Summer
Is often harder upon the little ones than winter
Now ia the time for sending these waits TO the
country homes and seaside sanitarums. few days
at these resorts during these heated terms VIII save
many young life And at how trIfing q cost! tx
cellent societies exist for carrying on the good
work, and their hands should now be abundantly
strengthened.


Keen cool but don't forget the children
Year: 1879

New-York is fast becoming shadeless city Inc
old trees dying out year by year aud lew young
ones are put in their places. Many quiet by-sreets
downtown, which a few years ago were ihVlt'hg
avenues of verdure and GOODNESS, arc now as pare
and torFid rs the great thoroughfares In the new
uptown streets with fe exceptions, attempt has
been made to secure shade, and they resemble
hugo gashes in a brownstone quarry. The unoo-
structed rays of the Summer sun, pouring INTO
these creylces and reflected from the stone
pavement and the high stone walls, produce
an intolerabe heat. 1t seems to be nobody's busi-
ness to plant OF care for trees. When an old tree
becomes decrept and is likely to fall upon the heads
of paSsers-by tho Department of Public Works cuts
il down and carts It away, but it does not provide
successor TO take up the grateful task OF wardng Oh
the nnbeams and absorbing tho heat from the air.
The owner of the property front of which the old
tree stood sentinel plant new one II he Choose
but he rarely chooses TO do so. He can rent the
property TOR just much without the tree as with
it, and that is all he for or if the owner be at
the same time the occupant of the premises. the
chances are that he goes out of town during the
heated term and so does not mind the absence OF
shade.


There ought TO be an intelligent and systematic
oversight by the City Government of the trees along
the streets for the preservation of the few old ones



ones. Experience has SHOWN that this is matter
which Is almost wholly neglected when left to
private enterprise. The municipality attends to the
paving and lighting of the streets, and it should
also attend to shading them. One duty is not as
important the other, but it nevertheless concerns
closely the comfort and health of the people, and
certainly comes within the province of the
city authorities. If small part of the
money spent during the past ten years for
grading and paving streets away uptown where
nobody lives had been devoted to beautifying the
thicky-populated districts with shade-trees, grass
plats and fountains, the city would to-day be vastly
more healthful and attractive. 1t is never too late
to mend, however. The good work should have
been commenced long ago, but because it has boen
neglected is only stronger argument for undertak-
ing it at once. If matters go on IN the way they
have been going of Late shall soon have no trees
to preserve outside of the parks and the suburban
boulevards, and the whole city Will be sultry in
midsummer as an Egyptian brIck-yard.