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Year: 1879

Our Democratic friends seem bent on establish
ing it as IA cardinal doctrine of their political faith
that the tail actually and invariably does waggle
the dog The latest illustration OF this purpose is
in their criticism of Senator Kernan's late speech
in defence of the New-YOrk Democracy, In which
they complain that he neglected to make the point
against the Republicans that Tweed had Republ-
can allies and that some OF his most Tascaly
schemes were carried through Republican Legisla-
lures by the ard of Republican votes. The idea Is
TO charge the responsibility for Tweeds crimes upon
the Republicans on the ground that he found few
purchasabIe corrupt Republicans and bought them
up. Their application of L" Er anO dsce OmRes
is. "From one dishonest Republican learn
what all Republicans are, and from one
honest Democrat what all Democrats are"
They consider this, no doubt, the perfection
of Impartiaty. They hold that the tan wagges
the dos IN both parties. A half dozen corrupt Re
pubhcans are found, and they say, Behold a cor
rupt party p With more difficulty, and after labor
ious searching, they discover half dozen Democrats
who seem earnestly in favor Of political reform, and
forthwith they throw up their hats aud shout,
This is the Party of ReformW II they 90 on in
this way it will presently be established as funda-
mental doctrine of Democracy that the tail inyarl-
ably waggles the dog. A minority Of White Demo-
Gratis in the South waggles the Solid South, few
Northern Democrats waggie the Congressional
majority, and two or three honest men IN the party
are to he credited with waggng the whole concern
In behalf Of honest elections and pure politics.
Year: 1879

The undergraduates of theological semnaries are
not usually numerous and possibly their defcien-
cies of character and attainment, when such unhap-
ply exist are the more apparent upon that account


we notice that in the report made by the Rev. Dr.


Prime to the Presbyterian Assembly at Saratoga, on
theological seninaries the exclusion from them OF
1.-THE lazy, dull and worldIy-minded" was recon-
mended. The excellence OF tins advice needs no
demonstration. Yet we have always believed the
number TO be small of young men entering the min
istry for the mere sake of securing profession.
Such course implies perpetual hypocrisy which
would make life intolerable to any sensitive person.
The standard OF honest devotion to the ministry
in theological students has been uncOmmOnly high.
Year: 1879

If there is reasonable response to the call issued
by The World newspaper IN recent issue, we shall
shortly have dress parade of all the Democratic
leaders in the country. That journal somewhat ex-
citedly SAYS: If our public life is full of dema-
gogues and charlatans and rogues let them all come
up into the light of day and SHOW themselves in
their true colors. Let us know who they are and
how many there are of them" This looks either to
a dress parade OF a census. Possibly it is the first
step IN the preparation tor Democratic victory in
1880. the idea being to find out who they are and
how many there are of them" IN order to see if
there are Offices enough 70 go round But where Is
this meeting to be If Ifanywhere out of Washing
ton it will break up Congress.
Year: 1879

BERLIN, May 1O.-Besides the corvette
ordered to sail from Brazil TO Valparaiso,
German gunboat will be permanently
stationed In Chillan waters. From the DO.
sition OF affairs no guarantee can be given
that Valparaiso will be safe from the at.
tack OF the hostile feet; but it may be
hoped the belligerents will not violate the
international law by bombarding an open
seaport town unnecessarily.
Year: 1879

ing every time it comes up,
The same call can be made in
the Senate If any Senator is so
disposed, As the hill covers
two or three hundred printed
pages, such tactics as this
wo lld be sufficient to defeat it
Without dehatn.
Year: 1879

A young man who complained that his
girl was too shy and retiring, found a
year after marriage that she could "come
up to the scratch beautifully. The bus
band Of year has no business to stay
away from home until midnight, anyway.
-Norristown Herald
Year: 1879

Now IS the season of the year for the
farmer to make up his mind as to what he
will cultivate the coming summer. AS a
general rule, mixed farming is the most
certain, and taken together for any period
Of time-say ten years-pays best. 1t is
course that supplies the farmer with all the
necessaries that can be produced in this lati-
tude, without having to buy, which is of
itself worthy of some consideration, as
we'll supplied table goes far towards smooth
ing down the evil tendencies of life; nur-
lures good-feeling and charity, and in real
ity is one of the greatest blessings of the
calling of husbandry. 1t is sure guaranty
of living, for we care not how adverse the
circumstances, the season will be such that
some variety OF produce will succeed. A
few years since, when the grasshoppers
were bad, mixed husbandry was all that
saved the country from coming to want,
and though we do not anticipate grasshop-
pers or any other plague the ensuing season,
yet we believe it will pay best, for the rea-
son that it is sure to hit the markets best.
Those products which are low may be kept
till the most favorable time for marketing,
as there is no time of the year but some
article of farm produce is bearing fair
price.


Let the farmer determine now what he
will attempt next spring how many kinds
of grain he will cultivate; what other pro-
ducts the number of acres OF each; what
amount eff labor he will employ, and in
short, stake out his course for the season.
And as time progresses, endeavor to drive
as near to your stakes as possible. Those
who are most successful III life and execute
work with the greatest dispatch and to the
best purpose, keep their course marked out
ahead. Even a good cook plans out her
routine for the day and week, and the farm
er who would be ready at the opening of
spring, and know what to do and where to
begin it. will have his plans well matured
before the hour of labor arrives.
Year: 1879

Ever since the last harvest millers
throughout the West and Northwest have
been making complaint of the injury done
to mill machinery by the presence of small
bits of wire in wheat bound by the new
self-binders. AS noticed in our last issue,
the millers of Minneapolis have resolved
that wherever practicable, a difference of
ten cents per bushel be made, discriminat-
ing against wire bound wheat. The Illi-
nois State association which was in session
during the past month passed resolutions
eondemning the use of wire and advising
the use of some other material. Almost
every day complaints have reached us from
milers in every part of the West stating
The annoyance and damage caused by wire
in the wheat. Some have suggested that
all this hue and cry have been raised in the
interest of Il certain twine-binder, but the
sequel will show how reckless such state
ment is and how wide from the mark it
falls.


We have taken q good deal of pains dur
Year: 1879

sarlly conclude that it does pass through
the cleaning machinery, and this is all that
need be known. However, we may venture
to say in explanation that all of the bits of
Wire are more or less curved, and therefore
lind their way through the apertures of the
| separating machines. The usually saga
clous Prairie Farmer of this city suggests
that milling engineers ought to invent
some means of removing the wire from the
wheat. When our contemporary remem-
bers the fact just mentioned, that the wire is
most always bent, the full difficulty in the
way OF removing it by means of separating
machines will be seen. The best way to re-
move it from the wheat is to allow the wire
to remain in the store instead of CARRYING it
into the field.


While we hardly think it possible to make
distinction in price between wheat bound
with wire and that bound with some other
material (and the milers of Minneapolis
seem to have had doubts as to the practical
bility of the scheme in all cases) we believe
that some measures should be taken to pro-
tect the miller against the damages caused
by the careless use of wire. OF all the mill
ers present at the recent meeting of the Ill-
nois association, only three defended the
wire binder. Such unanimity of opinion
certainly shows that so far, the wire binder
has been detrimental to the interests of
millers. The evil will doubtless work it's
own cure, but in the meantime millers
ho ,n1 f,r.
ton of what is so manifestly an inconven-
ience and source of loss in their business
american Miller.
Year: 1879

PuC two or more quarts of water in a ket-
tie, and one large seed pepper, or two small
ones, then put the kettle over the fire. When
the water boils stir in coarse Indian meal
until you have thick musf. Let it cook
an hour or SO; feed hot Horse radsh
chopped fine and stirred into mush as pre-
pared in the above directions, and for results
we are getting from five to ten eggs per
day, whereas, previous to feeding we had
not had eggs for a long time. We hear q
good deal of complaint from other people
about getting no eggs. 10 such we would
warmly recommend cooked feed, fed hot.
Boiled apple skins, seasoned with red pep
per, or boiled potatoes, seasoned with horse
radish are good for feed; much better than
uncooked food. Corn, when ted to the hen,
by itself, has tendency to fatten rather
than produce the more profitable egg-lay-
ing. spoonful of sulphur stirred with
their feed occasionally will rid them of yer-
min and tone up their systems. 1t is espec-
tally good for young chickens or turkeys.
Out Of flock of ten hatched last November
we have lost but one. They have been fed
cooked food mostly and are growing finely.
Ohio Farmer.
Year: 1879

A correspondent residing in Ohio wrote
US as follows last month: "Tell us in next
number of the monthly how we may man
age-if the thing be possible at ALTO have
eggs from our fowls in winter time. have
frequently seen it stated that there are some
breeds of improved fowls that lay in the
cold months of the year. would like to
know something of them.n


The allwinter layers are very rare, friend
F., in our experience. AS you hint, how
ever, there are fowls that give us more or
less eggs in winter, and there are some vari-
(after their moult ut an earlier time in the
Year: 1879

! cold season than do others. But it is not SO
much the breed of fowls that do this winter
laying as it is the age of the pullets that we
happen to own, and the kind of house (as
to warmth) that we have to shelter the
birds in.


No variety of fowls with which we are ac-
quainted will yield us eggs in the winter
months, where the birds are exposed in poor
houses, in wet Or damp situations, and in
which they are negligently or badly fed in
those months. This may be set down as a
sure thing every time.


But if the stock be properly provided
through the fall and winter with good food
and plenty of egg-forming materials, and
your pullets be hatched early in the season
previously, the Asiatics, the Plymouth
Rocks and the Leghorns will begin to give
you eggs very early in the season or in
many instances commence late in the fall.
after they shed their first seasons feathers.


But no breed can lay eggs in winter until
the proper conditions are observed to fit
them for this duty. These conditions-if
the fowls be housed-are supplies of green
feed, sound grain, plenty of shells and gravel,
and allowance Of ground bone, cooked food
daily, prime ventilation in the hennery, all
the sun warmth you can give them in the
house they occupy, and occasional bits of
meat or scraps, for variety.


If your pullets are got out in March and
April they should lay in November or De-
cember, or by January at the latest Con-
tinue to keep them dry, warm and well fed,
and you will have plenty of eggs in the
winter months from any of the breeds of
our present improved varieties. Poultry
World
Year: 1879

The following lines about Knoxyill,
were written by an old gentleman, 20 year!
old, q citizen of the State of Illinois, ana
are published by request:
Knoxville is city in East Tennessee,
It's citizens are generous, kind and free.
ALI are made welcome who come here tc
live,


The climate is healthy, none can it excel
Neither too warm nor too cold for people tc


dwell
The markets furnish all that you wish,
And the rivers and creeks plenty of fish ;
City lots you can purchase at low rate,
And the taxes are low so you won't ask a


rebate
It's trade and it's commerce is growing


larger each year
So that downfall ia prices you need not


fear,
So come along with your dimes ifyou have


any to spare
And of our friendship we will willingly


share.
We suffered severely whi the war did last,
But now we must try and forget all the


past,
Begin in the new and help all to unite
In peace and in Friendship no more for to


fight
Now sir ce slavery is squelched and the


darkies all free
There is nothing to hinder the North and


South to agree;
It was envy that caused ali the sad strife,
Which caused the destruction of so much


human life,
Now we iaviie all to come and take good


chance,
For Knoxville is city which is baund to


advance.
All that is lacking to make it flourish and


grow
Is to have the rivers made deep so that


boats from below
Can visit us daily all the year round,
Then this city as Queen. would surely be


crowned.
Year: 1879

A few weeks ago, it will be rsmem-
beTed that the furniture manufact0ry
of VIM. Caswejl & Co., on Clinch
street. West Knox willie, was destroyed
by fire. The fire had not died cut
when they determined to rebuild their
mandatory, and they set about at
once and in earnest. The site select
ed for the new establishm was on
Second Greek between Clinch and
Cumberland streets. They have erect
ed a substantial brick structure and
have it now about ready for the ma
chinery, and in a short time will be
at work. Such enterprise i worthy
OF commendation and is sure to bring
success. 1t is q worthy firm and de-
serves encouragement from our people
Year: 1879

Before you begin your heavy spring
work after winter of relaxation, your
system needs cleansing and strength
ening to prevent an attack of Ague,
Bilious or Spring Fever, or some other
Spring sickness that will unfit you fcI
a seasons work. You will save time,
much sickness and great expense il
you will use one bottle of Hop Bitters
in your family this month. Don'i
wait. See other column.
Year: 1879

The pupils of Vassar College have
adopted the following glove language +:
Drop a glove-You bet.


half unglove the left haHd-W hat
are you giving us?
Tap The chin with The glove--Chew
your own wax.


Crumple the glove in the left nand
Never!
hand-Well hardly ever


Turn the glove inside Out-Wipe off
your chin.


Fold the gloves neatIy-I regal d
you as bald headed snipe Of the
valley.


Put on the left glove-I'l put a
head on you.


Slap the back of the hand with the
gloves-Look out, / carry a razor.
Year: 1879

GENERAL GRANT has met with a
most cordial reception in China, and
preparations are being made on a
large scale for his reception in Japan.
He will not reach the Japanese capital
before July.
Year: 1879

HENRI WATTERsON might truth
fully observe that the Democrats in
Congress are also finding Jordan a
hard road to travel" In fact, it may
be said that they encounter many
fluctuations.
Year: 1879

The of the Executive Councils weak
in the extreme. To characterize it in word
it is squirm. The only object it can have
is the consumption of time. 1t certainly
cannot be intended to persuade, and as
defense it is feeble beyond precedent-that
might have been expected, for the Council
has gone beyond precedent in everything it
has undertaken. There is a question of We
racity raised, but the evasive and tricky
course heretofore pursued by those who
raise it will deprive their denial of any
weight. Governor Garcelon appears to pos
sess peculiar faculty for making himself
misunderstood. After coming out of the
Council Chamber the other day he remem-
bered administering withering rebuke"
to the Republican committee which called
upon him to ascertain the course the Coun-
Gil would take. Singularly enough, no
member of the committee heard the rebuke.
He now denies making the remark to
Messrs. Wing and Savage that they under
stood him to make. His forgetfulness is as
extraordinary as his memory.


The meaning of the reply is that the Coun-
Gil will continue on their evasive course
One day they will appoint time when the
returns shall be exhibited. When the time
comes they will turn about and decline to
permit the examination. The next day,
taking advantage of their own obscurity of
language, and attaching new and absurd
meanings to words, they will assert that
they made no refusal. Meanwhile the time
set apart for canvassing the returns is asst
passing.


The action of the Council is contemplate
in the extreme They are either preparing
to count out the Republican majority in the
Legislature or they are wasting time, plac-
ing vexatious and unnecessary obstacles in
the way of completing the canvass, and
keeping the State in turmoil simply to graf
ify childish and sullen spite against their
political opponents. The people demand of
them that the question be settled at once,
and for further delay they will be held to
strict account.
Year: 1879

FROM the SANITARY Englnccr.J


1t is very true that the air inside of houses
should in high latitudes be heated in winter up
to 500 or 6Oo Fahrenheit in such apartments as
are occupied by women and children, or even
by men who are generally seated. This is warm
enough for any ones comfort or health, II, by
any other means, the body can be heated slight
ly by radiation from a fire in each occupied
ronro


1t may be suggested, why not put steam
radiator in each room to heat the inmates
without at the same time heating the air above
the desired limit? The reason is simply that
the, radiation from steam pipes surrounded by
air does not impart so much heat as is sup


posed Let man with cold feet try to toast
them before steam radiator without actual
contact and compare the effect with that OF
holding them before an open fire and he will
soon be convinced of this. The heat is i'm
parted by steam pipes to the surrounding air
yery rapidly, however, and heats the whole air
in the room in spite of us-not by radiation,
but by onduction-through actual contact
Its expansion when so heated makes it buoyant,
and it rises instantly, to be replaced by other
air thus keeping up constant circulation, TIL
ali the air within reach partakes of the heat.


If proper means were provided for introduc-
ing fresh air in every occupied room, heated in
winter to say 500 in sleening-rooms and 90 or
600 in rooms occupied in the daytime, with a
corresponding chance for the escape OF such


air after its contamination by passing through


our lungs. this air could be well heated by
steam: but this must be done in the basement,


where its proper regulation can be controlled
for each apartment. Steam pipes are better
heating surface than stoves and furnaces Tor
such duty, because they can by no means over
heat the air. as is often done by red-hot fur
naces and stoves. But for such additional heat
as is needed for radiation in each room 10 heat
us without heating the air, steam heated sur
faces will not answer the purpose. we want
something hotter to give the proper radiation,
and with limited surface to avoid oyerheat-
ing the air in contact with it..


For all those who can afford an open tire no
practically good substitute exists for this pur-
pose But as many-in fact, large part, per-
haps of our people--cannot with propriety al
ford the luxury, except in case OF sickness, the
| next best thing for them is a small open stove.
| In either case an ample draft is given, to IN


sure the carrying off of the eftete ar, aEd the
| slight vacuum thus created will ensure good
| supply of fresh air. either through the pipes
| which are provided to bring moderately heated
| air as above described, or in mild weather
| through such casual openings as may exist, and
| which, through the stimulus of the tre draft,
| become ten-fod more efficient than when not
so assisted In severe climates, this double sys-
tenn of heating is the best that has yet been de-
vised, the basement furnace or boiler serving
| to diffuse though the whole house an ample
| volume of moderately heated air, with small
| open fires or open stoves In the rooms that neeo
| such auxiliary.
Year: 1879




There are certain houses of which, unless
YOU are specially analytical, you cannot at first
sight explain the peculiar charm. Everything
in them seems TO be better than what their
neighbors have; and yet when you examine
closely you find no such decided material su-
periority as you had imagined, but, on the con-
trary, see that they are mounted pretty
much on the same scale as others. For all
that they seem to be much better. Examine
more closely still, and you will discover the
charm to lie in the beautiful harmony OF all
the parts-in the perfect fitness OF things.
The lady and mistress is one OF those whose
whole nature is Observation-Disclosures
moralists would have called hers well-bal-
anced mind; and she shows this perfect har
mony this faculty of nice adjustment, in all
that she does and is Take her dress-which
is always an indication with woman; by that
alone you can read something OF her nature
Whatever she is doing she is dressed In
style that is fittest for her work Sne does not
sweep about her morning duties in line silk
gown, nor make visits of ceremony with school
girl simplicity. When she goes to the seaside
she does not trail her satins and velvets over
the soaking sand, nor attempt the slippery
rocks in high-heeled boots, with soles about the
thickness of shaving; but when she goes to
fower-show she leaves her pretty prints and
fresh straw-hat, with the simple wreath OF wild
roses around it at home, and keeps her duck
shooters" for the muddy roads of the country.
If She is not rich she does not waste large
,oargin on small supertlulties, nor yet organize
har Establishment on a scale beyond what she
can comfortably keep up. She is not one of
those who to have footman, must needs
pinch the maids; and to give flashy and per
fectly unnecessary dinner party, makes the
family 90 short for three months to make up.
Again if she is wealthy she does not try to save
in small, insignificant matters, which, with all
her stint, will not come to five rounds by the
end of the year; as certain well-endowed cit
izenesses known to us will drive three miles
round to avoid fourpenny turnpike. anu VINO
object to loaf-sugar in the housekeePeI ii looi'
What she does she does in keeping all through.
If rich, she arranges for generosity in details
if poor, she provides for economy OF pian' In
Year: 1879

The communication of County Attorney
Rounds of Washington County to the Gov
ernor and Council demands reply, and the
body to which it addressed cannot refuse
to give him hearing without provoking
strong and well-sustained suspicious of it's
own fairness and the honesty of its inten-
tions.


1t is not to be lightly believed that the
Council is privy to surreptitious and prema-
ture opening of the returns. No man will
credit that until proof most positive of such
conduct on their part is brought forward
But Mr.. Rounds distinctly charges that op-
portanity has been given to officers of
Democratic towns to supply defects in the
returns; that these opportunities have been
taken advantage of; and that they could
only have been afforded by the collusion or
conniyance Of persons connected with the
State Government. These grave charges
he offers TO prove and he asks the Council
to give him hearing. That hearing they
cannot decently refuse. If they decline to
consider the charges made they put them
selves in the position of endeavoring to
screen persons connected with the State
Government who are accused of engaging in
conspiracy to defeat the expressed will of
the people and reverse the result the people
sought to reach. If they take that position
they must not wonder if fair-minded men
give ear to the charges of conspiracy that are
now heard all over the State, and incline to
the suspicion that the Council have strong
reasons for desiring to screen the conspira-
tors.