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Year: 1879

II. Simmons, of Westside, in this
county, writes AS follows to the Jack
son Republic about the little testers:


The farmers are crying out hard
times, light crop of wheat, say from 10
to Is bushels to the acre, quality poor
and oor price, from 80 to 43 cents per
bushel. There is but little wheat that
graded higher than NO. 3, and to reject
the brass kettle is what beats the farm
er. This year it put his wheat one
grade too low every time. This is done
by filling the little tester very lightly.
have tried this 1T the village of Adri-
an to my satisfaction. have tested it
when full and it weighed Sc pounds,
and have filled it light and it weighed


d9. want to know which of the two
is right. That makes at least 10 cents
per bushel difference with the farmer
and a clean profit to the Minneapolis
mills, as they buy all the wheat. A
loud call should be made to the Legis-
lature ut this session to enact a law
prohibiting this mode of testing. II
you crush the farmer you cripple the
merchant, his trade is light and the
merchant IS out Of employment,
Year: 1879

The Philadelphia doctors have called
the attention OF the police authorities
to the spectacle Of woman show"
now before the public il that city. BY
the terms of the match in which the
women are there engaged they must
make four thousand quarter miles in
four Thousand quarter hours. -Four
Thousand quarter hours run through
forty-mIe days and sixteen hours, and
for that extended period these women
can never get good sleep-since even
with the hest strategy on the part Of
their attendants they can never be off
the course for more than twenty min
utcs at any one time. The physicians
very properly suggest that the police
put stop to this cruel exhibition.
Year: 1879

An Immense stock Of clothing has
Just arrived, and is now open at 5l2
Market st. The stock is from large
wholesale clothing manufsetory in New
York that has failed, and the entire
stock will be sold at so per cent. less
than actual cost, as it is ordered that
the estate must positively be closed up
within the next two weeks. The goods
are all new and perfect, first quality,
and made up in the lAtes. style. S.e
advertisement in another col ..nn.
Year: 1879

Winter is the time for reading and
study also. No reason why farmer
shouldn't take time for intellectual
culture as well as anybody. 1t
freshens his mind for more active du
ties. No fear of being shook
farmer" If he don't read up, he'll
soon find himself falling behind the
times. Nor will it do to forget or
neglect the social duties altogether.
None of us can avoid them without
positive detrimentt o ourselves. Cul
tvate neighborIy feelings, therefore,
and something for the comfort and
happiness of others as well as your.
self.
Year: 1879

PLUM PUDDING.-t'ill cup halt
full Of brown sugar and the balance
with molasses. Mix with it the yoIks
OF three beaten eggs and cupruI OF
suet (loured and chopped) with IA
teaspoonlul Of salt, or use two. thirds
Of cup of butter instead of the
suet. Add cup of clear coffee
prepared as for drinking) with a
teaspoonsful Of soda dissolved in it,
Put a cupful of stoned raisins, an


other of zante currants, washed and
dried, some candied citron sliced
very thin and few almonds (blanch-
ed in boiling water, skinned.and cut
in two lengthwIse) into the sieve
over them throw three and half
cups of -four, teaspoonful Of ground
cinnamon and half as much ground
cloves; add little grated nutmeg,
and siIt the flour and spice from the
fruit into the batter; add the whites
Of the eggs beaten to a stiff frolh,
then the fruit; turn into cake pans
lined with buttered paper, and bake
Immediately, or steam Cor three hours
In pudding mold. However if it is
cooked, do not let it stand after put
ting into the pans as the fruit would
settle to the bottom. The quantity
of fruit may be varied according to
taste and candied orange peel or pre-


served fruits can be substituted for
n portion of the dried When done,
turn out the pudding on II hot dish
and stick blanched almonds over the
surface. Soak some Jumps Of loaf
sugar in alcoho! or brandy, place
them on the top and light just before
putting the pudding on the table.
Serve with foamng sauce. Beat
a cup of sugar with quarter Of
pound of butter until it is light and
creamy; add the well beaten yolk of
an egg, then the white cut to stiff
froth and beaten vigorously. Stir



in wine glass of wine, very gently,
or use water and flavoring instead.
Set the bowl over the tea. kettle un-
til the mixture is the thickness of
cream; on no account allow it to
boil or the sauce will be spoiled t
Year: 1879

more bitterly against Butler aud his crowd as the
weeks 20 on. and seem to realize with each passing
dav more fully what will happen 70 them next year


If Butler the State this year and therefore
n good many of them are likely nj the last moment
to go and vote for Long and say nothing about n.
the most effective method of showing their hos'i-
lty 10 Butler and the men whom his candidacy
brings 10 the 'front.'


The General himself neither talks nor acts as II
be expected 10 carry he day. Last year he un-
douhtedly believed that no was going 70 be elected
and that confidence seemingly did not leave hlin
until the returns came in. Bat this year he mani
tests nothing of his old buoyancy of spirit. AT
Ne.theld he said iOkncly In substance that he was
ready to run dozen years in succession If necessary
Al Gloucester he said seriously that II the state
could have fair vote, without bnlidozlng, he would
accept the decision Of the pcOple-caIlu{ God 20
witness that he believed he was beaten last year
because 50 many men did not dare vote rs they de-
slred OF course the result of the election In ono
and lOwa-and IN Ohio particuariy-tells
against him, as it undoubtedly carries great
continued improvement every hand in business
matters Is another heavy factor in Longs favor.
The Republic cans have had very good success with
their series of meetings In all parts OF the state
but even they are not able tn evoke any such de-
gree of enthusiasm as shown last year, men Tor
the most part being quite too busy TO give 50 much
attention tO politics as they did then. That the
General is again beaten do not III the least doubt,
provided those who are opposed To HIM can be got
% the polls
Year: 1879

phone. This means That it is not neces


sary to put the receiving tube to the ear,


but everybody in the room hears the mes


sage. The application of the photograph


principle, which will explain in my next,
actually magniiies the voice. rendering it


several times louder when delivered than


when received. That is. if the words. lit


is very rainy here,'' should be spoken to


the telephone in a faint whisper in New


Haven, they would be delivered in New


ork in a whisper SO loud that the mes
sage would be heard and distinctly under
stood in all parts of room.


The message il spoken to this new tele-
phone through rubber month-piece SIM
liar to that generally used. But it is deliv-
cred at the other end through device 4
little more complicated than the tube at
present in use in telephones. Let's see
how 1t looks: AT the terminus of the wire
there is no magnet, bat instead a little cyl
inder of chalk. about as large as spool Of
thread, turned on steel shaft by hand
When this is turned, the voice is heard
when it is still, no sound is audible. In
short, this spool of chalk performs the
Office of the magnet in the ordinary tele-
phone, of reconverting e!ectral waves into
sound-waves. Every message goes thro'
this revolving spool of chalk. being re-
ceived in the little pedestal beneath it, and
delivered to a little tongue of iron Of size
and shape of the wooden tootlpick of
commerce, which lies upon it and rubs
against its upper surface us it revolves.
One end of this tongue (or as Edison calls
it, needle J. is tree; the other terminates
in hollow sounding-c!iambcr about as
large as an orange. distant an inch or two.
This is all there is to il.


Then we had some specimens of what
The new telephone would do, and words
from distant part of the ground came in
A roar, and tie articulation was distinct all
over the spacious room where the expert
nents were held.
Year: 1879

Mark Twain has published the following
open letter to his countrymen of either OF
any party:


81 have pretty much made up my mind
to run for President. What the country
wants is candidate who cannot be in
jured by investigation of his past history,
so that the enemies Of the party will be
unable to rake up anything against him
that nobody ever heard of before. If you
know the worst about a candidate to begin
with, every attempt to spring things on
him will be checkmated. Now, l am go
ing to enter the field with an open record.
am going to own up in advance to all the
wickedness | have done, and il any Con-
gressional committee is disposed to prowl
around my biography, in the hope of dis
covering any dark and deadly deed that I
have secreted, why let it prowl.


ssIn the first place, admit that treed a
rheumatic grandfather Of mine in the win
Year: 1879

This school is the largest in the city,
or is said to be so and one of the best
conducted and most fourishing. 1t will
make an excursion to Creedmoor Park
on the steamer Thomas Clyde, on Thurs
day, starting at Z o'clock in the morning.
Creedmoor is one of the most delightful
places on the Delaware, and those who
wish to spend pleasant day, could not
chose better mode of doing so than by
giving their encouragement to the Sab
bath school cause by going with them to
Creedmoor. See advertisement.
Year: 1879

and wandered here" and gives a deleful ac-
count of our unchristian treatment of a
poor wanderer. If these lines should chance
to be read by that correspondent, who signs
his name '' Il -naeri-cus,e or any other Gus, be
it known to him or any such sympathizers
with this class of persons that get lost and
find their way here, ON the same business,
that they shall be furnished with the same
kind Of quarters. Whether the Indians
here are making advancement in other res
poets, or not, they do not propose to furnish
any more wives to men that call themselves
white, and ye. are too low down to get
wives among their own people.


Now, would like to tell you 4 great deal
more, but have already made this. article
too long but next time you visit the Bay,
just come up and see us, and we will show
you over the re ervation, and then you can
Iudge for yourself. We cordially invite all
candid persons, that desire to know how
things are managed here, to come and see
for themselves This is the way to get at
the truth. Those persons who are writing
against the Agency and representing it as a
failure, as rule, will lie found to be either
employees that have been discharged for
cause, or persons aspiring to places here and
have failed to get them. Yours truly.


- JOHN BOSWELL, Agency Physician.
December 26. 1873.
Year: 1879

Evils AMONG Young MEN.-Of all the
evils prevalent among young men, we know
of none more blighting in its moral effects
than to speak lightly of the virtues of a
woman Now is there anything in which
young men are so thoroughly mistaken as
the low estimate they form as to the integ-
rity of women. Not of their own mothers
and sisters, but of others, who, they forget,
are somebody else's mothers and sisters.
As rule, no person who surrenders to this
debasing habit is to be trrsted with an en-
terprise requiring integrity of character.
Plain words should be spoken on this sub
iect, for the evil is a general one and deep
rooted If young men are sometimes thrown
into society of thoughtless or depraved wo-
men, they have no more right to measure
all other women by what they see of these,
than they have to estimate the character OF
honest and respectable citizens by the de-
velopments of crime in our police courts
Let our young men remember that their
chief happiness in life depends upon utter
faith in women No worldly wisdom, no
misanthropic philosophy, no generalization,
can cover or weaken truth. 1t stands like
the record of itself-for it is nothing less
than this-and should put an everlasting
seal upon lips that are wont to speak slight
ly of women.
Year: 1879

GOLDEN MOMENTS. How sorry one would
be for a man who, starting out upon a jour
ney, had his pockets full of golden coin
which, one by one, had slipped through
some unmended hole or rent, SO that when
he came to the end of his trip he had No one
left, but lay down upon his bed a beggar@
How strictly we would look to our own
pockets after hearing the tale, and make
very sure that what coin we have should be
well spent. or boarded carefully, and not
scattered in the roadside dust Yet we start
out upon our lives, each one OF us with a
store of golden moments of which we keep
little account. Rapidly they slip away
through the rents of sloth or ignorance.
Many one, rich In al the golden moments
of seventy years, lies down at last scarcely
able to remember how he has frittered and
scattered them; knowing only that he has
no nibre-that all are gone, and that he cam
not say that he has purchased anything OF
use to himself or another with what might
have bought SO much.
Year: 1879

STARTING IN THE WoRLD.-Many an un-
wise parent labors hard and lives sparingly
all his life for the purpose of leaving enough
to give his children start in the world, as
it is called. Setting a young man afoat
with money left him by his relatives is like
tying bladders under the arms of one who
cannot swim !; ten chances to one he will
lose his bladders and go to the bottom.
Teach him to swim, and he will never need
the bladders Give your child sound ed
ucation, and you have done enough for him.
See to it that his morals are pure, his mind
cultivated, and his whole nature subservient
to the laws which govern man, and you
have given what will be of more value to
him than the wealth of the Indies.
Year: 1879

IF it rests between new hat and another
dog. get the dog and make the old hat hold
over. Economy is wealth.


A MAN may have weaknesses Of character
and vet be great; but no man can be great
who has any ittleness of mind.


How to keep bread from molding-Give
it to the poor.
Year: 1879

Some weeks ago THE ARGUS named
General Johu Farnsworth as a strong man
for the Democratic Illinois gubernatorial
nomination, and since then his name
has been endorsed all over the state.
There is not better man anywhere than
General Farnsworth, nor one who would
make more creditable race.
Year: 1879

Nothing is so unpleasant, nothing so common az
bad breath and in nearly every case it comes from
the stomach, and can be so easily corrected If you
VIII take SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR. Do not
neglect SO sure remedy for this repulsve disor-
DER VIII also improve your appetite, Complex
Year: 1879

Have | not waited years? % he said
" All my time abroad was waiting, and
then came back aud found my Madge
more than ever had dared To hope


But Madge, in her new freedom, did
not forget poor Jack. Indeed, she was
almost in trouble about her unkindness
TO him when she heard that he had been
only playing a part, bearing all her
teasing, and being purposely unCraCious
whenever she grew kind. But Gertrude
consOled her eflectually on that score by
telling another secret after her kiss of
congratulation


Jack was, indeed, doing his best to
carry out the plan, she said; aud he
was often grieved about you; but, dear
Madge, you must congratulate us now
not me, but US. Jack and | made it up
between us months ago, and we had
many quiet laugh about you.


80 Madge herself accepted the ring,
and wore her golden fetters by her own
free will after all; nor was there ever "A
happier or more willing captive. As
for titzallau, if he was not another
Arthur, "A the girls fancy had
prompted her To call him, he was
" blameless" as the Prince of the
ldyls," and far more blest; and if he
r0igned over no realm, he was at least
king of one brave and tender heart-a
Kingdom wide enough TO satisfy his de-
sires, and prize which time proved TO
be we'll worth his years Of waiting.
Year: 1879

Nothing can be better than a copper
toakettle. 1t is a lovely thing, porched
on a couple of legs, as il were, with a
little lamp beneath il wherewith 20 heat
its contents and porcelain handle
above IL wherewith TO lift il, and "A
curved nozzle through which the water
can run in a gentle stream into the cups
and glasses placed to receive il.


You may not be aware Il said 60 my
wife) that | have already Christcned
this bronze kettlc2 After the house
was quiet last night | thought il would
be good plan to start il OIL ON its Jour
ney. Ii commenced series of Misses
and grumblings and groaus, and lifting
its cover, as if il desired to let its con-
tents out upon the world. 1t is good
kettle, said TO myself, and its bronze
ana rounded shape reminds me Of the
dusky bosom of an Ethiop's bride.
How the water boiled up violently,
as If II did not like the comparison
had made.


went on stirring and slipping, sip
ping and stirring, watching the delicate
steam come curling forth, until, Just as
| was getting drowsy, out popped the
loudest of cuCkoos announcing twelve
o'clock; and after that the clock and
kettle got mixed together. 1t appeared
10 me that every few minutes the clock
would send out its cuckoo TO see how the
kettle was getting on; and the kettle
in turn would allow little Whit of
steam TO fly up toward the clock in n
most friendly fashion.


Soon they got to he very intimate, 40
that to save me | could not tell which
was the clock and which was the kettle.
Finally | took the clock down and put
it in the pantry, where you keep the
kettle, and hung up the kettle where
the clock had been and the moon went
out and | went 70 bod.
Year: 1879

Never in her life before mad Madpe
been 20 serious or so troubled as she was
now, in the soft light among the coof
plants, within sound Of the half-hushed
music.


Will you do me a favor" she in
quired, raising the gray eyes that
shone for moment with liquid bright
ness.


-" You have only to name it am at
your service"


Ills manner, unrOmantic to studied
degree, made her feel all the more safe
in taking heart TO speak, while she gave
him at the same time in generous meas
ure that most precious Offering to which
every Doble-hearted man entities him
selt-a wOman's respect


1 have seemed very happy tonight,
Mr. Fitzallan," she began ia a quiet.
low tone, the torn leaf trembling i'm her
face, but am IN great trouble"


Indeed / am sorry to hear It,"
lie drew little nearer, listening at.
tentvely, and helping her now and
again by n word Of encouragement.


Her story was a simple one. She was
TO be married next month to her cousin.
Mr. Hawkesbury. She had dreaded IL
all her life, but it was her fate. And
then, taking courage from the respectful
and almost paternal demeanor of the
listener, she made the frank confession
that she disliked her cousin lust because
she was forced to marry him and to
this she added such q child-like entreatv
not to be thought too bad, that IL must
have required more than ordinary self
control for Fitzallan not 10 say some
thing that would have allowed the scene
TO become a tender one; but this he
seemed determined 20 avoid, and so iu
her simple way was the s1dly-perplcxcd
girl who was pouring out her hearts
trouble to him.


viii you speak for me To- Mr..
Selwyn, she said as you are an OLD
friend Of his? j cannot reason as men
do, but ] want you 10 try If there Is any
way OF trelease for me. Pray forgive me
If am wrong i'm asking your interfer-
ence, but ] am very wretchcd here
came burst OF tears that must have
tired the listener sOrcly-" and I myself
have so often spoken spoken to Mr..
Selwyn, and IL is Of no use. lie always
says my fathers will must be carried
OUT o. how ! wish could do It,"
Year: 1879

Mr. Gladstone, in an address on "Br


Hook" recently gave his idea of hero
lie holds that a hero il n man who must
have ends beyond himself, in casting
himself, as il were, out Of himself, and
must pursue these ends by means which
are honorable and lawful, otherwise
he might degenerate into wild enthu-
siasm. Ho must do this without distor-
tiOn or disturbance OF his nature az n
man, because there were cases Of men
who were heroes in a great part, but who
were1o excessively given TO certain ideas
and objects of their own that they lost
al the proportion Of their nature. A
man TO be hero must pursue ends be-
yond himself by legitimate means. He
must pursue them as man, not as n
dreamer. He must not give 20 some
one idea disproportiOnate weight which
IL did not deserve, and forget every
thing else which belonged to the perfec-
tiOn and excellence of human nature.
If he did all this he was a hero, even If
he had not very great powers, and If he
had great powers, then he was con
summate hero. A greater hero than
Napoleon was the captain Of n ship
three or four years ago, who, when his
ship was quiverinR and the water gurg-
ling round her, and the boats had been
lowered to savG such persons AZ could
be saved, stood by the bulwarks with n
pistol in his hand and threatened 10
shoot dead the first man who endeav-
ored TO get into the boat until every
woman and child was provided for.
Year: 1879

No one denies that it is wise to
make aprovision for..old age, but We
are not ali agreed as to the kind Of
provision it is best to lay i'll. Ger
tainly We shall want n little money.
for destitute old man is indeed
sorry sight. Yes, save money, by
all means. But M old man needs
just that particular kind of
strength which young men are
most apt to waste. Many r fool
ish Young fellow will throw away
on 4 holiday n certain amount Of
nervous energy which he will never
feel the want Of till he is seventy;
and then how much he will want
it! 1t is curious, but true, that Il
bottle Of champagnc'at twcnty,may
intensity the humatism at three
score. 1t is afact that overtasking
the eyes at fourteen, may ncccssi-
tate the aid of spectaclcs at forty


instead OF eighty. Wo advise our
young readers to bc saving of health
for their Old ago, for the maxim
Year: 1879

A young man never feels so
much at 4 loss to know what to do,
as when he takes his girl to n pic
mic, q big ant crawIs down her
back and brgins to bite her just
above the belt and she begins to
scream for hcIp.-NilileiOwn Tran
"siP
Year: 1879

We call the attention of the signal
service to the fact that a plumber was
nominated for sheriff yesterday by the
republicans of this city, and that anoth-
Ell plumber was nominated for county
clerk. These are signals of an open
winter.-[N. Y. World.
Year: 1879

GREEN VALLEY, Sept. 8, 1872

 Writing from camp in the mount aims with my saddle for desk. I have but little further to communi- cate regarding the Porter & Birch mine upon which work has been temporarily suspended awaiting the arrival of supplies and tools from Phoenix. The Way Up mine owned by Lafayette Nash of Phoenix is the coming big bonanza. Opening at four inches it now shows width of eight inches and if anything better ore than at first. Mir. Nash has opened the ledge in four places all of which show ore chuek full of free gold. He is now opening cut pre- paratory to running a drift to tap the ledge at about forty feet from the sur face. New discoveries are being made daily, new people are coming in and the district shows up big with every indication of hilarious prosper. ity in the near future. Two and a half miles west of here are the House 6 Rouse silver mines from which they have extracted about 150 tons of very rich ore and the work of extrac- ton is going on at the rate of about 8 tons daily. Work that had been temporarily suspended on this group of mines has been resumed in aRtici- patton of having the ore worked at the Mazatzal Co.'S mill upon the ad- vent of the rainy season. Messrs. House & Rouse have a very excel lent property in their various loca- tions aggregating about twenty in all, and all carrying about the same character of ore. They have lately commenced an incline upon the North Sucker which is down about thirty feet and from both sides of %hich they are stoping out ore at four man power. Havs no late news from the Delshay mines. The Mag atzal Co. have suspended work on their group of mines until the rainy season commences. Rumor says that Chas. M Clark will soon place r stock of merchandise in this District which district is bound to be the

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