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Year: 1879

Bring up IL child in the way he should
go, and when he is old he cannot re-
prOach you for the manner of his bring
ing up. When night comes all good
animals go to their rcpOse; none but
sly and ferOcious beasts are now skulk-
ing round. No bird of good character
is abroad. The plants draw their
leaves closer together and sleep. The
miasmas and gases that we've raretied
and lifted by the suns heat now con-
dense and sink with the mists and dews
of evening. The night air is consider
ed unhealthy. ''Our family are never
troubled with bilious" said a lady,
'.and | believe it is because we never
sit out doors at night" A child is
hardly out of his mothers lap before he
is treated as an adult. Into his stOm-
ach is allowed to go all the food, and
drink, too, we may add, that the adult
stomach often rebels against, by be-
coming dyspeptic and feeble, and he is
suffered to contract the habit of being
up late, being supposed to be tough
enough to endure the exercise and ex-
citement of a day heightened out by
adding to it part of the night. The
night is never too long at any time of
the year for the sleep of healthy child,
nor the day too short to afford him ali
the play and exercise he needs.


Our streets during the warm months
swarm ut night with children of all
ages. They may be found roaming
about until ten and even much later.
Some children are permitted to be out
night after night for weeks and months
| together. Such children cannot grow
rs fast as children who get their sleep
at the proper time. The effects of late
hours may be seen to their .jaded and
old looks. They become cross, tidgety,
nervous: They do not sleep the sweet
sleep of childhood. They either drop
into leaden slumbers, from which they
must be reused lest they be late to
school, or else, like waves after storm,
that beat the shore long time before
they become calm, they toss and wake
again and again from fitful and unre-
freshing slumbers. Much of the dull
ness and much of the excitability and
restlessness at school is due to this
cause. There is less power in the sys-
tenn of child fed with improper food
and allowed to lengthen out day OF
play and excitement by adding to it a
part OF the night, to resist taking the
contagious and other diseases of child
hood, or to struggle with them when
taken. No one need wonder why the
mortality among children is so great


But the case is worse with the Older
children. The proverb says that ''all
the sleep one gets before midnight il
beauty Sleep" We will say nothing OF
the faded complexion, the nervous


tidgety ways, dullness, and inaptnes.
for work or study, and for amusement
Year: 1879

too, we may add, of the boys and girls
in the habit of being up late it is the
moral risk they run of which we would
speak. 1t is useless to say that the
company into which they go is select.
Judas was among the twelve, and when
the sons of God met together Satan
was there also to tempt. But nothing
is more common than for parents to
allow their children to be out late
without knowing who their associates
may be. Young and immature in judg-
ment, and easily deceived in the char
acter of their companions. they are
suffered by thoughtless parents to go
forth at night unguarded and free.


Nine-tenths of all the dissipation and
crime takes place at night. During the
day decency walks abroad and order
and labor. The evil have skulked to
their lairs; or if they go abroad they
put on the air and seeming of better
men. When night falls the gates of
hell are unfastened, and from them
come forth all "shames and crimes"
Then wickedness holds high carnival.
Then the evil creatures who inhabit
the great ocean of iniquity disport
themselves then they devour their
prey and lie in wait for more. Around
the borders of this great sea, whose
tides are ever ebbing, with the rising
and flowing with the setting sun, how
many youth of both sexes gather at
night unprotected =? How many GO
down in it never to be rescued | have
been led to these reflections by learn
ing that number of boys had been in
the habit of frequenting "A low den al
night, and that it is not uncommon fol
girls, some of them not more thai
twelve, to be brought to headquarters
late at night by policemen. Wher
questioned they often say they ART
permitted by their parents to be ou
at night, and that they had been treat
ed to refreshments and wine. Fool
hardy and giddy, they become NOR,
reckless under the influence of stimu
lants. We may have the charity t.
suppose that, young and ignorant, the,
do not realize into how deep a slougI
of iniquity they venture. Those tha
ply them with wine know what the,
are about. 1t is an old trick of theirs
But there is neither time nor space t.
relate all the temptations that beset tn
young ut night. We teach ouI chldre
to pray, "Lead us not into temptation /;
why then suffer them to be led int
temptation by the wicked, who seeI
their prey 10y nightP
Year: 1879

Have you been brought up right p
He slid for the rear platform, and in
grasping for his flying coat tails she up
set her basket and two quarts of cher
ries rolled over the floor of the Car.


Il don't care one cent-let 'em go,
she remarked as she tried to scrape the
pile under the seat with her foot.


when any one sticks up their nose
at me two quarts of cherries arn't moth
ing to my feelings.n
Year: 1879

W Raw egg is a restorative to
strength. Break fresh egg in tum-
bier, mix with little sugar, beat to a
strong froth, and add very little ice
water if liked, or it may be taken with
out this addition.
Year: 1879

B Lettuce is a sedative, and excel
lent as food for persons who are of a
nervous temperament. Taken late in
the day or evening, it promotes sleep
by allaying nervousness. 1t contains a
little of the opium principle of the
poppy.
Year: 1879

LONDON, April The cor
respondent of the Times at Rome
saws: ''Now that the wild rumors as
to the object of Garibaldi's visit to
Rome have proved groundless, it is
asserted that he has come to die In
the city to attain which for Italy
all his strivings were directed. His
friends distinctly assert that politics
are wholly unconnected with his
coming here He found that his
health was not improving at Capeva,
and thought the mineral springs near
Civita Viechia might benefit his
gout. Garribaldi in replying to the
syndic who visited him on his arri-
val, said he did not himself know
the reason of his visit. A more
pathetic scene than that on Garri~
baldi's arrival at the railway station
has seldom been beheld. Shouts
were raised as the train entered the
station, but they were speedily
silenced by the circulation of re-
port that the General was i'll.
He was carried from the train
on a mattress on a large litter.
He lay extended and motionless,
with his eyes covered and red
handkerchief bound around his head.
1t looked as though a corpse was
being carried in state. 1t was found
impossible to move him from the lit
ter, which was placed in an open
carriage, which was driven, accom-
panied by the mournfully silent
crowd, to the house of his son, Men
otti Garibaldi. 1t was so impossi
BILE to move the General that a
fCivita Viechia the side Of the rail,
way saloon had to be cut to admit
the litter.


A dispatch from Rome to the
daily News says: +" Garibaldi slep
| we'll last night, and his physical


thinks he will leave his bed within


week
Year: 1879

no offense punishable in the said
District Court, and that the
finding of. the Indictment, and the
consequent arrest and imprisonment


of the said j.. D.. Coles, are unwar-
ranted by the Constitution of the
United States, or any law made IN
pursuance thereof, and are not only
in violation of the rights of the pris7
oner but are in violation also of the
sovereign rights of the Statelof Vir-
ginia, whose judicial officer he is,
and to whom alone he can be held
accountable for his acts or omis-
sions as such officer. The petition
closes with the declaration that it is


proper and necessary that the said J..
d. Coles be discharged from the iile-
gal custody in which he is now held
for trial, and left free to perform his
duties without interference on the


part of the United States, or any
one acting under its authority. The
petition Of Judge Coles sets forth
the same, and prays that the
records of the proceedings of the
District Court be brought here by
certiorari, and a writ of hobeas
corpus be issued to the Marshal, in


order that. he and the reasons for
his arrest and detention may be


brought before this court. s.- ~
Year: 1879

THE editor Of the Tribune is very
smart man. He fixes up, in his own
mind, the sort of an editorial that
should appear in the CHRONICLE, then
goes to work to demolish the points of
the should hIUe been article. If the
editor of the Tribune should like to get
the better of Us, for the first time, let
him write something for US in which
the points are entirely untenable, and
we will publish it so that when he
pens his reply it will appear as If VIC
tory has crowned his effort. We hate
to see a man who is aLtOdy8 being
whipped.
Year: 1879

LET him take a dose OF bromide
and c nsole himself with the Ttf1ec-
ton that the postoffices of the country
will not be affected by the revolution
for I early two years yet.'-Tri6uae.


Itis often said that the important
point of a lady's letter is always found
in the postscript. The editor of the
Tribune has evidently followed this
feminine example, and the point OF
his exceedingly powerful editorial,
which has caused the CHRONICLE to
"hee to the mountains" aud to be
seen only in sack cloth and ashes, F"
is found in the very last sentence OF
the tremendous article. Poor fellow
Year: 1879

safi aeffetls ffsefrai dSSdestis4
aaf'AssE b !slfbjecs Mi1ic naKab sSE staEs
foiYi yssstzsd ,ApaH tise iaREae ssf sbe EssteEs
states. As long as there IS a large per cent
age of such animals of an inferior quality, SD
long will it be in order to keep yiIis subject
prominently before the people. Line upon
line and precept / ~on precept are needed TO
arouse the farming tarest to its importance.
1t can be laid down as primary principle
that the best is the cheapest, and following
this, it is certain that man may just as we'll
have good stock as that of poor quality. The
land that will keep ten Or fifteen poor animals
will maintain an equal number of good ones
No more labor is required to care for the one
than the other, if either one is cared for as it
! should be, and the annual profit is largely
greater from the sale of the better than the
poorer animals. The former mature earlier,
weigh more, and give larger amount of
prime meat than the latter, while its quality
is vastly higher. These things, when it comes
to sending beast to market, tell their own
! story; and the farmer thus finds that good
stock bring more plethoric pocketbooks and
fatter bank accounts.


The truth is, poor stock is not worth rails
ing 1t is dead loss to keep an animal of
poor quality on the farm when it can be re-
placed with good one, and the sum of this
loss is represented by the difference in price





as we have indicated. -


The valuable points and characteristics of
! improved stock have been obtained by years
of care, labor, and management calculated to
secure such results. Persistent efforts in
selectingthe best and fixing desired characters
have given us breeds of cattle, sheep, and
swine which realize to their owners vastly
more money than common, native, or mongrel
sorts will bring. -.Tl


In the case Of cattle an improved animal
natures about two years before scrub ofthe
same age does under the same treatment
The superiority of the former consists, in the
first place, of its power or propensity to
assimllate and convert food into growth and
beef, sooner than the other can; and when
mature it gives from one-third to one-halt'
more meat. and of a quality which brings
higher price in the market The same thing
holds good, in degree IN sheep or swine. The
digestive oagans of improved animals are
superior to those Of common stock the whole
animal organism is better adapted for quick
and healthy action, the food is more easily
digested and larger portion of it's nutritious
propertits is utilized. From every point of
view from which the subject IS examined the
benefits resulting from keeping good stock are
apparent. The best is the cheapest.
Year: 1879

from Ihe NGU- \ fITdDbic.
IHE REPUBLIC-Ihis Is the House that sam buiIt
HE PRESIpENcY-l his is the Malt that lay in the
- House that Sam built.


1ILDEN-IhIs Is the Rat that smelt the Malt that
lay III the House mat Sam built
The BALLOT-ThIs is the Cat taat scratched tbs
Rat that wanted the Malt that lay in the House
that Sam built.


THE BCLLDOzEE-This is the Dog that worried the
Cat that chased the Rat that smelt the Malt that
- lay in the House that sam built
THE RETURNING BOARD-This is the Cow with the
crumpled horn that gored the Dog till his breath
was CORN that snapped at the Car that hunted
House that Sam built.


MANToN MARBLF-Ihs Is the Maiden all forIorn
that mlked the moody Cow I'm a hornl that
kicked the Dog one dewy morn that teased the
Cat that scratched the Rat that smelt the Malt
that lay III tie House that Sam built
NENY PELTON-Ihls Is the man all tattered and
torn that kissed the Maiden all forlorn that
tried to milk the moody Cow that kicked the
DOG and raised row that bulhed the Cat that
followed the Rat that wanted the Malt that Law
in the House that Sam built


IHE 1EIEGRAPH-lhIs Is the Priest all shattered
and ShOrn that tried To marry the Man fOrIoru
to the milking MAID all tattered and torn and
them With bari o money endOw when she was
upset by the mOOly Cow that hourIshed a Ighf
and timber head that kicked the Dog till he
ceased to feel that bit the Cat that chased the
Rat that went for the Malt that lay in the House
that Sam built.


The CIPHER DISPAICH-This is the marriage certIf
cate that bound Ill the beautiful bonds of fate
the milking Maid all tattered and torn and the
wealthy Neyy shattered and SnOrn and the
whole cOpaTceneT cabOOdle that fooled with the
Cow that kicked the Poodle that bit no more the
wOTreted Cat that made it warm for the pIllagin0
Rat that saId lit shan't be none of nv fault if I
don't eat that nOurIShIng Malt that lies in the
House that Sam built"


The GRIBUNE-Ihis is the bold and impudent Boy
that TOaIed with CLEO and glgged with ioy
when he found The complicated key that opened
the halls of GTamOrcee 10 90 the bright sunlight
of pubiicItee,' who, when he found that his
guess was right rang all the " iTebells in the
night" and shouted under his tIcked Tisible
traces of money darkly visible and told Of
the strong financial desire that crossed thou
sand miles of wire and the lovers who met a
terrible fate that left them at last in "a single
state" with the cTumpled Cow with the friSky
heel that kicked the Dog that worried the Cat
that chased the Rat that missed the Malt that
lay i'll the House that sam built. WAC.
Year: 1879

The opinion so generally prevails that
farming in the South is no longer profit
able, because the white man does not care
for farm work, and the black man does
not know how to do it, that few believe
any statements that appear once in a
while, that some few have made some
money out of it: But the Virginia Agricus-
tural Society's Monthly Joas1nal is willing
to testify to one case of profit. It says :
"a gentleman from Charlotte county,:
whose name, were we to give it, would be
ample guaranty for the truth Of any state
ment he makes, called in at the AgricM-
twraz Office not long since and gave us a
most cheering account of his successful
farming since the war. He told US that
he had employed now the negro hands
who had been continuously with him
since the emancipation, and although he
kept no overseer and did not give to his
farming operations the close personal at
tention he bestowed in his younger days,
yet his crops were as we'll cultivated, his
stock as we'll cared for as formerly, and
that he had made money year by year
Notwithstanding the low prices of farm
products. Amongst other things he spoke
Of corn crops from eight to ten barrels,
wheat from fifteen to twenty three bush


els. and last year yield Of 200 pounds
of tobacco to the acre. Upon inquiry we
ascertained that he paid out about eighty
dollars per annum for fertilizers, and
spent thirty-four dollars per pear in news
papers. This looks as if brains were as
good fertilizer as either blood or bone y
Year: 1879

A clergyman was sent for to visit a girl
who was seriously i'll. The illness proved
fatal, and the mother was left bereaved of
her child as we'll as husband. A few days
after the child's funeral the widow called
and requested to see the Clergyman. She
put into his hand small packet, which
she beggedoheswould give to some society
which was sending the Gospel to the
heather world. He opened the parcel,
and to his amazement counted out twenty
dollars He at once demonstrated with
the widow; told her that, gaining her
prearcious living as a laundress, she surely
ought not to give so large sum. With
firmncss she urged him 70 take it, and
then said, "How came to have this large
sum is just this When my child was
born thought, She'll live to get married
some Of these days. and thought would
put by a little sum to be 4 store for her
then, and began that day with sixpence.
You know what happened, last week.
Well, I thought, The Heavenly Bride
groom has come, and he has called her
home to. His bride; and, as He has taken
the bride, it is only right that He should
have the dOWrv.'" ="
Year: 1879

Too MUcH OF A COOP THING.-In discussing
the Republican Presidential candidates, the pa
pers usually wind up Sherman with the state
ment that his prospects would be good, were it
not that Senator Conkling dislikes him, and his
influence would lose him the vote of New York,
which is necessary to Republican success. 1t is
just as common to read that Blaine would cer-
tainly be the coming man, were it not that
Conkling is his enemy, which would lose him
New York. Now, Senator Conkling may be a
grand man, and an eloquent man, and man for
the Republican party to be proud of; but it is
quite possible that he may become too delicate
a pet on the hads of the party. If he absolutely
controls the vote Of New York, and hates every
prominent: Republican but conkling, he is decid-
edly too much of good thing.
Year: 1879

" A temperance lecturer in Color ado was
killed by lightning, q few days ago. Who says
there is no longer any good in the worldf There
is still hope in the direction of peddlers and
agents,
Year: 1879

MR. EDITOR: There is a great deal said about hard times here. The ques- ton is, What causes the hard times?

 In my opinion the people of the State cause them. There is no State in the Union so rich in materials for the crea- tion of wealth as Arkansas. The trouble is, there is none of the material utilized here. The papers are full of invitations asking people to come to this State to settle. What indueement is there for them to come-for a me chanic to come--as long as everything has to be imported here from the north and east. It could scarcely be expect ed of mechanic to come here and go into the pineries to maui rails, or a tailor to go into the cotton field to pick cotton. Just as long as every dollar Is sent out of the State for that which can be made here, the State will be poor. We must work our own mate rial and keep our money at home.

 Yours &c., K. J.
Year: 1879



 We want to know what has become of Uncle Jesse, that used to write from Norristown; if he is living there yet tell him we would like to hear from him.

 We hardly know what to say about our wheat; there is some rust, and as general thing it will be short, both straw and head. Corn and cotton looks fine; some cotton worked over.

 Fruit will be scarce; the young ap- pies have pretty much fallen of.

 There is lots of new land fenced q won't say cleared) and in cultivation this yosr. It does look like there is more timber standing in Billy Henry's newground than there is outside in the woods.

 Medley MoElwoe has nice new dwelling house. Some of the young widows might do we'll to get him.

 It looks like Mir. Potts will soon have town on his land in our neighborhood built by his renters.

 We have some as nice young men and young ladies as can be found anywhere, and I think less swearing and drunk enness than any other neighborhood know of.

 Our health good money scarce; plen- ty of hard work, but all in good humor. FiFTY-SIx.
Year: 1879

the upland or ridges covered with mxurfant grass, and for sale at $1.25 per acre, and the wild bottom lands equal to Ark. river bottom, covered with fine cane, in which stock can live all winter without other food, and for sale at from $2.50 to $5.00 per acre. When we got onto Red River we found as fine lands as the world affords, which can be bought cheap, but it is so siclSly that noth- ing but negroes, dogs and musqui- toes live there, and even the first two are scarce. But but for most mayelously cheap lands, this county beats them all, for we have so far travelled over some much better up lands than the average upland of Pope County, where there are thous- ands and thousands of acres of good lands for sale at from soc to $1.25 per acre, with from three to ten years to pay for it in. And if any are in want of WILD country where game is plenty, this is it, no need of going to Western Texas for THAT for this country is but little less than wild bowling wilderness, with settlement of from two to five families every eight or ten miles, with herds of deer and abundance of turkeys feed ing over the wilds between.

 Don't think that am getting the Texas fever. for 1 am not; must have SOME of the things which socle ty affords; thing which IS unknown here. But to one not particular on that point, and in search of a new and wild country, l can safely rec ommend Bowie county, Texas.

 All we'll and hearty.

 DREW,
Year: 1879

Editor DEMOCRAT: believe when last wrote our prairie steamer was anchored at Mt. Ida, in the State of Ark, we arc now cooking our break fast with water that looks like lye, which comes from what is called a chalybeate spring, in Bowie county, in that State of which it has been said that there is more preaching and less religion, more cows and less milk and butter, than anywhere else on Gods green earth.

 Since my last we have passed through various kinds of lands. But when we got into Sevier and Little River counties we found some as fine lands as I ever expect to sec in Tex

 as, lands, which for agricultural or stock raising purposes, arc good enough to please the eyes of ! Noses
Year: 1879

Many pale-face individuals who re- side near these swamps and chill breed- ing cess-pools of malaria are known to be sufferers from chills by their very appearance. They have used quinine and other chill medicine until it seems a mockery. They soon become chronic and are then almost impossible to cure. Such cases are easily and immediately cured by the use of Days Ague Tonic, the most powerful antiperiodic and blood cleanser now before the public. It acts directly upon the secretions.
Year: 1879

lived, has lift my bed aAdsisoard with out justifiable cause. l used Q Cd0all l could to make him pretty Comfortable, and in spite of all my wishes he would cut up like the devil and run after the women. Now, l want all the women to notice this act of mine. l won't pay darned cent of his debts, and hope no one will return him to me, Cos l don't want him. Maria Barney Big Medowsp