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Year: 1879

A gentleman recently about to pay
his DOCTORS bill said "Well, docter, as
my little boy gave the measles to all my
neighbors' children, and as they were
attended by you, think you can afford,
at the very least, to deduct ten per CEN
tum from the amount of my bill for the
increase of business we gave you."
Year: 1879

AN AsTONISHED EDITOR.-An ex-
change says;-We find upon our table
one Of the newest pictures. It is beau
tiful in design, small, but showing great
artistic skill in its make up. The pre-
vailing colors are green and black, the
two blending so harmoniously that the
effect is pleasing in the highest degree.
We shall not, of course, presume to give
ap exact description of this picture, bat
some of the characters look so noble, so
striking, that we cannot refrain from
describing them. The head.center, or
rather the hero Of tho picture, holds in
his left hand q banner, in his right hand
a sword his hat is thrown on the
ground; his head is thrown back: bis
left foot extended, ard taken altogether.
his appearance is that of one ehslleng-
ing another to mortal combat, waiting
for the other fellow to knock off the
chip. His eyes are east upward, resting
on the word A. Hello! what's this
Great snakes! if it isn't SIS bill! We
took it for some new kind of a Christ
mas chrome that had come in the mail.
But we see how it is-either our devil
has been robbing a bank, or some de-
linqusnt subscriber has been conscience
stricken.
Year: 1879

APPLE BLOSSOMS.
The orchard grass is sunshine barred,
And starry white upon the sward


The pretty daisies lie;
rest beneath a messy tree,
And through its waving branches see
The sapphire of the sky.
I feel the balmy breeze of May
Soft blowing down the grassy way,
And in the boughs above
The little birds break into song,
And praise in thrilling strains and strong.
Springs halycon days of love.
The apple blossoms fall around,
And ieck the daisy-checkered ground
AS breezes softly blow;
stretch lazy hand aloft,
And grasp cluster silken soft.


Like rosy tin ed snow.
look at every tender leaf
And marvel why life SO brief


TO such sweet things is given;
Why not for them a longer space
To blossom gayly in their place,
Beneath the summer heaven.
Why not for them longer time
To feel the sun at morning prime,
To see the moon at night?
To quiver by soft breezes stirred;
To listen when Gods morning bird
Sings heavenward his delight.
All me, my heart! it must be so,
The blossom drops that fruit may grow,
The sweetest of the flower
Dies early on the vernal breeze,
That autumn time may bless the trees
With gold and crimson dover.
All me, my heart SO must thou see
The f1owery hopes that gladen thee
In this, thy morning prime,
Fade in the fair place where they grow,
Drop round thee swiftly like the snow
Of apple-blossom time.
But If they leave thee good and true,
And pure as when they blossomed new,
Then gladly let them go;
Where now these fairy blossoms be-
In Gods good time thine eyes shall see
Thy life's fairest harvest glow!


-Authe Year Round.


THE GIRL FOR ME.
Just fair enough to be pretty,
Just gentle enough to be sweet,
just saucy enough to be witty,
Just dainty enough to be neat.
Just tall enough to be graceful,
Just slight enough for fay,
Just dressy enough to be tasteful,
just merry enough to be gay.
Just tears enough to be tender,
Just signs enough to be sad,
Just soft enough to remember,
Your heart through the cadence made glad.
Just meek enough to be submissive,
Just bold enough to be brave,
Just pride enough for ambition,
Just thoughtful enough to be grave.
A tongue that can talk without harming,
Just mischief enough to tease.
Manners pleasant enough to be charming.
That put you at once at your ease.
Generous enough and kind hearted,
Pure as the angels above;
Oh, from her may never be parted,
For such is the maiden love,
Year: 1879

On A CRYING RARY.-Shliek away
Cry on! Make all the noise you can
I've no doubt it does you good. You
are grieved or angry, or something
hurts you let it out. Arouse the house
Break your mothers heart with tender
ness, and set your father to-well-re-
peating his catechism! Waken any old
bachelor who may be in the house from
his dreams, and disturb everybody to
your SOULS content! Have your day
while you can the time will come when,
suffer as you may, you will not dare to
weep. All your misery, all your woe, all
your passion, you must hide within your
bosom. If tears fall they must do it si-
lently. Often and often you will feel
that you would like to 60 upon noun
tain and yell until you awaken the
world-cry until the rivers arose and
there were floods; but, like the rest Of
US you will bear it all in silence, smile
politely when any one sees you, and
above all, make no noise, no disturb
ance, though there be a power of misery
within yeu strong enough to work the
mills Of Fate.


Go on, baby !; shrek, kick, sob away
into silence only to begin on a higher
key; lose your breath, catch it, and go
on again. Cry for all of us-yeu seem
perfectly capable of it. Oh, what lux
ury it must be to yell SO! If we babies
of a larger growth could do it, there
would be fewer suicides.
Year: 1879

CHICKEN CHEEsE.-Boil two chick
ems in merely water enough to make
them tender; take them out when done;
remove all the bones; mince the meat
very fine; season with salt, pepper, and
butter, and return them to the water In
which they were boiled; cook until the
liquid Is nearly gone; pour into deep
dish; lay plate over it; put weight,
and set away in cool place. When
ready to be eaten, cut it in slices and it
nice for tea.
Year: 1879

and propose to push it to success. 1t will be
their aim to establish for their goods reputa-
tion, and to this end no effort will be spared.to
make them second to none in workmanship
and finish, and as cheap as the same character
of work can be sold. All theyask is an exami-
nation of their goods and prices.
Year: 1879

Only about nine hundred thousand
dollars in pension arrears claims have
been paid this month up to date. 1t is
not believed that the payments for the
month will reach far beyond one mil
lion dollars, in which case it is ex-
pected that the debt statement .or the
month will show handsome reduction
perhaps over six million dollars.
Year: 1879

able to say, as proudly as any peas
ant, that she has not eaten the bread
OF idleness. Get quit of the absurd
idea that heaven will interfere to
correct great errors, while allowing
its laws to take their own course in
furnishing small ones. II food il
carelessly prepared, no one expects
Providence to make it palatable; nei-
tber, if through years of folly You
misguide your own life, need you
expect divine interference to bring
around everything at last for the
best. I tell you positively that the
world is not so constituted. The
consequences of great mistakes are
just as sure as thoso of small ones,
and the happiness of your whole
life, and of all the lives over which
you have power, depends as literally
on your common sense and discre-
ton as the excellence and order of
the feast OF dav."
Year: 1879

John Ruskin gives the following
advice to young ladies: "In order
to investigate ones self, it is we'll to
find out what one is now. Don't
think vaguely about it. Take pen
and paper and write down as accu-
rate a description of yourself as is
possible, and, if you dare not, find
out why you dare not and try and
get strength of heart enough to look
yourself in the face, mind as we'll as
body. Always have two mirrors on
your dressing table, and with proper
care dress mind and body at the
same time. Put your best intelli-


gence to finding out what you are
good for and what you can be made
into. The mere resolve not to be
useless and the honest desire to help
others will, in the quickest and most
delicate way, improve ones self. All
accomplishments should be con-
sidered as means of assisting others.
In music get the voice diciplined
and clear, and think only OF accu-
racy, and expression and effect will
take Gale of themselves. So in draw
ing; learn to set down the right shape
Of anything and thereby explain its
character to another person; but if
you try only to make snowy drawings
for praise, or pretty ones for amuse-
ment, your drawing will have little
or no real interest for you and no
educational power whatever. Re-
solve to do every day something use
full in the vulgar sense. Learn the
economy of the kitchen; the good


and bad qualities of every common
article of food, and the simplest and


best modes of their preparation; I;
help poorer families in their cook.
ing, showing them how to make as
much Of everything as possible, and
how to make that little nice; coaxinS
and tempting them into tidy and
pretty ways, and pleading for we'll
folded table-cloihs, however coarse,
aud for a flower or two out of the
garden to strew on them. One
should at the end Of every day be
Year: 1879

but the belief had b1006no rtxiiii i u
impressed upon his mind and r.
succeeded SO far in thrilling me With
his own unnatural fearthat I begged
him to finish his poem before he
slept, that such fine work might not
be lost to the world.


In the small hours the General
awoke me from slumber into which
I had fallen, to read to me that
beautiful poem, which must live as
long as our literature survives, be-
giAning:


lam dying. Egypt. dying;


Ebbs the crimson Iife-tide fast"


My eyes filed. with tears as he
read. He said not word as he con-
cluded, but placing the manuscript
in his pocket laid down to sleep.


Before the dawn came the call to
arms. When I next saw poor Lytle
he was cold in. death among heaps
of slain. I thought of the poem,
and, searching the pocket where I
had seen him put it, drew it forth,
and it was forwarded, among other
things, to his friends.-Pasburg
Leader.
Year: 1879

GEoRaz Q. CANNON, son OF the
Mormon Congressman, married hin
cousin for q another wife in Salt Lake
City ON the 25th, and to escape pun
ishment was sent on . mission to
Europe by his father.
Year: 1879

Workmen are engaged, to-day, in run
ming large water pipe into the Clayton
House, connecting with the Market street
main, for the purpose Of operating the
new elevator recently put up in the
house.
Year: 1879

Not q word about the weather, that will speak for itself. There is time to keep silent. One of our doctors, who Is gifted In short, crisp sentences, was met the other morning by friend, who greeted him Good morning, doctor" Yes, sir ' snapped he in reply. He knew it was a good morning; he had been told of 1t till the information had become burdensome. But, then, doctors suavity should be warranted to keep through hot weather without Souring.

 Don't make your stomach a receptacle for all manner of slops this hot weather Eat just enough of light food, rather stop short than go beyond enough Drink very little. only enough to quench thirst, and that which will do it the most effectually If you are tempted with slops, and their name Is legion. take tllem to the back kitchen and throw them into the slop pail any way to keep them out of your stomach. Do this through fbe hot weather and report the result in the BEE next Autumn. ..

 Quick transit In Danbury. Nichols X Hines trimmers went by ox-team con- veyance to clam-bake to Great Plain the other day. It was fun for the girls The clans quoted what the frogs said to the boys in the fable.

 A goodly number, forty to fifty Danbury people. went to Rockaway on the excur- sion Tuesday last week. Mrs. Hart met with serious accident which detai ned her on the boat till the following day, when she was brought home.

 The two Misses Trowbridge, who com mitted suicide in Chicago, on the 21st of last month. which created such sensa- ton. were natives of Danbury. Their father. Mir. Aiva Trowbridge, who is well remembered here by the older people, went from here some thirty eight years ago. and became wealthy. It is another case, showing that wealth alone does not secure happiness. They had everything nsceesary. and lived above the world, but brooded over imaginary wrongs and
Year: 1879

sights till they became deranSed though there was method in their madness" Another move has been made in the matter of the soldiers monument. A | pole about the height of the proposed monument has been erected in the ceme- | tery on lot that is thought to be a good place, and the people interested are in vited to look at the pole. and judge whether it IS not 8 good site; it is hand some pole and quite suggestive. If noth- ing else is done for our departed heroes, this interesting pole will testify that they are not forgotten.

 WhisKey or Schenk beer keeps at it. A man was disturbing the peace some- what the other nlght he certainly had broken the silence of the beautiful even- ing and three officials were trying to arrest him; he proved hard bird to catch. He slipped away from them tenn pOrarily, and crouched beside the fence in the back yard; they discovered him and went for him. He arose and con- fronted them, and suddenly put his hand Ill ms DTeaSI pock2t, anu dfeW nolnIllB therefrOm, and leveled it at them. "He is armed, said one and they lodged and ran! But they subsequently, rallied, bravey renewed the charge and captured him. They had an audience of a hundred or more men and boys to witness the capture, which was not a particularly interesting spectacle on Main street, but the nigbt however covered it.

 HORACE.
Year: 1879

A corr espondent of the Country Gentle

 mdn thinks that the old mode of packing summer butter for winter sale is no lon ger profitable, on account of the com petition of fresh creamery butter, and of private daiIies, in which winter is the most active business season. He gives | his experience as follows:

 The past winter l have been packing butter ill small oak pails, containing five

 to ten pounds, for my customers, who

 have gladly paid fifty cents per pound for

 it. I am thus packing all my product,

 and think if dairymen were to do more

 of this, procuring and using tight, neat, sweet white oak packages, they might l liud profitable sale for butter the year around. But when it is desirable to pack 1 for winter use, extra care must be exer- cised as to the mode of packing and the package. I have found a four-galIon

 crock good and safe for packing. The package, providing always it is air-tight | and clean, is not so important as the

 method of packing and the place of stor- age. The butter taken from the churn is

 worked for short time with pure cold | water from deep well. Where the | water is not cold, ice water should be

 used when tho weather is walm enough to make the butter work soft. The grain | cannot be preserved if the butter is work

 ed too soft, and it should be kept as hard

 as it can be worked easily. The lump is | tn en gashed with the ladle, and salt at l the rate of one ounce to the pound is l sprinkled over it and worked ill lightly. | The butter is then put.away for twenty

 four hours in cool cellar or dairy house. l The last working is thorough, to get the

 color even and the salt we'll mixed in. As

 d little salt will have. melted and drained I off during the standing, the liberal dose given will not be excessive. The l butter is then packed down into the

 crock or pail, taking care to leave no

 vacant spaces. Brine is poured over the | butter, and the package is covered with Q cloth and the cover, and set away until

 the next churning, and a strip of woolen | felting is fitted around the edge of the

 package and under the cover, which is

 then fastened down tightly. A strip of

 rosin paper, used for covering roofs, will

 make good packing foA the eover..

 The place of storage is very important | This should be cool, airy, moist. but not wet, and entirely free from mould or must mess. 4 cave in bank, or a deep cellar, i furnishes an excellent store for butter. l The former may be made very easily, as | follows Dig out a foundation ten feet long, six feet wide, and three feet deep ]; throw the earth out on each side. Build up on each side with peeled logs, slabs, blanks. or rails, and make a steep roof over the whole. mailing the tops to a l ride-board and resting tho bottom against
Year: 1879

Is one of the popular institutions, and is gaining rapidly in favor. Get your life insured. The following table will assist you in determining the cost for member ship; after you are a member you will be member:

 ARTICLE VII.-MEM BERsHIP FEES.

 SECTION 1. The admission fee to membership in the Association shall be as follows:
Year: 1879

The belief is so widely prevalent
among cattle feeders that the smut
which sometimes grows on Indian corn
is poisonous to cattle, that when q
careful experimenter like Professor
Kedzie of Kansas, comes forward and
clearly proves that it is harmless, it
almost takes ones breath away. One
scarcely knows whether anything he
believes is true. At any rate it is a
caution against believing anything
too easily, or without undisputed ev-'
idence in favor of its truth. The Pro
fessor fed cattle regularly on smutty
ears, and they did not poison, but
grew fat and frisky thereon, and we
are bound to believe now that it is not
at all Injurious.


DR.. Kedzie is ofopinion that where
injury seems to result from cattle feed
ing on dry corn stalks, it is not from
the smut, but because in some COWS
Of weak powers it occasionally be.
comes indigestible.
Year: 1879

The news from Ohio continues tC
be of the most cheering character
Foster will be elected by a large ma
jority-ffteen to twenty-five thou
sand. II it is more than that we will
not be surprised. The Democrats gave
up all hope of electing Ewing some
time ago, but are making a desperate
struggle TO elect the Legislature.
since they came into power in that
State they have gerrymandered the
Assembly and Senatorial districts so
that 1t Is hard work for the Republi-
cans to get a nasjority of the Legisla.
lure but we have strong hopes that
they will do it. Then Allen q. Thpr-
man will step down aud out. and Gar.
field or some other good Republican
will take his place.
Year: 1879

The past fifteen years of high pric' 8
have been delusive to many; have
bnilt up wrong ideas as to real val
ues, SO that now, when the relapse
has come, and, as usual in such case,
prices have gone little to the other
extreme, many are discouraged, dis
appointed, and, it is to be feared, will
allow the improvement made in the r
stock during that time to be in
measure lost. They cannot sit down
and wait for better times. Stock
will not maintain an improved con-
dition without continued care. The
march towards a primitive condition
commences as soon as left to depend
on itself. Every eater7prising farmer.
or stock grower, will continue on in
the same course, with the same ef-
forts to improve their stock as when
realizing high prices.
Year: 1879

Here is another sort of swindle
that is being perpetrated upon far
mers over in Wisconsin. Not long
since two men with lumber wagon
went through Winnebago county
and vicinity, from house to house,
asking for samples of wheat to the
amount of peck or half bushels,
which they said they were going to
send to Chicago for inspection by
keenc, the great wheat speculator,
who intended getting up a corner on
wheat soon, and was going to send
agents all through the country buy
ing up wheat from farmers at an ad-
vance of ten cents per bushel in or
der to effect the corner. The men
claimed to be agents of Keene. AL
most every grower complied by Civ
ing at least a half bushrl, and the
name of the contributor was duly re-
corded to give the transaction a bus
mess like appearance. 1t is stated
that several parties were out at the
same time on this expedition, and
when they each get a big load they
took t! e wheat to Non III, sold it and
skipped out. The operators are so
cool and deliberate in their transac-
tons as to throw the farmers entirely
off their guard. One farmer told
them he suspected all was not right,
and they laughed at him, and finally
made the thing look SO straight that
he finally dealt them out half a BUSH
el, with an apology.
Year: 1879

1t is proposed, in the committee
on pensions, in the United States
Senate, to appoint corps Of sixty
surgeons to examine and report on
the condition of every person on the
pension rolls, with a view to striking
off any who are not justly entitled
to pensions. 1t is thought that the
list will be greatly reduced.
Year: 1879

We have received the first issue of
the Sleepy Eye Wide-Awake, pub
lishe by A. E. Rising. 1t is seven
column paper and shows that the
Editor and the printer understand
their business. We wish it success.
Year: 1879

The postal bill, now pending in
the United States Senate, provides
that the Postmaster General may at
his discretion issue a double postal
card, SO arranged that it may be for
warded and returned at postage Of
two cents. This double card is the
device Of Postmaster Day of st.
Paul.
Year: 1879

MIND YOUR OWN BUs1SEss.-Noth-
ing but ultimate ruin stares that far
mer in the face who does not pay
personal attention to the minute de-
tails of his farm. There are thou
sand small leaks about the manage
mcnt Of an ordinary farm, that, if
not closely attended to, will surely
bring the most handwriting farmer
to ruin and bankruptcy. A large
portion Of the farmers can attribute
their present condition to no other
cause than lack of close attention
to the small details Of the farm.
Close supervision of the machinery,
tools, stock and their feed, a place
for everything and everything in its
place. No hired help is as much in
terested in attending to these duties
AS the farmer himself. Such a course
would in few months or years at
most, enable many farmers who are
now on down hill grade a again
begin to ascend, and if persevered in
will surely make Roadway against
what would otherwise look doubtful.
Maine Farmer.
Year: 1879

There is a good deal of interest
felt by the New York grain trade by
the plague in the south of Russia.
The theory is that the military cord
on and naval quarantine will lay
practical embargo on the Black sea
export trade, and the existence and


dread of the plague will discourage
agricultural production, so that the
market for America grain in Europe
will be enlarged and prices will rise.
Year: 1879

It's claimed that blue grass is one
of the best grasses, known for early
and late pasture. The seed ripens
in June and falls off, when the sue
ceeding rains give it vitility ard it
pushes out its long rich, slender
leaves, one or two feet in length,
which in autumn falls over, mating
the whole surface with luscious herb
age. Upon the fields that have been
carefully protected until other for
age is exhausted, the cattle are turned
and fattened in winter. It main
tains its freshness and nutritive pro-
perties in spite of frosts, and the cat
tie easily reach it through the light
SHOWS, such as Minnesota winters
are usually favored or afflicted with.
Whenever the natural grasses of the
prairies are cropped or fed closely,
blue grass can be sown, and when
established on the natural sod, it
forms the best pasture known. 1t is
recommended, as a means of getting
land under the plow into blue grass,
to seed to timothy; the second year
turn on the stock and SOW in May or
June three pounds of blue grass seed
per acre. More seed can be used to
advantage if the object be to convert
the field rapidly into blue grass pas
ture.
Year: 1879

1t is stated that Faribault miller
has invented an entirely new process
of grinding wheat which does away
with the millstoncs now in use and
substitutes therefore vertically run
ming granite disc in direct combina-
ton withsa circle segment of French
burr. This new process produces
eighty per cent of middlings.
Year: 1879

DEPRESSION OF THE. ENGLISH
CoTroN INDUsrRY.-The publish
ed accounts of the Oldham limited
companies show that hardly any
of them have made any profit for
the last two years, and with some
the adverse balance is so heavy
that even with good trade it is al
most impossible for them to make
a profit, perhaps for years to
come. In limited companies alone
s2,OO0,OOO Of capital have been
lying unproductive for three years.
A hundred and twenty thousand
pounds Of debt, twenty per cent.
reduction in the operatives wages,
mills running short time or closed,
numerous failures, a decrease OF
fifty per cent. in the value OF
house property-these are some
of the leading facts connected
with the history of the Oldham
cotton trade.