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Year: 1874




We believe the day is not far dis
ant when the enlightened public
opinion of the country will demand
universal education applicable to and
enforced in every in section of the Re-
public Our perpetutity and safety
as government depends on the in
telligence of our people. The higher the
standard of intelligence the safer and
more.permanent will be our institutions.
In his farewell address Washington left
us his views on the sabiect. He said /:
" Promote. as an object of primary i'm
portance, institutions for the general
diffusion of knowledge. In proportion
as the structure of a government gives
iorce to public opinion tits essential that
public opinion should be enlightened. T"
Ihe party that follows this advice will
not lack the earnest support of the peo-
Republic.
Year: 1874

TIE Supreme Court OF Maine has been call
Ell upon to decide that the belief in the super
Natural appearance OF q spirit advising but not
unduly influencing the making of will, is not
oil itself such an evidence Of insanity as to in,
validate the instrument This curious ques-
tlou arose where the testatrix, a SpirituaIist,
believed that the spirit Of her dead husband
appeared to her. and dictated and indicated
ms approval of her tcstameutary disposition OF
her property. So, whatever some people may
think, of belief in the supernatural, this trl,
hunal declares that it is not an evidence OF
hlental alienation In q technical sense.
Year: 1874

S1n: In tho approaching Convention. interests
that to us Epiecopalia1 Protestents are dearer
than life are in question, and We must tako c.re
not to compromise them. It is to be hoped that
in the choice OF Bishop some respect will be
had for the opinions and feelings of that large
class who constitute the chief bulk Of each con-
gregation OF Ep;scopalians. These may not be
individually nor directly influential but It should
Year: 1874

Every person shonId understood


now to treat a flesh wound, because


one is liable to be placed in circun-
stances, away from surgical and vet


Urinary aid, where he may save his


roWn life the life Of friend or Of )


beast, simply by the exercise Of


little common sense. In the first


place, close the lips Of the wound
with the hand, and hold them firmly
together to check the flow Of blood
until several stitches can be taken
and bandage applied. Then battle
the wound for a long time in cold
water. "Should it be painful, 3
correspondent says, "take common
brown sugar and hold the wounded
part in the smoke. In a few minutes
the pain will be allayed. In my
case q rusty nail had made a bad
wound in my foot. The pain was
nervous irritation and severe. This
was all removed by holding it in
smoke for fifteen minutes and I was
able to resume my reading in COM
fort. We have loften recommended It
10 others, with like results. One OF
ny men had a finger nail torn out by
pair of ice-tongs. 1t became very
painful as was to have been expected
Held in sugar smoke for twenty
minutes, the pain ceased and prom
sed speedy recovery"
Year: 1874

Corrosive sublimate is disastrous
to ants. A little of it sprinkled g
cross one Of their paths in dry wealth
er has a most surprising effect. As
soon as one of the ants touches the
white powder it commences to run
about wildly, and to attact any other
ant it comes across. In a couple Of
hours round balls of the ants viii be
found all biting each other, and nun


erous individuals will be seen bitten


completely in two, while others have
lost some Of their legs or antenna.
News of the commotion is carried to
the fOrmicariam and huge ants,me
uring three quarters Of an inch IN
length, that only come out Of the
nest during a migration or an attack
on the nest of one CT the working
columns, are seen stalking down
with determined sir, as if they
would right matters. As soon,
however, as they have touched the
all their stateliness leaves
them; they rush about; their legs are
seized by some Of the smaller ants
affected by the poison; and
they themselves begin to bite, and
in q short time become the center Of
fresh balls of rabid ants. The sub
Innate can only be used effectively
in dry weather.
Year: 1874

There are many curious facts a.
bout vegetable life. We can for ex.
ample, graft the apricot on the plumb
and the peach on the apricot, and
the almond on the peach, and thus
we may produce a tree with plum
root and almond leaves. The wood,
however, Of the stem viii consist of
four distinct varieties, though formed
from one continuous layer. Below
the almond wood and bark we shall
have perfect peach wood and bark
then perfect apricot wood and bark,
and at the bottom perfect plum wood
and bark. In this curious instance
we see the intimate correspondence
between the bark and the leaf, for
if we should remove the almond
branches we might cause the several
sorts of wood to develope buds and
leafy tWigs each of its own kind.
Each section of the compound stem
has its seat Of life in the cambium
layer, and the cambium of each re-
produces cells of it's own species ont
of common nutrient luid.-Mess-
Gehusetts PlOughmGR.
Year: 1874

The Shanghai Chamber Of Com
merce recently had under eonsidera-
ton the relative merits of English
and American cotton goods import
ed into China. The matter was
thoroughly investigated and discuss
ed, with highly instructive results.
Leading brands Of English and
American brown drills were weighed,
then washed out and weighed again,
and the differences noted. Theresult
was the discovery that the less by
washing of the English cottons aver


aged over thirty -four per cent. and Of
the American less than five per cent.
The English goods are filed with
clay sizing, in order TO increase the
weight and thickness. When washed
out, the apparently full bodied arti-
Gle becomes a thin peor-textured
stuff, gOod for little at the start and
rotting rapidly from the destructive
effects of the clay filing. Consider
ing the estimation in which Ameri-
can goods are held by the many who
believe nothing so perfect as English
manufactures, these statements Of
the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce
are both surprising and gratifying.
Year: 1874

The report Of the Committee on
Privileges and Elections in regard TO
the election of the President and
Vice President by a direct popular
vote, is about ready to be submitted
to the Senate. 1t is understood that
the report viii be signed by every
member of the committee, which viii
entirely divest it Of a partizan char
acter, and it is therefore likely to
receive impartial treatment in the
Senate. a few of its important
features are outlined II a Washing


ton special to the Cincinnati Gazette.
The present plan of allowing each


State two votes at large is to be re-
tained to satisfy the small States.
such votes to be cast for the aandi-
date having a plurality OF the vote
of the whole State. Each State shall
also be entitled to a number of votes
equal to its Congressional represen-
tation in the lower house. The can
didate receiving a plurality Of the
votes Of any district shall be enti-
tied to the vote Of that district. This
is recommended in order to prevent
the possibility of a minority cleo
ton, and it is also provided that The
receiving the plurality Of
the votes Of the State shall receive
the two votes At large.
Year: 1874

monopolies. Result-No building


railroads or other public enterprises
our iron works closed, manufacture;
curtailed, mining continued on 8
small scale, while the poor Ignorant
devil that has joined in the crusade
against capital, is turned out of EN-.
)plOy, his family perhaps to suffer
for want Of bread because there is
no business doing. But he belongs
to the Oranges!


Next comes the Whisky Crusade.
We were promised in San Diego that
we should have our egg nOg, mint
ijulips and gin cocktails served up
with prayer wouldn't it be nice)
but the spjritUalists and acoman's
Fighters have taken the whole mat
ter in San Francisco into their own
hands and will not allow any man to
attend their meetings or assist them.
They will not even allow reporter
inside of their hall and it is extreme
ly doubtful if they would accept as
sistance from the blessed Savior,
simply because he was of the mas
culine gender. So I suppose the
excitement will soon run to q point
on this coast.


The law prohibits the promiscu-
Gus manufacture and sale of strych-
nine arsenic aand other poisons, and
as it is the duty of government to
protect its citizens against such
pOisons, it has always been a matter
of doubt in my mind whether gov
.ernment has a right to permit the
distilling and promiscuous sale of
poison just as deadly, and far more
disastrous and damning in its re-
suits. Alcohol just as surely kills
as arsenic, and carries the disaster
further-to the helpless wife and
children, spreading destruction all
around its votaries. But that gov
ernment can license the rum seller
to distribute this wretchedness, and
then protect women, or anybody
else in besiegiDg his rum shop until
he is compelled to shut up or abate
the nuisance is hardly fair, while it
is yet jingling his last quarters Ii
cense money in its pocket. If the
good women depended upon the help
OF God through prayer could not
such aid be brought to bear as eff
fectuany in their churches, as to
have respectable ladies tramping
through the streets visiting all the
haunts Of vice and infamy like a
band of lunatics fresh from an asy-
lum? It looks too much like the
Pharisee that prayed at the corner
of the streets. But excitement like
the smallpox must have its run.
The women of our city served no.
tices on some OF the rum shops but
failed to come to time from want of
cheek.


I shall watch the JOURNAL with
interest on the present excitement
as well as on other topics.


Yours Truly,
Year: 1874

Spunky.-The saloonists of Clyde have
got their backs up, and have passed series
Of resolutions setting forth that they will quit
selling liquor, or giving it away or in any
way handling it, as long as they please, l. e.,
indefinitely. And they have resolved, boy
like, that they will not trade with any one
who has been engaged in, or favored the cru
sade, nor will they allow any one else to do 90
if they can help it that was well put in, "if
they can help it.% And t. showed their
grit, one day last week, ling hold Of a
man who wanted to pu-~-Je some garden
seeds, which they didn't have to sell, and
rather than permit him to spend his fifteen
cents with Clyde merchant, drove him over
to our city and allowed him to invest the
amount with our dealers, then drove him
home again, paying more toll than the
man paid for seeds. OF course our merch-
ants will be pleased to sell their goods no
matter to whom, but that policy is the most
striking ezemplifcation of the adags .ebiting
off the nose to spite the face" that we ever
remember.
Year: 1874

The never was time when our city was
so full of tramps. Every day they visit our
citizens begging for help or something to eat.
While it Is hard to turn them away it is
equally hard to be imposed upon 50 much and
our city authorities should adopt steps for
taking care of such parties, Occasionally
there is one who is willing to work, but the
great proportion are idle loungers who desire
only to subsist without work. One Of this
kind called on one Of our citizens few eve
nings ago, and begged to be allowed to stay
over night. He was furnished a bed and
breakfast and then offered dollar if he would
spade the garden, small one, but he indig-
nantly refused with a threat, and when he
had gone out threw stone through the
window, where the lady Of the house had
been sitting moment before. The only place
for such tramps is in the lookup, and the
proper treatment would be starvation diet uH-
til they learned that ''if a man will not work
neither shall he eat"
Year: 1874

They've Quit Selling Liquor in Town
Here's news for you, mother, the old farmer said
As he paused where his good wife was moulding


the bread;
! I've been talking awhile with our neighbOr Brown
And he says they've stopped selling liquor in town
just took Oft my hat and shouted huzza,
When he said men had TO live up TO the law;
And knew it would make your hear happy tc


know,


They have dried up the fountain of madness and
woe.


Now the town viii be peaceful once again,
And the streets won't be crowded with Wild
drunken men,
And the boys won't be tempted to smoke drink and
fight,
To gamble all day and carouse all night.
There's Jane, bless her heart, she will dance like


top,
For she can go back now and sew in the shop;
1t won't be unsafe for her now, I am sure,
For though she is thoughtless the chfd's heart is


pure.
You needn't buy things at the Corners no more,
For III send Sam TO town to the big dry. goods


store,
He won't come home drunk with the buggy broke


down,
For tell you they have stopped selling liquor in


town.
There's Jim, he won't study anddon'. take to work,
We can let him 90 now and hire out for clerk,
1t viii do the boy good, he'll find out it amt play,
And there amt any grog shops to lead him astray.
And there's little Peter, you know how he learns,
And how he saves every penny he earns,
To buy new book and the boys got plan
That he'll be lawyer when he is a man.
So if you are willing to venture, think
We will send him to town now, he won't learn to


drink.
They've got good school, and he'll learn very fast,
Pm glad they have stopped selling liquor at last.
He paused, and the wife of his youth made reply,
While Joy sent the tear drops like pearls from her


eye,
''Heaven bless the purc hearts that have put this


curse down;
Thank God they have quit selling liquor in town.
Year: 1874

Potatoes Two Years Old.-E G.Gibb:
informs Us that he has in his possession some
early rose potatoes which he has kept over
two winters, and which are yet as hard and
sound as any Of the last years growth. They
had been placed under box in a dark corner
of his cellar, and on moving the box few


days ago were discovered. The cellar was
perfectly dry, and cool, and the potatoes had
lain in their hiding place through the past
season without even sproutiug. He has not
yet tested them by cooking to see if they re-
tain their favor. This is the only instance Of
the kind We are aware Of where the tubers
have beon kept for so long a time, but If
would indicate that with proper precaution
the early rose and all other potatoes, could be
kept in better condition than they generally
are and for longer tims.-MiEan .4dreyt;ser
Year: 1874

The all day prayer meeting, on Thursday
of last week was well attended, especially in
the afternoon, and those present speak OF IT
as one of the most remarkable meetings ever
held in our city, The ladies still continue
their visiting and among the results may be
mentioned that nearly all the saloons are now
selling only by the quantity, and several have


discontinued the sale of liquor altogether,
still selling beer and ale. If nothing more
than this should be accomplished, it is great
thing for Fremont, but it is very evident the
work viii produce greater results than these.
Year: 1874

And also in pursuance of an act approved
the 2sth day of April 1874, directing the
mode of selling seated lands Tor iaxes, and
the several is supplementary thereto the
following tracts of seated lands and in and
out lots in the said County of Forest afore-
said, or so much thereof as will pay the
arrearages oftaxes and costs accrued there
on will be exposed to public sale at the
time and place aforesaid for the sale of un-
seated lands, and be continued by adjourn
ment from day to day if it should be found
necessary so to do:
Year: 1874

4 writer says, " The calf should never
be allowed to suck the COW. 1t will save
sore teats, good deal of kicking and at
times good deal Of bad language, both
in milking and teaching the calf to drink.
The calf will learn to drink almost as
readily as to suck milk the COW and feed
the calf the first thing; then take it out
Of the sight Of the COW and the trouble
will soon be over Feed new milk the
first week after that skim milk. Calves
should be kept in the barn through the
warmest of the season and fed milk and
the best Of early cut-hay If the calf
should scour, steep a little hemlock or
white oak bark; a very little put into it's
milk will make it all right Cattle in
winter should be furnished with good
warm stables. I believe as general
thing, people do not expect stock to gain
much in winter; at least they do not in
this vicinity, but this is wrong; they
should properl ly gain more in winter than
in the summer. If provided with all
the early cut hay properly cured they
can eat, and are we'll cared for they will
gain more in winter than in summer
Year: 1874

sbing his burnt face and bowling like q
disappointed luna attic. But it cured the
boy and as that was what the parent
got up for, he is probably satisfied.


All little boys are not Indifferent to
the needs Of their little sisters. There
is an ingenious lad on Pine street, who
snow balls obese pedestrian is With q }iew
to making them dodge The Strain
they are thus subjected to breaks of
more or less Of their buttons, which he
industriously gathers after the victim's
departure, and gives to his sister to put
on q string.


One OF our citizens met with singu-
lar mishap, Sunday evening while at
tending the Methodist church with his
wife. In passing through the brightly
lighted porch, he saw the end of a
thread on the side of his pantaloon leg,
and taking hold of it gave it smart
pull to break it off, when to his un.
bounded amazement and terror, the
thread unwound to great length, and
the whole side of the pants opened at
once, revealing shrinking leg to sew.
eral very hysterical people. With a
brief but hearty malediction on single
thread machines, the mortified individ
ual fled homewards.
Year: 1874

DEAR SIR AS requested by ybu a
few days since, I will endeaSof3 to give
you my plan Of raising evergreed rees
that, following, / have never been \un-
successful in enticing them to grow.


| In the first place, get Hve trees any
size. The reason l say live trees is, that
trees taken up in the fall and left in a
cellar, having all the appearance of life,
may possibly live set out the following
spring, and may not. Let the hole in
which to set the tree be ample, broad
and deep, that when the roots are spread
out fiat they will be a years growth
from the sides,-drive stake in the
center Of the hole to support the tree
from wind. If the ground is clayey
put in bushel or two Of we'll rotted
compost, sand, rotten wood, or few
ashes will do no harm. Fill up with
this to the depth the tree should be set.
Pulverise thoroughly the necessary
earth to put in, around and over the
roots. Set in the tree, spreading out
roots: carefully avoiding bruising or
breaking. Cover with earth to the
depth Of six inches ; puddle by throw
ing in as much water as the ground
around the tree will absorb. Fill up
with earth to the surface of surrounding
ground, and pour on more water. The
object attained by the watering is, to
settle the earth evenly and uniformly
around the root and fibre, leaving no
vacuum or air holes under them. No
amount Of pressing or tramping can ac-
complish this result, besides it is hurt
full to the roots, breaking or pushing
them ont Of position. Fasten the
tree to the stake with strong rag
bandage. Strings are apt to girdle the
trunk. Mulch with compost. DONE
put warm manure around trees. Don,
put any a0ater on. Water through
sprinkler, upon the top Of the tree and
over the limbs, with water that has been
exposed to sun during the day. Cold
we'll water is Objectionable This is all
important and is the real secret in rails.
ing handsome trees. The reason is
that when an evergreen tree is removed
from the ground, the flow Of sap, which
is resinous, is stopped, dried, and from,
its nature adheres to the wood beneath
the bark, becoming as it were glued to-
gether, and unless softened by rain OF
sprinkling stops the flow caused by the
growth of the roots when they start te
grow-the reason why the tops of Sc
many fine young trees die whilst the
bottom branches live.


Watering, initiating nature therein
from the top, softens the bark, ASSISTS
circulation, opens the buds, promotes
t1ss vitality and 'nsuFss the sf?}rtp of the


Watering the roots Of the Tree only
Year: 1874

A4%We have devoted this column to our
young in order to interest and improve
them, and we hope that the boys and girls
who write for The GRANGE ADVANCE will
try to see how nicely they can write, and
how much better they can write each time.
Remember that the boys and girls Of to-
day will soon be the men and women of our
country, and in their hands will be the
farms, the homes, the schools, the interests
and welfare Of the State and Nation.
Year: 1874

capillary substance on the legs Of our
friend, mounted up his body like a
Hash OF lightning, and reaching his very
luxuriant whiskers almost instantane.
ously, burst out into a cloud of fame
and instantly disappeared. The move
ment was so rapid that the man was
stupefied for second. In the next he
fell to slapping his Scared limbs. rub
Year: 1874

On the same month, my only sister died
in her 18th year. So you see I
have not been without my troubles the
two past years. l try to look on the
bright side, as my sister often told me
that "every dark cloud had a silver
lining" Yours with respect,


LILLE BOUSTEAD.
Year: 1874

THE reported execution of eleven
other robbers and horse thieves by the
uprising of the people in the frontier
counties of Brown and Comanche, is
tut another evidence of the extent to
which those people have SO long sui
fered by the depredations Of organized
bands. Since the war IT seems that
large numbers of such men have
sought the stock raising portions OF
Texas as q field of operations. The
people, until the last year or so, being
20 tninly scattered oyer that portion OF
the country, have been compelled to
submit in patience to many ouIrages'
by having emigration theY arc now
much stronger, and seem determined
to act in concert for mutual protection,
The alternative is dire one; but men,
however law-abiding, will MAKE an
apology for those frontier people
which would not apply TO old and
denise communities, where the majesty
of the law can be maintained by the
civil authorities,
Year: 1874

NOTWITHSTANDING the dull season
of summer is upon us, and the general
scarcity of money through the country,
the business of Dallas is decidedly bet
ter than in any former year at this
period. People from the country come
in much more freely than was antici-
pated. The season is fine for farmers
and others, at distance, to come in
for lumber, and the large number Of
improvements under way give employ
ment to several hundred workmen.
Hence, instead of feeling gloomy, We
have abundant reason to feel satisfied
with our condition.
Year: 1874

WE are glad to see that our young
townsman, Master Jack J. Scott, passed
handsome examination at the Texas
military institute, and took the second
premium in his class. Master Jack is
a worthy son of Dallas, of whom we
are proud. If he perseveres in his
studious and upright course, avoid
ing ways that are evil, the day Will
speedily roll round when the country
will also be proud of him. In this day
of dissipation and latitudinous morals,
our heart warns to the youth who re-
spects the ways of his fathers. BE
steadfast, avoid vain show, eschew
e., and cling to that which is good,
and your reward will come as surely as
life lasts.