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Year: 1874

Eternal vigilance is the price of success
in any vocation, and this is especially true
with regard to farming. In no vocation
is there required more skill and business
tact than in carrying on a farm success
fully. 1t is the prevailing opinion that
when man has failed in everything else
he can succeed as a farmer; that it re-
quires no study to conduct the operations
of the farm, and that an inexperienced
man can succeed as well as an experienced
one. Such an opinion is altogether erro-
neOuS. To be a successful farmer man
must have knowledge of Natures laws
as applied to vegetation, of stock breed
ing and the care of stock, OF fertilizers, of
insects, of the general character of the
different soils, and of the relation of the
atmosphere to the soils and vegetation.


Besides this, he must be skilled in busi-
ness sufficiently to market to the best adj
vantage and at the right time, his crops /:
he must understand farm machinery that
he may buy the best; he must know
when to hire help, and how to manage
his hired men. In a word, it requires
great capacity. Men may be brought up
on farm and still know but little of fwhat
is required to be a successful farmer.
Sometimes we see business men from the
cities that have no practical knowledge of
agriculture, buy farms and manage them
profitably. These men know that it re-
quires exact business principles to gain
success, and that these must be adopted in
farming to make it a success. One great
drawback that some farmers meet is that
they do not understand the purchase of
stock and tools. Some suppose that the
lowest priced articles are the cheapest,
NJ ,orlxr Inv
improvement is brought out many will not
adOptit Because their fathers knew nothing
of it and did not therefore hand it down
to posterity. So also. some suppose that
to starve their live stock and the soil is
economy whereas it is the worst possible
extravaganza. 1t is lamentable fact that
great number Of our farmers have the
most narrow views, that they will not
learn from the experience of Others more
intelligent and less superstitiOus than they.
Most failures in this vocation arise from a
lack of business habits and capacity. The
men that do succeed have skill and tact,
and adopt improvements in modes and
machinery, and new combinations. ROu-
tine is followed so far as it is profitable and
no further, irrespective of the ways of fore
fathers. Transportation ROnOpOlies may
depress agriculture, but poor farming de-
presses it more. 1t is the easiest thing in
the world to lay our failures on others,
when in reality we are to blame for them.


The present depression in farming will
work good results. 1t will teach farmers
that they cannot single-handed cope with
mOnopOlies. and hence lead to combination.
This will break the old routine in agricul-
ture, and farmers will learn that to succeed
they must study and apply skill in the
various transactions which they perform.
This depression has come none too soon
times. The time will soon come when a
farmer of narrow, contemplate views will
st. Louis Midland Farmer.
Year: 1874

Among the other numerous products
for which California seems destined to be-
come famous, honey ranks as by no means
the least valuable item. 1t has already
found its way into the Eastern markets,
though so far in limited supply, and is
much admired for its purity and delicacy of
flavor. Its production is not limited to
any part of the State, but at present it is
chiefly made speciality in San Diego
county, near the Mexican border. The
honey crop of that county for 1873 was
10000 pounds, and it is expected it will
this year equal 100000 pounds.


The bees commence working in that
county about the first of February, and the
season for storing honey lasts from June to
September. The finest honey is made from
the flowers of the sage plant, which grows
there in such abundance. This is the true
sage, and must not be confounded with
the ''sage brush of Nevada and the
northern counties. The flat tOpor ''buck
wheat greasewoOd" also affords excellent
honey. The bloom of this plant closely
resembles that of buckwheat, hence the
name. The flower of the sumac is anOth-
er source, and the ice plant which covers
so much of the country is likewise sought
by the bees. This latter plant makes
very white honey, but it is liable to the
objection that it turns very quickly TO su-
gar, or candies" as the honey men term
it. The bee keepers therefore try to avoid
it.


The bulk of the honey finds market in
the East. Several car loads were shipped
from San Diego East last year and found a
paying and appreciative market, and much
more will be shipped this year. The
honey made in San Diego is exceedingly
white and handsome, and of fine flavor,
and commands a good price and ready
market wherever offered. Little or no
strained honey can be sold during the pre-
valence of the green fruit season, and IL
will not be until next fall that any great
amount can be moved. The total crop In
California this yeaE-ls- variopsly estimated
AT from coz, 900 70 200, 600 pounds,. !. =
Year: 1874

A poet recently sent a song en-
titled What shall my Love wear?
to an editor. The latter regarded
the question wholly in its moral
aspect, and sat down and wrote a
kind but firm article recommending
her TO wear clothes.
Year: 1874




1t is not late, and / could buy Ted
dy's birthday present tonight instead
OF waiting till morning"


1t was such a novel idea, this one
of going out in the world below
herself, and having a share of the
light, and passing too and fro, that
it quite took possession of her, and
in two minutes she was standing be-
fore the glass buttoning her .sacqUe
up to the throat, and tying her hat
under her hair, feeling half excited
and half timid. She had promised
herself the luxury of buying Teddy
a modest birthday present. No one
else would remember him, poor lit
tie man and it would be so much
nicer to nave it ready for him as
soon rs he awOke /; and then where
could be the harm of going out
Miss BiIkerson had often gone out
shopping at night.


SO it came about that, an hour la
ter, DR.. TheObald, turning the cor
ner of the street on his way home,
was startled by the sound of his own
name uttered in a girlish voice, with
such a ring Of terror in its tones
/ that he turned in some alarm.
/ doctor I! " the cry came to him
Year: 1874

IT is reported that Hon. L. D. CAMP
pv,I intends to canvass the State in ops
position % the ratification Of the
rrorosed new constitution of Ohio.
pub,ic opinion seems to have taken no
definite shape IS yet In regard
~ the merits or dement's of
the Constitutional Convention and
the probable result Of the vote to
be bad in August cannot yet be fore
seen. 1t is, however, admitted that the
changes which the instrument proposes
10 make in the organic law are, upon
the whole, for the better. The new
charter gives the veto power it length
ems the terms Of judges. and provides
Tor the payment to them OF salary
which will secure competent men for
the bench. Double taxation is forbid
den, and the principle Of minority rep
resentation is adopted. The question OF
license or prohibition has been evaded,
Instead OF which there is double clsuse,
one part for license and the other
against it, upon which the people are
10 vote directly-thus shifting the re-
spousibility back to the electors. In
view OF the experience Ohio has just
had with prohibition, and the political
results last fall and the present spring,
there is little doubt as to the disposition
tbs. will be made OF this question on a
fair expression o! public sentiment, and
it should be remembered that the action
is now intended to decide the States
future position. The question OF allow
ing State aid to railways is also relega-
ted to the people, so that the real 6gh,
10 vet to come,
Year: 1874

Why is nature like baby? Because there
is generally squall when its face is washed.


A housemaid in Chicago had her hair
turned white in single night, last week.
Cause-Sae fell, head foremost, into a flour
barrel.


What sublime courage was that displayed
by the Nevada woman, who, when the
stealthy savage approached her, just rallied
off her hair and gave it to her!


'Don't speak to herp' said one young lady
to another young lady, on the street the 9th
er night; 'she is the stuckupedest thing you
ever saw"


To cure dyspepsia: Close all the outer
doors of four-story house, open the inner
doors, then take long switch and chase a
cat up and down stairs till she sweats.


Pittsburg reporters are often treated with
unnecessary cruelty. One, who had been
sent to report a midday session OF the Com
mon Council, was discharged because : - ,os
his lantP. I'm, and couldn't find his v',av hack


:. correspondent OF the Hartford Times
who has been visiting Westminster Abbey
and looking at the monuments, says: 1t is al
very well to be king while you are alive
but after you are dead it is much better tc
have been a poet,


What can be more startling than to see a
delicate and fascinating young lady with a
long train suddenly turn around, without
giving the unsuspecting individual behind
her any warning whatever, gently stoop,
reach back with her right foot, and kick
desperately? She is going to cross the street,
and is merely switching off her train for the
new direction.
Year: 1874

CURING SWEET CoRN.-Shave from the
cob, then pack in stone jar or other earth
with about half an inch of salt in the bottom
of the jar; then pack closely from three to
four inches of corn; then another layer OF
salt from quarter to half an inch, and SO
continue until you reach the top OF the jar,
where you will put about one inch Of salt
then cover the jar with anything that VIII
keep out the dirt, and you have agood article
for the table any time during the year, oy
soaking short time in cold water oeiore
uSip0
Year: 1874

TOR the purpose of nominating candidates for
Senators, Sheriff, County Treasurer and County
Commissioner to be supported at the State election
In September.


Also to choose County Committee. and to act
upon any other business which may properly come
before the Convention.
The basis of representation will be as folows:-Each
city and town will be entitled to one Delegate and
additional Delegate Tor every go votes cast for
Sidney Perham for Governor in 1872. A fraction of
35 additional to the full number will entite the


i'll give the following delegation and apportionment:
Year: 1874

A critic says that some writer's
average less pay than wood -sawyers.
A good many of them deserve TO do
SO. In the first place, saving wood
is q great deal harder work, and in
the next place it is great deal more
useful to the world at large, and in
diyiduals in particular.
Year: 1874

~ EXCITING SCENE N SAN FRANcIsCo-TiGHr


BETWEEN = EULL-DOG AND \ HORSE.


The san Francisco Chronicle of the first
inst. has the following:


Yesterday afternoon about o'clock fine
bay horse attached to a light-wagon was be-
ing driven along Kearns street by two men,
When near Sutter street small English
bulldog, weighing eighteen or twenty
pounds, made spring from the sidewalk
and tried to catch the horse by the nose
Missing him, the dog fell under the horses
feet, and in an instant caught him by the
right fore leg, just above the knee, where he
held on with the grip of death. The horse
reared and plunged and stamped. The men
in the Wagon having all they could do to
control the animal in that crowded thorough
fare, dared not attempt to get out to fight
the dog off. Finally. with violent stamp
and sudden dropping to his knees, the
horse shook the vicious brute OFF his leg,
but in an instant he was caught again in
the chest. Fastening his teeth in the tough,
black hide. the dog hung on like leech.
The poor horse unable TO shake him of, !,
bolted across low pile of lumber at the
corner of Suffer- and Kearny streets, where
Year: 1874

Grasshoppers have a disposition to eat
up things in Algeria, also but there ma
ture has provided remedy against them in
the form OF natural enemy This is an
insect apparently indigenous there and never
classified by the entomologists. 1t deposits
its eggs in the same hole in which the
grasshoppers have deposited theirs, thus
taking advantage of their labor. The egg
of the natural enemy hatch first, and hi:
young either live on the grasshopper egg.
or destroy the coming grasshopper early in
life. This natural enemy" does no harm
to the crops. Now. if the agricultural de-
partment could only import and naturalize
this fellow, it would do something worth re-
cording.
Year: 1874

plain themselves, and the old quartz-miner
deliberately knocked all the romantic non
sense out Of them and kicked them lack to
their fumes. They have not gone wild
girl hunting since, and don't believe there
is any such game in the woods.-N Louis
R.yH5f fcqR
Year: 1874

We find in the Review ScicntiiiQue n


paper read to the Ethnographical Socie-


ty of Paris, by NJ. Nader De Montjau,


on the differences existing between the


Chinese race and the japanese. In both


countries the hair seldom varies more


than from dark chestnut to jet black I;


the complexion oscillatcs between pale


bilious brown and a yellow blister the


beard is scanty, sometimes wanting, the


body is pretty nearly bare. IN China


the common people are neither too lean


nor too fat; but the latter quality is


peculiar to the rich and to the official


world, and is an object of veneration,


because it beFpeaks man who may sit
in his chair all day and need not work


for 4 living, Loanncss is the lot Of an ac-
tive merchant or clerk, not bound to
bard labor; it attains hidcous degree
in the case of the opium-smoker. Beg
gars will sell what is dcarer to them
thor talls-lU purchase tho Indian
drug; and these appendices arc OK
ported to Europe to adorn the heads of
our ladies, in the shape of chignons


In Japan both obesity and extreme
leanncss are much rarcr. The middle
class, much less vigorous than the poor,
is, however, equal to them in stature,
which is not the case in the sister coun-
try. The aristocracy, who have been
always intermNrrying among each other,
do not present any remarkable physical
quality to distinguish them from the
lower orders. 1t is not true, as has
been stated, that the yellow races do
not blush; the author himself wit
messed the phenomenon in China in the
person of beautiful young lady.
Both in that mtry and in Japan there
are pretty frequently such coppcrcol
ored complexions as very nearly to ap.
proach that of the Red Indian. An
other curious popularity i'll common
with the latter is the want of prominence
in the nose down to half its altitude ;
i'll Japan, however, that feature has
some saliency up to the level of the
iris, especially i'll persons having fair
The women of this coun-
try are plumper than the Chinese. Our
author seems, throughout his commu-
to be sparticularly impressed !
with the idea that some connection ex-
lists between the Redskins OF America
and the people of China and Japan.
Year: 1874

The good sense of the following is
apparent, and it comes to us from high
authority "The clothing about the
neck should be very moderate in guam
tity. and worn so loose as to pr, vent the
slightest compression. The great er-
rors frequently committed in clothing
this part of the body, consist in wearing
such an amount as to overhead and
weaken the throat. and thus render it
easily susceptible to cold, or in wearing
it SO tight as to retard the circulation
Of the blood to and from the head.
Great care should be exercised upon
this point, as the arteries and veins
leading from the heart to the brain are
situated so near the surface in the neck
that slight compression there serves to
check the flow Of the blood. Many
cases OF congestion of the brain and
headache sre partially or wholly caused
Wy too tight collars md araYats. "
Year: 1874

Those who think the church may be
ignored or dispensed with probably
take q narrow view of the matter.
Though they may be educated and cul-
tlvated, they have little real sympathy
with the great masses they are, per-
haps, acute, but they are certainly shall
low. l mean, Of course, shallow and
narrow as regards this point. They are
not in fellowship with that human ma
ture which, in all lands and all times,
demands a worship of the invisible,
which rises always above the seen to
the unseen, which humbles itself be-
fore the Most High and is exalted,
which finds itself lifted up by casting
itself PROSTATE before the eternal truth
and the infinite beauty. The church is
as permanently founded and rooted in
human nature rs the state. 1t springs
up of itself everywhere, whenever man
begins to rise above the savage state.
Confucias has his church Buddha has
his church; Xoroaster has his church.
They have all existed during twenty or
thirty centuries, based wholly on the
need of social worship. They rest on
the deep instinct which makes men feel
that they are stronger, better and wiser
for going together to worship before
God. The worst church is better than
none, just as the worst state is better
than none. A bad government is better
than anarchy. A bad church is bet
ter than to live without God in the
world, because that is sure to end in
brutality and moral death. The church
is the home of the poor, the comfort of
the sufferer, the friend of the oppressed,
the support of the dying, the hope of
the bcreavcd. 1t comes to those upon
whom society has laid heavy burdens,
and takes them by the hand to raise
them up.--J r. WnrkC.
Year: 1874

did all they could to prevent any fur
ther intimacy between their daughter
and Palmer, and she seemingl Y consent
ed completely to their wishes. But
neither they nor the community were
prepared for the denouement which has
taken place.


A day or two since Joe Palmer stated
to various persons that he was going
West, and was noticed making exten>
sive preparations. About the same
time Miss Thompson persuaded her
mother to allow visit to neighboring
township to make some purchases. She
went instead to the railroad depot, and
boarding the Philadelphia train, met
Palmer at the next station.


As the young lady did not return at
the time she informed her mother she
would, a search was instituted and the
truth learned. The terribly distracted
parent at once went to Philadelphia,
but although most persistent search
was made, nothing of the couple could
be learned further than that Palmer was
seen in the neighborhood of the hay
market, at Seventh and Columbia ave.,
the day subsequent to the elopement.


Miss Thompson is great heiress, and
has always been held in the highest es-
TEEN by the people OF Warminster. Her
parents are heartbroken at her rash
act. Further endeavors have been
made for her recovery, but no traces OF
the unfortunate girl have been discover
ed. The detectives report that she is
not in Philadelphia, and are now en-
deavoring to ascertain whether she is in
New York.-Phila. City Items.
Year: 1874

CUFFEE.-We believe as the negro is q
citizen he should share some of the offices,
but not monopolize all. We here are al
most entirely submerged by the "man and
brother" We will have negro Congress
man and negro legislators, we have already
negro magistrates, negro court officers and
negro juries, and now we cap the climax
by negro clerk in the Post Office. Let
men go on encouraging the Civil Fighters
and we will have "no parlor and no kitch-
en- and negro sons-in-law.
Year: 1874

SoHooL.-We ask the attention of those,
desiring the services of female teacher,
to the advertisement in this issue. The
lady has had experience, and from what
we know personally of her father, who is
gentleman of considerable erudition, we
doubt not has been highly educated.
Year: 1874

NEGRO ABUsE.-As champion of the
white mans party we expected abuse from
the other side, but we also expected the
moral support of the white men: and
when we hear of white men sitting quietly
and listening to such low characters as
MADISON, Bum and McCabe ventillate their
abuse against us and then going about and
speaking of it as a good joke, we are
very much disposed to let such people fight
their own battle. We are glad, however,
to say that all are not of this stripe.
Year: 1874

PITT CoUNTY.-Edgecombe darkies do
not fancy speaking in Pitt. Taylor thought
it prudent not to speak at Marlboro and
MADISON is said to have made the most
polite noration ever known to come from
that individual.
Year: 1874

TAR RIVER NAVIGATION Co.-On &C
count of the absence of one of the directors
of the company, whose presence was
deemed necessary, there was no meeting of
the Stockholders on last Tuesday. We are
requested by the President to state that
there will be meeting on next Tuesday,
the 4th of August.
Year: 1874

SwTNDLER.-The man Mercer, who seems
to have been very successful swindler in
various parts of the State got into mine
host of the Adams Hotel for the value of
TWO weeks and half board. The man
seems utterly to ignore the statute apply
ing to getting goods under false pre-
lenses.
Year: 1874

TRADE.-The constant return of the
wagons of the Culver Brothers shows that
they are doing brisk trade and disposing
of their stoves rapidly. The Culver Broth
ers will show any number of certificates as
to the merits of their stoves to any one who
desires to see them.
Year: 1874

PoLInC4 4L.-Dr. Duggan asserts that the
Democrats are like buzzards, pitching
around the Radicals (while speaking) to
see what they can get to cheer them.


Wonder if the blithe young Doctor will
not want some of these buzzards to put
their claws on his bond Wonder if they
will do so after such compliments
Year: 1874

1~f any one doubts the announce
ment Of Simmons, Olson & Bush, that they
are selling off their entire stock Of goods at
greatly reduced prices to close out their
business, let them 60 and price their goods.
This firm are not Of that class Of business
men who deal in catch penny advertising.
in fact they have never advertised any un-
til since they have decided to close out
their business and now they have felt that
every member Of the community where they
have lived and done business 20 long should
have the advantage of their low prices and
they have therefore made the announce
ment, and every enc can depend upon it
that they will stand by and live right up
20 what they have announced.
Year: 1874

FEATHERsToNE GRANGE P. of H.
The next meeting Of the Featherstone
Grange will be held at the Town Hall at
two o'clock in the afternoon instead of even
ing. All members are urgently requested
to be present. This is one of the oldest
Oranges in the State, and we are glad to
see them wheeling into line for the Winter
campaign.
Year: 1874

GOODS AT Your OWN Prices
mons, Olson & Bush in pursuance of their
plan to close out their business, are selling
their goods off at auction. You can now
get your goods at wholesale cost prices
during the day and at your own prices ev-
cry evening.
Year: 1874

Many hesitate to try remedy for dik
ease, on account of the expense, connected
with the uncertainty Of its bene6ting them;
while at the same time, had they confidence
in that remedy, the expense would be the
least objection. With this fact in view, we
make the following proposition: Any per-
son suffering with cold, cough or sore
throat, that will call at F. A. Poole's Drug
Store and purchase bottle of HA1E's
Cough CORDIAL, use one-half of it, and if
they then conclude that it is doing them no
good, they can return the bottle and re-
ceive back their money.


No medicine ever sold in this vicinity,
that produced such magical results. Don't
fail to try it.


Orange Williams, Prop, GAINESVILLE, Wis.
Year: 1874

Rowland Hill, when at college, was
remarkable for the frequent witness of
his observations. In conversation on
the powers of the letter Fl, in which it
was contended that it was no letter, but
a simple aspiration or breathing, Row
land took the opposite of the question,
and insisted on its being, to all intents
and purposes, letter and concluded by
observing that if it we're not. it was a
very serious affair to him, as it would
occasion his being i'll all the days Of his
Efe