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Year: 1874

never dare to pursue such experiences
further. 1 couldn't endure a queens
life at all if should go back to school. y


"Have you never thought OF any sort
Of career for the future ,"
Year: 1874

Oh, let me tell you little bit about myself once in a while. I wouldn't take all the books of the Alexandrian library for the comfort get out of nature. Nay, had almost said, I would rather lose my Bible than my world. There is no sunlight that does not speak to me of God. I sit down on the hillside in the summer afternoon, and the grasshopper jumps over me freshman like, jumping first end looking where he will land afterward. I sit so still that the birds forget me, and sing as though I was not there. The ants creep all over me. I am in fellowship with all. am never so near to Him. This earth is cathedral, whose windows are painted with rare beauty. Every day is leaf in Gods outside Bible. I did not once enjoy all this, but I owe to Ruskin more than to any theologian. Eyes I had, but saw not, ears had, but didn't hear. I have become Hebra- ized. I have gone back to the noble stock. to the people who learned to dis cover the invisible God by the use oi things seen
Year: 1874

A singular tale of malice comes from Philadelphia. One of the hotels there turned away a guest for bad behavior, and he swore he would have his re- venge. Shortly after, the New York papers all stated that an actress had the smallpox, and had contracted it at the hotel in question from occupying g room in which a man had died of the disease. Moreover, circular, detail ing the story, was sent to prominent hotels all over the country. In fact, however, neither the actress nor the hotel in question had the smallpox, and detectives are after the supposed libeler.
Year: 1874

AN APPEA1--There is infinite pathos

 in that scene in the woman's crusade against whisky, where two women brought two helpless babes to 8 saloon, and held the little fellows over the counter in appeal against the venal rum seller They were the children of drunken fathers, who procured most of the liquors that brought these helpless innocents to want at this same counter l
Year: 1874

The we'll known destructive character
istics Of Monarchical society are rapidly
appearing in America. The centres Of
commercial activity and banking capitol
are having now but two classes.


The naughty, avaricious rich on one
side, and the miserably poor on the
other. These are two conditions into
which our society are fast drifting.


That great middle class Of plain people
who receive compensating wages and
live free Of debt are disappearing. The
malstrom Of an engulphing money power
is evidently drawing all oth{r Interests
into the eddying circle Of id Ipxn un-
satisfying selfshness The lab boring
man is hourly concerned lest tom |orrow
he may not be able to furnish meat and
bread to wife and children. He has a
strong and willing arm for labor, but
monopoly has placed its veto upon the
further working of the factory, it sus-
pends and Of course thrown out Of en-
ployment, he seeks in vain for a Job, he
suffers, waits and pines for return of
the good old days. But, Mr.. Capitol
Monopoly sees fit to make financial
corner and hence the tight times. All,
who can faithfully portray the myriad
scenes Of suffering and heart anguish
that follow in the wake of corner, as
wiokedly made by stock and gold gam
blers.


The money question that now en-
crosses the attention Of the people is the
absorbing vital issue of the day.
The present political parties are
poverless to give relief: They have
served their day. The whole nation
calls loudly for an amicable settlement
Of the pending dispute between labor
and subsidized money power.-Bu6a-
10 Anti- Monopol;st.
Year: 1874

TO buy all the land one can is like a
merchant paying all his money for a
building.


An unusually large demand for
shortrhorns, particularly for young bulls,
is reported in Wisconsin.


Before the fall of man" the only
occupation was farming. All other
pursuits have been introduced since.


IF every milk pail in the country
leaked so much as to lose half it's con-
tents: the loss would be no greater than
the loss arising from bad butter.


Josiah Smith says -" Pass strap
around the COW just forward of the I'D
der, and buckle it just as tight as you
can, and then look out that the COW does
not fall on you when she attempts to
kick. She will try it but few times
and it will cure without hurting her.


AS persistent and profitable produc
ers of eggs, hens which are a cross be-.
tween gamecock and black Spanish hen
are strongly recommended by an Eng
lish breeder. He says they are small
and black, but they yield average sized
eggs never desire to sit, and seldom cease
to lay even for a day except at moulting
time.


There is one especial advantage in
keeping farm accounts. By knowing
what corn, oats, wheat, barley, rye and
roots cost, or what they bring in market
or how far they will go in feeding, it can
be ascertained which will pay best. Not
to keep accounts is a good deal as if a
merchant should sell his goods without
knowing what they cost.


"A foreign z.vant asserts that the
decay Of wood arises from Internal and
not external moisture, andSo foag as
free evaporation is allowed 6dcxy will
not very readily: set in. 1t would be
very absurd to SPY that norpaint ought
to be used in the interior Of a house,
but it is certain that a piece of wood
painted on both sides will not last
nearly so long as one not painted at all.
The reason is evident"


The deterioration Of the potato and
its diseases has attracted a good deal Of
attention in this country and Europe
and it has been suggested by expert.
enced 1hen in both countries that the
plant needs regenerating and that this
may be done By seeking for healty ma
tive plants in those portions of South
America where it is indigenous. bring
them by cultivation in their native
habitat to a good, degree Of perfection,
and bring the earliest and best of them
hither and thus obtain seedlings of orig.
inal health and visor. Almost simultan-
eously have these pgggestions been made
in England and America. y"
Year: 1874

Lord Coleidge, an English judge,
on recent trial, was compelled to ask the
counsel to explain what was meant by
perch or rod, as the defects of his Ok
ford had left him ignorant Of it; the
barrister, no wiser than his Honor, re.
piled that the length of the rod varies,
but in most cases is 16 feet. Our
schooln,aster declares that in the edu-
cation of thisjudge and his lawyer the rod
was used too spa aringly.


Mr.. D. W. Herstine, of Philadel-
phia, very successful strawberry grow
er, practices seeding down his strawberry
beds to oats as mulch for them. He
sows oats broadcast over his strawberry
patch in the fall. After it has made
considerable growth it is checked by
frost and falls down over the plants,
making a complete and sufficient cover
ing till spring: 1t may be well to make
note Of this in your memorandum book
that you may act upon it the coming au-
tumn.


Some timely hints relative to the
sowing Of clover were given at a meet
ing of a farmers club in Scotland. The
speaker said that owing to the small size of
the seeds large proportion of them are
buried too deeply and fail to germinate.
1t had been found by experiment that
the greatest success with red clover is
attained when the seed is~coyered with
only half an inch of soil; when, covered
one and half inches deep so per cent,
Of the seed germinate, but a depth of
two inches not single plant appearedk
White clover will not show al bove the
surface if the seeds are co1ered one
and half inches deep, and at three
quarters of an inch only so per cent. of
the seeds produce plants. It is neces-
sary, therefore, to prepare carefully
soil for clover, and to SOW and cover it
with discretion. Rolling helps to secure
fine seed bed, and consequently an
even distribution
Year: 1874

/, Senator Carpenters resolution calling for
the recognition of Cuban belligerency de-
serves special attention from the Congress of
the United States. It is now well nigh six
years since the people Of Cuba rose in arms
against hateful rule, and during
that period they have gallantly sus-
tanned the struggle for independence
against all odds. Public opinion
has time and again spoken in favor of the
recognition of Cuban independence, but the
mysterious power that rules Congress from
the lobbies has always interposed veto to
the popular will. Before the President had
fallen into the hands Of selfish politicians he
was in favor of manly and self-respecting
policy with regard to Spain; but latterly the
mysterious power that influences Congress
in favor Of Spain seems to have made General
Grant forget the advice Of true men like
Rawlins to hearken to the sophistry Of the pro-
Spanish party. Only few months past the
Washington government allowed itself to be
snubbed and the sovereign right of the ma
tional flag to be trampled on under the pre-
tence of aiding republicanism in Spain. Now,


when military dictatorship has been
established mainly through the gold and in
fuence of the Cuban shareholders. the
attitude of the Washington government is
not less friendly than when CASTELAR, ruled
at M1drid. The war carried on by Spain
in Cuba will end, as oil her wdrs in
America have ended, by the final withdrawal
of the Spanish forcea Had Spain the power
to suppress the insurrection it would
long since have been suppressed; but,


so far from this being the case,


the power and influence of the insurgents
grow stronger every day. If they were
allowed to supply themselves freely with
arms and ammunition the end of the conflict
would not be remote. The interests Of human
Year: 1874

Such is the news telegraphed from Key
West, Fla. Startling and painful as this
announcement is, it will hardly surprise any
one. For any American citizen to be charged
with communicating with the Cuban insur-
gents, for whatever purpose, is tantamount to
a conviction and sentence to the severest PEN
atty by the brutal Spanish authorities in Cuba.
Dockery, who was at one time collector in
Florida, and, therefore, presumably an Amer
ican citizen, was arrested on the charge that
he had come from the interior and had been
communicating with the insurgents The
American Consul at Nuevitas was arrested, too,
on the ground that Dockery had told him of
his journey to the interior; but the Consul
was released We have not the particulars of
the charge against Dockery. If they are
ever given they will be, no doubt colored in
true Spanish STYLE to make the offence appear
highly criminal. Trials in Cuba are one
sided and go all one way, particularly when
American citizens are the victims and when
their cases appear to have any reference to the
escape from death our own correspondent
had for merely seeking information for the
public within the insurgent lines. Had he
been executed the Spaniards would have made
the most damaging charges false though they
would have been, of completely with the
Cubans. It is as likely that poor Dockerys
character, action or motives may have been
blackened to justify the bloody and atrocious
conduct of the Spaniards in his case. In no
other country called civilized would death be
pronounced upon such charge or Consul
arrested on such fimsy pretext. Had the
Consul been the representative of the British
government he would not have been arrested,
and if Dockery had been British subject it is
not likely the Spanish authorities would have
proceeded to such extremities The Spaniards
know we'll that the American government does
not protect its citizens, and mock at its puerile
and reiterated protests. 1t is the old and
often repeated story of outrages upon Ameri-
can citizens, and there will, perhaps, be the
same talk about investigation, which will end
in nothing. The motto 'Let us have peace"
is carried out fully; but it is alas the peace
Of national humiliation. When Dockery is
dead explanations will be made, probably, and
placed on file in the State Department, to be
heard of no more.
Year: 1874

demands of navigation. So far as possible
One line should be . safe-conduct or q convoy
for another. It should be made matter
Of penalty for any ocean steamers to go
beyond these lines except in stress of weather.
More than all, it would be wise for our in
surance companies in taking risks upon
passenger steamers, to impose for
feiture in the event of this rule being broken.


We must surround navigation with every safe
guard The equipment Of all vessels, espe-
cially in the matter of engines and Ifeboats,
should be conscientiously considered. We
fear the boilers and propelling screws and
sidewheels of outgoing vessels ore only NOM
inally examined When we reflect upon what
may result from the breaking of screw or
wheel in mid-ocean, when we think of the
number of lives dependent upon the honest
construction of machinery, we see the awful
importance of the inspection of every seagoing
vessel before its voyage There is scarcely
week in which We do not see ship come
crawling and painting into port in
a helpless condition. Sordid owners
send their vessels to sea trusting to
chance to reach other coasts If the
ships go down all material losses are covered
by insurance. AS to the loss Of mere men be-
fore the mast it is only an imperceptible ad-
dition to the death rate, for Chance is o
good master even in crossing the ocean, and
we find him sailing many vessels. But better
masters than Chance are Care and Discipline.
Trv3ct in, L.
but at the same time look to keel and sail and
take care of the pumps Our fault in America,
and in England likewise, is that we leave
navigation to the unchecked control of mer-
chants and shipping companies. They care
only for freights in winter and pantry COM
forts in summer. Accordingly we constantly
incur those risks which destroyed SO many
lives on the Arctic and threatened the loss of
SO many on the Europe and the Amerique.


Let the great maritime nations therefore
come together and revise the whole system of
sea navigation. Let there be an agreement
in the matter Of steam lanes Immediately.
This can be arranged in an hour with q pair
of compasses and map. Let us have o con-
vention deciding the equipment of vessels,
their freights and passenger accommodations,
and anticipating as far as possible every danger
Of the sea. In time we may may make sea
travel so safe that there will be no disasters
but what are really unavoidable accidents.
As yet we have never made q serious effort to
control the sea, and calamities are continually
occurring which arise not from the ordinary
dangers Of the ocean, but from an imperfect
system of navigation.
Year: 1874

TIE CENTENNIAL print elsewhere an
eloquent appeal from John Welsh, of Phila-
delphia, the chairman of ''The Centennial
Board of Finance" This document sets forth
clearly the present condition of the movement
in favor of o centennial celebration of Ameri-
can independence in Philadelphia on July 4,
1875 This is o subject which largely interests
our neighbors and friends in Philadelphia,
and we are glad to see that the public spirited
citizens of that patriotic city show so much
zeal and resolution in their work. Nothing
would be more gratifying to the citizens of
New York, and, we are sure, to those Of every
other city in the Union, than celebration
that would fttingly commemorate the virtues
and courage Of the revered men who pro-
claimed liberty in Independence Hail. and at
the same time show what progress the Re
public has made in century of national ex-
jstenoa
Year: 1874

the main features of the budget; resolution
was Immediately passed in favor of the aboii-
ton of the sugar duties, and Thursday next
was fixed for the discussion of the budget In
detail Mr.. Disraeli is to be congratulated on
the skill which he has shown and on the sue
cess which so far has attended his present
term of power. The British people are to be
Congratulated on the financial prosperity OF
the Empire
Year: 1874

RECONSTRUCTION IN ARKANSAS. Arkansas
there is another republican monstrosity. That
State, like nearly all the others, was recon-
structed not on any sound political principles,
but merely with view to putting into the
great offices men who would increase the pub
lie revenues and divert them from proper
public purposes into the pockets of distin-
guished and influential republicans. In the
prosecution of this simple programme quar-
rel arose between the important instruments
and one of the parties to the quarrel put up an
honest man for Governor and somehow got
him into Office But the honest man has
proved an obstacle, so the parties to the quar-
rel have made up their differences and in
combination have managed to get out Baxter
and put in Brooks but the two sides are in
arms face to face, and the final result is not
clear.
Year: 1874

perhaps, other lines. But it is recent GUS
tom. The Inman managers took warning
from the dreadful fate Of the City Of Boston.
This vessel is believed to have gone down in o
hurricane by striking an iceberg So the
directors have selected . southerly route.
The Cunard owners did the same thing, and
so wise is this precaution that we feel that no
steamer should be permitted to cross the ocean
with passengers, under either the English or
the American flag, that did not adopt the same
plan.


This, we think, is the first lesson. So i'm
portant do we regard it that we feel that
General Grant could do nothing more popu-
lar at this time than to address commune
cation to the governments of France, Belgium,
Germany and England, asking for o conven-
ton between these countries to consider sea
navigation. 1t happens, most unhappily that
all Of our European steamers sail under foreign
flags and are not within our jurisdiction. We
have, therefore, no power over them beyond
quarantine and dock regulations. We may
exercise the power of public opinion, but that
is uncertain and capricious What we need is
o code OF International rules concerning the
sea. In this we are more interested than any
other people. Our citizens use the ocean as Q
summer highway. Hundreds Of thousands Of
our best citizens come to US from Europe, as
hundreds of thousands will come in the future.
While foreign authorities are happy enough to
see Americans as pleasure-seekers they would
gladly place an embargo upon emigration.
So, in approaching any matter of this kind, we
would encounter only hah-willingness to
treat for rules that will simplify sea travel and
make it more secure.


AT the same time our government, if it
enters into the question with any earnestness,
will compel negotiations that must result in
an advantage. We must have definite steam
lanes laid down in charts. These lanes should
] be as narrow o. possible consistent with the
Year: 1874

Persons receiving the GAZETTE with a RED Y
MARK on it, notified that their subscription is
due for the current volume, and they are respect
fully requested at once to remit the subscription
Year: 1874




A tall, square man, straight as a
pine and rugged as a larch a man
in plain attire. with an ample brow,
and gray retiriring eyes, firm nose
and chin, a hard coarse mustache
a strongly knit, a self contained, a
forward sort Of man, apparently
all nerve and brain, with ready word
and open laughter on his lips, and a
countenance so bold and frank that
silence, if per chance he should be
silent, might appear to hide some
ominous thought-such was Bis
marck Won Sconhausen as he passed
me under the linden an hour ago as
hoar and kingly as a winter frost.
Gaze on that frame from head TO
foot, frame as erect and stiff as
though the bones were steel, the
outer covering mail. The man is
all piece, strong. ready, blunt, ag-
gressiye, with fixed belief in fact,
in science, in the rule Of three
The CLEAN of superstition fingers on
the faoe-no doubt, no sentiment,
no weakness. no remorse. A rocky
and unsympathizing face it seems to
casual lockers on. When laughter
passes from the ample brow to the
unsparing lip, the radience is moro
like the flash on FURNISHED metal
than the more poetic play of fesh
and blood.
Year: 1874

How WE DROP OFr.-Ten thousand
human beings set forth together on their
journey. After ten years one-third at
least have disappeared. At the middle
point of the common measure of life,
but half are still on the road. Faster and
faster. as the ranks grow thinner, they
that remain till now become weary and
lie down to rest no more. At three score
and ten band of some 400 still struggle
on. At ninety these have been reduced
to handful of thirty trembling patri-
archs. Year after year they fall in di-
minishing numbers. One fingers, per-
haps, lonely marvel, till the century is
over, We look again and the work Of
death is finished.
Year: 1874

fused to fire on the men had Grant NM
self been present and ordered 1t. 1heSe
men have not all forgotten Lexington
and old Pitcairn, who uttered a similar
cry to the citizens of that town at the
order of King George III. before ir'hs
on the people then and there assembled
God in his mercy has not yet deprived


the people of the sacred right q reyoiu
ton
Year: 1874

REMOVING DANDRUFP-A solution of
common bOrax is certainly the very best wash
for cleaning the head from dandruf. It is
the main Ingredient in the shampooring
washes, to which perfume is added but
do not make it too strong. Certain constitu-
tions cannot etaud this. A strong solution
of borax will attact the scalp in such man.
per IS to cause some of the hair to come ont.
But in any case borax will ipjure the health
NO more than washing with good soap, and
it is better than many kinds of inferior soap.


To POLISH BRAss.-Rub the metal with
rotten stone and sweet oil, then rub off with
piece of cotton flannel, and polish with soft
leather. A solution of ozalic acid rubbed
over furnished brass soon removes the tarDish,
rendering the metal bright. The acid must
be washed of with water and the brass rubbed
with whiting and soft leather. A mixture Of
muriatic acid and alum dissolved in water i'm
parts golden color to brass articles that arS
STEPPED in it for few seconds.
Year: 1874

DFTrOIT. Feb. 24.-It is now probable
that aR tie fishermen on the floating Ice
in Saginaw Bay will reach shore IN safety.
Two hundred reached shore last night
The others, who were on another held'
have been driven TO the west shore by a
change in wind, so they can probably land
easily. The report that Smith and Farrler
were drowned. is not true.
Year: 1874

A Tines correspondent writing about the
session of the Grange, says as a Grange it
has done nothing Of a political character,
but a number Of its members have held
two informal meetings, at the last of which
a committee of one from each Congressional
district in the State was appointed to at
tend to political matters during the interim
of sessions of the State Grange. 4 ma
jority Of this body has power
TO call the committee together at
any time to examine the merits OF
candidates for political Office, and will ad-
wise subcommittee of county councils,
who will give information to Changers re-
garding such candidates. There is evident
determination on the part of considera-
bic number OF GTangelS to make their in
fiuence felt in the next election. There is,
in fact, an unorganized party in this
State Grange, who believe in speaking
out and telling what is wanted
in the way of representative men. They
desire to say to tie world that the object of
the Grange is not only 10 benefit its mem
bers inside, but the entire country, if pos
sible, through the influence exerted by this
organization of farmers, and they ask the
cooperation of other laboring classes, in
order that complete revulsion of senti-
ment in regard to the conduct of public
affairs, may be effected.
Year: 1874

cial means TO aid them. Imitation would
still more depress the agricultural interests
Of the South and West, and that interest
was the chief source of wealth to those sec
tions. IL is true the New England States
had an excess of the National bank circu-
lation, but the establishment of additional
National bsRks in the South and West
would not remedy the ieEil. The Senator
from InGiana had argued that the organiza-
ton of new National Banks would be to
increase the currency, as money would be
loaned by them, and returned to the bank
every 90, 90, and 80 days. That argument
was