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Year: 1879

We zee the same spot used for a kitch-
en- garden year after year, decade after
decade generations. This is not advis-
able. Fresh sou, with its sod, is the
thing for our country gardens (the cities
and large villages cannot expect to have
ir.) They are clean, they are mellow,
they make a healthy and not over-bear-
ing growth, contributing, l think, to i'm
proved quality. After being used a few
years for the growth of garden stuff, the
plat can be put to corn, potatoes, cab
bage, or some other crop. 1t Is pretty
sure TO grow 1t well and leave the land
In condition to be seeded again 1t may
he necessary IL some cases to fence off
the plat, the expense of which is not
much. In other cases, as in meadow
or plowed field, the fence is not neces-
sary. The ground thus devoted TO the
garden may extend as far into the field
as may be desirable, and in whatever
form that Is wished, giving 1t pleasant
appearance. In this way the garden is
made a part of the farm proper, az i
should be, and can be made remunerative
and need not be inconvenient of access
If manure is used as for some plants ano
some treatment it may be necessary, lei
1t be, If possible, some well rotted com
post. II made with particular view tt
the needs OF the garden, thick sod OF
sufficiently dry soil, turned down earl,
10 the spring or late fall, and afterwar,
thoroughly mixed with the soil, whicl
can be done by horse culture, noth nj
could be SO well adapted to our countr
gardening.
Year: 1879

WALL STREET YESTERDAY The
stock market was active and strong.
Government bonds were stronger, States
lower and railroads higher. Money OH
call lent at 8 81 per cent, advanced to
I per cent and closed at A per cent.
Year: 1879

1t is a hopeful sign of the times
that renewed activity is permeat-
ing every branch of the iron trade.
Prices are rapidly advancing, and
the demand In many branches of
the trade is so great that several
mills in the State have refused to
take orders for future delivery ex-
cept at largely advanced figures.
This industry, perhaps, has suffered
more during the hard times than
any other, and Its recovery to its
former position will be a positive
blessing to the country at large
81. louis Republican.
Year: 1879

IT Is said that the management
Of the Grand Opera House lost
81, 900 on their venture to delectate
San Francisco audience with an
Intensely vivid representation of
the awful event on Mount Calvary.
The strictly religious, rigidly ortho-
dox and thoroughly pure inhabi-
tants Of the Bay City couldn't stand
Year: 1879

A bronze figure OF Confederate SOL
dier, measuring seven feet in hight and
weighing nearly one thousand pounds,
has recently been finished at the Ma
tional Fine-Ar Foundery, in New York.
1t was modelled by the sculptor Rich
ards, and is to surmount the shaft Of
the Soldiers Memorial in Savannah,
Ga. The figure repr-sents private Oh
the Confederate army. The stock OF his
gun rests on the ground st his feet, and
the fixed bayonet extends from the top
of the barrel in front of his shoulder
He wears a belt, with cap box and car
fridge box, and on the clasp Of the bel
are the letters &c S."
Year: 1879

Singular Csmbinatiea Of CslOrs.


This morning As a reporter OF the Re-
PUBLICAN was passing along Eighth
street near Poplar his attention was at
tracted to house being painted dark
color with drab nantes over the vim
dows and the window sills and frames
are painted white.
Year: 1879

THE MOTHER RULES THE WoRLD.-It is
hard for a young mother, who. has not yet
overcome the wayward tendencies of her
own youthful nature, to realize the influ-
ence she exerts over her little ones. She is
constantly surrounded by critical imitators


who copy her morals and manners. AS the
mother is SO are her sons and daughters. If
a family of children are blessed with an in
teligent mother, who is dainty and refined
in her manners and does not consider it
necessary to be one woman in the drawing
room and an entirely different person in
everyday life, but who is true mother and
always tender, charming woman, you will
invariably see her habits Of speech and per-
feet manners repeated in her children.--
Great, rough men and noisy, busy boys will
always tone down their voices, and step
lightly, and try to be more manpeTly, when
she stops to give them Kind word or a
pleasant smile; for true mother will never
fail to say or do all the pleasant things she
can that will in any way help to lift up and
cheer those whose lives are shaded with
care and toll. The mother of TO- day rules
the world of tomorrow Think of it, dear
sisters, and guard well your home treasures.
Year: 1879

Not with empty, meaningless forms OF
expression, that are only surface deep,
but with the earnest words, and kindly
acts that come straight from the heart.
We crush back too often the pleasant
speech that would help to strengthen our
faith in human nature. Daily we might
do much more to help and tighten the
burdens mother has to carry-the dear
one who never wearies in doing for her
children, who seldom repay in every
measure the wreath of affection showered
upon them.


How pleasant and cheering would be
the impulsive caress, the cordial thanks,
the thoughtful act, the encouraging
smile, that would Tighten the heart, and
give her renewed ambition to work for
those she loves.


This lack of appreciation drives back
SO many warm impulses. How many
devoted wives quietly wiring their hands
fondly plighted them at the altar, to
means provided, are not all--who yearn
for the helpful words, that they may feel
all their untiring efforts to please have
not been unnoticed, or thrown away
simple acts, simple words, and yet how
often they are left undone, and left nm
said, and the want of their expression,
added another paid to hearts that already
suffer enough. Do unto othert as We
would be done by. How the burdens
people carry would be lifted, and the
troubled soothed away, if this rule was
only carried out, and what bright,
glad world this would be to live in and
enjoy.


How often the cheering word would
be spur to untiring exertien, tails
man against evil, brace to bear up un-
der many loads eff troubles = would
sweeten the hours of daily toll. To feel
that somebody loves and cares for you,
feels an interest in your joys and sor-
rows, your good luck and vicissitudes,
sympathizes with your troubles and
manifests an interest by words and
deeds, that comfort and feel like bless
ing, when you feel discouraged, and
wonder what there is i'll life worth living
for and toiling after. Cheer each other.
The heart goes out in a rain of gratitude
to the ones who bring us comfort and
needed encouragement, and help us to
bear our troules. We all yearn for a
little human love, care and sympathy.
Many woman loses heart when she
never hears word of praise from her
husband.


A celebrated actress said: ''You can
never know how cheering to the heart
is the round of applause that calls up be-
fore the curtain and tells us that our
efforts to please have been appreciated. ;"
We do not stop to realize the good we
might do trying to cheer each other and
bring more Joy into others lives. Do
not live purely for self, but strive to do
all that lies within the power, to comfort
one another, to cheer and brighten the
existence of those whom we come in con-
tact.
Year: 1879

SENSIBLE VACATIoNS.-This is busy
world and country. Everywhere can be
heard the sounds of reviving industries
and business. Men that for weeks and
months have been idle are suddenly
hearing of calls for their dormant ener-
gies and powers. Everyone is glad for
the changes, indeed we are beginning to
hear of wishes for holiday, or day off
from work or business. Among busi-
ness men at least this desire should be
granted. We are apt to think that, if we
can during the summers heat and dull
ness get away from our business for
few days or a week, all our needs in the
way of recreation and rest are fully met.
This, however, is not SO; the season and
time for our vacation and play spells is
badly chosen We also err in leav-
ing home for our. holidays. We
do not wish to be misunder-
stood as declaring against the
value to us of change of scenery or
place, but the matter is carried too far.
We all think that in order to have an en-
joyable time we must don our best bib
and tucker, and away. All the time we
are away it is expected of us that we are
to be on dress parade, and through the
severity of the requirements of etiquette
and dress all our enjoyment is lost. The
right way for our merchants and clerks
to enjoy vacation best is, to take and
give it regularity. Once week let one
of the proprietors or clerks be spared
half day or an evening, and spend those
few hours at home with their friends.
There are those of our business men
to whom the greatest strangers in
town are their own families, especially
if there are little cnes there. They
are up and away to the calls of
their store or Office before the eyes of the
children are unsealed from sleep, and
excepting the few moments at dinner
when the children are in from school
land even this they miss if they do not
go home promptly at twelve) hardly, see
them from Monday morning until Satur-
day night; and then they are greatly sur
prised to be told that their sons are be-
coming roughs. Give us the home vaca-
tions in plenty; give us a better chance
to know our children, occasionally even
to get down on the floor and romp with
them, that will perhaps lead us to look
back through the web of years that have
passed with us since boyhood's days, and
we are certain twill make better men of
us, as well as fit us the more earnestly
and with more strength to engage in the
duties of the coming morrow.--l Kings
ton Courier.
Year: 1879

MlsrLEToE AT CHRIsTMAs-TIDE.--The
hanging of the mistletos is cause of much
frolic and laughter in the house. 1t is the
rule that whoever is passing under the mis-.
tletos.bough must submit to being kissed then
and there by whoever chooses to take that
liberty. As bough usually hangs from the
centre of the ceiling, spreading over a large
space, it follows that there must be much
dodging or much kissing; l am inclined to
think that there are both.


The origin of this use of the mistletoe is not
known but we do know that more than eigh'
teen hundred years ago, when the glad stars
Year: 1879

II Mr.. Tllden's barrel should unhap-


ly run out before he gets around to
Kentucky, possibly he might manage
to recommend himself to the Democrats
OF that State by trying to induct a
trunk or two Of clothing infected with
yellow fever into some Northern cities.
The result Of the recent election in
Kentucky, indicates that the Democrats
out there consider that that kind of a
thing is a demonstration OF a mans fit-
ness to sit In an Executive chair.
Year: 1879

was covered with a very friendly


blanket of snow.


With vigorous push 1 threw my


blanket off, and a most curious
spectacle presented itself to my


astonished gaze.


The black clouds had passed away,


and the bright morning moon shone


down upon the ground covered with


q white mantle of eight inches Of
snow. Looking around me, as far
as the eye could reach in every di-
rection, saw nothing but the un-
broken snow covering, which ap-
Psared to be mounds or graves In
every conceivable position. / was
sitting upright in my own grave In
the middle of a huge cemetery.


Not human being could L dis
cover anywhere, while everything
was as still as death itself.


While / was wrapt in the con-
temptation of so wonderful a scene
the bugle at headquarters, a quarter
of mile off, sounded the reveille
and 10, what q changel In an i'm
stant the quiet scenery was alive
all the men arose at once from their
snow graves, and what was thestill-
ness of death but a moment before
was now hustle and activity. In
stantly the text flashed through my |
mind "The trumpet shall sound and |
the dead shall be raised" Words
fail me in describing my feelings at
the moment of this occurrence.
Had any idea of the time / would
have called some of my comrades.
AS it was, am fortunate enough to
De probably the only person who
has really seen a prototype Of the
Year: 1879

Several of our exchanges are dis
cussing the wagon tax, as bearing
on the industry of hauling for pay.
The law allows the State to collect
$40, the county, $40 for county pur-


poses, and where there Is railway
debt for railway purposes. There is
$40 also for city purposes. This is
$42, counting fees, on a twO-horse
wagon, or so on an express cart or
wagon. This tax was placed on
wagons In 1867, when everything


was pitched on higher key, and
when the property tax was so cents.
The rate is beyond all reason now.
Then, wagon and team cost at
least double what they cost now.
Now a wagon and team can be had
for $50 or 5000, This would be
about % per cent. of tax on property
used, in what is very small busi-
ness. On team costing $3.50, when
the State tax is only 10 cents on the
500, and the combined taxation
less than 81 on the $1O0-in all but a
few of the most heavily taxed
counties, this Is at about the rate of
$6 on the 500. This operates haPshly
upon a class of men who should by
all means not be oppressed by harsh
rates. Those who make living
driving wagons are not able to pay
$42, nor $22. The effect would be
to drive out all the men who own
single team, to throw the business
into a few hands, and to enable
them to get even by throwing the
burden back on the public. The
poor man who drives his single
team for living cannot stand it.
1t Is an enormous tax upon a man
with many teams, but when all
others are driven out of competl-
tIon he may get even. Both suffer
In the process, but one, the poor
man, loses that opportunity to live
by his labor. The tendency Is like
the enormous tax on tobacco, which
drives the manufacturing into a few
hands, to give the hauling to few.
This is unwise. The man who, as
we know was the case a few years
ago, worked a crop during the sum-
mer and sought the benefit of edu-
cation for his children and the
means of making q living in town
w ~ makOh 10 SAS OA
by this enormous tax. 1t directly
affects the farming community be-
cause it directly affects the terminal
charges upon what they sell and
what they buy. Nor can those who
haul for profit evade the municipal
tax, for all the profitable hauling
for this class begins or ends in town.
The result of it will be that in the
end all hauling will be concentrated
in few hands. When that Is done
those engaged In the business can
get even, but, meantime, all those
of small means will be driven out of
the business to seek some other
means of living, or to become
drivers for those of larger means,
instead of proprietors of their own
teams. There Is no ground on
which such large and unequal tax
on this occupation can be Justified
much larger now than it was in
l867-even If only the State and
county tax be collected.
Year: 1879

A letter from Rome to the Pail


Mall Gazette says:


In little village away upon the


Province of Udine, on the borders


of Italia Irred0nta, there is a great


alarm and c0mmotion for the


young girls of the place, one after


another, are showing outward and


visible signs of being possessed by a


devil. According to all accounts,


there are now about thirty young


women in this unhappy condition.


Why the evil one should have Sc
lected so obscure a village for his
operations does not seem quite clear.
Indeed, the blame is not laid on
him, but on the priests. Inquiries
made by the authorities have elicit
ed the fact that in Lent last year
series of discourses were delivered
by priest, in which he described
at great length and with much de-
tail the pains of hell; thereby terri
flying weak young women that they
were already lost and that the devil
had entered into them. The priests,
who at first were rather pleased
WIN the IMPRESSION luelT DFOln6F
made, have since found that though
they had raised the spirit they had
no power to lay it again. Holy
water produced no effect, the most |
exorcisms fail, and even
such practical measures as beating
the person affected have been found |
useless.


While the fit of madness is on the
possessed" they crow like cocks, |
Or NEW like cats, or bark and howl |
like dogs and wolves. What Is |
worse, they shock their neighbors |
by blasphemOus and obscene |
language, being especially violent |
against the priests, cursing them for
their inability to relieve suffering by
casting out the devil. The prefect
1t the province has sent a commits
lion to Verzeghis, the name of the
village, to see what can be done to
top the progress of this madness;
or, by force of example and terror,
t threatens to spread. The people
If the district cannot be persuaded
)ut that the devil is really at large
ImOng them,


Hysterical hypochondria. ED.
CHRONICLE,
Year: 1879




1t was during the winter of 1864
IS, which will long be remembered
by the soldiers who took part in the
campaign in the Valley of Virginia,
as one which tried mems souls and
their heels also, that the thrilling
scene occurred which ] am about to
describe,


The old Fourth Cavalry was on
forced march down the Valley to
meet a column of the enemy which
was advancing, and after q days
ride went into bivOuac just as night
fell on the roadside.


We did not have the "cigars and
cognae," as the old song says, with
which ito bivouao," so after hasty
''bite of something to eat" and
picketing and feeding horses, we
soon rolled ourselves, head and ears,
In our blankets, and lay prone upon
the frozen ground.


To a tired soldier sleep comes
quickly, and with it almost entire
oblivion he rarely dreams, SO
hardly more than minute elapsed
after the lying down before the en-
tire camp was as silent as the grave.


While preparing for rest we had
been notified Of a coming snow
storm, not only by black clouds
which hung heavily in the north
east, but by heralds in the shape Of
cutting snowfiakes propelled by the
wintry blast.


It was fearful cold !; so bitter was
it, indeed, it was thought expedient
to dispense with the usual camp
guard so as to enable all to obtain
whatever of comfort was possible
under the circumstances.


The regiment at that time num-
bered between six and seven hum
dred men, who, soldier-like, caring
only for the present and unmindful
of the morrow, slept soundly and, !
may add, rapidly.


/ had slept as had supposed only
a few minutes when / suddenly
awoke to consciousness, being made
aware of an immense pressure upon
me accompanied with intolerable
heat.


In attempting to move i found
myself, as it were, packed tightly
in a mould, which / fitted exactly,
and was unable to turn either
right or left. i soon found that !
Year: 1879

The Missouri Legislature has a


bill to regulate the lending of money
in that State, and 6 citizen Of Lex
ington, Missouri, writes concerning
the bill as follows:


"If a man Is far-seeing enough to
borrow money at 10, or even 70 per
cent, and make Il profitable, II ne
not entitled to the reward Of hls
sagacity 2" Precisely the same idea
was advanced yesterday by one of
our most enterprising farmers In a
conversation with me. He said
that just after the war he had a
large crop of corn which, from its
situation and other circumstances,
was virtually worthless to him un-
less he could buy cattle to feed IL to,
Few men then had the nerve 10
venture in anything, least of an 70
lend money. But he got money at
l8 per cent. and bought the cattle,
and, as no said, 81 made more
money out Of that Is per cent.
money than / have ever made on
10 per cent. money" He went on
to say that he could see no reason
why money should not be worth
what 1t would bring, nor why Leg
islatures should attempt to deprive
men of their just rights I'm borrow
ing and loaning money.


The principal business of our
banks Is with the farmers, and j
have taken pains to talk 10 good
many of them on this subject, and
without exception they not only
declare themselves opposed to the
proposed legislation, but also saw
that they "think the price Of money
will regulate ITSELF" and that ga
mans money is worth what Il will
bring" These sensible and liberal
views being held by the farmers,
the question Is for whom are the
Legislators passing usury laws3
Year: 1879

A young German came to California,
nearly thirty years ago, determined to
get rich. He worked hard. He lived
cheaply as possible Every dollar that
he earned or saved he invested in real es-
tate, or loaned at four per cent month
on good security. The result was that he
became millionaire. Yet when his in
come was nearly q million year, he
lived in shabby apartments, and boarded
at the cheapest restaurants. His one OBJ
ject in life was the accumulation of prop
erty. Everybody regarded him as a cold,
blooded, close fsted. i;on>hearted man.


This successful (?) miser brought dis
ease upon him by overwork, and the doc
tors prescribed for him sea voyage, so
he determined to visit his native land
He went to celebrated watering place
hoping to be benefited by its baths. The
village where his parents had lived and
were buried was five miles distant. He
thought that he would visit their graves.
But being too poor to hire Il carriage he
walked to the graveyard. Finding at
the gate that the sexton demanded a
small fee from visitors, he said that he
would not go in. But passing around TO
the rear of the enclosure he climbed over
the wall. He looked at the graves Of his
parents, let us hope with some filal feel


ing, and then tried to go out as he had
entered. The sexton, however, was too
sharp for him. He caught him and took
him before the burgomaster. There the
millionaire denied that he had been in the
graveyard ut all. The sexton stoutly
averred that he had seen him climb the
wall. The fatigue of his long walk, and
the excitement of his alteration brought
on paroxyism of heart disease. and he
fell down dead in the burgomaster's Of
fee.


Such was the 'last of earth in the
case of this successful man. He left his
wealth te relatives with whom ho had
scarcely any intercourse during his life (;
IN whom he felt no special interest, ana
who, thoIgh glad of course to get the
money, cannot have much respect for
their miserly kinsman. So the eight
millions that this man gathered did not
make him happy in life or death. and he
could take none Of it to invest in the spir-
it world. He Is as poor there ms the poor
est beggar who dies in the almshouse.


Now many of our readers will say, "if
| was worth eight millions of dollars |
would get more enjoyment out of it !"
Are you sure that you would ? The hab-
its that one must form in acquiring
wealth are not easily broken There is
nothing that so shrivels u human soul as
getting money for its own sake.
Year: 1879

QUEER STATEMEHT.-Ne Nearly all med
fortunate enough to recover from n stroke
Of lightning, agree that the eectr lefty
acts with such extreme rapidity as to be
absolutely painless. Professor Tyndall
relates that while standing in the presence
Of an audience, and about to lecture, he
accidentally touched n wire leading from
charged battery of fifteen large Leyden
jars. Life was absolutely blotted out for
very sensible interval, without trace
of pain. In another second or so Cor.
seriousness returned. He saw himself in
the presence of the audience and in con-
tract with the apparatus, and realized
that he had received the discharge. The
intellectual consciousness of his position
was restored with exceed ing rapdity, but
not so the optical consciousness. Topre
vent the audience being alarmed, he
stated that it had often been his desire to
receive, accidently, such shock, and
that his wish had at length been gratlied.
But while making this statement the APP
peararce which his body presented to
himself was that Of being in separate
pieces. His arms, for example, seemed
to be detached from his body and suspend
ed in the air, Memory and power Of
speech and reasoning were complete long
before the optic nerve recovered from
the electric shock.