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Year: 1874

Ed. LLADIUM:-I suppose that
it is still in order to say something in
regard to the woman war, and it is but
meet that we, who, for 10 these many
years, have failed In the cause, should
stand aside and let those whom God
has chosen to fight the great battle,
do it without having to carry dead
weights.


They are winning victory after vic
tory, by the power of moral suasion
and prayers, and why should they not,
for their hearts are in the work, those
hearts that have been almost crushed
by the evil of intemperance, and a last
resort they have marshalled them
selves under the banner of the King
of kings, and he has clothed them with
armor that will not only resist the foe
but will enable them to conquer even
this spirit.


Some cowardly men are very much
exercised by the fear that in the end
woman will be allowed to vote. Let
me say, that hope she will, for we
need her aid to carry out the strong
legislation that is to prohibit the sale
of all that intoxicates. But, says the
objector, the result will be the same,
as they will cast their ballots as do
their husbands, fathers or brothers.
Not 90. unless they are cast right, will
she who has, for years, been pleading
that her loved ones might reform, fail
to use every means in her power to
bring about reformation. She will
be true to her principles regardless of
politics, or ties Of kindred, for wo-
man will not, as We have often done,
sacrifice to party, her convictions of
right Then we need her moral in
fluence, to elevate the standard of
politics and cleanse those who are all
covered with political corruption. L.
Year: 1874

mani When band Of noble and de-
voted women went to the city hall
with petitions signed by sixteen thou
sand citizens, praying the Council to
shut up these runious places on the
Sabbath day only, set Of debased and
depraved beings set upon these women
like so many bloodhounds Such is
the depravity and barbarism of the
drink traffic! Is it not time for So
ciety to rise as one man and Danish 1t
from the land


While at Liberty the address Of the
whisky convention at indianapolis
vas placed in my hands. It says, "A
small number of over-zealous and
misguided fanatics have dared to force
upon a sovereign people a law which
is enough to make every true Ameri-
can blush for shame. Because a few
imbeciles are not able to make judi
cious use of certain beverages, mil
lions Of honest men shall give up the
exercise of their free will, and lose
the right to control their appetite"


Whoever wrote that paragraph must
certainly have been blind with rage,
or he could not have thus so fearfully
misrepresented the law. The fact is.
there can be no more liberal and equit.
able law than that which he denounc-
es. Instead of that law restraining
the people from drinking, it positively
provides that whenever the sovereign
people want to have drinking saloons
in their midst, they can have them by
signing a petition to the County Com
missioners. If the sovereign people
do not want them, they can say so by
refusing to sign the petition. Can
there be anything more liberal than
this? Verify, verify, this is popular
sovereignty reduced to practice.


w B.
Year: 1874

The best writer is he who can
convey the clearest thoughts in the
shortest space. Some writer's SO
hide their thoughtsin useless words
that it becomes a task after you
have read q column to comprehend
it's meaning. Ornament in style is
good when it beauties the thoughts
advanced; it is inexcusable when il
covers them from sight A writer,
before he touches q pen, should
first get clear idea Of the subject
he is to handle; this well understood,
his next effort should be to cay
what he has to say in the fewest
words possible We would not
have q single thought dwarfed by
stingy use of language; but even
this would be better than to see it
choked out of existance by . super
abundance of words Write to the
point, and when you have reached
it, stop. It requires severe mental
training to acquire that simplicity
Of expression which conveys to MS
the grandest thoughts in the fewest
words, yet it Is within the province
of all to approach If not 10 equal it
It has been said that il is moro
difficult to abridge an article than
to write one, that it requires more
time to write Q short article we'll
than to present the same thoughts
in double the srace. When Ouean
Anne told DR.. South that his ser-
mon had only one fault that of
being too short-he replied that he
should have made it shorter II he
had had more time. Let our
writers-es especially those Of tho
press-bol down thar efforts
before they present them 10 The
public. In this fast age The man
can say the best things IN the short
est space il not far removed from
. public benefActor.
Year: 1874

The Indianapolis Journal, of the
3Oth. has this to say of the Temper
ance movement there and elsewhere.


IF any one inagines that the in
terest in the Temperance movement is
dying out, at least SO far as this city
and State are concerned, he will be
disabused Of that opinion by consult
ing our third page. Five separate
mass meetings were held in the city
yesterday afternoon, all of them veil
attended, and some of them exceed
ingly large and enthusiastic
Year: 1874

We find the following touching
verses in the digniied Baltimore
American:
The train that brought his wife came down,


And then went sweeping on,
But, woe to him, his wife had brought


His mother-in law along.
He.hved, for life may well be borne


Ere sorrow break its chain,
But this last streak just settled him
He never smiled again.
Year: 1874

The mother of Charles Sumner was
a woman of strong and heroic traits Of
character, and those who knew her
best could trace In the Senator'S mob
lest characteristics direct inheritance
from her. A few days before her
death, in June 1866, a friend bent
over her to receive her last message to
her son, then at Washington she
caught these words from the failing
lips: ''Tell him his country needs him
more than his mother does" He re-
turned, however, instantly on receiv-
ing tidings of her fatal illness, and
had the satisfaction of being with her
when she died.
Year: 1874

1t is good thing to know what to do
vhon man faints away and falls down
in the street. A pedestrian fell down on
Monros avenue yesterday, being just off
sick bed, and it was wonderful how many
men in the crswd knew exactly what was
the best thing to do. One called for
brandy, another waved tho crowd back,
another shouted ''police" and "coroner,"
another brought bucket Of water from a
saloon, and all others crowded in as close
ly as possible and began wondering if the
man had his life insured. Some wanted
to throw water on the victim, and others
thought that his boots ought to be remov-
ed. and the man with slop pail fell down
in it and jumped up and kicked at lame
boy. Two boys were sent for a doctor,
but didn't 60, and market woman crowd
ed in and told them to raise the mans
head. Some one put brick under his
neck and another general call was made
for whiskey, camphor, gin, soda. pop. root
beer, ginger ale, vinegar, water, and la
ger. Nothing was brought, and after
few minutes the man opened his eyes, gave
bis name, and asked to be taken home.-
After he had departed doctor arrived, a
coroner came putting along and the crowd
came near having fight as to who was
entitled to the honor of saving the mans
ife.--Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1874

The beginn 'ng Of a New Year shsuld al
ways be time for thought and brain
work within doors, with the prudent and
sensible farmer. He should castiup all
his accounts for the past year and ascer-
tain to cent what he made clear, and
what are his assets, and what is the true
amount of his Indebtedness, or, if happily,
he is free from debt. the precise amount
he has due to him, or what is to his credit
in Bank, or the cash in hand.


Next. what manurcs be bought the past
year, that paid him the best; what crops.
and which fields yielded most also what
kind of stock paid the highest profit and
with the least expense, troabls and care.
He should see that his Farm Book has
been properly kept for the past year and
we'll arranged for the present. Every
plan for the coming year should therein
be recorded, and an account opened a.
gainst every field and every kind Of stock,
aud against individual animals, If there be
any of much notoriety. In this farm-bock
q diary shonld be kept of the work, state
Of weather, remarkable events, &c. On
the first page, should be correct invent
ory Of all the farming utensils, valued at
their cash valuation, and any new ones
bought during the year to be added to the
list, and ten per cent on the whole r.
mount, for. breakage, wear and tear to be-
charged against the farm, along with tho
other debts A list Of all the stock and
their fair valuation or cash cost prices.
Another account in the Bo * of the Farm
should be opened between the master and
the farm. In this the farm should be-
charged with taxes, six per cent. interest
on the value of hand, ten per cent. On
value of stock, cost of fertilizers, labor,
new implements and stock 4; and expenses
Of every description. On the other side,
credit the farm with nett proceeds Of sale
of every thing, all the utensils ind stock
of every description, at such cash va!ua-
tion as the interest was charged on against
the farm, and also with house rent, fael,
keep of pleasure horses, butter. milk,
meat consumed in the family. poultry,
honey, &c besides vegetables, meal and
corn consumed in the family. All this
will consume many hours in the early
part of January in arranging the most OF
these accounts, aud will require some
short time zach day or every few days in
ench week in keeping up the various ac-
counts and memoranda, but will end in so
much self-gratifeatiou ard useful data, az
recorded experience, that will be q basis
for future operations and at last become
so much habit Of pleasant and profitable
duty, that it could not be dispensed With.
even if one tried to do so, after series Of
years. conformity with the rule. A FREE
quent recourse to this book would be not
only agreeable but highly interesting and
instructive.
We may hope that the corn is cafe in
the crib, the stock cared for and the ire
secured for the next year, while wood is
being secured. cut and piled for seasoning,
and all the fence rails and posts required
for fencing are being got ready and haul
ed in their places, when they will be re-
quired.
Year: 1874

Keep dry with fresh beds Of straw.
orn-stalks, saw-dust, leaves. &C., under
tight shelters covered with plank or brush,
and straw or csrn fodder. Open shelters
facing the South are best in our climate
for sheep, yonag cattle, colts and mules;
also for cattle not worked or milked--
stalls arc best for the two latter, and for
beeves, it is best to put them in stalls
keeping plenty of litter always about them
and giving plenty of water and food until
they leave the stall for the shamblcs,
when there will be found deep bed If
superior manure while the heat arising
from its decomposition has aided the ami
NAL in taking on flesh, at the same time
it has had soft, dry and warm bed to
repose while digesting its food, and cen
sequently it necessarily has taken ON fat
and flesh rapidly. This, however, can
only be done SUCCESSFULLY where large &
mount of straw or leaves are at command.
Under this plan, the manure from the
stall of each OK will not only pay for the
labor and attention. but 60 near to pay
for the food consumed in the fattening
process. The young stock must be strict
ly attended to this month. Handle and
card the colts and calves, ssiag them to
the halter sftcn. Let their education be-
gin before they ore year old. When
wanted for service they will not need
breaking. too often literal meaning Of
the term is exempli6ed in the FIRST taking
up q colt for service--the breaking Of
spirit and constitution which results in
utter worthlsssnsss and short life.
Year: 1874

If you have not already done SO. manure
heavily the ground you intend to put in
potatoes next year, give it dressing Of =
bushel Of plaster and two of salt per acre.
plsw when you can, deep, and harrow.
All potato growers in the North, agree
that potato ground should be manured
and. plowed in the fall or winter if you
would have heavy yield next year. par
ticularly of early potatoes; and, BY tho
way, they pay best in this section as they
are free from Northern competition. Next
season plow the land we'll SO as to iscor-
porate thoroughly the manure, harrow to
fine tilth. and use some heterogeneous
phosphate heavily. and you cannot fail 10
grow good crop Of large sound potatossi
Year: 1874

All the news of tho day, necessarily condensed,
will be found in its columns. To the local de-
partment the utmost care is given, in order TO
make it as acceptable and interesting home pa
per as possible II is full of entertaining and in
teresting readng matter of every kind, but con-
tanning nothing that can offend the most delicate
and scrupulous taste. The hest stories and ro-
mances OF current literature are carefully selected
and lcgibly printed in it's columns, and the fresh
est and most instructive articles on Agriculture
appear in that department.


Special attention is paid to reporting the cur
rent market prices Of country produce aud grain
Year: 1874

KEEP OUT OF DEBT. Half the perplex-
ity, annoyance and trouble that men have
In this world is in consequence Of getting
into debt. It seems to be natural for some
people to buy, and incur obligation with
out measure SO long as they can avoid pay
ing ready cash. Give one of this sort
chance to buy on credit, and the questions
of payments are matters that he cares but
little about. But what a crop of trouble
springs up from the seeds Of debt. How
many grey hairs it brings, and how sftcn
it shortens life, sometimes leading men to
commit suicide or murder. And yet how
easy it is to keep clear of this terrible mon
stcr. Every young man should form a
fixed and unalterable determination before
commencing his active business career,
not to incur one penny Of Indebtedness,
under any circumstances. Never buy
anything unless you have the money to
pay for it at once. Pay no attention to
the splendid opportunities. "rare
chances" bargains" and the like Such
are only traps set to catch victims. II
you see anything that you would like to
accept, lock Grst at your money pile, and
mako the answer depend upon that. AL
ways pay as you go. If you are short Of
money guage your demands accordingly.
Year: 1874

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 meas.
ure Of life but half are still upon the road
Faster and faster, as the ranks grow thin
ner, they that remain till now become
weary and lie down to rest no moro. At
threescore and ten band of some 400
still struggle on. At ninety these have
been reduced to handful Of thirty tremb-
ling patriarchs. Year after year they fall
in diminishing numbers. One fingers.
perhaps, lonely marvel. till the century
is ovor We look again and the work of
death is finished.
Year: 1874

About noon yesterday, says the Detroit
free Press freight clerk at the Cen>
tral depot thought he would like to have
a good wash aud a nee swim and he pro-
coeded down the yards to slip looked all
around to see if policeman was in sight,
and then shed his linen and made a dive
lie left bis clothes on some boards, ,whele he
had fair field to look out that the bows
didn't sly in on them. and he came out of
the water happy and refreshed. He look
ed for his pants, and they had disappear
ed. He looked down the yards, and he
saw big dog playing with them. The
canine would toss the pants aloft and
catch them as they come down, and then
he would pretend that they were game"
and the sound of bis clashing teeth could
beplainly heard. The clerk started for the
dog but just then several women, looks
ing for an excursion boat, came in sight,
and he had to dodge around lumber
pile. When the women had passed he
began whistling at the cog, but he might
as we'll have wbistled at barn. Then
he tried coaxing, and when that had no
effort he hurled a club. The dog picke ed
up the pants and disappeared around q
corner OF the wheat elevator, where he was
sac. The clerk put on his shirt and vest
and started out, but he heard passenger
tram coming in, and had to get back
fretty soon he noticed small bow down
by the elevator, and he called to him
some more excursion women happened
along and, hearing cries, thoy approached
the lumber. The c'erk put his head on,
and warned them that he was insane. and
they halted. The boy came up, two
workmen approached and finally a crowd
OF forty stood gazing at The lumber pile
not one of whom dared approach for q
long time. Then two of the men armed
themselves with clubs and flanked around
then threw stones over the pile to scare
the man out, and before any one knew
whe 1T was and what had occurred, ,'the
crowd had grown to hundred. The
clerk finally made them understand whaI
was the matter, and when his torn and
battered pantaloons were brought up he
slipped into them and skulkcd along dowr
BY a freight train, swearing at ever,
jump.
Year: 1874

There will be dancing party at MosseE'a Hall
Ohristmaseve, to which the public are invited.


The Audubon Shooting Club ot this place met
last night in the basement of the Masonic Build
ing. Arrangements were made for another
shooting match ne1t week.
Year: 1874

The ladies' aud congregation Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church are to gi7a New-Englnnd
festival and supper at tho church in this plaza
Wednesday evening. The occasion will bo en-
lirened by singing and tableaux, the participants
10 be dressed in the COSTUME OF ths olden times
Year: 1874

And l did get home at last, with
cl th 's torn by the underbrush and
bare feet cut and bleeding from
stones and rocks which / had walk
ed unheeding. ! went across the
threshold of my own door at last,
and laid my precious burden down
on the settee before the smoldering
fire. Then / took down the great
dinner horn and, going into
the yard, blew it long and often.
till at length the answering shots
told me was heard and under
stood.


Then ralod down the Ere and
built it up anew, and warmed and
dried and fed my baby, the whi.o
his eager prattle told me how ho
had wandered away till the path
was lost and papa's house could not
be seen, nor any place that looked
familiar to the baby's eyes; and
how he was hungry and by and by
so tired, and then it grew dark and
he said his little prayer and lay
down to slecp-sure, in his childish
faith, that papa or mamma would
con before morning; 'Jtcluse ]
knew you'd be afraid to have mo
outdoors all night, mamma he
said in his childish fashion.


And then l heard the hurried
steps of the coming men. l went
to the door to meet them with
Harry in my arms. Josiah and
the boys came first, and gave my
baby into his fathers arms and fell
down at his feet-for the first time
in my life l had tainted dead away.


Afterward had brain fever, and
when at last l went about the
house again the snow was lying
deep upon the ground and my hair,
so dark before, rivaled the snow In
hue.
Year: 1874

The very thought of having the
toothache makes me as nerv-
Gus as calls tail in mosquito
time. / believe it is the most re-
lentless ache in the world, except
the aching of huge toe-corn after
being trod on. Many men subject
to nervousness, will agree with me
when l say that a person afflicted
with toothache will never listen to
anything of consoling nature, but
will snap and growl at everything
and everybody within a mile and a
half.


I, myself, am not of a nervous
temperament, and therefore can
control my feeling under circum-
stances of affliction. One winters
night, when the thermometer indi-
Gated fifteen degrees below zero, !
was awakened about twelve o'clock


by an acute pain in my upper north


jaw. i turned over in bed, and
shutting my eyes, made an attempt
to again go to sleep, but it didn't
work. That tooth had no notion of
allowing me to sleep. l got up and
lit light. I walked the floor for
two hours, kicking over chairs and
other movable furniture. stepped
on the cats tail, fell over the dog,
and in the fall upset the stove. l
don't remember whether / swore
any or not, but it is safe to conclude
that | did. l reused Arabella with
the intention of having her put a
little laudanum and bale of cot
ton in that tooth, but women are all
so slow that the most patient man
in the world would lose his temper
on such an occasion and with fire.
shovel in hand she induced me to
return to bed. But toothache don't
care for a mans rest or for strong
minded oman's frowns. At four
o'clock l dressed myself and started
for the dentists residence. To-
gether we proceeded to his Office,
and as l seated myself in the cush-
ioned chair, / was relieved from all
pain. My tooth had ceased to ache,
so | concluded that l would not al
low the offender to be extracted.
/ returned home to find my wife
very much out of humor, and she
said there was no use Of making
such fuss over a little toothache.


But that wasn't the last of
that toothache. 1t got me out of
bed every night for two weeks, and
was the means of making my house
hold anything but happy. / think
l used more profanity in that two
weeks than / shall ever be forgiven
of. At last / could stand it no
longer, and with the untiring as
sistance of my friend DR.. Watrous
I was relieved Of further pain
from that source.


But never see man who has
an aching tooth without sympathiz-
ing with the poor unfortunate be-
ing. And / am now of the opinion
that tho best remedy for aching
teeth is to put little salt in the
hollow tooth, and sit up nights for
it to dissolve. Try It.
Year: 1874

Now here is a case of pure inno-
cence. An Iowa railroad employe
whose signal lantern, like that of
the foolish virgins, was left without
oil, wrote to the supply officer for
"some moro of that red OIL" not
knowing that the lantern globe had
something TO do with the shade of
light it threw out.
Year: 1874

Some melancholy man with q
turn for arithmetic has calculated
that the people who died in Phila-
delphia last year would have made
a procession one mile long, march
ing ten abr : st.
Year: 1874

A modest young husband in New
York sent the following message
over the wires to friends in this
city the other day: "See ninth
chapter of Isaiah, sixth verse;"
The dusty old bible was hauled
down in an instant, and the above
chapter and verso were hunted out
and found to explain all. The
verse reads: "For unto us q child
is born-unto as q son is given"
Year: 1874

An Iowa editor says: Last sea-
son we could get five bushels of
good potatoes for one years sub
scription. This year we consider
ourselves lucky If we get two bush
els for the same equivalent. Now,
we ask what encouragement this is
for a man with q growing family :"
Year: 1874

The Twins.
/ knew two beautiful children,
OF the same parents born;
One was bluek-eyed daughter,
The Other n bluo-eyed son;
And their ages were nearly a. even
As if they had been one.
And knew the anxious father
And mother of this pair,
And how they watched the growth Of each
With daily loving caro-,
Until in time they had grown to DO
A 10y and maiden fair.
Till now they had played together,
Along the stream OF time,
Drinking the same clear waters,
Singing the same sweet chime;
But when they reached life's hillside
Each needed help to climb.
For the waters now divided
And in different channels ran-
The girl became woman
And the boy became a man;
And each put on tho marriage curb.
And raised separate clan.
And tis ever thus In nature,
All are sped along the way
The bud, the blossom, then tho leaf,
OF autumn in decay
And from the dark haired infant
To the old man bent and gray.