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Year: 1874

Vice President Wilson is one of the very
few republican statesmen who saw the dangers
to the republican party of the canvass now
closed. He recommended to the President
and the Cabinet q course of conduct that
would have modified, if not altogether averted.
this disaster Going back as far as the degra-
dation Of Mr.. Sumner from the chairman
ship of the Committee of Foreign Relations
for presuming to have opinions on foreign
affairs contrary to those of Mr. Fish, Mr..
Wilson has always protested against the wan
ton acts Of the President and the party. He
saw the evil of st. Domingo, the incredible
folly of the back-pay and 'salary grab" busi-
ness, and when the President was sullenly an
nouncing that his "dignity' would not per-
NIT him to speak on the question of the
third term he said that unless the President
did speak his silence would be the
most serious burden of the canvass. As
for himself he spoke with no uncertain sound,
declaring that under no circumstances would
he support General Grant OF any other candi-
date for third term. This noble record on
the part of the Vice President, standing out
as it does in such marked contrast to the coy
ness of Conkling and the abasement of ma
jority of the party leaders, gives his views on
the recent canvass unusual Importance. They
will be found elsewhere as reported by our
correspondent In reading them we cannot
help feeling how much wiser Mr.. Wilson is
than his fellows and how much better he
would be as republican candidate for the
Presidency than nine tenths of the statesmen
who are named for the Office The republi-
cans would do well to listen to Vice President
Wilson. They may find his counsels neces-
sarY to victory in another CAMPAIGN
Year: 1874

lF THE CARLIsTs reduce Irun that victory
will compensate for many of their losses else
where The action of the Spanish govern
ment in suppressing reports of the war does
not look as If it had received good news. No
government objects to the announcement of
victOriea
Year: 1874

TIE SAD LIST OF the dead and wounded of
the riot ct Eufauia, Ala, is published in our
dispatches to-day, with an account of the
bitter feeling the radical negroes express for
the democrats of their own color
Year: 1874

A western newspaper recently proposed
that some great journalist, some one of the
Western giants of the press who find oppor-
tunity for growth in the wild freedom OF the
prairie, should be selected, brought to New
York, and be paid an enormous salary to be
The Monitor of New York Journalism. He
would be the Grand Arbitrator or Final
Referee, or Umpire, or Mutual Friend, or some
such high-sounding and appropriate title.
His duty would be to supervise the newspapers,
reconcile differences between editors, incul-
cate mildness and harmony, and see that JUS
tice was done to all. During the progress
Of the recent extraordinary canvass we
have had occasion to regret that this
idea has not been carried out We felt
sometimes like rendering our own services,
free Of expense; but the experience of
mutual friends has not been Of fascinating
character. Then we thought of naming the
editor Of the Evening Mail for that high station
and offering to guarantee his salary but dur
ing the canvass this tranquil and amiable jour-
nalist became as severe as his brethren. Mr..
Childs, of Philadelphia, naturally occurs as q
proper man for the Office but what would
Philadelphia be without this poet Of domestic
sorrow and friend of all mankind? Certainly
we need some such tribunal, for our editors
were in as unruly condition as the herd Of
Texas bulls who recently undertook to follow
their instincts in our crowded thoroughfares.
Libel after libel filed the air, and we never
knew what a rascally lot our editors were.
We learned in the heat of that strife that
amiable, accomplished gentlemen, who work
hard, wear decent Clothes earn their living like
true men, pay their debts, fear God and love
their wives whose function is 10 educate public
opinion, were, after all, SO many Sing Sing con-
yicts at large wife-beaters, forgers, "unnatu-
ralized Aliens" thieves, s'ticket-of-leave men,"
bribed hirelings Of one party or another
Now, if we had o Grand Supreme Editorial
Umpire, like the editor Of some of the gigan-
tic prairie journals, oil could be settled. But,
in the meantime what are we to do2


There is one suggestion that does occur to
us, now that the election is over, and which
We commend to our brethren in future elec-
tions, and it is this: "Why cannot editors
regard each other as gentlemen p Law
yers, physicians, divines Gas general thing)
and professional men Of all grades do
the same thing. Why not editors? This
sweeping denunciation does no good The
people do not respect it. Journalists despise
it. The influence Of the press is weakened,
and we almost justify the sneering scorn Of
public men like Grant and Conkling. That
there may he peace lot US have Kindness,
Year: 1874

One of the features of the season
at West Point is a band practice
every morning in little house amid
the trees. The ladies sit outside
sew and gossip. Our opinion is that
the band needs considerable practice.
Year: 1874

'rhe proprietor of the London Telegraph IS
sbo&t to raise the price Of advertisements to
2s0d per line The number OF them has be.
come so large as TO interfere with the news, ana
he expects by increasing the price 10 make
mare room in his columns The daily oircu-
Iation of the Telegraph is now about 10000
Year: 1874

The RIGHT OR LEFT ARM.-The ques


ton whether q gentleman walking with
u lady should give her his right arm, is
frequently discussed. Custom and
written etiquette are rather in favor of the
right although there are excellent reasons
in favor of the hlt arm. Either ono or
Year: 1874

VERDICT OF THE JURY


was certified to by Justice Friend and on the
following day Smith and West were ar
raiened before him for examination. q. w.
Harvey appeared for Smith, and steele for
Year: 1874

The frank, but rather severe criticism OF
this story by Berry r. Sulgrove, in private
letter to her, seems to have completely cured
her of story writing and turned her atten-
tion exclusively to the ield for which her
honest and able critic thought her so sd-
mirably fitted. The following extracts from
that letter are better than anything we can
say, which is our own apology for printing
them:
Year: 1874

The most painful instance of a man
having a premonition of death that l
know of was that of Mr.. Fortescue, who
lived in our village. He came home one
afternoon with pallid face and told his
wife that he was deeply impressed with
the conviction that lie would die within
forty-eight hours. Then, while she was
bathed in tears, he sat down and had II
long talk with her, giving directions
about his affairs, advising her about
managing the dear children when he was
gone and telling her how tenderly he
loved her and how hard it was for him to
part from her. After few passionate eX-
pressions of affection and regret MIR.
Fortescue sent for IA lawyer and made his
will. Then he went around and bade
good-by to his friends and sought min
ister, from whom he obtained religious
consolation and from whom he parted
weeping. Proceeding to the tailor's he
purchased a burial suit, and then, after
making all the arrangements with the
undertaken for the funeral, he bought a
handsome satin-lned rosewood coifn ana
wrote out list of the friends whom he
wanted to act as pall-bearers. The tomb
stone selected by him at the marDle-yard
bore representation of Hover win q
broken stem and the legend, Not lost,
Int rome before;" and in his interview
with the grave-digger at the cemetery he
selected a spot near where his mother
was laid, under the green trees, for a
tomb, at the same time giving directions
that violets should be planted above him
in the early spring. 1t was very melan'
choly and full of deepest pathos. This
was in 1914, and he is still alive and
hearty, having since been twice in the
State Legislature, once in Jail for assault
and battery upon his wife, and having
been turned out of the temperance SO


eiety for drinking too much bewildering
rum. He resides in Pencader, where hC
keeps billiard saloon, and he attributes
that warning TO his having been too oil


ious.-Mag AdeIer, IN DdnbuTy NeaoS.
Year: 1874

SOFT falls through the gathering twilight
The rain from the dripping caves,
And stirs with tremulous rustic
The dead and the dying leaves;
While afar, In the midst of the shadows,
hear the sweet voices Of bells,
Come borne on the wind Of the Autumn,
That ltfully rises and swells.
They call and they answer each other
They answer and mingle again
As the deep and the shrill In an anthem
Make harmony still In their strain;
As the voices of sentinels mingle


In mountainous regions of snow,
Till from hilltop TO hilltop chorus
Floats down to the valleys below.
The shadows, the freight OF even,
The sound of the rains distant chino,
Come bringing, with rain softly dropping,
Sweet thoughts of shRdowy time;
The slumberous sense of seclusion, .
From storm and intruders alOOf,
We feel when we hear in the midnight
The pattcr Of rain on the roof.
When the spirit goes forth in its yearnings
To take all its wanderers home;
Or, afar In theregions of fancy,


Delights on swift pinlons TO roam,
quietly sit by the tlre-light-


The fre-light so bright and so warm
For know that those only who love me
VIII seek me through shadow and storm.
But should they be absent this evening,
Should even the household depart
Deserted, | should not be lonely;


There still would be guests In my heart.
The faces of friends that ! cherish,
The smile, and the glance, and the tone
Will haunt me wherever | WANDER


And thus | am never alone.
with those who have left far behind them
The Joys and the sOrrOws Of time
Who sing the sweet songs of the angels
In purcr and holier climel
Then QarklY, o evening of Autumn.


Your rain and your shadows may fall;
My loved and my lost ones you bring me
My heart holds a feast with them all.


-Chdn6erS' Journal
Year: 1874

If dew fell, it would fall for the same


reason that rain falls; but dew does not


tall-it is simply deposit of moisture, al


ways contained in the air to a greater or


lesser degree, and which, when there is
enough of it, will always form on any
cold body exposed to the moist air, in pre-
ciSely the same way that a cold bottle or
stone, taken from cold cellar and sud-
denly exposed in the shade to the moist,


warm summer air, will become wet. I his
is not sweating, nor does this moisture
come out fthe bottle or stone, as many
people believe, but from the air. 1t is for
the same reason that moisture will con-
dense against the windOw-panes when the
air is cold outside and moist inside, the
moisture slowly freezing, while its depOs-
its form crystals of ice, which we so often
admire in winter. When the weather is
cool enough, the moisture deposited will
even freeze on plants and grass, and then
we call it hOar frost; If it does not feeZe. il
is simply dew. The only point left to be
explained is, why does the ground become
so cool during the night, SO much cooler
than the air above it as 10 cause the latter
to deposit its moisture? This was for
many years vtXed problem, till Wells
first suggested the radiation of obscure
heat, which takes place from the surface of
the earth through the clear atmosphere in
the space above, and so causes the surface
to become much cooler than the air itself
He demonstrated this by means of ther-
mometers placed at different heights, and
also by the fact that dew is only deposited
on cloudless nights. When there are
clouds, they reflect the heat, or prevent it
from escaping. The surface of the earth
thus being kept from cooling. no dew is
.-Mnnnfnctllr,en, and RnlLder.
Year: 1874

n. F. Lund, in an address before the
Northern Wisconsin Agricultural Society,
thus d fines the principal parts of a grape
vine:-The stock is the main part of the
vine above the root and below where it
branches. The stem includes those pOr-
t Ons which have ceased to bear shoots and
are two years old and over. The arm is
portion of the stem trained in horizontal
position. The cane isaripened shoot, from
six to eighteen months old. or until il
comes to bear shoots directly from its own
buds. The spur is a cane cut short. The
shoots are the growth of the current year
until the fall of the leaf. The laterals
spring only from the buds of shoots. and
are simply the shoot reproducing itself
from its own buds. The nodes are the
joints in the shoots and canes from which
spring the leaves. buds, tendrils or clus
ters and laterals. The internodes are
spaces between the nodes; both these lat
ter disappear in the stem. The tendril is
a twining support. The cluster or bunch
is tendril perfected into fruit. The buds
on the shoots occur only at the nodes in
the axis of the leaves. They are of two
kinds, growing side by side. From one
springs the lateral, making its growth the
current year; the other remains dormant.
perfecting for the growth of the shoot the
coming year. There are also the blossom
buds which appear only on the tendrils
and the berries. The whole make up the
vine. Let it be borne in mind that the
vine has not leaf-buds and fruit-buds dis
tinctly. like the apple, but leaves and fruit
come from the same bud, borne on the
shoot, the growth of the present year it
self growing from the bud perfected for
that purpose the previous year. No part
of the vine which has once borne leaf or
fruit will bear it second time.
Year: 1874

According to a discovery made by Pro
fessor Shift of Florence-a discovery which
has been pushed beyond him by many 9TH
erS-it was found that it was quite enough
to touch the nostrils of horse, simply
passing the finger along the sides of his
nose. to stop the activity of the heart and
respiration, and stop consciousness in a
measure. He did not find, but left another
10 find it, that interchange between tissues
and blood is also stopped. 1t is well known
now that most of these men who succeed
in 9nieting violent horses put their fingers
to that part. and sometimes inside the
mares. Merely touching these paris may
produce some effect; pressing hard upon
them has far more effect. 1t is not essen
tial that the application be made there, as a
Year: 1874

Guilty or not guilty, the pulpit cannot
afford to spare Mr.. Beecher. We are aware
that there are two meanings to this remark,
but it is exceedingly difficult to tell which is
the best.
Year: 1874

These are the days when cherries are ripe,
anc you see small boys coming over board
fences like lightning, and hear something
strike 'bangW against the other side of the
fence just after they get over.
Year: 1874

BlackwooPs Magazine deals in assertion
to the extent of saying that girl can tell
whether man is married or bachelor, by
his appearance. Now, we don't believe
word of this. Nor did we ever see girl who
pretended to be so gifted with perspicuity of
this sort. But then, something may depend
upon the age of the girl
Year: 1874

81 have ever judged" and 81 have always
found" are phrases particularly characteristic
ofDryden," says Mr.. Lowell ''If he took up
an opinion in the morning he would have
found SO many arguments for it before night
that it would seem already old and familiar"
Your positive man in general is a friend of
this style of expression. Perhaps one may
safely say, too, that when considerable
fickleness in opinion goes with the use of these
phrases, as it does very often, the kind of per-
son indicated is not character that makes
himself always agreeable.
Year: 1874

Several days ago offered to bet S5000O that our
selling pI less lower than the selling prices
marked on each garment of Old Blowhard. That
offer is still open with additional $4,000 to boot
We have been trying to get some comynsn sense
out of Old Bi0whard but get nothing but
Cheap Talk.


Our windows, both inside and out, are full of
Clothing marked in plain figures


Why don't Old Blowhard follow suit and allow the
pulpit to judge who is selling the lowest.


THAT $500 PANT.
Year: 1874

LIVING IN A LIGHT-HoUsE.-Light-
houses are strange and lonely homes for
men TO live ir. Some Of them are
perched out on the ocean with the land
scarcely in sight, and the restless sea for
ever beating around them. The keepers
of these do not see other human faces than
their own in a quarter Of year. Night
and day they are on the watch, gladdened
awhile by sail that appears for brief
period, then floats out Of sight below the
horizon. They might be out of the world
for all they know of its concerns, its loss
os, its gains, its battles and its victories,
the changes that each day brings forth.
There are other light houses situated on
the coast, but so remote that they are not
visited ; and others that are surrounded
by the civilization of a fishing village,
and on Summer days crowded by fashion
able people from the neighboring water
ing places. But for the most part, except
in the approaches to fourishing ports,
they are built out on the farthest margin
of the land, on far-reaching peninsulas
and capes, on iron-bound headlands, on
detached rocks and sandy shoals. The
light ships are still worse off, anchored as
they are in stormy waters and forever
rolling, leaping, plungng in perpetual
unrest, clipped of their wings while other
vessels are passing and repassing, short
ening sail as they enter port and spread
ing the canvas as they start out anew.


The light ships are manned by men
alone, but in the lighthouses the keepers
are allowed to have their wives, and chill
dren are born unto them and brought up
with the sea and the sea birds and the
distant ships for companions. Many a
pretty story or poem has been woven
about children living in this fashion,
They learn the secrets and wonders of the
sea, and feel glad when it sings softly on
the calm days and sad when its bosom is
ruffled and white in the storms. Their
little heads are full of strange fancies about
nature, and I do not believe they could
understand or enjoy the life you and
lead at home. Somehow l cannot think
of them as real children. They seem
more like water sprites that have their
home in the blue depths among other
delicate plants that blossom there. But
they have lessons to learn from school
books and great many things to do in
their fathers household. Their life with
all its romance is not one of idcncss, you
may be sure.-&. Nicholas.
Year: 1874

EATING WHEN SIcK.-It is the custom
among a certain class Of people when 4
member Of the family is sick, to begin al
once to ask, "Now what can you eat p
Every one has heard the old story of the
man who ate eighteen dumplings wher
he was sick. On one occasion when en-.
gagged upon the eighteenth, his little SOL
said, Pa, give me piece" "No, no
my son." replied the parent ego way
PAS sick" When a young man ha,
been surfeited, in season and out Of sea
son, until exhausted nature gives way and
a fever is coming on, the good mother is
in trouble. She anXiously inquiries,
" Now, John, what can you eat? You
must eat something. People can't live
without food" Then comes toast, tea
etc. The stomach is exhausted and no
moro needs food or stimulating than the
jaded horse needs the whip. What is
needed is rest, complete rest. Nine
tenths of the acute diseases might be pre-
vented bya few days starvation when
the first indications appear. l don't
mean complete abstinence in every case,
but perhaps a piece Of cold bread with
cold water for drink. If such n policy
were generally adopted, what ruin would
overtake the medical professionally Die
LelCiS,
Year: 1874

THE observations of married man
have led to the conclusion that money
pat into mirrors is good Investment as
1T affords a marvellous amount Of comfort
and qualification TO a woman. He SAYS
his wife thinks just as much Of consulting
her glass when she ties on her apron as
when she ties on her bonnet, and while
he goes to the door at once when there is
rap, she exclaims: "Mercy on us.
Joseph, who is that ?" and dashcs for the
looking glass.
Year: 1874

GAMBLING was invented by the Lydians
when under the pressure Of a great fam.
inc. To divert themselves from dwelling
on their sufcrings they invented dice,
balls, tables, etc. 1t is added, that to
bear the calamity the better, they used to
play whole day without intermission,
tnat they might not feel the effects Of the
want Of food. The invention intended as
a remedy for hunger is now a common
cause for that evil.
Year: 1874

A PLEASING instance Of womanly deli
cacy was shown in Paris the other day
when youthful pair presented themselves
before magistrate for the purpose Of
being united in marriage. The groom,
who was simple workin g man, could
not write and when the register was hand
ed to him, made a cross in a rather crest
fallen mood. The bride, who had evil
IDENTIFY enjoyed a much better education +,
and who could write her name with ease,
instead of signing her name, made only a
cross in the book, and on one of herrela-
tives speaking oft, she replied " Would
you have me humble myself in such a
moment? Ought l to let him in public
appear inferior to his wife? Do not say
anything about it, for before three months
have passed he will be able to write"
Year: 1874

If the times are hard stop your paper,
but Go not shorten your allowance for
whisky or tobacco. a good paper in the
family is great comfort to the wife and
children but that is no reason why you
should provide them with weekly lux
ury at the expense of daily necessity.
Year: 1874

put on the market by the end OF June In
sequence OF the report OF 10 take place at that
time.


President Franklin Edison Of the Producs Exchange
said that the Chicago operations have had effect
the trade here where sold Friday at 10
and bushe although snip me nj from tho
West cost IS cents He added that the lid
include any firms in this city Liverpool was con-
fined entirely to Chicago, where its Immediate effect
would be felt. He unable 20 say how parties
the combination embraced. There were many largo
pork packers In Chicago who, during the duh season in
their trade employ their capital In trading 10 grain.
He supposed that OF these Interested In the
corner" He attributed the combination 20 tho fact


that the rates In Europe high present and also 10
reports that the although promising 20 be ono
OF the largest ever known would not come into the mar
ket before December.
Year: 1874

The general stock market was not specially active
at any time to-day. but moderate business was
done in the general list and in certain of the special
ties much interest was manifested These were
North-W estern Common, and ST. Paul Common and
Preferred. and Wabash, which dictated the tone of
the market and by sharp advance lifted the rest of
the list into prominence and higher basis of prices
The afternoon ket was quiet, but closing deal
ngs were at the highest figures of the day and of
the week. The opening highest, lowest and closing
prices of stocks for the day were as follows:
Year: 1874

1t is too liable to be the case that farm
ers keep up certain field fences because
they were originally built where now
standing, or were in that position when
the farm was purchased. 1t often proves
very profitable to study the matter over
and lay out new plans for fields, lanes, etc.
We have seen farms so badly planned that
by removing at least one-third of the fence
material, and re-arranging the fields, the
premises would be greatly improved IN
convenience and profit. The
study should be to have just as few fences
rs the best planning will admit of, and
have those fences as good as they can well
be made. We do not mean by this to
have plough and meadow land all in one
field and the pasture all in another, but to
so arrange the fence as not to have half 4
dozen different meadows, as many plough
fields etc, all on one farm of a hundred
acres 1t is often the case that by moving
a barn to new position. one-half of the
lane fence may be removed. and the build
ing be in u more convenient situation than
before. We only throw out these sugges-
tions to put farmers to thinking, and each
one can look over his own premises and
see what is needed in his own special sit
uation.-Ohio Farmer.