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Year: 1874

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l am making so pounds Of butter per
week now. Last winter, after the first Of
January, sold pa pounds OF butter from
a dairy of IL cows. think shall make
more this winter.


Some may think that It costs me moro to
keep my COWS. think l can afford to keep
them we'll, and that is all do. will tell
you how l keep them, aud then you can
judge for yourselves In the winter when
they are dry | do not give them grain. Cen
orally when they come in give the old COWS
about four quarts of grain a day, aud the
young COWS not quite as much, one.half
shorts, aud keep the quantity up till they get
good feed in the pastures. Last summer l
fed out 1000 pounds Of shorts that cost SIS,
and that was oil the grain l fed until No
vember, aud then l gave them about two
quarts each. In October fed out about
1875 bushels Of mangel wurzels, and l fed
out acre of sweet corn fodder in the
course Of the season.


think l shall put in four acres Of corn
fodder next season. Sweet corn fodder is
the best. think it is the best way to plant
and have the rows three feet apart, 50 you
can run the cultiVator between the rows, and
and that will let the sun in between the rows.
Grow your corn fodder in the shade, and
then l will agree with some Of you that
corn fodder is not of much value. But
you can have the hills about twice as thick
as you generally plant corn, and put about
twice as much seed in hill, and thea plant
small piece as you do your common corn,
and so raise your own seed for next year.


feed out pound Of Deans bone meal
manufactured in st. JOhnsbury) in season,
and would advise every dairymAn to give
his COWS all the bone meal they will eat.
Mix it with salt, and put in some saltpeter,
| think my cows ate five pounds Of sAltpe-
ter last season. An ounce Of prevention is
worth pound Of cure.


| think it is a great saving Of labor to
use the large pans, and one can make more
butter with them in warm weather. b, b.
Prentice, of East Hardwick, put them IN
for me last June had them on trial fol
sixty days, and when the sixty days were
Year: 1874

EDITOR DEMOCRAT:


Dear .Sir,-Presumiug that yourself
and many OF the readers OF your valuable
paper are interested in news from this
highly favored part of our country, L
will give n few items respecting my trip
TO the northwestern part of this fast
growing State.


Il is some fifteen years since took a
journey of observation up the Republican
River, fifty miles northwest with q friend
from Massachusetts. AT that time few
settlers had made claims at choice loca'
tons on the route of The old military road
from Fort Riley TO Fort Kearney. and Tor
Year: 1874

The Swiss government finds it neces-
sary to issue a special proclamation,
bringing to the notice of all citizens,
and especially OF the cantonal admins
trations, the full bearing of that part of
the revised constitution which deals
with the law of marriage. There have
been already, it is stated, numerous
appeals made to the central authority
under this article, which prescribe that
no impediment whatever, founded on
religious considerations, or on sup
posed want of means, is to be put In
the way of those "about to marry, and
which forbids any government, tax or
fee of any kind on the ceremony. 1t
also confers on the wife share of her
husbands settlement rights in his
parish and canton and, initiating the
Scotch law, it legitimatizes children
born before wedlock. Lastly, it renders
legally recognizable marriage contracted
by Swiss persons anywhere, if 1t be
valid according to the Ter loci. As
certain cantonial governments have
hitherto refused to recognize any such
marriages when celebrated without
previous sanction from the authorities
of at least the husbands canton while
others have required caution money
from those who had no real property,
and continue to exact it ever since the
constitution passed again, few OBJ
iect to acknowledging mixed marriages
except under special ecclesiastical sane
ton ; they are warned that all such
distinctions are illegal, advised that
any deposits of money received since
the 29th of May, when the constitution
came into force. should be restored,
and further are informed that a special
law is being prepared designed to carry
out the intentions of the constitutional
act in full detail. AS the first decided
interference of the central government
with csntonial practices under its new
powers, this proclamation has made a
considerable sensation in certain parts
of Switzerland
Year: 1874

HAVE been watching listle fellow
q very little fellow-setting up blocks
in long, crooked rows, and then moving
them down by giving the first one q
very slight push. 1t is a delightful
experiment to him, and he never can
quite get over wondering at the way one
block knocks over the whole regiment.
1t makes me think of so many things
that are being tried every day, and that
always turn out Just the same. No one
falls down., or is pushed down. who
does not carry a good many others with
him, whether he means it or not.


/ have been going to tell you a story
of a splendid little English boy, very
poor, and without father or mother,
who wandered away from Cincinnati to
our little suburban village, and crept
up, Just at dusk, to the lighted win
dows of a pleasant home, to listen to
the music inside. He was cold and
hungry, and he thought, "These people
seem happy-perhaps they viii give me
something to eat"


So he told his sad story. and was
taken in and washed and clothed, and
warmed and fed, and cared for in every
way. He was so bright and intelligent,
so eager to learn, every one said he
would make a grand man. After while
he was sent away to pleasant home on
a great fruit-farm and letters and ex-
cellent reports came back from him.


1 have been thinking would tell this
to show how much good a little gene
rous kindness might do But yesterday
our minister, with sad face, told the
boys how it had ended : that early
habits and evil influence had carried
the day, and the boy had broken into
his benefactor's house, rified and robbed
it, and run away. The minister told
the boys that the worst of it was, that
this bad boy had robbed all other boys
of their chance OF being helped, by
making people afraid to trust them.
just like the blocks, you see knocking
down the whole row with the first one.


81 know boys" said a man, shaking
his head /; "they're all alike. Trust EN-
as far as you can see 'em ~


''Well, 1 think know boys" said a
lady smiling, ''and 1 end almost all
boys can be trusted, If You come at
them from the right side.


When you do a mean thing, or a
tricky thing, or a dishOnorable thing,
Just remember that you are injuring
not only your own character and stand
ing, but the character of others: and
every boy in the world has q right to
call you to account for damages.-
Little Corporal.
Year: 1874

Chales Dickens said that "The first
external revelation of the day rot in
man is tendency to lurk and lounge /;
to be at street corners without intelligi-
BILE reason, to be going anywhere when
met to be about many places rather
than any; to do nothing tangible, but
to have an intention of performing q
number of tangible duties tomorrow or
the day after.
Year: 1874

Never put much confidence in such as
put no confidence in others. A man
prone to suspect evil is mostly looking
ia his neighbor for what he sees in him
self. As to the pure all things are pure,
even SO to the impure all things are
impure.
Year: 1874

There is bird in New Guinea called
the Megapodius, which in the size of
its eggs and its manner of Matching
them, must be considered extraOrdi-
nary. 1t is not larger than one of our
ordinary fowls, but its eggs are three
inches long by two and a half in diam
eter. 1t does not attempt to sit ON
them. A colony of birds lay their eggs
together in a large mound, in the hot
test part of the year, from Septemb Der
to March and leave them to be hatched
by the sun. The mound is made of
sand loose earth, and sticks and leaves,
which latter by their decay increase the
heat. The mounds are wonderfully
large, being ten feet high and about
sixty feet in circumference at the base.
The young birds come out at hole in
the top. The mother birds wait on the
trees around till their chicks are
Matched, and then each leads off her
own brood. How each knows its own
is a mystery. The eggs are much
relished by the natives, but not at all
by Europeans. A native of Cape York
ventured one day into a nest for eggs,
and while he was exploring the hidden
riches of the large mound the upper
part fell in and he was smOthered. He
was afterward found in the very act of
digging-buried alive in birds nest.
Year: 1874

THERE are two stories of famous light
houses which are worth remembering.
Smeaton, who built the Eidystone
Light house, is said to have conceived
the idea OF moving his lighthouse to
the rocks from seeing how an oak,
which withstood the tempest while all
around it were torn up, had its roots
firmly grasping a ledge of rock. While
it was being erected, the workmcn were
seized by party of French marauders
and thrown into prison. But Louis
XIV, on hearing of it, ordered their
prompt release, saying:


81 wage war against England, but
not against mankind"


This was in 1853 but centuries be-
fore that the Roman writer's tell ms of
the famous tower of Boulogne, built by
the Emperor Caligula, and carefully
guarded down to the days OF Charlie
magne, lest the lightning should strike
it. But they never thought to inquire
what the great creeping sea, that washed
against the foundations, was doing, or
the little springs down deep in the
ground, that were mining a way to the
sea and one day the fortress, the light
house, and even the cliff itself, went
down and were swallowed up. That
was not the end of it. The city Of
Boulogne had paid to the owner of the
soil yearly rental for the use of his
barren land, which paid better in light
houses than in any other crop. So now
he sued them for damages, since his
whole farm was gone. The suit went
up to the Royal Parliament, which in
1856, decreed that the city should pay
the rental of two thousand herrings a
year, or put the land back where it was
before. And as they could not easily
rebuild the cliff, they paid the herrings
down to the days of the French Revo-
luton.


"YoU Told ABOUT THE Eel. The
Cheyalier de la Tour Landy, in a book
of counsel to his daughter, written some
time in the latter half of the 14th cen
tury, thus makes use of magpie III q
tale which has moral to it. 'I will
tell you a story" he says, Sin regard TO
women who eat dainty morsels IN the
absence Of their lords. There was a
lady who had a magpie in a cage, which
talked of everything which it saw done.
Now it happened that the lord of the
household preserved a large eel in a
pond, and kept IT very carefully in order
to give it to some of his lords, or of his
friends in case they should visit him.
So it happened that the lady said TO
her female attendant that it would be
good to eat the big eel and accordingly
they ate it, and agreed that they would
tell their lord that the otter had eaten
it. And when the lord returned, the
magpie began to say to him, My lord,
my lady has eaten the eel Then the
lord went to his pond, and missed the
eel and he went into the house, aud
asked his wife what had become of it.
She thought to excuse herself easily (;
but he said that he knew all about it,
and that the magpie had told him.
The result was that there was quarrel
ing and trouble in the house but when
the lord had gone away, the lady and
her female attendant went TO the mag
pie, and plucked all its feathers from
its head saying, You told about the
eel And so the magpie was quite
bald. But from that time forSard
when it saw any people who were bald,
or had lsrge foreheads, the magpie said
to them, 'Ah you told about the eel.
Year: 1874

Three cables are now in working order
across the Atlantic, and fourth, and
also q fifth one will soon be laid. One
is led to hope that the incidental COM
petition will reduce the rates of trans
mitting messages very materially.
Year: 1874

Quite serious accident occurred at
the corner of Temple and New High
street yesterday as the Mexican pro-
cession was passing the Junction of
Main and Spring streets, on its line of
march. Mr.. G. G. Austin, with his
daughter, seated in a light wagon, at
tempted to drive his horse (said to be
quite vicious animaD down Temple
street and across the line of the pro-
cession. He was prevented from do
ing this, and turning around, he at
tempted to go back on Temple street
and up New High, but his horse be-
came unmanageable, and running
against an obstruction on the corner,
threw Mr.. Austin and his daughter
out. The young lady escaped unhurt,
but Mr.. Austin received some hard
bruises on the head, rendering him
unconscious for time. The injured
man was taken at once to the Office of
DIR. Mckee, where he received the
Doctors care, and was soon brought
to a comparatively comfortable condi-
ton
Year: 1874

A runaway team at the depot yes
terday came very near being smash
ed into irretrievable ruin - horses,
wagon and abby the incoming San
Fernando train. AS the horses were
making their reckless flight down
Commercial street they started to cross
the track Immediately in front Of the
engine, which was coming into the
depot at good speed. BY some unac-
countable freak of their fright, the
animals stopped stock still upon the
track, and an accident would have re-
suited, had not the engineer, Mr..
Slppy, succeeded in stopping the train
very promptly. By the timely use of
the air-brake, the engine was brought
to a stop within ten feet of the point
where first applied. There was no.
body in the wagon at the time of the
runaway
Year: 1874

The Petaluma Argus is informed
that the rainfall in Blucher valley and
vicinity was very heavy on Thursday
of last week. The water came down
in sheets, and the storm partook more
of the character of a cloud-burst than
of an ordinary rain-storm.
Year: 1874

pp- The tide OF fimm1gratiOn Is steadily SET
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. They say there is no
comparison between the two. 2l.o
Year: 1874

You have seen the shortcomings Of
that party in administration. It's faults
in opposition have beea still more glar-
inc. Perhaps they can be forgiven
for allowing the ship Of State to drift
so near the rocks. But how can they
be forgiven their struggles to prevent
her from being snatched from that
peril? That charity, which delights
to think no evil, may excuse their
omission to lift the country; upon the
plea of incompeteEey. But not char
ity itself can see anything but malig-
nancy in their persistent efforts to pre-
vent the country from being lifted


The world does not resent, but rather
pities, the helpless crew under whose
seamanship Jesus sailed for the country
Of the Gadarenes. 1t Is plain they
could not still the winds which threat
cned to sink the ship. But if they
had attempted to throw the Saviour
oFerboard when he appeared TO rebuke
those imp'ous winds, the World Wouid
have known no pity for the crew.


Ahd that is the great Democratic OF
Tense which still smells to heaven not
that thev did nothing for the country,
but that they fercely opposed every
thing that was done for the country.
1t wolld not be quite true to say that
the Democratic party opposed the ma
tioual effort to suppress the rebellion !;
Year: 1874

Fellow citizens, when you committed
the Union to the keeping Of the Re
publican party, it seemed on the verge
Of dissolution. Many hoped and some
feared it had received an incurable
wound We present the Union to you
to-day every whit whole. The Repub-
lie is at peace throughout all her bord-
ers; she is at peace with all the world.
Her rightful authority is disputed no
Were her opinions are respected
everywhere. She stands in the very
vanguard Of sovereign States. We
challenge history to produce another
instance Of country raised from such
humiliation to such grandeur in 50
short a time And this transforma-
ton has been wrought not merely
without the aid of the Democrotic
party, but in spite Of its utmost hos
tility.
Year: 1874

When in October last. a Spanish
vice consul in Cuba so far forgot the
respect due to the United States as to
seize upon a vessel sailing under the
protection Of her fac, Spain promptly,
without the firing of gun or spiliing
drop of blood, made that honorable
reparation which every just govern
ment is glad to make for a wrong done.
Year: 1874

An old man in Rochester, New
York, mourns over q heartless
and unregenerate son, and he
thought he had reclaimed him,
too. The boy was fast, and his
father, to mend his ways, took
him into his store as partner.
The partner did splendidly for q
time and the firm prospercd. At
length tho old man thought that
his son had become weaned of his
bad habits sufficiently to be in
trusted with money, SO he gave
him . thousand dollars, sent him
to Troy to buy goods, and told
him to be good boy. The young
man fell in with some old cronies,
and they led him astray. He got
into his old ways, and q friend of
the senior partner, seeing how it





was, telegraphcd the old man that
the junior was doing bad. The
old man more in sorrow than IN
anger, wrote these admonitory
lines to his boy:


"MY DEAR Son: Unless you
return tomorrow morning with
the goods, I will dissolve partner
ship and shut up the store"


The letter found the young man
struggling with cocktail. lie
dashed 1t of, and hurrying across
the street to hardware store,
bought a kcg of nails and hammer,
After paying the bill and giving
directions, he sent the following
dispatch:


"DEAR FATHER: I send per
express o hammer and kcg nails
which may be useful to you IN
closing up the store"


That father has doubtless found
chow sharper than a serpcnt'f
tooth" that child Is.
Year: 1874

A solemn warning might be taken
from the fate Of Western editor
who started out to "astonish tho
natives" with lecture but snow
storm arose, tho driver lost his way
tho wagon upset, and the lecturer
broke his COLLAR bone and two ribs.
Year: 1874

1t Is begun the more effective it can be made
One Of the reasons for beginning thus early is
the fact that professional philanthropy has
proved failure. With the exception Of
St Johns Guild and one or two other
similar societies the charitable institutions
OF the metropolis are sinecures for officials,
but practically useless for the purposes for
which they were founded They profess to
fulfil great public end, but merely absorb
private charity. At the same time many of
them can be made exceedingly useful in aiding
great and necessary work but before they
can be of any use there must be satisfactory
evidence that they are not mere money making
schemes for the benefit of their projectors.
1t will thus be seen that investigation must
precede usefulness. There is too much sus-
picion in the public mind tN command private
charity for these institutions until it is shown
that they are worthy dispensers of the money
which they receive. This investigation and
reform are also o part of the preliminary
work which must be accomplished before the
days are shortened and the nights become
bleak and cold. The first duty is to find
work for the idle and the next to succor the
unemployed and the starving This must be
done by better hands than those to which the
greater part Of the work is at present COM
mitted, and private charity must know it is
not taxed for the mere benefit Of professional
philanthropists.
Year: 1874

Owing to the dulness in business and the
scarcity OF labor there is more suffering in this
city at the present time than was ever known
before Many of the working women are
without employment and stout and active
young men by the hundred apply for any
vacancy that may occur This is bad out
look for the winter, and there will be much
want In the metropolis unless timely measures
are taken to provide work for the unemployed
and food and shelter for the unfortunate. II
is very easy to say to the beggar. "Go to work,


but it is kind of advice that is hard to follow
when there is no work to be had. The most
bsneficent charity, then, for the winter of
ls74-5 will be to find employment for the
unemployed. To do this work efficiently
organization will be necessary. and the sooner
Year: 1874

for doubling Moulton's statement in this
matter, principally because Beecher was 80
slow in suspecting blackmail, and, in any
event, Moulton's version of the transaction is
more creditable to Mr.. Beecher than bis own.
There would have been something noble in
Mr. Beecher-and he certainly is capable of
very noble actions-quietly assisting the man
whom he had injured it would have been
ignoble to have paid money to conceal that
which never occurred. It was long after the
charge of adultery had been made and con-
doned that this money was paid, and
there were no longer any transactions
with Bowen to give color to the idea that it
was because of Nlton's loss on the InIepend-
e'a that Beecher contributed to the Golden
Age. We have referred to these things as an
element in determining Moulton's credibility,
for on its face Moulton's version of the
''blackmail" story is more consonant with
reason and common sense than Beecher's.
The discrepancy is explained, perhaps, in the
fact that one view is that Of clergyman, the
other of man of business, and it is not
strange that the man Of business should pre-
sent the more credible statement


Another point which argues very strongly in
favor of Moulton's credibility is the esteem
in which he was held by Beecher. With the
earlier phases of Beecher's confidence in
Moulton our readers are already familiar. 1t
is interesting to note the manner in which
Mr.. Beecher treated the alleged blackmailer in
the later stages of the controversy. This
point is illustrated by the very remarkable
letter written in March last, in which Mr.
Beecher bewails the conduct of the inter-
meddling Shearman. As late as the 18th
of July he says he was ashamed
to put q straw more on Moulton, at the same
time saying to his "Dear Frank" that he has
'but single consolation-that the matter
cannot distress you long, as it must soon end;
that is, there will be no more anxiety about
the future, whatever regrets there may be for
the past" All this is very strong endorse
ment of Moulton, and in itself it will have
great weight in sustaining the direct
testimony of the witness on the
painful subject of Mr. Beecher's
guilt. We fain would have believed the great
clergyman had never fallen. We would fain
believe it now, if we could see any possible
way by which he could escape out of the
meshes which bind him. Moulton, pressed to
speak by the onslaughts of Mr.. Beecher and
Mr. Beecher's friends, has spoken at last, and,
panied as we are at the result, we cannot dis
regard the fact that the Plymouth pastor is
crushed, unless this terrible witness against
him can be shown to be monster of villany,
duplicity and falsehood.