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Year: 1877

A BURLINGTON RIFLE RANGE.-The
Burlington Amateur Rifle Club will send
team to compete for the prizes at the
international contest next year. The
club is going into arduous practice and
training at once, and has already con-
structed rife range on the South Hill
grounds, that is the most complete in its
way, and affords the finest scope for ac-
curate shooting that we ever saw. The
range consists of nine long stretches of
two inch gas pipe. eighty five yards in
length. the pipe being supported on tres
ties at distance of four feet from the
ground. In practice, the riheman sticks
the muzzle of his rifle into the home end
of the gas pipe. The target bearer,
sitting on the ground. then holds the
target up against the other end, and the
marksman fires at will. Thus far the
practice has been perfect, and only two
misses have besn made, and in one in
stance it was the fault of the target
holder, who took the target away. out of
pure malice, when he heard the bullet
rattling down the pipe, and in the other
instance it was the fault of the man who
loads the guns, who put the bullet in
first and then filled the rife with pow
der. If the Burlington boys go to
Creedmoor or Wimbledon next year we
know they will bring home the shield
and cup, if they can get enough iron
tubing to reach across the range.-Bur.
6ngton HaaUkeye.
Year: 1877

Though met her but a minute,
Yet her smile spoke volumes in it,
And l swore that would win IL,


To be mine for now ard aye.
So the next time that saw her.
On my knees fell before her
And with fervor did implore her


With me to live and die.
As ] poured my soul out to her,
In my attempt to WOO her,
said that while knew her.


No other love I'd know.
And no harm should e'er betide her,
II she'd let me walk beside her,
Through the paths OF life to guide her,


In her journey here below.
SO when my word was spoken,
In silence all unbroken.
/ waited for a token





Or expression OF her love.
And her cheek was dyed with fushes,
Colored by her own sweet bushes.
As with voice as soft as thrushes


Or the cooling Of a dove,
Answered me my loved divinity.
Saying. : ] would be your affinity.
But a tie Of consanguinity


Compels me to say nay;
To one husband I'm restricted,
And with that I'm now afflicted,
And as more are interdicted,


III bid you now good-day."
Year: 1877

Don't get soured with the whole world
because some Of the brothers didn't take
you in out of the cold; maybe it was
your fault.


Don't think when you look back thro'
the vista of years and see yourself, in.
imagination, leaning over the garden
gate with that fellow on the other side,
might have @aaf1 Oh1y besa searFSE iSSE-u escape ne


Don't think if you had it all to do
over again you would do differently and
better The probabilities are you would
be about as much of goose as you were
then.


Don't try to make the whole world
believe that you are in downright ear
nest and wouldn't marry the best man
on top of the ground if you could, for
you know you would.


Don't say that all women are simple
tons who marry, for that is not compli-
mentary to your mother.


Don't thank goodness when you see
half a dozen urchins making it lively
for your neighboring sisters, that they
amt yours. You don't know how much
fun it is to be walloplng them with a
slipper or dosing them with paregoric.


Don't swear off from human society
and take all your stock in poodles or pet
cats. They are just as mean as men
when you refuse to crafty their caprices.
Don't think the world don't put
proper estimate upon your value. 1t
does. Mothers are constantly pointing
to you as examples for their frisky
daughters.


Don't think you ought to smile the
less because you haven't any one in par
ticular to smile for. Smile for spite, If
tor nothing else, just to make men sorry
that they let such bunch of animated
sunshine go nncaptured-


Don't think you ought to be staid and
sombre. That's mistake. You have
so few of the responsibilities of life that
you ought to be as merry as bird all
the time.


Don't think Eve made mistake when
she concluded not to live an old maid,
for neighbors were SO far apart then that
she would have been very lone.


Don't while away the dull hours by
becoming gossip monger. If you want
an occupation start a base ball club.


Don't wear long face and look as if
you dieted yourself on crab apples. 1t is
just as easy to look bright. sweet and
pleasant. One of the brightest mortals
in our acquaintance never acknowledged
allegiance to any of the lords of crea-
tion, looks as merry as June morning,
and everybody likes her.


Don't retire like recluse and grope
through life IN solitude. The one who
is confined to his or her own society
alone has generally very uninteresting
company.


Don't think there is something radi-
cally defective about the world because
it doesn't run exactly according to your
notions. There are thousands of people
who do think SO, and yet they fail to
make it any better.


Don't get worried with the little fell
lows because they romp, and yell and
raise the mischief generally. That's
way they have of letting folks know they
are about.


Don't complain at the world you live
in, but make the best of it while you
are here, trip through it lightly, merri
i ly as you can, and at the end you viii
| find that while you have had some Of
, its trials you have also escaped many
and enjoyed an average share of bless,
ings.
Year: 1877

Live for something. be not idle


Look about thee for employ;
Sit not down TO useless dreaming
Labor is the sweetest joy.
Folded hands are ever weary.


Selfish hearts are never gay;
Life for thee hath many duties


Active be. then, while you may.
Scatter blessings in thy pathway
Gentle words and cheering smiles
Better are than gold and silver.


With their grief-dispeIling wiles.
As the pleasant sunshine falleth


Ever on the grateful earth.
SO let sympathy and kindness


GLADDEN. well the darkened hearth.
Hearts that are oppressed and weary.
Drop the tear Of sympathy,
Whisper words OF hope and comfort
Give. and thy reward shall be
Joy unto thy soul returning.


From this perfect fountain head.
Freely as thou freely givest,


Shall the grateful light be shed.
Year: 1877

test Of the knife on his thumb. How
! precious were the moments now They
were feeing all too fast, and yet an eter-
nifty seemed compressed in every one.
never tainted in my life. and | never
felt less like swooning than now. as
summoned all of my presence of mind to
delay the fearful moment, fervently
praying in the meantime for my hus-
bands return.


'sDoctor, said [, with assumed com.
posure. Il have the utmost confidence in
your skill would not risk my life to
another, but, doctor, you have forgotten
to bring a napkin to staunch the blood.
If you will have the goodness to ascend
to my sleeping chamber, at the right of
the hall. you will find everything you
need for that purpose in that bureau. !"


EAhsxmadam. he said. shaking his
head sagaciously, Il never uraw b,vvl
during surgical operation, that Is an
other one of my secrets unknown to the
faculty."


"Then placing his hand on my bosom
he added. with horrible pleasantly:


"I'll scarcely mar that whittier skin
than snow, and smooth as monumental
alabaster


80, God 7 | cried, as | felt the cold
steel touch my breast, but with the same
breath came deliverance.


Quick as thought heavy woolen pi-
ano-cover was thrown over the head and
person of the madman, and bound tight
ly around him. As quickly was | re
leased and the thongs that bound me
soon held the maniac.


my husband held mo- in his arms.
he had noiselessly approached, and TAX
ing the horror of my situation at a
glance. had, by the only means at hand,
secured the madman, who was the very
patient he had been summoned to at
tend, but who had escaped the vigilance
of his keeper soon after the departure Of
the messenger, who had now returned
with the doctor in pursuit of him. AS
the poor wretch was being hurried away
he turned to me and said: Madam, this
is plot to rob me of my reputation
Your husband is envious of my great
skill as surgeon. Adieu ? | afterward
learned that the man was once an emf.
nent surgeon in Europe. but learn,
ing had made him mad. When he bound
me to that table my hair was as black
as raven when left it. it was as yor
see it now-white as full grown cotton
Year: 1877

BERLIN. Aug. 1O.-The Vienna
semi. official Politische Dorrespon-
denz confirms my statesments
touching the antiquated tactics OF
the Russian troops. According to
the Austrian government organ.
the depression which prevailed in
the Russian army after the recent
defeat was far too great to be OK
planned by the loss Of single bat
tie, and this for very grave rea-
son. The Russians were not SO
much dismayed by the repulse
sustained as by the experience
that the particular mode Of attack
upon which their generals relied
for a century or two had proved
entirely Intellectual now. Indeed.
they realized at Plevna that q
bayonet charge Of lnassed columns
had become practically impossible
in these breech- loading days.
They were taught that q system
Of tactics which always involved
the sacrifice OF thousands Of lives.
though in former times II fre-
quently produced good military
results, in modern days is likely TO
result in nothing but pro6tless
butchery. Coupled with the doubt
whether Q new system could be
easily adopted. this experience
created q panic altogether out Of
proportion to the magnitude of
the rebuff sustained.
Year: 1877

CARPENTER AND BUILDER.


DEGS leave to announce to the peo-
ID pie of Lake Charles. that he is pre-
pared to do Job work, and to take con
tracts for building or repairing. Al
business in his line will be attended to
with dispatch and interest. Shop near
Masonic building. Mas lily
Year: 1877

There are some meek-faced and
tender-hearted men in this City of
Detroit. There is one in particular,
who owns house and lot in the east
ern part of the city. Another citizen,
whose face doesn't betray meelness,
owns a vacant lot next to him, and a
few days ago he wanted to buy the
meek-faced man out and build fac
tory covering both lots. The figures
were too high, and he went away feel
ing mad and revengeful. Coming
across a Snowman who wanted to set
up his tent and exhibit a wild man
and other interesting specimens of
life and death, he gave lsan the free
use of the vacant lot. 1t was stipul-
ated that hand-organ should be kept
gong, bells rung now and then, and if
the wild man uttered yells OCCASION
ally, so much the better. When the
meek-faced citizen saw the tent, he
put up a tender, forgiving smile cross
ed his face, and he made for print
ing office. About the time the show
man was ready to open the doors to
the anxious public the meek-faced
citizen was ready with his signs and
tack-hammer.


Gentlemen, walk in and see the
great Kickapoo kangaroo from Kala-
mazooi" said the Snowman.


''Tack! tack!" and up went sign
Oh the fence reading: ''Look out for
smallpox" A second and third fol-
lowed, and the meek-faced man was
putting up the fourth when the show
man closed a bargain with truck
man to move him down town. He
wasn't over fifteen minutes packing
and loading, and when the lot was
clear again the meek-faced citizen sat
on his doorstep and mused:


''He who wants to sell out let him
sell, and / wonder how much ahead
they are?'
Year: 1877

Flora Temple the famous trotter
of the past OH which thousands have
been won and lost, is at Chesnut Hill
farm, near Philadelphia. She is 32
years old and is described by a letter
writer as very poor decrepit old ami
ma, every bone standing out as though
the flesh had worn away. In her
palmiest days when admired by the
sporting world she was said to be very
homely.
Year: 1877

If newspapers were only as careful
to speak the truth when trying to
please men by paying compliments
and putting them, a they are
while pointing the pen of criticism,
the writing of compliments would
soon he counted among the lost ashes
and putting became obsolete.
Year: 1877

To make poultry pay good square profit
we must devote care and attention to them,
just as much as we do to our horses, COWS
and sheep. II we did not give our cows any
more attention than most farmers do with
their poultry, we would say cows don't pay;
it costs more to keep them than they are
worth. The fact is, people have no idea
that hens and other poultry will take care of
themselves by throwing them a handful of
corn occasionally, when they feel like it.
They are apt to keep cockerol of their own
stock year after year, or exchange with
neighbor and get one just as near related as
their own; this soon runs out the stock the
result is some of the chicks are small, puny,
crooked-backed, wry.tailed, twisted-wiuged
birds, that costs more to fit them for the
table, or market, than they will come to;
again, the pullets don't seem to shell out the
eggs favorably. Now they should first be
well sheltered, where these cold nights will
not affect them much; give them good,
warm place then they will thrive give them
plenty of reproducing food, such as fresh,
clean water boiled potatoes, shorts mixed
with corn meal, barley, oats, scraps from the
table, occasionally meat chopped up and
green feed, such as chopped cabbage, etc.
Fowls will not lay well in winter on one kind
of food alone they must have a variety and
a change, and egg producing in winter is the
time for profit; this is when eggs bring the
high prices. The cultivation of improved
poultry stock, whether for market, for eggs,
or for fancy breeding, if properly cared for
and faithfully attended to is as paying busi-
ness as anything raised on the farm, but if
not cared for, nor their wants provided for, is
apt to cause the complaint that poultry rais-
ing don't pay. l feel perfectly justified in
saying that it will pay any farmer to invest
in paying some reliable breeder of thorough
bred stock good price for pure bred cock
erel Of some variety, even if 1t costs from 81
to 30, and no farmer that keeps the common
fowls can afford to do any other way. 1t
costs no more to keep good stock than it
does to keep poor, inferior stock study the
wants of the fowls as you do the wants of
other stock it is not so much in the breed
that makes poultry breeding profitable as it
is in care and feed, after you have selected
the breed that suits your fancy best; it will
pay for your extra time and expense in a
single year as well according to the time
and money invested) as sowing good seed and
narrowing well for good harvest. For
egg producers the Leghorns or Hamburgs
are the best, though small breeds. For poul-
try for the table the Brahmas, Cochins and
Plymouth Rocks are the best, though the
three latter breeds are good average layers.
If well attended and judiciously fed, housed,
and marketed in the appropriate season, the
culture of poultry is, and always will be,
paying business.
Year: 1877

On trip through part of Vermont and
New Hampshire this winter, could not but
observe the barns and the cattle, and was
greatly surprised to find so very many large
farms on which the stables were but little
better than an open shed fronting the south.
To be sure if there was high wind these
stables would shelter the cattle little from
the blast, but on a still cold, night the ther-
mometer would indicate nearly as low tenn
perature inside as outside of them. The cat
tie were tied up aud so could not exercise to
keep warm. Such stables With not even
partition in many Of them between the heads
OF the cattle, and the open floor and more
open barn, with cracks between the boards
and in the stable door nearly an inch wide
and now and then hole cut in the door at
the bottom for the convenience of the hens
Add to this almost inhuman way of caring
for stock the fact that it was fed on late cut
hay and straw, and the wonder is that the
cattle live through to spring. [ do really be-
lieye that if Vermont and New Hampshire
would make their hay from two to four weeks
earlier in the season than they do usually and
that at no extra expense and would expend
say fifteen dollars on an average to make
their stables warm that the gain in one year
would be more than two million dollars Ii
is said that you can touch man most effect
aully by touching his pocket now think the
pockets of the farmers are touched with a
vengeance in this thoughtless, slip.shod way
of farming, for very many of the farmers are
stock raisers in these states, making this their
principal business. Perhaps they think they
will make their stock hardy and no doubt
they will but where is the gain and so the
profit Not until the warm days of spring,
il indeed until the grass grows, can they per-
ceive any gain. Contrast the COW that is fed
on late cut hay in cold barn that yields
four or five quarts Of poor milk per day,
with that fed on early cut hay and little
meal or roots 10 a warm stable aud Yields
from eight to ten quarts per day Of good
milk and is herself gaining in flesh, and say
which has the advantage.


The writer, acting upon the above theory,
has native COW that he keeps warm aud dry
aud feeds her well, and she returns nearly
three dollars per week for the feed and the
work at any rate he has received the sum of
eighty-one dollars as her yield within the
last seven months besides the milk used in
the family of six. S.L.
| Cidrsm0Hf, ". H.
Year: 1877

ardson Of Waterford on the "Importance Of
Education on the Farm which though brief
was so pointed and suggestive for young
farmer that we shall publish il.


In reply to the question as to how we can
prevent the ravages Of the potato bug, Mr..
Mead gave the direction of gentleman in
Pennsylvania, which was to mix Paris green
one part with twenty parts plaster of Paris
and sift it on the potatoes in the morning
when the dew is on. Put it on when the
potatoes are first up and the bugs appear /;
then again when the second crop of bugs ap.
pear, and again when the third crop appears,
and the potatoes will be secure. He made a
sieve by tying piece of coarse cotton over
an old tin pail or cup turned bottom up and
held by wooden handle three or four feet
in length 50 as to keep the poison from be-
ing inhaled.
Year: 1877

We have then in skinned milk cheese
nearly double the amount of the hesh form
ing substance that we have in whole milk
cheese and nearly the same amount as in
beef The fat to furnish heat we can supply
by other substances. TO make an article
that would sell well and suit the consumer,
| would follow this process; Set the milk in
the shallow pans and in butter dairies for
twelve, twenty-four or thirty-six hours, or
for whatever length Of time is required to
raise the cream and keep the milk perfectly
sweet, which may be done by running water
around the pans. Remove the cream aud
set the skinned milk for cheese at as low a
temperature as possible, say from 759 to
so >; add rennet sufficient to coagulate in 20
minutes; cook the curd tS6 to 909; avoid
all tendency to acidity, aud be as expeditions
in the operation as possible and not suffer
waste. | would salt spariugy and press
carefully. Place the cheese in a warm room
tc cure, and when fifteen or twenty days old
send them to market. would retain as
much water in the curd as would insure its
melOwness and carly ripening, Three.
fourths of the consumers of cheese in thi,
country prefer new cheese providing it is
mellow and of good flavor, and young people
as a rule like it as near the press as they car
get it.


would not have all dairymen 60 into the
business Of making skinned milk cheese ioI
that would overdO it, but believe a certain
amount Of good article, would find ready
sale at good prices aud the income of tn,
butter dairy increased thereby.
Year: 1877

HUMANITY REvERsED.-The other
day New York teamster was beat.
ing a mule with a paint brush tail,
when Henry Bergh, president of the
American society for the prevention
or cruelty to animals, rushed in and
caught the fellows uplfted arm and
cried, Stay! Hold !" Just then
the mule, who had reserved his fire
until some one came within range,
looked back, aud let fly a ninety four
pound hoof that caught Mr.. Bergh
about midships, and soured all the
milk of human kindness in his hold,
quicker than a thunder clap. Kill
him." hissed the great philanthropist
between his set teeth, as he bowed
himself over his clasped hands and
sought the nearest drug store, in the
attitude of a boy who has tarried
long at the green apples, skill him!
Pound the hair off. Tear out his
heart with nail grab--the long leg
ged, iron jawed, thick headed son Of
iniquity! Pull his accursed l. gs out
by the roots and cut him into fish bait
before you burn him alive! Oh.h h;
diddle dog gone ability be dog .gon-
ed son of gun Of mule anyhpww
Year: 1877




WHEEL BARRows.-When a per-
son is hurrying along a sidewalk on
II dark night and meets a wheel. bar.
row too suddenly to be graceful
about it, the first impulse is to con


zeal the fact from the world. Besides
encouraging deceit in this way,
wheel.barrows are viciously prone to
rraohing out after peoples shins.
Mark Twain (the pocD says the most
uncertain thing about a wheel. bar.
row is in knowing, after you start to
fail over one, when you are going to
get through. 1t will bark a fellows
shius, pound his knees against any
stones that may be lying handy, jam
his elbow throught a crack in the
fence GE there is one around) bruize
the joints in his back bone out level,
to say nothing about removing sur
plus hide from his nose, and then set
itself up meekly to wait for the next
passer by. Even ladies are often
victimi2ed. Only IA few evenings
ago three of our fair sex had an en-
counter, but we think they "got
away" with the wheel-barrow, as
one jumped aboard and the other
two gave her ride up street.
Wheel harrows are perhaps persecu-
ted most on account Of being left so
frequently near the corners of streets,
AS in this way about nine out of ten
men who may be travelling that way,
instead of passing peaceably by, can
not (orbcar stopping to wrcstIe a
while with them. Experience, how.
ever, doubtless toughens them be-
cause it has been demonstrated that
an old wheel barrow will take care
oi itself almost anywhere. Our on
" object in penning this brief APP
peal in behalf of wheel .barrows is
to warn the people of Port Town.
send that for the sake of humanity,
and to discourage the use Of profane
language, they ought TO have secure
corrals, duly labelled dangerous"
in which to keep their wheel.bar.
rows when said articles are not in
active service.
Year: 1877

letter signed by Dir. Smith, in hi.
own handwriting. and consequently
speak from direct knowledge. Here
was an open unblushing Offer to com
pound OF conceal crime; (supposing
the defendants to be guilty) and, If
brought before the District Court,
can hardly fail to deprive the at
torney of his right to practice at the
bar. At any rate it is conduct un.
becoming his profession, and shows
him to be B adventurer whose thirst
for gain gets the better of his sense
of Propricty. Being an attorney, he
could hardly plead ignorance of the
statutes.


The showing herein is made in
obedience to Mr.. Smiths own defiant
call for more extensive account of
the suit, and not from any desire to
persecute him. 1t might easily be
made more lengthy by showing
other points, among which is the
fact that the prosecuting attorney
for this district is the proper person
to attend to such business, therefore
Mr.. Smith was acting in the wrong
capacity by conducting the suit. We
were surprised to read his published
letter snpposing he would only have
been too glad to let the matter drop
without further notice.
Year: 1877

A splendid item about man be-
ing kicked all to pieces by horse
yesterday, was uttsrly spoiled by the
carelessness of the man himself, who
eli nbed into the hav.mow and stsid
there until horse quit kicking. And
yet cold world may blame the re.
porter for this.
Year: 1877

The following record will show tho changes in the
temperature for the past twenty .iour hours IN
parison with the corresponding date OF last ycar.
Indicated by the Thermometer at Hudnuts pharmacy,
HERALD Building