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Year: 1878

The laws of Nature are all favorable to the intelligent far ner who understands them and bring his operations into har- mony with them. The method of en- riohing farms is precisely the same as that employed by individuals to enrich themselves in the mercantile world The man who is successful in acquiring wealth earns every dollar that he can, and when eyer he gets dollar he sets it to work also, either by employing it in h1s busi- ness or putting it out upon interest. Just so the farmer who understands hIs business saves every ounce of vegetable matter and returns it to the soil, and there employs it in making, or rather in catching, other material of the same na- ture. That great scavenger of the uni verse, oxygen, is constantly going about seeking what it may devour. Wherever the vital forces cease, be it in a leaf in the remotest forest, or in an animal in the crowded city, oxygen immediately begins the work of destruction, tears down the solid tissue, and returns it in a gaseous form to the common stock in the great laboratory of Nature. In word, wherever decomposition, combustion or respiration is going on, the forces of Nature are at work restoring what has already been used in the vegetable king dom back to the great manure pile of the world. And all that the farmer has to do is simply to employ what vegetable matter he already has on his farm in as similating matter from this common storehouse.

 If he does this, if he carefully bus. bands and returns to the soil all the waste material in the shape of manure and markets his products in 8 concrete form, in wool, in cheese, live stock, etc. and couples this with judicious system of rotation and cultivation, such as if best adapted to his soil and climate why, his farm must grow richer iron year to year, and all you would have te do in order to learn how fertile farm was, would be to inquire how long Ii had been titled, for this accretion from the worlds common stock is more thar sufficient to make up for what is take1 away in the shape of market products In practice, however, an old farm is toe often synonym for poor enc. Man, farmers will not only use up all the veg etable matter originally stored up in thu soil, but they will even let their land la, without any crop upon it, thus deprivins it of the opportunity of drawing from thu common storehouse, while it is being washed into the nearest brook, and bein, overrun with weeds. Thus they actual ly starve their land to death without an, computations of conscience, or thei otherwise sensitive pocket nerve discov ering from whence it's sensations of pov erty originally come. A good crop il the hands of good farmer is better fo the soil than poor one, as it sets fre more matter that is locked up in the soil and assimilates greater quantity iron the atmosphere. One reason why clove enriches land faster than any other crop is because it assimilates more matte from the atmosphere than any other crop " f. SteaOort irs Tribune.
Year: 1878

A version of the real Solomonaic story is to be found in China. As in the Hebrew tale, two women had each of them an infant, one of which died by misadventure, the bereaved mother claiming the surviving child. The official before whom they came did not suggest so cruel measure as the division of the infant, but simply ordered that it should be handed to domestic in his yamen, to be brought up for official life. He rightly surmised that the real mother would gladly accept so good a chance for her offspring, while the pretended mother, who only wanted the child in order to dispose of it, would demur. Judgment was accordingly given in favor of the fearful aoceptor of the proposi' tion, and the story, which is alleged to be historical, is widely believed.
Year: 1878

The loss falls so seriously upon those who can lily afford it, that it is to be re- gretted that some Life Insurance com. panies are so captious about paying poll cies in case of death. A case is question has just occurred. A poor woman whose husband was laborer on Texas rail- road, and while so employed, met his death, has been at work four years to satisfy the companies and they refuse to be satisfied, although the evidence in the case was sufficient to satisfy the Texas courts that there was no doubt about the matter. As the companies offered to pay small portion of the sum it would seem that they were governed more by technicalities than the justice of the case. The poor woman had spent all the pol1. cies would amount to during her fou1 years of trial
Year: 1878

A gentleman in Paris had fine cat which. when it got old, fell martyr to rheumatism, and moved its limbs so painfully and slowly that it could no longer catch mouse. What did this intelligent pussy do? Simply this Finding his old game played out, he got 8 nice piece of tallow candle and crouch ed down with it in his mouth near a mouse hole. So far, so good, and this was intelligent enough. But he beat his own best On record. As the mice, attracted by the smell came out, he didn't drop the candle to grab them, and so perhaps frighten them away. Not he. He just let them nibble away till their heads got right into his mouth, and then he snapped and settled them. -Boston Courier.
Year: 1878

EXPERIMENTAL. - Some experiments have been made at Brussels in breaking Tn horses by means of an electric bridle. The apparatus, called the Engstrom bridle, after its inventor, consists simply in couple of reins, along which run electric wires. At the end of the reins small electric battery is attached, which is entirely ill the power of the ex- perimenter. By pressing a little knob the electric current acts on the corners of the horses mouth, and after few consecutive or intermitting shocks the animal becomes perfectly docile. A very intractable mare was broken in after one experiment. with the bridle. The inventor asserts that runaway horses can immediately be brought to stand still by this operation.
Year: 1878

The proprietors of Hostetter's Stomach Bit. ters promise nothing in behalf of this famous tonic and regulating elixir which it will not perform. No pretensions irreconcilable with common sense are made in reference to it, but evidence of the most positive nature has been accommodating for over quarter of @ century in its behalf which proves it to be a reliable preventive and curative of malarial diseases an efficient and genial tonic and general cor rective, and specially valuable in cases where the bowels, liver stomach or urinary organs are affected. Debility, the source from whence so many bodily evils spring, is entirely reme died by the invigorative action of the Bitters which arrests premature decay and repair losses of nervous and muscular power while easy.
Year: 1878

A doctor in Vermont kept missing his wood and set watch. As expected, it proved to be the work of a near neigh bor, who soon appeared, and carefully culling out all dry wood started off with an armful. The doctor hastily gathered up an armful of green wood and follow ed tugging as fast as he could and just as the man threw down his armful the doctor did the same, exclaiming: "There, you must burn green wood part of the time, I have to-" and departed, leaving the thief to his own reflections.
Year: 1878

idle, is not any more cheerful. We quote
II, as iollows:


The outlook for the silent rolling mills
Is even worse than this. Those that are
badly located or badly equipped will re-
main idle for the same reason that the al.
lent blast furnaces that are similarly sit
uated will. They cannot compete with
those that are well equipped and in good
locations. But while the consumption Of
pig iron 10 bound to increase we can see
no reason 10 hope for IN increased con-
sumption OF wrought iron. The silent
iron rail mills throughout the country,
and the busy steel rail mills, pro-
claim the fact that there are other
conditions affecting the consumption
OF wrought iron than those that affect
the consumption Of pig. We mean Of
course the substitution Of steel for iron.
When the steel rail mills that are now
running are fully able to turn out half q
million tons Of rails per year, and 10 use
one.fifth Of our total production Of pig
iron, what hope Is there that single
iron mill that Is now idle will ever run
again. The superintendent OF an iron
rail mill thrt is one Of the best equipped
and most fayorably located in the coun-
try, and which by an unusual combina.
tion Of fortunate circumstances, is still
runningtecently said to US: ave must get
some process by which we can make an
iron rail as good as these BeSsemer men,
or we will have to stop" We know Of
no such process.
Year: 1878

The Chinese are delighted with the tele-
phone. The telegraph has been of no use to
them because they have no alphabet. But
the new Invention is practicable. and already
the telephone Is In use over five hundred
miles In China.
Year: 1878

We DO not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address Of the writer are In
alcases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

Every club is invited to send delegatey, and it Is
earnestly hoped that large number will be present
as it is desired to make this one of the most benef-
cent mass meetings held in the State and give
new impetus to the reform work in Brunswick


The usual reduction on the railroads will be made
Year: 1878

A year or two aSo. on more than one
occasion, the htetiigeRcer srguei that
high premium on gold was the best thing
for this county. As AL imports had to
be paid for in gold or It's equivalent, the
more that article cost the smaller would
be the smcunt OF goods imported. This
would have tie double effect OF keeping
our gold at home and increasing the de-
msnd lcr goods of home manufacture.
This reasoning struck US 81 the time rs
beng pretty sound, so we accepted 1t IS
the mntured wisdom OF one who knew
sll about 1t. lOur editorial neighoor
always does write on financial qurs s.ons as
one VINO had nothing TO lesrf ) But. yes.
terday morning, this eminent financial
writer took the opposite tack, and
announced that "if the premium on
godl should keep on falling, and soon
disappear, We should sdd the whole stock
of gold in the country TO the present pa
per circulation, and have sll the money
anybody would need


What We want TO know is; II 1t ro-
quired a premium on gold, year or two
sgo, to keep 1t in this country, h2w the
abolition OF that premium al this time is
going 10 set it aaoal promiscuously
through the lsndH
Year: 1878

II there is any worse plan in existence,
or il worse one can be invented, for
cleaning the streets OF city :hsn that
now in force in Wheeling, We hope the
ingenuity OF our Council will discover II
so that We may al be made happy by
comnarisOn
Year: 1878

Their Conspiracy 10 Nullify the Law
Of the Land-"They are Provok-
ing storm that Will sweep
Them Out of Existence "
Something Worthy the


Serious Consideration


OF the SchemiDs


shylocks.
Year: 1878

TO wit: the power that made them can
and ought 10 unmske them. Congress
chartered, Congress can urcharter; and
in my judgment it would be duty OF
Congress to take away the charter OF any
bank or banks that enter into any COM
bination to nuhty the laws OF Congress.
Ii, as .is admitted, there is an absolute
majority in both Houses IN favor OF q
silver currency. and as it is also admitted
thst the Constitution has placed within
the jurisdiction Of the two Houses
Year: 1878

"to control the currency and the finances
OF the country, in opposition to law OF
Congress which they think is likely to
pass. That is, they threaten 70 put
themselves in u position to nullify the
law of Congress making the silver dollar
legal tender. Either 10 threaten this
or 10 do it seems 10 me to be marvelously
unwise. The threat is improper as well,
and the doings of it viii provoke con-
test in which
Year: 1878

(which will last them an entire genera
ton, Us the United States Bank got u
lesson which lasted 1t until this genera
lion. Whatever individuals may do, in
attempting to put business on a gold basis
in defiance OF law of Congress, need
not be taken now into account. But when
the banks, the creatures of Congressional
legislation, set themselves up against
their creator
Year: 1878

"But, upon the question whether a law
imposed by Congress under the forms
prescribed by the Constitution can be
nulhded, there can be no doubt where
the President must be in furnishing null
Hfication. Ii Is said that this cOmbins-
tion Is going to be wide spread one.
The extent oil the conspiracy is only n
reason for the swiiter punishment of it,
aud the more energetic measures TO break
It down. For these reasons l can see
nothing more unwise than the reported
action the banks. ltthey go on with it
Year: 1878

Pay as you go and keep from
small score.


Pains to get, care to keep, fear
to lose.


Past labor is pleasant.


Poverty is the mother Of all
arts.
Provide for the worst, the best
will save itself.


Poverty Graves many things,
but avarice more.


Quarrelling dogs come hating
home.


Quiet persons are welcome
everywhere.


Riches, like manure. do no good
till they are spread.


Raining hares do not need the
spur.


See, listen, and be silent, and
you will live in peace.


Speak we'll Of your friend, Of
your enemy say nothing.


Some have been thought brave
because they were afraid to run
away.


Sit in your place and none can
make you rise.


Speak little and to tt purpose,
and you will pass for somebody.


Setting down in writing is a
lasting memory.


Take time while time is, for
time will way.


That which is we'll done is
twice done. -


Think Of ease but work on.


The stone that lies not in your
way, need not offend you.


The best throw upon the dice
is TO throw them away.


The present fashion is always
handsome.


There are no coxcombs so trou-
blesome as those that have some
wit.


The foolish Alchymist sought
to make gold of iron, and made
iron of gold.
Year: 1878

No PLACE LIKE HoME.-He had
stayed till the clock hands hung
together at eleven and that val
liable recorder of time was menac-
ing a strike. She had yawned till
her mouth felt large enough for 8
horse collar, and yet the young
man evinced no symptom Of
speedy departure. "1've been
working on a motto today" she
finally said, as she held her eyes
open with her fingers "don't you
want TO see it? He said he did.
She brought out the article and
passed it to him for inspection.
He held it up to the light and read
the cheerful sentence: "There's
no place like home" The young
man guessed he'd be going.
Year: 1878

Never since the day when the
red star of the Commune entrench-
ed on the historic heights of Belle
vile went down in darkness and
blood, has France had such a splen-
did opportunity for military dis
play as at the opening of the Uni
versal Exposition. Crushed beneath
the ruthless hoofs of invading ar
mics, rent and torn with intestine
discord, to-day she rises in her
might and proclaims to the world
that the Republic is supreme over
the ashes of the Commune and the
crumbling ruins Of the Empire.
Whatever may be our governmental
sympathies, whether kingly or re-
publican, be would be less than
christian and unworthy of the name
of man, who would deny to these
people the praise and the glory OF
having rescued their country from
such dire disaster and ruin as has
scarcely been experienced by any
other nation in ancient or modern
time. Seven years ago today the
invader thundered at her gates;
seven years ago this very month,
the torch of the incendiary left her
palaces and her halls Of justice but
heaps of smouldering ashes, and to-
day, from every land, from the rising
to the setting of the sun, millions
OF pilgrims come to her with tribute
to assist at the opening of her Great
Exposition and to strengthen the
bond Of peace whose doctrine is
enunciated in the universal brother
hood of man, and the Universal
Fatherhood Of God.


For weeks past thousands upon
thousands of distinguished stran
gers have been pouring into Paris.
Princes whose blue blood went
back to Pepin the Little and Char
lemagne, were fanked by Pachas.
Bashaws and Shays, whose pedigree
anti-dated Noah and the roots OF
whose family tree were to be found
in the Garden of Eden. For many
DAYS it has been evident that a
grand military display was in
tended. Strange uniforms appear
ed more frequently upon the
streets, fierce looking Turcos with
baggy breeches and vagabond look
ING hats took the whole Of the side
walk in squads and without as
much as hv your leave, or if you
please elbowed you into the gutter.
Cuirassiers in glittering helmet and
cuirasse imposing looking officers,
in ponderous cooked hats and gor'
geous with orders Of merit, lined
the highways and guarded the cor
ners of the streets. Dragons
armed cap en- pied mounted or
horses gaily comparisoned, dashed
hither and thither as if on lmpor


tant business and woe betide the


unlucky foot passenger who hap


pened to stand in their way.


For weeks and weeks the high


diplomatist Mons. de Bort, who has
charge of the management-of the
Year: 1878

The Governor of Iowa pardon
ed q man who had been senten-
ced to State prison for ten years.
on the conditions that he should
during the remainder Of his
term, abstain from the use of in
toxicating liquors as beverage; !;
that he should exert himself for
the support Of his mother and
sister, and that he should not be
convicted during the term of the
sentence OF any violation OF
criminal law. The act of pardon
provided that, as to the first and
second conditions, the Governor
was to be judge, aud that in the
event Of violation of either, he
should have the right to remand
the prisoner to custody for the
remainder of the term of his
sentence. The prisoner accepted
the conditions and was released.
subsequently he fell into drunk
enness, and the Governor order
ed his return to State prison
The question as to the validity
Of this proceeding came before
the Supreme Court of Iowa: and
it was held by the Court that
the Governor had the right to
grant conditional pardon, and
upon the failure of the party to
fulfill the conditions specified, to
replace him in the position in
which he would have been but
for the pardon.
Year: 1878

When the system is run down to
that extent that You pass sleepless
nights, are nervous and irritable,
have gloomy forebodings, sour
stomach, sick headache and coated
tongue, do not enroll yourself as
high private in the rear rank, under
General Debility. but cheer up and
try Whites Prairie Flower, The
Great Liver Panacea, now for sale
iu every city and town on the Con-
tirent. No medicine ever CON-
pounded is half its equal for the
cnre of DYSPEPSIA and LIVER
COMPLAINT. 1t has a specific
power over the liver, and by curing
the liver. Dyspepsia and all other
diseases arising from it, vanish as if
by magic. Sample bottles are sold
at the small price of 25 cents that
will convince you of its merits.
Large size bottles IS cents, for sale
everywhere. m29 3m-d&w
Year: 1878

q them. but neil they &


would have : to do with


the others, were said to Be


.kes, said they led to attack the


ce; and Quininea I hardly time to


back when theys ne as fast as their


ss could carry EN-. From the


nit smoke WAS seeh in the direction


be place, which ihdicated that it
was sburned. None of the families in
TygH Valley had left Z re on Sunday
morning, and there is q that they
were also attacked. It lid be easy
to cut them off from the lies, which
might account fci no rep from that
place. Great anxiety will felt to hear
more from that locality. -


SILVER CRY, July 9.--4Dispatches to
the Avalanche from John Day Valley,
speaking of the recent depredations
there by savages, say the latter are mon
archs os all they survey. The area of
territory now invested by them embra>
ces some four Thousand square miles,
combining all natural facilities for long
war. There are hardly eight hundred
people in Canyon City and less than
hundred of the adult population are
armed. The main streets Of the town
are within easy rifle range of surrodnd-
ing emineaces, which afford numerous
points of vantage for an attacking par
ty. The whole village is completely at
the mercy of an uncomfortable number
Of the savagss, were they disposed to
Year: 1878

Now the shades of night are falling


Ger the waters lark once more,
They are foaming, rising, breaking,


On the far off distant shore;
Oh. the long, long hours of darkness
TO the lonely sufferer there
He Is hoping, dreading, feeling,


All the horrors of despair.
But what is it with the daylight


ROuscs him to hope at last?
That small speck upon the ocean


lsav vessel sailing past; .
win his call for help ere reach them?


win they hear his feeble cry?
They surely, surely will not pass him,
Leave him there alone to die?
No for il is drawing nearer,


Kind hands loose him from the wreck.
Bear him toa place OF safety.


Lay him gently on the deck;
Is he alone to tell the story,


OF the lost ship in her grave?
Only one tell the mouruer


Of the loved ones meath the wave.
Oh the many homes Of SORROW


There is mourning everywhere
Sadness, grief and Interviewing


For the young. the loved and fair;
For the dear ones who lett us,


Here to wander nevernore;
Sadly winters winds are signing,
While the wild waves lash the shore.
Mourners listening to their moaning,


Feign would hush them into rest;
Fancy hears in each low murlnur


Voices OF the lost and best;
But there Is a God above us


Knows the hearts deep agony
Turn to him in thy great sorrow


He will help and pity thee.
When nights curtain 'rouud thee closing
daylight fading in the west
When with loving ones around thee,


Thou shalt have thy dreams of rest;
When the wild, fierce winds of winter,


Bring their terrorS cen to thee,
Spare one prayer for those in danger
Sailors on the stormy sea.
Year: 1878

PROFITS OF Coon FEEDING.-A cores.
pondnt of the Country Gentleman gives the
following details Of his experience on this
subject


Last fall had the offer of COW on an
old debt, and hesitated some as to whether
had better lose the debt or take the COW,
as she was old and very thin, but finally
concluded to try and make something out
OF her, though the chances looked yery
small, and the boys made a good deal of
sport OF her, and said would get nothing
but her hide. She was farrow, and was
not giving more than one quart of milk
night and msrning. took her to the farm
ana told my man to do the best he could for
49, s1r,'a 7tes"tt%easad fenced feeding her apples,
in appearance; but after while ln0 @ u"tn
and care began to tell on her, and in three
months she was in good condition, and gave
twelve quarts Of milk daily One week |
brought from there nine pounds of nice
butter, which the womdn assured me was
the product of nine days milk, and at the
same time sold two quarts Of milk daily
aud used what they needed in the family
consisting of herself and husband. 1 expec
fted 20 feed her well, and turn out to gras.
to fatten, but she proved so good for milk
concluded to keep her another year Sh'
has kept liz good order all summer, anG
given about as much milk as any of the cows
but we shall soon dry her off, as we expee
to have her for new milch COW this win
ter. l also bought last fall flock of stor
sheep, just as it was time to turn in for win
ter. fed them till the 10th Of March on la
and oat screenings, and sold them at an ad
vance of $3.50 per head
Year: 1878

The latest yarn about fast time is to the
effect that on certain road young man
put his head out Of car window TO kiss his
girl good bye, when the train pulled out 90
raridly THAI he kissed an old African female
at the next station.
Year: 1878

New YORK, Oct. s.-Judge Van Brunt
to-day rendered his decision in the case of
the Astor heirs, who sought to enjoin the
city permanently from making improve
ments on its water front authorized by the
act of 1871. While the decision which is
favorable to the city will doubtless be ap-
yealed from, it is the most important
rendered since the Rings trial. The ques-
ton involves nearly the whole water front
of the city and upon their ultimate. deter
mination will depend millions of dollars