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Year: 1874

SPENDING Mo:EY TO earn money
is easy compared to spending it well
any body may dig up potatoes, but it
is not one woman in ten that can
cook them. Men do not become rich
by what they get, bat by what they
save. Many men who have money
are a, short of wit as Il hog is Of
wool they are under years Of discrc-
ton, though tlcy have turned forty,
and make ducks aid brakes out Of
hundreds as boy, do Of stones What
their fathers got with rak they throw
away with shovcls. Al,er the miscr
comes the prodigal. Often men say
Of the spcnGthrifi, his own father was
no mans friend but his own; the fact
is, the old gentleman went to hell by
( the lean road and his son las made
up his mind TO 20 there hy tie fat.
Year: 1874

Place a basin Of cold water by the
side o: Your bed; when You first
awake in the 'erning, dip your hands
in and vet ,.ai brow, and sleep will
not again seal Vo. in It's trcachcrous
embrace. This is the advice given by
an aged man, who had been in the
habit or rising early during y long
life
Year: 1874

The artificial excitement which our
learned city fathers have managed to
create during the past summer by their
wise legislation on the subject of vagrant
dogs will give interest TO the following
brief abstract of a paper presented at
recent session of the Medical Society OF
wilma, Poland: 1t appears that Mr.. ].
Jitzi had observed during the preceding
year that a certain ill-tempered house
dog of that city frequently attacked and
killed serpents of u venomous description,
such as are frequently seen in the ehvi-
rons; and that after having been bitten
by these reptiles he suffered from SWELL
ing of the neck and throat. This dog one
day encountered another dog in which
rabies had fully declared itself, and
which had already bitten dogs and cat
tie which afterward became mad Hav-
ing received deep bites from this animal
he was shut up and watched, the inten-
ton being to destroy him on the first APP
pearance of the symptoms of madness.
The dog, however, got well and remained
in perfect health. This fact excited Mr.
Jitzki's surprise. On instituting an in
quiry he presently encountered a woman
who, having once been bitten by ven
omous serpent and afterward by mad
dog, escaped any ill-consequences from
the second bite. From these rather mar
row data Mr.. Jitzki was led to conclude
that there is probably some antag-
onism between the venom of a
poisonous serpent and the virus
of a mad dogs saliva. He
imagines some such relation to exist here
as between the active principle of con-
taglon in the smallpox and the cow-pox
Supposing this to be case he imagines
that immunity from hydrophobia may be
secured by inoculating human beings
with serpent poison before they have
been exposed to the bites of mad dogs


There are perhaps timid or fastidious
persons who would esteem remedy like
that which is here proposed to be worse
than the disease. And others might be
disposed to take their moderate chances
of death by hydrophObia, which are per-
haps about one in one hundred millions,
rather than to run the risk of going off
prematurely by SO ignominious a cause
as the poison of serpent. Mr.. Jitzki,
however, is not disposed to relinquish his
hope of being recognized as a second
Jenner for lack of perseverance. He
notified the society that before leaving
the country he had taken measures to
catch and shut up a considerable number
of the poisonous reptiles, to whose bites
he intended to submit all animals in his
neighborhood which should happen here
after to be bitten by mad dogs.-Neao
York Times.
Year: 1874

An Arkansas correspondent of the
Scientific american says i came here
thirty years since and began clearing
land and building houses with hewn logs
and boards split from the tree. After
several years residence I noticed very
often that pieces of the same kind of
timber decayed more quickly than
others; and, after much thought and
observation, | came to the conclusion
that timber felled after the leaf was
fully grown lasted the longest. / no.
ticed that timber felled when the leaf
first commenced to grow rotted the sap
off very quickly, but the heart remained
sound that timber felled after the fall
of the leaf rotted in the heart, even
when apparently sound on the outside.
When fire-wood cut in the winter was
put on the fire the sap came out of the
sap-wood and next the bark. / noticed
also that all our lasting wood had but
little sap at any time in the heart-such
as cedar, mulberry, sassafras, and
cypress.


"A cypress post cut in the summer of
1888 is still sound, although exposed to
all weathers; while one of the same kind
of timber cut in the winter of 1856 and
painted has rotted in the heart. l saw
yesterday piece of gum plank which |
sawed in the summer of 1859, that has
lain ever since and is perfectly sound
while oak timber that was felled in the
winter before is now entirely rotten.


my conclusion, then, is: Cut timber
after full leaf-say in July and August
to get the most last from it. The sap
goes into the heart of the tree after leaf
fall and causes decay
Year: 1874

This is a tolerable location. The
grounds, see, are little out of order,
but dare say you manage to get along.
Is the rent heavyW


The host Informed him that he paid no
fent, as The House was his own property


The brass dOorp1ate next attracted his
attention, and lie remarked that IL
should be cleaned, by all means, as 1t
looks very disreputabe ut present"
Being escorted into the parlor, the man.
tel-piece next attracted his attention, and
he inquired;


/ Is that genuine marble?" and, after
examining it, remarked: "Oh, no, / see
it's only oil-cloth imitation"


The family coming into the room, he
engaged in conversation with the young
lady of the house


Miss Kate, can you play the 'Moeking
BirdY All, by the way, your hair needs
oiling. should recommend some sort
of vegetable dressingp


Continuing in this vein he informed the
family that he had lately been travelling
in the hope of overcoming a certain con.
stltutional bashfulness that threatened
to ruin all his prospects In life. He
thought he had made some improvement,
but still had much to learn. There was
certain easy self-possession which he
would perhaps never attain. Said he
ut is natural to some people"


He remained at the house over night,
and, rising in the morning before the
rest, he built the fire, remarking when
the family came down that they were
very saving of COAL Gin fact it was cussed
cold there when he came down." He
then invited the head of the family to go
down town and get drink before break
fast, to which the Colonel replied


wouldn't be seen on the street with
you for fifty dollars"


To which this coolest of all cool men
responded:


All, Colonel, there is your keen wit
again you're always ready; l wish Ihad
your possession"


He remained for dinner and supper
said he was on his way 10 Chicago to be
married; that he had turned a trump
card and won very wealthy girl; that
modest merit had met its reward at last
He said he was opposed to third term
and early marriages; that he was sorry
Ben Butler was defeated, and attributed
it to excessive cheek; he thought if Ben
had been more modest and Withdrawn
his name unreservedly," he would have
been triumphantly elected.


He remained that night and the follow
ing day, assuring the family that he
would be compelled to leave some time
this week.


This is all true, and not bit of fancy.
That chap can undoubtedly lay claim to
the medal for superabundance of cheek.
-DeS M0Snes (I0lCd) State Journal.
Year: 1874

THE subiimity of cheek is generally
reached by an evening newspaper man,
but prominent citizen of Des Moines
was made acquainted with the fact, few
days since, that there is peak on the
mountain of brass that even sundOwn
journalists seldom reach.


A chap from "down East" put in an
appearance here, claiming to have had
an acquaintance withcertain Des Moines
people before they came to this city
Soon after his arrival he met the head OF
one of these families upon the street and
forthwith invited himself to the gentle
mans house. The Colonel responded
that he was very sorry, indeed, but he
had just moved into his present quar-
tiers, and was not yet fixed up, and con
sequently could not entertain strangers
at present. Taking the Colonels arm
the CHAP respOnded


Don't mention IT, What earthly dit
ference can II make TO an old friend
Come right along. Wen 60 right up"


The Colonel protested, but without eff
feet. Arriving at the house this chap
casually remarked;
Year: 1874

No doubt it is beautiful thing, IN the
abstract, to have some little brothers.
just as most theories are beautiful
but when we come right down to actual
life little brothers are a pest-to grown
up sisters, we mean.


They always know everything, and
they obey the Scripture recommenda
tion and let their light shine instead OF
hiding it under.a bushel What knowl
edge they possess the world is wei
come to.


II sister Amanda powders or touches
up her pallor now and then with rouge
little brother is well informed ON the
subject, and some day, when her favoritC
beau is making her call, little brother
will be sure to tell him about it


If she has high temper, not always
under control, little brother will speak
about 1t while the young clergyman Of
the parish is making his monthly visit
and while Amanda, with downcast eyes
and very solemn physiognomy general
ly, is listening to his talk of heavenly
things.


Little brothers. careless hands inyesti
gate the sacred precincts of the family
clock, and put stop to time in tina
house until the clock.maker is sent for
Little brother leaves the bobolinks cage
door open so that the cat can eat thu
bird, and then he howls himself sicl
over the catastrophe, and escapes there
Year: 1874

INTRODUCTORY.


1T Is all sixteen years ago Had the lives
of the turkeys been spared as they were not
they would all now be sweet seventeen. They
might have rivaled in size the siXty-pound
turkeys which Josselyn saw here two hundred
years ago.


But their lives were not spared.


The first heard Of the turkeys was as
came down from the pulpit on the Sunday
morning before Thanksgiving. Miss Maria
Jennings had worked her way to the neigh
borhood of the pulpit stairs, and beckoned
me- joined her.


az wanted TO ask If you remember Hepzi
bah BrOwn~


"Of course do" said i; " the girl with
the blind MOTHER


The samc,n said Miss Maria. "You know
she is in my Bible class. / had thought that
it would be a nice thing to suggest
to the other girls, who have not the
slightest idea of what hardship is (as how
would surprise Hepsie and her mother with
a Thanksgiving dinner. Poor souls, / do not
know how else they should have one. You
do not see any harm, do your


"Harm2 Not the least" said |; but Q
great deal Of good, rather"


" She will not be offended or hurt, will
she? ?"


"I never saw that she was fool" said L
" II she is we had better all Of us find it out
| should say, though, that never anything
can be amiss when simpleness and duty ten
der it,"


Miss Maria laughed and went her ways;
and, when the Bible-class gathered, she pro.
posed her little plan to those of the girls who
came in before Hepsibah Brown did, and
bade them propose it TO those who came in
after her They were all pleased with the
proposal, and as Monday and Tuesday passed
they brought round to Miss Maria more
money for their contributions to the turkey
than She really knew well what to do with.
met her Wednesday morning and she told
me so. But she said she had bought hel
turkey and had ordered home with him
squashes and apples and cranberries and
bag of -four. Then, as cranberries
were useless without sugar and pies
prohtless without cheese, she had added
twenty pounds Of sugar and five of cheese
She had little money left, and she was going
to send a little tea to the old lady.
Year: 1874

There is proper time to do almost
everything Yet many persons are at
the very rear end of everything they at
tempt to perform They arc always be-
hind in seed time, and are at the rear in
every respect during the period of hay
ing and harvest. They rise early and
retire late at night; yet they are forever
behindhand There seems to be sor-
rowful lack of judicious planning and
executive ability in all their operations.
Hence they are always in a fretting
sweat. Without proper planning one
may rise at the dawn of day and work
hard till the mystic revolutions of the
earth darken his vision and shut off from
him the light of heaven; he may sow
with diligence and reap with care, but
unless his work is done in proper time
and in a proper way, guided by the in
tluence of II well-trained, intelligent and
disciplined mind, that work will all be in
vain. Now, then, if you have corn to
husk, take your breakfast in the morn
ing mot at midday, march lively to the
field and apply yourself resolutely to
husking until noon. Do one thing ut a
time, and perform the task thoroughly
Train yourself to engage resolutely in a
job and stick to it until the task is COM
pleted. Then take up something else
NJ y Herald.
Year: 1874

"A verdant bridegroom in city hotel
reports the New York Mail, called the
waiter to him at dinner, put his finger to
his lips, and made noise between his
teeth indicative of a profound silence,
the blushing bride doing the same. The
waiter stared. The bride and bridegroom
repeated the noise in louder manner
than at first, and thus caused the other
guests at the table to cease conversation
and gaze inquiringly toward them. Here
the head walter came up, and to him the
subordinate remarked that he evidently
had drunken or crazy man to wait upon.
"What do you wantY What do you mean
by making that noiseY" asked the head
waiter, "Thunder," yelled the BRIDE
groom, "can't you fellows understands |
want a bottle of champagne for me and
MariaH
Year: 1874

A NEGRO of Baltimore has had warn
ing which, if it does not turn him from
some OF the errors of his way, ought at
least to convey a wholesome lesson to
others. He had been indulgingin strong
drinks to excess and was enjoying II
cheerful attack of delirium tremens.
One morning he got out of bed and
ascended to the roof to take an air-bath.
Then he was seized with the delusion
that the people in the street were trying
to shoot him. To escape from them he
jumped from house to house and ran
along the combs of the roofs until the
row of houses came to an end. He then
dropped himself down chimney out of
the range of imaginary guns. He slid
down the chimney until he became firm
ly wedged above stove-pipe hole, and
in that stove u fire had just been built to
cook breakfast, The negro now became
impressed with the idea that he had
reached the Internal regions at last, and
howled accordingly, 1t was necessary
to chop hole in the chimney to release
him.
Year: 1874




Hepzibah Brown was most briefly described,
as the reader has seen, "as the girl who had
the blind mother" Her mother had lost her
sight long, long before l knew anything
about either Of them; nor do know how she
lost it. l first found them living in two
rooms, of which Hepzibah had to pay the
rent weekly, and for which she provided the
ways and means by the most difficult
out out to - works. tcchnicaIly so so
called. She occasionally contracted to take
in babies by the month, in which case she
invariably spent on their milk much more
than ala the money paid to her; and in sharp
strain she took insslop-worli to sew upon. But
we all knew that tintHt Wupe indeed hart.Yhen
she came to this resoNfceA


For her mother there were several sources
of revenue which required nursing and tending
worthysBf Huskisson or Vanstittart. There
was the monthly payment of one dollar and
siXty-two cents to each of the descendants of
Jairus Hotchl1ss. You had to go for this
money at quarter before eleven on the second
| Friday before the third Thursday in the month.
1t would derange my accounts" said the
| lady treasurer, if they came at any other
time" Then there was dollar and half a
month from the Widows Association. This
you went for in the afternoon Of the first Sat
urdav in the month. 1t was steady pay; but
il made it necessary for the old lady TO stay in
Boston through all the summer, for
fear she should lose her residence
The Overseers of the Poor of Boston
have similar rules. The old lady drew two
dollars a month from them. | think her hus-
band mad been a pump and block maker; and
the "Seamens Society,"" seeing that by vir-
| tue of the pumps he dealt in water and by
virtue of the blocks he was conversant with
running rigging, took him on their lists,
with a loyal Indifference to red tape, for which
| blessed them. That brought in a dollar
and a quarter month more.


Did hear you grumbling, my dear Tyrus,
because the Golconda and Crgsusberg divid.
ed only 51a per cent in September, while
you had per cent. every six months before
since you can rememberY Please spend hal
an hour then with bit of paper arranging
your monthly personal expenses on such {
scale of debit that little balance will be lef
to you when you have added up these foul
credits:
Year: 1874

THERE have been several bales of
water-packed cotton brought into this
market this week. Farmers cannot be
too particular in attending to the
proper ginning of their cotton. Where
it is falsely, or water-packed, it is not
in saleable condition. Where fraud
is intened, the parties knowingly
bringing in such cotton may rest as
sured buyers will at once detect the
trick, and sales cannot be made. Our
farmers and ginners owe it to them
selves to pack in good faith, for there
is certainly nothing to be gained by a
clumsy attempt at fraud by water
packing cotton. 1t is too easily dis
covered. Honesty is the best principle.
Year: 1874

rested In peace "under his own vine
and fix tree, with none to molest or
make afraid" He was willing that
those who wanted railroads should
have them, provided they built them
with their own money, and did not in
terfere with vested rights of the citi-
zen, but he would not give them one
foot of land or one dollars government
aid. Said they had retarded the set
tlement of the country, rather than ad-
vanced it, and instanced the case of
his own county, where he said thous-
ands of acres Of land were locked up
from settlement, by the railroad reser-
vations. He said he was no speaker,
but twenty eight hundred voters had
petitioned him to run, and as he was
now on the track, he intended to run
the race through.
Year: 1874

The fact that plants yield more


largely when they are furnished with


abundant room, and that the thin seed


ing or crop, up to certain limits,
yield better harvest than any thicker


seeding, Is no new thing. We read OF


1t in the works of the most ancient


writers on agriculture, and early his


torians record facts illustrative Of the
advantages Of sowing thinly and Of
the extraordinary yields of grain from
single seeds. Nevertheless the subject


is as fresh as ever, and we see every
year good farmers wasting large
amounts of seed and sacrificing large
portions of their crops. We have re-
Gently seen Il piece of oats sown with
one bushel per acre which yielded q
better crop than neighboring field
sown with four bushels per acre. A
few years ago we divided n ten acre
field into five portions, and sowed them
with wheat mt the rate of one
bushel, five pecks, six pecks, seven
pecks, and two bushels of seed per
acre. There was no perceptible differ
ence in the soil of the field, nor any
in the manuring, preparing, or sowing.
At harvest time there was very per-
ceptible difference in the yield, the
thinest sowed portion being the best of
the field, and the thickest portion the
worst. Near the edge of the field, up
on the thincst sown part, where the
seed had been thinned out by some
pigeons, there We're some stools with
thirty stalks, each bearing an ear; and
in this part Of the field the difference
was mostly shown in this way, and in
the length of the ears. The other side
of the field, where two bushels had
been sown, produced much shorter ears
than this portion.
Year: 1874

There is no closs of producers in tho
world who are as much the sport OF
circumstances as the cotton raisers of
the south. While the article they con-
tribute to commerce is demanded by
the necessities of all the civilized and
semi-civilized peoples on the globe, the
market value of that article is deternl-
ined by n hundred circumstances that
legitimately should have no effect i'll
fixing it. The reason of this is that
cotton in the raw, and in all its manu-
factured forms, is the great article of
speculation for the commercial world,
by the handling of which thousands
who toll not, dress themselves in pur-
pie and fine linen and fare stmptnons-
ly every day. When it leaves the
wagon of the producer it goes into the
hands of the speculatOr, and from
speculator TO speculatnr it passes until
it returns to the farmer in the shape Of
calico, homcspun, and the thousand
and one commodities into the manu-
facturc of which cotton enters.


These reflections are occasioned by
noticing in some of our exchanges that
few days ago meeting of the prom
inent manufacturers OF New England
was held in order to devise ways and
means for gathering heavier tribute
from the agricultural states of the
south and west. This, of course, was
not the avowed object of the meeting;
but such was its practical result. The
action agreed upon at this meeting
was that, as the price of their goods
was not sufficiently yremunerative, they
would the price 10y reducing the
products of their mills. Ii is evident
that the effect of this must hc two fold.
First, to reduce the demand for the new
material TO spin NJ and, to that extent,
to operate 70 reduce the price Of cotton;
and, in the second place, to put up tie
price of manufactured articles 10y less
ening the quantity manufactured.
Tim, by concert of action among the
manufacturers OF England the farmers
of Texas are compelled both to sell
what they have TO sell at "A lower price
and to pay for what they have to buy a
higher price. And there is no imme.
date help for it. They are pOwerlcss
to prevent themselves from being
ground between this upper and neither
milestone.


While we say that theIe is no iBlne-
didte help for this anomalous condi-
ton of affairs, there is a remedy, and
If the south wishes ever to cease being
a newer of wood and drawer of water
for those whose chiefest pleasure it is
to despitefully use her, she must bend
all her energies TO availing herself of
that remedy. The only way in which
we can ever release ourselves from this
thraldom TO New England is by the
establishing of manufactures in our
own country, So that the producer can
deal with the manufacturer. There is
no good reason why every water course
iu Texas should not be musical with
the hum of spindles, engaged in manu-
featuring the fieecy product of her
fields. A concerted movement on the
part of the southern people to employ
their surplus capital in the erection of
cotton factories would bring the nabobs
of New England to our feet. They
would see their wealth and their as
cendancy in the government
vanishing, and would make
any terms that would cause US to desist
from the movement Boston and
Lowell would cheerfully agree to re-