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Year: 1876

man, writing about the proper way in
which to use these lamps, says: "I
would add that TO glass lamp ought ever
to be used, as Chey not only break by
blows and falling, but by unequal expan-
sion and contraction. Probably seven
eights of all the reported fires, burns and
deaths by explosion, are solely in con-
sequence of the use of glass lamps, while
/ have never heard of one from the ex-
plosion of metallic lamp. A glass lamp
should never be lighted when first
brought from cold room; wait until the
bottom of the oil fount is as warm as the
air in the room, or the rapid expansion
to the top of the fount above the oil will
cause it to crack and emit vapor, which
ignites, and an explosion" is reported.
l have seen safety burners, with a kind
of apron extending over the top of the
glass fount, so as to cause the air re-
quired to feed the flame to pass close to
the glass, tending to keep it cool, as well
also as 20 lesson the liability to breaking
by falling or blows, but do not know
where they can be obtained"
Year: 1876

OMELET. Gut from the loaf q slice an
inch thick and pour over it half pint
boiling milk. Stir it smooth, adding
pepper and salt. Beat five eggs, yolks
and whites separately; pour on to the
soaked bread stir it together, and bake
in quick oven.


PROPER USE OF KEROSENE LAMPS
A correspondent of the Country Gentle
Year: 1876

The Fort Smith Herald has this to say
of the Sheritf's election in that county:


The returns for Sheriff show that the
people of Sebastian county are not un
mindful of their own interests When
they have tried an officer for two years
and found him up to the standard, they
are not willing to thrust him aside and
place another in his stead, Of whose quail
itications they know nothing; and sim
ply to crafty the whims of men who de-
sire to be considered independent, and
of their friends who may see proper to
back them. Ofcourse every man has the
right to ask office at the hands Of the
people; at the same time the people
have right to signify their choice of
who they want. In this instance the
vote of 1919 for Mr.. Falconer, over and
against the vote Of 564 for Mr. Hood
and Of 29l for Mr.. Buzan, shows, beyond
question that Falconer is the choice
and that he enjoys as he deserves, the
confidence of the people of Sebastian
county.
Year: 1876

We hear ii rumored, about town, that
Mr.. Grady will contest the election
for sheriff, for the reason that the ballot
box in Alma township was taken by one
of the judges, at noon, to his house,
while he and the other judges were get
ting their dinners There was nothing
wrong about that. He was one of the
sworn custodians of the ballot box, and
unless something more than that fact
can be shown, the contest will amount to
nothing. We have the utmost conf.
dense in the judge who had the box, and
Notwithstanding Wilcox got big vote
there, we have no reason to believe that
it is not all right. Why, Van Buren
township was in the same fix, for the
box here, was taken to the store of one
of the judges, and remained all night
and we have not heard a lisp that any.
thing was wrong about that. There
were illegal votes cast for Mr.. Grady
here. OF the railroad hands that voted
here, not one of them were legal citizens
and if an investigation can be entered
into, the timetable of the railroad vii
show that not single one Of the ten oi
| fifteen that voted here, had right to dc
] 50. They all voted for Grady.
Year: 1876

Ever since the Argus was started, We
have tried to get along with the Press in
the editorial field. We have tried two
kinds OF medicine and find neither etfec
tive, SO we part company. From this
time forward we no long exchange with
that paper.-Argus.


Now, that is ungenorous, unkind in
Wilcox. After all we have done for him,
that he should now turn his back on us.
We cant get along without the ueably
visit of the Argus, it is Just impossible,
ant consequently, will have to become n
subscriber for it, Granville is adding to
his record and it is all important that ne
should have it on file, where we can put
our hand on it. He is, politically, dead
er than a salt maclterel, but as he will
keep wiggling, we want to keep track of
him
Year: 1876

p-ls~ Not word docs the editor Of the
Argus say deprecating the election Of a
radical County Judge, an office ten times
more important to the tax payers Of
Crawford county than the election of a
radical to the legislature, as there will
not be over a dozen radical members out
of over one hundred. The editor secs
nothing but Wilcox's defeat in the whole
election. Crawford county would have
been in happy fix with the sheriffs Of
fee and the county.ludgcship in the
hands of the radical party,
Year: 1876




The Fairbanks is getting to bc one Of the best
clubs-as it has been among the most enter
prisins-of any in the city. It is composed Of
Vell-bred young gentlemen who have fittc.l
themselves out With tasteful uniform and all
necessary equipment, and who play q strong
game. They will meet the West End Club, the
crack organization OF Milwaukee, in the latter
city July 4, and very interesting gnmc may be
looked for. II the Alilwaukceans can win from
the Fairbanks they stand an equal chance with
any amateur club in this city, excepting only the
Franklins.


THE CHAMPIONSHIP.


The first week OF the League games by the
Eastern branch on Western grounds has heen
completed, and the result has been what good
judges all along expccted-to show the Eastern
gentlemen that, however well they might play
On their own grounds, they were hardly strong
enough to make much Of a showing when they
were away from their respective grounds. The
weeks play comprised eleven games Of which
tho West captured seven, making the score Tor
the whole season as follows:
Year: 1876

The Hutchinson Enterprise has the
following pertinent and sensible refec-
tons in its last issue:


"Why are times so hard, and why are
people so poor in these times? This ques-
ton has risen before US time and again,
and it is assuming more terrible aspect
now than it ever did before. In towns
and cities poverty and wretchedness is
on the increase; business houses fail,
manufactures suspend, and hundreds OF
thousands of working people are suffer-
ing want and starvation. Turn we TO
the farming districts we find the condition
almost as deplorable. The farmer strug
giles and tolls early and late; is econom>
ical beyond the demands OF comfort ;yet
he is poor-very poor. His debts keep
growing; one article of necessity after
another is disposed of; still he has debts
which crush him down so low that his
hope of ever rising above them is almost
extinguished and his soul is groaning
beneath the burden of despair. Why are
things so in this broad aud wealthy land?
And what will be the result if this state
of affairs continues?


'Somewhere there is great evil which
proves to be terrible obstacle in the
way of progress, aud this evil is nothing
more CT less than the irregular manner
in which the wealth of this country hap>
pens to be distributed. We have a
money power which is fast gaining
strength the effect of which is becoming
more and more felt. If this power in
creases and sways its scepter over the
middle and poorer classes much longer
this country will soon cease to be what
it once was. namely a home for the poor
liberty>loving foreigners; tor it will
soon be discovered that it would be tol-
ly to leave the poverty resulting from
aristocratic governmental one country
in order to be placed in similar condi-
tions ih another" F"


Why will not the Enterprise come for
ward and help the Independents? Or
does it propose to talk the truth and sus-
tain the wronga
Year: 1876

no influence on the future management
of the government ;hence, they preferred
to vote with the leading party with
which they affiliated. That the influences
which controlled their conduct this year
cannot be perpetuated seems very clear
to us, and we teel confident that, no
matter how the present contest is de-
cided, the financial issue must be the
leading question in all coming contests,
until it is wisely and satisfactorily settled ;
and that that party which advocates the
greenback policy or a modification of it
which will work out the same results,
will hereafter be the successful one with
the public. The people will not continue
to submit to financial system which SO
rapidly absorbs the wealth of the country
in the hands of the few as that now in
vogue in this country"
Year: 1876

The SovereiSns of lndustry of three OF the
New England States have just opened q pur-
chasing agency in Boston. They expect to
concentrate wholesale trade Of two and half
millions of dollars. The contributing Councils
number some thirty thousand membersr


Glad 10 hear it. Every effort of the
laboring class to increase the sum of their
comforts and enjoyments should meet
the approval OF all good men.
Year: 1876

The Fergus Falls people return their thanks
to Manager Farley tor his expressed intention
to continue the daily through train to Breck-
inridge at all hazards"


We second the thanks. Manager Far
ley is conducting the road ably. All the
signs indicate that there will be large
emigration to the western part of the
Main Line next spring.
Year: 1876

Wilder did not even get the full vote of
his own party. 1t we received nearly
5000 votes, with no prospect Of success.
what would have been the result if we had
had reasonable show Of being elected?
Why did Strait dance with Joy when he
heard that the Democrats refused to
combine with the Greenbackers?
Year: 1876

The bondholder is safe and secure under Q
republican or democratic administration -
august Belmont


Then it doesn't matter who is President as
long as Peter Cooper is out. Does it?-Er.


The foregoing hits the nail on the
head exactly The recent election was
simply to protect the capitalists from
Peter Cooper and the people.
Year: 1876

The Greenback IN EN- in Kansas now intend I
organize in every county i'll the state and keep
the financial question before the people. They
are hopeful and confident that before another
Presidential election the Independent Green
back party will be in the inaiority.-Fort Scot,
(Kansas) Pioneer.


Same here! We regard the Indepen>
dent party as the nations only refuge
from anarchy.
Year: 1876

Prof. Grunnelle is lecturing in the South
on Spiritualisn, appealing to the intellects OF
his auditors by supping molten lead and allow
ing a red hot poker to be thrust down his
throat, while under ''control."


The people are having the red-hot
poker of bankruptcy run down their
throats while under the control of the re-
publican party and they seem to enjoy
~
Year: 1876

Ihe path that leads to the spring is a
path with something at the end of it, and
the best of good fortune awaits him who
walks therein. 1t is well-worn patI,. and
though generally up or down a hill. it is
the easiest OF all paths to travel; we forget
our fatigue when going to the spring, and
we have lost it when we turn to come away.
See with what alacrity the laborer hastens
along 1t, all sweaty from the field: see the
boy or girl running with pitcher or pail !;
see the welcome shade of the spreading
tree that presides over its marvellous birth :


In the woods or on the mountain-side
follow the path and you are pretty sure to
md spring; all creatures are going that
way night and day, and they make path.


A spring is always vital point in the
landscape; it indeed the eye of the fields.
and how often, too, it has noble eyebrow
IN the shape Of an overhanging bank or
ledge. Or else its site is marked by some
tree which the pioneer has wisely left
standing, and which sheds a GOODNESS and
freshness that make the water more sweet.
In tine shade of this tree the harvesters sit
and eat their lunch and look out upon the
quivering air of the fields. Here the Sun
day saunterer stops and lounges with his
book, and bathes his hands and face in the
cool fountain. Hither the strawberry girl
comes with her basketand pauses a moment
IN the green shade. The plowman leaves
his plow and with long strides approaches
the life-renewing spot, while his team, that
cannot follow, look wistfully after him.
Here tire cattle love to pass the heat of the
day, and hither came the birds to wash
&fmselves and make their toilets


Indeed a spring is always an oasis in the
desert of the fields. It is creative and
generative- centre. 1t attracts all things to
Hseif-the grasses, the MOSES, the flowers,
the wild plants, the great trees. The
walker finds it out, the camping party seek
It, the pioneer builds his hut or his house
near IT. When the settler or squatter has
iound good spring he has found good
place to begin life; he has found the foun.
tain-head of much that he is seeking in this |





word. The chances are that he has found a
southern and eastern exposure for it is |
iact that water does not readily flow north
the valleys mostly open the other. way and
II Is quite certain he has found measure
OF salubrity for where water flows fever
a0'deth not. The spring, too, keeps him
70 the right belt, out of the low valley and |
of the top of the hill.


Then there seems kind of perpetual
spring-time about the place where water
issues from the ground--a freshness and a
greenness that are ever renewed. The
grass never fades, the ground is never
parched or frozen. There is warmth there
m winter and GOODNESS in summer. The
temperature is equalized. In March or
April the spring runs are bright emerald.
while the surrounding fields are yet brown
and sese, and in fall they are yet green
when the first snow covers them. Thus
every fountain by the roadside is foun
Year: 1876

Those who live nearest the depot are
generally the last ones to get on board the
train, so those who live nearest the church
are almost always the last ones to come in
Sunday mornings.
Year: 1876

Life is too brief to fool away, and every
man should improve the short time he has
to live by proving to the public that if a
clothes pin is crowded too hard on the line
it will split in the back.
Year: 1876

a would-be fashionable woman in the
West, under the sentence of death for
murder, has only one request to make.
She wants the shade of her dress to match
that of the rope, A "corded " silk would
be appropriate.
Year: 1876

The Home and School says: "In
a Southern town where ! recently spent
some time, was very much struck by
q most excellent organisation, which L
would recommend TO all those who have
large desires for books and small means
for their indulgence. A party OF ladies,
not over twenty in number, all fond OF
reading and all too much impoverished
by the war to be able to crafty their
taste to any extent, formed themselves
into club, subscription fee about five
dollars, with twenty members. This
gives them during the year. hundred
dollars worth of reading matter. The
books are bought by committee, but
each member has the right of suggest
ing a book. In the three or four years
of the existence of the club they have
collected quite respectable library,
and the collection is varied, ranging
from the Stories of Venice and
Chips from German Workshop to
the last sensational novel"
Year: 1876

Get some calomel, have little sack
made of thin flannel, say three inches
long by half an inch wide, place some
of the calomal in this aud tie shut,
Clean out the sleeps feet thoroughly
with a soft cloth, and then spread open
the cleft as far as possible, without in
turing the foot, and dust the effected
parts by gently striking them with the
sack containing the calomel. [ pre-
sumo it would be better to have dry
time to perform the cure, or to keep tho
sheep under cover for some hours after
application. do no pairing, unless the
case is very bad one. 1t is very
convenient of application. and is much
less painful than the application of blue
vitriol. The cure is much speedier and
more certain. 1 have kept merino
sheep for many years, and, after trying
many things, have never found any
thing equal to this for the above, and
also for collar and saddle gals on
horses. while there is not particle Of
danger in it's application in my expert
euce,
Year: 1876

OF all places in the world great city
is to me the most lonely and desolate.
I am stranger there-literally stran-
ger. I move with the moving masses,
and gaze on wilderness of faces not
one in ten thousand of which 1 ever
saw before. How solitary I am, and
how monotonous and tiresome the
things around me!


Not so in the broad prairie and deep
forest. There I am at home. There
everything is familiar. The little BIRDS
are and ever have been my fellow -chor-
listers. with whom have often chanted
the praises of God. The squirrel and
the chipmonk are my playmates, with
whom l have scampered over the hills
in search of appetite and found them.
The flowers are my mute sisters, in
whose bright faces always see the
smile of my Father in heaven, and
from whose silent lips I kiss the in
cense of his praise in fragrant gratitude.
And the trees-strong, sturdy, and glo-
rious- are my brothers, whose shelter
ing arms have often protected me from
the sunshine and shower, and in whose
company have spent many a joyous
day.


These-these are all my own. l
know their dear old faces, and can call
them all by name, that sweet pet name,
that makes them doubiy dear; for, ah!
there is a world of power in name.
No, no! cannot be lonely in the mead
ow or the wildwood.


But in the city -faugh! A satyr to
Hyperion!-S. n. .IOnes.
Year: 1876

HOUSEKEEPERS, PLEASE NOTICE
IL TO obvste the necessity of our city trade
going to Washington to obtain prime CHIP
PED BEEF, we have purchased q Beef Chip
ping Machine, and will be glad to furnish the
trade with as good Beef nicely Clipped as can
be bought anywhere.


GEO. McBURNEY s. SON,
iva l66 and ITO King street.
Year: 1876

You say you went to party last night.
and you saw Mrs. Smith, an old friend,
whom you had not seen since she and
your sister were at school together. You
had very pleasant talk until supper,
when you gave her your arm and took her
to supper. When some one came along
with few glasses of vino on q waiter
and offered her a glass, you saw her
shudder as she said !" No !" and you won.
dered why Mrs. Smith, who didn't use to
be particular about such things not only
refused, but shuddered when she said no.


You cannot tell why2 | can tell you
why. You went on with your talk, and
had little Irritation, did you? | won't
say you didn't. She was very gay, and
seemed very glad to forget herself, did
she ? Very we'll am glad you gave
her that hour of the evening can tell
you where she went after the party was
over. She went home-the latest person
from tho party. Sho was glad it was
late, for her husband had not como home.
She sat and read for an hour. and her
husband did not come. She wrote for an
hour, and he did not come She sat at
the piano an hour, but he did not come.
AT Atlength. between three and four O'Clock,
there was noise at the door. She went
to the door and two policemen held him
in their arms. She knows them both
well by this time. 1t happens so often
that she knows every policeman on the
beat. They bade her good night She
brought him in. She had locked her
children's room that he might not abuse
them. She took the abuse as he flung
himself on the bed. She dragged off his
neckcloth and coat, and sat there until
he should fall into his stupid sleep. She
was the woman who refused the glass of
wine with shudder. You did not know
the story. You thought she was gay
and bright. l know her story, because
[ am her minister. Thoy have a sort of
skeleton in the closet, which we are per-
mitted to see and you are not. And
when we see that skeleton, do You won.
der that We sometimes say pretty sharp
things about moderate drinking, and the
offered at parties
Year: 1876

The "crceping" Of railroad rails ha.


attracted some attention OF late, and


while we do not attempt to explain it


says tho Scientific american, we offer o
point on the fact that, on lines running
north and south, the western rail "creeps'i
faster than the eastern rail-that is, this
strange movement of the rail toward the
south is more marked in one rail than in
the other on tho same track. Further.
more, it has been noticed that on such q
line the eastern rail wears out the fastest.
Both OF these points, we think, can be
explained by the motion of the oartb as
1t turns from the west toward tho east.
Everything that has free motion is drag.
ged after the whirling globe every wind
that blows and every tide that moves
feels the influence, and our train going
north or south are pulled over toward the
east and naturally presses the eastern
on ''.ve' hoavily. Tue western rail-, be.
ing relieved of its share of WEIGHT
'creeps' moro freely and quickly. II IS
also noticed that tho wheels that run on
the eastern rail wear out the first, and We
can but think that this earth motion is the
true cause. The practical side of this is
that the eastern rail and wheels should be
stronger
Year: 1876

a recent number of the Opinion Na.
tional of Lima Peru, contains the follow.
ing In reference to q remarkable discoy.
cry OF skeletons, which has been report d
by telegraph


We are informed that the day before
yesterday an immense quantity ofhuman
remains were taken from one of the walls
OF the old San Andres Hospital. In con.
sequence of repairs now being made it
became necessary to throw down one of
tho walls Of the Chinese ward, which ad.
joins the department named Our Lady
OF Mercy and the laborers, to their sur.
prise, found that the wall was hollow and
filled with human remains. As was 10
DO expected, work was then pushed on
more rapidly, and our informant states
that on that day alone several hundred
skeletons were removed, and that the
dresses OF all remained in good condition
On the following day the work of fremov.
ol was continued. and wn aro Informed
that already between four and five thou.
sand skeletons have been discovered.


1t may be well to remember that the
San Andres Hospital was built in 1867,
under the protection of tho MARQUIS of
Canete, Don Andres Hurtado, and at the
instance and by the advice of O Spanish
priest named Molina. Since then up to
the present time it has been employed for
the charitable and humane purpose for
which it was constituted, and for this rea.
son tho present discovery is the more re.
markable. How can one imagine that 10
an establishment for the preservation of
health such mass of bones could inteu.
tionally be accumulated On the other
hand, how can we account for the pcrpe.
tration OF gigantic crime of which no
trace remains


In addition to the above We NAV add
that the impression generally prevails
that these bones belong to tho victims of
the inquisition. They appear to be from
one hundred and fifty to two hundred
years old, and from their appearance leud
to the belief that the bodies were throw
into the opening between the walls. An
the skeletons appear to be clothed, AID
dresses, boots and shoes are found, mixed
with large quantities Of women's hair. A
portion OF Spanish missal has also been
been found, but nothing of any value"
Year: 1876

ENGLISH METHOD OF EXEcUTIoN.-In
England, as | suppose you know, writes
correspondent, the way Of hanging il
different from that in the United States
Instead of the condemned person being
strung up to the ceiling, hinged board
on which be stands is suddenly let 90 by
drawing bolt, and he falls downward
! presume that in the United States the
poor wretch always mas lis neck broken
and dies without pain, but here hanging
is the most capriciously cruel of ali the
ways of putting to death. Everything
depends on tho weight of the man and
the depth Of tAe fall. and in the majority
of cases the victims are put to a slow and
agonizing death by strangulation. The
hangman or one of his assistants has
often to hang on to the feet of the body
in order to shorten the struggles. In the
case Of Wainwright the scaffold was sur
rounded by screen, so that as soon as
the drop fell he vanished below and only
the rope was seen taut and jerking.