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Year: 1875

| Troy N. j frees.


Last Thursday evening Eddie Ger.
rold, aged 9 years, of Newtonville, a
small hamlet, in the interior of Wat
ervliet, went into the woods in the
rear of his fathers to get some nuts.
As evening advanced he did not re-
turn, and his parents became anxious
and went in search of him, but fail
ed to find him. They continued
their search all day Friday, and on
the evening of that day returned
home tired and foot-sore, and almost
gave up the child as lost. About 9
o'clock on Saturday morning, as most
Of the residents Of the hamlet were
in Mr.. Gcrrold's house sympathizlng
with the family in the loss of their
child, Jack, a large Newfoundland
dog, that had been an attache of the
CARROLL family since he was month
old, entered and seemed uneasy and
kept whining and barking at inter-
walls. He was put outside the door
for disturbing the family, and after
remaining there for some time he ran
into a Mrs. Scovill's house next door
and grasped loaf of bread that the
lady of the house had put under the
stove, and ran off with it in his
mouth in til, direction Of the wood.
When Mr.. Scovill returned his wife
related the incident to him, and he
felt surprised, as Jack had always
maintained character for honesty.
He then related the incident to Mr..
Garrold. and the gentlemen felt pref
ty certain that the dog had some idea
of where the child was, and new
hope was inspired in the family and
they waited impatiently for dogs
return. Finally he did return, in
about an hour, and exhibited the
same uneasiness that was remarked
before. After trying various ruses to
attract the family to follow him to
the wood, he finally started in that
direction. More than half of the
residents Of the hamlet followed him.
He led through many winding paths,
until at last they reached a chestnut
grove. There they found the boy
lying under tree with his leg brok-
en-. The boy himself told the facts
Of the case substantially as follows:
He was upon the tree, and shaking
it with all his might to shake off the
nuts, when he lost his hold and fell,
his leg striking the ground with
force. He tainted and the first thing
that met his gaze when he came con-
scious was the dog standing over
him. This was on Friday evening,
and the dog never left his side, but
kept barking with all his might, until
Saturday morning. The pangs Of
hunger the boy felt pretty keenly by
this time, and he made an attempt to
reach some nuts that lay on the
ground a short distance from him.
When the dog observed this he start
ed off and returned in short time
with the loaf in his mouth, which he
deposi ed in the boys lap. He ate
OF it with relish and then became
lonesome and began to cry. The
dog started off again and this time
returned with his friends.
Year: 1875

|
old father dies and the shop or the
potatoes fail and the brother takes to
drink or marries or does not marry
because he must support his mother
and sister? The girl finds that she
is as pretty and pleasant an object as
ever, CHEEKY as the rose, gratis
When it comes to daily meals and
clothes she is by no means her own
excuse for being. She knows that
she was born to be wife and moth.
er but nobody wants to marry her.
She takes stock of herself; her capi.
tai is frightfully small to carry into
market. Her brother was educated
to earn his bread and butter. Be-
side the education, he had physical
strength, the habit Of friction with
the crowd, something which he him
self calls "cheek." Her cake-mak-
ing, Turkish embroidery, pressed
ferns, all 60 for nothing when she
comes to put money value on her
requirements; the chances are that
her knowledge of literature or music
is too general to fit her to teach. If
she should teach, her salary, exclu-
siye OF board, would not, nine cases
in ten, amount to a sum more than
sufficient to clothe her cheaply and
shabbily. If she goes into store as
"A saleswoman s e is paid less than
was the cook in her fathers kitchen;
and in both these occupations there
is no chance OF advance, no career
such as is ready for her brother in
every trade and profession, unless
she have great energy or skill in
trade, and the probability is that she
has not particle of either.


She is sure to try authorship, sends
poems and tales to magazines, with a
reqlest to know how much she can
make per annum if she perseveres.
They come back with thanks in big,
yellow envelopes. She goes out as a
book agent-sells chromos, silver
polish, Heaven knows what not. In
any case she has to "push her way"
sick at heart, at first shrinking from
every look or touch or word. Per-
llaps after a while she learns the bus
mess tact which comes to her brother
by nature, and gains even the desira-
bic "cheek" k"-most pitlable and woe
full OF all successes. There are many
trades, the lighter handicrafts, and
above all etching, wood-engraving
and lithography, with which, if she
had been taught, she could have earn
cd her living and renamed within
the shelter of home


As your own Nelly sets ont to
school this bright morning., i is well
to remember these things and to
make some provisions for her future
us for her brothers. There are many
chances that she must earn her own
living; let us begin now to put into
her ha DIS the tools by which she can
do it, and above all protect her III a
home while using them; keep alive in
her the modesty, the tenderness, the
beauty of the future wife and moth
er. In a business point of view, the
dewy fragrance Of the rose is worth
nothing; bus the poor girl, selling
her wares from door to door, with a
sick heart and face of brass, knows
what it is worth, and feels that she
lost with it the birthright of woman
hood.
Year: 1875

A man called into store in this
city lately and asked for sheet OF
paper on which to write letter.
After a while the proprietor noticed
him scratching on piece of paper
and shortly came this request: "Look
here, friend, it's some time since
wrote much, won't you show me how
to make a II l want to write Isaiah
The merchant helped him out of hi,
difficulty.
Year: 1875

often hoped that you had forgotten
your boyish love in the happy domes-
tic life you would be sure to give any
woman who loved you"


"But now, May! Now, knowing l
have ever been true to you! Now,
that you are free!"


She put her hand in his.


''If my love now can add to your
happiness, Gordon, it Is yours"
Year: 1875

The doors are all wide open: at the gate


The blossomed llace counterfeit blaze.
And seem to warm the air; q dreamy haze
Hangs Ger the Brighton meadows like u fate
And on their margin, with sea-tides elate.


The flooded Charles as in the happier days.
Writes the last letter of his name and stays
His restless steps, as il compelled to wait.
1 also wait but they will come no more,


Those friends Of mine. whose presence satisle
The thirst and hunger of my heart All me!
They have forgotten the pathway to my door!
Something is gone from nature since they dice
And summer is not summer, nor can be.
Year: 1875

River, that stealest with such silent pace
Around the City OF the Dead, where lies
A friend who bore thy name, and whom these


eyes.


Shall see no more in his accustomed place,
Linger and fold him in thy soft embrace
And say good night, for the western skies
Are red with sunset. and gray mists arise
Like damps that gather on a dead mans face.
Good night! good night! as we so oft have said
Beneath this roof at midnight in the days
That more. and shall more return
Thou hast but taken thy lamp and gone to bed;
stay little longer, as one stays


To cover up the embers that still burn.
Year: 1875

From new volume Of poems by Henry W. Long


fellow.


l.
When remember them. those friends Of mine,
Who no longer here. the noble three.
Who half my life were more than friends to me,
And whose discourse was like \ generous wine,
most of all remember the divine
something, that shOne in them and made us see
The archetypal man. and what might be
The amplitude OF natures first design
In vain stretch my hands to clasp their hands;
l cannot find them. Nothing now is left
But majestic memory They. meanwhile,
Wander together in Elysian lands,
Perchance remembering me, who am bereft
OF their dear presence, and, remem bering, smile
In Attica thy birthplace should have been,
Or the lOnian Isles, or where the seas
Encircle in their arms the Cyclades,
So wholly Greek vast thou in thy serene
And childlike joy OF life, o Philhelene
Around thee would have swarmed the Attic bees.
Homer had been thy friend, or Socrates,
And Plato welcomed thee TO his demesne
For thee old legends breathed historic breath;
Thou sawest PosidOn in the purple sea,
And in the sunset Jason's fleece Of goldi
Oh what hast thou to do with cruel Death,
Who vast SO full Of life or DEATH with thee
That thou shouldst die before thou hadst grown
old.
stand again on the familiar shore.
And hear the waves Of the distracted sea
Piteously calling and lamenting thee,
And waiting restlessly at thy cottage door.
The rocks. the sea weed on t e ocean floor,
The willows in the meadow, and the free
Wild winds Of the Atlantic welcome me;
Then why shOuldst thou be dead, and come no


more!
Ah why shouldst thou be dead, when common





Are busy with their trivial affairs,
Having and holdngs Why, when thou hadst


read
Natures mysterious manuscript. and then
Vast ready to reveal the truth it bears.
Why art thou silenti Why shouldst thou be


dead?
Year: 1875

A physician who is constantly at
tending to acute and febrile dis
eases at the bedside, cannot have an
enlarged experience in the treatment
of chronic cases; nor can any one who
remains in his office treating chronic
diseases exclusively, have any expert
ence of value in treating acute cases.
These are aXioms or self-evident truths
that require neither argument nor
demonstration.


Now, while DIR. ABORN is willing
to acknowledge that he who confines
himself to the treatment of fevers and
other acute diseases should be more
successful in such cases than himself,
yet he begs leave to claim like superb
ority in the treatment of certain dis
eases to which he has devoted himself
for series of years.
Year: 1875

Mary C. West has the following chat
with a neighbor, and as she gives few
good hints as to making soft soap, We quote
entire


Glow did you run your lye p [ asked.


81 put ashes in a large barrel till it was
full, and then allowed water to soak through
from the top in the usual way"


"Was your lye strong enough to bear
an egg SO soon as it came from the bar
rel ?"


eyes"


"And did it seem to cut up the greese?"


"Yes.'


"Well, that was all right-what was the
trouble with it, then ?''


"Why, the lye and the grease would not
unite when it had cooled the grease was
all on the top and the lye at the bottom
it's always just my luck"


"What kind of wood did you burn to
make your ashes p


YAK, Day ana maSnolla.


"And what did you put in the bottom
of your barrel, under your ashes %


"Nothing but little fine brush and
broom sedge, to keep the ashes from run
ming out. -


"All has been perfectly right except the
last-in that lies the secret of your bad
luck. You should have put at the bottom
of your vessel a few pounds Of quicklime
that you are likely always to find neces-
sary when you burn swamp wood. Ashes
from swamp wood have great power to
absorb carbonic acid from the atmosphere,
and carbonic acid produces the effect which
you name but lime neutralizes the acid
and makes it all right
Year: 1875

Nothing can be more injurious to your
dants You live in abjcct slavery every
day, as you are constantly fearing that
some one of your numerous confidants will
reveal secret you would not have anybody
know for all the world. We know, in many
cases, it does the heart good to open its
door to a seeming sympathetic visitor but,
alas there is much more seeming than
reality in this world of ours.


You will sit down and tell some one of
your acquaintance all your troubles, real
and imaginary, and say to them, "Now,
you are the only one in whom [ have
confded, and l trust you will not speak of
this to any one else" Well, they promise
to respect your confidence, and at the time,
perhaps, they are in earnest but by-and-by
some one steps in, and an irresistible desire
takes possession of them to retail all they
know of your history-and a little is added
on to the fact, to make it interesting, you
know, to their friends-not meaning any
real harm to you, probably, by so doing ;
but it does them good to talk it over with
that somebody else whom you warned them
against.


They, in their turn, tell this friend not
to say word about (which is one of
the hardest things to do. Yet they promise !;
but are sure to break that promise as soon
as they get a favorable opportunity. Thus
your cherished secrets are known to the
community at large, while you go on in
blissful ignorance thinking that your good
friend, Miss Jones, alone knows anything
about your heart-sorrows. Friend, if you
want secret kept, keep it yourself. You
are the safest person with whom to trust it.
Year: 1875

and through his efforts pardon was pro-
cured, and about four months ago he was
discharged and returned to the paternal
roof and since that time has been engaged
in villainies of various kinds, as Mr. 3. has
good reason to suspect.


The name of the daughter (by his secoud
wife) is Margaret Burke. She has red hair
and is fourteen years old, and is five feet
two inches in height. Since Miltons re-
lease from Auburn he has not ceased his
endeavors to make his halfsister believe
that she is being worked too hard by her
mother, and a younger sister overheard
him tell her, not long since, that if she
would go with him he would get place for
her where she could live without work and
be a lady. During the night of the 9TH
ult, the little girl alluded to, who was
sleeping below, heard a rustling noise in
Margaret's room up stairs, but supposed it
was the dog, but as the noise continued to
increase, the little girl got up and went up
stairs, when she found that the window in
the end of the house was open and that her
sister was gone, having let herself down
that way. In her haste, to avoid being
seen by her sister, she left her shoes and
stockings and much of her clothing behind


Mr.. Burke suspecting that the fugitives
had gone to Buffalo and that it was the in
tention of the son to place the girl in a
house of ill-fame, visited that city and spent
about a weeks time, with the hope of
getting some trace of them, but all to no
purpose, and turned his steps to this region
of country, and if still unsuccessful will
then 90 to Cleveland.


Mr. B. says he wants to get back the girl,
but does not care for the boy except to
have him placed back in prison, as he is a
dangerous man and not fit to run at large );
that he has often threatened to take his
life and that all his neighbors are afraid of
him. He offers a reward of one hundred
dollars for the arrest of his unwrothy son
and the return of the daughter, the mother
of the girl being nearly frantic by reason
of her mysterious disappearance.
Year: 1875

Perhaps some farmers who are troubled
by that little pest, the woodchuck, are not
aware that the oil of this animal is excell-
ent for oiling harness, boots, shoes and all
kinds of leather requiring simple OIL
Several observing and practical farmers
with whom | am we'll acquainted say it is
equal to or better than meats foot oil for
this purpose, and | know of my own ex-
perience that it makes leather very soft and
pliable.


1t is useful for many other purposes be-
sides lard oil, which it very much resem-
bles. There is no doubt but that it would
sell for very fair price if its good quail
ties were generally known. The wood
chuck is very fat in the fall, and good
sized one will yield full quart of oil
Sometimes the oil is obtained by baking
the whole animal, but still better way is
to take off the fat as free from blood and
ieshy parts as possible, cut it into small
pieces and try it over slow fire, then
strain, bottle up and keep in cool place.
Year: 1875




a clerks wife sends to Scribner's Month
ly the following bit of experience, which
may have for many of our readers an in
terest both timely and practical:


After many years of married life passed
IN comparative affiuence, reverses came, and
my husband was obliged to accept situa-
tion in large city, with small salary of
$500 per year. | felt that this could suf-
flee for our maintenance only by the exer-
else of the strietest economy A little over
SD aweek How many times divided that
$500 by 81, and tried to make it come out
little more. Still determined to solve
the problem of the day-namely, whether
one could keep house on a small salary, or
whether boarding house life was a necessity,
as so many clerks wives assert. We had
neither of us been accustomed to economic
ing, and felt it was but just, if my hus-
band worked hard for his salary, that /
should perform the labor of making it go
as far as possible


Thirty replies were received to our ad-
vertisement for two unfurnished rooms,
without board. Looking them over care
fully, selected half dozen which came
within our means, and started on an ex-
ploring expedition. In a pleasant house
and ncighborhood l found lady willing
to rent two adjoining rooms, with closets
and water convenienccs, for the modest
sum of S12 per month. In one room there
We're two deep south windows, where |
could keep q few plants in the winter, l con
suited my husband and with his approval
engaged the rooms.


We had $175, ready money With this
we bought bright, but inexpensive carpets,
a parlor cook stove, an oiled black walnut
set Of furniture, table, student lamp,
few dishes, and some coal. With the few
pictures, rack of books, and some orna-
ments in our possession, we deckcd the
rooms tastefully, and commenced the SER
ious business Of keeping house on $500 Il
year.


We determined from the first that we
should not have any accounts, but would
pay cash for everything, and when We could
not afford an article, do without. After
paying rent and washerwoman he had fifty
dollars per month for other expenses.
Twenty dollars of this furnished us a plcn-
tiful supply of food and paid car fare. I
learned to love my work. Strength came
with each days labor, and renewed health
repaid each effort put forth to make my
little home pleasant and restful to my hus-
band And how we did enjoy that little
home


When the stormy nights came, we drew
our curtaius, shutting out the world, with
a bright fire, and the soft glow of our read
ing lamp upon the crimson cloth, reading a
magazine or evening paper Gin which we
were able to indulge,) with "God pity
the poor this dreadful night, y forgetting in
our COSY and comfortable home how many
there were in the great city who would
call US poor. We always kept within my
husbands salary, wearing plain but good
and respectable clothing, and eating simple
but substantial food And now as circum-
stances have been improving with us, and
we are living in house all our own, with
servants, and thousands instead Of humid
reds year, we look back to the year spent
in our simple, frugal little home, and know
that it will always be the happiest portion
Of our lives.
Year: 1875

\ lengend of ancient times, handed down
from generation to generation, through
century upon century, still obtains in al
most every household to the effect that if
one eats just before going to bed one will
surely see ones grand mother. Now there
seems to be something terrible about the
appearance of this nocturnal grandmother,
but as the writer never conversed with any
one who had been subjected to one of her
phantomic visits we are. disposed to be in
credulous, and fout the legend in the face
Of the bearer. However hungry one may
be at bedtime, the temptation to satisfy the
cravings of the appetite is always met by
this ''old wives fable, and it always serves
to bar the pantry door against an evening
intrusion. There's no telling how much
suffering has been brought about by this
idea, and now we believe the time has come
when hungry men, be it at bedtime or meal
time, ought to burst the legendary bonds
which have thus far bound them and eat
when they are hungry. To take a hearty
meal on retiring is, of course, very injur-
ious, because it is very likely to disturb
ones rest and produce nightmare. How
ever, little food at this time, if one is
hungry, is decidedly beneficial it prevents
the gnawing Of an empty stomach, with its
attendent restlessness and unpleasant
dreams, to say nothing of the probable
headache, or Of nervous and other derange-
ments, the next morning. One should no
more lie down at night hungry than he
should lie down after full dinner, the
consequence of either being disturbing and
harmful A cracker or two, bit of bread
and butter, cake, little fruit-something
to relieve the sense of vacuity, and so re-
store the tone of the system-is all that is
necessary We have known persons, habi-
tual sufferers from restlessness at night, to
experience material benefit, even though
they were not hungry, by a very light
luncheon before bedtime. In place Of tos-
sing about for two OF three hours as for
merIy, they would soon grow drowsy, fall
asleep, and not wake more than once or
twice until sunrise This mode of treating
insomnia or sleeplessness has recently been
recommended by several distinguished
physicians, and the prescription has generally
been attended with happy results.
Year: 1875

The April report of the Department of
Agriculture states that the area in winter
wheat appears to have been increased last
fall about seven per cent. y small portion
of this area, partially OF wholly destroyed
by the severity of the winter, will be re-
placed by other crops. The condition of
the crop, as far as can be Judged by its ap-
pearance in April in the more northern
ATTITUDES, before the ground is bare and
free from frost, is below an average, and
tar below the status of last spring. In the
South, generally, the prospects are quite
fattering, and the crops secure against all
probable contingencies, except rust. In the
West the general condition of the wheat
crop is below the average.
Year: 1875

Perhaps unleached wood ashes furnish
the most valuable of the mineral manures.
They are worth nearly double as much,
pound for pound, as the commercial fer
tilizers ordinarily sold Reader, take care
of your ashes.
Year: 1875

Use sulphur freely in the stables to
keep off lice from the cattle. 1t is dis
grace to any farmer to allow his cattle to
be tormented by such yermin, when they
are so easily destroyed.
Year: 1875

Western New York is literally alive with
wild pigeons. Millions on millions of them
are congregated in the forests in the neigh
borhood of Avon and Corning, from which
they issue at daylight and scatter over the
country in search of food, returning to their
wooded roosts at night. The farmers are
bagging them in immense quantities, for
market, and on the brainnourishing"
theory we shall presently look for marked
Improvement in the intellectual tone of our
Democratic exchanges from towns contigu-
GUS to the region in question-PiHsbuyyh
Commercial.
Year: 1875

Borrowed clothes never fit.
Better go round than fall in ditch.
Better go alone than in bad company.
BE slow to promise but quick to perform.
Better to go to bed supperless than get
up in debt.


Cut your coat according to your cloth.
Catch the bear before you sell his skin.
Charity begins at home, but does not eud
there.


Do not rip up old sores


Doing nothing is doing ILL.,
Diligence commands success.
Debt is the worst kind Of poverty.
Dependence is poor trade to follow.
Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.
Do unto others as You would have them
do to you.


Every couple is not pair.


Everything is good in its season.
Everybody business is nobody 5 business.
False friends are worse than open enemies.
Fortune knocks once at least at every
mans gate.


Fire and water are good servants, but
bad masters.


Great barkers are not bitcrs.


Great gain and little pain makes man
weary.


Give rogue rope enough and he will
hang himself.