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Year: 1873

Emerson says: 81 am of the opinion
that every mind that comes into the world
has its own specialty-is different from every
other mind; that each of yCC bring; into the
world a certain bias, disposition to at
tempt something of its own-an aim little
different from that of any of your compan-
ions, and that every young person is a fail
ure so long as each does not find his or her
own bias; that just SO long as you are in
fuenced by those around you, SO long as
you are attempting to do those things which
you see others do well, instead of doing the
thing you can do well, you are SO far wrong,
SO far failing of your right mark. Every
body sees the difference in children. They
very early discover their tastes. One has a
taste for going abroad, another for staying
at home; one for books another for games;
one wishes to hear stories, another to see
things done; one is fond of drawing, the
other cannot draw at all, but he can make a
machine. This difference, as you advance,
becomes more pronounced. You are more
distinct in your conception of what you can
do-more decided in avoiding things which
you cannot and do not wish to do. Now, 1
conceive that success is finding what it is
that you, yourself, really want, and pursuing
it-freeing yourself from all opportunities
of your friends to do something which they
like, and insisting on that thing you like
and can do"
Year: 1873

In the Patent Department at Washington
there hangs the picture of Yankee woman
who is regarded as one Of the smartest in the
country. She worked in a paper bag manu-
factory in Springfield, and there studied out
machine for turning out at one process q
paper bag, pasted, stamped and ready for
use. The model and exemplary masculine
whom she employed to get ready her pat
tern, started off to Washington on his own
account and patented her idea in his own
name. Whereupon, began long and hard
fight before the Patent Office, lasting several
days. She won her case, and has since re-
fused 800, 900 for her patent. She has also
invented a patent fan, to be suspended in
rooms and halls, it being wound up like q
clock and running several hours.
Year: 1873

" The churches are independent
bodies" If so, may not some con
gregations with which he is not ac
quainted ''gro'at certiefates," or does
he presume to be familiar with the op
erations of all the congregational
If so, he must be an overseer. In that
case we have Bishop 'EKlise" also
''to preside over deliberations, and to
determine the moral authority of faith
and doctrine" I quote the language
of ''The Man of Straw" which shows
plainly that he knows nothing of the
Office or duties of a Bishop.


But if the Insurance Company
"gra'ats no certificates" why are we
solicited to accept them by its mem
bers? Are her members so ill-in-
formed as not to know that no such
thing is known among them ? Nol
do I know how the Company can dc
business without something of the
kind for it is the worst of meanness
for any institution that has a respect
able reputation, to refuse to give its
members character where the individ-
ual is unknown. The very absence Of
SO necessary a provision proves the
''headlessness" of the institution, and
that it has no confidence in its own
pretensions. Common sense says
they 'Egro'at certificates" so do facts.
There is evident confusion here, a
characteristic belonging very natur-
ally to aceohalOats organizations.


My assailant seems to have an utter
adherence of ecclesiastical superiors.
Why? Has he not learned that every
religious body that wants a head is a
failure /? The Insurance Company is
a dying testator to the verify of my
declaration. The sheep-fold over
which there is no shepherd will soon
become the prey of the wolf. The
school which has no instructor who
presides, the society which has no
chief magistrate, cannot fail to exhibit
a scene Of confusion, and must finally
be dissolved.


The most brutal thrust "The Man
of Straw" gave me was his refusal to
be accounted my kinsman. lam sor-
ry my reporter did not extract one
line more from the remarks made at
Fairfax. That line is, 'we blush to
own her" A child may blush to own
an inebriate father; a brother may
blush to own an unchaste sister, but
the necessity is upon them. They
must submit. So must we. A most
unhappy fate.


''The Man of Straw" fails to under
stand the expression that hurt him
most-"born without a head I
want no misapprehension here. I
mean that it came into the world with
out either q visible or an invisible
head; that it is Popeless, Bishopless
and Christless. What seems it's head,
if head it may be called, is "POlitics"-
nothing more, nothing less. How
can any one fail to be ignorant Of a
thing sans head, sans heart, sans
history, sans everything?


Now that the effervescence has gone
from the champagne, I fancy I feel q
little as the house.keeper Euryclea
did after her rebuke. She, being ad-
mitted into the hall where the oppres-
sors of the house lay slaughtered, her
first impulse was to utter triumph
ant shout. But Ulysses checked her
by saying, "Woman, rejoice in silence,
and restrain thyself and shout not; it
is not right to triumph over dead
men," Query, is it right to triumph
over The Dead Thing"


N n-MrInlrn DE II
Year: 1873

Some words of approval havereaeh-
ed us in regard to the establishing of
this Department, but what we most
need at this time is material aid, in
the shape of appropriate articles for
publication. Come, Brother Teachers
rally to our helpl
Year: 1873

The clerk of a San Francisco lawyer
guarded against the possibility of forgetting
the secret of the combination by writing it
upon piece of paper and pasting it upon
the knob of the safe.
Year: 1873

My first is ia mouse, but not in rat,
My second is in glove, but not in cravat,
My third is in eleven, but not in ten,
My fourth is in whittier, but not in when,
My ffth is in ship, but not in boat
My sixth is in sheep,b not in goat,
My seventh is in squeeze, and also in press,
Ny eighth IS in no, but not in yes,


Ny ninth is in cent, but not in dollar,
by tenth is in lace, but not in collar
My whole is the name of young man who saws
he intends 'feeding his COW ON silk and dressing
her in hay." LITTLE DWARF
Year: 1873

1t is strange to what an alarming extent
the youth of this country are interested in
public affairs. No sooner do great events
occur than they take them up and re-enact
them in their sports. Some small boys at
Southbridge, Mass, were playing Modoc the
other day, when Capt. Jack stabbed confid-
ing white man five years old in the back
with pocket knife, SO that he is likely to de-
siSt from warfare for some time to come.
Year: 1873

They must have had cloud" time at a
college commencement at Imdianola, Ia, last
week. A girl opened the exercises with an
oration on the Congressional Salary Grab,"
the poet, laureate Of the occasion followed it
up by vivid description of the Throne of
Perdition, and the closing speaker dwelt on
the Progress of Republics amid the Ruins of
Empire"
Year: 1873

ARTIFICIAL CLoUDs.-Provided the wind
does not blow, cloud OF smoke will often
protect crops from frost. Crops Of apples
have, it is said, been saved by building fires
in the orchard when a cold night comes dur
ing the budding season, the salvation being
due to the overhanging pail of smoke, not to
direct heat. In the South, frost has been
kept from tobacco beds by the same means.
In France, tar prepared in peculiar man
ner is placed in vessels and burned in fields
which it is desirable to shelter. Thick clouds
of smoke rise few yards into the air and
spread out evenly over quite large tract.
Year: 1873

CHIP DIRT is the brown material resulting
from the slow decay of chips. If the use Of
the stiff was as apparent as the derivation of
its designation there would be no need Of
the present paragraph. The substance is
simply ''humus" is, if it be well de-
cayed; and its mauurial value will depend
more upon the character of the soil to which
it is applied than upon its own intrinsic
worth. There are some sandy lands in
which very little vegetable matter exists and
which leach badly, because there is nothing
to retain the elements of fertility, as peaty
matter does in ordinary loans. On such
soils chip dirt may be assumed to be of value
by supplying the needed organic matter.


But the material, from its loose and friable
nature, will act mechanically in loosening
the texture of stiff clays, permitting the
more free drainage of excessive moisture
from them, and aiding access of air and sun
heat
Year: 1873

A man who fell into vat of boiling lard
and got out alive says it was not an unpleas-
ant sensation after the first moment, but he
thought what mighty queer-shaped dough-
nut he would make.
Year: 1873

We regret that we do not know the
name OF the farmer who rode distance
OF several miles to South Branch bridge,
on Saturday, to warn the railroad men
that the ice up the river was coming
down. He arrived in the nick Of time
as the mail train west was just APP
preaching and, but for his warning,
would have been on the bridge when
the ice struck the pier. As the track
was knocked several feet out OF line by
the shock. the consequences might have
been frightful had the train been on the
bridge The bridge since then has been
rendered perfectly safe and trains are
passing over as ususl-Cumberland
Ns,Ds
Year: 1873

The first branch of the City Council
last night referred to special commit
tee the proposed ordinances in relation
to the subscription to the capital stock
OF the Wheeling and Lake Erie rail-
road and Ohio Union Railroad Bridge
Companies. This action was taken
with view OF putting the ordinances
referred to into better shape than they
were left in bv the amendments made
in the second branch, and was UNDER
stood as a friendly act. A majority Of
the committee is said to be in favor o.
the subscriptions, and the opponents OF
the railroad were able to muster only
four votes against this disposition Of
the matter. We are glad to see that
the pers stent misrepresentation that
have been made ard the frantic appeals
that have been addressed to members
OF the CITY Council to induce them to
disregard the instructions given them
by the popular vote OF last summer
have failed Of their intended effect


We have not, during several weeks
past. thought it necessary to reply ,eriG
tim 10 the falsehoods put forth by the
Intcliqcarsr in relation to this enter
prise. We depart from our custom,
however, to say that we have the au-'
thoritv of the President Of the Wheel
ing and Lake Erie Railroad Company
u Astlv contradict the assertion in yes.
terdav mornings Ests'hg'ncer concern
ing the right Of "WILLsoN Il Co., to
control the company by subscribing a
majority of the stock. The whole
story is a fiction Of the IntelHgencsrs S
own coinage and is not borne out by =


single clause OF that contract which the


eitor refused to read. Now is it true
that the President of the Wheeling and


Lake Erie Company is seriously


troubled over the implications threat


ened q
Year: 1873

Governor Baker on Disfranehise-


ment.


LIrrLB Rock, January In his in-
augural message yesterday, Governor
Baxter, in reference to enfranchisement,
ssys: The disfranchisement of certain
classes for participation in the rebellion
is great impediment in the way OF
restoring fraternal feelings among the
people, and | am gratifed to know that
there is general disposition manifested
to relieve the people in this respect 1t
is needless for me to cay that | desire
the immediate enfranchisement Of the
persons who are now denied voice in
the election Of their rulers. From
present indications, it is safe to presume
that before another general election
shall be held, this last vestlge OF the
late civil war will have been completely
obiterated. He concluded by express
ing the hope thst peace and prosperity,
with all their accompanying blessings,
may prevail throughout the State dur
ing the administration upon which they
were about to enter
Year: 1873

BERLIN, January During the ses-
sion of the Prussian Diet to-day, Count
Won Eulenber Minister OF the In
terror, in an address explanatory Of the
recent resignation of Prince Bismarck,
stated that Bismark retired from the
Premiership solely because the duties OF
a double office were too heavy for him
at his advanced age; the Cabinet still
remained Bismarckisn and was carry
ing ont the Bismarckian policy.
Year: 1873

From the hrkaneas Advertiser.


One year from to-day will wit
ness the largest stream OF immigra-
ton pouring into Arkansas that ev-
or went to any state since the for
nation Of the American union.
Our reasons for mading this predic-
ton are these


First-The climate is superior to
that of any other state; mild win
ters and long and cool summers.
Outdoor labor can here be per-
formed every day in the year; cat.
tic and sheep can be carried
through the entire winter without
feed.


Standardization; the soil
produces to perfection every grain,
grass, fruit and vegetable peculiar
to the northwestern states; in ad-
dilion all the valuable staple crops
of the semi-tropies succeed well,
with almost absolute immunity from
droughts or failure, because Of the
great number Of water courses ia
the state precipitating moisture
during the hot season.


Third The lands are the lowest
IN price of any in the union at this
time. Kansas lands surrounded by
the same appliances of civilization
are selling for three times as much
per acre rs the same quality of land
here. Cotton land here rents for
$40 per acre, cash. Corn or wheat
land in the northwest rents for
so per acre. Good unimproved
cotton land can be bought at from
81 to $40 per acre; ~ per aero
will deaden and clear it ready for
tho piow. Tho first year it will
produce twenty five bushels OF corn
to the acre, the second forty BUSH
els, ,he third year, one bale of cot
ton, then it will rent for $40 per
acre. Say the land cost $40 per
acre, and 81 for, clearing, would
make it cost just sl7 per acre, when
it would then rent for $40. The
crops the first and second year
will pay for their cultivation. Men
of capital can even do much better
than this by furnishing the land,
tools, teams and feed for the teams,
and getting one half the crop when
ready for market. A bale of cot
ton IS about an average yield per
acre this will bring one year with
another, $50; ono half, $50 goes to
the land owner; So per acre will
pay the feed, wear and interest on
the tools, stock and land, leaving u
nett profit of S25 per acre to the
land owner. Or he can cultivate
his soil with the aid of hired help
and realize $50 per acre profit:
Now what caop in the north will
pay that profit per acre? A farm
or there can only work out doors
about two hundred days in the year,
and ono hundred of that is devoted
to making food for his stock to eat
while they are idle in the stable.
Here a farmer can perform outdoor
labor three hundred days OF the
threo hundred and sixty-fve, every
one of which Gun be placed to his
profit, as his stock requires no fod-
der, hay or straw to carry them
through the winter.
Year: 1873

Reflect that aound mind and body are tho
most necessary requisites to promote connuhial
hsppiness. Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage the
prospect hourly dsrkens to the view, the mind
becomes shsdowed with despair, and filled with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness OF
annthar is hlirhtnd with OUR own.
Year: 1873

n LIFE SCENE.-You know her. She
lives on your street. Her features are
either pinched, or full and frowsy. Her
dress Is wet, ill-fitting, and no partieu-
lar pattern; her slippers are broken
down; her hair is uncOmbed; her voice
Is either coarse or shrill. You have
seen her stand out in the back yard, and
put bare arm up to her eyes, and under
IL peer out to the fence or barn, where
a man in an ill-fitting coat is searching
for something, and heard her shout:


John. can't George bring me some


And you have heard him cry back:


III he don't get the water l will take
every inch of flesh from his bones"


And when you have looked at her
again, does it seem possible that those
angry eyes have dropped in maidenly
reserve or raised in coquettish light to
the face in the ill-fitting coat. Can you
by any possible wrench of the imagina-
tion conceive of his tenderly passing
peppermints to her; of his taking that
hand in his and bashfully squeezing il.
But it was so. Many "COd bless yon'i
has been uttered above that bare head.
many kiss pressed on that uncombed
hair. The tightly compressed lips have
lovingly framed tender invitations to
him TO take another bite of cake and
pickle. The hands that are now par
boiled and blistered and marked with
scars from the bread knife and scratched
from the last setting hen, were once
twined lovingly about his neck, and the
nose which is peaked and red, and looks
as if it would stand OH its hind legs and
scream with rage, once followed the
once lovely figures of his new vest pat
tern, or bore heavily against his jugular
vein. As little probable as this seems
to you, it seems less to her. She has
forgotten it. She won't hear it talked
of by others. She cannot bear to see it
acted By Others. Two lovers are to her
"a passel Of fools" And-but George is
rubbing his head, and we turned aside
while our heroine re-adjusts her slipper.
-DGH6LHy NeICS.
Year: 1873

Who can read without emotion the
story of the two little girls in Green
Bay, Wisconsin? The eldest was seven
years of age, the youngest only five. a
drunken father left them alone in their
room for six days, with only a small
loaf of bread for food. When the chill
dren were found, the eldest was nearly
dead, having refused to eat of the
bread so that her little sister might not
suffer. We hear great deal Of hero
ines. Does history furnish an example
equal to this?
Year: 1873

SHORTHAND WRITING.-One of the
most valuable accomplishments that a
man or woman can possess is the art of
shorthand writing. There are many
studies taught in our public and private
schools, and considered essential to a
good education, that are not half so
useful or important as this. 1t is not
an exceedingly difficult thing to learn.
A boy or girl of average intelligence
and aptness at the age Of fourteen or
sixteen, can, with competent instruc-
'tion, comprehend the principles of pho
nogrOphy, and by the same degree of
application that is given to ordinary
branches of learning, can master it. OF
course, some would become much more
proficient than others, and probably
only comparatively q few would ever
become extremely expert, but knowl-
edge of the art and ability to apply it in
the practical concerns of life would be of
great benefit.
Year: 1873

4 CURE FOR CANCER.-The following
has been handed in for publications:
Take n piece Of sticking plaster; cut a
circular hole in the center thereof, a
little larger than the cancer, so as to
have a small circular rim of healthy
skin next to the cancer exposed. Then
make plaster of chloride of zinc,
bloOdroot, and wheat flour. Spread on
n piece of muslin of the size Of the cir
cular opening, and apply to the cancer
for twenty-four hours. After it is re-
moved il will be found that the cancer
will be burnt, and have the appearance,
in color and hardness, of an old shoe
sole, and the circular rim outside will
appear white and parboiled, as il
scalded with steam. The wound must
be dressed. The cancer will come out a
hard lump and the place will heal up.
The remainder sloughs out like dead
flesh, and new flesh grows instead.
Thus a perfect cure is completed.
Year: 1873

In her recent "Outlines of Men, Wom-
en- and Things" Mary Clemmer Ames
writes this paragraph, which is only too
true:


"The sister is taught, whatever her
temptation may be, that she must he
good; the brother is left to believe that,
however he tries, he cannot help being
bad. 1t is expected of him that he will
grow to be a respectable man some day,
but before that event, through the law OF
his nature, he must necessarily be very
wicked. The sister is taught she must
preserve herself blameless for the future
/ husband TO whose life she is TO he the
crown; the brother is left to spend the
same time in sowing his wild OATS To
/ his wife he is to bring no virginity ui
heart, no purity of person, no record OF
stainless past. Many a man looks
into the eyes of the wife who trusts
him as she does her God, into the faces
of his daughters who believe him to be
scarcely lower than the angels, with a
secret remOrse which cannot be meas
ured, as memory forces in upon hi:
thought what he has been-perhap:
what lie is. With what shame he !:
conscious that if they know his secreI
history, he would stand transformed be
fore their eyesw
Year: 1873

The routine of necessary domestic du-
ties, with all its boasted beauty, becomes
dwarling to the mind, not because it is
a routine of degrading duties, but be-
cause il is a routine. IL is no disgrace
to work wOrthily i'm the kitchen, but ii
is disgrace to have no thoughts higher
than the kitchen. And yet this is the
precise condition toward which some
of our purest and best housewives are
tending. The serpent of care gradually
throws its folds about the mind, till un-
der the pressure of our complex civili-
Zation, the mind yields its very life.
Because ambition and interest i'm the
great world outside the precincts Of
home have been killed by these little
cares, many minds stagnate and shrivel
into dwarfishness. While we would
give the first place to the high minis
tries of charity and religion, we would
not despise a due attention to civil
science rs a powerful mode of counter
acting the narrowing tendency of daily
routine. And this grand outlook to-
ward natural and general intent, rather
than uniting the mind for home and
homes duties, gives new power and zest
| for home life WOBldIFS Journal.
Year: 1873

POTATO LEMON PUDDING. - Three
ounces of potatoes; the peel Of two large
lemons; two ounces Of white sugar, and
two ounces of butter. Boil the lemon
peel until tender, and pound it in a
mortar with the sugar; boil and peel
the potatoes, mix together with little
milk and two eggs; bake slightly.
Year: 1873

ELEMENTS OF A HOME.-I never saw
garment too fine for man or maid;
there never was chair too good for .
cobbler, or cooper, or king to sit uponi
never house too fine TO shelter n hu-
man head. These elements above US
the gorgeous sky, the imperial sun, are
not too good for the human race. Ele-
gance fits man. But do we not value
these tools of housekeeping little more
than they are worth, and sometimes
mortgage a home for the mahogany we
would bring into it? L had rather eat
my dinner off the head of barrel, or
dress after the fashion of John the Bap-
tist in the wilderness, or a sit on block
all my life, than consume myself before
| get a home and take too much pains
with the outside, that the inside of it
was as hollow rs an empty nut. Beauty
is great thing; but beauty of garments,
house and furniture is tawdTy Orna-
ment, compared with domestic love.
All the elegance in the world will not
make q home, and l would give more
for a spoonful of real hearty love than
for whole shiploads of furniture, and all
the gorgeousness that all the upholsters
in the world could gather together
Theodore Parker.
Year: 1873

BAKED DUMPLINGs.-Pare and core
as many apples as you wish, and roll
them up separately in crust made as @ ior
pies, but not too rich. Bake one nour,
and eat with hot sauce or WITH sugar
and cream.
Year: 1873

\ Journal for the People.


Devoted to the Interests Of Humanity.
Independent in Politics and Religion.


Alive to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrong
OF the Masses