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Year: 1873

Every farmer knows, or thinks he
knows, how TO take care of potatoes for
winter use, but we will describe briefly
our methods. Dig the potatoes, if possi-
BILE, when the ground is dry; but if this
cannotor has not been done, they should
be allowed to dry ON barn floor, the
adhering soil removed, and then the
roots may be carried to the cellar. We
provide large boxes, which will hold
about twenty bushels each (cast-off tree
boxes), raise them few inches from the
cement floor by cross pieces of scantling,
and then fill them with the clean and
dry potatoes. If there happen to be
a few wide cracks in the bottom of the
box, the ventilation will bo better; and
if the tubers are clean and the cellar
cool, there viii be little of the rot
Beets, turnips, carrots and parsnips
will not keep fresh in this way, as they
have not the impervious skin of the
potato. Our plan is to pack them in
barrels, or gocds-boxes procured from
the county stores. They viii shrivel
and spoil if the moisture is not retained
in them by some substance 60 pack them
in, or to fill the interstices. Finely
broken and moderately damp moss is
best for this purpose but in its absence,
saw-dust answers quite we'll At this
season of the year, there is great deal
of this material in the ice-house, after
the removal of the ice, that is quite
damp enough for use. Put in layer
or two of the roots then scatter enough
of the saw-dust over them to fill the
interstices, then another layer, and so
on. In barrels, more roots may be
put in at time, the saw-dust being
shaken among them by rocking the
barrels Packed in this way, we have
seen beets taken out one full year after
they were put III, as fresh as the day
they were lifted from the soil while
those which were placed uncovered on
the cellar bottom were spoiled in
month by drying mp
Year: 1873

1t is dangerous for the feeble brain of
man to wade far into the doings of the
Most High, whom, although to know
be life, and joy te make mention of his
name, yet our soundest knowledge is to
know that we know him not as indeed
he is, neither can know him. and that
our safest eloquence concerning him is
our silence, whereby we confess without
confession that his glory is inexplicable,
his greatness beyond our capacity and
reach - Thomas Hooker.


Good is eternal, evil is phantom of
time. Good is real and indestructible
evil is unreal, and exists only as shad-
ow made by the sunlight of infinite
wisdom.


Complete and perfect piety unites
these three: The great thought-of the
infnity of God; the great feeling-of
absolute love of Him; and the great
win-the resolution to serve Him.
Theodore Parker.


To know that God Is, and that all is
God, this is the substance of the vedas.
When one attains this, there is no more
need of reading or of works; they are
but the bark. the straw. the envelope.
Nc more need of them when one has
the seed, the substance. the creator
When one knows Him by science. he
may abandon science, as the torch which
has conducted him 20 the end. - The
Pe5as,
Year: 1873




Do not be too anxious to give away
yourself, to wear your heart upon your
sleeve. 1t is not only unwise, it is
wrong to make your secret soul common
property. For you bring the delicate
things of the heart into contempt byex-
posing them to those who cannot under


stand them. II you throw pearls be-
fore swine, they will turn again and


rend you. Nor, again, should you claim


too much openness, as a duty due to you,
from your child, your friend, your wife,
or your husband. Much of the charm
of life is ruined by exacting demands of
confidence. Respect the natural mo-
dssty of the soul its more delicate
flowers of feeling close their petals
when they are touched too rudely.
Wait with curious love-with eager IN
terest-for the time when, all being
harmonious, the revelation will come Of
its own accord, undemanded. Tho ex-
pectation has its charm, for as long as
life has something to learn, life Is inter
esting: as long as friend has some

thing to give, friendship is delightful.
Those who wish to destroy all mystery
in those they love, to have everything
revealed, are unconsciously killing their
own happiness. 1t is much TO be with |
those who have many things to say TO |
MS which we cannot bear now. 1t is
much to live with those who sometimes
speak to us in parables-f we love
them. Love needs some indefniteness
in order to keep its charm. Respect,
which saves love from the familiarity
which legrades it, is kept vivid when
we feel that there is mystery in those
we love which comes of depth of char
lcser. Remenaber thst in ,Xiplating-I
ai>ilfown reserve, or tifst =. another, |
you destroy that sensitiveness of char
acter which makes so much of the beau
BY of character and beauty of charac-
ter is not so common as not to make it n |
cruel thing to spoil it.
Year: 1873

There is no end 10 the effectiveness of
a good knocking on the outside of a
house. We remember one cold. bitter,
miserable winter night when we came
home late-and yet not SO very late
either, but it was 50 cold that everybody
had gone to bed in the big house in
which we lived and to which we had no
latch-key. At the bell we pulled, we
pulled and we pulled, and the more we
pulled the more nobody came. At last
we were about giving up in despair and
going to the station-house or a hotel,
when policeman came along. "You
can't make 'em hear, eh r. said he.
''Now just wait minute p And then
he stepped into the street and picked
up brick from a pile near by. With
this he knocked, apparently very gently,
on the wall of the house. The effect
was magical As the dull, drum-like
booming resounded through the house,
every window was thrown open and
heads popped out on every story. a
dozen people were ready to let us in, if
we would but knock no more We
might even have entered at the back of
the honse had we been there. In such
a case as this bell was of 10 use at all
and as it is easy to see that it would be
inconvenient to carry cobble-stones or
bricks about with us, for they are not
always to be found in the street, what
i- tl,ere that VIC can really depend upon
in such emergencies but knocking p
.Sc5.i6uer'S
Year: 1873

hundreds ana LnOuStiANAS VIM SOu AoNSA
heard of who will be recipients of the
blessed influence of your disposition.


.Beecher


JONES had worried Smith with con-
undrums very often, and now it was
Smiths turn. Guess what / did last
night? said Smith. Jones thought of
various and sundry improbable things,
suggested the making of a speech, the
doing of kindness, the getting him
self into the lookup, aud finally gave
up the conundrum in despair Well,
said Smith in triumphant tone, Islept.


AMoxa the gifts which have been
made to humanity, none, in the lower
sphere of virtues, should call forth our
thankfulness more than the gifts of
chserfulness, and wit, and humor.
They civilize life They carry with
them a perpetual blessing. If any man
have buoyancy, if he find himself given
to wit, in the name of heaven do not
suppress it. Multiply the drops which
spring out of that precious fountain.





As THERE has been good deal said of
the danger to health of the sewing ma
chine, it is worth while to mention that
DIR. Parker recently read paper on the
subject before the State Medical Society
of Virginia, in which he maintained than
fatigue is not disease that there is no
reason to conclude that the use of the
muscles employed in machine work for
Il reasonable time is injurious and that
machine may be used by woman for
four or five hours daily, if she be in or
dinary health, without injury.


Nor over 80 miles east of Auburn, on
the line of the Central Paciic railroad.
there lives man whose sense of hear
ing is not very acute, rs viii appear
from the following He was hunting
for game about mile distant from his
residence, when grouse flew up and
lit on tree on the hillside and the
same moment a travler approached and
inquired the distance to thenext station.
Deaf man (pointing)- flew right up
there. Traveler-How far is it to the
next station? Deaf man-He lit right
up there. Traveller You must ben d-n
fool Deaf man-Yes, there is great
many around this time of the year.


Ir Is not the great matters, the
supreme Joys, which fasten upon the
human heart with such force, but the
small interests and pleasmes-the un-
noticeable violets-from which the
departure is so painful. When some
pitiless fate has grasped with iron
hand the fortune of whole life, a
heroic will stands up in mans breast,
and cries in calm defiance, Take it then ;;
I can live my life without it ;" and then
noble self-respect over-masters the
pain of bereavment, and we stand firmly
and proudly among the ruins of our
hopes. But when fate seizes upon one
great expectancy after another, takes
one flower after another from our lives,
and color after color fades out of the
picture of our day, till at last it lies
before us cold and gray-then a name
less sorrow comes upon them, anand
lie feels his heart shaken within him
Year: 1873

There is no SAVIOR of Yankee baggage
smashing In this account of the tender
manner IN which accidentally broken
parcels are treated in the London post
office, and this was at Christmas, too,
when there is a great rush of mail mat
ter. They are borne away to a side
table, which is called g the hospital" =
and in this post-office infrmary two
clever surgeons dexterously stitch up
their wounds, set all their broken limbs
in splints, and in fine cure such of them
as are at all durable, In a marvelously
short space of time. Some of the pa
tients seem past cure. Alas for the box
of bonbons that has burst open, and
the contents of which are brought
piecemeal into hospital, where the sur
geon receives them with shake of the
head. In extremis seems this doll
whose integuments have been torn of,
whose nose has been stove in, and one
of whose neither limbs arrives some
time after the frame to which it belongs.
A bit of string tinkers up box con-
tanning lump of plum cake half cased
in sugar, but there is no cure for this
packet of Taddy's snuff, addressed in a
woman's handwriting to woman, and
the contents, pervading the atmosphere
generally, set everybody a-sneezing.
Decidedly "open for inspection" is the
doll in this parcel; the head sticks. mp
out of the paper, and something or
other has given madame black eye.
A box of real roses, sent from France to
Scarborough, has got broken, and some
of the leaves fall on the surgeons table
as the delicate. odor scents tho air.
With tender finger he handles the
beautiful bouquet, and let us hope the
fair one whose bosom. it viii adorn- to-
morrow night viii scarcely be cognizant
of the 1nishap. The trussed fowl in
this package has not been seriously in
jured, nor has the snipe in this other,
but the surgeon shifts disgust at it's
high condition as he makes it fit for
the road again. After all it is not so
bad as the dead puppy which passed
through his hands the other night





There is a smashed scent-bottle, whose
contents have been mainly absorbed by
a chignon addressed to a married lady.
A woolly dog, that barks snappishly
when he is handled, is half out of his
paper kennel. A box of mistletoe has
seriously suffered, but the doctor Ge-
hulfe is dexterously to the front, and i
cherry lips may yet be kissed under it
tomorrow night. Why didn't the gen.
tleinan who sent the beautiful bouquet
to the lady in Surrey inclose it in a
better box, and why, oh why was not
the dish of larks forwarded in some
thing more substantial than a fragile
case of paper, so as to avert the ANAL
gamrtion into which they had entered
with the contents of Master Jacks
paint-box?
Year: 1873

ness? Can you write book review
worthy of the book? What do YOU
know of art, or science, or any one
branch of either2 Have you well
defined idea, or half defined idea of
Just what you wish to do? If so, what
qualification do you carry with it? To
leave the farm for the city is as foolish
and dangerous, in most cases, as to
Jump overheard far from shore, when
you are morally certain you do not
know how to swim.
Year: 1873

MANY people, particularly children, suffer
with the ear ache; and for the benefit of such
we give a sure but simple remedy. Put in two
three drops Of Johnsons Anodyne Lini-
ment, stop the ear with undressed wool. battle
the feet in warm water before going to bed,
and keep the head warm at night.
Year: 1873




We have spent two generations now


in praising education and endeavoring


to outdo one another in our estimates of


what it was possible for education to do


But in our enthusiasm we have over


praised it. There are many things that


the most careful education cannot -


And the sooner we come to understand


our limitations, the more wisely we


shall carry forward our work. Take


even the matter of temper The child


who IS quick or violent in his passions


Will ALWAYS be so. How many mothers


have sunk down in dependency be-
temper You could more easily make
blue eyes black. People talk of sub
DUNG a strong-willed child, of breaking
the force of his viii. You may change
the manner of the action of his viii, but
you cannot break the viii unless you
break the boy. And just such hopeless
things are undertaken in educational
institutions. Boys are sent to college
who should have been sent anywhere
else. 1t matters little that you say you
will develop deficient faculties. That
can be done within limits But when
you try to turn a boys whole life in
direction in which he is poorest, you
condemn him to failure and intellectual
penury. Strengthen the weak side,
but let the life-work lie in the direction
of the strong side. If your boy is a
mechanic by nature, do not make him a
preacher. Give him large general cul-
ture if he Will take it, and then let him
lift his burdens with the strongest arm,
his constructive faculty. But shall we
give over trying to do anything for the
s'high-tempered' child Shall we let
his passions run riot ? Certainly not.
What We insist on is that they can be
regulated, but not eradicated. There
was near city a crooked stream tint
wandered round and round, obstructing
travel and injuring the value of proper
ty. Nobody dreamed of drying it up.
But the citizens Strengthened it, and
walled it in, and embarked against its
overflow, and cleared obstructions from
its bed, and built mills upon its margin.
The unpleasant trait in child's
character may be walled by habits of
self-contrel, may be utilized by giving
it right direction, may be made more
q blessing and less a curse than it would
be without discipline. But it cannot be
destroyed. Education can do almost
anything in the sphere of habit. 1t can
do little in the sphere of ingrained
quality. Powerless over nature, sovereign
over second nature. Hearth and Home.
Year: 1873

WHAT CAUSES HARD TIaEs-Too many spend money and too few earn it.

 Too much money is spent wastefully and uselessly, and too little saved and made pro ductive and accumulative.

 We buy too much abroad that we ought to produce at home.

 We buy too much that we do not pay for cash down-too much of what we buy being what we do not actually need.

 We are too wasteful, know too little how to economise, and have too little disposition 10 do so.

 We are too speculative, interruptions and actually dishonest in our efforts to make money.

 Too many of prefer idleness to industry, and too few of us know how to work and de- rive pleasure and profit from our labor.

 We spend too much time in learning what is not useful, and little informing ourselves upon the best methods of promoting our ma terial prosperity.
Year: 1873

NoTK.wben the oath Is taken before justice of the peace the certificate of The clerk of cour of record should be ndded under his seal of office. th Inc person who administered the oath duly qualified justice of the peace.
Year: 1873

that believe the said guArantors to be peouni- arily responsible for and able to pay all damages the United States shall suiIer by reason of my

 falling to perform my obligations as such bidder.
Year: 1873

The FASHIONABLE SCANT EFFECT
The EXTREMIST phase of the fashionable
scant effect was reached Sunday bv a
lady who walked mp Fifth Avenue in a
navy blue camel's hair dress. Not a
pucker or visible seam, or particle
of trimming, broke up the beautiful sur
face Of that woman. She was one un-
bending level. and how she got into that
stralght-jacket Of dress, could not
imagine till l took rear view of her,
and found she was buttoned up behind
from neck to hem. Two unobtrusive
box-plaits lurked in shy way each side
the opening; otherwise that garment
looked lik. bloated pantaloon leg
And walk-well she couldn't walk very
we'll, and in case of fire that women


would be fried in her own fat. Mrs.
Burnhdm' S Letter. , ......., h.
Year: 1873

A CHILD Born WITH CHIGNoN. "A
respectable lady living in the western
portion Of the county has given birth to
child, which lived four days. the most
extraordinary of any of which I ever
heard. 1t was born with well develop.
ed Chi mon on the top Of its head. In
deed, it was so plain no person could
fail to see the perfect resemblance to
that piece of head gear. The peculiar
appendage was composed of muscular
or fleshy substance exactly resembling
chignon. 1t was the wonder of the
neighborhood, and large numbers called
to see this remarkable natural curiosity
Some time before the birth of the child
quite a lumber of ladies, incluoing the
mother, were talking and jesting abou,
chignons. The above in vodched for by
one of our most respectable citizens -
Lebanon, hy., Standard.
Year: 1873




e News has just been received of
the murder of Wallace Goodwin of this
place on Snake river, below Fort Hall
on the 17th ult. He. was travelling with
a white man and half breed. He was
shot and robbed and thrown into the
river. Goodrich had in his possession
about $4O0 in currency. Citizens of
that vicinity are on the track Of the muir
derers, and are confident Of capturing
them. Goodwin left here in August
last in company with two men who had
bo ught band of Indian horses to drive
to Fort Hall and was on his return when


he was murdered.-La Grandc Sentinel.
Year: 1873

A VALUABLE OPINIcN.--An exchange
quotes the remark of an eminent Eastern
lawyer to the effect that at the age of
three score man should take for his
three rules of life employment with
out labor, exercise without weariness,
and temperance without abstinence. -
Many client has paid his attorney a
thousand dollar fee for an opinion not


worth half So much as this.
Year: 1873

~ A correspondent, referring to the
Cabinet meeting, makes President Grant
say that he had read that so Cuban in
surgents, captured as prisoners of war,
had been shot on the field, and that
while tho report lacked confirmation, he
was prepared to heaI of its confirmation
after what had already occurred in Gu
ba. He was satisfied that the Spanish
Government did not and would not ap-
prove, such butchery. 1t was matter
which an enlightened nation could not
overlook. If, indeed, this method of
warfare was necessary to support the
Spanish Republic, as an individual he
could not wish such Government pros
perity. If the Spanish people IN their
effort to establish Republican form OF
Government could not control their au-
thorities in Cuba, then in the interests
of humanity he thought it time TO inter
fere, not to encourage struggling Cubans
nor to embarass the Spanish Republic
in any way. but wholly in the interest
Of civilization and humanity.
Year: 1873




I subscribed for the paper; it came IN
due time to the shop. While resting
one noon ana looking over it, 1 saw an
advertisement of the County Commits
sioners to let bridge that was to be
built. 1 pua in bid for the bridge, ,and
the job was awarded to me, on which
cleared $500, which enabled me to pay
for my house and lot easily, and for the
newspaper. If had not subscribed for
the newspaper l should not have known
anything about the contract, and could
not have met my payment on my bouse
and lot. A mechanic never loses any
thing by taking newspaper.
Year: 1873

IHE VALUE OF NEWSPAPER.--1 IL
following is tie experience of a mschan-
ic concerning the benefit of newspa-
Per:


Ten years ago livSd in town in In
diana. On returning home one night,
for I'm carpenter by trade, saw lit
tie girl leave my door, and I asked my
wife who she was. She said Mrs. Harris
had sent after their newspaper, which
my wife had borrowed. As we set down
to tea my wife said to me, by name:


Il wish you would subscribe for the
newspaper; it is SO much comfort to me
when you are away from home.


81 would like to do So" said " but
you know owe payment on the house
and lot. 1t will be all can do to meet
it, -i a a


She replied: eff you will take this
paper will sew for the tailor to pay for
1
Year: 1873

nounce and disown such outrages as those
which have been committed by the Spanish
butchers in Cuba; only as q republic which
will applaud us for vindicating our national
honor against the lawless acts of men who
defy the authority of Spain. and for Furnishing
crimes against civilization and humanity. II
Castelar's young Republic should desire to
continue in Cuba the savage rule which ex-
listed there under the monarchy; should
justify the acts of barbarity which
have for years been committed on the
island in the name of Spain, and
object to the complete overthrow Of the cruel
and lawless men who exercise a terrorism over
the Spanish government itself, then the Amer
ican people will regard it as undeserving of
sympathy; as calculated to bring republican
institutions into contempt: as q reproach to
the name of free government. Under any
circumstances we cannot suffer any senti-
mentality about the Spanish Republic to deter
us from vindicating our own national honor,
which we can only do effectually by prompt
and decisive action, by occupying Cuba and
teaching her piratical rulers their response
bility to the rest of the world. If the admins
tration hesitates or shrinks from its plain duty
the people will look to Congress for the rem
edy; but, unless the government is too spirit
less or too Indifferent. our troops will be in
Cuba before Congress assemblies.
Year: 1873

THE CHIEF JusT1cEsHp.-I is reported from
Washington that Mr.. Conkling declines the
Office of Chief Justice, and this upon mature
deliberation, the proffer of the place having
been made to him not recently. Should this
prove true we shall rejoice that the President
has at least one friend who has some dscre-
ton and tact enough not to accept an Office
for which he is thoroughly unfit, and his oc-
cupancy of which would be national scandal
II the President has offered Mr.. Conkling the
place of Secretary of State, and the mission
at London, and Mr.. Conkling has declined
those positions also, he is either resolute in
his refusal to take Office or very doubtful
whether republican Senator can be elected
in his place.
Year: 1873

THE SNoB VIEw.-It is the opinion of some
OF our Cockney critics that the President
would really be guilty of Casarism if he
should take any energetic steps in the asser-
ton of the honor and dignity of the nation.
In the view taken by the noble army Of snohs
the President Of the United States NAV assuYne
that bis great Office is little piece of personal
property, to be administered on private ac.
count only; he may debauch the national
sense of decency by retaining thieves in Office
because he likes them, thus putting his per-
sonal inclinations above public morality and
honesty; he may, as in the case of Louisiana,
assume powers more dangerous and extrava-
giant than any charged against johnson in the
Bill Of Impeachment; and all this would be
quite reasonable and proper In all this the
snob intellect can see no harm at al, and mos
assuredly no C@sarism. But only let him
speak little plainly ito some regular govern
ment, you know let him assert the rights ot
the nation against Spain, and that will be
dreadully repreaensible, quite shocking
even Cesarism, if you like.