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Year: 1875

NV method is-plow in the Fall,
as early in the Spring as possible
draw on barnyard manure, twenty
two horse loads to the acre, spread
ing from the wagon harrow well;
then with a two-horse hoe drill the
land, thirty inches apart; into
these drills drop the seed (cut
some time previous into two eyes
to set) twelve inches apart
cover the seed with the two-horse
hoe, by splitting tho ridges turned
up in making the drills, using no
hand labor unless the end OF the
drill comes up to the fence. In
that case, the end of the drill must
be covered by hand for a distance
equal to the length Of the team; !;
should the potato patch be away
from the fence, there will be no
necessity for using any hand labor.


So much for the planting. Now
for the process of cultivation Use
a one horse cultivator once week,
as soon as the potatoes appear
above ground, which will be in
about three weeks. Cultivate as
close as possible to them, removing
with a hand-hoe the weeds in the
rows between them. When large
enough to hoe, take a two-horse
hoe and hill up moderately, not SC
high as to cover the potatoes al
the same time, let man pass along
the rows, and wherever they are
covered, let him remove the eartf
from them, and if there are any
weeds between the potatoes in th'
row, clean them out also. Thi
does for the first hoeing. Whei
they require second hoeing, re
peat the process, this time brint
the earth we'll about them. Afte
this, do not touch them till harvest
ing.


This is done with a pair o
horses and small double mold
hoard plow. Run the plow onl.
low enough to get below the pota
toes, which will turn them out @
. the ground and bring them to tn
surface. Plow out only ever
other row, and pick up the potO
toes from these before plowing ou
the alternate ones. After all ar
|, plowed and picked up, towar
evening harrow over the groun
aud pick up those that are turne
out with the harrow, which will b
few, II the plowing is thorough


done.
}. I neglected to mention that b'


fore I begin to plow I pull th


tops, If they are large, but II 'ma


they are not in the way, and wi


not trouble you.
Year: 1875

absorbed and grave, as though her heart
was beating with an inarticulate pr aver


BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH.


Too often, it is thought, the motive
of suicide is little more than the weird
and solemn tempting of the fall itself.
a lady came one day to Clifton from a
town on Lake Ontario, accompanied by
her mother and her child. She stood
on the Table Rock. listened to the
boom, admired the buffaloes and fed
the bears like other idlers on the spot,
and seemed as her child, to whom these
sights and sounds were new. as they
were looking at a shop window, she
turned toward the water, gazed at the
falling sheet an instant, slipped away
from her CON mpanion, ran to the waters
edge at Cedar place and sprang into the
food. a cry OF help was raised. Some
guides were near at hand with ropes
and other gear, and one of them, crap
pied safely by the waist, plunged after
her, and by daring effort caught her
as she rolled among the rocks, and car
ried her back to land unhurt.


FROM MISERY TO ETERNAL REST.
Another case of suicide attempted by
female under nervous irritation, was
less fortunate. A woman, living on the
SpOB, DSCan6 SIQlCG6O WIN q malaUy as
common and as fatal as consumption
fear of penury. That she had 10 good
reason for this fear her neighbors knew,
but it possessed her like a secret and
incurable disease.


"I can't bear il" she used to say,
and some day you will see me go over
the fall"


Her neighbors laughed, saying people
who talk of suicides are in for length of
life. But one day she leaped over the
rock at Cedar place. A brave young
fellow named Davis saw her slip in, out
wss too far away to catch and draw her
back. The lad was used to suicides, as
every one becomes by living at the falls.
He saw that she would pitch against the
ravine wall, some ten or twelve feet
under the rock on which he stood.
Peering over the bank, he saw a little
shelf of earth just broad enough for g
man to light on, and no more. He
| scrambled down a moment ere the wO-
man came rolling on, put out his hand
toward her, caught her shawl and tore
| it from her body as she fOated down,
and started in horror as the wooden rag
hung dangling in his grasp. The sui
eide had kept her promise, and escaped
from her imaginary poverty into eternal
| sleep.
Year: 1875




LTbe following is the latest poem Of Hans Chris
ished in English.l
From pyramid in the deserts sand
A mummy was brought to Denmark's land
The bierOglyphic inscription told
Tt at the body eInbalued was three thousand year


old.
It was the corpse of mighty queen.
Examining it, they found between
Her closed fingers corn of wheat;
So well preserved was this little seed,
That. being sowD, it put forth its blade,
It's delicate stem Of a ight-green shades
The ear got filed with ripening corn,
Full-grOwn through sun-hine and light Of the morn
That wonderful power in so small
1t is lesson to each and all.
Three thousand years did not quench its germ
1t teaches our faith to be s,rong and firm,
When such a life is laid in corn,
When out Of that husk a new plant could be born
To ripen IN sunshine and dew from the sky,
Then, human soul, thou spark from on high,
Thou art immortal as thy great sire
Whose praise is sung by the algel-choir!
The h SIX, the body, is buried deep,
And friends viii go to the tomb and weep;
But thou shalt move on. On wings so free
For thine is the life Of eternity.
That wonderful power of 20 small seed
The miracle seen in that Of wFeat,
It puzzles the mind but still it is done
By the Author Of Life the Eternal One.
Year: 1875

Her little carte lies there:
The lines both dark and fair


By sunlight craven.
The look that wrought the carte
Lies in my inmOst heart,


Its fttest haven,
Her beauty's far renOwn
Made the great sun look down


From heaven above her
And when he saw her best,
He gave this, a bequest,


To all who love her.
He stampt With armorous light
The lines Of black and white,


rounded cluster.
But could not paint the fair,
Silk-sOftness of her hair


Her eyes deep lUstre,
His strength was all too weak
To tint her changeful cheek,


SOIt ss the peaches;
Or give her lips rep Ose
The lOveliness which grows


With gentle speeches.
No, it is poor at best
But let it lie at rest:


The book shall win it,
And be the page as white
AS is my soul tonight,


While she lies in it.
Year: 1875

TIE experience of New York bust
ness men goes to indicate that iron
shutters increase the danger of loss
from fire rather than decrease it. This
is attributed partly to the fact that fire
in houses so furnished is seldom or
never discovered so soon as in others,
and partly to the great difficulty that
tiremen experience in forcing iron shut
ters open.
Year: 1875

REPORTS received from the south-
eastern portion of Nebraska, which
have been severely affected by grass
hoppers this spring, show that they are
fast taking flight, going northwest. In
mense clouds OF them are seen daily
very high in the air.
Year: 1875

THE treasury department is in receipt
OF advices from Europe that silver has
declined in Europe over dollar on the
pound, in consequence of which there
is talk again of issuing the fractional
specie provided for by the last Congress.


The New York World thinks that Sc if
an average yield is obtained from the
crops planted throughout the south this
spring, it should place the people of
that section in a sounder financial con-
dition than they have enjoyed since
recOnstruction began"
Year: 1875

Whenever you are in doubt which
of two things to do, let your decision
be for that which is right. DO not
wavcr, do not partly: but square up
to the mark and do the right thing
Boy when you divide that apple
with your little sister, be careful not
to keep the largest half yourself
Young man don't sneak out of the
basement door because you want to
escape your fathers eye. Madam
let not the most trillhg deceit pass
current in those little acts which
make the sum of your life. No mat
ter who you are, what your lot, or
where you live, you cannot afford to
do that which is wrong The only
way to obtain happiness and pleasure
yourself is to do the right thing You
may not always bit the mark, but
you should nevertheless aim at it,
and with every trial Your skill in
creascs. Whether you are to bc
praised or blamed for it by others !;
whether it will seemingly make you
richer or poorer, or whether DO other
person than yourself knows of your
action, still, always, and in all cases,
do the right thing. Your first lesson
in this will grow easier, until finally
doing the wrong thing vii! seem an
absolute impossibility.
Year: 1875

The best farmer is he who raises
the best and largest crops on the
smallest surface of land at the least
expense, and at the same time annual
ly improves his soil who understands
his business and attends to it; whose
manure heap is very large and always
increasing; whose corn crib and
smoke house are at home; who is
surrounded by all the necessaries and
comforts of life; who studies his
profession, and strives to reach perfec-
ton in it; who keeps strict account
OF his outgoes as well as his incomes,
and who knows how he stands at the
end of each season. Such a farmer,
in nine times out Of ten, will succeed
and not only make farming a pleasant
but profitable occupation. Try it and
see how it is yourself, reader.-Far-
lmer's Fmdicator.
Year: 1875

LIGHT CORN BREAp.-fuur quarts
/ OF corn meal, halfa tcacup'ul Of sugar.
( one saucer of flour, with Yeast. and
: enough warm water to mix. Bake


one hour Do not put it to bake till


light.


/ BALTIMORE Corn BREAp.-One


quart milk, one pint Indian meal.
three eggs, onc-quarter pound Of but


ter. Boil the milk, and with it scald


the Indian meal stir in gradually
the meal and butter; when cold, add
the eggs. Bake in square tins, half
an inch thick of butter when put in
pans. An excellent recipc-Homc
JOUTadl.


GRAVY FOR VEAL OR CHICKEN.-


Put a tablespoonful of butter in hot
frying-pan. When it begins To brown
dust tablespoonful Of flour into it,
stirring constantly V With a spoon and
salt and pepper then putin one pint of
mllk-cream, if you have it let It
boil five minutes and pour over the
dish of meat.


Black walnut picture frames will
become dull and rusty looking. The,
may be renewed by first pasting
thoroughly with a stiff brush to re-
move dust and then applying pure
l!nseed oil, with proper brush in
the absence of brush, q piece of
new bleached muslin will answer the
purpose.


DAINTY CAKEs.-Bcat to n stiff
froth the whites of two eggs; add
quarter of a pound of powdered su-
gar, stir into the mixture as many
almonds (scalded and pcelcd), as it
will cover, and drop on hot but,cred
pan in small tablespoonfuls, browning
them five minutes in the oven. This
makes nice variety, with cut loaf
cake upon the same plate.-Hcme
journal.


BEDs.-To renovate old feather
beds, when no steam apparatus is
convenient, put them ont doors during
a heavy rain. Let them dry in the
sun. beating them occasionally with
sticks to loosen the feathers. They
should be turned over several times, +;
and then thoroughly dried. A paste !
of soap and starch will take stains
out of bed-ticking. Spread it over
the spots. When dry, scrape off and |
wash with damp sponge.


A PAN DOwDY is an old fashioned |
New England dish, and has a flavor
of our grandmother's cookery. Make
a rich crust-line deep earthen pot
with it; now slice some pie apples |
quite thin for the first layer, strcw the
apples with molasses and spice and a
teaspoonful of milk cover with
thin crust, and repeat the process.
Cover the top with crust. and your
pan dowdy is made. Bake in n slow
oven. A brick one is made use of in
New England generally. When done,
turn IL on platter ana serve hot.


WAFFLEs.-In the evening, boil
quite soft four tablespoonfuls of rice,
using more water than when cooking
it for other purposes. In the morn
ing, beat the whites of three eggs,
put the yolks into the rice, stirring
both lightly together add one pint
Of new milk. little salt, and flour to
make a rather thick batter; stir in
he whites last, and bake light
brown in well-greased waffle iron.
Fhe batter should be thick enough to
require little spreading out with the
spoon when put upon the iron, but if
90 thick, the wallles will be tough.
The above quantity is sufficient for a
'amily of four or five persons. Deep
r,ns are better than shallow ones
L. S. 4. an Country Gent
Year: 1875

Rye rs crop, has been very much
overlooked in the west. Last fall an
occasional farmer thought far enough
ahead to realize that it would be a
difficult undertaking to get his stock
through the winter on the small
amount of feed on hand, and in search
ing for substitute, selected Rye.
Never did men make 4 better choice.
Those that sowcd earlier were blessed
with good pasture long before even
the best Blue grass would do to turn
on.


Aside from the great benefit of this
cereal as a pasture, we think it is
perhaps more profitable as COM
mcrcial crop than either wheat or oats.
1t has demonstrated its impregna-
bility to cold winters, chinch bugs
and all other insects and will Weld
from twenty to sixty bushels per acre.
Last fall it was worth more per
bushel than wheat, and ordinarily it
is worth nearly as much. Aside
from its commercial value it is a GOOD
crop for the land the roots penetrate
to great depth, acting to some ex-
tent as an undcrdran. As a feed for
horses is excellent, promoting good
bone, health and a fair glossy coat.
When it is desirable, as it is this year,
to grain the hogs early, it will pay
very handsomely to let the crop stand
until its straw falls, then tnrn on the
hogs and no kind of feed will make a
larger or quicker growth in them.


We call attention thus early that
our readers may make arrangements
for their seed. We know it will pay
to SOW rye.-Missouri Farmer.
Year: 1875

We have long suspected that things
were not ns they should be, financially
speaking, at Charleston, c and months ago
We gave free expression TO Off suspicious
touching the amount Of interest actually
received by tic Treasurer as compared


with the amount officially reported by
him. We apprehcnled then, as We do
now, that Mr.. John $. lInrdett was, to
greater OF lesser extent, making private
pudding out Of the State deposits, but Os
We were not able to prove II, and us the
committee appointed to smoke him
out ignominiously shrank from their
duty, we concluded to postpone further
expression Of our suspicious until we
could get a fresh scent Of his Clandcstine
Operations. Such SCent we have in the
refusal Of A[t. Cabell, cashier Of the Mct-
chants Bank at Charleston, to disclose
Under oath the nature Of the arrangement
between him and the Treasurer. This re-
iatal on his part Is tantamoiint TO a con-
iession Of guilt on his own part and Of
malfcasancc in office on the part Of the
Treasurer, and II the Legislature has
sufficient conscience and moral courage in
It's membership to do what is right by the
taxpayers Of the State, they will put the
rccrcant cashier in limbo and keep him
there until he fots in case he refuses to
reveal tho underhanded and dishonest
conspiracy between himself and the Treas
ury department Of the State.


The peopIo will now understand from
tho refusal Of Mr.. Cabell to answer the
questions put to him before the Commit.
tee, and aiterSard before the House Of
Delegates, how II comes that such Pc
culiar Determinations have been made
by the Treasurer in favor Of certain
banks that paid low rate Of interest "a
Year: 1875

taxes and the city treasurer, which took the
same course.


The special committee to whom was re-
ferred the communication of the Mayor
reported "that they asked a conference of
the Police Commissioners, at which all
of the members who were in the city
were present, and after consultation with
them they are of the opinion that there
was no intentional discourteSy by either
party in failing TO communicate to the City
Council the appointment OF an overseer of
the chain-gang to the first meeting Of that
body subsequent to the appointment. 1t
appears that there was no definite under.
standing between the Commissioners and
the Mayor as to whose duty it was. Ii is
the opinion Of the committee that it is the
duty Of the Mayor to report any and all ac'
tions of the Police Commissioners to the
Council ut the first meeting subsequent to
its action" They also recommend that the
late overseers of the cbain-gang be paid for
their services. They also recommend the
rejection of all claims for services by special
policemen or patrolmeu unless the Council
is notified of said appointments, as the char.
ter provides. Adopted.


The Committee on Cemeteries recommend
that the Committee on Streets be authorized
to open and grade Maury street from the Pc
tersburg turnpike to the cemetery, as the
owner Of portion Of the land through
which the present road leads has determines
to enclose his ground. Adopted.


A communication was received from the
commissioner Of the revenue and referred TO
the Finance Committee. in which he says
that when be was elected, in 1873, real estate
was worth more than it s to day, and that at
that time he was instructed by the chairman
of the Finance Committee to assess it at its
true value. In his judgment be did so. He
recommends that the present assessment be
reduced or commission appointed to re-
assess the real estate in the city.


Adjourned about o'clock a. NJ. Saturday.
Year: 1875

Mr.. Hardy, of Portlandville, who was
in the Quartermaster's department at
Sioux City in 1862, tells story of won
derful endurance of a COW belonging to
Mr.. Hagy. The COW bad been missing
for eight days when found at the bottom
of well forty feet deep. When dis
covered she was standing on her feet,
with head bent around to her rump, and
evidently had been in that position for
eight days, without food or water. The
funny part of the story is that when
drawn out she continued for several days
TO walk in circle and could not be made
to walk in straight line, and il was only
by letting her move off in a constantly
enlarging circle, until it took in the farm
yard of the owner, that she could be
driven to her home from the place where
she became 80 set in her way.--Sto'tr
city (Io,oa) Journal.
Year: 1875

A few years ago there was a pupil at
the Institution for the Education of the
Blind, who was totally, and it was sup
posed, irrecoverably blind. She had
been blind from infancy, we believe.
Her mind was active-quick to grasp
and annalyze such subjects as were pre-
sented in her various studies all her
faculties were keen, with the exception
of the one great affection sightless eyes.


She left the institution in due time,
her mind well developed by the course
of instruction received within it's walls,
and returned to her home, somewhere
in this State, but to us unknown-her
parents being well-to-do and respectable
people. But now comes the strangest
part OF this account


On Thursday this young lady, for she
is now about twenty years of age, re-
turned to the city-not as blind girl,
but to enter, as pupil, the State Insti-
tuition for Deaf and Dumb. She has lost
her sense of hearing and also of speech,
but has gained partially the sense OF see
ing This wonderful transposition has
not been the growth of years, but nature
has effected it within a comparatively
brief period. Here is certainly strange
case, and challenges the investigation of
medical and scientific men. DIR. Gillett,
Superintendent of the Institution for
Deaf and Dumb, is watching the case with
great interest, but gives no expression of
opinion, as it was so recently brought
under his notice. We hope to publish
his diagnosis of the case, or at least his
opinions concerning it, in due time.


The sense of sight, we all know, acts
strangely in individual cases. There
lives in this city a person who can see
well enough in daylight, but as evening
approaches her sight grows rapidly dim,
until by night it is lost entirely. 1t is
said that there is boy living in Quincy
who cannot see at all in the daytime, is
blind in fact, but as daylight fades into
night, his vision becomes perfect, and
he can see plainly in the dark where
other persons with good eyes cannot see
at ll.-JackSonvilte lU.) Journal.
Year: 1875

Dogs at various times have held
not an unimportant place III the business
of the drama. Fictitious bloodhounds
were a prominent feature of "Three-
Fingered Jack, and in the Forest of
Bondy," great play in its day, one of
the most important characters was the
dog whodetected and arrested Macaire, in
his gorgeous uniform of green and gold.
Dogs have occupied a more important
place even than babies, their stage rank
being about equal to the penny waves of
rural dramatic notoriety, the best kind
of thunder and real water. 1t is seldom,
however, that the entire business of
play has depended upon dog, and yet
the first programme of a new drama was
recently postponed at the Mirror Theater
IN London owing to an accident which
disabled one of the principal actors AS
Rip would say, /" He vos dog" The
new play is entitled "The Dogs of st.
Bernard, and the performer in ques-
ton, whose part it probably was to cross
the stage with barrel attached to his
neck, sniff amid the downy snow, and
rescue one of the heroes, was the most
important feature of the play. There
was performer once whose leading roles
were the cock in Hamlet" and the
hind legs Of the COW in "Tom Thumb"
That the canine race, albeit there are
slanders to the effect that their close at
tention to duty might have been infu-
enced by the distant prospect of cold
bones, have attained to higher position
upon the boards than their master, man,
must prove a source of unutterable Joy
and satisfaction to Brother Bergh.-
Inter Ocean.