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Year: 1875

people OF the whole country are scratch.
ing hard to pay interest, and are glad II
thew can do It. Now, the Democratic
party in Ohio is not obliged in the pend
ing campaign to take the initiative. Let
it put the Administration party on me
defensive"


| again expressed to Governor Brown
nv surprise to find the greenback fever
absorbing even himself. He said:


IL believe in looking around Us to take
n policy. These hard times, with an
abundant country, require solution.
What keeps the peop.e poor? There is
no idleness, but no profit. The cause
lies in an unaccOmmodating policy Of the
Government toward the people
Year: 1875

Gumbs, who lives next door to us,
has bought new dog. He needed
new one His last dog used to bark all
night in the yard until, in frantic des-
peration, we would shy our boots and
cologne-bottles and furniture at him.
But he always went on worse; and in
the morning Gumbs would come calmly
out and gather up those missiles and
carry them into the house.


He has more than twenty pairs of
boots and slippers in his possession, be-
sides chair-legs and cakes of soap, and
hair. brushes match-safes and towl-racks.
And he never had the manliness to offer
to give them back. On the contrary, he
trained that dog to sit by the front gate
and seize us by the legs when we came
out, three or four times week, appar-
emily for the purpose of securing some
more boots. - et


But we poisoned him one night, and
the next morning Gumbs threw the car
cass over into our yard. We threw it
back. Gumbs returned it. We both
staid at home that day, and spent the
time handing the dog to one another
over the fence.


Then we hired an Irishman to stand
there night and day to return the de-
ceased dog to Gumbs's yard. Then
Gumbs also hired an Irishman. 1t was
an exhilarating work The corpse rap
idly traversed that fence six or seven
thousand times every twenty-four hours.
He must have become familiar with the
route even if he was dead. At last he
wore away with so much handling, and
on the last day the Irishmen whiled the
hours by finging only the tail at each
other. Our Irishman at last buried the
tail and resigned.


And now Gumbs has got a new. dog
1t will be excessively singular if we dc
not fish for that dog some evening soon
with a Goldfish lipe and piece Of beef
and run him up all of sudden to oul
window, and. launch him into the sewer
No dog owned by man named Gumbs
shall exult over US.


a.
Year: 1875

Every housekeeper should have her
own recipe book--a book of her own
creation, of gradual growth and proved
'excellence-and We propose to show
our lady readers how to make one. In
the first place buy blank book and
write your name and date On, the first
leaf. Divide tie book into as many
different departments as you wish, head


ing each page with the department to
which it belongs, as follows: Recipes
for cleaning; recipes for soups; recipes
for cooking meats; recipes for cooking
cake, and so on through family cooking.
Then comes cooking for the sick, care
of the sick. and all the various things
that are part of woman's duty, and
for which, unfortunately, there is nc
school but experience Number youl
pages if they are not numbered in the
beginning and make On index, leaving
blank spaces in the index to correspond
with blank pages between departments
which you do not expect to fill imme


diately. Write down under these differ


ent heads every recipe which you have
actually tried, or the result of whicl
you have seen in the houses of YOU
friends, and enter the page in the index
Year: 1875

One thousand shingles laid four in
ches to the weather will cover over one
hundred square feet of surface, and FIVE
pounds OF shingle nails will fasten them
on


One fifth more siding and flooring is
needed than the number Of square feet
Of surface to be covered, because of the
lap in the siding and matching OF the
floor.


One thousand laths win cover seventy
yards of surface, and eleven pounds of
lath-nails will nail them on.


Eight bushels of sand and one bush
ell of hair will make enough mortar to
plaster one hundred square yards?


A cord of stone, three bushels of
lime, and cubic yard of sand will lay
one hundred cubic feet of wall.
Five courses of blick will lay one
foot in height on chimney, six bricks
in q course will make flue four inches
wide and twelve inches long, and eight
bricks in course will make flue eight
inches wide and sixteen inches long.
Year: 1875

Be prayerful; ask and thou shalt have


Strength equal to thy day;
Prayer clasps the hand that guides tho world,


Oh, make it then thy stay.
Ask largely, and thy God will be


A kingly giver unto thee.
Year: 1875

THE OLD FARMHOUSE,
Oh, dear the old farmhouse to mel
The homely ways. the ample cheer,
The refuge at my mothers knee
From childhood's every grief and fear
And dear she memory of those days
Bathed in loves amber atmosphere,
When all our voices rose in praise,
When sire and child were bowed in prayer


But where are they,


The fond, the gay,
Who filed the great white house in May2
Gone like the birds from last years nestl
Gone as the leaves in autumn Hyl
Some to the cities of the West,
Some toll beneath an Indian sky;
Some, other prairies sow and reap;
One sank beneath the moaning sea;
Some in the ehurch-yard lie asleep,
And, quivering in the old roof-tree,


One homesick waits


The swing of gates
To watt her to heavens bright estate.
-Aduance. fa
Year: 1875

The New COmPtrOIIer's Warrants.
To the Union and American.


In few weeks the act of the General
Assembly authorizing and regulating the
Issuance of State warrants will be in pTac-
teal operation.


This being a somewhat novel financial
measure, many persons desire enlightenment
as to the intent Of the law-what will be
its probable effect, and how that is to be
accomplished. Your correspondent is one
of this number, and in behalf Of many
would ask that you obtain and publish an
authoritative exposition Of its features and
objects from the financial officers Of The
State who are commissioned to print, pay
out, and redeem these warrants in currency.
II is assumed that the two leading OBJ
ieCts of the measure are: first, TO assist in
relieving temporarily the stringent cOndi-
ton of the State treasury by meeting the
obligations Of the State for necessary cur
rent expenses, already asceTtaiucd and fixed
by law, with this paper; and secondly, to
relieve the trading community Of the Stale
by adding a half million % the circulating
medium, these warrants being invested
with the charac, er of a preferred State
debt, each single issue, whether of one
dollar or fifty dollars, being due and pagB
BILE in currency on presentation TO the State
Treasurer.


The first act Of the General Assembly
was the repeal Of the third section Of the
funding act Of March 10, 1873, requiring
the Treasurer 20 set apart revenue collec-
tiOns for the exclusive purpose Of pay inc
the semi-annUal interest on the bonded
debt of the State, and the effect of this, to-
gether with the act under discussion, is to
make these Treasury warrants which are
to be issued ''fOr current expenses only, a
primary obligation reJeemable by the cur
rency collections acCTuing in the Treasury.
The limit as to amount is iudlciCUsly
and safely placed, and the regulations for
issuance and redemption are well and wise
" guarded, and it is believed, that if the
tadin- community will accommodate itself
10 and accept these issues in the spirit and
intent with which they were authorized,
and the banks and money dealers viii lend
their aid, passIvely if not actively, both OF
the specific objects may be attained, ana
salutIIy results viii enure to all.


is hoped that such a manifesto from
the states financial officers as has been
sug g-eS' ei. will be given, and that it may
tend to inauTuratc these issues with the
confidence Of the community.


INQUIRER.
Year: 1875

TIVE SEVENTH STREET VARIETIES
MI. Clarke is pushing forward his prep
arations, and will open the Seventh
Street Varieties in grand style on Tues
day evening next. He should have q
good crowd at his opening.
Year: 1875

JOINING THE GRANGERs.--A fanny
story is told OF two farmers who were
not grapgers. The induced their wives
to join and report before they would COM
NIT themselves. Now while they would,
they cannot join; two black balls greet
every application. Meanwhile, the wives
go regularly and triumphantly to every
grange meeting, and the men stay at
home, tend the babies, and wonder what
they do at the grange anyhow.
Year: 1875

MANS NATURE.-One day two men at
Nenia, Ohio, were engaged in discussion
as to Beecher's guilt or innocence. From
this our debaters branched off upon the
subject of human nature in general, its
foibles, weakness and instability under
crucial tests, and growing earnest, one of
them offered to bet that there were not a
dozes men in the city who would stand a
certain test which he specified. The wa
ger was accepted, twelve representative
male citizens designated, and to each a
dainty note written in a feminine hand,
couched in seductive yet polished terms,
was sent as coming from lady. The
missive said that the writer had seen the
gentleman addressed, been impressed by
his bearing and appearance and was most
anxious, etc., according to the usual way.
The writer would be happy to meet Mr..
Vanity at such and such point at such
a time. The notes were duly sent and
the conspirators awaited the result of the
affair. Much to the chagrin of the gen.
tlemen who accepted the wager, and the
triumph of the other, every one Of the
men to whom the notes were sent, old and
young, married and single, appeared at
the proper point at the time specified.
Year: 1875

IN Springfield recently, young mar
ried woman became possessed with an
idea that her proper vocation was
that Of a novelist. So she secretly began
thrilling story in which the hero was
strangled by his jealous wife. Into
the murder scene she determined to throw
her whole soul, and in order to properly
describe it she went to the bedside of her
sleeping spouse and placing her hands
about his neck, choked him into insensi-
biity. He knocked her down with a
chair as soon as he revived, and-the nov
el went into the stove.
Year: 1875

SHE NEVER WoULD.-She was wild
ow, and at party the other night, she
wiped her eyes and SAID: Henry was
the best of husbands, and / wouldn't get
married 10 the best man in Michigan. In
fact the sight of man makes a shiver
come over me-" Ten minutes later when
a man who has $40, 600 in the bank and a
dozen city lots, entered the room, the la
dy rose up and remarked that it was fine
weather, indeed, and that she'd like moth
ing better than to walk all night under
such a glorious moon. And she did not
mean she would like to walk alone.
Year: 1875

BEAUTIFUL AND AFFECTING FACT
In consequence Of fatal epidemic among
chickens in Minnesota, ministers are re-
ceiving donations nearly every hour of
the day. This is beautiful and affect
ing fact and reminds US that no pastor
can have a successful ministry who does
not enjoy the affections Of his congrega-
Year: 1875

A YOUNG scholar the first day Of school
was asked her name by the teacher, and
replied. Her fathers name was the next
question and she did not know his first
name. The teacher then asked her:
What does your mother call him ?"
"You jackass ! F" said the child.
Year: 1875

TIE widower's grief has been pro.
nounced by competent authority to be
lovely while it lasts, but it is not con,
strueted to endure the rude assaults o
time. The Connecticut man who only
last spring threw himself upon the cold
turf that wrapped his belovod's clay and
wept until his eyeiashes fell out, has since
mad three women following him around
for alimony.
Year: 1875

A UNIVERSITY student broke through
the ice the other day where the water was
only four feet deep. And when he was
hauled out and laid upon the ice he faint
ly whispered: "BoysSI didn't care for
myself, but I'm engaged"
Year: 1875

A MAN who can give up dreaming and
go to his daily realities who smothers
down his heart, its love or woe, and takes
to the hard work of his hand: who defes
fate, and if he must die, dios fighting to
the last-that man is lile's best hero.
Year: 1875

OF the future, as I learned it at Syra-
ouse, and since my return from there
l havo no doubt whatever Of its cor
rectness in tho general outline. Now
York Correspondent of tho Cincn-
natl Enquirer.
Year: 1875




unite with the Democratic party az
such, but we fear he will unto with
any party opposed to it. If this be
50 why organize the Democratic
party3 This thing of marching on
to victory with the national party is
a humbug. The party in New York
has two Republicans on its tickc',
In Massachusetts it has Rcpubi.
can for Lieutenant Governor, and
how can this be if tho party there
has any organization as such There,
as it should be here, it is the people
uniting to better government. We
must do the same thing here, tens
pering our organization 30 as to
command success. We cannot botter
illustrate the advantages of our past
course over party organization than
by referring our readers to the cam,
paign OF 1874. Under q Demo-
cratic nomination in Pickens, the
majority for the Democrats was
about sixty votes. while General
McGowan, who, in his speeches,
eschewcd party and advised the
union of all good men in the
election of capable men to Office,
regardless Of party, pollcd nearly 800
majority over his Republican oppo.
nent.


AS We now stand, the whites
being an intelligent reading people,
being united in interest, without Or
ganization, unite from reason
and common motive, whenever
united action is likely to result in
good. They, in State elections, need
no binding organization to bring
them together, and an organ.
izatian of the Democratic party,
without accomplishing good, may re-.
suit in evil. As we now stand, we
are roady to unite with tho of
every race and party to better tho
government. Tho weakening of
party ties in both races is our surest
road to success, and We desire noth-
ing which will retard this. We are
glad to see the successes OF the Demo-
cratic party everywhere, and wo
would like TO holp item, but in the
first place we can't do this by organ.
ization, and in the second place, our
highest duty is to save ourselves.
We do not desire to labor in distant
fields until our own have been made
clear. Besides, We think our pres.
ent and past course has been ono OF
the leading causes of Democratic
success elsewhere. We are giving
them most help by keeping quiet.
The whole thug is working well
enough, and, We think, is working
better without our intermoddling.
We propose to pursue this subject
as to the effect OF our past policy III
helping the Democrats of the North
to their late SUCCESSES Keowec Cou.
rier.
Year: 1875

A POSITIVE CuRE.-The new cure for
vugranCy (new in this country, but old
across the ocean, works like charm. 1t
has been very generally adopted through
out New England, New Jersey, and in
parts Of New York most infested by
tramps. In all these sections Of country
tramps arc arrested at sight, and unless
able to give a satisfactory account oil
themselves are committed to Jail for ten
or more days under statutes which I'M
fortunately have been too long allowed
to become obsolete. The vagrant gets
plenty Of wholesome food, but is Obliged
10 work little for it; and it is the
latter disagreeable peculiarity Of his
confinement which effects the cure SO
much desired by the community, il not by
the patient On being released from jail
he takes the shortest cut out Of that neigh
borhood, and never appears there again,
The tramping fraternity seem to keep
we'll informed on the state Of the jails
throughout the country, for they are now
steering clear Of those localities where the
laws against vagranCy are rigidly en-
forced. This is the experience Of the
principal rural towns In New England and
New Jersey, and 1t may be now accepted
as a truth, that q prompt and decided APP
plication 0fthe law against a few yagrants
as they come along is the only method Of
abating n great nuisance.
Year: 1875

SABLE JusTTICE.-The examination Of
witnesses in the case.of Jackson, charg
ed with the killing of a negro musician
brings out the absurdity and incompe
tency Of the present administration OF
the law in bold relief. If the matter were
not SO serious, it might present as many
broad farces, and be as enjoyable piece
Of laughter moving fun as anything seen
ct the Varieties A monkey, clad in the
Judicial robes, is not greater burlesque
on the truth and dignity of facts than a
coal-t black negro, swollen with self i'm
portance, impregnable in his vanty,.im
perturbable in his self confidence, impen
etrable in his ignorance, laying down the
law in that travesty ofthe English tongue
and that wonderful confusion Of ideas
and principles that naturally come from
SO benighted fountain. The elevation
Of the negro to such inappropriate posi-
tions, is the direct application of the
doctrine that all men are born free and
equal. The partiality of construction
which has been applied to the negro en-
ables him to fly full .hedged to the high
est perches of his ambition. He is ad-
mitted to the bar without the qualiGca-
tions exacted from the white man, and he
is commissioned to arbitrate upon the
lives and fortunes of the people with
precisely the same mental gifts and ac-
quirements which made him 50 conspicu-
Gus as a cultivator of cotton or a hoer
of rice. His education was at the plow
tail or hoe handle, and he bounds at
lead into the mysteries Of Jurisprudence
and the arts of legislation. And expert
encc in legislation gives Mr. Bill Moore,
the sable magistrate Of Wilmington, the
claim to make his brother justices stand
aside, and to take into his hands the
scales of the blind goddess. Hear bis
sable worship in the administration Of
the oath You do solcmnly swear dat
you will tell de whole truth between the
State and w Jackson At the close Of
the examination of the opinion Of the
"iestiss'' as he called himsef--a pun
gent jest--s lucidIy given as follows
" De Court doesn't see anything but dat
de defendant has to be bounded over to
de next term of de Superior court to an
swcr de charge of murder" And it is
to such fellows that the present Consti


tuition confdes the lives and fortunes Of
the white people Of large portion of
the State --Raleigh " c Mere.
Year: 1875

warranted not to cut in the eye--not a head
ache in hhds. of tit is no sooner in your
belly than lis on your back in pound of beet
and it carries a bead like q necklace; for
sale by


GEORGE AUSTIN.
Year: 1875

The greatest feat of an Arab hunter is
to capture an ostrich. 1t is the largest
of living birds, and probably the swift
est of all living arimals. Being very
shy and cautious. and living on the
sandy plains, where there is little chance
to take it by surprise, it can only be
captured by well-planned and long


continued pursuit with the swiftest
horses. The ostrich has two curious
habits in running when alarmed. 1t al
ways starts off with outspread wings,
against the wind, so that it can scencthe
approach of an enemy. Its sense OF
smell is so keen that it can detect per-
son at a great distance, long before one
can be seen. The other curious habit is
that of running ina circle. Usually five
or six ostriches are found in company.
When discovered, part of the hunters,
mounted on feet horses, will pursue the
birds, while the other hunters will gallop
away at right angles to the course the
ostriches have taken. When these hunt
ers think they have gone far enough to
cross the path the birds will be likely to
take, they watch upon some rise oi
ground for their approach. If the hunt.
ers hit the right place and see the os-
triches they at once start in pursuit with
fresh horses, and sometimes they over
take one or two of the birds, but often
two or three of the feet horses fall, com
pletely tired out with 80 sharp chase.
Year: 1875

No words can satisfactorily paint the
bleakness, the dreariness, the detection,
the awful gloom of a house being cleaned.
The windows are out, the carpets are up,
and the dining. room table is full of dishes;
every other chair contains either basin
of water or a wet cloth or brush the air
is permeated with soap, and wet and
mold and new whitewash; all the fur
niture is piled promiscuously in the
center Of the rooms, excepting what is
left in heap in the hall; in front of the
bed-ro closet door is q rocking-cha
full of bed-clothes, and when the man
wants to get there after an old coat, he
has to climb and shove to get the door
ope a, and after once in he has to push
like a battering ram to get out again;
the pictures are arranged on the floor
leaning against the walls in way to
catch the unwary boot heel and unthink-
ing bed-post; there is saucer of rusty
tacks on the tete a. tete, and besmeared
bottle of balsam on the what-not, and
an empty ink bottle in the card basket,
while the marble top center-table con-
tains an album, q piece of dried soap,
an elegant lithograph, one tack-hammer,
a half can of potash, beautiful Scrip
tural motto OH cardboard, and ninety
seven dead flies. 1t is this general up
setedness, this awful cenglomeration,
this dreadful uncertainty which gives
the home circle its glow of terror to a
man. This is what makes him move
around as little as possible in the house,
and causes him every other moment to
smite his head, and gives him the vacant
nj Al xxttI, n
face Of man whose wife is cleaning
house. And she! Is she in pain? She
has got on torn dress hitched up at
one side sufficiently to reveal an un-
buttoned shoe; there are fakes of white
wash in her hair, and on her chin; her
dress is wet, her fingers are parboiled,
and her thumb has been split with a
hammer, bu: her eye is as clear and
bright as that of major-general on field
day. She picks up handful of skirts,
and skins through the apartments, see-
ing five hundred things which should be
done at once, and trying to do them
and every time she comes in reach oi
the dresser, she snatches look into the
glass, and shoves fresh hair-pin into
her dilapidated coil. And thus planted
in the debris, like queen on her throne
she unblushingly asserts that, "it's ar
awful job" everything is in wretched
shape;" "I'll be so glad when this II
over" cit does seem as If my back will


snap in two;" "Pm a good mind to say
I'll never clean house again as long as
live" And then her mind unconsciousl,
scars heavenward, and she wonders |


there will be house cleaning season


there, and if not, how heaven can b,


made of it. 1t is this speculation which


gives her that dreamy expression whel


she is cutting your bread with soap


knife.-Donbtuy Ne,os.
Year: 1875

A philosopher presents the following
general deductions from his observations
at picnic.


Girls with small feet are the most ven
turesome in climbing trees or wading
swamps.


The girl who will fly in terror to the
arms of ber escort at sight of toad, will,
If she happens upon snake by herself,
deliberately catch il by the tail and jerk
its head of.


One ordinary handkerchief is not
large enough for two persons to sit upon
at one and the same time.


The young man whose trowsers have
been the most mercilessly torn by thorns
IL the one who is the most urgently
solicited 10 climb trees and tic the ropes
for swings.


Bugs have no sense Of propriety.
Year: 1875

II ! could find rose without thorn,


fragrant blossom with no bitter taste,
day OF sunshine with no spot OF cloud,


world without dreary desert waste,
Or one bright hope unshadowed and serene,


One perfect trust with every fear cast out,
My heart could rest upon the promise sweet,


Layin aside the eyer-present doubt.
The shadow dim that falls upon the riBg.


When welded palms are clasped In fond embrace
The specter at the banquet, and the guest


That silently usurps the highest place;
The presence all uDseen yet ever near


The minor note TO every joyous strain;
The echoing thrill that answers rapture sweet


With something very near akin to pain.
II dims the luster OF the conqueror's sword,


And falls upon the radiance OF the cross;
No alchemy can purify the gold


Beyond the clinging Of its ashen dross;
II falleth like mildew on the page


Where weary fingers toll for empty fame,
And on the shining scutcheon OF the great,


Beside the greatest there II writes its name.