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Year: 1870

| am not about to enter crusade a
gainst the pcrusal of works of fiction. l
should be sorry to debar the child from
Robinson Crusoe" or the " Pilgrims
Progress" But do protest against that
constant and indiseriminate perusal of ro--
mances in which so many indulge. In
the use of such stimulants am not an ad-
vocate of totat abstinence, but of temper.
dncc principles. | am not afraid of am
occasional glass of fiction, provided per-
sons be not constantly slipping it, and pro-
vidcd they be taking solid food in far lar
ger measure. For every novel devoured,
let there be eaten and digested several
books of history or of biography, seweral
books of voyages and travels, several books
of good theology, and at least book or
two on science. If you examine some.
of ourcirculating libraries you will find
very different proportion-far more works
of fiction than works of truth. Those who
consume this garbage will soon take its
hue, as the worm takes the color of the
herbagc ON which it feeds; and the fur
nishing of their mind becomes excessively
like the circulating libraries to which |
have referred; a strange medley, in which
the vain and fictitious occupies far larger
place than the real and the solid. Nor let
it be urged by the novel reader that he
does not believe the tale when he re&ds it,
so no evil can possibly arise from the pc
rusal of it; for the mischief may be pro-
dueed altogether Independent of his belief
or his disbelief 1t arises from the in-
pressions produced, unconsciously abiding
and unconsciously operating. Like the
poison caught from visiting an infected
district, it is drawn into the system with
out ones being aware of the precise spot
from which it comes, or even of its exis-
tence.
Year: 1870

The Canal mills of Oliver & Bacon, of
Ere, N. Y, are now run entirely by gas
from well sunk on their premises the
since they erected their derrick and started
to drill They penetrated the rock 493
feet, and the entire cost foots up, drilling,
casing, pipe, etc. about 81 800. Their
mill contains four run of stones, with a
capacity of ten barrels per hour. To OBJ
tain power for this they have two boilers
of forty-horse power each, which are en-
tirely heated by the gas from the we'll,
and they estimate they have enough in ad-
dition to produce power for two additional
run of stones. On Monday morning last.
when the water and boilers were entirely
cold, they turned on the gas by stop
cock, touched it with match, and in
forty minutes the mill was running. This
is getting up steam with u cclerity truly
astonishing.


AS to the saving, the mere statement
of the cost of coal for the month of June
will exhibit it in a more striking light than
any word of ours. Their bill for coal,
then, for fifteen hours per day running,
for that month, was $400. Now they
have constant supply of fuel the entire
twenty y-fours hours capablo of producing
power to run six run of stones Instead of
four, at permanent outlay of 81 500.
A slight mathematical calculation will
show that if the proprietors of these mills
only wish to keep them at the present ca
pacity, and run them in the same number
of hours, they make a saving of about
5000 per year, to say nothing of the
wages of fireman and other labor which
machinery run by coal entails. But if
they should wish to add the other two
run of stones, or add to the number of
hours with their present capacity, the a.
mount will show still larger. But the in
quiring reader will ask, will this supply
of fuel last! We can only judge what
will be by what has been


The Aloff well, in the southern part of
the city, put down eight or ten years ago,
is still producing gas as strongly as when
first sunk Its volume is as large, if not
larger, than this one Immediately under
consideration. The wells put down on
Ninth street, and also near the corner of
Holland and Seventh streets, from which
the fuel is furnished to carry on the Pc,
trolcum brass foundry of Jarecki & Co.
and Brevillicr's soap works, still hold
out, with no perceptible diminution. From
these facts we can answer that experience
and time, the only criterion, all show that
this source of fuel is permanent and re-
liable, SO well convinced of this are all
those who have investigated the subject
that very many of our manufacturers are
preparing to avail themselves of the ad-
vantagcs which this hitherto neglected
source of wealth furnishes in the produc-
ton of fuel for their mills and factoriess
even for dwcllings.-Eric Republican,
Year: 1870

NoxIous INSECTS. This is the season
for the largest portion of our winged in
sects to deposit their eggs. If people
would hang bottles one-third full of sweet
ened water among their fruit and shade
trees, they would be astonished at the inn
mense destruction of pcstiferous insect life,
and our fruit, as well as man and the do
mestic animals, would be benefited. The
bottles can be hung by wire shaped like
hook, or tied by a string, the wire be-
ing best, as most readily removed for emp
tying Let everyone try it and be sur
prsed at the numberless strange looking
insects they will destroy
Year: 1870

A LOVE SToRY WITH A MoRAL.-Therc
is good joke going the rounds, of young
lady and gentleman at fashionable party
in Nashville, Tenn. Il few evenings since
The young man was happy, the young
lady arrayed in all the exquisite taste Of
lavender and rose, etc. with gold powder
ed hair flowing over her swan-like neck
Finding the heat of the room too much
for them. they sought the cool shade of
an arbor where they listened to the foun-
tain's fall. The music rose and fell, time
flew on silver pinions, and after an abb
sence of three hours, our friends entered
the brilliantly Illuminated parlors. The
young lady passed on in the dance, but
the young man was slightly taken aback
by his next neighbor informing him that
round his neck was the unmistaken print
of two arms, all in chalk and diamond
dust, on one shoulder a large pile of yell
low powder, and on his upper lip and
cheek damon dust, bloom of youth and
yellow powder, mixed up generally. The
young lady's hair was observed to be
several shades palcr. Moral: Carry a
dusting-brush in your pocket.
Year: 1870

EFFEoTs OF PUMPKIN SEEDS ON MtLcH
Cows--A correspondent writes to the New
England Farmer in regard to this subject
as follows:


First, l fed my COWS one week with
one large Or two small pumpkins to each
COW twice day. Their milk decreased
two or three quarts day from what they
give the week previous. then fed them
alternately three or four weeks, and they
varied in their milk very much as the
first week


The diurctic quality of pumpkin seeds
is well known, and they will always prove
injurious to animals if fed in large quan-
tity. Fowls have sometimes eaten of them
so largely as to produce death.
Year: 1870

The certain cure Of neuralgia is found
in judicious eating and exercise and no.
only so, a permanent cure cannot be ef
fected iu any other way, while these are
always efficient. ... o......


10 neuralgia The tlood is always too
thick, impure, and in excess +; and as diet
and exercise combine to remedy those
conditions, some rules IN relation to them
are desirable. These will be adaptad to
sedentary persons, to those who live in
door generally, as, women, students,
book keepers, and the like.


1t is rather better to eat thrice q day,
morning, noon and night; that is, as
soon after sun rise as practicable, for
breakfast; dinner about one O'Clock ;
supper before sundown.


Fat aothing whatever between meals


Breakfast, a single cup Of coffee or lea
some cold bread and butter, with dish
of berries or stewed fruit in summer
time, and nothing else in winter, meet,
fish or poultry, or in their stead, a couple
of soft boiled eggs.


Supper should be made of cold bread
and butter and cup Of warm drink Of
some kind, and nothing else.


Dinner the same as breakfast, adding
one vegetable and some fruit, raw OF
s'ewed, as a desert, and nothing else. A
different kind Of vegetable may be taken
every day for variety the kind Of meal
may be changed At each meal.


The object iu the specifications above
made is to discourage variety at meals
because it is this which tempts all to ca
too much. Persons at times have fel
at the table that they bad eaten enough
but on seeing a very inviting dish uuex-
pectab'y brought in, q good meal ha'
been eaten Of this last variety. The
general and hurtful error is that too
great q variety IL spread on our tables
not only Occasioning tronble Of prepara-
ton and great loss, but also a positive
injury in the temptation Of the appetite
The reader may try it upon himself Of
any two days. A dinner Of ono vegeta
Bile, one kind Of meat and bread at din
ner the next day let q great variety b'
presented he will eat double the amoun
at this repsst, with this remarkable diff
ference: an hour after the Rrst mea
he will be entirely comrortab'e-wili fee
as If he had eaten quite enough al
hour afteS the latter thcro will be decided
discomfort, fulness, feeling as IL SOM
kind Of relief was desirable, and in to,
many cases resort to the decauter, will
vain hope Of riddance in some way
It can not be denied that the FIRST steI
toward Incorporate habits has been ia
ken in using liquors to remove the uu
pleasant consequences Of over eating !
very great aid toward overcoming habi
Of too heavy eating will be found in sit
ting down to table with only three va
ricties of food.-Dr Hall.
Year: 1870

TIE BUAG HOLE QuEsTIoN.-This momentous ques-
tioQ pregnant with the fate of the nation, and exem-
pying how important ii is that the Government should
Och with seepless vigilance over bung holes, the
ny pber in a barrel and the diameter by actual meas


nenRof the same, is now agitatng this great coun-


from centre to circumference. The brewers have


ede thrilling appeal to the Internal Revenue Bureau
llAregard thereto, but the Commissioner was nexor-
able and declares that the law against two bung holes
in one barrel was explicit and that Congress alone
ceuld change it. We presume Congress would have
no obtion to one bung hole, say in ten barrels but
sterny-lat its face against multiplicity of bunes.
And we Ire happy to say that this is one question at
least upon which 60 heart and soul with the Gov.
ernment. The laws must be vindicated and the dig
nifty of the Government preserved Perish the hand
that would be saerilegiousy raised to bore more than
one bung hole in a barrel. What right we ask has
barrel to more than one bungs None Brutus, none.
Not only is it unlawful thing but impolitic whsl
How often Go hear of barrels saving at the spgot
and wasting at the bung? If then there be two waste
places what tremendous loss must needs fall upon the
barrel.
Year: 1870

1t will only cost you dollar to buy bottle of Ed
WARD WILDER's CHILL Tonic, which is purely vegeta-
ble and will not only you any of your family
of Chls and Fever, Fever and Ague, and every FORM
type and variety of Haaral Paluda Fever of Afec-
tions, but will entirely drive them from the system
which no other Chill medicine now made will do Don't
buy any of the old and than valueess nostrums
but only Edward Wilders Chill Tonic, as cure is
guaranteed in all cases.
Year: 1870

The abandonment by the Radical party of their pet
measure of a protective tariff, plainly indicates the
force Of public sentiment especially in the West, the
people of9wieh awakening to the fact that the
manufacturing Interests of the East have been using
the plea Of patriotism in the building up Of home en-
erprses simply as means to cloak their mercenary
Year: 1870

FENHE TRUSTEES Of the Shreveport University are
u pleased to announce that Prof. GEO. E. THATCH-
Err will continue in charge of this institution:
The Board encouraged by the success of the past
session and by public appreciation everywhere freely
expressed, to believe that they have met want of com
munty at the right time and in the right lace. And
they confidently assure the public tha pains will be
spared to afford educational facilities equal to those of
any part of the country


The University is located in a very pleasant and
healthful situation, two miles west of Shreveport
The grounds are extensive afIordng ample room for
exercise, and the building is capable of accommodate
ing large number,


The extensive repairs made during the summer va
cation add much to the comfort and attractveness of
the institution.


JOHN n. HOWELL,


President Board Trustees.
Shreveport August H. 1869 Ttf
Year: 1870

JUST So.--Thc Piedmont Virginian says; ;


Two of the largest bankers in Rohmond sus
pended business few days ago. We were not
hurt by either.


We remember to have read of an individual
whose peacc of mind was very much disturbed
by the Intelligence of the failure of certain
bank, and he could have no peace Till he went
hone to sec if he had any of the notes OF that
hank. On reaching home he found he had none
of the notes of that bank, or any other, alter
which ho was perfectly eaSy.-NortoM jour.
Year: 1870

The following anecdote of Beech
er has just been made public. It
seems he had observed the injustice
Of obliging men to work on Sundays
and preached a sermon on it. Next
day he entered into conversation
with car driver, while riding down
to Fulton Ferry, and asked him if he
did not think some plan -might-be
adopted to dispense with the need
Of running the cars all day Sunday.
The driver being in entire ignorance
of the name and nature Of his inter
rogative friend, made a frank re.
ply: "Yes, sir, think there might,
but there's no hope of it so long as
they keep thst-Beecher's theatre
open in Brooklyn. The cars have
| to run to accommodate that" Il is
hardly necessary to add that the
drivers remark was a "home thrust" ,"
and was considered so good that
Beecher told it himself.
Year: 1870

Gas for the coolers coming here"
said Mrs. Darlington, as she wiped
her brow with the old bandana hand
kerchief, bearing the pictorial rep
resentation Of the battle Of Lake
Erie. 81 should say let 'em cone;
for goodness knows it is hot enough,
with every rag of ones clothes 50
satiated with moisture, that one al
most wishes to be a great white
bear and sit on the top Of the North
Pole, if it would be proper, and ice
so dear! The more of them the bet.
ter, I should say, with the mocKery
at ninety, and going up at that,
goodness help us! o if heaven
would only freeze the ponds over in
summer, what a luxury it would be,
with ice for picnics, and no thanks
to the monopolarizers, who are tax
ing advantage Of folks extremities,
and are pinching EN- TO make en-
pay, so that a ten cent ice cream
isn't enough to fill q hollow tooth
with, if anybody should want to,
and iced lemonade is not to be
thought Of without paying for it,
and the lord knows where ie viii
end, unless the coolers GOMEZ She
stopped, exhausted in idea and
breath Wiping her face with her
handkerchief, while Ike sat beside
the full milk pan with boat in it,
the sails of which he was filing by
tanning it with Mrs. P.'s great black
Sunday fan, with the red flowers on
it, that she had just laid away in
the drawer upstairs.
Year: 1870

An editor Of one ofthe New York
magazines lately sent back his tail
or's bill accompanied by a neatly
printed slip informing the tailor that
his MSS, was respectfully declined
Force Of habit. The mistake was
not discovered until next day. The
tailor discovered it.
Year: 1870

Aman who had suffered much at
the hands of umbrella thieves, has
outwitted them by purchasing an
Old fashioned blue cotton umbrella
and breaking off six inches of its
handle. He leaves it in the church
vestibule and depot sitting room
with impunitY!
Year: 1870

A Boston lawyer had a horse that
always stopped and refused to cross
a certain bridge leading out of the
city. No whipping, no urging, would
induce him to cross, so he adEertis-
ed him: TO be sold for no other
reason than the owner wants to 60
ont of town
Year: 1870

A wintry night. The wind means at my door,
| But from the CRATE, the ruddy freight glow
ing
Upon my lowly walls and cottage floor
A charm is throwing.
And I, meanwhile reclining in its beams
Forget alike the world and wintry weather,
And roam abroad within the realm of dreams
| Lost altogether.
watch the fire flames as they towering blaz
And shape themselves to many quaint ideal
Such as my fancy wrought in other days


When JOY was real.
Proud palaces with gilded dome and spire,
And hammered battlements in bold defiance,
And broad domains all merged within the fire
In apt appliance.
The placid summer sky that bends above
Drops softly down its amber beams in show


erS
To add perfection to this scene of love
And gid the hours.
Within those stately halls happy throng
Make time pass merrily with joyous laughter,
list, and catch the ripple ola song
That foated after.
And 10 what strains of olden memories rise,
AS the faint echo of those tones come stealing
H ow swells the touched heart upward to the


eyes


In fond revealing!
All days of youth, and song of long ago,
Why haunt my heart to night with such STANCE


sweetness?
Is it to mock me with your loss, and show
Life's incompleteness
Back to your realms! would not once recall
A single hour or song in loves sweet story;
Life is not ever dark, and earth not all
Bereft of glory.
Burn brighter fire! throw out your cheeriest
Fallon my hearth and home with tender glean-


ing,
That may see farer scene tonight
Nc longer dreaming!
The crimson carpet on my cottage floor
Looks warmer still beneath your red reflection;
The faithful house e-dog by the fastened door
lnsures protection.
The painted landscapes, pendant from the wall,
Show many winding brook and verdant


meadows,
And grand old trees, whose leafy branches fall
In pleasing shadows.
The never firing clock above my head
Chimes out the feeting hours in silver num-


bers,
While close behind me, on her little bed,
My baby slumbers
Was ever fairer scene or fonder sight?
[ kiss her rosy lips to make more certain;
Mine eyes and heart are very full, oh Night
Let fall your curtain!


Ftensimqsb~rg, Ky
Year: 1870

Brownlow once prayed If he died at the North
his coffin might he made open at one end, so
that he could crawl away from the abotioDists
Now the people of the South pray that it may
be left open, if he is buried at the South, that
he may crawl to the same aboitionists
Year: 1870

The perfume of a thousand roses soon dies
but the pain caused by one of their thorns re-


mains long after; saddened remembrance in
tie midst of mirth is like that thorn among the
roses,
Year: 1870

A country exchange, in its fashion report
says that the richest dressed lady at recent
fashionable party was the wife Of man who
has owed the editor thirteen dollars for seven
wears
Year: 1870

A young lady of most respectable family,
and possessed Of considerable means, was en-
gagged to be married to a gentleman in the
neighborhood but the match was opposed and
prevented by her family. The lady threatened
revenge for their unkindness, and few weeks
ago carried her threat into execution in terri
BILE manner by eoping with negro man for
merly slave Of one Of the farmers in the vi
cnity Nothing was heard Of her until few
days ago, when her family received a letter
from some town in Massachusetts, informing
them that she had married the negro The
sad affair has plunged large circle of friends
and relations in the deepest gloom and sorrow.
For many and obvious reasons We withhold the
name of this unfortunate and misguided young
lady. -E}itcoH City Md Times
Year: 1870

A Utica woman lost her waterfall in the
street, and a deg picked it up, and after carry
ing it block, sat down and tore it to pieces =
The dog has been so full of fleas and things
since that he is denied admission into the house.
Serves him right
Year: 1870

An Indiana widower, who had just remarked
and on the way to the depot with his new wife,
was stopped by an undertaken, who demanded
payment for ourying his first wife. This was
so unpleasant that the brides father paid the
debt Was that any way for coffin -peddler
to act
Year: 1870

In the rocks on the top of Enchanted Noun
tain, in Georgia, there are human tracks, one
of which is seventeen and half inches long,
It is supposed in the neighborhood to have
been made by Noah when he first landed from
the ark. Geologsts are of the opinion, how
ever, that it was made in the early settlement
Of the country by Susan B. Anthony, Olive
Logan or some other member of the Shrieking
Sisterhood
Year: 1870

When female is in trouble or afflicted with dis
ease, weakness of the back and limbs pain in
the head, dmness of sight, loss of muscular power,
palpitation of the heart irrtability nervousness
extreme urinary difficulties, arrangement of digest
i've functions, general debility vaginits. all dis
eases OF the womb hysteria sterility and all other
diseases peculiar to females, she should go or write
at once to the celebrated female doctor, W. K Do
herty, at his Medical Institute, and consult him
about her troubles and disease The Doctor is
ehecting more cures than any other phys clan in
the State of California. Let no false deleacy PIE
vent you, but apply Immediately and save yourself
from painful suffering and premature death. The
Doctors offices arranged that he can be cen
suited without fear of observation.
Year: 1870

Many the writer these lines and invalid physician while visiting the
Island Of st. z for their health experienced and witnessed surprising and
beneficial effects the Rum there produced the vaIds who ks
ouves seeking health; and inquiry and investigation obtained full history
Of its medicinal delighted and his
which determined possible procure
and sell in the United States


The result his labs glorious himself humanity
celebrated the world PLAN
TATN BITTERs being article real principles
wholly vegetable world for its
the history medicine and became household
T-s6o talsan demand for
PLANTATION BITTERS exceeded the abilities rropcrs supply


Notwithstanding large importation Rum expressly
pounding these BHers the quantity inadequate therefore became
abroad should made and
dispatched Thomas for that He fortunate in securing and


leasing several plantations Of the largest and most productive estates the
island stills presses erected by magic which utterly
natives heisan
the pets the PLANTATION BITTERs position
laboratory with all the crox needed manufa
turing DYPEPTc TONIC AND vRAT The above
natives crushing the otherwise preparing for the stills and presses
doe Fever and Ag Intermittent and Mariu Eev Dyspepsia and
other BTTER unsurpassed the
history the world Over five million bottles disposed Of annually They
They always
rro5uce immediate beneficial result.
Year: 1870

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy, and effectual
for preserving the
hair. Faded or gray
haar as soon restored
to ats original color
scih the gloss and
freshness Of youth.
Thin hair is thick
Year: 1870

ened, falling hair checked, and bald
ness often, though not always, cured
by its use. Nothing can restore the
hair where the follicles are destroyed,
or the glands atrophied and decayed.
But such as remain can be saved for
usefulness by this application. Instead
of fouling the hair with pasty sedi-
ment, it will keep it clean and vigorous.
Its occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling off, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those deleterious substances which
make some preparations dangerous and
injurious to the hair, the Vigor can
only benefit but not harm it. If wanted
merely for
Year: 1870

Are two Of the most common and virulent dsor
ders prevalent this continent, to these the oint
nen is especially antagonistic. its nodns operond
is first to eradicate the venom and then compel the