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Year: 1871

the injunction complaint, as Mayor Hall has
done, and then retire to private life and the
enjoyment of their comfortable fortunes


Should Messrs. Connolly and Tweed refuse
to resign Mayor Hall should at once exercise
the power of removal. He has made q full
and satisfactory response to the complaint
brought against him as one of the defendants
before Judge Barnard, and has directed public
attention to the fact that he has only COM
menced on the first year of his Office
under the new condition of the city
government. But he can scarcely hope
to carry out the new law with satisfac-
ton to himself and to the citizens with Con-
molly at the head of the city finances and
Tweed in command of the Department of
Public Works. To give the Charter fair
trial the heads Of all the departments ought
to enjoy the same public confidence accorded
to the Mayor and to the Department of Public
Parks The people feel that they can trust
the city government in the hands Of Hall and
Sweeny and Hilton. Can the Mayor believe
that they entertain the same opinion as to
Connolly and Tweed? The public feeling in
this matter is intense and should be respected.
The clamor of the political partlsans who
denounce the whole city government simply
because they desire to secure for themselves
chance at the city treasury is not deserving
of notice. The people, who are earnest in
their demand for justice and reform, will take
care that they are not made the instruments
of undoing the good that has been accom-
plished by the remodelling Of the city govern
ment; but their demand that suspected men
shall not be continued in Office should re-
ceive attention aud respect. Let Mayor Hall
carry out faithfully the present law and prove
its value at the close of the year by decreased
taxation for the years government; let Peter
D. Sweeny aud Judge Hilton continue the
work of beautifying and improving the city;
but let Connolly and Tweed retire on their
ample fortunes, and the hungry politicians and
needy Bohemians will be disappointed in their
hopes of turning just public indignation into
a means of fastening a new set of cormorants
on to the City Treasury.
Year: 1871




OF Europe.


From cable dispatch, which we print this
morning, we learn that the London Times has
strongly expressed itself against the importa-
tion Of foreign workmen into England for the
purpose Of putting down the strikers. The
Times bases its opposition on grounds at once
moral and sanitary. Although we do not as q
rule care for the moral and sanitary grounds
of the Times, we cannot refuse to admit that in
this case the Times is right. What the 7Tanes
said we can only guess at. The London Times.
so far as we can lay hold Of the argument, is
down on the great fact that the workingmen
are their own worst friends. The International
Society, which is to revoutionize Europe and
to rejuvenate the world, counts on the support
OF the workingmen. And yet we find that
whenever the w0rkingmen of one district
or of one country make bold stand, the
workingmen Of another district or of another
country are quite willing to be bought at
reasonable price to defeat their fellows. In
the North of England to-day the work.
ingmen have struck for shorter day,
and the employers Of labor in England
have brought in, not the Heathen
Chinee, but Belgians and the Germans and
others to fill the vacant places. When we
here, in addition to our large European inn
port of skilled labor, can bring in the Heathea
Chinee, what does this grand reformer called
the International amount to2 The first Chris
tians had all things in common but the first
Christians, through their wives and their
widows and their free tables, made mess Of
it. In the first decade of Christianity Com
munism damned itself. The experiments made
since then have not much affected the general
argument. Fourier has passed away, and so
has Robert Owen. What has the one or the
other left behind him? Not much. The Inter-
national must be much weaker than we had been
taught to believe it was when so soon after the
Paris Commune the places of the English
strikers can be 80 easily filed. We are long
way off from universal and absolute culture,
and it is our opinion that the International
until then must remain only a name. Alas
alas! for the perfection Of human nature. We
ore sorry for Matthew Arnold.
Year: 1871

An INGENIOUS INNKEEPER- The story
of the dandy who showed how much art sue
eeeded force by separating two fighting dogs
10y clapping his snuff box to their noses, is
capped by the landlord Of the inn at Dalna-
cardoch, Scotland, quite an original in his
way. In winter a number of the neighboring
shepherds assembled at his house to drink,
crack jokes, and vile away the long nights.
Sometimes they got quarrelsome. When a
fray Is brewing, our hero puts bit OF Cay
enne pepper in a bit of brown paper, makes
the tongs red hot, lifts the packet with them
and holds it AZ the bottom Of the door. The
result IS magical. An inveterate sneezing
and coughing commences, which Is instantly
succeeded 10y rush TO the door and break
up Of the company.
Year: 1871

LIEE.-Our every life is a sermon. Oar
birth Is the text from which we start. Youth
is the introduction of the discourse. During
our manhood we lay down few propositions
and prove them. Some Of the passages are
dull. aud some are very sprightly. Then
come differences and applications At sew.
enty years we say, Filthy and lastly. y
The doxologv is sung. The benediction is
pronounced The book is closed. 1t is get
ting cold. Frost on the window pane. Au-
dience gone. Shut up the church. Sexton
goes home with the key on his shoulder.
Year: 1871

Some music teacher once wrote that THE
art of playing violin requires the incest
perception and sersjbility Of any art IN the
known world. T" Upon which the editor
comments ip the following manner: The
art OF publishing a newspaper and making
it pay, and, at the same time, making It
please everybody, beats idding higher than
Year: 1871

The bright spots of mans life are few
enough without blotting any out. The heart
ike the earth, would cease to yield good
fruit were it not sometimes wa;ered with the
tears of sensibility; and the fruit would be
worthless, but for the sunshine Of smiles,
Year: 1871

OF all the annoying men in this world,


the good Lord preserve US from him who
thinks himself more righteous than his
eighbors-who imagines that his way to
Heaven is the only true way, and that those
who won't believe in him disbelieyes in
Year: 1871

OLD AGE AND COOP HEAITH. Every
person Of remarkable longevity whose hab-
its | have studied, retired to rest at an early
hour. He may have transgressed other
laws of health-for example. he may have
used spirits and tobacco moderately but |
have heard of no lo0g liver who habitually
sat up till a late hour, and | may add that
among them all have never read of large
eater.


Eat right and sleep right, and you have
the two fundamental conditions of health
and long life. Establish these two sources
of life as fixed habits, and if you get drunk
once month and smoke five cigars day,
You may, Notwithstanding, live a long life in
the enjoyment of good health But sit up
in furnace-heated room till II O. clock, and
eat the quantity and quality of food con
sumed by people who believe in a short life
and merry one, and you may rest assured
that the yearly trip 10 the mountains. a
month guzzle Of Saratoga waters, and the
attentions of fashionable doctor-all put
together-will fail to save you from early
wrinkles, early loss CT sight, premature gray
hair and short lie.


Then do you ask NE how you can reach
eighty five in the enjoyment of all your
faculties?


l reply go to bed at o'clock, and eat
twice a day moderate quantity of plain
fOol,-Dto Lelcis.
Year: 1871

A visitor at a certain city church says he
was tucked into back pew under the gal
lery aud no one thought TO hand HIM hymn
book But they did not overlook him when
the collection was taken.
Year: 1871

The reader must also be made aware; that how
ever slight may be the attack, it is sure to afcc-
the bodily health and mental powers, as our flesh
and blood supported from these sources.
Year: 1871

\ STRUGGLE FOR TIE MASTERY.


The school closed on Monday eve
ming as usual. The boys had been
talking in knots ali day. Nothing but
the bulldog in the slender, resOlute
young master had kept down the ri
sing storm. Let 4 teacher lose moral
support at home, and he can not long
govern a school. Ralph had effectual-
IL lost his popularity in the district,
and the worst of il was that he could
not divine from just what quarter the
i'll wind came, except that he felt sure
of Small's agency i'll it somewhere.
Even Hannah had slighted him when
he called at Means on Monday morn
ing to draw the pittance of pay that
WAS due him.


He had expected petition for a
holiday on Christmas day. Such holi-
days are deducted from the teachers
time, ami il is customary for the boys
to "turn out" the teacher refuses to
grant them, by barring him out of the
school-house on Christmas and New
Years morning. Ralph had intend
ed to grant n holiday if it should be
asked, but it was not asked. Hank
Banta was the ringleader in the disaf-
fectiOn, and he had managed 10 draw
the surly Bud, who was present this
morning. into il. 1t is but fair TO gay
that Bud was in favor of making Il
request before lCsOrtiDg 10 extreme
Year: 1871

In sending out the Twcnty-Third
Annual Prospectus of the RURAL
NEW Yorker. we invite special at
tcntion TO the Change of Style and
Reduction of Price for 1872. During
the past year land indeed in previous
years We have been frequently met
with the objection that the RURAL
was too large for convenience OF hand
ling or binding, and TOO expensive for
popular circulation. To obviate both
these objections, and at the same time
present the Rural and Industrial
World paper which shall combine All
the clements of EXCELLENCE and
CHEAPNESS, we have determined TO
condensc the RURAL NEW-N oRKtRr
in matter and manner, so as 20 give the
Cream Of cool RcdIjRJ in Il shape
which will be convenient for handling
and preservation, and at a price which
will bring il within the reach of the
million, making it, withal, more ac-
ceptable to people Of exclusive tastes,
who desire their reading to come in
compact form and well considered
style.


THE RURAL. NEw-NORKER for 1872
will comprise Sixteen Quarto Pages
larger than Harper's Weekly and 9TH
er papers which are published at - TO
S4a wear, and yet its subscription
prica will be but s.. 30 to single subScri-
bcrs. and only - in cluhso ten. How
we can afford 10 furnish such an ably
edited and finely illustrated paper at
these low figures, may be mystery
to some. hut with the One Hundred
Thousand Subscribers which we count
upon for the new year, we know it
can he done, aud give every subscriber
full value for the money paid Ana
now, in the full confidence OF tins
faith in our readers and ourselves, We
fling our banner to the breeze for the
RURAL's Fall and Winter Campaign.
Year: 1871

The FALL OF PARIs.-The Nev
York Sun says: "With anv other
race than the French, it would be safe
to say that the war is now virtually
over, and that peace will be accepted
with all the humiliations it acknowl-
edges and confirms. But the wonder
ful vitality in that people, and it even
yet breaks forth in some unexpected
way to a0tonish and confound the
world. 1t is possible that the war
may still be continued by the mass of
the French with the same tenacity and
bitterness cs Yendeans displayed in
fighting agairst the Convention eighty
yeats ago. But this is not to be count.
cd on with any great confidence. 1t
is rather more probable that tie whole
nation will initiate the example Of
Paris, and make peace on such terms
as the couqucrors. may exact. But if
France now succumbs altogether,
and settles down submissively into her
present place as broken power, it will
be only another proof Of the utter ex-
haustion and debility into which she
has been sunk By the rule of the bas-
tard advcnturer who governed her from
the beginning of 1919 until the sur
render Of Sedan"
Year: 1871

EXPERIMENT WITH A MITTRAILLE-
uRE AND A JAcKAss.-An English pa
per says: 1t is in contemplation to mount
mitrailleu-es on tho backs Of camels,
and work them in that novel position.
1t is almost needless to say that the ex.
pertinent has been tried in England; for
what exerimcnts have We not tried ! But
camels in England are not readily OBJ
tainable, and the Ordinance Committee
therefore selected one of those jaded
old asses which form SO common fea-
lure in the landscape at Firth and
Woolwich The animal quietly permit.
ted Itself to DO used in the service of
science till the critical moment. The
weapon on its back had been loaded
and pointed at the butts, when it sud-
denly occurred to ouc of the committee
that the pulling Of the lanyard might
disturb the aim It was, therefore,
suggested that the discharge should be
effected with Il lighted fuse. But the
unpleasant fizz Of tie latter appliance
was too much even for the patience Of a
donkey. The creature no sooner heard
the unusual sound than he sent out his
heels, and turning completely round,
pointod the mittrailleuse among the
members of the committee The panic
which followed can be better imagined
than described, but fortunately every,
body got out Of harms way, and when
tho discharge took place the wrctchel
ass turned complete somersault. AT,
ter such contreiemps we shall sareIy
hear no more about battalion cf camel
mitraillcurs.
Year: 1871

will, do a vast amount of good; and this
not by example only but by personal
efforts among those who need to be
helped into better ways, and encour.
aged to walk therein. Let such men
not be content simply to enjoy the gcod
they have, but do all in their power to
help others to gain like estimable bene-
fts
Year: 1871

The Washington Territory swindle,
the Faymaster Hodge swindle, the Nor
ton swindle in the New York city post.
office, reaching into tens of thousands
and millions, do not seem to create a
ripple on .he surface of American soci-
ETY.. Under the Radical Administration
public robbery has grown so frequent
that the people have become so used TO
it as hardly to be excited any more over
such perform ances. 1t is only when
the rare thing of Democrat, so fal
forgetting his principles and party obi
cations as to swihdle the public, turns
up that any excitement can be counted
on over a public robbery. According
to the hard cider song of 1910,


"Things amt now


AS they used to was"
Year: 1871

A writer in Virginia paper tells a
pleasantly characteristic story of John
Randolph. Mr.. Randolph was engaged
to Miss very beautiful young
Virginian, who lived near the Randolph
place. One day the lover was seen to
quit the ladY's residence in what might
be described as estate Of mind" II
turned out that the father of the lady
had proposed that Mr.. Randolph should
settle sum of money upon the bride,
whereupon the spirited lover remarked
SIT is not my purpose to purchase
When desire to purchase. l shall go to
the cheapest MARKET shall go to AT
RIGA" With this he left the house, went
to where his horse was tied, cut the reiEs,
and Immediately disappeared
Year: 1871

A correspondent writing from the
rich cotton county of Madison, in Mis-
sissippi, gives the following picture OF
the prospect for cotton crop in that
county. The writer says:


"The army worm is upon us in myr'
lads One of our best farmers ten days
ago was confident of mdking $50 bales
of cotton Yesterday was told that
he says he would be pleased if he knew
he would make thirty bales. / saw
swarms of the worms on q few twigs he
had gathered at random from his fields
and brought to town with him in tin
pan. The cotton crop is so uncertain
in this county as to defy any accuracy
of estimate"
Year: 1871

There is now 4 large, pear shaped
spot on that side of the sun Which is
turned toward US. 1t is about 10000
miles in diameter, which is equal to
three-quarters of minute of arc; equal
to the angle subtended by 13a inches at
the distance of one mile from the eye,
1t is very good test of the vision,
through smoked glass, requiring an e5s-
sight of little more than the. average
penetration to see without u magniGcr.
The spot is a little to the left and about
the same distance below the apparent
centre Of The solar disc.
Year: 1871

The curious fact that a needle or 9th
er steel wire inserted in a living body
will Immediately become oxidized, while,
if the body be dead no oxidation will
take place, was recently brought to light
by DR.. Laborde, of Paris. This is q
simple test as to whether death has ta-
kea place, and will be available in cases
Of trance OF cataIcpsy.
Year: 1871

What is better, getting the girl Of your
choice or shoulder of mutton? A
shoulder of mutton; as nothing earthly
can be better than getting her you love,
and shoulder of mutton is much bet.
ter than nothing.


Why would young ladies make good
soldiers? Because they are accustomed
to bear arms.


What is the difference between love
and war? One breaks heads, the other
hearts.


What is the difference between SOL
dier and an omelet? The difference is,
that one is equipped to go forth, the 9th
er is egg whipped to froth.


What's the difference between pota-
to and soldier? One shoots from the
eye, the other from the shoulder.


What is the difference between a bee
hive and diseased potato /? None at all,
as the one is a beholder, the other a
speck'd tatur.


What's the difference between a piece
of honey-comb and a black eyep One
is produced by laborirg bee, the other
by d be=laboring.
Year: 1871

Why is a minister near the end of his
sermon like ragged urchin? Because
he's toward (tor'd) his close Clothes }


Why are three couples going to gel
married like penny trumpets Because
they 60 two two, two.


What is that which fastens two people
together, yet touches only one? The
wedding ring.


How do you define ring2 AS hole
with rim around it.


Why is the letter D like a hoop Of
gold? Because we can't be wed without
Year: 1871

LoWAkD "iLpERs FAMOUS STOMACH BIrrERs certainly
cure Dyspepsia Liver Complaint Indigestion in all its forms
intermittent Fever Fever and Ague and all periodical se,s
es 1t relieves Collie and Fux Cures cosveness proves an
nvisorant Of mild and delightful character for delicate f
males acts as an Alternative and family purposes:
he wasted and debtaed frame strengthens the
Sppete and Improves the digestive Is unlike all
other bters its basis being Old Bourbon or copperd
titled whisky while the body of all preparations is COM
mon raw Whisky Alcohol which is in the highest deore
deeterous TO the SYSTEM This fact OF itself strongly
TO the confidence of the public and its useful
ness mas been atteed by the unsolicited
men IN the medical profession and the holy ministry
Year: 1871

CONE ARoUND.-That's what Griffith j. Son
say to their numerous customers in consequence
Of selling out their large summer stock Of boots
and shoes, in order to make room for their fall
goods. They are Offering bargains to the public
at present, and being determined 70 clear their
shelves for big fall stock, do not hesitate to
mark their goods down to even lees than cost
prices.
Year: 1871

What terrible creatures are little
children! They are always investigating
affairs by the light of their own innocence
and bringing older people to confusion
thereby.


The other day little girl, not past the
years of babyhood, was taken out to ride
in city car by her affectiOnatc aunt.
There had been considerable illness in the
family and she had seen one lady fre-
quently supported on some ones shoulder,
| while her head was being batlcd with canl-
phor, or in order that she should change her
position for awhile. Also there had been
some fear OF the invalid's death, and baby
had listened to,much that had set her to
thinking deeply. Now that she was
pcrched upon the car cushions, she looked
about her at the passengers, and soon
settled her attention upon young man
and young girl who, probably not being
we'll vcrsed in the customs of polite socie-
ty, were revealing the fact that they "kcpt
steady company" In true Central Park
style. Anyone may sec what that is
by taking a walk in those paths by MOON
light and looking ut the benches, on every
one Of which seem to sit a young girl
with her head upon young mans
shoulder and his arm about her waist.


Eaby looked wisely for awhile, then
shook her head, and plucked her aunt by
hc sleeve.


"Aunty," she said, in shlill, childish
treble, ooh, aunty, do you think that lady
is going to die ?-the one the gentleman is
holding upon his shoulder"


Aunty sat overcome. The majority Of
the passengers Uttered au.iibly, while the
more polite looked out of the window,
and plainly saw something on the side
walk which amused them. And the
young lady's head was set straight upon
her shoulders in a moment, while her
sweetheart indicated to the conductor his
wish to alight at the next crossing, an
operation which Baby witnessed with the
remark that "that lady seemed to be
better, and could walk all by herself now" "
Cincinnati Times.
Year: 1871

What to Do-Butter, when taken from
the churn, should be separated from the
huttermilk by washing with clean cold
water, or otherwise; should then be salted
and set in cool place for full twenty four
hours. Should then be worked until all
buttermilk, water and streaks disappear,
and no more, as too much working injures
the butter.


1t is then fit for market. May he pack
ed in tubs in the summer, or made into
neat rolls in winter It should be cxc}uu
ell from the air as much as practicable,
and kept but a few days in rolls.
Use all the salt you can without making
the butter gritty; or, in other words, ali
it will dissolve. Remember that neatness
in appearance adds to the market value of
butt. r, more than to almost any other ar
ticle.


Prepare tubs or frkins by soaking forty
eight hours with salt and water.


In packing, cover each layer Of butter
with thin cloth and sprinkle with salt, so
as to lift at each fitting. Fill the tubs as
full rs you can without touching the cover
In packing do not put in one poor churn-
ing; keep that for home use, or sell it for
what you can get.


The only proper way to color butter in
| 'i'S " inlCA IL ~ ltCti SoOu DflShI nay,
pumpkins, squashes, c'rrots, etc.
When carrying butter to market in
warm weather, cover with new mown
grass


Whit Not to DO DO not milk in a wa
ter pail that makes the milk taste.
Do not set milk in wooden dishes.
DO not keep cream in u wooden churn,
or any wooden dish
/ DO not allow buttcrmilk to remain long
in the Churn.


DO not allow milk, cream or butter to
stand in cellar or other room where there
are potatoes, cabbage, onions, or other
decaying vegetables, soap grease, or any
unpleasant smell, as they readily absorb
flavor and become offensive


Do not allow milk or cream to stand
until tho whey bcgius to separate, as it
gives the butter Il sllcll and taste similar
to that Of cheese.


Do not take butter to market in sum-
mer the day it is churned. Work it again
and take it with the next lot


DO not put butter of different colors to-
gether. II in rolls, separate with a wet
cloth.


Never add coloring matter to butter. It
is better to be white than colorcd artiti-
cially


Follow these directions, and your butter
will be better, will always be marketable,
and will bring much better priccs.-D. .,
| C0ntSt0cE.