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Year: 1875

Benjamin Franklin attributes his
success as public man, not to his tai
-nts or his power Of speaking-for
these were mo ierate- but to his known
integrity Of character, Hence it
was, he says, " that | had 80 muoh
weight with my fellow citizens. |
was but a bad speaker, never eloquent,
subject to much hesitation in my choice
of words, hardly correct in language,
and yet generally carried my point. "
Character creates confidence in men
in high station as well as in humble
life. 1t was said Of the FIRST Emperor
of Russia, that his personal character
was equivalent to constitution
During the wars of the Fronde, Mon
taigne was the only man among the
French gentry who kept his castle
gates unbarred, and it was said of Rim
that his personal character was worth
more to him than regiment Of horse
men. That character is power, is true
in a much higher sense than that
knowledge is power. Mind without
heart. Intelligence without conduct,
cleverness without goodness, are pow
ers in their way, but they may be
powers only for mischief. We may
be instructed or amused by them, but
it is sometimes as difficult to admire
them as it would be TO admire the
dexterity of a pickpocket or the horse
manship OF highwayman. Truth
fulness, integrity and goodness-qual-
tiles that hang not on every man s
breath-form the essence Of manly
character or, as a very old writer
has it, that inbred loyalty unto vir-
tue which can serve her without a
livery" When Stephen, of Colonna,
fell into the hands Of his base assail-
ants, and they asked him, in derision,
"Where is now your fortress p his re-
ply was Here, placing his hand upon
his heart. 1t is in misfortune that the
character Of the upright man shines
forth with the greatest luster; and,
when all else fails, he takes stand
upon his integrity and upon his cour-
age.
Year: 1875

1t is fact, as I've been told,


That people in the days of old,
Got rich in silver and in gold,
No matter what they bought and sold,
1y minding their own businesa.
They did not try to wound ones fame,
Or SANDER anybodys name;
They cEod not when you went or came,
Trey pleased themselves, you did the same


afit was your own business.
And it a man did what was right
In his own mind, and in the sight
OF God and law, by day and night,
He went ahead and fought the fight,
Determined on bis business.
Bat in &egen'rste modern days
There's quite a change in peoples ways,
And wbat a person does or says
Must be held alr unte the gaze
Df every busyboey,


Add if you do not tell them, too,
Where you are going, and what you do,
They got into such an awful stew,
They'll epcn watch and follow you--
These rery l~sybodies.
And then they surely think they know
just when you come and when you go,
And they will whisper so and se,
To every friend and every foe


These very busybedies.
But if We take the pairs TO sec
Wine these senc busybodcs be,
We find there's not he or she
Who has decent history


Among these busybodics.
But let us no more notice take
Ofevil tongues but for their sake,
Wen hope and pray they soon may wake
From wickcdncss, and money make


By minding their own business.
Year: 1875

REMEMBER THIS. - One thousand
shingles laid four inches to the wealth
er will cover one hundred square feet
of surface, and five pounds Of shingle
nails will fasten them on. One-tifth
more siding or flooring is needed than
the number Of square feet of surface
to be covered, because of the lap in
the siding and the matching of the
floor. 1000 lathes will cover 70
yards of surface, and IL pounds Of
nails will nail them on. Eight bushels
good lime, sixteen bushels of sand,
and one bushel Of hair will make
enough good morter to plaster 100
square yards. A cord of stone, three
bushels of lime, and cubic yard Of
sand will lay 100 cubic feet of wall
Five courses of brick will lay one foot
in height on chimney, six bricks in
a course will make fue four inches
wide and twelve inches long, and
eight in a course will make hue
eight inches wide and sixteen long.
Year: 1875

Observation-Disclosures IS very hard
to bear. Yet we must all learn to eX-
pect it, and to suffer it as calmly as
we can. TO have our best .eeds
turned and twisted into evi! ones to
have our acts and words utterly mis-
represented to have those turn cold
to us for whom we have always felt the
warmest friendship, is only the fate Of
humanity, Not all tAc truth and
tendencies that heaven gives can save
us from injustice. Nay, since enemies
are often made by acts Of kindness,
and people generally dislike those who
do them favors, one will find that
where most Injustice was to be ex-
pected there is the greatest lack Of it,


People who want to think i'll of others
can always do SO. They can willfully
blind themselve. to good points and
exaggerate the bad ones. There may
be two meanings to many things that
are said, and the sneer that was sar-
casm will turn a friendly speech into
yenomous enc. "Ue did this for os-
tentation," or Just to make people
talk of him She wants people tc
believe her an angel, and SO goes
about pretending to smile All these
reproaches are to be expected by the
most unaffected and simple hearted
Year: 1875

At meeting Of milk producers in
Massachusetts, some time ago, Mr..
Whethercell stated that COWS upon an
average need forty-fve pounds of hay
per day or its equivalent while giving
milk. The large COWS produce moro
milk for the amount Of feed given
than small ones. That scrub COWS
will give annually l,4O0 quarts of
milk, while the Holstein and some
other breeds produce 1000. All
COWS should be kept clean, as we'll as
their surroundings. In producing
winter milk, COWS without grain will
do nothing.


Never paper wall over old paper
and paste. Always scrape down
thoroughly. Old paper can be got off
by dampening with salaratus and wa
ter. Then 60 over all the cracks of
the wall with plaster of Paris, and
finally put on wash Of weak solu-
ton of carbolic acid. The best paste
is made out of rye flour, with two
ounces of glue dissolved in each quart
Of paste; half an ounce Of powdered
borax improves the mixture.


Two ounces Of coalmon tobacco
boiled in gallon of water is used by
the Chatham street dealers for reno
waiting old clothes. The stuff is rubbed
on with a stiff brush. The goods are
nicely cleaned and strange to add, no
tobacco smell remains.


TO remove starch or rust from fiat
irons, have piece Of yellow beeswax
tied in a course cloth. When the iron
is almost hot enough to use, but not
quite, rub it quickly with the bees
wax, and then with a clean course
cloth.


An oaken color can be given to new
pine floors and tables by washing them
in solution of copperas dissolved in
strong lye, a pound of the former to
gallon of the latter. When dry, this
should be oiled, and it will look we'll
for year or two; then renew the OIL
ing.


Experiments recently made in Eng
land indicate that wagons are most
easily drawn on all kinds of roads,
when the fore and hind wheels are Of
the same size, and when the pole lies
lower than tie axle.


MELT together tallow and common
rosin in proportion Of two parts of the
former and one Of the latter, and ap-
ply the preparation hot to the soles of
the boots or shocs-as much Of it az
the leather will absorb. One farmer
declares that this little recipe alone
has been worth more than the cost Of
six years subscription to the news
paper publishingit.
Year: 1875

THE pretty playfulness with which
little children charm away the
cares Of their parents was illustrated
by touching occurrence in Indiana.
A boy Of six years, after watching the
laundry proceedings, and especially
the way in which the wrinkles disap-
pearel from the linen before the flat
iron, retired to mediate in the room
where his father was taking his after
dinner nap. There, gazing upon the
burrows which years Of struggle had
made upon the marble brow Of his
parent, he was siozed by . beautiful
idea. In less than a minute that de-
voted little boy was smoothing out
those marks Of time and sorrow with
very hot flat iron. Life doesn seem
so happy to his young heart as it used
to 4 short tme ago.
Year: 1875

You NAY go on inventing washing
machines for the next fifty years, but
to the average eye you can't patent
anything equal to the sight of a lady S
diamond rings flashing in and out ol
the sparkling snds as she thumps a
wet towel up and down the washboard
Year: 1875

WHEN a common japanese goes
into the presence Of an oAice-holdel
he must say: "Great and distin.
guished child of the sun, deign to put
your foot upon my neck. There
some pleasure in holding an office in
that country.
Year: 1875

\ WESTERN editor did not wish tc
hurt the feelings of a gentle poet, but
apologi2cd for uhe non-appearance ol
a long and tender poem by saying
"Beautiful Spring was crowded out
of our Sunday edition TO make room
for the great snow storm.
Year: 1875

NEVADA brides won't stand much
foolishness at wedding, Recently
one of them while going up the aisle of
the church stopped short and kicked
all the skin off the shins Of a grocms-
man wao trod on her trail
Year: 1875

An OMAHA woman lifted q barrel
of flour from the ground INTO a wagon
on Thursday, gave birth to twins on
the following day, and on the Monday
following split pine wood enough to
last week.
Year: 1875

THIS is the season Of the year when
the farmer tells his son John, that if
he will sort over ten bushels Of pota-
toes, feed the stock, repair the fence
and reshingle the corn-crb he may
have the rest of the day to go rabbit
hunting.
Year: 1875

Don't tell us any more about the
good women of old. An observer
who wrote hundreds Of years ago said
woman is necessary evil, natural
temptation, a desirable calamity, a
domestic peril, a deadly fascination
and painted i'll.
Year: 1875

AN UNJUST LAW AND ITS DEPLoRABLE RE-


sULTs-INNocENT WITNESSES IMPRISONED,


WHILE CRIMINALS ARE OUT ON BAIL


About twelve months ago the public were informed
that the Police Commissioners about to inyesti
gate for purposes OF improvement an institution known
the Houso OF Detention for Witnesses whose ex-
stence in the form in which ii is present used is
disgrace law and justice and TO civilization as woll
Although tho House Of Detention plan of securing the
attendance of witnesses in criminal improve
ment upon tho formor method OF committing them to
the prison where criminals confined, Il is neverhe-
less open TO objection and s the occasion Of great and
needless hardship in many cases.


II not unfrequently that worthy persons who
are residents of the city and unable to furnish
bail have tho misfortune TO possess knowledge OF
the commission OF criminal offence for which some
one has been arrested and punished by incarcera
ton in the House OF Detention extending sometimes TO
months while the criminal walks the streets freely on
bail After long delay the accused party not unfre-
quently acquitted discharged without bail or forfcits
his recognzance and this proceeding results punish
ing severely tho innocent witness while tho Grim
escapes This wrong ought to exist II there s
any remedy consistent w;h vigorous enforcement Of
the criminal laws


Tho Legislature having the constitutional authority
TO remedy this mischief by amendment Of the code
Of practice in criminal cases Mr. Seth Hawley, the
Chief Clerk Of tho Metropolitan Police in 1867 drafted
bin that any witness committed to tho House OF
Detention shall be entitled to have his testimony taken
by the District Attorney proper notice to the prs
oner or the counsel OF the prisoner alording op
porunity for cross-examnation, and be thoreupon
discharged on his own recognzancc, II unable TO pro-
bail for hts appearance at the trial. the testimony
taken TO be used at the trial IL the personal attcn
dance of the witness cannot be enforced the process
Of the Court This bill was presented to the Legsla-
ture passed both houses and before Governor Hon.
for his signature Judge Bosworth then President
of the Board Of Metropolitan Police wrote urgent let
ter, and other prominent citizens urged its adoption,
but notwithstanding every pressure brought TO bear
the subject, tho Governor gave IL his Veto


In 1869 the attention OF the Legislature was again
called TO the LEGAL situation Of unfortunate who
Year: 1875

meeting OF the creditors Will be called to elect
assignee who will succeed TO the possession of the
estate, now held by ex-Judge william d. Shipman
under an assignment under the State law, should that
assignment be set aside any OF the suits pend
ing ur that purpose, thus in any preventing the
creditors instigatng those suits from having their
claims satisfied IN full from the estate al the expense
and loss OF the other creditors II is said that most OF
the leading creditors desire Duncan Sherman Co. to
make composition under tho seventeenth section of
the amendment 10 the Bankrupt act of June o. 1874
Year: 1875

Of some ancient abode but observed well marked
walls or foundations. Our camp was made about
five miles east OF Ute Mountain and the same
distance north Of Aztec Springs, Water was
pointed out to us by Indian camping
in the vicinity, in pockets along side gulch OF
one of the canyons The water was warm strongly
alkaline and exceedingly disagreeable but it was all
that was DO had To cap the climax the small tanks
exhausted by the first three four mules and for
a while things looked unpromising indeed. But finally
an old Indian volunteered to take us a spot near
their camp whore stock could be watered on the
payment Of certain articles The mules drank until
they boated like frogs, but the water seemed TO
produce thirst instead of quenching it,


AZTEC SPRINGS.


The next afternoon three Of us rode over to Aztec
Springs to examine the ruins which exist there We
found these be very extensive covering an area ap
proxImately, of GOO by 500 feet We could trace the
foundations OF hundreds Of buildings in the debris and
ridges Of crumbng rock but in all this number the
walls Of but structures remained in any state Of
preservation We found the rock out OF which they
were built to be mostly calcareous sand
stone which had been taken from the
blun few miles the valley and 1000 feet high
which was literally full OF fossils baccultos, many spe-
cios of shells, bivayes univaves &c. beautifully and
perfectly weathered out many Of the former measuring
eight inches in diameter. We found only the north
walls Of the two buildings standing that of the nrst or
western measuring eleven feet its greatest height
and the other eight and half The stones had been cut
into rectangular blocks averaging foot length four
TO six inches in thickness and half foot
in breadth, evenly Clipped on the faces and
cementcd together by a light yellow clay
The edges OF the and the mortar had been worn
of for many centures-how many, who can ton2 The
plan Of the western enclosure was paraLclogram con-
tanning twenty rooms nearly we could deter
mine from the faint vestgcs OF walls which remained
Along the north and south sides were eight small rooms
each eight by fourteen feet with the exception Of the
rooms which eight feet square AT the east
and wes ends we're Two rooms eight by thirty Eve
Year: 1875

A MAN SLAsHED BY AN ALLEGED PARAMoUR.


AT early hour yesterday morning the vicinity Of
Cedar street and Hackensack Plank Road was the scene
of afrighting combat between Jacob Bosse and
Caharine Giger They emerged from liquor shop at the
corner OF Cedar street shortly before three O'Clock and
startled the neighborhood with voeys of oaths and
curses. quarrel between them and they had
not gone far when the woman drew forth a knife
and plunged 1t into his right shoulder


nhicting wound nearly two inches in
depth. He Immediately screamed out, 'My God I'm
stabbed" These words were heard by Justice Gerlich
who jumped from bis bed and hurried into the street
On his approach the woman threw the weapon into a
pool of water and ran away. Chase was given by the
Justice and Constable Kohl, who caught her and had
her as well as the wounded man, locked UP all night
Medical aid was rendered 70 Bosse and his injuries we're
pronounced not TO be fatal They sentenced for
term Of thirty days each and after that period Mrs
Giger will be held 10 bail TO await the action Of the
Grand Jury The woman IS said TO be rival Of Mrs
AVssa Hha Is in A lunatie aSlIum Al pTeGenL
Year: 1875

OF the river bottoms is replaced by sand and ser
ity the heat Of the plains Is intense and nothing
survive but tho so-called horned toad,
which seems 10 subsist the heated air We
entering the land OF the yucca cactus sage brush
and rattlesnake. At every short distance We pass
around cross through a deep aroya or dry bed of
what once turbulent stream, made long ago by
violent foods which have now ceased To rage Many
Of these thirty feet deep and their vertical sides are
much apart and they wind and twist and creep under
natural rock arches through the surface Of the land for
miles and miles


ANCIENT sEMT-cIvILIzATIoN.


The FIRST evidences of ancient semi iciyilization
which noticed few fragments Of pottery,
weather stained and decayng which lay along the sides
OF the traiT increasing however, in abundance We
advanced In certain places however, there seemed TO
be greater abundance OF it. and upon examination It
discovered that fakes and chips Of flint, quartz,
agate and jasper were numerous among which debris
found some arrowheads In various stages OF per-
fecton. These were undoubtedly the arrow works of
the ancient Ute Indians, tribe who vanquished the
orginators OF these ruins and about whom more will
be said hereafter. Scattered along the plains
sionaly we found more stone heads and presently
passed what had evidently been many centuries ago
burial ground Single graves were marked by Of
fiat sandstone slabs up ON edge and crumbng be-
meath the covering of dry chens The jagged tops
up from two 10 six inches above the surface and
the enclosure about six feet square Further
large collection OF tombs numbered by scores and
perfectly defined, many lying side by side with row OF
adjoining stones at their heads another at their feet
In spot aroya had section through one of
these graves and exposed the interior It was much
worn and wasted by the elements, but we could dis
tncty trace the general shape of the tomb,
and at the bottom some six feet from the
surface discovered heaps OF pottery decomposed by
posure For twenty Eve miles pushed on through a
broing sun without finding drop of water Occasion
ally we passed small mounds Of earth, covered with
slabs of rock and fagmentary pottery marking the site
Year: 1875

In Ohio, where the Democrats hope to
win, they have declared for imitation; in
Maine, where they have not u ghost OF n
chance, thCy subscribe to a hard.money
platform. The Republicans in both States,
and in the West generally, whether they
expect to win or lose, consistently demand
return to honest money and the payment
Of the public debt in coin,
Year: 1875

Thus we find gain OF over nine dollars
in making butter, besides having the
skinned milk and buttermik for home
consumption. have given the price
that we received for our butter in No.
vember. We consider the milk worth at
least two cents a quart to feed pigs,
although future experiments may require
smaller estimate OF liz value for this
purpose.-NcB England Farmer.
Year: 1875

SIR-In last weeks issue of The
TINES yon saw fit, over the sigma
ture of Mr.. Sodrrlund, to produce
an article the ear-marks and charac-
ter of which did not require the adj
dit!onal proof of authorship since
obtained to taSten it upon yourself.
You have since then attempted to
palliate the assault upon myself in
that article by claiming that it was
justihable, on the ground that nv
holding the County Clerks office
and contesting the legality of last
Falls election, was a direct attack
upon your tenure of the office OF
County Treasurer, and would cur
tail yourl lease one bali. This seems
to me hardly sufficient to induce an
ordinary mind to pursue the course
you have, and has lead me to look
into and ind some of the "causes
and fects" of your actions, lately,
which may appear strange to some
of your friends.


Instead of the s'cheeky usurper"
having discovered" just before





election the irregular and illegal
method by which the credit of this
county was year by year sinking
lower aud lower, he had for years
seen and opposed it; and for his
pains was supposed to have been
buried at the election last Fall
Consequently, you are well aware
of the chagrin which met his re-
fusal to turn over the Office on the
first of January last And now, that
Year: 1875

Taking the advices from all
portions of the country together
and carefully scanning them, one
cannot but believe that the wheat
prospects for the coming year are
good. The spring is opening up
pretty warm considering the ex-
IRENE lateness of the colp weather.
-1ntlacduk;ee Commercial Times.
Year: 1875

leaving unaccounted for l,767.l9,
and when this was brought to their
notice, why had they no inquiry to
make, and why were the orders not
handed over to the Board by you ?
Had they made the inquiry, might
1t not have given rise to an unpleas-
antness and lost to them your un-
founded cry of Know Nothingism
which did SO much to elect them?


Are you not aware that for the
tlrst time in the history of tax col
lecting in this county, town and
county orders declined in price
from sixty to fifty cents while the
books We're in the Town Treasurer $
hands? And this while taxes came
in beyond the expectation of every
one. And can you tell me whether
it could have had anything to do
with the decline in the price of or
ders, had you been allowed to
take tax receipts out of the Town
Treasurer's Office and leave your
due bill or memorandum ID pay
ment?-which said due bill Or
memorandum on settlement with
you as County Treasurer was turned
over by the Town Treasurer aud re-
ceipted Tor by you as so much cash
and orders. Whether, if such was
the case, your office as County
Treasurer did not give you de-
cided advantage over ali others,
who paid in their orders when they
got their tax receipts !? And
whether, by hypothesis, the Sta.e
tax might not have been paid two
months before it was, and orders
gone up instead Of down by the ab-
Soi pIlOn VI llC dlliouI1O udLlSu III
the due bill, if any given?


[ would be pleased to receive sat
isfactory answers to these ques-
tlons, that may be induced to give
you few more equally as pertinent
to answer; and in the meantime
think 1t We y appropriate that yoal
should write cards" about "cheeky
usurpers" and "beggars'', and the
game of 'bIuff and deception" to
keep "sharp business men, good
men at figures" off the County
Board. 1t is very evident you
want no such men on the Board or
in the County Clerks office.


RICHARD RELF.
Year: 1875

A few weeks ago young man who
boarded in a Market street boarding
house left the city temporarily, on
business matters. During his absence
the house changed occupants, it being
rented by gentleman and his family
who kept 70 boarders, Unaware of this
change the young man reached this
city several nights ago, on one of the
midnight trains, and going to his ac-
customed boarding house, let himself
in with his night-key and proceeded to
his old room, expecting to find his
wife there, To his amazement, the
room was empty and unoccupied, and
while he was blundering along the
hallway, under the impression that he
had stumbled into the wrong room, he
was startled at hearing strange voice
bluntly inquire, who's there" He
innocently responded "me," and this
vague reply led to q succession of ques.
tions and answers which soon put
him in possession of the state of affairs
and saved him frsm being shot as a
burglar. He then left the house
and sought his boarding house at its
new location.
Year: 1875

A FOUNTAIN IN THE PAVEMENT
The water pipe leading into No. 831


Market street burst some time
last night Immediately under the pave
ment, and the water forced its way up
through h the bricks, making miniature
fountain on the sidewalk. The dam
age was promptly repaired this morn
Year: 1875

THE SMALL Pox.-In order to allay
all anxiety respecting the prevalence
OF small pox in this city, Mr.. Eckel,
the President of the Board of Health
requests us to state that as far as is
known at the present time the city is
entirely free of the disease, and every
possible precaution will be promptly
taken to keep it so.