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Year: 1876

PoTATo BREAD.-To make potato
bread, either sweet or white, take one
fourth of the amount of -four used, and
replace it with that much boiled potatoes
mashed very fine. If white potatoes are
used put piece of clean lime the size
of a hickory nut in the water. IF sweets
are used put piece of charcoal in the
water.
Year: 1876

SWEET PoTATo BISCUIT. Crate sweet
boiled potatoes and mix with an equal
quantity of -four and four ounces of but
ter, add salt and water cut out and
bake in g hot oven slice and butter for
Year: 1876



 ADVERTISING. We frequent ly meet with men who say they can get along just as well without advertising as with it. These men will always be found slow, unsuccessful and tout of luck. :" Whenever they have anything to sell or to buy, they will have to take less for what they sell and pay more for what they buy than anybody else.

 We find in all exchange the following illustration on this point:

 Here is warning for men too mean to advertlse: One of this description wanted to sell some land, and so he put written mo- tice in one of the hotels the other day. A man who was inquiring a for small farm was referred to the written notice, when he replied "I can't buy land at fair price of any man who does his adver- tising in this way. He'd steal the fence, the pump-handle, and the barn doors, before he'd give up possession
Year: 1876

That excellent paper for the far mer, (and, by the way, every far mer in the State should take and read it regularly the Arkansas State Grange, proposes . State Con- ycntion composed of farmers of the different counties in the State to be held sometime this winter at Little Rock.

 We think the suggestion q timely and valuable one. Every other class of people seem to work to q 1 better advantage and to understand the benefit of co-opeiat ation and inter- exchange of views better than the farmer. Why should those who are engaged in the noblest and most important industry of all-the clllti- vation of the soil--be behind all others in the advancement of their following? If it is beneficial to all others to meet and confer togeth- 1 CT TOT the auNancemenI Ol Inelf va rious trades, professions and occu- pations, why would it not be equally, or more so, to farmers. There is certainly as. much room for the im- provement of our system of agricul- ture, as there is in any other depart ment of our trade or industry.

 An annual convention of farmers would, in our opinion be good thing for the country, and we pre- dict that it would bear fruits which would soon be made manifest in q great improvement in the system of agriculture now ill vogue.

 We commend the suggestion of the l Grange to the serious consideration of the farmers of Pope county.
Year: 1876

All persons indebted to J. NJ. Har- key X Bro., are requested to make satisfactory settlement within Sixty days or they will find It necessary to settle with an officer. This is no sensational advertisement, but we tell you, we mean business.
Year: 1876

SAVE MoNEY.-For the benefit of our friends, and in order to en- courage everybody to read and keep posted we have arranged so as to furnish the DEMOCRAT in connection with the following papers at the price set opposite each name:
Year: 1876

AND now the resignation of three Gov
ernors of as many States will be in order.
To continue to hold their delicate positions
until after the November elections, which
are to determine their elevation to the
highest offices in the land, would be most
unbecoming. As executive officers Of
their States they may be called upon to
certify to the choice Of the electors of
their respective States. No honest high
minded, patriotic citizen who Is fit for the
position of Chief Executive of the Republic
would desire to remain in post the duties
of which might by any possibility subject
him to the suspicion of having tampered
with the purity of the voices of the people
as expressed through the ballot-box with
reference to himself. Hence it is that we
call upon Governor Hayes, of Ohio, Re-
publican candidate for the Presidency, to
resign his place as Chief Executive of
that Stale. 1t is an act which he has designed
to perform ever since his nomination.
His State having just expressed its purpose
to elevate him to the Executive Office with
an emphasis which admits of no dispute,
he can with perfect propriety sever his
official connection with its affairs. Should
he do this at once. as we have no doubt he
will, Governor Tilden, of New York, and
Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, will
hasten to follow his patriotic example.
While there is no law requiring this action
on the part of these candidates, the eminent
fitness of such a course can be gainsayed
by 10 one, but will be approved with
unanimous voice.
Year: 1876

gress. Such body would overturn all that
has been accomplished. It would seek the
reputation of the act of 1875. It would con-
stantly agitate schemes for the disorder of the
national finances by new issues of paper
money, or by some absurd and threatening
device of interconvertible bonds. It would put q
stop to the refunding of the bonded debt at a
lower rate of interest. It would unsettle pub
lie confidence In everything, and make busi-
ness what 1t has so long been-a form of
gambling.


Still less can anything be expected from the
next Congress, controlled by the Democrats,
in the solution of the great problem of civil
service reforms The Government now needs 9
change in its 6vil administration In two re-
gards--in the relation of Government en-
ployees to politics and in the permanence and
efficiency of the working force. 1t would be
simply impossible for the Democrats to make
q change in these respects, even If the leaders
of the party were inclined to do so, and the
leaders are not so inclined.
Year: 1876

IT WILL be seen that Governor Cham
berlain has made requisition upon the
President for troops to aid in the suppress
sion of the organizations Of the bauditti in
South Carolina. This request has been
made in Constitutional manner, and will
no doubt be complied with in a way to
extort outward and apparent submission
at least to existing legal authority in that
State and insure to it "a government re-
Duhlican in form ~
Year: 1876

The preparations which are now being
made for the reception of the Army of the
Tennessee and the unVeiliDg Of the eques-
trian statue of the brave and gallant Gen.
Mcpherson warrant the belief that We shall
have a goodly number of visitors on the
18th and 10Th instant, and that they will
be sumptuously entertained, Oar citizens
are taking hold of the matter in patriotic
and enterprising spirit, which promises
that. notwithstanding the reunion will oc-
Cur in the very heat of the political can
vass and on District day at the Centennial,
the display here will be worthy OF the oc-
casion.
Year: 1876

In 10 department of the Exhibition has
there been greater competition than among
the piano-makers, and, although the contest
soon narrowed down to few houses. it has
been maintained to the end with all the
earnestness, and even acrimony, natural to
parties who had attained to a supremacy,
partly by real worth, but more by sklllful
manipulation of public sentiment through
the power of money, as well as through
laxity of personal responsibility on the
part Of the jurors at previous Worlds
Fairs, which made the winning of honors
an easy matter. But tie American system
Year: 1876

The surging of human life forever onward rolls,
And the eternal shore its daily freight of souls
Though bravey sails our bark to-day pale death sits
at the PROV.
AMI few shall know we ever lived hundred years
from now.
mighty human brotherhood! why fercely war and
strive
While Gods great world has ample space for every
Broad felds uncultured and unclaimed, are waiting
for the plow
OF progress that shall make them bloom a hundred
years from now.
Why should try earnestly in life's short narrow
span,
ON golden stairs to climb high above our brother
man?
Why blindly at earthly shrine in slavish homage
bow?
gold will rust ourselves be dust hundred years
from now
Why prize sOmuch the world applause? Why dread
50 much its blame?
aecting echo is its voice of censere or of fame;
The praise that thrills the heart the scorn that dyes
with shame the brow.
VII, be as long-forgotten dreams a hundred years


from now.
oIaent hearts that mcekly bear your weary load of
wrong!
o earnest hearts, that bravely dare and striving


grow more strong!
Pns> ntill perfect peace is You'll never dream


ofhow
You struggled DER lies thOrny road hlndred years


from now.
Grand lofty souls who live and toll that freedom,


right and truth
Alone may rule the universe for you is endless youth
When mid the blest, with God you rest the grateful


lands shall bow
Above your clay in rev'rent love hundred years


from now.
Etrths empires rise and fall, Time like breakers


thy shore.
They rush upon thy rocks of doom, go down. and are


more.
Thcstarry wilderness ofwors that gem nights radiant


brow
WEI light the skies for other eyes hundred years


from now.
our Father to whose seeples eyes the past and future


stand
An open page, like babes VIC cling to thy protecting


hand.
Change sorrow, death are naught to us if we may


safely bow
Beneath the shadow of Thy throne a hundred years


from now.
Year: 1876

All PolSOHS WHO Hlbke BOOu claim 10 IN
telligence and balance of mind are dcsirous
of long life; but can it be said that the
larger portion of them live in such a man
ner that the object of their desire is pro-
NOTED? If one examine the records of the
hundred or more old men and women now
living in their ninety and odd, he will find
that their habits in early life were simple :;
that they were quite regular in the matters
of eating and sleeping, and were not given
to practices Of an exciting or b1ain-exhaus-
ting nature. That there arc some cases of
longevity whose youth or early manhood
was not remarkable for close observance
OF hygienic proprieties must be admitted,
but it will be found that the folly of such a
course was recognized ere it had mado very
serious inroads upon the constitutional
vigor.


Not long ago the writer received visit
from an elderly gentleman, whose age Dor.
dering on eighty, would not have been sur.
missed from his fresh appearance and active
manner. Allusion being made to the fact
that he was very young looking old man,
he stated that at thirty he was supposed to
be far gone in consumption, and, becoming
thoroughly dissatisfied with the treatment
received from physicians, broke away from
them, and set on foot line of practice
which had been suggested by reading some
magazine articles, and which he deemed
consistant with natural law. He went into
the country, worked according to his
strength, was out of doors a good part of
every day, ate the simplest food, avoiding
everything in the way of excitement as far
as he could, and found, in the course of a
few months, that his health was greatly i'm.
proved, the symptoms Of pulmonary con.
sumption becoming less and less marked
AS the result Of this experiment he changed
his business, which had been Of an indoor
character, for another which gave him out
of-door life, and continuance of SIMPLE
ity in his habit established him in robust
health: such bodily vigor, in fact, as he
had never realized before, and which had
remained his almost without intermission


An illustrious example of regularity and
simplicity, and of their effects in prolong
ing life, although it be surrounded Will
cares and responsibilities, is the present
Emperor of Germany. We are told that
his affairs, public and private, are regulated
with the utmost strictness; that his per
sonal habits are SO simple that they have
passed into proverb. "Many man ir
Berlin" says writer, "whO is not an EN-
peror, would look upon the two or three
slices of 'SchwarzbrOd (black breud) and Bit
OF cold meat as meager fare" And yet
such is his daily luncheon. Confne New
York business man upon such materials
for his lunch" and he would deem him
self hardly used. The Emperor is q really
hard-worked man. The cares of his great
estate are heavy, and he seeks to meet
and discharge them. He is, doubtless
often weary when the day is done, but he
does not 60 to downy, luxurious coach
but to hard military bed, which gives him
the healthful repose so much needed
Science Of Health.
Year: 1876

Dld you ever see q man try to find a
shirt or handkerchief or something in the
bureau drawer where his wife keeps her
clean linen? 1t mostly happens when he's
in hurry, when he has got his fireworks
temper on, and his wife has got the baby
on her lap or she is cup to her elbows" in
dough. IGefinds the white clothes arranged
in such symmetrical layers as only woman
after long practice can accomplish, and he
dives in good deal as he would fish for
nubs of kindling in barrel of shavinps,
pitching everything right or left on the
floor. Meanwhile, as he fails to get the re-
quired article, stewing and swearing and
Offering up selected expressions of relief to
his feelings in suppressed tone of voice,
and vowing, in way especially designed
to reach the ears of his wife, "that it
does beat thee old-what's name pa thing
can't be put where it can be found" About
this time his wife yells out from below that
the article sought is right at the top, when
he sarcastically wants to know if she SIN.
poses he has "got no eyes," then tears
around into that linen at more furious
rate than ever, swearing that the shirt amt
there, for he has got clear to the bottom.
And then he gathers everything up in a
bunch and rams them back anyhow, lust as
he can grab them, in savage handful, tear
ing around and jerking things all over with
nervous looseness. Then he sings ont in
sort of abstrscted way, as if addressing no
one in particular, that he can always tell
where to find anything he needs at his
place OF business in a moment, that he
keeps place for everything and everything
IN Its place. just about the time he has
worked himself into a red-hot worry of
boiling over impaticnce and got the whole
room into litter, his wife glides in and
lays her hand upon the missing article
right in the drawer where he ierked it out
and then rammed it back again-in that
quiet way woman has of maddening q
coloriic husband into a fit state for the
lunatic asylum.-&IpcnsJ,uy Nevs.
Year: 1876

Corn SouP.-To each quart of young corn
cut from the cob allow three pints of water
Put the corn and water on to boil. When tho
grains are tender, have ready two ounces of
sweet butter, mixed smooth with one table.
spoonful of flour. Stir the butter into the
soup, and let it boil ten minutes longer
Just before taking out of the pot, beat up
an egg and stir into it, with salt and pepper
to your taste.
Year: 1876

The cheap grotesquely figured fans now
in use here are made in japanese homes, all
the members of families working on them.
The pictures are drawn on thin paper,
pasted ON a slab of wood, and then en-
grsved, separate block being used for
printing each color. Children do the
splitting of the bamboo and the pasting of
the paper. In Japan that kind of fan is
used by woman, and the men carry the
handsome folding article. 1t is customary
there to exchange fans, as we do photo
graphs, and to inscribe them with auto.
graphs and sentiments.
Year: 1876

An Alabama sheriff took his negro pris.
oner to Jail, went out and became drunk,
was arrested and locked up in the same
cell with the negro, slept in the same bed
with him at night, was tried in the morn.
ing, fined ten dollars for drunkenness, and
then brought up the negro for his trial as
if he himself were circumspect and staicl
officer of the law.
Year: 1876

TO FAsTES LABELS TO TIN CAxs.-Put a
teaspoonful Of brown sugar into quart of
paste, and it will fasten labels as securely TO
tin cans as to wood. lIousokcepers may
save themselves much an annoyance in the
loss of labels from their own fruit by re
membering this.
Year: 1876

This en.erprising firm have removed their
office to the lie Droity building, corner OF Eighth
and streets, and will continue to dispose of
houses and lots at lie Droit Park on the most ad.
yantageous terms to purchasers. They have
fitted up the St. CLOUD hotel in first-class style
for Offices. which they request business men to
visit and inspect.
Year: 1876

Miss Sarah Goodloe, aged nineteen years, daughter of leading citizen of Portage, Penn., was bitten by rattlesnake last week while picking berries on Wycoff Mountain, mile and half from home, and being unable to reach home died 6 frightful death in the woods. She was ac- companied by two little girls, one of whom hastenedto the village with the news, and two physicians repaired to the spot as soon as possible, only to find her in the agonies of death. The little girls had succeeded in getting her half mile on the way home, when she could go no farther. The snake had bitten her twice in the calf of the right leg, and one of its fangs was found hang ing to her stocking. When MT. Goodloe and the doctor reached the spot the unfor- tunate young lady was fearfully swollen, and her flesh was rapidly turning black. The leg had swollen so that the skin had parted in several places. The doctor inn mediately pronounced her case hopeless, and she died in the greatest agony before she could be carried from the woods. One of the little girls, Laura Webb, says that when the snake struck Miss Goodloe they were near the top of the ridge, and were about to start home, having their pails filled with berries. Miss Goodloe threw herself on the ground shrieking and the little girl saw the snake still hanging to her leg. Sue ran up and seized it by the tail, jerked it loose and killed it with club. It was then that the fang was torn out.

 The deceased young lady was the only surviving child of her father, whose wife and son met with violent deaths, the for mer dying from lock-jaw caused by run ming needle in her foot, and the latter being gored to death by bull. .--.
Year: 1876

Lime Rock.

 FRIEND PEAsE:-You say in your last weeks NEWS that the weather is too hot for your correspondents to work, but how do you think the boys in the wheel shops have got along all through this hot wealth CT? Why, MT. Editor, can't you have a permanent correspondent in this busy little village? There is enough transpires in this village andits surroundings every week to nearly fill column in your paper. I've should be rejoiced to be put on the track of somebody we could make a permanent shot our double-barrel gun, but would set as many traps for him, as our esteemed friend Observer says few lines below, he had set for his chicken visitors, and if possible would catch him. Now then, MT. Observer" can't you be induced to o6ser0e once week for us for while and sec how you like it. Can't affold to pay you over hundred dollars an hour for your work. but will give you perhaps an occasional perquisite to make up the odd change. Dare you do lt?-ED. NEWS. ] The young man alluded to Tn the NEWS last week was drowned h Lime Rock mill pond,..... Mir. Daniel White of Whites Hol low killed pair of very large rattle snakes in his lot last week, one had twelve and the other eleven rattles......Y Your correspond ent and some of his neighbors have lost quite a number of chickens this summer, and last Saturday night I had six White Leghorns taken. I set all the old traps l had and double-shotted my gun. Result up to date. two skunks captured, and if skunks it is that take the chickens will !, try and exterminate the whole tribe.. .....Po- tato bugs are on the increase, and the farm CTS who have carried on a war of extermi- nation all through the season, it is hoped, will be blessed with an abundant crop of potatoes. while those that don't seem to care damitiYeness, or destroy the bugs al all-well, we hope they will have a good crop too. OBSERVER
Year: 1876

Oh, for lodge in garden of cucnmbersi

 Oh, for an iceberg or two at conrron Oh for for yale which at midday the dew cum

 bersl

 Oh for pleasure trip up te the polei Oh for . little one-story thermometer, With nothing but zeros all ranged in g rowi Oh for big double-barrelled hydrometer,

 To measure the moisture that rolls from my

 brow. .s -.... - Oh that the cold world were twenty times colder CThat's irony red hot as 1t seeneth to mel: Oh for turn of its dreaded cold shoulder! Oh what comfort an aGue would bel Oh for erotto to typifY Heaven. .t Scooped in . rock under cataract vasti Oh for winter of discontent event

 Oh for wet blankets jndiciously castI Oh foR ssda fount spouting up boldly.

 From every hot lamp post 'gainst the hot skyi Oh for proud maiden to look on me coldly, Freezing my soul with glance of her eyei
Year: 1876

In accordance with vote passed at the last meeting of the Centennial Executive Committee I paid over this unexpended balance of the Centennial fund to the Town Treasurer as trustee, to be placed at inter est by him iu Salisbury savings bank to await the further direction of the said com mittee. a ....
Year: 1876

w We are informed by postmasters the fol- where they have been regularly receiving TIE NEWS, and as they did not notify us of their change of post-ofdce and are in arrears to the amounts placed parallel with their names, we pub fish their only address known to us, and if any of our readers know of the whereabouts of any of fhem they win do us 6 favor by informing us.- Is it exactly HONEST treatment. to receive news paper till several dollars dne, and then leave the postmaster to inform us the paper Is not re- wherel The following have done this: Does
Year: 1876

Rev. - had just fiEished his dinner.


yesterday, afternoon, and settled into his
easy chair with his feet encased in nice


pair of worked slippers the members
his congregation gave him, when there was
q tfmid knock at the outer deer of bis study,


He looked up from the paper he was read
ing. and thinking that it was only the wind
blowing against the shutters he resumed
his reading. Again it was repeated little
louder than before, and this time he went to
the door. There stood before him picture
ne had not anticipated. A CHEEKY looking
lass, leaning conadentially upon the arm
Of burly young fellow whose clothing were
the picture of innocence bit the
corners of her handkerchief, and
- she looked first in the parsons face
in manner that was very shy and then at
the ground; the young man nudged her in
the side as much as to say, brace up old
gal. The invitation to walk in needed no
repeating for they shambled in as though
half afraid and yet quite willing to enter
the trap. "Your business" said the
preacher. Shoemaker" said the young
man, "Nothing in particular" said the
young lady. "You misunderstood me,
what do you want" said the preacher. ri
want Mary Ann" said the young man.
"And want James Henry" said
the girl. MARY Ann, and James Henry.
There are no such persons living here.
| have no domestics by those names. Then
she laughed and got as red all over the face
as a rose, and James looked at her and
snickered. "Come, come now parson, let's
to business" said James. "Thar amt no
time to lose, and as we expect to DO going
as fur up the roadas Philadelphia, we ought
to be jogging along" And when the par
son looked at him and gave him knowing
wink, Bill chucked him in the ribs and
said " 'pon my soul, parson, believe you
have been thar" A ponderous document,
with seal, was exhibited, the knot was
tied in a jiffy, the parson kissed the bride,
and James hugged the parson. The parson
received fee of fifty cents and the promise
of . watermelon when they are ripe, while
the next train to Philadelphia took up the
bride and groom.
Year: 1876

BLACK ALPACAS and MOHAIRS. We pay
special attention to and cannot be excelled in
the price. Attention to the selection Of and
rs to durability OF fabric and color cannot be-
excel'ed. The prices are right as is proven
by our very rapid sales.
Year: 1876

AND FILLING UP.-Det-
Hansen has had some men at work


week enlarging the cellar under his
! The gravel taken out has been
Ito advantage in filling low places
Main street, thus serving two pur-
We move that everybody enlarge
'eeilars and wheel the dirt into that
hole which ornaments the most
Ipieuous corner in town.