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Year: 1873

, WHAT DID n?-is no longer the question
since the introduction of the Centaur Liniment.
When we meet an old friend who has been
shelved with rheumatism, or see person man
gled underneath a rail car, and restored to
shane and comeliness, we now know that 1t is
the Centaur Liniment that does the work. No
other article ever did perform such miracles.
There is no swelling it will not soften, no pain
IL will not sooth, or lameness it viii not cure.
Year: 1873

Eloping lovers from Louisville and vicinity
have from time immemorial made Jefferson
vile, Ind, their Gretna Green, but the clerk
of the court there has cruelty declared that
he shall in future issue marriage licenses on
ly in cases where the bride is a resident of the
county. The oath of third person is suffi-
cient to establish this, however, and the as
pirants for matrimonial bliss, who flee the
wrath of unpropitious parents, will be all
right If they take along some person good al
swearing
Year: 1873

Ayoung lady in Western New York has
just declined an offer of marriage from a
wealthy lover whose name is Hussey. 1t is
impossible not to admire the spunk of that
woman who refuses to be called Hussey
for any man.
Year: 1873

The Titusville Press says: Titusville
was not the birth place of tho Father of
His Country, but We have o man resid =.
ing here who slipped up on a muddy
crossing this forenoon, and sat down On a
ro!eef butter which lie was carrying home,
and, instead ofswearing, he sim ply arose,
scrapped the butter from his pants int O
the paper again and went on as if moth
ing had happened.
Year: 1873

A little girl who was visiting the family
OF a ne'ghbor heard them speak Of her
father as a widower; and, on her return
home said: "Pa, are you a widower p
"Yes, my child. Don't you know that
your mother is dead ?" "Why, YES,
know that mother is dead; but then you


always told me you were New Yorker"
Year: 1873

Editor Of Grange Adcance: s+s.s


We have been looking with degree OF interest
to the several newspapers of the State, expecting
to see some communication in regard to the pro-
posed amendment to our State Constitution, to be
submitted to the people at the next election; but
as yet, have looked in vain. Why have not some
of the knowing ones enlightened us voters on the
subject, whether it is better to hold annual or bi
ennial sessions of the Legislature?


1t is certainly a matter Of sufficient important
ance to merit our careful consideration. We are
aware that all that has been nec-
essary to effect change in the Constitution here
tofore has been for the Legislature to submit the
proposed amendment to a vote of the people, and
they have voted it majority perhaps, without
giving it further thought than that it had been
recommended by the Legislature


This should not be, especially with question
that effects our State like the present proposed
amendment. We may have, and no doubt do have,
too much legislation for the best interests of the
people If this is the conclusion we come to,
would it not be better to shorten up the annual
sessions?


Does not the rapid growth and development of
our State and the concentration o. monied powers
together with various other interests of the State
require annual sessions Of the Legislature? 1t Is
true the Governor would have the power 10 call
extra or special sessions. but if the pro >
posed amendment is made it is not at all likely he
would do so except in extreme cases. Thes are
questions we should consider, as we shall
soon have to answer them at the polls. L.J.
Year: 1873

The advice which makes the head
ing of this article might almost be
said to be a stereotyped maxim for
farmers, so frequently does it appear
in all the papers Of the country, both
agricultural and those which have an
agricultural column. The philosophy
of the advice is that stock is much
comfortable when protected from Sc
we're cold, that it takes less food to
keep them, and that they do better,
and we should prepare in time for
winter. OF course it does not imply
that we should build our barns so that
they can be warmed by fires As gen.
orally understood by farmers, it means
batten your stables tight and keep out
all the cold.


Where this is done and no arrange
ment is made for supplying them with
fsesh air by ventilation, il is as bad or
posed to considerable cold. We want
to advise our farmers who keep stock
warm in this way to study physiology
enough to know the value of fresh air
to animals as we'll as men. There is
scarcely farmer in the country who
keeps his stock warm who does not
run into a worse extreme by making
them breathe air loaded with sfiluvia
for hours every day. Observe the
character of the air in the stables when
you open the door in the morning, and
you will be convinced of it.


We once heard sheep farmer say
that the best place to stable sheep in
winter was in q dry ten-aere lot, shell
tered from driving winds. The only
advantage in this was that they could
have plenty Of fresh, pure sir. We
heard another farmer say that, in win
teriOg twenty steers, he stabbed ten
and let ten go the stack all winter,
and the ten outside did the best. 1t
was easy to see, on examining the sta
bles, that ten of them had been de
prived of good air, and of course this
would keep them from doing well.


1t is a common remark among the
farmers that cattle running out all
winter, if well fed, come out in the
spring strong and in better condition
to grow, than those too carefully
housed. This appears to argue against
stabling them at all but when we
look at the matter closely, we find it
an argument in favor of fresh air,
cleanliness and exercise; and if we
take sufficient pains to supply this
condition to our stock that is stabbed,
we will then learn the true value of
tie maxim, keep your stock warm"
Ohio Farmer.
Year: 1873

The Portland Ors0ORidR recently
contained the following account of a
hunting adventure, which occurred
in that region " A professional hun
ter, named Reps, was out hunting
this week, on Martins Island, down
the Columbia. The hunter was ac-
companied by young hound only,
which started some animal a short
distance away in the dense brush.
Repzs ran from the thick timber in
which he was standing, toward the
edge OF the water. A clear space of
several yards divided the brush and
the river margin. On reaching the
bank, Repzs halted, and placed him.
self in an attitude of defense. In q
few minutes the dog emerged from the
timber, and came running toward his
master. Immediately following the
hound, and in hot pursuit, q large and
feroeious panther bounded in sight.
Reps raised his gun to his shoulder
and fired. The ball took effect in the
jaws of the animal, but it did not in
fiict any serious injury LOr retard its
progress toward the hunter. On firing
RepZs retreated into the water up to
his armpits. The wounded and in
furiated animal sprang after and
tackled the hunter. The dog came
to the rescue of his master, and made
it so warm for the panther that it
abandoned Reps and turned on the
hound. Reps waded out toward the
bank, turned around and fired the
second barrel of the gun at the pam
ther. The load was large buckshot,
and took effect in the panther's side.
The wound was very severe, but did
not entirely disable the animal, which
was getting the best of the dog. See
ing that the hound would soon be
drowned, Reps resolved to rescue it,
il possible. He had discharged both
barrels of his gun, and cast aside his
large bowie knife in the edge of the
timber when he started to retreat to
the water. No time, however, was to
be lost, and Reps sprand into the
river to save the dog. By this time
the panther had lost much blood, and
was growing weak from exhaustion.
The hunter, who was q powerful man,
seized hold of the panther's head, and,
after a fierce tussle,' broke its hold
on the hound. The panther now
turned on Reps. A long and despe-
rate encounter ensued between the
hunter, panther, and dog. At last
Reps succeeded in keeping the ami
mails nose under water until it was
quite dead, after which he drew the
body TO the shore, and tainted from
his wounds and exhaustion. The
hunter was severely laeerated in the
conflict, and has scarcely been able to
leave his bed since. The hound was
also badly torn"
Year: 1873

I've knowed what il was to have


women bOarders that find fault. There


is some of 'em would quarrel with


me and yerybOdy at my table; they


would quarrel with the Angel Ga


briel if he lived in the house with 'em


and scold at him and tell him he was


always dropping his feathers round,


if the couldn't find anthing else to


bring up against him. There's


nobody knows what woman that has


the charge of a family goes through,


but God that made her. I've done my


best for them that loved and for them


that was under my roof. Some


has always been good to me; some


has made it q little.Of a strain to me


to get along. When a woman's back


aches with overwOrking herself to


keep her house in shape, and dozen


mouths are opening at her three times


a day, like them little birds that split


their heads open so you can almost


see into their empty stomachs, and


one wants this ana another wants


fhat, and provisions is dear and rent


is high, and nobody to look to, then a
sharp word cuts, tell you, aud hard
look goes right to your heart. 1 have
seen a boarder make a face at what /
set before him, when had tried to
suit him Just as well as knew how,
and havn't cared to eat a thing all
the rest of that day, and I've laid
awake, without q wink of sleep, all
night. And then, when you come
down the next morning, all the
boarders stare st you, and wonder
what makes YOU so low spirited, and
why you don't look as happy and talk
as cheerful as one of them rich ladies
that has dinner parties, where they


have nothing to do but give orders,
and somebody comes and cooks their
dinner, and somebody else comes and
puts flowers on the table, and lot of
men dressed up like ministers come
and wait on everybody, as attentive
as undertakes at a funeral. Boarders
sometimes expect too much of the Ia
dies that provide for them. Some
days the meals are better than other
days it can't help being so. Some
times the provision market isn't well
supplied sometimes the fire in the
cooking stove doesn't burn so well as
il does other days; sometimes the
cook isn't so lucky as she might be.
And there is boarders who is always
laying wait for the days when meals
is not quite so good as they common
ly be, to pick a quarrel with the one
that is trying to serve them, soas that
they shall be satisfied. hope God
will bless all that sit at my table, old
and young, rich and poor, married and
single. My husband that's dead and
gone, always believed that we all get
to heaven sooner or later; and since
I've grown older and buried so many
that I've loved, I'ye come 10 feel that
should meet all of them that / have
known here-Or at least as many OF
'em as wanted tO-in a better world. |
And though 1 don't calculate there is
any boarding houses in heaven, / do |
hope 1 shall SONG time or other meet
them that has set around my table, |
one year after another, all together,
where there is no faultflnding with !
the food and no occasion for it.-Ihe |
FoCt at the Breakfast Table.
Year: 1873

If cold settles on the outer cover
ing of the lungs, it becomes pneumo-
mia, Inflammation of the lungs, o.
lung fever, and in many cases carries
off the strongest man to the grave
within q week, If cold falls upon the
inner covering of the lungs, it is pleu-
risy. with its knife-like pains and its
slow, very slow, recoveTies. If a cold
settles in the joints, there is rheuma-
tism with its agonies of pain, and the
rheumatism of the heart, which in an
instant sometimes snaps asunder the
cords of life with no friendly warn.
ing. 1t is of the utmost practical i'm
portanee, then, in the wintry wealth
er, to know, not so much how to cure
a cold as how to avoid it.


Cold always comes from one cause
some part of the body being colder
than natural for a time. If a person
son will keep his or her feet warm al
ways, and never allow himself or her
self to be chilled, he or she will never
take cold in a lifetime; and this can
only be accomplished by due care in
warm clothing and avoidance of drafts
and exposure. While multitudes of
colds come from cold feet, perhaps,
the majority arise from cooling off too
quickly after becoming little warm
er than is natural, from exercise or
work, or from confinement to q warm
apaItment.-Scientitie american.
Year: 1873

1t took several years of costly liu-
CATION to obtain from the Supreme
Court of Vermont a decision to this
effect: That a Mrs. Drew, who cut
some grass on the public highway, in
order that her children might have a
path by which they could get to and
from school without getting their
clothes wet, committed no crime; but
that, as Mrs. Drew fed nine pounds OF
this grass to her husbands horse, she
committed a trespass, for which she
was responsible to the State Of YER
mont,
Year: 1873

A photographer in Berlin has been
sent to the penitentiary for an ingeni-
Gus fraud which he has practice on
the aristocracy of that city for several
months past. He pretended he could
make photographs of gentlemen so
life-like that their dogs would be able
to recognize them. When these pho
tOgraphs were held up before the dogs
of the owners, the dogs would wag
their tails and lick the pictures. The
other photographers of Berlin, who
were unable to perform anything
similar, watched their colleague, and
finally discovered his secret, 1t was
q very simple proceeding. All he did
was TO cover the photographs with a
thin layer of lard, which the dogs, Of
course, smelled, and then licked off.
Year: 1873

A few days ago a farmer in Madison
township quarreled With his wite and
left hone. He returned in q short
time, and the quarrel was resumed and
continued to such an extent that he ex-
pressed q desire to be out of tue world.
His wife intlmated that nothing would
please her better, and offered to do her
part if the rifle were only loaded. He
went into the house, got the rifle and
ammunition, and loaded it in the
presence of his wife, but was very
careful, when she was not looking,
to slip the ball down his
sleeve. After the gun had been
capped he handed 1t to her and went
into the yard, she following as far as
the door, when she took deliberate aim
and fired. The husband dropped in
the grass, to all appearances dead, and
laid there short time before the wife
came to him. 1t did not take her long
to discover that he was "playing pos
sum-" aud grasping an ax handle, sho
attacked him SO dercely that but for
the Interference of some of the children
she would have crushed his skull. It
is needless to add that there will be a
divorce
Year: 1873

Only those who read our State country papers realize that New Haven is sleep ing through a period of great business opportunity. There are many discussions now from this quarter and from that of a new line of transit from the West. It only needs the active cooperation of New Haven business interest to effect such a communication of which this city shall be the terminus. But besides this there is one little line of eighteen miles of road which ought to be built at once It is the eighteen miles that would connect Derby and Shepaug. Every week or two we hear from the upper part of the State of the desirablity of this road to the county of Litchfield and to the city of New Ha- ven. It is oyer the old line of traffic, much of which is now turned toward oth- CT quarters by other roads, but which naturally tends toward New Haven, and which would pour this way again were this connecting link built. It would also give us a new and direct line to Albany.
Year: 1873

That farmer whose poultry is not troubled
with the gapes, that has not been visited
with the chicken cholera knows what it is
to prepare forty or fifty fowls for market,
since the practice of scalding has been vetoed
by the buyers. l have known persons on
market day to 90 out and kill dozen or
fifteen at a time, and bring them into room
where there would be half dozen women and
boys pulling few feathers at a time, be-
tween thumb and forefuger to prevent tearing
them. Now for the benefit Of such, l give
our plan Hang the fowl by the feet by
small cord then with small knife give one
cut across the upper jaw, opposite the cor
ners of the mouth after the blood has stop
ped running stream, place the point of the
knife in the groove in the upper part of the
mouth, run the blade up into the back part
of the head, which will cause quivering and
twitchiug of the muscles now is your time,
for every feather yields as if by magic, and
there is no danger of tearing the most tender
chick before he attempts to flap, you can
have him as bare as the day he came out oft
egg. The wise ones may discuss the reason.
| only the effects.-Cor. N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1873

No one thing operates more injuriously
to the interests of agriculture than the wide
ly spread and popular idea that farming is
not profitable. 1t is almost work Of super
erogation to reply to the charge that the
cultivation Of the land, as an occupation for
the masses Of the people, is not profitable
employment, because it is evident to all who
will look that it is from this source that all
supplies for the sustenance of man and beast
are mainly drawn, The art Of agriculture
underlies all other arts, and sustains them
all. Cease the cultivation of the soil, and
commerce, manufactures, all sciences and
mechanic arts, and even breath itself would
soon cease. This cannot be denied by any
one with sound common sense.


The pursuit Of agriculture as an occupa-
ton may not be as profitable under all circum-
stances as some other pursuit. 1t may be
better for the people of sandy tract Of
country on the sea shore to turn their atten.
tiOn to fishing, than to raising grain or grass,
or for those in mountainous and rocky
country TO make the waters Of the valleys
turn their wheels to transform their forests
into various articles for household uses.
There may be reasons why individuals in all
towns should find employment in agriculture
less profitable than some others in which they
might engage. But with an average price
Of labor, land and implements, and with that
degree Of skill which the land demands Of
all, We do not believe that many acres OF
land are cultivated at loss when the crop
is not injured by blight, frosts or other cas-
ualty. And it the land is well prepared the
farmer is pretty sure Of good crop; he
fails only once in ten times providing he
farms in the right way.


We will not say that farming is the most
profitable of all business, but you may take
everything into consideration and who gets
better and more sure living than the
farmer? Aud again where is there more
independent set of men than the farmers who
raise their own living, as well as that Of the
merchant, the mechanic and the printer, who
are wholly dependent on the farmer, indi-
rectly. Do not get discouraged, young farm
er, when you think Of an old schoolmate who
has gone into store or shop or an office,
and has succeeded in rising to prominent
position just think where one has risen ten
have fallen, and you would have stood only
one chance in ten to have won the desired
prize.


There is place in the world for US all,
and it is our duty to fill this place to the
best of our ability when once found, and ey-
cry one has natural inclination for some
kind Of business; some are natural mechanics,
others are better fitted for merchants, others
for lawyers, and 1t is the duty Of parents to
mark all these natural abilities and educate
their children accordingly. But we are
straying from the subject and will close.
Year: 1873

Of the field lined, the straw grew strong and
bright, and in no way injured by worms
the grain was heavy and bright, and one
sixth more bushels than upon the other part
Of the field and for number Of years the
difference was decidedly in favor Of the lined
part. Soon after l built lime-kiln upon the
farm, and every year up to 1872, have used
from two to four hundred bushels Of lime.


L have used it in various ways, but |
think the correct way is to draw from the
kiln in the shell, throw in pile in the field,
aud let it remain until it is all Stacked, then,
after the ground is plowed and narrowed,
load into wagon, and with a shovel scatter
as evenly as possible, at the rate of fifty to
seventy-fve bushels Of stone lime to the acre.


While many of my neighbors are com.
planning Of the destruction done by the worms
have not lost one bushel Of corn, or any
other kind of grain, in twenty years by
worms. On land that has been well lined
the crops will not be disturbed by such troub-
lesome customers as grubs or wire-worms.
We consider it very valuable as entering in
to the straw, keeping the clean, bright color,
and also producing, heavier grain.


From the closest observations that have
been able to make in the use of lime for for
ty years, think the beneficial effects have
been seen upon land that has had fifty BUSH
els to the acre from sixteen to eighteen years.
1t enlivens, changes, and warns up cold
land, and is peculiarly well calculated to
produce large crop of clover-and after
that crop never fail in getting good crop
Of corn.


have sold a good article of stone lime at
the rate Of $40 per 100 bushels at the kiln
but now with the increased amount of wages
to laborers, it cannot be afforded burned
with wood) at less than Sl8 per 100 BUSH
els. But at that rate, taking into account
the various beneficial effects, and the great
durability Of lime in the soil it cannot be
doubted but that it is far cheaper than any
artificial manures that can be obtained in
the market. The most economical way is to
take muck and make compost. Take two
parts of good vegetable muck with one part
Of anslacked lime and throw in pile. and
soon the lime will warm up the muck; then
draw aud spread just before the last harrow
ing. The same land that formerly got on
y about 600 to 1000 pounds of hay to the
acre from, now can, on an average, get
two tons. think the increase is owing to
the use of lime.-Michigan Farmer.
Year: 1873

Nothing will so much conduce to the adop.
tion of system of working the farm as a
well prepared map, hung where the farmer
can see it every day. 1t will be sure to set
him to thinking and planning how best to
pitch his crops, and how best to work to save
work. And once the farmer adopts system
of farming, he starts on the road to success
1t matters not that the system is not the best
that could be devised, so long as it is a sys-
TEN it is indefinitely to be preferred to the
hap-hazard practice of many farmers, We,
therefore, advise every reader who owns a
farm to make at once, or have made, map
of it, and hang it up where he can see it ev-
cry day. And having made it, study it
Rural San.