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Year: 1872




Did you ever see a woman who /
was possessed by the house cleaning
fiend not periodically, but at all
times ?-who would go about draw
ing her finger over every lounge, and
table, and chair, peering into cracks
and crannies for crooked pins and
lint holding tumblers up to the
light for fir ger marks in short, so
utterly absorbed in the pursuit of
dirt, that every other pursuit was
nothing In comparison


q Now I know what neatness is,
and value it, but when it takes such
shape as this, and robs life of all its
charms, i turn my back upon it
with righteous disgust. Who thanks
these jealous juries for their self
imposed labors? Certainly not
their husbands, who flee into cor
ners from dust-pans and dust
brushes, and weary of the reclta' OF
their. prowess day by day. Certainly
not their children, who have no
place to stow away their little sacred
property IN the shape of bright bits
of silk paper, or broken cups which
are dear and precious to them, and
should always be held in respect
within proper innocent limits.


Oh, We careful and troubled Mar
thas of the household, stop and take
breath. Place a flower on the man
tie that you and your household
may, perhaps, have some in your
lives. While you stop to rest, read.
So shall the cobwebs be brushed
from your neglected brain, and you
shall learn that something else be-
sides cleanliness is necessary to
make home really home for those
dependent on your care.


Throw your broom out of doors
take your children by the hand, and
let The fresh wind touch your wrin-
kled forehead If your house is
wound up to such an Immaculate
pitch Of cleanliness, it can run on 6
few heurs without your care. Laugh
and talk with them, or, better still
listen to their foolish wise talk
= Bring home bit Of gingerbread
for eacn of Them. and play some
simple game with them. Put OF
the fresh dress you have, and ash
your husband, when he comes in, il
he recognizes his wife.


"I wish my mother looked as
pretty as you" said little CIR
once to her neighbor.


'But J our mamma is much pret-
tier than l., replied the neighbor
I The truth was that the child's
mother was always in a wrapper TN
less compony was expected. The
rest of the time she was under the
dominion OF the house-cleanine
fiend, and the children fled from
such a joyless, utilitarian home
where no flower of beauty could ever
get time to take root and blossom


There is little need to misinterpret
my meaning. Many a ruined life
has come OF a joyous home. Youl
children take to- the sunlight as
naturally as 40 the flowers. Shut
it out of your houses, and they viii
go abroad in search Of it you may
be sure of that. Isn't this wortl
thinking about, oh We mothers
Careful and troubled about Other
things, and yet so blind to youl
first and greatest duty Fanny
Fern.
Year: 1872

One of our substantial subscribers,
in a recent conversation, gave his
experience in training neat stock
affected with the habit of eating
wood, chewing bones. &c. HIS cattle
were one spring affected this way
they became thin in flesh, refused TO
eat hay, and presented a sickly APP
pearance. He had no impression
that their food lacked the constitu-
ents for making bone, but his neigh
bors used bone meal without motto
ing any good results whatever. At
last he put about four bushels OF
leached ashes IN his barn yard, and
threw out to them about a shoveIiul
each day they all ate as il with
evident relish. After turning them
out to pasture, he put one peck OF
dry ashes per week on the ground
in the p6Sure. They ate all up,
gaawed off tie grass whore 1t had
been living The cattle began to
improve, gaining flesh aud looking
better than they had done for sever
al years. He says this morbid APP
pearance was unnoiced years ago,
from the fact that the ground was
new and ashy from the burning OF
the woods and land clearings Lat
terly he gives one quart of ashes


mixed with the sane quantity ct
salt, to twelve head of cattle about
once a week.-LiUe Stock Journal
Year: 1872




There are too many who exhibit a
roughness of treatment toward the
cow; and yet no domestic animals
are more sensitive, or more quickly
feel the unkindness shown them.
They can be made docile and mild in
their disposition or timid and wild,
just IN accordance with the treat
ment they receive from the herder
and mixer; and it is a well estab.
lished fact that COW will transmit
her disposition IN great degree to
her progeny. A rough, quick-tem-
pered person should never be en-
ployed as a mixer f; and one who
viii on any pretense whatever, kick
or strike COW, should be kicked in
turn, from the barn yard into the
street, and never be allowed to re-
turn. Gentleness will increase the
quaEtity of milk, as has been shown
by change of cruel and irascible
to one who practiced kind and gen
tie treatm ent It is an injury to
cows to be driven faster than an
easy walk, to or from their pastures.
To be urged on by thcughtless boys,
and these perhaps on horseback, is
to produce a fever and heating7o of the
blood winch is sure to dry up or les
sen the flow of milk. Cows should
always be made as comfortable as
possible, summer and winter; 1T pays
to do it.-Pacifc Rural Press.
Year: 1872

The proper fostering of the wool
growing interests of the country can
not bat result in establishing one OF
our heaviest branches of industry
having "a direct bearing upon agri-
culture. Few people Imagine how
extensive the manufactur ng of wool
into its various forms is carried on
in the north, northwest, and west
Mills or factories are everywhere
springing up to supply the immedi-
ate region. In the comparative new
State OF Iowa there are at the pre-
sent time some ninety wooden mills,
and in the adjoining States there are
probably full US many. We have
millions upon millions of acres of
land peculiarly adapted to sheep
and as the Republic spreads and
increases its population, all this
land will be brought into use So
says the Germantown Telegraph.
Year: 1872

A wise and iudicious writer truly
saws there IS fault we all condemn
in the young and IN others, and too
often indulge in, without remorse,
ourselves. That fault is tdleHeSS.
There is q busy idIeness, which
sometimes blinds US to its nature
we seem to ourselves, and perhaps
to others, to be occupied; but what
IS the result of it alp What Han
nah Moore calls quiet and dull
fitting away of time" whether it be
in " Improbable small talk, or in
constant idle reading, or sauntering
over some useless piece of work, is
surely not redeeming the time, y
and yet how many days and hours
are thus unprofitably wasted and
neither ourselves nor others benefit
ted An women who have much
leisure are liable to this fault and
besides its own sinfulness, for surely
waste Of time is a sin, it encourages
a weak, unenergetic frame of mind,
and is apt to produce either apathetic
content in trifing occupation, or a





amusement, to help on the weary
time these tribes cannot kill; and
those who have their time entirely at
their own disposal, with perhaps no
definite duty to occupy them, should
guard reselutely against waste Of
time. Make duty tor yourselves fix
hours for your different occupations;
do with your might whatever your
hands find to do and carefully, con-
scientiously ascertain which of your
eTnpioyments is not worthy of all this
care have n motive, a reason for all
you do, and frequently examine
yourselves as to what you are doing,
and surely you viii find time too
precious to be squandered, or fritter-
ed, oridled away.-Ow Home Jour
mol
Year: 1872

All reverence unto Epitaphs,
For high or for the lowly'
Whenever they on graves are writ
By truth. and sc made holy.
Such make, in their deep earnestness'
The living grander-hearted'
And keep the souls. though freed from time
Still from our souls unparted'
And many are the Epitaphs
In prose or in verse flowing
And silent sacred music there
On board or marble glowing
Oh. heavenly the influence


Angels unseen around u.s.
While often white robes. ike their own
Seem to have softly wound US
Some Epitaphs shrine in their hearts
Beauty divinely tender.
And some throne the sublime IN all
Eternity's own splendor;
But one there is that marries both


SubIimity and Beauty;
Within one little line it lives


He tried to do his duty!
Year: 1872

OUR IMPRUDENcE THE CAUSE OF Con
suAlPTIoN.-How many of us can date
the cause of our last sickness to either
a crowded room, and then coming ou
in a cold air, or wearing damp clothes,
causing a cough which settles upon the
lungs, producing seated pains In the
chest. Aliens Lung Balsam will check
the disease and restore health to the
system, if only used in time.


Remember and call at the Drug Store
for Aliens Lung Balsam Every family
should keep it at hand.
Year: 1872

Every experienced hay-raiser
knows the up pcertainty Of getting a
good stand 4 any of the old meth
DDS of seeding timothy. Two thirds
Of the time only partial set is OBJ
tained, and the farmer, hoping for
improvement in the set, cuts and
rakes over the ground year after
year, gettinahalf crop of hay, or
less, and tip largely mixed with
weeds and bfiers, until he finds that
the weeds and briers are improving
in their set. 4 Then he concludes to
1 cultivate theland in corn or some
other crop to xiii out the briers, pre-
paratory to another trial at seeding
to timothy.


1 will warrant any Of the old
modes to fail two thirds of the time
to get 6 good set and a crop-iull
average crop-the first year, and L
warrant two-thirds of tie efforts to
succeed in good sets and full aver
age crop the FIRST year if seeded IN
standing corn In proper manner
The farmer should have the seeding
in view in the preparation Of the
ground for The corn crop IN the
spring. The corn should be planted
and cultivated '.both ways, as farm
ers says-ground left clear and level
Sow any time in September, STIRRING
the ground Immediately after (and
before tooif he pleases) with harrow
or light cultivator. Cut the stocks
level with the ground as soon IS the
corn is gathered roll in winter and
spring. W. U.
Year: 1872

consists in rolling the butter in an
envelope of thin vegetable paper, or
tissue of some kind. The package
is then plunged into bath of liquid
resin, and if it is found Necessary to
form thicker crust OF gum or RESIN
it is subjected to a second INNER
sion.
Year: 1872

is to take one part sugar, one part
inter, and two parts salt, and reduce
them by griding to fine powder.
Two ounces of this mixture Is
kneaded into about two and quar-
ter pounds of butter.


RESTORING RANCID BUTTER


Rancidity is caused by the pres
ence Of butyric acid, and such but
ter is well washed with good new
milk, in which substance the acid Is
freely soluble After this treatment
it is to be washed with cold spring
water.
Year: 1872

is to mix one ounce Of finely pow
dared white sugar with one ounce
saltpeter and two ounces large-grain
ed Cheshire salt, and after incorpor-
ating them we'll together one ounce
of the compound of butter. The
mixture must be well worked into
the butter, which is then closely
packed INTO clean earthsn crooks or
jars. These are then set aside and
kept in very cool place, and the
butter, it it asserted, will remain in
good condition for years, and has
been borne a voyage to the East In
dies and still been serviceable. But
ter thus packed, it is recomIn ended,
should stand untouched for two or
three weeks after being packed, or
it will Taste rather unpalatable, but
after that time it is said to acquire a
fine marrowy flavor.
Year: 1872

Upwards OF forty thousand bottles of
NATURES HAIR RESTORATIVE were sold
from Jan. lst to June lst, which fact tells
its own story. Its so clean, and looks so
nice that the ladies ara all delighted with it.
See advertisement
Year: 1872

DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder and
Special FlAvoriDgs are iudorssd by the best
judges in the country, that nothing OF the
kind Jet discovered can compare with them
for their purity and strength.
Year: 1872

from lands end to lands end, that all may
read, and reading, believe that for the
countless millions who are on the road to
an untimsly grave With bilious COMPLAINTS,
there is but one truly great and reliable
remedy, and that is
Year: 1872

calculated by the most enthusiastic of the pro-
jectors. So far, then, the canal experiment
must be accepted as grand success It is a
triumph of science calculated to revolutionize'
the course Of trade within few generations
and SO far as New York is concerned it ought
to exercise very beneficial influence on our
future. The one drawback is the want Of


liberal management Egypt is poor, and the
expenses of maintaining the canal in repair
and administering it are considerable. These
were obliged to be raised Immediately, and
this necessity has induced the enlightened
Viceroy of Egypt to increase the foliage, or
rather to exact the old toll for the total tonnage
instead of the registered tonnage, which in
commerce has always been adopted as the
basis for all kinds of ship taxation. The
difference is very considerable, and the result
must be to discourage steamers passing
through. We are convinced that if the ex-
pertinent of cheap tolls were made the in
crease of business would more than make
good any loss that might be temporarily in
CURED. This question of foliage is the only
drawback to the canal at present but we have
no doubt that the viceroy will soon recognize
the error that has been made and will remedy
the evil
Year: 1872

poverty viii always be strong enough to drive
the wretched to live wherever they can do 50
at the least expense. without regard to sani-
tary considerations, the government of the
city must interest itself in what at first sight
appears altogether personal matter. But in
view of the dangers to others involved, it is
clear that the Iaisser oler principle cannot
safely be adopted, and that we must insist ON
cleanliness and propriety in the habitations of
the poorer citizens. The only way that this
can be effectively done is by the establishment
of system of fines on the landlords in all
cases where they neglect to carry out the
orders of the Health Commissioners. In order
to secure vigorous action on the part of the
officials they might also be subjected to fine
and dismissal for neglect in their duties Some
such system must be established before we can
hope to have the tenement house nuisance
abated
Year: 1872

taking his thousand priests as good estimate
of the unfortunate clerics doomed to lose the
exquisite joys of celibacy in case his con-
jugal crusade is successful grave questions
are Immediately opened up. Can they all find
widows of mature age, or will Father or
Grandfather Hyacinthe, as the case may be.
make the collection of ten hundred suitable
spouses another of the objects of his ife2
It strikes US that if there are actually
fifty score priests who should marry, the
best way he could go about his self-imposed
task would be first to procure his thousand
widows, or goodly sample of them, and then
move upon the enemy's works If the widows
are properly instructed each one would soon
bring down her priest, and Rome would
waken up TO- the fact in twinkling. For
Hyacinthe, doubly armed as he is, to move
alone against the citadel of Roman discipline
will involve a ridiculous failure; but with his
thousand widows and their captives there
would be some sign of strength in the move
ment.


As it is he would do very well not to write
any more of these Quixotic letters for what
ever awful fate he saved himself from by
marrying, this public justification is uncalled
for and apology pitiable. If it is part of the
Roman discipline that priest may not marry,
then when he wants to marry let him resign
his priesthood. 1t is very simple process,
and is just what Hyacinthe has done.
Year: 1872

The WEEK IN WALL STREET was quiet, out
side of 'corner' in Erie shares which was
developed towards the close and maintained
to the end of business yesterday. A great
deal of stock was sold to arrive from England,
and the sellers subjected themselves to the
penalty of very dear rates for the use of such
stock as they were compelled meantime to
borrow and deliver in fulflment of their con-
tracts. Gold closed up suddenly with an ad-
vance to 1881, owing to revival Of operations
by the former pool. Money, in face Of bad
bank statement, was easy and closed at three
per cent. The stock market wound up strong
and buoyant
Year: 1872

That the ex-Carmelite Charles Loyson,
known as Pere Hyacinthe, should get married
was very natural proceeding and one that
nobody should quarrel with. It was ques-
ton between himself and Mrs. Merriman, and
was settled on that basis, no doubt Yet he
sits himself down and indites long letter of
apology for, or, as the late and prospective
father would say, in vindication of his little


matrimonial adventure. He starts out by say
ing that this act Of marriage is to him terri
BILE solemnity. Hyacinthe is right; marriage
is no joke, although many have thought it was


and it bids fair for Hyacinthe's happiness that
he weds the widow without delusions He
gives the world to understand that he did not
assail infallibility, indulge in dogmatical con-
troversy and quit his convent for the sole pur-
pose of marrying. He, however, thinks per-
petual vows of celibacy one of the abuses of
the Church, and while he will stand by its prin-
ciples he won't stand the abuses. He owes, he
admits, to the rule of religious celibacy ''some
of the most exquisite joys and pro-
found and decisive experiences of his
existence. From his eighteenth to his
forty-fifth year he observed it with
o fidelity for which he thanks God Now in
his good ripe age marriage, he says, comes to
him in the awful form of lone of those laws of
the moral government of the world which can
not be set aside without overturning the fabric
of life and without running counter to the will
| Of God" If this revelation was so forcibly
thrust upon him it is gratifying to know that
the means were at hand to prevent his life
fabric being turned topsy-turvy. The noble
and holy devotion which lighted up his social
and religious ostracism he desires to recon-
pense and consecrate by marriage We do not
care to follow him through his polemical essay
| on what church discipline is and what it should
be on this point, nor into the tough subject of
the beauties Of matrimony in general. The
latter are matters of pretty worldwide ex-
perience, and the bright side of the subject
naturally presents itself very vividly to an
expectant bridegroom. But if there is one
thing in his letter especially charming it is the
| vigor with which he announces his intention
of fighting to open the road for all Catholic
priests to follow his example. This is gener-
Gus and touching. He says: Nothing shall
hinder me from claiming for each one Of my
brethren in the priesthood the legal right OF
marriage" And further he dogmatizes gush-
ingly -"There is not single case in which


the Church should prohibit its pastors, but


there are thousand where it ought to command


them to marry" We have no means ol
! iudQins the exact truth of these statistics; but
Year: 1872

'sTHE EARTH Is FEvER1sH. An earthquake
was felt at Chin-Keang, China, few days
ago, and in the Sandwich Islands the volcano
of Mauna Loa is reported in active eruption,
and the Inyo district Of California is said to
be again showing symptoms of another
groundswelL The equinoctial season may
have something to do with these subterranean
disturbances If so we may soon expect to
hear of more of them.
Year: 1872

The Suez Canal and It's Heavy Tolls.


The arrival in this port of the steamer Glen
gartney, with cargo of tea from China, has
created considerable interest in commercial
circles. Apart from the fact that the Glen
gartney is the first arrival by the Suez route
this year, there is feeling of satisfaction felt
at the good report made by Captain Bolton as
to the state of the Suez Canal. The influence
of that great undertaking is bound to be
largely felt in this city, in view Of the growing
rivalry of San Francisco. In few years we
may hope to see it extinguish the secondhand
trade with the East which we were in the habit
of having through London and Liver
pool The fears that were at first
entertained that the sand would rapidly
fill up tho ship channel, time has proved to be
without foundation. Indeed, the wear and
tear of heavy ships like the Glengartney, pass
ing through has not even been 80 great a. was
Year: 1872

The action Of the sanitary inspectors in
turning the inhabitants of certain rickety
structures in Elm and Oak streets out of doors
at first sight appears little harsh. It will,
however, meet the warm approval of all par
ties interested in the well-being of the poor,
because, though it may have inflicted tempo
rary inconvenience on many of the unfortunate
denizens, the ultimate result of the vigorous
application of the law will be to give the poor
decent homes. 1t is sad to think that in the
midst of our boasted civilization thousands
live, and die, in q state of squalid wretched-
ness unknown to ruder forms of society,
where the evils of poverty are not aggravated
by contrast with the splendors of unbounded
wealth But as this inequality seems to be
inevitable and incurable, the only thing that
can be done is to endeavor to mitigate the evil
by taking such measures as will secure the
extreme poor from congregating in dens unfit
for human habitation.


There are laws on the statute books Of suffi-
cient potency to remove the evil, if they
were enforced constantly and vigorously.
Unfortunately this is not done, and the raid
on Oak and Elm streets can only be regarded
as one of the chronic exhibitions of vigor that
from time to time promise the Inauguration Of
reforms that never come. If the law were
more evenly administered there would soon be
little occasion for its application, as the
wretched alleys and tumble-down houses would
soon disappear to give place to healthy struc-
lures. Not alone as O matter of humanity but
as question of prudence this ought to be
done; for in these crowded abodes of misery
all forms of infectious disease are generated,
and once the demon of pestilence is un-
chained oil classes and conditions fall
victims 70 his RAGE. a. the force q
Year: 1872

when she sent forth privateers to prey upon
our commerce under the black flag of the
slave Confederacy. These gratifying and
attractive exhibitions are now over, and as
they have had the effect of fireworks in
momentarily dazzling and confusing the eyes
of the beholders, it will not be surprising if
their sudden cessation should leave dull,
heavy, unpromising appearance upon the
actual work of the tribunal We do not desire
to incur the charge Of irreverence when we
express the opinion that all the noise and bril-
liancy of the Geneva display have been manu-
factured to order, like pyrotechnist's handi-
work, and that, although they have been
pleasant enough to look upon while being let
of, they will be apt to leave, after their ex-
haustion, some very uncouth and worthless
framework behind them.


Probably more thorough imposition than
the Treaty of Washington has never been
palmed of as great diplomatic
triumph upon o credulous people. We
have gained by it neither honor, credit
nor pecuniary advantage. AS settlement
of our direct losses through the acts. of the
Anglo-Confederate privateers during the war
OF the rebellion the Alabama claims portion Of
the treaty is neither SO honorable nor SO pro-
ftable as would have been the settlement pro-
posed by the Johnson Clarendon Convention,
rejected by the Senate in 1869. The discarded
plan Of adjustment was plain, straightfor-
ward business arrangement, made by the clear
heads Of an able lawyer and ripe statesman,
and looking TO speedy and satisfactory set
tlement of the moneyed part of the dispute


The other has been a glittering fraud, puffed
into importance by the breath of scheming
politicians and ending in less practical benefit
to the United States, in q material point of
view, than the rejected Johnson-C Clarendon
Treaty would have secured. The HERALD did
not approve the settlement proposed by Rev.
srdv johnson and Secretary Seward, because