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Year: 1876

Such, at least, is what We call the
following proposition: A liberal
contract with the Weed Sewing Ma
chine Company will enable us to
present, on or about the 4th of July
next, u beautiful $G5 Weed Sewing
Machine to every person (or any
one whom they may designate) who
will send us the names ofthirty ne'U
subscribers for the LAKE County
STAR, previous to the Goth fJunc.


We want a good many more sub
scribcrs than we have, and it is our
purpose to make vigorous effort to
obtain them. We trust to merit in
full the success VIC desire, by i'm
proving our paper in every way
within our power.


One of the very best ways to make
n paper better, is for its readers to
strengthen the hands (fill the pursc)
of the publisher, by enlarging the
subscription list. To publish a
good paper costs largely. Friends,
speak word for us to your neigh
bors. Show them copies of your
paper. Prevail upon them to sub
scribe for a year, and give it a trial
in their families.


G. X. RADCLIFFE, Publisher.
Year: 1876

EJMORs are current of u sort of
an amalganotion ticket for Lake
couniv, ue..t Fall, to be composed
Of Republicans and Democratic
sVmpathizers. II the story be true,
il looks verv much like certain Re-
puLljcans being inclined to sell out
their party for the purpose of get
ting iuto office themselves. We
have that confidence ia the jntcg-
rity and honesty Of purpose among
the masses of voters in Lake coun-
ty to believe that they will set a
complete seal of disapprojation up
OH all such movements either at the
coming conventions, or at the cleo
ton.


Let us have no "crookcdness' in
this matter of selecting county Off
cials. Honest men, honestly and
properly chosen, is what you want.
If you have officers who are efficient.
honest, reliable, and who have served
one term acceptably, put them in
for another term, if they desire it.
In selecting new candidates, take
those only who arc known to be
honest and capable. Let the Office
seek the men, and do not uphold
Office seekers.


The fact that man belongs TO
either the Republican or Democrat
ic party is no proof whatever of his
fitness to hold Office. Men are not
known by the party they compose,
so much as the party is known and
respected or sneered at-by the men
composing it. Since there is and
must necessarily always be divis-
ion Of political sentiment, let each
man stand squarely upon the plat
form of bis respective party. In
making nominations, all should la
Dor to place before the people the
names Of good and capable men.
If you fail in the convention, you
still have recourse to the ballot box,
and can there vote for the right men,
irrespective of party. Lake coun-
ty always has been and is to-day
safely Republican in politics, and
will continue so, if Republicans will
but be true to their principles and
not allow arrant dcmagogucs to OBJ
tain control, and barter away prin-
ciplc for office.
Year: 1876

The impartiality OF the cable reports
from Europe cannot be considered with
out admiration. One days dispatches
will announce great battle on the Ser
vian frontier and the complete rout OF
the Turks. The next days dispatches
will announce the same battle, and a
glorious victory for the insurgents.
Thus the fact OF q battle 10 established,
while the result IL declared In favor of
both sides. 50 that sympatizers with
either may choose for themselves and
be satisfied; the dispatches merely stat
ing the case and making no effort to in'
Huence the judgment OF their readers.
This Is true enterprise. The news-shop
at the other end Of the cable does not
confine itself to the mere article OF
truth. 1t is a general shop, like coun-
try store, which keeps and furnishes all
sorts Of goods to suit all sorts OF people,
and you may take your choice. Chicago
Times.
Year: 1876

udIh pIdCSo lfSul' 10dG IS d very useful kind of gas and houses and whole cities are lighted with it. The gas that we are about to speak of is neither useful or orna- mental. It is of no value to man. kind, but is a great detriment everywhere throughout civiliza- tion. Gases are generally suppos- sed to be invisible, and they are invisible, except when colored, which happens in few instances and that is the kind ofgas of which we propose to speak, for it is al- ways highly colored. And there is a difference, too, in the man. ner in which these gases are ma- nufactured: Illuminating gas is made from coal or asphaltum, while this other gas is made by lungs and jaw-bone. It can be heard at the street corners, at the saloons, at the stores, and almost every place where people congre- gate. It sometimes issues from crowds, and sometimes only one man will hold another by the button, while he lets a full head of this gas upon him. Every town has these machines. This gas is often harmless, except the annoyance it occasions, and pro bably it acts as a safety valve for the machine that generates it.

 But it is not harmless when it deals in falsehOod and misrepre- sentations, no matter what object the party using may have in view. Arizona has been much injured and retarded her in her growth and development by gas. It has ruined nearly every mining enterprise that has ever been started in the Territory. It has been the great incubus that has kept the country from advancing in prosperity. No sooner is a rich mine discovered and sufficiently developed to induce men of capi- tai to invest in it and erect ma chinery to reduce the ores, than some gassy, inflated individual is sent out to superintend the work. He generally puts on great airs of importance, and gases loudly of hisknowledge ofChlorides, Brom- ides, Sulphides, and all the other ides; and the inexperienced mi' ner is often struck with awe at the vast fund of knowledge he carries and regards him as the country pumpkins regarded Gold smiths village schoolmaster:

 They gszed and gazed and still the won

 der grew

 That one small head could carry all be

 knew"

 Nearly all such operations have ended in disaster because too much gas was used instead of so- ber, solid practical knowledge. All such operations tend to the injury of the country.

 Tbe miners themselves are not always free from superabundance of gas. A gassy man man is one who is inflated and eXhilerated. When a man finds a good mine he is very apt to be inflated and exhilerated, aud heis not to blame for being so, for it seems like the fruition of his hopes. But in his hurry to realize his'hopes, he too often lets off too much gas of the colored kind-gas that is visible to induce capitalists to come out and purchase his mine for hun dreds of thousands of dollars, be- fore sufficient work has been done that an estimate can possibly be made of the value of the mine. The capitalist comes and looks, and goes back disgusted, and his report to his friends tends to the injury of the country.

 And gas is used very extensive ly in other operations than min ing. Many man uses gas to ob- tain credit. and thereby contracts
Year: 1876

Those who have handled a piece of congealed mercury, which freezes at a temperature of forty degrees below zero, will know JnaJ rn1 ocusatiou is s1milep to that produced by holding coal of fire in the hand. In other words, intense heat and intense cold bear striking resem- blance to each other in their effects. A Hungarian chemist, whose speciality con- sists of finding out the best methods of preserving meats, has made practical use of this analogy in the action of heat and cold, and partially cooks his meats by subiecting them to the action of intense cold. Strange to say, the meat subjected to this low temperature is reduced to q condition similar to that produced by heat. The material must be perfectly fresh, and after being exposed to tenn perature of thirty-three degrees below zero. must be carefully sealed in tins. It is found when opened to preserve re- markable freshness, and to be in a more satisfactory condition for use than has hitherto been attained by any other method for the same purpose.
Year: 1876

TURKEY RAISING. Poultry Journal has this advice on this subjsct:

 The great and only secret in raising turkeys is to keep them dry and warm. They must, at the same time, have such grass, bugs, flies and gravel as they would pick up if running at large. Make pen of any old boards, not less than two and one-haf feet high tmore would be better,) and so tight that the chicks cannot get out through 1t. in . corner of the meadow, orchard, calf pas ture, or house yard. Sixteen feet square will be large enough for brood of ten or fifteen, and half dozen such broOds, may be kept in a place sixteenfeet wide, and forty or fifty feet long. Let the chicks remain in the nest twelve to twen- ty-four hours after they are matched, then put them in the pen towariD eeen- ing, after the heat of the sun has passed, and long enough bafore evening to per- init them to explore their new quarters and get tired before dark. A little be. fore "roosting time," give them liberal feed of bread soaked in milk, and hard boiled eggs chopped fine, throwing in some coarse grain at the same time for the old hen. After disposing of this they will go quietly to roost under the old one, and remain there until daylight. ''So far so good" but now comes the point at which most of the failures are made. The turkey is emphatically an "early bird," and wanderer. and before you are aware of it, the hen will hop over the low fence, and try to, coax the chicks after her for their breakfast. In order to prevent this, you must get Wp i1 the morning, and have ready for both the hsn and chicks bountiful feed, after partaking of which the hen will again coverthe little ones, and keep them warm until after the dew is gone.' Feed them at least four times day for few days, after which three times will be sufficient; supply them with fresh water daily; let them remain in this pen until they are old enough to get out themselves. and if you do not raise more than twice five out of fifteen hatched," you will have worse success than have. The hen will fly out often during the day, and use every effort to get the chicks to fol- low her, but finding they do not come to her, she will return to them. An old door, or bit of wide board, leaned up against one side of the pen, and fastened so that it cannot fall down and kill any of them, will afford Q shelter from the sun by day, and dew by night.
Year: 1876

When fowls appear out of order and lose appetite, the food should be mixed with little linseed meal, and a small quantity of pepper and small piece of copperas dissolved in their drinking wa. ter would be useful. '''- OoA
Year: 1876

We were conversing with a we'll
known gentleman not long since, and,
among other things that he spoke of, he
referred to the fact of his having Just re-
turned from the home of his youth-the
country home where he passed the first
eighteen years of his life.


He said: "Everything that I once
knew so we'll found changed by time;
the little stream near the old house; the
hillside where in youth [ played; the
old rustic gate, now hanging to its posts,
half decayed and broken; and the fa-
miliar trees even seemed to have grown
grayer, and their once erect forms had
become bent and tottering. When l
stood in silence, contemplating the
change, it seemed as if I should hear
every moment the laugh of sister or
the well-known call of my mother, both
of whom had long since gone to that
land from whence no traveller returns"
How many of US have the same feel
ings?


Often in these calm moments of
thought, when the cares of the world are
laid aside, how these memories of "by-
gone days" will arise and cause the tear
to start in spite of Ourself. 1t is sad
recollection-that of those dear relatives
and friends of our youth who have long
since gone from us. The heart fondly
turns to those first attachments, and
even in old age tries to recall each we'll
remembered look and word of the
"dear departed" more vividly to mind.
In looking back through these inter-
vening years, how every little expression
of those we knew when life was young
will arise, and we find ourselves saying
within our hearts, "Oh what would we
not give for one look or one word from
those who were our playmates and
schoolfellOws, and those still dearer in
the old home.'"


These musings upon the mutability
of this life, and the great thereafter
to which we are so rapidly passing,
should exert a softening and beneficial
effect upon our lives and characters, and
make us better men and women.


In memory's pleasant fields of thought


We love to think and ponder,


And draw from out their pleasant hooks


Old friends and things back yonder


In ripened age our thoughts go back


To childhoOd's rosy hours,


And run along the woodland paths


And meadows sweet with flowers.


The same where we, when young and gay,


With life so bright before us,


We laughed the heeting hours away,


Or sang in childish chorus.


Where golden youth, in life's young day,


Played on the rustic gate,
And Innocence and simple Joys


Ruled there from morn till late.


The children's merry laugh is hushed,


The rustic gate lies broken,


And of all the dear, familiar things


There's hardly left token.



And thus will memory wander back


To Gull these by-gone treasures,


Though when possessing tears will start


So dear beyond all measures.


-Ne,0 York Observer.
Year: 1876

Yes, "silence is golden"-sometimes
But l have seen instances, where, in
my opinion, speech would have been
more golden. Mr.. B. was sick, and
everybody in the house was called upon
to help care for the invalid. To be sure
he was not very sick; only slight cold;
but what of that? He was sick, and
Mrs. B. must shake up the sofa pillow
and see by the Thermometer that the
temperature of the room was right, and
must then go and help her liege lord de-
scend from his chamber. Although he
has been sick only the night before,
and has managed to sleep very well
through the night, he seems so be very
weak this morning, and leans heavily
on his wife's arm as they enter the sit
ting room. She, poor woman, has a
swapping headache, but she keeps the
fact to herself, and, when Mr.. B. is
comfortable, goes cheerfully to the barn
to do her husbands chores. Angie, the
eldest daughter, is sent by papa to cook
three or four eggs for her fathers break
fast, and is undutiful enough to wonder
how it is that papa can eat so many eggs
when he is sick, and how mamma can
get along without any Breakfast when
she is we'll? Julia, the younger daugh-
ter, must bathe papa's head for fear it
may ache, and Johnny must stay in the
house and tend the fire; for, if papa
takes more cold, he may have fever
All this is quite fine for poor, afflicted
papa for a time, but towards night he
gets tired of being ''cooped up," and re-
ally thinks that walk would i'do him
good" So he puts on his coat, with his
wife's help, and pulls on his boots,
which have been nicely warmed by
Johnny, and takes the scarf which An
gle has held near the fire for fifteen
minutes, and goes down to the store to
let the men of his acquaintance know
that, by working very bard, Mrs. B.
has managed to break up a most severe
cold. He does not say, however, that
he never thought of thanking his wife
for doing his work in addition to her
own. He did not mention the fact that
he had not thought it worth while to
ask her if her head ached, when she
pressed her hands to her throbbing tenn
piles. OF course Angie did not care if he
was silent when she carried him his
eggs, cooked just as he liked them.
And what was the use of praising Julia
for the deft way in which she bathed
his head, or of telling Johnny that he
had done well in staying so patiently in
the house while the other boys were
skating on the pond, in plain sight?


Surely, silence is not always golden.
The silence which withholds the pleas
ant words of praise, or thanks for SER
vices rendered, the words of love which
make labor light and cares easy to be
borne, the words of pity which make
the heart cheerier, the words of hope
which cause US to ever look upward and
onward, is never golden. "Speech is
silver" saith the proverb, but main
tain that speech is very, very often
golden
Year: 1876

The following is an extract from q
sermon, or rather lecture, delivered by
Mr.. Beecher, in Plymouth Church, on
the subject of "Our Common Schools:D


"Our common schools must be so con-
stituted that men of all religious sects
and men of no creed at all can send their
children to them. Applause. You
must not call them religious institu-
tions; they are that in a technical sense,
because all things work together for
good; but after the manner of the speech
of men, the common school must not be
regarded as a religious institution. 1t
is secular, and it must be kept secular,
and defended against anything that
shall make it other than secular. On
that ground we can have national
schools, and on no other ground can we
have them.


at is not fair that should be taxed
for the education of my boy when
cannot afford to send him to a common
school for fear his conscience will be
perverted. Applause. 1t is not right
nor fair that l should be compelled to
choose ignorance for my child or educa-
tion in school where he will be taught
the things abhor. CApplause.] 1t is
not falr, because my neighbor is in a
majority, that he should compel me, a
Jew-a citizen like him, taxpayer like
him, free American citizen like him
it is not right that he should make me
pay money for the sake of having his
child hear the New Testament read,
which don't believe in. Applause. ]
1t is not right to read the Protestant BIZ
BILE in the common school where sub
stantial Catholic fellow-citizens are
obliged to send their children, Tap
plause] when they don't believe the
Protestant version is a faithful version
of Gods will; it is not right, if the Ro-
man Catholic population were in the
ascendaDcy, that they should read their
| Douay Bible in the common schools.
and oblige US Protestants to hear it.
! [Applause.


81 have lived only little time-only
two or three years ago and the enuncia-
/ tion of this doctrine would not have
drawn forth this expression of your feel
ings; but you have had time to consider,
and the men who at first were moved to
alarm have at last come to the opinion
that our common schools must be secu-
lar, and not religious"
Year: 1876

LIVING TOO FAsT.-In our day, both
married and single people live too fast.
A bachelor now has need of an income
such as would once have satisfied man
with family; and the husband and
father requires for his single household
the means which would have twenty
years ago supported two families, if not
three. Daughters are sent to fashiona-
BILE schools at an enormous cost, there
to learn extravagance, and, in short, to
become fitted for anything but to become
the wives of poor men. Sons are ruined
with unlimited pocket-money, late
hours, and almost total absence of pa
ternal control. Thus we not only waste
our estates, but perpetuate the vice in
eur children. In every way we are liv-
ing too fast.
Year: 1876

ADVERTISEMENTS The advertise
ments in newspaper are more read than
the thoughtless imagine. They are the
map of large class of mems capabilities
in life. The man who contemplates do
ing business in distant town takes up
the local paper, and in its advertising
columns sees a true picture of the men
he has to deal with, a complete record OF
the town-its commerce, its home
trade, the facilities of stOrekeepers, its
banks, and in almost every case he can
estimate the character of the men who
are soliciting the public patronage.
The advertising page is map of the
town, record of its municipal char
acter, a business confession of the citi-
zens, and, instead of being the opinion
ated production of one man, it is
frieghted with the ife-thoughts of a
hundred.
Year: 1876

This is the life to come,
Which martyred men have made more glorious
For us who strive to follow. May I reach
That purest heaven, be to other souls
The cup of strength in some great agony,
EnkindIe generous ardor, feed pure love,
Beget the smile that has no cruelty,
Be the sweet presence of good diffused,
And in diffusion even more intense.
Year: 1876

The ladies'. will be interested, though not
pleased, to know that combination has been
formed to put up the price Ut silks. The reason
Of this is thu partial failure Of the production Of
the silk-worm during the last year. But there
is one thing which the silk men must not ignore,
and this Is that silk is by no means 4 necessary
and indispensable article; and, if those who have
stocks OIL hand undertake to discount the short
production, and realize unreasonable profits on
the goods they now hayc the consumption will
be iounl to fall oH in Z larger degree than the
temporary decline in the production. The
Use Of silk in this country Increased enor-
mously during a few years, partly on account Of
the extravagant habits Of the times and partly
because the amount OF the production has made
it cheap. But, as it becomes dcarcr, the tende1,-
cy to economy will assist the people in dispens-
ing with it largely, aud those who are raising
the prices arc likely to oyerrcach themselves.
Year: 1876

THE Democrats expect to carry every
Southern State This will give them 1873
electoral votes, AZ less than majority of
the electoral college. 1t is not their design,
however, to carry any more Northern
States than will be required to give them
that majority. The reason for this is
plain. 1t is that in the division of the
spoils which would follow the event of
their success the leaders would be embar-
rassed by the demands of the Northern
Democrats and doughfaces if their victory
should happen to be due to Northern votes.
In other words, the Southern Democracy
intend to monopolize the patronage, aud
do not want any more Northern assist
ance than is barely necessary to place
them in power,
Year: 1876

one Is given to the East, the other will proba-
bly, go to the West, and vice versa. 1t b there
fore impossible to speculate intelligently in
relation to the Vice Presidential candidate
without making the location of the Presiden-
tial candidate the starting point of the discus
sion. Assuming that Mr.. Conkling will be
nominated for the higher office, there Is no diff
ficulty in forming judgment as to who is the
strongest Republican to run with him. 1t
should be Western man, of course !; and of
all Western men Gov. Hayes is the one who
would contribute most to the success
of the ticket. The two grand key po-
sitions of the campaign are New York
and Ohio. If the Republicans can carry
both of these States their triumph
is assured. For winning one Of these pivotal
States Senator Conkling is the strongest pos
sible candidate, and Governor Hayes is the
strongest possible candidate for winning the
other. Governor Hayes would carry Ohio
with just as much certainty running for the
Vice Presidency as he would If running for the
Presidency; but on the other hand, he would
have nothing like Mr.. Conkllng's chances for
carrying New York If he was assigned the first
place on the ticket. Joined together Conkling
and Hayes would assist either, like the two
blades of a pair of shears, and between them





into very small shreds. 1t will be more diff
cult task for the Republicans to carry New York
than Ohio, Ohio being at present Republican
and New York Democratic State. The En-
pire State is, in fact, the grand hinge on
which the Presidential election is to turn,
and If the Republicans are wise they will sub
ordinate all minor considerations to success in
New York. To achieve this Senator Conkling
is the man; but even he can rescue New York
from the Democrats only by strenuous effort,
which will be greatly aided by splendid pre-
liminary victory in Ohio in the October State
election. Governor Hayes, running for the
Vice Presidency, would insure them such
victory, and, by the ordinary effect of earlier
upon later elections, the Republican ship
could be fioated over the bar in New York by
the buoying force OF Senator Conkling, who
knows the State so well, and who is the
strongest and most popular man in the coun-
try with the New York Republicans. A ticket
inscribed "Conkling and Hayes" is the trump
card ofthe Republicans for this Presiden-
tial game.