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Year: 1873

To prevent the little striped bug
from destroying the cucumber plants,
take four pieces OF board, each iour
inches long and seven inche vide, and
nail them together. This will makes a
pox without top or bottom. Set this
On the bill, press it down little to
keep the bugs from creeping under,
andt he work is done When the
plants need hoeing take the box of,
and when done replace it as before /;
and when the plants are large enough
to be out Of the way of the b1gs, take
off the box and put it under shelter
and it will last toEgy years or more.
have used it for number of years,
and never knew it to fail. Not bug
ever ventured within the enclosure.
Try it. 1t viii cost but little.
Year: 1873

Roor CROPS, which pass rapidly
through the various stages of arowth
from the seed to maturity, cannot af-
ford to waste time in searching for
supplies, and the early stages oi
growth are especially critical. A tur
nip starved in youth becomes stunted.
but If literally fed it takes a strong
hold OF the ground, aud grows away
rapidly. Solvents, therefore, applied
on.the surface at seedtime unlock the
cupboard at the right time, so that
the tiny roots find food when they
want it, and when alone they could
reach it.
Year: 1873

The following, says'the Cincinnati


COnomereidI, is story OF General
Butler; Many years ago, when the tee
total advocates we're raging through
England, and terrifying the people


about the effects OF alcohol, they stir
red the excitement to high pitch by
saying that even in the bread there


Was alcohol, which alcohol came IRON
the yeast used by the bakers. OF
course, the bakers protested fiercely
that there was no alcohol in their
bread, and denied the stories of tee
totallers but, at the same time, some
OF them found it safest to give up the
use of yeast and rsise their bread by
other means. Finally, when things
were at their worst, one bold baker
raised over his shop big sigu-board,
BREAD With the alcohol in ii" and
scattered hand-hills all around, an
nOnncing tnat be was the man who
sold this bread. The tide was at
once turned by the auGaciOus &C. of
this jolly baker people rushed TO
his Diac9 from Tar and near to get
bread with alcohol in it, and he found
himself the most popular baker in all
London. This baker took the bull
by the horns, and wha men and NO.
men were terrified by the word "alco
hoI,n he raised it as cry of triumph,
and found profit in his audacity. The
Of this story is obvious.
The wcrd 'grab" is an ugly word,
and terrifies politicians just IS the
word "aIcohop' terrified the London
bakers. But let General Butler bold
Iy raise the triumphant cry Of "grab.'
lie. him call himself the grab - can
didate, and his party the grab par
ty, and, perhaps, he may find that
such audacity will bring about a re-
vulsion in public sentiment which
will give MIN profit and popularity,
and any office he wants
Year: 1873

whether in Journalism or general politics, so
that the whole is a rather full. Just and faith
ful representation of American politics for
period of forty years.


Here you will learn of the rise and fall OF
parties; of the triumph and defeat of policies;
of the lives and character of
Year: 1873

A valued friend and O shire we'd
business man sends us the following
illustration Of what he conccives to
bo the absnrdity of trying to save
the commercial community by Ok.
phnding the national currency:


The idea of making tho currency
more efficient by increasing its volume
is quite as absurd as it would be for
cloth dealer to think of facilitating
bis operations by multiplying his
CARDS sticks. Two or four yard sticks
IN one mans hands would measure
no more cloth than one. Nor would
the process be expedited, though the
Government should enact that eaoh
yard measured by four sticks should
be called four yards and should pass
current for four. In the last case the
merchant would indeed have q greater
number Of yards, nom'naNy. but no
moro cloth than before. He would
in no way be benefited, uhless he
had old debts to pay in yards, which
ho could discharge in tho new meas
ure, one being equal to tour. In
this way he would save three e.quartcrf
of his cloth and become rich at the
cost Of his creditors. .--Augusta Con-
stitutoinphst. .'..'..
Year: 1873

The Post-office clerks desire us to say
that they all know the story of the man
who wrote note on a postal card, III
closed it in an envelope, put on a three
cent stamp, and mailed it, saying what
great convenience it was. The clerks. in
the stamp department have suffered un-
told agony from this story. Every postal
card they have sold has drawn it out. One
man leans on the window, and tells it
every time he buys stamp. One fellow,
an old thoroughbred granger, came in
from his farm in Stark county to
tell it. and then told it wrong.
One. man told it to them in Dutch, and a
high-school boy scanned it for them.
Sometimes half dozen men will stand at
the window and tell it by turns, just as
they get money orders. One villain
wouldn't pay his box rent till they bad all
quit work and come up to hear that story.
Saturday d preacher came to the Win
dow, mailed some tracts and told that sto-
ry, thereby destroying the clerks belief in


future punishment. A deaf and dumb
man told it on his fingers. in excited pan
tomime, and then, fearing they had lost
some of it, he wrote it out on slate. The
| victims of this narrative now wish to in


form the people Of Peoria that they have


the anecdote by heart; they can say it
| backward and whistle it, and if ever they


get lonesome for want of it. they can tell


it to each other. ~ Peoria (IEl,) Reriesc.
Year: 1873

The Legislature has wisely repealed
the act requiring the publication of the
lave in newspapers. To publish the
new code, which would be done had
not this act been repealed, alone would
have cost 100000, and we do not be-
lieve 1t to be q wise nse of the public
funds.
Year: 1873

"BuFFAIo BILL" was at Hartford,
Conn. one day, and while visiting
Colts Armory, the large number of
spectators who had assembled to see
the famous scout. desired him to favor
them with an exhibition of his skill rs
a marksman. Bill gave the chew OF
tobacco In his mouth to small boy
to keep warm, small piece of white
paper was put up on the barn door,
nifty rods distant, b. William seized a
fine new rifle, spit on his hands, and
In the manner so often described by
Ned Buutline, raised the weapon UNI
I'll his nose rested on the stock. fired,
and q picket was knocked of from =
fence ten feet to the left OF the barn.
'sThis rifle barrel is crooked" said
Bill. so saying he hit it over a stone to
straighten 1t, then shot again, this
time barking the shin OF an old pie
woman on his right flank. A third
trial and he hit the barn fair in the
centre, aud the shout that arose from
ths assemblage attested the joy OF the
spectators mt his success.
Year: 1873

A MARYsvn.LE, Ky., choir tried to
harmonize snare drum with church
music lately, but some Of the more an
cisnt nasal twangers made SO much
fuss the plan was abandoned. One
ancient maiden lady, who had sang
for twenty years, nearly jumped over
the railing when the first drum tap
was sounded, and the deacon who sang
bass, threw down his hymn-book, say
ing he could not sing praises with that
goggle-eyed chap betting - out OF a
sheep-skin right In under his ears.
Year: 1873

The society editor who was kicked
out OF a house In Washington the
other day, took sweet revenge in stat.
ing that the wife ofthe kickee appeared
at . ball attired In lovely pongee
skirt made Of government drawers for
infantry.
Year: 1873

THE Journal asserts that we are ''snarling
over the grave of the Hon. John c. Con-
nor. This is about as near the truth as the
Journal can get about anything. We have
not said one word disrespectful Of the dead.
We did not indulge in fulsonc culogy for
we did not feel at all inclined that way.
What we said was moderate and truthful
We might have added more, but it would
not have been in cxaltation Of the departed
To be candid, we did not much admire the
character Of the man, but we would let the
dead rest in peace. Why the journal should
be so much interested in the matterwe can
not conceive. unlessfr from the fact that Com
nor was reported TO have turned Republic
can before he died. Perhaps this may ac-
count for the Journal aozirc.
Year: 1873




WE have been locking over our election
table and making some corrections and adj
ditions, and we believe it is now inthe main
correct as far as We have seen returns. OF
course, many Of tho returns arc not official
and have been taken down from tclegraphic
and newspaper reports. Some We know to
be little too large and Others too
small from later intelligence, but take
them all together and we think the Of
fetal count will not vary much from them
in the aggregate. It will bc seen that from
the counties heard from the majority OF Coke
already reaches Sc, AGO, and it will doubtless
go over 40, 900, This is a noble showing
for the Democracy Of Texas. All lIal the
Lone Star Statel
Year: 1873

THE jackson (Tenn.) Courier, in allusion
to the late election in Memphis, at which it
seems the Radicals triumphed by detection
of the old Wings, gives it as his opinion,
that the Democracy cannot succeed under
that name, but that the term Conservative
should be kept up. Well, that may suit the
editor of the Courier, who was osce a very
grabbed Wing himself, and who does not
like the sound of the word Democracy, but
what we hayeto say about 1t is this--that the
old Wings, who had rather vote for Radi-
cal than an old fashioned Democrat, not
worth conciliating; they are unworthy Of
belonging to the good old Democratic par
ty, and will do more harm in it than ont Of
it. They had better stick. soul, body and
breeches, with the Radicals. A victory not
won on principle, Is not worth fighting for.
Year: 1873

the free use Of salt for animals, and we have
no doubt OF its usefulness in securing the
health and well beng Of the human race.
As this is about the season Of hog killings
We hope our readers viii, at least, take this
matter under consideration, though they
may come to the conclusion that this article
Is a little two saltr.
Year: 1873

torm It and make It do their win. And the
threat has been literally carried out, and the
courts of the country from the highest to
to the lowest with few honorable
exceptions, have become the mere tools Of
a political party, regardless Of constitutions,
laws, or the plainest principles of human
justice. Should judge now decide in ac-
eordance with law and equity, but against
the party which appointed him, he * immc-
diately denounced, and got rid Of by some
foul means or other. Hence the most Of
our judges have become completely sub
servient to party and dare not give honest,
legal opinions, even If their inclination
prompts them to do right, which IS now
seldom the case. Who docs not know that
two new judges were put in the United
States Supreme Court expressly 70 oversule
the decision Of Chief Justice Chase on the
legal tender act. Their opinions wero de-
manded in advance, and they were in effect
pledged to carry out the wish of the Presi-
dent appointing them and the Senate
confirming them. S., too, whenever the
Radicals had the power to do it, they
have reformed the inferior United States
courts and the State courts into mere tools
to do party service and carry ont the wicked
designs and commands of Radicalism.
Look at the conduct of Judge Durell in
louisiana Could any thing be more bare
faced and infamousg Other instances might
be given, If it were not for making this arti-
Gle too long. And now it is being at
tempted in our own State, by decision of
its Radical court, to overthrow the State
government, established by the will of its
people, and to continue in power a set of
shameless usurpers without the shadow of
authority for an indefinite and unconstitu-
tional period of time. What the result
may be we cannot tell IN these days Of
monstrous absurdities and unparalleled cor


ruption We hope for the best, but we
must confess that we have our fears.
Year: 1873

Il the debate in the House on the bin TO
increase the number Of enlisted men IN the
navy from $500 to 10000, ar. Beck, Of
Kentucky, brought ont some facts and ig-
ures which ought to set people thinking a
little about the extravagant way of CON
ducting all things since the Radicals came
into power. It is often said Of late, both in
and out OF Congress, that our present navy
is Of little account. Now Dir. Beck shows
that up to 1860 we always had very cfiici-
ent navy, and yet never expended on it over
$f4, 900, 600 annually. Yet during the last
Eve years, we have expended from twenty
to twenty-five and even thirty millions for
it annually, and the navy ROW is said TO be
Of little account Mr.. Beck wanted to
know what had become of the money.
During the civil war two hundred million
OF more was laid out on the navy At its
close there were over six hundred ships, now
we have less than ono hundred and thirty,
and themost of them are said to be useless.
What terrible bad management and corEup-
ton does not this indicatoa no Radical
member could satisfactorily explain the
matter.
Year: 1873

Mr.. PRESIDENT AND FELLOW CITIZENS: / will
tell you the outset that do not propose 10 make any
extended remarks tonight. In the first place il Ia al
ready pretyate and in the second place, as the others
have much better covered the ground IWish 10 add
my protest to the protests that have from the ps
OF The other gentlemen here to-night to add my
protest as citizen of the State Of NewYork interested


in fs welfare well Republican, and as a member
Of the great Republican party interested only In the
City Of New York but in the entire Union As a Citizen


believe IN reasonable good standing protest against
the scheme OF government in the City OF New-York,
which they attempt 20 put through in the Albany
Legislature with the whip and spur. Have the citizens
OF this great city right to be heard the subject Of
the organic lay which " 10 govern them for yepJs here
Year: 1873

The speakers who preceded me have very
ably proved the mschievOus intentions OF the different
provisions OF the charter under consideration in
Legislature. intend to the few moments allotted


TO NE to call your attention the fact that the
from which this law emanaed and the by which
its passage is advocated prevent the possibility that IL
can be what the people Of NewYork have the right
expect and which IL Is their duty TO ask for and to insist
on 1t is known, that this charter prepared by
subcommittee OF political organization, whose mem
bers openly admitted that in doing their work. they did
not pretend be Indifferent to the wishes aud interests
Of their party; and IL is asserted from all sdes-from
the press well which approves OF this law. from
the members OF the Legislature. who vote for t-hat
is Republican charter, coming from the Republican
party be passed by its members and for the purpose
10 secure the control OF municipal affairs 10 this
party Now. Sir, what teaches the experience wha,
are the dearybought lessons Of the past in regard 10
the attempt make municipal affairs subservient to
the interest Of political paresi They that by this
the rights and interests OF city are nrusted
10 the care Of men who are nominated and selected
without regard TO their ability fidelity, and honesty


but principally for the purpose " the influence of
Year: 1873

Whence did this man comet Is he such profound
man in morals or politics that We should re
gard HIM Mayor Hall appointed him, but no


until he had first made his arrangement with
william NJ. Tweed. He retained long after
Year: 1873

An active news gatherer at
St. louisville made rapid time
to a store in that village on infor-
nation that a man had got shot
there ten minutes previously.
The obliging merchent told him
that a man got pound and paid
for it.
Year: 1873

I The ehrst, thing q young man
does when he sees a friend with
a pew hat on is to take it off and
try it on his own head. When
a young lady sees Que of her ac-
quaintance with a. new bonnet
Oh she just lifts. up her nose and
scarcely wonders where the
thing 90: that fright"
Year: 1873

And here tonight We stand,
Our Tres.e! board outspread,


The work marked down j. goodly work
To the Master overhead


And the word goes up to the lodge above,
And the word is right. for the word is


Love - q
Year: 1873

Father Hyacinthe now takes a step
further in the advance than :even
The old catholics He no longer makes
any pretense to allegiance to the
Church of Rome. In his new bredth
Of creed be goes even beyond the Evan
gelical Alliance itself, and proclaims
faith in Christ as the only essential Of
Christian brotherhood. He expresses
ar ardent hope in the future unity of
the Church, though it is plain be ex-
poets this to be accomplished not SO.
much by brineingssall within the pale as
by breaking down the pale.
Year: 1873

POSTMASTER GENERALS REPORT
A Times special from Washington
says that the forthcoming report Of the
Postmaster General Will N the main
embody the recommendation Of his
last reports. He viii renew his sug-
gestions concerning the Postal Iele-
graph and will strongly recommend the
establishment Of Post Office savings
banks. The repeat viii show very
great extension Of the railroad mail
service, and great increase in the
home an international money order
business.
Year: 1873

OaKE AMEs AS He WAs.-From the


Washington correspondent of the Spring


field Republican we copy the following


There is a strong disposition here to


speak kind words of Mr.. Ames. now
that he is in his grave at North Easton.


In fact there nevsr was any feeling here


against him except among dozen of
MIR. Co'fax's friends. The vote of CEN
sure IN the last house was forced by the
facts against him. but nobody had ill


feeling for Mr.. Ames Judge Poland,
the Chairman of the Committee report.
Ing the resolutions, kept up his persona!
friendship for Mr.. Ames to the last. /
heard him say privately On one occasion:
'' The cacts compel me to move vote
of censnre on Mr.. Ames. but had no
idea that he was conscious of wrong
doing. and in watching his course care
fully through the whole investigation
have come to the conclusion that ne
IS wonderfully honest man, and he is
certainly kind hearted and generous.
He should never have come to Congress,
forhe knew nothing whatever of politics.
If he could have believed that public
men would lie to escape conviction of
having taken Credit Mobilier stock of
him. he would have declined to let them
have it. or taken good care to preserve
such evidence VI the transaction as
would have rendered it impossible fer
them to deny it. Probably there are
not half "A dozen men in the country
who knew Mr.. Ames who did not be-
lieve him when he made positive decla-
ration as to the facts of transaction.
No such feeling exists in regard to Mr..
Brooks. I am sorry to say He was a
cunning politician, and amassed large
fortune while in public life. His will
tells the story: he was Government Di-
rector for time in the Union Pacific
Railroad, and he at the time and soou
after contrived to get hold of over 5000,
900, in its securities. While legisl..ting
on the subjet, he was loaded down with
its bonds. "nd yet he claimed that he
was entirely impal tial-just as ready to
vote against the road as for it.
Year: 1873

|
Herald, after long and painful decline
has at last succombed to the inevitable,
and given up the ghost.


The late Henry ". Cotton, in an able
and practical essay on Journalism, laid
down a few golden rules, without the
observance of which newspaper is al
most certain to fail. Among these are
the following:


Remember that newpaper publish
ing is as much business as keeping a
store or mandatory.


Beware OF the politicians.


These rules accord with the observa-
ton and experience Of every old jour
nalist. The violation OF them sealed the
fate of the Herald, as it is certain to do
by every journal. however promising,
under like circumstances. That paper,
urder the management of practical
and expert journalist and independent
Of the dictation of poIitici,ns. was placed
upon paying basis in less time and
upon smaller expenditure of money
than any paper of like standing upon
the Pacific coast, and its commanding
inflreuce was manifest and conceded in
every general and special election. Had
it been allowed to continue under the
same management until the present
time, it would be the most valuable
newspaper property in Oregon. But
its very success was the primary cause
of its -ltimate ruin: its pecuniary pros
perity excited the cupidity of men who
sought to profit by the labors and thro'
the necessities Of others. who imagined
that the profit was in the machine and
not in its management; office-seekers
sought to control it as au instrument to
promote their selfish ambition; cross
roads politicians. tricksters and time
servers saw in its independent course
and commanding influence perpetual
|
the result was. that by combination of
greed, political ambition and chicanery,
and the use of treacher, falsehood and
fraud. the paper. passed under the man
agement.of men with no knowledge of
the business and the dictation of poll
ticians, neither actuated by other than
p, rely selfish motives. The consequen
ces were wnat every experienced jour-
nalist might have predicted with the
most uneiring certainty. Every man
connected with its publication, from
that day to the present. has lost money
by the venture. As party organ, its
manifest selfshness and personal bias
made its advocacy fatal to the party and
every cause which it espoused. II was
an object of contempt to its enemies, a
terror only to its friends, and its sickly
existence was only prolonged by forced
levies upon persons who imagined they
could make its use promotive of their
personal schemes. It has finally starv-
Ell out, the victim of ignorant manage
ment and political PARISHES. The other
two daily jour. ais in Portland are un-
der like management and are going in
the same way unless they speedily
change hands and shake off the political
ieeches which are now fastened upon
them. A party paper may succeed le-
ultimately without becoming the person
al organ of party politicians; but no
paper was ever yet business success
after 1t became the recognized personal
organ of any individual or ring. and no
politician can make worse investment
of his money than in establishing and
Year: 1873

A kind-hearted pick pocket writes to
the New York Tribune the following
suggestions, which may prove servica
BILE to persons who are in the habit of
carrying valuable papers in their pock
et-book:


"Please advise your readers al vays to
leave their names and address in their
pocket-books. 1t frequently happens
In our business that we come in possess
sion of portmonnaies containing private
papers and photographs which we would
be glad to return but we have no means
to do 50. Il is dangerous to carry them
about-so We are forced to destroy them
l remember an instance where I met
with serious trouble because 1 could
not make up my mind to DESTROY a pic
ture of baby which had found In the
pocket-book of a gentleman which came
into my hands in the way of business
on the Third Avenue road. l had lost
a baby myself the year before of the
same age as this one. and wou'd ave
given all had for such picture. There
was no name on the portmonnaie and no
way of finding out who the owner was
SO like fool 1 advertised it and got
shadowed for it by the police. Tell
your readers to give US fair show to
be decent-and always leave their ad.
dress in their pocket books. We want
to live and to let live.'