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Year: 1875

To the Trustees of the several

 School District of Pope County ::

 On the first Monday in Deccm- Der, at the county seat, is the time and place prescribed by law for the election of County Super intcndent of Public Instruction. This important work is placed in the hands of the trustees of the several school districts.

 Up to the present, public schools have resulted in but little good; but the fault is not so much Tn the system as the way in which it has been managed. A system, however excellent within itself, will produce but little good unless those charged with the operations of the same do their duty. How ever little may be thought of it, you are charged with one of the most sacred trusts incumbent upon man. One not only impor tant to society at present, but one necessarily, doubly important to the rising generation the dis charge of which has a direct bear ing. and mighty influence upon their future welfare. Every trus- tee should be a live workin. H,ai,, interested in the public good, and if the trustees should be such, cer- tainly the superintendent should be an active, intelligent person, deeply interested in the cause of education.

 Hence it is the duty of the trustees to be present at the cleo tion and see that no drone is placed in this important station, but that it be a person who will take an active interest in carry ing on the work, and I hope that each and every trustee in the county will be present at the time and place named, ready to give his voice for one suited to fill the office. Yours truly,

 R. R. WILSON,

 Co. Sup't Pub. Inst'n.
Year: 1875

After a session of ten days the November term of Pope Circuit Court adjourned on last Friday.

 Most of the important cases on the Criminal Docket were taken up, and either disposed of or laid over until next term of Court on account of hang juries.

 The case of State vs. Mccoy for the murder of McAllister was not tried on account of the absence of important witnesses on the part of the defendant.

 In the case of the State vs. Mor- ris, for the murder of Dickson, the jury was divided and not being able to agree, the case was con tinued until next term.

 In the case State vs. Torbit for resisting civil process, the jury was again divided and no verdict obtained.

 Napier charged with larceny, was acquitted.

 Hogue for violation of the Sab. bath got twenty five dollars and
Year: 1875

subscription from dozens, who have never even subscribed them selves. Is it possible they with hold their influence because they are opposed to the enterprise? ? We sincerely hope not, and we hope tbey will wake up from the apathetic spell, and do better.
Year: 1875

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 dreds who never see the attractive bills which are posted in the tav- ern and the store rooms. Every subscriber to a country paper reads all such advertisements carefully. He knows who is sell

 ing out and exactly what is offered for sale. The result is a large crowd, spirited bidding, and q realization of ten, twenty or fifty times what it cost to advertise. No money is SO sure to return a large profit as that spent on prin- ters' ink. A single additional bidder on single article will pay alf it cost to advertise sale of personal property in newspaper Is it not strange, ther, that any one should fail to advertise! Let our friends think of the matter.

 Do the influential men of Pope county want to see a first class newspaper sustained in their county? If so they should not depend upon us to do it all, but they should aid us in securing such a circulation as will justify us in spending more time, labor and money upon it. While we do not feel in any way discouraged, we DO feel that the prominent men of the county-those whose influence would secure us large numbers of subscriptions-are not doing theirduty- We could name over two dozen men who pretend to be influential, prominent, pub lie spirited citizens, and a single word from whom would secure .
Year: 1875

The Covington (Kentucky) Record
old negro woman by the name of Brown
living about nine miles south of Gov
ington, on the farm of Mr.. Pullen, had
daughter about twelve or thirteen
years of age, who had for long time
been bed ridden with a hopeless attack
of paralysis. Her mother, an incarnate
Gend growing weary of the constant
care and trouble which the afflicted
daughter required at her hands, determ-
ined to put her out of the way, and Sc
lected the most cruel and torturing
method that debased ingenuity could
uggest-burning- to conceal
her crime under the guise of an accident.
Having perfected her diabolical plans
about two weeks ago she set about putt
ing them in execution. Placing the
child on a chair by the fireplace, and
tying rope around her neck, she began
by saturating the head and clothing OF
the almost helpless child from a bottle
of turpentine that she had procured for
the purpose. The child struggled with
what power of motion it could command
knocked the bottle from the hand of its
mother and broke it, saturating the
mothers clothing with the inhammable
fluid. In the struggle, the mothers
clothing took fire from the fireplace, and
she abandoned her terrible crime to save
her own life. She ran and threw her


self into branch near by, and exiting


uIshed the flames, but not until she was
fatally burned. The clothing of the
child also took fire, and it was very Sc


vererely burned. At the time it wal
supposed to be an accident, but th'
monster woman subsequently, when il
the agnnies of death from her burning
revealed the fact as above detailed.
Year: 1875

HALF HARDY TREES AND WIND
SHELTER.-Every once in while we
come across a statement that this tree or
that is not hardy. There is no doubt
that so far as temperature is concerned:
the trees referred to will stand all the
cold they are likely to meet with in the
regions referred to, but still the trees
die.


1t may be as well to remind our
friends who lose their trees, that it is
not so much frost as wind which de-
stroys them. Death is the result of the
whipping out of the juices of the tree,
and not by the freezing of its cells. And
it is no proof that because a tree dies in
an exposed windy place, that dit is not
hardy" in the deponent's latitude. That
trees die under different circumstances,
where they we're thought hardy, is no
wonder to those who are familiar with
trees. Indeed, it is rather wonder that
so many live that do.


Generally it is the tree nature to be
gregarious. They grow up the in forests
thousands together, and by mutual pro-
lection hardly known what wind is. The
falling leaves protect the young plants,
so that in the severest winters days,
one may go into a dense wood and
hardly find frost an inch below the sur
face. So that trees growing in woods
have double chance. They are kept
from severe waste of their juices by
their mutual protection from wind; and
the roots, without much hindrance
from frosty ground, draw in moisture all
the winter through, and thus easily sup
ply what little waste there may be.


How different is this from a trees
usual fate. Set out alone, to battle
with the winds unalded, and with the
frost encasing every root, so that all the
moisture they can take up has to be first
thawed by their own internal heat frcm
the frozen ground, why should not large
numbers perish? 1t is not in the nature
of things to be otherwise, and it shows
rather a limited acquaintance with
plant life when the loss occasions any
surprise.


But there is not a place in the whole
country but might do we'll. The coldest
place on the bleakest Western prairie,
by thick planting of the valuable trees,
and planting of shelter belts of larches
or other wind proof trees. might have
everything we have-everything we call
half hardy-eyerything in fact that any
reasonable horticulturist could wish.
To be sure, much has been in this di-
rection in the West. The agricultural
papers and agricultural writers have
written over and over again as to the
necessity of shelter belts before much
can be done: but when we read; as we
continually do, OF experiments with
these trees or those, and the conclusions
come to, that "they are not hardy
West" when we know it is all matter
of wind and not of frost, We see how


much more is to be done in pushing a


knowledge of the shelter idea, before


those regions can half enjoy the full


pleasure of Horticulture; and it is in


the hope of reinforcing our Western
friends, who have labored so long in this


field, that we have been moved to per


this article.
Year: 1875

Having first decided upon the gener-
al location of her net, the spider proba-
bly, takes position head downward upon
the "leeward'' side of a twIg or small
branch, or upon its top, and then, turn
ing her abdomen outward, expresses
from her spinners drop of gum, which
instantly dries so as to form fine end
of a silkeu thread. This is taken by
the wind land careful experiments have
proved that a current of air is absolutely
necessary to the extension of the line)
and waited outward, waving from side
to side, and usually tending upward
from its extreme lightness until at last
it touches some other branch at great
er or less distance from the first. When
this stoppage is perceived by the spider
she turns aboat and pulls in the slack


line, until she is sure that the other end
it fast. If it yields, she tries again and
again. until successful. If it holds, she
attaches her end firmly by pressing her
spinners upon the wood, so as to include
the line. The first and most important
step in the construction of all geometri-
cal nets has now been taken, and the
spider can meet with no serious difficult
ty in completing her task.--[ Popular
Science Monthly.
Year: 1875

DR.. Mark Hopkins evidently does not
think it the highest mark of wisdom for
a man never to change his opinions. In
n recent lecture at Vassar College he
said: 81 would at this point correct my
teaching in "The Law Of Love" to the
effect that home is peculiarly the sphere
of woman, and civil government that Of
man. now regard the home as the
joint sphere of man and woman, and
the sphere of civil government more OF
an open question as between the two
1t is however, to be lamented that the
present agitation concerning the rights
of woman is so much a matter of rights
rather than Of Duties as the reform oi
the latter would involve tie former
Which sounds very sensible in him, and
reads like some oft-repeated doctrines o
the Springfield Republican.
Year: 1875

Mrs. Moulton, whatever the value Of
her evidence, as TO which we say moth
ing, proved TO be a model witness. Mr.
Moulton won praise by his coolness,
self-possession, precision and good tone;
but Mrs. Moulton was a "high toneder
man" than he. Her modest manner
and her clear head were exceptionally
admirable; and in cross-examination she
was a match even for 10 eminent a law
yer as Mr.. Evarts. How she would
have come off if Mr.. Fullerton had been
on the other side is possibly not SO GER
tain. But her cross-examination brought
out a painful fact. She was asked if
she had ever kissed Mr.. Beecher. With
perfect frankness, she said that she once
had done so. As he lay upon her sofa,
overwhelmed with woe-from whatever
cause-she, who had been giving him
some goad counsel, thinking that per
haps she might never see him again.
with the impulse of womanly-done,
tenderness that must raise her in the es-
timation of every man, bent over and
kissed him on the forehead. It was
most womaniy done, and it is to her
eternal honor. But how came it about
that the counsel for the defense knew Of
this gracious act, which it seems that the
harsh duties of their profession requir-
ed them to subject to misconstruction?
She did not tell theny and we may be
sure that her husband, to whom she
mentioned it as soon afterward as she
saw him, did not reveal it. There was
but one other person present, the man
who had told this woman, in his pecu-
liar phraseology, that she was always
like ga slice of the day Of Judgment" I"
but to whom she then behaved like a
consoling angel. If he put that fact in
to the hands Of his counsel to be nsed as
weapon against her, he will find that


he himself had the sword by the blade.
This is one of the saddest incidents of


this sad affair.
Year: 1875

COLORADO Potato BEETLE.-They
will be on hand early in the spring, as
soon as the potatoes are up-not to eat
the young stalks but to deposit their
eggs, each one about a million. The
best way is to pick the old ones off by
hand. When the young ones get too
thick for comfort, give them a dose of
Paris green; mix enough with water
to make it dark green. Apply with
common watering pot with a fine nose.
Do not handle them if you have sore
or cut on your face or hands. When burn
ing, the smoke from them is poisonous.
Eastern farmers who have not received
a call from them yet should be prepared
for them, for they will surely call on
you. Kill the first one you see and
keep on killing. Commence in time;
don't let them run two or three years,
as we did. They did not injure the
crop at first, and thought they would
leave in few years; but they same to
stay. We have got them thinned out a
little.-[R Rural New Yorker.
Year: 1875

AN INVENTION FOR FIREMES.-ln
a paper read by captain Shaw, of the
London Fire Brigade. at a recent meet
ing of the Society of Arts in that city,
an ingenious apparatus was described
for enabling persons TO breathe in dense
smoke or poisonous vapOrs. IL consists
essentially Of a close-fttinR hood with
a respirator holding n filter-the inven-
ton Of Professor Tyndall-whieh con-
sists of a valve-chamber and filter tube
about four inches long, screwed on out
eide, with access TO II from the inside by
a wooden mouthpiece. The charge for
the filter consist of the following mater
ials, which are put in with the tube
turned upside down and the lower valve
removed: One-half inch deep Of dry
cotton wool, one inch deep of the same
wool saturated with glycerine; a thin
layer of dry wool; one half inch deep
OF fragments of charcoal; one-half inch
deep of dry wool; one-half inch deep Of
| fragments Of lime, and about an inch Of
| dry wool. The whole can be put on and
adjusted in few seconds by the welrer.
Year: 1875

A Horse Thief was arrested in Oswego,
last week, with n horse in his possession.
The description, however, did not quite
answer to that of the lost one, which
had white star in his forehead. But a
bright thought struck the officer. Or
derins basin Of warm water and some
soap, he began washing the forehead Of
the horse. ..and was soon rewarded for his
trouble by seeing nice white star APP
pear. The head had been painted
TROY Times.
Year: 1875

The Paterson Guardian Gays: There
is boy in the employ of one of our
Main street grocers who has considera-
bic difficulty in obtaining board at any
reasonable rate on account of his enor-
nous appetite. For breakfast he has
frequently been known to eat thirty
buck wheat cakes, besides large piece
of meat Not long since he was seen
to visit three fairs in succession, and eat
hearty meal at each. He said he did
this to help along the fairs. but it look
ed very much as though he did it be-
cause he was hungry. He takes out
part of his wages at the store eating
crackers and sugar. And now he wants
good board at SIS week. Who'll take
him? Don't all speak at once"
Year: 1875

Apropos of the mining disturbances
the Philadelphia Times puts the case
strongly and well in these words;


"The laborer may work or not at his
will; Ire may remain idle and beg or
starve, if he shall choose to do so, for
there is no civil law to command him
not to do such wrong to himself. But
he is not his brothers keeper, nor has he
right or title or control in any degree
over the arms and sinews or lawful will
of his fellows. Every attempt to COM
pei others to accept idleness or suffer the
penalty of violence or murder is not on
ly palpable violation of law, but as
clear a violation of reason as we'll. And
lawlessness is lawlessness, and murder,
not only in the eye of the law, but in the
estimation of every honest judgment,
whether committed under the orders OF
organized and chosen leaders of associat-
ed laborers, or by the deliberate muir
derer who takes life for revenge or gain
And being so, no government can toler'
ate it-no just public sentiment can eli
ther defend or extenuate it,"
Year: 1875

In the lives of the saddest Of us there
are bright days when We feel as IL We
could take the great world into our
arms. Then come gloomy days when
the FIRE win neither burn on our heaTths
nor in our hearts, and all without and
within is dismal, cold, and dark. Be
lieve me, every heart has its secret sor-
rowa, which the world knows not Of;
and oftentimes we call man cold when
be is only sad.
Year: 1875

The other evening little three year
old attended revival meeting. The
next morning the little fellow, while
playing on the floor, suddenly broke out:
Mamma, don't want to go to heaven"
"Why not, my little sonp because the
preacher said we must give up father
and mother, brother and sister, II we ov-
er expect TO get there, and don't care
about doing that"
Year: 1875

The locust can be heard a sixteenth
of mile. An ordinary man will out
weigh fifteen thousand of them; were his
voice proportional to his weight, ns that
of the locust, he could make himself
heard over one thousand miles.
Year: 1875

ADoRyHEYT or HOWE. Money


which goes to buy picture, statuette


or tasteful bracket for home adorn-
ment is wisely spent. If young peo-
pie, Just commencing life, after they
have secured the few piceS Of turni-
tar that must be had, and made sure


that they are what they ought to be,
have some money left TO get a picture
an engraving, or a cast, they ought to
work TO supply this want as seriously
aS the other, which seems more neceS.
sary, but in reality is not 4 bit more
necessary. The general character OF
a home will make a great difference
to the children who grow up in it. and
TO all whose experience is associated
with it, whether it be beautiful and
cheerful one, or only 4 homely and
bare one, or n merely formal and con.
ventional one. Tht relation of these
things TO education - all that gives
divinity CT poetry to the subject, or
makes II allowable for a reasonable
Nan to give much thought toit. But
il has a real vital relation to lie. and
plays an important part in educa
tion, and deserves to be thought about
a great deal more than it is. Seem.
ing triiies like this make life either
happy or miserable.
Year: 1875

lov are well of when you are in a
healthy neighborhood, with enough to
eat and drink, a comfortable, we'll
ventilated apartment 10 sleep. and
You are paying all your expenses and
laying up something-eyen slowly
for 4 rainy day, and, in addition to all
this, acquiring knowledge and siren.
gthemng your character. Young
men whose situations combine all the
preceding advantages should be yery
cautious about exchanging such a
certainty unless it be for another Ger
talnty- Happiness does not depend
upon great wealth so much as it does
upon Independence and intellectual
and moral culture.
Year: 1875

The detestable habit of talking of
Ieople rather than Of things opens the
way to abuses we might check with a
word if we would. If the art of con-
versation were taught and encouraged
as it should be, were we as far ad-
yanred in civilization as we believe
ourselves, we should get rid of the in
cubus of personality and with it of a
great deal of undeserved obIoquy, and
the burrowing destruction of small
treacheries and unnoted diShonor.
Year: 1875

TEE monkeys discovered by Stanley on the
shores Of Lake Nyanza appear to be in very
advanced stage of civilization. One of the
most exciting incidents at the recent meeting
of the Geographical Society, in London, was
the discussion as to the truthfulness of his
statement that the female monkeys wear bus
ties made Of palm leaves and coacoa-nut
husks
Year: 1875

Tue surgical examination of the
body of Lexington, the great Ken
lucky race horse, revealed a most sin
guIar cause for his death. That part
Of the skull under the left eye, were
the trouble of the horse seemed TO he
located, was filed with at least quart
of masticated food, which had been
forced into the cavity through an open
ing in the upper jaw, caused by the
loss Of a tooth.
Year: 1875

PAPER -four bags are being made
which are said TO be air-tight an d wat
er.proof, to weigh much less th an the
ordinary wooden barrels, and TO be
able 70 stand much more rough usage.
One Of the manufacturers pr edicts
that in FIVE wears every barrel Of west
ern flour will be sent east in barrels
made from the straw the wheat grew
on
Year: 1875

y STRIKIHG instance of the fatal
power OF drunkenness to accomplish
the ruin Of a once respectable family
was seen at Denbigh, in Wales. the
other day, when John Simon, the par
lsh clerk, was found dead in his chair
IN the kitchen. 1T the time of the in
quest the widow was so drunk that
she could not give her eyidince. In
their house there was no bedclotheS.
and the parents, with their five chill.
dren, We're obliged to sleep in one
room on rags stuffed with shaYiDgs
Year: 1875

made responsible for failingto make such
report in the form in which he is charged
without evidence showing that the refusal
was from corrupt motive. 1t was sim
ply because the law does not require the
reports that they were not made. The
Governor added that no officer, even his
Secretary Of State, had ever made these
reports, which shows that it was not un-
derstood that the law requires them.
Year: 1875

WE learn that certain prominent
Radical member OF the House says "the
REGISTER i, getting.down into the mlre.'
The gentleman didn't know probably the
extent Of the truth he spoke. The REG
ister has been lately engaged IN over
hauling the State record Of the Radical
marty and no work could be so disgust
ingly dirty. Only u proper regard for
the public welfare could induce Us to en-
gage in it.
Year: 1875

- n
If the farmers plow should stop;
And no seed the seeder drop;
There would be no waving crop


For the reaper;
And the thresher's great machine
Would the grain nor shell nor screen
And the granary would, ween,


Need no keeper.
Then the banker would be done;
And the merchant have no run;
And the idler miss his fun


Through the land;
Till each cunning speculator
Urged again the cultivator
To take the mighty wealth creator


In his hand.
Then the fertile fields would wave;
Then the rafting reaper save;
And old oceans waters lave


The speeding keel.
Then the factory wheel would turn;
Then the rail car distance spurn
And everything alike would turn


To our veal.
Farmers, grangers, claim your share
Of all things both rich and rare;
That you as well may live and fare,


AS the wealthy.
For you are the best and first;
And you should not take the worst;
And by poverty be cursed


For the stealthy.