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Year: 1873

BOARDING MONEY.


Now that We are all talking finance.
it is good time to talk it philosophic-
ally. A curious faith in a very old fall
lacy comes under our notice. It used
to be considered that wealth was money:
that the more money nation had, the
more wealthy it was, and tears were
shed over the supposed impoverishment
of q country when money went out of
it. It must be a lingering faint of this
ancient superstition that leads the St.
Louis Republican to extol boarding.
GA money that is not worth boarding, :"
it says, " ought to be got rid of by the
Government. The habit of boarding
good money is natural virtue rather
than q vice."


What are we to say to such talk as
this from a leading journal of the great
West, where the rich harvest of capital
is plowed in and not boarded! But if
anybody in the West is to avow such o
doctrine, it ought surely to be st. LOU
is-a city whose growth and enterprise
have been checked by the niserly illib-
erality of her rich men. Her million
aires have ever been given to boarding,
and by their niggardy policy have made
st. Louis the second great trade center
of the West. The same policy that is
keeping Portland back; and in fact any
other place where it predominates.


But apart from such exceptional cases,
this vastAmerican civilization is grand
demonstration of the sound political
economy, as well as the sound ethics,
of Christ's parable regarding the invest
ment of the talents. The lord of the
estate denounced the man who "was
afraid and went and hid" his talent in
the earth, as -" wicked and slothful"
fellow, and the language was hardly
too strong.


Hoarding is trait of barbarism
Just so far as nations rise above barbar-
ism, just so far they abandon boarding
and no farther War, another and the
greatest exhibition of barbarism, is the
great modern excuse for boarding.
The war-like nations cannot do bank
ing. Germany, France, and Europe
are constantly subject to war, with its
uCNuoCutIOiiS, AtS uuduCidi UlSdSt6IS Auu
it's rupture of all contracts. Great
Britain has not felt the terror of war
within the four seas this 200 years.
The inhabitants of the continent do not
dare to bank, and hence they hoard
Long peace, on the other hand, has
given to the British people confidence
to put their money in bank. What is
the result? Great Britain is, to-day,
the banker, the strong arm of the
world. 1t is her capital that is SUBJ
DUNG the world, her political system
and its natural outgrowth that are sup
planting all other political systems, her
morals that are making the world
Christian. She may say with tri-
umphant confidence: Let me supply
the capital of the world, and I care not
who shoulders its needle-suns. Let
US cease to glorify France for paying
her milliards out of the old stock
ings. Let us rather commiserate her
that her continued wars have made any
other bank but the stockings safe, and
that, when her talents come out from
their napkins, it is not to found colo
MES, build railroads, erect school sys-
TENS and civilize the world, but invest
it in war loans and to iquidate the gi-
gantic ransom of nations captivity.
Year: 1873

A CONVENIENT WAY TO MEASURE LAND.
1t is frequently desirable to measure
Q given plot of ground or a portion of a
field, and simple method, such as the
following, for which we are indebted to
an exchange, will be of use to many of
our readers. Surveyors are not always
at convenient distance to attend to
such little jobs; and even when they do
reside in the immediate vicinity, one
does not always care to incur the ex-
pense incident to such small job. If
the lines are already established, the
plot can be measured with sufficient
accuracy for all practical purposes by
means OF neat rod-pole, made as fol-
lows: Procure stick of pine, white
wood, Eastwood, or almost any other
timber, one and a half inches square
and sixteen and half feet long. Dress
each end tapering from the middle, SO
that the pole will be one and half
inches square at the middle and about
half an inch square at each end. Such
q pole will be light and quite stiff.
Now, graduate one side with the marks
representing feet and inches, and grad
uate another side to indicate survey
ors links. A pole one rod in length
must be equal to twenty-five links. To
divide one side correctly, let mechan-
ic's compass be adjusted, so that the
points will divide the distance into
twenty-five equal spaces OF links. A
line can be measured with such pole
nearly as accurately as with surveyors S
chain.


Now, then, if person does not un-
derstand how to multiply chains and
links, let him compute the measurement
by square feet. In one acre there are
43,5OO square feet. Any intelligent
school boy can measure the length and
the breadth of square plot, multiply
one by the other, and divide the pro-
duct by 43,5O0, which will give the
number of acres, and the number of
square rods representing the fraction of
an acre. If it is desirable to measure
triangular plot, two sides of which
lie at right angles, measure these two
sides, multiply the distance in feet one
by the other, and divide that product
by two, which will indicate the number
of square feet, by 43, 500, and the quo
tient will represent the number of acres.
Year: 1873

When the first locomotive was pat
ented, driving only one car, if lightly
loaded, it did very well but when the
load it drew was heavier than its own
weight, its wheels would not bite, that
is, they would turn rou I'd and round
without advancing. Hence a cow-catcher
was needed behind to guard against cat
tie running into it in therear. 1t seemed
at first impossible to make a less weight
move q greater on an up grade; and for
some years no one invented an engine
able to draw three times it's OWE weight.
At the present day, however, locomo-
tives sweep along with trains more pom
demons by fifteen or twenty times than
they are themselves. One means of
gaining this vast increase of power for
the locomotive, was by dividing the load.
It was found, that an engine. powerless
to stir FIVE times its weight of freight
when concentrated in one car, could
readily draw it when distributed in a
dozen cars loosely shackled together. 1t
was heavier than each single car and
it had overcome the inertia of each
one monument before it encoun-
tered the inertia of another. 1t was
thus more than match for each car
taken singly; and, pulling them sue
cessively. it drew after it train as long
as a comet, and the farther it ran the
more strength it had to run further.
Here was the story of little David over
again. Ordinarily, the STRIPPING weight,
as he told Gohah, was one hundred and
twenty, but whenever he got mad he
weighed a ton. Moreover, the engine
forced the momentum acquired by ev-
cry car it had started, to swell its own
potency in overcoming the resistance OF
all that remained still motiOnless.


HoUGHToN has this new story Of sgd
ney Smith: He WAS good-natured and
tolerant; but when Lord Melbourne,
whom he had gone to see upon some
business, interIarded his conversation
with much eursing and swearing, he
quietly remarked, g Let us assume that
everybody and everything are damned,
and proceed to the subject. " sa-a


To THINK what We 40 not feel, is -
| lie TO ourselves.
Year: 1873

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that youI sub
scriptior is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested TO pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure IN extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons,
but cash alone viii pay expenses, ami
we are forced to adhere to a strict call
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such 3
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


e We enter no new names or our
books without the money IN adrlr c.
Year: 1873

You know her. She lives on your
street. Her features are either pinched,
or full and frowsy. Her dress is wet,
i'll fitting and of no particular pattern
her slippers are broken down !; her hair
is uncombed; her voice is either shrill
or coarse. You have seen her stand out
in the back yard, and put bare arm up
to her eyes, and under it peep out to the
fence or barn, where a man in an i'll
fitting coat is searching for something,
and have heard her shout John,
can't George bring me some wateT?"
And you have heard him cry back: d" If
he don't get that water will take every
inch of flesh from his bOnes?' And
when you have looked at her again does
it seem possible that those angry eyes
have dropped in maideniy reserve, or
raised in coquetish light to the face of
the man in the Ill fitting coat? Can
you, by any possible wrench of the
imagination, conceive of his tenderIy
passing peppermints to her, of his TAX
ing that hand in his and bsshfulIy
squeezing it? But it was so. Many a
''God bless you has been uttered above
that bare head many kiss pressed on
that uncombed hair. The tightly com
pressed lips have lovingly framed ten
der invitations to him to take another
bite of cake and pickle. The hands
that are now par-boiled aud blistered
and marked with scars from the bread
knife, and scratches from the last setting
hen, were once twined lovingly about
his neck, and the nose which is now
peaked and led, and looks as if it would
stand on its hind legs and scream with
rage, once followed the figures of his
vest pattern, or bore heavily against his
iugular vein. As little probable as this
seems to you, it seems less to her. She
has forgotten it. She won't hear it
talked of by others. She cannot bear
TO see it acted by others Two lovers
are to her ''a parcel of fools" And
George is rubbing his head, and We turn
aside while our heroine readiusts her
slipper. .E-<H .-#
Year: 1873

4uimaux who had wintered with Buddington's
oarty, counted by moons, so that the exact
lime Of Buddington's departure is not known
It is believed to be the middle of June. No
records were round indicating the intentions
If the party. except from a memorandum,
written in pencil, dated May IS, 1878, and
stating that Chester, the mate, had finished
making oars from the buIwarks of the Polaris,


md had made good job of it. The Esqui-
maux were very reticent. They wished to be
taken to Rand's bay, whence they came. It
vas clearly mistake to leave them behind. It
WAS stated that Joe. the interpreter, could not
talk their dialect, but when questioned at
Good Haven, Joe said he did not have time to
converse with them. The instruments are
supposed to have cen broken by the Esqui-
maux. When the Tigress returned to Good
Haven, she was ordered to prosecute the search
in the track of the whalers to the westward
and northward. The season was an open one,
and very little ice is afoat. 1t is not known
when the Tigress will return. She had thirty
days coal August 81
Year: 1873

pears to be holding up a bunch of
snakes, and the muscles of the arm
perfectly rigid. This wretched man
| will consent to bring his hand down
again Che says he would have to soak
the muscles in oil for three weeks in
order to do,) if anyone Will feast. for
him three thousands Brahmans. ~


Truly there is not much that is pleas
ing In Jatra-childish amusements
and miserabIy corrupt superstition.
Still, Angle-Saxons at least must admire
that hundreds of thousands of persons
are content TO take their holiday where
no liquor is allowed to be sold, and
that, great as are the crowds, there is
no quarrelling, and, helpless and unpro-
tected as the people are, scarcely any
crime. Macmillan Magazine. -
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Evil of Interruption in Intellectual


Work.


Few people realize the full evil of an
interruption, few people know all that
is implied by it. Florence Nightingale
says: :" IF we consider as with sick as
with well, every thought decomposes
some nervous matter, that to obtrude
another thought upon the brain whilst
it is in the act of destroying nervous
matter by thinking, is calling upon it to
make new exertiOn, we shall remem-
Der that we are doing positive injury by
interrupting. If the invalid is forced
by his avocations to continue occupa-
tiOns reqiring much thinking, the injury
is dOubly great. If you offer the brain
a thought, especially one requiring
decision, abruptly, you do it real, not
fanciful injury. This rule applies to
the well quite as much as to the sick. I
have never known persons who exposed
themselves for years to constant inter-
ruptiOn who did not muddIe away their
intellects by it at last. The process,
with them, may be accomplished with
out pain. With the sick, pain gives
warning of the injury" interruption
is an evil to the reader which must be esti- |
mated very differently from ordinary
business Interruptions. The great ques- !





tion about interruption is not whether
it compeIs you to divert your attention
to other facts, but whether it compeIs
you to tune your whole mind to another
diapason. Suppose a reader perfectly
absorbed in his author, an author be-
longing very likely to another age and
another civilization entirely different
from ours. IF you are reading in the
daytime in a house where there women !
and children, or where people can fas-
ten upon you for pottering details of
business, you may be sure that you will |
not be able to get to the end of the pas
sage without IN some way or other being |
rudely awakened from your dream, and |
suddenly brought back into the COM
mon world. The loss intellectually is |
greater than any one who had not suf- |
fered from it could imagine People |
think that an interruption is merely the
unlocking of an electric chain, and |
that the current will flow, when the |
chain is hooked on again, just as it did |
before TIE the intellectual and imagi- /
native student an interruption is not |
that it is the destruction of picture. !
PhiEi11 Gilbert TGDIeTtOH
Year: 1873

IDEAS receive their best setting when
incorporated in works of art. From the
beautiful form they draw their breath
of life. They do not attack and make
enemies. but wait for acknOwIedg
rnank
Year: 1873

In men whom men condemn as III
/ find so much of goodness still
In men whom men pronounce divine,
l find SO much of sin blot
hesitate to draw line


Between the two, where God has not.
Year: 1873

Considerable Is written nowadays about
false economy I'm various ways. My OBJ
servation leads to the conclusion that one
important item Is almost entirely over
looked, and that thousands of dollars are
lost each year by the careless wintering of
farm horses. For instance. farmer A owns
a fine span of horses he is not much of a
horseman, but in the summer he works
them, and keeps a man who takes good
care of them. In the fall, after work is
over, the horses are put into the stable and
fed all the hay they viii eat (be the same
good or bad); are left perhaps a week or
two weeks at a time, with little or no exer-
else, and, when they are driven, are let go
at the top of their speed. Fast driving.
with stomachs full of undigested hay, Is
the very worst of treatment. The result
Is that, in year or two, the horses have
the heaves badly, are spoiled for market,
and are unable to do the usual amount OF
service on the farm or road; and this alone
causes loss each year so long as the team
is used. ~ rt


This could in some degree be avoided
by building shed with yard for exer
else, and by feeding food of sufficient
strength to keep the muscles in full
strength. Some say that wintering horse:
in the field on hay alone, will cause fall.
ing away of muscles and strength difficult
to regain. No doubt, being chilled by
standing in a cold barn is very injurious to
horses.-Cor. Country Gentleman.
Year: 1873

Possibly, there arefew drugs which have
lately been adopted into general use. that
are applicable to so great a variety of uses
or are so efficient as carbOlic acid. A cor
respondent of the Journal of the Farm
gives these particulars about its efficacy as
an insect destroyer and as an antigangre-
nous application to wounds: -.


Having heard of its nOxious influence
on various species of insects that infest
gardens, lady of this place was induced
to try its effects upon the cabbage worm.
For this purpose she procured cake of
soap that had been strongly scented with
tha acid, and having made quantity of
suds therefrom, she transferred it to a
watering-pot, and in the early part of the
day, when the green worm is most vigo-
rous in its movements, she gave several
garden plots of cabbage a sprinkling.
These were examined soon after, and a
number of dead worms were picked from
the leaves. The operation was repeated
next day, and from careful observations
made, ii is believed that the leaves of the
plants, wherever the solution has been
fairly tried, have been cleared of these
pests.


As cleanser and purifier, this valuable
drug has been remarkably distinguished
1t has been used with marked success by
the keepers of livery stables, and those
who have cattle subject to infectious dis
eases. Many reports of such cases have
been given, showing the disinfecting pow
er of this drug. tits, however, as dressing
in some loathsome skin diseases, and rs a
wash for running sores, carbuncles and
boils, that the efficacy Of this article is par
ticularly distinguished; and where it has
been once tried. i'm any of this kind of com
plants, its use will not be willingly re-
finquished. On its first application, a
marked change has been observed in the
removal of unpleasant odors of every
kind, and few repetitions will be found
to produce an entire change in the atmos-
phere surrounding the putrid matter or
diseased surface.


Having experienced very decided benefit
from the cleansing and disinfecting power
of this drug. have felt free to offer the
above suggestions. 1t is not expensive,
and may be obtained at any of the ding
stores of the city or country.
Year: 1873

daylight visit from a Pike was as unusual
as social call of a Samaritan upon jew.
And when Sam-for it was he-approached
Merrick and made his business known. the
farmer was more astonished and confused
than he had ever been in his life before.
Sam wanted to know for how much money
Merrick would plow and plant a hum
dred and sixty acres of wheat for him,
and whether he would take Sans horse
a fine animal brought from the States, and
for which Sam could show bill of sale
as security for the amount until he could
harvest and sell his crop. Merrick so well
understood the Pike nature that he made
very liberal offer, and afterward said he
would have paid handsomely for the
chance.


A few days later and the remaining Pixies
at the Bend experienced the greatest scare
that ever visited their souls. a brisk man
came into the Bend with tripod on his
shoulder and wire chain and some wire
pins, and queer machine under his arm.
and before dark the Pixies understood that
Sam had deliberately constituted himself
renegade by entering aquarter section of
land. Next morning two more residences
were empty, and the remaining farmers of
the hamlet adorned not Sans log, but
wandered about with faces vacant Of all eX-
preston, save the agony of the patriot
who sees his home invaded by corrupting
influences too powerful for him to resist.


Then Merrick sent upa plow-gang and
eight horses, and the tender green of Sans
quarter-section was rapidly changed to a
dull brown color, which is Odious unto the
eye of the Pike. Day after day the brown
spot grew larger, and one morning Sam
arose to find all his neighbors departed,
having wreaked their vengeance upon him
by taking away his dogs. And in his de-
light at their disappearance Sam freely for
gave them all.


Regularly the children were carried to
and from school, and even to Sunday
school. Regularly every evening Sam Wis
tied the grave on the hillside, and came
back to lie by the hour watching the sleep
ing darlings. Little by little farmers be-
gan to realize that their property was un-
disturbed. Little by little Sans wheat
grew and waxed golden, and then there
came a day when man from Frisco
came and changed it into heavier gold
more gold than Sam had ever seen before.
And the farmers began to step i'm TO see
Sam. and their children came to see his,
and kind women were unusually kind to
the orphans; and, as day by day Sam took
his solitary walk OH the hillside, the load
on his heart grew lighter, until he ceased
to fear the day when he. too, should lie
there.-Cdiifornia Exchange.
Year: 1873

There is growing evidence of an inclina-
ton to effect radical changes i'm the con-
duct of life insurance, and to abandon to
some extent the tables which have hereto
fore been adopted i'm regulating compa-
ny's course i'm the adoption of risk and In
estimating the reserve necessary to meet
liabilities. Heretofore all insured have
been classed together. OF course Of two
men upon whom risks are taken, one will
be better risk than the other, yet no diff
ference is made I'm the rate of premium de-
manded, and the man who can pass the
medical examination pays as much for his
policy as the one whose bodily condition
Is such as to barely enable him to reach
the grade adopted by the company. IL Is
now proposed in some quarters to adjust
rates In life as in fire insurance, so that the
premium paid shall be in some degree
commensurate to the risk incurred by the
company, and the obvious advantage Of
such course will be that 1t will enable
Insurance by all, while it will not render
insurance less safe. The Deutsehe Verri-
cleyungs Zeitung, Berlin, says: There Is
no reason why life insurance companies
should not use Judgment and discretion
i'm reference to the circumstances OF each
particular case, and adjust the premiums
cDargeu III accOruance Wlh SUCH clrcui1-
stances. This is what Is done by fire and
marine companies. They modify their
terms, making them larger or smaller, ac-
c0rding to the nature of the risk. In life
insurance, also, the liability incurred by. a
company in assuming various life risks
which are widely different In their nature
las the risks usually incurred as sound,
really are). cannot, I'm the nature Of things.
be correctly estimated by any fixed and
inflexible rule"


One obvious result of the adoption Of
the new system of insurance proposed
will be the necessity which will at once
arise for better informed medical examin-
ers who shall do their work carefully and
scientifically. Here will be a reform at
once, since the medical examination 10
now with some companies little more than
farce and productive, from its careless
ness, of the worst results. The other ed
vantages of the new system are apparent,
while the only argument against IL seems
to be its complexity and the necessity
which its adoption would cause fora gem
eral change in the policy of ofcompanies.-St.
Louis Journal.
Year: 1873

WE read that 5000 boxes OF tea werere-
Gently fished from beneath the sad sea
waves, where they had lain and soaked for
five months. After undergoing this pro-
cess of curing, this fea was brought to New
York and sold for nine cents box. Here
it has been washed and ir0ned and curled
and teased into sort of shape and 500
barrels of 1t sold. Ii is said that it is but
slightly salt. but otherwise of no objec-
tionabfe flavor after its bath in the ocean.
Now it is pretty certain that this tea will
go into consumption, be sold and bought
and brewed and drank. and many pair Of
lips viii be suspiciOusly pursed and
smacked over the slightly salt flayor;"
but whose lips will those be Is a conun-
drum which probably no one can ever find
out.