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Year: 1875

1fMr. VIM. v. 8. Bleakman could lay
before his COW some such fodder as l have
raised, they would like it perhaps, for q
change, even better than his best hay.
As q forage crop it is superior to any
thing else, as the prospect for hay may
be determined before it is time to put in
the seed. have grown three successive
crops of it, and each time in extremely
dry weather. An excessive bulk of fod-
der is not an advantage. as it is hard to
handle, hard to cure, and not 50 we'll
favored. 1t may be put on land that
has failed to be we'll seeded to other
crops, as is often the case can be planted
small piece at q time, at odd intervals,
80 that it will not all come to maturity
at once, an. secure or spoil before it is
harvested.


1t should always be put in large shocks,
like other corn, the larger the better; it
should be planted, late 20 as to mature
the ears we'll into the milk, and if they
begin to harden little. it will be all the
better if the weather is not too dry, and
a light frost will help the favor if cut
soon afterward. 1t should be planted so
that it may be cultivated thoroughly,
and just thick enough to develop many
small ears of corn, and not grow SO
coarse that the stock will leave the butts
in eating it. Corn raised and saved in
this way is good enough for my stock.
Evergreen Sweet is the best, as the ears
may be we'll matured, and still the stocks
and leaves remain tender and green, pro-
ducing a wonderful flow of milk. Should
be bound up into convenient sized bun
dies, as soon as it is dry enough, and
housed or stacked. There is no crop
more sure when well worked, or more
profitable to feed as a change.-Michigan
correspondent New York Tribune.
Year: 1875

The following is said to be a very SUI
perior method for staining any kind of
wood in imitatio of walnut, while it is
also cheap, and simple in its manipula-
ton. The wood, previously thoroughly
dried and warmed, is coated once or
twice with stain composed of one part
by weight, of extract of walnut-peel, dis
solved in six parts of soft water by heat
ing it to boiling, and stirring. The wood
thus treated, when half dry, is brushed
with a ISOLATION of one part, by weight.
of bichromate of potash in five parts of
boiling water, and is then allowed to dry
thoroughly, and is to be rubbed and pol
ished As usual. Bed beech and elder,
under this treatment assume a most de-
cep:iye resemblance to American walnut.
The eolor is fixed in the wood to q
depth of one or two lines.
Year: 1875

In speaking of the best method Of eda.
eating the young, we must at the outset
guard against the fatal error of seeking
success in methods alone.


The great feature of the new education
Is that all its methods are used for the
gradual and systematic development OF
our organic being. whose growth must
be from within outward, and can only be
attained by selfactiyity. The mother can
not do the growing for the mind any
more than she can for the body Of her
child. The most that can be done for
either mind or body is to furnish suita-
BILE material at the proper time, to pro-
tect against injurious influences, to
guard against over-feeding, and to pre-
vent undue exertion Of the powers,
which always produces safety and indo-
lence.


Only selfactivity can induce the pow
ers to grow, and all the methods must be
used to keep this activity vigorous and
in proper channels. Children natural
ly delight in activity and the great cry
for, something to do," has not been suf.
fieientiy needed by parents or teachers.
In fact, just here the difficulty begins
What can child do Who is only two or
three years oldf The muscles of his
hand are not sufficiently educated 60 that
he cannot even hold q pencil and use q
Year: 1875

Buy the best bleached glue. if the


walls are to be white or some light tint
(if dark is immaterial SO the glue is


clean and use it in the proportion of a
quarter of pound to eight pounds of


whiting. Soak the glue over night: in


the morning pour off the water, as it
simply swells while soaking. Add fresh


water, put it into a pail, and set that in
a kettle of boiling water. When dis
solved. stir it into the whiting, adding
enough water to make it after mixing, of
the same consistency as whitewash. 1t
may be tiqted any color, and is applied
with whitewash brush. If the color is
rubbed smooth in little water and then
mixed with the wash it will be more
even. If the walls have been previously
scrape away all that will
come off, and wash with solution of
white vitrol-two ounces in pale of
water. The vitrol will be decomposed,
zinc white and plaster of paris,
to which the kalsomining easily adheres.
1t is important to dissolve the glue in a


hot water bath, for if scorched by two
great q heat, its tenacity is impaired or
destroyed. Whiting is simply chalk
freed from impurities, and reduced to
a fine powder, and is also known under
the name of Paris and SPANS white,
though the latter is really white earth
found in Spain. There is 3 great differ
ence in whitewash brushes, and the beau
ty of the work as we'll as the ease of per-
it depends very much on good
brush, making it we'll worth while to pay
the difference between thst and a cheap
one. For the inexperienced it is more
difficult to lay on tints evenly than pure
white.-F Tremaine in Country Gentle


man.
Year: 1875

slate, which is such delight to his older
brothers aud sisters. He cannot use .
pair of scissors which he sees 90 useful,
or as mothers think 80 destructive, In
their hands Reading is out of the
question, and pictures are delightfulonly
because mamma tells such pretty stories
about them. If he could get hammer
and looking-glass he would make things


fly and receive great pleasure, but these
are carefully kept out of his way. He
therefore vigorously obeys the demands
of his nature by trodding about and
making all the noise he can, but he soon
finds this does not please nervous grown
up people, and he is told that he is .
naughty boy, and must keep quiet.


This being impossible he suddenly dis
covers that he is very hungry. Thus the
days 60 by, the neither is worried, the
child injured, and no systematic effort
is made to put him in possession of his
faculty, so that he can act indepently.


The Frobel gifts or occupations were
invented to satisfy this demand of the
child. The first gift consists ofsix wors-
ted balls of bright colors-three of them
the primary colors, blue, yellow and red /;
the other three the secondary green or
ange and purple. In his acquaintance
with things about him the child's first
impressions are of form and color; hence
the ball is chosen because it is the sim
plest shape and most readily grasped
with the hand, as we'll as with the intel
lect, and if made soft and elastic he can
not injure himself or surrounding objects
with it.


With a little help from the mother he
will soon learn to compare this with
things about him, and trace resemblan-
ces in form and color, that he can be
shown the differen ce, thus cultivating
his observing power. If string is at
tached variety of motions can be made
which will suggest the creeping, running
or jumping Of different animals which he
has seen, and his Imagination will invest
them with life. He may also be taught
the use of his right and left hand, and to
understand the terms, up and down,
back, forward, around, etc. This gift
should be used Systematically by the
mother short time every day, until all
these ideas are fully grasped and retain
ed. The colors especially should be
learned-which are the pri-
mary, which the secondary, and that
blue and yellow make green, yellow and
red make purple.


Very young children are interested in
having these colors mixed that they may
sea the results.


While the child is learning these things
his memory may be cultivated by learn
ing very short verse from the Bible,
and few words of some pretty song, ev-
cry day. By giving systematic attention
to these things few moments every day
the various powers of the mind will grow
but the growth will be gradual and con-
tinuous only if everything presented
and required is within the scope Of the
child's powers, aud every new step is an
advance from the known to the unknown.
Cor. N. Y Witness.
Year: 1875

Will it pay to beautify my home with
flowers and shrubbery! is q question
which everyone who has home must
answer for himself There are few per-
sons who cannot afford to invest small
sum in q few rosebushes or other orna-
mental plants to start with, and in a
short time they will be we'll repaid for
their slight expenditure and trouble.


Anything which adds to the Beauty
and cheerfulness of home, ads to its
permanent value. There are many gems
in the floral creation which, when once
implanted in the soil, will continue to
grow year after year, and remain
joys forever to the fortunate possessor.
All will admit that this department Of
nature is well worthy the study of man.
Flowers are not the trife which many
think them to be. or God would not have
bestowed the care on them that he did.
1t i, a noticeable fact that the culture of
flowers exerts wonderful influence for
the better on the minds and habits of
those whom they surround. Thus are
flowers useful as we'll as beautiful. Their
cultivation tends to form taste for Or
der and neatness. Who ever saw an
untidy cottage with healthy, well grow
ing flowers in the window?


flowers are always in season and never
out of place. In the woods, the garden
and the house, they are a never failing
source of comfort and delight. If Ihave
no coaches and horses, l can at least hang
a tracery of vine leaves along my porch.
SO exquisite and delicate that no sculp-
ture can match it. If have no conserv-
atory with its wonders, yet the sun and
1 together can build a tangled coppice
Of blooming things in my dooryard, of
which every tiny leaflet shall be mira
Gle. Nay, 1 make my home, however
small it may be, SO complete in its sim
plicity, SO fitted to its Office, - governed
by neatness, SO embowered by wealth of
leaf and flowers, that no riches in the
world can add to it without damaging
its rural grace and my gardeners-sun-
shine, frost and showers are their names
will work for me with no crusty reluc-
tance, but with an abandon and zeal that
only ask gratitude tor pay.-D. g. Mitch
fH.
Year: 1875

In washing windows, u narrow-bladed
wooden knife, sharply pointed, will take
out the dust that hardens in the corners
of the sash. Dry whiting will polish the
glass, which should first be washed with
weak black tea mixed with little alco-
hol. Save the tea leaves for the purpose.
Year: 1875

ball near the church when the fire brokSS
out, aud the relief steamer was out for
practice, SO that the fire department


was promptly on the spot. The scenes
at the doors are described as terrible.
They were blocked with struggling peo.
pie seeking exit. Outside the people
cleared the way several times, but as
often it would become blocked up again.
Windows were broken open and several
escaped in that way. Tie last to get out
Of the church was said 10 be a man with
his wife and his little girl. The
father took up his daughter
aud rushed with her 70 a place of safety.
Louis LanglOrs, Of Riverside Mill, went
in 10 render assistance, when little girl
came tumbling down before the door
under the feet OF the throng; though he
burned his hands sadly in doing it, be
was able TO pull her out but little III
jured. A young woman beat out one Of
the window frames and jumped to the
ground safely. An old woman Of sixty
went to the same opening and, while
hesitating to jump, was pulled inside by
her hair 10y brutal fellow. He jumped
clear, and she fell and was seriously in-
jured. OF family Of five, four got out
alive; one little girl Of twelve being
burned. She was tesrfully caught by
her little brother, aRd at last discovered
dead. John Lynch, a mason, finding
the people pressed in at the bottom u
the church door, pulled down those who
were on top, thus saving dozen lives.
Ex-Constsble Casey describes the scene
as he saw it with glass from the top OF
the Hutchins house block. The whole
affair was over in fifteen minutes. He
could plainly see, through the blazing
rafters and frame, the poor people run
ming sbout. Large black spots could be
seen in the flames, aud q minute later
these spots went out in brilliant light
which was succeeded by a dark flame.
Lewis Roberts, who, with his family of
four children, saved his three daughters
by forcing them out OF the door, but his
boy, bright lad OF eleven years, perish
ed in the flames. Many people were bad
ly injured by jumping from the gallery
windows. Annie Hibbler, and q child
six years old, escaped from the building
after their clothing had become ignited
and many persons had their limbs broken
in attempting to escape.
Year: 1875

How many suffer torture day after day,
making life burden and robbing existence Of
all pleasure, owing to the secret suffering from
Piles. Yet relief is ready to the hand OF almost
any one who will use Systematically the reme-
dy that has permanently cured thousands.
No drastic, violent purge, but gentle assist
nj to nnNrn
Year: 1875

People who have occasion to leave the city by
the Baltimore and Potomac railroad, and who
take the train at the Navy Yard station, express
themselves as being sstonished that the company
have not up to the present time built some kind
Of depot or shelter at that point to protect those
who walt for The tran from the inclemercy of the
weather or heat Of the sun. Small country sta
tions that do not afford half the patronage to the
road thatt the Navy Yard station does are provided
with rooms where people can take shelter when
occasion requires, while at the latter point there
is nothing but an open platform. Colonel Scott,
by all means let them have depot or waiting.
Year: 1875

were burned to death by kerosene yesterday, and
It was only q common kind Of day for such busi-
ness, too. One wanted to quicken a lazy fire and
fed to it a little oil, notwithstanding that she
knew she was taking her life in her hand by so
doing. How would it do for some philanthropist
tracts on the danger of vhIng kitchen fires with
keroseue 10 won men?-PhilGdeEphid Ia Herald, Dec q,
Year: 1875

There is no remedy and assistant
SO easily and cheaply obtained, so
harmless to the fowls, or so salts
factory IL it's results, as sulphur. 1t
being in the system of animals to a
small to a small degree, there is a
greater affinity for it than there 9th
erwise would be. Tt can De admin
istered to the fowls by having it in a
small box, SO that they can help
themselves, or by mixing it with
their feed once a week, or as often
as there are indications of vermin.
Penetrating as it does to every part
Of the system, the parasites are
quickly and surely destroyed. Also
gapes are said to be prevented in
chickens. Fowls need it more than
most animals, their feathers contain
ing between four and five per cent.
Of sulphur. Their eggs also have a
small quantity, which is noticed by
the discolorlng Of a silver spoon
when it comes in contact with a
boiled egg. Applied externally to
the fowls when on the nest, to the
nest Itself, or mixed with the soil in
the dusting box, it is equally efica-
cious in destroying vermin. To be
used as fumigator of buildings, it
is necessary to remove the fowls,
close the room or house, mix little
saltpetre with the sulphur, in an iron
vessel, and apply match to the
mixture. This should be done in
the morning, and the doors and win
dows opened in the afternoon for a
thorough ventilation. Lard mixed
with sulphur in proper proportions
and applied as often as it is neces-
sary to the feathers or the neck and
back of young and old turkeys, is a
very good safeguard against the raw
ages of foxes.-P0ultry World.
Year: 1875

ness they used to say that the skeleton
of dropsical person was the best for
preservation, because the bones macer-
ated in the water. But that isn't so.


[ had lower jaw bone from which the
teeth had been removed, and it made
the neatest inkstand you ever saw. [
got the dental process lined with metal,
set it upon brass feet, and the upper
part of the jaw made just as pretty a
place to rest a pen holder in as ever
was. A half dozen of the doctors want
ed it, but before [ could decide as to
which to consign it somebody stole it. ;"
Year: 1875

new facts Id the cass and returbed o
verdict to the effect that he died from
a gun. shot wound inflicted by De
| Gray.


Gold is appreciating rapidly. This
Is no doubt due to the stoppage of the
specie shipments from California.
There is a heavy demand for gold at
| the East to send abroad in settlement
of the large balance of trade against
the United States from deficiency in
| the exports of domestic products. San
Francisco has furnished $30,000,000
coin for this puspose during the
last six months and now that she
will want larger proportion of the
product of her mines for home use,
the premium naturally advances in
| New York.


One of our City Police informs us
that the most remarkable epoch in his
career was about six monts ago, when
he chanced in front of house where
an unfortunate individual was sur
prised at the breakfast table by two of
| his former wives, who just dropped in
upon him informally. The way the
dust was stirred up in that room was
simply wonderful, and a forty-horse-
power grst mill could not have ground
the crockery finer. What became of
the bigamist is a mystery to this day.
His body was not found, nor was he
seen to emerge from the house.
The Commissioners of Education
for the last census compiled table
showing the per centage of illiterate
persons, ten years of age and over, to
the total population. In the Southern
States the average is 454 per cent, the
highest being 57k in South Carolina,
and the lowest 353 in Kentucky. In
an equal number of other Western and
Northern States the per centage is
6.S6. The per centage of illiterates in
California is 1887, in Ohio $3.50, in
Pennsylvania S.56,in Connecticut 6.95.
Judging by the way schools are in
creasing in Los Angeles the per cent
age here will soon be very small.
Year: 1875

"What is conscience?n said Sun
day-school teacher one day to the lit
tie flock that gathered around to learn
the words Of life.


Several of the children answered.
one saying one thing, and another an
other-until little timid child spoke
out:


at is Jesus whispering in our
hearts,
Year: 1875

They tell me solemn story,
But 1t is not sad to me,
For in its sweet unfolding


My Savior's love see:
They say that at any moment
The Lord of Life may come,
To lift me from this cloud-land
Into the light OF home.
They say may have no warning;
may not even hear
The rustling of His garments
AS He softly draweth near;
Suddenly, in moment,


Upon my ear may fall
The summons, to leave our homestead,
To answer the masters call.
Perhaps Hell come in the noontide
OF some bright, sunny day.
When, with dear ones all around me,
My life seems bright and gay,
Pleasant must be the pathway,
Easy the shining road,
Up from this dinner sunlight,
Into the light of God.
Perhaps he comes in the stiffness
Or the mild and quiet night,
When the earth is calmly sleeping
In the moonbeams' silvery light;
When the stars are softly shining
O'er slumbering land and sea;
Perhaps i'll the holy stiffness
The Master will come for me.
think would rather hear it,
That voice SO low and sweet
Calling me out Of the shadows
My blessed Lord to meet;
Up thro' the glowing splendors
OF a starry earthly night,
To see the King in His beauty
In land Of purer light.
Year: 1875

Iris the same story from every sec
ton of Tennessee-the wheat crop
likely to be one Of the largest ever har-
vested, corn, cotton and tobacco doing
magnifcently, and the farmers in bet
ter spirits than at any time since the
war
Year: 1875

ON TO MEXICOi
The Biggest Filibuster Scheme Of the


Age Being Organized.
Sonora Said to be the Objective Point.
Does Grant Know Anything About It!
A Mystery in Which the Third Term


IS Mixed Up.
What the Southern Leaders Of the


Movement are Doing.
One Of Them Interviewed by a Union
and American Reporter.
Year: 1875

i rumor has been in circulation within
a day OF two mentioning that a serious
r1Ir5t1Ire had occurred between Senator Nor
ton and Secretary B-istOw growing out OF
differences Of opinion concerning the dis
yribUtion Of offices under the Treasury De
partmeut. There is no foundation what
ever for this report.


Prospective DecapttatiOns IN the
Year: 1875

we to accept the theory that the human
heart was not deceitful above all things and
wicked; that men no longer stole the livery
Of Heaven to serve the devil in; that men
must be good because they appeared so?
What became Of the atOnement under this
theory? What need was there for God
to descend from Heaven to sacrifice himself
for the sins of men, if men could become
perfect and incapable Of SHINING? 4?
Year: 1875

JUDGE PERsHING nominated for governor
of Pennsylvania by the Democrats is anoth-
er of the artful dodgers on the currency. He,
according to his letter of acceptance, is op.
posed to initiation in its ''true sense' but op-
poses contraction at present because it
would result in bankruptcy-and he brushes
the issue one side with tie remark that il be-
longs to Congress and the President to settle.
Of course it does, but it belongs to the peo-
pie to settle who shall compose that Congress
and who shall sit in the Executive chair,
whether theoretical resumptionists but prac-
tical infationists like Judge Pershing, or re-
sumptionists both theoretical and practical.
If Democratic Congress should increase the
volume of the currency would Judge Pershing
leave the party or would he accept such ac-
Year: 1875

ONE of the reforms promised by the Presi-
dent of Uruguay is the reduction of paper
money, and the President of Peru is attempt
ing to extort loan by threatening to issue
paper currency. The people of both states
are hardly more than civilized, yet they seem
to have much better appreciation of the
evils of an inflated currency than their more
enlightened neighbors north of the Cult of
Mexico,
Year: 1875

The western Democratic orator who
warned foreigners the other night to beware
of investing in United States bonds doubtless
was influenced in giving the advice by a
knowledge of the reputation and imitation
record OF his party and belief that it would
be successful in 1875. But the man is alto.
gether too frank and the Democracy will find
it necessary to gag him.
Year: 1875

MEssRs. Moody and Sankey are to take
the bull by the horns, that is to say, they are
TO begin their revival work in New York
city. If they can conquer the devil in that
locality their work in other parts of the coun-
try will be comparatively light, for under
Democratic rule ihe modern Gotham has
waxed fearfully wicked. Whether or not the
announcement that Gen. Butler was to ad-
dress the New York board of trade on finance
had any weight in influencing Messrs. Moody
and Sankey to select that city for their first
efforts we have no means OF knowing.
Year: 1875

THE Boston journal article on the finan-
cial affairs of the Eastern Railroad, causes
general comment in business circles, and but
little surprise among those who are best in
formed. Yesterday the stock of the Eastern
went down to 21a, and its seven per cent.
bonds are quoted at 7Ot. Last spring when
the directors of the Eastern by using the
money of the corporation, got control of the
Maine Central, the assertions of the PRESS
on that subject were pronounced libelous.
From the present stand point, prophetic would
be better word
Year: 1875

we 10 not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as q guaranty Of good faith.


we cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1875

That the contraction of the currency hereto
fore made by the Republican party, and the
further contraction proposed by it, with a view
to the forced resumption of specie payments,
has already brought disaster to the business
of the country. and threatens it with general
bankruptcy and ruin. We demand that this
policy be abandoned, and that the volume of
the currency be made and kept equal to the
wants of trade, leaving the restoration of legal
tenders to bar with gold to be brought about
by promoting the industries of the people, and
not by destroying them.