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Year: 1873

1.-The destruction Of the poor is their
poverty" says Solomon. This is strikingly
illustrated in the practice Of the great ma
jority of those whose incomes are limited


With many it is impossible, unless by CO.
operation, even to get beyond the necessi-
ty Of purchasing, little at time, the ar
ticles required for physical comfort. The
great army of small grocers is sustained by
those who buy five, ten and fifty cents
worth of sugar and flour, qugfter Of tea,
box of blue, and pint Of mfasses. Now
look at it. The grocer buysl6 flour at whole
sale; he must make bis dollar profit on
each barrel and get th1s and the freight he
paid out Of his That is all fair
50 far as the grocer is CONCERNED, but it
doesn't help the buyer to lay up money.
Suppose a half dozen~3nmilies unite in the
purchase Of dozen barrels of flour. One
man can buy at wholesale house, and
thus save $12, minus the expenses Of the
person who bought. Beside the saving
thus effected in money there is much econ
omy Of time and thought in buying by the
large. It needs but moments reflection
to satisfy one Of this. When the house.
keeper knows that she is not likely to get
out Of -four or starch or soap or potatoes or
coal for quite while, her movements are
far more free and her mind far more at
ease than is hers who sees every week the
bottom Of her twenty-four pound bag Of
-four, her little box of sugar, her potato
bin, and knows that in day or two the
coal will be gone and the butter played
out, the bar Of soap will be used up and
the box of blue empty. There are great
many farmers who have quite little sum
when their crops are sold to invest in bank
stock, in first mortgages, or in more land.
Some of these thrifty men know their
wives and daughters want shoes, calicoes,
muslins, household conveniences, that are
we'll earned by domestic and dairy toll,
and they intend all these things shall
be provided, but plump goes the
round sum into the investment,
and wife and daughter must skirmish
and contrive and lie awake nights to in


vent ways and means Of supplying their
necessities They sell little poultry,
few pounds of honey, some dried garden
herbs, tub of butterA and buy few
yards at slime, and unfair>prices, the
calico and muslin theR + rfui}e. Now
would it not be true 5eco1PmY tofpurchase
these main supplies of drygoh1 for family
use at wholesale and save all he little in
comes from herbs. lx and nuts Npd poultry
and honey and buttef for the Investments


The profits Of middlemen would >thus be
cut OF and the constant annoyance Of be-
ing out Of materials avpided. One need
not be wasteful because she has abundance.
On the contrary, the tendency Of those who
have is to save rather than to spend. II
Year: 1873

ABOUT CHARCOAL. - Among the
many properties of charcoal, may be
mentioned its power of destroying
smell, taste, and color; and as proof
Of possessing the first quality, iii be
rubbed overputrid meat, the smell will
be destroyed. If piece Of charcoal
be thrown into putrid water, the
water will be rendered completely
fresh. Sailors are aware of this; for
when water is bad at sea, they are in
the habit Of throwing pieces Of burnt
biscuit into it to purify it. Color Is
materially Influenced by charcoal,
and, in a number of instances in q very
irregular way. If take you dirty
black syrup, and filter 1t through
burnt charcoal, the color will be re-
moved. The charcoal of animal mat
ter appears to be the best for this pur-
pose. You may learn the influence of
charcoal in destroying cOlOrs by fl
tering a bottle of port wine through
1t; In the filtration it will lose great
portion of its colOring, and become
tawny; repeat the process two or
three times, and you have destroyed
its color altogether.
Year: 1873

The great cattle raisers Of Texas are
becoming discouraged, and many of
them have begun to turn their attention
to other pursuits. The truth seems to be
that the old system under which such
vast profits were formerly realized is
found to be impracticsble in a more ad-
vsnced state Of society, because it inter-
fered with the general agricultural and
manufacturing interests of the country.
-GdiUeStOR NeICs.


Yesterday morning a negro woman
was on Dallas street, wandering about,
broke out thickly with smallpox, and
every negro on the streets and many
white mugginses went running to see
her. It was the last direction this local
wanted to go. What nincompoops some
folks are to go clustering around case
Of smallpox that is lading the air with
disease and death, simply to satisfy a
miserable curiosity. We don't know
what became Of her, but understand
she was carried to the pest-house. We
hope the extreme hot weather will pre-
vent the fools who went to look at her
from taking the disease.-Jeferson Iri-
bJCqe.
Year: 1873

There is not one single advantage to
be claimed in favor of big hogs. There
never was Il monster hog which did not
make the man who raised him pay for
every pound he weighed. They do not
furnish an ounce OF meat gratis, but
charge full price for every atom of their
carcass. When slaughtered, it takes n
long time to get one cool TO the marrow
in the bone, aud then when the hams are
put in salt it is troublesome to finish
them 20 the center. -Four hundred live
weight is as large Hs hogs should be in
order to make good bacon. Beyond this
size there is n loss somewhere. Either
the feeder, butcher or consumer is
cheated, and as a general thing every
one who has any thing to do with the
big hog will find, if he observes closely,
that they are not so profitable as the
smooth nice hog of only $50 pounds
weight. A small head, with little up
right ears, and legs and ears delicate to
perfection, are marks which indicate the
greatest amount of food consumed; and
it will always draw more readily the at
tention of every butcher.
Year: 1873

We are paying twice as much for
meats rs We ought. Less than half of
all We pay goes To the producer of the
cattle. Enough To make this up to a
full half and tritle more, very properly
goes to the butcher. IL honest, he is
fairly entitled to SO much. What be-
comes of the other half of all We are pay
ing for fresh meats


The honest butcher and the fair drover
are getting, as a general rule, no more
than II just compensation for the labor
and hardships they take upon them
selves in supplying the public necessi-
ties, mt all seasons and in all weathers.
So many of them as are not unreasona-
bly, grasping, and will not stoop to
fraudulent practices in their weight,
should be paid the amount of their bills
promptly and cheerfully. But nearly
half of what we pay for our meats is yet
unaccounted for. Who gets it? An
swer-the' big spectators in cattle of all
kinds, men with large means already ac-
cumulated i'll this business, and others
with slender means of their own but
with large accommodations, who can run
out from the large markets 800, 1000, or
l,5O0 miles, and buy up all the droves
that are approaching any of our large
cities, and hold them back till they can
sell at their own prices. This is one of
many sharp practices by which the great
mass Of the American people are forced
to pay twice as much rs they ought for
an important article of living.


No law exists, and perhaps none could
be made strong enough to correct, or
even to keep these spectators within
bounds; and we see not but that the
professional men and merchants, me-
chanics, and all the laboring classes,
must make up their minds to swallow
the imposition as best they can, III
despair of the great wrong ever being
righted.


But with the farmers (and we have in
mind those who live near cities) the case
is different. Redress, in part is in their
own hands. They are under no necessi-
ty of selling all their fattened animals to
the drover, and then repurchasing SO
much of the meat as will supply their
own families, Mt great advance on their
selling prices. They can slaughter their
fattened animals at home, to the extent
of supplying their own families with
fresh meats. In many cases, when a
large animal is slaughtered, they can adj
vantageously turn over the surplus above
their own wants, in the payment of
merchants and mechanics bills; and it
dot unfrequently happens that the farm
loqorer who works for them would be
glad to take home to his family a piece
of fresh meat Mt reasonable price, in
stead of SO much cash. The farmer
and his man could so arrange the matter
as to favor the interests of both parties.
We close with these few suggestions,
thinking that some of our readers may
be SO situated as to profit by them.
Year: 1873

Those who are accustomed to the use
of "good old Irish whisky" for certain
physical maladies with which they are
afflicted, may be interested in the infor-
nation that DR.. Hodges, of Belfast, has
recently had occasion to analyze several
samples of whisky" and has published
the results of his examination in one of
the Dublin papers. A bottle of whisky
described as fair sample of the drink
sold in low-class public houses was on
examination found to be heavily adul-
terated with naphtha, cayenne pepper,
and vitriol. Another sample was COM
posed almost entirely of naphtha, slight
ly colored with genuine whisky; and n
third delectable compound had not even
" a coloring" of the genuine spirit, being
pleasing combination of cayenne pep
per, oil of vitriol, alcohol, and sulphate
of copper, which could be produced by
any amateur chemist at the rate of one
penny per gallon. The physical results
to the consumers of such decoction can
be imagined.
Year: 1873

A correspondent of Western paper
says: 1.-The inquiry is often made of
how manage my sheep to obtain so
large q yield of wool from year to year
Some say, You must feel a large
amount of grain and when / tell them
that fed no grain to my sheep in the
last three or four years, they seem sur
prised; but such is the fact If grain is
fed, corn is best, and should be fed in
the months of November and December,
assisting nature (the animaD in its efforts
to clothe itself with heavy, warm coat
preparatory for winter. 1t is in these
months that wool grows the fastest, for
the reason above stated.


My sheep are pure-bred Spanish
Merinos, and raise no ticks. A sheep
that is infested with ticks cannot pro-
duce n heavy fleece of wool. A sure
and cheap preventive is to feed once III
two weeks one-twentieth part of sulphur
with their salt; it not only prevent ticks,
but also the various skin diseases. F"
Year: 1873

An Anglo-Mexican correspondent re-
cords his experience with regard to the
bite of rattlesnake as follows MANY
years ago travelled over the Western
prairies of North America to Mexico,
accompanied by large number OF men
and animals. The journey occupied
many months, and during the whole
time we were expased to the attacks of
Red Indians and rattlesnakes. From
the former we were able to defend our
selves, but against the latter we were
not SO fortunate, for our animals suffered
continually. Upwards of fifty horses,
mules, oxen, and dogs were bitten ut
different times. We had, however, a
ready remedy at hand. When an ami
nal was found to have been bitten-and
it was soon seen by the swelling-the
place was punctured about dozen
times with the point of penknife, and
plenty of gunpowder rubbed into the
wounds, until the blood was all alb
sorbed then more dry powder was adj
ded and fired. This rough method of
cauterizing never failed to effect cure,
and we did not lose single animal from
the bite of rattlesnake." This is "a
simple remedy, and, if as effective as
stated, it cannot be made too widely
known. When men were bitten, they
received the same treatment as the
horses, and they recovered just AS rap
idly
Year: 1873

The NeaO England Farmer snys Feed
regularly. Perhaps three times each
twenty-four hours is better than twice.
When fed only once or twice, they eat
too ravenously, and crowd the system so
as to impair digestion and make them
selves uncomfortable. They will not
grow fast, or fat fast, while in this con-
dition. Never add fresh food to any
that may be left in the trough from a
former meal. If worth preserving, take
it out, work it up with the fresh food,
and clean ont the trough with cold water
and an old broom. This will not seem
So painstaking To persons of methodical
habits, and is the true course by which
to make money on the animals fed. Add
a little salt frequently to the food, and
in warm days give them as much pure
cold water as they want.
Year: 1873

The three grown persons known as the
Alligator Children are TO be exhibited at
the Savannah Fair. The first child has
a scaly skin, and, when lying down, her
actions are very similar to those of an
alligator. The other two are not so dis
tinctly marked, yet are similar in appear
ance and actions TO their sisters. They
walk with difficulty; their usual style Of
locomotion is crawling, but when erect
they walk upon the tips of their toes.
Their natural position is a recumbent
one, and in that only they are at ease.
The parents of these singular children
are very destitute, but refused an offer
of $4,000 from Snowman to take them
North for exhibition.
Year: 1873

That was ten years ago.


Nettie is married, and so is Allegra,
but l am not. Lately Nettie's husband
has moved to Albany, and last winter she
wrote for me to visit her. eff you will
let me know when you are coming | will
meet you at the depot" she wrote, "but
if you do not write, take carriage and
drive to No. -"


1t was quite late when / left the cars
and handed my checks to the driver into
whose carriage | got. 1t was too dark
TO see distinctly who my companions
were, but little girl was talking gayly
to her father, and very soon included me
in her conversation. "Are you going to
our house, too? she asked, laying her
hand on my arm.


Lucille, you must not talk TO
strangers; it is very rude, my dear,
said her father, drawing her back beside
him.


The driver mounted his box, and we
ratified out upon the brilliantly lighted
streets. The glare of the lamps lit up
our carriage, and opposite me sat Mr..
A.! He was little changed-ten years
older, of course, but | knew him in
stantly. My vail was drawn, and SO
thick that even the sharp eyes of little
Lucille-my namesake, i felt sure-could
not see my face.


What ought l to do? If lifted my
vail, would he know me? Ought | not
then and there tell him all?


But had no chance, for our ride was
short, and in n few moments our carriage
halted before an elegant home. "'There
is mamma at the window, papa, watching
for us; and baby is there too Lucille
cried, as she pressed her face against the
crystal side of the carriage. With
pleasant goodnight from each, they
left me out in the dark, tired and cold,
where l sat stupidity staring after them.
The wide hall-door opened, and while
servant came out for the luggage) l saw
him through the frosty lace of the win
dow catch his wife in his arms as little
Lucille went dancing around them.


/ used often while in the city to ride
past his house with my sister, but
always averted my eyes from the door
plate His name could never be mine,
and had no interest in knowing it.
Year: 1873

THE novel application was made in a
New Haven court, recently, by an at
torney, in his own behalf, for an in
junction to prevent the holding of a
wake over dead relative. The petit
tion was granted.
Year: 1873

money, my friend; don't want to rob
you; give me the cards. He took the
cards from Skeptic, and, shuffiing them,
said: This time when you draw the
card, do not let anybody see it, nor say
what it is until ] ask you. must do
my tricks after my own fashion. Draw


HE drew, Now place the card upon
the table back upward, and cover it
with your hand, holding it tightly
Skeptic did as he was desired. Now,
sir, is not that the one which you drew
hrst" Certainly not exclaimed
Skeptic loudly and triumphantly. I'm
deedp cried Hermann, there must be
some mistake and he laughed with
much glee. Are you suTe% Positive
Name the card Il drew the queen of
spades first, and this under my hand is
the nine of diamonds Let me look at
it, Skeptic took away his hand, turned
his hand, and beheld-the queen of
spades. An explosion of laughter at
Skeptic's expense was followed by a
vOlley of cheers for this wonderfully
clever feat Of sleight-Of-hand, If indeed
it was so, for was utterly at loss at
the time-and am now, when think of
ito account for the manner in which
it was accomplished.


"AIany other tricks were exhibited in
the course Of the evening, but those re-
lated above were the newest and the
best, although some Of the others would
have made a common cOnjurer's for
tune. Several times Herr Hermann held
out pack Of cards and named before
hand the card any one of us would draw,
in spite of every effort on our part to
foil him, and this without failing in
any one instance. OF course passing a
card is one Of the cOmmonest tricks in
card jugglery; but to pass a card and
name it beforehand, and pass It on a
company so cunning of fence and so
waryas ours, was a very different mat
ter.


Better than passing the card with
such magical dexterity, which we know
is achieved with rapidity and neatness
was the trick with the pear,
which, indeed, was as incOnceivable as
anything shown that evening. One of
the party was asked by the cOnjurer to
take pear from the table and mark it,
then to cut a slice from il, TO eat the
slice, and hand the pear to Herr Her
mann. This was done, and the pear
given 10 the cOnjurer, who, taking il in
his hand, threw il up toward the ceiling,
caught it as it fell, and returned it sound
and whole to the gentleman, who de-
clared it was the same pear he had
marked and from whichEhe had cut the
slice"
Year: 1873

THE KIND OF WOMEN TO MARRY.
Rev. Fl. Henderson's Louisville Lecture.
The lecture closed with some advice to
young men. They must eliminate from
their idea of woman all her false adorn-
ments. Think of her in q plain dress
Of muslin-minus her rats and mice,
panniers and frizzes, seated at the break
fast table. May you succeed in getting
a true girl for a wife, full Of wOmanly
sweetness, one that will look as we'll at
the breakfast table as when she beWitch-
ed you with the arts of her toilette; one
who will not demand carriage when
you need cart; one that will not require
mansion when you have only a cottage
to offer; one that will be satisfied with
plain dresses when You cannot afford
brocades; one that win entertain your
friends on dollar when you cannot
afford banquet; one that will plant
flowers in your yard and insist on you
whitewashing the fence; one that win be
to you the ornament, pride and magnet
Of that dearest place on earth-"HOme,
sweet hOme.D e...7s ..s...s.ss5 s.-...- .. i.
Year: 1873

planed down to the subjects Of the past,
that they cannot recognise prOgrese and
the necessity Of keeping step to the music
Of the present.


Let us see what is thought by an out
side observer, and whilst we do not, by
any means, endorse the remarks of this
outside party, yet it is good for us some
times to learn what people say Of us.
Our contemporary, speaking of LOuisi-
ana and the French race who settled it,
says;


"The descendants of the original set
tiers are now dropping into subOrdi
nate places, such as Overseers, bank
clerks, levee clerks and municipal
scribes. It is the fashion among the
younger to attribute their retrOgres-
sion to the war, but it began long be-
fore hOstilitles broke out between the
North and South. It is rarely that one
of them admits that the decadence is
owing to race and education. To
the thinking American it is evident.
ty of it's prime, and is sinking into old
age" ...-


This view of our young men is not
flattering, but we ask how much of it is
due to daily publications of the oft told
tale of how to remedy political griev-
ances, and ignoring commerce and in
dustrial pursuits, letting things go to
ruin generally, whilst the people are
told to wait till Congress turns Kel-
Iogg out, and takes hold of Clinton.
All this balderdash is harped on, but no
| counsel given to our young men to let
politics alone, as they do north of us, or
If necessary to take part in them, to do
so without detriment to the duty that is
owing to themselves as individuals,
seeking to keep up with their fellow
man in prosperity and advancement


Let us look at France just out of a
war of disastrous results, crippled In
men, in everything save spirit and will.
She has paid in the three years past
since the war five milliard of francs, OF
one thousand million dollars indemnity
which was extracted from her, and
whilst doing this she has gone to work
reduced her imports, and largely in
creased her exports; now her trade has
reached D limit to which it was never
known to attain at any other period OF
her history. She has done this not
by keeping up the war spirit, but under
the third NapoleOn's motto, "The en-
pire is peace" -.......


Here is another lesson for us in Lou.
isiana. Our empire isl peace. TOpeace'
fully pursue the mechanical and manu-
featuring arts, to close our ears agains
the cry Of interested parties, who, il moi


in the political bubbling cauldrOn, are
like the dead ashes left by an extinc'
fire. If we awaken our young people


to an appreciation of our efforts in theil


behalf, our task will be well paid for


It should be remembered that to com


mence a manufacturing interest need


combination of enterprise, energ!


and knowledge of the work to be done


this is, all that is needed to ensure sue


cess. IF the beginning be small the un


dertaHng is the more certain to sue


ceed if personal attention be given t.


it. Capital is a secondary considera


ton, for that will offer of its own &C
count when the capitalist sees sure re


turn for his investment. ....
Year: 1873

"A FAMILY ENGULFED IN A WE'LL


At Adamsville, Ohio, q Mr.. A. J. Wine


has a well which latterly proved a great


disaster. 1t was thirty-fiye feet deep,


had long been in disuse, and was nearly


dry.T He was engaged in. digging it


deeper, and there was a MINDLESS and


tub for drawing up the dirt. The


workmen, being otherwise engaged, !,


had not touched it for several days. and


of eighteen years, thought she would
put some butter at the bottom of the


we'll to keep it cool. She persuaded her
brother, o young man of twenty-One--


at home from college during vacation
to let her down in the tub. She took
the butter down safely and deposited it
at the bottom. Her brother was draw
ing her up, and when Within a few feet
of the top, the young lady became in
sensible and fell out of the tub to the
bottom. The young man raised an
| alarm and the father came. He let his
son down, and before he could secure
his sisters body to be drawn up, he was
| living senseless at the bottom. The IA
ther then raised an alarm, and the
| neighb0rs came. A young man who


was very intimate in the Wine family,
and probably loved one of them, agreed
| to go down, the well to bring up his two
friends He was let down as young


Wine was, and like him stayed at the


bottom. Only then it seems to have OC-


Cured to anybody that it was foul air,


and that this going into the well was


certain death. The deep hole had al.


ready swallowed up three estimable


Young people. A fourth went down witt
| more care and proper machinery fol


graphing, and finally all three were
| brought to the surface, dead! The
Young lady. was much admired in the
country round, and the two young meI


who lost their lives in trying to save {


sister and a betrothed, were of grea
IDromise. The affair caused inconsol


able family grief, and a great public
distress in Adamsville. @ as 81
Year: 1873

81 hope you will be able to support
me,7 said young woman, while walk
ing out with her intended during
somewhat slippery state of the pave
ment. Why, yes" replied the some
what hesitating swain; with little
assistance from your father" There
was some confusion, and profound
SILENCE -