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Year: 1875

l. Don't buy but half as many chips at the
start as the other players. The expectation
is that you will win, and it you lose 1t Is bet
ter to borrow or ''OWe' up.


2. Never ante up until some one tells you
to. and then say that you have and stick to it,
which will generally persuade some one else
to ''cOme in" twice. This rule, though an
excellent one, must be followed with dlscre-
ton. 1t practiced too often it is liable 10 pro-
duce unpleasant feelings.


8. Toward the end of the evening 1t IS al
ways better to 0ace up your ante tor min
ute than to 1,ut up, as the winner Of the pot
frequently fOrgets 10 charge up the debts, and
none of the other players will remind him, us
they may wish to do the same thing.


t. When the credit system begins to creep
in, as it generally does about the middle of
the game, you should always oace up if possi-
blc, and bet chiefly against those who always
put up. This is one of the most important
duties TO win in cash and lose on credit is
the great secret Of successful poker playing.


5. In dealing, always observe the bottom
card, which you can easily do before the cut
Then, by noticing how thick Il cut is made,
you can tell whether that card goes out. This
| may help you in the draw.


g. Keep sharp eye on the discards. They
may be of service if your draw is not Salts
factory.


7. When you are Sin luck watch your op-
portunity, from time to time, to put some Of
your checks in your pocket without being
seen. This will enable you to ''owe' up it
luck turns, and will prevent your being Dor
rowed from.


8. When any one wants to buy more checks,
and you have plenty, get him to buy OF you,
| if possible, in preference to the bank. II
enables YOU to conceal the amount OF your
| winnings. and besides the bank may not be
aho to pay up. .,.
9. When you are ''chipping OUT for drinks,
etc., put a cigar in your pocket every once IN
| awhile You are sure to be SO much ahead
| of the game, and they come in very handy,
even when you don't smoke.
| 10. Never permit anything to make you
| forget for q moment that the whole object OF
vour game is to save your own money and
secure some one else's, and let everything


you do, however trifling, tend to this desir'


able end.


II. When the game is over, if you are


winner, deny it entirely, or fix the figure al
low as possible; if you are loser, declare that
you have lost twice as much as You really
have. This rule is never departed from. The
money lost at a game of poker always foots
up four times as much as the money won.
| 12 When it is inconvenient to avoid pay
ing your poker debts entirely, use discrimina
ton in the matter. Debts to persons whom
YOU are not likely to meet very often you car
! avoid. Many players feel delicacy abou


asking for poker debt-these are safe ones
| not to pay.
Year: 1875

Sleep to the workingman is emphatically
natures restOrer, rcinvigorating the physlcai
system, which through much toll has become
weary, and keeping up the flow Of life and
spirits which are necessary to the pertor-
nance of the arduous duties of farm life.
comfortable bed, as we are all aware, con-
duces greatly to ones rest. On this subject a
recent writer says:


Of the eight pounds which man eats and
drinks in day, it is thoug ht that not less
than five pounds leaves his body through the
skin. Aud of these five pounds consider
able per centage escapes during the nlght
while he is in bed The largest portion Of
this is water, but in addition there is much
effete and poisonous matter. lhls, Delng 10
great part gaseous in form, permeates every
part of the bed, mattress, blankets, as we'll as
sheets. which soon become foul ana neeo
purifcatiOn.


The mattress needs the renovation quite as
much as the sheets. To allow the sheets to
be used without washing or changing three
or six months would he regarded as bad
housekeeping; but insist if a thin sheet can
absorb enough of the excretion of the body
to make it unfit for use in a few days, thick
mattress. which can absorb and retain
thousand times as much of these poisonous
excretions, needs to be purified as often,
certainly, as once in three months.


A sheet can be washed. A mattress cannot
be renovated in this way. Indeed, there Is
no way of cleansing mattress but by steam
ing it or picking it to pieces, and thus, IN
fragments, exposing it to the rays of the sun.
As these processes are scarely practicable
with any of the ordinary mattresses, | am
decidedly of the opinion that the good old
fashioned straw bed, which can every three
months be changed for fresh straw, and the
| tick be washed, is the sweetest and healthiest
of beds.


If, in the wintry season, the porousness OF
the straw bed makes it little uncomfortable,
spread over it comforter or two wooler
blankets, which should be washed as often as
every Two weeks. With this arrangement, II
you wash all the bed coverings as often as
once in two weeks, you will have delightful
healthy bed.


window, during the day, and not make it NJ
for the night before evening, you will hav'
added greatly to the sweetness of your rest
and, in consequence, to the tone OF you
health.


Heartily wish the change could be every
where introduced. Only those who hav'
thus attended to this important matter cal
Judge of the influence on the general healtf
and spirits.
Year: 1875

I've seen some people in this life


Who always are repining,
Who never, never yet could gee


The storn,-cloud'- silver lining.
There always something is amiss,


From sunrise to its setting:
That Gods hand made their map Of life.
They seem the while forgetting.
And have seen blessed sight


10 siu-beclOuded vision,
Some people who, where'er they be,
Make earth seem All tlysian.
They always see the brightest side
The direful shadows never
And keep the flower of hope In bloom
Within their hearts forever.
The one can make the sunniest day
Seem wOndrOus sad and dreary;
The other smiles the clouds away,


And makes dark day CHEEKY.
This life of Ours ia, after all.


About as we shall make it.
If we can banish grief and care,


Let's haste to undertake it.
Year: 1875

Montreal, Sept. 1O.-The guard on
duty last night ut the Protestant Gem
etery vault, was assailed by a mob
which sneaked around underneath the
thicket and fired volley of stones,
evidently intended rs a ruse to draw
out the extent Of the force in charge.
The guard fired fourteen shots into the
bushes and general scattering of the
enemy ensued, as they could be heard
going through the brush up the noun
tain side. A careful search this morn
ing failed to reveal any indications
that any one had been wounded.
Year: 1875

What an amount Of discomfort wet
boots entail. and how well we all recall
the painful efforts We have now and then
made to draw on a pair Of hard baked
ones which were put by the FIRE o7er-
night to dry. Once on, they are a sort
OF modern stocks, destructive of all COM
fort, and entiryly demoralizing to the
temper. The following plan will do
away with this discomfort When the
boots are taken of, gu them quite full
with dry oats. This grain has a great
tondness for damp, aud will rapidly abs
sorb the last vestige of it from tie vet
leather AS it takes Up tho moisture it
swc!!s and fills the boat with tightly fit-
ting last, keeping its 'orm goJd, sad dry
ing the leather without iarden ng ];
In the morning. shake out Il Q OTIS and
hang them in bag near the fle to dry.
ready fox the next wet night, draw On
the boots and go happily about da, s
work.
Year: 1875

Give the COW an easy, pleasant place
to stand. Bt in good temper yourself.
Approach her gently. Always have a
good stool, and sat On it, if the COW will
let you, while milking. Make the teats,
if they need it, perfectly clean,
before you begin milking. Commence
very gently, especially if the COW is very
sensitivc,o or if her udder or tea,s are sore,
When you have fairly begun. milk with
a regular easy action, aud as fast as you
can without great fatigue, til! you are
done. M,lk very clean. II you milk in
large dairy. always milk the sar,e cows
and let all the mixers have their OWE
cows to milk. A COW is better contented
aud will give more milk. il she is always
MIXED by tue same person Women ars
the best mixers; bat never ser woman
to milk COW that milks hard it is toe
s.yere,
Year: 1875

~ A newly>elected Congressman Of
Wisconsin is much annoyed because of
this story about himself in the Beaver
Dam PAPER: The Hon. read in the
paper that Congress was to assemble De,
cember Z, 80 he packed up his clean linen,
and with his wife and one or two child.
ren, started for the national capital in
time to claim his seat in the House Of
Representatives at the opening session.
Alter his arrival there, it did not take
him q great while to learn that school
would not begin for him until the 4th Of
March. He returned home after al
absence of about three weeks, and fud.
it mighty hard work to convince his
friends that be has only just been visiting
in Missouri
Year: 1875

John Van Bueren used to tell this
story about himself. He said on one
occasion in a stage coach-..before rail-
roads were in existance in that part OF
the country-from Undertook to Al
bany; all alone, and smoking cigar.
After they had travelled little distan, Sc
on the road an old man got in the
stage, and he thought he would be po-
lite enough to ask the stranger if smok-
ing was agreeable to him. ''Yes, it is
agreeable. Smoke away. l have
often thought if ever was rich enough
I would hire some loafer to smoke in
my face" Mr.. Van Buren threw his
cigar out of the window.
Year: 1875

Tho solicitor of the treasury has pro.
nounced as fraudulent the claim of Sugg Fort,
Of Tennessee, and the secretary Of the treas
ury has directed action to be brought against
Fort in the United States circuit court at Nash
vile, for The recovery of the money, and has
called the attention Of the attorney for the
District Of Columbia to the facts, for such
criminal Or civil action as the case may war
Nnt,
Year: 1875

The editor OF the Norfolk Va.
Landmark is n clear-headed and saga
cious mau. Treating of the recent
Mississippi embroilment, he gives this
sensible advice 1--WE may fairly de-
maud from the white people wise re-
serve in their lit 4rcourse with the ne
groes. In this case it appears, that
white men, through idle curiosity,
were present, aud provoked the un-
authorized interference of the Mar
shall, whose action precipitated the
collision. 1t is true they had a right
to be present but every considera-
ton of policy and reIft aspect should
have restrained them from attending
the meeting. Had they left the ne
groes to their own devices this tragedy
would not have been enacted, and the
unhappy man whose illegal whiskey
brought about the trouble would not
have been murdered after his surrender.
In one word, our friends in the Gulf
States should hold themselves aloof
from tumuituous meetings Of the
blacks, and leave them to their orators
aud leaders, the idols to whom they
are irrevocably joined. There is but
one course for the white people to
adopt in the intensely black States,
and hat we have indicated. When
ever they depart from this they Will be
liable to the same treatment Sivelley
received, ard will run the risk, as hap
pened in this case, of involving others,
remote even from the scene of action.
There is ample room for the two races,
aud in the present agitated frame of
the Ethiopiad mind (?) in some of the
States to the South of Us. the very best
thing for the white people to do is to
abstain from all intact with the ne
groes on public occasions of a poliii-
cal nature. To violate this sound rule,
alike enforced by considerations of
public peace and personal dignity, will
be TO incur the risk of just such scenes
as that which has been enacted in
Mississippi.
Year: 1875

Free from serious objections, yet palatable, even
morbid appt tte for itself and operate as an as
sstant to digestion, as well as perform the iunc-
tions OF a stimulant, Such we confidently believe
Is to be found in
Year: 1875

Whether produced by Indigestion improper food,
change OF water or diet, too free indulgence in ice
water, exposure to sudden changes OF temperature,
are Immediately relieved by 1t. One ounce added
to q gallon OF
Year: 1875

Flatulency, Sluggish Digestion, want of Tone and
Activity in the stomach and Bowels Oppression
after Eating, are sure to be relieved by single
dose taken after each meal. great want exists
fora
Year: 1875

THIS elegant preparation is prepared from the
true jamaica Ginger, combined with choice aro-
mates and genuine French brandy, and is vastly
superior to every other Extract Essence of Gin
ger before the public-all OF which prepared
with alcoto! by the old process.
Year: 1875

other law of this state. This vitIates the entire
sentence, and renders it nugatory and void.


Second-The petitioner was sentenced twice for
the same offence.


Third-The law on which every count In the in
dictment is founded and explicitly drawn had been
repealed without saving clasue to past offences,
before the sentence, conviction. trial, Indictment
of the relator and with that repeal fell all offences
against the law while it was in force.


The elaborate argument in elucidation of
these points fills twenty nine large octave
pages, to which we can only allude.
No good citizen can wish to see frauds 60
unpunished. but it is unquestionably the
highest duty of the courts to see that no
matter what any man has done he shall not
be punished except according to law. Ii
people will only reflect on this principle,
they will see, as Mr.. Bartlett says, that 1t
lies at the basis of government and of soci-
ETY., and trauscends in Importance any
considerations of mere pecuniary loss. Ii
the court of appeals shall be convinced
that the points raised by Mr.. Bartlett are


we'll taken there can be no doubt what the
Judgment must be- 1t is now expected the
decision will be handed down next Tuesday


but whenever it is delivered it will be reac
with the deepest interest, as it will settle
the law of this state on one ofthe most vita
questions ever raised in the whole annals


Of criminal jurisprudence.
Year: 1875

1t is now some three months since
on q positive contract, both verbal and


written, the managers of the Southern


Pacific Railroad Company agreed to
commence work on the new depot


within six weeks from that date.
Messrs. CRocKER and CoLTON agreed
in writing with the Mayor of9this city
and pledged their word of honor as
gentlemen to the Common Council
that this contract should be carried out
on condition that the seventy-five
thousand dollars in city bonds were
then delivered to them. Acting in
good faith, the Council surrendered the
bonds. The railroad company depos-
tied a quantity of,lumber on the depot
grounds, and a little work was done.
Then operations ceased, and there are
now no indications that the company
intend to build the depot in six months
or six years. We are also informed
that part of the lumber has been re-
moved. We do not believe that the
company intend to disregard their part
ofthe contract and our long acquaint-
ance with Messrs. CRocKER and COL
TON affords no ground for believing
that they would deliberately, break
their word. Yet time goes by and We
have not. the faintest prospect for a
depot on the new site. The people are
becoming anxious and fears are ex-
pressed that we have given away our
bonds for few empty promises. The
HERALD is disposed to believe that the
railroad company intend to carry out
their portion of the econtract and though
there has been some delay we expect
to be able to report In short time that |
active operations have been com.
menced on the new depot. a,;R ,i5 N ]
Year: 1875

IT is possible that>whatever expense
BANCROFT incurred in procuring the
adoption of his schoofboo series will
prove so much dead loss. The law
makes the Introduction of these books
mandatory within six months after
the lst of July next. Before the ex-
piration Of that time, new State Off
cials will be in their offices, and the
Legislature will be in session one
month. If the -Grangers and the peo-
pie generally are true to themselves,
they will send men to the Legislature
who will make II their duty to abolish
the law under which the State Board
of Education acted while changing
the school books. BY this means the
people of the State will save half a
million dollars. y No man who will
not pledge himself to, do all in his
power to prevent a change of text
books, should be sent to the Legisla-
ture. tss =. 8"
Year: 1875

HoUGHToN's bill to change the
route OF. the southern Pacific Railroad
explains the extraordinary exertions
Of the Southern Pacific people TO Sc
cure the first right of way through
Cajon Pass. They do not propose to
build an opposition road TO the Los
Angeles and Independence, and the
promptness of Engineer CRAWFORD
in taking possession of the Pass may
yet prove of great advantage to the
people Of Los.Apgeles valley. VIZ
Year: 1875

For a room to be thoroughly comfort
able, it must look habitable, and there
fore have plenty OF signs Of occupation.
Your Own writing table, with its pretty
knick- -knacks, your work basket, a piano
with music upon it, and, above all, your
own favorite books. Treat with scorn
the conventional notion that books are
out of place in a drawing room, and
have some well-hlled book shelves, and
your tables stTewn with novels, periodi-
Gals, brochures, books of poetry; books
are the mind of room, and hoWers are
its life. Make it rule therefore, never
to have your fower-vases quite empty,
though you may only be able to get
spray of ivy or a few primroses, or
some autumnal tinted leaves. It is
scarcely possible to have too many flow
ers in a room, and, either in city or
country, they can be procured at
small expense, growing in pots or fresh
ly gathered. Next, try to avoid the
cold looks of uncovered walls. If you
can procure them have plenty of good
water colors, engTavings, or photographs
simply framed, and put up etageres,
brackets and pretty mirrors In every
available space, so that the wallpaper
may be as little seen as possible. Have





or Salviati's glass. Be sure to have real
easy chairs. Put undercloths on all
your tables scatter about the room as
many rags and couvrepieds as you can
get have a bright fire whenever it is
cold or wet, and in hot summer weather
put some pots of ferns and moses in
the empty CRATE, religiously avoiding
all cut-paper or shaving ornaments.
flowers, books and a fire will make any
room look habitable so your "aen
viii now have the materials of a pretty
drawing-room. You must next study
how to give. it those little nameless
touches which no uneducated servants
fingers can fleet, and which do so much
to stamp your individuality on all
about you and you will then find that
you have made a room such as it will
be a real pleasure to enter, not only
luxurious, but redolent of a certain
mysterious charm. Study to dress be-
comingly. It is not necessary to dress
extensively, but take care to be invaria-
bly, neat, and to select the colOrs and
style of making which suit your COM
plexiOn, features and figure above all,
always dress for dinnerl This is a real
economy. It spoils a good walking
dress to wear it much in the house, and
pretty demi-toilet can be made at a
small cost. An economical dress for
every. day wear is a black net, prettily
made, and worn with colOred ribbons,
or a black velvet body trimmed with
white lace and black silk shirt. How
ever, the dress is a matter Of taste and
money, only let it be put on carefully,
with nice etceteras of all kinds, and
exercise a certain amount of talent in
varying your ribbons, ornaments, and
so on, that you may always have some
fresh trife in your toilet. There are
many little charms which seem almost
too trifiiDg to enumerate, but which.
nevertheless, have all their value in
making their pOssessor attractive.
Year: 1875

There has sprung up at Delphos,
Ohio a new industry, that of making
nail kegs from one piece Of wood.
Under the new process of manufacture
the use Of slaves is entirely dispensed
with, the body Of the keg or barrel
being made of one piece. The process
il covered by a patent, but is quite
simple The logs are cut in the proper
length and thoroughly steamed, and
are then Put In g kind Of lathe here
. veneering knife" +" cuts the wood the
right thickness for the body of the kegs
the sheet rolling from the log under
the action Of the knife just as a carpet
is unrolled. Another knife cuts the
sheets into the lengths required. These
are then transferred 10 a table fitted
with goring SAWS otherwise called
drunken +" OF - Eabbiine saws,
which cut wedgs-shaPed cores, in order
10 give the package the proper bulge
when shaped The sheets now pass
through a machine which prepares
them to receive the heads, and are then
placed in a drying house, where they
remain for forty eight hours. They
are then reedy for shipping 10 the
shops.
Year: 1875

The ut most duration - fash from
beginning to end is estimated rot to
exceed the sixtieth part OF a second,
though retained upon the retina SO
much longer. This may be proved
during a storm on PeffSctly dark night
by setting a wheel TO work 50 rapidly
that in a steady light It's spokes appear
to blend and become individually in


visible. 1t being dark, and the wheel
rapidly revolving as above, when q flash
of lightning occurs the wheel will ap-
being distinctly AID separately visible
and still. This was first observed by
Wheststone, and is recorded by him, in
conjunction with other similar expert
ments, as conclusive proof that the
duration Of the fash is excessively brief.
Year: 1875

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
seriptiop is out or unpaid, and that
yoa are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure in extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons.
but cash alone wiz pay expenses, and
We are forced 20 adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such q
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


81 We enter no new names on our
BOOKS without the money IN a6i~9Toe
Year: 1875

II rose and fen IN the dusky room


And died on the purple night outside,
Like the tremulous swell OF the oceans calm
And the steady sweep Of the coming tide.
And we st0od there together, hand in band,
With faces a-srnile but with hearts -a-quiTer,
With q love that rebElled ct a masters law,
As gse moved to tia strains OF At The Beautifu


River"


What If for once your cheek touched mine
And felt the play Of your breath on my face?
Love cannot always be fettered down


Nor rise to a sin in 4 last embrace.
For held you then but as others may


But held on to wake with terrible shiyer-
And the air grew faint and the world grew dim
AS We foated along :" The Beautiful RiYer.'
On the swelling aoR Of Its feFyid tide


We bufied the past with bitter pleastre;
Forgetting tht future-a bopel6ss lofe


And bte burned out to its golden messjire:
touch Of the hand and look OF the eye,
2 One burning word and We parted forever.
Parted to sight, but still heart to heart


In a passionate clasp which naught can sever.
Year: 1875

1t is said that one of the leading
intellects of this country dates his
marvellous powers of reflection from
an incident in his childhood when he
spent half a day up an apple tree con-
sidering the fine points of a farmers
dog that was laughing at him from the
ground below.
Year: 1875

"A French butcher who was on his
death-bed said TO his wife If I die,
Francoise, you must marry oar shop
boy. He is a good young mans and
the business cannot be carried on with
ont man to look after it " !" have
been thinking about that already" said
his wife.