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Year: 1873

In a recent lecture on marriage, ,"
Mr.. Chas. G. Ames compressed much
truth and common sense in the follow
ing terms "In a class Of cases sepa-
ration is right and necessary. It is too
loose and vague to say that {" incompati
bility" IS a sufficient ground for divorce.
There are all degrees Of incompatibility,
and nearly every union is marred
by some degree of it. But where this
incompatibility is deep-seated, radical
and incurable, SO that neither can be to
the other more than a dog is to a cat or
a bird to a beast where one party
proves hOpelessly lost in Ioathsome per.
sonal vices, where one party is persis-
tently faithless to all that is meant by
marriage; where all means of com
ing into kindly relations have been
thoroughly tried and have thor
oughly failed and where the yoke
is a chronic agony and disqual fication
for all life; In such cases 1 think it is
an awful crime not to separate. But
this will not often happen, unless one
party or the other has fallen very low.
Not for IigLt reasons, not in haste, even
for reasons, should law, public opinion,
or private practice, consent to the de-
struction OF household once formed.


The talk of divorce whenever there
is difficulty, is like sending for
the grave-digger whenever there is
sickness. We do not give up even
when the doctor says no hope; ; We
send for the other doctors We fan the
last spark and when all is over, we
place hand on the still heart and ask
if its warmth must forever depart.
Nor do we then hasten to bury till the
dead threatens pestilence to the living.
In this spirit we must treat the disor-
ders TO which the married state is al
ways liable; grudging no pains by
which harmony might be restored !;
welcoming every symptom of GONZALES
cence saying or doing nothing to ag-
gravate or irritate; hoping against hope
to the last never so much as aIluding
to fatal termination till the last throb
of mutual interest has ceased, and the
moral health Of household and eOrnmu-
nifty command TO bury the dead mar
.riRge out of sight"
Year: 1873

1 tioning the why or wherefore for tn,


command, knowing, that as he is d ius


God, he would never ask us to do any


thing unreasonable and as he. neye,


Jests it is wrong to believe he yould


make law without meaning what he


SAID and demanding obedience thereto.


We should become meek and humble


tolloxers of Christ humble enouob


TO obey without protesting. E.tert We


become as little children, ye shall in


no wise inherit the kingdom of heaven.


30 Tar as creed is concerned, I care


nothing about any of them. I believe


with Brother Webster that we shouid


Keep the commandments, not one and
evading another, but all IF them. In
James End chapter and 10th and 11th
verses we read, For whosoever shall
keep the whole law, and yet offend in
one point, he is guilty of all. For he


that said, DO not commit adultery, said


also, Do not kill, how if thou ecmm;t


no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art


become a transgressor of the law.


mus 1t Is certain that if We keep all


the other commandments, and break the
fourth we transgress the law. Again
believe we should obey the spirit of
Ehe law. We can never Judge of the s
spirit OF the law but by the letter of
,he law for as the letter of the law is
he language used to convey tile m can
ns OF the law, and the spirit of the $
aw the meaning conveyed by the lam
'uage Used it follows, that I'M order to :.
hey the spirit, We must obey the letter n
+ the law. Take away the letter and 0
7e have nc law, either in letter or d
plrit. As everything 50 far has been "
aid in friendly spirit, and with a n n
ertect willingness to be convinced if I lie
m wrong, trust you will receive it id lie
spirit as friendly, casting aside all W
rejudice if you have any. Study the a, AZ
crlptures upon this subject, and ask q,
cd to help you understand all his re- tt
llremebts, and to help you to eo1i- al az
nee me if | am wrotfu. ~


Respectfully, f.
Year: 1873

Members Of the cotton exchange will
see from all this that there is an in
fluence st work in the country below
that bodies them nor US any good, and
that must be counteracted 10y prompt
investigation of the charges thus reiter-
ated, aud such official denial as
will stamp it out and relieve
the city Of the Obloquy thus
cast upon it. We might as well en-
deavor TO solve the problem OF squsr-
ing the circle as TO pass these charges by
in silence, orIeaye them to Time to set
right Cotton is as our life-blOod, and
we cannot afford to lose any Of it.
Year: 1873

From the Woodville Republican,


Governor Powers, under the advice and
control of the attorney general, seems deter
mined to hold over, and test the matter in the
courts. This course is certainly TO be regret
ted by all who desire peace and quiet in these
quiet times. 1t does seem that the heavy re-
buke administered to the governor by the
people at the ballot-box ought TO be sufficient
70 satisfy any reasonable man. The interests
of the State of Mississippi ought surely TO
outweigh the private ambitions of Governor
Powers; but IL seems that neither OF these
considerations are to prevail; and we are des-
tined to be cursed with period OF confusion,
at least, If not anarchy. In this course the
governor will not be supported by those who
opposed an election. The leading opposition
papers ars Outspoken in their condemnation
of such action, and he will place himself on
record an INSCRIPTIONS politician, with
whom place is everything, even If the we'll
being Of a whole State is to be sacrificed to
retain it.
Year: 1873

In addition 10 the above, we fiud in
the last edition Of the Cotton Plant 8
repetition Of its charges in the follow
ing, which is 2 thousand per cent.
worse than the first article, to which
we directed the attention Of our read
ers:
Year: 1873

Hunting on another mans land and
cutting down trees that belong to an
other person than the destroyer may
be sport, but not altogether Of a legal
nature. Sometimes such acts are
punished. EOr instance, the Owens
boro Ky Shield says:


"a few days since Joe Jones aud
Elisha Ford were out coon hunting on
the farm of Esquire Tom Monarch.
They treed a coon up a very large
tree, and proceeded to cut II down.
Just as they feiled it Esquire Monarch
came upon them and ordered them to
get a crOss.cut saw and saw the tree
into cuts suitable for shingles. By
daylight they had the tree sawed in
to nineteen cuts. end the next day he
made them rive the cuts into shingles
under penalty Of trespass. The par
ties have not been coon hunting
since"
Year: 1873

There have been several pathetic
stories in circulation this fall about
cloves sacrifices" and deaths from
smallpox caught while caring for sick
friends. Some Of them are no doubt
more pathetic than true. Not 30 with
the adventures Of one Robert Riddle,
Of Salem, Massachusetts About a
month ago his wife was taken with
this disease and sent to the pest-hOuse.
Mr.. Riddle went there too to take
care Of her By-and-by she TecJver-
ed, and he was taken sick. However
she did not EeciprOeate his kindness,
but wenC away and left him to get
well, which he did by himself When
he was well again he forged an order
from the Overseer of the poor for fif-
teen dollars, saying it was payment
for the care he had taken Of his wife.
With the money he thus raised he
embarked upon a spree that closed a.
usual in the station house. The next
day he was tried for larceny and
drunkenness and sent 10 the house Of
correction for three months. IL he
had not taken care Of his wife these
things might not have been; that she
was abundantly able tO take care Of
her self j. demonstrated by her indie
pendent course on recovery. The on
iy bright spot in the stOgy IS that the
family, II ever reunited, will be safe
from the smallpox. But as their the.
apeutIc tendencies are 50 slightly de-
velOped, thir i1JculatiOn will b. Of
little good 10 other people.
Year: 1873

We are learning from our exchanges ev-
cry day that ''the arbitrary power Of high
handed anarchy is marching across the
ruins OF constitutional liberty" In view
OF this steady movement, it is difficult to
tell how to address letter so as to reach it.
Year: 1873

THE Police JUSTICE LAw-Judee Larre-
more yesterday dissolved the injunction by
which the new Police Justices we're sought to
be restrained from interfering with Charles
Coulter, one Of the old Police Justices, in the
performance of his duties except by writ Of
quo warrdnto. The decision of Judge Larre-
more sustains the constitutionality of the law
under which the appointments of Mayor
Havemeyer have been made, the Judge hold
ing that the Police Justices are not Justices Of
the Peace or constitutional officers within the
purview.a and nearing Of the constitution of
1896 He also decides adversely on the minor
points raised by the applicant. This decision
will, of course, be appealed, but it is not
likely to be reached in the higher court SO
speedily az the case agreed on by the other
elected Justices and the Mayors appontees.
The public interest requires that the final
Judgment should be arrived at as speedily as
possible.
Year: 1873

The President on tho Cuban Situation.


President Grant is no doubt right in his de-
sire to procure reliable official information
in regard to the Yirginius affair before
taking any decisive steps or making any
recommendations to Congress in the matter.
We appreciate his anxiety that the government
should be certain Of its position before it COM
mits itself to acts which may involve most
serious consequences to the nation, and we are
willing to believe that he sympathizes with
the popular indignation at the Santiago mas
sacre. We also appreciate the sense Of consti-
tutional obligation which deters the President
from doing any act which may amount to an
act of war without the authority of Congress.
The country at home might be the better for
stricter construction than has on some occa-
sions been placed on constitutional restrictions.
But meanwhile some lives remain to be sac
rificed by the Spanish butchers, and an Amer
lean vessel is held in custody by the Spanish
Cuban authorities. Passengers to Havana by
the regular steamer are seized and impris-
oned mails are opened, letters violated and
detained. Is our Executive, the Commander
in-Chief Of the army and navy, powerless to
protect the lives and property Of American
citizens without the authority of Congress
Is the sudden furry and hustle in our naval
department only to be an empty shpws Let
us wait and see
Year: 1873

Cuba. All the facts of the story Of the Vir-
ginius are 50 many evidences that this pre-
tended Spanish government in Cuba is simply
q nest Of buccaneers and cutthroats, fellows
who laugh at the DEGREES telegraphed them
from Madrid, and have as much scorn for
CASTELAR, as they have hatred for the
United States. Spain. that is NOM
inally responsible before the world for
the acts Of these wretches, cannot control
them, and her responsibility is, therefore, a
sham and farce. They repudiate her author
iy; they scorn her commands. Word is tele-
graphed to them from Madrid that not life
must be taken. and the only response they
make is to fill three days with succession OF
bntcheries against the slaughter house wall;
and in the presence of such fact our Secre-
tary of State-a great master of diplomatic de-
portment-would have US be polite to these
people; would have us be deferential, and can
satisfy his own mind with the small decorums
of diplomatic fummery. How are we under
obligation to respect the right Of Spain in a
country where she cannot assert her authority
over her own subjects, and where we are the
sufferers from the repudiation Of her author
ity? No such right can for q moment be con-
sidered as binding upon US, and Spain must
learn that if she cannot keep her subjects in
order we can, and will in all cases in which
our own rights and privileges are in any mea-
sure at stake, though the necessity for this
should involve military occupation of the
island that is a constant source Of danger and
disturbance.


1t is shameful commentary upon the fee
bleness of our government that we are the
only Power of which these Cubans have any
knowledge for which they have neither fear
nor respect. The name of England is a terror
to them, and knowingly they would not dare
to touch British subject. There is reason to
suppose that some of the men on the Vir-
ginius were entitled to British protection, but
they were all killed on the hasty assumption
that they were Americans, for it needed so
powerful sentiment as their virulence against
us to overpower even temporarily their re-
spect for England All these men were shot
for being Americans, and we see by their fate
that our correspondent, O'Kelly, would also
have been shot if he had been an American
citizen; but his British protection saved him.
1t is said that England is now making active
preparations to be ready for events in Cuba,
and there is some supposition that she is to
act in concert with us but it will be the final
disgrace of all if we are without vigor to
assert our own rights, but must have the
moral stamina of John Bull to sustain US
Year: 1873

From the message of President Mac
Mahon, which was read by the Duo de
Broglie to the French Assembly yesterday
it is evident that the Marshal has placed
himself sin the hands of his friends"
He wants his powers prolonged for seven
years. 1t will be remembered that the propo-
sition of the Extreme Right was only limited
by life in the extension of MacMahon power
When the Assembly met the Right were anx-
ious for ten years, but the Committee of Pro-
longation had only been able to agree to
five years. until the receipt of MacMahon s
message yesterday. They now appear willing
to concede him the seven years he asks. The
really significant part of the message, how
ever, is that wherein he asks to have
his prolongation voted before the con-
the most aggressive movement he has yet
made, and if we may infer as much from the
general refusal of the committee to give way
on any other point, it seems that this rather
strong request has been denied. We have no
evidence that MacMahon possesses any ability
either as statesman or politician. He is purely
the President of a fortuitous circumstance
namely, the difficulty of finding any one else
to be the figurehead when Theirs was forced
to retire. He has been soldier all his life,
who took army promotion from every govern
ment that France has had for nearly forty
years. He covered all this quietly under
the plea that his sword belonged to France.
rule who might. 1t is a plea that may be very
bad or very good, according to the man who
makes ii. AS o soldier he admired the strong
rule of the Empire, though his heart
hungered in mild way for strong rule
under o Bourbon. His course since the
opening of the Assembly shows that be
has given himself over pretty completely into
the hands of the royalists, who, now that
their king has annihilated himself, call them
selves conservatives. When he states that
the majority of Frenchnen are con-
servative he says what he is told to
say, and which is not true in the sense he
would have it understood. If the majority of
Frenchmen we're allowed to give their opinion
through general election he would soon dis
cover how sadly his monarchist friends of the
Right had deceived him. The committee is
to be congratulated on their frmness in not
yielding to an illogical absurdity.
Year: 1873

APpgEHENDED TIMBER FAMINE. The Chi
cago Inter- Ocean is alarmed at the prospect of
timber famine, and suggests that Congress
and the State Legislatures should give their
attention to the subject The alarm is ground
less. There will always be timber enough in
the country when we have SO many block
heads managing its official affairs.
Year: 1873

GIVE THEM CHANCE. Over fifty ex-naval
officers have written to the Navy Department
rendering their services. Let the Secretary,
in casting about for efficient officers for his
ships give some OF these old sea dogs q
chance to prove their training and their
Imettle.
Year: 1873

\ correspondent Of tie London,


Eng, Garden, in writing q the use
Of the more or less com-oa nlants
for gaui-hing, expresses surprise
that the natural and simple condi-
ments should be utilized TO 50 small
an extent a. they are:


With(the exception Of the sweet
and bitter herbs grown chiefly for the
purpose and parsley, which is neither
bitter nor sweet, but the most Dopu-
lar Of all favoring plants, compara-
lively few other leaves me used.-
Perhaps I ought also to except the
sweet bay, which is opular in rice
and other puddinGs and certainly i'm
parts one of the most pleasant and
exquisite 1ayors. But on the other
hand. what 4 waste there Is of the
ilavoring properties Of peach, almond
and laurel leaves, 50 richly charged
with tie essence Of bitter almonds.
50 much used in kitchens. OF course
such leaves must be used with eau
ton, but so must the spirit as well.
An infusion Of these could readily be
made either green or dry and tea
or table spoon Of the hayoring liquor
used to taste.


"Oue Of the most useful and harm
less Of al leaves for fayoring is that
Of the common syringa. When Gu
cumbcrs are scarce these are . per
feet substitute in salads or anything
in which that flavor is desired. The
taste Is not only like that OF cucum-
hers, bat identical-a curious IL
stance Of the correlation Of Gavors in
widely different families. -i-ain, tie
young leaves OF cucumbars have a
striking likeness in the way Of dayor
to that Of fruit. The same may be
affirmed Of carrot-tops, which are az
like carrots in taste as may be. In
most gardens there is a proligious
waste Of celery flavor in the sacri-
fee Of the external leaves and their
partially bIanched foot-stalks. Scores
OF sticks Of celery ale cut up into
soup when the outside would flavor
it equally well or better. The young
leaves Of gooseberrics added to bot
tied fruit give O fesher favor and
greenor color to pies and tarts. The
leaves Of the Towering currant give
a sort Of intermediate flavor between
that Of black currants and red. Or
ange. citron and lemon leaves inpart
a flavor equal to that Of tie ruit and
rind combined and somes, hat differ
ent from both. A few leaves added
to pies or boiled in the milk used to
bake with rice. or formed into crusts
OF paste, impart an admirable bou-
quet. In short, leaves are not half
so much used for seasoning as they
might be-
Year: 1873

Farmers. on small wheat farms often find
it difficult to keep up the fertility Of the
soil. not being able to keep enough stock
to make manure. These same farmers
buy costly and sometimes useless artificial
manures, little thinking that The muck of
their swamps and river beds, ifjudiciously il
applied, would greatly ado to the fertility
OF the soil. l tried three experiments


with it last season, on three different crops
clover, wheat and potatoes on three
different kinds Of soil. The clover grew
on light. sandy loan. The field was sum-
mer fallowed for wheat two seasons be-
fore, and received heavy coat OF barn
yard manure. Last spring l picked ont
the poorest strip in the field, and top
dressed it with muck at the rate of forty
loads to the acre. The result was wonder
full. That strip, in comparison to the rest
of the field, yielded one ton more to the
acre. The wheat grew on gravslly
loan. The field was prepared in a SUM
ner fallow the year before, and received
a heavy dressing of barn-yard manure
all except half an acre. on which twenty
loads of muck were spread. The straw
on this spot grew stronger and healthier
than on any other part Of the field. Ihad
no chance of comparing the grain. The
potdloSS WeIc pidulcu Ou u uTy, HulcStouc
shale. Those that received muck were
large and dry. with very few small ones,
while the potatoes on the rest of the field
were OF poor quality and too small for
market purposes. To prepare muck
properly, it should be hauled out of the
swamp in the spring, piled on a dry knoll,


and mixed with a liberal supply Of lime,


ashes, and common salt. During the sum-
mer it should be turned over three or four
times, until thoroughly pulvcrised and the
compost thoroughly mixed, Leave it to
the action of the frost during the winter,
and apply to the land in the spring Every
! intelligent farmer knows that the liquid
manures are gilmore value than the solids.


There is sometimes great difficulty in saw
ing them, especially if the stables are built


on a hillside. Now, muck is powerful


absorbant, and if used freely as bedding,


and in pits beside and under the stables,
the liquid excrements would be saved.
l have found it to be of great value APP


piled as mulch 10 the roots OF trees 1t


seems to supply inyigorating elements,


without the stimulating effects of manure.


Don't sell your ashes TO the soap makers.


but mix well with this mulch, and Grub 4


Co. will leave on suspiciOn.- Ontario Ad-


Cocate. -sf srtt e3 ts.s,
Year: 1873

The evils which grow out Of the contests fol
party nominations do not seem to wane in the
least on the contrary they become more and
more demorAlizing. case in point Among
the offices to be filled in Kent county, Nd, this
fall, is that of Register Of Wills, and for the
nomiEation two very popular gentlemen have
been working with unremittlng zeal SO effec-
tive we're their lsbors that when the nominatio n
day came round, each had carried two districts
of the county, while the fifth gave its vote to an
other gentleman. The County Convention then
referred the matter to a vote of the people in
the odd district, but when the day Of election
closed the question was still undecided for each
candidate had just 222 votes. This part of the
contest was extremely disgusting, if We may
credit the published reports for money was freely
used and as much as &4S is said to have been paid
single voters. Last Tuesday. however, the
County Convention again met, and very wisely
threw both candidates overheard, taking up
another gentleman.
Year: 1873

Henry NJ. Nichols, late Deputy Collector of
Internal Revenue for the First Maryland Dis
trict, who was suspected of being defaulter to
the Government, has been completely exhonora-
ted. The Grand Jury even found much in his
conduct for praise. So satisfied is the Govern
ment with his honesty that it has found another
foul
Year: 1873

The Dela1dredn undertakes tho defence Of
the jury which acquitted Prof. West, but in lieu
thereof lays before its readers about three
fourths of q column of political rodomontade as
splenetic as it's articles of war times If the
Delaaodrean has anything to offer which will
show any good reason why the West jury re-
turned such stupid verdict we shall be glad t.
hear it, for we have all along regarded the ac
ton as indefensible from standpoint of justice
and of law. The fact that the Deld,odrean teoms
70 such an extent with political twaddle only en-
forces our first belief.
Year: 1873

When the wires flashed across the country the
news Of the aoquittal of Prof. West, there were
several Democratic newspapers in this State
which had the manliness to denounce the YER
dict. The party lash had not then been ap-
Piled from Dover, but it has now been -four
ished over the heads of those Democratic papers
which have been so silly as to play into the
hands of Radical editors" and the result is yet
to be seen. We cannot think, however, that it
will produce a recantation, for the truth is that
that old lash has been divested of its terrors
Like the lash Of the slave drivers whip, it has
hung upon the peg long while and the wounds
which it used to infiict are all healed now and nj
back is barred for its fsgellations. The lega
triumph Of a Salisbury, with his own jury, il
not re-establishment Of family influence ii
delaware.