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Year: 1875

TIE case of Jesse POmerOy, the
young murderer now under sentence
of death in Boston, brings into strong
light the punishment question. 1t Is
hard TO imagine a criminal who makes
less appeal TO our sympathies than
this torturer and slayer of innocent
children, or one TO whom the death
penalty is more appropriate Yet
there is considerable remonstrance
against his execution. 1t is based
largely on the plea that his is a case
Of abnormal development really equiv
alent to insanity. But, without hay-
ing examined the case closely, we
Judge that the remonstrauCe springs
really from the sentiment which op
poses all capital punishment. 1t is
less conviction than a sentiment.
At bottom, it is profound horror of
the deliberate blOtting out of hu
man life; and the more viyidly the
scenes which precede ard accompany
the gallows are realized the deeper
does the horror become. When this
feeling is declared TO be weak sentl-
mentality, it is well to remember that
TO feeling closely akin to this, rather
than 10 any cool calculation of expe,
diency, We owe the abolition of tor
ture and the reform of prison manage
ment. On the other hand. Jesse
Pomeroy's execution is urged by those
who dread that he may at some fu
ture time-as once before-be turned
loose TO repeat his butcheries. To
ward such a creature, whether sane or
insane, the first duty Of society is self
protection; and the possibility of his
being set free by some easy-tempered
Governor is the strongest motive TO
get efectuallY rid of him by hanging
him.
Year: 1875

4 question which is pressing upon
parents in Oregon, and giving many
of them greater anxiety than any other
question, is, " What shall We do with
our boys?" The farmers have a place
and an occupation for such Of their
sons as are discreet enough to be will


100 to take agricultural pursuits for
their occupation ; but there are many
who make the mistake Of setting their
hearts upon some other business, and,
mistake though it is, it controls their
conduct and their destiny. And for
the townspeople, there are compare
lively few who are able TO provide
ANYTHING for their boys TO do. The
result is that boys grow up in idleness,
and their idle brains being according
to an old aud truthful adage, work
shops of the devil, they become hood
lums, give their parents inexpress'ble
trouble, secure places In the records
of the criminal courts, and at last, per


form the first honest labor OF their
lives in suit of striped clothes in the
state penitentiary. Many a boy has
gone that way who was not more VIC
ious by nature than others who, hav-
ing something to do i'll bOyhood, have
grown up to be useful and exemplary
members Of society. What is to be
done to remedy this growing evil :
What is to be done to save the boys
and the community? The natural
answer will be: Put them to trade;
apprentice them. Certainly; but when,
how? Put them to a trade when the
trades are so limited in their demands,
and so fully supplied that there is no
room for any more? To whom shall
the boys be appreuticed when every


body having any business of mechan-
ical character has ten applications for
places for boys when he can furnish
only one situation. The trouble is,
we are people without manufac,
tories, without work shops, without
the capacity for furnishing occupation
for boys who would learn a useful
trade if they had an opportunity.
The percentages of gain to accrue
from home manufacturing have not
all been counted when We have men.
toned the various money items of im-
provement in value of land, increase
of population, Of home consumption
and of circulating medium. The per


centage of boys saved from lives of
vice and crime, Of parents saved from
sorrow and premature death ; Of fam
lies saved from disgrace; these must
be counted. And how must they
count. No one can reckon it IN mum
bers, for it means more than numbers,
as many parent who reads this will
bear witness. There can be no
stronger argument urged for the build.
~" un of domestic industries than
that they would furnish opportunities
for our boys to learn trades and some
thing for them to do when their ap-
prenticeships are past.-Oregonian.
Year: 1875

Power OF IMAGINATIoy.-The Utica
Herald tells the following story of an
old lady in Philadelphia, Jefferson
county. who acquired the habit Of as


inc morphine: After using it for
relief from the pains of a tumor, no
persuation could induce her to give up
the poison. Her family finally united
in deception, substituting carefully
prepared potato starch in the NOR
phia bottles. At first she thought
the supposed drug an inferior article,
but her physician, who was in the
secret, assured her that it was all
right, and she was satisfied. She
continued to use the article fifteen
years, and to the day of her death,
and conld not do without it. never
having learned the deception. At
one time when she was i'll the physi-
clan gave her Dover'S powders but
she could not rest after taking them
until she took her starch morpaia.'
Year: 1875

SA paper read Sbya Col. Kinne before the Microscopical Society of San Fran cisco very forcibly Illustrates the kind of auackery which is accepted by many people as gospel truth. Col. Kinnie told of charlatan who professed to re- ieve the worst form of neuralgia tooth- ache without the use of forceps. For this purpose he employed steaming process, by which, after an application of a few minutes duration, he was able to show his patient worms which he de- clared had been drawn from the teeth. The most astonishing part of the story is that the ''worms" were so we'll formed that they actually stood the test of microscopic examination. The light thrown upon the matter by Col. Kinne would leave room for doubt as to whether the dentist was really quack or a much abused man of science but for the testimony of Dr. Hardness, who states that, having carried the investigation of the "phenomena" further than the colonel, he discovered that the "worms D were produced by the action of heat, onion-seed and butter. The fact that the process described actually did stop the toothache was sufficient in itself to serve the purpose of the charlatan, and of course that was all he desired. Dr. Hardness is of the opinion that the cure was effected by convincing the patient that there were worms in his teeth.
Year: 1875

if not, indeed, the whole ships com pany, might have been rescued But it is fair inference from his picture of the internal condition of the stranded ship that even under the actual disadvantages of the position, great deal more than was done might have been done to get the women and children at least out of the vessel, and to give the poor creatures a chance for their lives on the open sea, had the commander of the Schiller really was specifically his own fault, or the fault of the system on which the ships of his company are manned that he had not this command, is a point to be es- tablished by future investigations. But if Mir. Stern is to be believed-and we can see no reason for doubting his credi- bility-he certainly had it not.

 In short, the evidence of Mir. Stern goes long, 8 very long way, towards showing conclusively that the loss of the Schiller was in no proper sense of the term an accident. If Mr. Stern's story stands, 1t was Q catastrophe resulting from causes all of them, so far as yet appears, controllable by human pru- dence, human fidelity and human skill. Such " "accidents have plain, specific name. But unless that name carries with it, as unfortunately it does not carry with it in the case of ocean massacres, the prospect of prompt and condign chas- tisement visitable upon the really re, sponsihle parties, it is idle, perhaps, to use it. |. All that can be proftably done is to point out clearly to the few people who take the trouble to think for them selves on such occasions, that neither Providence nor the awful majesty of the Atlantic, so far as now appears, can be justly charged with the misery and the ruin thus in an instant brought upon hundreds of happy, quiet and prosper ous homes upon either shore of the ocean.
Year: 1875

a chicago inventor comes forward


with a rival to the KeeIy motor. and
has progressed so far as to be willing
to state that by the combination OF
air and water he has produced a
pressure of 10000 pounds to the
squire inch. Further, the Chicago
inventor refuses to particularize. lie
Is running a race with kcely to reach
the Patent Office first with a model,
ignorant of the precise
principles of the other machine, he
does not know that the two Inventions
will conflict. Secrecy and re.icence
are maintained in Chicago as we'll as
In Philadelphia, and the public are
vastly more interested in what re-
mains to be told than in what they
have already heard. Let the rush for
new motors proceed by all means.
Possibly some Of mechanics who have
become infected by the Keely excite
ment, though they fail in their efforts
tor absolute origiuation, may in the
end work Out valuable improvements
upon the manipulation of force as de-
YelOped up to this time,
Year: 1875

We sing song. and then we part!


How swiftly time is winging!
But sweet are farewells of the heart


When they are said in singing,
The roses climb the garden wall:


The buds have long been blowing
The summers breeZes voices call.


And we must now be going!
The blue bird trembles in her nest,


Which every wind is swaying
The robin s:pgs and shows his breast.


While we are here delaying
The bees have set their pipes IN tune


On every head of clover,
And we must haste 20 hear them soon.
Or summer will be over.
Oh God of every lowly heart,


And every lofty feeling,
Be Thou adOred for what Thou art,


In Natures own revealing!
Whenever summers grass is green,


Or winters snow is hOary,
The hiding of thy face is seen


We know Thee by Thy glory!
If we who sing a parting song


Have mortal meeting never,
There is a journey, short or long,


Where summer lasts forever.
All hail o fairest land of lands,


Whose blossoms never wither,
Although we here unclasp our hands,
Our feet shall travel thIther.
Year: 1875

The Bristol Nc1cSinsists that the peo-
pie must assent TO law before il can
become binding on them. If this be
so, is there law in the State that Is
binding on them?-Lyuch6ug Re
publican.


Not quite We simply say
they must have the right to repeal
any law to which they have never
consented, and never mean to. A
law passed in defiance of popular
sentiment, should never be irrevo-
cable, The Funding Bill is a rape
on popular sentiment, and you
know how popular sentiment re,
CARDS those guilty OF that crime.
Year: 1875

Bessie Turner is making quite an
income out of the scandal trial. Large
quantities of her photographs are sold
In New York, on each Of which she
receives a royalty. BESSIE would
probably like TO keep up the excite
ment on this basis.
Year: 1875

A MississiPpian has a cat Of which
lie tells the following story: 81 was
sick short time ago, and the cat
would come from the table to the bed
frequently. She finally caught a
mouse and brought it to the bed. laying
it down beside me. | threw 1t off. but
IS soon as l did so the cat would bring
it back. until I thought she wanted
me to eat it so l made her believe
ate it, and the cat went away appar-
emily satisfied. And before night the
same day, she brought me a striped
squirrel, and each day of the three
days | Was in bed she brought me
game, with the same result she would
never leave until L had pretended to
eat it."


Latin and Greek are all right"
said Washington county farmer to
his son, a young graduate, the other
day, but GIN me a man who can
plOw around an apple tree without
touching any of the roots"
Year: 1875

We acknowledge the receipt of draft cover ing the amount of the inde bteduess incurred at this office lact Spring by C. W. Gearhart, an Agent ct the Missouri Valley Life Insurance Co The Company in paging the amount do not ac knowledge the right of Gearhart to contract the indebtedness in their name, but do it as an act of justice to us. They have acted very houorably in the matter, and we commend them to the patronage of the public.
Year: 1875

ALL indications pom; to an era of prosper ity for Arizona in the immediate future The mines have developed richness far be yond the expectation of the elated prospec- tors. A strange current of immigration has set in, and material progress is visible on ev- cry hand.
Year: 1875

Several Grand Jurors summoned both for the U. $. and Ter. were hot in the collar on We'd nesday when they were discharged until Monday They thought they ought to have been set 10 work, so as to have finished up and been dis charged for the term. Every body has trouble and jurors will have to learn to take their share of
Year: 1875

Pomeroy, the boy murderer, has heen
discovered in an attempt to break out of
the Boston Jail. He had been engaged
for some time in, digging bricks out Of the
cell, through which he proposed to lower
himself to the corridor below as the
watch was being changed at midnight,
Year: 1875

From Recent Interview.


I am asked why neither side in the civ.
il war in America produced very dis.
tinguished general. Even their respec-
tive partisans hardly claim any leader OF
transcendant genius. In so long a war
and where so many men fought, does it
not imply q lack Of military talent in the
Americans I answer no. The true
reason was because their field Of selection
was so limited. No officer
could hope to attain the supreme com.
mand Of their armies unless he had been
a student at their military academy,
called West Point, on the Hudson river,
in the State of New York. The number
Of these students, deserving as they might
b., was and is extremely limited.


The Southerners adopted the same per.
nicious system of exclusiveness, as many
of these West Point officers had Joined
their side, and their President had also
been at the academy. ~ Tt was,
perhaps, fortunate for the North that the
South did not seek for talent among the
mass Of its people. It is said.
know not how truly, that the genius Of O
civilian, Ericsson. by the invention of a
monitor. alone saved the Northern navy
from destruction.


It is evident that the chance Of obtain
ing distinguished general increases as
the field of selection widens, and dimin'
ishes as it contracts.


In our army every soldier may aspire to
the supreme command, but in the Ameri.
can armies the line Of demarkation was
drawn as deeply as between the former
slaves and their masters.
The volunteer who represented the great
bulk and strength of the people might,
indeed, attain distinction in subordinate
position, but the highest place was for
bidden. = In reading the
records Of the American civil war, it re.
ally appears as though the whole contest
was between a few officers Of West Point,
and the mighty heart Of the nation had
never throbbed. This
aristocratic system, which the Americans
still follow, was formerly the practice in
all European armies. In the revolution
of 1893, Garnet, the French Minister ot
War, first abandoned it, and We have fol.
lowed.


For the sake of example, and not bind
ing ourselves to any exactness Of figures
except that the one is very small, and Its
opposite, with which it is compared, very
Year: 1875

PRoFANITY.-We are emphatically
in the age of profanity, and it seems
to US that we are on the topmost cur
rent. One cannot go on the streets
anywhere without having his ears Of
Tended with the vilest words, and his
reverence shocked by the most pro-
fame use Of sacred names. Nor does
it come from the old and middle aged
alone, for it is a fact, as alarming as
true, that the younger portion OF the
community are most proficient in de-
grading language. Boys have an idea
that it is smart TO swear; that it makes
them manly but there never was a
greater mistake in the world. Men,
even those who swear themselves, are
disguised with profanity in a young
man, because they know how, of all
bad habits, this clings the most closely,
and increases with years. 1t is the
most insiduOus of habits, growing on
SO inyisibly that almost before one is
aware he becomes an accomplished
cursor.
Year: 1875

Try TINS WAY.-A beautiful and
high-spirited horse would never allow
shoe to be put on his feet, or any
person to handle his feet. In attempt
ing to shoe such a horse, recently, he
resisted all efforts, kicked aside every
thing but an anvil, and came near
killing himself against that, and finally
was brought back to his stable unshod.
This defect was just on the eve OF
conslgning him TO the plow. where he
might walk barefoot, when an officer
in our service, lately returned from
Mexico, took cord about the size OF
a BEDFORD, put it in the mouth of the
horse ike bit, and tied it tightly on
the animals head, passing his left ear
under the string, not painfully tight,
but tight enough to keep the ear down
and the cord in It's place. This done,
he patted the horse gently on the side
of the head and commanded him 10
follow, and instantly he obeyed, per-
fectly subdued, aud as gentle and
Obedient as dog, suffering his feet to
be lifted with entire impunity, and
acting in all respects ike al old stager
Or Dumb -dlimdLS.
Year: 1875

KEEP THE REcEIPTS.-Every house
keeper should have her own recipe
book-a book Of her own creation, of
gradual growth and proved excellence
and We propose to show our lady
readers how TO make one. In the
first place buy a blank book and write
your name and the date on the first
leaf Divide the book into as many
different departments as you wish,
heading each page with the depart
ment to which it belongs as follows ::
Recipes for cleaning; recipes for soup;
recipes for cooking meats; recipes for
cake, and SO on through family cook
ing. Then comes cooking for the
sick, care for the sick, and all the va
rious things that are a, part of a
woman's duty, and for which, unfor-
tunately, there is no school but exper-
ience. Number your pages if they
are not numbered in the beginning,
and make an index to correspond
with blank pages between depart
ments which you do not expect to fill
Immediately. Write down under these
different heads every recipe which you
have actually tried, or the result of
which you have seen in the houses of
your friends, and enter the page in
the index.
Year: 1875

a correspondent Of the New York
World, in describing the AIeT ana
Discovery, the two vessels to be used
n the English Polar expedition says;
&" The insides of both vessels have
been completely lined with layer OF
thick felt, over which is a sheeting OF
plank. The masts, yards, sPars, sails
and rigging of each ship are identical,
so as to be interchanged if necessary,
and all the ironwork is covered with
leather. The screws, which are OF the
best metal, are arranged so as TO be
detached and hoisted up, while the
screw shafts can be drawn IN. Each
ship is divided by five water tight
bulkheads with pumps in each worked
by engines. Felt, thick woolen cloth
and leather have been used to convert
the cabins and forecastle into extreme
ly warm and comfortable nests. On
deck each hatchway Is surmounted
by a hood raised above the level OF
the combings, with closely lifting
doors, and over this again, in winter,
there will q small deckhouSe, with
the door at the farthest possible point
from the exit from the cabin. Each
ship carries nine boats, including a
yawl, three whalers, one cutter, three
ice boats and a jolly boat. The whal-
ers, yawls and cutters are built OF one
diagonal thickness of pure mahogany
planking, which, after being secured
to the framing with extra care and
strength, is paved over with marvel
Gus tenacious glue known as marine
glue. Over this again is placed an
envelope of stout unbleached linen,
which is eoaxed into position and de
prived of every wrinkle that would
initiate against a perfect fit by being
pressed with a hot iron. This opera
ton causes the yet moist dew to per-
meate the fibre5 of the cloth which
then becomes immoyab!y fixed to the
planking and perfectly imperyious to
water, even if the planking became
splintered in a way that would make
an ordinary boat as leaky as q wicker
basket. Then comes a longitudinal
plank of the best witch elm and Chris
tiana pine, and under the waist strake
a hemispherical belt of cork covered
with stout canvass, forming a perma-
nent and efficient tender. The whaleis
have this cork fender replaced by raj
with hand holes all around. To fit
them for the rough usage to which
they will be specially subject, the ice
boats have sheathing of cork over
the diagonal plankiDg and canvas coat,
before being covered with the external
planking of pine and elm, and they
are built on what is technally known
as dead wood having the keelson or
back bone of the boat inside, SO that
the external seams, sternposts and
keels might be ground away by fric
ton against the ice without structural
injury and with no i'll effect on their
bouyaEcy.
Year: 1875

SINCE the bell of Indepenence Hall
was cracked it has several times been
tinkered at in the effort to make it
sonorous once more. AT one time the
seam was filled, We think, with silver
or an amalgam of silver; but tie
sound would not come back. They
then undertook to ream out the crack,
causing it to present a less " sharp
and ragged edge" on the singular
theory, perhaps, that it could be made
to ring ike the little globular sleigh
bells that tinkle, though they have an
opening to let the sound out. But
the result was, very naturally, by no
means at all successful lit being clear
enough beforehand, one would say
that the vibrations in the metal, when
struck, would conflict at the crack
and spoil the hoped FOR arrangement.
The findings Of metal that were bored
in this process were made into little
bells as revolutionary relics, Henry
Clay, we believe, receiving the first
of these highly priced momentoes,


Some people have also been guilty, as
the bell shows, of clipping and spin-
tering from the rim as relies. We
have not much faith that the bell will


be restored TO its old resonance, but


we should be very glad to hear that


there was prospects of doing SO by


new proceSses.-Pfiladelphta Ledger.
Year: 1875

EARLY PLANTs.-It happens in near
ly all seasons that there is some dis


appointment about starting plants


early, and it will very likely be the


case i'll some locality at this reading


that the ground is not yet reliable for
all tender seeds, such as tomatoes,
green corn, squashes, and melons ;
perhaps not for cabbages and peas.


So that few suggestions in this line


may yet be timely. 1t is desirable TO
so transplant as not to check growth.


To this end We would not disturb the
roots There are several ways of do
ing this. y good way is to scrape
out turnips, fill with good soil and
plant with two or three seeds, setting
them in 4 warm light place, and keep
ing them moist. When the weather
is suitable, place these out in the gar
den at the proper depth, the turnip
will decay and the plant will thrive
unchecked, If properly cared for. Do
not use potatoes in place of turnips.
Another method is to get spare of sod,
say six inches wide, from good mellow


soil, turn them bottom up, and put in
such seeds as squash or melon, or
sweet corn, and treat them in the
same way, not putting out till the
weather is warm, and then protecting
against bugs. For the more delicate
plants, flowers, etc, make little square
paper boxes out of thin writing paper
or thick newspaper, merely folding
them at the corners, as You would the
paper in covering a book, and tacking
them with needle and thread; make
them about three inches square and
two deep. Fill with good soil, start
the seeds and put out at proper time
box and all in place without disturb
ing the roots. If you fear that the
paper is too strong for the root to pen-
citrate, cut carefully on the bottom Of
the box in the shape of cross and all
will be well. Raise from one to three
seeds in a place, according to the na-
ture of the plaut,-Science Of Health.
Year: 1875

First class in geography How
many States in the Union p The
book says thirty-seven, but the news
papers have it thirty nine The
newspapers are ahead, SIS usual my
son. 60 TO the head