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Year: 1873

KEEPING SWEET POTATOES The Fruit
Recorder says: Sweet Potatoes are best kept
in very dry sand, and in room where the tenn
perature does not 60 below 40 degrees. We
usually take sand from bridges and roads in
dry spell and carry it to the rooms where we
keep the potatoes The potatoes we dig and
let lie in the sun day or 50, turning them over
once or twice. We then carefully put them in
boxes or baraels and take them to the store
room, where we put the sand in, knocking on
the barrels until sand settles all through them.
In damp weather keep fire in the room, and
as winter sets in keep slow fire going. just
sufficient to not let mercury fall below 50 or
60 degrees. Dahlias can be kept in the same
way, also any kind of bulbous roots.
Year: 1873

GRIDDLE-CAKEs, WAFFLEs, ETC.-1f you
have not used your griddle or waffle-iron for
some time, wash it off hard with hot soap and
water; wipe and rub well with dry salt Heat
it and grease with bit of fat salt pork on q
fork. 1t is q mistake, besides being slovenly
and wasteful, to put on more grease than is
absolutely necessary to prevent the cake from
sticking. A piece Of pork an inch square
should last for several days. Put on great
spoonful of butter for each cake, and before
filling the griddle, test it with single cake, to
be sure that all is right with it as well as the
batter. The same rules apply to waffies. Al
ways lay hot cakes and waffles upon hot plate
as soon as baked. Hoods Household Mag.
Year: 1873

TEA WORSE THAN WHISKY Matthew
Brown is one Of the patent right Refortners OF
the day. His pet abomination is not Rin-it is
tea. He thus talks to his English fellow coun-
trymen:


While wa have been turning our eyes upon
the more obvious and vulgar evils attendant
upon the free use Of alcohol. we have been
overlooking the insidious action of bland and
peaceful liquid which has been sapping the
foundations Of manhood and honesty. Alcohol
sends few to the Jail or mad-hOuse; but tea
acts through the nervous system upon, the con-
science and turns 10 into nation Of sneaks.
Year: 1873

How TO IRON NLrNEN.-A Hearth and Home
correspondent says linen that is placed imme-
diately after being ironed near the stove or in
the hot sun, is stiffer when dry than if it is
permitted to dry slowly. 1t is good plan to
iay collars and small articles on waiter, and
set them on kettle or other support on the
stove, till they are quite dry. Sometimes the
iron will stick in manner quite unaccounta-
bile; if it is rubbed on a board on which fine
salt has been sprinkled, and then passed over
brown paper with wax in it's folds. the sticking
nropensities will be checked. A bowl of clear
water aud clean old linen cloth, are useful to
remove any specks the linen may acquire be-
fore or while being ironed.
Year: 1873

MOURNING.-One need not speak of the
mourning Of the heart-that will take care OF
itself speak Of the external signs There
is a strange difference among the nations
Among several of the most advanced people
black dress has been chosen. The great ex'
pense. the depressing influence upon the spir.
it's. and the bad effect of this color upon the
bodily conditions, have been observed and
urged against this method Of display.


Black is the worst color for winter and for
SUMNER for dry weather and for a damp At,
mosphere. Altogether. the custom of announc.
ing grief through black clothes seems to be the
worst method ever devised


It is gratifying to hear from intelligent peo'
pie, "a one may not unfrequently, that under
no circumstances would they display mourn
ing dress. will not say that it is fiat con-
tradiction of the Christian faith. l will not
say that it savOrs Of ostentatiOn l will not
say that there is frequently painful incongru-
ity between the mourning dress and the con-
duct Of the wearer; but l will say that n
mourning dress ia unphvsological, that it casts
a shadow over the spirits Of the wearer, and
constantly reminds her Of her dead friend, and
in other ways tends toward depressing the
general health and tone. l can't conceive OF
grief which should try to express with Grape.
Bv instinct, should avoid all such announce
,nents. And then. when the prescribed year.
has passed. the tapering of in the shades OF
black, and the final bursting out in brilliant
colors again, is so absurd, that it seems quite
unnecessary to expose ones self to the neces-
sity of advertising this graduated dying out OF
ones sOrrOw.-IO.ddy.
Year: 1873

To PROTECT FRUIT TREEs.-To protect


fruit trees from attack by borers, curculjo cat
erpillars aud similar mischievous insects, plant
a tomato vine at the root of each tree. This
is believed to be an infallible safeguard against
every species Of insect from the ravages OF
which orchards are liable to suffer, and can Do
tried with profit even if 1t should mot have the
desired effect. s4s
Year: 1873

why does President GRANT keep Gen.
sCuENCK In once a. American Minister In Lon
don? Did the Little Emma people at the right
time put proper quantity Of their stock where
IL would do the most good?
Year: 1873

Don't Suffer your hair to fall off when
a bottle or two of Natures Hair Restorative
will check it Splendidly perfumed and as
clear as crystal All wide awake drug
gist sell it. See advertisement
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT-The Commissary
General of the United States, after a trial
Of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article This
is fact worthy the attention of consum-
Year: 1873

The annual report Of the secretary was
read, showing good attendance of scholars
for the year 1872. The report was received.


The report of the Committee Oh Rules was
presented and received, and the Union then
adjourned to meet at the First church IN
March.
Year: 1873

for redress of person. grievances. On


the other hand it habeen esteemed


mark of manhood, ofbold, manly cour-


age to take the law iso ones own hand
and avenge real orsupposed wrongs.


This has been the ashal plea of many
murderer, and enrts and juries have
been found veal apenough to step in and
countenance AM sustain the plea on the
flimsy pretens of sham insanity.
Back of this, 90 there has been and still
is a grave dificulty, which, unless rem
edied, willprove fatal. In our assumed
infallibilty, we decide for ourself what
laws are worthy of our respect and
obedience Only last week, at the meet
ing of the State Board of Mining and
Agriculture, it was stated, and the OBJ
servation of every person must convince
them of its truth, that linen who are
honest in ordinary business matters win
cheat in working on the highways"
This is not by any means an isolated
case, and we only refer to it because it
was so recently brought out in public
discussion. Any one at all familiar
with our laws can recall, almost without
reflection, long list of ordinances and
statutes that are daily and hourly openly
violated by men who call themselves
law-abiding citizens Aside from being
violation of law, the act may involve
no moral turpitude but who is to draw
the distinction Can any in fact be
drawn? If we once commence to make
the distinction, the end will be utter
lawlessness and crime What is and
must be the inevitable effect upon chill
dren and young men, except to teach
them that their judgment, not the law,
is to decide these matters When asked
why certain laws are not enforced, is
not the invariable answer, public senti-
ment does not demand it? This is no
adequate or even colorado excuse. All
laws should be enforced or repealed.
The public safety demands it, not only
for its own sake but as lesson and ex-
ample to the youth of the land The



must inevitably, sooner or later, lead to
a disregard of the binding force of all
laws This sentiment aud feeling, or
want of sentiment and feeling, can only
tend to more and more crime. 1t per-
haps involves the origin of Fosters
crime, which seems so inexpHcable to
his pastor and physician. We all know
its demoralizng tendency, and the rem
edy 50 far rests with the people alone.
The first step in the breaking down of
the hedges around society by the laws
of the land is necessarily the most diff
cult to be taken. This taken the others
follow naturally in order Let us, by |
due respect for and observance of all |
laws render that first step both difficult |
and dangerous, as well as unmanly and I
disreputable.
Year: 1873

/ A SECOND RIP VAN WINKLE. jose
phus Manley, who was born and has al
ways lived in Pittsford and who will be
sixty-four years of age next May, came
to Rutland yesterday for the first time in
forty years, He never rode on the cars
before in his life, except few rods on
gravel train once, at the time the Rut-
land and Burlington railroad was being
built. and he is of the opinion that car
riding is "a very smooth way of getting
over the ground" He was never out OF
the State but once when he staid over
night at cold Til" He lives now and
has always lived, on the farm in Pitts
ford where he was born, about six miles
from the railroad. He says he was
never in the village of Rutland but once
before, which was over forty years ago,


when, as he says, she was compelled


to come to muster or he wouldn't have


come them
Year: 1873

The world buds every year;


But the heart just once, and when
The blossom falls Off sere


No new blossom comes again.
All! the rose goes with the wind,
But the thOrns remain behind.
Was it well i'll him, if he


Felt notloye, to speak of love so:
If he still unmOVed must be,


Was it nobly sought to move so:
Pluck the flower and yet not wear it
Spurn, despise it, yet not spare it
Need he say that / was fair,


With such meaning in his tone.
just to speak of one whose hair


Had the same tfnge as my own:
Pluck my life up, root and bloom,
Just to plant it on her tomb
And she'd scarce SO fair face


so he used to say) as mine;
And her form had far less grace:


And her brow was far less fine;
But twas just that he loved then
More than he can love again
Why, if beauty could not bind him,


Need he praise me, speaking low;
Use my face just to remind him


How no face could please him now
Why, if loving could not move him
Did he teach me still to love him?
And he said my eyes were bright,


But his own lie sad, were ann
And my hand, he said, was white;


But what was that to him?
For" he said, ''in gazing at You,
| seem gazing at statue"
Yes" he said, she had grown wise now,


He had suffered much of yor6,
But fair grace to his eyes now,


Was q fair face and no more,
Yet the anguish and the bliss,
And the dream, too, had been his"
why, those words, thought too tender


For the commonplaces spoken?
Looks whose meaning seemed to render


Help TO words when speech came broke
Why SO late in July moonlight
Just to say what's said by moonlight?
Year: 1873

We would respectfully call the attention
of the proper authorities to the contents
of the above communication, and urge
upon them the necessity of doing their
whole duty in the premises at once, and,
if necessary, keep doing it. This is not
the first time our attention has been
called to the matter, or the first time
that we have urged the abatement of
this intolcrable nuisance. We have,
elsewhere, urged the necessity and i'm
portance of the prompt enforcement of
all laws. and we need not say more here
and now. Let the police do their whole
duty, and they will be sustained by pub
lie sentiment
Year: 1873

CORNER LoAFERs. Editor Rutland
Herald Monday evening, as | was
passing through Merchants Row, | was
insulted by some "corner loafers at
either end of the street, who made indie
cent remarks upon me and the young
lady with whom / was walking This
is not the first time that ] have. been in
suited by these degraded vagabonds who
infest the corners every evening in full
force, chew tobacco and spit on the
sidewalks, and sometimes on ladies'
dresses, and pass all sorts of indecent
remarks on passers-by and it seems to
be getting worse year after year. Now,
Mr.. Editor, is there not law to prevent
these leafers from congregating at the
corners of our public streets, blocking
up the sidewalks and compelling ladies
to pass as best they can? Would |
were a man, and had the authority of
police officer / can tell you that cor.
ner loafing would speedily come to an
end in Rutland. | don't believe that
there is another place in Vermont where
this nuisance is tolerated. hope that
there will be no further cause for CON-
plant, but that the proper authorities
viii take the matter in hand and enforce
the law in this respect, if any there be,
and thereby maintain good order in our
streets and protect ladies from being in
suited at every corner they come to.


T.Dv
Year: 1873

That all the girls used to be in love With him.
That all the widows are now.


That if he were widower he could marry
again whenever be chose.


That all the other fellows are fools.


That he wouldn't introduce any fellow he know
to his sister or his daughter.


That bis wife is little jealous.


That she used to be pretty girl.


That his mother could make good bread that
his wife cannot


That he could not trust most women.
That if he could ever speculate he would make
his fortune.


That be would enjoy a country life.


That girls will never be so silly as to marry.
That his mother-in-law may be fine old lady,
but


That smoking never hurt man yet.
That with a little management the servants
would always do well and never give warning.
That his shirt buttons are grossly neglected.
That he is going to make bis fortune some day.
That be despises old bachelors.
THINGS MARRIED WOMAN CANNOT HELP THINKING.
That she was very pretty at sixteen.
That she had, or would have bad, a great many
offers.


That all her lady friends are FIVE years older
than they say they are.


That she has q very fine mind.


That if her husband had acted on her advice,
he would be rich man to-day.


That people think too much of the looks of
that Miss, who would not be called handsome
if she didn't make herself up.


That her mother-in.law is very trying woman
That her sister-in-law takes airs, and ought 10
be put down.


That her girls are prettier than Mrs. AS girls.
That she would like to know ,obere her hus-
band spends his evenings when be stays out.
That her eldest son takes after him.
That he is going to throw himself away on
Miss Scraggs.


That Mrs. Scraggs set her cap for him and did
all the courting.


That her servant girls are the worst ever known.
That she has taste in dress.


That she has a good temper.-E Erchanoe
Year: 1873

HoNE CouRTEsIEs.-A retired gOverness says :
al am one of those whose lot Of life it has
been to 90 out into an unfriendless world at
an early age and Of nearly twenty families in
which made my home 10 the course of about
thirty years there we're only three that could be
designated happy families. The source Of trouble
was not so much the lack of love. as the lack of
care to manifest it."


The closing words Of this seuteuc give US the
fruitful source Of family alterations, of heart
aches innumeable, Of sad faces and gloomy home
circles. a Not so much the lack Of love, as the
lack Of care to manifest" What q world of mis-
cry is suggested BY this brief remark Not more
than three happy families in twenty and the
cause SO manifest, aud so easily remediedl Ah |
in the SMALL sweet courtesies Of life, what pow
er reside In q look. a word, q tone, how much
Of happiness or disquietude may be communicated
Think Of it, reader and take the case home with
you.
Year: 1873

as- The tide of immigration is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. They say there is no
comparison between the two.
Year: 1873

THIRD and last arrival of the latest
styles in Millinery Goods from the East, at the
New York store; % to 80 per cent given to all
purchasers at the Great Closing Out Sale.


nOvl6wl
Year: 1873

Ii WIS Il fiji ting and graceful thing that the
Hon. Horace Maynard OF Tennessee should
have introduced the bill of amnesty and OBJ
liviom which few days ago passed the House
of REPRESENTATIVES,, and will soon 90 through
the Senate. 1t was in accordance with the re-
auest of the Southern Loyaists that those
severe and proscrptiye measures were
adopted which for time kept every man OF
the least social or political prominence in the
South out of Congress, and 1t was altogether
proper that from the same quarter should
come the final proposition for their repeal.
They were, perhaps, never necessary, though
they seemed so to us, rs to almost all others
who had at heart the preservation of the
fruits of the war and the protection OF the
freed people in the rights and privileges
guaranteed to them by the nation. 1t was the
result of the long habit Of suspi-
cion and distrust, which is the worst
consequence of civil wars, that the mass Of
the people could not be made to believe it
was sdfe to allow the people OF the South to
elect whom they desired TO represent them
at Washington, and to administer their public
affairs at home. This feeling was almost uni
yersal at the North; but at the SOuth 1t was
far more fierce and passionate in its intensity.
The gathering Of Southern LOyalists which
followed the Philadelphia Convention gave
expression to this unreasOning panic OF
distrust, which by its cOntagiOn affected the
entire mass of the Republican party, and pro-
longed for four years virtual state OF war
between the victOrs and the vanquished in
the Southern and Border States.


\ L., haH no rpgnlt m oh
sibly have been different. He possessed, to de-
gree altogether unprecedented, the confidence
of the country. He believed in the reign OF law,
and thought we'll of his fellow-creaturcs as
members of society. lie was destitute OF
malice and of personal resentments. He was
tolerant both by nature and by success, and
had too much pride to be disturbed by the
restless vanity which proved so injurious to
his successor. lie wanted peace, and might
have done great deal to obtain it. His in
tentions in that direction were 80 well known
that great many patriotic people saw the
hand of Providence in the pistol OF Booth.
They thought the times demanded firmcr
hand and a harder heart, and they
imagined they saw indications OF these
qualities in the Tennessee L0yalst who was
making an average of six speeches day IN
the Treasury Department, calling hoarsely Tor
the punishment of traitors. There never was
"a greater mistake. Mr.. johnson never hated
treason so much as he hated his enemies, and
when he began to quarrel with Congress, and
the leading Southern people began to grow
civil to him, all the energies of his vindlctlve
nature were turned TO fighting his old allies
and defending his old adversares. He was
Year: 1873

The very idea of a clergyman fogged in his
own temple, and in the presence of his own
congregation. is startling one and when
preachers were moro highly regarded er o.ficio
and not upon the ground of their personal
merits. such castigatiOn at the altar would
have had about it SAVIOR of blasphemy. The
minister who has been fustigated dispenses
religion near Preston, England. We are told
that before entering upon his sacred du-
ties he was in the iron trade, which
NAV account for tho hardness of his
heart: but abandoning the bars and
the pigs, this gentleman took to preaching,
apparently to n dissenting flock. For reasons
Of his own, he did not deem it desirable to
inform his parishioners that he was already
married, and acting precisely as If he were
upincumbcred, he mitigated the austerities Of
bis pastorate by making love to cOmely
vounp sister with avOwed intentions of the
most honorable variety. But the course of
faIse love runs no smoother than the course of
true. The reverend Lothario and the lady
had a falling out, and she, for consola.
t;on. permitted tho addresses of another
and A secular wOoer. To him doubtless,
in tbs confidence of love, she told the
story Of the parsons falsehood and fate
favored the conspiring couple. In some way
the information reached them that the love-
making preacher had already a wife. A wife
aged 40 years. She was found. The story of
her lords gallantry was related to her. The
three entered into a conspiracy-the lassio
with her spretae ivuria torme, tho amorous
vouth who writhed with wrath at his
mstresss wrongs, the femc corert aged no.
If we may be allowed colloquialism. they
went for that humbug of parson. They
soupht him where at certain hour they were
sure of finding him-right between the horns
of the altar! And they dealt with him al
follows:


equally true that taking him Just at the moment
Year: 1873

moro than snything,else tho cause Of tho con-
solidatiOn of public feeling in the North in
favor of proscriptivo policy against the par
ticipants in the Rebellion. IL was his evil
counsel and example that tempted the influen-
tial men of the South into the attitude which
aroused the fears of Union men at the
South, and the jealous susceptibilities of their
friends at the North, and resulted in tho
policy which has given the control of the
Southern States for eight years into the hands
of negroes and adyenturers.


We shall not settle in day the vexed qucs-
tion as to whether that repressive legislation
was necessary or justifiable Its results are
certainly not such rs we can congratulate our


selves upon. Mr.. Greeley was the first North
ern man of wide influence who perceived tho
full effect of it, and the first to demand uni
versal amnesty as the logical corollary of i'm
partial suffrage. His nomination at Cincinnati
forced the House of Representatives into n
more liberal measure of amnesty than had
before been attainablc and year after his
death the leading representative of the South
ern LoYasts, the statesman who drafted the
| iron-clad oath which excluded from Office
nearly every reputable man OF Southern birth,
is able to pass through the House OF
| Representatives, by an overwhelming ma
jority, bill to permit the people
of the South to exercise their elective fran
chse in freedom. This action has been too
long DELAYED. Within the last few weeks two
impressive incidents have shown how useless
| and absurd were those Out-of-date precau-
| tions. One was the letter Of Gen. Forrest to
| Gen Sherman, offering TO raise a division OF
cavalry for war with Spain, and Sherman's s
| Endorsement that he would trust Forrest
| tn fight "A well for us as he did against us


The other was word coming from n man


who honorcd us all in his way of dying, Capt.
| Fry of the Vlrginius. While he was lying I'M
der an Illegal sentence of speedy death, when
| he had bade farewell to the world and made
his peace NTH God, this manly rebel still
thought of the country that had conquered
and refused to forgive him, and IN letter to
the President said: "My field of usefulness
- has been abridged by prescription. The car
"pet bag policy is ruinous to the country.
4" Let Louisiana govern herself. Her pros
| perty ia that of the whole country" IL Is
wretchcdly narrow and not altogether honest
policy which has kept men of this sort 50 long
| under the ban of prescription. This one ut
least took noble revenge in doing honor to
| the American name when he died There are
thousands of such, and we do not think they
are any more dangerous to public peace or
morals than Mr.. Casey OF Judge Durcll