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Year: 1873

Politicians do not always hit the nail on
the head when talking to farmers. AS
rule, a politician at the Fair is the politician
still, speaking for political effect. Now and
then, however, he gets astray from politics
and perhaps says something of practical i'm
port to his hearers Such was the case with
General Butler, at the State Fair Of New
Hampshire, when he touched upon the un
proftableness of farming in these words:


1t is complained that farming is unproita
BILE. Men are leaving the farm and seeking
employment in manufactures and the trade:
of the city. New Hampshire, the agricultu
raj port of Massachusetts,, Of Maine and Ver'
mont, has gone back in population and in
productive agricultural wealth in the last ten
years. Without seeking to touch all the rea
sons for it, may we not find it largely in this
that we ask too much of the farm? Having
capital of $4,000, or $4,000, or $4,000 in
vested in it, we ask that the farm shall sup
port our families, educate our children and
give US q comparative wealth for old age be-
sides.


And yet, do we treat it as other men dc
their business by which they succeed? II
we fail in getting all this from it, we say
that farming is Improbable? We are un
mindful Of the fact that in mercantile bust
ness only one in q hundred is fairly successful
ond only one in thousand eminently So
Does not farming do as we'll and better
Does only one in hundred farmers succeed
to a competence, and only one in thousand
succeed to af1uence? And yet do we not
deal with our farms in the same way that we
have seen that the nation does with its
producers? Do we not take everything of
and put comparatively nothing on the land
In every other business of life all the gains
, man gets he Immediately puts back into
his business. The merchant increases his
capital year by year, from gains of the
preceding year, if he is prudent man, until
it becomes as large as he can pro6tably man
age. But if the farmer makes any surplus
on his farm, as rule, does he return to his
land either in increased facilities for farming,
in enriching the soil, adding to his stock, or
draining his land? On the contrary, is he
not much more likely to invest in railroad
shares, or bonds, or some manufacturing en-
terprise or loan it to some neighbor? Hav-
ing taken away from the farm what the farm
has brought to him, and ought to be returned
to it again, to make it productive, he leaves it
impoverished, and then complains that gains
do not increase.


Is not the difficulty that he is continually
taking away the increase Of his capital and
leaving it only what it was at the beginning 1?
The merchant, as we have seen, increases his
capital year by year; but the farmer too fire.
ouently takes his and invests in other enter
prises, and then complains, that the farm
does not succeed. No farmer that l ever
heard of ever mortgaged his farm to buy ma
nure to put on it; yet men frequently do
Year: 1873

mortgage their farms for the purpose OF bull
ding a fine house and may take all the earn
ings of the farm for ten years for that pur-
pose. The mortgage, or Indictment, once on
a farm,a rule in the st,except in the change
of fortune made by the change of prices ari-
sing from the war, remains for years, if not
forever
Year: 1873

THE FooT OF A HoRsE.-The human hand
has often been taken to illustrate Divine wis
dom-and very we'll But have you ever ex-
amined your horses hoof. 1t is hardly less
curious in its way. Its parts are somewhat
more complicated, yet their design is simple
and obvious. The hoof is not as it appears
to the careless eye, mere lump of insensible
bone, fastened to the leg by a joint. 1t is
made up of series of thin layers, or leaves,
of horn, about 500 in number, and nicely
fitted to each other, and forming lining to
the foot itself. Then there are as many more
layers, belonging to what is called the "coffin-
bone" and fitted into this. These are elastic.
Take quire of paper and insert the leaves
one by one into those of another quire, and
you will get some idea of the arrangement of
the several layers. Now, the weight of the
horse rests on as many elastic springs as there
are layers in his four feet-about 1000; and
all this is contrived, not only for the convey
ance Of his own body, but for whatever bur-
dans may he laid ON -him.-Rural- Home -
Year: 1873

How TO TREAT FLESH WoUNDs.-Every
person should understand how to treat flesh
wound, because one is liable to be placed in
circumstances, away from surgical and veteri-
nary aid, where he may save his own life, the
life of friend, or of beast, simply by the
exercise of little common sense. In the
first place, close the lips of the wound with
the hand and hold them firmly together to
check the flow of blood until several stitches
can be taken and bandage applied: Then
bathe the wound for long timein cold water.


"Should it be painful" a correspondent
says, "take painful of burning Goals and
sprinkle upon them common brown sugar,
and hold the wounded part in the smoke. In
few minutes the pain will be allayed, and
recovery proceeds rapidly. In my case a
rusty nail had made a bad wound in the sole
of my foot. The pain and nervous irritation
were severe. This was all removed by hold.
ing it in smoke for fifteen minutes, and l was
able to resume my reading in comfort. We
have often recommended it to others with like
results. A short time ago one of my men
had a finger nail torn out by pair Of ice
tongs. It became extremely painful, as was
to have been expected. Held in sugar smoke
for twenty minutes the pain ceased, and it
promised speedy recovery"
Year: 1873

A steady decline in prices in almost every
branch Of business is recorded, but it is neither
so great nor comprehensive, as one might ex-
pect from the general depression consequent
upon the unsettled condition of affairs.
Year: 1873

AsHEs.-All farmers will find it to their
interest to have the oak, hickory and gum,
that is down in the forest, turned into ashes.
This is fine season of the year to burn all
dead wood, especially where the forest has
been cut down. You can burn much more
and save at the same time more ashes than in
the winter and spring. Every three hundred
bushels of ashes, we'll saved and kept dry
until the next crop, is the equivalent Of any
ton of Peruvian guano. Ashes cannot be
misapplied on any we'll drained land, as you
may sow them in the drill, or broadcast, or
compost them. On many farms there is
sufficient quantity of timber that is rotting
to make large quantity of this plant-food.
Ashes are good for all crops. Nothing have
we tried yet that is better.
Year: 1873

sS- Perhaps it is not generally known that
eating few grains. of parched coffee after
onions, will entirely remove the unpleasant
odor from the breath. As this disagreeable
effect is quite an objection to a popular veget-
able, it's we'll specific should be known.
Year: 1873

There have been heavy snow storms in the
Northwest. In the neighborhood Of Carson
Nevada, the snow is five feet deep, and on the
summit Of the sierras it must be from eight to
twelve feet. Pioneers are talking about the
showing in one OF the Donner party, years ago.
before the railroad was built. The DonneI
family Camped on hare ground at nightfall, aud
got up to lind themselves in a waste deep and
trackless snow. They stayed there all through
the winter starving within q mile Of lake
which was full Of fish. When they chopped
down trees they lefi stumps standing twenty,
FIVE feet from the ground, which are still poin,
ted out TO the shuddering traveller. After
eating their cattle they deVoured each other,
until none was left but German servant man
In the spring a party from California came
upon the camp and saw the German Crouching
over IRE, insansly dsVouring his horrible re
past.
Year: 1873

The "ethereal midness" with which poets credit
the vernal season is more an illusion of the fancy
than meteorological fact Early spring in temper
rate climates is fearful time and the tears are us
uaily too cool tor health or comfort To avert the
complaints to which the fogs and winds of the season
are apt to give rise, prudent people who believe in
the proverb that prevention is better than cure"
fortfy their stomachs and brace up their nerves and
muscles with HOsetters Stomach Bitters. Those who
DO this are wise and are rewarded for their wisdom
by escaping the visitation Of chlls and fever rheu


matism biliousness, fatuleney constipation, stom-
ach complaint, &c., SO common in damp in hospiea-
BILE weather. 10 the less prudent, who neglect this
precaution and suffer for it, would say, that the
disorders which this potent vegetable tonic prevents
it also cures.
Year: 1873

The following record win show the changes In
the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in
comparison with the corresponding day OF last
year. as Indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's
Year: 1873

A delicate but self-satisfed youth Of
great Gotham recently found himself 10
one of our New Mexican coaches. In
leaving our goodly town the shoddy ex-
ouisite placed himself carefully upon
the back seat by the side of miniature
rife and fishing tackle, which he carried
as a part of his baggage. As the coach
drove over the Acequia bridge the youth
saw a picture which caused his heart to
dance with delight. In the shade Of the
tall cottonwood trees, which line the
banks, gamboled group of young Mex
lean girls in the limpid waves of the
Acequia.


"For Gods sake, Mr.. Driver, what
are those beautiful animslsW


"Them are mermaids, answered the
stage man, suppressing a twinkle in
both eyes. ..t


40, hold on just one minute" and out
went exquisite with line and rod, while
he threw the hook toward the laughing
group with a gesture of beseeching
agony,


The gay throng gradually closed on
the fascinated fisherman as he sat upon
the bank drinking in the rapturous scene
before him, but paying little attention to
his line or bait. Suddenly black.eyed
Peri of about fifteen caught the end Of
his pole, and with a dexterous move
ment landed the fisherman into the mid
die OF the Acequia. Every mermaid Of
the batch Immediately took a lively in
terest in irrigating their captive, who
only succeeded in crawling up the
Acequia bank after desperate struggles,
and very much in the condition of a
Norway gst,


The washerwomen AZ ihe next station
declared she never say so much Rio
Grande mud on one suit of clothes in
her life, and the young man was heard
to mnfteT, often to himself: Did
hard FISH to catch, those Mexican mer-
maidsl"
Year: 1873

An AIroMAroS BARBER. "A lcibisdes
Botteler, says an exchange, used to keep
barber shop, and invented shampoo


ing machine. So he fixed up csntri-


vance with a kind of All iron stand, from


which two jonted arms, with steel claws
p-otruded These claws were covered


with chamois skin, and the arms were
moved in any direction by series OF
cranks and levers Steam power was OBJ
tanned from the factory nest door. Mr.


BotteIef instructed the shop boy how to
start the machine, and seating himself IN
a chair, he placed a claw on each side OF
his head The boy must have pulled the
throttle valve out about foot too far,
for in about minutes the steel claws
clutchcd Botteer's head SO that he thot
his skull would crack, and the shampoo


ing machine began TO rear and plunge
and tear around the room, and it lifted
Alcihadcs from his chair with a jerk, and
Drained one Of the bystanders with one
leg. while it jammed through looking
glass aud Scoopcd B)tteler around among
the Jugs Of hair dye, and beat him against
the ceiling and soused him into the water
basin, and raked him around among the
shaving mugs and the razors, battered
his head against the wall, and all the time
the steel claws worked and scratched and
grabbed for a better hold on his head un-
til they saut off steam in the factory,
when Alcibiades Bottelcr was found with
his neck elongated at least six inches
Year: 1873

Eg- An idle young man was com
planning to prosperous friend that al.
though he had tried his luck in all sorts
Of fairs and lotteries, he had never been
able to draw anything. Indeed : said
his friend; well, suppose you try a
hand cart; guess sou could draw
that
Year: 1873

Err Speak kindly in the morning; it
lighiens the cares Of the day, and makes
the household and all its affairs move
along smoothly. Speak kindly at night,
for il may be that. before dawn, some
loved one may finish his or her space OF
life for this world, and it will be too late
to ask forgiveness.
Year: 1873

Cocoa NUT DRoPs To an ordinary.
sized cocoa nut pounded add well beat


en- egg; swesten with white sugar, and
flavor with rsse.watsr. Make into little
sugar leave. and put into the oven for a
Year: 1873

FAIR CONTINUED ladies of the Grace
Street Presbyterian church have determined
to continue their fair to-day and tonight.
They have on hand q supply of useful aud
fancy articles. Meals and refreshments will
be furnished as usual
Year: 1873

PREPARING TO PUT on New CARS" ork
was commenced Yesterday preparatory to
putting the new cars on The city railway. A
tllrn.table is TO be placed at the lower end OF
the line. and u curve ut The corner Of Broad
and Eighth streets.
Year: 1873

An esteemed correspondent of the Ledger hav-
ing sent in communication on the subject OF
economy" as a remedy for some Of the money
troubles the article laid aside, az inappleable
just now, with the following endorsement ON the
back: Those who need TO reduce expenses Just
now will be Obliged to economic, independently
OF any suggestions to that end; those who are mol
obliged TO cconomize should spend their money
freely, and dt the expenditures are for proper oh
jectsl more freely than ttsitdl-Phild. Ledger.
Year: 1873

Mr.. MEDILL, in his London letter,
speaks of the construction of English
railways, and especially of the fact that
they do not cross the country upon the
level of highways or enter cities upon a
level with the streets. The same is re-
markably true of all the railroads of
the Continent. The street is either
carried over the roads by arches and Vi
aducts, or they over the streets and
highways. The time will come
in this country, after it shall
have been more thickly pop
ulated, when railroads will be regu-
lated in the same manner. 1t ought to
be the municipal policy of every city
and important town in the United
States to compel all future roads enter
ing or passing through them to cross
the highways and streets absolutely un-
obstructed, and go under or over them,
as may be determined best by the en-
gineers. This policy adopted and ad.
hered to now viii save millions of
money hereafter in the reformation Of
a vicious system.
Year: 1873

there been such a transformation as in the
tone Of her political thought. We hear
a great deal more of the rights of the cit
liens.


While not less jealous than ever Of the
national honor, we are a great deal more
careful to assert the national justice. Garry
this home, men Of Tennessee; teach lessons
of patriotism to your children rs they grow
up; tell it to your neighbors as they gather
around your winter fireSides, and let this
night be to them, as l am certain it is to
YOU, a lesson and an inspiration of patriot
ism during the residue of their lives.


l thank you, my friends, and bid you
UOOd-ni0ht
Year: 1873

A new street pavement has been tried in
San Francisco. 1t is called 'hydro-carbol-
lied brick" and is made of bricks OF a soft
porous nature, which are boiled iii coal tar,
which renders them tough and nearly as
hard as granite. A road bed is made by
leveling the sand and packing it with
water. A layer of prepared brick is then
laid flatwise, each brick being dipped in
boiling tar as it is put down. This is over
laid by a second course prepared brick
placed close together edgewise, each brick
diprel as before. The intelstices are tEe1
filled with boiled tar, and the whole cover
ed with a thin layer of screened gravel.
The cost is about thirty-seven cents per
SQUARE foot.
Year: 1873




Whenever a would-be Independent
organ finds its 'indifferential' views
secuted by the people at large, it depre-
Gates all politics and becomes a materi-
alist urging that the people waste too
much time and attention and energy
on political questions, to the detriment
of their industrial progress. Ourread-
ers viii recollect many sermons Of this
sort at spasmodic intervals since the
war. In the spirit Of Democracy we
have insisted that a people proposing
to govern themselves must pay some
attention to government affairs. But
when, IN consequence of the persistent
vitality of the Democracy and its con-
tinuous expose Of Radical sins and
shortcomings, the people are at length
aroused, and a corrupt Congress, know
ing it is watched, begins to evince some
little respect for the popular viii, these
same self-styled Independent journals
would have us believe 1.-The honors are
easy" between Democrats and Radicals.
One might suppose that the storm of
public Indignation which followed the
last Congress would make the present
body, composed largely Of the same
men, more prudent if not more virtu-
Gus. But we haveoutcroppings already
that this Congress viii bear watching
that the people cannot afford to relax
their attention to its doings. About
the first measure looking to elasticity
of the currency that has been reduced
to the form of bill comes from Mr..
Kelley, the Pennsylvania protectionist.
1t is on the plan Of convertible bonds
bearing 3.65 interest per annum. But
Mr.. Kelley inserts in the end Of his bill
a provision that National banks be
authorized to hold said bonds bearing
3 65-1O0 per cent instead of the reserve
of United States notes now required by
law The effect OF this provision can
be readily imagined. 1t is a bold at
tempt. at the very outset Of the session,
to give the banks near four per
cent interest on the reserves re-
quired by law. OF course bank
ers would rather hold the new
365 per cent bonds than non-interest-
paying greenbacks; and so all the new
bonds issued would be absorbed by the
banks for reserve purposes, and fresh
issues would continue to be absorbed
until the banks received interest on
every cent Of their legal reserves as
well as the double interest they now re-
ceive on their capital. This provision
would both directly and indirectly IN
crease the surplus currency Of the sum-
mer months which the convertible
bonds are designed to reduce. At pres
ent the bank reserves keep just so
many greenbacks out of the clutches OF
q speculation. To allow the banks To use
the 3.G5's for reserves would let just SO
many greenbacks loose to increase thc
redundancy. 1t is difficult to conceive
that Congress viii treat this provision
seriously; and vet it is almost equally
difficult to conceive the boldn ess of the
Radical leader who has broached pro.
iect so barefaced. This Congress needs
watching,
Year: 1873

Congressmen are generally in favor
of short holiday recess. The people
have charged so frequently that Con-
gressional pay and Congressional work
are 30 dlsproportioned. that they con-
clude it will be better to stay here and
keep up a show, at least, of doing
something. The opinion now is, that
the recess will not extend over a week,
commencing with the 22d inst.


Mr. Speaker and Sioux City and


Pacific Railroad.


An investigation into the affairs OF
the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad
Company will be demanded at the
present session. This was the investi-
CATION begun last winter under resolu-
ton introduced by Job Stevenson, and
which Speaker Blaine regarded as an
effort principally 10 ipjure him. The
subject, it is stated, was by no means
exhausted last winter, and proceeded
only far enough to show that there was
much richness in the Gaze if it could be
brought ou.. Members of Congress
who watched the case with interest, and
who have not been idle during the va
cation, think they will have everything
in shape in week to reopen it. when
Mr.. Stevenson's suspicious will re-
ceive such ample confirmation as will
astonish even him.
Year: 1873

uiCtibS OpiulOhSs


From the Clarksburg Sun.


We had made up our mind not to
say anything about the removal OF the
Copital. Our Charleston friends seem
30 very sensitive about it. But really
it is so far away, and so out t-of-the way
that we cannot help it. Besides we are
90 constantly importuned on the subject.
that it becomes in o measure, duty.


Clarksburg is situate on the old turn
pike tboroughtsre from the east to the
west, with the non main stem OF the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad running
parallel with pixies in other directions
Certainly with these advantages we
ought to be within reasonable accesI to
the seat OF government, and yet for all
such purposes we might as well be
within the confines OF Japan. Some
tjmes we have papers from there three
days old, but generally a week, and
very often a half dozen at a time, and
that's too much OF a good thing.


We are not disposed 10 lay claim for
the Capital to be removed to ClarkS-
burg. We don't deserve it. 1t is true,
it is about the best location that has
yet been mentioned; but the fact is, it
would raise the value OF our town
lots 30 high, that our lot owners could
not stand it,


Where then? Anywhere anywhere
between New Orleans and New York,
so that we can get to the capital with
in reasonable hours. Can't 60 wrong
in that matter.


Take up the question, gentlemen Of
the Legislature, and let us have the
matter decided at once. The people
never were satisfied, and never will be,
to have their representatives frozen up
in perennial spring" all winter, so
far out Of the way, that they can hear
nothing OF their scts, or their welfare
Year: 1873

Editors OF the reg sHler:


1t has never been said that the Pro-
testsnt Episcopal Church would 60
over as s body to the Church of Rome.
No one knows that better than Bishop
Potter himself But it has been said,
with q great deal OF truth, that be and
those who are like minded, have in
times past manufactured a great deal
OF good material for the Church OF
Rome, shipping 1t by regular INSTALL
ments; aud will probably continue 10
do so unless something can be done to
put q stop to it Your readers are not
to Judge Of the real state OF feeling in
the Episcopal Church on this subject,
from the fact that comparatively lew
have as yet joined the Reform Church
movement. "FLEA-Blrs.'
Year: 1873

The fact that co VS. are permitted by their
owners to run at large in the rear of the
city, and that no steps are being taken TO
properly enforce the pound ordinance. is a
source Of continued annoyance to the city
surveyor and the Administrator of I'm prove
ments. Action was taken b. the Council
yesterday toward correcting the evil. The
question is being a.itated whether owners
of stock should not be required to fence in
the ground on which the cattle Craze.
Back of Broad stree: damage to the
amount Of thousands Of dollars ia done
every month by stock running at large.
bitches are dug, and streets and ban
quettes graded, but before tho earth has
had time to become sett,ed it is trodden ON
and trampled down by stock, SO that Pc
pairs are rendered constantly necessary.
Roads are broken into ruts and gulches by
droves Of cattle, and rendered impossible
by vehicles; and the city Admins traitor
whose duty it 10 to keep the streets in re-
pair is blamed for their condition. Thou
sands OF head of cattle are roaming st
large in the rear of the city, in violation Of
the ordinances of the Council, and in one day
do an amout Of damage it requires weeks
to repsu. Let stop bs Pat to it, spd st
ouoa.