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Year: 1873

Recently correspondent inquired for
a remedy in cases where sows ate their
young. We find the following in a
monthly report of the Department of
Agriculture, which, although it does not
seem to furnish remedy likely to be
generally applied, we give for what it is
worth. No one but the breeder who had
the misfortune to see fine litter of pigs
destroyed by their dam-hersef perhaps
the best SOW in his pen-can have a
realizing sense of the annoyance and
hitter disappointment such an occurrence
involves. The report says:


It is well known that sows not unfre-
quently attack and destroy their young;
or, if prevented from this, will not let
down their milk, so that the young pigs
necessarily die from want of nourish-
ment. When this condition of things is
not caused by a diseased condition of
the uterus, it is said that the SOW can be
brought to terms by pouring a mixture
of ten to twenty grains of the spirits of
camphor with one to three of the tine
ture of opium, into the ear. The SOW
will Immediately lie down on the side of
the ear to which the application was
made, and remain quiet in this position
for several hours without interfering
with her pigs; and on recovery from the
stupor will have lost her irritabihty in
regard. to them. The experiment has
been tried in Germany hundreds of times,
according to one of the agricultural jour
nails, without any injurious effects. It is
also said that the eating of pigs by the
parent SOW can be readily prevented by
rubbing them all over with brandy, and
making the same application about the
nose of the SOW herself.
Year: 1873

The prudent farmer will not permit
the manure that is made through the
winter season to go to waste, and if he is
very wise he will not be content with
simply hauling out half dozen loads,
when if it is carefully saved he might
have 20 loads or more to put on his land.


Until one tries the experiment, it
seems astonishing that SO much manure
could be saved as we have seen hauled
out from one barn during a single win
ter. The secret of a large manure heap
consists simply in cleaning out the stalls,
stables, and pens eve1y day, instead of
once a week or once a month. By fire.
quent additions, the value of the heap
for fertilizing purposes is also greatly in
creased. When the manure has accumu-
lated so as to be in the way, the better
plan is to haul it at once to the field.


Practically, every load of manure
hauled to the field, this winter, will add
a load of corn to the crib. We believe
one hundred bushels of corn to the acre
in Kansas, as to be getting but forty or
fifty; and we belidve this result is to be
obtained chiefly by using manure.


No matter whether the ground has
been long in cultivation or not; no mat
ter if it is the second years ground; a
good coat of manure Will increase the
yield of grain. Upon the Agricultural
College farm we saaU the effect of ma
nure on new ground. We saw that the
portion manured was nearly as high
again Gin june, and the stalks much
larger and stronger, and the color bet
ter than upon an adjoining place that
was not manured. We have not heard
the difference in bushels of grain, but
we will guarantee that the manure
counted in the crib in proportion to its
looks in the field.


We are satisfied that clover is a much
cheaper fertilizer for our large Western
farms, and our peculiar style of farming,
than is stable manure, or, indeed, any
other fertilizer; but this is no reason
why we should waste the manure.
Therefore, improve any leisure hours by
distributing the manure-not one or two
loads only, but twenty, thirty or fifty
loads. It will pay.-Kansas Farmer.
Year: 1873

The following beautiful chem
ical experiment may be easily
performed by a lady to the
great astonishment of a circle
at her tea party. Take two OF
three leaves of red cabbage, cut
them into small bits, put them
into a basin, and pour a pint
of boiling water on them; let il
stand an hour, then pour it of
into a decanter. 1t will be a
fine blue color. .Then take four
wine glasses; into one put six
drops of strong vinegar; into
another six drops of solution Of
soda; into the third a strong
solution of alum, and let the
fourth remain empty. The
glasses may be prepared some
time before, and the few drops
of colorless liquid that has been
placed in them will not be no
ticed. Fill up the glasses from
the decanter, and the liquid
poured into the glass contain
ing the acid will become a
beautiful red; the glass contain
ing the soda will become a fine
green; that poured into the
empty one will remain un-
changed. By adding a little
vinegar to the green It will i'm
mediately change change to
red, and on adding a little So
luton Of soda to the red it will
assume a fine green, thus show
ing the action Of acids and al
kalis on vegetable blues.
Year: 1873

-muslins, cloths, carpets and
table linen. We grudge the
time we see women spend in
making up muslins Of low grade
for underclothing. There are
SO many stitches in a shirt
And when it lasts one year in
stead Of two, as it should, there
is just twice as much work done
as need to be- Better make
three shirts Of fine quality mus
lin than six of a lower grade Of
muslin. just so in flannels.
"A fifty-cent all wool Shaker
flannel will wear two or three
times as long as your flimsy
cotton and wool stuff a few
pennies cheaper. Especially
in a family of children, fabrics
should be chosen for service
that when made up they may
descend from one child to an


other, thus saving the mother
time to stitch into her brain a
little embroidery Of thought and
culture. A few rules with re-
gard to shopping itself may be
in place. First-Have a list of
articles to be purchased made
out in black and white. BY
this means you will be saved
from sudden temptation to buy
what is not really necessary,
and forget nothing that you re-
quire. Second-Deal only with
merchants in whose business
integrity you can confde. Third
In the long run one always
does better to buy at one and
the same place than run about
for the purpose of hunting up
bargains. A regular customer
can often get favors denied to
an occasional purchaser. Fourth
buy what you don't
want, simply because it is
cheap.
Year: 1873

1t is all over. He was buried
to-day, He did not live to be
old, and yet his life was not a
short one. He did a great deal
of business, and was widely
known. The flags hung at
half-mast, for his name had
been a good deal before the
public.


Yet nobody respected him.
He was not honest; and that
was the fatal drawback which
always kept him under. He
was shrewd enough and smart
enough, but he never had any
solid substantial prosperity, and
the sole reason was because he
had no inborn, abiding integrity.


Providence so orders things
that dishonesty thwarts the
most cunningly devised schemes
for making money. Were it
not SO, thieves would become
rich; but thieves never become
rich in the true sense Of the
word. Their gains are uncer-
tain, and their lives are thrift
less as well as unhappy.


Apart from all reference to a
future state Of existence, there
is no better platform for this
world, no better basis to do
business upon, than that Of the
Ten Commandments.


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Year: 1873

Ahomas wentworth Higgin-
son says, in a recent number Of
the Woman's Journal.


| was once called upon to
prescribe Intellectually for a
young girl Of fair abilities who
showed no want of brains in
conversation, but had a perfect
indifference to books. She read
dutifully and torpidly whatever
was set before her-novels,
travels, history-all were the
same; each page drove out the
previous page, and her memory
was a blank. Her parents ask
ed me to teach her to read ;she
joined in the request, and /
consented to the experiment,
on condition that she would
faithfully read a single book in
the way / should direct. She
consented.


1t was in the time of
Kossuth's visit, when every
body was talking about the
Hungarian revolution. The book
| chose was Hungary in 184S,"
by Bruce, of far more interest
then than now-I prescribed it
in daily doses of one chapter.
lfpossible she was to read that
the chapters being short
but under no conceivable cir
cumstances was she to read
more. After each chapter she
was to put down in a blank
book | gave her, some remark
suggested by it. She must men
tion something that had in
terested her, or seen the expla-
nation Of some word, or any
thing else she pleased. Her
comment might be only to say
that Gorgy was a traitor, or to
inquire how his name should be
pronounced; but at least there
should be one sentence of re-
mark per chapter. From time
to time [ was to see what she
had written, and answer her
questions, if any. This was
the prescription, and she took
it courageously.


| knew in advance what
would be the greatest difficulty.
1t was to keep her to one chap
ter. 1t seemed to her such a
mistake, such a waste of op-
portunity, when she could so
easily manage five or six chap
ters in a day. Had she done
so, all would have been lost; so
| was inexorable. The conse-
quence was that she never fail
ed to read her chapter; and when
she got to the end of it, for
want of anything better to do,
she read it over again, OF went
to work with her notebook. 1t
was a very nice notebook, and
she wrote beautiful hand.
When | came to look over the
pages, every few days, I was
astonished at the copiousness
and variety of her notes. On
some days, to be sure, there
would be but a single sentence,
and that visibly written with
effort; but almost always there
were questions, doubts and crit
icisms, all of which, l met as |
could. | found my own mind
taxed by hers, and finally re-
read every chapter carefully
that | might be ready for her.
And at the end she told me
with delight that for the first
time in her life she had read a
book.


Where was the magic of the
process? ? ! suppose mainly in
the restraint, the moderate
pace, and the necessity of
writing something. Reading"
says my Lord Bacon, "maketh
a full man; writing, an exact
man." To clearly define and
systematic what you know,
write.
Year: 1873

We have had an oldisshioned rain fall
within the last 4s hours, and no doubt
will have good sized river by to-mor'
row, even II we have little or no freight
to ship on It. The storm seems 10 have
been general In the east and somewhat
destructive. Hereabouts the principal
damage will be to delay the fall work oi
the farmers, such as getting IN the corn
crop. The panic having preceded the
storm the bulk OF the damage to Others
was already effected.
Year: 1873

RIeuTs OF STREET CAR PAssENaERs.--
A Philadelphia district courtjudge, in re-
fusing TO nonsuit plaintiff who sued for
damages received while standing on the
rear platform OF q street car, said, obiter
dictunp, that he did not think a citizen had
any right TO stand in the aisle Of car II q
sitting passenger objected, because tho
person paying his or her fare was entitled
not only to a seat, but also seat free
from the nuisance oi being behind anoth-
er's back or being continually stared at,
Year: 1873

Almost every intelligent person Is lamil-
lar with the fact that the United States
are deeply in debt to Europe, perhaps
considerably oyer two thousand millions
of dollars taking all classes Of debt, gov
ernment, State, municipal and corporate
We have been borrowers there for many
years. They hold our notes-our bills
payable-and we pay to England and
Germany an immense amount oi interest
every year. As long as we arc able to
borrow everything goes along swim
mingly. Our safety lies in our good cred
H. No amount OF trouble among our
selves, fires or psnics, shakes the faith ol
the holders Of our securities in the SOL
yency Of the great American nation.


Still, there will come a pay day, not
withstanding our good credit We must
eventually llquidate in some shape or olh'
er. Tho hope is that the balance Of trade
will turn In our favor. That hereafter
We will import little or no iron or
iron wares from Europe. This is an i'm
mense item in our import trade. II this
should turn out 10 be the case, and il at
tho same time our exports Of petroleum,
cotton, tobacco, breadstults and precious
metals should largely increase, we may
hope 10 get so nearly square with our
creditors as TO have nothing to fear from
the maturity Of our obligations.


But In the mean time the balance OF
trade in our favor thus far, about which
we are Just now hearing good deal, Is
pothing to plume ourselves upon very
much as yet. For the year ending the Soth
oil June last 1t was actually against usby q
hundred millions. Just now 1t Is running
in our favor for the time being. And this
will continue so long as the panic lasts and
so long as the price Of our wheat and other
breadstufRs keeps low enough and our im-
portatlons keep down to their present re-
duced standard. We are selling bread
stuff in competition with cheap rivals,
such as Russia and the Mediterranean
countries Of Europe, and we must sell as
low as they do. As long as this Is the case,
and as long as we keep sending of more
than we bring In, and as long as our cred.
itots feel sure as to our debts, so long
we may continue to regard the present
financial situation as an affair among our.
selves, to be fixed up by a resumption Of
greenback payments.
Year: 1873

By making all Its departments fuller and riore valu
able.


The growingimportanceof Portland as dstributin
centre for Maine and its increasing wholesale trade
make a full Daily paper imperativey necessary.


With larger Editorial corps than any paper in
Name, with unexcelled facilities for collecting new
and more space to devote to details the Publishers
will make everv exertion to render the DAILY PRESS
fuller and more complete paper than it has hitherto
been sand in every respect
Year: 1873

A country youth inquired at one Of our
drug stores for ten cents worth of Glove
powders" something that wouldn't stir her
up much, but make her dream of him nights"
The urbane druggists clerk put up some
magnesia, and cautioned the purchaser not
to give his victim too much of it at a time,.
but rather win her affections by degrees.


A Wisconsin boy found an apparently
empty sardine box near the scene of some
blasting operations for railroad cut. In in
nocent mischief he put the box, one evening.
in one of his fathers No. II boots. The fami.
ly separated at precisely halt past six the
next morning, and the survivors win erect
new house after the estate is "settled up.,


A Paola girl, who was all dressed and
ready to be married, was attacked so severe
y with the tooth-ache that she could not q
through the ceremony. For two hours she
SAT with her feet in a pail of hot water and
Ieatner bed wrapped around her jaw, while
her waiting affianced stood out in the wood
shed and cussed,
Year: 1873

1t was splendid joke on the part Of three
Albany men to cut one of the headquarters
from a Newfoundland dog that had been kill
ed, dress it, and send it to a friend, who had
it cooked and ate it, thinking 1t was mutton.
Yes, it was good joke.
Year: 1873

Samana appeals for university to edu-
cate the youth of the island. The appeal
comes too late. The hosts Of civilization are
about to descend upon her coasts. What she
will want is not so much university as a
penitentiary.
Year: 1873

The Rev. Mr. Wess expresses the convc-
ton that Hamlet was not mad. For our
part we don't pretend to say that he Uas mad,
but the conduct of his mother and his uncle
was certainly calculated to make him little
dngry.-LouisuiHe Coaier-Journal
Year: 1873

The Buffalo Commercial wisely says: ''In-
stead OF trying to give the Almighty a
special clause Of recognition in the national
charter, let an effort be made to elect to pub
lie office men who recognize Gods laws as
their rule of action.''
Year: 1873

In these days OF "hard times" OF money
troubles, Of onerous taxation, attention is di.
rected to the fact that large amounts of pro-
perty are exempt from taxation, as the pro-
perty Of churches.


II this exemption we're confined to edifces
used wholly for public worship, il would not
be 80 bad; but, as we understand it, in many
States large amounts Of property escape taxa
ton upon that plea; which sometimes covers
palpable and gross fraud. In this State the law
exempts houses of worship and parsonages.


We know no reason why church property
should be exempted from taxation; especially
parsonages. II religious society are able TO
own parsonage they are abe to pay tax
thereon. III they are not able to own one and
are obliged to rent one, the owner will add
enough to his rent to cover the tax. The pre-
sent law therefore operates to shield the veal
their religious societies from the burden which
it imposes upon the poorer.


The whole policy Of exempting the property
OF religious corporations from taxation origi
mates in the notion that the state is bound TO
do something for the maintenance of churches.
We hold that 1t has no right to do anything Of
the sort, for the reason that whatever IL does
attempt to do is done at the expense, ultimate
ly, OF persons whose religious views arc not so
favored and the State is not at all competent
to choose between different religious beliefs.
Year: 1873

We call at tention to our SeIdlitz Powders so un
versalH popular every where. They are msde up
IT s and pure every few days, and claim them to be
equal to any IN the market, fully the standard
To be- good they must he fresh and pure. This our
special claim, TO prove which they need only to be
tried. Don't forget the place to get them, af


FOSTERiS DRUG STORE,
Year: 1873

desire to call attention to the fact that Ihave on hand 8 full stock of all varieties of LUMBER called for in this market and am prepared to sell the same at the lowest market price for Cash. My stock comprises

 Easferp Spruce IiMbet, of all sizes from 2xs to 4x12 in Joist. and up to sx10 in Frame Timber. Only small portion of this Timber has eyer been rafted and is conse- quently clean and free from grit and gravel AL so, 5,0GO punches of first quality
Year: 1873

The Brooklyn Coroner was notified last evening
to take the ante-mortem statement OF o colored
woman named Matilda Jackson residing at No. 10
Flint street. VINO is lying at the point OF death from
the eject Of fearful beating and kicking to which
Jackson, her husband. Andrew mas absconded,
but she police of the Second precinct are IN search
OF him and are Of the opinion that they have
ssapteO the right tsaiL
Year: 1873

There is nothing more tastunate for
mod crate genius than to be born poor.
The "silver spoon" class are very
comfortable people, no doubt, but the
the great trouble of them is, If they
don't become very great they are ex-
tremely likely to become the very
opposite. Poverty has helped men to
solve some of the creates, problems of
life. Half its brove deeds have b,el q
uccessitp, and the n ost of It's noble
sayings have been born OF determined
opposition 1t does a man good to put
him at his wits ends. Emergencies
make men. Any man can be general
or a pilot in calm but storms shows
the metal. Reputation is made more
by boldness aud will, than by ability
and patience. Life is too short to wait
for the tide whose ebb leads on TO for
tune We must make the most Of
present opportunities, but We shall
hardly do it, unless present opportuni-
ties are in the main present necessities.
The man who works out these 10 the ful.
lest extent is the most successful man
UeaI's College Journal.
Year: 1873

The Danbuly Neacs says-It is 6
little singular how we'll apar OF boots
can be made to fit at the store. You
may not be able to get your foot only
part way down the leg at the first
trial, but that is because your stock.
ing is sweaty, or you haven't started
right, and the shoemaker suggests
that you start again and stand up to
it, and he throws in little powder
from pepperbox to aid you. And
so you stand up and pound down
your foot, and partly trip yourself up,
and your eyes stick out in an unpleas.
ant manner, and every vein in your
body appears to be on the point Of
bursting, and all that while the dealer
stands around and eyes that operation
as intently as if the operation was
wholly new and novel to him. When
your foot has finally struck bottom,
there is a faint impression on your
mind that you have stepped into an
open stove, but he removes it by
solemnly observing that he never saw
a boot fit quite as good as that. You
may suggest that your toe presses too
hard against the front or that some
of the bones in the side of the foot
are too much smashed. but he says
this is always the way with new
boot, and that the trouble will entire
disappear in few days. Then you
take an old pair under your arm and
start for home as animated as a relic
of 1912, all the while feeling that the
world will not look bright and happy
to you again until you have Drained
that shoemaker. You limp down
town the next day, and smile all the
while with your mouth, while your
eyes look as if you was walking over
an oyster bed barefoot. When no one
is looking you kick post or some
other obstruction, and show a fond.
ness for stopping and resting against
something that will sustain your
weight. When you get home at night
and 60 for those old boots with an
eagerness that can not be described,
and the remarks that you make upon
learning that your wife has disposed
of them to a widow woman in the
suburbs, are calculated to depopulate
the earth of woman and shoemakers
generally.
Year: 1873

Some of our readers who keep poul-
try will appreciate the following pic
ture drawn by the Danbury Neacs:


This is the season when every own
er of hens is engaged in endeayoring
to suppress the maternal instincts in
one or more of them. The man comes
home to supper and the wife observes,
''That yeller pullet is on the nest
again. Then the man goes out to the
coop and says: "What in thunder is
the matter with the beast, any way?'
and then crawls in under the roost to
the nest, reaches in apd brings out a
handful of feathers. Then the hen
screams and run for the door, and the
other hens set up a howl and likewise
depart for that aperture, and the man
-nearly choked by feathers and blind
ed by dust-falls over the watering
trough and skins his ankles on the
boxes, and finally bursts out into the
yard, with a piece of brick in each
hand, and goes after the yellow pullet,
with his face as red as a boiled lob
ster. When he catches the hen, he
cuffs it over the head few times to
show it how it feels, then jams it under
a barrel and pours pail of water
through the cracks, and leaves it there
until morning, when it is released, and
the same operation is repeated in the
evening.
Year: 1873

A boy, while spreading hay in
the meadow, was stung by humble
bee. Grasping wisp of hay, and
giving chase to his tormentor, he sue
ceeded in knocking him into the grass;
then, holding the wretch down with a
stick by one hand, and taking a pin
from his shirt collar with the other
he commenced partaking of the sweet
morsels of revenge. "I'll let you
know, old feller," said he, giving his
victim thrust through the body, '1'll
let you know (another jab) that there
as a God IN Zsr9l"
Year: 1873

BY THE AUTHOR OF "JoHN HALIFAX"
My little baby is buried too.
Gone-gone in the depths of the churchyard


clay,


Up in the sky so dim and grey.


Who will take care of my little baby
Who will teach her ?-her wings to fly,
Her tiny limbs their new work to ply,
Her soft, dumb limbs to sing gloriously-
Oh, who will teach my little baby?
l have mother-who long ago died;
We speak of her now with our tears all dried
She may know my pretty one, come to her side,
And be glad to see my little baby.
Who will kiss her ?--her waxen feet,
That have never walked, and her small hands


sweet,


Where left white lily, as was meet
Who who will kiss my little baby?
Christ born of woman here, oh, here
Thine angels are far off-she seems near
Give Thou my child to my mother dear,
And I'll weep no more for my little baby.
Surely in Heaven, Thy saints SO blest
Keep a mothers heart in mothers breast
Give her my lamb, and shall rest
If my mother takes care of my little baby.


-Sunday Magazine