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Year: 1875

With more ex Confederates in
the next Congress than Union
soldiers, it is cheering to the latter
that their services for the Union
cause is still remembered here and
there throughout the country,
although as things are progressing,
it will not be long ere they will be
called upon to apologize for taking
up arms to prevent the dismember
mentof the country The following
tribute to the occupant of ''name
less grave is from the pen Of
Henry w. Longfellow:


a soldier of the Union mustered out"


Is the inscription of an unknown grave
At Newport News, beside the salt sea wave,
Nameless and dateless. Sentinel or scout,
Shot down in skirIRish, or disastrous rout


OF battle when the loud artillery drave
It's iron wedges through the ranks of brave
And doomed battalions storming the


redoubt.


Thou unknown hero, sleeping by the sea


In thy forgotten grave! with secret shame
feel my pulses beat, my forehead burn:


When rememb Der thou hast given for me
All that thou hast, thy life, thy very name,


And can give thee nothing In return.
Year: 1875

The Indiana Democracy is willing
enough to assume responsibility in
regard to filing the Offices, but when
called to account for the failure of
legislation and the betrayal of politi-
ical promises it pleads the baby act.
Year: 1875

This is the most complete
COOK STOVE in the
world. The advantages
it posse sesses over all others
are manifold. 1t has 81
broiling apparatus, the.
CRATE can be ,aised for tho
gathering Of the Goals and
no ashes are liable to be
sDilled. or can in any way
be blown upon the cook
ing 1t mas a Reservoir,
a warming oven, an eX-
celient baking oven and
all the modern appliances
The TIDY COOK is The
Stove Of the age. Call
Year: 1875

More than sixty years ago careful eX-
periments We're made in this State, in the
hope OF obtaining such Information rs
would settle the question as to the best
time OF sowing grass seed, and the prac-
tlce OF seeding down in the fall was then
commenced by q few individuals. At and
before that time, the practice of sowing in
the spring was universal, and the same
custom has generally prevailed till within
a very few years. Both the practice and
the opinion of the best practical farmers
among us have changed to considerable
extent, and it is now commonly thought
best to SOW grass seed in the fall, early in
september, if possible, mixing no grain or
anything else with it, though there are,
and always Will be. some cases where the
Practlce OF sowing in the spring with
grain IS convenient and iudicious. There
can be no doubt that it is, in most cases.
an injury to both crops to sow them to-
gether The following statement of an
experienced and successful farmer will
enable us to comprehend how the change
was brought about, though others have
tried the same experiment before him


More than forty years ago we had sew
eral dry summers, in the springs of which
had sown grass seed with rye, barley
anu sometimes wheat and lost most of nv
SEED by drought. | could scrape it up, the
pianls oelng dead and dry, when small
Since that time have universally plough
ed after haying, and sowed Timothy gras.
and redtop." [Plowman.
Year: 1875




DI late wears tho potato has been one ol
the most profitable of farm crops in the
East. and ihis chiefly arises from the fact
That il is somewhat difficult to keep any
GREAT quantity OF them Tins only sn
many are grown Us can be preserved. and
as the accommodations are limited thnrn
is no glut in the market, as there is with
things that are grown and must be sent to
market ut once. Oh course there are times
when potatoes rule low. This is apt to be
the case with early ones, crown especially
for early use, and which follow the same
law that rules in transient vegetables SO
also with those who crow potatoes and
have uu convenience for storinu them.
These have to mark ct in the TALL, and
nave 10 take Whatever price may rule for
them. Those who have good cellars under
their barns, or IN any place safe from
frost and yet cooi and dry, can generally
make potato growing pay and these are
usually the ones who do


IN odd times q large quantity OF potl-
toes were stored out OF doors in the open
ground. They were arranged in long
ndges not IN great bulk, :ts even mass
VI potatoes will heat, and covered with
earth sufficiently thick TO keep out the
frost. But since the incoming OF the po-
tato disease, this plan is not much fol-
lowed The infected tubers viii often rot,
especially il the mass heats little, and
the diseased ones win often communicate
the disease to the rest, In a cellar this
can be seen and noted, bat in a mound
out OF doors no one knows OF the trouble
till spring when great loss has been found.
Besides this, il so is difficult TO get at them
in winter that those who have no way to
preserve potatoes except this, as general
thing preiernot to grow al all rather than
bc bothered with this.


Stored IN cellars, the potato is seldom
troublesome II healthy. No matter in
how great bulk, or whether put IN wet on
dry, they seldom heat TO injury. But il
the seeds of disease be there, the little
heat generated 10y the heaplng together OF
So many roots is often enough to set the
disease to work. and very great losses
Year: 1875

PEANUT OIL. During the war the peo-
pie of the South were thrown upon their
own resources to an extent which result
ed in developing some industries that
otherwise they might never have even
dreamed of. One was the manufacture of
oil from peanuts. to take the place of olive
oil for table and other household uses. 1t
gradually became popular, and is now in
large demand. 1t supplies the place OF
olive and almond oils for various uses
and is lower in price, retains its purity
and flavor for q long time and is less sus-
ceptible to the effect of light than olive
oil. The Oil is extracted entirely from the
meat of the nut by pressure, the refuse
being used as cattle feed or fertilizer.
Year: 1875

A California farmer lost 100 sheep in
one night recently, by turning the flock
into wheat field where Il large part of
the wheat had escaped the reaper The
wheat is said to have swelIed to such an
extent that the stomach WAS torn com
plctelV apart
Year: 1875

A romantic incident occurred on the
last trip Of the steamer Rotterdam
from Rotterdam to New ork, Amons
the cabin passengers were a Mr.. Van
Seller and Miss Maria Reuter-, who
were engaged TO be married. To give
the event an air of romance, they had
decided to have the ceremony perform
ed on board the ship in mid ocean. On
the evening preceding the day fixed
for the wedding, it transpired that the
young lady was the young mans half
sister. 1t appeared from explanations
given to the passengers, that Van Sel.
Ter left his home in Amsterdam when
only ten years old, shipping as cabin
boy on board vessel bound for the
West Indies. He revisited his native
place after lapse Of five years, but find.
ing that his father had died during the
interval, and that his mother had mar.
ried again, he shipped once more and
did not return until about two months
ago, when he was unable to end any
trace of his mother. During a visit to
Rotterdam he met Miss Reuter-, and an
at once sprung up between
them, which resulted in an engagement.
In talking about their early days they
discovered their relation
ship to each other. 1t has been ar
ranged that Miss Reuter- shall return
on the next steamer. The brother, be-
being rich, will provide for his sister.
Year: 1875

1t has always been belief of ours
that the true value of the roller has not


been understood, and we have received


considerable credit from our contempo-
raries for our efforts at various times to


have this useful implement better un-


derstood. What We havo said of it in


the past has chiefly had reference to its
use III the spring season, but as wo SEQ
farming conducted during the summer,


we are tempted 10 inquire whether even
| still more use of the roller might not be
| made with advantage We all know


how great 10 the value of well pulver-
| ICED soil, but we have come to regard
mere stirring with cultivator in sum


mer as pulverizing. 1t is to a certain
extent of course. No matter how rough
ly done, it is better than n hard baked
surface. Under this condition tho soil
dries very rapidly. Still the lumpy,


leaves the ground is anything but pull
veiiz1tion.


We see a tendency in some quarters
to favor hard-packed earth; but the
thorough pulverization we recommend
is very different thing from this. A
soil that is thoroughly crushed tine will
not dry out near so fast as one which is
coarse and lumpy, and this prevention
| OF the escape of moisture is as well wor-
thy of attention as the manure question,
the freight question, the cooperation
question, or any of the numerous onas
which are uppermost gust nov


1t is not. perhaps. easy to carry out a
plan after we know ii is good on- but
surely something could Ge done 10 keep
the soil from being so coarse and idmpy
as we see it so often after oui oultivators
have been over the ground There is
something wrong either with the soil OF
the implements. We want clod crush
er as well as a hoe-harrow let it be in
the form of a roller or what it may
Gsrmdatoirn Telegraph.
Year: 1875

N" Nostiaad.


The present monograph, republished from
tho Reports OF the Massachusetts, Commission to tho
Vienna International Exhibition OF 1873. contains the re
port OF one Of the delegates to the International jury
on pottery porcelain, Ties terracotta and BRICK with
notices OF the distribution OF materials for pottery, and


table Of marks and mono-rams In the opinion OF the
author there is no want OF tae best materials for pot
terry I'm the United States although no success has at
tended the ex perrin that have been made for the
manufacture OF porcelain Works for that purpose were
started near Philadelphia just before the Revolution,
apd although some good porcelain was produced, IL
was found impossible compete with the estab-
llsled manufacture in England. Cheap earthen-
ware however IS manufactured to advantage In several
localities III tie United States, especially In NewJcrsey,
where it bids fair to thrive permanently. The decora
ton OF plain white china and ear,henwlro is branch
Of the poers art which assumed considerable i'm
nor,auce in this country under he protection afforded
by the tariff the duties being much less upon plain
whit ware than upon the with the addition OF the
cost of decoration The business OF decorating porce
lam has also been successfully established in the West,
not oply with plain colors and gliding, bat with flowers
and fruits valuable appendage to the volume is the


list OF works consulted in its paraon which though
very incomplete may serve az convenient guido to
readers in quest OF Information subject OF ipcroas
ing interest and curiosity.
Year: 1875

The practice of buying on credit all
the necessary articles of the household
is fatal to good economy. The house
keeper has always to pay dearer when
she does not pay cash. The readesman
must have interest for his money, for d
man VIII never, in business communi-
ty, be willing, and seldom is able, if he
were willing, TO forego it To the ardi-
nary cash prices of the article be there
fore adds the interest which may accrue
during the time that credit is allowed.
This, hewever, is not all There muFS
be premium exacted by the dealer for
the.risk he runs in trusting bis goods to
that class of more or less dangerous Gus
toners who never pay ready money. The
most honestly disposed of these are Of
ten unsafe debtors, for they are generally
such as are imprudent enough 70 abtiei-
pate their incomes, and to overrun them
in expenditures The credit SYSTEM
moreover, is a temptation to unnecessary
purchases. There is a sort of check ia
the sight and touch of the hard won
money to the disposition to dispose of It
lightly. On the other hand, there is
something in the facility Of credit, re-
moving as it does the disagreeable neces:
sity of payment to a vague future, very
seductive to the buyer, who can crafty
his love of possession with q momentary
sense at any rate, that its qualification
cost him nothing There is no such
cheap and cautious purchaser as cash.
Year: 1875

Much has been written against the use
of tobacco, but there are very few cases
where it can be charged fairly with
abridging life. In consequences of its
power of relieving nervous exoitability
of rendering the mucous membrance of
the air passages less susceptible to the
influence of cold and damp aud the cause
whatever it may be, Of influenza, it
must, when used in moderation, rather
tend to promote longevity. have known
very aged persons who have been smo
kers for the greater part Of a century,
DR.. Gardner.
Year: 1875

Fifty years ago the art of carving was
regarded by the most polished society in
England and IN this country as the in
disrensable Accomplishment of every
lady who had to preside at the head Of
her table. It was reflection upon her
fitness for the post to say that she man
aged the earving-knife with little skill,
or was ignorant of the choice parts of
each dish. Fashion has changed all
that, and the Office Of carving is now as
signed chiefly to gentlemen; but there is
no reason why ladies should not know
all the nicities Of the art, and be able,
when circumstances require, to preside
with ease and skill at the head of the Ia
bic. A good Carving-khife, fork and steel
renders this Office pleasure 10 the ac-
compfished carver.
Year: 1875

Complain as little as thou canst of the
wrongs done thee for ordinarily he that
complainant, siuheth; because sslf-love
ever makes as believe our injuries to be
greater than they are. BQt above all
things, complain not to such persons as
are prone to malice and to think i'll. If
it be expedient TO make complaint to
any, either to redress thy injury, or to
quiet thy mind, let it be done to the
peaeeable, and to such az truly love
God for otherwise, instead of easing thy
heart, they viii provoke it to greater
disquiet, and instead of pulling out the
thorn that pricketh thee, they viii fasten
it deeper into thy foot DE Sales.
Year: 1875




When it is said of man, He drinks"
and it can be proven, what store wants
him Tor clerk What church wants
him for a member Who win trust
himf What dying man will appoint him
his executor He may have been forty
years in building his reputation-it goes
down. Letters of Recommendation, the
backing of business firms, brilliant
ancestry cannot save him. The world
shires off Why2 1t is whispered all
through the community, I" He drinks, he
drinks |" That blasts him. When a
young man loses his reputation for So
briefly, he might as we'll be at the bottom
of the sea, There are young men here
who have their good name as their only
capital Your father has started you
out in city life. He could only give you
an educat ion. He gave you no means.
BE started you, however, under Chris
tan influences. You have come to the
city. You are now achieving your own
fortune, under God, by your own right
arm. Now look out, young man, that
there is no doubt of your sobriety. Do
not create any suspicion by going in and
out of liquor establishments, or by any
odor of your breath, or By any glare
OF your eyes, or by any unatural
flush of your cheek. You cannot afford
to do it, for your good name is all your
capital, and when that is blasted with
the reputation of taking strong drink, ali
is gone.-Er.
Year: 1875

The Wayne County Citizen of last
week says the price of land has advanced
twenty-five per cent, since the railroad
subscription was voted, and that it will
advance fifty per cent when the road is
built.
Year: 1875

Mans own safety is in doing right at all
times, under all circumstances. 1t is Sa-
tan's trick to make our doing right depend
on times and seasons, persons and Places
He who does wrong because no one will
know it, will be terribly disappointed when
his sins find him out. He who ceases to be
waychtul and circumspect among friends, will
find that those friends in whom he thus con-
tided in an unguarded hour, will betray his
confidence and become his foes-will re-
bu!Ie what they before have justified, and
accuse him Of the very acts which they aid
ed and encouraged him in.


Do right everywhere, There is no safety
in sin, Confde in no one presume upon
nothing sufficiently to do that which is wrong.
The watchtul eye Of God is upon US, when
we depart from Him He has ten thousand
rods with which to chasten Us and correct our
faults. Trust no friends trust not in .ecre-
Sy; trust not in lieS---do right everywhere,
and trust to God to give victory and rest.
Do not follow the multitude to be evil. Do
not be a time-seryer nor a tool. Stand bold.
y up for the truth and righteousness, and
ever live with a solemn conscience of direct
and personal responsibility to God. Make
no compromise with error, sin, and wrong
strike no bargains with Satan, everything
which he proposes is delusion and Il snare.
Man is weak, Satan willy, only God is true.
Trust in him; do right everywhere, and He
shall protect, direct, and save you at the
| end.
Year: 1875

The Mississippi river is the guardian and


pledge of the union of the States of America.


Had they been confined to the eastern slopes


of the Alleghenies, there would have been


no geographical unity between them, and
the thread Of connection between lands that
merely fringed the Atlantic must soon have
been sundered. The Father of Rivers gath
ers his waters from all the clouds that break
between the Allcghenies and the furthest
ranges of the Rock Mountains. The ridges
of the eastern chain bow their heads at the
north and at the south; so that, long before
science became the companion of man, nature
herself pointed out to the barbarous races how
short portages join his tributary rivers to the
shores of the Atlantic coast. At the other
side his mightiest arms interlock with the
arms of Oregon and Colorado, and by the
conformation of the earth itself marshals
highways to the Pacific. From his remotest
springs he refuses to suffer his waters TO be
divided but, as he bears them all to the
bosom of the ocean, the myrads of flags
that wave above the head are all the ensigns
of one people States, larger than kingdoms,
flourish where he passes; and beneath his
step cities start into being, more marvel
Gus in their reality than the fabled creations
of cnchantment. His magnificent valley,
lying in the best part Of the temperate zone,
salubrous and wonderfully fertile, is the
chosen muster ground of the most various
elements of human culture, brought togeth-
er by men summoned from all the civilized
nations of the EARTH and joined in the bonds
Of common citizenship by the strong, inyisi-
bic attraction of republican freedom. Now
that science has come to be the household
friend of trade and commerce and travel, all
that nature has lent to wealth and intellect
the use of her constant forces, the hills, once
walls of divisions, are scaled, Or pierced, or
leyeled and the two oceans, between which
the republic has unassailably entrenched it.
self against the outer world, and bound to-
gether across the continent by friendly links
Of iron.
Year: 1875

How TIE HINDoOs REGARD WOMEN
The famous passage of the Padma Parma,
translated by Able Dubois, has been part of
the domestic code of the Hindoos four thous-
ands of years. According to the Hindoo
lawgiver, q woman has no God on earth but
her husband, and no religion except to graft
fy, obey, and serve him. Let her husband
be crooked, old, infrm, offensive let him
be irascible irregular, drunkard, gam
bier, debauchee let him be reckless of
his domestic affairs, as if possessed by q
devil though he live in the world without
honor; though he be deaf or blind, and
wholly weighed down by crime and infrmi-
ty-still shall his wife regard him as her
God With all her might shall she serve him,
in all things obey him, see no defects in his
character, and give him no cause of unea8i-
ness. Nay, more; in every stage of her ex-


stence woman lives but to obey-at the first
her parents, next her husband and his pa
rents, and in her old age she must be ruled
by her children. Never during her whole
life can she be under her own control.


these are the general principles upon
which the life of woman in India is to lie
conducted The Hindoo writer was consid-
crate enough to add a few particulars: "If
her husband laughs, she ought to laugh if
he weeps, she ought to weep; if he is dis
posed to speak, she ought to join in the con-
versation. Thus is the goodness of her ma
ture displayed. What woman would eat till
her husband had his fill? If he abstains,
she will surely fast also; if he is sad, will she
not be sorrowlul? ? and if he is gay, will she
not leap for joy? In the absence of her hus-
band her raiment will be mean" Such has
been the conception of womans duty to man
by all the haltdeveloped races from time
immemorial, and such to this day are the
tact demand and expectation of the brutal
lied males of the more advanced races
Hdrpcy's MdqdstRe
Year: 1875

indulge no such gloomy anticipation, but
only affirm its possibility. And the point
Of these last reflections is, that this tremcn-
dous curse is likely to be local in the future
as in the past. There will be neither special
danger nor special refuge, here or there, in
the years to come.
Year: 1875

What was good of force and intention IN
the Great Party remains good. The beliefs 1t
held in honor and honesty live to inspire
honest and honorable believers. It's true
hearted work in the past pleads for it, the
dignity of viiile enthusiasm fingers with It,
II made for itself such high place that its
very name had power to cOnjure, and IT bore
unframed thousand armed assaults I'm
harmed il might bear them still had it nOt sunk
wounded like Caesar beneath the blows OF its
own friends, turned traitor to what was
and is best in it. For n handful Of silver
more or less they have brought it to shame.
They have gambled and cheated behind its
reputation, they have played the bully with
the sword its noblest ruler sheathed. The
great men who nodded this great party to
purpose and action, went to the grave in
suited by those they had taught in honor and
rebuked only in dishonor. Greeley. Sumner,
Chase. are not our lost leadcrs-dead, they
still lead what was truly the Great Party.


There was "a vigorous aud successful soldier
whom the party adopted Ill earnest gratitude.
1t gave him an opportunity for glorious work;
il WAS ready to follow him in every wise and
manly and generous deed. He played with If
rs with q tool, he debased its history and his
own and clutchng still its empty name, he
has left it. There were many men-some OF
them of grave and reverend years-whom the
party had made high in power and reputa-
ton, asking from them only an easily honest
and conscientious labor. They took brains,
energy, and conscience to the nearest buyer in
the Capitol, and when called TO account
screamed with craven audacity, We are the
Party" They, too, have left it; but the
silver smarts sorciy in their palms. There
was another company of men whom the party
advanced, and who are lost, not through
greed so much as cOwardce. The ribbons
they are wearing are torn and draggled rags
which can never bear renewal. Weak and
wicked together, these are the lost leaders
1t is plain that the mass of honest men who
have voted in the Great Party believe in its
principles and not in its betrayers. The scale
swung down in the Autumn with a sharp
warning to falslty and failure. Political JUS
tice is not always mere phrase; there is a
mysterious sea called Public Opinion, and the
lost leaders are even now beginning to toss
like sOdden and unwholesOme wrecks upon its
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