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Year: 1871

Let us take time for reading. 1t will new.
er come if we wait TO have every speck Of
dirt removed from each article we use. We
can always find something else to do, and
conscientious housekeepers, with little taste
for mental pursuits, are apt to make great
bunder. The life is more than meat and
the body than raiment," which means--if
may be allowed to preach a wee bit of ser.
mon-that you yourself, with all your immor.
tai faculties, are Of vastly more Importance
than your house and furniture, and clothing
and cookery, and these are utterly worthless
if they serve as hinderancos instead of helps
to your individual humaIr culture. No kind
of labor is degrading if done from worthy
motive and no motive can be nobler than the
womanly desire to make a pleasant home.
With this end in view, with love as promoter,
washing, and darning, and scrubbing are all
elevated from drudgery to a nobler place.
But our homes cannot be properly attractive
and profitable to our families if we ourselves
are dull and harrassed. Our brothers, and
fathers, and husbands, and sons need cheerful
and intelligent companions at home far more
than they need nice dinners and spotess linen.
1t is necessary that good homemakers and
keepers, should read and reflect and listen and
converse.
Year: 1871

Marriage, which most girls consider the
sole ann Of their existence and the eud Of all
their anxeties, is often the beginning of set
Of troubles which none among them expect,
and which, when they come, yerJ few accept
with the dignity of patience or the reason
ableness Of common sense. Hitherto the
man has been the suitor, the wooer; it has
been his mefier to make love, to utter ex-
travagant expressions, to talk poetry and ro-
nance Of an eminently unwearable kind, and
to swear that feelings, which, by the very ma
ture OF things it is impossible to maintain at
fever heat, will be as lasting as life itself, and
never know subsidence or diminution. Aud
girls believe all that their lovers tell them.
They believe in the absorption of the mans
whole life in the love, which, at the most,
cannot be more than part of his life; they
believe that things will go on forever as they
have begun, and that the fire and fervor Of
passion will never cool down to the more
manageable warmth Of friendship And il
this belief of theirs lies the rock on which
not few make such pitiful shipwreck of their
married happiness. They expect their hus'
bands to remain always lovers.


Not lovers only in the best sense which ol
course all happy husbands are to the end oi
time, but lovers as in the old fond, foolish
courting days. And, as we said before, a
wife's first trial, and her greatest, is when her
husband begins to leave of this kind of fervd
loye-making, and settles down into the tran
quill friend instead.


1t is in the nature Of many women to re'
quire continual assurances, just as it is with
children and few believe in love which il
not frequently expressed; while the ability
to trust in the vital warmth Of affection thai
has lost its early feverishness, is the mark o.
higher wisdom than most Of them possess
To make them thoroughly happy, man mus
be always at their feet and they are jealous
of everything of his work-that take'
him away from them, or gives him occasion
for thought and interest outside themselves
They are rarely able to rise to the height o
married friendship; and if they belong to 4
reticent and quiet-going lnan--a man who say
81 love you" once for ALL and then contents
himself with living life Of loyalty and kind
ness, aud not talking about it--they fret a
what they call his coldness, and feel them
selves shorn Of half their gloiy and more thar
half their dues.
Year: 1871

A MAIpEN'S psalm OF LIFE. Tell Fus
notin idle jingle marriage is an empty dream,"
for the girl is dead that's single. and things are
not what they SEEM Life is real, it is earnest,
single .blessedness a ib; "Man thou art, to man
returnest," has been spoken Of the rib. Not
enjoyment and not sorrow is our destined end
or way, but so to act that each to-morrowlh
find us nearer marriage day. Life is long and
youth is fleeting, and our hearts, though light
and gay, still like pleasant drums are beating
wedding marches all the way In the worlds
broad field ct battle, in the bivouac of life, be
not like dumb driven cattle-be .heroine-be
a wife Trust no future, how e'r pleasant let
the dead past bury it's dead! Act act to the
living present heart within and hope ahead.
Lives of married folks remind us we can live
our lives as well, and departing leave behind
US such examples as will "tell.r b, Such exam
Piles that another wasting time in idle sport,
forlorn, unmarried brother. seeing shall take
heart and court Let us, then, be up and do
ing, with q heart on triumph set; stall contrfv-
ing, still pursuing. till each one q husband get


We are not aware Of any poetess having
been around here, but must believe the author
of the above has been on this coast. y ss'sN
Year: 1871

VICES OF GENtUS.-Coleridge was such a
slave To liquor that he had 10 be kept an un-
willing prisoner by Christopher North, on an
occasion when some literary performances had
IN be complete by certain time; and on that
very day, without taking leave Of any member
of the family. he ran at full speed dawn the av.
enue TO Eleray. and was suon hidden, not in
the groves of the valley, but in some obscure
den, where, drinking among low companions,
his magnificent mind was soon brought 10 the
level ot the vile. When his spree was over,
he would return to the society of decent men,
DeQuincy was such 4 slave TO the use OF OPT
um that his daily allowance was of more im-
portance than eating. An ounce of laudunum
day Frustrated animal life during the fore
noon. Ii was no uufrequent sight to find hun
asleep on the rug before the fire in his own
room, his head on book, and his arms crossed
on his breast. When his torpor from the OPT
um had passed away. he was ready for compa-
ny until about daylight. In order to show him
off. his friends had TO arrange their supper par
ties so that, sitting until three or four in the
afternoon, he might be brought to that point at
which, in charm and power of conversation,
he was so truly wonderful. Burns was not less
n drunkard than Coleridge. 1t was the weak
ness of Charles Lamb And who can remem.
ber the last days of Poe without irrepressble
regret He was on his way to Baltimore, and
was found, by a gentlemaa who knew him, in
state of beastly intoxication, unconscious as
a log. and that night he died in the rawlings of
delirium Douglas Jerrold was a devotee of
gin; so, also, was Byron. Steele, the brilliant
author of the Christian Hero, was beastly
drunkard. Men wrote of him that he would
dress himself, kiss his wife and children, tell
them about his pressing engagements, heel it
over to q groggery under the "store," and have
a revel with his bottle companions.
Year: 1871

The first six months of child's life
are too uncertain to base any calculations
upon. On the other hand, after the
expiration of the first year, the chances
are even that the child will live to the
age of thirty three; between ten and
fifteen years of age life is most secure,
and the probabilities are even that it will
live forty. three years longer.


Of a million of people, 593 AGO will be
found to be between the ages of fifteen
and sixty and nearly one half of them
are men, this number of inhabitants could,
on an emergency, furnish $50, 600 capable
of bearing arms, even if an allowance be
made for the sick, the lame, ETC., who
may be supposed to be among that mum
Der. This will explain the capacity of
such countries as the United States and
Prussia, where the volunteer and military
system is so developed, for putting such
vast numbers of fighting men in the field
when necessity has required them.


1t has been proved that the number of
males that are born exceeds that of the
females this is a striking instance of the
wisdom of Providence, which has thus
provided for the preservation of the hu-
man race. Men, in consequence of the
active life for which they are destined by
their strength and courage, are exposed
to more dangers than the female sex
war, long sea voyages, employments
laborious or prejudicial to the health and
dissipation, carry off great numbers of the
males and it thence results, that if the
number of the latter born did not exceed
that of the females, the males would rapi
dly decrease and soon become extinct.
Year: 1871

The Washington Reporter says: As
the season for preparing wool for market
is almost at hand, it is important that
growers should give attention to the mat
ter of caring for their wool in order that
it should command the highest market
price. All have noticed that those far
mers who wash their wool the cleanest,.
and put it up the neatest have command
ed the best prices, for several years past.
There is growing disposition on part of
manufacturers to discriminate in regard
to the condition as well as quality of wool,
and this feeling is likely to have an i'm
portant bearing upon the rates this sea-
son. There is also another reason why
farmers should be more careful in getting
up their clips. For several years Wash
ington county has been rapidly losing its
position as a first class wool growing dis
trict. This is in consequence of the dis
position to breed heavy greasy sheep, and
negligence in washing. This condition
of things has materially reduced the aver
age price of our wool, and will continue
to do so without it is speedily corrected.
This is question in which growers are
mutually interested, as by improving or
lowering the general character of their
woods they can elevate or depress prices.
This affects all not only those that me-
glect their woods but also those that are
more careful. Washington county wool
growers, if they would regain the high
character for that staple that they had
years ago, must adopt better mode of
their clips. Their county pro-
duces as good wool as any other region,
and if we do not get as good prices it is
the fault of the growers themselves.
Year: 1871

! Some time ago registered letter was


forwarded to Chicago which ought tc


have contained five hundred dollar bills


But when the envelope was opened, the


money was missing. As usual in such
cases, the matter was placed in the hands
of an experienced and skillful gentleman
assigned to the duty of bringing criminals
to justice, with instructions to mako a
thorough and rigid investigation. The
envelope appeared to be intact but the
officer took it, soaked it in water, and
carefully oemoved thre porion where the
sealing process had been effected. By the
assistance of a microscope, he found that
small PARTICLES of plug tobacco adhered to
the paper, and from this fact became con-
vinced that whoever wet the mucilage of
the envelope, must have used that descrip-
ton of the weed.


The officer determined, in the first
place, to ascertain if any one connected
with any of the Offices through when the
letter had passed, used tobacco of that
description. Office after Office was visited
from Chicago to the locality where the
letter was first mailed, but in not one of
these was there single person who
masticated anything but "fue cut" In
the last Office, the postmaster was an old
friend of the detective, who was consider
ed to be an upright man. He was loud
in his denunciations of the crime. The
Chicago official had not the slightest
suspicion in the direction of his honest
country postmaster; but he had asked so
many persons for ga chew" that the habit
had grown upon him, and addressing the
worthy 2. NJ, by name, he said, "Will
you give me chew of tobacco 2" "Real-
ly," was the reply, don't think I have
any tobacco that you would use. never
cheU anything but plug"


The conviction was forced upon the
officers mind that his friend was the
thief. Acting upon this conviction, he
arrested the postmaster, and, having pro-
cured search warrant, found the FIVE
one hundred dollar bills secreted in a
daguerreotype case, such as were used
years ago, carefully folded up behind the
picture. The mystery was solved. The
postmaster was tried in the United States
Court in Chicago, convicted, and may
now be found at Joliet, where he is work
ing out the penalty assessed for his crime.
Year: 1871

We have mode of keeping hams
through summer, which, works so well
that to with hold it longer from the pub
lie would hardly be acting a patriotic
part. Here it is


Have a sack made of cheap m~slin, or
domestic, somewhat longer than is re-
quircd to merely hold the ham. Then
gather some dry broom sedge and chop
it finely in your cutting box, or if you
happen to be minus such contrivance,
chop it with hatchet or ak. Place a
few handfuls of this in the bottom of your
sack, and then, having wrapped news
paper nicely around your ham, slip it in
upon the chopped sedge. Proceed next
to fill up the sack by ramming your chop
ped sedge tightly around the ham on all
sides-the size of the sack should allow
of its being an inch thick. Sew or tie it
up, and the work is done.


Hams put up in this way will keep for
years through all kinds of weather, for
while the sedge is cooling in its effect, il
absorbs the moisture attracted by the SALT,
and bars off the fly. We take it that
straw or thoroughly dried grass of almost
any kind would answer, though We have
no experience with anything save broom
sedge.
Year: 1871

Two or three years ago | addressed a


letter to Dr. H. S. Randall author of the
practical Shepherd" making inquiry
whether tobacco ooze alone, unmixed with
other ingredients, would cure scab on
sheep. His reply was that he did not
know certainly that it would, giving his
experience in treating the disease as de-
tailed in his practical Shepherd. -
Since my correspondence with the doc
tor, L have become cognizant of two facts
that prove to my mind that it will, if pro-
perly applied, accomplish the purpose
The facts are briefly as follows:


Two years ago last May, one Of my
neighbors, Mr.. Samuel Hamat, dipped
his flock in tobacco ooze, and it entirely
cured them, but prevented them from
contracting the disease again, although
they run on the common mixing with
other scabby sheep. At the sheering the
following spring, there was noappearance
of scab so far as the eye could detect it
The other fact is this: Last May dip
ped my own flock, numbering about 500
head, in tobacco ooze, and at this date,
March 9th there is no appearance of scab
on the sheep, although they run on the
common with many other sheep that were
diseased with the scab. Now if it can
be established beyond doubt that this
treatment will cure the disease, and pro-
tect the sheep from contracting from one
sheering until the next one, there will be
no excuse for having this loathsome, awful
disease in the country, and millions wilp
be added to the value of this kind of farm
stock Cor. Prdirie En1nler.
Year: 1871

the Republican party of Pennsylvania
His financial policy by which the nation
al debt is being steadily reduced the re-
duction of the expenditures of the gov.
ernment; the honest collection of the re.
venue his fidelity to the principles Of
human rights through which the liberty
of all is to be secured in every part of the
land his loyalty to the people in having
no policy to enforce against their will,
and the spotless integrity of his admins
tration commend him to the continued
confidence of the American people,
Year: 1871

A simple mode of making butter hard
in warm weather, where ice is not handy,
is to inyert common flower pot over
the butter, with some water in the dish
in which the butter is laid The orifce
at the bottom may be corked or not. II
will still be cooler if the cork be wrapped
with wet cloth. The rapid substraction
of heat by external evaporation causes the
butter to become hard.
Year: 1871

Still has his Office Main Street, in the second
s,cry of Dr. S waton's brick building, nearly oppo-
site the Stroudsburg House, and he fatters himself
that eighteen years constant practice and the most
earnest and careful attention to all matters pertaining
to his profession that he fully able to perform all
atons in the dental line the CAREFUL taste
pit and skiful manner.


Special attention given to saving the Natural Teeth
also 10 the insertion OF Artificial Teeth Rubber,
Gold Silver or Continuous Gums, and perfect FITS In
all insured.


Most persons know the great folly and danger OF en-
trusting their work the inexperienced, to those
living at a distance. April Is, ls7l.-ly
Year: 1871

Under the caption this Trenton
Gazette. edited by that veteran
democrat, John H. Glass, after
speaking of the various political
moves in the checker board of both
parties, concludes that Grant will
be the nominee of the radicals, and
that il viii take all the elements OF
opposition to defeat him, and says :


Gen. Grant win unquestionabIy
be the nominee Of the Radical party
and as all true patriots. sincerely
desire his defeat, the only question
worthy of consideration is the best
means to compass that end.


Is the Democratic party strong
enough to accomplish the overthrow
of the despOtism now grinding its
heel upon the necks Of the people
Does the recent elections and decla-
ration OF Martial law induce such a
belief? If not, then why pursue the
insane policy of making a candi-
date simply to be defeated 9If the
Democrats run no candidate Gen.
Grant can and will be defeated By a
liberal Republican, just as the party
was over thrown in Tennessee, ViF-
ginia and Missouri. We eare for this
policy.
Year: 1871

The Toledo Commercial grieves
that Carl Schurz should fratsrnize
with the very men who once sought
to destroy the Union, and thinks it
inhuman on his part TO find more to
condemn in General Grant than
jefferson Davis. just as soon as a
man ceases TO be a bigot, and ceases
to hate the South and all Southern
ers, just that hour the Radical press
commence TO complain that he is
growing lukewarIn in the interest
of the Radical party.-tDetroit Free
Press (Rad.)
Year: 1871

The essence OF justice is mercy
Making the childsuffer for wrong-do-
ing is mereiful 10 the child. There
is no mercy in letting The child have
It's own will plunging headlOng To
destruction with the bits in its
mouth. There is no mercy to So
ciety nor 10 the criminal il the
wrong is not repressed and the
right vindicated. We injure the
eulprit who comes up TO take his
proper doom at the bar of justice, If
we do not make him fell that he has
done a wrong thing. We may deli
yer his body from the prison, but
not at the expense ofjustiee, nor TO
his own injury.-l Z. II. ChdpiH.
Year: 1871

sometimes go musing along the
street 10 see how few people there
are whose faces look as though any
Joy had come down and sung in their
souls. l can see the lines of thought
and of care and fear--money, lines,
shrewd, grasping lines-but how
few happy lines The rarest feeling
that ever lights the human face Is
the contentment of q loving soul.
Sit for an hour on the steps of the
exchange in Wall street, and you
will behold a drama which is better
than thousand theatres, for all the
actors are real.-Beecker.
Year: 1871

MEcHANIcs.--They ara the palace
bnilders Of the world not a stick is
hewn, not a stone is shaped in all the
lordly dwellings of the rich that
does not owe its beauty and fitness
10 the skill of the mechanic. The
towering spires that raise their gid
dy heads among the clouds depend
upon the mechanics art for their
strength and symmetry. Not an
edifice for devotion, of business, of
comfort, but bears the impress OF
their hands. How exalted is their
vocation, how sublime their calling
Year: 1871

CAUSE AND EFFEcT.-One kernel
is felt in a hogshead the drop of
water helps TO swell the ocean, a
spark Of FIRE helps to give light to
the world. You are a small man
passing among the crowd, you are
hardly noticed, but you have drop,
a spark within you that may be felt
through eternity. Do you believe
il? Set that drop in motion, give
wings to that spark, and behold the
result None are too small, too fee
bic, too poor, TO be ofserv1ce. Think
OF this, and act. Life is no triae.
Year: 1871

The growing scarcity of timeber
and timber lands is becominga very
important for the country. The de-
mand for lumber is constantly in
crsasing, while the supply is rapidly


falling of. Vast I'M extent as are
the forests of Minnesota, Wisconsin
and Michigan, at the present rate OF
demand for building material TO
supply the necessities OF our in
ereasing population, il will be but a
few years before they are exhausted.
Even now, indeed, we are beginning
to have a look to the shores of the
Pacific for the means TO supply this
great necessity, and il win not be
long before we shah have to go clear
beyond our borders. We have been
far TOO extravagant with our timber.
Year: 1871

AN exchange says: 1T is strange
how closely people read the papers. We
never say anything that anybody don't like
but what we soon hear Of it, and every
body tells US about it. But If once in a
while we happen to say good thing, we
never hear that--nobody seems to notice
that. We may pay some man hundred
compliments, and give him dozen puffs,
and he takes it as tribute to his great
ness, never thinks anything about it-nev-
or thinks it does him any good. But If we
happen to say something that this very man
don't like, or something he iinagines re-
fleets on him or his character, see how
quickly he flies up and gets mad about it,
All our evil is duly charged to us, but we
never, apparently, get any credit for what
gopi we do"
Year: 1871

THERE are more miners making
good livings in Mineral Point this winter
at least half dozen diggings that are pay
ing we'll, and many more that are fairly re-
warding the workers. The lead mines are
not played out yet.
Year: 1871

THERE is report that the southern
Republican congressman have attempts
ed to form such an organization that
they can hold the balance Of power be-
tween the two parties 1t is to be hored
they will signally fail to accomplish any
thing Of the kind the country has had
enongh of southern sectionalism.
Year: 1871

RErURSED.-We nre glad to welcome
back to our advertising columns Mcssrs.
ELLINGEN e. BROTHER. Read what they have
to say concerning their patent air-tight
wood cotlin and call and look ut their ex.
tensiVe stock of Furniture if you want to
purchase anything in that line.
Year: 1871

SOMEBODY, we think our worthy
State Senator LITTLE, has sent us a copy of
the legislative manuel for 1871. 1t Is far
superior to any of its predecessors in every
respect. 1t contains information concern
ing QUO State to qualify any man to FIJI any
Office, or publish newspaper. We value
it highly.
Year: 1871

The contract for doing the wood
work of the NJ. E. Church has been Leland
work will soon commence. By an article
otherwheres in this paper it will be seen
that there is some dissatisfaction about the
letting of the work
Year: 1871

No good besiness man will carry over
unreasonable goods if he can dispose Of
them at cost. or even little less At tho
City Store they stick to this rule, and arb
now selling some goods at actual cost and
less. All their goods are marked down ~
the lowest possible figure. lw.
Year: 1871

Gundelfngers you can get better fitted
with ready made clothes than anywhere
else in the county, and find the largest and
most fashionable stock of hats and calts
and gents furnishing goods. lw