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Year: 1873

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A NOBLE SENTIMENT.--The editor of the
CaIaverus Citizen declares his intention never
to support knowingly unworthy men for
officen This sentiment does credit to the
writer. There is little question that much
of the corruption in Office is indirectly trace
able to the managers Of newspapers, for. if
these persons would never knowingly sup
port unworthy men for office, unworthy men
would seldom be elected to Office. What an
improvement could be brought about In the
United States, if all citizens would adopt 3
resolution similar to that put forth by tile
Citsssa and, carry it faithfully into execution
We should soon have men in office who
would study the interests of the people, and
ultimately taxes. would be reduced by full
one half AS affairs go now, q large number
OF journalists paliiatc and excuse offences.
They labor for the individual officer or can
dida.e rather than for the public Half Of the
difficulties in the way suggested, in cur
opinion, arise from the division caused by
journalists, who seem to consider it part oi
their business to support candidates or party,
right or wrong.
Year: 1873

The New England Farmer says:
"a man who will habitually take 8
horse through a ndrrOto door, knows
very little of what horse remembers,
or what is fair treatment to the ami
NAL. One single blow of the hip
against the sharp corner Of a doorway,
is sometimes sufficient to ruin valu-
able horse. But when that blow has
been several times repeated, the horse
becomes valueless, because he has
become highly dangerous animal.


We have seen a horse whose hips
were never healed, after striking two
or three times passing through mar.
low way. Another dangerous prae.
tice is the leading of horses out of
the barn floor, by the side of loads o:
hay, grain, &c. A slight blow upon
the hip will sometimes excite high
spirited horse that the person leading
loses control over him, and he escapes
upon the jump, banking his shoulders
and his hips as he proceeds, leaving
patches of skin and hair, as evidence
that he has got through. Many 8
valuable horse has been ruined in this
way, and many q valuable one can be
saved by never leading him through a
narrow snace.
Year: 1873

A correspondent of the Maine Far
naer writes: Perhaps the family may
live on a farm where wood may be
had with little labor at the right time;
but instead of that the woman may
have small children, some ofthem sick,
and but very little wood, if any
What can be more trying for a wo-
man, when she can get but very little
time to work about the house, than to
be hindered for the want of fuel 1
think if her husband could be placed
in her situation for a month, it would
cure HIM of being SO negligent about
providing good fuel-if he was not
past curing. Besides all the discom-
fort,it looks very shiftless to see a man
that cannot go to his work in the
morning, because he has to stop aud
get some wood. And before he re-
tires at night, be must get rail off
the fence to make fire in the morn
ing. Such a man cannot be said to be
a thrifty farmer. / think the wood
pile fair test of the fathers love for
the wife and children. If you want
domestic peace and a warm dinner,
get some dry wood, put it under COW
er, make good fire, and let the tired
wife rest awhile. Remember she is
shut up with the children more than
you ale. and her mind and body need
rest and relaxation.
Year: 1873

DoN'r be afraid boys, OF learning a
trade. DR.. Dio Lewis says: "Of all
the men with whom we deal, none
are so strong, sell-contained and in
dependent as the 'skilled laborers.'-
They have everything pretty much
their own way. With few excep
tons, our doctors and lawyers are
comparatively poor and hard pushed.
It is so distressing to be called upon
to pay rent and grocery bills, and
then sit down with your small ledger
and try to pick out the patrons from
wLom you can urge payment without
loss of business. 1t so humiliatIng TO
be obliged to maintain certain style,
on account of your being profession
al man, when you know you can't at
ford it, and when you you are obliged
to turn away the importunate trades
man or market man with Cant pay
you now, you must call again.
Year: 1873

We have often been surprised at
the great haste exhibited by many
orchardists 10 dispose of their cider as
soon as it comes from the mill, when
there is no product of the farm that
SO increases in value with age as cider.
In the fall OF 1870 We bought barrel
of cider Sor three dollars and put it
into dry cellar with the bung open.
There it lay a year, and on examining
it, it proved to be good vinegar, and
We sold It to a trader for ten dollars.
Here vas a net profit OF more than
three hundred per cent. Hundreds
of barrels oil cider were sold from the
town that year at ten cents per gallon,
all of which would have sold readily
m year at thirty cents per gallon
Maine Farmer.
Year: 1873

ANY hard steel tool will cut glass
with great facility when freely wet
with camphor dissolved with turpen
tine. A drill bow may be used, or
even the hand alone. A hole bored
may be easily enlarged by a round
file. The ragged edges OF the glass
vessels may also be easily smoothed
thus with a fat file. Flat window
glass can be readily sawed with q
watch spring saw by aid of this solu
ton. In short, the most brittle glass
can be wrought almost as easily as
brass by the use of cutting tools KEEP,
constantly moist with camphorized oil
] of turpentine.
Year: 1873

CHILDREN will act with a great deal
more readiness and alacrity to pre-
serve good character which people
already attribute to them, than to re.
lieve themselves of the opprObrium of
a bad one with which they are charg-
ed In other words, it is much easier
to allure them to what is right than to
drive them from what is wrong
Year: 1873

Every agriculturist, however large


or small the domain which he has to


till, or of which he has the oversight,


ought 10 resolve every year to make


a decided advance IN his farming and


in the value and appearance of his


farm. The idea of merely digging a


liaing living out of the ground with


out any regard to the manner In


which it is done, or the state in which


the soil is left after each successive


crop, or the real and market value of


the ground, is beneath an intelligent


being. There is nothing that we do,


or with which we have to do, that is


not susceptible of improvemt, and it


should be the ambition of every one,


whatever his business and not least,
of every one who is engaged in the
ancient and honorable occupation OF
farming, to be constantly improving
upon the past in the work of the pres
ent and the future. Good taste, duty
to society and self-interest, all COM
bIne in spurring him on in the march
of progress.


The farms OF this country very gen
orally, unlike those of old countries,
need great amount of actual clearing |
- not the removal of timber, which on
the contrary requires cultivation and
renewal--but in the way of removing
brush and rubbish of various kinds
The adornment OF farms by the re-
moval OF blemishes has been greatly
neglected in the pressing struggle for
returns. But it is not at
all unworthy OF any farmer to have an
eye to the general appearance of his
land and buildings and fences.


If he has not taste to admire these
things himself land any one who has
not should be ashamed of it), he will
find it to his account, when he comes
to sell, to have looked after them. No
one in buying overlooks the general
aspect of the farm. This strikes the
eye at once, and so affects the price
Every one, too, should have regard
to the claims ofa good neighborhood.
and should feel it his duty to crafty
public taste by such improvements
and adornments as strike the eyes
even of the passers by.


But beneath the surface there is a
work to be done constantly, in bring
ing the soil and every part of the farm
up to higher degree of fertility from
year to year. 1t cannot all be done
at once, but it should all be done, and
it may be done by devoting special
and labor and expense, now
to this portion and now to thst, and
by degrees going through the whole.


This month of January is the very
month in which to begin the work of
improvements. The first part of the
process IS is to have a plan which shall
each through the year and into future
years, and just at this season every
armer has more or less leisure which
lie can proftably devote to general
of his farm, study of its
needs and capabilities, and to syste-
matte arrangement of the work that is
% be done when the season for more
active work shall open. Nothing is
on farms in general more
than system-a settled plan covering
the farm aud covering the year. Now
is the time to arrange it, and so to
begin the work of universal improve
ment.
Year: 1873

INC dELAcE HE OHn "hstCI


If nothing else serves to render 6


farmer contented with his occupation


this thing should-he is his own mas


ter. The farmer, almost alone Of the


whole army Of workingmen, can say
this any sort of propriety. The narct
OF Improvement, as 1t is called, has
during the past thirty years, reduced
almost every mechanic to the posi-
tion OF a servant, person who does
the bidding of his master.


But the farmer, be his acres few OF


many, Is his own master, and the di
rector of his own energies; more than
the mechanic, more than any profess
sional man, he is at liberty to crafty
his plans. He is allowed a wide choice
of occupations while being farmer,
and without any serious break can
change from stock-raising to grain
growing, from bee-keeping to vine
dressing; and then, if the change is
found not pleasant or not profitable,
can in his middle life go back TO the
one with which he began. So, too,
there is no business in which a Young
nan of energy can SO easily engage
IN his own account. Even if he rent
! farm he is vastly more independent
han the mechanic who works all his
ife for an employer. But with q
to be had almost for the
skiing, there is no need of this. He
Jan become the possessor of home
hat a patriarch might covet, and
.henceforth, be among the most inde-
pendent of men.
Year: 1873

THE SPRINd AT 7TH AND MONROE, The resi-
dents in the neighborhood OF 7th and Monroe
who have been accustomed to quench their
thirst at the spring in the same neighborhood,
look on with no little solicitude at the march Of
building improvements there, and arc somewhat
impatient at the tardiness of the Public Build
ines COMMITTEE of Council in the application Of
the means for the preservation of the spring Or
dered by that body. Mr.. Fouk, chairman Of
the committee, informs us that he is only wait
ing to acquire title to the property, and that
as soon as this is done he will advertise for pro-
posals to put the spring and its surroundings in
such condition that it shall be perpetuated.
Year: 1873

In the Spanish Cortcs the ladies are allowed to
sit on the door of the House by the side OF the
members. In the French Assembly, as In Con-
grcss, they are assigned seats in the galleries
There they monopolize the gala days, going out
Indifferent about the treatment their splendid
dresses receive in the crowd. On these field days
the wife of the great French statesman, President
Thcis, takes pride in seeing him arrayed in new
coat with his hair specially dressed, and cup OF
coffee before him. She is quite young look
ing woman. Ii is said the illustrious Adnlph
looks al her always before commoncinghis speech
after rising After all these ladies are wonderful
creatures.
Year: 1873

TIE police Of New York report that the hang
ing Of Foster has already had wholesome results
In the dlmInulioB Of crimes Of violence, and that
fewer arrest for crimes Of that class have been
made since the execution than In any correspond
ing period for long time before.
Year: 1873

two to three thousand dollars, he had
better by far stay in the East. No one
can afford to be in debt here. Two per
cent per month interest, the common
rate on the frontier, win ruin any man,
financially, in a short time.


Last winter was very severe, and the
fall wheat was badly winter killed, so
that the wheat crop will be very short
here this year. 1t has been cold and
wet during all the spring, and the season
is fully month later than usual The
farmers are still ploughing and planting
corn and will be until the latter part of
this month. This work is usually done
here in April.


Kansas is destined to be one of the
best fruit growing States in the Union:
Peach trees will grow from the stone in
three years large enough to bear pro-
fusely, and it takes apple trees but five
or six years, after taken from the 'nurs-
cry, to become large enough to produce
apples in abundance. The soil and
climate are wellI adapted to growing
grapes and small fruits. Notwithstand-
ing the ease with which fruit can be
raised here there is but little grown in
the State, owing to the chronic laZiness
OF the greater part OF the lnhaBltantS.
Wherever you find New Epglander,
however, upon a farm, you will see a
large peach and apple orchard and small
fruit trees in abundance. Fruit raising
is very profitable, and will be for a long
time yet What is not needed for home
consumption viii find a ready market in
Colorado and Nebraska. We have had
strawberries in abundance for the last
week, and as soon as they are gone,
cherries and raspberries win be ripe
The cherries are already beginning to
turn red and ripen. Wine is made here
to some extent, and, can and no doubt
will be largely produced as the country
grows older.


My communication is already too long
In my next | will speak of some of the
towns and the country about here.
Year: 1873

ACTION OF THE ASSEMBLY UPON THE CONFERENCE


COMMITTEES REPORT-TT Is ORDERED PRINTED


AN IMPORTANT ITEM STRICKEN oUT-sHARP


PRACTICE On TILE PART OF PAST CONFERENCE


COMMITTEES.


lFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE IRIBUSEl


ALBANY, May 15.-The report of the Con-
ference Committee on the annual Appropriation bill
up for in the Assembly this morning.
when long discussion arose the item apprOprating
$4,000 FOR the purchase Of COCO Remington breechoad'
Ing guns for the National Guard This item stricken
cut Of the bin when it rst before the Assembly
by large majority but reinstated by the Senate
and coneurTed in by the Conference Committee.


Mr. Fort assured that the Controller favored
IT, and said that sent for him aud told him per-
sonay. Notwithstanding this assurance and the fact
that the Adjutant General the oor Of the House
lobbying for the item during the discussion, 1t was
stricken out by Of 60 to 49, The report OF the Con-
ference Committee with the exception Of this item,
agreed TO-


Among the new items inserted by the Conference Com.
mtee the necessity created by the recent
decision Of the Of Appeals for legislation TO
compel the County OF Kings to raise its portion Of the
deficiency tax which 1t refused to raise last
The portion Of Kings County is $3.50 and it is required
70 levy that amount next Fall. Alderman Richardson
has drafted bill authorize the Supervisors OF Kings
County raise the money by the issue Of bonds payable
by fnstallments in the next eight years.


This same report OF the Conference COMMITTEE was
adopted by the Senate last Friday, but the Assembly
took the safer Of having the report printed and
placed in the hands Of members THIS particular Con-
ference Committee is undoubtedly entitled TO great con-
hdehce but the precedent set by the Senate highly
dangerous one Notwithstanding The report referring
rs II did 70 the engrossed bill by page and line, was
necessarily unintegble every one who did not have


hand In drawing II up, and furthermore it embodied
new matter OF great Importance. II ia 10 be
hoped that the Senate as well as the
Assembly, when in course Of time Con.
ference Committee reports the contents Of the Supply
b will have the report printed The fact is that the
reporfo Conference Committee an appropriation
bill is invariably very different bill from that which
passed either House. Frequently such reports have
been the instrumentaties OF perpetrating gigantic
swndles Finally, It may be added that the Appropr
alton b Supply bill. and bill leyying tax and making
appropriations for new work on the Canals, should
have been IA the bands Of the Governor six ago
According 70 present appearances, the Governor viii
no, get the supply bill until after the Legislature ha
dispersed
Year: 1873

action on the amendments by this Legislature II they
are not acted upon this year they cannot be submitted
TO the people until the general election Ia November
1876.


The Senate this evening continued It's deliberations on
the proposed amendments 10 the Constitution. Only two
amendments Of any consequence made to the work
OF the Commission. On notion Of James Wood the
Senate was made TO consist IS members tobe chosen
for four years from the eight Judicial Districts now
constituted Tho First District City Of NewYork. 10
eject SIX the Second District Long Island and Staten
Island fve and the other districts each four Article w.
Section T. was amended TO allow the Governor to
remove for cause the Secretary OF State Attorney Gen
eral and State Engineer BY this article, proposed
by the Commission, these officers 10 be appointed by
the Governor by and with consent OF the Senate.


Co Emmons Clark, Secretary 10 the Nev-York Health
Board, arrived here to-day with another supplemental
charter BILL IL seems that the new Health Board when


they 10 examine into their powers and duties dis
covered that all power to act Board Of Health had
been abolished by the charter aud that no new pro
vision had been made by which they were enabled TO
perform their functions. The bill brought up by Col
Clark simply restores the statutes under which the OLD
Year: 1873

! The straightout Democrats of Ohio
have Consummated their traditionA
stupidity by the nomination
of State ticket, which will never be


heard of again after the 18th of Octo-
Der next. 1t is safe to say that it will
be buried out of sight by majority so
large that the candidates will never real
ice they ran for any Offices 1t is equally
safe to say that no respectable person


will regret that fact. From the fact
that the party itself is doomed to
certain defeat, but little interest at


taches to the details Of the Convention,
further than they emphasize its folly.
Its nominations are of no consequence,
as they are merely pins set up to be
bowled over, with the certain knowl>
edge that the operation will prove an
auxilery to Republican success. The
platform, however, possesses some
interest as matter of curiosity, be-
cause it has not an original Democrat
ic plank in its construction. It sets
out frankly with this admission "The
Year: 1873

the woman IS the absolue property of
the man qpd the creature of his will.
To his thinking, she had no rights in
the case.


These are not pleasant pictures but
it is only in their concrete form that
the bad tendencies Of society arrest the
general mind. The one hope of di-
minishing crime is reform those false
modes of though which generate crime.
No one of these is more dangerous
tkan the notion Of mans ownership of
woman, and of woman accountability
to man. 1t brutalizes the lower classes
from end to end. It's consequences
touch unborn children and keep the
ranks of rogues and paupers full 1t
makes the men of the upper classes
tyrannous and selfish; the women, silly,
exacting, frivolous and weak, 1t leads
to crimes of scnsuality and violence, and
sets the code Of honor above the law of
the land.


Half the social questions that vex
our souls will be answered when the
word comedies that a woman is n normal,
responsible individual human being, as
man is normal, responsible, indl-
viduaI; that she must be the protector
of her own honor, the Judge of he T
own duty, the keeper of her own con-
science, answerabie to the law and to
Heaven. There will be lofty observ-
ance of marriage, a noble race Of child
rem, only when the man and woman
are intelligent equals and friends. And
in that day the world viii be ashamed to
remember through how many centuries
it ranged men into mock order OF
devotees and women into sentimental
priesthood -Beecher
Year: 1873

0IHE ILLUSTRATED PHYSIOLOGICAL
i JOURNAL, is in every respect First
Glass Magazine It's articles are of the highest
interest to all Itteaches what we and how
to make the most of ourselves. The informa-
tion it contains on the Laws of Life and Health
is well worth the price of the Magazine to every
Family. It is published at So 90 year. BY


special arrangement we are enabled to once
the PHRESoLoGIcAL JOURNAL as Premium Tor
a new subscribers to the OREGON REPUBLICAN,
or will furnish the PHRESoLoGICAL JOURNAL
and OREGON REPUBLICAN together for 81 90
We commend the JOURNAL to all who v ant


good magazine
Year: 1873

In a late report from the Sta
Lunatic Asylum Of Utica, New YORK
the following very remarkable case Va
stated


A woman patient of thirty year Of
age had been using morphine, by
hypodermic, for two years. Although
warned against the effect, she still
persisted in its use, taking two hypo-
dermic injections each day, until her
body was completely covered with sears
wherever her own hand could reach.
She became in sane in consequence and
was sent to the Asylum. While there
needles began coming to the surface f
her body and were extracted. sometimes
as many as five needles a day, and one
day twelve needles were pulled out of
her flesh. She lived some months, AMI
two hundred and eighty-nine needles
were extracted from hor flesh when she
died, aud after death Ii more were
taken out, making three hundred need
les IN all, two hundred and forty-six of
which were whole and dtly-four
were broken. How or when these
needles got into the flesh nobody knows.
but as the stomach was perfectly
healthy the theory is that they we're
introduced through the skin while she
was under the influence of morphine
dyrodermically administered.
Year: 1873

some first class stores in Duluth remove to
the Point; some newspaper will find its
way there at an early day; boarding houses,
hotels, markets, shops, schools, and
churches will multiply in number. Proper
ty will change hands rapidly, at and near
the Point, and business will permanently
prosper, as it always does when established
on solid foundation.


But in the undoubted prosperity Of the
upper part Of the southwestern shore of
Superior Bay, any one can read the ap.
preaching prosperity of all the shore, as
fast as the Northern Pacific extends its
line and builds its stations and docks. And
we have this advantage; we are not on a
narrow Point, but on a broad city site, as
near the lake as Rice's Point.