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Year: 1873

Take clean, water-tight cask and put
into it a half bushel of unslaked lime.
Cover it with boiling hot water six inches
deep, stir briskly, and wait for the lime
to slakc. To the lime and water add two
pounds Of a cheap salt called sulphate of
zlnc (white vitriol) and one pound of
common salt These ingredients cause
the whltewash to harden, and not crack
and fall of. To form beautiful cream
color, add three pounds of yellow ochre
A lump of ivory black will give pearl
or lead color Lamp black may be used
to produce a darker color if desired
Applied to pailings, plank fences, and
all out-buildings, they last much longer
and look better
Year: 1873

marry. And let your wife be cne who may
win to your side, or at least lend you the
ears of "a large and influential class of
church going people; but you must be very
careful until late in life, to be in no way
committed to any IN alters of belief. To be
d believer is good in a follower, but your
leader never believes.


in America plays anything but-poker.
And if you Will hand me pack Of my con-
gressional cards-from the escritOire, i'll
the stationery drawer, under my frank
| will show you the best tricks in the pa
triotic game But alas my dear son, you
need not get them. l forget. in the mo-
ment of brignt memory, that ! am too
weak-too weak. / did hope to show You
the committee shuttle" and the "appro-
priation draw" But, alas farewell !. Mans
life is but a shadow.


NV SOB, my breath fails mel am faint
/ can not say much more. But there is a
bright future before you. | shall leave
you means enough to put you above being
a cheap man. And l hope, since | have
pointed out to you the proper course, that
you will invest your talents and character
in the government SO that the investment
will pay-not the government. but you.


Now draw near 20 me, that / may place
my hand upon your head and confer upon
you fathers dying benison.


Bless you my son, bless you bequeath
to you my interest and my sOiicitude in
the best government that God ever made
Stand by the government, my. son stand
close to it-cling to it Especially 70 the
treasury of the country. Therein are the
source of peace and the sinews Of war.
Watch over these-guard them, and, If you
can, carry them home with you to love and
to cherish and, also


Here his jaws fell. his eyes set, and the
soul of an American patriot statesman
wended its way to the New Jerusalem,
where the ''streets are paved with gold
and corner lots are open to location
Year: 1873

FIGur WITH THE MoDocs-A fight took
place at the lava beds, near Goose Lake. on
the l1th instant between the Modocs and
four hundred regular au6 volunteer troops.
The fight lasted nearly all day, and resulted
in the repulse of the soldiers with loss of
eight or ten killed and some thirty odd woun-
ded A dense fog hung over the battle
ground all day, rendering it impossible to see
man over forty yards distant, and yet the
troops were kept in position all day, exposed
to q hot fire from the Indians posted among
the rocks The fight appears to have been
badly managed by the commanding officers.
and the ruse of reporting that Captain Jack
has been largely reinforced by Pit River
Indians is poor attempt to dodge the dis.
grace of bad defeat.
Year: 1873

To TRUSTEES. .-All School Warrants issued
by Trustees must be numbered in regular or
der no warrant should be drawn unless the
money is in Treasury to pay ii; the Treasnr-
er is required to pay warrants in the reg
ular order in which they are drawn; school
money should be used exclusively for the
school year in which it appropriated; debts
should not be contracted beyond the limit Of
the money appropriated for the School year
in which the obligations is incurred; the
school year ends on the last day of June
Trustees contracting Indebtedness beyond
the amount of School money appropriated
during the School year are individually liable
for the excess. Cut this out and paste it in
your hat if your memory is short. s
Year: 1873

The first time that 1 saw the late
Emperor Of the French was at Paris,
in the early Summer of 1868. He
was then in the very prime of his
years and mental powers. His sal
low complexion had not yet taken
on the sickly hue, the dull pallor,
which struck every one who saw
him only within recent years; he ap-
peared robust and active, and a
sense of prosperity and security
seemed to be betrayed in the express
sion of his rather heavy, impossible
face. Early on a June morning, 1
was wandering among the parterres
of the Tuileries gardens, observing
the antique statues which nestle
there among the flower beds, and
are unnoticed by those who take
but superficial glance at the scene.
Presently the gilded gates of that
part Of the garden which is inclosed
from the public were flung open by q
porter, and a light, springy carriage,


with a seat only large enough for
two persons, and drawn by pair of
sleek brown bays, ratified out over
the smoothly graveled carriage way.
A single gentleman was seated there
in; he held the reins, with experienc-
ed ease, in one gloyed hand, and a
long cigarette, which he puffed from
time. to time, in the other. 1t needed
but a glance to recognize the solitary
driver as Napoleon III. His hair
was then thick, and light brown,
with but rare sprinklings of gray;
his mustsche, which in later years
dropped, was waxed in long, brist-
ling points on either side; his face
was, on that morning, somewhat
ruddy; his air that of a man placidly
satisfied with himselfand the world.
As 1 have said, he was quite alone;


neither outrider preceded, courier


accompanied, nor cent gdrdes follow
ed him. He was so plainly attired


as to almost appear shabby. His
hat was rough, and his coat a dull
black, and the Legion of honor rib
bon, which was fastened in his but
ton-hole, looked worn and faded.
On inquiry of the porter, I found
that Napoleon rode out thus solitary
nearly every day; that, on this oc-
casion, he had gone for some pur-
pose to a place in the vicinity of
Vincennes, and did not expect to re-
turn for several hours. 1t appeared
to me that no more striking proof
could be had of the third Napol-
cons courage than this trihing Incl
dent of which 1 was an accidental


witness. Paris was then, as later,
bitterly hostile to his rule, and had
lately manifested its i'll will in more
than one way; and, of all Paris, the
eastern quarter and the faubourgs
beyond, contained at once the most
violent of the Partisan populace, and
that which vas the most inimical
to the Emperor's person. Yet he
rode straight among them, quite
alone, with perfect openness, and


smoking his cigarette with the same


cool nonchalance that he was accus-
toned to do in the famous little
cabinet noir" ofthe Tuileries. The


first Napoleon never ventured thus
! to expose his person to the assaults
Year: 1873

Wears apprised of the death yes
terday of William Day, who had
barber and hair shops on the east
side of Monumental Park. His dis
ease was smallpox, contracted from
handling hair which it appears had
been cut from the head of a woman
who died of that loathsome disease.
The first question that naturally
arises is, who was wicked enough to
cut this hair from the corpse and at
tempt to sell it to Mr.. DayS It is q
notorious fact that much Of the eglO
ry of woman" is scissored from liter
ally dead heads, but it had never oc-
Cured to us that any one would be
so criminally, so atrociously indif-
ferent to the public welfare as to
barter hair stolen from pestilential
heads. 1t seems as though some
one ought to be severely punished
for this act, too reprehensible for ad-
equate expression in words. The
ladies who cucumber their heads
with purchased hair, must owe an
incomprehensible allegiance to fash
ion, if they will risk their lives by
wearing the hirsute appendages mis-
called adornments taken from they
know not where or what.-ClerelGHd
Plaiadealer.
Year: 1873


There's mist on the meadow below; the herring


frogs chirp and cry;
It's chill when the sun is down, and the sod is NOT


yet dry;
The world is lonely plsce, it seems, and I don't


know why.
see, as lean on the fence, how woarily trudges


Dan,
With the feel Ofthe Spring in his bones, like weak


and elderly man;
I've had it many a time, but we must work when


we can.
But day after day to toll and ever from sun to sar
Though up to the seasons front ndnothing be left


undone,
Is ending at twelve Ike clock, and beginning


again at one.
The frogs make sorrowful noise. and vet it's the


time they mate;
There's something comes with the Spring, a light


ness or else weight;
There's something comes with the Spring, and it


seems to me it's fate.
It's the hankering after life that you have never


have learned 10 know;
IT'S the discomfort with life that is always thus


and 50;
It's the wondering what we are. and where we are


going to go.
My lire is lucky enough, fancy, to most mems


eyes,
For the more family grows, the oftener some one
And it's now run on SO long, it cOuldT be other


wise.
And sister Jane and myself we have learned to


claim and yield;
She rules in the house at will, and in the barn and


field;
So nigh upon thirty years-as if written and signed


and sealed.
| couldn't change if would; I've lost the how and
One day my time will be up, and Jane be the mis-
For single women are tough, and live down the


single men.
She kept me 50 to herself, she was always the


stronger hand,
And my lot showed well enough when looked


around in the land;
But Pm tired and sore at heart, and don't quite


understand
wonder how it would have been if I'd taken what


others need?
The plague, they say, of a wife, the care of


younger breed, -
I Edith Pleasanton now were near me as Edith


Reeda
suppose that son well grown were there in the


pace of Dan,
And felt myself in him, as I was when my work


began2
should feel no older, sure, and certainly more


man.
daughter, besides, in the house; nay let there be


two or threel
We never can overdo the luck that can never be,
md what has come to the most might also have
come to me.
we thought, when neighbOr's wife or his child
was carried away,
hat to have no loss was a gain; but now-I can
hardly say
Ie seems to possess them stn, under the ridges of
clay.
nd share and share in life is, somehow, differ
ent thing
rom property held by deed, and the riches that oft
take wing;
feel so close in the breast!-Ihink it must be the
Spring.
m drying up like brook when the woods have
been cleared around;
oure sure It must always run, you are used to the
sight and sound,
mt it shrinks till there is only left stony rut in
the ground.
here's nothing to do but to take the days as they
come and go,
nd not worry with thoughts that nobody likes to
shew,
or people seldom talk of the things they want to
know.
Year: 1873




DIR. LIBBEY-


DEAR SIR: should be ungrateful indeed
if 1 did not make some acknowledgment to
you, of the wonderful change You have work
eu in my physical condition during the past
three months treatment Ihave received from
you. My heart and lungs were in fearful
condition. was generally prostrated and
completely broken down. feel now as well
as nine-tenths of the women of my age. ! am
sure that your treatment was the cause of so
wonderful change. My friends and neigh
bors are loud in your praise. There are many
in this place and vicinity that are anxious to
avail themselves of your skill, and look for
ward with great anxiety to your next visit.
That you may live to do more of the good
work you have begun, is the constant prayer
Of Yours
Year: 1873

OPEN Your SHUTTERS. "A writer in
the Health and Home very properly
crilicscs the habit, which prevails so
universally in American, of shutting
up the house so as to exclude the sun
light This is appropriately called
tho national form OF suicide. People
can no more live without the sun than
can plants shut up in the cellar, and
every one knows how pnny, colorless
and sickly is the vegetation WHICH
never secs ibe ligh, Of The sun
Year: 1873

are horrible enough. A man is torn from
his family, allowed no time to settle his
business or say farewell word, and is on
the road almost before his wife has heard
of his arrest. If he lives to reach Siberia
he must settle on spot indicated, and
marry some female prisoner, and report
himself to the local authorities just so
often. Old ties are broken, new ones
formed, and any hope of pardon which he
may have foolishly entertained soon dies
out. "n1


Trials are mere farces in Russia, where
the prisoners are charged with an offence
against the government In the case of
noble, he might be allowed lawyer and
given some show to clear himself but the
common man would be granted no privi-
leges. / saw an instance of this during my
second week at Cronsdadt / had my at
tention attracted one day to a curious cane
which laboring man was carrying, and
took a sharper look at the man himself
than should otherwise have given. Half
an hour after he had passed me he came
back in charge Of a policeman, handcuffed
and weeping. pp~


"You have been speaking treason p'
heard the officer saying.


Il only said that the pay of the soldiers
was too small and our taxes too high !" re-
piled the man. 'e 'P'' '''


But he had said enough. He was taken
before some government official, ordered
to stand up, and was sent to prison for
long term. The statement of the police
official was not even supported by an out
slider, but it was all that was needed.


The poor Poles are the worse sufferers
They are singled out, and annoyed and
dogged, until they must quit the place or
give utterance to some word which can be
taken as pretext to send them to Siberia.
Mrs. Morrow had one in her employ for
short time. She was tidy active woman,
and knowing that her personal safety de-
pended upon her silence, she seldom spoke
of anything out side of her work. The
woman had never seen photograph, and
her astonishment was great when Mrs.
Morrow allowed her to inspect her album
one day. She had in her box a. sketch
portrait other grandfather, an officer of the
Polish army who had given the Russians
cause to hate him. The officer had been
dead twenty years, within three hours after
exhibiting the sketch the girl was arrested
on charge of entertaining reasonable senti-
ments. The sketch was seized and destroy
ed, and the girl disappeared from Crons-
dadt, either sent to prison or Siberia.


There is another matter which goes far
towards compelling the people to submit to
the iron rule of the emperor, and to have
a due regard of what they say In most
cases, any witness who came forward and
attempted to swear the prisoner free would
be looked upon as an accomplice, and the
sentence of the one would be the sentence
of the other 2s'afi ''"9is4


9 Mr.. Morrow was right in his belief that
the Cronsdadt officials would give me an
noyance, as I found out the first day
started out on walk. Continued next
week. tiF' Hl n'ihi sh'N'F
Year: 1873

Mr.. Joseph ROhrbach gives TO the Reading,
Pa, Eagle, the following account Of how q
BerkS county farmer fools with the milk
which he afterwa rds supplies 10 the public.
AS milk Is an article OF universal use, the
statement will doubtless prove interesting to
our readers -


At the request of David Stephan, a carpen-
ter, went on last Tuesday m>rning, between
6 and z O'Clock, to see mao who resides Ia
the first farm house on the Lancaster road in
Cumru township, about the building of eel
lar wall for small frame building he inten-
ded to erect. knocked at the door and was
told that the, farmer, / didn't know his name,
had just gone to town with milk, and won
derett why hadn't met him while crossing
the Lancaster bridge. While was on the
porch, q boy said to me, "There he Is now at
the barn." He had Just come out Of the door
with a large milk can, which he placed Ia the
wagon. When reached the barn / found the
farmer standing inside of the door which was
open. His back was turned toward the door,
and In front Of him was q medium sized tub,
about half full of cider liquid having the ap-
pearance Of rich cream. As the cider looking
liquid was added scum formed In the can,
v hich he skinned off, and threw back into
the tub and then put into the can another la
die full of liquid from the tub. This opera
ton was repeated again and again whilst l
was standing there. noticed several paper
boxes standing close TO the tub on the barn
floor, and have since thought that probably
they had contained some kind of powders
which he had thrown into the tub, as the IL
quid appeared to be in q boiling state as when
placed over fire, or an acid and alkali are
mixed together. / should judge that he was
increasing the quantity Of the milk he had
obtained from the COWS, or was making cream
from milk, or was giving the cream richer
appearances than it had when put into the
can. After o short conversation with the far
mer, who is q small man with light complex
ion, left the premises The last words said
were "YOu had better hurry up with your
milk or it will spoil before you get it to mar
ket."


We will state here that samples of skinned
milk, fresh milk and cream have been obtain
ed by Market Master Weiss from the farmer
referred to, and handed over to DIR. Zleglel
for chemical analysis. The analysis will b.
completed in q few days, when the result will
| be announced.
Year: 1873

LOOK TO Your FLUEs. 1t is well know that Q
prolific source OF fires is bad fines, and as the
season is now here when they will be put into
operation after long REST it is we'll TO see that
they are in proper working condition. Careless
uess on this point on the part OF h0usehOlders is
frequently the cause OF disastrous fires and il is
therefore impcFatVely necessary that the fiue be
carefully examined previous 10 kndling fire
hcupatb il
Year: 1873

We are apt, very apt, to overlook the
fact that land intended for grass should
receive more thorough culture than any
other, because for years while in grass,
it has not the advantage of the plough
and other implements to stir the soil,
but must rest and pack, and get more and
more in q condition to keep out the air,
and let in and pass off less readily the wa
ter. We should, therefore, thoroughly
prepare the soil. Plough as deep as may
be and sub-soil well; pulverize and enrich
the soil-enriching it will make it more
loose and mellow and keep it longer in
that condition, as well as increase the
Weld Such land will "catch " its seed,
and if plentifully applied, will be certain
under anything like favorable circum-
stances to form q thick set. A little top
dressing, aided by the aftermath, which
should never be fed close, will ensure good
crops-two cuttings year.


But let there be a cold, hard under-soil,
and the seed put in the usual way-little
Of it and on harsh reduced soil without
manure-what can be expected of it :
Just what we see; light crops, getting
lighter each year until it will hardly pay
for harvesting. Such land, when the
plough turns 1t down, will be found to be
hard. The sod amounts to but little,
whereas in properly treated land it will
yield from sixty to seventy loads of ma
nure per acre. A mellow seed bed, deeply
loosened soil well enriched, plenty of seed
sown as early as possible, are the points to
be secured in putting down grass land
PuToZ World
Year: 1873

DAYTON, OHIO, May 21.-The General
Conference of the United Brethren to-day
agreed to enlarge the Religious Telescope
one column to the page at as early day as
practicable, and that two editors be placed
upon it.
Year: 1873

There has never been an hour since the
New-York Crystal Palace was opened in Res
ervoir-square that this city has not felt the
impulse it received at that industrial exhibit
ton The difficulties which that enterprise
encountered may yet be fresh in the minds Of
some of our readers. There were croakers
without number who darkened the air with
dismal predictions of its failure. If
we recollect Alright, some of its strongest
supporters gave signs Of dependency at what
seemed a critical period in the history of the
undertaking. Even up to the very day of its
opening, the success of the exhibition was
regarded by its best friends as doubtful
Now, looking back upon the extraordinary
impulse which the Crystal Palace gave to our
city's prosperity, such doubts seem almost in
credible. We can see now that if every dollar
of the original investment had been lost, our
community would yet have been the gamer
by the Exhibition. 1t was not only that
visitors crowded in from a distance. 1t was
not merely that a marvellous display Of at
tractive goods was spread beneath few acres
of glass 1t was not simply that we had
bigger and better "fair" than ever be-
fore. 1t was that New-YOrk for the first
time in its history took rank among
the great cities of the world. Then
for the first did Americans discover that those
who can visit European capitals have no
monopoly of seeing mans finest handiwork.
The choicest products of foreign skill were
then and there placed beside our own. We
saw at once our deficiencies and our superiOri
ties by comparing our work with that of
other nations. Our citizens learned, and
many of them with astonishment, what
money is capable of buying. The change
which came over this city at that time was
naturally noticed more abroad than at home.
1t was almost as great as that between the
DAYS of Nieuw-Amsterdam and New-York.
That which had hitherto been only regarded
as a mart of trade, suddenly became me-
tropolis of refinement. Before that time, in
Europe, anything was good enough to send
"to America" Since then, New-York has ac-
quired a worldwide reputation as the market
for the choicest goods.


1t is therefore with pleasure that we hail what
seems good prospect for the foundation of
permanent Worlds Fair " in this city. The
names of the gentlemen who are at the head
of the enterprise known as the Industrial Ex-
hlbition Company, ought to be guarantee of
its success. We hail 1t because we know that
with the New-York Industrial Exposition of
1876 there will come to us, along with display
of industrial products more vast and magnificent
than any this scountry-probablyt than the world
has ever seen an impulse that shall carry our
city to higher position than il has yet occupied.
In material advancement, in mere accumula-
ton of wealth. great as. has been our recent
progress, this will certainly be the occasion of
new development as rapid as that of 1854