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Year: 1875

Whatever you try to do in life,
try with all your heart to do well;
whatever you devote yourself to.
devote yourself completely; in
great aims and small be thorough
" in earnest Never believe it
possible that any natural or inn
proved ability can claim immunity
from the companionship of the
steady, plain, hard working quail
ties, and hope to gain it's end.
There is no such thing as such
fulfillment on this earth. Some
happy talent and some fortunate
opportunity may from the two sides
of the ladder on which some men
mount, but the rounds of that lad
der must be made of stuff to stand
wear and tear; and there is no SUBJ
stitute for thorough going. ardent
and sincere earnestness. Never
put one hand to anything on which
you cannot throw your whole self,
never affect depreciation of your
work, whatever it is- These you
will find to be golden rules
Year: 1875

Don't crowd, the world is large enough
For you as well as me;
The doors of all are open wide
The realm of thought is free.
In all earth's places you are right
To chase the best you can
Provided that you do not try
To crowd some other man.
Don't crowd the good from out your heart
By fostering all that's bad.
But give to every virtue ROOM
The best that may be had;
To each days record such one
That you may well be proud;
Give each his right-give each his room,
And never try to crowd.


CHARLES DICKENS
Year: 1875

The Upton Advance. requests, as a
special favor, belief in its story of a
dog taken to Kansas last fall which
recently footed it all the way back to
that county, making the trip in six
weeks. ezg
Year: 1875

The next House of Representatives
will be practically under the control
of ex-rebels, The total number of
this class in the next Congress is said
to be eighty-fre of whom five will be
in the Senate and eighty in the House.
That is to say, out Of 292 members of
the next House, there will be eighty
who either served in the rebel army
or held civil positions under the Con-
federate government. The total
Democratic strength in the next
House, as it now stands, with seven
teen members to be elected in the
spring, is l61: SO that the ex-rebel
members constitute just about one
half of the Democratic strength. No
person at all acquainted with the po.
litical history of the country and with
the aggressive character of Southern
men can doubt that this element will
control the Democratic party and
shape the legislation Of the next
House As all appropriation bills
and bills for raising revenue must
originate in the House of Represen-
tatives, these men will hold the purse
strings and control the finances of the
goyernment-Ind.J Journal


The Smithsonian Institution has
received an ocean telegram announc-
ing the discovery of new planet at
Berlin, in right ascension twenty
three degrees; declination eighteen
degrees twenty-slx minutes north,
twelfth magnitude.
Year: 1875

TvE SLANG oETHE STocK EXCHANGE.
Gamblers Of every grade, says a con-
temporary, have their slang terms to
convey to the initiated just what they
mean; ard however blind it may be TO
the uninitiated, il is perfectly intelliyi-
bic to those possessed of the high civ
ilization @ necessary TO manipulate
stocks" Four different forms Of con-
tracts are known under the general
term Of stock privileges. The put"
and cali are single privileges. 4
put" is 4 contract giving the holder
The right Of delivering certain amount
Of stock within definite time 1T stiru-
lated price A "calr' is exactly the
reverse Of q put" being contract
giving the holder the right of calling Tor
the stock instead of delivering it. a
double privilege is n put" and cali
on the same stock in one contract
When double privilege is drawn at
the market price of the stock, it is
called ''straddle," and costs from two
and half to five per cent premium
Bat when drawn 1T a distance Of from
ore to two and "a half per cent above
and below the market price, il is called
spread" for which fixed premium
of two per cert is paid. The distance
from the market at which "spread" is
drawn depends on the class of stock
and the activity Of the market
Year: 1875

The WHEAT HARVEST in this county gen
orally commenced last week. Reports ART
very unfavorable as to the yield. Field'
which were thought to be tolerably good
prove to be very inferior, the wheat stand
ing very thin on the ground, and many Of
the heads being poorly filled. The wei
weather has caused rust to some extent
which will seriously injure both the grain
and straw.


Instead of half a crop, which many
thought might be realized in this county, the
general opinion now is that there will moi
be third of an average yield.
Year: 1875

The editor of the Bryan Press has
this personal testimony:


1t was our good fortune to serve
under his immediate command, and
we can bear witness both to his gal
lantry in the field and to his kind
ness and consideration for the vel
fare of his men, Probably no officer
in the service was more universally
loved and admired than he. He
was elected to Congress during Sher-
idan's famous Shenandoah campaign,
but did not abandon the field until
the last rebel had laid down his arms.
Year: 1875

WHATS the difference between man and dog
One wears shirt and the other pants.


What word is always pronounced wrong DY the
hest of scholars7 Wrong.


What man is allowed to sit before the Queen
with his hat ont Her coachman.


When is black dog not black dog? When
he's a greyhound.
from mouth to mouth.


Why was Paul like an old horse? Because he
loved Timothy.


What is the longest word in the Engiisn IAN
guareq SmiIes-because there is mile between
the FIRST and last letters.
Year: 1875

port them. Give us only yoasr best
man, for every place on the ticket.
Then we may confidently hope for
such rout of the rebel hosts and
their allies as shall settle the ques-
ton for our generation, whether we
shall have an indivisible Union, or a
mere confederacy of petty sovereign
ties, to be broken and ended by any
disafected member.
Year: 1875

They run the Geghan law with q
vengeance on Blackwell's Island,
near New York city, At the peni-
tentiary is a large chapel which a
priest has appropriated, and although
the chapel was built by public taxes,
he will not let any Protestant preach
er come near, and the Democratic
rulers stand by him.
Year: 1875

When your time is out, don't wait till you have q
chance to come to town, or send the money by a
neighbor but enclose it in letter at and hand
it to your P. NJ. We CiU be responsible il the money
is lost, from any post-o6fcc in this county.


Subscribers outside of the county should send
money orders, when practicable, where the amount
is 81 more. An order costs but 10 cents, which
the subscriber may deduct from the amount sent.
Year: 1875

DEPLoRABLE ACcIDENT.-One day
last week, Atherton Bynum fine lad
OF some fifteen years Of age, son of
Maj. Tom Bynum, of Baton Rouge,
lost his life while out hunting near The
residence of his father Oh the Bayon
Sara road. The particulars Of his
death are not known beyond the fact
that he was found wounded on the
ground by wood chopper who heard
the explosion of the gun, the unfor-
tunate youth being unable to explain
the cause Of the accident. OF course
the only explanation is that by some
accident the gun went off prematurely
and he received it's contents in his
body which speedily resulted in death.
Atherton was q fine lad with every
promise of future greatness. having
displayed energy and knowledge far
beyond his years. Our sympathy is
extended to his bereayed parents in
their aff1iction.-Sugar Planter.
Year: 1875

EDITOR OF THE HERALD B Y persistent
patriotic appeals to the citizens of Whining
tor, you seem at last to have aroused the
sleeping spirit of '76; and your suggestion
Of appropriately ushering in the great Cen
tennial year, seems to have struck the right
chord. general illumination of our houses
and public buildings, this evening, is desired
by every one, and 1t is to be hoped that, the
proper spirit being aroused, our citizens and
business men will show more interest in the
Centennial Exhibition. Let the enthusiasm
be kept up, and the opening Of The Exhibi-
tion will find suitable Stase building on
the ground appropriated to Delaware. The
building is bound to be erected; nothing is
more certain. Long before the opening of
the Exhibition, every one will be wild to
have our State properly represented. Will
it do for the first influx eff visitors to find
the headquarters of State, the borders of
which are only twenty miles from the
grounds, in an unfinished condition? Think
Of this, citizens and Delawareans. 1t won't
hurt you to think You will then be sure
to act. Let every one put his shoulder to
the wheel in time, and the opening of the
Exhibition will then see Delaware's build
1ng, made from her native woods, a fit testi-
monial from one of the original thirteen
States. ANER1Cus.
Year: 1875

EDITOR MoRNANa HERALD We read
in the Philadelphia Inquirer of yesterday
that there was scheme on foot among the
Democrats to cut down the army and navy
one-half. Whether this be true or no, thers
10 no doubt that both branches Of the ssf
vice need purging, and all who are me- ~
pensioners, Eve mean all who never realI
did any service) should be removed, and if
necessary, their places filled with good
sound men. There have been instances
coming under our own notice, where pay
had been drawn for years without any ser.
vice rendered, and for ought we know the
same thing is continued up to this time.
Let those in favor of retrenchment, give
this their attention, as it is matter which
REQUIRES looking into. REFORM.
Year: 1875

frugal fare served three times daily. For


breakfast we begin with mug of coffee,


hot and sweetened, but not strong enough


to be injurious, and, by the way the cows


in this neighborhood are quite partial


and can't be induced to, give milk
for steerage passengers. A liberal
supply of bread and butter makes up
what is sometimes known abroad as a
plain breakfast Oatmeal porrldge, with


black molasses, in addition to the above,
may be expected for breakfast once or
twice during the voyage A good appe-
tite will be needed for dinner; you will
then be first treated to soup which looks
very much like good strong dish-water,
but it tastes better than it looks. Soon the
steward comes around with tin pail full
of boiled potatoes, some Of them about
the size of hens egg and some of them
not so large. They are supposed to have
been rinsed, but not washed or pared be-
fore cooking, and, if little meal were
added to the mixture, would be very like
what New England farmers use to fatten
hogs. After this boiled meat is brought
around, not of the choicest cuts, to be sure,
but an abundance, such as it is, is given.
Dessert will be dispensed with, save on
Sunday. whom kind of plum "a dIi.s 10
added. For supper, about pint of tea,
served the same as coffee, and more bread
and butter The only change we ever
knew in the above bill of fare is that of
pea-soup and boiled salt fish, on Fridays,
in place of the usual dinner-Boston
TLobe
Year: 1875

INSTEAD of small state-rooms there are
larger apartments, accommodating from
twenty to forty individuals. The berths
are arranged in two tiers and are con-
structed otherwise in very much the same
way as are the sleeping apartments OF a re-
spectacle and well ordered pig pen. The
unmarried men are sent to room by
themselves and the married couples and
the younger children to another, and the
unmarried women still another. The
room into which these others all open and
to which all classes have access is reached
by two flights of stairs from the main
deck. This place serves as dininghall
and cabin, only there are no red velvet
cushions lying about. There is no carpet
on the floor and no rack full of glasses
and decanters to be rattling overhead.
The tables are quite in keeping with the
Year: 1875

INDUSTRY is but poorly encouraged in
Trenton, NJ A thief stole twenty-five
ladies' watch chains there in one night,
and daylight revealed to him the fact that
every one of them came from dollar
store
Year: 1875

The prominent lawyers who will have Offices
in the Equitable Building have suggested to the Society
the proprety OF apart hr aud
in central part OF their great building to be well fur
nshed with book casos, which shall be for common
library for the exclusive OF tho tenants Each law
var in the building to be invited loan to tho library
such books az he may be willing to place there. The
room to be furnished. cared for, and warmed by the
Company. the only expense to the tenant to be small
ANIMAL contribution for the purpose of purchasing
books which, added to those loaned ct the start would
in short time form most valuable law library With
such a guild established exclusively for the use OF
tenants, the Equitable would become most desnaoe
nco for awyers and would be superior to the Temple
in London The Equitable is said TO be seriously cen
s,derin1 the proposition.
Year: 1875

The CHESTER COUNTY WHEAT CRop. p.-Notwith.
standing the extreme cold weather Of last win
Ter, there are at present the brightest prospects
for an abundant crop this year. During the
pleasant weather of last week it commenced
growing, and some fields are now quite green
and in An excellent condition.
Year: 1875

We had hoped to see . simplifcation
of the ritual, the reduction of the dis
pensation fee to SIS and membership fee
to So, the abolition of all degrees beyond
the fourth, and making eligible to any po-
sition in the Grange all fourth degree
members. We yet hope to see these re-
forms, without special degrees or privi-
leges being conferred upon any member
who happens to he selected for master.
Throughout thew est the membership does
not run SO much to ritualism as to busi.
ness. The perpetuity of the Order does
not depend upon increasing the cere-
monies and degrees, but upon practically
demonstrating the utility Of the organi.
zation by developing its basiness feature.
its educational and social claims. We
believe the imperative duty of those who
are called upon to fill the Offices Of the
Grange. whether State or subordinate, to
address themselves more thoroughly than
heretofore to the practical work for
which the organization was created.


Prairie Farmer.]


The next year will see great deal of
plain talk to members of the Order of
Patrons Of Husbandry by those who
have long been members, and who have
its interests as much at heart as any
member can have them. There is no
question about this. The Order
is now strong enough to
bear honest, just and well.
meant criticism, and it is bound to get it.
It will not do for our friends Of the
Grange to be over-sensitive or intolerant
by being SO they show that the true
principles and teachings of the ritual are
ignored by them, or at least not under
stood and practiced.


Resolutions of Capital Grange, Topeka, Kan.]


Any fourth degree member should be
eligible to any position in the Order.


All privileges and rights now belonging
to masters and past.masters should be
abolished.


All work in the subordinate oranges
should be done in the first degree.
The laws and ritual should be modified
SO as to give less prominence to the ccre.
monial part OF the work and more to the
instructive business. protective and socia1
part.
Year: 1875

lars for which he or she may be insured, bae
no person shall be allowed to vote by proxy 6
such election excepting woman. -~- =


Sec. IL. 1t shall be the duty of the secre-
tary Of every company as Aforesaid to prepaRe
Statement showing the condition Of euch
company on the day preceding their annual
amount insured, the number Of policies issued.
and to whom, and the amount insured by eao6
policy, and all other matters pertaining TO the
interest of such company, which statemeuE
shall be fled in the office Of the town clerk, IN
which said company may be located, on a b.
fore the fifteenth day of January iu each year.
and which statement shall also b read 70 the
members Of SAID company at their annual
meeting.


Sec I3. Amy member of such company
may withdraw therefrom at any time, by
giving notice in writing to the president, Or n
his absence, to the secretary thereof, and pay
ing his share of all claims then existing againa
said company, and the directors, or maj ority
there OF, shall have power to annul any policy
BY giving notice in writing to that effect to the
holder thereof And it shall also be the duty
OF the secretary, whenever any member q
such company shall withdraw from his mem.
bership therein, to notify every other member
thereof OF such Withdrawal, and in default q
such notice no claim by the company upon any
member for assessment shall be binding upoo
such member.


Sec. ID. Non-residents of airy town in thia
State owning property therein may become
members OF any company founded under this
act, and shall be entitled 10 all rights and priv
ileges appertaining thereto, except that il
shall not be lawful for such NONRESIDENT to
become director of said company, unless he
he at the time of such membership resident
of q town adjoining the town or towns in
which said company has been formed under
the provisions Of this act.


SEC. IL. The company so formed may ador
such BY laws for its regulations as are not in
consistent with the provisions OF this act, and
may therein prescribe the compensation Of its
officers.


Sec. Is. No company formed under this aet
shall continue for longer term than Thirty
years.


Stcl7. Any company organizing under
the foregoing provisions to do o farm business
only may do such business by complying with
the provisions of title of the general recipro-
cal insurance laws of this State, SO far AZ the
same are applicable, bu, shall be exempt from
complying with sec. %, title 3, of the came.


Sec 49, This act shall take effect and b. in
torce from and after its passage and publica-
ti0n.


Approved March 9. 1876.
Year: 1875

We would add that give the guarantee with our
Machines have always done heretofore: SATISFACTORY
WORK OR NO Pay And we will give any responsible farmer
privilege testing machines field with any other
he only agreeing to keep and for the likes best
address


JOHN RHODES & SON, GENERAL AGENTS,


HASTINGS. MINNESOTA.
Year: 1875

A letter from Slohold, Pa, thus de
scribes what befell three young women
who went a-berrying: They were obliged
to cross the pond to reach the woods
Before entering the boat they saw some
thing in the distance swimming in the
water. Thinking it was dog, they paid
no further attention to it, but started on
their way across the pond, which is
about two miles wide. After rowing foi
several hundred yards, the girl who was
plotting the boat saw that what they first
thought to be a dog swimming in the
water was buck, which was coming di-
rectly toward them. Having u clumsy
pair OF oars, it was some time before the
boat could be turned, and then the deer
had reached to within a few yards OF
them. The girls became greatly terri
fed, for the deer was fast gaining on
them, and from the way it snorted and
plunged, they were satisfied it meant
mischief. While the one rowed with all
her might the other two padded, thus
somewhat increasing their speed; but
the deer was slowly gaining on them,
and knowing they could not reach the
shore before being overtalIen, they
ceased rowing to prepare for the inevi-
table battle. When the deer, snorting
and plunging, had reached TO within a
few feet of the boat, it stopped for a
moment. Then it made sudden plunge,
and as its head struck the side OF the
boat the brave girls brought down their
raised paddles upon it with such force
as TO drive ii under water. The girls
again raised their only weapons, and as
the head rose to the surface they again
brought their paddles to bear upon it
with the same result.


When the deer again raised from the
water it seemed to realize that this was
to be the death struggle, and its eyes
cleaned like balls of fire. 1t made a
lunge, and threw its forefeet over the
side of the boat near the oar locks.
This nearly capsized the clumsy craft,
and threw Maggie Jordan, the Oldest of
the three, into the water; but as she fell
she caught the edge of the boat, and
was hauled in by one of her companions.
Then the heroine at the oars, as she felt
the animals breath in her face, raised a
paddle and struck for her life, and as
the blow fell across the deer's head the
blood started from its nostrils, and it
sank back helpless and seemingly dead,
but really only stunned. The girls then
started for the shore, leaving the deer
struggling between life and death in the
water.


Reaching the shore, one of the girls
ran to small log cabin, an eighth of a
mile distant, in which lived n family by
the name of Berger, and told what had
occurred. Mr.. Berger seized his rifle
and vert to the pond, where he found
the wounded deer yet struggling in the
water few rods from the shore. He
rowed out to it, and seizing it by the
antlers, cut it's throat, and then towed its
body to the shore. The deer was the
largest ever killed in the neighborhood,
weighing 227 pounds.
Year: 1875

The Norristown (Pa. Herald has this
A subscriber in the country sends us (,
graphic account of thrilling and ludi-
crous incident that happened in his
neighborhood last week. A fashionable
city girl came ont to visit his sisters.
She wore jaunty hat, coquettish spit
curl, and the pull-backedest sort of a
pull-back dress. On Thursday his two
sisters and the city girl meandered out
the shady lane to drink the beauties Of
the scenery and talk about the beaux.


Presently a loud believing was heard,
and mad bull was seen paving the dirt
at the other end of the lane, and coming
toward the ladies. The country girls,
admonishipg their friend TO run


quick" went over four-rail fence into
an adjoining field with the agility, If not
the grace, of circus actor. The city
damsel attempted to "run quick" but
it WAS a mournful failure. She was only
five yards from the fence, but the longest
step she could achieve was not over six
inches, and her frantic efforts to es-
cape the impending danger We're painful
to witness. The bull was coming nearer
and nearer, with mischief in his eye, and
his tail switching ominously. For a
minute or two the situation was such a.
would have filed the soul of n newspaper
reporter with Joy. But the fashionably-
dressed young lady proved equal to the
emergency. She just laid down and
rolled to the fence. and by an overwhelm-
ing effort, "busted" the pin-back ar
rangement, and went over the fence re-
gardless of etiquette, or anything else,
Year: 1875

and the bull passed on with sample of
her dress on his horns, muttering all the
while about the rainy spell, or orsomething
that way. That city girl says the next
time she visits the country she will wear
skirts expansive enough to permit her to
step over hay wagon, should necessity
or a cross bull require it.