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Year: 1873

DELEGATED RIGHTS. BY j. B. Johnson
A wise legislator prefers those plans OF legisla-
ton which seek to harmoDige the difference In
the various branches of human industry, rather
than those which have for their object the cre-
alton of class distinctions, and which, by i'm
piled or expressed intentions, give to one trade
or branch of commerce, advantages over another.
He finds nothing so conducive to this feeling,
or 80 adequate to avoid answers to invitations
to hasty and inconsiderate action, as slow and
careful consideration of measures presented for
his acceptance or rejection; for he is always ar-
preheusive that hasty legislation not only be-
gets dissatisfaction, but opens the way to ati


tudinarian legislative conduct which ne knows,
is more easily insugurated, than arrested after
it is once started. He is aware too, that from
class legislation, springs all the evil OF delbera-
tive bodies; and that it allures the mind OF the
legislator from the common welfare OF bis con-
stituents, and entices him to use bis vote ln be-
half Of the interest OF selhsh rev. Henee'
however obscure aw-making assembly may
be, and however short it may be to gratlty an
honest mans most distant ambition, or Halter
his remotest vanity, his duty is still! that OF an
agent or trustee, acting as the sworn represen-
tative of the interest of the whole people 10
whose good such IN assembly was originated,
and not the mere automaton to be swayed by
the specious promises ct any individual or lndl-
viduals that, il certain franchises are granted him
or them great gain will result to the body polltc


and upon such superficial iDducement 60 into
ecstasy over mere promise, or be carried away
By representations based upon the flatus of =
conjecture Such being his understanding. Of
the province of representative, he never falls
to deem it bis positive dnty to be careful not to
vote on any measure without FIRST making an
intelligent examination of it in its every view,


and to be very charry not to vote tor those sub
jects which are Intended to benefit special
class without good commensurate with the vel


lare Of every class whose interest is alike en-
titled to the conservatism Of his vote, and he


{aoes not give his support to any question that


mas not an equal bearing on every variety OF the
subjects to which it appertains, nor yields bis
assent to legislation beyond what is common
to the duty Of the position which he holds, and
has not the sympathy of the kindred class or
variety of the subjects to which it relates.
Therefore, from his stand point, he readily ap-
precates the evil of class, or special legislation


as ever likely to inaucurate policy which is
not only apt to prove unwise as custom and
detrimental as system, but injurious in the
extreme as practice, and as productive of a
chain Of evils too disastrous in their commercial
and social influence, to be even medtated in
view OF the clamor With which each business or
Official position, would demand protection 10 the
form OF an adroit act, cunningly vorded to Coz
ceai It's personal or selfish designs. j"
Year: 1873

l was talking the other day with m. v friend Budlong. whom met in New York after two or three years of separation, about recent inventions. When find any thing worth reading in the newspapers, I cut it out and carry it in my pocket-book for few days, to read to all my friends and then pnt it in scrap book for all future generations. Much good may it do them

 Well, 1 drew Budlong's attention to the last cutting, and began to read it to him. It was Washington despatch of the day before, with display head" somewhat thus :-

 TALKING MACHINE
Year: 1873

ihree persons out of four would rush
right up to the burning individual, and
begin TO paw their hands without any de-
Unite aim. 1t is useless to tell the victim
to do this or that or call for water. In
fact, it is generally best not to say a word,
but seize blanket from the bed, or any
woolen fabric--if none is at hand. take any
WOODEN material-hold the corners as far
apart rs you can, stretch them out higher
than Your head, and running boldly to the
person. make motion of clasping in the
arms, mostly about the shoulder. This
instantly smothers the fire and saves the
faec. The next instant throw the person
on the floor. This is an additional safety
to the face and breath, and any remnant
OF flame can be put out more leisurely.
he ncNt instant immerse the burnt part
in cold water. and all pain will cease with
the rapility of lightning. Next get some
common flour. remove from the water,
and cover the burnt parts with an inch in
thickness of flour; If possible, put the
patient to bed. and do all that is possible
to soothe until the physician arrives. Let
the flour remain until it falls off itself,
when beautiful new skin can be found.
Unless the burns are deep. no other appli-
cations are needed. The dry flour for
burns is the most admirable remedy ever
proposed and the information ought to be
impaired to all. The principle of this
action is, like the water. it causes instant
relief from pain by Totally excluding all
he air from the injured parts Scientific


.4Merir0t.
Year: 1873

THE OUTLOOK MORE CHEERING


In the remarks we have made in this


column, from time to time, touching the


fever prospect, we have endeavored to


confne ourselves strictly to the facts as


they were reported to US at the end OF


each twenty-four hours. Grouping these


facts together, we have had to paint


manv gloomy pictures, seldom a
cheering ore. Yesterday what we


had 20 sly was tinged with a melan-
chaiy rs somber as the bleak, inhospit-
abe and wintry sky. Every one likely
TO know anything of the fever and fever


patients that our reporters met with on


saturday, was blue. The weather had


taken another turn, it became soft and
warm again, and the sky was overcast


with clouds that broke late at night in
torrents Of rain, and yesterday poured
necessarily. This, coupled with the still
large mortality list, and the still large
number Of new cases and rtlapSes, took
away what hope We had, and We said
80. The reports of the Howards and of
the various other relief bodies, was any
thing but cheering, and the physicians

shook their heads in doubt, some Of the
experienced nurses expressing fears that
the disease would take a fresh start. But,
as We have said before, all signs
fail, and there is nothing certain
but death. The murky weather
has BOT "aided and abettedn the
lever. On the contrary, the reports of
yesterday combine to give us more heart
aud hope than ever. There is a very
great reduction in the number of cases
under treatment, and a great decrease
in the number of new cases. This,
with the changeto cold weather, which,
as we write latter midnight promises
very favorsbly, and We think
we are over the apex of the
arch, and will hereafte, move
rapidly down to the other side. The
deaths of yesterday are no reduction on
those Of the day before. They are the
same in the total, but those by yellow
fever were as twenty-five to
iwenty-four on Saturday. This, of it.


SELF would not be encouraging,
but coupled with the other facts
enumerated, we think we can draw q
free breath, take fresh courage and pre-
pare to give the yellow monster the
cup de grace. There is still much
nursing to be done, still a great
deal Of afliiction to relieve, still
many hungry and naked thou
sands to feed and clothe. There
is yet a great deal of labor before our
relief committees, our physicians, our
nurses and our board OF health. If it Is
done as well as that Of the past six /
weeks We may by next Sabbath be able /
TO report such a decrease in the mortali-


y list as viii encourage our
sb~eutees TO couEt the days when they
can return TO their homes and begin /
again the labors Of life. As yet, they


must not think of it. The return of any
number Of our citizens at this time .
would only be as so much fuel for the
flame, and might eventuate in re-
turn Of the epidemic with force and
energy more fatal than We have yet |
had 10 chronicle. For those at home
there is yet much hard work and many /
anxious moments; for those abroad there
Is patient waiting for the end.
Year: 1873

Mr., Beecher, in q sermon, lately re-
ferred as follows to spiritualism:


1t is generally admitted that from
the very beginning Of things this
world has been open to the influence
of spirits. We can readily believe
that there is a spiritual influence that
we can neither understand or appre.
eiate. This Is certainly the doetrine
of the New Testament. 1t was taught
both by the Savior and the Apostles,
that both divine and demoniac inf1n-
enees did roll in upon the human soul;
and 1 aver that there is nothing men
should so much desire-and do 50
much need-as those divine influences
which the Bible teaches have been
waited over into this sphere. That
fantastic and false notions have arisen
during all ages concerning this spirit
ual doctrine does not prove its fallacy
by any means. How do men account
for the fact that out Of the lowest saw
age animal condition of man there
has come this conception of free
spirit and consequent spiritual illam-
ination? This idea was with the race
of man as far back as the beginning,
and their vague feeling out after light
showed then as now their need Of It.
OF course, mere seeking does not
prove the existence of an object. but
1t shows a need which it is not part
of Gods economy to allow. Our
Savior asserts the reality of these spir-
itual influences, and declares it Is not
possible for men to understand them.
It is impossible to interpret a higher
T. . Ion hama f1fa
great truth cannot be unfolded in de-
tail as if it were an earthly truth.


Those living in the present have
not so much need of this spiritual
help; but for that great part Of the
race who live in daily Consciousness
of imperfectiOn, who struggle on in
darkness and doubt knowing not how
tn comfort themselves, it Is the one
thing needful. 1t ia the office Of the
Divine Spirit to inspire and comfort
men. There are times when we are
all Of US conscious Of being influenced
| by a spirit outside of ourselves, and
although it is true that this influence
transcends our understanding, we are
nevertheless able 10 prepare ourselves
for its reception oy making ourselves
susceptible to spirit presence. II you
have q sense of personal communion
with the spirit world, believe that
God has found you. Do we not long
to separate ourselves from mere PHYS
ieal consciousness? u? Can any body en-
dure the thought of going down to
the grave to Rnnihilation? Is there
anything we desire more than light
to shine upon the road that leads to
the great beyond?
Year: 1873

One does feel sometimes, if one
writes, that there is nothing left in
the world to be original about; that
pretty much everything has been
said, sung, described. The cycioal
theory is a dreadful nightmare. And
to think of LiVingstone's finding in
the very heart Of Africa just the same
sort of bird trap that civilized Amer
lean boys catch chippies with! civ
en-, a human being-and everything
is included. You get your original
idea down to its simplest statement,
and there is nothing left but some
proyerb. familiar as household words.
bne doesn't know whether to be flat
tered or annoyed; but If one does
strike off something really original
something that one may be morally,
If not statistically, certainly cannot
be found in the aneients-he Is sure
to read 1t next day in the Presidents
inaugural or George EllioPs latest
novel. These columns of cnoice ex-
tracts from the best writers, new and
old, which are getting to be more and
more in vogue in Journalism, are
more harassing than any special class
of reading to a person who imagines
that he has a patent on any one idea,
or group of ideas. But doubtless one
should congratulate ones self that the
seed of truth is sure to struggle to the
LIGHT through every soil that deep
drainage does no. necessarily help
nor do superpb0sphates hinder it.
This ia the view am inclined to take,
If Shakespeare happens to say the
same thing that l do, let me not be
ignobly Jealous. Rather, let the race
receive my congratulations.-Scri6'
s1eT.is
Year: 1873

We find the following afoat among
the items of the agricultural press:


1.-THE milk that will make one
pound of butter win make two pounds
Of cheese and the butter Is worth
twice as much per pound as the
cheese. Then the buttermilk Is worth
twice as much for feeding hogs or
calves as the whey, leaving q small
balance in favor of making butter.


This, as a general rule, is far from
true, and is calculated to give false
idea. 1t might be true in particular
case. Take the milk Of the Ayrshire
or Short-h horn, twenty or twenty-five
pounds Of which will make pound
Of butter, and this proportion would
approximate the truth, as it requires
on an average not far from ten pounds
of milk to make a pound of cheese.
It often requires thirty pounds OF the
milk Of common stock to make
Mound of butter. This milk would
make at least three pounds Of cheese.
In butter factories generally, 1t re-
quires twenty-four or twenty-five
pounds Of milk to make pound Of
butter. Some Of the Devon dairies In
Otsego county turn out pound Of
butter for every sixteen and seventeen
pounds of milk, which would make
something over a pound and..a half Of
cheese. Many OF the Jerseys give
milk so rich in cream that twenty
pounds of it, and sometimes less, will
make pound of butter,-an equiva-
lent for q little over q pound OF fcheese,
which would OF course be very rich II
made from such milk. -F rl


As rule, we believe The proportion
of caseine diminishes as the proper
I ten of cream increases so that milk
very rich in cream is likely to be de-
| ficient Ia caseine. If we have the
weight in cream, we do not have II
in caseine; but 1t is nevertheless true
that milk may be rich in both butter
and cheese, or poor in boths in either
case having case having easeine In cor
responding proportions. 1t Is mani
| festly a great mistake to use milk ex-
cessively rich in cream for cheese-ma-
king; or thar which Is excessively
rich in casino for butter making.
While 1 believe it holds true that the
milk of COW noted FOR its large flow


may be rich in casino, it Is seldom rich
| in cream; and that a COW giving milk
very rich in cream seldom gives s
large quantity, which is rarely rich IN
caseine. The owners of dairies should
be careful, therefore, to note whether
/ their milk is rich in cream or easeine,
and decide accordingly whether Il
had better be used for making buttef
or cheese. It is Improbable to de,
vote cheese cows to butter making, os
butter cows to cheese making. - Vtieo
| Herald. la.
Year: 1873

The Nation does not think Mr..
Garfieldis defense of his action in
connection with the salary bill is en-
tirely satisfactory. But at the same
time it remarks that "be has not
shared personally in the plunder, and
he has too many years OF usefulness
and honor behind him, and has shown
himself on too many occasions one Of
the Congressman on whom the eye of
an American citizen can rest with
satisfaction, to be lightly laid on the
shelf by any constituency.


This is eminently fair. 1t has the
merit, which is too rare with our i'm
petuous American press, of making a
Just discrimination between q single
mistake and the general tenor of a
life. MI. Garfield opposed the in
crease Of salary and refused his back
pay. He may have made q mistake
in not carrying his opposition to the
point of seeking to defeat the whole
bill even at the risk of an extra ses-
sion. But that was a question upon
which there might fairly be a differ
ence of opinion; and even IL he did
make q mistake, it is not one or two
mistakes which can outweigh the
long and useful career of such man.


General Garfield has been in Con-
gress for many years. Among the
members of that body he has been
one of the most conspicuous not
merely for ability, but for his watch
full fidelity to the Interests of the peo-
pie and his opposition to corrupt and
extravagant jobs. There are few men
who have been so uniformly right
He has lattsrly been subject to much
criticism, but the Nation has express.
ed correct judgment in few words,
| I--AlbdRU Journal.
Year: 1873

The absurdity of allowing dead men
to manage the affairs of the world has
been illustrated in a thousand in
stances, and that the wisess of men
are Incompetent to judge Of the needs
of the future Is shown in the fund left
by BENJAMIN Franklin for the benefit
Of young mechanics just setting up in
business. Franklin had been aided
by loans when he was young, and to
these he attributed all his usefulness
and success in life. But in leaving
the fund he made no allowance for
changes in business, and the eondl-
tions he attached have made his gift
useless. According to his will the
property was to be held by the select.
men of Boston, and managed by re-
sponsfble persons, who would do it
gratuitously. 1t was to be loaned IN
small sums, repayable in ten annual
instalmeDts, with an annual interest
of five per cent, the security being
the guarantee Of two responsible per
sons. Young mechanics could not OBJ
tain the security, and after several
abortive attempts, resulting in the loss
of part of the capital, the whole sum
was placed in the Hospital Life In
suranee Company, where it now
amounts to nearly s17O, 600. Several
years ago an attempt was made to ben
eft young mechanics by granting
them loans on small houses, the prin-
cipal and interest being paid in annu-
al instalments, as provided for in the
will, and secured by. q mortgage on
the houses, and officers Of the Cbari-
table Mechanic Association expressed
a Willingness to take charge of'and be
responsible for such Investments. A
doubt was suggested as to the power
OF the trustees to make any loan ex-
cept such as were specifically proyid-
ed for in the viii, without the author


ity OF the Legislature. A petition for


the grant Of such power was present.
ed to the last Legislature, and referred
to the Committee on Judiciary, who
agreed to report 8 bill authorizing 1t,


provided the Board of Aldermen would
assent. This, then, the Board refused
to do, and the money remains, where
it accum ulates without benehtting IN
any degree the class for which Is was
| Intended. tits euriOusfaet that the
experience of the past does not teach


men that wisdom does not die with


them, aud that common sense Is val
liable to meet emergencies as they
arise.-ROT6tIry Gazette.
Year: 1873

He who steadies himself between
two ships will certainly be drowned.
Shame is worse than death.


He who weeps from his heart viii
provoke tears even from the blind.


A lean horse and hero in q strange
country each look amiss.


When you go to law against the
Emperor God himself should be the
judge.


The wise man strikes twice against
one and the same stone.


You may praise the Russian
thousand times, but his eyes will still
be blue 1.-THE reverse OF handsome, ac-
cording to Usberg taste.)


Young men may die; old men must.
The overlooking (fiattering) tongue
soon makes a wound.


He who fears the sparrow will new
er sow millet.


When the ass bears too light a load
he wants to lie down.


The spoken word can not again be
swallowed.


He whose heart is full soon finds a
loose tongue.


Smoke rises only from large blocks
Of wood.
A living mouse is better than q dead
lion.


Him whom God has marked the
prophet strikes with his wand.


He who is on horseback no longer
knows even his own father. (The
armed man on horseback spares not
his nearest relation.


When you die, even your tomb snail
be comfortable.


Men speak to each other by words |;
animals by signs.


Man is cought by the tongue; an OK
by his horns.


That which is taken in with the
milk only goes out With the SOUL
Faults contracted in infancy disap-
pear but with death.


The open mouth never remains
hungry. -,


Do not fasten up your garment until
you see the water.


Time does not bow to you; you must
bow to time.


When the parson visits you don't
be oveIjoyed; he will soon begin tc
beg.


A great head has great cares.


Sense does not lie in the head, bui
in age.


Every tribe has its thief; every
mountain its wolf. (To be always on
ones guard.)


One whip is enough for a good horse
for a bad one not a thousand.


He who is not satisfied with drink
ing will not queneh his thirst by lick
ing.


Man carries his superiority inside
the animals theirs outside.


Were the hands to give all that The
tongue promises, we should soon hay'
no more beggars, everybody would b
a prince.


Be the distance never so great, tray
cling still is pleasant. Be the CIR
never so plain, she still is handsome
-[Leisure Hours.
Year: 1873

A Vanderburg county Indiana)
physician recommend leeehing for q
patient and left several leeches, with
directions how to use them. Next
day be called agejn, and the patient
demonstrated against the unpleasant
character of the medicinei if he had
to take any more he wanted them
fixed different" as they made him
lawful sick to take them without
anything" On inquiry he found
they had been swallowed, after being
chopped into pieces.
Year: 1873

No person of the male persuasion
who has attained to mans estate can
read the following without feeling
that he has been there:


Its little singular how well a pair
of boots can be made to fit at the
store. You may not be able to get
your foot only part way down in the
leg at the first trial, but that is because
your stocking is sweaty, or you have
not started right, and the shoemaker
suggests that you start again ana
stand up to it this time, and he throws
a little powder from a pepper box to
aid you. And so you stand up, and
pound down your foot, and partly trip
yourself up, and your eyes stick out
in an unpleasant manner, and every
vein in your body appears to be on
the point of bursting, and all the
while that dealer stands around and
syes the operation as intently as If the
whole affair was perfectly new and
novel to him. When your foot has
finally struck bottom there Is a faint
imoressiOn on your mind that you
have stepped into an open stove, but
he removes that by solemnly obsery-
ing that he never saw a boot Mt quite
40 good as that. You may suggest
that your toe presses too hard against
the front, OF that some of the bones on
the side of the foot are too much
smashed, but he says that is always
the way with q new boot, and that
the trouble will entirely disappear in
few days. Then you take the old
pair under your arm and start for
home as animated as relic Of 1872,
all the while feeling that the world
will not look bright and happy to you
again until you have Drained that
shoemaker. You limp down town the
next day, and smile all the while with
your mouth while your eyes look as
ii YOU were walking over an oyster
bed barefoot. When no one is look
ing you kick against a post or some
other obstruction, and show fond
ness for stopping and resting against
something that will sustain your
weight. When you get home at night
YOU 90 for those old boots with an ca
gerness that cannot be described, and
the remarks you make upon learning
that your wife had disposed OF them
to a widow woman in the subuFbs,
are calculated to Immediately depop-
ulate the earth Of women and shoe
makers generally.
Year: 1873

A man in Oregon, on the evening
of the recent earthquake, had inform
ed his wife that he had an important
business appointment which he was
reluctantly obliged to keep. When
the shock came he rushed home with
q billiard cue in his hand, which he
had forgotten to replace, and now his
wife won't hear of any business ap-
pOintment after s o'clock p. m.