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Year: 1876

When her lord has killed a buffalo
the woman work begins. She has to
skin 1t, the meat to secure, and all to
pack upon ponies or mules, and carry to
camp, where the meat must be cured.
This Is done by cutting it into thin
sheets, and hanging it over poles in the
hot sunshine, where it is soon dried thor
oughly; then it is packed fresh in pack
ages OF about one hundred pounds each,
and inclosed in nice folding sack Of
thick buffalo skin, prepared especially
for the purpose. This is not dressed
down thin after being deshed, but we'll
tanned, and of the full thickness Of the
skin; the hair side nicely ornamented
with paint, for the outside of the sack.
This is cut out like a huge envelope, SO
that the ends and sides will fold over
whatever is put in them, and secured by
strong buckskin trings. By being thick
it retains its form, and is very useful for
carrying other things besides meat and
tallow. After the meat is taken care of
the skin must be looked after. Those
taken at this season of the year are most
ly dressed for lodges. They are first
staked on q smooth spot of ground, and
water put upon them, when they are
ready for feshing. This consists in re-
moving the flesh with an instrument
made of straight bar of iron, about a
foot in length, hattened at one end and
filed to an edge. This being grasped in
the hand, and a succession of qnick
blows given, the work slowly proceeds.
The skin is then dried, after which, the
hair is removed in a dry state, and the
skin reduced to the proper thickness by
dressing down ON the hair side. This is
done with an instrument made by firmly
tying fat piece of steel, filed to q
beveled edge at one end, and with the
corners rounded, to q large prong of q
deers horn. This is SO trimmed, in
connection with the body of the horn, as
to form All elbow, and is used little ne
carpenter uses his adze. This work is
usually done in the cool of the morning.
The brains Of the animal, having been
properly taken care of for the purpose,
are now soaked and squeezed by the
hand until reduced to paste, and ap-
piled to both sides of the skin, which is
afterward worked and rubbed until fexi-
BILE. The preparation of robes is from
winter skins, and differs from the fore
going only in being dressed down on the
flesh side, 80 as to leave the wool and
hair upon the robe, and is moro thor
oughly worked, and secured by means
of sharp gritted stone.
Year: 1876

have given my heart one who will make
my home comfortable and happy2'


cit is an important question of char
actcr to be considered. Home comfort
and happiness depend very much upon
neatness, order, and system, and O lack
OF them is sadly to be regretted in u
wife"


" Then husband may be as careless
and untidy as he pleases7 Pshaw !"
said Bella.


" No, no." replied Aunt Sue. "'It is
certainly a most excellent thing to have
a ceanly, orderly man ut the head of
ones house ; but the man don't make
the home you see. He only procures it.
The woman makes the home, and neat
ness is tho best of servants to her there,
besides being a strong magnetic force
to attract her husband to his own fire.
side.


Bella got up from the lounge, flirted
her crushed ruffies, and made ;some bit
ing little speech, about "nice" men in
general. But as Aunt Sue and the girls
knew that she had one in particular in
her mind, they hoped she would be
benefited by the bit of life history that
had been given her.-Youths' Com
1OuniOn.
Year: 1876

Courage is vital elementof Christian
chivalry. Without it, indeed, neither
truth nor fidelity to promise can be
hoped for. The coward is sure to lie
when truth means punishment, and sure
to retreat from his engagements when
they involve peril. We need valiant
souls that have learned to endure and
scorn pain, and to face danger fearlessly
and promptly when dutyrequires. Some
parents evade this vital part of training
by CLOSES and deception. A mother
who has taken her boy to the dentists
to get tooth out will often say, If he is
shrinking: "Sit still, my boy, it won't
hurt you" Now she knows it will hurt
him, but thinks if she can only get him
by this device to sit still and let the dem
tist get hold of the teeth, then his dis
covery of the pain will not hinder its ex-
traction. This is double mistake. 1t
destroys her boys confidence in her for
he detects her in lie and though it
gets the boy this time to SIT still, it is
under the delusion that there is to beno
pain, whereas be should be taught to
face the pain and TO scorn it. This makes
che difference between the towards and
heroes. A regiment of poltroons could
march up to battery as cheerfully as
regiment of heroes, il they thought
there was no enemy at the guns. The
difference is Chat heroes know the dam
ger and yet face il yaliantls.
Year: 1876

Childhood is the sleep of reason.


A good conscience is continual
Christmas.


Most men are afraid OF bad name,
but few fear their consciences.


What we call conscience is in many
instances only wholesome fear of the
constable.


There is no outward sign of courtesy
that does not rest on deep moral foun-
dation.


Without content we shall find it al
most as difficult to please others as our
selves.


A good word is an easy obligation; but
not to speak Dlrequires only our silence,
which costs us nothing:


We must be as courteous to man
as to picture, which we are willing to
give the advantage of good light.


Covetous men need money least, vet
they most affect it; but prodigals, who
need it most, have the least regard
for it.


To neglect, at any time, preparation
for death, is to sleep on our post ut a
siege; to omit it-in old age is to sleep at
an attack.


Death is so genuine fact that it ex-
cludes falsehood, or betrays its empti-
ness; it is touchstone that proves the
gold and dishonOrs the baser metal.


We look at death through the cheap
glazed windows of the flesh, and believe
him to be the monster which the
fawed and cracked glass represents him
to be.


The greatest man is he who chooses
right with the most invincible resolu-
ton; who resists the sorest temptation
from within and without; who bears the
heaviest. burdens cheerfully; who is
calmest in storms and most fearless un-
der menaces and frowns; whose reliance
on truth, on virtue and on God is most
unfaltering. .e. - .Frrr,!r..
Year: 1876

Bob is a boy, of course, and he acted
Just like boy; just as you, reader-if
You are OF that sex--have done hundreds
OF times i'll your boyhood days. But let
the Danbury Ne,Us tell tho story:


Bob's mother is one of those unhappy
women who will be obeyed, and Bob
could not go skating that day. What
would Bob do2 The look in his eyes
grew harder, tho fingers increased their
pressure, and the lines in his face-the
hard, cruel ines-became more marked.
Death would not come ut the beck of
boy with tear stained cheeks. But Bob
would have his revenge without the aid
of the dread messenger. Had his
mother loved him she could not have
been SO cruel. But he would test that
love now, however great or little it
might be. His own heart was nuSub
with pain. Why should not she suffer
She should He brought his hands to-
gether with sharp, nervous force, and
uttered this determination aloud. He
could not defy her, but he could grieve
her, and he would. He would lacerate
her feelings, he would wiring her heart,
he would crush her soul. Howe 1t
doesn't seem possible that a heart so
young could conceive such cruel pur-
pose. Bob determined to eat no sup
per! He could hear the dishes rattle in
the dining-room, but every sound only
strengthened him in his determination.
He would go without food, and gloat
over the agony in his conscience stricken
mothers face as he faded slowly away
before her eyes. How happy Bob was
now-so maliciously, so cruelty happy.
Pretty soon there was step in the hall.
1t was his mothers coming to call him
to supper. She opened the door.


Robert %


"'M."


Come to yonr supper"


"I don't want no supper" he said, in
n constrained voice.


Don't want any supper2"


"No," he mumbled.


elf you amt down to your supper
before we get through the table will be
cleared off, and you shan't have mouth
fu, was the somewhat unexpected re-
joinder.


~ don't care, he replied, in stifed
voice.


Then the door was shut, and Bob was
alone aSaln-a somewhat surprised and
disappointed Bob. TO his strained hear
ing every sound at the table was dis
tiAC1ly dppdTeuU. linen came the extra
rattling of clearing away the things, and
shortly after silence. Poor Bob He
covered his hands over his head, and
sobbed himself to sleep. When Bob
awoke the darkness was intense, and he
was chilled to the marrow. He raised
his head and listened. Not sound was
heard. He crept out of bed and found
his way to the door. The hall was as
dark as the room. His parents had gone
to bed, and had never come near to see
him fade slowly away, and were now,
without doubt, sound asleep, with no
thought of little Bob. How long he had
slept he could not tell, but while he
slept great transformation had gone
on. The aching void in his heart had
been transferred to his stomach.
Shivering and quaking, he got out of
his clothes and crept into bed, with a
feeling that made him burrow his head
out of sight beneath the covers. The
next morning he did not have to be
called to breakfast, but Mt the table, un-
der self-inficted protest of mild type,
he buried his grief under a pyramid of
buckwheat cakes.
Year: 1876

The Danbury Ne,os has found out
how marvelously careful man is with a
new garment. When he comes in he is
at great pains to hang it on hook en-
tirely by itself, and woe to any one who
hangs another article over it. At the
end oi week the garment is being
picked mp from the floor or chairs forty
times day, his wife says,
Year: 1876

A practical tree-planter says: 81 once
called at o store of a merchant who had
a couple of days previous obtained some
trees from tho nursery. There stood
the trees with bare roots exposed to a
dry wind. When asked why his trees
were not in the ground, he replied that
it had not been convenient to plant them,
80 he had put them in a nice cool
place where the fresh wind could have q
chance at them, and ended with the
complscent inquiry as whether it was
not the best that he could have done
with them. He had no idea how the
wind was evaporating the moisture from
the exposed roots, and how soon they
would become utterly worthless. Just
in this same thoughtless manner many q
customer from the nursery exposes his
trees to dry wind or the sun, and then
if they fail to grow he blames the nur-
seryman for it. Let the purchasers of
trees remember that the roots belong to
the ground, and must be kept fresh un-
til they are planted"
Year: 1876

DoN'T allow your carriage to rattle
like threshing machine. Washers of
sole leather on the spindles of the axle
trees will stop the clatter caused by too
much play. A piece of rubber put in
between the trill iron and clip will ST.
lence matters; and little coal oil on
the circle or fifth wheel, will stop
squeaking. Where nuts work loose,
cut thread in front of them with a
cold chisel, after screwing them up
tight.
Year: 1876

The following Hymn by Whit
ier, was sung last Tuesday at the
'pening of the Centennial.
Our fathers God from out whose hand
The centuries fall like grains Of sand,
We meet tO-day united, free,
And loyal to our land and Thee,
To thank Thee for the era done,
And trust Thee for the opening one.
Here where of old, by Thy design,
The fathers spake that word of Thine
Whose echo is the glad refrain
OF rended bolt and falling chain,
To grace our festal time from all
The zones Of earth our guests we call.
Il, with us while the New World greets
The Old World thronging all its streets
dwelling all the triumphs won


by art or toll beneath the sun,
And unto common good ordain
This riyalship Of hand and brain.
Thou who hast here in concord rurled
The war flags Of gathered world,
Beneath our western skies fulfil
The Orients mission of good will,
And, freighted with Loves golden fleece,
Send back the Argonauts Of peace.
For art and labor meet in truce,
For beauty made the BRIDE Of use,
We thank Thee, while withnl We crave
The austere virtues strong to save,
The honor proof to place rr gold,
the manhood never bought or sold
OH make Thou us, through centuries long
In peace secure, in justice rtrong,
Around our gilT of freedom draw
TT c safeguards Of Thy righteous law,
And, cast in some diviner mould,
Let the new cycle shame the oil,
Year: 1876

b FIRE DEPARTMENT AT its reg
betting held last night, Jackson Fire
b. !, coneurred in the proposition to
ID committee TO take into GoHGidera-


BE- reorganization of the Fire Depart
The meeting of the Committee Will
Id tonight mt No. Is Engine House.
Year: 1876

A curious story comes from
Paris, 1t is not SO very long since
a young man well dressed, and
apparently rich, entered clan


destine gaming house. He was
playing at trente et-quarante, and
had already won little pile Of


gold. Cred Wins" presently said
the banker, and proceeded to
hand over a hundred 'napoleons
to the unknown one, for the
stakes were high. But the
stranger made mo attempt to take
the gold, and returned no answer
to three or four questions put to
him in reference to the game.
His eyes remained fixed on the
red, while bis features assumed
CHASTITY paleness. A player
touched his arm--he was dead,
Then the banker withdrew the
hundred napoleons, observing that
the play WAS in the nature of q
reciprocal contract, which could
only be entered into between par,
ties both of whom were capable
of contracting, and therefore never
between q, live man and a dead
one. The cause of death vas
heart disease, and the official re-
port was soon drawn up in prop
er form. 1t contained no SORT of


reference TO a-gaming house. r--
Year: 1876

An Illinois farmer says: "My
cattle follow me until / leave the
lot, and on the way up to the barn
yard in the evening, stop and
call for a lock of hay" Brown
says there is nothing at all re-
markable about that. He went
into a barn-yard in the country
one day last week, where he had
not the slightest Acquaintance
with the cattle, and an old bull
not only followed him until he
left the lot, but took the gate off
the hinges, and raced with him
to the house in the most familiar
way possible. Brown says be
has no doubt that tt e old fellow
would have called for something
if he had waited a little while,
but be didn't want the folks wait
ing for dinner, SO be hung one
tail of bis coat and a piece of his
pants on the bulls horns and
weSt into the house.
Year: 1876

As the season of sunstroke is at hand the
following facts concerning this visitation are
worth needing, coming as they do from so
high an authority as the Sanitary committee
of the New York Board of Health:


Sunstroke is caused by excessive heat, and
especially if the weather is "muggy." 1t Is
more apt to occur on the second, third, or
fourth day of heated term than on the first.
Loss of sleep, worry, excitement, close sleep
ing rooms, debility, and abuse of stimulants
predspose 1t is much more apt to attack
those working in the sun, and especially be-
tween the hours of II o'clock in the morning
and 4 clock in the afternoon. On hot days
wear thin clothing. Have as cool sleeping
rooms as possible Avoid loss of sleep and
all unnecessary fatigue. Ifworking indoors
and where there is artificial heat see that the
room is well ventilated If working in the
sun wear a white hat mot black as it absorbs
heat and put inside of it on the head a wet
cloth or large green leaf; frequently lift the
hat from the head to see that the cloth is wet.
Do not check Precipitation, but drink what
water you need to keep it up, as Precipitation
prevents the body from being overheated.
Have wherever possible an additional shade,
as a thin umbrella, when walking, canvas
or board cover when working in the sun.
when much fatieued do not go to work, or be
excused from work, especially after | clock
in the morning on very hot days, especially
if the work is in the sun. If feeling of
fatigue, dizziness, headache or exhaustion
occurs cease work Immediately, lie down in a
shady and cool place, apply cold cloths to
and pour cold water over head and neck. If
any person is overcome by the heat give the
person cool drinks of water or cold black tea
or coffee, if able to swallow. If the skin is
hot and dry, sponge with or pour cold water
over the body and limbs and apply to the
head pounded ice wrapped in towel or
other cloth. If there is no ice at hand keep
a cold cloth on the head and pour cold
water on it as well as on the body If the
person is pale, very faint, and pnlse feeble,
let him inhale ammonia for few seconds. or
give him teaspoonful OF acromatic spirits
of ammonia (hartshorn) in two tablespoon
fuls of water with little sugar.
Year: 1876

BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS. One of the
most important legal opinions that has been
delivered for some time is that of Judge
Wylie of the Supreme Court in the District
of Columbia. The point at issue was Yates
a member of building association had
made sundry defaults in the payment of his
monthly dues. which amounted to $40 a
month until he owed the sum of $3.50 in
dues. For these defaults fines amounting to
SlSl had been i'm mposed on Yates, and his
property was then advertised for sale. The
judge in deciding the case said "he could
see nothing in the nature of these building
associations to take the fines levied by them
out of the operation of the settled doctrines
ofequity: that when fines were merely col
lateral to the performance of some princi-
pal thing, equity would relieve against them
when the performance could yet be made
with out injury to any party concerned.
That in the case of these associations the
fines were collateral to the payment of the
monthly dues by members, and were inten-
ded to insure prompt payment. If then
member who had made default came in
and offered to pay his dues with interest,
the Court must relieve him from the fines.
unless the associations could show actual
damage beyond said interest, resulting from
said default, and even then relief would be
granted upon compensation for actual in
jury.
Year: 1876




Rauying for " 7ylden and Reforna.''


Chicago, Oct. 4.-The Journal says:
Several hundred bogus veteran soldiers,
hired for the occasion, left this city
this morning for the national mass
meeting of Union soldiers who are for
Tilden and Hendricks, to be held at In
dianapolis to-day and tomorrow. A
worse looking lot of scalawags it would
be difficult to imagine, and great
horde Of this sort from the east and
west will assemble at the Indiana state
capital, under the absurd pretense Of
being soldiers, TO help raise a breeze for
the sham refornler. If they are not ar
rested and sent to prison for fraudu-
lent voting before they return to their
homes it will be surprising. Their free
passes on tbs railroads read good for
ten days. which of course means that
they are hired to remain in that state
until after next Tuesdays election.
The chairman Of the Indiana Republic
can State central committee has issued
q circular to the Republicans Of the
state ut large, warning them against
the droves Of voting cattle that will no
doubt be distributed through the state.
Year: 1876

OF all the people who live at the Cen.
.sennial hotels think the newly married
couples-Philadelphia Is full of them,
by the way-are the only ones who are
thoroughly conLented and happy. II
makes no difference to them whether tho
potatoes are watery, the meats dry, or
the soup thin; and they don't care = pin
whether the people talk 70 them or not.
They live in little world Of their own,
need no conversation but their own, and
have no thought but Tor each other.
They all try e. act as though being mar
ried was an old story TO them, and still
for the life Of them they can't help taking
each others hand every five minutes.
The brides nearly all wear new watch
chains,
Year: 1876

Mr.. Tlden is constantly advertised to be
the "friend of the working man" Let
working men inquire of their fellow work
men in Brady's Bend, Penn, or of the poor
miners in THERON mines of Michigan, what
sort oil friend he has been to them. They
will learn how the "great reformer'' ruined
a prosperous manufacturing village, and
''shaved' the scanty wages of the miners
in his paying them in bogus currency. The
pretended advocate of hard money is known
to the Michigan miners as the largest deal
or in the ''shin-plasters' on the Peninsula;
and the few remaining inhabitants of the
Pennsylvania village remember the great
reformer and advocate of sound government
as the man who enriched himself by bank
rupting the iron works which gave them
employment York Times
Year: 1876

AS in the days of Slavery, many of the
Southern ministers of the gospel we're its
most brazen apologists, it is not surprising
to find several of them in South Carolina
now sending out an address declaring that
that State is entirely peaceful, and that the
colored people are the aggressors when the
rifle clubs slaughter theml These people
are joking on dark subject. Do they
think we have had none of the facts in re-
lation to Hamburg and Ellenton?
Year: 1876

On Thursday last at Ocean City, the haul
seine of Mr.. Isaac Jones was laid around
such an immense school of blue fish, that
it was9imposslble to haul her ashore 1t is
estimated chat there were over twenty tons
of fish in the seine. The owner intended,
by means of small seine, to take out as
many as could be used profitably and let
the remainder Salisbury Sentinel, 25th.
Year: 1876

was not his, he advanced towards the
house of Kordicus to pay the debt he
owed him. The demon was standing
as usual at his door, but with = coun-
tenance very different from the day
before.


"Welcome, my dear FRIEND he
said to the woodman. How pleased
[ am TO see you. Come IN, and let's
have glass together. rll stand treat
tonight


"The woodman entered the house,
the fluid was brought, and after each
had drank to the other, the woodman
pulled out his purse aud said to Kor-
dicas,-


"'Now let me pay you the money l


"Why,' said kordicus, seeing the
gold i'll the purse, how rich you are !!
| congratulate you for you must have
found treasure. Now what will you
do with what's left when you've paid
mel Pm sure you'll spend or lose
it, or make away with it in some way
or other. Take couple of gold
pieces home with you, and leave the
rest with me. Ell take care of it for
you, and you can have it as you want
it. [ shall be sure then of seeing you
very often, for love you as l would
my own brother


"The woodnan was so puzzled at
the behavior of kordicus that he
began to doubt whether the interview
of the evening before might not have
been dream. Kordicus now brought
another glass, and when the man had
swallowed its contents he began to
lIeel almost certain 1t had been q