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Year: 1876

OF REFORMS.


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Albany. March 23.-Gov Tlden VIII transmit 70
the eLegisaturc-probablyt to-morrow-a message re-
commencing fur her legislation with view OF COM
Melting the practical effect of the reforms
instituted last year the canals. The mes
sage will not be long one, but Will contain
number of important recommendations. That
of greatest Importance to those Interested
in the practical work which has been done under
the contracts now in force. is that this work may DO
measured and the amount justly due the contractor
ascertaiucd and paid, and the contracts themselves
cancelled without exception. This will pro'he
compensation for those whom the State Is actually
Indebted and make an end of the system OF unbal-
ouced bid contracts even the state OF suspension
in which they now are.


No new tax will be necessary to meet these de-
manCs. as they can be satisfied from money already
on hand and raised for this purpose. Arec0nmend-
alton will also be made for legislation which VIII
facilitate investigation into the past affairs oil the
canals the passage Of the bill 10 enlsrge the powers
of the Canal Board introduced by Senator 81, joan
being especially urged on the Legislature th'rd
suggestion of Importance VIII be for the bottoming
out of the canal SO as to give it its full depth OK
seven feet the work be done by direction OF 'he
Canal Board, and under the personal supervision Oh
the State Engineer.
Year: 1876

BY GEORGE MACDONALD.
Where did you come from, baby dear
Out OF the everywhere into here
Where did you get your eyes of blue?
Out OF the sky as l came through.
What snakes the light in them sparkle and spin
Some of the starry spikes left in.
Where did you get that little tear?
I found it waiting when got here.
What makes your forehead smooth and high
a soft hand stroke il as I went by.
What 'Taakes your cheeks like a warm, white rose
I saw something better th.m any one knows.
Whence that three-coTnered smile Of bliss
Three angels gave me at once kiss.
Where did you get this pearly ear?
God spoke, and il came out to hear
Where did you get these arms and hands =
Love made itself into hooks and bands
Feet, whence did YOU come, YOU darling things?
From the same box as the CheTubs wings
How did they all just come 70 be you
God thought about me, and 50 grew
But how did you come to us you dear
God thought about you, and so am here
Year: 1876

II is asserted that the Sultan Of
Turkey is much more intent on building
a grand mosque that is to perpetuate his
name than defending his empire from
the attacks made on it. Although
menaced with the greatest dangers, he
can scarcely be induced to attend to any
thing but dancing girls and professions
to the mosques. He was originally a
man of fair capacity, but is now so far
gone in dissipation, it is said, as to be
seemingly incapable of striking blow
for his honor and kingdom.
Year: 1876

LIE country is being fooled with
pamphlets opposed to the Tom Scott
subsidy for the Southern Pacific rail
ROAD These bear no imprint of the
once ol publication, but the stockholders
OF the Union Pacific will probably find
Dig printing bill in their next treasurcr's
report.
Year: 1876

OF the six daily exchanges we receive
from three of the largest cities of the Union,
every one of them speaks of the lawless-
ness of the Christmas festivities. The per-
petration of three murders in New York,
and other crimes in proportion, makes the
papers of that city question whether or not
the return of the sacred anniversary is not
a calamity rather than blessing. Holi-
days in America, especially this one, seem
to be used only as free passes to dissipation
and lewdness, and until we can take bet
ter conception of them we may well ask
whether they would not be better in the
breach than in the observance.
Year: 1876

Hollow PRETENCE-It was all very
well Tor the Democrats to cry Justify for
civil service reform when the Republicans
were trying to establish it within their own
lines, year or so ago. Then they had no
officers at their disposal. But now that
few offices of the [. S. House of Represen.
tatives have been placed at their disposal
they forget their own teachings and wine
out every Republican occupant. lame sol.
dlers and all, purely for political reasons.
ana have put Democrats in their places.
The New York HcroH talks to them in
this style:


II civil service means anything at all if
is that honest men should be kcTt in the
positions they ill crcditaLly. that old and
faithful public servants should be recocni-
zed, and that in the clerical dcrartment of
a body like the House honorable officers
should not bc removed for political reasons.
ms certainly was what we learned from
the democratic party on the stump during
the last campaign. If there is any truth
IN these declarations it is their duty to in.
qulre at once into the appointments that
nave recently taken place in the House
From what we can learn of these anpoint.
ments men who have served the House for
years, men of capacity and integrity. have
nech suddently turned out of their clerk
shlPs to make room for SQUAD of ex. CON.
and political atIlEenttrers.
Year: 1876

IHE WATCHNIGHT MEETING in this town
last Friday night was attended by crowded
audience. At a few moments before mid.
night, while the large congregation was in
silent prayer, the bell was tolled until the
new year came in, when it peaIed out lively
IN measure. When the lively notes were
struck the audience arose and sang in
SPIRITED music and hearty chorous, Praise
God from whom all blessings fow." The
episcopal and Presbyterian bells joined in
ringing cadence, and there was something
substantial and impressive in the sensible
programme--tar more so, we imagine, than
programme OF gunpowder and demijohns.
a notable feature of the audience was its
wide range in denominationalism.
Year: 1876

The New YORK SuNpAY LAws-In the
recent suit undertaken to restrain the
ponce from interfering with certain theatr;-
cal performances given in New York On
sundays 1t was contended for the theatre
that the Sunday law was unconstitutional
on the ground that its subject matter is not
expressed in its title. The title of the law
Is An act to preserve the public peace and
order ON the first day of the week, com.
monty called Sunday" 1t is now decided
by the General Term of the Court of Com.
mon Pleas that this title properly indicated
the purport OF the law in its relation to
sunday amusements. To preserve order,
the Court holds, is " to preserve the estob'
hshed mode of proceeding" and the
established mode Of proceeding for a good
ana law'ahiding citizen is to refrain from
labor ON Sunday" BY this Interpretation
every labor that is not necessary ) or done
IN charity the pursuit of any occupa.
ton that cannot be covered by the uncer.
tam standard of these terms-is contrary
to the public peace, and may be interrunted
and stopped by the police,
Year: 1876

SCENE IN A WILMINGTON CHARITY
REsTAuRANT.-The Wilmington Commercial
relates this: During the cold weather. a
few weeks ago, a poor ragged specimen of
humanity, presented himself at the counter
OF the Holly Tree Inn, Wilmington and
IN tremulous voice asked for a bowl of
soup. His forlorn condition was such as to
touch the humane feelings of the lady in
attendance, who at once replied "yes,
certainly" When hesOup was furnishedthe
ragged mendicant, he, though half starved,
took off his excuse for a hat and asked a
blessing upon his food, confessing his utter
unworthiness to receive it. The evident
sincerity of the poor tramp deeply affected
all present, and rough coat sleeves were
drawn across eyes unused to weeping.
Alter he had finished his repast, he said to
the lady attendant: "No wonder YOU look
at me, Il poor miserable victim of intern.
perance. Though having yet scarcely
reached the meridian of life, see what I
am. Once | was IL Methodist class leader
and an eXhortcr, now see what have come
to, through strong drink" In answer to
question he stated that he came from
New London, Chester county.
Year: 1876

Back of Us lie six thousand years of
human effort.-effort often misdirect-
ed, and yet never entirely useless; for
whether it led to victory or defeat, it
added into experience, and lifted the
level of opportunity higher. Toll
someIy the race has climbed the slope,
generation by generation, step by step,
until we stand at an immense altitude
above the fathers; and yet only sixty
centuries are back of us, while eternity
lies ahead. We know what is behind:
tears, failure, and death are there; and
and the hollow air refuses to surrender
the moaning of those who died longing
for the light they might never see.
We know, l say, what is behind; but
we hold our breath in solemn expecta-
ton of what is to come. We feel that
here, and all over the globe, changes
are taking place in the moral and po-
litical world such as occasionally come
over the earth and heavens at morning
when wind and sun join their forces
against night and the fog.


The face of God is being lifted npon
the nations of the earth, and the divine
wind is pulsing around the globe. A
CLEAN of far off radience illumines the
darkness; a delicious movement agi-
tates the air; the mist is changed to
golden fleece; and behold the Sun of
Righteousness, full orbed, respondent,
with healing on his beams. is rising
above the fogl Is there Il man here
that will not say, Rise, thou magniti
cent symbol and expression of the Son
of Godl Rise, with thy vast disk
agIow with fervor. thou fount of living
light, and III blue armament above us
fix thyself as king mounts his throne,
and takes position before all his happy
subjcctsi Our eyes hail thee, and our
raised hands give thee welcome. The
faces of all men will gradually be up
lifted, and, lighted by thy down.
streaming rays, a common likeness will
be perceived as in children born of one
father and in that first universal act
of intelligent devotion, the long lost
brotherhood of man with man, the
world over, shall be perceived and
acknowledged, and man, being hu-
man ut last shall be divine. Then
shall we too, see that whoever doeth
the will of God, the same is our BROTH
er, and sister and mother.-GOiden
RHle.
Year: 1876

IL thy wife be small, bend down to
her and speak to her; do nothing with
ont her advice.


Everything i'll life can be replaced /;
the wife of early days is irreplaceable.


An honorable man honors his wife
a cortemptibIe one despiseth her.


The loss of first wife is like the loss
of mans sanctuary in his lifetime.


fla man divorces his wife, the altar
itself sheds tears over him.


Man and wife well matched have
heavens glory as their companion
man and woman i'll matched are en-
cireled by devouring fire.


Rather any ache than heart ache /;
rather any evil than an evil wife


He who loveth his wife like himself,
and honoreth her even more than him.
self, who leadeth his sons and his
daughters in the path of integrity, and
who provides for their settlement in
early life; to him may be applied the
Year: 1876

Scripture passage, Thou shalt know
that peace shall adorn thy tent"


4 man who takes a wife for the sake
other money rears i'll behaved children.


He who marries woman congenial
to himself is loved by the Almighty.


When a man ioseth his wife, the
world around him groweth dark, the
light in his tent is dim, and the light
before him is extinguished.


He who has no wife lives without
comfort, without help, without joy,
and without blessing.


An old man in house is terror,
an old woman is pearl.
Year: 1876

How brightly do little joys beam up
on a soul which stands upon ground
darkened by clouds of sorSex. So do
stars come forth from the empty sky
when we look up 70 them from deep.
we'll
Year: 1876

Does not deceive ipvalids into false hopes by
purging and creating fictitious appetite
but assists nature in clearing and purifying
the whole system. leading the patient grad
naIlN a health
Year: 1876

A<ssSO0S A>V"yoIVs St~Vss~SS'sV A~s "scsSs


The police officials of neighboring couu.
ties have forwarded advices to Chief Cullen
of Reading, to put farmers and others on
their guard. A new dodge for swindling
has been put in operation. Several strange
men drive through an agricultural district.
They stop at all the farm houses and make
contract to take all the butter the farm can
furnish at so cents per pound. Further, it
will he gathered up by fast special teams
and the cash pail for 1t at the door. The
pretenceis that during the fall and winter,
the large cities will be overcrowbed and that
butter will be very scarce. In this way all
the farmers in district are contracted with,
and arrangements are made to come for
their butter on certain days and at certain
points; the contract to 60 into effect in two
weeks. A few days after the departure Of
the men drove of COWS come along. They
are fine looking mich cows. The farmers
having good thing in view think they
might use few more cows. They try to
buy them and the drover don't seem to be
anxious to sell. Finally, however, he is
induced to sell two or three to each farmer
at prices considerably higher than the real
market value. He then departs, meets his
partners who put up the butter job, and
they divide the profits. That is the last the
farmer hears or It.
Year: 1876

The Church and the Tenpera nee Reform


This will be the subject for the fourth ser
mon on Centennial topics by Rev. DR.. Otis,
which he will preach In his church, the
West Presbyterian, on next Sabbath even
ing. The lesson will be draw from Brewers
Hall, and In the sermon he will give the
history of the Temperance movement in this
country during the past century, and show
its bearing upon the present questions of
License and Local Option.
Year: 1876

A bet was made III this city on the recent
election, the forfeit of which is that the
loser has to wheel the winner ia hand
barrow up the centre of Market street, from
Front to Tenth. This will be carried out
on Saturday afternoon, and the start will
be at half past one O'Clock.
Year: 1876

Ii is a good plan for ever farmer to save
all the wood ashes he can produce on the
farm and to use them wisely. They are
worth at least thirty cents bushel or
more, and we would not sell them from
the tarm tor less than forty cents. A bush
el OF good hard wood ashes contains four
pounds OF potash, in addition some soda
and considerable amount of soluble silica
and phosphate of lime. The real money
value of these constituents is fully forty
cents a bushel,


1t is good plan to mix the ashes with
ground bone in a sort ot compost. letting
it lie till the whole becomes homogene
Gus mass In mixing ashes with bone,
you get all the essentials of plant food.
You get the gelatine in the bone, together
with nitrogen, potash and soda; what
more can you have? We have tor sew
eral wears recommended that mixture, and
some have told us that it did not succeed
very well upon corn; but we found that
they did not use Judgment in It's applica-
ton. They would drop the seed upon the
fertilizer, and in that way destroy the ger
minal principle A considerable quantity
Of earth should be put upon the compost
before the seed is dropped. Hall a hand
tul in hill brings the corn up quickly,
and makes magnificent growth. 1t is a
very profitable fertilizer to use. The more
ashes we can use the better. We would
apply at least twenty-five bushels of dry
ashes to the acre, and if we could get fifty
we would prefer to use that amount, and
that would perhaps be about the limit to
which it would be wise to go.


As to leached ashes, though many farm
ers think AS highly OF them as of unleach
ed, they are far less valuable for most pur-
poses, and their money value is less than
halt that of unleached. OF course, when
Il soap boiler teaches ashes, he teaches out
everything that is soluble in hot water,
and OF course he removes very large por-
ton of the soluble potash and soluble soda,
and those are the two important elements
that he removes. He leaves the phos-
phoric acid, he leaves certain amount OF
soluble silica, - that is, it IS soluble to
plants, and he leaves the lime; and,
upon the whole. he leaves a considerable
amount of fertilizng substances in his
leached ashes. Now, as regards the value
of leached ashes, we regard them as
worth from fourteen to seventeen cents a
busheI but cannot state the precise value,
because some soap-makers will rob them
more than others. You cannot find two
specimens exactly alike. Some soap max
ers VIII manipulate them longer and ex-
haust them more thoroughly; but leached
ashes are a cheap fertilizer at about one
halt the price of dry ashes


Let every farmer, therefore, and every
housekeeper be careful to save the wood
ashes, and apply them to the land in spring.
1t is better to use them at home than to
sell them to the soap-maker at any price
that he will be likely to give. Plough
1naY
Year: 1876

A CURIOUS FACT. Charles Francis
Adams, in an article in the November At
lantic on "Some Railroad Accidents
which, by the way, he considers blessings
in disguise, since they lead to a greater
care in the running of trains-states a fact
curlously illustrating how rapidly the
most severe shock expands its force. On
an intensely dark and stormy night two
trains, running at full speed, had come in
to collision. The shock was heard through
all the neighboring village. One locomo-
tive rushed on top of the other, the for
ward cars were piled up on both, until
mound was formed which the descending
torrents alone hindered from becoming a
funeral pyre. Twenty-Five persons were
killed and fifty injured. and yet it is said
that two gentlemen in the last carriage of
one of the trains, finding themselves sud-
denly stopped close to their destination,
supposed it was for some unimportant
cause, and concluded at once to take ad-
vantage of such happy chance by getting
out and walking to their homes, which
they did, and learned only the next morn
ing of the catastrophe in which they had
been unconscious participants.
Year: 1876

Business prospered with the young
men. BY prudent and careful manage
ment each had not only made a living,
but had been able to pay small portion
Of the mortgage on the stock at the end
of the first year.


Joseph had the advantage of his friend
in possessing better location, and though
his rent was somewhat higher, the differ
ence was more than compensated by the
increased facilities it afforded him. The
prospect was decidedly bright to him. If
his business increased as it had done, he
would be enabled to clear himself Of debt
in another year.


Under this encouraging aspect he ven
tured to expend hundred dollars in ad-
dition to his furniture, which his wife in
sisted was absolutely necessary for their
comfort and happiness The house had
been furnished altogether too plain tor
this progressive age, in ner estimation.
She was behind some of her friends, who,
she was sure, was doing no better than
her husband.


Joseph was little obstinate at first;
but then there was something SO decided
ly comfortable in set OF stuffed chairs
and a lounge, that he did not hold out in
his opposition. He was doing we'll, and
the expenditure would not seriously en-
barass him.


With a nice new Brussels carpet and
the new furniture, Mrs Weston's little
parlor looked exceedingly pleasant and
comfortable. Besides, it looked as though
her husband was prospering in his bust
ness.


1t was SO very nice that the young wife
could not bear the idea of having the par
lor shut up, so that no one should see it
till the furniture had grown rusty, conse-
quently she made up her mind that they
must have a party.


Their friends had parties; why should
MT they? 1t looked stingy not to have
one. Mrs. Weston was an eloquent de-
batter, and she gained the day in this
matter. 1t is true the party was not a
very extravagant affair; but it cost Joe
$50. In the meantime Benjamin had
paid quite as much for advertising as his
Year: 1876

Do you know, sweetheart, that under the snow


A million roses lie?
That over the clouds which hang below,


The stars arc in the sky?
That a rainbow shone ere the day was gone


Over the darkest place?
That the fair new moon goes rounding ON


To the fullness of her face?
That our garden brook, so small and slow,


Is widening toward the river?
That under the ice its faithful flow


Makes music sweet as ever!
That the naked trees are all a-throb


With the sweet blood in their veins.
That blindly reaching they yearn and sob


For the blessed April rains?
That the precious seeds of life are pressed


Under the frozen sod,
Till the great earth warns thro' her fruitful


breath


With the spirit of her God?
Year: 1876

TO PREVENT FRUIT TREES FROM SPLIT
TING. 1t frequently happens, in very fer
tile regions, that trees split limb from limb
through sheer weight of fruit. We saw
many instances of this wherever small
garden had been planted in the foothills of
the Sierras in California The common
mode ofprevention is to prop up weighty
branches with piece Of shingle. Isaac
Lewis, of Hopkinsville, KY, gives in the
Prairie Farmer another plan :-"When
find a forked tree that is likely to split, |
look tor small limb on each fork, and
clean them of leaves and lateral branches
for most of their length | then carefully
bring them together and wind them round
each other, from one main branch to the
other. In twelve months they will have
united, and in two years the ends can be
cut off. The brace will grow as fast as
any other part of the tree, and is perfect
security from splitting. l have them now
of all sizes, and scarcely ever knew one
to fail to grow.
Year: 1876

Mr. McIntire, of York county, Me,
writes as follows to the editor of the Ger
mantown Telegraph


Some four years ago the Boston and
Maine Railroad to Portland was built
through and followed the northeast boun-
dairy of my farm on its entrance to this
city. For sixty rods a rut was exc waited
twenty feet deep, the earth of which was
carted out on one side and covered four
acres of moving land from six to ten feet
deep. This dump was composed OF loam
sand, gravel, clay and rocks and it was
was ruined, and obtained damages for
en- with other work, | allowed the dump
to remain unmolested for two years to
warm and dry. Being an eye-sore and
scab on the farm, l determined to abate it
as soon as possible.


first hauled off all the stones and put
them into good wall making piece
some forty rods long; then plowed the
ground and leveled it with scraper for
the moving machine; plowed again and
carted on light dressing Of manure, and
all was leveled, narrowed thoroughly and
sowed to grass seed in August, 1874. Last
summer, to my own surprise and that of
every one, | cut the heaviest crop of hay
l ever saw grow-fully two and half
tons to the acre


Now this goes to convince me that the
earth is composed OF vegetable substances
all the way through, and is only waiting
for the plow to bring it to the surface to
warm and dry in order to produce bounti-
full crops.


Anyone having an old worn-out farm of
which he has become sick, has only to
procure one of our modern steel plows
and gauge it to twice the depth he has
been accustomed to plow, break up that
hard pan underneath and bring it to the
surface, and thus at once secure drainage,
heat and moisture. By doubling the
depth OF your p!owing you double the Ca
pacity of your soil to produce crops, and
perchance turn up new farm which may
please you better than the old one. 1t is
cheaper than to emigrate, and better
every way.
Year: 1876

We never knew farmer to take an axe
or a beetle and 60 and break a wheel here
and knock in a brace there, and crack this
section and clip that one, among his farm
machines, wagons and implements-that
ls,unless he was drunk But some of them
pretty good farmers, too, in most things,
get about the same results in roundabout
way, They store the moving machine in
a leaky shed, where it is used as a turkey
roost the lighter instruments are slowed
away where the cattle knock them down
and break them; the carriage and harness
are kept where the stable fumes spoil the
varnish; and general slip-shod style
knocks off fifty per cent from the value of
the farming equipment. The farmer who
keeps things ship-shape" is generally the
thriving man. 'Down-at-the-heel-a -ativeness
will spread the black frost of mortgage
over farm nearly as quick as rum-drink
ing. TThe Golden Rule.