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Year: 1871

Many think that because small number
oi hens pay well, A large number will pay
in the same proportion Wen, suppose
they would, provided there is ample pro
Vision made TO spread a large number over
large space OF suitable grounds; but all
attempts that have seen or read Of, where
the triad has been made to keep II great
number OF hens together, have proved fail
ures. The only successful production of
poultry ON a large scale that | know of, is
by The Messrs. LelandS OF the Metropolitan
Hotel ol New York city. They have some
thirty 10 forty or more acres devoted to
poultry breeding, but they are scattered
all over it, and kept i'll 4 state OF nature, as
it We're, only we'll supplied with suitable
food in abundance. In this way thousands
are kept with success, or at least were
when heard from them.


If was going into the business on a
large scale, would select piece OF open
woodland or large orchards or brush fields


should, however, prefer orchards, apple,
pear. peach, or plum; is essential. llenner-
les or chicks should always be placed
where they can have shade or sunshine at
viii; and if running streams pass through
the grounds, all the better to save the labor
of watering the birds. Small portable
sheds to rooSt not over twenty-five to fifty
hens each, which could be moved as re
quired by one or two men, with ample snita-
bic nests scattered about in. convenient
localities, the sheds to be so scattered as
to give each colony ample rowing space,
and certainly not more than 4 hundred
head 10 an acre go To an acre would be
better are best


In this way, with proper care and attcn-
ton, have no doubt that keeping poultry
on Il large scale can be made to pay, es-
pccially if ample arrangements are made
TO. a good supply Of spring chicks. IN
winter the hens could be brought in and
made to occupy suitable quarters. Cor
County Gentleman.
Year: 1871

The New York journal of Commerce
says: A dealer in pork has a precocous
son who Is an expert in cards, and, in
playing with his young companions was
seldom on the losing side. lie began at
first to bet on the game, and ere long
could play regular for money with any of
his age disposed to take the risk. He
came home one day, bringing several dol
lars which he had acquired in his small
way of gaming. and exhibited his gains
to his father with quite an air of triumph.
The thoughtful parent shook his head and
told his son that the money was not hon
estly acquired. But did not cheat" said
the boy. II hope not, replied the father
"but did you give the loser any equiva-
lent whatever for it?" The boy hung his
head, and the parent added: "Money is
honestly acquired when there is an ex-
change of products or services, and the
receiver gives an equivalent for it; to
take another mans property and give him
no equivalent for it is to rob or cheat
him.


A few months alter the father came
home from the Produce Exchange with an
elated aspect and announced that he had
settled his speculative contracts in pork
hy the receipt of fifty thousand dollars.
His son eyed him steadily Il moment, and
then said: "What did you give the other
man, father, rs an equivalent for the
money ?"
Year: 1871

The Eldora Ledger is responsible for
the following:


A lady in Union suspecting the fidelity
Of her husband to his wedding sheets,
laid plan to catch him in tlagrante de-
lictu. Believing that he was making love
to n domestic from the Emerald Isle, she
cornered the young Finnegan, and learn
ed to her horror that Benedctine had
made tryst with the gill that night, at a
neighbor's house. She dressed herself
like Miss Murphy, met the sold boy" in
the dark, and retired with him to downy
couch. Stolen apples are considered
sweet, ever since EYES little speculation
in forbidden fruit, and the ''old man" was
clustering with enjoyment. At the witch
ing hour of midnight she lit the Kerosene
lamp, and the terror stricken husband be-
held his own wife, in Bridget's night
dress. As the newsboy said ''Those was
a tableux." 1t is all fixed up now, and
the axles of the matrimonial chariot be-
ing fresh creased, the old machine runs
smoothly as in the early days of the honey
moon.
Year: 1871

While a farmer in Clinton was absent
from the held at dinner the other day, q
mischlevons boy moved his scythe, and
the old fellow moved over half an acre
that he had previously clipped in the fore
noon. He tells this story to illustrate what
he means by "short CROP of hay, and
that the difference in a field that has been
moved and one in which the grass is
standing is not very great journal.
Year: 1871

A RAT STORY. A citizen of unques-'
tionable veracity has enlightened us upon
the sagacity Of rats. After giving us the
particulars OF the wonderful exploits of a
certain cat that had fished seven rats
through a rat hole in q tloorhe informs us
how an old rat watched over the interests
Of the rising generation. 1t seems that
the rats about certain house are peculiar
ly annoying and numerous. A trap was
set Tor them, but to no purpose, as they
would not catch. A thin cloth was then
placed over an ordinary steel trap, and Il
quantity of meal placed over the same.
The party then watched for the victim.
Soon ne appeared, q young rat, unsophis-
ticated, and not versed in the ways that
are dark among rat-catchers. The meal
he got snuff off, and 10! it was good. He
was just about placing his foot upon the
treacherous trap when an old rat was seen
to emerge from neighboring hole, take
look at the dangerous position of the
juvenile, and then with all possible speed
actually hastened up, and, taking hold of
the young ones tail with his teeth, dragged
the rash animal away. Both then disap-
peared in the hole and were seen no more.
We are informed that the above circum-
stance can be vouchcd for by several
parties who were witnesses to the whole
transaction Who can beat it ? Chicago
Post
Year: 1871

l am so sorry to be unable to say
or even hint what Mr.. Collins in
venti0n was, or to what branch of
industry it applied. III were to do
so very many people might name
names, and Mr.. S. P. Collins would
not like his real name divulged in
connection with that suicidal episode
He often confesses indeed, that at one
period Of his life he was, for a short
time, in a terrible state of suspense
but he does not inteud to be taken
literally. You must therefore take
Tom Chatteris piece of luck on
trust, and without verifcation; for
the success of the schemes in which
he had embarked with a gamblers
desperation was never in doubt
from the day that Collins completed
his first order; and Tom embarked
the rest of his capital and all his
time in the affair.


At the end of a twelVemonth he
was in a position to marry Ju. Fas-
sill, who likes the North, where they
live, and is gradually developing a
fine pity, which is nearer akin to
scorn than love, for all people who
are not rich. But she is very charm
ing in her own set, and an angel at
home.


Tom chuckles inwardly to notice
her unwilling adoption of the pursy
hauteur, but refrains from qufzzing
her, for that particular manner pays
in that neighborhood. A goose who
kept her head down in flock where
all the long necks were erect, would
Tu nthe chance of being stihed.


AS for Tom himself, he has devel-
oped into a capital man of business,
so far as action and energy are con
cerned; the best thing he could do
would be to take to farming, or
some congenial pursuit of that kind.
He hunts twice a week, keeps a good
table, believes in his wife to any ex-
tent, plays at no game but whist and
never exceeds half-crown points.


He patronizes the local races, but
remains in his carriage, and does not
60 near the ring. He gives no very
high moral reason for this prudent
conduct.


"Wen, the fact is" says he, 1T
does not do to tempt fate; and I have
had such a tremendous windfall that
I have most probably exhausted al
the luck due to me during the whole
term Of my natural life.-Cbam6ers'
Journal.
Year: 1871

An English paper says: TheJewj of
Germany have been much distressed
Of late by their threatened exclusion
from the solemn prayers and thanks
givings for the late war. 1t seems
that in 1866 already they were neg
lected in this wise by Mr. Mahier'whO
evidently does not in his ministerial
capacity as head of the cultus seem
to have heard of such a thing as
Judaism yet then it was that the
Berlin com nunity represented to his
excellency that there was a certain
collection ordered after the service ia
question, and that since even Jewish
money might be acceptable to the
military fund, they might perhaps
be permitted to 90 through the pre-
liminary service as well Herr Won
Muller then graciOusly gave his
permission, and a great deal of money
was collected. This however was not
to become a precedent. The Jews
might become too proud if they were
asked on another occasion. Ac-
eordingly, they were again left in the
cold, after having poured out their
blood like water on the battlefelds,
and after having received ever so ma
nyiron crosses of course without pro-
motion to a rank higher than corpo-
raj. And, instead Of quietly and
contemptuOusly ignoring the inten-
ded slight they, or a certain Bayarian
rabbi in their name, must needs 90
and again formally ask to be asked
to pray and to pay. Of course Bis
marck at once gave the requisite ord
er, and happiness once more reigns
in the tents of Judah and Israel. We
can quite understand the state Of sen
sitiyeness in which long oppressed
communities remain, even after the
withdrawal of the oppression; but we
should say a Jewish agitation for the
practical removal of their disabil-
tiles which remain in full force long
throughout Germany would be much
more to the purpose.
Year: 1871

NEWSPAPER WoRK-Thc work of the press
is continuous, rs well as constantly public
There is no rest for the weary. Space is no more
aunhilatcd by telegraph than time by journal
ism. The evening and morning are not mere
" the first day but all the seven. Night is an
initiated as to all its quantities OF repose.-
Every minute of every hour of the twenty four
is occupied by some workers doing some work
that shows itself in the newspapers Of the day
and afternoon Repetition is as impossible as
rest Facts are ever new. Comments must be
as fresh as facts and the edition is the rcmorse-
less giant that eats up all the seconds The
making of newspaper is perpetual motion in
thousand fields. In such Il work, demanding
ceaseless effort permitting no pause, exactlng
eternal and ever varying exercises, it is impos-
sbc for wheat to be unmixcd with chaff, for
accuracy not to be impaired by mistake, for
injustice not occasionally to !c done.-LWch-
burg lugiqiiun
Year: 1871

The symptoms Of Liver
Complaint urc uneusincss
and pain in the side. Some
times the pain is in tho
shoulder, and is mistaken


for rheumatism. The stom-
ach is effected with loss OF
appetite and sickness, bowels
in general costive, some
times alternating with lax.
I with pain, and dull, heavy
sensation, considerable loss
of memory, accompanied


with painful sensation Of hav-
ing left undone something
which ought to have been


done. Often complaining or
weakness, debility and low
spirits. Sometimes many OF


u 1
Year: 1871

THE ELEGANT GENTLEMAN ' POLICY. The Los Angeles Star ot late has criticised Stoneman's admin istration severely enough perhaps for paper at that distance, but we will remind that paper of one thing. One year ago, or less, the Colonel estab- ished his headquarters in Arizona the thing he should have done at first and never "gone back on." But mark you, The Star came out in @ "leader, y declaring loudly against policy that would remove from amidst the orange groves such an elegant gentleman" as the officer in question. We noted the words, &c., and put it in print at the time that just "such coniuct as those" would probably prove sorrowful enough to the Territory. It is just such vine-and-fig-tree influence on the west side of Colorado river that prolonged the war on this side, and now let The Star overhaul its cate chism, and turn leaf down"
Year: 1871

The importance attached to the visit re.


Gently paid, and which is likely to be re.


peated, by the representatives of the


Northern press, has not been overrated


We have conversed with number
of them, and, as is expected from per-
sons occupying their positions, they are
intelligent and capable. They are anxious


to form correct opinion of our people
and the country. Their reports on their
return will be looked to with considerable
interest, particularly by those who desire
to seek new homes.


Everywhere else the freedom of cities
and towns through which they have passed
have been voted them We are the excep-
ton so far. Are we less able than Peters.
burg or Staunton to entertain them? We
should not, although we have just passed
through political excitement, overlook
the Importance of giving this matter our
attention. We cannot afford it, and ap-
peal to the business men Of our city to at
once come forward and arrange for paving
the expenses of this party.


The length of time they have been, and
will be the guests of the worthy host of
Ford's hotel, renders it impossible for him
to bear the entire expense of their enter
tainment but we feel sure none will be
more liberal than he, in contributing a
share of it. We should also remember the
handsome and elegant manner in which
the people of Philadelphia entertained our
representatives on their recent visit, and at
east, repay their kindness as far as posi-
Die, by extending similar courtesies to this
party.
Year: 1871

ln few words. has given us a consolation
we have not felt since the election. The
people are resolved that Rings and Cliques
shall not exist inside of the Council.


With the execution of that resolve, the
City must acquire healthy reaction, and
we, although disappointed with the results
of the election, will be pleased to uphold
your selection as long as they do their du-
ty as keepers of the public trust.


Let the Wing resolve to unite with the
people, to destroy corruption there as we'll
as elsewhere, aud the present cause of COM
plant will soon cease, but the weakness of
political papers to cover up the doubtful
conduct OF its friends, or to be silent when
exposed, has become so general, that their
sincerity is often doubted.
Year: 1871

Down to the depths of the soul they go,
Those praying words of human woe,
Thrilling ones heart with pity and fear;
Do they not reach the Almighty's ear?


Murmured SO low


Upward they flow.
Out of a cushioned pew they 60,
Calling to many face a snare;
Do they not reach the Almighty's ear?
Heavens wide arch Of Gothic pile
Over each worshipper all this while.
The one, unlovely in form and face,
Filling on earth but handmade place,
Yet her humble treasures have from her flown
And now she wanders on earth alone;


Praying for food,


Longing for good,
Yet fearing temptation cannot be withstood;
Neither young, nor beautiful, oh fear,
All real, and no romance is here,
Yet, mid the millions who pass her by, zssf
Does she escape the Almighty eye
The other, in silken robe arrayed,
a beautiful and q joyous maid : !.
Will ever be sheltered by love and pride,
Till she stands at the altar happy bride;


A child, she learned


How Heaven is earned,
For Christian teaching she never has spurned
Yet she walks in her youth and loveliness,
Unheeding her power to give and to bless,
Carelessly passing the humble by;
Does she escape the Almighty's eye?
Year: 1871

Oh she was a maid of a laughing eye, N
And she lived in garret cold and high,
And he was threadbare whiskered beau,
And he lived in a cellar damp and low.
But the rosy boy of the cherub wing,
Hath many shaft for his slender string,
And the youth below and the maid above
Were touched by the flaming darts of love.
And she would. wake from her troubled sleer
Ger the tender billet doux to weep;
Or stand like statue cold and fair, .-s
And gaze on lock of his bright red hair.
And he who was late sd tail and proud,
With his step so firm and his laugh SO loud,
His beard grew long and his face grew thin,
And he pined in solitude over his gin.
But one soft night in the month of June,


As she lay in the light of cloudless moon,
A voice came floating soft and clear,


To the startled maidep's listening ear.


O then from her crealting codch she sprung,
And her tangled tresses back she flung,
She looked from the window far below,
And he stood beneath-her whiskered beau
She did not start with foolish frown,


But packed her trunk and scampered down,
And there was her lover tall and true,


In his threadbare coat of its brightest blue.


The star that rose in the evening shade,


Looked sadly down on q weeping maid;


The sun then came in its morning pride,


Shed golden light on laughing bride.
Year: 1871

fume of rose will recall long buried
memory you had supposed to be dead fofi
ever. A little anemone you stumble up
on in the woods will set 10 metions a
thought carrying you back to scenes you
had forgotten. !. A withered rose lesf es >
pressed bud is connecting link whish
makes life more beautiful, recalling the
tender grace Of a day that is dead.
Year: 1871

DETROIT, MICH, Oct. Pain view of
the urgency of immediate and copious sup
plies from people outside of the State, the
following circular appeal to the people of
the United States has been issued by the
Michigan State Relief Committee:


To the People of the United States:


We need instant and plentiful aid. From
1900 to $1,000 at least in the State of
Michigan have lost their homes, food,
clothing, crops, horses and cattle. On the
night of the Chicago fire 1000 people on
the east shore of Lake Michigan and 5000
to 6,000 on the west shore of Lake Huron
were reduced TO almost absolute destitu-
ton. Within two or three weeks other
small villages and settlements have been
blotted out. The number of individual
farmhouseS, barns and frontier dwellings
which have been destroyed by the all-per
vading fire cannot, from want of informa-
ton, be accurately calculated. The aggre-
gate we know to be enormous. The fires
are still burning, and new ones spring up.
The area of ruin and devastation is
daily increasing. The intensity and dra-
matte magnifcence of the calamities which
have been overwhelming other cities and
NLisL8cS dIc ldChlllS ucIc, DuJ LlIC ollAlCl Is
exists. A long, hard, cold winter is ap-
preaching. Large numbers of these people
are accessible only by water, and navigation
will soon be closed. Scarcely month or
six weeks now remain in which to feed,
clothe and shelter them for the winter sea-
son, which extends far into the months of
spring. They must be helped now or they
will perish. They will need, too, in the
early spring, seed and implements for the
harvest of next year. The greater portion
of them must commence life entirely anew,
without preparation and at the beginning
of winter Their isolation from the cen
tres of commerce and the means of commu-
nication makes the problem of relief
more difficult and all the more urgent.
The people of Michigan have nobly respond
ed to the appeals which this misery has
made to their sympathy and generosity, but
they are severely crippled indirectly in their
business by the Chicago fire, and directly
by the assistance they gave to the sufferers
from that calamity before they were aware
of the demands which would be made on
them at home. Many of them too, have
lost their resources by the fires which have
occurred in this State. In their name, and
on behalf of the victims already known,
and of many whom we fear are yet un-
known, We ask prompt aid, efficient aid
from our benevolent fellow-citizens every
where. Money and supplies may be sent
direct to the Michigan Relief Committee at
Detroit or Grand Rapids.
Year: 1871

A leading article in late number Of The
st. Paul Press gave the following noun
full account of the condition Of things at the
''head Of navigation:7 'sThe Mississippi
has almost dried up. The majestic river
whose magnificent volume two thousand
miles from its outlet has been the theme Of
the tourists admiration; so broad and deep
that it seemed some grand estuary of the
sea on which the nayies Of the world might
ride, has shrJInk to a mere ridiculous creek,
and its thin and attenuated current crawls
lazily, as if it were ashamed Of its shrunk
shanks, among low, red, bare submarine
ridges and beaches Of sand that have never
seen the sun before, so far as human knowl
edge goes, since God separated the waters
from the dry land. The water has never
been so low within the memory Of the Old
est inhabitant. Herds Of cattle bask IN the
sunshine on the dry bed Of the great river
ten or iiften feet under the level OftIse wa
tiers where few months ago great fleets
of steamboats, rode at viii. Boys with their
trousers rolled up to their knees sound with
their feet the grand mysterious depths
which have engulfed so many wayvard
boys and hapless men whom accident or
rashness has enta1gled in the strong swim
undertOw.'
Year: 1871

New YORK, Oct. 31.-A late Paris letter
to the London Times says the working
classes manifest an indisposition to labor
In many instances trade is suffering both
from the want of skilled artisans and from
the habits of idleness which were contracted
during the siege. In the rebuilding of the
city the wOrkmen only consent to restore
what some of their number have contributed
to destroy OF the payment of exorbitant
wages, and even then they often leave the
work half done.
Year: 1871

LITTLE Rock, Oct. 3l.-The Littl crock
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, the State Medical Associa-
citation and the Grand Lodge of Odd Eel
lows meet tomorrow. There is a large
number of strangers in the city.
Year: 1871

In late vacation letter Henry Ward
Beecher enUmerates as among tbs delights
of summer rest the privilege Of wearing Old
clothes. This is a privilege that a good
many clergymen have the whole year
round.
Year: 1871

Is seen throughout the whole movement,
though he does not appear in the foreground,
and it is considered as virtual revolution
in English politics. Some of the papers OBJ
ject to the artisan alone being benefited,
while the agricultural laboTers are entirely
ignored; but there are now no papers which
belittle any longer the startling social and
political movement between the Peers and
the people. England was also excited in
regard to a striking speech made by the
wel[known Bradlaugh, again affirming the
Year: 1871




The lately revived custom of tbrowino
shoes after newly welded couple for luck i
very old one In the Isle of. Man, the shoe
IS thrown after bride and bridegroom as thew
leave their respective abO6es, but the eere-
mOny is generally performed elsewhere. upon
the departure of the hero and heroine OF the
day on the honeymoon trip. In some parts OF
hent the shOe-thrOEing does not take plaee
until afer they have gone, when the single IA.
dies range themselves In one line. and the
bachelors range themselves in another. An
old shoe Is them thrown as far as the throw
ers strength permits, and the ladies race aE.
ter 1t, the winner being rewarded by the as>
surance that she will be married before apS
OF her rivals She then throws the shoe at
the gentlemen, the one she hits layipp the
same pleasing unciion to his heart Some
thing like this Is practiced, too, in Yorkshire
and Scotland. In Germany it used 10 be =
rule for the bride, as she was being coDjue,ed
to her chamber, to take of her shoe and throw
It among the guests, who batIled for its pOs-
session, the successful he or she being des-
tined to be speedily married aud settled. In
England the bride, from between the sheets.
threw her left stocking over the shoulder Of
one OF the company, the person upou whom
It fell being marked out as the next individual
to be married. In some places the threshold
Is Kept warm for another bride BY pouring a
kettletul OF hot water down the door steps n
soon as the bride aud bridegroom have taken
their departure; the fancy being that, before
the water dries up, another match will bo
made up, or "fow on" aud that It will not be
very long before another welded couple passes
over the SAND ground. 10 Prussia the method
adopted OF invoking blessings on newly mar
rled pair used to be the more expensive one
OF smashing crOckery against the door of the
house in which they were domiciIeh