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Year: 1875

Respect to aged persons is one Of


the virtues. There is no period in life


when our parents do not claim oul


attention, love, and warmest affection


From youth to manhood, from middle


to ripper years, if our parents survive,


it should be constant study how we


may best promote their welfare and


happiness and smooth the pillow Of


their declining years Nothing better


recommends an individual than bis at


tention to bis parents. There are such


dutiful children; men whose high am


bition seems the promotion Of their
fathers and mothers. They watch over
them with unwearied care-supply all
their wants, and by their devotion and
kindness remove all care and sorrow
from their hearts. On the contrary
there are others, who seem never to
bestow thought upon their parents,
and to care but little whether they are
situated comfortably or not. By their
conduct they increase their cares. en-
bitter their lives and bring their gray
hairs with sorrow to the grave Sell
fShness has steeled their hearts to the
whispers of affection, and avarice denies
to their parents those favors that would
materially assist them in the downhill
of life. Others, too, by course of
profigacy and vice, have drained to the
very dregs their parents cup of happi-
ness, and made them anxious for death
to release them from suferings Oh I!
how fearful must be the doom of those
who have thus embittered the
lives of their best earthly friends. If
there is "world of woe. beyond the
precints Of the tomb, surely they can
not escape its horrors There can be
no happier reflection than that derived
from the thought Of having contributed
all in our power to the comfort and
happiness Of our parents. When called
away from our presence (Which sooner
Or later may be, } the thought will be
sweet, that our effort and our care
smoothed their declining days. so that
hey depart in peace. If we were other
wise, if We denied them what their cir
and necessaries required,
ind our hearts did not become like the
neither milestone. our remorse must
prove thorn in our flesh, piercing us
sharply, and filing our days with sor-
'ow and regret.
Year: 1875

A prominent citizen on Nelson street,
who is the proud possesser of hand
some daughter, went home to tea the
other evening and said to his wife !:
" Mother, l have finally succeeded in
my petition for street lamp on our
street, and it is going to be set directly
in front of our gate" A sudden
scream and heavy fall sounded from
the next room The affrighted parents
rushed in there. Their daughter lay
PROSTATE on the floor. She had faint
ed Danbury News.
Year: 1875

They want no food for many hours
after they are Matched. as they are then
digesting the yolk of the egg, which
constitutes their food, and acquiring
strength to run about. When they be-
gin to peck, they should be ted with
soft food and small grain. Unquestion-
ably the best soft food is an an egg beaten
up with q tablespoonful of milk, and
heated in the oven or by the side of q
fire until II sets into q soft custard.
Chickens fed or partially fed on this
make wonderful progress. If they are
to make large fowls, they must be fed
soon after daylight; if, IS is too often
the case, they are left hungry for three
hours in the morning, they are always
stunted in their growth. They must be
fed the first thing, and, while they are
young, every two or three hours during
the day.
Year: 1875

A writer in the Home Journal gives in
struction in the difficult matter of eat
ing an orange without detriment to
hands or napkins:


Always. on a southern gentleman's
table, the desert of oranges is furnished
with small silver fruit knives and
spoons. The orange is held in the nap
kin-just as you hold an egg-and with
the slender point of the knife a circular
incision is carefully made in the stem
end of the orange, and the stem core is
nicely cut out, leaving an oriice large
enough to admit an egg spoon. The
orange is held an eaten then, just as
gourmands eat an egg, in its own shell !;
and the skill and grace with which this
is done-that is, without soiling the
fingers or napkin-are, as in the same
process with the egg, a test Of good
breeding. I have. known the most in
expert persons to master the few diff
culties in the way after two or three
efforts; and their satisfaction was an
infinitely pleasant sight. To hostesses
who like to have their tables preserve in
some degree, at the close of an enter
tainment, the beauty which dazzied the
guests upon entering, this method is
most desirable. Servants-let me put
in q plea for those silent ones whose in
terests are seldom regarded-are spared
the tedious duty of fragments; and
guests who look with dismay at this
tempting apple of Hesperides, can thus
enjoy it as they never did before. Only
the delicious nectar of the fruit is eaten,
with the more delicate pulp; the tough
fibre-of which indeed, there is very lit
tie in an orange plucked from the tree
under its own skies-being left in the
shell.
Year: 1875

PLANT WALNUTs.-As an illustration
of the increasing value of walnut lum-
ber, the indianapolis Journal notes that
the standing walnut trees on half Sec
tion of land in Miami county, Indiana,
were sold for $4,000. There is a large
amount of other timber on the tract,
which is not included, only the walnut
timber being sold. Walnut timber is
coming more into use throughout this
country and Europe, and at present a
very large business is done in preparing
and shipping it in Indiana. An
exchange says that every person should
plant lot of walnuts about his house
and out-buildings, corrals, about his
farm and in ravines. Hundreds could
be planted in few hours, and without
further care they would increase steadily
in in value, year by year. Try it. Of
course they would grow more rapidly if
cultivated, but even without it they
would grow.
Year: 1875

We venture to question the necessity
of the greater part of the illness that
arises from colds Why should people
have colds at all? Unlike many other
diseases it is well understood how they
arise: al the conditions and causes that
produce colds are continually pointed
out by physicians; they are easily meas
ured and recognized, and can as easily
be guarded against. All that is requir-
ed is due forethought and caution-fore-
thought and caution that extend to the
condition of the atmosphere in the house
the kind of heat used for warming the
rooms, the prevalence of draughts, the
clothing worn at home and abroad, the
precautions against sudden changes of
weather, the maintenance of warm and
dry feet, the protection of the lungs and
other delicate or susceptible parts of the
body; all of which are essentially con-
trollable things with every one possess
ing the ordinary faculties, and endowed
with the average share of good sense. If
it were penal eaense to take cold; if a
cough arising from .houghtless exposure
were punished by a weeks imprison-
ment; if getting sick because of mere
incapacity to measure conditions and
arrange precautions were always follow
ed by legal penalty and a loss of re-
spectability-catching cold would soon
be among the "lost arts" There is no
use of having judgment if we do not ex-
ercise it; no use of brains if we cannot
employ forethought in SO simple thing
as this. In nine colds out of ten the
victim has been too stupid to take ad-
vantage of former experience, too torpid
to understand the nature or necessity of
preventive measures, and too dull to de-
tect the palpable circumstances out of
which the cold has come. A child learns
not to fall down stairs after two or three
experiences of the kind; not to burn his
fingers in the crate after testing the
quality of hot Goals and hot iron; but
adults 60 OF getting colds from causes
that repeat former blunders with a per-
versity that is simply amazing.-Apple-
toms journal.
Year: 1875

To CLEAN FOUL GUNs.-Guns and
rifles may be easily cleaned from lead by
the following: If a muzzle-loader. stop
up the pipple or communication hole
with little wax, or if breech-loader
insert cork in the breech rather tight.
ly; next pour some quicksilver into the
barrel, shaking it about for a few min
utes. The mercury and the lead will
form an amalgam, and leave the barrel
as clean and free from lead as the first
day it came out of the shop. The same
quicksilver can be used repeatedly by
straining it through wash-leather, for
the lead will be left behind in the leath-
er, and the quicksilver will be again fit
for use.
Year: 1875

The Department of Agriculture pub
fishes the following experiments which
gentleman from Georgia tried and
found effective in dispelling that serious
trouble in horses. About thirty years
ago friend lost by bots very fine horse.
He took from the stomach OF the dead
horse about gill of bots. and brought
them to my house to experiment upon.
He made preparations of every remedy
he had heard of, and put some of them
into each. Most had no effect, few
affected them slightly, but sage tea more
than anything else; that killed them in
fifteen hours. He concluded he would
kill them by putting them in nitric
acid, but it had no more effect on them
than water; the third day they were as
lively as when put in. A bunch Of tan
zy was growing by my Office. He took
handful of that, bruised it, added a
a little water, squeezed out the juice,
and put some in; they were dead in a
minute. Since then have had it given
to every horse 1 have had effected with
bots, and have never known it to fail in
giving entire relief. My friend had an
other horse affected with bots several
years later. He gave him the tanzy in
the morning and dose of salts in the
evening; the next morning he took up
from the excretions three half pints OF
hofs
Year: 1875

There is no good reason why farmers
and their families should eat so much
salt pork, leaving all the fresh meat to
the inhabitants of cities and villages.
when the following method will keep
meat fresh for weeks, even in the warm
est weather. ! know, for I have tried it
for over ten years: As soon as the ani-
NAL heat is out of the meat slice it up
ready for keeping. Prepare large jar
by scalding we'll with hot salt and water.
Mix salt and pulverized saltpeter in the
proportions of one tablespoonful of salt
peter to one teacupful of salt. Cover
the bottom of the jar with a sprinkle of
salt and pepper. Put down a layer of
meat. sprinkle with salt and pepper the
same as if just going to the table, and
continue in this manner till the jar is
full. Fold cloth or towel and wet it
in strong salt and water, in which lit
tie of the saltpeter is dissolved. Press
the cloth closely over the meat and set
in cool place. Be sure and press the
cloth on tightly as each layer is removed
and your meat will keep for months. 1t
is good plah to let the meat lie over
night after it is slcied before packing.
Then drain off all the blood that oozes
from it. 1t will be necessary to change
the cloth occasionally, or take it off and
wash it-frst in cold water-then scald
in salt and water as at first. In this
way farmers can have fresh meat the
whole year round. have kept beef
that was killed on the 18th of February
till the 2lst of June. Then packed
large jar of veal in the same way during
the dog days and it kept six weeks.
This recipe alone is worth the price of
any newspaper in the land.-Cor. ~ Y
Herald.
Year: 1875

To REMOVE A TIGHT FINGER RING-
In case finger ring becomes too tight
to pass the joint of the finger, the finger
should FIRST be held in cold water to re-
duce any swelling or inflammation. Then
xrap rag soaked in hot water around
the ring to expand the ring, and lastly
soap the finger. A needle threaded
with strong silk can then be passed be-
tween Che ring and the finger, and per-
son holding the two ends and pulling
the silk, while sliding it around the
periphery of the ring. will readily re-
move the latter. Another method is to
pass q piece Of sewing silk under the
ring. and wind the thread in pretty
close spirsls sad closely around the
finger to the end-that below the ring
and begin unwinding.
Year: 1875

I have been somewhat interested in
the discussion upon the shrinkaSe in
values. and especially when applied to
farm products, and more especially to
the products of the dairy as they are
reckoned necessary for all classes, rich and
poor. Now there are as many grades OF
society as there are of butter and cheese.
The best qualities are sold to those who
can best afford to use them. That class
of consumers are increasing in this coun-
try faster than the supply of good but
ter and cheese, and they would be more
willing to pay still higher prices than to
eat poor butter. Good butter takes a
position among the luxuries, as do choice
fruits. I have seen persons 60 into a
fruit store and purchase = basket of fruit
say four quarts in all-made up of a
few pears, peaches, and some fine grapes
grown under glass and pay ten dollars
for it, and find no fault with the price.
That class will have good butter if it is
in the market, even at high price, if it
is really nice, because it is more palata.
BILE and more healthy. Good sweet but
ter is as good for consumptives as cod
liver oil, while it is much more pleasant
to take. 1t is very plain that taxing a
luxury does not very much decrease its
consumption. Now my advice to farm
ers is, if you can make first quality but
ter, send it to good market instead of
selling your milk at a reduced price.
There is no danger that the price of
prime butter will depreciate very much
at present.. j., in ~ E. Farmer.
Year: 1875

CRACKED WHEAr.-Rinse thoroughly
with cold water, two teacups of wheat,
add four cups of cold water, place the
basin in steamer and cover closely. In
half an hour or so, stir and salt to the
taste. Let it steam four or FIVE hours,
stirring once or twice. Good hot, warm
or cold, for breakfast dinner and tea. To
be eaten with rich milk, or cream if you
are fortunate enough to have it. Many
use a little sugar with this and with
Graham pudding.
Year: 1875

Probably there is no complaint that afiiicts the
human system, which is so little understood at
the present time, Us some of the varied forms of
Kidney Complaints.


There is no disease which causes such acute
pain or more alarming in its results than when
the kidneys fail to secrete from the blood the uric
acid, and other poisonous substances, which the
blood accumulates IN its circulation through the
system.


the functions devOlying upon them, the cumula-
tions are taken up by the absOrbents and the
whole system thrown into q state Of disease,
causing great pain and suffering, and very often
immediate death. Hence the Importance of keep
ing the kidneys and blood in . healthy condition,
through which all the impurities of the body
Year: 1875

RAISED WAFFLEs.-One pint of sweet
milk, one teacupful of butter, three
eggs, a teaspoonful of thick brewers
yeast, one quart of -four, and another
cup of milk, in which dissolve a tea
spoonful of soda. Let it all rise until
light, and then bake like other wafi1es.
Serve with butter and sugar or maple
sugar.
Year: 1875

1t is generally believed in some of the
counties of Michigan that men will do
more plotting and planning to rob o
hen COOP, than would be necessary to
insure a successful bank burgalry.
Year: 1875

II" am m old fellow" said Cow.
per. In one of his letters to Hurd. "but
once had my dancing days. as you have
now; yet conld never find out that I
could learn half so much of a woman's
character by dancing with her as by
c1nversing with her at home, where I
could observe be- behavior unseen, at
the table. at the fireside, and in all the
trying circumstances of life. We are
all good when We are pleas ed; but she
Is good woman who wants no fiddle
to sweeten her."
Year: 1875

The Lives Insured by the Society are carefully
selected in different parts of North America and
Europe, furnishing. by this broad field Of opera
tions, an additional and exceptional safety to the
Pollcy.bolders. The Insurances are made only on
the Mutual Principle. The Surplus Premiums are
returned annually to the Insured.
Year: 1875

WASHINGTON Dec s, 1876.
REPUBLICAN ALARM REGARDING THE NEXT
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION -MoRToN's ELEc-
ToRAL COLLEGE MEASURE.


The alarm ofsome of the republicans at the power pos
sessed by the democrats in their control OF the House Of
representatives is the OF the fresh agitation
begun to-day by Senator Morton Of the movement TO
throw additional safeguards around the method of pro.
ceeding in counting the electoral votes for President
and Vice President The republicans fear that in tho
Of close vote In the Electoral College the demo.
cratic majority might take advantage OF some
tridng nformaty in the certificates such
the character OF ahe appended seal
or other feature OF the document TO nullfy
votes enough to prevent choice in the College and
thus throw the election Of President and Vice President
into the House Of Representatives. Senator Morton
emphasizes his determination 70 work for reform OF
the method Of cectng the President and during his
term OF office will persist in his efforts 10 secure the
Year: 1875

PHILADELPHIA, Dec g. 1875.
In spite of the continued inciement weather the at
tendance at the revival meetings continues to be large
although the building is not besieged by the
thousands who hocked there during the first week The
MONDAY services during this week have been vstedby
large delegations from the adjacent towns and vllage
of Pennsylvania and New Jersey


At to-day's Mr. Moody probably hit the nail
tho head when ne dcpored the fact that many per-
into the inquiry rooms out of curiosity. If
he had said that many also attend the meetings from
the same motive 1t would doubtless have been true
Year: 1875

The Presidents message concluded
with the following summing up OF
leading questions for consideration:


AS this will be the last annual mes
sage which | shall have the honor OF
transmitting to Congress before my sue
cessor is chosen, l will repeat or reca-
pitulate the questions which deem OF
vital Importance to be legislated upon
and settled at this session:


First-That the States shall be required
to afford the opportunity of a good
common school education to every child
within their limits.


Second-NO seetarian tenets shall
ever be taught in any school supported
in whole or in part by the State, nation,
or by the proceeds of any tax levied
upon any community; make education
compulsory so far as to deprive all per-
sons who cannot read and write from
becoming voters after the year 1890,
DISTINGUISHING none, however, on
grounds of illiteraey who may be voters
at the time this amendment takes effect.


Third-Declare Church and State for
ever separate and distinct, but each free
within their proper spheres, and that all
church property shall bear its own pro-
portion of taxation.


Fourth-Drive cut licensed immoral
lty, such as polygamy aud the importa-
tion of women for illegitimate purposes.


To recur again to the Centennial, il
would seem as though now, as we were
about TO begin thesecond century of our
national existence, would be a most fit-
ting time for these reforms.


Fifth-Enact such laws as will insure
q speedy return to sound currency,
such as will command the respect of the
world.


Believing that these views will COM
mend themselves to a great majority Of
the right-thinking and patriotic citizens
of the United States, 1 submit the rest
to Congress.
Year: 1875

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light
The year is dying with the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring happy bells across the snow;
The year is going, let IL go;
King out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress for all mankind.
Ring out slowly, dying cause
And ancient forms of petty strife
Ring in the nobler modes OF life
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the woe, the sin,
The faithless GOODNESS of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride In place and blood
The civic slander and the spite
Ring In the love Of truth and right,
Ring in the common love Of good
Ring out old shapes of foul disease
King out the narrowing lust OF gold:
Ring out the thousand woes OF old,
Ring In the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
Inc larger heart, the kindlier hand
King out the darkness of the land
ring out Ine CHRIST that Is TO be,


-rTeuHyson.
Year: 1875

If Congress wants to do good thing,
there is splendid opportunity for it in
cutting down the enormous expense at
tending the public printing. The great
bulk of public documents annually
turned out by the Government Printing
Office is as so much worthless material
scattered broadcast over the land, and
resulting in no public benefit whatever.
Huge books, gotten up on an expensive
scale, with maps and illustrations, find
their way into every nook and corner of
the country, only to be used as so much
waste material. Hundreds of thousands
oi GOllars are thus anhualIy squSnuere9
be public disgrace and an outrage il
such wanton extravaganza is allowed to
continue any longer.
Year: 1875

Miss Partridge, of Pennsylvania, speak
ing before the American Woman Suf-
frage Association, at its recent session
in New York city, said that her expert
ence in Michigan, where she had spent
six weeks making ''stump speeches. in
churches, school-houses, and court
rooms during the recent campaign, had
convinced her that talking was not use
less. Wherever she had spoken the
room had been crowded with men who
listened attentively, and the vote cast
in favor of Woman Suffrage showed
that those who had listened to her and
to the few others who had spoken in IA
vor of the measure proved that their au-
diences had not been drawn together by
simple curiosity. And she had learned
another thing while on that campaign
ing tour. She had heard, ever since she
could remember, that if women should
mix in. politics they would lose not only
the courtesy, but the respect of men.
She had travelled all over the State of
Michigan, among total strangers, who
knew her only as a lecturer in favor of
Woman Suffrage, and yet she had not
heard word nor received a look that
she could resent.
Year: 1875

and pepper, to which the sick mother
did reasonable justice.


Jason Andrews made grave on the
rolling prairie, in sight of the spot Sc
lected by Mark Morrison for his home,
and, assisted by widow and children,
one-half of the once united family head
was borne to its last resting-place, with
no coffin but the rude shakes that Madge
had made, and left to enjoy the last earth
sleep with no monument erected to his
memory save the love and sorrow of the
mourners.


ITO be continuedI
Year: 1875

Will any one explain in what respect
an incompetent man is better than an
efficient woman as a member of school
committee ?-Ne10 Bedford Mercury.


The explanation is an easy one. An
incompetent man may help his party or
his friends by his vote; no woman, how
ever ''efficient," can thus repay those
who nominate and elect her. A poll
tician who has succeeded by bargain
and intrigue in securing q place on .
ward and city committee will not be
so foolish as to throw away his power
and influence by voting fora woman
Boston Traveller. ~
Year: 1875

It is worthy of note that Garrison and
Phillips have lived to see the death of
almost all the men who went into po-
litical life In defense of the anti-slavery
principle. May they live to see the en-
Of woman.
Year: 1875

It is doubtless safe to say that we
have as voters in the United States fully
1000, 600 of men who religiouBly hold
that their first and highest allegiance il
due to the Pope of Rome.-NdtioaGt
Protestant.