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Year: 1876

Mr.. SpurgeOu once went to preach in
a church a little outside of London.
The day was wet and muddy, and the
pants of Mr.. Spurgeon We're plentifully
covered with dirt A good deacon in
the vestry said, "Brother Spurgeon, let
me get a brush and take off some of the
mud, you can't go into the pulpit in
that state" Don't be foolish, deacon"
said Mr. Spurgeon, in his usual good
humored way, Don't you see the mud
is wet, and if you try to rub it off now
you viii rub the stain in the cloth? Let
it dry and then it will come off easy
enough and leave no mttk." There is
al admirable hint here for every one.
When evil spoke against any one may
be for the sake Of the truth and men
thiow mud ut us, don't be Ill hurry
about brushing it off. Too great eager
ness in this respect is apt to rub the
stain III the cloth. Let it dry, and then
byrand-by. # need be, it can be remov-
ed by little effort. If there is a little
trouble in the church don't foster it BY
haste and hurry in doing something.
Let it alone. Let it dry, and it will be
more easily settled than you ti,inh now.
Time has wonderful power in such mat
ters, and it is surprising how many
things in this world would be far better
arranged, and how many difficulties
easily got over by judiciously letting
them dry.
Year: 1876

The time for picking approaches.
This requires good vinegar. To have
this where the supply is small let the
housekeepers take a four-gallon Jug
and put into it gallon, or even two
quarts, of good cider vinegar, and af-
terwards use it as receptacle for all
cold tea, skimmings of jelly or pre-
serves, and rinsing out of molasses jugs,
and an excellent article of vinegar can
be produced Keep the jug near the
stove in warm place, cover tee mouth
with muslin cloth, and IN SIX weeks 1t
may be fit for use, when 1t may be
poured off into other vessels, taking
care not to turn out any sediment or
"mother. If the vinegar, when made,
is wanting in strength, saturate several
thicknesses of brown paper with molas-
ses and put in the jug, and it will make
mother. This is Daisy Everbrights


mode of making vinegar, as detailed III
t heCountYy Gentleman.
Year: 1876

What constitutes young lady? An
idle girl one ignorant of the useful arts
of life? No! thousand times no! Far
more lady is she who has had thor
ough training in her own fathers house
whose fingers are trained to labor or
art of some sort. The Princess Louise
is an artist; there is no royal road to
art. and her skill. like that of any other
woman, is the result of study and labor.
Bismarck's daughter is what we in
America should cell "a capable girl. "
Besides her accomplishments, she has
great skill with her needle, is versed III
all the good German home-arts, and is
possessed of rare good sense and kindly
virtues. Let us be done with the non
sense which awards the title"gentleman
to our sons who work, and denies that
of "lady" to any but aimless, useless
girls. Let our girls have chance for
honest independence in this world of
many changes.
Year: 1876

1t is hopeless to attempt to fatten


chickens while they are at liberty.


They must be pat up in proper coop,


and this, like most other appurtenanccs,


need not be expensive. To fatten


twelve fowls, a coop may be three feet


long, eighteen inches high and eighteen
inches deep, made entirely Of bars. No


part solid, neither top, sides nor bot


tom. Discretion must be used accord


ing to the size of the chickens put up.


They do not want any room; indeed,
the closer they are the better, provided
they can all stand up at the same time


Care must be taken TO put up saoh no
have been accustomed to be together
or they will fight. II one is quarrel
some, it is better to remove it at oucg,
as, IKE other bad examples, it soon


finds imitators. Diseased chickens
should never be put up.


The food should be ground oats, an
may either be put in a trough or on p
fiat board running along the length of
the coop. 1t may be mixed with water
and milk, the latter is the better. IL
should be well soaked, forming pulp
as loose as can be, provided it does not
run off the board. They must be we'll
fed three or four times day, the first
time as soon after daybreak as may be
possible or convenient, and then at in
tervals of four hours. Each meal
should be as much as can be eaten up
clean, and no more; when they have
done feeding, the board should be
wiped up and some gravel spread. 1t
causes them to feed and thrive.


After fortnight of this treatment
you will have good fat fowls. If, how
ever, there are but five or six fowls to
be fatted, they.nust not have as much
room as though there were a dozen.
is easier than to allow them
the proper space, as it is only necessary
TO have two or three pieces OF wood
pass between the bars and form a par
tition. This may also serve when fowls
are put up AZ different degrees of fat
ness. This requires attention, or fowls
will not keep fat and healthy. AS
soon as the fowl is sufficiently fatted, it
must be killed. otherwise it will not get
Fatter, but lose its flesh. If fowls are
Intended for the market, they may be
lated at once; but if for home con-
it is better to put up at such
intervals as will suit the time when
hey will he required for the table.


When the time arrives for the killing,
whether they are meant for the market
,r otherwise, they should be tasted
without fooG or water for twelve or fl
IN h hours. Ihis enables them to keep
sometime aftec being killed, even II


.-f-yvxsasnef
Year: 1876

Editors Dispatch: It's no wonder your
paper is so very popular in our city, for it
attacks abuse wherever it exists. Well you
may ask, "ShaA ne never have a fair vote"
But, sir, you never will until you have honest
men as judges. Carpet-baggers will not do.


Will you please use your influence to have
a law framed that no one Shall act as judge
Of election unless he in his own right owns
q homestead ? and you will confer great
favor on many %. CONSERVATIVES.
Year: 1876

Il have tried the PERUVIAN SYRuP and
the result fully sustains your prediction.
1t has made a new man of me, infused
into my system new vigor and energy
l am no longer tremulous and debilitated
as when you last saw me, but stronger,
heartier and with larger capacity for
labor, mental and physical than at any
time during the last five years."
Year: 1876

A BRUTAL MoTHER.-A drunken
woman known as Charcoal Sal" was
in the City Hall cells. last night with
a small baby which she so shamefu)ly
Neglected that she let it fall from the
bench to the floor, where it laid until
Capt. Chopper unlocked the door
picked the baby up, and compelled
the unnatural mother to take better
care of il
Year: 1876

doughface allies of the North are looking
for much sweetness" in the way OF the
remanding of the negro to condition of
peonage, whereby the shareholders may
again subsist upon his unrequited labor;
but those who have greater confidence in
the virtue of the American people indulge
the belief that sweeping Republican vic
tory on the 7th of November will be the
"meat" which will come therefrom to
gladden. the hearts of all patriots. { Bishop
Elliott deceased about five years since,
but he lived long enough to see that the
application which he gave his text was not
strictly correct and that he might have
made his discourse more impressive had he
possessed the prophetic vision to enable
him to foretell the important event which
followed soon after he delivered his men,
orable "war sermon"
Year: 1876

cumulated profits of labor. Itis necessary
that labor should assert its voice in its own
defense at the ballot-box. The cause of
labor in the South is the cause Of the ne
gro. 1t is the cause Of impartial suffrage.
Labor belongs to the creditor class. The
lsborer performs hiswork before he receives
his pay. He credits his employer, who
pretends to be the capitalist, till the end OF
the week, month or quarter, and for por-
tiop, perhaps, until the crop is made and
marketed. And yet these land owners af-
feet to be the patrons of labor. Why the
fact is that without the aid of labor the land
owners would soon be paupers. This labor
question in the South will soon overshadow
all others, and will control the politics OF
that section. 1t will unite the white and
black labor in bonds of personal interest,
and those intelligent and far-seeing land
owners who will display the courage neces-
sary to grapple with it and take the lead in
its direction and control, will deserve best
of their country.
Year: 1876

The Southern land owners should take
warning from the popular voice in Ohio
and Indiana. That voice appears to have
condemned eight or ten of the allies of the
Southern bandits in Congress to stay at
home next term. The indications are that
the people do not approve the policy of the
Democratic House last session. The
Forty fifth Congress will scarcely be of
character TO aid the Defarious policy of
Southern Democrats. The sooner these
landowners, who claim superiority over
laborers on account of their inherited or
acquired possessions, recognize the fact
that it is the culture of land that makes its
value rather than the possession of title in
fee, and then learn to cherish and protect
the labor necessary to its proper culture,


regardless Of the color or previous condi-
ton of servitude of that labor, the sooner
will they find their landed possessions
yielding them a profit. The Southern
Democrats and the landowners are here
used as Synonymous terms, because in the
South no one was ever considered worthy
Of honors and confidence unless he in
herited property or bonds and stocks or
negro servants or had acquired the same.
And, strange TO say, such people were
always considered too good to toll with the
hands. In other words, to work was not con-
sidered genteel. Now, that labor has the
legal right to vote and study and accumu-
late, it becomes the principal factor in social
economy, instead Of being, as formerly
under the slave systems part of the estate.
Why cannot Southern men realize this2
Real estate being of no value unless i'm
proved by labor, is now an encumbrance,
because it will not pay taxes if the labor is
not obtsinable 70 cultivate it. 1t is most
singular that the Southern landowners do
not see this subject in the same light with
their best writer upon political economy
either before or since the war. We allude
to Hon. VIM. NJ. Burwell, of New Orleans.
He has become convinced that the true way
to secure remunerative labor is to employ
and pay it, educste and elevate it until it
becomes thoroughly intelligent and skilled.
Every movement in the direction of educa-
ton of labor tends indirectly to increase the
value of the land which that labor is en-
ployed to cultivate. If labor is oppressed,
reduced to peonage, it will dwindle, wither
and finally evaporate. Skilled labor natu


rally avoids and shuns the localities in which
ordinary labor is dishonored. Every at
tempt 10 reduce the labor Of a section to the
level of chattel is positive warning to in
teJIigent labor to keep away from that Sec
tion. II is more than this. 1t is an impera-
tive command from the aggregated labor
interests of the country to shun all such
localities, lest capital should vaunt itself
sboys lis creator. Capital is but the &C.
Year: 1876

WE CONTINUE the publication of such
returns as have been received up to the
hour of going to press. They indicate that
the Republicans have good reason to con-
graduate themselves upon their success.
They have made important and decisive
gains OF members of Congress, which show
that the hearts of the people are sound
upon the Republican national policy. They
have cerlaipIy elected their State ticket in
Ohio by IN increased majority over last
year, whi.e their Indiana State ticket is
still in d.Upt
Year: 1876

THE New York Herald has been very
uncomfortable for several days because it
could not tell exactly which party would
get the best of the October elections. 1t
has been blowing hot and cold and volun-
teering some very silly advice to Southern
negroes. 1t has besought them to vote the
Democratic ticket in order to get protec-
ton; C) The idea of getting protection
from Democratic bandits for negroes 1t
is one worthy of the genius of the Herald.
The Western news may open its eyes.
Year: 1876

For figuring victory out of defeat COM
mend US to the New York World. 1t Is
perfectly satisfied with the Uictories of its
party in Ohio and Indiana on Tuesday. A
loss of dozen members of the lower
House of Congress it couRts as a grand
cictory, and it expects to do better in No
vember. Whistle up your courage
Year: 1876

A correspondent asks, "Would it not give a
better ecldt to Washington to invite all the
representatives of the press now in Philadel-
phia to visit this city in body at the close of
the Centennial Exhibition? Are there not
public spirited citizens enough who have the
means to spare who will take hold of the mat
ter in good earnest?"
Year: 1876

THE eX Confederate House is doomed.
The Southern representatives in the Forty
fifth Congress will have but few Northern
allies. And hose who remain will have
received an Al 4lon ton
Year: 1876

THE World exhibits becoming nervous
ness in regard to the policy Of the Govern
ment for the collection of delinquent in
come taxes Will the shoe pinch its friend
Sammy II is all in the reform line.
Year: 1876

1t was a Peace Commissioner,


And his garb was SOBER dTab;
His hair was long and white, ard he
Economized his CAB.
In short, he was a retcent


And inoffensive blab.
His style was philanthropic,


And he bore carpet-bag,
In which he stored his tracts aud soap
And ether peaceful swag
Which Indians patronize when war
And cattle stealing lag.
Long they sat in solemn council,
The agent and the red,
Mildly talking fiabby virtue,


Till the Sachem shook his head,
As with doubt and dim suspicion
Then he grnnted low aud said
Not with eloquence of nature


Not in metaphoric style,
But in simpler frontier lingo,
Mingled with slang and grammar vile
Na-ree-trow Zis want some whisky:
Injun empty drink pile"
Then that meek and lowly Quaker
demonstrated with tear;
Spoke of fire-water and ruin


With eloquence severe
Said. quite feelinSlY. that whisky
Was foe most lnsincere.
Spakc once more the Child of Nature
Keeping down his growing bile
"Has my brother brought tobacco
Is there powder in his pile ?"
But the honest agent answered,
With an unsnspecting smile
Had my variegated brother
Ever studied Mr. Trask.
He would never, am certain,
Such foolish question ask.
Read these pamphlets, they viii teach yoa
In the light of truth to bask.
Powder have none, nor whisky,
Nor the misunderstanding leaf
But of moral tracts and stories
have many for the chief"
Then the Indian, weeping sadly.
Said it caused him bitter grief,
That his moral sense compelled him
To extract mis- brothers hair;
Which he did with nice precision
And a sudden stricken air;
And that hopeful Peace Commission
Terminated then and there.
Year: 1876

vi Oedrs, prayer anu petltiOn. Ihefe
was not a dry eye in the room as
Booth knelt at the feet of Lincoln,
clasped his knees with his hands,
and begged him to spare the life of
one mana personal friend who,
in serving the ones he loved, had
come to the door of death.


Booth told all. He told how,
long bofore, in a fit of passion to do
some bold deed, he had Joined in a
conspiracy to abduct the President
and to hold him as hostage for
the release of certain military pris-
oners who were Booths friends, and
who, it was thought, were to be
shot. he told of the meetings they
had held at the house of Mrs. Sur
ratt, and that all OF that plan had
fallen to the ground long before.


He offered his services at any
time, and in any place or capacity,
free of cost or fearless of conse-
quences. The eminent gentlemen
who were there with him joined in
the request that the prayer of Booth
be granted, and that Beal should
be pardoned.


At last, President Lincoln, with
the tears streaming down his face,
took Booth by the hands, bade him
rise and stand like a man, and gave
him his promise that Beal should
be pardoned. He asked the party
to depart that he might gain rest
for the work Of the morrow, and
said that the official document they
asked for should be forwarded at
once to United States Marshal
Robert Murray, in New York, and
through him to the officers charged
with the execution of Beal.


After breakfast Lincoln in
formed Seward, Secretary of State,
what he had done or promised to
do. Seward said it must not be.
That public sentiment in the North
demanded that Beal should be
hung. He declared that to pardon
Beal would discourage enlistments,
lengthen the war and insult the
sentiment that called for blood.
He chided Lincoln for making such
promises without asking the advice
of his Cabinet, or advising with
himself, Seward, on State policy.
AS the argument grew contentious,
Seward declared that if the conduct
of the war was to be trihed with
by appeals for humanity, he should
go out Of the Cabinet and use
his influence against the President,
and should charge him with being
in sympathy with the South.


Lincoln yielded and Beal was
executed to the carrying out of the
sentence of the court. The reaction
to Lincoln's nervous system was
such that for days he was far from
well.


The effect on Booth was terrible.
He raved like a madman, and in
his frenzy swore that Lincoln and
Seward should both pay for the
grief and agony he had been put
to. From the death of Beal Booth
brooded vengeance for that which
he considered a personal afrront.
His rage took in Seward, and he
engaged Harold, Atzerodt and
others to avenge Beal's death by
killing Seward, while he (Booth)
wreaked human vengeance on the
President.


At last came the hour. Booth
killed Lincoln. His friends and
the relatives or avengers of Beal
tried their best to kill Seward, and
when they left him stabbed, bleed
ing and limp as a cloth, as he
rolled over behind the bed whereOn
they found him, they supposed their
work completely done.


Our story is told. We have
given the truth Of history, and told
exactly why Abraham Lincoln, the
humane President of the United
States, was killed.
Year: 1876

4 farmer at Eric, Pennsylvania,
went to his stable. one morning lately,
for the purpose OF feeding n three
year old colt, and while in the act of
giving him hay the vicious brute sciz'
ed him by his long whiskers and tore
them all OF the left side Of his face,
leaving a frightful wound. the animal
was considered very docile and gentle,
and had never before shown the least
symptoms OF viciousness.
Year: 1876

Judge Charles M. Emerson is candidate tor
the Office Of the Seventh Justice of the Peace
before the Parish Convention. The people 81
the Sixth District In strongly In favor Of his
nomination. --I - /.
Year: 1876

There is a legend connected with the
aite en- which the Temple of solomon was
erected. Ii is said to have been occupied
in common by two brothers, one of whom
had family, but the other had none
On the spot was field of wheat On the
evening succeeding the harvest, the
wheat having been gathered in shocks,
the elder brother said to his wife: My
Younger brother is unable to bear the
burden and heat of the day | will
arise, take of my shocks, and place them
with his With out his knowledge"


The younger brother, being actuated
by the sane benevolent motives, SAID
within himself: MY elder brother has
a family and l have none. l will con
tribute to their support. [ will arise,
take of my shocks, and place them with
his, without his Knowledge"


Judge of their astonIshment when, on
the following morning, they found that
their respective shocks were uudimiu
ished This course of events trans
pired for several nights, when n each re-
solved in his own mind to stand guard
and if / ssibls, solve the mystery. They
did So VIII n, on the following night
they met each other halfway between
their respective shocks with their arms
full. Upon ground hallowed by such as
sociations as this was the Temple Of
King Solomon erected-so spacious, 50
magnificent, the wonder and admiration
of the world. Alas 10 these days, how
many would sooner steal their br rOther' s
whole shock than add to it a single sheaE
Year: 1876

Can it be said that, IN proportion as
the age becomes intelligent, 1t antici-
pates the advent of social beauty2


No. Look around, and see how love
lies bleeding under the golden hoot OF
Mammon Few, very few, have knelt
before the sacred alter with bosoms un-
touched by the gangrene Of selfshness.
Alas the traffic of human hearts Is as
common as the traffic of common mer-
shandise. Hearts In the freshness OF in
nocency are bleeding their life away at
every pore. Affection has lost portion
of It's sublime completeness, and Is fast
dwindling into a thing OF shreds and
patches, Many a man has married
bouse Who should have married a wO-
man; and many a man has welded a
fdgety uncls's will, or an asthmatical
grandfather legacy, when the world has
applauded him for more magnanImous
action. Can we then wonder when we
Year: 1876

The Yellow Man with almond eyes


Is in disgrace just row;


What has he done to be the cause


Of such an awful rOw3


Why do they meet so sOleInnly


HIS banishment to plan3


Simply because he's proved himself


To be the Coming Man.


They call him a mere brute compared


With their Caucasia II ia ce;


Then if they can't compete with him,


The deeper their disgrace;


They feel his cunning hand ard bra in


That's why they wish to ban
Forever from their enviOus shores


The \ elbow Coming Man.


They want to turn him out because


He works for little pay.


Saying white man cannot live


On fifty cents day;


We answer, and it has been true


Since first the world began,
That he who has the fewest wants.


He is the Coming Man.


If white men, claiming finer blood,


Of better food have need,


Superior art in them should show


They're worthy of their feed.
Yet in the finest works of skill,


Deny the truth who can,


The white man is a clumsy beast


Beside the Ceming Man.


-[San Francisco News Letter.
The poet is right.


He sees the coming man as poet, a
philosopher and a seer.


From the fragments of accounts We
have had at command, the Chinese were
regarded as a languId race, sort of
mean between the European and negro
Later accounts prove the contrary. He
now holds the labor market of Califor-
MIA, and Europeans cannot compete with
him. He will soon hold the labor of
Australia in his hand. And what power
he will be with the labor market of
North America, not to speak of any
other couRtry.


We write not IN spirit Of envy, but
looking at fate in the face, we believe
he will play an important part in the
history of the world early ia the twen-
tieth century.


He is now learning in our colleges, in
our workshops and wherever and what
ever he can learn.


He is the best agriculturIst in the
world; he makes gardens on lakes and
rivers, and lives on them.


He cultivated and cultivates fish in
rivers and lakes a practice we are glad
to borrow from him. He Is a better me-
chanic than the European in many of
the arts.


Ard in the science of government, we
are only schoolbOys compared with him
Europe has presented nothing as a
government in two thousand years that
would be applicable to four hundred
millions Of people for one generation;
and Chinese history reaches beyond our
period, as Plutarch would say, of Fable.
These are notes. not for the imagina-
ton of a poet, but for the profound
IT, ought and wisdom of statesmen.


Hue says the beggars Of Pekin, if Or
ganized, would form a formidable army.
So much for the poem and the poet.
Pen and Plow.
Year: 1876

An exchange from the Pacific coast, in
abiding to the presence Of the Chinese,
says:


"They are too much concentrated. If
the sixty or seventy thousand of them
on the Pacific slope were dispersed
throughout the country, and particularly
over the agricultural fields of the South
and West, there would be no occasion
for the trouble which now exists"


May we never attempt to absorb this
almond-eyed paganism. We already
have on Inherited labor-dead weight to
carry and to take 'Ah Sin" and his pig
tail progeny in addition, would soon by
bridize our civilization.