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Year: 1873

Do we ever stop to think how many
of us are sailing over life's uncertain
sea under false colors that is, appear
ing to be what we really are not 2
Seven-eighths of all that is sought for,
honored and admired in the world, is
deceptive, and really has no solid worth,
or becomes greatly reduced in value
| upon arriving at its tue state.


What is there that is suffered to stand
in its own true and honest character? /?
In every sphere of action, in the church
and in the affairs of State, in the field
ofpublic strife, and in the circle of social
delight. we find that everything suffers
from Transformation.


The wooer and the won practice mu-
tua1 deception the tradesman endeav-
ors, by the most subtle art, to convince
one of his business capacity, and strives
to palm off upon his customers his old
and damaged goods, as being the latest
style and of the best quality. The me-
chanic, to convince one that he is a
superior workman, would employ every
artifce possible to establish his position
as such. The politician labors to have
one believe that it is for the good of the
country alone that he is prompted to
accept an Office; and the minister, that
his sermons are entirely original, and
his creed the best. Villainy, under the
garb of truth and honor, seeks also TO
deceive, and thousands have fallen vic
Tins to its power. The poor hide their
poverty, and the rich strive to outdo
each other in show and parade.
The very worst of tyrannies are per-
petrated under the guise of liberty, and
crime fourishes under the guiss of hon.
esty. IF the world should suddenly be-
come honest, abandoning all deceptive
schemes and false sham, what shock
would the fashionable world have to
meetl What cargoes of fnery would
become worthless What tales of de-
ception and mystery would become un-
raveled In short. what change would
take place in every department. of life
and actioni But let us hope that the
day is at hand when everything will ap-
pear just as it should, aud be honored
or dishonored, according to its real
worth.


Let society abandon its false position,
and let us establish only the right, how
ever honely and uninviting it mag-apsi
pear. Let truth only abide, and merit, |
in whatever form it may appear, be re-
warded according to its just deserts.


Laying aside all false colors and de- |
ceptive pretences, come boldly forward |
and proclaim that the foundation. where
ever you stand, is a sure and true one
and that the principles you seek to en-
graft in the minds of the moving throngs
are not embellished with fictitious COW
erings and gilded coloring, in order to
attract the unsuspecting and credulous;
but that they are the plain, uuvarnish-
ed truths, without the glitter and follies
of life.


Then may we hope to see the villain
esteemed as villains deserve; the just
honored as they merit, and the world
progressing in light, knowledge and
happiness. r. w.


SOAP CREEK, April 10, 1873.
Year: 1873

A New York paper complains that
free love and divorce Courts have ter
ribly undermined the institution of
marriage and that now the last step
toward emancipation by a man who has
invented shirt buttons that can be put
on with screw-driver. With this de-
vice the last necessity for vile has
gone.
Year: 1873

YEAST FOR HoT WEATHER. The
subjoined recipe for yeast, adapted to
hot weather or hot climates, is given in
Morgan's Trade Journal: Boil two
ounces of the best hops, in four quarts
of water, for half an hour; strain it
and let the liquor cool down to a new
milk warmth. Then put in a small
handful of salt and half pound of su-
gar lbrown), beat up one pound of the
best -four with the liquor,and mix up all
well together. The third day add three
pounds of potatoes boiled and mashed,
and let it stand till the next day, then
strain and it is ready for use. Stir fre-
quently while making, and keep near a
fire. Before using stir well. 1t will
keep two or three months in a warm
place. This yeast is very strong;
half the usual quantity necess Try for
baking is sufficient.
Year: 1873

A colored citizen of the NintA Ward, member
OF the Republican party, takes exception TO the
course of the party. He objects to the colored
voters wasting their votes upon party that ex
cludes them from fair share of the Offices
But what cares the leaders of that party for such
objections or those who raise them, when in the
face thereof, squads of 1lfy and sixty negro
voters can be supplied to take the place OF SO
many of such voters at any time and place by
timely arrangement, asHppears to have been done
in the Ninth Ward at the late city election. The
negro voter is mere toy in the hands of such
gentlemen Us arranged them 10 vote in the cleo
ton here last week. These Republican masters
of the negroes can vote them as they please and
no Republican can be elected TO office unless they
first get the support Of the men who control the
negro vote and then the vote Of the negroes
themselves. To such condition has the Repub-
lican party fallen.
Year: 1873

oUR Radical neiGhbors are very much e!ated
with tho success of their party at the lato city
election, as they undoubtedly have a right to be.
Through the Indifference of the Democrats and
white people generally the negroes put in enough
votes to carry the election. But the inference
that the State and county will be carrisd by that
party in 1874 is too hasty entirely Our neigh
bOrs must remember that the negroes from the
country who voted here last week cannot vote In
both places. As the negro Republican vote is in
creased here it is decreased in the neighbOrhoodl
or hundreds from which they come. 1.-THE Dem
ocrats have the mettle of their fathers the State
will be preserved long time yet from negro
supremacy.
Year: 1873

The Disputed Arkansas Governorshfp.


LITTLE RocK, Ark, June 28-The Hon.
Joseph Brooks. at the close Of his speech last
night, stated that be had no doubt the Circuit
Court, before whom he had brought suit for the
office OF Governor, would decide in his favor.
and that as Boon as it did he should qualify and
take possession Of the Office, il he had to do it
by force.
Year: 1873

The Practical Farmer says sit is we'll
settled in the opinion of all our best dairy
men that bran greatly promotes the milk
secretions in cows, and it is fed almost uni
versallv. About equally mixed with Germ
meal is the usual proportion. This mixture
seems to promote quantity and quality of
milk. From several sources we hear that
buckWheat bran is a great milk producer,
and 1t is now being used considerably
anon our Chester County dairymen, in
ABOUT the same proportions as the other.


Thos. Gawthorp, near West Grove, Ches-
ter County, also by repeated trials with his
own cows, has fully satisfied himself that
they do as well with corn and cob meal and
bran as with pure corn-meal and bran. The
amount OF nutriment in corn cobS is so very
small that this result Will have to be ex-
planned on the suppostion of the ground
cob, acting to promote digestion by dis
tending the stomach. The presence of
bulky material being necessary to promote
distension and I'LL up the stomach of rumin-
atlng animals, before perfect digestion can
be accomplished, is frequently lost sight of.
hungarian grass is also found to be rather
superior to the ordinary run of hay The
last year or two Hungarian grass has loom
ed up wonderfully In the estimation Of our
dairy farmers, and very large scope of
land will be sowed with it the coming sea
son. 1t natures for cutting in about sixty
days, and produces two to four tons per
acre-the latter of course on good soils.
Three pecks to the acre is the usual allow
ance of seed. Where a good hay market is
this substitution of Hungarian
grass for common hay in home feeding will
be clear additional source of profit. Rural
New Yorker
Year: 1873

When the gray air breathes chill in early Spring
And coldly fall the cherries sunset CLEANS
When the sere grasses rustic, whispering


Of life that is, of death that only seems;
When the wild wind soughs in the weavins


wood


With secret summoning of bud and leaf
And walls along the bare and withered rood
AS in an ecstasy of lonely grief;
Then smiling from decaying fern and sedge-
First signal of the new awakening earth
On sunny slopes along the forest edge,


Surprising with its loveliness their dearth,
The dainty sweet arbutus half conceals


The delicate beauty its perfume reveals.
Year: 1873

When a Taunton man married he did
not know his wife had a maiden aunt
and when he returned from Boston on the
theatre train badly afflicted with Cochit-
uate Favored with gin he was equally
ignorant of the fact that the virgin relic
OF the last generation had arrived in a
late train and was reposing in his own
particular chamber, while the purvevor of
his steaks had retired to the attic. Tiptoe
ing gracefully into the bedroom, and
choked with thirst, he caught up the tum-
bier in which a lower set OF masticators
We're taking their nightly bath, and threw
the contents into his parched throat. Ia
about three seconds the startled public
were moved from their placid s!umbers
by the shout of MARY, Mary, Pm coming
apart, my teeth and jaw bone are all
atloat"' 1t is we'll to draw the veil of
secrecy over what followed The sorrows
OF the human soul cannot be touched too
tenderly, and the feelings of the human
heart verging on three score and seven by
the family almanac, when it sees three
molars worth five dollars apiece lying in
picturesque confusion on bedroom floor.
ought to be left for the imagination of the
pltiful to portray. We can only add that
the unfortunate dlinker will stay away
from Boston until his hair grows out, and
that the doctors think bread and milk
poultice will in time reduce the swelling
over his left eye.
Year: 1873

DR.. Anderson, of Edinburgh, Scotland,
has proved by actual analysis that the last
gill OF milk drawn from the udder of the
COW contains sixteen times the amount of
cream incident to the first one, the separa-
ton OF the cream from the milk taking
place in part in the udder, particularly in
instances where the animal is suffered to
stand at rest for some time before milking
Year: 1873

RIVER WHIRLPooLs. Among the many
phenomena of the Colorado River are
"swirls." so called. They occur every
where, but only at high stages of water.
A bubble rises from the bottom, and
breaks with slight sound on the surface.
The water at the point begins rotary
motion, so small that an inverted teacup
might cover it. Larger and larger grows
the circle, till surface of forty feet in
diameter is in motion, spinning round a
tunnel-shaped hole in the centre, two or
three feet across at the top, and coming
to Il point in the depths below Often q
large tree floating down the stream is
caught, and its foremost end thrust up in
the air twenty or thirty feet, while the
other passes underneath-th exposed
end to be slowly drawn down again, and
to disappear. Three soldiers-deserters
from Camp Mohave-passing in skiff
through the ravne Immediately below the
fork. suffered their craft to run into a
swirl. One of the crew, at the first init
nation of danger, threw himself over
board beyond the charmed CIRCLE and as
he swan away, he turned his head and
saw the boat spin round and round until
one end being drawn into the vortex and
the other up-heaved in the air, it slowly
sank, as it reyolved, into the turbid bosom
OF the river, its human freight to be seen
no more for, the Colorado River does not
give up the dead-no corpses lodge on it's
shores.
Year: 1873

oung cattle may 20 out early to the
pastures, it will do the cattle good, and if
there are not too many of them, it may per-
hhpe do the pastures sood too The com
mon practice is generally in the direction
ui over-feedng pas lures, but there is such
thing as Keeping cattle off too long, so that
The grass grows up and goes to seed and is
"i llttle value for feed, besides, being in the
way OF a later growth which would follow if
The pasture had been judiciously fed in early
spring.
Year: 1873

Old Mr.. Mugride, who has n cottage


up at Shadynook, invited q few OF his
friends to go up and stay awhile and en-
joy the country air. As they were all
found of good beer, he sent up keg of
new ale to be put in the cellar, and kept
until his arrival. Saturday afternoon he
and his friends went up. After opening
the parlors and making things comforta-
BILE, be thought little beer wouldn't 20
bad; so taking his gimlet and lantern.


he went down to fill the flowing bowl.
Arrived in the cellar, he found that the
keg was leaking through an old vent, so
getting his lantern down. he commenced
to tap it, putting one Of his thumbs over
the leak; but finding that the light
wasn't good where the lantern set, he
took the handle OF il in his mouth and
continued boring. Pretty soon the gim-
let went through, and the beer came out
whlzzing; and as he had neglected to
make plug, he had to put his other
thumb over it. He had the beer all
snug enough, but discovered that he
himself was in fix-he must either stay
or lose the beer. His mouth being in
use, prevented his calling anybody. He
turned his head to the left. then to the
right, and then he would drop it in de-
eotlonal manner, and make noise be-
tween q snort and growl.


About this time he began to feel some
thing damp under him, and found, by
investigating. that he was sitting in a
pan Of soft soap. Above him he could
hear his friends enjoying themselves in
the parlor, playing the piano, and his
daughter singing Father, dear Father,
come home with me now," followed by


Thou art so near. and yet so far" His
jaws began to ache holding the lantern,
and the drool was running out of each
corner of his mouth, which made him
nearly frantic. His feet and legs ached,
100, from the cramped position he was
IN, and he had decided to let the beei
side. when he heard footsteps approach,
which proved to be the servant girl com.
ing down for coal. As soon ms she
caught sight Of him. she dropped the
coal hod, which fell into tub contain
ing nest Of pet kittens. killing three O.
'hem, and causing the old cat to ligh


ont up the stairs, landing in pan be
hind the stove. The loss of his pets
made the old man SO irate a. to drop hi
lantern and rehearse that part Of the die
uonary which is left out. After scrapini
on the soap as we'll as he could. he weud
ea bis way up the bnck stairs to hi


room, and changed his raiment. Re
turning to the parlor, be told his friend


mat he had been out to see man.
lDanpury News. 8 GTf5,g g A-i
Year: 1873

ga Universal Tea Drinking" is pro-
posed for the 10th of December, as that
day will complete a century since the
throwing overheard of the British East
India Company's tea in Boston .harbor.
1t would be n magnificent brewage
were all the forty millions to "take tea''
on that day, in honor of the men who
poured tea into the water, instead OF
J pouring water upon tea.
Year: 1873

TUE CHANGE TO BE MADE TO THE M'cLARY Bun D.


IHd.


The necessary arrangements having been
made in the MoClary Building ,,the Post Office
will be removed thereto, tomorrow evening.
Business will be closed in the present office, at
O'Clock and the transfer will be made at once.
business being suspended for the remainder OF
the day The next morning, the usual Sunday
delivery, from to O'Clock, will be made at the
navy lncatinn
Year: 1873




In the first article we spoke of plants as
the sole producers of food for animals we
will now consider relation that is some
what reciprocal. AS We are not writing
exclusively for scholars we shall try to ex-
plain such terms as it may be necessary to
employ


We shall use the terms oxygen and car
bonc acid, or carbonc di-OXide for it is
not an acid in the popular sense.


Oxygen is the active principle of the air
which we breath, to us it is the vital prn-
ciple. Carbonic di-oxide &C. o. is COM
pound of carbon and OXYGEN and carbon
is the name of an element that exists in
abundance in the mineral crust of the globe
and enters largely into the composition of
every living thing. The form of carbon
most familiar to us is charcoal it consti-
tutes the bulk of woody fiber, and more
than one third of the nourishment of the
plant lit burning of wood is stopped
before the carbon is consumed, as it is
done in coal-pit, we shall see how much
| of plant is carbon. The charcoal is not
quite all carbon, for when this is burned
reHill remain some earthly matter called
ashes.


Carbon is insoluble, that is, it cannot be
dissolved in any fluid therefore the plant
cannot feed upon pure carbon. 1t must
first be changed to carbonic acid. When
ever wood or coal is burned ''to ashes" the
carbon is freed and unites with oxygen,
making carbonic di-oxide. The same
thing takes place whenever any living
thing decays.


When we breathe some of the carbon of
the system unites with the oxygen of the
air and forms carbonic di-oXide. During
| twenty-four hours one man will use in
breathing about $50 cubic feet of air and
breathe out 10 cubic feet, or over 100 gal
Ions of carbonic acid and in one hour he
will render about 500 cubic feet of air unfit
to breathe again. Even lamp will make
the air of close room impure and poi
sonous. Thus in many ways this carboni6
acid is made in immense quantities, anc
when it accumulates in the air, the air be
comes unfit for man or beast. Pure car
bonic acid will suffOcate man at once
One can get some idea of its effects by sit
ting in a close school-room, hall or church


But plants live upon carbonic acid they
assmilate it and from il manufacture tn
carbon essential to their structure ant
growth. We shall now see how wisely
is ordered that plants should use thi
element that makes the air impure and Civ
back the needed oxygen for animals.


Some of this carbonic acid is washed ou
of the air by the falling rain and reache
the plant through the roots, but most OF
enters the leaves which are spread out :
receive it, and then is made into nourisl
ment for the plant AS fast as carboni
Year: 1873

Amy Stone, alias Kate Stoddard has
been arrested by the Brooklyn police onthe
charge of numbering Charles Goodrich.
She was taken into custody at the Fulton
Ferry gateway on the Brooklyn side, and
was locked up last night in the York street
police station. The police had been search
ing for her for many weeks past, and fol-
lowing her from one place to another. It
is supposed that she was hidden the most
of the time in Jersey City and Philadelphia.
She visited New York several times and on
one or two occasions narrowly escaped be-
ing taken before night


The detectives claim to have in their
possession facts forming chain of evidence
duplicating her in the murder of Charles
Goodrich. The inquest in the case which
was never concluded, but was left over
for further investigation, will be resumed
this week. Thus it seems there is some
hope of at last solving the mystery attend
ing the crime which has caused intense
excitement in this community. The
Brooklyn police are very reticent, and it is
impossible as yet for the reporters to get
many of the particulars in regard to the ar
rest or the evidence to he produced against
the prisoner.
Year: 1873

weeks ago, that two murders would be
committed within our borders within the
next fourteen days, but so it was We
cannot tell what our own danger, as a
State, may be, but we are equally interested
in the dangers that assail other portions of
the country. Public sentiment seems to
have been concentrated in one particular
direction, regardless of other, and, perhaps,
graver dangers Eternal vigilance is the
price of an assured safety from lawless-
ness, as well as the price of liberty. The
revival of this terrible custom of dueling is
fraught, in our opinion, with more danger
to the country than is to be apprehended
from any other cause.
Year: 1873

Nlktll.AR fKOM Ilik lRlSlEEH.


1t has for some years been a favorte pro-
ject of few art loving friends of the Uni
versity to establish, as one of its means of
instruction and culture, gallery of the
fine arts. To those who know what the
Institution has long been doing in the way
of art culture, this will be no surprise. 1t
is matter of just pride to the graduates of
the University, and it deserves more public
recognition that il has hitherto received,
that this Institution was the first in the
country to introduce into its course of
study systematic instruction by lectures on
the theory and principles of the fine arts.
The lectures by Prof. Torrey, beginning az
far back as 1880, anticipated by many
years not only what, under the name of
aesthetics or high art, has now become d
recognized department of liberal education
in all high institutions of learning, but
also those principles of art criticism
which have since been made familiar by
European and American writers on the
fine arts. The results of this instruction
are manifest in the high-toned art
spirit manifest in those upon whom
the culture of the University has had its
best effects. This may explain and justify
the conception of an enterprise which
might otherwise appear somewhat ambl-
tious for an institution of such limited re-
sources. By the llberality of Trenor W.
Park, Esq, of Bennington, that which has
long been dream, or at most hope, is
soon to be an accomplished fact Mr.. Park
has offered to assume the expense of add
ing to the library building third story
which will greatly increase the architecture
al beauty of the building itself, and Will
give us gallery fifty-one feet long by
thirty-one feet wide and fifteen feet high,
lighted from the roof, easily accessible, and
every way admirably adapted to its pur-
pose. 1t is the wish of Mr.. Park, and in
deed of all interested. that the gallery
should at all proper times be open to the
public as well as to the college communl
ty.


we have also promises from gentlemen
of wealth and taste, that they will MAXI
contributions of paintings and Others works
OF art to be the nucleus of the collection
We are well aware that for the present thu
gallery must be very moderate one IL
point of size, but who can compute TIN
value to the University and the public, o
even small gallery, provided the work
are of a high order of merit. For tw'
things IRE to be borne in mind, first, tina
the educating power of gallery is in N
degree dependent on size. There are 50
Year: 1873

TIE FIKNDs THwARTED BY WOMAN. S..


One of the most murderous attempts at
wrecking train and at a murder besides,
that has ever occurred in this country, took
place near Suncook, N. H., on Tuesday
evening last. Just before the Boston ex-
press train for Concord was due, about
eight o'clock, woman came into Suncook
depot eXclaiming "The train they are 60
ing to throw the train from the track :"
Her frightful words and wild appearance
at first betokened insanity, but soon by her
earnest manner the confidence of those
present was enlisted and Immediately men
were sent to warn the engineer of the COM
ing express that always stops there. The
train soon arrived, the proper warning Civ
en-, and the train moved cautiously on to-
ward Concord. When about one mile be-
low Suncook the reported distractions
were encountered in a pile of sleepers
placed upon the track. The spot was one
where the train always runs at great speed,
and if thrown off it would have gone down
a steep embankment into the river


The woman told her story, which was
that early in the evening, while going along
the railroad track near Suncook village,
she noticed two men pling sleepers onto
the track, and on coming up to them one
asked her where she was going She said
''to SuncoOk, please let me pass" The
man replied mo, you shall never go to
Suncook, tell ye that" and at the same
time catching hold of her, throwing her
down and choking her till life seemed ex-
tinct, when the men threw her into the
bushes and soon went away. The woman,
as soon as she recovered consciousness,
crawled on to the track and run to the
station.


Prompt measures are being taken to ar
rest the men, whom the woman remembers
distinctly, and it is expected they will be
found