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Year: 1873

WE have devoted most of our space this week to the Modoc and Indian question, generally. There was & time when few of us had to stand the storm and prejudice of the whole peace ring, and our people had to sub mt to all the murders and robberies, too. It is now a little refreshing to see how time and experience have brought nearly all thinking, disinter- ested people to our support, and while we are pained to know that homes are being made desolate by savages, still we hope we shall be pardoned for pre- ferring that these desolate homes should be made elsewhere than in Arizona.
Year: 1873

WE have received letter from Bowie complaining that the deputy Postmaster at that place, treats the soldiers with incivility in the dis charge of his official duty, and is ir- regular i'll his office hours. Not being the Postmaster General or even a relative of his, we do not see that we can be of any particular service to our soldier friends, but would suggest that if the soldiers have any cause for complaint, their proper remedy would be to call the attention of the post commander to the subject.
Year: 1873

BY telegraph to the San Diego

 Union we learn that the soldiers have

 met with @ terrible repulse by the

 Modocs in the lava beds. They were

 led into a trap where the Modocs

 killed, wounded, or captured forty

 nine out of sixty, probably without

 any loss on their side. The news to

 us for some time from the front has

 not been encouraging; there was too

 much bolnbast and too little real

 work. Jack and his party don't scare

 worth cent at the paper bulletins

 that tell of the great anaconda being

 surely and certainly drawn around

 him, that his escape is impossible and

 destruction certain. This is not the

 way Gen. Grant conquered the rebel

 lion or Gen. Crook has got the best of

 the Apaches in Arizona. It was done

 with very little talk, no bonn bast,

 good deal of good judgment and

 sense, and an undaunted energy and

 determination to win the fight. This does not mean fuss and feathers, and

 big sounding proclamatiOns, but it does mean courage, self denial of

 personal ease and comfort and any amount of hard work. Gen. Crook

 with no more fighting material than is now operating against the Modocs has in few months hunted down and killed four times as many savages as now constitute the entire Modoc

 band, and has brought to terms hun dreds besides. But 1t will be said the Modocs are in caves, which makes the situation quite different to which we will reply that the Apaches, too, have caves to hide in and they have noun tain range after mountain range ex- tending over 8 country about as ex- tensive as the six New England States, and the State of New York, upon which they know every hiding place and stronghold; but under the leader ship of Gen. Crook, our brave soldiers gave them no rest, and when they resorted to caves they were attacked in the darkness of night where one side had equal advantages with the other. Capt. Randall attacked them in the Verde caves at night and they were so demoralized by the presence of their enemy in the darkness that they offered but little resistance. It has been rumored that Gen. Crook will be taken from his present field of duty to settle the difficulty with the Modocs. Firmly as we believe he would make short work of the job and with little loss of life on our side, still we think it would be bad policy to relieve him from his present field of duty for a moment. We have thou sands of Apaches in Arizona as brave, treacherous and cruel as the Modocs. Gen. Crook is just getting them we'll i'll hand, any change would undoubt- edly soon place us back to point where we first started. We see 1t rumored that Gen. Crook is spoken of as the next Brigadier General. Eminently as we believe his services entitle him to this promotion, and gladly as we would be to see his worth as @ man and his services as a soldier properly appreciated and re- warded, still should it be the means of taking him from us we are selfish enough to admit that we hope he will not get it.
Year: 1873

THE Indians on the Date Creek reservation have been removed to Verde. The few who did not want to go went into the mountains but at last accounts they were coming in prepared to accept the situation.
Year: 1873

CHICAGO, March 27.-An old man
genteelly dressed, entered the American
Express office last night, and asked to
be allowed to rest himself. He Sat
Quietly tor an hour, when those in the
office come to speak to him they found
hrm dead. His name appears to be


&c Nicholson and it is evident his
death was caused from morphine, a
racket of which was found in his pock.
Year: 1873

TRAVELLERS ON FooT.-The United States
supreme Court has recently decided that policy
0t Insurance against the perils OF travel by public
OF private conveyance does not cover the case Of
man who is beaten TO death by highway robbers,
while walking at midnight to his home, several
miles distant from a railway station. The Court
held that walking is not travelling by public or
private conveyance, these terms suggesting the
use OF a vehicle or vessel.
Year: 1873

A housekeeper writes the following plant
to the Cleveland Leader.


When the average husband of the period
wants to find bootack he steps to the but
terry door, and leaning against the doorway
with his hands in his pockets, whistles med
itatively as his eyes wander along the upper
ahelves. When break in the tune occurs.
you may know he has found the cake.
which be devours absently, still looking for
the bootjack. Being now deprived Of that
aid to reflection, whistling, he exec tes
waltz in slow movement, sustained by
large piece of cake in one hand, and siza-
bic pickle in the other. After while, as
the bootjack does not make its appearance
the husband does at the door of the room,
where you are getting the baby to sleep.
and shouts "Janer' at the top Of bis voice,
under the impression that you are up stairs,
an impression that is speedily removed. To
cover the confusion Of his retreat, he steps
on the dogs tail and bumps the bird cage
with his head, then wants to know what
you have done with that bootjack, and why
it is that you never keep things in their
place. If you are wise, aud simply and
calmly Poiut, ikc Soiu'uo", W '"o oUJoSs
in question hanging on its accustomed nail.
he scizes upon it wrathfully, with the SOL
emn vow that it was not there when he
went through the room before.


The offending boots are finally left in the
doorway where it is convenient to trip over
them, and serenity transpires, unless you
have occasion to 60 around them, when you
will at once see their value as q natural
means Of obstructing a passageway. 1t 10
estimated that one pair Of boots judiciously
disposed about an apartment Of medium
size, will prevent either wel-disposed per-
son or a professional burglar from quietly
making his way about it.


At tea time the average husband does
not care about any cake; it isn't much like
that bis mother used to make
Year: 1873

There is now employed in this city as q
house servant,a woman who was a few years
ago the wife Of rising young lawyer in But
Ter county. After her marriage there was
short year of welded love and the birth of
daughter Then came estrangement and
aversion on the part of the husband, ending


in his desertion Of wife and child Left PEN
ness and broken-hearted, the poor mother
struggled 10 support herself and offspring,
doing whatever her hands found to do, aud


in the course of a few years she applied for
and obtained divorce. The husband went
to California, and finally settled in Oregon.
He had talent, ambition and assurance
three great requisites for success in life.
Dabbling in politics, he awoke one morning
to find that the Legislature Of Oregon had
elected him Senator of the United States.
He had left the wilds of Butler county only
some six years before, going, he cared not
where, to escape the silken bonds of his mar
riage, which had become calling fetters Of


iron. Then his name was John Mitchell
Nipple, but the Senator, when the ayes and
noes are called will answer to the name of
John II. Mitchell. The Mitchell Of Oregon
is the Hipple of Butler county. He will sit
in the Chamber that once echoed to the ring
ing periods Of Webster and Clay, courted
hattered and honored as rising-perhaps a
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ALI that man could
ask Of promise for the future will be bis.
His lines have fallen in pleasant places.


Surely, the mutations of life are beyond
our comprehension. Fiction presents, in I'll
its range, no greater contrast Of fate or for
tune than that between Nipple or Mitchell,


in the Senate of the United States, and tho
once cherished wife Of bis bosom, meniai
in Franklin Hotel. He is the guest Of tho
earsh's great ones; the peer, as the world
goes, Of men of historic fame; she toiliug
slave, who dimes from off the plate she late
ly washed. with no hope Of a brighter day
this side the grave. Yet who can say that
her lot, dark and gloomy as it seems. is less
happy than bis Who knows that there is
not constantly before him torturing visions of
deserted woman and little child ?-phan-
toms that will not down at his biddidg.--
Franklin (Pa.) Spectator.
Year: 1873

The Meridian miss. Mercury says:
"a good joke comes to us from one of
the engineers on the Alabama. and
Chattanooga railroad, We think a
little too good to be lost. He saws
some twozor- three days ago, while
making his usual run from .Birming-
ham, he had to put on all steam he could
raise ia order to come in on schedule,
but as he neared desolate slope of
country between here and York, known
as the flats, he was tagged down by
huge torchlight that was waving to
and fro across the track. He saw this
tremendous signal of . danger,
and as q guarded and trustworthy
engineer :: as he is, forthwith
brought the train to dead halt, and
approached the man of danger slowly
and cautiously. On arriving up to the
light there stood queer-looking indi
vidual who addressed the engineer,
Nh. George Martin, thus: "Hello,
Mister, could you tell body when Mr..
Stanton is going to pay them back
dues 2" The gentleman of the throttle
soon conprehended the situation, and,
speaking kindly to his man, told him
that Stanton would pay up in a few
days after the national debts were set
tied, and SO, blowing his whistle, was
soon lost in the darkness of the night
leaving his strange friend to draw LII.
own conclusions.
Year: 1873

A SINGULAR natural curiosity is men
toned at Sadawga pond, in Whiting
ham, VT, consisting of $50 acres of
lani floating on the surface of the
water, covered with cranberrics, and
even sustaining trees fifteen feet high.
When the water is raised or lowered at
the dam of the pond the island rises
and falls with it, and fish are caught by
boring hole in the crust and fishing
down through as through the ice in
winter.
Year: 1873

The following table, taken from
the Indianapolis Sentinel, gives the
number of notaries public in each
county in the State, and also the
total number now commissioned in
all of them together, as compiled
from the official records in the Office
of the Secretary of State. We
present them in a form convenient
Year: 1873

The New York Tribune has no
love for the Republican party, but
gives it a dab whenever Il can get
chance. Yet it is constrained to say
''the back pay bill was not part,
measure at all, and the Democrats did
rather more than their share in sus-
tanning it." That is the plain truth,
and no Democratic paper ventures to
face it.
Year: 1873

A successful orchardist in Maine
has an odd theory in regard to thu
decay Of apples. His farm of fifty
acres, with the exception of about
ten acres in pasturage, is covered
with apple trees of various sizes
and eges, though q majority of them
are now bearing. One of his theories
is not to use any animal manure
around his trees, but to depend
wholly upon vegetable manure in
the form of mulching. He defends
this position upon the ground that
the one is the natural method and
the other artificial latter tend
ing to decay and the former to
health.


He kept over 1000 bushels of ap-
pies, mostly Baldwins, through the
past winter and spring in his cellar,
and has only just sold the last of
them, the prices ranging from 81 to
81 per bushel. He says by his
mode apples may be kept the year
round without losing their richness
or crispness; and his method should
be understood by every orchardist.
His theory is that the early rotting
and decay of apples is due, to "
great extent, to a vegetable miasma
in the air, which is communicated
to it by vegetable evaporation un
der certain conditions. The effect
of this miasma is first seen in q
minute speck; sometimes about a
dozen may be counted on the same
apple. His remedy is daily air
ing of the cellar or place where the
apples are stored, arranging so aa
to have o brisk circulation until all
the stagnant air is expelled and its


place occupied by pure, healthy air
Year: 1873

And We whose spirits faint with WEAKNESS,
r Count not your work unvalued and ur-


known;
Cheered by your toll, some silent soul may


bless
The hand which strives not for itself


alone
Year: 1873

The time has passed away when
woman must be pale and delicate, to
be called interesting when she must
he totally ignorant of all practical
knowledge, to be called refined and
Ligh-b:cd: when she must know
nothin. Of tie c;irrcnt political news
of the dav, or be masculine ana
strony-mindc,!. 1t is not n sign OF
hiyh birth or refinement to be sickly
and ignorant. Those who affect any
thing of the kind are behind the
times. and must shake up and air
themselves mentally, physically. or
drop under the firm strides of COM
nonsense ideas, and be crushed into
utter iusignificapce. In these days
an active rosy-faced girl, with brain
quick and clear, warm, light Heart


and, above all, who, can speak heI
mind and give an opinion on impor'
ant topics which interest intelligent,


people. is the true girl who will make


a woman. This is the girl who win:
in these days. Even fops and dandies


who strongly oppose woman's rights
like woman who can talk well, ever
if she is not handsome. They weary


Of the most beautiful creature if she
is not smart. They say. saw, yes


she is beauty, and no mistake; but
she won't do for mc-lacks brains,'


of which commodity it would seem
! she could have little use in her asso'


citation with him. However, to please
an empty-headed fop. woman must
know something. 1t is not necessary
she belong to the strong-'nindet
class: but she must have good sense


controlled by good heart to win.
Year: 1873

PAPER SHoEs.-A trial is now in
progress at Lille, in France, against
the furnishers of shoes with paper soles
to the Army of the North during the
late war, and the most fragrant rascali-
ties are being brought to light in the
investigation. One unfortunate suffer-
er testified that some days before the
battle of St. Quentin, shoes were dis
tributed among the men of his COM
pany, and two pairs came to his share.
One pair he put on in the morning of
the day preceding the battle, and by
midday they were completely played
out, literally falling from his feet. At
midday he put on the other pair, but
by four o'clock they too had almost
fallen to pieces, and when he attempted
the next day to march in them, they
fairly dissolved from his feet in the mud,
leaving him to march barefooted in the
intense cold, by which his feet were so
badly frost-bitten that he had afterward
to submit to amputation. This poor
fellow, it is said, manages to move
along by the aid of two crutches, and is
completely incapacitated for work. The
furnishers of these shoes are immensely
wealthy, and no one has manifested any
disposition, until very recently, to re-
ieve them of portion of their scan
dalously earned fortunes.
Year: 1873

CULTIVATION OF THE MIND.-to the
farmer we would say, fertillze your
mind as well as your land, that the
plough may be driven over and through
it. The gliding of wheels is easier and
rapider, but only makes it harder and
more barren. Above all, in the present
age of light reading-that is, of read
ing hastily, thoughtlessly, indiscrimi-
nately, unfruitfully when most books
are forgotten as soon as they are finish
ed, and very many sooner, it is well if
something heavier is cast into the midst
of the literary public. This may
scare and repel the weak it will rouse
and attract the stronger, and increase
their strength by making them exert it.
Remember, that in the sweat of the
brow is the mind, as well as the body,
to eat its bread.
Year: 1873

THE city of Pekin abounds with
doves, which are profitable to the own
ers as food. Formerly they were prey
ed upon by vultures, which are SO ex-
ceedingly numerous, also, that it would
have been literally impossible to have
protected the pigeons against the exter-
minating warfare of a cruel enemy had
not a lucky mechanical contrivance
been devised for their security. The
Chinese make small whistles that give
a shrill sound held against the wind,
which are fastened to the tails of the
birds just as they are ready to be wean-
ed. Fly which way they may, the little
organ pipe screams Justify without i'm
peding the bearers; for go as they
choose-the swifter the better for the
whistle they frighten their old vaga-
bond destroyers prodigiously, which
flee as fast as their wings will carry
them when they hear an approaching
whistle. Is this science or art To
ddy.
Year: 1873

EVERLASTING FENCE PosTs.-sI dis
covered many years ago that wood could
be made to last longer than iron in the
ground, but though, the process so
simple and inexpensive that it was not
worth while making any stir about it.
l would as soon have poplar, Eastwood
or quaking ash as any other kind of
timber or fence posts. l have taken
out Eastwood posts after having been set
seven years, that were as sound when
taken up as when they were first put in
the ground. Time and weather SEEM
ed % have no effect on them. The posts
ca be prepared for less than two cents
apiece.


For the benefit of others, 1 will give
.he recipe: Take boiled linseed oil
and stir it in pulverized charcoal to the
consistency of paint. Put a coat of
this over the timber, and there is not a
man that will live to see it rotten" -
Cor. Western Rural.
Year: 1873

A WESTERN paper gives a startling
account of the punishment of train
wrecker. The engineer and fireman
caught him and kept him under guard
on the engine, which was soon got on
the track and under way. While speed
ing along, the engineer picked up a
round stick of wood, and struck the
criminal a stunning blow on the head.
He then caught the quivering form of
the wretch. and, opening the furnace
doors, threw his body into the hot,
seething flames. The doors were shut.
the train ratified along, and never. until
the engineer confessed the act upon his
death bed, was it ascertained what had
been the fate of the fiend who had been
in the habit of throwing the train off
the track.
Year: 1873

IT is telegraphed all the way from
Augusta that quite large number of
the members of the Legislature attend
ed church last Sunday, where they were
politely cared for and shown the most
approved styles of contribution boxes.
1t was little too bad to greet their un-
accustomed presence at church in this
way, as it may discourage their praise
worthy attempts to get religion. Mem
bers of the Legislature naturally expect
to travel to heaven, as they do in other
directions, on free pass.
Year: 1873

A STORY for CHILDREN.-A friend
of mine told me a story little while
ago which interested me SO much that
/ want to tell it to all my little friends.
This gentleman owned fine horse.
which was very fond Of him, and would
come from the pastures at the sound OF
his voice, and followed him round like
a dog. Well, at one time the horse
became lame and was obliged to stay IN
his stable and not be used for many
weeks, and it was during this time that
Mr.. B. became interested to see how
much the horse knew and how kind his
sympathies were. An old cat made her
nest upon the scaffold just above the
horses manger, and had there laid her
little family of five kittens, to bring
them up under her good tuition l sup
pose.


She and the horse got on nicely for
some days. She jumped down into his
manger and went off for food, and then
came back and leaped up to her kittens
again. But one morning she rolled OFT
into the manger, with her foot bleeding
and badly hurt, so that she could scarce
ly crawl; but she managed to leap
away on three feet and get her break
fast; but when she came back she was
entirely unable to get up to her kittens,
and what do you think she did? She
sat down at the horses feet, and new
ed and looked up several times, till at
last pony took the cat in his teeth, and
tossed her up on the scaffold to her kit
tens, who l doubt not, were glad enough
to see her.


This, Mr. C. told me, he saw repeat
ed morning after morning. Kit would
roll off into the manger, 60 and get her
breakfast, come back and be tossed up
to her family by the kind horse, who
must have understood cat language and
been willing to listen to it.
Year: 1873

GINGER sSAPs.-One heaped cup of -four,
one cup of molasses, half a cup of sugar, the
same Of butter, and as much of lard. one
teaspoonful of ginger, a teaspoonful of salt.
Mix all together, knead it stiff, roll thin and
bake moderately.
Year: 1873




| The question of how to deal with


men who have become slaves to


strong drink is one of the most diff


cult of onr social problems. To,


class drunkenness with disease, as


some have done, is to ignore moral
responsibility is to-assnms that


there are morbid influences at work
stronger than the human viii, as in .b
the case of typhus ser smallpox. aer
Inebriate asylums, based on the -.
assumption that drunkenness is a..
disease, where patients are to be
treated as if in a hospital, may ef-
feet temporary good, but they can Hf
not do, to any hopeful extent, the ois
work of reformation. They isOlafeAcs
a man for time, and remove him 9d
from contact with allurement but
when he goes back into old associa-
tions and stands again faee.to face
with temptation. he is little stonger. 'a
as to moral and spiritual power, than 2.i
before. The effects of disease, Sc
called, have been overcome by treat. o7s
ment. He is well again. as a man
restored from fever is well. But,
when he returns to society, be In Y
like the fever district lie has no
immunity from attack. -


Now, we must have, in the treat
ment of drunkenness, something
more radical than this. We must
go deeper than hospital and asylum
work. This work reaches no farther
than the physical and moral nature,
and can, therefore, be only tempo
rary in its influence, We must
awaken the spiritual consciousness,
and lead a man, too weak to stand
in his own strength, when appetite,
held simply in allegiance, springs
back upon him again, to trust in
God as his only hope, If we would
effect a permanent reformation.-- 'f
First, we must help him physically.
We must take him out Of his debase- l.l
ment, his foulness and discomfort,
and surround him with the influences
of hsme. Must get him clothed
and in his right mind, and make him 'a
feel once more that he has sympathy
lis regarded as man full Of the
noblest posibilities-and so be stim-s re
ulated to personal effort. But this
is only preliminary work. such as ~
any hospital and asylum may do.
The real work of salvation goes far "#
beyond this; it must be wrought in st
a higher degree of the soul-even
that which we call spiritual. The
man must be taught that only in
strength is there any
safety. He must go in his weakness
and deep sense of degradation to God
as the only one who can surely lift
him and set his feet in safe place.
Not taught this as from pulpit or
platform; but by earnest, self-deny-
ing sympathetic Christian men and
women, standing face to face with
the poor, repentant brother, and
holding him tightly by he hand lest
he stumble and fall in his first weak
efforts to walk in better way.


And this is just the work that is
now being done in our city PhilaJ9
delphia) by the Franklin Reformas o'
tory Home for Inebriatas," Heav. q.
en-inspiTed institution, and yet but q
wear old. but with ACCOMPLISHED re- 47uf
suits that are matters of wonder to
all who are familiar with its opera
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