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Year: 1875

An Oatlander, tenant of Squire Bull,
as sharp as razor, once rode away down
East on the back of horse that had wall
eyes, switch tail, shambling gait, and
marvellous spindle shanks. There was
hair enough on his fetlocks to stuff sofa,
and you might have counted his ribs at
the distance of half league had they not
been covered with coat of matted hair
that entirely prevented this disgrace.
Our adventurer went on at a miserable
pace till he came in sight of a neat-looking
tavern, when he clapped spurs to his
steed, which, with most desperate effort,
trotted up to the place in a truly gallant
manner.


At the gate of the stable yard stood a
raw -boned, long sided, rosy checked,
light-haired lad, who seemed gaping
about as if he had Just thrust his nose
into the world. He wore light blue
linsey-woolsey coatee, no waistcoat, and
pair of tow-linen trowsers, that, by
reason of his having outgrown them,
reached just below the calf OF his leg; but
what they lacked in length they made
up in breadth, being of that individual
sort known by sailors as cannon mouthed.
But what most particularly fixed the
strangers attention was a white hat,
which, on account of its having been
often caught in the rain, had lost its orig
inal outline, and marvelously resembled
a hay-stack in shape and color.


This figure was leaning over a gate,
with one hand scratching his head, and
supporting his chin with the other, in
the true style of listlessness and simplici-
ty. Our adventurer marked him for his
prey; and after some conversation, find
ing he had horse, offered to swap with
him. The youth, after the fashion of
down East, first asked him what was his
name, wfat cOuntryman he was, where
he came from, and where he was going,
together with other questions equally
necessary.


Having received satisfaction on these
points, they fell to work, and our Oat-
lander never had a tougher job in his life.
At last, however, bargain was struck,
and he went on his way, chuckling at
having taken in the clodhopper. All at
once, however, his horse insisted on lying
down, and his mirth came to the ground
with him. While he was standing over
his steed, endeavoring to persuade him
to rise by the vigourous application of
kicks and cuffs, who should come along
but the lad with the haystack hat, who
assured him that his horse would infal-
IDLY get up when he was tired of lying
down; that he did not care to rest him
self in this manner above eight or ten
times day, and was, in other respects,
so good beast that, if he would give
him twenty dollars to boot, he would
swap back again. Our luckless traveller
was fain to agree; so, mounting his for
mer resurrection of dry bones, he made
the best Of his way out of the neighbor.
hood, and not one Of his countrymen has
ever since returned to settle in those
parts or drive bargain with down


Easter.-Jds. X. Pautdinq.
Year: 1875

All the people in Paris house were
startled one night by a tremendous
noise made in an upper apartment.
Rushing to the doors they saw man
coming down four steps at time. He
was arrested, half dead with fear. He
was thief, had made his way in with a
false key, and, feeling his way about the
apartments from room to room to find
valuables, had come upon some strange,
soft, movable, upright thing in the mid
die Of room. He felt of 1t, passed his
hand higher and higher, and felt a face
he could not find his way to the door,
and in his fight upset every article OF
furniture In the apartment. Then they
all went up stairs, and found the tenant
of the fourth floor hanged in his room.


GARBAGE and buckwheat are natives
Year: 1875

We have youngster In the house,
A little man Of ten,
Who dearest TO his mother Is


OF all Gods little men.
Indoors and out he clings to her;
He follows up and down;
He steals his slender hand In hers;
He plucks her by the gown.
Why do you cling to me so, child?
You track me everywhere;
You never let me be alone"


And he with serious air
Answered, as closer still he drew,
My feet were made to follow YOU"
Two years before the boy was born
Another child, Of seven,
Whom Heaven had lent TO us q while,
Went back again to Heaven.
He came to fill his brothers place,
And bless eur failing years.
The good God sent him down In love
To dry our useless tears.
j think so, mother, for / hear


In what the child has said
meaning that he knows not OF,
A message from the dead.
He answered wiser than he knew,
MY feet were made to follow you"
Come here, my child, and sit with me,
Your head upon my breast
You are the last of all my sons,
And you must be the best.
How much / love you, you may guess
When, grown man like me,
You sit as am sitting now,


Your child upon your knee.
Think OF me then, and what said
And practiced when could,
"'Tis something TO be wise and great,
IT'S better to be geod.
Oh, say to all things good and true,
My feet were made to follow youp
Come here, my wife, and sit by me,
And place your hand in mine
And yours, my child; while have you
IT'S wicked to repine.
We've had our share of sorrows, love-
We've had our graves to fill;
But thank the God overhead


We have each other still
We've nothing In the world besides,
For We are only three
Mother and child, my wife and child,
How dear you are to me!
know-iadeed, / always knew
My feet were made to follow you!


-Hdrper's Mdgazine.
Year: 1875

A SMART young Bostonian offers to
wage a considerable amount on his
spelling. He says you may give him any


word in the English language, in COM
mon use, or obsolete, technical, or other
wise, and he will spell it correctly the
frst time. Almost any smart New
Yorker can do the same. It" is not a
difficult word to tackle ortbographically.
Year: 1875

IT is charged by experienced farmers
that they can not raise wheat with profit
after timothy. That it exhausts the
soil, leaving heavy soils too compact, and
generating the wire-worm. These are
grave charges, and If true, prove that
timothy is not worthy of a high place in
the farmers rotation.
Year: 1875

The opinion of farmers that farm
yard manure tends to produce or increase
the potato disease is confirmed by the
scientific study of this affection. The
parasite which causes the destruction of
the potato is supposed to pass part of its
life on some other plant, and it is thought
that both clover and straw may harbOr
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Year: 1875

lion.


THE SENATE COMifITTEE on FINANCE CONCLUDE
TOTAKENO ACIION--A FEAR THAT IFTIIE DISCUS
SION is AGAIN AWAKENED IT Will NOT EASILY BE
PUT AT REST.


my TELEGRAPH TO THE IRBUSEl


WASHINGTON Jan. H.-WitbOut formally apprOv-
ing or disappearing the recommendations made by
the President in his recent message announcing his
signature Of the Senate caucus Currency bill, the
Senate Committee on Finance has concluded not to
take any further action this question this session.
The trouble is that whilet he Committee might agree
upon some supplementary measure which would ac-
tually turn the face of the country toward specie
payments it would be impossible to get such q
measure through either House, and its introduction
would only result in reopening the debate which oc
cnpied so much cf the time of Congress last session.
and with no better results The Committee, there
FORE while majority of It's members are fully aware
of the imperections of the BILL will not take
the responsibility of bringing the currency question
before the Senate again during this Congress.
Year: 1875

Tho " land panic has extended to Somerset
county and single county collector has adyer-
ti4ed no less than 23l properties for taxes
There is food for reflection in the evidently i'm
povershed condition to which SO many people on
this Peninsula are becoming reduced
Year: 1875

For the ............................. %
There must be not less than three entries
for the premiums and three to start, and an
entrance fee OF ten per cent. must be paid for
each horse.
Year: 1875

WAsHIEGToN, October Pat is un-
derstood that among the prominent fea-
lures on foot in the coming report of the
Treasurer of the United States, the fol-
lowing will be recommended affecting
the redemption Of National bank notes
will be made:


First That the National Bank Re-
demption agency be made separate
bureau in the Office of the Secretary Of
the Treasury, under the charge of Su-
perintendent who shall give bond for the
faithful discharge of his
duties. Second, That the FIVE per cent
redemption funds shall be kept in the
Treasury, but subject to the check of the
Superintendent, and that they be paya-
bic in currency or drafts on the New
York, Boston, Chicago, st. Louis, or
other sub-Treasury. Third, That banks
or others sending National bank notes
for redemption be required
70 pay the express charges to Washing
ton, and that for NIL othcr expenses of
this agency the National banks bo al
lowed to deduct from their next semi
annual return OF tax upOn their circula-
tion the amount of any assessment that
may be made, as also in their next re-
turn the amount of assessment heretofore
made
Year: 1875

The editors of the Grafton Se...lt
have gone on the editorial excursion.
They left friend in charge, who claims
that no is an honest, unterriaed, un-
conquerable Democrat If he is, he will
be likely to change the politics of the
paper; but that is dangerous. John
Phoenix tried that in California once, and
when the editor returned the result of
the conference WAS thus expressed by
PhGnix: 81 held him down with
my nose which | had inserted between
his teeth for that purpose while my left
hand was occupied in rI lns his hair"
And further he desc r1w ut that
moment, he was WI no gar
mentS on, but the rim g. + hat about
his neck and one stocking around his
ankle, while the devil was reading the
next weeks issue of the paper from the
back Of 1.-The Judges shirt, 1t (the paper
having been struck of as he was being
held down across the press. We trust
this case will present no such sequel.
Year: 1875

Horses and children are often most
cruelty treated, and sometimes killed by
mismanagement when frightened. A
child screaming from terror at some huge
dog, is rudely shaken, and even severely
struck, by mother who herself Is
thrown into similar state OF fear by
mouse or spider. Ny indignation is Of.
ten aroused by the sight OF some man,
undoubtedly an arrant coward, who IL
beating nervous horse because be trem-
bles at the sight of train Of cars. Such
conduct only sggrayates the difficulty.
The terrified one is not inspired with tho
confidence which Is essential TO q feeling
of safety. In the case OF the animal II ia
impolitic aud cruel; 10 the case OF child
1t 10 outrageous beyond expression. A
shock to the delicate nerves Of feeble or
sensitive child will sometimes cause In
mediate convulsonG and fatal Illness, and
sometimes--a result quite Ms much 70 be
dresded--will unsettle the mind and
weaken the nervous system.
Year: 1875

ELOOR STAIN-Weh have just manu fscLured
- a fresh supply of the above article, which
has given such great satisfaction TO all of our
customers who have tried it. In color it is Of q
rich dark walnut, and it is prepared all ready
for immediate application. Shipped to the
country in any quantity desired. Sold by the
pint or gallon by


oct 2G JANNEY & co,
Year: 1875

deemed It advisable TO refer tho whole matter to
special committee OF i've for consideration One OF the
Ienhers OF tie General Committee said that Il was not
likely that they would more than reduce the raies on
business transacted for brOk IN negbboing cities.
Year: 1875

PARTLY-MADE SHTRTs.-Everybody says that
SMITHS PARTLY.MADE SHIRT beats anything
ever before introduced in this market. The shirt
is completed In all its parts except working the
button holes and Aundrytao it, and the quality of
linen and cotton Is guaranteed equHl to any partly
made shirt In the market. Those who have tried
them recommend them very highly, and they are
selling very freely. The stock Is n store, aud
be furnished TO those in want without waiting ten
or twelve days to send 10 the factory, which is In


Itself great saving of tme besides the great eaving
Of time in not having to sew them together, which
In any other partty-made Shirt Is required. They
are being sold at the very low prices Of $3.50 for
six, or $15 for twelve-no deviation-and are sold
exclusively for cash, which Is necessary in order to
enable him TO sell at the prices they being 20 per
cent less than the same Shirt at any other house,
and guaranteed
Year: 1875

Tha obstruction Of Chicago streets by
building material is common occurrence,
greatly TO the hindranco Of street travel.
A largo amount Of liberty in this regard is
permitted to builders, chiefly for lack OF the
proper enforcement Of the law, which, at the
utmost, allows tho occupancy Of one-third Of
tho roadway, mud only then by spocal
Permission Of the proper authorities. A case
has been decided recently by the nlinois ST.
promo Court in which the inv OF negligence
ia made to apply with costly force upon par
ties obstruoung streets, tho Court holding
that they are responsible for accidents to life,
limb, or property, indirectly growing out Of
Buch obstruotions. A collision between
toamB, by which boy received injuries end.
ing in death, was traced back to the foot that
it was caused by the unlawful occupancy Of
the street with sand-hsap, the owner of
which Eaa been muloted In damages to tho
amount Of $4,000, tbs Supreme Court affirm.
Ing tho Judgment In tho Court below. Thoro
Is an agreeable abundance Of co1nmou-sen
in the decision.
Year: 1875

sjons constitute a chaos in his mind, from which
nothing orderly can ever flow" At this date, the
Missouri slave question was beginning to assume
the importance, which has made IL landmark III
American history Mr.. Adams did not then antlci-
pate its consequences. He pronounces it purely
speculative question to the people of the North VINO
did not feel it in their persons or their purses On
the slave side. on the contrary, it was almost
matter of life or death and home to the feel
ings and interests of every man in the community.
Hence. he remarks, that if the question is decided,
as it will be, in favor of slavery in Missouri, the
people of the United States will at agree TO the
decision and the controversy will die out.
Year: 1875

Responsibility is respectability,
whether it appears on the surface of
San Francisco society or that or Los
Angeles. If we should presume to ad-
wise such elegant young men as the
sons of San Francisco millionaires, it
would be that they should not pre-
sumo to impose OH the society of their
Los Angeles friends those whom they
know would not be tolerated among
the decent and respectable of San
Francisco. A word to the wise is suf-
ficient.


We had the pleasure of examining
yesterday eight elegant chairs, manu-
factured by Johannsen 4 Grosser for
the Union CLUB. There were two ma
room Turkish easy chairs of the pat
tern which Mahomet must have re-
clined in when he dreamed of the
houris; four brown Spanish chairs of
unique and elegant design, and two
brown rustic chairs, of simple but
rich style. Nothing more elegant can
be made in San Francisco and they
are triumph of the skill of the firm,
as well as a proof Of the taste of the
Union Club.
Year: 1875

ABOUT the Both of October last, about
two O'Clock in the afternoon, the large
new air-shaft of the Belcher mine, then
completed to the I,000-foot level, took
fire and was destroyed The timbers of
the shaft all burned out, and the rock fell
in and blocked 1t up. After mature de-
liberation it was thought that il would
be better and cheaper to sink a new
shaft than to try to clear out the old one, so
badly were its sides caved and so great
was The quantity of rock that had tum-
bled into it. The new shaft was sunk
short distance to the west of the old
one. 1t has now reached a point near
the 1,000-foot level where it will be con-
tinued down on an incline. The incline
was started at the 1000-foot level, and
carried up to meet the vertical portion
of the shaft. The course of this incline
carried it through the remains of the old
vertical shaft, but as soon as it was
Tapped the men found they could do
nothing in it on account of the ashes,
burnt earth and rocks that poured down
into their incline. A tunnel was then
run until it had reached point a short
distance west of the old shaft, when IL
vertical upraise was made TO the lineiof
the proposed incline to be run up to meet
the new shaft The men then began work
ing down ON the incline in order 10 reach
the point from whieh-they were driven in
trying to come up. They have succeeded
in getting into the bottom of the old
shaft, where, much to their surprise, they
find the rock still red-hot. In trying to
put in timbers they were set ON fire, and
in order to work ut all ii was found nee
essary to bring line of hose into the
place and play a stream of water upon
the rocks wedged in the bottom of the
old shaft. There is no timber on fire
among the rocks, They seem to have
been heated to degree SO intense at the
time of the fire that they hstyeremaiDcd
red-hot ever since. When we find so
small II mass of rocks as can be contained
in the bottom of y shaft remaining red
hot for over five months after having
been heated to whiteness should we be
incredulous on being assured by scien-
fists that the cenJer of the earth, once II
molten mass of rock, still remains in II
molten state after untold agesg Nearly
three years after the great fire in the
Yellow Jacket mine places were found
in the lower levels where the rock was
still nearly red-hot.- Virginia lNee) }
l HDfgTIlg1Sp- rHteH.r
Year: 1875

to consult me am now ready to hear
what you have to say in return, sir"
The Duke of Wellington, angry at hav-
ing to wait his turn, abruptly entered his
room. Abernethy asked him how hehad
entered. Shy the door, sir.D q Then"
said the irascible doctor, II recommend
you to make your exit the same way"
He is also said to have refused TO attend
George w till his lecture Attic hospital
was over. The point on which Aber-
nethy most insisted was the stomach, and
through that important organ he de-
clared that all diseases could be cured.
The celebrated biscuit which he used to
eat and recommend were not so called
from him, but from the baker who first
invented them. That there was kind
ness in Abetnethy, who can deny who
remembers The story Of how he returned
all his fees to o poor widow who had
consulted him, and added fifty pounds
to enable her to give her sick child
daily ride? He had horror of opera
tions, and rejoiced when the evil could
be averted without such rough and terri
BILE remedies q .l ..E lI
Year: 1875

From careful and extensive observa-
tion have about come To the conclusion.
that no woman can be really sty lish who
apparently knows what to do with her
hands.


She may have wealth and position, she
may paint and powder her face, have
elegant clothes and wear the mask veil
Just below her nose, but if she appears
TO know what 10 do with her hands she
is lost. They absolutely must hang in
.listless, graceful (apparentl helpless ness /;
but not all the time; they must wander
aimlessly about as if seeking a resting
place and finding none, and they must
come together occasionally with touch
like melting snowHakes. ~


My dear girls, my word for it, there's
the whole secret.


You may have everything, do every
thing, be everything else, but, il you
seem TO know what to do with your
hands, your case is hopeless-theTe will
be an indescribable something lack
ing; you never will be stylish.-Gdte
Forest, ig Cincilndti Times
Year: 1875

5co with q ssbody of sound divinity" taken
f7orn The works OF the most eminent divines,
down 10 the present time, when tho
traffic in good sermons for the benefit
RI bad preachers Inns become SO large
md bold. OF course Sir KoaER's chaplain
made no pretensions to originality, and is no
more to be accused Of plagiarism than Dr..
PANE, OF any of the here-and-there preachers
in this country who follow their example.
md dispense the beaten oil OF JAZZ, WESLEY,


o. SrunaEoS to the 7urd congregation. But
our concern IS lest this first method Of
preaching other peoples sermons should de-
ceperate into the third There is nothing
more perilous to originality in preaching than
familiarity with other peoples sermons. It
is very difficult for preacher to maintain his
individuality as sermonizcr, whether he
pead, me1norize, or extemporizc, while he
alternates between vigorous sermons Of other
men and feeble ones Of his own The tran
sitious from one to the other Will become
mora and more marked with every repetition.
And how are these transitions to be avoided
BY the p1agiarist except by abandoning either
his own composition or that Of his favorite
volume Of other peoples sern1ons2 There is
just one other way Of escape from this
dilemma, and that only ends in nnother.
It is the third method Of preach
Ing other peoples sernons,-a familiarity
with them which SO charges, We may soy SO
surchargcs, the memory with them that the
preacher is at last unable to tell whether his
etemporo phraseology or protempore
,*.skeleton is his own or that Of another
preacher of another era This is some
preachers skeleton in the closet, which some
times breaks jail and stalks abroad, to the
dismny Of the flock and the ruin Of its un-
fE-shephera. The whispered gossip Of
the preachers plagiarism has in some
cases grown into hurricane Of indigna-
ton that drove him from the pulpit,
which, perchance, he leaves protesting
his innocence Of the charge. The identity of
ph1aseology he attributes to chance, or to the
fact that .Groat minds run in the same chan
nels" Be that as it may, there is no doubt
that in the case Of such preacher good
memory is the worst Kind Of memory. This
plagiarism By absorption, then, being just as
perilous as any form of the vice, We have no
hesitation in saying that the less preacher
knows Of other peoples sermons the less like
II he Will be. to absorb and reproduce
them.
Year: 1875

In one of Bret Harte's condenge6
novels there is chapter on the old age of
French women. 1t is not too long for
quoting 50 here it is: ga French
woman never grows old" That is all
the beginning, middle and end. But if
this be true, does it depict desirable
state of thingsl Would one like, if one
could, to pass straight from the tumult
of youth TO the passionless stiffness of
DEATH Shall we not welcome, rather,
the quiet years when the cares of this
world are slipping gradually from our
weakening fingers, when we sit calmly
in the twilight of life's day and await the
night A bewigged or dyed old man
painted and repaired old woman
these are not lovely objects. But the
dgnitied, portly old gentleman, with
his white hair and his kindly face,
attracts us I; and the gentle old lady, with
her snowy kerchief folded across her
breast and her quiet eyes filed with
cheerful memories, wins our hearts. Old
age has It's own pleasures, but it seeks
vainly to partake in the pleasures of
youth. Dancing days are over, after
awhile bustling days, days of eager,
hurried strife after gain-they are all
past but there remain some quiet hours
IN which to say to ourselves that all is
vanity in which to remember and re-
consider and forgive. But if it were
possible to cheat the world and our


selves into a belief that we were still
young, we should be the losers. What
discord in nature were that day which
had no lengthening shadows of after
noon, no glory of sunset, no still night
which heralds the dawn of new life
Year: 1875

The Adiutant General Of Pennsylvania
had a conference with citizens and miners
at Hazleton yesterday in regard to with
drawing the troops sent to that point TO
preserve the peace, but the result OF the in
tervieW has not been made public.