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Year: 1875

Frem all parts Of the country the cry
comes up from the ranks of labor, "what
shall We dol' Everywhers the screw Of
oppression is made to do its work, and our
working people are now reaping the fruits
of their negligence in the past. However,
it is not too late for action-let them act
together. If your lot is hard one, change
it if your seat is hard stand up if there
is an obstacle in your way, remove it !;
walk around it, or climb over it If the screw
Of oppression begins to tighten aud bear
heavily upon you, turn it up If obnoxious
laws discriminate unlustly against you, re-
peal them /; if your law makers have proven
unraithful to their trust, consign them to
political oblivion if capitalists and their
hireIings make bad legislators, discard
them and send men from your own ranks
to make the laws of the country if capital
lists receive the hons share of the products
of your toll, cooperate and become your
own employers. THINK AND ACT Do
ANYTHING but lie idle. Organize concent-
rate your forces, cry down the demon Of
petty jealousy turn your faces against the
chronic growlers who are curse to you
and an incubus to your organizations ;
be economical save your hard earnings ;
don't spend your money foolishly, then
when hard times come upon you, you
will not be as you are to-day, entirely at
the mercy of men who have no sympathy y
for you. Machi"ists and Blacksmith Jour


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Year: 1875

cited, and stood within the little room in
which she had concealed herself previous
ly.


f" You have chosen your course, you
must take the alternative said Eugene
Faber, decidedly. This room has no
window, no outlet except this door. In
the room is gas and books l shall confine
you a close prisoner until you have made
up your mind to do as i desire you t..
Do not flatter yourself with any thoughts
of escape, for | shall guard you, and no
one IN this building can hear your cries.
You will have ample time for considera-
tion of my words"


And closing the door, he locked her in
a prisoner.


ITO be continued merit lceek)
Year: 1875

The latest news from the European syn
dicate for the sale of United States bonds
indicates that they will decide to take
their option for the entire remainder Of
the new per cent. loan. The sales with
in the past month have greatly improved,
and the syndicate has already called for
more bonds than the amount of the last
subscription.
Year: 1875

During the pioneer days of Ionia, the
town had an editor who was patient
and long-sufferiBg. Some of the mem
bers of the church got him to give $50
toward securing a minister then they
wanted So for the heathen; then they
wanted their religious notices inserted
free then he was asked for $50 toward
helping to build a parsonage, and he
finally found that he was given the
church more than he gave his family.
He, nevertheless, chung on" for time
longer, until one evening he went to
prayer-meeting, and was asked to leave
his Office for a week and go and help
clear the grounds for a camp-meeting.
That was the last straw, and he arose
up and said: Gentlemen, I'd like to
go to heaven along with you. 1 know
you all. You are clever and oblging,
and kind and tender, and 1T would be
nice for us all, as a congregation, to go
in together, but I've concluded to leave
you and dodge in along with somebody
from Detroit, Lapeer or Grand Rapids.
It's money, money, ali the time, and,
I've given this chuIch until, If my wife
should die, she'd have to go TO heaven
barefooted." The congregation seemed
to realize that a free horse was being
rode to death. They let up on the edI-
tor and pacifed him. He even had a
special tent assigned him at the camp
meeting, and all was well.
Year: 1875

Powers, the sculptor, writing to a
friend of what people call the folly of
marrying without the means to support
a family, expresses frankly his own fears
when he found himself in this very
position but he adds, with character
istic candor: "To tell the truth, how
ever, family and poverty have done
more to support me than have to sup
port them. They have compelled me
to make exertions that I hardly thought
myself capable of and often, when on
the eve of despairing, they have forced
me, like a coward in a corner, to fight
like a hero-not for myself, but for my
wife and little ones. l have now as
much work as l can execute, unless L
can find some assistance in the marble,
aud have a prospect of further COM
missions" The truth here expressed
by the gifted sculptor is like similar
remark we heard not long since by a
gentleman who tried matrimony in the
same way, and found afterward that the
loose change in his pocket, which he
had before squandersd foolishly and
idly-in young mems whims, as he
called them-was enough to support a
prudent wife, who, by well-regulated
economy, had proved fortune IN her
self, and had saved a snug sum OF
money for her once careless husband.
"A wife to direct man toward aproper
ambition and to a general economy,


he said, "is like timely succor at sea,
to save him from destruction on peril
GUS VOYAGE"
Year: 1875

AnGAE sorry A4ANCo8 SA-AS


the Choking Coal Dust.


A recent article in American Homes.
entitled, From Hod to Mine" descrip-
tive of the process of preparing coal
for market, gives us this glimpse of the
wretched lives of a class of children
for whom it would seem there ought to
be a civil rights bill enacted


More stairs, and then we come to
other streams of coal slipping and slid
ing down the iron-shod shoots Again
and again it passes through the sifters,
till at last only black dust flows out
upon the ground, where it is picked up
and carried away.


The breaker is crowded with men and
boys. They sit on the benches above
drifting streams OF coal, and with pa
tient eyes and grim fingers pick out
every scrap of slate that passes under
them. In the stove and nut coal small
boys, mere ten and twelve year old
Youngsters, sit in dusty rows and thrust
their pitiful little paws into the sliding
mass, in pursuit of the slate and stone.


Behind the rows of little fellows that
bridge the dusty brook stands the task
master, with his brutal stick, to keep
them In order and up to their work.
We stand IN the dust-laden air, and
watch the black little fellows with feel
ngs of pity and indignation. Has this
corporation no more wit than to employ
a brutal overseer with a lash to urge
these children up to their work? We
do not reckon on its soul. We do not
imagine that it has any worth mention
ing. Has it not even sense enough to
pay these children by the amount of
slate they gather?


Half the wages of the over-looker
would be a splendid prize TO keep the
boys to their work. As it is the busi-
ness is a disgrace and a shame. What
kind of citizens does Pennsylvania
think these breaker-boys viii make I?
Better burn slate in half the stoves in
the country than to drive school chill
dren to such work, with such a task
master. Pennsylvania wit is slow if it
cannot invent a way of clearing the
slate, except by hands Of infants under
a whip.


Poor little dirty faces They are at
least fat and healthy, but that was all.
The eyes were dull and tinid, as If the
world was a sorry place for small boys.
They lean over their choking brook,
and dive into it with q sort of blind
protest, as If for them the world was all
upside down. and quite out of Joint.


Poor little fellows New England
housekeepers, in their quiet business
houses, complain if q single slate re-
fuses to burn IN their range, and then
children are unhappy If their mothers
ask them just to bring up one hOd from
/ The cellar. Goals mean comfort and
/ luxury to them, and they have never
a thought of the little breaker-boyE
/ who toll IN choking dust and deafenine
J uproar that their coal may be clean.
Year: 1875

A Missouri correspondent of the
Rural World makes some very sensible
statements in the matter of raising
hogs. We have in the United States
over forty million people who, taken as
a whole, are large consumers of hog
meat while foreign nations demand
and receive our bacon aud picked pork
by the hundred million pounds. Eu-
rope contains over three hundred mil
lion inhabitants, who present a very
inviting market for our best meats; and
their cheap, economical production is
branch of useful knowledge which we
desire to cultivate. This Missouri hog
raiser says, 'the secret OF making pork
production profitable is TO have hcgs
do their own work as far as possible.
In this remark he is quite right, and
he has a movable fence which sur
rounds small part of a field in corn,
oats or peas, where hogs gather their
daily grub with no labor on the part of
the farmer. The fence is moved as oc-
casion requires.


The article concludes In these sugges-
tive words


They pick and eat the corn to suit
their own notions, just as they want it.
They will save you the trouble of
gathering the corn and feeding it to
them. They will never suffer from
hunger. They eat and fill themselves
and lie down, and when again hungry,
they appease their hunger and take
another snooze. Early spring pigs,
treated to the grass and corn-felds
in this way, viii, by December, weigh
from three hundred to three hun
and fifty pounds each, and not cost
FIVE dollars per head, particularly
if they are some thrifty, fast-grow-
ing. easily-fattening breed, like the
English Berkshire-the most profit
able. healthful and thrifty breed of
hogs in existence. I would like to
hear other farmers on the best system
of making pork raising profitable.
Year: 1875

A recent writer says that games are
good in proportion to the measure in
which they exercise and reward the
skill, vigor, pluck and judgment of the
player with continuous certainty. Skill
is cognate with schooling. Games of
skill not only take much learning, but
from them much is learned. Though
the natural man, and still more the
natural boy, has a disbate for what he
is pleased to call "dry science, none
the less does he delight most, from his
youth upwards, in such games as show
him natural laws in action. Skill in his
games, or unusual quickness in acquir-
ing skill, implies that a boy observes
with more than common attention the
phenomena his game exhibits, and has
the faculty of codifying to himself
USUALLY in some unutterRble digest)
the laws which govern its motions. We
often underrate the reasoning powers of
children, because, in their ignorance of
terms, they are too hopeless of being
able to explain themselves even to make
the attempt. To Judge of a boys fac
ulties we should watch what he does,
not ask him questions, under the vain
impression that, without having been
crammed for the purpose, he Will be
able to give an articulate account of the
knowledge that is in him. And we shall
Judge with much more certainty when
there is no doubt as TO the earnest use
of his full ability, because he is striv-
ing for victory in his favorite game.
We are not in the least desirous of ad.
vocating play to the detriment of work;
nor of muscularizing Christianity at
the peril of our young Christians grow
ing mere muscle-men. Boys should
work as mnch as their strength will
allow without damage to their health.
But when they play, the more perfect
the game the more effectual and rapid
will be the recreative stimulus to blood
and brain. For, as Aristotle says, "the
boy being unable to work at long
stretches must play in order to work
with a will" 4"
Year: 1875

The rapid destruction Of sea il
the northern seas has given rise to fe-rs
regarding the continuation Of the spe-
cies. and measures of protection are
being discussed It is proposed by the
Peterhead sealers and sailors to apply
the principles of the game law to these
creatures, and thus, by mutual consent,
to unite upon q ciOee season, during
which It shall be unlawful to Kill them
the papers have been presented to par
lament, and the measure viii be urged
with al due zeal and earnessness. OF
course, such a measure 70 be elective,
should be international IN character
and It is to be hoped that tbOse in our
own country who have q special interest
in the preservation of the seal VIII rem
der ali efficient aid toward advancing
the wise provisions Of the Law.
Year: 1875

The senatorial excursion to Mexico
is abandoned. Advices from Washing.
ton are that fear of the yellow fever
and the illness of Mrs. Morton are
among the causes alleged for the change
of front.
Year: 1875

Smooth it over as we may; stow it
away ia the farthermost Eesess of
cave OF gloom hurl curses upon the
tongue that tells as 50, and the fact stan
remains that there are fifteen hundred
thoroughly organized baseball clubs
in the United States..f
Year: 1875

IT seems that Bonapartists in Paris
are bold enough TO wear the imperial
symbol, the purple violet. On the I6th
of March, the florists of Paris sold all
their stocks of this emblematic flower,


because it was an anniversary of the
birth of Prince Louis Napoleon. The
adherents Of his family wore lunches
of violets in their button holes, the
ladies making the most formidable dis
Year: 1875

THE coinage of silver, for fractional
resumption is now progressing rapidly,
and it is thought the two and a half
million of bullion on hand will be
worked up by the middle of June, when
the redemption of shinplasters will
haOin
Year: 1875

y hery large yields of wheat are often re-
ported from California;; but the average
i5 not greater than for New England or
Minnesota.


Massachusetts falls of over II million
pounds this year III the estimated amount
Of her tobacco product rs compared with
last year.


In Queen Annes county, Md, a disease
which has broken out among the cattle
with fatal effect, is pronounced q species
o diphtheria by a veterinary surgeon who
has made study of it.


Cattle should be led regularly. In the
opinion OF one Of our best farmers, "a
COW or an OK will worry off more fat in
waiting an hour tor their food beyond the
regular time than two feeds will put on. u


The latest crop reports from Europe
show that the wheat crop there will be
still poorer than was at first sunnosed
and as consequence, the demand for
American grain will bc considerably in.
creased


Grape vines may be pruned as soon rs
the leaves fall Cut out the old canes a.
much as possible, and leave the new and
thrifty ones for bearing. Severe pruning
is better adapted to the grape than any
other kind of fruit.


One OF our best farmers writes that HI
noticed an immediate increase in the quan
tity OF milk given by his cowsw when he be
gan, short time since to house then
nights The fact is as good as a sermon
Lowell Courier.


Highly manured lands resist the droutl
better than the same soil in a poorer state
OF cultivation A field which is well en-
riched will produce an abundant harvest
sometimes, when one less well mannret
will prove almost a failure.
Year: 1875

GREENLAND Docs. Two of these dogs
can drag as much as one man. Nothing
can be more exhilerating than dog sledg-
ing in the Arctic regions on fine day
The rattllng pace of the dogs; their intelli-
gence in choosing the road through the
broken ice; the strict obedience paid by
the team to one powerful dog whom they
elect as leader; the arbitrary exercise OF
authority by the master dog; the constant
use of the whip, and the running conver-
sation kept up by the driver with the dif-
ferent dogs who well know their names,
afford constant enjoyment. However use
ful they may be, these Arctic dogs seem
to be deficient in that affectionate DISPOSE
ton which endears their species so much
to man. A traveller once said that he
believed the Esquimaux dogs to be the
most ungrateful creatures in creation. lie
had travelled several hundred miles by
siedge; and tor six weeks it was his duty
to feed the dogs; but after only few
weeks absence, on the conclusion of the
journey, they would not recognize him in
the slightest degree. 1t is impossible tc
domesticate these creatures, as under ten.
der treatment they sicken and die.
Year: 1875

Ten years ago = man named Richard
Hampton broke the shop window of 4
harmless Matchmaker in Woolwich, Eng
land. He was sent to prison for nine
months. and on the very day of his dis
charge returned to Woolwich and smash :
ed the same window This time the court
gave him eighteen months and once
more, on the day his sentence expired, he
returned and again broke the same win
dow His third sentence was for ten years
but the other day he was, for good con
duct, discharged on ticket of leave, hav-
ing served nearly eight years. Promptly,
for the fourth time, he went straight to
Woolwich, and once more smashed the
same window, and, being thereupon
brought into court for a fourth sentence,
he remarked that he would break that
window as often as he got the chance, tor
the rest of his life. He is now in tor an
other 10 years.
Year: 1875

DEATH TO TIE ArrLE Tree }oRER.
| have waited for some one to invent an
easy way of killing the apple tree borer;
but the chiseI, mallet, knife, and wire are
only recommended, and in using them
have had TO cut six inch apple tree until
| could see daylight through it to Kill a
single borer. My way Of getting at this
miserable ''worm Of the dust" is an easier
one and more cllcctual. cut u sunlac or
alder one foot, more or less, long, punch
out the pith, cut one end with slope,
hunt the borer's hole, clean it ont at the
entrance with wlre. place the bcyclled
end of my tube against it, take some putty
like clay that get in our spring branch,
plaster it water tight around the end next
the tree, fill the tube with very strong
soap suds, and the thing is done. No mat
ter how crooked the hole is, or whether it
goes up OF down, the suds in the tube viii
force itself to the end. | have tried it two
years and have not failed once. OF course
any kind OF small hollow tube Will do
and anything that will make il water tight
will do to plaster it with. Cor. N. Y.
Tribune
Year: 1875

Barnums largest elephant " Betsy y
broke away from her quarters in Bridge
port, Conn, Friday night attacked a cage
containing a Bengal tiger, set HIM loose,
and tried to provoke a fight with him, but
he sought safety elsewhere. Then she
came upon locomotive at the depot and
after careful survey of its proportions
decided that she was enough for it, and
forthwith attacked it. She tried it on all
sides but could not make it bulge, and
after burning her probosis by bringing it
in close contact with the furnace doors,
gave it up and started for the village.
The keepers overlook her just before she
entered the village, and tried to persuade
her to return. After much trouble, and
after several persons had been tossed
about in rather careless manner, the ele-
phant was taken back to her quarters.
Year: 1875

\ correspondent Of the Ohio farmer lhus
writes A good Southdown is described
Us follows The head small and hornless
the face speckled or gray, and neither toe
long nor too short; the lips thin, and the
space between the nose and eyes narrow
The under jaw, OF chop wide and thin; the
ears tolerably wide and well covered with
wool, and the forehead also, and the whole
space between the ears we'll protected by
it, as defense against the fly; eyes full
and bright; the legs neither too long nor
too short
Year: 1875

Don't WoRRY ABOUT YoURsELF. TIC
regain or recover health persons should
he relieved from all anxiety concerning
Diseases The mind has power over the
body For a person to think that he has
Il disease, will often produce that disease
This we see effected when the mind is in
tensely concentrated upon the disease OF
another IL is found in the hospital that
surgeons and physicians who make q
speciality Of certain diseases are liable to
die of them themselves and the mental
power is So great that sometimes people
die of diseases which they only have in
Imagination. We have seen persons
sick in anticipation Of voyage before
reaching the vessel. We have known g
person to die of a cancer in the stomach
when he had no cancer or any other NOR
tA. disease. A blindfolded man, slightly
prlcked IN the arm, has tainted and died
from believing that he was bleeding tc
death. Therefore, well persons, to remain
well, should be cheerful and happy; and
sick persons should haye their attention
drawn ~ much as possible from them
selves It is by their faith that men are
saved, and it is by their faith that they
die If he wills not to die he can often
live in spite OF disease; and If he has little
or no attachment to life he will slip away
us easily as 4 child will fall asleep. Men
live by their souls and not by their bodies
Their bodies have no life of themselves
they are only resources of life-tenements
oltheir souls The will has much to do in
continuing the physical occupancy or Civ
ing it up.
Year: 1875

We have this afternoon examined Il
tielt OF seven acres of corn estimated to
yield from liltY 10 sixty bushels per acre.
1t is remarkably even. and at This time,
the l0th of September, nearly ready to
cut up Seven years ago this field, the
owner tells us. was almost entirely unpro-
duttiVe owing 10 surface water. The
@rl4S was exceeding scaut in quantity and
almost worthless for feeding purposes. 1t
was entirely unfit for cultivated crops,
water standing upon the surface greater
part of the season At the time above
mentioned the lot was sumderlrained, when
il was discovered that the obstruction of
the water WAS caused by Il clay bank or
bar on the lower extremity OF the field.
Draining gave 4 passage Ion the water,
and fitted the land for tie pioW. Alter the
lilies were laid a part OF the land Was
broken up and soWed to oats with slN one
horse loads 0l compost to the acre The
nrNI wear the whole lot, having been
brought under the ploW, was soWcd to
oats and graSs-seed. The oats We're prime.
both in quality and quantity; Tie scanty,
soar heritage gave way to q luXurant
growth Of the cultivated grass, and the
last has lain in pasture ever since until
the present season. After the ground was
we'll fitted in the spring six oN-cart loads
of 4 rich compost OF sheep, hog, and hen
manure to The acre was used in the hill,
and this was all the manure that was ap-
Piled The result WAS. rs we stated at
the outset an estimated yield OF At least
fifty bushels OF corn to the acre. After
passing througn the field and listening to
an account OF the treatment this tract Of
land had received, we asked the owner
how much he considered The draining TO
have increased lis value. lis reply was
that when he took if in hand it was worth
less ior any particular purpose, and we
might make our own estimate Of its pres
ent value We leave our readers to do the
same thing. but our opinion is that one
hundred dollars would not buy ii. [Srlen-
tilic Farmer
Year: 1875

We remark the fact that the Changers Of three
of tho principal Eastern Shore ooundss-Caxo-
line, Talbot, and Dorchester-who resolved
few days ago that Church property ahould not
bs exempt from taxation, had prompt support
for that opinion In the message Of President
Hrnrt
Year: 1875

The good farmer is proved such by
the steady appreciation of his crops.
Anyone may reap an ample harvest
from fertile virgin soil the good
farmer alone grows good crops at first,
and better and better ever afterward
Year: 1875

Coal ASHES FOR PEAR TREss Coal
ashes have u wonderfully vitalizing
effect upon pear trees, especially those
growing in light soil Our ashes Of
last winter were used around these trees
in liberal quantities, and those thus
treated have outgrown anything else
in the orchard. Some that were even
sickly, and apparently ready to give
up their hold on life. have been restor-
ed to perfect health by this remedy.
Year: 1875

To MEM RUBBER SHoEs.-As the
season for wearing overshoes is at
hand, the following simple recipe for
meuding rubbers will prove timely and
worth inserting in your memorandum
book : To mend rubber boots, cut up
some pure rubber 10 very small pieces
and dissolve in benzine Put patch
of rubber over the place to be manded.
and stick it fast with the solution.