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Year: 1872

The education of farmers sons is attract
ing the attention of British agriculturists,
1t seems to be dawning upon their minds
that education is as profitable to a farmers
as to any other mans son that the greater
the intelligence, the more and better are the
productions of the soil that ignorance has
more to do with the thralldom Of the labor.
ing classes than any other agency. We are
glad to notice this kind of agitation among
our British brothers, and we hope the time
is speedily coming when our own common
school system will be so revised, and the
school districts 50 consolidated, as to enable
every child in each square mile Of territory
to have the aid of intelligent, capable and
progressive teachers. We need an educational
revolution and reform in this country, also.
-RHral NeO YORKER.
Year: 1872

THE EPIZo0TIc--AFTER SIR JoHr


MOORE.
Not q sound was heard on the silent street,
As home from the concert we hurried
For we found not street car, carriage, or bus,
And we felt considerably worried.
We hailed driver we used 10 know,
And hurriedly asked the reason;
He said, as he sadly shook his head,
That the horses were all u sneezin'.
And SO we silently went our way,
To the place where We kept our Ally;
We found her weeping at eyes and nose,
And shaking as though 'twere chilly.
In vain we offered her tempting oats,
And "brand' smash" warm and smokingi
She turned her head from the fragrant bait,
And swallowed as II she were choking.
We shook down a bed Of fresh, new hay,
With bag Of corn for a bOlsteri
And we EaEed at the saddle overhead,
With its shining stirrups and holster.
We thought, as we looked in her glazing eye,
That her troubles would soon be overi
Never more would she crop the generous grass,
Or Craze on the crimson clover.
Slowly we turned from the stable door,
With hOart that was sadly beating,
And whsn we went in the early morn,
We found her quietly eating.
Year: 1872

Put the grapes in a jelly pan with very
little water ; simmer on the fire till quite
soft then strain through a colander or fan.
mel bag when the juice is all run out, meas.


ure' and allow fully one pound of loaf sugar
to every pint of juice boil till it jellies /;
when it has boiled twenty minutes, try a lit.
tie in saucer 1t should be watched for
fear of boiling over. Common sugar may
be used, but the jelly will not keep so long.
Year: 1872

The rights of exhibitors at fairs was dis
cussed in our presence the other day, by an
officer of the New York State Agricultural
Society, who asserted that not one-tenth of
those who manage and attend fairs, who are
not themselves exhibitors, have any conCep-
tion of the trouble and expense of making
an exhibition of farm stock and produce ];
aud this fact is doing more to injure fairs,
affect the extent and excellence of these ex-
hibitiOns, and destroy their usefulness, than
most people are apt to suppose. He had a
feeling sense Of what an exhibitor does, and
a full sympathy with his feelings, when he
attends fairs and receives little or no com'
pensatiOn. This is a good thing for man.
ayers to think about--Rural New Yorker.
Year: 1872

Take three or four large potatoes, peel
them, and crate raw quite fine. Then add
a teacupful of white sugar, and two quarts
of water. Put it on the stove and let it
boil about three or five minutes. Then take
it of, and when cool stir in little good
yeast, 1t will be ready for use in twenty
four hours.
Year: 1872

This is the way you make Dolly Warden
pie Take about iOug yards of light dough,
gather it up in tucks and AOunces, crisp the
edges, and fill up with fruit, then lay on the
overskirt, fasteE it with buttons of dough,
connected with frills of the same, and you
will have tasteful and elegant pie; only
you must eat it, not wear il.
Year: 1872

Children will act with great deal more
readiness and alacrity to preserve good
character which people already attribute to
them, than to relieve themselves of the OPP
prOSrium Of a bad one with which they are
charged. In other words, it is much easier
to allure them to what is right than to drive
them from what is wrong.
Year: 1872

Poor to ordinary butter is worth from 10
to 20 cents better quality is sold up to
Is Creamery and other choice brands
bring readily from 40 to so cents, and fancy
articles even more. Here is a difference
that is nearly all difference. Yet the ten
Year: 1872




Straw varies much in its feeding qualities
Its value depends upon the quantity and na-
ture of the digestible matter which it con.
tains; the straw Of different crops also large
ly varies. A table is quoted which shows
that to equal, in feeding value, 100 lbs. Of
good hay, will require 442 lbs. of rye straw,
374 Of wheat 1876 of oat, 1853 Of pea, and
lao Of bean straw. This shows that only
the better kinds should be used for feeding |;
the poorer kinds can be made into manure
Cattle will not get sufficient uourishment
from the poorer kinds to keep them inhealth
and vigor, much less in a state of profitable
growth. This shows the need of mixing
with such straw some food of more nutri-
tious kind, if any profit from feeding is de-
sired. This is the practice Of all good farm
ers. Straw is OF DO value for feeding, as
it gives no profit. unless this is done. The
question is whether we can get greater
profit by feeding with other kinds of feed,
or by making the straw directly into manure
If large quantity of nutritious articles are
fed, the straw is Of little use, as the animal
lives on the other feed. II is useless, there
fore, to give straw to fattening cattle 1t
must be used with less other feed, and given
to growing stock. In this way there is no
doubt that it may be consumed as fodder at
a profit. If we look for the value of straw
in the manure, We shall see the same need of
feeding it with other feed, as straw manure
is not rich enough for grain crops. Moth.
ing can come out of straw but what is in it,
and as it contains but little nitrogen the
dung-heap made from cattle feeding wholly
on straw, would be comparatively of no val
ne"
Year: 1872

kept clean and the pores open, 80 that the
system can throw of the poison the disease
has generated readily. Otherwise an add.
tiOnal slightly inducing cause, as a cold, OF
a chill, may throw IL back on the vital organs
and result in serious arrangement We'll
ventilated stables should be provided and
great care taken not to expose the animals 10
storms, or it so exposed, toprOtect them thor
oughy from q chill until they arerdry and
rested. The food should be varied and Of a
nature 70 give strength and keep the bowels
moderately loose.


Farmers who have been in the habit Of
taking their horses of grain on the approach
Of winter, should not now follow their usual
custom, but give in addition to hay, some
more nutritious but not highly stimulating
food. Carrots are extremely valuable. Dat
meal sprinkled on moistened cut hay is also
good feed The hest practice with the dis
ease has been to sustain the strength and ap-
petite Of the sick animals, by cooling, yet
nutritious food, groom we'll, moderately ex.
ercise in the middle of the day, aud keep
them comfortable in the stable. These sim
pie and reasonable means have been worth
far more than all the drugs prescribed. in
curing the sick, and will be needful for some
time after convalescencc. In fact it is best
for the interests Of all horse owners to
adopt the treatment above indicated as per.
manent practice. Rural Home.
Year: 1872

Special attention should be paid to those
sows that farrow in winter. A warm shell
tered bed is necessary to save the pigs ; and
if not already done, a pen should be con-
structed, and the SOW placed in it, and sup
piled with abundance Of straw or leaves. In
building the pen, IT is good plan to fastcn
six or eight inch board against the sides of
the pen, and about six inches from the floor,
so that the SOW cannot overle the pigs.
This board serves to keep the sow from the
sides Of the pen, and enables the young ones
to get under it, if in danger Of being lain on.
Year: 1872

nFALL THE GREAT CURIOSITIES
which attracted the most attention at the
Mechanics Fair are the wonderful improve
ments which are now attached to the well-known
WHEELER & WILSON SEWING MACHINE
without the completion OF the others. This is
the only Family Sewing Machine with the new
Silent Feed Motion 1t makes one thousand
button holes per day. on linen, cotton or wooden
goods. 1t sews on the binding OF dress with
ont previous basting, in four minutes and while
sewing on one tuck makes the line OF marks for
another; gathers and sews on at the same time;
hens silk or woolen goods with equal facility:
cords and braids with surprising quickness:
makes articles for mems as well as womens
wear takes two thousand stitches per minute
which is fifteen hundred stitches more than any
other lock stitch can make.


This wonderful machine has no shuttle TO
thread five or six times before starting which is
n oreat saving of time 1t is positive fact that
WHEELER & WILSON'S FAMILY SEWING
MACHINES will do all the same kind of work
that the other machines now on sale will do
will make the same single thread loop-stitch that
rayels out very conveniently, because you can
sew with one yard of thread all day long, sew


mo it in again and so on-all right and very
convenient; but you will find that the same
WHEELER a. WILSON FAMILY SEWING
MACHINE that does all these wonderful things,
makes also the only straight, solid lock-sttch
which cannot be raveled; perfectly safe to walk
TO church with clothing made with this stitch;
also this machine will make the three thread en-
broiderv stitch which is the loop-stitch and lock
stitch combined. The AMERICAN INSTITUTE of
New York. reports. This machine makes the
Year: 1872

These Machines are specially adapted for the
use of farmers, being able to sew grain sacks and
heavy clothing with the same facility as the usu-
al family work making a more durable seam
not liable to ravel, as is the case of the loop or
pboip Glitch
Year: 1872

am candidate for the office of Sheriff of
the Parish of st. Landry at the election to
be holden in November next. For what the
that official capacity in the future, refer to
my past survices as the executive Deputy of
the present Sheriff. C. C. DUSON.
Year: 1872

Reflect that a sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connubial
houpincss. Indeed, without these tie journey
through life becomes a weary pilgrimage, the
urospect hourly darkens to the view, the mind
becomes shadowcd wi despair, and filled WITH
the melancholy reflection that the happiness "i
another is blighted with our own.
Year: 1872

The little ones clung to the mother,
With kisses that softly fall,
But somehow the troublesome baby
Is nearest her heart of all;


Sick and fretful and small,


But dearest to mother ofall.
The neighbors wonder and pity,


Hearing it's querulous cry;
"She's losing her youth and beauty"
Say friends as they pass her by I;
"Well were the babe TO die,


And the mother rest,n they sigh.
But over the wee white cradle,


Her soft eyes full Of prayer,
Bendeth the weary mother,


And never was face SO fair,


Pale and tired with care,


But the glory of loyels there,
Bless thee, beautiful mother?
Thy heart hath place for all:
Room for the joys and thesorrows


However fast they fall;


Room for the baby snail


That may love thee best of all.
Year: 1872

HEAVY rains have prevailed
throughout the entire North
west for the greater part of the
past two days, and telegraphic
advices from various points in
dicate some damage to wheat
and corn crops by being blown
down and lodged on the
ground, The corn in many To-
calitles is also prostrated, but
will suffer no damage. The
wheat crop is already cut, and
altogether the damage to the
crops is not likely to prove Sc
rious.
Year: 1872

They are becoming very
anxious in the West over the,
destruction OF the Buffalo, and
the proximate extinction of
the species. If Greeley be-
comes President, however, he
will raise a crop from the horns,
planting six to the hill, and
sprinkling pleutlfully with last
years chips
Year: 1872

DOM Piatt tells the following touch
ing story Of how life was saved: "a
sunday-school superintendent out in
Alaska treated his entire charge to a
sleigh-ride. There were just forty-one
of the cherubs and six-horse sleigh.
On the way home they were beset by a
pack of wolves. Cool and collected in
that hour of fearful trial, the heroic
superintendent at glance saw that he
must be overtaken.- In an instant his
quick mind grasped the only chance of
escape. Seizing the child that always
sang II want to be an angel two
notes too high, he flung it to the re-
pacious horde. 1t stayed their on
ward rush for moment. Next came
the urchin who never brought any PEN
MES for the heathcn. And so on swept
the pursued and the pursurers. until the
last infant was exhausted. But the
brave fellow had economical his mate
rial nobly. He was saved"
Year: 1872

Of all the moral lessons taught in the
school-room, that of truthfulness should
be ranked as one of. the most important,
yes, the most important in its bearing
on the character of the pupil as a pri-
vate individual, and Oh the welfare of
the whole school.


sometimes think that We, as teach
ers, do not give as close attention to
the cultivation Of truthfulness among
our pupils as we ought. To be sure we
deprecate falsehood, and when we dis
cover instances of that vice among our
pupils, we are very apt to punish it,
promptly and severely, and often pub
licly.


Now, in deciding as to the proper
method of dealing with an untruthful
pupil, would it not be we'll for us first
to make close examination as to what
produced the offence, and see if VIC are
not, ourselves, the primary cause? Are
we at all times perfectly and freely
truthful in our dealings with the keen
eyed, sharp-witted little people commit
ted to our care and guidance? For
instance, something in lesson under
consideration suggests to some little
thinker query, quite pertinent to the
subject in hand, and yet, entirely out
of the stereotyped, commonplace set Of
ideas we may have held, and we may
not feel prepared to answer it at once
What then? Do We garble up some
unsatisfactory sort of explanation, that
we do not half believe ourselves, and
palm it off on the young inquirer, whose
keen intuitions plainly show him that
we are not fully satisfied; and who, in
his initiative little heart, will consile,
himself justified in the same careless
treatment Of the truth, should circum.
stances make it seem expedient.


How much better it would be to tel
the child frankly of our inability to an
swer him as we wish at the time, bu
propose to keep the question in mine
until the next dcy, or such time as ",
might think would give US the oppUtu
nifty of looking up-a correct answer
and then, DO sure to do our best to fns
it, with as brief delay as possible, an,
let our pupil have the benefit Of our re
searches. Believe me, fellow-teaclers
we will in no wise lose a particle If re
lspect or confidence, and will qsietl


teach lesson Of truthfulness that vii
not pass unnoticed by the child.


! I think that the existence Of man


rules in school tends to create al at
Year: 1872

The New York correspondent of the
Boston journal tells tho following
amusing story well-known doctor of
divinity was riding the other day in a
street car in company with a friend.
He is positive man and resents an in
suit quite yehemcntly. Earnestly en-
gagged in conversation, he handed the
conductor ticket as he came to collect
the fair. The conductor did not move
on. AS he remained studying the
ticket, the Doctors attention was at
tracted toward the official, who seemed
to be highly interested in the car ticket.
He read it, smiled, shook his head, and
finally said to the doctor-"'This may
be all very well, but the ticket is no
good on this line."


whats the reason it's no good, !
should like to know?" said the testy
doctor. "It's one of your own tickets;
I bought it this morning"


Il guess not" said the conductor.


The alteration drew the attention OF
all the passengers.


''This is very good advice, but il
will not pass you over this line - and
the conductor read: "Thou shalt no,
take the name of the Lord thy God in
yain.''


An explosion followed-amid which
the doctor paid his fair and left the car,
He has concluded to keep his religious
cards in one pocket and his car tickets
in an other.
Year: 1872

A good story is told Of old DR.. Cald-
well, formerly of the University of
North Carolina.


The Doctor was a small man, and
lean, but as hard and angular as the
most irregular pine knots.


He looked as though he might be
tough but he did not seem strong
Nevertheless he was, among the know
ing ones. reputed to be sagile as eat .
and IN addition was not deficient in n
knowledge of the manly art. Well, in
the freshman class Of certain year was
a burly, beef mountainecr of eighteen
or nineteen. This genius conceived a
great contempt for old Bolus' physical
dimensions, and his soul was Mortified
that one so deficient in muscle should
be so potential in his rule.


Poor Jones-that's what we'll call
him-had no idea of moral force. At
any rate he was not inclined to knock
under and be controlled despotically by
Il man he could tie or whip. At length
he determined to give the old gentle
man genteel, private thrashing, some
night in the College Campus, pretend
ing to mistake him for fellow student.


Shortly after, on dark rainy nj ght,
Jones met the Doctor crossing the
Campus. Walking up to him, abrupt
ly, he said:


"Hello, Smith. You rascal is this
you?"


And with that he struck the old gen.
tleman blow that nearly fellcd him.


Old Bolus said nothing, but squared
himself, and at it they went. Jone's
youth, weight and muscle made him an
ugly customer, but after a round or
two the Doctors science began to tell
and IN short time he had Knocked his
antagonist down, and was a straddle of
his chest, with one had on his throat,
and the other dealing vigorous cuffs on
the side Of his head.


"Ah! stop!I beg pardon, Doctor,
Caldwell-a mistake-for heavens sake
Doetor!' he groaned. Il really
thought it was Smith !"
The Doctor replied with word and
blow alternately:


"It makes no difference; for all pres
ent purposes consider me Smith,
And it is said that Old Bolus gave
Jones such pounding then and there,
that he never made another mistake as
to personal identity.
Year: 1872

A New York letter tells this Fanny
Fern had just written Ruth Hall, :"
and her fame was blown on every
breeze. Bonner determined to secure
her for the Ledger, and if possible to
monopolize her talent in it's columns
He wrote her letter proposing to pay
her the unusally high price of fifty dol
lars column for a story to occupy Ten
columns. She refused. Now Fanny
always was frisky, and did not surprise
him as it did others. He wrote again.
offering seventy-five dollars for the same
amount of work.


Fanny knew that Robert was excit-
ed, and being the older of the two, she
understood how to decline the offer
without fatty shutting off further ad-
vanees. He then offered her one hun
dred dollars, as she no doubt expected
he would. and the terms were accepted.
The novel was we'll advertised by the
report Of this transaction, which had
come forth.


This l wish to remark, was evidently
what Bonner wished, as he always had
much faith in advertising, often drawing
his last dollar out of the bank for that
purpose. When the story was COM
menced in the Ledger he opened the
lines little and instead of it running
only ten columns it occupied twenty.
The relation between the writer and
editor has ever since continued to be
agreeable and profitable to both.
Year: 1872

The following is taken from the ed
itorial columns of the Lady's Book for
January:


What tells us so readily the standard
of town or city as the appearance of
its paper? And its youth or its age
can as we'll be determined by the OBJ
serving as by personal notice. The
enterprise of its citizens is depicted by
its advertisements, their liberality by
the looks of the paper. Some papers
show good, solid, healthy foundation,
plethoric purposes and wcll-to do ap-
pearance generally; others show stri-
wing to contend with the grasping
thousands around them, trying hard to
wrench out an existence from the close
listed community around them An oc-
casional metoric display in its columns
of telegraph or local or Of editorials,
show what it can do if it had the means.
but it cannot continue in the extensive
work until support comes, which ought
to be readily granted "A newspaper is
like church.; it wants fostering in the
commencement, and for few wears;
then as general thing, it can walk
alone, and reflect credit upon its loca-
tion. Take your home paper; it gives
you more news of immediate interest
than New York or other papers; it talks
for you when other localities belle you;
it stands up for your rights; you always
have a champion in your home paper,
and those who stand up for you should
certainly be well sustained. Your III
terests are kindred and equal, and you
must rise or fall together. Therefore
it is your interest to support your home
paper, not grudgingly, but in liberal
spirit; as pleasure not as disagreea-
bic duty but as an investment that
will amply pay the expenditure.
Year: 1872

OBJECTIONABLE HABIrs.-One of
the great faults in modern manners is
the habit of undue and improper famili-
arity. Some Of the clcverast of men
fall into the way Of squeezing hands in
the most violent manner, of slapping
even their seniors on the back, and in
other rude modes emphasizing their
familiarity and assuming close prox-
unity Of person quite uncomfortable to
persons Of good breeding and taste.
Others again have an offensive and
familiar habit Of using profanities. dis
playing knowledge Of intimate and
strictly private matters which one would
scarcely care to have known to ones
particular friends, much less the sub
ject Of rude and unmannerly conver-
sation by comparative strangers.
Year: 1872

HORACE GREELEY says that castor
beans may be cast or not, whichever
you like. The foundry at which he
gets his seed is the best. If the nest
egg has been cracked by frost, the
beans are apt to sprout and shrink,
which is not the case with oats or hay
when properly ground. saw9ust ma
nure has been found to contain too
much heat for the ordinary castor,
dried glass from fractured lanterns be-
ing the proper restorative where the
bean is to be fastened. Pull off your
boots while cultivating. No rain
water should be allowed to settle OH
the vines during wet weather
Year: 1872

Matthew Arnold says that the differ
ence between the Bible and the Koran
is that the former grew, while the latter
was made.


If the whole be greater than part,
whole man must be greater than that
part of him which is found in book
Bulwer. @.
Year: 1872

The habit in this community,
which has been so extensively
practiced even by decent and
well-behaved persons, of assign
ing nworthy motives and sell
fish and sinister designs to all
persons who propose a line OF
policy different from their own,
has been very conspicuously
and Extensively exhibited in the
discussion of this very question
of combination and fusion. 1t
has been this imputation which
has prevented combination
heretofore, by deferring timid
and conservative men from
throwing their weight in its
favor, from a fear that they
would be calumniated as War
moth men, as enemies of the
Democracy, and of honest State
government and reform.


This, more than any other
cause, has produced the pres
ent political confusion. A man
who, a few weeks ago, dared to
declare in favor of the PROPOSE,
ton now announced by the
Bee, would have been hooted
down in every Democratic as
sembly. The lack of moral
courage in our prominent citi-
Zens, the ignOble shirking by
those who could have arrested
the mad virulence which has
had so large a sway over par
ties, have produced the most
unhappy results, from which
there is no other way of rescue
and recovery than by aharmo-
NOUS acceptance of the propo-
sition now made by the Bee.
.-i IN. .. Times.