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coutinusal, unions at the option of the publisher,
until all &flagmen are paid.
ADVNIITISNKENTS inserted at usual rates.'
JOlly MINTING of all kinds done with neat
ness and dispatch.
OFFICE tu South Baltimore street, betwom
ldiddle and nigh, near the Post Oinee—"Unapt
/eg Printing Otftee" on the nign•
What We Want.
Ir YOU WANT a cheap Hat buy it of
• • - - K . B. WOODS
YOU WINf o Fostiiuno;)te Hot, always
boy it of • H. B. WOODS.
/ryou WANT a Hat of any kind for lege
money than ip ybudy eltel will sell it for,
pars to buy It ' B. B. WOODS.
F YOU WANT good Shoes toe Ladies or
children, don't be humbugged withldarn
- *notion goods, but buy of -
YOU w3Arr Suoe. or Boot., "that are
shoes and bobst_worth taking abedt,"
cud ntrucheatiog ir.mh, buy them of
H. B. WOODS.
IF Y OUtr
brelLti
o W r A it . asito r n e z rs it : i t h rt i s s , li D ne ra , zr y s, of at.
H. B. WOODS.
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F YOU WANt to be deult.fAirly with, get
I
t-e worth ofiour money nod not be cheap
ed, always buy of - H, B. WOODS.
iP YOU WANT a pair of reel tcumber One
Heavy Winter Boots, don't buy before yon
see the su?erieeaniele for safe by
!if wan's Grocery.
TORN IL SWAN ha. jest received a splendid
J
Assortment of P1i.14311 ORO 'IE M U KS, 'at
his Store ou the corner of the public Square,
in Gstotburg, . _
S Cr Glt,
The finest lot, of Su ar e ever brought to
Gettysburg, ea I Very cheap.
COFFEE.
:His Cone is superior to tiny offared in the
place, If you don't believe it come end see.
MOLASSES.
if yen tenni, the hest Syrups and Molasses
Ire town yoe, wi I hod them et Swan's.
QUEEN S s WARE, c.
!His' stock of gieenawnre, Dighei, Lamps,
WI, cheap sod good. Every style ...ad
ptice.
CIGAIt3 AND TOBACCO:
His elms and Tub Imo are pf superior
tlity. Acknowledged by good judges to be
f.'s best in the market.
CANDIES, AND NOTIONS.
Particulwr attention p.tid to this department.
full sunply of Candies, Nuts, Fruits, Soaps,
anev-artiles, iu short any and everything
sootily found iu a irsteleas Grocery. In lay
g in my stuck I W. 14 C ireful to kuow what I
• as bnying, and am now pi ep ired to sell not
nly G 45.10 Groceris, but to Aell then very
-hest). Glire me a call ant jn Ige for your
elves. MIN M. SWAN.
! Nov. 5, UM.
BY NORRIS,
Al his new cheap Clothing, Bat, Can, Boot,
ifi t
Aloe' nti Variety Store, vn Chant n r.hurg
'street nett dour to Buehler Drug Store,
Gat burg, Pa.
T epnalle will and at this-Store, du largest
And orist• Lashio t this twortm•at of Gentle
i n's and Bay's wear, in t. I icul county.
OVOR COATS;
ateer °roma us, Petersli tat o%N...ream",
'.!al Skin iverotatts, Cloth Ocerro its,
!Ksquitu ids Be titer ureretiass, Pte., etc.
DR- 3•31 %ND SII3INKiI COATS !
1 1 BInek CI ith Drlis nind Stek - .Coats,
Citi , 4intere Sack and Frd .k Coats,
- Knit Woolen Uni on IFoatfituo Jackets.
. PAN S I AND VE-ITAS
• Black I.; oth Poutalobns,
Black iss,tuere Pantalocins,
Fano; I, assirnere Pantaloons,
Birds ' tesimere Pantaloons,
It aek ,loth Ve4t4,
Silk Grenadine Vests,
Plush and Satinet Vests, i‘e.
" • RATS AND CAPS.
-
The 0141 fiysteni
r MGR PRICES VETOED
Resorts TT its, Silk Dress Hats, Dester Acts,
Driving II tts, Clipper Bats, French Hats,
Basher II its, II is ulnal. Hats, Plush Data,
Liston Hats, Brightmt Hats, Mincio hats,
Croquet Hat+, B;sruark Huts, Peto Hats, •
Warwick Hans, Nleiropo:'n Hats, U.S. A.llats,
Dttikar , l Hats,
: Cs:sinters Hats, etc., eic.
Velvet Caps,o .ps, Fur Caps,
Cloth Caps, Pe/tell:in Caps, Navy Capri,
Septa 1 Cap., PetershAni Caps, B ifs Caps,
Ylush Crp , 117511'NC THINCCAPi, etc., etc.
Roars. ANI) SEIOES.
Men's Calf Skin Bouts, i
llenvy Boots,
stly's• Tucker Boots,
Sporting. Boots,
Metes Co ate Shoes,
}lmes Golf Skin Shoes,
Boy's Fine Shoes,
G. S. Army Shoes,
Gentlemen's Slippers,
Uum Overshoes, me., etc.
fIittITLEMSN'S FU.VII.3IIING GOODS.
White Lin n Shirts, Casdmere Shirts, Linen
and ?aper Neek Ties and Butter
dies, Handkerchiefs, Woolen and Cot
. . tun Susekings, Gloves. Buckskin
Gauntlets and Glavei,Woolen
Drawtre and Unders.hlrts,
Scarf. and Comforts,
- Suspenders, Umbrellas,
Canes, Valises, Tr.inks, !Led
Vienne! Woolen _Drawers, kc.
The above menttoned articles can al
stays be found at the RAP STORE of
T. C. NORRIS,.
f Chamh•robhrg sO, next door to Buehler's.
Nov. (9, Idt.;6. -
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•• Dry Good*2 Dry Good 4:
VIA l'S AND CAPS, BO /TS AND 8110F.S.
JCILI —Having Past returned from the City,
Situ a splendid assortment of DRY GOODS, 1
'ant now prep trod to otter greater inducements
AG buyers than ever before. My stock eonlists
iif every deicription of Dress Goods. plain and
ktney, Giotto,_ f3assinteros, • Muslims, Hoop 1
Skirts, Balmoral', Flannels, Hosiery, Gloves, (
frimmingswitc.' •
- IL I. 8 e-
• c
p lI contectiOn with my Dry Goods, I brava
iad in an adjoining room a I I:ys , stock of
A:I'S AND CAPS, BOUTS AN WIVES,
Tilitsh I will sell v try cheap . Chil ir e
Shoes
H tow as lli cense, and other goods at cor
responding rates. My stock is well selected,
' 0S - the most complete get offered. Give us a
.08 *Ad evaminer for yourselves.
Mu trouble
•
*sow Gouda.
SEWING IIAUFONES.
We are Ala agent for the Florence Sewint
'MacLine, which is acknowledged to be the
heist 41 use. It is the lateat improted machine
oat, havierg the RE voits4BLE FEED;giving
it. so advantage over *II other machines.—
Gal and see them. • 11 , SP.A,NGLEE.
OA. 46,.1966
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NEW GOODS.
LATEST ARRIVAT•
FAHNESTOOK BROTHERS
„littrit just received s large cud coewlete
asserpsetri of
VALL * AND WINTM GOODS,
•
'Peery Style end at all prices, to whisk the
stood of buyers- is directed. These to
riot . of good Goods at the lowest possible
Oppishoold not tail to give us akearly call.
•
FAHNESTOCIE EROS.
Oct. 8 b 1888
4 144,
' lit4klVl3lD 011.001tRIE 8 .—The highest
- , *lot price paid for Greta sod all kiwis
41
Groceries, Fertilisers, c., C4I
at,
awl for sale st the Wareito ace of
utak , CULP a RLIDISUAW.
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BY E J. STATTLE.
Law partnelvhip. •
WA. DUNCAN J. H. ) WITITE,
. • ATTOttNEYS; AT LAW,
Will promptly attend to all Irv" busineee
entrusted to them, inclu.ling the procuring of
Pensions, Bounty, Clack Pay, and all other
claims against the ;United Slates and State
tievernments.
Office in North West Cornet of Diamond,
-Gettysburg, Peun'a.
April 3, 1863."11 1
. • - _
Edward B. Baetder,
ATTORNBY AT IA W, a ill faithfully and
promptly attend to alrbasittess etotrnst
ed to him. He speaks the °email , language.
°Mee at the same lime, in Stuilt Baltimore
street, ne•tr Forryey,s drug store, and nearly
opposite Danner k Ziegler') ifrre.
Oettyaburrit, )larch 20. '
H. B. WOODS
.ATTORNEY AT 't.,A.W.--Panicuint faun-
Lion 041.1 to cAlection ,of Peunions i
Bounty, and Back-{nay. Office tn, the S. B.
corner of the Diamond.
Gettysburg, Aprll6, 1863. It
D. MeConangky,
AATCITINEY AT LAW, (o ffi ce nue door wmi
of iluelder's.drug and book *ore, Chant
bersburg street,) ArrousltY AND Salmon roe
PATXNTS AND P2NdloN.3. Bounty land 'War
rants, Raek-,pay suSpended Minn, and all
other claims againsttho Government at Wash ;
ington, p. 0. ; also American claim in Eng
land. Land Warrnaia located and sold, or
bought, %nd h;gbest prices given. Agents en•
gaged in locMin,r wlrrants in low.t. Illinois
and other western States. Amy- Appif to him
per , onalll or by letter.
Gettysburg, Nov. 21, '53.
H. B. WOODS
AVING located at EAST B E Adams
Li county, tinnes that by strict Iteration to
his prof...ssionalAutirs he may merit I •hr of
the pablic patronage. [Apr. 2,'6G.
Dr. J. W. C. O'Neal's
OFFICE and Dwelling, N. E. i oner of
lituore and Digit streets, aear •3resbyle
rian Church, Gettysbnrg, Pa.
NOV. 30. 1863. tf
Dr. D. B. Peffar,
ADROTTSTOWN, Adams counly, , ontinhes
the r.actiee of his profession a all its
branches, and would respectfully hrlte all
persons afflicted with any old stanting dis
eases to call and consult him
Oct. 3, 104. tf
HIvrNG bursted permanently at BON-
Aucr ['Tows, Adams county, wil attend
promptly coal! professional calls d ty o night.
Office at John L tndis's, where he canalways
be loan I, unless professionally enagei.
Aug. 0, 1860. kp
d. Lawrenca Hill. M. D.,
DFAS his offire one
Lt. door west of the 4 .. -- "'"lfTliorW r
Latiteran chureh in
Chatubershirg street, and opposite lr. C.
Monte •'s odic whe-e alt. de wisliing b bore
Ant- Dentstl Opration PFrinrnt.d areje pert
fully invited to e ill. liatrwassce , : Dr 4 Hor
ner, Rev. C. Y. Krauth, D. I) , Rev. I. L.
!Init./her, D. D., 1 - tv, Pruf.,.; 11. .Lneobsd. D.,
Prof. M. L. snecer•
Gettysburg, April 11, '53.
Glt TT I' S'S lIG , PA.—The understned
would most respectfully inform hk,pu
nteruus thends and the public generallyittat
44 has purchased that log establishe4and
wll known Hotel, the "Globe inn," in irk
it eet, Gettysburg, and will spare no elf% to
cOoduct it in a manner that will not detect
from its former high reputation. His Sole
st)ll have the best the market can afford...nig
chambers are sonrious and comfortable-4nd
he has laid in torihis bar a full stock of sties
and,liquors. Thi!lre is large stabling attaied
to the Hotel, which will be attended by alkn
live hostlets. It will be his constant endellot
to render the fullest satisfaction 'to his gusts,
making his house as near a home to them's
possible. lie asks .ashare of the public's
tronage, determined as he is to deserves tale
part of it. Remember, the 'Globe Inn"
York'street, but pear the Diamond, or Polk
Square. SAMUEL WOLI:
- April 4, Iffe4. ,tf
Battle-field hotel.
rITTS Hotel, beng one of the relics of tb
1 Battle of Gettysburg, has been renovate
land refurnished, .and is ready to entertah'
travellers and the public generally. It beini,
a short distance fro:n the Soldiers' National
Cemetery, it affords convenient accommod'
Lions for all risitii.g there, and the subscribe
si
flatters himself that none shall leave him die
satisfied, ~
Also, Ice Cream and all kinds of refresh;
meats, at all hours, to accommodate promo,
natters. Give me
,a ell&
.JOSEPir LITTLE, Proprietor
Gettyaburg, M.ty 21, 1840. tf
Rallkoad House,
EAR THE DEPOT.
EusovEn„alonE co., PA
The untiersizned would respectfully inform
113 numerous friends and the pubic generally,
bat be has leased :he Hotel in Hanover, sear
he Depot, formerly kept by Mr. Jeremiah
Cohler, and will sp•tre no effort ,to conduct it
a a m tuner thit will give general satisfaction.
lie table will have the beet the markets can
urd—his chambers are spacious and com
er:able—and he has laid in for his bar a full
i ,
tank of choice wines and liquors. There is
tabling for horses attic,hed to the Hotel. It
ill be his canstant endeavor to render the
idllest saMsfaction to his guests, making his
‘ouse as Omir a hquie to them as possible.—
le asks ti'ehareof the public pa:ronage, de
mrmined as he into deserve a large part of it.
I ,eutember the Railroad House, near the De
pt Hanover, Pa.' A. P. BAUGHER.
Oct. 2, 1865. tf . ..
tidltg A R 13 , 1, R S 9 0 It S B,
imore street, Ne irly Opposite the Court
tery descriptioa of work executed in -the
finesti style of the art.
June 4, 1865. tf
r .
HE undersigned continues the -
CARRIAGE-MAKING BUSINESS,
all Its branches, at his old stand, in But
lddle street. Gettysburg.
!NSW WORK made to order, and
REPAIRING
hie promptly mid et lowest prices.
' , 'ALLING-TOP AND STANDING-TO:
BUGGIES.
—vossrairmr OR RAND.
L'wo first-rota - SPRING WAGONS for
JACOB TRUNSL.
ASKONABLIC BARBER, North-east tor
net- of the Diamond, (next door to
Hotel,) Gettysburg, Pa. where he
at all times be found-ready to attend to all
inese in his line. He has alio excellent as
rice and will ensure satisfaction. Give
a call. ' Dec. 3, 1360.
If yon haye chapped hAods, lips
'MU, or rough skin, use tb►
sitdlo Dr. R.
ritigsburg oropi rr
Professional Cards.
J. C. Neely,
Dr. F. C. Wolf.
•Dr. T. 0. Kinzer,
Globe Inn,
TOM:. ST., ZISA.a 'MS DISAWSD,
tinnon's
House,
GRVT,YSHLTEG, PA.
at Work !
DE
John W. Tipton.
trirstsb tattrl.
TUX NUM SNOW-FALL.
The snow had begun In the gloaming,
And Wally, all the n.gbf,
fled been beeping field and highway
With salience deep and white.
Every pine and tr and hemlock
Were ermine too dear for an earl,
And the poorest twig on the elm tree
Wax ridged inch deep with pearl.
From sheds new-roofed with Carrara
Came Chanticleer's unfilled crow:
The atilt rails were softened to swans' down,
And Mill wavered down the snow.
I stood and watched front- the window
The noiseless work of the sky,
And the sadden flurries of snow birds,
Like broWn leaves whirling by.
I thought of a mound In sweet Auburn,
Where a little bead-stone stood:
How the flakes were folding it gently,
As did robbins the halm:. of the Wood.
Up spoke our own little Mabel.
Say lug, "Father, who makes the snow?"
And I told of the good All-Nether
Who cares for as here below.
,Again I looked at the snow-fell. ,
And thought of the leaden sky
That arched o'er our first great sorrow
When Mat mound was heaped so high.
I remembered the gradual patience
That tell front the cloud-like snow,
Flake by Hake, healing and hiding
The scars of our burled woe,
Then with eyes that saw not I kissed her,
Arfshe, kissing back, could not know
That my kiss was given to her sister, •
Folded close under deepening snow.
[Lowell
Nrirxtittrai limustit.
LXIKA UNTION OF SOIL.
The exhaustion of the soil consequent
upon the system of agriculturepursued by
our farmers is awakening public notice
and challenging the attention of 'some of
the most observant men in the country.
Professor Henry, the Secretary of the
filuitic,oniain Institute, has expressed the
opinion that there was "more wealth in
vested in our soil in fertilizing matter at
the moment this continent was discover
ed by Columbus, than there is At Present
above the surface, in improvements and
all other investments. The fertility
which ages accumulated uPon its
surface, has been the capital upon which
the farmer has been drawing with reckless
prodigality . from the first settlement of
the country." And in a speech delivered
in the House of Representatives in 1838,
by Hon. J. E. Morrill, We find the fol
lowing remarks,dpon the same subject:
By'the systeM of husbandry generally
pursued here, the land is tilled until it ss
robbed of its virtue, skinned of Its cream,
and then the owner selling his field to
some skinflint neighbor, flies to fresh
fields with the foul purpose to repeat the
same.spoliation ; and this annual exodus
which prevails over all the older States,
and even begins upon the first settlement
-of the new States before their remoter bor
ders have lost sight of the savage, pain
fully indicates that we have reached the
niaximum of population our land will
support in the present state of our agri
cultural economy.
' The results of this exhausting process
emi ibe seen by some examples taken from
the State of New York and Ohio. In the
neighborhood of Albany, in 1775, wheat
yielded from twenty to forty bushels per
acre, in 1785 from sixteen to twenty bush
els, in 1815 from twelve to fifteen bush
els; while by the State census of 1845 Al
bany county - gave seven and one-half.
bushels per acre, Duchess five, Columbia
six and Westchester seven. Within fif
ty years preceding 1860 the average
yield of wheat in Chlo had diminished
from thirty to less than fifteen bushels
per acre. Now the average prOduction
is thirteen bushels per acre. The Report
of the Ohio State Marti of Agriculture
shows that the average crop of Indian
corn in that State during the five years
from 18.30 to 1854, both inclusive, was 38.
81 bushels per acre; while during the
five years from 18.34 to 1858, both inclu
sive, it.averaged only 32.95 bushels to the
acre. The average for 1862 was lower
than ever before, to-wit: 28 96-100 bush
els per acre. The State census of lowa
or 18.38 shows an average wheat produc
•ion of only 4.12 bushels per acre for
pring and 0.06 for winter—oats 5.40 bush
is per acre, and corn 23.49.
The retrograde movement in many of
de States from farming to stock rids
. ig and dairy operating, is also a signifi
mt fact pointing to the effects of the ex
hausting system of cultivation. In no
-1/4;lng this fact the Chicago Thane says:
s
:Throughout Northern Illinois the rttis
g of winter wheat is gradually ceasing
it has done in Western New York.
trees ers fled the dangers of its being
r
' 1 liter killed or destroyed by the chinch
It;, added to the heavy `freights and the .
i ucertaluty of the markets, so far -out
i sigh the chances of profit, that they are
I
its measure cutoff from their former
,' (Lice between wheat and stock, and
(lapel led to rely upon stock alone. That
Witt is winter killed, as some superfl
clly suppose, in consequence of an la
cewing average cold in our winter, we
dtiot believe. We doubt whether there
IsLay such increase in the cold of the
adosphere . , and if there were, winter
Whit does not depend upon the temper
title of the atmosphere, but on that of
thsoll. We think it far more probable
the It is winter killed because the soil is
gnving.oolder, than from any change In
thaverage temperature of the air. The
soils - colder because the ashes which re
sult(' from the ancient priarie fires, and
with in the early cultivation of winter
Whit kept the soil warm during the
Wfter. have been exhausted and never
res‘plied. We are strengthened in this '
vielby the fact, that lime and aslit.s are
p'bed by agriculturists and found
s ul as the preventive of winter
kill . Whether the spread of the
uel
chii bug is iu any way directly or in
tiir y_connected with the weakness or
Afee . In the plant, arising (roar this
eha In the soil; vee do not attempt to
argu u the present state of universal ig
lu) e anti absence of all scientific in
vest tion relative to the growth of this
evil. ut as every other form of insect,-
whe r midge or other kinds of weevil,
hess fly, wheat fly, tic., down even to
blig smut and rust, have been traced
to thirionktion in certain ingredients of
the resulting from continual cropping
whi deterioration gives rise to weak
thth: tu ib te a k it s y t
the resulting
even
n venturethe
chinch
h t o i
n e c u h a b m suggest
g
TI the plant which lays It open to
is n ceptiun to the law. For the law
tend 'hick all these insect evils are be-
GETTYSBURG, PA., MONDAY, JAS. 14, 1867.
nevolently introduced in the divine econ
omy, is that all vegetation which has
within itself a deficient supply of vigor
and life, shall be eaten up and destroyed
by a prooess more rapid and healthy thau
that of slow decay.
Eltjher.of these theories would imply a
partial impoverishment in our soil as the
ultimate cause of the abandonment of the
whiter wheat crop in Is.:orthern Illinois,
and it will require some argument more
weighty than a mere boast of the depth
and inexhaustible richness of our prairie
loams to meet the ease. Whatever may he
the cause, the fact remains that many fti-r
-mers who formerly made more money ei
ther by wheat or stock, and more by
wheat than by stock, are now compelled
to look to stock alone, although stock is
no more profitable now thau heretofore
except relatively to crops. Does this in
dicate a healthy condition of our agricul
ture? If so, would not our agriculture be
in a still more healthy condition if all
the farmers on our prairies should turn
shepherds and herdsmen! like those of ,
the stf_ppcs of South America or the table
lands of Mexico? The etlbetof this would
be that we must not only put our soil and
labor Into cereals, Mill our cereals into
beef, but the quantity of beef would be so
vast, and the price so low, that.we would,
like the Paraguayans mid Mexicans, kill
them for the hides and tallow.
IS SNOW A FERTILIZER t
"Farmer," of Sullivan Co., N. Y.,
writes: "I have frequently heard it said
that snow is very benelicial to' land, and
hence it is sometimes called the 'poor
man's manure.' Although this is a com
monly received opinion, I have hitherto
failed to meet with any one who could
explain it upon philosophical principles,
and have been led to doubt the truth of
the assertion. Why is it said to be so?"
Anstrer.—Snow absorbs from the atmos
phere very considerable quantities of am
monia, which is especially abundant in
the air near cities, as it is set free from
coal and other fuel. It is a warm cover
ing, protecting the plants covered by it,
especially such as the grasses and winter
grains, from the unfavorable action of
frost, for it Matters little h )tv deeply the
ground is frozen, a good bed of snow ly
ing upon it several weeks will thaw
it all, and even permit a growth of grain
and grass to take place under it. When
it melts, the soil has tlic benefit of the
ammonia, and any fertilizing dust that
the snow may have caught, and the snow
water besides contains much oxygen—
hence the effects are like those of 'manure,
and the reason for the popular judgment,
which is quite right.—A»ter. Agricut.
CRIB-BITING.
An "Ex-Officer," who has studied this
disease in the army, befote he entered it,
' and since he returned from service,
makes sonic suggestions which, consider
, ing the very indefinite views usually held
by veterinarians about it, are worthy
consideration. We regret he has no ex
perience in regard to a cure. "I have
found that authors call this disease an
af
fection of the stomach, or locate it in oth
er places, still more remote from the seat
of the eomplaint. I have taken pains for
I the last six. or seven years, both in the
army and while out of it, to look in eve
:ry -horse's mouth that gave the well
known intimation of being afflicted with
what, is generally termed 'cribbing,' or
'wind-sucking,' and I have in no instance
failed to find that the gums grow down
between the upper teeth—some within a
4tiarter of au inch of the ends of the teeth,
others not so far, but all have that charac
teristic without exception. From this I
concludelt is a crowding of the teeth and
gums, instead of any intestinal disease.
The pain and irritation caused by the
pressure, makes the horse press his teeth
upoit the first horizontal piece of any
thing he comes in contact with, to ob
tain relief. The pain he is in, no doubt,
causes him to grunt, and the eructation
of wind from the stomach is but the ef
feet of having the head and neck in the
position he takes. For a cure, I would
suggest that keeping the teeth from
crowding each other, or the gums, or
' both, will at once cure the malady."
RAVE Tor PLENTY OF DOOR MATS?
Our observation is, that comparatively
few housekeepers appreciate the econo
my of having plenty of mats at every out
side door. The chief 'wear of carpets
comes from sandy or gritty materials
brought in on the boots or shoes. lin
carpeted floors are constantly soiled from
the same source. Most persons• keep but
a single mat just inside, or outside of the
door. It is fur better to have two or three
—one coarse, heavy one outside the door,
at the bottom of the steps, another just
against the door on the outside, and anoth
er finer one on the inside. Mats so
placed will be a strong hint to _careless,
slovenly men and boys to wipe their feet
clean. The cost is not so much more for
three mats thus used, far they will last
nearly three times as long as a single one.
Each fifty cents invested in mats will
usually save ten times the amount in car
pets, and in lessening labor and annoy !
ance. Corn husks braided together make
good home-made mats. Pieces of old car
pets are far better than nothing. A good,
cheap mat can be easily made by stitch
ing two pieces of old carpet together and
stuffing with a thin layer of hay or straw,
knotting it through to keop the tilling - in
place.
COOKING SALKIFT,, Olt VEGETABLE
UTRTEit,
We hope many of our readers have a
liberal supply of. this vegetable, or will
have anotberyear. It Is grown nsO4 B llY,
and just like cairrcits or parsnips; and if
rightly cooked affords a very agreeable
dish, especially as It grows all winter, al
though we usually take up lute itt au
tumn a quantity for winter's use, apd
pack it in boxes of - moist sand in a cool
cellar. We clean the roots well, cut In
short pieces, boil tender, drain, salt it,
add a little salt codfish picked very flue,
and tbutte.r, thicken with alittle flour and
milk, and pour it over toaht.—C. W. C.,
Howells, Orange Co., N. Y., writes ;
Wash and scrape the roata, cut in thin
slices, boll in a littge .water - until soft;
pour.off the water and mash the route
fine. Seasou with salt, pepper, butter,
and a little cream.
SALTING BETTER.
A New Hampshire correspondent of
the Rural New Yorker, gives the follow
ing recipe for salting butter: 'fake two
quarts of good raft, une ounce of sugar,
one ounce of saltpetre. Use one ounce
of the eomposition for one pound of but
•tcr. It should be stamped and left to
cool before putting in jars, Butter pre
pared in this way should not be used for
two or three weeks. You will find that .
your butter will be very flue, us it will
have no brittle or salty look or taste. By
following this course your butter will
keep the year through, in warm as well
as cold weather.
"t?
SLEIGH-RIDING WITH A WIDOW
Snow had fallen, the young folks of the
village got up a grand sleighing party w a
country tavern at some distance, and the
interesting widpw Lainpkin sat in the
same sleigh, under the same bufhtlo as
myself. "Oh, don't," she exclaimed, as
we came to the first bridge, catching me
by the arm, and turning her veiled face
towards me, while her little eyes twin
kled through the moonlight. "Don't
what?" i asked ; "I'm not doing any
thing." "Well, but I thought you was
going to take toll," replied Mrs. Lamp
kin. "Toll!" I replied, "what's that ?"
"Howl" exclaimed the widow, her clear
laugh ringing out above the music of the
bells; "Dr. Meadows pretends he don't
know what toll is!" "Indeed, I don't
then," I said, laughing in turn. "Don't
know that the gentlemen, when they go
out on a sleighing party, claim a kiss as
toll when they cross a bridge?" "Well,
I never!" When next we came to a
bridge, and I claimed toll, the struggle
of the widow to hold the veil was not
sufficient to tear it; and, somehow, when
the veil was removed, her face 4ivas turn
ed directly towards•rny own, atui in the
glittering of the moonlight, the horse
trotted on himself, and toll was taken
for the first time by Dr. Meadows. Soon
we came to a long brid ,, e, but the widow
said there was 110 use to resist, and she
paid up as we readied it without a strug
gle. "But you won't take toll for every
arch, will you, Doctor?" she asked. To
which the only reply was a practical af
firmative to the question. Did you ever,
reader, sleigh-ride with a widow, and
take toll at the bridges ?
A COLORED DISCOCRSE
A correspondent of the KilickerhoeLer,
who writes from lasifstield, sends the
following "discourse," for the entire au
thenticity of which he - vouches without
reserve, haVing taken it down from the
thick lips of the reverend orator himself:
"My text, brethren and bb , tt,rs, will be
found in the fus chapter ob Genesis and
twenty-sebenth verse :—`And de Lor'
made Adam.' I tell you how he made
him. He made him out oh clay, and
when he git dry he breathed into him de
br tfob life. Ile put him in de garden
oh Eden, and deli set him in de corner
ob de lot, and he tole him to eat all de
apples ceptin' dem in de middle ob de
orchard; dem he wanted for de winter
aPP l es.
"Byrne by, Adam he be lonsom.
de Lor' . make him Ebe. I'll tell you
bow he make her; he gib Adam hide ilum
till he got sound asleep, (len he gouged
a rib out oh his side and make Ebe; an
he tole her to, eat all de apples eeptin'
dem in de middle of de orchard ; dem he
wanted for de winter apples.
"Wun day de Lor' he go a visiting, de
debbil he cum along, 'dressed up in de
skin oh de snake and he line Ebe, an' lie
tell her, 'Ebe, wily for you no cat de ap
ples in de middle oh de orchard:" Ebe
say, 'Dem de Lor's winter apples.' But
de debhil says, tell you for to eat dem,
ease dey's de hest apples in de orchard.'
So Ebe cat de apple, an' gib Adam a bite;
an' den de debbil ,
he go away.
"Ilyine by, de Lor' cum home an' he
call Adam. Adam he lay low, so de Lor'
call again. 'You Adam!' Adam say,
'llea, Lor'!' An' de Lor' say, 'Who
stole de winter apples?' Adam tole him,
'Don't know—Ebe, I spect.' So de Lor'
call Ebe. Ebe lay low; de Lor' call
again, 'You Elie!' Ehe say, 'lien, Lot' !'
De Lor' say, 'Who stole de winter ap
ples?' Ebe tole him, Won't know—Ad
am she 'sleet.' bo (hi Lor' cotell 'em
boff, an' 'trove dem ober de fence, an' tole
dem, 'O6, work for your libbeu. I)
rA little chap who had, among other
Christmas presents, a "mechanical box,"
in which two "colored pussons" were in
tended to dance, on being "wound up,"
found it would not work, and appealed to
an older brother to "fix it." Jack looked
at it, and immediately exclaimed, "why!
they con't be fixed so as to 'work,' Bob!
They are free, you know !"
Irse - "What do you know of the defoid
ant, Mr. Thompson? Do you consider
him a good musician'!" "On that point
I wish to swear. with great care.. I do
not wish to insinuate that Mr. VanslopeS
is not a good musician. Not at all. But
I could not help observing—people will
observe queer thing:slit times—that after
he commenced playing on the elaironet a
saw-filer who lived next door left home
and has never since been heard of."
EMI
Old grave-stones so metimes tell the
truth. Here is a good specimen of au
old time New England epitaph, which
may, he read in a grave-yard at South
Dedham, 31assachusetts:
"Many a man for love of pelf,
' To stuff his coffers, starves himself;
Labors, accumulates, and spares,
To lay up ruin for his heirs;
Grudges the poor their scanty dole ;
Saves everytuitu,r—except his soul:"
OStr A Chinese Widow ,fanning the
tomb of her husband , laid being asked
the cause of so singular a mode of show
ing her grief, accounted for it by saying
that he had wadi her promise not to
marry again while the mortar of his
tomb remained dump; anti as it dried
but slowly she saw no harm in aiding
the operation. -
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I/6r An Irishman took oft' Ids coat to
show a terrible wound which he had re
volved a few years before. Not being
able, however, to Ilud the wound, he sud
denly remembered it was on "brother
1.1111',8 arm-''
I====l
Der Why are youbg ladies kissing each
other like an emblem of Christianity ?
Because they are doing unto each other
so they would men'abould do unto them.
tiorAn exchange says a saving hank
in Dfubie. establiebed by the negroes,
collapsed the other day, in consequence
of the depositors , tvitlitirawing .01 the
funds to attend a theme.
six-ye:O . lM chap In Bethel, Me.,
being unable to drive hie cow out of the
barn, set It on tire, and then, he says,
"blic run."
49T YEAR.-NO. 16.
PARLOR JUGGLERY
We notice that maily of our popular
magazines and periodicals are devoting a
portion of •thelr space to the science of
legerdemain, for the edification of their
young rpaders, and for general home
atuuseritent. We don't propose to go be
hind anything with Ink on it, and con
sequently have prepared a nutuber of
tricks whiell will I.‘e found not only en
tertaining but instructive. In the long
autumn and winter evenings they will
form a never-failing source of amuse
ment. They are all susceptible of ex
planation upon natural principles, and
no parent can eonsistun tl v object to them
on the ground that "there is suthin'
wrong about 'em.kt These tricks are not
only healthy, but are perfectly sure In
their results:
The Spittoon Trick.—Take two half
gallon spittoons—white ones are the best
—then select a strong red eortia worsted
one, if it can be procured— pass the cord
throug,.l the two holes of the spittoons
and give the ends to a gentleman and
lady, selected from the company, to hold.
Now let a lady seize the spittoons, and,
sliding each to the opposite end of the
cord, biking them together smartly, when
they wilt break in pieces and fall to
the floor. This trick is easily performed,
and will excite considerable applause.
rte Magic- Stich..—To do this trick
properly you Will need a pearl-handled
knife anti a stout hardwood stick, some
two inches in length. Sharpen the two
ends of the stick and then try to crush it
endways, either between your hands or
by sitting upon it. This, to your aston
ishment, you will find impossible to do.
The Eghig /ka.—Select a large, well
fed hen—the color is hunuiterial, though
black is be4t—and place her in a sitting
position on some smooth surface. Then
over her place a paste-board box, eigh
teen by thirty inches:- Pound smartly
upon the top of the box with a bone than
died talkie knife for three minutes; and
then suddenly raise it, when the hen
will immediately fly awaz This trick
can be performed by any person of aver
age intelligence, who gives his whole
mind to it.
The -Vita Teiek.—Take 2 large wrought
iron nails, and wire them together in the
form of a eras'. It will then be found
itnpossible to swallow them. There is no
deception about this:
The Cable.—Take a piece of tarred ca
ble, about Aileen inches in length, cut it
carefully in two with a sharp knife, and
then try and chew the ends together.
You can try as long as you like.
The Magic Eggs.—Put twelve fresh
eggs carefully into a green worsted bag.
S‘ving the bag rapidly about your head,
hitting it each time against the door-post.
Then ask the company whether they
will have them boiled, scrambled, or
fried. It will make no difference which
they choose.
The Mur Jacks. Select a pack of cards
with plain white backs. Take out the
four jacks and burn them before the
company. letting them see the ashes.
Now shuffle the cards quickly, and, hohl
big them in the left hand, give them a
sharp rap with the knuckles of the right.
Then place tliwu on the table with the
face (14)ivn, and defy the company to Lind
the jacks. They can't do it.
Thc-e are only a few of the tricks in
our repertoire, but they will suffice for
the present. They are calculated not
on ly•to amuse, but to ineuleate a love of
science :tubing our i ming frlend.4, and
we si.all feel amply repaid by their
thanks.
LADIES SHOULD BEAD NEWSPAPERS.
The Albany Mars says it is a great
nth.take iu lentale education to keep a
young_ lady's time and attention, devoted
to oily fashionable literature of the_ day.
if you would qualify her for conversation,
you must give her something to talk
about, give her education with tlie actu
al world a nti.its transpi ring events. Urge
her to read newspapers and become fa
with the present character and
improvmont of our race. History is of
some pOttanee ; but the world is dead,
we, have nothing to do with it. . Our
thoughts and concerns should be for the
pres'ent world, to know w hat it is and im
prove its condition. Let her have an in
' telligeta opinion, and be able to sustain
intelligent conversation concerning the
mental, moral and religious improvement
of our times. Let the gilded alt n uals and
poems on the centre table be kept part of
the time covered with weekly and daily
journals. Let the whole family, men,
‘vomen.and cadre'', read the newspapers.
,S7(ighilw.—The giugle of the merry
sleigh bells reminds us of the following
extract from a boy's composition Jr essay
on "t4icighing,:"
"There ain't much sleigh-riding except
in the winter. Folks don't seem to care
about it. in warm weather. (frown-up
boys and girls like to go sleigh-riding—
the hoys generally drive with one hand
and help the girls hold their mutrs with
the other. Brother Bolt let me go along
a little way once when he took Celia Ann
Crane out sleighing, and 1 thouht he
paid mare attention to hohling the tuna'
titan he did to holding the hoties."
Sall the eflinine . y.=lii building a chim
ney put a quantity of salt into the mortar
with which the interspaLies of brick are
to be laid. The effect will be that there
will never be any accumulation of soot
In the chimney. The philosophy is thus
starDd: The salt In the poitlon of mortar
which is expost.si absorbs timisture every
danip day. The soot thus hecomes damp
and falls down the ftre-plaee. Our
readers should remember Or preserve this
little piece of valuable information.
re7i7A poor woman nod her little child
lately settled in- a western city and were
greatly reduced and In' need of food.—
The child seciag a chicken in the back
yard, wanted to kill it and have a pot-pie.
"No, no," said the mother, "that would
be wicked, and God would surely punish
you." "Then." said, the youngster,
looking up, "let's move hack to Boston,
there ain't any God there."
itifrThe Southern dark les held emanci
pation frolics at Richmond, Charleston,
Wilmington and other places, on New
Year's day, unmolested by anybody. At
Augusta, Georgia, they had a "military"
parade, and such a lot of flashy uniforms,
of every color, swords, anus autl trappings
'of every sort—warlike and comical—was
never before witnessed among Olt descen
dants of Ham and hominy.
Mixecycnation.—"A good-looking, In
telligent, well dressed, tidy and preposses
sing white girl," of Ohio, has married a
big Samba, about seven degrees blacker
than a bucket of coal tar. Mated doves,
"Two souls with but g single - thought,
Two colors mixed as one."
ParA singular innovation was made
at a funeral in Paris the other nay. In
stead of laudatory discourses In honor
of the individual interred, one of his
friends read extracts from a newspaper
article in his praise.
Kr An ingenious pickpocket in the
West is said to have driven a good busi
ness by getting on railroad trains, re
fusing to pay the fare , and then picking
the conductor's pocket while lie was puce
tiug him out. ,
idt Dar Roai,
V 111PWICASIEM
Irrhm c,
SIWILMIIIIIMITT
I=
RICK" roxiator.
How my he:' school
And I want little More Met*, but un
less! am the • when the ttevideolelock
bell speaks, X m not wanted. -
Bar II tea nap—snooze herein! rest,
and waken In few moments.
That noise the kitchen f •V'
That is_my fe preparing the break ,
Good woman :be did not go to bed' 1
an houror nio • after I did, anti she is -
ways up an hulr before me. tier work
is never done mine is never done. I
bear her step s another room. I hear
the dishes as ti ey 'are plated on the table.
This pillow is i.ot so large ar some pillows,
so I'll double i upend mg my head on 11.
And this heti not such as rich people
have, but it's g el enough for a poor man I
The feather b is thin—the elothes are
none todinice, tit then we are better off .
than thousand I know.
Why not hat , better ones?
Simply beta 'se I bannot afrotil it. Do
you see these 1 lids? Do you see the cal
lous palms—Ll little labor cracks—the
half stiffened blunt tinger,? AVell,
they are marks of industry. I go to the
shop early. ;I work late. I takelny din
ner in that littietin pea. 1 work till my
back aches. I save my money. My wire
helps me at home—she is prudent, saving,
Industrious and hopeful. My children
are not dressed as well us my neighbor's
children are, but they wear the best I eau
get them.
I have no money for luxuries, my fam
ily must live, even if my bed be hard,
My pillow small—the. feathers few and
the bed clothes worn—the floor unear
peted.
Hared work
Of course I have work, and T linve pay
for It. But money does not go so far nOW
as it used to. Two dollars tp-day are not
as good as one' dollar six years ago. My
wages go for Hour, meat, potatoes, baler
when we can atilvd it, eggs, tea, coat,
sugar, cloth, medicines and taxes.
purchase butter, ka, corer, cle.
Why live? I tun tired at night anti
want hornet!) i lig I can relish, and a cup of
tea gives the strength and new life. And
in the morning, with the labprs ofthe day
staring me in the face as _they lead, me
along to the grave, I have hut little ap
petite, ft cup of coffee with sugar in it and
pztrluips an egg on my plate teinpts the
worn out al petite and I thus gallystrength"
for my toll.
Be more saving.
lam saving. My wife is saving. I have
hardly a desert suit of clothes. My wife
does not have wore thou two dresses a
year. She mends and turns, and patches
and saves, and piecesi and. mho uses our
worn-out garments to make clothes for
the children. And we have no luxuries
in the pantry or cellar—simply plain food.
A dollar dues nut go far in market now.
I do not complain, but do get discouraged
at times, and wonder why a poor man was
horn—what use is there in li wing? Every
thing cotta so much. Cotton costs dye
tittles as much now as six years ago.
Woolen goods ditto. Tea, coffee, flour,
meat s sugar, rice, butter, eggs, tobacco,
spices, medicines, (te.., cost from three
to five times as much as they once did.
And my wages are not increased In pro
portion. Aud then the war. All I had
saved for years went for war expenses.
It was fifty dollars here—fifty dollars
there --fifty dollars then —twenty dollars
more for the last call—fifty dollars Inure
fore the next last call and so on. I had
to sell my cow and silver watch to raise
bounty money.
why didn't I rnnme
Why didn't you? Mixon, my brother,
my con-in enlisted, and they died or came
home crii.pled. I was drafted—l mort
gaged my house awl hit to raise money
t.) sew I a nr.t.r in my. plum
Wheti miiatl ,n
To save dr.; Union. They told me the
South wanted to get out of the Union, and
that we must whip them back. I did not
quite uuder.itand the midter. I wanted
the Union restored and I joined with the
Republican party. But all this was for
nothing. 11c went to war—we lost half
a million of men—we ruined the South so
it is worth nothing to the Union—they
submitted—we disnandeil -our armies—
the south laid down her arms and lisp
gone to work, and now these same Repub
licans say the South is out of the Union,
and they are going to keep her out, for
tear she-will vote against them. I can't
see what we pined by war. And I tho
out that the lkinocrats were right, and
that Democratic times were the best for
poor people. And the taxes—whyl aln
now taxetr—and taxed and taxed? limns&
support myself—my faintly—my, poor
relatives; my crippled relatives , who
came back from the wtd.—l pay ten times
the City, State, town and county tt`,avt
did before—l am taxed to help support
free negroes who once worked, as I have
to, and support themselves—and; tvorle
than all, I am taxed to pay Interest mo
ney to rich bondholders, who live In ease,
whose hands are soft, who pay no taxa,
yet live on what I earn, and what all of us
poor men earn. Now what chanCel has a
poor man under such a Republican Gov
ernment? chance to work hard and
die poor.
I%( OF "FREEDOMW
THE ELF,
A friend, (. nd a decided •Repub can,)
who fought -hrough the war, and la now
trying to rui4 a plantation "down inDix
ie," complains o (the "uncertainty Of pro
caring labor';'—that he had "hired seven
dilf2rent gangs since he took the planta
tion, and could not induce any of theta
to remain lorry ; " that the last ones he
agreed to pay in advance, week to week,
as long as they would remain—Which
was exactly nix days, and the lust he OW
of them, they were marching (Ind* Me)
dawn the road, singing, "We'll hang I,lett*
Davis on a sour apple tree," in the ,full
enjoyment of "life, liltbrty, and thn pur
suit of happines.s." Wn imagine the
feeliu b 'os of our Republican friend,,ias he
leaned over the paillngs, and an his
sable friends, "on their winding way,"
to have been akin to those of Pharaoh,
when the children of Israel "took to the
water,"—aud we don't recollect, of this
moment any one whose faith In "negro
equality l ' deserved a more convincing
shock than his. • Ile ii now looking for
Northern white laborers, .satistled that
"the freedmen" will not be ready, to go
to work during the present ceutakry.—
Sew Haven Register.
STEAM REFINED LARD.
It came out In a recent trial at Cincin
nati that a umit foal and disguatingprae
tice exists ainwig tie manufacturers of
steam refined hint In the transporta
tion of droves of hogs, by cars, to large
markets, more or less of them, antsome
times- many of theft, are found to he dead
on their arrival. , They tile front crowd
ing, from disease, fru'u suffocation, from
being, trampled upon, and front other
causes. Olt !AWL!' arritdd these dead hogs,
bruised; tram pled upon, diseased an&eov
ered withllitn, arc purchased by quait
facturers otsteam refitted lard. They are
taken to the manufactories with others
which drop dead in the streets; -they are
not dressed or &leaned in any manner,
but are put whole into knit:tense steam
boilers or tanks, anti the lard Is extracted
from them by the power of steam,- This
process extracts the lard perfectly from
all parts of the animal, even the
tomes. -After suftkient steaming the
most beautiful "Pure Steam Relined
Lard" is drawn from certain parts of gut
boiler by means of faucets,.whlle ale tilta
or solid portlens sink-, to the human or
rise-to the top.
lharA lady iseeiug a num lu the gutter,
said she was ufruld ite was , rate
who had ken near enough to emelt his
breath, exelakned : "Paitn; , and
had half his disease."
Jot/mai: qi lletilth sasi poi
pie inusn't "entl4ll9 up" in Mai l • .
wouf4 be healthy.