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VOL. 29.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUxNTY, PA., JUNE 8, 1871.
NO. 7.
1 JJJJLUOVALl AjZLX
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Published by Theodore Schoch.
TERMS -Two dollars a year in advance-anil if not
paid before the end of the year, to dollars and fifty
r-pnt will be chiirced. ,
No piper disror.um.ed until all arrearages are paid,
exceotnt liieo, ti.iii)t the Editor.
irr Vh-ertisoments of one square of (eight lines) or
less o'ne or tliree insertions SI 50. Each additional
insertion, 50 cents. Longer ones in proportion.
J 0 15 I'll 1 M T I SG ,
OF ALL KINDS,
Executed in the highest style of the Art, and on the
most reasonable terms.
DR.J.LANTZ,
Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist,
Still has his office on Main Street, in the second
nrv of Dr. S. Walton's brick building, nearly oppo-
" ' . ,.... I l.o fl-.ltorc Imnoir I
mle tlie MrouusouiB n"u"-i .'."-. i
that by eililfcn veais constant prai iu e unci me hium.
carnot and careiul attention to all matters pertaining
to his profession, that he is fully able to perform all
operations in the dental line in the most careful, taste
mi and skillful manner.
Special attention given to savin- the Natural Teeth ;
kIso, to the insertion of Artificial Teeth on Rubber,
Gold. Silver or Continuous Gums, and perlect fits In
all ca.-es insured.
Most persons know ike great folly and danger o! en
trusting their work to the inexperienced, or to those
living at a distance. April 13, 1S7I. ly
DR. N. L. PECK,
Surgeon Dentist,
Announces ihnt Iiavin? just returned from
Denial Collegs, he is fully prepared to make
artificial teetli in the most beautiful and life
I ike manner, and to fill decayed teeth ac
cording to the most inprcved method.
Teeih extracted without pam, when de
sired, ly the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas,
which is entirely harmless. Repairing of
all kinds neatly done. All work warranted.
Charges reasonable.
Office in J. G. Keller's new Brick build
in?. Main Sireet, Stroudsburg, Pa.
February 23, 1671. Cm.
JJll. GEO. W. JACKSON
Physician, Surgeon & ccoucherB
Office, Detrick's building, residence Kres
gey's Hotel.
EAST STROUD SBTJRG, Pa.
June 3, 1S70. Iy.
Du. c. o. norri ix, 31. u.
Would respectfully announce to the
pub'ie that he has removed his office from
Oakland to Canadensis, Monroe Count', Pa.
Trusting that many years of consecutive
practice of .Medicine and Surgery will be a
sufficient guarantee for the public confidence.
February 15, 1870. tf.
JAMES If. lVALTO,
Allorncy :it L;ur,
Office in second story of new buildinsr, near
ly opposite the Washington Hotel, Main st.
Stroudsburg, Pa.
January ', 1S70. tf.
O HOLMES, dii.
O Allorncyat La",
STROUDSBURG, FA.
Office, on Main Sircct, 5 doors above the
Stroudsburg House, and opposite Iiuster's
eloihing store.
07-Business of all kinds attended to with
promptness and fideliiy.
May 6, 1369. if.
DO.VT yoti know llial JF. II.
McCarly is the only Undertaker in
Siroudsburg who understands his business?
If not, attend a Funeral managed by any
other Undertaker in town, and you will see
the proof of the fact. Sept. 16, '67
RBV. EDWARD A. WILSON'S (of Wil
l:amburgh, N. Y.) Recipe for CON
SUMPTION and ASTHMA carefully com
younded at
HOLLINSHEAD'S DRUG STORE.
07" Medicines Fresh and Pure.
Nov. 21. 1SG7. W. HOLLINSHEAD.
SELLERS VILLE HOTEL.
The undersigned bavins: ptirchased the
alove well known and popular Hotel Proper
ty, would restHx-tfully inform the travelling
public that ho has refurnished and fitted up
the Hotel in the best style. A handsome
Bar, with choice Liquors and Segars, polite
attendants aud moderate charges.
B. J. VAX COTT,
Sep. 20, 1S70. tf. Proprietor.
A.
110CKAFELLOW,
DEALER IN
Ready-Hade Clothing, Cents Fur
nishing Goods, Hats & Caps,
Boots & Shoes, &c.
EAST STROUDSBURG, PA.
(Near the Depot.)
The public are invited to call and exam
ine goods. Prices moderate.
May G, 1869. tf.
plasteeT
Fresh ground Nova Scotia PLASTER
at Stokes' Mills. HEMLOCK BOARDS,
FENCING, SHINGLES, LATH, PA
LING, and POSTS, cheap.
FLOUR and FEED constantly on hand.
Will exchange Lumber and Plaster for
Grain or pay the highest market price.
BLACKSMITH SHOP just opened by
C. Stoue, an experienced workman.
Public trade solicited.
N. S. WYCKOFF.
Stokes' Mills, Pa., April 20, 1871.
THE STROUDSBURG
Passenger RW.Co.
7 ier cent. Bonds.
Interest payable in January and April.
For sale at the Monroe County
Bauk.
m 71106. A. BELL,
March 16, 171. , Trcal
rcasunr.
MOXROE CODIVTY
STKOUDSBUUG, PA.
ON THE FIRST OF APRIL, 1871,
will commence paying Inxrcst on
. DAILY DEPOSITS
I JX.l.Li X UluL UCl J. O,
at the rate of
Four Percent
SUBJECT TO CIIE3K AT SIGHT.
Accounts rendered, ard interest credited
monthly.
SEVEN1 PER CENT INTEREST PAID
on permanent deposts, as heretofore.
Checks on all part; of the Country
COLLECTED
Free of Cost Tor Depositors.
DEAFTS
FOR SALE ON
EsigZaml asul Ireland.
All deposits in this Bank arc secured by
Bond, with sccuriety t Thos. M. Rlcllha
ney, Trustee, in trust xr Depositors, which
bond is recorded in th proper office.
THOS. A. BELL,
Cashier.
Majch 16, 1871 ly.
p S. WILLIAMS,
Watchmaker & Jeweler,
MAIN-ST, STOUDSBURG, PA.
Located in corner building1, third door be
low the JerFersonian office. Room handsome
ly fitted -up, and heavily slocked with the fi
nest assortment of
Clocks, "Watches, Jewelry, Jewelers Ho
tioas, &c,
ever offered in thissection of countiy.
A full assortment of Spectacles, of the
best quality, and sailed to all ages, always
on sale.
Silver-ware, and Silver Plated ware, al
ways on hand at manufacturers prices.
(p7"Repairing neatly executed, and char
ges extremely moderate. Calls from the
public respectfully solicited.
November 5th, 1809 ly.
MONROE COUNTY
Main fit., Stroeitlsburg', la.
The subscriber would respectfully inform
the public that be is still at his old stand
where he will furnish at short notice
GRAVE STONES,
MONUMENTS, &c. &c,
of the best material and workmanship and at
as reasonable rates as they can be purchased
at any other establishment in the countrv.
J. E. EIIDMAN.
Mach 9, '71.-4m.
THERE WERE SOLD IN THE YEAR 70
8,841
OF
Blatchley's Cucumber
TRADE MARK
WOOD PUMPS,
Measuring 213,506 feet in lcnghth.or sufficient in
the aggregate for
A WELL OVER 40 MILES DEEP,
Simple in Construction Easy in Opera
tion Uivtng no Jaste to the Water
Durable Reliable and Cheap,
Thefe Pumps are their own best recommendation.
For sale by Dealers in Hardware and Agricultural
Implements, Plumbers. Pump Makers. 4tc., through
out the country. Circulars, 4c, furnielied upon ap
plication by mail or otherwise.
Single Pumps forwarded to parties in towns nhere
I have no agtuls upon receipt ol the regular retail
price.
In buyinjr, be careful that your Pump bears my trade
mark as above, as 1 guarantee no other.
CIIAS. G. BLATCHLEY, ManuCr,
Office and Wareroom,
C24 & G26 Filbert Street, Philadelphia.
March 2, 1871 6 m.
NEW FIRM.
The undersigned hating formed a co-partnership,
under the firm name of Burt & Her
zog, for the purpose of carrying on the Brew
ing business, at East Stroudsburg, Pa.,
would respectfully inform the public that
they will be ahle, all times, to furnish to or
der, a pure article of
ALE
at ehort notice. Their stock of material be
ing the lest the City afiords, none but the
purest and best malt liquors will be permit
ted to leave their establishment. They re
spectfully solicit the patronage of the pub
lic. JOHN BURT,
JACOB P. IIERZOG.
East Stroudsburg, Pa. Dec. 1, 1870.
works,
TJic Tate of a Figutln? Dog.
A man he owned a terrier dog
A bob-tailed onery cuss
And that there pnrp got that thereSnan
In many an ugly muss ;
For the man he was on his muscle,
And the dorg he was on his bite ;
So to kick the dog-goned animile
Was sure to raise a fight.
A woman owned a Thomas cat,
That fit at fifteen pounds ;
The other cats got up and slid
When that there cat was round.
The man and his dorg came along one day,
Where the woman she did dwell,
And the purp he growled ferociously,
Then went for the cat like everything.
He tried to chew the neck of the cat,
But the cat he wouldn't be chewed,
So he lit on the back of that there dog,
And bit 1 and clawed ! and clawed !
Oh I the hair it flew ! and the dog he youled !
As the claws went in to his hide,
And chunks of flesh peeled from hi9 back ;
Then be flumuxed, and kicked, and died !
The man he ripped, and cussed, and swore,
As he gathered a big brickbat,
That he would be durned essentially
If he didn't kill that cat I
But the old womin allowed she'd be bless'd if
he did,
And snatched up an old shot-gun,
Which was fired, and peppered his diaphragm
With bird shot number one.
They totted him home on a widow blind,
And the doctor cured him up;
EutJIie never was known to fight again,
Or to own another purp.
Folks may turn up their snoots at this here
rhyme,
I don't care a cuss for that ;
All I want to show is, that fighting dorgs
jlay tackle the wrong Tom cat.
O"
Make Home Attractive.
There is, among the sons and daugh
ters of farmers, a wide-spread eagernes3
to leave the old homestead in order to
seek a better fortune, in the over-crowded
citj. We do not say to young far
mers, 'Stay away from the city," "Buy
land," and such like advice, which is vol
unteered to them on all occasions, in sea
son and out of season. If the son of a
farmer has an aversion to agricultural, la
bor, if he is continually trying to get
away from it, and especially, if he shows
an adaptability for other, and to him more
congenial, pursuits, he had better, by all
means, be allowed to follow the bent of
his natural inclination. But, in many
cases, this aversion to the labor of the
farm arises from the shiftless, thriftless,
unhappy surroundings of the homestead,
rather thau from any constitutional dis
like to farming. . It is more than proba
ble that no efforts have been made to ren
der home attractive as well as useful.
With the advantage of plenty of room,
the farmer's home may be made a para
dise to the eye, by means of trees, shrub
bery, walks, mounds, glens, and tastefully
constructed and arranged farm buildings.
Many a farm has the facilities for an ar
tificial lake, a trout pond, or a cascade,
that could be constructed at very little
expense of labor and money. All this
would be pleasing to the dye, and would,
in some measure, satisfy the longings for
the beautiful, which exists as well in the
minds of farmer's sons and daughters as
in the minds of those who are city born
and bred.
Another way of furnishing the means
of contentment to farmer's sons is to pro
vide them with tools and facilities fordo
ing different kinds of work. Almost every
boy has a natural inclination for using
tools. If he has them at hand, he will
speedily learn to do many a job of repair
ing, that would cost the farmer twice the
price of the tools. In this way, the rudi
ments ol a good trade may be picked up
at odd times, when, without the tools, the
boy would perhaps be tempted to run
away, or at least, to squander his time in
idleness.
Give the daughters a piano, when it is
possible, and let' them mingle the pleas
ures of music with the realities of hard
work. Give to all plenty of useful and
entertaining reading in the way of books
and papers; and thus will their faculties
be developed to the perfection of the
whole being. The grand secret of keep
ing children at home, and of promoting
home industry, is to make home attrac
tive. A Temperance Cure.
A certain Hampshire county (Mass.)
farmer, a noisy temperance man, by the
way, who is justly proud of his fine im
ported stock, recently fancied that one of
his best milkers, was stricken with cattle
disease, and sent in great fright for the
village farrier, a do little sort of a fellow,
whom be bad cftca lectured for his tip
pling propensities. Dick came, examin
ed the animal, looked grave and said :
"Have you any whiskey or brandy
handy?"
"No," said the farmer.
"Pat. run to the druggist as soon as
possible, and tell him I waut a quart of
brandy for medical purposes."
When the liquor arrived, Dick took
the bottle, uncorked it, smelt of it, and
taking a good drink, put the bottle in his
pocket, saying :
"Your cow will be all right presently ;
I have pulled a tborn out of her foot,"
and walked off.
47th Anniversary of the American Sun
day School Union.
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING AT THE
ACADEMY' OF MUSIC, PHILA
DELPHIA, MAY 30, 1S71.
Addressed by the Chairman, George H
Stuart, Rev. Drs. Arruitage, of
New York, Harper and
Newton, of Phila
delphia. WORK OF LAST YEAR.
One thousand one hundred and ninety
four new Sunday-schools have been or
ganized, and 49,582 children, heretofore
neglected, placed under Bible instruction.
Besides this, 3,997 other schools, most of
them poor, in which were 245,933 chil
dren, have been aided by grants of books
and periodicals published by the Society.
Twenty-two thousand six hundred and
seventy-five families have been visited for
religious conversation and prayer, and
7,G51 sermons and addresses have been
delivered.
This work has reached destitute or fron
tier places in nearly all the State. In
New England, among the hill towns,
where population has been partly drained
by factory villages and emigration, the
missionary has found work to do, and hun
dreds of conversions are already reported
from the new schools in this department.
The Secretary of the Xew York depart
ment reports continued and increased in
terest in the various phasc3 of Sunday
school work.
Twenty-nine new schools have been
established in the pines of New Jersey,
from which very many hopeful conver
sions arc reported. A large number in
the destitute places of Pennsylvania have
been brought in, and in Ohio and Indiana
the work of the Society has been crowned
with encouraging success. Many have
been led to Christ, and new churches or
ganized from the Union schools.
A new era is dawning upon Michigan.
The new settlers are being followed by
railroads, and Sunday school missionary
labour proves that the Sunday-school is
the first lever of church exteusion.
Three hundred and seventy-five new
schools were organized in the Northwest
(Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and
.Nebraska), and already 2G churches have
grown out of them, and large numbers
of conversions are reported.
In Missouri ami Arkansas 8,741 chil
dren have been gathered into 182 new
Sunday schools, and in the South 222
schools were started, and G07 others aided,
and multitudes of conversions are report
ed as the first result.
The work has extended to the Pacific
Coast, and 47 new schools have been es
tablished. The Mission of this Society is one of the
most important and hopeful that can en
gage the labours of those who love the
church and the nation. It reaches the
young and puts the Bible into their hands,
and teaches them to read it, and it does
this for those who are unreached by any
others. It is the helper of all the churches,
and has laid the foundation for thousands
of the self-sustaining and prosperous
churches ol our great est.
It has done a work that cannot be mea
sured in its result for good.
A work so catholic, so Christ like, and
so much needed that it cannot fail to com
mand the confidence of the Christian pub
lic. It reaches those whom Jesus honoured
with His blessing the children and it
teaches those whom he came to seek and
to save the lost and neglected ones the
word of life.
All who love Christ and his cause, as
well as all who love their country, will
rejoice to know that this great National
Society, so much honoured and blessed in
the past, so much needed in the present
and'for the future, has recently adopted
means calculated to increase and extend
its usefulness, especially in the ever in
creasing settlements of the far reaching
West, and among the destitute and neg
lected oues of the Southern States.
This noble Society is located at 1122
Chestnut street, Philadelphia.
c .
Arrangement of Rooms.
Giveyour apartments expression char
acter. Rooms which mean nothing are
cheerless, indeed. Study light and shade,
and the combination and arrangement of
drapery, furniture and pictures. Allow
nothing to look isolated, but let every
thing present an air of sociability. Observe
a room immediately after a number have
left it, and then, as you arrange the
furniture, disturb as little as possible the
relative positions of chairs, ottomans and
sofas. Place two or three chairs in a
conversational attitude in some cheery
corner, an ottoman within easy distance
of a sofa, a chair near your stand of
stereoscopic views or engraviugs, and one
where a good light will fall on the book
which you may reach from the table near.
Make little studies of effect which shall
repay the more than casual observer, and
do not leave it possible for one to make
the criticism which applies to so many
homes, even of wealth and elegance
"Fine carpet3, handsome furniure, a few
pictures and elegant nothings but how
dreary !" The chilling atmosphere is felt
at once, aud wc cannot divest ourselves
of the idea that we must maintain a stiff
and severe demeanor, to accord with the
spirit of the place. Make your homes
then, so cosy and cheerful that, if wo visit
you, we may be joyous and unconstrained,
and net feel ourselves out of harmony
with our surroundings. Art llcvicic.
The Influence of Pretty Women.
Life becomes more harmonious, it beats
with a keener pulse of enjoyment, in the
presence of pretty women. After all. a
charming little figure, a piquant little i ly of the virtue of women. Nor is there
loco, is the best remedy for half the ills 'anything in which young men are so
of existence, its worries, its vexations, its . thoroughly mistaken, as in the low esti
dullness, its disappointments. And even mate they form of the integrity of women
in the largest and more placid types of j not of their own mother and sisters,
beauty, in the beauty of a Lady Dambclle, j but of others, who they forget, are some
if there is a ting of stupidity, there, is, i body else's mothers and sisters. Asa
at any rate, an atmosphere of repose, a
genial influence, mouldiug our social con
verse and habits into gentler shapes.
It is amusing to sec how the prettincss
of woman telb on her dress, how the or
der and propriety of her dress tells on
her home. The pursuit of beauty, the
habit of prettiness, givo. au idea dignity!
to the very arrangement of her bonnet!
strings. In every movement, in the very
sweep of her ample folds, in the pose of:
her languor, in the gay start of her excite
ment, one feels the softening, harmoniz
ing influence of her last look in the glass.
She may be gay or sorrowful, quiet or
energetic, but she must be pretty. Beau
ty exercises an imperceptible compulsion
over her, which moulds her whole life in-
to graceful and harmonious forms. Her
dress rises out of the mere clothing of record of God itself for it is nothing
man into the regions of science, of poe- less than th"i3 and should put an evcr
try, of art. A thousand considerations of ; lasting seal upon lips that were wont to
taste, hormonies of color, contrasts corres -
pondencies, delicate adjustments, of light
and shade, dictate the choice of a shawl i A Schoolboys's Composition on tho "Edi
or the tint of a glove. J tor."
And as prettincss tells on dress, it tells The cJitor ;s one of thc most vvi
on the home. I lowers, pictures, the gay ! animai3 in tllc worijt especially if some
notes of a sonata, the coziest of couches, ! of hi3 subscribers won't pay. lie can pa
gorgeous hues of Indian tapestry, glass-1 10 thc circug a(ternoon anj evening, with,
work cf Murano, a hundred exquisite ; out paying a cent, that is, il be will do a
somethings and nothings, are the natura creut dc:ll of vrnin for a fcw tickets ;
setting of pretty women. The art of thejjie caa aho g0 t0 iaquest3 anj bangings.
boudoir tells on all but the chaos of the; Iic ha3 free t;cket3 t0 p5caic9 anJ straw.
husband s study. Around that last re-! berry fcstivaj3 jfhe is troubled with tha
fugc of barbarism floats an atmosphere of j..bi; hea(j and b:l3 KOrc brass tnan
taste and refinements in which the pretty brai cts wcddinj; cakes ECrjt t0 him,
wne lives ana moves ana nas ner oeing.
And lrom this tone of the home srows
the tone of society, the society laws of
goods humor, of propriety, of self-re
straint, of consideration for others, of gen-
tleness, of vivacity. The very bush
wiu lougu iui.i Ull B luuuuuiuu our(
Peoponescs as Pericles bends oyer Aspa-
me mtie turns ana aeucacies oi
phrase, the joyous serfdoms and idleness.
r ti,i;t l r I
tells of the triumph of pretty women.
Wedding Tours.
Wedding tours have become a3 fash
ionable as they are expensive. As a
fashionable custom we protest against
them. Let all who can afford it enjoy
the luxury to their heart's content, but
let none in moderate circumstances, who
need a thousand things more than they
do a view of Niagara, or a week at Sara
toga, purchase a claim to notoriety, or a
respectable conformity to custom, at an
expense of from two to five hundred dol
i i: r ii- -1
we protest against is the tjraunical rule
of fashion. It has no right to dictate in
this matter. It may bo that tho fancy
may be licensed to treat with poetical
indifference the ordinary affairs of life on
so inspiring an occasion as that of
riage, but we can discover no valid reason,
nevertheless, why common sense should
be entirely discarded as too vulgar or
material a thing to be associated with the
heavenly bliss of material experience.
Admitting that marriage should ele
vate one above the uaromaotic things of
this world for a time, we believe there is
a return again in most cases to the vul
gar things of earth, to labor, to duty, its
perplexities as well as its ordinary pleas
ures, It 13 not inexpedient, then, to be
wiso in this matter. How many, how
ever, are slaves to this fashionable folly,
who have not tho courage to break away
from it ? How many arc led into an
extravagance in this matter which they
cannot rightly afford, merely because
some more fortunate, (or wc might say
in many cases, more unfortunate.) do so.
How many, coutrary to reason and good
judgment, follow this fashion, merely to
make a show, for thc sake of appearance,
which must, sooner or biter, appear to
havo been false and counterfeit.
To Young Men.
Let the business of every one alone,
and attend to your own. Don't buy what
you den't need. Strive to use every
hour to advantage, and study to make
every reisurc hour useful. Look over
your books regularly. If a stroke of mis
fortune comes upon your business, re
trench, UETitENCir, work thc harder, but!
never Jo the track. Confront difficulties
with a bold and "unflinching perseverance,
and you will be honored, but shirk and
you will be despised. Seek to acquire
tho power of continuous application, with
out which you have no reason to except
success. If you do this you will be able
to perceive to difference which it creates
between you and those who have not
such habits. You will not count your
fcclf, nor will they count you, as o;ie of
their number. Thus will Cud yourself
emerging into the higher regions of in
tcllectual and earnest mai men who are
capable of clearing the way and making
a place fjr themselves, instead of stand
ing idly grit plug, waiting fur a place to
coxuc to them or for something to turn
up.
iarsf uy spenuuig new imramo "ays about, and finally die before any atten
among entire strangers, amid the bustle J tjon ;s paid them; and then breeders are
coufusion of hotel life, or enjoying the profuse in their queries as to what killed
doubtful luxury of being rode on rails. , their fowls. One reason is that the chick
Circumstances, in thisa3 iu every ques-.eas are either too highly fed or become
tion, determine proprieties. But what 1,-mac Tn Hi f,,rmi.r th fnn.r
Slurs on Women.
Of all evils prevalent among young
men, wc know of none more blighting in
its moral effects than to sneak slihting-
rule, no person who surrender to this de
basing habit is to be trusted with any en
terprise requiring integrity of character.
Plain words should be spoken on this
point, for the evil is a general one, and
deep rooted. - If young men are somc-
times thrown iuto the society of thought-
less or lew J women, they have no more
right to measure all other women by whaS
they see of these, than they would have
to estimate the character of honest and
respectable eitizens upon the develop
ments of crimes in our police courts.
Let our young men remember that their
chief happiness in life depends upon their
utter faith iu women. No worldly wis
dom, no misanthropic philosophy, no
jreneralization, can cover or weaken this
; fundamental truth. It stands like the
! speak slightingly of women.
acJ sometimes cet3 a Hckinsr. but not of-
' ton fnr. i,
can take
things back in his
next issue, which he generally does. I
never knew but one editor to tret licked.
His paper busted that day, and he couldn 6
ofjtake aUythjng back. While others have
t0 Q to bcJ ear tiQ cJ,tor caQ jt up
Iate cvcry ni ht aH(1 scc wbat is goinR
, n v,nn t n v. t t
be an edkor s0 that x can stay 0Qt ,ate
at nijiht. Then that will be jolly. The
editor don't have to saw wood, or do any
chopping except with his scissors. There
is a great many people trying to be edi
tors who can't, and some of them havo
been in the profession for years. If I
were asked if 1 had rrther have an educa
tion or be a circus radcr, I should say,
let me be an editor. It is fun to bo
swindled by a scape goat subscriber.
CHICKExNS DROOPING AND DVTNG.
The Rural JYcir Yvrkcr has the follow
ing : Chickens are very often seen in
the roultrv vard drooping and mortinL
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should be chopped eggs, bread and meat
scraps from the table choopped fine, and
j iet luem bavc plenty 0f fresh mold and
I oad sand or gravel. In thc latter case,
put somc WOrm-wood in their water and
mar-Urease the head thoroughly with iard or
fresh butter. In our youthful days thc
first thing we did after the chicken was
out of the shell was to saturate its head
well with fresh butter. This precaution,
iu our opinion, has saved many a brood.
Saying "Hateful"' Things.
What a strange disposition is that
which leads people to say "hateful,"
things for the mere pleasure of saving
them. When you havo done your best
to please, and are fecliug very kiudly aud
pleasantly, out will pop some underhand
stab which you alone can comprehend
a sneer which is masked, but which is too
well amied to be misunderstood. Just
half a dozen words, only for the pleasure
of seeiug a cheek flush and an eye lose
its brightness, only spokeu because be is
afraid you are too happy or too couccited.
Yet they are worse than so many blows.
How many sleepless nights have such
mean attacks caused tender-hcartel men!
How after them, one awakes, with aching
eyes aud head, to remember that speech
before everything, that bright, sharp,
well aiuied needle of a speech that probed
tho very centre of your soul ! 11-justholJ.
A showman in tho State of Main want
cd to exhibit au Egyptian mummy, aud
attended at the Court House to obtaiu
permission. "Whit U it you want to
show ?" inquired tho juJgc. "An Egyp
tiau mummy more than three thousand
years old," Faid the showman. "Thrco
thousand years oil !" exclaimed the judge,
jumping to his feet, "aud is the critter
alive ?"
An old ncgress who was on exhibition
in New England "as the oldest living per
son," rather overdid her part the other
day, wheu asked if she ever seen Georgo
Washington, by saying, "Oh yes ; he u.ed
to coiiio up where I lived iu New Hamp
shire every year to the Fourth of July
celebration, aud we always made a heap,
of him, which was the reason he liked to
come."
An esa?perutitig lact Why will next
year be like last '! Because 1 i-t ear wus
1870, and uext will be ib72 (tOL).
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