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THE GRANGERS.
Arkansas reports 478 granges, and
more coming.
One grange in California took seven
hundred shares in the grange bank.
The Louisiana state grange is to meet
at Baton Ronge, Thursday, December
3, next.
A grange co-operative trade associa
tion has been chartered at F armer City,
Ills , with a capital of $5,000.
The New York Post says the Gran
gers’ platform “ is more like anew ser
mon on tho mount that a political de
claration of faith.”
There are six hundred granges in
Texas, averaging about thirty-four mem
bers to the grange, making a total of
21,420 members in the state, about one
fifth of whom are ladies.
Th>: master of the Tennessee state
grange has completed arrangements by
which he offers to furnish Patrons with
sewing m chines, sold by agents at SBO.
S7O and $65, respectively, for $36, $33
and $29.
The Alabama Patrons of Husbandry,
to prevent fraud and theft by tenants,
propose that all merchants shall sign an
agreement not to purchase any corn or
cotton without a written permit from
the landlord.
The Southern Agriculturist urges
masters and secretaries of the subordi
nate granges the necessity of making
agricultural, horticultural and stock re
ports to the statistical committee at
Washington city.
It has been ascertained as one of the
results of the grange movement in lowa,
that a more strict economy and confin
ing purchasing to needs, the Patrons
have resorted less to banks and other
sources to meet their harvest expenses.
So say the money-lendeis,
In reply to a letter asking for infor
mation, (5. H. Kelley, secretary of the
national grange, says the grangers’
mortgage bank, lately advertised in New
York, is not indorsed by tho national
grange, nor is it recognized by the ex
ecutive committee in any shape what
ever.
Much depends on the master in the
grange, lie should be a progressive,
reading, thinking, active man. He
should lead as an officer, and have his
suggestions matured and sonnd, ana
then he will have the confidence of the
members. Let the masters wake up to
the importance of their position, and be
prepared for any emergency. — Southern
Agriculturist.
Black Hawk county, lowa, has three
grain elevators controlled by the order,
one co-operative store and two cheese
factories, all of which have seemed
large pecuniary benefits to the farmers,
both in and out of the order, not only
in the management of the elevators and
store, but in the influence which they
have had in compelling reduced rates in
all similar establishments with which
they have to contend on the outside.
In consideration of the probable scar
city of grain and consequent suffering of
the lowex classes, Union Grave grange,
Missouri, has pledged itself to restrain
Patrons as far as possible from shippin.
their grain outside the county, request
the representatives to bo elected to
the legislature to urge upon their re
spective houses measures for the relief
of the suffering parts of the state, op
pose the proposed stopping of the pub
lic schools by the county court, believ
ing that measures of relief can be de
vised without letting their children
grow np in ignorance, and ask sister
granges to act upon the subject in a
spirit becoming the order.
If eoncert and unanimity in action
and sentiment among farmers for the
protection of their most vital interests
are impracticable, then the Grangers
had better disband. Why, the institu
tution was established for the very pur
pose of securing unanimity, a want cf
which had nearly ruined our agricul
tural interest. Individual honor, the
respect you have for promises, the sa
credness of your vows, is the coherent
attraction wkioh must cement you as
one man. When individual honor is
wanting your resolutions and laws will
be worthless as the paper on which thi. y
are written, for they will never be exe
cuted.—lion, W. P. Winder.
In defense of secrecy in the grange, a
correspondent of the Western Rural
says : “ We have ample evidence of the
excellence of secrecy, inasmuch as we
are taught to ‘pray in secret,’ to give
alms in secret, not letting our left hand
know what our hand right doeth, etc.,
etc. And we might call attention to
many of the finer relations and charac
teristics in life which we hold in abso
lute secrecy. Nothing is made common
but the drops of life, and the drops
only of everything are made common
place. Whereas, shut np in the soul
are the grand desires and aspirations of
the heart, only made known to our dear
est friend, and even then in secrecy. ”
The spirit of all secret orders is too
often lost sight of —mere form taking
the place of that purer, higher and more
noble sentiments of fraturnity upon
which all orders, and especially the or
der of Patrons, are professedly founded.
The moral, instead of the mental facul
ties, the heart instead of the head,
should guide and govern the thoughts
and actions of the Patrons in a far
greater degree than they do. We do
not fulfill all our solemn obligations,
voluntary taken, when we go tlirough
with the forms and ceremonies of the
ritual; there is, or ought to be, a holier
mr tive for our actions than the too com
mon one of sordid gain or excellence in
prescribed formality.
The farmers of Salinas valley, Cali
fornia, were at the mercy of the rail
road corporations of that state, and with
an enterprise that does them much
credit, they went to work and laid down
an iron pathway to the sea, which makes
them independent for all time of mo
nopoly in any form whatever. The port
of Monterey was only twenty miles dis
tant, where ships can come and load as
easily and far more cheaply than at San
Francisco. Their valley was connected
with San Francisco by long lines of rail
road belonging to Stanford & Cos., bnt
the Grangers did not forget that heaven
had blessed them with a seap rt near
by, and they subscribed the stock for a
narrow-track railroad and built the
track themselves, and gsay they can
almost save to themselves the price of
the road the present year by cheapening
transportation by the old railroad line,
even if they do not ohoose to nse their
own road. This road, with a good nar
row track, with all necessary turnouts
and rolling stock, and with two large
warehouses, cost tho people of Salinas
valley $13,000 per mile, and as they
save freight on a million and a half
bnshels of wheat at the rate cf fifteen
cents a bush 1, they will make a profit
for themselves. Thev went to work j ust
as our farmers should to protect them
selves by improving the Williamette
river so as to make it navigable at low
water.— Williamette Farmer.
The Patron’s Helper, an lowa grange
paper, gives the Grangers of that state
who complain that the grange has done
little for them, a going over after this
fashion: “ The California Patrons, but
little more than a year old and with a
membership not exceeding 16,000, have,
by their indomitable energy and devo
tion, solved the problem of co-operation
in trade, both retail and wholesale;
applied the same principle to the pro
tection of tire insurance on a large
scale ; have established a grange bank
with a capital of $5,000,000, greatly re
ducing the rate of interest which had
been ruinous in theff state; have kindled
the fires of social and moral reform in
more than a hundred neighborhoods,
and spread the harvest feast in every
valley in their fair state. The lowa
state grange is more than three and a
half vears old, and with a membership
of 100,000 has done comparatively noth
ing. Among other causes assigned by
the Helper for the lack of progress,
which characterizes the lowa Patrons,
is that too m any were attracted to the
grange wholly by considerations of a
mercenary character, expecting that
through it they would be enabled some
how to get back on the moirow five
dollars for the one dollar they invested
yesterday. Disappointed in their ex
pec ations of a large return for their
small investment, without effort on their
part, they have lost their interest in the
grange and rote it a failure,”
TUB PLAINS.
BA JOAQUIN MIULKJS.
®o ye and look upon the land,
That far vast land that few behold.
And none beholding understand—
That old. old land which men call new—
Go jonrney vrl'b the seasons through
Its wastes, and '°aru how limitless.
The solemn silence of that plain
Is, oh! so eloquent. The blue
And bended skies seem bHilt for it,
And all else seems as yesterday,
An idle tale but idly told.
Its history is of God alone,
For man has lived and gone away
And left bnt little heaps of stone.
Lo ! here you learn how more than fit
.Uid dignified is silence when
You hear the petty jeers of men.
Its awful solitudes remain
Thenceforth for aye a part of you,
And you have learned your littleness.
Some silent red men cross your track;
Some sun-tanned trampers come and go;
Some rolling seas of buffalo
Break thunder-like and far away
Against the foot-hills, breaking back
Like breakers of some troubled bay;
Some white-tailed antelope blown by
So airy like; some foxes shy
And shadow-like irove to and fro
Like weavers’ shuttles as you pass;
And now and then from out tne grass
You hear some lone bird clack and call
A sharp keen call for her lost brood,
That only makes the solitude
Seem deeper still, and that is all.
That wide domain of mysteries
And signs that men misunderstand;
A land of space and dreams; a land
Of sea-salt lakes and dried up seas;
A land of caves and caravans
And lonely wells and pools; a land
That hath its purposes and plans,
That seems so like dead Palestine,
Save that its wastes have no confine
Till pushed against the leveled ski. s;
A land from out whose depths shall rise
The new-time prophets ; the domain
From out whose awful depths shall come,
All clad in skins, with dusty feet,
A man fresh from his Maker’s hand,
A singer singing oversweet
A charmer charming very wise;
And then ail men shall not be dumb—
Nay, not be dumb, for he shall say,
“ Take heed, for I prepare the way
For weary feet ; ” and from this land
The Christ shall come when next the race
Of man shall look upon his face.
JUDGING FROM FACES,
bavafer’s Science as Laid Down ly
Himself.
One Laving time and taste for curious
and profitable speculations, says a cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Commer
cial—possibly, indeed, more curious
than profitable—having leisure besides,
in these galloping times, to read three
thick volumes, can snap his fingers at
the world, the flesh and the devil, and
be happy for at least two days by sitting
down and carefully perusing a certain
very queer old book, which I have just
read for the first time. The name of
the qaeer, speculative old book is this :
“ Essay on Physiognomy ; for the pro
motion of the knowledge and the love
of mankind. By John Caspar Lavater.”
It is now nearly a hundred years since
the work was written, and no modern
edition, I think, has been printed. At
any rate, the library copy which I read
was printed in London, 1789, and con
tained the funny, long s’s which were in
our great grandmother’s prayer-books.
“ Physiognomy,” says Mr. Lavater, “is
the science or knowledge of the corres
pondence between the external and in
ternal man.”
Wise saws and sayings, and short
sentences containing much in a little,
are scattered like grains of gold all
tJirough this queer book. Here, for in
stance, are some of his sayings :
“ Be what thou art, and become what
thou canst,”
“ Each man is a man of genius in his
large or small sphere.”
“ When the father is considerably
stupid, the mother exceedingly the re
verse, then will most of the children be
endued with extraordinary understand
ing.”
“The.wisest man, when languid, will
look like a fool.” (From Zimmerman. )
“Three things appear to me to be
indispensable in a traveler—health,
money and physiognomy.”
“ Tho rarest of all gifts is the gift of
critical, undivided attention.”
In describing the physiognomy of Bal
thazar Becker, whosoever that may be,
our author uses this tremendous lan
guage:
“A countenance void of grace—
formed, I may say, to terrify the devil.”
Further on we find some comfort for
old jieople, in the shape of one of the
most beantiful thoughts ever penned
concerning old age :
“ Age never deforms the countenance.
Wherever age is exceedingly deformed,
the same deformity would have been
visible in youth to an attentive ob
server.”
lam sure it is true. Here again is
some comfort for editors, quoted by
our author from another writer ;
* 1 Few men of great understanding
write a fine hand.”
But what will interest everybody
most will be to know—according to Mr.
Lavater’s glorious science of physiog
nomy, which he pronounoes as infalli
ble as mathematics —what traits of
character certain given f. aturee are the
signs of.
In the beginning, and on general prin
ciples, our author remarks that or>e of
the most favorable possible moments for
judging a man’s physiognomy is that
moment when he is in a towering rage,
and his burst of passion is suddenly
“ interrupted by the entrance of some
respectable person,” and the irate per
son tries instantly to conceal his rage,
and iron out his countenance and make
believe he wasn’t angry at all. Of
course nice people, such as you and I,
were never caught in a pickle like that.
Oh, dear me, mo! bu sure enough it
would be a most admirable moment to
judge other folks, wouldn’t you think?
“Physiognomy unites hearts,” says
Mr. Lavater. When this infallible
science is properly understood and ap
preciated he thinks people will watch
themselves in a mirror from time to
time, to catch the signs of the spirit’s
progress or degeneration, and find out
how good or bad they are getting.
The high priest of physiognomy takes
each feature of the face and analyzes it,
and tells what it is the sign of. Dis
tent is visible in hollowness of cheeks,
says Mr. Lavater. That must be a true
sign, I should think, because I remem
ber whole families of hollow-cheeked
people, who were every one of them as
discontented, restless and unsatisfied as
mortal man can be. The very manner of
holding one’s teacup is an important in
dex to character, he continues.
“That is entirely true,” remarks a
venerable, old-school lady for whom I
have the highest respect, “ because
whenever a person keeps his teaspoon
in his cup, and there holds it back by
putting his forefinger over the tqp edge
of the tea-cup, where his mouth goes,
it’s a sure sign the person wasn’t brought
up a gentleman and doesn’t know nor
care what belongs to good manners.”
A pouting under lip denotes ostenta
tion and folly. • Large ears betoken
folly ; inordinately small ears appertain
to very weak, effeminate characters. At
least that is what the great physiogno
mist assures us. Fortunately we are
not obliged to believe him unleps
we choose. A strong, heavy under
jaw denotes a strong desire of mas
tication, like—l beg your pardon, but
Mr. Lavater says it. like—come to
think, I won’t offend strong-jawed indi
viduals by writing it out plain, bat like
a certain nameless brute which is the
repr sentative animal of Cincinnati.
A perfect forehead must equal the
nose in length. Big, bald foreheads
which form a half sphere in shape, are
usually the most stupid. “ A ret eating
forehead in general denotes superiority
of imagination, and acuteness.” Strange
to say, Mr. Lavater considers a retreat
ing forehead superior to all the rest. I
don’t know how he makes* it out, I’m
sure. He makes it physiognomical
axiom that the resemblance between
two faces depends on the resejnblance
of the foreheads. Besembling fore
heads, resembling countenances.
Benevolence is sometimes visible only
in the teeth of people. How about
false teeth, I wonder ? I suppose we
can’t tell whether people are benevolent
or not if they have “store teeth.’
“Long teeth are certain signs of weak
ness and pusillanimity.” Melancholy
persons seldom have well arranged,
white teeth. It’s because they have
dyspepsia, Mr. Lavater, don’t you
know? Finally, “Whoever leaves his
teeth foul, and does not attempt to
clean them, certainly betrays much of
the negligence of his character, which
does him no honor.” True as gospel !
“ I hold the nose to be the foundation
or abutment of the brain,” says our au
thor. A beautiful nose will never be
found accompanying an ugly counte
nance. A hooked nose usually denotes
melancholy. Sharp-nosed people are
witty. “ The great men of France, in
my opinion, generally have the charac
teristic of their greatness in the nose.”
Mr. Lavater qnotes from some old au
thor this concerning the nose. “ The
nose is the seat of deiisioD. It wrinkles
contemn.” So you see there is a deep
physiognomical philosophy in the act of
turning up your nose. In the illustra
tions, which are very copious all through
the work, our phyisognomist pronounces
a fellow with a long, sharp nose and a
little squeezed up mouth, “a rhymer
or wrangling lawyer.” The two are
classed together physiognomically, it
seems. I don’t know which it flatters.
Come wo now to the grand feature
which man possesses and other animals
don’t, the chin. “The more chin, tne
more man,” is the axiom wherewith our
author begins his chapter in chins.
“ The chin is the keystone of the super
structure.” Large chins are positive,
small, retreating chins are negative. A
projecting chin is a sign of craft. “ A
deformity in the chin is indeed much
to be dreaded. ” So look out for your
chin.
“ The mouth habitually held open is
a sign of a fool.” Please don’t forget
that. Our author declares profoundly
that almost all painters have failed to
hit the general theory of the month.
But I couldn’t discover from anything
in the book what the “general theory
of the mouth was,” so I am at sea there,
and can’t impart the valuable informa
tion to you. Also I couldn’t find that
the great phys, etc., said in particular
what the sign was when the mouth
turner) down at the corners. So far as
I have noticed a mouth turned down at
the corners is always the mouth of a
hypochondriac and a sneak. That isn’t
according to Lavatar, however.
Arched eyebrows are feminine, eye
brows straight across are masculine.
Straight across eyebrows, in connection
with a nose, forehead and chin in sym
metry, and some other little points—
betoken a character much past common.
White eyebrows signify weakness. The
nearer the eyebrows are to the eyes the
more earnest, deep and firm the charac
ter will be. “ I find more strength,
manhood, thought, combined with
brown eyes than with blue. * * *
Greenish eyes are a decisive token of
ardor, fire, courage.” Lavater quotes
from Paracesius concerning gray eyes:
“Gray eyes generally denote decsit,
instability and indecision.” Now, that’s
a mistake, if not a whopper. Grav
eyed people are the best people in the
world. Among all the eyed people I
know, I don’t thick of one who isn’t
uncommonly bright, decided and spir
ited.
One of the most prominent character
istics of the face of Albert Duerer our
author discovers to be fortitude. I
should think the poor man needed it, in
view of thoso traditions which hand
him down to posterity as the most fear
fully henpecked husband of his time.
Opposite the countenance of a raan
with a squint eye, and otherwise Ben-
Butlerish in looks, is tacked this de
scription, like an explanatory label:
“ Unbounded avarice, unfeeling
wickedness, knavery unequaled.” The
great Benjamin’s spirit, in another
body, must have been on the earth in
Lavater’s time.
Oar author has his sly drive, here and
there, at the famous fashionable classic
Greek profile, which people always clap
upon breastpins and vases, and even
upon stoves, till one is sick of seeing it
around. In the usual copies of famous
objects of Greek art, and the famous
ancient lines of beauty, Mr. Lavater
finds only an expression of meanness,
and if he “dare say sc,” of vague in
sipidity. The so-ca led Greek profile
of nose and forehead in a straight line
is to the “physiognomical sensation” of
Lavater simply “insupportable.” That
is the very word he uses. He finds
nothing in the least like it in all nature.
It is simply an impossible nose and fore
head, and if it were possible, the per
son having such a nose and forehead
would be “blockishly stupid.” “Can
any person having a sense of truth and
nature suppose this (the so-called Greek
profile) natural and true?” wrathfally
exclaims the author of our three
volumes. “Depraved is that taste
which can call this graceful!”
I always thought so, too, but was
afraid to say it.
Lavater on the woman question would
make an inexpressibly funny chapter, if
one had time to write it out. It has
not been quite a hundred years since
the time of Lavater, bnt this* world has
moved a long, long way since then. I
know now, though, where all the old
fogies and female seminary proprietors
get their cant phrases and pet expres
sions about the sphere and nature of
women. They are from Lavater, every
one. It’s a fatisfaction to know that at
last. Lavater has “ views,” decidedly.
And he states them in four lines, in pa
renthesis, at that. He says :
(“ I reluctantly apply the word
thoughtful to women. Those who have
the most understanding think little or
not at all. They see and arrange ima
ges, but trouble themselves little con
cerning abstract signs.”)
What in the world would women do
if they didn’t always have men along
to explain ’em? In justice to the proph
et of physiognomy, however, it must be
said that he confesses he is “ but little
acquainted with the female part of the
human race.” “In my youth I avoided
women,” observes he, “and I never was
in love." I don’t believe it! Or, if it
is true, John Caspar ought to be ashamed
of himself. A man so wise that he nev
er was in love is just a little bit too wise
for this world. I can forgive Mr Lava
ter all that trash about women, though,
on account of what he said about those
sappy Greek heads.
There are three hundred and sixty
pictures in the work, mostly heads of
people whom the author physiogno
mizes. There is not a head or face in
the whole work which resembles our
American head or face. The American
type, whatever they may be, has been
developed entirely since the days of
Lavater. I wonder whether it is good
or bad ?
One last quotation, for a settler: “No
one whose person is not well formed
can become a good physiognomist.”
So, if you are not good looking, don’t
attempt to judge people’s faces.
Corn Acclimated in England.
About a hundred years ago Indian
corn was introduced into England with
the expectation that it would furnish
the bread about the supply of which
the fast-increasing population were get
ting nervous. That, country must then
have been experiencing a cycle of hot
summers, for the corn ripened all right
for three years in succession. In the
fourth year it was largely planted, but
failed to mature. The attempt to grow
corn was then abandoned, it being clear
that the summer heat was not great
enough, while the liability to June
frosts, similar to those of this year, was
alone enough to make the attempt hope
less. The English papers now state
that William Cobbett, son of the fa
mous Liberal agitator, has successfully
acclimated corn at Hounslow, near Lon
don, where he has three acres growing
which have withstood the severe frosts
of last June, and are now very promis
ing. If our English oousins have really
got a frost-proof corn, it will be as valu
able to us as to them.
Coal for Pigs.
There is no doubt in onr mind of the
benefit from feeding carbonaceons mat
ter to swine when they are kept in close
pens. The avidity with which hogs eat
rotten wood is well known. Charcoal
is but another form. The utility of
feeding wood has long been recognized.
We some years since substituted the
ordinary western stone coal with the
best results, where from 200 to 500 hogs
were kept in close pens, gm the refuse
of city hotels. Something of the kind
seems as necessary to them as salt to
herbiverons animals. We have known
them to consume a pound in the course
of a day, and again they would not seek
the coal for some time. Just what the
particular use coal is in the animal
ecjnomy, is not so easy to answer.
Swine are especially liable to scrofulous
and inflammatory diseases. Carbon, in
shape of eoai, is an acteseptic, and the
probability ia that it acts in this way in
purifying the blood.— Western Mural.
GRAPES AND GRAPE CULTURE.
Tlx* Approved Varieties tor the Souths
and How to Urow Them.
In reference to the best varieties of
the grape for the south generally, we
have little to add to the numerous notes
on that subject, which we have pub
lished during the past year, but would
refer the reader particularly to an ar
ticle headed “ Good Grapes for the
South,” in the Rural Carolinian for Oc
tober, 1873, in which five or six desir
able and well-tested kinds are described,
and several others mentioned as promis
ing. Among the former are the Con
cord, Hartford Prolific, Delaware, Ives’
Seedling, Norton’s Virginia and Clin
ton (the two last only for wine), and
among the latter, Walter, Maxatawny
and Perkins. A vine or two of the
Scupperneng should always be put in,
whatever other varieties are planted,
and if wine is to be made, it may per
haps be planted largely, with profit. As
a table grape, it is not salable, except in
a small way in our local markets.
Where ODly a few vines are to be
planted, simply to produce fruit for
family use, they will be naturally plan
ted near the house, and little choioe
will be afforded in the selection of
soil and situation; but there are few
places fit for human habitation where
the grave-vine, properly planted and
cared for, will not grow and produce
regular and satisfactory crops.
In case a vineyard is to be established,
forethought and judgment should be
exercised in its location. A good loam
is probably tho best soil, and if calcer
ons, so much the better ; but almost any
sandy pine land of good quality will
produce fine crops of grapes. It must
have good drainage, either natural or
artificial, as stagnant water is death to
grape-vines. In a hilly or rolling coun
try a gently sloping hillside, with an
eastern, southern or southwestern ex
posure is desirable. The land Rliould,
if possible, be free from stumps and
other obstructions, and in snch a con
dition of fertility as would procure a
good crop of corn or cotton without
further manuring.
Supposing the ground to bo in the
condition in which it was left by a pre
vious heavily manured crop, the first
step in the work of preparation is to
break it up thoroughly as for wheat.
Subsoiling will be of great benefit to
some soils, bnt where the subsoil is
loose and well grained it is not neces
8‘ ry. After breaking up the land, lay
it off into checks eight feet each way.
We give this as a good average distance,
for the different varieties. For the
strong growing kinds, like the Concord
and the Clinton, t. n feet might possibly
be better, and for the Delaware six feet
would do vory well. H the location is
a hill-side, the rows should be horizon
talized by running around it. At each
intersection of the furrows, set a stake
five or six feet in length. Around each
stake dig the hole for the vine, either
with a shovel or with a hoe, as may be
found most expeditious. Holes from
ten inches to one foot in depth, and
from two to three feet in diameter are
sufficient A good shovelful of surface
soil from the woods, thrown into each
hole, would be beneficial, but is not
essential, provided the soil be in the
condition we have indicated. If, how
ever, the subsoil has been laid bare in
digging the hole, some of the good sur
face soil thrown out must be returned
before placing the vine in position.
The vines should be pruned to three
buds, and the roots dipped, if too long,
and placed in the hole so that the top
will lean against or be near the stake,
and but slightly above the general sur
face oi the ground. The roots must
now be spread out evenly, on all sides,
and the soil craefully filled in over and
around them, scattering in at the same
time, so as to be well mixed throughout,
a liberal allowance (say a quart or more
to each vine) of bone meal or crushed
bones, and the work of planting is done.
It is a very important matter to get
good, well-rooted vines. They should
be thrifty one year old vines, of uniform
size. Avoid, as a general rule, the “ ex
tra large, two year old vines, for imme
diate bearing,” advertised by nursery
men. Nothing is gained in the end by
getting such vines, and they are gener
ally sold at a double price.
Report of this Year’s Wheat Crop
Returns of the department of agri
culture show that the wheat crop is
equal to, or greater than last year’s in
all of the states except Maryland, Vir
ginia, Texas, Kentucky, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, lowa, and Kansas. In Con
necticut, Delaware, South Carolina and
Illinois it is about equal to last year’s
crop. Other states have increased their
yield.
The New England states almost reach
the splendid crop of the census year,
approximating to a million bushels.
Maine has increased her yield 33 per
cent. The quality of the crop in these
sta es is considerably improved.
The Middle States have considerably
enlarged and improved their yield, New
York reporting an increase of 16 per
cent.
Of the South Atlantio States Mary
land falls 1 per cent, and Virginia 6 per
oent. below last year; but their defi
ciency is more than made up by other
states, Georgia showing an increase of
21 per cent. The quality is also im
proved.
Of the Gulf States Alabama reports
au increase of 23 and Mississippi of 2
per cent.; Texas a decrease of 7 per
cent.; in quality Alabama improves 29
per cent.; and Mississippi declines 9 per
cent., and Texas 6 per cent.
All four of the Southern inland states
show an improvement in quality from
3 per cent, in Arkansas to 17 per cent,
in Tennessee. In quality Arkansas pre
sents an increase of 3 per cent., Ten
nessee of 29 per cent., West Virginia
23 per cent.; Kentucky declines 5 per
cent. The crops of these states are a
third greater than that of the census
year north of the Ohio river ; and Illi
nois equals that of last year’s crop,
while Wisconsin, on account of the
grasshoppers, falls 35 per cent, short,
which redaces the aggregate yield of
this section below last year. Ohio in
creased her yield 16 per cent., Michigan
22 per cent., and Indiana 9 per cent.,
all showing an improved quality, except
Wisconsin, which declines 23 per cent.
The aggregate yield of the states west
of the Mississippi is also short of last
year. Missouri increases 29 per cent,,
and Nebraska 1 per cent., but Minneso
ta declines 16 per cent., lowa 2 per
cent., and Kansas 5 per cent. The
grasshoppers have been destructive to
spring wheat in these states. The qual
ity is below last year’s in all except
Minnesota, which improves 27 per cent.
On the Pacific coast the crop is greatly
increased, and is fully 50 per cent,
above the census of last year. Califor
nia increases her yield 10 per cent., and
Oregon 21 per oent. Oregon equals the
quality of last year’s crop. California
improves hers ;by 3 per cent. The
total yield will nearly if not quite equal
the census year.
Fall Plowing.
In 1842 I cradled a field of oats which
was peculiar in the growth of the crop.
lasked my boss. “Why are your oats
so much better in the center of the
field?” “Are they better there?”
“Yes, sir ; very much better and riper.”
“ How? ” “ They are taller and stand
thicker.” “Well, I plowed that Btrip
last fall, and cross-plowed it in the
spring.” This roused my curiosity rel
ative to fall plowing ; hence I have ex
perimented with clay, clay loam and
sandy loam lands, and have found it an
advantage in every instance that I have
tried. Hence I claim that fall plowing
is advisable not only for t pring crops,
but also for summer fallow, especially
for fields in heavy sward. However, all
my neighbors do not agree with me in
autnmn plowing. Herein is the diffi
culty; clay soil r qnires the best of
management in its cultivation. If
worked when too wet it dries out and
bakes; if uncultivated until too dry it
is lumpy and in bad condition. In
Michigan, the farmer who has fall
plowed his fieh s for spiing crops, the
growing season being somewhat short in
said state, he commences cultivating
said fields in the spriug as ea l ly as pos
sible in order to drive his work ; but if
the land be cultivated when too wet said
cultivation will destroy the friableness
of the soil; the spring rains, if too abun
dant, will add to the damage, and the
crop will be a failure. Whereas if the
soil be worked at the proper time,
neither too wet nor too dry, the spring
rains will settle the soil, and the crop
will have an early start, and keep ahead
in growth and maturity the entire sea
son. Fall plowing is especially advisa
ble for clay soil in heavy swards, and l
prefer late plowing in the fall and cul
tivating with a wheel cultivator in the
spring, just before planting time, to
early fall plowing and cultivating in
the spring.— Cor. N. Y. Tribune.
Alaska as New Iceland.
The Icelanders have recently cele
brated the one-thousandth anniversary
of the settlement of their remote ances
tors in their 1 leak northern home, a
region of dreary wastes, volcanic moun
tains aud vast fields of lava. In the in
terior are extensive regions embracing
thousands of square miles where noth
ing is to be seen but the vestiges of vol
canic destruction. Since the first settle
ment the climate and physical geography
of the country have undergone a re
markable change, so that the country is
now scarcely habitable. For a long
period the mean annual temperature has
been steadily decreasing. Varieties of
grain and vegetables formerly raised in
comparative abundance will no longer
grow there. The ancient forests have
almost entirely disappeared. The rav
ages of famine and pestilenoe have re
duced the population to some 70,000.
These facts have warned the Icelanders
that the time is at hand when their
native land will cease to be habitable by
man, and they began some years ago to
look abroad in search of some region
to which they might emigrate. A few
hundred of them undertook to establish
a settlement in the highlands of Brazil,
but they found theclimate uncongenial,
and the colony went to Canada, but
were not satisfied in their new home.
Others tried some of our western states,
with no better result. More recently
some of their leading men have con
ceived the idea that of all the territory
of the United States Alaska will suit
them best. In this belief they have
petitioned the president to furnish fa
cilities to a committee of Icelanders to
visit Alaska for the purpose of ascer
taining its suitableness as a home for
their countrymen. The president and
his cabinet viewed the proposition with
favor, and the sloop-of-war Portsmouth,
at Mare Island, was detai ed to take the
committee on their expedition. On the
13th of the present month the committee
arrived in San Francisco, and on Thurs
day of last week they sailed for Sitka,
on the Portsmouth. Should they find
that Alaska is all that it has been rep
resented, they will issue a report, the
effcot of which will undoubtedly be to
produce a steady and increasing tide of
emigration from the old Iceland to the
new, and the United States will receive
the benefit of a large body of hardy, in
dustrious and intelligent settlers.
Lawes ou Commercial Fertilizers.
Writing on the subject of commercial
fertilizers, Mr. J. B. Lawes, a noted
English chemist, and for many years a
manufacturer of manures, says the only
two substances really required in artifi
cial manures, are—
1. Nitrogen.
2. Phosphate of lime.
Nitrogen is useful in three forms—
1. As nitric acid.
2. As ammonia.
As organic deoomposiblo matter,
yeilding ammonia or nitric acid.
Nitrogen is more valuable in the form
of nitric acid than it is as anmonia, and
ammonia is more valuable than decay
ing substances yielding it. The best
possible manure for all gramineous
crops, wheat, barley, maize, oats, sugar
cane, rice, pasture, grass, is a mixture
of superphosphate of lime and nitrate
of soda ; 300 lbs. of superphosphate of
lime and 275 lbs. of nitrate of soda ap
plied every year to one acre of ordinary
English land, has for twenty consecu
tive years given a produce annually of
6 quarters of barley; 14 tons of farm
yard duDg applied annually over the
same period has given the same produce
of barley. Superphosphate of lime is
a special chemical manufacture which
can be made cheaper on a larger than
on a smaller scale, and therefore farm
ers ought to purchase it cheaper than
they can make it, bnt it is better to
make np their own compound manures,
purchasing their nitrate of soda or salt
of ammonia. It is not advisable to sow
artificial manure with beanß, peas, tares
or other legnminou? plants. Corn and
root crops will take all the artificial
manure which the farmer can afford to
pay for. Superphosphate of lime should
always be placed under the soil, either
by drilling or harrowing in when the
seed is sown. Nitrate of soda may be
sown the same way or it may be sown
broadcast when the crop is up. The in
crease in the growth of the cereal crop
is much more dependent upon the ni
trogen supplied than on the phosphoric
acid. Potash is generally found in suf
ficient quantities in soils, and the arti
ficial supply is not required.
llow to Head the Army Worm.
The army worm has, in California,
met an actual defeat. These creatures
appeared ia vast numbers on the beet
fields near Sacramento, and opposition
was utterly powerless by trenohes or by
fire, but the experiment of setting tur
keys against them proved completely
successful. The birds rushed at them,
and for several days lived upon no other
food, supplying themselves almost to
surfeit with this delicious treat. For
awhile it was uncertain which party
would prevail, but latest accounts re
port a complete triumph for the birds.
Tho turkey crop has disposed of the
worm and saved the beet crop—and in
asmuch as the beets were in hundreds
of acres, cultivated for sugar, the victo
ry saves an important industry that was
threatened with entire destruction.
Some of the birds suffered. One, in
deed, died, and beiDg dissected was
found to contain 1,432 worms, many of
which were still alive. There were
about 3,000 turkeys engaged, and the
total number of worms eaten may be
calculated at leisure. The method of
removing the pests by putting against
them their natural destroyers is emi
nently sensible, and there is a lesson in
it all for more eastern farmers.
Stealing Heaven’s Livery. —The
great alcoholess remedy, Vinegar Bit
ters, is everywhere driving pestiferous
rum potions ont of the market. That
famous combination of the finest medici
nal herb# on the continent of America,
is accomplishing such cures of diseases
which affect the stomach, the liver, the
bowels, the kidneys and the nervous
system, that the grateful masses have
adopted it as their Standard Specific.
The various rum bitters have gone down
before this pure vegetable antidote like
tenpins before a well-aimed ball. The
people have at length discovered that
all the spirituous excitants are worse
than shams—that both morally and
medicinally they are inimical to the
well-being and safety of the community.
It won’t do. The handwriting is on the
wall! They are weighed and found
wanting. Bum remedies are defunct,
and Vinegar Bitters, tho universal anti
dote, reigns in their stead.
To Correspondents. —ln answer to
scores of letters we state: Tbe Fifth Gift
Concert of the Kentucky Public Library will
positively take place November 30, 1874, and
there will be no postponement, the capital
prize will be $250,000. For information con
cerning this matter drop a line to Gov. Thos.
E. Bramlette, Louisville, Kv.
The great central plain of California,
for six months of the year, is a scorched
and dust-swept desert. In April it be
comes one flower-bed nearly 400 miles
long and thirty wide, set under a range
of snow- mountain. A traveler writes of
it : “JGo where I would, east, west,
north, eoutb, I was still surrounded by
flowers, which closed over my feet at
evei y step, as if I were wading in wa
ter.”
The signal-office at Washington has
perfected arrangements with the va
rious meteorological bnreans of Euro
pean states, fon an international ex
change of weather reports. This co
operation cannot fail to be productive of
bighly-impoitant results both for com
merce and for science,
Bleeding from Lnugi, Catarrh, Bronchi
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Boohestbb. N. Y.. Jan. 13, 1874.
R. V. Pierce, M. D., Buffalo, N. Y.:
Dear Sir —l had suffered from catarrh in an
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for several years from bronchial trouble.
Tried many doctors and things with no lasting
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in New York city, I was attacked with bron
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within two weeks, and first three inside of nine
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sufficiently to be able to be about, though in a
very feeble state. My bronchial trouble re
mained and the catarrh was tenfold worse than
before. Every effort for relief seemed fruit
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continued iu this feeble state, raising blood
almost daily until about the first of March,
’72, when I became so bad as to be entirely
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that they would do me good, as 1 had lost all
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I obtained one of your circulars, and read it
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that you understood your business, at least.
I finally obtained a quantity of Dr. Sage’s Ca
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use according to directions. To my surprise,
I soon began to improve. The Discovery and
Pellets, in a short time, brought out a severe
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I gained in strength and flesh. In three
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the bronchitis Had nearly disappeared; had no
cough whatever and I had entirely ceasod to
raise blood; and, contrary to the expectation
of some of my friends, the cure has remained
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and Warwick Collars a day. This shows their
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them, we would advise you to do so.— N. Y.
Times.
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are worn. Parents remember this, they last
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Wishart’s Pine Tree Tar Cordial
cures coughs, colds and consumption. Wis
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Go to Riverside Water Cure, Hamilton, HI.
The People’s Stamp of Value.— The
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of Plantation Bittehs, is not the only stamp af
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l>r. Dnn’l Weaver of Boston, fell down
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Mexican Mustang Liniment was freely used, con
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REMINGTON
Sewing 1 Machine.
AWARDED
The “Medal for Progress, ’’
AT VIKNNA, 1873.
Tbs Hishest Order or •• Medal” awarded ai
the Exposition.
No Sewing Machine Received a lligher Medal.
A FKW GOOD HE * WISH I
I.—A Sew Invention Thorodbhlt Tested an c
secured by Letters Patent.
а. a perfect lock stitch, alike on aolh
sides, on all kinds of goods.
3.—Rons Lioht.Smooth,Noiseless and Rai id
—brM combination of qualities.
♦.—Durable— Suns for. Years without Repair'.
5 .—W ill do all varieties of Wor k and Fancy butch
Ing in a superior manner.
б. Is Most Easily Managed by the operator
Length of stitch may be altered while running
and machine can be threaded without passing
thread thtoogh holes.
T.—Design Simple, Ingenious, Elegant, formfn
the stitch without the use of Cog Wheel Gears,
Rotary Cams or Lever Arms. Has the Automati
Drop Feed, which insures uniform length oi start,
at any speed. Has our new Thread Controller
which allows easy movement ot needle-bar and
prevents injury to thread.
B.—Construction most earefnl and finished.
It is manufactured by the most skillful and experi
enced mechanics, at the celebrated Itemlnfrton
Armory, II 1011, S. V. New York Office,
No. 6 Maiilson Square, jKurit’i Hulltl.
Ing.) IIKANCII OKKICKSi -13?’State si..
Chicago, III.; 181 West Fourth ft., Cin
cinnati, O.j 39 Niagara st , litiffalo, N. Y ;
33a W a htrgtcn st., Boston, Mass.; 8 10
Chestnut st., Philadelphia, Pa., 10 Sixth
st.,Pittsbmgh, Pa.; 258 West Jefferson
st., Louisville, Ky; Detilves Opera House
Marrietta st. Atlanta, Ga; 617 No. Fourth
st., St. Louis, Ho; Cornrr ot North Pearl
and Steuben sts., Albany, New York.
Business College and Ttiegraph Institute, j
LEBANON, TENNESSEE.
NASHVILLE BRV7NT & STRATTON
BUSINESS. COLLEGE,
No 93 and 95 Church Street.
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No. 5 North Cherry Street.
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For particulars call at either ‘ ollege, or address
the i rinc pal. THOJIAS TOSKY, Lebanon,
'lenn., or .xa-hvilie, Tenn.
IIOG RINGER.
a/AM! . 15,000,00© itlngK,
Vs~. 70,000 JRlngerS,
R. 500 Tongs Sold.
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QUICK and EASY,
CHEAP and CLEAN
They are Cheapest to buy.
They are best to me.
They bake evenly and q iirkly.
Their operation ii perfect.
They always have a gool draft.
'They are made of the best material.
iTliry roast perfcrtly.
(They require but little fuel
They are very low prired.
j They are easily managed.
.The* art suited to all lo alities.
I Every Stove guaranteed to give satisfae n
BECAUSE
Sold by Excelsior Manuf'g Oo
ST. LOUIS, MO., AND IT
RICE BROS. * CO., New Orleans, U]
E. URQUHART * CO., Memplta, Tenn. ;
PHILLIPS BUTTORFF k CO., Na hvlile, Tenn
Wishart's
Pine Tree Tar
Cordial!
Nature’s Great
Remedy
FOR ALL
Throat A Lung
Diseases.
For sale by all druggists and
storekeepers.
Gained Fifteen Pounds of Flesh.
Soirrn Bkxw.CK. Me., lan. 17,1872.
H R Stkvkss, Ktq.:
Dear Sir— I have had dyspepsia in is worst form
for tne ia-t ten years, and have taken hundreds of
dollars worth of medicine wit. out obtaining any
relief. In September last I commenced taking the
Vegetine. since wbicb time my health has stcadilv
improved. My food divest-well, anc l have g in
ed flit-e 11 pounds of flesh. There are several
others in this p ace .taking the Veg-tine, and all
have obtained relief. Yours truly.
Thomas E. Moors.
Overseer of the Card Room. Cortsmouth Go’s A. ills.
DYSPEPSIA.
Symptoms—Want ol appetite rising of food and
wind from the stomach, ac’dity ot be stomach,
heart barn, dryness and whiteness of the tongue
in the morning Sense of distension in the stomach
and bowels sometimes rumbling and pain; cos
tivene-ts, winch is o - aslonall) Internpted by diar
rbtei; paleness of the urine. The month is c'am
my, or bas a sour or bitter tasle Oiher frequent
symptoms are waterbrash, palpitation of the
heart, headache, and disorders of the seoses, as
seeing double, eic There is general lability. lan
• uor, and aversion to motion; dej.ction of the
spirits, disturbed sleep, and frightful dreams.
Feel Myself a New Man.
Natick. Mass., Juae 1.1872.
Mr. H. R. Stex-vns:
Dear Sir—' Through the advice and earnest per
suasion of Rev. E H. Best, of tbi place, I have
been taking Vegetine for dyspep-ia of which I
have suffered for y ars. 1 have used mly two hot
ties, and already leel myself anew n an.
Respectfully, lx. J. W Carter.
A r Source of Great Anxiety.
My daughter has received great bet eflt from the
use of Vegetine. Her declining 1 eaith was a
lourcsof great anxie y to all of her frlen s. A
few bottles of the Vegetine restored h r health
strength and appetite. N. H Tilde v.
Ins. and Real Estate Agt., 49 t ears' Building.
Boston. Mass., Jure 5,1872.
What I Know About Vegetine.
South Boston, May 9.1870.
H. R. Stevens:
Dea - Sit —I have had considerable experience
with the Vegetine. For dyspepsia, g< neral dthili
ty and Impure blood, the Vegetine b superior to
anything which I have ever us *l. I commenced
taking Vegetine about the middle of la t winter,
and alter using a lew bottles it entire y cured me
of dyspepsia, aud my blood never wat In so good
condition as at the present time. It v 111 afford me
pleasure to give any further partlcula rs relative to
what I know about this good medicine to any tne
who will call or address me at my i evidence 386
Athens Street. Very respectruily.
Monroe f akkkk.
386 Athens street.
Vegetine is Sold by all Druggists.
The American Meat and Vegetable Chopper.
IT SHOULD BE IN
An improved Meat an 1 Vegetable I hopper to
lake the place of the old Knife and Tray In pre
paring the varlons articles of food wllch require
Chopping. *ii<'h as Sausage. Mince tn at Stlads.
Hash, Fish, Fru t aud vegetables of various kmds,
has come to be cons dered a moon of a necessity
In every well conducted nonsebo'd a. a CTcthes
Wringer or Cooking stove, while for H otels. Bake
ries, Kevteurauts and Fnhllc Institutions where
large quantities ol food are required each a ma
chine is absolutely ludispensah e.
Of the many inventions designed for the pur
pose, the only one witch has stood the test ofttme
and p-ovd a perfect success is the "American,”
ot which mnre-than .W.ittl have been sold, and five
years constant use has proved thair superi-rlty
over all other Choppers. They save tl eir cost iu
labor every jear. and so great has the temaud for
them become toat the annual sales now amount
to more than lime times that of all oiite- Family
choppers combined— a fact which is sufficient evf
< ence of t heir superior me' it.
Seven sizes Hold by dealers everywhere.
For Descri olive firco tar arid Price list address
D A. NEWTON & CO, 110 Cham jers street.
New York.
11l Nature’s Me a Line Chest, the Earth
there is no-pecific superior to the waters of the
Seltzer Spring.
TaBKANT’S.EFFEEVgtCICST CELTZKK AFgBIENI
is an improvement upon that worl l-renowued
rem> dy for iaMgextiou, hi lousness aul coustira
tion Tt Is at once m'ld thorough ant iniallibie
No dm -tore Is with nt It
EMBLEMATIC BADCE koR
GRANGERS,
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LEWIS &. BERRY,
Sole hianufacturers. Chicago- HI,
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Dr. J. Walker’s Califormi Vi"'-
rear Ritters are a purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the na
tive herbs found on the lower ranges ol
the Sierra Nevada mountains of ('alifor
uia, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted therefrom without the use
of Alcohol. The question is aimoft
daily asked. “What is the cause of the
unparalleled success of Vinegar Bit
ters P Our answer is, that they remove
: the cause of disease, and the patient re
covers his health. They are the
blood purifier and a life-giving principle,
a perfect ltenovator and Invigorator
of the system. Never lieforo in the
history of the world has a medicine beea
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities of Vinegar Bitters in healing tho
sick of every disease man is heir to. They
are a gentle Purgative es well as a Tonic,
relieving Congestion' or Inflammation of
cho Liver and Visceral Organs, iu Bilious
Diseases.
The properties of Dr.. Walker's
VixEvAU Bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic,
Carminative, Nutritions, laxative. Diuretic,
Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Sudorific, Altera
tive. anil Anti-Hilions,
(xrateful Thousands proclaim Vin
egar Bitters the most wonderful In*
vigoraut that ever sustained the sinking
systetj.
No Person can take these Bitters
according to directions, and remain long
unwell, provided their bones are not de
stroyed by mineral poison or other
means, and vital organs wasted Iteyoud
repair.
Bilious, Itemittent and Inter
mittent Fevers, which are so preva
lent in the valleys of our great rivers
throughout the United States, especially
those of the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri,
Illinois, Tennessee, Cumberland, Arkan
sas, Red, Colorado, Brazos, Rio Grande,
Pearl, Alabama, Mobile, Savannah, Ro
anoke, James, and many others, with
their vast tributaries, throughout out
entire country during the Summer and
Autumn, and remarkably so during sea
sons of unusual heat and dryness, are
invariably accompanied by extensive de
rangements of the stomach aud liver,
aud other abdominal viscera. In their
treatment, a purgative, exerting a pow
erful influence upon these various or
gans, is essentially necessary. There
is no cathartic for the purpose equal to
Dr. J. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters,
a3 they will speedily remove tho dark
colored viscid matter with which the
bowels are loaded, the same time
stimulating tho secretions of the liver,
and generally restoring tho healthy
functions of tho digestive organs.
Fortify the body against disease
by purifying all its fluids with Vinegar
Bitters. No epidemic cau take hold
of a system thus fore-armed.
Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Head
ache, Pam in the Shoulders, Coughs,
Tightness of the Chest, Dirtiness, Sour
Eructations of tho Stomach, Bad Taste
in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpita
tation of the Heart, Inflammation of tho
Lungs, Pain iu tho region of tho Kid
neys, and a hundred other painful symp
toms, are the offsprings of Dyspepsia.
One bottle will prove a better guarantee
of its merits than a lengthy advertise
ment.
Scrofula, or King's Evil, white
Swellings, Ulcers, Erysipelas, Swelled Neck,
Goitre, Scrofulous Inflammations, Indolent
Inflammations, Mercurial Affections, Old
Sores, Eruptions of the Skin, Sore Eyes, etc.
In these, as iu all other constitutional Dis
eases, Walker’s Vinegar Bitters have
shown their great enrativo powers in tho
most obstinate and intractable cases.
For Inflammatory and Chronic
Rheumatism, Gout, Bilious, Remit
tent and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of
the Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder,
these Bitters have no equal. Such Diseases
are caused by Vitiated Blood.
Mechanical Diseases.— Persons en
gaged in Paints and Minerals, such as
Plumbers, Type-setters, Gold-beaters, and
Miners, as they advance in life, are subject
to paralysis of the Bowels. To guard
against this, take a dose of Walker’s Vin
egar Bitters occasionally.
For Skin Diseases. Eruptions, Tet
ter, Salt-Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples,
I'Ustules, Boils, Carbuncles, Ring-worms,
Scald-head, Sore Eyes, Erysipelas. Itch,
Scurfs, Discolorations of the Skin, Humors
and Diseases of the Skin of whatever name
or nature, are literally dug up and carried
out of the system in a short time by the use
of these Bitters.
Pin, Tape, and other Worms,
lurking in the system of so many thousands,
are effectually destroyed and remoYed. Nr
system of medicine, no vermifuges, no an
thelminitics will free the system from worms
like these Bitters.
For Female Complaints, in young
or ol J, married or single, at the dawn of wo
mar nood, or the turn of life, these Tonic
Bitters display so decided an influence that
improvement is soon perceptible.
Cleanse the Vitiated Blood when
ever you find its impurities bursting through
tho skin in Pimples, Eruptions, or Sores;
cleanse it when you find it obstructed and
sluggish in the veins; cleanse it when it is
foul; your feelings will tell you when. Keep
the blood pure, and the health of the system
will follow.
r. h. McDonald & co..
Druggists and Gen. Apts., San Francisco, California,
ana cor. of Washington and Vharltou Stt., N. Y.
Sold by allWruggisti and Dealers.
DR. WHITTIER,
tf J. 617 St. Charles Street, St. Louis, Ra,
ronitniie, to treat all cue, of obf.aelo, to narrixre
jnj.urUtc,, ererj ailment or ilcllm, which reult fi- >.
n'lLcreuon or Imprudence, with naparaUeied
Or. W.*§ eoUblUhmeni is chartered hr the State a, *W
.oari, was founded and has been established to sen-,
safe, certain and reliable relief. Beiue a aradn-s.. a.
several medical eolieees. and having the experience x
long and soeeesaful life in bis specialties be ha. rer-r, .
remedies that are elfeetavl in all there cares. Hi, pL sei ,-m
are being treated br mail or express etTrrwbere 5a
oattir who fsit'd, call or write. From t hi sreal am
her of application Ihe is enabled to keep Li. ows
10. 36 pngra, cttlng fnll evmpu-mj, for - s.^e.
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bo,ir No narried jmir, or person*
rivg*\ ean atf ,-d to do without it. It contains the crease a,
tactical literature on this subject, the results of Dr ,
!’“ experience: also the best thoughrefreo late wtrre
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EVERY HOUSEHOLD.
BECKWITH
S2O.
Portable Family Sewing Machine,
30 DAYS’TRIAL.
We will seed to any address. C O. D., one of oar
machines with privilege of examination before tak
ing out of Express office ; and in t does not give sat
isfaction we will refund the money, less Express
charges, on return of machine within the time spe-
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New York: 862 Broadway.
Chicago: 231 Wabash Ave.
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