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HOW TO MANAGE KEROSENE LAMPS. Our ears are every day pained by ac counts of Kerosene lamps exploding and killing, or scarring for life, men, women or children. A simple knowledge of the inflammable nature of the fluid would probably put a stop to nearly all the acci dents. 'As the oil burns down in the lamp, a highly inflammable gas gathers over its surface, and as the oil decreases the gas increases. When the oil is very nearly consumed, a slight jar will often inflame the gas, and an explosion is sure to follow, dealing death and destruction. A bomb shell is not more to be dreaded. Now if the lamp is not allowed to bum more than halfway down, such accidents are impossible. Always fill vour lamps every morning; then you need never fear anv explosion. Half a teaspoonful of salt added to the oil of a lamp which holds x pint, will take away the disagreeable odor sometimes apparent, and it is said, pre vent the formation of that dangerous gas. It is a simple remedy easily applied. It is also asserted that the salt makes the oil last much longer,but we only have hearsay evidence concerning it. Kerosene is the best antidote for a severe - "aid or a burn. Immerse the injured part in cold water for a.momcnt, dry witn a soft cloth, tak ing care not to rub at all. Then bathe in kerosene and the terrible pain ceases. We know not of the philosophy of the matter, but we do know that it is the most effica cious remedy for severe burns or scalds in the materia medica. JL PARLOR AND OFFICE STOVES. 1TE-W PATTEniT FOB COAL. Dumping Grate, Anti-Dust. ~k- SasSwn*, 0:eit Seatisg Capacity, ss4 Cieip. TO YOUNG MEN. . It is easier to be a good business man than a poor one. Half the energy dis played in keeping ahead that is required to catch up when behind, will save credit, give more time' to business, and add to the profit and reputation ot your word. Honor your engagements. If you prom ise to meet a man, or do a certain thing at a certain moment, be ready at the ap pointed time. If you have work to do, do it at once, cheerfully, and therefore more speedily and correctly. If you go out on business attend promply to the matter on hand, and then as promptly go about your own business. Do not stop to tell stories In business hours. If you have a place of business, be found there when wanted. No man can get rich sitting around stores and saloons. Never “fool’’ on business matters. If you have to work for a living, remember that one hour in the morning is better than two hours at night. If you employ others, be on hand to see that they attend to their duties, and to direct with regu larity. promptness, liberality. Do not meddle with any business you know nothing of. Never buy an article Bimply because the man that sells it will take it out in trade. Trade is money. Time is money. A good business habit and repu tation is • -ways money. Make your place of business pleasant anattractive •, tneD stay there to wait on customers. Never use quick words, or allow your self to make hasty or ungentlmanly re marks, to those in your employ; for to do so lessens their respect for you and your influence over them. Help yourself, and others will help you. Be faithful over the interest confided to your keeping, and all in good time vour responsibilities will be increased. Do not be in too great haste to get rich. Do not build until you have arranged a good foundation. Do not —as you hope for success—spend time in idleness. If vour time is your own, busi ness will suffer if you do. If it is given to another for pay, it belongs to him, and you have no more right to steal that than to steal money. Be obliging. Strive to avoid harsh words and personalities. Do not kick every stone in the path; more miles can be made in a day by going steadily on than by stopping to kick. Pay as you go. A man of honor respects bis word as he does his bond. Ask, but never beg. Help others when you can, but never give when you cannot afford to, simply because it is fashionable. Learn to say no. No necessity of snapping it out dog- fashion, but say it firmly and respectful ly. Have but few confidents, and the fewer the better. Use vour own brains rather than those of others. Learn to think and act for yourself. Be vigilant. Keep ahead, rather than behind the time. Young men, cut this out, and if there is folly in the argument let us know. PARLOR AND STORE STOVES. POB COAL Fire ways to Destroy Ants. 1. Pour copiously, hot water as near the boiling point as possible, down their bur rows and over their hiis, and repeat the operation several times. 2. Entrap the ants by means of narrow sheets of stiff paper or strips of board, covered with some sweet, sticky sub stance. The ants are attracted by the sweet, and, sticking fast, can be destroyed as often as a sufficient number are en- t.rapjTed. 3. Lay fresh bones around their haunts. They will leave everything else to attack these, and when thus accumulated, dip them in hot water. 4. Pour two or three spoonsful of coal- oil into their boles, and they will aban don the nest. •5. Burv a few slices of onions in their nests and they will abandon them. Mister Truman & Green, Gintlemen: And what makes ye be afther ashking the like o’ me—how do I like me stove? Bure and vee’l be dhrag- ging the hay then Chinee into the papers sune; but ’tis sich a tip top article I’ll fist humour yer a little joat this thime. Will, gintlemen, since we got yer Charter Oak stove we’ve bought a cow and a calf and a litter of the purtiest little ring-tail pigs yees ever clapped eyes on—and all wid the money saved in wood. And does me oven cook well on the bottom ? Whorra! Bedad, jist come down and let me old ooman gives yees some of her shlap jacks baked right on the bottom of the frying pan. Oh! but ’tis an illigent cooking ma- sheen, and good luck to yees wid yer Charter Oak. Yei Frind, Phelim O’Toole. A Stove Made in Four Minutes. So systematized is the different depart ments of stove making at the Excelsior Manufacturing Company of St. Louis, that they produce a Charter Oak stove in less than 5 minutes, or an average of 150 for each working day. The actual time consumed in each stove during the year 1870 was less than 4 minutes. 3E3C JL* A TRY. Once let every man say try, Very few on straw would lie, Fewer still for want would die; Pans would all have fish to fry; Pigs would fill the poor man’s Bty, Want would cease and need would fly, Wives and children cease to cry, Poor rates would not swell so high, Things wouldn’t go so much awry, You’d be glad and so would L NEW PATTER; Best Coal Heating Stove Made. Eighteen Years or more ago. Bellevue, Iowa, May 23,1870. Mb. G. F. Filley, Dear Sir:—In May, 1852, we bought a No. 4 Charter Oak Stove, at the Hard ware store of J. C. Hughey, at Bellevue, Iowa. It has been in constant use since that time, cooking for a family of from 8 to 20, giving entire satisfaction; and now after 18 years use, we would not exchange it for any new stove that we know of, un less a Charter Oak. It does its work as good to-day as when we first used it. It was used 9 years on a farm, and 9 years in town, and was generally used for all heat ing as well as cooking purposes. , WILLIAM WILSON. Signed, JANET WILSON. EXCELLENT INTEREST RULES. For finding the interest on any princi pal for any number of days, the answer in each case being cents, separate the two right hand figures of answer to express it in dollars and cents. Four per cent.—Multiply the principal by the number of days to be run; sepa-. rate right hand figure from product, and divide by 9. Five per cent.—Multiply by number of days and divide by 72. Six per cent.—Multiply by number of days, separate right hand figures and di vide bv 6. Eight per cent.—Multiply by number of days ana divide by 45. Nine per cent.—•Multiply by number of da vs, separate right hana figure and di vide by 4. Ten per cent.—Multiply by number of days and divide by 36. twelve per cent.—Multiply by number of days, separate right hand figure and divide by 3. Fifteen per cent.—Multiply by number of days and divide by 24. Eighteen per cent.—Multiply by number of days, separate right hand figure and divide by 2. Twenty per cent.—Multiply by number of days and divide by 18 Twenty-four per cent.—Multiply by num ber of days and divide by 15. When computing interest at four per cent., two places pointed off at the right of the principal gives the interest upon it for ninety days. At 5 per cent., two places pointed off gives, the interest for 72 days. - At 6 per cent., two places pointed off gives the interest for 60 days. At 8 per cent., two places pointed off gives the interest for 45 days. At 9 per cent., two places pointed off gives the interest for 40 days. At 10 per cent., two places pointed off gives the interest for 36 days. At 12 per cent., two places pointed off gives the interest for 30 days. At 16 per cent., two places pointed off gives the interest for 24 days. At 18 per cent., two places pointed off gives the interest for 20 days. At 20 per cent,, two places pointed off gives the interest for 18 days. At 24 per cent., two places pointed off gives the interest for 15 days. FARMERS’ WOOD FILES. Aunt Jerusha Jones, who frankly avows she is an old maid “on principle,’’(!) writes the Rural:—“I’ve just been on my yearly round to visit my nephews, nieces, cousins and friends—have visited a number of villagers and farmers, and have blessed the homes of a great many more, and if you can record it without blushing for mankind, on the average, every third house was minus a wood room, wood-house, or even a wood-shed, just as they were twenty years ago, when, if it had not been for the sight of these shiftless, thoughtless, comfortless-looking wood piles, I might have bee" smpted— but I’m not going to write a -out myself Jerusha Jones. I was going to tell you what I saw at these wood piles—wives and little children digging wood out ot the snow. Enter the houses, and behold the con venience and the beauty of this wet wood, this, green wood, this oftentimes twiee- too-big wood system. Every' available part of the cook stove is covered with wet, oftentimes dirty wood, which is burning long before it is seasoned through, filling the room with its smoke and odor, ana soiling the neat housekeeper’ stove beside. Every moment the oven can be spared, that too must be filled, and when needed, as it is most of the time in large families, out it must go again, half seasoned, to wait for another chance. There is no such thing as allowing the fire to slacken, or it will te out, alid many a time in the after noon and evening, when the- family are enjoy’ing the comforts of the sitting room, the fire in the kitchen must be kept up to dry wood! Such economy! I’ve heard the men and boys complain to the women in the morning—“ Your fire don’t halt bum; your pancakes are white; you have’nt dried the wood sufficiently!’’ Iu- sult to injury! “Can’t afford a wood- house!” What can you afford? No wonder husbands are short of money, and women of patience! Necessity or love might keep me in such an abode, but ‘filthy lucre’ never! Had I a dozen daugh ters, no one of them should marry a man who had been brought up under “The Wood Pile” system, unless that pile wa9 under cover. ‘ Thank Heaven, I say, that I am an old maid! I can't afford to burn wet wood or green, although I use a Charter Oak Stove, which will operate with any kind of fuel, yet, of course will do all the better with good dry wood, which everv sensible housekeeper ought to and will have as well as a Charter Oak. FENCE AND TRELLIS WIRE TABLE. Self-Clinching Fence Staples. 1M inches long, per lb ..15c. “ “ per gross.- 30c. These Staples are made from the best Charcoal Iron, are self-clinching, and will drive into the hardest wood. XOB. Weight per rod orl6x feet. Weight of one mile. Length of a 63 lb. bundle. Length 100 lbs. Length a ton. lbs. oz. pounds yards. yards. yards. 7 1 9 461 239 380 7600 " 8 1 i 389 286 456 9120 9 1 323 342 543 10860 10 14 264 420 667 13310 11 10 211 529 840 16S00 12 8 163 700 1111 22220 H 5 97 1142 1813 86260 16 3 57 1954 3100 62000 STANDARD OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Apples, dried, per bushel 24 Barley 48 Beans, white 60 Beans, Castor.... 46 Bran 20 Buckwheat 52 Corn, shelled 56 Corn, in ear 70 Corn Meal .....50 Coal, per bushel 80 Hominy* 60 Malt 34 Oats 32 Onions 57 Peas 60 Potatoes,-Irish, per bushel 60 Potatoes, Sweet 50 Peaches, peeled and dried 40 Peaches, unpeeled and dried 33 Rye 5S Salt 56 Seed, Clover 50 Osage Orange 33. Timothy' 45 Flax 56 Blue Grass, clean 14 Millet 50 Orchard Grass 14 Herd Grass 16 Lucerne 6o Turnips f. 57 Wheat 60 Hair 8 gSyThe happiest and best member of a family is usually called the light of the household, because, besides being happy and cheerftil himself, or herself, he or she makes all else happy or cheerful. The Charter Oak Stove is such a treasure. A Gem.—The Evening Star is the most beautiful sheet-iron cylinder wood stove made. It is durable, economical, and the poor man’s friend. Everybody should have one of these excellent stoves.