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Somebody’s Hand.
There’s a soft little hand, with just one or two
rings—
There’s a dozen of dimples, and some other
things;
And the hand is as white, and as pretty, I
know,
As the prints of the birds on the new-fallen
snow.
It is soft, it is warm, and it's pressure is sweet,
When, by chance or design, fingers happen to
meet,
And the lady who owns it is pretty and free—
Except in the promise she’s just made to me.
*Tis a hand to be fondled, and petted, and
kissed,
When encased in white kid, on society’s list;
’Tis a hand to be held, and be loved, with the
rest,
When the glove’s thrown aside and Soinebody’s
at rest.
’Tis a hand m adversity, sorrow, or care—
When the brain burns with fever, or chills in
the air—
• Tis a haud to smooth wrinkles and banish the
pain,
When lights aro burned low, and life’s breath
on the wane.
’Tis a hand for the death-bed, to take the last
pledge,
When the grave yawns in''waiting, with Death
at its edge—
With a future unknown, and the hungriest sod
Is waiting to hide all that’s not gone to God.
’Tis a hand for the bridal, to give all the thrust
That a life has been given, as some time it
must—
With the heart, and the life, and the faith, and
the name,
And all the fond tribute its owner can elaim.
Farmhouse Notes.
Cabbages. —This is one ot the quickest
decaying vegetables, if kept in a warm
place; and the usual practice in this vi
cinity is to set the heads in a furrow,
with" the roots up, and then cover very
lightly with earth. In such a position
they remain frozen nearly all winter, and
come out in spring almost as fresh as
when gathered in autumn.
To Dkive away Bed Bugs. —An ex
change gives the following as a sure wav
to drive away bed-bugs from old beds :
“ Take green tomato vines, put them in
a basin or tray, pound them to pieces as
fine as possible, then stain the bedstead
which they inhabit with the juice, fill
the crevices with pieces of vines, and
lay leaves under the ends of the slats.
If this is practiced twice a year not a bug
will remain in the bedstead.”
Onions. — Onions will withstand far
more cold than is’ usually supposed. Ir
packed dry in tight barrels, and all inter
stices filled with chaff, they may he kept
in a barn, or where they will freeze quite
hard, and not he injured, provided the
barrels are closed tight and not opened
until the are again thawed. Onions
stored in a warm cellar are very likely to
sprout iu winter, and then decay, emitting
anything but an agieeable odor.
Hog Killing. —We have given several
old horses their quietus with a gun, and
so suddenly and completely were all the
powers paralyzed that there was not the
slightest evidence that any pain was ex
perienced. They fell slowly forward
without noise or struggle. So it was
with the hog. Will not the reader, then,
see to it that no animal of his shall bp
hunte.i down, caught and bound, and
tben die under the torture of the knife
this year 7 A pistol will be found most
convenient, but. if a gun is used, it should
be with a small charge of powder, and
a plug of hard wood thi’ee-fourths of an
inch b ng and half as thick through will
answt ras well as a ball. In taking this
cou £• rhe h< ad is not disfigured so as
to I e n iticeable, and in every respect it
is preferable to the old inhuman mode.
Fall Plowing. —J. B. Jones, Mace
don. Wayne County, N. Y., writes thus :
I often noticed articles recommending
fall plowing for heavy soil, and occasion
ally complaints of it having been tried
with poor success. I always find fall
plowing beneficial when done early
enough in the season to rot the sod ;
blit- never turn a sod late in the fall
intending to plow again in the spring ;
in fact, for most crops a good cultivation
in the soring is better than plowing, if
well plowed and subsoiled in the fall.
I prefer to turn a sod early in August,
after sowing or pasturing ; barrow and
cultivate often, keeping the surface loose,
and not allowing the sod below to dry ;
it will then rot perfectly by November,
when I cross-plow and subsoil, leaving
the surface rough. In tbe spring put on
a good two-horse cultivator, and work
as deep as possible, and plant or sow at
once. Even for nursery stock land thus
prepared it lias given the best satisfac
tion, and for planting berries upon it is
very superior.
Practical Butter Making. —A lady
in the Western Rural thus pleasantly de
scribes her practice in tbe butter making :
“I ue six quart, pans, putting about three
quarts in each, and allow it to stand
thirty or thirty-six hours before lifting
the cream, which is put in a suital.le ves
sel (usually a pan) in which it remains in
a place somewhat warmer than in which
tbe mdk is kept; stirring occasionally in
order to equalize + he acidity and tempera
ture. Churning day comes twice a week,
and is looked forward to with pleasure
rather than otherwise. My churn is very
primitive in its simplicity—a stone jar
used without a cover of any kind. When
churning time comes, I set my cream near
the stove, stirring occasionally while get
ting breakfast, 1 scald my jar, and put in
the cream before the jar gets cool, and in
from four to seven minutes’ churning, it is
ready for the butter bowl; and strange as
it may seem, all the work of churning is
performed in an open jar, with a simple
paddle. Patent churns of the most, philo
sophical pattern will tail when cream is
improperly cared for. There is no witch
cralt about the churn, nor mystery in
butter maxing; the one thing needful is
common sense and vigilance in the care
and preparation o( the cream.”
Small Pox.—The India Medical Guzet
te reports some cases of small pox cured
by the external application of carbolic
acid. The persons concerned were very
reluctant to submit to the treatment,but
after one or two cures with the acid and
one or two deaths without it the reluc
tance vanished,and now the carbolic acid
is reported to be in great demand The
acid was applied to the face and hands
and next day the erruptions were found
to have scabbed and dried up. The cures
were effected in a few days.
Valuable Horses.— At a late sale of a
horse-breeding establishment in England,
one horse, Blab Athol, the head of the
stud, brought {562,500 in gold, and was
purchased lor Germany; the old French
horse Gladiateursold tor $35,000; another
horse, bought for the United States, was
sold for $10,500. The whole stud of 273
horses, mares and colts, brought over half
a million dollars.
A Western Incident.
A target shoot Was a grand thing among
the rough pioneers ; there were some
visitors from beyond the mountains, and
eaoh rifleman was particularly anxious to
display his one accomplishment before
the strangers. Mike Fiuk was among
them —the very prince of marksmen.
But on this occasian he was unusually
quite and reticent.
After exhibiting their skill by “cut
ting the center,” to the satisfaction of
the visitors, it came to Fink’s turn to
perform the grand final feat of the occa
sion.
This consisted in setting a tin cup on
the head of one of the party, and placing
him at the distance of fifty paces, slioot
iDg the cup off tbe bead of the person
supporting it. Mike as usual selected
Joe Stevens as cup bearer. All knew
his skill, and no one would have hesita
ted to have performed the service. They
did not know, however, that but a short
time before this Mike had fallen out
with Joe, and had patiently waited the
time for his revenge. Joe accepted the
honor with alacrity, especially gratified at
Mike’s commeudatery remarks, as he re
quested him to perform the service.
Fink expressed himself confident that
be could “ping the foremost side of tbe
cup, provided Joe would hold it up, for
he alius hild kind o’ stidy like.”
The distance was measured—the cup
bearer took his station; the shining hel
met was placed upon his head. Mike
took his “ peg,” pricked his flint, prim
ed his firelock, poised his rifle, took aim
end fired. The ball crushed through the
brain of his former friend and comrade,
and Joe Stevens fell prone to the earth
and expired without a groan. Mike’s
vengeance was satiated. But Joe had a
brother there that day.
He, as well as the other persons pre
sent, knew that “Mike Fink had played
foul.” Scarcely has the the light smoke
wreath from Mike’s fatal rifle vanished
into thin air, when Dick Stevens, the
brother of the murdered Joe, brought
his unerring rifle to bear upon the mur
derer, and in an instant a ball was crash
ing through the skull of Mike Fink, and
he fell dead in his place at the peg from
whence he had sent the messenger of
death to a fellow being only a few
seconds before.
A deep and wide pit was dug, and into
it the rude backswoodsmen lowered the
lifeless forms of murdered and murderer
aud there—through long ages forgotten
—the two silently moulder to dust.
What “A Boy” Knows About Lobsters.
When a lobster shakes hands with you.
you always know when it takes hold, and
are exceedingly pleased when it gets done.
They have small features, and lay no
claim to good looks. When they loco
tnote, they resemble a small boy shuffling
off in his father’s boats. They are back
ward, very. They even go ahead back
ward. They occasionally have a row
like people, and in the melee lose a mem
ber, but have the faculty of growing out
another. The process is patented both in
this country and in Europe, which ac
counts for it not coming into general use
with the human lobster, so to speak.
A lobster never comes on shore unless
he is carried by loroe. They are afflicted
with but one disease, and that is boils.
There is more real excitement in harpoon
ins a whale, or in having the measles,
than there is in catching lobsters. The
fisherman provides himself with a small
hen-coop, and places in it for enticers
several dead fish. He then rows his
boat to the lobster ground (which is
water), and sinks his coop to the bottom,
and anchors it to a small buoy (one from
eight to ten years will do), and then goes
home. When he feels like it again, say
in the course ol a week or so, he goes
back and pulls his poultry house, and if
he has good success he will find the game
inside the coop.
As an article of food, the real goodness
of the lobster is in the pith. Very few
persons relish the skin, and physicians
say it is hard to digest. We, therefore,
take the lobster and boil it until it is
ready to eat. Nothing is better tor colic
than boiled lobster. It will bring on a
case when encumbers have failed. For
a sudden case, we advise them crumbled
in milk. Eaten at the right time, and in
proper quantities, lobster stands second
to no fruit known.
Siberian Dogs. —These dogs are said
to resemble the -wolf—to have long,
pointed, projecting noses, sharp and up
right ears, and long, bushy tails ; color
various—black, brown, reddish brown,
white and spotted. They vary also in
size ; but a good sledge dog’sliould not
be less than two feet seven inches high.
Their howling is that of a wolf. In the
summer they dig holes in the ground for
coolness, or lie in the water to escape
the mosquitoes, which in these regions,
are not less troublesome than one of
Pharaoh’s plagues. In winter they bur
row in the snow, and lie curled up,
with their noses covered by their bushy
tails. The preparation of these animals
for a journey, is carefully to be attended
to. For a fortnight at least, they should
be put on a small allowance of hard food
to convert their superflous fat into firm
flesh. They are also to from
ten to twenty miles daily; after which,
Von Wrangel says, they have been
known to travel a hundred miles a day,
without being injured by it “We
drove ours,” he says, “ sometimes at the
rate of one hundred wersts (sixty-six
miles) a day. Their usual food is fresh
fish, thawed, and cut in pieces ; and ten
frozen herrings are said to be a proper
allowance for each dog. A team con
sists commonly of twelve dogs, and it is
of importance that they should be accus
tomed to draw together. The fore
most sledge has usually an additional
j dog, which has been trained as a leader.
On the sagacity and docility of this lead
er, depend the quick and steady going
of the team, as well as the safety of the
traveller.”
The English Harvest.
A London letter says : One woe dotli
tread upon another’s heels; and now, in
addition to the almost complete ruin of
the potato crop, and a fresh outbreak of
the cattle plague, we hear that in Scot
land, and the North of England, the
wheat, rye, barley, and oat harvest is
spoiled. “ The weather for the last
fortnight has been unprecedented in the
history of our harvests.” says the lead
ing Scotch journal : “ the rainfall has
been again excessive; the atmosphere
clogged with moisture; thunderstorms
have been common, and the electrical
action of the air of a most disturbing
character.” In consequence of all this :
“ The crops are not only bad in every
sense of the term, but the expense of
securing them is everywhere excessive.”
In those quarteis where the wheat lias
not yet been cut it is deteriorated by a
second growth, and when it has been
put up iu sheaves the wet weather lias
made whole fields quite unsuitable for
human food' Barley and oats have also
suffered in tbe same way, and, in a
word, the destruction of the cereal crops
in Scotland and the North of England is
nearly complete. As in the potato-rot
it is stilted that the former estimates of
loss have all been greatly understated,
with the exception of Ireland. In that
island the disease, a few weeks ago, was
very prevalent, but for some undiscover
ed cause its ravages have been arrested,
and tbe crop there will be at least toler
ably good. Throughout England and
Scotland in those localities where pota
toes have for many years been exten
sively grown the shortcoming is now
said to range between thirty and eighty
per cent. Under these discouraging
circumstances there is some comfort in
the fact that on the Continent, as a rule,
the harvest has been excellent, and that
the price of breadstuff’s, up to the pres •
ent time at least, has advanced only a
slight degree. The average price of
English wheat to-day is 575. sd. a quar
ter, against 565. 6d. a quarter in the
corresponding period of last year.
A Beautiful Experiment.— The
following beautiful experiment may be
easily performed by a lady, to the great
astonishment of a circle at her tea party:
Take two or three leaves of red cab
bage, cut them into small bits, put
them into a basin, and pour a pint of
boiling water on them; let it stand an
hour, tben pour it off into a decanter.
It will be of a fine blue color. Then
take four wine glasses: into one put six
drops of strong vinegar; into another
six drops of solution of soda; into a third
a strong solution of alum; and let the
fourth remain empty. The glasses may
be prepared some time before, and the
few drops of colorless liquid that have
been placed in them will not be noticed.
Fill up the glasses from tbe decanter,
and the liquid poured into the glass con
taining the acid will be a beautiful red;
the glass containing tbe soda will be a
fine green; that poured into the empty
one will remain unchanged. By adding
a little vinegar to the green it will im
mediately change to the red, and on
adding a little solution of soda to the
red it will assume a fine green, thus
showing the action of acids and alkalies
on vegetable blues.
Literally Blown to Atoms.—A man
named Payne, at Eouseville, Pa., under
took to transport some nitro glycerine in
a tin cao. He placed it behind tlie seat
on a buckboard—a kind of long, country
wagon—drawn by a pair of horses. The
can exploded, with the following results,
as related by the Titusville Herald : “Mr.
Payne’s body was simultaneously scat
tered over an area of about twelve acres,
tbe buckboard was literally torn into
splinters, bnt strange to say, the horses
were not killed, but ran away badly
singed, and wounded in the haunches.
Tbe explosion was distinctly heard four
miles off. What was found would not
fill half a bushel measure. The right
hand was found at a distance of 360 feet,
and the other parts at various distances
and widely scattered. His watch was
picked up near the right hand, badly
damaged ; bis pocket-book was found
entire with its contents, but liis account
book was torn to shreads.”
Indian Scalp Dance.—A correspon
dent of the Denver News says, after the
etiquette was over, the Mauache Uues
showed us what was their pleasing cus
tom whenever a good aud glossy seal])
fell into their hands, by dancing a scalp
dance, shouting, screaming, drumming
and yelling, while an old, haggard and
wrinkled squaw kept tbe old bucks to
their work, by joining in the breakdown
and working assiduously’ in the semi
religious observance. It was all a weird,
strange and unusual sight, and tlie dirt,
the creepers and the stolid indifference
of tbe average Indians disappeared en
tirely from the mind, and in their place
came up very unpleasant imaginings of
very lively shinning around, should that
pack of ferocious, and yet very tame,
hyenas turn loose upon you. They used
up all the breath and powder and muscle
they had, passed in re-view again, and
went off croning some very unmusical
air, and all was quiet.
Smart Sheriff. —A gentleman who
used to carry on the sheriff business,
wholesale and retail, in Ontonagon
County, in an early day, was frequently
called upon to quiet tumultuous brawls,
which he did by rushing into the crowd
and knocking every man engaged in the
row as flat as a flounder,and then repeat
ing these memorable words over their
prostrate bodies : “ Bay, boys, what’s
all this fuss about ? As Sheriff of Onto
nagon County I command the peace.”
A sign—-to take down the gridiron
from the nail where it is hanging, with
the left hand, is a sign that there will
be a broil in the kitehen.
Murder Will Out.
Some months ago a well known music
teacher of Brooklyn was murdered on
the streets, and robbed. The affair has
been shrouded in mystery until the ar
rest of Wm. Higgins, a New York thief
who has operated with a gang in Brook
lyn. While confined in jail Higgins made
a fall confession of a number .of crimes,
and among the stories told by him was
the following :
“You see,” said Higgins, “I was in
tbe Tombs in New York when that affair
happened, and I came out in the morn
ing after the night an which it occurred
I’d been taken in for fighting. Well, I
was coming over to Brooklyn ori the night
of the day when I was released, (tbe
night following tbe assault on Panormo,)
and I was coming ovfer with one of our
chaps that we call ‘Cockney,’ he’s an
Englishman. When we get together—
any of us— we generally tell each other
what sort of luck we’d had, and says
Cockney to me :
“By G—, but we had a narrow escape
last night with that in Brooklyn. ”
“ What’s that ?” said I.
“ Oh,” says he, “ Cassidy and I, and
Scotty and O’Brien, came over here last
night on an expedition, (meaning to rob
some house,) and we didn’t get a thing.
So one of the fellows said, “Oh, let us
go back. ” ’
Cassidy said, “ Its a shame to go back
without anyfjjhitig.”
“ That’s said .
“Well, let’s lay for somebody,” said
another.
“ Here you are, then, 1 ’ said one of the
four. “ Let’s go for this com
ing up, and see what he’s got about
him.”
“ This,” said Higgins, “is just about
what Cockney told me, Cap, ” and then
he went on to say how they robbed
Panormo.
One of them grabbed him by the col
lar and said in a rough voice, “ What
have you got about you ? Come, pony
up!” at the same time shaking Panormo.
As soon as he felt he was grasped he
cried out, or attempted to cry out for
help, and another of the four pulled out
a pistol and “ jabbed” him in the neck
with the muzzle, and said, “D 'your
dirty soul, if you yell out again I’ll blow
your brains out.”
Feeling the muzzle of the pistol at his
neck, Panormo stopped, and a third
man proceeded “to go through him,”
and was just on the point of taking his
gold watch, when the man who pulled
the pistol on him (thinking Panormo
would not dare to cry out) replaced the
pistol iu his pocket. Seeing the pistol
disposed of, Panormo again cried out for
help, and that cry cost him his life, for,
with a terrible oath, O’Brien struck him
on the temple with a club, and as the
unfortunate victim was reeling back
ward from the effect of the blow, he
again struck him over the left eye and
flat along the face to the upper lip, and:
this blow was the one which made the
terrible wound, which was so fully de
scribed at the time.
Only two blows were struck, and the
man who was robbing him of his watch,
grabbed it, and seeing him felled aud
bleeding, they all ran off, and reached
New York in different directions. This
is the story of the murder of Panormo,
as told by Higgins, who gives his infor
mation from “Cockney,” who himself
was one of the gang and took part in the
robbery.
The weapon Panormo was struck with
is a club made of lignum vitae, and ex
ceedingly heavy. It is fourteen inches
in length, and is what is known to the
police force as a “parade club.” It is a
size between a pocket club and a regular
locust. s
The parties implicated in the murder
have been arrested.
A Use for Old Muslin. —There is no
economy in using old muslin where it can
be exposed to much wear, but for some
purposes it is “as good as new.” A lady
writes Hearth and Home that for years she
has made her partially-worn sheets into
simple window curtains. From the cen
ter of the sheet she tears the worn portion;
this leaves two strips, each of two and one
half yards in length, and from three fourths
of a yard to a yard in width. She then
sews the two selvedge edges together, and.
turns the raw edges back to form a seam.
All around the curtain she now stielies at
about an inch from the edge, narrow strips
of some pretty and washable cambric or
calico for a trimming, putting an extra
row of stitching through that on the up
per end, to make a place for a tape to bo
run in.
Austrian Bafts. —On the Danube
especially in the vicinity of and below
Vienna, one sees any number of rafts of
lumber, and barges transporting grain
and other commodities. Some of the
rafts are enormous. The men who own
them frequently carry their families with
them, building small houses for their
shelter, and taking turns at the oars,
which need to be diligently emphyed
day and night on account of the swift
ness and crookedness of the river. The
vast rafts look like floating villages, with
their wooden dwellings, children play
ing about, and the men lounging,
smoking, gambling, or rowing. It is
no slight, task to take a raft down the
Danube, for carelessness or lack of skill
may wreck it almost any time.
The Oil Question. —\t a final meet
ing of the oil producers, hold at Oil City
Pa., relative to the shutting down of
wells, it was unanimously agreed to sus
pend all pumping of wells and also further
drilling for a period of thirty days.
Resolutions were adopted prohibiting
the use of Roberts’ torpedoes unt'l after
March next. All the districts wore re
presented at the meeting, arc the feel
ing was unanimous that their object will
bo thoroughly accomplished. Three
fourths of the wells throughout the
country were stopped at midnight and
the balance will follow. Advanced prices
in the oil market are expected immediate
ly.
About Oil Wblls.—A little Pennsyl
vania girl tells the Rural New Yorker
about oil wells as follows: We live near
the Alleghany river where ’tis very hilly
almost mountains, yet tne scenery is very
beautiful. A n d we are in the oil country
you have no doubt heard of, and I am
going to tell you about the oil wells. First,
they build a very high, square frame, sixty
and seventy feet high, much smaller at the
top, and supported by cross pieces ; they
call it a derrick, and it is used first for
drilling a well, and then for pumping the
oil. Then they get their boiler and engine,
and drill by steam power. They drill ten
and twelve hundred feet before they get
oil. Sometimes, when they first strike
oil, it will flow out and up over the der
rick and on to the engine and take fire,
and burn it all down, so they have to
build anew; tben they draw their drilling
tools, and put in tools for pumping; they
sometimes pump over a hundred barrels a
day, bnt ’tis a very good well; they are
mostly from twenty to fifty barrel wells.
They build large, round vats that will
hold two and three hundred barrels for
the oil, and wheii one is full they run it
to the riveriri pipes, where it is taken Jo
the refineries. Perhaps the girls and boys
read the Rural , evenings, by the lights
from the oil taken from the wells near
here. There are between three and four
hundred wells around here, and any direc
tion I look, ! can see the derricks extend
ing into the air. There is a great amount
of monev made, and a great deal lost, for
sometimes they will be to the expense of
putting down a well and get no oil.
Chinese Sitekp. —On the main-deck of
a China steamer arrived in New York,
about amid-ships, was an iron cage con
taining specimens of Chinese sheep, said
to be much finer than any raised in this
country. They are peculiar from the
size and form of the tail, and excite much
curiosity. They are about the size of an
ordinary American sheep. The body is
white, the fa6e below the eyes being
usually black. The tail is about a loot
and a half long, and is in the shape of a
fan, flat, and about nine inches wide at
the extremity. Much curiosity was also
excited by some Pekin dogs that were
lazily rolling on the deck. They are of a
pure black color, and the hair is long and
silky. The nose is long and narrow, end
ing in a peak, and the whole head resem
bles very much that of a wolf. Another
cage contained five Chinese pigs, young
and very small. The color is speckled,
white and black, and the hair, which is
bristly, covers the white spots only, the
black being perfectly smooth. These
specimens have been sent to a gentleman
in New York, who, it is understood, con
templates the experiment of acclimatizing
and raising tbe species.
Small sums can be profitably invested
in Railroad Bonds. Write to Charles
W. Hassler, No. 7 Avail St., N. Y. *
Petroleum Oils. —In a recent report
on these oils, Professor Chandler gives
the following as the cheapest process for
making an oil that will not flash, that is,
emit an in flammable vapor below 100° F.
1 Run off the naphtha down to 58° R ,
instead of 65° to 62°, the usual point.
2. Then expose the oil in shallow tanks
to the sun, or diffuse daylight, for one or
two days. The increased dispense of
this plan of refining would not reach
more than three or four cents per gallon.
This addition would be cheerfully paid
by the consumer, to insure himself and
his wife and children, from horrible
.death. But the refiner says, I caunot
get the advanced price,, because the con
sumer does not know my oil is safer thaD
the cheaper article. This is true, and
our only hope is in strict laws, rigidly
•enforced, which wifi make it a crime to
sell an un t safe oil.
Tue Two Extremes. —Tw# classes of
medical thinkers attempt to cure disease
by opposite modes of treatment. One
class forces the system into preternatural
activity; the other depresses and weakens
it, Both are wrong. To inflame the
Wood of an invalid with medicated alcohol
is as dangerous as to apply undue steain
pressure to a weak boiler: and to prostrate
the physical energy, which is the natural
opponent of disease, by depleting treat
ment, is an act of almost equal temerity.
There is a medium Between these two ex
tremes, and Dr. Joseph Walker. -to
whom the world owes the famous Cali
poV.nia Vinegar Bitters, has been for
tunate enough to strike it. lie has pro
duced some simple vegetable element
without the admixture of anv distilled or
fermented.fluid, a specific comprising the
important properties of a wliolesenie
tonic, a gentle evacuant, a purifier of the
secretions, a pulmonic, a sedative, and a
powerful anti-bilious agent,. Never before
were these six sanative qualities compre
hended in one medicine, and never before
did one medicine cure so many different
diseases. Dyspepsia, liver-complaint, dis
eases of the kidneys, rheumatism, inter
mittent fever, disorders of the bowels,
gout, nervous affections, and maladies
proceeding from tbe impurity of the blood,
are only a few ot the bodily ills for which
Vinegar Hitters is considered an unfail
ing remedy.— Com.
An Illinois man resorted to banging
ns the only effectual cure for tbe ague.
For Coughs,Bronchitis and Con
sumption in its early stages, nothing
equals Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
eoverv. 615.
Asthma.-We cannot render to those of
our readers who suffer from the asthma,
a greater service than by recommending
Jonas Whitcomb's Remedy. The names
of distinguished public men are seen
appended to this medicine, and nearly
every druggist in the country can cite
some, evidence of its wonderful curative
properties.— Com.
Tor Dyspepsia, indigestion, depression of
spirits ami general debility in their various
forms; also, as a preventive against fever and
ague, ami other intermittent fevers,the “ Ferro-
Phosphorated Elixir ofOalisaya,” made hy Oas
weH, Hazard A. Cos., New York, and sold by alj
druggists, is the best tonic, and as a tonic for
patients recovering from lover or other sick
ness, it haH no equal. — Cbm.
The Elmwood Collar, from the peculiar man
ner in which it is made,with folded edges, cloth
faoe, and perspiration-proof Ilnish, will keep
•lean longer than any oilier oollar. It is more
economical than low-priced goods. Buy the
Mini wood at any Gent’s Furnishing Stores.-Com
Heavy oats are good for horses ; none will
deny that; hut oats can’t make a horse’s eoat
look smooth and glcssy when he is out of con
dition. Sheridan’s Cavalry Condition Pow
ders will do tliis when aIL else fails.—Com.
Cramps and pains in t.he stomach are the
result of imperfect indigestion, and may be
immediately relieved by a dose of Johnson’s
Anodyne Liniment. A teaspoonful in a little
sweetened water is a dose— Com.
Use less of Dooley’s than of other yeast or
Baking Powder, as it is much stronger. Put up
full weight. Give it a fair trial. Grocers sell it.
; Com.
Have You Seen Her P—A lady who for the
last five years has been a leader of fashion in New
York, and who ra iy be seen twice a week in her ele
gant caleche driving a pair of superb ponies in Cen
tral Park, has recently stated, in the select circle to
which she belongs, that the only article in exiatence
which implants beauty and lustre to the complexion
without ultimately impairing the texture of the skin
and causing it to collapse and w inkle, is Hagan’s
Magnolia Balm. The name of the distingnisbed
member of the beau mopde/whOTOjide this declara
tion cannot with propriety bfe given/but it may be
mentioned en pas sant that she has spent several
years of her life in Europe and is familiar with all the
arts and preparations employed by the court beauties
oi the old world to enhance their charms.—[Com.J
Cristadorb’s Excelsior IJair Dye stands unrivaled and
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that it would be a supererogation to descant on them
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Flagg’s Instant Relief has stood twenty, years’ test. I
warranted to'give immediate relit/ to all Rheumatic. Neu
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Or Money Refunded. — Com.
The Binod owes its fed color to minute globules
which float in that fluid, and contain, in a healthy per
son, if large, amount of Iron, which giver vitality to the
blood. The Peruvian Syrup supplies the blood with
this vital eletifent, and gives strength and vigor *o the'
whole system.— Com.
Natural Decay—Protect the System.
The human body a machine, and therefore cannot
endure forever ; but, like a watch or a sewing machine,
it will last much longer if properly regulated and duly
repaired, than if no pains were taken to keep it in order.
The groat object of everyone who desires a long and
healthy Me should be to put his body in a condition to
resist the life-threatening influences by which we are
all more or less surrounded ; and no invigorant and cor
rective at present know# so effectively answers this pur
pose as the vitalizing elixir which, under the unpretend
ing name of Hostetter’s Stomach'Bitters; has been for
more than twenty years the standard tonic of America.
In crowded cities, where the atmosphere, is contaminated
with the effluvia inseparable from large pbpulations ; in
marshy regions, where the soggy soil reeks with miasma;
on the prairies and in the forests, where every fall the
air is tainted with exhalations from rotting weeds and
grasses, or decomposing leaves—in short, in every local
ity where miliaria exi-ts, this powerul vegetable antidote'
is urgently needed. Fever and ague, bilibus fevers, dys
entery, congestion of the liver, jaundice, rheumatism,
and nil diseases which are generated by infected air,
impure water, or sudden changes of temperature may
he by strengthening and regulating the system
in advance with Hostetter’s Bitters. Autumn is always
a season of peril, especially to weak, susceptible organ
izations. Even the more vigorous are apt to be in some
measure depressed hy the humid atmosphere, loaded
with deleterious gases, produced by vegetable decay.
The fall is a period of the year when the renovation and
regulation of the living machine is peculiarly important,
and the Bitters should therefore be taken daily at this
critical season.
Speoial Notices.
TO '
CONSUMPTIVES.
The advertiser, having been permanently cured of that
dread disease. Consumption, by a simple remedy, is anx
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3ur©v To all who desire it, he will send a copy of the
prescription used, (free of charge), with the directions
for preparing and using the same, which they will find a
■*ubi; Cure for Consumption. Asthma, Bronchitis,
and all throat or lung difficulties.
Parties wishing the prescription will please address
Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON.
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Vinegar Ritters are not a vile Fancy Drink,
made of Poor Rum. Whisky, Proof Spirits and
Refuse Liquors, doctored, spiced, and sweetened
to please the taste, called “Tonics,” “Appetizers,”
“Restorers,” Ac., that lead the tippler on to drunk
enness and ruin but are a true Medicine, made
Irpm the native roots and herbs of California, free
from all Alcoholic Stimulants. They are the Great
Blood Purifier and a Life-giving Principle, a Perfect
Renovator and Invigorator of the System, carrying
off all poisonous matter and restoring the blood
to a healthy condition, enriching it, refreshing and
invigorating both mind and body. They are easy
of administration, prompt in their action, certain
in their results, safe aud reliable in all forms of
disease.
lio Person can fake these Bitters accord
ing to directions, and remain long unwell, provided
their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison
or other means, and the vital organs wasted beyond
the point of repair.
Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Headache, Pain
in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Chest,
Dizziness, Sour Eructations of the Stomach. Bad
Taste in the Mouth, bilious Attacks, Palpitation of
the Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the
region of the Kidneys, and a hundred other painful
symptoms, are the offsprings of Dyspepsia, in these
complaints it has no equal, aud one bottle will
prove a better guarantee of its merits than a
lengthy advertisement.
For Female Complaints, in young or old,
married or single, at the dawn of womanhood, or
the turn of life, these Tonic Bitters display so de
cided an influence tliat a marked improvement is
soon perceptible.
For Inflammatory and Chronic Rheu
matism and Gout, Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Bil
ious, Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases
of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder, these
i Bitters have been most successful. Such Diseases
are caused by Vitiated Blood, which is generally
produced by derangement of the Digestive Organs.
They are a Gentle Purgative as well as
a Tonic, possessing also the peculiar merit of act
ing as a powerlu! agent in relieving Congestion or
Inflammation of the Liver and Visceral Organs and
in Bilious Diseases.
For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, Tetter, Sait-
Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, 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. One bottle in such cases will convince the
most incredulous of their curative effects.
Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever you
find its impurities bursting through the 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.
Grateful Thousands proclaim Vinegar Bit
ters the most wonderful Invigorant that ever sus
tained the sinking system.
Pin, Tape, and other Worms, lurking in
the system of so many thousands, are eflectualiF
destroyed and removed. Says a
physiologist: There is scarcely an individual on tit
face of the earth whose body is exempt from th-A
presence of worms. It is not upon the healthy
elements of the body that worms exist, but upon
the diseased humors and slimy deposits tlmt breed
these living monsters of disease. No system of
medicine, no vermifuges, no anthelmiuitics, will
free the system from worms like these Bitters.
Mechanical Diseases.— Persons engaged 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 twice a week.
Bilious, Remittent, and Intermittent
Fevers, which are so prevalent in the valleys of
our great rivers tiirougliout the United States,
especially those of the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri,
Illinois, Tennessee, Cumberland, Arkansas, Red,
Colorado, Brazos, Rio Grande, Pearl, Alabama,
Mobile, Savannah, Roanoke. James, and many
others, with their vast tributaries, throughout our
entire country during the Summer and Autumn,
and remarkably so during seasons of unusual heat
and dryness, are invariably accompanied by exten
sive derangements of the stomach and liver, and
other abdominal viscera. In their treatment, a
purgative, exerting a powerful influence upon these
various organs, is essentially necessary. There is
no cathartic for the purpose equal to Dr. J. Walk
er’s Vinegar Bitters, as they will speedily
remove the dark-colored viscid matter with which
the bowels are loaded, at the same time stimulating
the secretions of the liver, and generally restoring
the healthy functions of the digestive organs.
Scrofula, or King’s Evil. White Swellings,
Ulcers, Erysipelas. Swelled Neck, Goitre, Scrofulous
Inflammations, Indolent Inflammations. Mercurial
Affections, Old Sores. Eruptions of the Skiu, Sore
Eyes, etc., etc. in these as iu all other const it l
tional Diseases, Walker’s Vineuar Bitters have
shown their great curative powers in the most
obstinate and intractable cases.
Dr. Walker’s California Vinegar Bit
ters act on all these cases in a similar manner
By purifying the Blood they remove the cause. .tu&
by resolving away the effects of the inflammation
(the tubercular deposits) the affected parts receive
health, and a permanent cure is effected.
The properties of Dr. Walker’s Vinegar
Bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic, Carminative,
Nutritious. Laxative, Diuretic, Sedative. Counter-
Irritant, Sudorific, Alterative, and Anti-l!ilious.
The Aperient and mild Laxative properties
of Dr. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters are the best
• de-guard in cases of eruptions and malignant
fevers. Their balsamic, healing, and soothing pro
perties protect the humors of the fauces. Their
Sedative properties allay pain in the nervous sys
tem, stomach, and bowels, from inflammation,
wild, colic, cramps, etc.
Their Count er-Irritnnt. influence ex
ends throughout the system. Their Anti-Biliom
nroperties stimulate the'liver, in the secretion a
bile, and its discharges through the biliary duets,
and are superior to all remedial agents, for the cure
of Bilious Fever., Fever aud Ague, etc.
Fortify the body against disease by
purify ing all its fluids with Vinegar Bitters. No
epidemic can take Hold of a system thus fore-armed.
Directions Take of the Bitters on going to
bed at night from a half to one and one-half wine
glassful. Eat good nourishing food, such as beef
steak, mutton chop, venison, roast beef, and vege
tables, and take out-door exercise. They are
composed of purely vegetable ingredients, and
contain no spirit.
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