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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 alone. Its merits have been so universally acknowledged that it would be a supererogation to descant on them any further—nothing cao beat it.—ffom Flagg’s Instant Relief has stood twenty, years’ test. I warranted to'give immediate relit/ to all Rheumatic. Neu ralgic, Head, Ear and Back aches, 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 ious to make known to his fellow sufferers the means of 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. 19< Penn. Street. Williamsbuteh. N. Y WAITED,- Acents to canvass for our Hollar Paper. A two dollar Engraving given to every subscriber ; a rare cb.mce. Address B. B. RUSSELL, Boston,_Mass. DURING- the Uast Month more than ICO new Foreign Claims, irom neariy all of the United States, have been received for collection, by J. F. FRUE ATTFF, Attorney at Law, * lolumbia, Lancaster Co', Pa. kJWA KTHMORE COJL-UEGE.^Swarthmore, Delaware Cos., Pa. This institution for both.sexe vvill re-open 9th mo., 3rd , 1872. For Catalogue. <fcc.. Address EDWARD H MAGILL, President. DR. 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Wo believe it the BEST and SUREST REMEDY IN Till': WORLD, in ell r,r>os of DYSENTERY AND DIARRHEA IN CHILDREN, whether arising from teething or any other ranee. Depend upon it. mothers, it wiUgiv rout toyouraelvo' Relief and Health to Tour Intonta. Be -lire and oall for “ Mr*. Window’* Soothing Syrup.” Having the fae-eimite ol “CURTIS A BERK IN S’ on the outalde wrapper. Sold By Br*nl* throughout the World 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. r. h. McDonald & co.. Druggists and Gen. Agts.. San Francisco. Cal., A nor. of Washington and Charlton Sts.. N.Y. SOLD UV ALL DRUGGISTS A DEALERS. N Y N 11,-Xo 41 ■ !h ■*- DP KEWARD.-All book and m&gaz ne canvassers send your address immediately to ‘‘Smith s P llak Magazine.*’ N Y. iV/y imp “ tant. BODKS, PRINTS, Xovdtles, S ad stdinii* for Catalogues. Box [>, be Hast, A 6153S TS Wanted.— Affentsmake more money et work for ns than at anything else. Particulars free. G. STINSON A Cg.. Fin*Art Publishers, Portland, \laire. FK.. PUOEMX.BI oomington Nursery, 111 : 600 • acres; 21st year; 12 Trees,- But.us. Hedge Plants. Nursery Mock : 4 ( Htulogues, 20 cents. DR. 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XK* l.Kiiguatti* ot* l)lfcca*c 1* l*nlw* Respond iTTTT wisely by roiiifoToiwg nature. An admirable prep tt’is purpose Tarrant’b Fffkrvkscent Sici T7tCR Ai'KfUKNT. It expels all acrid matter from the live r. W<S the nerves strength ena the digestive organs, dissipates unwholesome hu mors, cools the blood, and puts the whole machinery of the system in good working order without irritating of th‘e dilicjite iuternol im-ml*ranee. KT of BY ALL DKUtiGlßm^