Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1878 — Page 4

MASTER JOHNNY'S M XT-DOOK NEIGHBOR. BY BBET HABTB. „ It was spring the first time that I saw her, for her papa and mamma moved in Next door, junt as skating was over, and marbles about to begin. For the fenoe in our back-yard was broken, and I saw as I peeped through the slat, There were * Johnny Jump-ups’ all around her, and I knew It was spring Just by that. “ I never knew whether she saw me—for she didn’t say nothing to me, But I Ma 1 here’s a slat in the fence broke, and the boy that is neat door can see.’ But the next day I climbed on our wood-shed, as you know, mamma says I’ve a right, And she calls out, ‘ Well, peekin’ is manners!’ and I answered her, * Hass is perlite !’ “ But I wasn’t a bit mad, no, papa, and, to prove it, the very next day, When she ran past our fence in the morning I happened to get in her way. For you know I am ‘chunked’ and clumsy, as she says are alt boys of my size. And she nearly upset me, she did, pa, and laughed till tears came In her eyes. “ And then we were friends from that moment, for I knew that she told Kitty Sage, And she wasn't a girl that would flatter, ‘ that she thought I was tall for my age.’ And I gave her' four apples that evening, and took her to ride on my sled, And—•* What am I telling you this for ?’ Why, papa, my neighbor is dead ! “ You don’t hear one-half I am saying—l really do think it's too bad I Why, you might have seen crape on her door-knob, and noticed to-day I’ve been sad. And they’ve got her a coffin of rosewood, and they say they have dressed her in white, And I’ve never once looked through the fence, pa, since she died—at eleven last night. “ And ma says it’s decent and proper, as I was her neighbor and friend, ’ That I should go there to the funeral, and she thinks that you ought to attend; But I am so clumsy and awkward, I know I shall be in the way, And suppose they should speak to me, papa, I wouldn’t know Just what to say. “ Ro I think I will get up quite early; I know I Bleep late, but I kn-.rr I'll be sure to wake up if our Bridget pulls the string that I’ll tie to my toe, And I'll crawl through the fence and I’ll gather the • Johnny Jump-ups’ as th y grew Round her feet the first day that I saw her, and, papa I’ll give them to you. “ For you’re a big man, aud you know, pa, can come and go Just where you choose. And you'll take the flowers in to her, and surely they’ll never refuse; Upt, papa, don’t nay they’re from Johnny. They won't understand, don’t you see? But just lay them down on her bosom, and, napa, nhe'll know they’re from me.”

THAT LITTLE WIDOW.

She wns just the neatest little woman in the world—always smiling, always fresh, plump and deep in her fortiesone of the kind who smooth theiraprons down while they talk to you. Then the little cigar shop at the corner, which she kept, and where she rattled on about fifty different brands of tobacco, and talked of the weather to her customers, and the kindness which any tale of sorrow told by vagrants called forth from her—the many times her fat little hand went into the drawer for change to be bestowed on some charitable plea—all went to make up the best-tempered, the most motherly and the nicest little woman you would over chance to meet. So thought Dr. Ash, who lived next door, and who often went in for a little Hnutl, you know, but who invariably settled his wig more rakishly before popping into the shop. He used to say to tier, "My! you must be lonely here. Widow Thorn I” “O, not at all, sir, thanking you!” she would reply. “I wonder you never married a second time, Widow Thorn I” “ Well, it is a wonder, isn’t it, doctoi ? But you see I’m such a queer old body that .1 guess not many could fancy me. ” “Madam, there you must stop! I cannot hear the divine sex disparaged,” returned the doctor. He was, as they say, of the old school. She laughed. “Can’t a woman speak against herself?” she asked. “No ! She never speaks against herself unless she means to flatter herself by contradictory disparagement when some one is by.” “ Sir, you are too plain.” “ Widow Thorn, 1 was always called plain, and the wig’s too big for me.” Then she laughed at him ; and what promised to be a quarrel ended in a merry “Good-by.” Then there was the baker at the corner. Ho was a widower, and he used to come in of an evening for a chat and a cheap cigar. Said he, “This lonely state is miserable, isn’t it?” “Do you speak from experience ?” asked she. “Yes; my Maria’s been dead fourteen years,” said he. “I shouldn’t think it would take so long a time for you men to forget anything,” she said. “ Ah, ma’am! man is a wonderful being—the most wonderful of God’s creatures.” “ Except woman,” said she. “You’re right, widow! And that’s the reason the Lord meant that every man should have a wife and everv woman a husband, just to make them equal. So I think you and I must have new partners.” “ Now, look here, Mr. Johns ! You’ve had your partner, and I’ve had mine, and death has dissolved the partnerships. New, we’re both bankrupt, and we. can’t carry on a joint business; so we must go on pleasantly,” she said, and laughingly bade him “Good night!” He had to laugh, too, because she seemed to expect him to do nothing else. Thsn there was the old bachelor over the way, who was learning the bassoon. He used to come to his window of snmmer evenings, when the widow was standing at her door for a breath of fresh air and he would blow; away at “The Last Link is Broken ” till it was a wonder he did not rupture something and die. He did not smoke, nor drink, nor chew. But a brilliant idea struck him one day and over he wont. “ Do you keep paper collars, ma’am ?” he asked, tremblingly. “ Yes, sir,” she answered, smoothing her apron down. “ Give me some,” he said, vaguely. “ What size?” * ‘ Oh, any size ! I don’t care. ” She looked at him. “ Don’t you knew your number?” she asked. “ No, ma’am ! But I don’t care much.” “ Lud 1 she ejaculated. “ Here, sir. Just you take your collar oil and let me measure it. ” bo she did, and she handed him another. “That’ll fit you, sir,” she said. Then lie tried to put it on, and his hand trembled so that he broke one of the button-holes. . “ Now it’s done, sir,” said she. “I’n a-raid I am,” said he. “Sir!” “I mean I—l'm afraid it is !” Then he took up another, and, out of compassion, she said: “Let me button it for you. All men are death on buttons and button-holes— I know by poor Thorn.” Then she fitted on the collar, and the bachelor was ecstatic. As she handed him his ahange, she said : “You’re the gentleman that plays suoh sweet, dreary tunes on the horn, aren’t you ?” “ Yes, I play a little. But it’s dreadful lonely playing all by myself.” “Isn’t there anyone with you?” she a iked. “No, I’m cursed—l’m a bachelor!” Deary me ! that is bad ; I’d ask you over here to play, sir—” “ Oh I” he interrupted. ‘ ‘ But I’m afraid the doctor next door would come in and ask if anybody was hurt,” she continued. “ O !” he said again, in quite a different tone, and left. Five minutes after he was moaning out “ The Last Link is Broken,” as it_ that link in its soundness held heaven and earth together. The doctor needed a lot of snuff; the baker was clearly smoking himself into the

grave with his Maria; and toe * bachelor used so many paper collars that the little widow ordered as many boxes of his as she did of all the other sizes put together. But at last, one night, came the maid servant from next door, pounding up the Widow Thorn, telling hey to come ini/ <n the doctor tvs kill anttMidh’t know i body. Hastily throwing on her dress, in she went, and saw him lying therein' a state of collapse, with his wig over one eye. , “ Ginger and Cayenne pepper and brandy I” ordered the little widow, while she held his head. Then, forcing the fiery dose down his throat, she held him, tight, while he spluttered and gatfpra for breath. “ What ever is the matter with him ?” asked the frightened servant. “ Cucumbers !” remarked the widow —for she had seen the doctor march home that afternoon with two fine specimens of that proverbially cool vegetable in his hand. Then, the doctor become ing better, she went home as cheerful as ever, and slept the dreamless sleep of the innocent and of the non-dyspeptic. Earlv next morning the baker called. “ I hear that Dr. Ash was sick last night, and that you went in?” said he, almost as though he had a right to ask. “ Yes,” she answered; “ the girl came for me, and I did the little I could. Poor old chap ! It’s a pity he never married. He might have had a wife and family around him, instead of a poor, ignorant servant, who calls up the neighbors on trifling causes.” “Widow! that’s what I always say. A lone man is the devil’s delight—if ynu’U oxouue profanity. Everything conspires to make his life unbearable. What ailed the doctor ?” “ O, he’d eaten too freely of cucumbers. ” “Widow Thorn, you know I’m as much alone as he is.” “Why—bless me, sir—what are you driving at ?” asked she. ‘ * Nothing, ” he said, witli a melancholy smile, and left the shop. Ten miniites after, she saw him go iiome with five overgrown cucumbers in his hands—she knew how many, for she pulled a box aside in the window to count them. She smoothed her apron down and shook her head. She expected as much—and more. Just at that moment in came the bachelor from over the way. * * Is anybody sick next door, ma’am ?” ho asked. “Yes, sir; Dr. Ash was taken ill last night. Why ?” “I was playing ‘ Wo Met, ’Twas in a Crowd,’ late, feeling miserable, and I saw his servant come here, and saw you go iu with her. What ailed him?”

“ Now, sir, I can’t tell you. I’m afraid I’ve been the innocent cause of future agony to the baker at the corner by telling him; so, if you’ll excuse me, we’ll say the doctor was imprudent.” “ I’m afraid I’m that myself, ma’am,” he said, low-spiritedly; “and lately I’ve got to feeling a pain here.” And he pointed iu the region of his heart—that is, his left side, where nobody’s heart is, you know ? “ O, you play too vigorous, sir,” she said. “I once knew a gentleman who played the fife lovely; but he died suddenly, sir, and the doctor who opened him told me he was as clear as a whistle inside, sir—his own identical words, ‘ as clear as a whistle.’ Everything had gone.” “ But, I dare say, he was a married man?” “Yes, indeed! a blessed wife and twins !” “Ah ! That’s the reason. I’ll never die that way, ma’am—for there’s no one to mourn for me. I’ll keep on blowing till, after awhile, you’ll hear the echoes rolling in me, and I’ll play the same tune twice at once, and one a bar behind the other.” “ Oh! goodness gracious me !” she said; “you’d better see a doctor.” Then he shook his head sadly and went out. She sat in the little shop for an hour or more, writing a long letter. She inked her fingers, said “bother” to the pen for spluttering, folded the letter crookedly, refolded it straightly, directed the envelope, put a stamp on the left-hand corner, went out, dropped it in the box, and came to Dr. Ash’s door, knocked, inquired how he did, and came home again. Then I think she was busy for quite a time, as all such are. i Soon in popped the doctor with a huge i bouquet in Ms hand. “You have saved my life, ma’am,” said he. “Nonsense!” she exclaimed, but she smiled in a pleasant way, too. Then he put the flowers beside her, pressed her hand, and went to see his ! patients. The little widow hummed a tune, tapping her foot on the floor, late in the afternoon, when the bachelor fltom over the way rushed to her. “I’ve done it, ma’am!” said he, shivering. “Lord bless the man! What have you done ?” “I’ve been imprudent.” “ How ?” “ I’ve poured cold water down my spine till I’m almost paralyzed, and I want you to treat me as you did the doctor. ” “You do? Then wait! I’ll mix the dose for you.” And she did so. She brought it to him, made him take a gulp, and he sat down immediately on the floor, white aud choking. There was quite the look of a heroine about the little widow. “Now go home,” she said, kindly; “go to bed, and let me know to-morrow how you feci.” And, easting a strange, bewildered look at her, he obeyed. Now, alter it was twilight, the little woman closed the shop, went to her room, put on her neat, old-fashioned bonnet, and, going dowu stairs, locked her house door from the outside, and was on the pavement when up came the servant from the baker’s. “ What’s the matter with you ?” asked the little widow. “ Oh, mem ! he’s took so bad that he can’t speak, and he’s calling for you all the time 1” I “Oh! I know what’s the matter with i him. Come inside, Jane, and I’ll send him something to cure him.” Then Jane went inside, and the little woman mixed a tumblerful of a certain compound. “Five cucumbers,” she said; “and the doctor only had two ! Consequently he’ll need as much again and a half, and a little more pepper 1” [She had quite a head for reckoning, I assure you. ] She gave the glass to the girl, and went out again and locked the door. “ I hope it won’t hurt him 1” said the little widow. Next day the shop was not opened. The doctor tried the door, and found it closed. The baker, rather shaken, came by and looked in in astonishment. The bachelor peered from his window and wondered. But, for all that, the little shop was closed; and closed it remained all that day and night. The doctor was for breaking in the door, to see if she were inside ill or—dead. The baker seconded the motion, as night approached. But just then the bachelor came over. “Maybe she’s gone away to visit?” said he. “ Yes! —on some errand of mercy/’ chimed in the doctor. “She is a capital nurse, that I can testify to.” “So can I,” said the baker, dubiously- “ She never nursed you, sir !” said the doctor. “Neither did she you !” said the baker. ‘ ‘ Sir, ’ exclaimed the doctor, looking like thunder. “Sir,”exclaimed the baker, looking

as much like thunder as a baker can look. “I would have yon'know, air,” asifk dhe doctor, “ that lam superior to any Insult which a dough-kneader may offer me.’ g “And I, to any foolishness on the -part of a sawbones.” “ Now, look here/’ said the bachelor, “ I was sick, and she gave me the same fcMind of medicine she gave the doctor.” , H “She sent me the same,” said the "baker. .. “ She came to my house and held my Mead while I took it,” said the doctor. He was triumphant. ‘ Then, after much haggling and quarreling, they look at the house again; and, agreeing that she would return by tomorrow, they took their ways to their respective homes. And behold ! to-morrow the good little shop was opened, and the same array of goods met the gaze of the passerby. The little woman was seen up stairs dusting lhe shutters. She nodded to the milkman and to the iceman as usual; and at last the bachelor saw her, Ynd over he went and met the doctor stepping off his door-step. “Are you going in, sir?” asked the doctor. “Yes!” said the bachelor. “Do you snuff?” “ No, I go for collars.” “ Then we’ll go in together.” And together they went in. A tall, sun-burned man was there—elderly, but big and brawny. The doctor spoke up, though he was a little shaken. “We—l—that is—we should like to see the Widow Thorn, sir.” “ There ain’t such a person,” said toe man, grinning. “She’s gone—vamosed —pegged out!” “He’s drunk!” whispered toe bachelor. “ I saw her myself before I came in, up stairs.” “What’s that you observed?” asked the stranger. “ Sir, wo want the Widow Thorn !” boldly exclaimed the doctor. “And you may keep on wanting that •Id lady, gentlemen ; but she won’t come for wanting.” Then the pleasant voice of the little woman sounded from the next room. “ Now, Charley, you just behave yourself.” And there she was just before them, neater-looking than ever. “ O ! Widow, good "morning !” said the doctor.

“ No more widow than I am,” chimed in the strange man, laughing. “ Now, Charley-, do behave,” said the little woman; “and, gentlemen,” turning to the doctor and the bachelor, “ let me introduce Mr. Charley, my husband !” “Your husband !” they both cried. “Yes, gentlemen. We’ve been going to be married for years and years, but he vowed he’d never marry me till he’d been successful in the mines; and he has been now. We were married yesterday in Boston. I wrote him a letter telling him I’d meet him there—and here we are! But we’ll sell out this little place as soon as we find a customer.” Without a word the doctor grabbed the bachelor by the back of the neck, hauled him out and tumbled him over the baker, who was coming innocently into the shop; and the three were down on the pavement, where Mr. Charley picked them up. And when they were dusting themselves he stood for a minute in the doorway and sang out : “ And if you ask for Widow Thorn, I’ll tell you there ain’t si ch a person !” and went in and closed the door. The doctor went home and abused his servant; the baker was seen to take a tumbler which had held the medicine of two nights before, and which belonged to the little widow, and dash it to a thousand fragments in the back yard; and the bachelor, all that day and evening, sat at his third-story window, and played “ The Last Link is Broken,” on the bassoon in polka time, with accelerated passages where the compass of the instrument gave out. I bus may innocence cast its halo around too trusting human nature.

Romance of the Spanish Marriage.

- The marriage of Alphonso, King of Spain, and the Princess Mercedes, third daughter of the Duke de Montpensier, was simply a great social event, having little political significance. Alphonso is the son of the ex-Queen Isabella, and Mercedes is the grand-daughter of Louis Phillippe. There was a time when a Bourbon marriage would have caused a commotion in Europe, because marriages were then consummated for reasons of state, were the ceremonies that gave notice of new compacts on the part of a powerful family, and new combinations in European politics. Henry of Navarre was the first French King of the House of Bourbon, and he came to the throne as Henry IV., in 1589. He had two sons, Louis XIII. and Gaston, Duke of Orleans, and two daughters, Elizabeth, who was married to Philip IV. of Spain, and Henrietta, who became the Queen of "Charles I. of England. Louis XIII. left two sons, Louis XIV. aud Philip, Duke of Orleans. The latter was the ancestor of King Louis Phillippe. The legitimist representative of the Bourbon family in France is Count de Chambord. The Orleans branch has several prominent representatives, including the Montpensiers. The eldest son of Louis XIV. was the father of Philip, Duke of Anjou, placed on the Spanish throne in 1700 as Philip V. Philip was the founder of the Spanish branch of the Bourbon family, and the ancestor of Queen Isabella. Thirty years ago Isabella and Donna Louisa, daughters of King Ferdinand VII. of Spain, were to be married, and all Europe was agitated. Louis Phillippe was the adviser and dictator in this question of marriage, and, as Europe protested against the marriage of Isabella to a Bourbon of France, the French King originated a scheme that he thought would finally bring a French Bourbon to the Spanish throne. Isabella was married to the dull and incapable Don Francisco de Assis, and it was believed she would have no children. Her sister Louisa, beautiful and wealthy, was married to the Duke de Montpensier, in the belief that her children would succeed childless Isabella. The old King was foiled, as Isabella had children, and her son is now the Spanish King. But his grandchild, Mercedes, toe daughter of Louisa, becomes the Queen of Spain, and the French and Spanish branches of the Bourbon family are united, though not as Louis Phillippe planned.

A Han with Thirty Children.

The Strohl family, of this county is probably the largest family in toe United States. The head of the house is-Nich-olas Strohl, a Pennsylvania German, about 76 years old. By three wives he has had thirty children, twenty-seven of whom are living. His first wif* presented him with eight, his second with eleven, and his third with eleven. The youngest child is now 3 years old, and was born when its father was 73 years old. Of toe twenty-seven children nineteen are married, aud their families average about eight children. My. Joel Strohl, one df th 6 well-known farmers" in the lowetehd, and child of his farmer’s first wife, has seventeen children, and. he is not an old man by any means. He is the father of two pairs of twins, a distinction which his father, Mr. Nicholas Strohl, never attained. If the famiKes should gather together there would be oyer 200 persons. They nearly all reside in this county. Old Mr. Strohl is still hearty and bids fair to live many years."— Mauch Chunk Coal Gazrite.

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

t j Around the txrm. *• , Raising a Mothcemjess Oom.—’Ebe best IffidSr fat i motherteas colt is cow’s diluted with about twenty-five per Cesium of water and with a little sugar added. The milk, if possible, should be from a newly-calved cow. In addition, the colt might have thin gruel made of oatmeal ana linseed meal equal parts, fire linseed being reduced or increased according as' it is found that toe bowels are relaxed or constipated. The addition of a few raw eggs to toe gruel will improve it.— Toronto Globe. Water-Pboof Finish fqr Baw-Hibe. —As raw hide contains a large amount of gelatine, or glue, which is very soluble in water, it will certainly be softened by wet weather. One of the best materials to make gelatine insoluble is tannin, hence toe tanning of leather, which makes hide water-proof; however, it spojla the finish of raw-hide. We would therefore suggest toe use of a saturated hot solution of bichromate of potash. Hide covered repeatedly with this and exposed to toe sunlight (which is an essential condition to make it effective) will have its gelatine made insoluble without injuring its finished appearance, and wet weather will not affect it much. —Manufacturer and Builder. Packing Eggs for Shipment.—lt is only through careless packing that eggs get spoiled for hatching during carriage. They must be packed so that there will be no jarring. A good way is to have a box made of half or three-quarter inch pine, of such a size that toe eggs can be packed, leaving at least an inch space around them. Then wrap up the egg in soft paper, leaving a good-sized bunch of paper at toe end. Pack toe egg in oat chaff or some substance that win not shift and let the egg touch the side of the box. Bran is frequently recommended, but it has the objection that it shifts, and the egg is thus jarred and killed. Fine, uncut hay is a good thing for packing. The top of toe box should be screwed, not nailed, on.— Toronto Globe.

Exposing manure to air, either in the farm-yard, or, still worse, in small heaps in the open field, causes toe loss of a considerable amount of its beneficial properties, owing to the evaporation or escape of some of its fertilizing gases into toe surrounding air. By sowing a bushel or two of gypsum over the surface of these heaps, however, and then superimposing a layer of loam, toe deterioration, unless the weather be very wet, will be extremely slight. This, as it readily absorbs the volatile gases that are ever striving to escape into the atmosphere, will itself become rich, and may be advantageously applied to crops requiring animal or vegetable manure. The gypsum also arrests the ammonia which freely escapes from animal excrement, and retains it for the sustenance of toe crops to which it may be applied. Bulbs fob the Care of Sheep.—l. Keep sheep dry under foot with clean litter. This is more necessary than roofing them. Never let them stand or lie in mud or snow. 2. If a ewe loses her lamb, milk her daily for a few days and mix a little alum with her salt. 3. Never frighten sheep if possible to avoid it. 4. Separate all weak, thin or sick sheep in the fall from those that are strong, and give them special care. 5. If any sheep is hurt, catch it at once and wash the wound with a healing lotion. If a leg is broken, bind it with splinters tightly, loosening as the limb swells. 6. If a sheep is lame, examine its foot, clean out between the hoofs if unsound, and apply tobacco, with blue vitriol boiled in a little water. 7. Shear at once any sheep commencing to shed its wool, unless the weather is too severe. 8. Keep none but the best and see that they are properly attended to. — Exchange. The best time to sell, as a rule, is as soon as the farmer can obtain a fair profit on the amount of time and money expended in raising his crops. Experience everywhere has proved conclusively that it seldom pays the producer to become a speculator. By selling early the mind is relieved from anxiety, and can turn the more earnestly to the season’s legitimate duties; shrinkage and loss from vermin and other causes are avoided; the money in hand often prevents the necessity for running into debt, for which a heavy interest is always charged either under its proper name, or in an increase of price on the goods purchased; the farmer has the means for buying manures, stock, implements and machinery at the best time and figures, and of pushing necessary work, and making improvements on his land or homestead. Calculate, therefore, what your products have cost you in money aud its equivalent, time, add a moderate profit, and sell promptly so sqpn as you can realize the total, taking, of course, as much more as you can get, and leaving to others the anxieties and risks of speculation.

About the House.

Washing Brown Prints.—ln answer to the inquiry, “What will prevent a brown print from fading in washing,” I send the following: Get 3 cents’ worth of sugar of lead and dissolve in as much water as will wet the dress. Do this before the dress is washed, and it will set the color.— Correspondent. Rolled Jelly Cake.— One cupful sugar, one cupful flour, four eggs, whites and yelks beaten separately, two teaspoonfuls baking powder. Bake in a dripping-pan ; when done, turn the cake out upside down on a towel. Spread with jelly or icing, and roll up carefully. It will not break. To Fbed Young Birds.—When canary birds are first hatched, and until they are able to leave the nest, they should have every day hard-boiled egg chopped fine and mixed with a little cracker crumbs; about twice a week a piece of baker’s bread dipped in sweet milk, and twice a week a little stale sponge-cake. Pea Soup.—Soak one quart of split peas over night; boil tender in just enough water to prevent scorching; when tender pass through a wire sieve and add two quarts of good stock; add pepper, salt, and a little parsley; simmer gently for one-half hour, and just before serving stir in a table-spoonful of butter, in which has been rubbed a teaspoonfnl of corn-starch. Damp Closets.—ln damp closets and cupboards generating mildew, a trayful of quicklime will be found to absorb the moisture and render the air pure; of course it is necessary to renew the lime from time to time as it becomes fully slaked. This remedy will be found useful in safes and strong rooms, the damp air of which acts frequently most injuriously on the valuable deeds and documents which they contain.— Maine Farmer. Making Biscuit Without Soda.— One quart of flour, two tea spoonfuls yeast powder, one heaping teaspoonful lard, and one level teaspoonful of salt; milk and water mixed, half each, about two-thifds of a pint; mix the flour and yeast powder together, then rub the lard well in until no particles of lard can be seen; add the milk and water, mixingall together with a spoon, turn out and knead until smooth, the dough should be as soft as it can conveniently be rolled out. Roll out about an inch thick, cut with a round, smooth cutter, then fold over in the center like a turnover, having first dampened the upper side to make the folds stick together. Allow plenty of room in the pan so they will not run together. ’«•* >.♦.. English Plum IhHJiyatfci—Alntwpcnirwlof raisins, stoned and minced fine; two pounds of currants, well dried; one pound of brown sugar, half pound of citron, cut fine; three nutmegs, one table-spoonful cinnamon, half tablespoonful ground cloves, one small tea-

spoonful allspice, one small teaspoonful mace, on® large teacupful molasses; put these ingredients fir a crock, rub well together, mix the spices all together, then add gradually to the fruit, pour the molasses, over the top of the mixture, also a teacupfal of good Madeira, a pint of strong brandy; cover wito the lid of the crock and let it stand twenty-four hours; add, the morning when you make toe pudding, one pound of beef suet chopped very finely, one pound of sifted flour, well dried; one pound of grated bread crumbs, and toe yelks only of eight eggs, put in your pudding-mold and boil steadily for five hours, pour brandy over the pudding plentifully before taking to table, and set fire to it Hard sauce.

A Fearful Sleigh-Ride.

Readers of weather bullet’ns in the daily papers seldom stop to realize toe hardships to which agente of toe Signal Service Bureau are exposed at some of the posts occupied during the year. The most dangerous for permanent habitation is probably Mount Washington. Yesterday morning Sergt Cone and Private Murphy, of the Signal Service Corps, started from toe si ation to go to the foot of toe mountain, the Sergeant having orders to report at Washington for medical treatment. They took a sled on which they proposed to descend, on the railroad track. After sliding for nearly a mile -without any apparent danger, at a speed of fifteen miles 'an hour over a smooth surface, and in the face of a stiff breeze, they came to toe flat just above what is known as “Jacob’s ladder,” one of the sharpest slopes of toe range. Here they rested, it being deemed advisable to lighten toe load by giving up the sled to Sergt. Cone. He strapped on a light trunk, and, adjusting the cogs, started on his downward slide. On going over the summit of toe peak, he was going at toe rate of twenty-five miles an hour, but this increased to forty as he got down the side, and he was absolutely flying down the mountain-side, when he lost his balance and was precipitated into a snowbank, a distance of 100 feet from toe trestlework. He struck upon his head and shoulders, and when found by Private Murphy, who followed him, he was apparently dead. After restoratives had been administered he recovered, and was removed to this town, where his wounds were properly dressed He is badly bruised about the shoulders, head and face, but no internal injuries are thought to exist.— Littleton (N. H.) Cor. New York Herald.

A Cloud of Witnesses.

For nearly a quarter of a century Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy has been acknowledged by the people as a positive cure for all catarrhal affections. Its great popularity with physicians and patients, together with its constantly-in-creasing sale, attests, in arguments stronger than words, its healing power. If there be general or nervous debility and impoverished blood, Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery should be used in connection with the Catarrh Remedy. The following-named parties are among the thousands who have been cured of catarrh by the use of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy: A. F. Downs, New Geneva, Pa.; D. J. Brown, St. Joseph, Mo.; E. C. Lewis, Rutland, Vt; Levi Springer, Nettle Lake, Ohio; Charles Norcrop, North Chesterfield, Me.; Milton Jones, Scriba, N. Y.; J. E. Miller, Bridger Station, Wyo.; J. C. Merriman, Logansport, Ind.; M. M. Post, Logansport, Ind.; J. W. Bailey, Tremont, Pa.: H. P. Ayers, Laporte, Ind.; Jessie M. Bears, Ft. Branch, Ind. ;L. Williams, Canton, Mo.; W. A. Thayer, Onarga, Hl.; 8. B. Nichols, Jr., Galveston, Tex., Jonas F. Reinert, Stonesville, Pa.; S. W. Lusk, McFarland, Wis.; Johnson Williams, Helmick, Ohio; Mrs. M. A. Currey, Trenton, Tenn.; J. G. Joslin, Keene, N. H.; A. J. Caaper, Table Rock, W. Va.; Louis Anders, Gay sport, Ohio; C. H. Chase, Elkhart, lud.; Mrs. Henry Haight, San Francisco, Cal.; Mrs- E. M. Galusha, Lawrenceville, N. Y.; W. J. Graham, Adel, Iowa; A. O. Smith, Newnan, Ga.; Chas. E. Rice, Baltimore, Md.; Jesse M. Sears, Carlisle, Ind.; Daniel B. Miller, Ft. Wayne, Ind.; Mrs. MinnieArnaise, 290 Delaney street, New York; H. W. Hall, Hastings, Mich.; Wm. F. Marston, Lowell, Mass.; LW. Roberts, Earicopa, Ariz.; Chas. S. Delaney, Harrisburg, Pa.; SI. C. Cole, Lowell, Mass.; Mrs. C. J. Spurtin, Camden, Ala.; Chas. F. Kaw, Fredericktown, Ohio; Mrs. Lucy Hunter, Farmington, Ill.; Capt. E. J. Spaulding, Camp Stambaugh, Wyo.; I. W. Tracy, Steamboat Rock, Iowa; Mrs. Lydia Waite, Shushan, N. Y.; J. M. Peck, Junction City, Mont.; Henry Ebe, Bantas. Cat; L. P. Cummings, Rantoul, III.; 8. E. Jones, Charleston Four Corners, N. Y.; Geo. F. Hall, Pueblo, Col.; Wm. E. Bartrie, Sterling, Pa.; H. H. Ebon, 948 Penn street, Pittsburgh, Pa.; J. R. Jackman, Samuel’s Depot, Ky.; Henry Zobrist, Geneva. N. Y.; Sfiss Hattie Parrott, Montgomery, Onio; L. Ledbrook, Chatham, Ill.; J. B. McCoy, Nashport, Ohio; W. W. Warner, North Jackson, Mich.; Miss Slary A. Winue, Darien, Wis.; John Zeigler, Carlisle Springs, Pa.; James Tompkins, St. Cloud, Minn.; Enoch Duer, Pawnee City, Neb.; Joseph T. Miller, Xenia, Ohio; S. B. Nichols, Galveston, Tex.; H. L. Laird, Upper Alton, 111.-John Davis, Prescott, Ariz.; Mrs. Nancy Graham, Forest Cove, Ore.

what the Bilious Require.

Since torpidity of the liver is the chief cause of its disorder, it is evident that what the bilious require is an alterative stimulant which will arouse it to activity, an effect that is foliowed by the disappearance of the various symptoms indicative of its derangement. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters invariably achieve the primary result mentioned, besides removing the constipation, flatulence, heartburn, yellowness of the skin and whites of the eyes, pain in the right side and under the right shoulder, nausea, vertigo and sick headache, to which bilions invalids are peculiarly subject. As a remedy for chronic indigestion, mental despondency, and* nervousness, the Bitters are equally efficacious, and, asarenovantof lost vigor, a means of arresting premature decay, and a source of relief from the infirmities to which the gentler sex is peculiarly subject, they may be thoroughly relied upon.

Medical Students.

The twenty-second graduating course of lectures in the Kentucky School of Medicine, Louisville, Ky., will begin March Ist. Five per cent, of the class granted beneficiary privileges. For further particulars address as above.

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Heabt Disease can be cured. To prove our assertion we print the following : This is to certify that I have used Dr. Graves’ HEART REGULATOR, and from the worst stages of Heart Disease I now consider myself well, by the use cf one and one-half bottles of HEART REGULATOR. 1 have been troubled a little more than a year with a sluggish misbeating of the heart, and could do no stoop Ing work whatever. I applied to the best physicians es New England, and got no relief, but by the simple use of this really valuable remedy I am now able to do a good day's work, and experience no distress from it. I think there is nothing that equals the HEART REGULATOR, and I advise all afflicted in any way with Heart Disease to give it a thorough trial, and they will not regret it. Thomas M. Towns, Tilton, N. H. Send your name to F. E. Ingalls, Concord, N. H,, for a pamphlet containing a list of testimonials of cures, etc. For sale by druggist* at 50 cents and $1 per bottle.

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The Greatest Discovery of the Age is Dr. Tobias’ celebrated Venetian Liniment 1 SO years before the public, and warranted to cure Diarrhea, Dysentery, Colic and Spasms, taken internally; and Group, Chronic Rheumatism, Sore Throats, Cute Bruises, Old .Bores, and Pains in the Limbs, Baek and Chest, externally. Ik has never failed. No family will ever be without after once giving it a fair trial. Price, 40 cents. DR. FTOBIAS’ VENETIAN HORMryTINUtENT, th Pit Bottles, at One Dollar, is warranted superior to any other, or NO PAY. for the cure of Colic, Cuts. Bruises, Old Sores, etc. Sold by all Druggists. Depot—lO Park Place. New York. INVAJjn PENSIONS INCREASED. r ” fo '

The advertiser, having been permanently cured of that dread disease, Consumption, by a simple remedy, is anxious to make known to his fellow-sufferers the means of cure. To all who desire it, he will send a copy of the prescription used (freeof charge), with the directions for preparing and using the same, which they will find a SUKK CuRX for CONSUMPTION, ASTHMA, BBONOHITIB, Ac. Parties wishing the prescription will please address Kkv. EDWARD A. WILSON, - 194 Penn Street, WU’iamsburgh. N- T.

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ASK the recovered rTOTS a «« i A dyspeptics, bilious eufferli, 41 L4l* J k ers, victims of fever and ague, the mercurial-dis-r.j eased patient, how they recovered health, cheerful spirits and good appe.gaßMMm __*_**’ 44te; they will tell you by 4*l*l tC*] A w taking Simmons’ Lives " *J3j7 Regulator , The Cheapest, Purest and Beet Family Medicine in the World I For DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, Jaundice, Bilious Attacks. SICK HEADACHE, Colic, Depression of Spirits, SOUR STOMACH, Heartbum, Ac., Ac. This unrivaled Southern Remedy is warranted not to contain a single particle of Mebcuby, or any injurious mineral substance, but is PURELY VEGETABLE, containing those Southern Roots and Herbs which an allwise Providence has placed in countries where Liver Diseases most prevail. It will cure all Diseases caused by Derangement of the jLiver and Bowel*. The SYMPTOMS of Liver Complaint are a bitter or bad taste in the mouth; Pain in the Back, Sides or Joints, often mistaken for Rheumatism ; Sour Stomach’; Loss of Appetite: Bowels alternately costive and lax -. Headache; Loss of Memory, with a painful sensation of having failed to do something which ought to have been cthne; Debility Low Spirits, a thick yellow appearance of the Skin and Eyes, a dry Cough, often mistaken for Consumption. Sometimes many of these symptoms attend the disease, at others very few; but the Liver, the largest organ in the body, is generaDy the seat of the disease, and, if not Regulated in time, great suffering, wretchedness and DEATH will ensue. > I can recommend, as an efficacious remedy for disease of the Liver. Heartnum and Dyspepsia, Simmons' Liver Regulator.—Lewis G. Wunder, 1,625 Master Street. Assistant Postmaster, Philadelphia. “We have tested its virtues, nersonally, and know that jot Dyspepsia, Biliousness and Throbbing Headache it is the best medicine the world ever saw. We have tried forty other remedies before Simmons’ Liver Regulator, but none of them gave us more than temporary relief ; but the Regulator not only relieved, but cured us.”—Ed. Telegraph and Messenger, Macon, Ga. manufactured only by J. H. ZEILIN & CO., PHILADELPHIA. Price, SI.OO. Sold by all Druggists. WEBER’S METROPOLITAN CORSET. The ONLY CORSET COMBINING SF? Grace, Comfort and Beauty! \ Is constructed on purely scientifii U | principles. The back Is whole boner • riiMlf ' 1 and rest open nt the hips to be lacec S / Yljt-’i/w at pleasure of wearer, and is to gored f El i” back that the fabrics and bone* ’/CSAi" zTOt adapt themselves with marvelous ar. curacy to every curve .nd undulatim I’Ti' ' ' of the finest type or figure. For sal. y all leading merchants. Lady Agents wanted. Sam plea by mail on receipt of $1.50. WESTERN OEP'n, KEITH BROS., Chicago, 111. BABBITT’S TOILET SOAP. H Unrivalled for the Toilet and the Bath. No artificial and deceptive odors to cover common and deleterious ingredients. A fter years ol scientific experiment the manufacturer o' B. T. Babbitt's Beu Soap has perfected and now offer/ to the public The FINEST TOILET SOAP in the WorldOnly the purest vegetable oils used in ile manufacture. Sample box, containing 3 cakes of 6 ore. each, sent free to any ad drew on receipt of 15 cents. Address B. T. BABBITT. New York City. For Sale by all Druggists.

PONDS EXTRACT 7ATARRII.—Pond’s Extract is nearly a Speciale for thia disease. It can hardly be excelled, even in old and obstinate cases. The relief is so prompt that no one who Jias ever tried it will be without it. CHAPPED HANDS AND FACE.-Pond’s Extract should be in every family this tough weather. It removes the soreness and roughness, and softens and hen Is the skin promptly. RHEUMATISM.—During severe and changeable weather, no one subject to Rheumatic Pains should be one day without Pond’s „„, Extract, which nlways relieves. SORE LUNGS, CONSUMPTION. COUGHS, COLDS. —This cold weatner tries the Lungs sorely. Have Pond’s Extract on hand always. It relieves the pain and cures the disease. CHILBLAINS will be promptly relieved and ultimately cured by bathing the afflicted b!y relieves the pain and Anally Cures. SORE THROAT, QUINSY, INFLAMED tonsilA AND AIR PASSAGES are promptly cured by the use of Pond’s Extract. It never fails. HISTORY and Uses of Pond’s Extract, In llSfM’'"*! form, sent free on application to POND S EXTRACT CO., OS Maiden Laue, New Yjrk. Sold by Druggists.

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