Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1878 — Page 4

BEAUTIES OF THE ENGLISH ORTHOGRAPHY. A pretty deer is dear to me, A hare with downy hair, A hart I love with all my heart, But barely love a bear. •Tla plain that no one takes a plane To have a pair of pears, Although a rake may take a rake To tear away the tares. Sol’s rays raise thyme, time razes all. And through the whole holes wears. A scribe in writing right may write To write and still be wrong; For write and nte are neither right, And don’t to right belong. Robertson is not Robert’s son, Nor did he rob Burt's son, Yet Robert’s sun is Robin’s sun, And everybody’s sun. Beer often brings a bier to man, Coughing a coffin brings, And too much ale will make us all. As well as other things. The person lies who says he lies When he is not reclining; And when consumptive folks decline They all decline declining. Qualls do before a storm, A bow will bow before it; We cannot rein the rain at all, No earthly power reigns o’er it. The dyer dyes awhile, then dies— To dye he's always trying; Until upon his dying bed He thinks no more of dyeing. A son of Mars mars many a son. All Deys must have their days; And every knight should pray each night To Him who weighs his ways. 'Tin meet that man should meet out meat— To feed one’s fortune's sun; The fair should fare on love alone, Else one cannot be won. Alas, a lass is sometimes false; Of faults a maid is made; Her waist is but a barren waste— Though stayed she is not staid. The springs shoot forth each spring and shoots Shoot forward one and all; Though summer kills the flowers, it leaves The leaves to fall in fall. I would a story here commence, But you might think it stale; So we’ll suppose that we have reached The tail end of our tale. Railway Mail.

THE PRETTIEST BABY.

“To the baby show? No, indeed! God.bless me ! no indeed !” Had the youngest sister of Mr. John Trueax (very bright and pretty she was, with short, curly, black-as-the-raven’s-wing hair, and large, sparkling, dark-as-the-midnight-sky eyes) proposed that he should enter a cage of the wildest kind of wild animals—lions, tigers, leopards, and panthers, for instance—he could not have shown more consternation and horror. Mr. Trueax, albeit he only numbered some six-and-thirty years, was a misogynist anti a misogamist. He outbachelored all the bachelors of his acquaint ance ; and they were not few, as he associated with none but single men, never attended a wedding, shuddered when he heard of a birth, breaking off all communication with friends who plunged into matrimony, and carefully avoiding all women, rich and poor, proud and lowly, with the single exception of Winifred, his youngest sister, mentioned before, who had been left to his care when she was 12 years of age—being now 20—by a dearly loved dying mother. The reason? I’ll tell you. Once on a time John Trueax, then called Jack Trueax, a good-looking, jolly young fellow of five-and-twenty, was about to be married. The wedding day had arrived. The groomsmen and bridemaids, the parents of Jack and the parents of (as he fondly thought) his Lily, and a large number of Invited guests were present. A bell formed of lovely flowers hung from the ceiling, prepared to shed its sweets upon the heads of the happy lovers; the minister waited, book in hand; a hundred wax candles helped the gas jets to lend brightness to the scene; the wedding supper was laid—when the bride’s own maid, who had been sent to tell her all was ready (she had requested to be left alone a few moments before the ceremony, and, being an odd sort of girl, nothing strange was thought of rhis request), returned, pale and trembling, to the r om where the bridal party waited, with a note which she had found, instead of her mistress, and which read as follows: Dear Father and Dear Mother : - I do not love him. The feeling I mistook for love is only that of friendship. Since we were engaged I have met one whom 1 do love, and at the last moment I fly to meet him and become his wife, convinced that, dishonorable as my conduct may seem, it would be a thousand times more dishonorable to stand before the altar with a lie upon my lips, a lie which would condemn me to live a lie forever after. Tell Jack I wish him all prosperity and happiness. Lily. The bell of flowers was taken down, the wax candles were extinguished, the minister departed, the guests were disrn’ssed, and John Trueax left the house with a curse upon his lips—for he knew, in spite of her romantic note, that the girl had been won by the wealth of his rival—to become a hater of women, a foe to matrimony, Vice President of the “Stanch Old Bachelors’Club,” and a perfect Herod in regard to children. What wonder, then, that he shrunk back in alarm when Winnie proposed (they were on their way to the Academy of Music to hear some man make a speech) that they should stop a few moments at the baby show, whose flaming posters suddenly confronted them as they reached the corner of Fifth avenue? “ f)o come, brother,” said Winnie, coaxingly—and you never irf all your life saw any one who could be quite as coaxing as Winnie. * I won t!’ said brother, emphatically. “Just a wee, little while.” “ I will not,” with increased emphasis. “John, if you don’t, I’ll invite Cousin Mary and her twins, and Sister Lucy and her eldest boy, the one that is named after you, to the house to stav a week. ” “If you do, I’ll bum the house over their heads, collect the insurance and fly to Europe. ” “John, I love babies as much as vou dislike them ” J “ It’s no use.” “ John, dear John, I never wanted to go anywhere so much, never.” two diamond tears in her black eyes. “Five minutes, you said?” “Did I? I meant ten. ” • “Wall, ten; not an instant longer, remember.” And, grumbling to himself “ What a fool I am !” in they went. A large oblong room, around which ran raised platforms on which were to be seen many mothers and more babes. Some of the little ones were in baby wagons, some in chairs, some on hobbyhorses, some in swings, and some in the maternal lap. There were thrown babies, yellow babies, • rosy babies, cream-col-ored babies, and snow-white babies; blue-eyed, hazel-eyed, brown-eyed, graycyed, >lack-eyed and green-eyed babies; laughing, crying, pretty, ugly, bright, stupid, cross, jolly, serious and mischievous babies; babies of all shapes, all <wrte, all Hize g, and all ages—that is, frwi 1 mz nth to 5 years. f «haw ! said Mr. Trueax, with an expression of d sgrp-t on his expressive rxHintenanr/., he Altered the room and “ ril go no further, Winnie, but wait for you here;” and he retreated infz, a dark corner by-the-by, the only obw-rirc corner in the haP- -while bis sister tripped gaylv away < u i tour of inspection. But as he impatiently waited, frowning with all bis might, and hoping that Winnie would not exceed the ten minutes he had so ungraciously accorded her, suddenly it dawned on him that somebody not entirely unconnected with the show was in his immediate vicinity, for a not-unmusical murmur, a sweetvoiced mother’s croon to her baby, reached him, and, turning, he saw a joung and girlish creature in widow’s weeds with a tiny child on her lap.

As Mr. Trueax turned, this young creature raised a pair of the most wonderful blue eyes, fringed with the most wonderful golden lashes, and cast a halfshy, half-appealing glance at him. Mr. Trueax began to feel very uncomfortable. He, the hater of women, the despiser of babies, shut in, as it were, with a dangerous member of each species I For a moment he felt inclined to flee, but the thought of his pretty sister wandering disconsolately about in search of him nipped the inclination in the bud; and the next moment the girl was holding up the blue-eyed baby, arid saying in a low, timid voice, “ She’s very pretty, sir.” And the child was very pretty. Steeled as he was against the innocence and beauty of childhood, he could not deny that. A little angel, lacking only the wings, with bonnie blue eyes like its mother’s, faint golden hair, red rose-bud mouth, and chin and cheeks like the inmost petals of a pink-white rose. And just then Winnie came back, with two cards in het hand, commencing, eagerly, “Oh, John, we must vote. You’re to vote as I tell you. Let me see— ‘ the handsomest motner, the prettiest baby” and, her eyes falling upon the wee girl being held up for John’s approval, she pounced upon it at once. “You loveliest of darlings! Why, Brother John, this is the prettiest baby I ever saw, and— Good gracious I” dropping the baby back into its mother’s arms (from which she had taken it) with a precipitancy that must have astonished that loveliest of darlings—“ Little Bed Riding-hood.” “ Yety’ said the girlish mother, “Little Red Riding-hood. But, Winnie— Miss Trueax, I mean—l don’t expect you to recognize me now. Times have so changed for the worse with me (as you have guessed, no doubt, seeing me here) since we went to school together, and I wore the scarlet cloak which gained me my pet name, and you made me your own happy little friend.” “Oh, indeed!” said Winnie, arching her slender neck. And then, stooping suddenly and kissing the quivering red lips, “Allow me to decide that matter for myself, Miss Daisy Bower. But, of all places in the world, to meet you at a baby-show, and with a baby! Come, tell me all about it, dear. Brother John, you may go to the Academy and hear your great man, and I’ll stay here and listen to my small woman, and you can stop for me on your way back. ” But Brother John never stirred. The baby had reached out her dimpled hand and clutched his watch seal, and was examining it with exceeding interest, telling him, meanwhile, in a gurgling language, apparently founded on the one word “goo,” how much she admired it; and he didn’t want to rudely wrest it from the little fingers, “or something,” as Winnie would have remarked ; and so, as I said before, he never stirred. “Go on, dear,” said Winnie, seating herself beside her new-found friend. “Don’t mind John. He’s a regular wolf, I’ll confess, but I’ll take care he don’t hurt you. ” With a timid glance at the wolf, who stepped a few steps away—baby having turned her attention to the bird in Winnie’s hat—but not so far but that he caught every word uttered, in a soft, clear voice, Red Riding-hood began: “When you finished your education three years ago, and I was called home to Maryland by the death of my mother —my father, you know, died three years before—l was left with no relation in the whole world but my dear old grandmother. She had a comfortable income at the time, and for a year everything went well; and then the bank in which all her money was deposited broke, and we were penniless. Grandmother sank beneath her misfortune and became almost helpless, and I always was a spoiled, good-for-nothing—” “You always were a darling,” burst in Winnie, impetuously. “And—and I married grandmamma’s lawyer, and he was very, very kind to us both, and we were very comfortable until about three months ago—the day wee Daisy was half a year old—when he died, and oh ! Winnie, he left no will but one dated long before he knew me, which bequeathed all his fortune to a nephew in some far-distant country, and again we were left penniless. Grandmother grew weaker day by day, until she became utterly helpless, and now she lies from morning till night and from night till morning again on her bed unable to move; and we were almost starving, and I saw,” speaking slower and slower, “the advertisement calling for children for this show.” “ Yes, Daisy dear,” said Winnie, patting the thin white cheek encouragingly, “you saw the advertisement—” “And I think baby is just as pretty as a baby could be. ” “Lovely,” said Winnie, kissing the sweet, blue-eyed thing. “And it occurred to me that, if she could win a prize, poor old grandmamma and the darling herself might be kept from cold and want this winter, and so I came here. But I’m afraid very few people have noticed baby, for I’ve sat in this out-of-the-way corner all the time, I so dread a crowd, and—” The tears came into the wonderful blue eyes. “ Brother John,” said Winnie, as she paused. “Well, my dear?” said Mr. Trueax, coming a step forward. “Mrs. — By-the-by, what is your married name, Red Riding-hood ?” “Mulgrove.” “Bless my heart!” exclaimed John. “ Old Lawyer Mulgrove—old enough to have been her grandfather!” Then, recollecting himself, he stammered: “A good and clever man. I knew him well in years gone by. And he was your husband ?” “Yes, sir.” “Yes, sir!” muttered Mr. Trueax, “I wish she wouldn’t be so confoundedly respectful.” “I was about to say, Brother John,” continued Winnie, with decision, “that Mrs. Mulgrove mur.t not remain here.” “Of course not—being a friend of yours, Winnie.” “ My sweet-tempered, loving little pet she was at school, John.” “ That o n ly makes it the more imperative that she should leave this place at once,”said Mr. Trueax. “But what is to be done with the baby ?” “ Why, you stupidest of old fellows, that must go with its mother. Do you imagine she would leave it here ? Come, Little Red Riding-hood. Brother John—” lowering her voice to a whisper —“ she is faint with nervous agitation. I will assist her, and you will—oh ! you i/n7Z, dear John, just this once—carry the baby ?” And, before Mr. Trueax could say a word, baby was in his arms, tugging away at his long brown beard, and crowing with delight. And it was thus that two of the strictest members of “The Stanch Old Bachelors” beheld their Vice President that bright November day coming out of the baby-show—a baby in his arms and two lovely women following directly behind -beheld him, and turned to living statues on the spot. A year and nearly three months had passed away since Winifred Trueax found her old school friend at the babyshow, and it was St. Valentine’s day. The postmen, with twenty times their usual loads, were hurrying from house to house, leaving hearts, and Cupids,and posies, and true-lover knots, and doves, and sweet verses, and some verses anything hut sweet, behind them. But st the door of one small cottage on the outskirts of the city rangaspecial messenger this Valentine morning before any of the mail-carriers were about —so early, in f uit that the valentine he carried was handed in with the baker’s breakfast loaf. A snug little pottage it was. And the

parlor, which faced the south, and around whose walls still hung some Christmas greens, was the coziest, brightest room you could possibly imagine. In one corner on a crimson lounge, covered with an old-fashioned star quilt, lay a handsome old woman, her still-bright eyes dwelling with a look of fondness on the golden-haired 2-year-old girl who sat in her little rock-ing-chair softly singing her Santa Claus doll to sleep. And by the window, the blushes coming and going in her happy face, stood Daisy Mulgrove re-reading for the twentieth time fiie verses that came in with the morning bread. “ What is it, Daisy ?” at last asked the old woman, turning her eyes in the direction of the pretty reader. “A valentine ? May I see it, dear?” “ It’s something of the sort,” answered Daisy, with another blush; “but if you don’t mind very much, grandmamma, I’d rather not ” A gentle knock at the door interrupted her. “ Pull the bobbin and the latch will fly up,” called out Daisy, laughingly, sinking into a chair and hiding the valentine behind the window-curtain. “And, reversing the old story, the latch flew up and in walked the wolf,” said John Trueax, as he came into the room, where he was immediately clutched around the leg by the baby. “Such a terrible, terrible wolf!” laughed Red Riding-hood. “So terrible that he feels as though he could eat you this moment,” says the wolf, showing his strong, white teeth. Then unclasping wee Daisy’s hands, and putting a huge sugar-plum in each one, he went to the side of the couch on which the old woman lay—her wrinkled face lit up with pleasure at the sight of him—and laid a bouquet of fragrant flowers on the starry coverlet. Then, returning to the young mother, who had taken her little one upon her lap, he asked: “ Did you receive a valentine this morning ?” “ I did—instead of a pat of butter.” “ And what did the writer of it say?” “ You could never guess.” “ That is the reason I ask.” “ He says ” —speaking slowly, and with a bright smile dancing on her lips and in her eyes—“ that he loves my baby, and thinks her the prettiest baby in the world.” “Any thing else?” “And that, not content with having shamed her far-away cousin into giving her a part of what should have been her fortune, he wished to share his own with her if—” “If ?” “ Her mother will consent to be sister to darling Winnie, and mistress of his beautiful home.” “ Do you intend to reply to that valentine, Little Red Riding-hood?” “I do, Wolf.” “ Then reply immediately.” She put the prettiest baby off her knees, gave it a kiss on its sweet red mouth, and whispered, but not so low but that Jack Trueax caught the words, “ Darling, go give that kiss to papa.”— Harper's Weekly.

THE WORLD’S DOCTORS.

The United States Has More Than Twice as Many Medical Men to the Square Rod as Any Other Country. fFrom the London G'obe.] From statistics that have recently been published, it would seem that there are many parts of the world presenting greater scope than Britain for the medical profession, and very few presenting less—if, at least, any opinion may be formed by the simple process of putting the numerical strength of the profession in each country of the globe against its population. Here, in Great Britain, we are told that we have something approaching 19,500 doctors, which, with a population of about 32,500,000, would give a medical man for about 1,650 people. The German empire, with its 41,000,000 odd, has but 13,600 doctors, or one for 3,000 inhabitants. At first sight, therefore, it might be thought that Germany is the place for good, large practices. Obviously, however, it would be necessary to take into consideration the normal condition of health among the Germans. Austro-Hungary, it seems has rather more than our population, and considerably less than our number of medical men. Its population is nearly 36,000,000, and it has something under 14,500 doctors, or one to every 2,500 people. The Celestial empire, unfortunately, does not figure in the list. It would be very interesting to know how many of the easy-going, simple-living Chinese one doctor can suffice for, aided ’by the signs of the zodiac and various potent charms. Nor have we any facts bearing on the Russian empire, where it is to be feared of late that medical and surgical skill have been at a rather distressing premium. France seems to be scarcely so well supplied with medical strength as we are. The population is something over 33,000,000, and their medicos about 20,000, or one for every 1,800 or so of their population. But of all the countries on the face of the earth of which we have knowledge in these matters, the United States would seem to be the most teeming with the disciples of Esculapius. With a population mustering some 45, - 000,000, the Yankees have no less than 62,383 doctors, or one for 700 people. This, it will be seen, is about two-and-a-half times the relative strength of the profession in France, and three-and-a-half times that of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Whether that country has an over-supply, or whether the others are wofully neglected in this matter, we cannot say, but it would seem as thongh one or the other alternative must be the case.

That Fatal Number.

At Wyoming, N. Y., the old superstition about the fatal number 13 is accepted an a cardinal doctrine of faith. Last season a charming young lady, who had recently graduated from a seminary, visited some friends at their summer residence, “Hillside.” One day, on returning from a ride, she found twelve persons at the table, and, as she took her seat, one of her friends reminded her that she made the unlucky thirteenth, and laughingly suggested that she had better sit at a side-table by herself. The suggestion was unheeded, and, a few days afterward, she was taken sick and was soon on her death-bed. The day before her death her physician occupied her seat and happened to be the thirteenth at the table. A few days afterward a brother of the hostess, a Southern planter, entered the diningroom, where twelve men were seated. The guests begged him to break the spell by occupying a seat at another table, but he laughed at their nervousness and persisted in remaining with them. On his way home, a few weeks later in the season, he was taken sick and died. Quite recently, moreover, the physician who was in attendance upon the young girl, and who was himself the ill-starred thirteenth, has died in Elmira.

The Growing Crops.

The statistician of the Agricultural Bureau, at Washington has completed his estimate of the condition and prospects of the crops for the next season. The reports from 700 correspondents of the bureau show that the area under cultivation for cereals, which has increased 50 per cent, daring the past ten years, will, during the present season, exceed in acreage any former year. The winter-wheat crop, which amounts to six-tenths of the total crop, will, from present appearances and with a favorable season, yield 860,000,000 bushels. Th® corn yield, it is thought, will not be than 1,800,000,000 bushels.

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Around the Farm. It is stated, on excellent authority, that a Western New York farmer called 100 bushels of common marrow beans “ Ox-maxrows —a new variety,” and sold them to the Washington Department of Agriculture for $4 per bushel. Touch the chufa gently, if at all, is the advice of two Texas mends. They planted seed of it, at 60 cents a pound, on good soil, and gave cultivation sufficient to insure a crop of peanuts, and' got for their pains a result indicated by the figure 0. To make the small sticks used as supports for plants “ last indefinitely,” a Leng Island florist seasons them when new, then soaks in linseed oil for two or three days, according to size, then removes them from their bath and dries again, and finishes off with a coat of “ verdigris paint” It is advisable, in the-construction of poultry houses, to use pine lumber—the more pitch it contains the better—as this is very offensive to poultry vermin. Some think it pays well to make the roosting cribs of pitch pine boughs as a Erotection against their greatest enemy, ce. — Western Rural. A correspondent of the New England Farmer says that after fifteen years’ experience with it he cannot recommend orchard grass for general culture; that it is only suited to rich soils which can give two or three crops a year, and that its excellence consists in its rapid growth after each cutting. June grass has a similar habit, and both do well together. When a horse stumbles, never raise your voice; he dreads his master’s chiding. Never jog the reins; the mouth of the horse is more sensitive than the human lips. Never use the lash; the horse is so timid that the slightest correction overpowers its reasoning faculties. Speak to the creature; reassure the palpitating frame; seek to restore those perceptions which will form the best guard against a repetition of the faulty action. Seeds are more easily killed by nigh temperature than low. Though no seeds have been known to germinate below 37 degrees Fahrenheit, they are, with few exceptions, destroyed by a temperature above 168 degrees, and many kinds perish below that point. They will not germinate above 128 degrees. Most seeds will stand the severest cold of the winters in this latitude, and wheat left for years in the Arctic region has been sown in England afterward, where it germinated freely. The laying-nests for hens can be profitably arranged upon the ground in most poultry yards. Where this can be con - veniently done it is a good plan, and no method excels this for the avoidance of an accumulation of vermin in the fre-quently-visited nest. When this convenience is not at hand, if a good-sized green sod be placed at the bottom of the nest, and the hay or straw laid upon this (the roots to be turned upward), it is an excellent plan during the summer months.— Poultry World. The best time to secure Hungarian grass is when it is in blossom, and before the seeds have formed. The beards at this time have not reached that degree of stiffness which the writer thinks causes injury to the stomach of a horse, while the embryotic seeds are perfectly harmless. One large farmer in the State has, to our personal knowledge, been using it for feed for his horses, at one time keeping eight on it without injury; but then he always aims to cut at the right time.— St. Paul Pioneer-Press. The value of parsnips for feeding purposes has heretofore, by many farmers, been underestimated. Horses, hogs and bullocks are fattened upon them in a very short time, and the flesh of the latter two is considered of superior flavor, while in cows it produces an extraordinary yield of milk, having a rich color, and affording butter of excellent quality. The culture of parsnips is largely extending in France; the soil that suits beets will satisfy the parsnip. When the plants are five or fifteen inches high, respectively, they are weeded and hoed; the leaves are cut in the month of September, and allowed to fade for twenty-four hours before being given to the cattle; the roots can be taken up during the winter as required; frost does them no harm ; the ration is sixteen pounds three times a day, and the roots are cut; when given to pigs, they ought to be cooked.— Western Farmer. Plan for a Poultry-House.—Small houses and large runs are most in favor. We give the dimensions of one to accommodate a dozen fowls; if a larger one is required, the same general features may be retained in its construction: Ground dimensions, five feet by seven feet; three and one-half feet from ground to roof ; six feet from ground to peak of roof ; door at one side of one end, two feet wide ; nests on ground at the other side, running lengthwise of the house; platform just above nests; roosts four inches above platform ; holes for ventilation in front and rear peaks ; roof of dry boards, pressed tightly together, and cracks battened ; sides same. Cover the whole with water-lime paint. Brackets can be placed on the four corners, and poles passed through so that the house can be moved to new ground.— Western Rural. About the House. To Put Up Horseradish.—Grate the root after thoroughly cleansing it, and put in wide-mouthed half pint bottles. When full, add two table-spoonfuls of good, sharp vinegar, cork and seal airtight with wax. Polishing Copper Vessels. —A copper vessel, badly tinned, Miss Severn found in the kitchen, which had never been properly cleaned and was covered with that deadly poison, verdigris. She had it cleaned with vinegar, rotten stone snd oil. Currant Cake.—Oream, one cup of best butter, and two cups of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, three well-beaten eggs—the whites and yelks separately—three cups of sifted flour, two cups of well-washed currants—dried and well dredged with flour—two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Cup Cake. —One cup of butter, one cup of sweet milk, two cups of sugar, three well-beaten eggs, four cups of sifted flour (always sift flour after measuring it), one-halt' teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a little hot water, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, sifted in the flour, one cup of raisins well dredged with flour. Apple Fruit Cake.—Soak three cups dried apples over night in cold water ; in the morning chop and stew till soft in three cups of molasses; when cold mix with three cups of flour, one cup of butter, three eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, spices, two cups raisins, one of currants, one lemon chopped fine; this makes two pans of cake. French Cream Cake.—Boil scant pint milk; take two eggs and two small table-spoonfuls corn starch beaten with a little milk; when the milk boils stir this in slowly with scant cup sugar, one table-spoonful butter, two teaspoonfuls lemon essence; make a cake of three eggs, one cupful sugar, one and onehalf cupfuls flour, teaspoonful baking powder, two table-spoonfuls milk; bake in three layers, and while warm spread with cream.— Mrs. R. Gen. Washington’s Breakfast Cakf. t —Two pounds flour, one quart milk, one ounce butter, one teacupful thin yeast, three eggs, and teaspoonful salt; warm the milk and butter together, and pour it lukewarm into the flour and add the other ingredients; mix this at night, and put in a pan three inehee deep; in the

morning bake in a quick oven threequarters of an houi. This cake was always on Gen. Washington’s breakfasttable the last few years of his life.— M. A. To Keep Meat Fbsbh.—For years I have preserved beef as fresh and nice as just from the meat-shop. Cut in convenient pieces, wash and weigh; to every 100 pounds take from three and onehalf to four pounds salt, two pounds sugar, one-half ounce saltpeter, dissolve in enough water to cover the meat, put in a tight tub that will not leak; after it has been in the brine for two or three weeks take out the meat, wash it, boil the brine, skim it and put back again. This recipe is worth many dollars to persons far from market.— Philadelphia Letter. Corn Pone.—ls you will allow me space in your valuable paper I will give you a recipe for corn pone. Place three pints of water on the fire in an iron kettle; add one-fourth of a cup of a salt; let it boil; then thicken with Indian meal gradually until it is as thick as you can conveniently stir it with a pudding stick. When it is thoroughly scalded, take it from the fire, add three quarts of cold water and one cup molasses; then make it as thick as you can stir it conveniently with meal, adding a pint of shorts or graham flour. Keep it in a warm place till it rises up and cracks open on top. Bake slowly for three or four hours, or longer, with a slow fire, or what is better still, steam it. This quantity will make a two-gallon vessel. I bake it in the stove-oven in an old fircelain kettle unfit for other use, and have met with few people who are not fond of it.— Mrs. E. Hynes, Pocahontas, 111.

The Hearts of the Lowly.

One day, three or four weeks ago, a gamin, who seemed to have no friends in the world, was run over by a vehicle, on Madison avenue, New York, and fatally injured. After he had been in the hospital for a week, a boy about his own size, and looking as friendless and forlorn, called to ask about him and leave an orange. He seemed much embarrassed and would answer no questions. After that he came daily, always bringing something, if no more than an apple. Last week, when the nurse told him that Billy had no chance to get well, the strange boy waited around longer than usual, and finally asked if he could go in. He had been invited to many times before, but had always refused. Billy, pale and weak and emaciated, opened his eyes in wonder at the tight of the boy, and before he realized who it was the stranger bent close to his face and sobbed : “ Billy, can ye forgive a feller ? We was alius fighting, and I was alius too much for ye ; but I’m sorry ! ’Fore ye die won’t ye tell me ye haven’t any grudge agin me ?” The young lad, then almost in the shadow of death, reached up his thin, white arms, clasped them around the other’s neck, and replied : “ Don’t cry, Rob. Don’t feel bad. I was ugly and mean, and I was heaving a stone at ye when the wagon hit me. If ye’ll forgive me, I’ll forgive you, and I’ll pray for both of us. ” Bob was half an hour late the morning Billy died. When the nurse took him to the shrouded corpse, ho kissed the pale face tenderly, and gasped : “ D-aid he say anything about—about me?” “ He spoke of you just before he died. Asked if you were here,” replied the nurse. “ And may I go—go to the funeral ?” “You may.” And he did. He was the only mourner. His heart was the only ore that ached. No tears were shed by others, and they left him sitting by the newmade grave, with heart so big that he could not speak. If under the crust of vice and ignorance there are such springs of pure feeling and true nobility, who shall grow weary of doing good ?— lndependent.

A Light Mulatto Changed to a Jet Black.

One of those unaccountable freaks of nature which puzzle the brain of the scientist has just cojne to notice in West Baltimore, and furnishes the medical fraternity in particular with food for thought and theme for conversation. The case is that of a colored woman about 45 years of age, who died last week in a house on West Lexington street from a complication of diseases. Eight years ago this woman was a light mulatto, and at the time of her death, according to the testimony of several physicians and others who saw her, she was as black as midnight. The change during this period of eight years was so gradual, but so certain withal, that the family with whom she lived could readily perceive the color as it deepened from light yellow into a shining black. The whole system of the woman underwent a complete transformation. From a stout, portly and unwieldy person, who used to attract the notice of persons on account of her size, she dwindled away into the thin, spare and regular form of the typical spinster. The physician who had been attending her for the last four years said he could not fathom the mysteries of the case, and does not know to what cause he may attribute the transformation that was apparent to the eyes of all who knew the woman. She herself was very sensitive about the matter, and before her death she could not bear to hear any one pass any remarks on the change that had been made in her personal appearance. She was a Virginian, owned at one time by the family of D. Wade, of the firm of D. Wade & Co., wholesale druggists on South Howard street.— Baltimore News.

A Milkman’s Mad Mathematics.

When Thomas drove up to the house on Elizabeth street yesterday to deliver the usual quart of mixture, the gentleman of the house kindly inquired: “Thomas, how many quarts of milk do you deliver ?” “ Ninety-one, sir.” “ And how many cows have you ?” “Nine, sir.” The gentleman made some remarks about the early spring, close of the Eastern war and the state of the roads, and then asked: “Say, Thomas, how much milk per day do your cows average?” “Seven quarts, sir.” “ Ah—um,” said the gentleman, as he moved off. Thomas looked after him, scratched his head, and at once grew pale as he pulled out a short pencil and began to figure on the wagon-cover. ‘ * Nine cows is nine, and I set seven quarts down under the cows and multiply. That’s sixty-three quarts of milk. I told him I sold ninety-one quarts per day. Sixty-three from ninety-one leaves twenty-eight, and none to carry. Now, where do I get the rest of the milk? I’ll be hanged if I haven’t given myself away to one of my best customers by leaving a durned big cavity in these figgers to be filled with water !”— Detroit Free Press. Motheks ! Mothers ! I Mothers!!! Don’t fail to procure Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for all diseases incident to the period of teething in children. It relieves the child from pain, cures wind colic, regulates the bowels, ana, by giving relief and health to the child, gives rest to the mother. It is an old and well-tried remedy.

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Jewels of the Crown of Bootland At Edinburg, Scotland, some years since, the Jewels of the Crown were locked in a box, that box in another, and so on, until they were supposed to be burglar-proof. They were then locked up in the vault of the casVe, there to remain for one hundred years, the keys being placed in a mortar and fired into the sea. Scarce fifty years passed by, and the modern lock-picker opens the vault and boxes without trouble. So the science of medicine, when studied with the aid of chemistry and the microscope, becomes plain and simple, and diseases that were regarded incurable a generation ago now readily yield to remedies employed by the modern and progressive physician. A decade of years since, and women were taught to believe that their peculiar diseases and weaknesses were incurable; but now hundreds and thousands of on.’e-txdndden women in the United States will testify to the fact that Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription has effected their perfect and permanent cure. Toledo, Ohio, Dec. 6, 1876. Da. B. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.: Dear Sir—Sbwxt, five years since my wife was taken sick, and, though we employed the best physicians in our city, yet she gradually grew worse, so that she was confined to the bed. Every remedy I had tried, or could find, failed to cure or even give relief. At last I procured a bottle of your Favorite Prescription, and, to my surprise, it gave almost instant relief, and, with a little perseverance, an entire cure was effected. Ever gratefully yours,

GEO. BODENMILLER.

Household Economy.

The housekeeper or cook who studies economy in the kitchen can do so in one direction by always using Dooley’s Yeast Powder. It will be found a truly economical and valuable assistant in baking biscuits, rolls, bread, cake of all kinds, waffles, muffins, and most all articles prepared from flour ; and why? Because, in using the Dooley Powder you save m eggs, in shortening, in patience, in everything ; and, when the baking is done, it is turned out light, palatable and wholesome, so that every morsel is eaten up and no waste.

What the Gypsy’s Gift is Doing in Chicago.

It has cured 8. H. Gill, Esq., proprietor of Merchants’ Hotel, of a 5-years’ case of Rheumatism, after the most celebrated patent medicines, the best doctors, and the most noted mineral springs bad failed to afford relief. Just ask him. Sold by all prominent Druggists in Chicago and vicinity. We are skeptics to a greater or less extent, nut when we have the truth before us how can we but believe? It is claimed Dr. Graves’ HEART REGULATOR will cure Heart Disease in all its forms. F. E. Ranger, of Wilton, Me., says : “ A few weeks ago I sent for a bottle of Dr. Graves’ HEART REGULATOR. It has helped me more than I expected. I consider it a great cure for heart disease. I inclose, you will find, one dollar, for which you will please sencTtne another bottle and oblige. “F. E. Ranger.’’ If you don’t believe this write to him and see for yourself. Among the many forms of Heart Disease are Palpitation, Enlargement, Spasms of the Heart, Stoppage of the Action of the Heart, Trembling all over and about the Heart, Ossification or Bony Formation of the Heart, Rheumatism, General Debility and Sinking of the Spirits. Send your name to F. E. Ingalls, Concord, N. H., for a pamphlet containing a list of testimonials of cures, etc. The HEART REGULATOR is for sale by druggists at 50 cents and $1 per bottle. Caution.—We caution all persons not to buy tne extra large packages of dust and ashes now put up by certain parties and called Condition Powders. They are utterly worthless. Buy Sheridan’s Cavalry Condition Powders if you buy any ; they are absolutely pure and are immensely valuable. “ A Farmer’s Son or Daughter.” See Adv’t.

TO CONSUMPTIVES. 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 (free of charge), with the directions for preparing and using the same, which they will find a sure Cure for Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis, Ao. Parties wishing the prescription will please address Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON, 194 Penn Street,Williamsburgh, N.Y. The Greatest Discovery of the Awe Is Dr. Tobias’ celebrated Venetian Liniment! 30 years before the public, and warranted to cure Diarrhea, Dysentery, Colic and Spasms, taken internally; and Croup, Chronio Rheumatism, Sore Throats, Cuts, Bruises, Old Sores, and Pains in the lambs, Back and Chest, externally. It has never failed. No family will ever be without it after once giving it a fair trial. Price, 40 cents. DR. TOBIAS’ VENETIAN HORSE LINIMENT, in Pint Bottles, at One Dollar, is warranted superior to any other, or NO PAY, for the cure of Colie, Cuts, Bruises, Old Sores, etc. Sold by all Druggists. Depot—lO Park Place, New York.

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At this season of the year the human system is liable to become disordered from the insufficient efforts of the liver to discharge the excels of bile. If nature is not assisted in her efforts, severe bilious attacks or prostrating fevers necessarily follow, causing great suffering and even death. A little timely precaution, however, will prevent all this, and may be found in that favorite household remedy SIMMONS’ LIVER REGULATOR. ■ -337 SIMMONS’ LIVER REGULATOR has been in use for half a century, and there is not one single instance on record where it has failed to effect a cure when taken in time according to the directions. It is, without doubt, the greatest LIVER MEDICINE in the world; is perfectly harmless, being carefully compounded from rare roots and herbs, containing no mercury or any injurious mineral substance. It takes the place of quinine and calomel, and has superseded these medicines in places where they have heretofore been extensively used. Procure a bottle at once from your druggist. Do not delay. Give it a fair trial, and you will be more than satisfied with the result obtained. CAUTION. As there are a number of imitations offered to the public, we would caution the community to buy no Povrtfers or graved Wrapper, with Trade-Mark, btamn and Signature unbroken. None other is genuine. ORlGrUN’j'klu AND GENUINE MANUFACTURED ONLY BY «l. H. ZEILIN & CO., PHILADELPHIA, PA. Price, SI.OO. Sold by all Druggists.

II A day can be made on a Portable Soda FoungPtfcV tain. Price $35, $45, S6O, and SBO, complete Send for catalogue to Chapman & Co., Madison, Ind. 118 IVh Wholesale and Retail. Wigs and Hair M I M Jewelry made to order. Multiforms and U I K Waves of any description. We carry the I I 111 largest stock in the West. Send for prlce- " " " " " " • list. Orders nromptly executed. B. C. HTREHL A- CO.. 1241 State St.. Chicago, nvnimif dvd Newsdealers at Wholesale Rates." Send in orders.

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THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER UNION GIVES ADVERTISERS MORE CIRCULATION FOR THE PRICE THAN PAPERS PRINTED ON ANY OTHER PLAN CAN AFFORD. The above facts explain the unfriendly attacks made upon the American Newspaper Union by the New York Time’, Post, Commercial, Boston Post, Advertiser, Utica Herald, and other tournals. COMPARISONS! The weekly edition of the New York Times is 26,000 copies, and advertisements are charged at 50 cents a line. The American Newspaper Union gives an advertisement 25,000 circulation for 20 cents a line. The T ines thinks the American Newspaper Union List a lnnnbug. _ The weekly edition of the New York Post is 8,450 copies, and advertisements are charged at 10 cents a line. The American Newspaper Union gives an advertisement 3.450 circulation lor less than 3 cents a line. The Post don't think very well of the American Newspaper Union. The New York Commercial Advertiser prints a weekly edition of 3,500 copies and charges advertisers 10 cents n line. The Advertiser has a poor opinion also of ths American Newspaper Union. The Boston Post weekly issues 3,500 copies, charges ad- ■ e-tisers 12M cents a line, and expresses doubts of the honesty of the American Newspaper Union, which gi<es ‘hat circulation for less than one-fourth the price which ho Post demands. The Boston Advertiser charges 12M cents a line for ad- . ertising in a weekly having 2,500 circulation, warns its readers to beware of an institution which gives 2,500 circulation for 2 cents a line. The Toronto Globe prints the best weekly In Cannda, In-s 20.000 circulation and charges 25 centa a line. The Globehss contempt for the American Newspaper Union, which gives 20,000 circulation for 16 cents a line. The Utica Herald prints 6,432 copies of a weekly edition which advertisers are allowed tonne at 10 centa a line, ft joins in a crusade against the American Newspaper Union, which gives 6,432 circulation for 5 cents a line. The Warsaw, N. Y., Democrat prints 1,530 copies,and charges advertisers 8 cents a line. When it was a cooperative paper only J 4 a cent a line was demanded for its columns, and it is no better now than it was then. The St. Louis weekly Post sells 11.912 copies weekly to Germans in and around St. Louis. Its advertising rates nre 10 cents a Uno, and are very low, but because the American Newspaper Union gives 11,912 weekly circulation to an advertisement for 9 cents a line the Post despises and speaks unkindly of it. The Lockport, N. Y., weekly Times prints 720 copies, and charges advertisers 63a cents a line. When the Lockport weekly Times becomes a co-operative paper advertisers can use its columns at M cent a line, which is all the American Newspaper Union demands for papers of like circulation and influence. ' COMPLETE ANSWERS, REFUTING ALL UNJUSTIFIABLE CHARGES, TOGETHER WITH CATALOGUES OF THE AMERICAN NEWSPA. PER UNION LISTS OF ONE THOUSAND NEWS PAPERS. 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