Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1878 — Page 4

THE WOFULTALE OP JOTHAM BROWN. Showing tho Danger of Possessing Only One , Idea. Alack 1 slas! alack! ah met A woful tale I’ll tell to thee Of Jotbain Brown, known an J 8., A stalwart youth, of ruddy blee. Who In his boots stood six foot three, At twenty-one, with one “idee!’’ His small eyes hod that far-off look Which—l have read within a book— Great genius lias; his visage glum Wan ever one emphatic mum; And how a thought could ever gain A lodgment in bis narrow brain Must rank as undiscovered knowledge, Beyond the ken of world or college. No matter—there's the fact—keep still; Leave it for future thought and skill; Men's minds are far too prone to borrow What rightfully ranks with to-morrow. Wait! wait! a warning you shall see In this same youth, this brave J. B. Poor J. 8., oil an evil day, Had chanced to hear some persons turf “That one foot ever strove to gain Upon the other, and ’twas plain That, let them strive however fast, i One foot must be ahead at last. And still ’twas left for some keen mind Which foot is always last to find.” Then J. B. puzzled long and late, And scratched his head o'er book and slate, Resolved that his that mind should be To set tills wondrous riddle free. I’oor Jotham Brown! Poor Jotham Brown, All night, all day. sought rest in vain, This puzzle rankling in his brain. And if by chance lie fell asleep, Huch dreams beneath his lids would creep Of feet, foot, feet, ten thousand feet, Dragging on. ami flying fleet, Poet alone, and feet together, Of ev’ry hue and shape ’soever, That he would wake, with shivering inoaa, To toss, and turn, and sweat, and groan, To rise at last, and figure out. If possible, some new-found doubt. Poor Jotham Brown! Poor Jotham Brown! At last he found no book nor slate, Which foot is last could truly state. Then greatness sprung up in J. B. He said he’d be “consarned,” if he Itidn't find out which foot was last. He swore that certain things he'd blast If he, J. 8., could not find out “Tills blessed fact,” without a doubt. Poor Jotham Brown! ’ Poor Jotham Brown Now went a-pacing up and down, Now went a running here and there, And walking, walking everywhere, In a circle, round a square, Niglitjand day, both foul and fair, Never stopping anywhere, Until he grew quite lean and spare. And these few words were all he said, As on and on he endless sped: “The left ahead. The right ahead, The left ahead, The right! The right ahead, The left ahead. The right ahead, The loft!”And Jotham walked, and walked, and walked, And Jotham talked, and talked, and talked, Just as I’ve said, all night, all day; And people heard him in their beds, And drew the sheets about their heads, Nor dared a single word to say. And still lie’s traveling, day and night; And now ’(is left, and now 'tis right, And now ’tis right, and now ’tis left. Till he of homo and friends bereft, Isis flapping rags about him fan More like a specter than n man. And still the riddle's not set free; Alas! I fear it ne'er will bo. lint, if poor Jolhmn e'er should Ji Ml Which foot it Is hi'/s lust behind, /‘our jotham then u saint will be, With his name In the eyelopedlce. - Jennie T. 1)owe, in November /Scribner,

THE PARSON'S HORSE-RACE.

BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.

“Wnl! now this’ere does ben.tall! I wouldn’t V thought it o’ the deacon.” So spoke Sam Lawson, dropping in a discouraged, contemplative attitude in front of an equally discouraged-looking horse, that had just been brought to him by tho Widow Simpkins for medical treatment. Among Sam’s many accomplishments he was reckoned, in the neighborhood, an oracle in all matters of this kind, especially by women [whose helplessness in meeting such emergencies found unfailing , solace under his com pas ionate willingness to attend to any business that did not strictly belong to him, and from which no pecuniary return was to be expected. The Widow Simpkins had bought this horse of Deacon Atkins, apparently a fairly well-appointed brute, and as capable as lie was good-looking. A short, easy drive, when the deacon held the reins, had shown off his point® to advantage, and the widow’s small stock of ready savings had come forth freely in payment for what she thought was a bargain. When, soon after coming into possession, she discovered that her horse, if driven with any haste, panted in a fearful manner, and that he appeared to be growing lame, she waxed wroth, and went to the Deacon in anger, to lie met only with the smooth reminder that the animal was all right when she took him—that she had seen him tried herself. The widow was of a nature somewhat spicy, and expressed herself warmly: “It’s a cheat and a shame, and I’ll take the law on ye.” “What law will you take?” said the unmoved deacon. “Wasn’tit a fair bargain?” “I’ll take the law of Clod,” said the widow, with impotent indignation, and she departed to pour her cares and trials into the ever-ready ear of Sam. Having assumed the care of the animal, he now sat contemplating it in a sort of trance of melancholy reflection. “ Why, boys,” lie broke out, “ why didn’t she come to me afore she bought this critter? That ’ere crittur was jest ruined a year ago last summer, when Tom, the deacon's boy there, come home from college. Tom driv him over to Sherburn and back that ’ere hot Fourth of July. ’Member it, ’cause I saw the crittur when he come home; I sot up with Tom takin’ care of him all night; that ’ere crittur had tho thumps all night, and he liain’t. never been good for nothin’ since. I telled the deacon he was a gone lioss then, and wouldn’t never be good for nothin’. The deacon he took off his’ shoes, and let him run to pastin'’ all summer, and lie’s been a feedin’ and nussin’.on him up; and now lie’s, put him oft' on the widder. I wouldn’t ’a’ thought it o’ the deacon. Why, this boss’ll never be no good to her; that ’ere’s a used-up crittur, any fool may sec! He’ll mebbe do for about a quarter of an hour on a smooth road, but come to drive him as a body wants to drive, why, lie blows like my bellowsis; and the deacon knew it—must ’a’ known it!”

“Why, Sam,” we exclaimed, “ain’t the deacon a good man ?” “ Wal, now, there’s where the shoe pinches. In a gin’al way the deacon is a good man—lie’s consid’able more than middlin’ good—gin’ally he adorns his perfession. On most p’ints I don’t liev nothin’ agin the deacon, and this ’ere ain’t a hit like him—but there ’tis! Come to bosses, there’s where the unsanctified natur’ comes out. Folks will cheat about bosses when they won’t about ’most nothin’ else.” And Sam leaned back on his cold forge, now empty of coal, and seemed to deliver himself to a mournful train of general reflection. “ Yes, bosses does seem to be sort of unregenerate critturs,” he broke out. “There’s sutliin’ about hosses that deceives the very elect; the best of folks get tripped up when they come to deal in hosses.” “ Why, Sam, is there anything bad in horses?” we interjected, timidly. “ ’Tain’t the hosses, boys,” said Sam, with solemnity. “Lordy-massy, the hosses is scriptural animals. Elijah went up to heaven in a cliari’t with hosses; and then all them lots o’ hosses in the Revelations, black and white and red and all sorts o’ colors. That ’ere shows hosses goes to heaven; but it’s rnoro’n the folks that hev ’em is likely to, es they don’t look out.” “Ministers, now,” continued Sam, in a soliloquizing vein; “folks allers think it’s suthin’ sort o’ shaky in a minister to hev much to do with hosses—sure to get ’em into trouble. There was old Parson Williams, of North Billriky, got into a drefful mess about a boss. Lordymassy, he wan’t to blame, neither, but he got into the drefifulest scrape you

ever heard on—come nigh to unsettlin’ him.” “Oh, Sam, tell us all about it,” we boys shouted, delighted with the prospect of a story. “ Wal, wait now till I get off this crittur’s shoes, and we'll take him up to pastur’, and then we can kind o’ set by the river and fish. Hepsey wanted a mess o’ fish for supper, and I was cal’latin’ to git some for her. You boys go and be digging bait and git yer lines.” And so as we were sitting tranquilly beside the Charles river, watching our lines, Sam’s narrative began: “Ye see, boys, Parson Williams—he’s dead now—but when I was a boy he was one of the great men ’round here. He writ books. He writ a track agin the Arminians, and put ’em down, and he writ a big book on the millennium (I’ve got that ’ere book now), and he was a smart preacher. Folks said he had invitations to settle in Boston, and there ain’t no doubt he might ’a’ hed a Boston parish es he’d ’a’ been a mind ter take it, and he’d got a good settlement and a handsome farm in North Billriky, and didn’t care to move; thought, I s’pose, that ’twas better to be number ; one in a little place than number two 'in a big un; anyway, he earned all before him where he was. “Parson Williams was a tall, straight, personable man, come of good familyfather and grand’ther before him all ministers; he was putty up and down, and commandin’ in his ways, and things had to go putty much as he said. He was a good deal sot by, Parson Williams was, and his wife was a Derby, one o’ them rich Salem Derbys, and brought him a lot o’ money, and so they lived putty easy and comfortable so far as this world’s goods goes. Well, now, the parson wan’t reely what you call worldly-minded, but then lie was one of them folks that knows what’s good in ! temporals as well as sperituals, and al- ! lers liked to hev the best that there was goin’; and he allers had an eye to a good lioss. “ Now there was Parson Adams and Parson Scranton, and most of the other i ministers, they didn’t know and didn’t | care what lioss they hed; jest jogged round with these ’ere poundin’, potbellied, sleepy critturs that ministers mostly lies, good enough to crawl ’round to funerals and ministers’ meetin’s and associations and sich; but Parson Williams he always would liev a lioss as was a lioss; iie looked for blood, and when these ’ere Vermont fellers would come down with a drove, the parson lie lied his eyes open and he knew what was what. Couldn’t none of ’em cheat him on lioss flesh; and so, one time when Zack Buel was down with a drove, the doctor he bought the best lioss in the lot. Zack said he never see a parson that he couldn’t cheat, but he said the doctor reely knew as much as he did, and got the very one he’d meant to a’ kept for, himself. “ This ’ere lioss was a peeler, I’ll tell you. They called him Tamerlane, from some heathen feller or other; the boys called him Tam, for short. Tam was a great character. All the fellers for miles ’round know the doctor’s Tam, and used to come clear over from the other parishes to see him. “Wal, this ’ere sot up Cuff’s back high, I tell you. Cuff was the doctor’s nigger man, and he was.nat’llya drefful proud crittur! The way he would swell and strut, and brag about the doctor and his folks and his tilings! The doctor used to give Cuff his cast-off clothes, and Cuff would prance round in ’em and seem to think he was a Doctor of Divinity himself, and had the charge of all natur’. “ Wal, Cuff he reelv made an idol o’ that ’ere lioss, a reg’lar graven image, and bowed down and worshiped him; he didn’t think nothin’ was too good for him; he washed and brushed and curried him, and rubbed him down till he shone like a lady’s satin dress; .and he took pride in ridin’ and drivin’ him ’cause it was what the doctor wouldn’t let nobody else do but himself. You see, Tam warn’t no lady’s lioss. Miss Williams was ’fraid as death of him, and the parson he had to git her a sort of low-sperited crittur that she could drive herself, but he liked to drive Tam; and he liked to go around the country on his back, and a tine figure of a man he was on him, too. “He didn’t let nobody else back him or handle the reins but Cuff, and Cuff was drefful set up about it, and lie swelled and bragged about that ar hoss all round the country. Nobody couldn’t put in a word ’bout any other hoss without Cuff's feathers would be all up—stiff as a tom turkey’s tail—and that’s how Cuff got the doctor into trouble.

“Ye see, there nat’lly was others that thought they’d got hosses, and didn’t want to be crowed over. There was Bill Atkins, out to the west parish, and Ike Sanders, that kep’ a stable up to Pequot Holler; they was dow n a-lookin’ at the parson’s boss, and a-bettin’ on their’n, and a-darin’ 01111 to race with ’em. “Wal, Cuff he couldn’t stan’ it, and when the doctor’s back was turned he’d be oft' on the sly and they’d hev their race; and Tam he beat ’em all. Tam, ye see, boys, was a boss that couldn’t and wouldn’t hev a boss ahead of him—he jest wouldn't! Es he dropped down dead in his tracks the next minit, he would be ahead, and he allers got ahead, and so his name got up; and fellers kep’ cornin’ to try their hosses, and Cuff’d take Tam out to race with fust one and then another till this ’ere got to be a reg’lar thing, and begun to be talked about. “Folks sort o’ wondered if the doctor knew, but Cuff was sly as a weasel and allers had a story ready for every turn; Cuff was one of them fellers that could take a bird off a bush—master hand he was to slick things over! “There w r as folks as said they believed the doctor was knowin’ to it, and that lie felt a sort o’ carnal pride, sech as a minister oughtn’t fer to hev, and so sliet his eyes to what was a-goin’ on. Aunt Bally Nickersen said she was sure on’t; ’twas all talked over down to old Miss Bummiger’s funeral, and Aunt Sally she said the church ought to look into it. But everybody knew Aunt Sally; she wos allers watchin’ for folks’ haltin’, and settin’ on herself up to jedge her neighbors. “Wal, I never believed nothin’ agin Parson Williams; it was all Cuff’s contrivances ; but the fact was the fellers all got their blood up, and there was hoss-racin’ in all the parishes; and it got so they’d even race hosses a Sunday. “ Wal, of course they never got the doctor’s hoss out a Sunday. Cuff wouldn’t ’a’ durst to do that, Lordymassy, no! He was allers there in church, settin’up in the doctor’s clothes, rollin’ up his eyes and lookin’ as pious as es he never thought o’ racin’ hosses; he was an awful solemn-lookin’ nigger in church, Cuff was. “ But there was a lot o’ them fellers up to Pequot Holler—Bill Atkins, and Ike Sanders, and Tom Peters and them Hokum boys—used to go out arter meetin’ Sunday afternoon and race hosses. Ye see, it was just close to the State Hue, and, if the s’lectman was to come down on ’em, they could jest whip over the line and they couldn’t take ’em. “ Wal, it got to be a great scandal; the fellers talked about it up to the tavern, and the deacons and the tithingman they took it up and went to Parson Williams about it; and the parson he, told ’em jest to keep still, not let the fellows know that they was bein’ watched, and next Sunday he and the tithingman and the constable they’d ride over and catch ’em in the very act. ii“So, next Sunday afternoon Parson

Williams and Deacon Popkins and Ben Bradley (he was constable that year) they got on their hosses and rode over to Pequot Holler. The doctor’s blood was up, and he meant to come down on ’em strong, for that was his way of doin’ in his parish; and they was in a sort o’ day-o’-judgment frame o’ mind, and jogged along solemn as a hearse, till they come to rise the hill above the holler they see three or four fellers with their hosses gettin’ ready to race; and the parson says he, ‘ Let’s come on quiet and get behind these bushes, and well see what they’re up to and catch ’em in the act.’ “ But the mischief on it was that Ike Sanders see ’em cornin’, and he knowed Tam in a min’t’—lke knowed Tam of old—and he jest tipped the wink to the rest. ‘ Wait, boys,’ says he; * let ’em git close up, and then I’ll give the word and the doctor’s hoss will be racin’ ahead like thunder.’ “ Wal, so the doctor and his folks they drew up behind the bushes, and stood there innocent as could be, and saw ’em gittin’ ready to start. Tam he begun to snuffle and paw, but the doctor never mistrusted what he was up to until Ike sung out ‘Go it, boys!’ and the horses all started, when r sure as you live, boys, Tam gave one fly and was over the bushes and in among ’em, goin’ it like chain lightnin’, ahead of ’em all. “Deacon Popkins and Ben Bradley jest stood and held their breath to see ’em all goin’ it so like thunder; and the doctor he was took so sudden it was all he could do to jest hold on any way, so away he went, and trees and bushes and fences streaked by him like ribbins, his hat flew off behind him, and his wig arter, and got catched in a barberry bush; but, Lordy-massy, he couldn’t stop to think o’ them. He just leaned down and oaught Tam round the neck and held on for dear life, till they come to the stopping place. “Wal, Tam was ahead of them all. sure enough, and was snorting an’ snuffling as if he’d got the very old boy in him, and was up to racing some more on the spot. “That ’ere Ike Sanders was the impuJentest feller that ever you see, and he roared and liawhawed at the doctor. ‘ Good for you, parson!’ says he. * You beat us all holler,’ says he; ‘ takes a parson for that, don’t it, boys?’ he said. And then he and Ike and Tom, and the two Hokum boys they jest roared and danced around like wild critters. Wal, now, only think on’t, boys; what a situation that ere was for a minister —a man that had come out with the best of motives to put a stop to Sabbath-breakin’! “There he was rumpled up and dusty, and his wig bangin’ in the bushes, and these ’ere ungodly fellows gettin’ the laugh on him, and all acausc o’ that ’ere hoss. There’s times, boys, when ministers must be tempted to swear if there ain’t preventin’ grace, and this was one o’ them times to Parson Williams. They say he got red in the face and looked as if he should burst, but he didn’t say nothin’; he scorned to answer—the sons o’ Zeruiah was too hard for him, and he let ’em hev their say. But when they’d got through, and Ben had brought him his hat and wig, and brushed and settled him ag’in, the parson he says, ‘ well, boys, ye’ve had your say and your laugh, but I warn you now I won’t have this thing going on here any more,’ says he, * so mind yourselves.’ “ Wal, the boys see that the doctor’s blood was up, and they rode off pretty quiet, and I believe they never raced no more in that spot.

“But there ain’t no tellin’ the talk this ’ere thing made. Folks will talk, you know, and there warn’t a house in all Billriky, nor in the north parish nor center, where it warn’t had over and discussed. There was the deacon, and Ben Bradley was there to witness and show just how the thing was, and that the doctor was just in the xvay of his duty; but folks said it made a great scandal; that a minister hadn’t no business to hev that kind o’ hoss, and then he’d give the enemy occasion to speak reproachfully. It reely did seem as if Tam’s sins were imputed to the doctor’s, and folks said lie ought to sell Tam right away and get a sober minister’s hoss. “But others said it was Cuff that had got Tam into bad ways, and they do say that Cuff had to catch it pretty lively when the doctor came to settle with him. Cuff thought his time had come sure enough, and was so scairt that he turned blacker ’n ever; he got enough to cure him o’ bossracin’ for one while. But Cuff got over it arter awhile, and so did the doctor. Lordy-massy, there ain’t nothin’ lasts forever. Wait long enough and ’most everything blows over. So it turned out about the doctor—there was a rumpus and a fuss, and folks talked and talked and advised; everybody had their say, but the doctor kept right straight on, and kep’ his hoss all the same. “The ministers they took it up in the association, but, come to tell the story, it sot ’em all a laughin’, so they couldn’t be very hard on the doctor. “The doctor felt sort o’ streaked at fust when they told the story on him; and, finally, when lie was twitted on’t he’d sort o : smile and say, * Any way, Tam beat ’em; that’s one comfort.’ ” Atlantic Monthly.

Not a Good Witness.

A lawyer -who was defending a case of assault and battery in the Police Court, the other day, was given to understand that he could secure a valuable witness in the person of a woman near where the “ battery ” had occurred, and he therefore made a call at the house and requested her to detail all the circumstances. “Well, sir,” she began, “ I sat x-ight here, holding this ’ere baby on my lap, and I was singing, ‘ Darling, I Am Growing Old.’ The baby he was squalling great guns, my boy William was making up faces at hisself in the glass, and the man what owns the house was trying to get in to tell us that if we didn’t pay up we’d be bounced.” “ Yes,” remarked the lawyer. “ Well, sir, all of a sudden I heard a rumpus on the street, and I pitched this ’ere young ’un on the bed, give William a cuff on the ear, and ran to the winder. Sech a sight as I seed, sir!” “ Describe it, madam—describe the affair just as you saw it.” “ Well, sir, there was Mrs. Perkins, who never had half the husbands nor eddecashxxn I’ve had, sailing right by my door with a calico train four feet long, and never as much as looking at my house, though I lent her a summer squash and two onions only last night at dark.” “And the fight?” queried the lawyer, “ Was thexe a fight, sir? If there was I’m not to blame, sir. I did think at first I’d go out and put a new eyebrow on the old jada for putting on style over her betters, but William he got the tack hammer fast in his mouth just then, the baby kicked hisself off the bed, and she sailed out of sight around the corner. I’m an innocent woman, sir, and if I’m taken up I’ll sue for damages—the worst kind of damages, sir!” —Detroit Free Pi'ess. Thk death is announced, in Australia, of Edward Henty, aged 68 years, the earliest of the three founders of the colony of Victoria. He landed at Portland bay in November, 1834, with his brother, and the two were the very first founders of the now wealthy colony. The English army authorities are ordering Spanish mules for their batteries.

AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

Weeds about the walls and buildings should be cut before permitting them to mature seeds, and burned. A single weed neglected will be a frightful source of evil next season. No animals unless well fed at all times can give a constant return for the food consumed, and no pasture is safe from injury by over-feeding if overrun in dry weather by a herd of poor, hungry, animals. Milking Kicking Cows. —Take a half-inch rope seven feet long, make a loop in one end, put around the cow’s body just forward of the udder, put the other end through the loop, draw snug and fasten with a half-hitch. This is quickly done and will not hurt the cow; she cannot struggle, and one can milk at his leisure. —Letter to Country Gentleman. Cow Leaking Milk.— There is no cure for a cow that leaks milk. This fault arises from a laxity of the muscular structure which closes the duct of the teat, and is therefore beyond remedy. To bother with devices to prevent it would cost more than the loss arising from selling the cow for beef, and procuring another. —American Agriculturist. A hitching-post is a cheap thing, and any man, after feeding his horses, can set one up before breakfast. But a neglect to do this is only an idea of the character of the man. It is not the only deficiency about the premises. By close inspection it will be found that- nearly all the little improvements and conveniences which should be about all farms are missing. The owner is halt, lame and blind to his duty. lowa State Register. Muck and Marl.— A compost, to be of any effect, must have some active fermentable matter in it. Muck and shell marl together would be quite inert, but, if caustic lime were mixed with a quantity of these materials, they would be decomposed and made useful. One bushel of fresh oyster-shell lime, mixed with a wagon-load of muck and marl, would be proper. The compost, along with some stable manure, would be beneficial for grass or corn.—American Agriculturist. Dissolve common salt in water, sprinkle the same over your manure heap, and the volatile parts of the ammonia will become fixed salts, from their having united with the muriatic acid of the common salt, and the soda thus liberated from the salt will quickly absorb carbonic acid, forming carbonate of soda; thus you will retain with your manure the ammonia that would otherwise fly away, and you have a new and important agent introduced, viz: the carbonate of soda, which is a powerful solvent of all vegetable fiber.— Chautauqua Farmer.

Protection Against Mice. —Many fine fruit-trees are destroyed in the winter by mice, perhaps just as they are coming to yield something to repay years of care. Let us tell our friends that at the cost of 1 cent a tree they may rest easy about tlie mice every night in the winter. Out common plasterer’s laths just long enough to reach the lowest limb, and tie around each tree enough to protect the trunk. Common cotton twine is sufficient, one tie near the top and one near the bottom.—Rural New Yorker. The Mexicans have a method of subduing fractious horses and such as are inclined to run away which might be introduced here with profit. A hood or winker is so arranged that the driver or rider can, in an instant, draw it directly over the eyes of the animal, effectually blindfolding him. When this is done the horse instantly becomes quiet, and a repetition of the blindfolding two or three times gradually results in his becoming quiet and docile. Such an arrangement would be a valuable appendage to the head-gear of such horses as are disposed to run away. Squashes for Feed.— The squash is very rich in flesh and fat-forming elements, consequently it is a valuable food for stock, and all the waste of the crop should be carefully saved and fed. The specked and green ones, boiled up and mixed with meal and shorts, make excellent food for swine and poultry; and cut up raw they are valuable for cows and young stock. When feeding them to hens and cows giving milk the seeds should be removed, as they have a diuretic effect, which tends to dry up the milk and cause hens to cease laying. Squashes are worth half as much per ton to feed as good hay.— Western Journal.

HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY.

Handsome vases for grasses and autumn leaves are made of leather carved in the shape of a flower. Cocoantjt Drops. —One cup of but ter, two cups of sugar, two exxps of flour and two eggs. The coeoanut grated. To Polish Ivory.— ls ivory be polished with putty and water, by means of a rubber made of an old hat, it will in a short time produce a fine gloss. Woolens and furs, which were put away in newspapers in the spring, should be examined now, aired and beaten, and put up again in fresh papers. To remove a glass stopper, put a drop or two of glycerine or sweet oil in the crevice about the stopper. In an hour or two the stopper will be loose. It is necessary to watch cai’pets closely in summer, especially if the early part of the season be rainy. Damp rooms, as well as dark ones, favor the ravages of moths. Railroad Cake.— One cup of sugar, one egg, one teaspoonful of butter, one cup of milk, flour enough to make a batter as thick as for sponge cake, and flavor with lemon. To Polish any Work of Pearl. —Go over it with pumice stone, finely powdered—first washed to separate the impurities and dirt—with which you may polish it very smooth; then apply putty powder as directed for ivory, and it will produce a fine gloss and a good color. Dumplings.— Prepare as for sourmilk biscuit, with less shortening, stir as stiff as possible with a spoon; much depends upon this, and if they should rise soft stir in more flour before cooking. Rise one hour. Drop into the kettle with a spoon, cook about half an hour, and they will be light and spongy. How to Clean Ostrich Feathers.— White ones, if washed in warm soapsuds, dried in the sun on a towel and then well shaken out, will look as well as new, except they will want the beautiful curl, which even at first disappears the first damp day. At first, the feather •will have a most discouraging appearance, and a novice is apt to think it perfectly spoiled, but the hot sun, or, failing that, a good fire, never fails to restore its pristine glory. Chow-chow. — Take 100 small cucumbers, fifty large green bell-peppers, half a peck of small white onions, half a bushel of green tomatoes, and two large heads of cabbage. Remove all the seeds from the peppers, slice and salt all down over night; next morning wash in cold water, let them drain well, spread on a cloth and mix through it one pound of mustard, one pound of white mustard seed, four ounces of celery seed and one ounce of whole allspice. I like to have a few of the peppers red, as it looks pretty through the mass, and the onions, if very small, I

leave whole. After mixing well, put in a kettle and cover with the best cider vinegar. After it begins to boil let it cook fifteen minutes. If desired, add while boiling a bottle of salad oil; it helps keep it, but it can be left out. Fill Your Lamps in the Morning.— Scarcely a week passes but we read accounts of frightful accidents from kerosene lamps exploding and killing and scarring, for life, men, women and children. A simple knowledge of the inflammable nature of the liquid may put a stop to nearly all the accidents. As the ou bums down in the lamp, inflammable gas gathers over the surface. When the oil is nearly consumed, a slight jar will inflame the gas, and an explosion follows. If the lamp is not allowed to bum over half way down, accidents are almost impossible.

Marriage in Russia.

Russian marriages are generally arranged through priests. A well-bred bridegroom must present a gift to a monastery and another to his parishchurch ; the bride, through her friends, is expected to clothe 6ome statue of the Virgin with a gown of silver brocade, enriched with more or less jewels according to the piety of the donor; and in some parts of Southern Russia she adds a gift of two white doves to the Pope, which looks rather like a relic of the worship of Venus. The consent of parents is necessary for marriage until the age of 36 in case of men, 25 in tliat of women; but young people are at liberty to appeal to the civil authorities if consent be arbitrarily withheld. In this event the parents are called upon to show reason for their refusal. The reason must not be mercenary, unless one of the young people be heir to a landed estate; then the question is referred to the Marshal of the nobility in the district, whose decisions are based upon expediency rather than upon fixed principles. These appeals are rare, because the Russians are a marrying people, and dispose of their children early. In the middle and lower classes men marry at 20, when not drafted by the conscription. In the higher aristocracy a young man goes the “ grand tour” before settling down, but he is often betrothed, before starting, to a young lady not yet out of the school-room. There is no country that has so few old maids as Russia. When a girl has reached the age of 25 without finding a mate, she generally sets out on what she calls a pilgrimage, if poor—on a round of travels, if rich; and in either case she turns up some years later as a widow. Widows are as plentiful as old spinsters are scarce, and widows whose husbands were never seen are more numerous than tho rest. Etiquette forbids any allusion to a lady’s dead husband in her presence, and this is sometimes convenient. When a couple are engaged, a betrothalfeast is held, and the bride-elect has a lock of her hair cut off in the presence of witnesses and given to the bridegroom, who in return presents a silver ring set with a turquoise, an almond cake, and a gift of bread and salt. From this moment the two are plighted; nor can the relatives break the match except with the consent of the parties themselves, which is signified by a return of the ring and lock of hair. So much importance is attached to the ring that among poor people, who cannot afford silver and turquoise, tin and a bit of blue stone are substituted. These betrothal rings are kept as heirlooms, but must not be made to serve twice; a son cannot give his bride the ring which his mother received, for instance, though why this should be so is a mystery which the clergy, who sell the ring, could best explain. On the weddingday; the bride comes to church dressed in white; but it is only among the highest classes that the bridal costume is entirely white, and that a wreath of orangeflower blossoms is worn.— London Fall Mall Gazette.

A Very Obtuse Witness.

Thackeray has been police reporting for the London Diogenes. Here is a sample: Pat Fogarty went all the way from Manchester to London to thrash Mike Fitzpatrick, which he did, winding up the performance with the assistance of an “awful liorse-slioe.” He was detected and brought before Mr. Justice Simpleman. A part of the examination is annexed. Court—“ Well, sir, you came here from Manchester, did you ?” Pat—“ Your Honor has answered correct.” Court—“ You see the complainant’s head; it was cut by a sharp instrument. Do you know what cut itr” Pat—“ Ain’t your Honor afther sayin’ that a sharp instrument did ?” Court (becoming restive) —“I see you mean to equivocate. Now, sir, you cut that head; you came here to do it, did you not? Now, sir, what motive brought. you to London?” Pat—“ The locomotive, yer Honor.” Court (waxing warm) —“Equivocating again, you scoundrel (raising up the liorse-slioe and holding it before Pat); do you see this horseshoe, sir ?” Pat —“Is it a horse-shoe, yer Honor?” Court—“ Don’t you see it is, sir ? Are you blind? Can you not tell at once that it is a horse-shoe!” Pat—“Bedad, no, yer Honor.” Court (angrily)—“No?” Pat—“No, yer Honor, but can yerself teU?” Court—“Of course I can, yon stupid Irishman.” Pat (soliloquizing aloud) —“Oh,glory be to goodness, see what education is, yer Honor! Sure a poor ignorant creature like myself didn’t know a horse-shoe from a mare’s.” Peanut oil is being shipped from North Carolina to Italy. Cotton-seed oil also goes to the same country, where, it is rapidly taking the place of olive oil.

Though Shaking Like an Aspen Leaf With the chills and fever, the victim of malaria may still recover by using the celebrated specific, Hostettor's Stomach Bitters, which not only breaks up the most aggravated attacks, but prevents their recurrence. It is infinitely preferable to quinine, not only because it does the business far more thoroughly, but also on account of its perfect wholeeomeness and invigorating action xtpon the entire system. Testimony is concurrent, positive and ample, showing the decisive nature of its effects, and that it is no mere palliative. Physicians concede its excellence, and there is a constant influx of communications from persons in every class of society avouching iis merits, and bearing witness to its superiority over other remedies for malarial disease. It is especially popular throughout the West, wherever fever and ague prevails, as it does in many of the fairest and most fertile portions of that vast region.

We still assert that Dr. Gi’aves’ HEART REGULATOR is a great Remedy for Heart Disease, and give the following proof: My wife was troubled with water about the heart, arid could get no relief from any physician. She was also troubled with great nervousness at certain intervals. arising from Heart Dhease. I) mrebased some of theIIEART RhGULATOR, and she obta nei great relief. The use of the HEART REGDLATOR gave her immediate relief from all einking of the spirits,and she would net be without it at a: y time. She would gratefully recommend the HEART REGULATOR to any one troubled with the Heart Disease, and advise them to try it as a safe and cer tain remedy. Joshua T. Kendall, Concord. N. H. Send your name to F. E..lngalls, Concord, N. H., for a pamphlet containing a list of testimonials of cures, &c. For sale by druggists at 50 cents and $1 per bottle. An Established Remedy. —“ Brown’s Bronchial Troches” are widely known as an established remedy for Cough*, Colds, Bronchitis, Hoarseness, and other troubles of the Throat and Lungs. 25 cts. The Chicago Ledger is the only reliable Story Paper published in the West, and is sold for half the price of Eastern papers of the same kind. Three specimen copies sent to any address for Ten Cents. Address The Ledger, Chicago, HI.

Chew Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.

Are Fat People Healthy?

Why at e fat people always complaining? asks some one* who entertains the popular though erroneonw.notion that health is synonymous with fat Fat »x>ple complain because they are diseased. Obesity is an abnormal condition of the system, in w hich the sacaharine and oleaginous elements of the food are assimilated to the partial exclusion of the muecla-forming and brainproducing elements. In proof of this, it is only necessary to assert the weil-inown fact that excessively fat people are newer strong, and seldom dis Anguished for mentaLpowers or activity. Besides,'they are the easy prey of acute and epidemic diseases, and they are the frequent victims of gout, heart disease and apoplexy. Allan’s Anti-Fat is the only known remedy for this disease. It contains no acid, is absolutely harmless, and is warranted to remedy the most confirmed case of obeeity, or corpulency. It is astonishing with what rapidity ulcerous Bores and eruptive maladies are cured by Henby’s Oakboug Salve, an external antidote to unhealthy conditions of the skin which is preferred by p'hysiaians to every other preparation containing’ the carbolic element It is undoubtedly the finest antiseptic and purifier extant It acts like a charm on purulent eruptions, and has also bee* successfully used for rheumatism and sore throat All Druggists sell it A cough or cold taken between now ‘ and Christmas frequently lasts all winter. This is certainly the case with people who have weak lungs. The most convenient, reliable and inexpensive remedy is Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. It is to be used internally and externally. Last winter we warned our readers against buying the large packs of worthless horse and cattle powders, and, as it is now time to begin to use them, we again urge them not to throw away their money. Sheridan's Powders are strictly pure, but we know of no others that are.

CHEW Tho Celebrated “Matchless” Wood Tag Plug Tobacco. The Pioneer Tobacco Company, New York, Boston and Chicago. Familiarity with the writings of the great poets is a necessity to any one vrho wishes tn appear well in company. For 10c. we will send a book of 100 selections from the beautiful melodies of Moore, the grand poems of Byron, and the unequaled songs of Bums, and 50 popular songs. Desmond & Co., 915 Race street, Phila. Fob, upward of 30 years Mrs. WINSLOW’S SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for children with never-failing success. It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind colic, regulatos the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhea, whether arising from teething or other causes. An old and well-tried remedy. 25 eta. a bottle. What will you read when the evenings grow long and cool? Did you ever read The Best Family Paper in tho United States? If not, send Ten Cents, and get throe specimen copies. Address The Ledger, Chicago, 111. A thoroughly good Cabinet or Parlor Organ is worth two poor ones. Mason A Hamlin make the best. The prices are a little higher than those of poorest organs, but it ia much cheaper in tho end to obtain tho host. To cleanse and whiten the teeth, to sweeten the breath, use Brown’s Camphorated Saponaceous Dentifrice. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Hon. C. R. Parsons, Mayor of Rochester, was radically cureol of Bright’s Disease by Craig’s Kidney Cure. Depot, 42 University Pl*ce, N. Y,

IJII POKTANT NOTlCK.—Farmers, Kn Allies and Others call purchase no remedy equal ta Dr. TOBIAS’ VENETIAN LINIMENT, for the core of Cholera, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Group, Oollc and Seasickness, taken Internally (It is perfectly har»te' s; aec oath accompanying each bottle) and externally for Chronic Rheumatism, Headache, Tooth anim, Sore Throat, Cuts, Burns, Swellings, Bruises, T'Josqulto Bites, Old Sores, Paine in Limbs, Back and Cfcust. The VKNKTLII* LINIMI'NT was introduced Hi 1847, and no one who has used it but continues to 4 o so, many stating if it was Ten Dollars a Bottle they uyouid not be without it. Thousands of Certificates care be seen at the Dopot, speaking of its wonderful curalfive proportion. Sold by the Druggists at-iOctb. Depot, 42 Murray stree ;. Nnw York.

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MAKE MS LAY. An English Veterinary Surgeon and Chemist now traveling in this country saya that moat of the Horse and Cattle Powders sold here are worthless trash. He says that Sheridan’s Condition Powders are al>solutely pur. and immensely valuable. Nothing on earth will make bens lay like Sheridan’s Condition Powders. Dose, on. teaspoonful to one pint food. Sold everywhere, or tent b-/ mall for elaht letter ttam ».. L S. JOHNSON k CO., Bangor, Mains.

Established 1838. Gargling Oil Liniment Yellow Wrapper for Animal and White for Human Flesh, is GOOD FOR Burns and Scalds, Sprains and Bruises, Chilblain ;, Frost Bites.Stringhalt, Windgalls, I Scratches or Grease, Foot Rot in Sheep, I Chapped Hands, Foundered Feet, i Flesh Wounds, Roup in Poultry, External Poisons, Cracked Heels, I S t id Cracks, Epizootic, Gall:; of all kinds, Lame Back, Sitfast, Ringbone, Hemorrhoids or Piles, Poll Evil, Toothache', Swellings, Tumors, Rheumatism, Garget in Cows, Spavins, Sweeney, Cracked Teats, Fistula, Mange, Callous, Lameness, Caked Breasts, Horn Distemper, Sore Nipples, Crown scab, Qtiittor, Curb, Ola Sores, Foul Ulcers, I- arcy, Corns, Whitlows, Abcess of the Udder, Cramps, Boils, Swelled Legs, Weakness of the Joints Thrush, Contraction of Muscles. Merchant’s Gargling Oil is the standard Liniment of the United States. Large size, si; medium, 50c; small, 35c. Small size for family use, 25c. Manufactured at Lockport, N. V., by Merchant’s Gargling Oil Company. JOHN HODGE, Sec’y.

SSE2SIR Is the Old Reliable Concentrated Lye FOR FAMILY SOAP-MAKIN6. Dwections accompanying each can for making Hard Soil and Toilet Soap tfliitlKLi . IT IS TULL VEIGHT AND STRENGTH. Tho market fa flooded with (so-called) Concentrated Lj-e. which is adulterated with salt and rosin, and won't make toap. SAVE MONET, AND BUT THE SapoKiifHeß MADE BY THE Pennsylvania Salt ManuFg Co., PHILADELPHIA. O. N. U. No. 44 WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS, t* please say you saw the advertisement in thin paper.