Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1878 — Page 4

A COUNTRY THANKSGIVING. Ay, good man, cloae the great barn door; The mellow harvent time ia o’er! The earth has given her treasures meet Of golden corn and hardened wheat. You and your neighbors well have wrought, And of the summer’s bounty caught; Won from her smiles and from her tears Much goods, perhaps; for many years. You come a tribute now to pay— The bells proclaim Thanksgiving day. Well have you sown, well have you reaped; And of the riches you have heaped, You think, perhaps, that you will give A part, that others, too, may live. But if such argument you use, Your niggard bounty I refuse. No gifts you on the altar lay In any sense are given away. Lo! rings from heaven a voice abroad: “ Who helps God’s poor doth lend the Lord.” What is your wealth? He’d have you know To have it, you must let it go. Think you the hand by Heaven struck cold Will yet have power to clutch its gold? Hhrouds have no pockets, do they say? Behold! I show you then the way: Wait not till death shall shut the door, But send your cargoes on before. Lo ! he that giveth of his hoard To help God’s poor doth lend the Lord. To day, my brethren—do not wait; Just yonder stands Dame Kelly's gate; And would you build a mansion fair In heaven, send your lumber there: Kacli stick that on her wood pile lies May raise a dome beyond the skies; You stop the rents within her walls, And yonder rise your marble halls; For every pane that stops the wind There slUneth one with jasper lined. Your wealth is gone, your form lies cold, But in the city paved with gold Your hoard is held in hands divine; It bears a name that marks it thine. Behold the bargain ye have made; With usury the debt is paid. No moth doth eat. no thieves do steal, No suffering heart doth envy feel. Bing out the words. Who of his hoard Doth help God’s poor doth lend the Lord! fio get your cargoes under way: The ring out Thanksgiving day!

“THE THREE MERRY OLD MAIDS.”

A Tlianksglviag Title. It wins a small, meanly-furnished room, in the fifth story of a third-rate boarding-house in New York city—lirelcss, cheerless and very small—where three young girls, wrapped in shawls, sat by the liigli, narrow window. The youngest broke the silence by saying: “ Grace, I want a new dress, and shall have just $1.63 to buy it with when my weekly wash-bill is paid.” “ Indeed, Kathie; you can afford an imported suit then, 1 suppose?” “ Doubtless,” was the reply to the cynical remark; “ and, Nell needs one just as bad as I.” “ See here,” said the third girl—Nell, bv courtesy —its she took from her pocket a thin, worn portemonnaie, and, unclasping it, shook the contents into her lap; “ one quarter, 3 cents and 7 pennies is the extent of my assets.” “ The quarter is bad,” said Grace, as she gave it ail emphatic twirl on the little stand by the bed. “ Had! oh, Grace, what a comforter! Imported suits and a bad quarter—almost the half of sill I have!” and tears really came to the girl’s eyes. “Such a fuss about a quarter!” mockingly interrupted Grace, “when ' I In l munificent sum of $6 awaits you at the cashier’s desk next Monday.” “ Yes; and $4 of that is for board, GO cents for car fare, which leaves me with sl.4o—to pay the washwoman's bill, buy my noonday lunches, etc.” “Girls, we can’t live in this way. Cannot something be done?” Kathie spoke in a despairing way.. 1 “ Nothing, Kathie. I lay awake half last night—no now thing—endeavoring to financier a way out of this dilemma. My visions of heaven are a place where dollars and cents are unknown, while I think the abode of superlative torment must be paved with them, which poor sinners labor unsuccessfully through sill eternity to pick up.” “Nell, don’t.” Ivatliie’s voice was treni ulcus. “ There, dear, I won’t,” and her sister’s arms were twined around her. “ Grace can afford to be cynical, for she has £8 a week, with an occasional ‘ lift ’ from h‘>r father.” “And, like a prodigal, she spends five for board—the privilege of occupying a room larger than a closet, with a fire in it. though at present it is untenable, as her room-mate has it filled with a bevy of choice spirits who are reading aloud from Mrs. Fleming’s last work.” “ Is there no help?” Katliie’s question broke the momentary silence which had fallen upon the group. “ No, Kathie, we must make the best of it.” Nell’s voice was firm, with a ring of sternness in it. “We must make the best of it. Poor little Kathie, papa’s pet!” And the tone took on a tenderer strain, as she stroked her sister’s hair. “ I don’t mind for myself, but for you, little Kathie. There is only one way in which we could do better. If it was* possible for us to rent a room, wo could live for about two-thirds of what we are now paying, and live better; but a furnished room would cost too much, and we can’t by any means furnish one ourselves.” “ Would you do your own cooking? ” inquired Grace; “ there is scant economy in taking meals out.” “ Yes, certainly.” “ Put that would be tiresome.” “ We could fare better and live cheaper. Cooked meats are comparatively inexpensive, and, though I do not admire baker’s bread, we have to eat it here; vegetables we could cook, and always have some little luxury for Sunday prepared on Saturday eve.” “ Oh, Nell, if we could! ” and Kathie clasped her hands as she looked beseechingly upward. “Kathie’s longings arc always prayers,” ejaculated Grace. “It is sheer nonsense; we work hard enough now.” “ Grace, we work to earn money; but I would work as eagerly to save, and have better food, clothing and warmth for Kathie.” “ Only a little more than a week from Thanksgiving,” sighed Kathie, “and papa used to think so much of that day. He was from Massachusetts, Grace, and you know all New England makes much of Thanksgiving—more than of Christmas. Papa was brought up to and he never gave up the custom. It will be a sad day to us.” The conversation here assumed a desultory tone, and soon Grace Weir bade her friends “goodnight.” Nell and Kathie Grey were sisters of 20 and 18 years. A little more than a year before their father died; they were motherless from early childhood. Mr. Grey, having always lived upon the slender wages of a clerk, left his daughters almost penniless at his death; but a kind friend interested himself in obtaining situations for them in one of our largest dry-goods stores, where they had since remained. Grace Weir had been born and bred in a suburban town, where her father, a manufacturer, had amassed considerable property. But, alas for Grace! her mother died, and, in a short time, a stranger was installed in the vacant place. Grace had inherited a high, proud nature, which her stepmother was determined to subdue. Weekly and daily feuds existed between the two. Grace’s monthly allowance was lessened, then

entirely cut off, for her father was completely under his wife’s influence. In a fit of passion Grace finally avowed her intention of leaving home as soon as she was 18, and her father—in justice to him, be it said, that he keenly felt the necessity for this step—obtained for her the situation of correspondent in a New York house. Chance in the selection of a boarding-place threw these three young girls together. All were earning their subsistence —all mourning the loss of parents—and a fellow-feeling was the bond knit between them. That night Grace, like Nell, lay awake to plan. She went tb her friends’room the previous evening, intending to tell them of her good fortune, that they might rejoice with her; but, after the conversation we have recorded, could not do so. She had that day received a letter from her father, containing a postal order for $35, with his usual apology—“a little unexpected money came in, and, though her mother did not approve of her having much to spend, fearing it might lead her into extravagance, he thought she might like a warm cloak and a new dress for the winter. Let him know the letter of that date was received; she need not refer to the money.” The result of Grace’s thoughts were

apparent, as she sprung from her bed, and, hastily striking a match, drew forth paper and pen and wrote the following: Wanted.— An unfurnished room in a respectable locality suitable for housekeeping. Kent low. Address “ Self-help,” Herald office. “ There! no new cloak or dress now. •Father’s gift, as well as the $8 I have saved, must go for something else,” she said, as she turned down the light. After dinner the next evening Grace tapped at the door of Mrs. Williams’ room, an invalid lady boarding on the first floor of the same house, and on admittance asked if Mr. Williams would do her a favor. His business obliged him to pass the Herald office. Would it be too much to beg him to take an advertisement for insertion in Sunday’s paper, and stop the next evening for replies ? “Lost your situation, Miss Grace?” was the quick inquiry.” No, sir.” “Not a matrimonial? I won’t help you if that is it.” Grace deliberated a moment, then said: “ I may as well take you into my confidence. Maybe Mrs. Williams will tell me if my scheme is too wild.” And she told the story; the conversation she had held with Nell and Kathie the previous evening; that Kathie was not strong, needed more nourishing food and- a warm fire, and how opportune her father’s gift seemed. Tears stood in Mrs. Williams’ eyes ere the recital was finished, and hearty cooperation was promised. A large package of letters was brought Grace on Monday evening, answers to her advertisement, and her friends, the Williamses, kindly lent their aid in deciding which seemed most desirable. The next morning Grace begged half a day’s respite from business, and started out to examine the rooms. Good fortune aided her. She found a large, sunny room, on the third floor of a well-kept house, with two ample closets. The rent asked was sls a month, payable in advance; but Grace found the landlady so motherly in appearance that she instinctively related the circumstances to her, and the sympathetic German woman reduced the price to $3, weekly. Mr. Williams suggested* the purchase of a stove and table; but I >ed and bedding Grace declared should be new. Tlio stove was bought for $6 —a real bargain they told her. Bed and bedding for tliq two sisters reduced Grace’s money from $43 to s2l. A table in good condition, but second-hand, was bought for $3; then there were chairs, cooking utensils, dishes and coal to be purchased; and the lounge for Grace, with window-shade and carpet, seemed distant indeed. But ingenuity came to her assistance in planning the last, and her landlady aided the first necessity by offering for her use an old, well-worn sofa that had stood in her store-room for two years past. The cover was in tatters, but the springs were tolerably good, and certainly it was better than the floor to sleep on, especially as there seemed little prospect of a carpet at present. However, a suggestion from Mrs. Williams set her on the right track there. She purchased a sufficient number of yards of the poorest quality of unbleached muslin to cover the entire floor, pasting it on. This took an entire evening. The next move was to select a heavy wall paper of large figure. As the walls of her room were white, no pattern or color chosen could conflict with them, and the next evening this was pasted over the muslin. Mr. Williams volunteered to varnish it when thoroughly dry, and the evening lie was thus occupied Grace made long curtains of common brown cambric, stitching, with the aid of Mrs,' Williams’ sewing machine, bands of bright yellow upon them. A loose covering for the lounge was also fashioned from the same materials. Cornices for her window she could not buy, and time was not at her command in which to manufacture them. But she consoled herself for the yet bare look of the room by remembering that it was much pleasanter than the one Nell and Kathie then occupied. Grace intended a surprise for the sisters, and so told them of a new boarding house she had found, where they " could obtain better board than they had at present for a dollar a week less. They were eager to make the change, but Grace stubbornly refused to give them further information, except that they would have to share a room with her, and offered, if they wished, to engage board for the ensuing week. Planning to give them a pleasant Tlrtmksgivmg day, she laid in a tiny stock of groceries and a turkey, determined herself to roast it, and, though grumbling at her work, she was now thankful, for the first time in her life, to the stern stepmother who had thoroughly drilled her in all household tasks. Mrs. Williams volunteered to tell their present landlady of the proposed change, and she performed her work so admirably that, instead of being offended, the woman was pleased at Grace’s independence and generosity and promised to send over a couple of pies for a start in housekeeping. Mr. and Mrs. Williams invited themselves to partake of the first dinner; and when Nell and Kathie, having sent their trunks over by an expressman, rang the door-bell and introduced themselves as the Misses Gray, for whom Miss Weir had engaged board, they noticed a queer smile flit over the face of the girl who answered their ring, as she told them to walk right up to their room, third floor, front. Up they went, and, opening the door, an odd scene presented itself. Grace, the queenly Grace, was kneeling in fronj; of the cook stove, with flushed face, endeavoring to baste a refractory turkey—refractory, because she had not properly trussed it, and one poor maimed limb was sticking out almost at right angles from the body. Mrs. Williams was resting on the lounge, while her husband sat by the window reading his morning paper. Nell and Kathie were not the only ones who were surprised. Grace found a low seat by the window, manufactured from a shoe-box, neatly covered with a remnant of the cambric she had left in Mrs. Williams’ rooms; and also a tablespread of brown leps embroidered on

the hem with yellow worsted in a showy pattern, and lambrequins of the same material, exactly matching her curtains in color. Poor little Kathie almost dissolved in tears, while brave Nell, who was too proud to usually appear aught but indifferent, laughed and cried by turns. It was a cheerful party that gathered around the table that day; and, although the turkey was not properly trussed, and had a severe black bum on one thigh, and the squash was watery, they all pronounced it the most delicious dinner of which they had ever partaken, voting the pies Mrs. Williams brought over the very best that Mrs. Klipp ever had made. * It is two years this month since the first Thanksgiving dinner was eaten in that little room, and the same three girls yet occupy it. This year they intend to celebrate their anniversary by the purchase of a new all-wool carpet, their joint savings. The old sofa is replaced by a comfortable bed-lounge, and new dresses are even now being made for the trio. Best of all, Kathie’s cleeks have grown rosy and plump, and they call themselves the “three merry old maids.” Nell bids fair todevelop into a first-class business woman; while Grace’s father, on his stolen visit to the city, was informed that his daughter was worth more to her employers than all the male correspondents they ever had. —Chicago Cosmopolitan.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Laughter often smiles upon a pool of tears. Boston is going to have an elevated railroad. Corduroy is becoming very popular as a material for children’s clothing. Boston’s police force numbers 735 members, of whom Gil are patrolmen. The city of Manchester, England, manufactures and supplies gas to its own citizens. The silver product of this country is estimated at 600,000 to 700,000 ounces per week. A man has his hands full when he is five miles off shore and nothing but water to catch hold of. A Connecticut manufacturing company have received an order from South America for 5,000 plows. Every ten tinkles of the Moffet bellpunch in Virginia buy a Sunday-school book, says a Richmond paper. It was found, while exploring a Chinese jossliouse, that there was but one female Celestial in New York. The wool clip of Oregon, this year, is about 6,500,000 pounds, being about 1,500,000 pounds more than last year. “ My Grandfather’s Clock ” was written by Henry C. Work, nearly ten years ago, and attracted no attention at the time.

W. T. Thorne, who was in 1874 expelled from the North Carolina Legislature for denying the existence of God, is now a candidate for Congress. A Western editor thus kindly alludes to a contemporary: “He is young yet, but he can sit at his desk and brush cobwebs from the ceiling with his ears.” The Commissary General, in his report, favors making cheese an army ration, if it Jje of good quality, made to keep, and sold at a reasonable price. The Chinese have a law that- any military officer making his house a place of gambling shall be cashiered and forever debarred from holding public office. The cottonwood telegraph poles used on the line of the Southern Pacific road have sprouted, and give promise of supplying a continuous line of shade trees. Mrs. Medora E. White, of Cambridge, Mass., who recently sued Dr. Hiram Chase for SIO,OOO damages for malpractice in treatment at child-birth, recovers $4,917. The first installment of steel rails for the Arizona extension of the Southern Pacific railroad has been forwarded; tics are arriving at Yuma at the rate of 5,000 per day. The new law of compulsory education in Italy is working well, it is said. The passage of the law involved the building of 200 new school-houses, and the improvement of 20,000 old ones. Mr. Rhodes, a showman in Sheffield, Mass., stuck his finger into a box of rattlesnakes to stir them up, and was bitten. He swallowed a quart of whisky and two ounces of morphine, and recovered. A Portland, Ct., young woman was nearly choked to death, recently, while trying to swallow a chicken’s heart whole. It lodged in her gullet, and the efforts of two doctors were necessary in relieving her. Two miners named Peter Clilode and Joe A. Coff, engaged in St. Louis tunnel, Big Cottonwood, Utah, were carried by a snow-slide over a 500-foot precipice during a snow-storm, and received but a few bruises. Great patience and ingenuity have been displayed by Arlin Evans, of Horse Shoe Bend, Ala., who, though totally blind for many years, has just completed a gin house, cotton screw and the running gear of the gin, doing all the framing and laying of timbers unassisted.

Some negro boys organized a mock court in Baldwin, Ga., condemned a playfellow to death, and hanged him from a beam. They supposed he would tell them when to let him down, but he only kicked, and they took that for sport. He was choked to death. The Japanese boy who, as brother of the Tycoon, headed the embassy that came to this country eleven years ago, is now a student in Paris. He would now be the Tycoon had he not led a futile revolutionary movement, but he retains an income of $200,000 a year. Three tramps, who have lodged for several weeks in a barn at Burlington, Mass., were arrested the other day under a provision in the Riot act forbidding the assemblage of two or more men for unlawful purposes, convicted and sentenced to ninety days apiece in the State workhouse. A traveling fortress, an ironclad coach, is running on the Cheyenne and Black Hills stage path. It is made of thick boiler iron, with four port-holes, is bullet proof, carries two well-armed guards inside, and runs for the sole purpose of transporting bullion for the California quartz mills. The mulattoes who have been playing a musical burlesque in Hamlin’s Theater, Chicago, are warmly praised by the newspapers of that city. The singing of two sisters named Hyers is said to be remarkably fine, and the organization is soon to present the decided novelty of grand opera by colored artists. A new steam life-boat which is claimed to be unsinkable and uncapsizable, has been invented by Mr. Edmund Thompson, an Englishman, and is exciting much interest. She will be ready about the end of the month. It is proposed to test her by placing her at a dangerous point for service this winter. Nebraskans are using female bison, for breeding purposes with success. After the crossings the bison’s color and its chief characteristics disappear. The Boston Journal of Science says that the haunch will evidently disappear also. Half and quarter breeds of the female yield an abundant supply of rich milk.

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Around the Farm. One acre of land will produce 1,000 bushels of sugar beets, which, made into sugar, will yield 4,800 pounds of sugar; or into vinegar, 5,000 gallons; or into proof spirits, 1,000 gallons. Such are the possibilities of an acre of ground, with proper skill and cultivation. Fattening Pigs. —Fattening pigs should be pushed on as rapidly as possible before the cold weather. A pound of fat made now costs less than that made next month, and the latter costs less than the same amount made in December. Remember that the cold weather wastes fat. Ground for Oats.—Ground for oats should be fall-plowed and left ridged, so that the cultivator or harrow may fit it for seeding in the early spring. The land for early potatoes should also be plowed and manured. Spread the manure upon the plowed ground and leave till spring; then plow it under. Preserved Apples.—Weigh equal quantities of good brewn sugar and ©f apples; peel, core, and mince them small; boil the sugar, allowing to every three pounds a pint of water; skim it well, and boil it pretty thick; then add the apples, the grated peel of one or two lemons, and two or three pieces of white ginger, if you have it. Boil till the apples look clear and yellow. This pre- j serve will keep for years. I believe, from experience and observation, that well-improved grass lands, with many kinds of grass, not overstocked in the dry season, and a liberal supply of bay, cut early and well cared for, will produce as good if not better cattle than too much stuffing with grain, which has a tendency to contract the inwards and prevent thrift when confined to grain alone.—Spanglar. In speaking of the necessity of landdrainage, Mr. Mechi says: “The want of a hole in the great agricultural plantpot during the last wet winter has caused many an agricultural purse to be only half filled. How strange it is that no farmer would have a plant-pot in his green-house or home without a hole in the bottom, while the same individual often does not consider one to be necessary in the big plant-pot outside.” Farming is a business similar, in its broad features, to all other trades and manufactures, and should be managed on the same principles. It is unpleasant, therefore, to observe that, while manufacturing and commercial interests have attained a distinguished position in this country, agriculture has not met with that consideration which its importance demands. Whatever the material prosperity of the country may be, it must be based on that which supplies ths resources of natural life and vigor to the nation.

A very simple process is employed for freeing woodland newly brought into cultivation from the stumps of trees. A hole about two inches in diameter and eighteen inches in depth is bored in the stump about autumn, filled with a concentrated solution of saltpeter and closed with a plug. In the following spring a pint or so of petroleum is poured into the same hole and set on fire. During the course of the winter the saltpeter solution has penetrated every portion of the stump, so that not only this, but also the roots, are thoroughly burnt out. The ashes are left, and form a valuable manure. No other crop gives as large an amount of easily-digestible food for cows, young stock, sheep or hogs, as the sugar beet, while the manure from feeding the beet is of much greater value than when animals are fed upon almost any other kind of root. France grows one-lialf more wheat upon an acre, fattens a much greater number of cattle than the same territory in America, from the fact that that country raises enormous quantities of sugar beets for making sugar, and has the rich manure from the refuse which is fed to the stock. To have the full value of the raising of sugar beets we should have the sugar manufactory as well, but until that conies no more profitable crop can bo raised and fed out upon the farm than beets. The ground for beets, like that for any other crop, should be mellow, tilled deeply, and rich. The seed should be sowed as early as possible, in rows from two and a half to three feet apart—so as to allow the use of the cultivator between—and the seed should be sown at the rate of three to four pounds to the acre, and the plants thinned out, and, if need be, transplanted, so as to stand from twelve to fifteen inches apart; this will give large roots, and a crop of twenty-five to thirty-five tons to the acre. —Kural New Yorker. The bandage system, which we were the first to suggest some twenty-five years ago, and have often referred to since, is the only effectual protection we have yet seen against the operations of the worm in fruit trees. We repeat again that in not a single instance have we ever had a worm in our dwarf pear trees where this was properly attended to. It is simply to bandage the bottom of the tree with any kind of muslin or cloth, and tie it, letting the bandage be about six inches above ground and two inches below. It should be applied as soon as the ground is in a fit condition to go upon. These bandages should be removed at the end of October, but it will do no harm to let them alone, only that they remain in good condition for another season. As long as this is continued we defy the worm. The beetle lays its eggs an inch or two above the ground early in the spring, that is, as soon as the warm days in March will admit of its coming forth from its winter quarters; the eggs are soon hatched by the sun, being laid on the sun-side of the trunk, and the young grub finds its way down to the soft bark beneath the soil, where it gradually works its way in. The bandage prevents both the laying of the eggs and the descent of the grub. Let doubters try it. One man will bandage 200 trees in a day. It may also protect the peach tree in the same way. —Germantown Telegraph.

HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY.

Yeast. —Five potatoes, one cup of white sugar, four table-spoonfuls of flour, with a little salt and yeast to raise it. Layer Cake.— Three cups of sugar, one cup butter, six eggs, four cups flour, one cup milk, four teaspoonfuls of yeast powder. Pickles. —Pickles should be touched only with a dry spoon or ladle. A few drops of water, or the introduction of a wet spoon, will sometimes spoil the entire contents of a pickle jar. Soot and Salt. Salt will remove soot from the carpets. Brush the soot off as much as is possible without rubbing it into the threads of the carpet, then scatter salt, and sweep with a stiff broom. Cleaning Silk. —White or light silk may be cleaned by rubbing it on both sides with Indian meal, and carefully dusting it with a bit of silk or a fine handkerchief. The same process may be used on kid gloves. Indian Steam Loaf. —Two cups Indian meal and one cup wheat flour, two cups of sweet milk and one cup of sour milk, half cup of molasses and one teaspoonful of soda; to be steamed three hours, and is good hot or cold. Beef Loaf.— One and one-half pounds of beefsteak chopped very fine and free from gristle; two cups of rolled

crackers (fine); one cup of cold water; one-half cup of butter; salt and pepper to suit the taste; bake till done. A Stakch to Preserve Colors.— For starching muslins, ginghams and calicoes dissolve and add to every pint of starch a piece of alum the size of a shellbark. By so doing, the colors will keep bright for a long time, which is very desirable when dresses most be often washed, and the cost is but a trifle. Economical Fruit Cake. — Two enps sugar, one of butter, three of flour, one of milk, two of chopped raisins, one of currants, one es citron, two eggs, one teaspoonful. of soda, two of cream of tartar, two teaspoonfuls each of cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, one teaspoonful of mace, and two teaspoonfuls of brandy.

Ease Attainable by the Rheumatic.

Yes, although they may despair of relief, it is attainable by rheumatic sufferers, for there is a remedy which carries off, by means of increased activity of the kidneys—important channels for blood purification—the acrid element to which pathologists the most eminent attribute the painful symptoms—a theory completely borne out by urinary analysis. The name of this grand depurent is Hostetter’s Bitters, a preparation likewise celebrated as a remedy for constipation, which causes contamination of the blood with the bile—and a certain means of relief in dyspepsia, fever and ague, and nervous ailments. It is, perhaps, the finest tonic extant, and is highly recommended as a medicinal stimulant by distinguished physicians and analysts, who pronounce it to be eminently pure and very l>eneficial. The press also indorses it

William Grace.

As a general inquiry of “What is Grace’s Salve, and who is its originator?” may seem to be a question worthy of being answered, we have been induced to give the following brief, yet truthful account of its history: This salve is a vegetable preparation, invented in the seventeenth century by Dr. William Grace, who was surgeon in King James’ army, and who from that time always used it in his professional practice, whenever soreness or inflammation presented itself. As a medical agent for the cure of wounds, it was followed with great success, and thousands of the veterans that were wounded in the campaigns of 1688 and 1689 owed to this salve the salvation of their lives. Col. Richard Grace, who was King James’ chamberlain, introduced this Salve into the royal palace, where it was used with the greatest success, and highly esteemed for its virtues in the cure of sores. At the siege of Athlone, Col. Grace ordered it to bo administered to his compatriots who were wounded during the memorable day of the battle; and it was used with such success that the head surgeon of the army at Aughrim ordered Dr. Grace to manufacture 100 gross, and distribute it among the hospitals before the battle. On the sad defeat at Aughrim, after Ginkle’s army took possession of the battle-field, several ambulances, which had boon abandoned by the retreating army, were found to contain sealed cases of the Salve. The English surgeons tested it upon their wounded and ascertained its value, and thus were both of the contending armies befriended by it. Both Dr. William Grace and Col. Richard Graco died in tho camSos 1691—the former of disease, the latter in the intronohmouts of Athlone, with the Hag of his country wrapped around him, cheering his men on to victory. After the death of Dr. Grace, the Salve was not used much outside of his family, until the rebellion of 1798, when William Grace, grandfather of the subscriber, applied its virtues, at the battle of Ross, to his brave comrades who fell wounded while fighting for tho rights of their countrv. This Salvo was quite extensively used in certain localities of Ireland, being furnished gratuitously by the subscriber’s parents until 1848, when they left tho land of their nativity and came to this country, bringing with them the secret of the Salve they received from their ancestors. They continued to make the Salve, as before, for their neighbors, free of charge, until the fall of 1861, when the frequent calls for it, and the serious cases cured by it, induced the subscriber to bring it into more general notice, and to charge a small price for the articlo that has received tho recommendation of patriots upon the battlofields of yore, as well as from persons of the present day. Toronto Advertiser, Jfarch 6, 1878.

Rheumatism of the Heart can be cured. Read this: I hive been very much troubled with Heart Dlsease for the last saven or eight years, not being able to do any laborious work for two years. I have been constantly troubled with severe pain about my heart, passing no day without experiencing pain. Dr. E. G. Moore, of Concord, and other physicians, called my difficulty Rheumatism of the Heart. Have been greatly troubled to get my breath at times, and had severe si’.king spells accompanying difficulty of breathing, so that I have been in great danger of immediate death. Have used but two bottles of the H WART REGULATOR, and, though not considering myself cured, can say that I do a day’s work wit bout any difficulty, and think eventually I shall beoorao almost entirely well. I have induced others to try the HEART REGULATOR, and would gratefully recommend it to all. Jeremiah £mith, Concord, N. H. Dr Graves’ HEART REGULATOR is for sale by druggists at 50 cents and $1 per bottle. To BE of permanent benefit a medicine must reach the source of the disease. The reason why Scovill’s Blood and Liveh Syrup is so successful in overcoming scrofulous and all ■ eruptive complaints is that it entirely roots out those impurities which give rise to them. The cause of the evil being thus removed and the normal purity* of the circulation restored, the skin resumes its original clearness and sores and pimples disappear. Sold by all Druggists. Best organs as a whole and best workmanship in detail, is the conclusion reached at the Paris Exposition as to the Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs. Organs from tliirty best makors in the world were tested and compared by four juries—viz., the Class Jury, Group Jju'y, Jury of Presidents and Supreme Jury, who awarded to Mason & Hamin two highest awards. For upward of SO years Mrs. WINSLOW’S SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for children with never-failing success. It "corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind colic, regulates the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhea, whether arising from teething or other causes. An old and well-tried remedy. 25 cts. a bottle. Familiarity with the writings of the great poets is a necessity to anv one who wishes to appear well in company. Tor 10c. we will send a book of 100 selections from the beautiful melodies of Moore, the grand poems of Byron, and the unoqualed songs of Burns, and 50 popular songs. Desmond & Co., 915 Race street, Phila. The most contemptible fraud that lias been practised upon farmers and others in the last few years is the selling of immense packs of worthless horse and cattle powders. There is only one kind now known in this country that are unadulterated" and those are Sheridan’s. A neglected cough, cold, or sore throat winch might be checked by a simple remedy, like “ Brown's Bronchial Troches," if allowed to progress may terminate seriously. 25 cts. To cleanse and whiten the teeth, to sweeten the breath, use Brown’s Camphorated Saponaceous Dentifrice. Twenty-five cents a bottle.

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NEW YORK. Bkevks $7 25 @lO 00 Hogs 3 05 @ 4 25 Cotton Flour—Superfine 3 25 @ 3 65 Wheat—No. 2 05 @ 1 0624 Corn—Western Mixed 46 @ 48 Oats—Mixed 29)-@ 31 Kye—Western 59 60 Pork—Mess 7 50 @ 8 25 Lard 6 @ 6J4 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice Graded Steers 4 50 @ 4 75 Cows and Heifers 2 00 @3 CM) Medium to Fair 3 60 @4 00 Hogs 2 15 @ 3 10 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex .... 475 @ 500 Good to Choice Spring Ex.. 425 @4 75 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 81 @'B2 No. 3 Spring 70 @ 72 Corn—No. 2 31 @ 32 Oats—No. 2 10 @ 20 Rye—No. 2 44 @ 45 Barley—No. 2 87 @ 80 Butter—Choice Creamery 20 @ 25 Eggs—Fresh 17 @ 18 Pork—Mess 6 70 @ 7 30 Lard 5W@ 6 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 1 88 @ 1 02 No. 2 81 @ 82 Cohn—No. 2 81 @ 32 Oats—No. 2 10 @ 20 Rye—No. 1 44 <gi 45 Barley—No. 2 87 @ 90 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red Fall 87 @ 88 Corn—Mixed 32 @ 83 Oats—No. 2 19 @ 20 Rye 41 @ 42 Pork—Mess 7 25 @ 7 37!£ Lard 5 5% CINCINNATI. Wheat—Red 87 @ 05 Corn 33 @ 37 Oats 21 @ 24 Rye 48 @ 49 Pork —Mess 7 50 @ 7 75 Lard 5?4@ 7 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 1 White 94 @ 96 No. 2 Red 93 @ 94 Corn ; 37 @ 40 Oats—No. 2 21 <§) 22 DETROIT. Flour—White 4 50 @ 4 75 Wheat—No. 1 White 95 @ 96 No. 1 Amber 92 @ 93 Corn—No. 1 40 @ 41 ki Oats—Mixed 23 @ 24 Barley (per cental) 1 15 @ 2 50 Pork—Mess 8 75 @ 9 50 EAST LIBERTY, PA. Cattle—Best 4 25 @ 4 75 Fair 4 00 @ 4 25 Common 3 50 @ 3 90 Hogs 2 00 @ 320 Sheep 2 75 @ 460

A Sadden Death. There ia something terrible in the thought of having our friends stricken down at our side, without a parting word of endearment or congelation—one moment at our side in the flush of vigorous life, cheering our hearts with their loving sympathy; the next at our feet pale with death, deaf to our cries and heedless of our tears. Every excessively fat person is in instant danger of such a death. Seven-tenths of the victims of obesity die of heart disease or apoplexy. Allan's Anti-Fatj the only remedy for obesity, reduces the weight by regulating the digestion and assimilation of the food. It is perfectly harmless, and its use will insure, in every instance, a reduction of weight from two to five pounds a week. CHEW The Celebrated “Matchless* Wood Tag Plug Tobacco. The Pioneeb Tobacco Company, New York, Boston and Chicago. No family in this broad land should undertake to keep house without Johnson's Anodyne Liniment; many have tried to but failed. It is worth more to a family than a whole medicine chest Hon. C. R Pabsons, Mayor of Rochester, was radically cured of Bright’s Disease by Craig’s Kidney Cure. Depot, 4‘J University Place, N. Y. Chew Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.

IMPORTANT NOTlCK.—Farmer*, Families and Others esn purchase no remedy equal to Dr. TOBIAS’ VENETIAN LINIMENT, for the core of Cholera, Diarrhoea. Dysentery, Croup, Oolio and Seasickness, taken Internally (it is perfectly harmless; me oath accompanying each bottle) and externally for Ohronio Rheumatism, Headache, Toothache. Sore Throat, Cuta, Bums, Swellings, ' Bruises, Mosquito Bites, Old Sores, Pains in Limbs, Back and Chest. The VENETIAN LINIMENT was introduced in 1847, and o i one who has usod it bat continues to do so, many stating if it was Ten Dollars a Bottle they would not be without It. Thousands of Certificates can be seen si the Depot, speaking cf its wonderful curative properties. Sold by the Druggists at 40 cts. Depot, 42 Murray street. New Y irk.

It having been widely advertised, under I lie caption oT “America Ahead in Spool Cotton,” that the Jury on Cotton textiles, yarns and llirends. at the Paris Exposition, decreed a Gold .Medal and Grand Prize to the Willi■nnntic I.iueu Company for “Spool Cotton especially adapted for use on Sewing Machines,” over ail the great thread manufactures of the world, we owe it as a duty to the public and to Messrs. J & P. Coats to announce thut No Grand Prizes were decreed at Paris for Spool Cotton. Wc are advised by cable of the following awards: J. &P. GOATS, Gold Medal. Williiantic Linen Co., Stlrer Medal. And wc claim for the winners of the First Prize that, ns ther have established In Rhode Island the largest Spool Cotton Mills in the United States, where their Spool Cotton is manufactured through every process from the raw cotton to tiie finished spool, AMERICA, ns represented hy Messrs. J. & P. COATS, is still AHEAD IN SPOOL COTTON. AUGHINGLOSS BROTHERS, Sole Agents in New York for ' J. &P. COAT 3. $10?525 EyMiJW.’ NOVtLTIES Illustrated mail ot Catalogue & LL t'll U X 1 vv application t< J. 11. BUFFORD’o SONS, Manufacturing Publishers 1 4 1 to 147 hrnnklin Street, Boston, Maas. Established n«- trly fifty 3’ears. MASON & HAM UN CABINET OR6ANB Demonstrated best by HIGHEST HONORS AT ALL WORLD’S EXPOSITIONS FOR TWELVE YEARS, viz.: At Parib, 1867: VIENNA, 1873: SANTIAGO, 1875 Philadelphia , 1876; Paris, 1878; and Grand Swedish Gold Medal, 1878. Only American Organs ever award ed highest honors at any such. Sold for cash or install ments. Illustrated Catalogues snd Circulars, with new styles and prices, sent free. MASON A HAMLIN ORGAN 00.. BOSTON, NEW YORK, or CHICAGO.

will thicken half n pint ..f milk und water, making i ■ ahstantial meal for a growing child. ATIT ESIA.N ell Drilling, Boring, Mineral Prospecting and Quarrying Tools. Highest award at Centennial Exhibition. Send for pictorial catalogue and price-list, free. Agents wanted. S2O per day guaranteed. Sand, boulders and rock e-.silv handled. Address, PIERCE WELL EXCAVATOR CO., 4206 Elm Ave,, Philadelphia, Penn. BWS i C ORSET S~ ' PARIS EX POSITION j' * Fi'ex"BLK. n HIP COKSET 1 '(120 Bouev) &W u Mf 9 At*# with perfect ease, And Ia war/!ih !j /f/liifsL ha step not t o Break do wn over the hi p« /‘III: hi / 111 il'liaE. Tl.e'r HEALTH CORSET with its )m----i proved Bust, I m now a prenter fa vorite / /;•;/// / / j I' c ver. Their N UI<SING CORSET is vim/////// tlio dell plit of every mother. XI ill I I Jr For “a B‘ By all lead In g merchants. WARNER BROS., 351 Broadway, N.T. CHEAP AND GOOD Homes for all, near R. R., towns and stations ($1.25 per acre). Country desirable in every way. Products varied. Freights to best markets very low. It EDUCTION'S IN TRANSPORTATION VERY LARGE All who wish a Farm of their own and desire to belter their condition should send their full address tor maps, views and lull information. B. T. S VII Til «fc CO., 152 LaSalle St., Chicago, 111. TH£ ALLEN’S GREAT LUN6BALSAM RlMv BY Coughs, Colds, Consumption, ■ I bin kw I Asthma, Bronchitis, und all rnn Throat and Lung Affections, run Indorsed by the Press and Physicians. Taken by tliouCURIN6 1 ns-SOLD EVERVWHERE.-g» / rSi Complete yck |J \| l jS./ Without Rose’s Darning At/flf\l ' * 11\ r\\ tachment, which is also aFun- / |/ VI 1 \ cy Stitcher and Name Writer. I / ! v l Is applicable to machines of all ( V gg:' " ’J I makes. Darns stockings and I ! I all kinds of garments. Marks \ Eg i.-ni.:* / clothing, table and bod linen. \ / Costs only sl. Buy or order \ / from any sewing machine com- ,, y’V / pany, or It. M. 1(081!. it oosii 4, Sun It nil ding, lyoosa—’- | New York. THE SMITH ORGAN CO. First Established 1 Most Successful! THEIR INSTRUMENTS have a standard value in all the LEADING MARKFaTS OF THE WORLD! Everywhere recognized as the FINEST IN TONE. OVER 80,000 Made and in use. New Designs constantly. Best work and lowest prices. OS" Send for a Catalogue. Tremoni SL, opp, Walttonl. Mm, Mas,

THE LIGHT-RUNNING NEW HOME Is the Best, Latest Improved, and most Thoroughly Constructed SEWING MACHINE Ever invented. It is NOISELESS, and has more POINTS of EXCELLENCE than all other Machines combined, til" AGENTS WANTED in localities where we are not represented. JOHNSON, CLARK & CO., 30 Union Square, New York. Orange, Mas-., Pittsburgh, Fa., Chicago,

For Singing Classes. nivrw A"R Tl ! U 5 cts., $7.50 per dozen.) By UIN VV 1 L. O. Emerson, and 1b the Author’s last, and perhaps best, compilation for Singing Schools. Fine instructions, abundant exercises, many Glees and Songs, and a good quantity of Sacred Music. JOHNSON’S MetbosTor Singing Classes (60 cts., or $6.00 per dozen), for Singing Schools, has remarkably clear instructions, and a large quantity of pleasing Sacred and Secular Music for practice. THE LAUREL WREATH ®«:&£5£SS a grand book for Singing Classes in High Schools, Normal Schools and Seminaries. Part I, Elementary. Part 11, Voice Cultivation. Part 111, Select Music in 2,3 and 4 parts. Part IV, Sacred Music. GRAMMAR Mins&flM S. Tildkn, is an exceedingly well-constructed book for the Singing Classes in Grammar Schools (the higher classes), and lor the younger classes of High Schools. THE WHIPPOORWILL genial and very bright collection of School Songs. Any Book mailed post free for Retail Price. OLIVER DITSON & CO., Boston. C. H. Ditson A Co., J. E. DiUon At Co., 843 Broadway. N.T. 922 Chestnut St., PhlU.

“He had so far recovered from Typhoid Fever as to be shoot, an d oh every fine day for months crept snail-like to my office for adv ice, medicine, strength. Out of patienoe, I prescribed your (Fellows') Hypophosphites with a sneoees scarcely to be cr edited. Since then I donbt if an M. D. has prescribed and praised it more than I.” Such waa the statement made by a first-rate physician in Moncton, N. 8., to Mr. Fellows, and ia another proof of the nneqnaled influence of Fellows’ Hypophosphites over disease. It is pleasant to tb e palate, may be taken continuously for years, or discontinued at any time wit boat injury, and will do more good for a given outlay of money than any other article ever invented. Premature Decline, &c., &c. Premature Decline, Consumption, Bronchitis, Asthma, Bleeding from the I.tings. Palpitation, Feeble and Interrupted Action of the Heart, Ball or Sluggish Action of the User, By.pep.la, Flatulence, and all Waiting Disease., Weakness and Trembling of the Limbi, and want of vitality In any organ, or Disease caused ‘by such want of vitality. are all suooeaafnily and rapidly treated by this remedy Brown's Bbonohial Tbocks* ,tor oongna and colds HEAP GUNS Illustrated Catalogue free. Address Great Western Gun Works. Pittsburg, Pa. BFQT Terms to Agents ever offered. Send stamp for DCO I samples. National Weekly,Washington. D.O. NEW and Beantiful.—Photograph bards with Name. Samples 3c. Send picture to 8. Pkbet, Nassau. N.Y. WANTED— Ten enterprising yonng Farmers, a Gardener, and a Blacksmith. Steady work, good wages, pleasant home, chance to save money. Write J. A. H. MJJB, Gnnaton, Va.. for particulars. (t>nC A A MONTH*—AGENTS WANTED-36 BEST ysJArlll selling articles in the world; one sample 4rVVV/ r "' Addreas Joy Branson. Detroit. Mich. AmfTM HABIT & SKIN DISEASES: I 11# 111 In Thousands cured. Lowest Prices. Do no* \J X # U Jim fad to write. Dr.F.E. Marsh, Quincy, Mich. <£ll l&lSKEsKi&fiSg '•»»• hri# fr » CQ n»o original, snd shew a bc-ii>v* rwsoh rn WJm Y m./V from its nao. h works tits ro««ir and «ww.r fail*. No \X~y T ~ possihloiDjmry toUte.kl*. caaity snplisal sod os,Wa | B IKI Pk |tV L.L.BMITH Bplo AF’u.Palitioc.UL AUaUmry—— AWNINGS! TENTS! Waterproof Covers. Signs, Window Shades, do MURRAY & RAKER. 100 Mouth Dcsplalnes Bt.< Chicago. Send for Illustrated Price-List. BEST FOOD FOR INFANTS AND INVALIDS, -airinir Recommended Dy Physicians. "After udng the various (PeSmtnTl HU ‘ PrrsXjJWN lending prepwriition. for Inlant»’ Food,without benefit to WQaAJmEajEmaLmaWlSI my child, 1 need the Cekkai.i VMrSEIJ I 1 |T| Milk. The firit month the chiid pitined four pounds, and Bmf*l , f ll steadily Imnrovijig.” i>. n. heekman, ' AMI® raaoc M 9 A..wry, A’e» York Sold by Grocers snd Druggists everywhere. Mttnufactared hy the CEREAL M’F’Q CO., Hew York. Leaders and others engaged in the foripa- / tlou of talning elegant engravings of the latest and most approved style of instruments now in use. Mailed nee. Address liYON & HEADY, State and Monroe Sts., Chicago. BRATTLEBORO, VT. \3T Send for Illustrated Catalogue*

LIST OF DISEASES ALWAYS CURABLE BY USING MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT. OF HUMAN FLESH. OF ANIMALS. Rlieuinulism, Scratches, Burns and Scalds, Sores and Galls, Stings and Bites, Spavin, Cracks, Cuts and Bruises, Ringbone, Sprains A Stitches, Screw Worm, Grub, Contracted Muscles, Foot Rot, Hoof All, Stiff Joints, Hollow Horn, Backache, Lameness, Old Ulcers,' Swinny. Founders, Gangrenous Sores, Farcy, Poll Evil, Neuralgia, Gout, Sprains, Strains, Eruptions, String Halt, Frost Bites, Sore Feet, Hip Disease, Stiffness, and nil external diseases, and every hurt or accident For gensral use in family, stable and stock yard it iTHE BEST OF ALL LINIMENTS A Ck CELEBRATED SALVE A SURE RELIEF FOR TIIE SUFFERER. A Vegetable Preparation, invented in tho 17th century by Dr. William Graco, Surgeon In King James’ army. Through Us agency he cured thousands of the most serious sores and wounds that baffled tho skill of tho most eminent physicians of his dav, and was regarded by all who knew him as a public benefactor. CURES FLESH WOUNDS. FROZEN LIMBS, SALT RHEUM, CHILBLAINS, SORE BREAST, SORE LIIB, ERYSIPELAS, RINGWORMS, CALLUSES, SCALD HEAD, CHAPPED HANDS, BURS?, CANCERS, FEI/7N.’. SCALDS, SORES, ULCERS, WOUNDS, STINGS, SHLNGLES, FESTERS, WENS, STIES, PILES, ABCESS, FRECKLES, BUNIONS, SPRAINS. BOILS, BITES, CUTS, WHITLOWS, WARTS, BLISTERS, TAN, PIMPLES, CORNS, SCURVY, ITCH, INGROWING NAILS, NETTLE RASH, MOSQUITO AND FLEA BITES, SPIDER BTINOS, And all cutaneous diseases and eruptions generally. PRICE 25 CENTS A BOX. BY MAIL 35 CENTS. Three dozen Boxes (1-4 cross), will be sent TO PEDDLERS, STOREKEEPERS, DRUGGISTS, (expressage paid), on receipt ot 94.00—about eleven cents a box. PREPARED BY BETH W. FOWLE & SONS, 86 HARRISON AVENUE, BOSTON, MASS.

A GOLD MEDAL has been awarded at the Paris Exhibition or 1878 to CLARKS O. KT.T. Best SIX-CORD SPOOL COTTON. It Is celebrated Tor being STRONG, ELASTIC, and of UNIFORM STRENGTH. It has been awarded MEDALS at the great Expositions, from the first at Purls, In 1855, to the Cen. tennlal at Philadelphia, In 1878. In this country CLARK’S O. Si. T. SPOOL COTTON U widely known In all sections for Its Superior Excellence In Machine and Hand Sewing. Their Mills at Newark, N. J., and Paisley, Scotland, are the largest and most complete In the world. The entire process of manufacture Is conducted under the most complete and careful supervision, and they claim for their American production at least an equal merit to that produced la their Paisley Mills. As No Grand Prizes were awarded at Paris for Spool Cotton, they are Glad to announce to the American Public that they have been awarded a GOLD MEDAL, being the highest award given for Six-Cord Spool Cotton. George A. Clark & Brother, Sole Agents, No. 400 Broadway, New York.

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BOSTON TRANSCRIPT, Daily and Weekly, Quarto, BOSTON, MASS. The Largest, Cheapest and Best Family Newspaper in Now England. Edited with special reference to the varied tastes and requirements of the home circle. All the foreign and local news published promptly. Dally Transcript, ffllO per annum frt advance. Weekly “ $2 “ ” “ “ “ “ (6 copies to ono address, $7.50 per annum in advance. JSEND FOR PAM P 1,15 COPY. FRANK LESLIE’S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. A Pictorial Record of Current Events at Home and Abroad. Epitomized History of Our Titties. The Contents embrace graphic illustrations of the prominent events of the day—political, social, scientific., commercial, etc. Editorials on all subjects of public Interest. Admirable Cartoons, humorously kitting off peculiar incidents, prevailing follies, foibles, etc. Select Serial and Short Stories, Essays, Poertry. Biographies, Musical and Dramatic News, Personal Gossip, Foreign and Domestic. Anecdotes, and a highly amusing and Instructive Miscellany. Double-Page Supplements are frequently given without extra charge, ulustrating events of more than usual interest. This Popular Weekly has now reached its Forty, seventh Volume, and has afforded the public a complete review of the events of each week during the past twentytwo years, and is, therefore, a veritable library of reference. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY For Sale by all Newsdealers. Price 10 Cents a Copy. Annual Subscription $4, Postpaid. Frank Leslie’s Publishing House, 53, 55 & 57 Park Place, New York. la the Old Reliable Ctmcentrt-.’ad Lye FOR FAMILY SOAP-MAKING. Directions accompanying each can for malf l ** Soft and Toilet Soap Qf It ivLY.> IT IX FULL WIIU.TTT A \ D STRENGTH. The market is flooded wh o (so-called) Concentrated Lye, which is adulterated with Bolt and rosin, ami won't make soap. . SAVE MONET, AND BUT THE SapoVifllß MADE BY THE Pennsylvania Salt ManuFg Co pgn.AnFi.pma. Established 1888. MBROH- A Gargling Oil Liniment j Yellow Wrapper for Animal and White for I 1 Human Flesh. jj IS GOOD FOR Burns and Scalds, Sprains and Bruises, ■ , Chilblains, Frost Bites,Stringhalt, Windfall., 9 si Scratches or Grease, Foot liat in Sheep, y U Chapped Hands, Foundered Feet, (I Flesh Wonnds, Roup in Poultry, £ I External Poisons, Cracked Heels, : j Sand Cracks, Epizootic, i Galls of all kinds, Lame Back, ; Sitfast, Ringbone, Hemorrhoids or Piles, n j Poll Evil, Toothache, Stveilings, Tumors, Rheumatism, j: Garget In Cows, Spavins, Sweeney, ( Cracked Teats, Fistula, Mange, U i Callous, Lameness, Caked Breasts, * Horn Distemper, Sore Nipples, | Crown scab, Quittor, Curb, Old Sores, Foul Ulcers, Farcy, Corns, Whitlows, Abccss of the Udder, Cramps, Boils, A Swelled Legs, Weakness of the Joints H A Thrush, Contraction of Muscles. I, j Merchant’s Gargling Oil is the standard t y Liniment of the United States. Large size, f |si ; medium, 50c; small, 25c. Small size ft.r L family use, 25c. Manufactured at Lockport, | N. Y-, by Merchant’s Gargling Oil Company. 1 JOHS HQDfIB, Bec’y. | G. N. U. No. 48 HKN WHITING TO ADVERTISERS! . jplease say you saw the advcrtlsemer In this paper.