Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1879 — Page 4

METRICAL WHIST. [There has been as much advancement in whistpl ayt ng within the past few years as in the higher sciences, and the old-time whist-player is now sadly out of date. The most recent rules are well condensed in the following verses from Pole's “ Treatise on Whist.”] If yon the modern game of whist would know, From this great principle ite precepts flow: Treat yonr own hand as to your partner’s joined, And play not one alone, but both combined. Your first lead makes your partner understand What is the chief component of your hand. And hence there is necessity the strongest That your JI, st lead bjtfrom your suit that's longest. In this, with ace and king, lead king, then ace; With king and queen, king also has first place; With ace, queen, knave, lead ace, and then the queen; With ace, four email ones. ace should first be seen; With queen, knave, ten, you let the queen precede; In other cases, you the lowest lead. Ere you return your friend’s, your own suit play; But trumps you must return without delay. When you return your partner's lead, take pains To lead him back the beet your hand contains, If you received not more than three at first; If you had more, you may return the worst; But, if you hold tlie master card, you’re bound, In most cases, to play it second round. Whene’er you want a lead, ’tie seldom wrong To lead up to the weak or through the strong. In second hand your lowest should be played, Unless you mean “trump signal” to be made; Or if you’ve king and queen, or we and king, Then one of these will be the proper thing. Mind well the rule for trumps; you'll often need them; When you hold five, 'tih always bight to lead them; Or if the lead won’t come in time to you, Then signal to your partner so to do. Watch also for your partner’s trump request; To which, with less than four, play out your best. To lead through honors turned up is bad play, Unless you want the trump suit cleared away. When second hand a doubtful trick you see, Don't trump it, if you hold more trumps than three; But having three, or less, trump fearlessly. When weak in trumps yourself, don't force your friend, But always force the adverse strong trump hand. For sequences, stern custom has decreed The lowest you must play if you don't lead. When you discard, weak suits you ought to choose, For strong ones are too valuable to lose.

PANTHER-HUNTING IN KENTUCKY.

I had been following on horseback for nearly a whole day a mere “ bridlepath” leading out at the head of one creek to strike another successively, across intervening mountains in Eastern Kentucky, having passed few cabins during the afternoon, when the approach of night warned me to look out for some place of shelter if I did not intend to make an impromptu and forced encampment in the forest. The mountains had proved very steep and hard to climb, the valleys correspondingly deep and narrow, with generally a beautiful clear stream meandering through them; and almost the only travelers met on the way were a long string of horses and mules, with their drivers, all in single file on the mountain path, and each animal with a packsaddle— Spanish fashion—carrying into the recesses of the mountain ranges such coarse goods as were suited to the necessities of a poor country; salt and sugar, clothes, iron, etc., the same carriers to take back ginseng, hides, a little wool, and whatever else of the limited produce of the region could be bad for exportation and in the way of exchange. And this was the commerce of Eastern Kentucky at that early period, somewhat improved since the war. Of course I was aware of the slender chance afforded for anything like a regular tavern; but feeling constrained to stop somewhere as it was close to sunset, I determined to try the first cabin I alighted on, no matter how unpromising might be the looks of things. Arriving shortly at a log house, I hailed the establishment, which stood some thirty yards back from the fence that inclosed it, inquiring as to the “ chances of shelter for the night?” “I reckon you’ll have to come in here, stranger,” was the response of a female voice, its owner for a moment peering out of the doorway with an inquiring look at man and horse. Riding into the yard through a rude gateway, I hitched my steed to a tree in front of the cabin, and, taking off my “plunder,” i. e. saddlebags, I entered the domicile. Right inside I encountered a white-haired old settler clad in the linsey hunting-shirt of the country, and seated at his frugal meal of “corndodgers,” buttermilk, and a cold cut of bacon. Merely looking up, but without rising, the salutation of my host was characteristic enough: “Sit down, stranger! Make a long arm and help yourself—l hate ceremony 1” Of course I promptly responded in the same vein, with the expressed assurance that “I, too, disliked all highfalutin and fuss,” and, seating myself, 1 “pitched in” witli a will, my appetite sharpened by the consciousness of having had no dinner, and the further conviction that, coarse as was the fare, it was all I would get until the next morning at any rate. The family I soon found to consist jf the old pioneer, his wife, one son, and two daughters; the latter really pretty girls of about 18 and 20 years, Respectively, and full of curiosity as to what the traveler in “store-clothes,” i. e. broadcloth, had to tell about the great outside world of which they themselves knew so little.

Supper over, and the welfare of my good steed looked after, I found myself seated before a huge log-fire, listening to stories of Kentucky in the olden time. On this occasion the subject happened to be principally pantherhunting, something with which, on account of its cliff’s and dark ravines, the section in early times abounded; and as many of these incidents can hardly help being of interest to readers of the present time, J propose to relate some of them as they were told to me. “When I first moved out of Ca’lina into Kaintuck,” began the old gentleman, “I had one of the likeliest colts any one ever sot eyes on. The mar’ was fine enough; but the oolt—why, its coat was jest silk and satin; and, as for its limbs, no fawn you’d meet in the woods was more trim built, or could git oyer the ground faster. Why, stranger, I jest had to stop and look at that mar’ and colt every time I went past the lot in which I kept ’em, up that hollow you c’me down to-day; and I thought’most as much of them as I did of the old oman and gals, for horses was horses then, for they was mighty scarce and hard to get in them airly times. “Well, I never dreamed of any harm cornin’ to the beasts, for the Indians had gone, and we had no horse thieves then about the settlements; but one fall morning, on going out" to salt ’em, I didn't see the colt at all, although thar’ was the old mar’, looking wild and scared-like. Come to look around, I seed whar the ground had been tramped all about, as if a big scuffle had taken place; and, looking further yet, I found ray fine colt killed by some varmint and hidden away in a pile of fern, a great chunk having been eaten out of its thigh. I tell you, I was mad! Of course it must have been & painter that did that, says Ito myself; and back I went for my rifle. “It did not take long to hunt up some of the neighbors, for I was determined to have the varmint’s scaln if he was anywhar’ in them hills. But, after a day’s hunt, all we shot was a big b’ar, which was killed at the start, and which we sunk in the creek 'till we came back from the painter hunt, for we did not mean tne painter should have any b’ar meat when he missed his next feast on the colt. “The horse-lot looked mighty lonesome for weeks after that, so that I

hated to go past it; but one day, about six weeks after the death of the colt, as I was sauntering about thar with my rifle on my shoulder, what should I see but a huge painter perched up on the big limb of a tree, below the bluff, overlooking the horse-lot, and twisting his tail and licking his chops as he was watching one of my yearling heifers that was feeding right along up toward him. “Thinks I your hide’s in the loft and your tail hanging out, my friend; and with that I ran to a point of the bluff where he couldn’t see me, and, drawing a bead on him, at mighty long range, too, I was lucky enough to break his backbone with my bullet. “Heavens and airth, stranger, you onght’er heerd him scream!—jest like a woman—only a hundred times louder! Down he went ker-chunk on to the ground; and, as he couldn’t run, he jest tore up the airth with his claws and gave scream after scream, enough to make one’s blood run cold. But I tell you, stranger, the best old ‘ Virginia break-down ’ ever played on any fiddle never made such music for me as that painter’s yell. I knew he was the very villain that had killed my colt; so, being determined to get full pay, I wouldn’t shoot him again, and so end him; but I jest went up on top of the bluff and rolled great rocks down on him until, at last, I made a perfect mash of him. And that, stranger, is how I got even with the horrid brute.” The old gentleman continued: “Painters was mighty plenty in them times, and ther’ warn’t many settlers that didn’t have some sort of scrimmage with one or more of them. But the most that ever I heerd of as being in one gang happened up on a high ridge about ten miles from here, when I first came to Kaintuck. That time a neighbor of mine and myself had agreed to have a day’s hunt together, for deer or bar’ —we didn't care much which—and, on starting out from his cabin in the morning, we agreed that each one should take up a high ridge of two that ran up both sides of a long and deep valley, and we agreed besides that, if either one fired, the other was to go to him, for, you see, a bar’ even was not always a safe chap to handle by one’s self.

“Well, I hadn’t been on my ridge very long till I heerd three shots, one arter another, as quick as a rifle could be fired; and at the first one away I ran down the mountain side to cross over to the other ridge. ’Bout half way over, what should I see coming toward me in the open creek bottom but a huge painter, who, as he saw me, stopped, not liking my looks, I thought, much better than I did his’n? There he was, squatting like a dog, on his hind quarters, and staring at me with his great yellow eyes. I aimed for his peepers in a hurry, but, to my horror, my gun snapped 1 and he jumps up and comes a few steps right towards me! My eyes begun to water, but I snapped again; and once more the horrid varmint come a few steps nearer, this time twisting his tail about like a cat watching a mouse! .By this time I was so scared —’tain’t no jise not to own up—that my gun begun to wobble, but, as well as I could, I kept on snapping, without at last aiming at all, in my fright, when finally the gun went off in his very face, and the cussed creature, scared too, turned his ugly tail and went off down the hollow, at a gallop, whilst the great drops of sweat stood on my face, and my ha’r almost raised the cap off my head, I do believe! Mighty glad, stranger, I was, to get rid of him. “ On going up to the top of the ridge, I found my neighbor had killed three panthers, one after another, as they came trotting along the top of the ridge toward him—the first one being a she, the others lies, and one turned tail—the one I met—making four in all that were together. He. told me that as he dropped one of ’em, the others came trotting up—and, luckily, his rifle didn’t miss fire as mine did. Old flint-locks, stranger, wasn’t a very good dependence in painter and b’ar fights, though they’d do for Indians who only had flint-locks themselves.” “ I suppose,” queried I, “ you never ate panther-meat in early times ? ” “ Well, no. The nearest I ever came to it was once up on Rockcastle, when I’d been three days in the mountains hiding from the Indians, and without a bite of meat or anything else. At that time I happened on a painter—a young one—and a lucky shot brought him out of a tree-top right dead. Thinks I, if ever I can go painter, it must be now, when I’m so nigh starved; so I set to work to skin the critter. Jest as I was getting through with the job, and noticing how nice and white the meat looked, I happened to have to shove up my coon-skin cap— for I was sweating—when suddenly there struck on my nose the smell of my hand and the meat, and the scent was so like that of a dog that it turned my stomach at once, and I believe if I’d a died of hunger I couldn’t have touched it. You see, b’ar meat don’t smell like that.

“I tell you, stranger, painters are vicious brutes, and I am glad they’re pretty much done with in these parts. Why, since I’ve been here, one of my neighbors, being late at night in getting home from a log-rolling, had a long, gravelly hollow to ride down, and, when about three miles from a cabin at the lower end of it, and 10 o’clock at night, suddenly he heered behind him one of those horrid screams ’bout which there could be no mistake. His horse heered it, too, you may believe, and it didn’t take the sharp Mexican spurs to make him git up and git, as the yell sounded closer and closer. Talk about your ‘two-forties,’ stranger! Why them brutes can forereach on the best Kaintuck blood almost as if the horse was standing still, for I believe they can make thirty or forty feet at a jump, and they gather again as quick as a cat. All that saved Bill Estill, for that was his name, was his horsq’s shoes once in awhile striking fire on the gravel, as the night was dark, and the sparks scaring the varmint for a moment at a time, made him give back. But it was a narrow escape, and Bill said afterward he could have been bought that night, horse and all, for a drink of old Bourbon.” The evening passed quickly away, as other tales of early times and perils in old Kaintuck followed in rapid succession, for the veteran pioneer was fortunate, at least, in having a good listener, until at length bed-time arrived, with the not-uncommon puzzle for a stranger of vhere he was to be disposed of for the night, in what seemed somewhat narrow quarters. But, after all, the solution was easy. “ Stranger,” said the old gentleman, “ you can take that bed thar,” pointing to one at the back of the room in which we were sitting. But no one moved, or for a while seemed disposed to stir; so, fortified with a wide experience, I proceeded to move, myself. The girls and all sat looking straight into the great log fire; sol went back to the bed, disrobed as quickly as possible, and—l must confess—in some ■trepidation, lest something should prematurely break up the circle; but the movement was a success, for I was quickly ensconced under the quilts. But I was not quite done with yet, for forthwith came the kindly query: “ Stranger, have you got kiver enough ? ” Compelled tn answer “ No,” for it was late in October, and the “ chinking ” to the logs not altogether complete, next came the injunction, or order:

“ Carline, pnt more kiver on the stranger, and then both of yon gals be off with yon to bed! ” The task thus enjoined was done neatly and as a matter of course; but with the least perceptible of blushes, or it might have been a reflection from the red firelight on the hearth. The girls then disappeared up the ladder into the loft, and the old gentleman, * raking np the fire,” next left for somewhere, and all was still, only that once in the night I heard the baying of hounds, and the wind, as it rose and sighed in the forest not far off. Tired, however, with the long day’s ride, I enjoyed a good night’s rest. I must not omit to say that the next morning, up bright and early, the meager entertainment of the evening before, as a supper, was nobly compensated for bv a .breakfast fit for a frequenter of Delmonico’s. Broiled venison steaks from a deer that the hounds had run across the very door-yard, and which had fallen before the old gentleman’s rifle, and the whitest of fresh biscuits and honey, were a few of the items of the feast; and, with a refusal of all compensa ion, “because,” he said, “I never did charge a stranger for stopping with me, and I am too old to begin now,” I was compelled to take it out in warm grasps of the hand all around, with cherished recollections of a pleasan t sojourn never to be forgotten, and a promise to “stop again if ever I came that way.”

ODD CHARACTER SKETCHES.

Wanted to Die.—A rejected suitor made a last and ineffectual appeal to the girl of his choice, as they were riding together near Newark, Ohio. She told him that she certainly would never change her mind. “ Then I want to die,” he said. He got out of the wagon, took the check-rein from the horse, walked a short distance into the woods and hanged himself. The girl, after waiting awhile, went to look for him and found him dead. “ The American Tourist.”—A small, four-wheeled wagon, drawn by two goats, and containing a helpless, shriveled-up remnant of a man, dressed in a loose garment of coarse cloth and wearing a large straw hat, attracted attention in Hagerstown, Md., recently. The man gave his name as David Grieve, from Zanesville, Ohio. He says he was formerly a stout, active man, about five feet five inches high, but that he has been brought to his present condition by paralysis. He has traveled in the present manner for many years, and calls himself “the American tourist.” He is entirely helpless, and his shriveled limbs and parched countenance are pitiful. He has a wife and four children, who accompany him and attend to his wants. He is a temperance advocate, bitter in his denunciation of spirituous liquors, and derives a small revenue from the sale of a temperance song and other small articles. A Newsboy Benefactor. John King, cripple, is a Cincinnati newsboy, but now somewhat more noted than others of his calling. For ten years he has lived in a cramped and comfortless room in the old Museum building, at Third and Sycamore streets. He has all this time been alone—cooking, washing and mending for himself. A hard life, it may be said. But John from the first took a different view of the matter. He was an optimist. Nature had kicked him at the start? Very true. The world cuffed him on the way? Correct. Nevertheless, John began to collect books, working all day for bread and the means to satisfy his bibliomania. At night he would read. Last Tuesday the Commercial devoted a column to John’s presentation of 2,500 volumes to the Public Library of Cincinnati. All the books are good; many of them choice —old volumes with London imprint, the classics, histories, and so on.

John's Love.—There died in Austin, Minn., one day last week, an old man called John, the woodman. He shuffled the coil through poison self-admin-istered. John lived in a bit of woods near Austin, his place of abode being a cabin. Though surrounded by game, feathered and finny, he never sought it, but lived from lightwood and charcoal sold to the townspeople. He was a good old man. He was not ambitious. Year after year he visited the house of a widow lady in Austin, she being one of his constant customers. The widow was fond of simple John, with his giiz-zly-gray beard and coal-begrimed face, and frequently talked to him. One day she said, half in jest: “ John, I’m going to be married soon.” The words affected the old fellow so that he did not bid the children good-by. He went to the woods and searched for roots, many of which he pulled up, taking them to his cabin. Selecting what he thought the poisonous ones, he ate them and died. This is avouched by the Transcript, of Austin. Mac of Tulare.—Among the weeds and tiles of Tulare lake, in California, may be found a man who has cut himself off from all but wild life. He if known as the Boat Hermit of Tulare. His name is James Mac. Whether when he made one of the throng the Mac was followed by Adams, Duffy, Cullough or any one of the other hundred names that usually go with the prefix he cannot be led to say. He calls himself James Mac. He spends night and day in his boat, an ordinary lake craft, without sail or rudder. In fishing or trapping he. is so expert that those who know him understand the by-phrase “as lucky as Mac.” This character served in the navy during the Mexican war, and in ’49 joined the exodus for the gold fields of the Pacific coast. He helped to survey San Francisco when it contained less than a score of shanties. He joined several bands of pioneersand marched through the mountains and forests for years, returning to San Francisco to find that it had become a large city. Tulare lake, in the distance, was the only natural feature of the country, a part of which had been claimed and staked off by him, so he built a boat and vowed to pass his life among the bullrushes.

Eccentric Calvin Hill.—Capt. Calvin Hill, who recently died in Somers, Mass., at the age of 94, was one of the most eccentric farmers in Western Massachusetts. He would never begin a piece of work on Friday, would cut his finger-nails at stated times, would never kill a hog for his own use unless the moon was growing larger, so that the meat would swell while cooking, would “ talk ” to burns to cure the pain, and had as many superstitious notions as a heathen. To look up and see an odd number of crows was to him an omen of bad luck, and to see the new moon over his right shoulder indicated that good fortune lay in his pathway. He became a Spiritualist when the table-tippings attracted attention thirty years ago. He sold his farm, distributed his property among his heirs, keeping only what he supposed he might need, and that he put into the hands of trustees, and soon became a first-class medium. He built a church in his town for the worshipers of the new faith, and for many years, until incapacitated by age, he was a leader of the sect, claiming the power to heal the sick and perform miracles. The Czar has approved the scheme of reducing military service in Russia from six years to three, and, if the military authorities approve it, it will shortly be carried out.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Oatmeal contains nearly 16 per cent, of flesh-forming constituents. Less wheat, but three times the area of corn, and twice of oats, has been planted and sown in Colorado this year, compared with last. “Pbof.” Henderson, of the Rural Farm, reqnests hs to state that he finds lamp-black, applied with a woolen doth, the very best substance for burnishing the brass or silver-plated mountings of harness. — Rural New Yorker. If you have any raspberries, the canes must be tied to the trellis or stakes. The young shoots that are now coming will be next year’s bearing canes ■nd should be taken care of; five or six may be left on each strong plant; the rest are superfluous. Radishes should now be freely supplied with water, otherwise they will be spongy and unfit to eat. To have a constant supply of this excellent vegetable, sow a short row every week, say every Saturday. They can be grown between the rows of cabbage and other vegetables, but water them freely. Quassia and soft soap is recommended for destroying aphides on roses and other woody plants. It is used by boiling four ounces of quassia chips for half an hour in a gallon of water. When cold and strained, add two more gallons of water and six ounces of soft soap. With this syringe the bushes. The man who farms his brains to their full extent year after year, and does not believe in occasional fallowings, will find at last that brains, like land, will run out.— Albany Argus. And the man who farms his land year after year without bringing brain power to his work will find that his land will soon run out. The unpretending but sweet little mignonette should be found in every flower-garden. Sow some seed in a pot or box; set the young plants in fourI inch pots, one in each, and train them up for window decoration. I have transplanted young plants very successfully in the garden by carefully shading and watering them till they began to grow. Peas growing over a foot in height should be supplied with brush on which to climb. Trim each brush with a hatchet into a flattened or fan-shaped form, sharpen the ends so they can easily be stuck in the ground and set a row of brush to each row of peas. In beds of two rows the brush should be set on the outside, the tops leaning a little toward each other.

Attention to little things about the farm, as in any other business, is what increases the profits. Plenty of eggs, a few chickens, a few calves, a colt or two help out wonderfully. If some of the perquisites arising are given to the children for the care bestowed, they will cheerfully help" in the garden, and thus another important item is added to the well-being of the family. Tomato plants should never be allowed to lie on the ground; they give less and inferior fruit, and it will ripen late if they do. The best way is to train them to a trellis made either of wire or of wooden strips. Every branch should be tied up, and, later, when a quantity of fruit is formed, the tips pinched off; you will then be surprised to see the amount and size of the fruit you can gather from a single plant. In lieu of a trellis, you can use low, spreading brush to raise the plants from the ground, but it is not so efficient. Recent analysis at the Connecticut Experiment Station of about a dozen different specimens of corn-fodder, cut at different periods, give the highest amount of albuminoids to that cut Aug. 9, of carbo-hydrates to that cut Sept. 25, and the highest digestible ratio to a sample that was harvested in 1877. Analysis shows a much larger percentage of ash in sweet corn than in the ordinary field varieties, which confirmed the general opinion that it is much more exhaustive than common field corn. As the stalk increases in age, its feeding value diminishes. American Cultivator. The use of salt in the care of farm animals seems to aid an economical digestion, and assists assimilation of the requisite normal amount of food; while it is also believed that it makes the flesh harder and gives the animal functions a more regular and healthy action. In England the average daily allowance of salt is for calves one ounce per day, 1-year-old animals three ounces, fattening oxen six ounces, and milch cows four ounces. Sheep, it is said, will never stray from inclosures where salt is kept for their constant use, provided, of course, running water is also found in the pasture. Any plants with soft, large, or hairy leaves are good absorbers, and are supposed to ward off malaria. The probability, however, is that, as a rule, such plants absorb much moisture by the roots, and give off much oxygen to the air, and hence they act in a two-fold manner—take up the moisture from wet soils, and thereby prevent much evaporation at the surlace. Among trees the willow is a good example of the power of absorption; so is the cottonwood. Nothing will grow near them, from the fact that their network of roots ramify the soil to a great distance, and prevent small plants from getting a due supply. An instance is given in the Journal of Forestry, England, where a bog in South Wales, not only useless, but dangerous, was reclaimed by planting it with black (Italian) poplar. The roots ramifying the ground is said to have allowed the water to precolate the clay, and the bog was naturally drained.

Lucky Baldwin’s Ranch.

E. J. Baldwin, everywhere known as Lucky Baldwin, worked on his father’s farm, when young, in Indiana. After twenty-five years of trial at various pursuits, he drifted into the bonanza district, Nevada, and in a few years, by well-judged ventures in mining stocks, realized some millions. He became publicly known by building the “Baldwin,” now so favorably known as a popular house on Market street, San Francisco, 275 by 210 feet. Included in the structure is Baldwin’s Theater. The whole, including furniture, cost $3,000,000. Traveling through Los Angeles county he fancied and bought a Spanish grant of 60,000 acres of beautifully-watered garden-land, and laid it out in princely style. Of this, 13,000 acres are mo’st bottom land, needing no irrigation. Outside of- this he has artificially irrigated most of the propeity by means of six miles of eight-inch pipe, and beautiful lakes are formed here and there, with rustic bridges and other adornments. Some fifty rustic cottages are the homes of his army of working people. All sorts of farm buildings are tastefully arranged, and flowing artesian springs abound, of purest water. The orchard has 1,200 acres, with 18,000 orange and lemon trees, 2,000 almonds, 500 Italian chestnuts, 80 acres of English walnuts, 500 acres of choice grapes, innumerable apples, pears, plums, peaches and figs. He has 60,000 eucalyptus trees of twenty-seven different varieties, and 3,000 of the graceful pepper trees, our most ornate evergreen and drooping variety, bearing a profusion of pepperlooking spice-berries. A broad avenue is laid out, three miles long by 120 feet wide, lined on each side with eucalyptus trees. In the center is a row of peppertrees, making grateful shade in that sunny climate, and the air is cooled by

innumerable fountains. Soon a mansion in keeping with the surroundings will be erected on the rising knoll overlooking this fairy-land, and some hundred tenantry, with gardens and cultivated fields, will enrich the landscape and make this charmed spot a paradise, where the proprietor can pass his declining years in peaceful contemplation of the romance of his creation.— San Francisco Cor. Baltimore Sun.

HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY.

Use waste paper for cleaning stoves, tinware, knives, spoons, windows, mirrors, lamp-chimneys, etc. An excellent wax varnish for furniture is made by dissolving, over a gentle heat, three ounces of wax in one quart of oil of turpentine. Dissolve four or five pounds of washing soda in boiling water and throw down the kitchen sink to prevent the pipes stopping up with grease, etc. Do this every few weeks. Sweet oil is recommended for polishing pianos. Apply with a chamois skin and rub with different skins as they become saturated with the oil. It requires one or two hours of hard rubbing to restore an instrument to its original luster. Feathers should be very thoroughly dried before using them. If feather beds smell badly, or become heavy from want of proper renovation of the feathers, or from old age, empty them and wash the feathers thoroughly in a tub of suds, spread them in the garret to dry, and they will be as light and good as new. Never lay the pillows or feather ticks to dry in the sun; lay them in a shady place, where the wind can purify them. Heat makes feathers rancid. Pot plants that become unthrifty and sickly may be revived by planting them in rich mold in a sunny spot,after trimming, after the season becomes permanently warm. Thus they will often grow into a vigorous state during July and August, and be ready for repotting. Oleanders, oranges, lemons, camellias, azaleas, among hard-wooded plants, may be made healthy in this way. They must, however, be protected from the effects of sweeping prairie winds.

Tomato Catchup.—A bushel of ripe tomatoes cut up and cooked thoroughly ; strain through a sieve when cold: add three quarts of vinegar, one pint and a half of salt, three dunces each of whole cloves and allspice, three ounces white and black pepper, one and a half ounces cayenne pepper, twelve onions boiled whole in it for several hours, watching and stirring for fear of burning. It need not boil hard, but simmer steadily. When cold bottle, after removing the onions when they have well flavored the mixture; keep in a cool, dry place. Bleaching a Straw Hat.—l. If your hat is badly sun-burned soak it in sour milk a few days. 2. Wash your hat clean in lively soap-suds with either a flesh or a tooth-brush, then rinse. Have a tight barrel or box ready. Drive a nail in one side to Dang your hat on. You should sew a thread through the rim to form a loop to suspend it by; have your cover ready; take an old dish; put in some live coal (stop your nose if you are not fond of the perfume) ; then throw on some stick sulphur orbrimstone previously pounded in small lumps. Five cents’ worth would be enough, I should think. 3, First scrub it well in water softened with borax, using very little soap; then rinse it in borax water, using a teaspoonful of powdered borax in a basin of water; bleach it in the sun for two or three days; and, if the hat is very yellow, a little lemon juice rubbed on will prove effective. Cleaing the Hair.—l. Make half a pint of soap suds with pure white soap and warm water, on rising any morning; but before applying it brush the whole scalp well while the hair is perfectlv dry, with the very best Russia bristle brush; scrub back and forth with a will, let not any portion of the surface escape. When brushing the top and front, lean forward, that the particles may fall. After this operation is finished, strike the ends of the bristles on the hearth, or on a board, next pass the coarse part of the comb through the bristles; next brush or flap the hair back and forth with the hand, until no dust is seen to fall; then with the balls of the fingers dipped in the soap-suds, rub the fluid into the scalp and about the roots of the hair; do this patiently and thoroughly; finally, rinse with clear water, and absorb as much of the water from the hair as possible with a dry cloth, then (after allowing the hair to dry a little more by evaporation, but not to dry entirely) dress it as usual, always, under all circumstances, passing the comb through the hair slowly and gently, so as not to break any one off, or taar out any one by the roots. 2. Ammonia should not be used on the hair; it injures the gloss and softness, causing the hair to become harsh and dry. The best way to cleanse the hair and keep the scalp healthy is to beat up a fresh egg and rub it well into the hair, or, if more convenient, rub it into the hair without beating. Rub the egg in until a lather is formed; occasionally wet the hands in warm water, softened with borax; by the time the lather is formed the scalp is clean; then rinse the egg all out in a basin of warm water, containing a table-spoonful of powdered borax ; after that rinse in one clear, warm water.

Delaware Peaches.

Delaware, the land of peaches! the land where during two months of the year the air holds the fragrant aroma of this king of the fruits! Peaches, peaches everywhere—in baskets, in crates, in boxes, in wagons. At every station of the railroad that traverses the spine of the Delaware water-shed one sees those peculiar vehicles generally known as peach wagons, square, cumbersome, and roomy, unloading their luscious contents. At the more considerable stations all is noise, hubbub, and confusion. One by one the peach wagons come rumbling up to the waiting cars, each one striving to get in first, so as to unload and go home again. At the cars is a very Babel of voices calling for manifests, numbers, and what not, commingled with the squealing of mules, and shouting and swearing of teamsters, and the cracking of whips. Along the roads in all directions rumble the peach wagons, each in a little cloud of dust, like a miniature thunder-storm, each wending its way and converging to a center represented by the nearest railway station. The traveler on the railroad passes long trains of freight cars, hanging around and trailing after which is a luscious odor of most luscious fruit. In New York the Delaware peach is rarely seen at its best; the fruit is picked while yet hard, and so shipped, ripening in the cellars of the commission merchants or the stalls of the venders ; but when they are allowed to ripen to full maturity in the broad and native sunlight of their Southern home, when they swell with the last few hours of ripening, the blush side turning a delicate velvety crimson just mottled with a few darker spots, when they soften, not to flaccidity, on the trees, turning the last drops of sap to nectareous juice, then the Delaware peach is a thing hardly to be sufficiently admired, charming alike with its beauty, its odor, and its taste.— Howard Pyle, in Harper’s Magazine.

Fresh Supplies of Vitality

To renew a waning stock may be gathered from a source accessible to all, and never sought in vain by any whose constitution and vigor are not eo much dilapidated as to be wholly past repairing. Evidence direct, convincing and ample, indicates Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a tonic of unexampled efficacy and perfect purity, and possessed of properties that constitute it an invaluable remedy for dyspepsia, constipation, liver complaint, urinary and uterine weakness, rheumatic complaints and malarial fever. Delicate females and infirm old persons are invigorated and solaced by it, and the physical prostration which usually follows a severe illness is in a great degree remedied and convalescence accelerated through its use. It occupies a leading position among medicinal staples.

The “Vibrator” Threshing Machine.

For upward of forty years Messrs. Nichols, Shepard & Co., of Battle Creek, Mich., have been prominent manufacturers of farm implements and machinery, steam engines, mill machinery, etc., during which period their wares have become well known and highly valued throughout the country. Over twenty years ago, they made a fortunate hit by originating the celebrated “Vibrator” Thresher, a machine which has so rapidly gained favor with farmers, that, from the manufacture of only ten the first year, their sales now largely exceed those of any other thresher factory in the world. And this popularity is founded upon merit, for the machine (which is said to be undoubtedly the original and only genuine “Vibrator,”) probably comprises all possible improvements for threshing and separating grain in the most expeditious and perfect manner. As now offered to the public, the machine is the result of long and careful experimenting by persons of genius and skill, with the aid of liberal expenditure and hence it is not surprising that the “ Vibrator” should far excel all the old-fashioned threshers in every essential requisite. Indeed, the great value and success of the “ Vibrator ” —which long ago achieved a national reputa-tion-renders it worthy the attention of all grain and seed growers and threshermen, whether located in the East or West, North or South. The Mounted Horse Powers and Steam Thresher Engines which Messrs. Nichols, Shepabd & Co. manufacture at their celebrated Agricultural Works have also acquired a high reputation, and are worthy of commendation to all interested. Those of our readers desiring specific information in regard to the machines named, should address the manufacturers, as above, for illustrated pamphlet containing full particulais.

Speculation.

Since the creation, it is estimated that 27,000.000,UOU,0OJ,0UO have lived on the earth. Thia sum divided by 27,864,009, the number of square miles, gives 1,314,522,086 to a square mile, and sto a square foot. Suppose a square rod be divided into 11 graves, each grave would contain IQO persons. But this is speculation, and of no beneiit to the 1,000,000,000 people that now exist, 500,000,000 of whom are invalids, 33,000,000 dying each year. What they most want are the facts concerning Dr. Pierce’s Family Medicines. Fur years his Golden Medical Discovery has been tbe standard remedy for the cure of all scrofulous, throat, and lung diseases. While for over a quarter of a century, Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy has been unrivaled as a positive cure for catarrh. The testimony of thousands of ladies has been published, certifying that Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription positively cures the diseases and weaknesses peculiar to women. For full information, see the People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser, an illustrated work of over 900 pages, price (postpaid), $1.50. Over 100,000 copies sold. Address the author, R. V. Pierce, M. D., Buffalo, N. Y. While in London the Empress of Germany dined with the Duke of Belford, whose brother is English Ambassador at Berlin. At this party the Countess Stanhope wore “raven’s wing satin,” opening in front over a plastron of white satin, in folds. Countess Karolyi (Hungarian) had a bodice and train of black silk, over a petticoat of gold colored silk, and a broad ceinture of yellow silk, fastened on one side by a diamond buckle. If ever there was a specific for the cure of all malarial diseases, such as are produced by swamp poison, like Intermittent, or Chills and Fever, Dumb Chills and Enlarged Spleen, it is certainly Dr. F. Wilhoft’s Anti-Periodic or Fever and Ague Tonic. From its composition, which accompanies each bottle, it may be seen that it contains no dangerous drug, and that in these diseases it never fails, as guaranteed by its proprietors, Wheelock, Finlay & Co., New Orleans, La. For sale by all Druggists. There is nothing to cleanse an impure circulation or wake upadormaptliverlikeScoviLL’s Blood and Liver Syrup. It does the business thoroughly in either case, promoting active bilious secretion, restoring to the life current the purity of perfect health and removing from the cuticle disfiguring eruptions and sores Chronic Rheumatism and gout also succumb to its curative influence. For the diseases peculiar to the gentler sex it is a capital remedy. All Druggists sell it CHEW The Celebrated “Matchless” Wood Tag Plug Tobacco. Th* Pioneer Tobacco Company, New York. Boston and Chicago The Frankfort (Mich.) Express says: “Betsey’s mouth has been thoroughly cleansed out, so as to permit the free passage of logs,” without explaining that Betsey is the name of a lake in that neighborhood. Negtected Coughs and Colds.—Few are aware of the importance of checking a Cough or “Common Cold” in its first stage; that which in the beginning would yield to “Brown’s Bronchial Troches,” if neglected, often works upon the lungs. If each one of several makers had taken the highest medal at one of the great world’s expositions, there would be room to question which was best; but Mason & Hamlin have taken the highest honors at every such competition for twelve years. The Mendelssohn Piano Co. No. 21 East 15th Street, N. Y., sell Pianos at Factory Prices. Write for a catalogue. Chew Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco. Smoke Pogue’s “Sitting Bull Durham Tobacco.”

THE MARKETS.

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ffitWFW a Montn ana expenses guaranteed to Agents. w 4 i Outfit free. Shaw A Co., Augusta, Maine. QQQAA* YEAR, How*.Make It. AgMtt QOOUUooxfr. COB st YONGB, Bt-LeaU. Mo. di 77 7 AY EAR and expenses to agents. Outfit Free. 9111 Address P. O. VICKERY, Augusta, Maine. nniTTlf HABIT & SKIN DISEASES. II 111 if] Thousands cured. Lowest Prices. Do not Vl 1U 111 fail to write. Dr.F.E.Marsb,Quinay,Mioh

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MOLLERS JgJjOD-LIVER OIL Is perfectly pure. Pronounced the best by the h'ghost medical authorities in the wc.-ld. Given highest award at 12 World’s Expositions, and at Paris, 1878. Sold by Druggists. W.F-Scbleflclin dkCo.,N.Y. THE WEEKLY SUN. A large, eight-page paper of 58 brood columns will be to any address until January Ist, FOR HALF A DOLLAR. AddressTHE SUN, N. Y. City. §APONIFIER Is the Old Reliable Concentrated Lye FOR FAMILY SOAP-MAKING. Directions accompanying each tan for making Hard, Soft and Toilet Soap Q UICKX. Y. IT IS FULL WEIGHT AND STRENGTH. The market is flooded with (so-called) Concentrated Lye. which is adulterated With’ salt and rosin, and won't make nap. save nonet, and but the Saponifieß MADE BY THE Pennsylvania Salt Manufg Co, PHILADILPBIA. // New 'X // Aad IhoaiMtoii, Ct. A W Na FOB // V TOWERS, y, offices, // houses, // XJST OF DISEASES ALWAYS CURABLE BY USING MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT. OF HUMAIf FLESH. OP ANIMALS. Rheumatism. Scratches, Burns and Scalds, Sores and Galls, Stings and Bites, Spavin, Cracks, .Cuts and Bruises, Screw Worm, Grub, Sprains A Stitches, Foot Rot, Hoof All, Contracted Muscles lameness, Stiff Joint., Swlnny, Founders, Backache, Sprains, Strains, Eruptions, Sore Feet, Frost Bites, Stifltaess, and all external diseases, and every hurtor accident For general use in family, stable and stock yard itu THE BEST Or AT T. LINIMENTS An infallible and unexcelled remedy foi Fits, Epilepsy or FaJllng Sickness. Warranted to effect a speedy and ■ ■ W renowned SpeciSo and ■ valuable Treatise sent u ■ s* any sufferer sending me hk ■ ■ MW Postoffice and Express ade droHf, Dr. BL G. ROOT. IS3 Pearl Street. New York.

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