Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1880 — Page 4

A Bl OGI-HIDE. A buggy-ride, perhaps, la not The finest subject for a song, But when the muse has thus been caught. To treat things right X deem no wrong. 'Twas even’s stillest, saddest hour, When all the ether seemed ablaze With filings of a golden shower That sparkled in the western haze. The truest pair of glowing eyes, Though fathomless as azure’s sea, Glanced up in mine with mute surprise, And flashed with friendship’s ecstasy. Of coursa they were the “ corner-stone ” Of this production, howe’er grand ; They give it depth, and strength, and tone, If to such heights it doth expand. Along the quiet, dusty way, With even’s shadows dr<x>ping down, To fold the fleeting, dying day In dingy robes of deepest brown, We drove our slowly-prancing steed (Hired horses ne’er possess a soul), And, though it always is the need, I never thought of paying “ toil,” Until at last she said that I Must write a poem of our ride. I thought the theme was rather “ dry,” Unless »/<« lie the song implied. And, whisp’rlng in her Jist’nlng ear, I asked a slight but simple boon— Ho simple that no maid need fear Bestowing it upon a “toon.” It was not granted; and, of course, I knew it was not right to steal; ’Twould tinge our joy with a remorse I hope no soul shall ever feel. Gh, why hoard those exhaustless stores Of rapture that but bringeth b.iss? Why wreck our hopes on fancy’s shores, When 'tis no theft to steal a kiss I I plead—but it was vain to plead; And teased -but useless ’twas to tease; And reasoned—but ’twas wisdom's need That whispered this would never please. The ride was over, and at lat t The silent, parting hour had come. When thoughts are roaming swift and fast, And eyes but speak, ami lips arc dumb. And, though but friends, I know the bliss That little favor might have wrought; The rapture of one simple kiss Had savored this with deeper thought. I learned a lesson. So may you. Young men and boys of “tender” years, Who buggy-ride ami read this, too; 'Twill save you many doubts and fears. Don't bog and crave so slight a b >on (And yet so great you cannot break it>, But if a kiss you want, sir “loon,” J ust simply watch your chance and take it. Myer.

THE DOCTOR’S WATCHMAN.

- “Tell you what, doctor; you’ll begetting robbed mid murdered one of these days ; you will, upon my wortl!” “Hardly, my boy. You ought to know, by this time, that it’s the province of us doctors to kill other people, not to be killed ourselves.” And, with a thick chuckle at his own wit, Dr. John Hunter Bistoury settled himself comfortably in his chair, and began to peel his third orange as carefully as if he were taking off a limb. When the doctor first came to New York, thirty years before, he had been in no way burdened with riches ; but his face had proved his fortune in a different sense from that of the over-candid milkmaid in the song. The mere sight of that round, florid, jovial visage, in every crease of which a joke or a good story seemed to bo lurking, was a cordial in itself, and appeared capable of reviving the most hopeless invalid without the aid of medicine at all. Mindful of the human weakness which makes so many worthy people regard their own ailments as a kind of personal distinction, the lessening of which in any way is a direct insult to themselves, Dr. Bistoury skillfully took a middle course between alarming his patients, by an overserious view of their ease, and offending them by jippearing to make light of it. In this way ho had acquired an enormous practice, and his reputation now stood so high that the mere eclat of his name had sufficed to sell an entire edition of his great work upon “The Mutual Relations of Mind and Body,” in which he proved to his own satisfaction, if not to that of all his readers, that all criminal impulses whatever, and indeed the very existence of sin itself, are wholly due to “ a morbid action of the physical system”—that a murder may be prevented by the timely use of Epsom salts, and an unbeliever converted by a judicious contemplation of the virtues of quinine.

“lean assure you, my dear Harry,” resumed the genial doctor, “that it’s amazing flattering to me to find myself considered worth robbing at all. No thief would have thought me worth a center-bit in the days when your poor father—as fine a fellow, Harry, as ever breathed—used to come and sup with me upon biscuits and toasted cheese in my little snuggery down town. And then, as surely as the time came to go, he’d turn to me and say: * Now, Jack, old boy, won’t you think better of it, and let me write you a check—just to give you a fair start, you know? ’ But, although I knew well enough that he’d have been only too glad to do it, I had to refuse ; for my motto is, ‘ Heaven helps those who help themselves ! ’ ”

“A motto which you’ll find some black-masked gentleman exemplifying in this very house one of these nights,” growled Harry Everett. “ Look here, doctor, I'm not joking—l’m not, indeed. Everybody knows you’re a rich man, and it’s got abroad that there’s a room in your house which is always shut up ; the very thing to make people think there must be something very valuable stowed away there, and yet, after all that, you go living in this big house without a sold near you except the cook and old Sam yonder, who wouldn’t be worth a cent in a real scrimmage ! ” “ Well, my boy,” said the doctor, with a curious smile ; “ would it tranqnilize your mind if I were to engage a nightwatchman ? ” “I should think so. That would be just the thing.” “ Very good. Consider it done.” This room, of which Harry had spoken as being “always shut up,” was a standing puzzle to the doctor’s few intimates. Not a man of them had ever crossed its threshold, and its master, when questioned on the subject, answered only by some joking evasion. Rumor whispered that one adventurous gentleman, rendered desperate by his wife’s threat to give him no peace till he found out “ what Dr. Bistoury kept hid in that room of his,” had actually attempted a burglarious entrance ; but the attempt, if ever made, had been unsuccessful. It is needless to say that countless conjectures, and not a few heavy bets, likewise, were being constantly made respecting the contents of this Bluebeard chamber. Many declared that the doctor had fitted it up in the hope of discovering the Philosopher’s stone. Others were equally positive that it contained the hoardings of his whole life in American gold, his opinions being notoriously of the “ hard-money ” order. A rival practitioner, of a somewhat cynical turn, suggested that it must contain the remains of the unfortunate patients who had perished under that fellow Bistoury’s ministrations, and one imaginative lady, deeply read in “Jane Eyre,” stoutly maintained that the doctor, in imitation of the hero of that famous work, had immured his wife in that mysterious oubliette, in order to enjoy unchecked the freedom of a bachelor life. Against this ingenious theory there was only one thing to be said—the doctor had never had a wife to immure. This flagrant treason against the sex was the more unpardonable inasmuch as he had had abundant opportunities of changing his condition, had he but chosen to avail himself of them. To most of those who questioned him on the subject he replied that he was wedded to his profession, and that any other union would be flat bigamy ; but to his friend Harry Everett, in a moment of after-dinner confidence, he told a very different story. ‘‘ My medical cousin Alice was the woman who ought to have been Mrs. Bistoury, and an admirable fellow-prac-titioner she would have made for me. The way in which she once cut a splin-

ter out of my thumb did equal honor to her hand and her heart; and, when she was only 13, she bought a skeleton with her uncle’s birthday gift of $5 ” (a, fact), “and articulated it in a manner that was really masterly. But in an evil hour she became tainted with a fancy for homeopathy ; and after that, of course, all was over between us. Such is life !” The doctor’s agreement to engage a night-watchman quieted Harry’s apprehensions for the time being ; but a few weeks later he returned to the attack once more. “ I say, doctor, have you got that night-watchman yet ?” “ Yes ; some time ago.” “ Well, he don’t seem to do his duty, then, for I’ve passed this way at all hours of the night, and never seen him. Are you quite sure he’s to be trusted ?” “ Wait and see !” replied the doctor, oracularly. And Everett waited, but did not see. The invisible watchman remained as invisible as ever, and Harry, out of patience with his old friend’s seeming infatuation, had almost decided to take some decisive step on his own authority, when a new complication introduced itself into the drama. This was nothing less than the temporary retirement of the doctor’s veteran man-servant, popularly known as “Old Bam,” whose health had begun to give way so manifestly that his master insisted on sending him into the country for a three months’ holiday, replacing him with another man, who had volunteered as promptly as if he had been keeping his eye on the place for a year past. The new-comer was a grave, smooth faced, taciturn man, who moved as noiselessly as a shadow, and seemed a living combination of the two proverbial requisites of a good servant—silence and obedience.

But, although the doctor and his friends highly approved of this model domestic, there was one man who did not. That one was Harry Everett, who lost no time in announcing his opinion. “Look here, doctor. I don’t want to be always bothering you about this robbery idea, but it’s a fact that that new fellow of yours is up to some mischief. I was coming home pretty late last night when I caught sight of him standing at the garden gate talking to a couple of men. Ono of them happened to turn his face to the lamplight as I passed, and I knew him at once for a noted thief, who goes by the name of ‘ Badger Bill.’ ” ‘ ‘ Indeed ! Are you sure of that ? ” “ Quite sure. You know I never forget a face I’ve once seen. ” “Ah! In that case, it’s time for me to act! ” The last word was so curiously emphasized that Harry, who was not wanting in shrewdness, began to suspect that his persistent warnings to the doctor had been superfluous, after all, and that the old gentleman was quite equal to the emergency. The suspicion was confirmed one evening about a week later-, when the doctor dropped in upon him unexpectedly, saying : “Give me some dinner, my boy. You’ve no engagement this evening, I know ; so I’m going to be very benevolent, and find you some amusement myself. Have you ever read * The Count of Monte Christo ? ’ because you’re going to see a chapter of it dramatized tonight, and pretty effectively, too, I flatter myself.”

“ What do you mean? ” asked Everett, staring. “ Why, you see, I told my servants a few days ago that I should be away from home to-night, and my cook naturally seized the chance for getting an ‘ evening out;’ consequently, the house will be under the sole charge of that worthy man-servant of mine, against whom you’re so unaccountably prejudiced. It’s quite possible that the two lionest gentlemen with whom you saw him talking the other night may be kind enough to enliven his solitude with a visit; and so—”

Harry sprung to his feet, and cut a caper worthy of a dancing dervish, snapping his fingers by way of accompaniment. “Capital! first-rate! I see it I all now ! But come, now, doctor; why on earth couldn’t you tell me before that i you were’up to the whole game, instead of letting me make a fool of myself by preaching to a man as smart as any six of me?” “ Never mind, my boy,” said the doctor, laughing. ‘ * Your warning was kindly meant, all the same. Eat your dinner—you’ll want it before the evenI ing’s over, I can promise you—and then we’ll have our talk.”

Dinner over, the doctor lit one of the incomparable cigars which were his sole luxury, and proceeded to expound his plan of action. ‘ ‘ I’ve locked up the outer room that opens into my mysterious chamber, which puts two strong doors between it and the robbers; My estimable servant will warn them of this, and they’ll try the window instead. He’ll let them in by the garden door, and give them the old ladder that lies beside it to mount by. We'll hide in the stable, which, thanks to my keeping my brougham elsewhere—has been unused so long that no one would dream of suspecting it; but I can open the door easily enough. And then—” “And then,” broke in Harry, eagerly, ‘ ‘ we’ll go for them the minute they appear. It’ll be a line chance to try my new revolver.” “Better leave it at home,” said the doctor, quietly ; “we shall w ant no weapons for this job.” “ Why, are you going to mesmerize the fellows ?” asked Everett, completely mystified. “Wait and see,” chuckled the doctor. “We needn’t be there till 11, for my honest domestic will make sure, before giving the signal, that I’m not coming back ; and beside an experienced burglar seldom begins work till after midnight. The only tiling to be sure of is that nobody sees us getting in. ”

But in this fortune favored them; and, as the doctor had foretold, the lock of the stable door, rusty as it looked, moved without difficulty, and the two conspirators glided in, unseen and unheard. Weary, weary work, crouching there in the darkness, with ear and eye strained to the utmost for the first sign of the coming danger. Dr. Bistoury’s practiced nerves bore even this prolonged trial easily enough; but to the impulsive, excitable Everett it was absolute torture. Like all young soldiers, he found the suspense before the action infinitely more trying than the fray itself. The stable opened on the street close to the garden-door, and its farther window, at which the two watchers had posted themselves, commanded the whole side of the house, the blackness of which was relieved only by a solitary light in one of the upper windows. Suddenly the light vanished, and reappeared a moment later—a performance repeated three times in quick succession. “That must be the signal,” whispered the doctor. “Keep your ears open, Harry.” Courageous as Everett was, he felt his piilse quicken, and his hand went instinctively to the revolver which, despite the doctor’s verdict, he had persisted in bringing with him. “ Hark! Was that a stealthy footstep outside?” The next moment came a low whistle, instantly answered from the house ; and then a shadowy figure, issuing from the building, glided noiselessly to the gar-den-door, and opened it to admit two others. “ They’ve got the ladder,” whispered Dr. Bistoury, as the three phantoms crossed the garden. “Be on the lookout, my boy ; you’re going to see something worth seeing! ” The ladder was soon placed against the mysterious window, and Badger Bill, after whispering to his comrade to “keep an eye ” on their worthy confederate, as-.

cended, and, cutting out a pane so dexterously that the sound was barely audible, put his hand through and shot back the hasp. His two assistants mounted after him ; and Bill, stepping cautiously into the rootn, turned the ‘‘bull’s-eye” of his lantern upon its interior. Instantly the treacherous servant recoiled with a stifled cry. “ Ain’t that a—a coffin over yonder ? ” whispered he, tremulously. “Good gracious! suppose there snould be a dead man in it, and ” “ S’pose you should be a thunderin’ big fool! ” growled Bill, savagelv. “Shut your mouth, will yer, or thar’ll be another dead man somewhar round soon. I’m a-goin’ right in— l am ! ” And he stepped resolutely forward. Crash ! the coflin-lid burst op«n, and a skeleton, thrown out in ghastly relief by the red light that flamed in its eyeless sockets, started Up with a hideous rattle, thrusting forward its bony arms and grinning jaws as if about to spring on them. The “»S'awue*/Hipeuf”of Napoleon was not more decisive. The lionest servant gave one yell sufficient to wake the whole neighborhood, and rolled on the floor in convulsions. The second burglar, leaping backward, dashed his head with such force against the corner of a bureau that he dropped as if felled with an ax, while Badger Bill, making a frantic rush for the window’, overturned the ladder, and fell crashing along with it, breaking his leg in the fall. ‘ ‘ You see now, Harry, ” said the doctor, as they went up-stairs after seeing their unbidden guests marched oft’ by the police, “that my night-watchman did know his duty, although there’s nothing more unearthly about him than a few concealed springs, which are released upon the approach of any one, and a little phosphorus. As for this wonderful room, you see it’s only a laboratory, after all. But the stories that people told about it amused me so much that I must plead guilty to havinggiven them a good deal of encouragement. Now, let us be-off to bed; and I think you may sleep in peace after this, for it strikes me it’ll be some time before anybody robs my house again. ” And, indeed, no one has ever attempted it since.

BITS OF INFORMATION.

The island of Ireland is in shape a rhomboid, the greater diagonal of which is 300 miles, and the smaller 210 across ; greatest meridianal length 230 miles; greatest and smallest breadth 180andll0 miles ; area, 32,531 square miles. Up to the year 1857 the husband of Queen Victoria possessed no distinctive English title and no place in court ceremony except such as was conceded to him by courtesy. In that year the title of Prince Consort was conferred upon him by letters-patent. Foolscap paper derives its name from the fact that paper of that size once bore the mark of a fool’s head with cap and bells, just as “ post”-size paper once had the mark of a post-boy’s horn. In the middle of the seventeenth century, however, the English makers substituted a figure of Britannia for the fool’s head. The Monroe doctrine, as promulgated in President Monroe’s message of Dec. 2, 1823, was that it was the policy of the United States neither to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe nor suffer the Old World to interfere with the affairs of the New. In other words, that Americans should govern America. On the same occasion he declared that any attempt on the part of European powers to “extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere ” would be regarded by the United States as ‘ ‘dangerous to our peace and safety,” and would be opposed. The old saying, “ Nine taylors make a man,” originated from the following circumstance : A number of years since, in London, a little boy was accustomed to sell apples, cakes, etc., among the various shops. At one place he visited were nine journeyman tailors, who, on account of the unusual brightness of the boy, determined to educate him. Each one contributed a portion toward the necessary expenses, and the boy eventually became a noted individual. In this sense nine tailors were said to have made a man.

The first models were figures of living persons, and Dibutades, the Corinthian, is the reputed inventor of those in elay. His daughter, known by the appellation of the Corinthian Maid, being about to be separated from her lover, who was going on a distant journey, traced his profile by the shadow on the wall. Her father filled up the outline with clay, which he afterward baked, and produced a figure of the object of her affection, giving rise to an art till then unknown. This was about 985 B. C.

The Way They Churn in Texas.

I thought that I had seen a good many kinds of churns before I came down here (says a New England Yankee, writing from Texas) —crank churns, dasher churns, and “chemical churns.” But I will now describe a mode of churning butter that will, I think, make New England folks open their eyes. Commonly, they do not make much butter in this county, and the settlers here come to get along without it; but, by the time I had been at the poesta two or three days, I began to want some butter on my bread.

M had a herd of twenty-five or thirty cattle, which he kept for beef, and among them were a number of milch cows. Ed was bidden to set the milk for twenty-four hours, and the next morning M told Lizado, or “Liz,” as we called him, to churn. They had done such a thing as to churn butter before, it appears. Liz went out and brought a bag of raw hide, about as large as a common meal bag. How clean it was inside, I am sure I do not know, but he turned the cream into it, and poured in new milk enough to fill it two-thirds full, and then he tied it up with a strong strip of hide. M stood with a broad grin on his face. I was already too much astonished to make any remarks. Liz now carried the bag out of doors, and then got his horse. Taking his lassoo off the saddle, he made one end of it fast to the cream bag, the other end, as usual, being attached to a ring in the saddle. This done, he jumped on the horse and tucked spurs to him. Away he went, and at the first jerk that bag' went ten feet into the an-, and fell with a squach, close up to the horse’s heels. At the next jerk it went higher still. He soon went out of sight, with the, bag dancing after him. Sometimes it hit down alongside the horse, and sometimes it struck slap on the animal’s rump. M was convulsed with, laughter—at me, I suppose; sos I must confess that this upset all my previous ideas of butter-making. In the course of twenty or thirty minutes Liz came back, the horse looking pretty hot, and the bag very dusty. “Es mantica” (butter’s come), said he. Ed untied the churn, and, sure enough, there was a good homely chunk of butter in it; and it proved to be very decent butter, too. I asked if that was the way they always churned. They said it was, and Ed declared it was “ a dale asier than turnin’ a crank.” Sol respectfully submit the “method ” to all our good people up North. Everything needed for it is a sole-leather bag, a clothes-line and a horse.

May is a very busy month, and there is so much work crowded into it that a farmer is in danger of being in a hurry. Every hour of work should be so planned that it will tell most effectually, and this requires considerable thought in order to do the most urgent and important work first, and leave undone those things which may be done almost as well by-and-by. As we sow so do we reap, and, as this is th ' month of sow-

ing, the work now will in a great measure determine what the harvest of the year shall be. Keep pushing on, but with a plan.

FARM NOTES.

[From the American Agriculturist] Hinns ob Drills. —On clean land drills may’ give the best returns, but, if weeds are plenty, hills will be better, as they allow of cultivation in two directions. Seed about which there is any doubt should be tested before planting to ascertain whether it will grow. Badlykept seed often causes disappointment from its failure to germinate. BniGHT is a quick comer which gives no warning. The best that can lie done is to cut away the portion “struck” down to the live wood. If the tree is badly affected it is best to remove it entirely.

Thinning Fruit.-/Die sooner fruit is thinned after it has set, the better it is for the tree, as all growth of fruit costs effort for the tree to make, and is, therefore, exhaustive. No one who desires the choicest fruit will fail to thin an overloaded tree. Seed-beds of fruit and forest trees need close attention to keep the soil loose and the weeds from establishing themselves. The beds, especially of evergreens, will need shelter from the hot sun, which may be provided by a lattice work of laths, or brush may be used, but less convenient in weeding. Clover.—An early rolling of clover to settle the roots that have been raised by frost will be especially’ appropriate after the open winter just passed. Fiftypounds of plaster per acre will often have as good effect as the larger doses of 100 and 200 pounds that are recommended. Wood ashes on many soils will be found an useful application.

The time of planting corn will, of course, vary with the locality, but it will be better as a rule to secure a thorough preparation of the soil before putting in the seed, even if it somewhat delays the time of planting. Late-planted coin, in a warm, well-pulverized soil will usually take the lead of that which has been struggling from an early- start under unfavorable conditions.

Manures.—Corn, unlike the other cereals, will bear the direct application of manure in liberal quantities. For immediate results, well-rotted manures are always best, but that taken unfermented from the barn-yard may- be applied to corn. Long manure may be placed under, while short manure may be spread upon the surface and worked into the soil by the harrow and cultivator.

Mangels may be sown early- this month. Our practice has been to sow in drills thirty inches apart, using six pounds of seed per acre. A liberal supply of seed is required to secure an even stand, and the plants should be thinned by striking a broad hoe directly across the drills so that single plants will stand twelve to sixteen inches apart. Root crops are often a failure from defective thinning.

Flowing.—-The plowing, and all subsequent preparations of the soil for the seed, should be done in the best possible manner. In turning a sod for corn, any breaks or “ balks” in the work will prove an annoyance in after cultivation, and should be avoided. In many- localities, especially at the West, the Kentucky blue grass (poa pratensis) is a troublesome weed in a corn crop, and it can enly be subdued by careful and thorough tillage.

Planting in Orchards.—There is a general reluctance to give, up the soil of the orchard entirely’ to the trees. While the orchard is young it is best to cultivate it thoroughly, and hoed crops, like potatoes, roots, etc., can be grown as a present pay for the trouble, but, as the trees get older and shade the ground, nothing else but fruit should be expected from the orchard. It is a good practice to pasture hogs in the orchard in clover sown for the purpose, as it is one of the best methods of enriching the soil and at the same time destroying insects.

Corn.—ln the Northern and Western States, corn-planting will be the leading occupation of the month, but this should not prevent a fail- share of attention to other crops that will be needed as a reserve when pastures are getting short, as well as to furnish a variety of feed for winter’s use. A soil in high condition, and thoroughly prepared, will give the best promise of a good—paying—crop of Indian corn. The previous cropping of the soil will have an influence upon the crop, which is nearly as important as the immediate application of manures. A good clover sod, or a grain, or a root crop, immediately after a fair crop of clover, may be followed by corn with a good prospect of success.

Insects.—Tiie potato beetle has become such an abundant and troublesome pest that it should be given no quarter —not even from the stfrt. By combined effort in the early portion of the season the “bugs” maybe kept in check and thus do very little damage. Paris green has been so long and successfully employed that it is scarcely necessary to explain its mode of application. Suffice it to say that the liquid method is the one now- generally practiced—that is, mix the paris green with water and sprinkle it upon the vines. A coffee-pot may be converted into a sprinkler by providing the spout with an extension and arose at the end. The on y source of danger is the careless handling, and the poison should be kept and used with a full knowledge of its nature.

A Jealous Dog.

Truth is indeed often, if not nearly always, stranger than fiction, as the following extraordinary but, true story will attest : The circumstance occurred about two months ago, nt a gentleman’s seat in North Wales. This gentleman was the owner of a very fine but savage mastiff, with a cross of the St. Bernard in him, named Mars. All day he was kept chained up in a back yard, and only let loose at night. One day, as he was sitting gloomily within his solitary kennel, to his unspeakable “ rage, resentment and despair, ” he saw his mate, a beautiful red-and-white setter, called Venus, gamboling and flirting under his very eyes with a very handsome grayhound, called Swift, who had won several cups. Mars writhed, growled and clanked his chain, but all in vain. The happy pair paid no attention to his outraged feelings. That day Mars ate no dinner, but lay with his nose between his elongated forepaws, uttering a low growl, while his red eyes glared fitfully from right to left. At length niglit came, and he was free. He bounded on through the darkness, and rushed to and fro, like a troubled spirit, as he was, till morning dawned, when he met Swift, for whom he had been looking all night. The former, like a gay and fashionable dog, waiving the little injury he had inflicted upon Mars, went up to him, wagging his tail, and holding out to him the right paw of fellowship; whereupon that canine Othello seized him by the nape of the neck, dragged him down to the riverside, and there, with the most deliberate vengeance, dashed his beautiful head against a stone, and literally split his skull till the margin of the river was crimsoned with his blood. After which the still-unappeased Mars dragged his victim into the water, and kept pressing him down till he was quite dead. At sunrise the whipper-in, happening to pass by, saw the corse of this beautiful and valuable dog in the river, Mars, with his heavy paw still pressing him down, while his red tongue was panting and his redder eyes glaring round upon the rocks in defiance, as if glorying in the foul murder he had just committed.

BEAUTY BUT SKIN DEEP.

How to Beautify, How to Preserve, and How to Treat when Diseased, the Skin and Scalp. lyM-L JOMILTX, M. as New York. Apert from the suffering caused by skin diseases, their influence on the bapyiqess of those to whom * dellcats and pearly corn pterion is the d rarest wish of their lives is paramount 'o all others. No lady afflicted with cutaneous eruptions, or loss of hair, will deny that. to ob ain a fe>r skm and luxuriant tresses, she would g'adly exchange the diefigurstkna that now mar her otherwise handsome see, hands, or hat*, for other diteas-s of greater severity, —even Canear—could their existence be eonc'afed from the publ'c eye. Manx an es lmable lady's Ufa has been enm’ttered by cutaneoue affections. She imagines that every on a ae s and uommen's upon her looks. She avoids society and pnblic plac s, and tndtoavers to hide her misery in see'usion. Here the strwgg'e to Improve her appearan * is renewed. No remedy 1b too rsgralslve or dsnrernns to be used. Arsenic is devouhM in large quanVths. mercury is taken inb really and applied exte nal'v, unt'l the teeth rati] ■in th> tr loosened ocke’s, and the ays em groans beneath the Icadtof poisons it is obliged to carry. If such b e the feelinia of one affl'cted with slight Skin blemishes, what must be the cordit*>n of those suffering from salt rbeum, tetter, ring w< ran, pempbi g” ( , , sorla’la, le rosy, lichen, cru-igo. and sca.d bead ? N > pen can fully describe th’ tortures then? endure. Ibath in many etses might be considered a blessing. The burnt g heat, Inflamm tioo, an 1 inching n-arly in pel the sufle er to do violence 'o himself in order to erd his suffer ncs. I have seen patients tear their flesh with their nai’s unti the blood floret! Ip st-eanra. Others have ’old me that they eonld cut the flesh from lielr drabs bo great ws> the »gony they endured With S view to impart some ueef 1 information on the construction and preservation of the skin, sralp, rnd ha>r, a’.d 'h - proper tp»ahment ot th°m when diseased, I have here condensed to a popular form such Information as is most detired. THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SKIN. The skin is comp-sed of t-ro larers, which may bo separa'ed from each other by the action of a b ister. The thin por ion wh oh is raised up by the blis er is called the rcnrf skin, the outic'e, or the epii.ermis; that which remaiv in connection wi'h the body is the sensitive skin, the eulls, the d rma, or the’rue skin. Each has separate d ties to perform. The sca-f ’kin is horny and insensible, and serves as a sheath to protect tire more romitive skin under it. Were the rcarf skin taken off we could not bear to havi anything touch us. The derma or true skin, and its glands, oil tubes, etc., are the seat of all cutaneous dheaies. THE OIL AND SWEAT GLANDS. That the skin may be pliable and heathy It <s necee sary to hav= it oiled ev«»y day ; and for this he Creator has wisely provided by placing fn the true skin smsd glands and tubes, whose office it is to prepare and pour out upon the surface the proper am iut.t of oil On some parts of he to ly they do not exist, but are ab ndant on the face, nose, e rs, head, eyelids, etc. They produce the wax of the ears, and on ths h ad they open into the sheath of the h ir, and furnish it with nature's own hair oil or pomade. When th) skin it healthy these lit’le vessels are always at work, and constantly responding to the demands made up n the n. C> nsequently no person should be afraid to wash thoroughly every dry with soap and wate-, lest, as the “ Boston Medical Journal ” once taught, the skin bo injured by having the oil removed from it. FREQUENT WASHINGS WITH PURE SOAP (free from caustic alkalies) and lukewarm water, followed by brisk rubbing with a coarse towel, will do more to preserve the healthy action of the oil glands and tubes, upon w hich depends a clear and wholesome comple.xkn, than all the cosmetics Iti the world. So important is the free and perfect action of the sweat and fat or oil glands in the preservation of the general health, is well as the special condtt'on of the skin that particular attention to them will be rewarded by incteased physical health. They discharge upon the surface of the body about two and one-half pounds o' matt r per day, and their importance in the purification of the blood and fluids of the body is so great that were they closed by an impervious coat Ing, like i übber or oiled silk, daath would soon ensue. THE GREAT BKIN AND SCALP DISEASES. But bad as are minor forms of skin diseases, they sink i’ to insignificance when compared with the great skin and scalp diseases with which thousands are afflicted during their whole lives. Th.t the reader may know more about them, the principal affections a-e here named, omitting such as are symptoms of constitutional diseases, like measles, rash, etc. The most important are salt rhaum or eczema, tetter, ring worm, psoriasis, Impetigo, leprosy, lichen, prurigo, ba befs’ Itch, Jackson's itch, bakers’ itch, ground itch, sca ! d head and dandruff. Towering above all others In extent, in duration, In suffering, is ECZEMA, commonly called salt rheum. Wilson divides It into twlv ■ species, and others into many more ; but it is sufficiently c ear to the a -erage reader, and will be tecognizel by its small watery blister, about the size of a pinbead, wherever sen Prurigo, imetlgo, and peorii.-is are but little behind salt rbtum in tie suffering they cause. Scald bead Is another obstinate affection, defying all remedies, destroying the hair, and producing great misery and suff ring. Toe scalp, like the tkin, is subject to alt theum, tetter, dandr ift, and other eruptive and scaly diseases, which generally destroy the na’r follicles, and produce permanent baldness. THE TREATMENT of diseases of the tkin or rcalp has been for centuries based upon the mistaken theory that they are entirely due to tom) impurity of the llood. No spec'al attention has ever been directed to the important part the sweat and fat elands play in the propagadoa and maintenance of disease. It is no unjust reflection upon the medical prof sston to say that its efforts in the cure of skin diseases have been a frilu e. Whet with mistaken theories, poisonous r medie.’, and blind adher nee to methods and p actices oriuina'kng in ignoran e and superstition. salt rheum, scald h ad, and psorias s flourish and increase upon s- stems shattered by the c pi us use, t o h internal and external, of mercury, arse-Ic, zinc, a'd lead. For centuries it has been the popular nolion that diseases cf th-; skin and scalp must be cured, if cur<d at all, by p rrifying th blood. Admitti g that this is partly true, whet has been the m’thod or what the remedies by which it was sought to be accomplished t MERCURY AND ARSENIC. Putting aside the sens’less “sarsaparill’,” “dock,” and ‘’dandelion'’ “bl oil purifiers," and con idering only those remedies that have rec'-iv d the sanction of physicians, hospitals, and college’, we find that mercury and arsenic ere the only med'cinal agents of to-day, as they w,re hundreds of years ago which are regarded by the “regular" as hav ng specific m dical properties for the purifleati n of the blood, and hen e theonly reme lies adapted to the treatment of skin anti scalp d seasea. THE TRUE THEORY. Bat a little light is being thrown upon the darkness that has surrounded the intellect of the t ast. To a few German and French physicians and specia'ists we owe wh’t true progress we are making at the present time in the oure of obstnite affections of the s t and scalo. They teach and prove, (1) th’t diseases of the akin and sc Ip are caused by a derangement of the -wcretory an t <xc etory tubes and vetsels of >be true akin , and (2) that such di c s s or affe tious are a gravate.l an 1 maintained by polsorous tirids containing the v'rus of scrofula, malaria, er contag-.o is disease, which are dtscha ped from the blood and e rci ati g fluids upon the tk'n tnrough the sweat a”d fat glands. From these facts they successfully mat tain th t skin di eases cannot be cured so'ely by internal retwertics, nor rolel. by exte nal remedies, but by a judflc'ous use of both. Th se affect! ns ate rot wholly caused by impurities o the blood and c'rculating fluids, tot ate they due entirely to a diseased condition of the sweat and fat glads, tube) vessels, and ce’ls of the true skin, but to a peculiar and inseparable condi- on of Lo h. For it y< u treat the ore to the neZect of the ot v er, no progress la made; lutwilb at'entlon to both at the si me time, and the use of such remedies as I can here recommend, a cure is possible in nearly every case. “WHAT WE WANT,” said a distinguished authority on the skin, “ what we most ta nes ly desire in order to c re obstinate skin and s alp affections, are thr e great remedies, with as many specific prop rties, namely : “1 An internal remedy poss-ssing cathartic, tonic and site ative properties, which will enable it to expel through the natural purifiers of ths body, viz, the lungs, liver, kidneys, b we's. and skin, the c .ns’i'utioEal poison which floats in the blood and circulating fluids of the body. “2. An externa 1 , unchangeable application of jelly consistence that may irrest inflammation or iriltition and destroy fungus or parasitic giowths; and, “8, An emollient and healing soap, free from caustic alkanes and irri ating properties, for cleansing diseased surfaces, and partaking, in a milder form, the medicinal properties of the external appli cation. “ With three such remedies as I conceive it possible to p-eparc, but which I do not now know to exist, I will venture to assert that ninety per centum of the skin diseases in existence may be permanently cured." THE USUAL REMEDIES FAILURES. If I have appeared severe upon the medical profession, I have not been unjustly so towards physicians who adh re to practices at variance w.th reason and common-sense, and, wltha', lamentable fal'u e». I here assert that no ointment, salve, cerate, lotion or compound, for external application, nor alterat ve, or “blood pu'ifier,” for interna! use, to be found in the materia medica of the sell .o!s and colleges cf medicine,—and there are thousands of them,-will certainly cure a case 6f chronic salt rheum, psoriasis, or leprosy. 1 have tried them with all the care and experience suggested by a liberal education, but with unsatisfactory results as to specific curative properties. HOPE FOR THE AFFLICTED. Hence, when Messrs. Weeks & Potteb, Chemists and Druggists of Boston, Mass., informed me that for eight y<ars they ha t been experimenting with medicinal agents, and had obtaire-i—mostly from substances never leto.e used in med'clne, ind by a process original wilh themselves—three great remedies, which they believed to bean infallible cure for every kind of skin, icslp, tnd blood disease, from salt iheuin to dandruff, whether caused by a scrofulous or dis-ease-tainted blood, or by a morbid condition of the glrod->, tubes, vessels and cells of the tiue skin, or both, I was gratified beyond measure. As u.y life has teen and is devoted to the tieatment of skin and s alp diseases, to which I have given much study and attention 1 e.gc-rly embraced thes opportunity afforded me by Messrs. Weeks A Potzbo, to uiahs a tho.ougtr test of these remedies in my practi:e, determined, if successful, to give them such publicity as iheir merits entitled them to. This I now do after two yerrs of extraordinary success with them, with the object of thereby lessening, aa far »s in my power, the great suffering caused by the diseases under consideration. THE FIRST. The name given to the first of these great remedies is Cuticura, from cufis. the skin, and cura, a cure,— a skin cure. In practice, 1 found it possessed wonderful curative prop-.rties, as they exist in no other remedies of the Cay. It is rntiroly unlike anything for external app'icallon that I have ever seen before. It is of jdly consistence, free from grease, ol s or fats and does not contain a particli ot deleterious or unwboletome matter, and is to easly appl ed that no irrliation or pain is caused by its application to raw and inflamed surfaces. Cuticura when used as directed, is wonderfully ad pted to soothe and heal the mist inflamed surface. to allay itebings and irritations, that have been the t r'ureofa lifetime, to deitroy fungus or unnatural growths on the tkin and scalp, to heal ulcrs and scrofulous sores, to cleanse and purify the pores ot the skin and restore to healthy and regular action the oil glands, tubes, and cells, upon whose perfect

action depend the preservation of a healthy skin and restoration when diseased. It will not become rancid, or spot' on exp sure in any clima'e. It will be aa fresh, trazrant, soothing and healing fl ty years hence as it is to-day. Contrast this wiih the horrible salvea aad ointments of the i resent time I THE SECOND. Che Cuticara Medicinal Toilet Soap receives its characierivtic name from the remeoy to which it ov.i its valuable healing and useful properties. It is free from csu -tic alkalies, and is of a delicate, r atural green color. Its emol'ient, toothing and hea’ing action ia the same aa Cnticnra in a modified form. Aside from its medicinal properties, it is mere valued as a toilet, bath, and nursery san 41 e than any other soap. It cle nses. aooihes, whitens, and beautifies the skin, and is a natural p-r ventive of injury to the complexion and hands tom the heats of summer and the chUa of w inter. A n ounce of prevention ia nowhere rewarded with moie pounds of cure i han in the care of tte skin, and no re , eJy or method is more appropriate th a the Cut-c ra Soup. It diseo ves away undue exudation of greasy matter from the oil glands, wi ich eauses the akin to shine, prevents clogging of the pores and tubes, aad stimulates the circulation of uio..u inrougn the small blood vessels, giving color, freshness, snd besnty to the complexion, amply relaying every moment of csra. Tbl isop Is also specie 'lv p-epa-ed t'T shaving, and ia called Cuticura M diclnal Shaving Soap, and will bo found of great va'ue by gentlemen suffering from tender, inflamed, or diseased skin. THE THIRD great remedy aubmit'ed to me is ca'lcd the Cuticura Reeol ent, ‘ eeause of its imitate r< iatlon to Cut curs, in 'he cure of tkin and scalp diseases. Of all tie remedies for the purifleati n of the blood and circulating fluids that I have ever tested, none approach ia s ecllic medical action ths w onderful properties of t e Resolvent In fotty minuttt after taking the first dose it may be detected by chemical snalyrls in the eaii a. sweat, fat, an I > lood, showing that it baa enteied tb b'oo l and droulat ng flu'ds and made the entire cireivt of the human labyrinth many times. Chemical test show it to be present in the water with which the patient has bathed on rising in the morning, which proves conclusively that it has entered and become a part o-' ihe (iroulitin? Hui s, ena I'ng it to traverse every disease 1 ce l, tube, and vessel of the aaln, and leave its wholesome ions ituentj upon the surface of the body. But it do s more than this. It is a powerful purifying agent and liver stimulant It neutralizes and resolves a«ay bio d pois na, caused by the virus of ‘<ro ula, cancer, canker, malarial or contagioua diseas s. It destroys microsc pic insects er laiasites which in est the weter and air f malarial regions, and treed many forms of skin di eases. It regulates the s’.omich a d bo els, and perfects dl estion so as to adm t ot a ra id itictea e of wholesome tissue and stre> gth. Hence its power toelio irate from the system all the destruct! e elements that foster and maintain diseases of the blood, skin, and scalp. Having been charmed Ith the results of my analysis of these gi cat temedles, my next step was to demonstrate their valu; in the tieatm.-rtof the great skin, scrip, and bl od allee ions u ually considered incurable. 1 know that every word I now write WILL AWAKEN HOPE tn the breast of msny a lifelong sufferer. Can I, in a broad and Christian epi l .it, without prejudice, without reservation, say to those afflicted, “Heie in these gr at natural remedies, which may be had of any chen Ist or eruggist for a trifl ng sum, is a ipecdy and permanent cure I” With a j st sense of the respo slt'ilitie, I assume, I say I can. There does not ex st a case of ehionic salt rehum or ecze i a, tett r, ringworm,pemphigus,psoriasis, leprosy, lithe , prurigo, scald head, d ndruff, or itching, or scaly eruptions, or humors of the skin, scrip tnd I loo), that Cuticura, externally, assisted by the Cuticura Soap, and the Resolvent in erna'iy, may not specully, petnianemly, and eionomically cure, when all other rimedies and m tbodi of cure have uttely filled. I have pro ed, in h im rods of the most aggravated esses, thei ■ wonderful curative povv r, in ev deuce of which I submit the following remarkuble tcstiiLonia's: LEPRA AND SCROFULOUS HUMOR. Hiram E. Crrrentcr, Herdersoi, Jefferson Co., N. Y., cu ed of psoriisis or lep a, of twenty years' stimlirig. His case is so wonderful that I give his exact words: ‘ I h ve teen afflict d for twenty years with sn obstinate skin disease, cal cd by some M.D.’s psoriasis, ar.d others leprosy, coinmenc ng on my scalp, and in spite cf all I could do, with the h Ip of the most skillful doctors, it slowly I ut surely extended, until a year a.o this winter it covered my entire person in form of dry scales. For the last three years I have been unable to do any libor, and suffering intens, ly al the titre. Every morning there cou.d be nearly a dustpanfm o scales taken from theabieton my bed, s me of them half ns 'argc as the envelope conia ning this letter. Io the lat er part of winter my skin co ninenced cracking open. I tiiod everything, a most, that could bo tlioi ght of, wit: out any reli f. The 12th of Jure 1 started We t, in hopts I could tench the Hut Springs. I leached Detroit end was so low I thought I .-hould have t>go to t,.e hospital but finally g t ss far as Lauslog, Mich., where I h d a sister liv ng. One Dr. t eated mca'iout two weeks, but did tne no good. All thought I had but a short time to live. 1 e rnestly prayed to die. Cracked through the tkin allo .er my back, across my ribs, arms, band , limbs, feet badly swollen, toenails ca r.e iff, fin.er-neils dead and ha d as bone, bale dead, dry, and lifeless as o d straw. Oh, my God 1 how I did suffer. “My sister, Mrs. E. H. Davis, had a small part of a box of Cuticura in the house. She wouldn’t give up ; said. ‘ W < will try Cuticura.' Some was applbd on one bund and arm. Eurt ka ! there was relief; stopped the te> rible burning sensation f om the word go. Itiey immediately got the Resolvent, Cuticura, and Soap. I co nmeucea by taking one tibleipoonful of Resolvent thieo times a day, after mea's ; lad a bath cnce a day, water about blood hta>t; used Cuticura Soap freely; applied Cuticura u orningand evening. Result, returned to my bom? in jutt six weeks from time I left, and my skin as smooth'll, this sheet of paper. “HIRAM E. CARPENTER. “ Iltnderton, Jrfftrson County, N. F. “ S ' orn to before me this nineteenth day of January, 18e0. “A. M. Leefikowell, Justice of the Peace." Hon. 'William Taylor, Bosto- 1 , Mass., permanently cured of a humor ot the face end scalp (eczema) that had been tnated msec es lull/ for twelve yesri by many of Lesion's best phys clans and most notel specialists, as well as Eutopean authorities. He says: “ I hive been so e ated with o y successfu' use of ihe Cuticuia remedies shat I have itopped men in the streets to tell them of my case." ECZEMA RODENT, SALT RHEUM, ETC. Eczema Rodent. -F. H. Dake, Esq, agent for Harper nd Bro hers, Detioit, Mich., giv.s rn ast >i ishing account of Lis case (ec/ema rodent), whi-h ad teen ireaied by a cns Itnion of i hysicians without benefit, and w hich speecily yielded to the Cuticura reme les. Salt Rheum.—Will McDonald, ’Bl5 Butterfield Streit, Chicago, g atefully ac iiuwledges a cure of salt rheum o i h<ad, neck, face, arms and egs lor sev ntecn years ; not able to v ala except on hanils and kntes tor one year: not able to help himself tor eight years; tr.cd hundreds of remedies; doctors pronounced bis case hopeless; perman.n ly cu.ed by the Cuticura remedt s Psoriasis—Thomas De'aney, Memplii’, Tenn., afflicted with ps nas's Io nineteen yea s ; completely cure ! by Cu i ura'eni dies. Ringworm—Geo. W Brown, 43 Ma-shall Street, Providence, R. 1., lured of a lingwo m humor got at the bar'er's, whi h spread all ove- Ihe cars, neck, and face, and for fix years red ted all kinds of treatment; cured by Cuti.uia ;emedies. SKIN HUMORS, MILK CRUST. ETC. Skin Humor.—Mrs. S. E Whiaple, Decatur, M'cb., writes that her face, heal, and som paiti of lier tody were almost raw. ID-ailco ered ith sea s and sores Suffered fear ully, and tried eve.ything. Permanently cured by Cuticur i reme ies. Milk CitutT —Mrs. B )«ers, 113 Clinton Strret, Cincinnati. i pelira of her eistei’a child, who was cured of milk crust whi h re i-ted all remedies for two years. Now s fine, beal tv boy wi'h a beautiful head of hair. Tetter or the Hands.—Elizabeth Buckley, Litt'eten, N. IL, thank ully praises the Cuticura remedies for curing of tetter of the hands which had rendered them almost ueeless to her. BCALD HEAD, ALOPECIA, ETa Scald Head.—H. A Ra- mord. and Ito- F. W. J. A 8. K. R , Jackson, M ei., was cured of scald head of nine ye ra’ i.urat on by 'he Cuticuia remedies. Failing or the Hair.—F.ank a. Bean, Steam Fire Engine 6. Boston, was c red of alopecia or 'all ng of the hair by the Cutie ra remedies which rompletely rostored his hiir when all s id he would lo«e it. Dandrufe.—Thoma" Lee, 2.’76 Frankfo’d Ave, Philadet ihia, affl pted with da druff w'ich for twenty years hat cove e 1 his scalo with scales ore quarter of an inch in thickness, cu ed by the Cuticura rem’dles. His scalp is now free from dandruff, and as haslthy as it is possible for it to be. CHILDREN AND INFANTS. Fred. Rohrer, E q., Cashier Stock Growers’ National Bank, Pueblo, Colorado, writes: “I am so well pleased with its effects on my baby, that I cannut afford ’ole wlhout It tn uy h use. It is a wonderful cure, and is bound to became very popular as soon as its virtues are krown to the masees." J. S. Weeks, Esq., Town Treasur t, St. Albans, Vt., says in a letter dated May 28th: “ It w nks to a ch rm on my baby's face and hiad. Cured the head entirely and has ncarlv cleaned the free of rotes. I have recommended it to several, and Dr. Plant has ordered it for them." M. M Chick, Esq., 41 Franklin Street, Bos'on, says: “My little daughter, eighteen mon'hs old, bis what the doctors call eczema. We have tried almost everything. end at lost have used about a box of Cuticura, and she is almos’ a new child, and we fiel ve y happy." Chas. Eayre Hinkle, Jersey City Heights, N J., writes : “My son, a lad of twelve years, was completely cmed of s terrible case of eczema by the Cuticura temedles. From the top of his head to the roles oi his feet was cns mass of scabs. Every ether remedy and physician had bean tried in vain.” EVERY SPECIES OF SKIN DIREASE. It wonk, require every column of this paper to do justice to a description of the cures performed by the Cuticura remedies. Eczema of the palms of the hands and of the ends ot the fingers, veiy difficult to tiest and usually considered incurs' 1s; small patches of tetter and salt rheum cn the ears, nosi and sides of he face ; scald-heads with loss of hair without number ; heads covered with d-ndruff and scaly eruptions, especially of children and infants, many of which since birth bad b' en a mass of scabs; psoriasis, leprosy, and other frightful forms of skin diseases; scrofulous ulcers, o'd sores, and discharging wounds ; each and all of which have been speedily, permanently and economically cured by the Cuticura remedies. ▲ TRIUMPHANT RECORD. Of such a record the inventors of the Cutler* remedies m<y be Justly proud. They are a g and medical triumph; a triumph that wi'l be gra efuUy remembered by thousands long after the originators have passed away. To relieve and permanently cure diseases of ths skin and scalp w hich have be -n the torture of a lifetime, to rep'ace the rspulsive evidences of disease with ths glow of health, and thus render beautiful the face of man or woman, is to deserve the gratitude of mankind. That Cu'icura externally applied, with a proper use Of the Cuticura Boap, and the internal nse or the C rtlcu a Reso'vent. will cure speedily and permanently the worst lotms ol skin anu scuip <> oc*«fes, witn rosi oi hei-, I think I have fully demonstrated. Grand curative blesiings which may be had of any druggist at prfc'S within the reach of al', are thus substituted for deHh-dealing poisons. Mercury,arsenic, zinc, and leid, and a th usand and one other .revolting, polsoi.a ia, and senseless things must now sink into obscurity before'he wonderlul healing powers of the Cutieira reoiedles. M. E. JOBSELYN, M. D. Fort, April, 1830.

Curious Fact.

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HOUSEHOLD HELPS.

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Citron Cake.—(How to keep the citron from falling to the bottom of the cake.) One cup of butter, two of sugar, thi'be of flour, four eggs, and one cup of milk; add one teaspoonful of soda and two of cream of tartar and one pinch of salt. Make the cake as above, put in the pan, cut the citron thin, put it in the cake endwise, push down until the batter covers citron.

Mushroom Sautes.—Pick and thoroughly clean them, cutting them in four pieces if large, throw them into cold water, with the juice of a lemon or a little vinegar, as they are being done; then take them out mid dry them in a cloth. Melt a piece of butter in a saucepan, add pepper, salt, and a little grated nutmeg. Put in the mushrooms, and toss over the fire till thoroughly cooked.

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Noxious Drugs to Horses.

Grooms are too much in the habit of administering these, wholly careless or ignorant of their injurious effect. This is particularly the case with arsenic, which they freely use, in order to give horses a finer and more showy coat of hair. We often hear of eases of the death of horses from this cause, both at home and abroad. It is an imperative order from us to our stable men to never give medicine of any kind to our animals without first consulting us. In some European countries, particularly in Hungary, we have heard that the lower class of females are almost insanely addicted to the habit of taking arsenic, to improve the complexion of the face. In a short time the system gets so accustomed to this dangerous drug that a delicate female, can take enough at a single dose to kill half a dozen stout men. But a continuation of these doses for a few years is sure to result in premature death.

A Household Need.

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The Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich.,

Will send their Electro-Voltaic Belts to the afflicted upon thirty days’ trial. See their advertisement in this paper, headed, “On Thirty Days’ Trial.” There are in Paris 602 painters in oil, 193 painters of miniatures, 507 artists who work in paste or paint ferns, and 107 sculptors. Beside these there are 754 who make a profession of molding for sculptors and of copying works in plaster ; and thousands, of course, who paint photographs and practice fancy painting of various kinds. A Vermont man spent 120 successive days in trying to run down and kill a fox, and, when at last he got sight of him and fired a shot, the bullet killed a S2OO h< rse and the fox sloped away’. The trade-mark is on every package of the Frazer Axle Grease. Buy only the genuine. For sale everywhere. Lyon’s Heel Stiffeners keep boots and shoes straight. Sold by shoe and hardware dealers. C. Gilbert's Corn Starch is strictly pure.

Daughters, Wives and Afothers. DR. MARCHISI’S UTERINE CATHOLIGON wifi posit!valy cure Female Weakn.s , m h as Falling of the Womb, Whites, Chronic Inflammation oi Ulcer tion of the Womb, Incidental Hemorrhage or Flooding, Painful, Suppressed anil Irregular Menstruation, Ac. An old and relia le remedy. Send t osral card or a pamphlet, with treatment, cure- and certifies es from rhyeicians and patients, to HOWARTH A BALI ARD, Uitca, N. Y. Sold by all Oniircuta—ffil fio i>er bot.tta

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NEW YORK. Beevessß 50 @9 75 H 005...., 4 60 ($ 4 80 Cotton 12 Fi.oun—Stu>erfine 4 00 <«) 4 85 Wheat—No. 2 1 27 <4, 1 30 Corn—Western Mixed 50 53 Oats—Mixed 42 (it, 45 Rye—Western 90 (a), 92 Pork—Messlo 50 @lO 90 Laud 7 @ CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice Graded Steers 4 60 @ 4 95 Cows and Heifers 2 60 @4OO Medium to Fair 415 @ 4 30 Hoos 3 50 94 4 50 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex.... 550 @6 25 Good to Choice Spring Ex.. 5 00 @ 5 75 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 1 17 @ 1 19 No. 3 Spring 98 @ 99 Cohn—No. 2 37 @ 38 Oath—No. 2 30 @ 31 Rye—No. 2 80 @ 81 Barley—No. 2 79 @ 80 Butter—Choice Creamery 21 @ 23 Eggs—Fresh 8 @ 8)£ Pork—Messlo 00 @lO 10 Laki> wq f MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 1 114@ 117 No. 2 1 12 @ 1 13 Corn—No. 2 37 @ 38 Oats—No. 2 31 @ 32 Rye—No. 1 77 @ 78 Barley—No. 2 71 @ 72 ST. LOUIS. Wheat —No. 2 Red Fall 1 13 @ 1 14 Cobn—Mixed 33 @ 34 Oats—No. 2 31 @ 32 Bye 76 @ - 77 Pork—Messlo 00 @lO 25 Lard 6><@ CINCINNATI. Wheat 1 13 @ 1 14 Corn 40 @ 41 Oats 34 @ 35 Bru 87 @ 90 Pork—Mess 9 50 @9 75 Labd 6V@ 7 TOLEDO. Wheat—Amber Michigan 1 18 @ 1 No. 2 Red 1 ]'j 1 20 Cobn—No. 2 39 (4 40 No. 2 34 @ 35 Pr zn DETROIT. Wheat—No.'T'wince.'".’.':::’.:::::; ? @® J® No. 1 Amber 1 13 @1 »'? Corn—No. 1 41 @ 42 Oats—Mixed 36 @ 37 Barley (percental) 1 20 @ 1 50 Pork—Messll 50 @l2 00 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1 11 @ 1 12 Cobn 36 @ 37 Oath 32 @ 35 Pork—Clearl2 00 @l2 50 EAST LIBERTY, PA. Cattle —Best 5 00 @ 5 25 Fair 400 @ 4 80 Common 3 60 @ 3 85 Hogs 4 40 @ 4 80 Sheep 4 75 @ 6 50

’perfected’ BUTTER COLOR CHvea Butter the gilt-edged eolor the year reuad. The largest Butter Buyers recomnend Its use Thousands of Dairymen say IT IS PEItUECT. Used by allthe best Creameries. Awarded the Inter national Diploma at N. Y. Dairy Fair. Ask your drugglstormorchantforlt; or write to ask wlat itls.what It costa, who uses it, where to get It. WEALS, RICHARDSON A CO., Proprietors, Burlington, Vfc

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No man can do a good job of work, preach a good sermon, try a lawsuit well, doctor a patient, or write a good article when he feels miserable and dull, with sluggish brain and unsteady nerves, and none should make the attempt in such a condition when it can lie so easily and cheaply removed by a little Hop Bitters. See other column. —Albany Times. Kidney-Wort effectively acts at the same time on Kidneys, Liver and Bowels.

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What Everybody Wants Who Has Not Heard and Read of 11. NOTE THE Pharisburo, Ohio, Muy 19. Messrs. J. N. Harris A Co.— Grnitemen • Permit roe to say that for several weeks I suffered with n severe cou£b. I first used Denis’s Cough Balsam, and after that several other preparations, each of which I gave a fair trial, which availed me nothing. For the succeeding six days I used no medicine. By that time I wns thought. in the first stages of Consumption. My cough being more severe than ever, I then commenced umnff ALLEN’R Lung Balsam, which has effectually cured me. I con scientiously believe it to be an excellent medicine, and can assure you that it will afford me the highest possible gratification to commend it to any person you may refer tome. Yours truly, NEWTON MURPHY. For Sale by All 11 cdicine Healers. 4*70 n week. sl2 a day at home easily made. Uustly / 4 Outfit free. Address Tbue A Co., Augusta, Me. USE STERLING Chemical Wick in Lamps and Oil Stoves. Cheap, brilliant: avoids dirt and t rimming. -tn &ofi perday at home. Samples worth $5 free. <PU uO Address STINSON A Co., Portland, Me. IFANTI>H L * x ' al A<*nta •v*ry«rber« to ocll Teo. Ofloe. Hnking vw A Is I fe U Powder, Flavoring Extrocta. etc., by aamplo, t«> familir*. Profit Kood. Oatflt freo. PEOPLE'S TXA CO.. Bm MK. SC. Uuu. Mv. (h 0C a week in your own town. Terms and $5 Outfit iP V U free. Address H. Hallett A Co., Portland, Me. A YEAR and expenses to agents. Outfit Free. Address P. 9 9 9 <>. VICKERY, Augusta, Maine. YOUNG " month. Every graduate guaranteed a pnyimr situation. Address R. Valentine, Manager, Janesville,Wis. ■ I AGFNTS. The “Safety Window H Fastening” is the boss selling article. IraUUtFA I Immense profits- Terms free. Address I C. M. CARNAHAN, Cleveland, Ohio A GREAT OFFER 8f1.50, ul'tviil il. Wiii-riinti'tl <1 vein-*. Mi- •mil Until) liiHti-iiineiitx nt Hm-icniuv. AGENTS Wnnted. Illu-ti-nti-il 4'ATAI.tHJI'E Free. HORACE WATERS .V 4 0., 880 B’d'j ,N. Y. AGENTS WANTED, wan FATING OUTFIT FREt E S^ Y For Young Men. Laities, Teachers mid others in every county. snO to $76 per month. Send for circular nndoutfit. P.W.ZIKGLER4CO., l«»O<> Arch St.,Philadelphia, Pa. TRUTH B WIWXi /S\ f \ Spaaiah Saar will for fBOCaeU. withyoar / W I *>L " 1 ***' *•••’ l ®* fc I | bandar wife, inst lalo of and plaoo wb»r» yon will first treet, r.nd it.-In of marriarroad i..... I re' ■ A RTIN FZ. 42 ProvS»..*Mtaa. Msm On 30 Days’ Trial We will sen! our Electro-Voltaic Belta and other Electric Appliances upon trial for 30 d ys to thoss iffllcted with Aerromt Jtebility and <>j' a vermt. I . ature. Also of the Liver, Kidneys, Rheumatism, Paralysis, Ac. A eure. cure yuarat.teed or no pay. Address Voltulc Helt Co., Maraball, Mich. Wm-Wrns mrn. A first-class regular Life Insurance Company desires to employ a lew men to devote their entire time to their inter ests, in Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, In diana, Illinois, lowa and Kansas, to whom liberal compensation will be paid. Must be of good character and possess tact,energy ami perseverance ; past experience in the business pot necessary. Address, stating age, past occupation, and salary received and expected, with references, “MANAGER,” Jxick Box 13G8$ Cincinnati,Ohio. SAPONIFIER Is the “Original” Concentrated Lye and Reliable Family Soap Maker. Directions accompany each Can for making llsit'd, K- ft and Toilet *<»np quickly. It is full weight and strength. Ask your grocer for SAPOMFitiIL and take no other Penn’a Salt Manufact’ng Co., Phila. NATRONA“ Is the best in the World. It Is absolutely pure. It is the best for Medicinal Purposes. It is the best for Bakina and all Family Uses. Sold by all Druggists and Grocers. 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Piles, Catarrh, Chll. blnlns, In order that everyone may try it, it ia But up in 15 and 25 cent bottles tor household use. btain it from your druggist, and you will find It superior to .anything you have ever used. Important to the Fair Sex! JJ J 'bi mswvw hml* ENGLISH REMEDY, enres Leucorr as female weakness. They have for years as a periodical and regulating nflr. V, Druggists everywheie. Price $ 1 .CO per box or six boreA rotxt mni! free .secute# roaled. Mechanics’ Block, Detroit, Mich. Whole«ale Agents for U. H. t3rTamphlets sent free. VAN BCHAJkCK, BTEVEfrSON A CO., Agfa.,Chicago C. N. U. No 80 WHEN WRITING TO AbVERTISERM, please say you law the advertisement in this paper.