Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1881 — Page 4

ROBERT BCR'S. BT HEXBT W. LONGFELLOW. J Me amid the fields of Ayr A plowman, who, in foul or fair, Slogs at his task, 60 dear we know not if it is The laverock's song wc hear or his, Nor care to ask. For him the plowing of those fields A more ethereal harvest yields Than alieaveiCot grain: Songs flush with purple bloom the rye; The plover’s call, the curlew’s cry, Sing in his brain. Touched by bi. hand, the way-side weed Becomes a fl ,wer; the lowliest reed Beside the stream Is clothed with beauty ; ■ orss ■■ nd grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighUrseem. He sings of love, whose flame illumes The darkness of lone cottage rooms; He feels the force The treacherous under-tow and stress, Of wayward Musaivna, and nolens The k<_eu remorse. At moments, .wrestling with his fate. His voice is harsh, but not with hate; The brushwood bung Above the tavern doors lets fall Its bitter leaf, its drop of gall, Upon bis to. gue. But sti 1 the burtjen of his song la love of right, disdain of wrong; . Its master-chords Are Manhood, Freedom. Brotherhood; Its discoids but an it terlude Between the words. And then to die so young, and leave Unfinished what he might achieve! Yet better i-ure Is this than wandering up and down, t An old man in a country town, Infirm and poor. For now he haunts his native land suit ini mo tai youth; his band Guides every plow; He sits beside e ch ingle-nook; H:s voice is in each rushing brook, Each rustling bough. His presence haunts this room to-night, A form of mi.ig.ed mist ami light, From i tint I sir coast. Welcome beneath this root of mine! Welcome! this vacant etiair is thine, Dear guest and ghost! liarptr't Magazlnt

THE MISSING MAN.

A. STORK OF A FACT. a She was a curious sort of woman; I could never quite make her out. Evidently she had “a past,” but she would not tell me much about it, until a mere accident opened it all up. I will not stop to relate how I knew her, but come to the point at once. I was dawdling one morning over the Times, when my eye fell upon an advertisment about a missing man; I forgot how it ran, but he had disappeared in some mysterious way, had never been heard of, and that sort of thing; was supposed to have h d a large sum of money about him, and a reward was offered fur such information as might lend to his discovery, etc.—you know, the usual business. Well, I can not say why, but I happened to read this advertisement out to my friend, and as I went on, glancing down the paper, I said: * ‘Ah 1 poor fellow, he will never be heard of again; robbed and murdered, no doubt; these disappearances are all undiscovered murders, I suppose.” I. heard her move uneasily and sigh, and, as I continued reading to myself, there followed a sob and a moan. Looking up, I saw to my surprise, that she had buried her face in her hands, and was crying bitterly. Rising and crossing the room, I asked what was the matter. It was a long time before she could speak; at last she said, through her sobs, in a kind of absent way: “No, no; they are not all murdered, not all.”' “Why, what in the name of mischief do you know about such things ?” I inquired. “What has come to you, poor child ? Calm yourself. How should you know whether they are all murdered or not ?” “Because,” she went on presently, and looking at me in a strange, sad manner, her pretty brown eyes filled with tears, “because I have too much reason. But there, it’s very foolish of me; I have no right to bore you in this way—forgive me;” and she rose to leave the room. I stopped her; I saw I was on the brink of a revelation; I did not intend to miss it, for I was fond of her and consequently interested. So I pressed iyy advantage, the end being that I elicited a very strange story; true, I have not the least doubt. Briefly this is it, though I shall only give it in her words when it serves me best to do so. In its narration she once or twice grew so dramatic that I will try to remember exactly what she said. Her husband must have been a man < *' good family, but an utter scamp, gambler, spendthrift, and drunkard; all his own people turned their backs on him. Dropping lower and lower, he reached a very low ebb, indeed, at last, and she ihula bad life of it with him. They had been living somewhere in Yorkshire, he racing, betting—heaven knows what. The Doncaster meeting was coming round, and he found the region getting too hot for him, so he made a bolt of it, and came to London, bringing her with him (they had no children); came, as I understood, with a couple of portmanteaus, and under an assumed name—-of course, she never told me liis real one. He took a small, old-fashioned, furnished cottage for three months; a dilapidated place somewhere near Kilburn, quite on the outskirts, and where the new neighborhood, which has now sprung up, was only then first beginning to be thought of. There were a few new roads led out, and here and there an odd house or two erected, with the shells of others incomplete—you know the sort of place, all scaffold poles, cabbage gardens, dead cats, battered tin kettles, and stagnant pools. They had been in this precious abode but three days, when what happened, happened. They were without a servant —in the house alone, in fact, the wife becoming the drudge meanwhile. A high wall surrounded the garden in which the cottage stood, it having been a neat little box in its day, quite in the country. An old and now almost disused road ran along one side of this wall, which had a door in it among some thick trees. Wei*, it was early in September, the weather was close and sultry, and on the third evening, as it was getting dusk, she strolled out and sat down on a bench under these trees, near the door, leaving him sulkily smoking in the house. * ‘ Sad and miserable indeed I was as I sat there,” went on my friend, “thinking, thinking, thinking, in the silent gloaming. Everything was still as death in that dreary neighborhood, so that when the sound of a footstep coming slowly along the road by the side of the wall caught my ear, I almost started; but when I heard the footstep suddenly totter, then stop close to the door, and some one stagger against it, I rose from sheer nervousness. When to this sound succeeded a long-drawn gasp and moan, and then a heavy thud as of the person falling to the ground, with an instinctive pity 1 flew to the door, and drawing back the lock gently opened it There on the step lay, as well as I could see by the twilight, a young, well-dressed man. He mode an effort to rise when he saw me, partly regaining his feet, caught at the door-post, staggered and fell headlong into our garden. All this was but the work of a moment, and now thoroughly alarmed, and hardly knowing what I did, I closed the door and rushed into the house. My husband met me on the threshold. “ ‘What now? What’s all that scrimmage about?’ he asked. “ Timidly I told him “ ‘You fool, are we not hard-up enough already, but you must be playing the Good Samaritan, and let the man in? De you want to turn the place into a hospital? He’s drunk, no doubt. ’ “ With thia fee reached the spot where

the unfortunate man lay face downwards upon the edge of the soft, unmown lawn. Gently turning him over, my husband went on: “ ‘Why, he’s dying, if not dead; we must fetch a doctor. A pretty mess you have got us into, but we must go through it honestly, or else who knows what we may be charged with—murder, perhaps? Be off and get a doctor; there’s a red lamp at the second turning on the left down this road.’ “ I flew to do his bidding, terrified by his words, which I saw had some reason in them, and had nearly reached the house when he called out: “ ‘Here, go out this way, by this door here into the road: it’s nearer. ’ “I returned and was about to open the garden door, close to which he was still bending over the body, when I saw he was examining the contents of a large portemonnaie, which he had taken from the pocket of the prostrate, unconscious man. It seemed to be full of notes and gold. I hesitated, but fearing to remonstrate, was drawing back the bolt, when he whispered: “ ‘Stop—wait a minute. Did any one see you let him in ?’ “ ‘No one; there is not a creature about, and the roads is not overlooked, I answered. “ ‘No, nor this corner of the garden where we are—no, it’s too much shut in by trees, and it’s getting too dark. ’ “Whilst speaking he was looking around to assure himself that he was unobserved, and, seeming satisfied, began to further examine the contents of the pockets and to transfer the portemonnaie, a letter or two, a handsome gold watch and chain, and a scarf pin to his own. “‘What are you doing?’ I timidly asked. “ ‘Mind your own busines,” he said, ‘do as I tell you and hold your tongue. I’ll go for the doctor myself; but first of all we must get him into the house. Here, catch hold of his feet.’ “Then, without listening to my protests, my husband raised in his arms the slim, helpless form of the young man. and, with my assistance, carried him along the path, under the shadow of the high wall and trees, into the house, and laid him on a sofa in the little breakfast parlor that gave upon the lawn by an open sash-window. “ ‘Light a candle, pull down the blind, get some water and brandy; he is not quite dead,’said my husband, whilst examining the man’s pocket handkerchief “ ‘No initials, nothing to identify him by. Good ! Now I will go for the doctor; you stay with him. Put a little more brandy to his lips from time to time, loosen his necktie—so, and now. mind, when I return with the doctor, if there have been any signs of consciousness, or if the poor fellow speaks at all, keep it to yourself; don’t say a word. You can tell me when the doctor is gone. The man is not dead, but he will die, I think, and if he does die without speaking—well, we shall lose nothing for our hospitality; it’s worth risking. Mind, now, what I tell you,’ he added, with a fierce look at me, ‘if you don’t I’ll be the death of you.’ “Then he went out through the front door and gate, ostentatiously in a hurry, and I heard him running down the silent road. I turned to my patient, and found him still breathing, but quite unconscious. “Terrified and bewildered I hardly knew how long it was before I heard hurrying footsteps again on rhe road, and presently, having let himself in by the latch key, my husband appeared with a stranger, the doctor, a seedy, needylooking man. “Rapidly examining the patient, he said, with his finger on the pulse. “ ‘About twenty minutes since he was seized, eh? H’m your younger brother, you say?’ / V ; “ ‘Yes,’ answered my husband promptly, with a significant look at me as I started at his reply. “The doctor had his ear on the man’s chest, while my husband continued with assumed emotion: “ ‘My youngest, my favorite brother. Dear sir, pray tell me—Ah! I fear by your face; but say, is there no hope?’ “The doctor shook his head. ' “ ‘Oh, will he die?’ “The doctor bowed his head, and my husband buried his face in his hands for a moment. “I was aghast, perplexed beyond measure, and was about to speak when another fierce look checked me. “When the doctor had moistened the patient’s lips once more with brandy, and after using the stethoscope for several minutes, he said with professional gravity: “ ‘lt is my painful duty to tell you that you must prepare for the worst.’ “ ‘Ah, I feared so!’ said my husband. ‘My poor brother was supposed to have disease of the heart; it was the opinion expressed by a physician two years ago.’ “ ‘This is not the heart,’ said the doctor, feeling the pulse again. ‘This is cerebral hemorrhage—apoplexy, in fact. He is all but gone; nothing can be done.’ “Then there was a slight convulsion, and the doctor continued: “ ‘I fear I can be of no further use professionally; but can I help you to do what is necessary now, or do you know any—’ “ ‘No, we know no one in the neighborhood; we are strangers here,’ interrupted my husband. ‘We are from Cornwall, and are come to live in Loudon, and Rave only been in the house three days. My dear brother came to stay with us yesterday. He has been out all day. The moment he came in he fainted, and then—and then I ran for you. Will there be any need for an inquest?’ “ ‘lndeed,’ said the doctor, ‘l’m afraid there will. ’ " ‘Oh, how very distressing!’ went on my husband. ‘Can we not be spared this pain?’ “The other paused, and then said slowly, with a peculiar expression on his face:

“ ‘Well, surely, surely with what you tell me, and with what I have seen of the case, I might perhaps certify, and so spare you the distress of any inquiry. ’ “ ‘Thank thank you a thousand times, ’ said my husband earnestly, as I saw him press a couple of the sovereigns he had lately taken from the dead man’s pocket into the doctor’s hand. “ ‘Very well, then,’ answered that functionary; ‘I will manage it, and do all that is necessary. I will send some one immediately. Good-night ’ “When he was gone .I summoned up courage to ask the meaning of what I had heal’d. “ ‘What are your intentions? Pray tell me,’ I said. \ “ ‘You always were an idiot,’ he answered, ‘ but I will try and make you understand for once in a way. Any woman who was not a fool, and had been a living wife and alive to her husband’s welfare, could have seen with half an eye what my game is. It’s.-a very simple one, and mind you do not spoil-it, or it will be the worse for you; and that you may have no excuse for doing so, I’ll tell yon what it is. There was something like six hundred pounds in notes and gold in that poor devil’s pocketbook. There is nothing to show who he was to anybody but me, who luckily can keep a secret, so I shall not tell you his name; besides, it does not signify. Not a soul but our two selves know how he came on to my premises; he can never be traced there. I pass him off as my brother, and bury him accordingly. No one hereabouts knows who we are, so who is to say he is not my brother? Had not good luck brought him to our hospitable gate at the critical moment, and had you not been the far-seeing, clever woman you are, and not let him in, why, he would have fallen down dead in the public highway, and his property have been at the mercy of the first person who found him, They might have been honest or not, I

He would have been taken to the hospital, and of course his friends would nave been duly informed of the sad loss they had sustained. ** Now, as it is, they will be spared this sorrow, because they will never know what has become of him. He will only be one more victim added to the list of mysterious disappearances.’ “ ‘Well, but,’ I broke in, ‘his friends will make inquiries after him. He may be traced to our gate, and we may be called upon to explain. ’ “ ‘We may be,’ continued my husband, ‘but it’s sufficiently unlikely. It will be a cursed piece of ill luck if he is. Who is to trace him into this God-abandoned region? Under all the circumstances, and by your own showing, it is most improbable—nay, it is impossible. ’ “ ‘Yes,’ I again interposed; ‘but he will be advertised for and described.’ “‘Very likely,’ he went on; ‘but the doctor and the undertaker are the only people besides ourselves who will have seen him, and they will have nothing to identify him by qyen if they ever know or hear anythingvabout the disappearance. They will never recognize in my dear brother, poor John Smith, who died of apoplexy, here in my house, under the very eye of the doctor, the forlorn man by the name of (but I will keep that to myself,) ‘who was last seen,’ etc., as the advertisement will run. No; they will not know the name. It will convex nothing to their minds; how should it! For, remember, the moment you so judiciously let him in and closed our garden door upon him, the lost man had ceased to lie. From that moment he became my brother John; the real man was gone as clean out of existence, had as clean parted with his identity, as if he had never been! By heavens! it's a stroke of genius on my part 1 never guessed I was half so clever a fellow,’ added my husband, triumphantly. “‘But,’ cried I once more, ‘this is a very dreadful, a very dangerous game, as you call it, to play. It is absolute theft, and worse ’ “ ‘lf you can not use better language,’ he said, ‘hold your tongue; don’t insult me. I tell you the money might as well have fallen into my hands as into those of the first policeman or pot-boy who might have found him. 1 want it badly enough, and if you don’t betray our secret there is very little risk of my right to it being disputed. ’ “ ‘But,’ I said, ‘the watch, the rings, as well as the money —they may lead to your discovery. ’ “ ‘Not at all,’ he answered, ‘if they are carefully converted, and I will manage that. The jiotes are the only difficulty; but I can get over that, too. If I go straight to the Bank of England tomorrow morning, directly it is opened, and change them into gold, I shall be there long before their loss is known, or, conseqently, the numbers are stopped. The young fellow, perhaps, will not be missed for a week; he comes a long way from here; I have seen enough to tell me that. We do not know what his habits were; we do not even know that any one was aware he had the money about him. No; the more I think of it the safer the whole game looks. You have only to keep your own and my couns"el and our fortunes are retrieved for a few months, and we have nothing to fear. Ah, that’s the undertaker, no doubt. You get out of the way; leave it all to me.’ “There was a ring at the bell here, which he went to answer. “Ah, that was a dreadful night, and during the few. days following I was nearly beside myself with terror. Of course, the house was closed, as became the occasion. The funeral—a very quiet one—took place in due course at Kensal Green Cemetery, my husband following as chief mourner in the coach, accompanied by the doctor. “No remarks, no suspicion attended so common-place a circumstance, and when the ground had closed over the unfortunate unknown man, and wl’p, a week later, a modest tombstone rec -> .led the decease of the imaginary ‘John Smith, aged twenty-three,’ all trace of the dreadful fraud, save that which is printed indelibly in my mind was gone. ” As my friend reached this part of her story she was a good deal overcome, and said she had nothing more to tell; but after a while I learned from her that the scoundrel had managed the conversion of the notes exactly as he had proposer!. He slipped away from the house quite early the morning after the death, and almost as soon as the Bank of England was opened changed the notes into gold, as he could do, by merely writing a name and address—ficticious, of course —on their backs. He returned from the city with his little black bag, as he had gone, by a circuitous route; so evading all chance of being followed, though, of course, there was really no likelyhood of any one being on the alert. He got drunk in the afternoon and confided these details to his- unhappy wife. The unfortunate victim of apoplexy had probably not then even been missed. It was a cunning game truly, and boldly played out; and this is really about all I know of it; my poor little friend refused to let out any more very important facts. Her husband utterly deserted her in less than six months afterwards, and she was left—well, that does not matter. To this day she knows nothing of who or what the unlucky young fellow was, where he came from, B'r whether he was ever inquired after; but, though, when she told mb her story seven years had passed since she let him in at the garden door, and he fell all but dead at her feet, she very naturally felt—and, and, no doubt, still does feel—extremely uncomfortable when aqy chance reference is made to a missing man.— AU the Year Hound.

A Tenor’s Wife.

The following, from the French, gives a comical description of the miseries of a tenor’s wife ; “Yes, Jenny, we have 150,000 francs a year; the praises of my husband are sounded every day in the newspapers, he is applauded every night he sings, and is a very king in his art. But you don’t know what it is to be the wife of a tenor. Those who flatter my husband, and they are numerous, are incessantly telling him, Monsieur Michael, you have a mine of diamonds in your throat. That may be true; I dofi’t say it is not, but if you could understand what consequences it entails—a mine of diamonds in a man’s throat. Michael is always as cross as a bear- because of the temperature. A barometer is less variable. He is continually opening and shutting the windows ; when they are open he wants them shut, and when they are shut he says he stifles. You have no idea of the trouble we have at hotels to prevent his taking cold. Even the style of carpet becomes a study. And the cartloads of furs we carry about with us. And the difficulty we have with the fires. There is also a long chapter as to what he may and may not eat; this is too strong and that too weak. On the night he sings, there is a sirup which he must drink five times during an act, and a wash of brandy and camphor with which to rub his throat. From morning till night a tenor thinks of nothing but himself; he listens to himself sing; he studies poses before a looking-glass; he calls after the servants, ‘Jane, muffle the doorbell ; its noise affects my nerves. Briggitte, don’t pass before me again; you make a draught’ He interrogates his throat every ten minutes, la, la, la. Never a sensible word, always la, la, la; at table he does not talk for fear of destroying his la, la, la. If I ask him to take me out on a fine day, he runs to the piano and exercises his la, la, la.” “Thebe is not a corporation on the round globe whose specific gravity is greater than that of the old 2Etna Life, of Hartford. It is solid as granite and as true as Weekly Item,

HOUSEKEEPERS’ HELPS.

Camphor Ointment.—One tablespoonful of brandy, two tablespoonfuls of beeswax, three tablespoonfnls of sweet oil, one teaspoonful of strong spirits of camphor. Soft Molasses Cake.—One cup of molasses, one cup of butter, one cup of sugar, one cup of milk, two eggs, one teaspoonful of saleratus and four cups of flour. Sausage Meat. —To ten pounds of meat allow one-fourth pound of salt, one ounce of pepper, one-half ounce of allspice, ana if liked, one-half ounce of sage. Fob Cubing Hams.—Eight gallons of water, fourteen pounds of salt, one quart of molasses, one-half pound of saltpeter. After the meat is eut, place on a board and let stand over night. In the morning rub with fine salt, pack into a cask and pour over the above mixture. Obange Pie.—Juice and part of grated rind of two oranges, the yolks of foui eggs, two tablespoonfuls of butter, one cup of sugar. The whites are beaten to a stiff froth, a little sugar added and then spread over the top after the pie is done. Return to the oven to become slighty brown. 8 auoe Robert. —Put two medium-sized onions, chopped very fine, with a large lump of butter, in a stew-pan; let them brown well, constantly stirring; add a teaspoonful of flour mixed with half a pint of good stock; salt and pepper; cook about five minutes; add a teaspoonful of mixed mustard and one of vinegar. Chocolate Cake.—One cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter, four eggs, the whites beaten to a froth, one and a half cup of flour, one teaspoonful of baking powder. For filling, take a quarter of a cake of Baker’s chocolate, to it add a cup of water, boil, then add a cup of milk and when it again boils stir* in a tablespoonful of corn starch dissolved in a little milk. Boil, then sweeten to taste and flavor. Sauce fob Venison Steak.—Put one cup of stock, a small teaspoonful of salt, half a teaspoonful of pepper, and a very little cayenne, two or three cloves, and a few alspices in a saucepan; let all boil .ip, then stir in a piece of butter half the size of an egg, in which a teaspoonful of dour has been well mixed; one teaspoonful of currant jelly, one wineglassful of claret; heat it once more, pour it through a strainer so as not to remove the whole spice. Cheese Souffe.—This dish must be sent to table direct from the oven in the pan in which it has been baked, as it fulls if kept standing. Beat separately the whites and yolks of two eggs, add to the yolks one tablesponoful of sifted ilour, two of grated cheese, a pinch of cayenne, one of salt, and one cup of milk; when well mixed add the whites beaten to a froth, and stir briskly, pour into a buttered shallow pan. and bake in a quick oven until a rich brown—about 15 minutes. Cauliflower With White Sauce. — Boil two small cauliflowers pick them out into sprigs and arrange them, head downward, in a pudding basin, which must have been made quite hot; press them in gentley, then turn them out dexterously'on a dish and pour over them the following sauce, boiling hot: Melt one and a half ounces of butter in a saucepan, mix with it a tablespoonful of flour and then add half a pint of boiling water; stir till it thickens; add salt and white pepper to taste; then take the saucepan oft' the fire and stir in the yolks of two eggs beaten up with the juice of a lemon and strained.

No More Hard Times.

If you will stop spending so much on fine clothes, rich food and style, buy good, healthy food, cheaper and better clothing ; get more real and substantial things of Ute every way, and especially stop the foolish habit of employing expensive, quack doctors or using so much of the vile humbug medicine that does you only harm, but put your trust in that simple, pure remedy, Hop Bitters ; that cures al vays at a trifling cost, and you will see good times and have good health.— Chronicle.

Opium Drunkards.

The public were shocked, not long since, by the account of the death of a lady, the daughter of one of the most eminent professional men in the country, from an overdose of morphine. The wretched story was published all over the country. There is no impropriety, therefore, in our pointing the young girls who are our readers to its meaning. The woman was young and beautiful. She had high culture, and was by nature gentle, and lovable. A few years ago she began io, take opium for some disease, and soon became its victim. All her struggles against it were in vain. At an age when She should have been in the full vigor M os her womanhood, a happy and retired wife and mother, she died alone, and her downfall and disgrace were Blazoned in every city of the Union. Opium drunkenness is said to be on the increase in this country, and it prevails largely among women. Very few matrons or young ladies, when suffering from weakness or nervous disorders, would resort to brandy or whisky. But a dose of laudanum, or some other anodyne, they regard as harmless. Physicians too, heedlessly prescribe something which they vaguely call “drops” to an overworked mother, or young girl exhausted by incessant dancing aud flirting, when the proper remedies would be a few weeks' rest from labor and care, and a more wholesome, rational life. American women are, as rule, energetic. The busy housekeeper and the eager belle, find resort to a seemingly innocent little black bottle, when they are “run down,” much easier than the giving up of work, or the sacrifice of balls and germans. Before they are conscious of their danger, they are victims to the most hopeless and terrible of appetites—they are opium drunkards. It is probable that no one who has ever become addicted to this habit has been able to conquer it. De Quincy wrote a book that for dramatic horror and pathos, has not its like in literature, to prove that it was possible to rise “out of the deep;” but he sank again, helpless and hopeless. The best monograph on the opium habit written in America, was the work of a brilliant man of letters who believed himself cured, yet died its victim. Most of our readers can recall at least one opium drunkard whom they have known. The livid, corpse-like skin, the glassy eye, the vague air of terror, are unmistakable. They are signs that the nightmare, life in death, has seized its prey, and is dragging it surely down to the grave.— Youth s Companion.

A Hammock’s Wild Way.

n ■ ■■■ ■ ■ vvn wiim vwmji [From th,e Cleveland (Ohio) Herald.] An Illinois exchange feels called to thus deliver itself: “ His hammock swung loose at the sport'of the wind,” and tumbled the Hon. J. S. Irwin on his head, and, but for the application of St. Jacobs Oil, he might have gone “ where the woodbine twineth.” Even so, dear Beacon, as many others have gone, who failing to use the Great German Remedy in time, for their rheumatism and other dangerous diseases, “ have paid the debt of Nature.” Rub is our motto.

A Hint for Skaters.

Mr. Jos. G. Kitchell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, sends the following, which may prove beneficial to those who, for the sport of skating, often undergo great personal risk: “Cut, or select from the carpenter’s lumber, a strip or rod of ash, walnut, maple, or any light yet strong wood; procure a round piece tbreefourths of an inch in diameter, and about six and a half feet long. Take this with you when going to skate; grasp it near the center with the right hand, and carry vertically; if the ice should break, and you sink, a little presence of mind and the rod, which you throw horizontally as the first cracking is heard, will prove

very valuable, as you dan keep head and shoulders above water until help arrives, or enable you to emerge entirely, by shifting the rod, so that it rests on the thickest ice around the hole. You will find from a little use that it is not in the least an incumbrance, but it gives a graceful appearance to the skater, will often avoid a fall, and will insure a greater aid to beginners on skates, I think, than the helping hand of an interested expert”— Young Scientist.

Guilty of Wrong.

Some people have a fashion of confusing excellent remedies with the large mass of ** patent medjones," and in this they are guilty of a wrong. There are some advertised remedies fully worth all that is asked for them, and one at least we know of—Hop Bitters. The writer has had occasion to use the Bitters in just such a climate as we have most of the year in Bay City, and has always found them to be first class and reliable, doing all that is claimed for them.— Tribune.

Creeping Things.

The sight of certain creatures is enough to give us a “crawling” sensation. Bare memory of them must be enough to any person who has traveled in Australia. Jesse Young, the explorer, talks very coolly, however, about the bug and snake creation in that queer clime. He says: The reptiles are really beautiful; crocodiles in the North, and snakes, lizards, scorpions, and centipedes in the South. I shall not readily forget the sensation I experienced when one nigbt a huge black centipede, eight inches long, crawled upon my neck with his horrible sixty-four legs, and made his way to my feet lesiurely, much to my disgust, and though he was probably only a few seconds, I thought him slow. He is in the museum at Adelaide, with all the whisky he can drink. Insects are wonderfully prolific—mosquitoes and flies being particularly abundant The native children are sometimes hardly recognizable, so completely are they covered with flies, filling their eyes, noses and mouth. "When eating, it requires dexterous manoeuvring to get a piece of meat into one’s mouth without its complement of flies. Spiders are very common, as also are the tarantula being the most formidable of the former, and the bull-dog ant the worst species Of the latter. These auts are an inch or more in height, and about two inches long. They all fight fiercely, and their sting is not at all to be desired. They catch hold of your skin with their nippers, bend the body under like a scorpion, and put the sting gently in, leaving the venom, and sometimes the sting itself. When camping near a nest of them, we generally thrust a tire-stick in the hole, which lias the effect of keeping them at home.

WHAT WE HATE.

[From the St. Paul Pioueer-Press.] We hate growling, no matter the source or cause, and recommend herewith the remedy. Use St. Jacobs Oil and laugh at pain. It will do the work every time.

The Nature of an Oath.

Early in the rebellion, when the Federal forces were stationed at Beaufort, 8. C., there was an old darkey by the name of Lige Jackson, who, deserted by his master, was left to take care of himself as best he might, Lige was considered a chattel of weak intellect, and moreover he was exceedingly awkward in his attempts to play the role of a hotise servant. He smashed and destroyed firetty nearly everything he laid his lands upon, and having waited upon nearly every officer at the post, each in turn, after giving him the benefit of a good cursing for his stupidity, turned him adrift. It happened that Lige was a witness in a case that came before a court martial, and being called up to give his testimony, was objected to on the part of the defendant, who stated that he didn’t believe the negro was of sound mind. “Stand up, Lige,” said the court. “Do you understand the nature of an oath?” Lige scratched his wool for a moment, and then turning up the whites of his eyes, replied: “Look a yeare, marse; dis nigger has waited on ’bout has de ossifers since dey fus cum to dis place, and if he don’t understand de nature of an oaf by dis time, den dares no wurtue is cussing.” The court considered Lige a competent witness. Much valuable time is saved by promptly treating Cold at its first appearance. Nothing takes the place of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup for Coughs, Colas, Irritation of Throat, etc. Price 25 cents. A mean householder in Toronto refused to allow the body of a woman who had died on his premises to be removed for burial unless he was paid SSO for rent and attendance. He also presented another bill for $25, alleging that the visitors to the deceased had worn out his carpet. At the request of the officiating clergyman, a policeman was detailed to be present at the funeral, with instructions to arrest him if he created any trouble, which he was prudent enough to avoid. « Davis Bubton was returning home from Waco, Tex., in a wagon. He stopped at Mills’ store at Hog Creek, and asked the clerk to send him out a cigar. The clerk was busy, and sent another man, well known in the neighborhood. The latter brought out a cigar and handed it to Burton, at the same time presenting a six-shooter to his head and demanding his money, which Burton gave up to the amount of S4O.- The robber was not arrested. A Physician of Great Prominence in Thirty-sixth street, New York city, was unable to even help Mr. Wm. McKee, of Paterson, N. J., suffering the agonies always attendant upon diseased kidneys. As an honest man and practitioner he prescribed and cured hun by using one bottle of Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. The Sultan is about to marry off two of his daughters—young things, not yet 15 years old. The bridegrooms, who are Turkish cavalry officers, have been allowed to choose their wives for themselves, and for dowry each receives a palace- many slaves, and a present of money.

Barb-Wire Lawsuits,

The barb-wire lawsuits, which have been pending in the United States Courts for the past five years, have been decided, and the broad claims of the Hunt, Kelly and Glidden patents fully sustained. These suits involve millions of dollars, and render all persons making, selling or using barb wire not made under these patents liable for damages. It is important for farmers and dealers to know that the Kelly Steel Babb Wibe, made by the Thoen Wibe Hedge Company, of Chicago, is made under the patents, and all those who have used it can be happy, as none can molest or make them afraid.

The Epizootic Has again made its appearance in various parts of the country. As prevention is better than cure, the attention of owners of stock is called to UNCLE SAM’S CONDITION POWDERS. These celebrated powders stand unrivaled for their excellency as a preventive from disease. By mixing with the feed they will keep the animal in the best general health, toning up the system and keeping the digestive organs and blood in a healthy condition. The Powders are warranted to give perfect satisfaction. Prepared by the Emmert Pkopkietaby Co., Chicago, DL Put up in 25 and 50-cent packages, and sold by all druggists. Db. 0. E. Shoemaker, of Reading, Pa., is the only aural surpeon in the United States who devo’es all his time to the treatment of deafness and diseases of the oar and c itarrh; especially running ear. Nearly twenty years’ experience. Thousands testify to his ek’ill Consult him by mail or otherwise. Pamphlet free. Bice is not only one of the most wholesome, but one of the most palatable cereals, when carefully cooked, and its area of cultivation is very rapidly extending. Vegetine in Powder Form is sold by all druggists and general stores. If you cannot buy it of them, inclose 50 cents in postage stamps for one package, or *1 for two packages, and I will send it by return mail, H. R. Stevens, Boston, Mass.

Cnrions Blunders.

The numerous instances of mistaken identity on record are constantly receiving new additions. There is an amusing account of a French lady who was very jealous of her husband, and determined to watch his movements. On one occasion, when he told her he was going to Versailles, she followed him, keeping him in sight till she missed him in a passage leading* to the railway station. Looking about her for a few minutes, she saw a man coming out of a gloveshop with a rather over-dressed lady. Making sure from the distance that this man was her husband, she came suddenly up and, without a word of warning, gave him three or four boxes on the ear. The instant the gentleman turned round she discovered her mistake, and, at the same time, caught sight of her husband, who had merely called at a tobacconist’s, and was crossing the street. There was nothing for it but to faint in the arms of the gentleman whose ears she had boxed, while the other lady moved away to avoid a scene. The stranger, astonished to find an unknown lady m his anus, was further startled by a gentleman seizing him by the collar and demanding what he meant by embracing that lady. ‘'Why, she boxed my ears, and then fainted,” exclaimed the aggrieved gentleman. “She is my wife I” shouted the angry husband, “and would never have struck you without a cause.” And worse than angry words wqjild probably have happened had not the cause of the whole misunderstanding recovered sufficiently to explain how it all happened. An amusing blunder was once made by a dyer, who was given by a farmer four flannel shirts to be dyed a fast gray color, instead of which he dyed them red. On wearing the garments, the color came out of them so that, as the farmer expressed it, “he looked like a red Indianand, as it cost him several shillings in baths to turn himself into a whitcmmn again, he sued the dyer, and obtained damages. Au embarrassing incident once happened to an Englishman in Rome. Entering one of the churches in that city, as a service was going on, he sat quietly down, placing his hat on the ground beside him. Some little time passed, and, as there seemed no immediate prospect of the ceremony coming to an end, he reached for his hat, in order to leave, but was stopped by an unseen hand, which grasped him from behind. Thinking some custodian of the church wished him to remain till the end of the service, he again waited; but, his patience becoming exhausted, he again reached for his hat, and again he was prevented from going in the same manner. Convinced that the service was some really important one, the Englishman once more delayed his departure; but at the expiration of a quarter of an hour he determined to go in spite of etiquette, so he repeated the same maneuver in the direction of his head covering. A third time the same hand detained him, but as he determinedly resisted its grasp a voice behind him exclaimed in Ei@ glish: “I beg your pardon, but that is my hat you are taking.” Such was the fact; he had been detained all this while because each time he had reached in mistake for the hat of another stranger placed in close proximity to his own. The Atlantic contains the following: “We can not think annihilation. When I think myself as nothing, I prove that J am something. If I say I am, lam really i«-ing. This is the power, by which we thing things. J who am, or is-ing I, think this, thAt, other somewhat. The thing must be what I think or thing it. In other words, I think my thing and that thing things.” The most we are afraid of is that there is some infernal trick about it.— Peck's ■Shin. _ Fob a pamphlet on Electric Treatment of chronic diseases with Electricity, which will be sent free, address the Mclntosh Electric Belt and Battery Co., 192 & 194 Jackson St., Chicago, 111. RtaENThal Bnos., Chicago, make the diamond bootirand shoes, the best made. Try them.

DfBULLS COUGH SYRUP

HOSinTERi fctfTERS Sleep, Appetite and Strength Return when Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is systematically used by a bilious dyspeptic sufferer. Moreover, since the brain sympathizes closely with the stomach and its associate organs, the liver and the bowels, as their derangement is rectified by the action of the Bitters, mental despondency produced by that derangement disappears. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. QI CfYC IDC for Consumption is alas FIOU O WK CL the boot oough medicine. VflllNC 11 CM Learn Telegraphy! Earn #4O to 1100 a lUUlvu ITICH month. Graduates guaranteed paying offices. Address Valentine Bros., Janesville,Wia _A- MOXTW ! Agents Wanted! \ Anil To Best-Selling Articles in the world: a samtpuwu pleyree. JAY BRONSON, Detroit, Mich. sl*l MJ MJ A YEAR and expenses to r 7 r 7 agents. Outfit Free. Address P. < < < O. VICKERY. Augusta. Maine. Afililll Mesyhlssw HabltCursd las M to 20 No pny till Cured. VI I WlVl Cr. J. STEfUENs, Lebanon, Ohio. A O —Choicest in the world—lmporters' prices I I> A —largest Company in America—staple ar. * Ma tide—pleases everybody—Trade continually increasing—Agents wanted everywhere—beet inducements—don’t waste time—send for Circular. ROB’T WELLS, 43 Vesey st, N. Y. P. O. Box U»7. Printers’ Outfits. Printers about to embark In the Newspaper or Printing Business in this State will rind it to their interest te address 1” Itl .WE KS’ iXi TIA.MJ E, Box 339, Chlca io. 111., before purchasing outfits. CONSUMPTIVES! Thomson, an old physician of Macon, Ga, for a cure, and call on him for examination on your way to Florida. He uses inhalents and exbalents for the air passages, as others do, but addressee medication to the substance of the lungs through the portal ven, the liver, and the heart, as no one else attempts. Remedies sent anywhere by mail Address him. LITERARYREVOLUTIQS Q C 9j "W*© each, formerly #l.Ol to #l.2t each, U Vlll I p I Macaulay's Life of FrederSl the Great. IL Carlyle’s Life of Robert Bums. 111. Lam artine’s Life of Mary Queen ofiScots. IV. T bos. Hughes' Manlinesses fal T C each, formerly tIM of Christ. O VzEwlw I O each: I. Arnold’s Light of Asia. 11. Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. 111. Baras Munchausen's Travels and Surprising Adventures. Fes SIX 4ENTSI Bunyan's Pilgrim’s Progress. Illustrated catalogue sent free. AMERICAN BOOK EXCHANGE. Jeba B. Alden, Manager, Tribune Building, New York.

THE MARKETS.

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Vegetine WILL CURE RHEUMATISM MR. ALBERT OROOKER, the well-known druggist and apothecary of Springvale, Me., always advises every one troubled witn rheumatism to try VEGETINE. Read His Statement: 4 Springvale, Mb., Oct M. 1876. Mb. H. R. Stevens: /tear Sir—Fifteen yean ago last fall I was taken nick with rheumatism, was unable to move until the next April. From that time until three yean ago this fall I suffered everything with rheumatism. Sometimes there would be weeks at a time that I could not step one step; those attacks were quite often. I suffered everything that a man could. Over three yean ago l»*t spring I commenced taking Vegetine, and followed it up until I bad taken seven bottles; have had no rheumatism since that time. I always advise every one that is troubled with rheumatism to try Vegetine, and got suffer for yean as I have done. This statement is gratuitous as far as Mr. Stevens is concerned. Yours, etc., ALBERT OROOKER, Firm of A. Orooker A Co., Druggists and Apothecaries. Vegetine. For Kidney Complaint and Nervous Debility. ISLEBOBO. Mr.., Deo. 28, 1877. Mn. Stevens: Dear Sir—l had had a cough for eighteen yean, when I commenced taking the Vegetine. I was very low; my system was debilitated by disease. I hid the Kidney Complaint, and was very nervous—cough bad, lungs sore. When I had taken one bottle I found it was helping me; it has helped my cough, and it strengthens me. I am now able to do my work. Never have found anything like the Vegetine. I know it is everything it is recom. mended to be. Mrs. A. J. PENDLETON. " Vegetine," says a Boston physician, “ has no eqnsl as a blood purifier. Hearing of its many wonderful cures, after all other remedies have failed, I visited the laboratory and convinced myself of its genuine merit. It is prepared from barks, roots and herbs, each ot which is highly effective, ana they are compounded in such a manner as to produce astonishing results." Vegetine PREPARED BY H. R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. WANTED— Agent* everywhere to sell our goods by sample, to families. We give attractive presents and first-class goods to your customers; we give you good profits: we prepay all express charges; wo furnish outfit free. Write for particulars. PEOPLE'S TEA 00. Box SOM. St. Louis, Mo. CELLULOm EYE-GLASSES. Representing th« choicest-selected TortoiseShell and Amber. The lightest, handnomest. and strongest known. 8 >ld bv Opticians ana Jewelers. Made by the SPENCER OPTICAL M’F'G CO., 13 Maiden Lane. New York. FRAZER AXLE GREASE. Best Ib the World. Hinde only by the Fra. “ Dr. Sykes’ Sure Cure” FOB ‘'CATARRH” Cures Without Pall. Ask your Druggist for It Price of " Sure Cure" and “ Insufflator" all complete is only 81.50. Valuable book of full information, 10 cents, Name this paper and address Dll. O. R. SYKESU69 E. Madison St. Chicago, 111. nPT?"Y AQT Southwestern ■ 11 Afl 0 1 Immigration « Company. 11 is the purpose of this Company to supply the need of a State Bureau of Immigration, ana not to subserve the purjxieesof any individual railway, or other corporation. BWAo lands bouaht or fold. Information furnished those wishing to settle in Texas. Correspondence solicited. Address . W. W. LANG .Pres, (late Matter Texas State Granoe) or B. G. Duval, Sec. Austin, 1 exas.

C.GILBERTS STARCH

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S 1 Jacobs Oil

No Proparstioa on earth equal* St. Jaax>m Oil m b busk, simple and cheap External Remedy. A trial entaill but the comparatively trifling outlay of N) Cents, and one suffering with pain can have cheap and positive proof es ito dal me. ihmcTIOXS IS KLXTKM LAMGUAOIB. ~ SOLD BY All DRUGGISTS AND DIALERS IN MEOICIML A. VOQELER & CO. Baltimore, Md., V. PLATH! PLAIN! PLATH! Pl* A YA! For Reading Clubs, for Amateur Theatricals. Temperance Playa, Drawing-Room Playa, Fairy Plnye, Ktniophin Playa, Guido Books, Speakers. Pantomimes. 1 sbleaux Lights, Magnesium Lights, Colored Fire. Burnt Cork, Theatrical Face Preparations, Jarley a Wax Work*, Wigs, Beards and Moustaches at ieduced prices. Costumes, Scenery, Charades. New catalogue* sent free containing full description and prices. Samuel French « Son, 3® K. 14th Street, New York NATRONA? la tba beat tn the World. It la absolutely pure. It la the beat for Medicinal Purpoae*. It la the beat for Baking -nd all Family Usa*. Hold by al' Druggtata and Grocers. PenD’aSaltMaiiDfact’iMCo..PMJa. H 1,000,000 Arret oice Fanning LaudJ . «... nr mo fs| |l|o oc®. n it b a Branch Oliico. 92 Randolph Bt., Chicago. Illa. 155.00I $5.00 PER DAY Made Selling. Our New PLATFORM FAMILYSCALE. Weighs accurately up to 25 I ha. Ila hHndsomo appearance sells it at sight. Retell price. {1 50. Other Family Soloa weighing 25 lbs. cost $5.00. A ICeguinr BOOM FOR ACENTS. Exclusive territory given free. Terms and rapid sales surprise old Agent A BOM EMTI< M’ALE CO., No. 188 W. Filth St.,Cincinnati,Q. Iffl CEITSaMonH ip One Dollar a Year. m THE ('lll< AGO LI I>GEI€ IfitlflfcS will be sent to any address, postege pnid,nt the pnees mimed above. Send KEyjSM in y«iur names. Address WMF TUB LEDGEK, Chicago, 111. QjP I f you are a ma n 'hOe&HT I f you at •<« a KMF of busines s,weak- wrKW man of lot- ' ened by the strain of te is toiling over niiiL your duties avoid VJB7 night work, to resstimulautH nn d uu e W tore brain nerve and Hop Bitters. H wohus, uhc Hop B. If you nreyouuir and suffering from any indiscretion or disßlpa M tion ; ir you arc married or single, old or g young, suffering from poorhoolth or languish Bl Ing on a bed of sickness, rely on Ho pH Bitters. Whoever you lire, Thousands die anwhenever you feci fflUl that y'o u r system form of K|d ne» needs cleansing, ton- ®?-?dlseaao that might Ing or Stimulating, Mja have la-onprevented withoutfnfox/rdt/nv, IMi'l.jl by a timely use of take Hop JWa-X Hopßltters Bitters. ■■■■■ Hove you dv>pep.iia, kidney D. I. C. B is an absolute L t ho’etomach, ' | [JOT) liverornenee i ™ use of opium, You will be H niTTmn tobacco, or cured If you use U l| 11 11 lII* narcotic.. Hop Bitter, h Ifyouareslm- 1 UIIIU,U Boldbydrngply weak and Wl air\/rn fists. Send lor low spirited, try NEVER CircuUr. skVeY%ur IFA I I UOP BrrrK “ IFlfe. It has Ji TA IL ■cosaved hun- JB] n»«he.ier, Ji. Y. d redd* >3 a ■ A Toronto, Ont. Tn© Only Rcmcciy M 11 THAT ACTS AT THE SAME TIME ONjI Hthe liver, U □ THE BOWELS, M and tho KIDNEYB.M ■ I This combined action given ittcon-kl Eff derful power to cure all diseance. M Hwhy Are We Sick?|| I Because we allow these great organsU Qto become dogged or torpid, r9iiwisonouß humors are therefore for ceduA kt into the blood that should be cajielledri SmaageW ■ BILIOUSNESS, PILES, CONSTIPATION,M H KIDNEY COMPLAINTS, URINAHY M 11 DISEASES, FEMALE WEAK- kl M NESSES, AND NERVOUS U DISORDERS, fifty causing free action of these organon Wand restoring their power to throw ojTM ■ dwfvLM. M Why Suffer Billon* pslns snfi ache.l H Why tormented with I’ilen, Conatipxtlox !■ Il Why frightened OTerdhordcred Kidney* 11*1 11 Rhy endure nerroua oralck headache*! IK Why have aleepleaa night* I ■ Uts KIDNEY WORT and rejoice InH Fl health. It is a dry, vsgttabte compound andfffl W Ona will naake etx ate of Medlclne-FJ ■ Get iteof your Druggist, he will order 4ZB| Q for you. Pries, *I.OO. M WELLS, BICBAKDSON h CO., Praprtatorx, bfl (WUI wad pct paid.) Burlington, V 4. For Two Generations The good and staunch old stand-by, MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT, has done more to assuage pain, relieve suffering, and save tho lives of men and beasts than all other liniments put together. Why! Because the Mustang penetrates through skin and flesh to the very bone, driving out all pain and soreness and morbid secretions, and restoring the afflicted part to sound and supple health, 0 ”• V- • Ma 9 \V n Jj N WftITIWQ TO ADVERTISERS, la ihfi piwy “ w