Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1881 — Page 4

THE FAHILY RECORD. “ This notched stick, suspended her* Beside the great hall door, Hides many s quaint end curious page Of uftwrit family lore; It holds, the record of our lives, Each notch a story tells, And hilts mystic marks and sighs Our family history dwells. “ ’Twas not as now, when we were young. Our schools were precious few, And also very far between— Our county numbered two— And fifteen miles in winter time, Was rather far to go; Remembering that the winters then Were not devoid of snow. “ And so the schooling we obtained (Myself and husband Dick), Consisted all in marks and signs And notches on a stick. I blush not here to own this fact; The blame, if blame there be, Must all attach to circumstance. And not to Dick and me. “ This preface on the end, we notched Just sixty years ago, Where we had built our little hut And moved In, through the snow; The worldly wealth we then possessed, I’ll cot essay'to hide, Consisted in a yoke of steers, A log-chain, ax and slide. “ But we were young and hopeful, and Esteemed our prospects fair, The richness of our mutual love Believing every care; We dwelt within a little world All sacredly our own, Basking in smiles and johnny-cake, Living on love and pone. “ This notch denotes the day and date When little Dick, was born, Tbe first of June, in twenty-nine—-s Just fifty years this morn. Poor boy I he was not with us long, His sands of life were few I For here we notched him off again In April, forty-two. “ With doubtful, trembling hands, 1 made Thin ugly notch myself, When Daisy married wild Jack Jones, And moved off to herself; I had no confidence in Jack, He'd lived a reckless life; ’Twas only under my protest That he obtained bis wife. “ But Daisy brought about a change. As good wife ever can, And Jack has long since settled down And proved himself a man; They own five hundred acres of The very best of land, And have a genteel balance left Of ready cash on hand. “ Our cash account we’ve always kept Upon this separate stick— I make no entries here myself, But leave it all to Dick. Each notch a thousand represents, In all just sixty-four, And, should the crops prove fair this year, We’ll add about five more. “ We’ve always kept our bus’ness square, And stralghter than a string ; Have fairly dealt with all the world And owe no man a thing. We’ve labored honestly and well For every cent we’ve got, And old age finds us happy and Contented with our lot.”

Ten TEN TERRIBLE MINUTES.

One November evening a few years ago I had occasion to travel from Cannon street to Spa Road station, on the Southeastern railway. It had been a cold, foggy day throughout, and there were comparatively few passengers. The compartment which I entered—a seoond-class—had but one previous occupant, a stoutly-built man of 35 or 40. He was attempting, with evidentlysmall success, to read a book, and he fidgeted about on Jiis seat in rather a testy fashion. Having a doubt as to the regularity of the trains on such an evening, I said, “ I suppose this stops at Spa road ? ” “Spa road ! Of course it does,” said this gentleman, with what I considered unnecessary vehemence. “All these trains stop at Spa road. ” “ Don’t thank me, sir,” he said, a moment later. “ I only answered a simple question—a fool or madman could do that. ” Here the train slowly moved off, and the speaker, whose face I had not yet seen, resumed his efforts to read, muttering now and again an impiecation at the expense of the fog and the cold. When we reached the glass dome of the Borough market the train came to a stop, and for the first time I found myself in a pos-ition to obtain a good view of my fellow-passenger. Hitherto he had obstinately kept his back or shoulders toward me. Now he threw his volume down on the seat and faced about. He was, as I have said, a man in the full prime of life. Rather over the average height, he had the broad shoulders, full chest and nervous hands of an athlete. The impression which his features produced was decidedly unpleasant. Yet save for the eyes, which had a peculiar and indescribable glare in them, the face was not an unhanasome one. “ I did not know that we were so close tothe Crystal palace,” he said brusquely. “The Crystal palace 1 ” I said, in some surprise. “We are not near the Crystal palace.” “ The fog has affected your eyesight, my friend,” was the reply. “Trouble yourself to look out of this window. ” “ Oh, that!” I said, smiling. “You like your joke, sir, I perceive. The Borough market must feel flattered, indeed, to be mistaken for the Sydenham palace. ”

“ Borough market! Of course, it was only my joke,” laughed my companion. But there was no mirth in the laugh. He now took up his book again and made another attempt to read. Though he fixed his eyes on the page and even now again turned a leaf, it was evident that his reading was little better than a pretense. Indeed, it was so dark in the carriage that to see the small characters in an ordinary volume had become quite impossible. While he was thus engaged the train reached London bridge. The moment we entered the station my companion, who had drawn nearer me, returned to his seat in the corner farthest from the platform. From this he gazed with evidently eager interest on the people passing and repassing the carriage door. As at Cannon street, the number of these wasn ot great* and we were still alone when the train again moved off. The moment we were outside the station a change came over my fellow-pas-senger. He threw his book on the floor, and rose to his feet. Hitherto I had, being preoccupied with my own thoughts, given small heed to him. Now, without knowing why, I felt my self fascinated. There was a light in his dark eye, an expression in his mouth, which at once repelled and attracted me. “ Have you been much of a traveler?” he asked, suddenly. He was standing with his back to the door, watching me curiously. “I have never been out of the islanl,” I replied. * “Ah !” he said. “ I have been everywhere—ltaly, Russia, India, China, Timbuctoo, Ashantee anywhere everywhere. I have been near the North pole and quite at the South.” “ Indeed, you must be a very great traveler, sir,” I said. “ I'have never been to the moon, fto man can be a great traveler who ha 3 not been there.” “ Then lam afraid that, with the exception of those famous heroes of Jules Verne, there are very few about.” “ Just so, just so ! And yet a trip up above this detestable fog beyond the cloudawould be enjoyable. In a night like flats it would be peculiarly so; don’t you agree with me ?” -“Not quite,” I said; “for my own part I’d much rather be at my fireside.” “You would, would you? Look at that, smell that, taste that cursed fog.” He threw open the window, and certainly the fog that poured in was bad enough in all conscience. “I grant you it is not pleasant, either for eyes or throat,” I said. “I knew you would,” continued my strange companion. “Any one would be glad to get out of it. The man who oould free you from it would deserve your thanks, would he not ?” These wo* » light 1a tb* ipeake?’*

eyes which I did not like, and a movement at the comers of his month the opposite of pleasant. While not feeling the least dread of him, I was yet not without a strong desire to reach Spa road. As bad luck would have it, while yet we had not made half the short journey, the train again came to a sudden stop. “ Yes, he would be a public benefactor who could deliver the people of London from fog,” I said. “He would, would he* not?” whispered my companion eagerly. “Then I am the man.” As he spoke he crouched down and looked up at me with a glare that made me start. He buttoned bis coat and pulled up his sleeves, as he whispered again, “lam the man. 1 can free you from these fogs—l can free myself.” For the first time the thought now flashed into my mind that I was alone with a moilman- I recognized now that wild light in his eyes, that strange twitching at the comers of the* month. I do not suppQse that I am constitutionally more timid than most of my neighbors ; yet at this moment I felt a cold 3weat break all over me, and I know that I looked eagerly out in* the darkness, hoping that as now the train _was slowly moving we were near the station. [ bsw only the thick fog and the feeble light of here and there a lamp. Yes, the man was mad, raving mad. There could be no doubt about it. Only a maniac could laugh the mirthless laugh which now came from his throat, as he drew two steps nearer me and hissed at'me, “We shall travel together to the moon. Adieu to the fogs; say with me, adieu to the fogs.” I was now erect, watching my companion intently, nerving myself for a straggle, which, it was easy to tell, was very near. I could easily see I was no match for such an antagonist. My hope was that I would hold my own for the few minutes necessary to reach Spa road, where plenty of assistance would be available. “Your balloon would scarcely travel on such a night,” I said, with affected indifference. “The atmosphere is too thick !” ‘ ‘ Too thick 1 Do you think so V” he said. “ I do. Consider the density of the fog. How can we possibly get through it?” “ Well, there’s something in that,” lie •said, sitting down. “Yet the effort is worth a trial. Yes, it is worth a trial.”

He sprang anew to his feet, and approached me. Ho threw out his strong hands, and made a clutch at my throat. “ This is how we begin, this is how I get the gas for the trip. I kill you first to give you start. Then I start myself and follow you. ” One shout I gave for help, but it was lost in the report of a fog signal; then we were swaying backward and forward in tlio carriage in a struggle which was literally for life or death. The madman’s breath came hot on my face, his strong arms held me in a fierce embrace. There was a fierce joy in his eyes. The foam worked out of his mouth, and his teeth gnashed angrily against each othef.

Life is dear, and I felt no inclination to yield mine without a desperate struggle. I tore my antagonist’s hands from my throat, and for a moment forced him to* act on the defensive. I shouted again and again for help, and how I longed for Spa road mrwords can describe. The train was now running at a good rate and I knew the station could not be far off. If only I could hold my own for one half minute all would be safe. Pausing in his exertions for a moment the madman suddenly quitted me. Just then, to my horror, the train rushed through my station without even slacking speed. I was in the wrong train, and there was no hope of assistance till we reached New Cross. It was evident that my fellow-passengers had not heard my shouts for assistance. Without a word of warning my companion again threw himself upon me, this time with a fury so resistless that I was borne to the floor. “We shall go to the moon,” he shrieked. “ I have a knife—we can cut our way through the fog.” I felt myself helpless. My previous exertions had exhausted my strength, while that of the maniac seemed to increase with, the straggle. Strive as I might, I was utterly and entirely in his power now.

How slowly the train seemed to move. I believe now that it was going at a good speed, but to me it appeared to progress at. a snail’s pace. And hunv curiously vivid were my thoughts. I saw the home where I was expected, and kind faces waiting to greet me. m I wondered what they’d say when they heard of my death. I caught myself thinking how ugly were the madman’s eyes, and I even noticed the color of his necktie—blue, with white spots. Ino longer felt any inclination to shout for help. To all I looked upon myself as dead. I even began to think of myself as a third person, and to lament, in a philosophical fashion, the ill fortune which cut off at the begining of his career a pipmising young man. Then.l remembered that I owed a shoemaker for a pair of boots, and I pitied the unfortunate tradesman for the bad debt he had made. While these and a hundred other thoughts were passing through my brain, it seemed to me that an age had transpired. In reality Ido not suppose that at the outside more than a minute had elapsed since my unlucky fall. Suddenly, as in a dream, I heard the madman, who now was seated astride my chest, hiss : “We’ll cut our way to the moon—my knife is sharp. Let’s try it on your throat.” With curious deliberation he drew a strong pocket knife and opened it. “All right, friend, eh?” he cried, laughing. “ Now mind, do not leave the carriage till I come up to you. ” “I am swift,” said I, and I declare 1 did not recognize my own voice. “If I go first, you shall certainly not overtake me—you start and I’ll follow.,” “Me start?” “Yes, you’re braver, stronger, and you have the knife ; you must go first to clear the way.” “Of course, I forgot that,” he cried, almost to my horror, so utterly was I surprised. “Of course, I forgot that,” he cried again. “I must clear the way. ” •

Still sitting on me he deliberately drew the bright blade across his throat. In another momt nt I was deluged with blood. At the same time the knife fell from his nerveless grasp. To spring to my feet, to seize the open wound and press the edges together was the work of an instant—though the sudden escape made me stagger. At the same moment we reached New Cross station, and a porter threw open the carriage door.

Fortunately, the self-inflicted wound of the madman did not prove fatal. Ultimately I heard that the blood-let-ting had a beneficial effect on his brain. I discovered next day that he was a most dangerous lunatic who had managed to escape from a private asylum. To my surprise, when I looked at the clock at New Cross, I found that the journey from London bridge had not taken ten minutes. They were certainly the longest ten minutes I ever spent. —Fife ( Scotland ) News.

My friends, we can’t all be Washingtons, but we kin all be patriots and behave ourselves in a human and Christian manner. When we see a brother goin’ down hill to ruin let us not give him a push, but let us seize rite hold of his coat tails and draw him back to mo-ralit/f-*v4. War &

BITS OF INFORMATION.

The Bank of England was founded in 1694. The capital is £14,533,000. The number of miles of telegraph wires in the world is placed at 492,573. The mileage of telephone wires in the United States is estimated at 60,000 miles. Thebe are about 17,000 locomotives running on the railroads of the United States, and 500,000 cars of all kinds. “Arkansas” was originally spelled “ Ar-kan-cea” and has always been pronounced “ Arkansaw” by the old settlers. The Suez canal is 100 miles in length. It is seventy-two feet wide at the bottom, about 300 feet at the surface, and twenty-six feet deep, easily passing‘the largest vessels. There are three Major Geperals in the regular army—W. S. Hancock, Irvin McDowell and John M. Schofield; and six Brigadier Generals—John Pope, O. O. Howard, A. H. Terry, 0. 0. Augur, Geo. Crook and Nelson A. Miles.

The Aryan languages are Sanskrit, whence Hindoostanee; Zeud, whence Persian ; Greek, whence Romaic; Latin, whence Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Wallachian; Celtic, whence Welch, Irish, Gaelic ; Gothic, whence Teutonic, English, Scandinavian ; Slavonic, whence Russan and Austro-Polish.

The average duration of vitality in seeds of some of our cultivated plants is as follows: Artichoke, 5 years; broad bean, 6; beet root, 5; cabbage, 6; carrot, 4; cifcumber, 5; lettuce, 5; maize, 2; melon, 5; onion, 2; parsnip, 2; peas, 4 or 5; radish, 5; spinach, 5; tomato, 5; turnip, 5; egg plant, 7; endive, 9; paisley, 3; strawberry, 3. The expression “A 1,” popularly used to designate the first quality of articles, is copied from the symbols of the British and foreign shipping-list of the Lloyds. “A” is used to designate the character or conditions of the hull of a vessel, and the figure “1 ” to denote the efficient state of her anchors, cables and stores. If those are insufficient in quantity or quality, the figure “2” is used to indicate the same. JVlien it is said of a ship, “ she is A 1,” it means that she is all right as to hull, rigging and equipments.

By estimate, the surface of an averagesized man contains about sixteen and a half square feet, or 95,000 inches. Allowing 2,800 pores or openings to each inch, we have the aggregate of 7,000,000 for the whole body. Connected with these are about twenty-eight miles of tubing, through which the decaying and waste matters of the body—ever dying, particle by particle, while life remains—pass off, freeing the body of putrid matter. This waste is gathered up in all parts of the body and hurried out of the system, as an important means of avoiding disease and death. It is also estimated that of all taken into the stomach, five-eighths pass off through the pores ! From 1789 until 1816 the rates of postage in America v. ere: For single letter (that is, one composed of a single piece of paper) under 40 miles, 8 cents; under 90, 10 cents; under 300, 17 cents; under 500, 2o cents. In 1816, these rates were modified as follows: A single letter, not over 30 miles, cents; over 30 and under 80, 10 cents; over 80 and under 150, 12J cents; over 150 and under 400, 18| cents; and an additional rate for each piece of paper. If the letter weighed one ounce, four times the rates were charged. Again, in 1845, the rates were lowered: For a letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight, under 300 miles, 5 cents; over 300, 10 cents, and an additional rata for each additional half ounce or fractioifthereof. The present rates of letter postage were adopted in 1863.

The name Gypsies is a corruption of the word Egyptians, and it has been supposed that the Gypsies originated in Egypt. But the conflict of authorities is so great with regard to their origin that it is now extensively believed that nothing absolutely authentic is known on the subject. In the year 1427 a band of 120 strangers arrived in Paris, who claimed to be Christians of Lower Egypt who had been expelled by the Saracens. They said they had last come from Bohemia. They professed the gifts of fortunetelling and other necromantic arts, and were great thieves. They were expelled from Paris, but continued to wander in France. Other bands succeeded them, and in the course of a century they appeared in Spain, England, Sweden and other countries of Europe. They were what are now known as Gypsies. They are usually great thieves, and have but few redeeming traits. They are fond of stealing children and bringing them up as Gypsies, and also take persons into their tribes who are willing to adopt their mode of life.

Can Consumption be Cured?

Read what Mr. William 0. Digges, a merchant of Bowling Green, Va., writes under date of April 4th, 1881. He says : I firmly believe that Allen's Lung Balsam will and has cured consumption if taken in time and proper care be taken of the Patient both in suitable food and clothing. Six years ago my mother was attacked with pneumonia. The attending physician “ some time after” told me that the disease had settled on her Lungs and that she had the consumption. Not believing that a permanent cure could be effected, but thinking I might be able to get an expectorant not containing opium, whiciwwould afford some relief, I inquired of a druggist at Richmond, Va., if he had any medicine not containing opium, that was a good expectorant. He then recommended Allen’s Lung Balsam, which I purchased and induced my mother to try. Before she had taken the first bottle, the improvement in her condition was so marked that I purchased three more bottles. The attending physician, seeing the beneficial effects, recommended its continued use, and in about twelve months her lungs were pronounced cured. Upon my recommendation many others who had the consumption have been cured. I think you can claim for your medicine the following : Exijectorat on without irritation, and healing of the lungs by keeping them free from foreign substances, thugs arresting and curing this dread disease. Mr. Digges says he writes because he wants it known that Allen’s Lung Balsam is doing good.

His Speech.

It was the birthday of old Col. Whale. He was a veteran of two wars and he had reached his 80tli year. The military company resolved to surprise and gratify him by. recognizing it. They marched down right in front of his house with a twelve-pounder, nd, loading her up, began to fire in good shape. They tliougl t it would send the warm blood flying through the Colonel’s veins to hear the familiar sound. It did. At the third shot the old veteran appeared at his door with the fire of battle gleaming in his eyes, his gray locks streaming in the wind, and his old musket in his hand. “ Give him a chance to smell the burning powder ! Fire the cannon! ” cried the commander of the company. The Colonel rushed down to the cannon and pushed the men away. He mounted it. “A speech ! A speech ! ” they cried. He motioned for silence, aud all was still. Then the veteran raised his voice : “ You devils,” he cried, “what do you mean by firing this cannon in this way ? You’ve broken every piece of glass and crockery in my house ! ” They took the cannon and marched away. —Boston Post.

Telegraphers’ Bulls.

A press dispatch from Omaha announced that a company of infantry had met a party of Indians and were “all scalped.” It should have read “all escaped”—an important difference not only to the company, but to their friends who were to read the dispatch, said Mr. Simonton. “We killed a deaf mule,” an operator read a dispatch ordering arrangements for the reception of a de: d body, which should have been a “deaf mute.” “ Send 10,000 shingles like this one ” wrote a Williamsport lumberman on a shingle. He evidently thought that particular shingle would go by telegraph and be delivered to his correspondent for a sample of what he

wanted. A young couple on their wed-ding-trip were met at the depot by friends clad in mourning, with a hearse, because an operator had sent the word “hearse” instead of “horse.” A dispatch from Queensland said Gov. Kennedy had “turned the first tod” on some important work, but the operator gave the message to the London newspapers: “ Governor of Queensland, twins, first son,” and the London Times gravely remarked that Lady Kennedy had been safely delivered of twins, of which the eldest was a

AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

Refuse Salt.—Refuse salt and brine from the pickle barrels should be sown broadcast under fruit trees. Wood Ashes. —Where this can be purchased cheaply enough it will pay to procure a quantity and scatter it liberally under the fruit trees. Singular Grafting.— A tomato vine has, with some difficulty, been grafted upon a potato. It was uone simply as a matter of curiosity.

Early Lambst^—April lambs are best. Lambs that come after the first of June seldom grow thrifty or amount to much. If intended for fairs or breeding stock February and March lambs are necessary. Sulphur fob Roup. —Roup will sometimes yield to the following treatment: Open the affected fowl’s beak and with a tube? which may be formed of paper, blow half a teaspoonful of sulphur down the throat. Three applications have been known to cure. Wheat. —See to it that your land is well prepared before sowing wheat if you desire a good crop. Roll before sowing if the land is clayey, roll after sowing if it is' sandy. Do not make the mistake of thin seeding. Use about two bushels of seed to the acre, and drill in rows five inches apart. Storing-Cabbages. —Leave them in the ground as late as they can be pulled up by the roots, then pull them up and pack them in level beds, six feet wide, with alleys between of the same width. During the next two or three weeks, or until the ground freezes, cover them gradually with soil until it -is six inches deep. It is of the greatest importance that the final covering should be delayed as long as the season will permit. Quality of Wool. —Amateur sheepgrowers are not all aware that the wool of sheep grows most rapidly in cold weather, and that any chec-k in the quality and amount of feed at this time injures the quality of the wool. When sheep are well fed in the winter the wool starts to grow, but should any starving take place the wool fiber would have a weak place in it, and render it entirely unfit for combing wool, which brings such a good price in our markets. It could ouly be used where poor grades of wool were used, as in coarse blankets and carpets. New Method of Ringing Pigs.—Certain Poland China breeders at Rushville, Indiana, give their method of ringing pigs, that, with iSnr years’ trial, has proved far superior to the old method. The ring should never be put in the gristle. If by any means it should be too deep iu and feels solid iu the gristle, cut the ring out with nippers and put in another that is loose in the skin. Then the pig will suffer no pain, will go right off to eating, and the pig or hog can not root with the ring in the center of the nose, nor do they ever tear out as in the old way. Produce of an Acre. —An Ohio farmer sends to the Practical Farmer an account of the products of an acre lot, which, he says: “I have cropped for several years as a truck patch, planting it in potatoes, sweet corn, and vegetables, until it became foul with weeds, particularly those meanest of pests, button weed, red root, and foxtail grass. It was becoming so foul I could not get only half a crop, so I determined to eradicate the pests. In the spring of 1879 I plowed the ground and sowed it in oats, and at harvest cut and threshed eighty bushels of No. 1 oats, for the beginning. Then, again, I plowed and sowed it in buckwheat, and from thie planting threshed eighteen bushels of fine buckwheat. A third time I plowed it about the middle of October and sowed it in wheat, and cut and threshed from this third planting twenty-five bushels of No. 1 wheat this season. But this is uot all. I sowed this same acre in clover this last spring, the first week iu March, and by the' middle of August cut two and a half tons of fine clover hay. All these crops within sixteen months. But still the ground is not exhausted, for at the present writing there is a fine crop of pasture six inches high. Fat Bacon.— The English object to our hogs because they are too fat. and we are advised to feed them more barley and less corn. <*This, says Joseph Harris, is all very well; but if our hogs are too fat (which I very much doubt), the way to correct the difficulty is not merely by feeding less corn, but by introducing better breeds and adopting a better system of feeding and management. A large, lean hog does not furnish the pork or bacon which either the American or English market requires. Large-boHed, lean hogs are not scarce. If the improved breeds are too fat it is because we do not manage them properly. We may have to let them get more growth before we fatten them. Instead of selling them at nine or ten months old we may have to keep them till they are fifteen or eighteen months old. Keep them in a thrifty, growing condition. In the summer and autumn the food will consist principally of grass or corn fodder; in the winter we can feed corn, bran, ensilage, &c. The point is to keep the pigs constantly gaining till they are shut up to fatten. In this section a good plan would be to have the pigs come iu‘May, June or July. The sow and little pigs should run out every day to grass. The sow should have slops, or anything that would favor the production of milk. Feed her liberally. As soon as the little pigs are old enough to eat give them some cooked or soaked com, or oat or barley meal, with all the skimmed milk you can spare. Noth* ing is so good for little pigs as milkSnccess in raising pigs probably depends largely on feeding liberally tft the pigs areraree or four months old. Let them have the run of a grass or clover pasture, and after harvest they will do well on the wheat stubbles. The cost of raising pigs in this way is very little. In the winter they will need richer food. They should have dry, warm quarters, with plenty of clean straw. Where cows or cattle are fed grain or oilcake, or where the new system of ensilage is practiced, the pigs "will to a considerable extent pick up their own living. In my case we give them warm slops twice a day during winter. They may seem to be getting too fat, but this will not hurt them. I like to see them in good condition when turned out to grass in the spring. And till the grass is abundant and nutritious I should feed the pigs night and morning with the same food thev have had during the vr‘* ter With good pasture well-bred pigs that have been properly cared for during the winter will keep fat and thrifty with little or no extra food. They will be in a healthy growing condition, and can be fattened in' three or four weeks at any time deemed desirable. An exchange prints an article headed “How Oilcloth is Made.” We have read it through carefully, bnt have failed to find the information we seek, which is to know how oilcloth is made so allfired cold ?— Rome Sentinel. What’s the use sitting all day in the house with a tad cold or hacking Cough when Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup will cure you in a short

HOUSEHOLD HELPS.

(From the Honaahald.J Breakfast Toast. —Mix two tablespoonfuls of sugar, a little salt and a well-beaten egg in one-half pint of milk. Tn this mixture dip slices of bread and fry them on a buttered griddle until they are light brown on each side. MolassSs Oaks. —One cap of molasses, three eggs, two tablespoonfuls of cold butter, two teaspoonfuls of soda in half a enp of boiling water; salt and spice, of each one teaspoonful. Stir very thin and bake quickly. Cookies, —One and a half cups of white sugar, four eggs, one cup of lard, half cup of butter, three tablespoonfuls of water, one teaspoonful of soda, a half grated nutmeg; roll thin: dost over with sugar and roll down lightly. Bake it quickly. . Dixie Biscuits. —Three pints of flour, two eggs, two tablespoonfols of lard, one nmq.ll cup of yeast, one cup of milk; mix at 11 o’clock, roll out at 4 o’clock and cut with two sizes of cutters, putting the smaller one on top; let rise until supper. Bake twenty minutes. Lemon Pie. —For each pie take the yolks of three eggs, one cup of sugar, a tablespoonful of butter; grate the rind and press out the juice of one lemon, half a cup of cold water, two spoonfuls of flour, a pinch of salt; reserve the whites of the eggs for the top; mix two spoonfuls of white sugar with them. Custard Pee.—Line a deep plate with pie crust and fill with a custard made of one pint of milk, three eggs, three tablespoonfuls of white sugar and a pinch of salt; flavor with nutmeg; bake until firm in the center- this you can tell by inserting the handle of a teaspoon; do not let the oven get hot enough to boil it. Cabbage Salad. —One quart of very finely chopped cabbage, two-thirds cup of sour cream, two well beaten eggs; seasol to taste with sugar, salt, pepper and mustard. If you have no celery to chop with your cabbage, put in a tablespoonful of celery seed. Add a little vinegar. This is very fine, will keep well several days aud is excellent for picnics. Chocolate, No. 2.—Scrape the chocolate off fine, mix it smooth with water. If liked very rich make entirely with milk, if not, half water. Boil water and milk together; then stir in the chocolate which has been previously mixed with water, and continue stirring till it boils; then sweeten to your t ’.ste and take up. A tablespoonful of chocolate to a pint of milk or water is about the right proportion.

Starch. (Very fine) Two * tablespoonfuls of starch wet in cold water; add one teaspoouful each of gum arabic, white wax, and fine salt; pour on one quart of boiling water;T>oil ten minutes, theu strain; add two more tablespoonfuls of starch wet in cold-water to the strained starch. If any is left over it can kept for next time; it will be good though thin as water. If a polishing iron is used after the usual ironing the elutlies will look like new. ■White Sponge Cake. —Place a clean seive over an earthen bowl, and measure into the seive one cup of powdered sugar, a half cup of flour, a half cup of corn starch, oue teaspoonful of Royal baking powder; run them through together; have ready the whites of eight eggs beaten to a stiff froth; add one teaspoonful of rose extract; mix thoroughly and bake in square tins about two inches deep, in a quick oven. /Serve it out in small squares. To Make Chocolate. —Take three even tablespoonfuls of Baker’s chocolate, grated; for convenience put in a bowl or dish holding over a quart; then add two tablespoonfuls of white granulated sugar; mix the chocolate and sugar thoroughly; then add oue tablespoonful of boiling water; be sure and have the water boiling; stir until smooth; then boil one pint of milk and one pint of water together, when it really boils pour it gradually over the chocolate mixture*stirring all the time. The chocolate is now ready for use.

Omelet. —First, have fresh eggs, not omelet eggs (in restaurants all eggs that will not in any way do to boil, are put aside for omelets), break the eggs in a bowl, and to every egg add a tablespoonful of milk and whip the whole as thoroughly as you would for sponge cake. The omelet pan must be so hot that butter will melt almost brown in it, but not quite. Then run the whipped eggs and. milk iuto the pan and put it directly over the fire: Take a tliinbladed knife and run it carefully under the bottom of the omelet so as to let that which is cooked get above. If the fire is right the whole mass will swell and puff aud cook in about one minute. Watch carefully that it does not bum. It is not necessary to wait till the whole mass is solid, as its own heat will cook it after it has left the pan, bv i begin at one side and carefully roll the edge over and over till it is all rolled up, then let it stand a moment to brown. Turn out on a hot plate and serve immediately.

Don’t Pour Alcoliol on the Fire,

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Indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration and all forms of general • debility relieved by taking Mensman’s Peptonized Beef Tonic, the only preparation of beef containing its entire nutritious properties. It contains blood-mak-ing, force-generating and life-sustaining prop* erties; is invaluable in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, overwork or acute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary camplaints, Caswell, Hazard & Co., proprietors, New Xork. Eilert’s Extract ot Tab and Wild Cherry has been used for twenty years, and daring that time has saved many veiy valuable lives. Do not neglect a cough or cold until it is too late. Try this excellent remedy, and we are ware you will be convinced of its merits. Chronio Coughs, and even Consumptives, are cured by following the directions. Every bottle iB warranted to give satisfaction. Prepared by the Emmert Proprietary Co., Chicago. Bold by all good druggists. Uncle Ram’s Condition Powders are recommended by stock-owners who have used them as the best Horse and Cattle Medicine to be had. If the aniiial is Scraggy, Spiritless, or has no appetite, these Powders are an excellent remedy, and every owner of stock will do well to try" them. They are prepared by the Emmert Proprietary Co., Chicago, IIL, a very reliable Arm, and sold by all good druggists.

By a recent important improvement, Dr. Holman has perfected a great addition to the efficacy and usefulness of Holman’s Pads in the treatment of persistent' Chronic Diseases. As now improved, Dr. Holman’s Pads well deserve Pror. Loomis’ high indorsement: “ They are nearer a Universal Panacea than anything in medicine .” Is I'OCB hair falling out or your scalp diseased ? Carboline, a deodorized extract of petroleum, as now improved and p3rfectod, is' just the article you need. Buy a bottle, and, like thousands who are using it all over the land, you will value it as the choicest of all toilet prepar rations. We are in receipt of numerous testimonials which show that Dr. C. R. Sykes’ plan of treating catarrh is at once reliable and sure to produce the desired result See card in another column. The light-colored or petroleum grease penetrates through the hub and loosens the spokes. Use the Frazer Grease and avoid this injury to the wheel The diamond boots and shoes are the best Made by Rosenthal Brothers, Chicago.

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The Fruit-Grower’s Best Friend.

Many of thd leading orchard proprietors in Northern Italy and Southern Germany are cultivators of the common black ant, which insect they hold in high esteem as the fruit-grower’s best friend. They establish ant hills in their orchards, And leave the police service of their fruit trees entirely to the tiny colonists, which pass all their time in climbing up the stems of the fruit trees, cleansing their boughs and leaves of malefactors, mature as well as embryotic, and descending laden with spoils to the ground, where they comfortably consume or store away their booty. They never meddle with sound fruit, but only invade suoh apples, pears, Mid plums as have already been penetrated by the canker, which they remorselessly pursue to its fastnesses within the very heart of the fruit. Nowhere are apple and pear trees so free from blight and destructive insects, as in the immediate neighborhood of a large ant hill, five or six years old. The favorite food of ants would appear to be the larvae and pupae of those creatures which spend the whole of their brief existences in devouring the tender shoots and juvenile leaves of fruit trees. There was a young lady named Fair, Who artistically banged her front hair; Her face ahe would powder To make her look louder, And her skirta—well, she had none to spare.

Di'BULL’S COUGH SYRUP

HOLMAN’S PAD cures § Simply Without /jYJi by MEDICINE I till Absorption TRADE MASK. The Only True Malarial Antidote. Dr. Holman’s Pad is no guess-work remedy—no feeble imitative experiment no’ purloined hodge podge of some other inventor’s idea ; it is the original and only genuine curative Pad, the only remedy that has an hon-estly-acquired right to use the title-word “Pad” in connection wilh a treatment for chronic diseases of the Stomach, Liver and Spleen. By a recently perfected improvement Dr. Holman has greatly increased the scope of the Pad’s usefulness, and appreciably augmented its active curative power. This great improvement gives Holman’s Pad (with its Adjuvants) such complete and unfailing control over the most persistent and unyielding forms of Cbronic Disease of the Stomach and x,iver, as well as Malarial Blood-Poisoning, as to amply justify the eminent Professor Loomis' high encomium: “Itis nearer a Universal Panacea THAN ANYTHING IN MEDICINE I” The success of Holman's Pads has inspired imitators who offer Pads similar in form and odor to the genuine HOLMAN PAD, Beware of these Bogus and Imitation Pads, gotten up to sell on the reputation of the GEMVINE HOLMAN PAD. Each Genuine Holman Pad bears the private Revenue Stamp of the HOLMAN PAD COMPANY with the above Trade Mark printed in green. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS,, Or sent by mail, post-paid on receipt of $2.00. HOLMAN PAD CO., CP 0. Sox tlli.) ’William St.. P». VS W’ WTT.HniR.ft COMPOUND OP I PURE COD LIVER Lon. 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“Dr. Sykes’Surl for Catarrh” And “ATMOSPHERIC INSUFFLATOR” nr* tut revolutionizing nil other plane ol treatment, and proving that Catarrh le Just aw curable as other diseases. Send ten cents to the Doctor for his Ilook. it Is well worth a dollar. It explains fully bis plan of treatment, which Is so inexpensive that it io within the reach of all. Please call on or address DR. O. R. SYKES,' ie» cm mdim ■***, chicaqo, u*.

IBOOD Filmy REMEDY. STRICTLY PURE. [This engraving represents the Loage In a healthy RskJ WHAT THE DOCTORS SAY! DR. FLETCHER, of Lexington, Mlseoari. saye: “ I recommend yoqr ’ Bnleam ’ m preference to any ateee medicine for ooughs and oolds." DR- A. O. JOHNSON, of Mt. Vernon, 111., wrttee si ■ome wonderful onree of C’ouenmptlan in hie plane by the nee of ** Alles’i Rang llalmm." DR. J. B. TURNER. BlounUvllle, Ala., a praoUolaa physician of twenty-five years, wrttea : It U the hart preparation for Consumption In the world. rsr all Diseases of the Throat. Laaga aa_4 Pulmonary Organs, It will ha A>os4 a mae4 awcellent Remedy. AS AN EXPECTORANT IT HAS NO EQUAL. IT CONTAINS NO OPIUM IN ANT FOR* J. N. HARRIS A CO., Proprietor* • CINCINNATI, O. FOR BALE BY ILL DRUBBIBT6. AGENTS WANTED for th. Best and FastestSelling Pictorial Booka and Blblee. Prioee rmiuoed 53 per ot. National PuSlibhmo Oo„ OUloago, UL Electric utaris rr-NERVOUS DEBILITY. Lret Msrbook »nd Impaired powers wired by R4ATMBWW Improved Electro-Magnetic Belt and Absorbenl Pad combined; sine of Pad, 7*16 inches—foul times larger than otliert. Do not purchase an* Old-style $»I Bells when yon ean get latestimproved for «2 ” KlcotrlO lAght "a M ooluma paoer, sent fi«-e unsealed; sealed, 6cD. 8. D. MATHKWi A 00.. 431 W. I -Ote Streak Ohloega Price List! ree to any addres*. rwy mar ( '° ntn ' nß ai, d fear. . despriptions of all poods in geiipral nso, emliracfrjgjjgj Dry (ioodH, Clothing, @® r ' Boots. Shoos, Harness, Saddles, (inns, Sewing Hi: Machines, Jewelry, Droceries, Crockery, Tents, KSslfcr Tin Ware, Musical InMil striiments, etc. Samnleg gOK! i of Dry Doods furnished. 1 No obligation to hny. Wffiril! Satisfaction guaranteed. M MONTGOMERY WARD A CO., II 227 A 229 W»ba«h 7 DAPILLON m 1 THE GREAT gSS and EGYPTIAN tiff Acute And CURATIVE Ipl cl^h. Salt Rheum, Mjc&m t other Scrofdo, g® irafSBES” rnt'rr; m PAPIL !:E EftdJ J3® contains neither Tetter, MINERALS nor p. ACIDS. BUT IS Pimples, ggsjfefel wholly PRBHives. Rash, Es PS PARK D FROM ’ ’ BgCdfel VEGETABLES, Dandruff, nnd is sbsolntely Barbers’ltch UwHhChilblains, Boils.uicers, and specifio o, EfflU C i; It F. for those Blotches, ob , (lun tedlaea»eg Chafiner and oi' the skin whioh ® baffle the moat Soreness of skillful phyalInfants, C,#n "’ W WESTERN AGENTS, SCHAACK, STEVENSON & Co7i 1 A 111 Luke Sf„ Chicane. QHICA6O PinS! rmu .1.,,,in,in-r •*-- —jl'Kr«” SeparaXore, the only first-dess Apron Machine now In the market adapted for laSe or ■mall Jabs, home or steam power: the onfv Apron Machine that threahne undeleans/ttvc andallaraieu perfectly. Chicago Pitta” Double Pinion Mounted Horsepowers are thsi«< inth* world. If yon want a Vibrator, boy onr Black Hawß Why! Because it Is the latest Improved machine In the market, having etfjh* the defeete of Vibrators, Agitators, Oscillators, eta. now in use. Lighter draft Itself. Tara* in Its own length. H. A. Pins’ SONS MFQ. CO. Vand 0 8. Jefferson St. CHICAGO. ILL. An Open Secret. The fact Is well understood that the MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT is by far the best external known for ‘ man or beast. The reason why becomes an “open secret” when we explain that “Mustang” penetrates skin, flesh and mnscle to the very bone, removing all disease and soreness. No other liniment does this, hence none other is so largely used or does such worlds of good. O N. U. Ho- »T WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS, «” please nay you saw the advertisement In this paper.