Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1881 — Page 4

IHEOLD BROWXSCHOOL-BtOUSE. BT THE BEV. DWIGHT WIDLIAMS. In memory’s hall hang* th* picture, And years of sad care ar* between; It hangs with a beautiful gilding, And well do I love it, I ween. It stood on a bleak country corner, But boy hex d's young heart mad* it warm; It glowed in the sunshine of summer; ’Twas cheerful In winter and storm. Oh! gay were the sports of the noontide. When winter winds frolicked with snow; We laughed at the freaks of the storm-king, And shouted him on, all aglow. We dashed at hl* beauvful sculpture, Regardless of all its array; We plunged In the feathery snow-drifts, And sported the winter away We sat on the old-fashioned benches, Begui.ed with our pencil and slate; We thought of the opening future, And dreamed of our manhood’s estate. Oh I day* of my boyhood. I bless ye, While looking from life’* early time; The treasuies are lingering with me I gathered in life’s busy prim. Oh 1 still to that bleak country corner Turns my heart in weariness yet, Where, leading my gentle young sister*, With youthful companions I met. I cast a fond glance o er the meadow; The hills just behind it I see; Away in the charm ot the distance, O.d school-house, a blessing on thee I

HIS NEXT ENGAGEMENT.

The glories of the entertainment have faded, down goes gas, out scramble audience. It is the last night of the season, and the band, sorrowfully, gloomily every one, from the big drum down to the piccolo, are playing the national anthem over said season’s grave to give it decent burial. Even the first fiddle feels out of sorts. The bassoon has a teardrop trembling on his left eyelash, and lets it hang there, unconscious of the fact that all the while it glistens visibly in a tiny ray from the footligbt. As for the violoncello next him, that cliffbvowed, set-faced, hoary-headed old veteran of a score or two of pantomimes, surely this particular pantomime’s death grieves him but little. Why should it —while he can twine his bony left arm around that old violoncello’s neck as if it lived and loved him; when he can bend his gray head to its strings and hear the sweet pathos of their tones; when he cun pass h s long, skinny musician’s fingers fondly over them to draw forth rich, soothing, swelling, fal ing, beautiful melody? Why should there be a quavering lip and a trembling eyelash when the last chord comes? The chord is struck and over. Out of the orchestra, and already on his way home, is the first violin; the cornet has brought up the rear with a cadenza moraudo; the big drum has closed his last roll; the second violin has packed up his fiddle-case; bassoon and violoncello remain alone with the dying lights in the hall. “ Dick !” said the bassoon, quietly. Poor old white-faced violoncello never heeded. The left arm in its rusty sleeve still clasped the instrument’s neck in that loving way ; the old gray head bent down over the strings, wi’h the eyes closed. “ Poor old chap !” observed the bassoon, pittyingly, as he turned up his coat-collar and tucked his installmentcase under his arm. “ Slowed if he ain’t a playin’ now !” “ Dick—Dick I” he repeated, tapping the old violoncello good-naturedly on the shoulder. This old man opened his eyes and awoke to the silence. “Hallo, Tom Hornby! What—all gone ? Ithought”—he looked around him in disappointed inquiry, and spoke in a tone of sadness—“l thought he repeated that second strain. Well well ! How deaf I’m getting, to be sure !” The rusty black coat heaved with a sigh as its wearer rose and shut his music. . ‘ ‘ All. gone but y ou, Tom ?” he said, sorrowfully. “Well, I won’t deny I thought .they might ha’ wished me ‘ good-night,’ or ‘ good-by,’ or something of the sort, for the last night ; but I won't grumble. An old fellow who’s as deaf as a post and has nol>odv to mind him ain’t no place in an orchestra. He’d i get out of the road as quick as he 1 make no fuss about it. Friends X v. -seme. Dick. old man, - ’ exycsnu'Litee lA.e Isksscou, “ don't go for -. hie that. Y-:u knows there’s ■ ■■_ - .1.1:5. m-is :-or tck>—lash mv ie iir'V Yes, savs L Dick; : >IXS cos m whenever you _ks. t 1 '-.•*! f'.-z you, and the fii.ms iu-s I „s.s myself, whenever y.n -is cLes. : and, if we can’t ±~..i 7 . m• sit ’ s-omewheres : .--sx!-. 5 Blow me, it’s a

'lr.s. Hoflyou’re a good-hearted f-' . zir. retimed the violoncello, gratefihy, as his stolid face relaxed a little before thbassoon's penial smile. “ A nsesess, old, worn-out blessing like mine ain’t much to give any body.” he continued, “but such as it is, Tom, take it for your kindness; and may you never have such a black world before you as I’ve got now. ” They shook hands; the bassoon stepped through the little narrow door beneath the 1 stage, and his companion, hearing his unwieldy violoncello, extinguished the last gas-jet as he followed him. “Good-night, Dick; and don’t be down-hearted, old man. Your next engagement ’ll make amends.” “ Good-night, . Tom Hornby ; God bless you.” Again they shook hands; then bassoon whistled off into the hurrying crowd at the stage-door, and violoncello turned to face the wind the other way. Out into the bleak street, where tiny yellow rushlights of lamps cast a melancholy glimmer or two upon crowds of hurrying faces, some fat and round, some red and well-favored, some blue and ill-favored, all hurrying along through the little snow-dots which the wind blew about.

Old violoncello buttoned his rusty coat close, and turned up the collar as if the wind might find that an obstacle in its attacks upon his scraggy old throat, while he hugged that dingy big fiddle of his tight against his body, and, settling his eyes straight before him, dragged his trembling knees in the direction they pointed. Up one street and down another; along a wide, white road, lined with tall white mansions; down a narrow, wriggling, dark alley, lined with rickety lodging houses. On he trudged through the gray, pulpy mud of trampled snow. On and on to that dreary blank of fu ture which lay before him, the old lackluster eyes fixed in that straightforward look of despair, the cold loneliness steadily settling down upon his aged heart to brood there. For the season was over, and old violoncello had struck his last chord at the hall. “You see, Dobbs,” the leader of the orchestra had said, “now that the full season’s over, it’s unreasonable to expect the management to keep up such a band, so, much as it goes against me to say it, we must part. ” “Quite right,” had chimed in the manager with a ferocious mustache. “Establishment expenses must be cut down, my man; everybody can’t stop on; so there you are ! Might as well ask me to keep extra bandsmen out of my own salary 1” So the old violoncello struck his last chord, and went with a leaden heart. Good-hearted Tom Hornby comforted him with hopes of that next engagement. But who would have him—poor, old, worn-out, deaf as he was ? Nobody, he said. And his heart sank like a lump of cold lead as he thought of that answer. The pulpy slush changed to white, untrodden snow upon the path; the streets.were quieter and darker. Old violoncello reached his humble lodging, admitted himse f by his latch-key, climbed the three flights of rickety stairs. In the tiny garret at the top of them was a fireless grate, a square white jjed. a table, a chair and a window—one

broken pane of which was stopped with brown paper. As he lighted his two inches of lean candle and showed these, the old man sat down upon the °bair and bent his gray head upon the table. No tear was in his eyes when he lifted them. He drew his violoncello closer to him ; he hugged it as he might a favorite child; then he bent his head once more upon the little table, and his bow slipped to the floor from the numbed fingers which clasped it. Lower and lower burned the candle, while outside, upon the bars of the window-panes, white snow gathered higher and higher as the flakes kept falling. When the blanched face was again upturned the eyes were moistened. “So we’ve coma-to it at last, have we, old fiddle!” the old man moaned in apostrophe of his beloved violoncello, as he stooped to pick up the bow. “We’re old now, both of us; we’re no use now. You’re patched and cracked and yotu master’s deaf; they don’t want a pan like us nowadays. We’re ready almost for our last engagement. Yes, old fiddle ; you’ve been a good servant to your old master, and you could do something, too, in your day; but not much longer—not very much longer. We’re old now ; they can do without us.” A tear dropped upon the finger-board, and the old man wiped it carefully off with his coat-sleeve.

“ Yes, old friend,” he continued, gazing affectionately on his battered companion of wood and strings, “we’ve been friends for long, but we’re coming to our last engagement.” While the snow-flakes fell thicker and thicker against the window, softly and noiselessly, the old man drew his bow across the strings of the violoncello in a half-unconscious way, bending down lus head to the instrument just as he always did. Though his ears were deaf to aught else, they never failed to drink in the tones which sprung from those vibrating cords. Slowly, weirdly, pathetically the music rose aud fell in gentle ripples around the room, so hushed and low that it awakened no echoes in the silent house. Only in that poor chamber would it wander ; only around that poor old couple, instrument and player, would its sweet melody float. As he played, the old man’s eyes gently closed, and from his face the lines of settled despair gradually cleared away, till only a happy smile was left beaming around wrinkles. The player's thoughts were faraway; to him‘the cold room and snowy window were become as naught. Back’ in the little garden of fifty years ago, in the arbor scented by the pinks and roses, with the dark velvet pansies clustering the little plot at his feet, he was listening again to that same old tune as he heard it first, when the wife, long dead, sang the words, and he played the air upon that well-remem-bered violin. He could hear her voice ; he could smell the roses’ perfume. Surely it was that same violin he was playing now ! From his closed eyes, down the white cheeks, tears dropped warm and fast upon the strings of the violoncello. He heeded them not; his thoughts were far away. So the tune rose and fell, and the snow gathered thicker and thicker on the window panes, till the caudle on the little table flickered out. Yet the arm in the rusty sleeve did not weary in its slow, regular motion; the cold fingers still pressed the strings; the player did not awake to the darkness of the room.

“We’re old now,” he murmured; “they don’t want us any longer.” His eyes were still shut, but the tune waxed slower and slower and slower, till it died altogether. The bow slipped from the old man’s fingers; the. gray head sank upon the table; the violoncello rested soundless against the breast of the rusty black coat. * * * When the morning rame and bright sun rays struggled through the snowblocked window panes, they shone upon a tiny table, a square white bed, a tireless grate, a patched and dingy old violoncello. But the bow had fallen upon the floor, and the player’s nerveless fingers hung white and stiffened upon the strings. Old Violoncello had gone to his last engagement.

A Doctor’s Liability.

It is related, as a legend of the medical fraternity, that the Emperor Augustus was once so highly pleased at a cure effected in himself by his doctor, Antonins Musa, tnat he raised that gentleman to the rank of Knight, and relieved the whole profession from the burden of taxation. Probably at no time before or since that event has the lot of the physician been such a happy one. In the earlier days of Rome the practice of medicine was despised and confined to the humbler ranks of society and to slaves. Not until the influence of Grecian civilization made itself felt in the Roman capital did physicians gain honor or standing. In the middle ages the calling suffered a relapse, to speak medically. Surgery was in ill-repute, and Sprengel tells us that in Germany no artisan would em ploy a young man as an apprentice without a certificate that he was born in marriage of honest parents, and came of a family in which were found neither barbers, bathers nor “skinners,” as surgeons were called. Even at the present day, although the meritorious claims of the medical and surgical practitioner have been recognized and an honorable social status awarded him, his mind is not at rest. The advancement and refinement of ideas have begotten deeper anxieties and a feeling of responsibility. So jealously does the law guard the lives and persons of the people, that every time the physician writes a prescription, or the surgeon makes an incision, he takes Ids purse, his liberty, or perhaps his life in his hand. The risk is not all on the part of the patient, despite a popular impression that the only pocket-book likely to be depleted or the only life liable to be sacrificed, is that of the sick man.— Oliver E. Lyman, in Popular Science Monthly.

A Cartful of Kings.

An amusing incident is told by a Ger man correspondent es having occurred during an imperial hunt at Hubertustock. The hounds had just been called off, and the guests were dispersing, when the Emperor William, feeling slightly unwell, proposed to return to the castle on foot. The King of Saxony and the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg accompanied him. But, when the august party were about half way to the castle, the Emperor became fatigued, and a peasant, driving a cart in the direction of Hubertustock, happening to pass by, they asked him to give them a lift, which he willingly did. On the way, however, the good man’s curiosity was excited by the appearance of his passengers, and he said, turning to one of them : “ And who may you be ?” “ I am the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg. ” “ Oh, indeed 1” returned the peasant, with a wink. “And who may you be?” he inquired of the next. “ I am the King of Saxony.” “Better and better I” cried the carter. “And you ?” accosting the third member of the party. “I am the Emperor of Germany.” “ Well, then,” said the countryman, in high humor, “1 shall tell you who I am. lam the Shah of Persia, and can hoax people as well as you. ” But when he drove up to the Castle of Hubertustock the honest fellow found that of all the potentates in the cart he was the only one whose claim could not be made good.

Beecheb says “we pray too much.” This explains why the average newspaper man’s breeches always bag at the knees, — Titusville Sunday World.

A QUARTERLY REPORT.

[From tbe CMnflixitati Enquirer.] The Republican party uuder the present administration has been doing business nearly three months. The Executive has made all of the communications to the Senate he desired to make. The administration is launehed upon the sea of public opinion. Tt has proceeded far enough to give the country an opportunity to form an estimate of the spirit, the purposes, the general charao- < ter of this administration; and some light has also been thrown upon its origin. It is proper to make the first quarterly report on behalf of the administration. What has the Republican party accomplished in this first quarter? What is its indicated purpose? What sort of au administration is it ? By what means and by what methods do we find it was placed in power ? What are its achievements in this first quarter ? First, there is the bargain with Mahone. No more infamous and unpatriotic bargain and sale have been known iu the politics of this country. The infamy was sanctioned ostentatiously by the Pmsident and participated in by all of the jßepublican Senators of the United States. The Republican party was. thus committed to aud involved in the disgraceful proceeding. The Republican party became the pu chaser and the ally of Mahonc. The Senate became Republican, not by the votes of the Legislatiu es of the States, not by the votes of the people, but by treachery and infamous trading. Then there was Riddleberger. Riddleberger was a part of the price. Riddleberger was not a Republican. He was not known to any Republican Senator. Mr. Mahonc said iu the Senate that he alone was responsible for the in(reduction of Riddleberger’s name into the Senate chamber. Hu was a Repqdiator, and an obnoxious man in his State. But the Republicans of the Senate blockaded the public business two months iu the vain effort to make Riddk berger Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senite. This was done with the sanction iud co-operation of the Executive. Then there was Gorham. He had said in his Republican paper some things unpleasant to the President, and the President in a letter attacked the Repub’iean Senate for its endeavor to make Gorham its Secretary. The bargain with Mahone was not an offense in the -yes of the president; he laureled that .iilaniv with Presidential flowers. The it tempt to elect Riddlebereer was not an oftense in the opinion of the President ; but the President in writing attacked the Republican United States Senators for the attempt to elect Gorham, because. Gorham had told some truth about Garfield. Then there v, as the star-route exposure, which explained to the country that Garfield had been elected by corruptionists and by corruption funds, and that said funds' had been contributed at the personal solicitation of Gen. Garfield, who, in the House of Representatives, bad had abundant means of information touching the star-route peculations. Brady had been accused of these peculations iu the House while Garfield was a member. Gen. Garfield knew with what Brady and the star-route people were charged. After this knowledge it was made known to him, while he was a candidate for the Presidency, that upon his personal solicitation some of the money dishonestly taken from the treasury of tne United States ■would be contributed toward his election. He made this request in writing, and at the same time asked ‘ ‘ how the departments generally were doing. ” Then, as another fact to be incorporated in this quarterly report, we find two seats in the United States Senate to which the Empire State is entitled vacant, made vacant by a quarrel between the Executive and prominent and representative men of the Republican party. We see the Vice President of the United States and a member of the President’s Cabinet and the two Senators from the foremost of the States unite in accusing the President of dishonorable conduct, un-Republican behavior, and we learn with much directness from some of these prominent Republicans that the President, before his election and since, has been guilty of treating the highest office iii the land with disgraceful disrespect, has “dickered” with it as though it were a piece of his personal property, and has shown that all of his handsome words in favor of the betterment of the civil service of the country are the phrases of a hypocrite. In the first quarter the Republican party is become involved in a wrangle from which it can not soon recover, if recover it cau at all, and the fact is disclosed that its only purpose, its sole errand on earth, relates to a petty matter of small spoils. The country also knows that in obedience to an indignant public sentiment the Republican Senators were compelled to abandon the unworthy, unpatriotic, contemptible position they greedily held two months of obstructing the public business to foist Riddleberger and Gorham upon the public service. The Republicans of the Senate were obliged to make a complete surrender to the strength of the Democratic position and to Democratic tenacity. This seems to be a tolerably full and impartial account of the doings of the Republican party for the first quarter. The country is to be congratulated upon one thing; it knows more of the Republican organization than it knew on the 4th day of last March.

The First Stage.

The Garfield administration has passed through its first stage. It has been stormy beyond precedent. For those who entertained expectations of Garfield, it has been decidedly disappointing. Not so, however, for those who could correctly estimate probabilities concerning him; more especially after his Cab--inet was announced. Blaine was given the control. Blaine in the Cabinet would, of course, be as he had been on the floor and as Speaker of the House of Representatives—tricky, audacious, impolitic, with the added quality of revengefulness, as the result of disappointments. With him power was something to be used for punishing those who had stood between him and the object of his ambition. No one who could form a decent estimate of human motives operating in a mind like Blaine’s could expect him to act otherwise. In appointing Blaine, Garfield gave himself away. It may be he shared Blaine’s revengefulness. A stronger mind like Blaine’s would speedily bring him in sympathy with almost any object. In the first hour of its existence the administration conceived the unnatural purpose of turning upon and pursuing to the death those to whom it was chiefly indebted for that existence. It committed paricide as soon as it could raise an arm to strike the blow. There are. those who maintain that it was Garfield’s crime in fact as well as in form ; that it was he who conceived the purpose. Blaine merely assenting. But the overwhelming proof is that the unnatural purpose was conceived by Blaine, and that Garfield without much hesitation fell into it, his moral perceptions being too feeble to save him from the enormous guilt. To state the case more plainly, just as subsequent acts describe it: It was in the first hour determined that, as a rule, Grant men—meaning thereby those who work* d for Grant for President and who afterward fought and won the battle for Garfield—should have no favors from the administration. Not only this ;on the true Donnybrook principle, there should be a club for every Grant head. To make a practical application of this policy, and drive Grant men either into

tAme submission, with Blaine’s foot on their necks, or into open antagonism, itobertson was appointed. It is unne&a»sary to rehearse this dismal story of perfidy, ending in the rupture of the Republican party. But the Grant men who would not surwere driven out, or rather comprised to go out to preserve their manhood. I suspect that by far the larger part, of those Who succumbed did so only to destroy Garfield. Of course there exceptions, as in New York. There pun be no love with enforced relations ts this kind. Hate must be the outcome. Among the immediate results, the Senate adjourns with a Democratic majority, instead of the Republican majority at Garfield’s inauguration.— Washington Cor. New York Sun.

MOSAICS.

Better bend the neck promptly than to. bruise the forehead. Learning was given to promote good actions, not empty disputes. The truly brave »r* soft of heart and eye*. —Byron. Never put off till to-morrow a laugh tfiat cau be laughed to-day. The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.— Thoreau. So long as thee cannot see thy way clear what to do, do nothing.—A Quaker Friend. The generality of men have, like planets, latent properties which Chance brings to light. Patience! Why, ’ti* the *oul of peace; Of a 1 the virtues ’tis the nearest heaven; It makes men look like gods. When friendship’* spoke, honesty’* understood; For none can be a friend tbat is not good. —Catherine Phillipa. Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer he makes his wings shorter. — Bacon. We never have a good time but that we long for a better one, and generally spoil the second in the attempt to make it better than the first. To each his suffering*; all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another’s pain, Th* unfeeling for his own. Gray. Love is a sentiment so delicate that a lover should never know that he is loved, but by divining it.— Mme. de Satory. The heroic virtue of silence requires for practice the powers of ripening reason. Reason teaches us to be silent, the heart teaches us to speak. A soil which produces nothing can rarely be found; if it is not embellished by flowers, fruit or grain, its surface is covered by rocks and thorns. Thus it is with man; if he is not virtuous, ht becomes full of vice— Boussuet.

Practical Application of Knowledge.

Pupils in our common schools are sadly deficient in the power of practical application. This must be evident to every teacher and parent who has ever tested the matter by asking practical questions. The pupil who, with the book before him, can readily “get the answers” to the difficult problems in profit and loss is wholly at a loss to determine the profit his father receives on cloth bought for 20 cents and sold for 25 cents per yard. He learns in school that Columbus and Springfield are in the same latitude, and is not sure at home that Columbus is not between Springfield and the North pole. He learns that every proper noun should commence with a capital, and then directs his first love letter to miss jennie smith. He can say with accuracy that there are 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 48 seconds in a year, but has no idea of how many times the sun will rise and set between two Christmases. He can give correctly the principal parts of see and go, and immediately after be guilty of saying, “I seen him r but now he has went away,” Is this fault, this studying to no practical purpose, due to our system of education ? If it is, it is high time that our leaders in educational matters point out the fault and suggest the remedy. Is it because teachers fall into mechanical, monotonous ruts of teaching, and perform their work in a manner so schoollike and so little business-like that it never occurs to the pupil that what he learns from his books has any connec tion with or application to the things that occur in everyday life ? Here we think is the trouble, and in this we should reform. Let each teacher make his work more and more practical; let him strive to lift his pupils from their unthinking, unpractical methods of study; let him give them matter for thought upon the simple, common things around them ; let him endeavor to create an interest in their minds upon the subjects discussed by the older people of the community, and soon we shall have a race of children in our schools who will know more at the age of 12 of what is practical and useful than our children now know when they leave the common schools.— Lansing Republican.

Timber Planting.

To make timber plentiful and to render our climate more genial we must reclothe all rugged, broken land and rocky crests, in fact, every acre that is not cultivated or is cultivated at a loss, with valuable forest trees. First—All ravines and steep hill-sides, all land too rocky to be thoroughly cleared of stone ana plowed, should be devoted to trees. Second—Protecting belts of timber should be planted wherever buildings, orchards, gardens, etc., are exposed to cold, sweeping winds. Third—The banks of streams, ponds, open ditches, etc., should be so planted with trees that they will be protected from abrasion by floods and rapid currents. Fourth—All public roads should be belted by graceful, stately trees. We should preserve, improve and extend our existing forests by keeping up a constant succession of young growing trees of the best varieties. To do this it is necessary: First—To allow no stock to run in wood lots for the purpose of forage. This should be a rule inflexible and relentness. Second Young growth in forests should be thinned moderately and judiciously. Worthless varieties should be cut out and the valuable sorts should be trimmed up so that they will grow tall, forming trunk rather than branches. Third— Timber should be cut with intelligent reference to future growth. Valuable trees that you wish to propagate should be out in the spring. Those that you wish to exterminate should be cut in August.— Professor Lazenby. Cornell University.

The Greatest Blessing.

A simple, pure, hirmtess remedy, that cures every time and prevents disease by keeping the blood pure, stomach regular, kidneys and liver active, is the greatest blessing ever conferred upon man. Hop Bitters is that remedy, and its proprietors are being blessed by thousands who have been saved and cured by it. Will you try it? See another column.— Eagle.

Industrial Secrets.

A century ago what a man discovered in the arts he concealed. Workmen were put upon an oath never to reveal the process used by their employers. Doors were kept closed, artisans going out were searched, visitors were rigorously excluded from admission, and false operations blinded the workmen themselves. The mysteries of every craft were hedged in by thick-set fences of empirical pretensions and judicial affirmation. The royal manufactories of porcelain, for example, were carried on in Europe with a spirit of jealous exclusiveness. His Majesty of Saxony was especially circumspect. Not content with the oath of secrecy imposed upon his workpeople, he would not abate his Kingly suspicion in favor of a brother

monarch. Neither King nor King’s deleS,te might enter the tabooed walls of eissen. What is erroneously called the Dresden porcelain—that exquisite pottery of which the world has never seen its like—was produced for twa hundred years by a process so secret that neither the bribery of princes nor the garrulity of the operatives revealed it. Other discoveries have been less successfully guarded, fortunately for the world. I’he manufacture of tinware in England originated in a stolen secret.— Scientific American.

Given Up by Doctors.

“I* it possible that Mr. Godfrey is up and at work, and cured by so simple a remedy ?” “ I assure you it is true that he is entirely cured, and with nothing but Hop Bitters; and only ten days ago his doctors gave him up and said he must die !” “ Well-a-day ! That w remarkable ! I will go this day and get some for my poor George— I know hops are good.”— Salem Post.

Traveling in Old Times.

A careful inspection of the vehicle of former times leads us to the conclusion that our forefathers were lined with zinc and copper-fastened, for nothing short of it could have withstood the joltings and jarrings, the bouncings and bumpings entailed upon those who used any other method of locomotion except that which nature provides. The chariot in which Gen. and Mrs. Washington went to Philadelphia upon his election to the Presidency was no doubt an instrument of torture. To the discomforts of this rambling old carriage may be added, for the General, the incessant wagging of Mrs. Washington’s tongue, for it is a well-known fact that Martha was of a shrewish nature, and made no bones of giving the General her views in a very forcible manner. The method of traveling which they pursued gave publicity to the fact that the General had a curtain lecture every night for a night-cap. In the course of their journey, they arranged to spend the nights at the houses of the gentry scattered along between Mount Vernon and Philadelphia, and Martha was often heard to nag her lord aud master until a loud snore announced that the General was safe in the land of dreams from all worldly annoyances. The chariot was the acknowledged mark of aristocracy. A journey in these days entailed a retinue, somewhat after the following order : 1. Marster and Missis in a carriage. 2. Marster’s “boy” on horseback, with a led horse for Marster to ride when he wished to stretch his legs. 3. A wagon containing two hair trunks and Missis’ maid. The rate of progression was about four miles an hour. The habit of carrying servants even on neighborly visits obtained in Virginia and Maryland until the abolition of slavery. A form of entertaining called “ spending the day” was the fashion. This consisted in going to a friend’s house early in the morning, and staying until late in the evening, consuming the interval in a succession of meals. Beside the visitors, the coachman and horses, there was usually a “maid,” who sat on the rack behind the carriage, swinging her legs in ecstatic delight at the prospect of “ going abroad. ” Chaises were the only two-seated vehicles in use, and were something like a modern top buggy, except that they had but two wheels. Consequently, going up hill, the occupants were being spilled out behind, and going down hill they were spilled out before. — Louisville Post.

Rust Preventive.

A new method of protecting the surface of iron from rust has been brought forward by Mr. Ward, of London. The new “inoxidizing” process, as it is termed, consists in combining a silicate with the metal by the aid of heat. Cast or wrought-iron objects are first coated, by painting or dipping, with a silicate glaze, which quickly dries, and the articles are then passed through a furnace, or rather oven. In this way the silicate composition is said to be fused and absorbed into the metal, which upon cooling is found to have assumed a dull, black appearance. The coating is said to be so far homogeneous with the metal as to protect it from any change from long exposure to the atmosphere ; and, at the same time, the silicate is not liable to disintegrate or separate from the iron. The articles treated in this manner may be ornamented by combining the silicate wash with any vitrifiable colors. Tn us smooth-polished colored surfaces may be produced upon iron, which, while possessing features distinct from ordinary enameling, yet present superior and more durable results than those obtainable by ordinary painting and varnishing.—Scientific American.

On the Road to Heaven.

My friend overheard two little fellows, brothers, and but a few y.ears apart in their ages, talking over Sunday-school matters after they had gone to bed, just before Christmas. It seems that Jimmy, the elder, had somehow just been placed in rather an advanced class, which he of his own option saw fit to name the Bible class, and Tommy, the younger, had only come up from the infant school-roem, and had rather different and more-simple lessons, although in the same room with his advanced brother. Says Tommy : “ I’m up to you now, Jim, for I’m in the upper school, anyhow. ” “No,” says the profound Jim, “you are like people when they die— they are only in paradise ; they are not in heaven quite, but they ar e on the road to heaven, you know, Tommy,” apparently wanting to give Tom all the comfort he could with the let-down of his ambition. And the fact was, their two classes were actually side by side in their seats. “On the road to heaven ” is encouraging, and ought to remind the rector that his teaching is not all in vain.—Harper's Magazine.

Something Almost Marvelous

is the steadily-increasing power and popularity of Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.

A Brave Lad.

An instance of coolness and courage in a boy is reported in a letter from Wakkerstroom, in South Africa. The garrison made a raid for the purpose of capturing some cattle, but were compelled to retreat into camp. While falling back, a youngster about fifteen years old was thrown from his horse, which ran off and left him. Finding he could not escape from the Boors, who were in close pursuit, he lay down behind some stones on the slope of the hill. A few minutes afterward, four of the enemy came galloping up, when the boy let fly, knocking one out of his saddle. The three men who were with him, thinking, in all probability, they were running into an ambuscade, wheeled and bolted for their lives. The boy then crept on his hands and feet, to the top of the hill, took to his heels, and escaped.

Eilebt’s Extbact of Tab and Wild Chebbt has been used for twenty years, and during that time has saved many very valuable lives. Do not neglect a cough or cold until it is too late. Try this excellent remedy, and we are sure you will be convinced of its merits. Chronic Coughs, and even Consumptives, are cured by following the directions. Every bottle is warranted to give satisfaction. Prepared by the Emmert Proprietary Co., Chicago. Bold by all good druggists.*

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 properties; is invaluafble in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, overwork or acute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary camplaints. Caswell, Hazard 4 Co., proprietors, New York. A TOOTH-PULLING shop js known B Ik) re-gum manufactory.

Unclb Sam's Condition Powders are recommended by stock-owners who have used them as the best Horse and Cattle Medicine to be had. If the animal is Scraggy, Spiritless, or Sis no appetite, these Powders are an excelnt remeav, andevery owner of stock will do well to tw them. They are prepared by the Emmert Proprietary Co., Chicago, 111., a very reliable firm, and sold by all good druggists. The Preventive and Antidotal Poweb or De. Holman s Ague and Ltveb Pad.—As a preventive of any disease that attacks the vitals, the pad is worth many times its weight in gold. It is impossible to compute the value of a discovery which, without dosing, may be absolutely relied upon to prevent the most dangerous maladies. Nothing is truer than the old saying that, “ Prevention is better than cure.” We can assure any person having a bald bead or troubled with dandruff that Carboline, a deodorized extract of petroleum, will do all that is claimed for it. It will not stain the most delicate fabric and is delightfully perfumed. Only the genuine axle grease has the name of Frazer on every package, and wears longer than any other. But the diamond boots and shoes and get your money’sworth. Made by Besenthal Br’s.,Chicago

BEST TRUSS ever need; descriptive circulars tree. New York Elastic Truss Co., 688 Broadway, N. Y? RESCUED FROM DEATH. William J. Coughlin, of Somerville, Mass., says: In the fall of 1876 I was token with bleeding of the lungs, followed by a severe cough. I lost my appetite and flesh, and was confined to my bed. In 1877 I was admitted to the hospital. The doctors said I had a hole in my lung as big as a half dollar. At one time a report went around that I was dead. I gave up hope, but a friend told me of De. William Hall's Balsam yob the Lungs. I got a bottle, when, to my surprise, I commenced to feel better, and to-day I feel better than for three years past. I write this hoping every one afflicted with diseased lungs will take Db. William Hall’s Balsam, and be con vinced that CONSUMPTION can BK cubed. I can positively say it has done more good than all the other medicines I have taken since my sickness. HOLMAN’S PAD cures Q simply Without r. by MEDICINE I km] Absorption trade mask. The Only True Malarial Antidote. Dr. Holman’s Pad is no guess-work remedy—no feeble isiitativc experiment —no purloined hodge podge f some other inventor’s idea ;it is the original and only genuine curative Pad, the only remedy that has an hon-estly-acquired righttouse the title-word “Pad” in connection with a treatment for chronic diseases of the Stomach, Liver and Spleen. By a recently perfected improvement Dr.-Hol-man 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 ahd IRiver, 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 1” 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 OENUIBiH HOLMAN PAD. Bach Genuine Holman Pad bears the Private Revenue stamp of rne HOLMAN PAD COMPANY with the ah*v« Trade Mark printed in green. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS, Or sent by mail, post-paid on receipt of fll.GOi HOLMAN PAD CO., P, 0. Box 2112.] 744 Broadway, N. ¥.

IRON TONIC Is a preparation of Protoxide of Isen, Peruvian Bark and the Phosphates, associated with the Vegetable Aromatics. Endorsed by the Medical Profession, and recommended by them for Dyspepsia. General Debility, Female Diseases, want of Vitality, Nervous Prostration, Convalescence from Fevers and Chronic Chills and Fever. It serves every purpose where a TONIC is necessary. Manufactured by The Dr. Barter Medicine Co, St Louis. The following Is one of the very many testimonials we are receiving dally: Gentlemen:— Some three months ago I began the use of Dr. Habter’s Iron Tonic, upon the advice of many friends who knew its virtues. I was suffering from general debility to such an extent that mylabor was exceedingly burdensome to me. A vacation of a month did not give me much relief, but on the contrary, was followed by Increased prostration and sinking chills. At this time I began the use of your Iron Tonic,' from which I realized almost immediate and wonderful results. The old energy returned and I found that my natural force was not permanently abated. I have used three bottles of the Tonic. Since using It I have done twice the labor that I ever did In the same time during my illness, and with double the ease. With the tranquil nerve and vigorof body, has come also a clearness of thought never before enjoyed. If the Tonic has not done the work, I know not what. I give It the credit. Most gratefully yours, J. P. WATSOk, Troy, O , Jan. 2, 1878. Pastor Christian Church. For Sale by Druggists and General Dealers Everywhere

The Traveler who wisely Provides against the contingency of illness by taking with him Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, has occasion to congratulate himself on his foresight when he sees others, who have neglected to do so, suffering from some one of the maladies for which it is a remedy and preventive. Among these are fever and ague, biliousness, constipation and rheumatism, diseases often attendant upon a change of climate or unwonted diet. taf For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally.

STEM-Winder American Watch for a song. Catalogue for stamp. Thatcheb A Smith, Rochester, N. Y. Q ALEBMEN wanted to sell on commission. Send stamp 0 for terms, quick. PHCENIX PUB. CO., Warren, Pa CCg a week in your own town. Terms and $5 outfit wU U free. Address H. Hallett A Co., Portland,Me. D«- 103 State st., Chicago, treats successfully Throat and Lung Diseases by Inhalation. (8 "70 A WEEK. sl3 a day atbome easily made. Costly 9! & outfit free. Address Thue A Co., Augusta, Me. "nnnnerand tranter. Samples free. National Copying Co., 3UO West Madlson-st., Chicago. $5 tn S>2n Pejdayathom®. Samples worth $o free. LU <P£U Address Stinson A Co., Portland, Me. Dlinniro for Dealers’Medium Work; Ix>w Dubblto »NION CARRIA6I M’f’tCD., wwvwibsW Cincinnati, O. Catalogue FREE. YOUNG MEN L ~ , s. T, !? rr !’ >hT! ■*™»*>tosi(»a , mtn month. Graduates guaranteed pay Ing offices. Address Valentine Bbos.. Janesville, Wis A- MONTH I -Agents Waatst I \ 4n|l T 5 Best-Selling Articles in the world: a saaapuuu pleZrss. JAY BRONSON. Detroit. Mich. EM 01 nYMPNT LOCAL or Traveling. IfIrLUIWIEri I State which preferred. Also MALAR V per month. All EXPENSES advanced. Wages promptly paid. SLOAN <Sc CO., 300 George St., Cincinnati, O. I I *”7 «f England. [X Bug. Literature. 1 I’ge wV KrivUtt (J •> rge ISmo vols.l 112 mo vol. handsomely fl wtafwua V cloth; only tS.IHIA/ bound, for only ill eta. 11 JV«e. MANHATTAN BOOK CO, IS W. Hth St, N.T. P.O. Box WO. ACENTB WANTED QUICK to sell the REVISED NEW TESTAMENT Now ready for Agents. Mott deeirable edition. Low rn-ieed. AHllions are waiting for it. Grand barren or dyentt. Particulars free. Outfit SOe. Act 4«lek. AUrsw KVBBAB9 CNsw. U

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PERRY DAVIS’ Pain-Killer W—S * SRjf ANO SURE RESEOY FOR Rheumatism, ■ SI Neuralgia, Cramps, Cholera, Diarrhoea, mESIBI D,senler ’' aS 1 Sprains ?a ta'fllßl A ™ |||l lre Bruises, Burns 3 \n V|l AND I 011 Sc * I I s ™ Headache. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. "WLULOID EYE-CLASSES. » Representing th* ohoio*st-seleoted Tortois*Jhell and Amber. Th* lightest, handsomest, tnd strongest known. Sold by Optioians and Jewelers. Made by the SPENCER OPTICAL K’F’G CO., 13 Maiden L*ne, New York. 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 muscle 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. QHICAGO PITTS! Forty-sixth aeaaon of the old reliable “Chlcwc* Pkt* ” Separator*, the only fituLcJaM Aprow Machine now in the market adapted for larg. or .mail jor», horse or steam power; the only Apron Machine th»t threehe. and cUan, flax and all grain, onrfMdlg. “Chicago Pitta” Double Pinion Mounted Horae Power* are the in tA« wnld. BLACK If yonjrant a Vibrator, bay our Black Hawk. Why? ■rsruiw it Is the latest improved machine In tnemaxkorihaving all of th, nurittand non, of th, Agitator*, Oscillators, etc . nowte nse tighter drqft »hd mor« ltd mottonteatewctpnx-al. consequently will not abake to pieces. Thoroughly te«t«i.“Beata them all in Flax and other kinde of grain. It is almpllcwy itself. Turns in Ito own length. H. A. Pins* SONS MFO. CO. F«nd • •• J*ff*iwon Bt. CHICAGO. ILL, MINNESOTA QUS BEST THRESHER ON WHEELS la not n Vibrator nor nn Apron Machine. In wonderfully simple and admirably i-erfoct in its threshing ana saturating qualifies. Haves nil I ho grain, and cleans It ready for iiinrlcct. Runs easily, la conntruotol duriuJy. is flnhihea beautifully, b the most economical, least exi-en-sive, and uio.t satisfactory machine la the mnrket. Wil! handle wot grain as well as dry. Has no equal in threshing flux and timothy, threshing and deaniirc tsitli as well and nearly as rapidly ss wheat, and roquiros no change except the.sieves. Itru mor, tguarc feet of ,eparatiun and cleaning ,ur. face than any other marhin, made, and ran nolb, overloaded. Is both over- ami undor bhu't. <’ lir CIAPVER HULLING ATTA< Hi HINT <• neio anti very denrabfp. doen th* irork vapidly andw*li, MEPAIIATGRM of the vnrioUß staos JUlod for Steam or nor,e-l'nwer J an deelrcd. The Elwnrd, The Pitts, and JflL The Woodbury Horse-Powers, Pn'l as made by us, ore not surpatoed by puaPiPM smt in the market W miWATEB NO. 10 EHOINE ForwmT<wco37uei7Aa«arriun» l /7w«oo««rnmklng it very economical In fuel. Its cylinder Is 7x 12 Wo also mak. the NtHlwatcr No. 12, and the Minnesota Aslant Farm Engines, each hay. Ing return flues, and fitted for burning straw, wixxl, or coal. All those Engines aremade and finished tn the mo,t perfect manner, and Traction A Itncpinents cm be furnished with any of them.if desired. irh Por Ibrice-lAtl and Circular,, sddl<Ml SEYMOUR, SABIN A CO. Manufacturer*. Ctlltwater. Minn. CIV wnr WASTB MOKXTI T«M raanas. wIA IF , oa wut . U.url.M wbwk*« *r • >»••»/ /YOW th *f Lair or b*M V* ■ W bead*, or to THICKEN, STRENGTHEN and INVIGORATE th* HAIR anvwher* doa't b* LumbiiMod. Try tbopaal Spaaimh diaeormry whi«h ba. NEVER YET VAILED. H sod ON 1.1 HIX CENTS t* Dr J. GONZAUtt, Bra IMO. Buatra. Mara. Mow ar* ail unlteUorao- N. V, Mo. 23 LICHEN WRITING TO A DYE RTISEHH, ? * , Please say you saw the advertisement ti iliis paper.