Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1874 — Page 4

WASTE MATERIAL.

Not long since, at the meeting of a club in New York, a jelly was exhibited on the table, and alongside of it an old, well-worn, leather boot. The spectacle of the boot waa a mystery until it was explained by one of the members that from the fellow of the boot the jelly had been made by some chemical process. Jelly for the table made out of old boots! What next? We do not hear that the jelly in question was much appreciated as an article of diet. Its manufacture, however, suggests the propriety of reserving old boots and shoes for one or the other of the many purposes in which they may be employed, instead of absolutely throwing them away. Indeed, scraps of all sorts can be advantageously utilized, and now very much more so than ever. “ Waste materials” is.a kind of misnomer, for there is almbst nothing absolutely “ waste.” What with chemistry and manufacturing ingenuity, there go on around us the most extraordinary transformations. “ Chemistry, like a prudent housewife,” says Dr. Lyon Playfair in one of his lectures, “ economizes every scrap. The clippings of the traveling tinker are mixed with the parings of horses’ hoofs from the smithy, the cast-off woolen garments of the poorest inhabitants of the sister isle, and soon afterward, in the form of dyes of the brightest blue, grace the dress of courtly dames. The main ingredient of the ink with which I now write was possibly once part of the broken hoop of an old beer barrel. The bones of dead animals yield the chief constituent of lucifer matches. The dregs of port wine, carefully rejected by the port-wine drinker in decanting his favorite beverage, are taken by him in the morning as Seidlitz powders. The offal of the streets and the washings of coal gas reappear carefully preserved in the lady’s smelling-bottle, or are used by her to flavor blanc-manges for her friends. This economy of art is only an imitation of what we observe in the chemistry of nature. Animals live and die; their dead bodies, passing into putridity, escape into the atmosphere, where plants again mold them into forms of organic life; and these plants, actually consisting of a past generation of ancestors, form our present food.” It is quite evident from daily experience that there is an immense mass of material thrown away as useless that might be easily saved and disposed of for general advantage. Paper, for example. What a prodigious waste of note papers, envelopes, pamphlets, circulars, and so on! Basketfuls burnt or carried to the dust-bin. Mr. Simmons asks: “ What becomes of the envelopes of the 3,000,000 letters passing daily through our postoffices? all of which are worth preserving, for they will fetch from two to three shillings per cwt.” Bags, as a more marketable material, are better taken care of; yet, as we are informed, six-tenths are irrevocably wasted.

Marine stores, as they are called, are the well-known establishments at which waste materials are purchased, but much never reaches them. Some years ago a committee of the London Ragged School set on foot a rag-collecting brigade of boys, with the help of trucks. The enterprise was attended with considerable success. Paper, rags, bones, fat, old carpets, metal, ropes, hats, were collected from householders who were glad to get rid of the refuse. In nine months the boys gathered upward of eighty-two tons of these materials, besides about 50,000 bottles. One of the articles was a bag containing a million of used postage stamps, which had been collected and stored up by some fanatic. On old, used leather, such as that of the boot, there have been various schemes of utilization. By dissolving the leather by steam and certain acids it is possible to produce printing rollers for cotton fabrics; but it seems preferable to cut the leather in pieces, mix them with a cementing liquid, and then squeeze the whole into a mass of different thicknesses, according to the purpose required, such as material for making up the soles and heels of boots and shoes. With a quantity of paste and the force of a steam engine shreds are made to assume the appearance of cakes of leather—technically, pancakes or pasted stock—which are largely used in the wholesale shoe manufacture of Massachusetts. There is another method in this country of using up shavings and scraps of leather. “ These are ground to a powder resembling coarse snuff, and this powder is then mixed with certain gums and other substances so thoroughly that the whole mass becomes a kind of melted leather. In a short time this dries a little, and is rolled out to the desired thickness, perhaps one-twelfth of an inch; it is now quite solid, and said to be entirely waterproof.” There are various processes patented for melting down leather waste and producing large sheets of artificial leather, possessing water-proof qualities, but we have not the space to go into any account of them.

Bones, new and old, wherever they can be picked up, are put to a variety of uses. The fresher kinds of shank-bones serve for making the handles of knives, forks and toothbrushes. From some gelatine is extracted. When not serviceable for these purposes they are crushed into powder for manure. Bone dust is worth from £5 to £5 10s per ton. Farmers buy it in large quantities for fertilizing their fields. The importation of this convenient fertilizer from foreign countries is immense. Stories are told of battle-fields being plundered for the sake of the decaying bones of soldiers who have fallen. Researches for the material of bone dust are carried on upon a large scale in the ancient cemeteries and pyramids of Egypt. Long ago, when the people of that country mummified the bodies of their relatives and stowed them unceremoniously away in caverns, they were not aware that they were only preserving them for manure in a distant European island. A correspondent of the Times, writing from Alexandria, facetiously remarks: “Fancy mutton fattened on ancient Egyptians! The other day at Sakhara I saw nine camels pacing down from the mummy pits to the bank of the river, laden with nets, in which were femora, tibia and other bony bits of the human

form, some 200 weight in each net on each side of the camel. Among the pita there were people busily engaged in searching out, sifting Mid sorting the bones, which almost crust the ground. On inquiry I learned that the cargoes with which the camels were laden would be sent down to Alexandria, and thence be shipped to English manufacturers. They make excellent manure, I am told, particularly for Swede and other turnips. The trade is .brisk, and has been going on for years, and may go on for many moie. It is a strange fate —to preserve one’s skeletons for thousands of years in order that there may be fine Southdowns and Cheviots in a distant land! But Egypt is always a place of wonders.” Nothing seems to be so thoroughly used up as old clothes. The buying and selling of cast-off apparel is a great business in London. Usually the worn garments are freshened up by dye stuffs, pressed and otherwise 'doctored for the market. The process of dressing them is called clobbering, and this in itself is a business. The better class of old dress coats, when nicely clobbered, have a respectable appearance. Clerks with poor salaries, waiters, small tradesmen and curates with meager stipends, are among the purchasers. Coats and other woolen garments which have done good service are exported to Ireland and Holland, where you may see them in great quantities for sale at the fairs and markets. As xy gards the sale of second-hand ladies’ dresses, the trade is everywhere on the increase. Silks, laces, shawls, frills and all sorts of frippery are purchased by dealers whose names are seen in advertisements, and are retailed by them on a very comprehensive scale. Servants are not said to be the buyers. The chief customers for the used, though in many cases elegant, dresses are ladies who aspire to a showy exterior. Second or third hand chignons, we doubt not, are eagerly pounced on. It is amusing to know that liveries, scarlet military tunics and various official garments, decorated with lace, find a ready sale on the west coast of Africa, to which ship-loads are exported. There these gaudy articles of apparel, and the gaudier the better, are purchased for purposes of barbaric splendor. Think of a negro chief seated complacently under his court umbrella, dressed in a cast-off tunic of the Life Guards, or in one of the livery coats of the Lord-Mayor’s attendants! Used scarlet regimentals are said to be largely exported to Russia to be cut up as facings for civil officials, though this we can hardly credit. Silk velvet waistcoats, when even pretty well worn, find a market among German and Polish Jews to be made into skull caps; it being one of the points of Hebrew etiquette to have the the head covered on ceremonious occasions, dinner-parties included. Old velvet waistcoats from England turned into caps for Jewish worshipers in that strangely antique synagogue on the banks of the Moldau ! However woolen garments may be disposed of time after time, they are at length no longer passable, and then comesa total revolution in their character; the buttons are taken off, the limbs torn out and what remains Of the fabric is ground into “devil’s dust.” This is the first step in what may be called the resurrection in old clothes. When a coat will not so much as hang together to dress up a scare-crow it will still make down into very cood shoddy, as the devil’s dust is politely named. The meaning of this is that the garment is torn up by toothed wheels into a condition of loose fibers, which on being properly sifted are mixed with fresh wool, carded, spun and woven into cloth. There is a triumph of art! The shoddy, or mungo, as it is sometimes called, after being fit for the dung-heap, is incorporated with what appears exceedingly beautiful cloth, and is again proudly exhibited as Sunday clothes on the backs of thousands of wearers. The thing seems ridiculous, if not a bit of a cheat; but let us not be too hard on shoddy. There is not a sufficiency of fresh wool for all the world. And as woolen goods are in an overgrowing demand, what better can be suggested than that the elastic fibers of the old garment should be wrought up into an article agreeable to the eye and productive of bodily comfort? All hail to the value and virtues of shoddy! He was a great man who thought out that marvelous invention.

After all, shoddy cannot be expected to stand more than a single bolting. Usually, when the garment which is half shoddy has served its turn, it is thought to have fairly done its duty; the time has come when it should be resolved into its original elements and, by a chemical change, help on our social system. In plain English, the shoddified rags must sink into the condition of manure for various vegetable products. In the south of France and of Italy old woolen rags are used as manure for olive trees, for which purpose they are in popular request. In England they are appreciated as manure for hops; wherefore, we may say that the ultimate destiny of our old coats and trowsers is the imparting of a certain savory bitter to the beer in general use. The substance of old clothes a property in an ordinary beverage! Of all things in the world which appear utterly worthless are soap-suds. Mr. Simmons takes a different view. He tells us that soap-suds as a stimulant of vegetable life cannot be too. highly appreciated. We cannot go into his argument on the great value of soap-suds, and it is sufficient to say that, when poured out as a manure, they are of prodigious efficacy. The French, who are up to everything in the chemical line, have taken a proper view of the value of soap-suds. Whether from private dwellings in Paris, or from the barges of the blanchisseuses, the Seine must have a good deal of sap floating about it in a wasteful kind of way, to say nothing of the greasy pollution from dead dogs and cats. There was a fortune, if properly looked after. An enterprising firm, fortified by the authority of the Prefect, determined to begin a system of skimming the Seine. You would imagine it was a nonsensical idea. Quite a mistake. By uniting the skimmings of the river with the oflal from hospitals the firm is able, by the aid of chemistry, steam and cookery, to fatten 8,000 pigs and to produce annually 500,000 pounds of soap,—> Chambers' Journal.

Mr. Tilton Makes a Second Statement.

The second statement of Theodore Tilton was published in the- New York Graphic, and in the Chicago Trttaae, artra, on the 18th. The following is a brief summary of this very lengthy document, which extends over twenty-eight columns in the Tritans.* Mr. Tilton commences by answering the two statements of Mrs. Tilton that he had been for ten years jealous of Mr. Beecher’s reputation, and was determined to ruin him, and that he had been maltreating her for the same period of time. This he attempts to do by producing various friendly and affectionate letters that passed between himself and Mr. Beecher down to July 8, 1870, the date at which he says he first became aware of the criminal intimacy between Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton, and by giving extracts from his correspondence with Mrs. Tilton down to the same period of time. He supplements this with the emphatic statement that never until that date, July 8, 1870, did he entertain an unkind thought, or utter an unkind word, to either Mr. Beecher or his wife. He then gives a succinct narrative of the time, place and manner of Mrs. Tilton's confession of her alleged corruption by Mr. Beecher, and fixes the date of its consummation, Oct. 10, 1868, by an entry in Mrs. Tilton’s diary, “A Day Memorable.” which words she said she had used to mark it in her own recollection. Then follows a letter from Susan B. Anthony toMrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, fttll of indignation against Mr. Beecher, both for his crime and for his want of veracity concerning it. The supposed significance of this letter is that Mrs. 'niton had confessed the crime to Miss Anthony, and that Miss Anthony and Mrs. Hooker were in correspondence concerning it as a thing about which there could be no dispute. He next seeks to defend Mrs. Tilton against the charge made against her by Mr. Beecher that she made the first advances. For this charge, says Mr. Tilton, “I brand him as a coward of uncommon baseness.” Elsewhere Mr. Tifton sarcastically descants on the groveling character of one who will accept the last extreme favor of a woman, and ften appoint a committee of six to publicly investigate her conduct. A series of letters of Mrs. Morse (Mrs. Tilton’s mother) are given, which contain frequent allusions to the relations existing between Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton. Mr. Tilton accuses Mrs. Morse of at one time seiring her own husband by the cravat and choking him till he was black in the face, after which he (Mr. Morse) summoned the family together and legally and formally separated from ner—the separation continuing to this day. A letter not previously published is given from Mrs. Tilton to her mother (inclosing one to Mr. Tifton), written at Marietta, 0., a few months after her alleged confession. It contains repeated allusions to some offense committed by her, and speaks of a confession she had made to her mother, known to her daughter Florence, which was likely to be a death-blow to the latter. After giving a statement of Henry C. Bowen’s accusations against Beecher substantially as given by Moulton, Mr. Tifton gives an account or his interview with Beecher at Moulton’s house, where Mrs. Tilton’s confession was disclosed to him, and attempts to show by a comparison of dates that at that time he had not lost his position on the Independent and the Brooklyn union and was not in an impoverished condition, but was in the receipt of an Income of $14,00u per year. Consequently, he asserts that Mr. Beecher’s statement that he (Tifton) was exasperated with him for having caused him to lose his situaation and salary is an afterthought and a falsehood. Mr. Tifton next labors to show that Mr. Beecher’s allegation that his despair of mind, so poignantly expressed in his letters to Moulton, was caused by his having advised Mrs. Tifton to separate from her husband is likewise an afterthought and a falsehood, because he never did so advise her, but, on the contrary, when Mrs. Morse was trying to bring about such a separation, advised thecontrary. He points out that Mr. Beecher’s second and long statement before the Brooklyn Committee admits that he never gave such advice in person, although his first statement makes that the sole ground of his difficulty with the Tifton family. The second statement of Mr. Beecher reduces this supposed offense to a few words written on a scrap of paper to Mrs. Beecher. Moreover, says Mr. Tifton, supposing that he wrote those words to his own wife, he knew that they had done no harm; no separation took place, and there was nothing to be sorry for. An extract from the records of Plymouth Church, the original of which Mr. Tifton says he has in his possession, is introduced to convict the Plymouth Church Committee of prevarication. The committee alleged that Tifton’s sole and only charge against Mr. Beecher down to a late period was for improper advances to his wife, from which they argued that his latest charge was a new thing trumped up for the occasion, whereas the church record shows that he was cited on the 17th of October, 1873, to appear and answer to a charge of slander—the slander being a statement by him that Mr. Beecher had been guilty of adultery with Mrs. Tilton. The dates of the utterance of the alleged slander are given, and the names of the wnnesses to whom the same was utteredMr. Tilton’s association with Mrs. Woodhull Is stated to have begun with the concurrence and advice of Mr. Beecher, for the sole purpose of suppressing the dreadful secret and protecting Mrs. Tilton’s reputation. Mr. Tifton affirms that it had no other object than this, and that, right or wrong, Mr. Beecher shared in it personally, and that it involved no criminal intimacy. The charge of blackmail is considered and emphatically denied. Mr. Beecher’s letters are then taken up and subjected to an analysis to show that his agonized expressions are all consistent with one thing—the crime of adultery—and are not consistent with any other fact or pretended fact in the case. Mr. Tifton concludes with a reflection upon the remorse which must forever assail Mr. Beecher, in view of the desolation he is charged with having wrought. “I have, in times past,” he says, “ seen him suffer from his own selfinflicted tortures in contemplation of the very crime for which he has now been exposed to the scorn and pity of the world. I know well enough how his own thoughts have bowed him in agony to the dust; and this is enough. Wherefore, in contemplating my empty house, my scattered children and my broken home, I thank Heaven that I am spared the pang of this man’s remorse for having wrought a ruin which not even Almighty God can repair!”

Best Organs on Most Favorable Terms.

Cabinet or Parlor Organs are capital things for peddlers to work with, because very poor ones can be made at half the co st of good ones, and few people are competent to tell the difference from a first examination. Manufacturers print in their catalogues prices which are three or four times as high as the value of such cheap work. Then the peddler starts out and puts them on tfee people in various ways. He sells at an enormous discount, if he can get cash; takes part trade if necessary, or leaves the organ awhile on trial, ana sells it on long time at “manufacturer’s price,” exhibiting the catalogue to show that it is such, or even at a discount from this, which he can well afford. The Mason & Hamlin Organ Co. have recently announced a plan which is likely to interfere with this business. This company, as is well known, makes only the best work, which, by its uniform excellence, has obtained the highest reputation for their organs. They proved the best, and obtained the highest awards at the recent Vienna and Paris World’s Expositions, as they have uniformly done in American industrial competitions. The fact that these organs are the best in the world is indeed too well established to need further indorsement. The company have now added a large new factory to their former extensive works, and design to greatly increase their business. This they propose to do by offering organs for time payments, or for rent with privilege of purchase, at barely sufficient advance on the cash prices to afford a reasonable interest for the time. An organ may be hired by the quarter with privilege of purchase at any time in one year or longer. If purchased within the year, the whole cost, including rent paid, is only 5 to 10 per cent, more than if the cash had been paid down at the beginning. Persons having any idea of purchasing will be wise to send a note to the Mason & Hamlin Co., at either Boston, New York or Chicago, and obtain their new circulars, before purchasing. Washington Cake. —One-half cup butter, two cups sugar, four eggs, one cup sweet milk, two teaspoons baking powder, three and one-half cups flour. This cake is baked in three or four jelly tins, with the following dressing put between when cold: One lemon, grate the rind, put it with the juice; add one egg and one cup sugar, one tablespoon cold water, stir until it boils. An Englishman has figured it out that there will be no total eclipse of the sun visible in London until July 21, 2381. —A. T. Stewart’s advertising bill aggregates about $500,000 a year.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Here is a Japanese recipe for keeping meat fresh in hot weather: Place it in a clean porcelain bowl and pour very hot water over it so as to cover it. Then pour oil on the water. Tne air is thus quite excluded and the meat is preserved. Sweet Potato Pudding.—To a large sweet potato weighing two pounds allow half a pound of sugar, half a pound of butter, one gill of sweet cream, one grated nutmeg, and a little lemon peel and four eggs; boil the potato until done, mash up fine, and while hot add the sugar and butter. Set aside to cool while you beat the eggs light, and add the seasoning last. Line tin plates with puff paste and pour in the mixture. Bake in a moderate but regularly heated oven. — Cultivator. Plate Polishing Powder. —The English Mechanic states that an excellent preparation for polishing plate may be made in the following manner: Mix together 4 OZB. spirits of turpentine, 2 ozs. spirits of wine, 1 oz. spirits of camphor, and i oz. spirits of ammonia. To this add one pound of whiting, finely powdered, and stir till the whole is of the consistency of thick cream. To use this preparation, with a dean sponge cover the silver with it, so as "to give it a coat like whitewash. Set the silver aside till the paste has dried into a powder; then brush it off, and polish with a chamois leather. A cheaper kind may be made by merely mixing spirits of wine and whiting together.

Preserved Pears. —Take small, rich, fair fruit, as soon as the pips are black; set it over the fire in a kettle, with water to cover them; let them simmer until they yield to the pressure of the finger, then with a skimmer remove them to cold water, pare them neatly, leaving on a little of the stem and the blossom end. Pierce them at the blossom end to the core, then make a syrup of a pound of sugar for each pound of fruit. When it is boiling hot pour it over the pears and let it stand until the next day. Then drain it off, making it boiling hot, and again pour it over. After a day or two put the fruit in the syrup over the fire, and boil gently until it is clear; put it in the jars or spread it on dishes, boil the syrup thick, then put it and the fruit in jars.

Prince Ac Co.’e Organs. Five octaves, two full sets of reeds. Solid walnut cases, elegant bronze finish. Price, with six stops, $125; eight stopSj SIBO. Address Reed’s Temple of Music, Chicago. —Rhode Island has $46,617,183 deposited in her savings banks, having added |4 ,033,644 to the amount during tjhe past year. Nearly one-half the population Of that prosperous little State are depositors in the savings banks. Interesting to Invalid Ladies. Harlemville, Columbia Co., N. Y., July 9, 1873. R. V. Pierce, M. D., Buffalo, N. Y.: Dear Sir—Tout favor is just received. I intended to have written to you several weeks since concerning the improvement in my health which is now very apparent. I have used one bottle of Favorite Prescription with the best results, although I will admit I was somewhat discouraged after its use (for a short time only). I tpok it under very disadvantageous circumstances—having the supervision of the house And during the season of “ house-cleaning” I was obliged, through the incompetency of help, to do more than I ought, and, of course, suffered dreadfully, lifted when I ought not to have raised my hand, and did all I could to bring “ order out of chaos”—but upon laying aside all cares and continuing the remedy I find after using less than one bottle to be so much benefited that I have discontinued the use, with no return of the symptoms of which I wrote you. I have suffered terribly, and what added to. my distress was the consciousness of not procuring relief from ordinary sources; at timesit seemed about impossible to stand, so great was the distress. All of those severe neuralgic pains have disappeared; they were so bad at times I could hardly walk without some external pressure. They seem to have left me like magic, suddenly. and have had no return; all other symptoms have been removed. The severe weakness and faintness have disappeared, and I can go up stairs with comparative case now. I would have informed you ere tnis of my improvement, for I appreciated it, but I was fearful it was only transient benefit I was receiving 2 but I think sufficient time has elapsed to consider the beneficial results permanent. Accept of my best wishes for your future success and your kindness in advising me. Very truly, Mbs. M. Nettie Snyder.

Medical Maniacs. —There are numbers of medical men so wedded to the old formulas that all changes seem to them like innovations. These medical maniacs are, fortunately, incapable of much mischief in this practical age. While the Vinegar Bitters are curing Indigestion, Nervous Debility, Constipation, and countless other diseases that defy tire remedies of the pharmacopoeia, it is impossible to thrust down the throats of intelligent invalids “ heroic” doses of mineral pojson, or to persuade them to take adulterated alcohol, impregnated with cheap astringents, as a “healing balm” ora “balsamic preparation.” Vinegar Bitters, a pure botanical tonic and alterative, guiltless of the curse of distilled or fermented liquor, is actually accomplishing what the mineral and alcoholic cure-mongers have so incessantly promised but have never yet performed. Under these circumstances it is no wonder that this medicine has taken precedence of all those burning fluids miscalled tonics. 1 Wilhoet’s Tonic!—Unfailing and Infallible !—This great Chill Tonic cures Chills without the intervention of doctors and their bills. No consulting visits—no prescriptions to be filled —no huge bills, entailing pecuniary embarrassments, added to loss of nealth. It is the friend of the poor man, because it enables him to earn a living, and of the rich, because it prepares him to enjoy his wealth. This great boon to mankind Is cheap, safe and prompt. Wheelock, Finlay & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. Fob sale by all Druggists. Something Nice.—Gentlemen have been troubled for want of a paper collar more closely resembling linen. This is furnished them in the Elmwood Collar. It has a cloth surface that must certainly be linen from the quality, and folded edges that prevent its looking like paper. It is so perfect an imitation of linen that it cannot be detected, even on close scrutiny. It is for sale at all gents’ furnishing stores, and we would recommend every gentleman to try it.— Boston Herald. The Northwestern Hobse-Najl OO.’e “Finished ” Nail is the best in the world.

Godby’s Lady’s Book. —The illustrations in ths October number are: “Reflec tion,” a very pretty steel-plate; a beautiful colored fashion-plate; a very seasonable wood engraving, entitled “Picking Apples;” an extension sheet of different fashionable costumes, and other fashion illustrations. The literary contents are of the usual excellence and variety. A beautiful chromo —“ The Rescue” —which is a copy of an original oil painting, and pronounced the handsomest chromo ever offered by a publisher to his patrons, is given to each advancepaying subscriber for 1875. Subscription price: One copy one year, $3.00; two copies, $5.00; three, $7.50; four, $10.00; five, and one extra to getter up of club, $14.00; eight, and one extra, $21.00; eleven, and one extra, $27.50; twentythree, and one extra, $55.00. Published by L. A. Godby, Philadelphia, Pa. •

T Desire What Men Admire.-And this little thing K beauty- What do we gay is besuUfid? a transparent complexion end a luxurious head of hair. What will produce these? Hagan’s Magnolia Balm will make any lady of thirty appear but twenty, and Lyon’s Kathalron win keep every hair In It* place, and make it grow like the April ffrssa. It prevents the hair from turning gray, eradicates Dandruff, .nd is tlwt ftiwmHalr Dressing in the world, and at only half ordinary cost. If you want to get rid of Sallowneea, Pimples, Ring-marks, Moth-patches, etc., don’t forget the Magnolia Balm, ladies. Reword*—l will giwn 0100 for any case of flesh, bone or mnscle ailment like Rheumatism, Bruise, Spavin, Strain or Lameness, upon either man or artmal, which the Mexican Mustang Liniment will cure when used according to directions. Near 90y_a- • has proved it to be the most wonderful remedy *or Neuralgia, Burns, Swellings, Enlarged JOtai , aoof All, Screw Worm, Sting, Caked Breasts, ever discovered. Who will let a horse limp when Mustang liniment will cure it? Who will let a child cry and suffer from bruises or chilblains when the Mustang will prevent It’ Who will pay large doctors’bills when they can buy Mexican Liniment for SO eta andtLOO? It Is wrapped in a steel-plate label, signed •• G. W. Westbrook, Chemist," Wm. K. Everson, Agent. Founded on o RocEi—The disappointed adventurers who have from time to time attempted to run their worthless potions against Plantation Bittibs vow that they cannot understand what foundation there is for its amazing popularity. The explanation Is simple enough. The reputation of the worldrenowned tonic Is founded upon a Rock, the Rook or Expnninxon. '>

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ECONOMY.

Every intelligent person ißswaretUktalargeamonnt of money is wasted and thrown away every yearJin Clothing, Silk. Laces. KJd Gloves, etc., which become soiled with Grease, Paint, Tar, etc., and are laid aside not half worn. There la no longer any excuse for this fearful waste, as SAPOLIENE Will clean al! kinds of Clothing. Silks, Laces, Kid Gloves, etc., etc. It removes Paint, Grease and Tar instantly, and without the least injury to the finest fabric. Makes Old Clothes Look Like New! SOLD BY AGENTS AND DRUGGISTS. Ajeits Wanted. Bssab Jackson street, Chicago, IM.

I Business Education CHICAGO

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John H. Jfeemster, Greencastle, lud., says: “ A • part of bottle of Kress Fever Tonic cured me of an obstinate Ague; my little girl *and her friend, took the remainder for a case of four weeks standing: there * s nc? th^ n g left of the disease with either of us, nor have any bad effects followed the use of the Tonic. I re- g 33 the best Agile remedy I know of and have since sold it to my custom ers great success. It always attends strictly to business, and is harmless so far as I have observed.” j r The remedy is warranted to contain neither Arsenic or other poison. Address Kress Manufacturing Company, Cincinnati, O.

mm Tile Crucial TestoFtbe value of a medicine Is time. Does experience confirm the claims put forth in Its favor at the outset ? la the grand question. Apply this criterion, so simple, yet so searching, to TARRANT'S EFFERVESCENT SBLTZBB APBBIBNT. HOW has It worn? What has been its history? How does it stand to-day? TARRANT’B SELTZER APERIENT Is a household name throughout the United States. It is administered as a specific, and with success, in dyspepsia. sick headache, nervous debility, liter complaint, bilious remittents, bowel complaints (especially constipation), rheumatism, gout,gravel, nausea, the complaints peculiar to the maternal sex, and all types of inflammation. So mi’d is it in its operation that it can be given with perfect safety to the feeblest child; and so agreeable is it to the taste, so refreshing to the palate, that children never refuse to take it. For sale by all druggists. FREE to BOOK AGENTS AN ELEGANTLY.BOUND CANVASSING BOOK For the best and cheapest Family Bible ever published, will be sent free of charge to any book agent. It contains Over 700 fine Scripture Illustrations, and agents are meeting with unprecedented success. Address, stating experience, etc., and we will show you what our agents are doing, RATIONAL PUBLISHING CO., Chicago, 111., or St. Louis, Mo. WANTED ® To sell the HOME SHUTTLE SEWING MACHINE. PRICE 8»5. Reader!! you can maki money selling the “ HOME SHUTTLE” whethei you are EXPERIENCED in the business or not If you wish to buy a SEWING MACHINE for famllj use. our circulars will show you howto save money. Address JOHNSON, CLARK & CO., Chicago, 111. waifci M’ALLISTER’S PATENT ARTff OPTICON. The most powertul Magical Lantern ;. - ever made; with a brilliant OH Lamp; for MRSsu'Home, Sunday School and Lectures. IlCifcia Stereopticons, etc. Slides at reduced A profitable business for a man with. small capital. Send stamp for Catalogue. WM. Y. M’ALLISTER, 1314 Chestnut St., Phlla. T E A ©—The choicest In the world.—lmporters’ I > fl A prices—largest company in America—sta- ■ flsrtWpie article pleases everybody—Trade continually increasing—Agents wanted everywhere—best inducements—don’t waste time—send for Circular to Rqbbbt Walls, 43 Vesey St., N, Y., P. O. Box 1287. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Cured by tin aw M Boer EPILEPSY OB FITS enable ua to Pirnbh medicine*, and make no charge nnioaa aenre iaeffected Circular*, term*, eto., *ent trea. Addre*. MOBS BROTHERS, No. »T Mala Bt.. Biobmond, Ind. « Agents for PIRRUNG’S MOP. It scrubs the floor and takes up every drop ot the dirty o stooping or wetting the hands. No competition. Best selling article in the world. One agent made >166 in 2 days. J. E. Kkith, 145 Lake St, Chicago. W. H. NICHOLS A CO.'S’ facturers and dealers In Needles, etc., for all Sewing Machines. Will send 1 dos. needles for any sewing m£ chine to any P.O. address on receipt ot 50c. Trythem. FIVE MYSTERIOUS PICTURES. Queerly Concealed Beauties. Strange Devices. Puzzling Problems. FREE TO ALL Address, with stamp, ADAMS A CO., 4 Pearl street, Boston. © A MONTH—Agents wanted everyILJafllwi ■ where. Business honorable and flrst- ■■■ class. Particulars sent free. Address WfcJW JOHN WORTHY CO-, St. Louis. Mo. PERDAY Commltslon or *3t>aweekSalary, and expenses. We offer it and will pay it. Apply sew. <l. Webber A Ce., Marton O To Millers and Engine Owners. To nearly doubleyour steam power and save fuel also, address J, K TALLANTj Burlington, lowa. SSB

TABLE KNIVES AMD FORKS OF /\LL AND EXCLUSIVE MAKERS OF OfcuMm And the “ Patent Ivory” or Celluloid Knife. These handles never ret loose, aro not aflfecteAby hot water, and are the most durable knives known. Always call the CUTI.klt Y COM PA NT” on the Blade. Warranted and sold by all dealers in Cutlery, and by the MERIDEN CUTLERY CO., 49 Chambers Street, New York. ~BUY J. & P. COATS’ BLACK THBEAD fir M MAM.

Hg Dr. J. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly from the native herbs found on the lower ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, the medicinal properties of which are extracted therefrom without the use of Alcohol. The question is almoc. daily asked, a What is the cause of the unparalleled success of Vinegar Bitters T” Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, and the patient recovers his health. They are the great blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Renovator and Invigoratoi of the system. Never before lx. the history of the world has a medicine been compounded possessing the remarkable qualities of Vinegar Bittbrs in heaung the sick of every disease man is heir to. They are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tome relieving Obngestien or Inflammation the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious Diseases. The properties of dr. walker’s Vinegar Fitters are Aperient, Diaphoretio, Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretia Sedative, Sudorific, Alters* tire, and Anti-Bilio*** Grateful Thousands proclaim Vinegar Bitters the most wonderful Invigorant that ever sustained the sinking system. No Person can take these Bitters according to directions, and remain long unwell, provided their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or other meape, and vital organs wasted beyond repair. Bilious. Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, which are so prevalent in the valleys of our great rivers throughout the United States, especially those of the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Cumberland, Arkansas, Red, Colorado, Brazos, Rio Grande, Pearl, Alabama, Mobile, Savannah, Roanoke, James, and many others, with their vast tributaries, throughout our entire country during the Summer and Autumn, and remarkably so during seasons of unusual heat and “dryness, are invariably accompanied by extensive derangements of the stomach and liver, and other abdominal viscera. In their treatment, a purgative, exerting a powerful influence upon these various organs, is essentially necessary. There is no cathartic for the purpose equal to Dr. J. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters, as they will speedily remove the darkcolored viscid matter with which the bowels are loaded, at the same time stimulating the secretions of the liver, and generally restoring the healthy functions of the digestive organs. Fortify the body against disease by purifying all its fluids with Vinegab Bitters. No epidemic can take hold of a system thus fore-armed. Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Headache, Pam in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Chest, Dizziness, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpitatation of the Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the region of the Kidneys, and a hundred other painful symptoms, are the offsprings of Dyspepsia. One Dottle will prove a better guarantee of its merits than a lengthy advertisement. Scrofula, or King’s Evil, White Swellings, Ulcers, Erysipelas, Swelled Neck, Goitre, Scrofulous Inflammations, Indolent Inflammations, Mercurial Affections, Old Sores, Eruptions of the Skin, Sore Eyes, eta. In these, as in all other constitutions Diseases, Walker’s Vinegar Bitters nave shown their great curative powers in the most obstinate and intractable cases. For Inflammatory and Chronic Rheumatism, Goat, Bilious, Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder, these Bitters have no equal Such Diseases are eaused by Vitiated Blood. Mechanical Diseases.— Persons engaged in Painta and Minerals, such as Plumbers, Type-setters, Gold-beaters, and Miners, as they advance in life, are subject to paralysis of the Bowels. To guard against this, take a dose of Walker’s Vinegar Bitters occasionally. For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, Tetter, Salt-Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles, Ring-worms, Scald-head, Bore Eyes. Erysipelas, Itch, Scurfe, discolorations of the Skin, Humors and Diseases of the Skin of whatever name or nature, are literally dag up and carried out of the system in a short time by the use of these Bitters. Pin, Tape, and other Worms, lurking in the system of so many thousands, are effectually destroyed and removed. No system of medicine, no vermifuges, no anthelminitics will free the system from worms like these Bitters. * For Female Complaints, in young or old, married or single, at the dawn of womanhood, or tile turn of life, these Tonic Bitten display so decided an influence that improvement is soon perceptible. Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever you find its impurities bursting through the skin in Pimples, Eruptions, or Sores; cleanse it when you find it obstructed and sluggish in the veins; cleanse it when it is foal; your feelings will tell you when. Keep the blood pure, and the health of the system will follow. R. H. MeDONALD A <JO n Druggists and Gen. Agta., San Francisco, California and cor. of Washington and Charlton Sts., N. Y. Sold by all Druggists r* nd Dealers. THE EMPIRE CITY PAPER COMPANY, of New York, representing the largest mills In the U. 8., wants a local agent in every Town or County, to receive orders direct from for every description of writing per.envelopes, printed note and letter heads, etc. al prices/Ally one third hetotcstore rates. Large communion paid, and orders (at«SSaoSwtlie prices, easily obtained. Agents now at work arc doing a tine business and absolutely control the trade of their district. For particulars and outfit, address Box »,593, New York. UH A No or sore Do two men’s work HUo —Fits any hand—Sells at sight—Lasts a life"XX time—2 samples sent for 60 cts., dr 4 styles If ED forßl, post-paid. Agents wanted. Address KEP CITY NOVELTY CO., Sth street, Pima., Pa. {toQ/kPsrsforitwlfln* (lays. AgenU wanted. Addrew,with ?POV sump, H.Bxr. Baca’. Bcaoi.l. Saws, Rockford, lIU

Best Organs for Easiest Payments The MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN CO., winners of THREE HIGHEST MEDALS and DIPLOMA OF HONOR at PARIS, 18«7. and VIENNA, 1878. and HIGHEST AWARDS IN AMERICA ALWAYS, respectfully announce that, having greatly Increased their facilities for manufacture, they now offer their celebrated Cabinet organs, not only for cosh exclusively, as formerly, but will also rent them with privilege of purchase, or sell for payments running through one to tour years. One may rent an organ and thoroughly test it before completing its purchase; if paid for In the course of one year the cost will bo only live to ten per cent, more than the lowest price for cash on delivery. • The following table shows amounts and times of payment on several plans, running through one year, for a FIVE OCTAVE DOUBLE REED ORGAN, style T, with-jtve Stops, Vox Humana, etc. Other styles are at proportionate rates. Cash Price, gtff). Time Price, Rt4S. Rantt Mos., 814.30. ■■u,. x«. 1 !»• «J» ««» «»» RJ 88 M-a 88 tfjj SS No. 4 71 50 16 45 16 45 16 45 16 45 No. 5 69 72 .... 6<S3 .... .... No. 6 69 90 .... .... •••• 89 90 ’ _ sl4 30 In advance, and 810.44 each month for "O- 1 twelve months. Organs will be furnished on these plans, either through agents or directly, to almost any part of the country. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES, with full descrlp. tions of the organs made by thia Company, and clrcti. lars showing in detail the different plans of payment on which they are now offered, sent Cree. Address MASON &.HAMLIN ORGAN CO.. Boston, New York or Chicago.

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CAJTCER. It Is well known that the whole medical faculty of all schools of medicine have pronounced Cancers Incurable. What sublime effrontery In any person to stand up boldly in the face of all this authority, and claim to be able to cure Cancer. . To put forth suchis claim In the teeth of the medical profession,, in ths city of Philadelphia, with its wot Id-renowned scientific professors and medical colleges, would be, unless it lie substantiated in the most unquestionable manner, a height of Impudence rarely attained by mortal man. DR. THORPE boldly claims that he can cure, lias cured, does cure, and will cure Cancer, as well as diseases of a chronic and scrofulous nature; and. further, that he cures every ease taken by him. He does this by a system Which no other physician In th# world practices. His method of treatment invigorates the body, stirs up the dormant energies of nature, purifies and cleanses the system, and Imparts tone and health to all the organs of the body. His method is the most notent ever discovered, and that It is what it is claimed to be will be established to tho entire satisfaction of any one who will investigate. Address THORPEAN INSTITUTE, No. 31208 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. WILL FAY FOB THZ w EE K L Y SUW For the Next Half Year. The Wbbklt Stnr Is a large 8-page. 56-colnmn, independent Newspaper, which no intelligent family should be with out. Try it. Addreß8 ’ THE SUN* New York City* Livingstone Is Dead ! For 30 years mi llionb have intently watched his PERILOUS yet HKBOIO STBVGGLES and GRAND TRI' viipus: and now they eagerly desire the Complet e Life-History of this world-renowned hero and benefactor, which unfolds also tho CURIOSITIES and wealth of a wild and wonderful country. We publish just THAT niRTOBY from hts bibtii to his BURIAL. Mow ready. agents wanted guickly. One agent Isold 184- first six days; another, 196 first weel-. For particulars address H. A. W. Blackburn, 176 Griswold street, Detroit, Midi. HOG BIGGER- . 15,000,000 Bings, 70,000 Ringers, XvP BAOO Tongs Bold. Hardware Deuiore Sell Th-m. Ringer 11, Ring* pr 100 toot*, Tonp-*51,25, bymoil, po*tpaid, I MffRSBl Circular* free. Addre** H, W. HILL g CO. Deeatar, 111, OUR albguefor 1874wi1l be sent free to Agents on application. NtHV MAPS, CHARTS, CHRONOS, NEW ETC. our NEW MAPS of INDIANA. • w ” ILLINOIS, OHIO and MICHIGAN, are the best ams cheapest published. *a w E. C. BRIDGMAN. f VAI B Barclay Street. New York. nnHE CLEVELAND NORTHERN OHIO 1 FAIR ASSOCIATION awarded-their Grand Silver Medal to the Massillon Excelsior War Is for the best collection of Agricultural Implements, consisting of the Massillon Harvester, upon Whisk two men ride and bind the grain; Hodge's Self-Raker, Excelsior Dropper, and the Bayliss Ridina Wheel Harrow, which does twice the wbrk of a Drag with half Hie labor. Circulars free. Address EDWIN BAYLISS, Prop’r. Massillon, Ohio. XTS, ASTHMA, Zr Pophsm’s AsthmaSpecifld HihM For Asthma, Hay Fever and Rose illH Cold * Guaranteed to relieve any illi HH A Case in TKN MINL,TEB ’ Used and f liillllllliß reconime nded by thousands. ijqg TV Specific gave instant relief.” MMBtiiiii i ;|L. L. ToMMNBON, Westfield, Ind. For aale by Druggist*. |1 ]»er ■ b° x, by mail, postpaid. TRIAL PACKAGE FREE. i-.: '"Address, Inclosing stamp. T. POPHAM A CO., Philadelphia t»-«

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