Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1874 — Page 4

Mr. Bilderback’s Hat.

“No,” Mr. Bilderback saw, “it wasn’t.” He put it there last night the last thing before he went to bed, he remembefed most distinctly. It wasn’t there now and he didn’t know who had any business to move it. Somebody had done it, and "he hoped to gracious it would be the last time. Somebody was always meddling with his things. Mrs.' Bilderback coming down Stairs with a wearied air, asked if he had looked in the closets? “Closets?” Mr. Bilderback, snarled, “Kingdom of Ireland! Boes any sane man put his hat in the closets when he wrfnts it every time he goes out? No. I hung it up right here on this very hook of this particular rack, and if it had been left alone it would be there now. Borne of you must have moved it. It. hasn’t got legs and couldn’t get away alone.” Master Bilderback, suggested that it wouldn’t be very surprising if it felt its way along fur a little ways, for which atrocities he was rewarded with a wild glare and a vicious cuff from his unappreciative parent. Then Mr. Bilderback said: “ Well, I suppose 1 can walk down town bareheaded.” Everybody knew what this meant, and the family scattered for the regular morning search. Mrs. Bilderback looked in all the closets with the air of John Rogers going to the stake, and then she went into an old chest that had the furs and things put away in it, and was only opened twice a year, except when Mr. Bilderback’s hat was lost, which occurred on the average three times a day. She shook pepper or fine-cut tobacco or camphor out of everythingshe picked up, and varied her search by the most extraordinary sneezes that ever issued from human throat, while ever and anon she paused to wipe her weeping eyes and say that “ well, she never.” Mrs. Bilderback’s search for the lost hat never got beyond that chest. Miss Bilderback confined her search to the uncut pages of the last Scribner, which she carefully cut and looked into with an eager scrutiny that told how intensely interested she was in finding that hat. She never varied her method of search, save when the approaching footsteps of her father warned her that she was swinging on his erratic eccentric in that direction, when she hid the magazine, and picking up the corner of the piano-cover loooked under that article with a sweet air of zealous interest, exclaiming in tones of pretty vexation: “ I wonder where it can be?” And it was noticeable that this action and remark, both of which she never failed to repeat every time her father came into the room, had the effect of throwing that estimable but irascible old gentleman into paroxysms of the most violent passion, each one growing worse than its predecessors, until they would culminate in a grand burst of wrath in which he ordered her to quit looking for his hat. at which she would retire up-stairs with an injured air and tell her mother, between that indefatigable searcher’s sneezes, that “ one might wear one’s self out slaving and looking for bis hat in every conceivable place, and all the thanks one got for it was to be scolded.” Master Bilderback, he helped hunt too. His system of conducting a search was to go around into

the back-yard and play “ toss ball” up against the end of the house, making mysterious disappearances, with marvelous celerity, behind the wood-pile or under a large store-box, oft as he heard the mutterings of the tempest that invariably preceded and announced bis father’s approach. But Mr. BUderback. His was a regular old composite system; it combined and took in everything. He raged through the sitting-room like a hurricane; he looked under every chair in that room and then upset them all to see if he mightn’t have overlooked it. Then he looked on all the brackets in the parlor, behind the window curtains, and kicked over the ottoman to look for a hat that he couldn’t have squeezed under a washtub. And he kept up a running commentary all the time, which served no purpose except to warn his family when he was coming and give them time to prepare. He looked into the clock and left it stopped and standing crooked. And he would like to know who touched that hat. He looked into his daughter’s work-box, a sweet little shell that “ George” gave her, and he emptied it out on the table and wondered what such trumpery was for and who in thunder hid his hat. “It must be hid,” he said, peering down with a dark, suspicious look into an odor-bottle somewhat larger than a thimble, “ for it couldn’t have got so completely out of sight by accident.” If people wouldn’t meddle with his things, he howled, for the benefit of Mrs. Bilderback, whom he heard sneezing as he went past the stair door, he would always know just where to find them, because, looking gloomily behind the kitchen wood-box, he always had one place to put all his things, and he took off the lid of the spicebox and kept them there. He glared savagely out of the door in hopes of seeing his hopeful son, but that youthful strategist was out of sight behind his entrenchments. Mr. Bilderback wrathfully resumed his search, and roared, for his daughter’s benefit, that he would spend every cent he had intended to lay out for winter bonnets in new hats for himself, and then maybe he able to find one when he wanted it. Then he opened the door of the oven and looked darkly in, turned all the

dirty clothes out of the basket, and strewed them around, wondering “tz>Ao had hid that hat?” And he pulled the clothes-line off its nail and got down on his hands and knees to look behind the refrigerator, and wondered “who had hid that hat,” and then he climbed on the back of a chair to look on the top shelf of the cupboard, and sneezed around among old wide-mouthed bottles and pungent paper parcels and wondered in muffled wrath “who had hid that hat?’* And he went down into the cellar and roamed around among rows of stone jars covered with plates and tied up with brown paper, and smelling of pickles and things in all stages of progress; every one of which he looked into, and how he did wonder “who had hid that hat?” And he looked iptp dark

corners and swore when he jammed his head against tjie corners of swinging shelves,'and iCTt along those shelves and run his fingers into all sorts of bowls, containing %J 1 sorts of greasy and sticky stuff,-isnd thumped his head against hams hanging from the rafters, at which he swore anew, and he peered into and felt arotmdln barrels Which seemed to have nothing ih ’them but cobwebs and nails shook boxes which were prolific in dust and rats, and be wondered hid that hat? And just then loud whoops .and shouts camfe from up-stairs, announcing that ‘ Uiexalt was.” And old Bilderback went up-Btairif growling because the person who hid it hadn’t brought it •nt before, and saw the entire family pointing out into the back yard, where the hat surmounted Mr. Bilderback’s cang, which was leaning against the fence, “just where you left it, pa,” Miss Bilderback explained, “whenwe called you in to supper, and it has been out there all night.” And Mr. Bilderback, evidently restraining by a violent effort an intense desire to bless his daughter with the cane, remarked, with a mysterious manner, that “it was mighty singular,” and putting on the bat he strode away with great dignity, leaving his wife and daughter to re-arrange the house.—Burlington Hawk-Bye.

Physical Life.

It is popularly supposed that we change our constitutions once in seven years; but practically every decade makes a turning point in life. It is not too much to say that, barring accidents, a man can at certain dates decide what manner of death and from what class of disease he shall die. The formation of the constitutien in early life—say from the age of five to fifteen—devolves on the htirse, the mother, and the training in the nursery and school-room. In the nursery, at any rate, over-feeding is a cardinal vice; but the over-fed children who eat flesh meat three times a day become so gross and unwieldy as to be a burden to all concerned; while tight stays, tight boots ana high heels develop every evil under the sun, from bunions downward. At this point two years of gymnastics, or a couple of years spent on board of one of our training ships, does wonders for our boys, who get the use of their arms and legs to an amazing degree. The athletic work performed by schoolboys and university men is perhaps at its best in these days, though most happy is the man who is never over-trained, because he is perpetually in condition. From fifteen to twenty-five a man has to prepare for - that legitimate enjoyment in life which should by rights be his. He has in all probability chosen his profession, memory is at its best, ambition at its highest, and his temptation to burn the candle at both ends—to be a brilliant boon companion, a man whose good tales are remembered, and whose witty sayings are everywhere quoted—is almost irresistible; facility does not come with age and the best stories grow stale. Of the number of prematurely exhausted intel ects and shortened broken down in this way there is no need to tell. Every man’s memory will furnish him with a list of names more or less well known.-'

From twenty-five to thirty-five is the true time for all the enjoyment of a man’s best powers, when physical vigor is at its highest, and human passion is at its full strength. During the last half of this decade a man should be assiduous to construct a system of philosophy by which to rule his life, and to contract a chain of habits intelligently, so’that they should not sit too tightly upon him, and yet cautiously, so that he should neither be their slave nor too easily cast them aside. The exaet proportion of physical and intellectual strength should be gauged, and the constitutional Weakness, or, in other wards, the disease toward which a tendency exists, should be ascertained. Preserve, if possible, the absolute necessity for exercise, and have your place of business two or three miles away, over which let nothing tempt you to an omnibus or carriage save rain. The day on which a medical man gives up riding to see his country patient, or the use of his own legs to see his patients in town, and takes to a close brougham, fixes the date when sedentary diseases are set up—indigestion, liver, kidney disease and so on; while if, to utilize his leisure, he reads as he drives, his eyesight becomes seriously affected. From thirty-five to forty-five a man should arrange with his food and square hypochondria. He cannot, it is true, change his diathesis, but he can manage it. The habitual character of food, no less than its quantity and quality, begins to tell whether it charges the system with fat, muscle, sinew, fiber or watery particles. —Pall MaU Gazette.

Economy.

Money is a question of industry, and as long as we have health there is money stored up in our brains and in our sinews, of which we are the lawful bankers and which is subject to our draft; but when we contemplate the economy of something that once lost is lost forever the question assumes a new importance. For instance, our vitality is part of our stock in trade. We start out in life usually with a portion sufficient to our needs. To illustrate, we will suppose when upon the eve of a journey a man was given a sum of money sufficient to carry him to his destination in comfort and safety, but assured that this would be the extent of the supply and that if he grew careless or wasteful he would be set upon by robbers or perish by the wayside, would we feel called upon to pity him if he should wantonly waste this-preeious capital? Yet this is but a true picture of our extravagance in the matter of vitality; we fling it away upon our amusements, our appetites and our avarice; and before the shadows of middle life fall athwart our paths we are set upon by robbers in the shape of ■disease, or sink down upon the threshold of usefulness utterly drained of strength and vigor. Nature intended that we .should live temperately, and her penalties are severe and certain in the end. We are always ready enough with promises of reform, biit somehow that artful villain selfindulgence always has a key that will fit the Jocks of our resolutions, apdlie just

glides in and takes us by surprise, and, once face to face with him, we are cowards in our own cause.— Phrenological Journal.

Successful Farmers.

Does fanning pay? Does anything but fanning pay? Is it not the source of all individual wealth —the foundation of ■ our national prosperity? It-is true 'farmers do not, as a general thing, get large salaries; not many of them are millionaires; wealth does not come in upon them like water in a leaky boat. They generally give an equivalent for what they get, and learn the 'real value of a dollar by the amount of labor they give in acquiring it. Sometimes the tide of events turns in their favor. Like men in other occupations we hear most about the rich and successful. Real success and true manhood are not to be measured by the amount of wealth that one acquires. We like rich men best who are rich in good works; whose weal th. is. overshadowed by wealth of heart.. Butvery'often those who roll in wealth are not kind and true; 1 the best spokes in their wheel of fortune are spokes of greed and selfishness. Every person who produces more than he consumes, who is self-sustaining, -honest and industrious, is successful in the best sense of the term. It is far better to leave a treasure of kind thoughts, righteous actions and hallowed memories than to leave a million of dollars if they were acquired by taking mean advantage of the generous and unsuspecting, who disdain to exchange honor for wealth. Men that amass fabulous fortunes rapidly, by cheating better men than themselves, are not good men to set before our young farmers as examples. It is better for all when a million of men gain a dollar each, by productive industry on the farm, at the loom or the anvil, than that one reckless, fortunate adventurer should become a millionaire. The greatest good comes to the greatest number when great numbers are moderately successful. We are so anxious to do great things that the plain duties of every-day life are apt to be neglected. A farm well managed, a virtuous life, happy family and a comfortable home are honors and success enough. True, lasting and real success is enjoyed where a class of men like farmers do well in the aggregate and during their whole lives. The great majority of farmers, by living lives of industry and economy, are safe and solvent and never need a bankrupt law to protect them. When periods of commercial disaster sweep aver the land and mercantile establishments and business men go down like reeds before the blast farmers stand like apple trees in their orchards, shaking down fruit during all the storm and gaining strength of root and vigor of fiber while battling with the breeze. — Country Gentleman.

Maggots and Flies.

Entomologists hold that no insect is produced by spontaneous production, and that all organized life has its parentage in the like. In this case the maggot is but one phase of the life of the insect —the next giving it wings with the power to reproduce its kind. These maggots are produced, in the case of meat, by several species of flies and that of the cheese by a small fly called Piaphiliacasci, not more than three-twentieths of an inch long. It is of a shining-black color, with the middle and hinder legs mostly yellowish and the wings transparent like glass. Among the meat-flies two are more prominent. One of these is out early in the spring and remains all summer, doing its mischief. It is called Musea vomitaria, is of a blue-black color, with a dark-blue and hairy hind body. The eggs are called fly-blows, and hatch in two or three hours, and the maggots complete their growth in three or four days. The other is a smaller fly of a brilliant blue-green color with black legs. There is a very large fly of this class thaX comes out in June and stays with us until the last of August. While on the subject of flies I might call attention to another class of flesheating flies that are bred about the stables and so closely resemble the horse-flies that all suppose them to be the same; but they differ in the forni of their proboscis, which is very long and slender and projects horizontally beyond the head. It is this fly that bites through our clothing and torments our stock, rnone especially just before a rain. This fly feeds on animal matter and is very annoying. The horse-fly may be kept out of the house by the use of wirecloth, which is coming into common use for that purpose. By darkening the room they may be driven out. Of late years we have had little trouble with horseflies. The smoke-house is kept too dark for the maggot-fly, and cheese are protected in boxes. That the maggots are due to insectparentage is quite evident to any observing person; and, knowing this fact, the preventive may be applied- These flies produce an immense number of young— Reamur having observed 20,000 in a single fly. This may at once account ,for their wonderful increase in so short a time, and then it requires but a few days for these to produce another generation. The elements of entomology ought to be taught in our schools. It might be introduced into our reading lessons at least. It should not be expected to thus make an entomologist of the scholar, but to give him rational ideas in regard to insect life. The farmer must fight flies, and, to do so in the best manner,. mqst first learn their habits. If they:- pre produced by spontaneous production, he may give up all hope; for, like the lice of Egypt, they would appear without notice; but, if they have a parentage, they may be prevented from doing mischief by excluding them from the object of attack. The good woman has discovered that fresh meat keeps much longer when exposed to a current of air, and that a box having ifs sides of wire-cloth will keep off the flies and admit air to the meat; and this gives the fanner the hint that he can air his smoke-house in the same manner, and, at the same time, exclude the fly that lays the maggots; and, with the same means, the houseflies and the biting flies from the stable may be kept at bay.—“ Rural,” in Qhiago Tribune,

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

A Dish for Bbrakfabt.— Take a sheep’s brains and Scald so as to set them; when cold, divide each lobe like a kidney; egg and bread-crumb, and fry a nice light brown with little rows of bacon as an accompaniment. —HoiweAold. Royal Fruit Cake— Five cups of flour, five eggs, one and one-half cups of sugar, one cup pf molasses, one and one-., half cups of "butter, one teaspoonful saleratus, one-half a cup of milk, two pounds of chopped raisins, three pounds of currants, one and on&half pounds of citron, two tablespoonfuls of cinnamon, one nutmeg, two teaspoonfuls of allspice, two teaspoonfuls of eloves. Chicken Cholera.— A Tennessee correspondent of the /iwiri Sun says: “I would not so strongly recommend the following remedy or cure for chicken cholera were it not that I have found it beyond question. I had, and now have, ’ some twelve or fifteen game fowls, imported into Maury County, toe original stock, in 1859. They are freer from attacks of cholera than any other breed I am acquainted; with. However, every spring tod summer I lose, or rather have lost, a number of fowls, both old and young. I tried all remedies advised or advertised, with only partial benefits. As an experiment I used essence of Jamaica ginger. Take of this one tablespoonful and put it in enough' of water to mix into dough one quart of meal, and feed three times daily. The essence of ginger can be procured of any druggist. "This remedy I vouch for.”

Mrs. Wm. Church, of Canada, says the best way to keep eggs she finds is to “ take a pot or pail, or anything convenient, put about an inch or two of meal or any kind of bran (I generally take shorts from flour—being a farmer’s wife I have it on hand) in it, put a layer of eggs, either end down, close together; then cover with meal, another layer of. eggs, and so on until the box is full, occasionally giving it a shake to fill well between the eggs. plan -I have adopted for years with success, and the last when used—which is often the end of April and beginning of May—are as good as the first. I commence to pack* in September. The whole secret lies in carefully selecting fresh eggs, packing on end and keeping the air from them. Keep in a dry, cool place.”— Canada Paper.

Cremation of Lady Dilke.

The Berlin correspondent of the London Times writes: “The body of Lady Dilke, who died five weeks ago in London, was burned on the 10th inst. at Dresden. The ceremony was performed in the furnace recently invented for burial purposes by -Herr Siemens, and the relatives of the deceased lady permitting strangers to be present a large number of scientific men attended the experiment. When the company had complied with Herr Siemens’ request to offer up a mental prayer, the coffin was placed in the chantoer of the furnace; six minutes later tire coffin burst; five minutes more and the flesh began to melt away; ten minutes more and the skeleton was laid bare; anotwGr ten minutes and the bones began to crumble. Seventyfive minutes after the introduction of the coffin into the furnace all that remained of Lady Dilke and the coffin were six pounds of dust, placed in an urn. The brother-in law of the deceased was present”

Exports of Musical Instruments.

Official records of Custom-House returns at Washington show that the total value of musical instruments exported from the United States during the year ending June 30,1874, was $550,327. Of this, $258,176 was fOr pianos and $292,151 for parlor or reed organs.. Of this latter . amount $163,169, or more than one-half of the whole, was of the cabinet organs made by the Mason & Hamlin Organ Co., which bid fair to become as famous in Europe as they have long been in America. This company certainly have reason to be proud of the fact that the European demand for their organs is larger than that for all others combined. —Boston Traveller. Locking the stable door after the horse is stolen has a nevy illustration at Milford, N. H., where the'bank directors are putting on a lock that would have absolutely prevented the recent great robbery. It is made on the same principle as a clock, and cannot be opened until a certain hour, by the cashier or any other man. —Never give anybody a piece of your mind; give him the whole or none.

Pianos and Organs.

Fine new rosewood pianos for S3OO. Fine walnut organs, six stops, $125. Good second-hand pianos, $l5O to S2OO, Reed’s Temple of Music, Chicago.

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Dr. J. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly from the Rati ve herbs fouhd on the lower rajiges of. the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor-. nia, the medicinal properties of which are extracted therefrom without the use of Alcohol. The question is almpst daily asked, “What is the cause of the unparalleled success of Vinegar Bitters?” Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, and the patient rccovers his health. They are the great blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Renovator and Invigorator of the system. Never before'in the history of the world has a medicine been, compounded possessing the remarkable ■- qualities of Vinegar Bitters in healing the „ sick of every disease man is heir to. They are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, . relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious Diseases. The properties of Dr. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic, Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic, _ Sedative, Counter-Irritant Sudorific,Altera- • tive. and Anti-Bilious. R. H. MCDONALD & CO., Druggists and Gen. Agts.. San Francisco, California, and cor. of Washington and Charlton Sts., N. Y.. Sold by rn isr a ggi.t. an d Dealers. - MASON&HAULM CABINET ORGANS. Winners of THREE HIGHEST MEDALS and DIPLOMA OF HONOR at VIENNA, 1873, PARIS 1867, COMPARABLE. Sold at fixed unffonfa prices to aU{ • W RURC^ASERS d o£ ,a ORGANS ARK MINDED that the teinptifcion to Dealers and Peddlers Is ■very strong to deal in and recommend as best The .MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN COprinting as they do their lowest prices, can afford to dealers only the smallest commissions. ’Bds plan secures to every purchaser the lowest price, •because the dealer cannot ask more than the Catalogue price: but It causes many dealers to do their best to sell other organs, simply because they get enormous discounts on them. Some organs are currently sold to dealers at seventy-five per cent. dLscount,oratqaa-, z . qaarter the prices printed for'thefii. As a rule, we poorer the organ the higher its printed price and the g A* HAMLIN ORGAN CO. « now offering new styles, with Important improvements, and are selling not only for cash etolusivMßvs but also on new plans of easy payments, running ■ - which give very full information and ere sent free. THE MASON & ORGANCO m PHFledger V —--L ========= THE CHEAPEST AND BEST TAPER IN THE COUNTRY. Unexcelled by any Weekly * Publication, East or West. - 7 CANVASSERS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN IN THE UNITED STATES. The most Liberal Premiums and Club Rates ever gssixsr- rasa, furnished on application.. Address THE LEDGER COMPANY, CHICAGO, ll*. STEINWAY IM.Sp’eanOprWl'iaiiiß. * Superior to ail others. Every Plano Warranted ftt Five Years. Illustrated Catalogues, with Price list, mailed free on application. A.N.K 482-B X. L.