Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1875 — Page 4

Foraging and Fire Ants.

Foraging ants, E. drs panephora, are ▼ery annoying, and very useful. These insects go out from their cities in immense armies, not very broad, but often a hundred yards long. Officers march beside the column, very busy keeping their own portion of the line in order. There is an officer to about twenty privates ; their white heads nodding up and down make them quite conspicuous. The pittas, or ant thrushes, always accompany these armies, picking up the ants for their own food; but still the band goes marching on. The people know that the ants are on the war path, and make every preparation for their reception. In those countries insects of every kind get into the houses and multiply to an extent which almost drives the inhabitants from their homes. By day they are a trouble and by night a pest. They bite, and suck, and scratch, and sting. They crawl over the food; they hide in the bed; they fly into the lamp, and then whirl on the table; they creep into the ink; they emit horrible smells. There are centipedes with sting, and scorpions which sting. There are cockroaches of powerful size and smell, and of insatiable appetite. As for snakes and lizards, and other creeping things, they are too common to be noticed. It is of no use to fight. Tour enemies are legions of numbers innumerable. But when the foraging ants come the case is altered, for nothing can stand their attack. When the pittas come about the people open every box and drawer in the house, so as to allow the ants to explore every crevice, and then they vacate the premises. Presently a few scouts, which form the vanguard of the grand army, approach, and seem to inspect the house to see if it is worthy of a visit. The long column then pours in and disperses over the dwelling. They enter every crevice and speedily haul out any unfortunate creature which is hidden therein. Oreat cockroaches are dragged unwillingly away, being pulled in front by four or five ants, and pushed from behind by as many more. The rats and mice speedily succumb to the onslaught of their myriad foes, the snakes and lizards fare no better, and even the formidable weapons of the centipedes and scorpions are overcome. In a wonderfully short time the foraging ants have done their work, the turmoil gradually ceases, the scattered parties again form into line and the army moves out of the house carrying its poils in triumph. When the inhabitants return they find every intruder gone, and to their great comfort may move about without treading on some unfortunate creature, or put on their shoes without knocking them on the floor to shake out a scorpion or a centipede. But those who are accustomed to the country are careful to keep out of the way. If a man should happen to cross the column the ants at once dash at him, climb up his legs, and bite with their powerful and poisonous jaws. His only safety is in running away until the main army is too far off to renew the attack and then destroying those which he has brought with him. This is not easy, for the ants have long, hooked jaws and bite so fiercely that they may be pulled away piecemeal, leaving the jaws in the wound to be picked out separately. Another species, E. Pradator, marches in broad, solid mass. It is a little creature, like our common red ant, but much brighter colored, making the trunk of a tree upon which many climb look as if smeared with a blood-red liquid. The South American Indians require their young men to undergo the ordeal of the Tocandeiros, or fire-ants, before they can be known as warriors, or even recognized as braves. A pair of mittens are made of the bark of the palm tree, long enough to cover the arms above the elbows, and are filled with the Tocandeiros. The candidate for warlike honors must put his hands into these bags of living fire and wear them while he makes the round of the village, and dances a jig at every pause. During this march he must wear a smiling face, and chant a kind of song so loud as to be heard above all the noise his companions may make upon rude horns and drums. He must not, by word, action, or look, show any sign of the torture which he endures; if he should, he will be the ridicule of his tribe, and even the maidens will refuse to know him. When the round of the village is complete, he must pause before the Chief with swifter dance, and louder chant, until he falls from exhaustion, and the burning gauntlets are removed. Then he has won his right to carry a spear with his tribe. —GeciVs Book of Insects.

United at Last.

There was a somewhat venerable but very happy couple in the city Saturday, on their wedding trip, though the casual observer would hardly have suspected the latter fact. They left on the Lansing train at three o’clock for their home in Washtenaw County. The incidents which led to the union of this couple so late in life were somewhat extraordinary and not altogether without a halo of romance. It seems that the old gent! 'man, Deacon Joseph Place, who is now upward of seventy years of age, took it into his head last fall to go on a short visit to the home of his childhood, in New Hampshire. He had been for some years a widower, and his children have arrived at man’s and woman’s estate, and gone out to seek their own fortunes in the world. As he had more property than he was likely to spend in the short remnant of his life which remained, and as he had plenty of leisure on his hands, nothing was more natural than that he should break the monotony of his life with a little pleasure trip. So he set out for New England. As fortune would have it, before he had quite reached the place of his destination, a slight accident happened to the train, by which it was delayed an hour or so. The deacon got out of the car and looked about, and the hills and rocks which had been strangers to his eyes for so many years almost renewed his youth. As the train was liable to be detained for some little time he wandered to a house near by. Judge of the old

man’s surprise to find that the lady of the house was one whom he knew in early life. Indeed, when both were young they had felt a regard for each other differing quite materially from the regard which they felt for other people. But the fates, and the fates only do this cruel work, separated them, and they had long since lost trace, and almost recollection, of each other. However, recognition was mutual, and it is pretty certain that Deacon Place was glad to see the lady, and that the lady was glad to see the Deacon. Both had traveled a long way down life’s journey since they had parted, and both had lost their consorts. What more natural than that they should talk over old times? And speaking of these things, the scenes and incidents of early life rose vividly before them; and what more natural than that there should spring from this revival the old love, kindled anew, and that it should burn into a bright flame? Such was the case. All this did not transpire at the single visit, but the old man lingered in the neighborhood, and it soon became apparent that the lady was the strong attraction which drew him thither. The result was that, before the Deacon returned to his Michigan home, they plighted their troth anew, and the old man came back happy as a lark, and thanking Providence for the railroad accident, which gave him a new lease of life and life’s joys. After a few months he went back to claim his bride, the happy event was consummated, and on Saturday the venerable couple passed through the city on their way home.— Detroit Post.

A Snake Story.

Lucv H. Hoofer writes from Paris to the Philadelphia Press: “ Apropos of the ‘ Tour du Monde,’ a story is told about the serpent scene which may bear repeating. The mechanic who was intrusted with the task of manufacturing the snakes for that scene made one beforehand as a specimen, and started to take it to the Porte St. Martin for inspection. He proceeded to the omnibus station, deposited his snake (neatly coiled up, packed in a parcel and covered with paper) on a seat in the office while he went to get his ticket. One of his fellowpassengers, a woman of thievish propensities, was attracted by the appearance of the package, took possession of it and slipped out of the door to open it. She untied the string and out popped the huge green serpent with red eyes, in remarkably lively condition from the long compression of the steel spring in his body. The unfortunate female uttered a piercing shriek and straightway went into hysterics, so the owner of the snake soon regained possession of his property and the would-be thief was marched off to the station-house.

The Romance of a Pretty Type-Setter.

A recent number of a Portland (Oregon) paper tells a pleasant little story, to the following effect: A young lady well known in that city has just started to join her parents, whom she has no recollection of ever having seen. Her name is Emma Frankie, and her parents live in Florence, Italy. At the age of between three and four years she was given to a family named Stokes, who promised to educate and otherwise provide for her. It seems that she was trained for circus performances, and traveled with circus troupes until she was eighteen years old, when she abandoned the business, made her home in Portland, and, having learned to set type, supported herself by that work during the past four years, taking good care of herself and winning many friends. Meanwhile she .had caused inquiries for her parents to be made in Florence, these only recently proving successful, the parents having also been for some years advertising for their lost daughter. Money was sent to the daughter, from Florence, with which to defray her expenses home, and by this time she has probably been reunited to those who long ago parted from her, hoping it would prove to her advantage.

Fence-Planting on the Prairies.

Thk erection of board fences on a prairie farm is an expensive operation. In Nebraska the law wisely removes the necessity for the herding of live stock; and in lowa the needs of practical farming life bring about very much the same result. But in each the law and the practice are the things of the day. It is an instinct in the owner of land to define his possessions by metes and bounds, obvious to the eye, which separate his land from that of his neighbor. If fences were not a convenience there would be no fences, therefore; but as fences are a convenience the improving prairie farmer sets himself to their creation as soon as his house is built and his land broken. Live fences, of course, are the desideratum, and there are three plants which are most in favor for the purpose. The honey locust, the Osage orange, and the white willow make good fences. The two former are impermeable to stock; and when the latter is well established the same character may be claimed for it. The white willow is also of rapid and hardy growth. Mr. C. B. Mendenhall, of Marshall County, lowa, has used the white willow extensively. On his farm there are about thirteen miles of white willow fencing, of from three to seven years’ growth, about half of which will turn cattle, and a portion cut half a cord of wood to the rod. Mr. Mendenhall has also a grove of white willow covering twenty acres, set out sjx years ago, and which he considers to be worth SSOO per acre. As, we doubt not, some of our readers are even now considering the question of moving West to lowa or Nebraska, and as knowledge is a light burden to carry, we give Mr. Mendenhall’s method of planting: The willow slips are to be eight inches in length, thrifty sprouts of one or two years’ growth. The ground for the hedgerow is to be plowed as deeply as possible during August, a dead furrow being left where it is proposed the fence shall stand. Just before frost comes the land is to be turned back, the dead furrow being filled in. As soon as the earth is open plant the slips eight inches apart, covering them with finelypulverized earth, Cultivate as corn for

two years, keeping the infant fence entirely clear of weeds. The following method will insure a rapid growth: Mulch well in the fall after the second year, placing the mulching as close to the plants as may l>e without touching the stems. By following Mr. Mendenhall’s plan the prairie farmer, with white willow, will have a thrifty fence in the course of three or four years, and in six years his inclosures will be perfect. —Albany Ledger.

To Make Yeast and Bread.

Take a handful of hops, pour on them three pints of hot water, and boil half an hour. Take three tablespoonfuls of flour, two of brown sugar, two of salt, one of ginger, and mix them all smooth ly with a cup of warm water. Strain the hops and pour the hot liquid over the mixture, stirring briskly to prevent lumping. Set it over the fire until it boils, stirring often enough to prevent scorching. When nearly cool add a cupful of lively old yeast and set in a warm place. In a day or two it will ferment, and be ready to pour off in bottleß; a wide-mouthed glass fruit-can is better, and should not be quite filled, as there is pretty sure to be a second rising. If closely corked and put in a cool place it will keep sweet three or four months. But the bread is not made directly from this yeast. Take a pint or more of nicely-mashed potato, add a spoonful of brown sugar, a teaspoonful of salt, and hot water enough to make a thinnish batter. When nearly cool, add four or five spoonfuls of the stock yeast, and if kept warm it will soon be light and ready for use. After fermentation set it in a cool place, and it will keep sweet several days, and may be renewed and increased by adding more of the warm potato batter. For the loaf take a quart of flour, a pint of the potato yeast, and nearly a pint of warm water. Mix thoroughly, set in a warm place, and it will rise in about two hours. Now stir in flour until it is quite stiff, but not too stiff. Transfer the dough to the wide flour-pan or the molding-board, and for ten or fifteen minutes knead it with the hands and slash it briskly with a caseknife. This slashing makes the loaf more tender and even-grained, also prevents those large air-holes that are apt to insinuate themselves in a hastily-made loaf. -At the last the loaf is not stiff enough to stand alone; put it in a deep, round tin basin, keep it warm until it rises to the brim, spread over its surface a spoonful of melted lard or butter; with the oven “just right,” the heat will penetrate the loaf evenly, there will be no thick, hard crust, and in little less than an hour it will come out of the oven all of a pinkish tint, and “ every bit good enough to eat.” —Western Rural.

Horse Clothing.

A great many more horses are prematurely worn out by neglect than by hard work. Cold kills more than work does. Sudden chills, when they are warmed up by severe exercise, ruin numberless horses. In how few stables can a good set of blankets be found? These arealways seen in the stables of valuable' horses, but rarely elsewhere. But a cheap horse feels and suffers from sudden changes as much as a costly one, and humanity calls for proper care of such a one as much as for any other. Nor should the lap-robe or the buffalorobe with which the driver protects himself be used to cover the horse while he stands for a short time. This conveys the disagreeable smell of the animal’s not always clean skin to the clothes, from which it is plentifully evolved and diffused when a warm room is entered. The horse should be provided with blankets for its special use. These need not be costly and may be easily made at home. A pair of coarse, heavy brown wool blankets, costing five dollars, will make a very serviceable suit of horse clothing. The clothing should be made in two parts, one to cover the back from the withers to the crupper and reaching beneath the belly, and another to cover the neck and throat; both should be lined with gunny cloth to strengthen them. The neck and chest of a horse are very sensitive parts of the animal and need ample protection as well as the body. The body clothing Bhould be made of two pieces cut so as to admit of two gores; one short narrow one upon the rump, and one longer wide one at the withers. These should be cut so that the blanket fits smoothly to the curve of the back, else it will not lie in its proper place but will slip down and gather in wrinkles in the middle of the back. A saddle-piece of stiff cloth should be stitched upon the blanket and two slits worked in it upon each side, through which the girth is placed to retain it in its place. Two straps and buckles should be stitched in front to fasten the blanket close upon the chest, and it should be bound with a broad strip of colored flannel. The throat-piece should be carefully cut to fit the'neck and be made low enough to lap over the blanket for several inches. A strap is fastened to go across the forehead to hold the covering in its place, and others are attached by which it is fastened beneath the throat. This part of the clothing should be bound and trimmed to match the blanket. These coverings should not be worn in the stable, but only out of doors, when the horse is exposed to cold winds, or when it is standing after having been warmed by work. No stable should be so exposed as to make it necessary to blanket a horse when within it. Stables should be tight and warm, and ventilated in such a manner as not to throw cold drafts upon the horse. Pure fresh air in the stable, although it may be of- a low temperature, will so invigorate the circulation of a horse that no protection beyond its own natural covering will be needed, even in the coldest winter weather. It is when brought out from the still air of the stable into the cutting winds that the animal needs covering, or when a careless driver leaves him steaming, after a brisk drive, standing in a December snowstorm, while be is warming himself before a hot stove.— Agriculturist. A flock of sparrows got on a graincar at Boston and rode to Concord, N. H., where they hare settled.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Give your plants all the son possible. No matter if it fades the carpet; it will give you better health as well as your plants. Wamot Ice-Cream.— One quart of cream, one-half pound of sugar, three eggs, two ounces of English Walnut meats, pounded fine. Whip the eggs and the sugar together; then add the cream. Warm this until it begins to thicken. Do not let it boil. Add the pounded walnuts and mix well. Freeze in molds. Lemons.—A contemporary says that in most cases of fevers we have no doubt that an attack might have been prevented, and the patient well in a few days, without a particle of medicine, by rest, a partial fasting, and free use of lemons and lemonade. The virtue of this article in bilious attacks and incipient fevers has been tested with the best results, and we commend its use as a preventive of these diseases. The principal points by which to discern the quality of the flesh in a fowl are the color of the feet and the kind of skin. The yellow foot generally indicates a fowl with tough flesh, heavy bones and yellow fat It is very rare that this color does not show itself in the skin. However, it does not exclude certain qualities of the flesh in the pure descendants of the two exotic races, Cochin China and Brahma fowls. With the exception of the yellow and green, which can never be recommended, all other colors from black to white are equally indications of excellent flesh. When the skin, and above all that of the sides and breast, is of a fine tissue, delicate and easily distended, also having a rosy-pearl color, one may be certain that the flesh is good and will fatten rapidly.— Exchange. - Softening Hard Water. —This is usually done with sal soda, but the effect is to hurt the clothes that are washed in the water thus prepared, and the hands also. It is because there is an excess of the soda, more than unites with the acid of the water, which makes it hard. The remedy is easy: Use enough of the salt to take up the acid, and no more. In this way both acid and soda disappear, leaving a neutral salt which is harmless. The water will be soft. Test a certain amount of water, beginning with a very little soda, and adding more if you find you need it. With our own spring water, which is hard, a lump of soda the size of a large pea to a pint of water is about the right proportion. Of course the amount of the salt should be according to the degree of hardness of the water.— Cor. Western Rural. Pure buckwheat flour, when baked into cakes, as is usual, is apt to “ lie heavy on the stomach;” the fact has given rise to the remark. To obviate this and improve otherwise, mix Graham flour with the buckwheat—a little more than two-thirds buckwheat with onethird Graham or unbolted wheat flour. This may be mixed in large quantity and kept on hand for use. The Graham will mahe it light, aid digestion and make it palatable and wholesome. It can be mixed and baked at short notice by making a batter with sour milk from the chum and raise with soda, or, what is more generally acceptable, mix and set it by the stove over night. If, the first morning, it is not sufficiently light, it will be the next and thereafter, if not kept too warm. It may be mixed with water or milk—milk is best —and in either case a little soda should be added just before baking; more where sour milk is used. Give it a fair test. —Western Rural.

Importance of Silex in the Soil.

Silica gives hardness and stiffness to the straw and leaves of cereal grain. When wheat or rye is sown where a brush-heap or pile of logs has been burned to ashes, the straw will be unusually stiff and the leaves much harsher than the other straw growing in the vicinity, but away from the area of the burning. The potash of the ashes and the silica found in the soil are taken up by the growing plants, and form a coating or liquid glass, which is spread evenly over the straw and leaves of the growing grain, as a metallic coat-of-arms was used in old times tti cover the body of a soldier. When the growing straw of wheat is inclosed in a thin tube of elastic glass, the innumerable spores, which frequently fill the entire atmosphere like flakes of snow, and which produce rust, do not find a congenial place for their lodgment and complete development. But when the plants do not have access to a generous supply of silica and potash, the stems are so limber that they are easily prostrated by driving storms, so that the ears of grain will he developed only in part. When silica is available only in small quantities, the pores from which fnngi spring adhere to the leaves and stems, where they find a suitable spot for their development, and thus the productiveness of the plant is seriously impaired. The practical value of silica is further perceived in the yield of excellent fruit. —Annual Record of Science and Industry.

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Dr. J. Walker’s California Yinegar Bitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly 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 almost daily asked, “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-gfving principle, a perfect Renovator and hivigorator of the system. Never before in the bistory of the world has a medicine been compounded possessing the rcmarkablo 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 ana Visceral Organs, in Bilious Diseases* The properties of Dr. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic, Carminative, Nutritions, Laxative, Diuretic, Sedative, Counter-Irritant Sudorific, Altera* tire, and Anti-Bilious. Grateful Thousands proclaim Vinegar Bitters the most wonderful Invigorant that ever sustained the sinking system. No Person ean take these Bitters according to directions, and remain long unwell, provided their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or other means, 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 Vinegar Bitters. No epidemic can take hold of a system thus fore-armed. Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Headache> Pain 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 Dyspepsias One bottle 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, etc. In these, as in all other constitutional Diseases, Walker’s Vinegar Bitters have shown their great curative powers in the most obstinate and intractable cases. For Inflammatory and Chronic Rheumatism, Gout, Bilious, Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder, these Bitters have no equal. Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood. Mechanical Diseases.— Persons engaged in Paints 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-Rhenm, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles, Ring-worms, Scald-head, Sore Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch, Scnifs, Discolorations of the Skin, Humors and Diseases of the Skin of whatever name or nature, are literally dug up and carried out of the system in a short time by the nse 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 the turn of life, these Tonic Bitters display so decided an influence that improvement is soon perceptible. Cleanse the Yitiated Blood whenever yon find its imparities bursting through the skin in Pimples, Eruptions, or Sores; cleanse it when yon find it obstructed and sluggish in the veins; cleanse it when it is foul; your feelings will tell yoa when. Keep the blood pare, and the health of the system will follow. r. h. McDonald & co., Druggists and Gen. Agts., San Francisco, California, and oor. of Washington and Charlton Sts., N. Y. Sold bjr all Druggists wad Dealers. CSAnd Jetegnrph SPECIAL ADVANTAGES! 1. Eight Eminent Professors as Instructors. 2. The Best and Most Elegant Rooms in the West. 3. Boarding Club. 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