Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1875 — Page 4

The New Revenue Bill.

Th® new Tax and Tariff bill passed by Congress provides as follows: Section f. That from and after the date of passage of thia act there shall he levied and collection all distilled spirits thereafter produced in the United States a tax of ninety cento on each proof gallon, or wine gallon when below proof to be paid by the distiller, owner, or person having possession thereof before removal from the distillery or bonded warehouse, and so rnuch crf Sec. 3,251 of the Revised Statutes of the United States as is inconsistent herewith is repealed. . . Sac. 2. That Bec. 8,368 of the Revised Statues be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the words “ twenty cento a pound” and inserting in lien thereof the words “ twenty-four cents a pound:” Providtd. That Sec. 3.394 of the Revised Statues be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the word “ five” wherever it occurs therein, and inserting in lien thereof the word “six,” and by Mriking ont the word “ sixty” and inserting seventy-five," increasing the duty on cigars from $5 to «a a thousand and cigarettes from >2.50 to $2.75: Provided, That ’the increase of tax herein provided for shall not apply to tobacco, cigars or cigarettes on which the tax nnder the existing law shall have been paid when this act lakes effect. Sac. 8. That on all molasses, concentrated molasses, tank-bottoms, sirup of sugar, cane-inice, melada. and on sugar according to the Dutch standard color, imported from foreign countries, there shall be levied, collected and paid, in addition to duties now imposed in Schedule G, Sec. 2,504 of the Revised Statutes, an amount equal to 25 per cent, of said duties as levied upon the several articles and grades herein designated: Provided, That concentrated melada or concrete shall hereafter be classed as sugar, dutiable according to the color of the Dutch standard, and melada shall be known and defined as an article made in the process of sugar making, being the cane-inice boiled down to the sugar point, and containing all the sugar and molasses resulting from the boiling process without any process of purging or clarification, and any and all production of sugar-cane imported in bags, mats, baskets or other than light packages shall be considered sugar and dutiable as such: Provided, further, That of the drawback on refined sugar exported, allowed -by Sec. 3.019 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, only 1 per cent, of the amount so Wlowed shall be retained by the United States. Sxo. 4. That so much of Sec. 2,4)3 of the Revised Statutes as provides that only 90 per centum of the several duties and rates of duty imposed on certain articles therein enumerated by Sec. 2,504 shall be levied, collected an* paid be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the several duties and rates of duty prescribed in said Sec. 2,504 shall be and remain as by that section levied without abatement of 10 per cent., provided in Sec. 2.503. Sxc. 5. That the increase of duties provided by this act shall not apply to any goods, wares or merchandise actually on shipboard or bound to the United States on or before the 10th day cf February. 1875, nor on any such goods, wares or merchandise on deposit in warehouses or public stores at the date of the passage of this act. Sec. 6 provides that nothing in the act of Feb. 8, 1875 (the Little Tariff act), shall be construed to impose any duty on bolting cloths heretofore admilted free of duty, or to require the use of stamps on entries or receipts in of savings banks.

Pig Pork vs. Heavy Hogs.

About the time that whales became so scarce that the supply of oil for light began to fail, the manufacture of lard oil became an important industry. Then coal-oil began to compete, and in turn petroleum drove both out of the market for illuminating purposes. Before lardoil became an important product the principal pork demand was for mediumsized pigs that would average 200 pounds. Lard-oil made a market for heavy, fat hogs. The packing demand has kept the market pretty lively for heavy hogs since. This will continue to be the case so far as barreled pork is concerned; but for bacon, hams, shoulders and especially for shipping East for cutting on butchers’ blocks there, and for butchers’ use here, the model packers use wellfatted pigs, nine to twelve months old, that will average 200 pounds each. Such will always bring about 10 per cent, more than the average heavy hog; no mean matter when it is considered that, by thus feeding, once wintering may be avoided. We have a neighbor, a commission merchant, who, besides his business talent, has a taste for farming, and who cultivates this taste. He yearly fattens from ten to fifteen pigs, buying them in the summer at about three months old, slaughtering them at ten months old or when they weigh 200 200 pounds. He makes it pay, notwithstanding he has to buy most of his feed. Small hams and breakfast-bacon, rather thin sides, with alternate streaks of fat and lean, are what are especially sought for in our city markets, and bring large prices—fully three cents per pound more than the great, fat. twenty-pound joints. Why? People who can afford it J irefer young, juicy meat to old, tough oints. There were about 6,000,000 hogs slaughtered in Chicago during the season of 1874-’75, and yet there is a scarcity of hams and bacon, such as young, wellfatted pigs make. Again, why? The answer is simple: Western farmers have got into the habit of thinking that two and three year old hogs, weighing 400 pounds and over, are the ones tuat bring the most money. They are running too much into mammoth pork. Barreled pork is used less and less, except to feed navvies and laborers in regions difficult of access. A thrifty spring pig, wintered once, and kept until it weighs 400 pounds, will c*st doable, and 25 per cent, added, what the 200-pound porker will. That is, the two pigs, butchered when they weigh 200 pounds each, will bring more money at less cost than the 400-pound hog. Take your slates and figure for yourselves, and, if you cannot make it come out so, ’* The Farm and Garden” will give the figures. Stock hogs will probably be scarce next tall. It will pay this spring to take care of all early pigs and force them to an e rly maturity next winter. —“ Farm and Garden,” in Chicago Tribune.

Fatal Absinthe.

The Paris correspondent of the St. Louis Qlobe writes: “ Absinthe has greatly increased in popularity during the last five or six years. Its drinking was formerly confined to the well-to-do classes. It was a sort of artistic and literary dissipation; painters, sculptors and authors sipping it daintily and commenting on its delightful effects. It is still drank by all the boulevard loungers and promenaders, and drank more than ever, but it has grown to be a democratic potation also. Laborers and mechanics quaff it at the wine shops on the street corners, and women in every grade of society are reported to yield to its seductions. It is largely manufactured in this country and liberally exported to the French colonies, Great Britain and America. Very insidious is absinthe. It acts very differently from liquor, and is regarded by the medical faculty as much more dangerous and harmful. It steadily destroys the finer feelings, wastes the faculties, corrodes the stomach, obliterates the memory, extinguishes the senses. It acts directly on the nervous system and its stimulating influence on the brain is one of the reasons why it is so alluring. A distinguished physician says that it gradually poisons the whole system, soon or late producing despair, insanity and disease. The symptoms that precede dissolution are indecision of the muscles, indicated by spasmodic contractions and trembling of the limbs, pricking and tingling of the skin, heaviness and numbness of the arms and legs, weakness of the knees, general languor, spiritual depression, inability to stand or sit with ease, steady wasting away, physical agonies and mental torture, relieved only by death. Absinthe, signifying wormwood, is distilled not from wormwood alone, but from anise seed, flag root, angelic root, sweet-majoram and other plants. All these being macerated and put in high-proof alcohol for eight or ten days the mixture is distilled, and a small amount of the Ail of anise added to the distillation. Not unfrequently various coloring mixtures, such as indigo, tincture of circuma and sulphate of copper are used, and augment its poisonous

qualities. What the charm of absinthe is I cannot divine. It certainly does not taste well; and, though I have often taken it for experiment, I have never been able to discover that it had any effect on me. Of course it would have in due time, but I don’t intend to give it an opportunity to tyrannise over my nerves and brain. Although these may be of small value, they are quite useful to your correspondent in so many ways that he intends to keep them unimpaired so long as it is possible. The subtle green liquor is recommended as an appetizer. Not a few persons, from taking it for this purpose, have grown to be its victims—have sunk into imbecility and gene to the cemetery by a circuitous road of suffering. I have tried absinthe a number of times before dinner, and if I had any appetite it destroyed what I had. Ido not think lam in any danger from the emerald demon, as it has been styled.. It seems more like noxious medicine than anything else, and it is not a medicine for a mind diseased, since it creates what it assumes to cure. Absinthe has done incalculable harm to artists and litterateurs. Some of the most gifted of the order have been killed directly or indirectly by the cunning poison, and a great many more will be. The French seem unable to resist absinthe after it has once obtained a hold upon them. Its fatal effects have been so clearly demonstrated that the Government has forbidden its use in the army and navy, even to the officers, and has, I think, interdicted its exportation to some of the colonies.”

Dead-Heading Across the Continent in a Hearse.

A few days ago a hearse arrived from Rochester, N. Y., consigned to Easterday & Morgan, of this city. The hearse was transported from the shop in Rochester without change of cars from the flat on which it was originally placed. Before shipment the manufacturers placed a large box over it to protect it from the weather. The box rested on the axles, inside the wheels, being long enough to extend from the rear over the dash-board in front. Owing to the construction of the driver’s seat on the hearse, the corners of the box extend far enough to allow room for the body of a man to pass between the box at that point and the hearse. The front and rear of the vehicle is so constructed as to swing open, and thereby hangs the tale. This was noticed by some one whq| silently contemplated how easy it woula be to save a few scads and see the country where strawberries grow as large as hen eggs all the year round, and then pounced off to lay in a stock of provisions. These he procured and poked them through the cavity between the hearse and the box, after which he followed. Once within the wooden sepulcher, it is thought he wafted a song of praise, for there reposed a large box partially filled with silver-plated casket trimmings, etc., which had been packed in straw and shavings, as also the seat cushions. After arranging his corn-beef, bread, rardines, hermetically-sealed cabbage and a quantity of tobacco, he arranged the ornaments in the box so as to leave a nice place in the center for him to repose in. And then, after taking a drink and a chew of tobacco, he reclined amid the straw and fine shavings and quietly snickered. The appearance of this suffering soul as he laid back and ejected the nicotine from between the ruby lips against the plate-glass sides of that hearse must have been eminently satisfactory. As was seen by the remnants left in his lodgings his appetite remained substantial throughout the journey, but his amiable weakness seems to have been in lining the glass walls of his sanctum with tobacco juice. A highlycolofed, short-stemmed clay pipe found in the corner gave proof that it was not allowed to rust with inactivity and told how vacation between meals was sometimes passed.— Oakland (Cal.) Tribune.

The Hopefulness of the Consumptive.

In diseases of the lungs the condition of depression is rarely present, and when so present is possibly due to some abdominal complication; though, of course, some of the existing depression may be fairly attributed to the anxiety naturally arising from an intelligent comprehension of the danger impending. In tuberculosis of the lung there is commonly such an emotional attitude in the patient as has earned for itself (he designation of spe» phthieica. Here the hopefulness is as irrational as is the depression of eoine other affections. The consumptive parent just dropping into the grave will indulge in plans stretching far into the future, ignoring his real condition and the impossibility of any such survival as he is calculating upon. It is a curious yet familiar state. Hope seems to rise above the intelligence just as in certain abdominal diseases there is a depression which defies its corrections. The intellect is not equal to finding the true bearings or of correcting the exalted emotional centers. In curious relation to these conditions stand well-known differences of the pulse. In chest-diseases the pulse is usually full, sometimes bounding; in abdominal disease it is small and often thready. The pulse of pneumonia .and the pulse of peritonitis are distinctly dissimilar and contrast with each other. It is well, known that there is much more tendency to collapse in abdominal than in thoracic disease; taking the conditions of the pulse together with the emotional attitudes of these affections, the synthesis is unavoidable that some effect is produced by the tubercular disease in the lungs upon the emotional centers as opposite to the effect of abdominal disease as are the varied effects upon the pulse; and further that the result is probably produced through the circulation. The explanation which is shadowed out, for it really does not amount to more, is that abdominal disease causes a depletion of the emotional centers—of which depression is the outward indication—while phthisis leads to a plethoric state associated with exalted emotional conditions. In either case the intellectual and volitional centers appear unequal to the task of maintaining the balance which normally exists. As a matter of fact, there are certain mental attitudes found in some diseases which are so regularly present, so well marked and pronounced, that they may fairly be included as a part of the rational symptoms. Bo commonly is mental depression found along with biliary disturbances that the name melancholia was given to these conditions of mental gloom; and modern observation is but establishing the propriety of the term.— Dr. J. M. Fothergill, in Popular Science Monthly for March.

—Prof. Fowler, the phrenologist, examined the head of the Detroit Free Press humorist, and, not knowing who his subject was, said: “Young man, I cannot commend to you any intellectual pursuit in life. You may guide a plow with some degree of intelligence; may even hoe potatoes without danger; but attempt nothing more exhausting to the cerebral tissues. You have not the brain, sir, for an intellectual life behind the counter.” And Fowler has learned more about his own faults from the Detroit Free Press than he ever knew.—Cincinnati Commefdal. SiESKTGU. Randolph, of New Jersey, has invented a stitching-machine and one of the best plows in use.

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—A Pretty Ornament.—An exceedingly beautiful effect is produced by simply placing a handful of the heads of wheat in a vase of water. Each grain will send out bright leaflets and continue to replace the old ones for many weeks together. —A good walnut stain for wood is composed of water, one quart;washing soda, one and one-half ounces; Vandyke brown, two and one-half ounces; bichromate of potash, one-fourth ounce. Boil for ten minutes and apply with a brush, either hot or cold. —Rye Biscuit—Make a dough with one pint of milk, flour and yeast, and one tablespoonful of melted butter, and three tablespoonfuls of sugar. Stir as stiff as a spoon can make it with the flour. Rise it over night and drop it into “ gem pans” or biscuit tins the next morning. Bake for half an hour in a hot oven. —Care of Canaries. —Occasionally place in the water a small piece of extract of licorice, and put between the wires at one end of the center perch a piece of white sugar. The seed-boxes should contain sufficient seed for the day. A mixture of canary, rape and hemp seed is usually given, but hemp seed is too fattening. We have always found canary and rape the best food, with occasionally a little German millet added. —Dressed Mutton.—To have it as it should be the dish must be lined with mashed potatoes, the mutton nicely minced and properly seasoned, placed in the dish, a little stock added, and then covered over with mashed potatoes roughed with a fork and placed before the fire till the little dish assumes the appearance of a nicely-browned hedgehog. The hotter served the better it will be relished, provided it has only been allowed to simmer and not to boil. —Another Cure for Chilblains. —I send you my recipe, hoping and trusting it ( will cure the afflicted, lor we have used it for years, and it always gives relief. Here is the recipe: Take two goodsized cabbage stumps, pare off the hard outer rind, then take the pith or inside and slice very thin, put into a spider with one teacup of good sweet lard, and cook slowly till there is nothing left but a soft mess of the cabbage, strain off the lard, and after soaking the feet and wiping them dry grease them thoroughly with this lard, and heat in by the fire — grease them every night, and heat them as hot as can be borne, and, my word for it, his chilblains will soon disappear.— Cor. Cincinnati Times.

—A correspondent of the Country Gentleman, in writing how to cook salsify, has the following: Leave it ground all winter. As it is better after freezing, our men often cut it out of the frozen ground with an old ax, and we think it is better than at any other time, as freezing makes it tender. To cook it, cut off the toj s and wash clean; put in a stew pan, with water enough to cover it; let it boil till tender; then take it out, scrape off thq skin, and cut the roots in slices one-fourth of an inch thick; put in a pan with fresh water, let it come to a boil, add a pint of fresh milk, a little butter, pepper and salt, and you will have the kind of soup we enjoy very often on cold winter evenings, and, with good crackers, a dish fit for a King. You can make patties of it by cooking tender, mashing it and frying in butter.

Value of New Agricultural Products.

The old saying that a new broom sweeps clean applies with peculiar force to the subject of agricultural products. The question whether a new grain, fruit, or breed of animals is superior to an old one of the same class is seldom taken into account or discussed; and it is well that it is not; for apathy would then take the place of that enthusiasm which a novelty calls forth, and which is the foundation of great success in almost any calling. We do not wish to be understood as asserting that our farmers have no fixed purpose of their own, or that they are weathercocks, snuffing every breeze for something new; but we have not failed to notice the many new brooms which sweep clean for 'a few years, and then go to_the shop for repairs or a new name. Of course there is no denying the fact of progress in agriculture, and that new plants have been and are constantly introduced, some of which are improvements upon the old; but the advance is less rapid than many persons would feel inclined to believe without a careful investigation of the subject. But we would not cast a straw in the way of the introduction or dissemination of any pretended or actually new farm product, if only on account of the beneficial results which usually follow a belief in the superiority of a new thing over an old one. Improved systems of culture of certain kinds of plants have, in a majority of instances, originated with those who were experimenting with novelties. Who would have ever supposed that a hundred or more pounds of potatoes could be raised from one, had not new and high-priced sorts been introduced as an incentive for experimenting in this direction ?- Enormous crops of the Early Rose potato were produced at the start, and, while every tuber was in demand for seed, to-day the average yield of this variety will not exceed that of the old Neshannock or Pink-Eye, so popular forty years ago. Still, our potato-growers have been greatly benefited by the introduction of the new sorts, because they are really valuable acquisitions, and, in addition, cultivators have learned much in regard to the best method of propagation, both from seed and tubers. The same or similar results follow the introduction of new kinds of grain, for a man who pays ten dollars per bushel for a new variety of wheat is very likely to give it corresponding care, and it would be very strange indeed if no improvement over old sorts did not result therefrom. This painstaking with new kinds tends to more and better care of the old and this is one of the good results which follow their introduction and dissemination. One of our correspondents gave us this week the results or his first year’s experience with a flock of five hundred sheep, and the balance sheet shows almost a doubling of capital within the time. Some may attribute these favorable results more to good luck than man agement; but the new broom with our correspondent has been well cared for, and good work done with it We have not the least reason to suspect that the same thing may not be done again, and repeated any number of times, if there is no relaxing of vigilance or withdrawal of proper care. Infrct, success in any branch of farming depends more upon persistent effort combined with good judgment, or sound common sense, than upon climate, soil, or other circumstances. No matter where some men are located, they are bound to succeed, and everything they touch, whether new or old, yields a profit. Such fanners do not require the stimulus of novelty, while, there are others who do, and require to have it often repeated, or their love of fanning wanes with each succeeding season.— ls. Y. Sun. —Kerosene and powdered lime, whit ing or wood ashes will scour tins with the least labor.

The test of time and experience is the only sure guide in selecting an instrument. It is of little consequence that a man makes one or two fine pianos or organs for a fair and intrigues successfully for a prize. It is the quality of everyday manufacture that concerns the buyer —not what exceptional and costly instruments have been specially made for exhibition. The Smith American Organs are of high and uniform excellence, and are the best for actual use, having been tried and proved for twentyfive years. Etagere Cabinet Organs.—The etagere, as the French call that elegant article of furniture furnished with a number of small shelves, designed for various small ornamental articles, has become a necessity in every fashionable drawingroom. The Mason & Hamlin Organ Co. are now manufacturing a combination of the etagere and cabinet organ, very rich and beautiful, which they furnish for the price of an organ without the dagere. —The Swiss have a clever way of making cheap boxes without the use of nails, the mitred sides being fastened together by wedge-shaped pieces of wood. An English inventor has recently patented another process which may be used for heavy as well as light boxes. The two pieces of wood to be fastened together are first mitred in the ordinary way, and a hole is then drilled in each piece* vertically from the bottom upward, at a short distance from the mitred edge. A channel or groove is then cut by a saw or otherwise from the mitred edge to the drilled hole. This channel is of less width than the diameter of the hole, and may be cut either parallel to the sides of the piece of wood or at right angles to the mitred edge, so that when the two edges are put together there shall be a continuous channel from one side to the pother, shaped somewhat like a dumbbell, and running from the top to the bottom of the box. A key is formed by running a fusible metal, such as lead, into this channel. The key may be made separately of solid metal and driven into the channel; but, m either way, a joint is formed which can be broken only by tearing away the mitred edges of the wood.

Blood Disease.

The blood being the source from which our systems are built up and from which we derive our mental as well as our physical capabilities, how important that it should be kept pure? If it contains vile, festering poisons all organic functions are weakened thereby. Settling upon important organs, as the lungs, liver or kidneys, the effect is most disastrous. Hence it behooves every one to keep their blood in a perfectly healthy condition, and more especially does this apply at this particular season of the year than at any other. No matter what the exciting cause may be, the real cause of a large proportion of all diseases is bad blood. Now Dr. Pierce does not wish to place bis Golden Medical Discovery in the catalogue of quack patent nostrums by recommending it to cure every disease, nor does he so recommend it; on the contrary there are hundreds of diseases that he acknowledges it will not cure; but what he does claim is this: That there is but one form of blood disease that it will not cure, and that disease is cancer. He does not recommend his Discovery for that disease, yet he knows it to be the most searching blood-cleanser yet discovered, and that it will free the blood and system of all other known blood poisons, be they animal, vegetable or mineral. The Golden Discovery is warranted by him to cure the worst forms of Skin Disease, as all forms of Blotches, Pimples and Eruptions, also all Granular Swellings and the worst form of Scrofulous and Ulcerated Sores of Neck, Legs or other parts, and all Scrofulous Diseases of the Bones, as White Swellings, Fever Sores, Hip Joint and Spinal Diseases, all of which belong to Scrofulous diseases. CONFIRMED—HIP JOINT DISEASE. W. Gbove Station, lowa, July 14,1872. Dr. Pibbcb, Buffalo, N. Y.: Dear Sir— My wife first became lame nine years ago. Swellings would appear and disappear on her hip, and she was gradually becoming reduced and her whole system rotten with disease. In 1874 a swelling broke on her hip, discharging large quantities, and since that time there are several openings. Have had five doctors, at an expense of $125, who say nothing will de any good but a surgical operation. July 16,1873, he writes thus: My wife has certainly received a great benefit from the use of your Discovery, for she was not able to get off the b£d, and was not expected to live a week when she commenced using it a year ago. She has been doing most of her work for over six months. Has used twenty bottles and still using it. Her recovery is considered as almost a miracle, and we attribute it to the use of your valuable medicine. I can cheerfully recommend it as a blood purifier and strength restorer. J. M. ROBINSON. Discovery is sold by druggists.

Vinegar Bitters.—Dr. J. Walker, a regular practicing physician of California, has conferred a priceless boon upon mankind by the introduction of a “Bitters” compounded from herbs exclusively, which may be truly said to be superseding all others, and is becoming a bitter dose indeed for the charlatans and quacks, on account of its immense sale and universal popularity. Not only are these Vinegar Bitters, as he calls them, an invaluable tonic and alterative, but they are acknowledged as a standard Medicine, and the astonishing rapidity with which they cure diseases hitherto declared incurable seems almost incredible. After having been carefully tested they are kept on hand in thousands of households and used for any and every form of disease, many relying upon them in preference to the most celebrated physicians. They have become a recognized “ Family Remedy," and properly so. 25 Wilhoit’s Feveb and Ague Tonic.—This medicine is used by construction companies for the benefit of their employes, when engaged in malarial districts. The highest testimonials have been given by contractors and by the Presidents of some of the leading railroads in the South and West When men are congregated in large numbers in the neighborhood of swamps and rivers, Wilhoft’s Tonic will prove a valuable addition to the stock of medicines, and will amply reward the company in the saving of time, labor and money. We recommend it to all. Wheelock, Finlay & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. For Sale by all Druggists. Deaths by Consumption.—lt is estimated that 100,000dievearlyin the United States with Consumption. When Consumption first appears there is pain in the chest and oppression, attended with- difficulty in breathing. Soon there will be a cough, if this irritation Is not healed, and the effort to raise will still idd fuel to the fire. Allen’s Lung Balsam will at onfce allay the pain and irritated parts, stop the cough, and prevent what would be Consumption. It is making cures of diseased Lungs which were considered incurable. For sale by all Medicine Dealers.

Important Invention.—“ln less than ten years there will not be a metal truss in use,” was the one of our most eminent physicians on examining the Elastic Truss of the Elastic Truss Co., 683 Broadway, N. T. The extensive adoption of these unequaled instruments, which certainly cure rupture without torture, will make them the only trusses used in much less than ten years. We advise all sufferers to send to the above company for descriptive circulars, as these trusses are sent to all parts of the country by mail. It is a rare thing that physicians give any countenance to a medicine the manufacture of which is a secret. About the only exception we know ©f is Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. This, wfe believe, all indorse, and many of them use it in their practice with great success. A fortune easily made. No capital required. For particulars address Lohman & Co., Laramie City, Wyoming. " Burnett’s Floral Hand-Book.

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The properties of Dr. Walker’s Vinegar bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic, Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic, Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Sudorific, Alterar five, and Anti-Bilious. Gratefill 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 means, and vital organs wasted beyond repair. Bilious. Remittent and Inter" mittent 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. 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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, Typesetters, 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-Rheuni, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles, Ring-worms, Scald-head, Sore Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch, Scurfs, Discolorations of the Skin, Humors and Diseases of the Skin of whatever name or nature, are lite'rally dug up and carried out of tiie 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. 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Send for my quarterly magazine, (U costs you nothing, ) containing certificates of hundreds that have been permanently cured. I claim to have discovered and produced the yibst, onion' al atd only sub* cum fob opium bating. - DR. S. B. COLLINS, La Porte, Ind. 1 A. N K. 4OT-J. X.j rpnis PAPER Is Printed with INK manufactured Dy