Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1875 — Page 4

The Man Who Felt Sad.

He entered a hardware store on Woodward avenue about ten o’clock Saturday morning, and, taking a aeaf by the atoye, he beckoned to the proprietor and said: “ Sit down here—l want to speak with you.*’ - ■ He was a man who looked sad from the crown of his hat to the toes of his boots. There were deep care-lines on his face, his eyes were red and anxious-looking, and his tottered overcoat was drawn in at the waist by a wide leather belt. “Can we do anything for you to-day?” asked the merchant as he sat down. The sad man slowly wiped his no*{ slowly turned around..and slowly replied: “ Sir, it makes me feel sad when I reflect that we have all got to die!” “ Yes—um,” replied the merchant. “ Christopher Columbus is dead!” continued the sad man, “ and who feels bad about it—who sheds a tear over his loss? He is gone and we shall never see him more! You and I must sooner or later follow him and the world will go just the same.” “Then you don’t want anything today?” queried the merchant after a painil pause. “ And King James is dead!” exclaimed the sad man, wiping his nose again. “Is anybody weeping over his loss? Don’t folks las and lai, and don’t the world go on just the same? Sir, it may not be a week before you and T will be called upon to rest from the labors of this life. Doesn’t it make you feel sad when you think of it?” “Of course, we’ve got to die,” replied the merchant as he tossed a stray nail over the eightpennys. “ Andrew Jackson is dead!” continued the sad man, a tear falling on his hand. “ Yes, Andrew has been gathered, and a good man has gone from among us. Were you acquainted with him?” “I believe not,” was the answer. “ Well, he was a fine man, and many a night I have laid awake and cried to think he would be seen among us no more forever. Yet, do you hear any wailing and sobbing? Does anybody seem to care a cent whether Andrew Jackson is dead or living? You or I may be the next to go, and the world will move on just the same as if we had never lived.” “ The world can’t, of course, stop for the death of one man, no matter how great,” said the merchant. “That’s what makes me sad—that’s why I weep these tears!” answered the man, wringing his long, peaked nose with vigorous grief. “ William Penn is also dead. Once is a great while I hear some one express sorrow, but as a general thing the world has forgotten William with the rest. Don’t it make you feel sad when you reflect that you will never see him again? Don’t you feel like crying when you think he has gone from among us?” “ I never have time to think of these things,” answered the merchant, fondling the coal-stove shaker. “And Shakespeare’s gone, too!” exclaimed the man, his chin quivering with agitation. “We may sigh, and sigh, and sigh, and wish, and wish, and wish, but poor Shaky will never be seen moving with us again! They have laid him away to sleep his long sleep, and a bright lamp has been extinguished forever.” “Well, did you want anything in the line of hardware?” asked the merchant, as he rose up. “ Can you speak of hardware to me at such a time as this?” exclaimed the sad man. “ Knowing my sad feelings, seeing these tears, and listening to my broken voice T can you have the heart to try and force hardware upon me?” The merchant went over to his desk and the sad man wrung his nose again and went out— Detroit Free Preea.

How Avalanches Are Formed in the Rocky Mountains.

A Nevada paper, speaking of the avalanches of snow which have been so destructive of life and property this winter, says: “ The purely sliding avalanches, or snow-slides, are such as occur in dry or mere moist snow, while the rolling avalanches take place when the snow is wet or sufficiently moist to form in balls by rolling. The avalanches that occurred in Virginia City were of the genuine rolling description, the kind most dreaded and the most destructive in the valleys of the Alps. A very small beginning when the snow is in the proper condition may end in a destructive avalanche. A ball of snow no larger than a man’s head started high up on the side of Mount Davidson might have swept away several houses at the foot of the mountain. The fearful force of the avalanche was shown here when one broke into a house and killed two men, and another demolished two houses and buried five persons, who were rescued with much difficulty. A further illustration of the terrible force and destructive powers of the avalanche is to be found in the fact that twentyeight Chinamen were killed by one that fell near Genoa. As we have said, a small ball of snow started high up on the slope of Mount Davidson would result in a genuine avalanche. In rolling a distance of fifty yards m the moist snow the small ball of snow would become four or five feet in diameter, when it would burst, and each piece of it would an instant after form a ball of large size; these in turn would explode as soon as they acquired a certain weight and velooity, and a moment after there would be hundreds and thousands of these balls in motion, all bounding down the steep side of the mountain. “ While hundreds of these are exploding or just forming, other hundreds are of full size, and are picking up rocks, dirt and all manner of rubbish, which become involved in the grand downward rush. Toward the lower part of their course the balls become so numerous that they bound and clash together so often that they are broken before they acquire any great size, and the whole avalanche is then a plunging, sliding mass of snow. The avalanche which knocked the houses to pieces and buried five persons started but a few hundred yards above where the houses stood. It started at a bunch of rocks which projected fifteen or twenty feet above the general surface of the slope of the mountain. On these rocks the snow had fallen and accumulated to the depth of about three feet, hanging in places as snow is seen to do on the eaves of a house. From one of these rocks fell a bunch of snow, which began to roll down the hill, and the result was a destructive avalanche. Doubtless the avalanche which killed two men started in much the same way.”

April on the Farm.

It is time now that wise and judicioxs plans were perfected lor the summer’s work. Don’t try to do too much. It is better to do things well than to do a great deal poorly. The prevailing fault with us is toying to do too much. Why is it that we see such varied success, so many failures in farming? Why do some farmers get on so much better than others? Farms equally well located, and having a soil, so far as we can see, equally good, will often present quite strange contrasts to the eye of even a casual -observer. How do you account for this? With land very nearly equal in point of quality, with nearly the same amount of labor, perhaps, how is it that results so widely differ? Is it not the difference in the quality of the labor? The one seems to be merely physical force, the other is guided by mind and thought, Calculation and energy. It might be

comprehended perhaps under the general head of “ The Methods of Farming.” There is many a hard-working farmer who is up early and down late, who seems to be trying to do his best, and yet he doesn’t seem to get ahead in the world. The neighbors would suppose he ought to be forehanded. They say there is s want of calculation somewhere, and so they let him plod on. But it is clear that he is rowing np stream, straining every nerve to do bis best, with the current against him. The trouble 19 not in a want of willingness to work, but he does at a loss what nature, a little more skillfully managed, would spontaneously do for him. Work as hard as he may, he does not do all that is necessary for the complete success of his labors. He loses half the result by omitting a third of the toil and he risks the loss of the entire crop by a little negligence in the preparation or perhaps in protection. He has adopted a wrong method. He is more ambitious of a large than a good farm, and he takes burdens upon his shoulders that he cannot safely or securely carry. The consequence is he has no time for that early, minnte aqd careful supervision of details that economy demands. He suffers all the accidents of things left to themselves. Fences, perhaps, are broken down, and crops or cattle injured. Orchards are planted and left to the borer, or, what is worse, to be browsed or broken by cattle. Tools and wagons and sleighs and sleds swell in the rain, shrink in the sun, till, like the Deacon’s old “ one-hoss shay,” they suddenly break down, to the stoppage of work and the damage of temper or property. Farming after this method is a kind of uphill business. And yet is it not too common? The earth is starved because of the wastes from the manure heap, till it is hardly able to hold up a ton of hay to the acre. Is that economy? We could point to many a fanner who lets things slide generally. If the trees are all loaded down with apples, no matter. In go the cows and browse and strip the lower limbs, eating bushel after bushel of Baldwins and Hnbbardstons or Winter Sweets and Porters, and perhaps he would say, if his attention were called to it, “Oh, never mind, don’t worry about that; they won’t hurt ’em any.” But this is only an illustration of his general management. The weeds grow up in dense masses in his corn and his potato patch, overtopping the crop, but if his attention is called to it the reply maybe, “Yes, the land is full of weed seed; it is no use to try to get it out” And so every weed sucks away at the vital elements of the corn and potato in the soil, reducing the yield from a splendid crop to one of only ordinary extent. Every weed stands in place of a potato or a stalk of corn, ripening its seed for another crop next year, and so it goes. There is a waste, a leak in the potatofield, a leak in the cornfield, a leak in the orchard. But there is the biggest kind of a leak in the barnyard! No cellar bursts with swelling fatness. The teaming pile of manure seldom feels the piercing tines of the fork to lighten it up to the air and to start the warm fermentation. No muck or loam or leaves reach it regularly to be mixed up so as to divide the richness of the heap and absorb and retain its evanescent virtues. Perhaps the rain pours down from the lofty eaves and washes awav the best soluble salts of the yard. Perhaps, now and then, at rare intervals, a spasmodic effort is made to get in a few loads of loam, bat no systematic and persistent plan of action is adopted and so there is a waste in the barn and a waste under the barn. If yon talk with such a farmer you may be sure he’ll maintain that there’s no profit in farming. He does not see the leaks that might be stopped, or, if he does, they seem so small as to be quite unworthy of notice, while in the aggregate they are eating up his substance, and are the source of all his embarrassments. And ten chances to one he will tell you he wants capital. Can’t farm it without capital. Can’t adopt the improved methods of fanning without capital. We are sometimes tempted to ask: Haven’t you hands and feet, bone and sinew, and brains ? And what are these but capital? What more did God give any man in the way of capital? They are more than money, for they can’t be taken away. If you don’t know how to use them, isn’t it time to begin to learn? Grapple the handles of the plow, the hoe or the ax. Your capital will soon begin to well up interest. Go to work with the capital you have. Stop the leaks about the place. Look after and cut oft the sources of waste on the farm. Save something out of what you earn, be it more or less. If you can’t make money on the capital you have, you couldn’t probably make it if you had a million to work with. A man who doesn’t know how to use bone and muscle, sinew and brains, wouldn’t know how to use gold. If you let such productive power lie idle, it would be the same with capital. The true way is to cultivate a little well rather than much indifferently well. The seeds of many plants, flowers and garden vegetables ought to be sown this month. Parsnips, carrots, peas and some others can hardly be planted too early after the land is dry enough to work. Beets will do as well a trifle later, and for a field crop of mangolds we think about the 10th of May is early enough. Where land was laid down to grass last fall it is a good plan now to sow on clover seed, and if the surface is dry and hard enough a roller will do it good. It presses the seed into the sou and the roots of the grasses that have been thrown a little by the frost. We must take “ time by the forelock,” and keep up even with the spring’s work so far as the weather will allow. Better drive a little ahead than be driven by the work itself.— Massachusetts Ploughman.

A Persevering Author.

Some forty yerrs ago, it is said, a lady called upon Mr. Longman, head of the publishing firm in Paternoster row, and pleaded: “ Give me the subject of a book for which the world has a need, and I will write it for you.” Mr. Longman asked—“ Are you an author?” “lam a poet,” was the reply, “ but the world does not want poems.” The publisher remarked, a little dubiously : “ Well, we want a good cookery book.” “Then,” said the lady, “you advise me to write a cookery book?” Cautiously the publisher rejoined: “I should advise you to do so if 1 were confident of your ability to write a good one.” Well, years went by, and daring those years cooks and epicures and housewives in all parts of England were besieged for recipes to be forwarded to the address of a certain lady. The lady’s own flattering letters or persuasive speech elicited from the cooks Diemselves the information required or enlisted the cooks’ masters and mistresses on her side; and “ the result of her exertions, carried on for many years with equal resoluteness and good temper, was the ‘ Modern Cookery in All Its Branches,’ published in 1845. Its author was Miss Acton, who derived from her one great work an adequate provision for the re mainder of her life.”— Chambers' Journal. An Oakland (Cal.) young lady entered a drug-store lately and .wanted to see the papers for a week back, and the intelligent clef* gljptyea ber a rpll of sticking, plaster.

PARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—Before buying punt test Its quality by spreading a little upon the thumb nail; if it is full of specks it is evidence of it not being sufficiently ground, andif it has a dead and watery look know that it is made of cheap material. Good paint when spread thin upon a mmm surface will have a fine, lively appearance and be vary adhesive. —How to prepare gummed paper cheaply and well: Take any quantity of clear, pure dextrine and mix it with boiling water until it assumes the consistency of ordinary mucilage. Apply thinly with a full-bodied, evenly-made and wide camel’s hair brush. The paper should not be too thin or unsized. This preparation will dry quickly and adhere when slightly wet. —Dairy farming and cheese-making is commanding the attention of our fanners more and more every year, and will as the country becomes settled. All cannot raise corn, wheat, cotton or tobacco; we must have a diversity of products as of wants, and the demand will regulate the supply sooner or later. There’s money in it. —The Teeth.—Decay of the teeth is really caused bv their being dissolved by acids generated in the mouth by the decomposition of small particles of food. It is clear, therefore, that the only method of preventing this is to apply the brush immediately after every meal. Soap is the best substance to use on the brush, though it is advisable occasionally to use a rather rough powder to keep the teeth in brilliant polish.— N. 7. Notes. —Remedy for Cabbage Worms.—A correspondent states that buckwheat flour, sifted through a sieve in the evening or in the morning, when the dew is on, will effectually eradicate cabbage worms. Two applications (and often one) will do the work. He has succeeded in raising splendid cabbage, while his neighbors who did not use the remedy have invariably failed. It is far preferable to hellebore or any other article for the purpose, and has the advantage of being harmless.— Exchange.

—Adulterated Cayenne Pepper.—The London Lancet gives the following result of an analysis of twenty-eight samples of cayenne, pepper: Out of the above number only four Wfere genuine. Out of twenty-four adulterated samples twentytwo contained.mineral coloring matter. Red-lead, often in large and poisonous quantities, was present in thirteen samples. Venetian red, red ochre, brickdust, or some other analogous ferruginous earths were contained in seven samples. Cinnabar, vermilion, or sulphuret of mercury was detected in one sample. Bix samples consisted of ground nee, turmeric and cayenne, colored with redlead or a red ferruginous earth. Six contained salt, frequently combined with rice and red ferruginous earth of redlead. One of the samples was adulterated with a quantity or the husk of white mustard-seed. Two contained rice only, colored with red-lead or a ferruginous earth. Theodore Thomas, of Thomas’ orchestra, than whom there is no higher musical authority in the world, says there are no other cabinet or parlor organs equal to those made by the Mason & Hamlin Organ Co., and that musicians agree with him in this opinion. A Hint to the Working Man.—A man with a family, however poor he may be, owes it to his wife to save her health and strength in every way possible. He has no right to allow the mother of bis children to wear her life out toiling with her needle to clothe her family. His duty is to buy the Wilson shuttle sewing machine, the best machine for family sewing and manufacturing purposes ever invented, and he can buy the Wilson machine upon terms which enable him to pay for it in small monthly installments, that he can spare out of his wages withoutfeeling the drain. He will get, thereby, a machine capable of doing every variety of family work In the most beautiful manner; a machine that even a child can operate, and which will prove a permanent family blessing. Machines will be delivered at any railroad station in this county, free of transportation charges, if ordered through the company’s branch house at 197 State street, Chicago. They send an elegant catalogue and chromo circular free on application. This company want a few more agents.

A $4.00 Book for $1.50.

The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser, in plain English, or Medicine Simplified; by R. V. Pierce, M. D., Counselor-in-Chief of the Board of Physicians and Surrns of the World’s Dispensary, Buffalo, N. The above Work—a book of about nine hundred large pages, profusely illustrated with Wood Engravings and Colored plates, and well and strongly bound—will be sent postpaid, to any address for One Dollar ana Fifty Cents—making it tub cheapest book EVER OFFERED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. Other books treating of domestic medicines of like size and style of binding, and not nearly as well illustrated, with no colored, plates, and some of them containing no prescriptions and making known no means of self-cure for the diseases which they discuss, sell for from three dollars and a half to five dollars. Were Dr. Pierce’s work not published by the author, printed and bound with his own machinery, and were it sold through agents, as other like works are, the price of it would have to be not less than four dollars. For when the publisher pays the author a fair price for his production, then adds a profit to bis investment large enough to satisfy himself and compensate him, not only for his labor, but also for the risk of pecuniary loss which he assumes in taking the chances of the enterprise proving a success, and when the State, county and canvassing agent has each received his profit, they have added to the expense of a nook that originally cost about $1.25 so much that the people have to pay not less than $4.00 for it. The People’s Medical Adviser, on the contrary, is placed within the pecuniary reach of all classes by the author, who adopts the plan of the Grangers, dispensing with middle-men and giving the benefit of their profits to the people, offering his book at a price little above actual cost of publication. That those desiring the book may run no risk of losing their money in sending it through the mails, the author advertises that money addressed to him at Buffalo, N. Y., and inclosed in registered letters, may be at his risk of loss. The author’s large correspondence with the people upon medical matters (which, we are credibly informed, frequently exceeds 800 letters a day and requires several trained and skillful medical assistants and short-hand reporters to enable him to entertain and answer them), as well as his large daily dealings with diseases at the World’s Dispensary, appear to have peculiarly fitted him for writing the Work, bv rendering him very familiar with the every-d'ay medicalneeds of the people. He endeavors, in this work, to answer all the numerous questions relating to health and disease' that have been addressed to him by toe people from all parts of the land, and hence it contains important information for the young and old, male and female, single and married, nowhere else to be found. All the most prevalent diseases of both sexes are also plainly and fully considered, and means of self-cure made known. Unlike other works on Domestic Medicine, it includes toe subjects of Biology, Cerebral Physiology, Hygiene, Temperaments, Marriage, Reproduction, etc., all "of which are treated in an original and interesting manner. It is a compendium of Anatomical, Physiological and Medieal Science, and embodies the latest discoveries in each department. Electricity is Lute.— All nervous disorders, chronic diseases of the chest, head, liver, stomach, kidneys and blood, aches and pains, nervous and general debility, etc., quickly cured after drugs fail by wearing Volta’s Electro Belts and Bands. Valuable book free, by Volta Belt Do., Cincinnati, Ohio. The public are hereby assured, through the columns of this paper, that Parsons’ Purgative Pills contain no Injurious principle, but that they may be administered to children and the most weak and shattered constitutions, in small doses, with great certainty of success.

P. T. Barnum's Latest Wonders-A Colossal Exhibition.

Harper's Weekly devotes nearly two columns to explaining and extolling the great enterprises with which P. T. Barn urn is making historical his forty years' career as the most liberal and daring showman in the world. The statistics which Harper Brother* give ns from authentic sources are nearly overwhelming. They make an ordinary head dizzy. Mr. Bamnmhas always boasted that he gave his patrons double their money’s worth, and his claims are generally acknowledged; but this time he seems to have far outstripped himself. List year he obtained from toe Connecticut Legislature a charter for “ The P. T. Barnum’s Universal Exposition Company,” with a capital of a million of dollars; Mr. Bsnram, who is President of toe company, and Mr. Coup, his Manager, have spent many months in Europe perfecting their plans. The object of this great company, as they announce, is to elevate amusements, divest them of all objectionable features, and thus render them worthy toe dhtronage of the most moral and refined classes. They say that eventually they will have a score or more of exhibitions (traveling and permanent) in America and Europe, and they iotend that their chartered title shall be a guarantee of toe merits of whatever they bring before toe Public. The present season they have but wo exhibitions. One is Mr. Barnum’s wellknown “Museum, Menagerie, Circus and Traveling World’s Fair;” the other is simply called “The Great Roman Hippodrome.” Mr. Barnum seems to have devoted years to perfecting this great enterprise, and nearly one year of bis personal attention was paid to it in Europe. At an expense of several hundred thousand dollars he erected a great hippodrome building in the heart of New York city, and under an outlay of over $5,000 each day he has run his establishment in .New York for nearly a year. This Exposition Company are engaged to ship the entire Hippodrome to Europe next autumn; meanwhile they have undertaken the difficult task of transporting it entire to the principal cities in America. Harper's Weekly says: “The Great Roman Hippodrome will resemble a moving camp. There are 1,200 men, women and children m Mr. Barnum’B service, and the stock includes 750 horses and ponies, besides elephants, camels, English stag and stag-hounds, trained ostriches, lions, bears, tigers and other animals. For the exhibition of the menagerie and the various shows, displays and performances connected with the enterprises, two enormous tents, each 500 feet in length and 300 in width, have been provided, one of which will be kept in advance in order that no time may be lost by delaying in making ready. The question of transportation by rail—a Very serious one —was solved by the construction of 150 cars twice the usual length, built expressly for this purpose. Among them are a number of ‘horse-palace’ cars, constructed with comSipdious stalls, in which the horses can lie own and rest while on the journey and arrive at the place of exhibition quite fresh for the performance. Besides moving the tents, animals and all other material in these Hippodrome cars, berths will be provided in those devoted to the personnel of the company for nearly all the employes. Besides the great exhibition tents, and stable tents for the horses and other animals. There is also attached to the company a large corps of blacksmiths and carpenters and builders, some of whom precede the show several days, to make ready for the exhibition by preparing the ground, erecting seats, etc. The dressing-room tents alone will cover more ground than an ordinary circus.

“ To move such an enormous establishment without hitch or delay requires the employment of clear-headed, practical men at the head of each department Everything is so arranged as to move with the smoothness and precision of clock-work. At the appointed hour the canvas will go up, the street procession will move, the performance will commence. When all is over, and the great tent emptied, everything will be packed up by those detailed for toe work, and toe caravan, without the loss of a minute, will be on the move toward the next place of exhibition. “ The programme of performance will be varied ana attractive. Donaldson will make daily balloon ascensions with a car large enough to contain a company of five or six persons, at a cost of about SSOO a day for this feature alone. Then there will be toe ‘ Roman races’ in chariots driven by‘Amazons;* the ‘liberty races’ in which forty wild horses are turned loose in the arena, in exact imitation of the famous carnival races of Rome and Naples; ‘ standing races/ in which the riders stand on bare-back horses; hurdle races for ladies; flat races by English, French and American jockeys; besides camel, elephant and ostrich and monkey races. Another feature will be toe exhibition of Indian life on toe plains, in which toe actors will be scores of Indians, with their squaws and pappooses. They will put up a genuine Indian encampment, hunt real buffaloes, give war dances, pony races, foot races against horses, exhibitions of daring horsemanship, lasso, throwing. A band of Mexican riders, mounted on famous mustangs, will make a pretended attack on toe Indian camp and give a mimic but faithful representation of the wild scenes enacted on the Western frontier. The English stag hunt will be an exact picture of the sport itself, with a company of 150 men and women in full hunting costume, and a large pack of English stag-hounds. There will also be many other interesting and attractive features, the mere mention of which would make a small volume. “ Mr. Barnum certainly deserves great credit for an enterprise which is calculated to afford a vast amount of innocent, popular amusement; and although this gigantic venture involves an enormous outlay of money it will present too many attractions not to be generally sustained.’’ Amazing as this exhibition seems from toe description given by Harper's , we can say, from actual observation, that one feature is to be introduced into the traveling Roman Hippodrome more interesting and instructive than any other. It is the great procession known as “ The Congress of Monarchs." The Harper’s omitted mentioning this because, probably, they supposed Mr. Barnum would not dare incur the expense of transporting such an enormous affair through the country. But he will do so, and here is a brief description of this dazzling and bewildering exhibition, as given by a New York contemporary: “Of all the gorgeous pageants the world ever saw toe ‘Congress of Nations’ is the greatest, and how the surpassing genius of even Barnum could produce it is a wonder. The costumes are true to life, and many of them are genuine, having been procured direct from the nationalities which they represent. The individuals employed to personate the historical characters have the most faithful resemblance to toe originals in face and physique. Each nation finds its special portraiture in some kind of triumphal car, brilliantly bedecked with appropriate flags, emblems, colors and intricate devices, and all sorts of characteristics in toe way of peculiar uniforms, animals, soldiery, attendants and music. Scores of glistening gilded chariots illumine the arena with a halo of luster, as it were, and the display of royal splendor is far more imposing and impressive than words can describe, thrilling the auditor with unspeakable amazement ana admiration. “ As toe name of toe grand Congress implies, it is a stupendous gathering of toe Monarchs of toe universe, bringing ia vivid view toe living Rings, Queens, Rulers and Potentates of the oast nine centuries, culminating in an affecting finals so touching that it must awaken toe emotions of a stoic. Her Majesty, toe Queen of England, heads the glittering column, surrounded by her royal court and followed by a long ancestral line, the notability and richly-uniformed “life guardsmen.” Then France, in the person of Napoleon toe First and his famous Field Marshals; Ireland, Rome, Russia, Germany, Italy, Turkey, India, Japan, China, and soon, until all the Monarchs and Courts of the entire world pass in review, winding np like a jewel-besprinkled coil around toe continuous circle. To look upon this beautiful historical procession in all its grandness and greatness is equivalent to sitting in full view of the courts of all the earth, so truthfully realistic are the bewildering pictures revealed in. rapid succession. Such a dazzling half mile of solid gold, jewels, silver, precious stones and tinsel could only be produced after years of preparation and the expenditure of half a dozen competencies. Any attempt at Imitation on toe part of ambitious and unscrupulous showmen for years to come will result in the most inglorious failure. None other than the 'Prince of Showmen’ himself would undertake Ik and nctae other than the great and irrepressible Barnum could achieve so signal a triumph.” This entire exhibition is advertised to exhibit in New England in May, New York, etc., In June, Chicago early in July, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan in July and August * It is due to our readers that we inform them that Mr. Barnum announces that certain imposters in Cincinnati have copied his bills, '-store, cuts apd advertisements, and wjtfi &

few broken-down circus horses and wagons wiO precede his exhibition in toe West, aud by announcing the Great Roman Hippodrome will attempt to make toe public believe that it ia his unrivaled establishment. He cautions toe public against being thus deceived, and reminds them that It would be impossible with say amount of money to organize and equip even a semblance of his establishment without a preparation of several years. The Cincinnati Doily Enquirer of Feb. 37, 1875, says that this pretended “ Hippodrome” is simply the “ wreck of that stupendous fraud known as toe Great Eastern ana Great Southern Circus and Menagerie combination, wbich exploded at Selma, Ala., the 16th of last November, a number of horses haying to be sold to pay the expenses of shipping the show to this city, where the proprietors left a number of their employes unpaid and penniless, and vamosed. Who the real proprietors of toe business were still remains a matter of considerable mystery, but it is generally believed that Andy Haight, one Gibbons and George Weber and others were large stockholders. The defrauded circus men and others connected with the concern finally obtained toe aid of toe law to compel a settlement of their just claims, and the whole matter ended in the show being attached at Hamilton, and in an auction rele of the circus property at Lebanon yesterday afternoon. ** The best of thejoke is that De Haven, Webber, Gibbons and others are about to reorganize a Hippodrome out of toe ' wreck’ to start out with next summer on another tour. “ The whole show was rather a poor concern, only a few lions being in good condition, ana the menagerie including no really rare or valuable animals.” Our readers have only to use ordinary caution to discover which is too real and which is the bogus concern, though we see that Mr. Barnum complains that some shows obtain an employe named Barnum, and then adverse “ Barnum’s latest enterprise," and resort to other devices wherein they use the name “ Barnum” to deceive toe public. He says that all exhibitions with which he is connected will give his initials, “P. T.,” and also publish bis portrait by way of identification. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. “A word to the wise is sufficient.” As Mr. Barnum’s great Hippodrome travels under an expense of nearly SIO,OOO each day it can exhibit only in large cities. These can be reached by cheap excursion trains. Mr. Barnum says he can easily lose half a million of dollars by this summer's experiment, and tbat in any event he shall not bring back his Hippodrome from Europe. It is patronized and approved by the clergy and religious classes, as well as by school-teachers ana all heads of refined families who desire their children to improve their minds under this great system of " object-teaching.” Beyond all question this is the most extensive and extraordinary exhibition on the face of the earth, and probably this generation will “never see its like again.” Herbalistic Remedies.— ln former days, if a member of the household became indisposed, the family-head, under instructions from the gray-haired dame, went to the forest or the field to gather herbs or berries, from which were quickly made invigorating extracts, which ere many days brought the patient safely around, and saw the family gathering once more without a missing member. How is it now? The slightest indisposition brings the “family physician,” with bis handsome carriage. He feels the pulse, examines the tongue, looks very grave, writes a few lines of hieroglyphics, charges a big fee, and leaves, only to return the next day and find his patient mercurialized sufficiently to be really sick. A week or two of attendance follows, and therein lies the secret of “ wealthy physicians.” Compare the physique of the present age with the past and the story is complete. Reader, discard chemicals and try herbs. If you are ill, try the great herbalistic remedy, Dr. J. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters. 80 Davis’ Pain Killer.— This article needs no comments from us, but the real worth of so valuable a compound compels us to give publicity to it. The Pain Killer we keep constantly at hand, and have done so for a number of years, and have administered it for ails of all descriptions, both external and internal, and have ever found it to be the best remedy extant. We well recollect its first introduction for public patronage; it was then sold in a few shops in the city; look at it now —the world are its patrons. Sold everywhere. Dr. A. Johnson, one of the most successful practitioners of his time, invented what is now called Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. The great success of this article in the cure of Bronchitis and all diseases of throat and lungs will make the name of Johnson not less favorably, if less widely, known than that of Louis Napoleon. Glen Flora Springs are located at Waukegan, 111. Cures Dyspepsia, Bright’s Disease and Kidney Complaints. Circulars free. Pbussing’s celebrated White Wine Vinegar has been before the public twenty-seven years. Get the best The best Elastic Truss is Pomeroy’s, 744 Broadway, N. Y. Write for it. The Northwestern Horss-Nai-l Co’s “ Finished” Nail best in the world. Burnett’s Cocoaine is the best and cheapest hair dressing in the world.

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,a, 4jj| 'IRK . ■ A llimiiMTO BI I l |gj|i% pjrarßitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly from the native herbs found on toe tower ranges pi the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, the medicinal properties of which an extracted therefrom vTithout the uae of Alcohol The question is almcfih daily asked, “ What is the cause of the unparalleled 6UC0633 of VINEGAR BllfTEEsf” Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, and the patient recoven his health. They are the great blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Renovator and Invigorator of tiie system. Never before is. the history of th® world has a medicine been compounded possessing the remarkable qualities of Vinigarßittbrs ra healing the tick of every disease man is heir to. They are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tome relieving Congestion or Inflammation ot to® liver ana Visceral Organs, m Bilious Diseases, Th« properties of Dr. Waxkews Yinbgaeßitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic, Carminative, Nutritions, Laxative, Diuretoe, Sedative. Counter-Irritant, Sudorific, Alters* (rML gnd Antj-RilioSS* ». h. McDonald a co.. Druggists and Gen. Agts.. San Francisco, California, and cor. of "Washington and Chariton Sts., N. Y Sold bjr all Druggists and Dealers HINTS ON CARDIAC DISEASE—WO. 1. Thx vzMts are constructed, In general, like the arteries, but their costs are much thinner. Many of the larger veins, particularly In the limbs, have cres-cent-shaped valves, usually arranged In pairs and opposite each other. They we formed by the doublings of the lining with Intervening flbro-elastlc tissue. Behind each valve there Is a dilation of the vein, forming a little pouch.. The veins are arranged in two sets, the superficial and the deepseated ; the former veins directly attend thearteries, and usually Uke the same name. The largest arteries have one venous trunk :the medium-sized have two, called Vena Comltes. The walls of the arteries and veins are furnished with nutritive vessels and nerves. The analyses of Blood by different chemists give different results, due chiefly to the varying conditions of health, age, temperament, etc., of the person from which It Is taken. The following from Lehman gives the composition of bOOO parts as calculated from the analysts off venoms Blood by Lecann: Corpuscles—Water, 844; Halmatin, 8.375; Globulin. 14.111; Fat, 1.136; Extractive Matter, 1.8; Salts,4joß[Flbrln, Albumen. Plasma-Water, 451.43; Fat, .£; Extractive Matter, 1.(7; Salts, 4.375. According to this estimate. Blood contains about 80 per cent, of water and 30 per cent, solid matter. Blood charged with gases—Oxygen, Nitrogen and Carbonic Acid—has a saline taste and alkaline qualities. When Blood Is exposed to the air the Fibrin contained In It coagulates, and carries down with it mechanically the corpuscle, which leaves an amber-colored fluid called Serum, In which the solid part or clot floats. Dr. Newman, of London, regards the use of arsenic and other poisons In every-day medical practice as a common cause of the prevalence of heart disease. These tend to diminish the pulse and reduce the volume of blood in the heart, arteries and veins. Prof. Parker, of New York, regards extreme medication as a prolific cause of heart-dropsy, with its attendant symptoms of general debility, shortness of breath and sense of suffocation. Prof. Chapman, of Philadelphia, declares that any course of medication which reduces the volume off blood tends to cause heart-dropsy. Which Induces general dropsy and paralysis. Dr. wood opposes the extreme use of caustic on the skin In eruptive diseases, because of their tendency to strike to the heart, and thus produce sudden death. Dr. M. Bichart, of Paris, reports nineteen cases of heart disease resulting from the use of this and similar agents for the cure or abscesses, ulcers, cancers, scrofula, and the like, all of which disappeared from the surface, but so affected the heart that Pericarditis, Dropsy and sudden death resulted.

den death resulted. The prevalent forms of Cardiac complaints are enlargement, congestion. Inflammation and dropsy, and of these the most common symptoms are a rush of blood to the heart, cold feet, general weakness, shortness of breath, dizziness, and a sense of suffocation in the region of the heart. Many cases are on record where persona apparently free from disease have, after a full meal, or lit a fit of anger, or in an attack of nightmare, died almost In an Instant. Water around the heart Is a dangerous farm of Cardiac disease, and arises from a variety of causes. In Its earlier stages It yields to proper treatment, but I have never known an instance or cure after the heart has become entirely surrounded with the fluid. The tissues are so constructed that their vitality depends upon their activity, which In turn is dependent on the quantity of oxygen aad nutritive matter supplied—the former being, necessary to the healthy stimulus of the nervo-muscular system and to the chemical combinations, without which there could be no renewal of tissue particles, and the latter to supply the waste caused by the chemical and vital activities. Hence the necessity of a pneumatic apparatus to provide a constant supply of oxygen, ana a hydraulic apparatus to convey the prepared nutriment to every part of the body and remove the worn-out particles. The former Is provided by the lungs ana the latter by the heart and blood-vessels. The two agencies, harmoniously working by means of the double circulation, create the necessity of the double heart. It often happens that disease attacks one side of the heart without involving the other. The right and left sides act alternately and independently. It has no rest, and works on from the day of birth until death, and hence none of the organs in the human economy require more skillful treatment when attacked by disease. Remedies should be chosen with great care and administered with Bkill andludgment by physidansof sagacity and experience. There appears, at the present day, a spirit of recklessness among physicians in the administration of powerful remedies by way of experimental practice, which should be discountenanced. It is unquestionably true that a large percentage of disease and consequent mortality results directly from this cause* From the left ventricle the blood Is forced Into the aorta, to be thence diffused through the arteries to the capillaries in every part of the body. It is thence returned by the veins through the vena oava to the right auricle, which delivers it to the right ventricle, nil completes the systemic circulation. From the right ventricle It is thrown into the pulmonary artery, and through Its branches to the pulmonary capillaries; thence returned by the pulmonary veins, which coalesce and finally enter the left auricle, which pours It Into the left ventricle, thus completing the pulmonic circulation. The two constitute one complete circuit of the double circulation. Both are carried on simultaneously. The auricles contract and dilate, and this contraction and dilation is followed immediately by like action of the ventrlclea. By rite latter pure blood is thrown Into the body and Impure Into the lungi: and almost simultaneously the auricles receive impure blood from the body sndpure from the lungs. To be cpntinuedby N. J- Dodge, M. D.“who may be consulted at the Palmer House, Chicago; timely nonce of visit will be given. ■PTTTBI BEST PRAIRIE LANDS —lX—lowa and Nebraska FOB SALE BY Hu Bulisgtos & Krnri Einr &. 1 Go.. On 10 Tears’ Credit at 6 per cent Interest ONE MILLION IOWA and SOUTHERN TheFlmtCeaatrr fas Um W«rl4 to CaaSMas FAwnme stoCimuusiml Products Will Pot for Loud ud Impreremeats long Before the Principal Becomes Poe. LARGE DISCOUNTS DOR CASH. “The so-called destitution in Nebraska lies In the for western region, beyond the lands of the B. * M. R. R. Co. BTFor circulars that win describe fully these land and the terns of sale, apply to or address Burlington, lowafforiKwa Lands, Or Lincoln, Neb., for Nebraska Lands, ISIIMPII FOR JLJLiJLiI ICO CASH. We mean Borne Booing Machines. LARGE DISCOUNTS FOR CASH. Machines bent on trial to any part oj the country at OUR expense if not accepted. Bend for latest circulars and terms to JOHNSON? CLARK & CO., Oen’llgßaP.U.lL, CHICAGO, ILL. SENT FREE Abookaxposljwtheinjsterlespr Y*r * T.TiSIT and how any one may operate If iULIJUCJ A • successfully with a capital of §SO or SI,OOO. Complete instructions and illustrations to any address. TUMBKXDGE BaJTKXBS AXD BvoKiM, BuccessOTtoa^k^WOyagg^Chlcago. iSsmm Sis