The National Banner, Volume 9, Number 12, Ligonier, Noble County, 16 July 1874 — Page 4

The Farm and Household. | MANAGEMENT OF INFANTS IN HOT'| . " WEATHER. : g Physicians report that the list of | infant patients is on the increase in | {the city, owing to the warm weather (which has broken in upon us with ‘ ‘such severity. The observance of the following suggestions, prepared by the board of health of Philadelphia, would doubtless assist in keeping down infant sickness and mortality : ? Ist. Bathe the child once a day in l tepid water. If it is feeble, sponge it all over twice a day with tepid water, ! or with tepid water and vinegar. The } health of a child depends much upon its cleanliness.. 1

2d. Avoid all tight bandaging.— Make the c¢lothing light and cool, and s 0 loose that the child may have free play for its limnbs. At night undress it, sponge it, and put on a slip. In the morning remove the slip, bathe the child, and dress it in elean clothes. If this cannot be affordéd,thoroughly air the ddy clothing by hanging it up during the night, - 3d. The child should sleep by itself in a cot or cradle. It shonld be put to bed at regular hours, and he early taught to go to.sleep without being nursed in the arms. Without the advice of a physician never give it any spirits, cordials, carminatives, soothing syrups or sleeping drops. Thousands of children die ‘every year from the use of these poisons. ' If the child frets and does not =sleep it is either hungry or else ill. If ill it needs a physician. Never quiet it by candy or cake, they are the common causes of diarrhwa and of other troubles.

4th. Give the child plenty of fiesh air. In the cool of the morning and evening send it out to the shagdy sides of broad streets, to the public squares or to the parks. Whenever it 'seems to suffer from . the heat let it drink freely of ice-water. Keep it out of the yoom in which cooking or washing is going on. It is excessive heat that destroys the lives of young infants.

sth. Keep your house sweet and clean, cool and well aired. In very lmt{ weather let the windows be open day and night. Do your cooking in the yard, in a shed, in a garret or in an upper room. Leé no slops collect, and use whitewash. about the walls plentifully. ~Correct all foul smells by pouring carbolic acid or quicklime into sinks: &r other foul places. - 6th, 7th and Bth. Where an infant can get and thrive on itsnatural food, none other should. he given it while the hot weather lasts. Wliere the supply 1s insuflicient, goat or cow’s mllk should be given in addition.— Each bottleful .of milk should be sweetened by a small lump of loaf sugar. If the milk be pure it may have one-fourth hot water added toit, but if it is not known to be pfive no water need be added. Be sure ‘that the milk is unskimmed, and boil'it as soon as it comes, putting the vessel holding it at once away in the coolest place in:the house. " Use ice upon the milk if it can be afforded. -

oth. If the milk shovld disagree, a tablespoonful of lime-water may be added to each bottleful. Whenever pure milk cannot be got, try the condensed milk, which often answers admirably. It is sold by all the leéading druggists and grocers, and may be prepared by adding to six tablespoonfuls &f boiling water, without sugar, one tablespdgnful or more of the milk, according to the age of the child.— Should this disagree, a tablespoonful of arrow-root, or of sago, or cornstarch to the pint of milk may be cautiously tried.” If the milk in‘any shape cannot be digested, try, for a few days. pure eceam diluted with three-fourths or four-fifths of water, returning to. the milk as spon as possible.” .- 10th. The nursing bottle must be kept: perfectly clean; otherwise the milk will turn sour and the child be made ill. After each meal it should be emptied, rinsed out, taken apart and the tube, cork, mouth-piece and bottle placed in clean water, or{in water to which a little soda has been added. It is a'goodiplan te have two nursing bottles, and to use them by turns. 11th. Just before or during the hot weather, or, a 8 a rule, until after the second suminer, the natural diet of the child should not be changed. When everything else fails it will often save the child’s life. When the child is over six months old the mother may save her strength by giving it two medls a day of stale bread and milk, which ‘should be pressed through a sieve and put into a ntirsing bottle.— When from eight months to a year old it may also have one meal a day of the yolk.of a fresh and rave boiled egg; or one of beef mutton broth, into which stale bread has been crumbled. - When older than this it can have a little meat finely minced, but even then milk should be ‘its principal food and not such food as grown' up people eat.

CURE FOR CORNS.

A French medical journal -reports the cure of the most refractory corns by the morning and evening applications, with a brush, of a drop of solution of perchloride of iron. It states that after a fortnight’s continued application, without pain, a patient who had suffered martyrdom for nearly’ forty years from a most painful corn on the inner side of each little toe‘ was relieved; pressure was no longer painful, and the cure seemed to be radical. Otlier'and similar cases are reported as equally successful under the treatment. v

WHEN your flower plants get from an inch and a %alf to two inches high, they should be thinned out and transplanted. It should be done after a rain or the ground from which’they are taken and whither they are put be thoroughly moistened. A little ball of soil should go with each, and they should be firmly set. A garden trowel is the best implement with which to remove the plants,

© Tuney. tell of a hen 'which floated i down the raging tide at Mill river for some distance in a barrel where she was laboriously “covering” nineteen eggs.: She attended strictly to business during the flood, finally -brought -up in a friendly harbor, and has since left her barrel with nineteen chickens at her heels. , Children. have a passion for scrib- * bling on their school books, and as the practice does not add to the beauty of the volumes the trouble has been met half way by a publisher who issues books having silica slates attached to the inside covers. = . How to Live a Hundred Years. John™ Borough, the centenarian of Greene township, was recently asked how he had managed to live+to such a ripé old age—lo 4 years, October next. He said it was owing to his invariable habit of retiring early and getting a good night’s rest. He remarked: “One must have about so much sleep in a hundred years; if he don’t take it when alive he will get it in the grave.” . —South Bend Tribune. f g Tel W Y — e : 'THe Governor of Minnesota has issued an appeal to the Granger organization of that State to forward relief to the farming communities in the north-western co nges of the State which have lo:t:Et eir crops by the grasshopper plague and are impoverished in consequence. G N (e T i ‘;fiz’other stock of dry goods at lzml | e , ‘

Intemperance and Bad Cooking.

We have advocated entire abstinence; we have urged men to let liguor alone; but we must add something to that; there must be more knowledge in respect to wholsome food, and in respect to the best. mode of preparing it. There is a great deal of prejudice against luxurious tables. = The devil is supposed to reside’and preside where Juxury spreads its dainties ; fine food delicately served is considered to belohg to the last stages of effeminacy; but there are more devils in indigestible food than in all the luxuries on eartli. - The evils arising from eating improper food exist very widely among our people. - : - “Take for instance, the article butter. Where there is one pound of butter that any Christian man ought to eat, there is a ton to that one pound that ought to be thrown everboard into, perdition. One of the total depravities in diet consists in the eating of bad butter. ¢

When..spring comes, redolent of’ pastures, we enjoy butter. In the: summer we go on eating butter, but® it is not so good as it was in spring.— |

In. the autumn'buiter becomes more and more detestable; but still we eat (it. Nobodyiseems to know enough to ‘stop _eating it when it Jdoes not taste good; so we go on damaging continu--ally the conditions of health But no man can be healthy who does not have some regard for the stomach, and avoid eating those things which clog the liver and destroy the purity of the blood.” One of the greatest causes of unhealth is injudicious eating. The gréat majority of blue devils with which men have to contend come from the. morbid appetites and desires ~which spring from a want of regulation in their eating. One of the greati est blessings that could be bestowed 'upon men would be a knowledge of how to cook food so that it should be healthful. /.

A woman may pray at home and abroad, and read as many tracts as she pleases; but a diet of apple-dump-lings, and unleavened short-cake, and a thousand other things which are supposed to be simple, and harmless, uncooked or badly cooked, will be a match for all her tracts and prayers. Reform the table, and glve pure health, so thatimen shall feel sweet and buoyant am® songful when they wake up in the morning, and they will scarcely be tempted to drink; but give them a heavy stomach after every meal, and let them go gulping and flatulent, and suffering from heartburn, and' depressed, not knowing what aifs them, and vou may he sure they will be tempted more from that cause than any other. There is great temptation to drink, in wrong dietic habits. The oven as well as the shop needs to be looked after.—Henry Ward Beecher. = {

Jihe Impending Contest.

The Indianapolis Sentinel, “hits the nail on the head” in several places in the following article; “The result of the coming election in this State as affecting the control of the nation is, of course, of the greatest importance. Outside of the naked question of party supremacy, the State politics of Indiana are devoid of the least occasion for controversy.. Unlike many other States where mischief has crept into the State Governments, there is probably, no man and no party possessed of -a grievance to. bring against the administration of the State affairs for the last two years. It maybe a cause of secret grief to the political scavengers that their services are not in demand around the State House, but to all right-minded men it is a source of unspeakable pride that in the midst of so much -official disrepute elsewhere Indiana can speak of a good govern- | ment fairly and impartially administered. 'There may be a difference of opinion in regard to her statutes, and ovetl thé construction of the next Legislature a sharp fight may be counted on. The political interests of the fall elections will be directed to the county and township governments. lowever insignificant the reform movement may turn out to be as related to the ticket for State offcers, as affecting those of the counties, or a portion of them, it will be no trifling affair.— | Court-house rings in this State are as | numerous, as influential and as repugnant to honest men as in other places. The. people seem to be thoroughly waked up to the fact that too. much of their mofiey is spent in supporting the county oflices, and that county legisla- { tion is careless and extravagant.— ) Loud complaints are made that the | salaries of officers are too high and aM | together disproportionate to the abili- | ty required and the services rendered. | To reform these abuses the people are | fully determined. It isnot strange to find their zeal in this direction running perhaps too far. In some cases it has been inconsiderately proposed, to ignore the statutes on the subject and to pledge candidates, if supported and elected, to accept a compensation different than that prescribed by law. In other counties the temperance question will rise to the dignity of a leading issue. But the overturning of county rings which have long held sway in control of local: measures and dictated arbitrary party policies will be the feature of the campaign, so far as it affects the State. Reform means a change in county governments, and the sharpest.contests promise to be of a local character.” ‘ | - B— Why Gen. Sherman is at St. Louis, " It seems that the controversy be- ' tween General Sherman and the Secretary of War, which has led to the removal of army headquarters from Washington, is of long standing. A Jetter is published, written by General Sherman to Secretary Belknap in 1870, earnestly requesting the latter to fix: and clearly define the powers and duties of the General of the Army., Tle quotes the act of Congress creating the office of General, and submits the opinion that under it all parts of the army, the staff and the Military Academy, are properly subject to his control. Further he says: “Orders l and reports are made to and from the Military Academy which the General does not even see, though the Military Academy is specifically named as a part of that army which he is required to command. Leaves of absense are! granted, the stations of officers are’ changed, and their orders are directly to the army, not through the General, but direct through other officers to the Adjutant-General.” General Sherman also transmits a copy of a letter from Lieutenant-General Grant to Secretary Stanton, written in 1866, making suybstantially the same complaint.— Neither letter, however, seems to have had the desired effect, the Secretary of war continuing to exercise supreme authority in military affairs, to the great annoyance of the head of the army. It is evident that this collision of authority, and constant misunderstanding as to each other’s functions, has produced an official coolness between the Secretary of War and General Sherm‘&an,'and induced the latter to remove his headquarters from the capital. The whole mat hould be definitely settled by law, rljdilsuch discreditable controversies ended. - THE Virginius affair is revived. It is said that our government has made a peremptory demand on Spain for pecuniary indemnity for the lives of the massacred prisoners, and the loss to their families. Those who dance must pay the piper, = ; ‘

Aversion to Manual Labor. ' - The practice of educating) boys for the professions, which are already overstocked, or for the mercantile business, in which statistics show that ninety-five in a hundred fail of success, is #earfully on the increase in this country. Americans are annually becoming more and more averse to manual labor; -and to get a living by one’s wits, even at the cost of inde- ' pendence and self-respect, and a feartul wear and tear of conscience, is the ambition of a large proportion of our young men. The result is that the mechanical professions are becoming a monopoly of foreigners, and the ownership of some of the finest farms, even in New England, is passing from Americans to Irishmen and Germans. Fifty years age a father was mot ashamed to put his children to the plow or to a mechanical trade ; but now they are “too feeble” for Lodily labor; one has a pain in his side,» another a slight cough, another “a very delicate bodily constitution,” another is nervous; and so poor Bobby or Billy or Tommy is sent off to the city to measure' tape, weigh coffee, or draw molasses. It seems never to occur to their foolish parents that moderate manual labor in the pure and bracing air of the country is just what these puny, wasp-waisted lads need, and that to send them to the crowded and ulhealthy city is to send them to théir graves. Let them follow the plow, swing: the sledge, or shove the foreplane, and. their pinched chests will be expanded, their sunken cheeks plumped out, and their lungs, now “cabined, eribbed and confined,” will have room to play. Their nerves wiil be invigorated ‘'with their muscled; and when they -shall have cast off their jackets, instead of being thin, pale, vapid coxcombs, they shall have spread out to the size and configuration of men. A lawyer’s office, a cotinting-room, or a grocery, is about the last place to which a sickly youth should be sent.

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The Louisville Courier-Journal has collected some interesting facts as to the extravagance of the administration of Gen. Grant, as shown in the enoymous increase of dflices since he came in power. In 1859, under the much abused Buclranan, thie number of the employes of the federal government, was 44,527. In 1861, and the first year of the war, there were 46,049, and at the close of the war in 1865, there-were 52,367. In 1867, two yéars after the close of the war, there were 50,112." ‘Gen. Grant was first inaugurated March, 1869, and in 1871, or six years after the close of the war, the number of employes in the different branches of the government, amounted to 57,605. In 1873 their horde of office-holders, leeches on the ‘Body politie, sucking ont the very life-blood of the nation, had increased to 86,660., Thus we see that since the close of the war,during a term of eight ‘ years of profound peace, this vast arqliy'\vas increased over 33,000. This has been done by a party wluch, in its l national| platform, stood pledged to the people for retrenchment and ieform. Evidently there are some kinds of inflation to which Grant is opposed.

Health’s Shield and Protection.

lealth is universally ddmitted to be the most desirable ofiearthly blessings, yet it is jeoparded as recklessly as if it were of no value at all. Thousands who are compelled by their occupations and pursuits to breathe unwholesome air, to expose themselves to violent alternations of heat and cold, and to brave other evils inimical to health and life, utterly neglect to fortify themselves against the dangers which surround them by a proper course of tonie Jtreatment. For many years it has been & publie fact, undenied even by the martinets of the medical pro fession, thiat Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is the best antidote to malaria and the finest acclimating medicine in existence. In fever and ague districts, in tropical and other regions visited by epidemics, and indeed in alf localities where the conditions are unfavorable to health, this famous vegetable invigorant and alterative has been; found a potent safeguard even to feeble -constitutions and fragile frames; while as a cure for .indigestion, biliousness and all kindred complaints it is -confessedly without a rival. e

The Wisconsin Railroad Law

Judge Drummond’s decision at Madison, rendered in a very calm and temperate spirit, is a conclusive vindicativn of Wisconsin legislation on the railroad question;so far as he went.— In regard to,the regulation of rates for freights carried outside the State boundaries, he gave no opinioh. The court was asked to grant an injunction upon the State officers preventing them from executing the Potter law. The grounds were that the Northwestern railroad holds its right of way in fee sithple, derived from Congress in grants of land to the State, and also that the property of the corporation and its ereditors are;imperiled by the application of the law. The court held that the legislature had full power over the charter, and that creditors have notice in law of that fact in the charter itself. The court suggested that all doubtful points be settled by an amicable appeal to the court of last resort, and that pending. the legal settlements prosecutions involving cost and good temper be suspended.

THE reciproeity treaty with Canada will remove serious obstacles to the trade of the two countries. The artificial obstacle of a tariff is to be removed and the natural impediments are to be lessened by widening the channel of %he St. Lawrence river. -- Canada stipulates to connect Lake Champlain with the St. Lawrence, and the United States take away the jealous barrier which the tariff has raised between the two countries. This treaty is the practical annexation of Canada to the United States. With a better currency, the United States would be in a better condition to take advantage of all the benefits of this reciproceity treaty.—Harrisbury Patriot.

. SURGEON-GENERAL HAMMOND, of New York, claims to have made important and startling discoveries in relation to hydrophobia. The result of his investigations, so far as disclosed, is, that hydrophobia is not a blood poison, but a nervous disease, traceable directly from the original wound to the great nerve centers. And, second, that any dog, even a perfectly healthy one, may communicate a poison which may result in hydrophobia. The Doctor believes that he is on the point of solving much of the mystery which has hithertoforesurrounded this terrible malady. : :

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This is the famous ‘“*VIBRATOR' THRESHER, which has created such a revolution'in the trade and become 80 FELLY ESTABLISHED a 8 the “‘leading Thiesher” of this day and generation. More than seven thousand purchasers and ninety thousand grain raisers pronounce these machines gnTIRELY UNEQUALLED for grain saving, time saving, and mouney making. . Your sizes made; viz: 24-inch, 28inch, 32-inch, and 36-ineh. Oylinders, with 6,8, 10 and 12-Horse ““Mounted” Powers. Also Separators ‘‘alone’” expressly for Stenm Power, and Improv. ed PORTABLE STEAM ENGINKES for Steam Machines. All persons intending to buy Threshing Machines, or Separators ‘‘alone,” or Horse Powers ‘ alone,” as well as GRAIN RAIBERS AND FARMERS .who want their grain threshed, saved and cleaned to the best advantage, are inyited to send for our new forty page Illustrated Pamphlet and Circulars (sent free) giving full particulars about these Jlmproved Machines and other information valuable to farmers and threshermen. A ddress, ‘ NICHOLS, SHEPARD & CO., 8-51—d4t.e 0 w.aft.4t.e.w. Battle Creek, Mich.

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OR ANY ONE ELSE WHO WANTS TO.BUY GOODS CHEAP.

They are just the Customers I Want to deal with,:

A Gt i i AL i i And I guarantee them no Middleman shallieat the profits hetween them and: myself.

I RETAIL all GOODS at WHOLESALE PRICES.

All my Teas, Coffees, Sugars, Tobaccos, Spices, ete., are puarchased direct-from the Manufac- \ R g e : s : 3 = turers and Importers, and o : e o

Ishall Sell Direct to the Consumers,

Whereas middlemen add fifty per cent. to the cost of some goods. For instance, take the article of Tea: The Fmporter sells to the Jobber at 10 per cent. per pound profit; the Jobher sells to the Wholesale Merchant at 15 per cent. per pound profit. - The Wholesale Merchant resells to the Retail Merchant at 10 per cent. per pound profit; ‘then the Retail Merchant sells to the Consuwer at 25 to 50 per cent. per pound profit just as he GETS IT. All these intermediate profits I give my custoners the benefit of, and this is the only secret of my immense Tea Trade with Teas. So with Sugar, Coffees, or anything else I handle. I sell all goods to save the profits of middlemen . e . « A gmaes . '

TEAS! TEAS! TEAS! THAS! TEAS! TEAS!

Gun Powder, Japan, Oolong, and all other grades; clear down to the noteh. If any one has . -. v- r (AS A o. € 'l‘ A€ .1I( 1 7 G- lf 1“] T (‘ b.l' S ‘e ]1 3 Y 1 T .r . ! a curlosity to test Americang Tea, raised in Calfornia, by Coolies, call in mmmediately and get a sample, as I have a half chest of Genuine Yankee Tea. Also something new for you oldfashioned Pennsylvania Dutch, b e Lo

Der Alte Heem-Gerehste Berg Thee.

I will astonish the Grangers hy opening and offerine for sale a laree stock of ¢ v 3 S e Sy e S S

At prices not to be obtained elsewhere in the west. Prices on these goods have declined within the past fifteen days over 50 per cent; I'have purchased these Cottonades and Prints since the Great Decline, and can sell them 50 per cent. cheaper than merchants who purchased betore the Bottom Fell Out of Cotton Goods. You may ask what caused the heavy decline., llf was simply the prospect for an unprecedent cotton crop in the South, almost ready to harvest.

Bear's oil, Put Up in Bettles,

For distribution among my customers. Every pel‘solf that buys t\.‘;(”) pofiluls ol niy; hest Young Hyson Tea, at the old price, I will present them a hottle of ‘genuine Bear’s Oil. My stock of

- HAMS, DRIED BEEF and all KINDS of FISH, _ Is large, and will be sold at the Very Lowcst B‘igllx'lfs. :: l h‘afe the;{)le gency. fOl .B\_ ; Jordon’s Japanese Indigo Blueing;, Which [ wish my customers to try,' and'sal:isf:y. themselves of its merits. . This novel preparzltion is put up in packages which 1 am selling at 10 cents each, and is undoubtedly the best and cheapest blueing in the market. - Sample Blueing»freg.‘ e , e - ‘ As I am determined to go out of the Whisky business, ay person wishing to purchase a stock of Liqg-. uors, together with Bar, Fixtures, Ice Boxes, ete., will find a bargain by calling at my Store. | | REMEMBER THAT I'“AM_-SELLING; oggl sy A Groceries,Provisions,Feed b R T S

BEST YOUNG HYSON-I.SELL AT $l.lO.

I have a large supply of genuine