Pike County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 17, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 September 1880 — Page 4

PIKE C0UNT1 DEMOCRAT. PETERSBURG. : INDIANA. DOG-DAY DOGGEREL. Hail, Sirius, carmine Btarl Y on are the brightest far That shines tn Heaven above us; "Tis very kind in you Again to come to view— It shows how well you love us. We know that in your train You bring the frequent rain. (Oh, dearl 'tis dreadful sticky!) That makes the verdant earth To flower and fruit give birth— (Bring, wife, another dicky; Tve sweated this one through). That makes all nature new With its all-healing power— (Plague take that fly 1 I vow l’vo slapped at him, I swow. For more than half an hour!) And, now, the sun shines out, - ~ The clouds are put to rout. Like Hessians at the “ training”; All azure is the sky: Wow beautiful !—well, I Declare! again'tis raining! Oh, fickle dog-dayBphore! Pieaso do not act so queer; Such conduct is unstellar; It Is not pleasant,' quite. For mortals day and night To carry an umbrella.. Oh, star of radiant light. That glorifies the night, (Oh, dear! my clothes cling to meD * Boll in your azure path— CTis like a Russian bath; I'm sweltering through and through me). Roll on through night and day, (That Uy again! Go 'way!) And not till ripe September Cease blazing in our sky— (I’H give it up—that fly Will get what he’ilremember.) —Boston Transcript.

AY HERO, For many years we bought our butter, milk ami eggs at the Deacon Witheridge Farm. When I was ten years old my grandmother thought that I plight be trusted to go for the milk, ■warning me, as I set out, that I was to hold the pail well away from me and not spill. By another year the family pronounced me large enough to be trusted with the butter and eggs. “Carry them steady, child, and look well to your steps, that you don’t trip,” said my grandmother, as she stood on the door-steps. Now, Deacon Witheridge lived at the top of the long Minot liill; and on a warm day, by the time I had trudged up its weary length, I was ready enough to accept Mrs. Deacon Witheridge’s invitation to “set down and cool off.” After several seasons of •‘settia’' down and coolin’ off,” I grew quite familiar with the farm-house arid its inmates. Mrs. Witheridge 1 never liked. It made no difference that my grandmother declared her a most excellent woman, the best butter-maker in the town. I never recovered from the impression of my first visit. “ Be sure and go to the baek door,” was my mother’s parting injunction. But when I reached the house no, back- door could I find. I looked and looked in vain, and was on the point of *• turning back toward home, when, suddenly, with unwonted boldness, I determined to try the front-door. I made my way through the tall grass which choked the ptUh, and let the heavy brass knocker fall with a thump that made me tremble. It was some time before 1 heard an answering footstep, and then, on the other side of the door, a tierce struggle with rusty bolts and hinges. At hist, with a groan, the door gave way, and I found myself looking up rit a gaunt woman, who impressed me as Jjeing of supernatural ■ 1 stature. “Ho! So it’s nobody but you, is it? What are you round here for, scarin’ folks half to death, for fear’twas some grand company?” t “I couldn’t find the back door,” I Imgan timidly. CVAJdn't find the back door? Where do folk’s gen’rally find back doors?” I must have looked unable to answer, for she went on: “Why, round at the back o’ the house, most likely. But what do you want o’ the back door, when you git there?” “Are you Mrs. Deacon Witheridge?” I asked, faintly. “ Yes; I’m her. Speak up lively and tell me what you want. 1 ain’t got much time ter waste. We’re folks that work., here.” More and more embarrassed, I stammered out: “ I came after some milk. I’d like a quart if you please. The money’s in the pail.” “Well, you’ll have to go round to the back door. I don’t want -ter let yer in here. You might track in dirt. Just foller yer nose round the house.’' I did at last find the right door, where I waited.with some apprehension the re-appearance of the Deacon’s wife. She soon reached the door, ami called in an extraordinary pitch. c«f voice: “Stephen! Stephen!” ^ A boy who was bending over the woodpile, turned quickly and nervously at her sharp voice, and came toward tie house.

•• l want you to go down to tne mulecellar, Stephen, and get some milk for this child. Dip down under and don't disturb the cream.” “All right, marm,” he answered, cheerfully. “ Come, step up quick. Don’t walk as if there was a ton o’ lead on yer heels!” Stephen held out l^is hand for my pail, and invited my godd-will with a friendly “ Hullo.” “Very well, I thank you,” J answered; for I had been taught at home that “ boys and some rather common little girls said 4 Hullo!’ instead of ‘How do you do?’ ” 1 noticed that Stephen looked a little puzzled as b e carried off my pail. I watched him as he went. 1 have called him a boy, b at 3 could not have guessed his age. Elis form was slight and boyish; but there were deep lines in his forehead, and a care-worn look about the eyes. Elia clothes were poor and hung loosely upon him. Yet Stephen’s stooping shoulders and thin face left no impression of sadness upon me then. His smile was too cheery, his “ Hullo” too friendly for that. For one thing I did pity him, that he was, apparently, in tne power of Mrs. Deacon Witheridge. This I felt a bond of sympathy, for was not I, too, for the time being? “ Well, here yer be at last,” said the Deaconess, as Stephen emerged from the cellar. “ What yer goin’ to do nest? Go down to the gris-mifl?” “Yes, marm; that’s what the Deacon said. I s’pose J might take her along, too,” with a hod in ray direction. “That’s the road she takes.” “Yes, I s’pose yer might, if it didn’t hinder yon.” ^ “All right, little girl, come on.” I clambered into the wagon while Stephen untied the horse. He stood a moment with one foot on the wagonstep, and looked down at himself rather ruefully. s “I ain’t a very spruce-lookin’ feller, ■n I? Ain’t yer most ashamed ter ride with me?” “No, I think it’s nice,” I said decidedly. “All right. I don’t care, if you don’t,” said he, cheerily, and jumped in. As we rode down the hill, I looked curiously at Stephen from time to time; but 1 said little. I was a shy child and never made the advances in conversation. Stephen ventured a remark or two about its being a good summer for hay and the Deacon's big crop. I eould not have answered with much enthusiasm, for the conversation was on tbs '

point of (lying out when we caught sight of Mrs. Aspasia Weeks standing in her doerway. “So you’re out a-ridin’, I see,” Bhe called out, with a nod, as we rode ]>ast. “Was y»u ever in her house?” asked Stephen, pointing over his shoulder with his whip. “Oh! yes,” I answered eagerly. She’s one of my very dearest friends.” “Oh, ho! I didn’t know that. Sorter queer, ain’t she?” Nothing: more was needed to draw me out. My shyness vanished, and the ^ raises of Mrs. Weeks were only interrupted by onr arrival at our front (rate. “Nex’ 15me you come, Til show you the barn. Good-by.” And Stephen cirove awt y. My fear Of meeting Mrs. Witheiidge again was considerably soothed by Stephen’s parting promise. He was as s;ood as his word. That wonderful barn! It stood opposite Deacou Witheridge’s 1 louse, thereby cutting it off irom a glorious sweep of hills. Yet it may have been as well for Stephen and me to enjoy the landscape at the rear door of tie barn as for Mrs. Deacon Witheridgp to close her front-parlor blinds upon it all her married life. Here, ntt any rate, Stephen and I Hound pie ity to talk about. My heart was won ut once by the patience and good-nattxe with which he answered my endless questions. I followed him about as he worked, till a shrill voice called from the house! “ Your milk is waitin’fo -you. Youmusn’tbehiitddrm’ Stephen.’' Stephen stoutly maintained that lwas no hindeiance; and many a time after that I lengthened my call till late in the morning. “Nevermind, Maria,” saidmvgrandmother, “ if she does stay a good, while. She can’t come to any harm up at Deacon Withsridge’s.” Stepheil and I had many talks together, J(nd had become very good friends before our conversation* took a personal Hum. ’

•• vvny aon o you go 10 scnooir 1 asked, one day. “ I can t,” he answered, and went on shoveling. “Why not? Won’t your father and mother let you?” -I persisted. “I ain’t got any father and mother. I come out of the’poor-house.” I instantly saw my mistake; but I could think of nothing better to say than “Old” “Iain’tgoin’ to ‘die there, though; not if I can help it,” he continued, shoveling with desperate energy. “Are j|ou going to get rich?” But I stopped Suddenly. “ Why, Stephen, jvhat’s tike matter? Your face is 'all white,” Jj cried. He leaned heavily on his shovel and pht his hand to his forehead. j “ I’m Sill right now. I guess I put in a little top hard.” He went on working; but lifted his shovel slowly and heavily, 1 lending all the strength of his slight frame to the task. Suddenly, who should emerge from behind a patch of corn but Deacon Witheridge himself. “ Wal, sir! Smart kind- of working I call this. Why, a feller like you don't earn his ifalt.” Stephen answered nothing; but made a weary effort to shovel faster. The Deacon frightened me, and I did not dare to stay longer! When I reached home I went straight to my mother. “Mamma,” I burst out, “didn’t Stephen ever have any father or mother?” “Stephen? Stephen? Oh! ye3. Deacon Witheridge’s boy. Poor fellow! When he was a little bit of a baby, dear, thev found him on the poorhouse steps. They took him in and kept him till Deacon Witheridge wanted a boy to bring up. I am afraid the little fellow has had rather a hard time,” she added, half to he rself. I could think of nothing that afternoon but Stephen's story. My knowledge of the world was entirely obtained from Sunday-school books. It happened; that first then, my mind was filled w ith an Entrancing tale, whose plot I distinctly remember. The hero was a foundling, whose elaboratelyembroidered clothing gave no clue to his origin. He fell into the hands of monsters in human shape, from whom he suffered untold persecutions. The heroism of the early martyrs was nothing compared with the lofty endurance of this young saint At last his so-called parents fall Into deepdisgrace, and in t jie midst of the grand catastrophe ciur hero is discovered to be the son of Si neighboring Duke, from whose palace i e had been stolen by a revengeful nurse. Now, as I revolved this tale in my mind I was struck with the marked resemblance between the fortunes of its hero and of mine. My imagination seized the meager facts of Stepher’s story and wove them into a romance, whose reality I did not for a moment) doubt. Some day, I fell assured, a fine carriage would draw up before Deacon Witfieridge’s front-door and a beautiful lady, in a black, velvet dress (that was one of the points I insisted upon), should alight and claim my hero as her long-lost son. I had no very definite idea where this lady would come from, or what would afterward become of her; but her sudden appearance seemed a necessary dramatic s tuation I dwelt, with a delight which savored of the malicious, on the astonishment and chagrin of Deacon and Mirs. Witheridge, when they j discoverer;, that Stephen was amiilionaire, It suited the purpose of my story to paint this worthy couple in the blackest colors. Hard, unsympathetic and grasping, they certainly were; but I am glad that they are to this day serenely unconscious of the atrocities I laid at their door.

vny aner uay jl laooreu upon my little romance, till it began to seem very real to afh. 1 made various additions and improvements,1 and finally determined that when it had all come to pass, I, too, would write a book and tell to everybody the story of my hero. I wonder if my mother knew what a wild lit tle brain mine was, and what visions were flitting through It, as she called to me from the head of the stairs that we were all out. of eggs. “I want you to go right up to Deacon Witheridge’s for some.” Having dispatched my errand with Mrs. Vvitheridge, I inquired for Stephe n. Stephen? What dcfyou want of him? Guess he’s down in the field somewhere. Ain’t doin’much, I’ll be bound. ” “It was some time before I could find him, and then I came suddenly across him. It was true, he was not doing much. He lay on the grass,-1 in a sheltered nook, his arm under nis head and his eyes closed. Save a gentle rustle of the corn and the murmur of the river close at hand, not a sound broke the stillness of the summer morning. Stephen did not hear me, and I Stood for a moment looking at him. 1 felt instantly subdued, though I could not have tola why. Many of a child’s sensations must wait years to be explained. As Stephen opened his eyes, it was a very sober little face he saw, . “Ho y did you know where I was?” he asked, faintly. “Iddn’t I found you.” “I guess I’m kinder give out. I don’t leel good for much.” He smiled and tried to rise, but sank back a rain. “If. only had a little water,” he murmured. “Icm run!” I cried, and was soon breath ess at Mrs. Witherlidge’s door and as icing for a dipper of water. “ What do yon want o’ water?” Mrs. With eridge demanded. “Stej >hen wants it 1 guess he's sick. ”

** Lazy, more likely. He’s got pro* cions little staminy, though.” I ran back to the field, 'where I found Stephen still lying on the ground. He took the water gratefully, and seemed better at once. “I’m all right now,” he said, cheerfully. I was mnch relieved; and we talked merrily of many things. I said not a word of all my dreaming, bJit I was thinking all the time of Stephen in the new character I had given him. It was no effort of the imagination to fancy Stephen a gentleman; for there was a sweetness and dignity in his nature that no uncouthness ot dress or speech could hide. Once* out of the clutches of Mrs. Deacon Witheridge, what might he not become? “ Mamma,” I asked at tea that night, “ what's ‘staminy?’ ” ‘“Staminy’ ? What does the child mean?” ; — “ Why, Mrs. Witheridge said Stephen hadn't any ‘ staminy,’ ” I explained. “Oh, stamina!” said my mother. She meant that he hadn't a strong constitution.” ‘“Staminyr” cried my father. “Well, the old lady has enough of it herself. She and the Deacon are as tough as old shoe-leather.' They”— “Andrew!” said my mother, reproacnfully. :• “Before these children!” “ And they’ve no mercy on anybody. They work that poor fellow early and late, till it’s a wonder there’s anything left of him.” “Andrew, I wouldn’t,” began my mother again. “He’s a bright, smart little fellow, too. He’d make something anywhere but on Deacon Witheridge’s farm. Get him off that, and you might hear from that boy. I declare there are too many folks in this world that have dropped into the wrong place.” For some reason I had no errand to the Deacon’s for a week after this. One morning I heard my mother and grandmother talking in the dining-room. “Should you want to send her up there, if he’s so sick?” asked my mother.

“ No. I shouldn’t send her on any account,” my grandmother answered. ‘‘Does she know he’s sick?” “No. 1 haven’t liked to tell her. You know she’s taken a great liking to him.” “ Well, he’s a nice boy. I hope he’ll live. Always respectful and well-be-haved.” Stephen was sick and they had not told me. I said nothing; but I instantly put on my hat and started for Deacon Witheridge’s. Mary Ana met at the door with: “Wal, Stephen’s ben terrible sick sence you was up here. Guess he ain’t quite so bsid though, now. I’ll go ask Mrs. Witheridge ef you can come in and see him.” “ She came back in a moment, and sdtd: “Yes, come along in. He’s in the back bedroom.” I went softly into the room and stole up to the bed. Stephen lay there so pale and wan and pitiful that I could hardly help crying. He heard me and opened his eyes, and his face brightened so that I forgot to be sad. * “It’s too bad you’re sick, Stephen,’ I said, rather timidly. “I guess I shall be all right pretty soon.” , His cheerful face comforted me, and we talked till I quite forgot my anxiety. At last there was a pause; and vve were both silent for several minutes. There was something different in Stephen’s tone and look when he said, at length: “ Sometimes I dunno as I shall ever get very rich.” I looked up, quickly, to ask why; but I stopped: ‘.‘I kinder think sometimes I ain’t good for much here. Folks ’ud get along well enough without me.” I was bewildered, but still I said nothinsr. “There was lots o’ things I wanted to do, though. It seems kinder hard that I can’t have time.” I looked at him in vague distress. The momentary pain that had crossed his face was gone, and a happy, beautiful lobk remained, that I have long remembered. “I’d like to have done something before I had to go. But there’s plenty o’ folks left. It’s all right. I know that. It’s always all right.” With a great sob I cried: “Oh! Stephen, don’t die! Don’t die!” and rushed out of the house. A week after Stephen died, and I knew the first genuine sorrow of my life. It was long before I ceased to feel a sense of bitter grief and crushing disappointment; but time has softened the sharpness of my sorrow, and has left me the memory of a sweetness and trust and patience that have all my life strengthened me in the divine doctrine that it is “all right.” And though there was, after all, no story to tell and no book to write, I believe that in the best and truest sense my Stephen was a hero.—Helen Dawes Brown, in N. ¥. Independent.

Building Up a Trade. The family had only lately moved into the neighborhood. A day or so after their arrival the head of the family went to the grocery in the neighborhood and asked the price of a can of condensed milk, “fifteen cents.” said the proprietor. “Fifteen devils!” said the customer, ‘ * Why, man alive, I don’t want to buy a dozen cans, but only one. What do you ask for half a can, wholesale figures?” “Never sell half a .can.” “ 1 reckon yon never sell anything if you mark your goods up that way. Suppose I take one whole can, will you come down to a dime?” “Fifteen cents is the usual price.”' “ That may be with unreliable transient customers, but I am an old citizen of Galveston, and the store that captures my permanent trade will have to be enlarged within six months. Say a dime, and throw in a pound or so of soda crackers and its a whack.” “ Do you buy a great deal in the course of a year?” asked the proprietor, with a sneer. “Do I buy a great deal? I should say I did. Why, it won’t be more than two months before I’ll have to get another box of matches. The box I am using from now is more than half gone, ana 1 only got it last February, late in February, too. Say a dime for the condensed milk, and one of them stale watermelons thrown in as a sorter of an inducement, and you can put these two nickels in your burglar proof safe.” “ Fifteen cents is the lowest price.” “I wish yon could see my blacking brush. It can’t hold out over Christmas, and then I am bound to negotiate for a new one. Throw one box of blacking in with the condensed milk, and it’s a transaction.” “ I won’t doit.” “All right! You won’t do it. I’ll just keep my eye on you. I’ll bet your stock is insured for twice what it’s worth, and you are going to have a fire pretty soon. When a merchant don’t care to build up a trade, he is fixing to fail or to swindle somebody, somehow. Good morning, sir.”—Galveston News. Sun spots were noticed by the Arabs in the eighth century, and many centuries ago the Chinese observed dark spots on its surface. In Europe, however, no precise observations were made previous to the invention of the telescope. In 1610, Harriot was the first astronomer to observe them, and the next year Galileo also saw them, but neither one nor the other observed their 'motion. In 1611, Fabrieus, a Dutch observer, saw spots on the surface of the sun, and, after several days, was satisfied that only the rotation of the sun could explain their motion. Later in the same year, Scheiner, at Ingolstadt, made observations, and used, for the first time, colored glasses as a protection for the eye.

USEFUL AND SUGUESTTTE. - -For wagon and carriage axles the best lnbrioant during hot weather is tallow and black lead robbed up together. Castor oil and black lead is best lor winter use. —Baked Custard. -Beat separately the whites and yelks of three eggs. Add them to a pint of milk with a little salt and some sugar, nutmeg and vanilla to taste. Set tue dish or cups in a pan of hot water in the oven and bake twenty or twenty-five minutes. —Com With Tomatoes.—Cut the com from the cob aud put it with an equal quantity of tomatoes that have been sliced and peeled; stew these together for half an hour, then season to taste with salt and pepper and a little sugar; stir in a liberal piece of butter and simmer a few minutes longer. —Potato Croquettes.—For croquettes mash your potatoes, season with butter, milk, salt, a dash of nutmeg and a dash of cayenne pepper; add the beaten yelk of an egg. Beat thoroughly; and mold up into balls or oblongs; roll these in egg and then in fine cracker crumbs and fry in boiling lard. • ^ —Ohio in 1879 had 9,250,000 sheep, and a dog interest assessed at $373,624. These dogs last year killed 47,626 sheep, valued at $102,444. In 1871 the value of sheep killed by dogs in that State was $200,000. From this it appears the Ohio dogs destroy their value in sheep in a period of less than two and a half years. —For Inflamed Eves.—Borax, half drachm; camphor water, three ounces. The above simple prescription is in common use by the highest medical authorities. It is good for inflamed eyes. In using it, lean the head back and drop three drops in the corner of each, and then open the eyes and let it. drop in. Use it as often as the eyes feel badly. —Egg Drink.—The following drink for relieving sickness of the stomach was introduced by Dr. Halahan, and is very palatable and agreeable: “Beat up one egg very well, say for twenty minutes, then add fresh milk, one pint; water, one pint; sugar, to make it palatable; boil, and let it cool; drink when cold. If it becomes curds and whey it is useless.” *

vwiwvi uuu ougcp 0)10 OUUJCUb IU a disease of the blood, known as aphtha, which appears as an eruption of blisters upon the Hps and tongue. The blisters break and the raw surfaces become very sore and painful, preventing the animal from eating. The proper treatment is to give half a pound to a pound of Epsom salts in one dose, in some linseed gruel, and afterward wash the mouth with *s ilt water, or place a handful of salt in the mouth twice a day until the sores heal. The food should be linseed or oatmeal gruel. —Grapes partly ripe are delicious preserved in the following manner: Pick out those that are knotty or wormy; take the rest, a few at a time, in a coarse sieve, working them around with the hand until the seeds are loosened, when they will drop through, eaving the skins and pulp in the sieve. Drain the juice off the seeds, and to every pound of pulp, skins and juice allow half a pound of white sugar. Put all into the preserving kettle- and cook slowly about three-quarters of an hour. Put hot into jars, a brandy paper on top, and seal up. —The Iowa State Register.. says if young timber is cut in the longest and hottest days of the summer, there is less liability of the roots or stump sprouting. At that time the timber is the softest, the last growth or ring being in a sort of mucilaginous state, and if cut at that time fermentation and consequently decay commences sooner than at any other period. This stops growth of sprouts, and is considered the best time to cut to prevent such annoyance. On the other hand, for the same reason midsummer is the poorest time possible to cut timber for useful purposes. Timber wanted for its hardness, durability or elasticity should be cut in midwinter when the yearly growth is entirely perfected, and before the sap begins to flow for the next year’s*growth. —Tanning Sheepskins.—The following directions are copied from the Country Gentleman-. “Take two longwooled skins; make strong suds, using hot water; when cold, wash the skins in it, carefully squeezing them between the hands to get the dirt out of the wool; then wash the soap out with clean oold water. Now dissolve alum aud salt, each half a pound, with a little hot water, sufficient to cover the skins, and let them soak in it over night, or twelve hours; then hang over a pail to drain. When well drained, spread or stretch carefully over a board to dry. When a little damp, have one ounce each of saltpeter and alum (pulverized), and sprinkle the flesh side ol each skin, rubbing it well; then lay the flesh sides together, and hang them in the shade for two or three days, turning the under side uppermost every day until perfectly dry. Then scrape th< flesh side with, a blunt knife, to remove any remaining scraps of flesh; trim ofi projecting points, and rub the flesh side with pumice or rotten stone, and with the hands.”

Eradicating Weeds. It may not entirely reconcile the farmer who has an abhorrence of those tramps of nature, weeds, to assure him that they are simply “plants out of place," and need dissecting; and no doubt Jhe killing process will long be in practice. Weeds are, however, subject to extermination if the right time is chosen to accomplish the purpose, bui so long as the pastures and meadows are producing weeds, and the unfermented stable'tnanure is applied to the fields, so long will the battle be an even one. If one will study the plan of nature and inform himself in regard to their habits and manner of seeding, a much bettlr war may be carried on. Weeds arq,of really two classes: those that are propagated both from root and seed, and those from the latter alone. Of the former, cutting them while in the blossom, and then plowing the land, thoroughly dragging it, and then sowing to some quick growing crop like buckwheat, that quickly deprives the newly growing weed shoots of light and air, followed by clover sown m both fall and spring, so as to be certain of a catch, will choke them very effectually, and in this way the Canada thistle can be conquered, and the rule applies both to daisies and other varieties. Thedock family can best b# killed by pulling up on the plow fields, and in meadows and about the buildings by cutting off the root about three inches below the crown with a mattock with a square-faced cutting edge. .Two or three time^going over them will eradicate them provided none are felt to go to seed. An old farmer at our elbow says that blackberries cah be killed by mowing them in May and again in August, and then turning on sheep to eat the tender shoots as fast a$ they spring up. Or, if sheep are not tp be had, plow the lot, drag thoroughly with a bent-tooth drag and sow to rye. Milkweed, rag weed and other varieties that grow from the seed alone can only be choked out by a continued use of the scythe. Let the cultivation be as thorough as it may, these tramps of hature will infest the fields to an extent proportioned to the vigilance exercised in their extermination.—Cleveland Herald. *One pair of herrings if unchecked would in a few years stock the Atlantic Ocean so that there would not be room to move.

—‘‘From grave to gay ” is the order of life, and of newspapers as well—so we revive the old and amusing story of the miller who sometimes had crazy fits, in which he always imagined himself to be the Lord judging the world. On these occasions he would put on a paper crown, ascend a pile of meal-bags with great dignity, and call his neighbors in saccession. The same ones were always judged; and they were the millers of his vicinity. The first one summoned was Hans Schmidt. “ Hans Schmidt, stand oop. Hans, vat is been your pishness in dat oder vorld?” “I vas a miller, Q Lort!” “Vas you a joost man?” “Veil, yen the vatervaslow, and the pishness is pad, OLord.I somedimes dakes a leetle exdra doles.” “ Veil, Hans, you shall go ofer mit te gates, already yet.” and so in succession all were tried and immediately sentenced to go over to the goats. Last of all, the miller invariably tried himself in the following style: “Jacob Miller, stand oop. Jacob vat vas your pishness in dat oder voijd?” “I vas a miller, O Lort.” “ Vas you always a joost man, Jacob?” “Veil, O, Lort, ven de vater vas a leetle low and de pishness vas bad, I somedimes dakes some leetle exdra doles; but, O, Lort, I all de vile give dose exdra doles to de poor.” (After a long pause)—“ Veil, Jacob Miller, you can go ofer mit der sheep—but it vas von tight squeeze!”

—Almost everybody knows of patent floor, but not every one understands what it is. Stripped of technicalities, this is abont the story of its manufacture : The best flour used to be made of winter wheat. Spring wheat yielded either much less in quantity, or else so much of the bran got into the flour in its manufacture that its color was intolerably dark. The wheat would be ground and then bolted. In the refuse—the bran and middlings—would be included a large portion of the weight of the spring wheat, and this would sell more particularly for feed for horses. Now the best of flour, and the most expensive, is made of this very refuse of the oldfashioned process. It all came out of the discoveTy of a way to draw out the bran. Under the new process the wheat is ground about as before. The first result is an ordinary flour sold for exportation. Then the remainder is taken and put upon great horizontal sieves, and while agitation is going on there an ingenious system of draft is rushing up through, and carries off the bran. What is left is the glutinous portion of the wheat, the most nutritious and most productive, and out of this, purified now by the drawing off of the bran, we get our new process flour.. The result of the discovery of the process has been to make the poor spring wheat of Minnesota and upper*Wisconsin the most valuable kind of grain. —A gentleman at one of the hotels spilt some milk on his coat, and wondered if it would leave a grease spot. “ Grease spot ?’ ’ queried a fellow boarder lust opposite, “grease spot?' Well, I should say no. Rather look for chalk marcs when it dries up.” The quality of the milk served at that hotel justifies us in agreeing with him.—Keokuk Constitution. —Fate of a jilted butcher: He tried in drink to drown liis cares» And there found no relief, But daily grew more woebegone, You never sausage grief. At last his weary soul found rest, His sorrows now are o’er; No tickle maid now troubles him, Pork reacher, he’s no more. —Camping out in a canvas tent during one’s vacation is like kissing a pretty gin at a candy scrape—you have a good time, but you come out of it rather the worse for wear.— Boston Globe. THIS MARKETS. _ _ NEW YORK, August CATTLE—Native Steers....... 8.50 COTTON—Middling. TLOClt—Good t» Choice. 4.40 WHEAT-Iied. No. 2. 1.0S ... Spring, No. 2........ 1.61 CORN—No.2........ 61 OATS—Western Mixed........ 38 PORK-Ohl Mess,.. 16.00 St. LOUIS, COTTON-Middling. BEE\ES—Oiioice... 4,70 Good to Prime. 4.50 Native Cows....... 2,25 Texas Steers. 2.50 HOGS—Common to Select.... 4.50 SHEEP—Fair to Choice. 8.00 FLOUR—XXX to Choice.. 4.25 WHEAT—No. 2 Winter.. 08 No. 3 “ .. 84 CORN—No. 2 Mixed... 35 OATS—No.2... 26 Rl'E—No.2. 78 TOBACCO—Dark Lugs....!... A30 Medium Dark Leaf. 5.25 HAY—Choice Timothy. 11.75 BUTTER—Choice Dairy. 20 EGGS—Choice..,. 10 PORK—Standard Mess. 15.50 BAOON—Long Clear. 09 LARD—PrlmeSteam. 08 WOOL—Tub-washed, Med’m. 45 Unwashed 28 26.1S80. A 10.25 • jw • 6.25 • 1.0514 a 1.05 a 51H a 40 a 16.25 a m< a 5.00 a 4.65 a s.oo a 3.60 a 5.25 a 4.oo a 4.85 US'; 85 35N 2614 a a a 3.60 a 6.75 a ]2.oo a 22 a ll a 16.75 a 09K a oss a 4o>; a 29 CHICAGO. CATTLE—Native Steers. 4.30 a 5.00 HOGS—eommon to Choice.. 4.50 a 5.50 SHEEP—Common toChoice.- 3.60 a 4.20 FLOUR—Winters..... 6.00 a 6.00 - Springs. 4.00 a 5.00 WHEAT—Spring No. 2. 87 a 8754 Red No. 2.. 81 a 91 y, CORN—No. 2. 38 • SS’i OATS—No.2.. 26 a 27 RYE—No.2.... 76 a 7654 PORK—Mess .. 16.00 » 16,25 __ KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Nativesteers....... 3.25 a 3.75 Native Cows.......r 2.40 ® 2.70 HOGS—Sales at. 4.40 a 4.75 WHEAT—No. 2. a 7954 No. 3. a 7214 CORN—No. 2 Mixed... a 2714 OATS^No.2.... a 27 NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grades. 5.00 a 5.75 CORN—White.. 60 a 64 OATS—Choice... 33 a 40 HAY—Choice... 22.00 a 22.50 PORK—Moss. 16.00 a 16.50 BACON—Ciear Rib. 09,1.0 01N OOtTON—Middling....'a 1154

[Louisville (ICy.) Commercial.] Steamboat Life and Ita Danger*. In a recent interesting article upon the palmy days ol steamboat life on the Mississippi, in which special mention is made of Captain Chas. N. Corri, of Louisville, and the statement.of his cure after years of suffering with Rheumatism by 8t Jacobs Oil, our exchange says: Such indorsements, coming from our own people, leave no doubt that the emphatic claims made in the inter* est of St Jacobs Oil are fully Justified. The Greatest la the World. Without a question Buffalo, N. T., can boast of the largest and most complete private Sanitarium in the world. The Invalids’ Hotel was founded by Dr. R. V. Pierce, who has represented his dristrict as State Senator and in Congress, and is known throughout the United States as the originator of Dr. 1'ierce’s Family Medicines, and who has also become widely celebrated in the treatment of chronic diseases. The erection of this mammoth home for invalids was made necessary by the large number of afflicted who Hocked to Buffalo from all parts of the United States to consult Dr. Pierce and the eminent medical gentlemen associated with him as the faculty of this celebrated institution. The establishment is said to have cost nearly a half mill on of dollars, and is furnished with every appliance and facility for the care of chronic ailments. A correspondingly large branch institution is located m London, England. The whole concern is owned and operated by the World’s Dispensary Medical Association, of which the original Dr. Pierce is President—his brother, an uncle, and other eminent medical gentlemen taking part in the treatment of cases. In treating cases they are not at all confined to the narrow limit* of prescribing the justly-celebrated remedies, Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, Pleasant Purgative Pellets, or any other set remediesi however good, but have resort to the whole range of Ihe Mattria Medica, as well as to Turkish and other baths, Swedish movements and other approved remedies and methods of cure. __ Enthusiastic tn its Favor. All housekeepers who have ever used the Charter Oak Stove are enthusiastic in its favor, and say that for all purposes of cooking and baking this stove can not he equaled. The large flues and heavy castings, exposed to the Are, make the Charter Oak especially adapted to our soft coal, which Is destructive to east-iron. The Reservoir is pronounced perfect in its arrangement and operation, heating water, just right. Tn Bone and Muscle-producing Malt, the Nerve-quie ting Hop, tha superb Malarial antidote Calisaya, and other precious ingredients, combined without fermentation, are the ingredients of “Malt Bitters,” prepared by the Malt Bitters Company, Boston.

[Reading(Pa.) Times A Dispatch.] A remarkable core effected In a stobbo ti case is thus recorded by our Benudlle cone* spondent, to whom the invalid made IM statement, which be (tires as follows: II s. Jacob Sunday, of Jefferson Township, W;un, for sereral years, a serere sufferer, and under the treatment of good physicians Ebe grew worse, and was confined to the bot.se for three months, unable to walk, and hart liy able to sit or lie. 8ereral weeks ago she rusolred«to try the .Hamburg Drops. V try shortly after she had taken a dose of ilia remedy, she experienced relief; and was t Ms to walk across the room. She continued to take the medicine and recently declared ierself entirely cured, and is able to attend to her daily work as well as when seven! can years of age. Several Good Things. If you want good digestion, If you want good health, If you want good baking, Ifyou want a good stove. If you want the cheapest stow, If you want a good square n ieal, Buy a Charter Oak Stove. Quality Maintained. The Rochester, N. Y., Exon*t says: "So far as the standard of quality of goo Is is concerned, parties can rest assured the tame will be maintained up to the' present high character. As a remedy for the speedy cure of Bright’s Disease, Diabetes, and all complaints of the Kidneys and Liver, no article of any kind or character can equal it (Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.”) Advantage of Heavy Plates. The soft bituminous coal used in the West is so destructive on all east-iron that the heavy plates in the Charter Oak Jook Stovk will be appreciated by.housekt epers as well as dealers. This advantage, wi 1 excellent draft, quick and uniform baking, make the Charter Oak the most des irable stove in the market. Thb sales of the Frazer Axle Grea sa are increasing every day, because it is as gcod as represented. Wilhoft’s Fever and Ague Tonic, the bid reliable remedy, now sells at one dollar. Would not ba without Redding’a lussia 8aive, is the verdict of all who use it. National Yeast always makes good bread.

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