Pike County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 12, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 August 1883 — Page 4

PIKE CCU\TY (IBWI1.1T. Published livery FridayPETERSBrUG, - . INDIANA. A TOWN GARDEN. A plot of ground—the merest scrapbeen, like a dry, forgotten well, A garden caught in brick-built trap, where men make money, buy and sell. And struggling through the stagnant lazo Dim flowers, with sapless leaf and stem, Look up with something of the gaze That homesfok eyes have cast on them. There is a rose against the wall, With scanty, smoke-incrustod leaves; Fair showers on happier roses fail— On this, foul droppings from tho eaves. It pines, but you need hardly note; It dies by inches in the gloom; Shoots in the spring-time, as if by rote; Long has fogotton to dream or bloom; The poorest blossom, and it were classed , With color and name—but never a flower! It blooms with the ro-es whose bloom is past, Of every hue, and plaoo and hour. They live before mo as I look— _ '1 no damask buds that breathe and glow, Pink wild roses, down by a brook. Lavish clusters of airy snow. Could one transplant you—<f ar on high A murky sunset lights the tiles)— And set you 'neath the arching sky. In the green oountry, many miles. Would you strike deep and suck up strength, Washed with rain and hung with pearls, Cling to the trellis, a lonfy length. Sweet with blossom for June and girls? Tet not Who needs you in those bowers? Who prizes gifts that all can give? Bestow your life instead of flowers. And slowly die that dreams may live. - Prisoned and perishing, your dole Of lingering leaves shall not be vain— Worthy to wreathe the hemlock bowl, Or twine about the oross of pain 1 —Margaret Vriey, <n fifarper’s Maoaztne. > » — ■ WHY I PAY BILLS WHEN DUE. Aunt Grace’s Story. *‘Oh, dear!” said Rose Howard, as she looked at the paper which the servant handed her. “That wretched girl is in a desperate hurry to send in her hill for embroidery. Twenty dollars! Just what I had saved to pay for the bonnet and gloves which I must have if I go to Mrs. Lorimer’s reception. I did not expect this bill till I had my next month’s allowance. Well, she must wait, that’s all.” “I would hot make her wait, if I were you, Rose,” said Miss Grace Rowan, looking up from her sowing. “Why, it is only ten days,’’said Rose. “Papa always gives me my aliowance on the first day Of the month, and today is the twenty-first.” “Nevertheless I' would pay her bill to-day,” said Miss Rowan, earnestly. “If it will be of any use to you 1 would nufeh rather lend you the money. I can probably do without it better than

oitv v au. “Thank you, Aunt Grace, but that would not do at all,” said Rose. “When papa consented to give me a regular allowance it was on condition that I should never borrow a penny of any one. But why are you so anxious that the bill should be paid at once? Do you know anything about this girl that you are so sure she is in need of the money?” “No,” said Miss Rowan, “I know nothing about her. It is only on general principles that I am speaking. Not exactly, either. If you choose I will tell you why I never delay a day in paying a bill sent in by a poor person, above all by a poor young girl.” “A story,” said Rose, gayly. “Oh that is delightful. I am as fond of stories now as I was at ten years old. It just comes at the right time, too, for mamma wants me to finish this tablecloth, and I do get so tired of these conventional borders, just the same thing over and over, but a story will make me forget i^ Do go on, aunty.” Rose settled herself comfortably in her low sewing-chair, and dropped her dark lashes over her pretty blue eyes. Aunt Grace smiled ^.little at her eagerness, then sighed faintly and began her tale. “It is a story of the days when I was an elderly young girl, living at home ’with my parents,” she said. “And the heroine of the sfory—you remember those flower-paintings which you have so often admired at mv home. Rose?” 1 “Remember them? Of course I do. Those great velvety pansies with the dewdrops standing upon their purple petals. And the sweet peas, with rings of dainty flush over tremulous white, looking as if a breath would blow them away. And, oh aunty! those exquisite ^ maple-buds and catkins, the soft, furry white ‘pussies,’ mingled with the bright scarlet of the bursting buds. It is like a dream of early spring. But how do they come into your story, aunty?” asked Rose, lifting wide eyes of interest to her aunt’s face. “ Only because the painter of those pictures is the heroine of it,” said Aunt —Grace. “ Cara Hastings was her name. She was much younger than I, an orphan, fighting her way single-handed with the world. Pretty? Well, rather pretty, not very. She had a slight, graceful figure, dark, wistful eyes set in a small, pale face, flexible, tremulous lips and a profusion of soft, dark, wavy hair, which framed her broad forehead ■ like a cloud. “ I met her first at the studio of a friend, and, in spite of the two years difference in our ages, we took a mutual - fancy to each other. After that I was often at her studio, poor little bare place that it was! One room served for everything—kitchen, parlor, studio, bedroom, yes, and reception room for her ails. A broad lounge served for . her by night, and one corner of the room was curtained off to conceal her toilet apparatus. Her cooking, such as it was, was accomplished upon a smal kerosene stove, which, when not in use, she kept’ in her closet A poor little place,, as I said, but Cara was very

“"FFJ' lu “• oue ioveu ner won?, ana she had one of those bright, happy dispositions which make their own" sunshine. She often talked to me of her pupils, but the one of whom she spoke oftenest was Maud X. I knew the name well, for the father of this Maud uras one of the most prominent clergymen in the city where we both lived. Every one respected him, irrespective of denomination. He was not only an eloquent preacher and a profound scholar, of fervid piety and blameless life; he was also a philanthropist, a reformer, prominent in everything that was good and noble. Cara often spoke of him with enthusiasm. “ * It is not only that Maud is such a darling,’ she said, * but I feel it such an honor to be associated in any way with the family of such a man!’ “ All this was in the winter. Sprint: came, and everybody was leaving town. 1 did not go, although all my family did, simply because I did not care to. There is such a pleasant feeling and ' sense of solitude in a large city through July and August that 1 meant to put off my ‘ outing’ until late September. Cara did not go away, either, and we saw a good deal of each other. It was not an unalloyed joy to me, though, for, watching her, I saw that day by “day her cheek grew paler and thinner, her step slower, her eye more feverishly bright. “‘What is the matter with you, Cara,’ I often asked, anxiously, but she only smiled and protested that nothing ailed her, that she was only a little tired with the hot weather.- When fall came she would be herself again. * “I urged her to go ont of town, or at least to come and stay for a while with me in our large, empty house, but no. “ ‘I must work, you know,’ said Cara, ‘must work harder than ever now, that my pupils have all left me for the summer. I could not work with you. My mind would be continually disturbed, and—No, no, my studio is much the best place for me. • But why work so hiadP’ Jisaid,

* Why not take a holiday? Yonr lessons of last winter surely brought you hi enough to enable you to rest awhile now. There were Maud X.’s lessons, which alone would bring you in a small fortune, you said.’ “ * A small fortune? Yes, but small fortunes will not last forever,’ said Cara, slowly. * How do I know that 1 shall have any pupils next year? How do I know?’ ’ “ There was a short, shaip knock at the studio door and a letter fell through the slit, upon the floor. Cara sprang to pick it up, glanced at the address:, which 1 saw was in a masculine hand:, and a faint flush tinned her pale eheeksi. I turned away to look at a picture, while she tore open the envelope. When I turned back the flush had faded, and left her paler than before, her lips were quivering a little, and her eves had a dim, hopeless look, which moved me sorely. “ ‘ Cara, you are not well,’ I oriedi. ‘ Dear child, you must come with me. You shall do exactly as you please. You shall have a room with a north light and be alone when you like, and no one shall ask you a question. We will make excursions into the country, and you shall sketch while I read, and ’— “ But Cara stopped mo with a motion of her hand. ' No, no,’ she said, • I can not come. Do not make it harder for me to refuse by urging me. I must stay here—there is no other place for me.’ “ Her tone was so decided that I felt it would be useless to urge her further, and sadly and reluctantly I left her. That night came the news of tho severe illness of your mother, my only sister, accompanied by an entreaty that I would go to her. Of course I went by the first train next morning, leaving only a note for Cara to explain my sudden departure. “It was the first of August when I had left the city, but September had come and well-nigh gone before your mother’s health was sufficiently established to enable me to leave her. “ ‘ I saw your friend . Cara Hastings to-day,’ said one of the family, as we gathered around the table for the first meal after my return. *1 am afraid the poor girl is in a bad way. She was always fragile, but now she is shadowy. She has a settled cough and a hectic color. She looked very pretty, but I should be sorry to. see any dear friend of mine looking pretty in just the same way!’ • I need not say that the next morning found me on my way to Cara's studio. It was all’ tru*. ' I knew it as soon I looked in her face. She threw herself into my arms with a little cry of delight, which changed, into a spasm of coughing, and I felt the slight form pant and quiver in my arms. “ * Cara! dear child, what have you been doing to yourself?’ 1 cried in dis

may. “ Cara smiled her own bright, cheerful smile. “ 41 have had a very hard summer,' she said, * but I shall soon be strong again. Now that it is all over I can tell you about it, but at one time I refil-, ly thought that I should never live to do' so.’ “It was not a romantic story, for there was no love in it, and no tragedy, save as I plainly foresaw, looking in my poor Cara’s face. “1 suppose I was 'rather extravagant in the spring,’ said Cara, ‘for 1 needed a good many things, and I knew that the money for Maud X’s lessons would keep me all summer. Maud and her mother left town rather suddenly in J une, and I did not know where their had gone. I sent my bill to the house, however, not doubting that it would be paid at once. I waited a month, and in the meantime my funds ran very low, and I found that the strictest economy was necessary. Do what I would, however, the money melted away like water, and at last, in despair, I resolved to write to Dr. X. It was a hard thing to do, but I did it, merely telling him that I had sent in my bill to Mrs. X. at such a date, and having heard nothing from her, feared that it had not been .forwarded. It seemed to me that life and death hnng upon the answer, yet I did not really doubt that he would send the money at once. His answer came one day while you were with me.’ *“I remember,’ I said, briefly. 44 ‘There was no money inelosed, as I had expected,’ continued Cara. 4 lie merely informed me that the bills lor Maud's lessons and schooling were always settled by Mrs. X.; that the bill had been duly forwarded to her, and that, no doubt, she would settle it promptly upon her return in September. And I had just sixty cents in the world!’ “‘My poor Cara!’ I cried, ‘What did you do?’ 44 4 Do? What was there to do?’ said Cara. 4 Fort unately, my rent was paid for three months in advance, so that, I was sure of a shelter, at least. For the rest, I lived for a month upon that sixty cents. Of course I could not afford to buy fuel, so bread and water constituted my entire diet. Two rolls a day are not very satisfactory, but it was all I could afford. Two cents a day will not set a luxurious table. Hungry? I think I was not so much hungry as weak. The worst of all was that I could not paint. I had not the strength to stand before the easel, and my blind shook so that I could not manage the brushes, and, sometimes, it really seemed that my mind wandered. Dear, you must not feel so badly about it. It is all over now.’ “For I was crying silently at the thought of all that she had suffered through that horrible summer, and still more at the thought that it was not all over, that, alas! it had just begun. “Oh, Cara! why would vou not come to me when I begged you?” I sobbed at

“'Dear, I could/not,’ said Cara, gently. ‘I should have felt like a beg■gar. I could not tell you of my straits, and I could not go ana live upon you, knowing that I was actually a pauper. I should have felt ashamed even before your servants. If you will ask me for a visit now that I have money enough to make me independent, I will come; but at that time I could not—I tried, but, indeed, I could not.’ “Ask herP of course I asked her, knowing well that it was the last tilling I should ever do for her. That month's starvation had done its work, and the weakened system fell an easy victim to the hereditaiy foe, which might else have been baffled. When Cara left our house, at last, it was with hands meekly folded upon her breast, with the sightless eyes veiled by their long, dark lashes, and the smile of the triumphant redeemed upon her pallid lips.” Aunt Grace’s lips were quivering and her eyes dim with tears as she finished her story. Rose had dropped her work and sat with her eyes fixed upon her aunt’s face. “How did Dr. X. feel when he heard of it?” she asked, at last. " He never knew it,” said Aunt Grace. “ When I take up the religious or secular papers and read! the burning and eloquent words in which he pleaded the cause of some benevolent object, I wonder what he would say if he knew the true stray of the life and death of his daughters drawing teacher, little Cara Hastings.” “ But he ought to know it,” said Rose, indignantly. “It was hardly his fault, after all,” said Aunt Grace, gently. “ He rould never imagine of what consequence a sum of money, which seemed trifling to him, might be to a poor girl. But that is the reason why I always pay my bills promptly, Bose.” Rone stood up, put away her work

and her crewels and left the room. A few minutes afterward she returned, oloaked and hatted for thp street “ Thank you for your story, Aunt Grace,'* she said, as she buttoned her glove. ** I am going down now to pay that bill, and as for Mrs. Lorimer’s reception—well, I can wear my old bonnet or stay at home.”—N. Y. Observer,f French-Canadian Peasants. The French-Canadian peasants are generally rather small, but sturdy, looking, but their rather heavy faces are not animal and course. Even the young women are very seldom pretty, but they are all wholesome, modest and unaffected. As they advance in life they beconre stout, and reach old age with a comfortable and placid expression. The beauty of the race seems to be confined to the children, who are bright, robust and cherubic. Thus the people are externally unprepossessing, but the more I study them, the more I like them for the quiet courtesy and perfect simplicity of their manners, and their hospitality and unfailing kindness. Several types of Canadians were there, each standing as a page of the country's history. There was the original Canadian, the ' peasant of Normandy and Brittany, just as he was when first landed on the shores of the St. Lawrence over two hundred years ago; he has kept his material and mental traits with such extraordinary fidelity that a Canadian traveling now in those parts Of France seems to be meeting his own people. He is a small, muscular man of dark complexion, with black eyes, a round 'head, rather impervious, and an honest face, rather heavy with inertia. He sums up the early days of Canada, ! when endurance and courage of no or- ; dinary stamp were require? to meet the want, the wars and the hardships of their struggle. And his phenomenal conservatism was not a whit too strong to preserve his nationality after the conquest of Canada by a race having entirely opposite tendencies. There also was the Canadian with Indian blood; he is by no means a feeble element in the population, in either numbers or influence. He is often well marked with Indian features — high cheeks, small black eyes and slight Deard. The most characteristic specimens are called “petits brules,” like burned stumps, black, gnarly and angular. But now and then you meet large, fine-looking half-breeds, with a swarthy complexion warmed with Saxon blood. There were no women of low character sent to Canada in the early days, as there were to New Orleans and the Antilles; the few women who came sufficed to marry only a small portion of the colonists, so that many of the gallant Frenchmen, and later some of the Scotch and English, engaged in the fur trade, married squaws, and founded legitimate families of half-breeds. Thus Indian blood became a regular portion of the national muscular, well-knit.

uuuy; anu me national policy oi alliance and religions union with the savages helped the assimilation of Indian traits as well as of Ind.an blood. There was also the Saxon who had become a Gaul. There are Wrights, Blackburns. McPhersons, with blue eyes and red hair, who can not speak a word of English; and there are Irish tongues rolling off their brogue in French. Some of these strangers to the national body are descendants of those English soldiers who married Canadians ana settled here after the conquest. Others are orphans that were taken from some emigrant ships wrecked in the St. Lawrence. But these stragglers from the conquering race are now conquered, made good French Catholics, by the force of their environment, and they are lost as distinctive elements, absorbed in the remarkable homogeneous nationality of the French-Canridian people. The finest type of Canadian peasant is now rare. He is a descendant of the pioneer nobles of France. After the conquest (1763) some of these noble families were too poor to follow their peers back to France; they became • farmers; their facilities for education were very limited, and their descendants soon sank to the level of the peasantry about them. But they have not forgotten their birth. They are commanding figures, with features of marked character, and with much of the pose and dignity of courtiers. Some of them, still preserving the traditions of their sires, receive you with the manners a Prince might have when in rough disguise.—C. H. Fariiham, in Harper’» Magazine. To Starch and Polish Fine Shirts. The shirts must be well washed and thoroughly rinsed. The clear whiteness of clothes depends largely on the final rinse water. After rinsing them wring from hot starch made in the ordinary way; that is, dissolve in a new tin or porcelain-lined dish a quantity of starch in cold wafer, pour over it boiling water until it is about as thick as molasses, stirring all the time while pouring in the water, and till the consistency is uniform; add a bit of white soap in fine shavings, or a lump of sugar, or a bit of butter, or a little white wax and spermaceti, and boll about one minute. When the starched clothes are perfectly dry wring them through cold starch, made by dissolving a teaspoonful of fine starch in a quart of cold water with a saltspoonful of pulverized borax added, roll them up and let them lie an hour or two. Have the ironing table perfectly clean, and a bowl of clean water, with -a clean linen doth near it to rub off any specks that may appear on the linen. Iron first the body of the shirt, then the band and then put the bosom over the bosom-board and rub it smooth with a linen cloth, removing all surface bits of starch, if there are any to remove, lay a thin cloth, an old handkerchief will do, over the bosom and pass the fiat-iron lightly over, remove the cloth and iron the bosom till it is perfectly dry. A bit of wax melted in a piece of brown paper will give the surface of the iron smoothness, if it is rough. When the first ironing is done, lay the bosom on a board covered with a single thickness of muslin, pass a wet cloth over it to dampen it slightly, and then go over it with a polishing-iron, bearing on hard, and rubbing till the linen shines. This iron can bo bought at house-furnishing stores for seventyfive cents or one dollar. Experiment first on an old shirt. Practice makes perfect.—N. ¥. Tribune.

Damietta. The town of Damietta, whioh gives it* name to the eastern branch of the Nile,_ is about four miles from the sea, and is situated between the river and Lake Menzalah. It is a town of some thirty thousand inhabitants, showing many signs of former prosperity, but now in a dilapidated and semi-ruinous condition. The channel of the river is but shallow, and across its mouth there lies a bar of sand, which shifts with every wind, so that the approach is dangerous to all vessels anil impracticable to very many. Besides, Damietta has lost the trade which it once possessed, not only through physical reasons of this kind, but because of the successful rivalry, first, of Alexandria, and then of Port Said. It is in this town that the outbreak of cholera, which has already proved so disastrous, first appeared.—London Times. —A New England editor, who is supposed to have "been three,” remarks that “most people don’t know what a terrible punishment tarring end feathering really is.’’

put against them, as they hare a very short i-oot. A spirited horse in use at Kirby homestead became dangerous to drive on account of his dodging. Being'a very intelligent animal, it was for a long time a problem why he was si> foolish, as he would spring suddenly to, one side when passing almost every dark object. The conclusion was readied that his eye-sight must be defective, and it was supposed that he might be near-sighted—born so. There was no appearance of inflammation about the eyes indicating any local disorder. This horse had wolf-teeth, which had probably grown when he was a colt. As an experiment they werB taken out. This horse has improved wonderfully since they were extracted, and dodges very little compared tt' his former practice. It would be wise to remove all wolf-teeth as soon as they may be observed, rather than take the chances of their effect on the eyesight.—F. D. Curtis, in N\Y. Tribune. Duck-Raising,

Docks are suspected -of being the least remunerative of all varieties of poultry. The general impression among farmers is, that a-pond or brook is essential to the raising of ducks or other water fowls. They may be raised, however, for the supply of the table, without more water than the common dunghijl fowls. Ducklings want water to drink just as chickens do, and probably enjoy larger license for swimming, but it is not essential 1o their health while growing. A wellgrown duck of any of thalarger varieties, Pekin, Rouen, Aylesbury or Cayuga, iti one of the greatest delicacies that comes to our table, and we would not consent to be without it, at any reasonable cost. Roast turkeyis an epicurean delight, but we do not want k every week. Chicken-pie it) good enough in its place, but a‘change to roast .dunk after the holidays is appetizing. * Erory country gentleman who means to live generously, and entertain his friends with the best the rural districts afford, should patronize ducks. We have raised them with entire success in a viillage yard, and they can be made a paying crop wherever hens will flourish. We place the Pekins tit the head of the popular varieties, considering their hardiness, the delicacy of flesh, and their great laying qualities. The first, bird imported of this variety laid over two hundred eggs in a year, and it is not" unusual to have the ducklings commence laying in the fall instead of waiting until the following spring—as is the general rule with other varieties. The Rouen, Aylesbury and Cayugas are Bne breeds, and under favorable conditions; give fair returns for the labor a nd food spent on them. Ducks can be raised unquestionably with most profit near water swarming with fish. Parsons located upon tide water coves have the best facilities for raising water fowls. These coves are frequented by fish for the purpose of spawning, and the young fry linger through the spring and summer in the shoal water togather their food. Every tide brings in fresh supplies of food for the ducks, and after the first month of confinement in the yard, the keeping of the duckling costs very little, until, they are four or five months old, when they generally bring their highest prices in the districts that supply the city markets. Ducks are not without their aesthetic value. The Gayuga drake has brilliant plumage, and the male of the wood duck, though small, is among the finest water fowls that have ever been domesticated. The Pekins and Aylesbu:rys are the most desirable to raise, whore there is a large range for them in tide water and lakes, as their white color distinguishes them from the wild ducks, and guards them against the shot of the sportsman. They are pleasing object smpon any small, body of water in private grounds, ancl add to the variety and. profit of the poultry yard.—Amirtcan Agriculturist. Sawdust, Heavy, clayey lands need something* to 1 ighten them up, and this islpne use at least that sawdust can be put to with much advantage. There are people owning small pieces of such land who live where sawdust may be obtained, and they will do well to use this mechanical agent for opening up close and ten acious lands. Soils of this kind, it is well known, require a great deal ef preparation before they are suited to growing profitable crops. They need something to render them loose ard porous, and somettiing at the same time which will not be in the way and bin dor cultivation. This sawdust will do in a most satisfactory manner, and as it Is light, cheap ana easy to handle, it is even better for the mere mechanical amelioration of stiff land than straw, litter or barnyard scrapings. It adds but little of manuiial elements to the soil, though of couirse it possesses some virtue in inis respect. Its chief value consists in being' finch a good opener and pulverizer of stiff land. Twentyfit* wagon-loads to the acre of any clayey or tenacious soil, spread over the surface and then plowed in will have a marked effect before the close of the first season, rendering the ground forms and free to move before the plow or hoe. There is much land on which sawdust may be used with fine effect.—San Francisco Chronicle. —There is no purifier Eke fresh alt;, and the whole house, every room in ft, tv Hether it has been used or not, should cm opened every day. Many hous-i-keepers, who are faultless in every oth- »■ respect, neglect the proper airfng cl sho" house, and the germs of disease are developed, and sickness which eau not be accounted for overtakes the Vimd*

•' * . USEFUL ASP SUGGESTIVE. —Many, fruit trees do poorly from a lack of proper drainage of the soil. V—Good culture, frequent stirring of thp soil^is the great factor in corn grow- *• ■ —A single toad on a. lawn or in the garden is of more value than a whole swarm *of sparrows. And he is a sweeter singer, too.—Chicago Inter Ocean. —Planting crops for honey is receiving attention from all large apiarists to supply the lack of honey that comes between the blooming of the fruit trees and of the white clover. —When a field has once been brought to a good crop-producing condition, it should never be allowed to become poor again. It pays to keep the fields in “good heart.”—N. T. Examiner. '—Spiced plums are delicious To eight pounds of plums allow four of sugar, one teaspoonfnl each of . cinna•mon and cloves, and one small cup of vinegar. Cook until they are thick as ]elly.—Cincinnati Times. —If you have occasion to use cloths wet in hot water about an invalid, do not (try to wring them out of the water. Phe best way to prepare them is to steam them; they can be handled then with, comparative ease. —Georgia farmers have been so worried by tramps that they are putting up largo farm bells to be rung as. an alarm in case of need. The clamor will be loud enough to summon a dozen families.—Atlanta Constitution. —Veal Cutlets: Veal cutlets are very nice if dipped in eggs, then in jfine bread crumbs, with pepper, salt, and a little parslev chopped and mixed with the bread, tlave some fat, very hot, in the pan before you put the cutlets in. Alter frying the veal pour most of the fat out of the pan and make a rich, brown gravy. Serve with mashed potatoes, turnips and tomatoes. —Detroit Post. —A delicious chocolate pudding is made of one quart of milk, three ounces of chocolate, six eggs, one cup of sugar and two teaspoonfuls of vanilla. Boil the milk and stir in the grated chocolate. When this is dissolved, take from the fire and stip in the beaten yelks of six eggs; then add the sugar and vanilla. Bake in a pudding-dish for half an hour, and make a meringue of the whites of the eggs, with three tablespoonfuls of sugar beaten with them.— N. Y. Post.

Farmers’ Food Of all men the farmer should feast upon the fat of the land. He is the producer of all that is good and it comes first into his hands. He receives it in all its pristine purity and excellence. By the sweat of his brow he has earned it. It is his, and if he parts with it, it is his own fault. Do not understand me as saying that the farmer should live high and fast, that he should be an eater of delicacies and a drinker of sweet drinks. The farmer should eat good food and drink goad drink, not that which tickles his palate and wars with his stomach, but that which is nutritious and easily digested; in short wholesome food. That ne can do so needs no proof. Food is rendered unwholesome by time. It is the action of oxygen that produces the decay of vegetables and flesh, and this renders them unwholesome. But as the farmer is the producer he can always have fresh, wholesome food, grain and vegetables in season. The dwellers in cuies are often compelled to eat tainted meat, butter and vegetables; the flesh of diseased animals; the refuse and poorest quality of fruit; because some of these evils can not be .detected and others can not be avoided. But the farmer'ean pluck fruit when it is neither green nor over-ripe; lie can have fresh vegetables through the warm months; if an animal is diseased he is aware of it. * If he eats unwholesome food he can not excuse his so (kwaig on the score of necessity. * God gave man meat and grain for strength, vegetables for health, and fruit for pleasure. Yet while these are distinctively the office of each they all are necessary to health. Man's body is so constituted that for the nutriment necessary to maintain its healthy'action it demands a variety of food; and to supply that demand the same wise hand that fashioned it has made the golden grain, the herb and vegetable, the luscious fruit, the beasts of the fields, the fish of the seas, and the fowls of the air. Yet the farmer, who of all men has the least excuse for doing so, most neglects these wise and bountiful provisions of nature. His meat is pork, and pork alone; his bread is wheat or corn; and vegetables and frujt he often has not. At all seasons fruit and vegetables should be eaten, but in summer the demand for them is the most urgent. It is then that the system calls rnbst loudly for such nutriment and then that it is slow suicide to eat bread Sind pork alone. Meat contains a large proportion of carbon; this .carbon unites with the oxygen taken into to that of any other form of combustion, they produce most of the animal heat j>f the body. This is just what is needed in cold weather, for then the cold atmosphere is continually seeking to rob the body of its heat. Because it is needed there is an appetite for it. We have a normal desire for meat in winter; the inhabitants of the Arctic regions drink seal oil. But in summer it a just what is not needed. Then the great desideratum Is to reduce the animal heat, for the hot atmosphere tends to keep it in an excessive supply. Meat should be avoided. the act of breath their union, similar

uui wuaii »uau lunu cnt.r naiuio never creates a want that sh^does not at the Fame time create a supply for it Fruit and vegetables contain very little oil or rarbon, and therefore arc the proper Tood for hot weather; and it is just at this season that they may be had for the asking of nature. Health is the condition which nature would give to all: it is our ignorance or indifference (hat creates disease. All the variety of food needed to maintain the healthy action of our bodies is at hand, and each article is obtainable when needed. The nature of my quarrel wilh farmers has, perhaps, become apparent. I ftccuseatnem of relying too muoh upon pork and bread for food, and of neglecting to provide themselves wilh vegetables and fruit. Any one who is familiar with the life of farmers knows that I have just grounds for my accusation. How often do they sit down to a table where fruit and vegetables are conspicuous only by their absence? Notice the farmers’ gardens and orchards as you take a drive through the country and how many of them will you pnd meager and neglected! People of Bedentary occupations could not live upon the diet that half the farmers of this country subsist upon. The vigorous bodily exercise of the farmers’ occupation end the purer air he breathes are all that saves him from continued ill health. He who has the use of an acre ol ground can live well. He can fare sumntuously. Upon one-fourth of that space of ground ne can raise all the vegetables and fruit that he will need. To have plenty of wholesome and palatable vegetables and fruit does not require much capital, much labor, or much special knowledge. It is not the expense, it is not the care and trouble, that hinder farmers from having plenty of fresh vegetables, but their Indifference. It is not because they can not, but because they will not, )}ve well John Meloy, in ftairie Farther

How Ho Took Him. Tom Brown was an ignorant, queer boy, and was constantly doing things o£ an unaccountable nature. One day a lady lor whom he had been doing chores said to him: “Tom, you’re an odd genius.” “Yes’m,” replied Tom, not knowing exactly what she meant. “I don’t quite comprehend you.” “What, mum?” “I mean I don’t know how to take you.” . “Dad does.” “How?” “He takes me by the seat of the breeches, mum, and the nape of the neck, and shakes me like I was a rat.” The lady did’t indulge in that sort of * ’comprehension. ”—Cincinnati Merchant and Traveler. § —Count Roscommon set Omaha society into a flutter until he gave a wealthy girl he was particularly attentive to a magnificent diamond broocfi. The girl was not only wealthy, but sensible, and being sensible, was suspicious; so she inquired of a jeweler about the jewel, and found that it was worthless. The career of the Count Roscommon consequently and immediately ended in gloom.—Denver Tribune.

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The following synopsis of a lecture delivered by Dr. Horace R. Hamilton before the New York Society for the Promotion of Science contains so much that is timely and important that it can be read with both interest and profit : There is probably no subject of modern times that has caused and is causing treater attention than the origin of tornaoes. Scientists have studied it for the benefit of humanity; men have investigated it for the well are of their families. It has been a vexed subject long considered, and through all this investigation the cyclone has swept across the land carrying destruction to scientists as l^fcll as to the innocent dwellers in its track. One thing, however, is certain; the cause of the cyclone must be sought far awftv from the whirling hody of wind itself. "Its results are powerful; its cause must also be powerful. Let us therefore consider a few facts. First, the appearance of a cyclone is invariably preceded by dark spots upon the face of the sun. These spots, indicating a disturbed condition of the solar regions, necessarily affect the atmosphere of our earth. An unusual generat ion of heat in one part of the atmosphere is certain to cause a partial vacuum in another portion. Air must rush in to fill this vacuum. Hence the disturbances—hence the cyclone. This theory finds additional confirmation in the fact that tornadoes come during the day and not at night. The dark spots upon the surface of the sun, whatever they may be, seem to cause great commotion in the atmosphere of the world, and it is almost -certain that the extremely wet weather of Hie present season can be accounted for on precisely this basis. Is it reasonable to suppose that the marvelous effect of the sun on vegetation and life in general spall he less than upon the atmosphere itself through which its rays oomef The cause is remote, but the effeot is here. After describing some of the terrible effects of the cyclone, the speaker went on to say:— This rule finds its application in nearly every department of life. An operator is in San Francisco—the click of the instrument manipulated by his fingers, in New York. The President makes a slight stroke of the pen in his study at the White House, and the whole nation is aroused by the act. An uneasiness and disgust with everything in life, commonly called homo-sickness, is felt by many people, when tbe cause is to be found in the distant home thousands of miles away. An uncertain pain may be felt In the bead. It is repeated in other parts of the body. Tbe appetite departs and all energy is gone. Is the cause necessarily to be fonnd in the head f The next day the feeling increases. There are added symptoms. They continue and become more aggravated. The slight pains in the head increase to agonies. The nausea becomes chrbnic. The heart growB irregular, and the breathing uncertain. All these effects have a definite canse; and, after years of deep experience upon this subject, I do not hesitate to say that this cause is to be found in some derangement of the kidneys or liver far away from that portion of the body in which these effects appear. But one may say, I have no pain whatever in my kidneys or liver. Very true. Neither have we any evidence that there is a tornado on the surface of the sun; but it is none the less certain that the tornado is here, and it is none the less certain that these great organs of the body are the cause of the trouble although there may be no pain In their vicinity.

I know whereof I spoak, for I have passed through this Tory experience myself. Nearly ten years ago, I was the picture of health, weighing more than 900 pounds, and as strong and healthy as any man I eyer knew, when I felt the symptoms I have above described, they caused me annoyance, not only by reason of their aggravating nature, but because I had never felt any pain before. Other doctors told me I was troubled with malaria, and I treated myself accordingly. I did not believe, however, that malaria could show such aggravated symptoms. It never occurred to me that analysis would help solve the trouble, as I did not presume my difficulty was located in that portion of the body. But I continued to grow worse. I had a faint sensation at the pit of my stomach nearly every day. I felt a great desire to eat, and yet I loathed food. I was constantly tired and still I could not sleep. My brain was unusually active, but I could not think connectedly. My existence was a living misery. I continued in this condition for nearly a year; never free from pain, never for a moment happy. Bach an existence is far worse than death, for which 1 confess I earnestly longed. It was while suffering thus that a friend advised me to make a final attempt to recover my health. I sneered inwardly at his suggestion, but I was too week to make any resistance. He furnished me with a remedy, simple yet palatable, and, within two days I observed a slight change for the better. This awakened my courage. I felt that I would not die at that time. I continued tho'use of the remedy, taking it in accordance with directions, until 1 became not only restored to my former health and strength, but of greater vigor than I have before known. This condition has continued up to the present time, and I believe I should have died as miserably as thousands of other men have died and are dying every day had it not been for the simple yet wonderful power of Warner’s Safe Cure, the remedy I employed. The lecturer then described his means of restoration mere in detail, and concluded as follows: My complete recovery has caused me to Investigate the subject more carefully, and I believe I have discovered the keyto most-ill-health of our modern civilization. I am fully confident that four-fifths of the diseases which afflict humanity might be avoided were the kidneys and liver kept in. perfect condition. Were it possible to control the action of the snn, cyclones could undoubtedly be averted. That, however, is one ef the things that can not be. But I rejoice to say that it Is possible to control the kidneys and liver: to render their action wholly normal and their effect upon the svstefn that of purifiers rather than poisoners. That this end has been accomplished largely by means of the remedy I have named I do not have a doubt, and I feel it my duty to moke this open declaration for the enlightenment of the profession and for the benefit ef suffering humanity in all parts of the world. $ Beats awl—the shoe machine.—Boston Commercial Bulletin. Dr. Pierce’s “ Pellets”—little liver pills (sugar-coated)—purify the blood, speedily correct all disorders of the liver, stomach and bowels. By druggists. v It is no longer polite to speak of a man as having been hanged. Say he went to the other world as an 44 assisted emigrant.” —Chicago Inter Ocean. Not a drink, not sold in bar-rooms, but a reliable, non-intoxicatirig tonic medicine, useful at all times, and in all seasons, is Brown’s Iron Bitters, What is the difference between a dull razor and a dull boy ? None; for they both get strapped. Redding's Russia Salve Is the most wonderful healing medium in the world. Try It. Flies, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice crows, cleared out by “Rough on Rats.”15e Roebung has resigned from the charge of the Brooklyn bridge, and it can be said of him that heis ap-engiueer without a pier. Beautiful Women arc made pallid and unattractive by functional irregularities, which Dr. Pierce’s 44 Favorite Prescription” will infallibly cure. Thousands of testimonials. By druggists. ih Ilobson calls accompaniments “baldheaded music”—because they haven’t got any air.—Burlington Free Fress. Fob years I have been afflicted with HayFever. I gave Ely’s Cream Balm a trial. The relief was immediate. I regard myself cured. G. Schreuser, Supt. of Cordage Co., Elizabeth, N. J. Price 50 cents. Wise’s Axle Grease never gums. Be careful in your conversation with the steeple-chase riaer—he takes a fence easily. —Boston Commercial Bulletin. [Conyers, Ga.—Dr. W. H. Lee says: 'Brown’s Iron Bitters is a good medicine and many are using it in this place.” A man can afford to lose a bad temper, and by not advertising for its return make money. Oke pair of boots or shoes saved every year by using Lyon’s Patent Metallic Heel Stiffeners. Glenn’s Sulphur Soap Supersedes oily unguents or salves for cutaneous eruptions. Ir afflicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c. Inventors’ Hand-Book—Free.—Just out. How great fortunes have been made. History of inventions; valuable to all who read and think. Order it by postal card. N. W, Fitzgerald, Solicitor, Washington, D. C. Don’t Die in the House. “ Rough on Rats.” clears out rats,mice, Bios,roaches bed-bugs. ISo. Hostetter's Stom-u-li Bitters, by inreaslng vital power. I ml rendering the physical functions oiiiUTta _j

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GOOD NEWS FROM! TEXAS. Ny Mr. Thomas A. Howard, of Honey Grove, Tannin County, Texas, under date of April 5, ISO, writes aa follows: “I have been suffering during several yean from severe Illness, and a general breaking down of my * physical system, and hare tried the treatment and proscriptions of mipy doctors far and near, and traveled j to the Hot Springs and other mlueral springs famous ~N for their remedial qualities, drinking the waters and bathing systematically in their healing depths, but all to no avail, as 1 steadily failed in health; and although informed by my physicians that my ailments and weaknesses were the result of kidney disease of a dangerous character, they could give me nothing to cure me. During the past two years my sufferings at times were dreadful, and I had the most indescribable pains In the regions about the kidneys, the paroxysms of which were so severe as to rend 'r It Impossible for me to sleep. While in this deplorable and discouraged condition I was persuaded to try Hunt's Remedy, and after using less than half a bottle my great sufferings and paroxysms of pain were entirely relieved, and I could sleep better and longer than I had In two years before, add although I am now on my third bottle only my improvement Is very remarkable, and I regret that I did not know of the wonderful curative powers of Hunt's Remedy before, as it would have saved me years of suffering. 1 heartily recommend It to all affllctvd with any kidney disease or disease of the urinary organa.” ••HIT MY CASE EXACTLY.” Please allow me to speak In the highest terms of 4 * Hunt’s Remedy. ” for It hit my case exactly. 1 had kidney and urinary trouble pretty bad. I was recommended Hunt’s Remedy. 1 took one teadtoonful as directed. I felt a decided change at the first dose. I took two bottles, and have felt like a new man ever since. Please receive the sincere thanks of myself for the benefits which I sought vainly for and found only In Hunt’s Remedy. “I will cheerfully give this same opinion of Hunt’s Remedy to any one who wishes it, by addressing “ROBERT D. ARCHER. *1111 Llnnard Street, Philadelphia. “March 14,1S83.* Home Items. —All toot o »n (knit Jf yon remain sick when yon c.n Get hop bitten that neve —The weakest woman, smallest child, and sickest invalid can use hop bitters with safety and great good. —Old men tottering around from Rheumatism, kidney trouble or any weakness will be almost new by using hop bitters. —My wife and daughter were' made healthy by the use ot hop bitters and I recommend them to my people.—Methodist Clergyman. —Ask any good doctortf hop Bitten arc not the best family medicine ^ Oh earth. —Malarial fever. Ague and Biliousness, will leave every neighborhood as soon as hop bitters arrive. —“Mymother drove the paralysis and neuralgia all out of her system with hop bitters.”—Ed. Oswego Sun. —Keep the kidneys healthy with hop bitters and you need not fear sickness. —Ice water is rendered harmfess and more refreshing and reviving with hop bit- * ters in each draught —The vigor of youth for the aged and infirm in hop bitters l —“ At the chnnge of life nothlDB cquaj Hop bitters to allay all troubles incIdeak Thereto." —“ The best periodical for ladles to take monthly and from which they will receive the greatest benefit is hop bitters.” „ —Mothers with sickly, fretful, nursing children, will cure the children and benefit themselves by taking hop bitters dally. —Thousands die annually from some form of kidney disease that might have been prevented by a timely use of hop bitters. —Indigestion, weak stomach, irregularities of the bo.\vels, can not exist When hop bitters are used. —Attmely • • • use of hop Bitters will keep a whole family In robust health a year at a little cost. —T9 produce real genuine sleep and childlike repose all night, take a little hop bitters on retiring. • - —That indigestion or stomach gas at night, preventing rest and sleep, will disappear by using hop bitters. —Paralytic, nervous, tremulous old ladies are madejierfectly quiet jtnd sprightly by . using hop bitters.

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