Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1880 — Page 4

|lensßi*laer|lq?ttblican. MAJOR BITTERS A SOM, ftiMkilfi im4 rroprisSsn. RENSSELAER, 1 : INDIANA.

OUR SHIPS AT SEA. How many at os taw skip* at sea, rrtfcfeted wttfe wtataea mad hopes and fear*, Toaeinf iboutoa the wares. while wa Linger aad watt oa the shore for rear*, Gazina afar through the dlstance dim And sighing, will erer oar ship# oome is? We sent tkem away wttk laughter and tone. The decks ware white ana the sells were new. The fragrant breas as bore them alone, The sea was calm and the skies were blue. And we thought as we watched them sail any Of the >ojr they would bring ns some future Long taw wa watched beside the shore To cateh the gleam of a coining sail. But we only hem the breakers' roar. Or the sweeping night wind's dismal wall, Till oar cheeks grow pale, and oar eyes grow And we sadly sigh, will they ever come Inf Oh! poor sad heart, with It* burden of earns. Its aims defeated, its worthless Ufa That has garnered only the thorns and the tares, >; That la seared and torn In the pitiful strife. Afar on the Heavenly golden shore Thy ships are anchored forever more. —Flormet Grortr, in ChrUtian Union.

THE BEAUTIFUL BHOW. O, thb snow, the boot fall o’ snow. Dear to the heart of the small fellow, Who slide* on his sled down the icy track, A-lylng, as usual, on his stomach, HJdiDj. ‘ > ,1 * along. Shooting stood to the laggard pung. Seeing a female and going for her. And toeeing her up on the swift runner, who, when the comes down, observes a broad grin On the vanishing face of the bad urchin. O. the snow, the boot full o’ snow! Now for a sleigh and a young widow, Ormald (it Is certainly much more fun Than te rumble along In an old wagon)— Prancing, Dancing, ' \ * Glancing by; ’Tie good for the nerves, yes, very, She timidly yields her hands to his. And he shelters her from the cold breeses; The buffalo covers them up to the chin. And he taketh toll at the bridge—cert In. , * • O, the snow, the boot full o’ snow. Heaping the streets and the calm meadow; On the water pipe the frost king sits. And ths plumber goeth on his visits— Loafing, Dawdling. . Trying to sing. With the susceptible cook flirting; He eats and he drinks and he winks at her, And solders the pipe with his gold solder. And he makes enough, ere the day fs done, To buy him a new brown-stone mansion. -W. A. Crofot, in Detroit Free Press.

NIKA.

Victor Blcmenthal was sauntering through the public garden, thinking about the picture he was painting, how the light among the trees suggested certain strains of music tonim, when his eye fell upon a young girl feeding swans, and lingered there. “If I could only carry that face home in my mind's eye and reflect it upon my canvas!” he thought. “She is the very image of Undine nimself.” Just then the child beside her reached across the brim of the basin to toss a crumb into the water, and lost her balance. Quick as thought Victor sprang to the rescue, brought the child up dripping, and confronted*Undine, out of whose face all 'the rose had faded, all the sunshine had fled. “Oh, how shall I thank you? what shall Ido for you?” she cried. “If you had not saved her, how could I have lived? She is my little neighbor, and I promised to be so careful of her. Oh, though you are a stranger, I feel as if you were my best friend!” “Then oblige me by meeting me here again, and telling me how your little fnend bears her drenching/’ he returned, as he put them .into a carriage. Then he went to his studio and tried to limn the face of Undine, and threw down his brush in despair. And the next day, happening into the public garden again, there sne was before him, smiling and blushing, with the child beside her. “I thought perhaps we should meet you here,” she confessed. “Jenny brings her mother's thanks. How can we repay you but with our prayers?” “If you could sit to me—■” “IP* You mean Jenny?” “I mean yourself. If you could come to my studio and let me paint you—” “Oh, you are laughing at me!” “I was never more serious in mv life.” - 3

“Let us go then," she said. “Your picture is long in finishing,” sht remarked one day, after innumerable sittings; .for Victor had every night wiped out what he had laboriously painted in during the day, so difficult Was it to imprison the shadow of his model within the canvas, to lend to Undine the soul that sat ami smiled in Nina’s eyes, to endow her with the spirit that informed the face, flashed in the oval cheek, or trembled about 'the mobile mouth. “ You are tired of coining to me. I tax you too long.” “No,” she replied, “I was only thinking that if I made my flowers so slowly, I should starve.” Victor laughed softly. “ Fame is better than mqney.” “And then Victor threw down his brush- “ The sun is setting,” he said; let us go out upon the bay for inspiration.” And Nina followed, nothing loath. How cool and sweet the hour was out there, with sails blowing out like wings of white gulls in the offing, and pleasure boats loitering or speeding by! How gayly the sun smote the city's spires, and changed the windows*of dingy warehouses on the wharves into precious stones like those of Aladdin’s palace! How much pleasanter all this was than sitting at home, in a dark alley, over her artificial flowers, trying to embody her fancies in velvet and satin! Victor walked to the dark alley in the dusk with Nina, and thought of the white lilies that grew in perfect beauty and sweetness, though rooted in mold and slime. • -

So the friendship grew between Victor an l Nina—Nina, the poor little flower-maker, the last of her race, and Victor Blumenthal, the artist and millionaire—and the picture grew apace. Somehow he dared not finish it, lest Nina should feel her debt paid, and escape him. “oh, what is that beautiful thing?” she asked one day, as he trilled a familiar air while spreading his pallet. ** Did you make it up yourself ?’ r —her face all aglow. “It is an air from an opera,” laughed Victor—“ from Trovator. The honor of ‘ making it up ’ belongs to one Verdi. Have you never heard an Opera?” “ Never.” “Then yon shall hear one to-night. Hold! Trovatore is on the bill for this blessed night. What a coincidence!” And so, when the city lamps were trying to outdo the stars, Victor drew Nun’s trembling hand within his arm, and they became a part of the gay and fashionable world inside the theater. And what a world it was, with all the glitter of lights and beautiful faces, the shimmer of silk and jewels, the odor of musk and sandal-wood, and the kind, handsome face of Victor Blumenthal shining upon her! How the tenor sang out, sweet u syllables of love! how the soprano soared! what depths the bass explored! what pathos, what sorrow, what delight swelled and ebbed with the chords! Did people really love, and suffer, and despair, and triumph like thisP Had she lived through it all herself, somewhere, somehow, that it seemed an echo of her own experience, ° r w ?* iL but » shadow of thing, to come? When the curtain fell, Victor discovered tears in her eyes. Other

people were laughing around her; one tall gentleman almost stooped to look under her hat as he passed, bowed to her companion, and would hare Joined them had Bhnnenlhal been less frigid. “ I hare seen that gentleman before,” said Nina; “he came with a lady who was in a hurry for some flowers’l had promised. He called her Stella.” “It waa hia cousin, Stella Grandelaw.” said Victor. One day Victor, who could no longer find a pretext to continue the sittings, put his picture on exhibition. All toe town was talking of it before night. “Such flesh-tints! such expression! such beauty P 1 “ Yet it does not equal the original,” said Grmndelaw. “No,” returned Victor; “pigment is a poor make-shift for fire and spirit.” At about this time he received news that his only sister was seriously ill in London. He was obliged to drop his pencil and flv to her snthout so much as bidding Nina good-by; but he would write ana explain, he promised himself. In the mean-time Grandelaw found occasion to make friends with Nina. She had happened into a shop to purchase materials for her work; she had laid her pocket-book down for an instant, and not till she had nearly reached the door did she discover that she had taken up, not her own, but another’s plethoric purse. At the same moment a strange hand detained her, and she was accused of theft. “ This lady is a friend of mine,” said Grandelaw, stepping forward to her rescue, having followed her into the shop—“she is a friend of mine;” and the accuser begged a thousand pardons, and obsequiously bowed himself out of sight , After this, what could Nina do but accept him at his own valuation? How conla she avoid meeting him in her walks, and allowing him to accompany her? how refuse admittance to one who had befriended her? And he knocked often, and watched her at her pretty toil, and the intimacy progressed. Sometimes she opened her door, and showed a beaming face, but the smile would fade soon. At other times he observed that she started when a footstep paused outside: she expected some one, answered absently, listened to bis flateries with a far-away look in her soft eyes. One day Grandelaw determined to probe the wound. - “Did yon not sit to Victor Blumenthal for his Undine?” he asked. “It was a picture worth painting: he must hare had a thousand sittings.” “ Not nearly so many,” sighed Nina. “ I should have been jealous, if I had been Mrs. Blumenthal.”

“Jealous!” repeated Nina—“ Mrs. Blumenthal! His mother? ” “ His wife—Victor’s wife.” “ His wife Victor Blumenthal's wife!” “ Oh, then, perhapsyon did not know he was married?” “ He never spoke of it.” “ Because everybody knew it. Come, Miss Nina, don’t look at me as if I was to blame*. Victor Blumenthal was married more than two years ago to his cousin Theodora. If you doubt it I will find you the notice of his marriage among my file of the Tribune. But of course you have no interest in it. What is it to you or me?” “ Nothing, nothing,” she answered. “I do not doubt it.” But she had grown very white, and her eyes shone like wandering stars, and the needle trembled in her hand. “Of course he is married,” she added, in a lighter tone, “ only the idea never occurred to me before —it took me unawares.’ 1 What had Victor Blumenthal meant, she asked herself, "by those words a thought too tender,” by glances that made love plainer than speech? Why had he held her hand till she blushed, and kissed the pink finger-tips? Why had he sought her out, only to break her heart? Did he not love his cousin Theodora? And then she hid her face in her pillow, remembering how her heart had gone out to a married man. Another woman’s lover, and she had mistaken him. for her own! Doubtless this was had neither seen nor heard from him for so long: he had divined her heart, and conscience had made a coward of him. But it should never be said of her that she wore her heart on her sleeve. And when Victor returned with the sister whom he had just succeeded in snatching from the valley of shadows, having written to Nina, but in bis anxiety mailed the letter without an address, she had been engaged to Mr. 'Grandelaw for a month already, and had gone to visit his mother in a neighboring town till the wedding should take place, without leaving any trace behind her. Grandelaw had, in fact, persecuted her into consent. A thousand things had conspired in his, favor. She had fallen ill and into debt, and work had failed, and Grandelaw had sent his own physician to her, with fruits and flowers and wines, had taken her out in his carriage when air was prescribed, and had ended by proposing to take care of her all her life, by winning a reluctant consent to endow her with all his worldly goods. Victor hajl deceived her, or rather she had taken too much for granted, and had deceived herself, and what better could she do than reward the devotion of Grandelaw, who assured her that he had love enough for them both? Everybody was very kind /it Laurel Lodge; everything was fine enough to win a mercenary heart, if Nina had owned one. Nobody hinted that Grandelaw was making an unequal marriage. One day when Nina returned from a gallop aci oss the hills with Grandelaw, there was a tall, gracious woman waiting for them on the veranda, who allowed Grandelaw to kiss her hand, and made Nina a stately bow. “ Have the skies fallen, that we catch larks?” asked Nina's lover.

“ I see that you have already cailght one,” laughed his cousin Stella. ‘ ‘ Stella has come to look at her rival,” said Mrs. Grandelaw, when Nina bade her good-night. "We feared that my son would marry Stella some day. She thought so herself, but I disapprove of cousins marrying.” “ Did she love him?” gasped Nina. “I dare say she loved him well enough; but one survives these things.” ‘*oh, how she must hate me!” cried Nina. But if Cousin Stella hated or loved, she knew how to disguise her feelings; nobody could be gayer or sunnier than she during those days. She sparkled with repartee and anecdote, ana shook her listeners with gales of laughter. Perhaps she was showing Grandelaw what a mistake he had made to choose this sad, shadowy woman instead of herself.

“ f have been sitting for my portrait,” she said one evening. Nina’s heart gave a little stir: had the not sat for her picture once? The moon was shining in through the long windows of iie drawing-room; there was no other light in the room, except the fitful blaze behind the fender. Grandelaw had been called out of town on business for a night or two. “ Indeed, said Mrs. Grandelaw. “Is it not a tedious affair? ” “It would be, perhaps, if any one but Victor Blumenthal were painting Nina started and dropped her fan. Had she come to Laurel Lodge to hear of Victor? “And who is Victor BlumenthalP” asked Stella’s aunt—“ another flame of yours?” “ I have seen no symptoms of' that kind, laughed Stella. “I wish I might. He would make an ideal lover.” “ But he is married,” spoke Nina oat

oi the shadow, aad there was the sound of tears in her voice, if any one had had ears to hear. “He is married, Stella.” “Then Grandelaw has toldyoo about him? Yes: it was bo romantic—and sad.” “ Didn’t the marriage turn out wellF’ asked Mrs. Grandelaw, to whom romance meant nonsense. “That depends,” returned Stella. “He married his ooosin Theodora—” “I have no patience with cousins marrying.” “No? There was no great need of patience in this case. Blumenthal's grandfather had left all the money to Theodora and her mother. Victor was as poor as became an artist to be. 1 suppose Theodora had always loved him, but she insisted upon being married to him on her death-bed, that he might inherit her portion of the fortune. She died an hour afterward.”' Nina sat like one stunned by an earthquake shock; all Grandelaw*a perfidy stood ont like the handwriting on the wall. Victor had loved her after all! His kiss had not been treachery. She would go to him. Shewould leave this prison for ever and ever. How had she ever dreamed of loving Grandelaw some day? “ You have been very kind to me,” Nina said, when she kissed Mrs. Grandelaw good-nigh t. ‘‘ I shall always bless you for it; t>ut —Stella would make Grandelaw a better wife and you a wiser daughter.” “My son and I think differently,” replied his mother; but she remembered afterward that Nina had lingered and hesitated—“ just as if she wished to ask pardon for something,’* Mrs. Grandelaw explained; and when Grandelaw himself retained to Laurel Lodge, there was a little three-oomered note on his library table, in Nina’s hand, which read: “If I should marry you, Mr. Anaon Grandelaw, some day. In looking over your file of old Tribunes, I should happen upon one containing the marriage of Victor Blumenthal to his oouatn Theodora, and the notice of her death on the same day, and your deceit would kill whatever love I had learned to bear you. 44 Bo good-by, and make Stella happ^. — Harper's Bazar.

A Weather-Talker Who Got Left.

These is one Detroiter who will never refer to the state of the weather again as long as he lives. The condition of the weather bas been a hobby of his for years, and he has fairly reveled in he rains and fogs which have been ours since, the New Year. On meeting an acquaintance he has invariably eaid: “Ever see such a winter before? Curious country, this. Who’d have looked Tor spring in January? Have you any idea it will change ? This mud is killing business, but we can’t help it. Ever know of such a succession of fogs?” * Yesterday morning he was coming up town bv the Fort street line. His umbrella fell from his hand as he entered the car. A stranger picked it up, moved along, and tne citizen sat down beside him and said: “Thankee. Terrible weather, isn’t it? Ever see such weather before? We’ll all be sick unless there’s a change. Can you account for this mild weather at this season P” “I’d like to speak a few words to you in private,” replied the stranger, in a guarded voice. “Please get off .the car with me.” ( The two got off together, the citizen greatly puzzled, and when they reached the walk the stranger continued: 1 , “ You remarked, that this was terrible weather. I quite agree with you. You seem to be a well-educated and very observing man, and I am glad to have met you. I hadn’t taken anv notice at all of the weather until you spoke, but I quite agree with you quite.” The citizen cleared his throat, but did not reply, and presently the man went on:

“You asked me if I had ever seen such weather before. I am satisfied that I have at ’some time in my life, but I cannot just now recall the*date. Let’s see! Let’s see! Was it in 1857? No. Let’s see! Well, I cannot recall it now, but; on reaching home I will look up my old diaries. If I can do anything to oblige you I shall be only They walked a block in silence, the citizen amazed and astounded, and then the stranger suddenly said: “Yousaidwe would all be sick unless there was a change. That remark shows your interest in your fellow-men. I quite agree with you—quite. Yes, we shall be ill, and many of us may never recover. I hope you are prepared to die.” The citizen now began to get mad, and after hoofing it for another long block he growled: “ Whet did you want to say to me in private?” “You asked me,” replied the other, as he gestured with bis clenched hand, “if I could account for this mild weather at this season of the year? Yes, sir, I can; but I didn’t want to Sve it away to all in the car. My eory regarding this warm spell can be explained in just two hours, and I’ll go to your office and do it.” “No, you won’t,” was the blunt answer. “But I will! When Iset out to oblige a man I’m willing to spare four hours if necessary.” The citizen crossed the street, hoping to shake the man off, bnt he also crossed and went on: ! “ Having been appealed to by you to explain the cause of this mild ” “See hereT’ said the other, as he halted, “I don’t want any more of you.” “But you asked me to explain.” "I didn’t!” “You are a liar—you did!” “What!” “Don’t bristle up to me with any of your whats!” warned the stranger, “or I’ll knock your nose off! I never allow anybody to trifle with me! We will either go to your office and devote two hours to an explanation of my theory, or Til lick you for asking me useless questions and taking up my valuable time.” The citizen turned pale, looked all around and then made a rush into the nearest house. The stranger waited around a while and then started off with the remark: “Never you mind. sir. I’ll hunt this whole city over but I’ll find your office. No man can get me all worked up on a mild spell of weather and then snub me like a heathen.”— Detroit Free Press.

The Love of a Bonnet.

Since bonnets began, women have always had an affectionate regard for their head-gear, and have given, it may be, more consideration to that than to any other portion of their dress. Even the Ophelias and Madge Wildfires deck their hair with flowers and straws rather than wreathe their bodies with garlands; and there is something reasonable and natural in the act, whether practiced by sane or insane, owing to the conspicuous situation of whatever is thus used, whether wild bramble vines or silk and lace foundations.. The bonnet, of course, sets off the face, and makes the fit contrasts with the oolor of the complexion and hair, with the shape of the cheek and chin, and is, moreover, the very top-knot and finishing point that either ruins all the rest, or else adds a grace that exalts it toperfection. Perhaps men, who have not the necessity of balancing these points, to whom matters of complexion, hair and

curving ovals at face are of no importance eoomarmtively. can not quite realize the value of the bonnet. Ist any woman with a sharp wit who has ever bro^wrin^ very concerning the waste at the vital forces in the purchase at hen. aad enjoys considerable liberty in the affair. And it is really an affair of moment to her, so far as drees is at all of mo meat. Half the time, if her bonnet is all right and not too obtrusive, it is taken for granted that the rest of the toilet is its equal, whether that is the case or not; and half the time, as in carriage or theater, no more or little more wan the bonnet and upper shoulders is seen with any distinctness. Meantime, whatever is her whole dress, an ugly bonnet can destroy what good looks she has; bat a pretty bonnet, from its store of surplus beauty, will lend her good looks that she has not. She borrows for herself some of the idea of the freshness and sweetness of its tints, if it is gay—some of its gentle gravity and sobriety, if it is simple. As the appearance of any thronged Eublic place gains by the charm of the onnets worn there, till an audience is bright as one vast bed of flowers, so eveiy woman personally gains a little by the becomingness and beauty of her bonnet; and it u therefore quite worth while for her to ponder and try this shape and that, this tint and that, this plume, that flower, during a certain proportion of the time that she allows nerself for her toilet from other duties, sufficiently to feel assured that her bonnet will be no mistake, and especially in these days, when every flower, fruit and feather that one can dream of or devise, within bounds, is legitimate adornment, and when the blending of hues and materials, the bending of brims, the drooping of feathers, the crushing and cuning of roses, the poising of nirds, have reached a more artistic point than ever, and one is tempt-, ed to regard that person as a genius who first conceived tne fancy of inclosing so much loveliness in so little space, so that the bonnet itself in all its combinations is as pleasing and as unique as flower or bird. Of course —although they very often do so—those who can have a bonnet for every toilette need not spend as much thought on each specimen as those must who have but one, or at most two, for the season, and perhaps for next season also. For when a wearer is limited, it requires an amount of skill and taste of which the uninitiated have no idea to make that single bonnet suitable for every occasion and every kind of dress—gay enough for concerts and pleasures, not too garish for solemnities, rich enough for calling, sober enough for street wear, of a base that will bear the adding of ornament for evening and more " dressy” needs, its abstraction for the morning shopping or errands, and all the while becoming to the face and not incongruous with the rest of the attire. Heads of houses who must make just such an appearance on just such insufficient money require much more commiseration concerning their bonnets than so small a subject would seem able to bear. But as for the yonng lasses whose bonnets are not all they want when they see the Paris importations in the shops, or the last novelty adding splendor to the appearance of some more fortunate companions, they may make themselves a little happier by remembering that, bonnet or no bonnet, there is no young face without its charm, since the comeliness of youth is itself so great a charm that they will never really need a pretty bonnet less than now, while they recall the verses: Our Beauty’s bonnet. Not a rlUno <• mi upon it— Such a Quakerish little hat! But never a soul that gazes Where such a blooming lace is “ Thinks of aught but the rose on that!” - Harper's Bazar.

Cleanliness of Stables.

We frequently come across remonstrances against keeping harness in stables, the reason given Deing that the ammonia prevalent there rots the leather and soon destroys the harness. Now this is beginning at the wrong end to remedy an ovil. .We may talk and advise “ year in and year out,” about this matter, but harness will be kept in the stable in spite of aIL Where else can the majority of people who keep horses hang these trappings ? A rich man may have a closet m which the harness may hang safely from fear of ammonia and all other dangers; but the average horse owner will have his peg behind the team, because he can have no other way of disposing of the harness. But the trouble would end if the production of ammonia was prevented. Enter an ordinary stable at any period, but especially in the winter, when every cranny through which the wind can come in is carefully stopped, and what an offensive odor offends the nostrils and irritates the eyes. Is this odor of ammonia, strongly alkaline and irritant, injurious only to the harness? What of the horses, and the tender membranes of the eye, the throat and the nasal passages? Do you think they are less sensitive than oak-tanned harness leather, well greased and preserved as it is? By no means. If the prevalent odors injuriously affect the leather, you may be sure the eyes suffer, the throat and lungs are irritated and the nasal passages become inflamed. Then occurs the frequent moon blindness, opthalmia, weeping of the eyes, followed by inflammation, white specks, clouded cornea, and, finally, loss of sight; then follow coughs, bronchitis, pneumonia, heaves, catarrh, nasal fleet; and by-and-by, when the blood as become poisoned by the absorption of diseased matter from inflamed and suppurated membranes, farcy and glanders—dreadful and fatal to man and beast, too—result. And while we think of saving the harness and removing it to a purer place, the beast, which is worth a dozen sets of it, is left to rot from these pungent gases without any help. Clean the stables, and the harness may hang in them safely; and be sure, if the stable is not a fit place for the harness, it is no place for the horse. A barrel of plaster can be procured for about one dollar. It is worth that as a fertilizer. It is worth ten dollars as au absorbent of ammonia, and a hundred as a health preserver to the horses, not counting the saving to the harness. Sprinkle it everywhere, and be liberal with it. —Rural New Yorker.

—Lebanon (Me.) is proud of possessing the stupidest man in the United States. He is a farm hand, and was engaged to plow a ten-acre lot. Wishing him to draw a straight furrow, his employer directed his attention to a cow grazing right opposite, telling him to drive directly toward that cow. He started his horses, and his employer’s attention was drawn to something else; but in a short time, looking round, he found that the cow had left her place, while the sagacious plowman was following her, drawing a zigzag furrow all over the field. < —A little Oil City girl observed her mother measuring cloth by holding it up to her nose with one hand and reaching out to arm’s length with the other. She assumed a thoughtful aspect, and, after cogitating a few moments, asked: “How can you measure cloth that wayP Can you smell a yardP” —Oil City Derrick. —A finished lie may he called an accomplished fact.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Sa*t extracts the juice of meat in oooldng. nan oagnt therefore not to be Mted onto they hare been broiled -» : the best way to rid fields of gopher” is to feed him with corn soaked m a solution of sugar of lend. Crushed and defaced velvet often be restored to its original appearance by holding the wrong side orer boiling water until the steam causes the flattened pOe to rise; or the wrong side may be thoroughly dampened and then drawn several times quickly across the face of a hot flat-iron. Stick all your hair-pins downwards, then yon will not be annoyed by their falling out by the way, neither will your friends te worried with mental calculations as to how long it will be before a hair-pin falls, when it hangs out of your head more than half its length.— Lansing Republican. “Cooking FOB Invalids” gives the following directions for making fig puddings: Chop half a pound of figs very finely; mix them with one-fourth pound of coarse sugar, a tablespoonful of molasses, four tablespoonfuls of milk, half a pound of flour, a quarter of a pound of suet, an egg, and a pinch of grated nutmeg; put the pudding into a buttered mold and boil five hours.

Herk and there may be seen stables and barns with broken windows, loose boards, holes in the roofs, or doors and windows that gape open. Through the openings the cold air will leak in, and the warm air will leak out Through these leaks the farmer’s profits disappear—very silently, it is true, but not the less steadily and constantly. While his cattle stand and shiver in the cool, ■ sharp nights, or steam under the penetrating rain-storms or snow, with every shiver there disappears a quantity of the fodder from tne barn, as well as some milk from the cows, some fat from the sheep and some eggs from the poultry.— Exchange. Most flower seeds are good for more than one year. Asters, stocks and some other sorts are worthless the second season. Of a large number of varieties, a portion will germinate the second year, but not a very high percentage; such are phlox, verbena and many others. Seeds saved in a favorable season, and properly dried, will, of course, remain good longer than those saved in an unfavorable year, or carelessly cured. As a rule, round seeds are good longer than thin, flat ones, and many of tne smallest are good as long as any. Old balsam seeds are generally acknowledged to be better than new. Last summer, in the garden of an old German lady, I saw some flowers from seeds brought from the old country sixteen years before. She had petunias, portulaca and gourds.— -J. B.

Advantages of Mulching.

The advantages of mulching are not so well understood as they should be. The mulch, if applied after the ground is worked, while it is yet moist, will be a grand help in time of drought by retaining whatever moisture there may be. Watering the bare ground, which is the manner in which irrigation is usually practiced, is harmful, while where there is a mulch a little water goes a great way, as the mulch prevents evaporation by guarding against the excessive heat of the sun. Many different materials are used—sawdust, leaf mold, leaves themselves, muck or peat, chaff and straw. These vegetable substances hold water well, and furnish plant food as they decay. Afterward they may be worked into the ground, which they will loosen, and where they still retain their capacity for water. The land is thus manured and the soil mechanically improved. Swamp cuttings or weeds applied green are good. They form a good protection and decay rapidly. Several coats may be applied and worked in during the season, keeping the ground constantly fed and putting a harsh soil in the finest condition. Where the land is quite poor a manure mulch should be given. This early in the season so as to favor the growth at the start. Stable cleaning or any long manure will do. Partly rotten straw will make a good mulch. Apply liberally, that is, give a thick coat, and let it extend well out, as the roots of plants and shrubs, and especially of trees, reach far. A limited mulch, as one so often sees, affords but little benefit, hence follows disappointment. The mulch may be extended with benefit to our hoed crops. With potatoes this is practiced to some extent, and when properly done with the best of success. The moisture and coolness which it secures are the elements demanded by the tuber. Cultivate as long as the haulm will allow, and then immediately after the last stirring of the ground, when the surface is yet moist, apply the mulch. The task will >be less difficult than we are apt to suppose. Straw partly rotted makes an excellent mulch; and so will cut weeds and coarse grass applied green. Weeds seldom make their appearance through a good mulch. The few that do maybe pulled up, thus leaving the land clean, a thing that seldom occurs in a potato patch under the ordinary culture; there is rather an increase of weeds, particularly in size. This is prevented by the mulch, and the substance of the weeds retained in the soil or taken up by the tuber. There is also the fertility resulting from the decay of the mulch, and the increased mellowness of the soil, most admirably fitting the ground for the succeeding crop. Then there is winter mulching, also highly important and underestimated. It affords protection against the frost, especially in shallow and exposed soil where the roots lie near the surface. Much harm to the roots in such case results from exposure. A thick, porous coat is a sure remedy. Leaf mold, obtained in the woods, is one of the very best coverings. If the soil lacks fertility, coarse or long manure may be substituted with advantage. These vegetable coverings, worked in the spring, are partiularly good on clay soil, making a mellow surface, which serves in great part as a mulch, with its vegetable material.— N. Y. Herald.

Wintering Cattle.

Protection of dumb beasts against inclement weather may be said to be the basis of farm improvement. Just in proportion to a man's care for the stock under his charge can yon measure his degree of progress toward the point of perfection that we should all struggle to attain. The higher types of thoroughbred cattle that reach these shores with such blood-like and elegant forms are created almost solely by great care in protecting them through Tong lines of breeding, from the hardening and roughing effects of exposure. In this way we can readily see how much the English stock-breeder is ahead of ns in his system of handling cattle. We are, however, a people quick to imitate the practices- of others when they strike us favorably. In this way we have produced copies of the English race-horse and fat cattle that have been able to stand the test of competition on the other side of the big waters. We thus see not only the importance of protecting stock, but it is evident we are abundantly able to do it when wc set our heads in that direction. By 44 wintering cattle” I mean not only feeding, but in some measure at least protecting them from inclement weather. At the Far West where cattle are handled on a grand scale, it seems impracticable to furnish any pro-

tectioaovtaidetf a^vigwjq^oonatituthere, so far as protection is concerned, may be said to winter themselves. As we oome eastward we find the herds smaller, and copacqpcntly better taken larly there is sometLng of going on in the way of protecting cattle m winter. It was only the other day a dairyman was telling me of often, when a bor, having heard the creaking of the oows’ feet on the oold snow at night, as they moved about the stable-yard, to keep up the circulation. He also said that many a frosty morning he has made the cows get up, that he might warm his bare-feet where they had been lying. So it seems, in days gone by; the boys were not much better wintered than the oows. But even to this day in the best dairy districts it is simply amazing to see the utter neglect of shelter that is practiced by dairymen. The roughest shed will save, in the condition of the cows, a large percentage of feed, while full protection will allow the number of tne herd to he added to fully one-fourth ou a given quantity of feed. In the matter of what constitutes perfect shelter, doctors disagree. I nave seen the very best results m product of milk and health of cows, where * the thermometer in the stable was never allowed to go below sixty degrees in the coldest weather, and the air in the stable was saturated with the smell of manure—there being a total absence of ventilation. This may not be the most profitable temperature for handling cows, but the dairymen who did so, made fortunes. There is one thing certain, however, in relation to the correct temperature of cow stables, the air should never be allowed to fall below the freezing point, if a profit is expected from the milk yield. A cold cow is about as useful for making milk as a frozen pnmp. Young stock require protection with a view to their future usefulness. If they are for beef, then the better the protection the greater the profit from the returns. Ii they are intended for the dairy a little hardening will not hurt them. “Roughing it’” detracts from the fattening tendency, and thereby makes a more profitable milk producer. Feeding and watering are correlative principles with shelter; and in wintering animals they should be treated in respect to one of these practices as they are in the other. The ultimate purposes for which the beasts are intended should govern their treatment, for just as they are wintered will be their future development.— L. 8. Hardin, in Rural New Yorker. —The South raised twelve millions pounds more of tobacco the present season than ever before. And here are two or three million tobacco users who have taken a solemn vow to quit the nse of the weed forever after January 1. Oh, why can't they give the South a chancer —Chicago Times.

Consumption Cured.

An old physician, retired from practice, having had placed in his hands by an East India missionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure for Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma, and all Throat and Lung Affections, also a positive and radical cure for Nervous Debility and all Nervous Complaints, after having tested its wonderful curative powers in thousands of cases, has felt it his duty to make it known to his suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive and a desire to relieve human suffering, I will send free of charge to all who desire It, this recipe, in German, French, or English, with full directions for preparing ana using. Sent by mail by addressing with stamp, naming this paper, W. W. ***lfll, 149 Powers’ Block, Rochester , B. T.

AsMrieaM Traveling Abroad will And all of Dr. Pierce’* Family Medicines on *ale in all principal drug stores and at the London branch of the World’s Dispensary. Great Russell Street Buildings. Golden iUdtoai piuovary u • moat potent alterative or blood-cleansing elixir. It dispels afi humors and cures blotches, pimples, eruptions, king’s evil, or scrofula, enlarged glands, swellings, internal soreness, ulcers, and virulent blood poisons that, unremoved, rot out the vital mnchineiy. Dr. Pierce’a Pellets (little sugar-coated pills) are an agreeable and most cleansing cathartic; remove offensive and acrid accumulations, thereby preventing fevers and kindred affections. World’s Dispensary Medical Association, proprietors, Buffalo and London. Physicians Bat It.—Vegetine gives an equal circulation of the blood. All physicians will agree that there is scarcely a disease but that could almost instantly be disposed of If pure blood oould be circulated generously through the parts affected. Now, this is the way in which Vegetine perforins its wonderful cures. Vegetine is exclusively a vegetable compound, made from roots, herbs and barks. The Deaf Hear Tbrongli the Teeth Perfectly all Ordinary Conversation, Lectures, Concerts, etc.. by New Channel» to t lie Nerves of Heart ng by means ora recent wonderful scientific invention —the Dentaphone. For remarkable public tests on the Dear, also on the Deaf and Dumb, see the N. Y. Herald, Sept. 28; the N. Y. Christian Advocate, Nov. 20, etc. Send for ran pamphlet to the American Dentaphone Co., 28# Vine Street.Oiucinuati.Ohio. Narva. It is a great thing to have what is called nerve, ana nothing contributes more to the Dower of physical control thus named than Warner’s Safe Nerviue. It also relieves all kinds of pain, and cures headache and neuralgia. Two-thikds of all the Axle Grease used In the United States is made by the Frazer Lubricator Company. Buy the genuine. Consolation Is always found In—the dictionary. Piso’s Cure for Consumption is found at all drug stores. C. Gilbebt’s Pat. Gloss Starch for laces, ete.

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