Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1880 — Page 4

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A 'ttACHBBT 8 DM AM. Twss Satvrteytick*, aad a teMtar m* Atom, toer teak rnytiw: „ BbaaranvaAtttoaadahaararacad that Of til her ctasswro doing; She reckoned pereeafcwe. to many boys. And to many yirt» >M coanteef , And marked all the tardy and abaenteea, Andtovtat til the absence amounted. Mames and reaidenee wrote la full, * Over many eohtiMS and pa<e*; Taakee, Teutonic. African. Cal*. And arerared aU their «es: The date of adaaSstoa of eveay one. And cnees of fla<eHatlon, And prepared a Het of the rmduates For the comina examlnatton. Her weary head sank low <m her book. And her weary heart still lower, , For some of her pupiU had little brain. And she couß not furnish more. She slept, she dreamt; rt seemed she died. And apirit went to Hades. And they met her there with a question fair. “State what the per cent, of your grade la. ” Ages bad slowly rolled away, Leering but partial traces, AmdTthe teacher's spirit walked one day la the old familiar piece*-, A mound of foosilfaedscbool reports Attracted her oteervatton; . As high as the State House dome, and as Wide . As Boston and annexation. She eeme to the spot where they buried her An<f tbeground *u well built over. But laborers digging threw out a skull Once plantedlien cat h the clover. A disciple of Galen, wandering by, Paused to took at the diggers. And plucking the skull up, looked thro* the eye. And saw it was lined with figures. “Just as I thought,** said the young M. Ik, “ How easy it Is to kill 'em— Statistics ossified every fold. Of cerebrum and cerebellum;” " It's a curiosity, sure, said Pat, “ By the bones can you tell the creature?” “Oh, nothing strange.’’ said the doctor, “ that Was a nineteenth century teacher. —AUkm« Journal.

THE SURGEON OF THE DOLLS’ HOSPITAL.

It was nearly four years ago that I first noticed, m one of the quiet side streets in the West Central district of London, a sign over a door on which I read: DOLLS’ HOSPITAL. OFKKATIONS FROM 9 A. M. TO 4 P. M. Whenever I passed through the street —and that was often, for it was a short cut to Mudie’s, the largest circulating library in the world—l used to notice this quaint sign, and wonder, laugh* ingly, who was the superintending physician to this place of healing for the numerous race of dolls. I often thought I would go in and see the establishment; but one is always busy in London, so, very likely, I should never have entered its door but for a .-asualty at my own fireside. When I went down stain one morning I heard a sound of weeping, as bitter as that of Rachel of old , mourning for her children. The mourner in this case wus Mistress Brown-Eyes, as I was wont to call my friend's little girl. She was a pretty child, this little Milicent; but you forgot to think about the rest of her face when vou saw her wonderful eyes —soft and clear, yet bright, and of the warmest, deepest, Jet softest brown. She had made her ome in my heart, and so her grief, whatever it was, appealed at once to my sympathies. ••My darling,” I said, as I tried to draw away the little hands from before the sorrowful face, “ what can be the matter?” , “Bella is dead;” and the sobs recommenced with fresh violence. Bella was the best-beloved of a somewhat large family of dolls—a pretty Parian creature, with blue eyes and fair hair. I had myself lately assisted in making a trunk of clothes for Bella; and I grudged sorely all: my wasted labor if she had come to an untimely end. ' ‘ , I looked at the dear remains, stretched out sadly upon a chair. Bella was evidently very dead indeed. Her pretty neck was broken—her fair, foolish head lay quite severed from her silken-clad body. Suddenly there flashed into my mind the thought of the dolls’ hospital. I spoke cheerfully. “ Brown Eyes/’ I said, “ I think that Bella may recover. I am pretty sure that her collar-bone is broken; but I have heard of people who got well after breaking collar-bones.” The child looked up, her eyes shining through tears, and said, With thatair of grave, old-fashioned propriety which was one of the most amusing things al>out her: •• It is a very serious accident. Do you think Bella could recover?” “ 1 hopeshe may; and I shall at once take her to the hospital.” “The hospital I” cried Mistress Brown-Eyes; “ but that is where Mary Ann went when she had a fever. She was gone six weeks. Will my Bella be , gone six weeks?” “ I think not so long as one week, if she can be cured at all.’* In five minutes more I was in the street, with Bella in a basket on my arm. Her little mother had ■ covered her carefully from the cold, though it was already May; and I felt as if I were in a position of grave responsibility as I hurried to the dolls’ hospital. A bell rang when I opened the door, and the oddest little person stood before me. - At first I thought it was a child masquerading in long clothes; for she was not more than haff the height of an ordinary wom-n. But, looking more closely, I saw the maturity of her face, and realized that I stood in the presence of a grown-up dwarf, who might really have been taken for Dickens’ Miss Mowcher, herself. She was dressed in a long straight gown of rusty-looking black alpaca, and her rusty-looking black hair was drawn straigntly back from as plain a face as one. often sees. It was a kind, honest face, however, and I liked the voice in which she asked how she could serve me. I explained my errand. “Please to let me see the patient.” She spoke with as much gravity as if she had been the superintending physician of the largest hospital in London. I unveiled poor Bella, and the dwarf lifted her from the basket with grave tenderness. “Poor little beauty!” she said. “ Yes'm, I think I can cure her.” “Will the operation take long?” I asked, humoring her fancy. “I should prefer that the patient should not be moved, ma’am, before tomorrow.” “ Very well; then I will leave her.” Just at that moment I heard a voice call, “Sally! Sally!” • It was a well-trained, lady-like voice, but somewhat imperious. “Tea, Lady Jane, I’ll be there in a moment,” answered the dwarf, whom I now knew to be Sally. Then a door opened, and the most beautiful creature I ever aaw, stood in it, looking in. The hospital was a bare enough place. There was a great table covered with dolls—dolls with broken legs, dolls with punched beads, dolls with one arm gone, hairless dolls, broken-backed dolls, dolls of every kind, awaiting the ministrations of Sally; and dozens of other dolls were there, too, whom those skillful fingers had already cured of their wounds.* There was a shelf, op which was ranged the pharmacy of this hospitalwhite cement, boxes of saw-dust, collections of legs and arms, wigs, everything, in short, that an afflicted doll oould possibly require. Then there were two or three wooden stools, and these completed the furniture of the

twelve yean old. She ware a bi—takhtir thA hung ri Snbsrt‘hl?Sft pink and white face, oat of which looked two great, serioos, inquiring blue eyes. “I will be through soon. Lady Jane,” Sally said, quietiy; and the girl turned away, bat not before I had taken in a complete picture of her loveliness, and had noticed also a somewhat singular ornament she wore, R’tanhod to a slender golden chain. It was so strange a vision to see in this humble little shop that my curiosity got the better o< me, and, after the door had closed on Lady Jane I asked, “ Does she live here?” “Tes’m,” answered Sally, proudly. “ In a way, she is my child. 4 I hesitated to inquire farther; but I think my eyes must have asked some questions in spite of myself, for Sally said, after amoment: ’ “You seem interested, ma’am, and I don’t mind telling you about her. I saw Lady Jane first some eight yean ago. A man had her who used to go round with a hand-organ. She was such a pretty little creature that everybody gave her money, and she was a great profit to Jacopo, for that was his name. “It need to make my heart ache to see the little beauty trudging round all day on her patient feet. When Jacopo spoke to her, I’ve seen her turn pale; and she never used to smile except when she"waß holding out her bit of a hat to people for money. She had to smile then; it was part of the business. “ I was sixteen, and I was all alone in the world. I had a room to myself, and I worked days in a toy-shop. I used to dress the dolls, and I got very clever at mending them; but I hadn't thought of the hospital then. “I lived in' the same street with Jacopo, and I grew very fond of the little lady, as the people in the street used to call Jane. Sometimes I coaxed Jacopo to let her stay with me at night; but after three or four times, he would not let her come again. I suppose he thought she would get too fond of me. "Things went on that way for two years; then one night, in the middle of the night, a boy came for me and said Jacopo was dying and wanted me to come. I knew it was something about Jane, and I hurried on my clothes and went. “The child was asleep in one corner. She had been tramping all that day, as usual, and she was too tired out for the noise In the room to wake her. Jacopo looked very ill, and he could hardly summon strength to speak to me. “ • The end has come sudden, Sally,’ "he said, ‘the end to a bad life. But I ain’t bad enough to want harm to happen to .the little one when I am gone. There will be plenty of folks after her, for she’s a profitable little one to have; hut if you want her. Til give her to you. Tou may take her away to-night, if you will. •• • Indeed I will,’ I cried, • and thank you. While I can work, she shall nev-' er want.’ “Jacopo had been fumbling under his pillow as he spoke; and when I said I would take the child he handed me a curious locket. Maybe you noticed it at her neck when she stood in the door? •* He said, as nearly as I could understand, for' it was getting hard work for him to speak that ne had stolen the child, but he had always kept this thing, which she had on her neck when he took her, and perhaps it would help, some day, to find her people. “So I took her home. The next morning I heard that Jacopo was dead, and the Lady Jane has been mine ever since.” “ Have you always called her Lady Jane?” I asked. “Yes’m. There is a coronet on that locket she wears; and I know she mnst be some great person’s daughter, she is so beautiful, and seems so much like a real lady.”. -“And so you’ve struggled on and worked for her, and taken care of her for six years, now?” “ Yes’m, and I’ve thanked God every day that I’ve had her to take care of. You see, ma’am, I’m not like other people; and it was a good fortune I couldn’t look for to have a.beautiful child like that given into my arms, as you might say. It was all the difference between being alone and with no one to care for, and having a home and an interest in life like other women. “I -gave up working in the shop when I took her, for I didn’t like to leave her alone. I was a good workwoman, and they let me take work home, for awhile; then I opened the hospital, and I’ve done very well. Lady Jane has been to school, and I don’t think if her.true parents met her they would be ashamed of her.” “Do you ever think,” I said, “that they may meet her some time, and then you would loose her forever?” “Yes, indeed, I think about that, ma’am; and I make her keep the locket in sight all the time, in hopes it might lead to something.” “ In hopes!” I said, surprised, * “ you don’t want to part with her, do you?” I was sorry, instantly, that I had asked the question, for her poor face flushed, and the tears gathered in her eyes.

“O ma’am,” she said, “if I stopped to think about myself, I suppose I should rather die than lose her; but I don't think of anything but her. And how could I want her, a lady born, and beautiful as any princess, to live always in a little room back of a dolls’ hospital? Would it be right for me to do it? “ No; I think Goa gave her to make a few* of my years bright; and, when the time comes, she will go away to live her own life, and I shall live out mine, remembering that she was here, once; and barking back till I can hear the sound of her voice again; or looking till I see her bright head shine in the corner where she sits now.” Just then the bell rang, and other customers came into the hospital, and I went away, promising to return for Bella on the morrow. I walked through the streets with a sense that I had been talking with some one nobler than the rest of the world. Another than poor Sally might have adopted Lady Jane, perhaps, tended her, loved her; but who else would have been noble enough to love her, and vet be ready to lose her forever, and lire on in darkness, quite satisfied if but the little queen might come to her own again? 1 comforted Mistress Brown-Eyes with a promise of her “ child’s” recovery, and I went to a kettle-drum or two in the afternoon, and dined out at night; but all the time, amidst whatever buzz of talk, I was comparing the most generous persons I bad ever known with the poor dwarfed surapon of the doll’s hospital, and finding them all wanting. I went for Bella about four the next afternoon. 1 wanted to get to the hospital late enough to see something of the little surgeon and her beautiful ward. I purchased a bunch of roses on the way, for I meant to please Sally by giving them to Lady Jane. . I opened the door, and again, at the ringing of the bell, the quaint little figure of the dwarf surgeon started up like Jack-in-the-box. “Is the patient recovered?” I asked. “ The patient is quite well:” and the surgeon took down pretty Bella, and proudly exhibited her. The white cement had done its work so perfectly that the slender neck showed no signs of having been broken. I paid the

weD pie—ed toacoopC the terimthehotpitelitoefi w— barren of attraction. I really wondered at the taste with which it was arranged. The hangings were blue, and two or three low chairs were covered with the same color; and there were pretty trifles here and there which made it seem like a lady’s room. My roses were received with a cry of delight; and while Lady Jane put them in a delicate glass, Sally made me sit down in the moot comfortable ehair; and then she asked her ward to sing to me. The girl had a wonderful mice, soft and clear and full. When she had done singing, Sally said, “I have thought sometimes that, if no better fortune comes. Lady Jane can sing herself into good luck. “Z oount on something better than that,” the Uttle lady cried, carelessly. “ When I • come to my own,’ like the Princesses in all the fairy tales, I’U send you my picture, Sally, and it will make you less trouble than I do. It won’t wear out its gowns, nor want all the strawberries for supper.” Sally didn’t answer; but two great tears gathered in her eyes, and rolled down her cheeks. Lady Jane laughed—not unkindly, only childishly—and said: “Never mind. Don’t cry yet. You’ll have time enough for that when it all comes to pass. And you know you want it to happen; you always say so.” “Yes, yes, dear, I want it to happen,” Sally said, hastily; “I couldn’t want to shut you up here forever, like a flower growing in a dungeon.” “A pretty blue-hung dungeon, with nice, soft chairs.” Lady Jane said, pleasantly; and then I got up to go. Had this beautiful girl any real heart behind her beauty? I wondered. If the time ever came when Sally must give her up to some brighter fate, would it cost the little lady herself one pang? Could she be wholly insensible to all the devotion that had been lavished on her for all these years? I could not tell; but she seemed to me too light a thing for deep loving. I carried Bella home to Mistress Brown-Eyes, who received her with great joy, and with a certain tender respect, such as we give to those who have passed through perils. I stayed in London till “ the season” was over—that is to say, till the end of July; and then, with tha last rose. of summer in my button-hole, I went over to the fair sea-coast of France. It was not until the next May that I found myself in London again; and going to renew my subscription at Mudie’s, passed the dolls’ hospital. I looked up at the quaint sign, and the fancy seized me to go in. I opened the door, and promptly as ever, the dwarf surgeon of the dolls stood before me. It was nearly four o’clock, and the hospital was empty of customers. Nothing in it was changed except the face of Out of that always plain face a certain cheerful light had faded. It looked now like a face accustomed to tears. I said: “Do you remember me, Dr. Sally?” A sori frozen smile came to the poor trembling lips. “Oh yes’m. You’re the lady that brought the rose-buds to Lady Jane.” “ And is she well?” I asked. “I think so, ma’am. Heaven knows I hope so; but the old days when I knew are over. Won’t vou come into the sit-ting-room, please?” I wanted nothing better for myself; and I felt that it might ea4e her sad heart to break its silence; so I followed her into the familiar room. It, at least, was unchanged. The blue hangings were there, and the low easy-chairs, and the pretty trifles; apd yet, somehow, the room seemed cold, for the beauty which had gladdened it last year had gone forever. J “ Will you tell me what happened?” I asked; and I know the real sympathy I felt must have sounded in my voice. “ It wasn’t long after you were here,” she said, “ a lady was driving by, and she saw my sign. She sent her footman to the door to see if the place was really what that said; and the next day she came in herself and brought a whole load of broken toys. She said she wanted these things put in order to take into the country, for they were favorite playthings of her little girl’s. “I'•turned then and lookea at the child who had come in with her mother. I can never tell you how I felt. It was as though Lady Jane had gone back six years. Just what my darling was when she came to me, this little girl was now —the very same blue eyes, and bright fair hair, and the pretty pink and white face. “Just at that moment. Lady Jane came into the hospital, and when the lady saw her, she stood and gazed as if she had seen a ghost. I looked at the lady herself, and then I looked at Lady Jane, and then again at the little girl; and true as you live, ma’am, I knew it was Lady Jane’s mother and sister before ever a word was spoken. I felt my knees shaking under me, and I held fast to the counter to keep from falling. I couldn’t have spoken first, if my life had depended on it. “ The lady looked for what seemed to me a long time; and then she walked up to my darling and touched the locket that she wore on her neck. At last she turned to me and asked, with a little sternness in her gentle voice, if I would tell her who this girl was, and how I came by her. “So I told her the whole story, just as I had told it to you, and before I had finished, she was crying as if her heart would break. Down she went on her knees beside Lady Jane, and put her arms around her, and cried: “ •€> my darling, my love, I thought you were, dead! I am your mother—oh, believe me, mv darling! Love me a little, a little—after all these years!’ “ And just as properly as it she had gone through it all in her mind a hundred times beforehand, Lady Jme answered: “ T always expected you, mamma.’ “ Somehow, the lady looked astonished. She grew quieter, and stood up, holding Lady Jane's hand. “ ‘ You expected me?” she said, inquiringly. “ ‘Yes, you know I knew I had been stolen, and I used to think and think, and fancy how my true mother would look, ana what my right home would be; and I always felt sure in my heart that you would come some day. I didn’t know when or how it would be; but I expected you.’ “ ‘And when will you be ready to go with me?* asked the mother.’ “ ‘ When you please, mamma.’ “ The lady hesitated, and turned to me. *lowe you so much,’ she said, ‘so much that I can never hope to pay it; and Ido not like to grieve you. But her father and I have been without Jane so long, could you spare her to me at once?’ “ * That must be as you and she say, ma’am, I answered, trying as hard as I oould to speak quietly. *1 never have wanted anything but that she should be well MT and happy so far, and I won’t begin to stand in her light now.’ “ Then the lady turned to the little Sri who had come in with her. ,‘ Ethel,’ e said, • this is your sister. She has been lost to us eight years, but we will keep her always now? And then, with more thanks to me, .she started to go away—the stately, beautiful lady,

my right home, but Tm sorry to leave yow.’ . “ And then she put her arms round my neck and kissed me just as she had done when I took her home that night from Jacopo’s six yean before; and then she went away, and the sunshine, it seemed to me, went out of the door with her, and has never eome back since-** • . J The poor little surgeon of the dolls stopped speaking ana cried very quietly, as those cry who are not used to have their tears wiped away, or their sorrows comforted. I wanted to say that Lady Jane seemed to me a heartless little piece, who cared for nothing in the world but henelf, an <T Wasn’t worth grieving for; but I felt there would be no comfort for her in thinking that there had never been anything worth having in her life. Far better let her go on believing that for six vears she had sheltered an angel at her fireside. At last, when I saw her tears were ceasing to flow, I said, “ And when did you see her again?” “ Oh, I have never seen her since that day. I think she pitied me too much to come back and give me the sorrow of parting with her over again. No, I have never seen her, but her mother sent me five hundred pounds.” “ And so' she ought,” I said, impulsively. “It was little enough for all you had done.” Surgeon Sally looked at me with wonder, not unmixed with reproach, in her eyes. “Do you think I wanted thatT' she asked. “ I had had my pay for all I did ten times over in just having her here to look at and to love. No—l sent the money back, and I think it must be that my darling understood; for two months afterward, I received the only gift I would have cared to have—her portrait. Will you please to look round, ma’am; it hangs behind you.” I looked round, and there she was, even lovelier than when I had seen her first—a bright, smiling creature, silk-en-clad. patrician to her finger-tips. But it seemed to me that no heart of love looked out of the fair, careless face. I thought I would rather be Surgeon Sally, and know the sweetness of loving another better than myself. “ She is very beautiful,” I said, as I turned away. “ Yes; and sometimes I almost think I feel her lips, her bonny bright lips, touch my face, as they did that last day, ana hear her say, * Don’t think, Sally, that I’m not sorry.’ Oh, my lot isn’t hard, ma’am. * I might lived my life through and never have known what it was to have something all my own to love. God was “ And after all, ma’am,” she added, cheerfully, “there’s nothing happier in the world than to give all the pleasure you can to somebody.” And I went away, feeling that the dwarf surgeon of the dolls’ hospital had learned the true secret of life.— Louise Chandler Moulton, in Youth's Companion.

The New Departure in the Public Schools.

At length the old system which has endured so long seems crumbling, and new methods and new ideas appear on every side. That old system, the system beloved by the true pedagogue, is only too well known. It is the jiystem of routine and of cram, and there are few people under forty who have not at some time suffered under it. To excite interest or arouse enthusiasm has not been considered the task of a master in the common schools. On the contrary, an interested school-room would probably be rather noisy, and hence objectionable. Scholarship has been held to consist in learning textbooks by heart, and irC answenng by rote such questions as were printed for the masters use; that school has been the best where the routine was most iron bound, where children were drilled in their exercises like soldiers in the manual, and where excellence, in the one case as in the other, depended on turning human beings into machines. Now, apart from the fact that such discipline is pernicious, because it enfeebles the mind by overloading it with undigested matter, and crushes out originality by discouraging all independent thought, it is equally objectionable on other grdunds. Long experience has proved that it is a doubtful blessing to teach a man to read, and then turn him upon the world to pick up such further education as the cheap literature of great cities affords. The immense sale of sensational newspapers of the worst proves the truth of this fact, and is admitted to be one of the most threatening signs of the times. There is no use in attacking the publishers of criminal literature by indictment, and by fine and imprisonment. Where there is a demand there will be a supply, all the laws in the statute-book to the contrary notwithstanding. The true way to suppress such publications is by lessening the demand, and this can be done only by educating the children in the common schools to read something better. That much can be done In this direction the believers in the new departure are thoroughly convinced, and that without any great expense or radical change, except in bringing common sense to bear upon the educational problem.—March Atlantic. *

Musn’t Do It Again.

Am accident occurred in Thomaston some years ago in connection with the Naugatuck Bailroad Company, that has probably never appeared in print. Aman by the name of Darrow owned a number of cows, and one day they escaped the confines of their pasture and strayed on to the car-track. The engine of a passing train ran over and killed two of the animals. Next day Mr. Darrow went to Mr. Waterbury, then Superintendent of the road, and, after explaining the matter of his loss to him, asked him what he would do about it. Said Mr. Waterbury: “Was any damage done to theroad, as you saw?” “Why, no, not as I know of,” said Darrow. “Was the engine or any of the cars injured in any way? “ No, of course not,” said Darrow. “Well, then,” said Waterbury, “ if no damage was done to the company, I won’t do anything about it; but you must be careful nest to allow such a thing to occur again.”— -Waterbury (Conn.) American. Patbick and Biddy were engaged And time set to be married; But Biddy flirted, Pat got mad, And so the plan miscarried. Then Biddy soothed her wounded heart. „ And was to Michael wed; , Miohael fell down between two can And home was carried dead. _____ —Otsego Tribune. Thbt were sitting silently by the parlor fire, intently watching the hands of the clock as they slowly crawled around to the biggest striking-place. Suddenly she said : “Mr. Lourdand, can you toll me why you are like a century plant?” Mr. L. nervously adjusted his eye-giium, wiggled about in his chair and stammered: “Be—be—becaw—cause I sh—sh—shall I—l—live for—for—for—forever F’ ‘’No, you duitoc; it’s because it takes you so tong to leave.”

potting soil to placed for a day cr two fa the W yard every particle of it> BWLVS*' SsV® your cabbages from grabs by winding a little atrip of paper loosely uwtd the stem from roots to leaves when set oat. We set a lam number of cabbages last year, and not one that we wound the paper around did we lose by grabs. To destroy cabbage worms sprinkle them with hot water.”Cocoanut Pre—One small cup of prepared cocoanut soaked in a pint of sweet* milk, two powdered crackers, yelks of two eggs, four tablespoonfula of sugar and a small lump of batter; mix all thoroughly and bake without upper crest; beat the whites of two eggs well, and when the pie to done, spread them evenly over the top; sprinkle over a little sugar, and set back in the oven until it is of a light brown. Fowls will need the beet food if eggs are deaired. Wheat steeped in boiling water and given hot, and hot baked potatoes crashed with a masher, are as good food as can be given; water slightly warmed with a small quanity of sulphate of iron (copperas) in it, will be useful Allspice mixed with cornmeal mush is an excellent condiment, and by no means costly. Laudanum in ten-drop dooes has been found a remedy for chollera. or poultry intestinal fever, which has destroyed so many flocks.— Poultry World. Cream Pastry.—To a quart bowl of the cream add one and a half small teaspoonfuls of saleratus or cooking soda, dissolved in two tablespoonfuls of boiling water and allowed to boil up for a minute or two. Beat it into the cream, and as soon as it foams stir in one quart of flour that has just been sifted. Add enough sifted flour to roll out very soft Be very careful not to mix up stiff, but put in only enough flour to keep it from sticking to the fingers and rollingpin. If richer pastry is desired, bits of butter or lard can be rolled into the paste. Angbl Cakb.— The following has been well tested and always proves delicious*. Take one large coffeecupful of the best flour and add to it a teaspoonful of cream tartar; sift it through a fine sieve four times. Beat to a stiff froth the whites of eleven eggs. Add to them slowly, as if you were making frosting, one and a half coffee cupfuls of powdered sugar and one teaspoonful of extract of vanilla. Then stir in the flour, sifting it in through the fingers slowly. .Bake in a deep, unbuttered tin, and do not remove from it until quite cool, and frost it. Half-moon scolloped tins, four or five inches in depth, are used by the fancy bakers for this kind of cake.— Detroit Post and Tribune. Am old gentleman who has been planting groves upon the prairie for more than thirty years was pointing out the excellencies of his belts of trees, and remarked that he had just learned how to plant and care for them. He gave the following advice for growing valuable hard-wood timber: Plant in rows, alternate with soft maple; space between rows of hard wood trees, ten feet; between hard and soft wood, five feet; trees four feet apart in the rows; trim the soft wood just enough to keep from choking the hard word, which will then grow tall and straight. Where he hsoft maple or willow AWne foj/wqpH the former has made sixtpgmds per? acre in twelve years andLtne latter one hundred cords.— KepHuk Gate City. \

Home Market for Cheese.

Oub dairy industry seems to be blind to the advantages of its best market. A very low estimate must be placed upon the taste of our citizens in reference to quality of cheese by our factory managers. Perhaps, however, their indifference to the home market arises from a disbelief in its importance. Notwithstanding all that has been said at dairymen's associations about the necessity of tempting the home market with the very best cheese made, the refuse is still sent to our villages and country stores, and thrust upon those who would eat cheese, until those who know what wholesome cheese is cease to inquire for it. It is only the distant market that is considered, and dairymen are elated or depressed as the news from that is favorable or otherwise. • We have a population capable of consuming all the good cheese made in thw country. It would be not only conducive to their health, but they are quite able to pay for it. There is considerable foreign cheese imported into our cities. Probably one hundred thousand dollars' worth of Stilton is imported and consumed by those who prize such a delicacy. It would seem that this should, awaken American enterprise, for we can make as good Stilton as is made in England, and sold to us at three prices of our best cheese. Our soil is peculiarly adapted to the production of rich milk. Our milk will bear a higher cream standard than that in Europe. Extra cream is added to Stilton cheese; but there is jittle doubt that our best Jersey milk would make prime Stilton without any additional cream. If this delicious cheese were made in this country, large quantities of it would soon be consumed. at a much better profit than is now obtained for any cheese exported. Our people pay high prices for “gilt-edged” butter, and they would not hesitate to pay a price as comparatively high for cheese of the same extra quality. In England and Europe meat is consumed in mu ch lower ratio per capita than in this country, and the laboring population supply its place with cheese of a common quality and at a less price according to food value. Now, it would be better for us to ship our lower grades of cheese to supply this peculiar market than to force it upon our home market, which is quite able to take the best. And sending these low grades to supply this demand tor cheap cheese need not injure our credit for good cheese because it will be sold for what it to, and our finest grades will keep up our reputation for quality. Meat is so comparatively cheap in this country that our most economical population prefer that to a low grade of cheese. It is quite true that the best way to get rid of our poor cheese is to stop making it, as there to no excuse for making poor cheese from whole milk; but we make some fair qualities of cheese at our creameries after lightly skimming for butter, and this has already acquired a reputation as healthy food among the farm and factory laborers of England. To double our consumption of cheese at home it is only necessary that every country and village store, as well as those of our cities, be supplied with a prime quality of cheese. And, to suit the most fastidious tastes we should make a cheese equal in every particular to Stilton. Il certainly shows a want of proper dairy enterprise to allow the demand for the best cheese to be supplied from abroad. If one-half the enterprise had been exhibited in educating our own people to the use of a high quality of cheese that there has been to baud up a foreign market, we should have heard nothing pf ruinously low prices. Let us feci a just pride in our success in Opening a largo foreign market, which to destined to become more profitable than in the past, but lot us Mot forget that greater and more lucrative market ready to receive our goods at home.— national Live-Stock Journal. - 1

women look into their mirrors and safeisfy themselves.— Somerville

Advice to Consumptives.

Momm, howevw uncleanly, would drink ■Mggh wster., A drioMng whteh tej? patient nut keep ths window of Ids bedroom open. Night air is frosh air without daylight. In dose, crowded rooms, ths patient guttering from lung eomptotata breathes consumptively. By taking these precautions and using Dr. Pteke’s tioMen Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets, fully one-half <d the cases of lung complaints wows be cured hi six months. For cough and irritation of the lungs do not always Indicate the presence of consumption although it may result in that disease, and if conenmptionhas already become deeply seated in the system, tills Is the most efficient course tit treatment that can be pursued outside of any institution that provides special facilities for the treatmeet of thia disease. Dr. Pieroe’s celebrated Invalid’s Hotel is such an institution. Send stamp for descriptive pamphlet containing also a complete treatise upon consumption, explaining its causes, nature, and the best methods of treating it, together with valuable hints concerning diet, clothing. exereiM. etc., for consumptives. Address World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. T.

Consumption Cured.

Ax old physician, retired from practice, having had placed in Ms 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 Com- . plaints, 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 ail 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. Shxmajb, 148 Powers’ Hodc, ifaJusttr, If. T. Aix Diskasbs or ths Blood.—ls Vuwnxu will relieve pain, cleanse, purify and cure such diseases, restoring the patient to perfect health after trying different physicians, many remedies, suffering for years, is it not conclusive proof, if yon are a sufferer, you can be cured! Why is this medicine performing such great cures! It works in the blood, in the circulating fluid. It can truly be called the Great Stood Ptiryier. The great source of disease originates tn the blood; and no medicine that does not act directly upon it, to purify and renovate, has any just claim upon public attention.

Beware of Malaria. The prevalence of malarial diseases in country ana town indicates a danger to which we are all exposed. These diseases are easy to contract and hard to eradicate. But Warner’s Safe Pills neutralize the poison and cure them. And they are equally effective against all bilious troubles. Fob sore throat, gargle with Plao’s Cure, mixed with a little water. Relief is instant. Druggists keep Dr. Dodge’s Heart Corrector. Richardson <fc Co., St. Louis, Mo. Redding’s Russia Salve is unequaled for chilblains, chapped hands, frost bites, etc. John M. Kiley is now in Europe selling the Frazer Axle Grease. C. Gilbert’s Laundry, PaLGloss a Corn Starch.

THE MARKETS.

New York, February 23,1888. LIVE STOCK—Cattle 87 60 @BIO 26 Sheep 500 @ 625 to Choice”.'.'.' 6fO @ 775 WHEAT—No. 2 Chicago 142 @ 143 CORN—Western Mixed. 58 @ SO OATS—Western Mixed 47%@ 48% BYE—Western W © 85 FOBK-Mess 11 CHEESE n © 14% WOOL—Domestic Fleece 43 © 58 CHICAGO. BEEVES—Extra 85 00 ©8540 Choice 450 @475 Good 430 © 440 Medium 375 @ 420 Butchers' Stock 250 @ 375 Stock Cattle 260 @ 366 HOGS—Live—Good to Choice 400 © 475 SHEEP—Common to Choice. 400 © 550 BUTTER—Creamery 31 @ 86 « Good to Choice Dairy S 3 © 28 EGOS—Fresh 12%© 13 FLOUR—Winter 600 © 700 Springs .- 500 © 575 Patents. 600 © 800 GRAlN—Wheat, No. 2 Spring 1 24K@ 1 24% Corn, No. 2 87J4@ 37% Oats, No. 2.. 32 © 32% Rye, N 0.2 ...;. 75 © 75% Red-Tipped Hurl 5%@ 8 Fine Green.. 6>;@ 7 Inferior 5 © 5% Crooked 3 © 4% r9SK-Mess 11 87%@ 12 00 Common Dressed Siding. 816 00 @Bl7 50 Flooring... 24 00 @ 30 00 Common Boards 12 50 @ 15 00 Fencing J ~ 13 03 @ls 00 Lath 235 @ 260 A Shingles 265 © 270 BALTIMORE. CATTLE—Best 84 50 @ 85 25 Medium 325 @ 4 ffi HOGS—Good 800 @ 675 SHEEP 4 5) @ 650 EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE—Best 85 00 @ $5 25 Fair to Good 400 @ 4)5 HOGS—Yorkers 440 © 450 Philadclphins.......*. 4>5 © 500 BHEEl’—Best 400 @ sin Common 3 5-1 '■< 3eq

vntmauawota PURE COD LIVED L OIL AMD LIME. J T« Owe an* AU.—Are you suffering from .* Couch, Cold, Asthma, Bronchitis, or any of the various pulmonary troubles that so often end in Consumption? If so, use " Wilbor"! Curs Cod-Liter Oil and Lime,” a safe and sure remedy. This Is no quack preparation, but is regularly prescribed bj the medical faculty. Manufactured only by A. R WILSOa, Chemist, Beaton. Sold by all drugglsto. ’• NATURE'S REMEDY7X ■ VEGBHNpB . WILL CURE Scrofula, Scrofulous Humor .Cancer, Canoeroua Humor. Erysipelas, Canker, Salt Rheum, Pimples or Humor in tko Pace, Coughs and Colds, Ulcers, Bronchitis, Heuralgia,Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Pains in the Side, Comtipation, Costironoss, Piles, Disiinsos, Headache, Nervousness,Pains . ia the Baek, faintness at the Stomach, Kidney Complaints, female Weakness aad General Debility. and barks, that Ito good effects are realised Immediately after cotnmencinn to take it. There la t Wtriiii if the human systemfor which ths VaorriNS cannot be tHS ,t wS! n or*£B impurities of the blood. It hM no raual n has mu hS?" ‘^'^d n many other remedies It can trail be called The Great Blood Purifier. DR. W. ROM WRITES. Scrm/atl*, JUver C»wopt«<»at, i>af«)eej»> •tes, JRAesemssstiffme, VFe«**neoe. H. B. Srrmu. Boston: I have been pcaeticlns medldae for as yean, and as tSrra have never found Kseqnal. I have sold VKGETINK for rwcaM*bSraffrecommendtt to need sdabmSi VEGETO9E. FRBPARBD BT * H.R. STEVENS, Boston, Kass. T ■ • Vegetine is Sold by All Druggists. MR YOUR DRURBIST FM TME TWATS FBIEND. If out of tt, tell him to order of LORD.STOUTEJIBURGECO., •OLm AGmwTU, SO Waba«h Avenuo, Chicago, m.

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