Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1880 — Page 4

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LAW AT OUR BOABDINO-HOUat. Airara wiplok. wUxotkerridt Of the boar&arAouO* uMe aba atta, and •ip* Her t««; while I envy the china cup r That klaaea her my Hpa. ale’s • schootglri, attU ta her teens; her heir , She wear* in a plait; we are ri+n-vit; And 1 am a brie dm berrieterTet shesometime* •mile* at ate. Mr lew professor would acowl. no doubt. Could he know what havoctßose eyes hare • With nee at tor he ftnt tmattlied—--9 What leaeona those Up* bare taught. 4 *~ itra(ibnirait can coate before A declaration." be need to OOT; - But ttua little riri at our board!nr-house Doeeu’t put the thine that way. “ The Clerk will iaeoe a rule to pleedAnd pleading* always with rules must chime;'’ Ho need for -a rule to plead" wlthherAad her rule-day* are—all the time! That old law maxim, the text-books teach, And the judges regard: u Q«I/e«<t per - AMum faeA par •a." U held la Ineffable scorn by her. j In her person exist together at oooe • Defendant mad Jndeeand jury and clerk; Bo that one would imagine to win a cause lathis court were an up bill work. Yet wbeoerer I ait at the table there, 1 fancy a table where only two Are company—till I say to myself: “ Though you loee the case, why suel **Een though she demur at first —who knows?— j For the rest of your joint lives made one life. You may learn together the lesson taught In respect to Husband and Wife." . - Still I daily in doubt; t hou rt. in other thin** I flatter myself 1 am resolute — For a bankrupt heart will be the result If I’m taxed with co-ta in t bis suit. —A. C. Gordon, in Maw Scribner.

THE PHILOSOPHER’S BABY.

I had been considering for about a year whether I should marry Winifred Hanway, when I heard that she was engaged to the Philosopher. Why did she accept him? It is true that he is both imaginative and critical, but faculties exercised in the formation of psychological hypothesis, and the laborious destruction of those of one’s neighbor do not usually rouse the sympathy of a bright and beautiful girl, who is more fit to lire than to think about life. He is certainly handsome, but as certainly his clothes are barbarous. His trousers can’t keep their shape for a day, and hjf hats are never new. If he notices the rain, he opens an umbrella which might have served as an ineffectual protection at the time of the Deluge; if ne finds out that it is cold, he assumes a garment which might hare been the every-day coat of Methuselah. His mannersare as strange as his appearance. He may often be seen walking in the park at the fashionable hour with a far-off look in his eyes, and his hat thrust back as if to lessen the external pressure on his active brain; more rarely yon may hear him bursting into enthusiasm in Piccadilly, though Piccadilly is the last place in which a man should allow himself to be enthusiastic. In short, though he is ,a true friend, he is an uncomfortable acquaintance ; and his volcanic utterances, after long periods of calm contemplation, cause such shocks to one’s nerves as would be conveyed to the Sunday eitizen by the eruption of Primrose Hill. But if it was odd that the beautiful Winifred Hanway should marry my friend, it was yet more odd that he should marry any one. There were no topics more certain to excite an explosion in the Philosopher than the excess-ive-population of the country, and the wholesome solitude of the Thinker. “ How,” he would fiercely ask, “ can a man think effectually on fundamental subjects who is compelled by the desEicable circumstances of his life to exaust his analytical faculty in considering how to pay his butcher and when to buy his coals? I tell you, sir, it’s better to starve with cold and hunger than to debase one’s noblest part to a game of skill with a grasping grocer.” Again ■ and again I had heard him declaim in this preposterous fashion; and, after all, he was. going to the altar like any other victim, and would doubtless take a house upon his back with the docility of a snail. I could not solve the problem; I would not give it up. So, full of the determination to drag Diogenes out of his tub. and the secret out of Diogenes, I stepped round to offer my congratulations. My friend was in his study, apparently writing, really eating a quill pen. He rose at me with a rush, wrung my hand till it ached, and blushed rather uncomfortably. Congratulations arc the curse of the Briton. Whether he is offering them or receiving them, he is generally obliged to take refuge in intermittent handshaking, and most of His sentences tail of into grunts and groans. But on this occasion it was evident that the Philosopher had something ready to say. and was nervously anxious to say it Indeed, I had hardly said more than “My dear fellow, I don’t know when.... I reallyam so awful glad. 1.... it’s in every way so, such a satisfactory, vou know. I really do wish all possible, and all shat sort of thing, you know”— when he burst in-with a speech so fluently delivered that I knew I was not his earliest visitor that morning. “Of course it’s taken you hy surprise,” he said, “as I knew it,would; but the truth is that I have been thinking of it for a long time, and lam sure lam right” Here I tried to get in an impression of wonder at his new notion of duty, but he was bent on being rid of the matter, and hurried on to his reasons. “In the first place,” said he, “I am sure that instead of increasing my domestic worries, my marriage will transfer them in a body to my -wife; and, secondly, when I consider the vast number of fools who are every day born into the world, I am terrified by the picture of what the next generation will be, if the thinkers of this are to be without successors.” Having discharged his reasons in this wise, the orator stood blinking at me as if he feared dissent, bat I was too astounded bv his magnificent audacity to reply. Slowly a look of peace stole back into his face, i pleasant light dawned in his eyes, and the promise of a smile played at the corner of his month. His remarkable fluency was gone, and, indeed, his voice sounded quite choky when he said: “Johnny you don’t know what an angel she is/’ A light broke in upon me. “Philosopher,” 1 said, “I believe you are going to be married because you fell inlove?” you are right,” said the Philosopher. After the wedding, the Philosopher and his wife went abroad for an indefinite period, and their friends heard but little of them. He wrote to nobody, and she did not write to me. Yet there were occasional rumors. Now they were breathing the keen air of the Engadine, now sinking to the chestnuts and vines of Chiavenna; now he was lashing himself to frensy over the treasures of Rome; now she was gazing with sweet Northern eyes across the gfowiuosplendor of the Bay of Naples. Then they were in Germany, and about to settle for life in a university town; but anon bad fled from it in haste after a long night’s dispute, in the course of which my learned friend had well-nigh come to blows with the university's most celebrated professor. At last I heard that they were again hi London, and, frill of enthusiasm, Parted round the corner to welcome home. Nobody was with them Hanway, Winifred’s mother.

nonneed, isurprised myself. tonSgntnwmlfTLSb room was engaged in an exercise wholly unconnected, as it seemed, with those of the rest. My friend’s wife, the lady whom I had almost loved, queen of all grace sad eomeliness, was Appearing and disappearing like a flash behind the (tar’s Tima, Showing at the moments of disclosure a face flashed with excitement, and lustrous ooUs of hair, tumbled into the wildest disorder, while she accompanied the whole performance with strange and inarticulate sounds. Hot mother, the same Mrs. Hanway who was so perfect a model of drees and carriage that many of her lady, friends were wont to lament among themselves that she gave herself such airs, was seated on the floor dressed for walking, but without her bonnet. Yes, she was certainly drumming on an inverted teatray with the wrong end of the poker. And the Philosopher? It was perplexing, after three years’ separation, to meet him thus. The Philosopher was cantering round the room on all fours, wearing on his head hifl own wastepaper basket. Briskly he cantered round, ever and anon frisking like a lamb in spring time, until he reached my feet, which were rooted to the spot with astonishment. He glanced up sideways, rose with a cry to the normal attitude of man, and grasped me by the hand. At the sound of nis voice, his wife dropped the paper from her hands, raised them auickly to her hair; and his mother-in-law 1 , with as much dignity as the effort would allow, scrambled on to her feet. Then in an . instant the cause of their eccentric conduct was made clear. Throned upon the hearthrug, and showing by a gracious smile a few of the newest teeth, sat a fine baby of some fifteen months. In one dimpled fist was tightly clenched the brush, which had so neatly arranged the mother’s braids; while the other was engaged in pounding the grandmother’s best bonnet into a shapeless mass.

We were all somewhat embarrassed except the baby. The ladies knew that they were nntidy, and I that I was an intruder. As for the learned father, he stood now on one leg and now on the other, while he shifted the waste-paper basket from hand to hand, and* continued to smile almost as perseveringly as his amiable offspring. Yet it was he who at last put an end to our awkward position by expressing a wild desire to have my opinion on the new curtains in his study. Rather sheepishly I said good-by to the lady of the house, trying to express by my eyes that I would never call again unannounced. I knew that Mrs. Hanway had not forgiven me, as I humbly took the two fingers which she offered; and I felt like a brute, as the most important member of the family condescended to leave a damp spot by the edge of my left whisker. When, however, I had been swept down stairs by my impulsive friend, and was alone with him in his den, my courage returned, and with it some indignation. I confronted him and sternly asked why I had not been told that- he was a’ father. “Not been told?” echoed he; “do you mean to say that you did not know about the Baby?” “Not so much as that it was,” I replied gloomily. He was overwhelmed. Of course he had supposed that every one knew it from the Queen downward. Of course fifty people ought to have told me, who of course had told me everything else. At last my cariosity got the better of my indignation, and 1 cut short his apologies by beginning my questions. “Does the shape of its head content you?” I asked. "The shape of whose what?” cried the Philosopher, apparently too surprised for grammar. “Of the baby’s head, of course,” I replied, tartly; “I merely wish to know if the child is likely to be as intellectual as you hoped.” “Isn’t the hair lovely?” he asked, inconsequently. This was too mnch, and assuming my severest manner I delivered myself in this wisest" I thought, though no doubt I was wrohg, that the use of a baby to you would be partly to furnish you with raw material for a philosopher, partly to enable you by constant observation to gain further evidence bearing on such vexed questions as, whether the infant gains its ideas of space by feeling about, whether it is conscious of itself, etc.” “ Well,” he said, laughing, “I don’t expect much help from my infant in those matters, unless I can get inside her and think her thoughts.” “ Her thoughtsP” cried L in amazement; “you don’t mean to say it’s a girl? Good gracious! you are not going to educate a female philosopher?” He looked rather vexed. “Of course It’s a girl,” he said. “The fabher of a female philosopher!” I gasped. “Dear me!” said he, somewhat testily; “isn’t it enough to be father of a noble woman?” Now I have often pat up with a great deal from my learned friend, ana am quite aware that I have been spoken of as “ Bozzy” behind my back. But there is a turning point even for the worm, and noboay will sit forever at the feet which are constantly kicking him. I had been snubbed more than enough by the illogical parent, and assuming my most sarcastic manner, I inquired, with an appearance of deference —“ls it not rather early to speak of your daughter as & noble woman?” I had kept aloof from the Philosopher for some weeks, nursing my wrath, like Achilles, I said to myself—cross as a bear, I overheard my landlady say in the passage—when I received a hasty note begging me to come to him at once, 1 fancied myself summoned to a council of chiefs; so, having donned my shining armor, I left my tent fitting dignity, and descended with a clang into the plain. Yet I could not but be aware of my landlady’s eye piercing me through the crack of the p trior door purposely left ajar, and of the hasty flapping of loose slippers which told of the startled slavey’s flight into the abyss below.

An unusual silence held my friend’s house that morning. The door was opened before I had time to ring by a melancholy footman, who, walking before me with the el&b irate delicacy of 411 noiselessly ushered me into the study. It was my lot to be again rooted to the spot with amazement. By the bookcase, in a shaded oorner of the room, with his head bowed low upon his hands, knelt the Philosopher. Here was a long step from the siege of Troy, from the simple wrath of the childlike hero to tbe most complex embarrassment of an heir of all the ages. What should I do. The dismal menial had fled to the shades without a word, without even a glance into the room. If I retreated,. 1 left my friend unaided and remained ignorant of the cause of his strange conduct. If I advanced, I was again the intruder on a scene not prepared for my inspection. In an agony of hesitation I fell to brushing my hat with my elbow; but not finding the expected relief in the occupation, I was about to desist, when my hat decided what my head could not, by falling with a crack on the floor. The effect was electrical.' Without one glance at the intruder, the Philosopher made a grab at the nearest book shelf, dragged ont a volume which had not been touched for half a century, and hunted for nothing in its pages with frantic eagerness. He was stul at it, when I stood over him and noted without wonder that he held the book upside down; then with the poorest imitjriou of surprise which I have ever seen, he rose and grasped my hand. “You found me on the track of something,’* he said; “I was looking it out in—in—”

-.’ST*? JSTi UL” 1 felt positively guilty. I had been angry with that bafy for making my arise friend foolish, for not being a boy, for being called a noble woman.” Was it not shameful that a great hulking brute should sneer at a weak thing that could not even answer with ataont? Were not my clumsy sarcasms enough to crush so delicate a plant? The poor little “ noble woman” was in danger and I could do nothing to help her. There were tears in the eyes which were looking into mine for comfort, but I had nothing ready to Say. “ I oould not stand being alone,” he muttered, after a short silence; “the doctor is with her now, and in a moment I may hear that my little daughter must —in fact, may hear the worst” While he was speaking, I seemed to have fifty oonsoling remarks to offer; but when be stopped no one sentence would disengage itself from the rest What I blurted out at last seems almost* ridiculous as I look back on it “ You must hope for the best” I said; “ you know she has youth on her side.” The words were scarcely out of my mouth when I heard a measured step upon the stairs; presently the door was opened .by the noiseless footman, and the most famous of London doctors entered the room. My friend leaned heavily on my arm, but looked at the man of science with seeming calm. “lam happy to say,” said the phys! cian, cheerily, “ that our little friend is going on as well as possible.” “ And she is out of danger?” “ She never was in it” “Never in danger?” cried I, almost disappointed. “ She has nothing the matter with her,” he replied, “but a slight feverish cold. I have seldom seen a liner or more healthy child. Good mQrning.

I never was more annoyed. Here was a waste of my finest feelings. Here was I stirred, to the depth, well-nigh moved to tears, by a baby’s feverish cold. Of course I was vety glad that it was no worse; but my friend was too absurd, and I would not spare him. “ Won’t you resume your studies?” I asked, sarcastically, pointing to the disturbed book, which was lying on the ground at our feet. His humility might have disarmed me. «• I am afraid I’ve been a fool,” he said; “ but if you had seen her all flushed and breathing hard; and then she is so small and fragile.” • “Yes, for a noble woman,” I remarked. He received the dart meekly. “ Philosopher,” said I, suddenly, determined to" rouse him at any cost, “ when I entered this room you were engaged in prayer.” His color certainly deepened. “ May I ask,” I inquired with an appearance of deference, “ whether you were addressing yourself to the Personal First Cause, or to the Unknowable—but perhaps you were merely bowing to the rational order of the Universe?” He made a gesture of impatience, but answered still with studied admiration. “I was alone and in trouble.” “And the efficacy of prayer?” I asked. “For Heaven’s sake,” cried he, bursting into excitement, “stop your jargon! Nothing shows such ignorance of a subject as having all its cant phrases on the tip of your tongue. Can’t I speak to Goa without expecting to be paid for it?” This was turning the tables. If he was going to take to questions, I knew I should end by admitting myself a fool. So to avoid a Socratic dialogue I put my hand on my friend’s shoulder and said: “ You are a good man, PhilosoEher; may you and the • noble woman’ ve a thousand years.” “ Thank you,” he said, simply; “ and now you must let me go and sing a psean with the nobler woman, my patient Penelope, my sweet wife.” So he went with long strides ovpr the asphodel meadow, ana I took myself to my tent full of pleasant thoughts.— Blackwood's Magazine.

Bones for Poultry.

A writer in the American Poultry Yard urges upon poultrv keepers the necessity of giving to fowls a liberal supply of baked bone and oyster shells, and writes his own experience in a very entertaining manner. It is as follows: I supposed I did my duty by my hens when I burned bones to ivory "whiteness, ground them to the consistency of flour, and fed them occasionally, with the idea that I was giving them egg-shells in a very available form. But I did not consider that the gelatine, the fat, the ammonia, and other constituents of the bones, which were discharged by the internal heat (leaving only a little pure lime) were really the richest possible food for the hens and the greatest eggproducing diet that coaid be furnished them. Mv new tenant only bakes them more or less brown, in an old tin plate on the top grate of the stove oven. This is not a vety pleasant process, for, like all scorched portions of the animal frame, they give a pungent, half-suffo-cating smell, which tempts you to * clar de kitchen’ till the fresh air from doors and windows has sent the objectionable odors into outer space. But you soon become reconciled to this invasion of ill scents when the fiery combs, the ceaseless cackle, the evident high health of your fowls, and the daily-filled egg-baskets show you what they have accomplished. No other food, nor anv amoqnt of food, if this is left out, will give you such returns; and this baked bone, pounded on a rock in yonr poultry pens and fed with ordinary feed, will give results that ought to satisfy the most craving disposition. The hens cluster around that primitive bone-mill, gulping down the rich morsels with evident delight; and since everything necessary for the production of eggs is thus fully furnished, there is no undne strain on the vital forces, no weakening of the system, bat a daily attention tfj'bpsiijess, to the complete satisfao fowls and their owners. You can iwtrdlv give too much burned bones to your hens to provide the necessary amount of lime for the egg-shells, and the next best thing for that purpose is oyster-shells, which can be obtained by the barrel (and generally without cost, except taking away) at hotels or restaurants in yonr nearest city. My new tenant goes eighteen miles for them, and considers them cheap enough at that. The hens eat them when pounded Jnto fragments as eagerly as they pick up shelled com, and they famish the needed material for the egg-shell more completely than anything else.”

Roll Jelly Cake.— Sift two teaspoons of cream of tartar with two cups of flour (measured after sifting.) Dissolve one teaspoon of soda in three tablespoons of hot water. Beat six eggs, whites and yelks separately. Add two cups of sugar to the yelks, put in half the flour, then the soda, the balance of the flour and thq whites of the eggs. Rake in a thin, even sheet in a large drippiug pan; when done turn onto tne molding board, spread with jelly and roll up without delay. Wrap a napkin about the roll to keep'it in shape. Minister Foster, before leaving Mexico, received from the American residents of the City of Mexico a parting gift of a silver sac simile of the Ar.tec calendar stone in the cathedral wall. The gift weighs about sixteen pounds, and is made of pure Mexioaa stiver.

HONE, FARM AND GARDEN.

Graham To a <nurt of graham flour add Mdßeiea* thick, swart cream to make a stiff dough, beat until light, and baht in a moderately hot Hretrno Griddl* Oaks.-—' Throe craps purified middlings, one cap graham floor, one egg, one teaspoonful saleratos, a little salt,- Mix with soar milk. Use a hot griddle and serve immediately. Cocoaxut Dbofa—Bert the whites of two eggs stiff with four ounces of sugar, then stir in four ounces of denies ted ooooanuL If the fresh is used* it most be grated, and dried in a porcelain kettle until like flour; add a third of » cup of fine oraoker crumbs; mold the mixture into small pointed cones, and bake until a light brown on the top and bottom. Stale Bread.—A nice way to use stale bread is to fry it, simply dipping it in oold water before putting it in the battered frying pan. It will brown nicely, and Is liked by many as well as if dipped in beaten eggs. Toe latter makes a nioe change in the bill of fare. I often make a good short-cake and spread with stewed apple sauoe, cranberry sauce or some kind of canned fruit. Serve with' sauoe or sweetened cream. To Clear Black Materials. —Take the article you wish to clean, on the side you intend to make'up as the right side; brush well all the oust out of it; then take a piece of black flannel or an old black woolen stocking (it must always be black); dip it into cold coffee, and sponge well the material all over alike; then fold up each piece or breadth nice and even, and let it remain damp for three or four hours. Iron on the wrong side, and the old dusty, shabby dress will look just as fresh and bright as new.

Broiled Shad.—One shad, two ounces of butter, one half teaspoonful of pepper, one-half teaspoonful of salt Split the shad, when cleaned, directly through the back-bone with a strong sharp knife. Urease the broiler slightly, place the fish between its leaves, and broil over a quick fire for ten minutes. When done, remove quickly from the broiler, dress with the butler, pepper and salt, and send it to the table as hot as possible. The dish may be garnished with lemon quarters and a sprig of parsley at either end. Rock Cream.—Boil a teacupful of the best rice till quite soft in new milk, sweetened with powdered loaf sugar, and pile it upon a dish; lay on it in different places, square lumps of either currant jelly or preserved fruit of any kind; beat up the whites of five eggs to a stiff froth, with a little powdered sugar, and flavor with either orange flower water or vanilla; add to this, when beaten very stiff, about a teaspoonful of rich cream, and drop it over the rice, giving it the form of a rock of snow. This will be found to be a verv ornamental as well as delicious disli for a tapper table. Raising Watermelons. a good piece of ground—sod is the best. Plow it well and then harrow and roll it. Now mark it off twelve or thirteen feet each way- This allows the vines to run only six or six and a half feet each way, which is not too much. The seed should be soaked about twentyfour hours; then planted, putting half a dozen seeds in a hill. They should be thinned afterward to three in a bill. Plow and hoe them well, but do not leave the dirt loose. It should be pressed tight around hill and vine with your feet. When you think the vines have run far enough pinch off the ends. This will cause them to stop running and to bear more.

Painted Floors.—A correspondent of the Country Gentleman writes: I should like to tell how we got our painted floor hard and dry, so that it will stand the wear of a large family. Our floor is made of narrow vellow-pine planks, clear of knots; a splendid floor for a kitchen, and we have always kept it painted. This winter we treated it as follows: As fast as the floor was painted we laid strips one inch square on the painted surface, and on these strips boards were laid snug, using as long boards as the spaces would allow; where the doors interfered very thin pieces of board were laid to step on. At intervals of two weeks a second and third coat was applied. When this was sufficiently dry we covered the floor with heavy sheets of straw-board paper; over this paper a carpet was spread. Now, after two months’ protection we And the painted floor very hard, and ready to stand a long time before it will need repainting. Oil-cloth and Carpets.—A lady says in the Rural New Yorker: I have tried painting old pieces of rag-carpet, and must say they are not worth the oil and paint put on them.' They absorb a great deal of oil and are ’hard to clean. They are not as good as the carpet without the paint, and will not last as long. Without the paint they may be easily cleaned so as to look nioe, by pounding them through good suds and rinse water. If desired to be stiff, they may be starched with flour starch and ironed. Good, thick ootton drilling or thick, firm cloth may be made into oilcloth by stretching on a frame and painting. The cloth should be new and strong, or it will not be worth the trouble. I have tried knitted carpets, as highly recommended a few years since, and must say they are not the carpets needed, and will wear but a very short time. When one wants ragcarpets, it is best to purchase warp and take the rags to a weaver who knows how to weave good rags and warp into substantial carpets; and one will be paid for the labor and expense put on them. Very coarse-threaded rags or tender ones may be cut in strips'from one to two inches wide, braided and sewed together for mats or rugs to place where needed.

The Chemistry of Batter.

The production of butter by churning is both a chemical and mechanical process. Milk, according to analysis, is composedof: - : :: : ::: Milk sugar . 47Sallne mutter • Water V.. Good butter should contain at least eighty-two per cent of fat, or oil. This fat is composed of solid or margarine fat, and liquid or oleine. Winter butter contains, of solid fat, sixty-five parts in one hundred, summer butter only forty parts. This fact explains why milk should be churned at different temperatures in different seasons of the yeAr. This fat, oily substance, in the forms of globules, is found in suspension in milk. By the mechanical action of the churn, the envelopes of the globules of the fat are broken, and the globules brought Into cohesion and separated from t&a other portions or components of the cream. By the chemical process the sugar of milk is converted into lactic acid, and the bulk of the fluid, which was put sweet into the chum, is instantly soured. Boassingault prescribes. tne - temperature for churning to be 59 degrees for sweet cream, 62 degrees for four and 64 degrees for milk. About one-fourth of the total amount of butter globules which exist in the cream escape collection, which accounts for the rich taste of the buttermilk. Fresh butter consists of about 83 per cent- of pure batter and 16 of milk of jbutter. The former can be separated by melting the whole in a long tube; after a time the batter proper rises to the top. It Is then drawn off into wafer at 104 degrees, and after two or three washings may be considered quite pure.

Accuracy of Observation.

u^ssissA great error* common to us aIL We may pass up mud down through a certain street day after day, absorbed in oar own thoughts, or careless of any though t, and be anable to say what are the baildings, or for what they are used, which we have passed and repassed; what the numbers on the doors, or the fashion of the booses, etc., or we may spend oar summer vacation amid the green fields and beautiful woodlands, and yet be enable to distinguish grass from grain, or one kind of tree or Arab from another. We are constantly “ seeing, and yet eee not*’ the beautiful world by which we are surrounded. Tim lesson of accurate observation should be learned in childhood. Far greater importance should be attached to this idea of accuracy than it has ever received. Suppose a boy is taught to observe everything he sees on his army to school, passing down on one side of the street, noting the form, size and number of buildings, their general appearance and the material of which they are composed, going home upon the other side and carefully observing in the same way. If he notices but one block each day, he soon becomes perfectly familiar with the whole route, and has acquire d a habit of seeing that which comes within his vision. Suppose, next, that the teacher calls upon him to tell what he has seen; to give in detail an account of his observations, what is the life-lesson which that boy has acquired? In the first place, as an employe, he could be trusted to do errands in any part of the city, for where he has once been he can go again; and not only that, he will know also precisely what he is to find when he gets there; and when questioned by him employor, he can give such straight forward and correct answers that he inspires confidence at once and goon becomes indispensible to his employer. This is not all- That person who has acquired the habit of exact observation, not only giving accurate descriptions of what he has Been, thence naturally falling into a habit of perfect truthfulness m his narrations; but the whole action of the mind becomes imbued with the spirit of correctness, and the tendency of words, thoughts and actions all easily drift into the channel of truthfulness. Henee, when a child is tanght to observe details, to see and describe carefully whatever comes within the range of his vision, he is having a foundation laid tor great wealth of information, great reliability of expression, and honesty of thought and purpose. It is far more important than the multiplicity of text-books, or the long and tedious lessons which must be memorized to answer the requirements of many teachers.

In fact, all knowledge gained from books becomes a hundred, yea, a thousand fold more significant and useful, when preceded by this one carefullytrained habit, for by this, other knowledge is rendered practical. A thing once seen is retained. A habit of association and classifying faots follows as a natural consequence, and the mind becomes like a house in order, everything is in its place and always available. —Phrenological Journal. —The gluten of wheat, which contains in it most nutritions and nitrogenous constituents, can be obtained by making the Hoar into dough with water, and then washing oat the starch cells by means of a continuous stream of water. Gluten is a grayish yellow, tough and elastic mass.—Dr, Footes Health Monthly for May. Good nourishing food, and wholesome plain cooking, if introduced in thoasands of family circles which are now unhappy without knowing why, would result in improved health, happier tempers, more ability and disposition to work, better incomes and higher and nobler lives.

Aronad (k« World. A fame that is world-wide and acquired in the short space of a few years, must have true merit for its support. Dr. Fierce’s Family Medicines have {rained such fame and the foreign orders for his Qolden Medical Discovery—the Greatest blood-purifier of the age, for his Pleasant Purgative Pellets (little sugar-coated pills), his Favorite Prescription —woman’s best mend—and other remedies became so great that a branch of the World’s Dispensary has been established in London, England, for their manufacture. From this depot they are shipped to every part of Europe, ana to the East Indies, China, Japan and other countries. Their sale in both North and Bouth America is perfectly enormous and increases yearly. World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Proprietors, Buffalo, N. Y., and Great Russell Street Buildings, London, Eng. Royal, Cxntrx, Cass Co., Ind., 1 __ „ _ Feb. 28,1879. f Dr. R. V. Pierce: Dear Sir —l take pleasnre in writing my tesrlmonv with others in regard to your valuable medicine. For a long time I have suffered from disease of the lungs, and until I used your Discovery found nothing that did me any good. Thanks to it lam relieved and recommend it to all. Yours truly, Mary -Kekrel,. Nervousness, and all derangements of the nervous system, are usually connected with a diseased condition of the blood. Debiblty is a frequent accompaniment The first thing to be done is to knprove the condition of the blood. This is accomplished by taking Vegetine. It is a nerve medicine, and possesses a controlling power over the nervous system. fimt News. It is great news Indeed that there is at last a remedy (Warner’s Safe Nervine) which will relieve all kinds of pain and give rest and sleep without, injury to the system. The discoverer of this remedy is considered the most skillful nerve doctor in the world. If a cough disturbs your sleep, take a dose of Piso’s Cure for Consumption. So say all who have tried it Redding’s Russia Salve. Best family salve in the world, and excellent for stable use. Light colored or yellow Axle Urease soon wears off. Get the genuine Frazer. GliocEßS keep C. Gilbert’s pure Starches.

THE MARKETS.

Nxwr York, May 3, 1883. LIVE STOCK—Cattle $7 50 &«10 00 Sheep (clipped) 600 <& 000 Hogs 480 5 600 FLOUR —Good to Choice 506 d 700 White Winter Extra 4 80 A ,5 25 WHEAT—No. * Red 1 27*5 1 28* No. X Chicago 1 XI 5 123 COHN—Western Mixed 62*5 53 OATS—Western Mixed 39 4 6 41* RYE-Weetem 88 \ 6 *0 PORK-Mess (new) 11 00 i i H 0» LARD—Steam 7 37*« i 740 CHEESE 11 5 14 WOOL—Domestic Fleece ... 49 @ 63 CHICAGO. BEEVES—Extra 34 80 A 34 M Choice 4 25 ( > 4 40 Good *OO < ) 415 Medium 3SO < i 400 Butohers' Stock 309 I ) 400 -Stock Cattle.. 300 <) 885 HOGS—Live—Good to Choice 400 5 480 SHE EP—(Clipped) 450 (l 600 BUTTER—-Creamery 31 ( ) 34 Good to Choice Dairy.... .18 A 33 EGGS—Fresh .. 08*< ) (to* FLOUR—Winter •00 A 6 50 Springs 680 A 550 Patents 900 « > 725 GRAlN—Wheat, No. 2 Spring 1 18 I ) 1 13* Corn, No. 2 36*5 38* Oats, No. 3 29*@ 29* Rye, No. 2 74*® 74* Barley, No. 2 80 A SO* BROOM CORN— Hed-Tlpped Hurt ... 6*® T Fine Green 7*5 8 Inferior.....’. 6 A 6* Crooked 8 @ 5 PORK-Mess ;..... MOO & 10 08 LARD—Steam. 893 5 9 97* LUMBER— Common Pressed Siding. M9O » 17 5n Flooring... 34 00 » 80 00 Common Boards 1163 ® 14 00 Fencing. «.*«.. M 50 A 14 00 Lath.... 300 <$ 340 A Shingles..... 256 5 390 BAST LIBERTY. CATTLE—Best 33 00 & 38 23 Fair to Good 4 00 A i9O HOGS-Yorken 460 A 475 PbiladeiphiSs 4 83 A 500 SHEEP—Best (clipped).....,. 400 5 500 Common 330 5 473 BALTIMORE. SfißtesarasiMfil HOGS-G00d...., 400 5 •10 ■ESEP-<ClirV««) , 433 # 333

ini Invigorates thn Wholn System. Reader. Have Yea Got Scrofula, Scrofulous Humor, Oanoerous Humor, Cancer? Yoa Cm Positively be Caret. Thoasands of Testimonials Prove It, Vegetine Cures When Physicians Fail. has done for my daughter. About four yearn sms rise was so amictea with acrqflila at to be drawn to one iffiassya. gKaaaafaaaig bottle* I consider berperfect ly cured. She has alow a i-..hs.i -i~— TrjrhoutWotih nrhtomiali. and I have no hesitation tn attributing her core to yoar valuable medicine, aad in recommending K to the use of the afflicted. There are many of the Inhabitants of Proprietor Crab Orchard Hotel. Mostbial, P. Q., Jan. A 1880. Mr. H. R. Bnvsxs: Dear Sir—We take great pleasure in adding to your mime poos testimonials in regard to VEGETINE. Ve sen a great deal of it, and it Invariably gives satisfaction. Several remarkable cures by Its use nave come under our notice, and we think it a pleasure, as well as a duty, to teatifyln Its behalf. We remain your* truly, DR. LEDUC A CO. Chemists and Druggists * Most** at, Jan. 7, W Mr. H. R. St*v*xs: Dear Sir—l have recommended and sold your VEGETIN E tn s great many cases indeed, but one case came under my special notice In whleh three bottles completely cured a friend of mine whose case bad resisted aU other medicines previously tided. Tours, P. O. GIBOUt Druggist, ®fst. Joseph St. Veg*etine spring' 'medicine Vegetine is Sold by all Druggist^ WXIT T S 3D 1 Every dealer, Artist and Canvasser in the country to send ms their address. I will send by return mall my Hear Reduced Price List for Artists’ Materiel*. Chromoe, Rustic, Walnut and Velvet Frames, Mold. Inca. Mirrors and V lrror Plates, Mottoes, Perforated Card Board, Pantographs. Stereoscopes, Views, Photographic Stock, Apparatus, ate. Dealers, Artists aad Canvassers can make money on these (tab at the prleee I sell them. When witting, please state when you saw this advertisement and what your present business la W.R.RSW, dealer In ail kinds of Fine Art Goods, 862 and 364 (new number) Euclid svepae,Cleveland,o.

EXCURSION TO THE PACIFIC COAST. An excursion party will start from Chicago for Call* fornta, Oregon and Washington Territory, Wednesday, June IS, 1880, at 1(40 o’clock a. m.. by the favorite Chicago aad Northwestern Railway. The excursion will be under the supervision of Bev. Isaac DIUon, of the M. E. Church. ROUND TRIP TICKETSI Chicago to San Francisco arid return .siSi Of Chicago to Salem, Oregon, and return 167 SO Tickets for flrst-claas passage and good for sixty days, with extension to ninety days If applied for; but not transferable. For further information address R*v. ISAAC DILLON. Methodist Book Concern, Chicago.

■ Over 1,000,000 Acres of Choice Farming Land! InU/Qr w "‘ MFarms Cedar F*i«tA*, lowa. m ■ ■■ ■ Branch Office. 92 Randolph Sc, Chicago, Ills.

TRB BRIDIjIART, Imitation Stained Glass. stI I.’V.SKSIV,’A!-. - This Is the most beautiful and pi 'asing Invention ever made for windows In Cburchea, Halls, Hotels, Private Residences, etc. It entirely takes the place of Cathedral or stained glass, and at leas than one-seventh the price. It is exceedingly handsome, very bright in color, and can be applied to any window righ' on the old glaaa. lt is warranted to stand washing,frost and the sun's heat, •nd will never fade.

HOSTETTCIt^ Fitters Fortify the System And on we wmed against disease. The finest tonic for this purpose Is Hostetler’s Stomach Bitten, which renders digestion easy and complete, counteracts bCioutness, and keeps the bowels In order, and so genial and beneficent are Its effects, that not only Is the body Invigorated and regulated by Its use, but despondency banished from the mind. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally.

PERRY DAVIS’PAiN KILLER Cure. Sick Headaeke, Pain In the Back or SlSe, Rkeusatlim aid Nenrmlgta. PAIN KILLER i!,iw%mxxt ‘Wade. 1 *!! brings speedy and permanent relief In nil eases of Mralaea, Cats, Ssrslti, Severe Barms, etc. PAIR KILLER SUSL^-ffISMBIfiSSSj r - Ptanter, Bailor, and in fact all classes wanting a nsedletne always at hand, and safe to was exteraally with certainty of relief. Sold by all druggists.

fl KIDNEY DISEASES. § LIVER COMPLAINTS, ■ 1 a *^ d P*!® B * u ■ il □ of priceless rmlue, After sixteen years of great ■ raftering from gOea and Oosttrencra it com- U Q age hat done wonder* for Q ■ lag a eerere Lirer and Kidney Complaint* OwJl h .vLlWhy?| □ POWER. fl ■ BteastUAeUeaihtLlTXl, ths BOWZLRui ■ tbs CSHI73 st ttt stas tins. I Because It cleanses the system of H ■ «»• poisonous humors that developo H Q n Kidney and Urinary diseases. 81l- U ■ I n Md nervous disorders. I lU6IICT.WOET »a a dry regetaOls eat. I pH 1 tin It he! nil pripaM U One package will make el x qtx of medicine. D ■ try IT 3NTOW t I □ OTBag It at Ikt Drnggists. Prise, SI.SS. C WILLS, SICHAMBO* 8 CO., Pwpristas, ■ n 12 (Wttl Mod pert paid.) Barliagtsa, Vt. Q - - a 'j ;/ —- T - .' .

PERSONAL. Ooßererfrom Indigestion, „ AO the drastic drags decline, - What you need, beyond all question, Is that remedy saline, Tauaxt’s wonderful Amun, Duplicate of Seltser SpringTonic, Alterative, CatharUoPwc, refreshing, comforting ta&st L §ftjggSa|P WH*» VrmtTMMG TO ADVOKTIHKma, ‘ Ittewae as, (ts ssie the AdNrHsNMeal its **4s ixrpsr.

P V I MP) REMEDY )* THE GREAT Kidney and Liver Medicine, CURES *ll Diseases of the Kidneys, Liver, Bladder, and Urinary Organa; Dropsy, Gravel, Diabetes, Bright's Disease, Pains In the Back, Loins, or 81de; Retention or Nonretention of Urine, Nervous Diseases, Female Weaknesses, Excesses, Jaun- , dice, Biliousness, Headache, Soar Stomach, Dyspepsia, Constipation * Piles. HUNT’S REMEDY CURBS WHEN ALL OTHER MEDICINES FAIL, as it act* directly and at once on the Kidneys, Liver, and Bowels, restoring them to a healthy action. HUNT’S REMEDY is s safe, sure and speedy cure, and hundreds hare been cured by It when physician’s and friends had given them up to dice— Do not delay, try at once HUNT’S REMEDY. Send for pamphlet to VE. E. CLARKE, Providence, R. X. Prices, 78 cents nnd 51.25. Large size Ask your druggist for HUNT’S REMEDY. Take no other.

PENSIONS From the date of a soldier’s discharge can be procured provided application therefor Is filed at the proper department prior to July 1, 1880. MILO R. STB. VEFB dh CO. make this business a specialty, and with sixteen years’ experience are generally successful Try ttism. Address Milo B. Stevens & Co. OFFICES i Rooms laadS Cam Building, Cleveland, Ohio. Room 99 Metropolitan Block, Chioago, DL GRAEFENBERG VEGETABLE d#iPILLS Mildest ever known, cure iKfBHF malarial diseases, TwDirA HEADACHE, BILIOUSVw»r9 ness, INDIGESTION and FEVERS- These PILLS Tone ud the system and restore health to thoae suffering from general debility anc nervousness. Sold by all Druggists. SO Oexktm r>or Box.

THE BEST REMEDY FOR Woman’s Wrongs WHJ» gg POUND IN THM WOMAN’S FRIEND. LORD, STOUTENBURG & CO., 86 Wabash At., Chicago, sole ASEtrrs. IWFor Sale by AU Druggists. iTTEXnOH! PAff! TOTS HOUSES, By making strictly pure and firstclass goods for the last eight years, in New York, we find our rapidly increasing trade demands our opening an office and faetory in Chicago, to pupply the western trade, and we would advise ail parties wishing to paint, to try ours, which is the very best -and cheapsst in the market. Bend for sample card and prices. NATIONAL MIXED PAINT CO.. MW YORK or CHICAGO. ILL

r vujkot oaxpoura or W FITBI COD LIVER Lon. AMD LIME.J •, , S’«aM?ssrss“iarsasfKSsrs gxcarwgNAsagißtiaTttßa IHOWgtj whhdi reodmthe OH doubly offlcscioaa. Bebe sold by A R WTLBOK. Chemist. Boston, sad aU druggists. MARK TWiINTT “A TRAMP ABROAD.” Coed Times for A grata Ahead. Frospedusei sod boos new ready. People waiting to Q i ,ck * nd "eurewrettory. *• A •oord to Lkf trite U sufficient." Apply to 34. N, BUCKAgYrg* canal a,fhlregu m ask tour DRUGGIST FOR THE ROMAN’S FRIEND. H oat of it, tail Mm to order of LORD, STOUTENBURG 4 CO., •olsi AaawFe, 83 Wsbatfh Avsnue, Chios go. 111. WANTPII whu I Cifti SSiHBMtaaSSEf? BUTTER^SHr

NICHOLS,SHEPARD A, OO.BattlCiMm 7 [£ AWP ONLY CRMugjf Threshing Machinery and Portable ■ ■ yd Traction Engines.

*** - - - -ffl P The fonowEgcqymanlcatlop fromi^hlghlyeeteegied ter obvtoaereasonsreguestt as not to publish httneme, at the same time be dealree to make known the fret of his discovery for the benefit of otherrslmllarty afflicted: Bottom, Hass. teiinxeot the fretthm sss^ s£d ‘S r rs i ofsS , SfK Sae^to I "me msglrsl; t& ttchtojgfcwod stow***? Stoeeieeetvtng the above, the proVtetors of KalUston have endeavored falriy to te«B ita value ae a teociflo ter Itching Pile*, having caused It to be used tn many «r gmvsted eases, and in every Instance It has given httaet The fotlowlr* letter win prove interesting to those Who suffer from thU disagreeable disease: s JXItCAXT RUBOL Josm Boxxxtt A Co.. Boston: : . I have bad the Itching File* off and on ever »ln«« the war. Sometimes I have suffered agony, and I tcll you nobody know* what pain and misery lx, unless they me. I got a bottle, aad the very fir* time I usedltUia pain and itching waa all gone I* a, tow minute*, and l think I am cured, as I nave not had any trouble from it tfin* about the KallMon. ttls nice and dean, and easy to use. Tout, truly. j | » : ,. Send to JOSEPH BURNETT * CO., Boston, tor descriptive circular free. For sale by all Druggists, TUTT’S PILLS BYMPTOMB OP A TORPID LIVER. 1 XtOss of Appetite. Bowela costive. Pain in the Head, with a dull sensation in the back pert. Pain under the shoulder blade, fullnese after eating, with a disinclination to exertion of body or mind. Irritability of temper. Low spirits, with a feeling of having neglected some duty, Weariness, Dizziness. Fluttering at the Heart, Dots before the eyes. Yellow Skins- Headache generally over the right eye, Restlessness with fitful dreams, highly colored Urine to constipation. TUTT’S PILLS are especially adapted to sack ease*, a single daee cffMU maeh a change Of feel, lag as te astonish the smfltorer. SOLD EVERYWHERE, PRICE 26 CENTS. OSes, 85 Murray Street* New York.

WARNERS USAFE KIDNEY&LiVER CURE

(Formerly Dr. Oraiy't Kidney (tore.) A vegetable preparation and the only sure remedy In the world for Bright’s Disease. Diabetes, aad ALL Kfctaey, Liver, and Urinary nhcnifi aWTwtimontals of the highest order In proof of these statements. *WFor the cure of Diabetes, call for War. Bor's Safe Diabetes Care. SWFor the cure of Bright’s and the other diseases, call for Warner’s Safe Kldaey aad Liver Care. BJS-WARNER’B Safe Remedies arc sold by Druggists and Dealers in Medioine everyH. H. Warner & Co. Proprietors, ROCHESTER, V. T, 1 aarsms tn r*apu*t M^wtlmoaiaU^^^ PENSIONS An pOA to U 1 BolAMrs wb, *bra ISM th.j a. AinbUd trem u, AiubtUO Man*ai.tl,w6M,mlH>nal*y7Ui4, Im. rflar, a. a •JX i*tn», thca*b bat .light, Sag of lutft a.riaaaa Mint, *mh A arhM, piles, rixuattUa. at emj aha dU.u, Widm. oblbUm a atm M atApa—l ptmU. wh*r* the alAta ha Aid at AlaM. ilrMUll h a. arria, ih It a* h. M prorML a. th. mAtUA W . ptri*. IhaAa a*a th. hmCtrf th.lira, Af*Aa, MpSatUg .M a maAaaaty atom, aa th* ha. u IlaiUA bp th. a*. If .pplU.dM. pa 1.1. tiwth. «*f Ha afffaima *iQ An* hMh to 40. at Alahas.. a mi; batata, sadap *-ah al dotla. a th. tnt paraait. O. thU meant .ppSaMa. OaAA U a via u earn. Tboundi a. .tIU J.dttoA tt hoa.tj ThMasA. »h« n* mw Arawdnp wtAai me elm MUtUd h l.nM.ai BmA taw Ha* ter mammarj at ternlm «A Bra.tr HZ Sr pnwW- w. rWw («Ih. (.Uraio,piruni. loAU.hwU. u meet atawMaf: S. r. Kaonwr, Fleet Oa.tnl Hernk. I fin Im«. 0.«. Cd. Iwt. la. W. X. UouewAv, Pataaaa. Bra. J.cTbmt, Xi-Aiff OemX Bra J. X Imam. Xx-JwAp. Ot Oeert | Iw»uw. Bunn Co. **. H. FXTZG-BRiLZiD fto OO^ Either Box C.WaahtogtonClty,D.a, or IndtanapoUxtod. Mailed Free for 85 Cts. SIO,OOO. filffETV pwa. whinnnpWi.JAwplllM aArbl T wlthour PATSBTKD BAPKTY ATa a san TACHMEJIT. LAMP. Btf.MUfltinp.rJi.nifr. * rrww.su ArlppiDK *nd hmtlax. - . , Bend for umplra, with .ImwlcoUa* I A»d Swpth wf rearUstp. wavTBQ-l 8| g t Newton’s Safety Lamp Co., 18 Wr»t Broaiw.T, N.w Yah Factory and Office, Binghamton, N, Y, fiRIIH MD PROVISION II COMMIBBIOH I MERCHANTS. Beside doiiuf a General Ootnmlmiou businees In LARGE QUANTITIES, we Ray and Nell Grain to 1,000 ba lots and upward; also, Pork and Lard In any auanUUe *LAm»ONW^^^Ml l Si6wSe^ t Ch?awm <l4

THE VICTOR Double Hutler Clover Machine dSS2|£|£3Sßnßgd hulled 100 hutheU or aeed fe- 1= oot d»j from dump »t.d wot itrow. Send for DeIf arlptlre Clroulxr and Prlc Yr7*r If but, which eoutalm away letter. eonSralne thle. PEIMSIONS^mH cause. Applyst once in order to hsvc pension oommence at date of discharge, as the time Is. limited, Heirs of deceased soldiers entitled from the date of. the death of the soldier. Pensions increased. Thousands are entitled to s higher rate of pension. Bonn* ty snd new discharges procured. Address, with sumps, *■ R THE WOMAN S FRIEND Will Cure that Bick-Headachc. g- Tor Bale by AU Druggists MATIONAL YEAST A““Saw~:i MOVAJIIJC-TOOTB CIaCULAE SAWS. ■J A | (hand IFiayasatC.O. D.anywhere. WhotassM Y OCIfI NRW tesra Telegraphy snd earn >4O to>loo aaDcn. 1 a. g )Vll MOTS iiS^USbIiIfSJ^JStJTSS onegemdne. Address Chase Publtshlng Co., Toledo. O. nnillll HsrpUse Habit Oiref Is IS OPIUM 9C I. fOft per day at home. Samples worth ES >0 W tZUftsa Address snxaox A oa. Portland. Ma 3125 Srid^^ffAS^gSS? CCfIA WEEK in your own town. Terms and jOD >3 outfit free AAlrt RHaltetthCo. PoitUmd.Ma. FMAWEEE. 312 a day at home easily made. O Costly outflr free. Addrs True fcOo. angnsta. Me AIIH C Revolvers. Ulus. Catalogue free P WpQraat Western Om Worts Mtisfiggh. Pa A. N. K. 38 738.