Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1874 — Page 4

How Milly Saw the Old Year Oat.

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crunched under her light tread, aa the sped down the road, to where the lights in the windows of Farmer Pratt's big red dwelling threw a broad beam out into the night 1 \ Within there was warmth enough and candles enough to enliven a mausoleum. Over the roaring fire hung wreaths of Christmas green. Smoking “flip” was on the table. Above the door a branch of mistletoe, or what did duty as such; and much kissing and laughter going on beneath it There was a fiddle ana dancing. Everybody seemed jolly and lighthearted—everybody except Milly; who, in spite of the gay welcome she received, began to feel unaccountably depressed ana unhappy, now that she had attained the summit of her wishes. She had plenty of admiration, and joined in the dance and games with the rest; bnt somehow over all there seemed to hang a shadow—the shadow, as it were, of a suspended sword. Unused to merry-mak-ißgs, the noisy freedoms of the occasion contused and stunned her. She grew more and more uncomfortable. The cup she had so longed to taste was not at all what she had fancied. By eleven o’clock she had drawn Sarah Matilda into a corner turd was begging to be allowed to go home at once. “Whatl without seeing the Old Year out?" said that hospitable damsel. “Oh 1 you mustn’t do that. There’s no fun at all if you do.” .

“Oh! please. I would so much rather,” pleaded poor Milly. “I keep thinking, if mother should wake up. I would so much rather go now, if Jack don’t mind.” So the unwilling Jack was summoned; and, with many lamentations and promises that nobody would say a word of her being there, they were suffered to depart Milly drew a long breath as the aoor closed behind them. “Oh! if only I am once at home and in my own bed, I’ll never, never ask to go to a party again,” was the comment of her secret soul. “Don’t come any further,” she whispered to Jack, at the gate. “The snow makes so much noise, and father’ll hear your boots.” The house was dark and still, she noted, as she stole round the comer; and it comforted her a little. She had gained the door. It was only to lift the latch and pass the Scylla of the floor and Charybdis of the creaking stairs, and all would be safe. But how was this? Oh, horror! The latch wouldn’t lift, the bolt was down. She was locked out This was what had happened. Milly’s unsteady fingers had not closed the door firmly; and, when the wind rose, an hour later, it began to swing to and fro on its hinges. The noise reached the alert ears of Mrs. Ives. “What is that banging?" she said,starting up. “Dear, dear! that tiresome shed. Milly must have left the door unlatcned. Father, I wish you’d get up and fasten it.” Shivering, but obedient, Mr. Ives went. Creeping to the chilly shed, he bolted the latch; and then, to avert the likelihood of another nocturnal promenade, he pro--ceeded -ficom.-one—door- to— another and fastened all the rest. So, when Milly, aghast and helpless, tried in turn frontdoor, kitchen-door, and side-door, behold they were all fast. The house was inaccessible. What could she do? Go back to the Pratts? Oh! no; that was not to be thought of for a moment. Feverish with anxiety, she went her weary round again. She even tried to raise a window; but its weight resisted her, and the dreadful noise it would make ..was another objection. The only hope, she thought, was to get in somehow in the morning, without being seen. -Morning! bnt that was so far off. And, as she thought—the consequences of her fault presenting themselves to her mind with colors growing more lurid each moment—suddenly all strength seemed to die from her limbs. She sank down on the doorstep, and began to cry.

It was just then that the sound of a faroff bell reached her ears. The clock of the Methodist meeting-house in the Hoi low was striking twelve. The Old Year was dead. “I am seeing it out," thought ililly, “just as Sarah said;” and, as the slow strokes died away, her tears broke forth afresh. With such an ending to one year, how was the next likely to begin? The wind had died away. It was not a I very severe night; but she shivered strongly. The tears died on her glazed cheeks. Only a l.ow sob broke forth now and then, like a ripple from the misery within. And so Milly began her New Year. It was one of these sobs which caught the attention of Tom Russell, as, making a short cut “cross-lots" toward his home, he chanced to pass near the door where our luckless little maid was sitting. He hadn’t been at the party. He didn’t care much for such things, and, besides, had a sick horse to look after; and the night so far had gone in blanketing, fomenting, and medicating the equine invalid. He was going home now, a spare blanket on his arm, and in his pocket his phials, drenching-horn, flask, and so on. Cupid takes on strange disguises sometimes. That Milly’s fate should be nearing her at this critical moment, in cowhide boots and top-coat, with a brandybottle in his pocket, seems funny enough. But so it was. Tom was a big, sturdy fellow, middle-aged to eyes of seventeen; but with the sweetest good temper in the world and a heart as tender as any worn ante. No sound of distress ever reached his ear unheeded. He thought this the plaint of some little animal—a kitten or a dog; nevertheless, true to his instinct, he went out of his way to see. And great was his bewilderment when the cowering figure on the doorstep met his eyes. "Milly Ives! Why, what on earth—” “Oh 1 Mr. Russel 1, don’t speak out loud; please don’t,” cried poor Milly, desperately. Father and mother will be sure to hear you.” •‘And just what they ought to do,” responded Tom; "if they’ve locked you out, as I suppose they have. Here iet’me knock.l’ll engage to wake them up.” and suiting {.he action to the word and the word to the action, he was about to discharge a ponderous blow at the door, when Milly caught his hand in both hers. “Please listen!” she said. "They don’t know I'm out.” “Don’t know 1” Language would fail to express the astonishment in Tom’s voice. - “No, they don’t know, And oh! Mr. Russell, I’m in such a dreadful scrape. Please don’t knock nor make a noise o ; but just go quietly away again.” Tom had known Milly since her babyhood; hut the idea that she could grow up never had fairly occurred to him till this moment, when he stood gazing at the pale face, so pathetic in the aim light. “Tell me all about it, won’t you?” he said, and sat down by her on the step. So she told him all—how she never had any fun, like other girls; and how she longed after it; and Sarah proposed this. But oh! it hadn’t been pleasant at all, and now she was to unhappy; and, if it was found out she should never hold up her head again. “So if you’ll just go away,” she pleaded, in conclusion, “and let me sit here till morning, I would thank you so much. Father always comes down first, and go» down to the bam; so perhaps I may slip in, and not meet any one. I’m not coW at aIL really—that is, not very.” Not cold! Tom touched the little hand him, and almost whistled with dismay.' What should he dot Take her home with him he oould pot Waging a

neighbor would be tantamount to exposing the whole story. “ I’ll tell you what," he said, at last. “As for leaving you alone .here, that’s out of the question. I must stay by and see that nobody hurts you; but, if you will be good, and do just as I sav, I’ll promise not to make a noise or 'alarm the family—though I must say, except for your feeling so dreadfully about it, it would be by far the most sensible way. 80, first of all, Milly, you must drink this.” “This” was a hastily compounded dose of brandy and melted snow. How lucky that he had it about him, he thought; and it was lucky. It checked the chill which had begun to creep over Milly’s limbs; and after she had swallowed It he took her into the road and made her walk briskly up and down leaning on jiis arm. Later, when circulation was quite restored, he let her go back to the step; but with the blanket over her lap and his. own coat across her shoulders. Bless his kind heart 1 Ha was warm enough, he said; and he cared for the poor child as tenderly in all respects as if she had been his little sister. The night wore on, the stars glinting more brightly and the firmament deepening in hue as ihe hours passed. They talked and talked. There was something in the situation which begat confidence. Milly had never so opened her thoughts to any one before. She told,him all her discontent and restlessness, as if it had been a shrift and he a father confessor; and, guessing at far more than she could explain even to herself, he felt himself grow soft over the lonely girl. He spoke brave, kind words of advice and warning —words which sank deep into her gratefhl heart; but&ll the time his own was opening its gates for the entrance of Pity, Pity, that dangerous sentiment, so akin to love that when once it finds admission it leaves the door open through which its distinguished relative shall thereafter march triumphant. Once Tom made her laugh by saying that, except for the horse and the bells, they-might be supposed to be taking a sleigh-ride, one of those bewitching sleighrides she had so longed to share. He was glad tq. hear.the laugh, though it was faint and instantly checked. Day dawned at last, with a dim pink tinge in the East. The cattle lowed in the barn. A cock crowed; then another. By-and-by a stir began in the house. Mr. Ives descended. He lighted the fire and unbolted a door—luckily not the door of the shed! Tom Russell confronted him as he stepped forth. “Good day, neighbor,” he said. You are up betimes and your cows sound as if they were ready for you. I'll step in, if I may, and Jget a drink of water in your well-room. I don’t know any water better than yours.” “How’s your horse, Tom?” “Better, thank you.” “Hold on,” said Mr. Ives, “I’ll get the dipper. I don’t believe you know where it is.” “Yes, I do,” shouted Tom from the depths of the kitchen. “I know all about it. You just go ahead with what you were doing.” So the unsuspicious parent' went “ahead”; and, as he took the path to the barn, the bolt behind him shot back, and Milly stood once more beneath her parental roof, cold, stiff, pallid, but inside at last. “Now’s your time,” whispered Tom, as he seized the pump-handle. Bhe paused only long enough to give him a look. Pale ana ghastly as her face was, that gleam of shy gratitude and recognition lighted it into . absolute beauty. It was but an instant. The next she was halfway up-stairs, with noiseless feet; and just in time, for, by the heavy creaking of the floor above, Mrs. Ives was evidently awake and stirring."' And so our story ends. Not Milly’s story; that had but just begun. Mrs. Ives never could “ imagine ” where the long feverish cold was taken which followed this eventful night; but she was good to Milly, on the whole, and either the unsparing boneset she administered or certain evening visits which Tom. took to paying about that time made the illness more than, endurable—almost pleasant. The New Year belied its opening, anyhow. Month after month, each happier than the last, passed by; and before its closing day Milly, fair and maidenly in her white muslin, had stood up in the old kitchen and promised to be Tom’s true and loving wife. Nothing less than that vigil on the door steps, perhaps, could have given her the experience and security in his goodness which irradiated her face with such peace; and to buy that look Tom would have counted as nothing twenty nights spent in the open air. In her own home—her husband beside her —she saw the Old Year out, and felt in depths of a grateful heart that all was well.— New York Independent.

Heroic Women.

The London Timet mentions' that two remarkable cases of courage and presence of mind on the part of girls have recently been brought before the Royal Humane Society. The first case was that of Miss Olivia Georgians E. Maude. She saved the life of a girl Darned Adcle Greaven, who sank while bathing while at Sea Point Monktowns, under the following circumstances; Miss Maude and her sister, who had themselves been bathing, were dressed and sitting on the rocks watching the other bathers, when their attention was aroused by an alarming outcry—a girl had disappeared in deep water. No assistance- was at hand, no boat or ropes, and even the usual attendants were absent or otherwise engaged. The child soon rose to the surface, but, unable to swim, sank again She rose a second time, and the bystanders and bathing women, thoroughly alarmed and crying for assistance, we«s shocked at perceiving that the child’s bathing dress had got over her face and head, and that her arms were entangled in it. At this moment Miss Maude leaped into the deep water, dressed as she was, without even taking time to remove her watch, caught the child as she was disappearing the third time and took her afely to shore. The other case was that of Miss Marry Kerridge, who saved a lad of fifteen, named Stewart, who sank while bathing at Wentworth, New South Wales. The boy had gone with a companion to bathe in the River Darling, and was carried by a strong, current into deep water. Neither he or his companion could swim, and he cried loudly for help. Miss Kerridge was about one hundred, yards off, ana, hearing the boy’s cries, ran as fast as she could to the spot, plunged into the river with all her clothes on, and caught the laid as he rose the third time. After considerable difficulty, owing to the rapidity of the current, having only one hand at liberty, and her efforts being impeded by the weight of her clothes, she ultimately succeeded in placing the lad in safety. The Royal Humane Society bestowed medals for saving life, with suitable testimonials, on each of the young ladies. -.* ■ a Speaking of saints, Beecher said in a recent sermon: “My ideal of a'iaint is a brown woman, with red arms, who gets up early in the morning and goes to work for others—who stands the brunt of household work, and who bears with children that she did not bear. That is my saint. Rather a busy, bustling saint, but she is a saint People say of her, ‘What a homely, good creature she'is.’ To my mind that is more complimentary than {p have the Pop* put her in the calendar.” )

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Feed horses according to the work they do. Give pigs a warm nest and plenty of straw. The one thing needed by farmers is ergyEarly rising is good ; getting at your work early is better. Make your hennery tight and warm, and feed poultry warm food. Better hire an extra man than devote your whole time to mere routine work. Shelter saves food. It sometimes does more than this. It saves the life of the animal. When feeding hay it is a bad practice to let the horse stand with a rackful of hay before him all-thc time. Machinery docs not do away with the necessity for labor; it merely changes its character. It demands brains rather than muscle. Animals require daily care, Make them comfortable. Feed regu arly and liberally, and see that they have a constant supply of fresh Water. How to Take Care of our Furs If furs or apparel be enclosed in a box with a little oil of turpentine they will remain free from the larvm of moths. Apple Float. —To one quart of apples partially stewed and well mashed, put the whites of three eggs well beaten and four heaping teaspoonfuls of loaf sugar, beat them together for fifteen minutes, and eat with rich milk and nutmeg. Ginger Bread.— Mrs. N." Wellman, of York, Neb., gives the following: “One pint of molasses; one teacup of lard; one of sweet milk; one teaspoon of salt; one of ginger; four of soda; sponge over night, and in the morning knead and cut in shape as fancy directs. Buckwheat bran, when fed to cows, will produce as large a quantity of milk, but the milk will be as thin as water, and of a bluish color. Meal of peas, wheat and corn will make the richest milk, and of a yellow color.' Meal —of peas and wheat bran will make excellent food. Scalloped Oysters. —Toast several pieces of bread brown and butter them on both sides; take an oblong dish and put toast around the sides instead of the crust, pour your oysters into a dish and season with salt, pepper, butter or mace; crumb bread in the top and bake in a quick oven one quarter of an hour. Icing that will not Break.— Take one pound of pulverized sugar and the whites of three fresh eggs, well beaten. Mix them well together, and flavor with the juice of one lemon or add a teaspoonful of strong cider vinegar. Pulverize one teaspoonful of wheat or corn starch and add to it. Flour the top of the cake as soon as it is taken from the oven, and put on the icing with a large bladed steel knife, first putting into warm water, and then smoothing the frosting with it. Ginger Cake, Plain and Good.— lnto two quarts of flour rub well a teaspoonful of soda, and, when well mixed, two teaspoonsful of cream of tartar; then either powdered cloves or ginger to taste; cut fine. To one teacupful of butter, or lard and butter mixed, add two teaeiipfuls of molasses. If too stiff, add a little more molasses; if too soft, add flour until the proper consistency to joll out. Cut in round cakes, and bake in a quick oven. Cloves and no ginger make a delightful cake.

Measuring HaY.—To measure the contents of a stack of hay proceed as follows: If it is a round stack, tapering to a point from the ground, measure the width halfway between the ground and the peak of the stack; multiply this width by itself, and divide the sum by .7854; this will give the average area of the surface covered by the stack. Then multiply that by the height from the ground to thepoiut where the width was measured. If these measurements are feet, the sum found is the cubic feet in the stack. If the hay is timothy, orchard grass, millet, or Hungarian-, 500 feet will make a ton, or a cube eight feet each way. If the stack is very solid, and was cut when dread ripe, 35Q feet will make a ton, or a cube of seven feet each way. If the hay is mixed with clover, about 700 feet, or a cube of nine feet each way, will make a ton. If it is all clover, or light meadow grass, or redtop, 800 feet will be required to weigh a ton, unless it is pressed very hard, when some allowance must be made. These estimates are made from notes of a great many stacks and mows of various kinds, and will give a fair average. ~ Tonic for Horses.— ls a horse is very low in flesh and spirits, give him one button of nox-vomica every other day until he has taken three buttons. They should be beaten or filed, and should be “given (when the horse is hungry) in meal or hominy. Be sure he eats it all. If, however, he should leave a portion, drench him with what remains, after mixing it with water and putting in a bottle. Then give him a tablespoonlul of the following mixture once a week; one-fourth pound pound saltpeter, one-fourth pound alum, one-fourth pound sulphur, one-fourth pound ginger, well pounded and mixed. He should be exercised moderately, or put at light work; he should have his usual food left in his trough. In four weeks the horse will probably be in a thriving condition; if not, continue the mixture. The nox-vomica should be omitted unless the horse is in a very bad condition, as there is some danger in giving it to a horse in tolerable health. If convenient, have, his corn ground to hominy, and mix with it one-third shelled oats. Twelve pounds per day of this mixture (eight pounds hominy and four pounds oats) is a fair allowance for a work horse. This mixture is an excellent tonic and alterative, and may be safely and advantageously given to horses‘and mules at any time, and will improve their condition, particularly in the Bpring when they are shedding their coats, and often lose their appetites. The same applies to cattle. Both should have salt and ashes or weak lime (equal quantities) given them regularly every week. —Fireside Friend.

Care of House Plants in Cold Weather.

House plants require a vast amount of care every day and from week to week. They need especially to be guarded against exposure to sudden changes of temperature. Where a number of pots with flowers are placed near a window, during a cold or cloudy day, unless the temperature of the apartment is properly maintained the flowers will be seriously injured by the cold. In a cold day, unless the sun shines brightly on the flowers, or at night, unless the batten shutters of the window are closed, no .colder place can be found in the apartment than close to a large window. Many florists seem to forget their flowers during cold nights, leaving them near the window, where they are liable to become severely chilled. The best plgce for flowers during a cold day or night is on a high table near the middle of a large room. The higher thetable the better for the flowers. For this purpose a large table on castors should be provided, so that a portion or all the pots can readily be rolled to the middle of the apartment. All plants are invigorated and rendered more luxuriant by exposure to the-full influences of the noonday sun. Yet, on cloudy and windy days, it will be quite as well to keep them Dear the center of the room, away from a cold window. If any one doubts that a foot or two from a window is the coldest place in the room, let him place a thermometer a few inches from the glass for half an hour and then transfer it to the middle of

the room, and he will perceive that the instrument will indicate a marked Variation of temperature. Plants in pots are frequently placed outside of a window during a cold yet sunshiny day. But such exposure injures the stems and leaves far more than we are wont to suppose.—N. Y. Herald.

Telegraphic Reform.

There is no subject of greater import ance to the public,where a reform is more imperatively required or so easily effected, as in the telegraph. It is now a monopoly with rates so high as to prevent the public from using the telegraph, and reserves it as a luxury to ther ich or to the speculator, while only thel arge daily papers in the largest cities can aflord it, and these form an alliance offensive and defensive with the Telegraph Company in opposition to every plan of rfeform. ', Two systems have been proposed for remedying these evils—one by the Post-master-General, who desires to buy and operate all the lines of telegraph. This plan is opposed by many friends of a reform on account of the great outlay required for the purchase and extension of the lines, and of the great increase of power that it would confer on the Executive. The other plan was proposed by Gardiner G. Hubbard, and adopted by committees of the Senate and House of Representatives to which both plans were referred at the last Congress. By this system telegrams will be-received and delivered through the post-office as letters are everywhere, and as telegrams are abroad, transmitted to their place of destination Tiy telegrapft, by parties owning and operating lines of telegraph, at rates fixeu by Congress—as letters are now transmit* ted over the railroads. This plan requires no outlay by ti.e General Government, in. volves no liability for buying, building, or operating lines, and will not increase the powers of the Executive. The rates proposed are 25 cents for a telegram of 25 words each 500 miles, if it is transmitted by day, and each 1,000 milts by night—a reduction of over 50 per cent, on the present rates, and an increase of 80 per cent, in the length of the telegram. The press rates are equally reduced, and are so low as to permit every weekly paper to receive a telegraphic summary, bringing its news down to the hour of its issue. This plan proposes as great a reduction as the other can afford, and gives a cheap telegraph to the people without cost to the Government. Competition has been tried and abandoned, and, by the failure of the independent and competing companies, has resulted in placing all the important lines in the country under the control of a single interest, of which Mr. Vanderbilt is the representative. It remains for Congress to say whether the telegraph shall be made auxiliary to the post-office, freely used by the people, or the ally of the railroad monopoly, wielded only for its own interest.—Chicago Ledger. ■ The attention ot our readers is called to the attractive advertisement of J. N. Harris & Co., advertising their great, and valuable lung remedy, “ Allen’s Lung Balsam.” This Balsam lias been before the public for ten years. Notwithstanding this long period, it has never lost one whit of its popularity, or shown the least sign of becoming unpopular, but, on the contrary, the call for It lias been constantly increasing, and at no previous time has the demand been so great, or the quantity made been so large, as at tnis day. We earnestly recommend its trial by any one who may be afflicted with a cough or cold, and we warrant It to cure if directions are followed. It is sold by all our city druggists. A Nation of Dyspeptics. —We live fast—dissipate in everything except righteousness, and fill early graves. We drink all kinds of poisoned alcoholic spirits, and swallow, without mastication, pork, grease, and every conceivable carbonaceous, soul-dwarfing, life-destroying, sys-tem-clogging, indigestible food. Dr. Walker’s Vegetable Vinegar Bitters cannot stop this in a radical manner—but it will remove the evil effects, and the recovering patient T with fresh, pure, vitalized, electrical blood flowing through his arteries and veins, will have a clearer head and a cooler judgment, which, coupled with experience, will cause him to abstain in the future. Good, nutritious, digestible diet, which the most delicate stomachs may take, can be found in cracked wheat, corn bread, tomatoes, raw or soft-boiled eggs, baked apples, boiled rice, plain rice pudding, corn starch, rare beef, mutton and poultry. With Vinegar Bjtters and moderation in eating End drinking, there is no incurable case of dyspepsia. 21

Symptoms of Liver Complaint.

A sallow>or yellow color of skin, or yellowish brown spots on the face and other parts of body ; dullness and drowsiness with frequent headache ; dizziness, bitter or bad taste in mouth, dryness of throat and internal heat, palpitation; in many cases a dry, teasing cough w ith sore throat; unsteady appetite, raising of food, choking sensation in throat ; distress, heaviness, bloated or full feeling about stomach and sides, pain in sides, baclt -or breast, and about shoulders ; colie, paiu and soreness through bowels, with heat; constipation alternating with diarrhoea; piles, flatulence, nervousness, coldness of extremities; rush of blood to head, with symptoms of apoplexy, numbness of limbs, especially at night; cold chills alternating with hot flashes, kidney and urinary difficulties; dullness, low spirits, unsociability and gloomy forebodings. Only a few of above symptoms likely to be present at one time. Ail who use Dr. Fierce’s Alt. Ext., or Golden Medical Discovery for Liver Complaint and its complications are loud in its praise. A CURE OF LIVER DISEASE. RusK, Texas, May 10th, 1873. Dr. R. V. Pierce ; Dear Sir —My wife last year at this time was confined to her bed with Chronic Liver Disease. I had one of the best doctors to see her, and he gave her up to die, when I eame upon some of your medicine. I bought one bottle and commenced giving it. She then weighed 82 fcs ; now she weighs 140 lbs, and is robust and hearty. She has taken eight bottles in all, so you see I am an advocate for your medicines. WM. MEAZEL. For Throat Diseases and Affections of the Chest, “ Brown's Bronchial Trochee" are of value. For Coughs, Irritation of the Throat caused by Cold, or Unusual Exertion of the vocal organs, in speaking in public, or singing, they produce beneficial results. Persons who have become thorougldy chilled from auy cause, may have their circulation at once restored by taking into the stomach a teaspoonful of JohneoEs Anodyne Liniment mixed in a little cold water, well sweetened. Every farmer who owns a good stock of horses, cattle and sheep, and intends to keep them through the winter, should get at once a good stock of Sheridan's, Cavalry Condition Poicderx. One dollar’s worth will save at least a half ton of hay. -

Brown’i Broncntai ’lTocnea for Cooglu and Colds. A COUGH, COLD OK SORE THROAT Requires immediate attention." and should be Cheeked. If gnome to continue. Irritation or thi Lrxos, a Pbrmaxxnt Throat Attbctiox, on ax Ixcvbarlb Lcxo Diseas* Is often the result. BROWN’S BRONCHIAL TROCHES, Having a direct influence on the part*, give immediate relief. For Bronchitis. Asthma, Catarrh, Consrxrnvß and Throat Dihxasbs, Tbochxs ore used with always yoodsucccee. Sixobxs and Public Bpeakbbb Will find Troches useful in clearing the voice when taken before Singing or 8 peaking, and relieving the throat after an unnsuat exertion of the vocal organs. Obtain only “Brown's Bronchial Tbochis," and do not take any of the worthless Imitations that mnj beoflered. Sold everywhere, But and Oldest Family MxDrtiixK.— Son/brd’* liter IrTrigoramr —a purely Vegetable Cathartic aud Tonto—tor Dvspep>ia, OonstlpatlOn, Debility, Sick Headache, Bilious Attacks, and all derangements of LlTer. Stomach and Bowela. Ask your Druggist for ft. Beware <lf tmUatlceu. ‘

Thirty Year** Kxperlenca of an 019 Nunc* Mmi. Wnr.Low’s Bootbino Strut U ths prescription of one of the beet Female Physicians end Nurse* In the United Bute*, and ha* been naed for thirty year* with never-failing safety and success by milllons of mothers and children, from the feeble Infant of one week old to the adult. It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind colic, regulates the bowels, and gives rest, health, and comfort to mother and child. We believe It to be the Bestead Surest Remedy In the World In all cases of DYSENTERY and DIARRHOEA IN CHILDREN, whether It arises from Teething or from any other cause. Full directions for using will accompany each bottle. None Genuine unless the fac-slmlle of CURTIS * PEISKINS Is oL the outside wrapper. Sold bt all Medicine Dvalues. Children Often hook Pale and Sick From no other cause than having worms In the stomach. BROWN’S VERMIFUGE COMFITS will destroy Worms without Injury to the child, being perfectly wxriTK, and free from all coloring or other Injurious Ingredients usually used In worm preparations. CURTIS 1 BROWN, Proprietors, No. 215 Fulton street, New York. Bold by Druggists and Chemisu, and Dealer) in Medicine), at T wxxty-fiye Cists a Box. The Household Panacea and Family Liniment Is the best remedy In the world for the following complaints, viz.: Cramps In the Limbs and Stomach, Pain In the Stomach, Bowelß or Side. Rheumatism In all Its form*. Bilious Colic, Neuralgia, Cholera, Dysentery, Colds, Flesh Wounds, Burns, Sore Throat,Spinal Complaints, Sprains and Bruises, Chills and Fever. For Internal and External use. Its operation Is not only to relieve the patient, but entirely remove the cause of the complaint. It penetrates and pervades the whole system, restoring healthy action to all Its parts, and quickening the blood. Thx HovsitßOLD Panacea Is Purely Vegetable and All-Healing. Prepared by CURTIS & BROWN, No. 215 Fulton street. New York. For sale by all Druggists.

WHEN WRITING TO ADVEKTISERS, I M please any you saw the advertisement in thiH paper. THAT WILL. CURE CONSUMPTION Will those who have been Long Afflicted with Consumption take Courage I PLEASE BEAD THE FOLLOWING: Columbia, Henry Co., Alabama, March 8,1873. Messrs. J. N. Harris & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio: Dear Sirs—l want you to send me six bottles of Allen's Lane Balsam. Since last May I have bought and taken about twenty bottles of the Lung Balsam, for A disease of the Lungs of thirteen years' standing. Before that time I have bought and used nearly every Lung Remedy recommended, and your Lung Balsam is the only thing that has given me permanent relief. I believe that it saved my life last spring, when I commenced its use. Ido not expect anything will cure me entirely, but the Balsam keeps me up so that I can attend to business. It gives me immediate relief, and I am greatly improved in general health, I remain gratefully yours. _ D. !d. POOL. What better proof of a good remedy for Consumption do you want I NEW Market, Ya., March 24,1871. Messrs. Perht. Davis & Son : Gents—Last December I was taken with a severe cougn, and was confined to my room. But as I sat m'ufl taring on tho names of difierent articles I had In mv store for coughs, thought I would try a buttle of Allen’s Long Balsam, of which, at that time, 1 bad not sold a bottle. I took a bottle and opened It, ana commenced using with the most nappy results, and was soon entirely .cured of my cough : since then I have recommended It to a number of friends, and I have yet to find a single Instance In which It has failed. I consider It a complete cough-curer __ ts. P. SNYDER, Druggist. The Luce Balsam never falls to do good for those afflicted with a cough. It is harmless to the most delicate child. It contains no opium In any form. It Is sold Dy Medicine-dealers generally. CAUTION. Be not deceived. Cal. for ALLEN'S J.UNG BALSA M, and take no other. tirDlrectiona accompany each bottle. I l HARRIS A CO., Cincinnati, Ohio, PROPRIETORS. SOLD BY ALL MEDICINE DKALKHN. gg A llvt Dr. J. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters aro a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly from the native herbs found on the lower ranges of the Sierra "Nevada mountains of California, the medicinal properties of which are extracted therefrom without the use of Alcohol. The question is almost daily asked. “What is the cause of the unparalleled success of Vinegar Bitters'?” Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, and the patient recovers his health. They are the great blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Renovator and Invigorator of the system. Never before in the history of the world has a medicine been compounded possessing the remarkable qualities of Vinegar Bitters in healing the sick of every disease man is heir to. They are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, relieving Congestion or Inflammation c( the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious Diseases. —_yi i The properties of Dr. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic, Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic, Sedativ'e, Counter-Irritant, Sudorific, Alterative, and Anti-Bilious. R. h. McDonald a co , Druggists and Gen. Agts., San Francisco, California and oor. of Washington and Charlton Sts., N. Y. Sold by all Druggists and Dealers, CONSuImON And Its Cure. WILLSON’S Carbolated Cod Liver Oil Is a scientific combination of two well-known medt cl nee. Its theory is first to arrest the decay, then build up the Bystem, Fhysiclana find the doctrine oorrect. The really startling cures performed by Wilk ■on’a Oil are proof. OnrboHc Acid positively arrests Decay. It is tfin most powerful antiseptic In the known world. Entering into the circulation, it at once grapples with Corruption, and decay ceases. It purified the sources of disease. Cod Liver Oil is Nature's best assistant in resisting Consumption. Put up ftn large wedge-shaped bottles, bnirinsthe inventor’* signature, nad is ■old by the best Druggists. Prepared by J. lI.WHaIaSOW, B*?John St., New York. VSTKKN APT',! j DR. WHITTIER, £sS£^*Lnngesi .miax-d, “ !,(1 nioe: oirceMiul. physician of the aga ht HsmTSifc-S In*. c.ll or wrttA A U Wtsendlng us the address of ten persons, with 10 Hill |cL..wiil receive,./rec,a beautiful Chromo and A||Clinstructlons how to get rich, post-paid. City U WC|.V»rr«v C».. 108 South Bth St.. Phlla,, Pa. UfEATUCR ftTftlDfi Agents wanted In ITCH IllClt vlnlrvi every town In the Western State* to sell my Weslther Strips. Warranted the best In the nfarket. Large discounts to agents. A. C. BROWN, 307 W, Lake St„ Chicago. B 3 AM eV j fade-ipeiiy with Stencil * Key Check ill UHCI Outfit’.Catalogues, samplessndfull particulars fekk. S. M-Srxxos, In Hanover SL. Boston. dr. wrihMa, Loncpst cud mort fnocemfu! nhymkl*a o t the Un*fiUatioSorp*iii*fair-ft*a. CaUarwiffiT

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