Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1874 — Page 4

The Farmers and the Republican Party.

Dm mat mass of the intelligent fanners of thia country are identified with the Republican party, and haye been from the beginning of that party’s organization, This has been a matter of course. The farmers, as a class, are thinking men, and men of patriotic impulses and con▼ictions. Ana not only dunking men, but real working men and earnest men—men of acts as well as of thoughts; and the Republican party being a party of acts as well as of patriotic and progressive ideas, the fanners naturally gravitated to it, and have adhered to it, and as long as the Republican party will prove itself the party of popular rights and honest and upright government, we believe the farmers, as a class, will continue to adhere to it, with confidence that it is the only true popular agency through which public abuses can be corrected, the national honor maintained, and the great interests of the Republic efficiently carried forward. The proceedings of the New Hampshire Republican State Convention last week, have in them a significant political lesson for the hour. The farmers went into that convention in full force, and shaped its action. Their candidate for Governor—General McCutchins, a practical, hard-working farmer, and yet a man of more than ordinary intelligence—was nominated over the candidate of the professional politicians, and a strong resolution was adopted recognizing the agricultural element of the State as entitled to due consideration and pledging support to the farmers in their efforts to correct transportation and other monopoly abuses. This was a signal triumph of the farmers in the State Convention of their own party—nor did the party grant the concessions claimed with an ill grace, but prompily and as a matter of course; no Republican Convention, when the issue is fairly made, will question or deny recognition to the claim of the farmers—a class of men which comprises so large an element of ils membership. Just now the farmers have a special and very important little fight of their own on hand, against the transportation burdens and extortions of the railroad monopolies. They are very clearly in the right, and the Republican party of every State of the whole country owes it to the farmers as well as to itself to take the side of the anti-monopolists in this contest. The Republican party, as in Illinois, lowa, Pennsylvania and other States, has generally' manifested a readiness to do this wherever, since the issue has come up, conventions have been held or Legislatures been in session. We maysay that the Republican party of the State and of the nation has thus far exhibited a “ degree of sympathy with the “farmers’ movement’’ that leaves no question as to its trustworthiness on this score. The demand for relief from extortion and other monopoly grievances has virtually become a plank in the platform of the Republican party-, and if, »- as in New Hampshire, the Republican farmers themselves will take an active part in the party’s conventions and claim a rightful representation on the party’s nominated ticket, we doubt not that the grand object sought for will be successfully attained through this party, just as other great national reforms and measures of progress and beneficence have been attained by means of the same pow--erful instrumentality. The efforts of scheming political trick, sters —the discouraged members of the played out Democratic party, and certain disappointed, sore-headed office-seekers of the Republican party—to wheedle the farmers into joining them in a new party, is a bare-faced confidence game that promises success neither to the interests of the farmers nor to the best interests of the country at large. The cduntry’s continued safety is in the Republican party—no“new party” that may be organized by a set of mousing political swindlers, full of smooth pretenses, but seeking only their personal advantage, can be trusted as it has been and may be. Much depends upon the farmers themselves. They must, as Republicans, their influence felt within the councils of the Republican party. This they can do, should do, must do, if they would insure the success of their ideas. By allowing themselves to be bamboozled by old Democratic and s< re-head political schemers, whose only thought is the gratification of-their own selfish desires and ambitions,they would be merely throwing themselves into the traps of their enemies, and be sold out and betrayed in the end. The way they have done in New Hampshire is the wisest and best.— Chicago Evening Journal.

A "Trivial Letter.”

The New- York Tribune says: “In the case of Mr Cashing a trivial letter to Jefferson Davis decided his fate in the Senate and in the ‘Executive Afansion." This letter, fished up from the musty and almost forgotten rebel archives, which the independent organ of a party yet to be born calls “ trivial,” was addressed to the “President of the Confederate States,” spoke of the Union as already “ overthrown,” and recommended to the chief of the new government a man who might (the writer thought) do the State (Confederacy) some service. This not have been deemed trivial when it was written, in 1861, by anybody who loved the Union. It could tot have been written by any patriotic American citizen. Letters bearing on Slate affairs are never trivial. A similar letter by Jessie D. Bright cost him his seat in Congress, and cut off his political career forever.— Inter-Ocean.

The Republican Party.

The Republican party shows no signs of decay. If its members make mistakes, they manifest a willingness to rectify them. If its servants fail to record their wishes, the masses of the party quickly make their disapprobation felt, and the response is prompt and satisfactory. The Salary bill of the Forty-second Congress was universally condemned. The Fortythird Congress has repealed it. The nomination of Attorney-General Williams to the Chief-Justiceship was not favorably received by the Senate or the people. It was withdrawn by the President at the request of Mr. Williams himself. The nomination of Mr. Cushing to the same position was received at first with a feeling of doubt His fitness in legal attainments and experience was universally admitted ; but his opinion on great political questions Which may possibly come before the Supreme Court for decision were for the moment forgotten. a strong light was thrown upon his secret ■*histonr which removed all doubt, and President Grant hastened to withdraw his name. These are striking events in the recent history of the great reform party of the nation. They show that its President, its Senate, and its Congress are in accord with the people, and that they sit in their several places to carry out, so far as in them lies, the wishes of the ultimate supreme authority in the land—the mass of the legal voters. Not since the closing scenes of the Ssat acts of reconstruction has the publican party shown ite repreaentative character so strikingly as during the last month. If one nranch of the Government makes a mistake, another branch hastens to rectify it; if all err, the great body of the party—the rank and file—asserts its right to judge and its authority to condemn; and the alacrity with which the Republican party officials bow to the dictates of this, jjfeat tribunal ; of the people constitutes to-day, as it has . ■■■ ,

i constituted during its whole history, the secret of iu tenure of power. The rugged vigor, the quick vitality, and the sustained . purpose of the Republican organization to act as it is acted upon by the moral and political sentiment of the people are exhibited in bold relief by its recent his-tory.—lnter-Ocean.

Intelligence of Hogs.

Hoos often show great intelligence and aptitude to learn. A forester had a Chinese pig which followed-him like a dog, came at call and ran up and down stairs. It learned to bow ana perform several tricks. It was very expert in hunting mushrooms; and, when told -to keep watch, it would remain at its post until called away. When its owner said “I am going to kill you,” it would.lie down on its back and stretch out its legs. When Louis XL was sick, in order to relieve the sadness of his mind, a nobleman thought of teaching a pig to dance and bringing it before him. It was not long before a pig could hop about very well to the sound of a bagpipe; they then dressed it with eoat, pantaloons, necktie, hat, sword, etc., —m short; all that the court gentlemen of the time were accustomed to wear, and introduced it in*o the presence of the king. The animal bowed, danced and followed all orders in the most artistic manner, untßegetting tired, it became so awkward that iflie king roared with laughter, to the delight of his courtiers. ~~— ’ . —' Au English gentleman carefully trained a hog for hunting. Slug, for so the hog was called, was very fond of the chase, and was ever on the alert when the huntsmen were preparing to start, but the dogs could not endure its company, and their owner was never able to make use of both at the same time. Slug would scent a bird from a great distance and would dig in the earth to show where it had' beenr When the birds hopped, it followed like a dog. Hogs have been trained for draught. A countryman was in the habit of going to 8t- Alban’s market in a small cart drawn by four hogs; another countryman won a wager that his hog would carry him on its back four miles in one hour. These facts are cited to show that the hog is a more intelligent animal than we give him credit for. However, every kindhearted person will disapprove of teaching dumb creatures to perform tricks. For our own part, we take no pleasure in seeing dancing bears and spelling pigs; for the process of training draws so deeply on our sympathy that we look upon everything of the kind as the torturing of animals.—Our Dumb Animals.

A Physiological Curiosity.

The chief use Of the Eustachian tube is to allow a free interchange of air between the ear and the throat, and this is exceedingly important; and it is very important also that its use in this respect should be understood. Persons who go down in diving-bells soon begin to feel a great pressure in the ears, and if the depth is very great, the feeling becomes extremely painful. This arises from the fact that in the diving-bell the pressure of the air is very much increased, in order to balance the weight of water above; and thus it presses with great force upen the mem. brane of the drum, which, if the Eustachian tube is kept closed, has only the ordinary uncompressed air on the inner side to sustain it. It is therefore forced inward and put upon the stretch, and might be even broken. Many cases, iddeed, have occurred of injury to the ear, producing permanent deafness, from descents in diving-bells undertaken by persons ignorant of the way in which the ear is made; though the simple precaution of frequent swallowing suffices to ward off all mischief. For, if the Eustachian tube is thus opened again and again, as the pressure of the outside air increases, the same compressed air that exists outside passes also into the inside of the drum, and the membrane is equally pressed upon from both sides by the air,and so is free from strain. The same precaution is necessary in ascending mountains that are lofty, for then there is the same eflectof stretching produced upon the membrane, though in the opposite way. The outside air becoming less and less condensed as a greater height is gained, the ordinary air within the drum presses upon the membrane, -which is thus unsufficiently supported on the outside, and a similar feeling of weight and stretching is produced. The conjurer’s trick of breaking a vase by a word rests on the same principle. The air is exhausted from within, and the thin though massive looking sides of the vase collapse by the pressure of the air outside; and, just as ever so small a hole, made at the right moment in the side of the vase, would prevent the whole effect, so does swallowing, which makes a little hole, as it were, for the moment in the drum of the ear, prevent the in-pressing or outpressing of the membrane. Air. Tyndall, in his interesting book “On Sound,” tells us how he employed this precaution of swallowing, and with entire success, when, in one of his mountain excursions, the pressure on his ears became severely painful.— Popular Science Monthly.

Dangers of Miscellaneous Smoking.

The Paris Figaro gives the following details of ■ an extraordinary robbery of jewelry: “A Parisian commission merchant, M. Cohn, had purchased a quantity of jewelry for London houses to the value of £6,000. On the evening of his departure for London he dined with a number of his clerks, ■who accompanied him to the station, where he got into an empty compartment of the train which was to take him to Calais. Some minutes later four persons entered the carriage, and, although he would have preferred to be alone, finding there was no time for change, he engaged in conversation with them, at the same time keeping his hand on the traveling bag which contained his valuables. On arriving at Calais, the strangers disappeared. M. Cohn proceeded on board the boat. He was immediately joined by a person whom he recognized as one of his fellow-travelers in the train, and who, after a short discussion on the evils of sea-sickness, offered, him a cigar, which he refused. His interlocutor, however, was very pressing, and tendered a case of what he called real Havanas, which Mr. Cohn believes now, although he did not specially notice at the time, was not the same as the stranger himself had. In the Cnd Mr. Cohn took a cigar, and lighted and commenced smoking it, when he at once became insensible. On recovering he found he wss at Dover, and that his traveling bag and impromptu acquaintance had disappeared. Three trains were about to start. A search was made for both bag and stranger, and the telegraph was put into play, but without success.”' . —The arsenal at Rock Island, 111., when complete, will have a capacity equal to the manufacture of munitions of war sufficient to equip 1,000,000 men every six months. •\ * ' ■ —The Blue-Grass regions of Kentucky lie across the middle of ..the State, and contain some 12,000 or 15,000 square miles or about one-third of the State, and include about twenty counties. —The bonded and floating debt of Chicago has been increased since 1869 by 88 per cent, or from $8,189,371 to $15,393,832. The expenditures for four years have amounted to $25,500,000.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

External cancer may be helped, if not cured, by the application of raw beef. It has been Known, in a great many instances, to prevent the cancer from spreading. Children Buffering from wind on the stomach can be soon relhjjred by applying to their bowels cloths wrung out of hot water. As soon as the pain ceases wrap them well up, and keep them quiet. -_ . . Cutaneous Eruptions in Horses.— For the cutaneous disorder, apply the following liniment on the parts which the horse rubs, or which are scabby and bare: Linseed oil, one pint; oil of tar, four ounces; sulphur, four ounces. Walkino is the best of exercise, for it exercises certain large muscles of the trunk and legs, which in sedentary occupations remain inactive. Any undue pressure upon any other function of the body is relieved thereby, causing the blood to flow healthfully tn every channel designed by nature for its circulation. When any substance gets lodged in the nose, close the mouth and the opposite nostril, and then blow hard through the obstructed side. If this is not successful, press the thumb against the nose above the obstruction, and then make a hook of a piece of wire or knitting-needle, and, pressing it up over the substance, pull it down. The daily bath should not be neglected by either adults or children. In the winter season the skin is naturally shrunken by the cold, its pores liable to shirk duty, therefore the.skin should be kept active by suitable bathing. Alix enough hot water with the cold to take off the chill, and rub thoroughly dry immediately afterward. A nervous headache may be cured in this way: Seat yourself in a chair, and let a friend dampen his or her hands in cold water, and standing behind you let him place his hand gently upon the forehead and draw them over the head toward himself, being particular to press the hands lightly over the place where the most pain is felt. As his hand leaves your head, let him throw them behind him as if endeavoring to throw something off them. Let him keep his hands wet, and repeat the operation till you are relieved, which will generally be in from three to five minutes. Cure for Drunkenness.—A mixture made up as follows, and taken in quantities equal to an ordinary dram, and as often as thedesire for strong drink returns, will it is said, cure the worst case of drunkenness: Sulphate of iron, flvegrains; peppermint-water, eleven drams; spirits of nutmeg, one dram. This preparation acts as a tonic and stimulant, and so partially supplies the place of the accustomed liquor, and prevents the absolute physical and moral prostration that follows a sudden breaking-off from the use of stimulating drinks. It is to be taken in quantities equal to an ordinary dram, and as often as the desire for a dram returns. Water-Proof Shoe Polish.—Take a wide-mouthed bo’ttle and half fill with shellac varnish having the consistency of thin sirup. Mix some lampblack with a little of the same varnish and when well blended add it, with a bit of gum camphor, to the contents of the bottle and keep it well corked. The rule is, to one pint of varnish add half an ounce each of good lampblack and gum camphor. With this preparation children’s shoes may he kept polished and water-proof all the year round; and it is a nice application for the larger slroes as well. And, if gentlemen ever read such articles as these, let me whisper it, it will freshen up your old harness considerably and may be used to advantage in many similar ways, answering every purpose to which French dressing is applied.— -Christian. Union. English Plum Pudding.—Take 1 lb. of suet, 1 lb. of moist sugar, 1 lb. of currants, 1 lb. of raisins, 1 lb. of medium sized raisins, 1 lb t of mixed candied peel, % lb. of bread crumbs, lb. flour, 1 teaspoonful of salt, 1 of mixed spice, 8 eggs, and pint of brandy, Finely chop the suet, stone the raisins, remove stalks, etc,.wash and dry the currants, chop the peel and sift the bread crumbs. Alix all in the following order: Flour, salt, spice, sugar, raisins, peel, bread crumbs and currants; be particular as to this order. Beat the eggs and stir them for ten minutes; add the brandy to them and pour over the mass; stir for twenty-five minutes until all the ingredients are thoroughly mixed; butter a mold and fill it; scald a clean cloth and cover it; tie the pudding down and boil for thirteen hours, This will make a pudding large enough for fourteen persons. Sweet Potato Coffee—There are many persons who are very foad of a food cup of coffee, but who dare not inulge in the favorite beverage on account of the nervous excitement or billions affection that follows. To such it will be pleasing to learn that the new modes of evaporating fruits and vegetables by artificial processes have rendered it possible to reduce the uncooked sweet potato, without taint, to the dry and brittle condition necessary for roasting and grinding as coffee. In thiseondition its useful and economical properties are said to be manifold. Being very wholesome as well as exceedingly nutritious, it is said to be a valuable substitute for chicory and the indifferent articles of pease, which usually make up a large portion of the mixture usually sold for “pure ground coffee." Its rich saccharine contents not only diminish the amount of sugar required, when it is used, but so completely agglutinate and settle the grounds that coffee mixed with this preparation may be used as fine as flour without making the infusion muddy, thus permitting double the ordinary strength to be obtained from the coffee itself. The ground sweet potato may be mixed with half its bulk of good, pure coffee. This mixture will cost less than half the price of pure coffee, and by many is decidedly preferred as a matter of taste. More important, however, to those who cannot drink pu:e coffee, is the consideration that in the sweet potato there is no headache, no excitement of the nerves and no bilious affection. A Stitch in Time Saves Nine —Who does not know a household where things originally of the best and set in first-rate order are allowed to go to rack and ruin for want of a competent hand at the helm; where there is scarcely a piece of furniture or domestic utensil of any sort which does not get mu-used, as well as tIZ-used; where chairs and sofas not only become worn by sitting on, but by standing on, by being made to do duty for steps when pictures have to be arranged, books reached from shelves, etc., and where the wear and tear thus wrought is never checked by timely repairing; where the gimp trimming is allowed to unravel for want of the friendly tack, and halt the stuffing allowed to esgape by the hole before any effort is made tb arrest the damage ; where, in faet, no mending is ever attempted until the dilapidated object becomes unusable; where ornaments off the stove, mirror frames, cabinets, what-not, are taken no heed of Mid are lost, instead of being preserved for the glue-pot day, thus keeping up the generally defaced look which all the appointments rapidly assume; where the carpet binding remaips unsewn, linen undarned, glass and. china cracked and chipped, window panes starred, curtains and blinds half torn fromyods and rollers; where forks, scissors, and knives get twisted, bent, and broken from having been made to do the

duty of corkscrew, screwdriver or chisel; where, in one word, the ship is allowed to make such bad weather that at last she has really to encounter a severe storm of her own creating in the shape of the owner’s strongly expressed disapproval of the expense entailed by a complete renovation and rehabilitation of every department.—Graphic.

Drawing and Spreading Manure in Winter.

There is no economy in allowing manure, to accumulate in piles inwinter, unless the object is to convert it into compost the following spring and summer. If intended for' plowing under for spring crops, it should be hauled out and spread as soon as possible. If hauled when the ground is covered with snow, so much the better, especially if it is to be applied to meadow or pasture, since then all grinding of the crowns of the plants is avoided. In either case the worry and shaking of the team is avoided, while drawing the wagon over rough ground. There are a number of valid reasons why manure should never bo hauled in the spring. The principal ones are the muddy state of the roads,,the poaching of the.soil, the multiplicity of other work to be done, and the consequent surety that other important work will be left undone. Alany a field of young grass that, on account of the drought, failed to get a good start, may be saved by spreading crude, long or strawy manure, or even a mulch of straw itself, over the surface of the ground after it is frozen. This will prevent freezing and thawing, and, consequently, heaving-out in the spring, and give a good crop either for mowing or pasture the next season. If intended for mowing, however, it will be necessary to gather together the long portions with a horse-rake after the ground has settled in the spring, to be drawn away for composting or applying to land for plowing under. The Western Rural has heretofore shown the value of new clean straw and corn stalks plowed under, as a mechanical means of improving some of our firm and stiff soils in the West. If they have been previously trodden by stock and partially- saturated with the urinn. and mixed with the droppings, so much the better. We have also shown that the manure made on the farm costs only the moving from the yard to the fields, since it must be eventually carted somewhere to get rid of the accumulation when a large portion of its most valuable constituents have been dissipated. It is, therefore, money in the pocket of every farmer to haul it at his earliest convenience, that its value may be conserved. One of the principal reasons against the hauling of manure in winter is the the opinion, not thoroughly well-founded, that the rains of the winter and spring will wash the more soluble parts entirely away. The observing farmer, however, probably will have noticed that, when placed in piles and allowed to remain during the summer months, the increased vegetation will show but a short distance about the piles. The fact is that, except on very tenacious soils or steep hill-sides, the effect is observable but for a short distance. Calculations must be made not to spread next the bottom of declivities“where the inclination is steep. Fortunately, there are but few situations in the West where it is necessary to cultivate such lands. When manure is hauled on meadows or pastures, it should be spread as evenly as possible directly from the wagon or sled, and the frozen chunks broken up and evenly distributed as soon as thawed thereafter. We-advise the application of manure to grass whenever possible, in preference to other crops; for plenty of grass and hay and plenty of stock makes rich farmers in any country. When the meadow is broken for succeeding crops, the good results-are always seen. In the application of manure we should not advise heavy spreading on meadows unless the supply were ample. A light covering will be sufficient toprevent serious alternate freezing and thawing, and this is what does the mischief either to young meadows or young wheat. Better cover all lightly than a portion heavily and the balance not at all. If there is not ma.nure enough for all, however,, cover the weaker places and leave the stronger portions to take care of themselves. There is one consideration in hauling and spreading manure in winter which it is perhaps unnecessary to mention. Alanures should not be placed in swales and low places where water runs. The fertilizing properties of the portion so placed may be washed away; bnt, here again, not to so great a degree as is often supposed. Unless the current be strong and confined to a narrow channel, the fertilizing propertie i of the manure will be gradually given up to the soil and grass over which it extends. These facts are well-known to those conversant with the processes of irrigation, but are not so well understood by the general farmer who has not had experience in these matters. When the water falls on the surface as rain, and does not flow over the surface, the soluble manure, taken up by the drops as they fall, is immediately given up again to the,,soil through which it percolates or saturates as it slowly runs along; for, though water is the universal solvent, it gives up the constituents again as freely as it has received them. Hence, the extraordinary fertilizing properties of water in irrigation, which water, to the ordinary sense, seems perfectly pure.— Western Rural. —Varnish for Shoes.—The Manufacturer and Builder gives this recipe: Three pounds of rain water are placed in a pot over the fire, and when well boiling there are added four ounces white pulverized wax, one ounce clear, transparent glue in small pieces, two ounces white soap, scraped fine, two ounces brown pulverized sugar; the.ingredients are placed in one by. one, and.every time stirred up; it is well to take the pot from the fire every time a substance is added, to prevent boiling over; when all is added, the pot is removed from the fire; when sufficiently cooled, three ounces alcohol are added, and finally three" ounces fine Frankfort black, well incorporated by continued stirring. This varnish is put on the leather with a brush, and is very valuable for boots and shoes, as it can be afterward polished with a large brush like ordinary shoe blacking, shows high polish, and does not soil the clothing. —Baked Minced Afutton.—Take the remains of any joint of cold roast mutton, one or two onions, one bunch of savory herbs, pepper and salt to taste, two blades of pounded .mace, or nutmeg, one teacupful of gravy, mashed potatoes. Mince an onion rather fine, and fry it a light brown color; add the herbs and mutton, both of which should be also/finely minced and well mixed; season with pepper and salt, and a little pounded mace, or nutmeg, and moisten with the above proportion of gravy. Put a layer of mashed potatoes at the bottom of a dish, then the mutton, and then another layer of potatoes, and bake for about half an hour. Hannaford & Thompson, Subscription Book Publishers, Chicago, have in press an exhaustive History of the Farmers’ Alovement, by Hon. J. Periam, Editor Western Rural, one of Our ablest and best knpwn agricultural writers. Its title Is/sThe Groondswell. It will be the standard work on Granges, Clubs, etc., and is certain tn prove a great hit. Book Agents, and Farmers, especially, should read the publishers’ advertisement. It is bound Wsrtl.

Don’t Tamper with a Cough.—Perhaps in the whole category of diseases to which humanity is susceptible, the cough is most neglected in its early stage. A simple cough Ta generally regarded as a temporary affliction — , unpleasant arid nothing more, but to those who have paid dearly for experience, it is the signal for attack for the most fearful of all diseases—Consumption. A cough will lead to consumption—if not checked—so sure as the rivulet leads to the rivct£ yet, it is an easy enemy to thwart, if met by the proper remedy. Allen's Lung Balsam is the great cough remedy of the age, and it has earned its reputation by merit alone. Sold by all pood druggists.

Pimples, Eruptions, Rough Skin.

The system being put under the influence of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medial Discovery,.for a few weeks, the skin becomes smooth, clear, soft and velvety, and being illuminated with tbe glow of perfect health from within, true beauty Stands forth in all Its glory. Nothing ever presented to the public as a beautifler of the complexion ever gave such satisfaction for this purpose as this Discovery. The effects of all medicines which operate upon the system through the medium of the blood are necessarily somewhat slow, no matter how good the remedy employed. While one to three bottles clear the skin of pimples, blotches, eruptions, yellow spots, comedones, or “grubs,” a dozen may possibly be required to | cure some cases where the system is rotten with scrofulous or virlent blood poisons. The cure o tall these diseases, however, from the c'<Jfh’rn6n pimple to the worst scrofula is, with the use of this mostpotent agent, only a matter of time. Sold by all Druggists. COVERED W ITH ERUPTIONS, CURED.' Claverack, Columbia Co., N. Y. Du R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. I.: Dear Sir: I am sixty years of age, and have been afflicted with Salt Rheum in the worst form for a great many years, until, accidentally, I saw one of your books, which described my ease exactly. I bought, your Golden Medical Discovery, and took two bottles and a half, and was entirely cured. From my shoulders to my hands I was entirely covered with eruptions, also on face and body. I was likewise afflicted with Rheumatism, so that I walked with great difficulty, and that is entirely cured. May God spare you a long life to remain a blessing to mankind. With untold gratitude, Mrs. A. W. Williams. Vinecar Bitters.—Dr. J. Walker, a regular practicing physician of California, has conferred a priceless boon upon mankind by the introduction of a “Bitters” compounded from herbs exclusively, which may be truly said to be superseding all others, and is becoming a bitter dose indeed for the charlatans and quacks, on account of its immense sale and universal popularity. Not only are these Vinegar Bitters,’as he calls them, an invaluable tonic and alterative, but they are acknowledged, as a standard Medicine; and the astonishing rapidity with which they cure diseases hitherto declared incurable seems almost incredible. After having been carefully tested, they are kept on hand in thousands of households, and. used for any and every form of disease, many relying upon them in preference to the most celebrated physicians. They have become a recognized “Family Remedy,” and properly so. 25 We were pleased to see, not long since, in one of our exchanges, some pretty severe remarks addressed to several who, during an interesting lecture by Rev. Jno. S. C. Abbott, kept a continuous coughing, which prevented many from hearing. People who cannot refrain from coughing, had better stay away from such places, or else take a bottle of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment with them. The importance of giving Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Pouriers to horses that have been out in the cold rain, stood in cold wind, or drank too much cohl water, cannot be over estimated; no man should be without them who owns a good horse. Cure for Cough or Cold.—As soon as there is the slightest uneasiness of the Chest, with difficulty of breathing, or indication of Cough, take, during the day, a few "Brown's Bronchial Troches."

Brown’s Bronchial Troches for Coughs and Colds. -—— A COUGH, COLD OR SORE THROAT ; Requires Immediate attention, and should be Checkcd. If allowed to continue, Irritation of the Lungs, a Permanent Thboat Affection, ob an Incurable Lung Disease Is often the resultBROWN’S BRONCHIAL TROCHES, Havlnga direct Influence on the parts, give Immediate relief. For Bronchitis Asthma, Catabbh, Consumptive and Throat Diseases, Teoches are used with always good suecess. ? Singers and Public Speakers WIU And Troches useful in clearing the voice when taken before Singing or Speaking and relieving the throat after an unusual exertion of the vocal organs. Obtain only "Brown’s Bronchial Troches,” and do not take any of the worthless Imitations that may be offered. Sold Everywhere. Thirty Years* Experience of an Old Nurse. Mbs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup Is the prescription of one of the best Female Physicians and Nurses In the United States, and has been used for thirty years with never-failing safety and success by millions 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 bo the Best and Surest Remedy In the World In all cases of DYSENTERY and DIARRHCEA 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-slmile of CURTIS & PERKINS Is on the outside wrapper. j Soim by all Medicine Dealers. Children Often Look Pale and Sick From no other cause than having worms in the atom ach. BROWN'S VERMIFUGE COMFITS will destroy Worms without Injury to the child, being perfectly white, and free from all coloring onother Injurious ingredients usually used in worm preparations. CURTIS & BROWN, Proprietors, No. 215 Fulton street, New York. SoM by Druggists and Chemists, and Dealers in Medicines, al Twenty-five Cents a Boj. 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, Bowels or Side, Rheumatism in all its forms. 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. The Household Panacea Is Purely Vegetable and All-Healing. Prepared by CURTIS ft BROWN, No. 215 Talton street. New York. For sale by all Druggists. Best and oldest Family medicine.— Santoro's Liver Invlgorator—e purely Vegetable Cathartic and Tonic—tor Dyspepsia, Constipation, Debility Sick Headache, Bilious Attacks, and all derangements of Liver, Stomach and Bowels. Ask your Druggist toll. Beware of imitations. WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS, please say you saw the Advertisement In this paper. 200 PIANOS AND ORGANS New and Second-hand, of Flrpt-class Makers, will be told al Lower Pricea/or cash,or on Instal Iments, incity or country, during this financial crisis and the Holidays, dp Horace Wafers dk Son, 481 Broadway,than ever beforeeflered In New York. Agents Wantedto HU Waters’ Celebrated Pianos, concertoasd Orchestral Organs, lllust’ted catalogues mailed. Great Inducements to the Trade. A large discount to Ministers, Churches, Sunday-Schools,etc. Dr. Turner's Guide to Health, Giving all advice necessary for every one liable to cisease of any kind, married or single; old or young; for all ages, sexes, or conditions in life. Agents wanted for this the best-selling book published ; send 50 cts. for sample copy to Dr. L. Tuknxb, 906 Washington Ave., St. Louis. Mo. WE OFFER OCR lIIENSEIfOCSOF” Qftft PIANOS AND ORGANS a || || I of Standard ana Reliable make, at Great W V Bargains for cash or easy payments. It will pay those who contemplate buying to send for circulars- D . H< BALDWIN & CO., 158 West 4th St-, VINCINNATI, V.

CmWoHiiiilM, COUGHS, Bronchitis, Asthma, and Croup. As an Expectorant it has No Equal. It Is composed of the active principles of roots and plants, which are chemically extracted, so as to retain all their medical qualitlep. 'ALLEN’S LOO lilLSlM.j I “I Tills Great Medicine was First Offered For Sale Ten Years Ago. Its good qualities were soon made known at home, and very soon its fame was noised farand near ; now It Is sold hi nearly every drug store in the United States. No similar medicine stands higher with the people; It is well'known on the Pacific coast, and even from Australia la’-ge orders are received ror it And throughout Canada it is well and favorably known* and sold everywhere. * Ministers and Public Speakers, Who are so often afflicted with throat diseases, will find a sure remedy in this Balsam. Lozengesand Wafers sometimes give relief, but this Balsam, taken a few times, will insure a permanent cure. Will all those afflicted with Coughs or Consumption give this Balsam h fair trial ?. They will be pleased with the result, and confess that the SURE ItEMEDY IS FOUND AT LAST. READ THE FOLLOWING I What the St. Louis Journal has to say: Read and Reflect.—To such as may desire a remedy for this curse of humanity 'Consumption, Allen’s Lung Balsam gives the anchor of hope. Alien's Lung Balsam has been tried by thousands, who give evidence, not only by writing testimonials, that they have been cured, but by their physical appearance. Therccommendations this valuable remedy has received from those who know the good it has done for them, place Allen’s Lung Balsam in the front rank of the healing and life-restoring remedies of this century. CAUTION.— Be not deceived. Call for ALLEN’S LUNG BALSAM, and take no other. Direct ions accompany each bottle. J. N, HARRIS & Co., Cincinnati, 0., Proprietors. For Sale by all Medicine Dealers. MERCHANT’S GARGLING OIL The Standard Liniment of the United States. IS GOOD FOR Burns and Scalds, Rheumatism, Chilblains, Hemorrh'iids or Piles, Sprain*.and Bruises, Sore Sipples, < 'happed Hands, ('aked Breasts, Flesh Wounds, Fistula, Mange, Frost Biles, Spavins, Sweeney, External Poisons, Scratches or Grease, Sand Cracks, Striniihalt, lUndyalls, Galls of all kinds. Foundered Feet, Sit fast, Ringbone, < 'racked Heels, Poll Evil, Foot Rot in Sheep, Bites of Animals, Roup in Poultry, Toothache, Lame Back, <fc., <J-c. Large Size SI.OO. Medium 50c. Small 25c. Small Size for Family Use, 25 cents. The Gargling Oil has been in- use as a liniment sineie 1533. All we a>k is a fair trial, but be sure and follow directions. Ask your nearest Druggist or dealer in Patent Medicines for ' one of our Almanacs, and read what the people say almut the Oil. TTfe Gargling OiF is for saie Tiy aU respectable dealers throughout the United States and other countries. (y\xr testimonialsdnlv from 1833 to the present, and are unsolicited. We also manufacture Merchant’s Worm Tablets. We deal fair and liberal with all, and (Jpfy contradiction. Manufactured at Lockport, N. Y., tJ. S. A., by Merchant’s Gargling Oil Co., JOHN HODGE, Secretary. ■BQQKSKSaBKHBSBHBSBBnHMHHHI ’ T **° &&?*** CONSUMPTION uflkixd Its Cure. WHXSON’S Carbolated Cod Liver Di! Is a scientific combination of two well-known modi cinee. Its theory is first to arrest the decay, then build up the system. Physicians fiudthedoct rtne cot rect. The really startling cures performed by Willare proof. - ; Carbolic Aral positively arrests Decay. It is th* most powerful antiseptic in the known world. En teringlntotliecirculation.it at once grapples with corruption, and decay ceases. It purifies the sources of disease. Cod Liver Oil is Nature's best assistant in resisting Consumption. - .. Put up in large wedge-ahapvd bottles, bearing the inventor’s feignaGure. and is sold by thp best Druggists. Prepared by J. lI.WILLSON, 83 John St., New York. TVnio'rx'-Di.- j HU tJLBI' •!’ it EDSALL, Chicago Western Agt bi } , !!CIIAI:DSON & c 0 l 0t ., 9 ASK YOUR DRUGGIST OR GROCER FOR COIVTI’S Mile Castile Soaj, ANDMile Floitiii Soaj. PERFECTLY PURE, WHILE THE COMMON MOTTLED CASTILE IS ADULTERATED. NONE GENUINE UNLESS BRANDED E« CONTI & FICLI* LIVORNO. MAILED FREE ON RECEIPT OF PRICE. 100 Samples Decalcomanle Pictures for 25 cents; 3 Beautiful Gard Chromos for 25 cents: A Set of 15 Caricature Chromos 25 cts Box French initial Paper and Envelopes with Chromo for 50 eta: Or all the above for SI.OO. J. W. RUSSELL & CO., Medford, Mass. One manjußt cleared SOO in 4 days, selling the COMPLETE DOMESTIC BIBLE, just out. New type and taking features. 800 Engravings, superior paper, excels every wav andsells quick. Big terms to Agents. Outfit Free. For full particulars address Blackburn Bros., Pubs., 176Grlswold-st, Detroit, Mich 4^7Q EACH WEEK. Agents wanted. Particu 4 Zi lars free. J. Worth & Co., St. Louie, Mo. ■TTfPIIRMWWPWW O SIOO invested in Wall-st. J J fl | >f ten leads to a fortune. Nc 111 isk.S’i-page pamphlet free. ™ V.i 1<• nll ne‘Tmnll ridge &Cc Bankers and Wall-st, N.Y PAYING EMPLOYMENT For all having spare time. Somethin? new and fa-t selling. No fancy art de, but a necesMl v to all classes of people, actually Having money to buyers Business honorable.pleasant.home or abroad; no risks and extremely profitable. You will miss your bes chance if you fail to write for particulars and valuable samples, to F. A. Hutchinson & Co.. Chicago, IP. n n n i/ a c f 11 t t,,e bewt b °° k A be *» KIIIIHMUCiI 1 vtcrins Send far circular UvUllof “Cyclopaedia of Things Worth Knowing, or 25,000 Wants Supplied.” The King of Keceint Books, 16 color Chromo free. CONTINENTAL PUB. CO., St. Louis. Mo. CEO. F. HATHAWAY, Cammission Merchant, 202 State Sr., Hoar on. Consignments <»f Flour, Grain, Butter, etc., solicited. Quick sales and prompt returns. lAfgllTE A great novelty, producing a beautiful vVnilE effect- A gent* send 15 cts. for sample. ■ || If Address H. W. WAX’ERLEY. 111 IV ■ 7,7 A 79 Jackson st-, Chicago. A lIV bending us the address of ten persons, with 10 All I cts.. will receive,/ree.abeautiful Chromo and AM E instructions how to get rich, post-paid. Citu U ll ELVorelty Co., 108 South Bth St., Phila., Pa. IN AT AMT RELIEF and Radical Curefor the 111 wIMH I ASTHMA. Immediate relief guaranteed by using my Asthma Remedy. I -sufferedTwelve years, not lying down for weeks at a time, but am now bnttrely cured. Sent by mail on receipt es price, SI per box. Ask your Druggist for it. CHAS. B. HURST, Rochester, Beaver Co., Pa. r ! VALENTINES ! LARGEST ASSORTMENT—FINEST STOCK-Send so? Circular. A. J. Fl SHER, 98 Nassau* t, N.Y. A MONTH—2 packages fine white envelops and 2 quires note paper, value |l, mailed for 50 cents. Circular for stamp. 8. HOOK, Cedar Rapids, lowa. QEP DET °f Perpetual Beauty. New scientific dCvnCI discoveries. Particulars FREE- Address Southwestern Agency, Carthage. Missouri. AT b *ve found somethin gNKW for A I LAO I agents. It will sell better than anythlngyouever handled. Samples2se- EUREKA MANUFACTUB*G CO-,145 (Mark or 114 Madison 6 L,Chlcago DR. WHITTIER, €I, ST.*LOUIS, I «O. BT '* Longest engaged, and moa t successful Physician of tbe age, Cousoltatlon or pamphlet Ire. Call or writ. M n N EV ' 'Ofndly with Stencil & Bey Check rIURB I Outfit particulara'rxxs. S.M.fesxarafll7Hanover,St4Bo«ton.

WIREKIf AlulxZJiidlluxX Dr. J. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters are a purely Vegetabla preparation, made chiefly from the na-tive-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 f” Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, and the patient recovers his health. They are the great blood purifier ana a life-giving principle, a perfect Renovator aud Invigoratoc of the system. Never before in the histqry 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 Toni*, relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver und Visceral Orgtas, in Bilious Diseases. The properties of Dr. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic, Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic, Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Sudorific, Alterative, aud Anti-Bilious. R. H. MCDONALD <& CO., Druggists and Gen. Agts.. San Francisco, California, and cor. of Washington and Charlton Sts., N. Y. Sold by all Druggists and Dealer*.

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