Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1874 — Page 4

The Difference.

The difference between Democratic and Republican administration of office is ex hibited in strong relief by a comparative statement of the expenses of the Clerk’s office of the New York Assembly under a Democrat in 1871 and undent Republican in 1873, as follows: nxnOCTUTIO— IB7I. Stationery and contingent expenses $16,019.8! Express accounts..T?. 5,464.17 Postage accounts... 8,874.34 $27,358.28 Session was for 100 days, making an average pci day of $360:98. asrtrauc an—lß73. Stationery and contingent expenses $11,339.35 Express accounts 8,0 0.60 Postage accounts 3,666.61 $18,916.55 Session f0r 1873 lasted 144 days; average per day, $131.87. With a degree of impudence peculiar to Democratic newspapers it is charged that the expense account of the Republican Clerk for 1878 is monstrous, and indicative of corruption, stealing, etc. In response to these charges the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle comes to the front with the above tables, showing that the last Democratic Clerk expended $250.98 per day, while his Republican successor managed to run the office at an outlay of $lBlB7. The difference between these two sums fbr 100 days aggregates the comfortable little perquisite of $11,961. Inter-Ocean.

The True Democracy.

People who are in doubt as to where true Democracy can be found, and as to the genuine character of the article, have only to repair to “ the dark and bloody ground" of Kentucky to be duly enlightened. At a recent convention at Frankfort, in that State, an individual calling himself Jones was nominated for an important office solely on the ground that he had fought in the rebel army throughout the war. . His other qualifications for the position %eem to have provoked no inquiry whatever. It was enough to know that he had been a consistent rebel, and amid cheers of delight he was nominated by acclamation. “ Our principles still live,” shouted his exultant supporters. Ex-Gov. Bramlette is not pleased with such business, and publishes a threatening letter about it in the Louisville Commercial. He declares that he cannot cooperate with the Democratic party if it intends to assume as a sacred duty the task of rewarding rebels with office simply because they have been rebels, and in utter disregard of their fitness otherwise. Ex-Gov. Bramlette is training in too bad a crowd for a man of his patriotic principles, but we think he has been a good while in finding it out.— Chicago Journal.

General Grant’s Turnout.

The fuss the papers make over the carriages and outfit of the PresidenUll prepares one for the quite ordinary stud Gen. Grant keeps for his own use and that of his family. The old stable of Buchanan's time is now partly a conservatory and partly a wood-shed. Nearly* a quarter of a mile away, on a new and yet uncultivated part of the public grounds—outside the Presidential gardens —stands a low brick edifice, somewhat castellated, ans this is the Presidential stable. A coach of modern style, trimmed wholly in black, except the handles, with no ornament of any kind but “U. S. G.” on the panels, is the State and family carriage of the Chief Magistrate. It would not be a fashionable coach fora New ‘ York snob. It would need but little change to turn it into a first-class mourning carriage, A small, light-driving wagon is the favorite for the President "when he drives himself. To this is hitched a small black mare of marvelous speed that came from the State of Maine. The carriage horses are beauties. One of these is over sixteen hands high. He was picked up in a hack in this city, where he attracted no attention. He cost but S4OO. He could not now be purchased at any price. A fine sum would be paid for a mate. A pair of black ponies of great speed and grit, driven to a low basket wagon, with a rumble behind, is the fa- ~ rorite team of Miss Nellie Grant. The horse of mark in the stable is Cincinnatus, the old war-horse of the President. This animai is a deep mahogany bav, slender and of wonderful symmetry. His life-work is done. He is eighteen, a crip- , *P d will live in clover to the end of - his days. A>fonr-y ear-old colt of great s«e and speed completes the horse outfit of Gen. Grant.— Washington Letter.

The Light End of a StOve.

A beadeb who is recently married writes us asking which end of a stove is the lightest. We really wish we knew, but we don’t. A stove is very deceiving, and one has to become well acquainted with a new one to find its points of advantage. Our friend should not be too hasty in taking hold of a stove. A stove that is to be moved should be visited in the still watches of the night before, and carefully examined by the light of a good lamp. The very end we thought the lightest may prove the heaviest (in fact, is extremely likely to) or it maybe that the lightest end is the most difficult to get hold of and hang on to. It is a very distressing undertaking to carry a half ton of stove by your finger-nails, with a cold-blooded man easily holding the Other end, and a nervous woman with a dust-pan in one hand and a broom in the other bringing up the rear and getting the broom between your legs. In going up stairs it is best to be at the lower end of the stove. Going backward up a stair, way with a stove in your hands inquires a 'delicacy of perception which very few people possess, and which can only come after years of conscientious practice. If you are below you have the advantage of missmg much that must be painful to a sensitive nature. The position you are in brings your face pretty close to the top of the stove, and as no one can ■ be expected to see what is going on when thus situated you are relieved from all responsibility and thought in the matter, with nothing to do but to push valiantly ahead and think of Heaven. Then above you i 6 the carman whom you do not see, with his lips two inches apart, his eyes pro trading, and his tongue lolling on his chin. And it is well you don’t see him, for it is an awful sight. But the chief advantage of being below is that, in case of the stove falling, you will be cau&ht beneath it and instantly killed. Nothing short of your death will ever compensate for the scratched paint, soiled carpet and torn oil-cloth. And no man in his senses and with his hearing unimpaired would want to survive the catastrophe.— Danbury treat. “ - , r

The Blessing of Fun.

As a people we are given to sobriety of demeanor. Mirthfulness and jollity are hardly to be reckoned as among our prominent national characteristics; albeit we are not without a certain dry humor and wit of our own, and know the droll thing when we happen to see it. Bat we do not laugh very mnch. The stamp that the grim and decorous Puritan and the stately and gracious Cavalier set upon our coun tty when they landed upon its shores has ; never (wen removed. Not all the influx of streams from many nations —jovial German, prodigal Irish, passionate Span iah, mercurial French or tranquil Swede —has taken from us as a people the sober, gravis, steady and self-repressed exterior which i* second nature with all English-

speaking folk; yet we are glad when we are made to laugh in spite of ourselves. The man who says funny things week after week in the columns of a village newspaper becomes suddenly a popular favorite, and waking up some fine morning finds himself famous. The darling of the lyceum is the man who successfully mimics the foibles and follies of the times, with a spice of fun dashing the satire of his descriptions. The ballad that sings its way into everybody’s heart has a touch of drollery mingled with its pathos, and the preacher whose sermons are touched here and there with .an honest good huihor x>r a streak of genuine mirth is*»«ure to be sought by the many. We all crave the rest and recreation that lie in amusement, and better than a hundred prescriptions hom the pharmacopoeia is the tonic that lingers in a hearty laugh. The other day, tired and dispirited, we took our journey homeward, in a car about half full of people, who like ourselves were spiritless and weary. An old apple-woman sat in one corner, an elderly gentleman, with immense whiskers and a gold-headed cane, read the paper in another. In the middle, frigid as a breath from Greenland’s icy mountains, erect and stiff, sat a fashionable lady, and dotted here and there were young and mid-dle-aged men and women, with business written over all their faces and forms. Into this assembly, all aS unsympathetic as so many sphinxes, suddenly entered, with chatter and bustle, and sparkle and ripple of voices, and little crescendo and diminuendo peals of laughter, a half dozen school-girls. They were glowing with health and overflowing with fun, and bv the very sunshine of their presence, in a half moment or so, they wrought a metamorphosis in that car. The apple woman forgot that she was going home to dry bread and cold potatoes; the goldheaded cane man put his paper down and looked benevolent; the lady of the ice melted perceptibly, and we asked mentally to be forgiven for having felt irritable. There is a blessing in Inn.—Hearth and Home.

Influence of the Winds on Vegetation.

A writer in the American Exchange and Review has recently called attention to the extent to which vegetation is dependent for its life and growth on the winds, by which alone vapor and rain are conveyed from the place of formation and distributed over the earth. While animal life is able, by its powers of locomotion, to seek the necessary moisture, the vegetable world, were it not for the air currents, would perish from the earth. This destruction would obviously be very rapid as the quantity of the solid matter in a plant is small compared to that of the water. And therefore the moisture of the soil is more necessary to vegetable growth than are the mineral constituents; and the water not only provides the means of growth of the plant, hilt also accelerates the decay by which the solid constituents are returned to the earth, to rise anew in the plant life of another generation. For the evaporation by which water is raised into vapors, for the subsequent distribution of that vapor and for its condensation in the falling rain Nature has provided the ceaseless, omnipresent aerial currents. The magnitude of this process of exhaustion and restitution may be estimated from the fact that the total daily discharge of all the rivers in the world into ; 11 the oceans is but the quantity of rain which has fallen in a single day. The sun’s heat falling on a water surface converts a part of it into a vapor, which rises into and is diffused through the atmosphere in obedience to the laws that govern the mingling of gases. Within a certain limit this vapor remains invisible, and cannot be distinguished from the main hulk of the air. At every temperature the air is capable of holding in an invisible condition a definite quantity of vapor. The warmer the air, the more it can hold. But for every temperature there is a point beyond which it is impossible for more vapor to pass it. This point is called the point of saturation, or the dew point. When the air has reached its dew point, temperature is increased, no visible effect is produced—its capacity for moisture-is simply increased; but if its temperature be lowered, then it is no longer capable of holding all its moisture and the surplus becomes visible in some form or other of precipitation, namely, as fog, cloud, dew, rain, hail, or snow. In order to account, then, for any precipitation of moisture, it is necessary first that a sufficient quantity of vapor pass into the air to bring it to its dew point, and then that the temperature he lowered. The quantity of moisture thus precipitated will clearly depend upon two circumstances; namely, the temperature of the air when the dew point is reached, and the temperature to which it was subsequently lowered. The higher the one and the lower the other, the greater will be the precipitation. The means bv which the lowering of the temperature can be accomplished are varied. A warm, vapor-laden air may blow into a cold region, and thus have its temperature lowered sufficiently below the dew point to give- a considerable rainfall. A cold wind may mingle with a warm one, and thus produce a moderate shower; or powerful ascending currents may carry the moisture of the lower strata into the upper regions of the atmosphere, where the temperature is very low. The deposition of the moisture of the air is, then, in all the cases we have considered, referable to atmospheric motion; for upon it will depend the presence or the absence of moisture in any region, and consequently the presence or absence ,of vegetable life. The ocean of aqueous vapoT partakes perfectly of the movements of the atmosphere. It in fact derives its Movements mainly from those of its bulkier neighbor. It is to the motion of the winds, then, that we must look for the explanation of the peculiarities that attend the distribution of moisture.—Scientific American.

Watering Cattle.

There are two seasons of the year in which farmers are very liable to give their cattle ■an insufficient* supply of “good water, and two seasons are midsum. mer and midwinter. When the pasture fields are not supplied with running water, the animals in summer are made to drink from stagnant pools, many times as insufficiently supplied as the wells; and in the winter water is given usually but once a day, and the work of watering left to the hired man, who has not always individual interest or patience enough to give cattle time to take water as, slowly as they wish to in very cold weather. There are but few farms unsupplied with springs or creeks; but a good supply of water may be found by digging, and after the supply is obtained, there slieuld be the individual attentiop of the owner given to the matter of seeing that the animals are provided with all that they may desire. Surface water is the best, for it is the provision of nature, and if somewhat impregnated with earth is none the worse, »nd cattle appear to prefer it in this way to the pure. There is a vast difference, however, between roily and stagnant water.—of»o Farmer. Half of all the ordinary diseases would be banished from civilized life, and dyspepsia become almost unknown, ifeverybody would eat but thrice a day at regular times, and not an atom between meals, the intervals being not less than five hours, that being the time required to digest a full meal and pass it out of the stomach.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

A transparent gum fori the backs of adhesive tickets is made by dissolving caseine in a cold saturated solution of borax. To Cook a Chicken.—Cutopen through the breast, and boil until nearly half done; then lay in a dripping-pan and bake. It has all the relish of one broiled, and there is no waste. Try it. A solution of oxalic acid, or indeed almost any acid, when used as an ink on blue .paper, wilL appear white by discharging the cbl.r of the paper. White crayons are also used for the purpose.— Scientific American. Oyster Sauce.—Over a pint of oysters turn a pint of boiling water in a colander. Put the liquor in to boil, skimming it carefully. Thicken with two tablespooqp of butter and one of flour, rubbed together. Add two tablespoons cream or milk, then pour it over the turkey and serve boiling hot. A corresp,ondent of the Chicago IrUerOeean has been tiying the experiment of putting a spoonful of tia into a plate of nice-looking-white syrup which had been supplied to the family breakfast table by the family grocer. The result was that it turned blaclt as ink, thus proving that it was made of sulphuric acid and rags. He hopes that others may profit from his experience. Water-Pails.—The New England Farmer says: “ Wooden water-pails, whether to be used in the kitchen or at the stable, should receive two or three good coats of ‘gum shellac varnish, dissolved in alcohol, well laid on both inside and outside. This will last a year or more before the wood will begin to soak water. It is much better than lead paint for the inside of pails. Lead is poison and soon peels off in freezing weather, and then the pails soak water and get very heavy to lift; besides which they rot fast and leak through the pores of the wood. Shellac can be procured of any painter ready mixed, and, if corked tightly, will keep any length of time.” To Rid Canaries op Lice.—A correspoLdent asks how to rid his canaries of lice. A friend of ours, having large experience, uses for perches in the cages sticks of the common elder (Sambueus Canadensis), from which the pith is removed and notches cut in the upper side of the perch at distances of one-half to one inch; thus a series of holes connect ing the exterior and interior of the perch are made. As the birds perch the lice leave them and creep into the interior of the perch. Each morning the perch is removed and the lice jarred out on to a piece of white paper and destroyed. We have also heard that lice will not stay on a bird or fowl that sits on a sassafras perch.— Rural New Yorker. The Western Rural has a correspondent who throws out the following hints to young men who work for others: Be ready_to throw in an odd half hour or an hour’s time when it will be an accomodation, and don’t seem to make'a merit of it. Do it heartily. Though not a word be said, your employer will make a note of it. Make yourself indispensable to him, and he will lose many of the opposite kind before he will part with you. Those young 7 men who ""watch the clock to see the very second their working hour is up —who leave, no matter what state the work may he in, at precisely the instant—who calculate the extra amount they can slight their work and yet not get reproved —who are lavish of their employer’s goods—will always be the first to receive notice when times are dull that their services are no longer required. How to Use a Spade.—The man who can handle a spade properly does not find it very hard or laborious work. He first lets the spade fall of its own weight down to the spot where the spadeful is to be taken up, taking care that the breadth on the surface of the ground is not more than four inches; then he draws back the spade a little, which takes off much of the friction of the descending blade. One good thrust of the spade with the foot then sends the blade wwn its full depth. A backward pressure makes a lever of the handle and heel of the spade, and a dexterous turn of the wrist sends the spadeful upside down just where it is wanted. There is no raking or “ sputtering” needed to make the ground level. A slight* tap with the eorner of the spade makes the work as regular and plane as if laid off with an instrument.— Forney's Press.

How A Nutmegs Grow.

An old whaler tells,, in the American Grocer , all about nutmegs. This spice, so much used in every family, is indigenous to the Moluccas, reaching its greatest perfection in Amboyna. This island belongs to the Dutch, who do not permit the cultivation of the nutmeg in the other islands under their control. The nutmeg tree is twenty-five or thirty feet high when fully grown, with foliage of a rich dark green, and very plentiful. It reaches maturity, or full productiveness, at the fifteenth year from planting. From the blossom to the ripening of the fruit takes about seven months, but as. the tree is a perennial bearer there are always blossoms, green fruit and ripe on the tree. The yield is most plentiful in the last four months of the year. The average yield per annum of a healthy tree is five pounds of nutmegs and one and one-fourth pounds of mace. A plantation of 1,000 trees requires the labor of seven coolies, fifty oxen and two plows for cultivation and harvesting. The fruit is gathered by means of a Hook attached to a long pole. It is shaped like a pear, about the size of a peach, and has a delicate “ bloom.” The nut has three coverings; the outside one is a thick, fleshy husk, having a strong flavor of nutmeg. This husk, preserved in syrup when young, is a favorite sweetmeat in the East-Indies. Under this husk is the bright red mace, which is carefully flattened by hand and dried on mats in the*sun. It loses its rich scarlet and becomes a dull orange color, aud requires to be kept perfectly dry to preserve its flavor. After the mace is removed from the fruit, the nuts, in their brown shells, are placed on hurdles over a slow fire, which is kept constantly burning under them for two months. The nuts then rattle in the shells, which are cracked with a wooden mallet, the sound.nuts selected and packed in wooden cases, and sprinkled over with dry, sifted lime', and are then ready for market. The best nutmegs are dense, emit oil when pricked with a pin, and can always 'be known by their heavy weight. Poor ones are light and easily known.

Should Horses Wear Blinders ?

We never could see whit vice or deformity lay in a horse’s eye,’ that should make it necessary to cover it up and shut out its owner from at least two-thirds of his rightful field of vision. The poets say that old age looks backward; but we never heard such an idiosyncrasy charged upon the horse. The theory that a horse is less apt to be frightened when shut out from everything behind him we suspect to be a fallacy, else saddle horses and war horses would be duly blinded. Every horse is as familiar with his own carriage as with his own tail, and, as far as his “ personal” fortitude is concerned, is no more disturbed at being pursned by one than the other. As for she other scarecrows that come up behind, they are mostly so familiar to the animal that the more fully the horse can perceive them the more quietly does he submit to their approach. Then it is such a pity to cover

up one of the most brilliant features of this most brilliant creature. The horse has borne such a hand in the civilization of this rough-and-tumble world that it seems not so milch a cruelty as a discourtesy, as well as a disgrace, to hide his form with embarrassing toggery. No wonder We estimate the force in the world' as horse-power; no wonder the Romans and the Germans, each in their own language, designated their aristocracy as riders; no wonder their descendants made chivalnr a synonym for their highest virtues. <Let the horse be given his unblinded. The check rein is another nuisance in harness wear which has almost entirely disappeared from England, the army having at last given it up by order of the Commander-in-Chief, Sir George Burgoyne.— Webster Times.

How to Handle Frightened Horses.

There are some good suggestions as to the management of frightened horses in the following, from the Ohio Farmer , especially about curing them by degrees of all fear of any object, and being calm and quiet yourself; but we should question the policy of giving loose rein when they shy at objects: Almost invariably the damage doae by frightened horses is directly traceable to injudicious management. In the first place, the idea of forcing a horse to “ get used ” to something he is frightened at is wrong. If a horse is afraid of the cars or any other object, the only way to cure him of it is by degrees. Drive or hitch him at a safe distance from them, where die can see them, and then pay as little attention to him as possible. Don’t make anything of the matter yourself, and he will gain confidence very rapidly. When your horse is frightened never display any fear or nervousness yourself, and make the matter appear as light as possible. If you make a great demonstration about holding him, it is certain to magnify the cause in the mind of the horse. Never let your horse see you are afraid of him, nor try to cure his fear by force or rough treatment, for either course will be certain to increase his fear. Be firm, calm and kind, and you will be astonished at your own success. Many horses are disagreeable drivers from the habit of shying at objects on the roadside or in passing another vehicle; this is in most cases a mere habit, and can be quickly cured, simply by making the horse ashamed of his own fear. When a horse shies, if the circumstances will possibly admit of it, do not pay the least attention to it, do not pull him severely on the rein, and never hit him with the whip when past the object, but let the lines remain loose and let him shy as far as he-pleases without any apparent-atten-tion. No other course that we have tried will so quickly and effectually cure a horse of this disagreeable and sometimes dangerous habit. In case of. a runaway, dangerous results can often be averted by quiet calmness, and seeking to restore your control by degrees, instead of by some sudden exertion. Never halloo, or by any means let the horse know you are afraid, although there may be ample cause for it. The horse deserves credit for more knowledge, affection and memory than is generally given to him. Don’t Tamper with a Cough.— Perhaps in the whole category of diseases to which humanity is susceptible, the cougli is most neglected in its early stage. A simple cough is generally regarded as a temporary afflict ion—unpleasant and 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 dot checked—so sure as the rivulet leads to the river, 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, gold bv all pood druggists.

Hack, Haek! Cough, Cough.

Cough is a symptom by which various diseased conditions of the throat, bronchial tubes and lungs manifest themselves. But whether it arises from the irritation produced in the throat and larynx by taking cold, from an attack of Bronchitis, from incipient Consumption, or from various other causes, nothing will allay it more speedily nor cure it more permanently than Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It does not matter whether it be a recent attack, or a lingering’cough, the Discovery is in either case'equally well adapted for its relief and permanent cure. In fact, it will cure a cough in one-hair the time necessary to cure it with any other medicine, and it does it, not by drying it up, but by removing the cause, subduing the irritation, and healing the affeeted parts. —No time should lie lost in commencing the use of a proper medicine for the relief of a cough, for unless this course is pursued, serious and dangerous disease of the lunge is liable to result. doctors soon ijearn its value. Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 13,1870. I)r. Pierce —For the past six months I have used your Golden Medical Discovery in my practice, and in that time I have tested its merits in severe coughs, both acute and chronic, in chronic disease of the throat, severe cases of bronchitis, general derangement of the system, constipated condition of the bowels, and wherever a thorough alterative has been indicated. In all cases 1 have found it to act gently Jet thoroughly and effectually in removing the various diseased conditions, and bringing about a healthy action throughout the system. Yours fraternally, H. L. Hall, M. D.

Herbalistic Remedies.— ln former days, if a member of the household became indisposed, the family-head, under instructions from the gray-haired dame, went to the forest or the field to gather herbs or berries, from which were quickly made invigorating extracts, which ere many days brought the patient safely around, and saw the family gathering once more without a missing member. How is it now? The slightest indisposition brings the “ family physician,” with his handsome carriage. He feels the pulse, examines the tongue, looks very grave, writes a few lines of hieroglyphics, charges a big fee, and leaves, only to return the next day and sod his patient mercurialized sufficiently* to be really sick. A week or two of attendance follows, and therein lies the secret of “wealthy physicians.” Compare the physique of the present ago with the past, and the story is complete. Reader, discard chemicals and try herbs. If you are ill, try the great herbalistic remedy. Dr. J. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters. 30

We noticed in one of our exchanges this week the statement of Den. John Hodgkins, of South Jefferson, Me., whose bod was cured of incipient consumption by the use of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. We refer to this at this time as tending to corroborate th# statement we made last week in relation to this Liniment as applied to consumption. If Congress had employed as much scientific skill in the arrangement of its “ Reconstruction Policy” at the close, as the War Department did in the beginning of the war, in arranging for the manufacture of what was called Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders for the use of the cavalry horses, no doubt the Union would have been restored long ago.— Exchange?

Godey’s Lady’s Book.—The illustrations in the number for March are: A beantifu. steel plate, “ The Wedding Favor”; a finely-col-ored Fashion Plate; “Waiting,” a very pretty wood engraving; an Extension Sheet, giving the latest styles in dresses, bonnets, children’s fashions, and a great variety of other matters belonging to the toilet. The Work and other Household departments are all well filled with useful information, which is of itself worth the subscription price of the magazine. In addition are several interesting stories and other entertaining lherarv matter. Published by L. A. Godet, Philadelphia, Pa., at $3.00 per year; four copies SIO.OO, and a beautiful chromo to each subscriber. , * “NOTHING BETTER,” su'd Dr. John Ware,of Boston, than Cutler Bros.’ celebrated VEGETABLE FCLMOSABYBALSAM.fQrCoIdS and Consumption,

Thirty Years’ Experience of an Old N’uiWi Mrs. Winslow's Sootmko STKCP Is the prescription of one of the best Female Physicians and Nurse# in the United States, and has been usedifor thirty years with never-falling safety and success by mill lons of mothers and children, from the feeble Infant of one week old to the adult. It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves Wind cAlic, regulates the- bowels, and gives rest, health, and comfort to mother and child. WcbclicvcittobbthedJestinrd-Snrcst Remedy In the World In all cases of, DYSENTERY and DIARRHOEA IN CHILDRE N, whether Itarlsesfrom Teething or from any other cause. Full directions for using win accompany each bottle. None Genuine nnlcsa the facsimile nfr.tTTtTls & PERKINS Is on . the outside wrapper. Solo by all Mhdicixi Dealers. Children Often hook Pale and Siek From no other cause than having worms In the s tom ach. BROWN’S VERMIFUGE COMFITS will destroy Worms without Injury to the child, being perfectly white, and free from all coloring or other injurious ingredients usually used In worm preparations. CURTIS & BROWN, Proprietors, No. 215 Fulton street, New York. Sold by Druggist* and Chemists, and Dealers in Medicines, at Twenty-five Cents a Box. WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISER?, please say yoa saw the Advertisement n this paper. MrConitii, - COUGHS, Bronchitis, Asthma, and Croup. As an Expectorant it has No Equal. It Is composed of the active manciples of roots and plants, which are chemically extracted, so as to retain all their medical qualities. [ALLEN’S LING MLSAIf I 1 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 far and near ; now It is sold in nearly every drug store in the United States. No similar medicine stands liigker with the people. It is well'known ou the Pacific coast, and even from Australia large" orders are received for it. And throughout Canada it is well and favorably known* ana sold everywhere. Ministers and Public Speakers, Who are so often afflicted with throat diseases, will find a sure remedy in this Balsam. Lozenges and .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 a fair trial ? They will be Pleased with the result, and confess that the SURF REMEDY IS FOUND AT LAST. READ THE FOLLOWING 3 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 ancdior of hone, Allen’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. Therecommendatlcns-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. accompany each bottle. J. N, HARRIS & Co., Cincinnati, 0., Proprietors. For Sale by all Medicine Dealers. DAILY AND WEEKLY - CmOAQO Post and Mail. 1874. The Liveliest, Spiciest Paper Published in the West. Has the Largest City Circulation of any in __ Contains all the Latest News, Able and Pithy Discussions ol all the Great Questions of the Day, and Full and Accurate Market Reports. The Daiet Post and Mailis destined to have an enormous circulation outside of Chicago : st. Because it is furnished at $6.(10 a year (payable in advance), or oniy half the price of the other dallies, thus bringing it within the reach of thousands who never took a daily paper and better adapting it to the wants of other thousands who need to economize. 2d. Being an Evening Paper, it furnishes nearly all Sartß of the Northwest with one day’s Later News and [arket Reports than the Chicago morning psperß. To those who cannot afford to take the Daily, The ■Weekly Post and Maills confidently recommended. Its melange of Literary, Political, Financial, Social and Agricultural Topics makes it a welcome guest In every household. SENT ONE YEAR FOR #1.50. Great inducements differed to enterprising, responsible persons in every place In the Northwest to canvass for both Dally ana Weekly. NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE MONEY AT THIS! For particulars, address POST AND MAIL CO., 88 Dearborn St., Chicago. Choice seeds !

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Why Will You Suffer* To all persons suffering from Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Cramps In the limbs or stomach, Bilious Colic, Pain In the back, bowels or side, we would say The Household Panacea and Family Liniment Is of all others the remedy you want for internal and external use. It has cured the above complaints in thousands of cases. There is no mistake abont it. Try it. Sold by all Druggists.

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MERCHANT’S GARGLING OIL The Standard Liniment of the United States. IS GOOD FOR Burns and Scalds, Rheumatism, Chilblains , Hemorrhoids or riles, Sprains and Bruises, Sore Nipples, Chapped Hands, Caked Breasts, Flesh Wounds, Fistula, Mange, Frost Bites, Spavins, Sweeney, External Poisons, Scratches or Crease, Sand Cracks, Stringhalt , Windy alls, Galls of all kind *, Foundered Feet, Sit fast, Ringbone, Cracked Heels, Pott Evil, Foot Rot in Sheep, Bites of Ajiimals, Rcmp in Poultry, ' Pbothaclie , I.ame Back , cfc., cfc. 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 since 1533. All we ask is a fair trial, but l>e sure and follow'directions. Ask your nearest Druggist ordealerm Patent Medicines for one of our Almanacs, and read what the pe\pie say about the Oil. The Gargling niL U* for -tale. bwallrcspec table dealers throughout tlui United States and other countries. Our festtoinPiar^ daVe from mi to the present, and arc 7/77 1 di -ited. Weal so manufacture Merchant’* Worm Tablets. We deal fair and liberal with all, and defy contradiction. Manufactured at Lockport, N. Y., U. S. A., by Merchant's Gargling Oil Co., JOHN HODGE, Secretary. eoJiffrioN And Ita Cure. WILLSON’S Carbolated Cod Liver Oil Is a sclentific.combtnatlon of two well-known medicines. Its theory is first to arrest the decay, then build un the system, Physicians find the doctrine correct. The really startling cures performed by Willson’s Oil are proof. Carbolic Aral positively arrests Decay. It 1b th» most powerful antiseptic In 1 the known world. KntefingdnTo the circulation, ir at once grapples’with corruption, and decay ceases. It purities the sources of disease. Cod Liver Oil is Nature's best assistant in resisting Consumption. Put up in large wedge-shaped bottles, bearing; the inventor’s sigiiiifure, and ba sold by the best Druggists. Prepared by J. lI.WILLSON, 83 John St., New York. WfrtVr'v Afl-p'q. niURLRUT * EDS ALL, C’niCAOO. WESTERN Aqt 9 . j T;iiju Al ;j)soN & GO.. ijT. Louis. ■nBTHEHECTAR tjllilili, BLACK TEA with theorem Tea flavor. .WarffIyESESHY ranted to suit all tastes. F^rsale fcjg s de'i)Tfly I>y tli c G feat’ A 1 ant ic & I’t'ci fie Te a. Co., 3 >'hnd 37 Yesey J Bend for Thea-Nectar Clrep- " S' jfIirST’AT.HOG RINGER,: g sP|i# or HOLDER,£ | 1 ILLS. / If your Hardware Dealer, do not Have for Sale Send for Circulars. AGEHTS ‘WASTED FOB THE HISTORY OF THE GRANGE MOVEMENT OR THE FARMER’S WAR AGAINST MONOPOLIES. Being aTult and authentic account of the struggles of the American Farmers agaiußt the extortions of the Railroad Companies, with a history of the rise and progress of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, it. objects and prospects. It cells at sight. Send for SDechnen pages and terms to Agents, and see why It sells fasterthan any other book. Address N AT [ON AL PUBLISHING CO., Chicago, 111. or St. Louis Mo. PAIITIMI Unscrupulous publishers have taken UHU I IUJI. advantage of the great demand for this History of the Grange Movement, to issue unreliable works on the subject— mere compilations from agricultural newspapers Do not be Imposed upon. See that the book you buy Is Indorsed by the leading Grangers. . WOOD’S HOIISEHOLLMMfiL THE BEST BULLAE HOMT&L7. Mp Ml r* A DAT MADE BY CAN V»% IFft Vlh VASSINO for this Maga i)0 Dili sr£r ,14ttwi " THE TOSEMITE YALLEY, 14x30 Incites, In 17 OU Colors. Magazine, one year, with Mounted Chr0m0..,42 0( Magazine, one year, with Unmounted Chromo 1 5C Magazine, alone, one year....... r.. * 1 OC Examine Our Clubbing* and Premium Lints. Tice First- Class Periodicals for the Price of One * We solicit Experienced Canvassers and others to send zit once for terms and Specimen Magazine. Address S. E. SIIUTEsL Publirfftr. 41 Park How, N. Y. City, or Newlburffh.N. Y. SEWING MACHINES CHEAP. A. W. PERCY «fc CO., 84 & 86 State street, Chicago, 111., are selling all kinds of First-claBS Sewing Machines at about half-price. They repair, Japan, silver-plate and refurnish sewing machines .in the best manner. Late Improvements put in old machines. Send stamp for circulars. B everything else falls the4M“ought to be In er^ry md Catarrh says one who has tn> <«■ the worst cases of NaaalM Mil. At Proprietors’ expense. I 1 h. It relieves cold ini druggist is authorited to 1 M nd, cleansing and beal-l guarantee saUsfaction or re- 14 '«inflamed passages; is! ■fund tba money. Priccso I I ble and easy to Sold by Van Schaack, I K ber remedy equal to it ■■Stevenson Si Retd, Chicago ■ ■ Extracts from Letters and XelffnftmlaU. Chicago. 737 W Lake St., April 24th, 1872. "Have had Catarrh for two years. One bottle of your Diamond Catarrh Remedy entirely relieved me from cold and catarrh.” O. M. Babcock. “Cured me effectually.'* John R. Barrett. Bookbinder, Chicago. Petaluma, Cal., Dec. 23,1872. “Your D. C. R. ia astonishing every one around here.” E. Jameson. Pica'onica, 111., Sept 22d, 1873. “We think it ia the beat Remedy now before the public. It ought to be in e\ ery family. Plejtae send it fldot.| ns so-iQ as possible. ’ R. KwSblnlmin, drain Dealer. “The best medicine I ever used fbr Catarrh."' Mrs. R. E.Shimm-n. Aurora, IH., May 14th, 1871. *'.l hive used medicines thnt were highly recommended, none of whicludld roe any Rood until I used your Diamond Caturrh Remedy, and that gave nie immediate relief, and I now consider mys. If permanently cured.” V. B. Smith. I.a Porte, lnd., May 18th, 1872. “Dr. A. E. Evory, Dear Sir: ,1, have used your Diamond Catarrh K medy in my practice during the past year, and fin'd it far superior to any and every-other treatment for cure of Catarrh. It will certainly do all you claim fori'.'' Yours rulv Ce >. M. Dakin. M. 1). PAYING EMPLOYMENT For all having spare timein selling our Ne xvßook. 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Dr. J. Wafer’s California Yinogar Bitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly from the native herbs found on the lower ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountains bfGalifornia, 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 ana 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 Vinegau Bittkes in healing the siek of every disease man is heir to. They are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver ana Visceral Organs, in Biliona Diseases. . The properties of Dr. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic, Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Dlnretio, Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Sudorifio, Alterativa and Anti-Bilious. Grateful Thousands proclaim Vin. egar Bitters the most wonderful Invigorant that ever sustained th° sinking system. No Person can take these Bitters according to directions, and remain long unwell, provided their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or other means, and vital organs wasted beyond repair. Bilious. Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, which are so prevalent in the valleys of our great rivers throughout the United States, especially those of the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Cumberland, Arkansas, Red, Colorado, Brazos, Rio Grande, Pearl, Alabama, Mobile, Savannah, Roanoke, James, and many others, with their vast tributaries, throughout our entire country during the Summer and Autumn, and remarkably so during seasons of unusual heat and dryness, are invariably accompanied by extensive derangements of the stomach and livar, and other abdominal viscera. In their treatment, a purgative, exerting a powerful influence upon these various organs, is essentially necessary. There is no cathartic for the purpose equal to Dr. J. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters, as they will speedily remove the darkcolored viscid matter with which the bowels are loaded, at the same time stimulating the secretions of the liver, and generally restoring the healthy functions of the digestive organs. Fortify the body against disease by purifying all its fluids with Vinegar Bitters. No epidemic can take hold of a system thus fore-armed. Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Headache, Pain in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Chest, Dizziness, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpitatation of the Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the region of the Kid neys, and a hundred other painful symptoms, are the offsprings of Dyspepsia. One bottle will prove a better guarantee of its merits than a lengthy advertisement. Scrofula, or King’s Evil, White Swellings, Ulcers, Erysipelas, Swelled Neok, Goitre, -Scrofulous Inflammations, Indolent Inflammations, Mercurial Affections, Old Sores, Eruptions of the Skin, Sore Eyes, etc. In these, as in all other constitutional Diseases. Walker’s Vineoab Bitters have shown their great curative powers in the most obstinate and intractable cases. For Inflammatory and Chronic Rheumatism, Gout, Bilious, Romitteqt and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases ot the Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder, these Bitters have no equal. Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood. —- Mechanical Diseases.—Persons engaged in Paints and Minerals, such as Plumbers, Type-setters, Gold-beaters, and Miners, as they advance in life, are subject to paralysis of the Bowels. To guard against this, take a dose of Walker’s Vinegar Bitters occasionally. For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, Tetter, Salt-Kheum, Blotches, Spues, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles, Ring-worms, Scald-head, Sore Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch, Scurfs, Discolorations of the Skin, Humors and Diseases of the Skin of whatever name or nature, are literally dug up and carried or* op the system in a short time by the use of these Bitters. Pin, Tape, and other Worms, lurking in the system of so many thousands, are effectually destroyed and removed. No system of medicine, no vermifuges, no anthelmjnitics will free the system from worms like fhese Bitters. For Female Complaints, in young or old, married or single, at the dawn of womanhood, or the turn of life, these Tonio Bitters display so decided an influence that improvement is soon perceptible. Cleanse the V itiated Blood whenever you find its impurities bursting through the skin in Pimples, Eruptions, or Sores: cleanse it when you find it obstructed and Bluggish in the veins; cleanse it when it is foul; yonr feelings will tell yoa when. Keep the blood pure, and the health of the system will follow. '■**" r. h. McDonald & co.. Druggist# and Gen. Agts., San Franciaoo, California, •ud cor. of Washington and Charlton Sts., N. Y. ■ gold toy ait Drqgglsts and Dealers. Employers of Germans! Please inform them that the cheapest Emigration to New York is by the new popular direct steamers from Rotterdam. South German* and Swiss save eightdollar«; traveling more pleasantly. From stations on Rhine free to Rotterdam. Packages sent to and re* ceivedfrom Europe. Write to Morris Euhopjlam Express, 50 Broadway, N. Y. Agents wanted. PLAYS! PLAYS!! PLAYSL PLAYS!I Dramatic Entertainments. HoaM-Amusementß. Send for a catalogue of 15,000. SAMUEL FRENCH & SON, I££ Nassau street. New York. . THE GOLDEN EGG Af> rr PER DAY Commission or *3O a week Sal. DR.WHITTIER, C "# N X T ™, ,^",. ST - LoDjfpfit enz.ffed, and moat #arc«s«fut I’hyiilcim of the ###. OoD.nla#tlon or p*mphl,*t free. Call or writ*. auu Bending us the Ddilreß* of ten nersonß, with JO AIV I i t#., will receive ,/>•<«.» beautiful Chromo and nur instructions how to get rich, post-paid. City URL Saveliy Co., 108 South BthSt_PliUa.. Pa. ■ T | a •T _ Wo~h#ve _ fonndsomethingjriwfor A I LAO I agents. It will sell better t nan anything yon ever handled. Samples2sc. EUREKAMANUFaCTUB’G CO- ,145 Clark or lUMadison St. .Chicago uSI 1-er <15y l.roo Agents wanted. Seed stamp SIQ to A, H. BLAIK A CO.. Bt. Louis, Mo. as-TO EACH WEEK. Agents wanted. I'arttca < 2- Mrs me. J. Woi.th & L’o., 6t. Louis, Mo. ed. K. , . ” U P ,'PHIS PAPER la Printed with INK Wmtfsctnred >1 by U. B. KANE ACOI. 131 Dearborn 8 1., Chicago IFor sale by A.N. KxLuoea, 77 Jackson BL, Chicago.