Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1874 — Page 4

Plows.

• • r Beqjamin Franklin was mistaken when he set in motion the proverb—“He who by the plow would thrive ainwir nut either hold or drive." “Poor Richard” did not take into account the making of plows, nor yet the selling of the same. The Grangers think that their thrift is severely taxed and seriously lessened by the, operation of what they denounce as the “plow ring." They do not object Io sharing their profits equitably with the manufacturers, but they do protest against sharing it with middlemen, or rather, to be more exact, they insist upon the rightto buy at wholesale prices when they ouy in wholesale quantities. Herein they are reasonable in their demand, and are bound to carry their point The twenty-one Western plow-making establishments which agreed in October last to sell “ no plows to Farmers’ Clubs Or Granges except at retail prices” ought to be compelled to change their policy, and probably will be. It is unjust, and contrary to usage. Wholesale merchants are accustomed to sell goods at wholesale prices to all who purchase in wholesale quantities, whether in the trade or not. Any man can buy carpets, prints, fhrniture, etc., at the factory at wholesale priced, if only h? buys in wholesale quantities. The mercantile trade is not a monopoly, and why should plows be an exception to the general rule? There is no good reason for it, and the farmers should “ peg away” at the ring until they break it, and secure competition in the plow trade. The apologists of the ring contend that the manufacturers were compelled to stand by their agents. This sounds fair, but is fallacious. How would the citizens ot Chicago like it if the wholesale grocers should agree that hereafter they would sell for consumption only at retail prices? The man who -is accustomed to lay in store sugar by the barrel, tea by the chest, and coffee by the sack would thus be obliged to pay as much for his provisions as if he bought in driblets. If he should protest against this arrangement, he would be told that “ to abolish middlemen would be to revolutionize society.” The assumption of the makers is that all their plows must go through middlemen, or none of them, while everybody knows that such is not the case in other lines of business. Notwithstanding the fact that our whole sale grocers sell large quantities of goods to consumers direct, there is no lack of retail grocers, nor any complaint from them. Of course they would be glad to monopolize the trade, and compel every pound of sugar, tea, coffee, etc., to pay toll to their till; but they know that no such outrage upon the public would be tolerated. The Rock Island Union remarks that the farmer who demands the right to buy his agricultural implements from the factories at wholesale rates might, with equal propriety, demand to buy hie dry goods, groceries, and every article of food and raiment in the same manner. Precisely so. The farmer has that right now, so tar as concerns dry goods and groceries. No reputable wholesale house would charge a Granger any more for the same bill of goods than he would the Granger’s mercantile neighbor. The farmers do not demand retail quantities at wholesale prices. There would be no justice, of course, in any such demand as that. The middlemen are a necessity. If the Grangers think it possible entirely to dispense with their services, they are mistaken. At the same time the expense of their services should be avoided so far as possible. The farmers have always been free to club together in the purchase of nearly all commodities needed by them, and if the plow-makers persist in attempting to compel them to buy plows of agents only they will signally fail in the end, succeeding only in cutting their own throats.— Chicago Journal. ——-

The Better Side of the Story.

To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: One cannot take up a paper nowadays without being confronted, in glaring letters, with a “ Divorce,” or “ Matrimonial Quarrel,” or “Wife Beaten,” or what would seem to lie a universal complaint, difficulties between married people. Then turn to the correspondence, and some husband* complains of the extravagance of women, of the leniency of the law in giving women so many privileges of property denied to men, or some poor, subdued wife ventilates her opinion on the tyranny of men in general, or the fearful injustice of the law in regard to wives and their right in their own. children. Perhaps some bachelor or ancient maiden utters a growl at the fetters of matrimony, ana declares how much better and wiser it is to remain single. The newspaper columns are mediums of complaints, grumbles and abuses; but whoever represents to the public that large class—in fact, the majority—of contented married people, who trouble not themselves about the law, except in a general way, because the law of their households is love, which “casteth out fear," and never say “Mine,” and “Thine,” and “What I have done for you and “ What you have done for me.” I am proud to own that I belong to this class, and I audaciously claim to represent at least two-thirds of the households living in the pleasant, shady streets “on the Hill,” or the elegant brown stone rows “on the Heights;” the houses from which the sunny, happy little children come whom you meet going to school in the morning, and from which you get a delightful odor of good dinners, and a glimpse of a warm, shiny dining-room as you pass toward evening. Our young men and maidens, with thoughts of matrimony and each other naturally lurking in their brains, and plenty of newspapers to read at home, conclude that it is all a farce, and the only way to be happy and independent is never to marry,* ana thus escape those dreadful fetters. Not long since I read a letter—in the Graphic, I think—from a “ Bachelor,” who claimed to have solved this whole problem. I can just see him blustering around while he tells how he and another fellow hired a nice house, furnished it comfortably, got a respectable housekeeper who did not see too_ sharp, and who understood her business; how they had their meals faultlessly served, buttons all right, and how they took their nightkeys, came in any hour they chose, and no one said a word. This he called comfort. Brother, let me tell my experience. We—my John and I—are close in the neighborhood of our crystal-wedding day. We have three or four children, all boys, which is a pity. Now, I honestly do not, think John is perfect, and I never heard of his saying that I was. In temperament we are not alike. John is one of your punctual, accurate men, intelligent (or I shouldn’t have married him), kind hearted and loving (or he wouldn’t have married me), not very demonstrative, and no one but his wife, I wmetimes think, knows how much he does feel. Now, I am enthusiastic; if I like a thing, people in the house generally know it, ana, if I want to do anything, there isn't much peace till I accomplish it. I have sometimes wished that John would not be so non-committal, and would not look so horror-stricken when I make a mistake or forget something. And I know he thinks (he’s told me so) that if I would be more moderate and not tear around so, things would be pleasanter. Bit for all that, I wouldn’t . change John’s faults for any other man’s perfections, and I never heard him bewail his lot; at any rate, he doesnot do jt Jn the papers. I shall have to confess

that we did try to make each other over at first, but we gave that up before we reached our wooden wedding. Wahave tried so long to please each other that somehow now we seem to have the same tastes, enjoy the kame Pleasures, and suffer at the same sorrows. do not say that we never differ, and never part in the morning with a shade of something unreconciled between us. But you never saw two such miserable wretches in your life when such is the case, or two such happy beings when the thing is made up. About that night-key. Bless your heart, John don’t want to go out evenings alone. I cannot jget him out. Here is our bright cdal-fire; here are our boys, with their young life and their school projects; here are books, slippers, cigars (he is a little particular about smoke in the curtains himself), and no one to scold him. Really, now, he does not care to be out half the night. Sometimes we take a fancy to hear Nilsson, or something nice at the Academy ; and how do we do? Why, we put Wur night-key in our pocket (pantaloons, of course), go where we like, come home any hour of the night We choose, and who’s afraid? Oh! We have had many a rare treat, John and I, all by ourselves. As to extravagance, if I ever want something extra good, a silk dress or carpet, I take John with me, for men have a way of spending money for a good thing with an abandon which takes a woman’s breath clean away. Doesn’t he want his wife to look as well as the next man’s wife, to be sure? I know the state of John’s affairs as well as he, and, when we have to be economical, it is as much my interest to go without the silk dress as his, and I can do it and still be happy. I could write a book about John and I; but this is enough, I know, for thousands of husbands and wives to say, “ That’s true.” Sad cases there are of unhappiness and uncongeniality, and they always come to the surface. But does any one believe that all we married people are groaning under our bonds and looking about for easy divorces ? To most of us the thought of the time that shall surely come “ when one shall be taken and the other left” makes the heart stand still. Does any one believe that all the little children who go dancing to school every morning come from unhappy homes? No, they go with their mother’s loving kiss still warm on their lips, and the happy, proud glance of their father lingering about them as he straps their books and says good by. After they are gone, do the father and mother sulk and quarrel ? Not a bit of it-. There is a little talk about the morning news, a good-by kiss, very likely a discussion about which it shall be, roast beef or chicken, for dinner, and with injunctions to “ Come home early,” and,‘‘Don’t tire yourself all out sewing,” they each go about their work with a hymn of thank sgivin g in their hearts. You don’t believe all this, Mr. Bachelor? You say it is a fancy sketch. Well, it is true, whether you believe-it or not. I know, and you don’t. I have been there. Now, -when are added to this love and congeniality a true Christian sympathy, a working together in benevolent deeds, a searching after the truth side by side, say, my growling friend, do you know anything this side of Heaven more restful, more to be desired. Such couples are hot as rare, perhaps, as you fancy, but do not search the police records for them. I believe I speak for many." And, in the name of young men and women settling in life, will not some one else testify? Won’t some brother speak ? My dear Mr. Editor, here is a conundrum no one but an editor can solve: Cannot our papers be made profitable unless they are tilled with all the sickening details of these exceptional sorrows, and the record of crimes which decent people do not mention, and of which young people should be totally ig norant ? A Contented Wife.

The Philosophy of Milking.

—The udder is divided into- four parts, entirely distinct from each other, except as they are held together by membraneous ligaments. The milk in each is held in confluent tubes, which, like the roots of a tree, are all contracted into one just above the teat; the milk entering the funnelshaped organ by a single channel. Just at the upper end of the teat the walls of this channel are contracted, and the contraction is surrounded by a band of muscular fibres. The will of the cow can operate on this band, contracting or expanding it at pleasure, making it operate like a valve. At the junction of each smaller tube with a largtf'one is a similar contraction and band, also under the control of the will. Ordinarily these bands are contracted (as in the neck of the bladder), so that the milk has to crowd its way through them to get from the smaller into the larger tubes. This is an admirable arrangement for sustaining the weight of the milk equally in all parts of the udder, and preventing it from pressing heavily upon the teats. When the udder is full, if the milk is drawn out of the teats, relieving the pressure in them, it requires a vigorous effort of the will of the cow to prevent the pressure above from crowding the milk down to fill the vacancy. If the udder is only partly filled, she can hold the tnilk back more easily; and the less there is in it the more easily can she maintain the tension of the muscular bands necessary to prevent entirely the milk from flowing through them. When the milker first takes hold of the teats and begins to milk, the excitement causes the cow to contract the bands so firmly as to hold back the milk perfectly for a time. But presently this vigorous contraction will begin to slacken, and the milk Will begin to pour through, and if all is quiet she will relax the bands fully; when the milk all settles down upon the teats and is quickly drawn it can be all milked -out to the very last drop. But this perfect relaxation will only last a short time. If the milk is not Soon extracted she will begin to tighten up the muscular bands again, and the last part of her mess will be held back and permanently retained, when the milker probably thinks he has got it all because It stops coming. A cow should therefore be milked quickly as well as quietly. It is natural for her to part with her m'ilk in a few minutes, and a milker should come as near that time as possible. If the time of milking is much prolonged she will become impatient and be sure not to “ give down” perfectly. The quickest milker gets the most and best milk because he gets all the “ strippings,” which are the richest part. The more quiet and peaceable the cows can be kept while being milked, the more perfect will be the relaxation of their udders and the longer will it last. If anything occurs to disturb or excite or attract their attention, the relaxation will cease in a moment, and if it occurs near the close of the milking some of the best milk will be held back till the next milking, when it will become the poor, blue milk that is first drawn. A double loss ensues from every such occurrence; because leaving milk in a cow’s bag always tends to diminish secretion.— Canada farmer. —Lair-Curling Fluid.—Melta piece of white beeswax about the size of a filbert kernel in cne,ounce of olive oil; to this add one oi two drops of otto of roses or some other strong perfume. This preparation keeps the curls in shape tor a long time. „

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—Where drain pipes in fields have been coated with gas-tar, all difficulty about choking with roots is avoided; for the roots turn away from the tar as though they were sensible of their danger. —Pudding Without Eggs.—One-half cup suet, chopped fine, one-half cup of molasses, one-half cup of milk, one cup of chopped raisins, one-half teaspoon of cloves, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, nutmeg, one teaspoonful soda, and a little salt. Boil three hours. —A preparation of melted suet and beeswax, applied to the uppers of boots and shoes; renders them waterproof and durable. It should be used not oftener than once a week, and blacking afterward put on. A farmer’s wife, writing to the Ohio Farmer, says: “Of all the products of foe farm butter is most liable to be tainted by noxious odors floating in the atmosphere. Our people laid some veal in the cellar, from which a little blood flowed out, and was neglected until it began to' smell. The result was that a jar of butter which I was then packing smelled and tasted like spoiled beef.” —Boiled Bread Pudding.—Crumb your stale bread mid a pudding pail and cover with sweet milk, and set by the stove to warm and soften. Then to every quart of milk and two well-beaten eggs, a half cup of sugar and a handful of raisins or sweet dried fruit of any kind. Do not have your pail full, as it needs some room to rise. Put the cover on tightly, set in boiling water, and do not allow it to stop boiling till done. Serve with cream. —Bruises, Burns, Sprains, Etc.—Dissolve one ounce camphor in eight ounces spirits of wine; add one ounce oil turpentine; one ounce spirits sal ammoniac; one-half ounce oil of origanum; one large tablespoonfol of liquid laudanum. Rub well with the hand four times a day. The above is one of the best recipes for all kinds of bruises, sprains and swellings, both in man and horse, ever tried; it will never fail. Try it. — Dr. G .*¥. Davis, in Chicago Courier. —Leather may be firmly glued to metal by the following cement: One part of crushed nut gall is digested six hours with eight parts of distilled water, and strained. Glue is macerated im .its. own weight of water for twenty-four hours, and then dissolved. The water infusion of galls is spread upon the leather, the glue solution upon the roughened surface of the warm metal; the moist leather is pressed upon it and then dried, when it adheres so that it cannot be removed with out tearing.

Two Kinds of Industry.

I have known two kinds of industrious farmers. I do‘not include the sluggish and negligent. But of the real hard workers there are two distinct classes. They both ris& at dawn and work after dark, and are worthy of success-; but one class fails for want of proper thought and management. These will put their energies into one piece of work, and neglect other things which need them more. I knew one man who was so intent on finishing a piece of board fence that he worked hard at it at the very time that the weeds in his root crop grew from one inch high to ten inches, increasing the labor of cleaning out at least tenfold, and reducing his crop about one-half. Another buys costly tools and lets them rust and rot in the fields because he is so busy with something else, although the labor of housing would be a mere nothing. Another builds a costly barn, and uses up his means for manuring, cultivating and draining, when cheaper buildings would have answered. Another works a wet field year after year at great cost and inconvenience, and with small results, because he is too busy to underdrain it. He does everything at a disadvantage. Very different is the course of the good manager. He looks at his work—has it mapped out before him—estimates accurately the labor to accomplish each job, and the time when it should be done to prevent loss, and then goes on systematically. It does not require great genius to do this, but common sense, and for the farmer to keep his wits about him. This is what makes a man practical and successful.— Cor. Country Gentleman. Hannaford & Thompson, Publishers, Chicago, sold the first large edition of Periam’s “History of the Farmer’s Movement” in two weeks. A second edition, embracing proceedings of the St. Louis Convention held in Feb., 1874, is just being issued. Agents are reaping a rich harvest with it. We advertise it this week. i The Organ as a household instrument has been rapidly growing in favor, and the yearly sales are now enormous. A good Organ remains in tune, is. easily kept in order, and blends naturally with the quality of the voice. The advertisement of the Smith American Organ Co., in another column, is referred to the consideration of our readers. This house has an enviable reputation for good work and fair dealing. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is very strongly recommended by the Medical Faculty and is largely prescribed among their female patients. It is worthy of all confidence, as may be seen from the following testimonial: An.ANTA, 111., July 14, 1873. Dr. K. V. Pmkcs, Buffalo, N. Y.: Dear Sir —I have not words to express my gratitude to you for your advice and assistance in my case. There is not one who has used your medicines since they have been brought here but that can say with me they have been greatly benefited. Since I have been so helped by its use six or seven around me left off all doctors and other medicines, and now use it in their families, after being cured of the same disease as mine. You do not know what a wonder it created in our city, by its restoring my sister I wrote you about, for she had been under the care of three of our best doctors but could not sit up but for a few minutes at one time. I begged of her to try your medicines, and before she had used half of the bottles she could go all around the yard, and has now just come home from a visit five miles away. Mrs. Thos. McFarland.

When any antidote or remedy for any particular class of disease obtains a widespreading notoriety, it is but reasonable to suppose that it must merit the popular-, ity it receives. It is within our province to mention that Dr J. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters, and favorably known as the safest and most reliable remedial agent for the cure of Liver, Kidney, Bladder, and Glandular Diseases, Mental and Physical Debility, and all complaints emanating from a corrupt state of the blood, etc., are in great demand. So satisfied are we of the intrinsic worth of this medicine, that we do not hesitate to notice it in our It is well to mention that this medicine is compounded of roots, herbs and flowers of California, and has no fiery material or alcohol used in its preparation. We can add no better,eulogium than the fact that we use it constantly in our own family, and each member thereof partakes of it, when necessary, according to directions. —New York Paper. 34

Mors than 50 years have elapsed since Johnson's Anodyne .Liniment was first invented, during which time hundreds of thousands have been benefited by its use. Probably no article ever became so universally popular with all classes as Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. Pills which contain antimony, quinine and calomel should be avoided, as severe griping pains would be their only result. The safest, surest and best pills are Parsons' Purgative or Anti-£ilious PiUi,

Don’t Tamper wrrn AtJ jld.—Perhaps in the ( whole category of diseases 1 to which humanity is susceptible, the cough is most neglected in its early stage. A simple cough is generally regarded as a temporary affllctlon<-r unpleasant and nothing more; but to those who have paid dearly for experience, it is the signal for attack for the most featful of all diseases—Consumption. A cough will lead to consumption—if not 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 Dung Balsam is the great cough remedy of the age, and it has earned its reputation bv merit alone. Sold bv all good druggists. Dr. Wilhoft’s Anti-Periodic or Fever and Ague Tonic!—Wilhoft’s Tonic hasestablished itself as the real infallible Chill cure. It is universally admitted to be foe only reliable and harmless Chill medicine now in use. Its efficacy is confirmed by thousands of certificates of the very best people from all parts of the country. It cures malarious diseases of every type, from the shaking-agues of the lakes and valleys to the raging fevers of the torrid zone. Try it! It, has never been known to fail. Wheelock, Finlay & Co., Propri etors, New Orleans. A Humane Institution established fifteen years ago for tile cure of Deformities of the Spine, Limbs and Face, Paralysis, Piles, Fistula, Catarrh, Chronic Dir eases and Diseased Joints, is the National Surgical Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana. It is the largest Institution ofthe kind in the nation; "Has a capital stock of $500,000, and cures thousands of sufferers annually. Send for their circular, which is mailed free to any address. The Magic Inkstand. —This valuable invention will drive all the pale, gummy and corrosive inks out of the market. It has just been introduced into this country by R. C. Root, Anthony & Co., of New York. MilliohFare being sold in Europe, and will be sold here. See advertisement in another column. KUHN’S EUROPEAN HOTEL, Chicago, Is the place for business men. Central, cheap, well furnished and well conducted. SI.OO per day.

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Why Will You SUflfer I To all persons suffering from Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Cramps Jn 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 tor internal and external use. It lias cured the above complaints in thousands of cases. There is no mistake about it. Try it. Sold by all Druggists.

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THE SMITH AMERICAN ORGAN CO. . ESTABLISHED Nearly a Quarter of a Century. 50,000 ORGANS SOLD! The Policy of thia Company is to use the best materials without regard to cost. Its employes, especially those in leading positions, have been familiar with the manufacture of reed instruments from the Infancy of the business. T t _ The ca»es are solidly constructed, and from New and Elegant Designs. The manufacturers claim that they have succeeded in producing, the most satisfactory harmony erer needs; while at the same time their Organs have never been equated in power, AN ORGAN LEADING 3,000 SINGERS! The following letter, from the Most Eminent Organist in the U. 8., refers to an Orgftn now used In the Rev. Dr. Talmadgc’s church. The Organ formerly used, made by another house, had proved Insufficient i Dear Sir—l owe you personally my best thanks for sending to us (the Brooklyn Tabernacle Congregation) one of the Smith American Reed Organs to the Academy of Music. It la perfectly wonderful that so small an Instrument in size should have sufficient power to lead a congregation of «o many thousand people. The Trustees, as well as myself, are much pleased with it. The quality of Tonels also all that can be desired. It speaks for itself; and all I have met with, who attend the service?, speak of it as most satisfactory. Accept my thanks, and believe me to remain most New YORK, Feb. 4, 1873. New Instrument#B»f a. Refined Quality of Tone, for Private Houses. Catalogues sent to any address on application. TREMONT STREET BOSTON, MASS. "THE THRESHER OF THE PERIOD? This is the famous “Vibrator” Thresher, which has created such a revolution in the trade and become so fully established as the “leading Thresher” of.this dav and generation. More than seven thousand purchasers and ninety thousand grain raisers pronounce these machines BNTiREt.Y-VNEQHALLED for grain saving, time saving, and money making. Four sizes made, viz: 24-inch, 28incli, 32-ineh, and 36-lnvb Cylinders, wit], 6,8, 10 and 12-llorse “mounted’’ Powers. Also Separators “ alone ” expressly for Steam Power,and Improved POKTABLI! STEAM KNGINISS for Steam Machines. All persons intending to buy Threshing Machines, or Separators “alone,” or Horse Powers “alone,” as well as Grain Kaisers and Farmers who want their grain threshed, saved and cl caned to t lie best ad van tage, aim iurit ed to send for oiir-iieyv-forty page Illustrated Pamphlet and Circulars (sent free) giving full particulars about these Improved Machines rind other information valuable tb fanners mid threshermcn. Address, NICHOLS, SHEPARD & CO., Hattie Creek. Mich

Fevers arise from minute miasmatic parasites inhaled into the system. These germs ate the heat makers or the cause of fever; and deprave the blood and develop inflammation. Science discovered an antidote for these mischief makers, the use of which in Kress Fever Tonic has made it a Specific, not only for Ague but all inflammatory diseases, especial- Jly if taken in the initial stages of the fever. It is designed to cure Ague, and • cures more cases than any other now known, leaving no trace of the disease in the system. A box of pills free with every bottle. A sure cure. Buy it, try it. Kress Manufacturing Company, Cincinnati, O.

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Kgs 7/ ajk t° RE 'w H inLiiLlilillliirß Dr. J. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly from the native herbs found on the lower ranges of tue Sierra Nevada mountains of California, the medicinal properties of are extracted therefrom without the use"* of Alcohol. The question is almost daily asked, “What is the cause of the unparalleled success of Vinegar Bitters?” Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, and the patient recovers his health. They are the great blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Renovator and Invigorator of the system. Never before in the history of the world has a medicine been compounded possessing the remarkable qualities of Vinegar Bitters in healing the sick cf every disease man is heir to. They are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver and Visceral Organs, m Bilious Diseases. The properties of Dr. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic, Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic, Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Sudorific, AlteraUve. and Anti-Bilious. * R. H. MCDONALD * C 0.., Druggists and Gon. Agts., San Francisco, California, and cor. of Washington and Charlton Sts., N. Y» Sold by all Drugtf lata and Dealers. TW-O-W - THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE MURRAY HILL SERIES. - Science in Storys OR, SAMMY TUBBS, THE BOY DOCTOR AND . Sponsle, the Troublesome Monkey. By E. B. Foote, M. D., author of “Medical Common Sense ” Plain Home Talk,” etc., etc.

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