Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1874 — Page 4

Less "Lawing."

It la as true as it is serious, that farmers, as a class, in this State particularly, have indulged to a large extent in *lawuig it** An examination of the records of our courts will show that an undue proportion of the civil suite involve country issues, and it is too often the case that both the plaintiffs and defendants are farmers. True, the farmer is often compelled to come Into court as a plaintiff to defend his property from the grasping avarice of land speculators, for he is usually most easily caught, and the fattest game that the lawyer can bag. Farmers have long been aware of the folly, and worse than folly, of going to law, but the lack of business and social intercourse with their neighbors often prevents a proper understanding of right and mutual interest, encourages suspicion and jealousy, and too often leads them to rush into the courts, and sometimes dividing the whole neighborhood into active partisans. But, thanks to the influence of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry, this disturbing element in farm life throughout the country generally is rapidly disappearing. The Order has brought fartnets into closer communion with each other, and has developed mutual confidence and respect; and without the assistance of any secret charm has produced a change which is now substituting arbitration for law. Arbitration is one of the grand principles of the Order, and is already producing important material results, as well as promoting peace and harmony in many neighborhoods. The vast benefits that the world is expected to derive from the adoption or arbitration by the great powers are precisely such as will accrue to the farming world by the same practice.— Pacific Rural Preu.

A Spirited Address.

We have received, says the Industrial Age, from a committee appointed by the Anti Monopoly members of the Legislature of Minnesota, a powerful and pungent address to the people of that State, reviewing the objectionable record of the majority party in the late session, and pointing out the remedies that are within the reach of the Reformers. The committee recommend the organization of the people in townships and counties, and the appointment of delegates to Congressional and State Conventions, and set forth the position of parties and the objects of the reform movement as follows: “ The man who now appeals to old party prejudices to divide the people should be set down at once as an enemy of the people. What good purpose can be served by keeping alive old hates and bigotries? What would be thought of the man who, while a Conflagration was raging, would seek to set the firemen by the ears by sounding the war cries of party? There would be only one explanation of his conduct: He wanted to steal something. “ What are parties? Simply concentrations of the people in defense of some right If our property, our prosperity, our future development, all our material interests are assailed by a rapacious crew who have no creed but deceit, and no purpose but plunder, why should we not come together and organize for self-defense? We are no longer either Republicans or Democrats.- We are the people—newly combined to meet new emergencies. We may call .ourselves Anti-Monopolists, Reformers, Potato Bugs, Hayseeders, or anything else. The name is nothing—the objects are everything. “ What are those objects? They are comprised in three words: Honesty, Economy and Sdf-Protection. “ Honesty in private life and public life. “Economy in our own affairs, and especially in public affairs—County, State and National. This means retrenchment, reform, the lopping-off ofall needless expenditures, and the reduction of taxation to the lowest point compatible with the support of Government. “ Self-Protection from all who would prey upon us. From the exactions of patent-right millionaires, who are levying cruel taxes upon our necessities on every implement we purchase. From the exactions of middlemen, who by their wits live on our labors. From the exactions of protected manufacturers, who annually steal one-third of all our incomes. Above all, from the exactions of the railroads, whose rule of procedure seems to be to* leave the farmers enough to induce them to raise another crop, but to take every cent above that limit."

Popping the Question.

Popping the question has always been a matter of considerable importance among lovers. Swift, who had no more tenderness than one of his own Yahoos, indited the most brutal proposal we know of. Tired of his shilly-shallying, Miss Wary ng seems to have insisted upon his speaking out, and Swift spoke out with a vengeance. After professing he is too just to stand in the way of her accepting a more advantageous offer, he says he must ask her a few questions—questions he had long since resolved to ask of the woman with whom he meant to spend his life: “ Areyou in a condition to manage domestic affairs with an income of less than £3OO a year? Have you such an inclination to my person and honor as to comply with my desires and way of living, and endeavor to make us both as happy as you can* Will you be ready to engage in those methods I shall direct for the improvement of your mind, so as to make us entertaining company for each other, without being miserable, when we are neither visiting nor visited ? Can you bend your love, esteem and indifference to others the same way as I do mine? Have you so much good nature as to endeavor by soft words to smooth any rugged humor occasioned by the cross incidents of life? Shall the place wherein your husband is thrown be more welcome than courts and cities without him? ” Surely never was a lady so catechised by a suitor for her hand. When Jane Waryng felt able to answer every question in the affirmative, then, and not till then, her lover says: “ I shall be blessed to have you in my arms, without regarding whether your person be beautiful or your fortune large. Cleanliness in the first and competency in the second is all I ;look for!” This unique epistle ends: ‘sl single you out at first from the rest of women, and I expect not to be used like a common lover.” Swift was evidently enough a very uncommon one. There is a world of difference between the love making of morbid, self-loving Swift and that of cheery-hearted Richard Steele ; the raven’s croak and the lark’s song are not more unlike. The Christian hero made love like a lover and a gentleman. He never dreamed of plying his mistress with doubting question upon question. Believing his Prue to be as beautiful, witty, prudent and goodhumored as a woman could be, Steele was contented to know she loved him and took the rest upon trust. "Instead of “J™? * •kali die for you, I profess I should be glad to lead my life with you!” T . ™ the WM y ke pops the question. A Frenchman smitten with the charms of fair Lydia Bterne, instead of trying to secure her good-will, wrote to her father ~ desiring to be informed what he was prepared to give her upon marriage, and now much he intended to bequeath her. He thought he would be able to say to Miss Lydia as Petruchio said to Kate the cunt: Your father hac consented

But Sterne was not so eager to get rid of his girl as was Signor Baptise, and replied: “Sir, I shall give my daughter ten thousand pounds the day of marriage. My calculation is as follows: She is not 18, you are' 62—there goes £5,000. Then, sir, you, at least, think her not ugly; she has many accomplishments, speaks Italian and French, plays upon the guitar; and as I fear you play on no instrument whatever, I think you will be happy to take her on any terms, for here finishes the account of the £10,000.” Whitefield asked the hand of a young American lady of her parents, without troubling to ascertain her inclinations, and was good enough to let them know they need not be afraid of offending him by declining the honor, since he blessed God he was free from the passion called love. Miss Kenrick, the beautiful heiress celebrated in the ballad of “ The Berkshire Lady’s Garland,” adopted a singular method of winning the handsome young attorney, Benjamin Child, with whom she had fallen in love at sight. She sent him an anonymous letter, demanding satisfaction for injuries received. After vainly puzzling himself to guess whom his challenger might be, and how he had offended, Child betook himself, duly provided with a second, to the place of meeting, near a pleasant crystal fountain. There he saw no fierce gallant, only a masked lady, who asked him his business there. He told it; whereupon his fair questioner, flashing a rapier she carried for her security, said: It Is I that did Invite you; You shall wed me, or I’ll fight you, Underneath those spreading trees; Therefore choose from winch you please 1 Rather taken aback by such a summons to surrender, Benjamin asked to see his challenger’s face ere he decided. This was denied; she would not unmask until the knot was tied, but generously accorded him an hour’s grace to turn the matter in his mind. His friend advised him, as he could lose nothing, to take the lady; and the three went off in her gilded coach to church, were the lady gay and her attorney were made one without delay— Though sweet, pretty Cupids hover’d Round her eyes, her face was cover’d With a mask—he took her thus, '- Just for better or for worse. He did not rfepent the leap in . the dark when he found his summer morning’s adventure had brought “beauty, honor, riches, store;” but, taking his place among the gentry of the country, lived happy ever afterward. The hero of this romance was, in 1714, High Sheriff of Berkshire. Not in such warlike fashion did Margaret Charlton attack Richard Baxter. She sought to attain the end by negotiation ; and never was a bachelor of fortyfive more astonished than that worthy. minister when Margaret’s ambassadress opened her mind to him. He was destined to an additional shock. While he was vehemently declaring the idea preposterous, Margaret was listening at the study door, ana, losing all self-control, burst into the room, threw herself at her idol’s feet, crying, “ Dear Mr. Baxter, I protest with a sincere heart that I do not make a tender of myself to you upon any worldly or carnal account ;‘but to have a-more perfect converse with so holy and prudent a yoke fellow to assist me on my way to heaven, and to keep me steadfast in my perseverance which I design to God’s glory and my soul’s good!” Margaret Charlton was very pretty ; Baxter was mortal and succumbed. It were hardly fair to reckon pretty Elizabeth Simpson among proposing ladies, although answering Mr. Inchbald’s suggestion that he would marry with “ Who would marry met” was tantamount to seeking the reply, “ I will, if you will have me.” The actor was not so unready as Dean Ramsay’s Scotch beadle, who could hit upon no better way of popping the question than by taking the object of his affections to the churchyard gate antTsaying f” Mary, iny folk lie there; would you like to lie there, Mary?” Being, like Barkis, willing, Mary was as indifferent as to how the question was put as the Galloway girl, who, when her uncouth swain carelessly remarked: “I think I’ll many thee, Jean,” responded: “Man Jock, I would be muckle* obliged to ye if ye would.”— AV the Year Round.

“Hazing” Severely Punished.

A correspondent, writing to a New York paper of hazing at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, says: “ One day, about two months ago, when a certain member of the third class was ' Superintendent of one of the floors, a well, developed plebeian came along the entry whistling. At the sight of his superior officer he ceased, as he was in duty bound. The Superintendent, with an insolent desire of displaying his authority over a fellow larger than himself, ordered him ‘to do it again.’ The plebe, well knowing that he would be ‘ spotted’ for compliance, remained silent; whereupon the temporary official declared that if he would not obey he should be made to do so. Nothing, however, could be done at that moment, so, the youngster was allowed to go his way. That night nineteen third-class men entered his room and ‘ passed him round;’ that is, they formed a ring into which the offender was dragged and pushed violently from one to another, always falling against two or three strong hands that pushed him back again before he had time to take breath, and thus he was buffeted from side to side by nineteen pairs of muscular arms until this great stalwart lad, nearly six feet tall, fainted from exhaustion. The hazers then departed, climbing out of the windows and sliding down the ..post of the veranda. The first class man who was on duty that night caught a glimpse of these forms descending in a suspicious manner, and, having taken an observation of the window from whence they came, went to the unlucky plebe’s room and found him insensible. He was resuscitated and questioned; at first he was unwilling to tell any tales, but after a thorough investigation the truth was ascertained, and the matter was laid before the Government, who at once adopted most decisive measures. The whole thirjLqlass was quarantined from the beginning, of April to the end of the year; that is, for two months and a hal they have not a moment’s recreation. All their hours of pleasure are forfeited. While the other classes are playing football or taking the young ladies out to row the boys of ’76 are working away at extra drills; when the others have half an hour’s leisure to go to the library or run into a friend’s room they are prisoners in their own apartments. The nineteen who were engaged in the affair just mentioned, in addition to being quarantined, are ordered on the practice cruise this summer; losing thereby the only leave of absence that they have during the whole four years of their academic course—the one visit home to which so many toasts have been drank and so many songs sung, which is looked forward to and looked back upon from the time they enter the academy until the time they leave it." Mocking-birds can imitate human actions as well as human voices, it seems. A Macon (Ga.) paper says that two pets of this stripe got jealous of each other and undertook to fight it out in desperate fashion. One of them, getting enough of it, sang out, “ Quit, quit,” and followed this up by crying “ Police, police.” And, oddly enough, there was a policeman within hearing who came up and stopped the fight Troy has a chicken with four wings

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—lt is said that, one or two geranium leaves, bruised, bound upon a cut or abrasion, will heal it at once. —A weak solution of the permanganate of potassa is recommended to deodorize your breath. —The Rural Messenger says a correspondent checked pear blight by digging down to the roots of his trees and throwing a quantity of scrap iron and covering all over. —Snow, or Bride’s, Cake.—A pound each of flour and sugar, half a pound of butter, and the whites of sixteen eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Flavor it with rose. —Cranberry Marmalade.—Sweet and insipid apples and those which are past their prime and need to be cut up on account of decay may be made very acceptable by stewing an<j mixing with stewed cranberries in the proportions, say, of one part cranberries to two parts apple. Not quite so much sugar will be required as for the cranberries alone, unless the apples are sour. Strain through a colander, mix evenly and serve at any meal —A bushel of wheat in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana. Wisconsin, lowa, Illinois, Michigan, Massachusetts, Kentucky, New Jersey, Vermont, Missouri and Canada is sixty pounds. In Connecticut it is fifty-six pounds. Rye is fifty-six pounds to the bushel in all the_ States named but Illinois, where it is fifty-four. Com Is fifty-six pounds to the bushel in all the States named but New York, where it is fifty-eight, and Missouri, where it is fifty-two. Barley is forty-eight pounds to the bushel in New York, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, lowa, Michigan, Kentucky, New Jersey and Canada. In Pennsylvania it is fortyseven; in Illinois forty-four; in Massachusetts and Vermont forty-six. —A Good Fertilizer.—Take 1,000 pounds of good mold, sieve and screen it to get the gravel out, and make it as fine as possible; then spread on a floor, add 100 pounds sulphate ammonia, 100 pounds common salt, and mix with a rake; when thoroughly mixed add twenty-five pounds of pearl ash and twenty-two pounds sulphate of soda; mix well; then add 400 pounds ground bone, twenty-five pounds best Peruvian guano, ana 150 pounds ground plaster. Mix the whole thoroughly, throw in a pile for forty-eight hours, and it is fit for use. If it is to be used for potatoes in districts where potato bugs are numerous, five gallons sulphuric acid may be sprinkled over the mass. The caution is added that the acid must not be used in a confined place, as the fumes are injurious to health, and that if it is spilled on the floor water must be thrown on it, as the mixture generates great heat. —Scientific American.

Care of Fanners’ Boots and Shoes.

A farmer who has been accustomed to wear thick boots for more than forty years past says: Before wearing the boots give the bottoms a good coating of tallow or coal tar. Mid dry itjn; then oil the “uppers” with castor oil, abbut one tablespoonful to each boot; then oil them twice a week with the castor oil, when one teaspoonful will be sufficient. If the weather should be rainy, or you are compelled to work in water during the day, wash your boots clean at night, hold them by the fire until quite warm, and oil them while wet, and you will have no trouble about your boots getting hard and shrinking up so that you cannot get them on. If the leather should become red give a coat of ordinary shoe blacking before oiling. The effect of castor oil is to soften the leather, while it fills the pores and prevents the water from entering. I have stood in mud.and water two or three inches deep for ten hours a day for a week without feeling any dampness or having any difficulty an getting my boots on or off. Of course, if they are kept constantly wet they must be oiled every night. Some may think that castor oil is too expensive, but as so little is required each time the cost is trifling. Fifty cents, or less, will furnish a sufficient quantity to last as long as an ordinary pair of boots, and they, will wear much longer when the oil is used than with anything I ever tried. When boots are exposed to mud and wet several hours a day a coat of shellac varnish applied after the leather is oiled will exclude the water better than any other material. — Cor. N. Y. Herald. While American women are so shy of going out to service, it is said that many of the Eastern college students eke out their income by spending the summer as waiters in the larger country hotels. One landlord in New Hampshire says he has forty waiters of this stripe engaged for this season. - —A well-known physician says that he considers the following prescription for purifying the blood as the best he has ever used: One ounce of yellow dock, one-half ounce of horse radish, one quart of hard cider. Dose, one wine-glassful 'four times a day. A five weeks’ Normal School for Pian ists and Organists will begin at Evanston, 111., July 8, offering superior advantages. Full particulars can be had by addressing W. S. B. Matthews, Chicago, 111. —A Connecticut lady remained too long on a train to kiss female friends, the other day, and, trying to get off after it had started, was thrown on her face. “If ever I kiss anybody again!” she said, revengefully, as she arose, “ any woman, at least,” she added, thoughtfully, “then it will be when I am crazy. ”

Means What He Says.

Though “ confirmations strong as proofs of Holy Writ” and as numerous as the sands on the sea shore were produced to prove that the proprietor of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy is in earnest, and means what he says when he offers SSOO reward for any case of Catarrh which he cannot cure, yet there would be some skeptics and fogies who would continue to shout "Humbug!" “Humbug!” “It cannot be, because Dr. Homespun says Catarrh cannot be cured.” Now, this Dr. Homespun is the identical, good-natured old fellow whohonestly believes and persists in declaring that this earth is not round or spherical but as flat as a “ slap-jack,” and does not turn over, otherwise the water would all be spilled out of Deacon Bascom’s mill-pond. But astronomical science has positively demonstrated and proven that Dr. Homespun is wrong in supposing the earth to be flat and stationary, and medical science is daily proving the fact that he is no less mistaken and behind the times in regard to the curability of Catarrh. In short, it has been positively proven that this world moves, and that medical science is progressive —the opinion of Dr. Homespun to the contrary notwithstanding. That Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy will cure Catarrh thousands who have used it attest. Then buy it, and use it, in donbt do not stand, You will Ind it In drug stores all over the land. [From the Catskill Recorder, Nov. 15, 1872.] 1 GOOD REMEDY. We invite attention to the advertisement of Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. Our readers will bear us witness that we never knowingly commend humbugs of any name or nature, and a large portion of patent medicines may safely be classed as impositions upon public credulity. But having witnessed the beneficial effects of Sage’s Remedy upon the members of our family and others, in Catarrhal cases, we unqualifiedly pronounce it a valuable medicine, entitled to public confidence. The proprietor could easily obtain in Catskill many certificates of its merits. There are several kinds of worms which trouble horses; the .pin-worms (pointed at both ends) are the most common and most dangerous. SAeridan’s Cavalry Condition Pour den will in a few days eject the worms, and the horse will begin to thrive.

Don’t IAMmwiTH a cold.—Perhaps in the whole category of diseases to which humanity is susceptible, the cough is most neglected in its early stage. A simple cough is generally regarded as a temporaiy afflictionunpleasant, and nothing more; but to those who have paid dearly for experience, it is the signal tor 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 river, yet it is an easy enemy to thwart, It 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 good druggists. Whjtoft’s Tonic!— A Sari!, Sure and Scientific Curb! —The unprecedented sale of this world-renowned medicine proves incontestibly that no remedy has superseded the use of this reliable Tonic. No. spleen has been found so hard as not to yield to its softening influence, and no liver so hypertrophied as not to give up its long-retained bilious secretions, and no Chill or Fever has yet refused to fall into line. Wheelock, Finlay & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. For bale by all Druggists. The New Panacea.—Modern science having demonstrated that alcohol is “ neither food nor physic,” but, on the contrary, a species of poison, the introduction of a potent tonic which is entirely free from it is certainly a subject for cong’atplation. Dr. Walker’s Vinegar itters is a medicine which may be fairly characterized as an unobjectionable specific for many distressing and dangerous diseases. Temperance organizations, heretofore in favor of permitting the sale of alcohol for medical purposes, are of opinion that Vinegar Bitters possesses all the efficacy as an invigorant that has ever been even claimed for spirituous stimulants, and on this account, as well as because of the singular success which has attended its use in dyspepsia, liver complaint, disorders of the bowels, nervous diseases, general debility and all maladies growing out of intemperance, they warmly recommend it as a restorative and alterative of surpassing excellence. 43 More than a thousand Physicians recommend the National Surgical Institute of Indianapolis, Indiana, and direct their patients there for treatment, for Physicians in general practice have not the apparatus, appliances and facilities to dothem justice. This Institution, with $500,000 capital stock, treats thousands of cases of Paralysis, Diseased and Deformed Joints, Crooked Legs and Feet, Piles, Fistula, Catarrh and Chronic Diseases. Address the Institute for circular. Factories and machine shops should not be allowed to run a day without Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. In case of a sudden accident, an immediate use of it may save weeks of suffering, and perhaps a limb, or even life. The North w ebtbkn Horse-Nail Co.’e “Finished ’’ Nail is the best in the world.

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-falling safety and success by millions of mothers and children, from the feeble InfanW of one week old to the adult. It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind colic, regulates the bowels, and gives rest, health, and comfort to mother and child. We believe It to be the 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-slinlle of CURTIS & PERKINS is on the outside wrapper. Sold by all Mbdtcinx Dealbbb. Children Often Look Fule and Sick From no other cause than having worms in the stomach. BROWN’S VERMIFUGE COMFITS will destroy Worms without Injury to the child,being perfectly whitk, and free from all coloring or other injurious ingredients usually used in worm preparations. CURTIS & BROWN’, Proprietors, No. 215 Fulton street. New Ybrk. SoldVff T)rityrjisls and Chemists, and Jteaters tn -Medicinest-al 'i'wEXTY-nv-K Godey. —The illustrations in the June number are fully up to the standard of this magazine, and the literary contents are also of the usual excellence. A new story, by Marion Harland—" Mrs. Hillier’s Queer Whim”—ls begun in this number, and will be finished in the next. The June number completes the eighty-eighth volume and forty-fourth year of this deservedly successful publication. Many extra good things are promised for the July number. An excellent story, by Caroline Orme,- entitled “Country Homes in New England a Century Since,” will be commenced, to run through five or six numbers. In addition to the other attractions will be given another of those handsome chromo illustrations. Published byL. A. Godey, Philadelphia, Pa., at $3.00 per year; four copies SIO.OO, and a beautiful chromo to each subscriber. .» . tW* Asthma can be cured. See Hurst’s advertise ment.

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