Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1874 — Page 4

A Grave Subject.

A singular, but not uninteresting, advertisement appears in a late number of the Plymouth (Ind.) Republican. As a literary curiosity, and to illustrate what are have (p say on the subject, we copy it herewith: rsanns. attention! let as show ran a thing or two. When s friend or a relative dies, you come to town, and through a feeling of liberality aud respect toward the deceased yoa pay thirty, forty, and even sixty and sixty-five dollars for s coffin. Undertakers are getting rich by so taking advantage of a farmer or a citizen in distress, and it is high time yon ware getting posted in regard to this matter. Allow ns to yon a few figures, giving the cost of material and labor expended on a so-called $65 coffin: Black walnut lumber, not to exceed .$ 1.00 Jour's price for making 1.00 Upholstering and trimming, with silverplated handles, etc., not to exceed 5.00 Total cost to the undertaker $7.00 Be tail prioe.. ; 65.00 Profits on one coffin $58.00 “HOW IS THIS FOB HIGH?" This can be changed into a thirty, forty, or a fifty dollar coffin by omitting fifty cents' worth of stain and varnish—and, perhaps, nsing a slightly Inferior qnality of silk lining. We are selling a “forty," ''fifty,” and “sixtyfive dollar” coffin at $lO to $lB. How would you like it if we should charge you S6O for the same oofflnf “ A dollar saved is a dollar made.” Children's coffins at $3 to $6. This is not all of the advertisement, but it is enough to show the spirit and enterprise of the firm whose names in bold capitals are signed at the bottom. Though told rather roughly and embellished with phrases which seem grossly incongruous when speaking of things so solemnly associated, we do not doubt the advertisers are giving us a deal of truth in their double-column manifesto. Some time ago we published an account of a trial in the Washington courts in which an undertaker was plaintiff and the Hon. Fernando Wood was defendant. The suit grew out of a charge by the undertaker for coffin, hearse, and attendance on the occasion of the death of Mr. Wood’s mother-in-la\y. The bill was so grossly exorbitant that the Hon. Fernando absolutely refused to pay it and a suit was the consequence. On the trial facts closely resembling those stated in the above advertisement were made public, the evidence showing that the undertaker had charged a profit of more than 500 per cent. This robbery seems to have grown into a custom with the undertakers, who, taking advantage oi the grief and despair so common on sucb occasions and which shrinks in stinctively firwn any controversy regarding the price for performing this last sad rite to a cherished triend, pile up their charges until dying and being decently buried is a luxury that no one but a millionaire can afford. The very nature of the service invites this imposition; but it is time that some philanthropic individuals put a stop to it by rejecting any but reasonable bills. They may hate to quarrel over the grave of a relative; but the great service they will thereby render to the living should induce them to submit to the pain of such a controversy for the benefit of others. The practice in the city of following the remains of a friend to the cemetery with long lines of costly carriages is another custom which should be abolished, or at least not made a rule the breach of which is a mark of meanness or disrepeck It must add a pang to the parting for a man in moderate circumstances to know that a tyrannical custom will compel his widow to indulge in empty display over his remains, squandering valuable means which would go far toward starting her out successfully in her solitary life in the world. This practice should go down with the extravagant undertakers’ charges, until a man may not have added to the fear of dying a,still worse dread—thathis decease will bankrupt his family.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.

One Thing Certain.

There is one thing our Wisconsin readers may set down as certain. Whenever they see any newspaper or hear any politician furiously finding fault with the Potter bill, that press or person is in sympathy with the railroads in their extortions upon the people, and cannot be trusted an inch. They either have Bt. Paul or Northwestern Road money jingling in their pockets, or they expect to have, and they are working for the interests of those roads and not for the interests of the people. Doubtless the Potter bill is not perfect. It would not be human it it was. But it points in the direction of justice to the people, and putting a stop to the partiality, robbery and injustice that has been practiced upon and suffered by the people of Wisconsin, and so far it is right.. It, upon trial, it shall be found to work injustice to the railroads, the Legislature will with pleasure amend it, and the people of the State will rejoice to have it done. There are not ten men in Wisconsin that want any injustice done the railroads; but they want and they mean the railroads shall not inflict the degree of injustice upon them which they have suffered for the past twelve years, to enrich a few heart ess. Wall street operators.— Industrial Age.

The Tricks of Bad Memory.

There are plenty of people who find it easy enough to remember some things, who have no corresponding ability to retain even thd shadows of otbers in their minds; and the provoking part of it is that the things we remember most easily and most surely are apt to be those of least consequence, or those even which we would gladly forget. Memory plays tricks, too, sometimes, failing just at the moment when we need its services most imperatively, and performing its functions perfectly well at all other times. Schoolboys and school-girls suffer greatly in this way about examination time, and many excellent people, without other mental defect, find themselves sadly embarrassed by their utter inability to remember—anything—in a witness-box. Flurry and diffidence are the causes of the trouble in such cases, doubtless, but neither flurry nor diffidence can account for the fact that with many people proper names are never forthcoming when wanted. We know a man, not at all diffident. who, in addressing his most intimate friend, is sure to call him, “Ah ,” or “Mr. ah ,” unable for the instant to recall a name which comes to him the very moment that its comiqg is too late. Very provoking must it be too to remember everything approximately and vaguely, but nothing accurately or with certainty; and the people who suffer thus are not few. They recall everything in shadowy form, and are never quite certain of anything past. The facts of yesterday are to them only uncertain ghosts of fact, resembling their originals, but presenting themselves in so uncertain and ill-defined outline as to be wholly useless for any practical purpose. These are they who make lawyers’ heads grow gray, ana convince the rest of the world that stupidity is the common lot Still more provoking to its possessor must be that not uncommon kind of memory which recalls all but the essential part of the thing wanted. "If it be a jest or a story, they remember all of it but the point And people of this sort are very apt too to be much given to the telling of good stories, persisting in the attempt in spite of repeated failure. They hurl conundrums at their friends on all occasions—excellent conundnims-of which, when their friends “give » up,” they are sure to forget the answers. They tell stories excel-* lenuy so far as beginnings and middles ara concerned, breaking down only at the wy end. and forcing the listener to con-

tent himself with the assurance that the forgotten climax was “ very good—very good indeed.’’ To be constantly with such people is equivalent to a perpetual course of reading the half sheets issued by the story .papers for advertising pur. poses, in M&nch, just as the reader’s inter est is fairly aroused, he is quietly informed that “ the rest of this story may be found,” etc., etc., etc. Now, for these and all other serious defects in our memories we have to thank ourselves and our teachers; ourselves because, by determined effort, wc may cure the ill if we choose; our teachers because almost every bad memory is the result of educational blundering. In our schools the riSfemory is used, too much and trained too little. It is overtaxed and left undisciplined. It is required to do work which belongs of right to other faculties, and is not properly drilled in the art of doing its own. —Hearth and Home.

A Deep-Laid Plot Exposed.

To show how low and degraded country journalism has become we will cite this fact: Thirty years ago all these newspaper fiends went into cahoot, and started papers for the simple purpose of laying up enormous amounts of wood. For this purpose every country paper put this notice at the head of its local column: .. Wood Wanted.—Wo will take wood for subscription for tbiapaper. Bring on your wood I Yes, “ bringon your wood.” Mark that! Now, what are these rascals doing? Why, they have been running newspapers for wood until they have got all the wood in the country in their own hands. And now wood is ! up—they’ve made a corner in it. “ But,” the reader will ask, where is their market? What good will it do them?” Poor ignorant soul 1 We’ll tell you. After these country editors have got all the wood in the country imo their own hands what do they do ? Why, they go to work, tooth and toe nail, and advocate cremation! . They know perfectly well just as soon as cremation becomes a part of American politics every man will be trying it on his mother-in-law and wife’s relations. And wood will go tip t.» SIOO a cord! Everyone of these fiends will have this "advertisement on one ■ whole side of their paper: TO CBEM ATIONIBTB. Ten million cords of the beet hickory, old and dry, just ihe thing for burning your dear ones iri the quickest time possible. Old exchanges for kindling thrown in gratis. Apply at this office. Then these country editors will be rolling in wealth instead of glue and molasses, and they wouldn't no more think of exchanging with you than running a newspaper without using a patent outside. : ' ° Ah, this is a deep-laid plot!— Sedalia (Mo.) Democrat.

Deep or Shallow Culture.

Discussions continually go on in agricultural quarters as to whetbersoil should be deeply stirred or plowed up shallow. The contestants on each side bring facts and figures to Bustain them: - What are we to say of these apparent contradictions ? If one man says that he had land shallow-piowed which yielded but ten bushels of wheat per acre, and after turning it up deeply it brought twenty, are we to say this is all nonsense—he did not get the twenty ? Or if a man tells us that he does not plow at all, but stirs up the ground with a drag-harrow, and that still he gets as good crops as he ever had by the deepest soilstirring, are we to tell the man we do not believe him ? Yet this is practically the condition~“oi things today. The advocates of each practice entrench themselves on their separate facts and experiences, and the observations of others on the other side have no weight with them at all. For our part we take pleasure always ' in listening to the experience of those who talk to us in opposition to our own views. We learn more in this way than in any other whatever. We (men find—not that our own experience goes for nothing—but that we have overlooked some agent in success which ought to have been taken into account. In fact, it is just here that so much error comes in and leads to interminable discussion, when really people occupy the same ground. For the effects we see produced in our own every day operations are never the result of ODe cause, but of several acting in harmony together. For instance, seed will not grow without there be some moisture in the soil; but it would be absurd to argue the merit of different systems of seed-sowing from the moisture point alone. We must consider light, and heat and air, and nutrition, and several other things alto- § ether. Thus it is with this question of eep plowing. One thing is certain, that if we have a soil which dries out very soon, and becomes hard on the surface, plants growing here will fail very soon in a dry season. The deeply-loosened soil, under these circumstances, permits of moisture coming up from below, and thus the plant is enabled to keep on, in even the worst seasons growing to maturity. But if the situation be lovy, or the season wet, when water is an injury instead of p benefit, then the deeper the soil the worse for the crop; because in such a soil and situation the water is encouraged to remain there instead of passing away over the surface to the nearest ditch. The question, then, is removed from one of deep soil to an overplus of water; and we mistake the whole point when we think that deep culture is alone involved. We have seen illustrations of this over and over again. We knevf a friend, some years ago, who had a small piece of garden ground, wherein he grew fruits and vegetables for his family in his spare time, and sold what he did not need to provision stores close by. One season he trenched, as it is called, a piece ol ground—that is, he loosened it up two iee't deep T _and about the end of July he planted bush beans thereon. The whole of the season that followed was excessively dry, but his beans grew, as he said, like wildfire, and the quantity of soft, brittle “ snapshorts” that he obtained from a comparatively short piece of ground was prodigious, and the profits no less wonderful. He thought he had found the secret of 'growing beans. He had that year an abundance, and of very superior quality, when his neighbors had none; and why could he not always do the same? He extended the area of his trenched bean ground the next season; but that season proved a, wet ohe, and on that same ground his beans did not do at all. The soil was brick earth at the depth of a foot or so, and the water of course came from the surrounding hard earth to the looser subsoiled portion, till it was a little sea of water, in which roots of course could not thrive. We may learn from this that there is nothing in either deep or shallow plowing in itself. It is only as other questions are involved with it that any practical argumeht can be turned out of it. It is one of those questions in which common sense must play ft conspicuous part. — Forney's Weekly Press. Corn Starch Cake.—Sugar one and one-half teacnpfnl; flour, one and one-half teacupful; butter, one-half teacupful; com starch, one-halfteacupful;milk, onehalf teacnpfnl; six eggs, whites only-, baking powder, one teaspoonful. Flavor to ta*te v Sixteen residents of the town of Marlboro, Mass., have sworn to enforce the laws regarding the killing of birds.

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—Orange Cake.—Six eggs, one cup of button two and a hall cups of sugar, one cup of milk, four cups of flour, one teaspoonful of soda, two of cream of tartar. Take two oranges—juice and rind—one lemon, one ana a quarter pounds of powdered sugar, whites of two eggs. Spread between layers. —Pawing Horses.—A correspondent oi the Farmer s' Union gives this remedy for pawing horses: “ Take a piece of tracechain two feet long, fasten it to the leg that he paws with, just, above the knee, with a hame strap, and let the chain hang at the side of the leg; he will soon be glad to keep it still.?’ — —Lotion of Acetic Acid for Baldness. — The following lotion is superior for a shampooing liquid, for removing dandruff, and as a useful and pleasant application for baldness. It is, of course, moderately stimulating, and in those cases in which the hair follicles are not destroyed, but have become merely inactive, it is likely to prove efficacious. Take of acetic acid one dram; cologne water, one ounce; water to make in all six ounces.— Country Gentleman. —The Dahlia.—The dahlia has come before the people lately in the shape of a bit of history connected with the family of the Hollands of “Holland House. In some memoirs lately published there is an account of its introduction from some other part of the world, its narrow escape from being eaten as a vegetable, etc.; and a ties this fortunate escipe it became the parent from which all dahlias sprung. It seems strange that so many curious ihings have been in just this danger; the potato, the tulip, and we don’t know what, all barely escaped a voyage down some human throat, and just in time to render their names with us forever blest. It would seem as if there musthave been a wondrous disposition on the part of our forefathers to devour everything that came to hand. In these days people generally take more care to know what they are eating, and all is not fish that comes to their net.— Forney's Press. —Taking off the surplus water is only advantage of underdrathS. They also one make a tenacious soil more friable and absorptive, and a soil is productive in proportion to its capacity to hold water by capillary absorption. Vegetable manure or clover sod plowed in will make a soil friable for the time being but tile underdrains are a permanent improvement Mr. the English famer, who keeps no stock, but depends on commercial manure to keep up the fertility of his soil, is of opinion that his great success in growing crops is as much due to his very thorough tile draining as to his chemical manures. Ridging and trenching a garden in the fall is a great promoter of early vegetation in the spring, and almost indispensable in many soils. The frosts of winter make the clayey ridges permeable, so that when leveled in the spring, with a light dressing of compost manure, seed may be planted, and only enough tillage or hoeing is required as will keep the seeds in abeyance.— N. T. Herald.

Tools for Farmers.

Don’t buy a chest filled with tools ready for work. If you have had a good deal of experience and know what you want, you can buy a chest and select the tools yourself, bpt if you get one which some one else has furnished you may, to be sure, get a good set of tools, but there will be many for which you will find but little use. Even regular mechanics have different ways of using tools, and an ingenious amateur will often make shift to do without certain tools which a carpenter or a blacksmith considers indispensable. Here are some good suggestions which we clip from the Agriculturist: “ Every farmer should ’have a small room, tight and warm, which he can lock, and where he can keep his small tools. Then he wants a good solid work-bench, with an iron vise on one side and a wooden one on the other. For iron working, he wants a solid piece of iron for an anvil, a seven-pound steel face-hammer, a riveting hammer, one large and one small cold chisel, two or three punches from one-fourth to three-eighths inch, arimmer and counter-sink, to be used with bitstock, a screw- plate that will cut'a screw from one-fourth to three-fourths inch ; then with round iron of the various sizes, and ready-made nuts, he can make any bolt he wishes. For carpenter work he wants a square, a shaviDg-horse, drawing knife, a set of planes, auger from one-half to two inches, bits from one-fourth to five-eighths inch, bit-stock, thin chisel from one-fourth to one inch, framing chisels from one to two inches, a tine , hand-saw with coarse cross cut and rip saw, large cross-cut saw for logs, and a grindstone.” —Christian Union.

Sticking Peas.

Most people, says Forney's Press , when they go to a seed store to buy peas, ask for kinds that need no sticks to run on. It may be taken for a general rule, in which there are few exceptions, that peas that need no sticks are not worth sticking. It is only when they grow up something that they bear freely. In most places some brushwood may be gathered and saved for the purpose. Sometimes, however, it js not convenient to find any. A hint as to a substitute may be useful in such cases. We take the following from the London Field : “To those who have to procure stakes at a great, cost, the following method will prove advantageous, being very cheap, simple and easily performed. A few rough stakes should be obtained and driven into the ground on each side of the row about twelve feet apart. These stakes should be of a corresponding height to that of the peas, and when the required number for a line is inserted, some tar twiqe or Other strong cord may be tied to the end stake, and passed along the line of stakes, making a turiLon each within a few inches* of the ground, and as growth progresses raise the next turn a little higher, advancing in succession until the plants attain their full height. These lines being run on at the right time, the tendrils of the peas will clasp firmly round them and support the plants quite equal to the well-known plan of sticking. Some imagine an advantage to be obtained in this way of training, as the lines get a better circulation of air, and pods can be gathered at all times, without injuring the haulm.”

Clean Up the Walks.

In my first experience at hoeing corn and potatoes I was very much inclined, like most boys, to give the last hill ip the row “ a lick and a promise,” instead of finishing it up In a workmanlike manner with one or two clean cuts of the hoe in:o' . the sod or weeds beyond. Well do I remember ..the look my father gave me at this attempt at slighting my work, as well as his words, which were, “ Boys, always hoe out your row.” I have never forgotten the lesson learned so long ago, and it frequently comes to my mind as I see the grass and weeds crowding the hills around the edges of corn or potato field in. summer. These are pretty sure signs that somebody has failed to hoe out his row. The neglected fence corners, halfplowed headlands, deep, barren, dead furrows to be seen upon thousands of farms, in whatever direction we may travel, show plainly enough that the owners or occupants were never taught and compelled to “ hoe out their row.” But the negligent habit acquired when young of never hoeing out the row crops, out nowhere more conspicuously with the

man than in the treatment of the ground -about his home. First of all, if he received proper instruction in his younger days, there will be a grass plat about the house, and through this, or along side, walks and a carriage way, in neither of which will grass or weeds be permitted tc grow. I know that some farmers will say that this is all nonsense, and so is blacking your boots and putting on a stiff collar when you go to church on Sunday. No one ever put on such a thing as Sunday clothes in hot weather for comfort, but it is all for the looks, and that is just what folks clean up their walks' and trim the edges of the grass for. A little polish on a pair of boots makes a wonderful difference in the appearance of the man who wears them, just as a little hoeing and trimming of the carriage-way and walks about a house reflect beneficially upon all surrounding objects. In addition to the looks, a welldefined walk or carriage road has a wonderful effect upon the morals and habits of both mankind and animal kind that frequent them. We all know what is said about the two kinds of pathß and where they lead in that good old Book, and the broad one with no well-defined limits is typical of nine-tenths of those seen about farmers’ grounds, and, I might add, of the general habits of the owners. But it is scarcely necessary for me to enlarge upon this subject, because every one who has seen well-trimmed borders and clean walks about the suburban or country homes is aware of the effect they have upon all the surroundings, and that they lead to greater and better things.—Cor. Rural New Yorker.

A Composition on Chickens.

BY A LOUISVILLE BOY

Most usually it takes two eggs for to make a chicken, because, if you will pul eighteen eggs under a hen, only about nine of ’em will hatch. A hen is so careless and stubborn that most likely she won’t cover her eggs all over, and so they get chilled; then they are everlastingly gone up. Also, the rats will rob a nest; so that, if you get half of a brood, it is a tol’able crop, and you should be thankful. Then, I think, it stands to reason this ought to prove what I said at first. A hen, which has got a young family, is more crosser than anything else which can be compared with her under the sun in the United States. There never was a thing which can ruffle its feathers up backward and rage worse than a fool hen. A turkey gobbler will do it, but he don’t go off into a red-hot passion about it, and make a fool of himself, and get enemies all for nothing, like a hen would. A chicken in the spring time which was put to hatch in March, if it has good luck and don’t die of the pip, or gaps, or the choleramorbus, or get drownded or something, will be big enough to sell to the restaurant about in June. They will fetch $6 a dozen, and a chicken is more popular where it is a spring chicken that if it would live long enough to get as tough as Methuseler. They say that a spring chicken is a luxurious thing for to broil and mix up with toast. That’s what I have heard. Once in a great while we have spring chickens for dinner. Then we have the preacher, or else some company, and I eat at the second-hand table, and I can always tell by the savoiy smell a going on in the kitchen that broiled chicken ought to be good enough for anybody. But if I can’t get something to eat more substantialler than a smell I always fall back on roast beef. A chicken don’t gather shrewdness like a owl, and it never picks up any wisdom. It is aot a talented thing like a fox. If you call show me a more stupider thing than a hen I wish you would trot her out. The rooster has got what little sense there ever was in the family. It is one of the worst difficulties with a chicken that she don’t know its place. She won’t stay in the barn-yard, where she belongs, any way you can fix it; If your mother has got flower-beds in the front yard—and it’s a mighty curious mother which ain’t—every last chicken on the place will get in to scratch them, if it takes till next Christmas; and then good-by to the hyacinthes, and crocuses, and jerryranthems, and all thp.t kind of foolishness. Then is the rime you want to have two jackets on, or else to forget to come home early, if it was you which left the lattice gate open. Anyhow, that’s my advice. Also, a hen is hard-hearted and cruel, and will kill every little desolated stray chicken who tries to associate with her"own brood, and this is a good enough reason why she is like a step-mother. If a hen once gets a fair hold of a little chicken to shake it by the nape of the neck it will never kick again in this community more than twice. The frequentest bad habit which a hen has got is going off to the neighbors to lay; also it is too soft a thing for the neighbors; but it is generally chronic for a hen to do it, and the only way for to cure her is to cut her head oft' and boil her down into soup. She won’t go to the neighbors to. lay many times'after that, I don’t think. The coolest larceny on record recently took place in San Francisco. A young man from, the country was riding in a street car when a man next to him informed him that the back of his coat was dirty, and kindly offered to brush it off for him if he would take it off. He handed his coat to the accommodating man, and the latter coolly put it under his arm and left with it.

Haines Bros’. Pianos.

Twenty-two years’ established reputation. Prices low. Terms, SSO cash, $25 monthly. Old pianos and organs taken in exchange. Reed’s Temple of Music, 92 Van Burcn St., Chicago. Orange Fritters. —Take the peel and white skin from three large oranges; then cut them across into slices, pick out the seeds, and dip each slice of orange into a thick batter. Fry them nicely and serve them with sugar sifted over each.

Success Based Upon Merit.

It is a subject of general remark among both wholesale and retail druggists that no medicine introduced to the American public has ever gained such a popularity and met with so large a sale in all parts of the land, in the same length of time, as Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. This cannot depend upon its having been more largely advertised than any other medicine, as such is not the case. The correct explanation, we think, is found in the fact that this medicine produces the most wdnderful and perfect cures of very bad cases qf bronehial, throat and lung diseases, is undoubtedly the most perfect and efficient remedy for all kinds of coughs that has ever been introduced to the public, and at the same time possesses the greatest of blood-purifying and strengthening properties that medical science has been able to produce, thus rendering it a sovereign remedy not only in the cure of Consumption, Bronchitis, Hoarseness and Coughs, but also for all diseases of the liver and blood, as scrofulous diseases, blotches, rough skin, pimples, black specks and discolorations. It has, therefore, a wide range of application and usefulness, and it not only gives the most perfect satisfaction to all who use it, but far exceeds the expectations of the most sanguine, thus eliciting the loudest praise, and making permanent living advertising mediums of all who use it. For these reasons it is that there is not perhaps a druggist in all the vast domain of this continent who tries to please hfs customers and supply their wants that does not keep and sell large quantities of this most valuable medicine. Jebcp, lowa, May 5,1*573. IjK. R. V. PtERCE: Dear Sir —We take pleasure In saying that your Medicines have sold entirely beyond our expectations. We regard them as the best medicines extant, «.nd hear them spoken of in the highest terms of praise. R. L. Smith & Cb,, The Northwestern Horse-Nail Cb.’g “Finished ” Nail is the best in the world.

Through all the ages of study and investigation which liave marked the path of scientific discovery, one especially alluring Object has tempted the inquiries and speculations of philosophers. It is what the wizards and witches* of olden time, the jugglers of India, soothsayers of Arabia, Magi of Egypt, necromancers of Turkey and the Orient, and alchemists of civilized Europe have sought, but sought in vain—a vegetable non-poisonous Elixir, which, by cleansing the blood, removing from the system all impurities, strentliening the nerves, the muscles and the brain, and vitalizing every fiber of the system, should bid defiance to the Corroding hand of disease. Dr. Walker, of California, discovered an herb, the properties of which, if they do not entirely fulfill all the conditions above mentioned, have at least proved themselves efficacious in all of them; this herb Doctor Walker has made an ingredient in his famous Vikegar Bitters, which can be obtained of any wholesale druggist throughout the country. 44 Wiijioft’s Tonic!—A Safe, Sure and Scientific Cure! —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 Ipng-retained bilious secretions, and no Chill or Fever has yet refused to fall into line. Wiif.ei.ock, Finlay & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. For sale by all Druggists. It is often remarked by strangers visiting our State that we show a larger proportion of good horses than any other State in the Union. This, we tell them, is owing to two principal reasons: in the first place.we breed from the very best stock ; and in the second place our people use Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders, which in our judgment arc of incalculable advantage. JonNSON’s Anodyne Liniment will give more relief in cases of Chronic Rheumatism, no matter how severe, than any other article known to medical men. Used internally and externally.

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Now and then a happy hit sends a man high up the scale of fortune and favor. The blow must be well aimed and skillfully # struck however. Dr. Kress> an old German physician, made such f timely hit when he discovered the com- bination that made Kress l Fever Ton- iVy the most certain Ague cure ever used. It is a specific for fevers, be- ’ cause it destroys the fever producing germs that enter the system; it drives disease away. Containing neither Arsenic, Strychnine nor any other poisonous ingredient, no hurtful effects follow its use. Box of Liver Pills free with every bottle Kress Manufacturing Co., Cincinnati, O.

NEW STYLE OF NAPS. Maps of the United State* so arranged as to give the purchaser a map of any of the Western States he may wish lo accompany It on the same sheet. Its neatness and originality of style render it a marked success. Terms made known to Agents wishing to sell it by addressing RUFUS BLANCHARD, 133 Clark Street, Chicago. Profitable Employment. Work for Everybody. Good Wages. Permanent Employment. Men and Women wanted. Full particulars free. Address W. A. HENDERSON & CO., Cleveland. 0.. or St. Louis, Mo* as am miss MORPHINE HABIT speedily II Di H I Bw cured l>y Dr. Hecks only 3 B IEI aWI known & sure Heiuedy. 111 lwl»* NO CHARGE for treatment until cured, ('all on or address DR. J. C. BECK, Cincinnati, O. DR. WHITTIER, w Longest engaged, aiul moHt goccesslul Physician of tbs Ago. Oonßultation or pamphlet free. Call or write. ~ ,r DAMBUItf HEWS.” ~ One year, *2; 6 mos., sl. Sen d subscriptions to E. L. WAKEMAN, Western Ag't Journal B’ld’g,Chicago. a II V sending us the address of ten personß, with 10 AH I :ts. will a beautiful Chromo and nur instructions how to get rich, postpaid. City UNt VoTfltu Co.. IIIH south Bth St.. Phlla., Pa. THeaaant Business for LADIES, selling our JL Perfntned Kubber Goods. For terms, address PiuruMSD Rubbkb WoRKs, 7 Great Jones Bt ■ K. Y. uiuy I Send 25 cts. with addresses of 5 others and wni I receive postpaidaFineChromo,7x9, worth II AT 111.50, and Instructions to clear 120 a day. W U I si Plumb d* Co., 106 South Bth St., Phlla., Pa. AGENTS WANTED, Men or Women. JKHi s. week or *IOO forfeited. The Secret Free. Write st once to CO WEN & CO., Eighth street, Mew York. MPA GENTS send 25c. for sampie of the« I finest collection of Novelties ever offered. Price- p gllst free. Siuclaib* Co.,s99Broadway,N. YdMH EACH WEEK. Agents wanted. Pat ucu I lars free* J. Wobtt CS Co., St. Louis, Mo. oi r- per day. 1,000 Agents wanted. Send stamp IK | O (o »..Jn. «1 Alt”A ro .kt T onis Vo PER DAT Commission or 430 a week Sal•OZitJ ary, and expenses. We offer it and will pay It! Applvnow. G. Wfbhcr A Co.. Marion. O. TIC ATSTE r V f We 1(111 P a T 101012 P , ‘ r CPnt - 1n ill. veil Ll • advance, and give good security. State amount yon drsire to Invest. Andres* BECURITY FUNDS; P. O. Box 3I C 6, Cincinnati. DR. WHITTIER, •"tK-aSSKSS."" Longest engaged, and mo* taocceaaful P!*aiciau of Um ag*. Oonuuitutlon 6r pamphlet Ire*. Call or write. ftUR TJICTURE ■pAPEßaent free to all Farmera l/whoi want L Standard Implements at Loweat Cash prices. AddrfcsoKxcelsior Works Jlassillon,o. I^ACP er Day guaranteed «ingon wZDweJlAuger-iKnjuc.kjo^

Dr. J. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly from the na tive herbs found on the lower ranges os the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor nia, the medicinal properties of which are extracted therefrom without the use 6f Alcohol. The question is almost daily asked, '‘What is the cause of the unparalleled success of Vinegar Bit TERsf” Our answer is. that they remove the cause of disease, and the patient re covers his health. They are the great blood purifier and a life-eiving principle; a perfect Renovator and Inyigoratoi of the system. Never before in the history of the world has a medicine been compounded possessing the remarkable qualities of Vinegar Bitters in healing the sick of every disease man is heir to. Thej are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, relieving Congestion or Inflammation ol the Liver ana Visceral Organs, in Bilious Diseases. The properties of Dr. Walker’s V inegar Bitters are Aperient, Diapnoretic, Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic, Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Sudorific, Altera tive. and Anti-Bilious. Grateful Thousands proclaim Vnr. egar Bitters the most wonderful Invigoraut that ever sustained th a sinking system. No Person can take these Bitters according to directions, and remain long unwell, provided their bones are not destroyedby mineral poison or other means, and vital organs wasted beyond repair. Biiious. 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, Roauoke, 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 liver, 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. Dyspei isia or Indigestion, Headache, Pain in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Chest, Dizziness, Sour Eructations of tho Stomach, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpitatation of the Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the region of tho Kid neys, and a hundred other painful symptoms, are tho 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 Neck, Goitre, Scrofulous Inflammations, Indolent Inflammations, Mercurial Affections, Old Sores, Eruptions of the Skin, Sore Eyes, etc. In those, as in all other constitutional Diseases, Walker’s Vinegar Bitters have shown their great curative powers in the most obstinate and intractable cases. Fcr Inflammatory and Chronic Rheumatism, Gout, Bilious, Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases oi 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 Walkeb’s Vinegar Bitters occasionally. For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, Tetter, Salt-Rheum, Blotches, Spjcs, Pimples; Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles, Ring-worms, Scald-head, Sore Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch, Scurfs, Discolorations of tha Skin, Humors and Diseases of the Skin of whatever name or nature, are literally dug up and carried out of 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 antbelminitics will free the system from worm 3 like these 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 Vitiated Blood whenever you find its impurities bursting through the skin in Pimples, Eruptions, or Sores; cleanse it when you find it obstructed and sluggish in the veins; cleanse it when it is foul; your feelings will tell yon when. Keep the blood pure, and the health of the system will follow. it. h. McDonald & co., Drng(tißts and Gen. Agts., San Francisco, California, *ad cor. of Washington and Chariton Sts.. N. Y. Sold by all Druggists and Dealers. AGENTS WANTED to sell onr, Jnstly-cclehratcd Articles for Ladies wear. lodUpensable a»d absolutely necessary. 10,000 SOLD MONT H!,Y. They give comfort aDl ’VUittSfii OQ,v 0 Q ,v LADY CAN XK> WITHOUT THEM. Sample sent on receipt of $3.00, UR-EE. Send for 111 ostrated Circular. LK. FERLn. RUBBER ( 0., •JO Chambers Street, New York. DR. SAM’L S. PITCH’S FAMILY PHYSICIAN Will be sent free by mall to any one sending their address to 714 Broadway, New Yqbk. Photographers', Hnnt- HP 17 YT HPO WMuESM era'. Railroading and I p \ I N Camp Meeting A JJil iUi Km « Also, BANNERS and GRANGE WyXM G - F ’ Footer,^on^tMcFanren, INSTANT RELIEF and A CTU M A Radical Cure for the AO I fl I*l M Immediate relief guaranteed by uslngmr Astbma remedy. I Buffered VI years, not lying down for weeks ata time,but nan now entirely cured. Scntbymail on receipt ot price. $1 per box. Ask your Drnggijt for t. CHAR B. HURST, Rochester, Beaver Co., Pa. TEA AGENTS wanted In (town am, I K si country to sell TEA, or get up club or- ■ ■“•“■ders for the largest Tea Company m Igncrica. Importers’ prices and Inducements to Agents. Send for Circular. Address _ .. ROBERT WELLS, 43 Vesey at., N. Y. P. O. Box 128. AGENTS®®* o" #£saraowj|s, or 2o,OOi)J} ANIB tiVMPLIhI). W t CBIPT a FOK I'.VUH > THING A book that FVERVJB I>¥ WANTS Splendid rHßnll" PMKK GXIKA'IERMN. •i.iilinenlal Pnb. Co., St; Louis. A GOOD WATCH. SSS? $3.50 by mall, or *3.75 by express. First,class agents wanted in every town. Send stamp for particulars. ’ F. G. LOUIS, 155 W. Washington street, Chicago.

This is the famous •• '’ibrator" Thresher, which has created such n revolution in the trade xml become so fully kstaiiusueu as the “leading Thresher .of this day anil generation. More than seven ihousanil purchasers ami ninety thousiqul grain raisers pronounce these machines Bntirei-v unkquau.kp lor grain saving, time saving, and money making. Four Mizes made, viz: 24-Inch, 28s Inch, 32-incli, and 3(>-lucli Cylinders, with G, 8. 10 and 12-Horwc “Mounted’ l Powers. Also Separators “ alone” exprcMKly for Steam Power,and Improved PORTABLE STEAM ENGINES for Steam Machines All pel sons inlending to buy Threshing Machines, or Separators “alone,” or Horse Powers “alone," ns well as Grain Kaisrks and Farmbrs >vlio want their grain threshed, saved and cleaned to the best advantage, are ihvited to send for our, new forty page Illustrated Pamplilet and Circulars (mufree) giving full particulars about these Improved Machines and other information valur.blo to farmers and threshermen Address, : ‘ - NICHOLS, SHEPARD & CO., Hattie Creek, Art h lOWA AND NEBRASKA MILLIONS OF ACKKS OF THE BEST LAND in the West for snie on Ten Years’ Credit, at. 4V per cent. Interest, by the Burlington & Missouri Kiver Kailroiul Company. NO PAYMENTS REQUIRED except Interest till fifth year. Rich Soil, warm Climate, long Seasons, low luxes and free Education. Free Fare and Low Freights on household goods to those who 33 TTY rrxxxs YEA.HL. For circulars ami Maps, wttli full particulars, address GEO. S. HARRIS, Land Commissioner, Burlington. lowa. Sandwich HaJiifftcturVilg Co., SANDWICH, DE KALB CO., ILLINOIS. ADAMS’ PATENT SELF-FEEDING POWER CORN-SHELL.ERS (popularly known as tho “ Sandwich Shcllers”), varying in Size and capacity to suit all wants. Farm Iforsc-Powei-., Hand Corn-Sliellers. Sole manufacturers of the celebrated CORN KING OULTIVATOII. Descriptive Circulars, fully Illustrated, mailed freo to any address. J. P. ADAMS, Secretary. Of tH© Multitude* whose avocations restrict them to a sitting posture, more than two-thirds suffer from Constipation. Do they not know that an occassional resort to regidaU ngpropertics arc unparalleled. For sale by all dealers la medicines. & FLORENCE The Tong-contested Suit of tho FLORKNCK HEWING MACHINE CO. : against the Wheeler d Wilson, ; and Grovor 4 Baker Companies, involving over ]- $250,000, Is finally decided by the Supreme Court of the United States In favor of the FLORENCE, which alone has 5; Broken the Monopoly of High Prices . THE NEWTIORENCE Is the OKI Y machine that sews backward, and foneard, or to right and. left. !■ Simplest— Cheapest—Best. Bold for Cash Only. Special Terms to i CI.URS and DEALERS.— April, 1874. Florence, Mass. PRINTING PRESSES. The Best Yet Invented. For Amateur or Business Purposes, ana unsurpassed for general Job Printing. Over 10,000 In Use. BFNJ. O. WOODS,''Manufacturer and Dealer In every description of PRINTING MATERIAL, 340 Federal and 15!4 Kuccland streets, Boston. agents: E. F. MacKnsick, 6 Murray-st., New York: Kelley, Howell & Ludwig, 917 Market-st.. Philadelphia ; 8. P. Rounds, 175 Monroe-st., Chicago. larsend for Illustrated Catalogue. iT PORTABLE SODA FOTOTA’HS! S4O, SSO, $75 and SIOO. Good, Durable and Cheap. filf Slipped Heady for !)se, Manufactured by J. W. CHAPMAIT 4L M L- j A CO., Madison, Ind. GOBBIS®®* gysend for a _ “THE NEW YORK TOMS.” An account of New York’s famous prison and celebrated criminals. Full history of Stokes and Fisk, McFarland, Tweed. Walworth. Mrs. CunninghamBurdell, etc. Quickest-selling book ever puofwhed. I Agents now making $5 to S4O per day. AGENTS WANTED in every town. Exclusive territory given. OSGOOD & CO., Subscription Books, 4 South Clark St., Chicago. £ BTHMA Pophnm’s Asthma Specific^ Bellofllu TEH MINUTKS. PKTERn BWOYKB, M. D.,Frlt»towu, r*., writesi «* I liavo lmd Asthma lor 20 year* ; fonutl no relief until I tried your B|>erlf\c, Which rellevca me lnim%dlately.’* Sold by all DrUKKlata. $1 i>«r tkial"pa i ckage free. CONSUMPTIVES! ' Discard all Bpuribus advertlsementa and remedies, and write for free particulars of my Consumption Cure. I suffered two years from lung disease, hut suffer no more. Address (with stamp! —~v—~ G. W. FRAZIEK, Cleveland, Ohio. KachtoCampany For anything Tinted In the Michlneiy line, tddisu them at HAMILTON, OHIO, or ST. LOUIS, MO. Inqßlrers please mention where they saw this. SAW MILLSi £IS:F sfc BODLEY, t ; MANUFACTURERS OF ORTABLE AND STATIONARY Saw Mis, Solid Iron Frames, Friction Feed and Wrought Iron Head Blocks, with Lever Set. rrtHE BEST AND CHEAPEST MILL IN THE A MARKET. .... Illustrated Catalogues and Prices furnished on aplication to LANE! &. BODLEY, JOHN AND WATER STS., CINCINNATI, a A. N. K- 43ft—F X ~ Tfelß PAPER ta paper wilh INK manufactoren by G. B. KANE AjCO., 121 Dearborn St..Chlc»go For tale by A. N Kkllooo 97 Chicago