Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1874 — Page 4

An Armenian Wedding.

ReHjnjlqg; the masquerade, I went to an Armenian house where I had an iavitation to be present at a wedding. The “ young lady of the house” was to many a young clerk who works hard from morning till night for a pound and a half (abqp y bride was welHmT, 000 Turkish liras (#100,000) as a marriage portion. This was alt given over to the bridegroom, who, strange to say, did not aeem to feel a bit gratelul. I should if adtoc'btfe WouW give me two houses, mim,aU their furniture, including slaves, and 4100,000; but then I am a heathen, and not an orthodox Armenian. When I arrived the bride Was just dressed, and I was invited into the bedroom where she was, to see her in all the glory of her attire. She stood ~lh the center Jof the roeip, and all the slaves and old women stood "off to give me a better view of her magnificence. I walked around her twice before I could see where her face was, or which was the iro#t of hfr. She was Covered with a most curious veil made of lotog slips ot gold tinsel, which reached to her feet. Through this you could not see, except the bottom of her dress. The Armenian women, are generally very - pretty, but 'perfect fools in manners ana expression; so much so that when one man wishes to offend another he says: “Pretty Armenian!” which really means a fool. The women dress like Europeans, in general. The women, after I had twice made the circuit of the rail, lifted it in front and IfpkMteffthe long strings of tinsel, till I could see that, the bride was dressed in white silk, brocaded with silver and pearls, and that around her waist was a wide belt containing a fortune in precious stoqes. Her cheeks were painted a deep on iig a heart shape, and another heart was artistically but on the chfn, %4iHe the rest bf the race was as white as the luminous cosmetic could bring it. The eyebrows met and also stretched to the hair on each side her temples, and were ss black as they could be painted. The inside of her fingers’ ends and finger-nails were stained a deep crimson. Her hair, which was long and thick, though coarse, was braided full of little jingling coins. The outlines of her farm were, as usual, totally hidden by the cfotnSy Amide clothes. I admired her to her heart’s content, and even went so far as to take up a fold of her dress to see if the pearls sewn on so lavishly were real ones, to the evident Kleasure of all present; for what would $ the height of ill-breeding among us is considered a delicate flattery among these women. I forgot to look at her feet, and was about to go and sit down, when she stuck out first one and then the other, that I might sep that they were shod with velvet slippers, embroidered with pearls, and then showed me her earrings, which were large solitaire diamonds. She had on no brooch nor necklace, and one of the women interpreted for me, and told me the bridegroom was to give them after the ceremony. We then ail sat down and coffee was brought in little cups about the size of an egg-shell, and carried in little gold filigree holders. I would like to immortalize the coffee they make here, even as Lamb did his vanity, but 1 feel inade quate to the task. It is the sublimated essence of the spirit of coffee, of which we get huh- the material in America I shall bring a Turk with me, with all the apparatus for coffee-making, when I return to America. Alter this episode all the lady guests went into another room to see the trousseau, which was laid out for their inspection. Many of the dresses were very elegant, but I found 1t very tiresome, as I must examine every article, being the. mussufara, or guest of the guests or foreigners. I had arrived at six o'clock, and'before the things were all examined the mother of the bride entered and called us Out to the larger room, telling us that the table was spread for the marriage feast, and we must come and look at it We traversed a long, cold salle to the supper-room, which looked really very handsome, but it was bitterly cold, there being no appliances for fire. We went then to the parlor to await the arrival of the bridegroom and the priests, four of whom were to perform the ceremonv. The. bride was seated upon a sort of chair, without a back, and her veil arranged carefully so as to completely hide her. The rooms in all the houses here are furnished very simply, this one having but one table and one chair. There divans all round the walls, and in the center of the room a fountain very handsomely carved. The floor was covered with an elegant Persian carpet, and the ceiling fairly festooned with lamps. 1 think we furnish our houses too much, generally, and they none of them look so really elegant as do these houses here. The bridegroom and his friends arrived - about nine, and other friends and acquaintances began to arrive, but the priests did not come. We waited and waited. Ten o’clock! Eleven! and still no priests. The father of the bride went to see what was the reason pf the delay and soon returned to say that they were at another weddihg, but would surely be here soon. Bo we had coffee and more sweetmeats. 1 wanted to go home, but those who had brought me would not hear of it, and I was compelled to remain, though more tired than ever before in my life, I think. Twelve o’clock came, and half-past, and then one, and no priests. A boy came and said the priests would be along directly, and he spread a piece of carpet in the middle of the room and retired. The people did not seem to mind the delay, but I felt sorry tor the poor bride, who sat erect ail this while on her chair, speaking to no one, nor even moving. I had the corner divan, and with all the cushions 1 was pretty comfortable, and I am pot quite sure I didn’t go to sleep, for 1 found I mixed things a little afterward. At half-past one the priests arrived, preceded by a crowd of boys bearing censers and bumble-beeing some sort of a thing I suppose they called singing. The priests were decorated with gold embroidery from head to foot, and the chief priest wore a sort of miter on bis head literally biasing with jewel?. The carpet that had besn laid by the boy was now covered by one far more elegant, and having tasqelg of pearls at each corner. The ciuaf priest took his place on the center of Jbi*.apd Urn other three behind bun The father of tbs bride took her by the haadan&tod her forward to the bridegroom, and the two then stepped before the priest. Two boys brought cushions with a green wreath, on each tor the bride and bridegroom. The bride’s waskept in place by the tinsel veil, but that ot the unfortunate Hashar kept sliding forward or backward all the time, making him -remr uncomfortable. The bride was rather under than Oyer the ordinarv height for woman, add the bridegroom a toll man, and they were obliged to •WM with their foreheads touching each other during the whole ceremony, which took certainly -an hour. It seemed to consist niottfy of swinging of the censers and singing by the boys, tad a sort of monotonous chant by the three priests. Atlast it was finished by Haskar handing a plain gold ring to his bride and receiv. ing one fr<p her. in exchange, and then both kneeling for a few moments while tbq priests chanted and the boys swung toe censers around, very close to Jhe heads qf.tt* unfortunate couple. They then Wat *nd the priests departed after having regaled themselves In the supper-room

The bride was then placed upon the same chair, and the bridegroom came forward with a richly-trimmed cushion, bearing die bridal presents—a watch and chain, adiamond brooch and ear rings,and bracelets, and a large knitted purse filled with gold. I asked my guide how he was able to give such expensive presents, and was told that alt her dower was made over to him the day before the wedding. Alter giving the jewels the bridegroom parted the veil and placed the jewels on his bride, and then she descended from the chair and all proceeded to the supperroom, , There she was lifted by the men and seated astride a small barrel of wins, and the feast commenced. She was obliged to sit there till all the wine was drank out of that barrel, which was nearly two hours. ' She looked tired enough before all was over, for she got nothing to eat at all. The Armenians arc good eaters, I think, by the way they cleared the plentifully-furnished table,, and it was daylight before we had finished. We then had coflee again, and all went home. —Constantinople Cor. (Olive Harper) San Francisco Alta.

Resolutions of the Iowa Anti-Monop-olists.

The platform adopted by the AntiMonopolists of lowa, at their recent State Convention at Des Moines, reads as follows : Resolrtd. That we. (he delegated representative* of the people of lowa favorable to the organization of an Independent political party, laving a«idc paet differences of opinion and earnestly Tnmtngtira commoir purpose to secure needed reforms in the administration of public affairs, cordially unite in submitting these declarations'. 1. That ail political power is inherent in the people: that no government is worthy of preservation. or should lie upheld which does not derive its power from the consent ot the governed, by equal and just laws: that the inalienable right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness 'should be secured to all men w ithout distinction of race, color, or nativity: that the maintenance of these principles is essential to the prosperity of onr republican institutions, and that to this end the Federal Constitution, with all its amendments, the rights of the States, and the Union of the States, must aud shall be preserved: that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment, cxclnsirely, is indispensable to that balance of pow - er on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends, and that we denounce as a criminal excess of constitutional power the policy of President Grant's Administration in fostering the enormities perpetrated iu certain States of the Union: iu arbitrarily interfering w ith their local affairs: in sustaining therein the usurpation of aliens and irresponsible adventurers, who, by certain men. have been illegally invested with official authority, and others deprived of their constitutional rights: oppressive laws enacted, burdensome taxation imposed, an immense fictitious indebtedness created, resulting in the degradation of these States aud the, general impoverishment us their people. 2. That the conduct of the present Administration. in its bold defiance of public sentiment and disregard of the common good: iu its prodigality and wasteful extravagance; iu the innumerable frands perpetrated under its authority; in its disgraceful partiality for and rewards of unworthy favorites: in its reckless and unstable finance policy, and iu its total incapacity to meet the vital questions of tile day, aud provide for the general welfare, stands without a parallel in our national history, and.the highest considerations of duty require the American people, in the exercise of their inherent sovereignty, to correct these accumulating evils, and bring the Government back to its ancient landmarks of patriotism and economy. 3. That the faith and credit of the nation must be maintained inviolate: that (lie public debt, of wlfatever kind, should be paid iu strict accordance with the law under which it was contracted; that an over issue of paper money being at variance with the principles of a sound financial policy, the circulating medium should be based upon its redemption in specie at the earliest practicable day, and its cbnvertibilitv into a specie equivalent at the will of the holder: and that, subject to these restrictions, it is the duty of Congress to so provide, by appropriate legislation. that the volume of onr"Government currency shall at al) times be adequate to the general business and commerce of the country, and be equitably distributed among the several States. 4. That tariffs and all oilier modes of taxation shonid be imposed upon the basis of revenue alone, and so adjusted as to yield the minimum amount required for tbe legitimate expenditures of the Government, faithfully and economically administered, and that taxation to an extent necessary- to the accittnnlation of a surplus revenue in tile Treasury subjects the people to needless burdens and affords a temptation to extravagance aud official corruption. 5. That railroads and all other corporations for pecuniary profit should be rendered subservient to the public good; that we demand such constitutional and necessary legislation upon this subject. both State and National, as will effectually secure the industrial and producing interests of the cojintrr ggajust al! forms of corporate monopoly and extortion, and that the existing railroad legislation of this State should faithfully be enforced until experience may have demonstrated the propriety and justice of "its modification. fi. That w hile demanding that railroads be subject to legislative control we shall discountenance any action on this subject calculated to retard the progress of railroad enterprise or work injustice to those invaluable auxiliaries to commerce aud civilization. 7. That the limitation of the Presidency to one term, and the election of President. Vice-Presi-dent and United Slates Senators by a direct popular vote, and a thorough reform of our civil service to the end that capacity and fidelity be made the essential qualification for election and appointment to office, are proposed reforms which meet our hearty indorsement. 8. That we demand such a modification of the Patent laws or the United States as shall destroy the monopoly now enjoyed by the manufacturers of agricultural and other implements of industry. 9. That the personal liberty and social rights of the citizen should not be abridged or controlled by legislative enactment, except in so far as maybe necessary to promote the welfare of society. ’ JO. Thai holding in /grateful remembrance the soldiers arid sailors who fought our battles, and by whose heroism the nation was preserved, we insist that Congress shall equalize the bounties and grant to each one of them, or to his widow and children, a homestead of 160 acres of land c rom the unappropriated domain of the country. A resolution giving the name of “ Independent” to the party was read, when an amendment was ottered and carried by a large majority retaining the old name of “ Anti-Monopoly.”

“Haste to Grow Rich.”

In this Republic, where every man has at least a chance, the chance of genuine pecuniary prosperity is almost too small to enter into calculation. The material condition of the great majority is fixed, or, if not fixed, is limited—limited by temperament, training, habit, surroundings. The capacity to make money—albeit, not ennobling nor intellectual—is one of the rarest. It is a peculiar talent —difficult to cultivate, next to impossible to inspire. They who possess it manifest it early. They who possess it not are not slow to discover their lack, whatever their pretense to the contrary. It would seem to be a secular obligation for a man to make money, whether his constitution and taste so incline him or not. A certain amount he must make—enough to provide for himself and those naturally dependent upon Jiinf—or forfeit something of his self-respect. The very best that most of us can do is to keep even with the world. Not one man in fifty, it is said, dies out of debt. The estimate ma£ be excessive, but it is fair to put it at one in twenty. Think over your acquaintances! How many of them are not in arrears? And, of those in arrears, how many will be left so with advancing time? It appears strange that he who goes not out of lite poorer than he came into it should be an exception; and yet such is undeniably the fact. What idleness, then, to talk, in a general way; .of the hurry for wealth! Children cry for the moon, but not long. They soon learn that they cannot get it; that it will not come to them for all their tears. 00 with men. They may enter for the race; they may see the prize afar off; they may start upon the course. A brief while shall convince them they are wasting their breath, exhausting themselves to no purpose. The strong rupners outstrip them at once—leave *bem hopelessly behind. It is borne in upon them jthat riches are not for their winning, and they rest content with—rather mb resigned to—humble earnings. To these, who have despaired of financial tor tune, the iteration anent haste to grow rich must sound satirical. It is not unlike the penurious father who gave bis boy a penny with the counsel not to make

a beast of himself. Not unlike the temulent vagauodd; who, taking home a boon companion after a fortnight's debauch, asked hla poor wife to prepare dinner. “Dinner!” she echoed; “ I have nothing in the house. late tbe last crust this morning. You have not given me a cent tor more than a month I How can you expect me to prepare dinner without money?” “Come,” said the husband to his fellow, “ let us leave this mercenary wretch to the torment of her base ingratitude!” The talked-off haste to grow rich, in forty nine cases out of fifty, is simply the struggle for existence. In the metropolis more than elsewhere such talk is tiresomely common, notwithstanding that we have a tenement house population of over flalf a million. Do these unfortunates, deprived of fresh air. sunlight—of the stimulus even of a future—press forward to wealth? With penury, toil and Potter’s Field alone before them, are they feverish from the pursuit of gold? Among the educated and less unlucky classes it is not much better. It is computed that generally six or eight persons rely for support on each able-bodied and able-minded man. Thus, between the competent and incompetent, the self-sustaining and the dependent, there is so little chance of reaching the goal of wealth that thought of it seldom disturbs their mind. They who cannot take care of themselves are"not likely to spend their force in running after the unattainable. Those that are borne down by burdens are not apt to start on a contest for speed. Tfte fault of Americans, instead of being in haste to grow rich, is improvidence, the adoption of habits that render riches impossible. They need to be encouraged to economy instead of being lectured upon acquisitiveness, which, despite the opposite opinion, they have less of than any other nation. The comparative few who steadily seek fortunes here are nearly as much influenced by love of excitement as by love of money. After getting money they spend it freely, recklessly often, as if they wished to be rid of it in order to increase their incentive and zest for obtaining more. The unrest which is in the atmosphere of the country impels them to exertion when exertion is not necessary. Their passion for doing, for achieving results, lipids in abeyance the mercenary feeling. They think less of the profit than of the pleasure of the pursuit. Nevertheless, upon these may be charged the haste to grow rich; upon the great mass, in consequence of circumstance and disability, it never can be charged with any show of justice. By continual carping and harping on the disposition to accumulate property, as if it were sordid and degrading, much harm may be done. The national tendency, is in the opposite direction. This is a republic ot spendthrifts, a commonwealth of prodigals. We have so abundant resources that we are improvident from over confidence not less than humor. We,imagine we can repair to morrow the extravagance of to-day; we waste silver in the vain hope of’replaciDg it with gold, unmindful that the habit of spending defeats the prospect of restoration. Homilies on the haste to grow rich have the effect of exciting a contempt for money too great already in this country. In the endeavor to avoid precipitation toward wealth we fall into precipitation toward poverty; and poverty is rar easier to reach Ilian wealth. The former lies at the bottom of a hill, the latter on the summit of a steep and craggy mountain. Havintr no other standard ot distinction than money, and contemning that standard, we think, in our wild republicanism, to show our superiority to princes by outdoing them in pecuniary profusion. Every American dreads to be considered mean in a financial sense; consequently he affects indifference to dollars, and advertises his indifference by ostentation. There is no mistaking the nationality of tbe stranger in London, who, seeing the first strawberries of the season in a fruiterer’s window, entered the shop and asked for a saucer of them. Several Englishmen inside waited to see the “ Yankee’s” amazement and bear his protest when he should learn the price of the dish he had ordered. Having eaten them, he was told they were a guinea. Instead of showing the surprise he felt, he asked for another saucer. This foolish extravagance of our people, this disposition to underrate money, requires checking. For the next few years we might with advantage substitute for the old and well wrn subject, “The Haste to Grow Poor,” which particularly marks our national character. Would that we had a little more haste to grow rich ; for the haste would insure the disposition and beget art adequate economy! Few persons carry but their ends; a thousand tilings prevent; to plan and execute are essentially different. If many of us should try to get rich— no large number are likely to embark with any show of success in an enterprise so foreign to their constitution—more of us would become independent, And independence of circumstance rates next in value to independence of spirit. The conditions are correlative; they are inward and outward. One is dependent on the other. No man can be entirely independent spiritually unless he be independent materially. We need not fear to become hardened by wealth, which always contrives not to be held by too many. We need not fear either that we are growing sordid- and mercenary because we live within our means and labor to add something to our store. Americans have struggled long enough to make everybody rich but themselves. If they turn their efforts homeward both their circumstances and character will be improved.—Junius Henri Browne , in Appleton's Journal.

Teach Your Children Practical Horti culture.

As children have everything to learn, it is important that some competent and patient person should give them encouraging instruction about preparing the soil and planting seed. A great many intelligent and highly-educated adults know nothing about gardening. How, then, can young children be expected to prepare the ground or put in the seed without first being taught how to do it? If children are at ail inclined to work in the garden,day out a plat of rich land for the boys where they may raise all kinds of vegetables and a little spring grain; and designate another plat as a flower garden for the girls, and manure-t he soil bountifully and let it be plowed or spaded deep. Then encourage the children to mark out the ground in drills, and make small beds here and there for raising only a few specimens of every valuable vegstable that is usually produced in kitchen gardens. Provide a bountiful supply of flower seeds for the girls, and encourage them tjo plant, cultivate and love flowers. See also that they have suitable tpols to work with, and do not turn them away with an old hoe or a miserable spade that a skillful gardener would reject with scorn. The heavy labor of preparing the soil should be performed by a strong man, as the strength of children soon fails when engaged in such fatiguing la bor as spading the garden, especially if the soil be heavy. If required to do the spading themselves they often become disheartened in their gardening operations ; and for the want of a little assistance they abandon the enterprise and (.engage in something else. By means of a few dimes’worth of seed and a few bourn’’ work and a few words small children may be taught lessons in agricjulture, horticulture and floriculture that will be of untold value to them when they grow up.—AT. Y. Herald,

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—Keep soft-soap three months before using. —Bar soap should be kept in a dry place several weeks before using. It will last much longer. —Molasses Candy.—One cup sugar; one cup molasses; piece of butter an inch square; stir; boil until it will rope; last of all one teaspoon of soda. —Corn Starch Cake—One cup butter; two cups sugar; two cups flour; one cup corn starch dissolved in one cup of sweet milk; one teaspoon soda; one ounce oream tartar; whites five of eggs. —Simply wetting and rubbing the stained cloth in cold water will remove all traces of grass stains. Fruit stains will disappear on application of boiling hot water. No soap'should-be used in either case. —The best thing for cleaning tinware is common soda. Dampen a cloth and dip in the soda, and rub the ware briskly, after which wipe dry. Any blackened oi dirty ware can be made to look as well as new.— Exchange. —Violet Ink.—Dissolve one-half ounce gum Arabic in one pint of hot water. Then add sufficient violet aniline dye to make it the right color. A few cents’ worth will make one pint of ink. Get .violet dye at the drug store. —Breakfast Rolls.—lncorporate well two teaspoon'fu's of cream tartar and one teaspoonful of lard with one quart of flour. Dissolve a small teaspoonful of soda, and mix the whole together with cold sweet milk, and bake immediate. —lced Apples.—Pare, core and slice apples of a large, tart kind. Bake them till nearly done. Put them away to get entirely cold ; then prepare some sugar icing, and, first pouring oil all the juice, lay the icing thickly on the tops and sides, as much as you can. Return them to the oven to just harden and set. Serve with cream. —Bread and Apple Pudding.—Cut bread in slices and dip them in cream. Line a pudding dish with slices, then put in a layer of sliced apples and a little sugar, then bread and cream again, and so continue until the dish is fillet!.. having' a layer of bread come on top. Bake in a slow oven two or three hours with a plate over the top of the pudding and a weight on it. —Making Citric Acid.—Treat fresh lemon juice with powered chalk until all the acid is neutralized. Citrate of lime will be precipitated, which wash and then decompose by means of diluted sulphuric acid. A precipitate of sulphate of lime will then be formed while the citrate acid dissolves. Filter, and the sulphuric acid will then deposit itself in crystals when the concentrated liquid cools.

Sour Milk Unfit for Cows.

Tiie Rural New Yorker , in answer to a question, advises against the feeding of sour milk to cows. It says: We have in the germ theory an explanation of the manner in which milk is changed from its normal condition and rendered unfit for human food. It has been proved that stagnant water —the water from filthy pools—is alive wixh organisms, either animal or vegetable, that make it unfit for use or to allow cows to drink. It has been shown by the investi •gations of Prof Law that living organisms can be carried in water through the body of the cow into her milk and retain their vitality. It has been proved by experiment that by feeding cows distillers’ slops tbe yeast-plant peculiar to brewers’ yeast has thus been conveyed to the milk and has been found growing therein. The acidifying germs in sour whey, when fed to milk cows, retain their ;vitality in the milk of such cows, causing it to sour prematurely. Numerous well authenticated cases are recorded where milk has been injured by the cows breathing the foul odors of decomposing animal matter—the emanations from putrifying carcasses of calves and horses left exposed in the pasture. Hence it must be evident that sour milk when fed to milch cows must have more or less influence on the milk yielded by the cows, affecting its flavor and rendering it more susceptible to decomposition than it would be if this character of food was not given to the cows. But if milk is liable to be injured and tainted from the causes we have named, as well as from a great many other causes, such as ordinarily cause the various diseases incident to the animals, Deglect in the case of dairy utensils, uncleaniiness in milking, etc., etc., we increase the difficulty by putting such milk back into the bodies of the cows to be again used over in the process of secretion, and sowing again the seeds of decomposition for a crop of bad milk. Again, as a matter of profit, we are of the opinion that sour milk can be used with more advantage as a -food for hogs than for cowl. Sour milk makes a good diet for swine, and in connection with grain is said to give a most .excellent flavor to ihe meat. Indec-d, it is asserted that no food, in connection with grain or meal, is better suited for fattening hogs than milk, both for the increase of weight and quality of meat which it makes. It is undoubtedly a good, healthy food for swine, and is better adapted to the making of meat in this class of animals than the production of milk in cows. The best food lor milch cows is good, sweet grass from upland pastures. It can be produced more cheaply than .sour milk, and with the light of our experience and observation we should say that more profit can be realized by feeding such milk to swine than to Cows.

Paris Green.

Last year, when the demand for Paris green arose in consequence of the potato Beetle’s depredations, a large quantity of adulterated green was thrown upon the market and sold at lull prices. Several grades are manufactured, ranging in price from twenty to forty cents a pound. It is put up in cans containing fourteen or twenty-eight pounds, and when purchased in these from well known dealers may be regarded as pure. As the average farmer does not require a Whole can, two or three individuals will find it to their advantage to club together, ordering directly from the factory. There are two ways of using the green. First, in the form of a powder, mixed with forty or flftv times its bulk of plaster, or flour, or fine middlings, and dusted over the potato tops. Becond, as a liquid, mixing a tabjespoonful of the green with twelve quarts—that is to say, about a pailful—of water, sprinkling it with a coarse brush. The liquid method is believed to be the best, as the operator is far less likely to be poisoned. In handling the green great care is necessary. Packages should be invariably marked “ poison” in large letters. In mixing it a fine dust is apf to arise, and this unconsciously inhaled or absorbed through the pores Is apt to be injurious. While working with it the hands and face, and especially the nostrils, should be protected as much as possible, and carefully washed after the job is done. Utensils in which it is placed should never be used for any other purpose, as the green penetrates wood and lodges in the cracks of metals and in the pores of earthenware. Scratches on the person, however slight, develop into malignant sores if the green effects a lodgment. The free use of mi)k« as a beverage Is undoubtedly a good anti- ; dote, but the best is hydrated per-nxide of ' iron. This may be had of any druggist. It is quite harmless, Used as a salve on

sores caused by the green, it prevents their progress, and It should betaken internally twice a day while working with the green, a teaspoonful being dissolved in a wineglass of water for the purpose.— Ohio Farmer.

Manners at Croquet.

There is no spot where well-bred people are apt to approach so near to illbreeding as on the croquet-ground. The cause of the trouble must inhere in the game—which yet appears to be of the most simple and refined order—for other out-door sports fail to irritate the feelings or irritate the feelings or ruffle the temper as this does. It is as if some tiny imp of discord pervaded the field, devoting himself to the task of drawing to the surface whatever is contrary in the disof the players. We have seen girls go almost into hysterics and young men become sullen or disputatious over a party “ croquet” or a wicket doubtfully run. The game intended solely for amusement becomes the source of disagreement and wrangling, spoiling all pleasure for the peace-loving as well ae for the contentious. The origin of most croquet disputes lies in th<3 diverse understanding of the rules. Nearly as many manuals are published as there are games played, and rarely is a match arranged where the players have all learned of the same au. thority; lienee the difference of opinionThe sole way to avoid dissensions is to select the best book on the subject and make its decisions final on mooted points. It does not matter if a different authority be used on every ground (though for those playing much together it is more satisfactory to have the same), provided it is regarded as an authority before a match be begun. But it does matter very much that persons meeting for pleasure should so conduct themselves as not only to banish pleasure, but to lose their friends’ and their own respect.—Scribner's Monthly for July, —The Church Congress to be held in New York city in ,October, will be made up of all who choose to attend of the clergy, including all orders, Bishops, priests and deacons, and of the laity/including all conditions. It will govern itself by few rules of order. Papers will be read by clergymen and laymen upon all questions of real interest in the church as cannot or ought not to be discussed in the several conventions. The debates will be free alike to all; the only credential will be ability to make the Congress listen. Applause and audible disapprobation will be permitted. It will be a fair, open combat of ideas, and in no case will any debate terminate in a vote. It will be in the interest of no party or faction. The Ritualist will be fully heard, and the Low Churchman and the High Churchman and the Broad Churchman.

Prince & Co.’s Organs.

Splendid finish; six stops; price $145, Terms, $45 cash, sls monthly. Money refunded if not satisfactory. Reed's Temple of Music, 92 Van Buren street, Chicago. —Street railroads do not answer in Birmingham. A company which has been in operation for three years past lius spent £IOO,OOO, and lost £O,OOO in the working of the lines.

Diseases of the Blood.

By R. V. PIERCE, M. D., of the World’s Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y. Tetter, Salt Rheum; Scald Head, St. Anthony's Eire, Rose Rash or Erysipelas, Ringworms, Pimples, Blotches, Spots, Eruptions, Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles, Sore Eyes, Rough Skin, Scurf, Scrofulous Sores and Swellings, Fever Sores, White Swellings, Tumors, Old Sores and Swellings. “ The blood is the life.” This is as true as a mathematical or any other scientific proposition, jind one that should influence every physician. From the blood we derive our strength and mental capabilities. When this source is corrupted the painful and sorrow-producing effects are visible iu many shapes. From our blood our systems are built up and kept in repair. The strength of our constitutions and our powers of endurance and the withstanding of disease-producing agencies with impunity depend largely upon the condition in which our blood is kept, If it holds in suspension or solution vile festering poisons, all orgauic functions are weakened thereby. Settling upon vital and important organs, as tlie brain, lungs, liver and kidneys, the effect of these poisons ill the * blood is, many times, most disastrous. Hence, it behooves every one to keep the blood in a perfectly healthy condition, and the more especially does this apply at this particular season of tlie year. When you purify your blood to cure Sait Rheum or any Erysipelas humor, you not only cure those diseases, but you put your system in such an im proved condition that you are not so liable to any other disease. No matter what tlie external or exciting cause may be, tlie real or direct cause of a large proportion of all cliron* ie or lingering diseases is bad blood. Tlie multifarious forms in which it manifests itself would form subjects upon which I might write volumes. But as all tlie varied forms of disease which depend upon bad blood, a few of which I have enumerated at the head of this article, are cured, or best treated, by such medicines as take up from this fluid and excrete from the system tlie -noxious elements, it is not of practical importance that I should describe each minutely. For instance, medical authorities' describe about fifty varieties of skin disease; but as they all require for their cure very similar treatment, it is of no practical utility to know just what name to apply to a certain form of skin disease, so you know how: best to cure it. Then again, I, might go on and describe various kinds of Scrofulous Sores, Fever Sores, White Swellings, Enlarged Glands, and Ulcers of varying appearance; but as ail these various-appear-ing manifestations' of bad blood are cured by uniform means, I deem such a course unnecessary. Thoroughly cleanse tlie blood, which is tlie great fountain of life, and good digestion, a fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital strength, and soundness of constitution will all return to us. \ Tlie Liver is the great depurating, or blood"clcansing, organ of the system'. Set, this great “house-keeper” of our health at work, and the foul corruptions which gender in tlie blood and rot out, as It were, the machinery of life are gradually expelled from the system. For ibis purpose my Golden Medical Discovery and Purgative Pellets are pre-eminently the articles needed. Tliev. cure every kind of humor (except Cancer), from tlie worst scrofula to tlie common pimple, blotch, or eruption. Great, eating ulcers kindly, lieaj under their mighty curative influence. « Enlarged Glands, Tumors and Swellings dwindle away and disappear under the influence of these great resolvents. The system being 'put .under their influence for a few Weeks, the skin becomes clear, smooth, soft, mid velvety, and, being illuminated with the glow of perfect health from within, true beauty stands forth iu all its glory. The' effects of all medicines which operate upon tlie system through the medium of the blood are necessarily somewhat slow, no matter bow good the' remedy employed. The cure of alHlicse diseases, however, is with the use of these most potent agents only a matter of time. „ ~ , Ido not wish to place my Golden Medical Discovery in the catalogue of quack patent nostrums by recommending it to cure every disease, nor do' I so recommend it; on .the contrary, there are hundreds of diseases that I acknowledge it will not cure; but what I do claim is this, that there is but one form/ of blond disease that it will not cure, aud that disease is Cancer. Ido not recommend my discovery for that disease, yet I know it to be the most searching blood cleanser yet discovered, and that it will free the blood and system of all other known blood poisons, b<; they animal, vegetable or miueral. Blood medicines that' are advertised to cure Cancer should be looked upon with suspicion. They never can do it , „ , Most medicines which are advertised as blood purifiers and liver medicines contain cither mercury in some form or potassium and iodine variously combined. All of these agents have a strong tendency to break down thu blood corpuscles and debilitate and otherwise permanently injure the human system, aud should, therefore, be discarded. My Golden Medical Discovery, on the other baud, being-'.composed of fluid extracts of native plants, barks and roots, will in no case

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