Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1874 — Page 4

The Order in Ohio.

, 'At tlie first annual Aestival of the Pa- ’ tcdne of Husbandry of Hancock County, Ohio, held recently at Findlay, 8. H. Ellis, Worthy Master of the State Grange, delivered an address from which wetake theTollowing extracts: It Is agraUfying sight to see four thousand earnest faces before me, men and women, who come together to have a good time and to ■ testify* their faith in the noble Order of the Patrons of Husbandry. A wonderful change this from what I witnessed here one year ago, when some nineteen or twenty men who heard of this reform movement met In an office over in your town and there plied me one whole afternoon with questions concerniijg the Order, and afterward spent the better part of the night in organising your first Grange, went homeward, many even yet thinking a little that they had been investing in a’ patent churn or something of that sort. The day of doubt has passed and you are in the enjoyment of the fullest faith in the goodglory of the work in which you then engaged, with your county and your neighboring counties fully alive and thoroughly organiaed. To-day, in our State, we have at least a round thousand active societies, of which your Hancock Grange one year ago was No. on the list. Not Only is the change astonishing in the number of Granges but far more in the number of the membership in each Grange. We are now, to-day, throughout tlic State familiar with an Order that two years ago was almost said to be a mere myth. Why, then, this rapid gathering of a class of people who never before have been aggregated togetherfor any purpose, pertalni ire strictly to themselves? What powerful impelling motive brings you here? Our ' interests demanded union and we have therefore, united. A gentleman said to nreiii few minutes ago that the farmers need drill and discipline. That the town fellows would not find themselves assembled without the needful preparations being first fully made. This is true. They .are used to these things; wc are not. They can mass forces and use them to forward their interests, while we, as a rule, come together by mere accident and act in isolated and disorgunized bodies. We have much to learn from the organized forces of the people who are trained. I have no fault whatever to find with the town people for using their power in a skillful way. In fact, living closely together, they have social intercourse —have advantages almost wholly unknown to the farmers. These advantages were telling on us in a fearful manner. Fanners had eome to seek for leaders among the trained classes, and to a degree look to them as the common people of other lands look to the aristocracy for teaddrs. ' Our young men and young women felt this more than our older persons. The chasm —between faint and toan is too widi/. Social culture requires constant study’ and practice, just as intellectual culture. The farmer works very hard on his farm all the week and rarely meets his fellow-laborer, except by chance at the blacksmith-shop or store, and then only when too much hurried to spend time to talk, or at the church, and there is no place for social intercourse. In the whole system of farm life in America no regular adequate and inviting arrangement has been made for the meeting together of the people. There have, for the last few years, been heard throughout the land charges of corruption in places high and low. In fact, these charges have been, as a rule, too palpably true. Neither—no party—was free from men who betrayed their trusts, and who robbed th« people”. Happily the farmers have been, to a great extent, free from charges of official corruption, because they were not as largely in the ring from which officers have been chosen, and they have remained comparatively pure and free from taint and are head and shoulders above any other class,in moral honesty. It is therefore a mercy this class be now felt in polities. We want more honesty in polities. We must have it or we are ruined as a government and a people. Corruption is abroad in thfc land. I find that in nearly every county in Ohio offices are bought and sold. Thus says the aspirant to the men who manage the nominating conventions: “I’ll contribute tldO or <I,OOO toward the expenses of the campaign if you will give me the nomination.” ” ~ ~ A few weeks ago I stayed with a gentleman just out of the treasury of one of the wealthiest counties in Ohio. He is now the Master of a Grange. He told me that when first a candidate he had given his check for SBOO to the Executive Committee of hispmrty, and he was duly elected. The next time he would give but SSOO, and he was not elected. Where, I ask, is there any Republicanism or Democracy in all this, when only men of wealth can become office-holders? It is a mercy that the farmers have awakened to the danger Of the , hour. We had all along depended o'n what our leaders told us, and taken no pains to inform ourselves. We were run by politicians just like mere machines—and we were little better. The old political organizations, in themselves, do very little to inform the people of the real principles. They labor for mere partymonopolies, as a rule* Something beyond this is needed —and that something is careful investigation" and thought oii the part of every man who dares to vote. Yet your Granges are-not- places.in which the discussion of political questions are tolerated, although they include men of all shades of political opinion. 1 asked an old 'Shaker, not long ago, whether they, in taking in a new member in the church, required him to subscribe to any creed. “ Nay," he re- ■ plied. “ Then how do you get along?” "Ifei man will conic und4ive witli us, and-eeHferm-to our rules, he will come to believe just as wc do.” With us every man can believe as he pleases, and vote as he pleases. No mail dare ask another why he votes so and so. We believe that honest men shall be in office, and you will see theeffect of this belief. -•-■<-*• When our Government was formed there were three branches co-ordinate in power—the legislative, the executive, and the. judicial., New there is- the—fourth, w hich overshadows all—the lobby. It is the power to which railroads and other great corporations never appeal in vain to get whatever' they waqt—a power in which railroad anil other corporations pay greater tribute than it will ever cost to run the entire Grange of the United States. All changes in laws which affect railroads, etc., are modified and controlled by the lobby, so that legislation is to a great extent made in favor not of the people. I will not propose that we counteract these things by sending up another lobby, but .we can send honest men to Congress, and when we find them there keep them in power. Our influence must be a moral influence. Men —our public servants—in standing Up for us, and fighting corrupt- rings, must know and feel tfiat the people, that the Granges, will* stand Uy tlicAsi and not let them be sacrificed at the dictation of any ring or party managers, who are reallyinfluenced to destroy tile honest" Servants of the people by the lobby managers who failed to corrupt them. I say that our influence on politics and politicians must be a moral influence—the influence which numbers always commands. Should any one of vou tender a railroad conductor three cents a mile fare and refuse to pay more, he might eall his brakemen and put you off. But, should 500 get aboard the train and tender this, and refuse to pay more, you would probably go ahead. Should all the farmers demand reform, or encourage their.servantsJo light-corruption, itis very likely they will be heard. We come with 20,00 Q Granges—a grand moral power. , The sectional differences in our countryhave been rather with the leaders than with the laborers, so that to-day we find a most friendly feeling existing between the North and the South. It was the leaders who were ruling—running the machine. We, as laborers, propose no further quarrel, but as brothers to live together in harmony, ignoring the wild and terrible leadership of ambitious men who would make us war with each other. The laborers of the country are exercising a moral power that is being listened to and telt. If we are true to ourselves, a reformation as grand ns we <are ask will te 'burs. All is in <tur power, add wc are accountable for our failure. I believe that God has called the -farmers to stop the torrent of corruption that wib overflowing our land. Let us, fellowrntrons, see to it that we exercise this power ■wisely and well. To what extent co-operative arrangements ni&y be entered into, depends wholly upon each subordinate Grange to determine for itoelf. Many thousands of dollars have teen saved to the farmers In buying. \ *■ - We have no . quarrel witli the middlemen. 'As business was conducted heretofore they, were necessary. The manufacturer could On ? rcttc ’ l consumer by or through agents, and that at an expense which was very great. Now we go direct lathe manufacturer, let our

wants be known, and buy so as to dispense with the expense of agents. We had io foot the bills before. (The speaker here enumerated amounts saved to the farmers in various counties, showing a valuable work done.] It is left to each county and each Grange to say whether these benefits shall be theirs. The amount of reduction we get would surprise many persons. But right here I desire to caution the Patrons. Many agents of manufacturers who have not made terms with us will not unfrequently offer to sell to you as low or lower than you can purchase through the Grange. This they do in order to break down your manner of operation. Do not buy of such agents, even though they sell at a third of what it costs them to manufacture, for in doing so you demoralize the operations of the Grange, and you will thus destroy the very thing yon aim to build up. The system of agencies had become a great and” powerful one, and it may require much patience and some ineonveniencelo substitute,; a better system for it. Though in your individual Granges you may not seem to be accomplishing much, yet remember that alt over the United States a great reformation is being worked out, that was not dreamed of a year ago. So powerful, so determined, so well-disciplined is becoming thjs Order of Patrons of Husbandry, that to-day anything within the scope of reason and right that they desire to accomplish can be done. Our work is a work of social elevation—the bringing up of the maSses to adiigher scale. The hope of the country is that the ladies—the wives and daughters—arc to-day found in this organizatitin. A Grange witli the ladies left out is a sad failure. Men cannot manage them alone. A few months ago but few women would teeomcmembers" of the Order; now they are crowding your Granges and taking an active and earnest part in all the work of the Order—freely, fully and well participating in discussion. The old *’ apple-parings” and “ log rollings” were famous among the farmers at an early day, and many a joyous night they had of it. Well, indeed, do the old ones love to reflect upon and talk of these days. But they had become things of the past—nothing in t’hc routine of farmers’ lives was substituted for them until now. But the Grange presents all the advantages and pleasures of these gatherings with none of their disadvantages.

What Does All This Mean?

The Fourth was very generally celebrated by the Patrons of the Western States, and the assemblages in some instances reached many thousand's in number. Grange picnics and celebrat-iqnssre becoming more and more frequent, and are attended with constantly -increasing numbers. A few- weeks since, while Hon. J. W. Childs was addressing an assemblage of 6.000 farmers at Cpldwater, a telegram was received from Marshall, saying that C. L. Whitney, Esq,, was addressing an equally large congregation of farm ers at that, place. Reports from the immensc Grange picnic recentty held in ST." Joseph County, Mich., state that a procession of 1,400 teams was formed, and the crowd was estimated by thousands. The Northern, Grange, in alluding to the immensity and -frequency of such gatherings,among the farmers, very pertinently asks: “ What does all this signify? Does it mean that the farmers are supremely happy, and come together in vast multitudes simply to congratulate and felicitate each other on their good fortune? Would that this were the ease; but we fear it is not so. Deep-seated causes underlie such demonstrations. They are not for mere show’ or pastime; they mean much which it would be well for the country to early comprehend. They contain no threats or bluster, but they* mean that -a- giant has been awakened from a long sleep and is about to take a position •as a peer of the realm, In short, it all means simply that new light is dawning upon the 700,000 hard-worked, poorlypaid, but thinking farming people of Michigan. That the voice of the agricultural people, which has hitherto been uttered only in single chorus from the isolation of the farm, and hence unheeded, shall, by reason of its combined volume, reach the ear of the land. May the ear of authority heed the voice of the people.’’ — Pacific Hural Press.

Feed for Work Horses.

Mature timothy and oats arc the usual food for working horses, and they do well upon it. Many substitute meal for oats, in which corn is a large ingredient. There is also a tendency toward using less hay and mbre strengthening food, as it is held that this gives more life and vigor to the horse. It also seems to wear out the animal the sooner, especially if worked according to his strength. Those who feed hay harvested when well out of the blossom, with one feed a day of early-cut clover, or cloter and timothy (the proportion of hay somewhat lessened from the old system of feeding hay plentifully), and sufficient concentrated food, say oats and corn, the oats predominating, seem to prove the best. There will be the necessary strength and activity, with better health and more service. The natural order will not be so far departed from; the tender hay, of whieh one feed is given, is but, in effect, a continuance of grass or pasture to some extent; it lias a good influence upon the bowels and the general health, which is of such importance that it cannot be ignored without disadvantage; there is also relief from the oppressed condition which the feeding largely of dry, ripe hay induces, and the fat, sluggish" habit produced by the large use of corn meal, which, as a summer feed, is also too heating. Oats contribute to mettle and endurance, yet not in excess. All the desirable points are furnished in this diet, without any bad ones supervening. The matured hay holds in cheek the tendency to free bowels which the cured grass or voung clover and the meal is apt to induce. In a word, this diet produces a balance and harmony,, the result of which is health, strength and activity. The horses are safe with such a regimen, which includes medicine and food, and is simple withal. It is less expensive, particularly the young, fender hay, the properties of which are more available than other dried food. The. propoftidnof /this""may be increased where the horse is worked less, and thus still farthef increase 4he comparative cheapness. Where much work is required more concentrated food must be given; in sueh cases also less green" hay in proportion; Green hay may be usedinstead of bran mashes pr physic,--or turning to grass. It has the effect of keeping the system-in a sufficiently free or relaxed ..condition, promotive of health and strength at the same time; and; as I have said, it is cheaper, contains about double the quantity of available nutrition which is found in old or ripe hay, such as is commonly used. The practice of feeding green (early cut) hay to milch cows, sheep and growing stock is progressing; it is more difficult to do with horses, especially hard-working horses, as the prejudice is deep and strong. But when it is once found generally that early-cut and well-cured hay, include ing clover, has an increase of available nutriment, thus lessening the expense of keeping, less grain and less hay being required, and the health and strength of the animal improved? and when farther the hay-cutting anti the wetting of the feed may be mostly or entirely dispensed with —when all this presents itself undeniably, the reform will be effected.—C<runtry Genflemgn. —The public debt of Mexico acknowledged by the Government, and inclu.ding the. amounts thus far awarded by the Mixed Commission, amounts to $11,464,273, which, divided among 9.000,000 of inhabitants, would h$ but $1.13 per head. <

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—California produced4,ooo,ooo oranges last year. —Virginia tomatoes have more taste than Bermuda ones. . —The New England hay crop is much above the average this year. —Nearly all tropical fruits can be sue cessfully cultivated in Florida. • —“ Every tree is subject to disease,” said a speaker in a fruit-growers’ convention. —“ What ailment can you find on an oak?-” asked the chairman. “A-corn!” wit's the triumphant reply. —The average of all crops this year will probably vastly exceed that of any previous year in the United States. —An Illinois father punishes his refractory sons by making them hoe corn at night, each one carrying a lantern. —A Bay City (Mich,) butcher recently exhibited two Durham cattle in the stieetsof that city which weighed 4,550 pounds. —Too often are leaves gathered into piles and burned in the front of gentlemen’s places, when, if they would transfer them to the stable for bedding, they would make them more acceptable so the stock than straw or any coarse hay litter, besides the manure made by their use is worth one-eighth more than that from straw or hay litter. —ls we wish for eggs wc must take good case of the hens. Change the food frequently; in winter give them warm, pure water twice a day, pound up oyster or clam shells and give lean meat, though fat will do. Cheek meat can be hall at the butcher’s for five cents per pound. If hens arc cared for in the manner described the common breed arc aS good as any. —lt must not be forgotten that soils undergo exhaustion by continued cropping, and it is important that the tiller of the soil should maintain its fertility. It is not necessary to define precisely the chemical or mechanical condition of the soil, nor to define what exhaustion means or to explain how it was brought about; it is enough to know that cropping exhausts the land and that it ceases to give a full return unless means be taken to restore fertility; and the fertile quality must be maintained by what is called cultivation digging, manuring, subsoiling, draining, when necessary, and keeping the land clean. —Every fruit tree should be examined early in the season for the boring pests. Examine the tree near the ground. If a borer is at work spots may be seen in the bark where the pest is forcing the litter out through a small Title. In some trees where there are borers you will see a rough-looking slit or crack in the bark about an inch and a quarter long, with the borings or sawdust protruding. This sawdust is a sure sign of destruction within. There are generally four grubs in each place. They must be dug out, at whatever sacrifice of bark and patience, or the tree is ruined. Cut into the tree about an inch above the wound and carry the knife downward, removing a strip of bark to the bottom of the scar.

Notes on Forest Trees.

After the farm and garden seeds are all in the earth, it may be well to look about and see if there are not some other matters which are likely to be neglected through oversight or want of the requisite knowledge. There are few things which add more to the appearance or value of a farm than a goodly supply of ornamental and useful trees; and this is especially true in scantily-wooded regions, whether upon the prairie or in long settled and denuded of their original forests. We believe that the scarcity of trees in either instance is owing in a great measure to the want of practical information in regard to.raising forest-trees from seed. Many persons suppose that all our native trees ripen their seeds in autumn, and that to talk of raising needlings at this season is not well timed. But in this they err, because the seeds of some of our most valuable species of indTgenous trees ripen, even in the Northern States, between the first and the middle of June, and these must be sown soon after or they will fail to germinate. The silver and red maple and American weeping elm are wellknown examples of this fact; and, as we write, the seeds are coloring and showing early maturity. If gathered as soon as ripe and sown under a thin layer of earth they will produce plants two or three feet high before the seeds of closeAydfllicd"Species will be ripe in the fall. A few weeks' delay in attending to this very trilling matter of gathering the above-named seeds at the proper time will cause a loss of one year in the growth of the trees; and it is to these little delays that we may charge the barrenness, in appearance at least,?of many a country" home.

The first frosts of autumn loosen the seeds of the sugar maple, and the various exotic species which are so extensively planted in the streets of many of our cities and villages. The seeds of all these trees, as well as those of the ash, linden, tulip tree or whitewood, liquid amber, and similar kinds, both indigenous and exotic, should be preserved in and during winter and sown in early springs There are several good reasons for preserving seeds of hardy trees in sand, through winter, instead of sowing them in the f all, as would seem to be more in harmony with nature, the most important of which are: 1. Protection against vermin of various kinds, which subsist for a portion of the year upon these seeds. 2. If the seeds are sown in the open, unprotected fields they are subjected to a greater degrCfe of coldand more frequent changes of temperature than where they fall in the forest and are there covered with leaves; 3. The soil becomes very compact over and about the Seeds during the winter and spring, thereby retarding, if not frequently preventing, the growth of the young, tender plants. That the artificial* processes practiced by oiy nurserymen and others .are far superior to the strictly natural one is readily proved by results; for not one seed ifi a thousand which fall from the parent tree in” the forest grows, while the reverse of this is true when art steps in to aid and protect. We call especial attention to this point, because' fiiany writers upon arborculture are very particular to advise taking “nature” as a guide in raising all kinds of trees from seed, which may, in the abstract, be well enough; but in generai practice a man might as well wait for nature to cover him w-ith a suit of broadcloth as to provide him with choice fruits or trees through any strictly natural process. The war of races, as exhibited among both plants and animals, is ill suited to supply the wants of civilized man; hence the employment of art to thwart here, and encourage there, in order to produce the desired results. The hardshell nuts, like the black walnut, butternut and hickory, may be planted as soon as they fall in autumn, where the trees are to grow, but the safest plan is to put them in boxes of soil or sand and set out of doors until planting time .the following spring. The proper conditions for preserving their vitality unimpaired are a low temperature and moisture sufficient to prevent shriveling. The soft-shell nuts, sueh as acorns, beechnuts and chestnuts, are far more difficult to preserve than those above named: still, if gathered as soon as they are thoroughly mature, dried for a dhy or two, and then packed in or barrels of pure,

mpist sand, they may be kept sound until the following spring. The main thing to be observed'is to place the vessels containing these huts in as cool a position as possible, as, for instance, on the north side ofsome building, banking up. the boxes or barrels at the same Aime with earth. We have frequently kept the common chestnut in this manner, arid also buried in a dry bank in the open ground. But none of the soft-shell nuts will withstand any considerable amount of drying, although a few weeks’exposure to tlie atmosphere of a room without fire will not do them any jujTThere is still another elass' of tree seeds very different in character from either of the above, those with a hornlike.covering, as seen in tlie common locust and threc-thorned acacia. The vitality of most of the seeds of this kind remains unimpaired under ordinary cir/mmstances for many years'; hence very little attention is paid to conditions be.yond that of keeping- them dry. Their oily nature prevents shriveling, but the shell or horn-like envelope becomes very hard with age and impervious to moisture under the conditions in which they are usually placed in -the soil; hence they fail to germinate, although really sound, and their vitality very slightly impaired. To soften or open the pores of the outer coat of such seeds they should either-be subjected to severe cold or considerable heat. If placed in the sand pits during winter, and where they will freeze, the required softening may be secured; but if this is neglected, a hot bath will answer nearly as good a purpose in the spring. The best way to apply the heat is to mix with about equal parts of pure sand and then apply boiling.water sufficient to cover allj ana let it cool, after which place the whole in a warm room or in a sunny spot on the side of a building or fence, examining frequently, and as soon as sprouts appear sow in a carefully-prepared seedbed. We have one more pretty extensive family of trees, the seeds of which require different treatment from either of those already mentioned, the evergreens of various kinds. The seeds may be kept dry in bags or boxes through winter, and will grow quite freely when sown in warm,"moist soil; but shade to the young seedlings is a desideratum that cannot be dispensed with in our climate. This may be supplied in ‘almost any manner to suit the convenience of the grower, but it must neither be too dense nor too thin, but just sufficient to prevent the direct rayls of the sun reaching the plants without entirely excluding the light. These conditions must be maintained -during the greater part of the first season, and water applied whenever required, to insure vigorous growth. Evergreens may be grown as readily from seed as deciduous trees, but require more attention. We are certain that if our farmers would only try, taking the above brief hints as a general guide, they might find raising forest-tree seedlings both a pleasant and profitable occupation. — N. Y. Suh.

My Landlady.

I board now, and I think I have one of the kindest landladies in the world. She seems to think iqgreat deal of me, and I sometimes ahnost decided that I should weep if any harm came to her. She is very particular about her boarders. Before she would take me in I was compelled to get a certificate from three clergymen, two bankers, and a lawyer, stating that I had never been hung for murder or sent to State prison for horsestealing. I bargained for a front room lookingout on the campus martius, and it was understood that 1 was to have the room alone. On the third night-I went home and found a stranger in bed, and when I began to raise a row Mrs. Dolby caught my arm and whispered: “ There, now, be a good, dear man, and say no more. He’s a preacher, and, as he is going away to-morrow, I thought you wouldn’t mind just one night.” At the end of the week she. beckoned me aside, and smiling like a load of fresh hay she wanted to know if I would do her a favor —a favor which would place her under eternal obligations to me. I replied that I would die for her, and then she asked me to give up the room lookingout upon the grand square and take one look ing out upon a grand alley, full of ash barrels and oyster cans. Bhc had a new boarder coming who was awful particular, and she knew I would do anything to accommodate her. I made the change, and the grateful look she gave me was enough to melt a vest button. I had only got fairly settled when I was told that she wanted to seiT me in the parlor after dinner. I found her in tears. She* said that a Very nice man and his very nice wife wanted to come and board with her, but she had no room, and it grieved her to think that she must lum-thenr away when she was so hard pushed to get along. I told her that if I had a hundred lives I would lay them all down for her and then borrow a hundred more and add to the pile, and she seized my hand and said that Heaven would surely reward hie for being good to a fatherless orphan. I moved into the garret, the awful particular man moved into my room, 4ih<l the very nice man and his very nice wife moved into the front room. In about another week Mrs. Dolby whispered to ’me and wanted to know if I had a snake in my stomach? She said that she had observed that I was a -very hearty eater, and she didn’t know but I had a snake. I set her right, and"when I promised to take full lunches down town and urge the other boarders to do the same she put her hand on my shoulder and remarked that Heaven had a place for me. - - Tliat night my bed was made without sheets, and when I w r ent to raise a row -she-tpok-roe by the hand and said thiiU her experience went to show that it was healthier to sleep w ithout sheets. I wuis going to argue the question, when tears came to her eyes and she hoped I wouldn’t say anything to hurt a poor, lone widow whose life had been one long struggle with poverty. The next night, the feather bed and one of the pillows went, but I didn’t say anything. Then she wanted to borrow my tooth-brush lor a bqarder who hadn’t any, and she took my stove to Use in the low’er hall. I didn’t say a 'U-qrd until she wanted to know if I couldn’t spare the old rag-car-pet off the floor, and if I wouldn’t set the other boarders an example by drinking nothing but water and not taking a second biscuit. Then I told her that I Was going to leave that house and try to tear her image from my heart. She seized both my hands, tears rolled down her cheeks, and she asked: “ Mister Quad, will you deliberately plot to kill a lonesome widow who is working her life out to make your position here comfortable, happy and luxurious?”

I couldn’t go, I’m there yet. I sleep on the floor, rut up with cold bites, and use the. boot-jack for a chair when I have company. I wish I Wasn’t so tenderhearted, but I can’t' bear to think of hurting Mrs. Dolby’s feelings by looking up another place.— ls. Quad, in Our Fireside Friend. —Oh! the skeeter, the beautiful skeeJer, filling the air with beaiitiful meter. Under our hat and tickling our. nose, taking a bite throiigh a hole in our clotpes; in through the window; openiiig the door; filling our chamber, and singing the sweeter, ever is found the untir-' ing muskeeter. ' '

—You can lie by lifting up your eyebrows; you ran lie by a nod; you cpn lieby silence. In other words the intentional producing on another person’s mind au impression not in accordance with the truth is what I understand by not being truthful. The voluntary producing on another man’s mind an iin. pression that is true is what-I understand by being absolute truthful. —Cor. Christian Union.

Prince & Co.’s Organs.

Five octaves, two full sets of reeds. Solid waliiut eases, elegant bronze finish. Price, with six stops, $125 ;-eight stops, SIBO. Address Ifecd’s Temple of Music, Chicago. —A witty moralist says that “many a man thinks it’s virtue that keeps him from turning a rascal, when it’s only afull stomach. One should be careful and not mistake potatoes for principles." The Skeptical Convinced.— Every advance in Medicine, every new remedy has encountered an opposition which is the test of truth. Galen and Jenner only were believed when they had proved their discoveries against opposition. But men are observing, and benefits always make believers. No incredulity can stand the silent argument of good results. When Dr. Walker proclaimed that he had produced from the medicinal herbs of California an Elixir that would regenerate the sinking system and cure diseases not organic the incredulous shook their heads. -Yet his Vinegar Bitters is now the Standard Restorative of the Western World. The truth could not be resisted. Under the operation of the new remedy Dyspeptics regained tlieir health, appetite and strength, the Bilious and CbhstTpatedTwere relieved of every distressing symptom; the Consumptive and Rheumatic rapidly recovered; Intermittent and Remittent Fevers were broken up; the taint of Scrofula was eradicated! Who could gainsay facts like these? Not even the Faculty. Skepticism was routed. All doubts as to the claims of the Bitters to the first place in the first rank of modern medicines were silenced and this wonderful preparation is to-day the most popular Tonic, Alterative and Blood Depurent ever advertised in America. In common with other journalists we are free to add our testimony to this remedy. It is a domestic medicine, and no household should be without it. —The heat of Summer, as well as the sudden changes of temperature incident to Autumn, coupled-with— the use—of —un ripe vegetables and fruits and other unwholesome articles of food, result every season in producing much suffering from Diarrhea, CholeraMorbus, Colic and other derangements of the stomach and bowels. A remedy that will promptly relieve these sufferings and restore tone and normal action to the relaxed and debilitated alimentary canal is surely a boon to the afflicted. Dr. R. V. Pierce, whose Family Medicines have acquired a world-wide deputation, by long study and careful chemical experiments has succeeded in extracting, by a cold process, from Smart-Weed, or WaterPepper, that modest little plant seen iu wet grounds by the roadside and in neglected grounds and pasture-fields, a remedial principle which, when skillfully combined with the extract of Jamaica Ginger and other pleasant modifying agents, in what he calls his Compound Extract of Smart-Weed, forms a most reliable specific for all such derangements and sufferings. It is pleasant and safe to take, yet powerful to cure. Its wonderful -efficacy is a further confirmation of the Doctor’s idea that God has caused to grow, in each climate and region, those medicinal plants best calculated for the cure of the diseases that prevail in the section of country where those plants are found —that “the leaves were for the healing of the nations,” and that the fewer far-fetched remedies we employ the better, if we would thoroughly investigate and understand those we have at home. The. Doctor's Extract of Smart-Weed is sold by druggists generally. Wilhoft’s Fever and Ague Tonic. —This medicine is used by construction companies for the benefit of their employes, when engaged in malarial districts. TbeJiighcsUfestimoiiials Have been given by contractors and by the Presidents of some of the leading railroads in the South and West. When men are congregated in large numbers in the neighborhood of swamps and rivers, Wilhoft’s Tonic will prove a valuable addition to the stock of medicines, and will amply reward the company in the saving of time, labor and money. We recommend it to all. Wheelock, Finlay & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. For Sale by All Druggists. Good advice never comes amiss. —ls they have not got the-Elmwood Collar at the store where you are in the habit of purchasing your goods, tell them to get some for you at Once, and don’t be put off with any other goods. ' - The Northwestern Horse Nail Co.’s “Finished” Nail is the beet in the world.

The Ladies* Sorosls Club, of New York, re. cently changed their discussions from Woman’s suffrage to Hair Preparations and Pimple Banishers. They declared that where nature had not endowed them with beauty, it was their right—yea, their duty—to seek it where they could. So they all voted that Magnolia Balm overcame Sallowness, Rough Skin and Ringmarks, and gave to the complexion a most di* tingue (Sorosian) and mp.rble-like appearance (dangerous to men, no doubt); and that Lyon's Kathairon made the hair grow thick, soft and awful pretty, and moreover prevented it from turning gray. If Jhe pro prietors of these articles did not send the sisters an invoice, they are not smart Not Quite So Fast, Mr. Jones !-rA horsedoctor in Philadelphia was caught changing the celebrated Mexican Mustang Liniment into other bottles and using it as his own recipe. Honesty is always the best policy. These medicine men like to follow up such fellows. It cured the lame horse all the same; but it damaged the Doctor’s reputation, and benefited the proprietor in proportion. We have heard of so many Rheumatic persons and lame horses being cured by the Mustang Liniment that we advise every housekeeper, liveryman and planter to invest in a 50-ct. or a f 1.00 bottle, against accident Beware of counterfeits. It is wrapped in a c steel engraving, signed “G. W. Westbrook, Chemist” .

te Grand Revolution in Medical Treatment, which was commenced in 1860, is still in prog. fess. Nothing can stop it for it is founded on the principle, now universally acknowledged, that physical vigor is the most formidable antagonist of all human ailments, and experience has shown that Plantation Bitters is a peerless invigorant, as well as the best possible safeguard against epidemic diseases. Little Corporal.— ‘The number for August is well filled with excellent original stories, aketchCH and poems, some of which are appropriately illustrated. The editorial columns, “ Prudy's Pocket” and the “ Work and Play” department contain the usual variety of good things. We notice the publisher offers this attractiOw magazihe 911 trial for six months (from July tothe-e-nff of- the present year! for 50 cents, or. including the chromo ■■ Writing to Papa,” for 75 cents. The regular subscription price is J 1.50 a vear. Published by John E. Miller, Chicago. 11l --.- -i" - Asthma can be cured. See Hurst's advertisement.

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Dr. J. Walker’s California VinBitters are a purely Vegetable pieparation, made chiefly from the na the herbs found on the lower ranges ol the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, the medicinal properties of which are extracted therefrom without the use of Alcohol. The question is almost daily asked, “What is the cause of the unparalleled success of Vinegar Bitters!” Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, and the patient recovers his health. They are the great blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Renovator and Invigoratoi of the system. Never before in th< history of the world has a medicine been compounded possessing the remarkable qualities of Vineoar Bitters in healing the sick of every disease man is heir to. They are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonio, relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious Diseases. The properties of Dr. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic. Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic, Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Sudorific, Altera tire, and Anti-Bilious. Grateful Thousands proclaim Vinegar Bitters the most wonderful Invigorant that ever sustained the sinking system. No Person can take these Bitters according to directions, and remain long unwell, provided their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or other means, and vital organs wasted beyond repair. Bilious. Remittent and Intermittent. Fevers, which are so prevalent in the valleys of our great rivers throughout the United States, especially those of the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Cumberland, Arkansas, Red, Colorado, Brazos, Rio Grande, Pearl, Alabama, Mobile, Savannah, Roanoke, James, and many others, with their vast tributaries, throughout our entire country during the Summer and Autumn, and remarkably so during seasons of unusual heat and dryness, are invariably accompanied by extensive derangements of the stomach and 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. Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Headache, Pain in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Chest, Dizziness, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpitatation of the Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the region of the Kidneys, and a hundred other painful symptoms, are the offsprings of Dyspepsia. One bottle will prove a better guarantee of its merits than a lengthy advertisement. Scrofula, or King’s Evi], White Swellings, Ulcers, Erysipelas, Swelled Neck, Goitre, Scrofulous InflainmatiouS, Indolent Inflammations, Mercurial Affections, Old Sores, Eruptions of the Skin, Sore Eyes, etc. In these, as in all other constitutiona Diseases, Walker’s Vinegar Bitters nave shown their great curative powers in the most obstinate and intractable cases. For Inflammatory and Chronic Rheumatism, Gout, Bilious, Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder, these Bitters have no equal. Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood. Mechanical Diseases.— Persons engaged in Paints and Minerals, such as Plumbers, Type-setters, Gold-beaters, and Miners, as they advance in life, are subject to paralysis of the Bowels. To guard against this, take a dose of Walker’s Vinkgar Bitters occasionally. - For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, Tetter, Salt-Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles, - King-worms, Scald-head, Sore Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch, Scurfs, discolorations of the Skin, Humors and Diseases of the Skin of whatever name or nature, are literally dag 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 anthelminitics will free the system from worms like these Bitters. For Female Complaints, in young or old, married or single, at the dawn of womanhood, or the turn of life, these Tonic Bitters display so decided an influence that improvement ie 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 reins; cleanse it when it it foal; your feelings will tell you when. Keep the blood pure, and the health of the system will follow. ’ • It. H. MeDONALD * CO., Druggists and Gen. Agts., San Franoisoo, California, and oor. of Washington and Charlton St*., N. V. Sold by nil Drugglat* r *>d Dealers. OURlaloguefor 1874wi1l be sent free to Agents on applicationw NEW MAPS, CHARTS, CH RO MOS, DIE ETC. Our new maps of INDIANA. ILLINOIS. OHIO and MICHIGAN, are the best and cheapest published. A MB E. C. 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The Wise Men of the Land, the Divine, the Physician, the Judge, use daily, in their own homes, and recommend to all invalids and sufierers from Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Sour Stomach, Costiveness, Heartburn, Indigestion, Piles, Bilious Attacks, Liver Complaints, Gout and Rheumatic Affections* Nature’s own great and good Remedy, > v Tarrant’s Effervescent Seltzer Aperient, as the best and most reliable medicine aver offered to the people for the above class of diseases. The nursing babe, its brothers and sisters, its parents and grandparents, will all find this pleasant remedy well adapted for their different complaints. For sale by all druggists. Macto Compaay Kite, fc-f cmmti rungun. ft aMj6n?6h[() Fcr anything wantoi In tha Hachlnary line, address them at HAMILTON, OHIO, MO* Inquirers please mention where they saw this. 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