Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1874 — Page 2

Singular Antipathies.

Some antipathies are so irrational that they look very much like a kind of monomania. Mr. William Matthew, son of a Governor of Barbadocs, Was troubled with an unreasonable dislike of spiders, which some of his friends thought was more affected than real. One of the doubters, Mr. John Murray, afterward Duke of Athole, meeting Mr. Matthew in company, and desiring to raise a laugh at his expense, left the room for a few minutes. On returning he walked up to his victim with one hand closed. Believing the clenched fingers held a spider, Mr. Matthew became furious, drew his sword, and but for timely interposition would have done a mischief to himself or his tormentor. He was only quieted on being satisfied that Murray’s hand was empty. A prisoner in the Bastile, who detested mice and hated spiders, had his feelings under better control. Having obtained permission to solace himself \yith a lute, he was horrified to find his music attracted crowds of long-legged spinners and bright-eyed mice, who formed a circle round him as long as he continued playing. Loth to deprive himself of his amusement, but unable to enjoy it in the presence of such an audience, the musician borrowed the keeper’s cat, which he put in a cage, and let loose upon his uninvited visitors when they were most entranced with the lute. The cat went in for the mice, the spiders staid not for ceremonial leave-taking, and the soloist’s future audiences were as select as he could wish. Everybody knows what those who love not the concord of sweet sounds are fit, for, and Pepys might well be astonished to hear Lord Lauderdale vow he had rather hear a cat mew than listen to the best music in the world; that the better the music the more sick it made him, his especial aversion being the lute and the bagpipes. Oddly enough, Pepys, much as he loved it, found exquisite music affect him unpleasantly too, at least upon one occasion. Going to see the Virgin Martyr he was ravished by the wind-music when the angel came down; “ Indeed,” says he, “I did wrap up my soul so that it made me really sick, just as I have formerly been when in love with my wife; that neither then nor all the evening going home and at home I was able to think of anything, but remained all night transported so as I could not believe that ever any music —bath—command over Ike. so ill of_ a. man as this did upon me.” Music had no charms for thunder-loving La Motte de Vayer, who hated all musical sounds as thoroughly as a certain French officer hated the martial roll of the drum; this latter gentleman, who had clearly no business to be in the army, soon took his discharge by falling dead at the sound of the tattoo. The ringing of a bell sufficed to send a sensitive fair one into a fit; Boyle’s philosophy was not proof against the sound of splashing water; Augustus and Caligula forgot their dignity when thunder was about; Lamartine was horrified if Dclpliinc Gay laughed, although the lady laughed well. He was as much shocked us Byron pretended to be if he saw a woman eat; and —oddest of all aural antipathies—the utterance of the word “ lame” sent a Spanish gentleman into a syncope and an Englishman nearly gave up the ghost if he heard the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah read aloud! The secretary of Francis I. used to stop up his nostrils with bread if lie saw a dish of apples, to prevent an otherwise inevitable bleeding at the nose. A Polish king had an antipathy to both the smell and sight of this wholesome fruit, and a family of Aquitaine had a hereditary hatred of it. A , Flemish’ damsel was sadly troubled by an unconquerable aversion to the smell of bread. Cheese, mutton, musk and ambergris have been so repugnant to some nasal organs as to send their owners into convulsions. Gretry, the composer, could not endure the scent of the rose; neither could Anne of Austria. The mere sight of the queen of flowers was too much for Lady Heneage, bedchamber-woman to Queen Bess; indeed, Kenelm Digby records that her cheek became blistered when some one laid a white rose upon it as she slept. Her ladyship’s antipathy was almost as strong as that of the dame who fainted when her lover approached her wearing an artificial rose in his button-hole. A violet was a thing of horror to the eyes of the Princess du Lathbelle; tansy was abominable to the Earl of Barrymore; Sealiger grew pale before the watercress; and a soldier who would have scorned to turn his back on a foe fled without shame from a sprig of rue. A poor Neapolitan was always seized with a fit upon attempting to swallow u morsel of flesli-mcat of any kind, and nature thus condemned him to vegetarianism : a sorer infliction than that sufleredby Guianerius, whose heart palpitated violently if he indulged in a pork dinner. Dr. Prout had a patient who declared honest mutton was as bad as poison to him. Thinking this was all fancy, the doctor administered the obnoxious meat under various disguises, but every experiment ended in a severe vomiting fit. Another unlucky individual always had n tit of the gout a felw hours after eating fish; and a Count d'Armstadt never failed to go off in a fit if he knowingly or unknowingly partook of any dish" containing the slightest modicum of olive oil. A still, worse penalty attached to lobster salad in the case of a lady, "for if she ventured to taste it at a dancing party her neck, before she returned to the ball-room, would he covered with ugly blotches and her peace Of mind destroyed for that evening. Montaigne rather plumed himself upon his antipathy to physic and physicians, an inherited antipathy of two centuries’ standing, springing out of a secret and natural family instinct. He boasted that his great-grandfather lived almost fourscore years, his grandfather sixty-nine, ami his father seventy-five years without tasting physic, flie sight of a potion being loathsome to their eyes. An uncle, a valetudinarian from birth, made liis crazy life hold On for sixty-seven years by steadfastly keeping the doctors at hay. He would not have shown the complaisance of the jnan in the play, who once in his life took a dose of physic in compliment to a cousin who had set up as an apothecary; for, when attacked by a serious fever, and warned by the physicians his alarmed servants had summoned that if he would not allow them to help him he would surely die, the obstinate old fellow replied: “I am a dead man then!” Fortunately he lived to laugh at their prophecy. Equally determined, if not so clever at defending her determination, was a bricklayer's wife, who died not long ago at the age of eighty-four. Whatever ailed her she never would have the doctor called in, believing if onee she swallowed any doctor’s stuff there would be an end of her, and the old lady went out of the world in the faith.that she had remained in it so long only because she had never allowed a doctor to have anything to do with her. According to Burton, a melancholy Duke of Muscovy fell instantly ill if he but looked upon a woman, and another anchorite was seized with a Cold palsy underiMmLlar provocation ; while Weinrlehur tells of a nobleman who drew the line at old ladles, which did not prevent him losing his life in consequence of Ids strange prejudice, for, being called from the supper table by some mischievous friends to speak to an old'woman, he fell down directly he beheld her, and died then and there. What an old woman dKJfor tW«*ddlutter an eclipse

did for Charles d’Escaro, Bishop of Langres. It was his inconvenient custom always to faint at the commencement of a lunar eclipse, and remain insensible as long as it lasted.’ When he was very old and very infirm an eclipse took place. The good Bishop went off as usual, and never came to again. James I. never overcame his horror of cold steel, -When he knighted Kenelm Digby, liis hand shook so that, had not Buckingham guided the royal blade, the new knight would have paid for the handle to his name with the loss of an eye. Peter the Great, a man of very different mettle, had ntpne time such a -terror of water t hat he could not cross a brook without being taken with strong convulsions ; but, ashamed of being the slave of an unmanly weakness, he determined to conquer it, and ultimately became as fond of the water as he had been averse to it. An antipathy must, be such a troublesome possession that one must bo enough for anybody. Exeter, however, once counted among its natives a young lady who not only had a mortal aversion to • all colors save green, yellow and white, but was thrown into a perspiration by every funeral that passed her way; and, more wonderful still, became unconscious immediately she set eyes upon a uniform. If this maiden of many antipathies was ever wooed and won, and her fancies survived marriage, her husband must have had anything hut a good time of it, and probably had reason to wish she had resembled the Taunton spinster, whose demise was chronicled sixty years ago in these words: “ Lately,ln Gray’s Alms-house, Taunton, aged eighty-two, Hannah Murton, a maiden lady. She vowed, several years ago, that no hc-fcllow should ever touch her, living or dead. In pursuance of this resolution, about ten years since, she purchased a coffin, in which, whenever she felt serious illness, she immediately deposited herself —thus securing the gratification of her peculiar .sensibility.”— Chambers' Journal.

By-Laws of the National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry.

[Amended fit the Seventh Annual Session, 1874.] Article 1. The fourth flav- of December., the birthday of-the Patrons of Husbandry, shall be celebrated as the anniversary of the Order. Art. 2. Not less than the representation of twenty States present at any meeting of the National Grange shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Art. 3. At the annual meeting of each State it .may elect a proxy to . represent the State Grange in the National Grange in case of the inability of the Master to att end. and such proxies shall in all cases be Past-31 asters oFTHeir State Granges. Art. 4. Questions of administration and jurisprudence arising in and between State Granges, and appeals from the action and decision Whereof, snail be referred to the Master and Executive Committee of the National Grange, whose decision shall be respected and obeyed until overruled by action of the National Grange. Art. 5. It shall be the duty of the Master to president meetmgs-of thc National Grange; to see that all officers and members of committees properly perform their respective duties; to see that the constitution, by-laws amt resolutions of the National Grange, and the usages of the Order, are observed and obeyed, and generally to perform all duties pertaining to such office. Art. 6. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep a record of all proceedings of the Natjjaial Grange: to keep a just and true account *all moneys received ana deposited bv him in the fiscal agency; to countersign all drafts drawn by the Treasurer; to conduct the correspondence of the National. Grange, and to perform snch other duties appertaining to his office as may be reqmrecTbv flie Master and Executive Committee. It shall be his duty, at least ©nee each week, to deposit with the fiscal agency hoi din g*the funds of the National Grange all moneys that may have come into his hands, and forward a duplicate receipt therefor t©the Treasurer,and to make a lull report of all transactions to the National Grange at each annual session. It shall be his further duty to procure a monthly report from the fiscal agency with whom the funds of the National Grange are deposited of all moneys received and paid out by them during each month, and send a copy of such report.to the Executive Committee ana tlie Master of the National Grange. lie shall give bond in such sum and with such security as may be approved by the Executive -Committee.— -' ' . . . ■ Art. 7.—Section 1. It shall he the duty of the Treasurer to issue all drafts upon the fiscal agency of the Order, said drafts having been previously approved by the Master and countersigned by the Secretary of the National Grange. Sec. 2. lie shall report monthly to the Master of the National Grange a statement of all moneys deposited to his credit in the fiscal agency, and of all drafts signed by him during the previous month.

Sec. 3. lie shall report to the National Grange at each annual session a statement of all moneys deposited in the fiscul agency, and of all dralts signed by him since his last annual report. Sec. 4.’ It shall he his duty to collect all interest accruing on investments made by the Executive Committee, and to deposit the same in the fiscal agency. Aut. 8. It shall he the dutv of the Lecturer to visit, for the good of the Order, such portions of the United States as the Master or the Executive Committee may direct, for which services he shall receive compensation. Aut. t). It shall lie the duty of the Executive Committee to exercise a general supervision of the affairs of the Order during the recess of the National Grange. They shall have authority to act ou all matters of interest to the Order when the National Grange is not in session; shall provide for the welfare of the Order in business matters, and shall report their acts in detail to tlie National Grange ou the first day of its annual meeting. The Master of the National Grange shall be coiisidered, erroffieio, a-member.«f the Executive Committee. { ■ Art. 10.—Section 1. Such compensation for time and service shall be given the Master, Lecturer, Secretary, Treasurer and Executive Committee as the National Grange may, from time to time, determine. Sec. 2. Whenever General Deputies are appointed by the Master of the National Grange said Deputies shall receive such compensation for time and service as may he determined by tlie Master or the Executive Committee: Provide cl, In no case shall pay from tile National. Grange he given General Deputies in any State after tile formation of its Slate Grange. Aut. 11.—Section 1. The financial reports of Subordinate Granges shall be made on tlie first day of Janilary, the first day of April, thefirst day of July and the first day of October. sec! 2. State Grange's shall date their financial axistencc'rhree months after the first day of January. first day of April, first day of July, and first day of October immediately following their organization. ' Aut.-12. Each session of the National Grange shall fix the compensation of its members. Aut. 13. Special meetings .of the National Gfahge Shall he called by the Master upon the application of The Masters of twenty State Granges, one month’s notice of such meeting being given to all members of the National Grange. No alterations or amendments to the ln-laws or ritual shall he made at any special meeting. Art. li. Upon the demand of five members! the ayes and noes may he called upqn any question, and when so called shall he entered by the Scetotarv upon his minutes. . —— — —•. ——- Aut. 15. Fist-Masters are Masters wlio have been duly elected and installed, and who have" served out the term for which they were elected. Art. lti. Vacancies in 'office may lie filled at any regular meeting of t he Grange. Aut,lT. Subordinate (granges may he eonsoli-. dated in tlie mode and upon s'uelrterins as may be prescribed by the State Granges.. Abt. IS. These 'by-laws may lie altered or amended at any annual meeting of the National Grange by a twu-|hirds vote of the members present.

Among the guests at one of our wellknown summer resorts is a wealthy bachelor, whose bank account is much better than hfs orthography . A party of guests were playing a game where a hall made 'of a handkerchief is thrown from one to the other with the salutation of “Here conies a ship laden with” ; each successive receiver being obliged to name a commodity for cargo beginning witli the letters, of the alpbabet in turn. When the kerchief alighted at tlie letterK in the bachelor’s lap lie shouted “ Kroekery!” which, excited a smile, and tire game hastily proceeded when it was-, found” that the word was given in good faith and not as a joke. The roguishness of a young lady 7 however, caused tlie flying messenger to alight in his lap the second time atr the letter S, whereat the receiver shouted “ Cinnamon!” so triumphantly that somehow or other there was so much Toughing that it was thought Impt to try another game. —Commercial milletih.

—A very fat man, for the purpose of quizzing his dbetor, asked him to prescribe for a complaint wTiich he declared was sleeping with his mouth open. “ Sir,” said the doctor “ ydtar disease is incurable. •Your skin is too short, so that when you shut your eyes your mouth opens."

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—Recipe for Cream Puffs. —Two cups flour, onc-hulf cup butter, three-fourths pint hot water. Boil the butter and water together, and stir in the flour slowly while boiling. Let it cook a few minutes; add five well-beaten eggs; drop the mixture on tins and bake in a quick oven. For the custard: One pint of milk, one-half cup flour, one pound sugar, two eggs. Let it cool, and after the puffs are cold cut them open and put in the custard, which can be flavored with vanilla or lemon to suit the taste. !

—Preserving Cut Flowers.—Cut flowers in vases will keep much longer if the vases are filled witli white sand and with water enough barely to cover it, or rather to keep it thoroughly wet. Water by itself rots the stems, so that they lose the power of drawing up moisture; hut this does not occur so readily where they are thrust into wet sand. The sand should be washed by having water poured on it and drained off before use; otherwise the salt which all sea-sand contains will prove injurious. As wet sand is an unhandy thing to put into vases, it is well to have it washed and dry beforehand. — Health Journal. —Floriculture.—All lovers of flowers must remember that one blossom allowed to mature or “go to seed” injures the plant more than a dozen new buds. Cut your flowers then, all of them, before they begin to fade. Adorn your room with them; put them on your tables; send bouquets to your friends who have no flowers; or exchange favors with those who have. You will surely find that the more you cut off the more you will have. All roses after they have ceagcd to bloom should be cut back that the strength of the root may go forming new shoots for next year. On bushes not a seed should be allowed to mature. — Scribner's.

—Floral Pyramids.—lt is so easy to have beautiful objects about us that it is a pity to be without one. Take a soup plate or a pickle dish, anil fill it with sand. Moisten the sand with water, and heap it to a cone, and then thrust into the wet sand flowers and foliage enough to.CQver the Whole surface, and you will have, if you arrange it well, the most beautiful floral ornament that can he imagined. This is an excellent way for arranging short-stemmed flowers, or those whose petals are too soft to be tied -without injury among stifler ones.—Or place in the center of your soup-plate a teacup, a child’s "mug or a wine-glass, in which insert a made bouquet, and then, filling the plate about it with sand, proceed as before. This will give a better cone than the first method.- -Science es Health.

—Canned Peach running.—Soak one pint of picked and washed tapioca in three pints of boiling water, letting it stand three hours, then place in a glass fruit-can a layer of sliced peaches, with sugar enough to sweeten them, then a layer of the soaked tapioca, adding alternate layers until the can or cans are filled. Then set in a kettle in two-thirds the depth of water, heat to the boiling point, and then boil half an hour; take out and seal precisely as you would any canned fruit. These will he very convenient in case of any accident happening to your dessert, or of any unexpected arrival of company too late to cook a dessert, or in case any refreshments arc wanted at an unusual hour, ami nothing is cooked. Serve cold, or put into warm water and heat to the boiling point.

—Ashes as Food for Cattle. —The Live Stock Journal has a correspondent who found his cattle given to tlie habit of eating wood, chewing hones, etc. They became thin in flesh, refused to-eat liay, and (presented a sickly appearance. He had no impression that their food lacked the constituents for making hone; aiidirisneighbors used bone-meal, without noticing any good results whatever. At last lie put about four bushels of leached ashes in liis barnyard and threw out to them about a shovelful each day. They all ate with evident relish After turning them out to pasture, he put one peck ot dry ashes per week on the ground in the pasture. They ate it all, and gnawed oft tlie grass where it had been lying. The cattle, began to improve, gaining flesh and looking better than they had done for several years. Ho says this morbid appearance was unnoticed years ago, from the fact that the ground was new and ashy from the burning of the woods and land clearings. Since this discovery lie gives one quart of ashes mixed with one quart of salt to twelve head of cattle about oncesa week.

Small Fruits on the Farm.

The extensive cultivation of small fruits for market has undoubtedly proved profitable to the planters, else tlie markets of our cities would not continue to he supplied, year after-year, at such comparatively low rates as nowadays prevail. And yet, in the farm garefenwe seldom see plantations of small fruits sufficient to give the family even a moderate supply. Too often the few bushes or vines obtained are thrust in some out-of-the-way place, to take care of themselves, spread into thickets, or degenerate into wildings, and are finally grubbed and cast out as rubbish. From time to time we have called attention not only to tlie pleasure alto tilling a well-kept farm garden, but also to its economy'. It would seem that there was a vast amount of missionary work yet to be done in this direction before the average farmer is fully waked up to the importance and economy of this subject. We shall continue to call attention to gardening as an important part of the farmer’s art until the people, shall be fully waked up to its value, and shall come to practice what tliey.believe. Our present purpose is to call attention to small fruits.

It is.impossible to have success in anytliiiig valuable as food without cultivation; and, while this is true as a rule, it is especially' so with berries, They siidoni.have space enougli allowed them, and when this is the ease it is impossible to properly prune them, much less cultivate then!. ' Currants and gooseberries should never be planted at a less distance than from four,to four and a half feet between the rows; raspberries, five to five and a half feet, and blackberries never less than six feet. If so, the two ! first may be planted three feet distant in the row, the third three and-a half feet, and the latter four feet in the row. Currants and gooseberries should be kept properly thinned, so that the foliage may get a due proportion of'sun and air; anil raspberries and blackberries should have the old wood taken out each season and the new growth cut back to three and a half or .four feet, or be pinched when the seifcon’g growth lias progressed so fair. If to tiffs we Tid'd cultivation suffioieqt to keep the surface mellow and the weeds killed there is no reason why a full crop of fruit should not, be gathered every season that is favorable to its maturity; .and experience has demonstrated that there are few that are not favorable if the early-blossoming sorts “are kept back- sd .that the blossoming season may no.t occur during frosty weather. As a rule small fruits are more easy «f cultivation than strawberries and fully as easily gathered as strawberries, even when this fruit is well cultivated; that is, when the plants have been placed three feet apart between the rows by not less than twelve inches in the row and therunners kept scrupulously cut. Else first-class fruit cannot be expected, and

certainly the beds cannot be kept free of weeds unless so treated without more labor than the crop is worth. , To those who have already good gardiehs without berries as a prominent feature therein we say, Lose no time in setting apart a sufficient portion, or, if need be, enlarge it for this purpose. If there are any who have not yet got ready to have the garden permanently fixed we say, Do so at the earliest prat?-' ticablg moment and make It of size to al

low ample spaee for berries. —

Western Rural.

The Scientifically Treated.

Tlie grasshopper is an orthopterous insect of the Gryllusvulgaris species, descendant of tlie great grasshopper known in England as tlie tiridissimns. We believe we hazard nothing in saying that tlie “subject of our sketch” is everything that its horrid appellation indicates —a liug witli so much Greek and Latin ih its name cannot be anything but horrid. And yet we are told that the Gryllus vulgarns is a mere plaything in comparison witli its great English ancestor, viridissimus. Tlie latter can destroy an eiglityacre field while the former is getting up an appetite. We had intended presenting in this issue a life-size photograph or grassdtype of Gryllus, but upon reflection we have concluded that it would lie a useless expense, as most of our readers are already familiar with liis general cast of countenance. It will be noticed that »tlns grass-ating or grass-eating individual has i'our joints to eacli foot—a sort of leg quartet—each joint being as long as Theodore Tilton’s hair. Consequently, when lie assembles in Joint convention, every precinct is sure to be represented. No proxies are allowed, and Gryllus is therefore never admitted unless he comes hiniseTfl

Although liis wings are transparent, we have never heard anybody accuse him of being “too thin.” When liis wings are opened out»for business they take up as much room as a woman’s licit at a theater; hut when not in active use they are folded longitudinally like a Japanese fan Gryllus possesses a very fine head, the features being about as expressive as a Chinese nut-cracker; his nose is of the aquiline order, with an independent respiratory apparatus, which is used as a sort of weather barometer. His teeth are well developed and very sharp; each grasshopper carries a bottle of Sozodont -m-his sfde pocket; and owing to their excellent preservation lie is rarely called upon to secede from one of liis molars; liis jaws know nothing of the joys of toothache, and there isn’t a Gryllus in Kansas or a vbridissimus in EnglaniPtliat can look a dentist square in tlie face without blushing These insect-cannibals are very regular in their habits, only eating one meal a day, commencing at four o’clock a. m. and continuing until tlie same hour on tlie following morning. Tlicir principal article of diet is Arrhenatherum avehacewm, which in vulgar parlance means “grass.” If the grass crop happens to lie a little short they can easily accommodate themselves to the situation by eating corn, and when they tackle a field of growing maize the owner also grows amazed, and demands tlie appointment of a receiver in bankruptcy. : — The above are some of the peculiarities of the grasshoppers as seen on a farm, where they can be studied with much profit—to everybody except tlie farmer. In the city, where tlie grasshoppers have pre-empted tlie front yards, and amuse themselves by turning hand-springs, running foot-races anil playing croquet, tlie scene is entirely diflerent, and tlie Gvylhises and young viridissimusses show to much better advantage.— Topeka (Kan.) Commonwealth.

The Grangers and the Railroads.

There seems to be an opinion prevalent among many that the Grangers are opposed to railroads. There could nothing be farther from tlie truth. Farmers are in favor of railroads, but would use them for the same purpose that they use wagon roads, namely, to transport their produce anil themselves—not to make their laws, bribe their Legislatures, or to disobey laws when made, or to combine to resist tlie authority of the people or to control courts. Neither do they want them to double or triple the number of the shares of stock, and demand 10 per cent, on the whole amount, to be paid from tlie pockets of the farmers who raise the grain and stock which is transported over tlie road. It is because the ' railroads have been guilty of all these things that the farmers have inaugurated a rebellion anil propose to bring railroads back to tlicir original purposes—to transport produce to market and return merchandise cheaper than this work can be done by horses —as much cheaper as steam power is cheaper than horse power. Tlie farmers have always welcomed the railroads; they have given up tlicir farms to permit railroads to he built through the most valuable portion" of them; they have paid taxes on bonds voted to aid in their construction; and now that the roads have fallen into the hands of foreign capitalists they ask that their rights be considered. Having made these-sac-rifices to secure the roads, they ask that .the roads shall be used for tlicir benefit by transporting freight at reasonable rates, taking all these tilings into consideration. They are willing that, after paying running expenses, there should ..be profits, enough to pay a fair interest on tlie amount it would actually cost to* build tlie.road now; but they are not willing that roads should pay 10 per cent, on three or four times their actual value, by charging enormous tariffs on their grain, stock and lumber. — Aurora {III .) Herald. .

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An Act of Justice. —Doubting Castle was a sad stumbling-block in the path of Bunyan’s Christian, though it couldn’t bar his way to Truth. We can sympathize with the Pilgrim, for Doubt always besets us when we are asked to believe anything particularly extraordinary. Consequently, when we heard, some eighteen months ago, that a physician in California had compounded from the juices and extracts of efttain herbs found there a medicine that cured almost every variety of blood disease, we were incredulous. Since then we have had opportunities of testing the accuracy of the report, and arc free to admit that our doubts have vanished. Seeing what we have seen,.knowing what w r e know, it is impossible for us to question the remedial properties of Du. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters. That this famous vegetable Tonic, Alterative and Antiseptic is a specific for Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Chronic Constipation, Fever and Ague, Bilious Intcrmittents, Scrofulous Taint in the Blood, Incipient Consumption, Local and General Debility, Rheumatism, Sick Headache and Diseases of the Kidneys scenis to be a matter beyond the pale of controversy — a fixed fact in medical history. The statements of friends in whose veracity and intelligence we have full confidence, corroborated by our own personal observation, compel us to admit the surpassing merits of the preparation.

Da. Pierce’s Compound Extract of SmartWeed, or Water Pepper, is not recommended as a cure-all. It should not be classed with the patent nostrums of the day, compounded by Quacks, “Indian Doctors” (so-called), and those possessing no knowledge of the delicate and intricate structure of the human system nor of Chemistry and the scientific prepara--tion.of medicines .No patent, has been obtained or asked for upon it. It is not a secret medicine, the chief ingredient being lyade known in the name chosen to designate it. Put it is claimed to be a made in a scientific manner, from fresh plants and roots, by a cold process, heat, which is used in making all other Extracts of SmartWeed, being objectionable, as it destroys most of the medical virtues that reside in the plant, as stated in the American Dispensatory and hv other most excellent authorities. In the modest-looking little weed, found growing by the roadside, is found a more efficacious remedy, when combined with Jamaica Ginger and other modifying agents, for Diarrluca, Dysentery, Summer Complaint, Pain and.. Colic, than has heretofore been known to the medical profession. Dr. Pierce's Extract is sold by druggists.

AVe shall soon have cool weather, and then every man and boy should wear Elmwood Collars, sou need not adopt the" Mexican costume, but can wear something between the collar and spurs.

The Little Corporal.— The table of contents of the September number indicates an entertaining feaHt lor the readers, whether yonng or old, of this excellent little magazine, which is always well tilled with a choice variety, of original literary matter. The subscription price of the Corporal is $1.50 a year, with a beautiful dironio to each subscriber. Several choice premiums are offered to getters-up of clubs. Single numbers fifteen cents each. Published by John E. Miller, Chicago, 111. *

The lUce Divorce Suit for fraud In ago la causing great excitement in Boston. It should warn young men not to marry in baste. Rice is but It!; his bride ST. He swears that Bhe made him believe she was but his own age, by using Magnolia Balm upon ber-ihee, neck and hands. Poor youth! He probajdy found her elbows weren't quite so soft and pretty. Ought Ilagan to be indicted '! We know of many stm liar cases. Tills Balm gives a most wonderful pearly and natural complexion, to which we don’t object. Wo like pretty women. To finish iho picture they should use Lyon’s Eathairon upon the hair. With pearly chin, rosy cheeks, and soft, luxurious tresses, they become irresistible.

Fell from a Railroad Car, and nearlybrokc his neck. I’at picked him up, rubbed him witli Mexican Mustang Liniment, and Bent him on by the next tram. Fa, , bruises, cuts, contusions, lameness and such accidents are constantly occurring. There is nothing so sure, safe, cheap and convenient as the celebrated Mustang Linhnent. It costs but 50 cents and SI.OO per bottle, and no Family or owner of Horses should be without it. There is no flesh, bone or muscle ailment upon man or animal, like Rheumatism, Bruises, Spavin and Lameness, which it will not alleviate or cure. Why wilFyou suffer ? Beware o f counterfeits. It is wrapped in a steel-plate engraving, signed “G; W. Westbrook, Chemist."

On JEverybody’s.Tongne.— Euloglums of the great National Regenerator of Health, Plantation Bitters, are on everybody’s tongue. This gratuitous viva voce advertising is better than all the paid-for puffing to which tlie owners of bogus bitters are obligedlo resort. It has a spontaneous heartiness about it which carries conviction to the mind of the auditor.

John H. yeemter, Greeneastle, lud., says: “ A . part of bottle of Kress Fever Tonic cured I me of an obstinate Ague; my little girl 'and her friend, took the remainder for a case of four weeks standing: there n °thing left of the disease with either erf us, nor have any bad effects followed the use of the Tonic. I re- gard it as the best Ague remedy I know Jv of and have since sold it to my custo- with, great success. It always att ends strictly Jo business, and is harmless so far as I have observed.” The remedy is warranted to contain neither Arsenic or other poison. Address Kress Manufacturing Company, Cincinnati, O.

OPTIC’S NEW BOOKS. THE COMING WAVE; or The Hidden Treasure of High Rock. 161110., Illus. $1.50. SUNNY SHORES; or Young America in Italy and Austria. 16in0., Ulus. SI.OO. Either volume sent postpaid on recciitt of the price. LEE & SHEPARD, Publishers, Boston. A.G-HIVTB WANTED FOR Prof. FOWLER’S GREAT WORK On Manhood, Womanhood, and their Mutual InterRelations; Love, its Laws, Power, etc. Agents are selling.from 15 to 25 copies a day. Send for specimen pages aiul terms to Agents, and see why it sens faster than any other book. Address NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO., Cliicago, 111., or St. ESuis, Mo. OUR aloguefor 1874 wi1l be went free to Agents on application. ______ SEW 31A PS, CHARTS, CHROMOS, NEW ETC. Our NKWMAPB of INDIANA, ww ILLINOIS, OlllOfaßd MICHIGAN, are the best and cheapest published. a Y E. c. BKIDGnAA, V A I s Barclay Street. Ketr York. The Life liy >l and e S||| Services of k t BiJilßl 1 l IlillaUaH By C. Edwards Lester. This work has been some years in preparation, most of the matter having been furnished by Sir. Sumner himself. Contains 600 pages, an elegant steel portrait and numerous llustrations. Is now ready for immediate delivery. AGP-NTS WANTED in every town. Sold only by subscription. OSGOOD & CO., 4 South Clark St., Chicago, 111. COLLEGE OF LAW Of the Chicagoand Northwestern Universities. Judge Henry Booth, Dean. Hon. Lyman Trumbull and Hon. James R Doolittle. Daily Lecturers. Van liuren Denslow and Philip Myers. Ea|.. Professors. Tuition re ducod to SC a year. Lcctmcs daily for 36 weeks, and Moot Courts. Diploma admits to (he Bar. For particulars, address V. B. Dkxslow, Tribune Bldg, Chicago. To Mfllers and Engine Owners. To neari/doublerour steam_powief and save fuel also, address •* J. F. TALL ANT, Burlington, lowa. Cored by the au of RvwT EPILEPSY OR FITS raccauwhlchaAJendi their ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■l use enable oa to furnish treatment, including all the naotnarj medicines, and make no charge unless a care is effected. Circulars, terms, etc., sent free. Address BOSS BBOTHBBfi. No. JS7 Bain Si„ Richmond, lad. fSrisiol Clothes Washer, 153 LaSalle-st>, Chicago. AGEXTSAVANTED. - Prttti for circulars. W e offer BATRA lhDl’CtilJiNTS, V; .

FOR SINGING CLASSES! tub SONG MONARCH. By 11. It. Paulk a, assisted by L. 0. Emerson A book admirably fitted for the use of Singing School Teachers.ltaving, in addition to a compact theoretic course, more than 180 pages filled with Glees, Quartettes, Airs, Tunes, etc., etc., pleasant to sing anywhere, and constituting a most agreeable course of study. A good book also for College Choirs, for Seminaries and Social Sings. Price 75 cts. or $7.50 per dozen. For Choirs and Conventions. Tlie Leader Is the leader of all Church Music Books so» 1874 find 1875, being the first in the licld and o( a character that cannot l>e excelled. By H. R. Palmer, of Chicago, assisted by L. O. Emßbson, of Boston, containing also compositions from the hands of large numbers of American music-writers. For Contentions, Choirs and SiN«iNto Classes. The Leader has 86 pages of Singing-School Music, the same as that in the Sung Monarch, and large numbers of new Tunes and Anthems, all by the best composers. — ■ — 11 I . —: Price $1.38 or $12.00 per doz^n. Specimen copies of the above book mailed postpaid for retail price. Oliver Ditson & Co., Chas. H. Ditson & Co., Boston. JUB’dway, New York.

gjll^l The Great Preserver of Health.— Tab-* rant’s Effervescent Seltzer Aperient can always be relied upon as a pleasant, mild, speedy and positive cure In ail cases of Costiveness, Dyspepsia, Heartburn Sick Headache, Indigestion, Sour Stomach, Liver Complaint, Biliousness, Flatulency, Fulness ot Blood, and all Inflammatory Complaints whero a gentle, cooling cathartic is required. So says the Chemist; so says the Physician; so says the groat American Public of the nineteenth century, Heed ye then, and be not without a bottle in the bouse. Before life is imperiled, deal judiciously With the symptoms. Remember that the slight internal disorder of to-day may become an obstinate, incurable disease to-mor-row. Sold by all druggists.

ECONOMY. Every intelligent person is aware that a large amount of money is wasted and thrown away every year in Clothing, Silk. Laces, Kid Gloves, etc., which become soiled with GREASE, PAINT, TAR, Etc., and are laid aside not half worn. There is no longer any excuse for this fearful waste, aa » Sapoliene WILL CLEAN All Hinds of Clothing, Silks, Laces, Kid Gloves, Etc., Etc. It Removes PAINT, 6REASE, TAR, Etc., Instantly And without the least injury to the finest fabric. Makes Old Cloths Look Like New. Sold by Agents and Druggists. AGrEINTS WANTED. Address WM. WHEELER & CO., 107 Bank SiKiiiiX, Clbykhanu, Uuio. t3f*iOrders filled by W. W. HALLOCK, General Western Agent, 77 it 79 Jackson St.. Chicago.

DBEBOLD, NORRIS & CO. MANUFACTURERS OF lire ani Birilar Proof SAFES, — AXD — Patent Combination Bank Lock OFFICE AND FACTORY, CANTON,- OHIO. D. S. Covert, Cen'l N. W. Agent, State Street, CHICAGO, ILL.

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HALF a dollar weekly STTiar For the Next Half Year. The Weekly Sun is a large 8-pnge, 56-column, Independent Newspaper, which no intelligent family should be without. Try it. Address, THE SUN, New York City.

©ASTHMA. Popham’a Asthma Specific. Warranted to relieve any caae ill u Yonrßpecifio linn a bant cured mo, and It has relieved all whom i have ever heard from.” Cahhon Moimkktt, Louisiana, Mo. Sold by pll Druggist*. $1 i»et free. PniLADKLrniA. Penn. Agents Wanted, for the Life and Adventures ot ZS.it Carson, From facts dictated by himself. - The only. True and Authentic Life of America’s greatest HUNTER, SCOUT and GUIDE ever published. Full Rescript ions of tho Indian tribes of the FAR WEST, including tho MODOC "WAIJ, thrillingadveiitures and hairbreadth escapes. Agents are taking from 10 to 20orders eveiy day. 520,000 already sold, illustrated circulars free. Address M. A. PARKER & CO., 163 and 165 Clark street, Chicago, 111. 11411 WWUf l)K. LIVINGSTONE ii£l YY >j« DKAI). Agents wanted for the only new or complete book, including the full story of all Expeditions into Africa ;-800 pages, and 100 full - page Engravlnes. Also, for the ‘‘FROZEN ZONE AND ITS EXPLORERS,” gotten up in same style. Two of the most beautiful and salable books out. Don’t fail to .see our circulars. Our terms will please you. Address COLUMBIAN BOOK CO., Chicago. •*-> M’AU.ISTER'B PATEUIT ARTOPTICON.’ iTio most powerful Magical Lantern, 1 . ftpßa ever made; with a brilliant Oil Lamp ; fbr Mlfcdwf-’t-rl Home, Sunday School and Lecture*. _ Stcreopt icons, etc. Slides at reduced prices. A proJUablefousinesSfOi’ a man with amall antital. Send ntunip for Catalogue. WM. Y. M’ALLISTEIi, 1314 Chestnut St., Phila. Pfe M ■ | ■■■%*% USED BY US-J. S aUPMUI § LIIV Thompson & Co., J. lIU LLCII W liamirilcNafly\ Co” J. M. W. Jones, Lakeside Printing Co., Post and Mail, Fireside Friend, Staats Zeltung, Advance, Christian Advocate and many others. They give, entire satisfaction. Casting done on short notice. F. A. SLOAN, Agent, 57 East .Washington street, Chicago.

AGENTS WANTED for the C ENTENNIAL GAZETTEER UNITED STATIN. Showing the grand results of our first 100 ycai M. Everybody buys 11. $100fo$2()0n month to Agents. Send lor circular. ZIEGLER & M’CUKDY, Chicago. If lie No cold or tore flag erf. I)o tico men’s work nUO —Fits auy hand—Sells at sight—Lasts a life- _ time—2 samples scut for 60 cts., or t stylos If CD for $1 post-paid. Agents wanted, address IVCII CITY NOVELTY CO., Bth street, Philiu, Pa. TT r A I The choicest in the world.—lmporters* I 1" mm prtccs—largest company in America—sta- ■ ■■■■“ pie article — pleases everybody—Trade -continually increasing—Agents wanted, everywhere—best inducements—don’t waste time—send for Circular to Robert Wells, 43 Vesey St., N. Y., P. O. Box 1287. W. H. NICHOLS & CO., I facturers and dealers in Needles, etc., for all Sewing Machines. Will send. 1 duz. needles for any sewing machine to any P. O. address on receipt of 50c. TFy them. WANTED—iOING MEN AND LADIES To learn Telegraphy, at Buffalo Telegraph College. Salaries SSO to SIOO per month. Send stamp foreata* iogueto C. L. BRYANT, Sup’t, Butfalo, N. Y_.

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A DVERTISERS! Am. Newspaper Union represents over 1,500 papers, divided info 7 subdivisions. Send 3-cent stamp for Map showing location of papers, with combined and separate lists, giving estimates for cost of advertising. Address S. I\ SANBORN. Hi Monroe 111. INSTANT RF.IiKP and A 6TUM A Radical Cure for the AO I 11 Ivl A Immedliite relief guaranteed by nslngmy Asthma remedy. ißnlferedlSyearSiiiotlying down for weeks ata tiine.bntam nowr.x-nr.kLY CL'nKTi. Sent by mail on receipt of price, ST'per box. Ask your Druggist for it. CIIAS. B. HURST, Rochester, Beaver Co,, Pa, ■■■m Every description of Tents for Hunters, I'lioiugrapbers, Fairs, __ and oruamenial purposes. Mexican sea - grass hammocks. By//a Flags, Banners, etc. Send forcir- —J W/J/ A vßcnlar. G. F. Fostkb, Sox&Co., T Chicago. Tents to iilro. &Q \fONEY Making Employment. Best ever ltl offered. Address M. N. LOVELL Erie, Pa. . K’P ffiOA P er »t home. Terms Free. Address «PO P *PiwV U*e. Stinson S; Co., Portland. Maine.

JL^UVnhfalllM.aifih Dr. J. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly from the native herbs found on the lower ranges ot the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, the medicinal properties of which are extracted therefrom without the use of Alcohol. The question is almoaS daily asked, “What is the cause of the unparalleled success of Vinegar Betters!” Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, and the patient recovers his health. They are tho groat blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Renovator and Invigorator of tho system. Never before in the history of the world has a medicine been compounded possessing tho remarkable qualities of Vinegar Bitters in healing the sick of every disease man is heir to. They are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonio, relieving Congestian or Inflammation ot the Liver auikvisceral Organs, in Bilious Diseases. y The oT DRrwAi.K®|’a Vikkoar Bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretjo, Carminative, Nutritious, Laxativo, Diuretio, Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Sudorifio, Alterative. and Anti-Bilio a *' Grateifoi Thousands proclaim vin-| egar Bitters the most wonderful Invigorant that ever sustained tho sinking system. >’o Person can take these Bitters according to directions, and romain long unwell, provided their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or other moans, and vital organs wasted beyond repair. Bilious. Remittent and Intermi Went Fevers, which are so prevalent in the valleys of our great rivers throughout tho Unitod States, especially those of tho 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 dorangements 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 tho purpose equal to Dr. J. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters, as they will speedily remove the dark? colored viscid iqattor with which tho bowels are loaded, at the same time stimulating the secretions of the liver, and goucrally 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. Dysnen sia or Indigestion, Headache, Pain in tho Shohlders, Coughs, Tightness of tho Chest, Dizziness, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Taste in tho Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpitatatiou of the Heart, Inflammation of tho Lungs, Pain in tho region of the Kid ncys, 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-Evil, white Swolliugs, Uloors, Erysipolas, Swelled Neck, Goitre, Scrofulous Inflammations, Indolont Inflammations, Mercurial Affections, Old Sores, Eruptions of' the Skin, Sore Eyes, etc. In theso, as in all other constitutional Diseases, Walker’s Vinegar Bitters have 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 Bladdor, theso BittersTiavo 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, tauo a dose of Walker’s Vinegar Bitters occasionally. For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, Tetter, Salt-Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles, Ring-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 dug np and carried .out of the 'svafaiu in a short time by the use of theso Bitten,. 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 an-, thelminitics will free the system from worms like these Bitters. For Female Complaints, in young or old, married or single, at the dawn of wo* manhood, or the turn of life, those 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 Soros; cleanse it when you find it obstructed and sluggish in the veins; cleanse it when it ia foul; your feelings will tell yon when. Keep the blood pure, and the health of the system will follow. a. h. McDonald & co„ Druggists and Gen. Agts., San Franoisoa; California, wad cor. of Washington and Charlton Sts., N. Y. Sold by all Drnggiiti and Dealers* FIVE MYSTERIOUS PICTURES. Queerly Concealed Beauties. Btrange Devices. Puzzling Problems. FREE TO ALL. Address, with stamp, ADAMS & CO.. 4TcatTstreet, Boston. » A MONTH—Agents wanted everywhere. Business honorable and flrstelaHs. Particulars sent free. Address JOHN WORTH & CO.. St. Louis. Mu. tis lIV 0 Send 25 cents and the address ofts vc per«V VII I sons and receive by mail a Beautiful GftroI mo, size 7by 9—worth f I.so—and full iur MAT I Btructlons to clear S2O ad ay. Address (j QX I Plumb & Co., 103 South tith St., Phila., Pa.

Livingstone Is Dead ! For 30 year* MtiuoNft have intently watched his PKHILOUB yet HEROIC HTRITOOLKB BB«1 GRAND TRI- - ami now they eagerly desire the Complete Life-lllstory of this vftrldrenoirned iibbo and B*NKFACTOR, Wllicll Unfolds Ol»0 tllO CVRIOAITIKS surl wealth of a Vll.ll, mid woarpicitFttl* Country. Wo publish JI'NT Til AT HISTORY from Ills HI UTII to his nr RtA l. A ore rend;/. 2,000 agents wanted nnickly. One agent sold 184 Jirbt sixoans ; another, 106 first week. FoV imrlfcttlnrs address 11. A. W. Black BURN, 17C Griswold.street, Detroit. .Midi. , stbnce to CO WEN A CO., Eighth street. New York rtn- PRR DAY Commisslota or *3O a week BalA.M.E. *l3 TX FoMile'tiyJL H-V«£o&. 7T Jacifon «L,UhlC»*o