Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1876 — Page 7

The Mammoth Grape Vine at the Centennial.

Near the center'of Agricultural Hall, at the Exposition, stands an exhibit from California, which is worthy of special mention, it being one of the most interest ing nojattles ever brought East from that State which abounds in curious and remarkable productions. It is nothing more or less than the celebrated mammoth grape vine, of Santa Barbara, the history of which la known, probably, to but few persons outside of California. The recent death of this vine and its exhibition at the Centennial Show will serve to bring it more prominent before the world than it has ever been during its palmiest days. Its last hours were calm and peaceful and its death was perfectly painless, being the result of old age rather than disease. Having thus closed a long and useful life on the Pacific coast, it is grand even though deadband scarcely any one thing animate or inanimate, in Agricultural Hall, attracts more attention or elicits more praise from visitors. Both ancient and modern history give instances of some immense grape vines, but I believe there is no authentic account of a vine equal to this Santa Barbara production. ' it is larger than the famous vine of Fontainbleau, France, larger than any found among the villas in the vicinity of Rome, and even surpasses any of which Pliny gives an account in his history and travels. The various theories respecting the origin of the Santa Barbara vine are simply based on traditions handed down through several successive generations, each of them being tinged with romance. One of these traditions connects the origin of the vine with a tale of love that was written a few years ago and has been widely circulated. This romance is entitled the “Legend of the Montecito Grape Vine.” No two writers, how ever, exactly agree as to the age of the vine. Some claim that it was planted fifty years ago; others that it sprang into existence seventy-five years ago, and others that it is a centenarian. According to the legend referred to above, it was just 150 years old when dug up for removal, having been planted a century previous by a beautiful young Spanish lady, named Donna Maria Marcel ma Feliz. If anybody desires to learn why the young lady had no more names, I can only refer the inquirer to Maria Marcelina’s parents. She planted the vine at the request of her lover, Don Carlos SomeTody, who gave her a little grapevine tw T ig as a riding whip on liei; journey from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, a distance of 100 miles. At the conclusion of her journey, she placed the twig in the ground; hi the beautiful Montecito valley, and the result was the biggest grapevine in the known world. This theory of the origin of the vine may or may not be correct. I give it for whatever it may happen to be worth. It is as plausible as any of the stories pertaining to llie wonderful production, and probably has at least a foundation of fact, if nothing more. But certain il is that the M%e vine had an origin somewhere and at • some time, and it is to-day one of the greatest natural curiosities to be found in the Exposition. The dimensions of this vine are as follows : It is fourteen inches in diameter three feet from the ground, and nearer the grbund it measures eighteen inches in diameter and has a circumferenceof fiftysix inches, While its foliage covered a space equal to 10,000 square feet. The product of the vine, as estimated by Dr. Qrd, one of the California State Commissioners, Judge Huse, of the same State, and others, lias more than once reached the astounding number of 7,500 clusters, of an average weight of one and a half pounds. The fruit is of the variety known as the Mission grape, and is, or was, exceedingly sweet and luscious. At a public meeting held in Santa Bar bara, a few months ago, the great vine being then dead, it was resolved to allow Mr. M. Sarver to remove it to Philadelphia and place it on exhibition, where it now stands as a proof of the rare adaptation of California soil and climate to the culture of the grape. It is a fitting symbol of the wonderful fruit-produciug resources of that grand country beyond the Rocky Mountains. It has borne more fruit annually than any other vine in the world, the only one rivaling it being the Young Mammoth vine, which stands within 140 feet of the spot where this monster grew, and which is outgrowth of the Centennial vine*. The younger vine is now sixteen years old, measures sixteen inches f hr diameter at the largest point, and furnished last year 10,000 pounds of luscious grapes. It is still growing and may reach or even exceed the size of the parent stem. I should add that the vine on exhibition has twenty large, prominent branches, the largest of which is twenty-eight inches in circumference. These produce great numbers of young shoots, annually, which in time become large branches.— Philadelphia Car. Chicago Journal.

A Frightful Recital—The Story of a Black Hills Miner.

The reporter m hie round# this morning dropped in at the Keokuk Northern Packet Line Company’s office. There lie found a small crowd assembled listening to the recital of a returned Black Hiller, William Jenkins, by name. He tells a frightful tale, and exhibits a wound in his left side which must extend into the transverse colon, to corroborate it; He tells it in a rambling yet graphic, manner, the substance of which we endeavor to give: On the eighth of last August a party of Pennsylvania miners, underthe command of Cant. Olin, of Oil City, started out from St. Louis for the Black Hills, There were fifty-two men in the party, including our informant who went with them in the capacity of steward. We shall attempt no description of the route they pursued. Suffice it to say that they arrived in the Hills about six weeks after leaving St. Louis. After prospecting about for some time, finding no traces of gold, they finally found a spot in the western portion of that disastrous country, where they found a stream, supplied from five constantly flowing springs, and traces of the precious metal. There they decided to halt. The captain of the party gave the place the name of Missouri Springs. They went to work, huilta large log house of two rooms, Capable of accommodating the entire party, and after its completion began the search for gold. They met with good success;‘and soon made a shipment to the East. There occasionally appeared at the settlement a white man whom our informant calls a “ silent hunter,” who acted .iah friendly manner. From what escaped him at different times, they learned that Ijfcwas a fugitive from justice, and .had been roving about for years. No sign of Indians was seen until the 17th of last month, (jin the evening of that day Jenkins was out behind the house preparing supper, when suddenly from some unseen hand, an arrow was discharged, which struck him in the side at the place previously mentioned. He ran into the house, and the arrow was withdrawn by

one of the men. ns related what had happened. A portion of the party immediately started out and scoured the surrounding country for two mih* about, but no traces of friends or foes coaid be found. A short distance from the house was a cave in the bluff, which had been used as a habitation during the building of their rough edifice. The wounded man said he thought the arrow came from that quarter, but a thorough search failed to reveal anything that would corroborate his suspicion. The party repaired to rest as usual, the wounded man climbing to the roof to escape the mosquitoes, he said. He soon fell asleep. During the night lie was awakened by noise of a scuffle in the room below. He glanced down through the cracks in the roof, which was made of logs, and a scene of horror met his gaze. The room was filled with Indians, engaged in slaughtering his companions. He became so frightened that he was powerless to move, and so remained until long after the fiends had departed. During the frightful slaughter lie noticed four white men among the assailants, who numbered ‘between forty and fifty, one of whom was the stranger who had frequented the house so often under the guise of friendship. The fiends, when they had completed their work of destruction, gathered up the clothing of their victims, their arms, fourteen head of horses and three wagons, and carried them away. They made no effort to destroy the building, and did not even enter the store-room of the place, which was a small room at the back of the main portion. Some two hours after the departure of the destroyers, two men crawled out of the bushes in the vicinity, and approached the house. They called to Jenkins, who descended to the ground and joined them. They related the story of their escape. During the struggle they had jumped out of a back window and had hidden themselves, the Indians not following, either because they did not see the flight, or because they were satisfied with the work within. The three then entered the house and surveyed the scene. Forty-seven men lay dead upon the floor, some of them horribly mutilated. Two were missing, and they proceeded to search for them. They entered the store-room, where they found the objects of their search, one of them unharmed, the other slightly wounded. Only one of these two had been in the store-room during the attack; the other had sought refuge there during the slaughter. We remarked to the narrator at this pointthat it seemed rather singular that forty or. fifty Indians could overpower fifty-two white men and not receive any injury themselves. He said that the attack was a complete surprise. The Indians had broken in on them while they were asleep, and killed most of them before they were awake. After deliberating for some time the survivors decided what to do. The Indians had overlooked three horses and a wagon. These they would make use of, and start for home. Traveling in the wagon until their horses were nearly played out, they abandoned it, and proceeded, after a day or two of rest, on horseback. After enduring groat hardships, they finally reached Council Bluffs, with the assistance of some returning pilgrims like themselves, who overtook them’. The party reached the Missouri River on the 3d of July. On the route they met no hostile Indians, and but few friendly ones. At Council Bluffs, they remained together for some time, but finally divided, Jenkins and his companions keeping together. They had a quantity of gold, which they disposed of, and started on their joufney homeward again, going as far as Cedar Ranids, when Jenkins’ wound became so bad that lie was unable to ride in the cars. They hired a room, and the services of a pliyaican were secured. There they remained until Jenkins was told he could bear a ride as far as this city, when they again resumed the homeward journey. They arrived in this city yesterday, and will depart for St. Louis on the first boat that goes down. The story is not half told as it was related to us. There are many things about it that seem improbable; but we shall not enumerate them. We cannot vouch for the truth of it, but we can say, from personal observation, that Jenkins is most dangerously wounded. The food he eats furnishes but little nourishment for his body because he has but little chance to digest, owing to the nature of his injury. He is very poor inilesh, and would look like a corpse were it not that his skin Is tanned to the color of that of an Indian. He certainly is an object of pity.—Burlington {lowa) Gazette.

Some of the Favorite Lunar Studies.

There are two lunar spots which the selenographer regards with special favor, because of the evidence they seem to give of change. One is a crater lying on the so-called Sea of Serenity, which some popular lunar observers regard as the left eye of the Man in the Moon. Here there was once a deep crater nearly seven miles aeross, a very distinct and obvious feature even with the small telescope (l ess d'ah four inches in aperture) used by Beer and Madlerin forming thoir celebrated chart, But, ten years ago, the skillful astronomer Schmidt, a selenographer of selenographers—who has, in fact* given the best energies of his life to moon-gazing—found this crater missing. When he announced the fact to the scientific world, other astronomers, armed with very powerful instruments, looked for~the crater which had been so clearly seen with Madler’s small telescope; but though they found a crater, it was nothing like the crater described by Madler. The present crater is scarcely two miles in diameter, and only just visible with powerful telescopes; all aronnd it there is a shallow depression, oc. cupying a region about as large as the whole crater had been before. It seems impossible to doubt that a great change has taken place I. here, and • the question arises whether the change has been produced by volcanic activity or otherwise. 'Sir John HersChel pronounced somewhat in favor of the former hypothesis. “ The most conjecture,” said he, “as to the cause of this disappearance seems to be the filling up of the crater from beneath by an effusion of viscous lava, which, overflowing the rim on all sides, may have so flowed down the outside slope as to efface its ruggedness, and convert it into a gradual declivity, casting no stray shadows.”, But how tremendous the volcanic energy required to fill with lava a crater nearly seven miles in diameter and more than half a mile deep. The volcanic hypothesis seems on this account utterly incredible, for if such energy resided in the moon’s interior we should find her whole surface continually changing. Far more probable sfeems tne idea that the wall of this crater has simply fallen in, scattering its fragments over what had been the floor of the crater. The forces at work on the moon are Quite competent to throw down steep crater walls like those which seem formerly to have girt al>out this deep cavity. Under the tremendous and long-lasting heat of the lunar midday

sun, the rock substance of the moon’s surface must expand, while during the intense cold of the lunar night a correspond, ing contraction must take place, under the influence of this alternate expansion and contraction the strongest of the lunar crater-walls must be tending to their downfall. Their substance must be gradually crumbling away. From time to time large masses must topple over, and occasionally long ranges of crater-wall must be brought to the ground. It seems conceivable enough, certainly far more probable than any other interpretation which has been offered, that the craterwall first missed by Schmidt was destroyed in this way. The other favorite region of stenographers is a much larger one—the great walled plain called Plato, and by the older astronomers the Greater Black Lake, sixty miles in diameter, and surrounded by mountains, some of which rise nearly 2,500 yards above the level of the floor.— Spectator.

An Indian “Dug Out.”

In the United States Government Building at tl»e mammoth Exposition, a curiosity in the way of a boat lias been placed oh exhibition by the National Museum. It is a huge Indian* dug-out canpe, measuring sixty feet in length, and having an eight feet breadth of beam. It is made entirely from one log, and is, as its name implies, a dug-out. The boat is painted all over, a variety of colors, and adorned with queer looking figures and hieroglyph ics, resembling quite closely those found on modern gods made and worshiped by idolatrous nations. It was built (it to cut down a tree and dig out the trunk of it may be- called building a boat) by the natives of Vancouver’s Island, away up in the British American possessions, where the gentle savages have no “ reservations,” are neither fed nor clothed by the Government under which they live, and are compelled to find other means of gaining subsistence than stealing horses, cattle, ammunition and scalps from white people. The precise age of this monster dug-out is not known, but it is evidently quite a venerable craft. When manned by a crew of about forty oarsmen, skilled and muscular, it would be susceptible of moving tlirough the water at a rapid rate. However, it will not be entered for the forthcoming Centennial regatta on the Schuylkill River, the time for which has been postponed till the middle of August.— Philadelphia Cor. Chicago Journal.

A British Mermaid.

Last year a Miss Beckwith, a girl of fourteen, daughter of a swimming-master on the Thames, distinguished herself by her natatorial feats, but this season she has surpassed all her former efforts by swimming from the old bridge at Chelsea, England, to Greenwich pier. A pilot in a small boat, in which were her father and brother, the latter ready to jump to the aid of his sister in the event of any emergency, led the way. She swam close to its stern, and kept that position more or less during the whole of her task. Vauxliall bridge was reached in' thirty-four minutes’, When she had passed under it she several times passed her body through a hoop—a feat which elicited a special cheer. At Westminster the sight of an immense populace on the bridge was of itself remarkable. In seventy minutes Miss Beckwith had reached Blackfriars bridge, and from this point to the end of the course spectators appeared on masts, crowded wharf windows, and occupied every available position. So far the young swimmer had displayed not the least fatigue. She proceeded with the ease of a skilled swimmer,while the distance had not impaired the remarkable grace of her style. London bridge, crowded, was passed in one hour and twenty-two minutes. The boats after this became more unruly than ever, and on several ocAsions Miss Beckwith was nearly struck on the head with their bows. Opposite Greenwich pier Miss Beckwith was taken on board the Volunteer, having swum the ten miles in two hours and forty-six minutes. During the time she was in the water she declined all offers of refreshment, and when she appeared on board the steamboat she was apparently as fresh and sprightly as when she came out of her cabin in Chelsea.

An English View of the Women’s Pavilion.

The most attractive part of the Pavilion is, however, that which contains specimens from the various American schools of d< fig !, notably the wood-carving from the sc ho <1 at Cincinnati. The quantity of really nrst-class work which it sends is astonishing when one considers that the artists are many of them amateurs and still quite young. It certainly opens a field for women’s work very different from the “old starvation sewing.” The pupils excel in such decorative arts as painting on china and slate, hut their forte seems to be wood-carving. One of the best specimens is a bed carved by two young ladies of seventeen and nineteen, while the pillars and lace arc done by one of fourteen. The devices are all floral and copied with minute fidelity and skill from nature. Two ladies will make very handsome sums by thus decorating, one an organ, the other a piano, which the manufacturer, with a well-grounded faith in their power of giving the instruments an attractive appearance, had presented them in hope of a good advertisement. It is very gratifying to be able to add that a school which can turn out such artiste gives its instruction free to Philadelphia Cor. London Times.

How Jetties are Made.

The workmen employed by Capt. Eads on the ’Mississippi River jetties live in huts in a cane-brake swamp, and every rise of the tide covers the ground with water. They also endure the bites of the unusually big mosquitoes, and the proximity of alligators. The streets of Port Eads, as the village is called, are planks laid on posts. The jetties are built of willow matting alternated by layers of stones. The w illows are obtained on an island near by, the supply being equal to the immense demand. On the back of the island is a sloping platform, upon which mate are made by laying the willows crosswise and length wife until the mass is thirty inches thick. Strips of wood fi.mly bolted together hold the mat together after it is pressed compactly. Then it is launched toward the spot where it is to be used, attached to guide posts and piled with stones until it sinks. Each mat is 100 feet long and from fifty to fifteen feet wide, according to the place it is made to occupy in the tapering jetty. — Washington Chronicle. • ■ — 1 Titerk is a good deal of consolation just now in the thought, that a man who drops a five-dollar bill Into the contribution box buffers just as much from the heat as one who puts in a counterfeit quarter and takes out a couple of good tcn-cent pieces for change.— Bulletin.

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—The hide of the steer weighs about the eighteenth part, and the tallow the twelfth part of the living animal. ! —To get rid of the smell of oil paint plunge a handful of hay into a pailful of water, and let it stand in the room newly painted. —Melons require that the entire patch should l>e worked to mellowness and be made rich. It is all wrong to merely work and enrich around the hill. For melons to do well the roots require a good chance to run as far as the vines. —To kill bed bugs take of iodide of potassium, one ounce, and dissolve it in onehalf pintos turpentine; then apply with a small brush or feather, in all the crevices of the wall and bedstead. Care should be taken to label the mixture “ poison.” —For raspberry jam, to every pound of raspberries take half a pound of loaf sugar, and crush the berries to a perfect jam before adding the sugar; then boil them for twenty minutes, removing all the scum that rises, and seal up tightly in bottles or glass jars. —Sugar Cookies.—Three eggs, two cups white sugar, one cup of butter, one-half teaspoon of soda in a tablespoon of water, flour enough to roll good. When rolled out ready for cutting, spririkle over with white sugar; cut and bake in a moderate oven; flavor to the taste. —Composition Pie.—One cup of flour, one of vinegar, three of water; boil to the consistency of starch, add a piece of butter the size of an egg, sweeten to the taste, add any flavoring you like; bake in a very short, thin crust. When done cover with frosting, and set* in a diy place. This is enough for two pies. —Veal Soup—To a knuckle of veal of six pounds, put seven or nine quarts of water; boil down one-half; skim it well. This is better to do the day before you Kare the soup for the table. Thicken rubbing flour, butter and water together. Season with salt and mace. When done add one pint new milk; let it just come to a boil; then pour into a soup dish lined with macaroni well cooked. —Vanilla Ice-Cream.—Take one quart of rich, new milk, put in a vanilla bean broken in two, and set over the fire in a water-bath to heat. Separate the whites and yelks of three eggs and beat • them very light. When the milk almost boils, stir up the beaten yolks with four cups of crushed white sugar, and add to them the hot milk little by little, beating steadily the while. Then beat in the frothed whites, and place again over the fire, stirring it briskly for about fifteen minutes. It will now be quite as thick as boiled custard. Pour it out into a deep dish or bowl and set it aside to cool. When it is quite cold beat into it three pints of sweet rich cream, and it is ready to freeze. If you cannot get a vanilla bean to use, add three teaspoons -:1s of extract of vanillh to the cold custard. -

Sow Late Turnips.

There is no disguising the fact that the almost incessant rains which have poured a flood of water during the past four weeks over a large area of the great corrigrowing region of the Western States will seriously affect that crop this year. With no desire to create alarm we may say that we have received letters from reliable parties scattered over a wide district of country, which plainly indicate that in numerous localities there will not be more than half a crop of corn. With favorable weather and good management from this time on, the aggregate of the crop may not be so largely reduced as to materially affect the price, nevertheless, farmers, in many places will have a short crop, and thereby be subjected to more or less loss and inconvenience. How to make the best of the situation, and, as far as possible, avert disaster, is the problem which every prudent farmer will endeavor to answer for nimself. We will make a suggestion. A good opportunity is now presented for many farmers who have never raised turnips for stock, to give them a trial. The soil of the prairies is well adapted to late turnips, and there is little probability that the season will be unfavorable to them. There are a number of varieties the seed of which may he sown in July and the early part of August, and we advise our friends whose corn crops will be greatly diminished, to prepare the ground as soon as possible and sow turnip seed. Dark soils usually are highly favorable to the crop, as they contain the necessary requirements of this product. The ground should be thoroughly prepared, and as free from weeds as possible. Generally the seed is sown broadcast, and the crop is given no further attention until it is harvested, but this is not the. best way at any time, and especially in a season which has been as wet as this. It is much better to sow in drills, say two feet apart, and cultivate the crop in order to keep down the weeds, and the ground loose and mellow. A pound of good seed is a large quantity for an acre, but it is not safe to use a less quantity, for the reason that many may not germinate, Should all of them, or nearly so, come up, it will be necessary to thin out to four or six inches in the drill. Under ordinary circumstances, good seed will germinate in two or three Says, and as soon as the rough leaves are an inch broad the cultivator should be started and the plants kept clear of weeds. A moist atmosphere is tavorable to the growth of the crop, and this is what is expected during the fall months, and the turnips enlarge much more rapidly in cool weather than during that wfeteh is hot. Too little attention is paid to turnips by Western farmers. Here and there a man who has learned the value of the crop for stock-feeding, raises it, but as a rule it is negleqted. As we remarked above, the present is a favorable opportunity for many of our friends to try the experiment, and, in some degree, mitigate the misfortune of a short crop of corn. We are sure that they will find it a satisfactory and paying investment, beside affording their stock a food which is greatly relished and highly beneficial to • them. —Prairie Farmer.

Threshing and Cleaning Wheat.

Good clean wheat without cracked or cut kernels in it will always sell more readily and at a better price, than wheat foul with weeds, seeds and chart' and full of cut or bruised grain. Threshers are apt to manage in a way to secure their own interests, rather than that of the owner of the grain, by rushing the work, so as to put through a large amount of grain and increase the average profits for their labor. The farmer who has raised a good crop of plump wheat has only himself to blame if he allays the threshing machine to do the work 'in an unworkmanlike manner. The most of the threshing is done by men who own the machines, and go about from farm to farm threshing by the bushel so that the

more grain that is put through the machine In a day the greater will be the profits, and are apt to act on this principle by crowding their machines to their greatest capacity. With careful management on the part of the machine men, a great saving may be made to the farmer, and satisfactory results to themselves; for, with the improved machinery, which has been brought almost to perfection during the last rew years, the work may be done well and rapidly enough to satisfy the ambition of the thresher, or the economizing spirit of the farmer. As the machine brings with it a large gang of men and horses to pay and feed, the fanner nature ally feels some as the owner of the machine does, that he would like to get through with the job as soon as possible. 8o while the hurry may be on both sides, the loss from the slighted work, all comes off of the farmer. Grain may be and often is wasted in the cutting and handling, but ’ the greater waste is in the single operation of threshing, often without anybody’s knowing it, or stopping to tli ink about it. jbisist on saving all the grain possible, and have the work well done. Barring the danger of fire, steam is the most economical power for threshing purposes, giving a more steady speed to- the machine, so if the grain is fed tlirough at an even rate, there Is no danger of the grain being blown through with the chaff, at the moments of high speed. Besides, it is decided cruelty to animals, to press horses into a succession of full days’ work running the threshing machine during mid-summer, while the days are long, the heat oppressive and the flies inflict their severest punishment. Give the horses all the protection they can have from the flies, and the machinery will be less liable to be broken and the grain wasted by an irregular motion. As the straw has now become a matter of great importance, it should be put upon the stack over the carrier. In this way the chaff and whatever grain which would otherwise be wasted, by being left-scat-tered upon the ground on account of its fineness, the pitchers not being able to put it upon the stack with the use of their forks, would be saved. Ordinarily we think it economy to put the grain in the stack during a sufficient time for it to go through a “sweat” before threshing, for no doubt it improves the quality and condition of the grain to some extent, will require less help on threshing days, and the delay will be in favor of the straw while it is not exposed to the summer rains. Of course, when the farmer is compelled to sell soon after harvest, he had better thresh out of the shock, and for no other reason would we advise threshing grain before or during the “dog days.”— Western Rural. —The Reading (Pa.) Times says a party of young men were exercising upon a slack-rope in the shed of the Seltzer House, at Womelsdorf, when one of them, named Albert Rine, aged twenty-four years, and weighing 175 pounds, attempted to hold his weight on the rope by his teeth. He took a firm hold with his mouth, and let go with his hands, when he dropped with a jerk, breaking his lower jaw-bone on both sides and tearing out six teeth w'ilh the bone. There are 70,000 children living on boats in England, who receive no education.

Many Who are suffering from the effects of the warm weather and are debilitated are advised by physicians to take moderate amounts of whisky two or three times during the day. In a little while those who adopt this advice frequently Increase the number of “ drinks,” and In time become conilrmed inebriates. A beverage which will not create thirst for intoxicating liquors and which is intended especially for the benefit of debilitated persons, whether at home or abroad, ia Dr. Bchenck’s Sea Weed Tonic. Containing the juices of many medicinal herbs, this preparation does not create an appetite for the intoxicating cup. The nourishing and the life-supporting properties of many valuable natural productions contained in It and well known to medical men have a most strengthening Influence. A single bottle of the Tonic will demonstrate Its valuable qualities. For debility arialng from sickness, over-exertion, or from any canse whatever, a wineglassful of Sea Weed Tonic taken after meals will strengthen the stomach and create an appetite for wholesome food. To all who are about leaving their homee we desire to say that the excellent effects of Dr. Schenok's seasonable remedies—Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills —are particularly evident when taken by those who are injuriously affected by a change of water and diet. N o person should leave home wiihout taking a supply of these safeguardi along. For sale by all Druggists. Wilhoft’s Tonic!—Unfailing and Infallible!—This great Chill Tonic cure# Chills without the intervention of doctors and their bille. No consulting visits—no prescriptions to be tilled—no huge bills, entailing pecuniary embarrassments, added to loss of health. It is the friend of the poor man, because it enables him to earn a living, and of the rich, because it prepares him to enjoy his wealth. This great boon to mankind is cheap, safe and prompt. G. R. .Finlay & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. Fob sale by all Druggists. Joseph Lewteb, of Milan, Tenn., wrote Feb. 22,1876 f “ I have sold Shallenberger’s Ague Pills for twelve years, and have never heard of a case they have not cured.” Have you chills? Shallenberger’s Pills will cure YOG for one dollar. Try them. E. L. Pbcssing & Co . Chicago, made two million gallons White Wine Vinegar in 1875

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