Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1877 — Page 7

Marveious Feats With the Bow and Arrow.

A. mwrr time ago » correspondent of a Chicago paper, wiring from thi» city, gave an account of the wonderful archery of Otar fellow-townsman and poet, J. Maurice Thompson, Em.. which account socmed to me a piece of exaggeration. Having lived here serCnd . year*, and being tolerably well acquainted with Mr. Thompson aaa lawyer and author. 1 am always prepared to read the encomiums of the proa* upon hi* literary efforts without surprise; hot T confew I was not prepared to swallow flovtu all that the correspondent told about his “longbow’’ shooting, But. In order to satisfy myself as to the truth or falsity of his statements I called uport Mr. Thompson yesterday, at his law office. I found him and his brother William, his partner; busily engaged with aeyeral clients preparing causes for the Circuit Court, which will convene in a few days; but watching my opportunity I engaged the poet in conversation, into which I introduced the subjectof archery, when 1 found out that he was a perfect euthusiast on the subject. Hisknowledge of the bow-shooting of the ancients, as well as of the Indians of America and the bushmen of Africa, is truly astonishing. Ho stated that for several years he had made it his special study, and that by constant practice he had become an export; that he and his brother had hunted HuTi killed all kinds of game with the bow, from snowbirds to the lordly bison of Colorado, and that be had long since cast the rifle and shotgun aside as weapons requiring too little skill. standing against the wall in a corner of the office, I noticed a bow of beautiful workmanship, and hanging on a nail near by was a quiver filled with long, feathered, steel-pointed arrows; and, if a helmet and coat of mail had pnly hung somewhere near, I could easily have imagined that I was in the hall of some ancient Baron, instead of the office of a modem lawyer and poet. 1 And when I intimated a desire to witness his skill with his favorite weapon, he eagerly consented to gratify my desire, and, dismissing his clients with an imperious wave of his hand, he and his brother took down the bow and quiver of arrows, and together we left his office and went to his target-grounds, near his cottage residence in the suburb of our beautiful little city. I have since learned that he is so devoted to the science of archery that he ■yill leave books and clients at any lime to gratify hia numerous visitors with specimens of his wonderful skill. Arriving at the grounds, his brother placed a target about twelve inches in diameter at a distance of eighty paces, and they each shot six arrows at it. Five of the poet’s and four of his brother’s struck the bull's-eye. The arrows were sent with tremendous force—enough, I imagined, to have driven them clear through a full-grown buffalo. Then followed other astonishing feats. An old-faStiioned three-cent piece was placed against a tree at a distance of forty paces, and at the first shot the steel point of the poet’s arrow cut it in twain. Then a lead pencil—a Faber No. 2 —was stuck into the mound at thirty paces, and out of a dozen shots by the brothers, only one missed the pencil. I then took another pencil and sharpened the point as finely as I could and placed it at the same dis tance, with the pointed end for a target; and Maurice’s first'arrow struck and split the pencil from end to end. We then threw apples and oranges and oyster cans up in the air, and the brothers shot at them «n the wing. It was no trouble for either one to wing an oyster can, bat occasionally an apple or orange would get away. After spending half the day in this way I suggested that perhaps I had kept them long enough from tlieir legal business; but they insisted on remaining longer, declaring that the science of archery demanded that its devotees should never allow the ordinary duties of life to interfere with its progress. I finally left the poet and his brother, fully convinced that the correspondent alluded to didn’t tell half he might have told about oor Crawfordsviile archers.— Crawfordtville ( Ind.) Cot. Chicago InterOcean .

A Famous Legal Struggle.

The romance of reality has seldom appeared so prominently as in the famous suit wbioh reached a final (decision in New Orleans last week. The prosecutor, Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, first brought her case into the courts more than forty years ago, and the time, the talk and the papers pertaining thereunto make Dickens’ Jarndyce case rather a tame affair in comparison. Nearly every American lawyer of the past half century has sharpened or dulled his wits on this dispute, even when not stimulated by a retainer on either side, while hosts of able jurists have taken part in the struggle until a Higher Court summoned them into another sphere with their labors unfinished. The plaintiff hersett has on occasion ap-peared-in court as her own attorney, and, by her wit and wisdom, damaged the saying that he wrfho is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. The prise which Mrs. Gaines contested for was a double one. 'An enormous fortunes and the greater satisfaction of establishing legitimacy, gave the stimulus which has sustained her through a struggle which few men would have dared to attempt. Few people will be ungenerous enough to begrudge her the completeness of her triumph, and thousands of women who are the victims of .similar circnunst&nces, over which they had no control, will bless her for the persistence through which she has established a precedent at which they can avail themselves. May she live lone to enjoy the millions which, though long ago hers by right, she has so splendidly earned by her own efforts!— N. Y:. Herald. “Sup.”— Take rennet; cut Ban-pieces an inch square or so; put in a fruit-jar with salt water on it. Set it away for use after a week or two. When you wish a plain, easy dessert, sweeten a quart of milk somewhat; pour into it a tablespoonful of the rennet water, and set it where it will warm gradually. It will curdle when at the right temperature, and is then ready for use. Eat with cream and sugar. This dish Is very nice for Invalids, and can often he eaten when more solid food distresses the stomaeh. — Cincinnati Timet. Nomotaixy an American car-load is 30,000 lbs. It is also 70 barrels of salt, 70 ot lime, 90 of flour, 80 of whisky, 300 sacks of floor, 6 cords of soft wood, 18 or 20 head of cattle, 50 or 00 head of hogs, 80 to 100 head of sheep, 6,000 feet of solid boards, 340 bushels of wheat, 400 of com, 680 of oats, 400 of barley, 860 of flaxseed, 360 of apples, 490 of Irish potatoes, 800 of sweet potatoes, 1,000 bushels of bran, 180 to 190 barrels «f eggs, and 15,000 to 36,000 pounds ot blllter.—F. 8. B. U.dkß. Meporttr.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Perhaps some ladies do not know that a teaspoonful of vinegar and a teaspoonful of sugar is a groat Improvement to beef gravy. Try it. Potatoes frequently became rough - skinned, and consequently unsalable; this is caused by a minute maggot, which destroys the akin of the potato during its growth. Corn Starch Cake.— One cup of sugar; one-third cup of butter; one and one-fourth cups of flour; one half cup of sweet milk; one-half oup of corn starch; two teaspoons of baking powder. Water that runs off the,surface carries off much of the fertility of the soil. But water filtered through the soil to an under drain takes none of the fertility, but leaves in the soil the rich gases which are in rain or snow water.— lowa State Register. Speaking of potato-planting a writer in the New York Tribune advises late planting. He has the best success with plantings made late in June or tne first of July, using, of course, the early sorts. The potatoes then mature in cool weather in the fall instead of the hot days of July and August. A cool season is most congenial to tne potato. A 8 out door work presses, the plants in the window or greenhouse are apt to be neglected, at a time when they require all the more care. As the heat increases, insect life becomes the more active and needs to be promptly met. Watering will require careful attention, especially for the plants in small pots. Select the plants that are to be set out in the borders, and give them the coolest part of the house; or, if the weather will allow, set them in a pit or frame, to be hardened off. In propagating bedding plants, more trouble will be found in keeping the air of the house cooler than the temperature of the sand on the bench; and shading, sprinkling the walks, and every means must be resorted to. —American Agriculturist.

The following advice on the subject of churning is furnished by Mr. J. T. Ellsworth to the Scientific Farmer : Churning cream to make good butter is not so simple a process as some may think. It must be churned at the proper time and at the proper temperature, ahd the churn should be stopped as soon as the cream is broken, but before the butter has gathered in large balls. In warm weather it is of great importance to watch the process closely, and to notice just when the change is to take place. At this time add enough cold water (not ice) to reduce the temperature of the mass to about fifty-six or fifty-eight degrees, and then complete the churning, which will be as soon as the butter is in a granulated .form, with S articles about the size of pease. Then raw off the buttermilk and dash in cold water, repeating the washing until the water drawn off appears clear. Now take out a layer of butter into the tray, and sprinkle on finely-sifted salt, at about the rate of an ounce of salt to the pound (more or less, as consumers may wish). Then take out another layer of butter aud salt as before. After the butter is salted set it away for about three hours for it “to take salt” and “harden the grain.” Now work it a little with a wooden paddie and set it away again until next day, when it will need but little working before preparing it for market. By handling in this way you will get a clean, bright article, with a perfect or unbroken grain, which will keep sweet whether consumed immediately or packed down for future marketing. If the butter is soft and white, it is from lack of proper cooling before churning, and it may be hardened by putting in about three times the'usual amount of salt and working it a little for two or three mornings.

Plants do Not Poison the Air.

“ Thebe is a notion prevalent that the presence of growing plants in the sleeping or living room is detrimental to a healthy atmosphere by their giving out poisonous carbonic acid gas in the night time. The investigations of chemists demonstrate that growing plants do exhale an almost imperceptible quantity of carbonic acid gas, which, in very small proportions, is necessary in the air we breathe. They also show that the quantity 'exhaled at night is but the one-sixteenth part of what the same plant absorb from the atmosphere during the day and convert into nearly its own weight of oxygen, thus changing a poisonous gas that derives its Origin from various sources, into one of the principal elements of pure air. If carbonic acid gas is emitted from plants in dangerous quantities, it certainly would exist largely in the night atmosphere of a close greenhouse heated to a tropical temperature, and crowded from floor to rafter with rank vegetation. Yet, in my experience, I have never known the slightest ill effects to be realized from night work in greenhouses; neither in cases that have frequently occurred of workmen making the warm greenhouses their sleeping auartere of a night, and even for an enre winter, which, to u>y satisfaction, affords practical proof that the notion is a fallacy; and the fact that perhaps no healthier class of men can be found than greenhouse operators, who work gconstantly in an atmosphere where plants are growing, would prove instead that living plants exert a beneficial Influence upon the air we breathe.” Those who have heretofore dreaded to keep plants in their houses on account of their supposed Tli effects, may rest at ease, and even furnish their sleeping-rooms wife flowers. —Home Kloriet.

Cattle on Pastures In Spring.

A word of caution is not out of place at this time in regard to turning stock out to pasture. After having been shut up in stables, sheds and yards during most of the winter, and fed on dry feed, a bite of fresh grass, just starting in growth is very greatly relished by the cattle, and some Farmers are disposed to gratify the appetite of their stock a little too early for the good of their pasture*. The ground should he fairly settled, for if the cattle are turned upon it while it is soft and spongy the sod will be cut up and injured before tile grass has obtained a fair start, and the injury will hardly be repaired during the season. The sparseness of the feed causes the stock to roam over the entire field day alter day, and it sometimes happens that great damage results from want ot consideration in this matter. Under such treatment there is little wonder that a pasture soon runs out. There are those that hold that it is a good plan to turn cattle out early, before the young grass has fairly started, because they will then eat a considerable quantity of last year’s dry grass while cropping the new, and thus naturally become accustomed to the change as the season advances. This is very well in some cases, but will not answer in (all, and the farmer must decide whether or not it is good policy. Hie condition of the pasture must mainlv decide the Question. If the land is not too wet, and there is a well es-

tablUkedflrm todwhkhwa» not paatufed too late the preceding fell, this plan is, for several reasons. Judicious. But while It Is unwise, as a rule, to torn the cattle on the pastures us soon as the young grass begins to appear, it is just as unwise to continue them In the stables or yards and feed them on dry fodder almost exclusively until there is a full feed of grass in the pastures. When they are turned out under such circumstances, they find the tender herbage so exceedingly palatable, after their Jong confinement on dry feed, that they till themselves with the succulent graae, which acts as a cathartic or purgative; and in such cases It not unfrequently weakens and debilitates the cattle to a degree that is highly injurious. In proper - quantity, green grass is highly beneficial in cleansing the stomach and intestines of stock, and bringing about a healthy action throughout the entire system, but when eaten to excess, especially immediately after a long period of dry diet, it induces scours, which, as every judicious farmer knows, is a disadvantage to his animals. The change ought to bo gradual, and a mixed diet of dry and green food provided, so that a normal condition may be maintaiied —nounnrtural action induced. In this way the health of the entire herd will be maintained and the vigorous growth of the young stock promoted.— Wi stem R\lrai.

What a Little Girl Saw While in a Trance.

The following singular story comes from Monroe, Wis., and is vouched for as strictly true by prominent residents of that place: Nellie Blackford is thirteen years old, ard never has been a robust child. Some two months ago or more she supposed her mother to be dying, and ran nearly two miles for neighbors to be present. She returned exhausted, was taken down to the bed with illness, suffering greatly for many weeks afterward. A physician gave all possible attention, but she continued to grow worse. The doctor finally declared that no human pqwer could save her, and that she must die. Nellie, too, expressed a desire not to live, saying that she wished to go to God and the angels, ere her dear afflicted mother left her a helpless orphan. On Monday afternoon, the 16tli ult., the friends and neighbors assembled to see.lier pass away. •About three o’clock her extremities became very cold, and they thought her gintly and happily passing “over the river.” All at once a change passed over her features, a sv/eet smile illuminated her countenance, and the most intense delightseemed portrayed and lingered on her face till it fairly shone. Words fail to express the happiness, contentment and glory there depicted. A continual change seemed passing over her quiet face, all telling of something bright and beautiful passing before her enraptured eyes. All at once, to the astonishment of all, she raised her little hands in the attitude of listening intently, changing her position continually, and seeming to listen with all the power of her being. She continued in this state for very nearly three hours, seemingly perfectly unconscious of all surrounding objects and sounds. She seemed to gently rouse from this condition. She opened her eyes, aud, seeing her mother standing near, a sweet and heavenly smile passed over her face. Her mother stooped and asked her if she heard sweet music. Nellie had spoken before of hearing music when in her sinking spells. And now comes the strange and miraculous story of this little daughter of affliction as related by herself: “ I seemed as though I was walking through a pleasant country till I camo to a place that surely was heaven. There were streets all paved with gold, and such beautiful fountains as clear as crystal that seemed to rise up and then fall in bright sparkling drops. I laid down on a soft, grassy bank to rest, near a fount ain, where uiy grandpa, who has been dead six years, came to me, and said I should go back to take care of my little sister till she was large enough to take care of herself. My little brother, whom I had never seen, came to me and told me he was my brother, and he played such sweet music for me on a golden harp. A' crown of gold encircled his head. He was all dressed in gleaming white, and so was grandpa. And he did not look so old as when here, and his eyes were perfect, not blind of the one he used to be. His voice sounded so familiar. “Then, oh I lean hardly tell; I saw Jesus all robed in white, a dazzling crown upon His head. He sat on such a bean* tltul high seat that was on a raised platform. All seemed of gold, and there were beautiful trees, flowers, streams and fountains of clear water around tbe throne and everywhere. Angels, were flying around, bright crowas upon their heads and golden harps in their hands, and they played the sweetest music that I ever heard. I felt so sorry at first when grandpa told me I should go back and take tbe place of my dear mother, and she should come. When I first seemed to get to this beautiful place, the sweet word Welcome! Welcome! echoed all around. I saw so many things that words fail to tell them now. The angels said they would cure me, that 1 should take no medicine, and I know I shall get well.” Nellie- Blackford, it is said, has greatly improved since her trance vision, and seems in a fair way to get entirely well.

Kirby’s Ghost.

Jim Kirby set it up with some of the other young fellows that it would be a good idea to scare old Kreutzer, the Ger man farmer who lives Just out beyond the village. And so one night when Kreutzer had been in town drinking beer with his friends, Kirby got a sheet and hied to the Methodist graveyard, which lies by the side of the road which Kreutzer had to take on his way home. Kreutzer came along about eleven o’clock, and as soon as be came up to the graveyard fence, Kirby slipped the sheetoverhis head and around him, and jumped up on a tombstone. For a minute Kreutzer was startled, and, jumping back*, he exclaimed: Py sliiminy! vot’s dat?” A moment later his dog began to climb through the fence, and Kreutzer concluded to go over after him in order to investigate this spiritual phenomenonThen the ghost suddenly began to get down off of the tombstone. But as it fled, Kreutzer’a dog arrived and began to taste its near leg. Then Kreutzer came up and shoved the ghost over against Gen. Bummer’s monur rent. Then the Geiman gentleman sat on the specter, while the Teutonic dog gnawed away at that leg. Finally, Kirby begged for mercy, and as Kreutzer rose ana called off his dog, he •aid; “Py Bborge l l pellets in ghosts, put I nefer yet see a goplin dat I couldn’t shake de efferlastin liner out of—ven I got holt of him!” Kirby has given up spiritualism and gone into the arnica and court-plaster business. —Max Adeler, inM. Y. Weekly.

A. Batch of Whys.

Why are Ambassadors tbe most perfect people in the world ? Because they are all excellencies. Why is sympathy like blind-man's buff! It I* a fellow feeling for a fellow-creature. Why is the sun like a good loaf ! Because it’s light when It rises. Why is a crow a brave bird T Because she never shows the white feather. Why is the “ Home Cook Book,” Chicago, acknowledged to bd »he most valuable and elegant extant ? Because the recipes all come from ladles of influence and good judgment, with permission to use name, and no lady would publicly endorse a recipe with her name unless it wss the very best she knew. —Therefore— Why is a sawyer like S lawyer! Because whichever way he goes, down comes the dust. Why are washerwomen silly people ! Because they put out their tubs to catch soft water when it rains hard. Why is a man who doesn’t lose his temper like a schoolmaster ? Because he keeps cool (keeps school). Why are mountains like invalids! Because they look peakish. Why are umbrellas like pancakes ? Because they are seldom seen after Lent. Why cannot two slender persons ever become great friends ! Because they will always be slight acquaintances.

Slandering Your Neighbors.

The chief claim for support and patronage by some of the manufacturers of Baking Powder in this country, seems to be based on the idea of always vilifying and traducing the character and quality of the goods of other manufacturers. “Our goods, or none,” Is their motto. The manufacturers of Dooley’s Tbast Powder set up no such arbitrary claim; but they do claim to produce an absolutely pure, wholesome, and, in every way, perfect Baking Powder. Beside which, if it etrictlyfull weight. Wilhoft’s Tonic I—A Save, Bure and Scientific Cure '—The unprecedented sale of this world-renowned medicine provea, Incontcstiblv, that no remedy has superseded the use of this reliable Tonic. No spleen has been found so hard as not to yield to its softening influence, and uo liver so hypertrophied as not to give up its long retained bilious secretions, and no Chill or Fever baa yet refused to fall into line. G. R. Finlay & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. Ftoit sai.r by all Druggists. I have sold Hatch’s Universal Cough Syrup for five years. During that time I have sold more of it than of any other cough remedy. Many of my customers will have nothing else. All who use it speak lu its praise, as a safe, effectual and pleasantmedfeine to take. It is claimed to be qnfailing for croup. P. Davis, Ontario, N. Y. Sold by Van Schaack, Stevenson & Reid, Chicago, 111.

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V egetine! Necrosis, Scrofula, Dyspepsia, General Debility, Canker, Humor, Liver Complaint, Rheumatism, Consumption of the Bowels. Charlestown, Mam., March 25, 1860. Mr. H. R. Stkvenh: Rear Sir - The following is a statement of mjr experience with the great Blood iteinedy, Vboetink. I have been keeping a boarding hooae here for many yearn, and have had the mLfortune to have a treat deal of sickness in my family. In one case in particular 1 noticed the wonderful effect of Vbobtimb. Abo t the vear 1847. a young man. then sixteen year* old, who wa<t a dl-tuu relative of mine, came home from sea. He had Injured hie left leg on board the ship tome months before, and when the ship came into thie port he came to my house, 'heihg ebTfitnie that he couidnot go to hie home In Lowell. Hie leg wu. swollen aboVe the knee more than twice ite natural else, and he was obliged to drag it along after him, having no uee of it whatever. The etlect of thie had reduced him to a mere skeleton. His father came down, and employed Ur. George Hayward of Boeton to attend nlm, who then i.ccupied a prominent position in the Massachusetts General Hospital. He pronounced it a bad case of. Necrosis; said he must be removed to the hospital, have hie leg opeuod and the bone bored, to allow the discharge of matter there collected; otherwise the leg must he amputated. Not thinking it advisable to purene this course, and having need Ykobtink, the great Blood Remedy. in the past with so good«fleet, concluded to try it in thie case. Alter taking it regularly lor six weeks, hie leg was bat little swollen, and his general he .Ith so much Improved that ha did not look like the same person. At the end of live months he went home to Lowell perf. ctly cured, be remained in Lowell until the commencement of the war; then joined the army, and was pronounced a sound and well man. ' The ahovels but one cas: out of many where I haw seen this Blood Remedy need with unparalleled success I have luken it myself for twenty years, more or less, for Dyspepsia »nd Gv-ncral Debility, and it always appeared to give me new life and Vigor. One lady boarder was completely cured from Canker Humor, after she had suffered foryeais, and tried almo-t everything else without receiving any beueflt. Another lady was cored from Liver Complaint, which was a bad case, and ao considered bv the many physicians who had attended her from time to time. I have known its uee by other boarders for Rheumatism with extraordinary good effect. A lady took It for Consumption of the Bowels, and fonnd more relief than iu anything else ahe she could procare t Ido not want to over-estimate its usefulness; bnt i do want those suffering troin sickness to know what this good medieiue has doue and is still doing, for I know what It Is to be imposed upon when sick, and i kink it is wro'ng for any one toover-e tlmate a remedy at tire expense of the he p ess sick; and L for one, will not do it under any Circumstances whatever. Mbs. ALIVA S. MONROE, 161 Chelsea Street.

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