Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1877 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

OLD MAN Gil AM. In little Grain Court live* old man Gram, The patriarch of the place, Where often you’!! ,«eo hi" face. Eager and greedy, peenna almut, Ah no g.M'H bustling in and out At a wriggling, rickety paoo— Brink octogenarian " pace. Ho rattle* Ilia stick at my heels, and brags. As ho cornea shuttling along the flags - Brags of his riches and bmgs of his rags, M nch work and little play. “ You see where 1 am, says old man Gram—- " You see where I am to day. "I came to town at twelve years old. With a shilling in this 'ere pocket”— You should see him chuckle and knock it! “ The town to me was a big, stout chest, With fortunes locked in the till; but I guessed A silver key would unlock it— My little key would unlock it I found in a rag-shop kept by a Jew A place to sleep and a job to do, And managed to make my shilling two; And that’s always been my way. Now see where 1 am,” cries old man Grain—- “ Now see where 1 am to-day!” In his den atop of the botcher's shop He lies in his lair of husks, And sui>H on gruel and rusks. And a lame now and then to pick and gnaw, With hardly a tooth hi his tough old jaw, But a. couple of curious tusks— Ah, picturesque, terrible tusks! Though half Gram Court he calls his own, Here, hoarding liis rents, he has lived alone. Until, like a hungry wolf, he has grown Gaunt and shaggy and gray. “ You sec where 1 am," growled old man Gram, As 1 looked in to-day. “ I might have a wife to make my broth. Which would be convenient rather! And younkers to call me father. But a wite would be after my chink, yon sec; And bantlings for them that like!" snarls ho; “I never would have the bother — Ttiey re an awful expense and bother; I went to propose nt fifty-four. But stopped as Iraised my hnnd to the door: ‘To think of a dozen brats or more!’ Kays 1, and 1 turned away. Now see where 1 ain,” brags old man Gram—- ...“ Only sec whore 1 am to-day!” “ 1 had once a niece, who came to town As poor as any church mouse; She wanted to keep my house. Tut! I have no house to keep: go back.' I gave her a dollar, and told her to i>ack; At which she made such a touse— You never did see such a touse! Whole rows of houses were mine, she said; 1 had more bank shares than hairs in my head, And gold like so much iron or lead All which I couldn’t gainsay. Men see where 1 am,” grins old man Gram—- “ They see where I am to-day. ‘‘But if there is anything I detest. And for which I have no occasion, Sir, it's a poor relation. They’re always plenty and always in need; Take one. and soon you will have to feed J ust aliout half the Nation— They'll swann from all over the Nation! And 1 liave a rule, though it’s nothing new—'Tis one tliat I learned from my friend the Jew: Whatever 1 fancy whatever I do, I always ask, Will it pay? Now see where lam," bonste old man Gram— “Justsee where lam to-day!” The little faiys dread his coming tread, Tlicy lire pale as be jiasses by, And the sauciest curs are shy. His stick is so thick and he looks so grim; Not even a beggar will beg of him; You should hearthe reason why!— Theres a very good reason why. The poor he hates, and he hasn’t a friend. And none but a fool will give or lend; “ For, only begin, thsre'll be no end - That's what 1 always say. N >w see where I am,” crows old man Gram — “Just see where I am today!’ ‘ fs miserly gain is the harvest gra’n: All the rest is chaff anil stubble; And the life beyond is a bubble. We are the beast; and he thinks, on the whole, 'Tis quite as well he has no soul, Eor that might give bim trouble— — ~Might Hivu nim ndenLof trouble. ... Tile long and shin t of the old man's creed Is to live for himself and to find his greed. The world is a very good world, indeed, ll’ only a chap might stay; “Only stay where I am," whines oM man Gram—, “ Stay just where 1 am to-day !” -.7. T. Trowbridge, in Harper'* Magazine for Jan nary. - • «.

HULDAH.

Huldah lived in a box—so Hasel said —a funny brown box with a great cover, which could bo lifted-to let the sunshine through. By the box she meant the queer, four-cornered room away up in an old brown lodging-house —awayso4ar«tlmt.your.ieet wouECtffie? climbing to it over the rickety stairs; by the cover, she meant the oldest bit of sky-light, from over which the wooden shutters could be lifted by a curious arrangement, letting the sunshine through in golden showers. The room was Huldah’s by inheritance. Her mother she had never known, but her gray-haired old father, wlum 4w-died-but a year before, left her all his worldly possessions, consisting of the brown box and its contents. Hazel was hers by discovery only. Passing along the dingy street, one afternoon, at dusk, she met the child crying bitterly, her golden curls tangled about, her face, her hat lost, and herself the very picture of despair. Huldah’s heart was touched, and it was very loncly, too. What could she do but take the waif to her home until morning? She washed the tear-stained face and combed out the tangled curls, and then she brought from its cobwebbed corner an old guitar, and sung to her admiring listener the songs that were a part of her own being—for music was life to lonely Huldah. “ Where did you liywn such words?” questioned the ’eager child. “ Who made them up for you?” “I made them up myself,” Huldah answered, smiling because she was appreciated. “ 1 lie awake nights and say them over and over, and when 1 sleep 1 hear them sung to me, and catch the music and remember it, so that when morning comeszl can whisper both to my dear guitar, and it, in turn, whispers them back to me."' “The music, too; is that yours?” Hazel’s eyes were wide with wonder, “ Yes, they arc both mine; although I can sing much beside—songs that my father taught me since I was a little child. lam fifteen now.’’ she added, wit h maidenly dignity, "but one would not think me so old liecause 1 am so thin. That is because 1 have to go without my supper. sometimes, when madame has nothing for me to do.” Hazel Was touched by the simple pathos of fjie story so frankly told. “If you will take me home to-morrow t<> my own, own home, I will give you all my savings bank,” she said, with honest tears in her eyes, as she thought of the many little “ play suppers” she had so often set, while poor Huldah went Huldah carried Hazel home, and re-stored-her to-her-rdghtful owners. She even cried at parting with her, and attempted to remonstrate when Hazel’s Eput a crisp bill into her thin hand. lie pleading voice at her side whispered, “Take it. do! it’s instead of my savings bank,” and HuJjtah could not refuse. ........ Such talent as Huldah’s could not remain forever hidden in the brown box when there was a friend like Hazel to plead her cause, and so it was not strange that one day a scented note was brought to the garret-home, requesting Huldah’s presence and songs at a coming party to be given in honor of her favored little Hazel, at the Nordhoff Mansion. From a tinfe-worn chest Under the eaves Htfldah drew forth a dress—it had been her mother’s—and arraying herself in its scanty folds, she stood on tiptoe before the cracked mirror. Then she screwed tier brown hair on the top

of her head, after-the style of the picture adorning the great clock, tied the heavy antique necklace in place, and put her feet into a quaint old pair' of pointed slippers. Would she really be presentable? How her heart fluttered with glad expectancy, so natural to any maiden of fifteen. She courtesied to the odd-Jooking figure .in the glass, she smiled and brought dimples to her cheeks in the sweet surprise of seeing face and form under a different guise from any heretobefore known. The door opened and Hazel bounded into the room, but she stopped abruptly, clasping her hands with an expression of delight: “O, Huldah! how funny you look! Are you going to a masquerade?” Suddenly the light faded out of Huldah’s eyes, and, covering her face with her hands, she burst into tears. “Why. Huldah! what is the matter? Didn’t you want me to come?” and the pretty lips quivered. “ifes, yes, little Hazel, I wanted you to come, and I am not going to a masquerade," and she reached out her arm to draw Hazel’s curly head down to her own. Then she folded the satinsprigged dress of by-gone days, and laid it carefully away, put the necklace and quaint-pointed shoes back in the chest, and sat down by Hazel’s side. “Sing to me now,” said the child, with a pretty, willful toss of her head, and a movement toward the guitar. “Not to-night, little one. The music isn’t in my heart to-night.” “ But you arc going to sing for papa and miinimk, and all of us, soon. They are so glad they can hear you, and you must sing something pretty. What will it be, Huldah?” “ You must come here if you would hear me, Hazel. That is tlie masquerade, and I am not going, you know. “Masquerade! WhyHuldah” - “Hush! it would be a masquerade for me. I should not be myself in that satin dress, and you would hardly care to hear me sing in this rusty, brown one. 1 have no other; so. Hazel, you must be content to call this a grand parlor, and come here to listen to my songs.” Hazel understood now; but she had set her heart on hearing Huldah sing at her own home, and she was not disappointed. Some good fairy sent a wonderful package to the young musician, and in the package was folded a pretty dress of shining grey, with cherry ribbons. dainty enough for any fifteen-year-old girl. But Mr. Nordhoff footed the good fairy’s bill. Huldah did not disappoint her little friend’s expectations, but sang sweetly enough to have charmed any audience. Her old father had made music a lifelong study, and all the years pf her young life had been passed- under his instruction. Heart and voice werefuH of music, and it was no wonder that Mrs. Nordhoff’s enthusiasm fully equaled Hazel’s, or that many a tifne_ afterward Huldah sang to enraptured listeners, amid the warmth and light and beauty her artistic sense knew so well how to appreciate. ♦ But suddenly a sorrow came. She and Hazel must part, for the Nordhoft’s were going abroad. Hazel would see the eharining places -and beautiful people, while poor -Huldah sang her songs to herself, ia-hog- -lonely garTeETor obeyed the capricious whims of madanic, in whose shop jshe sometimes served. “ Don’t, forget me, little one,” she pleaded, with tearful eyes; and Hazel, clinging to her neck, promised: “I never will forget you, Hiildali; and I will truly come back to you, very, very soon.” How soon neither Huldah nor Hazel dreamed, as they looked out into the future; but one sad day there was a terrible railroad disaster, that chilled the henrts of those used to valamity, and among the long list of killed and” missing were the names’ of Mr. and Mrs. Nordhoff. Poor little Hazel! when they asked her who were her friends and where she would go, the bewildered child could only think of Huldah. To her her sorrowing heart turned in her distress, and she cried, piteously, “Send me back to Huldah. She will love me and take care of me!” And to Huldah she eaine. It would be a long, tiresome story were I to tell you of all the trouble that loliowed How nnf of all that great property which had long been held under the Nordhoff name, hardly a pittance was Mt to the little orphan. The vast estate was heavily involved, and when Huldah took Hazel again into her heart and home, it was as a dependent upon her bounty; but she took her cheerfully, even thankfully. “ Nothing can ever part us now, can it, Huldah?” Hazel iteked, in her sweet, beseeching way. “ I can help you A weep and dust,' and keep the brownbox tidy, and you will have all the more time to sing and play.” j» hanl task, thnmrb. for Huldah to fill two hungry mouths. Madame had so little for her to do, and nothing else seemed to offer. “ Let me tend in Madame’s shop,” pleaded Hazel, “and you can find something better to be doing.” But after one attempt she gave up that plan in despair. She could run with willing feet to wait on customers, and her nimble fingers made swift work in doing up purchases, but remember figures she could not, and her puzzled heau never could account for the intricacies of the dime-and-dollar part of the transaction. Neither was the “ something better to be doing” easy to find in such a great city, and consequently thev both often went hungry to bed, but kept up brave, hearts through it all. “ Something will surely’ turn up when we’re not looking for it, I’m sure,” Hazel persisted stoutly r and her great faith kept Huldah from losing heart. „ , One bright, afternoon, Hazel strayed ’ far away from the dingy little shopamT tenement houses. She was thinking, in her childish way, of Huldah, and wishing she might find a purse of gold lying m the street, to cany home and tell her she need not go hungry jiny more. She heard strains of music stealing, soft lyont upon the air, and stopped short, in her planning, to listen. Before her towerea a great ivy-grown church, with the sunshine lighting up its stained windows till they glowed like tire. The door was ajar and she listened awhile, then stole softly in. She followed the music, up the long, carpeted aisles, under the dim halflight that pervaded the place, up the long, winding stairway, on, on, on, until she paused, at last, beside the whitehaired old organist who was waking the sweet melody which hired her thither. She came so gently that he did not notice his listener at first. Suddenly his eyes tell on the child standing bv his side in half-breathless nWe. Thejight, streaming faintly down {pom the high window, jnst touched the face with a sweeter beauty and lighted up the curls till they gleamed like gold. Something in the sweet. sad faee, in the wistful eyes and tirot expression, -touched his heart, and ne reached out his hand;

“ Did my mtislc draw you in here, little one?” “Oh, it was beautiful!” Hazel spoke rapturously and with a little ecstatic gasp, as she drew nearer to him. “ I wisn Huldah could only have heard it. It woifltl have made her cry, I know; music always docs.” “Ah! Huldah is your sister, it may be?” “Oh, no, no! She is not my sister. Huldah is myr-my-—why, I belong to Huldah. She does everything for me, you know, and I never can help her at all. lam too small, you see.” “Indeed?” and the kind face relaxed into a smile. “But you will grow up sometime, then you can work for Huldah as she is working for you.” “But it’s now that I want to help her— now. I don’t want Huldah to go hungry. I want to do something my own self to help her, so she can get more time to play and sing and make up sweet music for her dear guitar.” “A musician! .Huldah is a musician, I see. And she makes up music, docs she? Well, well! you must tell me more—tell me all, and maybe I can help you both.” So Hazel told all the pitiful story of her life anil of Huldah’s self-sacrifice-told it in her own simple, child-like way, but it touched the heart of the kind old organist. And after he had heard all, he and Hazel laid, a plan —a wonderful plan, that, sent the child home with shining eyes and light footsteps. When the next evening camo Hazel begged her dear Huldah to sing something for her, some of the gay carols she used to sing when she wore her pretty dress ana was so light-hearted. “Do let’s play we are giving a party ourselves,” pleaded the little one, and Huldah reluctantly consented to The childish whim for once. She donned the pretty gray dress and Coiled her hair up as Hazel loved to sec it and they lighted the quaint room as best tliey eeukl.-and set chairs for imaginary 'ladies and gentlemen, and courtesied, and acted for all the world? like very lady-like Hostesses. “Now I will introduce you,” Hazel said, clipping her hands and laughing in great glee. She made a funny little speech to her imaginary friends, while Huldah bowed low to empty chairs, seated herself at her guitar and sang the songs as Hazel called for them—sang them, too, in her very best style, for the little play seemed for the time almost as real to her as to Hazel. She had just finished Hazel’s favorite, after many pretty compliments from her enraptured listener,- when the door, which had been left ajar, swung slowly open, and syeh a burst of applause came from the darkdiall-way as caused Huldah to drop her guitar in alarm, and sent Hazel dancing across the room, where she bounded directly into the arms of the white-haired old organist. ——7“O, wasn’t if beautiful, beautiful!” she questioned, eagerly. “It was heaMZtjwt, little Hazel. You did not praise your friend any too highly-” And then Hazel drew him into the room, and told Huldah all her pretty story, how she had interested_the or-? .ganist in herYavor, and planned their ”*^y^irty a mights hear her voice to the best advantage. It all ended like a fairy story. The old organist would not hear a word to Huldah’s being shut up in the brown box all her days. He sent her away to study with the very best masters, and look -Hazel into his own home “in trust” for Huldah, when she was ready to claim her again. . And whatever success Huldah may have in the musical world, she always says she shall give the entire credit to little Hazel, to whose help she owes it ~alb—fc’sfcZZc Tlwmson, in Our Home ' Monthly.

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—This is sausage season. Plain article is made of forty’ pounds of lean meat, one pound of salt, three ounces pepper amt half pint of sage. If it is desired to be a little more spicy some add two ounces of allspice, two of ginger and four spoonsful of sugar.— Bcgisler. —Lady Cake.—The whites of eight -welLbeaten eggs, two cupfuls of white sugar, two and three-quarter cupfuls •sifted flowr, two-thirds cupful-ef-butter, one-half teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a little water, one teaspoonful cream <>f tartar sifted in the flour; flavor with bitter almond. —Calves and yearlings may be made to increase in size and Weight considerably, and make a large quantity of fine manure, by keeping them in a roomyshed, bedding them deeply with cut straw or leaves, and feeding them well. With plenty of bedding the shed need not be .cleaned out until spring. Boston Tea Cakes.—One well-beat- . w egg, Iwo Cxktesgponfida?! one cupful of syveet milk, ojie teaspoonful of soda dissolved in the milk, (wo teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar sifted into the dry flour, two heaping Cupfuls of sifted flour, one tablespoonful of butter, melted; bake in small tins. —Horses should be fed in proportion to- their work. An idle team may be ’wintered upon good hay alone; when working lightly a feed of grain at noon will be sufficient with hay morning and night. With heavy work, ten quarts of ground corn and oats, and charted straw or corn foddoc,,will‘begood feeding, and in many caseOor small horses r less will do. Good grooming is necessary for health in winter. —Jelly -Cake Rolls.—Four eggs, beat whites and yelks Separately; one teacupful white sugar, One teaoupfjdsiftcd flour, one teaspoonful cream-tartar? one-half teaspoonful soda, dissolved in a Very"lifffe notwat'er; flavor with the juice of one .lemon; beat all well together; spread quarter of an inch thick in a square tin, bake quietly; then turn bottom-side up, spread with jelly and roll up while hot. Tluii recipe makes three rolls. ' , f / —Soap.—Dissolve three pounds salsoda in two gallons warm water; <jlack r in a firkin, three pounds of good quicklime; add to It the; soda solution; stir the whole thoroughly ‘with a stick, and add two gallons of boiling water; stir again and let it settle; pour off the clean liquor in a clean iron boiler, placed on the fire, and '.fir into it six pounds of clarified grease and one pound of powdered borax; let it boil slowly until it gets ropy (about ten minutes’ boiling), and pour it into a -tub or tight box; this makes a good hard soap for family use; after drying a month or so, in a dry room, and cut into bars, it is fit for use? Hldpatli’a School History. Recently, In these columns, reference was made to Kidpath's History of the United HUtes, for schools. Those who li*v6 examined it, critically, pronounce tt an inqomparabie text-book for the young, and accord, it a grade of Superiority which no. author of a similar work has attained. Ibis most cordially recommended tp the attention of everybody Interested in the cause of education. Joxeb Bkoihsho St Uo., CincUmati, sxe'the publishers.

CALENDAR FOR 1878. ~ JANUARY. j_ JULY. BHTWT»s| M M T W T FS "1 2 n 4 r> :. i 2 a 4 r> « fl 7 H 01011 12 1 7 8 0 1011121 a la 14 15 10 17 18 10 14 15'1017,18 10 2(1 20 21 22 23 24 25 2(J 21 22 23 24 25 20 27 272829 8081 .. ..’2829,3031 ..1.. .. •• •• •• •• ”I”1 "I 'ILI "I.” '• "FEBRUARY?* | AUGUST. MM TWT F M ’ N MTW Tt F | H 7.77?.. 7 i 2 .. 7 .. .. 12 3 a 4 5 fl 7 8 9 4 5 « 7 8 9 Isl 1011 12 18 141510'114218 14151(1’17 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 18 19 20 21 22 28 24 2425 20)27 28 .... 258027 28 29 80)81 MARCH. |’ SE PTE MBE R. N M T’WT F S M MTWTFM 77.. ..71 21234 5 07 8 4 5 fl 7 8 9 8 91011 12 13 14 1011 12 1814151(1 15 1017 1819 20 21 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 22 28 24 25'20 27 28 24 25 20 27’28 29 30 2930.. .. .. .. .. yr-” ” APRIL. OCTOBER. M M TWT F 8..8 » ® w| T F S 7718450.. 1 2341 7 8 9 10111218 fl 7 8 9’loll 12 14 15 10117 18,19 20 13 14 15 1« 17 18 19 21 22 23 24 25 20 27120 21 22 28 24(25 2(! 28(2950,.. .. 27 28 29 3081 .. .. MAY. "7 NOVEMBER. B -M T W- T- JT--B- B M T W T f B 7 .. .. 1 2 8 4 7|7 .. .. ... 1 2 5 fl 7 8 91011 8j 450789 12 13i 14 15 10 17 18 10.11 12 18 14 15 1(1 19 20 21 22’23’24 25 17118’19’20 2122 28 28i27j28129i80;81 .. i24,25.20|27|28 29:80 JUNE. DECEMBER. b"mTWTFS 8 M Ti W TjF I s 7777777 i 2 si 4 si 0! 7 2 8 4 5 0 7 8 8 9 1041 12’18 14 9 10 11 1213 14 15! 15 10 17|18 19 20 21 16 17 18 19’20 21 22 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 29 30 311 “-lik

Little Things in Farming.

The whole success of a fanner hinges upon timely attention to little tilings. This mainly makes the difference between thrift and poverty, and should ever be borne in mind by the farmer who would succeed. Remember the old adage, “ For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe a horse was lost, for want of a horse a man was lost.” In the case of household and other expenditures: It is a little thing to keep a daily memorandum of every pecuniary transaction on the farm, and then a half-hour spent on Saturday evenings in posting the same in a book' would enable farmers at the end of the year to know just how they sjood with the world. Yet we doubt if there isone man in ten who cultivates the soil ever makes an entry in a b<mk, and ter the want of it his account runs up fearfully at the store, and many articles of luxury bought (and which might just as well have been dispensed with) which such men find themselves unable to pay for at the end of the year. Debt accumulates, the farm is mortgaged, and finally lost for want of a little paper and ink. It is a little thing to return a tool to its place after using, yet many have no such place, nor even a shelter for their farming implements or tools, but leave them lying about where last used -tiw plow in the field, the grubbing-hoe in the swamp, the log-chain in the woods —and everything scattered about here and there, causing as much or more loss of time in hunting them up than it would take to do the required job. Many do not even house the more expensive implements on the farm, the reapers and mowers, and we have even seen threshing machines being left out in the weather with no better- protection than so many old plows and harrows. The consequence is, the parts made Of iron and steel grow rusty, the wood-work decays, and thus a machine which would lasfToi- tlnfty ycars “with proper care is used up in less than five. It is a very little thing to turn a nnt on a screw that is loose, yet for the want of a little tightening the nut is and the loaded wagon breaks down on its way to market, and a whole day probably lost for both driver and team. It is a very little thing to keep a horse properly groomed, yet, for (lie want of it, filth accumulates in his fetlocks, the skin cracks, the horse becomes lame, and the use of the animal for weeks, and probably*months, is lost ’ Ventilation is a small affair, yet, for the want of it in stables, the stock suffer, disease is engendered, and, even if death does not ensue, the services of Such animals are often lost. Above all, it is a very easy thing to deal fairly with your fellow-men, and thus acquire a name for honesty, which is better than “precious ointment.” Many cheat a little in the measurement or in the represented quality of what they sell, and thus get a reputation ter meannesß, if not dishonesty, which stands much in the way oj success here as well as salvation hereafter.—.SaZh'more Sun.

Few people are aware of the damage done by wild geese on the wheat fields in California. Tliey .come in and pull up the young wheat by the roots, and eat A, roots and all. It is stated in thqUjftn Francisco Bulletin that, on one ranche alone’, 6,000 geese have been killed this season, and in the County of Colusa alone, last season, the damage done by the web-foqtyd fowls was estimated at $200,000. A whole family was lately poisoned by eating geese which had been eating corn soaked in .strychnine. The California and Laughing geese. Quails, also, have become so plentiful, in many places on the Pacific coast, that they are poisoned by thousands, as they destroy the grape Hnt >1 ftyrpiitpi* nui.suncc hfb tli c ground squirrels, which are nearly as bad as the grasshoppers this side of “ The Divide.” - Great country this—for plaguey nuisances. “Till He eometh, till He eometh,” is the beginning of a- beauttfuUittle song which is sung in a West Side Sun-day-School, and there is one young man who puts his best notes on the first words of this particular piece when he sees his favorite coming in at the door His favorite’s name is “ Tillie.” —Chicago Journo'- . ■ —At his own request, the late Gen. IL KForreilwm j®fl4a IfetWed • erate uniform.

Mara’ Moom. When the telegraph announced thej discovery bv Prof. Hall that onr neighborir ig planet had two satellite), and the dispatch was read next morning at ten thom*nd A meric an breakfast tables, what think yoff W®B the et joct upon tile hearers! - Borne colloquy similar t o the following was auro to occur: Mara inas two moons, heyt Paaa me the milk, nitty. .ntrsyige, isn’t ft, that astronomers never »aW tOW n before. Another chop, please. I wonder what they’ll discover next! These corn cakes are excellent. What's the latest from Europol” We have become so accustomed to star ding discoveries and announcements, that we take them as a matter of course. Even truth.must appear In flaming colors to make herself .seen. The virtues of Dr. Pierce’s Holden Met’ical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets h ave been tested in ten thousand households, whose inmates will tell you that thev consider fa io discovery and intrixluction of these reined! 's of far greater importance to the world than the moons of Mars. Shipman, 111., Juno 13, 1876. Dr. R. V. Ptenci, Buffalo. N. Y.: Dear Sir-lmA fall our daughter—aged 18— was fast sinking with consumption. Different physicians had pronounced her case incurable. I obtained one-half dozen bottles of your Golden Medical Discovery. She commenced ; improving at once, and Is now as hardy as a j pine-knot. Yours respectfully,

REV. ISAAC N. AUGUSTINE.

The Celebrated Vienna Rolls.

Among the numerous articles Doolby’s Ykaht Powder is used for, arc the celebrated Vienna rolls, which arc so dellcfous, palatable and healthy. If you have not the recipe send three-cent stamp to Dooley Bbotiier, Now York, and you will get it, together with many other valuable cooking receipts, by return mall. Wr. have a larger sale for Hatch’s Universal Cough Syrup than for any other medicine of the Kind. We have for sale all the old standard remedies. None arc in such demand. Flint & Dayton, Friendship, N. Y. Sold by J. Blocki & Co., Chicago, 111.

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