Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1878 — Page 3

FREE HOMES.

Ths tat Limestone Belt of Kansas. The Attractive Region of the West. BY MAJOR H. INMAN. The “ Great Central Plaine" are a geographical feature of the State of Kansas. Covered with a remarkably nutritious vegetation, for centuries they were an immense pasturage for countless herds of buffalo, antelope and other ruminating animals, whose habitat was the far-stretching green prairies that to-day form one of the most beautiful agricultural portions of the Mississippi Valley. Less than ten years ago this region was believed, by the mass of the people in the East, to be an unprofitable desert, but it Is now the acknowledged garden of the Continent This truly maniflcent country can claim the most luxuriant soil of all the “Great West," and a climate that approaches perfection, at least. Dr. B. E. Fryer, one of the most eminent surgeons in the Army, and who was stationed for years at Fort Harker, four miles from the Town of Ellsworth, declared thia to be “the most perfect climate in the world.” The whole country is traversed by a series of constant streams, sweet and wholesome springs and spring-fed pools. De» licious water Is also always obtained in wells, by digging, at easily-accesslble depths. It is already conceded that the United States is rapidly becoming the granary of the world, particularly in the production of wheat. Kansas, an Empire in itself, is taking the lead in the culture of this cereal, and in a short time will be acknowledged queen of all the States in the production of this great staple. The State, especially her peculiarly-wondcrful fertile central area, comprised In what is now known as the “limestone belt,” under the test of only a few years,' has proved to the world the immense average its soil is capable of. Each year increases the limit of the wheat-belt, as the frontier is pushed toward the mountains, within which are found the greatest possibilities, agriculturally.

It is a remarkable fact that nearly all the lands of the Kansas Pacific Railway are included tn the limestone region under consideration, and that south of this limit, in that direction, it ceases altogether, and the countnr presents another geological formation, the soQ of which is very sandy, and which, though at present, from fullness of its very primitiveness, is capable of producing good crops in seasons of abundant rainfall, lacks the inherent qualities of self-fertilization, and must rapidly deteriorate. In this particular the Smoky Hill Valley is immensely superior to the aronacious lands of the regiojf south, which is drained by the Arkansas anq tributary streams. It la well known by every farmer that lime, in some of its combinations/ constitutes the essential ingredient in all she more valuable grains and grasses. Its presence In the soil is consequently to be considered as a condition of fertility. It also acts as a constitutional ameliorant, qf much power, and, when mixed with or underlying tough or viscid clay, it renders them friable and consequently more susceptible to the action of atmospheric forces. Soil iu which there is a due admixture of calcareous matter, is not so liable to be injured or rendered plastic by an excess of moisture while under erop. The quality of the wheat raised in this great limestone belt” is conceded, in all markets, to be the finest grade known. * It produces the familiar brands of so-called Southern flour, for which St. Louis is justly celebrated. This is easily accounted for, from the fact that the soil in which the wheat is grown possesses a due admixture of calcareous matter, which has a tendency to make the hull of the grain much thinner, and the farina itself in much greater quantity, and in richer quality, than in grain grown on the landswhicn exhibit a deficiency of this earth. An our millers will testify to the peculiar flour-making properties of our wheat, in this essential, surpassing that raised in other sections, and it is attributed entirely to the fact—which the analysis of the soil confirms—that this so-called “ limestone belt" possesses all the requisites of the best wheat land in the world. Sand, it is well known, is injurious when it enters too largely into the composition of cultivated soils; in other words, it is useless beyond a certain proportion. That the “ limestone belt,” or “wonderful wheat region of Central Kansas,” as it is sometimes called, has the amount of silex or silica—the basis of sand—fixed in the proper proportion, is evident, from the fact that it requires peculiar conditions to “lodge” the grain in the field, even after the most terrific showers. Considering the question of the relative fertility, particularly in its connection with wheat culture, present richness of soil and endurance must enter as essential elements of success, and the capacity of the selffertilization of the land, an ingredient not to be overlooked. The latter quality a limestone region alone can possess, as only a limited knowledge of agricultural chemistry clearly demonstrates. Viewing the subject of wheat culture, then, in all its aspects, so far as Kansas is concerned, an inspection of the Smoky Hill Valley, and the arenaceous region south, coupled with a fair idea Of what the culture of wheat requires, the conclusion can lead only in one direction—to the infinitely superior advantage of the “ limestone belt.” Prospectively, from purely physical causes, this great inland region must reach the position of one of the richest agricultural portions of the United States. Only a very few years ago—not a decade—husbandry here was purely tenative. From absolutely no dew, eight years ago, this region is as favored in that particular as anv that can be named. From lying outside of the “ rain belt,” so termed, this region has had to be “taken in." The quantity of water in the streams has augmented, springs have burst forth where none existed before—in short, just the converse of that meteorological phenomenon has been evolved here, under the march of civilization, which ta\es in a heavily-timbered country under the same social conditions. The following statistics of the rainfall clearly prove the accuracy of the foregoing statement; The Fall of Rain and Melted Snow, in inches, at Forts Hays, Larned and Dodge, for the last five yean, as shown by the Daily Meteorological Records kept by the United States Government at the Posts named: CKKTBAL SOUTHEBN KANSAS. KANSAS. TXAR. " - " —————— Fort Fort Fort Hays. Larned. Dodge. Vft1........ M 62 - ’l9 23 19.00 1874. §7 06 27 73 23.05 1876... 82 08 17.80 16.36 1876 86.90 18.49 21.56 1877 86.40 81.89 31.48 Toted.... 183.96 116 IT IH-44 Average per annum 82.59 23.03 22 29 These are someof the .facts in relation to the agricultural possibilities of this region, and these, coupled with the atory of the paat harvest, are sufficiently confirmatory of the inducements this portion of the Great Plains offer. Under the liberal policy of the Government, and the Kanww Pacific Railway Company, immigrants are invited to this really superb region, with the assurance that its beauty and inducements cannot be dteggerated by any pen-picture. For further information about Kansas, and especially the region described, address LAND COMMISSIONED KANSAS PACIFIC RAILWAY,

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A BABY'S SMILE. Aa through the busy street I para, Olteu. in huh nr rain. I mark Rome piemant hnniwhold group Behind a window-pane; The mother in politely blind. The father does not see. But if I note a baby there, The baby smiles at me. Dear sinless soul of babyhood 1 She does not coldly wait To ask about tnv bank-account. Or bonds, or real estate; With small soft face against the pane, And dove-like coo the while. She beckons with her dainty hand. And answer* back my smile. She does not scorn my glance because She never heard my name; Nor query of my social place, Nor question whence I came; No tedious rule of etiquette Restrains her loving grace. Or chills the winning smile that lights Her lovely wild-fioaer face. She knows me by that nameless sense, That wisdom sweet and fine. Which babies have, ere time has spoiled Their innocence divine; That strange, unerring magnetism Which some kind angel sends. By which all sinless things perceive And recognize their friends; Which draws the pigeons to my hand. Fearless and trustful still, Which makes the social sparrows crowd My friendly window sill— The silent sympathy which makes The homeless dog 1 meet Forget bis hungry Jonesomeness To fawn about my feet. Ah, though the world seems full, sometimes. Of darkness and of dust. The soul is not quite desolate Which birds and babies trust; Life is not all a wildernear. —; Made up pf grief and guile, While eyes so sbadowless and sweet Smile back to eyes that smile! Akers Allen, in Youth's Companion

A ROMANCE OUTLIVED.

A few days ago one of the numerous trains upon the New Haven and Hartford Rinroad bore from this city, for entombment near an old family homestead some thirty miles up the Sound, the mortal remains of a venerable lady for whose manifold endearing virtues as Christian, wife and friend a bereaved home on a fashionable avenue was left in mourning. Probably but few of the sorrowing escort on that sad occasion were aware that she, whose long matronhood of uneventful social history was just closed, had once been the heroine of a romance as curious and pathetic as any known to the ingenuities of fiction; for, so far as the present narrator can ascertain, she was the last survivor of the several actors therein and could scarcely have found pleasure in any voluntary revival of its memory; yet such was the truth, and the place whither the body was being conveyed for its last rest had been the scene of that romance's strange culmination. Fifty years since, the place in question, not then stimulated to suburban importance by metropolitanrailway connection, had among the better mani sions on Its outskirts no handsomer ' one than that which was the parental ! home of the principal subject of this 1 sketch. An old family of high social S retensions cherished her there as a aughter doubly beloved for her striking resemblance to a sister married I in the city, and fond parents clung ardently to the hope that this remaining child should contract no new ties to withdraw her, also, from their neighborhood. Thus it was that when, during a visit the young lady was making to a family of friends in New York, these parents were informed that a gentleman, with obviously sentimental intentions, was a frequent claimant of her society, they took alarm as though threatened with imminent domestic treason. Forthwith the dismayed mother started post-haste in the family carriage for the point of danger, and, after nearly a whole day’s dusty ride, surprised, the unsuspecting fair one on the scene of her romantic adventure. The elders of the visited family, which was that of one of our oldest and richest merchants, had thought it their duty to invite the maternal supervision of an association it should properly control, and were not, therefore, amazed at the motherly arrival. As for the daughter, whatever her discomfiture might havebben, she frankly confessed at once that Lieut. H., of the English Navy, had, indeed, called upon her frequently and been her escort on promenade occasionally during her city visit; nor did she strive to disguise a strong sentiment in his favor. Then ensued a passage of passionate parental reprehension and filial tears. The lover in the case was not wholly a stranger to the girl's own household, for his mother haa belonged by birth and youthful residence to their very town, though married and settled in England; nor was he in any way socially objectionable, but the fact of his foreign naval profession and consequent presumable obligation to carry his bride to England was a bqr to his eligibility as a suitor which our heroine s doting father and mother held to be the most conclusive of disqualifications. Sternly reproving her daughter for having so imprudently encouraged the addresses of a young man whom she must see no more, the elder lady took the recusant damsel into the carriage with her for a prompt return to a stricter future home guardianship, and was horrified when her charge, emboldened by despair as the vehicle drove off, turned suddenly upon her with the exclamation: “ Mother, we are marriedP”

After this startling revelation the astounded matron exacted more detailed confession of an act of youthful impetuosity inspired by lovers’ fears of parental prohibition, and not in the least suspected by the New York friends. The pair, going out nominally for a walk, had oeen married at the residence of a friendly clergyman, and then returned to the house and taken leave of each other without betrayal of the secret. Such was the story carried back to the Connecticut homestead by indignant mother and agitated culprit, to excite the latter’s father, too, as intensely, and be followed by evei'y argument that parental authority and affection could advance to induce the weepgroom to whom she belonged in name alone, i These failing, the good old plan of bolt and key was adopted; the rebellious daughter became a close prisoner in her own chamber, and in £heir bewildered distress, father and mother summoned their married daughter from the city for aid and counsel in the family trouble. As may be fancied, the hero of the drama could not long, be kept in ignorance of these occurrences, and lost no . time in presenting himself on the scene -ana Remanding due recognition of his new relationship. He was met by a peremptory refusal to acknowledge the legal right alleged by him, on the

ground that she whom he claimed as his wife had perpetrated an act of childish folly, from which the utmoet strength of paternal will and Judicial equity should be exerted to redeem her and of which she herself had become bitterly penitent. Incredulous of this last intimation, Lieut. H. insisted upon seeing her wnose steadfastness was thus impugned and hearing his fate from her own lips; finally, in his chivalrous trust, pledging his honor as a gentleman to resign all claim upon her u, in his presence, she should prefer parents and present home to himself. His proposition was accepted, of necessity; the next day being named as the time of the interview, upon the supposition that the young lady was too sick from agitation at her hapless predicament to see him at once. At the appointed hour the Lieutenant waited upon the family, accompanied by a friend as a witness. The resolute mother received him in a room dimmed somewhat by the Venetian blinds drawn to keep out the sun, and he had not longtolinger before afamiliar figure flitted in at a door and past him, with handkerchief pressed close to eyes, and sank into a kneeling posture beside the older lady’s chair. The heart of the young husband failed him at the sight; but, taking a step forward, he put the one question he had to ask in the steadiest tones he could command: “Elizabeth, will you not go with meP” A moment the lips now hidden against the maternal bosom were silent, and then came the answer, tremulous and chilling: “I desire to remain with my mother!’’ Shocked inexpressibly, Lieut. H. paused only long enough to assure himself that the hidden face had not even a pitying glance for him, and then, with a resigned bow, quitted room and mansion without another word. However much he may have regretted his rashness in staking so much upon such a trial, it was plain that he recognized no hope of appeal. Believing that she who was his only by a brief ceremony of the church did indeed repent her share therein and wished its undoing, he doubted not that her brief response to his simple and earnest appeal meant complete renunciation of him. Yet scarcely had he withdrawn with his witness from the brief but momentous scene of rejection, when the face uplifted from its concealment on a mother’s breast was revealed as one strangely like that of the virgin wife, though not hers. While she, still a prisoner in her own room, did not even know that her husband was in the house, her sister, before mentioned as so closely resembling her and attired to increase "the resembancn, was enacting in her name and voice a deception into which she had been reluctantly persuaded by a mistaken sense of filial and sisterly exigent obligation. Destined never to oe undeceived, the young Lieutenant started sadly upon his return to this city . immediately by steamboat, having taken leave of the friend whose service as a witness had been so unnecessary, and accompanied only by a favorite dog. At an early point In the journey the animal sprang through the rails into the water in pursuit of some floating object; his master immediately sprang after, as though to rescue him, and the heavy billows of the Sound were the grave of as manly an English sailor as ever loved and lost. Years nad their slow but seldom unhealing effect for the widowed bride, who, after going near to death herself at the tragedy with which her brief romance had terminated, lived, almost bbyond the memory of it, to be a wife again, and, perhaps, carry with her to the grave last week only a half-credu-lous recollection of the piteous story of her distant girlhood.— Orpheus C. Kerr, in N. K Graphic.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A Hartford couple, over eighty years old, were lately paralyzed on the same day. —Mary Wood, a Providence schoolteacher, recently whipped a little girl with a rattan on the ends of her fingers for whispering, injuring the nerves so seriously as to cause paralysis. —A discharge of buckshot from a gun killed a man in the Capital Theater,Austin, Tex., and made a hole in the wall. The fresh plaster has cracked in such a way as to present the outline of a man’s face—a likeness of the murdered man, as some say. —Mrs. IdaF. Hunt, of North Charlestown, N. H., a young woman of twenty-two, shot herself through the heart," the other morning, while in a somnamblistic state, with a pistol which her husband had given her to defend herself with during his absence. —George Peckham, of Oswego, N. Y., a somnambulist, dreamed he was on the cars, going to California to see his son, and was suddenly awakened by the jar of the train, whereupon he found himself, in the middle of the night, in his night-shirt, standing on the platform of a car at the depot. —A man in Dansville, N. Y.. while cutting into a straw stack, drew forth his knife stained with blood. A thrill of horror shot through him as he thought that he had killed some unfortunate tramp who had burrowed into the stack to sleep. An examination revealed the fact that he had cut a woodchuck in two.

—A lady of Fitchburg, Mass., was surprised, the other evening, at finding a circular hole burned through a cloak which was hanging at some distance from the fire. An examination revealed the fact that during the afternoon a stereoscope had been left in such a position that the rays of the sun passed through the lens and came to a focus upon the cloak. —The Statinton (Va.) Vindicator, in an article on the opium habit, says: “ One physician tells us of a case in which a lady, a confirmed opium-eater, sent two horses to a neighboring city to sell, the proceeds- of one to be invented in morphine. By some difference in price the sale miscarried, and in two or three days the man returned. When she saw him coming down the road leading both horses she fell to the floor in an agony of disappointment and died in a few hours.” —Joseph Collins started from Morristown, N. Y., recently, for Clay ton, on an ice-boat. After he passed Well’s Island, the wind blew a perfect gale. He lost control of the rudder, and came toward Clayton at the rate of a mile a minute. He struck the dock, back of the Postofiice, with terrific force, completely splitting his body. His hip was thrown out of joint and his ankle broken, in addition to this fearful rupture sustained. The unfortunate man lived through the night in unspeakable agony, dying about eight o’clock next morning. —ls some men> would curry horses with the persistency that they curry favor, they would have a more stable occupation, to say the {post,

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Neverkeepyour cattle short; few farmers can affordUt. If you starve them they will starve you.— Prairie Banner. —The simplest thing on the farm needs study. Not one man in ten who claims to be a farmer, knows how to feed a horse, pig, cow or sheep. —Nothing bnt ultimate and deserved ruin stares that farmer in the face who does not pay personal attention to the most minute details of his farm.— Stale Register. —When laboy is scarce it will be dear —when it is abundant it will be cheap. It is the inevitable law. Legislatures cannot help or hinder.— lowa Stale Register. —Sour Sauce.—Half a cupful of butter and stir in a tablespoonful of flour and one pint boiling water, nearly one cupful sugar, two spoonfuls good vinegar; spice to taste. —Dark Steamed Pudding.—To be steamed two and a half or three hours —one cupful molasses, one cupful sweet milk, two cupfuls butter, four cupfuls flour, one teaspoonful soda, three quarters cupful fruit; spice to suit the taste; to bo eaten with sour sauce. —Raised Dough Cake..—Two cups of dough, one of sugar, one of sweet cream, one-half cup of butter, the same of washed and drained currants, two eggs, half a teaspoonful of soda, spice to taste. Mix well together and set in a warm place to rise. When light bake in a moderate oven. —Vinegar Pie. —One cup of vinegar (if very sharp have one-third water), one tablespoon of flour, one cup sugar, one egg, a piece of butter the size of an egg. Boil the vinegar; wet the flour with a little coin water and stir it in; when the vinegar boils up pour it on the sugar and butter; after it cools add the egg, and bake with under and upper crust. —ln reply to your questions regarding the cactus, I woula say that I never change the earth about the roots of the plant, but I occasionally remove the surface earth to the depth of a couple of inches or so and replace it with well-rotted leaf mold. 1 have two specimens of this plant that are about five feet high, some of the leaves being naarly twenty inches in length.— Cor. Free Press.

—Cocoanut Cake. —Two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of sweet milk, three and one-half of flour, three teaspoonfuls of baking-powder, six eggs, leaving four of the whites out for filling. Bake in jelly cake pans. The day before baking grate one goodsized cocoanut or two small ones. Beat up four whites of eggs to a stiff froth; to each egg add ten teaspoonfuls of powdered sugar; spread on each layer, sweeten your cocoanut and sprinkle it on top of icing. —Floating Island.—Put a pint of milk in a small tin pail, set it in a kettle of boiling water and let it scald; take the whites of three eggs, beat to a stiff froth, then drop a spoonful at a time into the milk and let them cook About five minutes; then skim them out into a deep dish. Take the yelks, add one egg, sugar, nutmeg, lemon and a very little salt; beat and turn into the milk; let it cook until it is as thick as cream; then turn into the dish with the islands, which will rise to the top. —A Tennessee correspondent says: I want to give you my plan for raising geraniums from the seed. First, to prepare the soil, take one-third of garden mold and two-thirds of “cnipyard” dirt. Then dampen the dirt slightly before sowing the seed and cover of the thickness of a quarter of an inch. Of course you know they will not bloom till the second year. Mine bloomed beautifully the second year, and I gathered seed from them. Have tried this plan for four years and know it to be good.

Early Vegetables.

No farmer’s garden should be without a liberal supply of good vegetables. Almost every farmer raises a few; but they are too often started late and left to grow without proper attention. The idea is to have the plants—especially of the early cabbage and tomato—well grown before the season out of doors begins. Those who are so situated that it is inconvenient to obtain a supply of plants from a nursery can grow the plant for themselves, with very little extra trouble. A good plan is to have a hot-bed, and no farmer but that, with a little patience, an old window-sash and a few common boards, can make one. From the middle to the last of February is the time to start it. The boards are to be nailed together in the form of a box, from ten to twelve inches deep, the right size for the sash, and with the back some six or eight inches higher than the front. .Dig a shallow pit, a little smaller than the frame and about a foot deep, setting the frame over it. Fill in with, from twelve to fifteen inches of horse-manure, free from long straw, and top ofi‘ with two or three inches of garden-soil, made fine. Sow the seed for cabbage and tomatoes in rows from six to eight inches apart, and over the whole put the sash. When the plants are an inch or two out of ground, thin out, leaving some two inches between each plant. The bed should be kept moist by frequent sprinklings of tepid water. When the plants have obtained a vigorous growth, it is better to thin again, takmg out every other plant. After the first thinning the plants should have air daily for an liour or two at mid-day, by raising the sash a little from one side of the frame. By the time the plants grow high enough to reach the glass there will probably be no danger from frost and the sash may be raised up higher and left so, or entirely removed from the frame. As soon as the open ground is in condition the plants should be set out, not less than six feet apart each way, for the tomatoes. Water the plants freely at the time of transplanting, then mulch with dry earth, and they will grow without further watering. By the use of a hot-bed lettuce and radishes can be had weeks earlier than when grown in the open air; and cucumbers may be started and afterward transplanted equally as well as tomatoes or cabbage. Tomatoplants may also be started in a box kept in a room whore there is a steady fire, giving the plants ail the sun possible during the day. Rich earth is all that is needed for this purpose. It is better to keep the box covered with glass, to prevent the evaporation of moisture; and the plants should be sprinkled with tepid water nearly every day. It is a good plan to transplant tomatoes that have been started in boxes as soon as the plants have the third leaf. Old fruit-cans, filled with mold, may be used for this purpose. The bottom should be punched full of holes or taken out entirely. The transplanting should then be continued by changing from one can to another, as

this has been found to strengthen the plants As soon as possible give the Slants outdoor sir by raising awlnow or putting them out of doors in the middle of the day; and finally transplant to opdq ground the same as if raised in a hot-bed. For starting melons and cucumbers in-doors the best pots are small pieces of sod, turned grass-side down and placed upon a board. When •the season is wftfm enough set out sods and all in the garden, having rich, loamy soil, and cover up to the leaves of the plants.— N Y. Independent.

Poultry Keeping by Boys.

It is one of the most premising indications of character when boys show a disposition to earn something. This desire to hold something in lee simple is the very opposite of trampism. Among boys, the enjoyment of owning, buying and selling is very keen, and is often gratified in the getting of knives, old watches and trinkets, and making exchanges with each other. Who does not remember the wonderful dicker and trade of his boyhood? It was only the beginning of a develment, or, rather, a self-education. This matter should not be permitted to go without some guidance. Parents and guardians should take an interest in it; not exercising a meddling interference, but inspiring confidence, so as to be able to co-operate, plan and watch the result. Now comes a scheme that is just right. How can we teach a boy business habits better than by giving him an opportunity to “run’’a hennery? The account must be accurately kept; there must be buying and selling; there must be bartering; there ought to be profit! A miniature business springs up. Inasmuch as it is real, why is it not as good as a business college? It may be better; for it may prevent spending time in the streets or away from home, perhaps among questionable companions. A love of home is fostered oy the ownership of flowers, small fruits and poultry. A fondness for the finest things produced by our climate —to cultivate them, if belonging to the animal—is not only a source of keen enjoyment, but indicates good traits and a certain elevation of character above that which is brutish. Young people should be deftly guided, step by step, through pleasant paths, with here and there a little job of earnest work, made easy by social frolic and recreation, which come after in their proper place. With a little encouragement, boys may become quite familiar with the points of excellence in high-class poultry, pigeons and other pets and learn the best methods of breeding and management. They may learn when and where to purchase supplies to the best advantage, and how to sell the surplus products, so i s to give the most profit with the least expense. A pleasant self-re-liance and good business habits may be growing, and at the same time a love for Nature, for refinement andhumanity.—

Humming-Birds.

Mr. Wallace, the distinguished naturalist, writes in the Fortnightly Review as follows: “ The humming-birds form one compact family, named Trochilidot. They are small birds, the largest known being about the size of a swallow, while the smallest are minute creatures whose bodies are hardly larger than a humblebee. Their distinguishing features are excessively short legs and feet,-very long and pointed wings, a long and slender bill, and a long, extensible tubular tongue; and these characteristics are found combined in no other birds. The feet are exceedingly small and delicate, often beautifully tufted with down, and so short as to be hardly visible beyond the plumage.' The toes are placed as in most birds, three in front and one behind, and have very strong and sharply-curved claws, and the feet serve probably to cling to their perch rather than to support the weight of the body. The wings are long and □arrow, but strongly formed, and the first quill is the longest, a peculiarity found in hardly any other birds but a few Of the swift. The bill varies greatly in length, but is always long, slender and pointed, the upper mandible being the widest and lapping over the lower at each side, thus affording complete protection to the delicate tongue, the perfect action of which is essential to the bird’s existence. The humming bird’s tongue is very long, and is capable of being greatly extended beyond the beak and rapidly drawn back by means of muscles which are attached to the hyoid or tongue bones, and bend round over the back and top of the head to the very forehead, just as in the woodpecker’s. ' The two blades or lamime, of which the tongues of birds usually seem to be formed, are here greatly lengthened, broadened out, and each rolled up, so as to form a complete double tube, connected down the middle, and with the outer edges in contact, but not united. The extremities of the tubes are, however, flat and fibrous. This tubular and retractile tongue enables the bird to suck up honey from the nectaries of flowers, and also to capture small insects; but whether the latter pass down the tubes or are entangled in the fibrous tips, and thus drawn back into the gullet, is not known. The only other birds with a tubular tongue are the sun-birds of the East, which, however, have no affinity whatever with the hummingbirds.

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ASK **“ raeovered dyspeptics, bilious suffer WvlllulllL iMk Mk era, victims of fever and ague. the mercurial dla pMtlent - howthe » i recovered health, cheerful spirits and good app* \ _ Ute; tt**? WIU *ell you by j taking Simmoms’ Uris V 1 *~~JK XOwulato*. The Cheapest, Purest and Beat Family Medicine in the World! For Drsrirsu, Constipation, Jaundice, Blllouti Attacks, Sick HBAPACHA Colle, Depression of Spirits, Sot B Stomach, Heartburn, etc., etc. t This unrivalled Southern Remedy is warranted not to contain a single particle of Mxbcuby, or any Injurious mineral substance, but It PURELY VEGETABLE. containing thoee Southern Roots and Herts, which an all-wise Providence has placed In countries where Liver Diseases most prevail. It will cure all Dlaenaea canard by Derangement off the Llvrr and Bowels. ■ The stmttoms of Liver Complaint are a bitter or bad taste In the mouth; I’alnln the Back, Sides or Joints, often mistaken for Rheumatism ; Mnnr Mtomach; lx»ss of Appetite; Bowels alternately costive and lax ; Headache: Low of Memory, with a painful sensation of having failed to do something which ought to have been done; Debility. Low hplrlta, a thick, yellow appearance of the Skin and Eyes, a dry Cough, often mistaken for Consumption. Sometimes many of these symptoms attend tlie disease, at others very few: but the Livre, the largest organ In the body, Is generally the seat of the disease, and If not Regulated In Ume, great suffering, wretchedness and DEATH will ensue. I can recommend as an efficacious remedy for disease of the Liver, Heartbum and Dyspepsia, Simmons* Liver Regulator. Lxwis G. Wunder, 1025 Mastkr STHirr, Assistant Fostmastir, Pnn.Aiixt.rHiA. “ We have tested Its virtues, personalty, and know that for Dyspepsia. Blllousnera and Throbbing Headache ft is the best medicine the world ever saw. We have tried forty other remedies before Simmons* Liver Regulator, but none of them gave us more than temporary relief; but the Regulator not only relieved, but cored us.”—Ed. Tklboraph and Mbssxnseb, Macon, Ga. MAMVTAOTVMD only by JiH. ZEILIN * CO., PHILADELPHIA, PA JPrde* *I.OO. Sold by all Druggists.

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