Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1878 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. • A RENSSELAER, • • INDIANA.

VOYAGERS. We are floatins on the River of , Vo.ya<era together we noieehiuly slide. Drifting away to that beautiful clime Eye hath not eeen on the otbir aide. Yesterday naw iwrtcp down from the enure Into our tiarkn at the dawn ot thd day Otheiu to-morrow will follow ua o er For none the glad light of the morning will stay. Wo are midwav out on the River of Time. And drift with the tide that we cannot reeUt; It ia sweeping im on to an ultimate clinie liiat in hid from our vision in far-folded inist; Manhood ha. Btampid its »tern seal on our brow. Life-like a nwift panorama movea by, Sunshine and ahadowß are over im now; Is it life or pale death in that weetei ins sky ? We have alniovt ensued o'er the River of Time, The wind and the billows have left us a wreck: What steals from yon mist, like ronie angelwrought chime; May we still look with < outage and hope from the deck? Aged and silent and gray we have grown, Bath red our barks, our sails they aie riven, Yet we fl el we are coming to friends we have known When we enter the gateway of death and of Heaven. —Hartford Tinies.

SPRING SONG. Oh, the little stream a are running. Running, running!— Oh, the little streams are running O'er the lea; And the gr< en sott grass is springing. Spring.ng, springing'.— And the green soft grass is springing. Fan to see. In the woods the breezes whispe r. Whisper, whisper!— In the woods the breezes whisper Io the floweis; And the robins sing their welcome, Welcome welcome I And the robins sing their welcome — Happy horns! Over all the aim is shining, _ _ Shining, shining!— -*• Overall the sun is shining Clear and bright— Flooding bare and waiting meadows, Meadows, meadows!— Flooding bare and waiting meadows With his light - Maine Goodale (thirteen years old}, in St. Xicholas.

A ROMANCE OF LABOR.

The following true incident was brought to my remembrance while listening to the rebellious words of a yoiftig man, who could not see his father’s wisdom in desiring him to learn a trade. “ It will make a comfiion man ot me, father,” he said querulously; “ I shall be as dirty as a blacksmith, and have hands like a coal-heaver.” “ And if you think, Fred, that wearing fine clothes and having white hands makes you a gentleman, let me tell you, sir, you are now a very common man to begin with. A good trade might help you to truer notions of gentlemanhood.’ Then I looked at the handsome fellow—for he was handsome —and I thought just now of Steve Gaskill. Steve has made his mark now, but many years ago I heard just such a talk between mm and old Josiah Gaskill, relative to the young man, learning his father’s trade of a wool-stapler. the splendid Steve, infull evening dress. “ and 1 hate the smell of oil and the sight of those men in blue linen blouses. I nope I shall do something better for myself than that.” "Very well, lad; what is it thou’d fain to be?” “ A lawyer, father.” naught but a lazy, quarrelsome set, but thou sha’ not say I ever stood i’ thy gate. Be a lawyer, lad. I’ll speak to Denham to-morrow about thee.”

So young Steve was articled to Denham & Downess, to study law, and especially “conveyancing.” He was an only son, but he had three sisters, and over them and his mother he exercised supreme influence. Whatever Steve did was right; whatever he said was beyond dispute. Even old Josiah, with all his sound sense, was, in spite of himself, swayed by the undisputed acknowledgment of Steve’s superiority. He would not have advised his son to be a lawyer, but seeing that Steve was not afraid of being one, he was rather proud of the lad’s pluck and ambition. It cost him a good deal. Steve’s .taates were expensive, and li£i fell naturally among a class of men who led him into many extravagances. There were occasional awkward scenes, but Steve, supported by his mother and sifters, always . cleared every scrape, and finally satisfied the family pride in being regularly admitted upon the roll of Her Majesty’s attorneys. In the meantime his father had been daily failing in health, and soon after this he died. Most of his savings had been secured for the benefit of the helpless women of the Gaskill family; and Steve now found himself with a profession and a thousand pounds to give him a fair start in it. People said old Gaskill had acted very wisely, and Steve had sense enough to acquiesce in public opinion. He knew, too, that as long as his mother or sisters had a shilling they would share it with him. So he hopefully opened an office in his native town of Leeds, and waited for clients. But Yorkshire men are proverbially cautious; a young, goodnatured, fashionably-dressed lawyer was not their ideal. Steve could not look crafty and wise under any circumstances, and that first year he did not make enough to pay his rent. Nevertheless he did not in any way curtail his expenses; and when the summer holidays arrived he went as usual to a fashionable, watering place. It happened that year saw the debut of Miss Elizabeth "Braithwaite, a great heiress, and a very handsome girl. Steve was attracted by her beauty, and her great wealth was no drawback in his eye. In a short time he perceived that Miss Braithwaite favored him above all other pretenders to her hand, and he began to consider the advantages of a ■ rich wife. *■ • His profession hitherto-had been a failure; -hig £I,OOO were nearly spehti. his three sisters were all on the point of marriage, a condition which might seriously modify their sisterly instincts; and his mother’s -annual income would not support him a it not be the best plan to accept the good fortune so evidently within his reach? Elizabeth was handsome and inclined to favor him, and though she had the reputation of being both authoritative in temper and economical in money matters, he did not doubt that she would finally acknowledge his power as completely as his mother and sisters. So he set himself to win Miss Braithwaite, and before Christmas they were married. True, he had been compelled to give p a great deal more than he liked; but he promised himself plenty of postmarttalcbmpen^aiionM!“Elizabethlff-” sisted on retaining her own house, and as Steve had really no bouse to offer |ief» he must needs go to Braithwaite

A Hall, as the husband of its proprietress. She insisted upon his removing his office to Braithwaite, a small village offering none of the advantages for killing time which a large city like Leeds did; and she had all her money scrupulously settled upon herself for her own use and under her own control. Steve felt very much as though his wife had bought him; but for a little time, the eclat 'of having married a great heiress, the bridal festivities, and foreign travel, compensated for the loss of his freedom. But when they returned to Braithwaite, life showed him a far more prosaic side. Mrs. Gaskill's economical disposition soon became particularly offensive to Steve. She inquired closely into his business, and did not scruple to make unpleasant witty remarks about his income. She rapidly developed to an authoritative disposition, against which Steve daily more and more rebelled. The young couple were soon very unhappy. The truth was that a great transition was taking place in Steve’s mind, and times of transition are always times of unrest and misery. The better part of his nature was’ beginning to claim a hearing. He had seen now all that good society could show him; he had tasted of all pleasures money can buy, and he was unhappy. She had no ennui and no dissatisfaction with herself. There was her large house to oversee, her gardens and conservatories, her servants and charityschools, her toilet and a whole colony of pet animals. Her days were too short for all the small interests that tilled them; and these interests she would willingly have shared with Steve, but to him they soon became intolerable bores. Under such oircumstances he might have found his work in the ordering and investing of his wife’s large estate; but Elizabeth was far too cautious a woman to trust it in untried hands. Her father’s agent was her agent; her banker managed all her investments; her park and farms and gardens were all under the care of old and experienced servants, who looked upon Steve merely as "Missies husband.” In the second year of his marriage he began to have some thoughts which would have astonished his wife, could she have thought it worth while to inquire what occupied his mind In the long, moody hours when he paced the shrubbery or sat silently looking out of the window. But Steve was now ready for any employment that would take him out of the purposeless, dependent life which he had so foolishly .chosen for himself. One day, greatly to his surprise, Elizabeth saierto him: “ Steve, I have a letter from a cousin of my mother’s who lives in Glasgow. She is going to Australia, and wants me to buy Tier house. She says it is a great bargain, and I wrote to Barrett to go and see about it. I have a letter this morning saying he is too ill to leave his bed. I wonder if you could go and attend to it.” Anything for achange, Steve showed a very proper business-like interest, and said:

“Yes, he would be very glad to go.” “ Very well; I should think you knew enough of titles and deeds, and conveyancing, and all that kind of thing. I will trust the affair to you, Steve.” So the next morning Steve found himself on the Caledonian line, with £IOO in his pocket, and a veritable piece of business on hand. The first twenty miles out of Leeds he enjoyed with the abandon of a bird set free; then he began to think again. At Crewe he missed a train, and wandering about the station, fell in talk with the engineer of the next one, who was cleaning and examining the engine with all the love and pride a mother gives a favorite child. The two men fraternizecT at once, and Steve made a trip over the Caledonian in the engineer’s cuddy. He was a fine young fellow, “one of seven,” he said, all machinists and engineers; he was only serving his time, learning every branch of his business practically; he had brothers who made engineers, and he hoped to do so some time. In spite of his soiled face and oily clothes, Steve recognized that refinement that comes with education; and when his new friend called upon him at the Queen’s Hotel, he would not be ashamed of his appearance, even in the most fastidious days. “ Mr. Dalrymple, 1 am glad to see you,” said Steve, holding out both hands to him. “I thought you would be, sir; it is not often 1 am mistaken in my likings. I will go with you now to see my father’s works, if it suits you.” Never had such a place entered Stephen fraskfU’s conception; the immense furnaces, the hundreds of giants working around them, the clang of machinery, the mighty struggle of mind with the matter, of intellect over the revelation. He envied those Cyclops in their leathern masks and aprons; he longed to lift their mighty hammers. He looked upon the craftsmen with their bare, brawny arms and blackened hands, and felt his heart glow with admiration when he saw the mighty works those hands had fashioned. The tears were in his eyes when Andrew Dalrymple and he parted at the gate of the great walled-in yard. “Thank you,” he said, “you have done me the greatest possible service. •I shall remember it.” That night Steve formed a strange, but .noble, resolution. First of all, lie devoted himself to his wife's business, and accomplished it in a manner which elicited Mr. BarTbtt’s warm praistTSwd made Elizabeth wonder whether she might not spare her agent’s fees for the future. Then he had a long, confidential talk with the owner of the Dalrymple Iron and Machine Works, the result of which was the following letter to Mrs. Gaskill: My Dear Wife: I shall not lie at home again for at least two years, for I have begun an apprenticeship to 1 homaa Dalrymple here as an iron-master. I propose to learn the process practically. 1 have lived too long upon your bounty, for I have lost yonr esteem as well as my own. and Ido not say but I have deserved the loss. Please God. I will redeem my wasted past, and with His help make a man of myself. When I am worthy to be yimr husband yon will respect me. and nntil then think as kindly aa possibjeof Stephen GahmCl. This letter struck the first noble chord in Elizabeth's heart. From that hour not even her favorite maid durst make her little compassionate sneer at “ poor master.” ; Steve, in leather apron and coarse working clothes, began laboriously happy days which brought him nights of sweetest sleep; and Elizabeth began a series of letters to her husband which probably grew more and more imbued with the tenderest interest and respect. In a few weeks she visited him of her own free will, and purposely going to the works, saw her self-banished lord wielding a ponderous hammer upon.A bar of white-hot iron. Swarthy, bare-armed, clothed, in leather, he had never looked so handsome in Elizabeth's eyes; and her eyes peviialed this fact to Steve, for in them

was the tender light of a love founded upon a genuine respect. Steve deserved it. He wrougnt faithfully out his two years’ service, cheered by his wife’s letters and visits, and when he came out of the Dalrymple Works there was no more finished iron-master than he. He held his head frankly up now, and looked Fortune boldly in the face; he could earn his own living anywhere, and, better than all, he had conquered his wife—won her esteem, and compelled her to acknowledge a physical strength and moral purpose greater than her own. Between Leeds and Braithwaite Hall there have been for many years gigantic iron works. The mills and railways on the West Riding know them well; their work is famous for its excellence, for the master is a practical machinist, and oversees every detail. Their profits are enormous, and Stephen Gaskill, their proprietor, is also the well-be-loved and thoroughly-respected master of Braithwaite Hall and of Braithwaite Hall’s mistress.— English Magazine.

Cambric Costumes, Etc.

The furnishing stores display new costumes of percale, cambric and Scotch ginghams, trimmed with pleated frills of the material, on which fall scant ruffles of white Hamburg embroidery. The favorite design for these is the pleated basque, with the pleats extending far below the hips, and the edge finished with embroidery. The shoulders may have a yoke in front only, op perhaps only in the back, while the front is pleated, but in most cases there is a yoke both in front and back. The over-skirt has a very long; wrinkled apron with soft drapery behind, and in most cases it is sewed permanently to the lower skirt either at the belt on just below it. It is easier, however, to iron such dresses when each part is made separately, and the effect is just the same. The bourette figured percales in gray with blue, or black on white, brown or navy blue, are most used. When American percales are chosen, the suit is sold for $6.50. Cambric wrappers are also being fancifully made at the furnishing houses. The prettiest of these have a yoke with Watteau pleating in the back, and are made of bordered cambrics, with the border used for trimmings down the front, edging the yoke, pockets, collar and cuffs. Other wrappers are trimmed up the front to represent a plastron, and are cut off below the waist, and have pleated fullness added there. Plain Gabrieli? wrappers simply bordered, or else with a deep Spanish flounce, are sold forsl. For nice wool wrappers that are needed for cool mornings in the country, American basket-woven cloth at seventy-five cents is used, or else the domestic bourettes at the same price. These come in pale blue, to be trimmed with olive green or with navy blfte, or in cream-color or pink, with both of which dark cardinal red is chosen for bows and facings.

Carrick capes promise to be very much worn on various spring garments. They are seen on cloth sacques, on basques of plain costumes, on polonaises, on Dolmans, on English cloth traveling cloaks, and finally on linen Ulsters. Those on new sacques for spring are deeper than those worn during the winter, and some are lightly trimmed with rows of braid. S“ts of three capes are on wraps, but basques have only one or two. It is said that the capes without other wraps will be uspd for spring; they will be made of cloth of light quality.— Harper's Bazar.

The Season.

The West has always been remarkable for the peculiarities of its climate. Its general characteristic, however, is that it has warm, dry summers, with much lovely weather in the autumn; and very often wet, late springs, and storms during the winter, severe in their intensity of cold. The present winter has, so far, been unprecedented in the history of the West, for the last forty years, in the amount of rain and the absence of frost, succeeded during the latter part of February, and up to this writing, March 6, by the softest and most genial spring weather. Journals are beginning to call attention to thedact, that in 1843 the thermometer ranged below zero all through the month of March, and utter warnings to beware. That winter was a very cold one, with the frost deep in the ground, and a heavy burden of snow over the country. This year there is no frost, no snow; the water of the streams and lakes is warm, and the temperature of the earth is that of late autumn, rather than that of spring. We may have unpleasant storms yet, but we can have no prolonged severe weather. Frogshave piped, off and on, all winter, and the robins, larks, bobolinks and other spring birds appeared on the last day of February about Chicago. The winter wheat, and the grass, have grown all winter, and no heaving has been experienced. The probabilities, therefore, are, that we shall have another season of heavy crops of wheat, and deep meadows and pastures. With favorable weather, the spring wheat crops may be got in early, and, when so sown, the result is, as a rule, full crops. It is to be hoped every farmer will avail himself of this state of the weather, if it lasts, to sow without delay. The amount of rain which the West has received during the last summer, autumn and winter, would leave the inference natural that we may expect a change, and that the present Se&aQlL may be suitably dry. Early spring sowings give tolerable assurance of heavy small grain crops. A warm June, July and August will make the corn crop—the great staple of the West —immense. Another great crop would put the West all right. Let every farmer use his best endeavors to do his part, and trust in Providence for full garners. — Prairie Farmer. Facts are facts, even when pronounced by ravage lips. It was a peculiar notion of the Mohawks tnatr some great misfortune would happen if any one spoke while crossing Saratoga Lake. A white woman, who was ferried over by an Indian, talked all the way, and on arriving safely on the further shore rallied her boatman on his superstition. He simply grunted, •‘The Great Spirit is nierenur and knows that the pale face woman cannot hold her tongue,” and then recrossed the lake in silence. A score of full-born Americans will move three wagon loads of lumber to uncover a poor old rat, where a cash offer of fifty cents each would have no effect.— Detroit Free Press. During the year 1877 42,260 paupers In Indiana were cared fdr~tft"the expense of the various counties in the State at a cost of $6*10,026.

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Beautify your grounds. Plant trees and shrqbs, and fruits and flowers. Bask in the sunshine. With inspiration drink in the blessings of earth and Heaven.— Jowa State Register. —Muffins.—One quart of sweet milk, and flour sufficient to make a batter. One-half pint of good yeast, four eggs, a little salt; then set them by the fire to rise. When quite light, bake them in -muffin-rings, op a griddle. —Cookies.—Two cups sugar, one cup sour milk or cream; one cup butter, two eggs, five cups flour, one teaspoonful soda. Reserve half the flour to roll them out in, and the softer they can be rolled the better. Add caraway seeds, if liked. —Griddle Cakes.—Take your pieces of dry bread and pour over them boiling water; stir and beat to a smooth paste; put in flour enough to make them about the consistency of buckwheat cakes; add a little salt, one teaspoonful of soda, and three eggs, well beaten. They are delicious for breakfast or tea. —Fried Potatoes with Eggs. —Slice cold boiled potatoes and fry in good butter until brown; beat up one or two eggs and stir into them just as you dish them for table. Do not leave them a moment on the fire after the eggs are in, as, if they harden, they are not half so nice. One egg is enough for three or four persons, unless they are very fond of potatoes; if they arc, have plenty and put in two.

—Celery is not so generally cultivated as it should be, for the reason, doubtless, that the millions who could most easily have it have never learned to like it. As with tomatoes and some other vegetables, the taste for celery has to be cultivated; but when once acquired it is never lost, and no delicacy of the garden is more highly appreciated. In most parts of the country the use of celery is principally confined to city people, while farmers do not know or care for it. There never has been, and never will be, too much labor employed in producing articles which add to human happiness, but it often happens that this labor is so misdirected that some products are greater in quantity than for the time can be used, and so labor is poorly rewarded. Country Gentleman. —A correspondent of the Practical Farmer gives her method of growing geraniums, as follows: Get a roomy pot, put three or four pieces of broken brick or pebbles in the bottom to secure drainage. Take equal parts of chip dirt, sand and barnyard manure; mix well and fill the pot, make a hole in the center, fill it with water and carefully place your plant in. Now fill Uie dirt around your plant, press lightly to make it firm, put it in a shaded window for a few days until it gets accustomed to its new quarters, gradually let it have the sun, and in a week’s time you may give it the sunniest window you have. If it grows too tall, pinch the top off; it will soon throw out new branches on every side. I wish you could have a peep at mine—it is so thrifty and healthy. The leaves are as broad as my hand. A great many water too much; I water mine twice a week with soap suds; give it a good drenching and wash every leaf with a tooth-brush. It makes the plant healthy, and how beautiful and fresh each leaf looks after the bath.

Coal Ashes for Wheat Lands.

It would not be correct, perhaps, to say that coal ashes, plowed in and under, and stable or barn yard manure spread on the surface of wheat fields, would not act beneficially upon all or nearly all soils, whether they were rich in nitrogen and vegetable matter or not: still it is not the writer’s purpose in this article to go over the whole ground, but rather to confine himself to light-colored clay and magnesia soils, such as characterize a considerable part of the prairie and timbered wheat soils and lands of no small portion of the States of Missouri, Arkansas, Indiana and Illinois. Whilst the black prairie soils, the corn soils, par excellence, whether they lie in Texas or father north or east, have too much nitrogen and humus in their composition to produce good crops of wheat after the third or fourth one has been taken oft', unless they are subjected and submitted to a special course of preliminary treatment, which reduces the amounts both of humus and nitrogen, the white and yellow clays, after bearing two or three similar crops, require an addition of these substances, in the form of some amendment or fertilizer, which has a tendency to improve the mechanical texture of the soil, by rendering it less compact and indurated, and the surface addition of manure of some kind to supply the needed quantity of nitrogen. Thus, in Southern Illinois, and especially on the post-oak flats and yellow and white clay soils, and magnesia lands, a light coating of manure spread on wheat-fields any time after seeding, or in the winter season, increases the growth of straw and yield of grain out of all proportion to what might be logically inferred from the quantity .applied. And where barn of stable manure is not to be had. or where it is tough and used by the ti*uck-,patch men, who.find a market for these vegetables among the workmen gathered in the mining towns within the coal districts, it has been ascertained that the ashes of coal-slack spread liberally on the surface previous to the preliminary plowing for the wheat-crop produces results nearly equally surprising. Not only do these coal ashes improve the texture and mechanical condition of the soil, but they evidently contribute some important element of plantfood, or perhaps some of their constituent elements act as a solvent to substances already in the spil, and in that way benefit the wheat-plant; for it has already been established by repeated experiments that a three-inch coating of coal ashes spread on the surface before’plowing actaaiLSUcecssfully and surely as stable manure spread after sowing, or' during the winter months. All through the coal mining districts and counties of the States named above there have accumulated/' vast piles of these wastes of the coal mines, and the problem has been how to get rid of them with the least possible expense to the operators of the mines, and the ascertainment of the fact that they have considerable value as an amendment and fertilizer to the soils lying about, and that they will be, sooner or later, so used and Consumed, may be regarded in the light of a great public benefit. So also in the heavily-timbered portions of the States named, where sawmills have been established for a longer or shorter terra, employed in working up the timlwr iu shape to go upon the market of the country, there are to ' be seen great piles of Wood ashes, which have heretofore l»een considered of so I little value that they have been allowed

to accumulate, till, like coal-elaok, they actually cumber the ground. But it is beginning to be undeiatood that the failure of vineyard# and orchards to produce fruit, after two or three successful crops, is due probably to the exhaustion in the soil of potash therein contained, so that already the more inquiring and enlightened fruitgrowers are gathering up all the wood ashes within their reach and applying them to their potash-exhausted orchards and vineyards. But few only of these gentlemen have learned that potash, placed oh the surface, whether in the form of ashes or otherwise, remains there, and that to get the full benefit of such application within a limited time it is necessary to bare the feeding-roots at their extremities, and apply the plant-food at these points. In view of these facts we are led to the following, among other important conclusions: That for light-colored, compact clays and magnesia lands, post-oak flats, and dead, level prairie wheatsoils, when sown to wheat, therj is no way in which manure from the barn or stable can be used to so much advantage as to spread a light coat of it over wheat Helus; the sooner after seeding the better; but better any time previous to the first of March than not at all; that in the vicinity of coal mines, where coal ashes are to be had, it will pay the farmer, whether he proposes to grow wheat, or grass, or corn, or vegetables, to coat his fields over with at least three inches of coal-ashes previous to plowing, with the certainty that, while the benefits of the work will show at once, they will continue to show in the same way much longer than stable manure, and for the reason that the manure is largely made up of vegetable matter, which sooner decays ana disappears, while the ashes are composed of minerals like the substance of the hills, and have a life everlasting like them; and finally, that the ashes now wasting in the neighborhood of saw-mills should be gathered up and used to the last bushel in the orchards and vineyards of the country around them; and for the reason not only that these ashes, whether new or old, leached or unleached, are but a part of the substances of a gigantic old vegetation reduced to its lowest terms, that they are the main matters out of which the forms of the new vegetation are to be created and sustained; and, finally, they contain the material to furnish those potash and other alkaline bases, without a liberal supply of which in the soil there can be no healthy and permanent fruitfulness in vineyards and orchards, no matter how favorably situated, planted and kept.- -Home and Farm. —— —Seth Green got his first start in life from a citizen of Michigan, who taught ’him fish culture and lent him money to begin business. A thkze-fOot rule—Sleek up your yard as spring approaches.— Boston Globe. e —. ■ The “Povlthy Wwu.D,” Hartford, Conn., is the leading magazine of its class, $1.25 a year; 12 superb Chkomos mailed for only 75c. additional. All fowl-breeders should have it. Subscribe now for 1878. It is best and cheapest. 10c. sample No.

Mothers, Mothers, Mothers.

Don’t fail to procure Mbs. Winslow’s Soothing Sybut for all diseases of teething in cl 11dren. It relieves the child from pain, cures wind colic, reg.ilates the bowels, and, by giving relief And health to the child, gives rest to the mother.

Rheumatism Quickly Cured.

“Durang’s Qjieumatic Remedy,” the great Internal Medicine, will positively cure any case ol rheumatism on the face of the earth. Price $1 a bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Send for circulai to Helphenstine & Bentley, Washington, D. O.

Invalid Pensions Increased.

Write Col. L. Bingham & Co., Atto.meys for Claims, Patents, Land Titles, Washington, D C.

Vegetine FORDROPSY. Central Falls, R. L, Oct IP, 1877. Dr. H. R. Stevens : , , It Is a pleasure to give my testimony for your valuable medicine. I was sick for a long time wltb Droi-st, under the doctor’s care. He said It was Water between the Heart and Liver. I received no benefit until I .commenced taking the VEGETINE—In fact, 1 wasgrowing worse. I have tried many remedlee ; they did not help me. VEGETINE Is the medicine for Dropst. I began to feel better after taking a few bottles. 1 have taken thirty hotties In all. I am perfectly well—never felt better. No one can feel more thankful than Ida Imn, dear sir, VEGETINE When the blood becomes lifeless and stagnant, either from change of weather or of climate, want of exercise, Irregular diet, or from any other cause, the VEGETINE will renew the blood, carry off the putrid humors, cleanse the stomach, regulate the bowels, and Impart a tone of vigor to the whole body. VEGETINE for Eiiitj Cmjliitt ui Himm JtWiij. Islesboro, Me., Dec. 28,1877. Mr. Stevens :i Iwir Sir-1 had had a Coven for eighteen years, when I commenced taking the VEGETINE. I was very low, my system was debilitated by disease. I had the KiDNn Complaint and was very nerama-Coven bad, and LI NUS sore. When I bad taken one bottle I found It was helping me: it has helped my cough, and it strengthens me. lam now able to do my work. Never have found anything like the VEGETINE. 1 know it is everything It la recommended to be. „ MBS. A. J. PENDLETON. VEGETINE Is nourishing and strengthening; purifies the blood ; regulates the bowels; quiets the nervous system ; acts directly upon the secretions, and arouses the whole system to action. VEGETINE For Sick Headache. Evansville, Ind., Jan. 1,1878. Mr. Stevens : Zwrr Sir—l have used your VEGETINE for Sick Hr APACHE, and been greatly benefited thereby. I have every reason to believe It to be a good medicine. Yours, very respectfully, Mrs. JAMES CONNER, 411 Third street HEADACHE, vegetine can be said to be a sure remedy for the many kinds of Headache, as it acta directly upon the various causes of thia oomplalnt-Nerv-ousnees. Indigestion, CosUveness. Rheumatism. Neuralgia, Biliousness, etc. Tn the VEGETINE. You will never regret It. VEGETINE. Doctor’s Deport. DR. CHARLES M. DUDDENHAUBEN, Apothecary, Evansville, Ind. The Doctor writes: I have a large cumber of good customers who take VEGEHNK They all speak weU of It I know it is a good medicine foi the complaints for which it Is reoomwwwwlM. _ > i, -- Dea 27.1877. _ VEGETINE Is a great panacea for our aged fathers and mothers, for It gives them strength, auleto tbeb nerves, and gives them Nature's sweet sleep. VEGETINE. Doctor’* Report. H. It Stxvkna Esq.: ' ... ’ Prar Sir- We have been selling your valuable vEGE TINE for three years. and we find that It gives perfect satisfaction. We believe It to be the best Blood Purtiles unsold, Uniontown, Ky. VEGETINE has never failed to effect a cure, giving tone and strength to the system debilitated by disease. VEGETINE PREPARED DT IL R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. Vegetine is Sold by All Druggists.

The Crisis.

What think you jrould be the result if the earth should stop spinning around the sunt Were yoa ever near a large and intricate mar fChlne whan one of its wheels became clogged or broken—near enough to bear the grating, jurring clash, the suduen, deafening crash! Astrouome* assure us that precisely similar effects, only on an inconceivably grander scale, wouhrhe produced if our earth—one of the wheels ki the universe-machine—should suddenly cease Its revolutions. In other irords, there would Ins a genera! clash and crash of satellites, plaigste and systems. What we term financial crises are due to similarcauses. One of the wheels In the finance-machine becomes clogged, perhaps shattered. The terilble Wall-street “crush" which follows is communicated to every part of the financial mechanism of the country. But analogies do not stop here. There is that other mechanism, the most intricate of al —sometimes called an organism because It generates its own forces—the human machine. When one of its members fails to perform Its ofllre, the whole system is thrown into disorder. Members before considered unassailable, brctfkdowii under the unnatural pressure. The skoftk comes, and utter prostration is tho result. Reparation can only be effected by the restortatlon of tho Impaired parts and the readjustment of its levers—the physical forces. There is one part of the machine more liable tpsdlsorder than any other—the liver—the great; balance-wheel of the machine. The liver being the gres t depurating or blood-cleansing organ of th* system, set it at work and the anil corruptions which gender in the blood, and rot out, Hfl It were, the machinery of lift, are gradually expelled from the system. For thia puQiQße Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, usttl dally, and Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pallets, taken in very small doses, are pre-eminently the articles needed. They cure every kind of humor, from the worst scrofula to tlse coinnxm pimple, blotch or eruption. Great, eatJwg ulcere kindly heal under their might*- curat.ve influence. V indent blood poisons that lurk in the system are by them robbed of their terrors, and by their persevering and somewhat protracted use the most taintea' systems may be completely renovated and built up anew. Enlarged glands, tumors and swellings dwindle away and disappear under the influence of these great resolvents.

"Dooley's Yeast Powder,"

Baid a lady, “ has made itself indispensable In our kitchen. Our biscuits, cake, w.ifiles, muffins and such like things, with its aid, are always enjoyable and good. We would not be without it iu our family. We have used it for over fifteen years, and it lias never disappointed us yet. Pakticulabs regarding Electric Belts free. Address Pulvermacher Galvanic Co.. Clncln.,O.

Best Expectorant Remedy OF THE AGE. 1863 I fifteen years } 1878 Since the Introduction of Allen's Liu Balsam. The Lung Balsam Is equally efficacious to young or olfj. The Lung Balsam Will cure Golds, Coughs, Asthma and Bronchitis. The Lung Balsam, If taken in time, will prevent and cure Consumption. The Lung Balsam Ib given to Children, for Croup, with wonderful success. The Lung Balsam Contains no Opium in any form; is pleasant to the taste. ■ The Lung Balsam Is indorsed by the Press and the People. Public Speakers and Ministers speak in its favor. The Lung Balsam Should be used at the first manifestation of a cold or cough, and vie will guarantee a cure if used faithfully, according to directions. The Lung Balsam Is sold by all Druggists and Medicine Dealers. J, N, HARRIS & 00., Props., CIKCIXMATX O. ‘VIBRATOR’/ THE ORIGINAL & ONLY GENUINE “ Vibrator ” Tlircslicrs, •' WITH IMPROVED MOUNTED HORSE POWERS, And Steam Thresher Engines, Made only by NICHOLS, SHEPARD & CO., BATTEE CREEK, MICH. THE Mntchless'riirniu-Havlng, Time* Baring, ami Money-B<vinjc Throaher* of thia dny anl Feneration. Beyond all Rivalry for Rapid Wotk, For* fact CteanlDg, and for Saving (Main from WMtage. «RAIN Raisers will not Submit to the anormcua wastage of Grain A tlio inferior work done by Iba other maebiuea, when once posted on the difference. THE ENTIRE Threshing Expenses land oltcn a to & T imes that amount i can be made by tho Extra Grain SAVED by the** Improved Macidnea. NO Revolving Shnfts Inside the Separator. EuiUvly free it mu Beater*. l*ickrra, luddiee, and all each time-waiting and gmln-waatlug complications. Perfectly adapted to ail Kinde and Con.HticusoC .Grain, Wot or Dry, Loug or Shot C, Headed or Bound. NOT only Vastly Superior for Wheat, Oats. Bailey, Rye, and like Grails*, but the only BncceMiul Threehvr In Flax, Timothy, Millet, Clover, and like Beede. ReQulrra no ** at tachmcnto ”or “ rebuilding ” to change from Grain to Seed*. MARVELOUS for simplicity of Parts, ualng leM than oiH-balrtne usual Bella and Geara. Make* ao Litterlug* or Scattering*. FOUR Sizes of Separators Made, rangIng from bix to Twelve Horse and two elytatof Mduutod ItoH Power* to match. STEAM Power Threshers a Specialty. A apeciai aUe Separator made exprveely. ioi bicaui I'o wcr. OUR Unrivaled Steam Thresher EnnN*a, with Valuable Improvement* and DiAllacliva Mature*, far beyond any other make or kind. IN Thorough Workmanship, Elegant * Finish, Ferleciu.n of Parts, C->mpiat*-nes* of Equlpniwtl, etc., our’ , ‘ Vibrator" TLrvsbvr Outate are Incomparable. FOR Particulars, eall oa onr Dealers or write to a* for lUu-v r'r i Circular, which we mail fr*a.

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