Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1878 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. KRNBBEI.AER, . • INDIANA.

■ 'Vi . " A PICTURE. Two littlo non!*, ii l«>y #n<l K'J 1 ;. .... Wandering on to the foot of too lull: Bushes of green ami blossoniH of laa' l Laughed at theawoWcs in the roadiuae nil. Crossing the lane, a gprgeoue Jay, Bathed in the light of n llatlering raj, Jauntily chatters. “ borne day, aomc day. Two awret souls; Usman and a maid, (lieechen branches twisted atwive). Picking the daisies which sprinkle a glade, Andtry ing their link at a came of love: ‘This year “ "Next yiar!” What do they say? And out of the beeches the curious jay Peeps and chuckles, " Some day, some day! Two old souls, and the end of the day Follows them home to the foot of the hill; One Into gleam which baa wandered astray Breaks from acopae and dimplea the nil. Autumn haves arc strewing the way. And hoarse from the larch the hungry jay Bhouts out to the night, "Borne day, some day!’ Two poor souls at the dead of the night. Bide by side, lie stiffened and still; And tho winter's moon just softens her light, As it solemnly rests at the foot of the lull, Remembering tho bees and the buds and the May, . ' Tho summer gold and theaiitunin Cray, • And the warm green lane where the beetles play, In tho crisp cold night the shivering jay Croaks out of his dream, “Someday, some day!” Tinsley'* Maqnztne.

A FIGHT WITH HORNETS.

Wo had two terrible bugbears to brave that season, ami they were by no means imaginary ones. There were six, including myself, who went to school together on that road; A 1 Cummings and Rike, Elsie llanley and Hitty Hall, and a boy named Sip Mansur. None of us were more than ten years old, except Hitty Hall, who may have been eleven or twelve. In the country, especially in backwoods districts, boys are not generally allowed to go to school in the summer after they are ten or eleven years old. There is always too much hoeing and haying to be done on their father’s farms. It was nearly A mile down to the red school-house which stood at the “ Corners.” The road ran along the side of Trlong ridge of pasture lamt-between pole and brush fences, which were rather low and poor, and bushes grew plentifully all along the way. It was a road but little traveled. We would often scare np partridges between the very wheel-ruts, or see hares scudding ncross it. It was a wonderful place for blue-jays. It seems to me now Unit wo never passed without seeing a squad of these noisy birds. Berries, too, were abundant—strawberries in June, and in July and August, raspberries and blackberries by the bushel. Ah, those were pleasant times—trudging home from school, berrying, bird’s-nesting and chasing the red squirrels along the fences—or would have been but for the bugbears-. The first and worst of tlfe.se was “ Dagon,” the second an enormous nest oTgreat black-banded hornetsthat are so common in New England. This nest hung from a low branch of a small white maple, one of a clump which stood just inside the pasture fence, two or three rods from the road When we first saw it in June, it was not larger than a quart bowl; but it grew and grew, till by the first of August it would have filled a ten-quart bucket. Scores of those great, savage hornets would swarm'out at the least provocation, even at the sound of our voices. Young fellows passing had thrown stones and sticks at the nest, and made the hornets irritable, and, indeed, we boys had frequently stoned

First Rike, then Elsie, had been stung as-wepassedl "TFfi©~'hornets would dart at us like bullets. If we came within a hundred feet of their house, we Were almost sure to hear a quick, vengeful buzz, and feel the long, peisonous stings of these worst of tul hornets. Both Rike and Elsie were stung near the left oar. Within an hour their faces had swollen almost beyond recognition. We used to either to run past the nest at full speed, or else get over the fence and pass at a long distance from it. lhit Dagon was the larger and far more dangerous object of our daily terrors. Dagon was a three-year-old Herefordshire bull, belonging to “ Old Zaek Daniels,” as he was called, whose pasture bordered the road. Well do 1 remember the great, whitefaced monster, his short, thick horns,, surly pink nose, and wicked, red-ringed eyes. All of this animal, except his broad, white face, was a deep chestnut red, glossy and sleek as an otter-skin, lie was what stock-fanciers would deem a beauty, but to us school-children, a furious beast,-lying in wait to rend and gore us. Never were the followers of Cadmus in greater fear of the dragon than we were of Dagon. Dagon had received his singular name from Mr. Merritt, the Free-Will Baptist Minister. Mr. Merritt, while crossing the pasture, had been attacked by him, and had but narrowly escaped severe injuries. The reverend gentleman went gravely to complain to the bull’s owner.

“ Mr. Daniels, said he, “your great Dagon has assaulted me, nnd but for God’s mercy would have trodden me under his feet.” Old Mr. Daniels’ reply was characteristic: “Them as is afeard o’ mv bull had better keep out o’ my parster.” But Dagon did not keep in his pasture. The low, weak fence ottered little or no obstacle to him. The herd of cattle which Mr. Daniels kept there were often in the road, Dagon with them. And then with what terror would wo discover his big nr.ilk-white face, or hear his deep bass notes issuing from a cloud of dust, followed by the "sudden outburst of his far-resoundinr tenor! It was skulk and run then, and we made wide ddottrs to avoid giving Mr. Bull offense. Of course we complained at home. Something was said a number of times to Mr. Daniels about the danger of letting sp vicious an animal run at largo. But none of our folk liked to have trouble with - the old hian, who was known to be crabbed and revengeful. As the season advanced, Dagon grew more and more aggressive arid noisy. If he saw us passing, he would come to the fence and follow along beside it as we scudded in the road; and if he found , a place low enough, over he would leap with a roar. Then we had br scramble over the fence on the lower side of the road, in 1 a hurry. It was a wonder he did not sometimes overhaul us. for the fence was made of brush, and we often f#\ick in it. One morning Elsie had a particularly narrow escape. Dagon was in the road. Some larger boys, passing, had stoned and enraged him. ■ We came upon him suddenly in a clump of sumac by the roadside.

“Oh, Dagon! There’s Dagon!” Hitty cried, forj she had first discovered him. We turned and fledi>ack up the road. But the bull had seen us and followed, with a fierce snort. In her terror, Elsie, incumbered with her books and basket, fell and got behind tho rest of us, who were already climbing the fence. As we tumbled over we saw, to our horror, that the infuriated animal was close upon ' her. Screaming with affright, she jumped down over a great rick of old fogs on the lower sido of the road. Dagon, not daring to leap upon so uncertain a foothold, stood and looked down upon her, arching his neck and giving vent to a queer, whining bellow. Elsie, crouching between tho pile of logs and the fence, durst not stir till Rike and Sip, stealing along on the lower side of the fence, pulled away tho bottom brush and dragged her, beneath the poles, into the field below. We dared not go back after her basket and books, winch Dagon had trampled under his feet. The poor child could scarcely get over her fright to • that whole day. And that very afternoon, when going home from school, she was stung by one of the hornets. To elude Dagon and dodge the hornets required all our skill. Left to oiir own rosouroes, we at length hit upon a plan to turn our two implacable enemies one against the other. 1 believe it was Sip who first proposed that wo should try to get the bull into tho hornets’ nest; but we all, girls and bovs, helped to carry out the scheme. First, we looked for a good hole In the fence on the lower side of the road, through which we could beat a hasty retreat to the bushes. As I have said, the hornets’ nest was just inside of the pasture where Dagon reigned supreme. The fence along here chanced to be pretty good, being through bushes where fencing stuff was plenty, and we had not much fear that thf bull would leap over it. We waited for an opportunity to draw Dagon into our plot. At length, one Thursday afternoon, we saw him within twenty rods of the hornets’ nest. “Now, ole feller,” said Sip, “we’ll get you into the limboes!” First, we sent Elsie off into the bushes, to be out of the way. Rike, Sip and I then got old hemlock knots to throw, and cautiously posted ourselves in the high brakes, twenty or thirty yards from the hornets’ nest. I well remember what a hot, muggy afternoon it was. A 1 now began to stalk along the road, and to imitate Dagon’s deep, gruff booings; while Hitty stood and waved her little hat, trimmed with an old red ribbon. The sound of this counterfeit challenge soon came to Dagon’s jealous ears. He raised his head and glared around, then began to bellow ana paw, breaking put at times into a loud, trumpet-like defiance. Catching sight of Hitty’s hat, he started for the road at a confident trot. No doubt he meant to teach us a lesson that wo should not soon forget. ——— “He’s coming!” “ He’s coming!” A 1 and Hitty both cried, and darted through the hole in the lower fence. We boys in the brakes rose and let Hy our knots at the hornet’s nest. Whack, whack! they went againstit, and out poured the hornets with angry hum, just as Dagon, with a menacing bellow, came crashing through the brush down to the fence. Thanks to our stratagem, he found things ready for him! Sip, Rike and I had lied, but we heard the sounds of fearful commotion. Scores of the infuriated hornets darted at Dagon the instant he presented himself! But, long accustomed to frighten and drive everybody and everything, the bull was loth to fly. - '• • • —_ He plunged and tore about, uttering some of the odifbst bellowing and bawlings that 1 ever heard. The fence cracked, and we could see the bushes waving and swaying, . The more Dagon tore around, the more the hornets stung him. Though we saw little of the tussle, we could hear enough to make sure that Dagon had all he could attend to.

Sip plucked up courage to creep back along the fence, below the road. A minute after, he called outthatthe bull had run; and then we all saw Dagon going up across the pasture, with tail cruet, snorting like twenty bagpipes! That was sport for us, anti wo exulted to our hearts’ content. But, for good reasons, we each promised to say nothing of our trick. Next day we saw the other cattle, brit not Dagon. That night it was rumored about that the bull was sick —all swelled up—didn’t know what ailed him—supposed to be poisoned. A few days after, it was reported that “Daniels’ bull” had somehow got info a hornets’, nest, and was stung and injured. Every one thought it a very singular circumstance. But Dagon was not killed, though it was nearly a fortnight before he again made his appearance in the pasture—a wiser and a better bull. From that day he never took ariy notice of us children. Meanwhile, Mr. Daniels had come by night, with a huge bundle of straw, and burned out the hornets’ nest. So that one and the same stroke of motherwit ridded us of both our bugbears, and we had nothing more to molest us on our way to school.— Youths' Companion.

Mules in the Mines.

The heat in the Sutro Tunnel for several thousand feet back from the face is very considerable, ranging from 95 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and feels all the hotter for being partly deprived of oxygen. At the face, where the men are at work, two streams of fresh air, generated at shaft No. 2, two miles away, and 1,042 feet above the tunnel level, Are constantly discharged—one from the blower, the other from the compressor-pipe; and, though at this point it is 108 degrees Fahrenheit, the air is quite comfortable. One switch-mule is employed on each shift, which is used for bringing a-car at a time from the switch—a thousand feet back—to the face of the header; it is then taken back with Ihe loaded car to bring other empty ones forwjira, in which manner trains of fifteen or twenty cars are made up. This mule, from the time it is unhitched from the empty cars, and while it is waiting to be hitched up to the one being loaded, manages to put his nose up to the airpipe, and keeps moving its head up and down, in order to get all the air possible in the few minutes allowed it. One day last week a man in charge of the switch-mule was Seen coming out of the tunnel, in the middle of Ins shaft, and. on inqury why he made his appearance at this' unusual hour, he said he had to come out after another mule to do the switching, for his regular switch-mule had bo.oonq. rfllffillittM-l and utterly refused to do any duty* He declared the mule wasstanding in'front

of the air-pipe, near the face, and no amount of coaxing, whipping, or pulling could induce ft to leave, and he was compelled to start out after another mule, in order to work to prooeed. After a few hours, by sheer dint of force, the refractory mule was brought out, half a dozen men being required to pull and push it along. It has since been put to work on the outside, for it would bo useless to take It in at switching any more, for it would repeat the same performance at each shift. The intelligence of mules is displayed in a remarkable degree when used underground and in dangerous places. They gradually learn to understand every command tho driver gives them, and in the header when the signal “fire” is given, they instantly wheel around, with their backs toward tho blast. One day a mule neglected to wheel quite around, but stood at right angles with the tunnel, and though over 400 feet from the face, a rock four inches in diameter struck it in the side, making an ngly wound, from which the intestines protruded. He had to be thrown on a Hat-car, taken out and shot. A curious freak about mules is that when anything touches their heads they dodge; while touching horses* cars makes them throw up their heads. For this reason horses cannot be used underground, for they would soon break their skulls, while mules never get injured in that manner. The switch-mules, when the men are eating, go from man to man begging for something to eat, and they wul eat cooked meat, pies, drink coffee—in fact, take anything the men have. One of the mules, when the men are not looking, is in the habit of upsetting the men’s lunch-pails and helping himself without leave. They have also taken to drinking ice-water, and are not satisfied except they get their regular allowance. The mules which pull the rock-trains are driven three or four tandem, each having a torch upon its head, which keeps bobbing up and down as they move along, and they present a very novel appearance as seen from a distance in the darkness. All the mules in the tunnel work eight-hour shifts, the same as the men. Notwithstanding this short duty, they rapidly wear out, and it is a pity to see them panting and blowing in the confined air, with perspiration streaming from them.

The mules have a cloth fastened to their bridles, which is put over one eye before they emerge into daylight. This cloth iff removed after they enter the tunnel on the return trip. The object is to have them reserve one good eye to see from, for the uncovered eye, exposed to daylight, is incapable of seeing anything for some time after entering darkness. Whenever it is neglected to bandage an eye on the outside, the mule staggers and tumbles about in the darkness, and refuses to go ahead. * The mules, of course, all have their names, and Jane, Nell, Luce, Fan, Tom, Bill, Jack, Frank, are sure to be amongst the lot. One mule has been facetiously christened Susan B. Anthony. They are great favorites with the miners, especially when underground, anil they answer the call of their names, like pet dogs; and, strange to say, in tliat lieated atmosphere, they soon lose their proverbial tendency for kicking. The driver generally stands on a small platform in the rear of the first car, and, since he could not reach the mules, driven in tandem, with a whip, he shies small stones with the greatest dexterity, of which he has a good supply before him. Two trains generally follow one behind the other, for should an accident happen from caves, breakingof wheels, or of cars getting off the track, one driver assists the other in overcoming tho difficulty. —> — The most durable mules are those with short legs, large bodies, compactly built, and weighing about 900 pounds. There are altogether about thirty mules employed in the Sutro Tunnel, though a greater number is kept on hand. —Sutro (Nev.) Independent.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—A colored man in Boston is named Yale College. -Over 20,000 copies of Joseph Cook’s books have been sold. —Blair is the only living member of Mr. Lincoln’s Cabinet. —Gov. Williams, of Indiana, has discarded blue-jeans and appears in broadcloth. —A new dictionary of the Yaghan language, spoken by the natives of Terra del Fuego, which will contain 16,000 words, is being prepared by Rev. T. Bridges. —l)r. Oliver Wendell Holmes writes with a broad gold pen fixed into a quill handle. The pen has done duty for twenty years. He writes only in the morning, for three hours a day. —Mr. Caleb Cushing has received a fee of more than SIOO,OOO for recovering the estate of a Cuban which was seized by the Spanish Government, and another claim for $2,000,000 has been made, which, if established, will make Mr. Cushing a very rich man. —Ex-Senator Wade had some queer kinks in his mind. He was a firm believer in Spriritualism, and looked on death as a mere change of scenes. Another striking peculiarity was the dread he entertained of sitting for a picture. He used to say often that he had as much respect for a dentist’s oflloe as he had for a photographic gallery.

—Mr. Simmon’s new bust of the late Senator Morton was copied from photographs, as a young sculptor of Indianapolis, who took a mask of the Senator’s faoe after death, refused the use of it except on payment of $2,000. The Morton vaults was opened that the sculptor might see the face ho wished to mold; but the features, in spite of the embalming, were too wasted to be recognized.—A'. Y. ■ Evening Post. —Miss Julia E; Smith, of Glastonbury (Conn.) fame, remembers that fifty-nine years ago the month of February was much milder than has been the closed. The Superior Court being in session, her father rode to Hartford on horsebaek daily and returned at night, the traveling being as good as in the summer time. There was no sleighing throughout the winter, but after the Bth of March there was good sleighing for thfeo weeks. —Bayard Taylor says that the secret of his enormous power of work is an unfailing appetite, a capacity for smoking tobacco interminably, and eight hours’ good sleep every night. So imperative has the habit of sleeping at a” regular time become that, when now and then he has had to defer going to bed at the usual time and has tried to induce wakefulness by drinking two or three cups of the blackest coffee and by other means, he has nevertheless dropped asleep while working at tils desk,

AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

—The following seasonable agricultural items are from the pen of tho agricultural editor of tho Des Moines Register: Every intelligent boy 011 tho farm should learn to graft. It is a very simple operation. - _ If you would have the cow do well with you, you must do well with her. Farmers better not set all their eggs under one goose this year—especially if that goose is called wheat. Tho golden text is, “Tho world’s best crop is tame grasses, and the best animal to utilize it is the cow.” Many pretended farmers go to town and smoke, spit and drink beer all day, and then go homo and grunt about hard times. Corbett said “soft hands are indicative of soft brains.” Limited means and gaudy pride have no business farming. The old poets said that “before tho temple of virtue”—meaning all excellence—“the gods have placed labor.” Let everybody', without respoct to age, sex, color or “previous condition,” know that it is w ork alone that conquers. }

In planting trees, recollect they are not a stake to be driven into the ground. Dig a large, flat pit for the tree, and put in the bottom surface-loam. Spread the roots out carefully and equally, and place the loose, fine dirt under and among the roots, with the hand. Fill up the hole and press it down gently with the foot, but do not stamp it down. The National Live Stock Journal gives a volume of good advice in the following paragraph: Breeding for speed alone is, at best, an uncertain business; and when to this uncertainty we add the expenses of training, the chances of profits are so slight that we would not advise any general farmer to engage in the business, either with trotting or running horses. This is the season farmers should pay especial attention to their horses and their drivers. Many new and untried hands are commencing on tRe farm. High-spirited horses (and this is the kind to own and work) are easily ruined by ignorant, careless or vicious men. The first ill-treatment to a noble horse should be cause sufficient and irrevocable for a hand’s dismission. The neglect of farmers to grow grapes would be astonishing, did we not consider the great amount of mystery that has been thrown around the training, pruning and culture generally by some writers. There is no reason why every farmer’s family should not have all the grapes they can eat; and there is scarcely a town or village lot so at least one vine may be grown.

The Proper Way to Work a Horse.

There never was a greater mistake made than to say that a man who owns 11 horse, and drives a horse, knows ail about a horse; for, in a majority of cases, it is the very reverse. There are two classes of horses—work and pleasure; and all horses who do pulling and hauling heavy loads are termed workhorses, and the balance are horses of pleasure. It need only be said of working horses, that they should be well cleaned and fed, have their regular hours of rest anil plenty of time, before their work commences, to digest their food. It is a mistake to say that horses having a long journey to go, are benefited by being driven slowly; for if the road be good, the weather not too warm, and the load not very heavy, it will be better to drive him at the rate of eight miles an hour than five miles an hour, for then he will get to his stable sooner, be foil earlier ana have a longer rest for the trials of* to-morrow. Of oourse, tiie work of farm-horses is generally slow, and they do not need the same attention as tast-womag horses, and can be fed and watered at almost any time; but with horses of pleasure, everything is different, for, as a rule, they are in the stable threefourths of the time, and should never be taken out or driven on full stomachs, which there is never any necessity for; for if the stable-man is apprised of their goinjr out, he can fix the feedingtime to suit the conveniences of the horses. When harnessed, and the driver seated, he should never send them off with a jerk, or strike them with a whip, but by speaking to them kindly; allow them to increase their speed by degrees, but never force it.

A steady pace, say ten mile an hour, is mere preferable than sending them along by fits and starts. The less punishment a horse gets, tho better for all Earties; although it is true, that a lazy orse along with a free one, must be kept up to his work; or else the latter witl be “played out” before half the trip is enaed; and in this case, the whip must be used; but do it gently; so as to remind him of his duty, but do not hurt him; and in no case should the whip be given to a horse that is exhausted, for no good is gained by it; while the result may be bail. Fear of the whip causes sudden starting and stumbling, and as the whip cannot cure it, do not use if but get somebody to hold the horse’s head, and when you are ready, let the man lead him along easily, and in this way ho will get broke of it, after a while. A good driver, going at the rate of ten miles ail hour, will not drive up hill and down at the same rate, but will guide himself according to the road, and ease them up in rough' places. If traveling fast, horses should have a sip of water every hour; and if going a long distance, one feed in tho center of the journey will be sufficient. This is the best point I can give you, and do not forget it. —Hints and Helps to Horsemen.

Market Gardens.

Of early grown crops, if one has a w arm soil, radishes make one of the most profitable, as demanding little expense except the bunching, which is necessary only when you are sure of your crop and a sale for it. It usually fends large sale at a good price if Very early, and is often raised as a stelbn crop. Another advantage is the quick returns secured, the crop being raised and marketed in from forty to. sixty days. Onipns, year in and year out, probably yield the most profit of any garden crop, but should never be undertaken in large amount at first, not even upon a small scale if the {'round is poor and woody. Now ground one or two years clean-tilled is especially favorable, and along with this, if the grower has an inborn hatred of weeds, lie is pretty sure of a crop. On cool soils and well tilled early pease are a good crop; but provision must sits tirade to have an abundance of pickers whenever wanted. It is also cleared from the ground to allow t»f pickling cucumbers, late cabbage, Ute Trias ting ears of corn or turnips, and-,-by planting between the rows, fine props

oi melons or squash can bo grown after them. Early oabboge pay well when well tilled on very rich ground, but most beginners err in attempting at first to grow largely of early cabbage and late celery, two of the most difficult crops to grow and demanding the largest outlay and risk. Early beets for bunching are usually in free demand and pay well, having no pests end safe for a fate crop should they miss the early market. But the grower must remember they are bulky, and it takes a groat many wag-on-loads to realize SIOO. Early potatoes in every market are sure of a demand, and one of our surest crops. Economically managed, it always yields a fair profit, and often a very largo one. Mulching with manure to be plowed under for the second crop insures a good yield, and, being all available for the other crop, really costs the potatoes nothing. Sweet corn usually pays well if brought into the market very early or very late, but it is so easily raised that in tno season the glut drives the price to a low figure. But it is a profitable hog and stock feed even while green, feed stalks and all, so there need never be any loss upon it. Melons upon sandy soil in good heart, if protected from their many pests, “can’t help but pay,” and the demand grows with the supply till we can almost say that no market has for any length of time been glutted with them. But “ eternal vigilanco is the price” of melons. ——- ■ - —-r—i Winter squash, especially Hubbard, have bGcome such a staple in the market that a large demand is always certain, and the grower of a large crop rarely fails to realize well. Failures are often due to insufficient fertility, but more frequently, by neglect, the bugs are allowed to destroy them. Tomatoes, if once well rooted, are the most tenacious of life, and loyally yield at least a fair crop, whether the season be a continuous drought or one protracted rain. Often it is imprudently marketed, and the market driven very low. But it has become such a standard fruit for immediate table use and for canning that, with tact in marketing or by canning all surplus, a fair price ought to be maintained. I annually market several hundred bushels, but never have sold a bushel for less than seventy-five cents, and more usually have obtained one dollar. On the wagon, ready for market, I do not think they cost me more "than -thirty cents at the highest. The root crops, beets, carrots, parsnips and rutabagas grown upon clayey loam, pay well in most markets; but the important items of expense are their culture and harvesting, and the most economic methods must be studied. — Root's Manual.

—Benn Pitman is warned by the Chicago Times that the man who cremates one wife can never expect to have another. Is this warning uttered for the purpose of making cremation populai ? — N. Y. Graphic. “ Ma!” screamed young Matilda Spilkins, the other moi ning, when she got the paper, “ Ma, Silver Bill has fust passed the House.” ‘ * Has he, my dear?” replied Mrs. S. from up-stairs. “Why didn’t you ask him iiiP” A Bridgeport man, arrested for striking his wife Mary, admitted that Mary had a little lam.

Abandoned at Sea.

At all times ships of one kind or another are floating about at sea, abandoned by officers and crew, Tn what seems a hopeless condition. Some are dismantled and mere hulks, some arc swlminingkeel upwards,some are water-logged, but being laden with* timber will not sink, but are driven hither and thither as the wind and waves may direct. So peopleatilicted with catarrh, bronchitis, and consumption, are abandoned by ‘physicians and friends as incurable, yet thousands of sueli are annually restored to perfect health by-the use of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy and Hr. Pierce’s Gulden Medical Discovery." The Catarrh Remedy is unequaled as a soothing and healing local application, while the Discovery purifies and enriches the blood and imparts tone and vigor to the whole system. Vidolia, La., April 17th. 1877. Dr. Pierce a Dear {Hr— l suffered for twelve years with that most offensive and loathsome of all diseases—catarrh. My taste arid smell werccompletely destroyed. I procured a supply of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy and your Holden Medical Discovery, which I used according to directions, and a complete and permanent cure was speedily effected. I take pleasure in recommending them to all afflicted. >. Ever thankfully yours, Claka E. Huxt. 35= Wading Rtveji, Bukunotun Co., N. J., t Feb. 2Sth, 1877. | Db. Pierce: f ’ * Dear Sir— Your Golden Medical Dis/overy Is the best medicine for coughs, colds and consumption I ever knew. It has saved my life. Respect fully yours, Helen B. McAnney.

Household Economy.

The housekeeper or cook who studies economy in the‘kltclien, ran do so in one direction by always usinK Dooley's Yeast Powder. It will be found a truly economical and valuable assistant in Dakinu biscuits, rolls, bread, cake of all kinds, waffles, muffins, and most all articles prepared from Hour; and why 1 Because, in asiiiß the Dooley Powder, you save in in shortening, in patience. In everything; ana when the linking is done, it is turned out light, palatnible and wholesome, so that every morsel is eaten up and no waste.

No Time to be Lost. —In the incipient stages of Consumption, the first symptoms are generally a hacking cough, pains in the chest, difficulty of breathing, or oppression of the lungs. Something should be done at once to check the cough, Allay and heal the irritated parts. Allen’s Lung Balsam will break up the cough in an incredibly short time, also prevent the formation of tubercle's. Where turbercles are once formed, the disease is hard to cure. For sale by all Medicine Dealers.

Mothers, Mothers, Mothers.

Don’t fail to procure Mas. WiNsf-o v’s Southing Svnup for all diseases of toothing in children. It relieves the child from pain, cures wind oolic, regulates the bowels, and, by giving relief and health to the child; gives rest to the mother.

Rheumatism Quickly Cured.

“Dnrang’s Hhcnmatic Remedy," the great Internal Medietas, will positively care any case of rheumatism on the face of the earth. Price f 1 a bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Bend for circahu to Helphenstine A 8.-ntley, Washington, D. C. The “Poultry Would,” Hartford, Conn., la the leading magazine of its class, sl.2sayear; 13 superb Cukomos mailed for oiily 75c. additional. AH fowl-breeders should have it. Subscribe now for 1878. It Is best and cheapest. 10c. sample No.

Particulars regarding Electric Belts free. Address Pulvcrmacher Galvanic Co.. Clncln.,o. r NATURE'S REMEDY. \ YEGETIHI* The Chut Bipod * AN EXCELLENT MEDICINE. SraiNuriKLO, (X, Feb. 28.1877. This Is to certify that 1 have used VEtIKTINE, manufactured bjr H. K. Stevens, Boston. Mam., for Rheums tixm and General frustration of the Nerreus Sjstem, with good success. J recommend VKGKTINK as an excellent medicine for such complaints. Mr. Vandegrin, of the ftnn of Vandegrlft h Hodman, Ja a welt known business man In this place, baring one * COWLES r PILE & HUMOR CURE. WAKRANTKB a'per/eei. cure i « all the wont forme <>f l'lijts. Si aoruLA, Salt Kksi m. andaUdUeaees of the Skin and Blood. Anri rely I egeotble. Monh. |u>a mtmi 1 Sold everywhere. tlamittie. Beud lor I‘amphlota

Felt at onw after wing M|b| ILL lIIWT-M KKSKItV. IfCLICr fisfc.graJHfc canes, bfabetra, Gravel and IQ m/Z S^nv. I Pains In the Back, side « ■ V Loins, Dtsturlwd Nam 1/ee or AppeUte, General DrMiltr and all Dtaaaaes of the Kidneys, Bladder and Urinary Organa are cured by MINT’S RBHKIIV. Physicians use nPHTi REMEDY. Send for pamphlet to WM. X CLARKE, Prorldence, a. 1 AT this season of the year the human system la liable to become disordered from the Insufficient efforts of the llrer to discharge the mens of bile. If nature ta not anointed In her efforts, severe billons attacks, or prostrating fevers necessarily follow, causing greet suffering and even death. A little timely precaution, however, will prevent all this, and may be found In that favorite household remedy, SIMMONS’ LIVER REGULATOR fllmmons’ Liver Regulator has been In use tot half a century and there Is not one single Instance on record where It has failed to effect a cure when taken In time, according to the directions. It Is without doubt the greatest Uver Medicine In the world; Is per fectly harmless, being carefully compounded from rare roots and herbs, containing no mercury or any Injurious mineral substance. It takes the place of quinine and calomel, and has superseded these medicines in places where they have heretofore been extensively used. Pro. cure a bottle at once from your druggist, do not delay; give It a fair trial, and you will be more than satisfied with the result obtained. CAUTION! As there are a number of Imitations offered to ihe public, we would caution the community jo buy no Powdors or Prepared SIMMONS’ UVER REGULATOR, unless in oor ongraved wrapper, with Trade - Mark, Stamp and Signature unbroken. None other Is genuine. ORIGINAL AND GENUINE. , MAMUFAC'rUBKD ONLY BY . J. H. ZEILIN & CO.. PHILADELPHIA, PA. Prlco, $ I .00. Sold by All DraggHts. t CONSUMPTION, - Bronchitis, General Debility. Hypophosphltes Fellows’ Compound Syrup of Hypophosphltes. As this preparation Is entirely different in its combination and effects from 'an other remedies called hypophoephltes. the public are cautioned that the genuine has the name of fellows it Co. blown on the bottle. The signature of the Inventor, James L Fellows, Is written with red ink across each label, and on the yellow wrapper In water-mark, which Is seen by holding the paper before the light FELLOWS’ HYPOPHOSPHITES ’ Is adapted for diseases which are produced by loss of nervous power and consequent muscular relaxation, viz.: Consumption, Bronchitis, Asthma. Whooping Cough. Aphonia, Cough, Nervousness, Mental Depression, Nenralgta, Epileptic Fits. St. Vitus’ Dance, Nervous Debility, Chronic Diarrhoea, Leucorrhuea, Fever and Ague, Marasmus, Dyspepsia, Dyptheretlc Prostration; Diseases produced by Overtaxing the Mind, by Grief or Anxiety, by Rapid Growth, by Child-Bearing, etc., etc.

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Two hundredth edition, revised and enlarged, just pub llaned. It Is a standard medical work, the best In the English language, written by a physician of great experience. to whom was awarded a gold and jeweled medal by the National Medial Association. It contains beautl ful and very expensive steel-plate engravings. IT)ree hundred pages, more than 50' aluable preiciiptJoiis for all forms of prevailing diseases, the result of many years of extensive and successful pm tier. Bound In French cloth; price only sl, suit by mall. ThrLoidon Lancet says: “No person should be wlthi n: this valuable book. The author is a noble benefactor.” An llmsirated samplesent to all on receipt of 6 rents for pc ttoge. The author may be consulted on all diseases ro, airing skill and experience. Address Db. W. H. BARKER, No. 4 Pulflnch-rt. Boston. ff n Outfit Free to Agents. For particular* s3address,with stamp,B.F.Mattox &Co.,Princeton,Hi. OT AlflffflT Complexions. 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