Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1878 — Page 3

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WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. No drum-beat roll* In diurnal cadence, na they eadly be* To bin last rent the King who reigned oor souls; No pageant there ■ . Such aa men aee when aoeptered Princes die; No funeral <*f atate; but, i*.wng alow. All heads unoovered aa the dead goes by, awsrsas Than in the lattM arowa and harp of gold. Death takes of the ripened aheavea, But takes not all; whatamir ha hta pige. Three things he leaf*!- ' " ’ A memory that shall lire for opuntleaa years, And greener grow aa lenuthenifl oat the Una; The sorrow of good men. (00 doep for tears That rise from shallow fountains;. Messing rhyme, M keeps no clotoh se lyre rang loud when those around Essayed the strings with imitative touch And fnintcftt sound. The man may die, the poet still survives; Lives in his verse his soul forevermore, For works, not years, are measures of men’s lives. The years he had may be fourscore and four And yet the poet's age eternal be— All time can 00-exist with suoh aa he. Ho let him rest; ' " Give him a quiet grave in some lone spot. He needs no shaft of somber granite, lest He be forgot. His tomb is builded high and founded deep; His epitaph is in tbe verse he gave For all man’s comfort. 1 jet none living weep For one who steps to glory from the grave; Bat rather joy that nt fourscore and four, The poet dies to live forevermore. —T/iomat Dunn Kngliih, in AT. Y. Itulfpenitent.

8 UN-SONG. What makes th’ birds so merry ? What makes so ripe the cherry? It is the sun that comes along To mellow fruit and mellow song; This makes the birds so merry. This makes so ripe the cherry. What warms the blood that rushes To bring the tint that bluahea ? It is the sun imparting heat To rosy lips to make them sweet. This warms the blood that rushes To bring the tint that blushes. Why are the flowers growing. With odors overflowing? Because the sun each blossom loves More than the honey-bee that rover. For this the flowers are growing. With odors overflowing. —B. B. Hobimon. in Scribner for July.

HOW MATCHES ARE MADE.

Our constant use of the indispensable mate]* has made it so familiar that Erobably few have ever thought to ask ow our ancestors did without it, and by what stages such a necessary article was brought to its present perfection. Yet matches did not come into common use until within the present century, and their history is marked by the same stages of progress and improvement as other inventions. Among rude Nations tire was obtained by rubbing together two pieces of wood, and the first improvement upon this troublesome plan was the use of the flint and steel, one of the earliest devices of civilization. Out of this grew'the old tinder-box, an ingenious but intricate arrangement familiar to the past generation, but now relegated to a place among the antiquities. As such it is deserving of a short description. The tinder consisted of carbon in a filmy form, usually procured by burning an old rag. The steel was a strip of hard iron, curved round at the top and bottom so as to form a handle. This was held in the left band, and in the right a flint wedge, the sharp edge of which being struck against the steel, chipped off minute fragments. The heat developed by the percussion was sufficient to ignite and even fuse these metallic fragments, which, falling down into the easily combustible carbon, ignited it without difficulty. The operator then, blowing upon the tinder to keep up combustion, applied a small piece of wood, previously dipped in sulphur, to the glowing carbon, and witn some little contrivance managed to ignite the sulphur, which in its turn ignited the wood. The operation was not, however, always successful. The tinder or the matches might be damp, the flint blunt, and the steel worn, or on a dark morning the operator would not unfrequently sirjjke his or her knuckles instead of the steel. That this occurred so frequently as to causo common complaint is shown by the following advertisement, which.circulated extensively not so many years ago: “Save your knuckles, time and trouble: Use Huerntner’s Eupyrion; price, one shilling.” In the Eupyrion flame was produced by bringing sulphuric acid into contact with an inflammable substance mixed with chlorate of potash. This device proved, however, to be scarcely less expensive and troublesome than the tinder-box. The discovery of phosphorus in 1678 disclosed an entirely new method of obtaining fire. In 1680 Godfrey Hankwitz, at nis laboratory near the Strand, London, manufactured and sold large quantities of phosphorus for this purpose, and so great was the fame of the new method tnat he undertook a traveling tour in order to exhibit and sell the article. The costliness of phosphorus probably prevented its general introduction, and it is remarkable that a century and a half should have elapsed before this substance was commonly used in the manufacture of matches. At first the phosphorus was ignited by rubbing it between folds of brown paper ana applying the match dipped in sulphur. Later it was customary to partially burn a small piece of phosphorus In the confined air of a small vial, the effect of which was to line it with oxide of phosphorus. The vial was then corked, and when required for use, a sulphur match was dipped into it. The match was either ignited by the chemical action produced, or by afterward rubbing it upon a cork. There is one difficulty attendant upon the manufacture of matches which makes it an employment to be shunned by those who are able to find some other means of subsistence. The acid fumes thrown off by the phosphorus during the various processes frequently cause among the people employed a terrible disease, which attacks the teeth and Jaws. To such an extent did it prevail at onetime in Germany that the attention of the Government was called to it. The dippers are most likely to suffer in this way, in consequence of having to stand for hours over the heated slab upon which the phosphorus is spread. Persons with decayed teeth are the most susceptible to this disease, and therefore they are carefully excluded from the factories. Indeed, the principal employes are young people of both sexfefl. No antidote haa yet been discovered, and the natural course of the disease is to rot the entire jaw-bone away. This generally occupies several years, with a constant discharge of matter inside and outside the mouth. The pain is not very acute, but the sufferer seldom survives the natural course of the disease. Some*

Aimed an operation is successful, and many have been .performed at the New York Hospital. Sometimc'it has been found: necessary, }to remov'd the whole of the jaw-bone. Thorough ventilation and careful attention to cleanli-ness-will do much toward preventing the disease-in the beginning, and these points are sedulously regarded in the better dads of match, manufactories. It is a fact worthy of notice that, insignificant as matches appear, it is a matter of importance, on account of the immense numbers made, that manufactories should be situated in localities wnero timber Is cheap. Beside the matches, splints are exported to the West Indies and South America, where, within a few years, match manufactories have been established. As for the idAtchefi themselves, the United States furnish, to a great extent, dot orfly the remote portions of our .own continent, but alto send them id large quantities to the East Indies, Australia and China. —Harper's Wcikly.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Christian K. Ross, father of the stolen child, has been appointed Har-bor-Master of Philadelphia, out of Sympathy felt for him because of his losses in business since little Charlie Ross was taken from him. —The husband of Mrs. Kate Southern, of Georgia, who was sentenced to be hanged for the murder of her rival, and who had her sentence commuted to imprisonment for ten years, has been appointed a guardsman at the Georgia .Penitentiary, that he may be near Trig wife. —Mr. Alexander H. Stephens’ health is now the best that it has been for many years. It is* said to be a strange peculiarity of His case, and one that in part accounts for his vitality, that during his Ions: sickness his stomach has performed its functions without the slightest change.— N. Y. Evening Post. —Gen. Fitz-Henry Warren died at Springfield, Mass., a few days ago, aged sixty-two years. He was appointed Second Assistant PostmasterGeneral by President Fillmore in 1851 and was afterward a Presidential Elector. In 1865 ho was appointed by President Johnson Minister Resident to Guatemala, where he remained till 1869.

—The Bible gotten out by the Smith sisters, of Glastonbury, Conn., must bo an interesting work. “Happy the compassionate, for they shill be commiserated,” is one of its beatitudes, and in one of the parables occurs the remarkable verse: “Friend,—Low: earnest thou in hither, not having a garment of the nuptial feast? And he was muzzled!”— Chicago Tribune. —Mr. W aters, the class poet for the class of 1878 at Harvard, who has just died, was a young man of intense am bition to excel in scholarship, and finally developed a mania for studying that lie might keep his place in the senior class. He is said to have worked in Ibis way nineteen hours without cessation, either for eating or sleep. This brought on insanity, and he was sent to the hospital at Worcester, Mass., where lie lived less than a week. —Joe Hooker, at tho reception of the Army of the Potomac, occupied a big arm-chair, having a beautifufmtle gin of seven on his knee, whom he kissed repeatedly. One of the company remarked to the child: “You must remember this. Ten or fifteen years hence you will be very proud of having been kissed by Fighting Joe Hooker.” Whereupon the General wittily retorted: “ 1 should not mind it either, my dear, if you were ten or fifteen years older now.” —Charles C. Burleigh, the eminent anti-slavery advocate, recently died at Florence, Mass. He was also a strong anti-Sabbatarian, was opposed to the death-penalty, favored woman’s rights and preached temperance. He was one of the speakers in Pennsylvania Hall in Philadelphia, when that edifice was burned by the mob in 1888. When Mr. Garrison was assailed by rioters in Boston, Mr. Burleigh it was who closed the door of the office in the face of the crowd, and, confronting the assailants, gave Mr. Garrison time to escape. A kindly message from his old leader cheered his last hours. For fifteen years he was “resident speaker” of the Free Congregational Society in Florence, Mass.

A Toledo Romance.

Yesterday occurred the happy ending of a long and weary waiting on the part of a lady who was once the fairest of the fair daughters of Toledo. Eleven years ago she was betrothed, with her parents" consent, to a young man of line character, but without what is considered the most desirable of possessions next to that, namely, money. Hesitating to take his beloved from her pleasant homo to subject her to the trials that poverty entails, he bade her farewell, to go West to seek his fortune. She had letters from him full of hope and cheerful expectation until he reached Omaha, when they suddenly ceased. The days wore into weeks, the weeks into months and then into years, but still no word from the absent one to the expectant girl who waited and watched all in vain. His friends gave him up for dead, but she, with woman's persistency, refused to think so and declared her belief thaJt he would some time return to claim his. bride. Suitors came and went, the light of her eyes became dim from weeping, the roses faded from her cheek, and gradually withdrawing from the scenes she had graced with her presence, her very existence was almost forgotten by society. Two weeks since, while sitting alone in her quiet patlor, the bell rang, and iii a moment more the door opened and a gentleman entered the room. The bronzed and bearded man had littlc resemblance to the slender youth to whom she had plighted her troth so many long years before, but the eye of love could not be deceived, and in a moment more she was clasped in the arms of him for whom, she had so long watched and waited. His story was soon told. Leaving Omaha with an emigrant train for the Pacific coast, it. was attacked by the Indians, and he was taken prisoner and carried away into the far interior. Every effort to escape was futile, and he was passed from one tribe to another, getting farther and farther away from civilization as the months rolled on. At last, by fortunate chance, he managed to deceive his jailers, and, after incredible hardships, reached SaqJTrancisco three years from the time bjfa left Omaha. Here he encountered an old acquaintance from Toledo, whoi in answer to his inquiries about the dear ones there told him that his betrothed was the wife of another. Stunned and heartbroken. he made no attempt to coiliipiinicate with auyone here, and was

not undeceived until a few weeks when on a visit to San Francisco from his home, he had again received tidings thrhugh an old neighbor that sent him homeward as fast aa the ears eoold bring him hither. The, denouement was what might be expected, and this morning the happy pair started for their Western home. whiCber the good wishes of their friend?, including those of tho Blade, will follow them. —Toledo Blade.

How a San Francisco Lady Routed a Burglar.

On Thursday last a lady residing on California street, near Leave*worth, whose husband is absent from the city, collected by hia request 912&«fcur/Knte. She expended 980 of it duAng tne <s£y, Shadid not, retire until eleyenoVclnelr on-*Ph#A<«y J*itAirt>pi ping off into a slpepr.when she was suddenly aroused to perfect wakefulness by a slight clatter. She went through a swift and startled mental Caloulation to account for it, and concluded that it was caused by the dropping of the key of the front door on the hall floor, and that it must have been pushed out by a burglar in effecting an entrance to rob her. Now was the time for the average lady to leap from her couch, turn in seven different alarms, turn on a flood of gas, throw up the window and screech, murder, fire and police. This lady was not of-the average, and slipping noiselessly from the bed she found her nusband’s loaded revolver without striking a light, cocked it, and emerging from her room upon the landing of the stairs leading to the hall, she peered down. She haa calculated correct, for in the hall below making a very good bull’s-eye relieved against the half light of the opened door beyond she saw the muffled figure of a burglar approaching the stairs. “Stop there. What do you want?” she asked. The man halted for a moment in evident surprise, but answered., with an oath:

“I want money, and I know you’ve got some, and I’m going to have it!” But the intrepid lady never faltered, and retaining her place at the head of the stairs and her head on the bull’seye, she answered: “ You shall not have it. I have the money and 1 will keep it, too.” “ What’s that you say? I can’t hear you. Hold on a minute till I come up to you,” said the fellow, starting to again advance. “Nevermind,” said the lady, “I’ll save you the trouble of climbing the stairs,” and she immediately started down. The burglar stood astonished as this suspicious civility until the lady had descended into the faint lines of light penetrating from the street, when he saw the glint of the levelled pistol. He instantly made a bound for the door with a muttered oath, leaped down the porch steps, cleared the fence into the street and escaped- The lady’s nerve is deserving of all praise, as one such reception as hers goes further in checking burglary than half a dozen halting prosecutions in a Criminal Court, and she would only have added to the excellence of the result by shooting a good-sized bullet into the felon’s stomach.—San Francisco Chronicle.

Beauty and Art.

It has been often said that beauty is a mere question of taste, and the remark is truo, although only up to a certain point. In matters relating to art the taste most certainly has to be cultivated. It is only in the privileged few that it reaches the point whore exquisite pleasure is produced by gazing upon a cracked Chinese Mandarin, minus his nose, or an old oil painting representing some of the saints, elaborately dreesed in royal robes studded with innumerable gems,., engaged in earnest conversation with very substan-tial-looking angels, ungracefully poised upon clouds on the tops of their heads. It is a most fortunate thing that there are a ‘few men and women endowed with the taste to thoroughly appreciate these magnificent creations of genius. They form a sort of school in which the more ignorant of their species may learn what they should and what they should not admire. The untrained mind of a child shows from what a state of dense ignorance the artistic sense has to be lifted to attain those sublime heights we have mentioned. “It seems,” said a little girl of ten to her mother, after looking at some socalled objets Wart, “that everything that looks ugly is pretty.” This remark plainly shows the advisability of submitting one’s ideas of what is pretty to those who have made themselves, or think they have made themselves, capable of judging. Of course it is very humiliating, after having bought and paid for what you think a very pretty water-color or plaque, to be told by a high-art friend that your money has been thrown away—your water-color is by an unknown artist, and your plaque pretty, perhaps, but modern. You feel ashamed of your ignorance, and secretly resolve never to buy another ornament, or express an opinion on the subject. And yet you cannot help thinking that nobody ever remarked that your taste was bad either in dress, equipage or amusements; and why should you not have enough natural taste to judge whether a picture is well drawn and colored, even if it is by an unknown artist, and a plate pleasing to the eye, though not ot old Nankin? If these sticklers for art would acknowledge frankly that they have formed a school, and that successfully, in which a fictitious value has beer, placed upon certain antique articles, whether handsome or ugly, and that as long as that value lasts it is the best policy toinvest one’s money in these articles, their remarks would be reasonable; but to tell though never having possessed a blue and white plate, l that an ornament he or she has chosen is ugly in itself because it is not old, and that a picture is in bad taste because the artist is not an R. A., is an affectation bordering on the ridiculous.— London Week. Two old Texas ranchers, who had just helped bury a neighbor, were talking about religion, and one asked the other how pious he thought it was possible for a man to get in this world," if he was in real earnest. “Wal,” said the other, reflectively, “ I think if a man gets so’t he can swop steers or trade bosses without lyin’, ’at he’d better pull out for the better land afore he has a relapse.” Prejudice often rales In the physical treatment of Babies. They are allowed to suffer and scream with Pain from Colic, Flatulence, Bowel Disorders, etc, when some simple, reliable and safe remedy, as Dr. Boll’s Baby Syrup, would give alipost Immediate relief and perfect ease to the little sufferer,

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

— Oorn-plowirig and hay and harvest are going to get a closer corner on farmers than usual this year. Vigilance, gentlemen. Up and at it.-r State Register. * Th/ntiae HfIYM t ol 101 l 1 uOulllß lisvuil*** Wjvvstvll against watering when the sun shines on the plants is a-purely theoretical one, and appears only in the writings of those who have haa but little actual experience. His advice is to water whenever the plants need It. —There is no occupation which is so sure of a return for labor as agriculture. The risk of manufacturers and middle-men is three-fold that of farmers, but their enterprise is sogyeat that ►they seldom succumb to pressure till it "becomes crushing. . —Tea Ice-Cream, (A Massachusetts Receipt.)—Pour over four tablespoon*fols of old Hyson tea a pint of cream; scald in a custard kettle, or by placing rtho dish containing the cream in a kettle of boiling water; strain into a pint of cold cream, scald again, and when hot mix with it four eggs and three-quarters of a pound of sugar, well beaten together; let it cool ana freeze. —To Kill the Currant Worm. —1 see a number asking what will destroy tho gooseberry and currant worm. I will give them a sure remedy, although a little too late to save them this year. Make a strong brine, strong enough to keep meat, and sprinkle the bushes well. The brine kills the worms almost instantly. This has been the result with mine, ;and others have tried it and call it a sure cure.— Philadelphia Practical Farmer. —“ Pocket-Books.” —To one quart of warm milk add a cup of butter, four tablespoonfuls of sugar, and “two wellbeaten eggs; then stir in flour enough to make a moderately stiff sponge; add a small cupful of yeast, and Tot the dough rise; afterward, mix in flour enough to make a soft dough, and let it rise again; then dissolve a lump of soda the size of a bean in a spoon of milk, work it in the dough, and roll into sheets half an inch thick; spread with thin layer of butter, cut into squares and fold over pocket-book shape; let them stand in the pans, to rise, a little while before baking. —Every piece of horse-radish grows; if we take a piece of root about an inch in length, about the size of a large bean, and put it an inch below the surface of the prepared ground, a short piece will come to the surface and form a crown, and another, and another portion will descend and probably fork to form a root; but instead of this, if we make a hole a foot or so deep in the ground, with a dibble, and let the little pieces of root drop to the bottom, a clean, straight sprout will come up to the surface, and this will in time make as clean and thrifty a market piece as could be desired.— Exchange.

About Hay.

A good supply of hay on every farm, adequate to the wants of the live stock which the farmer intends to keep, is indispensable, if it is expected that the stock is to prove profitable. There is no doubt that many valuable animals are annually sacrificed to a false economy in feeding innutritions or poor hay or straw. A man who follows such a policy stands in his own light, and if he does not change to a better course, the sooner he sells his stock and quits the business the better it will be for himself and his animals. He will do well to reflect that the loss of a horse, or a good cow, or a few sheep, and the “ rundown” condition of his entire stock, more than counterbalances any saving that can be effected by using inferior, badly cured, woody and musty hay. It is the poorest kind of economy; in fact, it cannot be called by that term. In converting the grasses and forage plants into hay. or curing them, the object is, of course, to so treat them “as" to expel the water they contain (which amounts to nearly two-thirds of their weight), with the least loss of their nutritive properties. To secure this object the grass must be cut at that stage when the greatest weight of produce with the maximum of nutrition can be obtained; and then it is necessary to so conduct the drying process that nutritive juices shall not be lost by the washing of rains. While newly cut grass is quite green a shower of rain may not materially injure it, but repeated rains and turnings will destroy much of its value. When ready to cut, grass and clover contain sugar, gum, mucilage, albuminous and other valuable compounds, which are liable to be washed away by heavy rains. On this point Prof Voelcker remarks that by repeated wettings and turnings the crop becomes more or less bruised, and not only are the sugar, and gum, and other soluble matters liable to be washed out, but the bruised state of tho plants permitting, at least, a portion of these various constituents to escape through the lacerated cell .vails, induces fermentation, which, if not checked at once, causes further Joss. During fermentation, soluble albumen and sugar are destroyed—two of tho most valuble elements of nutrition; hence in showery weather grass recently cut should not be turned over more than is absolutely necessary, and under all circumstances the crop should be handled as lightly as possible, so that it may not be injured by bruising and breaking the hay. With the appliances and facilities now within the reach of farmers for saving the hay crop, this work can bo accomplished speedily at the right time —provided always the weat her will permit—and the maximum of its nutritive value secured. —Western Rural.

Why Chicks Die.

A subscribe* writes to us asking why his chicks die off so rapidly, rarely living more than two or three weeks. He does not tell us the treatment they receive, but in the following from the Massachusetts Ploughman, ne will probably find his answer. In our own poultry yard we have been very successful with youngehicks, and have fed broken rice alternately with the cracked corn, giving an occasional feed of potatoes By way of a treat. “ The great point in raising chickens ia to keep them eating all tne time, or at any rate, to keep their digestive organs continually well supplied. ‘Short commons’ are not economical In chicken raising.” The common custom is to keep a dish Of “ Indian meal dough” mixed up, and two or three times a day a lot is thrown to the chickens. If they eat it, well and good; if not. and the chances are they will not, they having become tired of one siugle article of diet set before them day after day, it stands and sours. If a quantity is.tbiwfounJ uneaten the next feed is likely to be a light one, and the chickens, driven by hunger, finally devour the sour stuff; the result is cholera or some other fatal disease sets in and their owner wonders

why ray chickens are all dying oil.” In our own practice we find small quantities of varied food if given to tire chickens often produce vastly better results than any other method of feeding. Indian meal dough we banished from our poultry yards long ago and on no conditions > would wo permit young chickens to be fed irttk & Fof" thff first morning meal we give all our young poultry stock boiled potatoes mashea up fine. We find nothing so good and acceptable, and as we use only the small potatoes, those which are unmarketable and not large enough for the table, they prove to bo more profitable than any othor article of rood. * ' Whon, In days gone by, we used to feed the chickens With the traditional Indian meal dough, we always counted on losing a large percentage of them, and the nhmbers that died from oholera, diarrhoea and kindred diseases were great. Now a sick chicken is unknown to our yards and we lay our success entirely to the disuse of Indian meal dough. After the potatoes are disposed of wo give our chickens all the line cracked corn they will eat up clean. We cannot find in the grain stores corn cracked to tho proper degree of fineness, and we have as a fixture in our poultry house a large-sized coffee mill, such as grocers use, and we run the corn through that. Of course large chickens, those which are ten or twelve weeks old, do not need such fine ground corn, but the young birds do. In about two hours after the cracked corn is eaten we give all the wheat screenings that the chickens will eat, and in another two hours spread before them a fresh meal of boiled potatoes. For supper they have all the cracked corn and wheat they can eat. The best system of feeding, however, will not avail if the young birds are permitted to become overrun with vermin. They should be anointed on their heads and under their wings and on their backs once a week with a mixture of equal parts of lard and kerosene oil; and if the hens are anointed in the same way the additional labor will prove remunerative. Unless proper management is exercised chicken raising is one of the most unsatisfactory of employments, but if it is done systematically, is as profitable and pleasant as any other business. — N. Y. Herald.

Death from Excessive Joy.

On Sunday evening Mrs. Judith Dixon, of Silsden, dropped down dead, it is generally thought, from excessive joy at the return of her son, Thomas Duron, who had been nearly nine years in America. On hearing of the death of his farther, Mr. Abraham Dixon, on Aug. 1, 1877, the son had informed his mother that when he had settled his affairs he should return home. The mother had for several years suffered from palpitation of the heart. Mr. Dixon arrived at S tee ten Station by the evening mail train, and was dnven in an omnibus to the loot of the hiil where his mother resided. On finding his parent out and telling who he was, a neighbor, Mrs. Steel, went at once to the Bethesda Chapel, where a prayer meeting was being held, and where Mrs. Dixon was. She informed her that Thomas had returned, whereupon tho mother immediately left the chapel and came home. She appeared agitated, sat down in l. chair, and was seized with illness. A short conversation ensued between mother and son, in which she asked if it “ really was her son Thomas,” and was told in reply that he was her son. Almost immediately afterward she expired. —Leeds (Eng.) Mercury.

Read XtJ Good May Come From It. It Is a common complaint among people ot this age that they are suffering from an unhealthy condition of system, which Is not, however, actual disease. If you ask them to explain what they mean they will usually say that they are not so strong as they used to be, that their vital energies are relaxed, and they have tot that power of enduring hard toll and fatigue which they formerly poeeessed. No mystery surrounds the origin of such a condition as this, and although the patients themselves may be content to sum up their feelings as those of “general debility,” a keen observer will at once tell them they are rapidly approaching disease of a most serious form. Almost always In snch cases the blood. In which the moet valuable essence of life Is concentrated, lain a very poverty-stricken condition, which manifests Itself by a feeling of constant languor, worse In the morning than at any otlier time, nervousiiesa. tenderness of the muscles, loss of appetite and a general disordered state of the bowels. Usually, also, the liver Is at fault and no longer performs Its natural office of affording free evacuations and carrying off the bile and the Impurities that contaminate the blond, hi very many cases the kidneys are sluggtah In their action, and unless something be done to set matters aright, Bright's disease or diabetes may be the direct Issue, with death following on soon afterward. Such feelings as these are not to be considered of trifling Importance, for It is no secret with the medical profession that general debility Is but a vague popular term which has a very significant meaning, vis.: the beginning of disease. There are many Indiscretions or organic Irregularities of a small nature which will beget It, and these are apt too often to be entirely overlooked until the real danger manifests Itself. But Is It not the height of foolishness to be so careless of one’s safety; and who will say that It la not the better way to check disease at Its beginning, and thus avoid all the peril arid discomfort which the developed stage of disease must Invariably occasion t If yon are deaf to such common-sense reasoning as this, then reflect for a moment on the sad experience of thousands ’of chronic Invalids, or the mute testimony of tbs multitudes of untimely grave* that never give the lie 1 We speak with no rash or dishonest Intentions In say. hut that YKUKTINE will relieve the wont symptoms of general debility and prevent disease. Torpidity of the liver or bowels. Indigestive symptoms and their causa, inactivity of the kidneys and the bladder, poverty of the blood, and a host of other signs of local disorder are soon overcome by this Inestimable remedy, the timely use of which fortifles the system against malaria, and renders Impossible the crowd of dire consequences originating solely In a want of physical or constitutional vigor, or- in the Incomplete performance of the functions upon which health urxiueettonably depends Thousands will bear testimony (and do It voluntarily) that VjEGETINK is the best medical compound yet placed before the public for renovating and purifying the blood, eradlcatiuff All humors, Impurities ur pubuuous secretions from the system. Invigorating and strengthening the system debilitated by disease ; In fact, It is, as many have called It, *' The Great Health Kmtomr.” VEGETINE Purifies tlxe Blood. 1 Boston, Hass, lan IS, 1877. MR. H. a SrgvgJlS: Dear Slr-I have been using Vegetlne for some time with the greatest satisfaction.' and can highly moor mend It as a great cleanser and purifier «• the blood. v. J. LHA . KOKD. Pastor of Hglestoo Square M. a Church. VMSTiNg Is composed of Boots, Barks, and Merto. It is very pleasant to take; ovary chltd likes It. VEGETINE PREPARED BT If. tt. STEVENS* Boston,Mass. I • Vegetine is Sold by All Druggist*

A miner in the Black Hills, writing to a friend in this city, tells of a horrible reminder of tho fearful srtowstorma of last winter, and of tire perils pi those who were caught out and lost their way on the plains. Ho says that recently, while ho and twlo others were crossing the country, came upon tins' skeleton of a horse; Within which was the skeleton of a man, with the grinning skull looking out at them from between the ribs of the animal, like a prisoner peering through tho bars of fiis cell. The two skeletons told the whole story. The man had killed his horse, cut him open and crawled inside of him, thinking thus to escape perishing of cold, but the flesh of too animal froze solid, and tho man was as much of a prisoner as if he had been shut in by walls of iron. The wolves and carrion birds had stripped tho greater part of the flesh from Ijoth Tho miner coqeludes Jus, description by saying: “It. is a sight I shall never forget. I can see it now whenever I close my eyes.” —Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise. —Vinnie Ream says she gave Licnt. Hoxie her hand but not her^art.

Doctors Gave Him Up.

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