Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1878 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. KE\*SELAKR INDIANA.

“NOW I LAY ME." Bed-time fur the twittering birdie". Mother Wren has hushed to rest; —Rmlwm tn* . , —_ jlistied clonely to mJ breast. New betade me, lowly kneeling, Hoar the lieping toosoe repeetrWith that treating grace, and tender, , Hoey lipa petition make: “ Pray the Lord to take my Rpirit, If 1 die iiefoee I wake. , And no thought of dread cometi o er me. As I kjes her sweet “ good night." We're to Oarelow of our darlinga Till we lay them out of eight! Once again ’tie birdie’s bed-time; T fjttle neigh bore in the tree Hueh their baby-birds to slumber, With no thought of lonely me. Ah I my mother arms are empty. Draped in sadnciw all the room, And no whispered " Now I lay me" Breaks upon the twilight gloom. Smooth and white the little pillow. Undisturbed the pretty bed; On the table lie her playthings. Mute reminders of my dead. , For no more my little treasure Mv sad mother's heart may keep; v In the Heavenly Father's bosom I have laid her down to sleep. . Down to sleep! Ah. yearning mother. Murmuring and sick at heart, Full of joy shall be the-waking. Where no sorrow finds a part. There we'll find our garnered treasures. From all pain and earth-cares free. Where no sad good-by shall pain ns . Through a lung eternity. Kr/on, In Cihclnndti Times. WAITING. earn to wait—life’s hardest lesson. Conned,perchance, through blinding tears; While the heart-throbs sadly echo To the tread of passing years. Learn to wait hope's slow fruition; " “ Faint not, though the way seems long; There is joy ih each condition; Hearts, through suffering, may grow strong. Constant sunshine, however welcome, Ne'er would ripen, fruit or flower; Giant oaks owe half their greatness To the scathing tempest's power. Thus a soul, untouched by sorrow, Aims not at a higher state; Joy seeks not a brighter morrow. Only sad hearts learn to wait. Human strength and human greatness Spring not from life's sunny side, Heroes must be more than driftwood, Flsating on a waveless tide. VMorfa’t tfagazint.

NEITHER POVERTY NOR RICHES.

Give me neither poverty nor riches ♦ * • ♦ lest I be full and deny Thee, and say. Who is the Locd? or lest Ibe poor and steal, and thus profane the name of my God.— Prov. xxx:B 9. What is called a “middle class” has long existed in the world; has been so large in numbers and so great in influence; and for the most part so happy, that there must be a certain philosophy of that condition. Such a constant and immense form of human life cannot be the result of chance, but must be rather a part of the method of Him who placed man upon this planet. The prayer of Agur reveals the existence of a second estate as far back as history runs. The constant presence of this class, its quality in all times, and at last its immense numbers, make it worthy of our study. The moderate property man should a priori be the most fortunate, because all. through Nature the law of the golden medium runs. Nature dislikes excesses. It is fond of averages. A shrub below the forest gets too little light; a tree above the forest is blown down. The trees, therefore, stand shoulder to shoulder in the great woods. A soil exclusively poor grows nothing, and a soil excessively rich will grow only mushrooms, that have no leaf or flavor or fragrance. The rose and the wheat must wait for the thin soil to be made rich or for the luxuriant soil to be depleted by sand or clay. Thus the fields seem to send up the prayer for neither poverty nor riches. But there is safer ground than such analogy. It is not probable that the Creator of the world would make that the worst condition in which the larger part of His children must pass life. If we discover a condition which must absorb the millions, and if we find two other conditions! that of poverty and that of enormous wealth, yhich are being constantly emptied into the middle class of liberty and industry and education, it may be inferred that God has not made most pitiable that estate in which the most millions are to be grouped. The “ middle condition” renders industry essential. Poverty robs the heart of hope and thus destroys industry; and immense fortunes either check action or else turn it along channels of mere pleasure.. The beggars of Italy or Spain or ‘America will not work because they have not property enough to beget a wish to add anything to it. A person who has no learning at all desires none. The African Bushman has not the least desire to possess any information, for he knows nothing, and hence has no hunger for any adjoining fact. It is after the mind has mastered the first book that it longs for the books tMhare inwoven with the first volume. By this Jaw of relative suggestion, the beggar hopes for nothing, for he has not that to which a little money could attach itself and become more. This middle estate possesses just enough of life to stimulate the hand and the brain. Everything is before it The ■members of this class must rise early: their step must be quick; their mind must bo awake; their blood must not stand, but it must flow. Riches.areold, age. They are an autumn. And poverty is disease; it is a consumption or a famine; but the middle estate is youth; it is spring and the early summer. If you will look around for a moment you will perceive what immense mental results have come from the enforced industry of the middle class. You may assume that the learned professions repose largely upon the fact that their thousands of now . learned the problem? ,of pecuniary support. Thus, under all thelearned professions, lies the quality of this middle estate, the absence of money that stimulates, and not that utter absence which makes the hopeless beggar. Read over the catalogue of hll the eminent men of our day and you will mark that almost the whole army of them were thrown out upon the field by the pressure of humble means. To such an extreme degree is this true that it has been suggested that all biographies of the great might begin with the words, “ Born of poor but honest parents.” The natural philosophy of the “ middle class” must therefore lie largely in the fact that that class is the arena where Industry does ’ its perfect work in the mind, and transforms youth into manhood—the farmer boys, Clay and Webster, into eloquent statesmen. The “ middle condition ” is a pleasant subterfuge of Nature for beguiling Us into action, because out -of action owpe ci vilisatfon, and all the splendor

of letters, art and religion, .ht has always thus come to pass that the families of moderate property have been in the beginning and the end of each Nation the N atkm'e chief hope. Nations have died by raising one-naif of their number up to aristocracy, and by sinking the other half to beggary. The Nations have all died between these two ynillstones—the vanity of the highest and the broken hearts of the lowest, it thus appears that the prayer of Agur involves one of the laws of individual and National life. Not only is the humblest condition the happiest, but it stands as a fundamental law of human triumph. Are you already in the “middle class,” and bless God perhaps we are all therte, then mark well the deep meaning of that lot, anjl make no effort to , climb a height on which all have become dizzy, and from which all have at last fallen- Remember the intellectual power, the mental' harvest ot arts and science* which has always waved upon that soil; and remember the supreme happiness which the rich and lofty have found at last to bless, the plain man’s home. Are you a man of industry, of integrity, are you compelled to take up each day the honorable warfare of earth, are you compelled to labor for the supply of the best wants, and to support the beings most dear, then you the Nation loves, you civilization loves, you religion loves, and throwing their arms around you they all say, “We depend upon you; we look to those who have neither poverty nor riches.”—Pro/. David Swing.

A ROMANTIC STORY OF LOVE AND DEATH.

“"The suicide of Capt Charles R. Power, of Somerville, committed Friday on the steps of his house on Rowe street, ends a personal history which had in it elements of romance as powerful as anything ever hatched behind the spectacles of Wilkie Collins. Elaborately worked up, it would furnish a fine basis for a novel in itself, or < a play for a theater languishing for something beside French adaptations and English classics. Many years 'ago Charles R. Power was a sailor lad of seventeen or eighteen years. With only his youth and good looks to advance his interests, he fell in love with a bright, attractive young woman, whom he met at a social gathering of the younger members of the Salem-Street Orthodox Church in this city. Her name was Amelia, and she was the only daughter and heiress of old Dr. Hollis, well known in the North End, and indeed throughout this whole neighborhood. The daughter was rich; the roving suitor was poor and without a profession; but loved smoothed out these inequalities. Miss Hollis fancied the young mariner, and when he left Boston in a certain memorable month at the age of nineteen, no prouder or happier mortal ever breathed on this mundane planet, for Amelia was his affianced wife and he was the First Mate of a Liverpool packet, a staunch and goodly vessel belonging to a strong firm and engaged in a profitable trade. This was the time when hotels lined our wharf streets, whose registers were never bare of the names of guests; when sailors’ boarding-houses prospered at the North End; when all over our harbor foreign flags floated at the peaks of trading vessels, aud the StarSpangled Banner could be found similarly unfurled in every civilized port of the then known world. There were no quarrels over the American registry of foreign iron bottoms, for it was long prior to the advent of competing lines of steamers, which have since reduced the ocean to a ferry crossing. The voyage to Liverpool was a long and weary one, but the lover’s confidence diminished the suspense he felt. His ship did not return immediately, but carried freight to various parts of Europe. In the meanwhile he received news from home, and learned that Amelia Hollis had given her hand to a gentleman whose acquaintance, it was said, she formed after Power’s departure. His grief and disappointment nearly crushed him. He left the sea, and for eight years led a wild sort of life on the Continent, got into horrible habits of dissipation, and propably permitted his passions to reign unchecked. After the lapse of this period of eight years ho straightened up, reformed his ways and determined to be a man. He shipped on a vessel bound for Boston, unable to resist the temptation of beholding the happiness of her who was to have been his. On nis arrival in this city he went to his old home, .visited all his old haunts and was as nice and exemplary a young man as you would meet between this and East Boston. His old associates gathered about him, and they attended social entertainments and led a gay city life. She heard of him, but they never met. Presently he grew restless again; the old feeling gnawing at his heart would not let him remainin Boston, and down to the sea he went again. The “briny" was his home after that. He crossed and recrossed the ocean, and in the course of a few years left Boston as Master of the good ship Archer. Years andyeark went by. This young man had become bronzed and grizzled and spoke in. a deep tone. He was still Captain of the Archer when twen-ty-five years had elapsed since his engagement with Amelia Hollis. One day, while be was at his lodgings in this'city, he received a letter in a woman’s handwriting, inviting him to meet her at the store of Crosby & Lane, at a certain time. The letter was not signed. The thought flashed upon him that it was from his old love, who, ill all these twenty-five year*, he had not forgotten. The wildest scene at sea had not dimmed her image in his heart, where he still carried it. He compared the handwriting with that in the letters of Auld Lang Syne, and had his suspicions developed into conviction. He visited the store at the .anacififid time, and there met her for the first time since they parted as lovers. After the greetings were over, and they had talked of their mutual experience during the quarter of a century, the lady informed him that she had been divorced from her husband. What he learned at that interview convinced him that she had always loved hfm, and that her marriage..was. not the result of any coldness toward him. Within three or four weeks of this meeting thev were married, and the long-delayed happiness of the Captain was realized at last They went to live at her father’s, on Salem street, but subsequently removed to Rowe street, Somerville. The lady was then the mother of two grown young people, a son and a daughter. The Captain had abandoned the sea at his wife's urgent request, and was without an occupa tion except that which the management of some property he owned in Colorado supplied him Wirh/ Flnally the doctor died and left a large sum of money to his daughter. The Captain’s family pjrole wm for some time after

this a happy one, but the want of a settled occupation at last produced Its invariable effects upon him, and shadows began to creep across the threshold of his comfortable home. The time came when a dreadful evil had to be acknowledged as forming a part of their married life, and incompatibility of temper compelled a separation. The Captain went to Colorado, and spent some weeks trying to' drown his unhappiness in the cares of property, but he failed,- and dissipation laid his hands upon him. He shook off the temptation, however, after yielding to it for a brief while, and, returning to the East, managed, after three months had passed, to effect a reconciliation with his wife. But 'the Cid evil again visited the household, and after long and iiwffectual struggles to destroy its influence, Mrs. Power suddenly left her husband aud took up her residence with her daughter, in Newton. Capt. Power at once fell into the deepest melancholy, a condition in which he remained intermittently up to thp period of his death. He met his wife on the street some months ago, and endeavored to obtain an interview with her; but her son, who accompanied his mother, possibly dreading a scene, tried equally {iard to prevent the interview. A pojeeman, who happened to be Standing by, urged by nis notion of duty, feft called upon to protect the lady, and compelled the desperate Captain to give up his purpose. The effect of this unsuccessful attempt at a reconciliation produced such an impression on.the Captain’s mind that his..friends considered him insane, and had him removed to the Asylum at Taunton. He did not remain here long before the fact of his sanity was established, and two or three weeks ago he was released. From that time until he shot himself Friday on the steps of his wife's house and his former home in Somerville, his comparatively cheerfal spirits induced his friends to believe that the weight of his trouble was lightened. He used to say that, if he could only secure a hearing with his wife, a basis of reconciliation would be established; but he believed that the last opportunity for anything of this kind had gone by when he committed the fatal act This was the ending of a romance which began in the old Sa-lem-Street Orthodox Church, and the incidental actors in the various stages of the melancholy drama are probably many of them still among us.— Boston Herald.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A farmer of Reno County, Kan., coming across a rattlesnake, tied his reins in a bunch and killed it therewith. Subsequently he untied the knot with his teeth, and the poison thus got into his system and drove him mad. -A family of emigrants on the way to Texas camped over night in Sedalia, Mo. In the morning the man packed all the things in the wagon to Continue the journey, except his aged mother-in-law, whom he left at the side of the road. However, a mass-meeting compelled him to take her along. —An unknown mqp applied for a piece of bread at a house in East Fiftysecond street, in New York City, the other night, and was refused. He said he was starving, and staggered away with feeble steps. He fell in front of No. 328, in the same street, and when approached he was found to be dead. —ln 1862, a young man of Bastrop, Tex., enlisted in the Union Army, leaving beTiind him his sweetheart, a beautiful girl of sixteen. No letters came from him after Chancellorsville, but two weeks ago he returned after many adventures in foreign lands, claimed the hand of the lady, who had remained faithful to his memory, and was quietly married to her. —Joseph Langendorf, of Chicago, met with a very singular accident, the other day, as he stood in the doorway of a drug store, on North Clark street. Above him, at the second story windows, was a glazier repairing a broken window. Suddenly a light of glass descended, cutting off Mr. Langendorf s nose in transit. The severed member was promptly sewed on again, and serious results were not expected to ensue. —A janitor of a New York public school went to Coney Island, and left his wife in charge of the engine and boiler, telling her that there was a patent gauge on it and the steam pressure could not tun over seven pounds. It ran over twenty-four pounds, and the wife, becoming frightened, ran to a factory where a brother engineer was employed. He found no water in the boiler,* and 1,200 children in the school overhead.

—Mike Foley was a Montana desperado, and when he said he would kill Mrs. Frederick, she believed it. One day he approached the cabin, and she sent for her husband. Frederick hurried to the house in time to prevent injury to his wife, but received a bullet in his own breast from Foley’s pistol. However, he knocked the villain down with a stick. Up to this time, Frederick had not spoken a word, but he advanced to the table and, placing both hands on it, said: “lamshot,and cannot live two minutes. Run for your life or Foley will kill you.” She refused, saying: “ 1 cannot leave you.” He again said: “It is useless, you can do nothing for me; save yourself.” Observing Foley getting up, she rushed ov.t of the front door and ran to the brush on the cregk bank for shelter, and finally escaped. Frederick died. —None of us can know how we would act in a supreme moment of revealed fate. Edgar Poe or Victor HuSo could not have imagined a form of eath more completely? calculated to test the victim’s fortitude than the terrible scene which terminated the life of one John Conlan, at Norwich, last Friday night. Conlan, who was a pis-tol-maker in that city, was walking on the railway track at Norwich Falls, at a point where there is a double switch, and accidentally had one foot caught in a “ frog,” in such a way that he was unable to extricate it. A northern-* bound train was coming at full speed, and Conlan, finding himself unable to oseape his doom, half turnedv in his •haihed position, and faced the engine (literally an engine of death) in a defiant way, and almost smiled as it struck him. His body was frightfully mangled—almost., literally torn to pieces under the remorseless wheels—and when picked up it presented a horrible sight. A part of his clothingsin which was his revolver, was torn from, him by the engine and carried to Willimantic beforelt was discovered.— Hartford Times. Da. Bull’s Cough firaup should be kept in every Iginlly. A slight cough, If unchecked, is often the forerunner of Consumption, and a timely dose of this wonderful medjQiqs has rescued many from an tarty grave,

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Root crop* Of allkinds are usually crowded; one well-developed and quickly-grown root is - better than two or three starved ones. —The change of feed from green to dry should be gradual with a*l stock; otherwise, the appetite may fail, and the animals lose thereby. - —lt 18 positively stated that where sawdust is used for bedding for horses they are far more healthy than where straw is used.— Exchange. ' —Tea Stains.—Tea stains should bo wet in equal parts of alcohol and ammonia, and then washed In tepid soapsuds. ’lf the spots be firmly fixed, expose them to-the fumes of burning sulphur. —Feeding sheep for market is a profitable business for those who have judgment to buy well, to feed well and to sell well. Two profits can easily be made* aMg manure heap and good pay for feed and care will be returned to the skillfql feeder.

—There can be no doubt that a general diffusion of a taste for horticulture would be of immense benefit to the population of this country. It would tend greatly to allay that spirit of unrest which is so prevalent and so adverse to all the best interests of the people.— lowa Stale Register. . —Broma.—To make broma, powder in a mortar two ounoes of arrowroot, half a pound of loaf sugar and a pound of pure chocolate. Sift carefully through a hair sieve. To two tablespoonfuls of this powder put twain-, blespoonfuls of cream. Stir till well mixed, pour on half a pint of boiling milk, and boil all for ten minutes. —ln treating of onions, in Dr. Foote's Health Monthly ior October, Mrs. Read Tails to suggest one of the valuable uses of th at esculent viz.: The soothing effect they often have upon one who is sleepless. If the stomach will receive. them kindly and. they may be freely eaten, they have been found in many cases to overcome both restlessness and sleeplessness. —Catskill Milk Potatoes.—Take good, sound potatoes, cut them in slices (raw), and putthe milK, according to the quantity you wish to make, in a pudding dish; then, after you have But the potatoes in the milk, put it in le oven for about twenty minutes; then take out and put potatoes with the same milk into a saucepan to boil until done; seagonbefore you putthem to boil. T —Preserved Pineapple.—Make sirup of three-quarters of a pound of sugar and not quite one : half of water to each pound of fruit; put over the fire in a porcelain kettle, and just before it boils stir in the beaten white of an egg with a tablespoonful of cold water; as it boils remove the scum until no more rises. Having, the pineapple peeled and sliced or cut into discs, add to the sirup and boil|gently until the sirup has penetrated the fruit and the pieces look clear. Put into cans and seal.

Packing Winter Apples.

Fresh apples the entire year are not only desirable, but quite possible. First and foremost fruit designed for long keeping must be hand-picked, with the aid of ladders, to avoid bruising. It is also best that the harvesting be accomplished on a dry day. Do not mix varieties, but place each kind separately in bins in a cool outhouse or fruitroom out of reach of the rays of the sun, where they will in two or three weeks have completed the sweating process, by which the skins are toughened and much moisture is lost Next carefully assort those uniform in size and quality, and place in clean new barrels carefully by hand; begin packing by placing a tier of apples with their ends to the closed head of the barrel, then fill up without bruising the fruit: shake down thoroughly, and fill the barrel so full that the nead must be pressed in with a lever, flattening the last tier of apples. The fruit must be pressed so firmly that it will not move in handling. After heading up, place the barrels in some cool, shaded position, there to remain until in danger of freezing; finally remove to a dry cellar or fruit-room, where a temperature just above freezing is maintained. Packed in this manner apples will keep soundly until the season of ripening arrives, when they should be consumed. The King, Hubbardson, Baldwin, Greening, Spy, Spitzenburg, Newton Pippin, Roxbury Russet and English Russ will ripen nearly in the order indicated, and will then exhibit their best qualities and aroma; the last mentioned will keep all summer if desired. Apples are not infrequently stored in open bins in cellars, especially the snorter keepers; the fruit, instead of remaining crisp and juicy tinder thia treatment, soon becomes wilted, vapid and tasteless, proving the necessity of firm packing and close covering when it is desired to preserve it any great length of time.— N. Y. World.

The Pig in Agriculture.

The pig has recently been spoken of in contempt when compared with our other domestic animals. But if we examine his good qualities at all critically, we must award him a high place in our agriculture. The American people arc thought to consume more pork, bacon and ham per capita, than any other people. The products of the pig are a household necessity, and enter into almost universal consumption. If we suppose 76 pounds, per capita, to be used by our people of pig products, including lard, then our home con-, sumption amounts to at least 8,000,000,000 pounds, worth >150,000,000. The pig then holds a conspicuous place in the food supply of the Nation. But when we examine it as a factor in our exports, we find it to stand at the head of all our domestic animals. A few years ago wedid not put up our hams and bacon to suit English taste, and our average export of these articles amounted- in iponev to only >6,000,000 annually. But after studying the taste of our principal customer, and getting the assistance of some English houses in putting up the goods, our exports of nog during the fiscal year 187 ft these exports were as follows: Live hose••••••• Bacon and hams. 89,684,456 Pork 5,744,022 Larda- 22.429.486 Lard oil. .'.’..-r M 9.166 Total. ..vi . .....................eaMMAS ' In 1877 these products reached the sum of >82,352,222, an increase of over >18,000,000 in a single year. But the items of the last fiscal year, ending June 30,1878, were the following: tetSa-iSi:-.;;:::,:: .SS® Lard; ... .-.-.“. .7. -;rt »i,014.023 P0rk. k ....l 4.913,646 Laid oilA 994.440 W ->•••- - • ■ A •••••■•■ • • • • WhB».BW

product* ex* Krtdt the,BameyMr amounted to 9,.31)8,0891 and this includes all our meat tptde find dairy jJroduota, the latter being MM.i62.487f K> that the cxportrbf our* dairy prodDcU, amount to but little more titan one-fifth as much as those of pur pig products, and the whore cattit ex]X>rts only amount to 56-100 of the pir exports. Those export figures of pig products show what we may do in a four yMb mor<. They have doubled in less than ten years, and we may reasonably expect them to reach $125,000,000 during the next ten years. We have ample resources for growing and fattening pigs in unlimited numbers and can supply the demand, however much it may increase. And since we can produce pork, bacon and hams cheaper than any other country, We are likely to have the command of the markets. The pig is found to produce a pound of product from lete food than either cattle or sheep, and therefore is the most economical machine to manufacture onr great corn crop into marketable meat. Our people are becoming wiser eWery year, and exporting less, proportionately, of the raw material and more of the condensed product. If it takes seven pounds of corn, on an average, to make a pound of pork, as is no doubt the case, the farmer begins to see the great economy of one pound of pork, bacon or ham, instead of seven pounds of corn. The difference in cost of freight makes a fine profit, of itself; beside the pound of meat is usually worth more than •even pounds of corn in the foreign market.

The production of pork should be encouraged on the further consideration that it carries off less of the valuable constituents of the soil than beef. The fat pig contains only three-fourths as much mineral matter per cwt. as the fat steer, and only two-fifths as much nitrogen per cwt. And therefore the produetion of a ton of pork on the farm will carry off only a little more than half the fertility carried off by a ton of beef; beside a ton of beet will require nearly 50 per cent, more food to produce it. This gives, in round numbers, the comparative effect of producing pork and beef. It is thus evident that the pig should have a high place in our agriculture; should be fostered in every way— his capabilities studied and pushed—his diseases carefully noted and prevented, for he i» toe-mostprofitable meat-pro-ducing animal on the farm. The pig is an excellent adjunct to the dairy, turning all the refuse milk, and even whey into cash. As he is king of our meat exports, so let us treat him with great consideration. — Rural New Yorker. Soon oomee the time of driving mow. When ice skims o'er the surface Ofpond and lake—the time, you know. To wrestle with the furnace. —Boston Transcript.

Be Ye Like Foolish.

“For ten years my wife was confined to her bed with such a complication of ailments that no doctor could tell what was the matter or cure her, and I used 'up a small fortune in humbug stuff. Six months ago I saw a U. 8. flag with Hop Bitters on It, and I thought I would be a foofonce more. I tried it, but my folly proved wisdom. Two bottles cured her, and she is now as well and strong as any man’s wife, and It only cost me two dollars. Be ve like foolish.”—H. W.. Detroit. Mich.

That Boy.

Dramatis personna.—A young American tn roundabout and leggings, perched upon the fence devouring a huge piece of minee-pie, and a maiden of five summers, in pantalettes, looking very wishfully at the gonnand on the fence. lownr; America— “ I say, sis, does your mar make mince-piesl If she does I’ll bet they ain’t so good as my mar’s.” Little Miss (timidly)—“l like mince-pie awful well.” Young America— “ Well, now, that’s fluny 1 Just look here (drawing a quarter of a pie out of his jacket pocket), and it’s boss, too! Ain’t my mar good!” (carefully stowing it away in his pocket.) That boy “is father to the man" who must have his cigars and any ofbur masculine luxury his contemptible selfishness craves, while his poor sickly wife must do the work of two women (“girls waste more than they earn," he says), and for the want of a little money to purchase a’few bottles of Dr. Pieree’s Favorite Prescription, the sovereign remedy for female diseasi s and weaknesses, she is literally dyinr by inches—and all because of that masculine selfishness that would not divide the childish luxury with his playmate, and now tacitly refuses his wife the luxury of health. Thb Mason & Hamlin Organ Co. have taken the highest honors stall world’s exhibitions for more than twelve years—viz., at Paris 1867; Vienna, 1873; Santiago, 1875; Philadelphia, 1876, and Paris, 1878; and they are the only American makers who have taken such at any.

The Tremont Houae,

Chicago, has reduced its rates to $3.00 per day for all rooms above parlor Boor, without baths. Appointmentsunexceptionable. Tabled’Hote unsurpassed. Hohkibi.b I—l suffered with Catarrh 30 years; was cured in' 6 weeks by a simple remedy, ana will send the receipt free to all afflicted. Address, with stamp, Rev.T. J.Mkad,Syracuse,N Y Particulars regarding Electric Belts free. Address Pulvermacner Galvanic Co. .Cinciri.,o. Hidden tiyngs revealed I See Doran’s adv’t.

nature’s VKGEHHDi 1 KEOAKO IT A»‘A VALUABLE FAMILY MKOICINK. Jan. 1,1878. Mr. H. B. STWSNSi . . /wv Str-1 take pleasure In saying that I hare used too Vegetlne In my family, with good results, and I have hi own of several casesol remarkable cure effected Us li. 1 legaid It as a valuable family medicine. W ®WM. MCDONALD. The Kev. Wm. McDonald Is well known through the United States as a minister In the M. E. Chiuclr. Ve-getlue la Nwld by Alt l»ruggls*a. t FELLOWS’ HYPOPHOSPHITES. Foe severel montha WMt_-l have used Fkllows* Compound Btbof o» HTrornosriims in pbthsls, chronic stating it ranks foremret among -- I strongly recommend Fallows’ comtovnd Stkutot S WM general w u H. B. FELLOWS’ COMPOUND STRUT OF HTPOMOSPHTnUI acted with expedition and entire satisfaction in a case of aphonia, which Mo hesitation In recommending FrLLOvrffarroPwn &iTOK BITIS gylever used- gpy,, y. n, n, a, TIME ™=s?S WORKS Ix4ns and Side, an curedXHVSTTJ» H Y ’ VkSkSV ’ amid *reM4«u<ta .K L Pito, Ltp On UOTTLB ’AIUUKrW TOCTM AU. UEfiETIDI EDve for Hair and Whiskers. HAIM W*WW'«4i«F tj-plnt sent to

DR. JOHN BULL’S Smith's Tonic Syw J * I FPU THB CURB OF -FEVER and AGUE Or CHILLS and FEVER. ■■—■!■! I—. The proprietor of this celebrated audldne justly claims for it a superiority over all remedies over offered to the public for the RAFE, CERTAIN, SPEED I and PIBMAMKMT euro of A gut and Fever, or Chills and Fever, whether of short or long standing. Ho refers to the entire Weeternand Southern country to bear him testimony to the truth of the assertion that in no case whatever will it fail to euro U the directions are strictly followed and carried on|. In a groat many Cases a single dose has been sufllMoat for a cure, and whole families have bpenourofibya single bottle, wLthamrfeot restoration of the general health. Ith, however, prudent, and in every case more certain to cure, if its use is continued in smaller dooes for a week or two after the disease has been cheeked, more especially in difficult and loug-standing cases. Usually this medicine will not require any aid to keep thu bowels in goodordar. Should the patient, however, require a cathartic medicine, after having taken three or four doses of the Tonic, a single dose of BULL’S VEGETABLE FAMILY FILLS wiU be sufficient. The genuine SMITH’S TOMIC SYBUP must have DE. JOHM BULL’Bprivate stamp onoaoh bottfq. DE. JOHM BULL only has the rig jit to manufacture and sell the original JOHM J. SMITH’S TOMIC SYBUP, ofLouisville. Ky. Examine well the label on each bottle, if my private stamp is not on each bottle, do not purchase, or you will be deceived. OR. dF«»K3»r—»<7XeX« r - Manufaoturor and Vendor of SMITH’S TONIC SYRUP, BULL’S SARSAPARILLA, BULL’S WORM DESTROYER, The Popular Remedies of the Day; * Principal Offies. «H> Mala St., LOUISVILLE. KY. EA CEIWTS will purchase » U Beautiful Set of Conte* ofPLAIN and OKXABMTAt PKNMAWSHIP. Arents Wanted. Address . W. F. PARSONS. Business College. Kalamazoo, Mtcb. ADVERTISERS - —1 DESIRING TO BBAOM The READERS of THIS STATE CAN DO 80 IN TH 1 1 Cheapest and Best Manner BT ADDBMSIMO E. E. PRATT, 79 Jaokoon Street. Chicago.

ART SCHOOLS * OfTBl '-'iT t CMcaio Academy of Desip. By a ter ent reorganization, the Chicago Academy ot Design has been put in better condition than at any time since tbe Are. THE ABT SCHOOLS Are In complete order, and persons who wish so pursue any branch of Drawing or Painting, Portraiture In Crayon, Oils or Water-Color, Drawing from Casta, Landscape Painting, Figure, Still-Life or Decorative Painting, Mechanical Draughting or Perspective, will find here tbe beet Instruction under the fullest advantages. Tbe Teachers are H F Sraaan and L. C. Eablk, Professors of Drawing and Painting; W~L. B. Jknnzt, Lecturer upon Architectural Subjects; N. H. CaxrxNTZß, Instructor In Perspective. The Secretary, Ma. Fbxnch, also acts as assistant in instruction. The Academy has tine and commodious Studios, open to pupils from 9to 4 o’clock, daily, with tbe use of all materials for study, copies, costumes, casta from antique sculpture, under constant and competent Instruction. The term now in progress will continue through the whole summer, with especial reference to the needs of Tencbere, and pupils will be admitted at any time, by the month or quarter. Certificates ot attainment will be Issued tor decided merit President. Jas. H. Dole; Vice-President Wm. T. Baker; Treasurer, Murry Nelson. Circulars, with all particulars, will be sent upon ap plication to W. M. R FRENCH, Sec’y Chicago Academy ot Design. 170 State street Chicago. ttinvriiW’S and TRAPPER’S if _L JLlustrated Practical Guide.— -gudhlda and rifle-shoot* Ing! making and usbiff traps, snares and Sto; balte and batting; preserving, stretching. dressing, tanning and dyeing skins and fun ifishtng, etc. With fifty ‘Z<> cents. Taxidermist's Manual. SO. Dog Training, 25, ot booksellers or by malt JESSBHANkJY A co_ll9Naasaaßt.N.X ■ PEUVEHBB. “Theßichest Blood, Sweetest Breath and Fairest Skin In Hop Bitters.” "A little Hop Bitters save* big doctor bills and. long sickness.” . “That invalid wife, mother, sister or child can be made the picture of health with Hop Bitters.” “ When worn down and ready to take your bed, Hop Bitters is what you need.” “ Don’t physic and physic, for it weakens and destroys, but take ’ Hop Bitters, that build up continually.” “ Physicians of all schools use and recommend Hop Bitters. Test them.”’ “Health is beauty and Joy—Hop Bitters gives health apd beauty.” “There, are more cures made with Hop Bitters than all other medicines.” “ When the brain is wearied, the nerves unstrung, the muscles weak, use Hop Bitters.” “ That low, nervous fever, want of sleep and weakness, calls for Hop Bitters.” Hop Cough Cure and Pain Relief Is Pleasant, Mure and Cheap. For Sals bp AU ieruffffists, ■ep Bitters MPg Co., RochMter, N. Y.

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