Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1878 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. RENHBELAER '» INDIRA.

BETTY’S TRAMPS.

Betty was singing, but Betty was not at all nghtPhearted. How could she be, shut up in a farmhouse on a rainy October day, all alone, the rainy fall weeks and the winter imprisonment near at hand, her mamma over in Europe and lust married to a gentleman she might not fancy for father, and her throat sore with a bad cold, and her luDgs so tired of barking? Though a little lady bom and bred, she felt restless in every bone of her little body; and she had got to rocking in such a nervous, noisy way, that it (is a question whether she knew she was singing at all. .Words and music were her own: “ Lone&ie —lonerio -lonesome—lone! Lonesie -lone! Lonnie—lone! > Lonesome! lonesome—loner* I wonder if Step-Uncle Tom really did hear the little plaintive shriek across the sea! Anyway, at that very moment, he g)t upon his feet—ho was in an inn at eneva—aud brought his brown fist down on the table with a force that made the coffee-cups ring. “ See here, Mrs. Sister Elizabeth,’” said he, I’m Rto send ’em over home! They’ll „ -top company fOr Betty. She’s a bright child, I gather, and they’ll amuse amuse a saint —and she must be moped to death by this time. I shan’t want ’em in Pans. If she’s the girl I take her to be, she’ll be delighted! What say, Mrs. Sister Elizabeth?” —" : ~ *• 1 think Betty would be delighted,” said “Mrs. Sister Elizabeth,” after a little thought. By the way, “Mrs. Sister Elizabeth” was Betty’s mother. So “they” were sent. But it was a lot of trouble to do it, I assure you. There had to be a contract about it, some way, that there should be so many pounds of beef a day, “ a good solid roast, mind you!” saidTonPto the Captain. And there was “ Baby” inp articular. “Mind, now,” said Tom, “Baby is to be combed and brushed every day—forty strokes with the brushes every blessed day!” And there were new collars, with a world of fussing about the engraving and the buckles. And then, when all was ready, and they were on board, they didn’t want to go! Tom shed a tear or two himself on his way back to the hotel. Then he sat down and wrote a letter to the young American step-niece he had never seen, in which he told ner he knew she was “ a little brick,” and that “Hamlet the Dane,” “Edward” and “Harry Hotspur,” were three as fine, trusty fellows as ever lived. As for “ Baby,” he added, “you’ll love Baby*! Ana I’ll pay the beef-bill.” I Little American Betty got the letter from Geneva in due time. She <#nay have been “ a little brick'’—and I suppose her slangy young Step-Uncle Tom meant no worse by that than that she wasn’t afraid to do anything that she considered itgood to-do—but she looked anything rather than a bold, rash young creature, as she walked down to the big gate to meet Charlie Higham, who she knew would bring the mail on his home from the village. She was simply a nice-looking, brown-eyed girl of fourteen, with refined features, her brown hair hanging in a soft, silken, curly mass, her dress plain and substantial, though her pretty lace bib was dainty enough to please a Princess. She got only one letter, though it was the day for the foreign mail and her mamma’s weekly epistle, and she turned back dreadfully disappointed, wondering who had been writing to her in that mg, sprawly hand. But the name at the bottom of the letter told,

for her mamma had frequently mentioned her husband’s brother, Tom Dent. “My dear niece,” read Betty. “I suppose he thinks he’s my Uncle Tom,” said she, spitefully, “but he’ll find he isn’t!” She read on, with big eyes, about “ Hamlet the Dane,” and “ Harry Hotspur,” and “Edward” and “Baby!” Who woro they? And coming to her! “ They must be his little boys—his sons,” she said at last, with a little scowl. “ Mercy on me!” From that point the rest was clear, even the “beef-bill.” “ Well,” said she, finally, “if they were coming to America I suppose it’s natural they should come here—mamma, of course, would wish it. But mercy! three boys and a baby! though I dare say,” she sagely added, “that’s only the youngest, and he may be seven or eight years old—he probably is, or he wouldn’t be traveling.} I shall have to have somebody to help Janet—l must tell her right off. I should think mamma would have spoken of them in her letters. Perhaps they were at school, though. Anyway, I shan’t be as lonesome nere this winter—if they’re nice they will seem like cousins, I suppose. I don’t believe Janet will like four boys here very mnoh—but of course mamma will write; she must have thought it best, or Bhe wouldn’t have permitted it.” She was about to run up to the house with the letter, when the express-wagon from the village turned the corner and drove up to the gate. It was a large covered vehicle, and she Juaew the driver. He nodded to her ui ireWunped down. “That’s Miss Betty'Brunson herself,” he said to the seilor-dressed lad on the seat. .......-x... “ That isP I supposed she was some old aunty! What’s she going to do with four of ’em!” Betty might naturally have paused to see what the express was bringing to the farm; and, hearing this, she stopped short, her eyes growing as Mg as tea-sauoers. ‘ * Have you something forme P” she asked. “ I should say we had, rather,” said the driver, with a smile. The sailor-boy got up, and together they drew out some traps which formed a sort of lattice behind the seat; there was a great rustle of straw back in the wagon, and then three big dogs leaped over the seat; one after another, and down to the ground, While a little one tumbled after. Betty thought it Junny, but was looking for the driver to produce her parcel, when a flash of sunshine on the collar of one of the dogs—a handsome morocco, with gold buckle and plate -revealed the whole; “ Hamlet the Dane!” Yes! Four dogs!'- After one blank look at them, ana another at the hxf pressman, she burst into a merry augh. And then they all laughed together—dogs and all— that is, the dogs wagged their tails and trotted up close. The instinctive movement of Betty’s little wTiTte hand, caressing, reassuring. winning, completed the subjugation.

“ Bather a joke, isn’t it?” said the expressman. 1 V “No,” said Betty. “I Hke Jem,” She stopped again to read their names. Ye* “Hamlet the Dane,*’ the great, black, somber, elegant creature; "Harry Hotspur,” lithe, bounding, eager; “Edward,” shaggy, and with calm, warm, faithful eyes; and here, standing on bpr very feet, was “ Baby,”' his plump little body so brown and silky, his eyes so bright and pleading, his wee tail wagging like a pendulum—nice fallows, every one. She Ufted “ Baby" to her choek. “ I understand,” she said to the driver. “It’s all right” “1 guess you won’t have any trouble,” said the sailor boy. “Iwas to stop and see. Just whistle, and let’s see if they’ll follow. Maybe you can’t, though?” Betty pursed up her rosy little lips at him, gave him a bar of Yankee Doodle, sweet as a flute, and then, with a genuine boy’s call to a dog, she was off. As she disappeared at the front door, dogs and all, the men drove off, laughing. “ I guess Janet would rather it had been tne boys,” Betty said, as she went on to the kitohon, a big nose thrusting itself into either hand, “but I shall like it ever so much better.” And it was the end of moping indoors. Such frolics! She “took to them” like any English girl. Her weak chest grew strong doing the work they made. She chose to regard them as her guests, and her notions of hospitality were nrice ; She “basted” their roast as though*it were for the table, and served their meals herself, and she swept their room and aired their rugs —she had really given them an apartment on the ground floor; and not only “ Baby’s" brown hair shone, but she brushed the big. fellows . too, untilthey were that wild and lithe with good health they were fit to jump over the moon. It was an,'extra good bed Betty made for “her guests” the night before Thanksgiving. It had been snowing all day, and at sundown the wind rose, and it grew cold fast. By nine o’clock it blew so furiously that, as Betty said, “yon couldn’t hear yourself think!” Such a blast down the chimney, such a clatter of window-sashes, such a mighty roar in the trees outside!

Janet was sorry she hadn’t asked Robert to stay. Robert, the man, had a family of his own, and always went home after the night chores were done. “Pshaw!” sai(fßetty. “The storm can’t hurt anything, anyway. And if it could, his own folks want him. And we have the dogs, you know.” “ Do just hear it!” said Janet. They were in the cosey south sittingroom, but even there the storm made itself both heard and felt. The dogs were lying before the open fire. Tne clock had struck ten, but Betty couldn’t bear to send them away. It wasn’t likely they could sleep, any more than she or Janet could, with such a clatter and roar. Every now and then a brick fell from the chimney and rolled sharply over the roof. As still another fell, and then two or three in succession, “Baby” got up, whined, and leaped into Betty’s lap. The big ones, too. changed their positions and got nearer her. Suddenly, just as Janet was beginning to dose in her chair, “Harry Hotspur” lifted his nose, then pricked up his ears. Betty put oat her hand, but he withdrew nis head—he plainly wished to listen. I ~ * At that mqment a knock sounded on the hall-door plainly to be heard even in all the stormy uproar. Bettjy got up, Janet opened her eyes, the dogs rose. “Somebody’s”— Yes, knock-ock-ock! went the rap. “ Somobody’s knocking at the naildoor,” continued Betty. “ I’ll go let them in, sha’n’t I?” Old Janet caught at her arm—the dogs were barking now. “Are you crazy? It’s for no good anybody’s knocking this time of night! I’ll tell you who it is—it’s a tramp!” Betty hesitated, looked thoughtful—it might be a tramp, really. Tne dogs had surrounded the door that opened into the hall and were making a great fuss, pawing and leaping as well as barking. “ Baby,” still in her arms, was trembling, but trying to get down. Knock! knock!. Rattle—rattle!—on one of the sitting-room window-blinds! Betty thought she heard a voice -two voices. i “Janet,” she said, in a low tone, What shall we do?” “That's no neighbor’s voice,” answered Janet “It’s a tramp, I tell you,' amd he’ll get in, too, if he goes to the west bedroom window, for the shutter’s off, you know, and the fastener don’t catch. We’ll just be murdered in our beds, child!” “Pshaw!” said Betty. But she looked sober. She tried to listen, but the dogs were barking and tearing so at the door she comdn’t hear any tiling. Hark! they are around at that west bedroom window.

Poor little Betty shook as badly as Janet for a moment or so. Suddenly a light came into ’ her brown eyes. She leaped like a little oat to the dogs. “ You blessed old boys! you shall go out if you want to!” Noiselessly she unclosed the sittingroom door, and, almost trodden under foot among the eager animals, she reached the hall door, swiftly drew the bolt, and the dogs rushed out, pell-mell, barking, toward— She had a glimpse of figures coming round the corner of the house that ten hardly strength enough to push the door shut and shove the bolt; but she accomplished it, just as a great melee of barks 1 and shouts, ana raps broke against the solid panels, and then she got back somehow, at last, into the sitting-room to Janet's side. “Cover my head up with vour apron, oh, do, Janet, tight!" she shuddered. “The dogs have got ’em down, and I can’t bear it! I can’t bear it!” How long they sat there, they didn’t know. Wfien they uncovered their heads at'last, nothnig was to be heard. “ Do you think it was wrong, JanetP’’ Betty asked, after a while. “No,” said Janet. “But, why don’t the dogs come back, do you suppose P” Betty began again, presently. Not a bark, not a whine, not a single scratch on the door bad been heard. The storm had gone down, it was about o'dock. Janet was fast asleep in her chair when she was aroused by BTshake of the arm. “Janet,”- said Betty, «go fasten yourself in somewhere, and then I'm going to open the door and call the loes*’ f ’ Janet was aghast. “ Yqu’ll surely be shot down,” she said. “ 1 know them were tramps.” ~ “ Tramps or no tramps. I aur gbiug.to oalf my dogs*" said Betty. “Go into the kitchen bedroom, there’s a goodlock on that door, and you can take the poker you, beside.” |

Janet wasn’t quite such a coward. She trembled and shivered, but she wenA to the door with Betty. All was dark, cold and still. “Hamlet! Hamlet!” . Betty called. “ Har-ree! Har-ree!” HUtt Was that a bark? She called again. Then she whistled. Again there seemed to be barking somewhere, far-off and stifled. But no dogs came. For half an hour, or more, sne called mn| whistled, - Jaunt shivering andglancing about, at her side, and sometimes, as at first, they seemed to faintly hear the dogs somewhere. At last, hdwever, they shut the door and went in, and then Betty began to cry, a nervous, uncontrollable sort of sobbing, and Janet could do nothing with her. Janet's own spirits rose as it grew nearer day. “Sho, sho!" said she, lightly. “The dogs’ll be back fast enough when it comos light. They’re off gambolling in the now snow, somewhere, or else they’re chasing them tramps clean out of the country. They've saved onr lives, anyhow, and I’ll roast ’em a turkey apiece for their Thanksgiving, dinner, see if I donUp—that’s the way I’ll thanksgive! I wouldn’t cry so, so nearmornin’ seems to me, after I’d stuck it out so brave all night as you have!” But Betty did. She was crying still when Robert came. To him tne night’s experience was duly related. He laughed incredulously. “Tramps!” said he. “ Tramps don’t prowl suoh nights as last night was! Nervous as witches, that’s all!” he*added, as he went plowing through the drifts out to the bam. Noyv the bam was at some distance, bat still in plain view of the kitchen window, where Betty sat, her bosom still heaving with a dry sob now and then. So she saw it all—when Robert oame tearing out at him. “ Why, why!” cried she springing up, “ how did they come to be in tne barn P” But by the rime Janet had reached the window they had disappeared within, and Robert with them. There was evidently something unusual going on. “I heard ’em, I thou—” * “Mamma! mamma!” shrieked Betty, nearly overturning Janet in her rush. Three persons stood in the barn door, with Robert and the dogs—a lady and two men. “My sakes!” said Janet. “It is! I’ll bet they come over from the village last night—l’ll bet they did and Couldn’t get in! I’ll bet anything it was them!” And Janet sat down and laughed hysterically. It seemed to be a laughing matter ont at the barn, too. Mrs. Dent stood there, smiling and waving her handkerchief across the big waste of snow-drift, the gentleman in the fur overcoat beside her was bowing and nodding and laughing and a younger gentleman, whom the dogs were frolicking about, was laughing and throwing Icisses to Betty in the baok door—indeed, all this merry gesticulation was for Betty,while she, poor little dear, wasn’t laughing at all, but crying just as hard as ever she could. “Odear!” she sobbed. “O, Janet! what did we do last night? Just think of what we did! Such an awful storm, and mamma, my mamma, to have to go to sleep in the barn!” Janet was busy rearranging her calculations for breakfast. She smiled to ficrself with grim humor. “They don’t act as if they suffered any great,” she said, dryly. Meantime, Robert was shoveling away, and would have got a path made through the drifts sometime, probably; but that the forlorn littl6 gin in the back yard should cry all that length of time was not to be thought of, for all at once the two gentleman “ made a chair” of their four hands, and offered it to the lady, and in about two minutes after Mrs. Dent had her daughter in her arms; and I don’t know but the two might have cried until now, if the dogs hadn’t rushed between, feeling they had a right to kiss Betty too; ana Betty, once made to laugh, kept on ever so long, just for looking at the hay-seed in her new papa’s hair, and at the long straws dragging after her mamma’s trail —indeed, tne general tramp-like aspect of the whole party was rather striking. “A pretty reception, I must say!” said Uncle Tom. He was walking about and making himself very much at home, even to kissing his swolleneyed young niece at last, as he came up and took her hand. “I set your own dogs on you, didn’t I?” said Betty with a hysteric-y little laugh, but blushing hotly, too. “We thought you were tramps, you know.” Bhe heard all about it at breakfast — how business had called Mr. Dent suddenly to New York, and so they all came; and, Mrs. Dent being eager to see her home and her little girl that very night, they had come on, and then faced tne appalling storm in an open sleigh for two miles only to sleep in the earn, and Wait until morning. The driver had g6ne with the team before they found they were not to be admited, and thus there had been really no other way to do. “When you let the dogs out on us,” laughed Uncle Tom, “ Harry knocked me flat into the snow the first leap, and the other's all came a-top of him, or I should have got in before you closed the door, spry as you were.” “How I did shriek at you!” said Mrs. Dent. “My knuckles are just skinned, too.”

“It was rather exasperating,” said Mr. Dent. “ And then such a time as there was when we went into the ham!” “Yes,” said Mrs. Dent, “I begged to go there, for i knew you and Janet were just frightened to death. The dogs almost tore us to pieces’ getting there through the snow, they were so wild with joy at seeing us, and then the neighing and snorting and cackling that we aroused! They thought out there, too, that we were tramps, I dare say. I had to go and pat the horses and speak to them before they would settle down. And then we heard you calling the dogs after awhile, and they barked and ran about, but wouldn’t go, though, and altogether we didn’t sleep muon, though we were very eomfortable indeed on the hay. I moused around till I found the buffalo robes, and we had our furs and wraps, you know A- ; — === So, after all, no real harm was done. The dogs got their Thanksgiving turkey, and it was a happy day for everybody, although Betty, so red-eyed and so sleepy ana so headache-y, had to go to bed : directly after dinner, and be petted and soothed and reassured a great deal by her mother before sho could forgive herself for her eight’s work; and I must add that everybody else was very, very glad to go to bed, too, when nine o’clock oame. —Ella Forman, in Wide Awake. Few are aware of the importance of checkintra cough or common coldtn lteflrrt stage. That which tn the beginning would yield to a mild remedy, if neglected, soon preys, upon the Lung?. Dr. Bull’a Cough Syrup affords I instant relief. Price, 25 cents. \ t

HOME, FARM AND GARDER.

—To remove old putty from windowframes, pass A rea-hot poker slowly, qver it and it will oome off easily. —As mdoh nitrate of soda as can be taken up between the forefinger and thumb In the glass every time the water is changed, will preserve cut flowers in all their beauty for above a fortnight. — N. Y. nines —Taney farming may be indulged In, as a recreation, ny men with other means of support. „ Such men may pride themselves in. it, and claim to be model agriculturists. They are not true farmer?.—Frame Fanner. *■ —Damp Floors.—lt should be a fixed rule that floor?, particularly those of sleeping-rooms, are to be scrubbed only on dry days, and where the health of the iqmates is delicate the drying should be quickened by lighting a fire in the room. —There is a profit in breeding nice carriage and draft horses. As a general rulo it, costs no more to raise a gxxl colt than a poor one, while the rmerwill bring two or three times as much as the latter. A dark stable is a very poor place to keep a colt.— DesMoines Register. —The very best thing to be done when anyone has received a burn or scald, is to lay on the part that is injured a thick coating of cotton, wool or wadding, so as to completely exclude the air. If the above wool happens not to be at hand, scraped potato or turnip will ease the pain. —ln buying stock steers, pay liberal prices for suon ones as have their digestive organs in an active state, and are capable of assimilating large amounts of food. Such animals, having been constantly growing since calfhood, will continue this growth and rapidly increase in weight.— lowa State Register. —Fish Cakes—Pare and boil two quarts of potatoes; put one pound salt codfish in about one quart of cold water; let it come to a boil; then pick up fine and put in cold water again and bring to a boil; pour off the water, and then mix potatoes and fish well together; make into balls or cakes, and fry brown with clear salt pork. —Few farmers buy too rnanv tools, but many farmers buy unintefligently and wastefully. The best tool is always more profitable to buy than an inferior one, and yet, no matter how good the is unsatisfactory unless you advantageous use. The machinery comes from use, not storage. — Prairie Farmer. —Cement for Sealing Bottles, Etc.— Mix three parts of resin, one of caustic soda and five of water; this composition is then mixed with half its weight of plaster-of-Paris. The compound sets in three-quarters of an hour, adheres strongly, is not permeable like plaster used alone, and is attacked only slightly by warm water.— Scientific American. —J jDmelet.—Beat six eggs separately; mix with the velks one and a naif cups sweet milk, a little salt and one tablespoonful of flour well mixed with a little milk; lastly, add the whites beaten to a stiff froth, then pour all into a heated buttered or larded pan and let it boil, stirring constantly until it thickens, then pour into an omelet or baking dish, and bake in quick oven.

Little Things on the Farm.

“ Take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves” is an old adage which correctly illustrates life as a whole. Life and all of its departments are made up of small tilings. Character, for instance, is the aggregate of small things, of our thoughts first, and their harvest, our acts. Men who despise small things are not our successful men, and it matters not in what calling of life we find them. It is often thought, entirely too often, that this regard for little things shows a niggardly spirit, and that it is unbecoming in men of mind and character. If a man stoops to pick up a pin in order that he may save it, there are those who laugh at him for his pains. But a pin is worth something, It represents some labor, and some value in itself. A bushel basket full of them would represent considerable of value, and, while if a man’s time be very valuable, it might not pay to stop even long enough to pick up a pin, if he had nothing else to do, he had better stop and save even that. The actual worth of the pin, however, is not exactly the entire benefit which results from the act of picking it up. The habit of saving thus shown grows stronger every time it is exercised, and it will be shown just as strongly in more important affairs in life. The spirit of derision against those who are said to stoop to such small things would lead to the derision of the Creator himself, for there is nothing too small for His care and protection. The whole universe is a complete system of economy. Nothing is wasted in any part of it. But nowhere does close economy and the attention to small things pay better than on the farm. The little leaks are what run away with the profits in farming, and it does not require much time or trouble, usually, to stop the leak when it first begins. It is tne slightest of work to replace a rail Or aboard when it has been pushed from a fence, but it is more serious to rebuild thfl entire fence, after it has been neglected for years and permitted to tumble all -to pieces. Nor is this all. A tumbledown fence may cost the farmer acres of grain. Many a farmer has found his corn trampled down by the stock, which never could have entered'if he had replaced every rail as it became dislodged. When decay once commences, it proceeds rapidly, unless checked at once. A board falls off a building and is not replaced. Very soon another board follows, and it will not be many years before what might have been a good-looking and comfortable building, is a perfeot ruin.

We have seen somo farms without a hennery. Among the seemingly more important duties, provision for the fowls was thought to be too insignificant to receive attention. The Fesult was that the poultry were roosting in buildings which should be kept clean, and among farm implements winch they were disfiguring, if not ruining. More time was spent in cleaning up after the ohioksns than would haye been required to build a half-dozen hen houses. Herd was a direct loss, but it was not the only one. The hens had no place provided for them to lay, and so they often sought out the way places where the eggs were nevdrfound, and- hero-was more loss. And so in very much that is regarded as of small importance on the farm, neglect .results very expensively. Go on a farm on which every detail is at-

tended to; and the smallest with as great care as the latest, and prosperity will bo found there. Leaving out of the question 1 altogether the increased pleasure whieh comes from having a place for everything and everything in its place—of having order everywhere, there is protit in it. On such a farm the swill barrel never gets what will give a better profit out or it than in it; the batter is not made in such, a way as to bo worth nothing except for grease; the chips about the woodpile are not permitted to rot; the straV stack is not permitted to go to waste; the manure is carefully saved, whether it is made by the cattle, swine or fowls, and in short there is striot economy, order and what always accompanies them, prosperity. —Western Rural.

Forgot the Baby.

A gentleman from Union City says that when the yellow-fever scare was at its height in Union City and peoplo were hastening to the country, to the woods, anywhere to oscapo the bare possibility of taking the disease, tho quarantine notwithstanding, a man and his wife were in such a hurry to move out that they left an infant lying on a bed in their dwelling, which they had looked up secure and last. Its wails could never have been heard had it possessed leather lungs, and no one would ever have dreamed that such an absence of mind could occur with the average parents. When they had gone a mile and a half toward Paducah Junction the wife exclaimed, as she wrung her hands in grief at the very thought of what might befall their sleeping infant, “Lord help us! we have left the child at home on the bed.” The husband went back home and there found the infant. It had been left asleep,, had evidently, waked up and then cried itself to sleep again.— Nashville (Tenn.) American.

Not a Beverage.

“They are not a beverage, but a medicine, with curative properties of the highest degree, containing no poisonous drugs. They do not tear down an already-debilitated system, but build it up. One bottle contains more bops, that is. more real hop strength, than a barrel of ordinary beer. Every druggist in Rochester sells them, and the physicians prescribe them.”—[Rochester Evening Express, on Hop Bitters.

A Sudden Death.

There is something terrible in the thought of having our friends stricken down at our si as, without a parting word of endearment or consolation—one moment at our side in the flush of vigorous life, cheering our hearts with their loving sympathy; the next at our feet, pale with death, deaf to our cries and heedless of our tears. Every excessively fat person is in Instant danger of such a death. Seven-tenths of the victims of obesity die of heart disease or apoplexy. Allan’s Anti-Fat, the only remedy for obesity, reduces the weight by regulating the digestion and assimilation of the food. ' It is perfectly harmless, and its use will insure, in every instance, a reduction of weight from two to five pounds a week.

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The Independent, of‘New York, probably the ablest, largest, and best religious newspaper in the world, offers in another column to give awav, absolutely, a Worcester’s Unabridged Quarto Pictorial Dictionary, which retails everywhere for $lO, and is, of course, a household necessity. The Independent it now publishing the Rev. Joseph Cook’s famous Boston Monday Lectures, which are creating so much discussion everywhere. It will also soon begin the publication of a series of articles on- “ Socialism and Communism,” one of the most Important questions of the day, by ex-Pres’t Thao. D. Woolsey, D. Dj LL.D. See advertisement of The Independent, in this paper. If each one of several makers had taken the highest medal at one of the great world’s expositions there would be room to question which was best; but Mason & Hamlin have taken the highest honors at every such com petition for twelve years. Particulars regarding Electric Beits free. Address Pulvermacner Galvanic Ca.Cincin.,o.

VEGETINE. I advise AU wfio are suffering as I bare snffered to m VEGETINE e trial. \ ~~ Boston, sept 9, 1377. Mr. H. 11. Stkvkns: lhut Mr—l have suffered with S -rotulnui Humor sot seven years ana could get.no relief. I have trlel every tiling In tie shape or herbs, s lives, plasters, etc., bit nothing did ire any good. 1 w.-s from my knees to my ankles one mess ot sore >. I was advised by Police-Officer W. B. Hill, to trv Ve, elite. I commenced last July, 1K76. After taking the second bottle I began to get relief, and the son sto heal up I was finally reductd to one large ulcer on my right leg, that run so much and hwked to bad that many said I must lose my leg; but, alter I had taken fourteen bottle* of Vegetine, my leg was all healed up, and lam now at well as ever 1 was 111 my life. 1 consider Vegetlne the best cleanser and purifier es the blood, ami advise all who may be suffering a. I have suffered to give It a trial. HUNKY T. SMITH, No. 50 Utica St., Boston, Mass. SCROFULOUS HUMORS—The VegetlnrV has cured many cases of Senilula of five, ten and twenty yuan' standing. where tie- patient has had many physicians, tried many of tht known remedies, and, alter tying tile Vegetlne, the common run.uk Is, 'lt acts differently, works dlltercn'ly, from any medicine I havetver taken.’ 1 Vegetlne will cleanse Scrofula from the system. Try It VEGETINE I CAN RECOMMEND. Somkrvili.k, June 10, 1876. Dr. If. R. Stkvkns: War Mr—lt Is with great pleasure I can reco nme id In the highest terms y our Vegetlne as a purifier of the bit*Ml. Having met with a painful Injury to the spine and sclataca nerve over fourteen years ago. my ankle has been swollen a groat deni of tlietimeund very p ilnful. By using Vegetlne 1 fltrl great relief, as it gives a higher tone to the blood. Improving my health; and 1 hone that all the human family Hi a suffering condition will avail themselves atonce of this most valuable remedy. Your* most respectfully, WM. STINK! I Kits T, Station Agent, Somerville, Mass. " VEGETINE,'’ says a Boston physician, "has no equal as a blood purl Her. (tearing of Its many wonderful cures, after all other remedies had failed, I visited the laboratory and convinced myself of Its genuine merit It Is prepared from barks, roots and herbs, each of which Is highly effective, and they are compounded In such a maimer as to product! astonishing results.” VEGETINE Completely Cured Me. Newport, Ki„ Feb. 2«, 1877. Mr. H. R. Stkvkns : Dear Sir— 1 write to say that seven bottles of youi Vegetlne have completely cured me from a very severe case of Si r'/i l'i, of many years' standing, after trying many medicines and doctoring a great d al. lam now free from all sores, and can work as well as ever, and think theVegotlne Is a god-send ami no on* ought to do without It 1 remain, respectfully yours, J. A. PATRICK. VKthrriNK Is now prescribed In eases of Scrofnla and,, other diseases of the Tdood, by many of the best physl’ clans, owing to Its great success In cuilng all diseases of this nature. VEGETINE Druggists Recommend It. 7"''“T~: 1. .... VlNffßnw tSfk. 1876 H. E. SrsvkNs: Dtnr .sir- We have hold Vege'tne for several years, and It lots given our patrons general satisfaction. Every one speaks well of It Respectfully. MOOIiB k HARRIS, IFA oiesalt ana lietail Vruggiw, Main St. Vluoonnea VkortiNK Is composed ol Roots, Barks, and Herbs It is very pleasant to take; every child likes tt, VEGETINE - Prejared 6y H.R. Stoss, Mon, Hass. Vegetine is Sold by All Draegloto.

DR. JQHH ■DU'S SifsToiieSym! POM THB CURB OP FEVER and AGUE Or CHILLSand FEVER. The proprietor of this caUbratad audiotno justly claims for it a superiority ovaraU remedies ever offered to the public tar tho UH, CERTAIN, SPEEDY and PERMANENT euro of Ague and Fever, or Chills and Favor, whether of shorter long standing. Bo refers to tho entire Western and Southarn eountry to hear him testimony to tho truth of tho oooortion that in no case whatever will it failte our elf the directions are strictly followed and carried out. In a groat many eases a single dose has been sufficient for a cure, and whole families have been our ed by a single bottle, with a perfect restoration of the general health. It is, however, prudent, and in every ease mere certain to cure, if its use Is continued in smaller doses for a week or two after tho diteaae has been ohooked, more especially in difflonlt and long-standing oases. Usually this msdlelns will not require anv aid to heap the bowels in good order. Should tho patient, however, require a cathartic mediolne, after having taken throe or four d oses of tho Tonic, a single doss of BULL’S VEGETABLE FAMILY FILLS will J>9 sufficient. The genuine SMITH’S TONIC SYBVF must have DR. JOHN B U LL’S private stamp on each bottle. DR. JOHN HULL only has tha right to manufacture and sail the original JOHN J. SMITH’S TONIC SYRUP, of Louisville, Xy. Examine well tho label on eaeh bottle. If my private stamp is not on SMh bottle, do not purchase, or yon Will be deceived. DHL. FODCIVT BtJZsXa, Manufacturer **nd Vender of SMITH’S TONIC SYRUP, BULL’S SARSAPARILLA, BULL’S WORM DESTROYER, The Popular Remedies of tne Day. Principal Office, SIR Main St.. LOUISVILLE. KT.

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