Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1879 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. KENBHELAER, - • INDIANA.

DO WE WELL TO MOURNI Ywl KricTcl jt can be no offenio to Him Who mjulo n» nemitiTe oor lorn to know '** Thu hand Uint take, the cup filled to the brim Mar well with trembling make it overflow. Who nadi ua aortow means it should be felti Who gave us team would .urely have them And “metal" that the “luraaoe" doth not melt. May yet be hardened all the more instead. Where love abounded will the grief abound! To obeck our grief U l>n( to chide oar love; With withered leave* the more bestrewed the urouud, v The fuller that the rose hath bloomed above I Yes, grieve I ’tis Nature's—that is, God's—behest, » if wbat is Nature called is will divine: Who fain would grieve not cannot know how bl^t It hi to sorrow, and yet not repine. —Spectator. " i THE OLD STONE BASIN. In the heart of the busy city. In the scorching noon-tide heat, A sound of iinbbllng water Kails on the dm of the street. It falls in a gray stone basin, And over the cool wet brink The beads of thirsty horses Each moment are stretched to drink. And peeping between the crowding heads As the horses come and go, ‘ The Gift of Three Little Sisters” Is read on the stone below. Ah. beasts are not taught letters, *■ They knuor no alphabet: And never a horse tn all these yean Has read the words, and yet 1 think that each toil-worn creature Who stops to driuk by the way, His thanks, in his own dumb fashion. To the sisters small must pay. , Years Lave gone by since busy hands Wrought at the basin ‘b stone; The kindly little sisters Are all to women grown. 1 do not know their home or fates Or the name they bear to men. But the sweetness of their gracious deed Is just as fresh as then. And all life long, and after life, They must the happier be. For this '* Cup of Water” given by them When they were children three. —Susan Coolldgt.inSt. Nicholas for January.

OUR NEW NEIGHBORS AT FONKAPOG.

When I saw the little housebuilding, an eighth of a mile beyond my own, on the Old Bay Road, I woudered who were to be the tenants. The modest structure was set well back from the road, among the trees, as if the inmates were to care nothing whatever for a view of the stylish equipages which sweep by during the summer season. For my part, I like to seo the passing, in town or country; but each has his own taste. The proprietor, who seemed to bo also the architect of the new house, superintended the various details of the work with an assiduity that gave me a high opinion of his intelligence and executive ability, and I congratulated myself on the prospect of having some very agreeable neighbors. It was quite early in the spring, if I remember, when they moved into the cottage—a newly-married couple evidently; the wife very young, pretty, and with the air of a lady; the husband sbmewhat older, but still in the first flush of manhood. It was understood in the village that they uame from Baltimore; but no one knew them personally, and they brought no letters of introduction. (For oovious reasons I refrain from mentioning names.) It was clear that, for the present at least, their own company wasentirely sufficient for them. They made.no advances toward the acquaintance of any of the families in the neighborhood, and consequently were left to themselves. That, apparently, was what they desired, ana why they came to Ponkapog.' For after its black bass, and wild duck, and teal, solitude is the chief staple of Ponkapog. Perhaps its perfect rural loveliness should be included. Lying high up under the wing of the Blue Hills, and in the odorous breath of pines and cedars, it ehances to be the most enchanting bit of genuine country within fifty miles of Boston, which, moreover, can be reached in half an hour's ride by railway. But the nearest railway station (Heaven be praised) is two miles distant, and the seclusion is without a flaw. Ponkapog has one mail a day; two mails a day would render the place raioirabltabier -ys— The village—it looks like a compact idllage at a distance, but unravels and disappears the moment you drive into it—has quite a large floating population. Ido not allude to the perch and pickerel. Along the Old Bay Road, a highway even in the Colonial days, there are a number of attractive cottages straggling oil' toward Milton, which are occupied for the summer by people from tho city. These birds of passage arc a distinct class from the permanent inhabitants, and the two seldom closely assimilate unless there has been some previous connection. It seemed to me that our new neighbors were to come under the head of permanent inhabitants; they had built their own house, and had the air Of intending to live in it all the year round. “Are you notgoing to call on them P" Tasked my wife, one morning. “ When they call on us,” she replied, lightly.

“But it is our place to call first, they being strangers.” , This was said as seriously as the circumstance demanded; but my wife turned it off with a laugh, and I said no more, always trusting to her intuitions in these matters.

She was right. She would not hare been received, and a 000 l “ not a home” would have been a bitter social pill to us if we had gone out of our way to be courteous. I saw a great deal of our neighbors, nevertheless. Their cottage lay between us and the Fostoffice—where he was never to be met with by any chance —and I caught frequent glimpses of the two working 1 in the garden. Floriculture did not appear so much an object as exercise. Possibly it was neither] maybe they were engaged in digging for specimens of those arrowheads and flint hatchets which are continually coming to the surface hereabouts. There is scarcely an acre in which the plowshare has not turned up some primitive stone weapon or domestic utensil, disdainfully left to us by the red men who once held this domain—an ancient tribe called the Penkypoags, . a forlorn descendant of which, one Polly Crowd, figures in the annual Blue Book, down to the close of the Southern war, as a State pensioner. 1 quote from the local historiographer! Whether They were developing a kitchen-garden, or emulating ftof. Sehliemannat Mycenin, the newcomers .were.evidently persons of refined musical taste; the lady had a voice of remarkable sweetness, although Of no great compass, and I used often to Unger of a morning by the high gate

I and listen to her executing an operatic I Air, eonjeeturallv at some window upstairs, for the house was not visible from the public road. The husband, somewhere about the grounds, would occasionally respond with two or three bars. It was all quite an ideal Arcadian business. They seemed very happy together, these two persons, who asked no odds whatever of the eommunity in which they had settled themselves. There was a queerness, a sort of mystery, abont the oouple which I admit, Piqued my curiosity, though, as a rule, 1 have no morbid interest in the affairs of my neighbors. They behaved like a pair of lovers who had run off and got married clandestinely. I willingly acquitted them, tho one and the other, of having no legal right to do so; for, to change a word in the lines of the poet, “ It Is a Joy to Mini: the best We may of human kind.” Admitting the hypothesis of elopement, there was no mystery in their neither sending nor receiving letters. But where did they get theTr groceries P I do not mean tho money to pay for them—that is an enigma apart?—but the groceries themselves. Ho express wagon, no butcher's cart, no vehicle of any description was ever observed to stop at their domicile. Yet they did not order family stores at the sole establishment in the village—an inexhaustible little bottle of a shop which (I advertise it gratis) can turn out anything in the way of groceries, from a handsaw to a pocket-handkerchief. I confess that I allowed this unimportant detail of their housekeeping to occupy more of my speculation than was creditable to me. r. ———

In several respects Cur neighbors reminded me of thoso inexplicable peranna \V6 ill gTOftt cities, though seldom or never in suburban places, where the field may be supposed too restricted for their operations—persons who have no perceptible means of subsistence, ana manage to live royally on nothing a year. They hold no Government bonds, they possess jro real estate (our neighbors did own their house), they toil not, neither do they spin; yet they reap many.of the numerous advantages that usually jresult from honest toil and skillful spinning. How do they do itP But this is a digression, and I am quite of the opinion of the old lady in “David Copperfield,” who says, “Let us have no meanderingP’ Though my wife declined to risk a ceremonious call on our neighbors as a family, I saw no reason why 1 should not speak to the husband as an individual, when I happened to encounter him by the wayside. I made several approaches to do so, when it occurred to my penetration that my neighbor had the air of trying to avoid me. A resolved to put the suspicion to the test, and one forenoon, when he was sauntering along on the opposite side of the road, in the vicinity of Fisher’s saw-mill, I deliberately crossed over to address him. The brusque manner in which ho hurried away was not to be misunderstood. Of course, I was not going to force myself upon him. It was at this time that I began to form uncharitable suppositions touching our neighbors, and would have been as well pleased if some of my choicest fruit trees had not overhung their wall. I determined to keep my eves open later in the season, when the fruit should be ripe to pl«rtr. In some folks, a sense of the delicate shades of difference between meum et tuum does not seem to be very strongly developed in the moon of cherries, to use the old Indian phrase. I was sufficiently magnanimous not to impart any of these sinister impressions to tho families with whom we were on visiting terms; for I despise a gossip. I would say nothing against tlie persons up the road until I had something definite to say. My interest in them was—well, not exactly extinguished, but burning low. I met tho gentlemen at intervals, and passed him without recognition; at rarer intervals I saw the lady. After a while I not only missed my occasional glimpses of her pretty, slim figure, always draped in some soft, black stuff with a bit of scarlet at the throat, but I inferred that she (fid not go about the house singing in her lightliear ted manner, as formei'lv. What had happened ? Had the honeymoon suffered eclipse already? Was she ill? I fancied she was ill, and that I detected a certain anxiety in the husband, who spent the mornings digging solitarily in the garden, and seemed to have relinquished those long jaunts to the Blue Hill, where there is a superb view combined with sundry venerable rattlesnakes with twelve rattles.

As the days went by it became certain that the lady was confined to the house, seriously ill, possibly a confirmed invalid. Whether she was attended by a physician from Canton or from Milton, 1 am uuable to say; but neither the gig with the large white allopathic horse, nor the gig with the homeopathic sorrel mare, was ever seen hitched at the gate during the day. If aphysioian had charge of the case, he visited his patient onlyi at night. All this moved my sympathy, and i reproached myself with having had hard thoughts of our neighbors. Trouble had come to them early. I would have liked to offer them such small, friendly services as lay in my power; but the memory of the repulse I had sustained rankled in me. So Ihesitated. One morning my two boys burst into the library with their eyes sparkling. “You know the old elm down the roadP” cried one. ' “Yes,” “ The elm with the hang-bird's nestP” shrieked the other. “Well, we both just elimed tip, and there's three young ones in it!” Then I smiled to thinly that our new neighbors hadgot such a promising little family.— T.B. Aldrich, in Atlantic.

A Railroad-Car Incident.

An amusing incident happened on a New York & New Haven train, the other day. When the train arrived at the depot in, New Haven an old gentleman got up and started for the rear end of the bar. He had gone but a few steps before the old lady who had been sitting with him rose with her hands full of knitting work add followed him down the aisle, her hands extended. It was notioed by the passengers that her ball of yarn was in his pocket. When he got up he turned around several times before starting, and in so doing had wound the yarn around him so that the old lady had no choioe except to folloyr him, drop her knittiug, or see her yam broken. She said not~ a word, but a passenger, noticing what was going on, reached up and gently taking the unconscious old gentleman by the arm, turned him around so he saw whatiiewas doing, and the yarn was saved. By this time the rest of the passengers were roaring With laughter, i —Bridgeport (Venn.) Standard.

FERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Herr Moritz Buseh, the Boswell ol Bismarck, was, so it Is said, the minister of a German church in the United States belween..ls4B and 1866. —“Billy” Ballou, a well-known Pacific Coast character, who was once a friend of Mark Twain, and is written abont in “ Roughing It,” died in a hospital in Washington Territory recently. —Miss Helen M. McDonald argued her own oa.se about an infringement of her patent for an improved dress protoctor in the United States Court in Boston, the othor day, Gen. Butler being one of the opposing counsel. —Mrs. Lockwood, the ftmale lawyer of the District of Colombia, whom Jndge Magruder is reported to have characterized as a wandering woman, forbidding her to speak in his court, intends to test her right to practice in all the courts of Maryland. The Federal Courts of that State new recognize that right. —The Bayard family of Delaware has a.some what, remarkable record of political service. The present Senator entered the Senate in 1869. His father was his immediate predecessor, and occupied the same seat for eight years. His grandfather occupied it for thirteen years, and an uncle was also for 'many years a member of the same body.

—Gen. Fremont is making an exceedingly good Governor of Arizona Territory. He keeps aloof from political influences and attends carefully to business. Mrs. Fremont is taking a deep interest in the cause of popular education, and often visits the public schools and entertains the pupils with accounts of her travels in the Old World.— Chicago Tribune. —A high officer of Massachusetts, conversant with affairs fit the Concord Prison, says that Jesse Pomeroy, the boy-murderer, is losing his mind and failing in health. He says also that remarkable tales have been told of Pomeroy’s mental acuteness and thirst for knowledge, but the truth is that the boy-muraerer is shallow-brained though cunning.— N. Y. Evening Post. —The oldest bank Director in Boston Is Jeffrey Richardson, Esq., who iq over ninety years of age and still active. He has been a Director in the Suffolk Bank for more than fifty years. He is the surviving member of,the ancient firm of Richardson Brothers, Central Wharf, where the old weather-beaten sign of the firm, which has withstood the storms of sixty winters, still hangs in its original place. —Mrs. Elizabeth Child, one of the oldest residents of Boston, died in that city, a few days sinoo, at the age of ninety-seven years three months and twenty-five clays. She remembered seeing Gen. Washington when she was twelve years old. She had lived all her life within two hundred yards of the Elace of her death, and although she ad traveled extensively in New England she had never been in a railroad car. —Tho female correspondent (at Washington) of the,Cincinnati Commercial has a grievance against Representative Charier Foster. She writes: “ Mr. Foster has an honest face, but his breeding needs mending sorely. Any man who passes me with 4 a nudge’ of his Read, without so much as lifting his hand to his hat, never after returns to my memory as a gentleman, notwithstanding his services on the Militafy Committee.” —Ben Wade was the most original presiding officer of the United States Senate. It is related that, one warm spring day, when he occupied the chair, and ms colleague was absent, dinnertime drew nigh and he wanted to leave. Garrett Davis, of Kentucky, had the floor, and at last Mr. Wade could stand it no longer. Giving a rap with his gavel, he said: “ The Senator from Kentucky will suspend his remarks for a moment. The Senator from Ohio moves that the Senate do now adjourn. Those in favor will say aye—contraryminded, no - and the Senate stands adjourned until to-morrow at twelve o’clock.” The presiding officer was the only Senator from Ohio present, and he not only put his own motion, but cast the only vote on it and then, announced the result.^ N. Y. Evening Post.

A Romance of Real Life.

Many of my readers have read Grimm’s Goblins "and other fholes, I should like to submit a fable from actual life: There lived in Berlin a very brave widow—a washerwoman. She had a son. That son, although not endowed with money, had plenty of brains. He was apprenticed to a goldsmith, but displayed such excellent talent as a draughtsman, that the attention of a painter, a friend of the goldsmith’s, was drawn to him. The Eainter insisted upon having the boy in is studio. He became so fond of the lad that he soon took him. into the bosom of his family. The boy became a youth, the youth grew into a man and an artist of whom his teacher was proud. Avery high lady, herself an artist, a mother of many promising sons, soeing a picture by this young Eainter, bought it and desired to make is acquaintance. He was summoned to her presence. In a conversation with him she ascertained that he thought he had a talent for marine painting. However, the poor fellow could not dream of carrying out his wishes in this respect, for he was tied to his town, being unable to meet the expenses of a voyage. The lady hit upon a plan. Her son, who was about to take a two .years’ trip round the world, would find the painter a very pleasant and agreeable companion. When our friend—we will call him Charles, which is his Christian name—was informed by letter that he had been chosen as this young gentleman’s companion, he thought he must be dreaming. Yet, with a heavy heart, he was compelled to decline the proffered appointment, although be would be fed ana clothed on the voyage. Where could he get the money fog his expenses on landing at various ports? Visits to foreign countries cost money! The dream seemed to dissolve. But high ladies sometimes do not do things by halves. The patroness of our painter hit upon a very good Idea: The .young man had a splendid picture in the Berlin Exhibition of Painters. This she bought, and for it she paid a high price. Tlie example of the great lady was catching, somebody else also bought onei of Charles’ pictures, and he was therefore enabled to undertake the voyage with money the reward of his own talents, which had,not the degrading effect of almsgiving. And now our young painter is ou the high sea*, in a vessel carrying, the sgn of a lady of very high station. Two mothers ore following that ship with theithprayors —the one living in a great palace, life othir in a lowly cot, both longing for the safe return of their offspring. Of the, latter, one is destined to be the Ad-

roiral of the German fleet, and the otiyjr hope* to beoome a great master of marine painting. I need hardly add that the Illustrious lady is the German Crown Prinoess, our own Prinoess Royal.— London Mayfair.

Winter Feeding of Cows.

During summer, when the herbage is fresh and abundant, cows make tneir own milk. All that Is needed then is to see that their grass is abundant and their water is sure. In the winter season it is the owner’s skill, more than anything else, that makes the milk. To keep a cow in full flow through the winter is a matter of difficulty to the most skillful dairyman. But it oan be done if the means are at hand and the methods are followed. The first requisite is a warm stable, iq which there is abundant ventilation, and where perfect cleanliness can be observed, for comfort is as neoessary to full milking, as feed or water. The skin of the cow should also be kept clean, and well carded or brushed, for the healthful action of tho skin is neoessary for health and healthful secretions. Then the teed should bo nutritions, easily digestible, and abundant. Hay is the principal winter fodder for cows, and early-cut clover mixed with “meadowgrass,” chiefly what is known as June grass, or Kentucky bine grass, with some red-top, is the best for product of milk. Timothy and orchard grasses, if cut young and from fields thickly sown and well manured, will make goed hay for milch cows. Well-cured corn-fodder is but little inferior to the best hay; and the writer has found that sweet-corn fodder, sown in drills three feet apart, and with stalks six inches apart, grown to maturity, and carefully cured, will make more milk than an equal Weight of fairclover and timothy hay. The concentrated food supplied is of more importance than the coarse fodder, and it is here that mistakes are often made. Corn-meal alone is too rich in carbonaceous matters to produce milk; food that is richer in albumen than tbis is necessary. Corn, oats and rye bran, in equal weights, ground together, furnish a perfect food that is rich in phosphates, albumen and fat-forming substances, and thus produce a good flow of milk rich in cream. Buckwheat bran stimulates the secretion of milk greatly, but this food, being deficient m fat and starch, produces a poor quality of thin milk. Wheat middlings and bran, alone, have a tendency to reduce the yield of milk, at least that is the result of a continuous trial of this food for a whole month. Brewers’ grains are a nutritious food that helps greatly to increase the flow of milk, and if cornmeal is added the quality of the milk is also improved. The oil-cakes are rich in both albumen and oil, but few dairymen care to use these, because of the peculiar flavor which they impart to the milk. Potatoes, when chopped and mixed with meal, add to the yield of milk, and the quality produced by them is good, as might be expected from the large proportion of starch they contain. Turnips should be avoided as food for milking cows, as the cautious use of them required interferes greatly with the routine of the feeding, and makes much trouble. Pumpkins are a rich food and impart a good color to the cream; but the seed should be removed before they are fed to the cows, because of their diuretic effects. Apples are justjy condemned by dairymen, excepting in very small quantities of the sweet varieties, and even then it is a question if it would not he better to cart them to the manure heap or to the cider mill rather than give them to cows. The best-chosen foods should be fed in moderate quantities, and at four separate feeds. If a large quantity of food is crowded into the stomach, the digestive organs are too severely taxe<L and the ease and comfort of the cow is interfered with. The most perfect digestion goes on in a moderately well-filled stomach, and at though the cow’s paunch is capacious, vet one bushel of loose, dry fodder, or half a bushel of moist feed or roots, at once is sufficient. It is well to feed four times a day. The practice of. a well-conducted milk dairy is to feed at six o’clock in the morning one bushel of out fodder, wet and mixed with three quarts of feed of corn, oats and bran. At eight o’clock the cows are turned out to water and have a picking at the straw racks or some loose corn fodder. At eleven o’clock they are brought into the stable for an hour, and are each served with half a bushel of chopped potatoes, beets, or mangels, with two quarts of feed mixed with them. At twelve o’clock they are turned out to water again—there being running water in the yard—and pick at the straw or fodder racks until 4:30 o’clock, when they are brought in to be milked, and after that are fed with a similar mess to that of the morning. The last thing in the evening is to give them a few pounds of loose nay and to bed them comfortably with straw and shut them np in a stable through which no cold draft can penetrate, but which is, nevertheless, broad, high, spacious and well-aired. It is difficult to say how this method can be mended, and if regularity is observed in feeding, and a good kind of cows are kept, the maximum yield of milk, both in quantity and quality, may be expected.— N. Jr. Times.

Judicial Decision of Bets.

A Colorado Court, in the case of Eldred against Malloy, decided that a promise to pay a sum of money, upon the condition that a railroad should be built to a place named on or before a specified day, is void as a wager. The Court says: “The courts of this Territory have enough to do without devoting their time to the solution of questions arising out of idle bets made on dog and cock fights, horse races, the speed of ox trains, the construction of railroads, the number on a dice or the character of a card that may be turned up. If we enter upon the work of settling bets made by gamblers in one case, especially on the time when the Colorado Central Railroad reaches Golden, or when it will reach Georgetown, we may well despair of ever finding time for the despatch of those weightier matters which affect the personal and property-rights of the respectable people, in this Territory. If the gate is once opened for-this kind of litigation, it is more tban probable that we may be overrun with questions arising out of bets. The spirit of our laws discountenances gambling. Penalties are prescribed against gaming, and I can soe no difference in principle in the bet that the faro dealer will turn up a jack the next turn and the bet that, the railroad will be built to Table Mountain in so many days.” “ tin.. Bru.’* toCoH Snvpmm taking to* place'V all the oltl-fiwhione J Cough remedies. It never fails to relieve the moat violent cold, and for throat dlaeaw It to invaluable. Price, 3&ceitO- i

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HOME, FARM AND HARDEN.

—Every farm should own a good farmer. —Oranges and lemons keep best when wrapped close in soft paper and laid in a drawer. —Recollect that unskilled treatment of dumb animals is as likely to kill as to cure. —State Register. —lt is said feeding cows with turnips immediately after milking will prevent any offensive flavor to the milk.—Exchange. —To keep cheese that has been cut, tie it in a cloth and put it in a cool place; if mold appears, wipe it off with a cloth. —Boiled onions are prescribed in England-ior a cold in the chest, and onions, either cooked or raw, for chronic rheumatism. —Celery Salt.—Save tho root of the celery plant, dry and grate it, mixing it with one-third as much salt. Keep in a bottle well corked, and it is delicious for soups, oysters, gravies, or hashes. —lntelligent farming is learning to adapt methods to conditions and circumstances. There are fixed principles that apply to each condition. The man who masters principles can become a master in practice. Modify all principles according to location and surroundings.—lowa Stale Register. —Quite a number of horses have been poisoned in Kansas by being fed raw castor beans, as they are ten times more poisonous ttian the oil, because by pressing out the latter most of the acrid substances contained in the seed remain in the oil-cake. A few ounces of raw beans, or castor-bean oil-cake will produce a* fatal diarrhoea in an animal.— Drovers' Journal.

find the following recipe for exterminating rats: It consists of a mixture of two parts of well-bruised common squills and three parts of finelychopped bacon made into a stiff mass, with as much meal as may be required, and then baked into small cakes; these are put down for the rats to eat, and are said to effect their complete extirpation.—N. 7. Times. —The following cure for a felon has bqj£n tested by wide experience among my friends, and is worthy of circulation: Roast or bake thoroughly a large onion; mix the soft, inner pulp with two heaping tablespoonfuls of table salt, and apply the mixture to the affected part as a poultice, keeping the parts well covered. Make fresh applications at least twice a day, morning and evening, and a cure will follow in at least a week. —Cor. Chicago Evening Journal. —When woolens are worn threadbare, as is often the case in the elbows, cuffs, sleeves, etc., of men's coats, the coats must be soaked in cold water for half an hour; then take out of the water and put on a board, and the threadbare parts, of the cloth rubbed with a halfworn hatter's “card,” filled with flocks, or with a prickly thistle, until a sufficient nap is raised. When this is done, hang tke coat up to dry, and with a hard brush lay the nap the right way.— N. 7. Paper.

Winter Rules.

Never lean with the back upon anything that is cold. >--■ Nevor begin a journey until the breakfast has been eaten. Never take warm drinks and then immediately go out in the cold air. Keep the back—especially between the shoulder-blades—well oovered; also the chest well protected. In sleeping in a cold room, establish the habit of breathing through the nose, and never with the mouth open. Never go to bed with cola or damp feet; always toast them by a fire ten or fifteen minutes before going to bed. Never omit regular bathing, for unless the skin is in an active condition, the cold will close the pores and favor congestion or other diseases. After exercise of any kind, neve* ride in an open carriage nor hear the window of a car, for a inoment. It is dangerous to health, and even to life. When hoarse, speak as little as possible until it is recovered from, else the voice may be permanently lost, or dif'fioultles et the throat be produced. Merely warm the back by a fire, and never continue keeping the back exposed to-heat after it -has become comfortably warm. To do otherwise is debilitating. When going from a warm atmosphere into a colder one, keep the

mouth closed, so that the air may bo warmed bv its passage through the nose„ere ft reaches the lungs. Never stand still in cold weather, especially after having taken a slight dogroo of exercise; and always avoid standing upon ice or snov,-, or where the person Is exposed to a cold wind.— Albany (N. 7.) Argus. Profitable Poultry. —A poultryraiser of experience says his conclusion is that (armors can do much better with good common hens, with some good-blooded cook, than with a flock of fancy fowls. A good cross among B sultry is as valuable as among stodfc ne of the most profitable kinds for a farmer is a cross between the Leghorn hen and a Poland or Brahma cook. Their progeny arc good layers, nioe for the table ana profitable for market. The White Leghorn Is the most profitable breed for eggs; they need a little more care than some other sorts, but care of poultry pays. Economical towns in Vermont rush their poor and friendless boys into tho State Reform School, thus transferring to the State the expense and responsibility of caring for them.— N. 7. World. Rheumatism is frequently tho result of an overdose of moisture; in other words, to be caught out in a pouring rain often insures a roaring pain.— 7onkers Gazette. . «--• •

Never Return.

It Is said that one out of every four real Invalids who go to Denver, Col., to recover health, never return to the East or Sooth except as a corpse. The undertakers, next to the hotel-keepers, have the most profitable business. This excessive mortality may be prevented and patients saved and cured under the care of friends and loved ones at home, if thev will but use Hop Bitters In time. This vye know. Bee other column.

The U. S. Signal Service.

Gradually, the wild and ungovernable forces of Nature are, through science, made of uae to man. Following In the wake of the Ingenious inventions for the use of steam and electricity, comes the organization of the U. 8. Signal Service, la It not wonderful that a system could be originated and perfected whereby an operator can accurately predict the weather of a distant locality ? And yet experience proves our “storm signals” to be reliable. Equally great are the advances made In the science of medicine. Step by step, uncertainties and doubts have yielded to absolute certainty. The discoveries of Harvey and Jumer have been succeeded by the Golden Medical Discovery of Dr. B. V. Pierce. No longer need people despair because some physician has pronounced the lungs unsound. Hundreds of testimonials are on file in the office of Dr. Pierce from those who had abandoned all hope aud had been given up to die by physicians and friends. Incipient consumption, bronchitis, and acrotulous tumors, speedily, surely, and permanently, yield to the healing Influences of the Discovery. If the bowels be constipated, use Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets. For full particulars see Pierce’s Memorandum BoAk, given away by all druggists. ‘ Reihteu Frick.—Twenty-five cents will now buy a flfty-cent bottle of Pita's Cure for Consumption. Thus the best Cough Medicine is within the reach of everybody. For sale by all druggists. Particulars regarding Electric Belts free. Address Pulvermacher Galvanic Co.,Cincin.,Q

#«JUST AS GOOD.” One of my Mends who had been using Fellows’ Compound Syrup of Hypophosphltre for Consumption, was Induced by one at our druggists to take another preparation of Hypophosphites, which he said was “lust as good. If not better." The use of half a bottle taught him that if he would consult his safety, he must return to your Syrup again. GEO. & FOOT. No organ of thought or action can he employed without the assistance of the blood, and no organ can be employed safely or with Impunity without a supply of healthy blood. With healthy blood the exercised organs become well developed, whether they be muscular or Intellectual. By the use erf Fellows’ Compound Syrup of Hypophosphltes the blood la speedily vitalized and purified, and so made capable <rf producing a sound mind and a sound body. - - ART SCHOOLS nr thi Clicap Men? of Eesip. By s recent iborgmnutatlon. the Chicago Academy of Design has lieMi put In better condition than at any time since the fire. WF. ART HCHOOI.a Are in complete order, and persons who wish to pursue soy branch of Drawing or Painting, Portraiture In Crayon. Oils or Water-Color Drawing from Casts. Landscape Painting, Future, Still-life or Decorative Painting, Mechanical Draughting or Perspective, wtll And he i e the best Instruction under the fullest advantages. Tho Teachers are H. F. Spread and L C. KARLS, Professors of Drawing and Painting; W. L. B. JXNNIV, Lecturer upon Architectural Subjects; N. H. Carpenter, Instructor In Perspective. The Secretary, Mr. French, also alts as assistant In Instruction. The Academy has fine and commodious Studios, open to pupils from a to 4 o’clock, dally, with the use of all materials for study, copies, costumes, casts from antique sculpture, under constant and competent lnstrucdon. The term now In progress will continue through the whole summer, with rapemlral reference to the needs of Teachers, and pupils will be admitted at any time, by the month or qaarter. CertUlcates at attainment will be Issued for decided merit President, Jss. H. Dote; Vice-President Wm. T. Bakeri Treasurer, Murry Nelson. Circulars, with all particulars, will be sent upon application to W M R FRENCH. Sec’y Chicago Academy of Design. 170 State street. Chicago. PAI.VI'KK'M Vlsanmal.—House aad A sign painting. Enduing, varnishing, polishing, kalsomlniug. papering, lettering, staining, gliding, etc., >0 cts. Book of Alpliaoeta SO. Scrolls and Ornaments, *L Furniture and CahlnetFlntsher, 50. Watchmaker ana Jeweler, 50. Carpenter, 50. Horseshoer. 28. Snaptuaker, 25. Taxidermist, 50. Candy Maker. 50. Authorship, 50. Of Bookseller* or by mail. JESSE HANEY *Oou 119 Nassau St. New York. WARD & CO, Masquerade Costumers, 200 State St., Chicago. Tableau Fire. Burnt Cock, Wigs, and every variety of Masks Idt sale. Catalogue sent free

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Novato-. 1,7 Elegant London Gift Books. mpxsmas N. M. S. PINAFORE. tCSV performance Price 11-00. Orseud « cents and receive p«£fre«, OB centr worth of music In the Maaical tl eeiarvS. which Ts published weekly. KLOO per year. - • - - LYON * HBALT, Chicago. outer Oman * comßmiib. O. t. H> Ottawa AC.., 845 Broadway. N. Y. MClsdnl fih. Fhlla. CAPITAL, >500,000, 50,000 Sharss at fto.oo laoh Selling at $2.00 Cush. Sprint Valley Silrer Miiim Ct„ White fine On.. I.va4a, PATS 10c, 011 SSA&EEYE&7 S2XIT SAIL PION* SLIWSr T BWcK and BPKJNO*VAIXKY A ’ci*SSro Ing 4,925 feet Jong, of a tarot Mineral ledge a Hl* Bonanza of rich ore, the Crevice from 4 to IS feat wide: a good water-power; 5 acres of a mill-site, 4*o acres of heavy pine timber-land. There la a Boordbnp-Houoe, hint ktmith Shop, 7bof. end defies; 4 ahafli of over 184 feet, with windlass and ladders in place; BSOfeetof the vein Is stripped. All the work done show, a well-defined Contact Vein at rich mineral, between Hmeetnwe and Granite Walls carrying Yeltan m os Ortn Carbonate, A ratntiferout dolma and Stiver, *IOO to *147 per ton of Silver and S 3 to 80 per cent, or Lead. MUNCY CRkKK OOIffiOLIDATKD have seven locations on the tome wfnand bare laying on the dump 1.200 bins ore and hare plenty more in right In the solum. 20-stamp-mIU In operation. The Kureha and Richmond Mines turn out over 1.000 tons ore per mouth. Mr. St C. Beebe, a thorough going, practical miner and millwright, our superintendent, Ison the ground. A very rich blind rein was out In the Duos Shaft- assays $l4B diver. George & Blerbank, Civil and Mining Engineer and D. & Deputy Mining Surveyor; examined the prop rtf, reSverr favorably. 15,000 shares of this Stock la Sored to the public at 12.00, hi order to Increase * far taking out ore. Ibis la a vary valuable property, and we feel Justified In recommending It to our friends as a tajt and profitable Investment for their money. You can never expect to make money unless you Invest soma In ordering Stocks a a Ik, send *I.OO to guarantee express charges. Will also mil a limited amount of Stock In the CONSOLIDATED NORTH SLOPE MINING 00, In Colorado. There are SOJOOO ahsree of *lO each. LCTHKB STONE. Pn& M. F. SKINNER, Sec. For stock, address A. P. W. BK INFER. Treaa. and Trustee. PBOTERBB. “Theßichest Blooi, Sweetest Breath and Fairest Skin In Hop Bitters.” “A little Hop Bitters save* big doctor bills and long sickness.” “Th*t invalid wife, mother, sister or child can be msde the picture of health with Hop Bitters.” “ When worn down and ready to take your bed. Hop Bitters Is whst yon need.” “ Don’t physic and physic, for it weakens and destroys, but take 'Hop Bitters, that bnlld ap continnaUy.” “ Physicians of all schools use and recommend Hop Bitters. Test them.” “Health 1* beauty and Joy—Hop Bitten gives health and 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 Bitten.” “That low, nervous fever, want of sleep and weakness, cadis for Hop Bitten” Hop Cough Cure and Pala EaUsf la rleaMut, Sure ul Ckmp. For Sals * All Druggists. Be, Mtton BTg lech-tog, K. T. ~ Graefenberg Vegetable PILLS Hsv* baas acknowledged for ever Thirty Yean to he a certain enure for HEADACHE, LIVER COMPLAINTS, DISEASES OF DIGESTION, BILIOUSNESS, AND FEVEBS OF ALL KINDS. These PILLS act with neat mildness, and will restore health to these suffering from GENERAL DEBILITY rad NERVOUSNESS- Price 23c. per Box. Scad for Almanac. Graefenlierjr(!o.s() ReadeSL N.Y t'M« AUtiarte IV AIL-UUVI OUttMtt •» UMtl ttroyi all appetite for alcoholk) liquors and builds up the nervous system. After a sckaack, nr mmp Intemperate Indulgence, as single tettipoonnal will remeve all mental and sky•leal depression. It also cures every ttad of Rvkr. dvsfkvsu anp Tokrrorry or tbr Ltvxr. said by til druggists. Price B 1 per bottle. Pamphlet an “Alyl hoi. Its Effects, sntl Intemperance as m Disease.” seat free. Father Mathew Teaaperamee and MamsfbctaitagOa, SO Band Ml». Mew Ysrb. INSTITUTE. Established In 1872 for the Cure ’ SS2H<>f Cancer, Tumors, I’leers, ■BKBSSlMß*er<.rul», and ekln Dlseasm, wittiuui 100 uae of Jcuifeorlamof blood and Ilttm pain. For Information, circulars and reference* address Hr, r. L. POkP, Aurora. KanaCo^lfo 500 LOTS^S^^^ :o he sold. If taken thli month, at 51.50 each,, ouw lots UOe. extra. Deed, abstrsS and sckoowledgesaeot fnrnlshod without chexge,. 8 and KVarre Orange tracts adjoining the town, loo? time. improved and hearing orange grovre from *IO.OOO to *1&000. ewh- Cheap lands In North Florid» for svle. Apply to WM. VAN FLEET. South Florida Land and Emigration 00x0.148 LaSalle SC. Chicago, 111. Agsnts wanted. ct- ’i'-Val’t’^hmpS' «e*ro wM.’saitiirfe card * full particulars ol toe Agents’ Miectonr * Brolthugimphy. {None free.) Agents’ Pub. House. Phlia, Pa. IE LML-irFiRi^MS No getting up. UghtaFlrea ITBMAF.an*riSrea EAK?lfiSSSktlh.* SS be’uoed’as a ctock.. Usui grth Scroll ssaaiMffiaassgasisr VIOLIN I MgSKßlit in him iivssa’lwigait U AIB Wholesale and retail. Sendforprk*H AIH W. iSStoartLqdoaga S3OOO soe dJißF&aasasTßJatst jsssaag ft At v> Any worker ronmaae »12a day at home Oostly SOLD outfit free Addrem T^lkOOnA^gAMh