Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1879 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. RENSSELAER, .. * INDIANA.

THE DEAD MAUTEH. Tbe following poem, by ltichani Henry. Stoddard, on the death of William Gallon Bryant, was rnaii at tlio Century Club Memorial raoetinif, and ii published in Bcrlbnlr't Monthly for Kebruary: It ia appointed unto man to die. Where Life ia Death ia, dominating Life, Wrenting the aeepter from lta feeble grßapr - And trampling on itaduat Emm tbe first hour When the firat child upon ila mother ahreaat I ay heavily, with no breath on ita oold lipa. To the last hour when the last man aball die, And the race ho extinct—Death never came, Nor over will come, without apprehcnaion. The dying may lie ready to depart, For bleep and death are one to them; but we Wnh love them, and survive them— unto whom The pl'ieca they oneo filled Arc filled no more, For whom a light baa gone ont of the aun, A shadow fallen on noonday—unto ue, Who'love our dead, Death alwitya cornea too «>on, • . , ... A nmaternal ion and a lamentation, The aorro.w of all aorrowa, till in turn Wo follow them, and othera mourn for na. Thia tragic leaaon of mortality The Maater who hath left nn learned in youth. When the Muae found him wandering by the atrcam That sparkled, binging, at bia father I *door Tho fimt Sliuie whom the New World, loving long,' Wooed in tho deptlia of her old aolitnde, Tb* green, untrodden, world-wide wilderneaa Surrendered to the aoul of thia yonng man The scoret of ita ailence. Oonturioa paased: The red man chaaed the deer, and tracked tho bear Tohia high mountain dpn—.but ho came not. Tho whito man followed; the treat wood* were fellod. And in the clcaringa cottage smokes Krone, And field* were white with harveats: ho came not The New World waited for him, and the words Which Rhomd dialnirdon the dumb myatery That darkened ita atrangc life when aummer daya Steeped the green bougha with light, and winter nighta Looked down liko Death upon tho dead, old world; For what wan Earth but the great tomb of man. And mins and planeta but HCimlchrnl unia Filled with the awful aabca of the Fust? Much was the firat and mewiago to mankind Of thia yonng poet, who wan never young. So lioavily the old burden of tho Earth Weighed on liia soul from boyhood.. Yet not leaa, Not less, but more he loved her: for if she Was somber with her secret she was still Beautiful aaa goddess; and if he" Should one day look upon her face no more. He would not ccuhc to look till that day came: For ho for life waa dedicate to her, Tho inspiration of his earliest song. The happy memory of his steroor yearn, ’ Tno consolation ol hfs ripe, old age. What she waa to the eyea of lesser men. Which only glance at the rough husk of things, She never was to him; but day and night A loveliness, a might, a mystery, 0 A Presence never wholly understood, The broken shadow of some unknown Power, Which overflows all forms, but is not Form The inscrutable Spirit of the Universo! High-priest whoae temple waa the woods, he felt Their melancholy grandeur, and the awe That aneientneas and solitude beget, Strange intimationsof invisible things. Which, while they seem to sadden, give delight. And hurt not, but persuade the soul to prayer; For, silent in the barren ways of men. Under green roofs of overhanging boughs. Where the Creator's hands are never stayed, The sonl recovers her forgotten speech. The lost religion of her infancy. Nature hath sacred seasons of her own. And reverent poeta to interpret them. But sho hath other singers, unto whom The twinkle of a dew-drop in the grans, The sodden singing of an unseen bird, Tho pensive brightness of the evening star. Are revelations of a loveliness * For which there is no language known to man, Except the eloquent language of the eye, Hushed with the fullness of her happiness!* What may be known of these recondite things Our grave, sweet poet knew; for unto him * ——: The Goddess of the Earth revealed herself , As to no other poet of the time. Have only him wko slumbers at Grasmere, His Brother -not hie,Master. From the hour When first he wandered hy his native stream To crop the violets growing on its banks. And list to tho brown thrasher's vernal hymn. To tho last hour of his long, honored life, He nover faltered in his love of Nature. Hdfilufle with men, her dear society, Welcome at all times, savored of content, Brightened his happy moments, and consoled His hours of gloom. A student of the woods And of tho fields, he was their calendar— Knew when the first palo wild-flower would appear. And when the last wild-fowl would take his flight; Where the cunning squirrel had his granary. And where tho industrious bee had stored her sweets, Go where he would, he was not solitary; Flowers nodded gsyly to him—wayside brooks Blippcd by him laughingly, while the emulous birds * Hhowered lyric raptures that provoked his own. The winds were his companions on the hills— The clouds and thunders—and tho glorious Sun, Whose bright beneficence sustains the world, A visible symbol of tho Omniixitent. Whom not to worship were to be more blind Than those of old who worshiped stocks and stones. - Who levos and lives with Naturo tolerates Baseness in nothing; high and solemn thoughts Are his—clean deeds and honorable life. 1 f he be poet, as our Master was. His song will bo a mighty argument, Heroic m its structnre to support The weight of tho world forever! All great things Arc native to it, as tho Sun to Heaven. Hueli was thy song, O Master! and such famo As only the kings of thought receive is thine; Be happy with it in thy larger life Where tune iH not, and tbe sad word—Farewell!

MANAGING A HUSBAND.

"“True, Maj. Flint is a wealthy man, and good-looking withal, but if you marry him he will make you his slave —take my word for it, Miss Atherton.” “l)o you think soP” said the lady addressed, quietly, looking up from her embroidery. “ Think soP I know it. You cannot have forgotten how his first wife fared. So gentle and lovely, too, as she was, yet the poor woman never dated say her soul was her own, never! If ihe had had a different husband she would undoubtedly have been alive to-day. “Very likely,-Mrs. May.” “And yet, knowing all this, you are going to take her place.” “ Maj. Flint will fin l mo a very different porsou from his first wife,” said Miss Atherton, composedly. “However, as'l do not wish to anticipate trouble, wo will, if you please, dismiss the subject.” This was not the first remonstrance Miss Atherton had received on the subject of her approaching marriage, but she had made up her mind, it appeared, ami was now occupied jn matin" preparation for the wedding. What had been quid respecting Maj. Flint and his first wife was unquestionably true. He was a domestic tyrant, and holding the female understanding in very slight esteem, considered that the wife ought, in all respects, to he subservient to the husband’s will. His reason for marrying again was principally from the fact that no found no housekeeper who v would bo sulllciently subservient to liis wlTims and caprices. Haying lost one after another, he camo to the conclusion that he needod a wife, and soon resolved to tender his hand to Grace Atherton, who had been a warm personal friend of his lost wife. Wo will not analyze her motives for accepting his proposal, though probably a regard for Mr. Flint a two helpless little children, who resembled their mother rather than their father, influenced .her quite as much as any other motive. Howevor that might be, the marriage soon took, place; and after a brief journey Mi«« Atherton returned as Mrs. Maj. Flint, to take the place of mistress of the household.. Hitherto Maj. Flint had foreborne to "show his hand.” Now, however, that their married life had fairly t&v gun, ho thought it quite time to do so. “ t.have given Mrs. Burns a week’s warning," he .remarked at the break-fast-table the morning after their return. . .

Mrs. Burns had been houskeeper and nraid-of-all-work, tho entire duties''of the household devolving upon her. “And why havo you *given her a week’s warning-”’ said the lady, Eosedly. “Aro you not satisfied with orP” “It is hot that, madam,”'said the Major, deliberately. “Any diflinultv about wages?” askod his wife, unconcernedly “No,” said her husband, feeling somewhat embarrassed. “ The fact is, Mrs. Flint, there is not very much work to do in our small household, at least,' no more than one pair of hands can easily do. My first wife always did hor own work, and with ease, though she was not a very strong woman.” “ Did sho not die very youngP” said wife number two, sipping "her coffee composedly. “Why, yes,” said tho obtuse Mr. Flint, a little disconcerted. “You know tho young die as well as tho aged.” “So I havo heard,” returned his wife.

Maj. Flint was a good deal puzzled by the matter-of-fact manner of his new wife. Her cool self-possession awed him in spite of herself. If she had stormed, he would havo felt bolter prepared to meet that emergency. “ I shall permit my children to remain where they are, at my mother’s, until you get accustomed to tho house a little. In tho course of the week,” ho added, “ you will got an idea of the extent of tho work by observing Mrs. Burns.” And rising from the table, he was about to leave the room, when his footsteps were arrostod by the simplo address: “ Maj. FlintP” “ WollP” said ho, turning back. “ It appears that you have been making arrangements without consulting me.” Maj. Flint was astonished at his wife’s temerity. ' - “You, madam? Why should I consult you about my arrangements?” “ Because I may not approve them.” “Mrs. Flint he said severely, “it is your duty to acquiesce in whatever plans I, as your husband, see lit to form.” “ Indeed, I never took that view of the matter.” “Then the sooner you take it the better,” ho said, pompously. “ Do 1 understand that you oxpectmo to porform all the labor required in this establishment?” “ Exactly so, madam.” “ 1 believe you aro considered a rich man, Mr. Flint?” “I am accounted so,” lie replied, complacently. “ And quite able to hire domestic assistance?”

“ Yes, if it were needful.” “ Suppose I toll you that it is needful?” r “I should take tho liberty to doubt it, madam.” “ Very well, Mr. Flint, sinco you force it upon mo, I may as well tell yqu first as last my decision on this point. You me tho position of wife, not that' ot maid-servant. On that understanding I accepted you. Yet if your circumstances ever become such as to require it, I shall not hesitate for a moment to conform myself to them. I only object to assuming a burden which, from your own account, appears to bo quite needless. I am very willing to superintend the household arrangements, considering that a duty which my position devolves upon mo.” VI havo listened to yqur arguments, Mrs. Flint, and they are weak. They don’t weigh with me, madam.” “ It is to be regretted,” said his wife, calmly. -• “The firsr.Mrs. Flint better understood her duties as a wife,” he returned, excitedly. “ But it is quite useless to discuss the point further with you, madam. However, this day week Mrs. Burns leaves us, and I expect you to qualify yourself to assume her duties.” Mrs. Flint smiled. *r r Mr. Flint frowned. Then, taking his hat and cane, he left tho house. ‘‘There’s nothing liko beginning right,” he said, mentally, planting his cane firmly ctoWq on the pavement. “If Mrs. Flint married me with tho idea of squandering my money in silks, furbelows and things, she’ll find herself grandly mistaken. If she expects to live the life of a lazy, fine lady, she’ll find it difficult in my establishment. I don’t intend to encourage female insubordination. I boliove the husband waa made to govern—the wife to obey. If more husbands had my fitmness, my tact in governing, things would bo very different at the present day.” And Mrs. Flint, loft at home, summoned the housekeeper. “t learn that my husband has given you a week’s warning?” she said. “Yes, ma’am.” “And is it your wish to leave us, Mrs. BurnsP”

“ Oh, no, Mrs. Flint, for I don’t know where I could find another place, and I have to pay my little girl’s board out of my wages.’’ “I believe there is considerable work to be done in this establishment?’’ “ Yes, Mrs. Flint, a great deal. Then Mr. Flint is so particular—he wants to have everything done just so. And that’s why I am sorry to go just as you come, for 1 know you are easy to please.” “ How do you know that?” said Mrs. Flint, smiling. \ “By your face—it\ looks so goodnatured.' Mr. Flint says, ma’am,” she continued, hesitatingly, “ that I’m to show you some about tho work. But if you try to do it alone, unused to hard work as you are, it will make you sick in a wook.” “ I think very likoly it would, Mrs. Burns. But I havo not tho slightest idea of doing the work. At all events, you must not secure another situation until you hear from mo again. I am very confident,” she added, smiling, "that if Mr. Flint sends you away, no will be only too anxious to tako you back again.” The week passed quiokiy. “ Mrs. Burns loaves us to-morrow,” remarked Maj. Flint at the tea-table, “ Thun you have decided upon it?” v “ Yes, madam, I believe I announced tho fact to you some days ago.” “1 thought it possible my objections might have weighed with you and induced you to change your mind.” “ I never change my mind," said her husband, loftily. ? ,r ßut I warn you that 1 have little experience as a cook.” “ You can learn, madam.”... “Perhaps I may not cook to suit your taste?” “That is my affair,” he observed, stiffly. Had he been aware of tho plot forming in the lady’s fertile brain, he might, not hare felt so confidenf ln regard to the quality gs his bread and butter; bflit as it was? he. retired for the night all

unconscious <*f tho discipline to be meted out to him. So tho following morning Mrs. Burns roeeivod hor wages and was sent sdL— —;— ... As, ton o’clock the marketing was brought home. : At tho usual dinner hour, Maj. Flint made his appearance. The tablo was Ibid with more than its usual neatness. > Mr. Flint congratulated himself on this fact as a personal triumph on his part _ /': But he hardly felt so complacent when the dinner oame up. Tho beef was terribly overdone; the vegetables, on tho contrary, were not half cooked. In short, thoro was nothing fit to eat on the table. This Maj. Flint angrily remarked. “ I dare say,” said his wife, placidly, “I am not a very good cook. With his Appetite only half satisfied, he was obliged to rise from tho tablo. The following morning breakfast was delayod more than an hour, and, when it was re|ady, scarcely eatable. Mr. Flint was quite out of humor; but in reply to his indignant remonstrances his wife coolly remarked: “ You know, Mr. Flint, I warned you that I might not cook to please your taste.”

And so matters deteriorated rather than improvod. The tea and coffee, as prepared by his wife, were quite nauseating to him, while the bread was not only sour, but hard and clammy, requiring considerable effort to masticate it. And what rondex'ed it all the more exasperating was that, no matter how. inferior in quality or distasteful to himself, his wife professed herinability to discover any fault in what was prepared for the table, protesting that it was in perfect accord with her own taste. Tho following day Mr. Flint seated himself at the dinner-table, his mind filled with various emotions. Ho was growing thin, he felt sure; not a good, square meal had he eaten in three days. “ This woman will be the death of me, sure as fate,” he said to himself, gazing at the food placed before him. Here was the rich, juicy steak that lie himself had selected and sent from the market, after all his instructions as to how it should be broiled, shockingly overdone—in fact, almost burned to a crisp, his wife meanwhile partaking of it with evident relish. „ “Wliat a taste this woman must have!” lie said to himself, looking at her with horrifiod eyes. “ I have made you an extra cup of tea to-day,” said tho lady opposite, handing lnm tho cup with his dessert. Hitherto Mr. Flint had been very particular in regard to his cup of tea at dessert, insisting that it should be brought to the table both strong and hot. Had the tea been prepared to his taste, it would have soothed somewhat the riotous emotions within; on the contrary, it was miserably weak—quite lukewarm and brackish.

lie took one sip at the tea, and then sot the cup down forcibly on the table, his face expressing the disgust he really felt. . Madam glanced up at him from under her long eyoiaanes. sipping from her cup industriously, that her facial muscles might notbetray the amusement she felt. “ I knew you would pronounce the tea excellent this tjnie,” she said. This was too much. His rage, his disgust fairly boiled over. “Tea, madam! tea!” he roared. “ Such abominable stuff tea, is it? Excellent, isj it?—excellent!” “It is excellent,” said madam sweetly, taking him at his word, and ignoring the exclamation points utterly. “ Mamma taught me to make tea when 1 was ten years of age, and ” Maj. Flint had stood fire for three whole days, butJlcsh and blood could endure it no longer. Not waiting to hear more, he bounded to his feet and rushed into the hall. Here he seized his hat in both hands, jammed it down over his eyes and started for the street. Then, as if forgetful of something, he retraced his steps, and, thrusting his head through the partially-open door, almost shouted: “In Heaven’s name, madam, can you tell me where Mrs. Burns went when she left here?” “ I think,” said madam, deliberately, “if my memory serves mo rightly, I heard her speak of stopping with her little girl atMrs. Marsh’Btill sho should secure a situation.” “ I thought the tea would finish him,” saicf Mrs. Flint, amusedly, watching from the window her husband’s retreating form, the oliek of his boot-heels ringing like a bell as he brought his feet vigorously down on the pavement, the small boys eyeing him askance, and hastening out of his way, while wondering if he was racing for a wager. • — i “ It is perhaps needless to say that before tho evening closed Mrs. Burns was again installed in her old rooms at tho Flint mansion. “It is useless,” said tho Major, mournfully, that evening, in the solitude of his apartment. “1 might as well attempt to move the huge bowlders on yonder mountain-top as to contend with Hull woman, wife number two.” And he never did. For, whenever his wife appealed to him in regard to tho children or tho domestic arrangements, he would answer ffieekly: “ My dear, do as you think best.” And Mrs; Flint owed her success to tho fact that she never trenched upon hor husband’s real prerogatives, but respected them as she claimed respect for heir own. And so that is how she managed him. - Weekly. , _

A Story About Ducks.

When Admiral Horatio Binnacle, the venerable retired sea-serpent, who lives on West Seventy-seventh street, saw roast duck on tho bill of fare last night, his always pleasant face took on an added ray of cheerfulness, but those who sat near him observed that after he had eaten his portion his brow was corrugated. Later, as he stood bofore the parlor fire, the Admiral said: “Ilived onoe, gentleman, in a house which the boarders left in a body. We had one night for dinner roast duck. It was served in rough, jagged pieces, but we. thought nothing of that; perhaps the carving-ax was dull. It was tough. That was to bo expected. Tasteless. Of course. But when wo had nearly finished it, old Commodore Zelotes Finnerty held up a piece on the end of his fork, and said: “ ‘Admiral P’ _ 1.. “ ‘ Commodore.’ * “‘Nails!’ ‘ ‘ And sure enough, gentlemen, as the Commodore turned that piece of duok on his fork l saw sticking through it the points of three nails. It was a wooden deooy duck that we had eaten, verved by the landlady because it was cheaper than tho "ducks that are sold in -the poultry market. She was safe in

hcr assumption that wo would not discover in tho taste any differenoo'botwoen that and many othbr ducks wo had oaten from the same table, but unfortunately sho forgot to pull out tho nails. “It was too much for tho old Commodore. He went to his rqom, got out the old-fashionod alligator-mouthed carpet-bag that ho always carriod, and began to stow his dunnage. His example was infoetious. Within half an hour every bit of baggage, from, trunk to grip-sack, was out of the house, and the boarders wero seeking feeding grounds. “Now, I don’t mean to say, gentlomon, that tho duck we had Mr dinner to-night was a wooden duek; understand mo, I saw no nails; but !” N. Y. Sun.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Caleb Cushing was Emerson’s tutor when tho latter was a Harvard student. —Bayard Taylor, liko Caleb Cushing, believed that ho had years of life befdto him. —Senator Ben Hill, of Geprgia, is said to have lost $190,000 in working Georgia plantations during tho last year. —Miss Hewins, the librarian of a large popular library in Hartford, Conn., says that many children of that City read too much. Ono boy has read 102 story books, and a girl 112 novels in six months. —The late Representative Hftrttidge, of Georgia, while delirious, a little timo before ho died, got out of bed and dressed himself completely, and, lying down with his arms folded across his breast, said: “Now I am ready to die.” —The ltev. H. H. Hayden, charged with the murder of Mary Stannard, and now in Jail at New Haven, Conn., has gained twenty pounds since he went to prison, and now weighs 185. He reads and studies a great deal, and his friends have furnisned him a plenty of good food, well cooked. —Jules Verne, the celebrated French novelist, is reported to have visited Spencer, Mass., a few days ago, registered at the Massasoit Hotel, and expressed himself desirous of witnessing the process of manufacturing boots by machinery. He said that he had recently come from Montreal and was traveling quietly through the country. His identity was at first questioned, but the signature on the hotel register was found to correspond with that of the novelist in his published works.

—Tho pleasing illusions of youth vanish so quickly that it is scarcely necessary to make an effort to destroy any of them. And yet' a cold-blooded pedant, to whom the prosiest fact is far more attractive than the most charming fancy, veiling his identity beneath the ill-tempered signature “X,” writes to the London Times to prove that Cinderella, dear, dirty Cinderella, never wore a glass slipper. Tho fairies, says he, gave her pantoujles de vair, a costly fur, not de verre, glass, and then he proceeds to protest against tho perpetuation of a vulgar error. And another surly fellow, worse than the lirst, Svrites to the Times with a snarl at “ X” for telling what everybody knew before. They will be proving next that there nover was any Cinderella at all. — N. Y. Evening Post. —The London correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune relates the following anthe late Bayard Taylor: "On the night of the Ist of May lie went to Marshal MacMahon’s official reception at the Elysee, in Paris. He found himself on arrival absolutely alone. The official arrangements were so meager that not so much as an usher was there to announce him. With Marshal MacMahon Ms. Taylor had no acquaintance. In such circumstances most men would have gone away, or have mingled quietly with the crowd. Mr. Taylor made his way to the Marshal, introduced himself by his name and title, paid his due compliment, and asked leave to present his wife and daughter. The Marshal, whatever his political sins, is quick to recognize manly frankness. He greeted Mr. Taylor cordially, carried off the party and presented them to the Duchess, who in turn received them with marked civility. ‘ 1 thought,’ said Mr. Taylor, in describing the incident to me, ‘ that I had no choice. It was known that I was in Paris, and had been asked to this ceremony. If I had gono‘ away without making my3elf known, my supposed absence would have been set down as a piece of rudeness or carelessness, and I was'determined that no such clvargo should be brought against a the American Ropub-

The Necessity of Plenty of Sleep.

A writer in Scribner for February, considering “ Tho Relations of Insanity to Modern Civilization,” speaks of the loss of sleep as a prominent cause of insanity. He says: During every moment of consciousness the brain is in activity. Tho peculiar process of cerebration, whatever that may consist of, is taking place; thought after thought comes forth, nor can wo help it. it is only when tho peculiar connection or chain of connection of one brain eell with another is broken and consciousness fades away into tho dreamless land of perfect sleep, that tho brain is at rest. In this state it recuperates its exhausted energy and power, and stores them up for future need. Tho period of wakefulness is one of constant wear, livery thought is gonerated at the expense of brain cells, which can be- fully replaced only by periods of properly regulated repose. If, therefore, these aro not socured by sleep, if tho brain, through over-stimulation, is not left to recuperate, its energy becomes exhausted; debility, disease and finally disintegration supervene. Hence tho story is almost always the same; for weeks and months before the indications of active insanity appear, the patient has been anxious, worried and wakeful, not sleeping more than four or five hours out of tho twenty-four. The poor brain, unable to do its constant work, begins to waver, to show signs of weakness or aberration; hallucinations or delusions hover around like floating shadows in the air, until finally disease and Against the mind, the which he pr.cks and wound* With many legions of strange fantasies, Which in their throng ana press to that last hold Confound themselves." —King Cake.—Three-quarters of a pound of butter, one and a quarter pounds of sugar, ope nutmeg, six eggs and cup milk; flour to make an ordinary batter, • _ —Jsspeaks for Itself, Is what s lady said of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrjxp, the other day; for a single bottle cured my child of a most dreadful cough.

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—To relieve casks from mustinoss, turn a little sulphur in the empty onaks, hung, and let tlrtmi stand lor a day. —A farmer ihuat bo something*, beside a laborer. He must be a man of resources, and rise by his own energy to any emergency.— C. F. Clarkson. —As a fanner Slight to know all that is necossary fbr his business, and as chemistry is the key which has unlocked tho door to many a valuable lesson, he should uvail himself of all its aids. —lowa Stale Register. —Poverty Cakes.—One pint of milk, one teaspoonful of saleratps, two eggs. Mako them just stiff enough with Indian moal to work into balls, and boil them - in hot fat. To bo split open and oaten with butter. How to Kill Poke-Root.—ln the spring, when they commence to start out of tho ground, take a sharp hoe and cut tho stalk oft' at the ground. Then tako common salt and put about half a pint on a bunch. It will never start into growing any more.—Exchange.

—To break a horse from pulling on tho halter, tako a common rope or loather halter, place'it on the horse in tho usual way, then run tho rope or strap througli the hole or ring where you hitch, carry tho rope to tho ankle of the hind foot and tio it, then let him try himself, and five minutes’ trial will satisfy him. It will break up tho trick altogether. —Cincinnati Enquirer, —Tho American Agriculturist says: “In parts of Pennsylvania wo have seen a cellar so connected with a well as to considerably lower its temperature. The arrangement might be used to advantage elsewhere. A cellar is dug about three feet from the well, ns deep ii 3 may be convenient, and an opening made between them through a brick arch, the moutli of which is covered with coarse wire netting. A slab of stone is placed near the opening, upon which butter is set to cool.,”

—Sulphur is a good disinfectant in hen houses and pig pens. Sprinkled on bushes and vines, it docs much toward preventing blight and mildew. Mixed with a lime whitewash and applied to the trunks and limbs of fruit trees, it has a similar effect in preserving their health and thrift. Flour of sulphur used with a bellows early in tho spring, when an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, followed by a repetition of the process as circumstances will decide, seems to be the general remedy for the grape mildew. —N. Y. Herald. —Tho stock «f the farm should be looked over carefully and thoroughly weeded, turning off the old and nonpaying animals and keeping only those that are productive. “ I would not take an old cow as a gift,” said a largo milk-producer to us recently. “It costs more to manufacture milk from her than the milk is worth, and as for putting beef on an oldcarcaso, let those do it who like the business; I don’t.” This was putting tho truth pretty strongly, but there was some founder tion for the remark. If it is true that old cows do not pay, much more is it true that old horses, old sheep and old hens are not profitable.

—lt is not all of life *to cultivate a farm well, and to leave lands and piles of money for heirs “we know not whom.” The criterion of successful farming is very different with different persons. Most estimate success by the amount of property accumulated. It was from this standpoint he must have estimated it who said he never knew a professional man to make a successful farmer, and deprecated too much education as detrimental to this calling. If the cultivation of the land is more important than the culture of the mind, if money is more valuable than manhood, then those who have given all their mind to farming and money-mak-ing may be counted most successful. But every wise man knows, or ought to know, that to be a man is more than to be a farmer. It is not worth while to defer to the end of life the consideration of life’s great end.— Cor. N. Y. Times. 1

The Best Farmer.

There are still some among the masses of our farmer friends who cling to the idea that the most perfect farming consists only in aptness of labor and strength of muscle; that skill in the use of implements and the amount of labor a man is able to perform in a given time, is an evidence of superior farming. That idea is at variance with good philosophy. The reply once made to the question, “Who is the most perfect sailor?” illustrates the point Jack Tar, before the mast, splices a rope, steors the ship or rows the boat with perfect skill. Precipitated into tho sea, he rides the waves without fear, and is saved, where a landsman would be lost. Swaying to and fro on the yard-arm in a tempest, he reefs tho sails with imperturbable coolness, and braves danger in many forms witll comppsurc, where a novice would perish. Yet he is far from being a perfect sailor. Other men are patiently working in tho National observatories of London and Washington, preparing tho nautical almanac. Maps and charts—indicating the shoals and reefs and coasts, and indicating the laws governing the winds and currents—are prepared With great study and care. By these aids and appliances which science has evolved, tho mariner can readily reckon almost the precise spot on the ocoan his vessel occupies. But the scientific scholar whose research has. rendered all this possible, is not an efficient

mariner. The man who represents the perfect sailor is he who un.it®a:tho highest practical aptness and skill in working his ship with tho domprehension that enables him to use all the deductions of nautical science. It is a union of scientific skill and knowledge which makes him a master of his calling. The application suggests itself. In farming, the highest and most extensive knowledge of all known natural laws pertaining to this great, purstiit, combined with eminent skill, energy, industry and economy, mako the most perfect farmer. j The evidences -ans constantly multiplying that farmofs are coming to understand this important fact. Agriculture as arsttieitco is coming to the fore with long strides. It is the science of tho futuro, for there is not within the scope of man's objects and pursuits any calling that demands more of science for its successful prosecution. In every department of rural economy science stands at the threshhold, and invites an investigation of the processes by Which the highest success may be attained; and ho who gajns and employs tho moss knowledge of his pursuit, in any branch of rural industry, will realize the fairest reward for his labor. The farmer of the future will know more of the laws which govern in the

varied operations of Nature that attach to'all departmental of hia calling. He will plow with more reasonable expectations of reaping bonntiful harvests, for he will know more of the nature and condition of hia soils; ho will cultivate belter and more effectively, for he Will have a clear understanding of what is requiredf Ho will know moro of vegetable physiology, or tho peculiarities and habits of different plants which require his care and culture, as well as of noxious growths, and threforo will possess knowledge which will insure hotter returns from tho former, and. l render the extermination of the latter more certain. He will possess valuable information in regard to insects that prey upon his fields and flocks, and easily distinguish tho friendly sort* from tho noxious tribes. lie will possess a greater knowledge of animal physiology and pathology, and hence seoure comparative immunity from heavy losses, that are now of daily occurrence. In short, ho will walk in tho light which science will shecj around his footsteps, and wonder that the World was so slow to grasp and profit by fact* and truth in Nature, which though simple were unknown or unappre* ciatcd. Let us all—farmers, agricultural schools and colleges, societies, clubs and associations of every description pertaining to rural industries, and last, though not least, the agricultural press —push on the car of progress and remit no-effort to place this—the greatest and really the noblest of all human pursuits—on the plane which it deserves to occupy. —Western Rural.

How Food, Etc., are Adulterated.

Mr. George T. Angell recently read a paper before tho American Social Science Association, in Boston, on “Public Health Associations,” in which he mode some startling assertions about the adulteration of food. He said: Cayenne pepper is adulterated with red lead, mustard with chromato of lead, curry powder with red lead, vinegar with sulphuric acid, arsenic and corrosive sublimate, It is stated that probably half the vinegar now sold in our cities is rank poison. One of our Boston chemists analyzed twelve packages of pickles, put up by twelve different wholesale dealers, and found Copper in ten of them. Many of our flavoring oils, sirups, jellies and preserved fruits contain poisons. The adulterations of tea are too numerous to mention. Coffee is not only adulterated, but a patent has been taken out for molding ehiccory into tho form of coffee-berries, and 1 am told that clay is now molded, and perhaps flavored with an essence, to represent coffee. Cocoa and chocolate are adulterated with various mineral substances.

Several mills in New England, and probably many elsewhere, are now engaged in grinding white stone into a fine powder for purposes of adulteration. At some of these mills they grind three grades—soda grade, sugar grade and flour grade. It sells for about half a cent a pound. Flour lias been adulterated in England, and probably here, with plaster of Paris, bone-dust, sand, clay, chalk and other articles. I am told that large quantities of damaged and unwholesome grain are ground in with flour, particularly with that kind called Graham flour. Certainly, hundreds, .and pirobably thousands, of Barrels of | “ terra alba,” or white earth, are sold in our cities every year to be mixed with sugars in confectionery and other white substances. lam told by an eminent physician that this tends to produce stone, kidney complaints and various diseases of the stomach. A Boston chemist tells me that he has found 75 per cent, of “ terra alba” m what was sold as cream of tartar used for cooking. A large New York house sells three grades of cream of tartar.. A Boston chemist recently analyzed a sample of the best grade, and found 50 Ser cent, of “terra alba” in that. luch of our confectionery contains 33 percent or more of “terra alba.” The coloring matter of confectionery frequently contains lead, mercury, arsenic apt! copper. Baking-powders are widely sold which contain a large percentage of “ terra alba” and alum. It is not water alone that is mixed with milk. Thousands of gallons, and probably hundreds of thousands, are sold in our cities which have passed through large tins or vats, in which it has been mixed with various substances. Recipes for the mixture can bo bought by now milkmen from old, on payment of the required sum. I am assured, upon what I believe to bo reliable authority, that thousands of gallons of so-called milk have been, and probably are, sold in this city, which do not contain one drop of the genuine article. Large quantities of tho meats of animals more or less diseased are sold in our markets. Cows in the neighborhood of our large cities are fed upon material which produces a large flow of unwholesome milk. Poultry are fed upon material which produces unwholesome eggs. Meats and fish are madesunwholesome, frequently poisonous, by careless and cruel methods of killing. A California chemist recently analyzed many samples of whisky, purchased at different places in San Francisco. He found them adulterated with creosote, salts of copper, alum ami other injurious substances. He slates it, in his published report, as his opinion that there is hardly any pure whisky sold in that city. A gentleman recently purchased from a prominent Boston firm a cask of pure sherry wino for his sick wife. His wifcgrow worse, lie had the wine analyzed, and found that there was not a drop of the juice of the grape in it. An eminent medical gentleipan of Boston said to me‘“The adulterations' of drug»~in thiscountry are perfectly abominable.” I sav that laws should be enacted and enforced prohibiting the manufacture and sale of these poisonous and dangerous articles under severe penalties, and compelling the manufacturers and sellers of adulterated articles to tell buyers the precise character of the adulterations-

—The Utica Herald, chronicles a new swindle. A fellow claiming to be a painter called at a Utica jeweler’s Saturday,.and offered what appeared to be about S4O worth of fine gold in weight. Deducting the supposed weight of the dross, tho jeweler gave the fellow $25. On putting it into the pot for melting, - the whole batch disappeared, leaving nothing but ashes. Just what the material is, is not known, but in this case it deceived one of the most expert 1 goldsmiths.

Good for Babies.

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A Pleasant Remedy.

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