Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1879 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. RENSSELAER, . - INDIANA.

TUK DEAD STUDENT. It domn't seem—now does it, Jack?-** if poor Urown were dead: "Tw** only yesterday at noon ha had to take hia bed. The day before, be played tint baao, and ran M'Karlana down: And then, to idtp away ao aly—'twas not at all like Drown. The story seem* too big to take. 'Most any one _ , will find | Jt a aoinetiinea hard to gat a man well laid out in bis mind; . . v ... And Brown was just afire with |ifo. Twouldn t scare me, 1 avow, * To hear a whoop, and see the man go rushing past here now. I’oor Brown! he’s lying in his room, as white as drifted anew; 1 called upon him, as it were, an hoar or two A-rushing into Brownie’s room seemed awkward like and uufcer; We haven't Spoken back and forth forsomethiDg like a year. We didn't poll together square a single night or day: Howe’er 1 went, he soon contrived to find another way; He ran against me in my loves; we picked a dozen bones About that girl you used to like—the one that married Jones. He worked agaiast me in the class, before my very eyes. He opened np and scooped me square out of the Junior prize; In the last campus rush we came to strictly business blows. And from the eye he left undimmed I viewed his damaged nose. In fact, I came at last to feel—and own it with dismay—, That life would be Worth living for if Brown were out the way; Bnt when l heard that he.wns dead, my feelings tacked; and then I would havo givdn half my life to get bis bask again. I called upon him, as it weie, an hour or two, ago. The room was neat beyond excuse—the women made it si'. Be sure he had no hand in that, and naught ■ about it knew; —■ : To see the order lying round had made him very blue. > A sweet bouquet of girlish fiowera smiled in the . face of Death. _ Straight through the open window came the morning’s fragrant breath. Close-caged, a small caUhry-bird, with glossy, yellow throat. Skipped drearily from perch to perch, and never sung a note. With hair unusually combed, sat poor M'Farland near, ■ Alternately perusing Greek, and wrestling with a tear. A homely little girl of six, for some old kindness’ sake. Was sobbing in tha corner there us if her heart would break. The books looked worn and wretched like, almost as if they knew. And seemeu to be a-whispering their titles to my view. His rod and gun were in their place; and high, where all might see, Gleamed jauntily tho boating cup ho won last year from me. I lifted op the solemn sheet That honest, earnest face Showed signs of culture and of toil that Death could nut erase; As western skies at twilight mark where late the suu has been. Brown's face revealed the mind and soul that once had burned within. He looked so grandly helpless there, upon that lonely bed! Oh, Jack! these manly foes are foes no more when they are dead! Old boy," 1 sobbed, ’"twas half my fault. This heart makes late amends." I took the white cowhands in mine—and Brown and I wero friends. Will Carleton, in Harper's Weekly.

AT THE COUNTY COURT.

I had a case at the County Court the other day, a bothering, curious case it was, too, and ,a newspaper man who heard the outs and inns of it, persuaded me to write out my own story in my own way, and promised to put right'what what might be amiss in grammar and spelling Before he : put it in the paper for folks to laugh at. But it was no laughing matter to me, and between thebeginning and the end of it 1 dare say it will stand me more than a couple of fi’-pound notes, and the loss, or what’s just as bad, the flinging away of money, is too serious a matter to be laughed at in these—the hardest times I recollect since I began farming. My bit of a farm is out Exmoor way, and I have to do my level best to make a living out of it without getting into trouble wi’ the lawyers. This trouble I am going to tell about happenod in this wise. Missus and I had been to market, and were jogging home in the afternoon, and any man that says I was anything but “comfortable” As regards liquor savs what isn’t true. The trap was my own, but the horse we had borrowed for the day from Mrs. Elston, a neighbor of ours, who farmed her own land, and for whom I was trustee under the will of her late husband. He was a good sort in his time, was Ned Elston, and we had been boys, and grew up to be churchwardens together. This was how it was ho had made me trustee, and Mrs. Elston allowed me to accept the office on condition that she was to do as she liked with her farm and her family. Now, I had my own farm and my own family, not to speak of my own wife, to look after, and I did not see why I should bo called upon to interfere with auotherman’s widow. But we were always the best of friends, and when our cob was out in the with a foal at its foot, We sometimes borrowed out neighbor's mare on market days. Coming home comfortable on tho day I refer to, we had got as far as the lane beyond the epuren, near the corner that turns off to Parson's house, when—well, I was a little bit more than V comfortable,” if you insist upon it—just a little “Merry.;” and I had been singing a hunting song, a good old Devonshire ditty, and had got half through the chorus, and might have been beating time a little too energetically, when that mare o’ Mrs. Elston’s took it into its head to sby and holt! Afore you could ha’ said “Jack Robinson” here was me standing on my head in Parson’s duck-pond, and missus banged up again’ the celerybod, wi’ tho grocery goods all about, and the band-boxes squashed! That "Blight have bad enough, but the trap was smashed, and the horse was in an uncomfortable position, and was lashing out at a glass frame that Parson had to grow cucumbers in. Missus, she sung out wonderful, and I forgot to ffnlgh my chorus. Wo got what help was handy, and managed to reach homo somehow. Next morning I went to view the scene of the disaster, and there 1 found that the road had been" opened up half-way across, and that the horse, in trying to avoid the heap, had landed in'- the Vioarage garden. That cleared the animal of any imputation that might rest on Ha character as to non-appreciation of good ringing, but it did not mend the trap, heal the horse’s broken knees, or repair- the wall and the ;1 cucumberframe. There would be a bill to settle over that job, and the question was, “ who was to settle itF” It might have beet! squared neighborly-liko, but Parson he hinted that t was “inebriated.” Comfortable or merry I might have been, ibut inebriated 1 most decidedly was, not. He might as

well have accused me of being drunk. Well, I got obstinate, and I wouldn't pay. 1 said the waywarden ought to pay, and if the waywarden paid, the monrty would come out of the parish, not oat of the waywarden’s pocket; for I was waywarden myself and ohnrohwarden, too. A vestry-meeting was held, and as the Parson refused to withdraw and apologise 1 refused to pay. How, then, was the diaput% to be settled? Now, our Parson knows what he is about as well as most men, and he said wo oonld settle it by a friendly suit before the Coantv Court Judge. Friendly suit, forsooth! 1 didn’t know then what I know now, and so 1 agreed to a friendly suit. The plaintiff was myself in ray official capacity, and l had to pay for the summons; the defendant was myself in my private capacity, and Uhad to receive service of tho summons. A pretty muddle, wasn’t itP Now, 1 had never been before a court in my life, and what’s more, I don’t want to be again. It’s a burning of the oandle at both ends, especially when you are both plaintiff ana defendant in the same cause. I hadn’t bought my experience—and paid for it—then, and, being made a -bit of a hero up and down the parish, I gave myself airs, and. perhaps, sang tne hunting song oftener than I had any occasion to do. At the Farmers’ Arms all the talk was about the parish law suit, and the notions which prevailed as to the rights of the affair were such as the parisn had no need to be sis Warned of; that is to say, nebody knew anything about the law, and my opinion is the Judge and the jury ana the lawyers and the newspaper man were not a bit the wiser.' As representing the parish, I went to ’Torney Sharpeye (I. call him that to E revent misapprehension) and engagod im for tho plaintiff, and he got me to certify for a jury. I thought that as it was at the riepense of tne parish I might indulge him; I know better now. I didn’t engage a lawer for the defense, and .that helped usto,arrive at a settlement. It’s my opinion if we had had two lawyers the case would be going on after the marc and the cucumbers and the waywarden had returned to their,native parent dust. When County Court day came round a fine lot of hillside folks went to hear the case tried. All the farmers of the parish went, the blacksmith went, the carpenter left his work to take care of itself, and the mill-wheel got a rest; even old Teddy went in his donkeycart, and the lame shoemaker found that he wanted leather and brass tags the day the trial was to come off, and took the road to the market town. I was glad to see them as I drove past, and answered their “ Good luck, Varmer,” as cheerily and as hopefully as 1 knew how. I instructed the solicitor for the plaintiff, and contradicted myself and contradicted him to an extent that bewildered Master Sharpeye, and left him a line tangle to puzzle his brains over. For the defense 1 had the reins, stout, honest and businesslike; my crushed hat and torn coat, two spokes of the gig wheels, the parish books, a bit of the splash-board, my wife and a badly-used umbrella; but what use I intended to make of these things I really cannot tell. I got them into the court, however, to the bewilderment of the officials and the audience, and had time to look round before the proceedings commenced. The lawyers and the newspaper man were at a table by themselves, in the front row of seats were the plaintifts, in the back row the defendants, and between them rows of interested spectators, the most of whom appeared to have been pretty well plucked before I parted with my feathers as a contribution to the laws of the country. The Judge came in at last, a wearylooking old man, who had accumulated so much law that people said he was a walking cyclopaedia of statutes and precedents, and could not possibly go legally wrong. Poor man, I pitied him! And yet he had a kindly way with him, and spoke so tenderly to the miserable defendants, for the most part women, whose families and debts were numerous and pressing, that I do believe his legal studies had not hardened his heart or destroyed his capacity for sympathy. Where he could he let them off, and where he couldn't go so far jbe laid it on lightly, and eased their’trouble with a word that meant so muoh while he said so little. After a bit, the case of the Waywarden of Moorside versus Timothy Suggidge was called, and I gathered up my accouterments and made for the box, a pulpit-looking thing, with a step that was laised a foot above the floor, and made, you uncomfortable by that foot—a narrow, ricketty piece of furniture that was as devoid of stability as of ornament, and into which, with my belongings, I found it difficult to steer. 1 slung the reins over my shoulder, tucked the remains of the umbrella 1 under one arm, the splintered splash-board under another, took the parish book in my left hand, put the orushed hat on my head, grasped the mud-stained wheel-spokes in my remaining hand, and managed to get my foot on the step, when the beadle shouted, “Take off that hat,” and, starting round hurriedly, I brotight the whole erection to the ground, and caused such a racket in the court that the beadle cried, “Silence,” and the people laughed all the louder. At any rate, the hat was off. The other things I clung pretty tightly to, and w&s up and in the box before the merriment bad died out. Mr. Sharpeye was just going to begin, when the Judge looked up and asked whether the defendant did not appear. I said 1 was the defendant, and ho told me to go to the other box. I took the battered hat in my teeth this time, and journeyed across the floor to where the Judge had told me. In stepping up the end N>f one of the spokes camo crack against the beadle’s head, and the court was oonvulsed again. The Judge looked up, and the laugh died out. “ Whore is the plaintiff?” he asked. “My Lord,” I replied, “I am the plaintiff.” “ Why, yon told me just now that you were the defendant,’’ he said, with just the faintest suspicion of a flush of anger on his face. “Go into that other box;” and I went, kicking my hat before me this time. Again helooked up, having apparently made up his mind that preliminary matters ought to have been gone over, and again he asked whether the defendant aid not appear. I told him .1 was the defendant, when the red spot on his cheek deepened, and he spoke menacingly. “ Sir,” he said, “ I shall commit you for contempt of eonrt. Are ypn or are you not the defendant?” I said I war, and would have given an explanation, but he was down on me before I coukt get it out. “Then,” said ho, “Go into that other box, and let us have done with this trifling.” I was a bit nettled, I know, and I started on. my,..r»tnxn.jQuniey with a swing that brought about a further disaster. A loop* of the reins hitched into the witness-box, or what-

ever they call it, and over it went, and away I went with such a clatter, and amid such a guffaw of laughter that 1 eyed the door and thought of bolting, leaving my wife and the Judge to fignt it oat as best they could. Mr. Sharpeye came to the reaoue* and the explanation he tendered to the Judge, and which he might have had from me, rather cleared the air, and I was got into the defendant’s box at last, the beadle winking suspiciously at the wheel-spokes, as they waved about within an inch of his head. And then the real tussle began. Jir. Sharpeye opened the case for the plaintiff, that is for the waywarden, and showed how I had broken the paling and tumbled the wall over in my negligence in driving, and was liablo to pay the damage. “ Does the defendant wish to ask the witness any questionsP” said the Judge, and I saw by the twinkle in the old man’s eye that he was up to the fun. of the situation. I said that I did, and then the difficulty was about the answers, but it was got over by Mr. Sharpeye snggesting that I might tell my own story in my own way, for the purpose of showing how far l could *slear myself of personal Responsibility for the damage. The damage, I said, would only be about seven and sixpence, and it was caused by the road having been opened (of course I had given the Parson leave to have the road opened) to convey water to his meadow, but on the condition that fiis man had it covered in the same day, or took precautions against any accident. I knew the Judge was laughing at the whole affair. “In that case, Mr. Sharpeye,” he said, “the clergyman ought, perhaps, to be the defendant, and then we should have had all the parish officials here, especially if it was the sexton who opened the drain.” “It was the sextoll,” I replied, “ and I'm much obliged to your Honor for tho hint. If the case is adjourned for a month I shall have out new summonses, and have the thing put to rights.” “No! No!” exclaimed the Judge, “I think too much has been made of tho case already, and if I might make a suggestion it would be that you settle this matter among yourselves, and let it go no further.’" “But he said I was inebriated, your Honor, Parson did.” Even then you might look over a term which, no doubt was employed hastily, or the clergyman might withdraw and apologise. Do you really think,” he continued, returning to Mr. Sharpeye, “that there is a case to go to the jury? v Now, Mr. Sharpeye meant lighting, and ho went on about the obstinacy of the defendant, about the necessity of asserting the rights of the parishioners, and stuff of thatkind, until I began to feel that I had been and gone and done something that was atrociously wicked. And there were a good many parishioners there whose good-will I was not going to throw away, so I struck in pn the side of the Judge. Besides, 1 rather liked the kindly old man, though he did threaten me when I tumbled about the boxes with my armful of miscellaneous evidence. “ I’m not a troublesome neighbor,” said I, “ and, beside, Parson’s not a bad sort after all, and if this law business is dropped I’ll mend the paU ing, make good the wall, and see that Parson does not want for cucumbers this season, at any rate.” “ Your decision,” said the Judge, “does you credit, and I’m sure Mr. Sharpeye will see his way to meet you in the spirit you have evinced.” “ And what about the expenses?” said the ’torney (Catch them lawyers losing sight of the expenses!) “Both parties of the suit will pay their own costs,” said the Judge, and then he turned to the jury, tbank°d them for their attendance and dismissed them. The ’ torney’ s bill against the parish was £3l3s. 4d, and that I paid out of my own pocket, and put the fenoes to rights as well, so that one way and other, before the traps, the cucumber-frame, the trap and the mare’s knees were as Srood as they used to be, that little ob cost me a matter of £lO or so, and more than the half of it went in for legal expense. Now, my advice is, to settle your little differences over a pipe and a glass of cider, and not get cranky and run to lawyers afore there is any need for’t. That is if you want to square your differences by a friendly suit, for I know there are cases where, will ye, nil ye, you must go to the County Court.— English Paper.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—At the funeral of Morris Einstein, in Titusville, Pa., recently, in accordance with his wishes a funeral oration which he had written was read hy a friend. ' '< —Mrs. Polk, the venerable widow of President Polk, thinks that the dust of all the dead Presidents should be removed to Washington, where, if gathered in one place, a suitable memorial to them could be erected. —Edward S. Stokes, the slayer of James Fisk, Jr., is dabbling in the mining business on the Pacific coast. He is mentioned in a Montana City (Nev.) newspaper as selling his interest in one mine for $65,000. —A conceited student in Brown University once told Dr. Francis Wayland, the President, that he thought it would be easy to make proverbs like those of Solomon. The reply of Dr. Wayland was simply, “ Make a few.” —Ex-Governor Frederick Holbrook, Vermont’s war Governor, has been for forty years a member of the Brattleborough Congregational choir, and for the most of tne time chorister, and he sings now without a tremor in his voice. —Mr. Alvan Clark, of Cambridge, Mass., the telescope maker, is now seventy-six years old, and still full of energy and skill. For forty years Mr. Clark was a portrait painter, and earned $30,000 by his art before he began his telescopic experiments. —Tho Rev. Olympia Brown-Willis, pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd at Racine, Wis., has received a vote of thanks from the church for the manner in which she has performed her duties during the last year, and an invitation to act as pastor for another year, with an increased salary. —John Brown Smith, who has been for some time in Northampton (Mass.) tail for refusing to pay nis poll-tax, ias applied for a writ of habeas corpus in order to have the legality of the poll-tax tested. He founds his application on severalgrounds, one of which is as follows: “T am not a citizen of tho United States, but am the acknowledged ptller of the independent sovereignty known as John Brown Smith; hence, according to international law, ,1 am equal with tho other sovereignties of the world, and not subject to arrest while residing in foreign countries, Mr the same reason that ambassadors are exempt from the operation of civil law; hence I am beyond the jurisdiction of civil law courts outside of international liiw.” >

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Spioed Pickle*.—Scald weak brine three mornings in succession and pour over the cucumbers. Then wdak vinegar three mornings. Then drain the pickles and add strong vinegar. Scald in the vinegar two spoonfuls each of whole cloves, cinnamon and black pepper; one oup of brown sugar; one handful of raisins to one gallon of vinegar. Then turn it on the pickles after it is cold, add horse-radish and two or three green poppers. —Windows maybekeptupby means of cork, in the simplest manner, and with scarcely any expense. Bore three or four holes in the sides of the sash, into which insert common bottle-oork, projecting about the sixteenth of ap inch. These will press against tho window frames along the usual groove, and by their elasticity support the Bash at any height which may be required, i Meringue Podding.—Six eggs, one quart of scalded milk, beat ana sweeten the yelks, end turiT them into the milk; flavor to taste; mix three tablespoons of corn-starch with a little cold milk, and pour into the other ingredients, stirring all the time; cook four or five minutes, pour into a puddingdish, and set away until cold; beat the whites of the eggs, flavor and ornament with jelly or fresh fruit, or if you prefer, without the fruit; set in the oven and brown. —Fuchsias, after being exhausted with blooming, should have the terminal shoots of all their branches clipped off; then set aside for two or three weeks, giving very little water, then reDot in a soil composed- of well decomposed leaf-mould mixed with a sprinkle of good garden soil, a few rusty nails, and a layer of charcoal at the bottom of the pot to secure good drainage. In a few weeks new shoots full of flower buds will start all over, growing rapidly. —lowa State Register. —Lemon Pife.—Two and one-half large table-spoonfuls corn-starch; mix thoroughly in a little cold water, add a pint and one-half of boiling water; while this is partially coo) ing, prepare the juice and grated rina of two lemons and a half, one cup and a third of sugar and yelks of four eggs, “mix them well, then stir in the corn-starch. Line two pie dishes with pastry, fill them with the mixture, and bake in a moderate oven about half an hour. Then beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, add a couple of tablespoonfuls of white sugar, spread over the pies, and return them to the oven until they become a light brown. —The striped bug, Diabrolica vittata, seems to be a natural enemy of the cucumber, and against him I have tried all sorts of remedies which I have seen recommended. Boxes with thin cloth tacked over the top are effectual preventives, but if one has many hills devices of this sort are expensive. The last season I kept vines free from bugs by the use of ashes and kerosene. I moistened the ashes with kerosene, and applied a handful to the center of each hill. It seemed to spread too strong an odor for them, and they beat a retreat. After commencing to bear, wo look them over every day, and gather some for pickles, saving a few of the earliest and most' perfect Ones for seed, and when they are ripe we pick them off and place thgm in the snn a few days; then the seed is taken out, washed clean, dried and put in paper bags for the next spring’s planting. —Rural New Ttorker.

Profitable Farming.

There appears to be much confusion of ideas with regard to what is usually called profitable agriculture. In many instances—and, in fact, we might say as a general rule—the prevalent idea among farmers is that he who obtains most from bis land with the least outlay in money or labor secures the largest profit on the investment. Carrying this idea into practice has ruiDed millions of acres of farming lands, and left them little better than a worthless waste. To wear out soil as rapidly as possible by constant cropping, returning nothing to restore or keep up its fertility may appear for a while to be profitable farming; but it is far otherwise, as many have learned through bitter experience. The impoverished farms of tne older States, and the rapidly increasing number in the new, with the constant falling off in the yield of grain and other crops on land not long since declared to be simply inexhaustible, show that-to expect large returns at the expense of the capital invested in farming is a ruinous policy. If a man can obtain forty bushels of wheat per acre, or seventy-five of corn, and leave the land no worse for having produced the crop, then he can easily figure up his profits by counting tne cost of raising the crop, adding interest on the value of the land. But when he has impaired the intrinsic value of the land by diminishing its capabilities for producing a succeeding crop, this should also be charged to the capital account, and deducted from the profits. This charging loss of fertility to crap accounts would, no doubt, be considered by many farmers a rather unusual proceeding; but that it is perfectly legitimate and necessary, in order to arrive at anything like an accurate basis for calculating profit and loss, must be apparent to every ene who will give it a moment's thought We frequently hear farmers regretting the loss of fertility in their lands, ana they will tell us that twenty, thirty, or more years ago, when their land was new, they thought nothing of getting thirty or forty bushels of wheat per acre, at a cost not exceeding the value of ten; “and then,” say they, “there was money tq be made in farming.” It may be true that a little money was made, but the capital upon which they were obtaining an excessive interest was rapidly being impaired, as the results in loss of fertility plainly show. Had they pursued a different course, and kept tne land rich by raising more cattle, feeding the hay to their own stock instead of sending it to market, or practiced a rotation of crops, ployring one under occasionally for manure, the result would have been far different, and farming on these old lands would have proved even more profitable than when they were new. We have, however, a goodly number of farmers who do not count 'all taken from their land as profit, bat aim to keep their’ original oapital invested in the land good, and the crops raised as interest, less the cost of production. Farms of this kind are seldom for sale for less than the cost of improvements, for they are still profitable in hands that know how to use thorn. To. point out and explain how a certain class of fanners always manage to oome out ahead, whether prices of farm products rule high or low, would require a repetition of the history of sciontifio or good farming in all its details; but the foundation of profitable farming is, as it always has been, a fertile sou Judiciously managed, • >-

Wo frequently hear of good old farms, neat'gooa markets, being sold for less than the original improvements on them cost the owner; and while it maj seem hard that land should be given away to any one ‘who will pay tne value of the buildings, they no doubt fetch all they are worth. The large old barns on some of these farms cost a good sum, and there was, no doubt, a time when they were woll filled with grain and hay out from the Burrouhding fields; but a man would now have to scrape long and close to get weeds or straw enough from the same land to make a show in these capacious receptacles of farm products, and they are. consequently of little value in their present location. That these old worn lands will again be maije productive there is not a shadow of a doubt, but it will cost all they are worth; and ; it can only be done by men of means and intelligence, who are willing to invest their capital in farming in the same way that they would in any other legitimate business, expecting to realize a reasonable profit upon the amount invested. If every acre should cost fifty dollars to make it fertile, they will look .for a reasonable return upon the amount, and upon all other outlays. The days for speculating in farms and farm lands are probably past, except in some of the newer States and Territories, where land is worth a mere nominal price, and its future value is dependent upon local influences, of which little or nothing can be known in advance of their actual development— N. Y. Sun. A contemporary advises boys to learn to spout. Let them first learn to run,in debt, and “ spouting" will come as a matter of course, Tor further particulars inquire of "my uncle"— the citizen with three balls over his door. —Boston Herald.

Truth is Mighty.

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DR. CLARK #JOHNSt>N’S% Indian Blood Syrup. LABORATORY," V 77 W. 3d St., New York CHy. LATH Or JKIMRT CITT. (TRADE-MASK, i The Best Remedy Known to Man! Dr. Clark Johnson having associated himself with Mr. Edwin Kastman, an escspoil cspUve, lone a slam to Wakametkla. tho medicine man of the Comanchoa. Is now prepared to lend his aid In the IntroducUon of the wonderful remedy of that tribe. The experience of Mr. Kastman being similar to that of Mrs. Chaa. Jones and son, of Washington County, lowa, an account or whose sufferings were tnrllllngly narrated In the New York Herald of Dec. 15th, IB7K, the facta of which are so widely known, and so nearly parallel, that but little mention es Mr. Kaatman'a experience# will be given here. They are, however, published In a neat volume of 800 pages, entitled "fieveil and Nine Vears Among the Copianclies and Apaches.” of which mention will be made hereafter. Suffice It to say that for several years Mr. Eastman, while a captive, was compelled to gather the root*, gums, harks, herbs and berries of which Wakametkla's mertlclno was made, and is still prepared to provide the SAME materials for the sucersilnl Introduction of the medicine to the world; and assures the public that the remedy la the same now as when Wakametkla compelled him to. make It. ' Wakametkla, the Medicine Man. Nothing has been added to the medicine and nothing has been taken away. It Is without doubt tho Best Puhimer of tho Blood and Renewer of the Sistkm ever fennwti to man. This Syrup possesses varied properties. It acta upon the lilvrr. It acta upon the Kidneys. It regulates tlie Kotvcle. It purlftca flap (Hood. It quirts thr aervoito Syitrm. . It promote# Digestion. It nourishes, Strengthens and Invigorates. 11 carries off the old blood and make* " It opens the pores of the shin, and Induces Healthy Perspiration. It neutralises the hereditary taint or poison In the blood, which generates Scrofula, Erysipelas and all manner of skin diseases and Internal humors. There are no spirits employed In Its manufacture, and tt can be taken by the most delicate babe, or by the aged and feeble, care only being requited in attention to directions. Edwin Eastman in Indian Costume. Seven and Nine Years Among trr Comanchis and Apaches. A neat volume or BOb pages, being a simple statement of the horrible facts connected with the sad massacre of a helpless family, and the captivity, tortures and ultimate escape of Its two surviving members. For salo by our agents generally. Price, ii.OO. The incidents of the massacre, briefly narrated, are distributed by agents, free of charge. Mr. Kastman, being almost constantly at the West, engaged In gathering and curing the materials of which the medicine Is composed, the sole business management devolves upon Dr. Johnson, and the remedy has been called, andris Known as OrL Clark Johnson'a INDIAN BLOOD PURIFIER. Pries of Lugs Bottles ... SI.OO Price of 8m ill Bottles 50 Bead the voluntary testimonials of persons who have lieen cured by the use of Dr. Clark Johnson's Indian Blood Syrup in your own vicinitytestimoMsof cures. Dyspepsia and Indigestion. TRANCESvtIIr, Pulaski Co., lnd., March 22, IST*. Dear Sir— l was troubled for five «r six years with Dyspepsia and Indigestion and Sour Stomach. I was unable to find relief under the care of physicians, and thought I would try your Indlnn It food Syrup. Tha effect was marvelous, for 1 am entirely free from Dyspepsia, and eat most any food without experiencing ' any Pain or Sourness of tho Stomach. , O. Y. HATHAWAY. «. Scrofulous Sore Eyes Cared. ** Spencer, Owen County. Ind. Dear Sir—Some time ago. my daughter. Ore years o( age, took your Indlnn Klond My rap for Scrota bus Sore Eyes, which rho wss afflicted with from birth, and the medicine miraculously cured her. Her eyes are now as clear as crystal. 1 (eel U my duty to give this teotluMny, so that afflicted humanity may profit by my experience. JAMES U. DAVIS. Derived Very Greet Relief. Crown Point, Lake County, Ind. Dear Sir—l had been troubled with Catarrh for some time, using all kinds of medicine without success. UUI tried your weU-known Indian Blood Syrup, from which I derived very great relief. MRS. FRANK FULLER. More Good than Any Other Medicine. Michigan City, Laporte County, Ind. Fred. Boflnger, of Kloepfer A Co., says: “ Your remedy has done niy wife more good than any other mwlicina .Sheerer took.” Savea Doctors’ Bills. SALTILLOviIIr, Washington Co.. Ind.. May 22,1870. l<ear Sir— l have been using tho Indlnn ntood By rup in my family (or the past live years, anil it has always given general satisfaction, especially hi the ease of my wife, who has used it for General Debility. It Is the greatest blood purl tier known to the world. It has saved me a doctor's bill ol not less than live hundred dollars. McC. PUIPPR Circa Cough of Six Years’ Standingltl Lasro, Wabash County, Ind,. December, 1878. Dear Sir— I will tell you what tho Indlnn Blond Byrnp has done for me. For six years I was troubled i with a distressing Cough which seemed to bid defiance to medicine. One halt of a bottle cured me. 1 now weigh 176; my age 18. F. M. SCHAFER. ■n An Excellent Medicine. VALPARAISO, Porter County. Ind.. March 28.187 b. Dear Sir—l was afflicted with I)lxilneas, and after the use of your Indian Blood Syrup i was entirely cured. MARY C. BKMUtI. . Scrofula, Indigestion and General Debility. i IiPTON. Upton County, Ind. 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