Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1879 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. ■» RENSSELAER, . - INDIANA.

NOW AND FOREVER. The shore win hjirriMi end low, TfWeOH etretohed out to tho »ky. With h thread of in'een and h golden sheen To show to tiie human eye > Where the water kissed the sky. A ship on the water sailed Kurt her and farther away. Till it touched the sheen of thnt hue of green And sank in the distant gray; Bank, and was lost for aye. To the eyes that waited and watched lie coming across the tide. The ship I'dseen was the same, 1 ween, When it reached the other sido. And out of the mist did ride. A life that I watched and loved , 1 saw sail over the sea That stretches around the world, profound In its shoreless mystery— As dark ae dark can be. And I stood on tho barren shore And saw it glido from my sight. And leave me alone, while my heart made moan, And the world grew black as night— With never a ray of light. Then my faith grew strong and firm] That, across the m sty sea. On eternity's side of the death-stream wide, My darling unchanged shall betake that ship that crossed the sea. —Mrs. Muagie M. Peeks, In Christian Union.

PERVERTED INGENUITY.

It has often been remarked that the amount of ingenuity applied to worthy purposes might, if directed to honest pursuits, be rewarded with prosperity and happiness, instead of so often reaping a harvest of detection and disgrace. It is not, however, very flattering to our vanity to know that while sharpers and swindlers abound, there is never any lack of ignorance and credulity to keep up tho supply of dupes in whose simplicity imposture and assurance find an easy prey. Continual disclosures of fraud seem to have little etTect in acting as a warning to imprudence, or in bringing about further public safeguards against repetitious of this form of dishonesty, the victim being generally caught by the same much-used but apparently not yet worn-out baits of the unscrupulous. Even the cautious may occasionally be victimized by bubble companies and other cunningly-contrived pitfalls; but tradesmen are constantly being taken in by the same transparent tricks, exposed by police reports every week. A person goes, for instance, into a store and orders goods to be forwarded to a certain address-—that of a respectable householder. Tho things are sent there and left, and in due course somebody calls at the house, saying that he has come from -the shop for tho parcel, as it had been left in mistake. Tho parcel is delivered up to the supposed storekeeper’s messenger, who, of course, decamps With it, and is nevor heard of again. ' In London rccontly quite a number 11 victims to the feathered cheat of a certain bird-fancier before it was found out. In hi* window was exhibited a cage conjtalhing two birds, one an ordinary greenfinch with such plumage as Nature had been pleased to endow it; the other, also a member of the same family of birds, but as pretentious a humbug as its fellow was the reverse. On the head of the unconscious bird was a snowy top-knot, while plumes of brilliant colors branched out from among the ordinary feathers of its tail, glue having unquestionably something to do with the appearance of its borrowed plumes. Yet this palpable burlesque of a tropical bird was palmed off on numerous unsuspecting persons by the vender, who, pretending ignorance of its name and value, trumped up some story about a nautical friend of his having brought it homo from “foreign parts.” Appearingandifferent to its supposed rarity, and not caring to be bothered with the unknown specimen, in a sudden lit of generosity he parts with it to the purchaser for the absurd consideration of a sum ten times its real value. As bright an example of perverted ingenuity was developed in Paris during the time of the Exhibition. Three persons, it seems, are necessary to carry out the trick, the modus operandi of which is as follows: A man, ac-. conlpanied apparently by his wife and daughter, enters a shop in which the articles lie about a little carelossly, and the gentleman at once goes up to the head assistant behind the counter and makes .a confidential communication. “ I must warn you,” he says, “that mv wifo is afflicted with kleptomania, tie so good as to watch her, but not to say anything to her which might make her think you have any suspicions.” The elder lady is consequently watched with great care, all the shop being on the alert. Some articlo is pilfered in due course, the theft noticed, and the gentleman, oq, going otit, quietly and promptly pays for what has been taken. While the store-keeper is congratulating himself on the honesty of the husband, the trio are making off with a valuable booty secured by the younger lady, whose movements had not been watched at all. But the best part of the stratagem remains to be told. In case the disappearance of tho articles really stolen should be perceived a little too soon, and the party he followed by the indignant shop-keepers, nothing is easier than to express regret and surprise that there should have been other mistakes, and to return the articles with profuse apologies. By this ruse a considerable degree of safety is insured even if the swindlers are balked of their booty; the scheme provides for escape as well as for success. A German in Paris lately adopted a plan which’was successful in despoiling shop-keepers of their goods. Provided with a loaf of bread, which he carried unconcernedly under one arm, he would saunter up .and down in front of the shop window's, till, watching his opportunity, ho would seize some small article exposed outside, or otherwise within his reach, and secrete it iu his loaf. Suspeoted, and at last arrested, lie was subjected to a strict search, and was on tho point of being released, when some one thought of the loaf, which the accused had laid unnoticed on a form. On examining it, 41 watch, some rings, and other missing articles wore disclosed to the surprised spectators, and another swindling dodge thus exposed. Equally successful for a time was another system of robbery practiced not very long since in the streets of London. A man dressed like a clergyman would walk about tho crowded thoroughfares carrying a halfopened umbrella in his hand. Innotirat nscfui 'aTttclc appeared; it* was acting all the time as a convenient roceptacle for sundry articles of value dexterously slipped within its folds by two or threq female pickpockets, who were active in their depredations

amongst th? foot-passengers, but were] captured together with their respecta-ble-looking accomplice. But such petty attempts at fraud are far eclipsed both in audacity and ingenuity by tho dwindling transaction revealed some little time ago in Italy, and which might well deceive the sharpest tradesmen. The method of its proceeding is not without interest A gentlemanly-looking man, accompanied by his daughter, a prepossessing young lady not out of her teens, put up at the chief hotel of the town. They gave themselves out to be English, ana among their luggage had four large boxes containing two complete sets of drawers like those used by officers in camp. A salon and two bedrooms, one of which opened into the salon, were chosen by them. Whon these drawers were unpacked, one set was placed against tne door in the salon, and the other on t(j,e other sido of the door in the gentleman’s bed-chamber, tho door in question being a very thin one. Tho gentleman was liberal, and most particular in paying his hotel expenses weekly. Before no had been long in tho town he paid a visit to the principal jeweler, made some small purchases, paid for them in cash, and let it be seen that 110 was not short of bank-notes. Anxious to please his new customer, the jeweler brought out many beautiful articles to tempt him; but at first his purchases were moderate, though liberally paid for. In a few weeks the pentleman came alone, and while making another purchase observed that his daughter was about to be married, and that he tliought of sending to Paris for a set of diamonds. On this tho jeweler declared that he had the most beautiful set in Europe, the property of a Princess, which ho was sure only a “Milord Inglese” could buy, and begged his customer just to inspect them. The inspection was made, but no decision arrived at that day. Another inspection followed on the next day, and milord agreed to take them, the price being four hundred thousand francs. The delighted jeweler thought It would be best if he should send them round that evening, but the straightforward answer was: “I do not keep so much money about me; I must draw upon my bankers in London.” About a week after he was requested to call one morning at eleven, and bring the for which ho would be paid. .The jeweler was punctual, and found his customer in his dressing-gown, sitting alone at tho set of drawers referred to, a front llap of which turned down so as to form a writing-table. Advancing respectfully, the jeweler laid the casket, open, on the flap in question. Merely examining the gems, milord remarked that of course he did not wish his daughter to know anything of the transaction at present, and then proceeded to take out a bundle of crisp notes. The door at that moment opened, and in bounded thp young lady in question, graceful as a young fawn. Nothing was more natural than that milord should close up the flap of the desk and ask the young lady to go away, as he wished to be alone. But she was a willful young lady, and must have her own way. She had come to tell “papa” that,the tailor was waiting for him in the next room, and he must go; and she was quite sure that the jeweler would like her company better than his; beside, she had a locket she could not open, and the jeweler must help her. The jeweler was not proof against the playful charms of the young lady; his goods were safe, as he thought,-so lie begged her father to go, and he would wait. Milord left the room, and the poor dupe enjoyed half an hour of delightful flirtation with the young lady. She was very winning; the time sassed like a dream, till at last the lady erself passed away, and hurried to join her father. The jeweler sat in meditation, his thoughts engrossed with the young bride who had just left. Then he began to wonder how long his customer would be, and presently tried the flap of the drawer. It was “all right;” it was locked. So he sat down and mused again. When an hour or so had elapsed he began to think that he must have been forgotten, so he rang for the waiter, and was told that milord and the signorina had gone out a considerable time ago. After another long interval he consulted the lariiftord, but was assured that his guest was a perfect gentleman, whose only fault was forgetfulness. Hours passed, and at early evening tho landlord again returnedi beginning now to grow suspicious himself. The jeweler became furious, made a dash at the drawers, and with tho aid of a poker broke open the flap and made an attempt to take the casket He thrust his head into the compartment, and sank back into his arm-chair. He saw nothing before him but a square open void that had been cut out of the door, and which led into tho set of drawers in the next room. The landlord had a look, and so had the waiters. They thon sat and looked at each other, and at last ordered restoratives for the jeweler, who had fainted. Thefts by means of any kind of ruse are bad enough, but when they are committed under tho cloak of religion they are immeasurably worse. A Sister of Charity called on a family in Paris to enlist their sympathies for the poor; she was most pleasant and attractive in her manner. Eventually she inducod those present to join with her in an act of devotion, and the party knelt sido by side in the drawing-room while the Sister offered a prayer. From the time of her entering the house and during this act sho had kept her hands crossed upon her bosom. When, therefore, in the middle of the prayer, a lady felt somebody’s hand in her pocket, it required some nerve to seize the Sister and accuse her of tho theft. This she nevertheless did, and thon the mystery was revealed. The crossed arms were of wax, and being partially hidden under the sleeves, seemed real, whilo the actual hands were at liberty to enable the Sister to pursue her fraudulent calling. Tho Bill Sykes fraternity, in following out their profession of house-break-joraetimes give evidence of an amount of ingenuity worthy of a better oause. A burglar, concealed under the bed of a married couple, by some incautious movement almost betrayed his presence, the noise he made being sufficient to make the wife call her husband's attention, to the sound. “It’s only one of the dogs,” was the sleepy answer; and snapping his fingers, be called by its name one of his favorites which was supposed to be present. The thief 8 presence of mind did not desert him, though on the brink of discovery; for divining tho situation at once.be • Immediatelylicked the extended hand, in the hope of confirming the gfentleman’s surmise. This clever ruse was not) however, wd believe, successful, though one might saj it deserved to be for its boldness and ingenuity.

y When Moore Carew, the •• king of The beggars,” among his numberless impostures had a well-peppered raw beefsteak placed around nis leg to sim-, ulato disease, he only used oneof many clover dodges to impose.on the charitable. Fever has been imitated by swallowing tobacoo, the tongue whitened by chalk and the cheeks heated by rubbing. The appearance of nlcers is obtained by gluing a bit of spleen or the skin of a frog tothe parts supposed to be affected, and keeping them moist with blood and water. They are created by the use ot corrosives, and their healing prevented by the application of irritants. An obstinate sore limb haA before now heen cured by looking it up in a box. Pricking the gums ter show aotual spitting of blood, eating roughlyEowdered glass to produce internal emorrhage, making soap “pills for epileptic frothing at tho mouth, feigning insanity, and lying rigid to simulate catalepsy, are all tricks familiar to prison officials. Even doctors may sometimes bo deceived by impostors who display so much ingenuity in the art of deception. .Those who gorge shell-fish for the sake of getting nettlerash, who put lime in their eyes to inflame them, and even thrust a needle down to the lens of the eye to get a cataract, furnish a few of the forms of imposition resorted to at times either to evade punishment or escape military service. The methods resorted to for evading the law are very numerous, and the devices of smugglers for concealing contraband articles are sometimes specially ingenious. One of tho most amusing of these attempts to defraud the revenue was exposed by some vigilant French authorities. The heavy duties on spirits made the smuggling sisterhood (most of the smuggling nowadays is by women) doubly eager to bring into Paris an extra quantity of the precious liquors, and this they' accomplished in an ingenious manner, namely, wearing full-bodied zinc corsets which could easily contain four or five gallons of brandy. For a time the trick succeeded admirably; but at length*tho officers began to be suspicious of the unusual embonpoint, which contrasted oddly in some of the ladies with their inadequate necks and faces; so a staff of femalo searchers was enrolled, and the cheat discovered. It is not long since Unhappy little poodles were systematically employed in smuggling foreign lace into England, by being passed to and fro across the Channel with two curly coats upon their backs and a layer of tho fragile commodity between them. More recently pigeons have been employed for the purpose of diverting attention from consignments of tobacco, over which sat the innocent-looking birds, while the Cifstom-House officers were in quest of contraband goods, concealed in the double-bottomed boxes in which the pigeons came*over from the Continent. Quite lately have the services of these birds been required in carrying out smuggling operations on rather an extensive scale. An enterprising proprietor of about eighty of them was charged, in one of the Fiynch frontier towns, with having repeatedly evaded the duty on imported tobacco by flying them across the boundary, each with a packet of the weed, varying in weight from a third to half an ounce, tied carefully on its body. This practice might have continued for some time but lor an accident to one of the birds, which brought it toppling down with its burden into the hands of somebody, who drew the attention of the authorities to this novel mode of smuggling. Seldom do we hear an instance of so successful an imposture in evading the sentence of the law as was revealed at the Wiltshire assizes in England recently. A man apprehended for stealing a mare was lodged in Malmesbury lock-up previous tp his transmission to the assizes. When the police visited his cell next morning they found him lying oh the floor unable to move. His statement /was that he had got up to look out of the window, and that he had fallen backward across the corner of the bedstead and injured his spine. Medical aid was obtained, and his sad condition duly commiserated. He appeared to be almost irretrievably injured, and in the greatest agony; and as it would have been extreme cruelty to remove a man in his condition, he accordingly remained at Malmesbury for nine weeks. During this time everything which humanity could suggest to mitigate his sufferings was resorted to, and his comfort was studied in every particular. At tho end of nine weeks he was removed with great care to the infirmary in Devizes, where two men wpre appointed to attend him, the medical officer there being likewise of the opinion that the poor fellow’s spine was seriously injured. In this pitiable state he was brought before tho Judge, a murmur of sympathy running through the court a 8 they beheld the pallet with the injured man lying helplessly upon it. “Itis a dreadful thing to pass sentence upon a man in such a state,” said the Judge. “The infliction you are suffering under surpasses any punishment I can give yoil.” Had the culprit been in ordinary health, he would have had penal servitude, for it was not his first act of felony; but the Judge, pitying his condition, sentenced him, amidst a breathless silence, to twelve months’ imprisonment, and the pallet with its occupant was carried away. But now came the sequel. To prove a former conviction, the Deputy-Gov-ernor of Gloucester Jail had been summoned to Devizes; addon going over the jail, a close inspection enabled him to recognize in the culprit an old “ invalid” with whom he formerly had to deal. “What! at your old game?” exclaimed the Deputy-Governor, scanning the prisoner’s countenance. “ That follow is an impostor. There is no more the matter with his spine than there is with mine.” This was thought to be irbpossicle; and several doctors put the littValid through a severe examination; but he protested that his injuries were real, and seemed unable to move. To put the matter to a further test, a galvanfb battery was introduced, and shocks were turned on pretty strong, but without the expected results. The doctors went away; but tho suspected impostor was threatened with severer tests on the morrow if he was not found sitting up when visited. On the next day, as ne was still found in the same position, the electric machine was again set to work, and so sharp was tho effect that the leg which appeared most affected by the spinal injury began to move, until at last, unable to stand the shocks any longer, the fellow jumped out of bed, and In a lew minutes afterward was walking across the court-yard as agile on his limbs as any other prisoner.— Chambers' Journal.

JE correspondent frojH a “ summer resort” says the spying chickens they serve there seem to be irailt on the same principles as their spring-beds.

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Fontenelle thought that eating asparagus was promotive of length <3 days. Voltaire also is said to have been fond of that vegetable. —Custard, with Frosting.—Yelks of two eggs, well beaten, two tablespoonfuls sugar, two-thirds pint rich milk or cream, mix, and while baking whip the whites, add a teaspoonful sugar; when well done add ike frosting and brown lightly. —Breakfast Cakes.—Prepare, the day before it is wanted, some soft cornmeal mush; if too hard, thin with warm water to the thicknoss of pancakes, add graham flour, enough to make it drop from a spoon; bake on buttered pans. A good substitute for fried potatoes. —Graham Pudding.—To three pints of boiling water add one teaspoonful salt, and stir in graham flour until you have a thin mush; have ready one well beaten egg, stirred into one-third cup cream, aua this, boil a few minutes, mold in small saucers. Servo with sugar and cream. —Grandma’s Quick Cake. —Two eggs, ope cup sugar, one tablespoonful butter, one-third cup milk or cream, one cup flour, one heaping spoonful baking powder, mix the baking powder in the flour, stir all together briskly a few minutes, bake in two sheets in a hot oven. This cake can be prepared and ready for the table in twenty minutes. v —Green Pea Pancakes. —Boil a pint of green peas in salted water until tender, and mash them while hot, seasoning with salt, pepper and butter. Make a batter with a cup of milk, half a cup of flour, with a teaspoonful of baking powder sifted through it and a pinch of salt Beat two eggs separately, stir in the yelks, then the mashed peas, and lastly the whites. Bake on the griddle and eat hot —Coffee and Egg for Sick Persons. — A medical exchange says that life can be sustained by the following when nothing else can be taken: Make a strong cup of coffee, add boiling milk as usual, only sweetening rather more; take an egg, beat yelk and white together thoroughly; boil the coffee, milk and sugar together, and pour it over the beaten egg in the cup you are going to serve it in. —Boston Journal of Chemistry. * —— —Creole Mary’s Pudding Sauce. — “Mrs. M. W. Ml” sends from Loudon County, Tenn., the following method of making a sauce, which she says is a great improvement upon the ordinary “ hard sauce” of butter and sugar only. A teacup of sugar and half that quantity of butter are beaten and creamed together. The white and yelk of one egg are well beaten separately, and stirred into the butter and sugar; season with nutmeg. —Cherry Pudding.—One pint of bread crumbs, one cup of sugar, four eggs, a quart of milk, grated lemon rind, a little powdered cinnamon and salt. Mix thoroughly, butter a mold, and spread in a thick layer of the preparation, and then a layer of cherries, then another layer of bread and one of cherries, alternately until it is tilled. Close tight, and steam for two hours. Eat with sweet liquid sauce. Blackberries may be used instead of cherries. —Effervescing Fruit Drinks.—Very fine drinks are prepared by putting strawberries, raspberries or blackberries into good vinegar, and then drawing it off and adding a new supply of fruit till enough flavor is secured. Keep the vinegar bottled, and in hot weather use it thus: Dissolve one-half a teaspoonful or less of saleratus or soda in a tumbler, with very little water, till the lumps are all out Then fill the tumbler two-thirds full of water and add the fruit vinegar. If several persons are to drink, put the fruit vinegar into each tumbler and dissolve, the soda in a pitcher, and pour into the tumblers as each person is ready to drink; delay spoils it. —Speaking of late planting, I wish to say to the readers of the Magazine that if they Wish a delicious winter cabbage the very best way I have ever found to obtain it is to sow seed in July in a cool place; transplant as soon as ready, and before very hard frost gather the tender heads and store them for winter. Not being quite matured they will keep better than older heads, ana will be as tender as cauliflower and almost as good. In cooking, cut the heads in quarters and serve them without breaking or “ mussing,” each quarter or eighth being nicely laid out on the plate, and dress with gravy cr drawn butter, and you have a feast fit for a King. Those who grow nothing but the large cabbages that are sown early affd grown until late in the season know nothing of the real delicacy of a good young cabbage, and had better enlarge their knowledge and gratify their taste as soon as possible.— Vick's Magazine.

What of the Situation?

Dairymen are blue. They do not see the dawn ot better times which some of the pspera are prating about; nor with Cheese at five to six cents a pound in this country, and thirty-three shillings and sixpence a cwt. in England, do they see a promising future. Their only hopo for better prices for a long time has been in a lessened production —an alternative out of which it is difficult to derive much consolation. But even this cause for an advance in prices has been removed by the which are continued into July, and have brought the tardy grass crop forward so luxuriantly that not only the pastures are in good condition, and the How of milk abundant for the season, but a line hay crop is assured, if there should be pleasant weather enough between the rain 3 to permit of its being gathered in good condition. If there is to be any advance in prices, ,it must come from other causes than a short crop, though the yield of butter and cheese this year cannot possibly equal that of last. It may come from a short crop on the other side of the Atlantic, but we have no intimation as yet of any such calamity there. It may come from increased consumption; but though prices are low, and favorable to this, wages are also low in both countries, and the laboring classes, who are the principal consumers, were never so poor, Which is decidedly unfavorable to consumption. Beside, here in America, retailers continue to cut inferior cheese* at hi&h prices, which disoourages consumption by disgusting the oonsumer. They do not seem to be generally aware that prices have fallen amazingly, even ruinously, to the producer. Cheese retailed at eight cents a pound will afford a remunerative profit to the dealer. *+ Dairymen should carefully and judiciously engage in' Ihe weefflng-ouf process, ana hand their poor cows over to the butcher before the winter sets in. They will have abundance of hay whioh can be devoted to feeding young stock,

for either beef or future dsiry use. Beef is so dear that it will pay better to grow it than to produce butter and cheese. This will enable dairymen to dispose of their hay to the best possible advantage, and aid them in turning their attention to raising more grain, and producing what they need for their own consumption. The less they have to buy, the better for them. With high prioes, it may be policy to engage in special lines of farming, and buy most of what the family needs for consumption. But with low prices, such as prevail now, it will be found far safer, more economical and profitable, to engage in mixed farming, and depend as ntue as possible on the markets for the necessaries of life. There is a somewhat divided expression of opinion in regard to the quality of tho cheese product this season. Some say it is better than last, others that it is as good as last season’s make, while others still pronounce it rather inferior, there being a disposition to make as much as possible out of tho material worked up. This shows to us that each buyer forms his judgment by tho class of dairymen with whom ho comes in contact. Fewer, it is said, however, are making both butter and cheeso, so that thore is less partlyskimmed cheese thrown on the market, making the proportion of whole milk choose larger. But it is quite apparent that we shall not lack for j.oor cheese, until the discrimination in price between it and good is broad enough to make it decidedly preferable pecuniarily to manufacture only first-class cheese. There is only one consolation that we can see in all this depression of tho dairy business—it will probably drive out all who have not the proper facilities for really successful dairying, and never ought to have engaged in tho business; while it will most certainly have a tendency to turn the attention of incompetents into other branches of farming, in which they should have remained! So let all good dairymen who understand the business, and whose farms and surroundings are adapted to it, take courage, improve their dairy herds, adopt the best methods, study the greatest economy, and trust to futnre developments to restore dairying to a fairly paying basis, if not to its old position. We are to witness the survival of the fittest.— American Dairyman.

“ Sa-luting the Bride.”

There was a marriage at the upper end of the Detroit, Lansing & Northern Road the other day. A great big chap, almost able to throw a car-load of lumber off the track, fell in love with a widow who was cooking for the hands in a sawmill, and after a week’s acquaintance they were married. The boys around the mill lent William three calico shirts, a dress-coat and a pair of white pants, and chipped in a purse of about twenty dollars, and the couple started for Detroit on a bridal tour within an hour after being married. “ This ’ere lady,” explained William, as the conductor came along for tickets, “ are my bride. Just spliced fifty - six minits ago. Cost two dollars; but durn the cost! She’s a lily of the valley, Mary is, and I’m the right-bower inf a new pack of keerds. Conductor, salute the bride?” The conductor hesitated. The widow had freckles, and wrinkles, and a turnup nose, and kissing the bride was no gratification. “Conductor, sa-lute the bride, or look out for tornadoes!” continued William, as he rose up and shed his coat The conductoa sa-luted. It was the best thing he could do just then. “ I never did try to put on style before,” muttered William, “but I’m bound to see this thing through if I have to fight all Michigan. These ’ere passengers has got to come up to the chalk, they has.” The car was full. William walked down the aisle, waved his hand to command attention, and said: “I’ve just been married, over thar’ sots the bride. Anybody who wants to sa-lute the bride" kin now do so. Anybody who don’t want to, will hev cause to believe that a tree fell on him!” One by one the men walked up and kissed the widow, until only one was left. He was asleep. William reached over and lifted him into sitting position at one movement and commanded: “ Ar’ ye goin’ to dust over thar’ an’ kiss the bride f” “Blast your bride, and you, too!” growled the passenger. William drew him over the back of the seat, laid him down in the aisle, tied his legs in a knot, apd was making a bundle of him lust of a size to go through the window, when the man fared, and went over and svluted. “ Now, then,” said William, as he put on his coat, “this bridle tower will bo resumed as usual, and if Mary and ,me squeeze hands, or git to laying heads on each other’s shoulders,! shall demand to know who laffed about it, and I’ll make him e-magine that I’m a hull boom full of the biggest kind of sawlogs, an' more cornin’ down on the rise. Now, Mary, hitch along, an’ let me git my arm around ye!” —Detroit Free Press.

Starving to Death.

Thousands ol men and women are starving themselves to death. Tbov dare not cat or drink this or that, fearing it will increase their lit 6h. Life depends upon continuous self-denial. The only safe and reliable remedy for litis terrible condition is Allan’s Anil Fat. It is wholly vegetable aqd perfectly harmless. Its use insures a reduction of from two to five pounds per week. Sold by Druggists. Buffalo. N. Y., June 13,1878. To the Proprietors Of Allan's Anti-Fat: following report is from the lady who used* Allan’s Anti-Fat: “It (the Anti-Fat) had the desired effect, reducing the fat from two to five pounds a week, until I had lost twenty-five pounds. I hope never to regain what I have lost.” Yours resp’y, , Powsu. A Pum-rott, Wholesale Druggist*. Stxcß the flr*t introduction of Dr. F. Wllhofi's Aoti-Porlodic or Fever and Ague Tonic, It has steadily gained in popularity with the people, but slfiee its proprietors, Wbeelcck, Finlay & Co., gave it* composition to the world, so that everybody can know what it is, the sale of it has doubled Itself. It contains no dangerous, drug, and yet Ills the greatest specific against malarial diseases, such as Chilis and Fever, and Dumb Chill*. For aa’.e by all Druggists. ~ * First nt Every Rbspect.— The Gilbert Starches are the best for strength, for purity, for finish, for uniformity. In fact they are made with such assiduous care that they are, par auxUtnct, America’s pride. Their works, the capacity of which Is almost unlimited, are situated at Buffalo. M. Y, Poor bread and biscuits are unknown where National Ytatl is used. If you have not given It a trial, do so at once. Chew Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.

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The beet known remedy for all diseases caused by Malarial Polsonlngy being a preventive as well as a certain core for FEVER and AGUE, Dumb Ague, Ague Cake, Remittent, Intermittent Fevers, Kidney Disease, Liver and Bowel Complaints, Dyspepsia and General Debility; the best general Tonic for Debilitated Systems. Price, 26 cents per box. Sold by all Druggists in this town. Mailed on receipt of price by DTJNDAS DICK & CO., 35 Wooster Street, Kew York. Explanatory book mailed FEEE on application. AUSTIN’S AGUE DROPST Purely Vegetable. Contain no Quinine or Arsenin. WARRANTED TO CUKE AGUE. Done, lO Drop*. Only SO cent* s Bottle. Austin’s Aque Drops are prepared from highly-con-centrated Extracts of Willow, Dog-Wood and Iron-Wood; hence are perfectly safe and reliable. They are a sure cure for Ague and all Bilious Diseases. For sale every where. AUSTIN A SYKES. Propr’s. Plymouth, Ohio. 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CLARK ♦)^JOHNBON’B% Indian Blood Syrup. LABORATORY, IT W. 3$ Si., Ntw York Ctty. u,, „ , [TIUPK-MARE.] The Beat Remedy Known to ManJ Dr. Clark Johnson hsvlng associated himself with Mr. Edwin Eastman, an escaped captive, long a slave to Wakametkla. the medicine man of the Cnmonrhes. Is now prepared to lend his aid In the Introduction of the wonderful remedy of that tribe. The experience of Mr. Kastman being similar to that of Mrs. t’has. Jones and son, ot Washington County. lowa, an account of whose sulterings were thrlllmgly narrated In the New York Herald -if Dec. 15th, 1878. the facta of which are so widely known, and so nearly parallel, that lint little mention of Mr. Eastman’s exKrlencea will be given here. They are. however, pubhed In a neat volume of 800 pages, entitled “Seven and Nine Years Among the Com audios and Apaches,” of which mention will be made hereafter. Suffice It to aay that for several years Mr. Eastman, while a captive, was compelled to gather the roots, gums, harks, nerba and berries of which Wakametkla’s medicine was made, and la still prepared to provide the SAMS materials for the successful Introduction of the medicine to the World; and assures the public that the remedy Is the same now as when Wakametkla compelled him to 'Wakametkla, the Medicine Man. Nothing has been added to the medicine and nothing has been taken away. It Is without doubt the Bust furifikr of tho BLOOD and Rkhkwib of the SrsTUf ever known to man. This Syrup possesses varied properties It weta a pen the Liver. It weta apon the Kidneys, It regulate, the Bowels. It port flea the Blood. It quleta the Nervous System. It promotes Digestion. It Nourishes, Strengthens and Invlg•retes. It enrrles off tho old Mood and make. Hew. It opens tho pores sf ths shin, and Induces Healthy Perspiration. It neutralises the hereditary taint or poison In tho blood, which generates Scrofula. Erysipelas and all manner of skin diseases and Internal humors. There are no spirits employed In Its manufacture, and It can be taken by the most delicate babe, or by tbs aged and feeble, care only being required in attention to direction*. Edwin Eastman in Indian Costume. SavxN and Nine ykaxs Among the oomanckxs and Afachks. A neat volume of 800 pages, being a simple statement of the horrible facts connected with the sad massacre of a helpless family, and the captivity, fortune and ultimate escape of its two •urvlvlng members. For sale by our agents generally. Price, *I.OO. The Incidents of the massacre, briefly narrated, are distributed by agents, vrkk of charge. Mr. Eastman, being almost constantly at the Wret, 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, and Is known sa Or. Clark Johnson's INDIAN BLOOD PURIFIER. Price of I>*Ab Bottle* ... SI.OO Price of Small Bottles ... .50 Read the voluntary testimonials of persons who have been cured by the use of Dr. Clark Johnson’s Indian wood Syrup In your own vicinity. TESTIMONIALS OF CURES. Bytpepila end Indigestion. FMNCBStiIIe, Pulaski Co.. Ind., March 22.157 A bear Sir— l was troubled for Dv. «r tlx years with Dyspepsia and Indigestion and Sour btonagh, 1 was enable to find relief under the care of phjMcuna, and thought I would try your Indian Blood ttyxup. The effect was marvelous, for 1 am entirely free from Dyspepsia, and eat most any food without experiencing any Fain or Sourness of the nlTn i^ Scrofulous Sore Eyes Cared. BriNCgR, Owen County, Ind. Dear Sir—Some time ago. my daughter, flve years el age, look your Indian Blood N.vrsp for Hcrofuloiia Sore Eyes, which riio wss afflicted with from birth, and the medicine miraculously cured her. Her eyes are now as clear as crystal. I feel U my duty to giro this testimony, so that afflicted humanity may profit by my experience, JAMES 1L DAVIS. Derived Very Great Relief. Crown Point; Lake County, Ind. Dear Sir—l had been troubled with Catarrh for soma time, using all kinds or medicine, without success, till I tried your well-known Indian Blued Byrap, from afflict) I derived very great relief. MRS. * KANE FULLER. More Good than Any Other Medicine. Michigan Ctrr, Laporta County, lad., Fred. BoSnger.of Kloepfcr ACo., says: “Yourremedy has dona my wile more good than any other medicine sheerer took.” * Save* Doctors’ Bills. SALTILLOYILI.M, Washington Co., Ind., Way 22, Zwir s(r—l have hren using tho Ijuttnn Ktluoil My rtap In ray family for tho past live years, and It has Always elytra general «At Inf action, especially In the case of iny Wue, who ha* used it fur General Debility. It la the greatest blood purifier known to* the world. tthA* satqU me a doctor’s bIU of not lee* lb»n flve hundred dollars. McC. Film'S. Ceres Cough of Six Years’ Standing !I I Lagro, Wabssh.Caunty. Ind., December, 1878. bear Sir—l will teU you what the Indian Blood By rap has done for me. For six jears 1 was troubled with a distressing Cough which seemed to bid dettauce to medlelne. One half of a bottle cured me. I now weigh 170; my age 18. F. M. SCHAFER. ~ An Excellent Medicine. . Taltaraiso, Porter County. Ind., Mareh 28,1878. bear Sir- 1 was afflicted with Msar-rea.ami a«er the SS& roai I -* U “ Scrofula, Indigestion and General Debility. Tipton, Upton County. lihl. _ bear S iv-Thls la to cerllly that your lii.lltvn Blood Nyrnp has cured iru (laughter us Bro.Hiß, {mltaosuon mu, SoroDila. Milrot. Rush Orranty, ML bear Sir- Thtoh to certlly that 1 have used you* greatest blood puriiler known to the pubUe. I WouS STtae Ml suflerera to KKWBQUh ML IwaM irtUwttSU. kIL (ffiNSU*