Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1879 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. ' • f RENSSELAER, - » INDIANA.

MY BIRD AND I. The day is yonng and I am yonng. The red-bird whistles tu bis mate; Be aita the tender leavea among, I awing upon the garden gate; He sines that life ia alwaya gay-- “ A day ao fair oan never die. I laugh and oaat ray tkiwermaway i We are ao hapny.liq.qiid IDeep wading S|ll<W^wheat, My nhenvea unboonawitSm my hand, I sink, to reat my tired feet, And noonday heat brooda o'er tho land; Tho red-bird (altera in his song— We fear tho day will never die-. The minutes drag the hours along— We are so weary, he and I. I stand alone; my work is done; The bird lies dying at my feet; There's promise in the setting sun; The evening air blows soft and sweet. My binded sheaves 1 lay aside; The day is dead; 1, too, must die. When stars come out at eventide, We shall be resting, he and I. —Kate St. Clair Oreenltof.in Sunday Afternoon.

BEATRICE HALE.

n Of all things, a night journey is the most tedious,” said Clarence Hatfield, as he let himself fall heavily into the stiff and uncomfortable seat of the railway car, with its faded velvet cushions, and its back at exactly the wrong angle for aught approaching the luxury of a nap. “ I say, Clifton, do you think we might smoke?” “ Well, I rather imagine not,” said I, witli a motion of my head toward the other passengers. “There appears to be ladies on board.” Hatfield shrugged his shoulders. “Such ladies!” “Well,” laughed 1, “ they don’t appear to be particularly stylish in manner or costume, but nevertheless, my dear fellow, the divinity of their sex hedges them fronnctflike a wall.” “Divinity of their humbug!” shortly interrupted HAtfield. “Ah B these illdressed dowdies, with babies and bandboxes, could -possibly bidong to the same world with Beatrice Hale!” To this I made no answer. It did not seem to me exactly appropriate to lug the sacred name of Beatrice Hale into a discussion in a place like this. Yet what could I do, except to feel my cheeks flush, and the roots of my hair tingle? I was unmistakably in love with BPe Hale; and so was. Clarence Hatfield. If I were to waste quarts of ink and reams of paper in trying to describe her manifold dharms ana excellencies to the reader it wouldn’t do any,good. Such things have been tried before and failed.' Let him imagihe the i fdireflt' brunette that sun ever shone on, and he may Come somewhere near the mark. Suffice tit to say that she wqs as beautiful as 'a flream, And that Hatfield and I were both slaves at her feet. Which of us did she like best? Ah, that was the question! It was something like the children’s old game of see-saw, “Up I go, down you come.” Sometimes I fancied 1 had the gholt of a chance —sometimes I was convinced that Hatfield was altogether the preferred, and that I had bettef emigrate to Australia at once. “ Hello!” cried Hatfield, breaking unceremoniously ip upon the thread of my musings, “there goes the whistle. We shall be off directly. Thank,goodness for that!” And he put his feet on the opposite seat and prepared for as comfortable a four hours’ ride as possible. Clarence Hatfield and I, be it understood, were employes in the extensive business of Messrs. Jenkins, Jumper: ton & (Jo., auctioneers, ami.iyid beep down to the country “putting up 1 ” a. sale of swampy lots, cut into streets and squares, 'according to the qiost approved metropolitan methods of doing such things. It hid been a dismal /business. November is not an inspiring , mynth at the best, and a three-days’ tog had conspired against the success of “ Jdount Morra Bark,” as Jumperton & Co. had christened the new speculation. Yet we had done reasonably well, and were now thankful enough to get back to New York. As the train gave its starting lunge the door flew open, and in came a tall old lady, in a prodigious black bonnet and a fur cloak, surrounded by a perfect chevaux He frise of squirrel-cages, leather hagß, brown-paper parcels, and sandwich-boxes. She was followed closely by a younger lady, dressed in black ana closely veiled, and paused hesitatingly in front of our seat. “Ypung man,” said she, in a low voice, as gruff as that of a man, “is this seat engaged?” - “Yes,” said Hatfield, “it is.’?

“For your feetP” “No matter what for,” superciliously fepliefi the head clerk of Jenkins, Jumperton & Co. “Please to pass on, old lady. You’ll find seats enough beyond.” But this was a stretching of the truth. There were no seats.bayoA(l, as the old lady could easily perceive, unless she chose to sit directly opposite a red-hot coal fire, or upon one of those corner arrangements close to the door, which are equivalent to no seat at all. The old lady hesitated and changed her heavy carpet-bag from one wearied arm to the other. I thought, of my own gbod Aunt Polly at home, ana rdse at once. “ Pray take this seat, ma’ams,” said' I. “ And let me put your parcel up in the rack for you.” “Clifton, what a fool you are!” cried Hatfield, in an impatient sotto voce. “Why couldn’t you have sat still and minded jfoaro>trbusiness?” *‘lt is my own fiuaingps,” I,answered,, brusquely, to see that every lady is made as comfortable as it is in the nature of things to be. New .the squirrel cage, madair—|’Jl e» v|it pomfoitell* under the seat, I think.” Hatfield uttered a contemptuous grunt, but he never offered to take his feet off the opposite cushions, although the, younger woman stood in the aisle, uncomfortably swayigo backward and forward with the of tjhe train, until a woman beyond, observing the state of affairs, drew a sleeping child into her lap, and beckpned the other to take the place,tbns vacated-' f-•; ff > | By this time, my old lady had established herself to her entire satisfaction, and opened her sandwich box. “ Much obliged to you, young man,” said she, “ It’s easy to see you’ve a mother of your own at home, and that you are in the habit of doing reverence to her gray hairs. As for this person” —with a nod of her poke-bonnet in the direction of Mr. Hatfield—“ got a mother, I can’t aa>y much: for her beofei himself one* day, anl* stand in uedd of a little politeness and consideration from the young.” “When I’m- anxious for your good opinion, ma’am, J’JJ let you know,”

returned Mr. Hatfield, rather flippantly.. The old lady could only express herself by a vehement snuff. And even I was a littleannoyed at his manner. “Hatfield.” said IJp a low tone, “you might behave like a gentleman.” —.— “So I will,* 4 he retorted, with a shrug, “ when I find myself in company that calls for such measures.” r said no more, but leaning up against the side pf the door, prepared to make myself as comfortable as possible, until the train should stop at Stamford, its first w.ay . station, and some descending passengers might make room for me. Reader, dtd you ever stand in an express train in full motion? Did you ever feel yourself swayed backward and forward, bumping one of your phrenological developments against one side of the car, and bringing the base of your spinal column against the top of a seat at the opposite swerve of the train ? Did you ever grasp blindly at nothing for support? Did you ever execute an involuntary pas seui, by way of keeping your balance, and then grind your teeth to see the two pretty young ladies beyond laughing at your antics? If so, you will know how to pity nie during the hour and a half between B and Stamford. Hatfield went to sleep and snored; the old lady in the gigantic bonnet eat sandwiches and drank from a wicker flask of. excellently smelling sherry; the young lady sat as noiseless as a black-veiled statue; fretful babies whimpered; old gentlemen uttered strange sounds in their sleep; the lights flared like sickly moons overhead, and the shriek of the train as it flew through sleeping villages sounded like the yell of a fiery-throated demon. “Stamford!” bawled the conductor. At last I succeeded in dropping my weary and stiffened limbs into a seat, where slumber overtook me*in just a minute and. a quarter; for I had been asleep on toy legs once or twice, even in my former disadvantageous attitude, and I could scarcely Believe the evidence of my own senses when we finally thundered into the echoing vastness of the Grand Central Depot in New York. Hatfield, alive to the necessity of catching a car before all the world of travelers should crowd into it, stum-bled-over the old lady’s ankles With small ceremony. “Oh, take care! You have knocked 4he squirrel cage qver?” cried she. “Confound the squirrel cage!” shouted Hatfield, gnashing his teeth, as the ancient dame placed herself directly in the aisle to set the furry pet up again, thereby completely blocking up his egress. “ Serves yon right, Hatfield!” said I, as I stooped to assist. Just then the young companion! of our lady (imglng back her veil. “’Graiichna,” said she, “thecarriage is waiting. I’ll send Thomas for the parcels. Mr. Clifton, lam very much obliged to you for yoqr politeness to my grandmother, who is unused to traveling. As to Mr. Hatfield —the less sain about his courtesy the better.” And. Beatrice Hale’s black eyes flashed disdainfully on Clarence’s cowed visage. “Miss Hale,” he stammered, “if I’d had the least idea who you were ” “You would have regulated your conduct accordingly,” impatiently interrupted Miss Hale. “Thanks—l prefer to see people in * their true light. Mr. Clifton,” turning graciously to me, “you’ll call and see how grandma stands her journey, to-morrow, won’t you? Oh, thank you—the carriage is close by.” And to this day I believe that is the Way I won toy wife; for Clarence Hatfield was a brilliant showy sort of a fellow, who far outshone m@ in general society* and I think Bee had been disposed rather to fancy him until that night. But she was disenchanted now for good and all. And Grandma Hale cornea to see us every Christmas with a hamper of good things from Hale Farm.

The Effect of the First Sewing Machine in India.

In tho days when the sewing machine was in its earliest infancy, a lady residing in India imported one, and for a long time kept its mysterious working hid from tho ken of her native tailor. Ihis functionary was the very slowest of his proverbial slow “ caste,” and wasted no end of time drawling over hem and stitch. One day his mistress came to him arm-laden with yards upon yards of some dress fabric. “ Dirzie,” says she, “ how long will it take you to run those breadths together?” “ Tree day, Missis,” replies Dirzie. “Missis, please, plenty too much work,” “Three days! Nonsense! Three hours, you mean. You are a very lazy man and I’ll cut your pay. Give me the stuff; I’ll do it myself.” Then the lady retires to her boudoir, from the inmost penetralia of which a Sharp and continuous click and whirr reach the tailor’s ears. He can’t make out what the sound is, and he is much too lazy to speculate on it. He continues to “chew betel,” and yawninglv to ply needle and thread. After an hour or two “Missis” comes back, and throwing at Mr. Dirzie’s feet the raw material now fashioned into a comp)feted skirt, says: “There! See! You wanted three days, you sleepy fellowy/io finish this, and I have done it already.” Astonished, Dirzie turns over the drapery, examines the seams, scrutinizes the stitch, and satisfies himself that all is proper and according to tailors’ rule. He is confounded. It passes his understanding. There Uoa the work done, and no mistake. But how? Po springs up from the mat on which ne has been squatting; he kicks over the little brass vessel whioh holds his drinking water; he scaftifrS Jfight and Jstt thread, needles, thimble; he stops bof to put on his sandals or to adjust loosened turban and waisteloth. Scared and bewildered, ho runs for very life into the bazaar, shouting as he goes along: “Shitan! sUijaff! [The eyil one! the ovH one!] He ddf tailor business that Mem's house. I listen! I hear! He cry ‘ Claek, 1 cleSk, clefik!’ Two hour time hd neßey stop cry. Den! Plenty too nfuen 'tyuo dia iworfi | telj. Ebery bit trne. All work done finish! 1 not go back dat bungalow.” And he never did.— Chambers' Journal. There is a large number of acres of wild pasturage in the State of Maryland, aua yet that State has only about 151,200 sheep. The reason given why more sheep are not kept is, that seven per cent, of the sheep are annually killed by dogs. The entire South ’, has less than 7,000,000 sheepy-and- of these 500,000 are said to be destroyed by dogs. Yet the South has summer ?asturage and winter keep for from 0,000,000 to 100,000,000 if rightly managed. v

THE SPRAGUE-CONKLING DIFFICULTY.

Statement* hr Mr*. Sprague ana rro- ■ felaor Murk. HKS. SI’HAQI'K’S VEKSION. I’aovi ;-; .r,vE, R. L, Aiaast M- . Following is the statement of Mrs. Senator Sprague in relation to the unfortunate difficulty at Narragansott Pier, which she has given permission to be published: “ As you must have surmised, Gov. Spraguo’s dissolute life and dissipated habits long ago Interrupted our marital relations, though I have striven hard through untold humiliation and pain to hide from the world, for my children’s eakes, the true condition of a blighted, miserable domestic life. About a year ago even this poor semblance abruptly culminated after a disgraceful orglo and arrest at Nantasket Beach, with the circumstances of which many people In Rhode Island are not unfamiliar. I then sought with my little girls the neighborhood of old friends and the shelter of my hqr.orud father’s former home. There, dwelling almost within tho shadow of bis tomb, 1 felt more secure, less unprotected. Here kindly sympathy sought me out, and though covert malhe pointed some censorious comments, relief came, and our circumscribed means were adequate to our simple and quiet mode of life. “ Governor Sprague’s Irregularities having been visited upon him by the trustee administering his embarrassed estate, the contribution toward the maintenance of myself and children, without a word of explanation to mo, was suddenly cut down to a palpably Inadequate sum. Even mis was remitted but for a few months; then, owing to a complete rupture between Governor Sprague and the trustee, all remittances ceased, and for six months past no money has been contributed toward the maintenance of his family or household by Governor Sprague. In addition to greater wrongs, unpaid tradespeople to whom he was indebted, have been urgent in their demands for payment, but he gave no heed to the indebtedness, even answering, when pressed by me to find a way to meet these just demands and relieve ms of im■portunitles, that I must look to my powerful Washington friends for aid; and, to my deep distress and mortification, permitted, after long delay, a bill for carriage hire for his mother’s use during a visit to me In Washington to be paid by the gentleman who had recommended to us the stable from which the carriage was hired. “ This and other more unmanly exhibitions have been Incidental to the past year, while the brutality of recent events, repetitions of similar scenes of violence and outrage enacted In former years, has finally driven us from the door, and filled the public prints of the country with a scandal too cruel to be endured without redress. “ Governor Sprague’s causeless and shameful persecution of the children’s teacher Is literally true as he' tells the Btory—the real animus being, as confessed, Governor Sprague’s unwillingness to be subjected to the restraint at the table and In the household observances of the constant presence of a gentleman. “The attempt to complicate Mr. Conkllng with the matter is absurd. The two men never met; I believe have never seen each other. Governor Sprague’s indecent affront to the guests In his house was most gross and without excuse. Mr. Martin, whom I had met In a very precarious condition of health,, en route for Narragansett Pier, I induced to go to Canonchet for quiet and good nursing. He was removed under Governor Sprague’s threats of murder, a thing to be done at the imminent risk of his life. “Mr. Conkling was, of course, as unconscious as I that Governor Sprague sought occasion to enact the tragic role of the injured husband, for at their last meeting, not long stnee, Governor Sprague had sought from Mr. CoDkling not only legal counsel, but accepted at his hand a favor such as only the friendliest confidence could warrant. “ In his determination to overthrow Mr. Chaffee as trustee, aud hoping to join forces with the creditor interest to drive him from his post, Governor Sprague had carried away from the counting-room of A. & W. Sprague books of the Quidnic Company, refusing to return them. Mr. Chaffee, In turn, refused until these books were returned to permit Governor Sprague to hold any business relations with the concern, and, of course, refused to permit him to draw any money. This was the situation of affairs which, . by coming to Rhode Island, I had hoped through some Influence or other brought to bear on Governor Sprague to help to set right, and to secure by some means a maintenance for the four children for whose wants and education I have been and am now bearing the undivided burden. A conference with counsel employed by the firm achieved no results. “Professor Linck, under a contract with me for three months, was neither permitted to perform his duties nor paid and dismissed. We had no ostensible means for living at Canonchet without incurring additional Indebtedness, to which 1 refused to be a party. In this awkward aud painful dilemma I requested Mr. Conkllng, who had been already consulted by Mr. Bprague, and upon whose judgmeut and advice 1 have safely relied in my own matters, to see Governor Sprague and try to ascertain what point Ihcre.is in the proposed programme of opposition, and what results were likely to follow that would benefit or provide for the children* Mr. Conkllng stopped at Canonchet for this purpose, and was awaiting Governor Sprague’s retui n to seek an Interview with him when the now notorious outbreak occurred. “If any hostile words were exchanged between Mr. Conkling and Governor Sprague at Canonchet, they alone know what they were, for no one else heard them. What transpired In the village I do not know, beyond what is roported In the sensational accounts given in the newspapers.”

PROFESSOR LIVCK’S STORY. Professor Linck, the German teacher, states that Mrs. Sprague hired him, without consulting with her husband, as tutor to her children, which she claimed a perfect right to do, as she was to meet the expense from her own private purse; that Mr. Sprague took exceptions to the arrangement, and, when in a drunken fit, had ordered the Professor to leave his house, threatening to kill him if he did not do so. The following is the Professor's story relative to the events transpiring at' the time of the alleged rencontre between Messrs. Sprague and Conkling: “During the week just ended Mrs. 8. sent for me to cooler nilh her on this business. On the assurance that the Governor was absent I consented, though most reluctantly. Our interview was of but a few minutes’ duration, and without any apparent result. Ou the occasion of the second interview I only entered the house to have a cup of tea with tho children, Mrs. 8. being outraged with other visitors on business witli reference to a final settlement of our difficulties. Again Mini. S. sent her coachman, Perry, on Friday, to bring me to the house, believing a mode of settling my matter had been reached at once. -More reluctantly tban ever I consented and was driven off, alighted at the entrance hall of Canonchct, and walked up the front steps, while Perry, the coachman, drove around back of the house. A servant-maid opened the front door and desired me to step back into the buggy, which had been brought around again. No sooner was I seated when I heard footsteps in the corridor ap- ? reaching the door. They were not a lady’s; knew who it was before Perry, who occupied the outer seat on the right, whispered: ’it was the Governor.’ I could-not see him without leaning forward. Not being particularly anxious to see him first, I gave him a chance to step down, which be did stealthily, as I could discern. He was by the side of the buggy, and bent forward and looked hard at me, and suddenly, as if I were a valuable prize, graspedme firmly by the left arm, giving It a good stiake. It was pot like a friend’s, f pushed his hand , back, and prepared for a hand-to-hand light, should the attack be renewed. It was no't. He turned on lbs heels without a word, rushed up the steps, and disappeared up the corridor. I did not know, but I felt, what this strategic move implied, f was not prepared to be shot down by an Infuriated man. I turned to Perry, bidding him to drive me off Instantly, if he would not be a witness to a cold-blooded niiurder. Perry hesitated, but at last yielded to my solicitations and drove off. When we reached the Pier Perry felt reluctant to drive me near the station, and not wishing to compromise him any more, I directed him to set me down at Mrs. Beecher’s wine-house, opposite the Elmwood House, where I had on two occasions treated myself and Perry to a glass of lager. I entered. He drove off. I seated myself at a table In a front room, talking to the landlady’s daughter, who appeared to know who I was. My glass of lager had not been serve d when I saw the Governor coming along -tea buggy behind E fast mare; MidrciedliS would drlye past. He didnot, but stopped in front of the very house! Who told him I was there? I the landlady's daughter. { There is harm intended, what is to be done? ! Abe. pushed me fnto the back dining- | room, from which I .found my w»y into

the kitchen, not so much to seek a Iddlngplace, as to find some weapon of defense, should he penetrate so far. I saw what I wanted ana kept my eyes on U. Three or four mlnutos pasted in suspense. At last the door was thrown open, by tho landlady’s daughter. 1 Why,’, sho exclaimed, In aaton-. Isbment. 1 was the Governor going to shoot you! lie rushed In wildly wo®,,a gun In his hands, peered into every comer Ih the front rooms, and Inquired for you, I told him you had gone down Into the village. Thereupon he jumped, with his gun, Into a buggy, and drove off at a furious race toward the Pier.’ I replied tbat-there was no doubt of hit Intending to shoot me, and that I was much obliged to her for her protection. She suggested the advisability of hiring a fast conveyance and driving off. I assented, and she hailed a buggy Instantly. I jumped In and was driven home, out of harm’s reach.”

Smut in Grain.

Occasionally, and sometimes frequently, one may observe the heads of wheat, oats, barley, rye and tbe ears of corn filled with a black powdery substance, which is generally known as smut. When an ear of grain thus affected is examined, it will be seen that the substance of the grain is changed into this fine black powder, or that the grain is displaced by a puffy, swollen mass of the powder, the latter being more particularly to bq seen in corn. This smut, when viewed under a microscope of high power, is seen to be composed of black round balls, which are so small that 10,000,000 of them would cover no more than one square inch of surface, and 4,000,000 of them are able to occupy the bulk of a single grain of wheat. These minute balls are the spores or seeds of a fungus, a plant which has several intermediate stages of growth, and finally reproduces a new set of the spores. The minute seeds are small enough to float in the atmosphere, to adhere without being noticed to the grains which are sown as seed, or to rest in tho ground until they come in contact with the sprouting seed and infest the growing wheat. Immediately upon contact with a root of wheat the smutspore strikes a filament into the tissue of the plant and infects it as with a poison. The parasite penetrates throughout the tissues of the plant, sometimes, as with corn, bursting out upon the stalk, but generally appearing in full development in the ear or spike when the grain is forming. The cellular tissue of the grain or plant thus infected by the fungus is occupied by a vast number of four-sided cells or cavities, separated by walls, and which are filled with-a mass of very minute adherent granules, perfectly round and at first green, but afterward of a pale reddish brown color; at length the cell-walls the granules separate and appear as £he black—-but really rusty brown — powder which we call the smut. By proper treatment the smut-pores can be made to germinate and grow while under observation, when the process of growth is seen to be, as is usual with all fungoid vegetation, a throwing out of white threads called “ mycelium, and the gradual formation of the brown spores or seeds which we know as smut in the substance of this mycelium. When smut is abundant, crops are either totally ruined or so damaged as to be worth very little. Further, this smut is proved to be injurious to cattle which consume smutty fodder, and it is reasonably believed that much disease originates from the feeding of straw, or com--Stalks infested with smut. Fortunately, we have aa effective remedy within our reach. It has been discovered that caustic alkalies destroy the substance of the smut; and. also, that the application of sulphates of iron, copper and zinc have the same effect; of these latter the sulphate of Copper —the commonly-known blue vitriol—is' the most useful. The usual method of applying these remedies is to steep the seed in a solution of the various substances. The solution may be made as follows, and either the one or the other may be used as found convenient: One pound common salt in one gallon of water. One pound glauber salt#" in one gallon of water. Four ounces sulphate of copper in one gallon of water. Sufficient of the solution should be made to saturate the seed, or thoroughly moisten every grain. When the seed has steeped for two hours it is drained and spread upon a floor and sprinkled with dry lime in powder; that which has been air-slacked, by exposure to the atmosphere in a covered shed, until it falls to a fine dust, is best fitted for this use. The seed is then shoveled and stirred until each grain has been coated wjth the lime. In an hour or two it will be dry and may be sown. There are at least fifteen species of the smut fungus known to botanists. The genus is known as Uredo by some, ana'as Ustilago by. others. The species which attacks wheat is known as Uredo segetum, or the wheat smut; that of corn as Uredo maydis, the maize-smut. Other species inlest oats, barley, rye, grasses, sedges, and reeds (or marsh grasses, so-called), and other plants. One infests the wild onion, aud the same attacks the onions grown in gardens. The grasses most infested are orchard grass ( Dactylxs glomerala), and some varieties of Poa, more especia l ly Poa aguatica and Poa. fluilans; but the cultivated species of this genus, or Kentuckj blue grass, Poa prate.nxis, or Port, compressa, the' June grass or sp«£r grass of our fields, are not often attacked. Thorp arc other fungoid parasites which attack wheat. These are mildew, rust and bunt, tho last being a species of smut known by the naqae of Joetida, or stinking smut or bunt, from its foul smell. The first and second are well known; the last is not so frequent, but is sometimes found in ripe grain, which, when ground in tho mill ori crushed in the fingers, appears as a mass of black dust of disagreeable scent. All these are subject to the same treatment as for the prevention of smut. Steeping is a sure remedy, and any farmer who neglects to avail himself of so simple a help should certainly refrain from complaint if he finds himself* a sufferer. “ Wisdom is a defense,” and if we are wise we shall defend ourselves against this enemy, and use our. influence to prevail upon neighbors ~t& do the same. This and other evils are spread by the neglect of a few, or even of one, to use remedies, and the failure of one will lead to the stocking of the land of a hundred others, who may then justly complain of the injury.— N. Y. Times. A young girl asked her mother's consent to engage- Herself to her beau, showing her at the same time a piece of her own handiwork, a pretty matchsafe..- Her .mother drew down her spectacles and exclaimed:"" “ Mary, you can make a match-safe, but I havo my doubts whether you would mate a safe match.” Mary sighed involuntarily, and sought consolation in singing “ The Heart Bowed Down.”

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Hogs may bo kept from measles, trichinosis, etc., by mixing a handful of good wood ashes with their food twioe a weok. —The value of a cow depends much more upon the length of the milking season than upon the quality of milk given for a few weeks. Cincinnati Times. —Small corn cakes to bake on a griddle are excellent made with one pint of buttermilk, one pint of meal, one egg, teaspoonful soda, salt; bake half an nour. —The following rule in plowing is recommended: Never turn up over one or two inches of unfertile subsoil in one season, and when so turned gp, the land should receive a dressing of manure. —WafHea.—To one quart et milk add four beaten eggs, a tablespoonful of melted butter, one large gill of yeast, a little salt, and flour to make them as thick as griddle cakes. Set them to rise, and bake in wafHe irons. —A person who has tried it says that ashandful of tobacco stems placed ifi a box in which the dog sleeps will entirely rid him of fleas, and that a leaf or two of the same weed put in a sitting hen's nest keeps vermin at a respectful distance. Theso are two more things tobacco is good for. —An agricultural exchange says, to kill ticks on sheep, throw in the barnyard a few small, thrifty*/ secondgrowth fir trees. The sheep will eat the leaves and small twigs greedily, and often strip off all the hprk. The ticks will all leave the sheep in a few days, the strong odor from the oil of the fir driving mem away. —The Rural New Yorker says that ten acres of good "Clover are worth more than so much wheat, if the value of what is left in the ground by the clover is taken into account. When a crop of wheat is taken the ground is exhausted of so much of its fertility,, which is carried off in the wheat; but when a crop of clover is taken the soil is actually in better condition than before, and is good enough to yield a crop of wheat or corn. —The Western Rural recommends the growing of cranberries in the garden. A pound of bone-dust to the square yard is the manure. “In April, May or June, or in October and November, set the plants four inches apart in rows six inches asunder in beds four feet wide. Two square rods yield four or five bushels, and require 2,000 plants. The vines will soon cover the ground and require no renewal, as the plant is a perennial shrub.” —Corns are nothing more than thickened condensed scarf-skin, which, rising above the general surface, produce pain and pressure. They are always the result of ah unequal pressure, made by-an ill-fitting boot or shoe. A tight shoe, simply, never produces a corn, provided the shoe fits 'Wefl, is equally tight at all points, so as not to produce unequal pressure. A tight shoe, however, should never be worn, as it impedes circulation and oauses results equally as bad as corns. A shoe or boot too large is productive of corns, especially if the leather is hard and unyielding. Such a shoe will be very apt to produce a corn wherever it touches sensitive parts of the foot The proper way is to have boots and shoos made to tit, neither too large nor too small, but just right—and then bathe the feet frequently in warm water, to remove the scarf-skin. This is the best cure also for corns. Bathe the feet every night in warm water, and remove all the scarf-skin possible, and only wear well-fitting shoes or boots made of soft pliable leather. Ignore fashion, and use common - sense in selecting your shoes or boots, and corns will never trouble you.—Exchange.

An Important Geological Fact.

Geology has shown us that Nature accomplishes her greatest revolutions In the earth’s surface conformation slowly. Every year the river makes its channel deeper, the glacier wears a deeper gorge in the Alpine rock and the ocean tide deposits the sand it has crumbled from the rocks upon which it breaks. We note the earthquake and the devastating hurricane; but these changes are so gradual man seldom obicrves them until the channel has become overhanging cliffs, or a mountain has disappeared before the icy stream, or the ocean has given us a Florida. Thus it is in disease. Our attention is attracted by acute diseases, as fevers, cholera, etc., while chrouic diseases (often the most dangerous in result), being slow in their development, are seldom noticed until they have made an almost Ineffaceable impression upon the system. Persons believing themselves comparatively healthful are ofttimes the victims of these diseases, and only become aware of their eresence when relief is almost impossible. >lscases of the liver and stomach are the commonest of these chronic affections. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Plcasand Purgative Pellets are never-failing remedies for these diseases. They produce a healthful secretion of the bile, prevent indigestion by regulating the bowels, and Impart a vigorous tone to the whole system.

Tna cordial reception that Df. F. Wllhoft’a Anti-I’eriodic or Fever and Ague Tonic has received at the bands of the medical profession in Louisiana certainly proves that it is an excellent remedy, and that the composition of it, as published by its proprietors, Wheelock, Finlay & Co., of New Orleans, is indorsed by them. Against Chills and Fever, Dumb Chills and enlarged spleen there is no better remedy in the world. For sale by all Druggists, ' Good bread is a great blessing. This you can always hare by using National Yeast. It is purely vegetable, and perfectly healthful. Cbiw Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.

j)OS!IIJERS 61TTER s It la passive suicide to permit the health te he under, mined, the constitution broken, and the lease of life shortened, by nervous complaints, constlpsUon, biliousness, Indigestion, headache, or Intermittent and ISmittent fever*, when It Is a fact established br unquestioned evldeDoe that t|u> Bitten will prevent and remove these evils AU the a/mp*omi of lassitude and general debility speedily vanish when this lnvlgorant Is given a trial. For tale by all Druggists mad respectable Dealers generally. KH Kjpertence Is an eicellent teaehW. Three who have used HJIXIK’S FOOD will use 4 acaln. and those who have not are respectfully requested to do so.

4J>DR. CLARK '“xJOHNSON’Sn?Indian Blood Syrnp. LABORATORY, £ TT W. 3d St., New York City. LATB OF JKRfIKY CITY. “ ' [TRADE-MARK.] The Best Remedy Known to Han! Dr. Clark Johnson having associated himself with Mr. Edwin Kastman, an escaped captive, long a slave to Wakanletkla, the medicine man of the Comanchea, la now prepared to lend his aid In the Introduction of the wonderful remedy of that tribe. The experience of Mr. Eastman being similar to that of Mrs. Cbss. Jones and son, of Washington County, lona, an account o. whose sufferings were tlirllllngly narrated Inlhe New York Herald of Dec. lfith, IS7S, the facts of which are so widely known, and so nearly parallel, that but lltUe mention of Mr. Eastman's oxperlenees.wlll be given here. They are, however, published In a neat volume of 800 pagos, entitled “Seven and Nine Years Among the Comnnches and Apaches." of which mention will be made hereafter. Suffice It to aay that for several years Mr. Eastman, while a was compelled to gather the roots, gums, barks, herbs and berries of which Wakametkla’s medicine was made, and Is still prepared to provide tbo ham* 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 nnd nothing has been taken away. It Is without doubt the Btsi Poripikk of the Blood and Kknxwxb of the Srafitf era * ' * This Sjrup poetesses varied properties. It acta upon the Xilver. It acta upon the Kidneys. It regulates the Bowels. It purifies the Blood. It quiets the lervous System. It promotes IMgestloa. It Nourishes, strengthens and Invigorates. It carries of (he old hlond -and mlksl' ‘ It open, the pores of the shfn, snd'im- ' duces Healthy Perspiration. , .. ■l * " It neutralizes the hereditary taint or poison In the blood, wh'ch 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 the aged and feeble, c are only being required In attention . * i—i—§

Eastman in Tmtian Costume. SKVKN AND NlNl YEABS AMONG THg OOMANCUXS AND ArACBKS. 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, tortures and ultimate escape of Its two surviving members. For sale by our agents generally. Price, (1.00. The Incidents of the massacre, briefly narrated, are distributed by agents, frki of charge. Mr. Eastman, being almost constantly at the Weak 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 as Dr. Clark Johnson’* INDIAN BLOOD PURIFIER. Price of Large Bottles ... SI,OO Price of Small Bottlei .... .60 Read the voluntary testimonials of persons who have been cured by the uso of Dr. Clark Johnson's Indian Blood Syrup In your own vicinity. TESTIMONIALS OF CURES. •ytpepsia and Indigestion. nUKMSmxm, Pulaski Co.. Ind., March 22. tST% a Hear .Sir—l was troubled for tv* «r six yearawllh and Indigestion and Sour Stomach. 1 wag And relief under the care of physicians, and would try your Indian Bleed Myrop. waa marvelous, for 1 am entirely free from . and eat mast any food without experiencing 4Qj ps|n Qt Sourncu of Un stomach, ScrofaloßS Sore Eyeo Cored. SrkNCkR, Owen County. Ind. Dear Sir—Some nine age. my daughter, live years at age. took your Indian Bleed »yrn p for BcrofnEus Sore Eyes, which she was afflicted with from birth, and the medicine miraculously cored her. Her eyes fre now as clear aa crystal. I fool It my duty to give this teaU nooy, so that afflicted humanity may profit hr ' nj experience. JAMES 1L DAVIS. Derived Very fireat Relief. CaowN Point, Lake County, Did. Deaf Sir— l had been troubled with Catarrh ha some dine, using all kinds us medicine, without success, tilt 1 ■led your well-known Indian Blood Vyrup, from Which 1 derived very great relief. HliS. FRANK FULLER. More Good than Any Other Medicine. MICHIGAN cm, Laporte County, Ind. Fred. Boflnger. of Kloeprer h CO., says: “ Year remedy Was done my wife more good than any other madlclat sba ever took." „ Saves Doctor*’ Bills. SAl.Tnxovu.LS. Washington Co.. Ind, May 22, KTh Imir Sir -I have been using tho Indian Blood By rug In my family for the past five year*, and K has always given general satisfaction, especially in the case of my wife, who has used it for General Debility. It la the greatest blood purifler known to the world. It haa saved me a doctor's hill ot not laaa than tree hundred dollars. McC. PUIi'PS, Cares Congh of Six Years’ Standing tl t ’ Laoso, Wabash County, tad,, December, 1878. - Dear Sir—T will tell you what the Indian Blood Byrap Iras done for me. For six years 1 waa troubled •Ith a distressing Cough which seemed to bid deflanes to medicine. One half of a bottle cured roe. I now weigh 17(1; my age 18. F. M. SCIIAFZII. An Excellent Medlolne. Taltahaiso. Porter County, tad., March 28,181*. Dear Str—l was afflicted with Dladr.ess, and after the use of your Indian Blood Hyrnp 1 wns entirely •Cured. MARY a RENNET. Scrofhle, Indigestion and General Debility. Tipton, rtptoa County. Indt Dear Sfr-ThU tl to certify that your Indlaa Blood Mi rap has cured my daughter of Sctorulig Indigestton and General Debility, after tire doctor* failed. MKSL JAN* CH fI.DKBA 1 Scrofula. Milrot, Rush County, tad. Dear fffr—This la to oerßfy that I hare used your Imdlsa Blood Byrap lor Scrofula and MUk Lee and lam perfectly satisfied with Ora reaultrv It la the greatest blood purifier known to the public. I would advise all sufferers to give It a trial. MRS. LOUISA t. NXWBOLtt Neuralgia and ladlgestlon. QpiNCf, Owen County, tad., May U. 18Th Dear Sir—l was a great sufferer with Neuralgia and Irvdigrallon, tansTng almost continual Heaslache. You* agent persuaded me to try the valuable ladissß JBloosf Myrap. which 1 did. a pdf quod Immediate >• fil 1 not be without It

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