Rensselaer Union, Volume 12, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1879 — Page 3

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LITTLE TITIAN'B PALETTE. Hick np in tbe nk of Oadoca, , Kac< >mjjng»ard by moonUiM as wild _ As tbe wiidnewi of doom and of glory _ Could make them, dwelt Titian, the child. Tbe Mr-eon red ridges mad iu|w, The gone* u dusky aa night. Tbe atoad-wracks. the shadows, the changes. All Alkd him with drama of delight. Tbe flush of tbe anne, the daßag White abeea of the winter abroad. Would move him to ecataey; color,. To him, waa a riaiue of God. Enraptured bis mother would bold him With legend* that never sufficed To tin him oat, eeshe told him • Of Mary, tbe mother of Christ. How blae an bet eyes?” he would aak her; “ As bine aa the hanbelh I know; And her cheek” (it waa au be would teak her)?— “ la her check like a rcee nndar bow?" 80, stirred with the spell of tbe story, One day as be wandered alone Drop into the Vale of Cadore. When bl naan me b» thousands wen strewn. •He suddenly cried: ** 1 will paint her! Tbe darling Madonna!—for. see. These anemooe hods ate not fainter Than the tint of her temples moat be! • “ Who ever saw violets bluer? Tbeir stain is the stain of tbe skies; Bo what eoukl be sweeter or truer , For tinging the blue of her eyes? ** This rase why, tbe sonnets have fed her HU she ljoks like a rose of the Booth; I never saw ooe that was reddar; O. that 1 will keep for her month! Yaw blood-root, aa brown aa October, la Just what 1 want for her hair; And the joke of this gentian shall robe her In garments an angel might wear!” Thus the picture waa painted. Long after. In Venice, the Bride of the Bea. When we sat amid feasting and laughter. W ith guests of the noblest degree— When his name, and his fame, and his glory. To the height of the highest arose. And Titian, tbe child of Cadore, Was Titian, the Master—who knows If ever bis world-widened powers W ere touched with so tender a grace An when, from hi* palette of flowers, . He painted that marvelous face! —Mart J. Preston, in WUU-Awake.

A MOUNTAIN RIDE.

Of coarse we girls pitied Rachel Tick ham, But we never quite made her one cf as. She was such a shy little thine, and blashed if yoa spoke to her, and acted afraid of her own voice, and wore print dresses all the time, and never was invited to oar parties. She lived in a tumble-down old house which had been a very grand mansion once. The Tinkhams had been great people in my grandmother’s day. Nothing was left of their grandeur now, however, for there had been wine in one generation, and,, whisky in the next, and delirium tremens in the third. Ray's father was the third. She had a wretched time keeping house for him. Her mother was dead. “ We” were the girls of Mrs. Bland’s private school. , A dozen of us were out upon the east veranda one morning. We were all talking at once. Some one, it seemed, had said the High-School girls were better scholars than we were. 44 Very well. So they are.” This was Kate Avery, and she was standing up by the lattice where the morning-glory vines grew, and where a hundred clusters of little bells swung out—blue, and purple, and rose-pink. ; If Kate was anything, she was honest, '••though she was handsome, too. “We have music and French conversation, and Lou has a phaeton, and I have two donkeys, ana Queeny has - been to Europe, but,” lowering her voice, 44 It’s an awful secret though it’s the truth. The High-School girls are miles and miles beyond us in Latin and -mathematics.” “Indeed they are,” said L “Tm what Mademoiselle calls an 4 idgit’ in arithmetic. I really suppose that two and two make four, but if one of those girls were to tell me that they made live, I shouldn’t dare dispute her.” "The fact is,” said Kate, “Little Tinkham is the only one of us who is sure of her multiplication-table. - But then she doesn’t really belong to us. She wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for sweeping and dusting to pay her tuition. There she is this minute.” A small, red-100 king figure in a coarse dress came in sight round the corner. It was Rachel with her load of books in her arms. 44 She has worn that dress every day for three months,” said Lou Stedman ; “I verily believe she goes to bed when it is done up.” * 44 My dear, she can’t. She has to wash and iron it herself. O, there is Queeny P’ cried Kate. It was such a gentle, graceful girl who came walking fast to overtake Ray, canght step as she overtook her, and began taudng pleasantly. “ Doesn’t she look nice in that seal-brown suit? And isn’t it just like her to carry Bay’s books for herF’ Queeny’B real name was Alice. You * would have known why we called her Queeny if you had seen her walk beside Little Tinkham that morning, Open the gate, and stand still, erect, with that grand way of hers, for the girl to pass through. I believe we all rather worshiped Queeny. Kate met them with her forehead all tied up into hard knots, and asked Ray “Didn’t she 4 want to be an angel,’ and help her with thoee dreadful fractions F’ i So they two sat down on the doorstep, ana the rest went into the schoolroom. Then Lon called out to Ray to come and dust her desk. She said, 44 it wasn’t half-dusted.” Queeny said: 44 Ray is busy, I will do it;” and she, silent, and looking prouder than ever, dusted Lou's desk herself. It was this morning, Friday, that Mrs. Bland told us that to-morrow would be 44 Mountain Day.” All the schools in our town drive to the mountain once a year. . Our day always came in September. This time Mrs. Bland couldn’t go, so she sent along her cousin to matron ize us. She was a fidgety person, afraid of spiders, and no good any way. 44 We are to start at nine o’clock,” Queeny said. 44 Ray, can you be ready eo early?” . . „ Queeny'was a new scholar. She didn’t know that Ray never went with us to such places. Now she flushed and replied: “I don't think I can go to the mountain.” “ Certainly you are going.” Alice said it in her queeniest way. “If yon can’t go to-morrow,-we will put off going.” “ Saturday is my day to clean the school-room,”' Ray answered. “We will clean it. Let’s begin this minute,” and off came Queeny p s cuffs, and Kate’s, all the cuffs, in fact We made a little pile of them out by the geranium-bed. We went to work, and had such fun sweeping and scrubbing.

Jugt imagine Kate and Queeny washing the They did Uw^too. “ Now, remember,” Queenysaid, tbe last thing; “everybody u to war her oldest dress. And, Bay, be kind enough to bring hard-boiled eggs sos your luncheon? One apiece for us ail round?” Bay looked bright all over, and said Now, I think it was just beautiful of Queeny to think of that. She knew Little Tinkham couldn’t bring frosted cake and French rolls as the rest of us did. * So she spoke of the eggs. We all remembered that Bay had wonderful chickens.. I am sure tbe word about old dresses, too, was meant to help her. Tbe next morning Obed Tain tor came round with his uncovered omnibus, and his two great horses, and picked us up. We went for Bay last. She was standing in front of the old house, beside the tumble-down gate, with her basket of eggs in her hand. She looked perfectly happy, and her dress was so clean and smooth, Kate whispered to me: “That dress has been washed and ironed sinoe last night. Just think of it” " It was a clear, warm morning, and every one was in such a glow of good spirits. 1 think we were all glad we bad Rachel with us. But if it hadn’t been for Queeny, Bay would never have gone, and if Bay hadn’t gone, the rest of us would never have come home, and this story—for there is a story —would never have been told. It is eight miles to the mountain, and there is a carriage-road to the top. The last two miles are very hard and steep, because you rise nearly a thousand feet above the level of the Connecticut Biver, in that distance. But Obed was a steady, good driver, and his horses were steady, good horses. We always drew lots for the seat beside Obed. and it was one of our treats to get him talking about his “ team,” as he called it. “What are their names?” asked Qaeeny.

“Well”. a pause. Obed was a slow talker, bat he had a great deal to say. “The off one there is Grant, an’ the nigh one he is Sherman. Yon see, them creeturs was colts in war times, ’n’ I Darned ’em on ’count o’ the’r dispositions. ’T used to be sayin’ in them days that ‘Gin’ral Grant wa’n’t afeard o’ nothin’ ’t he could see, 'a' Sherman he wa’n’t afeard o’ nothin* ’t he couldn't see.’ An’ that air was just the case with them two colts.” “ Are they afraid of the cars?” “ Aint afeard o’ nothin’ in natur.” Obed paused for us to think this over, and then went on: “ Know too much, them creeturs do. They’ve carried a load to the mountain four times a week all summer. They’d take ye ’bout’s well es I wa’n’t along. They know—well—beat’s all what them animals know. Understand ’t Tm talkin’’bout’em this minit’s well ’s you do. They’re used to being to. My wife she thinks a sight of ’em. Beats all! She’ll go out to the barn, and she'll carry ’em apples, and she’ll be all over ’em; an’ one week when she was sick, an’ kep’ i* the house, you c’n b’lieve it or not, but it’s a fact that them creeturs lost flesh. She braids up their front hair for ’em, and ties it with a red ribbin one day. an’ then the next day she unbraids it, and it’s crimped, all in the fashion, you’ll understand. As they was a cornin’ to a party to-day, they’ve got their hairs crimped.” * But alas for Grant, and alack for Sherman! It was a terrible piece of work that you came near doing that day, though we girls never shall feel that yon were much to blame. You see this was what happened. We were all tucked into the wagon as tight as tigs in a box, that afternoon, ready to start for home, when Lou called ont that she had left her parasol. She most get out, and run up to the tower to get it. “ You just keep y’r aittin’,” said Obed. “I’ll fetoh yer umberill;” and he started for the tower. It was about ten rods off. The tower and the stable are built in a .small cleared sphoe at the top of the mountain. All around and below are thick old woods and great rocks. Obed had just gone out of sight when Queeny gave a little scream, and put her haiid to her eyes. “ Something has stung me,” she said, and then, that instant, while wd were all looking at her, it happened. * , The horses both reared, then gave a plunge, the omnibus seemod to rise from the gronnd with a great leap, and sooner than I can tell it, wo were all being borne, at an awful speed, down that narrow rocky road. I glanced toward Grant and Sherman, and saw a pair of terrible, wild animals. I looked toward the girls, and saw two rows of white, frightful faces.

The reins were dragging on. the ground. Some of us were shrieking, .“Whoa!” A few were getting ready to jump. All this in an instant, and then, suddenly, above the noise of the wheels and of everything else, we heard a voice ring ont clear; “Sit still, girls! I think I can stop the horses.’” It was Ray Tinkham, of all people in the world. She stood up with a steady look in her eyes. I must explaiir here that the road from the tower runs down a gentle slope for half a mile, and then there comes a sharp turn. Beyond that is Long Hill, the steepest, most dangerous part of the way. Kate seized my hand and whispeied: “If the horses are not stopped before they get to the turn, we shall all be killed.’" Ray was climbing over the driver’s seat. She always could climb anywhere, like a cat. She didn’t pause an instant, bnt she called back to me: “Natty Brock, put on the brakes. The rest of yon sit still. Only pray as hard as you can.” I sprang to the driver’s seat, and Jammed down the handle of tHe brakes. prayed, too. I believed I should never pray again: I saw and thought of a hundred things at once. I saw the great treetrunks and the huge black rocks close upon us. I remembered the clematis over the front door at home, and wondered who would tell my father that I was dead. Meanwhile, Ray was over the dashboard, and down with her feet over the whiffletree. How she did it I shall never know; but the next we saw of her, she was creeping along the pole between the hones, steadying herself with her hands on their backs. • Grant and. Sherman went tearing on like wild horses, their manes flying.

and their great bodies qui raring all **Brery instant the girls ware beooasing more excited. Queeny was holding Mrs. Bland’s oousin with both hands, to prevent her leaping oat. Kate cried: “We are almost to the tarn. What is Kay doing? She will frighten the horses worse than ever!” and she oovered her eves. The brow of the hill was not forty feet off. Far behind, we could hear Obed’s voice screaming to the hones to stop. The keeper of the tower was flying toward us. But they were too far away to do any good. There seemed not one chance m a thousand for us. But that very instant, when we all believed we were lost, we looked at Kay. We saw her reaoh forward with one hand and grasp the reins which joined the heads of the horses together. Just where the connecting straps crossed one another her fingers clutched them. One sharp, fierce jerk of those great heads backward, and the horses uackened their speed, and in an instant more stopped. The wagon stood still, although the creatures were snorting and plunging yet. Bat that small hand of Bay’s held on with a death-grip, and in a

moment more Obed caught Grant and Sherman by their heads. His face was as white as it ever could be, and he spoke one word only. It was: “ Hornets!” The horses had been stung in more than twenty places. They were unharnessed at once, and we were all out on the ground directly. We laughed and we cried, and Mrs. Bland’s cousin distinguished herself by fainting away. “I don’t blame the horses in the least,” Qneeny said. “One sting is bad enough,” and she showed where her eye was beginning to swell. “ The hornets came swarming out of the woods, there.” As for Obed, he was a humiliated man. “Bat I was the one to blame,” he said. “I thought Grant an’ Sherman would ’a’ stood till the’r hides dropped offn the’r ribs; but I tell ye ther’ never was the team hitched np yet that ’nd stan’ hornets. Blarstthe Greeters!” he added, in undertone. “Bat Bay Tinkham Kate, and she went np to where the little thing was sitting on a rock, looking pale. “ Yon saved ns all, you blessed child. How did you ever think of doing that?” “My grandmother stopped some runaway horses in that way once,” gasped Bay. “ I didn’t know whether I could stop Grant and Sherman, bat I knew somebody must do something, or we should all be dashed to pieces.” “Well,” spoke Obed, “I’ve known o’ that thing’s bein’ done just once afore in my life-time, but it was a boy that did it. There's a say in’ ’mongst teamin’ men that, when you hain’t got the reins, you can stop a runaway if yon walk oat on the pole and grip hold o’ the bridles, but’taint every horse that’ll stand it.” “But wasn’t it splendid of Bay?” cried Lon, going over and putting her arm around her.

“Never knew a girl c’d have so much Eluck,” answered the driver. “If she adn’t ’a’ been light on ’er feet, an’ level in ’er head, she never c’d ’a’ done it. More’n all that, ’twas a master good thing, ’t Grant and Sherman was used to a woman’s handlin’ on ’em. Rachel’s hand kind o’ calmed ’em down the minute she touched ’em. I minded that where I was. I tell ye if them horses hadn’t been unoommon good horses, nothin’ on airth would ’a’ stopped ’em.” And Ray? I never meant to make so long a story of it, but I most tell you that we gave her a party soon after this. All the fathers, and mothers, and brothers, went, and we carried her a carpet for her room, and a new cham-ber-set and nice new clothes all through; and a few of tbe gentlemen gave her a bank-book, whatever that may mean. I only know that she was to have the income of certain money, • and that it was enough to educate her thoroughly. We had the best time that night, and Queeny’s father took Ray ont to supper, and she sat at his right hand, and everybody treated her as though she had been a princess of the blood. I do believe there never was a happier girl on earth than Rachel was that night. —Julia Eastman, in Youth's Companion.

Fall Fallowing.

The practice of summer fallowing has justly fallen into disrepute, excepts ing when special reasons call for snch a costly and wasteful practice. To have land idle for one year that a double crop may be grown the second year results in no advantage, and, when the constant labor that is necessaiy to make a summer fallow effective is considered, there is a positive loss instead of any advantage. If the second year’s crop is not equal to as much as the two years' crops would have been, the loss is a serious one. Therefore, summer fallowing is rightly considered too costly for profit. But in our American agriculture this practice of summer working of the bare land, which was introduced from England, has really no place and never had. We have so many crops that require cultivation that the ground may be cleared of weeds with ease, and without cost, by growing either of them. Our corn crop is the great fallow crop, and it is a question rendered pertinent by recent discoveries if the growth of a 00rn crop does not actually make a less draft upon the fertility of the soil than the effect of two or three plowings and as many harrowings of which an effective bare summer fallow oonsists. It is now absolutely well known that a process of oxidation and nitrification is continually going on in the soil, through which organic matter containing nitrogen is decomposed and its nitrogen converted into nitric acid or ammonia. In the presence of lime this process is all the more rapid, as the lime is more caustic and fresh, and usually the nitric acid thus formed unites with potash liberated by. the effects of the lime upon the mineral portion of tbe soiL Tne nitric acid or nitrates formed by its combinations disappear almost as soon as formed, the one by washing and evaporation, and the other by solution and filtration. These facts are now well established and beyond question, and are sufficient of themselves to furnish a good reason why bare summer fallowing should never again be practiced; but at the same time they give a remarkable support to our common practice of fallowing by cultivated crops, of which oorn is the most convenient and the best suited to the circumstances of the case. For the constant production of nitric acid or ammonia in the soil, assists the growth of the crop and is taken up as fast as it is formed. It might be pertinently mentioned here that these facts

go to prove the wisdom of the practice, popular in some well-farmed districts, of applying lime to the plowed cloversod in preparation for the corn. The decomposition of the clover stems, leaves and roots is hastened by the lime, and an abundance of plant-food is furnished by the nitrification which goes on. It is interesting to find an instance of the propriety and scientific tenth of an old-established custom thus proved and justified by later discoveries, brought to light in the chemist’s laboratory and in the agricultural experiment stations. It is an example of well-founded principle that known successful practical operations in the field, although founded only upon observation, are really as tiraly scientific as though they had originated from the chemist’s investigations and the experiments of a professor. Correct practice, founded upon sufficient basis, is true science. But whil the old-fashioned summer fallow is thus out of date, and lies like an old wreck half-buried in the sand upon the verge of the great ocean of our experience, we may take the still sound timbers out of the old useless hulk, and of them construct a new and stout craft. For the useful principles which stUl remain of the ola practice apply with vital force to the new practice of fall fallowing. In this there can be no loss, because no crop can be grown, and nearly all the advantages can be secured that are derived from the exposure of the soil to tbe atmosphere through plowing and harrowing, and the consequent destruction of weeds. Thousands of stubble fields now lie oovered with pernicious weeds which are rapidly ripening seed, and the surface of those fields is’beaten and baked to a crust by the trampling of the harvesters and the late summer showers. If these fields were at once turned over by the plow, the weeds bnried under the soil, and the surface stirred by the harrow or cultivator once a week, myriads of perennial weeds would be destroyed, the vegetable matter wOuld become decomposed, or partly so, before the winter, and left in the best condition for supplying a crop with food in the spring. One or two plowings might be given, but this would depend upon the quantity of weeds and trash that was plowed under. If this was abundant it would be unwise to disturb them until the spring, when the mass would be fully decomposed. The surface could be worked with a disk < or wheel harrow, which would be far more effective than the common harrow, as its . effect is to stir the soil to a depth of five or six inches, and to throw it np into small ridges. A tough clay sou, however, would be greatly benefited by as mauy plowings as could be given, and a thorough chopping up with the diskharrow. In this way, or in other methods, which will readily suggest themselves to the practical man, the benefits of the now impossible summer fallow can be made available without any of its obvious disadvantages.— N. Y. Times.

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—To clean stair rods, use woolen cloth wet with water and dipped in sifted coal ashes. Afterwards rub with a dry cloth. —Ripe tomato pickles are thus prepared: Peel firm ripe tomatoes; slice them in halves, then pack in a jar with alternate layers of sugar. Use three pounds to 9 peck of tomatoes, and spice to taste. Invert a plate over the top, and set away for a month. They will make their own vinegar, and a first-class article at that. —Chili sauce is made thus: Four quarts tomatoes, four, large onions, six peppers, six cups of vinegar, six tablespoonfuls of sugar, then a tablespoonful of salt, oue tablespoonful each of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. First take the skins from the tomatoes, peel the onions and then chop tine, add all other ingredients aud boil about twenty minutes, and bottle while hot. —String beans can be prepared for winter use in this manner: String the beans, but do not break them. Put them on the fire with cold water and allow them to come to a boil. Take them off, pat them in a market) basket and let them drain until the next day. Make a brine of the water in which they were boiled strong enough to bear an egg. Tie tbe leaves in a muslin bag, put them ia a jar and pour the brine over them. Put a weight on and set them away. When used, change the water in which they were boiled; and if not used until late in winter soak them over night —To make corn porridge, takeyßkng corn, and out the grains from the cob. Measure it and to each heaping pint of corn allow not quite a quart of milk. Put the oorn and milk into a pot, stir them well together, and boil them till the corn is perfectly soft Then add some bits of fresh butter dredged with flour, and let it boil five minutes longer. Stir in at the last some beaten yelk of egg, and in three minutes remove it from the fire. Take up the porridge, send it to the table hot, and stir some fresh butter into it You may add sugar and nutmeg. —This is the way to put up cucumbers to have them remain firm without using poison to accomplish it: Wash your cucumbers, taken fresh from the vine, in clear, cold water; put them in a porcelain kettle, with just sufficient water to cover them, and add sufficient salt to season the encumbers. Let them remain on tbe stove till hot, but not boil; then take them Ont and drain till perfectly dry. Put them in bottles, and cover them with boiling vinegar of the best quality, to which has been added some red pepper, some mustard seed, a little horseradish, and sugar just to suit the taste. Cucumbers prepared in this way, if good vinegar is used, will keep a whole year if properly sealed up.— Cincinnati Times. —The old system of draining by means of narrow lands or ridges, and dead furrows between them for the purpose of carrying off the water, haa become obsolete. But it is a question if the method is not too useful to be abandoned. The use of the mower and reaper has tended to favor the practice of level plowing, but where the soil is wet and is not nnderdrained this is a manifest disadvantage, and this without any sufficient corresponding benefit The dead farrows may be made so regular in slope as to admit of the passage of a mower over them without trouble, and they will serve to carry off surface water, dry the soil, and prevent the heaving ont of grain or grass during the winter. In plowing wet lands for wheat or rye this consideration may be worth notice and thought— N. Y. Times. A Pulaski boy recently swallowed a penknife. Although not quite ont of danger, he finds some consolation in the fact that the knife belonged to another boy.— Fulton (N. Y.) Tunes.

A CONTEMPORARY OSkS: “ HOW Shall women carry their panes to frustrate the thieve*?” Why, carry them empty. Nothing frustrates a thief more than to snateh a woman’s pane, after following her a half mile, and then find that it oontaiqp nothing bat a recipe for 3ioed peaches ana a faded photograph her grandmother. —Norristown Herald. - "■W' “ Is there any opening here for an intaUeotaal writer?” asked a seedy, red-noeed individual of an editor. “Yes, my friend,” replied the man of quills; “a considerate carpenter, foreseeing your visit, left an opening for yon; torn the knob to the right!”

Commercial Education.

President Htyeu, who regards Chicago as the real headquarters of the commerce of the nation, has been recently in communication with Mr. JEL B. Bryant, the founder and father of the American system of commercial education. in regard to a coarse of basineas schooling for hie younger boys. They will probably take a regular coarse at the Chicago Business College and English training school. Information In regard to this thoroughgoing Institution can be had by addressing H. B. Bryant, 77,79 and 81 State street, Chicago. That Quinine will core Chills and Fever Is well known. Bat It is strange that the other febrifuge principles contained In Peruvian bark are more powertol than Quinine, and do not produce any annoying head symptoms like buzzing in the ears. This fact is proved by Dr. F. Wllhoft’s Anti-Periodic or Fever and Ague Tonic, which Is a preparation of Peruvian bark, without Quinine, according to the declaration of its proprietors, Wheelock, Finlay ft Co., of New Orleans Grocers everywhere sell Motional Ye oaf. If you have never used It, buy a package and be eonvlnced of Its superiority over all others Cnw Jackson's Beat Sweet Navy Tobacco.

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/*s>s«. Mu Blend Smp. LABORATORY, 17 W. 3d SL, Row York CHy. uaofOMT are. [TRITVS-IfIBT ] The Beet Remedy Known to Man! Dr. Claik Johnson having aametated hlueeif with Mr. Edwin Eastman, an escaped captive, king a slave is WakameUla. the medicine man of the Onmanchra, M now prep*rod to Mad his aid In the Introduction of tbs wonderful remedy of that tribe. Tbe renertanoe «f Mr. Eastman being tirallar to that of Mrs. Ctua. Janes and son. of Washington County, lowa, *n account of whose sufferings were thrillingly narrated to the Nets York Herald of Dee. 15th, 187 K, the tacts at which are so widely known, and no nearly parallel, that Imt little mention of Mr. Eastman’s experiences will ba riven here. They are, however, published in a neat volume of 800 pages, entitled '‘Seven and Nine Yean Among the Comanches and Apaches.” of which mention will be mode hereafter. Suffice it to say that tor several years Mr. Kastman, while a captive, was compelled to gather the roots, gflns, tons, herbs and berries es which Wakametkla’s medicine «M made, and Is still gimud to provide the sun materials for the successful introduction of the medicine to the world; and assures the public that the remedy M the same now as when Wakametkto compelled him to Wakametkla, the Medicine Man. Nothing bos been added to the medicine and nottilng has been token sway. It is without doubt the Bxst Purifier of the Blood and renrwxr of the Sr stem ever known toman. This Syrup possesses varied properties It net* upon the Elver. It acta upon th— Kidneys, It rernlstes the Bowel*. It pvxrlflea the Blood. It galets the Nervont System. It promotes Digestion. It Nourishes, Strengthens and InvlgIt carries oil the old blood and makes New. It opens the pores of the shin, and induce* Healthy Perspiration. It neutralises the hereditary taint or poison In the blood, which generates Scrofula, Erysipelas and all manna- of skin diseases and internal humors. There are no spirits employed In Its manufacture, and tt can be taken by the most del lea to baoe, or by tbe aged and feeble, care only being required in attention Indirection*. Edwin Eastman in Indian Costume. SZVZK AND NLNZ YEARS AMONG THZ COMANCJIRS AND AFACHgs. A neat volume of 800 pages, being a rimple statement of the horrible facts connected with the rsd massacre of a helpless family, and the captivity, tortures and ultimate escape of Its two surviving members. For sale by oar agents generally. Price, 41.00. The Incidents of the massacre, briefly narrated, are distributed by agents, nun of charge. Mr. Eastman, being almost constantly at tbe West engaged tn gathering and curing the materials of w.Jrh the medicine to composed, the sole business management devolves upon Dr. Johnson, and the remedy bat been called, tnd Is known as Or. Clark Johnson's INDIAN BLOOD PURIFIER. Price of Large Bottles - - .1 SI.OO Price of Small Bottle* .... ,50 Bead the voluntary testimonials of persons who have ' been cured by tbe use of Dr. Clark Johnson’s Indian Blood Syrup In your own vicinity. TESTIMMULS OF CURES. Cures Dyspepsia, Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind., Jan. IS, 1870. Dear Sir— l consider Dr. Clark Johnson’s; In llna Blood Myron an excellent medicine for Dyspepsia and Liver ComiilaluL My wife has been groatiy tioubt d with them both, and I bought two buttle* from your agent, F. H. Weaver, and obtained great relief. U. F. EIUHTLEY. Chills and Fever Cored. VMsreCokKXR, Tartu r Co., Ind- Junefl, 1870. Dear Sir— My little daughter was sorely afillctr.l with Chills and Fever for thirteen months, and the doctor* failed tn give her any relief. 1 gave her some of y.mr Indian Mlood Nyrup, which speedily and effectually dured ber/'l can recommend It to 1« a valuable remedy. WIN DALEY. Diseases of Females. ] { Chicaoo, Henry County, Ind., Feb. 20,1879. Dear Sir—l was suffering with what tbe doctor called a decline of health, and could get no relief. I tried your valuable Indian Blood Hyrsp and soon found myself greatly benefited, and I am now sble to do my wort. CATHERINE RINEHART. Remedy for Rheumatism. ANTIOCH, Huntington County, Ind., Feb. 18, 1879. I>ear Sir— l was affilcte l with the Hhcninallsm; was helpless; could not work for a month. 1 tried several of our home physicians, but received no benaltt. Hearing of yonr Indian Mlood Nyrup, 1 {ins ured some, and It cured me. This was 5 yea s a to, and since that 1 have seldom used any other medicine. ; * - JAMES BKNSOH. Cures Rheumatism. Krw Matsvtllz, Putnam Co., Ind- Feb. 27,1879. Dear Sir— l have used yonr Indian Mlood My rap for RheumatUm, and found it to he better than anything 1 had ever taken, «>d confidently rerwnuieudlt to all suffering with Rheumatism. Give It a trial. WILLIAM McKEUNA Enlargement of the Liver. Grafton (ML Vernon P. 0,1, Prtacy Comity, Ind. Dear Sir— My wife was troubled with Liver Complaint. and has received more benefit fromyour Indian Mlood Nyrnp than Horn any other medicine she has evt r taken. It to the only medicine that win tot her sleep nights. ABRAM WALKER Cores Neoralgia. Elrod, Ripley County, Ind., Feb. 1,1979. Dear Sir—l have been afflicted with an Iwrard weak nee* and Neuralgia, and, J taring found relief from the nae of poor most excellent Indian Mlood Nyrnp, I would advise all who are In like manner afttirte I to give tt a trial. K. S. NKIUUBEB C. Female Weakeess aud General Debility. Madison, Jefferson County, Bid., April 5, 1879. Dear Sir— ln the spring of 1877 I hid been alck and falling for more than a year, and had given up all hopes of ever getting welL It was the universal talk with almost all the neighbors and the physician that I must won die. I thought tbe difficulty was in my stomach, bat the doctor sakl It was my lungs. In this rondlthvi I beard that one of my neighbor* was agent tor yma Indian SlMd Syrup, and I resolved tc give it a trial. 1 procured some, and the effect was wonderful; It built me np and gave me an appetite such as 1 had not enjoyed tor a long time. I can recommend It to all sufferers. MRS. MARY A. FORI’. Care for Heart Disease. Stkam Corn nr. Fountain County, Ind. Dear Sir—l was troubled for years with Heart Dte ease, and tried various remedies without getting any relief until 1 took some of your excellent lisdihM Mlood Nyrnp, which, to my mu prise, sgr-cdily and effectually cured me. I now feel like a new man, and weald recommend your medicine highly. 1 ELDER HUTTS,