Rensselaer Union, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1879 — Page 2

The Rensselaer Union. REX*BELAJE&, * INDIANA.

MARTHY ELLEN. IVrp’i nothin' In the name to strike A feller more’n oommoiHikc! Tain’t liable to git no praise Nor nothin’ like It nowaday; And ytt that name o' hcr'n is jest As purty as the puniest—'And more'n that. I'm here to say 0 I’D lire a-thfnktn' that a way And die for Marthr Ellen! * It may l>e I was predjudust i In favor of tt from the fust—’Cause I kin recollect Jest how We met, and hear her mother now .A-calHn* of her down the road—(The wnutln’ little'toad I) And I kin see her, sort o’ halfway disappointed, turn and laugh And mock her—” Marthy Ellen!” Our people never bed no fuss. And ytt they never took to us; WcnelirtoN red back and foreds some; Until they see she liked to come To our bQjose—and me and ber Was Jess together ever’whur And all the time—and when they’d see That I liked her, and she liked me. They'd Holler “ Marthy Ellen P» When we growed up, and they shet down On mm an her avunnln’ mun’ Together, and her father said “ Ho d hover leave ber naiy red, H<> help him, es she married me," And so on—and her mother she Jest rigged the girt, and said ” she 'lowed Hhe’d ruther see her in her shroud,” 1 I wrote to Marthy Ellen. That Is, I klndo’ took my pen In band, and stated wbur and when The undersigned would be that night With two good bosses, saddled right For lively travelin'—ln case Her folks 'ud like to jine the race. She sent the same note back, and writ “ * The rose Is red!” right under it—“Your’n alius—Marthy Ellen.” That's alt I reckon—nothin’ more To tell but what you’ve bee red afore— The same old story—sweeter tho’ For all the trouble, don’t you know? ()l<t-fashloncd name! and ytt It’s Jest ' As purty as the purticst! Ann more’n that. I’m here to say I'U live a-tbinkin’ thataway And die for Marthy Ellen. '—John C. Walker, in the Kokomo Tribune.

THE GREEN-GROCER’S BOY.

Now the hero of our tale is the Green-procer’B Boy; but then his history Is so mixed tip with that of “ our Polly,” aud Pa Jones has told that story sowell himself, that for any one jetsc to attempt to do it better would be too aboard. Hero goes for the old gentleman's posthumous papers, from among which we ekhume the following: Ikar Jcrnshy —lt must be twenty year since I wrote you a line; but knowing you was wclLto-do down in Lancashire, and seeing you never took the trouble to come up to London and look sifter us a bit, and being as I’ve never been easy in my mind since Polly c*mc — But there! you don’t know who Polly is any more’n the dead; and to think my* own flesh-smd-blood sister don’t know our Pollv just makes me feel what a wretch I’ve been. Wife and me, you know, kept a tobacco shop on the Strand, just above street,when wc was first mairicd; got it yet, too, and it pays, it does, though if wife was to see me behind that counter now she’d have hysterics, which is what we used to call “tantrums,” but Polly says when folks get rich the doctors find a new Greek name for it, and Pol Ip knows, or if she don’t, the Green-gro-cer’s Boy does. It’s no use; I’ll never forget that fellow in his blue .cheek apron —no, not if he lives to be Lord Mayor. Well, wife and I we stuck to llic shop pretty industrious, 'and the first thing we knew we began to get rich. Somehow we couldn’t seem to help it. Yon see, when every fellow you mpet either smokes or chews, man and bof — and some say the women, too, on the sly—from the Prince of Wales down to the lad that sweeps the crossing, it stands to reason that there must be a pretty gobd demand for tobacco. Wife ami I we kept a good article, ever}- variety. Bait there, Jemshy, what’s the use of talking? You don’t know tobacco from a cabbage leaf, and I dare say don’t want to.. But the money kept a-piling and a-piling up. And we had never a chick nor child, though we’d been married fiftceh year. There was the butcher, he had a baker's dozen, f and the tallow-chandler likewise, and we hadn't one. Now I was inclined to fret about it, for it was dreadful lonesome the kettle ever}- night in the ‘parlor behind the shop* dith nobody to upset the hot water, and racket around, and get things out of place. Excepting the times when she was blowing me up, there never was such a couple as the old lady and me; and those times was only when she- felt a little important, for, you see, that bank account was getting bigger and bigger, and it ain’t every temper as can stand prosperity, leastways not the old lady's. Now,* if onr' house, and the shop included, hail been turned upside down, and stood on its roof with the foundations sticking in air, there couldn’t have been a greater revolution in its internal economy than there was after our baby came. It wasn’t four weeks before the ► old lady and I had a dreadful row—all alxmt giving it a name. She wanted it called “Marie Antoinette;” for she said - “ now we’d got a baby we was going to be gentle folks, and it shouldn’t be named after anything less than a queen.” “ Mercy, wife !” says I, “you wouldn’t the child after a woman without a head ?” “ But she had a head once,’* said the old lady, which, of course, I couldn't deny. 1 stuck it out, though, when all of & sudden she went into hysterics. We hadn't learned the name then, but that was it Then the neighbors * came, and said I was a • “ bruteso of course I gave in. Nowadays, when, Polly sees her ma is going to be topk in that way, “she cures her right up with a good dose of commonsense; but you see, at that time, Polly was only a month, old. So “Marie Antoinette” it was; and you ought to , have seen the clergyman grin! I took to calling her Polly, though; and I tell you what, that young one was no goose. She'd never answer to anything else—not she. The next row was just before she had the measles. Wife and Iwe was trying to settle upon a husband for Polly. The old lady picked out the FVince of Wales; he hadn't any wife at that time; and, after all, it seemed hardly likely that he’d wait; but there wasn't anybody else in the kingdom that would suit the old lady. Now I always loved the Queen—God bless her! —but I didn’t like his ways; and I just said so. Then wife she said I was a traitor to my country, which was mast unjust, considering I'd always paid my taxes regular for the support of the aristocracy.* We was at it hot and heavy, when the doctor came in; we always had him once a week, to see that Polly was all right. Now he knew more than we did, and told us that his Royal Highness couldu’t marry a subject, and as Polly was of course an out-and-out Britisher, we had just had all the fuss for nothing. She swallowed a button, too, that minute, and *the old lady was so

worried that she forgot all about a husband. Somehow we never could do anything with Polly without a row. You see, it was so important what she ate, and where she went, and what she put on, and what she left off, that we couldn't help getting excited about it; but wife ana I we’d both a died for that young one, and so, after all, we didn't fight very hard. But the old lady she said 1 didn’t know anything about children, just as though I hadn't petted the butcher’s young ones on Che sly for fifteen years. Now I nerver was of much importance in the house after Polly came, but I do maintain that when a child of four years wants to play horse, its paternal parent is better adapted to the situation than any female relative who wears petticoats. Naturally at such times the old lady was jealous, but it couldn't be helped. And you ought to have seen the number of things the old lady bought for Polly. It it hadn’t been for the Partagas going off like hot cakes, and the property Pd bought going np like mad, Pd have had to go into bankruptcy. But even the old lady’s extravagance couldn’t get ahead of the Partagas, though I’H give her credit for it, she did her best. First she furnished the house new from top to toe, and then every year of her life that young one had at least forty new dresses. I said she couldn't wear them out; and wife said of course she couldn’t—she outgrew them. Then I said: “ What do you buy so -many for?” Then the old lady would ask me what on earth I knew about a girl’s frocks; and the tone of her voice was so withering that I felt like a cabbage that's been yanked off its roots and left in the sun four days. And Polly’s education —phew! didn’t it cost a pretty penny? But the way she took to her book was wonderful. Wife said she must learn French; but I said one tongue was enough for a woman. Then tne old lady got mail, and hang me if the young one didn’t go and learn Dutch too. You see, I was kind of worried for fear she’d get to despising her old dad, who couldn’t teach her anything but the price of tobacco. But she didn’t—not a bit. She just took to the shop, and before she was ten she could tell any brand, from Turkish down to plug, just as well as I could, and she’d smoke her cigarette like a little man. Ever}- night at nine she’d put down her book and we’d tell yams just as jolly as two Jack Tars, and the things Polly’d get out of those books and retail to her astonished parent was amazing.

But the old lady was getting more and more airish every day. Polly’s accomplishments kind of went to her head, like champagne —not that we’d ever tasted it then—only beer; but beer and Polly’s learning had the same effect on the old lady—they made her restless. Nothing would do but we must have a piano; and we did; and piano brought such a lot of things with it that I got awfully afraid she il want a new house. But it wasn’t the old lad}' that made us move; it was the Green-grocer’s Boy. You sec, Polly got to be fourteen, and the first thing we knew' all the fellows in the street took to running after her. Wife didn't like it, for we wasn’t in a grand neighborhood; and, in spite of her disappoints ment about the Prince, the old lady still had wonderful ideas about Polly. Now the Green-grocer’s Boy had been took from a foundling asylum, and he hhd queer ways. First place he was good-looking, and the second place he wore his check apron in a way that seemed as if he didn’t fit well in it. Then when we ordered beets, he was •sure to bring apples, and once when Sally (we ,kept a servant then, you know', for all I like to have died with the cooking) was pouring the potatoes into the pot, in plumped a Latin grammar which that rascal had hid in the basket, intending to poison us. I made an aw'ful row about it; for though I didn’t mind Polly’s books, I w'asn’t going to be done to death by those belonging to that wTCteh out of a foundling asylum. Then up jumped Polly—my!' what a racket she could make when she was mail!—and said she wouldn’t hear a word against that Green-grocer’s Boy, for she was engaged to be married to him, and have Tiim she would,if she lived on soup made of Latin grammars all the rest of her life. The old lady was took in a minute, and it was all Sally and me could do to hold her, with two of the neighbors to help. Now I attend church regular, and always say “ Amen” in the right place, and 1 never swear; but on that occasion I ripped out a dozen oaths in a minute just as easy as if I’d practiced all my life. Polly told me to htish up and not disgrace the family, and the little wretch looked so impudent, as if she enjoyed the row; she’d made, that I wished she’d been a boy, so I could have spanked her till she was black and blue. As soon as the old lady came round, we made up our minds. In a week I let out the shop ; we packed up everything we owned, and the first thing we knew we were bumping round on the English Channel on the way to France ; for the old lady said that no one mortal island on the face of the earth was big enough to hold her and that Greengrocer’s Boy. Yet there he was on the wharf/ as smiling as a basket of chips, when w'e sailed off, and Polly a-grin-ning at him from the upper deck. Now there was one thing we hadn’t taken into account, and that w'as that although the old lady could talk English like a streak of lightning, especially when she was mad, and I wasn’t bail at second fiddle, not a soul of us but Polly could speak a word of French. There she had us, the little baggage, and do you know we had to coax round her four davs before she’d open her lips. If it hadn't been for the waiters and fellows that was used to people from foreign parts, and could talk all manner of languages, that brat would have let her parents starve to death before her very eyes. My!, wasn’t she mad? First I thought she’d never make up ;?but in about a week I -heard her say she “ thought she’d take a smoke.” Then I knew she was all right, because in spite of Polly’s fondness for her own way, and her tempers when .she didn’t get it, I knew she’d never be so downright abominable heartless as to come baok to tobacco without asking her old dad to join her. Jemshy, it was ten mortal years before ever* I sat mortal foot on my own native shore again to stay. Except sneaking back and forth now and then to see after the business that it didn’t go to the dogs, I didn't know any more about old England than if I lived in Patagonia. Polly went to school, and the old lady took to France like a duck to water. It seemed as if anything connected with a land so utterly vile that it could hilrlxir that Green-grocer’s Boy turned her stomach. She got to be a woman “ with soul so dead,” etc. I don’t know much poetry, but I know that And Polly, she didn’t seem to care a

straw about home either. She got pretttier and prettier, and saucier and saucier. Fust she was finished at what they called a “pension,” and then she set up to travel. So did her mother, for after the old lady got rid of the Green-grocer’s Boy she was lost like a lamb m Polly’s hands. Now I was afraid we’d have an awful dull time, for I thought people wouldn’t take to us. You see there’s a good deal of the shop about me, for when a man’s been behind a counter forty years, it kind of sticks out. But Polly was so dreadful charming, and * she carried us right along. Some of the swells looked out of the comers of their eyes; but the fellows all made for Pollv, and generally they dragged their mothers and sisters in, for when the aristocracy goes abroad it isn’t near so particular as it is at home. Besides, the old lady is a good-looking party and don’t talk much in company, and when the fellows found I was a nice, decent old gentleman, who could always S've them a good cigar, they began to ink it didn’t hurt them to be polite to a fellow-creature if he did sell tobacco. Besides, thev wanted to marry Polly, snch a lot of them, and of course Pd be one of the family. But Polly she kept turning up her nose at them till I was afraid it would grow so. Nobody sailed her, and one day she gave us both a turn by saying she was going home.

Home we went, and wasn’t I glad, though I didn’t much like the new house in the West End. I was afraid of the swells again. But we had been there three days, when a most elegant young man came to call, and in two weeks Polly was engaged to him. It took my breath away, but then he was the adopted son of the Hon. Samuel Johnson, one of the biggest lawyers in London, and of course it didn’t behoove a tobacco seller like me to say a word. My! you should have seen the way the women carried on getting ready for that wedding. If I hadn’t slipped down to the Strand and found the Partagas going off more lively than ever, I’d ’a been scared. Well, the day came. Polly was perfectly lovely in a million yards of dry-goods. There was flowers and music and speeches, and fourteen times more breakfast than! anybody could eat. The Hon. Samuel, for all he had the gout, and it pained him dreadful, was just as polite to me as if I’d been a Duke, and I esteemed it a great honor, for he’s been to court, anil Knows who’s who. He said he was honored by my acquaintance, and I tell you when I looked at his elegant young son, a swell among swells, sitting there married to our Polly, I felt as if the disappointment about the Prince was all made up. But now comes the awful part of it. Everybody was gone but ; just the family, when Polly jumped: into my arms, train and all, and, squeezing me till I was that red in the face I like to burst, screams out: “I’ve done it, daddy, I’ve done it! I’ve married the Green-grocer’s Boy!” In a minute I was as cold as ice, and I turns to Mrs. Jones and says, “Madam, you had better have this young woman put in a strait-jacket at once.’’ But, Lor! tjiere was the old lady took again, and Felly was fully ten minutes bringing her round. Then she ran off, and left the Hon. Samuel to explain. It seems that just after we went to France one day the old gentleman, who was getting on in years, though looking hale and hearty, got under the legs of a horse when he was crossing the Strand. Along comes that Green-grocer’s Boy. and pulls him out. lustead of giving him a shilling, the Hon. Samuel adopts the wretch, makes a lawyer of him, and sends him to France on vacations to make sly love to our Polly. It was an awful take-in, Jcrusliy, and I couldn’t help treating the old gentleman in a dignified manner for full ten minutes. But he began to talk just like a lawyer. He said that wretch went round among all the vwelty, and could have married the daughter of a Duchess, which I believe to be a lie. And he also said that Cardinal Woolsey was the son of a butcher, which may be a lie, too, for all I know. I never gave in till Polly came down in her traveling dress. Then she threatened she’d never smoke another cigarette again as long as she lived, and I had to do it —l shook hands with the Green-grocer's Boy. But it’s a subject I don’t like to talk about; it harrows up my feelings. So no more at present from your affectionate brother, Josiah Jones! P. S.—What 1 wrote this for was to say that the house is awful lonesome since Polly’s gone, anil as you’ve got six girls, wife and I we thought maybe you might let one come and stay with us. And as for Green-grocers’ Boys, you needn’t be frightened, for, with the exception of that wretch, who, they say, is going to be aQ. C. and a Member of Parliament, and who comes to dinner every Sunday, we don’t keep any such company. —English Magazine.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—General H. H. Gaines, the exConfeilerate who died recently in Jack County, Texas, directed that his body be buried by the side of his two dogs. —lt is understood that no attempt will be made to secure bail for Mr. Demond, the defaulter of the Home Missionary Society, but that his trial will take place soon. —Mrs. Grover, of Brimfield, Mass., has reached the great age of 105 years. She is able to go about the house without assistance, and bids fair to see several years more of active life. —The Fredericksburg (Va.) News claims that the first American crcmationist was a Fredericksburger, Hon. John Dawson, who in his will, executed in 1814, directed that his body should be burned. —The Rev. W. H. H. Murray once said: “If any man ever charged me, directly or indireotly, to my face with infidelity, it would be a case for a coroner, not a court; I’d lling him out of the window.” —The house of the Rev. Dr. L. W. Bacon, of Norwich, Conn., was be-, smeared with mortar and otherwise injured recently, during his absence from the city, probably in revenge for his endeavors to enforce the Sunday law. —The golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Francis Adams took place at Quincy, Mass., recently, in the same house where that of John Adams was celebrated in October, 1814, and that of John Quincy Adams in July, 1847. The intervals are thirty-three and thirty-two years, the lifetime of a generation, and there has probably never been another instance in this country where three successive generations have celebrated their golden weddings beneath the same roof. John Adams was seventy-nine years old and John Quincy Adams eighty years old when they celebrated their golden weddings. Charles Francis Adams married earlier in life than either his father or grandfather, and he is now seventy-two years old.

HOKE, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Make the soil your savings bank, and remember that rich farms make rich farmers, and poor farms make poor families. —DesMoines Register. —Clean all dairy utensils by rinsing them with dean cold water, and afterwardscrubbing them with boiling water; after which repeat the cold rinsing. —The following recipe for a lemon pie is given by a correspondent of the Cincinnati Engntirer : Juice and grated rind of one lemon, one teacupful sugar, one tablespoonful flour, yelks of three eggs, one cup sweet milk; when baked add the whites, beaten to a stiff froth, with sugar, for frosting; bake to a delicate brown. —For the cleansing of outbuildings, sheep-barns, cow-stables and henroosts, as well as pig-sties, there is no renovator or purifier like lime. A coat should be spread over the inside of these buildings at the close of the summer season in order to destroy all vermin or eggs that may remain secreted in the crevices and cracks, ready to prey on the animals when they come oome to their quarters in the chilly autumnal nights. —State Register. —A great many have asked for a remedy for cabbage worms, and many remedies have been given, so I will give you mine, which has proved effectual with cabbage worms and cucumber and melon bags ; in fact, it has proved a remedy for every insect that destroys garden vegetables except the squash bugs. They have bid defiance to everything. Take of aloes a lump the size of a hen’s egg, and dissolve it in three quarts of not water. Let stand until cold, then sprinkle on the heads of the cabbages.—Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.

—There has been a foolish notion that hard fare makes young colts hardy. And whether the doctrine is believed or not, it is too often practiced. But it is all a grave mistake in either theory or practice. An animal of any kind, once stinted by hard fare and treatment never entirely recovers from it. They will never be equal to the size, form, symmetry or action that they would have if generously treated from birth until full maturity. It is useless to go to the trouble and expense of breeding fine carriage or draft horses, if it is all fed out of them with only straw or com stalks, and they are sheltered in fall rains or’winter storms by a wire fence. We fully appreciate fine blood in horses, cattle, hogsjand sheep, but we like a top cross of generous feeding and kind care. A diy pasture on dry hay or corn in a stable are not sufficient for a colt just separated from its mother. Poor care and feeding now will carry it into the winter thin and feeble, and the owner will be inquiring of his neighbors what will kill lice on colts. Colts pay to raise when it is done with a careful and generous hand. But this cannot be done by putting them in a dark stable, and feeding them on slough hay and com smelling strongly of rats and mice. —lowa State Register.

The Cost of Carelessness.

How often do we hear as an excuse for some harm done or wrong committed, “ I did not mean to do it. I had no thought of causing any such trouble.” Certainly, “want of thought” draws after it a great train of evils and leaves behind it a broad trail of cost and sorrow. Wc see the results of carelessness in all departments of life, and in all degrees, from the most trivial, causing only inconvenience and confusion, to the most far-reaching, casting a shallow into eternity. A nurse fell down the stairs with an infant in her arms, and fifty years afterward there was a hump-backed man creeping about the streets. A child threw a piece of lemon-peel on the sidewalk, and there was an accident an hour afterward, in which an old lady was severely injured, so severely that she will never be able to walk again. A switch-tender opened the wrong switch, and the heavy train dashed into a great building that stood at the end of the short side-track, and lives were lost amid the wreck. An operator gave a careless touch to his instrument, and there was a terrible collision on the rail. A boy shot an arrow from his bow; it went whizzing away from the string, and a comrade is blind for the rest of nis life. A woman {loured oil from a can into her stove to ias ten her lire, and there wasjan lexplosion and an outburst of flame, which burned down the building about her. A young man pointed a gun in sport at his best friend, playfully saying that he would shoot him; and one noble youth was carried to his grave, and another goes through life with an awful shadow of memory hanging over him, which quenches all his joy and makes all life dark to him. A druggist’s clerk compounded the prescription in haste, and in an hour a sick girl was dying in terrible pain and convulsions, from the poison in the prescription. A beautiful young lady danced at a party one chill midnight, and then raised a window in a side room to let the fresh air fan her hot cheeks; and in a little while they followed her to an untimely grave. What long chapters of accidents are every year recorded, all of which result from carelessness! A little careful thought on the part of the responsible persons would have prevented all of them, with their attendant horrors and their long train of suffering and sorrow. —Surulay School Times. Among the tourists who returned from Europe this week are Dr. E. B. Foote, of the Health Monthly, anil Mr. Dana, of the Sun. Attaches of his establishment state that Dr. Foote has combined business and pleasure by attending to publishing interests abroad, his “Home Talk,” “Medical Common Sense” and other works being translated and republished at Berlin and elsewhere.— N. Y. Local Reporter. In former years it was a common occurrence to find SO per cent of the field hands in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama struck down with Bwamp Fever, Chills and Fever or Dumb Ague, Just during tho busiest time of summer. Now, we are glad to hear that the planters succeed in curing every case of tbe disease in a few days by the use of Dr. F. Wiihoft’s Anti-Periodic and Fever and Ague Tonic, which is sold by all Druggists through tbe country. The m National” is a vegetable, dry hop yeust, containing no mineral ingredients whatever. It is the cheapest sad beat in tbe world. Chew Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.

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"Good Pn>-MA««SHn’ is very deslrnb e in whatever station m life you are plaoed, ana we are pleased to note that toe system-of American penmanship Introduced b» Prof. G. A. Gaskell, of Manchester. Now Hampshire. United States, to very popular In London, and is used In many of the leading commercial houses. It Is called 'Gaakeil’s Compendium,’ and Is simpler and more easily learned, and may be written with greater ease sod rapidity, than any of toe old styles. Trubner k Co., Booksellers, 67 k 59 Ludgate Hill, have It for sale.”—Foil Hall Gazelle, London, England. ” The salient advantages of Gaskell’* system are Its legibility, rapidity and beauty. There to no style of writing, plain or ornamental, business or epistolary, far lady or gentleman, which Is not Included In this admirable tystem. And we think that If anything at all <*>uld fire an Indifferent writer with a desire to become an expert and elegant penman, an inspection of Mr. GaekeU’s system would do so.”— Heu> York Daily ft lines*. W-TE«CPEii«IP ■'HIS SYSTEM has hem prepared expressly to meet the wants of those desiring to cliango their.present handwriting to a more East and SAmvri. style, by home or office practice, without a teacher. It is the only American system used In the commercial offices of LonamMn New York, Boston, Philadelphia and other cities of GASKELL’S COMPENDIUM I 1 Bmslneaa, Ladles’ and Ornamental Penmanship, In all varieties ; Movement Kxerrlsn, Alphabets’ JLedger Headings, Bllla, Model (Signature*, Corrcv H K (ponding Blylrs, Album Work, Card-Writing, PenDraw ing and Shading, German Text, Old English* | Off-Hand Flourishing, Ac., Ac. AU the above are in the form of written and other pen-exercise*, and accompanied with a small Book of Ivstkuctions, giving a complete analysis of every capital and small letter with full directions for Poeltion Pen-Holding and Movement. IMPROVEMENT OF THOSE USING IT. Having had a sale of over 75,000. ample opportunity Is afforded for A” testing It* valne. For the past year we have given In each number of Sckibnnr’s Monttilt and St. NlcnoL*safullpage,showlngtheim- \< f provrmrntot thmte using It, as rrcelvrd front month to month. The following have never been equaled by any other system, school or Iff re teacher. Thoy are perfect reproduction* of tho original writing-

Old Style: HnaMt Mr. Dennis to now teacherof penmanship In Wright’s Business College, Brooklyn, N. Y. Old Style: New Style: PB. Hardin to at present teaching penmanship In KmiUtcky. and to highly commended by leading Journals,, both as a finished writer and a successful Instructor. Hto postoffice address to Union Star, Kentucky.

. COMPLETE will be mailed to any address, f illy prepaid, “Lfi. rtyane aridrtw* us In jour own handwriting, an that, 1/ neewan, we may give specbl StracOoiw hr letter. Hegietered Letter » and Money Orders at our ro* Address GEORGE A. GASKELL, Principal Bryant ft Stratton College, Manchester, N. H. u joa d ° Dot ■* »**. wttbV i£SX SIX' ownh * o<3 -A“ to »« des| ring full Particular* of thQ Compendium,

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4^db.clarkW Indian Blood Syrup. LABORATORY, j 77 W. 3d SI., Hew York City. „...... [nUDK-MAKK.] The Best Remedy Known to Kan! Dr. Clark Johnson having associated himself with Mr. Edwin Eastman, an escaped captive, long a slave to Wakametkla. the medicine man of the Comanche*, to now prepared to lead hto aid In the Introduction of the wonderful remedy of that tribe. The experience of Mr. Eastman being similar to that of Mia. Chaa. Jones and son, of Washington County, lowa, an account of whose sufferings were tbrilllngly narrated ip the ifete York Herald Dec. 16th, 1878, the facts of which are so widely known, and so nearly parallel, that but little mention of Mr. Eastman’s experiences will be given here. They are. however, published In a neat volume of 300 pages, entitled “Seven and Nine Years Among the Comanches and Apaches,” es which mention will be made hereafter. Suffice It to say Hurt for several years Mr. Kastman, while a captive, was compelled to gather the roots, gums, barks, herbs and berries of which Wakametkla’s medldne was made, and to still prepared to provide the samb materials for the success nil Introduction of the medicine to the world; and assures the public that the remedy to the same now as when Wakametkla compelled hljli to Wakametkla, the Medicine Man. Nothing has been added to the medicine and nothing has been taken away. It to without doubt the Kkst Purifikb of the Blood and Rkotwmk of the Sibtxm ever known to man. . This Syrup posses— varied properties. It acta upon tbe Liver. It acta spon the Kidneys. It regulates the Bowels. It purl flea the Blood. It qmleta the Herrons System. It promotes Digestion. It Nourishes, Strengthens and InrigIt carries off tho old blood and makes Hew. \' It ope— the pores or the skin, and induces Healthy Perspiration. It neutralises the heredlt&iy taint or poison in tbe blood, which generates Scrofula, Erysipelas and all manner of skin diseases and internal humors. There are no spirits employed In Its manufacture, and Mean be taken by the most delicate babe, or by the aged and feeble, o art only being required in attention to direction!.

Edwin Eastman in Indian Costume. Skvxn and Ninb Years Among the Comanche* and Apache*, a neat volume of 800 pages, being a slniple 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, n.oo. -1 The Incidents of tbe massacre, briefly narrated are distributed by agents, free of charge. Mr. Eastman, being almost constantly at the 'West, engaged in gathering and curing the materials of which the medicine to composed, the sole business management devolves upon Dr. Johnson, and the remedy has been called, and to known as Dr. Clark Johnson'* INDIAN BLOOD PURIFIER. Price of Large Bottle* ... SI.OO Price of Small Bottles - . . - .50 Read toe voluntary testimonials of persons wbo'fikve been cured by the use of Dr. Clark Johnson*s Indian Blood Syrup m your own vicinity. . TESTIMONIALS OF CURES. Cures Dyspepsia. PLIMOTTH, Marshall County, Ind., Jan. IK, IR7K Dear Sir—l consider Dr. Clark Johnson's In lhis Blood dy rap an excellent medicine for Dysi’Clcda and Liver Complaint My wife ha* been greatly ti o.ibls-d „ with them both, and I- bought two bottle* from your agent, P. H. Weaver, and obtained great relief., J G. P. IauiITLEY. Chills and Fever Cured. Woonrs CORNER, Parker Co., Ind.. June fi. !R7fl. Dear Sir— My Utile daughter wa* sorely afflicted with Chills and Fever for thirteen months, and the doctors tailed to give her any relief. J gave her some of k.nir laJton Blood Hyrap, which speedily ari l effectually ouied her. 1 can recommend It to be a valnnbls remedy. WIN BALKY.

Diseases of Females. * Chicago, Henry County, Ind.. Feb. 20,1871). Dear Sir—l was suffering with wbat the doctor called G decline of health, and could get no relief. I tiled your valuable Indian It loot I My rap and anon fo-;nd myself greatly benefited, and I am now able to do iny WOrt. CATHERINE RINEHART. Remedy for Rheumatism. Antioch, Hnnttngtnn County, Ind., reb. IS, 1870. Dear Sir—l waa aflillctol with the Rheumatism; waa helpless; could not work fora month. I tried several •four home physicians, but received no benrtit. Hear tog of your Indian Blood Njrnp, I procured was, and It cured mo. Tills was K yea ■ ago, and since that 1 have seldom used any other medh toe. JAMES BENSON. Cares Rheumatism. JVrw Matsttllx. Putnam Co.. Ind., Feb. 27.1870. Dear Sir—l hare used yiair Indian Blood Hymn for Rheumatism, and found It to be bettrr than Anything I had ever taken, and confidently recommend It" to all suffering with Rheumatism, (live It a trial. WILLIAM McKERNS, Enlargement of the Liver. GNAFTON (ML Vernon P. O.). Pnsey County, Ind. Dear Sir—My wife was troubled witli Uver C.«nplaint and has received more benefit from ,«ir Indlnn Blood Wyrup than from any other medicine she has ever taken. It Is the only medicine that will tot bar sleep nights. ABRAM WALKER. Cures Neuralgia. Elhod, Klpley County, Ind., Feb. 1,1870. Dear Sir—l have been afflicted with an Inward weak ness and Neuralgia, and, having found roller from tits use of vour most excellent Indian Blood Mynip. I would advise all who Ore to like manner afi l 'e 1 to give It a trial. K. S. NEKiHBKRT. Female Weakness aujl General Debility. Matoson, Jefferson Comity. Ind., April 5, 1 I tear Sir— ln the spring of 1877 1 had been sick aiid falling tor more than a year, and ha-l given up all li-ns-t of ever getting well. U was the universal talk with almost all the neighbors and Hie physician that I must soon die. I thought the difficulty was in my riutn.-irh, but the doctor said It was my lungs. In this rnr-dUhsi I heard that one of my neighbors was ageut lor your Indian Blood Wyrwp, and I resolved tc gric II a trial. I procured some, and the erect was wondrifill: it built me up and gave me an appetite such a* 11 ad not enjoyed for a long time. 1 can recommend it to all sufferers. MRS. MARY A. FOR It Cure for Heart Disease. Steam OoKMKa. Fountain County, Ind. Dear Sir—l was troubled for years with Heart Ite ease, and tried various nun-dtes without getting a: y relief until Itook »4ne of your eveeihnt Indian Blood Hj rup, which, to my urprise, sp ediir and effectually cured me. I now feel like a new man, aad wrnm recommend ,o„r mertlcme h-gUy^