Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 11, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 September 1872 — Page 2

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A SILLY SONG. 4

BY DI2*A VI'LOCK CBAIKI

••O hinrt. my heart!" she wild. and heard V, IHUflf '"J /willtnn His mate

Jhe blackbird calling,

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l,lle ihrnugb the sbetn of the garden green V'Mav

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was aoftly falling.

Aye, softiy, *My falling. The buttereups across the field Made sunshine rift* of (splendor The round snow-bud of the thorn in tne wood *,

Peeped through its leafage tender, As the rain came softly falling. O. heart, my heart!" she said, and smiled,

There's not a tree of the valley. Or a leaf I wish which the rain's soft kiss Freshens In yonder alley.

Where the drops keep ever falling. There'* not a foolish flower I' the grass, Or bird through the woodland calling, So glal ot the coming rain

As I of these tears now falling,— These happy tears down falling." fs

How to Cure 'Em.

SO VERIO N REMEDIES FOR ALL THE ILL'S THAT FLESH IS HEIR TO

Charms and Spells to Banish Plagues.

From the earliest days the world which is but too fond of mystery, has been wont to place great laithinodd compounds and strange recipes for the cure of the various ills which alllict this human frame. Superstitution has a strong hold upon the popular mind, and all the enlightenment and civilization of modern days has only suppressed its outward manifestations. Among the ignorant and uncultured it is Htill all-powerful, and even the most intelligent are at times influenced by the force of some old tradition which may have much of rhyme, but very little of reason in it. The science of medicine lias probably advanced as greatly as anv other, and yet nearly everyone has liis own pot remedy, originated in the old mediaeval times. An article in Appleton's magazine presents a numbor of the strangest of these •'sovereign remedies,"mostly lrom Kngland. (Ml ARMING TIIK AGUE.

Tho first on tlio list is a charm for the cure ol tho ague it is to bo written on a piece of paper, read solemly, tho piper then folded, knotted, and never thereafter opened.

When Jesus saw ye cross, whereon His body should be crucified, His body shook, and ye Jewes asked Him had lie tho ague? He answered and said 'Whosoever keopeth this in mind or writing shall not bo troubled with fever or ague,'so Lord help Thy servant trusting in Thee."

This, however, calls for an exercise of faith, with very little work. Another remedy for the same is more tangible, if not quito so ^pleasant to the palate. It is nothing more nor less than to take a spider, the larger the better, onvelopo it with a coating of dough or presorved fruit, and then swallow the bolus. Its virtue is said to bo so great that the inhabitants of the Emerald Isle aro credited with its use at the prosentday as also of the following, which is said to be quite as certain in its effects—and it no doubt is—to the insect, which is put into a bottle, that is then corkod tight and burled. As the Insect dies the disoase will leave the patient, who will soon entirely recover.

Suoh a remedy is certainly preferable to tho one proceeding it, or to eating a largo slice of bread, on which candlosnufl has been spread with butter and molasses,a popular prescription in some parts of England, and which is made more affect

I vo if the patient washes the

morsels down with water from the noarest church-front. TO STEM THE BLOODY CURRENT.

For bleoding at the nose, a toad is to be killed, and carried in a bagsuspended from the pationt's nock. The length of tlmo for which this is to be worn is not stated, but the remedy is one which "with variation," Sir Kenelm Digby recommends for many ailments.

In tho Orkney Islands, whon any one is attacked with hemorrhage, or bleeding, at the nose, tho nearest old crone is sent lor, who slowly mutters over the sufferer: There virgins came over Jordan's land. Kncli with a bloody knife in her hand Htein, blood, stem-! otlierly stand Bloooy nose (or mouth,) In God's name, amend

In Devonshire, they repeat the following: "Our blessed Savior was born in Ilethrlem, and baptized in the river Jordan: Tho waters were wild and rude The child, Jesus, was meek, mild and good1 Ho put his foot into the waters, and the waters stopped and so shall thy blood, in tho name of tho 'Father, Son, and Holy Ghost."'

For a snake-bite, it is an old custom to kill tho reptilo and apply its fat to tho wound with tho familiar invitation to "tako a hair of the dog that bit you," is accepted daily in some parts of England, where it Is still customary to apply to a bite a handful of lr of tne tho liali dog inflicting it. Nor are the English alone in tho application of this remedy, for a short time ago. a case was reportod in Philadelphia, where a German Roman brought to a physician a child whoso leg had been tearfully mangled by a dog. The wound wu filled with hair, which had

firoduced

a festering sore, and, on ask-

ng the woman the reason of its being there, she stated that, having always heard that the hair of a dog was good for his bite, she had, as the animal was making off, run after him, and, tearing a handful of hair from his back applied it to tho child's bleeding limb,

BANISHING ni'RNS.

The Shetlanders, to cure a burn breathe on it three times, each time repeating: Here come I to core a burnt sore if the dead

knew

what tho living endure,

The burnt sore would burn no more. In Orkney, ihe following is substituted

A dead wl fe on of the grave arose, And through the sea she »wlmmed. Through the water wade to the cradle, save the balm- burt salr. ltet fire, cool soon, In Gods name.

And the charm in Cornwall consists of: Thsr* were two anrcta came from the East One brought fire, the other frost. Out fir*! In frost! vuV INv IUI In the name of the Father, the Soil ana lloly Ghost!"

In levonshire, the verse has three angels in it: There were three angel's caraefrom the east and wen One brought lire, and anotherbrooght frost And the third it was the Holy Gh«u Out Are, In frost* tu the name of the Father, The son, and of the Holy Qhoet, Amen.

And this is also modified, in other p&jrU of her majesty's realm, into: An angel came from the North,

And he brought cold and fro*l An angel came from the Houth, And li« brought heat and Are The angel from the North

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Put out the Are, In the name of the Father, and Of the Bon, and of the holy O host! StTRR Ct'RB KOR CRAMPS AXD FITS.

For preventing cramp*, various are

the suggestions. Tying a garter around the left leg below the knee is practised everywhere and even improved on by boys, who tie eelskins around their limbs, in order that they mav not be attacked while swimming. Rings dug out o! old graves are, in various localities, deemed infalible while in others, placing shoes under the bed covers, leaving the toes sticking out, is the preventatives, par excellence. Again, in some places shoes and stockings are laid crosswise on the floor.

For fits, great faith is placed in the curative propertives of rings, made from silver coin, voluntarily given the afflicted person by the acquaintances of the opposite sex in addition to this, to go into a church at midnight, and walk around the communion table three times, is considered to be very efficacious. So far from this practice being a thing of the past, the London Times, not very many years ago, described a scene at the door of a country church, where a young woman sat holding out her band, mutely awaiting the voluntarily alms-giving which was necessary to perfect the spell and endow her ring with its healing virtues.

VIRTUES IN ROAST MICE.

That failing of children which necessitates the thorough airing of beds and bed-linen throughout the day has long been favored by a prescription of three roasted mice, which are said to be equally potent in cases of the measles, though for the latter a decoction commonly known as "sheep-tea," is of tnodern use, and enjoys quite a favorable reputation in this country. Nor is the use of cooked mice confined to the before-mentioned ailment, but extends to whooping-cough, in which many ol us can, doubtless, recollect its prescription, if not use and, indeed, two centuries ago, the little animals were very highly esteemed for their medicinal and other qualities. An old book says of them: ,. "The flesh eaten causeth oblivion, and corrupteth the meat it is hot, solt aad fattisb, and expelleth melancholy. A mouse, dissected and applied, draweth out reeds, darts and other things that stick in the flesh. Mice bruised and reduced to the consistence of an acopon, with old wine, cause hair on the eyebrows. Being eaten by children, when roasted, they dry up the spittle. Tho magicians eat them twice a month, against the panes of tho teeth. The water in which they have boen boiled helps against the quinsey. The fresh blood kills warts. The ashes of the skime. applied with vinegar, help the pains of the head. The brain, being stepped in wine, and applied to the forehead, helpeth the headache. Used with water, it cureth the phremsey. The heart taken out of a mouse when alive, worn about the arms of a woman, causeth no conception. The fillet of the liver, drank with austere wine, helpeth quartains. The liver, roasted in the new of the moon, trieth the epilepsey. The dung is corrosive. Given in any liquor, it helpeth the colic. It looseneth the body therefore, some nurses use It for children in suppositories. It helpeth hollow te.eth, being put therein."

READY RELIEF FOR RHEUMATISM. The remedies for rheumatism are legion from the wearing of charmed belts, stolen chestnuts or potatoes, amber heads and what-not, to bathing the affected part with water lrom the church-front or carrying as amulets the foot of a rabbit or apiece of mountain ash. Few persons wholly escape the disease and it would be amusing if the pockets of said merchants, "grave and reversed seignors," and the "women who talk" as well as "the women who work," could be emptied, showing that each has that little grain of superstition, which is gratified by carrying the charm, while common sense is put aside with. "Well! it won't do any harm, if it don't do any good."

In Shetland, ashes are rubbed on a ring-worm, and the following repeated: Ringworm, ringwerm red

Never mayst thou spread But aye grow less and less, And die away among the ase. if Tho application and charm, however, lose their potencv, unless done on three successive mornings before breakfast.

An Irish reineay for scarlet fever and whooping-cougu consists in takingsome of the child's hair and putting it down the throat of a donkey, in the firm belief that the animal will take the disease, and the sufferer be relieved.

William Ellis, who lived in the middle of the last century, thus describes a very remarkable cure for scrofula or king's-evil:

A girl at Qaddesdeu having the evil In ner feet from her infancy, at eleven years old lost one of her toes by it, and was so bad that she could hardly walk, therefore was to be sent to a London hospital in a little time.

But a beggar-woman coming to the door and hearing of it, said that, it they would cut off the hind-leg and the foro-leg, on the contrary side of that, of a toad, and she wear them in a silken bag about her neck, it would certainly cure her but it was to be observed that, on the toad's losing Its legs, it was to be turned loose abroad, and, as it pined, wasted, and died, the distemper would likewise waste and die, which happened accordingly, for the girl was entirely cured by it, never having had the evil afterward."

After all, probablv, the safest remedy of our whole list Is that of pure rain water for sore eyes and even to this superstition has ^imparted a taint by proscribing that it must be collected in in the month of June, to remain pure and retain its properties.

SHETLAND POW-WOWS.

The reader has already perceived that the inhabitants of Shetland and Orknev are believers in charms and incantations. The former "pow-wow" a sprained Joint by tying around it a thread of black wool fn which nine knots have been made, muttering during the operation:

The Lord rade. And the foal slade He lighted, And she righted. Set Joint to joint, Bone to bone. And sinew to sinew, Heal in the Holy Ghost's name.:

In Orkney a linen thread is used, and the incantation is altered into Our Saviour rade,

His fore-foot slade, Oar 8svtour lighted down, Blnnew to sinew Joint to Joint, Blood to blood, and bene to bone, Mend thou In God's ame!

Another version of the same charm Is: As our blessed Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, was riding in Jerusalem, His home tripped aad sprained his leg. Our blessed Lord and Saviour blessed it and said:

Bone to bone, and vein to vein, O vein turn to thy rest again.

So shall thine in the name, etc., etc. •fa drive out a thorn. Devonshire folks are said to bind a piece snake-akin on the opposite side of the hand and In Northampton the rolltw*

ing verse is said, to prevent a thorn from festering in the flesh: Our Savioui was of a virgin born, His head was crowned with a crown thorn, It never cankered nor festered at all. And I hope In Christ this never shall, now TO KILL THE TOOTHACIIE.

TLe list of remedies for the toothache is led off bv one from our philosophic acquaintance, Sir Kenelm Digby. In his "Choice and Experimental Receipts in Physic and Chirurgery," printed in 1858, he gives "systematic cure for the toothache."

With an iron nail raise and cut the gum from about the tooth till it bleed, and that some of the blood stick upon the nail then drive it into a wooden beam up to the bead after this is done you shall never have the toothache in all your life."

In our time, tooth from a corpse is worn as an amulet, as is also the following charm: Peter sat on a marble stone, weeping, Christ came past and said, "What thee, Peter?" "O my Lord, my God, my tooth doth ache! "Arise, O Peter go thy way, thy tooth shall ache no more."

The elder, as a good Christian ought, had nothing to object. But in a few moments another candidate lor ministeral efforts and honors, and for the name of husband, came confidentially to make known a like impression regarding the same identi cal young Ifedy. "You had better wait a while. It is not best to be too hasty in determining the source of such impressions," said the prudent elder.

And he said well for hardly were the steps of the second youth cold at his side, ere a third appproached with the same story and, while the worthy confident still marvelled, a fourth drew near with the question—

Did you notice the fine, noble-look ing woman on your left Yes," cried the swelling elder.

Well, sir," went on the fourth vie tim of that unsuspicious girl, ''it is strongly borne in upon my mind that it is tho will of the Lord that I should make proposals of marriage to that lady. He has impressed me that she is to be my wife."

The older could hold in no longer. "Impossible! impossible!" he exclaimed, in an excited tone "tho Lord never could have intended that four men should mai-ry that one woman!"

CANNIBALS IN THE WEST. A most horrible story of cannibalism is told by the jfekin Gazette in connection with the shipwreck of two vessels belonging to Loo-Chow, off the coast of Formosa, near the point inhabited by cannibals, The Captain, officers and crew of one of the vessels were saved by a Chinese merchant vessel that brought them safely to Fungshang^ from which they were sent to FooChow. The other vessel, containing sixty-nine men, was dashed upon the rocks, and fiftv-seven of those who escaped death were in a few days barbarously killed and eaten by the cannibals of Mountain Formosa. According to the account of those who escaped death, the tvphoon swept over their vessel, taking three of the men from the deck, who were immediately drowned the vessel, after drifting about for some days near the coast of Formosa, was then suddenly capeized, throwing her remaining sixty-six men into the sea but as they were all expert swimmers they made for the rocky shore, which they all safely reached. After wandering over rocks and desert places for seven days and seeing no inhabitants, thev suddenly came upon a party of cannibals, who rushed upon them, stripped them of their clothes and all they had with them. Yet this time they fortunatelv all escaped alive, and fled and bid themselves among the rocks at some distance but the "Sangfau" cannibals scented them out, surWU I»uuiutoo •—•I rounded the place, and captured and killed fiftv-four. The other twe'.--once more escaped. In answer to VUUO UIVIV memorial, the Chinese Emperor says "Let the sufferers be rewarded according to the will of tho memoralist. Let the civil and military officers make speed to examine and punish the cannibals, that it may be seen we cherish the people in our bosom."

STUFF*—" Vegetable pills!" exclaimed an old lady. "Don't talk to me about such stun. The best vegetable pill ever made is an apple dumpling for destroying a gnawing in the stomach there in nothing like it—it always can be relied on."

SATURDAY, EVENING MAIL. SEPTEMBER 14, 187-2.

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Or the sufferer repeats: All glory! all glory! all glory 1 be to the Father, and to the Sou, and to the Holy Ghost. "As our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, was walking in the garden of Gethsemane. He saw Peter weeping. He called him unto Him, and said, 'Peter, why weepest thou Peter answered, and said, Lord, I am grievously tormented with pain, the pain of my tooth.' Our Lord answered and said, •if thou wilt believe in me, and my words abide with thee, thou shalt never feel any more pain in thy tooth.' Peter said, 'Lord. I believe, help thou my unbelief.' In the name of the Father, on, ml Holy Ghost.' God crant me easi from the pain in my teeth."

OTHER ODDITIES.

The eighth Psalm is supposed to possess healing properties, when said over a child ailing with the thrush yet the knowledge of it is not so universal as might bo expected, and we find other remedies proposed, one of which is to have the child's mouth breathed into by a posthumous child another to insert into the child's mouth tho bill of a duck, that the cold breath of the fowl may effect cure and still another, to tako three rushes from a running stream, and passing them separately through the child's mouth, throw them into the water again. As they float away, the disease disappears.

To rub warts with a bean-pod and throw it away, believing that, as the pod decays, the warts will disappear tomb them with a snail and impale it on a thorn to rub them with a cinder and drop it at the crossing of two roads to rub them with a piece of meat and throw it away to count them, and tieing on a string many knots as there are warts, throw it away, and to do the same with a number of the joints of wheat-stalks, are among tho many things current for their removal.

PROVIDENTIALLY DIRECTED. Among the attendants at a late Methodist conference was a very beautiful and intelligent looking younjj lady, who drew tne admiring gaze of many eyes, particularly eyes masculine, always on the lookout for pretty feminine faces. During the intermission at noon, a spruce young minister stepped up to the presiding elder, and said, with an air of secresy—

Did you observe the young lady who sat by the first pillar on the left?" "Yes," said the elder, "what of her?"

Why," said the young man, I feel impressed that the Lord desires me to take that lady for my wife. I think she would make a good companion, and helpmeet in the work of the ministry."

Execution of a Young Girl in Silesia!

On the 10th of July last the old Silesian city of Jauer was the scene of a spectacle which few of those who witnessed will soon forget. It was the execution of a handsome and accomplished young girl of nineteen, named Hermina Clausser, who had been convicted of having

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oisoned three persons, among them a of seven years of age.

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TIIE EXECUTION. I

Never before had so many people assembled in lront of the jail of Jauer, where the scaffold on which the young murderess was to be executed had been erected. It was a low square platform without a railing. In the middle stood the block on which the fair culprit was to lay down her head.

Assistant executioner Reiffschneider, a young man ol thirty, heavy set, with a pleasing countenance, and dressed in an elegant suit of black broadcloth, was to deal Hemina the fatal blow. He was on hand, with two assistants, at half-

East

six.

At seven o'clock Herminna

lausser was led out by two gendarmes. She had all along manifested so submissive a spirit that it had been deemed needless to pinion her arms. She was dressed in a black satin suit and looked very handsome. There was even a smile on her lips, and but for a certain weird tire in her eyes, her flushed cheeks, and the convulsive heavlngs ol her breast, one might have thought almost that she was going to a pleasure party, and not to her doom. She was followed by a priest and several prison officials. A few policemen surrounded tho scaffold.

CLINGING TO LIFE.

Alter she ascended the fatal strnc ture, she looked for a moment at the block, and a visible shudder passed through her frame. Tho priest said a few words to her, exhorting her to confess her crime, but she shook her head. Then tho executioner approached her, and, in a kindly voice, asked her to aliow him to bear her neck. This seemed to sting her to the quick. Looking wildly about her, she burst into a fierce scream, almost a yell, which made everybody shudder and then, horrible to say, she flung herself from the scaffold, and with a wild energy began forcing her way through tho crowd, which was petrified with terror and amazement at the unwonted scene. The officers, however, overtook her in a minute or two, and, after a fierce struggle, in which the doomed girl fought like an infuriated tigress and bit one of the officers savagely in the hand, she was bound hand and foot and carried back to the scaffold, yelling and shrieking all the time in terror and despair. The beadsman quickly tore open her dress at the neck, and the struggling, screaming girl was fastened to the block. A leathern throng was attached to her head and tied to the outside of the block, her neck being stretched out to an unnatural length.

A SICKENING SICK.

Now tho executioner took his ax, a large, formidable instrument. He raised it quickly and struck. The sickening wails of the victim ceased ol a sudden. The head dropped down and the head raised itself up, a large stream of blood spouting into the air two or three feet high, wmle the executioner and his assistant jumped from the scaffold in order not to be soiled by the girl's life blood.

The trunk was untied, and, together with the head, put into a rough pine coffin. A cart was sent for—a prison official marking the words "Medical Faculty of the Breslau University" on it—and fifteen minutes afterward the lifeless remains ol the young murderess were on their way to the capital ol Silesia to be used by the medical prolessors there for anatomical purposes.

LOVE IN THE PREACHER. I bad a man in my parish in Indiana, who was a very ugly fellow. 1-Ie had a wife and daughter who were awakened during the revival which was then working, and whilo visiting others who needed instruction, I went to soe and talk with them. He beard that I had been in his house, and shortly after I passed down the street in which he lived. He was sitting on the fence and of all the filth that was ever emptied on a young minister's head, I received my share. He threw it out, right and left, up and down, and said everything that was calculated to harrow my priao. I was very wholesomely indignant for a young man. I said to mysell, "Look here, I will be revenged on you yet." He told me I should never darken his door again, to which I responded that I never would until I had an invitation to do so. Things went on lor some time. I met him on the street, bowed to him. and never repeated bis treatment of me to any one. We constantly crossed each other's paths, and often visited the same people. Ialwaysspoke kindly ol him. Very soon he ran lor the office of sheriff, a~nd then I went out into the field and worked for him. I canvassed for votes: I used my personal influence. It was a pretty close election, but he was elected. When he knew 1 was working for him, I never saw a man so utterly porplexod as he was. He did not know what to make of it. He came to me one day, awkward and stumbling, and undertook to "make up," as the saying is. He said he would bo very glad to have mo call and see bim. I congratulated him on his election, and of course acce]Kbd his overtures and from that time forth I never had a faster friend in the world than he was. Now, 1 might have thrown stones at him from the topmost cliffs ol Mount Sinai, and- hit bim every time, but would not have done him any good. Kindness killed him. I won his confidence.—[II. W. Beecber.

WHAT IS DIRT*

Old Dr. Cooper, of South Carolina, used to say to his students: "Don't be afraid of dirt, voung gentlemen. What is dirt Why, nothing at all offensive, when chemically viewed. Rub a little alkali upon the dirty grease spot on your coat, and it undergoes a chemical change and becomes soap now rub it with a little water and it disappears. It is neither grease, soap, water, nor dirt. That is not a very odorous pile of dirt you see yonder well, scatter a little gypsum over it and it is no longer dirty. Everything like dirt is worthy our notice as students of chemistry. Analyze it it will separate into very clean elements. Dirt makes corn, corn makes bread and meat, and that makes very sweet young lady, that I saw one of you kissing last night. So alter all, you were kissing dirt, particularly if she whitened her face with chalk or fuller's earth though 1 may say that rubbing such stuff upon the besutiful skin of a young lady is a dirty practice. Pearl powder, I think, is made ot bismuth, nothingbut dirt. Lord Palmerston's definition of dirt is 'matter in the wrong place.' Put it in the right place and we cease to think of it ss dirt.

"BAGGAGE."

Taylor, the world painter, has written few more truthful things, and better because true, than the following, under the significant head of "Baggage:" "That seat is occupied," said a bright eyed giil to a man who was about to take it. ''Occupied!" he growled "where's his baggage With a saucy upward look at him, "Pmhis baggage,'' she said. And this brings me to say that if you are going a long journoy it) regions where it is '"first come, first served," the most desirable piece of baggage you can take with you is not a hat-box or a blanket, but a woman. If you have none, then marry ono, for you are not thoroughly equipped for the road till you do. When dinner is ready you follow in her blessed, and are snugly seated beside her, and exactly opposite the platter ol chickens, before the hirsute crowd, womanlessas Adam was till he fell into a deep sleep, are let in at all. There you, are, and there they are. You twain one, with the twe best chairs in the house, served and smiled on. Look down the table at the unhappy fellows, some of them actually bottoming the chairs they occupy, and their arms and hands reaching in every direction across the table like the tentaculse of a gigantic polypus. When night comes, and with it a border tavern, it is not you that fbift from side to side on the bar-room floor. If there is any best bed she gets it and you share it. You follow her into the Dest car she first in the stage coach and you are too, More than that, a woman keeps you "upon her honor you are pretty sure to Ibehave yourself all the way.

The conclusion is as strong as a lariat, that traveling bachelors have forgotten some of their baggage, and that if a wo man hears a man sneer about her troub lesomc. sex and their inevitable and in separable band-box, and then in some weak moment he says of her, "will you," and if she be wise, she will be cautious. Men are nota tithe of the help to women on a journey that the women in their modesty and their ignorance— we beg pardon, which !—aro always conceding. A lone woman can make the transit ot the American continent like Venus crossing the sun, without either danger or insult. She can emulate the Irish Norah, who, in some old fabulous time, decked with jeweis and boauty, made the tourol Ireland alone, and not a soul harmed her as she went: "Rich and rare were tne gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore, But, all, her beauty was far beyond Her sparkling gems and her snow white wand. On she went and her maiden smile Ih safety ligthed her round the green isle.

EXECUTION OF AN ARAB. A eoriespondent writing from Algiers gives this description of an execution:

While waiting in the inner court and outside the door ol the justice chamber, a tall, gaunt Arab was dragged in to receive final sentence from tho Bey. Having been already condemned for murder, the dragoman of the consulgeneral, who accompauied me, told me that if not pardoned tbo execution would take place immediately, and hastened me out of the palace to take up places in the open space in front. We had scarcely done so when the crowd issued forth from the gates, headed by Bady Schafhar, the hereditary executioner, in friendly conversation with those nearest him. This.interesting old gentleman wore no disguise of any sort, as his office is not held disgraceful hero. Immediately after him came the condemned man, struggling in the hands of a few Arabs, while a handful of officials vainly strove to keep back the crowd. The party came up to the very spot oa which we were standing, cleared a little ring about twelve feet in diameter, pulled off the victim's turban and clothes, tied bis bands bohind his back, and blindfolded him with a piece of rag. They then forced him on his knees, and Bady Schafhar drew his old wooden-handled scimiter there was a pause for a few seconds then the executioner raised his arm, and seemingly without any exertion and with one stroke the head rolled clean from the body, and a fountain ol boiling blood gushed forth. Death must have been instantaneous, for the body tumbled on the ground without a quiver. As the pi isoner was dragged forth lrom the justice chamber, ho was followed by an Arab crying out at the top of bis voice, "Live the Bey! live the Bey On inquiry I found he was the brother of the murdered man, triumphant in having got "blood for blood." He had just refused 50,000 piasters (£850) lrom the Iriends of the prisoner to let him go, and I was told that the Bey himself had offered a large sum, but without success.:

A FA THER'SAD VICE TO A BRIDE. Said a young husband whose business speculations were unsuccessful. "My wife's silver tea-set, the bridal gilt of a rich uncle, doomed me to financial ruin. It involved a hundred unexpected expenses, which, in trying to meet, made me the bankrupt I am." His experience is the experience of many others, who, less wise, do not know what is the goblin ol the house, working its destruction. A sagacious lather of great wealth exceedingly mortified his daughter by ordering It to bo printed on her wedding cards, "No presents except those adapted to an income of fl,000." Said he, "You must not expect to begin life In tho stylo I am able, by many years of labor, to indulge and I know of nothing which will tempt you to try it more than the well intentioned but pernicious gifts of rich friends." Such advice to a daughter is timely. If other parents would follow the same plan, many young men would be spared years of incessant toil and anxiety they would not find themselves on the downward road, bocause their wives had worn all their salary, or expended it on the appointments of the house. The late of the poor man who found a linch-pin, and felt himself obliged to make a cariiai") to fit it, is the fate of the husband who finds bis bride in the possession of gold and silver valuables, and no large income support the owners in gold and silver style.

A MEMPHIS ROMANCE.—Memphis has a romance. Once upon a time, very many years ago, John E. Perkins was a school-boy of eighteon, in Kentucky. He had a bosom friend who in a fit of passion deliberately killed another young man. Upon Perk ns' evidence alone the boy was convicted of murder, and hanged. Stricken with remorse at having brought about the death of his friend, Perkins took a solemn oath that he would never again testify in a case where his evidence might cause the infliction of the extreme penalty of the law. Some time since be witnessed a murder in Memphis, and on Monday last, was brought before the court as the principal witness against the murderer. True to his oath, he refused to give a word of testimony, and was sent to jail, where he says he will remain forever rather than testify.

To CLEAN CARPKTS.—Salt sprinkled upon the carpet before sweeping will make it look bright and clean. This is also a good preventative against moths.

To PREVENT FLIES FROM INJURING GILT FRAMES.—Boil three or four onions in a pint of water, then with a gilding brush wash over your frames, and the flies will not alight on the articles washed. No.injury .will result to the frames.

To FRY CHICKENS.—Dissect,fsalt and pepper with cayenne, roll them in flour and fry them in lard* When the whole is Iriea pour off the lard and put in quarter ota pound of butter, a teacup of cream, a little flour and some parsley scalded and chopped fine for the sauce.

COLD SLAW.—Cut the" cabbage rather fine into a basin or large bowl spinkle a little salt over then with a potato masher thoroughly bruise the cabbage then take three tablespoonfuls sugar, half pint best sweet cream, four tablespoonfuls vinegar stir well together and mix through the cabbage. The cabbage should not be too green. Many persons do not know the value of cream in cooking it is far preferable to butter in a great many things.

INDIAN BANNOCK.—Take one pint of Indian meal, and stir into it a pint of sour milk—Iresh buttermilk is better— half a teaspoonful of salt, a spoonful ol molasses, and a spoonful of melted butter. Beat two eggs and add, and then stir in a pint of wheat flour then thin it with milk to the consistency of drop cakes, and when ready to bake, add two heaping teaspoonfuls of soda dissolved in hot water. Pour into square buttered pans an inch thick, and bake fifteen fifteen minutes. This quantity makes two pans. Try it.

CAMPHOR.—A lady who was a devout believer in the power ot' camphor scattered the powdered gum thickly over her capes and muffs, and lor two or three vears triumphantly wore them, though all winter lotur the disagreealilo odor was retained in The fur. But this was not all. Even the first yoar the hair seemed to bavo lost a littlo of its gloss and life, and by tho third was too dull, old and worn looking to bo admired. Taking them to a fur-dresser for renovation, she was dismayed to hear that the gum-camphor had rendered her furs valueless.

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TOMATO CATSUP.—Takoripe tomatoes and scald them just sufficient to allow you to take off the skin then let them stand for a day covered with salt strain them thoroughly to remove tho seeds. Then to every two quarts add three ouuees ol cloves, two of black pepper, two of nutmegs, and a very little Cayenne pepper, with a little salt. Boil the liquor for half an hour, and then let it cool and settle. Add a pint of the best cider vinegar, after which bottlo it, corking and sealing tightly. Keep it always in a cool place.

IDIOTS IN CHURCH.—A clergyman of our acquaintance was recently unnoyed by the people talking and giggling. He paused, look at the disturbers, and said: "I am always afraid to reprove those who misbehave, lor this^reason. Some years since, as I was preaching a young man who sat before me was constantly laughing, talking and making uncouth grimaces. I paused and administered a severe rebuke. After tho closo of the service, a gentleman said to mo, "Sir, you have made a great mistake. That young man you reproved is an idiot.' Since that I have always been afraid to roprov© thos© who misbehave in chapel, lost I should re-

eat that mistake, and reprove another

THE PEOPLE'S STAMP OF VALUE.— The Government endorsement, which legalizes the sale of Plantation Bitters, is not the only stamp affixed to that famous Vegetablo Tonic. It bqars, in addition to that official sanction, the still more valuable stamp of public approbation. This inestimable voucher of its rare properties as a Tonic, Correative and Alterative, is of much earlier date than the Government credential for millions ot sick persons had pronounced it the Grand Specific of the Age long beloro Congress thought of taxing proprietary medicines. It is unnecessary to repeat, in detail, tho properties of this wonderful Vegetable Invigorant. The best reference that can be offered to those who desire tho full particulars of its virtues, is the General Public. Ask those who have tried it as a remedy for dyspepsia, constipation, biliousness, intermittent fevers nervous debility, rheumatism sea sickness, low spirits, or loss of vital

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ower, what Plantation Bitters has for them, and be governed by tho response they make to your inquiries.

ONE-HALF the people cannot take Castor Oil from its terrible nauseating taste, and recoil in tho throat. The Castoria prepared by Dr. Pitcher, is purely vegetablo, perfectly harmloss, pleasant to tako, and moro ellcctivo than Castor Oil. It docs not distress or gripe, but regulates the system, and operates when all other remedies havo failed. It acts like magic for Stomach Ache, Constipation, Flatulency, Croup and Worms. It contains neither Mluerals, Morphin© nor Alcohol. Its soothing, quieting effect, produces natural sleep, and particulaily adapts it to crying and teething children. No article has ever met such unqualified endorsement by the Physicians. Take no more Bitter Pills, Narcotic Hy»ps, Griping Purgatives or Sickening Oils. Tho Castoria costs but ccuts, and when once tried you willnevor be without it.

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AT a trial of Cider Mills, each iciaimiag to be the best. No. 1 produced 6J4 pounds of Cider with 75 revolutions, No. 2, V/t -pounds with 66 revolutions, No.

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.THE TORNADO SEPARATOR 30 [inch in cylinder, 30 Inch carrier. iThe Tornado 30 inch cvllnder, 41 |w.ch carrier. The earcv Power -Js horse or 10 horse. The Carey

Power mounted ordown. Warranted every one of them, at Jones A Jones, Terre-Haute, Indiana.