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bOMESTIO.
OaImeal in the Household. —In
Great Britain children of all ranks are
raised on sn oalmsaldiet alone, because
it causes them to grow strong and
health}’; and no better food can possi
bly be fonnd for them. It is also quite
as desirable for the student as the labor
er, and for the delicate lady as for the
hard-working sister. Indeed, all classes
would be greatly benefitied by its use,
and dyspepsia, with all its manifold
annoyances, can be kept at a safe dis
tance. Oatmeal is most substantial
food; it is equal to beef or mutton, giv
ing as much or more mental vigor while
its great advantage consists of one’s not
bea ming weary of it, for it is as wel
come for breaklast or tea as is wheat or
Graham bread. It can be eaten with
syrup and butter as hasty pudding, or
with cream and sugar, like rice. It is
especially good for young mothers up
on whose nervous forces too great a de
mand has been made, when they lose
the equilibrium of the system and be
come depressed and dispirited. Oat
meal requires to be cooked slowly, and
the water should be boiling Lot when it
is stirred in.
Try cranberries for malaria.
Try a sun-bath for rhenmatiim.
Try clambroth for a weak stomach.
Try cranberry poultice for erysipelas.
Try a wet towel to the back of the
neck when sleepless.
Try swallowing saliva when troubled
with sour stomach.
Try eating fresh radishes and yellow
turnips for gravel.
Try eating onions and horseradish to
remove dropsical swellings.
Try huttei milk for removal of freckles,
tan and butternut stains.
Try a hot flannel over the seat of
neuralgic pains, and renew frequently.
Try taking your ood-liver oil in toma
to catsup if you want 10 make it pala
table.
Try taking a nap in the afternoon if
you are going to be out late in the even
ing.
Try breathing the fumes of tqrpen-
tine or carbolic acid to remove whoop
ing cough.
Try walking with your hands behind
you if you find yourself becoming bent
forward.
•‘Tit, tat, toe” cake is unde in this
way; Beat four eggs very light, then
add a cream made by beating two cups
and a half of sngar and one full eup of
butter, one cup of sweet milk, a large
pinch of salt, two teaspoonfuls of bak
ing powder, stirred in with two cups
and a half of flonr; divide the dough
thus made in three parts; to one part
add half a cup of raisins, stoned and
chopped, and half a cup of currants;
grate half a teaspoonful of nutmeg, and
mix with half a teaspoonful of cinnamon.
This is for one layer of the cake. To
the next part add two tablespoonfuls of
grated chocolate, and a teaspoonful of
vanilla, The one light-colored layer
should be flavored with lemon. When
baked, put the chocolate layer on the
bottom, the one with fruit in it next,
and the light layer on the top. Frost
the top of the cake, but not the sides.
Aky one who is familiar with the man
ner in which asparagus is cultivated
will take all necessary care to wash it
well before cooking it Mot less than
two or three waters are needed; do not
drain the last water off, but take the
asparagus out of it. A favorite way to
cook it is to boil in salted water until it
is tender, leaving the stalks whole; then
lay three or four of them on shoes of
toast and pour milk or cream, seasoned
with pepper and a little butter, over
them. A safe way to determine if each
stalk is t< nder before cooknig is to break,
not cut, a little piece ofl; if woody and
tough it will not break easily.
One low seat in the form of an otto-
ms is desirable in living apartments,
and a chamber is hardly complete with
out one. A chair with an aflection oi
the spine can be easily metamorphosed
into a stand ready for the upholstery.
Cover the top with woolen goals in
color that will harmonize with other
furnishings. Two pull's ol the same
material head a box-plaiting lined with
crinoline, and nearly reach the floor. A
pretty tidy to cap the wiioie can be
wrought out of velveteen and cretonne,
with a finish of cord and tassels.
Teach fritters for desert are delicious.
In their season use the fresh fruit, but
now use evaporated peaches; soak them
all night in a little water, and stew
gently in the morning; keep them close
ly covered, and if the peaches are left
in halves the flavor is wonderfully pre
served. Make a batter of one cup ot
sweet milk, two eggs, a little salt, and
floor eneugh to make a moderately stlfi
batter. If you choose, the halves of
peaches can be cut in quarters. Fry iu
hot lard and serve with or withont
cream; of course, the cream is a tooth
some addition,
Cement. —Litharge and glycerine
mixed together to the consistency of
thick cream or putty is a valuable ce
ment for minding stone jars, for acqua-
rinm purposes, for stopping leaks m
seams of lin pans or wash boilers, to
fasten on lamp tops, tighten loose joints
of wood or iron, loose boxes in wagon
hnbe, and for r great many other things.
The article should not be usei until the
oegitnt has hardened, which will require
from one day to a week, according to
tne quantity used. This cement will
resist the action of water, cold or hot,
of acids, and of almost any degree of
heat.
The paper bags which are sometimes
sent out from the tea store with a pound
of tea in lurnish good designs for the
om&menter of a crazy qnilt The pic
tores are exactly adapted lor this work,
snd are so varied in size and subject as
to give a good opportunity for choice.
The outlines alone may be worked or
the whole figure applied.
Strange figures of animals and birds
cover tue new wall papers m which
ecru grounds prevail, and the grotesque
- and fabulous in art are the present fancy
for house decoration.
A small quantity of asphaltum mixed
with equal parts of benzine and turpen
tine to the consistency of paint, makes
a dressing for grates that is equal in
effect to the professional’s renovating
process of these articles.
Heavy stuff curtains have a narrow
bordering down Ihe sides, with Arab
esque designs three-quarters of a yard
deep at the bottom.
Curtains made up of bands of plain
muslin or linen, alternating with inser
tion or lace stripe, are among the spring
novelties.
Crackle is seen occasionally taking
the place of stained glass for fancy win
dows.
New wall decorations have a flax sur
face on heavy paper background.
uhiHWMMi
A REW ARK ABLE STOBY.
precedes it is a true copy of
was sent to us, together
officer now in the
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The letter which
the original, and
with the details, by
United States Navy.
United States Flagship Nomad,
Navy Yard, Boston, Mass.
January 10,188-.
My dear Friend—Yoxxi kind favor con
taining congratulations on my restoration to
health is before me. When we parted thirty
months ago little did we imagine that either
would be brought near death’s door by a dis
ease which selects for its victims those who
present an internal field of constitutional
weakness for its first attack, because you and
I were in those days the personification of
health—and can claim this to-day,thank Oodt
Why I can do so will be told to-morrow,when
we meet at yotir dinner, as you only know
that I have passed through a terrible illness;
my delivery from death being due to the
wonderful discovery in medical science,
made by a man who to-day stands in. the
front rank of his fellow workers—uneqnaled
by any in my own opinion. That I, who
heretofore have ever been the most orthodox
believer in the old. school of medicine, its
application and results, should thus recant
in favor of that which is, .sneered at by old
practitioners, may startle yon, but “seeing is
Believing,” and when I recount the attack
made on my old balk, how near I came to
lowering my colors, and the final volley
which, through the agency above mentioned,
gave me victo-y, you will at least credit me
with just cause for sincerity in my thankful
ness and belief. I will also spin my yarn
anent my China cruise, and altogether, ex
pect to entertain as well as be entertained
By'you. W’ith best wishes,
Sincerely yours,
Rear Admiral U. 8. Navy.
Hon. G Eono« WENnimn,
Sinclair Place, Boston.
An antumnal afternoon in the year 188-
found the taut flagship Nomad rounding
the treacherous and dangerous extremity of
South America. And this day certainly in
tended to place itself on record with those of
its predecessors marked stormy, its nasti
ness in wind and weather giving all hands
on board the flagship their fill in hard work
and discomforts. The record of the Nomad
on this cruise, which she was now complet
ing on her homeward bound passage to Bos
ton, had been most disagreeable, when con
sidered in the light of heavy weather work.
From Suez to Aden, then on to Bombay,
Point de Galle, Singapore, Hong Kong,
Shanghai, Nagasaki and Yokohama, the
balance sheet stood largely in favor of old
Neptum’s rough characteristics, but with
remarkable evenness the health and original
roster of the ship’s company stood this day
as it did nearly three years ago—with one
exception. Throughout the diverse and
varied exposures incidental to cruising over
the Asiatic station, where cholera, fevers,
liver complaints, malaria, and colds of all
degrees reign in full force, none of the ertw
had suffered more than temporr ry incon
venience, and thus it seemed very hard that
now, in the closing days of the cruise, there
stood nine chances for, to one against, a vic
tory being at last scored for the destroying
angel Death. When the Nomad reached
Shanghai in the early portion of her cruise
her admiral was the healthiest man aboard.
A grand specimen of manhood was he. Over
eix feet in height, weighing two hundred
pounds, broad in chest and strong in limb,
Be rightly claimed for himself a full share of
Nature’s blessings. While returning late one
night from a diplomatic reception at Uio
Consulate at Shanghai, through overheat
ing and insufficient protection from the dan
gerous effects of the peculiar damp and
ecarching night air. he caught cold. “Only
a cold,” remarked tne admiral to the doctors
of his ship, “and easy to cure.” So though;
the medical officers, but with a qniet though
insidious progression, this oold clung to the
admiral in spite of their best efforts to erad
icate it, and when the time came for leaving
Yokohama, homeward bound, the admiral re
alized that his lungs and throat were decid
edly out of order. The doctors advised re
turning home by mail steamer to San Fran
cisco, so that greater means for curing this
srsiutent cough might be found in the
aval Hospital there; but the admiral pre
ferred to stick to his ship, still imagining
that hie trouble would eventually be over
come by the doctors’ treatment
No one who looked at the admiral even in
those days imagined that he wonld fail a
victim to lang trouble. Bat it was the old
story again typified in this case. Only a
cold at first; and in spite of orthodox treat
ment the peculiar climatic effects of China
nursed it and hastened the sure result of
such a deep-seated trouble. Time passed after
leaving Yokohama for Boston, bringing
varying syir ntoms in the admiral’s case, and
the doctors imagined that they held the dis
ease in check at least. But with the forma
tion of tubercles, night-sweats and the now
rapid consumption of long tissues, which
had set in with alarming symptoms, the pa
tient realized that his cold had laid the seeds
of that fell agent of Death, consumption.
The hacking cough of the admiral had in
itself been sufficient food for serious consid
eration. and now, as in the warm autumn
days the flagship gallantly rode over the
blue waters of the Pacific* bound for Cape
Horn, the doctors hoped much for success.
But this boisterous afternoon found the good
ship struggling with gigantic seas setoff
from the Capo by a fierce northerly wind.
Leaden were the heavens and sad the
hearts of all aboard, for that morning the
usual bulletin of the medical officers had set
forth this intelligence: “The admiral is in
same condition as reported last night. A
burning fever has been slightly reduced,
while other symptoms are as heretofore an
nounced.” All understood these words
withont Questioning. The beloved admiral
tiad during tne past two weeks sunk very low.
The symptoms of blood-poisoning, a torpid
liver, intense pains throughout the body,
eyesight and mental faculties affected, appe
tite gone, through inaction of that great reg
ulator—the liver. These were the means
which had reduced the admiral from the
S inaole of health to the valley and shadow of
eath. Consumption held full sway now,
and the well-known ekill of naval doctors
was .in this instance at least completely
foiled.
The admiral had issued orders for the flag
ship to touch at Montevideo for coal, and it
was the intention of the doctors to land the
admiral therefor treatment. But one man
in the ship was wrapped in the gloom of de
spair, as standing by the weather rigging on
the poop deck he gazed absently over the
_ ! waters. This was the ad
miral’s son, a lieutenant, and attache 1 to
his father’s staff. He feared that the wear
and tear of ship life would sap his father’s
strength beyond endurance, and before the
ship could reach Montevideo. Among a
group of sailors gathered around one of the
great guns on the spar deck stood the captain
of the foretop, Brown, a slight but healtby-
looking man. His companions wore listen
ing to a recital of his Bufferings from con
sumption, which had developed while he was
attached to the sloop-of-war Hanger, lying
in the harbor of Yokohama a year ago, this
“yam” having been started by a discussion
about the admiral’s condition. The men had
just returned from some work around the
deck, an order for which had interrupted
Brown’s story a few moments previously.
“ A year ago this day I was hove to in the
J iill man’s’ eick bay in the Ranqer, then off
okohama, an’ I tell yon, pards, ’twns no
nse pipin’ my number, ’cause I was nigh on
passin’in my enlistment papers for a long
cruise aloft,” continued Brown. “Con
sumption bad me fiat aback, and the doctor
says it was no use to stow away his lush in
my hold seein’ that my bellows was con
demned by a higher power than he conld
wrastle with.”
“How did yon pucker out of it?” asked a
gunner’s mate.
“Wa’all,” replied Brown, “my Chinee
washman came to me one morain’ an’ he
says to me, “me hab got allso same Melican
man medikin, do you heap go^dl’ I says,
‘bring it off, Chung; I buy all the same.'
That afternoon Chang hove up with fourteen
bottles of a lush, enough to kill or core the
whole ship’s crew, an’ that looked fresh in
their nice wrappers. Says Chung. ‘China
man doctor hab got plentee mure, lie make
heap good well with my sick, this number
one mediken allee same through Yokohama.'
Wa’all, 1 took the bottles an’ told the doctor
I was goin’ to try one as by the sailin' or
ders on the bottle, and the docter he laughed
and said ’twas no good, but I done as the
regulations says from the first, an’ here I
am, ag’in the doctor’s ideas, to be sure!”
With this triumphant assertion Brown
looked about the circle. Then, lowering his
said: “ Boys, I’ve four of th
voice,
hose
precious bottles left—ain’t give ’em all
away yet after I was cured—an’ if you all
Blink that it wonld not bo too free with the
‘old man,’ suppose I go to his eon there on
the poop deck an’ say what 1 have to yon,
an’ askin’ his pardon, say we want the ad
miral to try the stuff in my bottles, seem’
that they cured my consumption.”
This idea mat with approval all
Tbeafoa Brunt vaUtad Iff to
IT'
interview with the admiral’s son, with no
little anxiety in his good heart as to the re
sult of his mission. Approaching the lieu
tenant, Brown sainted, and asked for per
mission to state his reasons for doing so.
This was readily granted, and Brown spoke
out.
‘Seeing that I was once cured of oon-
enmption, lieutenant, I make bold to ask
if I can tell you how, an’ why I’ve the rea
sons for wishing you to nse on your father
what was my salvation.”
In a few moments the lieutenant had
Brown’e story out, and much to the latter’s
e:
gratification, granted a ready permission to
him. It did not take Brown long to rnn to
his ditty box, get the bottles of medicine,
and return to the lieutenant with them.
“ I’m afeared that the doctors will kick
ag’in the nse of this blessed staff, an’
what will yon do. sir,” said Brown, as he
laced the medicine in the caum ordeny**
nmls to be taken into the admiral’s room.
“ I will attend to that, Brown, and rest as
sured that your remedy will have a fair trial
in spite of any opposition. It wall not harm
my father, judging from yonr statement and
(he opinion of the Medical officers of the
Ranger.”
“ Thank you, sir, an’ God help the admiral
to weather hie trouble, is the praver of all
the ship,” said Brown, as the lieutenant
turned to enter the cabin.
There was no cessation in the storm that
evening. The gale howled through the rig
ging in wild, discordant tones; the great ship
labored through the white-capped moun
tains of water threatened to engulph her
with each burst of their storm-whipped
crests. Within the admiral’s cabin the Ar-
gand lights, the comfortable fumitnre, and
the numerous evidences of the admiral’s
wanderings over land and water, os displayed
in choice bric-a-brac and trimmings, gave
to the room a warm, snug appearance, most
E leasing this wild night to those within. In
is stateroom lay the admiral, made >*nu-
fortable by all that lovir •• hands aao vuilui,.
hearts could suggest l>y lus sicie sat fins
son, whom quiet voice wna reonnntiiip u
his father the interview vuth fl-owu. and die
opposition met with from the doctors when
the idea of giving this new medicine was
broached.
“ You were sleeping at the time, father,
and therefore missed t laughable scene,
made so, in spite of yonr ondition, by the
intense dislike displayed fc> the doctors for
this ‘new-fangled stuff,’ thn ‘patent liquid,'
which they declared with their consent
should never be given to you. Well, I cut
the matter short by saying that I would take
all the responsibility, and with your permis
sion would administer it That I obtained
when I found yon awake, and now you are
under way with the first Bottle as per direc
tions. I am satisfied, dear father, that it
will do yon good, a premonition filling my
heart that at last we have found the means
of arresting the burning fever and hacking
oongh which have been troubling you so
much.”
The admiral’s reply was cut short by a
severe spell of coughing, during which he
spat blood, and when finished sank back ex
hausted. But the grateful look which he be
stowed on his son was an additional assur
ance of belief in that which the admiral had
at first sight dubbed as a possible bat doubt
ful means of doing him any good. But lay
ing aside his dislike for any bnt old-estab
lished remedies, the admiral acquiesced in
his son’s request, and now, after this last
spell, admitted that the effect of the dose
had softened the dreaded severity of the
racking cough.
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Three weeks later found the Nomad mak
ing the harbor of Montevideo. After severe
and prolonged weather she had rounded the
Cape and was now standing in the harbor
for the purpose of recoaling and watering.
To one given to the study of human linea
ments t he faces of those aboard the flagship
this bright morning would have afforded in
finite scope for such pursuit. But the source
of each man’s happiness flowed from the
same fountain of gi ateful joy. The beloved
admiral was the cause of this. And why?
If you could have seeu the admiral this
bright morning, dear reader, yonr answer
would have been easily found in his face. A
changed man was he. Victory was perched
on his guidons! the dread enemy was s’owly
retreating! The fight was a severe on*, but
with no cessation in vigilant action and care
ful application of the contents of four
bottles the admiral had tnrned the flank of
consumption, and was slowly bnt surely
driving him off the field with a power which
astounded the doctors and filled all hearts
with joy and thankfulness.
What Was this then t hat had won the vic
tory for the seaman Brown, and was now
leading the admiral's shattered forces to the
same grand result? When askod this ques
tion by one of his officers on duty, in Mon
tevideo, the admiral, slowly lifting his hand,
replied, "I would that in letters of gold, and
so placed that all the world could read them,
the name of this great remedy could be
shown, co ipiod with the genius who discov
ered it—‘The Golden Medical DiscovebyI
Dr. Pierce, of Buffalo. N. Y.,’ the man who
has given to his fellow men the greatest re
lief from all ills that mortal flesh is heir to!”
“This is the name of the contents of that
bottle on my table, and God bless the man
who has found the secret of filling it with a
medicine at once purifying and strengthen
ing, wholesome and thorough in its results,
and claiming, in my humble opinion, noth
ing for itself that it cannot reasonably per
form. Nature's ally against th* abuse of
man!” •
Well might the admiral sing the praises of
that which had so unexpectedly rescued him
from a fatal iUuess. When the ship anchored
the first commission for the admiral’s son to
execute was a large purchase of Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery, which, as the ad
miral sadly admitted, he had seen in every
port the world around and had only admired
as an evidence of the energy and enterprise
of an American who conld thus place his
Golden Medical Discovery in every nook
and comer of the globe. Bat now he was
one more to testify to the wonderful power
of this medicine, and certainly did so in
Montevideo, by praising it up to all the high
officials who visited him.
A week later and the Nomad sailed for
Boston direct. What the condition of the
admiral was when she arrived there is shown
iu hie letter above. Let it be recorded to the
credit of the doctors on the flagship that
they were completely cured of ail dislike for
the Golden Medical Discovery, used it faith
fully on the voyage to Boston, and landed,
through its wonderful power, the admiral
completely restored; and more than one poor
fullow who started out in the sick bay of the
Nomad. Wtiat stanch friends the Golden
Medical Disco; ery made in that ship!
The above, reader, is an outline of the
story, spun by the admiral to bis friend when
they met at the dinner. We will not tench
on othe.- pontons of his interesting recital
of his cruise in general, our aim being to re
cord his testimony for the greatest wonder
in med.oal science that this nineteenth cen
tury of surprising developments has pro
duced.
From the wonderful power of Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery over that terribly
fatal disease, consumption, which is scrofula
of the Inngs, when first offering this now
world-famed remedy to the public, Dr.
Pierce thought favorably of calling it his
“consumption cure,” bnt abandoned that
name as too restrictive far a medicine that
from its wonderful combination of germ-de
stroying, as well as tonic, or strengthening,
alterative or blood-(Ueansing. anti-bilions,
diuretic, pectoral and nutritive properue-,
is unequaled, not only as a remedy for con
sumption of the lungs, b»t for all chronic
diseases of the liver, blood, kidneys and
lungs. Golden Medical Discovery cares all
humors, from the woist scrofula to a com
mon blotch, pimple or eruption. Erysipe
las, ealt-rhenm, fever-sores, scaly or rough
skin, in short all diseases caused by disease
germs in the Blood, are conquered by this
powerful, purifying and invigorating medi
cine. Gieat eating ulcere rapidly heal under
its benign influences. Especially has it
manifested its potency in curing tetter, rose
rash, boils, carbuncles, sore eyes, scrofulour
sores and swellings, white swellings, goitre
or thick neck, and enlarged glands.
“The blood is the life. Thoroughly
cleanse this fountain of health by Using
Golden M' diral Discovery, and good diges
tion, a fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital
strength and soundness of constitution are
established.
For weak lungs, spitting of blood, short
Breath. eonsump*ive night-sweats and kin
dred affections, It is a sovereign remedy. In
the cure of bronchitis, severe coughs and
consumption, it has astonished the medical
faculty, and eminent physicians pronounce
it the greateet medical discovery of the age.
The nutritive properties possessed by cod
uver oil are trifling when compared with
those of the Golden Medit'd Discovery. It
rapidly bnilds up the system and increase
the flesh and weight of t'toee reduced belod
the usual standard of health by wasting dis
eases.
* • • * • • •
The reader will pardon tbs foregoing di
gression, prompted by oar admiration for a
remedy ‘hat performs such mansions cores,
sad psoof' na to sav that whsa
returned to Bis home th New York the only
cloud east u; on the happiness of th* reunion
with his family was caused by the continued
illness of his eldest son, a yonng man of
t .venty-four, whose disease, when tho ad
miral sailed from Montevedio, had been re
ported as succumbing to the treatment of
the family doctor. Bn, Ids father thought it
otherwise; the unfortunate yonng man was
suffering severely from chronic disease of
the kidneys and bladder. Before leaving
Boston the admiral had purchased a copy of
Dr. Pierce’s book, “The People’s Common
Sense Medical Adviser.” He read this val
uable book thoroughly, and upon his arrival
home had made np his mind as to the future
treatment for his son. The latter was sent
to the famous Invalids’ Hotel, at Buffalo, N.
Y., conducted by Dr. R. V. Pierce, and his
competent staff of specialists, where, under
skillful treatment, the sefferer soon found
relief and a permanent cure.
AGRICULTURE.
Thunder Storms.—An exchange re
marks; It is seldom that a season pas
ses without barns and houses being
struck with lightning and it is proper'
that all necessary preoantions should be
used to prevent serious results. As long
as th ; storm remain at a distance, we
have nothing to fear, bnt when it ap
proaches near, we should avoid placing
ourselves in an exposed position. We
can estimate the distance of a storm,
from the place we occupy, on scientific
principles.* When we see the flash of the
lightning the time occupied between
that and the sound of the thunder is the
guide by which we must be governed.
Sound travels at the rate of 1,142 feet in
a second, so that we can estimate the
distance by multiplying 1,142 by the
number of* seconds or pulse beats be
tween the flash and the thuuder. It is
a simple and easy way of finding out
how far the lightning is from us and
may be calculated to dispel those slavish
fears which some persons entertain
during the prevalence of a thunder
o'o m.
Canada THian.Es.—There is a far
more excellent way of eradicating the
thistle than by summer fallowing, and
this is by means of clovering. Sow clo
ver, without a grain crop, on thistly
land, well prepared by late fall plowing;
run the mowing machine over the
ground before the thistles bloom, let
the aftermath grow,which it will do fas
ter than the thistles; mow again in due
time; repeat the process the second
year, aud you may say "good-bye” to
the thistles. Is not this a far easier
plan than*'early and often plowing dur
ing the entire summer?” The held thus
worked yields no crop, whereas on the
clover method there is a crop of hay to
pay for the labor, while the land which
has been two seasons in clover is left in
prime condition for a wheat crop or any
other grain crop. Summer fallowing is
a relic of old-fogy farming. It is a fight
with nature, which aims to cover the
surface with some kind of a gieen
growth. Let that green growth he clo
ver, aud the doable work of cleaning
and enriching the land will be most sat
isfactorily and thoronghly done.
Heaver.—If you want to have no
trouble with heaves w your horses be
sure that thev are fed no dusty aud dir
ty hay, which is the prolific source of
this annoyance. Ordinary clean hay
can a ways be fed with safety if properly
cut up, moistened, and mixed with
ground grain; but to feed the musty or
dirty sorts is very injurious. Clover,
owing to its liability to crumble, often
gets dirty, eveu after storage, aud should
never be fed wiMiout being previously
moistened.
Dairy and Stock.—Bran from the
new prooess Hour is much inferior to the
old-fashlou bran that was formerly used.
Be careful about the bran you buy, so
us not to be cheated. As the bull has a
greater influence on the progeny than
the cow as a rule, it is wise for clubs or
neighborhoods to combine where there
is no one individual able to buy au im
ported bull, and keep him up, and thus
improve their stock for butter or beef at
a trifling cost. Observation proves that
crosses wiih first-class native cows in
this way, make the premium butter-
makers.
Feeding Oil Cake.—Swiss farmers
generally employ oil cake by dissolving
it when iu morsels in hot or cold water,
and then pouring the liquid over the cut
roots or hay—straw and chaff are never
employed, being considered unfit for
milking or f ttemng ends. The mix-
tore is given as the first feed, never
after drinking, as if turnips enter into
the ration the cattle drink too largely.
The cake must not be dissolved too long
in advance, as it would become sour.
The vessels ought to be rinsed aud dried
every three or tour days.
Silos —M. Goffart, the happy dis
coverer of conserving green fodder in
trenches or silos, states that there is
noth ng in the process (ensilage)but can
be varied, such as the fotm of the silo,
its construction as to materials, etc.,
save the most vigorous attention to the
close packing oi the moss so as to keep
out the air—the exclusion of the latter
is the secret of ensilage.
It should be remembered that no mat
ter how good and rich a milker a o w
may be it is unreasonable to expect the
quantity and richness of the product to
be kept up unless both the quantity and
adaptability of the food ate matters of
atteution. Do not expect impossibilities
even if you are the ow er of prise milk
ing animals.
Fruit Treks.—A fruit-grower placed
tobacco stems around the trunks of
peach trees, and there is not the slight
est sign of a borer in any of the trees so
treated. He set the stems around the
• utts of the trees, and tied them at the
top. It keeps off rabbits, as well in
winter.
Remember when setting ont plants of
any description to spread the roots ont
in their natural position, not covering
them when cramped or doubled up. Be
careful not to cover the crowns of straw
berry plants with earth, set them just
level with the surface, and press the
earth family about them.
An experienced wheat grower in Can
ada has originated an entirely new va
riety of wheat called the “Feerle s
Black Chaff." He claims that it is mst
proof,immensely productive and always
a sore crop. The straw is exceedingly
strong and h?nly. .
The milk of a oow in her third or
foiutn calf is go. 3rally richer in quality
than a younger one, and will continue so
for several years. In dry seasots the
quality is generally richer,although cool
weather favors the production ot cheese.
Cold weather increases the yield of but-
ter. _______
A correspondent says that where the
land is new and rich in mineral elements
there need be no fear of black knot in
plum and cherry trees.
HUMOROUS.
In a suit before a Detroit justice, the
other day, the defendant desired to
prove that his financial standing was
solid, and when his witness bad taken
the stand and testified that the defend*
ant enjoyed the reputation of promptly
paying his debts, the opposing counsel
asked;
"Mr. Blank, you say you consider
Mr White perfectly good ?”
"Yes, sir. ’
"If he owed you $50 you’d expect to
receive it when due ?”
"Yes, sir,”
"If he should ask you for the loan of
$25 you’d hand it right out ?”
"Y-yes, sir.”
"Very well—very well. Mr. White,
ask the witness for a loan of $25.”
"Mr. Blank, loan metheshm named,”
said the defendant, as he reached out
his hand,
> Mr. Blank grew red and pale by tarns,
hitched around like a boy on a carpet-
tack, and finally replied:
"What 1 meant to say was that I’d
lend you $26 on a first mortgage on
about $2,0.0 worth of real estate I Make
out your papers I”
Advance Step In Dentistry
Havana, Cuba.—The most popular
dentist of ttus city, Dr. D. Francisco Gar
cia, member of the Royal University,
states that in all cases of troulih some neu
ralgia, ariaing from the teeth, his patrons
are reconamended to use St. Jacib’s Oil,
and the moat satisfactory cures have lol*
lowed. It is a specific for tootbache, ear
ache, bodily pains, and proof against
household accidents.
They were an old couple coming East
by the Michigan Central. When the
brakema” announced: "Marshall—twen
ty minutes for dinner I” thoy both left
the car and entered the eating-house.
They had scarcely seated themselves at
the table when tbe husband took out
his old-fashioned bull’s-eye watch,
squinted at the time and passed it to
his wife with the remark;
"Now, I’ll eat and you hold the watch,
and ii we get left it’ll all be your fault.
Sing out at the end of eighteen min
utes."
And the good-natured old wife sat
there without eating a mouthful _and
timed him while he pitch-forked every
thing within reach into his stomach.
Bay City, Mich , Feb. 3 1880
I think it my duty to send you a recom
mend for the benefit of any person wishing
to know whether Hop Bitters are good or
not. 1 know they are good for general
debility and indigestion; strengthen the
nervous system and make new life. 1 rec ■
ommend my patients to use them.
DR. A. FKaTT.
“Ah, I have an impression !” exclaim
ed Dr. McCosh, the president of Prince
ton College, to the mental philosophy
class. “Now, young gentlemen, can
you tell what an impression is ?”
No answer.
* ’What! no one knows ? No one can
tell me what an impression is I” ex
claimed the doctor, looking np and
down the class.
“I know.” said Mr. Arthur, “An
impression is a dent in a soft place. ’*
“Young gentleman," said the doctor,
growing red in the face, “you are ex
cused for the day.”
At, Kditoi'aT>*ll<uonlml.
A M. Vau.',-hu,e'litor of t'le “lirceuwicli Review,”
Greenwich, O., writes: Lut January I met with a
very s vere accident, caused by a runaway her e. I
us ;d almost every kind or sal veto heal the wounds,
which turned to running sores, but found nolhin?
to do me anv good till I wjs recommended Henry’s
Carbolic Salve. I bought a box and it helped me at
once, and at the end of two months I was completely
welL It Is the best sa ve in the market, and 1 never
fail of telling my friends about it, and urge them to
use it whenever they need a salve.
Dnmo’a Catarrh Snuff cures all affections of the
mucous membrane of the head and throat
Miggs was talking iu a crowd about
how pleasant aud convenient it was to
be a rich mu.
“Oh, it is better to be bom lucky
than rich I” said one of his hearers
"Perhaps so,’’said Miggs reflectively,
“but I wonld like to have some of both
—half, and half, like 1”
"Which did you get the most of?”
"Neither one !’’ said Miggs and mood
ily walked an ay.
A young man handed a spring poem
to an editor the other day while he was
very busy and requested him to read it
The editor politely looked it over, told
the foreman to put it on the editorial
page aud double lead it, gave the young
man an order on the counting-room for
$1,000, and then invited him him ont
to dinner. Modesty forbids oar men
tioning any names.
Baltimore, M».—Kev. W. H. Chapman says :
“1 deem Brown’s Iron Bitters a most valuable
tonic for general Ul-health.”
Miss Jenny Marks, of Baltimore, won
a sewing machine by making a guess at
the number of pills in a bottle in a win
dow. There were 25,100 pills in tbe
bottle dud she guessed 25,199. There
were over five tnousaud guesses, and
the worst one was a guess of 9,000,000.
The man who guessed nine millions was
one of those fellows who get their edu
cation by reading gas meters.
Language: Tommy—"What does T
beg your pardon’ mean ?”
Aunt—"It is a form of apology, my
dear. For instance, I should apologize
by saying: ‘I beg your pardon. ’ ”
Tommy—"Oh, mother wouldn’t say
that I She’d say: ‘Get out, yer young
warmint, or I’ll fetch ye sioh a slap o’
the head yer own father won’t know ye
from a^twopenny’bun.’ ”
For Thick Head*,
Heavy stomachs, billons conditions—Walls’ May
Apple Pllla—auti-billonj, cathartic. 10 and iiAc.
It's no use mending tbe tank when
the water is gone.
Nothing will secure better remuner
ation to the average farmer than to as
sist in building up and encouraging
home markets for desirable farm pro-
dnots, Among the essentials in this
direction is an increased variety in the
production.
(Sensitive Jaws —Some horses are
more sensitive than others in the. upper
jaw, and will not go np on the steel bar
or snaffle apper-jaw bit. In such
oases have a bit made of plain round
leather, tbe usual size of the upper-
jaw bit.
Small and Large,—Au authority
says that small or moderate plantations
of fruit fer selling in market are nearly
always more profitable, if well managed
than great areas, which ran rarely be
attended to in the beat manner.
Fancy mattings in various new colors
are more popular than ever.
■rttwhhWraVii n- >Awnf j?-- r ■ ti
~ — ’ —■ # *
There were five of ’em on the comer.
One said that his wife was cleaning
house and had every zoom npset
The second observed that he had just
left six painters at work on his house.
The third said he was tearing out
pertitions and building cn a wing.
The fonrth smile! sadly and added
that he was going to have four ceilings
whitewashed, three rorms repapered, a
chimney torn out aud his hall widened.
“Oentiemen,” said the fifth man as
he drew a long breath. "I don’t want
to be looked upon as one who is trying
to crawl ont of his share of the world’s
misery, and I th* r jfore take this oppor
tunity Of informing yon that in order to
buy new carpets and a parlor suite I
have been obliged to mortgage my
house and shall probably lose it.”
Change of Mind.
I declined to insert your advertisement
of Hop bitters last year, because I then
thought they might not be promotive of
tbe cause of Temperance, but find they
are, and a very valuable medicine, myself
and wife having been great!yYienefltted by
them, and I take great pleasure in making
them known. REV. JOHN SEAMAN.
Editor Home Sentinel, Afton, N. Y.
Some time since the papers published
a thrilling story of the narrow esoape of
Captain Worth, of the Brooklyn police
force, from being shot by a thief. The
man wbo was alleged to have made the
attempt was arrested, and bis jnstol
taken from him and sent to the proper
ty clerk at police headquarters. I was
at headquarters a few dajs ago. when
an old lady, who claimed to be the
mother of the owner of the pistol, called
to get her son’s dangerous weapon.
"What do yon want wiih a pistol ?’’
asked the property clerk.
"L.’l useful ’round the house.”
"What for?”
"Why, I have used it for years for
driving tacks. It’s rusty and won’t go
off, and makes a capital hammer.”
When the weapon was produced the
woman’s statement was fonnd to be cor
rect. It would have gone to pieces be
fore it would discharge a ball.
Mensman’s Peptonized beef tonic, tUt
only preparation of beef containing its en
tire nutritious properties. It contains
blood-making, force generating and life-
sustaining properties; invaluable fer Indi
gestion, dyspepsia, uervous prostration, and
all forms of general debility; also, in all
enfeebled conditions, whether the result of
exhaustion, nervous prostration, overwork
or acute disease, particularly if resulting
bom pulmonary complaints. Caswell,
Hazard & Co., proprietors, New York.
Sold by all druggista.
Tones are the cadences which emo
tion gives to thought.
Those who use Carbohne as now im
proved and perfected, the great petroleum
hair renewer, are always distingubheil by
the beautiful soft texture of the hair pro
duced by the use of tbat most exquisite of
all toilet preparations.
He who gives before we ask will give
when we ask.
Fr.z«-r laleGrvaan.
One grearing lasts two weeks; all others two
or three days. Do not be mpaaed on by the
liumbng stuffs offered. Askyour dealer for Fra
zer's, with label on. Saves your horse labor and
you too. It received first medal at the Centen
nial and Paris Exposition*. Bold every fibers.
Love is the true interpretation of the
Gospel.
Tbat Husband of Mine
Is three times the man he was before he began
using Wells’ Health Renewer. $1. Druggists.
ftim
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REMEDY
FOR M.
Relieves and cures
RHEUMATISM,
Neuralgia,
Sciatica, Lumbago,
HACK ACHE,
HEADACHE, TOOTfiiOH^
SORE THROAT,
QUINSY, SWELLINGS,
SPBAIBW, •
Soreness, Cuts, Bathes.
FROfT. BITES,
niTRNN, MC-A1.DE,
And ell other bodily ache*
and pains.
FIFTY CENTS A BOTTLt
Sold by all Druretsts and
Dealers. Direcuons in II
languages.
The Charles A. Vogetsr Cs
(HwmMon to A. VOGILSB * 00.)
Balllaor*. nd- 0.S.A
. otbin* In Ui< world eqifol to It f
sore ot Scrofula, Pimple., Belli, Teller, Old Soma.
Ban tjoo, Mercurial Dieeuei, Catarrh, Loh of J
Appetite, Female Complaint., and all Blnad .
diie*.'~. It never fntU. All Sniff In. tad (
•nun try .ton keeper. .*11 it. LA Seller*
* Can Prop’s Plttobirf h, mi averj bottle.
There has never been an Instance In whlcb this
sterling iuvigorant and ami-febrile medicine has
failed to war i off the complaint, when taken duly
as a protection against nuiarla. Hundreds of
physicians have abandoned all the offlcuial specif
ics, and now prescribe this harmless veg< table
tonic for chills un i fever, as well as dyspe; sta
and nervous Affections. Hostetler's Bitters is the
specific you need.
For sale by all Druirgists and Dealers generally.
YlllIMn AflFM lf y°u want to become TELE,
luunu nitn Gha)H OPERATORS, and be
guaranteed employment, address P. W. RE .M Ada,0.
THE SUN
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are the two
newspaper for ever body a friend to every body, hui
ring the rogues aud frauds. Subscription: Daily <s
psgen), by mad. 8»«*. a month, or SO..to a year
P**' 08 ), »l.ao per year; WxjcuLr (S pages)
•LOO per year.
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PETER COOPER.
People’s intentions can only be de
cided by their conduot.
Why don’t you use St. Patrick's Salve? Try
it Use it 25c at all druggists.
If a dog has money he is called "your
lordship the dog.”
Walcott, the gentleman who ate thirty
brace of quails in thirty days, was relieved
from any disagreeable stomach troubles by
nsing Gastrine, and took nothing else dur
ing the task. Sold by druggists.
ci-.i 1-fc ui. *0 Cl*.; nan uutMta. 35 eta Posiu
stamps taken. Not -old by dial ra; prices too lov
Also the foliowing, large type, uuubr.dged:
Lxfb of Alex H. Stephens. KD. s»c. and Sfi
Lifb of Wakhinoton ikvino, by Stoddard, (
Life of SibIsaao Newton, by James Parton, - a
Rip Van Winxlk, by Wash ngton .rving. • X
Robnino of Rome, by Cannon larrar, • .a
American Humorists—Artcmiu Ward, . . a
Enoch abden, by Abred Tennyson, ... a
Deserted Village; Thb Tbaveleb.Gold-mith. a
Cotteh's Saturday Night, e.c. t Robert Bards, i
Hohilab's son® of the Bell, and other Poem-, a
The se,-serpents of Science, Andrew Wilson, a
World-smashing by W. Mattuu Williams, - 3
JOHN t). ALDKN, Publisher, 18 Vesey St.,New Yorl
Terror is the vitality of tbe soul iu
its communion with God.
Should you be a sufferer from dyspepsia, Indi
gestion, malaria, or weakness, you can be cured
by Brown’s Iron Bittern.
When you meet a heart that is true,
don’t be afraid to trust it.
DltS. J. N. k J. It. H0BENSACK.
THOSE AFFLICTED WITH THE EFFECTS
OF SELF-ABUSE AND MEKCCIUALIZATION
should nut hes tate to consult J. N. and J. B. HO-
BENSACK, o'. 306 Nor. h Second ,treet, Philadel
phia, either by mad or b.' pers n, daring the hoars
trom 8 A. M. to 2 P. M., and 8 to 9 P. M.
Advice free. Whosoever would know his condi
tion and the way to improve It should read
“WISDOM IN A NUTSHELL.”
Sent on receipt ot 3-cent si amp.
Emory’s Little Cathartic Pill—best made
for Liver Complaint and Biliousness.
Tasteless, harmless, infallible. 15c.
He who waits to do a good deal of
good at once will never do any.
Ladies and children’s boots and shoes
cannot run over if Lyon’s Fatent Heel
Stiffeners are used.
I envy not the udtempted ones,
though I dare not pray for temptation*.
Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer is tne
marvel of the age for all nerve diseases. All
fits stopped free. Bend to 9M Arch street,
Philadelphia. Pa.
I Insana Persons Restore
BJiDr.KLINE SQREA’
■ ■ NerveRestogei
,or «//Brain At Nebvb Diseases. Ontysur
tort /or Ntrvt Affrctiont. Fitt. EfiJr/n, tt,
Infallible If t.ikrn at directed. No Fitt mftt
/trtt day's m. TrevtiM and (a trial bottle freet
Fit patients, they paying erpress charges on bos whe
received. Send names. P. O. and erpress sddnss r
, afflicted th DK.KLlNE.nst Arch St..Philadelphia Pi
Druggists. BEWARE OF IMITATING FRAUDi
AR A MONTH and board In yonr own coonl
Young >ien or J-adiee’ outfit free a
dree., P. W.ZIEGLERdfc CO.. Philadelphia, I
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Ptueiotan, or How to Acquire and Presert
Health." Kethila, 12.25. Big Commlse on*
Agents. AMERICA PUBLISHING CO., IT Non
Tenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
The noblest and tbe most useful lives
are made np of small acts well done.
Toccoa Crrr, Ga Dr. J. P. Newman says:
“Brown •* Iron Bitten re very popular and their
u«e always results satisfactorily.”
Flee sloth, for indole noe of the soul
is the decay of the body.
' Skinny Men.
“ Wells’Health Renewer”restorea health and vigor
core* Dyspepsia, Impotence, Sexual Debility. |1.
A crowd always thinks with its sym
pathy, sever with its reason.
The Bad and Worthless
are never imitated or counterfeited. This ft
especially true of a family medicine, and it is
positive proof that the remedy imitated is of the
highest value, as - soon as it had been tested
and proved by the whole world that Hop Bitters
was the purest, best and most valuable family
medicine on earth, many Imitations sprang up
and t»egan to steal the notices In which the press
and the people of the country had expressed the
merits of H. a, and in every way trying to in
duce suffering invalids to turn their Fluff Instead,
expecting to make money on credit aud good
name of H. B. Many outers started nostrums
pat np In similar style to H. a, with variously
devised names in which the word “Hop.” or
“Hops” were used in a way to induce people
to believe they were the same ts Hop Bitters.
All such pretended remedies or eons, no nuttier
what their style or name n, and especially those
with the word “ Hop ’ or “ Hop*” In their nam.
or In any way connected with them or their n^ me
are Imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them.
Touch none of them. Use nothing bnt genome
Hop Bitters, with a bunch or cluster of green
Hop on the white label. Trust nothing else.
Druggists and dealers are warned against dealing
to imitations or counterfeits. *
™ — VSU1U2
16 to
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Clover Billen
(Salted to all sections.) Write forWMFM Ulus. Pamnhlef
aad Prices to The Aoltman * Taylor Ox, Mansflsld, Oble.
$72
C
CWB WHERE All ELSE EAlll.
BentCXKiThSyrup. Tfwtf* good.
Use In time. Sold by drugglRtA.
com-sumption
A WEEK. (12 a day athome easily made Costly
outfit free. Address Tbur A Co.. Angusta, Me,
OLBMAN PpsiNBts CoLLlOB,Newark. N..I. Terms
$40. Positions for graduates Write for circulare.
CHARCOAL
bad breath, purifying the system. Box by mail
cents. Mt. Vernon < io., Southington, Conn.
| ttV Mt i UMr* WIAII. -A lu.i ucsciiu,
i Moody’s Nbw Tailor System of 1
>• D. W. MoodyACo.3l W.9tw.Cincliini
KIDOEirs PASTILlE&SISSi
Mass.
$66
MOKPHINE HABIT.
No pay till cured. Ten
year* established. 1,000
cured. State case. W.
Marsh, Quincy, Mioh.
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using I
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