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~~ if WAR TIMES. ????? PICTURES OF LIFE IX THE CONFEDERATE STATES. Primitive Threshing?A Substitute for Pie Crust?Rice and Sugar Cane Mills?Utilizing Brown Paper?Primeval Farming. "Writing about life in the South during the Civil War, a Philadelphia Times correspondent says: Of c ?urse there was some bother about threshing the wheat. "While some could "'thrash" and "fan" at their gin houses, there were those who would bide the time for the traveling thresher to come around. Others whose sowing and reaping was on a sm^Jl scale would maul the whc.it out with tiails of their own make. One day we went to see the threshing ari nngemcnt one woman whose husbana and sons were in the army hud devised. Wc found the room carpeted with sheets and tapestried with coverlets and the woman seated in a hair, with a common-si ed barrel before her. A sheaf of wheat was in her hands and she wai pounding the grains of w! eat out over a barrel. She would in this primitive way flail as much as two or three bushels and then spread the sheets on the ground in the open air, the wheat being poured on in a continuous stream. The wind acted as the great fan and curried the'.half lightly away. The wheat bein? ground at soma flouring mill would last her quite awhile. When u?ed up the same rude flailing would be resorted to, Hundreds during the war threshed in the same primitive manner, i Notwithstanding the South put forth her best energies to the raising of wheat, flour was scarce. It is amusing to think of our resort for '-pie cru t" when no flourjcould be had. Meal would be j 6iftea through a tine sieve,again through ! a fine muslin cloth and mixed up with I 6calding water to tn-ke it more viscid and adhesive. AVhen linished off with the rolliug pin and talked brown it was by no means a bad sub-titut- for pic crust. For want of r'ce mills to strip the j coarse husks from the rice wooden mor-1 tars hud to be used. A tree of the proper ! size would be felled from which a block of suitable size w u d bu sawed. A cav-1 ity would be hollowjd with an ad~e in i the end, and it w.r.tl I be made smooth by burning with lire fo;- the want of bet- j ter polishing tools. Then the charred urface would be .^cr.iped smoothly and ??i? frvr>rl frnm the cvcuijr. auu uiu uvi.vu ?.vvw coal dust. The "pestle" nude perhaps from the bough of tlie same tree, completed the rice m il. The rough rice, poured in such rude mortars and winnowed by the wind, was very nice. "Mills had also to be erected for crushing the juice from sugar-cane. Wooden cylinde s w.re almost universally used, as tho<e of iron were scarcely obtainable during the war. While wooden cylinders were not satisfactory, as all the juice of ihc cane could not ^ thoroughly be pressed from the crushed cane, the farmers cheered themselves with the idea that there was no great loss, as the swine coidd draw from it the leavings. The furnaces for syrup and Bu^ar boiling were raised on rocks, if bricks were not convenient, though many 6mall brick yards were put in operation during the four years of the war. Long wooden troughs, hollowed from trees, were also indespen-ab e foi pouring the syrup from the boilcis to cool, 'ine 6jrup was thick ami clear. The sugar was unavoidably b:o\v?. as there was no means in the great .stress of the times of clarifying it. I have seen the planters work long smooth oak splits, cut thin from the top to the bottom of the barrel filled with the home made sugar, to aid the dripping and to b.-tter free the .sugar from moisture. There was a pleasing and gratified delight jsmoug the planters when they had been successful in making their sugar very 1 ght and dry and it not infrequently happened that o 1 a ne'ghbor calling the fir-t tiling after the conventional greeting would be to bring forth a small | arrkuge of his make of sugar wrapped in brown paper. Our writing paper was also brown, as well as the school b^oks printed in the South during the war, because we could oot buy nor make white paper. The castor-bean plant,being nati? e to the South, * ' .. ! * of ofn growing lll.\uriuu><) IU bin.- nnu DMtv, was soon brought into cultivation, and from it was extracted a pure, thick and transparent castor oil. As leather and shoes soon became highpriced, farmers were reduced to the necessity of tanning their own leather for home use, as well as in lending their aid in supplying the soldiers of uur army with shoes. There were mauy tanneries put in ope ation during the war. Yet every farmer could uot carry the few hides he might have to the tanvards. So the question was how to tan them at home. The hides w re soaked for a few ^ days in a ba rel of water, in which some very weak lve,filtrated wfthwood ashes, had been mingled. The hair was then easily removed. I may also add that few hides were then piissc I by as useless.The home process of tanning was perliai s as primeval as that belonging to the earliest ag s. A pit of size to suit the number of hides would be dug in the g4 0und near n spring or stream of water. I have heard many say they never bought better leather than that tanned by their simple method. Saddles were icpaired or mad-j anew, gear of all kinds used on the plantations mended or newly made; harness for wagoas, buggies itnd carrs ges to make and keep repaired?the aimv wagons and the outfit for our cavalry, together with shoes for our army and the home ones. To meet the demands it is no wonder that th; hides of horses, mules aud ho.^8 were utilized. As no shoe blacking or polish for shoes could be bought during the war, the want of blacking was supplied with soot and oil mixed. The shoes would then be painted with the soot blacking. Tlu polish, a thin paste made of flour would be applied, and when dry the shoe: presente 1 as black aud as glossy appear ance as if "shined" by the best boot blacks. Obtaining salt wa? at time? quite i bother, especially to those remote fron the seacoast. There are tho'-e who wil yet remember digging up the salty soi of the smoke house :;nd placing it it hoppers. After passing through th< process of percolation the brine wai boiled down to the proper consistency, poured iuto shallow vessels and placcc in the sun for evaporation to perfect th< rest. The salt from such crude proceed ings was all that could be desired, if nol of snowy whiteness, and served well tc tide over the emergeucy. T?to Ways, burn's wat. Then gently scan your brother man, And gentler sister woman, And if they gan a kennin wrang, To step aside is human. the modern wat. Then keenly scan your brother man, ? And keener sister woman, And if they gang a kennin wrang Come down upon them Jike a thousand o Brick and show that you have no sympathy For anything,save yourself, that is human * ?Boston Courier. Sngar Statistics. The ordinary {.agar of commerce it made from sugar cane and beets. There is very little difference in the quality of the two varieties. The bulk of the cane sugar is grown in the tropical regions of North and South America, the East and "West India Islands, British India and Southern China. The beet sugar is produced chiefly in France, Germany, Russian Poland and Austria-Hungary. The relative amount of cane and beet sugar id virv riMrlv o iii.il. the nrosnective crop of cane s .'gar for the current year in what are known as exporting countries, being 2,44"i.0('0 tons, while the prospective crop of beet sugar will not be far from 2, ">23,000 tous. making a total available supply for the year of 4,980,000 | tons. Statistics show, however, that sugar, like some other good things in the world, is not distributed evenly. Great Hritein consumes more sugar per capita than any other country, and the Inilcd States come next in the li-t. For the year 18S"? the consumption of sugar, so tar as it can be traccd by relia.ble figures, was as follows: Ton p. Tons. United States.. 1,?54,''00 Oth?r European (front Britain...1,20:1,101 countries 333,000 France...... .. S7n,oo.j Non - exporting ( 'urnian Kmp:rc 3:;C,iKU couutrus 1,009,000 Austria 1S.000 Holland 4".,000 Total 5,432,000 This statement, al'owing the last year's crop to have been as great as the prospective crop for 1S8C, would leive 1,141*,000 tons on hand or to have gone into con sumption unaccounted lor. The per capita consumption of Great Britain was a trifle over 00 pounds; that of the United State, 4l).:> pounds; that of France was scarcely 30 pounds, and that of Germany still less. The consumption for the United States varies somewhat, according to the condition of business. While in 1883 it was 39.8 pounds per capita, in 1804 it was 51 and in 1883 only 4 7.0. ?P/'i iladelph ia Times. Fivo-Cent Restaurants. The very newest thing in New York is the Cleveland Restaurant on Chatham street. It is on the same block with three lively rivals. First came the Boss Tweed Restaurant, with au olfer of beefsteak for ten cents; then was established |theJimFisk, which se ls a Hamburger j steak for eight cents or coffee or pic for ' seven cents. This was left in the dis! tancj by the Gladstone, which offered i the public corn-beef hash for five cents, I nnd now the newest one is the Cleveland i Restaurant, with flaming announcements of "four crullers and a cup of coffee for five cents." With such opportunities one must be very poor to be obliged to go hungry. 'I wo of these establishments arc large and busy places wherein two good dishes can be had for a clime. It is said that the i waiters are all ath'etics and skilled bouncers, who are more respected by the public than any waiters ever were before. It is like trifling with dynamite to try and beat one of these places out of a dinner, and the bummer who does so is described as looking and feeling ns if he had been through a rolling mill when his waiter has tired of toying with him. There is a general boom in the New York restaurant business. An enterprising man in Fourteenth street has started an eating house of immense dii mensions which he calls a "dairy kitchen." It is in the henrt of the shopping district and to attract the ladies he employs a string band to play in the front of it all day while cooks prepare bou bons and pastry, in the big front window, liut the biggest restaurants in America are two that face AVa^hington Market. One feeds ten thousand persons a dap and the other serves eight thousand. The average cost of a meal in one of th; se mammoth dining rooms is twenty-five tents. ?Philadelphia Times. A Big Hop Country. Few farmers in the country can tell of such wonderful crops as arc raised in Washington Territory. It would open the eyes of some of the Eastern farmers to know that with but little labor the owner of a small farm can clear $5(J0 per acre every year, and more than this when the weather fonditions hold good. In a talk with a hop farmer of the White Kiver valley yesterday, he said: "I raised from 1,000 to 2,000 pounds of hops per acic, on live acres of "my land this year, for which I received thirty-five cents a pound. There is a big boom for Washington Territory hops this year. The California crop is a failure, and the Eastern people have come to Puget Sound to get their hops. The crops in the Puyallup and White River valleys have been larger at times than this year, but the quality has never been equate 1 heretofore. There appears to be more gi;m in tl>n limic tlii< Tri'nr than fiver l>eforp_ The cost of raising hops is about seven cents a pound on the average. This includes the curing and the packing. We got per pound for hops in 1882." The farmer then enthusiastically said that he believed the White Itivcr valley to be the finest piece of land on God's footstool, lie had lived thire twenty years and the condition* of fanning were so superior to the country in the East and South that it wa< a wonder to him that people did not fairly swarm into the territory. "Look at it," he continued. "There arc no fierce storms here to sweep over our land and drown out or blow down our crops. There is no thunder and lightning, no great snowstorms and no iusects to eat up our crops. The winter is short, the summer long and mild, and 1 the intervening seasons pleasant. Why, , I would not go back to farming again in \wz i? t iuisamui il>i .my kuunmciuuuu, ?j.uw ' ma (17. T.) Telegraph. Rodent Against Reptile. An interesting battle recently look place between a rat and a garter snake at Yisalia, Cal. A laborer first saw the i combatants and called a crowd of wit: ncsses, who formed a ring about them [ and watched the light to the finish. The 5 rat was cautious but quick, spiinging - with lightning jumps upon the snake . and burying its teeth through the serpent's scales. The latter would coil and i dart forward frequently, knocking the i rat over on its back. Once the rat caught I the snake's head and held it until the 1 latter, coiling about its body, s luec/.ed i it so tightly that it was forced to let go. ; The rat growled and tho snake hissed uli 5 the while. Finally ths rat, by biting its , antagonist through the neck several 1 times, severed its head, and dragged its ; long body in victory away. l. TlAii1t1<>.Fnoi(>(] Tnts. > Double-footed cats arc not found cvcrj day. Poliecmau Odlin had an offer oi one with six feet, to be sent from down East. lie wrote that ho didn't want it. lie had cats enough. The other day ir opening his front door a cat came in, Each of her fore paws was plainly sub divided into two separate, well marked feet, making six feet in all. It is nol the same cat that his relatives had writ ten to him about. It is altogether another, The cat has lived with them ever since. , They cun't drive her away if they would - Double-footed cats are a good sign, say . the grandmothers.?Lewiston (Afc.) Jour nil. I FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. There are 40,000 women belonging to granges in the United States. Ocean steamers burn from fifty to 300 tons of coal per day, accordiug to their size and speed. Mark Lane in London was originally called Mart Lnne, from the privileges of fare accorded by Edward I. to Sir Thomas Ro3s, of Ilamlake. Out of the 702,444 words composing the revised Bible, 721,072 are the same found in the received edition issued in 1611. Only nine per cent., 70,772, have been changed; 65,508 have been excluded. ' The Mary Rose, a British man-of-war, was sunk oif the coast of France in 1543, owing to the weight of the urmament she carried. It is said that breech-loading cannon have been recovered from the wreck. The oldest merchant vessel afloat is said to be the bark True Love, which was built in Philadelphia in 17??4, and is therefore 122 y.ars old. She is still in active service, and is owned by J. S. Ward, of London. The real S.ots were in fact Irish. In the olden time Ireland or a part of Ireland was called hr'cotia, and the Irish people wvre called Scots. A great many of these had crossed over the narrow sea which divides the two countries, and had settled in the nothern part of what we now call Scotland. The Chinese celebrate the ''festival of the moon" with a peculiar sort of ,d.ble called moon cake*. The cake is in imitation of thesha eof the moon, or of a beast or fish waiting for the moon to appear. Almonds, sweet spices and minced pork form the contents of the cake, i which is covered with a crust of finest ! rdetn M. Lesscnne claims that a ccrtain sign of death is the permanent gaping of the wound made in the skin by puncturing it with a needle. If the person be living, blood will usually follow the withdrawal ofthe needle: but whether it does or not, the wound will close at once. The puncture made in the skin of a dead person will remain open, as if made in leather. A paper published in Mexico avers that it is cu-tomarv among the Indians of the Jonacatepec district of that country to exchange wives. Occasionally these trades are permanent, but more often they are for a stipulated length of time, at the expirat'on of which each woman returns to her former husband, and the event is celebrated in each family by a feast, at which the pulque flows treely. Where the wives cannot be traded even a dog, cat or a pig is added on one side tc make the barter fair. In the district of Tenango, at Tescaliacac, the still more novel custom exists of spllinor or tr.idiny oil mothers in-law. A O ~ o # very fair article of mother-in-law can be bought for a lamb oi a sucking pig. Swindling Canntry People. The ways of making a living are as multifarious as the road to heaven, and many of them arc as unorthodox. A Tribune reporter came across an ingenious scheme the other day, which was being worked with considerable success in the country towns of Illinois. Four fellows composed the business partnership. Some bright morning they dei scend upon the peaceful country village ! and soou the streets are Hooded with cirI eulars announcing that Professor John Smith will deliver a lecture that evening j on '-The Shakers, their Hcligiou, Habits and Peculiarities." There is nothing new in the idea of a lecture, but the circular goes on to say that the lecturer was adopted at an early age by this peculiar people, and finally became an elder among them; that a genuine Shaker I dance will bo pcrlormeu, ana in a rruI fessor Jones, Brown and Robinson, un| excelled artists in their waj, will sing plantation melodies, with guitar, bail o and tambourine accompan'm nt. This is quite in the beaten track; but the final announcement catches all eyes. Prizes will be given to the la iest man, the prettie-t girl, the most popular mar' ried woman and th homeliest man, the ' prizes to be awarded by the popular vote at ten cents a vote. Of course everyb dy turns out, including the young ! men with their best girls. The lecture | is stuff cribbed from the encyclopedia, | the Shaker dance is a travesty on any, thing in the heavens above or the earth ' beneath, and the plantation melodies are not much better. I Then conies the voting. The cheap, showy prizes are exhibited from the platform, where distance lends enchantment. Some enthusiastic youth casts a vote for a village belle. Another chap starts a rival beauty, and the contest grows in- | i teresting. At tins juncture some vmugc . loafer," hired for the purpose by the lecturer and his partners, steps up and ca>ts a heavy vote for a colored woman. This ; knocks the boys silly for a moment, and then they join forces and procecd to outi vote the latest candidate for popularity. , The upshot of the matter is that the co!' orcd woman is beaten, but only after J the boys have expended their last dime, i The prizes are then awarded, aad for a I fifty-cent album the schemers take in ' anywhere from $20 to $40 in dimes, to ! say nothing of the vote on the other | prizes. Of course they lo:-e no time in getting out in time. The country boy m iy be slow to see that he has been victimised, but when his eyes are opened he is apt to use vigorous measures, and the I lecturer and his partner are well aware of the fact. Next day the same programme is repeated in another town, and barring a rough experience now and then, when their scheme i3 seen through, the quartet make an easy and co.nfortable living. ? Chicago Tribune. Musk. Musk is an animal substance, obtained i from an abdominal sac of the male of the i moschus moschatus, a small hornle s ; deer inhabiting the higher mountains of i Central Asin, ranging from Thibet to Chiua and into Asiatic Russia. The conI . tents of the musk sac arc a solid, browni ish, granulated ovoid mass exceedingly ; strong and tenacious in odor, aud varyt iug in size from that of a walnut to that of a lien's egg. There are four varieties j of musk, viz: Tonquin, from China, rci gardcd as the best and which is looked i | upon as the most reel :e:chc; Yunnan, I from the frontiers of Indo China: Assam, ? or Bengalee, and, least Talued of all, Kabartin, from Tartaryand Siberia. Musk is very expensive, the price at present rang'ng from eight to twenty dollars per , ounce, in the pods or b igs, according to grade. This high price is the cause of t much adulteration, in this country a9 well as at the place of production; so , that there is vc;y little in the market that can be considered pure. The priu. cipal adulterants arc lead, iron, coagu[ latcd blood, le ithcr, stones, and evenpa; per and rags. The adulferant is inserted . in th'e bag and the opening closed in such a manner as to defy detection. About five hundred jxninds of musk arc used annually in the I'nited States, of which r ninety-five per cent, goes into toilet . I soaps and perfumery, the rest being used for medicinal purposes.?Analyd. j Peasant Life iu Italy. An English lady, the Hon. Margaret Collier, has written a book, "Our Home by the Adriatic,"in which she give .some very curious accounts of peasant Hfc in Italy. ClennliLess is not one of tlie virtues of Italian peasants. Miss Collier found that to ask for a bath is to create alarm regardingthc state of one's health. -1-3 ? TirA?lr? A An fll/l f !l TTY1 UIJU UlU uiuu nuu nuiAvu v/u being asked if he had ever been washed, replied, after son.e reflection, that he believed seme one had trashed him when he was a small child. In the rich houses they have great hoards of linen, which . enables them to hold only one wasaing a year. The dirty linen :is stowed away in cupboards until the time comes round for the imnual wash. Then is ncen a procession of carts, filing down to the neaiest strerm. The poor Italian babie^ have a hard time of it. Their le:js are still bandaged with the fascia, li.ee the l'mbs of mummies. Education is not exccssix ely indulged in. A youn j lady who had received her educatiou in a convent asked Miss Collier if it was really necessary to cross the ocean to ?et to Ergland, and she did not know w'lat an island is. To animals the lower Italians are exceedingly cracl, yet otherwise they take better caie of them than of their own fan ilies, and when a doctor is consulted it is almo. t always regarding a 6ick animal. The Italian country gentleman does not hesitate to beat the female members of his family. Marriages are arranged after the French method. A young lady who came to be congratulated by Miss Collier on her approaching marriage, was nsked the name of her chosen husband. "Ob, I don't know," she a oswered; "papa has not yet told me that.1' ' Oddities of Noted Men. Charles II. of England was very fond j of hunting insects, and it is related by j ce tain historians that he was hinting a 1 moth in the .-upper-room at "Whitehall when the Dutch fl( et sailed up the Thames and bu nid Shecrness. Frederick the Great in his you:h wns noted for his stubbornness and I. wilfulness, and, wc are told, showed this at his sister's marrings. Instead of appearing at the cercmony in court a';tirc he came with the servauts dressed as one of their number. Rossini,the composer of "The Barber," when engaged with any great :ompo-1 6ition, invariably shaved himself in a most fantastic way to prevent hij going out of doors. | George IV., King of Englard, wag veiy feminine in his habits: he possessed scores of embroidered shirts, which were considered by bim to be the best department of his wardrobe, and were lccord- , ingly displayed with great pemp to any ' particular friend of his Majesty. Napoleon habitually watched a certain star, wh'ch he declared was his for it never abandoned him, but was always in sight commanding h m to go forward, giwncr as a reason for his succcss its own appearance. j Augustus IIare, one of the cleverest di. vines in the I nglish Church, when h? had ended a train of hard thinking, would rise from the de?k and spin around on his heel a few seconds and then resume his st ies. A Celebrated Calf Case. The famous Jones County calf case has just been disposed of by the Supreme Court of Iowa. This is one of Die most remarkable cases on the rccords ol American courts, and furnishes 8 strik- | ing illustration of what an expensive luxury a little satisfaction obtained in legal fo:in may prove to be. Twelve, years ay o a Green County farmer went, to Jones County and bought some calves ' of a man named Johnson. They were ' nrobablv stolen, but Johnson claimed to tnve bought tin m fiom a third party. Johnson was prosecuted by ihe AntiHoise Th:ef Associalion, but was ac- | quilted. II< sued for if 10,0U0 damages, I and the ca.ie has been tried five times, i and each timo, except one, he has rc-! ceived n vejdict for from $:<,000 to $7.- I 50(', which was always set a idc. He a; pwtled to the Supre me Court. : nd the ! verdict has been revised, giving him no ' duni: go. The court costs are now ! t'00, Avhile the expenses on both side s amount to at least $ 0.000, and several persons have Leen ruined by the expenses of the case. The value of the calves was fifty dollars. ?Miiima/idi* Journal. Fish Ponds in Saxony. In traveling through Faxony, says a correspondent, O'-e is struck with the large number of j o ds of all siyes which 6tud the fields in every direction. "\\ hether these ponds are the result of accident or design, they are as carefully tended as are trie r,e us uiunseivcs. They, too,are a sourco of income to their owners. 'J hey teem with carp, tench and other fith that will thrive in sluggish water, which arc taken out in the fall and sold at prices ranging from 12 to 20 cents per pound. The ponds are then restocked with a j oung brood, which costs from f.O ccnts to tfl.25 p'.-r hun- I died. ac<ording to si e. The e fish arc j left to shift for themselves until they arc a year o'd, when they arc generally large enough for the market. In winter the j-onds yield a crop of ice which is rendily disposed of at a fair pricc. "Where their services ore not required to turn ft mill, they at least serve as watering places for the cattle, and where they are situated near a village or hamlet they even feed the hand engine in crse of fire. Where these ponds are made the land taken for the purpose generally is unsuitcd foi nurrnsM I? Jt A Sycophant. My Aunt Jemima?bless her soul? is ancient and wealthy; But fate, which is perverse and droll, Has made her strong and healthy; Still as I am the only heir Of her, my antique auut. I cultivate her age with care And play the sycophant. But Aunt Jemin a's robust health Will last for aye, I fear, Tho' (ain I'd gain the precious wealth, She lives from year to year. I cat r to her. tho' I hate Hypo risy and cant. This part I \ lay I exe -rate, And I am sick of aunt. ?Rambler. Mr. Ed. P. Wells, Thetis P. O., Stevens Co., <Ya?h. Territrry, was entirely cured of rheumatism by the i:se (if St. Jacobs Oil. He says: 'I consider it a wonderful reine ly arid will always 8pca'< a gooti woim 101 n. "Does tl:o rock hurt you much, rat?" inquired a s\rr.(ialhi/.it of an Jr^imar. whine toot was imjiriso cd under,*i rock. "No, itdou'l hurt mc a bit," groaned 1'at; "it's mc loot thai liuits mc." Architect Edmond Legendre, 4t9 Suttei street, San Franc isco, Cal? statoa that having suffered for along time with n severe cough, and failing to obtain any relief from doctorj and tho numerous preparations ho tonk, lit became alarmed. Tried Red Star Cough Cure, and one bottle entirely cured him. A FAsniON item asserts that "snowballs mak? a lovely trimming foratulle bonnet." It may be rather unreasonable to observe that small boys consider snowballs appropriate trimmings for men's hats idso. A uniform and natural result is produced by using Buckingham's Dye for the V* 1 iskers. For a 6light cold, a hacking coug ), or luntf troubles, take Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. I 1 - A NEW TIEW OF CONSUMPTION. And One which Appeal* to Common Senao ManrCnrnble Cuw. (Medical Stilus.), "Many persons die of Consumption wh< could easily be cured," says Dr. S. S. Clark, of Watertown, N. Y., "if they would go ai it right I have a new view if the disease. Consumption is not always of luug origin." "How so? What is it then?" "Many cases or consumption are sei-uuir ary. The disease itself prevails everywhere, but the bcstt practitioners refuse to attributi it entirely to inheritance or the weather. If a person lives in the most favorable cliinati in the world aud has any tendency to lung weakness, if certain conditions exist in thi system, that climate, however favorable, will not prevent development of the disease. . The disorder in such cases is only a secondary symptom in the lungs of some other ailment, ( and can ntver be cured until approached through its source." "Yes, doctor; but what is the method of approach?" i 'If you dip your finger in acid you burn 1 it: do you not'" 1 "Yes." "If you wash this burnt finger every second with the acid, what is the result'" ( "Why, constant inflammation, festering j and eventual destruction of the finger." "Precisely! Now then for my method, which commends itself to the iveason and judgment of every skillful practitioner. You i know certain a ids aredeveloped iu the body. Well, if the system is all right these a . ids are neutralized or utili. ed and carried out. If the system is ran down by excesses, anxiety, continual exposure or overwork, these acids accumulate in the blood. If thore is on3' natural weakness in the lung, this a id attacks it, having a natural atlinity for it, and if the acid is not neutralized or passed out of the system, it burns, ulcerates and finally destroys the lung. Is this clear'" "Perfectly! But how do you prevent the accumulation of these acids in tlie system P' "Irregularities of the liver and kindneys create tnis excess of acid and the supply can Deem on oniy Dycorrecuug mo wriiujj utuuu of these organ?. Tho kidneys alone should carry out in quantity, in solution, enough of this acid daily, which, if left in the blood, would kill four men. When the stcma-h, the liver aud the kineys are all conspiring to increase the acid, the wonder is that weak lungs resist death as long as they do!" "But you have not told us how you would treat suh cases." "No, but I will. Tho lungs are only diseased as an effect of this acid or kidney poison in the blood. After having exhausted all authorized remedies to correct this a.id condition, I was compel'od, in justice to my patients, to use Wasner's safe cure: though a proprietary remedy, it 13 now recognized, I see, by leading physicians, by Presidents of State Boards of Health and by insurance physician-i, as a s?ieutiflc and the only specific for those great organs in which over ninety per cent, of diseases originate or are sustained. "Is this form of treatment successful?' "It is wonderfully so, and for that reason I am only too willing that you should announce it to the world of consumptives." Note by the PublishersWe hav received the above interview from H. H. Warner & Co., Rochester, N. Y.. with the request thai we puDlisn ID jor me gooa oj sujjcrwy [iev pl?. In a foot note to their letter they say: "The experience of Dr. Clark is not strange to us. In our correspondence we have round that many thousands of peoplare suffering trom what they think is Consumption, whereas the real difficulty is with the liver and kidneys, proven by the fact that when these organs are restored to health by the use of Warner's safe cure, the consumption disappears, aud so does uremic or kidney poisoning, which causes so many symptoms of diseases that the human system is subject to. The same may be said of rheumatism, caused by an acid condition of the system. We insist upon what we alway have claimed, if you remove the cause, the system will soon pcrfect the work already b-r/un. Mis. Rev. Dr. Theodore Wolf, of Gettysburg, Pa., wife of the editor of the Lutheran Quarterly, said har friends thought her 'far gone with Consumption,' but after a thorough treatment with Warner's safe cure, she says: 'I am perfectly well.' We can cite thousands of such cases, but one is enough. If you publish the above article, kindly send us a marked copy." We gladly give place to the article, for if we cau in any way stay the ravages of Con sumption, which carries away so many mill-1 ions yearly, it is our bounden duty so to do.}?P UB. Dr. Johrstone would never enter a certain lane in London without jroing between two particular poits of which there were four. "Moro than all other Lunjr Remedies," Is what E. W. Jfairinan, druggist, Dayton, Ind., writes of A'.Ien'a Lung Balsam. He has sold It for eight years, and it gives satisfaction In all cases 25c.. iiitc. & SI per bottle. Druggists. An I allan savant has discovered a new and simple method of catching fl?h. The bait is a musical one. It ii supposed ihe Italian etca down to the river's edge and plays a hand organ, and when the flsh come to the surface to throw stones at him. > e scoops 'em in with a net. Very simple indeed. Agent* Wanted in evi-ry town in New York State for the Mutua' Benefit L'fe Company, of Hartford, Conn. j One of tlie strongest Companies in America. Life and Acc dent. Ca ion or write to S. BnooKS Bacon, General Agent, Syracuse, X. V. No lady should live in perpetual fear, and suffer from the more serious troubles that 8c often appear, when Dr. Kilmer's Completi ) Fkmale Remedy is certain to prevent and cur< j Tumor and Cancer there. Lyon's Patent Metallic Stiffeners prevent! , boots and shoes from running over, rippins ir I the seams or wearing unevenly on the heels. A Case Not Beyond Help. Dr. M. R. Hinsdale. Kewanee, III, advises us of a remarkable cure of Consumption: He saya: "a neighbor's wife was attacked with violent lung dla ease and pronounced beyond help from Quick Consumption. As a last res >rt the family was persuaded to Iry Dn. Wm. Hall's Halsam roa tiik l.usos. To the a>toulxhmcnt of all. by the time she had used one half dozen bottles she was about the house doing h *r own work. 1 saw her at her worA and had no Idea the could recover." Boils I And ploipK a and oth?r like affection* caused by j impure blood are readily cured by Hood's Sarsapa rllla. While it purifies, this medlcino auo vitalizes i ad enriches the blood and builds up every function of the boJT. Scrofu'a, humors of a 1 kinds, swellings in the nec!<. hives, ringworm, tetter, abscesses, I ulcers, sores, salt rheum, scald head, etc., ar_- also ) cured b> this excellent blood purifier. "I was troubled with bolls, having several of them at a time. After enduring about all I could bear iu suffering, I took Hood's Sarsaparllia. Four or five bottles entirely cured me, and I have had no symptoms of the return of the bolls. I cheerfully recommend Hood's Sarsap .rllla to all Mice aTlcted, being sure they will find speedy relief."?E. N. N'ioiitix gale, Qulncy, Mass. "Last spring I was troubled with bolls, caused by my blood being out of ordi r. Two b ttles of Hood'l Sarsnparii a cured nu>, and I recommend it to other! troubled with afTectio:is of the blood."?J. Lchoch Peoria, 111. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only by C. 1. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Moss. IOO Doses One Dollar COCKLE'S ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS, THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY For Liver, Ulle, Indigestion, etc. Free from Mercurv; contains only Pur.- Vegetable Ingr-vllonts. Agi-ut: C. X. CltlTTENTO.x, Nfw York. "DOE'T PAY A BIG PRICE!" /?C panip Pay* for a Ypnr'? stibscrlp OO l/Cnid tlon t-.i the weekly American Rural Home, Kochester, X. Y.. without prcm luui?"the Cheapest and Best Weekly In the World." Spaces. 4Scolumns, 1<:yearso'?l. For tlno Dollar von have one choi< e from over 130 dlffi-rent ClothBound Dollar Volumes, .KWto 9,11 pp.. and paper one year, postpaid. Ilook pontage. 15c. Kxtrn. .Ki.tnu books r ven away. Among them are: Law Without Lawyers; Family Cyclopedia; Farm Cyclopedia: Farmers' and Stockbreeders' Guide: Common Sense In Poultry Yard: World Cyclopedia: Daniclsnn'.s (Mcdlcal) Counselor; Boys' Useful Pastimes: Five Years Before the Ma' t, People's Histor/ of Unit-d States; I'niversal Klstoiy of All Nations; Popular HistoryClvil War (both sides). Any one book and paper, one year, all postpaid, for $1.15 only. Paper almie 6.5c. If subscribed before the 1st of .March. Satisfaction guaranteed on b ioks ond Wceklv. or money refundeX Reference, Hon. C. K. Paiwoks, Mayer Rochester. Sample papers. 2c. RURAL HOME CO., ltd., Without Premium,65c. aycar | Rochksteh,N.y. ,. ' ' ' . , *'-. 'A. -. A New Wonder is not often recorded, bat. those who write to Hallett & Co., Portland Maine, will learn of a genuine one. You can earn from $5 to $25 and upwards a day. You can do the work and live at home, wherever) oj are located. Full particulars will be sent you free. Some have earned over $50 in a da v. Capital not needed. You are started in bu.-inesj free. Both sexes. All ajjes. Immense profits sure for those who start ar once. Yourlirat act should be to write for particulars. If afflicted with ?ore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp eon's Eye-water- Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle Piso's Remedy for Catarrh Is agrr .Able to use. It is not a liquid or a snuff. ^tW's 35 ImC#' 25 1EBTS J? tor I . t0T I THE BE3T AJ^D CHEA.PH3T COUGH or GROUP REMEDY. me* rvnrATAniiir ?T ll I o tin mil a i Ad AN CATCb I UtlHIt I II nH3 NU CUUAL. ItContains no Opium In Any Form. A /.LEX'S LUNG BALSAM In Thra* 3I<* Bottles, Price 25Cants, 50 Cents andSl FerBJttla. The&Ceut Bottles are put up for the accommodation of *11 who desire simply a Cough or Croup Roan Jy. Those desiring a remedy for COVSUMP flON' or 11/ LUNG DISEASE should secure tha lar^j |i bD:tlai Price, 25c., 50c. and $1 per Bottle. SOLD BY ALL MEDICINE DEALERS "The best Magazine Pnbllulled." ?Middlepoii (iV Y.) 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UNPARALLELED OFFERS TO CLUBS. 2 Copies for $3,50 I Wl<|' the ' Book of B-auty " r a splendidly 1 lustrated gift 3.. .. . crt I boolc. as a premium for get" 4 50 | ting up the club. 4 Conies for $6.40 I wllh ?n e?ra copy of the Z vuf!Da nn Magatlne f-.r 1877 as a premlO 9.UU I um for getting up Ihe club. FOR LARGER CLUBS ST ILL GREATER INDUCEMENT*. Address, postpaid, CHARLES J. PETERSON, 306 Clientniit St., Philadelphia, Pa. Specimens sent gratis, if written for in good faith. ijjjp 'A i V'/N == BEMEDTI I A Corrector, Regulator, Nerve-Best. "The Heart is the Seat of Life." One of every five we meet has some form of Heart Disease, and is in constant danger of Apoplexy or Sudden Death! ! SYMPTOMS and DISEASE. For which this Hcmcdy should be taken Heart-pains Palpitation Heart-droney Skip-Heats Throbbing Spasms (Fits) Numbness Purple-Lips Poor-blood Shaky-Nerves Syncopo Faint-spells Hot-flashes Paralysis ncart-sjmpathetic Push of Blond to tic Head, Fuhle-eircvlaOon,Laborcd-brcathing, HenrUcnlargement. Nervous-prostration, Heart-rheumatism, Neuralgia and Valvular Disease. One Medlclno will not Cure all kinds ot Diseases. THIS REMEDY IS A SPECIFIC. I It Prcv?nt? 1'aliy, Shock, Sudden Death. Every ingredient is from vegetable pro- r ducts which grow in sight of every unfor- B tunate sufferer. It contains no Morphine, Onium or injurious drugs. | IK%f~ JYot a VHntaf* of fmpwr# Blood | can etcape fit Purifying- Influence, | Price $1.00?6 bottles $5.00. I ^"Prepared at Dr. Kilmer's Dispensary, I ? binphnmton, n. y.. tj. s. a. n H l/cttcre of lnqulrypromptly answered. , H Invalid?' Guide to Health (Sent Free). B | SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. j FRAZERAfkl BEST IN THE WORLD UII E A & U^Uet the (jeuulue. 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