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AiVar' FPtalicK- experience, itin a. I'rei.isiHM. Co., I'liilad'aHa. 1 A SUIIOOL MS nnd Piipcrs. l A I VI in.! l SUPI'I.IKI) 11V IJ MMIAV-SI'IIOOL UM, I... Il-.' iM'slniit Street. f rini.ADKLrniA. I A' KNTS WANTED! ,DIUFT ! CAST ADRIFT! ..-li lit the famous '"'i'lileo Year I nip" ami "Ten Niuhts in a 11 jr- AliTlil'K. !Thel:it st an1 rrKr- ,'n- -elelirated nut hor- siciidiill v t-;mtl I'oiind.a ml will se.U at tirht N hiniily udorstd liv tliw most ! i'li- and Kii,ers of tii country. . ' : ' I ' it on I ni!r, i ii on r in tiKt u-lii, h Kt on ; , l;.Ue no Mibstituu. It they ! And he laid his hand on my baby, a!..:i!itiit your ilruirrit, ncwl tt .... . . , , , j i . . , . I'. ri, who will forward V ho straightway seemed to chai j'IM'lieiitioii to J. Jl.-toililart j , . , 4 Jtuiers, M Sansom St., I'Uila., Pa. ",i i fi:l i ll anscr, si i cdkI hener and ff ': ii, .ui.n Ub.-li uctions known to ittiall) mliteil to constitutions "worn .hi i,uiiau-d by the warm weather of Miiii.iii r, wht ti the blood is not ill tt , iu consequently txatherintr ini- I ft :l,vlu., ilinr,ntiiljiritiir.'i,it.iitiiiti '4 lil'iiues, niotciies, iioiis, I'ustules, ; were made to sell ; rianl l.-in.-iiiil fromoverw t . i;, ,ni, inert ia takfj ir. t he svstein need le-lp the Vital Forces to re- j that is in town, at homo -p ower. 'e've .-ity-boanlers eomin ri in i. iii.u, s .l.Txi-i,,..,,...! I and eggs aro out ; M:ti:act of jurubeba A,,a Vrov"y' ,ohllpp,, ". " 'in iriv suited touii ttioseitir- have gonft away ! ini; .ill i Tt t ' i"'i", 'in- i ih-imvim; i'owkks, and ke 4 'tiSTia-i thins from impaiked and ai U fr( i, 'aki'n. as .Turuhebn is pro- 'I r,i , .,, wiiivis the most 'thcient HI'l 1 IK UlSTKl'KNT known J medical plants. 7 K!.l l.Udii, is Piatt St., N. V., f, , i i,t for the United States. ' I i Mottle. Send for Circular. look (1arivasscrs AY "K RUNNING ECRIPTION BOOK 4 ":,l. (an:issii reduced to a r, ' ii i i.i, n iji.iMiiAu iu., lai , " j - T . MW 1 "oik 'ity. ;i-Ts HAVE PllOVED him all der time. ATKK AVIIEEL! S E l BEST EVER INVENTED. S - ff ' AJdrcss YORK, PA. L I "i'rV,V,l:E!! t'lKKMl , ANTl " for thfl ,imnd ft book of ll n'f "tiV 1 U'A KUU 'i.-f.iii.".i:i(rapid-t,l (:"N's"r Fire; Safes; Fire- li-t'-'t rue witu Water, -E.'Ts w i v. cf God's People ! i r.i i-ii t K 1 .. -ii' i essful new l.niuc of i!-t;..!.i'";,"H"i the new. vn!u- 1 i...k by Dr. John Cowan, fClenro . . p" a new uiTe. J i'ln ' !;'! ;!"s--d by prominent T '' i i ' i' nd s.-eular pa- 1 '' Kiicu si., n,.,v Vi,,k, I ii, ! ' the most decided I " ,,ou 1 K,n s'""1''" "-' ''. i ,' ',' , " v "'""'"ir wuh astonish- ! Ve go down bv der tub vot ve put 4-. ,' " ' 1 ' 1 : 1 1 i '-'Oo Mairnitiecnt i ', : n" m.;' , ,' : 1 ' i 'ft unity for mrejus i .'''iisiV,'...'.'"'' VVr-''" tUi Par" Ve r"'-son"- 5n a pot unit spec un . . - Vllirtford, Conn. I Till: LITTLE FItOCK. For it beareth a magic power, p.rHl.'BOOK AGENTS! Tho font of my tears to unlock, I fashioned that little frock. My darling sat hesido me, With his beautiful ey' agleam, And the joy that was erst denied nie Seemed into my heart to beam, As I thought of the wondrous mercy, Of the goodness and the love, me My thougl'.t took wing as it tlew, To the courts of the blessed Master, From whose gates my baby came through; And I wonder if all God's angels Looked as pure and frail as he i Inoat. folds. Croup. Dip- I There was any more lair to see. i. "i!i:rrti. Hoarseness. Irvnesi ' w i i . j i j or Uroucliial Tubes, i lut there came a jiale, sad stranger J V-.!.'i'i". ';ucdd, however taker., I u"to u,y house lsy ; -jy . i - - i" 1 1 be prouji't rtii'i 4 r--Jy . Iy heart stooil still, as if datigQr r , i i .: ..' ' the circulation of Mood, j . , , . . , J n,sArn; v of the attack, Htid will, in I And dark ue alwnt me lay. -i ,i: i.i.h'. nti'.rc- healthy action to tho ; I besought him that he would leave mo, change. His pale little cheeks grew whiter, His bright blue eyes grew dim, His clasp on my finger grew lighter, The victory was to him To the pale and icy monarch, AVho rules with relentless sway, Who came to my home in triumph And bore my treasure away. But a greater than he remainetb, Who hath broken the londs of tho toml Who hath robbed King Death of htH terras And lighted the pathway of gloom ; Who hath promised us sweet consolation, If we patiently bow beneath his rod, And I kuow ho has taken niy darling To bloom in t.'iC garden of God. " CfiicLcii md Kt.iys are Out." The most sensible thing in the Farm Ballad line, Mis. Emerson and Will M. Caileton to the contrary notwithstanding, is the following from (). C. Ken's "Chick en and Eggs ate Onl," in which an old ' stmi u st heart. Will d,j umn for : fai mer laments the nuisance of being both- i temperaiiee and mornlily than the ,, , , .. r , . ... , is who havi-soid "Mun-TrW vannot elel y CIy f'lks who want everything for jAilr,; I as - t"-e -ho dotx-t care if fiiitiseiil.er. V-script i ve cii euinrs n. what thev iret so thev fetitin the ,rHint iv. i lie win iigi iciiiLui ifct f-tys . Uetwe-n the town-folks seltish, who think a farm is made J Of eggs and c hii kens nd dairy, which no cash is p!ii. xnd them, more free and foolish, who never think a mite, But come, when they'd do better, at home, a precious sight We, farming-kind, get riley, to find the breed so Hat ; And whore's our human natur' if we made naught but that ? We give to the ones we welcome potatoes, pork and gn-ens. With apple-pie and donghnutu, and a spice of corn and beans. But as for milk and poultry, and things in skin and shell. i in.-..it'tiiis. and is manifested by j We send them down to the city, for they , i usiuies, i were maie to sen ; ! And if 'twas them thev wanted, these folks "e'ule ;.r.ee ! W,l ranK" a,Ml ?ds a Tunic They ought to know where to buy them, and "I MiiiiiiM-r ! t i-qiiciifly the I.iver nnd So hide the cooji, tln-re, Detsev and nail 1 p.-rfoi in their fiimUnus; : the hen-house stout ; ar.d thicken en the in,-, v !,. ii,e soi'Tll AMKItiCAX Our milk it is all out, likewise until they 1IO Jf TO MA Ki: SO I 11 KJIOUT. AS SU.Vii I5Y ,IOHX TIIOJII'SOK. Xow if you want to find oud how to make good sour krout, Youst listen by ujy storj-, und I tould you all aboud ; Sour kront ain't made from leather, like some peeples supposes, But from dot bully Jtower vot dey crvll der cabbage roses. CHORUS. a hv . ','y.:"is.'vii'na. A'l: s,,, im,, t. ,iw t v ir rmr nno j Well ! I guess I ought to know, 'cos I eat ' liumiam'ii Now Tnrhine We take him from dir garten when he's shmall vot he can pe, Und schop hint up in pieces, as fine as any tea ; We put him in a tub und stamp him mitour feet, TTnd stamn. nnd stamp, und stamp, nnd ii"Hv'- kirk1' F1KKM! stamp; dot makes him nice and sweet. CllOKVS. TJiul den we put in blendy salt, but don't put in no snuff, V ,', '"Axt K itf'fct Its Ills- I Kor any syk-cum pepper, oi any ot dotstuh-, f!' (lie Fin "llli u,ry I in Jer h ia J i'i''1'"', V"u 'vUI ni,t rcfrrt't to schmell ; f,,,,,,; l'u.m, tiilmuaifo., Mv Marion-be was pullv. und ve Dutch- My gracioiu he was pully, mens love him veil. ClIOKUS. Now when he chmells all he can schmell, und don't kin schmell no schmeller, put down in d et him Und very voa cat? scbtnell biniden for fifty thousand mil, CHOliCS. f Jones, who has recently been married, i. ,1 ;i'i, i. K1 per sais that COllllshhl is bliss, but. ni.il l itiloilV is blister. NED GAINER'S GOLDEN DREAM, AM) 11 WW IT UEU. Aliout the j-ear A. D. 18 12 there lived in one of the easteni counties of Penn S3"lvania an extensive fainter by the nameof James Armstrong, lie owned and ctiltivated three hundred acres of limestone land ; had a son named John, a young man of twenty -two summers, who had the management and over sight of the farm ; had two daughters, the elder of whom was married to Samuel (ireen, who had a farm of his own two mik;3 distant from that of his father-in-law ; the second daughter was in herteens, named Mary, and budding into womanhood. The hero of our tale was named Ed ward (Jainer, but usually went lvr the cognomen 01 Armstrongs 2ea. lie had been raised in the family, as a bound boy, until the age of sixteen, which period he had passed, but still re- in,)iii,l in tlio 1'imilv work in o fir wages. He had been sent to school so j many mouths in trie year, according to the terms of the indenture, but had never applied his mind to book-learning took more interest in ball-playing and rabbit hunting; would always shirk hard work when it could be done, but was willing to do light, pottering work, such as little turns about the house and garden. This caused him to be rather a favorite with the female part of the family. In regard to in tellect, he was evident!' below medi ocrity and was so considered, not only by the family, but by the neighbors. At the age of about eighteen or twen ty he began to dream dreams of gold that lay buried in the ground by the side of certain old logs in Mr. Arm. strong's woodland. This he communi cated to the family, who laughed at him for being so seriously impressed about such foolish dreams, lie still, however, continued to dream about the gold and to tell his dreams, not only to the family, but to his fellow laborers and the neighbors. The dreams began after some time to take a more definite shape j the patv ticular locality was pointed out 1 j ob vious marks, with the injunction to not disclose the locality or trie gold would disappear, a very probable circum stance, lie now began to stay out late at nights occasionally, not coming in until alter the family had all retired. His clothes would be somewhat soiled and he would go immediately to his trunk before retiring. After a while he began to c.dl the attention of his fellow servants to his treasure, not by letting them handle it, but by letting them look at it from a distance, by candle light, while he would handle and put it back in his trunk. The evidence now assumed a tangible shape and some people began to think there was some truth in it, though he still refused to let any one handle it but himself. A few months later he carried a ten dollar gold piece in his pocket, which he would Jet any one handle and his fellow servants de clared that the handfuls tliey bad seen him have looked just like that one. Mr. Armstrong, Jr., said to him one day, ".Ned, how much gold have you found ?" "I am not at liberty, at present, to tell that," was the answer. "What good reason have voit for with holding ' tLo information ?'' ".All I know about the gold comes through' ty.j dreams, and through them I am warn ed to let no one handle more than one piece of it until the whole is collected, which r.vill not be until the end of three years from my tirst dream about it." "We would be better satisfied about the reality of this matter if we had more tangible evidence," said Mr. Arm strong, Jr. Xed's reply was, "I am fully Wished so far, and am bound to obev instructions for fear I may not act the remainder, which is to be much greater than what I have already found, j I shall want to buv a farm or go into some other business at the end ol three years." . In a familv conversation awun matter, John told the conversation he had with Ned and intimated that he believed that Ned was in earnest and determined to be governed by Ins dreams and make no further disclo sures until the expiration of the three years It was also suggested in this conversation that Ned ought to have more schooling to fit him for the so ciety that his wealth would be likely to throw him into, and further that he ought to be better dressed, as the wages he had been receiving would only enable him to dress in home-made attire. Subsequently in conversation John said to Ned, "If von are assured of ob taining this wealth which you dream of, how do you propose to get along until the end of three years and fit yourself to take a respectable position in soeietv ?" "Well," said Ned, "I am helpless in the matter until that time, except what I earn with my hands. Your familv have always been very kind to me," and I hope you will still ,rlvo me employment: but if jou will advance me some money from time to limn ns I need it, I will give you my ! ..n.: .1,1 at. the rnd of "!' T wi interest, and I will ! mm- ' 1 . . , luIV' - .. .1 tli,i iituitir .... I. mill llliT SCUOOl aw .-ov. v.i.wtJ I Town, and get some belter clothing." EBENSBURG, FA., FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1S73. After further faniilj- consideration, j Ned's proposition was agreed to, and he went one session to boarding school, and thus finished his education. He came home again, not to work, but to act the gentlenian. Mr. Armstrong being a wealthy , farmer kept, besides hoises and oxen J to do the work of the farm, three blood i horses for the saddle ; one of these was for Miss Mary's use whenever she ' chose to use it. John was fond of fox j hunting and kept a pack of hounds. cu, or Air. (.ainer, as he was now being called, would sometimes accom pany John m his fox hunts, using one of the saddle horses. Mr. Green, the brother-in-law of John, was also a fox hunter and kept two blooded hors-.es; sometimes Mr. (Jainer rode one of these and was made their equal among their associates. Mr. (i ainer now iivej well, dressed well, and spent his time very pleasant ly. Sometimes he would ride with Miss Mary to church, at other times ride with Mr. Armstrong, Jr., or Mr. Green, or both. At this period, every body who rode at all, rode on horse back it was the fashion. The riding vehicles of that day were heavy, lum bering two horse carriages after the English fashion ; the only exception was the quaker one horse chair, with wooden elbow springs. I would not intimate from the fact of Mr. Gainer riding to church, occasionally, with Miss Mary, that there was, or ever had been anything like courtship between them there is no evidence to sustain such a supposition. They were both going to the same place, from the same house. One of Mr. Green's blooded horses was a splendid animal, bright bay, black feet, mane and tail ; the latter s?iin, and reaching to his heels. This Lorsc Mr. Gainer frequentl- rode, while Mr. Green would ride the other saddle horse, which was also a very fine one. One day while riding to gellier, Ned said : "Sam, sell roe this horse ; I have got so accustomed to his pace that I can't enjoy the riding of any other horse." "Ned," said Sain, "don't ask me to sell that horse; there is not his equal iu the county." "Sam, I will pay you four hundred dollars in gold tor this horse in one year give my note for it to-day." "Ned, say no more about the horse ; I can't spare him, and Mrs. Green would not part with him, as he ii the only one she will ride." In a few weeks after this conversa tion Mr. Green thought better of it and agreed to take the note, as it was a great price. Two hundred dollars would have bought any other horse iu the neighborhood at that day. In fact, it took a very good horse to sell for one hundred dollars. Mr. Gainer now Logan to look around the neighborhood to see where he could buy a farm to please him, as he would be able topaj'lbr it in less than a year ; the limitation given in hUdreams would permit others to handle hit? gold after that date. This cause4 him to make frequent visits to the county town to have titles examined. At last he had selected a farm, agreed upon the price, to be paid down in gold, but there was some doubt about the title ; such was whispered by the neighbors. So, the next morning alter breakfast, oil" he rrt-rt rlo or lito cqloii'lil 1 , . . t--, , t I 1 , county town to have the title of that particular farm thoroughly traced, as he had set his heart on that as his fu ture home. That night he did not return. The next and the next night came and no return of Ned or the horse. A tlood of light broke in upor. the two families he had fleeced. His trunk was broken open, and behold ! about half a pi ck of bright new pennies preseuted them selves to the astonished gaze of the be holders ! There were no rajjroads in those davs ; no telegraph wires over whicli the news could fly. The fastest loco motive power was a horse. Ned was well mounted, two or three days ahead, and some borrowed money in his pocket. How the neighbors talked, how they shook their sides with laughter, must be left to the imagination of the reader. Some said the joke was too good; others said it was too bad, but about its quality of good or bad they were not disposed to quarrel. The fact had been demonstrated for the ten thous andth time that "it ia not all gold that glitters." THE Poughkeepsie 2Ves in reply to a suggestion that the exhibiting bear whiclf has been.making a tour in this section, be sent to Yassar female col lege to give lessons in scientific hug-gino- says: "Don't send the bear. Send us. We'll go for nothing, and save the hire of the bear ; besides, we warrant perfect satisfaction." A. lawyer and a parson were talk in about which way the wind was blowing The former said : "V, e go bv the court house vane." "And we," eidd the parson, "go bj the chinch n'u c;,l tho lnwvpr. "in the matter of wind that i. the best an- vane. mi o. -t --- i . .... t . i i miiovcMi wonr. i.O '1 c tnority. i.u. e ltatm. "Cording" lour Mot herin-L,a ivy8 Hedstend. It is a little singular why your wife's mother will persist in sleeping on a cord liedstead. Put she does. You don't think so much of this untij you are called upon to put it up, which event generally takes place in the even ing. The bedstead has lx-en cleaned in the afternoon, and having leen soaked through with hot water, is now ready for p'atiing up. Your wife holds the lamp and takes charge of the conversation. The rope has been under water several times in the course of the cleaning, and having swollen to a diameter gi eater than the holes in the rails, has also got into a lit of coiling up into mysterious and very intricate forms. You at first wonder at this, but pretty soon wonder ceases to be a virtue, and then you scold. The thread which has been wound around the end of the roie to facili tate its introduction in the holes has come olf, and you have to roll it up again. Then after yon have pulled it through eight holes your wife makes the discovery that you have started wrong. The way the rope conies out of those holes again makes your wife get closer to tho door. You try again, and get it tangled in your legs. y this time you notice that this is the smallest bed room in the house, and you call the attention of your wife to the fact by observing: "Why on earth don't ypn open the door ? Do you want to smother me ?" She opens the door and you start again, and she helps you with the lamp. First she puts it on the wrong side to' the rail, then she moves it so the heat comes up from the chimney and scorches your nose. Just as you need it the most you lose sight of it entirely, and turn ing around find her examining the wall to see how that man put on the whitewash. This excites you, and brings out the perspiration in greater profusion, and you declare you will kick the liedstead out of doors if she doesn't come around with that light. Then she comes around. Finally the cord is laid all right, and you proceed to execute the very delicate job of tightening it. The lower ropes are tirst walked over. This is done by btepjiing on the first one and sinking it down, hanging to the head-board with tlie clutch of death. Then you step with the other foot on the next line, spring that down, lose your bal ance, grab for -the head-board, and miss it, and come down in a heap. This is repeated more or less times across the length of the bed, the only variety being the new places 3011 bruise. The top cords are tightened in another way, and you now proceed to that. You Cist put one foot on each rail, which spreads with you some, and as you do it the frightful thought strikes you that if one of these feet should slip over, nothing on earth would prevent you from being split through to the chin. Then you pull up the first rope until your eyes seein to be on the point of rolling out of their sockets, and the blood in your veins fairly- groans, and on being con vinced that you can't pull it any fur ther without crippling yourself for life, you catch hold of the next rope and draw that up, and grunt- Then you move along to the next, and pull i-nat' HI1, sum 11, 1 uiio i;;im. o not. uu have got to the middle and eominence to think that you are about through, even if your joints will never again set as they did before, you some way or other miss the connection, and find that you have got to go back and do it all over. Here 3-011 pause for a few minutes of oracular refreshment, and then slowly and carefully work your way back. You don't jump down and walk back, because you are afraid to spread out in that way again. You sort of waddle back, working the way inch b3" inch, and with consummate patience. A man thus stretched across a liedstead never becomes so excited as to lose his presence of mind. It would bo instant death if he did. Then he goes over it again waddling and pulling, groaning and grunting, while his wife moves around with the lamp, and tells "him to take it cas-, and not scratch the liedstead an 3- more than he can help, and that she can't tell which creaks the most, he or the bedstead. And after he gets through she has the audacity to ask him to biing in the feather beds. In the dead of .night that man will steal up to that room and look at that liedstead, and swear. JDanbury Xcics. An editor in a smalltown in Indiana liecame imbued with the whirl of so ciety, and this is how it allccted him : "We are in the midst of the season for parties, dancing, mirth and festivities. The resined hair of the palij horse trav els merrily over the intestines of the ao-ile cat, evoking music to which the jiapationt feet trip gayly upon the floor." A Georgia deacon, tcho had been a stout opponent of a neic organ which h'18 church had purchased, tchen called ripon recently to close the service said: "Call oh the. machine ! If it can sing the glory of God, it can pra3' too. Call on the machine !" - Xocel Met fi otl of Collecting J'ay for Some 3-ears ago a widow living on the liuy of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, owned a 3-oung cow, of which she was particularly proud. One da- the express train came thun dering along and struck and killed the widow's cow as it stood ruminating on the track. The w idow applied to the station agent for pay for the ani mal, and was told to send in a bill to the general ollice of the road. She did so, but received no it ply, and after writing several times without ellect, called on the. paymaster thu next time he w ent through the town to r.y the section hands. With this ofHei d she fared no better. Little attention was paid to her threats until about a week alter, when the morning passenger train, bound West, came along. The station house of Flora is situated at ; the toj of a gentle slope, about half a i a mile in length, and which the pas- 1 senger trains always run up at the regular speed of twent- miles an hour. ' It was a line frost3 morning, ami the sun was just rising, and the engineer noticed what he supposed to lie Iros. plainly glistening on the rails. He sounded his whistle for the station, and putting on more steam, started up the idope. The speed at which the tram was approaching carried ic anouc half way up the use, but the driving w heels of the locomotive spun around on the rails without pulling an ounce. The train came to a dead stop and then began to slide backward:' The engineer whistled down "brakes and got olf to inspect the rails. He found, as he expected, that 11103- were artisti- cally" covered with soft-soap, and as he had had some previous experience of i that khid, knew exactly what to do. j He backed down the track about half j a mile, and putting the full head of steam on, charged at the rise with full j speed. Vhen he found thesjieed slack- cuing he opened the sand valves and allowed the sand i:i the boxes to glide through the pipes and on the rails iu front of the driving wheels. This, to some extent, counteracted the effect of the soap, and the train got. neal- lift y yards further than it did Vfore. It finally stopped again, and the engineer again backed out and again charged the rise. The process was repeated several times, and would have I'nally been successful had not ti-esand given out. The soil in the neighborhood was a soft, dark loan), and where Mie railroad cut was made a still', yidlow clay was turned up. No sand, how ever, could be procured an-whei e, and finally the whole force of train men went to work to remove the soap. This they succeeded in doing after half an hour's hard work, and nearly an hour behind time the train reached the station. A few da3'.s after a simi lar ditliculty was experienced, and the road olllcials liegan to get decidedly angry. An attorne' was sent out there to discover and prosecute the perjK'trator, but soon after his arrival was confidentially informed that the road would have no trouble in future if the w idow was paid for her cow.- He took the hint, telegraphed to the President, and received the necessary authority, paid for the animal and left the place. The track was never soap ed afterward and the widow got au oliici 00 v. rf. ij'jtiit? iicinocraf. Tii 1: m:s T nun. Of the eight pounds which a 111,111 eats and drinks in a day, it is thought that not less than five pounds leave the body through the skin. And of these five pounds, a considerable per centage escapes during the night while he is in bed. The larger part of this is w ater, but in addition there is much effete and poisonous matter. This, lie ing in great part gaseous in form, ier meates every part of the IkmI. Thus all parts of the bed mattress, blank ets, as well as sheets soon become foul, and need purification. The mattress needs this renovating as much as the sheets. To allow the sheets to be used with out washing or changing for three or six months would be regarded as bad housekeeping ; but I insist, if a thai sheet can absorb enough of this poison ous excretion pf the body to' make it unfit for use in a few days, a thick mat tress which can absorb and retain a thousand times as much of these poi sonous excretions, needs to lie purified as often certainty as once in three months. A sheet can be v-ashed. A mattress cannot be renovated in this wa3 Indeed, there is no other way of cleansing a mattress but b3 steam ing it or picking it to pieces, and thus in fragments exposing it to the direct rajs of the sun. As these processes are scarcely practicable with any of the ordinary mattresses, I am clecideci lv of the opinion that the old -fashioned straw bed, which can cery three months lie exchanged' for fresh straw and the tick washed, is the sweetest and healthiest of lxls. I f in the winter season the porous nW of the straw U-d makes it a little uncomfortable, spread over it a com forter or two woolen blankets, which should be w.-vsheds often as evcrv two weeks - W ith this arrangement, 11 you NUMBER 21; wa-h all the Ksl covering as often as once m one or two wo ks, vou will have a delightful, healthy beu. Now, if 3-011 leave the la to air; with open window? driving the dav' and not make it up for, the night Kv fore eveuing, you will have added greatly to the sweetness of 3-our rest,, and, in consequence, to the tone of 3'our health. I heartily wish this good change could lie everN-wht re introduced. Only those who have thin attended to this important matter can jiide of its in-' lhtencc on the general health and spir" its. Dio Lewis. Josh Jtilllii'jH on lore tnul MousZ tar Lts. Dear Sii.ui : Yn tell me in vuro let ter that ure lover haz Ix-on kluss at tentiv for two years, nnd vu waz wheri yu liegun. - " This iz ieskv buthersum. There ain't no law or o-ocr.? i. ; make a phello pop the question .who , am t on tlie jop. nor there ain't j science neither that wont 'van: no j Science never ought to lie resorted ; to only in desperate kases, but whare' . kourting Ixkuins kronik, it is allowa- uie. ' .. . No man haz to kourt forever, I'll Ikj darned if he hez. I have no doubt that konHiic aver 'ages phull as happy as nft'in-m-irrwl' out nave got, in tins world, tew take the letter with the sweet. lKvir Susan, aftyr yoii have exhaust 7 ed all maidenly and honest debits try melankollv trv histcriks trv A c-le." cline, try going tew yure uncle"' for a fortnite anil see if yure nhello" w-nt ! fortnite phollo talk about the other world; (I don't mean Eurupp, but whare the wean- are at retj try- sich like tilings. If all those don't 1 hefcha ki isisan.1 make the kittle hi!e, the lat and onlv bojio is tew sf.iK a counter irritant in the shajie ov another jiJieJIo'. If yu k.t'il make yure lover, iehma drop him lli,p a kohl pertato ; he ain't' worth triehig tew warm it p. If he murys yu it will bo bekause he kant think of any thing else tew do' and is entir ely out of a job Pardon the sincerity ov ini advice; dear Susan, and do jist as yn please in" the premises. Adew. Dear Smiggings : I kant tell vu what will make yure mustach gro ; suppos. yu try lamp ile ; if that' don't sprout it suppose yu try a lioultice ov tan bark; if that don't jerk it supse vu buy a ticket in some gift lottery ; aiid if that don't draw suppose yu" let it alone and go tew kiiltivating yure branes. I hav knu yoitng men tew make jf mark thfs way in the world who hadn't; enn; mark on their Upper lip. PAIL5Y'S D ANBURY NEWS. If VOlf have got any secrets you can now telt them to your wife." She will keep shady. When in California 'tve savr Joe; Goodman of the Virginia City EnterS -riVc. Virginia Citv is 350 miles fro.a San Francisco, and Joe had conje ovfr to spend the afternoon. It is a m"iled country out there. A Danbury agriculturist rrir.de a' scarecrow so infernally frightful that" it iK.f. ".- ko;t airay tho crows, but" caused a winter-killed pear tree to' leave. A milk pitcher, thrown 113- his win at a Nelson street man on Monday noon, missed the aim and nfiricd a, handsome frame which enclosed tho; words, "God Plcss our Home." . . A round-shouldered and inquisitive stranger kicked an ornamental dog 011 a Nelson street ttoop to see if it Va solid or hollow. It was not an orna mental dog, however, but one that was there on business, and the round-shouldered and inquisitive stranger js not? quarantined with an atiut On Delay street The lawns are quite verdant now and nature's monograms illuminate the linen pants of the romantic. The3' are the only- greenbacks current every where ' ' TnEKE arc persons now living in1 Denton who rCTjieinlieied old IJilty U., of whom it might le said he furnished an example of the "titling passion' strong unto death." When very ill; and fricrrds w ere expecting an early de mise, his nephew and a man hired for the occasion had butchered a steer which had been fatted; and when the job w as completed the re-phew entered the sick room, wheie a few friends were assembled, when to the astonishment, of all the old nian opened hi &nd . '. . :.l ill fllll VAlMl' i turning siignm " ""' - drawing out the wonts: . -"What have you been doing f". , "Killing the steer," was the reply. , What did you do with the hide ?" "Left it in tb'e barn ; goin' to sell it by-and-by." . ""Let the bova drag It around the. yard a couple of times ; it will make it weigh heavier." ; j And the good old man was galhercu unto his fathers.' , - - n 1 j.iioif -Hiioq -p'u iui. orpvjo oifi ut s-;u- 'Ti-ri 0,l
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